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THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.
Liberals Will Continue to Direct
Policy of Eritish Empire.
The Liberals will continue to direct
the policy of the UiltlRh empire. The
lead Is rut clown some in the present
appeal to the voters. The last tinle the
Liberals had 354 over the Unionists,
counting 83 Irish Nationalists and 55
Laborltes. Now this supremacy has
been reduced to 124, Including 82 Irish
Nationally and 26 Laborltes.
The result Is disappointing to the
party of progress.-It waa expected that
the Liberals would elect at least CO
members more than they have and that
they would carry all the measures they
advocated through Parliament without
the aid of any other party. As It is
now the vote Is so close between them
and the Unionists that they must count
upon the Irish Nationalists or the La
borltes to get certain of their bills
through. The rightful abridgment of
the power of the House of Lords can
only be done by an alliance with the
two lessor parties. That will come, as
the Home Kulers and the Laborltes are
In full accord with the proposal. The
policy of protection gets a setback be
cause the textile centers voted over
whelmingly ngalnst It.
The granting of home rule Is quite
unlikely, much as It was hoped that
this might roine to pass. Premier As
qulth promised Ireland the prize It has
been valorously contending for, but
even he will hardly be able to gain It,
for the landlord strength among his
party Is sufficient, by Joining hands
with the Unionists, to prevent Its con
summation. The failure to achieve this
after the premier's pledge Is most re
grettable.
The pystem of labor exchanges will
be established now that the Liberals
have been continued In office. There
will be 250 of these authorized, which
will bring labor and capital Into closer
touch by providing work for Idle men
In a clearing house in which the em
ployer is as anxious for help as the
honest seeker for work Is after em
ployment. BIG PACKING HOUSE FAILS.
Mexican National Company Is Sent
to Eecelver by Bank's Suspension.
The Mexican National Packing Com
pany, a New Jersey corporation con
trolled by English Investors and oper
ating a string of slaughter-houses and
packing-houses in the Republic of Mex
ico, under concessions from the Mexi
can government, failed the other day
with liabilities, including stock, of ap
proximately J37.000.000.
The assets were not announced, but
it is estimated that they are In excess
of the liabilities. The company will
continue to operate Its plants as us
ual. Henry De Kay was appointed re
ceiver by Judge Lannlng in the Uni
ted States Circuit Court in New Jer
sey. t
The appointment of a receiver was
not brought about by any condition In
the live stock market, but by the ty
ing up of part of the company's funds
In the United States Banking Company
in Mexico City, wnicn suspended re
cently.
UNIONS HARD HIT BY COURT.
Verdict for $222,000 Against Hat
makers Sequel to Boycott.
The United Hatters of North Ameri
ca, which eight years ago declared
a boycott against hats manufactured
by D. E. Loewe Co. of Danbury,
Conn., following strike troubles, was
hard hit the other day by action In the
United States Circuit Court at Hart
ford. Loewe brought suit against Martin
Lowler and about 200 other defend
ants, members of the union, for dam
ages because of the boycott. Judge
J. P. Piatt Instructed the Jury "to re
turn a verdict for the plaintiff, leav
ing to the Jurors the fixing of the
amount of damages. The Jury gave
Loewe $74,000.
As the Sherman anti-trust act, under
which the action was brought, allows
triple damages, Judge Piatt multiplied
the $74,000 by three, making the
amount for which the defendants are
liable $222,000.
WARRINER NOT BELIEVED.
Disagreement in Ford Trial Show
Eight Jurors Voted for Acquittal.
After twenty-four hours' deliberation
the jury In the case of Mrs. Jeannette
Stewart Ford, charged with blackma'l
ing Charles L. Warrlner, defaulting
treasurer of the Dig Four Railroad,
was unable to reach an agreement and
was discharged In Cincinnati. Judge
Swing stated after he dismissed the
Jury that he hat been Informed that
on the last ballot eight Jurors had
stood for acquittal and four for convic
tion. The unexpected end to the case
was explained by two of the Jurymen
as due to the fact that a majority
of their colleagues refused o give any
credit to the testimony of Warrlner.
Tbey asserted that a mau who had
confessed embezzling for twenty-five
years would not hesitate to perjure
himself against a woman whom he
believed to have been the cause of his
ixposure.
