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i'*SE lleurv Gereau. k'ri?.. 5 TODAY'S SPORTING NEWS WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE & The Early Morning Is the time to do the most satis factory shopping. PRICE WO CENTS. Dynamite Works Blow Up, Caus ing Death and Injury to Many Workmen. Special to The Journal. Marquette, Mich., Dec. 16.With a detonation that shook the city, three nules distant, tho mixing house of the Pupont company's dynamite works blew up today, killing five men and badly wrecking the plant. The dead ine: Henry Hall. .lames Govinsky. ^jir.^ Barney .Johnson. (xiistat Baker. u'idition to tho killed, several employees ore injured, the only one, John Kem pt r, is in a serious condition. The men killed were blown into pieces, which were scattered about the woods in every direction. So fai, only a few shreds of black ned flesh have been foundnot enough to fill a two-quart measure. The mining house was demolished. Nothing temaing on the site except a binall quantity ot splinters. What (aused the explosion will never be known. Not a man in the building at the time survives. Thirteen hundred pounds of nitroglycerin went up in ad dition to three mixings of dynamite in piocess of manufacture. The plant comprises about thirty buildings, scattered over eighty acres, and of these, only the magazines es taped the effects of the terrific shock. Some structures were wrecked, others badly damaged, the property TH E DEATH FOR TEN IN FIRE AND EXPLOSION $ FIVE MEN KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION the penitentiary, two miles down the bay shore. T-hc shock was so severe that i or a few minutes it was supposed the explosion had occurred in the prison. 'The penitentiary is five miles from the powderworks. CHARGES EDITOR WITH EXTORTION Young Burden Tells Story Like "Fads and Fancies" Black- 's, mail Tales. Journal Special Service, New York, Dec. 16.James A. Bur den, Jr., of the well-known NeW York family and a multimillionaire, told As sistant District Attorney Krotel today a story of attempted blackmail which resulted in the first arrest growing di rectly out of the scandals surrounding the publication of "Fads and Fancies." Robert W. Irving, editor and publish er of the Now Yorker, whose partner, ftobert N. Cnswell, committed suicide last spring by throwing himself in front of a subway train when faced by a charge of criminal libel, was the pris oner. i Mann and Town Topics. In telling his story Mr. Burden said that Irving came to his home during the holidays in 1P01 saving that he came I from Cdlonel Mann of Town Topics and ALFONSO'S SISTEE TO BE WEDDED. Madrid. Dec. 10 The marriage of the Infanta Maria Teresa, second sister of King Alfonso, to 1'rince Ferdinand of Bavaria, has been officially fixed for .Tan. 12 The municipality of Madrid lias decided to participate In the extensive fes tivities which ha\e been planned in honor of the ending. ICEBEHCP1N STEAMEB, LANE, Plymouth, England, Dec 10 The American line steamer St. Louis, which arrived here to day from New York, reports having passed Dec. 12, In latitude 43 north and longitude 40 west, an Iceberg 300 feet high. The iceberg was right In -the track of Atlanta liners and la regarded as being a serious danger to naviga tion. FAMILY OF FIVE PERISH IN FLAMES Burning Floor Gives Way as Mar Tries to Rescue Wife and Children. Speoial to The Journal. Crookston, Minn., Dec. 16.An tire family perished in the flames that destroyed the Martell home at Eed Lake Falls today. Peter Martell, who was sleeping down stairs, awoko at an early hour to find his room a mass of flame. Finding the staircase burned, he rushed to the barn to get a ladder to rescue his wife and three children who were in the rooms above. He entered the second stor tlir a os a run ning well into the thousands. It will "l)ii necessary to robuild practically the 'entire plant. In the city many windows were -broken, and at tho Pioneer blast fur nace, Lake Superior, and tho Ishpem ing railroad shops and other plants closer to the powderworks, scarcely a light of glass remains intact. The explosion has caused great ex citement. Eveiy building was shaken, 'and in some instances women rushed, terror-stricken, to the streets. Many windows were broken al n( i oyw All were single except Gereau, who the floors gavei wa and five person,s fell into the seething.fumace below andalals he did so ig The bodies, when fotmd, were burned to a crisp. A neighbor, Mrs. Michaelson, waa aroused by the fire and was an eyewit ness to the terrible scene. She