Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 19, 1902, Page 6

The Lerald--Review. By E. C. KILEY. MINNESOTA, GRAND RAPIDS, - It isn’t every Panama hat that ts paid for. Simon Sam has arrived at Paris and will now proceed to blow it in. Compared with Nurse Jane Toppan, Sairey Gamp was a ministering angel. Kipling will do. A man who, single handed can stand off a mob las the real stuff in him. If Bishop Nicholson’s counterblast had been confined to the cigarette all might be forgiven. Of course our millionaires are not wearing Panama hats. They cannot afford those luxuries. Kitchener has thanked the Boers. This is no more than right. They were worth $250,000 to him. ipelas was communicated by a ba note in Chicago. There is no end to the perils of wealth in hand. Andrew Carnegie used to be a tele- ph operator, and the wires still nt a very merry song in his ears. Kansas farmers who have been pray- ing for harvest hands find that an amen said with a shotgun helps mat- ters. Russell Sage indignantly denies the truth of the report that he isn’t go- ing back to Wall street to try to get more. Mr. e’s present rate is one This is his summer gait; in winter his pace is materially increased. The Apaches are reported to be looking for trouble. As Gep. Funston is near the reservation, they will prob- ably find it. Y It remained for a Cleveland (Ohio) preacher to declare St. Peter a victim to the fisherman's traditional vice of | overstatement. ae Oe On account of prejudice, Capt. Drey- fus is unable to rent a flat in Paris. This is carrying ostracism to its most extreme limit. Senator Depew is said to be the most popular American in London. Even an Englishman can see the point of a Depew joke. A peculiarity of Mr. Carnegie’s bene- factions is that he makes all of the favored communities loosen up in the way of annuc! taxes. The automobile isn’t the only thing that is likely to give one the earache. There are one or two senators at Washington, for instance. Those English professors who are st ing American mining methods should bear in mind that selling the tock is the most important process of all. The census rises to remark that $3,235,158 are invested in making needles and pins. And no one has ever found out what becomes of the product. “Come up, come up, come up to the cannon!” writes a feminine poet, in imitating the drum beat. First, how- ever, let us be sure tnat the cannon is not loaded. And now the college graduate will proceed to unload a cargo of theory and settle down to the practical ques- | tion of earning three meals a day and a place to sleep. The boat-rocking idiot added three lives to his score at Ludington, Mich. What is needed is to have this fellow | look long and earnestly into the barrel of an “unloaded pistol.” A reign of terror prevails in Hayti, and the Venezuelan rebels have just gained a substantial victory. Things ! seem to be running alorg in a normal condition down that way. Sceme people claim that Senator! Clark of Montana, who has lots of hair and can eat pastry, is a riches man than Rockefeller. But they are, mean ones who like to make others ; unhappy. It pains us to read the story of Mr. | Rockefeller’s Cleveland pastor, who bas openly denounced St. Peter as “a lying old fisherman.” But why this’ tautology? Why not say “fisherman” and let it go at that? Now let the Kansas farmers who need ten thousand men in the harvest fields follow the example of one of their number and offer a daughter to. the man who does the most work, and | see what the harvest will be. A woman on a New York street car yesterday fiourished a quarter and joudly proclaimed that Russell Sage ° had given her the money. The other ! passengers on the car considered her insane. There can be no doubt about it. Senor Villegas, the Filipino sen- tenced to twenty years’ imprisonment © for violating his oath of allegiance to the United States, ought to find com- | fort in the reflection that he will serve as a first-class object lesson to his fellow-islanders, 1 AWFUL MINE CATASTROPHE} | HUNDREDS FALL VICTIMS TO AN EXPLOSION OF FIRD DAMP. ANOTHER JOHNSTOWN TRAGEDY OF SIX HUNDRED MEN ONLY ONE HUNDRED AND FIPTY ES- CAPE, AWFUL STORIES OF SURVIVORS WALK ACROSS DEAD BODIES OF COMRADES TO PURE AIR AND LIGHT, Johnstown, Pa., July 12.