Merchant I'rlaca fr'.uds I. lie.
Mood dripping through the celling
led to the discovery of the suicide of
Henry H. Schwalmcher, 65 years old
president of the wholesale grocery
arm of J. and M. Sehwabueher, Ltd., at
his Btore in New Orleans. Mr. Schwa'
bacber, who was a millionaire, bad
suffered from stomach ailments ' for
tome time.
Fire Huua Out (ullrwe Glrla.
Twenty-Bve Smith College alrl st
dents were forced to flee from their
dormitory, Clarke House, In North
araoton. Mans., by fire. The elrla es
raped Injury,' but most of them lost
their nersonal effects. The flames da.
stroyed the rear of the dormitory.
Kilia J-amtls- of Ft to.
William Ituckhelm, a farmer living
four miles from Parker's Prairie,
Minn., shot and killed his wife and
(our children and then shot himself,
lie Is In a serious conditio.
GOOD MORninCI
DID You BRING.
Your, twenty
ccnts wits
YOU ?
SOMEBODY
DIE IN MEXICAN MINE.
Explosion In Coal Shaft Is Third
Disaster in Three Says.
One hundred are dead in the Paula
mine In Mexico across from Eagle
Pass, Texas, in the state of Coahulla,
as a result of the carelessness of a
Mexican in lighting a cigarete. Sixty
eight bodies have been taken from the
shaft. The others are buried further
In. There is no hope that any will be
found alive. Not a single man In the
mine escaped alive. One man was
brought to the surface in a conscious
condition, but died shortly thereafter.
He told of the circumstances of tho
explosion. Smoking In the mine is pro
hibited. It seems as if a new miner,
not understanding the danger, smug
gled tobacco and matches Into the
shaft when he went to work, and the
miners had been at work nearly an
hour when he struck a match to light
a cigarette. Immediately the expl
slon followed, burying alive the 100
men.
N
frantic efforts were made by the
mine superintendent to rescue the .men,
but the shaft was so filled that it took
hours of work to reach the chamber
where the men were confined. The ex
plosion must have been terrific, as the
entire Interior of the mine was badly
wrecked.
Some of the bodies of the men were
horribly mangled. Those who escaped
death from the effects of the explosion
were suffocated, all air chambers be
ing slopped up by the falling walls.
The Paula mine Is one of the Musquiz
group belonging to the Coahulla Conl
Company, an American concern. It was
the best equipped coal mine In Mexico
and had all the modern provisions for
the Bafety of the miners. The loss to
the property will be more than $500.
000. Congressman Dawson, of the Second
Iowa District, has decided to be a can
didate for re-election.
With the Installation of the new re
gime in governmental affairs In New
York City, for the first time In six
years the chief offices of the municipal
ity are not tilled by men allied with the
Tammany Hall organization.
The Joint committee of Congress,
composed of six Senators and six Rep
resentatives, created to investigate the
official acta of Messrs. Balllnger and
Plnchot, began Its sessions. Lewis R.
Olavls, special agent, was the first wit
ness to be examined. His testimony
raised a question of professional eth
les on the part of Balllnger rather than
of official misconduct, the point being
that Italllnger, before becoming land
commissioner, had drawn up an agree
ment designed to convey the rights of
dummy entrants on certain public
lands In Washington to the Wilson
Coul Company. At this point Olavls
was asked by one member o' the com
mittee to state what he Intended to
prove against Balllnger. Thereupon
Lewis U. Brandies of Boston, appear
ing us counsel for Gluvls, said that his
client was averse to formulating a pe
clflc charge unci felt that this should
be left to the committee after hearing
the testimony. He promised that the
Investigation would bring out more
than was contained In'the charges tiled
by Glavls with the President.
Not satisfied with what he has al
reudy written about the antl-truat law
and Its efficiency and the desirability
of having the federal control over rail
roads extended. President Taft is hav
ing a water-power bill framed that
goes far ahead of anything that House
velt conservationists ever proposed.
A resolution proposing that the
House shall elect five additional mem
bers to the Committee on Rules, four
to be Republicans and one a Democrat,
and that henceforth the speaker shall
not be a member of that committee,
which shall elect Its own chairman,
was Introduced ay Representative Fow
lr of New Jersey.
