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= CE See eae ama oat mf Ma viii ~ Hi ' ‘ NEN EPLOSIN ILS ONE MAN, _TAREEAREDYING SOD Employees, Including 100 “Girls, in Panic as Newark =~ Factory Is Shaken, | SCRAMBLE FOR SAFETY. Much Mystery as to Cause of | ,, Explosion, Which May Be |’ Cleared Up To-Day. & Official investigation war ber Gay into the explosion that the | death of one man and possibly Vir Building F of Juries to three others 2.00 employees, 100 | over the by three @f them girls, who were working time, w 6 thrown into @ panic t wan followed ones, caused by @ gas oven dlowing up ‘ Persons outside the building saw a|'? brixnt glare of Nght an instant before) the top| ma of] th houts of the men aisle mingled with 8 crowds rushed toward the place to erawl from nthe top floor | jo scorer fed | he explosion had |\\ nn began indows m and none of them knew what had happened exept (hat there had been @ roar and the bullding | shook ns if about to fall. Adlethe girls were employed on the ovens; separated fron partuient by a fire w haBtAl to 600 degre: series of Kas pipes, pleted just ap ricnal to quit work came, OMK"MAN KILLED, MANY OTH- ERS INJURED. Fee quitting signal met with quick | % setbinse The men were leaving the | teertr floor, and all in front of the line |} were knocked down and one man was dideai to pieces, He wan Pau forty-five, of No. 117 Sheffield #t Na % Barclay at Bledeck, fifty-seven, of ettedt, Were eo badiy hurt that they are reperted to be dying. GBeveral others in the factory received | mliBor injuries but refused to go to tho! tal. | Maracaito, 4 | Flortaet, "Ne Great was the first explosion that | Mermudl window in the factory was ‘The Technola played by hand The Technola Piano The Technola is a new player-piano—the latest achievement of the Acolian Company—the largest manufacturers of musical instruments in the world, It is the first artistic piano at a popular price. As a repre- eentative achievement of the makers of the Steinway, Weber, Steck, Wheelock and Stuyvesant Pianola Pianos, the Aeolian Oichestrelle and the Aeolian Pipe Organ, the Technola exempli- fies the high standards of quality of these famous instruments, Unlike other player-pianos of popular price, the Technola has musical qualities of the highest order, So exceptionally complete is its expression control that anyone can render the most dificult safe In th € ‘explode 88, nla MEN'S FASHIONS FOR 1912 HARD ON FAT MEN © the fat man. The dictum tom Culler A Association now in session in But- THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1912. offers amall m will he the watch: ding to Chairman H. P. ident until the Inst of them 6 atreet Superintendent H.W. Harder Investigation, decide what cau The oven en passed recently by the proper bus » Newark Fire Department, Albert Gasser, head of corroborated > —— SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. Sun rises, 7.04 Sun acta c bes if Mies Wig tose te te INCOMING STEAMSHIPS, OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS, BAILED TO-DAY, co on ee selection correctly and with artistic effect rent for the fire engines » police in An uproar son the vario , the electric een wroken by the concussion. in to: |NONE OF THE GIRLS HURT, BUT ALL SCARED, fire, smoke and suffocating wing from the broken panning oven that had Foaring bly More sertous e1 ali parte of the bulid- nm nearent sould « happened a deafening report and a con at went the room, On their arrival the fome of the floors were tn family. eht bulbs having Brighton, bat the fourth floor there would Suddenly the | widow. aprawiing to all ome of the men nment Hehoeneman tried ie the girls In the | husband to the Stap! |in London. | his mother. brother, During @ quarrel he but raid he he aald, had the authorities, don, confirmed this DODGED POLE AND A FORTUNE FOR MONTHS But Authorities Didn’t “Want” Staples, So He Goes Home | to Share Riches. Matthew Gorton Staples fs aboard the ‘steamship Pring Friedrich Wiihelm to- day on his way home to London to claim hie share in @ $2,600,000 estate, after hiding from the authorities of this| country for two months In the bellet that ho had killed @ member of his He te the son of @igmoné Gordon Ataples, who had @ large estate near England. There were two children adopted before Matthew's birth, and aa the yeara went on a bitter feel- Ink grew up between the natural child and the adopted children. Ten yoare ago the elder Staples dled, leaving an estate of $2,600.00. The opted daughter, Sylvia, then became ead of the household. The will settled annual incomes on all the children, leav- jing the residue of the estate to his After Sylvia married and brought her home the enmity ‘between the ohtidren increased. Matthew Jieft nome and for two years lived alone Then he went back to °| Brighton to week a reconciliation with He waa not allowed to see a any one except Sylvia, her husband and struck the band with a poker, and thinking he had Killed him, filed. The family butler fol- lowed and forced $3,000 on him. came to New York last November and had been wandering about since evading Then advertisements were put in New York papers that he had not injured any one and that hie mother, fll in Lon- wanted him to come home. 5.24\ Moon rism,, 1.0% | agency and hurried back. lawyer an@ Union jatonces You Can Play the Technola Piano in Two Ways—by Hand and with a Music Roll The New Technola Piano gives you {wo instruments in one.—A splendid piano of the regular type and an artistic player built into the case. The Technola has a keyboard like any piano. It is always avail- able for hand playing, practice or for music ns. By means of a music roll any- one can play the Technola Piano. Songs, marches, operatic selections, classics, anything you like in music is right at your sd tips the mo- ment the Technola Piano enters your home, musical 1 The in exchange for Man Stricken in Rat Gouverneur M, Thompson, for many years a member of the Union League pate | Chub, @ graduate of Yale, before hie dam | retirement twelve years ago an attor- ney with @ large practice, died suddenly sion |eatly today in the bathroom of the boarding house at No. 47 Past Thirty- first street, where he had live’ alone ed shes "eae G. M. THOMPSON DIES. DUE TO.DAY for eight yeare, He was sixty-five yeare ls, Gibraltar, — Oceante, Bouthamptoa, | old. ee Korona, St. Themes, Kenneth Johanson, @ lodger, heard groans and the soufM of someone fall- ing In the bathroom, Mr. Thompaon was found on the floor, partly dreased and ir. Hmabrook was He He through @ detective Clad La pti SAVES HER FREND Ruth Ragan Holds Miss Page, Afloat in a Gale Until Help Arrives. (Rpectal to The Rventng World), HONOLULU, H. 1., Fob, 1.