Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 11, 1902, Page 6

The Herald--Review. By E. C. KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - Argentina has decided to divide its government into six military zones— all of them hot ones. In making money the United States mint is still in the swim, with a total of $134,999,122 for twelve months. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan seems to have overlooked an important point in not forming a Christmas tree trust. Should the decoration of Li Hung Chang with two peacock feathers, after his death, be classed as a scorching sarcasm? It is said that there is an increasing sentiment against-dueling in Germany. This is another evidence of the ‘““Amer- icanization” of Europe. A German doctor is said to have dis- covered a process for making flour out of milk; but what we need more is a way to make milk out of flour. It is said that Andrew Carnegie’s benefactions now amount to $82,000,- 000.. At last accounts Russell Sage’s grand total was thirty-eight cents. Judging by the conflicting reports that come from Holland about the af- fairs of Mina and Henry, Pat Crowe’s press agent must have secured another engagement, + Life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate a president of the United States is regarded in this part of the moral vineyard as ‘a rather mild sort sf punishment. Mr. Rockefeller is chopping wood for his health; but there’s many a man in the woods of the north doing the same thing just now, and making money at it besides. Perhaps there is something in the idea that Uncle Sam spends too much money on the Indians. One tribe in Wisconsin has contracted the habit of eating twelve meals a day. A Michigan politician wants women elected to Congress, But can he assure us that they would not cheat the gov- ernment by using their franks for sending Christmas presents? The hobos of California are a fas- tidious lot, anyway. They stole all the Christmas handkerchiefs in a Santa Paula store the other day. It will soon be necessary to lock all.the celluloid collars and made neckties in the safe at night. It will encourage language reform- ers to persist, now that the nervous Anglo-Saxon monosyllable “spit” is el- bowing the cumbrous Latin polysyl- lable ‘expectorate” out of the literary vocabulary. It now remains to help old-fashioned, musical, reverberant “spittoon” remount the throne so long usurped by barbarous “cuspidor.” There is a beauty contest now on be- tween the Chicago Hyde Park High School and “all comers,” which is said to be the outgrowth of football. How feminine pulchritude could get tangled up with the unsymmetrical forms that build human pyramids of the gridiron is one of those mysteries which only the young and inexperienced would dare to strive to fathom. Emperor William, if the cable in- forms us rightly, is about to turn prohibitionist to the extent of for- bidding beer-drinking in German fac- tories. The kaiser’s courage has sometimes been called into question, but in this case he is apparently not afraid of the cannon’s mouth. If he can wean the German workman from his beer by an imperial edict he will go down in history as the first em- peror who lowered a hallowed nation- el institution from its pedestal. The appalling vision of a Santa Claus wearing long striped pantaloons and a star-decked ribbon on his hat naturally is occasioning trouble in Europe. The American department store, it appears, has tnvaded Paris, and American toys will deck the kais- er’s Christmas tree. Also, an Amer- fcan graphophone playing American “coon” songs will contribute to the Christmas gayeties in Wilhelm’s household. It appears likely that San- ta Claus himself will wear American boots, ride in an American automobile and speak the continental tongues with a well-defined American accent. Possibly turkey and cranberry sauce will supplant roast beef and plum pud- fing in England and take the place of wurst and pretzels in Germany. It is no wonder that the trans-Atlantic nations glower as they talk of the American invasion. Commercial in- vasion is all well enough, but when it somes to surrendering to an American Santa Claus national pride and loyalty rebel. The Canadian still feels a sentimen- tal attachment for England, but he foesn’t like the individual English- man. The Canvdian’s ways are not British ways nor his thoughts British thoughts. It would seem only’ a mat- ter of years till the feeling toward the mdividual Englishman wiil extend to the British nation. Then the Cana- fian community will awaken to the idea that it