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Show BRIEF TELEGRAjMS London. Interest in .politics centers in the premier's audience with the king and the prolonged cabinet council generally gen-erally is considered to herald a profound pro-found change in the policy of the gov-ernmene. gov-ernmene. It is stated the prlrne minister minis-ter conveyed to the king his belief in the impossibility of proceeding with the reconstruction of the house of lords and in the necessity of concentrating all forces on the veto question. Although though several members of the cabinet strongly favor reconstruction, it is not believed a split will result, put the attitude at-titude of the extreme radicals and Nationalists Na-tionalists is disquieting. New York. A record feat in cold storage is recounted in a statement by Dr. Bayard C. Fuller, chler inspector of foods for New York City. According to the doctor's story, there was discovered discov-ered in Russia some time ago the carcass car-cass of a mammoth which scientists said had been alive before the glacial period. That meant that the body, still in perfect condition, was more than 250,000 years old. Tests showed the meat was well preserved and a huge steak from it was served at a dinner given by a prominent scientist. The guests pronounced the meat excellent. "Once meat or poultry has been frozen," fro-zen," says Dr. Fuller, "the passage of time has no effect on it, and fermentation fermenta-tion is completely arrested, so long as it is kept in a frozen condition. When thawing sets in, however, disintegration is rapid." South Bethlehem, Pa. Peace prevailed pre-vailed in South Bethlehem and Its environs en-virons today, but the Bethlehem Steel company, many of whose employes are on strike, was not able to resume work as was expected when operations were stopped .by the disturbances on Saturday. Satur-day. Only a comparatively small percentage per-centage of the 9,000 men reported for duty. Most of the men want to work, the officials say, but are afraid to run the gauntlet of the pickets. Since the shooting on Saturday, in which one man was killed, the foreign element among the strikers has given the state police little trouble. Spokane, Wash In swift succession two terrible disasters have carried death and dismay to the mining towns of the rich Coeur d'Alene district in northern Idaho. At 10:35 o'clock last night a snowslide swept down the mountainside, striking the little town of Mace and burying twenty-five houses and their sleeping occupants in a mass of snow, ice and wreckage at the bottom bot-tom of the canyon- At 5:30 a. m. another an-other slide rushed down on the town of Burke, crushing a score of houses under thousands of tons of earth and snow. Fourteen bodies have been recovered already from the ruins of Mace: six-. teen dead have been lound at Burke, and how many are still buried can only be guessed at. It is feared fifty or sixty lives have been lost. There is fear that the number of dead at Burke may be even larger than that at Mace. Every man thae can be spared from the rescue work at Mace has been appealed to. Doctors are being rushed from Wallace and another train leaves in an hour. From the foot of the Anchor mine plant to the Catholic church, about half a mile, the slide is thirty feet deep. The scene around Burke following the slide was appalling. The whole village with its 900 inhabitants was thrown into a panic. Older heads at once began to seek places of safety for their wives and children. The little mining town of Mace lies between precipitous mountain sides, a straggling line of cottages in the creek bottom, bisected by the lines of the Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad & Navigation companies. Hartford, Conn. A $50,000 monument to Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, is to be erected here by Mrs. George M. Lilly, widow of the former Connecticut governor and congressman. She is a distant relative of the inventor. Miss Elizabeth M. Killbourne, now 80 years old, who was the first woman to use a sewing machine, will unveil the monument. She still lives m the old home where she resided when Howe was perfecting his invention. She dropped in at his workshop on her way home from school one day, and at his request ran the quaint little machine for a few minutes. This was the first time it had been operated by feminine hands. Nw York. Labor troubles In the east and west, two violent strikes raging rag-ing in Pennsylvania and threats of dire consequence, if police and .troops are allowed to continue shooting down workmen in defense ot corporation property, all indicate that ' the United States stands upon the brink of an industrial in-dustrial revolution, the possibility of which are appalling to contemplate. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and other conservative leaders among the unionized workmen, sounded a note of alarm, and it is evident from the tenor of their statements they fear they would have little control if the radical element should assert a dominancy. Calcutta. The Viceroy and Lady Minto gave a great state ball in Calcutta Cal-cutta in honor of the opening of the new councils. Among the crowd of 1,500 guests present was a maharajah of sporting tastes, but high caste, who danced with the wife of a general in the State Lancers. For this "sin" the touching of the bare arms of a white woman the maharajah has been condemned con-demned by his gurus to a fine of 10,000 rupees and to undergo a course of "purification," consisting of morning, midday and evening baths every day for three months. Chicago. Eddie English, paroled convict, con-vict, whose elaborate plans of a hold-upu , i campaign against prominent Chicago-ans Chicago-ans were frustrated by his arrest Saturday, Satur-day, Is to be tried for holding up Dr. B. W. Chamberlain in his office on February Feb-ruary 4. English, known also as Paul Monzell and under many other aliases, will be arraigned today. After being identified by Dr. Chamberlain, he admitted to the police that he was the man who entered the physician's office and at the point of a revolver "borrowed" $50, promising prom-ising to pay it back when he got the money. Chicago. Thomas Sheridan, 103 years old, who came to America from the south of Ireland in a sailboat, which took forty-two days for the journey, died yesterday at the residence of his granddaughter. He was an inveterate smoker for more than ninety years. Milford, N. H. Ten years past the century mark, Michael Leavitts is dead at his home. He had been an inveterate inveter-ate smoker for ninety-six years. Washington. War is to be waged upon souvenir post cards which ridicule the Irish race. Leading Irishmen of the national capital have started the crusade. Efforts will be made to have the postoffice department hold them up as unmallable. Paris. Paris can now sympathize with those people In America who find it necessary, to call in the aid of Judge Lynch in the administration of Justice. During the recent floods it was found necessary to administer Justice without the formality of trial to the apaches who engaged in pillaging, and this summary sum-mary justice was administered in true backwoods stlye. The crowd lynched four ruffians at Issy, hanging them from signposts, and a patrol fired volleys vol-leys at fugitive scoundrels at Boulogne-sur-Seine, and killed two. Another pillager pil-lager had the misfortune to be caught by a civilian boat patrol at Ivry. To punish him for showing fight his captors cap-tors threw him into the water with a noose under his armpits and dragged him behind the boat to the police station. sta-tion. He was unconscious when he ended the trip, which lasted three-quarters three-quarters of an hour. Almost at Ivry, a band of eight men and women was arrested, ar-rested, after a determined resistance. It was with the greatest difficulty that the military protected them from an in-I in-I furiated crowd. I Two other men were not so' fortunate at Ivry, but were strung up to lampposts. lamp-posts. At Rueil, where the apaches were active, orders were given to gens-d'armes gens-d'armes to fire at every boat which did not stop when bidden. Ivry gate has been closes to prevent the entrance of everyone not showing a pas3 from the mayor or magistrate. At Asnieres the people were awakenea on Monday night by a fusillade. Eight pillagers had landed from a boat and entered an evacuated lace factory. A policeman fired repeatedly. When help came the gang defended themselves with revolvers. revolv-ers. Eventually they sought to escape by plunging from the windows and swimming. Three were drowned. When pursued at Alfortville, a boatload of roughs, seeing Itself rapidly overhauled, began to use revolvers. The sailors pursuing replied by putting a few holes in the fleeing boat, which went down. Two of the apaches were drowned, a third escaped, and the fourth, when brought to land, was seized upon and lynched by the crowd, which left his body hanging as a scarecrow for his comrades. Similar incidents could be repeated indefinitely. These drastic