FOUR MEN COOKED ALIVE IN EXPLOSION OF CRUISER’S BOILER 'Terrible Accident on Tennessee Off the Coast of California. -4 ACCIDENT WILL 4 -4 BE PROBED 4 -4 4 -4 Washington, June 9. — The ♦ -4 cause of the accident on the 4 -4 armored cruiser Tennessee, In 4 -4 which four men were killed and 4 ■4 a number injured, caused by a 4 -4 bursting steam pipe, while the 4 -4 vessel was off the California 4 4 coast, will be thoroughly exam- 4 4 ined into by a board of lnvestl- 4 4 gation to be appointed by Ad- 4 -4 mirai Sebree. 4 -4 4 44+++44+»4+444444+4+4+4t4Y San Pedro, Cal., June 9.—A terrible •accident occurred on board the United .States armored cruiser Tennessee while the ship was steaming at the „ rate of nineteen knots on a speed trial ^ .off Point Huenene, Cal. A steam pipe An the starboard engine room burst tinder 235 pounds pressure, killing four itnen and injuring ten others—all of the .men in the compartment at the time. The explosion, the cause of which is unknown, occurred only a few min utes after Admiral Uriel Sebree, Capt. F. B. Howard and Chief Engineer Rob •ertson had left the engine room on a tour of inspection. The dead: GEORGE WOOD. water tender, sScranton, Pa. E. C. BOGGS, second class fireman, ■Woodlawn, Ala. A. REINHODD, machinist's mate, .-second class, Germany. GEORGE W. MEEK, first class fire Wian, Skidmore, Kan. The fatally injured: S. Stemattos, first class fireman, Norfolk, Va. F. S. Maxfleld, second class fireman, 'Toughkenu, Chester county, Penn. The seriously injured: F. J. Burns, coal passer. New York. Walter W. Burns, coal passer, Brook lyn. J. P. A. Carroll, second class flre itnan, Hartford, Conn. Slightly Injured: R. W. Watson, fireman, second class. Fast St. Louis. III. R. F. Ruttlodge, coal passer, Athens, Pa. G. M. Corns, fireman, second class, Yronton, O. A. Hayes, water tender, Brooklyn, .N. Y. H. Fitzpatrick, fireman, first class. iBrookiyn. Scalded by Steam. There were fourteen men in the fire room when the tube, which is four Unches in diameter and enclosed with water inside the boiler, blew out, driv ing a torrent of scalding steam, coal •lust, cinders and hot ashes through the ash pit and showering the half naked men. A blast of white steam from the i "Ventilators told those on deck of the • 'accident and Lieut. Commander S. S. Robinson, the navigator, instantly sounded a general alarm and dropped twenty lines of hose ready for instant 'use in case of tire. Within the doomed Are room No. 3, amldship on the star board side, which is one of the six teen enclosed fire compartments, the surviving seamen were fighting for fife. Reinhold and Meek were strick en dead at their posts. Boggs and Wood crawled or were dragged into 'the adjoining fire room, No. 11, and •died almost immediately. The sur viving seamen, all of whom received ■ some injuries, acted with the greatest heroism in aiding their unfortunate V inmates. At Full Speed. The Tennessee, flagship of the second ■division of the Pacific cruiser fleet, left sSanta Barbara at TO o'clock yesterday smorning with the cruisers Pennsyl vania, Washington, Colorado and West Virginia in her wake, on the semi-an nual official speed trial provided for by naval regulations. Admiral Sebree had ■ordered the cruisers to full speed, and the Tennessee had just concluded a se ries of evolutions and started straight away at a speed of between 18 and 19 knots. The admiral in the engine room had Just taken note that the dial re corded a steam pressure of 235 pounds when the explosion occurred. Less than 13 minutes earlier the tubes had en dured a pressure of 265 pounds, 30 :pounds greater. An official investigation of the acci ■dent has been ordered. There was no other wreckage, hut the ■explosion was described by the surviv ors as frightful. So great was the blast •of shot and steam that every man in The Kom was blackened from head to feet, virile those closest to the break Were literally cooked alive. The Tennessee is one of the new ar Tnored cruisers of 14,500 tons displace ment, 22 knots an hour, and carries a * complement of about 900 men. HEIGHT KILLED IN A STREET CAR COLLISION Annapolis, Md„ June 9.—The injured Tfrom the collision on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric line car here last night, in which eight por obons were killed and a score more seri ously hurt, nre reported to be doing (*» nicely this morning. All are expected To recover. W. E. Slaughter, general manager of the electric line, who Is Thought to be most seriously injured, 1s reported resting easy. He may lose the sight of one of his eyes. Responsibility for the accident has mot been definitely determined, but It •was caused, it Is said, by confusion In -orders as to where the cars should pass. FRENCH PRAISE IOWA GIRL’S VOICE AT DEBUT Paris, June 9.