300 PERISH IN
SHIP EXPLOSION
Frightful Catastrophe Reported
on Brazilian Turret Ship
Aquidaban.
VT PORT JACREPAGUA
But One Officer Said to Have Beef
Saved—Details of the Awful Ac
cident Have Not Yet Been
Received.
Rio Janeiro. Brazil, Jan. 24.—The
Brazilian turret ship Aquidaban has
been sunk at Port J acrepagua, South
Rio Janeiro, as the result of an ex
plosion on board.
The report is that 300 of the crew
perished and only one officer was
saved.
MADE MONKEY OF MANN
Counsel Osborne Introduces Letters in
Town Topics Trial Which
Controvert Evidence.
New York, Jan. 24.—“I expect to show,
that some persons were treated very
badly In the columns of Town Topics
for some time, and that then suddenly
there was a change, and then pleasant
references to them were made In the
paper. I will also show that the con
sideration for this change of attitude:
was money, and I will introduce a
document written by Colonel W. D.,
•Mann showing that a financial consid
eration was given to him.”
This remark made by James Osborne
In his defense of Norman Hapgood, edi
torial writer for Collier’s Weekly, who
is on trial for criminal libel, charged by
Judge Joseph M. Deuel, a shareholder
in the Town Topics company, was the
keynote of the defense.
Mr. Osborne went far to prove his as
sertion, for he introduced flies of Town
Topics in support of his assertion that
wealthy men who declined to subscribe,
to "Fads and Fancies” w'ere subject to]
unpleasant publications.
While being cross-examined by Mr.
Osborne, Colonel • Mann declared he
never had instructed Wayne, editor of
Town Topics, to praise any one, or to
say nothing unpleasant about any par
ticular person, although he may have,
told him he had a particular reason to
be pleasant with a particular person,
as far as the columns of his paper
were concerned.
"Did you ever tell Wayne to let up
on any person?”
“Not in that language.”
“Or to assist any one in his or her so
cial ambitions?”
‘‘‘Never.”
Then Mr. Osborne handed to the wit
ness two letters, which he identified as
having been written by him. One was,
written a few days before he left for
Europe. It was just a scribbled few
lines, but, in view of the colonel’s
statement, a laugh was caused when
Mr. Osborne read:
“T. T. will be very careful of any
thing said about Mrs. Inman, of At
lanta. Nothing unpleasant. Let up on
Henry T. Sloane.”
CRISIS IN ZION CITY.
Overseer Speicher Provokes Jealousy
of Absent Apostle, Who Sends
Cables and Hurries Back.
Chicago, Jan. 24.—John Alexander
Dowie’s immediate return from Port.
Antonio, Jamacia, was reported prob
able at Zion City last night in view of
the arbitrary attitude assumed by
Overseer Speicher, who has become too
liberal in his sermons and talks of ad
vice.
The fear that Speicher is endeavoring
to displace him in the hearts of his
9,000 folowers is said to have engend
ered intense jealousy on the part of
Dr. Dowie, requiring his presence at
home in the community he founded.
In the ecclesiastical department Over
seer Speicher has become so bold that
Dowie has sent two cipher cablegrams
rebuking the overseer telling him not
to become so conspicuous and deposing
him from absolute power. There was
an intimation of jealousy in the cable
messages.
The new regime has made a com
plete change of government in Zion
City. Zion City, as a whole, will no
longer be responsible for the debts of
the various departments. All the com
mercial and industrial Interests will in
the future be operated as private insti
tutions and enterprises.
Affairs in Zion City are in a tangle.
Debts aggregating $40,000 are being
pressed by the creditors. The manage
ment has had a difficult time In even
paying the Interest on these debts.
The city has been thrown open to
any manufacturers and business men
who cared to enter and establish enter
prises.
Meanwhile suspense and anxiety is
felt by the people. Two factions have
developed. One coincides with the new
management, the other resents the
change in conditions, and remains
faithful to Dowie.
Dowie has gone into temporary re
tirement. He is praying for advice.
NINE HURT^IN WRECK.
One Woman Fatally Injured WhenTwp
Trains Collide on Suourban Line
in Chicago.
Chicago. Jan. 24.—Nine people were
Injured, one unidentified woman fatally,
when two suburban trains on the Chi
cago and Western Indiana railroad col
lided this morning. Steam blown from
a switch engine covered the track in
such a manner as to prevent the engi
neer of one train discovering the train
ahead until the engine was too close to
prevent the accident.
