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-1 rpr** MADRID, N. Y., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1904. NO. 21. iCOKE KILLED IN 1ECK ;'*! Trains on the Missouri Pa'cific Col- !'t fide and Telescope. ..ABOUT SIXTY PASSENGERS HURT UNDER TONS OF GOAL Brooklyn, N. Y., Gas Man is Wedged in Bunker. For Oyer Flvo Honra Four Policemen, Two Firemen and Two Volunteers Worked In Dausror of Their Lives. J I.' ,«.? U/.- •Only a Pullman Car is Left Unhurt Aftor Collision of ITroisht With. Express Near WaWenshursr, Mo. — Accident Occurred in Deep Cut at Day Break- Trains Were Jlnnninjr at High Speed VVarrensburg, Mo.—Over a score of persons were killed and sixty injured by a head-on collision of Missouri Pa- •citic trains three miles east of War- reusburg. The trains were the second -section of a passenger train from Wich- ita for St. Louis and an extra freight train. Most of the dead were residents of Missouri and Kansas, as are tlie in- jured. Tlie passenger train, consisting of two day coaches, a Pullman car and a •caboose, was loaded with World's Fair excursionists from Southeastern ICau- .$as and Southwestern Missouri. The Wichita passenger train had beeu cut in two at Pleasant Hill on account of the heavy load and a locomotive at- tached to the front car without a bag- gage car as a buffer. The extra freight had beeu side- tracked in Montserrat for the first sec- tion of the Wichita train, which car- ried signals that a second section was following. A local passenger train passed. The freight crew thought it was the second section of the Wichita train and pulled out of the side track. 'Three miles west the freight met the second section. The impact telescoped the tender- of the passenger locomotive and the frout •car, which was full of passengers, and •it was here the sacrifice of life took I»Jace. The passenger conductor, E. L„ Barns, ran all the way to Warrensburg to report the wreck. Every physician •in Warrensburg and hundreds of citi- zens hastened to the scene to assist the wounded. Twenty persons were killed outright and nine died within a few hours. The dead were placed on flat cars and brought to Warrensburg. A. Cor- oner's jury is now seeking the person responsible for the wreck. The conductor \of the freight train says he was dozing while his train was in Montserrat, and when the local train passed Hortoii, the engine driver be- lieved it was the second section of the \feghita train, and, thinking the track ; clear; purred>j|^^^^«?3S^= :! « ,a * l » ' Both trains wete running sffi a good rate of speed when the wreck occurred. Dawn had hardly begun to break, and neither crew was aware of the ap- proach of The other train until they were almost upon each other. The spot where the wreck occurred, was in a narrow cut. and this fact, with the darkness, added to the diffi- culty of the situation. The tracks were on a down grade, on either side of which there was a steep rise. Both trains had put on extra steam to carry them up the opposite hill, and when they met at the curve at the lowest iioint they were running at a terrific •rate. The heavy freight train pushed the •passenger engine back into the first car. Th\ tender of the passenger en- gine literally cut the car in two in the •centre and did not stop until it had plowed half way through the car,, kill- ing the passengers in the forward end instantly and terribly mangling all within reach. The next two cars were also badly damaged, seats being torn up and win- dows smashed, but in these cars the •passengers fared better, all, except a few. escaping with slight injuries. The Pullman car remained npright. and •none of its occupants were hurt beyond •sustaining a severe shaking up. So tishtiy were the tender of the •passenger engine and the first car wedged together that it will take unu- sual efforts to separate them. The train crews, with the exception 3>C Brakeman Siclel, escaped, the en- gine drivers and firemen sustaining •only minor hurts. Now York City.—Buried alive for five hours and a half, at a depth o£ thirty feet, with the crushing weight of 500 tons oC coal over his head and shoulders, John Guiles had a remark- able escape from death iu the mam- moth coal bunker of the Kings County Gas Company, at Fifty-fifth, street and First avenue, Brooklyu. The chute in which Guiles was eu- tombed is V-shaped and built on a sharp incline, the broad end of the V, which is about fifteen feet across, lead- ing to the big storage bins on the sec- ond floor of the company's building, while at the point at the bottom are KILLED BY TUNNEL GAS Train of Goal Cars Stalled Under St. Clair River. BRAYE ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE FAIL A Break In the Train of Cars Caused One Half of Them With Their Craw to Become Stalled in tho Tunnel Between S*.