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OB 200 ENTOMBED 18 8WIG [ fire Cuts Off Retreat cf All Victims in Darr Colliery. MANGLED BODiES TAKEN OUT Little Chance of Any of Entombed Men Reinyj Alive ? Swollen Stream Keeps Grief-Stricken Families Across River. Jacobs Creole, Pa.?Two hundred and fifty men, it is feared, lost their live3 in the third disaster that has befallen the bituminous region since the first of December. At 11.30 a. m. a terrific explosion occurred in the Darr mine of the Pittsburg Coal Company, and of the men who were caught below ground at the time it is not thought possible that one can have cscaned with his life. Two weeks ago 350 men were killed in the j explosion at Monongah; a few days j before that thirty-four were hilled at the Naomi mine. This catastrophe brings the death list for the last nine- I J SOME GREAT M Johnstnv.n, Pa., July XI, 19(M Andcrlues, Belgium, March 11 Nainamo, Vancouver, May 4, Lund Hill. England, February I)uer, Belgium, November 15 Harwich, Pa., January 28, 1:1( Hannah, Wyoming, June 30, 3 Pas-de-Calais, France, March 1 Cannanea, Mexico, June 1, 13( Pocahontas Mine, Va., 1884. Monongah Mine, West A'a., D< I teen days up to an awful total of more than GOO men. The explosion in the Darr mine, due, it is believed, to gas, shook the country for miles around, and many 4-v^y>. KnilHincrc WPTP VI tUC UU5UUUHU5 demolished. Tlie number of men caught in the disaster would have been almost twice as great had it not been for the fact that many of the miners employed are Russians, and the day, being the feast of St. Nicholas, was observed by them as a religious holiday. Following immediately on the explosion smoke began to pour forth in dense volumes from all the shafts of the mines, and for the next five hours the volunteers who headed the rescue work were beaten back at every attempt. It was found that the mouth of the mine had been wrecked completely, and the task of reaching the entombed men, if any still are alive, will be one of the utmost difficulty. The officials of the mine, however, A P rncnuo 'J1 Vi Q sun iiuiu uul nujico vi i wwuv. jl mine was regarded as one of the safest in the region and was equipped with the most modern appliances. The ventilating fans are being operated at full pressure, and it is hoped the force of the explosion may not have extended to all the workings and that many groups of men may be found in safe corners. Relief measures have been prepared on an extensive scale and physicians, summoned from Pittsburg and neighboring towns, are in readiness at the pit's mouth. The first thirteen bodies taken out of the mine were all so terribly mutilated as to be almost beyond identification. Joseph Wapleton, a pumper, emerged from one of the side entries a short time after the explosion. He had left the part of the mine where -?>-? rtff 4- V\ a man n'ora nmrlr i n cr onrl lUUCt Ul tUQ UibU ? ViV **?.??? MUM was on his way to the engine room lor oil. "I was near entry No. 21," he said, "when I heard an awful rumbling. I realized what it meant and started to run for the entry, which I knew was close by, but before I could reach it there was a blinding flash and shock, and I lost consciousness. I hardly knew where I was when I regained my senses, but managed to grope to the sitfe entry and work my way out." Mapleton was cut and bruised, but none of his injuries were serious, and after his wounds had been dressed at his home he returned to the mine and joined the rescuing parties. The best chance of reaching the victims of the explosion is believed to bs through the side entry through which Mapleton escaped. William Kelvington, mine superintendent, has organized relief forces with twenty-five men in each, working in short shifts, and has set them to work at both the l\nf a V?on f mam auu oiuu ciuixco, ivwuv 1500 feet iu from the main entry it was found that the roof had fallen in for a distance, and as most of the imprisoned men are believed to be nearly a mile and ?. half from that I Curious Items in the Pa< j"~jT"HAT the sailors of the Pacific I is. already a foregone conditio of roast beef, roast mutton, ha [cheese and sauerkraut and frankfur Here are some other items wh laboard ship from time to time, and Iprised to learn, sailors are quite a I salt pork: Mutton, frozen C5,000 pounds Peaches, dried .... 8.400 " P?nnpp 2.000 " I Pickles 11^800 Prunes 15,000 " Bologna sausage .. 