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Show MINERS OFFER TO COMPROMIS ΠΗ PUPILS PERISH [121] [ΠΠ ΤΠ [ΠΒFOR MAGDALENA GAY CHINESE SEIZE IN FIERY FURNACE UNITED STATES IAPANESE SHIP RUSSIAN AWARCHIST ATTEMPTS TO MURDER CHIEF OF POLICE lavades Home of Chief Shippey of Start on Longest Lap of Long Voyage, Being Due &t Next Stopping Chicago, and is Killed by the Man He Goldfield Western Federation Men Have Decided to Accept the The Mine Operators’ Association Wi'! Number the Advance, But a of Leasers Have Agreed to Pay the Scale. Goldfield, Nev.—Loca] 220, Western Federation of Miners, on Thursday, by a referendum vote of 455 to 256 decided to accept tue Tonopah scale of wages, and declare the strike off as to those properties which wil! IN THE pay ing ORIENT. must be His plan to kill Chiet Shippey is believed to have been formed as a direct result of the lat ter’s interference with a parade of unemployed men through tho city’s streets several weeks ago ROOSEVELT SUSTAINS WILFREY. Says Charges Against Justice of U. S. Tokio.—Public opinion has been aroused in Japan conceimming the seizure of the steamer Tatsu by the Chinese authorities at Maco, Febru ary 7. Special cablegrams published in an extra edition of the Jiji, state that China offers to release the ‘Tatsn and apologize, but proposes to hold the captured munitions pending an investigation by a mixed tribunal Minister Hayashi, it is reported, positively refused to consider the proposition, and said that the vessel cargo Police room previor dy. ure of the Steamer Tatsu. her entire of Averbuch was 22 years old and oceupied rooms at the above address with his sister, Olga. He was a Ruygsian student, He came to America three months ago from Austria, to which country he fled two years ago, following the massacre of Jews in Kishineff, Russia, where his home had been Japs Are Very Angry Over the Seiz- and Chief The would-be assassin has been \dentified as a man named Lazarus Averbuch, who, for the past three weeks, has lived at 218 Washburn avenue, On the west side of the city His identification was established through a sister of the man, who was taken by the police to the undertak- the Tonopah scale Some days ago representatives of thirteen different leases agreed to pay the Tonopah seale, which ts 50 cents per day less than the former Goldfield scale, but 50 cents more than the scale recently adopted by the Mine Operators’ association The Mine Operators’ association will not grant the advance. ‘The as sociation companies include all the big mines of the camp and against these latter the strike is still in ef fect. The miners elected an ultra conservative president by a vote of 4 to 1 against the radicals TROUBLE Intended to Murder. George M “yy, his son, his Harry, and James Foley, were wi unded by an a archist who attempted to assas swiate the police officer in the hall of the latter's residence shortly after 9 Oock Monday morning. A desperale struggle, in which Mrs, Shippey and her daughter, Georgetta, joined, was terminated when the chief drew bis own revolver and killed his assailant Chicago Tonopah Scale of Wages. Not Grant Had Court for China Are Unfounded. Washington.—President Roosevelj's defense of Lebbeus R. Wilfley, based on an analytical review by Secretary Root of the charges against him, was made public on Monday. The charges were preferred by Lorin Andrews, and ave been repeated by him before the bouse committee on judiciary as the basis of impeachment proceedings They relate to Judge Wilfley’s admin istration or the United States court for China at Shanghai. After disposing of each of the seven charges by showing that neither of them is the proper basis of criticism against Judge Wilfley, Secretary Root reviews conditions in the foreign quarters at Shanghai, showing that uncon ditionally restored. It is further said that Minister Hayashi, acting under instructions from the home government, sent the first secretary to the minister of foreign affairs with the statement that, in view of the atti tude of the Chinese government, it because of the heretofore lax Amerionly remained for Japan to proceed can administration of justice there, afin such manner that would uphold | fairs had grown disgraceful. Judge| her dignity and protect her interests, | Wilfley was sent there for the express ‘The Tokio newspapers in their editor- | purposes of reversing en urge the government to stand | tions. these condi. Three Hundred Children Become Presidex.t of Venezuela Refuses to Panic Stricken in Schoo! House Listen to Demand for ArbitraFire and Many Meet Death. tion of Claims. Sickening Disaster at North Goiiin- wood, Ohio, Caused by Over-heated Rear Exit Was | Slander Stories of Accuses Attorney of Accepting Hush oo ee Gass Peonage and Misuse of Laborers. Money. New York.