is cutting itself off from great commercial advantages by pre- serving its distinction from the nation so which it is naturally united by cus- joms, manners and modes of thought. ‘Washington Notes. _ Interest in the penny postage project | is revived. Yresident Roosevelt smarts under Miles episode criticisms. The report that President Roosevelt publicly rebuked Gen., Miles is denied. The New Year's reception at the White House was an unqualified suc- cess. A plebiscite is proposed anent the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. President Roosevelt opposes the plan to make him the arbiter of the canal route. The Philippine tariff bill passed by the house would exclude hemp from our market. Another effort will be made to settle the controversi2s between Canada and the United States. One of the smallest Indian appropri- ation bills in rezent years will be passed by congress. Aémiral Schley has concluded to make no further effort to have his case reopened or reviewed. Gen. Chaffee denies that there is fric- tion between the civil and military au- thorities in the Philippines. President Roosevelt desires to include consuls and third-class postmasters in the civil service classification. President Roosevelt may ask Grover Cleveland to be the American repre- sentative at King Edward's coronation. The refusal of Maso’s followers to vote in the Cuban election is looked upon in Washington as a forerunner of trcuble. . Sins and Sinners. Several hundred children had the op- portunity recently to see, at Trenton, N. J., the hanging of the negro, Robert Herscn, who murdered Mary Van Liew and her child and then burned the home to cover up the crime. The hanging took place in the yard of the old Mercer jail. Two more warrants have been sworn out against George W. Moore, president of the Continental Security Redemption company, in Birmingham, Ala., one al- leging false pretenses and the other the keeping of false accounts. Moore's to- tal bond is $8,000. He failed to secure bail, and is now in jail. Frank Monning and Frank Wilson, who live three miles from Ironton, O., quarrelled, and Monning shot Wilson's righ. arm off with a shot gun. Wilson, w'th his left hand, drew a revolver and shot Monning through the heart, killing him instantly. Wilson was some hours in getting medical attention, and will die They were cousins. News has reached Bisbee, Ariz., of the killing of George Ashton and Carl Benningfield, well known cattlemen, by Mexican woodchoppers in the Hua- chuca mountains. The trouble grew out of Benningfield’s effort to remon- Strate with the Mexicans, who were shooting holes in his tent. The Mexi- cans escaped to the border line, pur- sued by the dead cattlemen’s friends. Burglars blew the safe in the post- office and general stere at Nottingham, a suburb of Cleveland. The explosion awakened Postmaster Hoose, who, with several citizens, opened fire on the rob- bers, as the latter were leaving the building with their booty. The burglars returned the fire, and, after a long run- ning fire, escaped. A bloody trail indi- cated that at least one of them was badly wounded. People Talk>d About. Prof. John Bierrel, professor of Ori- ental languages at St. Andrews’ uni- versity, London, since 1871, is dead. He was born in 1836, Dr. Speicker, who assumed charge of the Dunkards’ Aged and Orphans’ home at Mexico, Ind., died, aged forty-two, from pneumonia. Dr. Speicher was a prominent Dunkard. * Edward H. Kellogg, Northwestern manager of the National Life Insurance company, died at his home in Chicago. He was seventy years old, and until he was attack2d by cancer of the stomach, six weeks ago, he never had been ill. David P. Thompson, a well known capitalist and former United States minister to Turkey, died in Portland, Or. Mr. Thompson was born in Ohio in 1834. He came to Oregon in 1853, walking every step of the way across the continent. D. W. Minshall, reputed to be the wealthiest man in Western Indiana, is dead at Terre Haute, aged seventy-four years. He recently gave $50,000 to De Puaw university, at Green Castle, Ind., for a new science hall. His estate is estimated at $2.000,000. Augustus L. Allen, one of the original trustees of Vassar college, is dead, aged ninety-two. In 1850 he was chairman of the committee appointed to welcome home the late Prof. 8. F. B. Morse, in- ventor of the telegraph, after his re- turn from his first protracted trip in Europe. Foreign Gossip. The revolution in Venezuela grows in strength daily. Russia plans to increase her indus- trial importance. The chances for peace in South