said that Martell was nearly frantic with grief and plunged into the bedroom above re gardless of 4 he fact that flames were then licking the casement. The dead are: PETEE MARTELL, blacksmith. MRS. MARTELL, his wife. EDWARD, a son, aged 13 years. DAN, a son, age 9 years. ANNIE, a daughter, age 11 years. Martell was a prominent business man and a member or the Woodmen's order. The remains were taken to the lodge hall, where the funeral services will be held. STATEHOOD KEYS HELD BY TAWNEY Minnesota Man an Insurgent with Many Votes Behind Him. i By W. W. J*rmane. Washington, Dec. 16.Representa- tive Tawney of Minnesota is maintain ing in this congress his reputation ac quired in former congresses of being thoroly independent and able, when the necessity arises, to combat successfully the house republican majority. When he defeated the 'great house machine on the Cuban reciprocity question he achieved a triumph such as no other member of congress in years had to his credit, and he has begun to play insurgent in the house this year by standing out against joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. He has declared his statehood position in the house caucus, and proved that he had enough votes to defeat any joint state hood proposition, unless they can be taken away from him by the usual methods of patronage and coercion. His Victory in 1902. presented a letter of introduction signed important presTige of the chairman- Moses E. Wooster, editor-in chief of l^lLfl^ Town Topics. "We have a very nice scheme here," said Irving, according to Mr. Burden, "which we know will interest you. It is in connection with the contemplated publication of 'Fads and Fancies' The price is $1,500." Mr. Burden said he was in no way in terested. Then, according to Mr. Bur don, Irving made this reply: "Colonel Mann has always treated your family well in Town Topics. If you refuse us he will not treat your family well in the future." Branded a Blackmailer. Mr. Burden said he told Irving he was a blackmailer. A short time later there appeared in Town Topics a story that a prominent society woman had taken her daughter to Europe to get away from William Bttrden, a brother of James A. Burden, Jr., because she feared thera was an hereitary taint in the Burden family. A short time later while Mr. Burden was attending a meeting of the directors of the Windsor Trust company, Irving, he said, forced his way into the room and told Burden he wanted him to pay $250 for a cartoon which was about to be published. Burden called him a blackmailer and ordered him from the room. The recent disclosures about "Fads and Fancies" caused Mr. Bur den to take action today. While the rame of the detective appears as com plainant, Mr. Burden will appear in court to testify. Tawney's attitude on statehood this year has started folks in congress to talking about his successful struggle against Speaker Henderson and the house leadership in 1902, when Cuban reciprocity was being considered. It was a personal victory which he won. Twenty-four hours before the vote the tremendous powers of persuasion and coercion at the command of the house leaders had taken all his followers away from him and the passage of the bill unamended was assured. In those twenty-four hours, without either pat ronage or other means as a weapon Tawney brought them aH back again and carried thru the amendmeat which wrecked the bill. He is even stronger now than he was then, because he hasm bactke of him the comit 6 rea priations. Not Bound by Caucus. In the conference of house repub licans Thursday, there was some dis cussion whether or not the action de cided on by the majority should be binding. Messrs. Jones and Cushman of Washington and Mondell of Wyo ming promptly declared that it would not be binding on them in any event. It was agreed that the caucus should be called a conference, which destroys 3 its binding quality but this was not done until it had been clearly demon strated that Tawney had enough votes to wreck the party policy if there should be a caucus bolt. The republican policy, as decided upon at the conference, is to admit two states, one made up of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory and the other consisting of Arizona and New Mexico. Tawney has no objection to the first proposition, tho he does care much in what form Oklahoma and the Indian Territory are admitted but he 'declared in the conference that the forced con solidation of Arizona and New Mexico would be an outrage. Tawney Applauded. The New York Times, in its Wash ington