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BATTLE -D OTETN F MOma. Shouting Defiance, Two Anarchists Meet Death-British Stirred by Terrific Engagement. London, Jan. 3.-All London has been stirred by a terrific battle waged today between Anarchists on the one side and hundreds of police and infan try, from the Tower, and artillerymt-n en the other. How many of the anar ehistic band took part in the engage ment, which was fought in and around a barricade in Sidney street in the East End, is not definitely known, but so far, after a search of the debris of the burned structure, portions of only two bodies have been discovered. The remains consist of the trunk and part of the head of one man and a few .harred bones of another. It is the opinion of some that two - desperadoes alone, for so many hours, leld the police and military at bay. Thousands, flocking from all parts of London, witnessed the thrilling spec acle-a steady rain of bullets, flash es of fire, smoke pouring from the window, the house in flames, and final ly men on the roof, shouting defiance and falling into the seething mass be low. Police Sergeant Sbot. A police sergeant, searching for the burglars who only a few nights age killed four policemen, was reconnoit ering around the Sidney station in the early hours of the morning. Sud 4enly a shot was fired and the sergeant fell with a bullet through the lungs. A call for police as .sounded and the entire neighborhood was cordoned. People were driven from their houses and a pitched battle began between those fortressed in the house and hun dreds of policemen., The Scotts Guards, from the Tower, were hasti ly dispatched to the scene and later a battery of artillery with Gatling -uns arrived at double quick. . Three pieces were placed in position, but they did not open fire. Volleys Poured into House. A steady/ stream of bullets played between the contending forces and the Guardsmen took up sheltered posi tions; firing volley after volley into the, hou'se. Pi-les of straw were cast In all idirections and lighted in the hope that the intrenched fighters would be smoked out. Smoke poured from the windows and here and there a jet of flame be gan to show. A detachment of fire 'ien stretched their hose and threw - water on the adjoining structures. Soon they directed their streams against the stronghold of the desper adoes, now burning fiercely. Then from the lower floors the Anarchists made their way to the roof, where, it seemed to the watching thousands, several forms could be seen amidst the driving smoke. Then the roof col lapsed and with it the men. - Bombs Discovered. Not since the news of the British disasters at the opening of the South African campaign has the country been so ajroused as by' today's scene at Stephny. The newspapers call loudly for more effective means o1 dealing with the growing terrors of alien immigration, no doubt being h eld that the desperadoes who fell to day were Anarchists. A search of the besieged house, after the ruins had cooled a little, revealed in a cupboard a large number of what appeared to be metal dynamite bombs in an unfinish ished state.. At present there is no evidence that the house had any other occupants than the two whose charred bodies -were found. Several police and civi .lans received minor injuries. . Crowds Visit Scene. Immense crowds of sightseers in -Vested the neghborhood until a lafe ~hour tonight, but a strict police guard was maintained and it was impossible for ihose without authority to get close to the half wrecked building. Two families, who occupied the lower floors of the building, were withdrawn by the police before the fighting began and they profess to know nothing of how the desperadoes gained access to the house. The latter a:ppear to have been in' rooms rented by a Russian woman, Bessie Gershon, who is now under arrest with other suspects and against whom. however, no charge has yet been made. TATF'S ANNUAL HANDSHAKING. White House in Holiday Decorations, Scene of Brilliant Social Event. Washington, January 2.-The New Year's reception at the white house, when the doors of the historic man s.ion were thrown open to the huml lest citizen who may care to pay his respects to the chief magistrate ol the nation, was held today undet -weather conditions that tended to cui down the number that usually passet Sthe receiving line in the Blue room * The president began shaking hands a 11.0 a.o m. and concluded at 1.4S r ception of the present adnunistration. Mrs. Taft, who has gained much in strength during the past year, stood with the president at the head of the line during practically the entire time the reception was in progress. The presence of three members of the Roosevelt family in the Blue room attracted unusual attention. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth came early with her husband and brought with her Miss Ethel Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt, and all remained until the last of the citizens had been received. HOUSE OF 435 SEEMS PROBABLEI Basis of Reapportionment About De cided on.-No Reduction From Any State. The coming congressional reappor tionment will provide for a total mem bership of 435 in the house of repre sentatives, according to present indi cations. This would men one mem ber every 211,700 of population. Chairman Crumpacker, of the house committee on census, and some of his associates, have been digesting the statistical calculations recently com piled by the census bureau, to show the effect of various systems of ap portionment on the representation of the different States. In the sitxeen members of the com mittee, eleven are from States which lose one or more representativs if the present number of members for the entire house is maintatined in the light of the population shown by the cen sus just completed. It is likely that these States will not only be pro tected, but, as Mr. Crumpacker and others believe, that an increase to 435 will solve the problem before the house, that being the least number that will save every State from any loss in the numerical strength of its delegation at Washington. Jerry Moore, Hero. Battle Creek, Michigan, Enquirer. The distionaries would draw a fine line of distinction between a hero and a benefactor. While admitting that either might be the other, or toth, they would insist that a hero must have run a risk of getting hurt. So the dictionaries don't always speak the public tongue-for in ev eryday talk a thing is heroic if it is big and useful enough, whether it ~was dangerous or not The dictionaries would say that Jer ry Moore, of South Carolina, aged fif teen, is a benefactor, ifthey fully un derstand his work atnd are as fair as they ought to be in giving credit. Jerry Moore is the boy who pushed the top limit from 80 bushels, or thereabouts, up to 228 bushels on the yield of an acre of corn. Jerry just now is the boy who has grown more corn to the acre than anybody else in the United States-but five years from now he may be the boy whose eram ple showed everybody else how to grow 228-bushel corn. And growing. 228-bushel corn is he-' roic. It is capturing forts and seizing nations and changing the map of the world. It is wiping out pestilence and putting out fire and famine and pre venting murder, It is saving the old homestead from the mortgage fore closeure. It is all forms of heroism, sung and unsung, dramatized and un dramatized. boiled into one concrete acco.mplishmnent-228 bushels of corn to the acre, while a 60-bushel world is wondering where its future meals are coming from. Jerry Moore makes about $700, in prizes from his acre, and the world makes so many billions, if it profits by Jeri'y's example and method, that there aren't figures enough to count them. The world satisfies its neecssi ties and acquires luxuries to the limits of its taste and appetite, in Jerry Moore's 228-bushel acre of corn, if it adopts that acre as its standard.1 So why shouldn't Jerry Moore be a hero, though he fought with nothing but a hoe and fought nothing but weeds and laziness? - Warning the Colonel.] A raw recruit from a remote corner I of the Green Isle was engaged for the] first time in a field maneuver in Eng land on outpost duty. The sergeant instructed him to look out carefully for the colonel coming to inspect the post. After an hour he returned and ask ed the soldier, "Has the colonel been here?" Receiving an answer in the negative, he went away, returning later on with the same inquiry. Awhile later the colonel appeared. The recruit did not salute properly, which incensed the colonel, who as a hint asked him: "Do you know who I am?" "Faith and I do not," answered the recruit. I"I am the colonel." B3egorra, you will catch it then," ..--'... eOne WILL GET A $375.00 Piano, PREE. You stand as good a chance as any one else. All that's necessary is to buy your gro ceries at lUll 1305 W11ON'S Main St. One coupon given with each dollar cash purchase. Besides getting the very besti groceries at the very lowest prices, you get this coupon absolutely FERE. Frist Patent Flour, sack 70c 20 lbs. 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