Afri- ca are greatly improved. The British loss at Zeefontein aggre- gates a large number. The Ban Righ, an English ship, has been declared a pirate by Colombia. German’s navy awaits orders to make a demonstration against Venezuela, ‘The general situation in South Africa shows considerable improvement from the British standpoint. A Boer envoy tells that the generals in the field are stage managers, who manipulate public sentiment. All the foreigners in Pekin, Amert- eans excepted, are preparing for treach- ery on the part of the Chinese. ‘The French an:bessador, M, Camille, in an address in Rome, complimented Italy upon the material prograss made, and said that the Mediterranean ques- tion between France and Italy ne Jong- er existed. | Unfortunate Happenings. Two hundred people were drowned in @ waterspout in Saffre, Morocco. California was swept by a terrific and destructive windstorm last week. Todd, Burns & Co.’s big dry goods warehouse in Dublin was damaged by fire to the amount of £130,000, An explosion at the old Sharpsville furnace, at Sharpsville, Pa., wrecked the furnace plant and killed three men. Another workman was probably fatal- ly injured. At Birmingham, Ala., an East Lake street car collided with a number of freight cars attached to a.switch en- gine. E. W. Jones, conductor on the street car, was killed, and two other men were injured. The German steamer Clara has been wrecked near Hoj Hu, Island of Hai- nan. Forty-two of the ship’s company were saved by the French steamer Ha- nel, but Capt. Ulderup and three other officers, four European passengers and eleven Chinese are missing. Three children of Jacques Modry were burned to death in a fire that de- stroyed a two-story frame building in Lombard street, Buffalo. They were aged ten, seven and three. The mother and a babe two days old were carried from the building on a mattress. The Boston clothing firm of Spitz Bros. & Mork was the principal suffer- er by a fire in che Charles street block. The flames started in a basement and burned up through two floors of thé five-story granite building, causing a loss estimated at about $100,000. At Bridge No. 81, seventy miles west of Albuquerque, N. M., Fireman Henry Shropper, of the westbound California limited, was instantly killed. As the train approached the bridge at full speed, Shropper leaned far out to make an observatioa on the engine. His head struck an iron girder and was severed from his body. Otherwice. A Wisconsin man drilled a well and struck a geyser. The car shortage in the West be- ecmes more serious. Seven American soldiers were killed by bolomen in Samar. Merger svjts have been brought against several railroads in Ohio. Bradstreet’s annual review of trade says that 1901 is a record-breaker. Rev. James A. Heath of Kansas City has been deposed from the ministry. The conference of governors in Hele- na adopted resolutions and adjourned. A Kentuckian claims to have per- fected a scheme for wireless telephony. Prof. Loeb of Chicago has discovered a means of arresting the progress of death. The preferred stock of the Northern Pacific has been redeemed and can- celed. South Dakota teachers have adopted a resolution favering a national uni- versity. Receivers have been appointed for the National Asphalt Company of America. An Iowa farmer proposed to and was rejected by fifty-six Omaha girls in two hours. A boy jumped from the Brooklyn bridge recently, out of pure bravado, and survived. Filipinos who accept service under American rule are persecuted by their fellow countrymen. Judge Lochren dissolved the tempo- rary injunction against the retirement of Northern Pacific preferred stock. Owing to an outbreak of smallpox in some of the Philipnine islands the civil commission has prepared an act for the compulsory vaccination of all persons in the islands. In accordance with the firm’s custom at the close of a prosperous year, J. P. Morgan & Co. made a cash New Year's gift to the employes of the firm. The gifts amount to about $100,000. Mrs. Lonce Hanson, who has lived in Montgomery, Ala., and who has been in straitened circumstances for many years, has been notified by ex-Gov. Jo- seph Johnson that a fortune has been left her in Germany. Oklahoma farmers say that the high, cry winds of the past few days have done greater damage to the winter wheat crop than all the cold waves combined. Wheat on the uplands has suffered greatly. It has been learned at Copenhagen upon the best authority that the treaty between the United States and Den- mark for the sale of the Danish West Indies will be signed in spite