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Show BRTISH ΠΠΙΝῚ ΓΜ BATTLE. WITH ENRAGED JAPS Mob of Brown Men Attack Men IN BLUE WIL ET LEAVES ΠῚΗΕ BURIAL STORY | OWBOY 1S MARRIED NINE. IIEET DEATH THE BOVSREMAN IN GOLOFELD PROVED TO BE FALSE IN A COAL MINE PORT OF SPAIN President Decides to Not Recall the in Troops, Providing Governor Sparks Uniform Because of Urfaortunate Accident on New Ycar Cails Day. Gas and Coal Dust Explosion in Mine in New Mexico Brings Sorrow to Many Homes. Vancouver, B. Allan Anderson a fireman, is dying, and two other young men, also members of the city fire department, are badly wounded and in the hospital as the result of a Explosion Occurred at the Noon Hour, fight on New Year day in the Japan When Most of the Miners Had Left ese quarters, with an overwhelming the Mine, or the Death List number of the subjects of the Would Have Been Larger. mikado. The fight was the worst in the city since the September riots, | when so many Japanese were injured Anderson, accompanied by J Frost | nine At least Albuquerque, N. M and T. McDonald, were passing a Jap miners were killed and three fatally and stumbled Frost anese store, when and two seriously injured in an expio glass | ELOPES WITH INDIAN MAIDEN AND 1S WEDDED IN MIDSTREAM ON HORSEBACK. Grave of Thomas Charles Druce is win fell hard against the plate dow front. The giass was smnashed and the fragments were siil! rolling on the sidewalk when a score of Jap anese appeared from the inside and The fre rushed at the trio of whites. men were in uniform, with brass out tons and official caps, but the Japan With furiously ese knifed them dozens of three minutes there were } trying Japanese in the fight all latter The get at the white men cut were borne to the ground and idewalk and and slashed until the front of the store were covered with It was fully fifteen minutes be blood, fore the police arrived, and then only as the Jap four arrests were made, anese had scattered sion of gus and coal dust at noon on Tuesday, in the Bernal mine at Car thage, Secorro county, New Mexico one of three large coal mines owned by the Carthage Fuel company Nine die id bodies have been taken out, and although the mine is still filled with va it is believed that no more n, were soon engaged in Opened and Human of Battleships Begin Second Stage of Long Journey, the Next Stop Being Rio Janeiro. Washington President Roosevelt on Saturday indicated by a telegram to Governor Sparks of Nevada that the federal troops now at Goldfield will be Rear Admiral Evans Expects to Reach governor within five days issues a call for a special session of the legisla- | Time—Officers and Men Shown That Port Within Twelve Days’ Every Courtesy at Port The telegram President Roose. of Spain. velt sent was in response to one from | the governor in which he set forth the | need of armed intervention and ex- Port of Spain, Trinidad.—The Amer. pressed doubt whether 1ο call the {can battleship fleet weighed anchor legislature would result in a request | at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon and | from that body for federal aid, vic rescue | steamed for Rio Janeiro. AN EPIDEMIC OF GRIP, Every Home in Pittsburg Affected by Grip or Pneumonia, Pittsburg.—What is said to be the worst epidemic of sickness since 1889 is being experienced in Pittsburg and physicians estimate that thousands of persons are prostrated by pneumonia, typhoid fever and especially the grip, Accompany- |} ing the fleet were the supply ships Culgoa and Glacier Long before the hour set a myriad of small craft, chiefly launches and steam yachts, moved up and down along the lines of anchored warships, the merry parties aboard shouting farewells to the departing visitors. Thousands of residents climbed the surrounding hills to view the great white ships as they moved outward on their journey. The fleet presented a magnificent appearance as it steamed out in four columns, with the supply ships trail ing, a distance of fowr hundred yards separating one division from another With the Connecticut in the lead the battleships headed for the Booas and steamed majestically through the grand Booa and thence along the northern coast of Trinidad. An average of from ten to eleven knots will carry the fleet to the end of the second lap of the 14,000-mile journey in about twelve days. and it was announced by Admiral Evans before his departure that he expects to reach Rio Janeiro Friday evening, January 10, During the week of their visit here the American officers and men received every courtesy at the hands of the residents. wo Women and children were with Throughout the ci-y probably every difficulty