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VOL. XXV.—NO. 363.
MORGAN HAD
A COOD YEAR
And Is Now Expected to Do
a Bountiful Santa
Clans Turn
CLERKS GET BIG BONUS
Duplication of Last Year's Welcome
Surprise Is Predicted This
Year.
FIRM CLEARED $42,000,000
IN TWELVE MONTHS
Which Would Make the Action of
Doubling Salaries Not a Burden
some One — Transactions Which
Yielded the Largest Returns in
1902.
Special to The Globe.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.— J. Pierpont
Morgan is expected to play Santa
Claus next Wednesday for the benefit
of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and,
although a little put of season, the
performance will have dramatic inter
est for the auditors. Last year the
big financier gave his clerks a cash
gift equivalent to 100 per cent of their
salary for twelve months, and this
year he is expected to make an equally
handsome gift.
It is said that the year now nearly
at hand has been a banner one for Mr.
Morgan. The net profits of his firm
in the various big enterprises he has
put through are estimated at $42,000,
--000. This is independent of the inter
est and dividends from investments,
the amount of -which no one knows,
but estimates of $10,000,000 are be
lieved to be within the mark.
The profits which the firm of J. P.
Morgan & Co. has received this year
from financing big industrial and
financial combinations are thus rough
ly, estimated: Louisville •& Nashville
merger, $6,000,000; Marion railroad
purchase, $350,000; Atlantic steamship
combination, $2,500,000; Northern Se
curities company, $4,500,000; harvester
combine, $5,500,000; financing the
United States Realty company, $3,000,
--000; additional steel underwriting pro
fits, $20,340,000; total, $42,190,000.
NATE SALSBURY
IS BURIED
Funeral Services For Late
Showman Conducted by
a Life-Long Friend.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Funeral serv
ices for the late Nate Salisbury were
held today under the auspices of the>
Masonic fraternity. The Rev. Dr. Bur
rill, of Fieeport, 111., a life-long friend
of the dead showman, preached the ser-|
mon. Many prominent theatrical peo-'
pie were in attendance.
TRANSPORT SHERMAN
STRIKES A ROCK
Scat Is Damaged, but Is Able tc Pro
ceed to Manila Withsut
Assistance.
MANILA, Dec. 28.—The United
States army transport Sherman struck
a rock near San Bernardino light, south
of Luzon, Friday night. The transport
sustained a heavy shock, and • some
*if her plates were damaged. After
the accident twenty-three inches of
water was found in her forward bilges
Hit was controlled by steady pumping.
the steamer proceeded for Manila un
!sr her own steam and arrived here
today.
When the Sherman struck the pas
j.'rngers on board were terrified, but
fhere was no disorder. They promptly
rook their stations, with life-preservers
on, in the- small boats. The officers
rf the Sherman handled the situation
splendidly. Her cargo was not dam
aged. It probably will be necessary
for her to dock at Hongkong.
GEN. FREMONT'S WIDOW DEAD.
Had Suffered for Three Years as a
Result of a Fall.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 28.—Mrs.
Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of Gen.
Fremont, who died last night at her
home in this city, was seventy-eight
years of age. Mrs. Fremont was taken
ill on Christmas morning. She gTew
rapidly worse and soon lapsed into un
consciousness, from which she never
rallied. For the past three years the
aged widow of the "Pathfinder" has
been extremely ill as a result of a fall
in which she suffered a dislocation of
the hip, which had since prevented her
from walking. Mrs. Fremont was the
daughter._of. Thomas H. Benton, for
thirty years a United States senator.
PRIVY COUNCILLOR
OF JAPAN DEAD
Count Sano's Death Takes Place in
Tokio Dec. 7.
TOKIO, Dec. 12, via Victoria, B. C,
Dec. 28.—The death of Count Sano
*ook place in Tokio on Dec. 7, in the
eighty-first year of his age. Count
Sano, who was a privy councillor at
the time of his death, was the founder
of the Japan Red Cross society and
the Fine Arts society. At one time hs
represented Japan in Italy and Aus
tria-Hungary. He vvaa minister of fi
nance. In 1887 he was made a vis
count and afterwards raised to the
rank of count.
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CALEB POWERS NEEDS. MONEY
Kentucky's Former State Secretary Renews Plea to
Public for Assistance.
