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r _ FIREMEN LOSE LIFE Four Killed and Pvlany Others Hurt in Explosions. J . BIG BLAZE IN NEW YORK flames Destroy a Six-Story Factory Building and Series of Explosions t Entrap Firefignters Under Piles of Debris. ! Four firemen perished and about a score of firemen and citizens were injured in New York city Monday in a lire which was accompanied by a scries of explosions that demolished a .six-story factory building at Bedford and Downing streets. That the darn' age, which is estimated at from $300,>000 to $400,000, was not far greater, was declared by Chief Croker to be due to the explosions which shattered .the building and crushed the blaze .beneath tons of debris at the moment when the flames were completely beyond control and threatening to sweep tHe entire block. One fireman was taken out of the ? building alive, but died almost immediately. The bodies of his comrades were recovered after the fire was over, crushed under the wreckage. The dead are: Foreman John Walsh, Fireman George C. Christian, Firenian | John Walsh, Fireman Thomas L. Hal- j pin. Fireman J. Healy. All of these men were of engine company No. 14. * Fireman Jacob Cohen and L. F. Call, also cf engine company No. 14, were * hurnea and bruised and removed to the hospital. The other persons injured were for the most part employees in the factory, dwellers in the v adjacent tenements and persons passing in the streets, who were struck by , falling brick or glass. None of these were seriously hurt. Three hundred men and women , were in the factory building during the lunch hour, when a slight explosion ^occurred on one of the upper floors and almost instantly the whoie structure was enveloped in flames. Some | had time to reach the street by the stairs, but the greater number were compelled to take refuge on the Are escapes, where they remained hud* * died together and imploring assistance until the fire engines arrived. Before .the fire ladder could be run up policemen, firemen and volunteers formed a human pyramid against the front wall of .the factory, and in this way handed down to safety upward of sixty girls, who were clinging to the fire escapes on the second floor. Others jumped into the life saving nets or on piles of bedding hastily gathered and heaped A on the sidewalks. Within ten minutes all the occupants cf the building had been taken cut in safety and un- j hurt, save for miner injuries. tf A WEDDING CUT SHORT. i. j Father Mortally Wounds His Daughter and Kills Himself. Less than three hours before the time set for her wedding Monday, Pansy E. Townsend was shot And mortally wounded by her father, Joseph Townsend, in their home in Ev* eret, Mass. . Townsend then ended hi3 own life with a bullet. Miss Townsend was to have been married to Francis E. Perry of Fort Myers, Fla., at 6 o'clock Monday night. - GAPON HAS A SPOUSE. Russian Priest Finally Admits Being Married. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: Rev. Gapon, in a frank, open letter, replies to the attack cn his public and j private life. He explains that, Te- J fusing to follow the rule of the or- i thodox church prohibiting the remarriage of priests, which he declares j?rto Herev to secret immorality. Uinco v-uv v. ? he took to his bosom as his wife a girl jvhom he loved and that she is still living with him. GAVE BIRTH TO SEVEN CALVES. I Remarkable and Unprecedented Fe- ! cundity of a Durham Cow. Seven calves, perfectly formed, born to one Durham cow, was the unusual incident recorded a few days ago at the farm of Martin S. Hill, near Boston, Mass. They included four bulls, weighing thirty pounds each, and three heifers, 25 pounds each. All the * calves died at their birtth, or immediately after. Cattlemen and veterinaries say the occurrence is unprecedented in their experience. \ " BLAST TAKES TWO LIVES. Premature Explosion in Alabama Mine Does Deadly Work. A telephone message from Readers ? I mines, about 15 miles souuiwest, yi Birmingham, Ala., says two are dead and several fatally injured by the premature explosion of dynamite inside the works. In preparing the nights "hring," it is thought a spark ignited one of the shots. *4 if WILLIAMS MAKES PROTEST Against Statement of Watson in his Magazine Anent Question of Cutting South's Representation. A Washington dispatch says: Hon. John Sharp Williams cf Mississippi, democratic