kept from the mouth of the home is affected in some manner, and mines, and the scenes when the bodies searcity of employes in the large ofof the dead were brought up were fice buildings is seriously felt. most harrowing. The Pittsburg Railway company is Carthage is a small town on 4a having difficulty in manning its cars branch line twenty miles from San CONVICTED POLITICIANS RUSSIAN on account of the conductors and moAntonio, N. M., on the Santa Fe rail tormen being laid up with the grip. Sixty-seven Must road, and communication is difficult One Hundred and City Physician Booth says the presSave the fact that tie explosion oe Go to Prison. curred during the noon hour the death ent epidemie of grip exceeds in scope 169 | list would be larger The explosion and severity all but that of 1889; and St. Petersburg.—tThe trial of the may yet break that record.. He bemembere of the first duma, who signed sheok the country for miles around lieves the germs may have originated the Viborg manifesto, was con< luded | and several of the bodies were thrown far from here. In 1889 the malady’s clear out of the main entrance to the on Tuesday. One hundred and sixtystart was traced back tlrough Europe and mine. Two men were blown 500 yards to Asin and finally located in Hongseven of them were convicted away. sentenced to three months’ imprison kong, China. A force of about fiffy men is em ment, while two were acquitted on the ployed in the mine, and all but those ACCIDENTS IN MINES. under| who were killed or injured had gone ground that they had signed The sentence car | to dinner No cause tor the explosion misapprehension. Three Times as Many Men Killed in ries with it the loss of all political is ussigned United States as in Other Countries. y hwill, who alread rights. M. Ramisc BETTER TIMES AHEAD, has served more than three months’ Washington.—The coal mines of the SECOND TRIAL OF THAW. preliminary imprisonment, will be imUnited States are killing three times mediately set free. Unless an appeal Dun’s Review of the Year 1907 Showa as many men per thousand employed Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Will Again Tell is court from the decision of the Restoration of Normal Conditions. Her Story to the Jury. as those of most European countries. taken, the sentence will take effect New York.—The withdrawal ot In the last seventeen years 22,840 New York—On January 6, Harry which until beginning January 20, large trust men have given up their lives in the | K. Thaw will be called a second time time the former deputies will remain $125,000,000 from a few compantes, precipitating a season of mines of this country. As many vio- before a jury to make his defense to at large without bail. hoarding and sending currency to a lent deaths have occurred in the mines the charge of having murdered Stanpremium at a time when it was most during the last six years as during the ford White. There have been several AN UNIQUE LAWSUIT. needed throughout the country, is preceding eleven years. The number postponements of the date of the secPennsylvanians Sue Water, Company credited in R. G. Dun & Co.'s annual of fatal accidents each year is now oud hearing of this noted case, but it For Causing Sickness. review of trade, with having been double that of the year 1895. In 1906, is said now that there will be no fur6,861 men were killed or injured in Franklin, Pa.—-Charging that a re one of the great factors in turning the mines, the killed numbering 2,061 ther delay. There have been many rumors as to cent typhoid epidemic was due to the the year 1907 from its promise of new and the injured 4,800. records in prosperity to a_ closing These terrible facts have been the plans of the defense for the sec- water supplied, a number of residents of this city are attempting to collect from the Kenango Water company. Suits were filed on Wednesday by Rey. Dr. Maurice Penfield Fikes, pas: period of financial disturbance that caused many plans for future extensions of business to be either abandoned or postponed, The restoration of normal conditions, the review declares, depends upon easier money gleaned by government experts under orders from Secretary Garfield of the department of the interior to investigate the nature and extent of mine tor of the First Baptist church, and and a revival of confidence, both of James B. Borland, editor of the Frank- TO SOLVE SMELTER PROBLEM. which seem nearer today than at any time since October, when the stringeney began. While failures were frequent during the last quarter of the year, the review points out that if the comparison is carried back to previous periods of distress, there is much cause for congratulation in the insolvency returns. damages for sickness in their families lin Evening News. The amount of damages claimed is not stated in the petition, but it will be sufficient to cover the charges of physicians and nurses aid other expenses, as well as remuneration for physical and mental distress. These are to be made test cases, and if they prove successful it is said more than fifty other suits will ATTACK STRIKE-BREAKERS. be instituted. FIVE DAYS BEHIND TIME. Street Car Riddied With Stones and Fie Persons Injured. Torpedo Boat Flotilla Encounters Baa Weather Ahead of Fleet. Para, Brazil.