GEORGETOWN, Ky., Dec. 28.—Ex-
Secretary o£ State Caleb Powers, who
has had two trials and now awaits in
jail here his third trial for complicity
in the murder of the late Gov. "William
Goebel, today issued the following ap
peal to the public:
"I have recently had written a num
ber of letters to different states, ask
ing for financial aid in my coming trial
for alleged complicity in the Goebel
murder. A portion of the press has,
through a misunderstanding of the
facts, endeavored to thwart my plan
for raising the much needed money
with which to defend myself by cir-
DAY'S NEWS SUMMARIZED
DOMESTIC—
Death list of Grand Trunk wreck re
mains at twenty-eight.
Caleb Powers, the former Kentucky
secretary of state, asks contributions of
the public to enable him to escape the
gallows.
PassLonist Fathers of the United States
begin celebration of their golden jubilee
at Pittsburg.
Eight violent deaths the harvest for
Sunday in Greater New York.
-J P. Morgan & Co. cleared $42,000,000
during the year.
WASHINGTON—
All army nominations below the rank
of major are held up for investigation by
the senate committee on military affairs.
FOREIGN—
Italian government denies the existence
of any animosity toward the United
States.
Gen. Miles is entertained by the em
press dowager and emperor of China and
will be the guest of honor~:at a diplo
matic dinner given by Minister Conger.
Family in Japan is arrested for con
ducting a baby farm.
Venezuela, must now select her course.
The defeat of the Moorish army at
Taza by the rebel followers of the pre
tender id officially confirmed.
Archbishop at Manila is instructed by
the pope to excommunicate all persons
attempting to establish a national church
in the Philippines.
LOCAL—
Rev. John M. Fulton offers to his con
gregation some ready-made resolutions.
Albert Heymann, charged with big
amy, is found by woman he is alleged to
have desarted and berated before a crowd
in the union depot.
Joseph A. Webber, crazed by the sup
posed poisoning of his children, leaps
f rom ,a train running at-the'rate of for
ty-five miles an hour and is unhurt.
New People's church is dedicated with
out ceremonial.
SPORTING—
Chicago police will not stop the Gard
ner-Carter fight.
Jockey Rein* returns to America, but
will go back to fight race club in France.
LEOPOLD WON'T
AGREE TO IT
Insists on Retaining Rights
as a Subject of Aus
trian Empire.
VIENNA, Dec. 28. —According to an
■interview published here Archduke,
Leopold has^fefused to sign a renunci
ation of his rights as an Austrian sub
ject. Emperor Francis Joseph insists
that the archduke resign everything
and never return to Austria. The arch
duke claims the payment of his ap
panage and declares that he will take
every legal step to fight against exile.
He sfeys he will never abandon his
rights as an Austrian subject.
GENEVA, Dec. 28.—Newspapers here
allege that the Swiss government has
refused the request of the German le
gation to expel the crown princess of
Saxony from Switzerland.
FURIOUS GALE RAGES
OFF NEWFOUNDLAND
Steamers Unable to Make Port and
Shipping Suffers
Considerably.
ST. JOHN'S, N. F.. Dec. 2S.—Another
furious gale has been raa-ing here for
the past thirty-six hours and has
caused much damage along the coast
linA It is feared that tha shipping will
suffer considerably. The Allan line
steamer Peruvian passed Cape Race
yesterday morning-, but she has not yet
been able to make port because of the
storm and the fog. She has on board
300 Canadian cattle which were ship
ped at Halifax because of the embargo
ajjinst Americn ports.
SENATE COMMITTEE HOLDS UP ARM
NOMINATIONS BELOW GRADE OF MAJOR
•.;..■ WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2S.—The I
senate:; committee", on 'military " affairs
held up pending an investigation all
of the army nominations \ sent in be
fore the recess- below the grade - of
major. .: .The.members of the r commit
tee have received a number of com
plaints ; about ' the manner of selection
of officers under the reorganization
law." ; - '■.•--.•»:. ~- r':' :^--:. :; ;. ■■■-,' -r.■:'.-. '.-:■'■
. It is claimed great, injustice has been
done officers who have -served quit.l: a
long time. Cojnplaint has been j made
that the men were .selected from
among those who L further - served '.': as
volunteers to fill original.vacancies and
that they, became captains |as "sconl as
they were "appointed.'. Others appointed,
it is claimed, waited from four.to seven
months before -acceptance of their
commissions, which date from the time
the appointment was . mads; : their, rank
being determined by the : dote of their
This gives thsm many numbers above
West Point graduates an(? others ap
pointed from the volunteers and who
MONDAY MORNING DECEMBER 29, 1902.
culating a report that these letters
were not genuine, because signed by
different persons for me. It is true
many of the letters were signed-"by
different persons, because it was im
possible for one person to send them
out in the limited time allowed before
my next trial, but all the letters are
genuine. I have been continuously in
the jails of this state for nearly three
years. All my means are exhausted.