-nla, ,Ont„ and Tort Huron, Mich.— Switchman Rescued Those Alive. Port Huron, Mich.—Six employes of the Graud Trunk Railway were suffo- cated to death by coal gas in the St. Clair tunnel, which runs under the St. Clair 'River from Port Huron to Sarnia, Out. A coal train broke in two while pass- ing through the tuunel, and three of the train crew were suffocated while THE NEBRASKA LAUNCHED New Big- Battleship is Christened at Seattle, Wash. She Took the Water Mteven Minutes Be- fore tho Official arimo—No Mishaps Occurred—Miss Hiokey the Sponsor. two small trap doors through wbtcu j ^ « ^ tota ^ staUed iU tUe the coal is taken iu to feed the gas furnaces. The upper end of the chute is controlled by a bigger trap door run- ning right across. This door was opened at about 0 o'clock in the morning iu order 10 fill the chute, but after a few tons had passed through there was a jam. Guiles, armed with a fifteen-foot pole, tunnel. ! Tho engineers lost his life when he • returned and endeavored to push the ' stalled train back to safety, and two I other rescuers perished in vain at- I tempts to penetrate the gaseous atuios- . phere of the great tube. I A. S. Begg, Port Huron, superintend- ent of terminals; John Coleman, engi- BOY KILLS GIRL BY MISTAKE. Having After the Tragedy, He Asks to Be Killed Also. Brookfield, Mass.—-Frances W. New- joinb, thirteen years old, who was ae- :identally shot by Irving Mundell, four- teen years, died. Mundell was squirrel hunting with -a rifle and the girl was picking chestnuts. After tho accident the Mundell boy rushed to the girl's father, and, hand- ing him the rifle, begged to be shot ilso. Then he ran for home and fell in it swoon at tho door. Since he has been constantly raving, and the news af the girl's death has been kept from him on account of his critical condition, 'die place of the accident is in a remote spot five miles from Brookfield. RUSSIAN SHIPS SUNK. 'K' Xoklo Hears That Three at Port. Ar- thur Have Been Destroyed. Tolcio, Japan.—-It is reported that the fapanese have sunk three Russian war- ships at Port Arthur as the result of their concentrating the fire of their sea and land guns Upon the western harbor. Tunneling to Port Arthur. General Stoessel reported that tire Japanese were at work approaching Port Arthur by tunnel. Wynne Now the Chief. Robert .1. Wynne, who as First As- sistant Postmaster-General demanded the investigation which uncovered the portal frauds, was appointed Post- master-General to succeed the late Henry Clay JPayfie. Yellow Fever on Ship. There are three cases of sickness, which are suspected of being yellow Cover, on board a steamer from Pro- greso, Mexico,, held at qturaatine, in Boston, Mass: S tried to prod it clear in vain, and at I neeV) port Huron; D. A. Gillis, brake- last' he jumped down into the bin. j man| Sarina, Out.; Thomas McGrath, Suddenly the whole mass moved and | brakeman, Sarina, Out.; ,1. B. Simpson, lie was swept through tho door. j conductor, Sarina, Out., and D. T. The chute, which is about fifty feet Tinsley, conductor, Sarina, Out., were deep, has sloping sides, and it was | jjjg killed. owing to the steady gliding movement thus imparted to the coal that the man was not overwhelmed by the first rush. Struggling desperately, he managed to climb up and up the shif tiug mountain, but fast as he climbed the coal slipped from under his feet, while the moun- tain grew bigger and bigger. Time and again there came a pause in the black avalanche and Guiles worked his way laboriously toward the top; but every time tlie movement of the coal under his feet released the block and a fresh stream came down. At hist a heavier slide than usual surged down and buried him up to his waist, and though his hands were free he could not stir. Had the doors at the lower end of the chute, been open the steady suction of the shifting mass must have carried hin> down and buried him as hopelessly as in a quicksand. Fortunately they remained closed. Even as it. was, the The train, which entered from the j American end of the tunnel, was made ! up ot seventeen coal cars. When it broke Engineer Coleman realized that the accident had happened, and with the three cars that were still attached