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TWO IH IRK I
CRUSH TOGETHER ,
Manu Passengers Killed and
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Wounded at Volland, Kan. /
BLUNDER OF BOY OPERATOR
Trains Which Were to Meet at a Sta- 1*
tion on the Rock Island Road r
Were Allowed to Pass on Single S
Track. t
Topeka, Kan.?Thirty-five persons, j]
all Mexicans but two, were killed and
o
fifty-five persons were injured in a
head-on collision of two passenger q
trains of the Chicago, Rock Island V.
and Pacific Railroad near Vqlland.
The wreck occurred while both
trains were runningslowly on a curve n
in a cut where the grade was steen. s
All the killed were in the southg'
bound train except a tramp, who was
on the baggage car of the north- ^
bound train. This tramp, a negro ^
porter and a workman accompanying t:
a gang of thirty-two Mexican labor- a
ers, were the only Americans killed n
so far as known, although passen- e
gers say that a woman and a child n
were burned in a tourist car. s;
There were thirty-two Mexicans
and five Americans, composing a a
gang of railroad workers, in the v,
smoking car of the south-bound s!
train. Of these, thirty Mexicans a
were burned in the wreckage and S
two died later. 5
Nearly every passenger in the T
Bouth-bound train was thrown to the p
car floor by the quick setting of the $
emergency brakes. The Mexicans d
were pinioned under the seats and o
the doors were jammed so that they 6
could not get out. Many passengers
In the chair car were held down by p
the seats. e:
The train caught fire from the gas
tanks, which were broken. The pas- &
sengers in the rear cars escaped in c<
night clothes, and dressed in the mud
beside the tracks. Then came the m
cries for help from the Mexicans in
the smoking car and the people pin- a
ioned fast in the chair car. Every
man and nearly every woman on the n
train tried to rescue the unfortu- h
nates, but the flames soon became too tj
hot to permit of approaching the car. ^
The injured were removed from p
the chair cars with less difficulty, 5
ond QTxnnranflv oil nrnrA iinanitod oil ttq
i from these cars. William Gane, con- j,
ductor of the south-bound train, has f(
a broken collar bone and is much
bruised. He said: a
"The train was just pulling clear a
of the Volland yards, and was trav- e
eling about thirty miles an hour. I d
dropped into the front seat of the jj
smoker and dozed. There were thir- t(
ty-two Mexicans, sitting two in a d
seat, back of me, also A1 Link, a negro
porter, a foreman and five other tj
passengers. I was awakened by the
setting of the brakes. I jumped head
first out of the window and struck on tl
my shoulder. When I turned and
looked at the train I saw flames leaping
fifty feet high from the smoker."
i uw iuiemusi, luunai aieeyiug uai
of the south-bound train was also
burned, but all the occupants escaped '
serious injury.
Blame for the collision seems to
rest entirely upon John Lynes, nine- j~
teen years old, the telegraph operator 113
at Volland. Orders had been issued ,
for No. 29 and No. 30 to pass at .
Volland, and these orders had been p'
sent to the operator there, who was y<
instructed to hold No. 29. It is said
that he failed to deliver the order
to the crew of No. 29, and the latter
train went by, meeting No. 3Q a few w
miles west. Five minutes before the
trains met Lynes called up the dispatcher
and wired him as follows:
"No. 29 has gone, and I have gone g
also."
Then he left his key. Even with ^
this dispatch in hand there was no q
way of preventing the wreck. He
was afterward arrested and put in
jail at Volland.
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FOUR BOYS KILLED. 1?
A
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Leaped Directly in Front of a Lehigh J{
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Flyer. H
South Plainfield, N. J.?Elmer n
Dunn, Clarence Bennett, William E.
Casey and William Bell, all of New- ;
ark,* were killed by the breaking of
a coupling pin on a Lehigh Valley p
train at South Plainfield. The boys
were stealing a ride on a freight
train and stepped off the train directly
in front of the Chicago bound flyer F
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. vi
Casey, who was thirteen years old, e!
was the son of the Newark freight n
agent of the Lehigh Valley road. l?
The boys were playing on the O
tracks near South Plainfleld when tl
Bell proposed they take a trip to si
Plainfleld on the freight train pass- n
ing that point. They boarded the c<
train and arrived at South Plainfleld, h
when the coupling pin broke, stopping tl
the freight train. Then the boys
jumped off. ^
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Gospel Meetings in Factories.
