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MANY PERISH Aiother Explosion Which Wipes Oat Seventy More Hate an Lives. A TERRIBLE DISASTER One of the Best Kquipped Coal Mines in the Republic of Mexico the Scene of u Mining Calamity?The Number of Injure*! Kqual to that of the Dead. One of the greatest disaster in the history of Mixican coal mining, which has heretofore experienced several crushing blows, resulting In a treme dous loss of human life, took place early Wednesday in the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas, Mexico. The toll of human life which paid the penalty of negligence on the part of som * miner is officially placed at seventy, while the list of injured numbers nearly as many, principally Mexicans and Japanese. The explosion occurred in the No. 3 shaft of the coal mine of the Esjvrnnzas Mining Company, and is attributed to the ignition of gas by the flame of a miner's cigarette. About 8.3 0 o'clock those at work above round were startled by loud explosions, and almost immediately a vast cloud of dust and smoke issued from the mouth of the shaft. As soon as the air in the shaft could be purified sufficiently to permit rescuers to descend, many volunteers were ready to risk their lives In an endeavor to succor their stricken brothers below. Three capes were soon lowered, all loaded to their utmost capacity with miners bent on rescuing their com rndeB. In the first and second levels everything was found to be intact, and beyond being terribly frightened the men working in these levely wen safe. They were brought to the top as rapidly as the cages could be loaded. In the third level a terrible sight met the eyes of the rescuers. Scattered about In many positions in the workings they found the bodies of the men. suffocated, their faces indicating In many instances the bitter fight they had waged to reach pure air and safety. The workers were augmented by the addition of many other able-bodied men and immediately beuan to work In relays, searching for and carrying to the surface the bodies of their dead and dying companions. After the lapse of six hours work, sixty-five bodies were brought to the surface, while nearly forty injured nren were removed to hospitals for treatment. Three of these have died. The injured owe their miraculous es cape to the fact that they wore working at poluts in the third stage of the workings, where they were partially protected from the on-rush of foul air. Screaming women and children were congregated aboui me moutii or the shaft awaiting with hope the bringing out of their loved ones; a hope which was in almost every 'ustance turned to despa'r as body after body was brought: to the surface. State representatives were immediately sent to the scene and placed in entire charge of the work of res cue and investigation. The Palau is one of the best equipped coal mines in the Republic of Mexico. It has an adequate ventilating system, is provided with electric lights, and the mining oflicials are utterly at a loss to account for the presence of mine damp in No. 3 working. No stone will be 'eft nnturned hv the company to afford reliof for tha sutTerers. The bod is of the dead were interred Thursday. Woman a Heroine. At Valdosta, Ga., Mrs. J. W. McDonald. mother of fhree little children. proved herself a heroine when she saved thpm from her burning home before daylight Wednesday morning. Two little girls who had been carried from the house by the mother went back to their room and went to bed again. Mrs. McDonald saved them just as the roof of the house tell in. This Is a Sitil Case. At Richmond. Va., Judge CrutchBeld was moved to pity when Hunter Ingram, 14 years old, was hauled bofore him, charged with stealing a loaf of bread, which the lad said he took for his starving mother. Th? Judge dismissed th-^ ease. The hat was passed around the court room, collecting $15 for the boy and his mother. A Human flruto. At Morgantown, W. Va.t August Otitis seized hv the legs the two-yearold baby of F. H. Johnson and beat its head against an iron bed when Its cries threatened *o awaken the household. The child's mother broke Qillis' skull with a poker. It's better to have a foolish belief that comforts you than a w,se one that pains you. t BOAT AND CREW LOST "GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC" GAINS MORE VICTIMS. T'?roo Mast Schooner Founded to Pieces OIT Cupe llutterus and Ten Men Perish. With a north-west wlud Mowing fifty-two miles an hour gale and a heavy weather prevailing, the threemasted schooner Frances, Captain Coombs, from New York to Jacksonville, was washed ashoif? ou the treacherous Hatteras coast early ou Tuesday morning, and was pounded 10 pieces oy me raging ?eu ueiore life saver:: from the Cape llatterus and Big Kinnekest Life Saving Stations could reach .the ill-fated vessell's crew of ten men. who are supposed to have been lost In the furious seas. Although none of the bodies have come ashore as yet. the life savers report that there was no possible means of escape for those aboard. The wreck was discovered from big Kinnekast Station a short tome after daybreak. Before life