35,000 " Head cheese 30,000 " iCornstarch 6,300 " |Nuts 6.S00 Dried eggs 9,000 " [Sardines 2,000 " t'HOTO CAUSES NEGRO'S DEATH. displayed in Saloon It Impelled Bystander to Shoot Him. Cleveland. O.?Because he pulled from his pocket the photograph of a beautiful white woman, Charles Hurst, aged thirty-two, a negro teamster, whose home had been in Detroit until two weeks ago, was shot and killed in a restaurant here. A white man fired the bullet, escaping before any of the crowd in the room could lay hands on him. Newsy Gleaninps. PhMadpinhia scientists declare con sumption is prolific cause of crime and insanity. Two more Missouri counties voted for local option, making more than half the State "dry." The supply of toys for grown folk, as well as for children, in England was never so varied or so large. In order to ascertain how to minimize the danger of mine horrors the technologic branch of the United States Geological Survey will conduct experiments in a miniature mine in Pittsburg. point, and there Is no moans of Irnsw* ; r ing how frequent the falls may bo - fr along the route, progress from this side, it is feared, will be slow. The mine is on ihe opposite side of the Youghiogheny River from that on which the miners have their homes, and the only means of crossing the river is by a "sky ferry," a basket- [] like car suspended from a cable, in which the men null themselves back and forth. This car accommodates only six persons, and there is almost a riot every time it starts, but the . comparative inaccessibility of the R mine indirectly has facilitated the work of the rescuers greatly, as it has prevented the wives and children y; of the entombed men from crowding around the entrances and has caused a noteworthy absence oC the harrowing scenes that usually attend such a disaster. There is much drunkenness bore, many of the men who had been tak- t ir.g part in I'ae holiday continuing ^ their carousal in celebration of their escape. ti IMMIGRATION AT HIGH TIDE. n Last Year 1,2S5,:349 Aliens Came In, p Mostly Southern Europeans. Washington, D. C.?Immigration B to America during the year ended June SO, 1007, was vastly greater * mi. ? _ r j. m j man in any previous year, rms lati. i>j j is placed in strong light in the annual b ; report of Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner-General of Immigration and jc I Naturalisation, just made public. The 1c [XE DISASTERS. K Killed. G > 112 B , 1892 200 1887 170 tr ! 19, 1857 189 - 3t i, 1888 121 ) ! 189 ai 1903 200 si 10, 1909 1,000 II JC 100 31 307 tl iccmber 6, 1907 382 1 ti tr immigrants admitted during the year numbered 1,285,349, exceeding 1906 i b( by 184,614. The aliens rejected |: numbered 13,064. * The tide of immigration is indi- i Q; cated by these figures: Austria-Hun- i gary, 338,452, increase, 73,314; Buigaria, Servia and Montenegro, 11,- i [E 359, increase, 6693; France, 9731, |tl increase, 345; German empire, 31,- | C1 807, increase, 243; Greece, 36,580, increase, 17,091; Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia, 285,731, increase, a< 12,011; Kussian empire ana * miana, | * 258,943, increase, 43,278; Turkey, /' 20,1 G7, increase, 11,257; England, rr 5 6,637, increase, 7146; Ireland, 34,530, decrease, 465; Scotland, 19,- *' 740, increase, 3874; China, 961, decrease, 583; Japan, 30,226, increase, J 16,391; British North America, 19,- " 91S, increase, 14,855; West Indies, ^ " 16,6S9, increase, 3033. While the exclusion laws have rendered practically nil the immigration Jv from China, the immigration from " Japan, although relatively not great, /J has trebled in the last year. This increase is significant, too, because it . comes in the face of regulations ? which, It was supposed, would curtail the immigration of Japanese very i, materially. ^ Commissioner Sargent presents excerpts from official reports which show ; ' that thousands of Japanese landed in Mexico during the year and ultimate- . ly gained admission, surreptitiously, .. to this country, and lie says that hun- ; dreds if not thousands of Japanese still are coming into the country by ctpalth CommissionerSargentasks "whether our ability as a rate to absorb for- ?/ eign elements is not on the verge, at least, of being overtaxed." P. The totalamountof money brought J' Into the country bi arriving aliens was $25,599,S93, an average of al- L, most $20 per person. P re 25-Cent Gas For Cleveland. q( Twentv-five-cent gas for five winter months, with twenty-seven-cent gas si the rest of the year, was assured it Cleveland when Mayor Tom L. John- 01 son insisted that the Columbia Gas ai and Electric Company, a $70,000,000 to trust, cut its price of thirty cents a j In thousand in return for his promised , Dt aid in gaining the company a fran- 51 chise. tt Major Curry Killed by Auto. G Mainr TVTanlv R fnrrv TTnifprl 1 States Array, Paymaster of the De- . 86 partment of the Gulf, was killed at Atlanta, Ga.. by Jjeing thrown from j Q.( an automobile on his way to the terminal station to catch a train for 1 01 Macon. . ? i bi Fist Fight in Congress. Representatives John Sharp Will- J iams a;id D. A. De Armond came to blows in Washington immediately after the House had adjourned, using their fists and drawing blood after the lie had been passed. ;ific Fleet's Bill cf Fare. [ I g] fleet will faro well during the trip^ m a. There is little fear of the supply [! 