—Johnstown has again been visited by an appalling disaster, It is only less frightful than the aw- ful calamity of May 31, 1889, in cost of life, but in its terrible consequences it has brought the shaddow of sorrow to hundreds of homes made desolate by a mine explosion which’ took place in the Cambria Steel company rolling mill mine under ‘West Mont Hill -at 12:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon. How many are dead it may take sev- eral days to fully determine, but that it is a long and shocking list is certain. It may reach 200 or more men, It was nearly an hour after the ex- Plosion before any general knowledge of what had happened got abroad. Men who came from the mines, escaping with their lives, told the terrible news and soon it spread like wildfire all over the city. In scores of homes there were the most pathetic scenes. Mothers, wives, daughters, sons and relatives Were Frantic With Grief. Hundreds rushed to the point and with sobbing hearts awaited news that did not come from the ill-fated mine. At the opening across the river from the point, the Cambria Iron company po- lice, with several assistants, stood guard, permitting no one to-enter thé mine, from which noxious gases were coming. It was nearly 4 o'clock when all hope of sending rescue parties from the West Mont opening was abandoned. Two men who had escaped from the mire—Richard Bennett and John Meyers—went back two miles to see what assistance could be rendered, but the fmghtful damp drove them back and they fell prostrate when they final- ly, after a desperate struggle, reached the outside. Two doctors gave the men assistance, and after working with them half an hour restored them. Their story of the situation in the mine made it clear that the rescue work could not proceed from the West Mont opening, and then hasty preparations were made to begin that sad mission at the Mill creek entrance. Soon after the News of the Explosion reached the Cambria officials, Mining Engineer Marshal G. Moore and one of his assistants, Al G. Prosser, made an attempt to enter the mine. They were followed by Mine Superintendent Geo. T. Robinson, but the deadly gases stopped their progress and they were ; compelled to return to the surface, Mine Foreman Harry Rodgers, his assistant, William Blancch, and Fire Bosses John Whitney, John Retallick and John Thomas, were overcome by the gases ani it is feared they per- ished in an heroic effort to rescue the miners. A son of Harry Rodgers tried to reach his father, but he was quickly overcome by the deadly gases and was carried out unconscious. William Sti- bich spent several hours at the Mill creek opening. He said that he be- lieved as many as 450 men were still in the mine. In his opinion, from all he could glean, not to exceed 150 men had come out. * The Mining officials ‘of the Cambria company stated the explosion was one of fire damp. Frightful Conditions. The catastrophe occurred in the sec- tien of the, mine known among the miners as the “Klondike.” The name of the section on the company’s books is the sixth west of the south main heading, It is about a mile and a half from the main entrance of the Rolling ‘Mi'l mine. The few survivors who have escaped from the depths of the mine describe the conditions to be friehtful in their nature. Outside of the “Klondike” the mines are sefe and uninjured. Within the fatal limits of the mine the havoc wrought by the explosion {ts such as beggars description. Solid walls of masonry. three feet through were torn down as though barriers of naner. The 10ofs of the mine were demolished and not a door remains standing. In the face of these difficulties even the most heroic efforts toward rescue may well seem hopeless. Miners who left the ‘mine by wey of the Mill creek entrance brought horrible stories of crawling over the dead bodies of their comrades. Walked Acroxn Dead Bodten. ‘Two young men who were at work in the “Klondike” when the explosion oc- curred escaped by way of the airshaft heading, up through the Kernville hill from the mine. A fan house, now out of use, stands at the top of this air- sheft. This way the young men, sick and dizzy from the nauseous afterdamp or black damp, reached safety. They told how they had walked across dead bodies to pure air and light. How many they did not know. The Cambria Steel (fficials were notified at once of the explosion. It caused consternation in the offices among those who heard the awful news. ° The mine has been open for about fifty years and is producing 3,000 tons per day. It is the property of the Cambria Steel commany. general offices in the Arcade building, Philadelphia. The families of the entombed miners are assembled in laree numbers at the mine opening, but they cannot secure any definite information and must en- dure a suspense of many hours. HEROIC WORK OF RESCUE Bi FELLOWS GO INTO MINE TO BRING OUT DEAD AND MAIMED BODIES. FIND EIGHTY-SEVEN DEAD BODIES BELIEVED THAT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY IS LOW ESTIMATE OF CASUALTIES, SEVERAL ARE FOUND ALIVE TRANSFORMED INTO RAVING MA- NIACS BY HOURS OF WAIT- ING. © Johnstown, Pa., July 12.