Show SUNDAY SCHOOL PROGRAMS VARIOUS SECTS PREPARING TO commemorate THE DAY christmas trees and exercises at various places of worship tho local sunday schools will all render special exercises commemorating in which aaita claus will do his part toward making ins hearts of the little ones glad banta flails will make his appearance among the local sunday schools at the presbyterian church this evening at 0 clock A beau tUut program has been arranged by miss lynch and mr J R cooper and will consist of songs duets and recitations rendered by the scholars ol 01 the school A pretty christmas tree has bean decorated for the occasion and candy and fruit will be presented to the children on saturday evening at 7 30 the sunday school connected with abo methodist episcopal chuich will hold their christmas exercises in tha lecture room of the church the iain feature ot the program will consist ot a musical tableau given by airs fletcherr fletchers Flet chers class in addition to this there will be numerous songs and rec 1 lotions rendered by the members ot the school including some pretty numbers nun bers by tho gintant class another pretty innovation will be the appearance of santa claus and a Chrls imas log cabin aiom which the candy boxes will be taken and presented to the little ones each child attending will bring soma gift which will help make abo day brighter tor some of the poor children of the city at sunday the meni bers of the sabbath school connected with the episcopal church wil assemble in the church where short exercises will be held and presents together with candy and nuts will be distributed the exercises will consist mainly of christmas songs by the sunday school and an address to the children by the rector alfred brown at the congregational church the exercises will be held at the usual hour 1215 p m sunday when mrs H S emerson will deliver a childrens story membris of the school will render a number of songs and recitations and a selection will be delivered by the sunday school orchestra on next wednesday night at the christmas tree exercises will be hald when santa claus will appear and deliver presents from a christmas log cabin the exercises will be under the direction of mr ernest richardson superintendent SEVEN MEN suffocated bolivar dec 22 seven men were suffocated today in the number 2 soft clay mine of the reese firebrick company near here the victims were austrians Aust rians there were about 25 men in the mine and all but seven were rescued though they were all in bad condition and two are likely to die A small building about 16 by 20 burned down at the mouth of the mine the air shaft from the working to tho surface some distance in tho mine acted and drew into the drift the heat and smoke from tho fire thus suffocating the men choso whoso escape was elat off by the fire at the opening As soon as it could bo done the burning chanty was torn away and rescuers rushed into the mine but already five men had succumbed to the beat and smoke and others in a dying condition one more died while on the way out and another after they had reached the fresh air the men were not burned in any way practically all of the men in tho mine were foreigners tho property loss is trifling philadelphia dec 23 all of the 27 persons who were overcome by coal gas in a tenement house in the lower section of the city early today have been discharged from the hospital as cured |