8PDLlTICIAf)
HOWf
SAYS WE CAN LIVE ON 20
ENFORCES SUICIDE AGREEMENT.
I.eUer C nrrler Shoots Sponae autl Her
Father and Then Kill Illniaelf.
Six years ago, when they were mar
ried, Sandle Morrison, an Omaha let
ter carrier, and Miss Hattie Sumner
entered Into a suicide agreement. Fre
quently since then Mr. and Mrs. Mor
rison have talked of suicide and
agreed that one could not live without
the other. Last Saturday, when Mor
rison came home from his work, he
remarked: "Hattie, I have decided
that we are to go." The wife begged
for delay. He attacked her with a
knife, wounding her on the neck. Es
caping, she ran away and sought safe
ty with her parents. A few days later
Morrison held a conference with his
wife and her father, J. II. Sumner. He
apeared rational. She plainly told
him that she had changed her mind.
Morrison then urged hl3 wife and her
father to accompany him to the office
of a Justice, where, he said, he wanted
to deed over his property. As the
three reached the street he pulled a
revolver and shot his wife in the back
of the head and Sumner In the right
eye. As the two fell to the sidewalk
he turned the gun upon himself and
sent a bullet In his forehead, dying
instantly. Mrs. Morrison may recover,
but Sumner will die.
EXPRESS COMPANY MERGER ONP
American Reported I'urchaaer of BIk
niork of Wells-Fararo.
It was said in authoritative circles
In New York that the American Ex
press Company had purchased the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company's
holding of stock in Wells, Fargo & Co.,
which Is taken to Indicate that a
merger of the two companies Is under
way. The Southern Pacific's decision
to sell the stock Is In line with 'the
policy of the new management of the
road to avoid stock market manipula
tion and confine itself strictly to rail
road management. James C. Fargo,
President of the American Express
Company, and Judge Robert S. Lovett,
president of the Southern Pacific, de
clined to talk about the reported pur
chase. DERRICK DROPS; TWO DEAD.
Seeoad Fatal Accident In Bul1dla
Makra Death Llat Five.
Two men were killed and two will
die as the result of a second accident
at the Freldberg Building In Cincin
nati. John Zeach, an employe of the
Bishop Wrecking Company, was kill
ed Instantly, and Charles Fox waa so
badly hurt that he died when a gigan
tic derrick upon which they were work
ing collapsed. This makes five lives
which have been lost In the one loca
tion within a fortnight. Two weeks
before the east wall collapsed and
hurled an adjoining house beneath It.
In this accident three were killed and
one other Is fatally Injured.
SEVEN KILLED IN CAR.
Motorman liana Too Cloae to !)).
mile Cbarire.
Heedless of the warning of a fore
man In charge of excavating opera
tions along the line of the private
motor road from Kelvin to the Ray
Copper mines In Arizona, ue motor
man of a gasoline car ran In close to
a sputtering fuse of a heavy charge of
dynamite, and the car and Its seven oc
cupants were blown to atoms.
Schooner and Tea SI en Loat.
The threeiiuaiited schooner Frances,
Captain Coombs, from New York to
Jacksonovllle, Fla., was lost on the
treacherouh Hatteran coast and her
entire crew of ten men are supposed
to have perished in the raging sea that
tore the stranded vessel to pieces.
Fatal Wreck la Ullaola.
One man waa killed, three were pos
sibly fatally injured, and an engine
and fifteen freight cart were demolish
ed in a wreck on the Elgin, Jollet and
Eastern Ra t Gljmsrj I1L
CENTS A DAY.
REPORT SHOWS PRICE JUMP.
Climb Since 1809 Indicated by Gov
ernment Experts.
That there has been a general In
crease In wholesale and retail prices
of food between the years 1899 and
1908 Is indicated by a report sent to
the Senate by the Department of Com
merce and Labor In response to a reso
lution Introduced by Senator Craw
ford of South Dakota calling for the
trend of prices. For purposes of com
parison the prices In 1899 are used as
normal, and the percentages of in
creases were about as follows:
Bread Wholesale, 25.1 ; retail, 4.8.