of the agi- tation against such action. A great American packing house is to be established in the State of Micheacan, Mex., near the town of Uruapam, and will soon be under ac- tive construction, a.capital of $1,600,000 in gold having been subscribed in Chi- cago. ‘The Milwaukee Merchants and Man- ufacturers’ association has made a tender of a banquet to Henry C, Payne in partial recognition of the honor be- stowed upon the state and city by the appointment of Mr. Payne as postmas- ter general. William Jessup & Sons of Sheffield have placed contracts for the erection of new steel works at Washington, Pa. The initial plant will, it is stated, con- sist of three main buildings, a crucible, smelting shop, a rolling mill and a pow- er house, The Cherokee Indians are to be given another chance to be enrolled a9 citizens in order to secure an equal dis- tribution of the tribal lands and funds. For this purpose the Dawes commis- sion will sit at Muskogee from Jan. 4 to April 4, 1902, A package said to contain bones and dried blood of St. Magnus, a Roman centurion, and St. Bonosa, a Roman virgin, who were martyred.in the time of Nero, has arrived at Louisville from Rome, The relios will be placed under thee altar of St. Martin’s Catholic church, SOMPLAINT FILED \ 3. S. SUPREME COURT ASKED TO ENJOIN NORTHERN SECURITIES MERGER. STATE'S FIGHT IS COMMENCED ATTORNEY GENERAL DOUGLAS PRESENTS A LENGTHY COMPLAINT. WINNESOTA’S INTEREST SHOWN HELD TO BE AN UNLAWFUL COM- BINATION IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE, Washington, Jan. 9.—Attorney Gen- 2ral Douglas of Minnesota yesterday ued in the United States supreme court the bill of complaint in the case of the State of Minnesota, complain- ant, against the Northern Securities company, defendant. It is a document of about 10,000 words, covering thirty- two pages of printed matter. The bill sets up the claim that, in order to accomplish the purposes of the Northern Securities company, Mr. Hill is now holding the stock which it is intended to convey to the new corpora- tion, and that for a month past Mr. Hill has exercised control of the Nortn- ern Pacific, changing its officers and policy at will. The state attacks the Northern Se- curities company, first, because it is alleged to be an unlawful combination in restraint of trade, and as_ such, agairst the laws of the United States. But, beyond this, facts are set out to show that the State of Minnesota and the people of the state have a personal and special interest in the proposed merging cf the roads, and rights which, it is alleged, are in peril with a relief that can be given only by a court of equity. i As showing the interest of Minnesota in _the merger, the complaint alleges that the State of Minnesota now has 3,000,000 acres of lands to the value of over $15,000,000, much of which is lo- cated in the territory traversed by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific roads. That the value of these lands depends much upon having free and open competition in passenger and treight rates over the two lines. Many of the lands, as yet unsettled, depend for settlement upon construction of branch lines by the two named rail- roads. That, under the proposed con- solidation of the two lines, these lands will not be reached ty new railroads for years, if ever. On the other hand, if these lands are settled they will add largely to the taxable value of the prop- erty of the state. State’s Interest. The state's interest is further sought to be shown by setting out the fact that all the institutions of the state, to a more or less extent, have to use the Great Northern and Northern Pa- cific roads for shipment of supplies, and the state is thus directly interested in competition in freight rates. The final count upon which the state bases its right to begin action is that of land grants which, from time to time, have been granted to the North- ern Pacific and Great Northern and smaller lines controlled by them, which amornt to 10,500,000 acres. On behalf of the people of the state and its commercial and industrial in- terests, the state alleges that a com- bination of the competing railroads would eventually result in serious hard- ship, not only to places within the state tributary to the two roads, but a hard- ship on merchants who must use these lines for freight traffic with the Pa- cific ecast. A great portion of the complaint is taken up with a formal recital of the histories of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Northern Securl- ties company. The present officers, mileage and stock