It was announced that arrangements
had been made for Gospel 0
noon-day meetings in over two hun- a
dred New York shops during Febru- b
ary. 2
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Japan to Build Steel Works. 2
Contracts had been placed in New
York, it was learned, for trie erection
of big steel works for the Japanese
Government. p
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Famine in China. """ 1
Advices from Pekin say that millions
of persons are starving and r
that many of the refugees are joining m
the Boxers .n order to obtain rice. s
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Hopeful of Cuba. a
Governor Magoon, at the New ^
Year's reception in Havana, spoke d
hopefully of the future of Cuba. s
Loan For Rio Janeiro.
President Penna has authorized a
loan to Rio Janeiro of $50,000,000. 1;
Thr? Piol H nf T.QIIAT*
The Chicago Hod Carriers' Union
has its own labor temple, which cost
$75,000. I
Union barbers of the country are d
agitating the establishment of a
home for aged, sick and indigent a
barbers. i
Grand Master Shea, of the Fire- t
men's Union, said that he would lay c
charges of peonage against the
Southern Pacific. i
Denver cigarmakers have asked c
for an increase of $1 a thousand, i
and will start a co-operative factory ^
if it is not grafted. ' . [ I
lUGHES' RBCT MESSAGE
iiovernor Asks Sweeping Reform
of New York Transit Evils.
Ldvocates New Boards to Control
Railways, Lighting and Street Car
Lines?Recount For Hearst,
Albany, N. Y.?Transit reform for
Jew York City, effective control and
egulation of corporations by the
itate, a recount of the ballots cast in
be Mayoralty election in New York
a 1905 and changes in the election
iws to eliminate or curb the power
f political bosses are the principal
ubjects discussed in Governor
lharles E. Hughes' first message to
lie New York Legislature.
So flatly does the new Governor
brow down his challenge to corporaIon
agents and party bosses that the
lessage is privately criticised by
ome of tnem as "revolutionary.
The new Governor calls inflated
tocks of public service corporations
lain "water;" he terms abuse of the
few York public plain outrage, and,
rithout mincing words, lays the
ransit conditions to corporate gYeed
nd desire to increase dividends of a
lonopoly. He accuses party "leadrs"
of abuse of power and recomlends
legislation to make them repect
the rights of the minority.
Governor Hughes began his first
nnual message to the Legislature
rith a financial statement which
bowed that the State received from
11 sources in the fiscal year ended
eptember 30, 1906, a total of $35,96,966,
and spent $30,350,096.
he actual available balance or surlus
of State funds on October 1 was
11,291,445. The State debt was reuced
$525,000 during the year and
n October 1 amounted to $10,630,60.
The following are the most imortant
recommendations in the Govrnor's
message:
Immediate provision for recount of
[ayoralty vote and provision for reount
of ballots in future.
Provision taking away from Attorey-General
power to authorize bringlg
of action to test title to office
nd vesting it in Supreme Court.
Abolition of Rapid Transit C?mlission
and creation of new board to
ave powers of old board and addilonal
powers over all traffic "beiveen
points within the city and
oints elsewhere in the State." New
oara also to nave jurisaicuon over
as and electricity corporations with1
New York City and perhaps in suraunding
counties.
Abolition of Railroad Commission
nd Gas and Electricity Commission
nd creation of new board with powrs
of each pf the old boards and aditional
powers to have jurisdiction
1 the rest of the State. * New board
) have power to inflict penalties for
isobedience of its orders.
Provisions in Election law to free
ie split-ballot section from ambiguy
and do away with the party colmn,
bunching the candidates under
ie names ol the offices.
Provisions limiting the amount a
indidat'e may spend to secure office.
Law to authorize courts to review
ition of State conventions, to presnt
minority gaining control by
-audulent methods.
Trial of direct nomination by pritary
by authorizing a general comlittee
of any party to adopt the plan.
That the State Labor Department
3 overhauled and an eight-hour law
issed for children less than sixteen 1
=>?rs old.
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Legislature Organized.
Albany, N. Y.?The legislature, ,
hich has organized r.nd squared
way for busines, is unique. All, or
early all, the old lines and combines
re obliterated. The Republican
enate faced a Democratic Lieutennt-Governor,
who, speaking, for.the
linority, echoed the declaration of 1
overnor Hughes in favor of harmony
ad co-operation in the interest of
le public service.
The Assembly re-elected James W.
fadsworth Speaker, Sherman Mpremd,
majority leader, and James
liver, leader of the minority. Beand
the drawing for seats and listenlg
to the reading of Governor
lughes' message, the Assembly did
othing.
McCREA SUCCEEDS CASSATT.
ledged to the Policy of Former
Pennsylvania Presidents.
Philadelphia. ? James McCrea,
irst vice-r resident or tne Fennsyianla
lines west of Pittsburg, 'was
lected president of the PehnBylvaia
Railroad Company to succeed the
ite Alexander J. Cassatt. Mr. Mcrea
was a stockholders' director "of
le Pennsylvania Railroad. It is i
lid the directors of the Pennsylvaia
Company and other subsidiary
5rporations of the railroad will elect
im as Mr. Cassatt's successor in
lose companies.