UP TO LEGISLATURES.
Insurance Commissioners Agree on
Need for Reform.
New York, Jan. 23.—A general decision
that insurance reforms should be inaugur
ated immediately by state legislatures
throughout the country was arrived at by
the insurance commissioners of several
states who conferred with the New York
legislative committee which investigated
life insurance. Conferences between this
committee, and the state commisiscners
have covered a period of two days.
RICE SEEKS NOMINATION.
Canton, S. D.. Jan. 22.—The friends
of Hon. George Rice of Flandreau are
urging him to stand as a candidate
for the nomination for railroad com
missioner. ” ** '
CHICAGO SUMMER ENDED
3!eet Visitation Ties Up Wire am
Rail Communication—No News
from the East.
Chicago. Jan. 24.—Chicago is cut oft
from news of the world today by a
sleet storm which prostrated wires iii
every direction.
Business is curtailed greatly by
stalling street car lines all over the
city. Hundreds of thousands of peo
ple are seriously affected by the tie-up
on the traction service.
A single wire to Milwaukee is the
only one working out of Chicago this
forenoon.
This afternon but few telegraph
wires out of the city in any direction
are working and there is no commu
nication whatever with the east. In
side the city, telephone communica
tion is badly crippled and all means
of transportation are badly demoral
ized. On some railroads east hundreds
of miles of wires in the aggregate art
down and trains from the cast are
from two to five hours late.
This condition is in striking con
trast to the weather of Saturday and
Sunday, when temperatures through
out the Mississippi valley were high
est in many years.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Illi
nois, Michigan, Missouri and Kansas
reported the temperature the highest
known in January for more than a
quarter of a century. In Pittsburg
the temperature was the highest ever
recorded in January. One of .the hot
test places in the country Saturday
was Louisville. Ky„ where the ther
mometer touched the 73 degree mark
and established a record not equaled
in January for thirty-three years.
Western Points Cold.
Kansas City, Jan. 24.—At Kansas City
and Oklahoma City the mercury is
twelve degrees above zero. It is pre
dicted that a general snow storm will
Visit Arkansas.
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 24.—Wind from
the north at twenty miles an hour pre
vailed today with a temperature nine
above zero. There is no snow with the
etorm.
St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 24.—A blizzanj
is raging here today and tne mercury
dropped fifty degrees in forty-eight
hours
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 24.—A hard wind
but no snow prevails here. The tem
perature is one above zero and ice cut
ing began in parts of the state today.
HIS LAST TIP.
Noted Broker, Samuel Mills, One Time,
Partner of Jay Gould, Expires Af
ter Misfortune Had Come.
New York, Jan. 23.—“I think that St.
Paul will go higher.”
"Union Pacific should be a good buy In
this bull movement.”
Thus delivering himself of a market
opinion to a little coterie of brokers and;
traders who daily congregate in New|
street, where the “put and call” men hold'
sway, an old man, bent and grizzled, tot
trod up the Exchange incline to Broadway
and Policeman McLaughlin assisted him
aboard a passing car.
“Happy New Year, officer,” said the
bent old man.
"Same to you, Mr. Mills,” replied the po
liceman, cheerfully.
1 That night “Sam” Mills, who in his day
controlled millions and was the partner,
broker and friend of Jay Gould, passed
Into slumber and never awoke to know
whether his favorite stocks had gone up
Dr down.
Samuel Miller Mills “died in the har
ness,” nervously fingering the tape from
gay to day and dreaming that old dream
that he would live to make another for
tune. In his forty years in Wall street
he had naturally acquired the ticker habit.
His daily routine was to come down to the
“street” at 10 o'clock in the morning and
remain until 3, spending the greater part
of the time about the ticker in the smok
ing room of the stock exchange, but for
bidden by the decree of fate from cross
ing the threshhold of that institution of
which at one time he was the most con
spicuous member. His failure for millions
caused his exclusion.
“Sam” Mills, as he was affectionately
called by his intimates in Wall street, was
the leader of leaders on 'Change in his
day. As the broker of Jay Gould he
handled from 10,000 to 100,000 shares of
stock on the floor of the Exchange, In a
aingle day. and it was said of him that he
seldom tabulated his transactions, but car
ried the figures in his head until the close
of the day’s business, when he made up
his accounts from memory.
CITY SURRENDERS.
