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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.
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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
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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(
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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
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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.
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TRBMOKHOMS
ON THE Him FLEET
I
Cordial Greeting Extended by
Governor to Visiting Armada, s<
to
n
SEVEN THOUSAND GO ASHORE "
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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