—Miss Flora Wilson, •daughter of James Wilson, United ^States secretary of agriculture, a pu pil of Joan De Reszke, had a success ful debut at a concert in the Gaveau hall. Society and the prominent mem bers of the American colony were present. Miss Wilson possesses a voice •of pleasing quality and she was re peatedly encored. RIVER COMMISSION IS REAPPOINTED Washington, June 9.—Carrying out his dceUrutlon to the conference of governors that should congress fall to provide for the continuance of an in land waterways commission, he should •continue It by executive act, congress having failed to take action on the subject. President Roosevelt today re appointed the members r.f that eom • -mission. PRESIDENT’S PLANS FDR BIG GAME HUNT IN DARKEST AFRICA Roosevelt and Son Kermit Will Start for Year’s Trip in April Next. ►♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« ♦ ROOT, NOT WELL, 4 4- TO TAKE MULDOON'S 4 4- TREATMENT AGAIN. 4 4 4 4 Washington, June 9.—Elihu Root, 4 4 secretary of state, who spent sev- 4 4- eral weeks at William Muldoon’s 4 4” sanitarium near White Plains last 4 4 year, is going back again. Asked 4 4 at the closing of a cabinet meeting 4 4 whether he was going to assumo the 4 4 Job of “holding down the lid" in 4 4 Washington after President Roose- 4 4 velt goes to Oyster Bay about June 4 4 20 for the summer, Secretary Root 4 4 replied in the negative and an- 4 4 nounced his intention of trying 4 4 Muldoon’s treatment again. 4 4 Secretary Root is not ill, but a 4 4 winter of hard work has left him 4 4 somewhat weakened. 4 4 4 +•44444444 4 ♦ ♦4444444444444+ Washington, June 9.—There is some very interesting and Important presi dential politics bound up in the official confirmation by Secretary Loeb that President Roosevelt, next April, accom panied by his son, Kermit, now ready to enter (Harvard university, is to g6 for a hunting trip in Africa and be gone from the United States a year and per haps a year and a half. 'Ihe presidential politics of this hunt ing story is made further significant by the statement, also made by Secretary Loeb, that on his return to this country the president will devote six months or ft year, or such time as may be neces sary, to writing a book describing his African hunt. The hunt and writing Ihe account of it will thus run two t^ears of more into the next presidential fiuadrennium, and is a sufficient reply |o the oft repeated charge that if Taft js elected president he will be dominat id by Roosevelt. It may be said in passing that one of I lie chief purposes the president has n getting away from the United States text year is to make it certain that no harge can be successfully made that -aft as president is being influenced ,y Mr. Roosevelt's personality. Secretary Loeb said that the presi dent for the past six weeks has been in active correspondence with men in this L-ountry, Germany and England, who have made a specialty of hunting big came in Africa. He wants to get sug gestions as to itinerary, commissary ind general equipment. Half a dozen letters by way of reply already have lieen received. Before he sails from New York, the president: will have all his plans laid out. He will engage men with equipment to meet him at various stages of the trip, all the way from L'airo to points along the upper Nile (ind Lakes Albert and Victoria Nianza, across to Bombaso, a port of entry to British East Africa. It is part of his plan to make a thorough inspection of ihe Cape-to-Cairo railway. Very little of the president's equip ment will be taken from this country. He will have expert guides meet him at Cairo. After this he will be met by other guides with equipment at points along the route to be hereafter agreed upon. No photographers or newspaper men will be with the party. One or two stenographers wli! he in attendance to take down notes while the subject matter to which they relate is fresh in the president's mind. There is just a possibility that one or two dis tinguished hunters from this country or Europe will be in the party, but this is still an open question. It is announced that the president will not, on this trip, make any stops in Europe. He will sail from New York! for the Mediterranean and proceed di rect to Cairo, where he will re-embark for a trip up the Nile. At some con venient point up that river he will take, the Cape-lo-Cairo railway for the in terior, and, leaving that railway at some point to be agreed upon, he will piunge into the heart of the continent,, it being his aim to be away from civil ization perhaps for months at a time, going north and south as the season may dictate. This will be the greatest hunting trip ever taken by the president, and the longest in duration. He is very enthus iastic in talking to his friends about it, and is planning to bring home with him enough tiger skins. There will likewise be numerous ele phant tusks among the trophies. The formal announcement of the hunt, coming ns it does just in advance of the republican national convention at Chicago, may possibly be for the purpose of putting a good crimp into the plans of third-term boomers and reactionaries. BOY SWIMS TWO MILES TO SAVE THREE LIVES Georgetown, De!