measures, it may be said, were extremely ex-tremely discouraging to the apaches. Finding her son Kostta hanging dead in his room, the lad having committed suicide because he had been punished at school, Mme. Effrou hanged herself, in her own house, unable, as she declared, to survive her child. The career of Mme. Effrou was remarkable. The. daughter of a former governor of the interior, she some years ago threw herself into the revolutionary movement In Russia, and narrowly escaped execution execu-tion for her acts. The greater part of the unfortunate lady's life was passed in prison or in exile, and she had recently re-cently come to live in Paris solely with a view to watching over the education of her young son. 'Tokio. A lively discussion Is in progress prog-ress in Japan regarding the advisability of adopting the Jury system. Even among the members of the legal profession profes-sion opinion is divided, but if anything the balance appears to be against the innovation. This view Is shared by Baron Hatano,- formerly minister of justice, who declares that no argument has been advanced to justify the introduction intro-duction of the system into Japan. He makes the somewhat remarkable statement state-ment that in European countries juries are generally regarded as a nuisance, and would be got rid of If it were possible. pos-sible. The danger, he says, of allowing allow-ing laymen to interfere in a matter in which they have had no special training Is very great." Walla Walla, Wash. The catastrophe at Mace occurred at 11:30 at night, according ac-cording to telephone reports received by the Union from Wallace, Ida., and overwhelmed the entire town of Mace, coTering the twenty-five families in the little village under tons of snow and debris. Rescue parties have gone from Wallace to the scene. Residents in Wallace say that the roar of the avalanche ava-lanche could be distinctly heard there. Mace is five miles from Wallace. Berlin. The women of Germany have at last become aroused to the serious conditions in the public schools, and a movement already has been inaugurated inaugurat-ed with some of the most influential women of the empire back of It having for its object a reformation of the public pub-lic school system under which scores of little boys and girls have been drawn to suicide because they could not stand the strain put upon them in keeping up with their classes. There has been a regular epidemic of suicide among the German school children in recent years. A typical instance was that of the self-destruction self-destruction of George Hardenburg, aged 11, a pupil at one of the public state schools in Rheinickendorf, a Berlin suburb. Little Hardenburg had failed, to pass rather a stiff examination necessary neces-sary to qualify him for promotion into a higher class, and his lack of success depressed him to such a degree that he found life unbearable. After writing a number of formal letters, which seemed to bear the stamp of an intellect far older old-er than that of an 11-year-old boy, he took poison and died. There have been many other child suicides during, the last twelve months, and the overstrain involved by the existing schooling system sys-tem Is held responsible for these juvenile juve-nile tragedies. The opponents of the German educational system allege that it crams too much knowledge into the heads of the victims, instead of training them to apply their learning to practical practi-cal problems of life. Spokane. A telephone message from Wallace. Ida., to the Spokesman-Review says that twenty-five families, and probably seventy-five persons, were buried in an avalanche. A special train left Wallace, carrying rescuers. Dublin. While William O'Brien, leader lead-er of the Independent Nationalists and arch $nemy of John Redmond and T. P. O'Connor, denies the report that he intends to go to America as soon as his parliamentary duties permit, Ut is generally gener-ally believed that he soon will make the trip for the purpose of explaining to Irish-Americans his reasons for fighting Redmond, and incidentally cutting cut-ting down if not cutting off entirely the American source of supply for the Nationalist Na-tionalist war chest. .The O'Brlenites of whom twelve were returned, were elected largely by Unionist voters in constituencies where the Unionists themselves had no chance. On being charged with this, Mr. O'Brien recently said: "It Is, I rejoice to say. perfectly true that everywhere throughout the south my friends and myself have enjoyed the cordial good will (and