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IN EXPLOSION
Worlinien in iixcava i ion in Brook^
lyn ara Rcasteo Alive.
A I
LOST HIS LIFE
'T'-'^ing to Ssve W»'m»n who was
Fas/nj, i<oas of Earth Covered
x>odies of V ictims.
New York City.—More than twenty
persons lost their lives as the result
the explosion of a gas main at Gold
bikI Front streets, Brooklyn.
Practically the whole street from the
stoop line between Gold and Front
streets was tumbled into a fifty foot
excavation in which fifteen or more
men were working, and several per
sons who were walking along the
street were carried down.
It is believed that every person who
went into the excavation was killed
instantly or smothered or drowned.
F'!ftc‘'n tenement houses on the block
were in such danger of falling into
the trench that the occuponts were
ordered out by the police.
The most intense excitement pre
vailed for blocks around the scene of
tbe accident, and the street were fill
ed with wailing women and children,
who were unable to gey any word from
relatives known to be in the vicinity
•when the explosion came.
The explosion tore the street to
pieces for rods on either side and the
'twelve men Vvho were worlcing in the
-excavation for a big sewer pipe were
l>iiiied by the debris which fell in
upon them and smothered or .burned
<o death in the fire that followed the
explosion.
Samuel Trout, who lived near the
■scene, lost his life in attempting to
save a woman who was passing
througli Gold stret at the time of the
explosion and fell into a trench.
Trout was caught by the flames
■from the blazing gas main and roasted
»live. The woman was dragged out
-of the trench and saved by a boy.
The workmen were digging a trench
through Gold street for the Installation
ot a thirty-six Inch sewer pipe. The ex
t»va.tion was to be nearly forty feet
•deep and as the laborers removed the
earth the walls had been shored up
l>y large timbers.
With Charles SchifCmeyer, a city in
spector of sewers, overseeing the
^rtirk at the bottom of trench
when an accumulation of gas from a
which had been accidentally
l>roken during the course of the work
•eocnloded with tremendous force.
The supporting timbers were ripped
a.vay, and the high dirt walls toppled
'Over on Schiffmeyer and his men.
A large water main also was broken
Tiy the force of the explosion, and a
^rfect torrent of water began to spurt
up through the mass of wreckage. Al
most side by side with these geysers
Toared the flames from the gas es-,
caning from the broken main.
The explosion was followed by
scenes of the most intense excite
ment.
FINAL [LEA FAUED.
United States Suv-*xne Ccurt Dismused
Patrick • AppeaL
Washington, D. C.—Tne final des
perate attempt of Albert T. Patrick,
convicted of tho murder of William
Marsh Rice, the eccentric old Texas
millionaire, in his New York home, to
regain his liberty, has failed. The
United States supreme court has ris-
missed Patrick’s appeal, prepared by
himself in prison, and denied his plea
of habeas corpus. He must stay in
prison, to serve out his sentence,
commuted from death in the electric
chair to life imprisonment.
Patrick’s case is remarkable and
unique in the annals of crime. While
still under sentence of death he man
aged repeatedly, through his own skill
in the law, to get his case before the
courts and it was brought several
times from Sing Sing prison to New
York on writs of appeals. He worked
incessantly on his own case, but was
unable to get a new trial, although he
finally managed to obtain from Gov
ernor Higgins a commutation of sen
tence.
The murder of William Marsh Rice
was accomplished by the aid of chlo
roform, in hie apartments. Patrick had
an accomplice in the person of the old
millionaire’s valet. Jones, who after
ward confessed. It was through the
confession of Jones, corroborated by a
great deal of other testimony, tnat
Patrick was convicted.
The motive for the crime was
shown in a conspiracy between Pat
rick and Jones to possess themselves
of the old man’s wealth. Then Pat
rick, after making himself thorough
ly familiar with the old man’s affairs,
through Jones, forged his signature to
checks for round sums which he pre
sented immediately after the old
man’s death.
