The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 22, 1906, Page 9

b Exploded in the Famous Peters Catholic Cathedral at Rome. | JPSHUPPERS WERE Panig STRICKEN \ Rampolla had Just Finish- ed Mass When the Explosion Oc- curred— Women and Children Filed Screaming From the Edifice Nobody Hurt in the Greut Crush. Rome, Nov. 19.—A bomb was ex- pded in St. Peters Sunday. The edi- was crowded and an indescrib- scene of confusion followed. e was no fatalities, soon as the echoes of the tre mdous roar had ceased, canon ht by reassuring words to quiet people, but in vain. They fled in directions, and a number of women nted. Women and children scream: and tried to protect their families he crush. The church is so large, ever, that there was ample room top the crowd to scatter and no one injured. No trace of the perpe- itor of the deed has been found, ‘“Bince Saint Anacletus, who was or ined by Peter himself, erected an tory in 90 A. D., on the site of the lica to mark the spot where the re- Mains of St. Peter are buried, no such tardly occurrénce is noted in the nals of the church. Sunday was the anniversary of the dication of the basilica to St. Peter it was beautifully decorated for ecasion. Holy relics were ex: and a large number of the faith. ended the services. Cardinal mpolla, formerly papal secretary of te ,was among those present, He bk part in the service in the chotr pel. The last mass had just been cluded when the explosion occur- and only one canon, who had not finished, remained at the altar Bt. Peter. This altar fs at the end he right aisle, and it was near that the bomb had been placed. he canon turned to bless the com- icants there was a tremendous , which echoed through the lofty es of the immense dome like a nder clap. At the same time a e smoke spread throughout this ion of the basilica and a strone of zunpowder filled the air, Con- nm and pantie at once seized the -—Phe-eenen-at-the-aiter-triet em the tide of fear. He shouted “do not be afraid, it is nothing, ely the noonday gun.” His words little effect. They were refuted the smoke and the pungent smelt owder, and the people continued headlong flight. Chairs were urned, making the confusion p serious. Men and women fled pbling in all directions; the ms of children and cr’es of an- h were heard on all sides and for minutes it seemed as though Ing could obviate grave disaster. vast size of the church, however, room for the crowd to scatter tt the end of a few moments the le were surg'ng toward the doors, ed and nervous but orderly. soon as the smoke cleared away sty examination showed that no- had been hurt in the crush, ery piece of the bomb that could und was gathered up by the po- nd carefully examined. The b evidently consisted of a large box bound tightly together with Mot two sizes. It must hare con- led more than two pounds of gun- der and three pounds of nails. nails were of three sizes, some n inches long and so heavy that 0 of the explosion threw them short distance. The nails were oped in newspapers dated Nov. a 17, proving that the bomb was bred either Saturday or Sunday. three days service of prayer will Plebrated in all the churches in Hon. of this offense to religion. mb explosion makes the third 1 outrage in Italy in four the other two being the murder ofessor Rossi, in Naples Satur. | the explosion of a bomb in the Cafe Aragno in this city mber 14. The attempt of Sun- d deep-seated and uni- t A CALVE ROMANCE. Famous Prima Donna Said to be Be- trethed to a Wealthy American Whose Name is Kept Secret. Paris, Noy. 19.—The vague rumors which have been circulated here for several days to the effect that Mme. Calve was bethrothed to a rich Amer ican and would never again appear on the operatic stage are apparently confirmed. Sunday night, +having quietly let her apartments, the sing left Paris for a long period after con- fiding the news to a few intimate friends but demanding a pledge of secrecy regarding the name of her future husband. Mime. Calve’s ser vants said she went away with her affianced but they were unable tc give either their destination or his name. It is believed that the couple are now on board a yacht. The whole affair is shrouded in mystery and romance. The future husband of Mme. Calve is described as a rich American and artist, pas sionately fond of music, who for a long time has never missed a per formance of Mme. Calve but who un til recently had not sought an intro duction. Just at the time when the American decided to ask for Mme Calve's hand in marriage an accident to an electric apparatus rendered him blind, the last vision before he lost his sight being the face of the sthger Upon the return of the couple tc France next spring, it is said, Mme Calve and her husband will instal! themselves in a chateau where @ theater similar to Adeline Patti’s the ater at Craigh-Y-Nos, Wales, will be built for Mme. Calve and her friends BLIZZARD IN THE WEST. From Texas to Montana a Fierce Snow Storm Prevailed—Live- stock is Suffering. El Paso, Tex., Nov. 19.