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AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OP THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WEBTERN.
With nearly 1,000 delegates In at
tendance, the Vocational Guidance con
ference, opened in Grand Rapids, Mich.
A slight earthquake, apparently
traveling from west to east, rattled
windows at San Francisco. No dam
age was reported.
The ministers of Montana, in con
ference at Butte, organized the "Law
Enforcement and Public Welfare
League of Montana," to combat vice
in the state.-
The body of Adolphus Busch,‘the
millionaire brewer and philantroplst,
arrived in New York and was taken
to St. Louis, his late home, where the
funeral was held.
San Francisco eclipsed all her for
mer records for crowds, festal spirit
and Illumination with an electrical pa
geant of floats depicting the evolution
of the dreadnaught.
A woman for chief of police of Chi
cago is being seriously considered by
Mayor Harrison. Mrs. Gertrude Howe
BrittOn looms large-- in the mayor’s
canvass of the field.
Jews and Christians of different de
nominations assembled in San Fran
cisco in mass meeting to protest
against the trial at Kiev, Russia, of
Mendel Beillis, a Jew, for the alleged
ritual murder of a Christian boy.
As a move in their fight for a more
rational dress for women, Wisconsin
club women, in convention at Sheboy
gan, adopted a resolution petitioning
dealers and pattern makers to extend
their stocks to include wider gowns.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago’s ac
knowledged social leader, escaped rob
bery and perhaps death by a margin
of hours, according to a story told in
the Wheaton Jail by Henry Spencer, the
"hammer murderer" of Mildred Alli
son Rexroat.
Two helmet men, among those who
labored without sleep for thirty-six
hours in an effort to bring from mine
No. 2 at Dawson, N. M., the bodies
burled there by the explosion gave up
their lives, bringing the total number
of dead to 2G3.
One hundred hungry millionaires
ate luncheon in two baggage cars at
Gary, Ind. They were officers of tlio
subsidiary companies~of the United
States Steel Corporation who went to
the Indiana city to inspect the corpor
ation’s plant there.
Registration booths at North Platte,
yalenttne and Broken Bow land of
fices were closed for the drawing of
government lands in the North Platte
forest reserve and Fort Niobrara mili
tary reservation. About 75,000 have
registered for GOO claims.
WASHINGTON.
Plans are under way for the estab
lishment of practical demonstration
farms on each government reclama
tion project.
The United States Supreme Court
granted the request that the so-called
"bleached flour case," be reassigned
for oral argument in January.
President Wilson and Secretary
Daniels took a dry land “cruise,” when
they visited the District of Columbia
naval militia battalion at its armory,
which had been transformed to resem
ble the deck of a battleship.
Official announcement from the ex
press companies of their intention to
comply, after Dec. 1, with the Inter
state Commerce Commission’s order
for 'revision of their system of rates
and methods has been made.
State department officials were
concerned over the situation which
has arisen in Havana as a result of
the refusal of the Cuban congress to
convene in extraordinary session to
consul lr the proposed foreign loan.
Senator Borah of Idaho has. written
the Woman’s Political union of New
ark, N. J., he will not take part in any
suffrage gathering where Mrs. Emme
line Pankhurst appears without taking
the opportunity to denounce militant
methods.
A woman’s efforts to save her home
again prevailed when the Senate re
passed the so-called Corbett tunnel
appropriation, awarding $15,750 to
claimants for labor and material fur
nished on the Shoshone irrigation
project in Wyoming.
FOREION.
Col. TheodSre Roosevelt left Rio do
Janeiro for Sao Paulo.
Troopi of all the warring Balkan
states committed gross atrocities, ac
cording to the evidence gathered by
the International Carnegie commission
in Its searching inquiry Just ended at
Paris.
At the close of the elections Sunday
the indications were that not suffic
ient votes had been cast to constitute
a legal choice for the presidency to
succeed Gen. Vlctorlano Huerta of
Mexico.
Forty sailors and passengers on
board the Finnish steamer Westkus
ten were drowned when the vessel
struck a reef near Vasa, in the gulf of
Bothnia and' went down. None was
rescued.
General elections were held through
out Italy Sunday. Disorders were not
as grave as expected, although one
person was killed and many wounded.