doubtless their support at the polls for whatever it was worth) of our Protestant fellow-countrymen. The statesmen of the 'Molly Maguire' lodges will, doubtless, be horrified hor-rified to hear that we regard the fact as oncof the happiest achievements in all Ireland's history of distracted creeds and classes. The Protestant minority voted with ua for the very substantial reason that they and we have now an indissoluble common interest In completing com-pleting the abolition of landlordism, and saving Ireland from further overtaxation. over-taxation. If it would not be fair to construe their support as an open adhesion ad-hesion to home rule as well, it is absolutely abso-lutely certain that the struggle we have made, in the teeth of impossible odds, for generous treatment for them, material ma-terial and moral, has completely dis-j dis-j armed the suspicions of the Protestants of the south as to their future in a self-j self-j governed Ireland, and that as soon as the Protestants of Ulster have been similarly reassured, home rule will be a mere question of friend'y settlement between Protestant and Catholic Irishmen Irish-men after the model of the historic land conference of 1903." The budget is the cause of the split In the Nationalist party. The O'Brien-Ites O'Brien-Ites believe Ireland is unfairly treated In the budget and will fight it tooth aricl nail. On the question of the lords' veto I understand they will act with the Liberals. Lib-erals. During the campaign the charge was made that General Sir Reginald Pole Carew had, during his election campaign, cam-paign, referred to the people of the south of Ireland as "a lazy, Idle, dirty, Ignorant, seditious lot of people." Gen-eral Gen-eral Pole Carew indignantly denies he made any such statement. It was first contained In an anonymous letter published pub-lished in a Plymouth newspaper, and would have been treated with silent contempt by General Pole Carew if it had not been reproduced in the Irish newspapers, and made the subject of resolutions by the Tipperary county council ana other public rodies. The general's Indignation is shared most intensely in-tensely by his beautiful wife, Lady Beatrice Pole Carew, who states that she is proud to regard herself as one of the "southern Irish," and who, with other members of the Ormonde family. Is most popular amongst rich and poor in Kilkenny. At the recent meeting of the Nationalist Nation-alist party, John Dillon moved and Joseph Jo-seph Dillon seconded a resolution which was unanimously adopted, which declared de-clared "That this first meeting after the general election the Irish Nationalist party desires to place on record its deep sense of obligation to ehe friends and supporters of the National cause in America for their splendid contribution to the funds of the party, which has enabled en-abled it to meet and repel the attacks made upon it during the recent elections. elec-tions. And we especially record our admiration for and approbation of the brilliant gifts and invaluable services of Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia, president of the United Irish League of America; and we tender our warmest thanks to the other national officers of the American organization." Acting on a suggestion contained in a letter written by the Rev. Dean Kelly, D. D., of St. Peter's Athlone, the West-meath West-meath county council has decided to preserve the old home of Olivr Gold smith at Lissoy from further decay. "Opposite its gate," writes eDan Kelly, "is the ancient for of Liss, of which Goldsmith wrote to his brother-in-law, Daniel Hodson: 'I had rather be placed in the little mount before Lissoy gate and there take in, to me, the most pleasing pleas-ing horizon in nature.' The capacious fireplace, around which sat the groups depleted in 'The Vicar of Wakefield' and 'The Deserted Village, is gonef The ruin is now. a mere shell and a zinc-roofed zinc-roofed shed has been erected within it." San Francisco. By marrying his sister-in-law,- Miss S. S. Upton, a spinster of 58, and who for the last twentyyears has been his housekeeper, Loren Co-burn, Co-burn, millionaire of San Mateo county, and aged 84, last night cut off his relatives rela-tives from Inheriting his $30,000,000 estate. es-tate. For several years Coburn has been resisting the efforts of his kinsmen to have him adjudged legally incompe tent. After the wedding ceremony, which was attended only by Coburn's business and legal representatives and newspaper newspa-per men, the aged millionaire chuckled grimly as he took