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OUR PROSPERITY
INVITES ENEMIES
Bonaparte Says We Should Be Ready
To Fight
MOW UNLIKE WASHINGTON'S TIME.
rhe Attorney General Pleads for an
Army and Navy Sufficient to Assure
the Country’s Peace and to Main
tain Her Strength in War—A Work -
wide Empire Now.
Philadelphia (Special).— Attorney
3eneral Bonaparte, in an address be
fore the students of a business scnool
'n this city, gave a vivid portrayal
of the changed conditions of the
United States as to peace and war
between the present day and Wash
ington's time.
"Our detached and distant situa
tion,” in the words of Washington,
which made us the friend and not
the 'enemy of other nations, Mr.
Bonaparte said had changed decided
y.
“But,” he added, “while we have
Irawn prodigiously nearer to possi-
Dle, and possibly dangerous enemies,
we have also grown prodigiously big
ger and richer and more obtrusive
ind therefore vastly more likely to
iwaken envy, distrust and fear, or
n other words, to have enemies.”
America’s empire, he said, now
itretches from sea to sea on this
lontinent, has spread to the Antilles
,nd the Isthmus, the jungles of Asia’s
elands and the snows of Alaska.
‘For us,” he added, “the days of
tbscurity and isolation are gone for
iver, and safety must now be sought
•lsewhere.”
Mr. Bonaparte quoted from Wash
ngton, Jackson and Madison to show
hat the statesmen of old recognized
he human impulses that lead to war,
,nd added: “And when such times
>ome one might as wisely seek to
lam Niagara with straws as to turn
tack with reasoning the resistless
ide of human energies and human
tassions.” He concluded with a
ilea for adequate support for pre
taredness for self-defense, saying,
"I ask then, of all thoughtful and
latroitic citizens their aid to my suc
;essor in the great department of
>ur federal government but lately in
ny keeping, and to his colleague in
;he administration of the sister ser
rice, and, most of all, to the Com
mander-in-Chief of our forces of land
nd sea under the Constitution in as
lurring our country’s peace by main
taining her strength for war; 1 ask for
the Congress a hearty support from
public opinion in a liberal provision
for the national defense, and, more
over, a loud and clear assurance of
such support to drown the clamors
of self-interest, of delusion, of preju
dice, or parsimony, in dealing with
this great question; and as with the
world’s approval, the noble title .of
‘peacemaker,’ has been bestowed on
our first public servant, I ask that the
nation be qualified for a like honor
In the just judgment of mankind by
giving her such strength as may gain
and guard for her the peace of right
eousness.”
LJOT A ri -------
' CASTRO REPORTED WORSE.
If He Dies, Gomez’s Succession Will
Be Opposed By Large Element.
Port of Spain, Trinidad (By Ca
ble). —Latest Caracas advices indi
cate that President Castro is much
worse, and it is even claimed that
he cannot live more than a week
longer. Should he die, First Vice
President Gomez will immediately
assume the Presidency, and will be
supported by a large section of the
army. A very large element of the
country, including the Andinos, or
mountaineer supporters of Castro,
however, will be opposed to Gomez.
Gen. Alcantara, president of the
State of Aragua, has accumulated a
large army and considerable war
material, and is determined not to
recognize Gomez, but to raise a revo
lution for the purpose of obtaining
the Presidency.
In the meanwhile, the rebel force
headed by Gen. Rafael Montllla,
which recently captured Barquesi
meto, 160 miles from Caracas, is
daily increasing in strength.
The condition of Venezula is de
plorable. Outrages by bandits are
increasing daily and the country is
threatened with anarchy.
Paid Trifle For Rembrandt.
Brussels (By Cable). —The usher
of the Chamber of Deputies lately
bought for a trifling price an old
picture of priests playing cards.
The newspapers say that it has now
been discovered that the painting is
the work of nembrandt. The owner
has been offered $60,000 for the pic
ture.
Ohio’s Treasury Overflowing.
Columbus, O.—The surplus in the
state treasury now is the largest in
the history of that state —$4,750,-
356.39. The size of the surplus is
due to the Aiken law Increasing the
saloon tax. It is estimated that by
the end of January the surplus will
be nearly $6,000,000.
