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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS Cherry, 111. Eleven bodies of miners were recovered from the St. Paul mine. To the amazement of veteran mine inspectors in-spectors the bodies, entombed since last November 13, when brought to the surface, sur-face, were found to be almost completely complete-ly mumified. The mummified condition was brought about by the bodies having, during the three months, been in a part of the mine which was dry and warm and the bodies going through the slow process of drying up. "This is one of the most remarkable incidents of a disaster which has been full of wonders," declared an old mine inspector. "The mumies are in such good preservation that they might have been taken out of the ancient tombs of Egypt." Fighting through fire and the deadly black damp which ever since the disaster dis-aster has stood between them and the 165 or more bodies still entombed in the mine, the rescuers found the eleven bodies in what is known as the second level. They were about 175 feet from the main air shaft. The men instead of retreating to remoter parts or the mine, evidently had made a depsrate effort to escape when the fire broke out and they were among the first to die. They were found with their arms stretched forward and faces down, having been suffocated as they ran, probably by a gust of heat and gas. Shut in air-tight chambers when the mine was finally sealed up, they remained re-mained in a kind of oven, in which the temperature was a little above blood heat. Pittsburg. Frank S. Frasier of Oil City telegraphed John Jenkins of Char-leroi Char-leroi last Monday that he dreamed Jenkins Jen-kins was elected justice of the peace by 27 votes. At Tuesday's election Fra-sier's Fra-sier's . dream came true, even to the number 27, but Robert I. Fitzgerald, Jenkins' Democratic opponent, contests the election on the ground that the ballot boxes were tampered with. London. King Edward is a much sicker man than the public realizes. His condition several weeks ago gave alarm to the king's family and intimates. inti-mates. The very severe strain of the general elections, the mighty interests involved, the indecisive results of the contest and the necessity of King Edward's Ed-ward's deciding whether or not he will agree to the modifications in the powers pow-ers of the house of lords which the gov-ernmnent gov-ernmnent will demand, or precipitate another general election, have greatly aggravated his majesty's symptoms, and it is an open secret now that he is a very sick man. While no official information in-formation as to what is the matter with the king can be obtained, there are indications in-dications that he is suffering from Bright's disease. He is lethargic, inclined in-clined to drop off to sleep at odd moments mo-ments and under almost ay circum-staces, circum-staces, and every effort is made to have him take more outdoor exercise. Everybody about the king has received re-ceived the hint to make him walk. The Marquis de Soveral, the king's favorite companion, is himself an Indefatigable pedestrian.- Croquet and golf have both been tried to induce his majesty to potter pot-ter about, but the most successful agency agen-cy is his favorite little dog. The pretty women about the king are almost all over thirty, and after that age most self-respecting women walk daily for the sake of their figure. Beguiled by amusing stories, in which he delights, the king walked much during his recent re-cent visit to Brighton. Gondokorko, Soudan (on the Upper Nile) Colonel Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt Roose-velt and Ermund Heller, the zoologist, left on a steamer for a final week of shooting along the river banks. Meantime Mean-time R. J. Cunningham, the field nat- urallst; Major Edgar A. Mears and J. Loring will remain here to pack the specimens, dismiss the porters and others oth-ers who have accompanied the Americans Ameri-cans as helpers and conclude the details incident to the winding up of the expedition. ex-pedition. With tho exception of the river riv-er excursion the hunting is practically ended. The party will leave here about February Feb-ruary 25, and from then on Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt will devote himself to the preparation prepa-ration of the lectures he is to deliver upon his arrival in Europe. Dublin John Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalists and perhaps the man in all the United Kingdom who looms largest in the public eye just now, Is as little like the popular conception of an Irishman as could well be Imagined. There is nothing of the reckless, merry, devil-may-care fellow about him. Heavily Heav-ily built, square-jawed, keen-eyed, he looks the leader of men he is. One of Parnell's most valued lieutenants, he