Mr. McCrea immediately assumed
le duties of his position as presient.
Total Potato Crop.
The final report of the potato crop
f the country is placed at 3,013,050
cres, with an average yield of 102
uoucis pel duu a. tutai uuy ui
08,038,382 bushels, which compares
rlth the total last year of 200,741,94
bushels.
Predicts Industrial Crisis.
Stuyvesant Fish, in an interview,
redicted an industrial crisis.
'wo Thousand Turkish Soldiers Dead
A thousand Turkish soldiers, the
emnant of about 4000 sent to the
lejd Peninsula two years ago to
uppress the Arab revolt, have reurned
to Busreh, Asiatic Turkey, in
deplorable condition. More than
000 of their comrades died from
isease or starvation and the rest deerted.
<&V:>
Pure Food Law in Effect.
The Federal Pure Food and Drugs
aw went into operation. *H_...
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r%? ViSi"
jrruuiiucut x cupic* "
Bishop Turinaz was fined $10 at
Jancy, France, for striking a gen[arme.
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'Archbishop Ireland says the clergyire
much to blame for the troubles1
n France and that monarchist ideas
lave done dreadful harm to the
:hurch. " .j.
Attorney-General Leroy F. Younans
died in Columbia,' S. C., re:ently.
He was Attorney-General
mder Governor Wade Hampton, and
vas regarded as one of thb most
>riUiant orators^ in the South.
CHARLES L HUGHES
SWORN III IS GOVERNOR
Takes Oath of Office Amid Impressive
Ceremonies.
TROOPS PARADE IN HIS HONOR
Big Crowds Cheer Him at AlbanyHe
Pledges Himself to Serve All
the People Honestly ? Short
Speech by Higgins.
Albany, N. Y.?Charles Evans
Hughes was inducted into the office
of Governor of the Empire State of
the Union at noon. With the inauguration
of the Republican Governor
the other members of the official family
of the State?all elected on
the Democratic-Independence League
ticket?also assumed office. The
new State officers are as follows:
Governor, Charles Evans Hughes,
5f New York, succeeding Frank Wayand
Higgins, of Cattaraugus.
Lieutenant-Governor,. Lewis Stuyvesant
Chanler, of Dutchess, succeed.ng
M. Linn Bruce, of New York.
Secretary of State, John S. Whalen,
Df Monroe, succeeding John F.
3'Brien, of Clinton.
Controller, Martin H. Glynn, of Albany,
succeeding William C. Wilson,
Df New York (who was appointed
rice Otto Kelsey, now Superintendent
)f Insurance).
Treasurer, Julius Hauser, of Suffolk,
succeeding John G. Wallenmaier,
of Niagara.
Attorney-General, Wlliam S. Jackson,
of Buffalo, succeeding Julius M.
Mayer, of New York.
State Engineer and Surveyor, Frederick
K. Skene, of Queens, succeeding
Henry A. Van Alstyne, of Columbia.
The new Governor, LieutenantGovernor
and Attorney-General are
lawyers; the Controller is a newspaper
editor; the Secretary of State
a tobacco manufacturer and trades
unionist; the Treasurer a baker, and
the Engineer and Surveyor, as the
law requires, a'civil engineer.
In his inaugural, address, Governor
Hughes renewed his pledges of the
campaign and declared that he would
endeavor to make efficiency the
standard of his administration.
Politicians, members of the Legislature
and office holders flocked to
Albany from every part of the State.
No inauguration since that of Theodore
Roosevelt's in 1899 was attended
with so much uncertainty and so
much speculation, and all wished to
get the first opportunity to see the
new Governor as soon after his inauguration
as possible.
In addition to the new Governor
taking up the reins, there were other
changes to be made in the official
family of the State. All of the Democratic
State officers took possession
of their offices, and this brought to
Albany many persons who have heretofore
evinced but little interest in
the inauguration ceremonies.
Shortly before 11 o'clock former
Governor Frank Wayland Higgins
met his staff in the Executive Chamber,
after which they repaired to the
Executive Mansion, on Eagle street,
where Governor Hughes and his staff
had assembled. ' * The inaugural
parade was a most imposing one,
with more military present than at
any previous inauguration in years.
The Second and Third Battalions of
the Tenth Regiment, six companies
from the Second Regiment, Troop B,
of Albany, and Squadron A, of New
York City, were in line. In addition
to the military, the Young Men's Republican
Club, of Albany, and the
Schenectady County Republican Club
paraded in honor of the new Governor.
