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Jacob's Creek, Pa.—An explosion of burg Coal mine of company, the Pitts located here, on Thursday, entombed between 200 and 250 miners, and there is scarcely a ray of hope that a single one of them will be taken from the mines alive Partially wrecked buildings in the vicinity of the mines, and the condition of the few bodies found early in the rescue work, indicate an explosion of uch terrific force that it seems | imp asible that any one could have | | All of the bodies taken | survived it out were terribly muttlated, and three of them were headless This is the third mine disaster since the first of the month in the veins of bituminous coal underlying western Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia, for the Naomi mine near Fayette City, and the two mines at Mo nongah, W. Va., in whieh the earlier explosions bappened, are in the same belt as the local workings. Thurs day's catastrophe swells the number of victims of deadly mine gas for the nineteen days te between 6550 and 600. That this latest disaster does not equal or even surpass in loss of life and attendant horrors the one in West to “Virginia, is due to the devotion church duties of a considerab!e number of the miners. In observance of the church festival, mony of the four ln { en terist id Re Disaster in the Bitumin gas in the Darr and and | Wants Green- this reason are members of the Greek Catholic church, and they suspended work to celebrate St. Nicholas’ day. A considerable number of the miners were Americans, some of the officers intimating that probably more than half of the victims are Ameri the 18! course i of Monday, 'after the men and brought them back The mines go down something like 1,500 feet. There was a terrific explosion, the force of which was seen outside, dust and timber being blown out in great quantities, destroying smal! buildings nearby and also landing on the station some distance away. There was terrific heat imme- Washington.—John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, leader of the minority, and Representative David De Armond of Missouri engaged in a fist fight over the passing of the lie on the diately after the explosion. Officials of the company on the scene immediately took steps to start floor of the house of representatives Thursday afternoon, immediately after adjournment at 2:21 p, m. Mr. Williams struck the first blow and Mr. De Armond retaliated vigorously with clenched fists. When the a rescue party to get the men on the inside, The fans were started, and other methods taken to eliminate the bad air. Within an hour fourteen men had crawled out of the mine, and their description of the inside was heartrending. Several of these men combatants were separated blood was flowing down Mr. Williams’ face from a ‘small gash in the left cheek, and his forehead was red. Mr. De Armond bore no mark of the fray. were badly burned. Two hours after the explosion it was still impossible to venture even near the mouth of CLARK AS PEACEMAKER. the mine, so hot was the air that was rushing out. Former Montana Senator Acting as Mediator in Butte Labor Troubles. The Yolande mines are but a few miles from Virginia City, where a similar explosion occurred about two years ago, 112 men being killed at that time. Butte, Mont.—Former United States Genator W. A. Clark is actively at wor’ in an effort to settle the trouble and the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company as the result of the sympathetic BIGELOW GOES To PRISON. strike of the linemen and the switch- Ohio Youth Who Sent Bombs to Col- board operators. He was asked to serve in the capacity of mediator by the labor interests, and on Thursday met with representatives from the tel- oradoans to be Punished. Denver.—-Kemp V. Bigelow, the young clerk from Bryan, Ohio, who ephone company ‘and the labor unions. ; pleaded guilty to charges of murder| ous assault upon Governor Henry Brutally Beaten by Thugs. Sait Lake City—With his skull fractured in five places, Edward Green, a junk dealer, is dying, and M. Globenfelt, also a junk dealer, lies seriously injured at the emergency hospital of the city jail from the effects of a dasturdly assault near the east side of the fair grounds, at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, by two thugs, Richard A. Baker, 23 years old, and Arthur G. Bowen, 20 years old, both of whom were arrested. have confessed. The men They declare mf intended robbery, but not mur jer. Twenty-five People Killed and Hundreds Injured. Palermo.