31 m, potatoes, onions, macaroni andj! ^ ters giving out. I I p; ich will be included in the menu j n< which, some renders may be sur-jim s fond of as they are of hardtack and s ! m ! G Salmon 44,000 pounds String beans 25,000 " : ;v Cheese 140,000 " j jj Catsup 2,400 gallons I w Apples, dried 13,000 pounds j y< Rolled oats ' 10.000 " Lemon ectract .... 150 " Vinegar 0,600 gallons Shredded fish i',500 pounds ! Apple butter 13,500 " ! rr Jams S,500 " i c< ?mm I r; Views of Japan's Elder Statesmen. ! The foremost men in Japan expressed, in a symposium of inter- g, views, the kindliest feelings of friend- ' D( ship toward the United States in dis- | ^ cussing the sailing of Admiral Evans* i _( fleet. | V( I IP Died at Gala Performance. a( M. Filossofoff, the Russian Minis- J b ter of Commerce, was stricken in a fl gala performance at a theatre in St. Petersburg as the national anthem J was played and he died as the audi- j tors cheered. ; a I a Feminine Notes. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt-Longworth . underwent an operation for appendicitis and quickly rallied. ? The widow of Martin Bauer, of ? Brooklyn, won a court decision giving her the $500 insurance on his life. The Duchess of Marlborough visited London slums in her finest raiment and wearing her famous jew- ? elry. * Mrs. Kate Wilson is said to be the only woman in the world who is a professional lobster fisher. Her home is in a fishing village on the coast of Maine. v mm he cry in this congress leficiency of $83,000,000 Unless There's Retrenchment. iO NEW PROJECTS POSSIBLE To Need For Bond Issues?$100,000,000 to Be Provided For Increase of the Army and Navy and For More Pensions. Washington, D. C. ? Chairman awney of the House Committee on ppropriations, just appointed by peaker Cannon, effected its organizaon by the appointment of sub-comlittees as follows: Sundry Civil ? Tawney, Smith, rownlow, Fitzgerald and Sherley. Legislative ? Bingham, Gillett, rick, Livingston and Burleson. District of Columbia?Gardner, tadden, Vreeland, Burleson and owers. Pensions?Keifer, Gardner, Brown >w, Bowers and Livingston. Fortifications?Smith, Graff, Gilitt, Sherley and Fitzgerald. Deficiencies ? Tawney, Vreeland, heifer, Brundige, Jr., and Livingston. Permanent Appropriations?Brick, raff, Madden, Brundige, Jr., and urleson. At the close of the committee's first teeting Chairman Tawney dictated a :atement in which he said: "The Committee on Appropriations ad Congress are confronted with a tuation which will require a very laterial revision of the estimates lbmitted for public expenditures for le next fiscal year ended June 30, 909, in order to keep the appropriaons within the possible and estilated revenues of the Government. "The estimates submitted at the eginning of the last session of Conress for the now current year totaled 895,960,643. The estimates for the sxt fiscal year submitted at the beInning of this session in the book cj! stimates totaled 8996,949,288, or an icrease in the estimated expendiires for the next fiscal year over the irrent year of $101,988,,645. The jtimated total revenue for the next seal year is $878,123,011, while the :tual revenue, including postal revlue, received during the* last fiscal Bar, which total revenue was larger lan that of any previous year in the istory of the Government, was only 846,725,339.. "It will be seen, therefore, that on le basis of the estimated expendilres and the estimated revenue for le next fiscal year, the expenditures 5 estimated exceed the prospective ivenue by $118,826,277. This exiss does not include estimates for le regular deficiency and miscel.neous appropriations, which for the irrent year amount to $13,147,899. or does it include any new authorations for spontaneous expenditures, rora this excess total of $118,826,77 should, however, be deducted 25,000,000, which is included in the (timated expenditure for the resmption of National banknotes, his expenditure is not made out of le current revenues, but out of the atutory fund obtained from Naonal banks, which fund is not car11-. finMpnmont's rpv. eu as pui i ui i.ub lues. "Deducting the $25,000,000 still aves a deficiency of $83,000,000 Jtween the State expenditures and le estimated revenue, and shows the jcessity for a practical revision of le estimates submitted by the sev al sub-committees having jurisdic n of the appropriations for the next seal year, in order to keep expendiires for that year within possible venues, and thus to avoid a decency. "It also shows the practical imposbility of Congress at this session aulorizing new Governmental services the undertaking of new projects, ipropriations for which would have i be met out of the revenues incorng for the next fiscal year?unless ,her provision is made for meeting ich Administration expenditures