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Show HUH IS WITS GOMPERS WIPED TO ENTER UNIONS SHIP COES DOWII Dupont Powder Works Blown Up and a Town of 1,000 People Wiped Off the Map Farm Houses Miles Away Wrecked by tho Explosion. Foutanit, Ind. By the explosion of the DujMJnt powder works on Tuesday and fifty persons between twenty-fiv- e were killed, 600 injured, and Fontanel, a city of 1,000 people, wiped out. The dead and more seriously Injured hare been taken away. Five hundred Inhabitants, all more or less wounded, remain to Rather scattered household goods and sleep under tents, guarded by soldiers of the state. Without warning, the powder mills, seven la number, blew up at 9:15 on They employed Tuesday morning. 200 men, and Of these, seventy-fivwere at work when the first explosion occurred In the press mill. In quick succession the glnzing mill, two corning mills and the powder magazine blew up, followed by the cap mill. In the magazine, situated several hundred yards from the mill, were stored The concus4,000 kegs of powder. sion when It blew tip was felt 200 miles away. Every house In this town was deKarin houses two miles stroyed. away, and school houses equally distant were torn to pieces and their ocIndianapolis and cupants Injured. A even Cincinnati felt the shock. passenger train on the Uig Four railroad four miles away had every coach window broken, and several were lnjmed by flying passengers glass. The mills were located one mile south of town. With the first explosion the employes ran for safety, but most of them were killed or wounded by the quick following explosions in the other mills. When the heat from the burning mills exploded the giant ninety minutes powder mqgazine, later, destroying the town by the concussion, many of those engaged in rescue work were badly Injured and several killed. Superintendent Monahan of the plant was killed while In his office, and bis wife and sister-in-lawere killed In their home, some distance away. That the death lint Is not far greater Is due to the fact that the people of the town had left their houses at the first explosion and were not In them when the explosion of the 4,0ikj kegs of powder In the magazine hurled their homes to pieces and scattered household goods in heaps of debris. Among the buildings totally destroyed In the town were the Methodist nnrt Christian churches, two school buildings, the depot, all business, blocks. Including a large block Just completed, a large warehouse and 5(H) homes. Governor Hanley ordered the Terre Haute company of Indiana national guards to patrol the ruined district and to protect life and property. The governor arrived Tuesday evening. He brought with him 700 tents and cots for the care of the homeless. Throe school buildings were destroyed at Fontanet and Coal Bluff, two miles away. All were filled with school children, and every one of them was more or less Injured by the collapse of the buildings. A four-rooschool building was tom to pieces, and not one of the 200 children unhurt, though none was fatally school building Injured. A two-rooat Coal Bluff was turned over and collapsed. The teacher and ninety pupils were more or less Injured. The force of the explosion destroyed all with outtelephone communication side towns, and it was with great dif Acuity that aid was summoned. Terre Haute and Brazil sent physicians anc nurses with supplies in carriages a?id automobiles, while special trains were made up and run on the Big Four railroad for the care of the Injured, e d RUN STARTED ON BANK. Belief Expressed That Attack on the Banks Credit Was Premeditated. (Oldfield, Nev. The return of a $12 check marked No funds, which was presented at the bank of John S, Cook & Co, Tuesday morning' by a woman, c aused a run on the bank which la ted until noon. Depositors were paid as fast as possible, and the bank continued to do its usual business. About noon the excitement died down and the run was over. It is believed In some quarters that the attack on the credit of the bank was prearranged, and some color Is lent to this opinion by rumors which have been persistently circulated for the past ten days that the bank was Insolvent. Charged With Dynamite Outrage. Joplin, Mo. Five persons have been held under $500 bond each for appearance In Justice Egells court for a preliminary hearing, when formal charges of having dynamited the News-Heralplant on the night ol Sept. 13 may be preferred against them. The suspects were arrested and subjected to a sweating process, but without important developments. The suspects are Minnie St. Claire, formerly keeper of a resort; W. S, Martin, known as Kansas City Kid"; Hazel Reed, Bessie