—At 1 o'clock this morning it is stated that of the 600 men supposed to have entered the mouth of the Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria Steel company Thursday morning, ninety are known to be dead and twenty-two rescued. Four hundred. so the mine officials claim, escaped when the explosion occurred, leaving eighty-eight still to be accounted for. Some of these, according to those in charge of the rescue work, are dead, but the majority, they claim, have es- caped. From physicians, heads of res- cue parties and others familiar with the different headings in the mine, it is learned that at least fifty-two addition- al bodies will be brought to the tem- porary morgue at daylight, making a total list of dead 143. This, so President Powell Stackhouse, of the Cambria Steel company, stated, will be the ex- tent of the dead, but until all checks, by which the miners are known, are presented at the office of the company, an accurate list of the dead will not be known. Some of the bodies, it is ad- 1aitted by the officials, are entombed in closed headings or buried beneath slate. Some may be recovered, while others may never be found. Heroic Work of Rescuers, Johnstown, Pa., July 12.—Yesterday was a day of heroic rescues at the ill- fated Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria Steel company. Thrilling experiences attended the efforts of the forty brave and daring fellows who went down into the bowels of the earth with a very faint hope to spur them that ‘still they might be in time to restore to life some of those who are entombed. Death lurked everywhere around them, but, undaunted, they surged forward, swayed with the noblest of human purposes. The reward of their efforts was the saving of the lives of fourteen of their fellow men and bringing them again into the sunlight and back to loving families. Dead and maimed bodies were lo- cated, but no effort was made to bring them out of the vast theater of death until every human energy was put for- ward toward seeing that no living soul might escape their aid. That done, the dead were attended to and put in train cars, brought up and exposed to morbid gaze while being transferred to wagons in which to be taken to the morgue. ighty-seven dead bodies “were recovered from the mine between Still a party daylight and night-fall. of officials and Miners Battled On, three miles inside the mine. Occasion- ally word would come to the surface by some mysterious means that another heap of remains had been exposed to the vision of the searchers. There re- mains dangerous headings in the Klon- dike section of the mine yet to be ex- plored. No one knows how many more dead will be found there. The mine of- ficials refrain from guess work on the subject. The impression prevails among: the outsiders and certain employes of the mine that 150 is a low estimate of the casualty list. Fated Johnstown spent the day horror-stricken. From dawn to dusk flying ambulances coursed the streets bearing gruesome burdens from mine to morgue, from morgue to homes. Great throngs surged about the pit mouth, the improvised morgue at the armory and about the stricken homes of the dead. Bulletin boards were eagerly scanned for news from the scene of the disaster. It was difficult to picture with any degree approaching its full worth the work of rescue and the attending scenes and incidents of the day at the center of interest. How brave men went Into the Jaws of Death in its most horrible-form, encountered their fellows transformed into raving maniacs by hours of waiting in the pitch darkness of the earth's interior, lifted them moaning from their beds of fallen rock and then bending and crawling onall fours, carrying them a quarter of a mile underground to where ears could be reached to take them outside) © 7 Al in the early part of the after- “noon cheering word came from the in- nermost recesses of the mine that life yet lingered in some of the bodies found. The rescuers made first for No. 4, left heading, which they had been un- able,to reach the night before. Deso- late even for the scene of a mine in- terior was the heading that stretched out before them, Falls of roof almost choked up the heading. but through a i i } # and over the -debris the brave men,| pushed their way. In the front young Patrick Martin, his brother Peter, Philip White and several cousins of the Martins made their way. Suddenly in an open space they were startled by the maniac laugh which emerged from @ blackened form that rushed at them from out of the darkness. The man grasped firmly a pick handle and tried in his frenzy To Beat Down His Rescuers. He was overpowered and dragged back to the main heading to the cars. Thir- teen other living men were found in the chamber and physicians were quickly taken to the spot. At 3 p.m. the train of mine cars came to the pit mouth where waiting ambu- lances stood. Eight men were lifted over the sides of the cars and half- carried, wended their way to the ambu- as ne reached the ambulance and the doctors spent several minutes over him, As the men were driven hurriedly to the Cambria hospital the train of coal cars with the physicians re-entered the mine. In another half-hour they came out again, this time with six liv- ing but almost dead miners, One man in his ‘paroxysms had locked his jaws so that force had to be amployed to pry them open for the insertion of life- instilling fluids. These six were taken in au unconscious condition to the Cam- bria hospital. One man brought out with this crowd died just as he reached daylight. At that tir.e three more headings, be- lieved to be filled with the dead, were unsearched. Klled on Street Car, Dubuque, Iowa, July 16.