Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 25, 1907, Page 4

Blank Books, Ledgers, Journals, Etc., Stationery, Christmas S Rubber Stamps and Pads, Fountain Pens, Letter Coj Kneaded Rubber Squares, Township Plats in book form, Fine quali ADDITIONAL LOGAL MATTER Baseball Meeting Postponed. The meeting which was called for tomorrow evening at the Markham hetel, to talk over | basetall matt.rs, has been pos- | poned until at the su.u:e placeand the same | Thursday evenng, | iasm Was Contagious. ‘Whitetield, whose dranatic apy bis listeners were always @ noteworthy part of his sermons, once preached to 9. body of seamen In New York. In the course of his sermon he introduced the following words: “Well, my boys, we have a clear sky and are making fine headway over a smooth sea before a light breeze, and we shall soon lose sight of land. Dut what means this sudden lowering of the heavens and that dark cloud rising trom the western horlzon? Hark Don’t you hear the distant thumn Don’t you see those flashings of ning? There is a storm gathering! Every man to his duty! How the waves rise and dash against the ship! The alr Is dark! The tempes: Our masts are gone! The ship is on her beam ends! What next?” The hands of every sailor were grip- ping the pews in front of them, and a wild excltement was In their eyes. And when the preacher reached the climax of his dramatic speech they sprang to their feet in a body and shouted, “Take to the longboa ) The Price of Silence. A well known business man in a town not far from Cincinnati discover- ed one morning on entering his office that his safe was out of order. Ie Im- medlately telegraphed to Philadelphia for an expert. ‘When the latter arrived he found that the safe, an old fashioned affair locked with a key, could not be opened. After a hasty examination the expert, taking a piece of wire, dug out from the key a mass of dust and lint. Ile then opened the safe in the twinkliug of an eye. The business man wore a sickly smile as he asked meekly: “How much?” “Pwenty dollars.” “Do any of your firm's patrons here know of your visit?” “Not a soul but yourself.” “Then,” added the business man, “here’s $40. I'll take it to be a great favor if you'll hustle out by the first train. If any one In this town knew that I paid a man $20 to dig dirt out of a key for me I'd never do another dol- lar's worth of business in the whole state.”—New York Times. How She Knew He Lost. “I can always tell whether my hus- band wins or loses at poker,” said the ‘woman in a red gown at an afternoon tea the other day. “I always know when my husband ‘wins,” sald a woman In pink. “If he wins he makes peace with me by buy- ing a present, but it is only when he wins that I am told of the game at all. On other occasions when he comes In late it Is always because of a press- ing business engagement.” “My husband lost last night,” the woman In red said. “I had been out late myself to a business meeting of ‘the club and was still up when he came In. He frowned upon seeing the bouse illuminated and said: *‘For heaven's suke turn out some of these lights and cut down ex- penses!” "—Kansas City Star. Shooting the Whale. The Norweglan whale fsheries e: tend over nearly the whole of the Ar ‘He sea, from the north of Norw to- ‘ward Spitzbergen and even to the Shet- land islands. The whales are shot from small steamers, the implement used being the so called bomb harpoon, an arrow shaped iron spear furnished with a line, which is discharged from & small cannon. The whale often drags the vessel a long distance until 1t becomes exhausted and expires. It is then towed to the anchorage, where it 1s stripped of the blubber. This whale fishery was begun by a well known Norweglan, Svend Foyn, in 1868. At first only the blubber was utllized for train oll; now the bones are crushed for manure, and the flesh 18 used for fodder. New York's First Graveyard, The first graveyard in New York city was established In the year 1633. It was situated on the west side of what 1s now Broadway above Morris strect. The oldest grave of which there is a record Is that of a child, marked with a sandstone slab, with a skull, cross- bones and winged hour glass and the following Inscription: W. C. Here Lyes the Body Of Richard Church- Er Son Of Willla- E M Churcher Who | - Died The 5 Of April | 1681 Of Age 6 Years 5 And 5 Months, Pat’s Conclusion. A native of the Emerald Isle chanced to meet a fellow workman who was once his boon companion in a powder factory where a terrible explosion had | occurred. “Are you glad you left the arsenal, Pat?” ) “Bedad, I am, Micky. If I had been working there now, I would have been dead a year ago!’