savers, who put out immediately after discovering the vessel, could reach her, they saw her break to pieces and seeing no signs of life, abandoned all effort at rescue. The Frances, which was formerly the barkentine Franc-s of Baltimore, was a vessel of 64 3 tons net register, was owned by Edwin S. Pendleton of New York. She was bifllt in Belfast, Me., in 1 887. and was employed in the lumber carrying trade between Florida and Northern points. SCHOOL (did, BOBBElt. ( allied Entraii.ce to Room of Victim in a (lever AVay. A clever female "Radios" with the appearance of a high school girl, has made her debut in Kansas City. The girl appeared at the home of Miss Lizzie Evans Thursday and asking for the latter, was told that Miss Evans was not at home. "All right," she said, "I'll Just go upstairs and wait for her to return." At the lop of the stairs, William Evans, the eirl's father, met the burglar. Again she asked for Miss Evans and was informed the girl was not at home. Taking It for granted that the call er wits n ineuu 01 uih aaugnier, Mr. Kvans permitted her to go into Mis3 Kvans* room. When the latter returned home in the evening the stranger had disappeared. Several waists, skirts and numerous toilet articles had also disappeared. SAVED FROM STARVING. Adrift Several Days on Ocean Without Anything to Kat. News of the fishing smack Cavalier, 31 days out from Pensacola, Fla., was brought to New Orleans on Tuesday by the Norwegian steamer Hiram from Blueflelds, Nicaragua. All of the Cavalier's crew are safe, but the vessel is badly damaged. The Hiram found the Cavalier floating helplessly in the gulf on January 27. The crew reported that a storm had badly crippled the smack about a week before, snapping the main boom, smashing the dories, carrying away the how stay and doing other damage. Provisions were scanty and the crew had been put on half rations. Finally what little they had gave out and when sighted by the Hiram not a man of the Cavalier's crew had tasted food for several days. Very Narrow View. The Detroit News says President Taft's statesmanship as well as M& idoa3 of administration are ail summed up in the words "Republican party." Witness what he says to Pinchot in dismissing him."By your conduct you have destroyed your usefulness to those who hold the republican party as the government." Religious Intolerance. A dispatch from Paris says when the nuns acting as nurses learned that the building used as a Red Cross post and owned by Placide Alexandre Astler, radical socialist deputy, belonged to a socialist and freemason, they declined to remain, saying they feared excommunication. Thereupon the Countess d'Haussonville ordered that the place he evacunted. Kills Child and Self. Another child murder startled New York Monday. It occurred in a house r.t-1 Coal Vlffl^nll, n mnn shot and killed one child, then wounded another, and then killed himself. The police are following the theory that the man may have been the slayer of the two boys shot while coasting recently. Katfllly Humeri. At Augusta. Ga., Mrs. Henry Welselcer, of 288 Walker street, while standing in front of an open fireplace Wednesday, turned to speak to a visitor. As she did no her dress caught fire, and before the flames could be controlled she was fatally burned. THK NAUGHTY STOHX I'ut Up a Job ou Husband With Wife's Assistance. A fine domestic scandal has be^u unearthed at Los Angeles, Cal., by the refusal of Dr. Armstrong G. Pratt to sign birth certificates for the quadruplets supposed to have been born to Mr. and Mrs. W. \V. Wilson, of that place, and the health department of Los Angeles is mak ing an investigation into the "case. Dr. Pratt has declared that in hi? opinion none of the infants was born at the Wilson residence and that all had been born previous to the day they were supposed to have been He declares that Mrs. Wilson confessed to him that the babies had been taken to the house by a woman who had assisted her in perpetrating the h ax and that one of the infant? was six weeks old, another a week oil, and the other two were about 2 4 hours old when he first saw them. The woman, according to Dr. Pratt, not only admitted that the quadruplets were not genuine, but two sets of triplets, which arrived at the Wilson home in past years, and which brought a letter of recommendation and a signed photograph from President Roosevelt were made up of infant waifs picked up at various Institutions. According to the woman her husband wanted a large family, and that her only genuine child was an Infant born 25 years ago and which died whil<* a baby. After its death Mrs. Wilson said she longed for children of her own, and at last hit upon the idea of having the make-believe appear ances of the stork. TRAIN* KIMjS THKKR. Runs Over a Woman and Knocks Out Automobile. Pennsylvania train No. 9 westbound struck and killed Mrs. Roy Covert and fatally injured her hus band at a crossing near Loudonville. Pa., Tuesday. Proceeding further the train struck an automobile on the outskirts of Crestline, a few mil's away, and killed J. H. Slgler, aged 60, and Charles Echelberger, b ?