dispatches descriptive of the re publican caucus, applauds Tawney and refers to him as one of the most force ful men in the popular branch of con gress for many years. The Times tells of Tawney's\ statehood speech to the caucus and gives him credit for con trolling, on the statehood question, -M sixty-five votes, including the solid del egations from California, Washington, Oregon and a part of the votes from Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and |j Iowa, or many more than enough to' s* defeat the ioint statehood proposition for New Mexico and Arizona if the support stands pat. The democrats W with them are many. Speaker Cannon is said to be entirely in favor of statehood legislation at this time, and so it may easily happen 'g that the effect of Tawney's position s* wOTL Hv session.vTerritoryr CXCCpXlilg 13 to i S OklahomavUlSd an Indian M^mf^^f^^i en- PLAN TO UNSEAT SMOOT OF UTAH Senators Framing a Program to End in Ousting Mormon Senator. Journal Special Service. Washington, Dec. 16.Plans are ormin'g in the senate that will bring an end to the Senator Smoot case and re sult in the unseating of the senator from Utah. The present plan is to put Senator Dolliver of Iowa on the committee of privileges and elections, who will vote with Senator Burroughs, the chairman of the committee against Smoot. These two republican members, with five democrats, who are all agaiWst the Utah senator, will make a majority. Senator Smoot has made a good impres sion by his actions on the floor of the senate during the trying times when his case was under consideration. It is be lieved, however, that a majority report will be adopted. Some new evidence will be presented that it is expected to prove detrimental to Smoot 's chatoces of remaining in, the senate. The activity of the W. G. T. U. and other organizations, who are insisting on Smoot's removal will be again in evidence at this session of con gress. KAISER'S SECOND SON TO RULE BRUNSWICK Journal Special Servioe. Berlin, Dec. 16.The unexpected visit of Emperor William to Brunswick, capi tal of Duchy of Brunswick, to con fer with the regent, Prince Albrecht, and the secret visit of the Grand Duke of Oldonberg, father of the betrothed wife of Prince Eitel Frederick, the sec ond son of Emperor William, to the same capital, have given rise, the Tage blatt says, to the belief that the em peror's plan is to have Prince Eitel take the throne of Brunswick, Prince Albrecht resigning. jwrata^ara^zfrri: aPPro" I SATURDAY EVENING, .DECEMBER i6, 1905. RUSSIAN REDS PUT CZARTO TEST OF POWER, I STRIKING AT REVENUES TO DESTROY CREDIT Russian Reds Throw Down Gauntlet to Czar Journal Special Service. St. Petersburg, Dec. 15, via Eydtkuhnen, Dec. 16.The revolutionary party throws down the gauntlet to the government today in the shape of a manifesto, stamped with the official seal of the workmen's alliance. It declares that the government is on the road to ruin that it has strewn the country with corpses and starved the peasants, who can pay no more taxes. Trade is destroyed, bankruptcies are coming fast, robbery is ram- pant, it is said, and no man's life and property are safe. Troops are declared to be in mutiny, the government treasury embarrassed, and high state officials are said to pilfer the state fugds with impunity. An effective assembly is held out in the manifesto las the only possible remedy. It is decftxed that a strict investigation into the finances of the country must be made, and the last support of the government, its income, must be knocked from beneath it. Continuing, the manifesto says: "We have resolved, therefore, to refuse to meet any form of government taxation, and demand that the gov- ernment shall pay for everything in specie, even for small Sums, insisting upon receiving coins and not paper mon- ey to withdraw everything from the imperial savings banks' only in gold, and to demand the abdication of the autocracy, which never had the authority of the people to incur such heavy financial commitments. "At the present moment the government behaves,to its subjects as tho it were a conquering power. There- fore we have resolved not to allow the repayment of such leans as the imperial government has contracted while carrying on open warfare with the people." This document is signed by the council of the workmen's alliance, the heads of committees of the peasants' league, the central committee of the democratic workman's party, and the central committee of the socialist revolutionary party. MINERS WILL SEE COAL OPERATORS Mitchell's Committee