leader of the house of representatives, raises his voice in \igor ous protest against me reiuarKauivs contention of Tom Watson, that it makes no difference if the souths representation in congress is reduced. Being queried on the subject Mr. Williams said: "It is a curious question to ask a sane man. You might about as well ask me, if it was of no interest or value to a man to cut off one of his arms, with which he fights and with which he resists. "The answer seems so obvious that it is hard to answer at all. In addition to the ordinary legislation concerning rivers and harbors, rural free delivery and the hundred and one other things, in which each part of the union is interested in seeing that it gets justice and fair dealing, there are the great principles of a fundamental character, concerning which people differ, not only as individuals, but as sections. The less votes a section has, the less its power to do its own will, or to resist others when they - *1 - ?:n a won id ao rneir wm against n. "If the south had had less representation than it now has; the republicans would have had a twothirds majority?and therefore a constitution-changing: majority?in a half dozen congresses, where they have not had it. In addition to all this, there are sentimental reasons why the south wants to remain as strong as possible in the popular body of the national legislature. Her traditions and ideals are strong in proportion to her representation." No recent political development has so stirred the senators and representatives from the southern states as Watson's declaration in the March number of his magazine that it would make no difference to the south or to the democratic party if the representation of the southern states in the national house and in the'electoral college should be cut in accordance with the schedule outlined by Representative Keifer (republican) in the reduction bill he has introduced. Watson, in the March issue of his magazine, declares: "It makes no difference whatever to Georgia or to the people in her limits whether she has six representa: tives in congress (the number proposed by General Keifer) or eleven (the number to which the state is entitled)." The Keifer schedule provides for the following reductions in the representation of the southern states: From. To. Alabama 9 5 Arkansas 7 5 Florida 3 1 Georgia 1 6 Louisiana 7 3 Mississippi 8 3 North Carolina 10 6 South Carolina 7 3 Tennessee 10 8 Texas 16 12 Virginia ..10 8 Totals ......... .... 98 60 Total reduction 38 FACTORIES BAR UNION MEN. Radical Action Taken by Big Plants at High Point, N. C. The employees in thirty furniture and glass factories at High Point, N. C., over 2,000 in number, were notified Saturday afternoon, when paid off, that after April 2, no union men would be employed. The owners state that the action was taken as the result of intimidation of non-union employees by union hands. The employers also claim that High Point laborers are among the best paid in the south. Tljere are about 5,000 laborers in the town, 1,500 of whom belong to the union. High Point has 40 other factories of various kinds. FOUR MILLION MORTGAGE. Filed by Columbus, Ga., Company to Develop Water Powers. The Columbus, Ga., Power company Monday filed in Muscogee superior court a mortgage for $4,000,000, to secure an issue of 5 per cent gold bonds. They will not all be issued at once. Bonds aggregating $1,250,000 will be issued at once and the proceeds * * * ? ~ fKn will be used 111 carrying uui mc pany's plans for a gigantic development of water power along the Chattahoochee river north of Columbus. THEFT CHARGE CAUSED SUICIDE. College Girl Kills Ss!f Rather Than Face Accusation. The body of Miss Prudie Ford, a college student at Hartford, Kv., was found in the Rough river Saturday. She left a note saying she had been accused of stealing money and clothes from her boarding house and that rather than face a charge of which | she was innocent she would end her life. [STEALIS EFFECTED i |Campaign Gifts of Trust Funds Pure Larceny. IS ASSERTION OF JUDGE "And Insurance Officials Who Made Such Gifts Should Be in Prison." District Attorney Jerome Offers to Prosecute. A New York special says: If the grand jury which is investigating some of the conditions developed by the recent legislative investigation, reaches the conclusion that contributions of insurance company funds to political