*h of Hayesvllle. In the automobile wlih Echelberger and Siger was Ourths Doerrer of Mansfield. Doarrer's snouidor was crusned, Uis let l?rnKt-n and ne also iecelved internal lnjjcies. TWo young woman who was rhe first to meet death on the track was on her way, with Covert, he.- husband. to visit a ueighbor. Her death was instant. Covert was picked up many yards away aud does not know his wife's fate. The automobile party struck at Leas crossing came upon the tracks in their machine from the rear of an eastbound freight, directly in front of the express. In an instant their machine was lifted high in the air. When it fell Sigler aud Echelberger were dead. Their bodies were brought Jto Mansfield. Doerrer was taken to a Crestline hospital. TRAIL GETTING TOO WARM. So tho Hal linger Crowd Calls in a latwyer or Two. When the Rallinger-Pinchot investigation began it was given out that Rallinger would not be represented by counsel as he was satisfied that the committee would exonerate him as he had done no wrong, but ine trail has gotten so hot that acting on a suggestion of Senator Nelson, chairman of the Hallinger-Pinchot congressional investigation committee, that the "other side" should be re presented by an attorney who would cross-examine the witnesses, it was announced that at future hearings either II. H. Schwartz, chief of the field serrice or Fred Dennentt, commissioner of the land office, will be represented by counsel. Nelson's proposal was considered by Taft and his cabinet. The cabinet conferecne recommended that Secretary Ballinger should be represented by counsel. Broke I'p Machine. The colored chaffeur of Dr. Edward F. Parker, of Charleston, went for a joy ride without the per mission of Dr. Parker, taking with him two companions. The machine collided with a wagon and was smashed. The chaffeur and his two companions are mlsRlng. Flagman Kills F.ngineer. At Birmingham, Ala., J. R. Herring, an engineer on the Southern railway, wa? shot and instantly killed Wednesday night by George Dewgre, a tlagman. The shooting followed a quarrel between the two men over train orders. Wild Goose Cliase. Robt. E. Peary, reputed dlsoovorer of the north pole, made a proposition to the National Geographic Society, which, if accepted, will mean an American expedition to be on the way to discover the unconquered south pole next fall. The Social Whirl. One is often tempted to think that the dollar has obliterated faith, hope and charity in this country. But the generosity to the Paris sufferers shows we are not yet ready to cast aside the brotherhood of man as unnecessary baggage. TORRID WORDS la the House of Representatives Over the Ship Subsidy. REPORTED FAVORABLY Ity the Committee, After a Short but Acrimonious Hearting, in Which the Democrats Accuse the Republicans of Breaking Faith in Rushing the Bill. After a short but torrid open hearing, replete with personal disputes and acrimonious utterances, followed by an executive session of an houi, also filled with dissension, the house committee on merchant marine an 1 fisheries Thursday by a voto of 10 to 7 voted to report favorable to the house the administration bill qn ship subsidy as inttoduced by Reprsentative Humphrey. Ten Republicans voted in favor of the bill and five Democrats and two Republicans against it. The tw-o "bolters" were Wilson (Ills.) and Swasey (Me.). Representative Hobson, reported to be for the bill, and Maynard of Virginia, against it, both Democrats, were absent. The Democratic members of tho committee were greatly wrought up over what they characterized the "roailroading" of the measure without consideration or opportunity to amend it and they held a meeting In the room of Representative Champ Clark, the minority leader, to map out the future party course against the bill. It is expected that the measure will meet with the most stubborn opposition when It reaches the house and that one of the hardest fights of the session will then be precipitated. Representative Spiglit, ranking Democratic member of the committee, will file a minority report against the bill. Mr. Spight declared with vigor that Representative Humphrey and his Republican associates, in rushing the ship subsidy bill through tho committee, had broken faith and had taken unwarranted action. Mr. Splght said Chairman (Ireen of the committee had assured him on Wednesday that no vote would be taken at the meeting Thursday and that the minority and those opposed to ship subsidy would be given ample opportunity to be prepared for a final vote when taken. Mr. Green informed Mr. Spight after the meeting that he did not make any promises for Mr. Humphrey and could not prevent the latter bringing his bill to a vote. Mr. Humphrey declared that ample consideration had been given to the bill and if it were delayed longer that a measure to take Its place would be reported in the Senate. In reply to this the Democrats stated that the bill had been given no consideration whatever by anybody and that it had not even been read in committee. Thursday's hearing was first given on the subject, and the opposition to the bill pointed out that those heard today were in favor of ship subsidy