Will Pre sent Mine Workers' Demand to Big Nine. Sharnokin, Pa., Dec. 16.The dele gates to the anthracite miners' conven tion quickly disposed of the unfinished business at today's session. The spe cial committee, composed of John Mitchell and board members of the three districts, met and considered how best to get the union's request for a conference before tha big coal com- fhat anies. Altho President Mitchell said the committee had not decided on details, the convention's resolution of request will, without doubt, be in New York and in the hands of the presidents of the nine leading Kjoal companies by Monday, which will/enable the opera tors to take up the' question at their weekly meeting on rjfuesday in that Each of the presidents of the nine coal-producing and -carrying railroads will receive a letter|or telegram from the convention's ccjmmittee, and each is expected to send a, separate answer The miners' requera that the opera tors meet with theig, to arrange the terms of employmentito prevail at the collieries after April inext is not neces sarily equivalent tosa strike, if tho operators refuse, butjit means that the award of the anthracite coal strike com mission will will be to block all statehood legisla- S Christmas presents all purchased and feeling sorry for the poor fellow who has not yet made a start ybecoTr-r^^|fvttive. TYREE, GUMSTTHE PRESIDENT, PROMOTED Washington, Dec. 16.Frank H. Tyroe, who is widely known' as one of the personal guards of President Roose velt, has resigned from the United States secret service, and in a few days will assume the duties of United States marshal of tho southern district of West Virginia to which office he re cently was appointed. The president presented to mm a handsome seal ring in appreciation of the personal services rendered him by Mr. Tyree. SUFFERING JAPS LEAVING RUSSIA Kaiser on the Spot with Chocolate and Chrysanthemums for Yellow Men. Berlin, Dec. 16.Emperor William's adjutant, Lieutenant General von Pies sen, met the Japanese prisoners of war who are passing thru Germany from Russia early today with large supplies of chocolate and cigarets and for the officers bouquets of chrysanthemums. There were 1,728 men in all. They were much touched by the emperor's thoughtfulness in giving them the first opportunity of seeing the, flower of their native land. The first train brought sixty-eight dangerously wounded and sick men, five of whom died on the way here. The prisoners universally condemned the treatment they had been subjected to in Russia. They were interned in a coun try village without newspapers or cig arets. The crippled Japanese were con fined in a very small building and had to crawl around unassisted. After breakfast the trains with the prisoners proceeded to Hamburg, where the Japanese will embark on the steam ers Cambroman and Vancouver. MAD FOR SIX MONTRS, ON FAST TRAIN RUN Journal Special Service. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 16.--For six months Lewis Zimmerman, a locomotive engineer, with a run between this city and Syracuse, held the lives o* hun dreds of passengers each day in his control, and altho insane, cared ior them safely, without an accident, it is learned that for half a year before he was compelled by a stroke of paraly sis to leave the employ of the road a few weeks ago, he had been out of his mind. During all that time he contin ued at the throttle of the locomotive which hauled one fast express east and another west daily. He was committed to an insane asylum yesterday. IS THMYOU,?i '*M St. Petersburg, Friday, Dec. 15, Morn ing, via Edytkuhnen, East Prussia, Dec. 16.The proletariat organizations, thru the "invisible government," threw a bombshell into the camp of the official government in the night by issuing a manifesto, following the form of a reg ular imperial document, declaring the bankruptcy of the treasury, ordering the proletariat army everywhere to refuse to pay the taxes of any descrip tion to insist on the payment of wages in gold or silver, and to withdraw all their deposits from the savings banks in gold. The manifesto is a terrible indict ment of the manner in which the beau rocracy has brought the country to financial ruin, asserting that the. gov ernment has squandered not only the country's income, but the proceeds of the foreign loans on railroads, the army and the fleet, leaving the people with out schools or roads yet it is declared, there is no money to feed the soldiers, and everywhere there are .insurrections of the beggared and starved troops and