The generosity of the people of Ken
tucky were taxed to the utmost in my
former so-called trials. In a few days
I am again .to be tried for my life.
Hence my appeal to my friends out
side of Kentucky."
PEACE OFFERING
MASKED DEATH
Good Will- Bottle of Wine
Poisoned by Those Who
Made thfe Present.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Poisoned, it is
charged, by means of a bottle of wine
given as a Christmas present, Richard
Cummings, fifty years of age, died to
day at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Shan
ahan, 4228 Ashland avenue, where he
was boarding. William Moniak, his
wife, Mrs. Theresa Moniak, and their
thirteen-year-old daughter, Mary, of
4226 Ashland avenue, were arrested to
day on suspicion of having poisoned
Cummings.
A bitter quarrel is said to have taken
place between Cummings and Mrs.
Shanahan on one side and the Moniaks
on the other. The wine, according to
the police, was given to Mrs. Shana
han by Mary Moniak on behalf of her
parents, as a peace offering. Mrs.
Shanahan drank some of it and said
she suffered severe pain afterwards.
She offered some of the wine to her
niece, who complained that it tasted
bitter. Cummings drank the remain
der and died twenty-four hours later.
An examination of Cummings' stomach
will be made tomorrow.
FELL FROM LOFT
DEATH ENSUED
Fatal Accident to Farm
Hand Who Had For-
tune in Home Town.
Special to The Globe.
WINONA, Minn., Dec. 23.—Peter
Stein lies dead in a. morgue at Cale
donia, Minn., as the result of a fall
which he took in a barn on a farm near
Hokah, a few miles south of here, on
Saturday night. Stein was .working o;n
a farm for a man by the name of
Hammer. Saturday night he went to
the barn to sleep and climbing up into
the hay loft he made a misstep and
fell to the floor below. His body was
found by Mr. Hammer the next morn
ing, Stein having probably died in
stantly as a result of the fall. Stein
has a fortune in Milwaukee, but was
working in this section of the country
making his own living, owing to fam
ily troubles, which he has had at
home. He was fifty years of age and
a painter by trade. Milwaukee rela
tives will care for the remains.
M. MESSIER HIT
ADMIRAL GARVAIS
Council of Ministers Will Investigate
the Quarrel at
Once.
PARIS, Dec. 29.—The Figaro this
morning says that Admiral Garvais re
cently had a personal encounter at the
ministry of marine with M. Messier,
who is chief of cabinet under M. Pel
letan, the minister of marine. M. Mes
sier struck the admiral with his fist
and was afterward ordered out of the
office.
The Figaro adds that the matter
will come up at the council of min
isters tomorrow.
Admiral Garvais, until he was re
tired the other day, owing to having
reached the age limit, was the admiral
designated to the supreme command
of the French navy in case of war.
Plague Has Abated.
MAZATLAN, Mex.. Dec. 26.—There is
better feeling now that the plague has
somewhat abated In virulence. The en
ergetic measures taken by the author
ities have had excellent results. The
people leaving town have in some cases
encountered sanitary cordons on ap
proaching neighboring villages and have
returned. Foreign ships touching here
refuse to take passengers or freight. The
deaths are diminishing notably, only four
being reported on Thursday last and dur
ing- the subsequent days but few cases.
at once entered the service anfl did
much hard work while the men who
delayad acceptance were enjoylns
themselves or attending to business
interests.
Another allegation made is that quite
a large number of men appointed un
der the reorganization law immediate
ly became captains of artillery and
were placed in charge of guns and ma
chinery of which they had no knowl
edge.
To obviate this t difficulty to some
extent the secretary of war with the
approval of the committee on military
affairs secured the resignation of
seventeen second lieutenants of artil
lery, who thereupon "were named to fill
original vacancies as first lieutenants
in other branches of the service and in
some instances very soon were made
captains.