—A charge that Πα Washington.—An_ investigation by| agreed to pay $1,500 to Nathan Vi- the immigration committee on labor daver, an attomey, last November to conditions in the turpentine camps, industries of bring about a cessation of newspaper plantations and other attacks upon the Hamilton bank the south, especially the existence of after Vidaver had said, “he had no peonage, is provided for in a resolu doubt he could fix it with Jackson to tion taken up by the house on Monhave the attacks stopped,” was made day under suspension of the rules by William R, Montgomery, former Mr. Williams of Mississippi said the president of the Hamilton bank, in circulation abroad of tories reg arding| an affidavit filed in police court on peonage had done harm to the south, He Thursday. The affidavit was a part and he desired an investigation. of the complaint against Vidaver, | said he believed the stories had been | put out by labor agents in New York who was arrested on a charge of exin order to divert immigrants to other | tortion preferred by Mr Montgom sections of the country. ery. Fell Over Precipice. Senate, Locked. An attempt was made to have children march out, but a panie sued. Miss Catherine Weiler, one of nine teachers in the school, lost the en- Grave Charges Made by Missouri Con- the her Washington.—The startling charge that the railroads of the country carrying mails had robbed the people out of $70,000,000, was made in the house on Tuesday by Mr. Lloyd of Missouri. lite in a vain effort to marshal the pupils of her class and lead them to safety. rear She died in the erush at the door. Her room was onthe sounded she marched her pupils out into the hall, thinking it was only a fire drill. There the truth dawned upon both teacher and pupils and control was lost. The children in their frenzy plunged into the struggling mass ahead of them. Miss Weiler attempted to stem the rush, but went down under it, and her body was found an hour later piled high wtih those of her pupils, Miss Fisk, another teacher, was taken out alive, but she can not live. When teh flames were discovered the teachers throughout seem to have acted with courage and_ self-possession, and to have struggled heroically for the safety of their pupils, and marshalled the little ones into col | umn for the “fire drill,” which they| had often practiced. Proctor Dead. Saha KOE ae eee earn bureau of chemistry of the depart- | duced by Representative Hepburn of | down of the coal mines in lowa, workment of agriculture, makes a vigor- || Towa. "The tax provided for is fixed | ed by 15,000 miners, is threatened. ous denial of statements he is alleged | at fifty cents per 100 shares. The. bill | The agreement nowexisting between to have made recently, one being to.| does not undertake to impose a “tax||the mine operators and the miners expires March 31, and beeause of the the effect that “the man who never| upon any agreement evidencing the failure of the miners and operators takes a drink is a ‘mollycoddle.’”’ The | deposit of stock certificates as collat| in eastern states to reach an agreestatements attributed to Dr. Wiley in eral security, which certificates are ment last week, it is probable that regard to whiskey and alcohol were not actually sold, nor upon any such the miners and operators, who have made in an address before the Uni- stock certificates so deposited. The heretofore followed the example of versity club in Washington, and he} bill provides that a further tax shall the eastern states, will not be able declares they “are wholly unwarrant- be imposed upon the delivery of the to make a new agreement before ed by the facts.” ceftificates of stock. March 31. Washington—A marked tribute of respect was accorded the memory of the late Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont by the United States senate on Thursday. Republicans and Demoarats attended the brief session in svech number as is seldom seen exAll stood cept on unusual occasion reverently as the chaplain, Dr. Ed ward Everett Hale, delivered the prayer, which contained an appropriate referdnce to the life and work ef Senator Proetor. The customary resolutions were adopted, S50 a a ng Appro- | priating Coal and Timber Lands. Washington.—In the supreme court | of the United States on Monday, So- The distamce from Callao San Francisco have not been Cleveland, O.