sailors. Speculated with Public Gold. The manifesto even charges the gov ernment with using the deposits in the government savings banks to speculate on the bourse and with covering up its chronic deficits in the interest on the immense debt by the proceeds of the foreign loans, which are at last ex hausted. The rich, it is further declared, have already taken warning and are con verting their property into securities and gqld and are sending them abroad. The only salvation for the country, according to the manifesto, is the over throw of the autocracy by a constitu ent assembly, and the sooner the gov ernment falls the better. "Therefore, the last source of the existence of the old regimeits financial revenue must be stopped." The document is signed by the mem bers of the Workmen's council, the committee of the Pan-Russian union and the central committee of the social democrats, social revolutionists and so cialists of Poland. This great step of the revolution! HARRIHAN-RYAN COMBAT IMPENDS Railroad Magnate to Fight Equit able's Owner for Financial Supremacy, Journal Speoial Servioe. New York, Dec. 16.Two tiny words, with an aggregate of six letters, as sumed monumental proportions when they were uttered before the Armstrong investigating committee yesterday by Edward H. Harriman, the only man who ever had the courage to make war on J. Pierpont Morgan. Inquisitor Hughes asked him^if he had taken any steps to thwart the plans of Thomas I Eyan in the ownership of the Equit able Life. "Not yet," replied Mr. Harriman, with a quiet force that was a sermon in itself. The words came out of his mouth with the incisiveness of a steel trap closing on its victim. Wall street men who heard Mr. Harriman, figured that the day was coming when Edward H. Harriman and Thomas F. Eyan, two of the richest, most desperate, courageous, resourceful and able fighters the finan cial district has ever produced, would come togther in a struggle, the like of which has never been seen in this country. Harriman Was "Joking." To an Associated' Press representa tive E. H. Harriman said today: I have been surprised to see that some of the papers have treated seriously my remark that Mr. Odell has, political influence because of his relations with me. Had I regarded Mr. Hughes' ques tion seriously I would have denied the imputation indignantly instead of mak ing a facetious answer, as I did, and which was so accepted, as shown by the laughter which followed." Sixteen days of grace have been given to John A. McCall, president of the New York Life, for the repayment to the company of $235,000, given to Judge Andrew Hamilton while the lat ter was taking care of the legislative affairs of the New York Life in Al bany. This time extension was decided upon by the house-cleaning committee of five* which held a two-hour session at the Hanover bask building. McCall and Hamilton.** John C. McCall, son Of President Mc Call, sailed today from Europe, bringing him with the long-looked-for explana tion of Hamilton. He is expected to arrive here in seven or eight days. If the explanation proves to be unsatis factory to the committee, President Mc Call will be expected to make good his pledge before the first of the year. A Paris dispatch says: "Mr. McCall took with him Mr.Ham ilton's report concerning his connection with the insurance companies' affairs. The following statement was furnished from an authoritative source: Mr. McCall found upon his arrival here that Mr. Hamilton was under the care of Dr. Riviere, a famous specialist. Mr. McCall delayed his departure at Mr. Hamilton's request in order to see if the treatment would enable Mr. Ham ilton to return, but the doctor finally stated that the trip Mr. Hamilton con templated and his return to business would surely be followed Jjy a serious illness. Therefore absolute rest for several months will be necessary. 'In lieu of his return, Mr. Hamil ton has prepared and sent a full and explicit statement covering his connec tion with the affairs of the insurance company" The Sunday Journal Is the northwest's greatest Bun day newspaper. 14 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK. BOMBSHELL IN CAMP OF THE GOVERNMENT Proletariat Organizations Unite in Declar- ing Treasury Bankrupt and Order ing Refusals to Pay Taxes. aries, which throws down the gage of battle to the government, was prepared with such secrecy that the authorities were taken off their guard and did not even attempt to prevent its publica- Officers Dismissed. Four hundred and forty officers have been dismissed by the general staff as untrustworthy. It seems to be beyond question that bloody collisions have occurred between troops and the united peasantry and workmen in the streets of Riga during which machine guns were used. The situation is most serious in the country, which is practically abandoned to the revolutionary bands owing to the Continued on 2d Page, Sth Column. BROKERS SUSPECT A LAWSON TRICK J- Boston Operators Believe He Has Made, Not Lost, and Loaded Up "S3rstem.'