has been a notable figure in parliament for almost a generation, and he knows the game from soup to nuts. Mr. Redmond Red-mond was seen shortly before he left for London to take up the struggle which means so much for Ireland. He is not a talkative man, but when he said "Theer is only one question for Irishmen home rule and every other question will, so far as the Nationalists National-ists are concerned, be subordinated to that," he looked as though he meant just that. "The government of Ireland is the most costly government in the world. It costs proportionately double to maintain main-tain it as the governments of England, Scotland, Wales or any other country of Europe costs. For more than a century cen-tury Ireland has been drained to maintain main-tain a system of government unsuited to the country. The English rule of Ireland is extravagant and inefficient, a system that must be extravagant, inefficient in-efficient and costly because it does not command the confidence of the people who are governed. Now what are we asking for what wre demand is that in government of purely Irish affairs should be ruled by the sentiment of the Irish people. There are twenty-eight different portions of the empire at this moment which have home rule .in that senese, where there are local legislatures legisla-tures governing local affairs. That is all we ask. We want to manage Irish afairs here in Ireland in our own wTay and we will." Mr Redmond, when asked as to the position of the Irish Protestants in case home rule is secured, said: "We Irish Catholics would Indeed be unworthy of the name if we did not remember and give credit to the heroism and patriotism patriot-ism of the Protestant National leaders. The Protestants would form a strong and highly respited minority. There are very few who believe that minorities minori-ties in politics or religion would be badly bad-ly treated. We would have a party of moderate opinions and another party of extreme opinions, with both represented in our parliament. This would tend, in the natural course of events, to better rlsh conditions generally." Mr. Redmond Red-mond is confident Mr. Asquith will do his best to carry out his pledge for home rule. If there is any shirking a new election is more than probable very soon." London. Premier Asquith and the cabinet are read for the real work of parliament, which begins Monday, after the king has formally opened the national legislative body and the speech from the throne outlining the government's govern-ment's policy is read. . Of course, it is impossible to say with any absolute certainty just, what the government program will be, but there seems to be little doubt that the budget will be the first matter taken up, and then the house of lords will be dealt with. There was much opposition to the course, not only on the part of the Irish and Labor men who wished this order reversed, but Messrs. Gray, Haldane, Lloyd-George, Spencer Churchill, McKenna and Harcourt also favored dealing with the lords first. Mr. Asquith has, I understand, however, how-ever, sufficiently convinced his cabinet, as well as his Irish and Labor allies, that it Is better politics to clear away the budget and then, if necessary, bring on a general election with the house of lords the sole contention, uncomplicated by any other question. He insisted that to put the veto question first would rish an appeal to the country on the same old issue, and with the government govern-ment coalition weaker than it was before be-fore the last general election. It is stated stat-ed he has promised that the principal demands of the Irish and Laborites will receive attention as soon as the veto question is out of the way, if he still holds power. The cabinet will stand or fall together, togeth-er, but if in another general election the Liberals should again be returned it looks much as if that event will mark the setting of Asquith's sun. It is believed be-lieved that the king would send for Haldane then, who is persona grata and courageous as well as able. The Tories don't want an immediate general election and doubtless will make overtures to keep the present government govern-ment in office for essntlal financial pur-poss pur-poss for another six months. . "Dissolution seems to be a matter of only a few weeks at most," John Redmond Red-mond said. "The Irish party is ready for it and would welcome it tomorrow. Its members believe that another appeal ap-peal to the country on the veto issue a larger majority than the present would be returned. Perhaps the majority might be big enough to be independent of our votes. "Of course, if the situation is mismanaged mis-managed and the cabinet chooses to fall on the budget it would be different. Then the Tories probably would come in, but with an ineffective majority. "We would welcome a situation which would return the Tories in such circumstances cir-cumstances in which they would have to face the stupendous work of clearing up the financial mess created by Balfour Bal-four through the ageniy of his friends the lords. From every viewpoint political po-litical conditions in this country are thoroughly unstable. The only certain element is the solidarity of the Irish party." John Dillon takes the same view. He has written to Ireland advising friends to prepare for another election almost Immediately. Kansas City.