Blain and Charle Smith. Labor Leader Urge Hi Follower to Go on Record a Opposed to Government by Injunction. New York. The Central Federated Union has received an appeal from President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, which has been sent to all the affiliated unions, asking them to request all political candidates In the present campaign to commit themselves openly as to government hy Injunction. Gompers said that the misuse of the power of Injunction occurs constantly and Is dangerous to the liberty of tho people. It was the duty of the labor unions to Investigate all candidates for judicial and legislative ofilces, so that they can be put on record as to how they stand on the question of government by injunction. OIL TRUST DECEIVED PUBLIC. Sold Its Products Through What People Believed to be Independent Companies. Hampton G. Westcott, of the Standard Oil company of Kentucky, testified on Monday In the hearing of the federal suit against tho oil combine that In several of the southern states the Standard Oil company had found it expedient to sell much of Its products through companies which the public believed to be Independent. The pracIndetice of selling through pendent companies, whleh were owned hy the combine, was discontinued two years Bgo, according to Mr. Westcott. Mr. Kellogg, counsel for the government. drew from the witness that the Standanl Oil company of Kentucky, which nets ns selling agent of oil In Kentucky, Georgia. Mississippi, Ixmis-lanTennessee and Alabama, had purchased numerous small independent soiling companies and through many of them sold oil to the consumer. Borne of the plants of these companies were dismantled and the business taken over hy the Standard. New York. d a, SALT LAKER GETS PLUM. First Assistant tary of the Interior. Is Appointed Secre- Thomas Washington. Ryan, for nearly eleven years fust assistant secretary of the Interior, will retire from that office the latter part of this month. He will be succeeded by Frank Pierce of Salt Lake City, Utah. The reason given for his resignation Is that his health has become Impaired by the work of his office. The announcement of the change was made Monday hy Secretary of the Interior Garfield. Mr. Ryan was former ly minister to Mexico and Is from Kansas. Frank Pierce was born in Londonderry, Vt.; April 3, 1857. He came to Utah In 1883, and has lived here ever since. Great British Fleet Assembling. London. There is now assembling In the North 6ea and the English channel for maneuvers, under the command of 'Admiral Lord Charles Berea-fora fleet of British warships representing an aggregation of naval power surpassing all the Immediately available resources of any two other countries of Europe, and yet not a single ship of this fleet has been drawn from the reserves, the Mediterranean fleet or the Devonport and Portsmouth divisions. The home fleet, which is now assembling, consists merely of those ships maintained In the vicinity of the British Isles, and which throughout the year have been engaged in war training. It numbers 110 penants, and is composed of twenty-six battleships, fifteen armored cruisers, several protected cruisers, various auxiliary vessels and forty-eigh- t torpedo vessels. d, 10 Off ANIMALS SAVE THE RANGE STOCK Steamer Cypress Wrecked on Lake Superior and of Entire Crew Only One Escaped. Washed Ashore and Sole Survivor Unable to Give an Account of the Terrible Accident Foundering Wa Probably Due to Sudden Leak. Bound down Salt Ste. Marie. Mich from the bead of (he lakes on the second trip she had made since being launched at Iaualn, Ohio, on August 17 last. I he fine steel fre.lghter Cyprus, 440 feet long, and owned by the Lackawanna Transportation company of Cleveland, foundered Saturday night In Lake Superior off Deer Park, takmeming down with her twenty-twbers of the crew, Second Mate C. J. Pitt, washed ashore lashed to a life raft, is the only person left alive of the ship's people, and his condition is so critical that since he was found on the beach he has only been able to FIRST PHILIPPINE CONGRESS. gasp out the name of the sunken ship lives and the fact that twenty-twwere lost. The Indications are that Proceedings Will Not be Opened by Prayer, But Taft Will be There. the foundering was due to a sudden leak. Manila. Great Interest Is shown In the first Philippine congress, which GERMANS WOULD GRAB TRADE. will take place this week, and the arrival of Secretary Taft,- which comes in East Africa at an British Merchants opportune time in the inauguraHave a Kick Coming. tion of the Philippine home rule. AlIxtndon Winston Churchill, under ready the contending political factions secretary