TO PRBTE^ RflRIOAl
Increase in Duty on Citrus Fruits
Is Favored.
“STARCH TRL’ST” UNDER FiRE
Trurt Agents Admit That Com Starch is
Sold in Enj^land For Less than
in the United States.
BE-l'NlON SCOTTISH BiTE MASONS
FERTILIZER COMBINE PLANNED.
to
Independent Companies in South
Unite and Form Big Company.
Baltimore, Md.—Independent fertil
izer men throughout the south met at
New York to consider a proposition
'to join a new fertilizer combination,
which will take out a charter under
the laws of Now Jersey and have a
capitalization of $75,(>00,000. Of this
sum $50,00{),000 will be stock equally
divided between common and prefer
red.
The new concern will be called the
Independent Fertilizer company ond
will be controlled by interests identi
fied with the Tennessee Copper com
pany. The chief subsidary of the new
•corporation will be the $10,000,000
chemical company recently organized
to handle Ihe sulphuric acid output
'Of the Tennessee Copper company.
Already options have been obtain
ed on some of tbe largest independent
plants in the country, including the
two of the Armour Packing company,
In Baltimore and those of the Swift
Packin" company at Wilmington, Del.,
and Atlanta, Ga.
GPlUj] SMUGGLING PLOT.
Cement Barrels Half Filled With the
Drug—Shipped to Manila.
(Manila, P. I.—Evidences ot an ex
tensive plot to smuggle opium here
-from China have been discovered. Re-
'«ently a wlorkmen employed on the
military buildings at Camp Stozenberg
"discovered a quantity of opium con
cealed in cement which had been
shipped from Hong Kong.
The opium has been turned over to
■^e customs oflicials, and the govern
ment Is now investigating.
To Be Held In Atlanta's New Temple
Next Spring.
Atlanta, Ga.—^The deaication of At
lanta’s new Masonic Temple, now
about completed, will mark a general
revival among that branch of the Ma
sonic fraternity known as the Scot
tish Rite.
Plans are under way for a spring
reunion of the Scottish Rite to be
held in Atlatna next April, which will
bring to the city many of the distin
guished and prominent citizens of the
country, including Hon. James D. Rich
ardson of Tennessee, the grand com
mander of the southern jurisdiction,
and the full ofBoial.-divan of^ the su-
f^reme council, the chief governing
body of the rite, whose headquarters
are at Washington, D. C.
During the reunion the degrees of
the rite, fourth to thirty-second, inclu
sive, will be conferred with full cer
emonials for the first time in Atlanta,
on a dedicatory class of more than
two hundred, representing every sec
tion of Georgia, and the handsome
and perfectly appointed apartments
of the rite on the upper floor of the
Temple will be dedicated and formal
ly opened. The apartments include
the largest stage of modern construc
tion yet erected in the southeast. Con
tracts for the scenery, more than one
hundred pieces, necessary to properly
exemplify the work, together with a
mammoth lighting plant, to cost ap
proximately 12,000, have been closed,
and will be installed as quickly as the
artists can complete the work there
on.
It is safe to assume that nothing
so ambitious as this,reunion has ever
been undertaken by Scottish Rite Ma
sons of the southern jurisdiction, and
the indications are that Masonic stu
dents from all America will gather at
Atlanta to witness the ceremjonies
and enjoy the work.
. FIBE IN COAL MIN^.
Flames Which Raged in Mine Started
by Convicts.
Birmingham, Ala.—Fire was discov
ered in Mine No. 3 of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad company at
Pratt City, near here, in which is em
ployed convict labor exclusively.
No less than seventy-five convicts
were at work at the time when the
blaze was discovered.
The dead bodies of five convicts
have been taken out and the officials
of the company expressed the belief
that there were seven others dead.
Many rumors prevailed of an explo
sion, and there was great excitement.
The fire started in an old part of
the mines in which ofiicials say there
were not more than twelve or thir
teen convicts working, and it is be
lieved the convicts started it them
selves.