Squadron A acted as the escort to
the Governor. Former Governor Higgins
and Governor Hughes rode in
the, same carriage from the Executive
Mansion to the Capitol. The inaugural
ceremonies in the Assembly
chamber were of an impressive na
cure.
TRAGEDIES IN 1906.
Lynchings Number 69?Suicides Increase
and Outnumber Homicides.
Chicago.?The lynching record for
the years is sixty-nine.
The total number of deaths by violence
during 1906 shows a small increase
over 1905, being 9350, as compared
with 9212. The steady increase
of suicides continues. The
number for 1906 is 10,125, which exceeds
the homicide record, and is an
increase of 143 over 1905. x
The record of embezzlement, forgery,
defaulting and bank wrecking
shows a large increase over 1905 and
is the largest total since 1894, being
$14,734,863, as compared with $9,613,172
in 1905. '
This large increase is principally
due to the looting of bank deposits
by such bankers as Stensland in Chicago
and Hippie in Philadelphia. The
losses (of 1906 are distributed as follows:
' Stolen by public officials, $1,584,554;
from banks, $10,745,387:
Dy agents, $379,571; forgeries, $223,687;
from loan associations, $248,100;
by postoffice employes, $22,585;
miscellaneous stealings, $1,433,969.
Unmoved by Vatican Protest.
The Spanish Government at Maarid
merely acknowledged the receipt
of the papal protest against the expulsion
from France of Mgr. Montagnini
and the seizure of the ar>hivao
nf tho nnnnioturA at Paris
Fist Blow Kills Flirt.
With one blow of his fist, Charles
Smith killed D. F. Myers on the
street in East St. Louis, 111. Mrs.
Smith told her husband that Myers
had attempted to flirt with her.
Smith struck Myers a swinging blow
Dn the jaw and Myers" Deck was
broken. Smith fled.
Sunday Law in Boston.
Applications for 1200 warrants for
alleged violations of the Sunday closing
laws clogged the Boston courto.
Newsy Gleanings.
The attempt to form a general
schismatic worship association in
Paris failed.
Seven designs for the proposed
giant battleship were submitted to
the Navy Department.
Fifteen acres on University
Heights, valued at $300,000, were
given to the University of the City
of New York.
Orders to the small arms factors
of the German Government at Erfurt
were taken to mean that tht
government was planning to arm the
troops with a new rifle^
MS GRUT CffflRITIES J
Carnegie Led in Beneficence, With
John D. Rockefeller Second.
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Gifts and Bequests Show a Total
of $100,000,000?Not Up to
the Record of 1901.
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Chicago. ? The record of beneficence
for 1906, expressed in gifts 1
and bequests, as compiled by the
Chicago Tribune, shows a total of
$106,38S,063, no items of less than
$1000 being included. This total
does not include contributions to r(
J charity in the general sense, church b
collections or minor subscriptions, g(
but only such donations and bequests
as have been published in the daily "
papers. fc
As compared with former years, ti
the record stands thus: 1901 (the >.
record breaking year). $122,88S,732;
1902, $77,c:97.167; 1903, $76,634;- &
918; 1904. $46,296,980, and 1905. tl
$104,586,422. The donations for
1906 amounted to $61,179,093, and v
the bequests to $45,208,970. The
total was distributed as follows: To j?
educational institutions. $32,492,- c'
636; to charities. $49,397,615; to re- r(
ligious organizations, $5,443,475; to
museums, art galleries and public ^
improvements. J16.849.700, and to D
libraries. $1,704,617.
As usual, Andrew Carnegie is
the most consnlcuous figure in this a
distribution. His donations amount g
to $11,094,000. which is $8,864,700 v
j less thanthoseof 1905 ($19,958,700).
He has provided buildings for seven- a
teen libraries, at a cost of $273,000, <j
as compared with fifteen libraries at j
a cost of $355,000 last year, and has c
given $1,167,500 to forty-four small ^
colleges, as compared with $2,755,- ?
700 to 144 colleges last year. His >j
gifts of organs to churches, as re- a
ported, are $10,925, as compared n
with $11,825 in 1905. ^
John D. Rockefeller falls behind r
in the race with Carnegie, his contributions
amounting to only $7,085,- a
000, as comoared with $11,620,000 0
in 1905. These contributions have g
been as follows: n
University of Chicago....$4,890,000
Young Men's Christian As- q
ciation 645,000
Juvenile Reformatory in f
New York 1,000,000 c
School of Applied Design 0
for Women 25,000
Children's Hospital in New
York 125,000
Foreign missions 275,000
Richmond (Va.) University
25,000
Church 40,000 i
McMaster's College 60,000 ,
Dr. D. K. Pearson's "liver" has
not been as actively employed as in
past years. He has given $145,000
to the following small colleges: Guilford,
$50,000; Yankton. $30,000; U. ,
S. Grant, $50,000; McKendree, $10,000,
and $5000 to charity.