It Is expected that the sub commit
tee which is investigating a great
number of -recent promotions will be
ready to report about the time con*
gress reconvenes.
IT IS NOW UP
TO VENEZUELA
That Country Informed of
Attitude of European
Powers by Us.
CARACAS, Dec. 28.—United Spates
Minister Bowen and Lopez Baralt,
Venezuelan minister of foreign dffairs,
held a long conference last night. Mr.
Bowen, obeying instructions from
Washington, conveyed to Senor Baralt.
President Roosevelt's refusal to act as
arbitrator in the Venezuelan difficulty.
c recommended that the matter be,
taken to the international peace court
at The Hague, which had: been ex
pressly organized to consider questions
in which the honor of a country or
the disposition of territory were not
concerned.
He suggested the organization of a
committee to sit in Washington, the
allied powers to be represented on this
commission by their, ambassadors to
the United States and Venezuela by a
delegate. The committee is to sign a
document setting forth the matters to
be decided at The Hague court. Mr.
Bowen said-also that Germany would
not press for an immediate payment
and that she' had agrreed to accept a
guarantee based on a percentage of
the customs receipt?.
As a. result of thife conference Senor
Baralt telegraphed Jresident Castro to
return from La Victoria. The presi
dent will reach here tomorrow and
Venezuela's answer to the foregoing
proposal will be given then.
It is understood that Venezuela will
make any concession, even abandoning
her demand that her navy be returned.
Through the Venezuelan delegate to
the committee the Venezuelan govern
ment will .ask that the blockade be
lifted at once.
Senor Baralt has expressed the de
sire that Mr. BoWSn represent Vene
zuela on the committee; if Mr. Bowen
cannot accept the "post it is suggest
ed in official circles that it be given
to W.. W. Russfell, secretary to the
American legation.
We Were Peacemaker.
WASHINGTON, D, C, Dec. 28.—The
Venezuelan government is now in pos
session of the complete notes of Great
Britain and Germany containing the
various reservations made by these
governments before the decision was
reached that the issues between Vene
zuela and the European governments
having claims against her should be
referred to The Hague tribunal for ar
bitration. The United States having
acted as an intermediary in the steps
leading up to the acceptance of arbi
tration now turns over to the Vene
zuelan government the formal work of
completing the basif. for a full hear
ing before, The Hague. The notes were
transmitted to the Venezuelan gov
ernment through United States Min
ister Bowen at Caracas.
TEA MERCHANTS ON
ANXIOUS BENCH
Yokohama Dealers to Ask Government
tc Withhold New Ten Cents a
Pound Duty.
YOKOHAMA, Dec. 11, via Victoria.
B. C, Dec. 28. —The report that the
United States government will impose
the duty of 10 cents a pound on tea
now held in bond even though with
drawal- may not take place until after
Jan. 1, when the duty is removed on
new arrivals, has caused consternation
among 1 merchants. The tea merchants,
jobbers, grocers and others interested
will endeavor to induce the govern
ment to withhold such action which
has come upon the market like a thun
derbolt. The tea tax in America, which
was one of the Spanish war taxes, ia
to be lifted on Jan. 1 and in anticipa
tion of that event a large quantity of
Japanese tea hHS been placed in bond
in American Seajjorts.
FLORIDA CROPS
ESCAPE COLD WAVE
Warnings Are Sent in Time tc Protect
All Vegetable
Growers.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla ; , Dec. 28.—The
cold wave has done no material dam
age to any crops tn Florida. While a
temperature of from 27 to 30 degrees
above zero was experienced in some
sections, just below the freezing line,
on the west coast last ntght, from frost,
warnings had b.een sent out in ample
time and practically all vegetable
growers who could be affected had pre
pared for it.
COLD WAVE'S BACK
BONE IS FRACTURED
nWarm Wind From Sout Raises the Ter-
perature to an Altitude of
21 Deer, es.
Prospects are good j : continued warm
weather, with posgibi} more snow. The
temperature continues, to rise through
out the day yestesdai and also through
the night. The them? \eter at 1 o'clock
this morning registere 21 degrees above
zero, with a warm sq herly wind.
Snow flurries continued during the
night at intervals, but .the fall amounted
to practically nothing. The warm south
erly wind has broken the backbone of the
cold snap, and warmer weather is pre
dicted for several days to .come.