A later report from Pratt City was
to the effect that the fire in convict
Mine No. 3 had been gotten under con
trol and efforts are being made to re
cover the other seven convicts in the
place.
There is a cltance, it was reported,
for the missing men to be in secluded
places and safe.
W^ashington, D. C.—The so-called
“Starch Trust” was under fire at the
hearing on tariff revision before the
house committee on ways and means.
The cross-examination of J. B. Wal
ton, representing the Corn Prcducta
Refining Company, the so-called trust,
formed the most interesting incident
at the hearing on the tariff schedule
covering agricultural products and
provision. Citrus fruits also oecupled
considerable attention,
Mr, Walton admitted that his com
pany Bsils corn starch at a loss in the
United Kingdom, at a price forty cents
less than it is sold in this country.
Florida fruit growers gave the com
mittee information on citrus fruit,
pineapples and vegetables, especially
as affected by competition with Cuba,
and requested either the retention of
the present tariff on these articles or
an increase in the duty.
The argument that “the states of
Florida, Arizona, Ijouisiana and Cali
fornia can in time produce all of the
citrus fruits used in the United States”
was put forth by E, P. Porcher of
Jacksonville, Fla., for a protective duty
on oranges and lemons.
J. G. Chase, representing the Jack
sonville board of trade, was urging
protection duty on citrus fruits, when
Representative Underwood of Ala
bama asked:
“Do you believe in the general idea
of protection?”
“Yes,” was the reply, “so far as it
does not harm the people of the coun
try.”
“Is that the attitude of the Jack
sonville board of trade?” questioned
Mr, Underwood.
Mr, Chase answered affirmatively.
“And it’s the attitude of all the
people of Florida, isn’t it?” urged Mr.
Boutell, republican member from Illi
nois.
^ Again the fruit grower agreed, add
ing: “Of all the thinking people.*'
“I Jtist wanted to know about;
said Mr, Underwood, “because Flori
da gave its electoral vote for a party
whose platform favors a tariff for rev
enue,”
Representatives Clark and Sparkman
of Florida asked leave of the com
mittee to file briefs on the subject of
tariff on citrus fruit, and F. G. Mc
Mullen for the Florida pineapple grow
ers, asked for a 70 per cent duty on
pineapples.
iwt TBEn OF |7ao,oo9
Peter Van Vlissinger Given 1 to 14
Years in Penitentizury.
Chicago, ni,—Peter Van Vlissingeu,
a real estate dealer, for several years
classed among the first Chicago’s
prosperous and reputable business
men, confessed to having obtained,
through forged deeds and notes, more
than $700,000, and a few hours after
his arrest, on his own urgent appeal
to be punished, was sentenced to the
penitentiary. The arrest, the indict
ment, the confession and the sentence
were the work of less than four
hours.
Takoi* in the midst of business from
an oi£c} desk shortly after the noou
hour. Van Vlissingen, a venerable
looking man, appeared before the
court in tears, confessed that for from
eighteen to twenty years he had been
securing money through the sale of
forged documents, and that though he
had bought back many of these spu
rious instruments without detection,
at least twenty-five people would lose
an aggregate of mcJre than $700,000
through the paper which he has not
yet redeemed; in forging notes, he de
clared, he had perfected an unique de
vice, This consisted of a plate glass
desk top, so arranged that by an elec
tric light thrown up beneath, he could
readily trace from originals forged
signatures on to worthless paper.
Throughout his arrest and sentence,
the prisoner made no effort to de
fend himself, but only asked that his
punishment be speedy.
His term in the penitentiary was
fixed as indeterminate from one to
fourteen years, '
WILL SELL CANAL BONDS.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
LOOKOUT INN BURNED
"OPEN DOOR” CAUSES TALK.
Japan and United States Exchange
Diplomatic Views on Subject.