Brief Telegram to State Departmen
Announces that Guayaquil Has
Given Up the Fight.
Washington, Jan. 24.—The state de
partment has received a brief cable
gram from Guayaquil, Ecuador, an
nouncing the surrender of Guayaquil,
and saying the situation i3 quiet. Nc
further details are given.
An earlier dispatch from Guayaquil
says:
Gen. Alfaro occupied Quito, the cap
ital, at 3 p. m. Thursday. A junta
of notable persons met in the govern
ment palace here today and formed p,
new government. Former Gov. Bazue
rizu Moreno assumed the executive
power, establishing the capital here and
I appointing a new ministry.
! Rioting followed. The people during
the afternoon attacked the prisons, lib
erated the political prisoners and after
ward captured the police barracks,
where the rioters obtained possession
of a number of rifles and some cannon.
Rifle shots later were heard in all parts
; of the city, and the rioters became so
bold that they attacked a battalion of
artillery. Many persons were killed or
wounded on both sides during the fight
ing.
The new ministry, however, only
lasted one hour. The people rejected
the administration of Bazuerizo More
no and proclaimed as president Gen.
Eloy Alfaro, the former president o£
Ecuador and leader of the revolution;
and in his absence Dr. Emilio Aravallo
assumed the civil and military author
ity.
‘ RED SUNDAY?’
Patriotic Parades in "Bomb Formation"
the Only Signs of Celebration
of the Anniversary.
St. Petersburg, aJn. 23, 10:50 a. m.—Fre
quent patriotic parades in all streets this
morning marching at wide Intervals in
bomb formation.
This is almost the only indication that
today >s the anniversary of “red Sunday.”
Stores arc all open and the ordinary lifu
of the city is proceeding as usual.
Up to 11 o'clock no trouble was reported.
The streets are crowded with people en
gaged in ordinary occupations but many
wore bands of crepe on their arms as a
s-ilent sign of sympathy with the revolu
ionary cause.
! CLOUDBURST IN THE SOUTH.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 23.—Parts o,
Huntsville, Ala., were flooded yester
day by a cloudburst. Many houses wert)
Inundated, bridges washed away and
street railway traffic stopped. No load
of life is reported.
MANY ARE KILLED
DURING FIRE PANIC
Eighteen Negroes in Fear of
Blaze Meet Death In a
Philadelphia Fire.
I -
A STAMPEDE ENSUES
Several of the Victims Were Literally
Trampled to Death Beneath the
Feet of Hundreds of People
All Seeking the Exits.
__
Philadelphia. Jan. 23.—A wild panic
following a loud shriek of ‘ Are”
brought death to eighteen colored per
sons and injuries to nearly two score
of others hist night In St. Paul’s Bap
tist church on the west side of Eighth
street, between Poplar street and Gir
ard avenue. The terrible rush to gain
the street was of short duration, and
that more were not killed in the stam
pede was probably due to the fact that
the church was not crowded.
At tiie time the disaster occurred not
more than 300 persons were jon the sec
ond floor of the building, which with
the gallery was capable of aceomnio
j dating «00 to 700. The lire was a trifling
one and was extinguished before the
I llremen arrived. The smell of smoke
added to the panic and despite the
heroic work of the Rev. E. W. Johnson,
the pastor of the church, who tried In
| vain to allay the fears of the frlght
! Dned worshippers, the terror stricken
people made a desperate rush to leave
the church only to be choked up on
the narrow stairway.
1 Those in the rear leaped over the
1 prostrate forms of those who fell,
and when the rush was over eighteen
lay dead on the first floor and stairs
of the building.
Death in nearly every case was duo
to suffocation or trampling.
Following is a list of the Identified
dead:
SARAH RUFING.
MRS. LAWRENCE.
MRS. PATTON.
RUTH FRAMER.
JOHN BERRY.
ANNA ALEXANDER, aged 40.
MAMIE M'KINNEY.
SUSIE HOLMES.
MRS. MARY WEDLOCK.
CHARLES GARDINER, aged 14
years.
MAMIE M’CALL.
ABOZ SLAUGHTER, 3 years old,
CATHERINE SEWELL.
RUTH TRAINER.
The disaster occurred while a col
lection was being taken up. The
pastor had just concluded his sermon,
the text of which was, “Why sit we
here until we die?”
Following the collection there was to
nave been a baptism of a man and wife.