„ June 9.—Selby NT. Harrington. 14 years old, braved death In a raging sea, swimming two miles through storm tossed Chincoteague bay and saving the lives of two sis ters and a cousin. Young Harrington, Ills sisters, Flor ence, aged 18, and Ruth, 16, and his cousin, Clarice Harrington, went sail ing In a small boat. A gust struck the little craft and overturned It. throwing the occupants Into the sea. They clung to the upturned boat, with the waves washing over them. Their cries for help were In vain be cause of the distance from shore. See ing no alternative, Selby started to swim for help. The lad almost per ished, but finally reached land. Several fisherman got a yawl and with Selby, who Insisted upon return ing, they reached the capsized craft and rescued the young people. EMBEZZLERS GET 10 YEARS IN “PEN.” Pittsburg, June 3.—For the embez zlement of $1,103,000 from the Farm ers' Deposit National bank Henry Rciber and John Young, former paying teller and auditor, were sentenced to day to 10 years each in the peniten tiary. CAT, PRESUMABLY MAD, BITES FIVE PERSONS New York, June 9.—Five persons suffered severe injuries at Brooklyn yesterday when a large gray cat ran wildly through the street, attacking every one it passed, until it was killed with a club. All persons bitten were advised to seek pasteur treatment. Bailey Willis, of the United States geological survey, estimates the total amount of coal in north China at 603, |000,00'“'in9 tons. WOMAN TO PROBE "WHITE SLAVERY" TRAFFIC ABROAD Government Is Determined to Break Up Vicious Trade in Girls. Washington. .Tunc S.—In an effort (o get to the bottom of the traffic ;n vice between Europe and this coun try, the government has decided, for the first time, to send a woman to Europe to Investigate the trade in glrlS tvho are brought here for immoral pur poses. Government officials, while admitting that this arrangement has been made, Jecllno positively to give the name of the woman who is to make this un precedented investigation. It is ex plained that such an announcement in advance would make it practically im possible for her to succeed in the task she is undertaking. Under Protection. That there is a regular organized end profitable traffic in girls between continental countries and American pities, has long been well known. In some of the European cities, indeed, there is reason to believe that the ouslness is carried on under the pro motion of officialism. The United States government has long made especial efforts to keep out women brought in for immoral purposes, but it has been •ncreasingly difficult to do this with | iut imposing unnecessarily hard condi I tions on all women who are presented i it American ports. I A number r-f Investigations of this traffic have been made by men, but | the results have not been entirely sat I sfactory. Consequently tho determina tion to send a wrfman. Her business will be to get into the confidence, if possible, of the people who are con ducting the traffic and to learn as many of its secrets as may be. Largely Dupes. It is known to the government that there is some sort of central intel ligence in tills country which directs this traffic, and which is closely in touch with the European countries. Young women are induced in all kinds vf ways to submit themselves to the approaches of the agencies of the wholesale vice establishments. Some are peasant girls, coming in the ex pectation of employment at high sal aries; others are already adepts in the ways of the half world. But most sf them are dupes in one degree or another of the agents of the vice sys tem; and all are regarded as un desirable immigrants, whom Uncle Sam is determined to excludo if possible. BANK CLEARINGS CONTINUE TO GAIN New York, .Tunc 8—Dun's review to morrow will say: Again the difference j of one day in the weekly statement of bank clearings materially affects re I turns, this time unfavorably. The total I bank exchanges at all leading cities for ' live days, ending Thursday, being $2, | 205,109,000, a decrease of 20.3 per cent | compared with six days in the same | week a year ago, and 18.9 per cent less than the corresponding week in 1906. Eliminating this difference of one day, as is done in the statement of average daily figures, and it appears the bank exchanges averaged each day in June, to the day, $451,085,000, against $455,144, 000 a year ago, a substantial improve ment over the earlier months of this year, when heavy losses were recorded in comparisons with both preceding years. The improvement continues especially marked at New York city and is largely due to greater activity lit the stock market. MONTANA CITIES CUT OFF FROM OUTSIDE WORLD BY FLOODS Salt Lake City, June 8.