Consul Fairchild Dead.
Mukden (By Cable). —The Ameri
can vice consul general. Nelson Fair
child, shot and killed himself. It is
believed that the shooting was acci
dental. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow. There is a universal feel
ing of sympathy.
Voting Student Put To Death.
Radom, Russia Poland (By Ca
ble). —A youth named Werner,
seventeen years old, and a student
at the technical school, was tried by
drumhead court-martial here, con
victed and shot to death for having
killed Col. Plotta, commander of
the gendarmerie of the government
of Radom. Werner threw a bomb
at Col. Plotta, December 16, and the
colonel died the next day of his in
juries
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic:
The investigation into the affairs
of the Lincoln Bank of Morton Park,
Chicago, which failed early in the
week, disclosed the fact that $30,-
000 of the funds of the bank had
been used by Atkinson on notes sign
ed by a stenographer.
An increase of from 10 to 20 per
cent, in the price of coal, the pro
duct of the Monogahela River Con
solidation Coal and Coke Company,
at Pittsburg, is announced within the
next 20 days.
At Cynthiania, Ky., Curtf Jett was
found guilty by the jury and was
given a life sentence in the peniten
tiary for the assassination of James
Cockrill in Jackson, Ky., five years
ago.
Abraham Loss was fatally stabbed
by Louis Segul in a New York book
bindery. Segul struck a boy and
Loss Interfered.
In Chicago an attempt was made
to assassinate Judge Cutting, of the
Probate Court. He escaped unhurt.
Bishop Charles C. McCabe, known
better as “Chaplain” McCabe, died
in a New York Hospital from apo
plexy, with which he was stricken
while passing through that city re
cently while on his way to Philadel
phia.
On application of the National
Steel and Wire Company a receiver
has been appointed for the National
Wire Corporation, which operated a
large plant in Maine.
It was testified before the Inter
state Commerce Commission in Min
neapolis that a scarcity of labor is at
the bottom of the railroad car short
age.
F. Dereylan, who claimed he was
the son of a Russian admiral and
married, and who died in Arizona,
turns out to be a woman.
Mrs. Jackson I. Case, twice a wid
ow and worth $10,000,000, and John
W. Dalman, a Standard Oil official,
were married in Chicago. '
The Hub colliery, in Nova Scotia,
which has been afire five days, will
be flooded by water from the At
lantic Ocean.
George Burnham, Jr., general
counsel for the Mutual Reserve Life
Insurance Company, recently convict
ed of larceny, was sentenced to serve
two years in state prison.
The Ann Arbor Railway and the
Toledo Ice and Coal Company have
been indicted on 155 counts each,
charged with double rebating on ice
shipments.
The publisher and a writer for
the Morning Telegraph, of New York,
were fined SSO each by Judge Deven
dorf for criticising the Gillette case.
It is declared that Mrs. Catherine
Neill, charged with the death of her
husband, stabbed him while under
the influence of morphine.
Col. G. R. Colton has been ap
pointed collector of customs at Ma
nila. He formerly was collector of
the port at Iloilo.
Farmers of Idaho state that they
have been ruined by the inability of
the railroads to move their wheat
erdps.
Miss Hallie Amelie Rives and Post
Wheeler are to wed in Tokio, Japan.
The United State Casualty Com
pany, of New York, has obtained an
injunction in an Alabama re "
straining the Virglnia-Carolina Chem
ical Company from removing any
books or papers needed in a suit filed
by the casualty company.
Foreign.
The North German Lloyd Steam
ship Company has decided to make
an appeal against the verdict of the
British board of admiralty holding
the Kaiser Wilhelm der urosse aione
responsible for the collision with the
British steamer Orinoco. off Cher
bourg, November 21.
The British Parliament was pro
rogued until February. King Ed
ward expressed regret that the dis
pute over the Education Bill had not
been settled.
The parish church at Boldernock,
Scotland, where President Roose
velt’s maternal ancestors worshipped,
was destroyed by fire.
The Czar has issued a ukase fixing
February 19 as the date lor the par
liamentary elections.