Some of the colored people, owing to
Ihe lateness of the hour, had left the
:hurch and others were about to go.
As the pastor was arranging the
pulpit preparatory to beginning the
paptism service a woman in one of the
front rows of the left side of the altar
gave a loud shriek of "Fire!” Instant
ly all those about her were on their feet
looking for the blaze. There were no
flames in sight, but there was a smell
of smoke, and the whole congregation
became panic stricken.
The pastor by this time realized the
seriousness of the situation and in a
loud voice, which only added to the
confusion, called to the terror stricken
people to be seated. No one listened,
and despite his frantic appeals a rush
started that meant death to many that
were in It.
At the rear of the church on the
second floor there is a wide doorway
which leads to a stairway to each side
of the building. Each stairway has a
sharp bend, which proved to be the
principal contributory cause for the
Jam. The front door on the first floor
Is wide and easy of exit.
When the rush started those In the
rear of the church did not fully real
ize what was wrong and were slow to
move. The frantic shrieking of the
women and children became louder and
more general, and many were knocked
down In the two aisles of the church.
Then came the terrible rush down
the stairways. For some unknown rea
son everybody tried to get down the
left side of the building, comparatively
few attempting to leave by the right
stairway. One eye witness says that
perhaps a dozen persons got safely
down the stairs when several people
tripped and fell and caused the nar
row way to become jammed. Several
men on the first floor attempted to hold
the people back, but were knocked
down, and then the human stream came
tumbling down. The weaker ones fell,
only to be trampled upon and crushed
by those coming from behind.
The horrible shrieks sent up by the
prostrate persons added to the con
fusion, and by this time even the cooler
ones in the rear of the fighting mass
of men, women and children became
terror stricken. Strong men In fear
that the building was falling leaped
over the heads of women and children
and fought for their own safety.
A SHOCKING ACCIDENT
Girl’s Foot Catches in Buggy Wheel
and Leg Is Twisted
Off.
Mitchell, S. r., Jan. 23.—A most un
fortunate and distressing accident oc
curred to Miss Etta Emith, daughter of
Mrs. Lew Merriman, who lives nine
miles north of town. Miss Smith had
Oeen to Loomis and started home, but
ifter crossing the railroad tracks she
?ot out of the buggy to unfasten a tug
:hat had become unloosened. The horse
darted up and she endeavored to climb
in the buggy, but her foot was caught
between the spokes of the front wheel.
Her leg was twisted and the bones were
broken square off and hung by the
flesh. The young girl fell backward
in the movement of the buggy, her
head falling between, the hind wheel
and the box. Her hair became en
twined around the axle of the wheel
and for a mile she was dragged in this
condition. Two men, E. Cooper and E.
Darmer, who were driving a short dis
tance back, saw the accident and whip
ped up their horses to overtake her and
by tilling around the horse succeeded
in stopping the animal. They extri
cated the girl from her position by cut
ting the hair from her head, so tightly
was it wound around the wheel. Khe
was bruised terribly and unconscious.
SUMXER liTcHICAGO
Warmest Winter Day Save One Since
Weather Bureau Was Established
There.
Chicagc, Jan. 20.—This was, with one ex
eeptfon, the warmest winter day experi
enced in this city since the establishment
of the weather bureau, the temperature
reaching fi?.
AN ASSURED SUCCESS.
Hen. Theodore P. Shonts Talks iit
Taft's Home About Panama
Canal Project.
Cincinnati, O.. Jan. 24.—Hon. Theo
dore P. Shonts, chairman of the isth
mian canal commission, addressed tho
Commercial club of this city Saturday
night on canal affairs. He declared
it was a great pleasure to speak in
Secretary Taft's home and praised the
secretary. He regretted the kind of j
canal to be built had not yet been re- I
ported upon but said it would be soon
and that affairs were in such shape
that work upon the pfoject would be
gin at once and that it would be com
pleted in the shortest possible time in
(order that Its utilization might ben
efit the people of the country at tho
earliest possible time.
The speaker paid his respects to
Poultney Bigelow, who has recently
criticised the canal preparations and
project, and who has refused to an
swer questions propounded by an in
vestigating committe as to where he
got ids information. Mr. Shonts re
ferred to Bigelow and other critics as
"scandal mongers."
Among other things, Mr. Shonl3
said:
Praises Secretary Taft.
