GENERAL ALGER IS DEAD
' Suffered Acute Attack, of Oedema of
Lungs at 8 O'clock and Expired at
8 145 Wednesday He Appeared in
Usual Health and Transacted Con
v siderable Business at War Depaxt-
ment: .
i Washinton, Special. United States
Senator Russell A. .Alger, of Michi
gan, died suddenly at his residence
in this I city at 8:45 o'clock Thursday
mjorning, following, an acute attack
of oedema , of the lungs with which
he was stricken shortly after 9
o'clock. Although Senator Alger had
not been in good health for some
time his death was unexpected. The
Senator! at night was aonarentlv
in; his usual health. During the' day
he transacted considerable business
aud i was at the War Department un
w a iaie nour. At the bedside when
he passed away were Mrs. Alger and
their son,; Capt. F. M. Alger, and
Wile. ;
jSenator i Alger attended the session
c the Senate Tuesday and remain
led in the chamber until about 4
... o'clock, I listening to the debate on
tire. Brownsville affair.
The news of the death was at ence
communicated -to President. Roose
velt and Vice President Fairbanks.
Senator Alger is survived by his
widow; and five children as follows:
i Mrs. Charles B. Pike, of Chicago.
Mrs. H. B. Sheldon, of Detroit; Mrs.
William! E. Bailey, of Harislmrg, Pa.;
Russell A. Alger, Jr., of Detroit, who
is now m Florida, and Captain F.
; M. Alger.
Although entitled by army regula
tions ta a funeral escort composed
of one regiment of infantry, two
troops of cavalry and a battery of
field artillery, the family of General
Alger i has decided that the escort
here shall be confiend to a squadron
of cavalry. In Detroit the troops at
Fort Wayne will furnish the escort.
When tke President was informed
ofj Senator Alder's death he addressed
a note of condolence to Mrs. Aler
and accompanied it with a floral of
fering. The formal announcement of Sena
tor Alger's death was made to the
army by Secretary Taft in the fol
lowing order:
m The Secretary of War announces
wxth deep sorrow the death of the
Honorable Russell Alonder Alger,
wchoccurred at his residence in'
.General Alger, was Secretary of
War among the edministration of
ffiQ? McKinIey om March 5,
I97' AuSFust 1, 1S99, a period dur-
which the administration of the
War Department was brought into
-wat prominence through its acti
om .eonDection with the War
-with Spain andtfe military opera-
-iions in the Philippines that succeed-
ff General Alger was patriotic, ear--nest
and most devoted to the inters
vests of the army, especially consider
ate of the welfare of enlisted
-Jles a gentle, kind man with great
confidence m his friends and associa
tes, and was much beloved by his sub
ordinates., He was the subject of un
just criticism because of the , coun
try s lack of preparedness for war
when war, came, although for this he
was no wise resposible. His record
Uilier m the civil war was Ion
I rr
ana Highly honorable.
Schools and Bridges.
Knoxville, Special. The need of
additional school buildings and bridge
repairs has become so urgent in
Knoxville; that Mayor Heiskell has
been requested, by a vote of the City
.Council in special session to go be
; theLegisiatureand ask author-
t , m t 7 a special 30-cent tax,
t J 13 esated, will raise
I gout ,$60,000 for the purpose. The
Uty Council considered this plan a
tal J?wS' tW I'' sPial
tax wiir furnish all the money thai
is needed for the purposes. 7
Two Brothers-in-Laws Held.
Cupepper, Va., Special Philip J.
and James A. Strothers, brothers.
were indicted by the grand jury for
the killing of Willim F. Bywaters,
recently, within a hour after he had
married their sister. The grand jury
heard : a large number of witnesses,
the testimony of each being compara
tively brief. The indictment was re
turned within a few hours after the
case was taken up. Mrs. Bywaters
was too ill to appear before the trrand
jury. b
. Shot Dead in His Office.
London, By Cable.-A dramati.
tragedy startled London, when Wil
liam Whitely, one of the most uni
qjie, and at the same time, one of
'the. most prominent, figures in the
U'8?ef WOrld' was hot .dead in his
uy a youtn claiminir to Ha hi
son.
blow out hin braLs:"60
HartweU, Ga., Institute and a Resi
dence Burned;
jMacon, Ga., Special. The Hart
well Institute a't Hartwell, Ga., was
burned Thursday morning.. Pianos
and furniture were saved, but badly
f?T f " lSeera.1 hundred pupils
attended the institution. A laro-e
residence was also burned and the
owner badly hurt by" falling from
root..; Loss not known.