Intense cold has caused much suf
fering among the peasants in Rus
sia.
Prof. Karl Hau, of Washington,
D C , was remanded in London for
extradition to Germany to answer
to the charge of murdering his moth
er-in-law at Baden-Baden.
Lord Ellenborough was married to
Miss Hermoine Schenley, of Pitts
burg, at St. George’s, in Chelsea,
England, before a large crowd of
fashionable persons.
The French court has freed Ma
dame .Anna Gould from all responsi
bility for the debts contracted by
her husband, except in a few minor
instances.
The three hundredth anniversary
of the sailing of the first British col
ony for Jamestown, Va., was, cele
brated with a banquet in London.
Two bombs were thrown at Chief
of Police Cheshanowski in Lodz, Rus
sian Poland, while he was driving
through one of the principal streets.
A court martial in Lille, France,
degraded Captain Marquiez for refus
ing to obey orders in connection with
the taking of a church inventory.
Rioting attended the evacuation of
the episcopal palace and seminary at
' Nantes, France.
Fifteen millions of people are re
ported to be starving in the famine
district of China.
Sir Edward Sassoon (Liberal-Un
ionist), in a speech in the House of
Commons on the wireless telegraph
conference, contended that Great
■ Britain played second fiddle to Ger
’ many.
The Japanese consul at Honolulu
says the Japanese squadron will not
: go to San Francisco, as originally in
f tended, because of fear of a repeti
t tion of the Maine disaster.
) The steamer Prinzessin Victoria
s Luise, which went ashore off Port
- Royal, Jamaica, Sunday night, is
likely to become a total wreck.
" AN AWFUL EXPOSE
OF THE ICE TRUST
; Sensational Charges of Gouging
and Deceit.
THE SUIT BEGAN IN NEW YORK.
Attorney General Mayer Asks for
the Dissolution of the Trust of
Whose $46,325,488 of Stock $33,260,-
606 Represents No Tangible Asset
Restricting the Output.
New York (Special).—Attorney
General Julius Mayer, In the name
of the people of the State of New
York, began an action against the
American Ice Companw in the Sup
reme Court of New York County
for the dissolution of the so-called
Ice Trust. A summoms and com
plaint issued here was forwarded to
the New York City representatives
of the Attorney General for service
upon the proper officials of the com
pany.
The complaint alleges as a prin
cipal feature of the “scheme and
arrangement” by which the company
secured a practical monopoly of the
natural and artificial ice output and
distribution, especially in Greater
New York and the communities in
that vicinity, that it secured control
of the Main ice field and caused a
reduction there last year of the usual
harvest from a million and a half tons
to one-third of that amount. The
other sources of supply are alleged
to be similarly controlled.
The key to the ice situation in
New York City is pointed out as ly
ing in the company’s control of the
“ice bridges” or landing depots, by
which means, it is alleged, the com
pany is efiabled to fix the price of
ice, resulting last summer in an in
crease from $1.20 a ton at the
bridges to $5 and $6 a ton to the
independent dealers, who are alleged
to be controlled by the company,
and who supply the retail trade.
It is *aid that by the time the
ice reached the poorer customers it
cost them at the rate of $lO to sl4
a ton.
Accused Of Double Dealing.
Correspondence of the company
with its agents and others is quoted
to show that at the very time when
the company was urging its custo
mers to be careful in their purchase
and consumption of ice, owing to the
shortage of supply, it was informing
its agents that the ice situation
from the company’s standpoint was
satisfactory, and that offers were
being received from various sources,
especially from Maine independent
producers, of ample supplies, and
the company was at that time refus
ing to accept these offers on any
terms. It is contended that the ef
forts of the company were designed
to create a popular Impression that
an ice famine was impending, in or
der to forestall public clamor against
a contemplated enormous increase in
the price to consumers, which in
crease did, in fact, take place.
It is declared by the Attorney
General that on the Hudson River
the American Ice Company owns all
but 17 of the 141 icehouses, and
that it contracted with the Mountain
Ice Company, operating in New Jer
sey and Pennsylvania, to restrict its
sales in Brooklyn, whereby the free
pursuit of the Ice business in that
borough was prevented; that it had
like agreements with various inde
pendent concerns along the Hudson
River and elsewhere to prevent their
entering the field of competition in
production or distribution of either
natural or manufactured ice.