—In making room for his brother on a Street car August Labarge, aged eighteen, stuck his head over the guard rail and was struck by a passing car and killed. At the time the car was crowded, Coughed to Denth, Chicago, July 16.—Dominica Peracco died as the result of a continuous fit of coughing after taking a dose of med!- cine, death alone finally relieving him from his sufferings. Peracco was formerly of St. Paul, He was employed as a laborer by the Chicago Great Western road, No Room for Clairvoyants. Cleveland, Ohio, July 16.—The police officials have ordered all fortune tellers and clairvoyants engaged in their busi- ness in the city to either quit their calling or leave the city. Eighteen persons are affected by the order. Re- cent reports of alleged swindling by visitors to fortune tellers and clari- yoyants inspired this action by the po- lice, London, July 16.—The court circular announces that King Edward conferred upon Lord Salisbury at last Friday's audience the grand cross of the Vic- tcrian Order, set in brilliants, BELL TOWER FALLS. Venice, Italy, July 16.—The campanile (detachei bell tower of St. Mark’s church) collapsed yesterday morning and fell with a great crash into the piazza. ‘The campanile, which was en- tirely detached from the cathedral, collapsed where it stood and is now a heap of ruins. The cathedral and pal- ace of the doges are quite safe, but a ccrner of the reyal palace was dam- aged. Repairs on the campanile were to have been commenced yesterday. It is feared there was some loss of life. The ruins were surrounded by a cor- don of troops. Strike at Havana. Havana, July 16.—Twenty-two trades unions of Cienfuegos, including the *‘longshoremen’s, _stevedoers, cooks, coach drivers and bakers’ unions, have struck in support of the strike of the men employed unloading timber. Al Weinig Knocked Out. Fort Erie, Ont., July 15.Kid Carter last night knocked out Al Weinig in the twelfth round. The fight was scheduled to go twenty rounds and it was one of the hardest fought battles \ver seen here. Lang Prairie Has a Small Fire. Long Prairie, Minn., July 16.—Fire in Theig’s block badly damaged the build- ing and ruined the furniture and fix- tures of the First National bank, lo- cated on the first floor. Other tenants suffered consiierable loss. Philip Addy Caught. Litchfield, Minn., July 16. — Sheriff Nelson has received word that Philip Addy, brother of Frank Addy, had been ceught in the mountains in Idaho. He is suspected of being implicated in the Gorton murders. * Deadwood, S. D., July 16.—Little Boy, @ Pine Ridge agency Indian, is in Dead- wood looking for stolen horses. A num- | ber of head have been driven off the reservation lately, and it is believed some of them have come this way. Nora Springs, Iowa, July 16. — Fire completely gutted the building of Mc- . Elroy & Martin, restaurant; Sheets &' Watson, adjoining clothiers, suffered ccnsiderable loss. All well insured, | Winthrop, Minn., July 16. — Senator Cc. J. Larson died yesterday mctning after a long illness. He leaves a wife, four sons and one daughter. Mental Effects of Diets in London. An exclusively pork diet tends infalli- | bly to pessimizm. Beef, if. persevered in for months, makes a man strong, ener- getic and audacious. A mutton diet, continued in for any length of time, ! tends to melancholia, while veal-eaters gradually lose energy and gayety. The free use of eggs and milk tend to make women healthy and vivacious. Butter, used in excess, renders its users phelm- atic and lazy. Apples are excellent for! brain-workers, and everybody who has much intellectual work to do should eat them, freely. Potatoes, on the contra- ry, render one dull, idvidious and lazy, when eaten constantly and in excess. ‘Tc preserve the memory, even to an ad- vanced age, nothing is better than mus- tard.—Pearson’s Weekly. é A Cat's Cradle, A cat had taken up its abode and! nursed its litter of four kittens in the fork of a tree twenty-eight feet from the ground, in the garden of Ald. ; Peace’s residence at Castle Hills, High ‘Wycombe, England. The kittens were removed by the gardener, but the cat speedily took them up the tree again to their strange birthplace.—Exchange. ‘FIFTEEN HORSES BURNED. Ten Thousand Dollar Fire at St. Hilaire. St. Hilaire, Minn., July 16. — The Crookston Lumber company's barn and mill here were totally destroyed by fire. Fifteen horses and a large quantity of feed? wee~ burned. Firemen and mill men saved the sawmill and other prop- erty. Loss is estimated at about $10,- 000, DAY OF FUNERALS VICTIMS OF THE MINE EXPLOSION ARE LAID TO REST aT JOHNSTOWN, TOTAL FATALITIES REACH 114 MAY BE MORE BODIES IN THE MINE, BUT OFFICIALS EXPERTS MAKE AN INSPECTION LOOK FOR CAUSE OF EXPLOSION, BUT DO NOT GIVE CON- CLUSIONS, Johnstown, Pa., July 14.