of state for the colonies, are showing great activity and at the who has started on a tour which will caucus recently held the first brush take him into the interior of Africa, occurred over a motion to have the will, when he reaches Nairobi, on Vic- assembly proceedings opened with toria Nyana, have presented to him prayer. This was defeated by one a problem that has been causing very vote, on the broad ground that church serious misgivings to those Britishers and state should he kept distinct. Guerrero, one of the native leaders who have established themselves upon the shores of the lake and have In in Manila, backs Gomez in his promise to secure the repeal of the drastic many ensos built up large business in laws. If this 'repeal is flag sedition adtrading with the natives of the carried through other radical measof These pioneers jacent territory. ures probably will follow. The conAfrica fear that a scheme which the servative element, declares against any German government Is carrying out to extreme legislation and the better divert the trade of the country from class of politicians favor an ultra conBritish to German ports on the east servative course. The governor general and the ofcoast, which Is now carried over the ficials commission Uganda railway, a line subsidized, will think of the Philippine chief of the that the activities will but the business, not only hurt assembly will be devoted to the enactseriously hurt the navigation of the ment of legislation for the general imlake hy lowering Its waters. provement of the Islands. o ' Are Making War Upon the House of Lords. London. The liberal, campaign for ?strlctlon of the power of the house f lords to alter or reject bills pro- tn iha Yimtoo rt Anmnmna whlrh was inaugurated by the premier, Sir Is now In Henry Campbell-Bannermafull swing throughout the country. Members of the cabinet are addressing meetings almost daily, the subjects of (heir speeches beiDg the governments complaint of the treatment of measures considered of first Importance by the upper house. Liberal Publications to be Censored. Rome. In pursuance of the papal eneyclioal. pubhsned September 1, on conModernism the subject of demning books or newspapers of modernist tendency, which must not be permitted to reach any pupil of the universities or seminaries, twelve censors will be appointed 10 examine all periodical publications likely to find their way Into the Catholic universities or schools, and all Catholic dally newspapers are ordered to submit to these censors advanced proofs of any articles on subjects which are likely to arouse any controversy. THE TELEGRAPHERS STRIKE. Men Refuse to End Fight Despite Advice of Their President. York. New Y'ork local of the telegraphers union on Sunday voted the strike unanimously to continue against the Western Union and Postal Teleraph companies. The vote was taken upon the suggestion of President Small, who, in messages to subordinate officers pointed out the inability of the general assembly to further finance the strike and requested that the locals in the various cities vote upon the advisability of the men returning to work. The meeting was characterized by bitter exchanges between President Small and the other speakers. The latter charged the national leader with Inconsistensy In first claiming that the strike would be Successfully financed and later admitting that the general asembly was without funds, and with having conducted the fight in a dilatory manner. Small replied, trying to explain his position, but was interrupted by When he suddenly left the hisses. hall, In the midst of the speechmaking, cries of resign followed him. The men in a number of other of the larger cities also voted to continue the half-hearte- d strike. Collision Between Steamer on Detroit River. Detroit. One man was killed and the steel steamer John W. Moore was sunk early Sunday In a collision between the Moore and the Queen City, In the Detroit river, Just above the Lime Kilns crossing. The two steamers met almost head on and the Queen City crashed into the bow of the John W. Moore as far back as the pilot Duncan McInWheelsman house. tyre, of Sombre, Ont., was asleep In his room on the port side of the Moore, and was crushed to death. Bodies Hurled Fifty Feet. Layton, Utah Two boys in a buggy were struck by southbound Oregon Short Line train No. 16, at a crossing Just out of Layton early Monday morning. They were hurled fifty feet from the track. Both were uncon-Iclou- s when picked up. One died soon after reaching Salt Lake. The other is expected to recover. The dead boy was Roy Sessions, 19 years old, of Fairfield. His companion was Leo Sandall, 19 years