to th'e. engine steamed out of the tunnel into the Sarnia yards. He hastily de- tached his engene and went back into the tube for the stalled cars. When his engine reached them he attempted to push them back through the tunnel and out of the American portal. The grade proved too steep, however, and the attempt was a fail- ure. The engine and cars rolled back into the gas-laden tunnel and the en- gineer was suffocated at his post in the engine cab. His fireman, Fred For- ester, jumped into ihe partly filled water tank of the engine, where there was enough air to preserve life. When news of the \broken train coal gradually banked up around and j reached the American side of the tun- over him, till at last it was only by , Qe l Superintendent Begg, accompanied folding his arms above his head that • t>y two other employes, started in on he was able to keep a space in which , foot, hoping that the train was near I enough to the entrance so that they I might rescue and carry out some of to breathe. •\•U.pos the fiv.'.l support of two small shutters, upon which rested his feet and at the same time cheeked the flow of coal down into the pocket, depended his life while four policemen, two fire- men and two volunteers fought the avalanche of coal thirty feet above his 'head for five hours and a half. For every shovelful the toilers cast away another took its place from the mountainous heaps on all sides of the little band. Momentarily it seemed as if with one great sweep from all sides the rescuers would share the fate of tlie man thirty feet below. For them there was no escape except by the same means they had entered the pit—a rop dangling from the rail- road track, 100 feet in the air. While Father Goldrick, of St. Mich- ael's, was waiting to administer to tho buried man, whose cries could be plain- ly heard, and a physician from the Norwegian Hospital prepared to give medical aid, the rescuers tore at the huge mountain of coal which now and then buried them to the waist. When the task seemed most hopeless and the cries of Guiles became less frequent lumber and horse blankets and sacks were thrown into the pit to stem tho flow of coal. Only after the fourth hour had passed was ihe coal i BUFFIANS ATTACK OPERATOR, restrained and a space of fifteen feet tho crew. They had gone but a short distance when the coal gas became > stifling and Begg succumbed. The I other two rescuers succeeded in crawl- I ing to the portal of the tunnel on their I hands and knees. | Meanwhile preparations were being j made at the Sarnia end of the tunnel I to rescue the imprisoned train crew. An engine with a party of rescuers I entered the tube and had proceeded • but a short distance when they found ; ] John Haley, a track walker, uncon- ! scions on the track. He was taken ' out, and again the engine plunged, into • the gaseous atmosphere. The rescuers , were overcome, however, by the gas ! before the train was reached, and Brakeman McGrath died. Switchman Blake, who was a mem- ber of the party, after a time made an- ! sther attempt to penetrate the gas, and , by this time succeeded in reaching the i stalled train, coupled it to the cars I and ran the train out into the day- j light. Simpson, Tinsley and Gillis I were found dead in the caboose. Fire- ! man Forester was in the water tank I Df the engine nearly two hours before , he was rescued. Seattle, Wash.-Thi battleship Ne- braska tore loose 'from ihe checks that had restrained her and slid swiftly into the water eleven minutes ahead of the time set for her lauucliiug. A great multitude had assembled in the gayly decked shipyards of the Mo- ran Brothers Company to witness the plunge, which, had been scheduled for 2.13 o'clock. The Nebraska is the first battleship constructed on the Pacific Coast north of San Francisco, and all the leading army and State officials in the forts West were on baud, in addi- tion to all Seattle and sightseers from all over the State and tor beyond its borders. Governor John H. Mickey, of Nebras- ka, and his party were chattiug on a stand erected near the ways. Attor- ney-General Prout had finished'an ora- tion, and Congressman Humphreys was preparing to deliver one in turn. Miss Mary Main Mickey, the Govern- or's daughter, to whom had fallen the honor of naming Uncle Sam's newest warship, was receiving instructions from the shipyard officials as to how she was to perform the ceremony. Workmen below we?e weakening the supports in preparation for the signal to release the steel-chid monster. Of a sudden the noise of saw and hammer and the hum of the great ani- mated crowd were dominated by an ominous cracking and snapping of tim- bers. Warning shouts rose roni the workmen deep down in the network of the ways. The battleship began to move, gathering momentum as she went. \Whoa'.