campaign committees were made with intent to deprive or defraud the true owner of his property, it must find that larceny was committed. This opinion was expressed Friday by Justice O'Sullivan, in the court of general sessions, in answer to a presentment on the subject submitted to him by the grand jury. Judge O"Sullivan added that it is not within the province of the court to say whether or not there was intent. That Is a question which the jurors must determine for themselves from all the i'imts and circumstances in the case. He charged the jury to make a thorough investigation into all the j facts and to place the responsibility for such crimes, if they find that I crimes were committed. ' Ycu arc net to go seeking for shelter as an excuse to avoid an unpleasant duly." he said. This opinion is, in effect, directly opposite to one upon the same subject which was given by District Attorney Jerome several days ago. Judge O'Sullivan agreed, however, with the contention of the district attorney I that intent must have been present I to constitute the crime of larceny, but declares that th,e question whether there was intent is a question which is yet to be determined. Mr. Jerome was in court, and when Judge O'Sullivan had delivered his opinion the district attorney asked the grand jury to remain, as he desired to address them upon the subject in question. He declared that Judge O'Sullivan jhad misconceived the subject which he had considered I and that he held to the opinion that it would be the duty of the grand jury to return indictments against George W. Perkins, former vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company, for larceny, and against George B. Cortelyou, chairman, and Cornelius N. Bliss, treasu* I rer of the republican national committee, as receivers of stolen goods. Mr. Jerome informed Judge O'SuIlivan that if he would sit as a magistrate he would submit affidavits to the acts committed by George W. Perkins and would ask for a warrant for his arrest. lie added .that in event of such a warrant being issued, a j writ of habeas corpus would follow i and that the case would be taken to the highest courts, where the district attorney would retain Alton B. Parker as special counsel. Judge CSullivan declined to grant the warrant, giving his reason that the question at issue should be passed upon by the grand jury. WANT NO INTERFERENCE. Local Officials Promise to Punish the Lynchers in Chattanooga. The department of justice was in telegraphic communication Friday with United States District Attorney Penland at Chattanooga, regarding the lynching of the negro, Ed Johnson. There have been conferences regarding messages which have reached the president and members of the supreme court, which are said to have expressed the hope that the government will leave matters for the local authorities to deal with, and at the same time conveyed assurance that the responsible parties in the lynching would be adequately punished. GIVES THE LIE TO WATSON. Representative Livingston Denies the Statement Made by Tom. Using the strongest language that he knows how to use, Colonel Livingston characterizes as infamously false the charge made by Tom Watson in the last issue of his magazine that he (Livingston) had leaned his official stamp or frank to the Southern railway, and in this way had been party A- -u ~ moll; Hnr?n<r tho IU lilt; (JUWUXIIS \JL i,nc iiiaiu uuiiug period when the mails are weighed by the government. OFFICIALS DENY SALE OF ROAD. President of Northern Makes" Statement to Public. The presence of President Spencer of the Southern railway and a number of other prominent Southern railway officials in New Orleans, Friday, revived the rumors of the purchase of the Northeastern railroad by the Southern, to gain an entrance into New Orleans, but President Spencer and President C. C. Harvey of the | ^Nortneastern Dom ueu) mc icpun^ deal. i . * . EXTRADITION IS RE-FUSED j Lum Woo, Atlanta Chink, Will Not j Be Taken to Louisiana on Murder Charge? Terrell Saves Hi;n. Governor Terrell of Georgia Friday declined to honor the requisition of the governor of Louisiana for Lum Woo, the Atlanta Chinaman, and he will not be taken to New Orleans on the charge of murder, and where he .fears the Highbinders will have revenge cn liim for informing on Chinamen who 'frere running a gambling house in Atlanta. When it was announced that Governor