—A terrific explosion occurred Thursday evening in the miliitary po. der magazine, where a large quantity of dynamite was stored, and was followed by a number of lesser explosions, the whole town being badly shaken and the people thrown {nto a panic. Almost tmmediately flames shot high in the air and spread to the ruins of houses that had fallen. {t is estimated that about twenty-five persons were Se and a. hundred KingOscar Oscar “Laid to Rest. * Stockholm.—Seldom, if ever, in its history, has this city witnessed such a grand and solemn ceremony as that which on Thursday marked the Γαneral of King Oscar, who died December 8. Although the weather was bitterly coid, the entire population of Stockholm and thousands ‘of visitors from the country stood bareheaded, silent and sorrowful along the line of procession to catch a last glimpse of the casket containing all that re mained af their beloved king. Traffic was entirely suspended. | as to Settlement. ‘The Captain, Engineer and One Tillman commented eharac- | on fin affairs. He | United States, according to the an} bel 4d that President | Order of the Court Cuts No Figure ; nual report of Frank B. Sargent, comwith Montanans Who Object to elt was a pa t; and ‘that } missioner general of immigration and while he had been guilty of many in- | Presence of Non-Union Men— naturalization, which has just been diseretions and said many things Numerous Arrests Expected. made public. Of this great flood of which in cooler moments he would | immigration Commissioner Sargent have been willing to take out of says: print, he did not believe that the | “An army of 1,285,349 souls that Butte, Mont.—Defying a restrain. president felt any satisfaction whating order issued by Judge W. H, Hunt have come, drawn hither by the free ever in having been instrumental in institutions and the marvelous prosof the United States court, prohibit. | eausing the present financial paralyperity of our country—the chance here ing any interference with the affairs gis, as had been charged of the Rocky Mountain Bell Tele afforded every honest toiler to gain a ‘Tf we are not in the midst of a livelihood by the sweat of his brow phone company, two mobs of fifty panic, we are in the midst of a chill or the exercise of his intelligence— men each deported six non-union lineproduced by danger of a panic,” de surpassing in numbers the record of men, waylaying them at their work claved Mr, Tillman, all preceding years.” | in different parts of the elty, and unThe senator held aloft a clearing The immigration for 1997 exceeded der threat of stringing them up to that for 1906 by 184,614, and that for house certificate and loudly called the telephone poles, forced them to 1905 by 258,850, or an increase over upon the senate to look at it accompany the mob to the outskirts 1906 of more than 17 per cent, and “Here is a specimen,” he declared. of the city, As a ruse to foil the po | over 1905 of more than 25 per cent. “Looks like what you eall confederate During the fiscal year 1906, 12,432 lice, a portion of the mob first conmoney-—shinplaster—and yet theyare gregated in front of the new build- aliens were rejected at our ports; durissued by national banks. Look at ing which the telephone company is ing the past year, 13,164, an increase it. I am going to have it engraved if constructing, and when the police of 632; hence, the total number of it can be done without destroying it those who have sought admission in went to the scene. , the other division and prt it in the Conere ‘ssional Ree1907, viz,, 1,298,518, exceeds the numof the mob swooped down on three ber who applied in 1906, viz., 1,113,ord. And I don’t propose to have it men at Jackson and Park streets 167, by 185, 346. destroyed and lose a dollar just to and hustled them off. The police apmiighten you,.on currency.” parently were little disposed to inTROUBLE. Π BALKINS. He wanted only good gre enbacks, j terfert and, in rasping tone 3, speaking of the The second deportation occurred Bulgaria Replies to "Note of Russian necessity of money, said: “You, will | Minister at Sofia. on Broadway, where three more nonhave to go to the boneyard if you St. Petersburg.—The Bulgarian | unionis , under threat of death, were can't get it.” wagon, government hag sent a note to Rus| μα into a telephone FORTY ALASKAN MINERS KILLED | which the mob took possession of, sia in answer to the recent represenand Sheriff tations made by the Russian minister | Manager Armstrong Terrific Explosion Makes Many Wid- Henderson, as soou as word of the at Sofia, with reference to the activ| deportation was received, hastened ity of Bulgarian bands in Macedonia. | ows and Orphans, plosion occurred, Williams of Mississippi and De Ar. mond of Missouri Use Prize Ring Tactics. missioner Sargent. other Man Saved Out of Crew of Eighteen Men. Goldfield, Nev.