old. of Layton. The e boys were driving in a buggy. Strike Situation In Milan. Milan. Work In all the factories here has ceased and traffic on the street railway has stopped as a result ef the general strike, due to the encounter between a mob of striking gas workers and a body of strikebreakers, in which the carbineers interfered and fired on the mob. The railroads to the north are still running, but the newspapers of the city and nearly all the stores are closed. All the public buildings and railroad atatloDS are guarded by troops. New Auto Was Death Trap. Morencl, Mich. Arthur Onwaller, a merchant of Lyons, Ohio, was killed in an automobile accident Sunday this city. afternoon, five miles east-oMr. Onwaller had purchased a new automobile and was taking his first ride in it. His wife and two children were In the machine with him. While driving at a fair rate of speed, he lost control of the machine in some way and it ran into a deep ditch, turning turtle and crushing him to death beneath it Mrs. Onwaller and one of the children, a boy, were injured. Colorado Dynamiter to be Tried. Denver, Colo. Kemp V. Bigelow, the young clerk, formerly of Bryan, Ohio, wh? created a sensation here by sending dynamite packages through the malls to Governor Henry A. Buch-te- l, David H. Moffat and other pronil-nen- t citizens, and who later confessed that he was the author of threatening letters demanding money, received In August last by officers of the Burlington road,' the Adams Express company and & number of local business houses, will have his preliminary examination October 24. Missionary Typewriter, to be Run by Compressed Air, Will Never Get Tired. New York. Typewriter girls may find their occupation gone if what Is said of a new Invention turns out to be true. It Is exhibited at the business show, now In progres In Madison Square Garden, and Is an automatic typewriter run by compressed air and capable, It Is said, of writing from 6,000 to 10,000 w'ords an hour for twenty-fou- r hours at a stretch. The Invention is the work of A. McCall of Columbus, O. one-hors- Board Decide to Take Tainted Money. Norfolk, Va. Thomas W. Phillips, a wealthy oil and gas magnate and former member of congress from western Pennsylvania, has made an unsuccessful effort to have the foreign Christian Missionary Board ot America, a branch of the Disciples ot Christ, return $25,000 given by John D. Rockefeller, on the ground that it was tainted money. This money was accepted with a final clause providing that no more would he solicited from the same source. RAILWAY The Forest Service Hat Employed Eleven Experienced Hunters and Trappers to Destroy Predatory Animals. Canning and Packing Substantial evidence Washington that the government is determined to put forth every effort to bring the national forest lands to the highest point of development is given In the activities of Uncle Sam In planning the eradication of predatory animals which destroy anually thousands of dollars worth of stock running on the ranges In the forests. Eleven experienced hunters and trappers, whose knowledge of conditions and training In the great west qualifies them to hunt wolves, cougars, mountain lions, coyotes and wildcats successfully, have been assigned to the work of exterminating these destructive range animals in national forests in eight western states. These men, supplied with traps, poisons, guns and ammunition, are going at their work In a way which is beginning to show Its useful effect, and the forest officers believe that the losses caused by the animals which make stock their pray, have been cul down very materially. Head-o- n Father Burned to Death With HV Five Daughters. Glover8ville, N. Y. Six members oi the family of Solcgnon Frank, a glov cutter father and five daughters were suffocated by smoke when their home was destroyed by fire early Sunday. The father lost his life In endeavoring to save his children, fob lowing discovery of the flames by the mother, who, with two Bmall .sons, made her escape. The bodies of the other victims were found by the firemen. The oldest daughter was to have become a bride early in Interests Form Huge Combination Witb Capital of Ten Million Dollars. In the Production of Its Specials the Company Will Operate a Fleet of Fifty Boats and Employ One Thousand Hands. New York. CONTROL FEDERAL MERCER III THE SOUTH Telegraph Companies Obdurate. New York. Learies P. Neill, United States commissioner of labor, was In conference with officials of the Western Union Saturday, making a final effort to ascertain if there was any chance to make terms for the All operators still out on strike. considwere of the subject phases ered, but he was assured that the position of the company would not be changed under any circumstances. Mr. Neills call was on account of the and receipt of a number of petitions askresolutions of common councils ing for his Intervention. EASIER FOR THE GIRLS. I A LIST MANY LIVES DDT OF EXISTENCE Appalling Accident in Indiana, Two Score Persons Being Killed and Hundreds Injured. 