FOUR BURNED TO DEATH
Mill No. 1 of Cochedo Manufacturing
Company, Dover, N. H., Burned to
Ground Bodies of Pour Bey Oper
atives," Charred Beyond Hope of
Identification, round in Smoking
Ruins and it is Believed Another
Will be Discovered.
Dover. N. H., Special. Dover's
most disasterous fire which occurred
Saturday, cost the lives of four and
probably five young mill operatives
and a property loss of naif a million
dollars. The fire destroyed Mill No.
1 of the Cochedo Manufacturing Com
pany. The bodies of four boys, char
red beyond hope of identification,
were found in the smoking ruins,
and as five boys are known to be miss
ing, it is believed that another body
will, be discovered.
The missing boys are :
Charles Cosgrove, aged 16 years.
Constantine Elopulous, aged 16
years.
John Nicholopulous, aged 15 years.
Redden, aged 15 years.
Hester, aged 15 years.
Several of the injured were hurt
while descending by ropes.
The fire broke out in the mill not
long after the 500 or more operatives
had asembled for their day's work.
Friction from belt generated sparks,
which lodged in a mass of cotton and
the flames quickly spread throuq-hout
the building. The exits soon became
blocked by a struggling mass of mill
hands, and many were obliged to
jump from the windows. Others se
cured ropes and descended to the
ground.
There were several darinsr rescues
by firemen. Four imprisoned men ou
the fourth floor were taken out of a
window, though not until thev had
climbed one by one down a stout
pole which the firemen had made fast
to the top of a ladder too short to
reach' the window sill. The total loss
is $500,000, covered by insurance.
12 Killed in Explosion.
Weston, W. Va., Special Five
Americans ana seven Italians are
known to be dead as the result of an
explosion of fire damp in the Penn
sylvania Company's mine at Lorenz,
W. Va,, near Buchannon, W. Va.,
which occured about 5:30 Saturday
evening. Immediately following the
explosion the mine caved in and near
ly caused tlTe entombment of all the
miners estimated at 100. The bodies
of 12 dead, men have been recovered
and it is not known at this time
whether any others met death. The
Americans wiio were killed . are
Charles Boseman.
William Bailey.
James Seott.
Charles Johnson.
Glenn Miles.
The bodies of seven Italians have
also been recovered, but as they are
.nown only by numbers, their iden
tity is not possible.
The explosion occurred inst ns ih
day force was leaving the mine.
Only a few of the men had reached
the surface when, with a terrific re
port, the fire damp exploded.
The five Americans and seven Ital
ians who were killed, were found
about 100 feet back in the mine Ap
parently the 12 men had been over
come by gas and died, as their bod
ies were not burned.
W. P. Fife Dies Suddenly.
St. Loiis, Special. W. P. Fife,
capitalist, died- suddenly at 11
o'clock Sunday at. the St. James Ho
tel. Mr. Fife was in the hotel lobby
chatting willh friends when . he be
came suddenly ill, and soon lost con
sciousness. Dr. William Beherns was
hastily summoned from the Southern
Hotel, across the street, but could
do nothing for Mr. Fife, who died
shortly after the doctor's arrival.
Dr. Heherns says the death was probably-
due to a heart attack, but is not
positive.
Telegrahpic Briefs.
The British steamer Inkula put in
to Norfolk with fire in her hold.
The general offices of th
lumberman's association Avill be mov
ed from Memphis to Baltimore.
Seven passengers and the conduct
or were injured in a panic caused by
a trolley car at Morganton jumpin"
the track. '
Six negroes were arrested for al
leged mutiny on the steamer Potom
ac, of Baltimore, at Norfolk. All
were discharged but one.
Nine Foreigners Blown to Atoms.
Roanoke, Va., Special. A Rich
mond special "to The Times says, nine
men, all foreigners, were blown into
eternity by a dynamite explosion
Saturday on the Tidewater Railroad
near Pearisburg, Va. The laborers,
were at dinner and a quantity of the
explosive which was being thawed in
front of a firblew up. The bodies
were badly mangled and were hurled
quite a distance.
I
Captured at Salisbury.