Mr. President and gentlemen of the Com
menial club:
It is a pleasure to speak of the Panama
conal In the home of Secretary Taft, and
to an assemblage of his neighbors and
friends. He Is a son of Cincinnati and of
Ohio in whom the whole country takes
pride, for his services on the bench, In the
Philippines, and In the government at
Washington have brought honor, not only
to his native city and state, but to the
■ American name before the world. I con
I sider it a high privilege to be associated
! with him under the direction of President
I Boose volt in the conduct of t lie most
stupendous enterprise to which this nation
lias ever put its hand, lie brings to this
task the broad intellectual grasp, the
calm, clear judgment, the complete i>a
trlotlc devotion, and the Inflexible, uncom
promising, and outspoken, honesty that aro
the distinguishing traits of his public ca
reer. The value to the country of the ser
vices of such a man in its government can
not be overestimated. When the canal
shall have been completed—as completed
It surely will be—no small share of the
credit for the great achievement will bo
due to his wise counsel inspiring co-oper
ation, and unflagging faith In the ability
of the American people to solve any pro
blem with which they are confronted.
I am here tonight to talk, as I have said,
not of an experiment, but of an assured
success. We are not merely going to
build the Panama canal—we are building
it. Preparation is a part, and a most im
portant part1, of the work of construction.
When that shall have been fully and thor
oughly accomplished, a great step forward
will have been taken. You cun not erect
a house until you have laid the foundation.
We are approaching the end of the pre
liminary work. We have made the
isthmus a healthful place in which
to work. We are getting the line
of the canal into a condition which
will enable us to operate an exca
vating plant to the best advantage,
and we are assembling the plant with
which the work is to be done.
Buying in United States.
This vast quantity of supplies has^ beet,
purchased almost exclusively in the United
States. In accordance with our policy of
buying in the cheapest markets, we have
bought chiefly in the United States because
its markets, in the main, are the cheapest
in the world for products that we need in
this work.
1 wish to repeat and to emphasize the
opinion I have expressed on former occa
sions in regard to the application of the
eaght-hour law. The present wage varies
from 80 cents to $1.04 per day in gold. As
compared with the best common labor in
the United States, its efficiency is rated at
from 25 to 33 per cent. Over 80 per cent, of
the employes of the canal are now and will
continue to be alien laborers. A majority
of the other 20 per cent, employed will be
in a clerical, a supervisory, or in some
other capacity to w'hlch the various labor
laws of the United States are not appli
cable. It Is to this kind of labor we are
compelled to apply the eight-hour law'—
that is, to aliens who know’ nothing of the
law’s existence until they arrive on the
isthmus.
It Is obvious that by forcing the eight*
hour day upon us, milions of dollars will
be added to the cost of construction.
American labor in this country will have
to pay its share in the consequent increase
of taxation and for no appreciable benefit,
for, as I have shown you, there are only a
very few American laborers on the isth
mus. There Is no question of American
labor involved In isthmus work, and I re
peat what the commission has urged In its
annual report, that It is a mistake to
handicap the construction of the Panama
canal with any laws save those of police
and sanitation, and that labor on the
isthmus should be excluded from the appli
cation of the eight-hour law, the contract
labor law, the Chinese exclusion act, and
any other law passed or to be passed by
congress for the benefit of American labor
at home.
Great Business Enterprise.
Gentlemen, we aro treating this task
as a great business enterprise and are
seeking to accomplish it by the applica
tion of strict business methods, paying no
heed to politics or political “pulls.” Our
sole aim and purpose is to give the Ameri
can people the full worth of every dollar
they put Into the work, and to hand over
the work completed to them at the earliest
possible day. Fn lontr we continue in
control of the job it will be managed on
these principles and on these alone. When
it becomes apparent that wfe will not be
permitted to build the canal In that way
we will step aside and let somebody else
take it in hand.
Invite Investigation.
Speaking for the members of the com
mission as well as for myself, I wish to
say with all possible emphasis that we
not only invite investigation of our acts,
but ask for it as a rignt. If we are doing
our work honestly and efficiently, our
hands should be upheld; If it is shown that
we are doing it Inefficiently, we should be
removed: »r»d *f we are doing In dl^hon
e tl", we h uld he x-'-prd. e n leted, <nd
sent to prison. Neither knaves nor Incom
petents should be permuted to have
charge of a task of such magnitude. Hut
while we court the fullest investigation,
we earnestly ask that It be absolutely non
partisan. that it be made by person of
character and standing, either in public
or private life, whose recognized lYitelli
gence and fair-mindedness are such as to
command public confidence, and that it be
made upon the ground.