10 ARENA POLITICAL Kill Announcement is made 'that an important deal involving the combination or merger of some large southern packing and canning interests has just been completed through George A. Young and associates. The deal involves the acquisition by the Mcllhenny company of the tobaaco sauce business of E. Mcllhennys Sons, and the packing and canning business of the Mcllhenny Canning & Manufacturing company, which is said to operate one of the largest modern canneries In the United States. The capitalization of the new company will be v $10,000,000. E. A. Mcllhenny will be president and Frederick Kopf vice president Mr. Kopf, in speaking of the enterprise, said: When the company finally acquires other factories, of which a number will be taken over, some prominent jobbers and wholesale grocers will be elected to the board. The companys lands and factories are situated on Avery Island, Louisiana, and It has offices in New York, Francisco, Portland, Chicago. San Montreal and London. In the production of Its specialties, the company will operate a fleet of fifty boats and' upwards, and will employ over one thousand hands. CANT HANDLE THE BUSINESS. RATES OP THE IMPOSSIBLE 4 Commissioner of Minnesota, in Report-tNational Association of the Railway Commissioners, Declares Such a Move Would bo Unconstitutional. Washington. When the annual convention of the National Association of Railway Commissioners convened on Friday for its final session, the special committee on safety appliances rec onimended congressional legislation to compel railroads, both steam and electric, to protect their tracks by an automatic signal system and urged the several state legislatures to enact laws along this line. Charles F. Staples, commissioner of Minnesota, presented the report on Rates and Rate Making. The report said; The cases are rare where a railroad of any Importance t an Interstate road. This may be argued as a reason for entire federal control, something we believe to without amending the constitution. This we do believe the states will concede until It is demonstrated that it Is more practical than experience has yet shown it to be. There have been many rate reductions in different states, followed by reductions on interstate traffic, and, as we know, these have all been brought about by the affirmative action of the state authorities. So far as we are advised, we know of no general reduction due to any action by the federal authorities. We believe the best interests of the people would not be served by placing the entire responsibility of rate control on the federal government. We believe there should be a much closer relationship between the federal and slate authorities than seems to exist at present; that in many matters a state commission should act as agent for the interstate commerce commis-ion- , to the advantage of both. so-fa- r GUILTY OF REBATING. Railroads Not Keeping Pace With Development of the West. Chicago. That it will be useless to attempt to develop the west with inadequate railroad facilities was the assertion of transportation officers at a meeting in Chicago on Thursday. The conference was of general passenger agents of western railroads, and the was low question for consideration homeseekers rates during the coming winter and spring. It had been pro posed that for the sake of developing the country the usual low round trip fares should be authorized, which rates have had the effect, of helping to settle the great district during the past few years. After a thorough discussion It was the consensus of opinion that It woulu be useless to go ahead with low rates and attempt to populate the western states w'ben transportation companies are entirely inadequate to handle the present business. It was a frank confession on the part of the railroad rqen of the deplorable condition of transportation lines, showing that, while the west needs people, the railroads are not in a position to handle the traffic. trans-Missou- Sultan is Getting the Brother. Best of His Washington. Private but authentic reports received in this city from Morocco indicate an early collapse of the rebellion against the sultan, headed These by his brother, the pretender. advices say that the tribes that first rallied under the latters banner are falling away so that he now