Washington, D. C.—Although Presi
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Root
formally deny that there has been any
friction between the United States
and Japan over the question of the
“open door"’ in China and that no re
quests or demands had been inade of
Japan by the state department with
reference to this subject, there can be
no denial that a diplomatic exchange
of views has taken place in the last
few days.
Numerous complaints have been
made by American and other foreign
merchants in Manichurla to the effect
that while ostensibly maintaining a
policy of non-interference without
taking side in the trade, Japanese of
ficials really have been secretly favor
ing their own countrymen.
AMMUNITION APPBOPRIATIONS
State
Granted By Government to
Troops Very Libera!.
Washington, D, C.—The division of
militia affiairs of the war department
has announced the allowance of am
munition for the present fiscal year
made to the national guard under the
act of May 27, 1908, being fifty per
cent of the allowance to the regular
army.
The total which Is set aside for this
purpose is $643,124, divided amon
the states according to the enlisted
strength of their national guard:
Alabama, with 3,010 men gets $17,-
681 for ammunition; Georgia, with
2,806 men gets $17,559; North Caro
lina, with 1,835 men gets $12,032;
South Carolina, with 1,714 men gets
$11,718; Kentucky, with 1,590 men
gets $10,250; Tennessee, with 1,430
men gets $9,595; Florida, with 1,160
men gets $7,713.
Cortelyou Announces Terms for $30,-
000,000 Bond Issue,
Washington, D, C,—Secretary Cor
telyou has made public the announce
ment that he would receive bids up
to the close of business on December
5 next for $30,000,000 of Panama Ca
nal bonds, or any part thereof, to
bear 2 per cent interest. The bonds
will be dated November 1, 1908, thus
making this a new issue, and interest
will begin as of that date. The bonds,
by the terms of the law authorizing
their issue, will be redeemable in gold
in ten years frcna their date and pay
able in thirty years. As an evidence
of good faith the secretary requires
each bid to be accompanied by a cer
tified check, payable to the secretary
of the treasury, for 2 per cent of tne
amount of the bid.
Thft bonds will be issued in denom-
iilations of $20, $100 and $1,000 of
coupon bonds, and of $20, $100, $1,500
and $10,000 of registered bonds. They
will be exempt from all taxes or du
ties of the United States, as well as
taxation in any form by or under nay
state, municipal or local authority.
The bonds will be available to nation
al banks as security for circulating
notes and receivable as security for
public deposits in national banks. The
law forbids their sale at less than par
and provides that all citizens of the
United States shall have equal oppor
tunity to subscribe therefor.
In considering the bids the secre
tary will award the first allotment to
the bidders offering the highest price.
Of two or more bidders offering the
same prices, those asking for the
smaller amounts of bonds will receive
priority in the allotment.
The secretory of the treasury will
issue the bonds under authority vest
ed in him by acts of congress, approv
ed June 28, 1902, and December 2il,
1905, which authorizes the borrow
ing on the credit of the United States
of the sum of $130,000,000, or as much
thereof as may be necessary in carry
ing on the work of constructing the
Panama canal.
Big Tobacco Deal Closed.
Louisville, Ky.—The big deal be
tween the American Tobacco com
pany and the Burley Tobacco society
for the 1906 and part of the 1907 crops
of tobacco, which has been hanging
fire for several weeks, was closed
here. The price agreed on in the
transaction, which is the largest of its
kind ever put through, is an average
of 20 1-2 cen^s for the 1906 crop and
17 cents per pound for the 1907 pro
duct.
The deal involves nearly 80,000,000
pounds of tobacco held in the pool by
the Burley Tobacco society and an
outlay of something like $14,000,000
on the part of the American Tobacco
company, practically all of this money
being placed in circulation at once
The deal was the largest tobacco
deal ever consummated in this coun
try involving leaf tobacco.
70,000 Attend Jubilee of Pope.
Rome, Italy.—Seventy thousand
people jammed the way into St, Pet
ers to celebrate the priesthood jubi
lee of the pope. Many women fainted
in the terrific crush. Several were in
jured and the gowns torn to shreds,
confederates.