We ask further that the investigation be
made promptly and «Tided as soon as it
can be and have its work done thoroughly.
This Is absolutely necessary If we are to
maintain any degree of efficiency In rh«
organization. The feeling of uncertainty
and unrest which constant agitation .about
the commission and its work creates Is
destructive of that interest in the work
which is essential if the best results arc to
be secured. It is impossible to regain g od
men in the service under such corn! t ons.
Gentlemen. J believe in i he canal; be
lieve that it can be built In a reasonabV
j time iid believe that when, through
! American generosity and under Ameri
I can control, it shall be thrown open to the
| commerce of the world it will be hailed,
and will prove to be, a priceless boon to
all mankind
With the canal cm there will be no At
lantic and no Tacilic licet, either in die
navy or in the merchant marine, but an
American fleet. As an object lesson in the
! need of an Is hmian waterway, tin- trip
of the Oregon in the spring of 1SUS from
Ran Francisco to 111'• coast of Florida \v;*s
tin- irio.-t c. nvoicing argument ever ad
duced. With her powerful machinery
working to i*s utmost limit and every
thing in her favor, including a commander
of first rank, days were consumed n
the voyage. With the canal open she could
have made the trip in ten or twelve days
and without need of special haste, in
stead of two navies, we shall have a
double navy ready f< r all emergencies.
The abi’.’ty to assemble our warships
quickly will act as a powerful Influence in
the direction of peace, for it will operate
constantly as a preventive of war. The
high position as a world rower to which
this natfen, under the guidance of McKin
ley and f oosevelt and Hay, has advanced
during the past few years will thus be
strengthened and enlarged, and American
Influence upon the civilization of the world
and upon the welfare of the human race
will be Immeasurably extended.
VIOLA ALLEN IS
DURYEA’S WIFE
Announcement Just Made of
Ac tress’ Marriage to Noted
Horseman.
OCCURRED AUGUST 16
This News Enhances the Sensation
Caused by Miss Sarah Maddern's
$50,000 Breach of Promise
Action Recently Begun.
New York. Jan. 23.—That Viola Allen
the actress, has been the wife of Peter
Duryea, a well known horse owner,
sinco last August became known here
yesterday. Mr. Duryea and Miss Allen
were married August 16 last at Louis
ville, Ivy.
Friends who made the announcement
of the marriage -said that it had been
kept a secret up to this time because
of Miss Allen’s professional engage
ments for this season.
With the news that the suit of Miss
Sarah Maddern to recover $50,000 from
Peter Duryea, for breach of promise
of marriage, has been placed upon the |
calendar of trial term, part 7, of the su- j
preme court, to be tried in the near fu
ture, it was learned that several men
and women prominent in society will
likely be called as witnesses.
Among those mentioned as probable '
givers of testimony on the witness
stand are Mrs. Philip Lydlg and W. E.
D. Stokes. At all events it is assured
that if the suit comes to a trial a sen- j
satton will be brought about in the so- I
cial circles of this‘city such as has
not been heard of for a long time. I
Subpoenaes are now being prepared
for witnesses on both sides, and it is
said that many surprises will bo forth
coming when the names of the same .
are made known.
Doth plaintiff and defendant are well
known in society. Mr. Duryea Is a
breeder of trotting horses and a part- i
ner of W. E. D. Stokes in the Patchen- I
Wilkes stock farm at Lexington, Ky.
He lives at the Ansonia apartment
house. I
Miss Maddern's complaint was filed
two years ago. She alleges in it that
the engagement between her and the
defendant occurred in May, 1896. Since
then, she says, she has refused many
advantageous offers of marriage and
has also suffered great anguish of mind
because of Mr. Duryea’s alleged refusal
to marry her. Nathaniel Cohen, of the
law firm of Howe & Hummel, is Mr.
Duryea’s counsel, and Louis A. Cuviller
Is Miss Maddern’s lawyer.
WANT WAGES INCREASED
United Mine Workers Will Likely Ask
for 12'/2 Per Cent. More—Exclude
Boy Laborers.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 23.—The sub
committee of the scale committee of
the miners has agreed to report to the
general committee the following de
mands:
Admission of the southwestern states
to the central competitive field, 12% per
cent, increase In wages, and the pro
hibition of employment of boys less
than 16 years of age.