—Helena and Eutte, Mont., are practically cut olf from the outside world today. Rain still is falling heavily throughout that portion of Montana and railroad traffic is demoralized. Every little trout [ stream and brook in centra! Montana is a raging torrent, while the Big Hole, Clarksford and Missouri rivers are twice and three times their usual width, overflowing lands, threatening bridges and causing serious washouts on railroads in a dozen places. CREW'S COACH PUTS BAN ON ACTRESS AND ICE CREAM Gales Ferry, Conn., June 8.—The Tale crew is threatened with a com bination of actresses and ice cream, and Coach John Kennedy has ordered the oarsmen to keep away from both. Today Miss Dallas Tyler, a member of Frohman’s companies for several years, leased old Captajn Kit Brown’s abandoned store next to the quarters, for an ice cream parlor, and said she would start business tomorrow. She said she expected to pay for her sum mer outing by the pennies she took from oarsmen and their friends who come to crew quarters. Coach Ken nedy has notified the oarsmen that they hardly need to be reminded that neither ice cream nor actresses form part of the routine training of oars men. RAYMOND HITCHCOCK AGAIN FACES CHARGES OF LITTLE ACCUSERS New York. June 8.—Raymond Hltch roi k, the comedian, was called to the criminal branch of the supreme court today to answer charges preferred by three young girls. In a previous trial on a similar charge the case against the actor fell flat. Hitch-cock was committed to the Tombs prison without ball this after noon, when his trial was suddenly ad journed until next Monday. The ad journment came when Hitchcock's counsel conferred privately with Jus tice Goff immediately after the flrsl Juror had been selected. ESPERANTO TAKEN UP BY GOOD TEMPLARS Washington, June 8.—The Introduc tion of Esperanto, “the world language" into the course of study of the Order ' of Good Templars, was decided upon 1 by the delegates at the convention of that organization. This was deemed advisable because of the fact that after each address Is made in English to the convention, Interpreters have to be em ployed to explain to the delegates from foreign countries the purport of wha: was said. HEIR OF $10,000,000 ESTATE WILL MAKE 20,000 MEN HAPPY Plans to Establish Quarters for Relieving Wants of Those Who Need Money. Lcs Angeles, Cal., June 8.—C. W. Averlll, who recently Inherited $10,000, OOO from an aunt In Massachusetts, de clares he Is going to make 20,000 or more people happy. After a visit to his old home, Farm ington, Me., he will establish headquar ters In a big city, perhaps Chicago, where he says all who need help and deserve It, can find It. ‘ I am not golqg to be a fool about this,” he said today, 'but If being a fool is being deceived occasionally, all right. I have succeeded In piling up a few hundred thousand by my own exertion but can never spend an Income of $10,000,000. If a man has $600 and needs as much more to carry out his plans and make him successful and thereby happy I propose to give th# added $500.” unvehTtablet to LINCOLN ON STEAMER New York, June 8.—Under the aus pices of the Grand Army of the Re public an Interesting ceremony took place on board the Hamburg American line steamer President Lincoln at Ho boken this afternoon, when a bronze memorial tablet containing Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, which had been placed in position on the steamer, was unveiled. The speakers Included Gov ernor J. Franklin Fort, of New Jersey; Captain Hehbinghaus and Lieutenant Commander W. B. Sims, of the United States navy; President Nicholas Mur ray Butler, of Columbia university; Mrs. Kate E. Jones, president of the* Women’s Relief corps; Warren Lee .loss, national patriotic Instructor, 3rand Army of the Republic. CHARGED WITH MURDER OF WEALTHY HORSEMAN Kansas City, June 8. — Information ;harglng Clurk Wlx, a livery man, with [he murder of John Mason, a well known horseman of Kansas City, was 31ed here late last night. Mason, who was well to do, disap peared on January 3 last, and nothing was heard of him until last week, when :n a search for the body, the authorities at Camden Point, Mo., exhumed his fiody and It was Identified. The body had originally been found In the Mis souri river at that point and buried un identified. Investigation disclosed that ills skull was fractured in two places, and the authorities are convinced that Mason was murdered. Wlx Is the last person with whom Mason was seen alive. A number of pieces of Jewelry belonging to the dead horseman were found In a pawnshop where Wix had left them. Wix comes of a good family, one well known in this part of Missouri. His uncle is postmaster at Butler, Mo. CHILD SUFFERS FROM BLOOD POISON Ida Grove, la., June 8.