General.
The English house of commons has
iecided that Lord Fairfax, an Amer
ican and a member of the famous
Ei’airfax family of Virginia, had estab
lished his claim to a seat among the
peers, Albert Kirby Fairfax, twelfth
aaron Cameron, was hustling around
in Wall street. New York city, and
watching the stock market when the
house of commons decided that he
was entitled to a seat among the
peers. The fact that this honor h^
been bestowed upon the American did
not seem to interest him nearly so
much as the fluctuations of Steel
Trust common and Pennsylvania.
The contributions of the democratic
national committee in the presidential
campaign were not sufficient to meet
the expenses, according to Norman E.
Mack, chairman of the committee, Mr.
Mack said that he would make the de
ficit good out of his own pocket and
that he would regard it as a personal
obligation to see that every bill is
paid,
Herman Blllek of Chicago, 111., con
victed of the murder of five members
of the Vzral family, was sentenced
by Judge Barnes to hang on Decem
ber 11. The fight of Billek and his
friend! for liberty, which carried the
case before the United States supreme
court, has attracted attention.
It is I'umored here that several Ven
ezuelan politicians, followers of the
former Revolutionary leader “El
Mocho” Hernandez, have been arrest
ed by order of President Castro and
imprisoned at Maracaibo. Among them
is a priest who was captured while
officiating in church.
The greatest victory in the history
of forty years’ agitation for equal
suffrage in Illinois was won at Chica
go, 111. The charter committee by a
vote of six to four, adopted a resolu
tion by Alderman Milton J. Foreman,
declaring for a bill giving women the
right to vote for all municipal offices
and on all questions of policy which
have to do with the municipality.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany, which is being sued by the Unit
ed States government to recover $3,-
600,000 in custom duties, has issued a
statement denying “most indignantly”
the charge of the government’s suit of
fraud on the part of the company in
the weighing of sugar importations.
Emperor William, in conference
with Chancellor Von Buelow, promis
ed to take concessions to public opin
ion in future, exercise more reserve,
interfere less in governmental affairs
and be more careful of what'he says
both in private and public utterances
As a rdsalt of these assuraaces Von
Buelow will remain in office.
Passengers arriving at San Francis
CO from Manila in the transport Bu
ford quote military officers who have
recently been in Japan as authority
for the statement that thousands of
Koreans have been killed by Japanese
since the mikado occupied the “hermit
kingdom” with his troops. The Kore
ans killed up to the end of August
last since the conclusion of the Jap
anese protectorate treaty of 1907,
number 12,014, of whom 11,664 are
certified to by the Japanese garrison,
796 by the gendarmie and 553 by the
native police, while 5,892 surrendered.
The official returns to only 1.69 killed,
254 wounded aiid 8,162 invalided, of
whom 796 subsequently died.
Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould,
wife of Howard Gould, was awarded
$25,000 a year according to a decision
of Justice Blachoff in the supreme
court of New York. Mrs, Gould Is
awarded this alimony pending the
trial of her suit for separation. She
originally asked for alimony of $120,-
000 a year, claiming that a woman in
her station in life could not get along
on less.
Waehington.
Letters are being sent out by the
navy department to about one thous
and employes of navy yards through
out the United States notirfying them
of an increase in salaries ranging
from 4 to 10 per cent.
Major General W. P. Duval has been
selceted to succeed Major General
John F, Watson in command of the
troops in the Philippines, General
Duval is assistant chief of staff and
in that position probably will be suc
ceeded by General Thomas H, Barry,
now in command of the American
army in Cuba, General Weston will
leave the Philippines for home De-
cember 15, and will turn over the
command to General Tasker H. Bliss,
pending General Duval’s arrival.