Butter Wholesale, Klgln, 20.8 ; cream
ery, extra, 27.6; dairy, 24.6; retail, 30.0,
no quality Indicated.
Cheese Wholesale, 26.9 ; retail, 20.3.
Coffee Wholesale, S.9 ; retail, 8.
Kggs New laid, wholesale, 39.8; retail,
36.2.
Wheat flour Wholesale, spring, 43.C ;
winter. 26.8; retail, 24.4, no quality in
dicated. Lard Wholesale, 63.3 ; retail, 88.2.
Beef Wholesale, fresh, 11.8; salt, 41.9;
retRil, fresh, 14.9; salt, 10.6.
Dressed mutton Wholesale, 21.4 ; re
tall. 26.8.
Ftnron Wholesale, 64.5 f retail, 52.9.
11am Wholesale, 21.9; retail, 31.8.
Milk Wholesale, 30; retail, 18.1.
Potatoes Wholesale, 70. o; retail. J5.5.
The report shows that prices on su
gar, tea, spices and soda crackers have
been slightly reduced.
LAKE DOMESTIC COMMERCE.
Tonnage in 1909 About 2,500,000
Below That of 1907.
Domestic commerce on the great
hikes during the calendar year of 1909
aggregated 80,974,605 tons of freight.
This tonnage, while about one-third
larger than for the year before, Is
about two and one-half millions below
tbe tonnage for 1907, the largest to
tal In the history of the lake trade,
according to a report by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. Of the
total, 44,087,071 net tons are credited
to ports of Lake Superior, 14,120,029
to ports of Lake Michigan, 1,510,879
net tons to Lake Huron ports, 18,699,
221 tons to Lake Erie ports, and 535,
943 tons to Lake Ontario ports. In
the case of Lake Superior and Lake
Michigan the bulk of the shipments
were Iron ore and grain.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
The 1,200 miners employed at No. J
colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Company went on a strike to en
force a demand for a checking boss.
More pay, shorter working hours and
better working conditions are the de
mands which Ohio miners offer for the
approval of the United Mine Workers.
Wisconsin railroads recently Issued
the order that coal should have the
preference of all shipments until the
present shortage and urgent need for
coal was supplied.
Three head of Holsteln cattle were
recently sold by the College of Agricul
ture. University of Wisconsin, to O. L.
Paito, of Tokyo, Japan, who will ship
them to his dairy farm In the vicinity
of Tokyo.
A corporation in New York capital
ized at $300,000,000, to control every
thing pertaining to the manufacture of
women's wearing apparel, Is under con
sideration by the Associated Waist and
Dress Manufacturers.
Control of the Fifth Avenue motor
bus line and the New York Transpor
tation Company of New York, which
operates between 600 and 600 taxicabs
has been acquired by the Interborough
Transit Company and the Metropolitan
and Securities Companies.
Statistics prepared In the secretary's
ofMce of the board of trade Indicate in
Duluth, Minn., that the total shipments
of grain from that port lust year wear
78.413.404 bushels, of which 71,941.360
bushels were consigned to American
porta and 6,472,000 bushels to foreign
ports.
"We must Increase production per
acre by more Intelligent methods or
we must face the relentless certain
day when we shall not produce enough
food to supply, our own necessities, "
said President Brown, of the New York
Central Railroad, In a recent address.
This Is a reiteration of the statement
made by Jam J. mil not lony ag
CHERRY WORK SLOW
IN ARE BURROWING
Explorers in Mine Have Penetrated
Only 400 Feet of Many Miles
Underground.
KICKIK0 MULES TAKE LIEE.
Bodies of Animals Which Hurt Thoss
Trying1 to Escape Found New
Timber Placed Under Roof.
After three days of Incessant labor
only 400 feet of the many miles of sub
terranean passages of the St. Paul
mine In Cherry, III., were open, and It
waa problematical when the 167 bodies,
could be brought to the surface. Ev
ery effort waa being made to clear a
runway from the main shaft to the air
pit. Inspection of the cleared portion
of the second level showed that from
the bottom of the main shaft 350 feet
underground, westward for 250 feet,
the main road Is In good condition.