his wife's arm and prepared to leave the church. "The old man is not quite incompetent," incompe-tent," he remarked. "He has sense enough to pick the best woman and his truest friend for a wife." Coburn's fortune came from several old Spanish grants. Managgua, Nicaragua. The casualty list of the battles between the government govern-ment and Insurgent forces at Tisma and Tiptapa has increased until it Is estimated esti-mated that 225 men were killed and 350 wounded. Seachers have comejupon bodies scattered over a large territory, many wounded having died while at tempting to drag themselves from the field of batttle. It Is now known that Captain Godfrey Fowler, in command of General Cha-morro's Cha-morro's machine guns, who was wounded wound-ed in the left leg, escaped capture, .a conservative concealing the American for two days. Captain Fowler, on the one side, and General Lara on the other, were the heroes of the Tismo battle. bat-tle. & Ludington, Mich. Antoine Cartier. prominent as a lumber man and capitalist, capital-ist, and president cf the Northern Michigan Mich-igan Transport company, died here today. to-day. He was 74 years old. Cleveland, 0 Fully 4,000 people are homeless in Ohio as a result of the flood that is still sweeping over the state. At Zanesville alone 1,0000 persons are reported re-ported driven from their houses,. The public buildings are crowded with refugees. refu-gees. At Warren, O., over 300. were rescued res-cued from their houses in boats. New 'York. Supposing that it was her husband who had slipped quietly into the parlor of her Brooklyn apartment, rival in the darkness of an adjoining Mrs. William Allen, awaiting his arrival, ar-rival, thought ehe would play a good joke on him by remain., silent. She kept qplet for a long time, but finally went into the parlor. In stead of meeting her husband she found herself face to face with a stranger, who wa3 calmly taking down oil paintings and . tapestries from the wall with a noiseless touch. Confronted by Mrs. Allen he dived for the door. She grappled with him, but he bowled her over and ran downstairs to the street. Mrs. Allen picked herself up and pursued pur-sued him. After a chase of nearly a mile the would-be burglar stopped exhausted. exhaust-ed. Mrs. Allen kept him prisoner until a newsboy brought a policeman to relieve re-lieve her of her charge. Rome. The Pope has created four dioceses in the Philippine islands. These are Zamboanga, Tuguegarao, Lips and the Islands of Semar and Leyte, with the apostolic prefecture of Lalawan. The Right Rev. Monsignor Pablo Singzon, vicar general of the diocese of Cebu, has been appointed bishop of Samar and Leyte; Monsignor I. Petrill, former secretary of the apostolic delegation dele-gation at Manila, bishop of Lipa; the Rev. J. MacGinley of Philadelphia, bishop of Neuva Ceceras; and the Right Rev. J. P. Gorodo, formerly aux- lliary bishop of Cebu, bishop of that diocese, to replace the late Right Rev. Thomas A Hendrick. Vienna. A duel with pistols was fought here by two Austrian government govern-ment officials. Dr. Oscar Mayer and Baron Hermann AVidenofer. Mayer shot Wldenofer dead. Dr. Mayer was griefstricken at the result re-sult of the duel. The killing of Baron Wldenofer, he said, was accidental, owing to the kicking of the pistol. He had not the slightest intention of killing, kill-ing, for he aime'tf at his opponent's feet. Paris. The American consults in Europe Eu-rope have received instructions by cable from the state department at "Washington "Washing-ton to prepare and forward forthwith comparative statements showing the difference in cost of living in 1900 and 1910. These statistics will cover food, clothing, rents and similar necessary expenses. They are intended for the use of the Senate committee investigating investi-gating prices. Vancouver, B. C. A. S. Geddes, who Is wanted In Denver on a charge of having hav-ing embezzled $6,000 from the Brecht Butcher company, for which he formerly former-ly worked as an accountant, was arrested ar-rested here last night. He Is being held pending extradition proceedings. New York. Twenty families in Jersey Jer-sey City were burned out Saturday in a fire which destroyed ten double dwelling dwell-ing houses and razed the plant of the New York Veneer Seating company. The damage Is $200,000. Brussels. Most of the rivers in Belgium Bel-gium have overflowed as a result of continued rains. Conditions are at their worse In the Meuse valley, whole tracts of flat country being under water. The damage is very heavy. j |