tan to require them to be defrayed it of the current revenues of the overnment." "The situation as it presents itlf," said Mr. Keifer, "may mean, 'ter we get down to business, that it a single bill calling for the erecon of a public building will be fav ably reported by the committee, am not prepared to say that it will inpen so, but it may." APAN TO REDUCE MILITARY OUTLAYS iving of $200,000,000 in Six Years In This Iicir. Alone is Planned. Tokio, Japan.?The financial proram was formally settled at the eeting of the Council of the Elder :atesmen. It is one of retrenchment id involves a reduction in the excises of the army and navy for the sxt six years whereby the Governent will save $200,000,000. It also leans the postponement of certain overnment undertakings. The cur-lilments, in connection with the in eases in the taxes on sugar, sake, ;1 and tobacco, are calculated to ipe out the deficiency of the coming ?ar. Forty-four Miles an Hour. The torpedo boat destroyer Tartar lade a record mile on the Hapun )urse at London, traveling at tha ite of forty-four miles an hour. Governor Hughes1 Position. Governor Hughes, replying to n lggestion from Senator Saxe that ho 3rmlt the use of his name as a Preslential candidate, wrote: "I shall do othing to influence the selection or ate of delegates. I assume that the arty representatives will take such ction, whatever it may bo, as they elieve to be best. They have their uty and I have mine." Fatal Explosion at Palermo. " lr UlOfl "i wciity~nve pcrsoiid ?cic nd ]0() injured by the explosion of powder magazine in Palermo, Sicily. Ship Speed Record Broken. The new British turbine torpedo oat destroyer broke all records in er final trials by attaining a speed o 1 7.037 knots. Peru to Welcome Fleet. Extensive preparations were being lado at Port of Spain and at Lima, 'eru, to welcome Admiral Evans' eet. Norway's U. S. Minister Dead. C. Hacge, the Norwegian Minister o the United States, died in Norway rhile on a snowshoelns trlD. " GREENE ID epos LOSE Federal Supreme Court Denies Petition For Writs. Sentence of Court of Four Years' Im? prisonmcnt and 3575,740 Fine .Stands Against Contractors. Washington, D. C.?The Supreme Court of the United Slates denied the petition for writs of certiorari bringing to that court the cases of Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gaynor, who are under sentence pay a fine of $575,749 and to undergo terms of imprisonment of four years each on the charges of embezzlement and conspiracy in connection with Oberlin M. Carter, then captain of engineers of the United States array, to defraud the United States in connection with the harbor improvements at Savannah. Carter has served a term of im ( prisonment on these charges. Greene | and Gaynor were tried by the United i States District Court for the Southern j District of Georgia, and on April 12, I 1906, were found guilty on the two j charges of conspiracy and embezzlement, and both were sentenced on ! the same day, the amount of the fine | imposed?representing the sum which i is charged to have been appropriated. They appealed the case to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and when that court, affirmed the verdict of the trial court, they presented their petition to the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari bringing the entire case to that court for review. This petition went at length iuto the question of the extradition from Canada, and urged the fact that, beI cause the case involved "the relations Df this Nation to foreign nations,' the Supreme Court was bound under the Federal Constitution to take cognizance of the matter, notwithstanding the case had been passed upon ! by the Court of Appeals. Many imj portant questions were presented by | the case in addition to that of extraI Jition, including the one as to wheth[ ar a person charged with embezzlement in one State (New York) can i be legally tried in another State : (ueorgia), as Greene and Gaynor j were, and also the question as to j whether a man charged with an ofj fense in two districts, as Greene and Gaynor were, can be regarded as a ! fugitive from justice when he lecnains in one of them. The effect of the denial of the petition for a review by the Supreme Court has the effect of leaving in force the decision of the District Court. | DEATHS FROM WEAK HEARTS. Epidemic of Grip Given as Cause For Many Fatalities. New York City.?The increase in the number of cases of heart disease, for the first eleven months of 1907, in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, over the corresponding months of 190G, was 1246, according Lo figures obtained at the Bureau of Vital Statistics at the Health Department. The same nronortion of in :rease carried out to the end of the year would show an increase of nearly 1500 over last year. This would mean an increase of almost