—The torpedo boat flotilla which is preceeding the battleship fleet to the Pacific arrived here Tuesday from Port of Spain, Trinidad. The flotilla had a rough voyage, encountering head seas, and was delayed one day on the run by bad weather. The transports Arethusa and Sterling have arrived. The torpedo boats will leave here January 3 for Pernambuco. They are five days behind their origitial schedule. Veteran Kansas Editor Dead. Wichita, Kans.—Colonel M. M. Murtock, editor and owner of the Wichita Eagle and postmaster of Wichita, died at 12:56 o'clock Wednesday morning Colonel Murdock was 70 years of aga and was undoubtedly the best known man in Kansas. He was born in Vir ginia, but came to Kansas before the Civil war. Before coming to Wichita in 1871, he owned and edited a paper at Burlingame. He stuck to Wichita during its dark days, when property values depreciated to nothing, and this one fact made him the foremost citizen of the southwest. Muncie, Ind,—Five persons were injured and two street cars were riddied with stones Wednesday afternoon in a riot that followed an attempt of the Indiana Union Traction company to run cars manned by strike-breakers. The strike followed the refusal of the company to re-sign the wage agreement that had been in effect for five years. Realizing that the local police are unable to cope with the situation, Mayor Guthrie has appealed to Governor Hanly to send troops to Muncie. Michigan to Bar the Cigarette. Lansing, Mich.—In the constitu tional convention on Wednesday a cigarette discussion that in the beginning gave the appearance of having been entered into jokingly, passed quickly into the serious stage, and resulted in the adoption of a proposal prohibiting the manufacture of and sale of cigarettes in this state. The proposition was carried in committee of the whcle and later was adopted, 66 to 17, in formal session. The opposttion to the proposal will be renewed when it comes up on second reading. Prohibition in Alabama. accidents. in favor of the adoption of liquid fuel. | Kentucky Coal Miners Are Out on a been predicted that an entirely new line of action might be followed. It can be authoritatively stated, howbe the same, that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Construction of Indeperdent Plant to be Begun Within Ninety Days. Salt Lake City—At the sixth an- nual banquet of the Salt Lake Commercial club, held Saturday evening, ex-Senator Thomas Kearns, in speaking on the subject “Mines and Smelt- ers,” made the announcement that will again relate her story to the jury, and that an imposing array of expert alienists will again undertake to establish the theory that Thaw was in- sane at the time he killed Stanford White in the Madison Square root garden, but has so far recovered his mental balance since that time as to be no longer a menace to the commu- nity, and therefore is entitled to free dom, Ships Weather Severe Storm. New York.—A fleet of seven trans- George H SLEEPS FOR THIRTY YEARS. feet, with two stories and basement and with concrete Soors and roof, to the number of 22,842. houses would furnish suburban homes for 120,000 people, or, according to city standards made, have a population equal to that of the city of Minne apolis. Taft Hailed as “Our Next President.” isters in the morning and attended a reception and spoke before a gathering of Jews of the city at the Elysium club in the afternoon. of the new smelter, which until now movement, its scope and the results that the senator hopes to achieve by the project. namite Explosion. Brownsville, Pa.—The home of R. F. Frediani, an Italian, was wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. The entire front of the house wasblown out, but neither Frediani nor members of his family were injured. Recently he received letters from an alleged Black Hand society, threatening -death if money was not paid the society, and the authorities believe the Black Hand is responsible for the outrage, Hard Times Make Many Soldiers. Birmingham, Ala—With the shrill shrieks of the hundreds of whistles of industrial Birmingham announcing the advent of the new year, every saloon inthe city closed its doors, There were exactly fifty counties of the state that closed the doors of the saloons | permanently Tuesday. This. leaves None seriously of Denver’s Spasm of Reform, BLACK HAND OUTRAGE. Home of an Italian Wrecked by Dy- were though at one time the officers of the Pretoria used oil to calm the turbulent seas, Democratic Dollar Dinner. Denver, Colo.