-To the courage of Carrie Car-rie Montgomery, a 17-year-old girl, is due the capture of two highwaymen who Monday assaulted her father, Joseph Jo-seph Montgomery, and robbed him of ?60. From the window of her home Miss Montgomery saw her father strucn down. Rushing from the house, she pursued the robbers half a mile, when she was relieved by officers, who captured cap-tured them after a long chasa and a hard fight. The girl had followed the highwaymen highway-men but a fchort distance when they turned on her, and one of them felled her with a blow. She was threatened with death if she persisted in following. follow-ing. Undauted, the girl resumed the chase until detectives who had been notified by neighbors took up the pursuit ana captured the criminals. Montgomery will recover. London. A meeting of all the Irish Nationalists in the new house of commons com-mons was held to determine the party's attitude toward the governmental program. pro-gram. John Redmond, leader of the Irish parliamentary party, presided, and that he is in a mood to fight, unless Premier Asquith clears the way for Irish aspirations, may be gathered from his appeal to the people of Ireland, is sued Monday morning, for party funds. "This appeal." said Mr. Redmond, "is vitally urgent by reason of the strong probability that another, dissolution of parliament will be upon us immediately perhaps before Easter." Monday's meeting caused Mr. Redmond Red-mond to voice the already expressed opinion of the party regarding the policy poli-cy that should be pursued, but suspended sus-pended decision on the final action to be taken until the . king's speech had been read and the position of the government gov-ernment more fully disclosed. San Jose, Cal. "Preachers are the easiest game in the world," Albert Nier of San Francisco confided to the police, following his arrest here Sunday on a charge of swindling pastors. On the plea that he was a newcomer and that his family was in want, Nier succeeded in obtaining small sums of money from pastors of twenty local churches, all of which he "joined" within a week. Buffalo, N. Y. Alexander Blackman, 50 years old, known as the "Millionaire tramp," was killed by a train here. Blackman received monthly remittances from New York which would have enabled en-abled him to live well, but he preferred the life of a tramp. Blackman claimed to be the son of a New York man who at the time of his death ten years ago had a commission business in Broad street. Childress, Tex. Frank L. Craig was shot and instantly killed here by his 15-year-old son Albert. The elder Craig, becoming enraged at his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Hamlin, aged 18 years, threatened to cut her throat Young Craig then shot his father. 1 Caldwell. N. J. Conrad Weinheimer, a carpenter, fell Monday from the roof of a three-story building to the ground. He had been sitti.ij on the ridge pole eating lunch and hal a pitcher of beer in his hand when he lost his balance. Weinheimer returned to his work Tuesday Tues-day declaring himself none the worse for his experience. Santiago, Chile. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, being afforded an opportunity to make public a statement regarding his claim fo having discovered the north pole, flatly refused to grant an interview, inter-view, saying he wished to be lefe in peace. Spokane, Wash. Fire which started in the basement of the Symons building early Tuesday caused losses estimated at between $125,000 and $150,000. The blaze is believed to have started in a candy kitchen in teh basement. The building is owned by Col. T. W7 Symons, U. S. A. Milwaukee, Wis. Fire that started with two explosions early Tuesday destroyed de-stroyed the structure on West Water street occupied by the Milwaukee department de-partment store. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Watertown, N. Y. An earthquake shock causing dishes and windows to rattle violently was felt in this city at 11:10 Tuesday. Helen t, Mont Tuesday was the coldest cold-est day of the year here, 29 degrees below be-low zero being the offiical record. Athens. Greece needs moneye, and it is possible the great American financier, J. P. Morgan, will be asked to float a loan of 150,000,000 drachmas ($30,000,000). For political reasons intimately connected con-nected with a desire to remain on good terms with Turkey, Great Britain and Germany seem anxious to place ever obstacle in the way of the loan. Therefore There-fore the Greeks turn to America. France, it is said, would undertake to finance the loan, but makes very onerous oner-ous terms concerning tho manner in which the money Is to be expended. The interest will be guaranteed by the revenue rev-enue of the railroads constructed out of the product of the loan, the revenue derived de-rived from the surtaxes on tobacco and alcohol, the new revenue of the sugar monopoly, and the surplus of the revenue rev-enue attributed to the service of the public debt. The loan is specially destined des-tined for railroad construction and other public works and to the payments of the budget deficits from 1878 to 1909. The government is also authorized to raise a further loan of 60,000,000 drachmas drach-mas at the rate of 5,000,000 drachmas per annum for the reedemption of the national tank notes and to assure the necessary gold reserve. This, too, may be offered to America. Calcutta. Shamr-ul-Alam, ' a police officer who played a large part in unearthing un-earthing what was known as the Mid-napur Mid-napur conspiracy, was shot in the high court at Calcutta while listening to the evidence in an appeal case. The assassin assas-sin fired point-blank at the inspector, who fell mortally wounded. The cl.Ief justice, who witnessed the outrage, gave the wounded officer water to drink, and telephoned for medical assistance. as-sistance. But this did not arrive before the injured man had expired. The only word he uttered was "Puckarao! ("Catch him!") The murderer fled down a corridor into the street, where he was pursued by a mounted policeman. The fugitive threw a bomb at his pursuer, but it failed to explode, and he managed man-aged to fire a shot at a native mounted constable, but the bullet passeed over the man's head. When he was arrested arrest-ed a Browning pistol was found in his possession. The chief judge and the other Judges ran to the spot and saw the assassin disarmed. The murderer is a Bengali, named Birenranath Sen-Gupta, Sen-Gupta, aged 18, and it has transpired that he is connected with a secret society so-ciety which deputed him to murder the inspector. Jerusalem. Quietly old Palestine is being filled up with Jewish colonists, and it is not imposible that the next generation will see the Zionist movement move-ment successful to the extent at. least that the great majority of the inhabitants inhabi-tants of Palestine will be Jews. Thou-eans Thou-eans and tens of thousands of Jewish colonists are already settled in the country. Helped by rich capitalists in Europe, they build comfortable homes and establish flourishing colonies. Large portions of land round Lake Tiberias Ti-berias have been bought up from poor natives and converted into prosperous domains. The Plain of Sharon, between Jaffa and Lydda, is one vast garden, owned and tended by Jewish skill and labor. The Hauran, one of the most fertile wheat districts in the world, is being gradually sold to Jewish syndicates. syndi-cates. The Ghor (alley of the Jordan, which belonged to Abdul Hamld, is now being bargained for and will soon become be-come Jewish property. To say that Jaffa and Jerusalem are Jewish towns is only saying the bare truth. Towns like Ramoth-Gilead, Bethlehem, Nazareth Naza-reth and Gaza, where a few years ago no Jew dared to show his face, have now their Jewish quarters and synagogues. syna-gogues. Chicago. Paul O. Stensland, John A. Cooke, Mrs. Evelyn Romadka and other members of the Chicago colony of paroled pa-roled convicts, together with hundreds of other paroled prisoners throughout Illinois, whose status has been in question ques-tion since the supreme court declared the parole law unconstitutional, and who have been crazed with suspense, will remain at liberty. This became known when word came from Springfield that Dovernor Deneen unofficially had declared that he would issue personal paroles for these persons, inasmuch as they have obtained their paroles in good faith and have not violated them. The report that Governor Deneen un-oyclally un-oyclally ha3 announced that he would act in behalf of Stensland and other convicts paroled from Joliet caused a storm of Indignation among members of the Polish National alliance. Members of the alliance have declared de-clared a meeting for Sunday, at which resolutions protesting against action by the governor will be drawn up and forwarded for-warded to the state executive. They will demand that Stensland be returned to prison. Valparaiso, Chile. William J. Bryan, with his wife and daughter, arrived here Saturday. They will leave for Santiago San-tiago on Monday, going thence to Buenos Bue-nos Ayres. Winnipeg, Man. Claiming that Fred Carroll had