but were opposed to parts of the Humphrey bill. The Democrats desired to offer several amendments and Representatives Sulzor, Clark of Florida and Kusterman had notified the committee that they desired hearings on their own ship subsidy bills. "The action of the Republicans is an outrage," declared Representative Alexander of the committee. "We were given no chance to consider the bill or to be heard upon it. In the face of direct promises they have 'railroaded' this bill through. It is an insult to the minority of the committee, to the house itself and to the country at large." The executive session of the committee was characterized by tense feeling. The Democrats endeavored to secure an adjournment and to amend the bill but were voted down. An amendment was offered striking out the subsidy sections of the bill but it whs lost. In answer to the Impassioned appeals of the Democrats Mr. Humphreys turned a deaf ear, answering that immediate action on the bill was imperative. When the final vote was taken it was shown that Representative Humphreys had figured correctly on a safo majority for his measure. The open hearing given to the Merchants' Association of >'ew York resulted in a row between M r. Humphreys and Attorney James C. Dougherty. rMireaontino ?>? ? -i-.i - ..v... r, im- onsuilillion, immediately following which Mr. Humphrey's moved that the committee go into executive session and consider the bill without hearing further evidence. Choked to Death on Meat. At least one death in Chicago can be charged up to the meat boycott Wednesday night after a vegetarian diet of four days C.off Poller, a s'gn painter, could resist no longer and hegan ravenously upon a huge beefstake and choked to death on almost the first mouthful. V i f r w Will Dye | Ladles' or Men's Garments Cleaned Cleaned a n C. C. Laundry a OOLUMB 1 Southern States nnr '.nery ~i TtV tts&mzr N^/ F? 1 vi rrj btng O O L_ U M 6 ENDVltED ALli FOK SCIENCE. Felld Mukcudi Agent Has Returned from the Philippines. Proken in health after many hardships and perilous adventures encountered in the island of Luzon, P. I., I)r. G. I. Sims of the Field Museum of Chicago, arrived at San Francisco Monday on the steamer Manchuria. He brought with him 3,000 speciment collected by himself and 1,000 collected by William Jones, his friend and associate in the Hold museum, who was killed by the Igorotes. Overtaken on October 17 by a typhoon in the Luzon mountains, deserted by his native attendante, Dr. Situs, his clothing having been destroyed by a camp fire, wandered for three days on the mountain tops naked and starving. Still the scientist clung to his specimens which are valued at $20,000. DON'T LIKE CIIKISTIANITY. Attitude of Some Converts is Hntlier Distasteful. The influenco of Christianity in Japan has been considerable, according to Baron Kikuchi, president of the Imperial University of Kioto, who will spend several weeks studying educational institutions in this country. "I do not think that Christianity has borne at all upon the national thought of the Japanese," sa.d tne baron in answer to a questioner "It played no part whatever in the political revolution which resulted in the establishment of the empire. None of the Janapese moral teachings come from the West "In fact the attitude of some of the Christian converts among my people has not been acceptable to the body of the nation because they oppose our revceuc? for the Emperor and our worship of the spirits of our ancestors." A Freak Hill. Representative J. H. Foster has Introduced a bill prohibiting washei women from wearing their patrons clothes. THE NEW FERTILIZER. A discovery of far-reaching Importance to the farmers of the South la the new fertilizer which has been perfected on one of the Islands near Charleston, S. C. It has long been known that lime Ib an essential food for plants of all kinds and that they tannot live when it has been exhaustad from the soil. It has also been known that old worn-out lands are extremely deficient In lime, and thnt sour, badly-drained lands have their lline is a for mthaf Is not usable by Growing crops. Farmers' Bulletin No. 124, U. H Dept. of Agriculture, says: "All the applications of lime Increased the yields The best yields were obtained with the lime in the form of carbonate, the finely ground oyster shells standing first * Lime with fertilizer was more profitable than depending upon fertilizer alone." This new fertilizer which presents lime in its most usable form Is mad>by a new process of burning oyster shells and using a burner that can supply potash. The result is n hlgt grade fertilizer costing the consnm er only $7.00 per ton. It reclalint worn-out lands In a marvelous man ner If applied broadcast two month: ahead of ammoniated goods. It'r sweeten I rte t?fTeotu nn m>nr lm-a., i ilmott magical. Charleston freight rates apply on this new fertilizer The fartory Is located on Young' Island, S. C , htit all letters should he addressed to F. T.. Commlns, Sale' Agent, Meggetts, S. C. Free dosertp tlve circulars will he sent ?o any om on request. "YD "V.? * IO! 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