—O. A. Hilten of Denver, general counsel for the In- ] to go for a day’s hunt when the ex- FIGHT. Workmen Ask for Peace and Declare That it is Now Uo to Mine Owners Washington —Immigration to Amerfica during the year ended June 30, 1907, Was vastly greater than in any previous year of the history of the | Under Threats of Death. 8 he saddled his horse and was about cans, between the labor unions | Shown by the Annual Report of Com- Linemen Employed by Telephone | Yolande, Alaska.—-As the result of an explosion in Mine No, 1 of the Yolande Coal & Coke Co., forty men are dead, and possibly twenty more deaths may result before the roll is completed, According to Superintendent T. C. Huckabee, the explosion was undoubtedly due to “windy” shots. Mr. Huckabee had just made a tour of inspection and congratulated some of the men on the condition of their rooms. A few minutes after reaching the top hundred or more men regularly employed at the mine did not go to work. Those who escaped through CONGRESSMEN Vest Increase in Immigration Company Forced to Leave Butte Weshineto ous Coal Fields Since the First of the Month Swelis the Number i President Certificates backs. τη Third Mine the Buchtel, Lawrence A. Phipps and Charles B. Kountz, to whom, with others, he mailed dynamite bombs early in October last, was sentenced to the state reformatory for an indefinite period by Judge Carleton M. Bliss on Monday. According to his confession, Bigelow boped to obtain money from the men to whom he sent bombs by pretending to disclose a plot to kill them im time to save their lives. HUGHES AND BURKETT. Nebraska Senator Wants Nomination for Vice President. Lincoln, Neb—Georse KE. Tobey, formerly private secretary to Senator Burkett, on Monday began the organization of a Hughes club, with Senator Burkett as the aspirant for the vice presidency. Followers of La- INLAND WATERWAYS. Washington.—Senator waterways 898,000 pounds. Eleven months of Utah was the only state to show an increase for November, and the out- put was the largest in the state’s history, over 16,000,000 pounds, or an inerease of nearly 100 per cent over Noven ber, 1906. rying on bill,” said Mr. Newlands, “is the cre- opment of all inland waterways, and for the connections of rivers with each other, or with the great lakes by connecting canals and by coastal eanals, and so bring in co-ordination therewith the services of experts in of the propaganda of fire and Drug Stores Close in Sympathy With Saloons. Chicago.—Chicago Heights, a manufacturing town of 15,000 inhabitants, rty miles south of Chicago, was a * " town by common consent of its ninety saloon keepers Sunday. Not only were the saloons closed, but also were the durg stores, confectionery stores and news stands. The saloon men insisted that these places be closed in retaliation for the activity of the Municipal league, which body ation of an inland waterway fund of $50,000,000, to be used for investigation and construction. The president is authorized to appoint an inland waterway commission to make examinations and surveys for the devel- departments a sword. The statistics for the month of October show that 288 persons were murdered. “The most {mportant feature of the govern- ment service.” is waging an anti-saloon war. Following the locking of their doors at midnight, the bartenders, accompanied FEDERATION ENJOINED. by their sympathizers, paraded the streets shouting taunts at the league Important Decision Handed Down by Washington Justice. members. Rev. J. B. Fleming, prestdent of the reform body, said that the Washington.—In the case of the purpose of the saloon element was to Buck Stove and Range company of disgust the people by bringing about in exaggerated * ‘closed" Sunday. St. Louis against the American Federation of Labor, involving the right-of | Mexico May Have Surplus. labor to boycott business houses Mexico.—In congress on Saturday which labor organizations regarded as “unfair” to them, Justice Gould of the the report of Minister of Finance LimDistrict of Columbia Equity court on | anteur was read and the budget for Tuesday granted a temporary injune- | the coming fiscal year was made pubtion to prohibit the tederation from | continuing to boycott the company, pending a fina] settlement of the case. A bill in equity was filed by the com. pany last August for a permanent in junction restraining the federation | from boycotting the company and put. | ting it on the “unfair” list in the fed | | eration’s official organ. ------Cortelyou Not a Gandidate, | το, The estimated receipts for the coming year ‘total $103,385,000, while the expenditures will reach $103,208 £42, leaving an estimated surplus of $181,158. The total increase of this vear’s budget reaches the sum of $6592,275, the largest item in the inerease being for $1,367,589 for -main- tenance of the department of war Theatres Refuse to Close. Kansas City, Mo.