\ yelled the yard officials helplessly. A great roar went up from the crowd: '•She's off! She's off!\ Quick as a flash Miss Mickey grasped the berlbboned champagne bottle, and, darting forward, hurled it against the hull, crying as she did so: \I name thee Nebraska! God speed thee for the honor of the Nation and ot our dear State.\ As the foaming wme spattered over the steel a cheer, started by the Gov- ernor, was taken up by the other in- vited guests, and the immense crowd. Hats were flung into the air, flags and handkerchiefs waved and fluttered, and the bandsmen in attendance, having recovered from their surprise, grasped their instruments -find joined in the ov.ation With the-Htraias of \The Star- Spangled Banner.\ The battleship glided calmly out onto the waters of Puget Sound with- out a single mishap to dampen the en- thusiasm evoked by her premature plunge. The battleship Nebraska has a dis- placement of 15,000 tons;'her length is 441 feet 3 inches; beam, 76 feet 2% inches; draught, 23 feet 9 inches: indi- cated horse power, 19,000, and speed, 19 knots. Her main battery consists of four 12-inch guns, eight 8-inch and twelve 6-inch guns. In her secondary battery she carries fourteen 3-inch guns, twelve 3-pound- ers, sixteen small gan3 and four 21- inch torpedo tubes. She has two superposed turrets and two waist turrets. Her armor con- sists of a belt eight feet wide and two inches thick. She will have a complement of forty officers and 772 men. RUSSIANS BEGIN ADVANCE THREE KILLED IN FEUD Kuropatkin Orders Aggressive Move- ment of His Armies, Father and Son Die Game After Killing Their Enemy, DECLARES IT IS NOW THEIR TIME Gillenwaters and Smith Famufos in Long? Vendetta at Faircloth, Ga.—Sellout Thrown Into Panic by Shooting. In a Long Message to His Soldiers Ho Praises Their Past Efforts and Propli- esiofl Coining Victories — X,arjyo lie- inforcements Give Ad-led Strength, to the Caar'a Already HIIRO Arxrites. St. Petersburg, Russia.—A private dispatch from Mukden states that rhe whole Russian army has begun to ad- vance. The Japanese have been out- manoeuvred atBoniaputse, which place they have evacuated. It was occupied by the Russians, apparently without se- rious fighting. According to less reliable news the Russians captured the Shaho and Yen- tais stations after a shan? engage- ment. The Japanese centre, consisting .of tbe\FiCth and Tenth divisions, under General Nodzu, was compelled to aban- don its positious and retreat. Tokio, Japan,—It is reliably reported that the Russians south of the Hun River have been greatly increased in numbers, indicating that a counter at- tack is contemplated. Loudon, Bug.—The new phase of the Manchurian campaign that was fore- shadowed in recent cable dispatches seems to have begun^with the abandon- ment of General Kuropatkin's defen- sive tactics and a general advance against the Japanese positions north of Liaoyang. There is no official confirmation from either side, of this movement, but inde- pendent stories from' several sources concur in, stating that such an advance has commenced, and the issue of Gen- eral Kuropatkin's stirring address is regarded as equivalent to corrobora- tion. The criticism most to be regarded here views General Kuropatkin's al- tered tactics as likely to lead to a com- paratively early decision. The sugges- tion is made that General Kuropatkin's advance was ordered by St. Peters- burg. This idea is based partly on the com- mander-in-chief's significant mention of Port Arthur, and partly on the fact that immediately after the decision to send a second army to Manchuria he apparently is about to risk everything on an attack. The Japanese, according to a Mukden telegram, appear to be relying upon holding their position at Liaoyang and the hills to tlie .eastward of Yentai. ;w.hieli were General ICuroki's late bat- tleground. They have nor yet been Been acting on the defensive, and the outcome of the next few days' opera- tions is awaited with eager Interest. HURT IN TROLLEY ACCIDENT. j Car Runs Away at the Top of a Steep ! Hill and Jumps Into a Creek. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. — Six persons j wore injured, three seriously, in a trol- I ley runaway accident at Highland, op- posite this city. A car on the Highland j division of the New Paltz Traction ; Company's lines became unmanageable j at the top of a steep hill and»jumped | over a twenty-foot embankment into a I creek. | It is said that the sand box did not i work. The brakes were tightly locked I when the rescuers came upon the j scene. The indignation against the ! company in that vicinity was intense. square cleared to the bottom of the bunker. When this was fenced off, with solid hanks of coal thirty feet high on all sides, the head of the buried man came into sight. Fresh timber, lowered down in fear and trembling lest the coal slopes should overwhelm the little band of Choked and Thrown to the Gtound at Newtown, Conn., Before Help Came. Newtown, Conn.—What was doubt- less a well planned expedition to as- sault and rob A. B. North, night op- erator at the station of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Passengers in Panic. Fifty passengers were thrown into a panic when the ferryboat Hamburg, of the Lackawanna line, collided with the tugboat W. Cleary, in the Hudson River between New York City and Jersey City. KOREANS MUST GET HAIR. CUTS. rescuers, were placed across the mouth | here, was frustrated by the approach of the pocket in which Guiles' WAS buried. Then one of the rescuers pushed head first into the pocket, placed a flask of brandy at the lips of the half conscious victim. \Oh Lord!\ whispered Guilds, as Po- liceman Dougherty placed the flask to his lips, \I can't stanl this much longer.\ Down on their hands and knees, the rescuers, their lives depending on the security of the frail timber embank- ment, dug the coal with their hands from around the body of the man until they had his arms free and could pass a rope under them. A wild cheer rang out from the watchers on the platform at the ends of the bunker, as hauled by tire eight rescuers hauling on the rope, Guiles was dragged from his prison. A ninety-foot, ladder lowered into the little pen by members of Hook and Ladder Company No. 04 completed the rescue. All hnnling upon the rope, the little band of rescuers, so blackened and bruised In their five hours and a half Df an early freight train from New Haven. Several men, the exact num- ber North cannot tell, attacked him savagely as he left his post to look at i switch less than 100 feet away. He was choked and thrown to the groimd, receiving painful bruises, and they were about to gag him when the freight train appeared around a near- by curve. Seven men were arrested, out North failed to identify any of them as his asailants. j \Nan\ Patterson Collapses. I \Nan\ Patterson, the actress who is under indictment for the murder of Caesar Young in New York City, col- lapsed in her Tombs cell and was threatened with, nervous p'rostration. Philip Weinseimer on Trial. Philip Weinseimer, successor of Sam- uel Parks as head of building trades anions, was put on trial on two indict' menta, charging him with, extortion. Mar. Killed liy Subway Train. fight wilb a mountain of pea conl that , M1 ,. hael Kupac an P i et .[ : vkian, war hey were not reeogmzab e cr.-pt up • and ulM b a slll train the ladder half dragging Guiles in the j ut New yo ,, k 0llT| t]1 th( , sight of l ' ear> I fifty invited guests of the road. Woman Climbs Andes' Peak. Drifted to Sea. Miss Annie S Peek, n noted Amerl- I A ^ ot ?lrls bplng , tn ' ught to float can mountain cbmber. reached an altl- I t Virginia Beach, Virginia, drifted to tucle of 21,000 foet on Mount Huascan, i flwl# |,,j WM , (l rMcnpa GXcep t a nleco ln tUe Andes. o(; thc 1(ltR W1 nj am L. Wilson, •Suicide Before I-TIs Trial. Frank De Peyster Hall, of New Yon? City, killed himself in his room while court was opening for lue beginning of his suit for slander. Arrest on a charge of felony awaited Hall as soon as the defense's affidavits were filed. Harcourt's Body Buried. The body of Sir William Vernon Harcourt was buried privately in the family vault at Nuireham, Oxford, Eng- land. Memorial services were held in London. Carnegie Writes Peace Congress. Andrew Carnpgie sent a letter to the International Peace Congress, in Bos- ton, Mass., advocating a trust of world Powers to enforce universal peace. Imperial Edict Issued Aimed at For- eign Office Officials. Tokio, Japan.—A dispatch from Seoul says that an imperial edict has been issued commanding the officials con- nected with the Korean Foreign Office to cut their hair short. Another edict announces that owing to the treasury being empty the Gov- ernment intends to borrow 10,000,000 yen in Japan. Capitalists will shortly start for Korea to investigate mining, banking and other prospects. . Camilla, Ga.