Bristol, Va., Special. Wesley Wil
kie, the condemned murderer of Otis
Ross, who made a sensational escape
from jail at Gate City, Va.? Decem
ber 17th, while awaiting the execu
tion of his i sentence to die on the
scaffold February 21st, vas recap
tured at Salisbry, N. C, and will at
once be returned to Gate City and
hung on the original date set fr bis
execution.
km. CONFERENCE
Meeting of Prominent Negroes
Held in Columbia, ! S. C.
ADDRESS BY B. L WASHINGTON
PJsident of Tuskegee Institute
Speaks in Afternoon at Allen Uni
versity, Negro Institution, and at
Night at Columbia Theatre, Ad
dressing Large Audience, Including
Several Prominent White Oitzens
and a Number of Negro Leaders
From South Carolina and Other
States. . ; .
Columbia, S. C, Special. Booker
T, Washington, president of the
Tuskegee Institute, addressed the
first negro race conference ever held
In South Carolina.
Washington spoke in the after
noon at Allen University, a negro in
stitution o" ibis dty. and at night ad
dressed a laige audience at the Co
lumbia Theatre. The first floor of
the house was reserved for white
people. Seated on the stage were
several prominent white citizens, to
gether with a large number of negro
leaders from this and other States.
Washington, after praising the
work of Rev. Richard Carroll, tha
moving spirit of the conference, said
that the holding of this conference m
South Carolina was, in his opinion,
evidence that the friendly feeling be
tween the races was steadily grow-,
ing. Washington said in part:
V'l was born here m the South, my
early boyhood was spent in slavery
here in the South and there is no
pot on earth so dear, to me as the"
soil of our Southern States, where
we of both races for so many years
have lived and toiled.
William E. Gonzales, editor of The
State, spoke !to the conference at
cation at the meeting beimr held in
Columbia. Observance of law by
both races was the surest guarantee
of harmony in the South. It is the
province of white leaders to impress
the necessity of the laws' observance
on the whites, and of the negro lead
ers to teach their race the vital im
portance of being law-abiding.
Races to Remain Together.
"We of both races are to live here,
in the South side by side for all
time, no matter what theories may
be advanced and emphasized. This.
to any sensible man is seems to me,
is the fact which we must face.
Since we re to remain together, the
question which we should constantly
consider is how can we do it in
peace, in harmony, and in a way that
each race will serve the best inter
ests of the other, in a way that each
race will be made more happy, more
prosperous because of the presence
of the other. It is the extreme of
folly, and almost a crime, for anv in
dividual, or group of individuals, to
pursue a course which will encourage
racial strife when two peoples are
to remain together for all time.
"I was glad to see that a brave.
strong white man from Mississippi a
rew days ago at the Southern Cot
ton Convention held in Birmingham
stood up and said that he had got
ten to tne point where he was tired
of hearing the negro continually
abused. That opinion represents th
attitude of thousands : of our best
Southern white people.
1 he negro race is given a free
opportunity to enter the educational
and professional field and can suc
ceed as many are doin: in the citv
of Columbia.
"But we must not rest satisfied
with what we have achieved in the
past. I want to emuhasize with you
to-night a few matters that direetlv
concern our future in this communi
ty and throughout the State. In the
first place, we must face the fact that
hat the negro be happy, that ceace
exist between the races?- l-iPAarisA
here can be no satisfactory labor
when . the white man and the black
man are at daggers' points. The
more the laborer is satisfied, the bet-
er service will he render.
"I have referred to the subiect of
making negro lagor reliable. One
way to do it (and that is what the
Tuskegee Institute has been driving
at among other things) in the first
p Js t0 teach the negro laborer
the dignity of labor.
"I am glad to see that in South
Carolina these lessons are being in
stilled into our people. There is not
a white familv in South Carolina
considerable criticism is constantly
brought against us as a people, be
cause it is said that 'the negro is
not reliable as a laborer.' The lead
ers and teachers of our people must
see to it that there is a change in
this respect. ,
"No section of the South is more
interested from a financial point of
view in the success of the negro than
is true of this State. In the first
place, it is tremendously important
that should not be vitally interested
in the improvement of then egro
jwonmin especially in jthe improve
ment of the negro nurse.
'. "Right here in Columbia there
should be a large central train
ing school for the training of domes
tic servants. Such a school should
be in every large city in the South.
We could furnish the teachers for
these communities.
"The food that goes into the
bodiei of the majority of the white
families in South Carolina is pre-
r
pared and served three times a day
Dy tne hands oi the negro women.