Indtcatolns today were that the
United Mine Workers' scale committee,
which now is drafting the demands to
be made on the bituminous coal oper
ators of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and
western Pennsylvania, would report a
draft to the convention Monday.
The convention today declared
against the open door policy of this
government for the immigration of
Japanese and Korean laborers. It also
declared in favor of a plan to have con
victs build good roads across the con
tinent.
A resolution presented by Douthwalte
of Colorado provided that President
John Mitchell get a two months’ vaca
tion on pay and with expenses, in which
to regain his health, was declared out
of order by Mitchell, who dealt its
death blow with the gavel. He was ap
plauded.
choateT porterT rose
Three Eminent Americans Selected to
Represent United States at The
Hague Conference.
Washington, Jan. 23.—Secretary Root
today announced the American repre
sentatives to the approaching confer
ence to be held at The Hague will be
Joseph H. Choate. Horace Porter and
Judge Rose of Little Rock, Ark., ex
president of the American Bar associa
tion.
MORE ARE SACRIFICED
Sir William Hart-Dyke Among the
Liberals Defeated—Marlborough
Influence Proves Unavailing.
London, Jan. 23.—The monotonous
electoral slaughter of unionists pro
ceeds unabated. The totals to date
are:
Liberals, 249: unionists, 111; Irish
nationalists, 78: laborltes, 37.
Out of forty-one returns this morn
ing the liberals take twenty-one seats,
of which twelve were captured from
unionists, including Woodstock, where
tli" Marlborough Influence did not suf
fice to stem the anti-conservative flood.
Among the unionists who lost their
cals Is Sir William Hart-Dyke, con
servative, who was president of the
council from 1887 to 1892.
A COURT SENSATION
Judge Johnson, of Denver, Fines Dis
trict Attorney Stidger for Con
tempt, Sending Him to Jail.
Denver, Jan. 23.—Judge* Frank T
Johnson, in the district court here to
«.ay, fined District Attorney George G
I lidger $i>00 tor contempt and com
mitted hiit to jail until the fine is paid
The trouble arose over several gam
Tiers’ cases which were begun by Judge
Johnson end were taken from his court
t»v Stidger and* removed to the criminal
division.
Stidger protested vehemently ard
charge-! the court with unfairness.
JAMES CASE ENDED
Out GrirmcH * las Not Yet
Been Judged.
Annupoii- -The naval
< ourtmartial conUuucu cue trial of the
cuoc against Midshipman Charles S.
James of Grinncll, Iu„ this morning,
G orgo Mann, his counsel, having ad
dr ssed the court. Late the court took
up tli" case of Claude R Mayo, of
Columbus, Mich., against whom hazing
ts alleged In live different instances.
JUDGING CONSPIRATORS
To Setter Facilitate This the Capital of
Colombia Is Declared in State
of Siege.
New York, Jan. 23.—Louis E. Bonilla,
ronsul general for Colombia, today
made public the following cable re
ceived by him from President Reyes,
dated Bogota, January 18:
"The capital is declared In a state of
siege in order to judge conspirators
with perfect calmness. The siege will
be raised within a few days. Absolute
tranquility prevails throughout the
country.”
The conspirators alluded to are Felipe
Angelo and three others arrested last
December for trying to overthrow the
government of President Reyes. Theii
arrest was followed by considerable
agitation in the capital and throughout
the country.
WEATHER IS TOO MILD
Activity in Building Materials Is, on
the Other Hand, Unprece
dented.
New York, Jan. 23.—Bradstreet's
says today: Mild weather continues
a source of complaint by affecting re
tail trade collections and some reorder
business from wholesalers, but com
pensations are found in continued ac
tivity In t utfloor work, practically un
checked building operations, better
than ordinary midwinter transporta
tion conditions and uninterrupted
progress In all manufacturing lines;
particularly Iron and steel. Spring
trade prospects continue as favorable*
as heretofore, and there is consider-'
able looking around; shipments on
earlier orders are heavy, and the feel
ing favors an earlier than ordinary
opening of wholesale operations in dry
goods, millinery, shoes and kindred
lines.
Building materials were apparently
never so active before at this stage ofi
the season. Large purchases of pig
Iron slightly below the market by
leading Interests insure consumption,
of all supplies for the first quarter and
most of the second quarter, while de-i
mand for rails, structural materials
plates and other finished products as-'
sure work for the mills for six months'
to come. .