—In the lobby of the postoffiee of Paircloth, a small village ten miles from this place, three men were shot to death as the result of the feud between the Gilleuwaters and Smith families, and which has beeu carried on with increasing bitterness for a year. So far five lives have been sacrificed to the feud, and it was said there was a meeting of all the Gilleu- waters in the county and that a com- pact was made to keep up the strife until the last of the Smiths was slain. The recent shooting took place through the accident of a meeting be- tween J. Gillenwater, the leading mer- chant of F'aircloth, and the recognized head of the numerous Gilleuwaters family, and John Smith and his son Keir, who had been active fii support- ing their side of the fend. Gilleuwaters went to the postoffiee at 11 o'clock, and* was leaving the building,when he met the Smiths face to face. He was in the act of open- ing an envelope when he looked up and saw John Smith standing watching him defiantly. Gilleuwaters let the letter drop from his fingers, and, his face growing red with rage, he said: \Get out of my way or there will be two deaths this minute.\ Gilleuwaters had a shotguu under his arm, and as he spoke he swung it into readiness for instant use. John Smith; was cool and his son stood still with his arms crossed on his breast, as if to show his.-lndifferef.ee of dan- ger. \You haven't got the heart to press that trigger, Gillenwaters,\ said the father. \If you move another step into this building,\ said the merchant, \I'll blow the brains out of both of you.\ In answer to this threat both men drew revolvers and stepped from the sidewalk into the lobby. On the mo- ment Gillenwaters fired a charge of buckshot into the father's stomach. Smith fell against the wall as if in a sitting position. Gillenwaters fired a second shot, and the son dropped. As he was falling he fired at his enemy, and the bullet caught him squarely in the chest. The wound seemed to dull Gillen- waters' mind, for he stood and snapped the empty gun first at the father and then at the son. Though dying, John Smith realized that he had Gillenwat- ers at his mercy, and with amazing calmness he ordered his son to steady himself and shoot with him. The shotgun fell from Gillenwaters' hands and clattered on the wooden floor, The man's frame shivered from the shock, and then foi an instant he stood motionless. Gillenwaters, with a last desperate effort, of hate, tried to go forward, hut the body suddenly re- laxed and he rolled dead on the boards. John Smith and his son watched the last tremors shake the frame of their enemy, and then the father began to die. \I'm going, Iveir,\ he said, \but we're dying game.\ As residents of the village, friends of all three men, came running in the father tried to rise to his feet. But his strength was gone. He fell hack in a heap, and just before the last breath a feeling of hu- mane tenderness seemed to grip him, for, as lie caught a glance of a woman's face close to his, he muttered, \I'm sorry,\ and died. Keir Smith lingered for ten minutes after the shooting. The public school stands near the postoffiee in Fairelofh, and a panic started among the pnpils after the shooting. Buckshot from Gillenwat- ers' gun shattered the windows, and only tho discipline enforced by the teachers prevented a terrible crush at the top of the stairs. LA FOLLETTE WINS FIGHT By Decision of Supreme Court of Wisconsin Cook Loses. GOVERNOR DECLARED CANDIDATE Ptato Committee is Upheld and tho Nn-J tionni Bepuulicnn Convention is Final- ly Over-ruiad—.Head o£ Stalwart Tlclce* Will Itesign — Senator Spnoncr Es- presoes His Opinion of the Outcome. Madison, Wis—By a vote of three tof one the Supreme Court of Wisconsin! decided that Governor Robert M, Lai Foliette and his followers are entitle® to be called \Republicans\ on the offi- cial ballots of the State at the Novem- ber election. In accordance with his decision, an- nounced some time ago, t<* withdraw if the decision went against him, S. A. Cook, Stalwart candidate for Governor,. was expected to resign* He had a con- ference here with Senator Spooner, bub he said that he had not then decided? whether or not to withdraw,. It is known that he will and that ex-Gov- ernor Edward Scofield Will be appoint- ed by the Stalwart State Central Com- mittee to succeed him. The Stalwarta