It is mighty important that the wo
man who prepares and serves the
food which is to make blood and
bones and flesh and brain for the
white people, as well as members of;
her own race, be just as intelligent,
semea apd consecientious as possi
ble."
Theodore P. Shonts resigned the
chairrnanshp of the Panama Canal
Commission, to take charge of the
Belmont-Ryan street railway inter,
ftsts in Nw Vork.
THE MARKETS
Prevailing Prices of CoMon,
Grain and Produce
General Cotton Markets.
Galveston, firm ..10 9-1G
New Orleans, firm .. .. .. ..10 7-1G
Mobile, steady ..10 1-4
Savannah, steady 10 1-1G
Charleston steady. 10 1-8
Wilmington, firm . . . . 10 1-2
Norfolk, steady 10 1-2
Baltimore, nominal 10 5-3
New York, steady i
Boston, steady n
Philadelphia, steady 11.25
Houston, firm. '. .10 D-1G
Memphis, steady.. ...10 5-1G
St. Louis, quiet. . 10 1-2
Louisville, firm.. I 10 1-2
Charlotte Cotton.
These prices represent the prices
quoted to wagons:
Good middling ,.. .10 3-4
Strict middling 10 5-S
Middling ........ in i o
Tinges and Stains 8 to 9 3-4 i
New York Produce.
New York, Jan. 29. Flour firm,
but slow. Rve fi nnr firm TlnK
wheat flour quiet. Buckwheat quiet.
Cornmeal steady.
Wheat, spot firm: No. 2. tpA 9 io
elevator. Options 1-4 to 1-2 cent
Higher. May 85 3-S; July 84 5-8.
Corn spot steady; No. 2, 55 ele
vator. Options 3-8 to 1-2 lower. Jan
uary 54; May 52 5-S; July 52 1-2.
Oats, spot steady; mixed 41.
Beef firm. Cutmeats quiet. Lard
firm; Western prime $9.55 to $9.65.
Refined quiet; continent $10.00.
Pork isteady. Tallow firm; city
G 9-16 ; country 6 1-4 to G 5-8.
Rosin stead. Turpentine steady,
luce steady. Molasses steady,
o u"r' vaw steady; fair refining
- ..l-o2; centrifugal 3 15-32; molasses
sugar 2 23-32. Refined rmipt
Coficee, spot steady; No. 7, Rio 7c;
mild steady, unchanged. Futures
unchanged to 5 points higher.
Butter firm; extra creamery 3
common to extra 22 to 31. '
Cheese steady, unchanged.
Potatoes firm; Maine per bag $1.70
to $1.75 ; Long Island per barrel $1.75
to $1.95; Jerseys per sack $1.37 to
$1.55.
Sweet potatoes quiet, unchanged.
Cabbages and peanuts unchanged,
steady. : '
Cotton to Liverpool quiet, un
changed. m Cotton seed oil was firm on cover
ing and aggressive bull support.
Prime crude f. o. b. mills 37; prime
summer yellow 50; prime white 55
pnme winter yellow 55. '
Chorlotte Produce.
Chickens Spring 12 to 25
Hens per head '.'.28 to 35
J Jucks 0g
EgS ! " 7.7. OA
Rye.
r
SO
n , . ' Id tO (J
motion beed r
0
Oats Feed
.50 to 55
uais seed
55 to 57 1-2
Contractor Wna. J. Oliver.
Washington, Special. Following a
a conference at the White House it
was officially anouneed that the con
tract for the building of the Piama
canal would be awarded toVVilliam J.
Oliver, who with Anson M. Bangs,
was the lowest bidder in the recent
competition, provided that within the
next -ten days' he .associates himself
with at least two independent con
tractors whose skill and -experience
combined with his own, shall cover
the entire field of the work to be per
formed under the contract.
For Placing Additional Anchorage
Washington, Special. Rear Ad
miral P. F. Harrington, U. S. navy,
has submitted to the Navy Depart-,
ment an estimate of $15,000 for plac
ing Additional anchorage marks in
Hampton Roads as part of the gen
eral plan to have Hampton Koads and
the adjacent waters ready by the mid.
die of April to receive the foreign
fleets coming to the Jamestown Expo
sition. The work includes the plac
ing of pile beacons and making
buoys the publication of an anehoi
age chart and jruies of anchorage
and other important preparations x
the same kind.
Damage Sustained by Battleships.