MoHt staple products display notable
strength for a midwinter season, cotton'
being especially strong, but adequate
supplies favor ease In coal and coke^
Increasing production and resales on
earlier purchases of copper make for,
weakness In that metal, with declines
noted also in lead, and mild weather
tends to declines tn eggs, potatoes and:
some other lines of country produce. x
Bank clearings again break all rec
ords for the week. Money Is easier at,
nearly all markets. Summed up, there
is undiminlshed confidence in an im
mense if not indeed record business for
six months at least, but there is a per
ceptible Increase In the stress laid up
on the need of conservatism In specula
tion.
Wheat, Including flour, exports for
the week ending January 18 are 3,
148,862 bushels, against 4,768,772 bush
els lust week. 1,138.974 bushels this
week last year, $3,538,192 bushels In
1904 and 3,353.757 buihels In 1903.
From July 1 to date the exports are
77,237.654 bushels. 95.829.516 bushels In
1904 and 142.571,557 bushels in 1903.
Corn exports for the week are 5.
544,574 bushels, against 6.342.569 bush
es last week, 3,186.529 bushels a year
ago. 1,150,202 bushels in 1904 and 2.
376,683 bushels In 1903. From July 1
to date the exports of com are 54,505.
325 bushels, against 24.805.429 bushels
In 1905. 31.001.006 bushels In 1904 and
18,290,813 bushels in 1903.
ARMENIAN ATROCITIES
3revent Aid Reaching Famine Stricken
Mohammedans and Kill Ruthlessly
Right and Left.
Kllzabethpol, Trans-Caucasia, Jan. 23.
—A courier arrived here today from
\gdam with dispatches describing re
peated attempts made by the authorl
iles to get a convoy of provisions to the !
starving and beleaguered Mohamme
dans of Shusha.
The convoy set out three times with
l strong escort of troops, Mohammedan
volunteers, but was intercepted by Ar
menians holding the mountain passes.
The whole district around Agdam is
harjied by Armenians and others who
ure perpetrating horrible atrocities, not
giving tiny quarter to wounded or wom
en and children.
Mohammedans are greatly enraged;
at the attack made on the celebratedl
shrine, Karapirim. After a savage con
flict the Armenian attackers broke and
fled, leaving fifty dead or wounded.
BOMBARD BELGIAN FLAG
It Is Announced a Moroccan Gunboat
Is Preparing to Further Compli
cate Algeciras Conference.
Malaga, Spain, Jan. 23.—A report is
current at Mellila, a Spanish settlement
on the north coast of Morocco, that the
Moroccan gunboat Sidetturki is pre
paring to bombard the Maripaca fac
tory, where the Belgian flag is floatings |
PAGE B Y E/!F£ CLD.
Baby Son of an Ohio Legislator Draws
$2.50 a Day.
Columbus, O., Jan. 23.—State Shop
inspector J. H. Morgan has sent orders
to Speaker Thompson, of the house
md Lieutenant Governor Harris, pres
ident of the senate, to discharge all'
page boys under fourteen years of age.
He says the legislature is a flagrant
violator of its own laws in this re-,
gard.
There are a dozen boys so employed
in the two houses, but the most flag-1
rant case is that of Ivan Harper, baby
son of Ur. E. B. Harper, one of the
members of the house, who toddles
about the chamber occasionally doing
an errand for u member, for which he
Is paid $2.50 a day, including Sundays.
The boy is only five years old.
MYSTERIOUS MURDER I
□ anker-Farmer R. K. Lewis Victim of
Unknown Slayer.
Warren. <> ■ Jan. 22.—The people of West*5
Farmington, a village near Here, were
greatly excited today as the result of the
mysterious murder last night of R. K.
Lewis, a wealthy banker-farmer.
An unknown man came to the home of
Lewis ill a carriage. Lewis and the man
, were in conference for an hour. At the
; lid of that time the hired man in an
ither part of tin house smelled smoke, .
rushed into the room and found Lewis'
lying dead with his head crushed, his
hands and feet tightly bound. The body1
was covered with burning straw which
had been saturated with coal oil. The un-t
known stranger is missing.
A DELEGATE FOR ALASKA.
Washington. D. C„ Jan. 20.—The sen
ate committee on territories yesterday'
ordered a favorable report on Senator
Melson’s bill providing for a delegate
in congress from Alaska.