Numerous arrests were made In vari
ous quarters.
An earthquake shock lasting about
fifteen seconds occurred at Colon.
Houses rocked and clocks stopped,
but no serious damage was re
ported. The tremor had been ex
ceeded in Intensity by only one other
recent shock.
BPORT.
Dartmouth trounced Princeton, C to
0 at Princeton.
The Boulder Preps defeated the
Greeley High school eleven, 13 to 0, at
Boulder, Colo.
The University of Colorado defeat
ed the Colorado Aggies of Fort Col
lins by a score of 1C to 7.
Princeton defeated Yale in the boat
race on Carnegie lake at Princeton, N.
J. by one and a half lengths.
Washington and Jefferson held Yale
to a 0 to o tie in a desperately played
game on a soggy field at New Haven,
Conn.
The University of South Dakota
played the University of Denver Team
off its feet at Sioux Falls piling up a
big score.-
George Horton of Loveland and
Walt Walters of Denver fought a ten
round draw in Denver before atyout
400 people at the Colorado Athletic
club.
Harold H. Gile, son of Professor M.
C. Gile of Colorado college at Colorado
Springs, was one of Princeton’s star
linemen in the game at Princeton with
Dartmouth.
Jimmy Clabby and Frank Logan
have been matched for a twenty
round boxing contest at San Francisco
on Thanksgiving day. They will
weigh 158 pounds three hours before
the bell.
A team of veterans of from one to
three years’ experience against a team
of comparatively new men and one
which has played together in but
three games, tells the story of the de
feat of Utah by the Colorado School
of Mines by the Bcore of 7 to 0 at
Salt Lake.
GENERAL.
Peter W. Lnngeurd of Detroit was
rescued after having been four hours
In the grasp of the whirlpool below Ni
agara Falls in a small motor boat.
The University of Wisconsin has un
dertaken a scientific investigation of
the bed bug, to determine whether the
annoying insect is a factor’ln spread
ing disease, particularly typhoid fever.
Warren Eaton, a negro, accused of
having made an insulting remark to a
white woman at Monroe, La., was
taken from the pail by a mob, and
hanged to a telegraph pole.
Judge Emory Speer of Uie United
States court for the Southern District
of Georgia, lies dangerously ill at his
summer home in Mount Airy, Ga. His
condition has been critical for several
days.
Capt. Francis Inch, hero of the Vol
turno disaster, was guest 0 ?! honor at
a dinner given in New York by Nelson
Dodge, Sons of St. George, to mark
the 108th anniversary of the battle of
Trafalgar.
At the session of the World’s C. T.
U. in New York, Mrs. Frances Barns,
secretary of the young woman’s
branch, told the delegates that it was
time for the organization to take a
stand in regard to woman’s dress.
William E. Parker of Harrington.
Me., a University of Maine football
star, was Instantly killed at Wor
cester, Mass., in a Btreet railway trans
former station when 13,000 volts of
electricity passed through his body.
The funeral of Adolphus Busch, who
died two weeks ago in Germany, took
place In St. Louis, in the presence of
members of the family and 150 honor
ary pall bearers. Twenty-five automo
bile trucks laden with floral tributes,
many of them -costing more than sl,-
000, took a short route to the ceme
tery, and were there when the funeral
cortege, which had followed a long
course, arrived. At the grave brief
addresses were delivered by Congress
man Richard Barthodt and the Rev.
Dr. Dsv
THE CHEYENNE RECORD.
263 ENTOMBED
AT DAWSON, N.M.
COAL DUST EXPLODES IN MINE
NUMBER TWO, TRAPPING
THE DAY SHIFT,
RESCUE TWENTY-THREE
RESCUERS WORK FRANTICALLY
TO SAVE MINERS; BLACK
DAMP IS CAUSE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
MINE DISASTER AT A GLANCE.
Two hundred and sixty-three dead.
Twenty-three rescued alive.
On Friday 202 bodies were still
burled behind tons of fallen, rock,
four thousand feet from human aid.
Fire from old entry slowly eat
ing its way through the ruin.
Disaster brings offer of aid from
mine strikers and operators alike.