twenty-seven per cent., an astonishing one. The reason is found not only in the fast rate of living, but in the epiiemic of grip, which is always followed by an unusually large number jf deaths from heart troubles. The grip epidemic itself may be judged from the fact that sixty-eight deaths were reported during the week in comparison with six deaths last year. Same Condition in Chicago. Chicago. ? The total number of ieaths from heart disease for 1907 in Chicago will be 2497, an increase of 10.6 per cent, over those of the preceding year. Chicago physicians say that the rapid pace of the present life ; Dr the collateral effects of it, such as j late hours, over-eating, and drinking j too much, were responsible for the | ilarming increase. There is no remedy, they say, un| less the present manner of living is changed. A return to the simple, life I is advised, shorter hours of work i wherever possible, an avoidance of j late hours, and especially late sup{ pers, and a reduction in the amount | of food and drink consumed. Moderate exercise is recommended. One physician advises total abstinence from liquor, tobacco and co'Tee. LARGE TIN MILLS TO RESUME. 7 ? Six Thousand Men Anectcu in rianis at Newcastle and Sharon, Pa. Pittsburg.?It is said here that indications point to an early resumption of the large tin mills at Newcastle and Sharon, Pa. The tin supply of the country is rapidly being depleted, and employes have been notified to hold tbemselves in readiness for work. About 6000 men are af- j fected. WIRE MILLS GO TO STEEL TRUST. ! $030,000 Paid in Bankruptcy Court at New Haven For National Plant. New Haven, Conn.?The mills of j the National Wire Company here I passed to the United States Steel j Corporation by the acceptance of a check for $65 0,000, in the bankruptcy court, the check being payable to the receivers of the wire company. 200 NITRATE STRIKERS KILLED. \ Refused to Return to Work and Were ! Fired On With Machine Guns. Washington, D. C.?Two hundred | striking laborers have been killed at Iquique, Chile, according to a dispatch received at the State Department from the American representative of this Government. They were part of a body of 10,000 laborers who had entered the city from the interior, and who refused to return to their work in the nitrate industryt The Government declared a state of siege and Anally the laborers were fired on with machine guns. About Notjfa Tecple. The Nobel prize'for literature has been awarded to Rjidyard Kipling. A Washington correspondent asserts that sometittes Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, of Incmna, Diusnes iiKe a i schoolboy. Captain F. S. Cody, the American' who accompanied the British officer^ In their recent!balloon flight over London, Is the tiiisted adviser of the British War Office on questions relating $q aeronautics. / ' ???? TRBMOKHOMS ON THE Him FLEET I Cordial Greeting Extended by Governor to Visiting Armada, s< to n SEVEN THOUSAND GO ASHORE " SI p: Holiday in the Fleet?Rowing Races ? of Crews?Battleships Decorated ?Torpedo Boats Sail For Para After Making Repair?. j,; Port of Spain, Trinidad. ? Rear- ^ Admiral Evans, Rear-Admiral Emory, ^ commanding tlie second division of tc the battle fleet; Rear-Admiral Thorn: q as, commanding the third division, and Rear-Adimarl Sperry, commanding the fourth division, together with the qiembers of their staffs, went I tl ashore and proceeded to Government I T House, where they paid the usual for- 01 nial call to Sir H. II. Jackson, Gov- as crnor of the colony. ai The battleship fleet under com- $ mand of Rear-Admiral Evans reached te its first port of call in its 14,000-mile la voyage to the Pacific a full day ai ahead of schedule. n.i The ships entered the harbor in four divisions, and steaming past the city came to an anchorage in the Gulf of Paria about four miles from Port tr of Spain. The fleet made a fine spec- w tacle as it swept through the Dra- a gon's Mouth and down the harbor. b( The ships came to anchor in splendid form, all the anchors dropping simulatneously with a splash. The usual port ceremonies followed at once. The harbor master and a' health officer of the British colonial cc city called and pratique was granted T without delay. si The holiday spirit pervaded the a< American fleet, but it jyas more like ^ the celebration or tne rourin 01 juij than that of the Christmas which the men had known in colder climes. Decorations there were in plenty, wreaths of holly and evergreens t, which had been brought along to sa keep alive the remembrances of the ta day, and there were special dinners . in the mess rooms for the officers and ' turkey and other good things for the s* men. al It was not given to the men of the tl torpedo boat flotilla to spend "Christ- el mas ashore, for in the early morning, m with flags flying and the firing of a y( salute to Admiral Evans' flag float- . ing on the main truck of the battle*ship Connecticut, they steamed away w to Para?a five days' journey. 