Despite the fact that there has been
no publication of the orders from the
Washington officials the men of the
Philippine squadron are worked up to
a high pitch of excitement over the
prospect of a chance to sail into Chi
nese waters. Replenishment of coal
and store supplies of the vessels con
tinues, and all the officers of the
fleet and marine corps who have been
absent on leave are reporting to their
commands.
Famous Hotel Destroyed To
gether With all its Contents.
HIE A SFECIAM ONE
Many Persons of Note Have Been Gueste
at the Inn—Prince Henry of Prussia
Pronounced it an Ideal Spot.
$50,000,000 FOB HARDOR.
'^400,000 Is Recommended for Savan-
Ga., River.
Washington, D. C.—Fifty million
•tiollars is the aggregate appropriation
rwommended by Brigadier General
Wllilam L. Marshall, chief of engin
eers, United States army, for the
work on rivers and harbors and forti
fications during the coming year. Some
Important estimates for river and har
bor work follow:
North Carolina—Cape Fear river,
^500.000.
Georgia—Savannah harbor. $400,000.
Alabama—Mobile, $492,000; Tom-
■bigbee river, $1,000,000.
Florida—St. Johns river, . $367,000;
JFacksonville, $215,000.
Animals Are DeR!!sts.
Chicago, 111.—Monkeys and large
gray squirrels that oVerrun the jung
les of Africa, are born dentists. They
fill each other’s teeth with great skill
and often kill an aching nerve.
At least this is what Dr, Frank N.
Pierce of West Roxboro, Mass., says.,
and he is going to lecture before Chi
cago dentists on the sujject. Dr.
Pierce, who spent several years in the
African jungles, says that monkeys
and squirrels have discovered a blue
clay much the same in color as that
which covers the diamond field and in
this a great percentage of creosote.
When the animals have toothache
they plaster this clay into th» cavity
as a remedy.
SUED FOR $3,624,121.
Government Brings Six Suits Against
the Sugar Trust.
New York City.—The United States
government has brought six suits
against the American Sugar Refining
Company to reco^r forfeitures and
customs duties amounting to $3,624,-
121 on sugar delivered at the Have-
m&yer & Elder refineries in Brooklyn
during the past six years,
The complaints alleging violations
of section 9 of the customs act of
1890, charge that the checker at the
Brooklyn refinery so manipulated the
platform scales as to conceal the true
weights. The second and third suits
Involve amount* exceeding $500,000,
Mexican Cotton Tree 12 Feet Tall.
Washington, D. C.—Consul Clarence
A. Miller of Mexico sends the follow
ing clipping concerning the cultivation
of the cotton tree in Texas: “The
trees, which are now two years old
and are bearing this year for the first
time, resemble greatly the ordinary
pear tree both as to shape and to
height. I should say that the trees
were rfully twelve feet tall. The yield
is much heavier in proportion to the
size of the bush than on the ordinary
cotton plant, the staple is better qual
ity, and the fact that ii is only neces
sary to replant them in a score of
years is a great saving of labor.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—Famous old
Lookout Inn, on the crest of Lookout
Mountain, was burned to the ground*
together with all its contents. Tlia
owners, Messrs. Jung & Shamotuski*
stated that a deal had just toeem conr
gummated for the sale of the inn prop
erty for a consideration of $135,000^
and but for the fire would have been
clesed this week. There was but $26,-
000 Insurance on the hotel and its, fui*»
nishings.
Aside from the hotel, four cottagem
and their contents were destroyed, en
tailing a loss estimated'at $16,000. Tho
amount of insurance on these could
not be learned.
The incline power house was badly
damaged and the trestle on the face ot
the bluff was ablaze for a considerablo
time. There was a streak of fire al
most from the top to the base ol
Lookout Mountaiii along the line of
the incline, and a force of men fought
It to prevent spread to the timber
and many cottages which dot the
slope of the mountain.
The fire started in the south wins
of the hotel building, but the exact
cause has not been ascertained.