—London Tit-Bits, An Obliging Man. Helne (at the village barber's)—I say, do you know why this man's shop 18 hung all over with sacred pictures? Beine—Oh, yes; that is for the conven- lence of his customers, so that they Salt Lake City, Leigh, a well known newspaper man | of Salt Lake, was killed, State Repre- | | Josept | stow on_the Copper 1 and on track—No. 1 hard, 813%c; No. COLLISION AT MINING CAMP. | S i Results In Death of a Legislator and a Newspaper Man. i Feb. 25.—Clinton B. | Taft of Wayne county 1 and Speaker Harry | ghtly hurt in 2 colll-| lelt railway at| amp of Bingham. tins were members of a ing the Bingham | representing the i ILake Hera e was of a prominent Keatucky family and was at one time city editor of the Owens- boro (Ky esseng His brother, Edward Leizh, is private secretary to Governor Beckham. Representative Taft hours after the accident. died three STEA MARICN BURNED. Eight Negro Passenzers Perished in Fire on Vessel. Charleston, 8. C., Feb. 25—Fire broke out in the forward part of the steamer Marion when tho vessel wus four hours out from Charleston. The steam was burned to the water’s edge. Eight negro passengers were burned to death. There were ten white and thirty n passengers aboard and when the fire was discov- ered all of them were asleep. Fanned by a strong brecze th: flames made rapid headw nd the passengers b came pan icken and interferced | with the efforts being made to save them. Several of the white passen- ger including the captain, were burned, but it is believed all will re- cover. FIFTEEN PERSONS INJURED. Stock Train Hits a Passenger Train at Sargent, Minn. Winona, Minn., Feb, 25.—While pas- senger train No. 6, southbound on the Chicago Gre Western, was waiting on the main line at Sargent, Minn., to meet a freight train, an extra stock train, aiso uthbound, crashed into the rear end of the passenger train. Every coach and the baggage car ‘were overturned. No one was killed, but fifteen were injured, one, the bag- gageman, perhaps fatally, Object to Proposed Museum. Chicago, Feb. 2 with offices on Mic the proposed site of the Field museus has filed an application for an injune- tion preventinz the trustees of the the commissionars of (ne| system from locating the museum on the Lake front park. Kingston People Given a Scare. Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 25.—A v lent shock of earthquake has occurred here, which caused quite a scare. It was the heaviest shock since the dis- aster of Jan. 14. No loss of lite oc- curred, but several of the damaged buildings collapsed. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. George 0. Whitney, one of the best known financiers in the South, is dead at New Orleans following a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Whitney was fifcy years old and a native of New York city. William W. Hayden, a manufac- turer of gold and silver novelties do- Ing business in New York city, is dead at his home in Newark, N. J., as the result of a pistol shot wound self- inflicted several days ago. Emperor William will dine with Am- bassador and Mrs. Charlemagne Tower March 7. This will be the fourth time his majesty has dined at the American embassy since Mr. Tower has heen at Berlin. The chict of engineers of the war department has decided adversely upon the application of the sanitary board of Chicago for a permit to re- verse the flow of the Calumet river by withdrawing water from Lake Mich- tgan. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneagolis, Feb. 23.—Wheat—May, T9%c; July, 80%c; Sept., T8% @78%e. On track—No. 1 hard, 821 @82% No. 1 Northern, 811%@81%c; No. 2 Northern, 794 @79%c; No. 8 North- ern, T5@T6c. Duluth. Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Feb, 23.—Wheat—To arrive 80%¢c; No. 2 Northern, , 81%¢; Sept., 8% o arrive and on track, $1.20%; May, $1.22%; July, $1.22; Oct., $1.18%. St. Paul Union 8Stock Yards. St. Paul, Feb. 23.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.25; common to zood, $4.00@5.00; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.50@1.75; veals, $150@ 5.75. Hozs—$6.80@6.95. Sheep—Weth- ers, $4.75G good to prime spring lambs, $6.50@7.15. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Feb. 22.—Wheat—May, 78 @78%e; July, 78%@78%e. Corn— May, 47%¢; July, 47T@47%c. Oats— | July, 37%c. Pork— 5 July, $16.87%c. Butter 2. dairies, 20@ Poultry—Tur- keys, chickens and springs, 1lc. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Feb. 23.—Cattle—Beeve S tockers and feeders; $2.50@ Texans, §3.65@1.75; calves, $6.00 @7.75. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $6.80@7.15; good heavy, $7.05@7.15; rough heavy, $6.80@6.95; light, $6.80 may call on all the saints when he, shaves them—Meggendorfer Blatter, || $3-00@5.85; lambs, $4.75@7.65. @17.07%; pigs, $6.15@6.80. Sheep, ; cows and heifers, $1.60@ FOR CRUELTY TO INMATES. Former Employes of Ohio Asylum Indicted. Columbus, 0., Feb. 25.—The Athens i county grand jury has returned five indictments against former employes of the state asylum for alleged cruel- ties practiced against inmates of the institution. Robert Reeder, Henry Harkins and G. F. Bobo were indicted for second degree murder. J. Barnes, an inmate committed from Monroe c¢ounty. It is charged that Barnes was “trimped out” by the wbove employes and that he died from the injuriss inflicted Edward Hunter is charged with as- sault and battery on one of the in- mates. Hunter is a former attendant of the asylum. William Blackburn of Athens, a former attendant, is charged with the same offense. The grand jury says in its report that the rules of the asylum are flagrantly violated and that there is marked absence of co-operation among the altendants, physicians and supervising officers and that it is a common thing for the attendants to use rubber hose, clubs, straps and paddles in the punishment of the in- mates. CHIEF OF POLICE INJURED. Bomb Thrown Beneath Carriage of Odessa Official. Odessa, Feb. 25—A bomb was thrown beneath the carriage of the chief of police, Colonel von Hess- berg, as he was driving to the center of the city. The explosion of the bomb wrecked the carriage, severely injuring the chief of police, and shat- tered the windows of all the houses in the vicinity. The would-be assassin escaped. Chiet of Police von Hessberg is ac- cused of being the instigator of the last anti-Semitic riots here. THAW’S ATTORNEYS WILL VIGOR- OUSLY OPPOSE COMMISSION IN LUNACY. New York, Feb. 25.—Any atterapt which may be made by District At- torney Jerome to have a commission i lunacy appointed to examine Harry K. Thaw will be vigorously opposzed by Thaw’s attorneys, according to a statement by one of Thaw’s counsel. This statement was called forth by persistent rumors that it is M. Je- rome's intention to apply for such a coinmission as soon as he completes the cross-examination of Doctors Bin- gaman end Deemar, the alienists. “If Mr. Jerome makes any such move as that,” said Mr. Peabody, who had just left Thaw in the Tombs, “Mr. Delmas, supported by other counsel, will fight against it to the last ditch.” Regarding a statement to the eifect that $300,000 is to be settled upon Mrs. Harry K Thaw by her husband's family for the position she has taken in the trial the following official stalement was given out by Mrs. William Thaw, the prisoner’s mother, through her attorneys: “Mrs. William Thaw desires it un- derstood that the statement that she or any of her family gave any money or any other inducements to Mrs. Evelyn Thaw for the position she has taken is untrue, unwarranted and un- Just.” IN NEW YORK CITY. Daughter of Wealthy Philadelphian Cannot Be Found. New York, Feb. 25.—The police of this city and a corps of private de- tectives are searching for fourteen- year-old Mary Clay, daughter of a wealthy Philadelphian. According to the information given out at police headquarters the girl left Auburn on the afternoon of Feb. 13 and reached New York city the following morning. That day she ap- plied to the Y. W. C. A. for employ- ment and was sent to a home for working girls in the Bronx. She re- mained in the latter place until last Saturday, when she went down town with another girl to do some shop- ping. The girls became separated in the crowded shopping district and no trace of Mary has been found since that time. MISSING SON'S DISGRACE CAUSES DEATH. Fifth Fatality Resulting From Graft- ing Scandal. Milwaukee, Feb. 25.—The death of the mother of Edward Strauss, the boss boodler, whose confessions re- sulted in nearly 200 indictments for grafting, is the fifth fatality to resuit directly from these cases. Mrs. Strauss died of a broken heart, as the result of the disgrace of her son's confessions. Supervisor Fowle, in- dicted on Strauss' testimony, com mitted suicide. Barney Cooke died in jail of consumption. One confessed grafter committed suicide and the mother of another drowned herself in shame. Escaped Prisoner Perishes. Dover, Del., Feb. 25.