MINER LOSING HIS MIND.
Surruonded By Corpses, He Believes
They Are Laughing At Him.
Bakersfield, California (Special).
—Though only a few feet of earth
and stone separate L. B. Hicks, the
miner entombed in Granite Mountain
by a tunnel collapse, from freedom,
the slightest mistake of his rescuers
will crush out the life of the man
who, for days, has lived in a night
black hole with death threatening
every moment.
For 14 days Hicks has endarei
! tortures. Without light and terror
biting at his soul by fears that any
. moment would be his last, Hicks has
many times bordered on insanity.
! Only the voices of his friends com
' ing to him through the gas pipe with
which he is fed has been able to keep
I him from madness. Sometimes the
miner is happy and again he is
plunged in despair. He can feel the
' bodies of his five dead companions
' about him.
“I can see Jim’s foot in this hell
hole,” he yelled to his rescuers. “It’s
moving, I thiilk. They are laughing,
' too.”
“If you don’t shut up, Hicks,” said
• a miner, shouting through the tube,
“I’ll jump right down the pipe and
! shake your head off.”
In this way Hicks’ mind was
; drawn from his illusions by the min
. ers.
“We’ll get you out soon,” shouted
[ a grizzled miner.
“Well, be careful,” replied Hicks,
“or this fool mountain will sit on my
, chest.”
Hicks drank a gallon of milk to
day. He said that the fine cut tobac
co which had been slipped to him
‘ through the pipe was a lifesaver.
5 He said he would have rather had
that chew than got out.
! Four Fire Victims.
| Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). Four
. persons were killed and one was fa
tally burned in a small fire in the
, Zenobla Apartment House, on Pros
t pect Avenue at the corner of West
' Huron Street. Other occupants of
the place had narrow escapes, half
i a dozen being rescued by the flre
t men. The blaze was a small one and
s was quickly brought under control
by the firemen.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.
The Enterprise Transportation
Company of Jamestown, R. 1., filed
complaint jvitfi the Interstate Com
merce Commission against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company and the
New England Navigation Company
, as to existing transportation rates.
In his annual report Rear Admiral
Rae, chief of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering of the Navy Department,
says that the steam turbine presents
one of the greatest problems of the
day.
Captain Marix, of the Navy, re
ported experiments for coaling ves
sels at sea to be unsuccessful.
Edwin T. Sanford, of Knoxville,
Tenn., will succeed J. C. Mcßeynolds
as an assistant attorney general.
President Roosevelt will spend a
portion of the Christmas holidays at
Pine Knot, Va.
Joseph W. Lee was nominated by
the President to be minister to Gua
temala and Honduras.
President Roosevelt’s Panama mes
sage is to be reprinted for the Senate
in “normal” spelling.
Senator Elkins introduced a bill
to carry into effect several of the
recommendations of the Secretary
of the Treasury to enable him to ex
tend relief to money markets.
William A. Reid & Co. by a bid
of 105.777 for all or any part of the
$2,000,000 bond issue for improve
ments in Manila obtained the greater
part of the issue.
Senator Berry presented telegrams
objecting to the recent order of the
Secretary of the Interior in withdraw
ing lands from allotment in Indian
Territory.
Representative Gregg, of Texas,
introduced a bill to purchase lo sub
marine torpedo boats at a total cost
of $5,000,000. .
Ten of the South American repub
lics have accepted invitations to be
represented at the Jamestown Ex
position.
The Senate passed a bill providing
for a bridge across the Allegheny
River near Pittsburg. .
Senator Patterson introduced In
the Senate a resolution for an in
vestigation of the reports that a lobby
has been endeavoring to influence
matters relative to the Congo Free
State.
In the Senate the increasing ex
penditures for the Army and Navy
establishments were deplored.
Director Wolcott, of the Geologi
cal Survey, was before the Senate
committee investigating the values
of the coal and oil lands In Oklahoma
and Indian Territory.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor decided that foreign laborers
assisted to mig r ate by a State are
not liable to deportation.