Socialist Labor People Give Party.
The local section. Socialist Labor party,
held a ball and Christinas tree party at
Federation hall last night. About 600
were present and a pleasing programme
of speeches, songs, instrumental selec
tions and recitations ""a& Tendered by the
members. Several hundred dollars was
realized, the net sum of ;which will go to
swell the Minnesota state fund of theSo-'
eialist Labor pacty.
Ministers Will Not Meet Today.
The weekly meeting of the Methodist
ministers will not be held this afternoon.
Arrangements have beon made for a
union meeting of the Twin- City ministers
in Minneapolis, Jan. 13.
Christianity's Answer.
Rev. DaVid Morgan delivered a ser
mon at the Sethel last evening on
"Christianity's Answer to the Present
Day Problem."
Dow Academy Burns.
LITTLETON. N. H., Dec. 2&—Dow
academy, 'at Franconia, named for the
late A. Dow. of Charlestown. .Mass.. has
been burned. Mr. Dow presented the
academy to the town twenty-live years
ago, and at his death in ISS6 he left it
• $60,000,
HAPPINESS TO BE HER. INHERITANCE.
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Little Daughter of the Ironmaster, Who Recently Iledared He Would No
Make Her Fabulously Rich.
SUNDAY IS A DAY OF VIOLENT
DEATHS IN GREATER NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. —Eight persons
met violent deaths in Greater New
York today. Three were dear cases of
suicide and the others resulted from a
variety of causes.
MRS. MARY CLARKE, agecl forty-five,
wife of the chief officer of the steamer
Beverly, died from the result of gas
poisoning, self-administered.
GEORGE SIMON, forty-six, and JACOB
SCHWARTZ, thirty-five years of age,
died after drinking carbolic acid.
MARY STACK, aged twenty-four, of
Whitsonville. Mass., was found dead in
a hotel. Escaping gas is given as the
cause.
GOLDEN JUBILEE
OF PASSIONISTS
Is Being Celebrated at Pitts
burg With Brilliant
Ceremonies.
PITTSBURG, Pa,, Dec. 28.—The
golden jubilee of the Passionists
Fathers in the United. States is being
celebrated in the monastery of St. Paul
of the Cross. The first session was
opened this morning at 10:30 with a
solemn blessing of a marble calvary
group over the altar and a solemn
pontifical mass. The blessing of the
calvary group was conducted with
much religious pomp by his eminence,
Cardinal James Gibbons, of Baltimore,
assisted by Rev. Father Joseph Suehr,
with Rev. William Kittell and Rev. H.
L. Goebel, as deacons of honor.
In the sanctuary were Right Rev.
Bishop Phelan, ranking next to card
inal; Most Rev. Archbishop Ryan, of
Philadelphia; Most Rev. Archbishop
Elder, Right Rev. John W. Shanna
han, Right Rev. P. J. Donahue, Right
Rev. Leo Haid, O. S. 8., and a number
of prelates, dignataries and priests of
this and other dioceses.
Solemn Pontifical Glass.
Following the blessing of the cruci
fixion came solemn pontifical mass
with Most Rev. P. J. Ryan as cele
brant, assisted by Very Rev. E. A.
Bush, V. G., of Allegheny, as assistant
pries*; Rev. J. S. Schramm, as deacon.
Very Rev. James Kent* Stone preached
the sermon, taking for his topic "St.
Paul, the Saint of the Cross."
The afternoon service commenced at
3:30 o'clock with solemn pontifical
vespers and benediction. Rev. A. A*
Lambing, of Wilklnsburg, acted as as
sistant priest to Cardinal Gibbons, who
was on the throne. Archbishop P. J.
Donahue, of Wheeling, acted as cele
brant at vespers with the Passionists
Fathers as chanters in copes. Rev.
Charles Cogne, of McKee's Rocks, de
livered the sermon, speaking on the
"Triumphs of the Cross."
Mass will be offered tomorrow morn-
Ing at 10:30 for the deceased Arch
bishop Burke, of Albany, being the
celebrant. Cardinal Gibbons will be
present at the mass, but leaves at 1
o'clock in a special car over the Balti
more & Ohio for Wheeling, W. Va~,
where he will be given" a reception by
Bishop P. J. Donahue.