—Juniper Ben- son, a negro life prisoner, who was {among those who escaped from the Dover jail during the night after over- powering a keeper, was found frozen to death on the platform of a railroad station at Woodside. William Fisher, another " negro fugitive, surrendered, saying he would rather be in jail than freeze to death, A posse is still out looking for the other fugitives. They are | eharged with the murder of William PREPARED TO FIGHT MOVE, BY UNANIMOUS VOTE HOUSE PASSES BILL LIMITING WORKING HOURS OF RAIL. ROAD EMPLOYES. SONSIDERED UNDER SPECIAL RULE MEASURE IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL AND IS SENT TO CONFERENCE. Washiugton, Feb. 25—The house committee on rules during the day reported a rule permitting the taking up of the .so-called sixteen-hour bill for railway employes and has amend- ed the house substitute to the La Fol- lette bill o that the changes are first in the interest of the people, second in the Interest of the employes and in the final analysis in the interest of the railroads. The amendment was adopted by a vote of 279 ayes, nays none, and the following conferees were appointed on the part of the house, Messrs. Hep- burn of Jowa, Sherman of New York and Davy of Louisiana. In discussing the measure Mr. Dal- zell (Pa.) sald he believed the bill very much stronger than the La Fol- lette bill, for the house bill covered mail trains and excursion trains, which, he said, were wholly left out of the La Follette bill. Mr. Williams of Mississippi, the minority leader, congratulated the Re- publicans and the country on the amendments made by the rule. He said the Republicans had seen a new light and they were enacting legisla- tion which the Democrats had stood for from the beginning. Mr. Bartlett of Georgia said that the change that had come over the spirit of the Republicans was trace- able only to the “big stick” and he asserted that the changed conditions had been due to the attitude of the Democratic members. BLOW AT SPECIAL AGENTS. House Amends Sundry Civil Appre- priation Bill. ‘Washington,, Feb. 25.—Mr. Mondell of Wyoming succeeded In getting his amendment to the sundry civil bill adopted. The bill has an appropria- tion of $250,000 for the pay and trav- eling expenses of special agents under the department of the interior to pro- tect the public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry. The amendment provides that no part of the appropriation shall be available for the examination of the lands embraced in any entry upon which final proof has been made un- less the department has information farnishing good grounds to suspeot fraud or non-compliance with the law as to that specific entry. Mr. Mondell insisted that the per- nicious activity of special agents was an Insult to every honest settler upon the public domain. AGREE ON LACEY BILL. Indians to Get Tribal Funds If They Are Competent. ‘Washington, Feb. 25.—The house and senate couferees have agreed on the Lacey bill, which provides for the distribution of the Indian tribal funds pro rata to all those mixed and full- blood Indians whom the secretary of the interior may decide to be com- petent to run ‘es>ir own affairs. This Is of niach importance to *he Northern Minnesota tribes, as there are many of them who have consid- erable amounts to their credit. When Simon Michelet, superintendent at ‘White Harth, arrives here in a few days he will take up the matter of preper distribution with the Iudian office. NO ACTION IS TAKEN. Aldrich Financial Bill Senate. ‘Washington, Feb. 25.—Senator Al drich during the day succeeded in having the agricultural bill tempo- rarily laid aside in order that his financial bill might receive further | consideration. As soon as the Aldrich measure was taken up Senator Nel- son resumed his argument in support of his amendment requiring the banks to pay interest on government de- posits. The bill was laid aside at 3 o’clock, no action having been taken. Senator Aldrich gave notice that he -would again call the bill up at the earliest possible time. | MENTAL ~ CONDITION SERIOUS. Mrs. McDonald’s Reason May Never Be Restored. Chicago, Feb. 25.—Mrs. Flora Me- Donald was arraigned in the munic- Before the charge of killing Webster S. Guerin. Her mental condition was such that the case was continued until March &. to give a connected statement of the shooting and it Is sald by her physi- clang that her reason may never be restored. Fatally Shot by Robbers. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 25.