Mine company promises .every pos
sible financial assistance to fami
lies of victims.
Federal mine expert declares
himself unable to In any way ac
count for the accident.
Expected to be a week at least
before full extent of disaster can be
known.
National Red Cross places SI,OOO
fund at disposal of mine officials
to aid families of victims.
Trnlidad, Colo., Oct. 27.—Two hun
dred and sixty-three miners are
entombed and may be dead as the re
sult of a terrific explosion at 2 o'clock
last Wednesday afternoon In No. 2
mine of the Stag Cation Coal Company
gt Dawson, New Mexico, 56 miles
south of here. The mouth of the main
stopo Is caved completely In and early*
Thursday rescuers had been able
to penetrate but 100 feet into the
wrecked mine.
According to telephone messages
received here from Dawson there
were 302 miners working in the mine
at the time of the explosion. Other
estimates based on the number of
men usually at work places the num
ber Imprisoned at 230.
The cause of the explosion Is at
tributed to black damp.
Flames Add to Tragedy.
Dawson, N. M„ Oct. 24. —Thirty-
eight known dead, twenty-three res
cued and 223 miners entombed at
least 4,000 feet from human aid, be
hind tons of fallen debris, which
block all known passages, is the toll
in tragedy and death'taken by the ex
plosion in Stag Canon mine No. 2 of
the Stag Canon Fuel Company, so far
as known up to a late hour last night.
To add to the horror- of this great
est of Western mine disasters, fire
from old entry No. 3 Is eating Its way
-through the ruins.
Heroes Die in Dawson Pit.
Dawson, New Mejj/y Oct. 25. —The
harvest in death gathered by the ex
plosion of the Stag Cation mine, the
worst disaster in the history of West
ern mining, is 263. Of these 261 lives
were snuffed out by the first force of
the catastrophe Wednesday afternoon,
two were sacrificed yesterday when,
daring the mine’s hidden dangers, two
helmet men gave up their lives.
That all hope for those entombed
must be given over became known last
night when government and mine
trews reached the explosion’s center.
The helmet men whoso lives were
claimed were James Lurdl and Wil
liam Poisa, killed by after-damp in
room 18 of the "High Line” entry. -
In a frenzy of terror at a fall of
(lust and coal which threatened to en
trelop them, they stripped off their
safety equipment, started to run, and
died Instantly.
Walter Kerl and Roy Simpleton,
who followed them closely into room
18 and who also stripped their hel
mets from their heads, were rescued
with difficulty.
Five of the entombed miners have
been reached and taken out alive.
They had suffered much from the gas
whfich resulted from the explosion.
The list of identified dead now
numbers fifty-seven, in addition six
bodies too badly mangled and charred
to permit of recognition have been
recovered.
Only Twenty-Three Survivor*.
Twenty-three men—all but six of
whom were In a dißtant portion of the
mine when the explosion uttered its
death-call —are all who survive to tell
its horror.
The center of the explosion has
been definitely fixed at room 18 of the
•JHlgh Line”, entry. It was there that
four of the seven bodies were found
Friday night
First Funerals Held.
The first of the burials took place
Friday afternoon when, with services
for Proteßtants by the Rev. 11. M.
Shields, camp chaplain, and for Cath
olics by the Rev. Fathers A. and Louis
Celller of St. Joseph's church at
Springer, N. M., thirty of the thirty
six bodies at the morgue were in
terred In the camp cemetery.
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[ til JMIKr ) gets delightful results with this never-
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other people think they know more
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quirer.
Militant.
"Do'- you ..believe In a woman's
club?”' .jj
“Yes, if she knows how to use it on
her. husband's head."
Mrs.WinsIow'a Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, Hoftena the gums, reduces inflamma
tion,allays pain,cures wind colic,25c a bottle.**
Sounds That Way.
"The ‘aerobus’ is a new air vehicle.”
“What It suggests to mo is a kiss in
an aeroplane.”
Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Blue;
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress. All grocers. Adv.
Philadelphia now has 298,000 chil
dren of school age.
Don’t Persecute
Your Bowels
Cut out cathartics and purgatives. They art
brutal, harsh, unnecessary.
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