6t Not fewer than 6000 or 7000 of w the bluejackets were allowed on ei shore, and they entered into the th spirit of merry-making with the townspeople,whose geniality and hospitality have known no bounds. The feature of the festivities was a regatta, in which many of the bat- Tl tleships had crews. There were n< plenty of exciting finishes, and en- h( thusiasm ran high. Admiral Evans, a with his staff, watched the struggles f0 of the competitors from his launch, and big crowds occupied points of vantage along the course. v 1 Fi ADMIRAL BROWNSON OUT. Metcalf Denies Criticism of Department Affected Veteran Officer. m Washington, D. C. ? President fe I Roosevelt received and accepted the m | resignation of Rear-Admiral YVillard oi H. Brownson, retired, as Chief of the ia Bureau of Navigation, which has had to handle the question of the cruise th J of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific. . ! The President then designated Commander Cameron McC. Winslow to act as chief of bureau. ro Coming immediately upon the pub- ps lication of the Reuterdahl criticisms pa of the navy, which are widely be- $2 lieved to have been inspired by a high sa naval authority, the resignation of Admiral Brownson at once gave rise p to the report that it had grown out of that publication. c0 ... V,,, Cnn. mi mat was ueuieu viguiuusi; uj ? retary Metcalf, who declared that the of criticisms had nothing whatever to do with Admiral Brownson's action, pC which was entirely a personal matter aj between him and the President. m m DOCTOR KILLS WIFE. sh pe Amesbury Fires Just as Dinner is .oe Ready?Calls It Accident. bl Hyde Park, Mass.?Dr. Walter R. ?a Amesbury, of Milford, shot and in- "l stantly killed his wife, Anna, a teach- co er of music in Roanoke College, Dan- Is ville, Va., as the family were about to sit down to their Christmas dinner at the home of Mrs. Jennie Rees, Mrs. Amesbury's mother, here. Mrs.' Amesbury had come from rJ' Virginia to pass the holiday with her to sons, Walter R. and Ira R. Amesbury, an who live with their grandmother. I ] Dr. Amesbury came from Milford, j)r where he has practiced, to the Christ mas festivities with uie ranmy. i . According to thti police tlie doctor i r' fired two shots into Mrs. Amsbury's j right side. Her death was almost in- I ru stantaneous. The husband, when ar- I ru rested, declared tho shooting v.tii ::c- se^ cidental. oh ra Kills Wife and Self. ly At Sharon, Pa., William Van Bush ha aged forty years, killed his wife by ra cutting her throat and look his own Th life in the same way. The couple s0 quarreled frequently. Bush was a t machinist, and formerly lived in New , York City. pn se Kins Oscar's Ilody Interred. W The body of Kinj; Oscar of Sweden an was interred in the far famed burial of place of the Swedish kings, the Kid- jnj dorholm, Kyria. if Indians On Wnrpatli. cai Yaqui Indians went on the warpath erj after murdering twelve men, oue of stc thoiv rantives. an American, being re- da leased. cif Undertakers and Clergy Combine. e-r< ll 1 At Los Angeles, Cal., the undertakers and ministers have combined 1)0 to prevent Sunday funerals. of tiii Tho Labor World. bo The London (Canada) Labor party fo1 has pronounced in favor of old-age pri pensions. an A majority of the musicians of tie Santa Cruz, Cal., met recently and organized a union. A select committee of the House of Commons is inquiring into the sweating evil in London. of Organized labor in Seattle, Wash., if has carried out its proposed plan of ne< obtaining a coal mine. ga Employment was given to 500 men by when work was resumed in the Steel be< Trust's mills at Bay .View, Wi3. pr( Keep a Few Sheep. Professor F. B. Mumford. of Misjuri experiment station, shows that ists have proved that sheep produce lore meat from a pound of grain lan any other farm animal. It was lown that a pound of mutton can be roduced from about half as much rain as a pound of beef. Even the lortgage lifting hog requires more rain to produce a pound of human >od than the sheep. With the comination of corn and clover hay for >od and a dry shed for shelter leep will always give good account E themselves and respond readily ? the care given them.?Farmer's uide. : Cost of Making Milk. A Canadian milk producer figures le cost of production as follows: aking fifteen cows as a unit that is man is capablc of taking care of, 3 well as the product therefrom, id assuming that the man is worth 1.50 a day, we must charge up n cents a day against each cow for bor. Assuming that each cow rerages five thousand pounds of ilk a year, which is about six iarts a day, such cow should re>ive one pound of grain for each ireo pounds of milk she gives, which ould be about five pounds ot grain day. The cost of the