—Penned in narrow Washington. —Venezuela has again hallways, jammed up against doors declined ‘y arbitrate the question of that opened only inward, 170 chil- eontroversy which have been pet ding dren in the suburb of North Collin- for some time etween the Castro wood, were killed by fire, by smoke administration and the American govand beneath the grinding heels of ernment. This time the refusal is their panic stricken playmates. made specific with respect to each The awful tragedy occurred Wed- ct the questions separately, and difnesday morning in the public school fers from the last refusal to arbitrate of North Collinwood, ten miles east in that the refusal was made as to of this city At 10 o'clock Wednes- all questions en bloc. day night 165 corpses were in the It was explained at the state de morgue at Collinwood, six children partment that the presentation by were still unaccounted for, and all Minister Russell of each of the five the hospitals and houses for two points in dispute with a request for miles around contained numbers of arbitration leaves no foundation for children, some fatally and many less a future representation by Venezuela seriously injured, to the effect that she was not asked All of the victims were between the to arbitrate any of the questions sepages of 6 and 15 years. The school arately. This would seem to clear contained between 310 and 325 puup the situation by making it plain pils and of this entire number only that diplomacy can accomplish noth about eighty are known to have left ing further toward settling those conthe building unhurt. It will be sey- troversies, eral days before the exact number of That this deadlock will be made to killed is known, as the ruins may appear to the United States senate still contain other bodies and the list when it receives the contents of the ot fatalities may be increased by a files of the state department respectnumber of deaths among the children noted outlaw, and one of the last of ing Venezuela—information for which who are now lying in the hospitals the most prominent gun men of fronit asked last week—there can be no hovering between life and death, tier days, was shot and killed by J, doubt. The school house was of brick, two Wayne Brazle, a youthful ranchman, In asking «arbitration of the differstories and an attic in height. The near Las Cruces, N. M., in a dispute number of pupils was more than nor- ences, the American government has over a ranch lease. Garrett had been mally large, and the smaller children left open the question of machinery on a visit to one of his ranches near to be employed. had been placed in an attic of tie οἵ the arbitration the New Mexico town, and, in a buckbuilding. There was but onefire es- This government would have been board, with a friend, was returning to cape, and that was in the rear of the glad to have herd the controversy go Las Cruces, when they were overtaken building. There were two stairways, te The Hague. Failing in this, it is by Brazle. A quarrel between the one leading to a door in front and the believed any other duly appointed principals followed, and Garrett is other to a door in the rear. Both of tribunal would have been sconptabie, said to have reached for a shotgun. these doors opened inward, and it is Brazle fired twice, both shots taking claimed the rear door was locked, as ROBBED.OF MILLIONS. effect, and Garrett fell dead. well St. Louis, Mo.—According to a re capitulation of statements of Missour railroad officials, published here on Monday, about 10,000 employes in the Coloradoans Charged|“With Has Asked for March 14. to Magdalena bay is 3,012 nautica! miles. The dates for the departure from Magdalena bay and the arrival at Washington —United States Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont died in his apartments at the Champlain here Wednesday, after a short illness has been missing several days, was | operating, mechanical and clerical de following an attack of grip. The senby two partments have been dismissed re ator’s son, Governor Fletcher ‘Proctor found at noon Thursday guides on a ledge 1,200 feet below the cently to offset heavy revenue losses ef Vermont, who was summoned te top of a cliff, and 450 feet above the| suffered by the roads. It ts estimated the city, was at the bedside when the beach. The position of the body in- by the state railroad commission that senator passed away. Senator Proce dicates that Wilson, while climbing | The senator of the unemployed tor was 77 years old. probably 8,000 the cliff, fell from somewhere along toree have Yeen laid off during the | had beenill and confined to his room its face to the ledge where his body at the Champlain apartments for | past fifteen lays. was discovered about a week His ailment was diag: nosed as srip. Cop ‘po Free With Gun. Body of Anarchist Buried in Potter's San Jose, Cal—Truant Officer Frank Field. Telegraphers Are Satisfied. | Shafter of Santa Clara shot and killed Chicago. —The body of Lazarus San Francisco.