broken his promise to marry mar-ry her, Miss Lottie McCuIlock shot and fatally wounded him at his home. Young Carroll is a son of a member of parliament for South Brandon. He had recently married Miss Shark of southern south-ern Manitoba. Miss McCuIlock is in jail and says she does not care if she is hanged. Gardner, Mass. Simon W. Stevens, who was appointed postmaster here by President Franklin Pierce in 1854 and had received successive appointments ever since, is dead at his home in South Gardner. He was 91 years old. Cherry, 111. Four more bodies were taken out of the St. Paul mine. This makes a total of 126 bodies recovered since the disaster on Novernber 3. It is estimated that 173 bodies are yet to be found. Charles L. Atherton, known as the "top boss," who was shot while at the post of duty by Metas Manditch, is reported re-ported to be dying. The mine officials say several falls of rock have been discovered and it probably would be several days more before more bodies could be reached. Logansport, Ind. The body of John F. Johnson, former president of the State national bank of this city, was found floating in the Wabash river on Saturday. Johnson served siv years in prison following his confession that he had embezzled $650,000 of the bank's funds. Recently he had been a grain broker. It is presumed that he committed com-mitted suicide. Peking. For the second time within a fortnight Russia, Great Britain and Japan made a protest to the foreign board against China's prohibition of grain exportation from Hellung Chang in the northern part of Kirln province, Manchuria, charging a violation of the international convetnlons. Because of the distress of the people, as well as the effect upon the flour mills ct Harbin, Russia made strong representations, expressing the convlc tion that the prohibition was in the nature na-ture of retaliation for Russian action regarding the railways and other questions ques-tions concerning Manchuria. Birmingham, Ala. George Stevens, son of a prominent mine operator, shot and killed three of his little children, shot and dangerously wounded their colored nurse, and then shot and killed himself. A ten-year-old son escaped from the house. A note was left by the father saying: "I'm to blame fcr it all." About fifteen months ago Stevens' wife died. Stevens was 38 years old and a railroad engineer. Boise, Idaho. Accusation of sweatbox methods were made by Attorney Tan-nahill Tan-nahill against the government counsel In the trial of William F. Kettenbach, George Kester and William Dwyer, on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government out of Idaho timber lands. Tannahill charged that counsel and agents of the government took. Guy L. Wilson, one of the alleged dummy en-trymen en-trymen into inquisitorial chambers and attempted to force him to make statements state-ments on the witness stand which were V not true. Accusation was made while Wilson was on the witness stand. The witness denied that any attempt had been made to intimidate him. Four more alleged dummy entrymen testified, but denied having ade prior arrangements arrange-ments with Kettenbach and Dwyer for the disposal of timber claims before making filings. Two of the witnesses testified that money for making filings was furnished by Dwyer. Cleveland, O. Eugene Tremblay of Montreal retained his title as champion catch-as-catch-can lightweight wrestler in a match with John Billeter of Toledo. He defeated Billeter in straight falls. Cairo, Egypt. Boutros Pasha Chall, Egyptian premier and minister of foreign for-eign affairs, was shot and seriously wounded by a student, who was arrested. arrest-ed. The student fired five shots, three bullets lodging in the premier's body. Two of them, however, inflicted only superficial wounds. . The bullets were extracted, and it is thought that the premier will recover. The crime was entirely of a political nature, the would-be assassin being a Nationalist. He declared that his motive mo-tive was the desire to avenge various acts of the government which the Nationalists Na-tionalists attribute personally to Boutros Bou-tros Pasha. London. A fierce gale swept over the British isles, doing an immense amount of damage. The harbors are all crowded crowd-ed with shipping seeking shelter. Incoming Incom-ing vessels report extremely rough passages. pas-sages. The Adriatic and the Amerika, which arrived at Plymouth, experienced a succession of gales all the way across the Atlantic. St. Paul, Minn. A broken rail wrecked a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger train near Hastings, Minn. John Willis, baggageman, was killed. Boston, Mass. The city payrolls of Boston have increased two and a half times as much as the population since tl905, and at least one-fifth of the laboring labor-ing force are incapable on account of age of