—Only two theain a signed statement given out Tues- | tres, the Willis Wood and the MaWashington.—Seeretary Cortelyou | jestic, respected the Sunday closing false the current rumors of undue po- | order of Judge William H. Wallace litical acttyity of his friends in {0τ. | last Sunday. The manager of the day night, pronounces unqualifiedly| Majestic has notified Judge Wallace warding a movement in his interest. | The secretary declares that neither he | that the Majestic will remain closed nor his friends have used their {π-| until the legality of the Sunday clos- fluence in bebalf of any candidate for| ing movement is finally decided, and the presidency and that he has not | it is believed Klaw & Erlanger wili been a candidate for anything but | no longer resist the enforcement of the closing order. All other theatres the confidence of the people. He adds | that if he should hereafter decide to ! 8πὰ amusement parlors were open, / and deputy marshals secured the be a candidate for any office he wil] names of all alleged violators of. the say so frankly. law. Fight in the Court Room. San Jose, Cal—The Herington bribery trial was brought to an abrupt end temporarily just before noon on Tuesday, when the district attorney, James Sex, and Attorney lA. H. Jarman, of the defense, called nounced by his physician may not recover. the present calendar year shows a total decrease of 128,000,000 pounds. plaint against Greek bands composed sion, various a counter-com- of Cretans, which it ueclares are car- commis- Tucker fell insensible, and it is an- vember in the United States and Mex- Bulgaria launches addressed the senate on Tuesday on his bill for the appointment of a per- manent inland em- that he Captain Preved of No Avail in Fight With Elements. | Honghton.—After successfully ride ing out a succession of gales which she encountered Girl Charged With Grave Crime. Neward, N. J.—Antoinette Barris, a 16-year-old girl, is under arrest here ali the way across the Atlantic, in which she lost all het | life boats, the American schooner | | the Thomas W. Lawson was capsized ip Broad Sound, Scilly islands, where captain took shelter from the fierce storm raging along the English Of the crew of eighteen, including Pilot Hicks, who boarded the | vessel from the life savers’ boat dur| tng the night, only three were saved. | | eoast. | These were Captain G. W. Dow, of | Melrose, Mass., Edward L. Rowe, the || engineer, of Wiscasset, Me., and Geo. | Allen of Bramford, England. | Allen is not expected to live, and | | Captain Dowis suffering from a frac- ‘tured arm. His rescue was effected only through almost superhuman efforts of the life savers and the gal- lantry of Frederick Hicks, son of Pilot Hicks, who accompanied them on | their second trip in the hope of findtng his father. Late in the afternoon, after a long search, Captain Dow and Engineer Rowe were taken alive in the Hel| wether rocks, to which they clung for more than fifteen hours, the tremendous waves preventing their making a landing. Young Hicks plunged into the boiling seas and swam ashore, carrying a life line, by means of which Allen and the captair hauled back to the boat the engineer, who was practically uninjured. powered te supplant the Turks in the administration of the province. Newlands egates at the next primary. {co as 36 per cent less than Novem. ber a year ago, or a decrease of 34,- the officers of which shall be Senator Newlands Wants a Waterway Fund of Fifty Million Dollars. Follette men will contest for the del leading financial agency here gives the total copper production for No the principality are participating in the activities, and states that Bulgaria reposes entire trust in the powers to introduce adequate reforms in Macedonia. It suggests the employment of a European gendarmerie, the mob leaders made no effort at | concealment in the broad daylight. Follette are at work, The delegation feach other a liar and threw books ) and ink stands at each other's heads. has been practically pledged to Taft A missile hurled by Sex missed its by the last Republican state convenmark and struck an aged spectator tion platform, but Hughes and La- Zacharias Tucker, in the head. Fine Showing For Utah, Boston.