—If the orders issued by Governor Henry A. Buchtel are obeyed by the district attorney of the state, the laws on the statute books | against gambling and in regard to the | liquor traffic will be vigorously enforced in the future. The governor in his proclamation instructs all district attarneys and peace officers to vigorously enforce these laws, and announces that he has arranged with Attorney General Dickson to prosecute all violators if the local officers do not act. The law against prize fighting will also be enforced. | Stunned by Blows on Head and Then Drowned. Newark, N. J—The woman whose nude body was found on the Hackensack meadows, in the town of Harrison, on December 26, was stunned by blows on the head and then thrust head foremost into a pool of water. This grewsome story was told at the autopsy, which left no doubt as to tne details of the murderer’s work. The body is believed to be that of Agnes O'Keefe, a domestic, who had been employed by several families in Orange. Lincoln, Neb.—he list of speakers for the Democratic “dollar dinner” at Lincoln, january 15, given in honor of William J. Bryan, was announced Monday, among them Governor Charles N. Haskell of Oklahome, Governor N. B. Broward of Florida, former Senator Thomas M. Patterson of Colorado and William J. Bryan. Considerable interest attaches to the speech of Mr. Bryan, as ortlining his views of the coming campaign and hig idea of what should be some of the planks of the Democratic πᾶ: tional platform. To Exclude Women from Thaw Trial. New York.—All women except members of Thaw’s family and the women reporters will be excluded from the court room during the second trial of Harry K. Thaw. The seating capacity of the court room has been re duced greatly since the first trial and Justice Dowling is said also to be determined to prevent the attendance of women moved by morbid curiosity, who made use of every means at their command to secure admission to | 8 court room already overcrowded. ties. Heroine Saves Four Lives. Means Death to Moorish Fanatics, τ Paris—lIt is already apparent that Strike. New York.—Four wneonscious chen | the replacing of General Drude by Madisonville, Ky.—President Smit4 entangled in a live electric light wire General D’Amada mar the beginof the Mine Workers’ union stated were rescued from their perilous ning of a more ener * French polWednesday night that in response to position in Brooklyn Tuesday night fey in Moroceo. General Drude has the strike call sent out on Tuesday, by the nerve and resourcefulness of | been in command of the French 1,008 men in Hopkins, Webster, Union an unidentified young woman Pass- | forces in Morocco, but is retired nomand Christian counties went out and jing, as a helpless crowd was standing | inally on account of ill-health. Genthis number would be increased. The iby, the young woman removed her .eral D'Amada has been in command mines in this city are still running, | rubbers and, after men in vhe crowd La Rochelle: There is reason to hut in the south portion of the county jhad declined to use them as rubber |} at believe, however, that General $06 mem are out. In Webster county| gloves, herself drew them. over her! Drude’s recall is due as much to dis practically all the big mines are af- hands, i hold of the coiling wire | satisfaction ‘with his hesitating course fected and the number of men out and spee untangied the uncon- Ἷ as to his illness. there ia estimated at 700. scious vict Countess Wants Marriage Legalized. Florence.