are set forth in de- tail. The Northern Securities company, it is alleged, was organized at the re- quest of J. J. Hill, William P. Clough, J. Pierpont Morgan and associate joint stockholders of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads, who control most of the stock of the securities com- peny for the sole purpose of effecting a consolidation of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroad compa- nies. Question of Control. ‘The securities >ompany is said to con- trpl 75 per cent of the stock of the com- bined railroads, which, pending a deliv- ery to the securities company, is held in trust by J. J. Hill. The securities company, the state charges, is now il- legally offering $185 per share for Great Northern stock and $115 per share for Northern Pacific stock. In conclusion, the State of Minnesota alleged the placing of control of the combined railrjids under the single board of directors of the Northern Se- eurities company creates a monopoly in railroad traffic; that such action is in restrain of trade, egainst public policy, and void. Beceuse of these alleged facts, the State of Minnzsota asks that the Northern Securities company be per- petually enjoined and restrained, First—From voting in any way at stockholders’ meetings of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific roads. Second—That the Northern Securi- ties ccmpany be restrained from inter- fering in any way with the manage- ment of the two railroads in question. Third—That the defendants, its of- ficers, attorneys, or representatives, be restrained from holding any Office as employe or official of the Great Northern or Northern Pacific roads, Fourth—That the defendant be re- strained from arranging any joint management or control of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Fifth—That the defendant be en- joined from holding or controlling any stock of the two railroads, and trans- ver back to the parties they secured It fom such stock of the two lines as the defendant now has secured. Sixth—That the defendant be 1e- strained from securing any additional stock of any other railroads of which they may own a minor part. : Seventh—The complainant desires permissign. to amend its bill, if neces- I Se Banh ae SS ELS SRR I Rel SSP Pa fee AGE oe A LAN Sec le Ps a se SR nc Et st Re NT SD PF eC and to bring in other parties de- fendant. The complaint concludes by asking the court to grant a writ of subpoena to have the Northern Securities com- pany appear before the court and abide by such order as the court may decree. Function at White House. Washington, Jan. 9. — President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a reception at the White House last night in honor of the diplomatic corps. It was the first formal evening levee of the season, an¢ the first at which President and Mrs, Roosevelt have been the host and host- ess. A full representation of the dip- lomatic corps made the affair notably brilliant. Killed in a Collision. Roanoke, Va., Jan. 9.—A head-end collision on the Kenova division of the Norfolk & Westérn railroad occurred yesterday in which Hugh Smith, an express messenger, and Flagman John Turner were killed. Bank Looted. St. Louis, Jan. 9—Masked men en- tered the National Stock Yards Bank of East St. Louis, Ill., bound and gagged the three night watchmen, blew open the safes and got away with $5,- 000 in money. TO USE WIRELESS. Connect Frozen Gold Fields of Alas- ka With the United Sates. Chicago, Jan. 8.—Wireless telegraphy cornecting the frozen gold fields of Alaska with the United States is at present the subject of negotiations be- tween a local company and capitalists of Seattle, Wash. If the plans under discussion are zarried out—and_ those interested say there is reason to believe they will be—the opening of the sum- mer season in the Northern wilds will see the wireless telegraph in operation between Nome City and Seattle. W. L. Moore of Seattle is at the head of an aggregation of capitalists there who are in correspondence with a big wireless company with offices in Chi- cago. Joseph S. Schwab, president of the local company, is confident it will get the contract for installing The Wireless System. “Tt will mean a great thing for Alas- ka, for Seattle and the whole North- west,” said President Schwab. ‘‘Al- ready Seattle has felt the boom of Alaskan trade to such an extent that in the last two years it has rejuvenated her. With cheap telegraphic service a still greater impulse would be given to commerse between Alaska and the Northwest. There is no question as to the possibility of achieving the work. We will have our instruments working in various locaiities next spring. By that time we will have Chicago and Mi:waukee and other Wisconsin towns connected’ by wireless telegraphy. This wil demonstrate the possibilities of the wireless system ani show the Seattle capitalists that Chicago is keeping well abreast of the strides made in the prog- ress of wireless telegraphy. ATTEMPTED TRAIN ROBBERY. Demonstration by Armed Guards Frightens Robbers Away. Cumberland, Md., Jan. 8.