VICE ADMIRAL CERVERA
CHIEF OF NAVY STAFF
Man Who Surrendered Spanish Fleet
at Last Forgiven.
MADRID, Dec. 28.—The appointment
of Vice Admiral Cervera, who surren
dered to the American fleet off Santi
ago de Cuba, to the post of chief of
staff of the navy, has been published in
the Official Gazette.
ITALIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY
DENIES EXISTENCE OF ANY ANIMOSITY
ROME, Dec. 23.—11 having: been re
ported that Commander William IL
Reeder, of the United States training
ship Hartford, said the Hartford would
not come to an Italian port, fearing
an unfavorable reception on account of
the unpleasant incident at Venice in
connection with the visit of the officers
of the Uited States cruiser Chicago
last spring, the Italian government of
ficially denies the existence of acy ani-
PRICE TWO CENTS. j gfcES&ts.
An unidentified man was found in his
room unconscious.
MARY SERLES, aged thirty-eight, drank
wood alcohol and died in a hospital.
HENRY BUNKEY, aged twenty-seven,
was found on the sidewalk with a frac
tured skull and died later.
Two men are dead as the result of falls,
one in the power house of a. street rail
way company'arid the other In a lodging
house.
AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL unsuccess
fully attempted suicide by swallowing
carbolic acid, and a woman, thirty-two
years old, hanged herself in a police
station, but was cut down in time to
save her life.
KEEP PRISONERS
OUT OF SIGHT
— --~ -,
The Humbert Family Being
Taken Back -to Paris'_' i
for TriaL :
- PARIS, Dec. 28. —The train bringing
to Paris the members of the Humbert
family, arrested in ' Madrid,; was due to
arrive at 4:52 tomorrow morning, ''- but
owing to an accident to a brake, it
was 1 two .; hours | late at ' the - Spanish,
frontier, thereby missing connections
-with, the -Paris express at Bordeau. '--
: At Hendaye, on the 1 Spanish i frontier,
the car s containing the : prisoners was
detached from the Madrid train out
side the station on the Spanish side
of the frontier and the Humberts were
hurried into a French car, held in read
iness and handed over to the I French
officials, j After . this had been - done the
Spanish police retired. •
The change of. cars was accomplised
so rapidly that the waiting crowd j
barely caught a glimpse of ; the party,
but it greeted the prisoners -with iron
ical cheers and hqotings. This greatly
enraged Mme. Humbert. ■---'».- ■■-.
i'After the car had been ; attached to
the French train the journey was \ con- J
• tinued. \ Large: crowds 3 gathered .at : all
the stations along the r line and waited
. for .. hours in ". the < hope ;of seeing the
-Humberts. They were disappointed,
however, as .the' blinds of the : car were
kept closely drawn. -^ : . ; f
CUBAN SENATE
WILL NOT HURRY
Reciprocity Treaty Will Not
Be Taken Up Until
After Holidays.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 23.—Min
ister Squiers has cabled the- state de
partment that no special • session of
the Cuban senate will be called prior
to the reassembling of-the island con
gress after the holidays. The sugges
tion had been made that such a ses
sion of the senate might be held, dur
ing the holidays for the purpose of
passing on the reciprocity treaty be
tween the United States and Cuba, but
according to the information received
from Havana, this intention has been
abandoned and the measure will come
before' the Cuban senate in regular
form in January.
mosity toward the United States, j
er among the Italian c people or on the
part lof I the: Italian i government, This !
lack of animosity, It is pointed out, Is ;
proved üby J the last Italian ; note on the ]
Venezuelan matter, in it was
said that" Italy had unlimited confi
dence :: in -^ President "Roosevelt. 1$
American > ships •of war. '_ come -to Italy,
the Associated Press :: is '• requested to j
say, they ,' will -be ; heartily .- welcomed
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DEATH LIST
NO LARGER
But Other Victims of the
Grand Trunk Wreck
May Not Survive.
BODY IN SNOW ALL NIGHT
Firemen Not Found Until Scarchert
Had Looked for Severs!
Hour*
OPERATOR AT FAULT PUTS
BLAME ON DISPATCHER
Says He Had Orders to Cancel the
Clearance of Train No. s—Runaway
Street Car Injures Several Return
ing From Passionist Fathers' Jubilee,
LONDON, Ont., Dec. 28.—There
were no deaths today among the per
sons injured in Friday night's collision
at Wanstead, on the Sarnia branch
of the Grand Trunk railway, between
Pacific express No. 5 west bound and
an east bound freight, in which twen
ty-eight persons lost their lives.