A new philanthropist, Mrs. Russell
Sage,, appears. Her gifts thus far
are small, amounting to $52,200 for
schools, $10,000 to the church, and
$1000 to charity, but it is intimated
that she will make some large donations
in 1907.
The donations and bequests during
1906 amounting to $1,000,000
and upward were as follows: c
San Francif,:o relief fund.$15,000,000 c
Charles T. ferkes by will c.
to found Yerkes Hos- c
pital 9,000,000 c
Charles T. Yerkes by will 1
to found Yerkes Art
Gallery 5,000,000 ,
Marshall Field, by will to 1
Field Museum 8,000,000 c
Andrew Carnegie, to Car-'
negie Technical School 7,000,000 1
P. A. B. Widener, gift to
found Home for Crip- c
pled Children 8,000,000
David Rankin, St. Louis,
gift to industrial school 2,000,000 1
John D. Rockefeller, gifts
to University of Chi- 1
cago 1,500,000 ?
Marianne Brimmer, Boston,
gifts to Museum
of Fine Arts 1,315,000 c
D. B. Shipman, Chicago,
will to charities 1,200,000 c
Andrew Carnegie, gift to
Fine Arts Building. . . 1,000,000 \
John D. Rockefeller, gift
for Juvenile Reforma- 1
J tory 1,000,000 c
W. V. Laurence, New
{ York, gift to charities. 1,000,000 c
Charles Fergus, Fnnaaeiphia,
will to charities. 1,000,000
Albert Wilcox, Seabright,
N. J., will to Audubon
Society V 1,000,000
C. E. Schoelkopf, Kansas
City, Mo , will to
charities 1,000,000
John D. Rockefeller's present gift
of $2,917,000 to the University of
Chicago makes his total gifts to the
university during eighteen years
$21,324,322. The present was received
by Acting President Harry
Pratt Judson in a letter from John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., speaking for his
father. It was given unconditionally,
and is one of the three largest donations
that the founder of the university
has made since his initial subscription
of $234,000 in January,'
1889. He gave the university $3,000,000
in November, 1895, and
$3,245,000 in December, 1904.
Rebuke For New Orleans.
A considerable portion of New Or- I
1 flans was cut off from further free +
mail delivery by order of the Post- j
master-General. A large number of .
New Orleans streets are without side- ?
walks, and these are deprived of free j
delivery.
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Hearst Asks a Recount.
W. R. Hearst's application for a ]
recount of the 1905 New York City 1
election vote was filed with the At- j
torney-General, at Albany, three J
hours after the latter took office.
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To Investigate Block System. 1
The Interstate Commerce Commission
decided to investigate the block
system of the Baltimore and Ohio
and the Southern Railway in relation j
to the recent disasters on those roads. 1
The Field of Sports.
Outlaw racing in Louisiana has
now fairly started.
Four Yankees?Chase, Elberfeld,
Keeler and Yeager?batted over .300 ,
, last season.
Tne conditions governing tne mo
tor boat race from New York to . (
> Bermuda have been issued.
W. M. Ford, of Wilmington, Del.,
won the national amateur clay pigr
eon shooting championship.
The New York Nationals have rei
fused to relinquish their claim to
i Kelley, the outfielder, and Corcoran,
ths.Claclaaa.ti shortatoi).
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PP11M Din
CM 8. 8 0. miLBOM
nrrino Dlnmc Thrniicrh I nnal Train
iignib > iun? Miiuugu bwwu> ..v....
Near Washington.
RACKS STREWN WITH DEAD
hirty-eight Die in Wreck?Three
Crowded Cars Demolished?
Dead Train Ran Past Signal in
Thick Fog.
Washington, D. C.?The fatal er>r
of an engineer in passing a
lock signal light that he could not
:e in the fog, thus letting two
ains in "on the same block" to
)llow each other over the same
ack, was the cause of a frightful
;ar-end collision on the Baltimore
; Ohio Railroad at Terra Cotta, in
le outskirts of this city.
The bodies of thirty-eight have
een found, some of them mutilated
eyond all hope of identification. It
5 by no means certain that this
ompletes the list of killed. It may
sach forty, or even fifty.
There were 200 passengers on the
rrecked train, and more than forty
er cent, were either killed or injred.
The dead and injured were strewn
long the track for half a mile,
ixty injured have been taken to
arious hospitals.