—A compromise was John Ivancovich, of the San ‘Fran- | Averbuch, the young Russian. Jew effected by stipulation on Wednesday cisco firm of Ivancovich & Co., in who tried to take the life of Chicago's between the attorneys for the Southfront of the latter's home in this city chief of police on Monday, was buried Shafter had gone ern Pacific Railway company and the Monday morning. Order of Railway Telegraphers, and Thursday night in the potter's field to the house to see why Ivancovich’s. the cases affecting the question at The assassin’s sister, Olga Averbuch, son did not attend school, and put him issue, which was taken to the United her resources exhausted, gave reulct In the quarrel which States court of appeals from the Unit|; under arrest. ant consent to interment by the followed Shafter drew his gun and ed States circuit court, was withcounty, and, in the darkness of night, Feeling runs high | drawn. The compromise measure is with a dreary rain pouring down, un- killed the man, February 21, him in Santa Clara, and| to be effective from accompanied by friend or relative, against The telegraphers claim to from | 1908. the corpse of the unfortunate youth Shatter had a narrow escape | have gained their point, which had to was buried by the light of a lantern, lynching | do with hours and wages. Tax Upon Stock Transfers. , Doc Wiley Didn't Say It. May Stop Mining Coal. Washington.—A bill to tax the sale State- | Washington—In a signed Des Moines, Ia.—A complete shutment, Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the and transfer of stocks has been intro | In Honor. of Dead Senator. Which Callao—The fleet of American battleships left the harbor on Saturday. The next stopping place is Mag dalena bay, where, according to the schedule, the vessels will arrive on Mikado Demands Punitive Measures and Portugal, too, is Incensed at Action of Chinese. Steamer Was in Chinese Waters, Awaiting a Pilot to Get to Portuguese Port, Officials When Placed Custom Armed Force Aboard. definitely determined, as those depend upon the completion of target practice at Magdalena bay, which will probably Victoria, B. C.—China has seriously eccupy thirty days. This is the longest lap of the long invoived herself with both Japan and voyage, and unless news of the pass- Portugal by the seizure of the Japanage of the warships is brought ashore ese steamer Tatsu Maru No. 2, tem by some passing steamer, the vessels , miles off Macao, according to advices probably will not be heard from again received by the steamer Empress of night until they approach Magdaiena bay. Japan, which arrived Sunday The fleet left Hampton Roads Decem- from Yokohama, and unless immedi reparation 18 ber 16 and made its first stop in ate and substantial South America at Trinidad, December made Japan is disposed to consider 23. Five days’ sailing from Callao the matter a casus belli. Arrivals by will bring Panama abeam and the the Empress of Japan say considervessels will then be practically clear able excitement prevails in Japan reof South America. Counting the long garding the seizure, especially folstops made at Trinidad, Rio, Punta lewing upon a number of questions Arenas and Callao, they have made which have recently arisen between the circuit of South America in apJapan and China. The viceroy of proximately seventy-three days; Canton’s offer of a settlement was re fused by Consul Uyeno at Canton, DIED WITH BOOTS ON. and Minister Hayashi at Pekin has Slayer of “Billy the Kid” Shot Dead made a strong protest. A British warship was sent from Hongkong to By Mere Youth. the scene and a cruiser was being El Paso, Tex.—Pat Garrett, known the continent over as the man who, sent by Japan. The Tokio government states in @ while sheriff of Lincoln counjy, New Mexico, killed “Billy the Kid,” the note that it will not be satisfied with Senator Missouri Railroads. Now Be Information. | Ten Thousand Employes Laid Off by Avalon, Catalina Island, Cal-—Mutilated almost beyond recognition, bdbootless, and with clothing torn to shreds, the body of L. L. Watson, a guest at the Hotel Metropole, who of Controversy Will Brought to the Ajttention of the Furnace, and the Fact That second floor, and when the fire alar, ee Result Piace on March 14. gressman. He declared that the new system of weighing mails was an admission of the postmaster general that the weighing in the past twenty-seven years had been fraudulent. He called for an investigation of the postoffice department, and Mr. Wanger of Pennfylvania, chairman of the committee tu control the expenses of that de partment, promised that an inquiry would be instituted. MISTAKEN POLICY. Suppression licitor General Hoyt moved the advancement on the docket of the criminal proces lings against a number of prominent people of Colorado on the charge of conspiracy in appropriating coal and timber lands in that state. In these cases Me district court failed to return verdicts of guilty, on. the ground that no offense had been comnitted under sect ion. 5440 of the revised statutes, which was relied upon | to obtain a divorce from her husband. tor their conviction. Legitimate News Rome.