MANKIND IS MADE OF SOAP.
Kind In His Body Is Purest, And
Maybe He Was Self-Cleaning
Once.
New York (Special).—Man is
made of soap and not of dust, ac
cording to a statement delivered be
fore the Harvey Society, at the
Academy of Medicine, in this city,
by Prof. J. D. Adami. Man is not
entirely made of soap, of course,
but there are scattered through his
body an unknown number of tiny
globules, called “myelins,’ which
are now believed to be a primitive
form of true soap.
It is the only pure type of soap
on earth, and scientists say it may
be that man was originally con
structed on a self-cleansing princi
ple.
All he had to do was to exercise
his will power—think hard —and set
his myriads of soap globules in mo
tion. The soapy nature of human
beings has been discovered by means
of the polarizing microscope.
Singing Director’s Suicide.
Mayville, Wis. (Special).—William
F. Berchert, believed to have be
come insane through brooding over
the refusal of a New York manager
to accept an opera which Berchert
had written, committed suicide here
by hanging himself to the side ladder
on a freight car. Berchert had for
a number of years been director of
singing societies in Milwaukee,
Maysville and other Wisconsin cities.
New Way To Get Cars.
Philadelphia (Special).—A new
proceeding in the rebate discrimina
tion suits against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has been insti
tuted in the United States Circuit
Court in this city by the Logan Coal
Company. It is in a form of a peti
tion for a writ of alternative manda
mus to compel the corporation to
make a pro rata distribution of coal
cars.
Girls Hurt At Basketball.
Trenton, N. J. (Special).—Miss
Helen Lee is suffering from a broken
leg and Miss Julia Goldberg has a
sprained ankle as the result of a
girls’ basketball game at the New
Jersey State Normal School. The
game will likely be barred by the
faculty.
L. & N. Raises Wages.
Louisville, Ky. (Special). The
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
gave notice that it has Increased the
wages of its shopmen about 4 per
ceit., effective December 1. The in
crease affects about 2,000 men. By
reason of the higher wages the pay
roll will be increased about SIOO,OOO
a year.
Murdered Five Persons.
Santiago, Chila (Special).—The
trial of Emilio Dubois, who is known
to have murdered five persons, ended
Friday. He was condemned to death.
AL WORLD.
Jersey Central has Increased its
employees’ wages from 10 to 20 per
cent.
St. Paul dropped over 13 points
on the announcement of the new
issue of $100,000,000 of stock.
816 STEAMBOAT IS
BLOWN TO ATOMS
Many Lives Are Lost In the
Mississippi River.
OVER A SCORE ARE MISSING.
The W. T. Scovell, Plying Between
Vicksburg and Davis Bend, is Blown to
Bits by an Explosion That Occurred
While She Was Taking on Freight at
Gold Dust Landing, Near Vi.ksburg.
Vicksburg, Miss. (Special).—One
of the most disastrous accidents in
the history of the Mississippi River
occurred at 10 minutes past 11
o’clock Wednesday morning, when
the steamer W. T. Scovel, plying in
the Vicksburg and David Bend trade,
was destroyed by an explosion.
Owing to the large number of ne
groes on board it is impossible to as
certain the exact number of the dead
and injured, but officers of the boat
who arrived here state that no less
than 10 nor more than 16 were
killed. The probabilities are that a
like number were injured.
The number of dead and injured
negroes cannot be stated at this time,
but of a crew and passenger list of
about 50, about half are missing.
The negro dead were cared for at
the place where the accident oc
curred, as were some of the injured.
About five of the injured negroes
were brought to Vicksburg on the
steamer Senator Cordell with the
white dead and injured. The acci
dent occurred at Gold Dust Landing,
about 17 miles south of Vicksburg.
The Scovell was at the landing
taking on freight, when suddenly a
terrific explosion occurred and the
boat was blown practically to atoms.
Many of the timbers of the boat
were thrown hundreds of yards, and
some of those on board were blown
almost as far.