grain would ; six and one-quarter cents a day. Adding to this the cost before menoned of producing a specially ire, clean milk, we have a total of looct tovoii r>pnts a nnart. as the st of its production on the farm, o this should be added the cost of lipping to the city, which is an iditional burden to the farmer.? merican Cultivator. Water Supply For Farm. In reply to inquiry made by C. E. on the farm water supply would iy we have had the compressed air ,nk in use ten years and it is satisictory in every way. The tank lould be placed in cellar, or a room jove ground made frost-proof; then lere is never any trouble. The evated tank is usually out of comissipn two or three months in the ;ar, while severe winter weather sts. The cheapest way to put in ater works is to buy a rejected earn boiler for your tank; then ths ater can be pumped into same by ther a wind or gasoline engine, ie latter possibly to be preferred, jcause it can be operated at any me and the engine can be utilized ir many other purposes on the farm, tie cost of such an outfit should )t be "over $150, depending upon >w expensive your boiler is. I have twenty-barrel tank that I bought r $25. The pump and piping cost JO, and two and one-half horse jwer gasoline engine $75; total, L20.?W. W. Stevens, in Indiana irracr. Fattening Hogs. In the experience gained at the issouri Experiment Station Prossor Forbes says that corn suppleente'd with wheat middlings and 1 meal makes the best and cheapest tion for fattening hogs. He says: r'or dry lot or pen feeding of hogs e cheapest feed is corn supplement. by wheat middlings or oil meal. : the Missouri station we have ade 100 pounds of pork from five irts of thirty-cent corn and one ^rt of $24 oil meal at a cost of 1.75 per hundred weight. At the me time wo made 100 pounds of irk from two parts of corn and one .rt of $15 wheat middlings at a st of $2.S8. In the same experient corn alone made pork at a cost $3.63 per hundred weight." When pasture can be provided, irk can be made the most economicly on it. The same authority above entionod writes: ' Experiments at e Missouri Experimental College ow that with corn at thirty cents r bushel, it costs $2.79 to make. ? ' ? '1 J rt P TXAnl/ IB imuuieu (,'uuuua U1 puis, nutiv ue grass is fed with the corn, with pe and corn tlia cost is $2.50 per icdred weight, and v/ith alfalfa and rn the cost cf 100 pounds of pork but $2.13." Rye Chaff. I can buy from a local hay press e chaff at ?1 per ton. Will it pay cart this two and one-half miles d put In the barnyard for manure? j lave only two cows. Quantity would obably be 100 tons a year, dry marial. How can I best turn this aft" to turn hogs on it? Farmers 10 cart rye to the press are overn with wild radish. Should I be nning a great risk from this foul ?d? Would the heating of the aff prevent the germination of the, dish seed? Farmers who previousbought this chaff say that they ve had no trouble with the wild nn fhoir forme T? Af D. to rye chaff would contain in a ton mething like fifteen pounds of ni)gen and nearly the same amount osphoric acid, with perhaps i-en or eight pounds of potash, hen decayed, the phosphoric acid d potash will be there, while part the nitrogen will have disappeared io the air. Rye chaff is very poor, not dangerous, feed for cows, beuse of the probable presence of ;ot, a poison to all kinds of live ick. There would also be no small nger from these weed seeds. Cruerous plants produce seeds which j unduly hardy and can withstand rdships. It is true that the neighrs have not reported introduction radir.h by reason of tho chaff, but. ?re is still danger. If (ho chaff is ught, it ought to be well rotted bee spreading on the fields. At the ice mentioned, it would not seem attractive bargain.?Country Genman. I Capes in Chickens. What is true of all disease is true gapes. It is better to prevent it I possible, and then there will be no , ed to cure it. When the cause of | pes is known, and also the means , which it is likely to lrt) spread, it j comes easy to take measures for svention. The most important, \ 1 measure of all Is to keep the houses, yards, troughs and everything connected with the poultry yard strictly, clean. It is probable that the drinking water is the medium through which the gapeworm most often comes, and, therefore, the greatest care must be taken to keep the fountains clean, when conditions are specially favorable to the propagation of the gapeworm. The water supplied should be pure and fresh. It is strongly advised that house, floors, perches, coops and hatching-boxes should be thoroughly cleansed with boiling water, and then limewashed; that- food should never be thrown on the ground; that access to polluted water should be prevented: that the rearing ground should be disinfected during the winter season if it is to be used . the following year; and that the bodies of all chickens that die of canoa aVirmisl ho Tf fa fllar% MAAV/UAVl K,** WUIUVU. *?, AO advisable that affected chickens should be removed from the healthy birds as soon as the symptoms of gapes can be observed; but this is hardly practicable where chickens are reared by hens alone, as chicks of tender age, if removed from their mother, would not survive for want of care and brooding. Where incubators and brooders are used, there is, however, no difficulty, as one of the brooders can be temporarily turned into a hospital for the affected chicks."