—Tigures compiled by The note denies that the residents of | to Butte, where they are now quar| tered under gward | Numerous arrests are expected, as | Vessel Took Shelter From Raging | Storm in Broad Sound, Scilly Islands, But Precautions of HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. sent the Western Federation which will first be embodied side, in a written statement to the commission. During an interview Mr. Hilton stated that he was not sanguine of the success of his mission. INJUNCTION SUIT ON BONDS. Secretary Cortelyou Charged With Violation of the Law. Washington,—Justice Gould of the district suprefge court has cited George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury, to appear in court January 3 to show cause why he should not be enjoined from turning over or delivering the balance of the $21,450,000 of the Panama canal bonds to certain banks and persons to whom he has announced allotments. The ciration issued by Justice Gould is based on a petition filed by George W. Austin of New York, who describes himself as a taxpayer and property owner in the United States, and who declares he made a proposal to purchase bonds of the advertised issue of face value of $3,000,000. He avers that his bid was ignored and that’ the bonds, in many cases, were sold for a lower price than his bid. Wireless Telaphonss Used on Ships. Gale Along the British Coast One of the Worst on Record. London.—The gale along the Brit{sh coast on Friday and Saturday, which was described by Captain Jame- son of the Steamship St. Louis as the worst in his experience, subsided on Sunday. dustrial Workers of the World and special counsel for the American Federation of Labor, arrived in Goldfield on Wednesday, empowered by President Moyer of the Western Federation to make terms of peace with the mine owners of Goldfield. Just what the terms on which peace may be secured Attorney Hilton refuses to say, but he states that they are such that if they are refused by the Goldfield Mine Owners’ association that body will be put on the defensive by the Western Federation. Attorney Hilton says also that he will appear before the commission sent by President Roosevelt to tnvestigate labor conditions here and pre- It was responsible for the loss of some forty lives, so far as at present known, the minor wrecks including a vessel seen to founder off Swanaga with a loss probably of her crew of seven. The abatement of the weather enabled the Cunarder Mauretania to make an easy passage to Queenstown Savannah, Ga.—The Savannah De Forest wireless station Wednesday afternoon was in communication with the flagship Connecticut, the Georgia and the Minnesota of the battleship fleet. Many official private messages being sent to Norfolk and Washington from officers of the fleet were caught. The messages showed that the wireless telephones .are_ being used on the trip and are proving successful. The ships in the squadron carry on conversations and receive orders for formation by wireless tel- ephone. expected to eclipse all previous records on the trip to New York. Breweries Will Blacklist Law-Breaking Saloons. St. Louis——Excise Commissioner Mulvihill announced on Wednesday that every brewery in St. Louis, to Charge Gross Outrages Against the gether with the four leading brewerjes of other cities having depots at a speed of fully twenty-five knots, and under normal conditions she is Kickapoos, here, have formally made a written Washington.—Senators Teller, Curtis and La Follette, composing the committee which was authorized to investigate the affairs of the Kicka- poo Indians, will soon submit to the senate a report giving the names of several persons who are alleged to have dealt fraudulently with the Kickapooos who emigrated to Mex- ico and who disposed of their lands at Shawnee, Okla. The report mentions a clique known as the “Chap- man-Grimes-Connie people,” and says that their conduct in securing the valuable lands owned by the Mexican Kickapoo Indians was criminal and brutal in the extreme. It is recom- mended that a special attorney shall be appointed, who shall act under the direction of the Department of Jus- tice, in entering suits to set aside al) deeds to Kickapoo lands. To Remedy Financiai Condition, Washington.