The pilot house and front part of
the cabin were blown to splinters, and
some parts of the boat were so badly
damaged that she began to sink im
mediately. When the Cordell left ,
here she was listing heavily and her
cargo of 1,000 sacks of cottonseed
and 50 bales of cotton will be lost.
Pending the arrival of the Senator
Cordell, the injured were cared for j
at Gold Dust Landing as well as pos- j
sible.
Of the white dead only the body j
of Lavell Yeager has been recovered.
Wade Quackenboss was heard to call
for help soon after the explosion, but,
according to the reports of those who
were on the boat, escaping steam
soon smothered his cries. Captain
Quackenboss was not seen after the
accident.
Pilot Dougherty was blown several
hundred feet out into the river, but
despite a dislocated shoulder man
aged to swim to the bank.
The injured were taken to the
Vicksburg hospitals.
The captain was one of the oldest
and best known residents of this city
and was well known to every man on
the river. The steamer Scovell was
only recently purchased by him and
others for the Vicksburg and Davis
Bend trade. The boat was insured
for $6,000.
THE DISMISSED TROOPS.
The President Tells Senate Why He
Did It.
Washington (Special) .—President
Roosevelt, in response to a Senate
resolution asking him why he dis
missed the members of the Twenty
fifth Regiment (colored infantry)
without honor, sent his reply to the
Senate, together with a full report of
the investigation conducted by offi
cers on the ground.
The President wastes no words in
giving the Senate his reasons, and
says that he is 'glad of the opportuni
ty to do so. The President says that
the punishment meted out to the reg
iment was inadequate, as “a blacker
crime than that committed never
stalnted the annals of our army,”
and he regrets keenly that he is un
able to properly punish the real cul
prits. He resents with indignation
the charge that the men were dis
missed because they were negroes and
the intimation that one of the offi
cers who conducted the Investigation
was prejudiced against the troops,
he being a Southerner.
The President concludes by chal
lenging “as a right the support of
every citizen of this country, what
ever his color, provided only he has
in him the spirit of genuine and far
sighted patriotism.”
Accompanying the President’s re
ply is a report by Secretary Taft, in
which he enters into an exhaustive
discussion of the law and the evi
dence in the case. He quotes the
authority for the President’s action,
and with regard to the new evidence
presented says he has examined it
with care and that he does not find
anything contained in it which
should lead to a different conclusion
of fact from that already stated in
his annual report.
The question whether the Senate
should make an independent inves
tigation of the Brownsville raid was
raised by Mr. Foraker immediately
after the reading of the President’s
message.
Burglars Rob A Postofllce.
Macon, Ga., (Special).—Burglars
broke into the postoffice at Broxton,
Ga., blew open the safe and secured
stamps and money to the value of
SSOO. No clue to the robbers.
Bit Sheriff’s Daughter.
Bristol, Va. (Special).—A heavily
armed posse is following the trail of
Wesley Wilkes, condemned negro,
and a white desperado named Eaton,
who escaped from the Gate City
(Va.) Jail, after murderously as
saulting Sheriff Broadwater and af
ter the negro had seriously wounded
the Sheriff’s daughter by biting her.
The men made their way to the
mountains of East Tennessee, and
[bloodhounds are on their trail.
THE CAPTAIN’S COSTLY ERROR
| Further Details of the Wreck of Tour
ist Steamer.
' Kingston (By Cable). —According
to reports received from Port Royal,
the Hamburg-American Line tourist
. steamer Prinzessin Victoria Luise,
which went ashore off that place dur
• ing the night of December 16, is
> likely to become a total wreck. The
I vessel is so close to shore that people
. can almost walk walk on board of
her from the beach. She is impaled
■ on a rock, and the seas are pounding
on her starboard side severely.
■ She has heeled heavily to star
i board, and it can be seen that her
. bottom is badly damaged, and that
her boilers and engines are severely
! injured. The German cruiser Bre
-1 1 men is still standing by the stranded
i | steamer and the steamer Virginia
■ went to the scene today to assist in
’ i the salvage work if possible, but the
i latter returned here after seeing the
! condition of the stranded ship.
S The, body of Captain Brunswig,
who killed himself in his cabin on
board the steamer after she went
ashore, was buried this afternoon.