—The authorities here have been asked to legalize the marriage of Enrico Toselli, the music teacher, and the Countess Montignoso, divorced wife of the crown prince of Saxony. The authorities so far have not officially legalized a divorce which Was not obtained through the Italian courts, and it is expected that the present request will not be granted, the ceurts having already refused to recognize marriages contracted abroad by Italians who became foreign citizens for the purpose of obtaining a divorce. Girt Suffers from Fright After Pursuit Allowing each of these houses a seventy-five foot lot, they would make a continuous street from New York to Philadelphia, with enough houses left over to make a row on one side of the street from Philadelphia to Washington. The ered a brief address before 400 mirr opening A Minister Performed the Ceremony in Midstream. suffice to construct eight-room city houses of the generous size of 30x30 the . The announcement of the | nearest village, where Anse received surgical attention. damaged, operation. | that the amount of concrete to be used in building these locks would ing room for dinner. miles of Salt Lake, and that by Janwary 1, 1909, this smelter would be ip | | rivers, performed the ceremony in midstream. The party wheeled their | horses to continue on their way when ; a rifle shot rang out and a bullet buzzed past the minister's face and jpierced Anse’s arm. The rifle was MAGNITUDE OF CANAL. fired from the woods on the river bank Some Startling Figures Submitted by Quick as a flash the ranger whipped Engineers in Charge. his revolver from his holster and fired Washington.—The engineers on the into the woods near the spot where Panamacanal are dealing in vast fig- the flash was seen. Fearful lest the ures these days, and the Canal Record would-be assassin might be one of her just received conveys in a graphic tribesmen, the bride tugged at her manner an idea of the magnitude of husband's sleeve until he consented to the work to be done upon the locks of flee from the spot on the gallop, the canal. It is stated, for instance, The bridal party galloped to the steamers thirty which Druce says that he is deter- and investors crowded about Senator Kearns to learn more of the new within ambush at the junction of the Red and Kimita mined to continue to push his claim for the estate and title of the Portland dukedom, In substance the story of Robert C. Caldwell, whose testimony as a witness in the so-called Druce case led to the opening of the grave, and upon which the claim of the Druce heirs for the great fortune and the title of the Duke of Portland was based, was to the effect that the Duke of Portland and T. C. Druee, a London storekeeper, were one and the same, He had known the Duke of Portland under both names, he said, and at the request of the duke he had arranged a pretended death and mock funeral of Druce, so that his dual personality eould be buried has been somewhat uncertain, was greeted with great applause, and following the banquet mining operators smelter from wounded the bridegroom, was the experience of Joseph Anse, a Texas ranger, and Miss Annie Buntz, a Choctaw Indian girl. The bullet shattered Anse’s left arm Anse had courted the Indian maiden for six months. Clandestine meetings followed the objection of her father to Anse. He did not want her to marry outside of her own race. Anse and the girl fled on horseback in the moonlight. A minister, waiting London.—The body of Thomas Charles Druce, in High Gate cemetery was exhumed Monday morning, just forty-three years to a day after its burial. The coffin was found to contain the remains of a human body, thus exploding the romantic tale told by Robert C. Caldwell and others who swore during the recent hearing of the Druce perjury case that it contained a roll of lead. The Druce vault has thus given up its secret after ten years of legal proceedings which have cost, all told, a considerable fortune. A large part of this money was obtained from servant girls and other workers, who were induced io buy shares in a company, formed to prosecute the claims of George Hollamby Druce against the estate of the Duke of Portland. The charge of perjury against Herbert Druce is effectively disposed of. So far as the public is concerned, the entire long drawn out Druce-Duke of Portland controversy is at an end, and the case of the claimant, George Hollamby Druee, has fallen to the ground Despite the finding of the body, Atlantic steamships—the Campania, Cedric, St. Louis, Pannonia, Pretoria, Caronia and Minneapolis—came creeping into port on Sunday, bearing scars of battering seas which held the liners back and delayed them a day in their trip across the Atlantic. On Christmas day the storm was so heavy that only a dozen of the cabin passengers of the St. Louis went to the din- independent Kansas City, Mo.—An_ elopement and marriage on horseback in the middle of the Red river, directly followed Roll of Lead. Boston.—Greeted with cheers as “the next president of the United States.” a topic which he carefully avoided in his own remarks, however, Secretary of War William H. Taft on Monday night delivered his first’ public speech, since his world-circling tour, at the annual banquet of the Boston Merchants’ association at the Hotel Somerset. The banquet closed a long and strenuous day for the secretary of war, during which he deliv- within ninety days, or us soon as the financial situation would permit, ground would be broken for a new and Washington.