Four men have been arrested in
n effort to fix the blame for the
isaster. They are Engineer Henry
lildebrand, of the rear train, that
aused the cpllision; his fireman,
IcLean; Conductor Hoffinger and
he signal man at Takoma Park,
'hey are locked up in the station
t Terra Cotta. Hildebrand is almost
demented. He babbles of the
rreck from which he escaped miaculously.
It was precisely the same kind of
n accident that snuffed out the life
f President Samuel Spencer, of the
iouthern Railroad, on his own road,
iear Lynchburg, thirty days ago.
The identified dead are: Dr. E,
)liver Bell, optician, the Farragut,
Vashington; Edward M. Belt, white,
ourteen years old, address unknown;
Commodore P. Brown, sixty years
Id, address unknown; Dan N. Carr,
Kingston, Md.; Elder O. L. Dailey,
Jewark, Ohio; C. J. R. Hall, Baltiaore;
Dr. E. Gaither Harris, Wa3hngton;
George Higbie, eight years
ild, Brookland, D. C.; Henry Higbie,
irookland, father of George Higbie;
\ A. Kelly, Kensington, Md.; Profesor
King, organist Wesley Chapel,
Censington, Md.; Miss Koll (a Y. M.
3. A. card was found in her pocket);
lary Leffold, thirty years old, emiloye
Bureau Engraving and Printng,
Washington; Le9 Lowe, Washngton;
A. Lee Lowe, No. 1212 F
treet, Washington; Mrs. J. McDaghey
and her fourteen-year-old
on; Elizabeth Purman, Takoma
'ark; Norman Rogers, white, Ma
ion, Ind.; I. Ruppert, Washington,
aerchant.
The disaster occurred in a dense
og. The wrecked train was a local
rom Frederick, Md. It was run
lown by a special equipment train,
omprised of eight empty cars. Two
if the coaches on the local were reluced
to splinters. The other two
:oaches, one a smoker, were shatered
from end to end, but remained
in the trucks.
The local was just pulling out of
he Terra Cotta station, after taking
in about a dozen passengers. The
ipecial came flying along at sixty
niles an hour and drove with irrelistible
force through the two rear
loaches. ' k A
spur of track runs up the side
>f the hill to the terra cotta works
>ehind the station. There was a flat
:ar at the top of the hill, and, workng
free, it ran away down the hill
md crashed into the wreck. A score
>f passengers struggling to release
hemselves from the wreckage toere
.duguc ueiure me um. wi, nuibv at*
nost cut clean through the smoking
:ar.
Six bodies liavo been taken from
inder the front end of the flat car,
ind the railroad officials say it will
lever be known in which of the two
irashes these passengers met death.
The first news of the accident
:ame from Brookland, where it was
:arried by United States District Atorney
D. W. Baker. Although Bacer's
right heel was cut off in the
vreck, and he was injured interia!ly,
he walked the mile and a
luarter to Brookland and over the
elephone sent in the call for ambuances.
He collapsed, when he was
tttempting to hang up the receiver
ind is in a serious condition. His
leel was cut off clean below the
inkle. He stopped the flow of blood
>y binding his leg with a silk handterchief,
and, without waiting at the
vreck, started at once on his ter ible
trip. It is feared it may be
lecessary to amputate his foot.
Great difficulty was experienced in
jiving asistance to the injured and
? tfcrk riaari ntuinp" tn thft
u tcuivtmg WUU v?vmv? v.. .MO
emoteness of Terra Cotta, which deipite
its comparative nearness to the
:apital, is a rural spot without police
>r postoffice. The situation was made
vorse by the telegraph office there
)eing closed for the night. There
ire only a few houses in the place,
md with no facilities for helping the
seriously injured all the helpless
aken from the wreck were forced to
ie on the ground in unrelieved
igony until Drs. Frischern, Stern
ind Brooks arrived from Brookland
n an automobile.
Senator Donelson Caffery Dead.
Former United States Senator
Donelson Caffery died at New Oreans,
La., seventy-one years old. As
i brave defender of State rights on
:he battlefield, a lawyer and a member
of the United States Senate he
won a high place in the esteem of l
:he people of the South. He was
)orn on September 10, 1S35.
Doctors Plead For Patrick.
The Medico-Legal Society sent an
ippeal to Governor Hughes for Alaert
T. Patrick's release.
Feminine Notes.
Mme. Melba's son, George N. Armstrong,
and Miss Ruby Olway were
married in London.
The proportion of women employed
[n factories is increasing more rapidly
than that of men.
Miss Hermione Schenley, daughter
of E. W. H. Schenley, of Pittsburg,
was married to Lord Ellenborough in
London.
Forest Gate. England, has a threeyear-old
swimming champion. She
is the daughter of the matron of some
public baths, and can swim tho
length of the tank; eighty feet.