’ The autopsy showed that the back
part of the Captain’s head had been
completely shattered by a rifle bul
let.
The crew of the stranded vessel
started later in the day for Kings
i ton. The Prinzessin Victoria Luise
is now practically abandoned. She
is fast impaled on a rock, and the
seas are pounding her starboard side
severely.
One of the passengers of the Prin
zessin Victoria Luise today gave the
following account of the disaster:
j “At about 9 o’clock on Sunday
; night, when we were abreast of Pori
Royal Light, the ship suddenly ap
peared to shudder; then she stopped,
and a terrible grinding noise was
heard from under her hull. The or
der was given to reverse the engines
and go full speed astern, but the
steamer remained fast,
i “The discipline displayed by the
officers and crew was excellent.
Every man kept to his post, the pas
sengers retained their presence of
: mind, and there was no panic. ltock
, ets were sent up from the stranded
; vessel, but apparently they were not
seen, for there was no response to
the signals from the shore. Eventu
ally the news of the wreck was taken
jto Kingston by a sailboat, which,
made slow progress, owing to the
i fact that the breeze was light. Af
| ter breakfast Monday we went
ashore, hunted up some native boats
and made our way to Kingston.
The news of the suicide of Captain
Brunswig was kept from the passen
gers for sometime.”
Norfolk, Va. (Special).—The Nor
folk wrecking tug Rescue sailed from
here with the wrecking barge Sharp
for Kingston, Jamaica, to make an
effort to float the Hamburg-Ameri
can Line tourist steamer Prinzessin
Victoria Luise, which went ashore
off Port Royal Sunday night, while
bound from Kingston to New York.
SEA INTO BURNING MINE.
Nova Scotia Coal Colliery Has Been
Ablaze Five Days.
Glace Bay, N. S. (Special).—Other
means having failed the tides of the
Atlantic Ocean will be utilized by the
Dominion Coal Company to drown
out the fire that has been raging since
Friday in the Hub Colliery. Day and
night shifts of men are being em
ployed to open up a concrete dam
placed some years ago at the base
of a cliff about a quarter of a mile
from the pit mouth, where formerly
old rooms were worked. An old pas
sage is being cleared out, and as
soon as this work is done the dam
will be broken down and the rising
tides will flow into the old rooms and
thence into the pit where the fire
is burning 60 feet below the sea
level. In a week it is expected the
sea will flood nearly the entire mine.
In another coal mine in this province
a fire has been burning for about two
years.
ROBBED OF SB,OOO.
Woman Who Had No Faith In Banks
Loses Money.
Philadelphia (Special).—Mrs. Ella
V. Kober was robbed of $6,000 by a
pickpocket in the holiday crowds in
tne shopping district here. The
money was paid to Mrs. Kober by
the Pennsylvania Railroad in settle
ment of a claim on the death of her
husband, who was killed in the elec
tric railroad thoroughfare wreck near
Atlantic City two months ago. Mrs.
Kober had no faith in banks and had
refused to accept a check from the
railroad in payment of the claim and
demanded cash. She received 30
SIOO and 6 SSOO notes, which she
sewed in a secret pocket in an un
derskirt.
White shopping with a friend she
discovered that the pocket had been
cut from her skirt and the money
taken.
Guilty Of Misuse Of Mails.
Chicago (Snecial). —Dr. Frederick
Whitney and John Jacoby were found
guilty by a jury in the United States
Court on a charge of using the mails
to furnish information where drugs
to be used for immoral purposes
could be obtained. Sentence was
deferred by Judge Humphrey.
ODDS AND -LNDS.
The British Premier announced
that the program of the second peace
conference would include the ques
tion of the limitation of armament.
The Spanish government has no
tified the Vatican that it cannot take
charge of the archives of the papal
nunciature at Paris.
By a decision of the United States
Circuit Court of Chicago the Yerkes
millions will go to establish the hos
pital he planned for New York.
Chancellor Day, of Syracuse Uni
versity, denounces what he calls the
socialist movement against, the
wealthy as "millionairephobia.”
Dakota, Montana and Minnesota
are short of coal and railroad cars.