—The municipality of Rome has pursued a mistaken poilcy in endeavoring to suppress the news of an outbreak of smallpox in this city in the fear of frightening away the spring tourist trade, which constitutes a large source of revenue to the capital. Instead of pacifying the public fears, the method pursued in prohibiting the sending of telegrams referring to the outbreak has given rise to the spread of the wildest and most exaggerated reports. There is practically a panic in Rome over this smallpox scare. CARGO OF POWDER EXPLODED. Explosion Causes a Train Wreck and boats joined her. The Tatsu~ Maru was found hove to ten miles off Ma cao in Chinese waters awaiting 8 pilot to get to the Portuguese port. FROM RUSSIAN VIEWPOINT. fhe schooner was seized. and 1500 Soft Words Are a Corollary to the. rifles and 40,0000 pounds of ammuni- Policy of the Big Stick. | tion which were manifested, and 570 | rifles not manifested which were se St. Petersburg—The Novoe Vremya | |ereted, were taken, The Chinese devotes one of its leading articles to | commandant, Captain Wo, hauled the American plans for the fortificadown the Japanese flag and replaced tion of Manila, which it believes will | |it with the dragon fiag, and placed convert Cavite into the most power-| |}armed forces aboard. ful naval base on the Pacific and enPekin—It is announced that the able the United States to insist upon | Chinese government will surrender an actual as well as a theoretical re-| alization of the open door in Manchuria. Continuing, the paper says the denial of the report that it is the present intention of President Roosevelt to raise this question merely exemplifies its conviction that “soft words are a corollary to the policy of the-big stick. When the Manila works are completed the doors of Manchuria will fly open to America’s open sesame.” EXPLOSION IN SULPHUR PLANT. the Japanese steamer Tatsu Maru, which was seized on February 7 by the Chinese customs cruisers outside of Macao while unloading a large consignment of rifles and ammunition, the rifles numbering several thousand. It was originally charged that an attempt was being made to bring war supplies into China for revolutionists. THOUSANDS |ARE HOMELESS. Factory is Demolished and Six Men Northern Portion of Tampa, Florida, Destroyed by Fire. Terribly Burned. extreme Tampa, Fla.—The entire NewYork.—Six employes of the Naof this city was detional Sulphur company’s mill in aorthern section !stroyed by fire which broke out in Brooklyn were terribly burned and early Sunday and lacerated by an explosion of sulphur a boarding house uninterruptedly for four hours. in the company’s plant. A driver of a raged. fifty-five covered passing truck was struck and his The area burned and a half city skull was fractured bya section of the acres, or eighteen deroof which was blown off the building. blocks, and 308 buildings were The factory was destroyed by fire with siroyed, with a total loss estimated a loss of about $100,000. at $600,000, and one woman is dead The employes were at work in the | from excitement. milling section grinding the sulphur | The burned section included four when, it is supposed, a spark from ‘large and one smaller cigar factory one of the grinding machines ignited and numerous restaurants, saloons, the powdered sulphur, causing a se- boarding houses and over 200 dwellries of heavy explosions. ings occupied by cigarmakers. Two Men are Injured. Litchfield, I1l—A cargo of powder carried by a Big Four freight train exploded while the train was running at full speec, two miles from here. The train was badly wrecked and several cars were burned. The concussion shook houses and battered windows for many miles. Atasharp curve the two cars containng the powder were blown high into the air and the whole train was wrecked. Whole cars were blown fifty feet from the track and debris was scattered over twenty acres of ground. Two men who were riding in one of the cars were injured. Congo Annexation Plan. Brussels —King Leopold and the Belgian government have come to a complete agreement on the question of annexation of the Congo Independent state. It is stated in official circles that the agreement was made pos‘sible by an important concession by the king in consenting that the par Hament have control of the Congo budget. In