—‘We know Where the explosion in the Rolling Mill mine occurred. We know what caused it. We know who caused it. If he were alive criminal action might reach him. He is dead undoubtedly. There is noth- ing sensational about the cause. I will only say that the explosion was not caused by a blast.” These poignant statements were made by Joseph A. Roderick, chief of the State bureau of mines, last night, some time after hearing the report of his four district inspectors who made an official examination of the mine yesterday. Mr, ltoderick said: ‘There is nothing to conceal and everything known to me will be made public at the coroner’s in- quest, which will not be held for sev- eral days, or at least unti! Mine Bosses John Rotalick, Harr, iodgers and Thomas Foster are able to testify.” Casualties Nuwher 114, Johnstown, Pa., July 14.—After a con- sultation last evening with the four state mine inspectors summoned here to make a thorough inspection of the Rolling Mill mine of the Cumbria Steel company, James E. Roderick, chief of the state bureau of mine inspection, dictated a notice to General Manager C. S. Price of the Cambria company, granting special permission to resume operations in all sections of the mine except the Klondike to-day. The Klon- dike workings will likely be closed for several days, until perfect security is assured through the bratticing of open- ings and repairs necessitated by the explosion. Two more deaths of rescued victims have occurred. These deaths raise the total fatalities to 114, although the company’s records have it one less. Much confusion has attended the com- Pilation of the record. May Be More Dead Bodies, Mine Superintendent G. T. Robinson said last evening: “I would not like to assert that there are no more bodies in the mine, but I dcn’t think there are. There may be a few.” It is generally regarded as certain that the full extent of the disaster is now known. State inspectors say that the condition of all the workings are now free of gas and the almost perfect ventilating apparatus are rushing cur- rents of pure air into the uttermost recesses of the subterranean workings. There has not been a single place out- side of the old abandoned chambers that has not undergone the scrutiny of experts to pronounce everything in ag good condition as could be asked or demanded. The men paid particular note to the ferreting out, if possible, the cause of the explosion and the fact whether the blame rests on any one ; now living, upon whom heavy punish- , ment would light. | spectors would say nothing as to their Of course the in- discoveries. They will remain mute to the public on the subject until Called Upon to Testify at the inquest. - “I decline to say what my conclusions are since I have talked with the ones who were in to-day,” said Mr. Brod- erick. “But I will say I consider the Rolling Mill mine a well conducted in- ststuticn.” Most interest centered yesterday in the funeral obsequies which were scat- tered throughout the city. The black cloud of mourning was heaviest over Cambria City, where the foreign popu- lation dwells, Scenes of Saturday in this section were repeated, but only with sterner force. It was a grim fete day in which the number of partici- pants was augmented by throngs the mornirg trains brought in. All the churches of Johnstown paid more or less attention in their morning services to the disaster. Collections were lifted in many for the benefit of the bereft families of the poorer vic- tims. Special masses were said in the Catholic churches. CRISIS IN MINERS’ STRIKE, Everything Depends on the Conven- tfon Thin Week. Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 14.—The tenth week of the great anthracite miners’ strike may witness the crisis. Everything now depends upon the na- tional convention which meete at Jn- @ianapolis on Thursday. If tne conven- tion votes solid support to the nard coal miners’ now on strike the conflict with the operators may be prolonged indefinitely. On the other hand, should substantial support not be forthcominy, it may have a discouraging effect on the stcikers, and the operators, taking advantage of it, may attempt to resume operations at some of the collieries. This is the concensus of opinion as ex am operators and strike circles, No +ffort will be made by any of the !arge coal companies .o start up any of their mines this week. In- dianapolis must speak ‘first before any move is made in that drection, ee NAVAL MAN DROWNED. Assistant Paymaster on. the Frank- lin Loses His Life. Norfolk, Va., July 14. — David P. Kronach2r, assistant paymaster, U. S. HICKS-BEACH OUT BRITISH CHANCELLOR OF THE EX- CHEQUER RESIGNS HIS POST. CHAMBERLAIN WANTS THE JOB. WOULD EXCHANGE COLONIAL SEC-' RETARYSHIP FOR CHAN- CHLLORSHIP, GREAT OVATION TO BCALFOUR TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO NEW PRE- MILER IN HOUSE OF COM- MONS. London, July 16.