have decided to continue the campaign) against La Foliette with a third ticket. Justices Dodge; Winslow and Mar- shall supported the La Foliette faction. Chief Justice Cassoday dissenting. Jus- tice Siebeeker r the fifth member of the court, who is La Follette's brother-in- law, refused to sit in tlie case. The action was brought in equity byr adherents of S- A. Cook, the Stalwart nominee for Governor, and was to re- strain Secretary of State Houser front' certifying to the County Clerics the \ria'ahes of the La Foliette candidates as the regular Republicans. In answering the suit the Governor's (followers contended that the proceed- ings of the convention which renom- inated La Foliette were regular, that tlie convention was the only body with, power to name candidates, and further that the court had no jurisdiction- in the matter. The opinion filed by Justice Marshall asserts the right of the court to* con- sider a controversy \of so grave a char- acter and of such public importance,\ and proceeds to base its decision o» this section from the Wisconsin stat- utes: \When two or more conventions or caucuses shall be held and the nomina- tions thereof certified, eaeh claiming to- be the regular convention or caucus of the same political party, preference in designation shall he given to the nom- inations of thfe one certified by the , committee wfhich had been, officially!* certified to be authorized to represent the party.\ The decision then goes on to upliold the right of the State committee chosen- at the convention of 1902 to decA which of the two Republican conven- tions of 1904 is regular. Milwaukee, Wis.—Senator Spooner i a speech said that the Supreme CourtX did not decide the merits of the Repub- lican else, hut merely defined the pow- er of the State Central Committee to decide disputes. Senator Qnarles spoke at Racine. He said that the Stalwarts are still the regular Republicans, and that the fight would go on. PORTUGUESE FALL IN AFRICA* I MONT PELEE ACTIVE AGAIN. More Ships For Japan. It was reported that the Japanese Government has decided to place at once contracts for twenty warships, some of them in the United States. Heavy Storm About Honduras. Advices to Mobile, Ala., tell of a heavy storm and cloudburst, practi- cally destroying the banana crop around Puerto Cortez, Honduras. Wreck on Augusta Southern. A passenger train plunged through a burning trestle on the Augusta Southern. One man was killed and eight others were hurt. Archbishop of York Hooted. The Archbishop of York, bishops and clergy were hooted in the streets of Liverpool, Eng., by the followers of the late John Kensit. Russian Steamer Destroyed. The Japanese Navy Department re- ported the destruction of another Rus- sian steamer used in clearing mines from Port Arthur entrance. Amundsen's Expedition Safe. Cptain Amundsen's expedition, which left Christiania in 1908 to reach the North Polo, was reported in safety from Davis Strait. . Captain of British Steamer Reports Seeing an Eruption From His Vessel. Kingstown, St. Vincent.—The captain of the British steamer Sibun, which ar- rived here, reports that when the steamer passed Mantinique, Mont Pelee was in full eruption. The spectacle was witnessed by those on board the Sibun at 2 o'clock on the morning of the day mentioned. The volcano emit- ted tremendous black clouds and balls of fire. This accounts for the dust clouds reported to have been seen throughout the Windward Islands. I Early in May, 1902, Mont Pelee broke j Into violent eruption, wiping out tlie 1 city of St. Pierre and damaging other towns near by. The loss of life on that occasion was estimated at 40,000. For New York Libraries. For New York City libraries the Board of Estimate was asked to ap- propriate $226,302 more than last year. Controller Grout objected to Ihe ex- pense of tlie Carnegie branches, Subjects Object to Kaiser's Act. A mass meeting of subjects of tho principality of Lippe-Dftmnld declared the Kaiser's interference with tlie suc- cession to be unwarranted and urged the Diet to stand firm In favor of Prince Leopold. \Nan\ Patterson Wears Rabbit's Foot. \Nan\ Patterson, the indicted pris- oner in the Tombs at New York City, accused of shooting \Caesar\ Young, now wears a rubbit's foot worn by, Mollneux while lie was in Sing Sing. Floods Destroy Road. Five miles of Santa Fe Railroad tracks in New Mexicb were destroyed by floods, Twenty lives were lost. War to Last Two Years. Count Okuma predicted that the war with Russia will last two years and will cost Japan $1,000,000,000. Postmaster-General Payne Euried. Tho body of Secretary Payne, lata Postmaster-General, was buried at Milwaukee, Wis. Princess Louise Sane. Princess Louise of Coburg was pro- nounced entirely sane by an alienist of Rome, Italy, Dr. Bossi. Mouse Scares a Hundred Women. A mouse put 100 women to flight in the Grand Central Station, New Y.ovk City. Killed by Explosion. Eleven soldiers were killed and many injured by the blowing up of a maga> zlne in a Belgian fort Porter Bxpresses Our 'Sympathy. 