—Amos Clark, ! superintendent of the Nixon Manufac- ' turing company, was shot and robbed |of $600 while ‘on his way to pay oft his men. It Is sald his wounds are fatal. ipal court during the day on the. Mrs. McDonald has not yet been able | 1 streets. DUNNE RENOMIMATED MAYOR OF CH{CAGO AGAIN AT THE HEAD OF DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET. HARRISON WITHDRAWS FROM CONTEST FORMER EXECUTIVE A CANDI DATE FOR PLACE AT THE PRIMARIES. | Chicago, Feb. 25.—The Democratic city convention has made the follow- ing nominations for the leading city offices: Mayor, Edward F. Dunne, the pres- ent incumbent; city treasurer, John E. Traeger; city clerk, Thomas F. Little. I The name of Carter H. Harrison, who was a candidate at the primaries, EDWARD F. DUNNE. Was not presented to the convention. Previous to the naming of candidates the friends of Mr. Harrison announced that he desired to withdraw. The convention adopted resolutions of sympathy for Fred A. Busse, a lead- ing candidate for the Republican nom- ination for mayor, who was injured in the wreck on the Pennsylvania rail- road and s now in a hospital at Al- toona, Pa. BOUND FOR THE FAR EAST. @eneral Booth Leaves London on a Long Tour. London, Feb. 25—Wrinkled with age, but with enthusiasm undimin- ished, General Booth of the Salvation Army left London during the morning to board the Atlantic Transport line steamer Minneapolis at Southampton, bound for New York. whence the gen- eral will proceed to Canada and the Far East. He will spend two weeks in New York before proceeding to Canada to take the steamer Minnesota April 1 for Japan. While in Ottawa General Booth will be the guest of the governor general, Earl Grey. After traveling through Japan the general will go to Peking and expects to be back in London by July and com- mence another “automobile campaign’ through the British isles. General Booth will celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday April 10 in the middle of the Pacific while on his way to Japan. He hopes to be re- ceived in audlence by the Japanese emperor. DANGER NOW PASSED. Further Concessions Made to Train- men on Western Roads. Chicago, Feb. 25.—Further conces- sions have been offered the trainmen and conductors by the railroad man- agers and the negotiations, which seemed on the verge of being broken off, are to be continued. What the latest offer of the managers is neither side would disclose. “There i nothing that I can say on the subject,” sald P. H. Morrissey, grand master of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, “except that we are to have another meeting with the mauagers. [ cannot say when that settlement may be reached.” ‘While refusing to give any details of the meeting it was evident from the manner of the conferees that they considered that some progress had been made and that the danger point had been passed temporarily. TEN OF THE WOUNDED DIE. Terrorists Responsible for Many Deaths at Warsaw. Warsaw, Feb. 25.—Martial law, which it was intended to abolish March 1, has been ordered to be en- forced more stringently and to be prolonged indefinitely on account of the robbery of the postoffice here Fri- day by terrorists, who shot and killed the postmaster, two postal clerks and two soldiers guarding the office and ‘wounded a score of bystanders. Ten of the latter have dled. Detachments of Cossacks are again patrolling the His Curiosity Ends Fatally. Steubenville, 0., Feb. 25.—"“Red” ity colored Blotters, Letier Copy Presses, Waste Paper Baskels, —— —————————————————— Urich, a Slay, workman at the Carne. -| gie'works furnace stockhouse at Mingo Junction, threw a stick of dynamite in a stove to see what would happen. The stove was blown to pieces and the stockhcuse wrecked. Urich and Mike Lalech were blown gome distance and fatally injured. i Get Your Office Supplies at the Befnidii Pioneer Office Most Complete Stock West of Duluth kers, 1907 Diaries, Typewriter Paper, Scrap Books, Lead Pencils, Pens, Holders, Ink Wells, Etc. Legal Blanks, Copy Holders, Calendar Pads, Document Files, Nole Books, Time Books, Scale Report Books, Trial Balanoe Books, Rulers, Erasers, % TO STRENGTHEN FLEET. Battleships Indiana and lowa Going to Pacific Coast. San Francisco, Feb. 25—It is au- | thoritatively, although unofilcially, re- ported in lccal naval circles that the formation of a strong armored fleet on the Pacific coast will be inangurated by the dispatching to this city at an early date of the battleships Indiana and Jowa. These two battleships will form