doing a full day's work. These are some of the findings which the finance commission will submit in a report to Mayor Fitzgerald. The report re-port says that unless the- payrolls are reduced there will be no relief from heavy tax burdens. Hartford, Conn. The record for in-dutry in-dutry on the part of a flock of hens ia dustry on the part of a flock of hens is claimed by G. H. Siede of Snipsic Lake, Conn, in the last three months 160 hens owned by him have produced 7,775 eggs. Berne. The police authorities at Berneworking with the police at Boxen, Box-en, in the Tyrol, have captured at the latter place a gang of international thieves both men and women, who are certainly believer to have robbed many wealthy American tourists during the past three years. A large amount of their plunder was disposed dis-posed of before the criminals were arrested, ar-rested, but the authorities are anxious to find owners for the remainder, the value of which amounts to nearly 200,000. The booty recovered includes almost every variety of jewelry, and the Swiss authorities are anxious to head from all American travelers who have lost valuables while traveling by the International express trains between be-tween France, Switzerland and Italy. Among the stolen articles recovered are at least 100 pearl necklaces, diamond pendants, brooches and tiaras. There are many gold watches and bracelets, some bearing initials and other marks of identification. The thieves made a practice of stealing steal-ing even articles of small value, such as a plain wedding ring with the inscription in-scription inside In English, "To ray darling wife." Silver toilet articles and traveling bags were also found. Dublin. In no sectiton of the British empire is keener interest felt in the approaching ap-proaching meeting of parliament than in Ireland, and this is natural, for the future of the country depends in great measure on what will be done the next few months at Westminster. In conversation con-versation with one of the nationalist leaders this week, he said to me: "Much will depend on the decision of Mr. Asquith a3 to whether his first object ob-ject when parliament meets will be to curtail the veto power of the lords, not only as affecting financial measures, but general legislation, or whether he will first pass the budget. If he is wise he will tackle the lords first, not only because this is the most important matter to be settled, but because on this question he can command the full support of Liberals, Nationalists and Laborites. On any other question he is bound to lose votes and thus weaken his position. We do not intend to unreasonably un-reasonably force the hand of the government gov-ernment on the home rule question. Mr. Redmond next to Parnell is the ablest parliamentary tactician Ireland has ever produced. He is after results, and while he will abate Ireland's demands not one jot or title, he will not imperil the cause by hasty or 11-advised action. ac-tion. Richmond, Va. Howard Little, who murdered Mrs. Bessie Justis, her son-in-law, George Meadows, and his wife and three children in their home near Hurley, Buchanan county, last September, Septem-ber, was put to death by electrocution in the penitentiarry here at down on Friday. Chatsworth, 111. Four bandits blew the safe of the Citizens' bank here, got $10,000 and escaped. Night Marshal William Cahil was taken unawares at the city pumping station about 1 o'clock by two of the desperadoes, bound and gagged and taken to a garage gar-age opposite the bank. With Cahill out of the way, the bank door was forced and work ori the safe commenced. A baker en route to his shop was next caught, tied hand and foot and dragged into the bank. There he remained re-mained until 4 o'clock In the morning, when he was able to loosen himself and give the alarm. In the meantime the safe door was soaped and opened, presumably with nitroglycerine. With the $10,000 stowed away in a sac, the robbers left town and drove east. Cahill, while he saw only three men, is confident there were four in the party. The loss to the bank is covered cov-ered by insurance. Atlanta, Ga. Miss Margie Calhoun, granddaughter of South Carolina's famous fa-mous statesman, John C. Calhoun, and sister of Patrick Calhoun of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, died Tuesday, aged 63 years. Another An-other brother, Captain John C. Calhoun Cal-houn of New York, survives. Redondo, Cal. The body of Mrs. Mary T. York, who died here, will be cremated and, In accordance with her wishes, the ashes will be strewn ovr the graves of veterans of the civil warj " f in the burial ground of the soldiers ; I home at Sawtelle. .Mrs. York for man I years was a worker in the relief corps, j I and at the time of her death wax vic j j president of the Stanton Relief Corp j . of Los Angeles. ill |