—A report of an attempt to hold up the Raitimore & Ohio express train bourd for Chi- cago, which left here at 11 o'clock Sun- day right, was r2ceived here yesterday. ‘The scene of the attempt was at Swan- ton, about forty-five miles west of here. The operator,’ M. J. Sarsfield, says that five men came into his of- fice and offered him candy. Suddeniy he was knocked insensible by them with a padded club. The men then turned a swith runnivg inte a derail- ing switch. The juick application of air prevented the train from being ditched. The armed express officers on th> train made such a demonstration that the men fied to the mountains. Shots were exchanged and an armed posse is now reported to be in pursuit of the bandits. 'UDGE NOYES FINED. Court of Appeals Inflicts a Fine of $1,900. San Francisco, Jan. 8—The United States ‘circuit court of appeals yester- day fined Judge Arthur H. Noyes $1,000 for ccntempt of court. United States District Attorney Joseph K. Wood and his assistant, C. A. S. Frost, were sen- tenced to imprisonment for terms of foui months and one year respectively. ‘The only one of the defendants present was Frost. The opinion of the court was read by Judge Morrow. TWO CHILDREN MURDERED. Their Father Charged by the Coro- ner’s Jury With the Awful Deed. Forest Hill, La., Jan. 8. — Two chil- dren of G. B. Keener, one aged eigh- teen months and the other an infant, were found dead in bed Sunday with their skulls crushed. Keener sent his wife about 120 yards from the house for water. On her return he told her he put the two children to sleep and left the house. Shortly after Mrs. Keener discovered that both the chil- dren were dead with their heads badly crushed. A coroner’s jury yesterday held Keener for murder. BRITISH EMIGRATION. Largest Number Last Year Came to the United States. New York, Jan. 8.—Official statistics show that 202,848 emigrants left the United Kingdom for places outside of Europe during 1901, an increase of 4,287, as ccmpared with the figures for the previous year, cables the London cor- respondent of the Tribune. As usual, the great majority of them went to America. The United States received 194,888, and British North America 43,- 103. The figures in the former case show an increase of 5,047, and in the latter a decrease of 6.974. __ London, Jan. 9.—The appointment of ‘Winston Churchill, M. P., to a cap- taincy in the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire hussars, to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of the duke of Marl- borough, is announced. Tock Teo Long a Holiday. Marquette, Mich., Jan. 9,.-— Eighty men have been laid off at the Aragon mine at Norway, a steel trust property. because of their failure to return to work a reasonable time after the holi- cays. ¥ MANY ARE KILLED. Terrible Accident Occurs in a Mine at Negaunee Mich. Ishpeming, Mich., Jan. 9.—By a cave- in of ground Which occurred at the Negaunee mine, Negaunee, at oon yesterday, nearly a score of men are SET GM SE are SE SoA TLR RS a BPE SS ARDS EER SAR cc buried under many ‘hundred feet of earth and rock, with no possible chance of being rescued alive. The fall broke the water column and thousands of gallcns of water are rushing into the levels every minute. The accident was the result of a cave- in at the bottom of the old shaft, and had it occurred an hour sooner about 150 men would have been killed. One body was recovered and an _ Italian, Dominic Basso, was rescued alive. There is no hope for the others. Basso’s story is as follows: “We were sitting around the pump at the bottom of the shaft, when, Without Any Warning. thousands of tons of ore came down. I remembered no more until I heard the sound of picks and shovels m the hands of rescuers. I was in total darkness, and my feelings cannot be described. What seemed ages to me was put min- utes. When the rescuers found me I was seventy-five feet from the place where I had been sitting, and found myself in a drift. How I got there is a mystery, and I can only account for it by the concussion of the wind.” The Negaunee mine is