—Snow har been falling steadily since seven o'clock Sunday night. It is very cold and as the storm is general in this vicinity heavy damage to livestock and sheep in west Texas and New Mexico is feared. It is one of the most severe storms ever known in E Paso and telephone and telegraph ser. vice is badly crippled. Street cars are running with difficulty and trains are late. The snow {s drifting badly, People suffer severely going even a few blocks in the blizzard which 1s almost blinding. : There is great suf- fering among poor Mexican families in the lower portion of the city whe were unprepared for ‘cold weather. With the exception of two frosts the weather has been warm in El Pas up to the present time, DISCHARGES BEGIN. First Brtch of Colored Troops ai Fort Reno Paid off and Sent. Home, Oklahoma City, Nov. 19.—The first discharges of the colored troops at Fort Reno were made Monday when 25 soldiers were paid off and given transportation to their homes. Twen- ty-five or 30 troopers will be dis- charged each day as the rolls are completed, until all are discharged. The soldiers leave at once for their homes in arder to use the transpor- tation furnished. It iy still believed by the officers at the fort that sol- diers who have been in the service some time and who can show that they were not among those in the riots at Brownsville, will be re-in- stated and allowed to complete their terms of enlistment. , Bankers Indicied, Washington, Nov. 19—The grand jury of the District of Columbid Mon day morning returned an indictment against Abner B, Clements, former cashier of the Aetna Banking and Trust company of Butte, Mont.; John T. Hoag, assistant cashier of the same institution in charge of the Washington branch and Eveleth W McCormick of this city, for conspir acy. A separate indictment charging _false pretenses was returned against John T. Hoag only. Will be no Governor of Panama, Washington, Nov. 19—An order signed on the Isthmus of Panama by President Roosevelt making radical changes in the organization of affairs in government for the canal zone was made public Monday at the offices of the commisston. The effect of the order is to place the canal work and the government of the zone under the direction of Chairman Shonts, aided by chiefs of bureaus who will report ; entire roll of the dead, Port Plake! Forty Persons Lose Their Lives as Result of a Collision Between Steamers. HAD RQ CHANCE TU oAVE THEIR LIVES —_—_—___ Sound Steamer Dix and Alaska Steamer Jeanie Col ~ the Per mer Sinking and Carrying Mere Than Half of Her Passengers Down to Wat ry Craves, shaped shoe Seattle, Wash., Nov. 19.—The Soune steamer Dix and tne Alaska steamer: Jeannie collided Sunday nigat iz Puget Sound. Forty persons on the Dix were drowned. Of the 79 or & persons aboard tae D.x, more thar half were on the lower deck wher the collision occurred. They were penned in there and had absolutely no chance for their lives Ore 15-year-old girl of all the sur vivors is known to have made her way from the lower deck and to have escaped with her life. All the mem bers of the crew save Captain Ler mond, who happened to be above tr his fare collec ing round, and a deeb hand, went down with their steamer So far as is known, every one whc managed to get free from the wree} was saved, Immediately after the Jeanie brought the story of the collision t Seattle, the tugs Bahada and Tyee the passenger steamer Florence K. and the Jeanie were ordered out t cruise about the sound for floatin: bodies. One by one, the boats have put back without having found any one. The tide was ebbing when the collision occurred and if there were any bodies at the surface, they have ‘probably been swept afar down sound The others are likely buried with the Dix, 100 fathoms below the surface Alice Simpson, one of the womer passengers who was rescued never swam a stroke in her life. She was thrown off the deck of the Dix wher the boat settled into the water an¢ was kept afloat by her clothing. Mon day she is at Provident hospital unde: the influence of opiates to quiet he: nerves, Captatn Willlam Tobin, master o* the Invincible, loading at Port Blake ly with lumber, is said to have savec two lives besides his own. Port Blakely contributed almost th For years PUGET SOQND DISASTER For this Many Arrests in Pittsburg. Plotshrrg, Pa., Nov. 19.—With de- “etives from velzhboring states who the hopeof flading crooks “onal reputation, there is a town supported entirely by th r lumber plant of the Blakely mil! com pany, and the town Monday is : helpless in its ¢ Not a w! ¢ apoarent cessation In turning and the entire population {the er'mes that have atirred Pitts. trying to in some way to aid the et bang with!n the last two weeks, te Mag Plaglhd Pg pine aie Lost night and early this morning be held in a day or two. Scoree of people were arrested on the streets as “suspicious characters.” Dispatches from surrounding towns portray a reign of lawlessness never before equaled in these parts, . no Iowa's Demeerntic Politics. Cedar Rapids, Ia, Nov. 19.—The contest for the vacant position from Iowa on the democratic national com mittee became more interesting Mon o day when Cato Sells, who apparently ASTORIA. Bears ba Kit has been in the lead for appointment the Kind You Have Ata Bought and who has the support of Bryan i i Liu offered to withdraw if the state com mittee would recommend the appoint Auctioned A Pew For $3,675, ment of Claude R. Porter, late demo New York, Nov. 19—A curious cratic candidate, or if the questior were submitted to the next demo] gqle was made at auction in the Keal cratic state convention which selects delegates to the national convention Estate exchange yesterday. It was Hoveyiny pew No. 112 in Grace church, and {¢ For Permanent Cuban Protectorate. brought $3,675 The pew was sold New York, Nov. 19.