the nucleus of the Pacific battle- thip squadron, which will be further r‘rengthened by the addition of the ucw battleship Nebraska, now nearly completed at Seattle, and the batile- ships Wisconsin and Oregon, at the Puget sound naval station. These five battleships may be rein- forced during the next few months by two more from the Atlantic. It is said to be the cy of the navy department at this time to unite the Asiatic fleet and the Pacific squadron into one great fleet, its com- ponent vessels interchangeable and all under the command of one of three vice admirals which it fis thought corgsress will authorize at an early date. AWAITING NEW PROPOSAL. Btatus of Negotiations Between Church and State in France. Paris, Feb. 25.—The French govern. ment is awaiting a new proposition from Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris, regarding the form of the con- tracts for the lease of the churches to the parish priests. The prefect of the Seine, M. de Selves, acting on M. Bri. and’s instructions, has notified the coadjutor archbishop of Parls, Mgr. Amiette, that the latest formula of- fered by the cardinal is not accept- able, especially upon one point, but that if the cardinal will submit a new form of contract, in harmony with the declarations made and approved by the chamber of deputies Feb. 19, the government will be glad to consider it. WAR IN CENTRAL AMERICA| NEGOTIATIONS FOR A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF TROUBLE TERMINATED. ‘Washington, Feb. 25.—Notificatlon of the existence of a state of war In Central America has reached the state department in the shape of a cablegram from American Minister Combs, dated at Guatemala City, as follows: “The minister of foreign affairs for Honduras telegraphed that Nicaragua, by its invasion of Honduras, has ter- minated the pending negotiations for a peaceful settlement.” If hostilities extend, as now appears probable, it may be necessary for the state department to call upon the navy department to increase the force of naval vessels in Central American ‘waters. At present this force con- sists of the cruiser Chicago, now lying in touch with the cable at Acajutla, Salvador, and the gunboat Marietta, on the Carribean side, last heard from at Blueflelds, Nicaragua. She was sent to this point with the American vice consul at San Juan del Norte on board to give protection to some ex- tensive American plantation Interests at that place. Should the war extend far from the boundary between Nic- aragua and Honduras, as is probable in view of the likelihood that Salvador will join forces with Honduras and Guatemala with Nicaragua, the navy department probably will add two or three cruisers and gunboats to its present force, not with any purpose ot intervening politically, but merely to see that American property rights are respected and the lives of American citizens are protected. ON CANAL CONTRACT. Decision Will Be Announced in a Few Days. ‘Washington, Feb. 25—It is an- nounced that a final conference wiil be held at the White House early in the week between the president and Becretaries Root and Taft relative to the award of contract for the con- struction of the Panama canal and that the decislon will be announced immediately thereafter. All the parties in interest have now been heard by the president and Sec- retaries Root and Taft. Their repre- sentations have been given full con- | sideration and it is also known that the business and personal reputation of some of these persons have been subjects of most careful and searching private inquiry, which is expected to have a most important Bearing upon ' the decision to be announced next week. o WILL AGGREGATE $1,500,000. Suits Resulting From Wreck of Brew- ster Express. > New York, Feb. 25—It became known during the day that at least 100 residents of White Plains, who were either themselves injured in the wreck of the Brewster express on the New York Central's electric line in the Bronx last Saturday or had rela- tives killed in the accident, will bring suits for damages against the com- pany. The sums sued for, it is stated, will aggregate $1,500,000. & Underbid Americans for Ralls. St. Petersburg, Feb. 25.—Argentina has ordered 80,000 tons of steel rails trom the Russo-Belgian factories in the Donetz mining region, these es- tablishments having underbid the Americans who competed for the or- ders. which | are now being cxtensively overhauled | )y Books, Paper Clips and Fasteners, Rubber Bands, Letier Files, Invoices, Typewriter Supplies, Postal Scales, Rubber Type Outfits, Staplers, Paper Knives, & i FIFTY INJURED {FAST TRAIN ON THE PENNSYL- VANIA ROAD ROLLS DOWN EMBANKMENT. [ 5 { #ANY PROMINENT PEOPLE ON BOARD POSTMASTER BUSSE AND OTHER WELL KNCWN CHICAGOANS IN THE WRECK. Pittsburg, Feb. 25.