Some of the heavy timbers near the
shaft are charred, but they are solid
and intact. The main passage to the
east is walled up. Behind this wall is
a smoldering fire. Dack of the fire lie
about 100 dead.
About 250 feet west of the shaft the
bottom level ends In a blind alley, In
which lie the bodies of two mules, cov
ered with disinfectants. These mules
kicked viciously at several miners as
the men ran for their lives through
the smoky passageways after the fire
started. One miner was kicked Into
unconsciousness and could not escape,
while his companion was injured so se
verely that he is still under the care
of a surgeon.
Near the end of tho main road a tor
tuous runway branches off to the
south, ending In the air shaft The
top timbers In this passage are bro
ken, letting shale rock through. Some
of the fractured scantllng3 appear half
rotted. Ther was no fire In this tun
nel. As fast as men clear the runway new
timbers are placed under the crum
bling roof, making the ceiling so low
that a man cannot stand erect. Rocka
as large as a steamer trunk were piled
as high as the roof. So narrow waa
tho tunnel and so dangerous was the
work that only two worked at a time.
WIRELESS APPEAL SAVES CREW.
Operator on Sinking Steamer Ken
tucky Off Hatteras Brings Aid,
Thanks to wireless telegraphy and
the International distress signal, "S
O. S.," which has superseded the fa
mous "C. Q. D.," Capt. Moore and his
crew of forty-six men are safe on
board the Mallory line steamer Alamo,
bound for Key West, while their ves
sel, the steamer Kentucky, lies at the
bottom of the sea off Cape Hatteras.
The Kentucky, a wooden vessel of 996
gross tonnage and 203 feet long, was
bound from New York to the Pacific
to carry passengers between Tacoma
and Alaskan ports for the Alaska Pa
cific Steamship Company.
First news of the- Kentucky's dis
tress was received at the wireless sta
tion at Cape Hatteras at 11:30 a. m.
There the operator heard the "S. O.
S" quickly followed by this message:
We are sinking. Our latitude is
82.10, longitude 76.30." Almost simul
taneously the operator heard the
steamship Alamo respond to the Ken
tucky's call for help. Informing Capt.
Moore that the Alamo was making all
speed to the sinking vessel's assistance.
The Navy Department at Washing
ton In the meantime flashed wireless
messages along the Atlantic coast, dis
patching the battleship Louisiana and
two revenue cutters to the scene, but
later word came from the Alamo that
It had arrived first and had taken off
all hand3 In safety. This Is the mes
sage as received In New York from
the Cape Hatteras station: "Latitude
82.46, longitude 76.28. Steamship Ala
mo has Just taken Capt. Moore and
crew of forty-six men from sinking
steamship Kentucky. Water already
had reached flreroom and steamer will
ink before midnight. The Alamo Is
now proceeding to Key West."
ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN.
Three Men Commit Bold Bobbery on
the Missouri Pacific.
Three unidentified men held up and.
robbed the passengers on an east
bound Missouri Pacific passenger train
Dve miles east of Pittsburg, Kan., the
other night. They were unmasked.
About $400 and a small amount of Jew
elry was taken from the passengers.
The robbers boarded the train ca
the outskirts of Pittsburg. They took
teats in the chair car and rode quietly
along until tbe train Was near Cornell.
Kan. There they leaped from their
seats, backed Conductor Garrlty Into
I corner and drawing revolvers warn
ed him not to call for assistance. One
f the robbers then covered the pas
sengers with two large revolvers. "You
will now prepare to give up your val
uables," he said. "My partner hero
will pass among you. Please je quiet."
The "partner" thereupon produced a
gunny sack and started on his collect
ing tour. From each passenger .'13
took everything of value. Money,
watches, diamonds and rings all wen;
'nto the sack.
TAFT ORDERS TARIFF QUIZ.
Prealdeut I'reparea to Make Btady
of the Eattre Matter.
An exhaustive study of the whole
subject of tbe tariff la planned by Pres
ident Taft. He has directed the tariff
board authorities under the recent tar
iff act to prepare for such an Inquiry.
In order to defray tne expenses of tbe
work, the President will ask an appro
priation of 175,000 from Congress. Such
an Investigation of the subject as wa
recently made by the German govern
ment Is ought by tbe President