—Prominent by the esta: ¢ Franci members of the liberal party in Cuba} ~ te of Francis Jones. Scientific shoe shapes In offering you the Selz Roya! Blue shoe we are offering you the most scientificaily in the market today. the Selz designers studied the question of a correct last; and they finally produced one—the Footform last. vary the shape of the shoe to meet the style- changes from season to season; but every Royal Blue last is based on the lines of this perfect shape. They reason we can promise every wearer a perfect fit. Ask us for Selz Royal Blue at $3.50 and $4. e J Drummers to Form , — Across the Sierra Madre. | Boston, Nov. 19.—Prsideus Arthur W. J. Bryan Clubs, (E. Stilwell of the Kansus City, Mente ) co & Orient railroad, who is vow in New York, Nov 19 —Ata mooting Boston, accompanied by th. vire of the Commercial Trove Antl | prettent aad gow rel Aue wer, B, Trust Longue tu day William Hoge, | Dickinson, hae just reccived u tele- president of the lerzae, in an address rid, -howlng that the road has advocated Wm Jennings Brvan for auce ssfully solved the problem of the next democratic presidentialcan « crossing the Sierra Madre mountains Gidate, and urged members of the | which many railroad people bad de- Organization to assist in the estab: | clared impossible, and thatite na lishment of the club’s work in behalf ft. now over the continental divide of Bryan. Harry W. Walker, chair | of these mountains. This is the only man of the executive committer, road that has ever crossed them, spoke along the same lines as Hoge. | The track 1s now laid within twelve Tt was voted that acommittee be miles of the extreme elevation of the appolnted to consist of 5.000 demo. | Sierra Madres at 8,140 feo, and cratic commercial travelers to be the line .s graded to within atx miles known as the “travelingcommittee.” | of the extreme level. The maximum Is was pointed out that members grads hs been only 25 to the mile, on their journeys over the United) which has been compensated for by States will distribute literature and | curvature. organize Bryan clubs i It was also voted to establish a “record bureau” in which articles at- | Posse Killed Negro Slayer. according to Capt. Cassilly Cook, a _ Another sale that attracted atter. | tacking trusts will - kept tobe res} Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 19.—A diene ‘ch lawyer of this city, who says he is} 08 Was that of thirty shares of | printed in pamphlet form for dist-t cute Journal says that counsel here for certain liberal in [tek of the Keely Motor company, | bution, At the meeting jt wea de. rik, the neyra who killed terest have a plan afoot for the es-} which once attempted to manufac. | cided to give adinner atleast onee ty, pele men and two negroes fn iablishment of a permanent protector} tare a perpetual mution machine,|@ month to which democrats of Ash vile, NC, waskilled by a posse ate in Cuba by the American govern-| The atock brought $1. prominence will ba invited.: It was! neur Asieviils. Two members ofthe ment, They are, he says, supported by ——_—__—. announced that Bryan woul! be in- ay ‘iv: dete the foreign interests of that country CASTORIA. : : [posse were dangerously is jared tn and purpose to petition the president vited tobe agnest atthe first of the fight which resulted in the death Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bough : and congress early in January to pass} Siguatere these dinners a bill making Cuba a protectorate. ri y Beat Attacked a Collector. Warsaw, Russian Poland, Nov. 19.— A daring terrorist attack was made in the street Monday morning on a collector of the government alcohol stores, who was escoried by two sol- diers. The terrorists killed one sol- dier; wounded: the collector and seized a bag containing $1,000. The remaining soldier fired wildly, killed one passer-by and wounded another whereupon the terrorists dropped their booty and escaped. Tiiimois Coal Produstion. Washthgton, Nov. 19—The total Production of coal during 1905 in Tilinols was 38,434,364 short tons with a spot value of $40,557,592 ac cording to a report made to the geolo- gical survey by E. W. Parker, of the J.T. Gensley, of Amoret, Mo., ne of the veteran farmers and shippers tothie market, who brought ina car- load of cattle yesterday, well remem- bere the time in the early days when he drove stock across the country to thie market, at that time a very emall affair. In those days there were no pens and no exchange bulld- ing or association whatever, simply @ few traders. “Yee, I have seen the extremes,” sald Mrs. Hensley. “I have strack the high and low spots, ead have even many changes in the Kaneee City market. It has grown 00 fast and become so big that it has consider hog peices high now and hogs arecertain- ly. very profitable for the farmer. They can go down some and still be money makers.—Drovers Telegram. Bad a Close Call. waiving iareroralct asralionsnt Cures, ‘280 a reat Tasteless of she negro, Liniment Bx Cou Cad, Grown Rheumatism and. 4 euralgia At all Dealers Price 25¢ 50¢ & #100 Has . wow aac aest 25 Years Grove’s Chill Tonic — Na.)