—A. J. Balfour was: yesterday formally greeted as Great Britain's premier, and the new regime bcgan its work. The momentous change was marked by only one really dra- matic incilent, namely, the resignation of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach from his: Post of chancellor of the exchequer. Yet this lack of outward show and public prelude to a new chapter im English history is by no means repre- sentative of the disturbances which the sudden transition created among the undercurrents of political life. It is safe to y that Sir Michael Hicks- Beach is onty the first of several whose names have figured largely before the public in the last half-century and who new will disappear from the political arena. Nothing absolutely definite is. yet settled, but the Unionist party ex- pects shortly to hear of the resigna- uons of ‘arl Halsbury, lord high chancellor; Lord James of Hereford, ckancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and Earl Cadogan, lord lieutenant of Treland. For Sir Michael Hicks-Beach’s place Rt. Hon. Hanbury, now president cf the board of agriculture, is the favorite. Chamberlain Wants It. Late in the evening, however, the talk in the parliamentary lobbies re- volved about the highly interesting and apparently well founded statement that ‘Mr. Chamberlain desires to exchange the office of colonial secretary for the! chancellorship of the exchequer. If that be so it cannot be doubted that afr, Chamberlain will carry his point. Among the many speculations current of a less interesting character are ru- mors that Lord Curzon of Kedleston, viceroy and goveror general ‘of India, may be called home to take office in the cabinet. In the pending reconstruction, which may not be completed for some time *o come, Mr. Balfour, much to the delight of the Unionists, will remain the leader in the house of commons and first lord of the treasury, with Mr. Chamber- lain still in command of the colonies, as his first Neutenant. Mr. Balfour's first appearance in the house of commons as premier was characteristic of the man and of the assembly. Both front benches were filled with ministers and ex-ministers, except for a vacant place opposite the mace. where Mr. Balfour was such @& familiar figure. Amid a nervous, ceas2- lees chatter of questions which were rattled through, Sir Michael Hicks- Beach sat gloomi'y among the col- league he was so soon to leare. Tribute From an Opponent. Suddenly the clatter ceased and there stole from behind the speaker's chair the long, thin figure of the prime min- ister. From all sides of the house there rcse a chorus of “hear, hear.” The members rose and kept up the applause till Mr. Balfour, who sidled along the treasury bench, nearly falling over Sir Michael Hicks-Besch’s feet, reached his seat and buried Lis head in a volumin- ous question paper. He was blushing like a school girl. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Libera] lecder, stopped fv: «ner business by making such a feeling personal ref- erence to Mr. Balfour as is seldom heard in tegislative bodies, and which yas delivered with an emotion that quite unnerved the premier. When Mr. Balfour rose to reply the ovation was renewed but his voice faltered and he was only just able, hesitatingly, to de- clare that he was too overcome to find words of thanks. After Mr. Balfour's tribute to Lord Salisbury, which was universally commended for its tactful reserve, the house was emptied, the members gathering on the terrace and in the lobbies, discussing the important features that the day had brought forth. IN HOUSE OF LORDS. Duke of Devonshire Assumes the Leadership Laid Down by Salis- ) bury. nouncing Lord Salisbury’s resignation in the house of lords yesterday the duke of Devonshire added that his lordship had also retired from the government Jeadership in the house of peers and de- sired that he, the duke of Devonshire, should take up that position. GEN. WHEATON RETIRES. Long and Honorable Military Career Closes, ‘Washington, July 16—MajJ. Gen. Loyd Wheaton closed his active military career yesterday, having reached the statutory retiring age of sixty-four years. He is at his home in this coun- try, where he recently arrived from the Philippines. The vacancy caused by his retirement already has been an- ticipated by the appointment of Brig. Gen. Jobn C. Bates, now commanding the department of Missouri at Omaha. - “. RADLRQAD WINS, | “goo” Not Responsible to Thin? Parties for Loans of Mail, St. Louis, Mo., July 16—The United States circuit court ‘of appeals, in affirming the verdict of a lower court in the case of Bankers Mutual Casualty company ai mee the | St. London, July 15. — In formally an- | . © | } Reig Hae ne