The building was as dry as tinder
and a high wind, which was sweeping
across the mountain from the west,
quickly carried the flames the entire
length of the building, and the struc
ture was consumed in a very short
time.
From the city the fire was a spec*
tacular one during its early progress,
but soon the mountain was entirely en*
veloped in a dense cloud of smokfl
and*all that could be seen from high
points in the city was what appeared
as a terrible storm cloud rolling from
the southwest.
With the coming of darkness, hoi»^
ever, the smoke cleared and the ou^
line of the crest of old Lookout was
marked by a rim of red fire, with ths
downward mark resembling a huge
figure "8.”
It is definitely known that there
will be no attempt in the near future
to rebuild the inn.
The hotel was completed In 1889 «l
a cost of $150,000, and contained aboni
four hundred rooms.
Each succeeding season followini
its opening it has been visited by pe*^
sons of note from all over the world.
Prince Henry of Prussia pronounced
it the most ideal spot he had ever vi»
Ited and the scenery more gorgeous
than that of the Swiss Alps.
BOCKEFELLEB GETS ^.50 PEL
Was Peevish Until Deputy Paid Mo»
ey With Subpena.
New York City,—John D. Hockefrt
ler and his lieutenants, J. D. Archlr
bold and James A. Moffett of thi
Standard Oil Company, were subpena.
ed by United States Marshal Henckel
to appear before Special Referee
Franklin Ferris in the “trust busting*
'proceedings which have been begui
J)y the government. Incidentally Mr
iRockefelleer and his aides received
$1.50 a piece when they accepted the
subpena. The tendering of the $1.51
which is a fee for witnesses provided
by the government, tickled Mr. Rocke
feller Immensely. He seemed to be
rather peevish when Mr. Henckel
strode into his private office on the
fourth floor of No. 26 Broadway and
handed him the court paper.
But when Mr. Henckel drew froxB
his pocket a crisp $-1 bill and a 50-cenl
piece and handed them to the richest
man in the world, Mr. Rockefellei
seized it with alacrity and smiled
broadly.
KILLED IN AUTO BACL
Condolences of the United States
government on account of the death
of the empress dowager, were cabled
to the government of China, The mes
sage was from Secretarw Root to the
American minister at Pekin,
The new derelict destroyer Seneca,
of the United States government, the
first vessel ever built exclusively for
this purpose, and which was recently
completed at the Newport News Ship
building yard has 3-rrived at New
York city.
Justice Harlan of the United States
supreme court denied that it was his
intention to retire from the bench,
“Whenever I come to retire voluntar
ily,” said Justice Harlan, “I will let
the public know. Just now I see no
reason to quit the bench.”
In Attempt to Lower 24 Hour Record^
Emile Strickler is Killed.
Birmingham, Ala.—While making a
strong dash in the effort to lower the
twenty-four-hour record on the fail
grounds one-mile track here the Re
nault car being driven by Emile
StricHer, the well-known automobilist,
who had just a little while previously
relieved Lewis Strang, was smashed
and Strieker was almost instantlj
killed and Leon Barrows, a Birming*
ham chauffeuer, driver for President
Crawford of the Tennessee company,
was seriously, though not fatally in
jured.
The car was traveling at the rate ol
sixty miles an hour when the accidenl
happened on the west end cf the
track. One tire exploded as the cai
dashed around the curve, followed bj
another circled for several minute&
JUDGE APPOINTS WOMAN
To Manage Shoe Factory—Plant Val
ued at Five Hundred Thousand.
Boston, Mass.—^The value and sta
tus of the working woman were boost
ed another notch when Judge Cham
herlain appointed a Brockton business
woman in preference to male competf
itors to have complete control of the
big five hundred thousand dollar shoe
factory of the late James T. Packard,
who died without a will. His death
left his heirs, a brother and two sis
ters, one of the latter blind, who are
wholly without knowledge of the shoe
business. Mrs. Jennie L. Deane, for^
merly secretary to the late Mr. Pack*
ard, was made special administrar
trix.