—Mary, the 51 year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Aukerman, while playing ran fnto a wire sticking up out of the ground about four weeks ago and ter ribly scratched her face. The wound nealed over and nothing more was thought of it. Sunday the sore began hurting her and in a short time blood poison set in. Hard work on the part of the doctor saved her life. 4 4 4 NOMINATED BY SINGLE 4 4 VOTE FOR COUNTY OFFICE. 4 4 4 4 Cherokee, la., June 8.—While 4 4 he was defeated for nomination 4 4 for sheriff on the republican 4 4 ticket In the recent primaries, 4 4 Roy C. Sullivan finds that he 4 4 was nominated for the office 4 4 through another channel. He 4 4 finds that he received one vote 4 4 for sheriff on the prohibition bal- 4 4 lot and he believes that he was 4 4 the only man In the county who 4 4 did receive a vote for that office 4 4 from a prohibitionist. This 4 4 would legally place him In nora- 4 4 ination and it is understood that 4 4 he will make the race, making a 4 4 three-cornered fight for that of- 4 4 flee in the fall election. 4 4 4 ▼YYTtYTtYtTTTYTTTTTTTTTTT t IOWA STUDENT BECOMES INSANE IN CALIFORNIA San Francisco, June 8.—P. C. V. Can field, of Waterloo, la., a student In the Leland Stanford, Jr., unRerslty, went suddenly insane while in the university library yesterday. He was overpowered and taken to San Jose by the lunacy commission. CROPS WASHED AWAY BY FLOODED RIVERS Onawa, la., June 8.—West Fork and Sioux rivers have been overflowed by the excessive rains of the past two weeks and much damage has been wrought on corn and other crops in the valleys and on the flats. The waters are now falling and it Is possible that some of the acreage of corn may be replanted. CONDITION OF CROPS ON PERCENTAGE BASIS Des Moines, Ia„ June 8.—George A. Wells, secretary of the Omaha Grain Dealers’ association and well known crop expert, sends out his first report today, declaring the crop conditions on the whole better than In June last year, despite the abnormal precipita tion. He figures a large shrinkage In the corn acreage-as a result of the floods. He places the growing condi tion of the grain as compared with last year at this date at, winter ft'heat 102 per cent, spring wheat 98, barley, 102. oats, 102. On acreage he gives winter wheat 10+ as compared with last year, oats 101, barley 101. rye 90, flax 90. ACTION TO SET ASIDE DEED TOR $75,000 Dos Moines, la., June 8.—Sensational developments are expected In an effort started today by the heirs of Daniel Francis to have set aside the deed to the Francis property, worth 275,000, which he deeded Just before his death, last week, to the Preachers' Aid, an or ganisation composed of aged and de crepit ministers. Fletcher Brown, agent for the Preachers' Aid. visited the Francis home last night and car ried off the papers. He was cited today to appear and explain his action. TYPHOON, WRECKING SHIPS, KILLS 270 The Survivors Tell of Harrow ing Experiences With Sharks Waiting for Them. Victoria, B. C., June 6. — The Cana fllan-Australlan liner Manqua has ar rived here bringing news of the de struction of a pearling fleet In a ty {>hoon off West Australia, Involving a oss of 40 luggers and 270 lives, 20 being whites. The disaster occurred near Thurs day Island, the typhoon striking the fleet Just as It was starting for the pearling grounds, scattering the ves sels, completely wrecking some and driving others ashore. About 20 Aus tralian pearlers were lost. The other victims were Malays, Manila men. Jap anese and Kanakas. The survivors reported harrowing experiences, some being picked up In the last stages of exhaustion after having cut away their masts, clinging to the wrecked hulks while the sharks followed, waiting for the exhausted men to drop from the wreckage. DROWNS IN sTgHT OF HIS SWEETHEART ON WEDDING EVE New York, June 6.—On his wedding eve and In sight of his sweetheart, Jennie Hal prln, who was powerless to aid him, iBa dore Mlrklnson drowned In "Forty-foot Pond," Jamaica bay. Mlrklnson, who was 19 years old and employed as a pharmacist, went with his sweetheart for a Sunday outtng at Fish Pond creek. He was a strong swimmer, and insisted on going Into the water, though his sweetheart begged him not to, having had a dream of seeing a man drown. He ha