—General Elliott, commandant of marines, has reported to Secretary Metcalf that for the first time in many months the marine corps was now up to its full comple ment of §,700 enlisted men. General Elliott reports that not only has he secured all the men he wants, but has seventeen counties in the state in withdrawn from the newspapers ad which liquor can be sold for another vertisements calling for recruits, but British boats of this class which have year, When the entire state becomes he is nowin a position to pick his men attained the extraordinary speed of prohibition by a statutory act. Of | when there is need for further recruitforty miles an hour are oi] burners | the wet counties for the next yours} ment. The industrial depression is re has influenced our navy department wily four are exclusively saloon coun- } sponsible for this condition, Boats to Burn Oil. Washington. —Secretary Metcalf is inclined to favor the use of petroleum for fuel in the navy where it can be done beneficially. Therefore plans for the new torpedo destroyers about to be prepared will probably include a requirement that they be designed for burning ofl. The fact that the newest ond hearing of the case, and it has ever, that the defense will again Body Found Where Witness Said Rested a by a gunshot ordered to remain there for a farther period of three weeks, providing the ture. tims remain in the workings Superintendent ©, F Weber, with a pa of rescuers numbering several | Extra Session Legislature. Faver the Sunday Saloon. Chicago.—The Sunday saloon was indorsed at the Sunday session of the National Ethical convention. Enthusiastic applause from the audience of social settlement workers greeted the pronouncements in favor of allowing the “poor man” to have “his club”—the saloon—on Sunday, as well &s on the other days of the week. Dr Emil G. Hirsch, ef Chicago, and Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, of Cornell university, were the speakers who had good words to say for the operation of saloons on Sunday by Bull. Paris—M. Paul Farez reported to the Cociete d’Hypnologie et de Psychologie de Paris the following curious observation: Benita F—— was born in 1843. In 1876 she was chased, with her children, by a mad bull. Thoroughly overcome by the emotion she had sus- tained, she complained of violent headache. A bone setter told her she would have still greater sufferings. She became silent, stopped eating, took to her bed, and remained without movement as asleep. Her condition did not resemble that of hypnotic sleep with dissociation of the different sensorial activities. In her case it was a question of al most complete psychic obscuration, consequent on a certain mental condition accompanied only by the follow. ing physiological manifestations: A sort of grunting or movement of the arms to ask for drink and the swal. lowing of 125 grams of water daily. At the end of 30 years Benita got up, spoke, and recollected persons and things; the only food she takes is a little milk and water. How was she able to live in such eonditions? M. Farez is of opinion that by remaining motionless Benita expended nothing, and that, expending nothing, she did not require to eat. The absence of appetite, of desire, of hunger, he says, allowed her to support such a fast with indifference; while fasting, no matter for how short a time, causes the tortures so well knows and inevitably causes death when the physiological factor of hunger is present. Girl Saves Man from Death. New York—Owing his life to Miss Mary Day Lee, a curator’s assistant, who sucked the poison from the bite of a Gila monster in his right hand, Frank Gillian, an attendant in the children's museum, Bedford park, Brook- lyn, returned to the museum and learned that the reptile that sent him to the hospital for six weeks was dying. Gillian was bitten when cleaning the monster's tank. Its teeth sank deep into the flesh and several seconds elapsed before he could pry its jaws open. In Trance Ten Days. Montclair, N. J—Edward Shea, a well known young man of this city, has been in a trance for ten days. During the period of the trance he has occasionally been conscious for a few moments at a time. In these intervals he tells members of his family who are constantly by his bedside that he has been beyond the grave and declares he has had conversations with friends who have died. Of_these conversations he gives remarkable details. He has eaten nothirg since he went into the trance. | |