San Juan, P. R., By Cable. Ac
cording to information obtained here,
which however, cannot be verified, the
damage sustained by the United Sta--tes
battleship, Connecticutt when
she ran on a reef while entering the
harbor . -of Culebra Island, consisted
of an indenture, forward, 50 feet
long. It is also said that 7,000" feet
of lumber and 300 barrels of cement
were used to stop the battleship's
leaks. A court of inquiry is investi
gating the accident, the responsibili
ty for which is not known. The of-
I 'Ail s- .
- rs i Connecticut refuse to
discuss the matter.
Work of Deadly Fire Damp in
Government Mine
THE EODIES BADLY MUTILATED
Pisaster Occurred in Government
Mine at Saint Johann-On-Saar,
- Prussia Seventeen Men Have Been
Rescued, Dangerously Wounded
and 50 are Missing Rescue Corps
Worked Desparately to Reach En
tombed Men Who May Yet be Alive
But Outbreak of Fire Drove Them
Out Thousands of Members of
Famalies of Entombed Miners
Gathered About Mouth of Shaft.
Saarbrueck, Rheinish Prussia,
A fire damp explosion occurred Tues
day morning in the Bilderstock shaft
of the Reden Mine: at Johann-On-Saar,
opposite this town. Up to 2
o 'clock in the afternoon bodies of 146
miners had been taken out of the
mine, 17 men dangerously injured had
been rescued and half, a hundred min
ers were missing. There were about
600 men working in the shaft when
the explosion occurred, but half of
them were not in the gallaries which
were wrecked. The rescue corps is
working desparately in efforts to
reach the entombed men and it is hop
ed that some of them will be found
alive. The Jicden Mine is owned by
the Prussian governmen. '
Later an outbreak of fire in the
j mine drove out . the rescuers. It is
considered probable that 30 to 40
men are still in the pit. The : num
ber of dead is now estimated at 200.
The disaster occurred 2,300 'feet
under ground and one and one-quarter
miles from the floor of the shaft.
It is the greatest mining cafastrophe
ever known in the Saar region.
About 600 men entered the mine
for the day shift, and all but about
400 of them escaped through the
Bildstock shaft, which communicates
with the Reden underground. At a
late hour it was still uncertain how
many workmen still were in the mine,
the reports being conflicting. The en
trance to the gallaries under ground
is blocked with dead horses.
Heartrending scenes are witnessed
among the thousands of persons,
many of them mtembers of the fam
ilies of the entombed miners, who
are gathered about the mouth of the
shaft. Most of the bodies brought to
the surface are mangled beyond rec
ognition. '
The mine inspectors ordered the
rescurers to return to their homes,
but to hold themselves in readiness
for further orders.
Emperor William has ordered that
a full report of the disaster be sent
him.
Experts calculate that the rescue
work will take one week.
A Second Explosion.
After all the rescuers had reached
daylight, according to one version, a
second trriffic detonation was heard
under ground. But according to an
other report many of the rescuers
were still below when the second ex
plosion occurred, and it is estimated
that the casualty list from the two
explosions reaches a total of 309 men.
It is believed that all the men who
were in the lower levels assuredly are
dead.
By Wire and Cable. .
Early returns of the election for
the German Reichstag showed the so
cialists to have lost a number of im
portant seats, while the radicals made
some gains.
There was current a report in Lon
don that Governor Swettenham,
whose want of courtesy caused .the
withdrawal of the American warships
at Kingston, had resigned.
Mysterious Crime Done.
New York, Special. Dr. Charles
W. Townsend, one of the best known
physicians and surgeons on Staten
Island, was shot and probablv mor
tally wounded while in bed 'in his
home in New Brighton, S. I., early
Saturday. The case is surrounded by
mystery, but from the meagre details
which have been permitted to leak
out by the officials, it is believed that
the doctor was the victim of a man
who sought vengence for some real
or fancied wrong.
Asks $10,000 For Husband's Death.
Roanoke,; Special. Mayor Joel P.
Cutchin, representing Mrs. Edward
Carper, entered, suit against the
Roanoke Railway and Electric Com
pany for $10,000 damages for the
death of Mrs. Carper's husband, who
was killed some time ago by an elec
tric eurrent. Mrs. Carper was also
injured in the same manner, and it
is probable that suit will be entered
for damages in her case.
Clyde Line Buys Wharf.
Norfolk, Special The Clyde Stem
ship Company has purchased the
wharf property in this city which it
had leased for a number of years.