Terrell had declined to honor I tne requisition lor imm woo iuvi-k was quite a scene of rejoicing at the capitol among Lum's- white friends. Luiii Woo was so delighted that he rushed up to the governor, placed bis hands on his excellency's shoulders and exclaimed: "You gleatee man. You oughtee be plesident Lunited State." i John (Hook, the educated Chinaman who brought the witnesses from New Orleans to testify against Lura Woo. and who acted as interpreter, said that he was not concerned over the liberation of Lum Woo. Detective Stubbs returned to New Orleans Friday night with a copy of Governor Terrell's decision. He was accompanied by the two Chinese wit' nes'ses, Hook remaining in Atlanta for a coupie of days' stay. Governor Terrell's decision was as follows: I "State of Georgia, Executive De partmer.t, Atlanta, Ga., March 23,1906. ?Agreeing with the attorney general in the conclusion reached by him in the above and foregoing opinion relative to the law of. the case based upon the finding of fact by the governor, it is "Ordered, That the requisition by his excellency, the governor of Louisiana, for Lum Woo, a resident of this state, be and the same is hereby declined. "J. M. TERRELL, Governor." BROWN HEIRS MAKE UP. Family Suit Over Estate of Former George Governor Withdrawn. The suit in the Atlanta courts of four of the heirs against two, who were executors of the estate of exGoveroor Joseph E. Brown has been withdrawn and the disagreement has been amicably and ^satisfactorily adjusted by the six heirs deciding to form a corporation for the management of the estate. The superior court will be applied to for a charter for the company, with the six heirs as the sole incorporators and stockholders, with share and share alike. Each heir is to become a one-sixth stockholder and each is to have an equal voice in the affairs of the estate. The six heirs to the estate of Joseph E. Brown are: Julius L. Brown, Joseph M. Brown, Geoorge M. Brown, Elijah Brown, Saiie E. Brown and Mrs. Mary V. Coj^ nanv. unaer me win juuua ?j. auu Joseph M. Brown were made executors. A few months ago Elijah, George and Miss .Sallie Brown an l Mrs. Connally filed a bill praying for the removal of Julius and Joseph Brown as executors, and the charge was made that the executors had grossly mismanaged the estate and caused the property to depreciate and the income to diminish. It is also charged that Julius Brown was dissipated. To this bill there was filed an answer by Julius L. and Joseph M. Brown in which they denied the statements made by the complainant. The affair appeared to be highly sensational, and it looked as if there was to be a serious family* rupture which would have to be finally settled in the courts. It was expected that the investigation in the superior court would be decidedly interesting. The settlement, however, has stopped all further litigation, and it is said, the executors and the other heirs have resumed friendly relations, no ill feeling whatever remaining as an after effect of the suit. The estate of Joseph E. Brown is valued at between $450,000 and $500,000. The property in Atlanta, consisting of store houses and dwellings, is worth about $400,000, and there ars lands in Texas valued at $100,000. DEATH LIST TWENTY-THREE. Score of Bodies Are Recovered from Explosion-Wrecked Mine. The death list of the Century mine disaster in West Virginia has nowreached twenty-three, while twenty or more are injured. Officials of the company reported Friday night that twenty-two bodies have been recovered, and but one remains in the mine. ELEVEN BUILDINGS DESTROYED. 9 Costly Blaze in Fayetteville, N. C. Several People Hurt. A fire, which started in the Frank Thornton Dry Goods company's store at Fayetteville, N. C., Sunday night, in the center of the city, destroyed eleven buildings. The loss is estimated at $300,000. No one was killed, but several persons were hurt 9 * < " * [WORKERS AROUSED! ; ' i i Party cf Labor Slated to En-1 ier the roiitica; rieio. | i f I I ASSERTION UF GGMPhRS i i i ! j ; Unless Grievances Are Allayed by ( tne Powers That Be, They Yviii 1 | Be Taken Before tne American People for Adjudication. The executive council of the Ainer- 1 lean Federation of Labor spent some ! time in Washington Thursday dis- j ! cussing the replies of Piesiuent licose- ! j velt and speaker Cannon to the bill ! i of grievances presented to them and \ I to