Tonight at Victoria hospital, though
several of the injured are still in a
serious condition, it is expected all will
recover.
The body of Fireman Ricketts, of
the express train, which was last night
believed to be buried under the
wrecked engines, was found today cov
ered with snow in the ditch beside the
track. One arm was completely torn
off and the body was otherwise
mangled. Death must have been in
stantaneous.
It is believed the body was thrown
clear of the engine and into the deep
snow in the ditch where, in the storm
and darkness, the wreckers failed to
find it Friday night. Snow fell rapidly
all that night, so that Ricketts' body
was completely covered at daybreak
and was not found.
Today one of the searchers was at
tracted by a little mound in the ditch
and investigation showed Ricketts"
body under the snow.
Tonight there is but one unidentified
body In the morgue, that of a woman
ticketed from New York to Duluth.
The other body, that of a man, un
identified last night, was today identi
fied as that of George D. Southern, of
Lockport, N. Y.
Operator Makes a Statement.
Andrew Carson, the operator at
Watford, the first station east of the
wreck, whose failure to deliver orders
to Conductor McAuliffe, of the express
train, to pass the freig-ht at Wanstead,
is said by the Grand Trunk officials to
have caused the wreck, this afternoon
• made his first statement since the
wreck. He says he received the order
for No. 5, the express, to pass the
freight at Wanstead at 9:4S o'clock,
but declares positively that a few min
utes later Dispatcher J. G. Kerr, at
London, called him and ordered him to
"bust,or cancel" the order. He said:
"About 5:45 o'clock, after calling
Wyoming and ascertaining that the
freight was there, the dispatcher called
me rapidly a half dozen times. When
I answered on the wire he told me to
'bust' this order. I wrote 'bust it'
across the order just as No. 5 was com
ing in. Conductor McAuliffe came in
and asked me why the order board
was out against him for. I told him
we had had an order for him, but the
dispatcher had busted it. He asked
me to hurry and write him a clearance
order, which I did.
"After the train had started and was
out of my reach, the dispatcher learned
the freight had left W ryoming. I told
him I could not stop No. 5, as it had
left. He immediately began calling
King's Court Junction, the station be
tween Watford a*:d Wanstead, on the
railroad wire, and! tried to raise them
on a commercial wire. We both failed
to do this, however, until after the ex
press had passed the junction."
Carson admitted that he knew it was
against the rules to cancel a train order
without sending a substitute for it,
but said that the dispatcher was his
superior officer, and he disliked to
question his order or dispute his au
thority for taking this action.
Order Book Shows No. Cancellation.
The order book in the local Grand
Trunk office does not show that the
order was "busted" or canceled, as
Carson claims. According to the book
it was still in force and should have
been delivered to the conductor of the
express.
Kerr has made no statement, not
even to the railway- officials, and will
not until he takes the stand at the in
quest.
District Superintendent George J.
Jones, at Toronto, says that the rule
against bursting or canceling orders
was the strictest in the company's
book.
"I do not think it has been violated,"
he said, "since the present dispatch
ing: rules went into effect. Dispatch
er Kerr is one of the best and most
efficient men in our service. 'He is the
operator who accompanied the train
bearing the Duke and Duchess of York
on the royal tour of Canada a year ago.
I have every confidence in him."
■ Other Grand Trunk officials who
were present alsc expressed their con
fidence in Kerr.
Coroner Dr. Harvey, of Lambton
county, will begin the inquest at Wy
oming tomorrow.
The possibility of pneumonia devel
oping among the wounded as the re
sult of their exposure while pinned In
the wreck is feared by the surgeons
tonight. Several of them show symp
toms of the disease.
JUBILEE CROWD HURT.
Runaway Car Wrecked by Failure af
Brake to Work.
PITTS3URG, Pa., Doc. 23. — The
great crowds attending the golden ju
bilee celebration of the Passionist fa
thers taxed the capacity of the street
cars to and from the monastery, and
an accident of consequence, resulted.
Nine passengers in a s runaway
Southern traction car were, badly hurt,
but none seriously. Two newspaper
men, John M. Eagan, of the Times, and
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