The price was $165,000. The pur
chase was made from the Gerard
Trust Company, of Philadelphia,
'trustees of the estate of the' late
Benjamin Franklin Clyde, who held
the property in his own right. A
portion of the property was sold im
mediately after its purchas for $60,-000,
ess
AN EXECUTIVE ORDER
g ' ' , . -
Issued By the Presidenl That
Wfil Stop Land Frauds-
ENTRIES MUST BE BONA FfDE
Is in Form of Letter to : secretary
Hitchcok and Directs That "Here
after no Certificte, Patent or; Oth
er Evidence of Titles Shall be Is
sued Under Law Until Actual Ex
amination Has Been Made ion
Ground by Authorized Official ' of
Government Lands Already Ex
amined in" This Manner Are Ex
cepted From Provisions . of Order.
Washington, Special. President
Roosevelt has determined to put an
end if possible, to frauds in the ac
quisition of public lands by indjvi-
1nilc o n rl tnrrrwa tinfic T-To Ima rH
rected that,Tiereafter, no patent shall
be issued to r blic land until ah ex
amination of the ground shall have
been made by an authorized officer
of the government.
The President's order is in the
form of a letter to Secretary Hitch
cock, and, under its provisions, or
ders are heino- sent out hv thp. of
ficials of the general land office.
Following is the text of President
Roosevelt's letter.
"Washington, Jan. 25, 1907; -"The
Secretary of the Interior,
"Sir: To prevent the fraud now
practiced in the acquisition of public
lands of the United States, I have to
direct that hereafter, no final certi
ficates, patehtjor other evidence of
titles shall be issued under the pub
lic land laws hmtil an actual exami
nation has ben made on the ground
by an authorized officer of the gov
ernment; but the following shall be
excepted from' the force of this or
der :
Exceptions to Order.
"(1) All claims which have here
tofore been examined on the ground
by an authorized officer of the gov
ernment, whose, report is found satis
factory.
"(2) All calims where heretofore
;On officer of the government otlier
tftan otneers authorized to take final
proof, shall have ,4een present at '
the taking of final proof to cross- ex
amine claimant and witnesses, if such
proof is found. satisfactory.
, w; -ah claims wnere claimant's
compliance with law has been estab
lished by contest or other regular
adverse proceedings.
"(4) Entries which mav havo
been confirmed by virtue of an act of
Congress. -.
"(5) Selections and entries in
which no residence or improvement
is required by law, when the lands
embraced therein are strictly speak
ing m agricultural districts, or when
charter has been fixed by investiga
tion and classifiefftion made in ac
cordance with law.
"(6) Cases of re-issuance of "pat
ents because of some clerical error
occurring m the patent heretofore
issued.
"(7) All Indian allotments which
have-been regularly approved in ac
cordance with instructions of the
Secretary of the Interior.
"You will issue all necessary in-
fecT t0 ari this rder ef"
"This o3er i in lieu of my order
of December 13, 1906.
I digued)
THEODORE ROOSFVTCT.t
Contractor Charged With Peona-e
oecT on ro fcrrand Jury
Roanoke, Va., Special. John Sa
loney, a railroad contractor arrested ;
btates Commissioner White after a
hearing that lasted two days
First Georgia Regiment to Camp at
Jamestown Exposition.
Norfolk, Va,, Speciai.-Announce-ment
was made from Jamestown Ex
position headquarters that the Fifth
Georgia Regiment, the crack regiment
from that Sete, will encamp at the
exposition from June 9 to 17 -coming
direct from Atlanta under com
mand of JM. C. L. Anderson.
Tidal Wave Drowned 1,500.
The Heague, By Cable. The tidal
wave which devastated some of the
Dutch East Indian Islands south of
Atchn, as announced January 11,
practically engulfed the Island of
Simalu has almost disappeared. It
is said that probably 1,500 persons
lost their lives. Violent shocks con-"
tinue to be felt daily. The eivil Got
ernor of Atchin has gone to the scene
of the catastrophe.
Funreal of. Senator Alger.
Washington, Special. In ' accor
dance with the wishes of himself aiid
family, the funeral of the late Sena
tor Russell A. Alger, of Michigan,
which was held at the family resi
dence in this city at 2 o'clock Satur
day, was simple but impressive. The
ceremonies were conducted by the
late Senator's friend and former pas
tor, Rev. Dr. Wallace RadcliSe, cf
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
church in this city, and Rev. Dr. Ed
ward Everett Hale, the chaplain of
the United States Senate.