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Locomotive Works Fifty Years.
We have been favored with an in*
teresting photograph of the first locomotive
to run on the first railway
btlilt in the southern hemisphere, the
Ferrlcarrll de Coplapo, in Chile. On
the smoke-box can be seen the legend
Norris Bros., Philadelphia, 1850.
This locomotive was at work on the
Copiapo line in 1851, some ye^rs before
the Buenos Ayres Western was,
built. E. L. Halstead says that he
saw the old relic under steam and Id
service a year or two ago, when he
was in Chile.?Buenos Ayres Herald.
The Benevolent Manufacturer.
A Benevolent Manufacturer, desiring
to acquaint the Common People
with the Toothsome Qualities of a
brand-new Health Food, bethought
himself how he might build up a
Steady Demand for his Product,
"Instead of being prodigal with m5
Advertising," he reasoned* "I will be
prodigal In the Distribution of Free
Samples, and the Consumers, uporf
cultivating a Liking for my Wares,
will of a certainty buy More." But it
so fell out that the Recipients of his
Bounty, after doing justice to the
Hand Out, forthwith forgot the name
of the unadvertised Pap. and continued
to lay down their Good Hard
Money for other Health Foods the
Rich, Nutty Flavor whereof was constantly
exploited in the Newspapers.
Moral.?A Free Feed is excellent
as a Work of Charity, but it avails
nothing from the Business Standpoint
unless given in conjunction
with an Advertising Campaign.?
Philadelphia Record.
"Hither" and "Thither."
"It does not seem to be generally
known," remarked a department official,
"that the dignified Department
of State has made a change in the
form of official correspondence somewhat
in the line of the simplified
system of spelling.
"The particular change I have noticed
is in the adoption of the good
old English words 'hither' and 'thither'
in place of their more modern
and longer substitutes. For instance,
the Secretary of State now acknowledges
the receipt of a communication
forwarded through another department
in the following style: 'Referring
to the reference hither by your
department,' etc. It's all right, I
know, but it has a strange look."?
Washington Star.
i
State ot Ohiq, City or Toledo, >
Lucas County. j
Fbank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney k
Co., doing business In the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of one hundbed dollabs
for each and every case of oatabbh*
that cannot be cored bv the use of Hall's
Catabbh Cube. Fbanx J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
., presence, this 6th day of Decem\
seal. [ ber, A.D., 1886. A.W.GleA80N,
r?'J .Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials,
tree. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Dru<?(?ists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
"All in Sixes.
A peculiar run in sixes occurred in
the County Clerk's office recently.
Thomas Albury?you will notice six
letters in each name?drew $6 in fees
on September 6, 1906. The number
of the case on which the fees were
drawn was 49,666, and it was in
docket 60. He recepted for it in
cash book 6, page 666.?Columbus
Dispatch.
TORTURED WITH GRAVEL.
Since Using Doan'i- Kidney Pills Not
a Single Stone Has Formed.
Capt. S. L. Crute, Adjt. Wnj. Watts
Camp, U. C. V., Roanoke, Va., says:
"I suffered a 16ng,
Slong time with my
back, and felt
draggy and listless
and tired all
weight, 225, to
170. Urinary passages
were too
frequent and I
MJ#/ have had to get
up often at night.
s-^yr^ i had headaches
and dizzy spells also, but my worst
suffering was from renal colic. After
I began using Doan's Kidney Pills 1
passed a gravel stone as big as a
bean. Since then I have never had
an attack of gravel, and have picked
up to my former health and weight.
I am a well man, and give Dcan'a
Kidney Pills credit for it."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y.
Why Prison News Suspended.
The Ohio Penitentiary News, for
many years a famous and flourishing
daily paper published by convicts,
has suspended publication, for the
very good reason that there is not
left in that big penal institution a
single man who can handle type.
There is not a primer 111 cne umu
penitentiary.
Bankers are there in plenty. More
than twenty are there, and more are
on the way. Several convict banks
might be operated, with men to
spare.
Enough lawyers are there to take
care of an enormous amount of legal
business.
Doctors, brokers and other eminently
respectable citizens are not
lacking.
Business men, farmers, mechanics
and representatives of almost every
other department of industrial activity
are there.
But there is not one printer.
The fact throws new light on a
character that has long been commonly
misjudged.
The printer to-day is a homeowner.
He is of fixed employment
and is the head of a family.
He is?and always was?far above
the average man in information and
intelligence. All the notable events
of human lire pass tnrougu ma uauus
and make impress on his brain.
The fact thai; more than tv/enty
bankers are in the Ohio penitentiary,
and not one printer, tells of the relative
honesty of the printer of to-day
?and tells more.