one of the most unlucky properties in the Lake Superior district. Much trouble has resulted in sinking and drifting from surplus water and quicksands. It was at this mine that $1,000,000 was recently expended te sink a shaft to the ledge. The mine is owned by the United States Steel ecrporation. BIG PACKERS I TROUBLE, Will Be Proseeuted for Violation of the Interstate Commerce Law.” Chicago, Jan. 9—Prosecutions against all the big packing house concerns in the West for violations of the provis- ion of the interstate commerce law against receiving preferential rates are contemplated by the interstate com- merce commission. This fact developed yesterday during an investigation be- gun by the commission into the hand- ling of packinghouse products and dressed meats. It also became appar- ent that the commission and the rail- way managements of the entire coun- try practically had entered into an al- liance for the pu-pose of inducing con- gress to pass legistation permitting the railrcads to pool under certain regula- tions by the interstate commerce com- mission, and that it is beiteved such a. law can and will be passed. The third development of the day was the an- nouncement that the commission had requested the attendance here of all the leading men in the advancement of the community of interests idea, in- eluding J. P. Morgan, James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman, and if these men failed to respond to the request harsher measures would be taken to compel their coming. MAN BLOWN TO ATOMS. Explosion of Dynamite Causes Con- cidernble Damage. Philadelphia, Jan, 9. — An explosion of dynamite occurred yesterday in a ¢ contractor's toolhouse beside the Penn- sylvania’s tracks in West Philadelphia- “Doc” Mullen, a watchman employed by P. McManus, the contractor, was literally blown to atoms and a dozen persons living in the vicinity were cut by flying glass from the shattered windows of their houses. A number of laborers employed by McManus were at work making excavations aleng the line of the railroad. The sticks of dynamite used for blasting had been frozen and Mullen placed thern near a stove in the hut to thaw out. The ex- plosion followed, killing Mullen instant- ly and wrecking the shanty. The pave- ments for plocks were covered with broken glass from the shattered win- dow panes of the dwellings. Twenty empty passenger coaches standing on a siding of the Pennsylvania railroad were damaged. No one else was in- jured. BRITCNS TAKE A HAND. British-Americans Contribute to Fund to Secure Conviction of Mur- derer. Chicago, Jan. 9. — Wh2n Dennis D. McCarthy was put 9n trial for his life yesterday before Judge Ball on the charge of murdering Benjamin Atkins, the preliminary features of a peculiar controversy became public. Atkins was a subject of the British crown at the time of his death. Assisting in the prosecution of the murder charge are all the British-A nerican societies in Chicago. The report, was current dur- ing the fall that State’s Attorney De- neen would not bring McCarthy, who was a saloonkeeper, to trial. This caused the British subjects to take up the matter. A fund was provided to secure the presence of out-of-town¢ witnesses and to secure evidence. The alleged murder occurred on the evening of May 28, 1901. It took all the after- noon to secure a jury, and many ques- tions concerning nativity and birth were asked of the jurors before their acceptance. WARNING FROM THE GRAVE. Father’s Voice Summons a Girl to- Save Wer Mother. St. Louis, Jan. 9.—Can the dead come back to warn the living? The children of Mrs Christina Binninger of No. 2411 South Ninth street, are confident that they can. Hilda Binninger, sixteen years old, says that early yesterday morning she was awakened by her * father’s voice, which warned her to look after her nother. Only for this warning the woman would have died from morphine and chloroform which she had taken with suicidal intent, int order, she says,, to join her husband, who was killed several months ago. A physician arrived just in time to save the woman's life. ———— CHARGE OF TREASON, Will Be Laid Against Col. Lynch If * He Lands in Snxland. New York, Jan. 9. — Col. Arthur Lynch, who was recently elected to the house of commons to represent Galway, will be prevented from taking his seat, cables the London correspondent of the Journal. More than that, as soon as he sets foot on English soil he will be — arrested on a charge of treason. Col. Lynch does not deny that he aided the — Boers, but says he will take his sea! ynless preyentsd by force. 3 tee od