'Ambassador Porter has expressed to Mac. Bartboldl the sympathy of the ! United States ilpon the death of her husband, the late M. Bartboldl, sculp- tor of the \Statue of Liberty,\ in New York Harbor. Eleven Hurt in Wreck. Eleven meii were injured in the Erie wreck at Port Jervis, N. Y. | Late •Postmaster-General Burled. The funeral of the late Postmaster- Genera 1 Payne was held lit Washing- ton, D. C. President and Mrs. Roose- Telt sat witja Mss. Payne at the ser- •Carnegie to Be Honored. On Andrew Carnegie will be con- ferred the Bessemer medal, which has been given to but five Americans. $70,000 For Foreign Missions. The Christian and Missionary Alli- ance received pledges for $70,700 for foreign missions. King Peter Anointed. 'King Peter of Servla was anointed at Zicha by the Metropolitan with Im- posing religious ceremonies. SENATOR HOAE BURIED. Skuple Services Held in the Old Meet- ing House in Concord, Mass. Concord, Mass.—In the historic Meet- ing House of the First Parish of Con- cord, where George F. Hoar worshiped as a young man and which he always revered, the last services over his body were held. The burial was In the fam- ily lot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where so many of Concord's eminent men and women are interred. During the hours of tlie service busi- ness was suspended, while the schools and public library closed for the after- noon, and all the fings were at half mast. Mayor McClellau S'ued, Hnl Bell, ex-fivil Sen Ice Commis- sioner, sued Major McCltllau, of New York City, for damages for nllegod slander contained in Colonel McClel- lan's lelter to fcim in connection with the dismissal of the board. Flood in Texas, Thousands of acres of cotton lands in Texas were under water from an overflow of the Pecos River. Farmers tvere driven from home awl much live- stock was droTvned, Many Casualties in Fight With Cuan- hama Tribe. Lisbon.—A severe disaster has be- fallen a detachment of Portuguese troops at Cunene River, Southwest Africa. 'The Government having trouble with the Cuanhama tribe, neighbors of the Herreros, who some time ago revolted against German rule, it sent a column to restore -order. The detachment numbered 409 men, com- manded by Captain Aguiar. They were crossing theCunene River. which is the boundary between the Portuguese and the German posses- sions, when the Cuanhama. surprised them from ambush at night. The tribesmen attacked the detachment fiercely, killing or wounding 254, of whom 109 were Europeans and 143 na- tives. 20 NEW JAPANESE WARSHIPS. report That Government Will Place Orders in This Country. San Francisco, Cal.—Information re- ceived by steamer shows that Japan has decided to place contracts Immedi- ately for twenty warships, to be com- pleted as soon as possible. Several of these will be built here at the Union Iron Works. The source of this information is Yukowa Kwan Iriii, manager of the New World, a Japanese daily published here. He said: \I have definite infor- mation that Japan will soon pla<:e orders in this country for twenty war vessels.\ DEATHBLOW TO BULL FIGHTS. Social Reformers Vote For Prohibition of Exhibitions on Sunday. Madrid, Spain. — The Institute ot Social Reforms, after a heated discus- sion, decided by thirteen votes to eight to ratify the absolcte prohibi* tion of Sunday bull lights. This is considered to be the deathblow to- bull fighting in Spain, Minister Barrett Hoihe. John Barrett, United States Kin'sin? to Panama, arrived in New York Ci'tjt on tlie Allianca from dolou, ' Says British Trade is In Danger, Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech at Ltt-' ton, Bedfordshire, Bug., said that trade* in Great Britain was in a preeariousr condition, and that unless the uiothec country and the colonies worked to- gether the empire's disintegration wa»- ia sight. Episcopal 'Convention Opens. The General Convention of th.6 Profc estant Episcopal Church i>f the UtiltS& States was onenefl in -Bostoia, M&m. • •• ' -J