?H. D. C., in Farmers' Gazette. 1 _ - ; ^ Slag and Saltpetre. *Tie cheapest way to supply lime to the soil is to use basic slag as a source ot phosphoric acid for the fertilizers. Slag carries from thirty to fifty per cent, of lime, and the value of the phosphoric acid it carries will cover its whole cost. In regard to nitrate of potash (saltpetre) which cost me about $90 per ton, $4.50 per hundred pounds, the exceeding richness cf the chemical makes it the cheapest source for potash and nitrogen that I know. Each . one hundred pounds carries fortyfour pounds of potash, in which form it cost me this season, delivered, about 5.20 cents per pound. Thia forty-four pounds at C.20 cents cornea to $2.28, which taken from $4.60 leaves $2.22 for the value of the fourteen pounds of nitrojen contained in one hundred "pounds of ,nitrate of potash, or 15 6-7 cents per pound for the nitrogen which Professor Goessman assured me is equally valuable with the nitrogen derived from nitrate of soda which costs me delivered this season $58 per ton, or $2.90 per one hundred pounds; one hundred pounds of nitrate of soda contains about fifteen and one-half pounds of nitrogen, making the cost of one pound of nitrogen in nitrate of soda sulphate of .potash.?Monrce i Morse, in the American Cultivator. i i The Future aud Sheep. All who keep up with the trend of the live stock industry agree that the demand for sheeD will go on increas Ing for many years. In referring to the matter the Shepherd's Criterion has this to say: Farmers as a class do not yet understand sheep well enough to produce them successfully, though the . majority of them raise other things that require more care and effort and produce poorer results. While it is true that many are going into sheep for the first time, and hundreds have been converted to; the right way of thinking, still, relatively speaking, comparatively l'ew of the small farm| ers carry sheep. It will take a long time to educate Bome that sheep are the best live stock they can raise? jest for the land and for the bank account. In the meantime mutton consumption will continue to grow very rapidly, and in our opinion th9 time will be far distant when the supply will again overtake the demand. The great grazing areas of the West are practically filled to the limit, and ; So there cannot be much expansion in ! that direction. The chief increase must be on the Eastern farms. Here I the dog and the stomach worm have to be contended with, and there are at the present time very serious 1 handicaps to the small farmer. If a man can raise enough sheep to warrant his special and constant and special attention, then the dog nuisance can be effeccually eliminated, but the stomach worm is an enemy t in the dark that cannot be easily conj quered. All things considered, it is j by no means likely that sheep husbandry will advance fast enough to ; make the business unprofitable for the next twenty years. As long as there is a sensible protective tariff 1 1 U Uil nuui auccyincu win nave auuug encouragement, but even if they had "to depend on mutton quality almost entirely, they are now well enough fortified to go ahead on a profitable basis. It is estimated that fifty per c?nt. more mutton is consumed in this country than twenty years ago. The annual receipts at Chicago are more than a million more than in 1897, while there has been a corresponding increase at most of the other Western markets. If under these circumstances mutton can be sold at a record price, then it follows that it has a strong grip on the American appetite, which is bound to endure. The slaughter of sheep and Iambs, particularly lambs, is going on so rapidly that producers are now much behind the requirements, and that is why prices are so high. Chi cago for the first nine months this year falls 400,000 head short of last year, in spite of the fact that more people have gone into the sheep business. A supply of 50,000,000 sheep , is not large enough for a country with over S0,ono,000 people, with a million foreigners landed every year. England's People. In England and Wales there are about 1,600,000 persons over sixt}'- * five vears of age. and in the course j o? a year more than a fourth of that number are compelled to accept poor relief.?Loudon Lloyd's Weekly, News, r : y- s