—It can be stated banking and currency now dealing with the subject can have its way, no effort will be made by the present congress to adopt legislation remedial All the energies of that committee will ba directed toward the framing and passage of laws more general in char: acter and which will be intended to preclude shrinkage of the circulation entailing widespread financial managements. The blacklist will comprise the names of saloons and clubs that violate the Haaor law. Mexicans Murdered by Yaquis. Nogales, Ariz—Information which has just reached here tells of the frightful murder of twelve men by a band of 100 Yaqui Indians fortyfive miles southeast of Magdalena, state of Sonora, Mexico, P. J. McIn- tyre and a party of mining men of this section have arrived from the scene of the tragedy, where they viewed the remains of the murdered men. Among the number was Jose Fernandez, son of President Joseph of the town of Cucurpe and F. Towne. Head of Circus Trust Dead. oa the highest authority that if the subcommittee of the house committee ou of the present financial condition. pledge to him that they will not sell beer or other supplies to any saloon or club which he places on a blacklist, with which he will furnish the dis tress. Trouble at Teheran. Teheran.—Popular agitation against the delay in the execution of soldiers who recently murdered two shopkeepers here reached a climax on Sunday in hostil demonstrations on the New Orleans.—'‘Gus” Ringling, head of the circus combination which controls the shows of Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey and Forepaugh- Sells, died here Wednesday at a sanitarium. Augustus Ringling was the oldest of seven brothers. Born a poor boy fifty-five years ago, he educated himself and with his brothers started the nucleus of the great Ringling shows. Later one big circus- after another was bought and a few months ago the famous Barnum & Bailey shows were absorbed by them. Wreck of ‘Aeroplane, Paris—H. Bleriot, the aeronaut expert, had another narrow escape from death Wednesday, when his aeroon a charge of forgery, and it is be plane was wrecked. The machine lieved she is the author of “Black was traveling at the rate of about Hand” letters which have been threat- streets, firing on the parliament build- “thirty miles an hour when the wires ening residents of this city for some ing and the resignation of the cabi- holding the wings broke, the aeroplane time. The letter which was traced net. The shah ordered the arrest of coming to the ground with a crash. to Antoinette, it is said, was written the premier Nasar el Mulk, and the M. Bleriot was caught in the wreckto a young girl, who has collapsed be- minister of the interior, Sani ed Dow- age. He was extricated with difficuleause of the fright she suffered. An- leh and Alla ed Dowleh, the gover- ty, but it was found that he had estoinette was arrested for forging the nor of Shoraz. Parliament has de eaped with severe bruises. On two name of a woman, who was teaching manded an explanation of the shah’s other occasions recently M. Bleriot her dressmaking, to a check for $40. action. has barely escaped serious injury, From Philippines to Utah. Slain by Robbers. San Francisco.—The Fifteenth Kansas City —Louis B. Sternberg, a Bly, Nev—A change occurred in United States infantry, which arrived grocer at Fourth street and Walker the situation at the Alpha shaft Tues. Friday on the transport Sherman avenue, in Kansas City, Kan. was day, which will probably delay the | from the Philippine islands, departed Killed and his wife, Mrs. Hattie work of rescuing the three entombed Sunday for Fort Douglas, Utah. The Sternberg, was fatally injured by unminers for some time. It was found regiment, under command of Colonel known robbers, who attacked them that the ground at the point of the Walter S. Scott, marched through and robbed them in their store Sunoriginal cave in was still giving | day night. The victims of the out away, and fear that any hour may the rain from the transport dock to rage were not found until twelve the ferry building, with flags flying bring an tncrease in the movement hours later. An open can of sardines and bands playing. The men were and occasion another slide in the on a counter, a long iron bolt and a shaft that the bulkhead may not be not at all discomforted by the rain, bloody meat cleaver near the bodies able to resist will probably necessi having been accustomed to chasing of Mr. and Mrs. Sternberg supply the tate stopping the work of clearing Moros through the tropical rains of evidence of how the crime was comthe shaft. until this run can be the islands. maitted. checked. Work of heense Delayed. κ owing to an accident to his airship. To Probe Government's Relation to Liquor Traffic. Washington —Senator Tillman on Tuesday introduced a resolution instructing the senate committee on finance to report “whether it is prac- tieable for the national government to discontinue the issuance of permits to retail liquor dealers in states, counties or municipalities where loeal option prevails, prohibiting the sale of liquors.” Senator Allison suggested that the government merely collected tax on liquor, and does not contro! its sale. |