—The Nip» pon Maru arrived here from the Orient yosterday after @ thrilling experience, with @ genie at sea which disclosed Ld heroine among the passengers and gave the ehip'’s crew an exciting experience, ‘The big liner of the Oriental Steamship line was Iteting tadly when she made this port, the captain reported that tho coal in her bunkers had shifted and ing headway with diMcuity. | Mise Ruth Regan of Denvor, who wae) returning after several years as an offi- into the wale. Mies Page was pitched from the deck of the vessel into the sea, Mise Ragan, topping only long enough to throw her| ap 4 cloak from her shoulders, leaped In after ter friend and heid her head | above water until @ boat from the ship came to the rescue. There waa n ic among the passen- | were, althougn Vhey were with diMculty kept to their staterooms. The ahip will he delayed here for several days, GOMPERS DENIES CONTEMPT. s Right Speech, He Says in Defense, | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Samuel Gom- pers, President of the American Federa- tlon of Labor, made an unequivocal de- nial of any intent to disobey the tn- junction of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia when he took the stand yesterday in his own defense against the charge of contempt in con- nection with the Buck Stove and Range Company boycott case. Mr. Gompers insisted that his edito- tala in the American Federationist and the utterances of himaeif and other om- | etals of organized labor during the cam- palgn of 188 were not intended to ald or abet the boycott of the company. He explained that his speeches were based on his upderstanding of the American Only Exerc’ of Closes All Italian Inatitations, CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 17,.--The Turkish Cabinet decided to-day to put that ehe had been wallowing tn the| trough of the sea for three days, maky| into foree the order for closing all Italian -inetitutions in Turkey, inolud- ing private banks, insurance companies and the Italian Orphanage CASTORIA Tee Kind | You Have Always Bough ‘The Technole played with « music-roll feature can be instantly conceal leaving a handsome upright piano of highly artistic design. No matter whether you play a you will find the Technola Piano to be admirably suited to your juirements, echnola Piano carries the guarantee of the Aeolian Company, thus assuring the permanency of its beautiful tone and other fine features. The Technola Piano will be placed in your home on the | payment of $15. A small sum monthly is then charged on the balance, Your present piano will never be worth so much echnola Piano as it is now, the Price $450 $15 Down, the balance io small monthly payments, ‘When required for hand-playing or for practice, the player underneath artistic paneling, | , indifferently or not at all, New Pianos for Rent. A Complete Stock of Victor Talking Machines ana Records THE AEOLIAN CO. AEOLIAN HALL, 362 Fifth Ave., New York | THE TECHNOLA PIANO—A Gif to the Entire Family LEPS FROM SHP, LAWYER VIOLENT, GIRL ASKS $7,000 Assistant U. S. Attorney Thompson Is Sued by For- mer Flagg Clerk. Teabetio Russe, the twenty-one-year- 01d sister of Mine Madeline Russe, who was the confidential secretary of Jared Flagg, alloge get-rich-quick man, when Fiags's offices at No, 106 West Fortieth street were raided last September, aued Assistant United States Distriot~At- torney Claude A. Thompson for $1,000. Ghe alleges assault, Papers were fied in the City Court yosterday by her counsel, John Macgregor of No, 80 Broadway. Miss Russo asserts that last Friday she was summoned to Mr. Thompson's office in the Park Row Building and there he “violently assaulted” her and “ghoved her out of office.” Teabelle Russo was a clerk for Flags and has been called to tell what she knew of business conducted in his office. The Bureau of Investigation of the De partment of Justice has offices on the ninth floor of the Park Row Buliding Mr. Thompson is investigating Flegg's affairs for the bureau “Lam Friday,” said Miss Russe to a | Teporter for The World yesterday in hor home, “Mr. Thompson phoned mo and Miss Frances Carroll of No. 1 Pierrepont street, Brooklyn, also an employee of Mr. Flagg, to come to his ome o'clock. Ho threatened to us if we didn’t come. We got there about quarter of three. He sent me into an adjoining room while he questioned Mise Carroll and kept me waiting until quarter past five. Then jubpoena for you to appear be- fore the Grand Jury Feb. 6.’ “I went to take Miss Carroll away and Mr. Thompson said, ‘Oh, no; you get out of here. You can’t talk to her,’ and pushed me backward. I resisted, but he picked me up by the arms, act me outside the door and shut it in my face. M! Carroll was crying inside. anything I could do then, home.”” 0 T wen “Thero's nothing in it,” was ell Mr. Thompson would say when the reporter questioned him about the case. SLOANS LINIMENT Gives quick relief from pain. It’s an excellent remedy for rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago and sprains, Relieved Severe Pain in Shoulders Mr. J. UNDERWOOD, of 2000 Warren Ave., Chicago, Tl, writes: ‘* I am a@ plano polisher by occupation, and since last Sept. have suffered with severe pain in both shoulders. of my friends told me about your liniment. T could not rest night or day. One Three applications completely cured me, and I will never be without it.” Cured Sciatic Rheumatism Mr. A. have u: J. 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