addition, the king trans- fers to Belgium the magnificent domain of Cape Ferrat in the south of France, reserving for himself the use of it, however, during his lifetime. Hartje Acquitted of Conspiracy. Pittsburg, Pa—Angustus Hartje, John L. Welshons, a hardware merchant and friend of Hartje, and Ch ford Hooe, the negro coachman, who have been on trial in the criminal court, charged with conspiracy to blacken the character of Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, were all acquitted, binding instructions having been given to the jury to find such a verdict and place the costs of the case upon the county It° is now stated that Mrs. Hartje will push her action of Leads to Wildest Exaggeration. less than the release of the steamer, punishment of the officers who seized her for hauling down the Japanese flag, and compensation. When the Tatsu. Maru left Japan telegrams in cipher were sent to the Chinese government, in consequence of which the Chinese gunboat Po Bik, with a number of foreign-drilled treops on board, put to sea under sealed orders, and the Chinese revenue cutter Lung Tsing and three gun- Bank to Resume Business. Kansas City.—It is announced that Japs Again Victorious. An Avalanche in Switzerland Buries Nogales, Arizi—News just received | Thirteen People. from Guaymas, the terminus of the Berne, Switzerland.—An avalanche Sonora railroad, gives further details descended Sunday near the village of of the Yaqui descent on the ranch of _atenormous The Noppenstein. Luis A. Martinez, a prominent banker mospheric pressure which accompaand merchant near there, last week. nied it demolished a hotel at the The ranch is worked by Japanese, mouth of the Lochberg tunnel, killing who made a determined resistanve| thirteen persons and injuring fifteen and finally drove the Yaquis away. ethers. The occupants of the hotel, The latter are estimated at fifty in |numbering cighty, were surprised number. Two Japanese were killed | while seated at the table, by sinister and six wounded. It is not known if rumblings. There was a rush to esany Yaquis were killed, ag they al- cape, but the building, which was of a ways carry their dead and wounded temporary nature, collapsed and the away. people were buried in the ruins. Teacher Tortures Pupils. | Evelyn Thaw Denies That She Is Seeking a Divorce. Steubenville, Ohio.—Miss Clara. Sterling, teacher at Tuscarawas | New York.—Mrs. Evelyn Thaw de County Children’s home, who,it is al- {nied on Saturday that she had de leged, drove a tack into 6-year-old manded $1,000,000 or had received any Sampson Fowler's tongue, is accused offer of money to induce her to conof other cruelties in a report of the | sent to an annulment of her marriage county board of visitors filed with the to Harry K. Thaw. Mrs. Thaw said: of probate judge a few days ago. The “There has been no conference board says that Miss Sterling forced lawyers and there will not be any. I several boys under her charge to take have never been approached by any ground mustard into their mouths un- lawyers on the subject of divorce or til their mouths were burned and sev- separation, and you can say positively eral of them were made violently ill. that there is not an atom of truth in any of the rumors.” Aged Widow Murdered By Robbers. Judge Renders Opinion While Asleep. Salisbury, Mo.—An atrocious mur- der was revealed here Saturday, when the National Bank of Commerce of ||the body of Mrs. Daniel. Grisham, a this city will re-open its doors Mon- | widow, 80 years old, was found lying The crime day, March 30, in its own quarters in | in her home by her son. the new Commercebuilding with $6, was committed by robbers, who had 600,000 cash its vaults W.B. inflicted deep wounds on their victim Ridgeley, comptr« of the currency, with a knife and fractured her skull according to the announcement, will with a hammer. A strip of cloth was The be president of the bank; Edward | tied tightly around the throat. Chattanooga, Tenn.—A remarkable story has just come to light here of an opinion of ihe supreme court of Tennessee affirming the death sentence of Andrew Smith, colored, in 1870. The opinion was written by the chief justice of the supreme court when he was in a son nambulent state, and the remarkable thing was that his opinion was thoroughly sound, both as to the law and facts. and is one of pinions being printed as an authority to this day ο Ridgeley, his brother, will be cashier, | murder was committed some time beand Saturs, the σον I iment tween Thursday even George T receiver now in ct re, will be first day. The knife and hammer are the | mnly clues. vice president. The bourd of wirec; the technical law points tors will include many local men. and Invoived |