his little support, and that the sultan has been making a triumphant campaign into the southern provinces, which were the pretenders own districts. Blackmailer Makes Confession. Denver. Kemp V. Bigelow, the young clerk from Farmer, O., who mailed dynamite packages last Monday to Governor Henry A. Bnchtel and of several other prominent citizens Denver, confessed on Thursday that lie was also the author of letters mailed on August 29 last to the Burlington railroad, the Moffat road, the Adams Express company, the Daniels & Fisher Stores company, the May Shoe & Clothing company and to PostPaul master Sours, demanding amounts varying from $10,000 to $50,-10- 0 and aggregating $190,000. Santa Fe May Have to Pay Fine of a Million and a Half. Los Angeles, Cal. After being out twenty minutes, the jury in the case of the government against the Santa Fe Railroad company, on trial for rebating in the federal court here, on Friday afternoon brought in a verdict of guilty against the railroad on all of the sixty-sicounts of the indictment. Judge Weioorn will announce his decision next Monday. An estimate of the maximum penalty which may bq imposed is $1,250,000. The charge against the Santa Fe was that it had granted rebates from its regular tariff on shipments of lime by the Grand Canyon Lime & Cement company of Arizona. The defense of the railroad company was that the rebates were concessions made for alleged losses in the shipments during transit. The trial began on Sept. 30. x TRIADS OF POLAR EXPEDITION. I Explorers Had to Eat Their Dogs or Starve. Own Chicago. Details of the hardships experienced by members of the Polar expedition, which was icebound in Beauford sea for nearly a year, reached Chicago Tuesday, with V. Stefanssen, ethnologist of the expedition. Ernest De Koyen Lefflngwell, representing the University of Chicago, who was jointly in command of the expedition, is safe in northern seas, with other members of the expedition. Although he was present when the expeditions shii. Duchess of Bedford, went down, and at one time was compelled to eat one of the dogs which made up his team, he is reported none the worse for his experience. . to Prevent Secretary o State From Forfeiting Railroad Charter. Kansas City. Judge Smith McPhen Son of Red Oak, la., In the federal court here on Friday granted a temporary Injunction restraining SecreInjunction tary of State John E. Swanger from attempting to forfeit the charter of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. The case grows out of the law passed by the last legislature, which forbids railroad companies transferring to the federal courts damage suits filed against them in the state courts. Crowd Pushes People in Front of Train. Warsaw, Ind. Westbound Pennsylvania fast train No. 19 plowed Into a crowd of people at Bourbon station Friday night, killing Tom Sloan, a Warsaw saloonkeeper, and injuring A thousand several other persons. persons were standing on the platform awaiting a westbound passenger train. Somebody yelled Here she comes, and the mass of humanity surged toward the track, several persons being thrown in front of the locomotive. Rates to Colonists to be Continued. Omaha, Neb. The Union Pacific and Southern Pacific lines, in connection with the Chicago & Northwestern, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and other transcontinental lines, have given notice to the Transcontinental association that they will continue colonist rates during the months of March and April, 1908, and on the same basis as the rates which were in effect during March and April and September and October, 1907. Bulky Transcript in Schmitz Case. San Francisco. Attorney Charles Fairall has received from the printers copies of the transcript of the testimony taken at the trial of Eugene E. Schmitz, which, together with the brief, will be filed with the clerk of the court of appeals. The transcript is a bulky volume containing many pages, and Is supplemented with a brief almost as voluminous. It is the purpose of Attorney Fairall to ask for an immediate hearifig. It is anticipated that several days will be spent tn the arguments. Wife of Fighting Joe Hooker Dying. Helena, Mont Mrs. Ambrose E. Hooker, the aged widow of General Hooker, lies grievously ill at St. Peters hospital in this city, where she was removed a week ago, suffering from a complication ot maladies resultant from old age. Mrs. Hooker came to Helena fifteen years ago to attend to some litigation in which her husband had been involved at Fort Assinniboine. It is said that she failed in her suit and was compelled to make her own living with the diminished remnants of her fortune. Panic-Stricke- n o |