\. Journal Speoial Service. Boston, Dec. 16.State street haa confessed its amazement at the public announcement of Thomas W. Lawson that every dollar of his private fortuno is behind the bear campaign against Amalgamated, the total amount of his own and his friends' money involved being $15,000,000. One-third of thia great sum Lawson put into the pool within the last few days, and he ad mitted losses up to Thursday night of $3,400,000. The Lawson pool is said to be short of 170,000 shares of Amal gamated, and if this is true, the losses would amount today to about $3,485,000. What the street cannot understand is why Lawson should advertise his im pending bankruptcy if there is any dan ger of his financial collapse, and thoss who think they know his methods are extremely skeptical. Cleaned Up Tidy Sum. Opinion is divided as tos Lawson'p deals yesterday, and many think he saw a chance to execute a quick turn and that instead of sustaining a further loss to his pool he cleaned up a tidy sum. These observers call attention to the fact that while Lawson advertises a loss of *$3,400,000, he makes no men tion of profits in Amalgamated and other coppers. Careful reading of Mr. Lawson's an nouncement regarding his Amalgamated pool shows some important things. A rise of about 20 points has cost the pool $3,400,000, according to Lawson. He says he still has $11,000,000 left. It will require a rise of nearly 70 points to wipe out this sum. When Amal- Sawson's imated sells at 170 State street and close friends will believe he is broke, and not much before that time. Loading Up the- System. One significant fact has come out which is believed by many to point to the meat in the Lawson cocoanut. A Boston banking firm which six months ago was carrying many thousand shares of Amalgamated for itself and its cus tomers, today had less than 2,000 shares in its safe, the remainder having goae to New York. The deduction from this is that Lawson has for week been com pelling Standard Oil to load ue with Amalgamated in sustaining and ad vancing its price. This is thought to be just what Lawson wants. He has repeatedly said* that the only way for the people to get even with the "sys tem" is to compel it to buy its own stocks at higher prices than it sold for. ISw WOKDATk M tion in the newspapers. *v The revolutionary leaders expect it will be followed by reprisals and ar rests, but all this has been foreseen. The leaders laid their plans deeply be* i fore issuing the manifesto. New com mittees of the various organisations have been elected in the third and fourth degree. If one set of commit tees is put behind the bars another will take its place and carry on the work. The League of Leagues was not asked to join in the manifesto, being regard' i ed with some jealousy by the prole* tariat organizations, which claim to be bearing the brunt of the revolution and to be entitled to the fruits thereof. The proletariat leaders claim to have absolute knowledge that the govern* ment has just issued $126,000,000 hi paper money. .Now the Test of Power. Under the provisions of the press lat the editor of every paper which printed the manifesto has rendered himself liable to eight months' imprisonment and $1,500 fine. Now must come the test of the government's power. *g It develops that among the papers of A N. KrustalefT, the president of the ex $ ecutive committee of the workmen'-s council, seized at the time of his ax* rest, were documents which furnish evi dence of a well-planned conspiracy td \*J seize and carry off Premier Witts. 1 S CHANGES IN THE SENATE. A,4 Committee Vacancies to Be Filled audi Shifts to Be Made. Washington, Dec. 16.-The committee to fill committee vacancies has completed its labors and will submit its report to the republican caucus oa Monday. In addition to filling vacancies it is understood that several changes have, been made where there were no vacan cies. The most important of these is on the committee on interstate com merce from which it is said that Senator Millard of Nebraska will retire in favor of Senator Crane of Massachusetts. senate 4