—Fifty-four pas- sengers and a train crew of about a dozen were injured in a wreck of the Pennsylvania special, the fast eight- een-hour train on the Pennsylvania railrcad between New York and Chi- cago, which occurred at a sharp curve at Black Diamond, Pa., seven miles east of Johnstown. No one was killed and all the passengers have been ac- counted for. The engine and combination smok- ing car remained on the rails, but the three Pullmans plunged over a sixty- foot embankment into the Conemaugh | river. Fortunately the cars were not submerged. A scene of wild confusion resulted. All of the passengers were in their berths and were thrown promiscuous- ly around the cars. All were injured more or less, but with the exception {of John F. Kline of Joliet, IIL, it 1Is sald, none of the injuries are danger- ous. The train was running fifty minutes late and was trying to make up lost time. Nobody seems to know what really caused the accident, but it is said it was caused by the springing of & Dbolt connecting one of the rails to the steel tie. The injured were taken to hospitals at Altoona, Greensburg and this ety. A majority of .them, however, pro- ceeded west on a special train. Prominent People on Board. The train was the finest on the Pennsylvania railroad and many prom- inent passengers were aboard when | the wreck occurred. Among those in- jured were F. A. Busse, postmaster of ‘Chlcago; Samuel F. Nixon, Chicago, of Nixon & Zimmerman, theatrical proprietors; M. A. Singer, manager of {La Salle theater, Chicago; Lightner Henderson, a civil engineer; George 8. Wood, manager of Colonial theater, Chicago, and J. J. Kern, ex-state’s at- | torney, of Chicago. A special train bearing the passen- gers who were only slightly injured, which arrived here about 5:30 a. m., left here about 10 o'clock for the West. | Although most of the passengers lost | thelr clothing, money and valuables all of them were happy and thankful that they had escaped so easily. The | attire of some of the passengers was ,comical as they were wearing some- body else’s clothing unmindful of the ‘rightful owner. They told many stories of a miraculous nature. Rev. Dr. Cope, rector of St. Sim- ,eon’s Episcopal church of Philadel- phia, escaped without a scratch, al- though his car was completely demol- Ished. He attributes this to the wil: | of Providence. He even secured all ‘of his clothing and when the passen- | Bers of the wrecked train finally sought shelter in a relief train sent to i their assistance he held a short serv- (ice of prayer and thanks in which |every man and woman able to do so | participated. LAST SURVIVORS TAKEN OFF. Fifteen Persons Escaped Death on the Steamer Berlin. Hook of Holland, Feb. 25.—In the { early hours of the morning the three remaining survivors were taken off the wreck of the British steamer Ber- lin by the same lifeboat crew which has done such splendid work during the past forty-eight hours. All three are women, Frau Weintbergher, her sixteen-year-old nurse girl, Mina Rip- ler, and Fraulein Theile. This makes the number of saved fifteen out of the 148 who were on board the vessel. Stuttgart, Germany, Feb. 25.—The flancee of Herr Dara, one of the mem- bers of the German opera company jdrowned in the wreck of the British ;Bteamer Berlin off the Hook of Hol- iland, became insane when the news was communicated to he: BITE OF PET DOG KILLS. Rabies Victim Near Chisholm, Minn., Dies in Convulsions. Chisholm, Minn., Feb. 25.—Bitten in the face some time ago by a pet dog | George Peterson, fifty-four; years old, who lived about four miles from here, Is dead of hydrophobia. The dog had developed sy toms of rabies and its master was altempting to doctor it when the animal suddenly snapped at him, tearing a slight gash in his cheek. The wound appeared to be trivial and soon healed, but a few days {»20 Peterson developed symptoms of the disease and rapidly grew worse, #ying in terrible convulsions. Passengers Miraculously Escape. Bowling Green, O., Feb. 25.—Ten persons were severely injured and | miraculously escaped death when a southbound car on the Toledo Urban and Interurban railroad left the rails {and completely turned over at Por tage, a few miles from here. The ac cident was caused by the spreadir of the railg at a curve. ;i e T