It tells us that the most common
and most dangerous crimes of to-day
are being committed not by the
I world's workers.
X
Faithful Terrier's Vigil.
The story of a faithful dog wa?
fold at the inquest at Buxton yesterday
on Miss Mary Louisa Darnton, a
womai of means, who lived, practically
the life of a recluse.
When the police entered the room
where she was found lying dead, an
emaciated Yorkshire terrier whjicb
must have been starving for a wee*
barked furiously at them and tried ^
to prevent them from touching the ja
body. Two wealthy women, applied
for leave, which was granted, to keep
the dog.?London Daily Mail. ;
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Generally speaking, It may be said"
that most of the ivory imported Into
Europe comes from Africa. Some is
Asiatic, bnt much that is shipped
from India is really African, coming
by way of Zanzibar and Mozambique
to Bombay.
NO RELIEF FOR 15 YEARS.
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411 Sorts of Remedies Failed to Cure
Eczema?Sufferer Tried Ctatteasm
and is Entirely Cored.
"I have bad eceema for over fifteen,
years, and hare tried all sort* of remedies . \
to relieve me, but without avail.. 1 stated p..
my case to one of my friends and. be
recommended the Cuticura Remedies. . ? j
bought tbem with the thought- that they,- '*
would be unsuccessful, as with the'other*.
But after using them for a few weeks ?
noticed io my surprise that the irritation '"/>
and peeling of the skin gradually decreased,
and finally, after using five cakes
of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuti- - J5
cara Ointment it disappeared entirely. , I
feel now like a new man, and .1 would 4 *gladly
recommend these remedies to all
who are afflicted with skin diseases. David
Blum, Box A, Bedford Station, N. Y.t
Nov. 6, 1905."
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All HallowB Church, Exeter, England,
700 years old, has been torn dQwn.
Piles Cured in 0 to 14 Days.
Pazo Ointment-is guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching, Blind, Bleedingor Protruding
Piles in 6 to 14 dayiB or money refunded. 50c.
Eccentricity and Rudeness.
Deliver me from your-long-visaged,.
bemoaning, over-sympathetic man of . . .
medicine, who kills more often than
he cures. One of thede he&rt-boweddown
practitioners lis worse than *'
three attacks of pneumonia. If i -T.
cannot , have tbe anecdotal doctor,
give me the eccentric aid fcude master
of "materia medlca" every time
to preference to the hypocritical leech
who comes in. with his "ah,, me!"
what a pity!" "alas!" "alackadayi"
ashes on his head and crape in his
heart. Give me such a man as the
great John Abernethy, whose anecdotes
and brutality made him the
mos* popular surgeon-doctor of hilt
generation; give me Oliver Wendell
Holmes, who cured his patients by
cracking jokes; give me Lewis A. '
3ayre, the most profane and vulgar ,.
genius of his day, yet the* most lo^^'
able; no baby ever refused to goto
his arms and nestle In his waistcoat.
. ?New York ?ress.
Colds and Breathing.
"If you'd only realize/' said the
physician, "that deep breathing is a
perfectly successful substitute for aa
I jvercoat in an emergency the chances
ire ten to one that you wouldn't.
aave got chilled. About this time of
che year colds are frequent because
people get caught just as you did
md can't think of any way to keep
warm except running a race or getting
up a brisk fight with sqpie one,
which isn't always convenient. In
such a, case deep breathing is the t
oest substitute for an overcoat there ''
is."?Philadelphia Record.
The German Emperor has more
servants in his employ than any other
rvi,-.?i->?./*>> A ltncothcr thATT numhftr '
aver 3000, about two-thirds of them
being women.
POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD.
Guarantee On Their Products. .
Wa warrant and guarantee that all
packages of Postum Cereal, Grapi^
Nuts and Elijah's Manna hereafter
sold by any jobber or retailer, com- ' .
ply with the provisions of the Natlonal
Pure Food Law, and are Hot
and shall not be adulterated or misbranded
within the meaning or said
Act of Congress approved June 30, .
1906, and entitled, "An act for preventing
the manufacture, sale or
transportation of adulterated or misbranded
or poisonous or deleterious
foods, drugs, medicines, liquors, and .
for regulating traffic therein for
other purposes."
.Postoi Cereal Co., Ltd.
C. W. Post, Chairman,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Dec. 12, 1906.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this loth day of December, 1906.
Bexjamin F. REID, $
Notary Public.
My commission expires July 1, 1907.
Our goods are pure, they always
have been and always will be, they
1 are not mis-branded. We have always
since the beginning of our busl!
ness, printed a truthful statement on
the package of the ingredients conI
tained therein and we stand back of
i every package.
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