President Pro lem. Frye, or the i j senate Wednesday, regarding legisia- { uoii affecting labor interests. Mr. Gompers said that the conclu- ! ding paragraph in the memorial meant exactly what it said, lhat is if congress fails to remedy the grie\ances, the organization will appeal direct to the people. In other words, he said the Federa| tion of Labor will enter the field of ! politics and urge organized labor to elect men of tlieir own choosing and thus have a personal voice in the government There will be further discussion of the situation by the members of the council, among whcm remarks oI the president and Mr. Cannon have made a deep impression. Mr. Gompers insists the council is j in the right regarding the statements set forth ;n the bill of grievances, that it has abundant proof of the representations made and that the condition of affairs in the labor world is the best proof of its contentions. DEADLY MINE EXPLOSION. Ten Men Known to Be Dead, TwentyFive Hurt and Many Missing. Ten men are known to be dead, twenty-five injured and from twentyfive to seventy-five missing arid believed to be dead, as the result of an explosion of gas in the shaft of the Century Coal Company, at Century, a small mining town situated 50 miles south of Fairmont, We3t Virginia, on the Bellington and Buckhanon branch, of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Tfie explosion icok piace ai *:.5u Thursday afternoon, but owing to tho telephone wires being put out of commission by high winds details are lacking. The- Century mine, which is owned by Shaw Brothers of Baltimore, Md., is one of the largest independent operations in northern West Virginia. Over 250 men are employed daily in the shaft, and had the explosion been an hour earlier the less of life would have been appalling. As it was, there were but a few remaining in the shaft, the main body of the miners having quit work for the day. The giant fan, which furnishes air for the shaft, was partially wrecked by the force of the explosion, but was repaired immediately, and within an hour after the accident n relief gang was at work in the mine. SNOWSLIDE ENGULFS CAMP. Half a Dozen Men Killed in Mining District by Avalanche. A special from Granite, Col., say3: An enormous snowslide came down Wednesday evening in the Winfleld and Clear Creek mining district, killing, it is reported, at least half a dozen men. Among the dead is Harry Wlnebom, ! the pioneer prospector and mining I man of Chaffee county. A relief parj ty was organized and went to the scene of the disaster. To Consider Quarantine Bill. ? . -rrrllll ITloclc.. K0pr0SBIlI2lXlVC Wiillctuud yjL jnooidj slppi Introduced a resolution Thursday fixing March 27 as the*da* for I consideration by the house of the Mal| lory-Williams bill, to extend federal I quarantine. INSURANCE IS NOT COMMERCE. . houss Committee Decides Against the President's Recommendation. By "unanimous vote the house committee cn judiciary agreed Friday that insurance cannot be regarded as interstate commerce, and decided to make a report to the house to that effect. The president's [message i'orought. j the subject of national control of fnj surance be fore the house, and the refj erence of his message led to the comj mittee's action on the subject. I CC37LY CTEAMER BURNED. Vcss"! of Fsl! Fivar Lin a Destroyed, Entailing Million Collar Loss. ^ll ir flG v;?; 1/ a -- , strcyo.i the Fall Fiver Line steamer I Plymouth as she lay at her deck at Xov/port, the north pier of the freight shed and hoisting apparatus adjoining, and damaged the freight steamer City of Lowell. Much ether property was temporarily threatened. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. ' -i"':i: iiiil I' ~ i MOODY ON THE TRAIL. M "United States Attorney General Is Preparing to Move Against the Lynchers of Chattanooga Negro. A Washington special says: Utilizing every instrumentality at the command of the department of justice, At- *;?g| torney General Moody will push, forward with all possible vigor and dispatch an investigation into the Chattanooga lynching with a view to the punishneut of the lynchers. "For the first time we now Ivive a national lynching, one which the federal government must and will punish," the attorney general is quoted as saying. "It is the theory cf the flgl department of justice and of the supreme court justices that Ed John- ~ son, the negro lynched, was in the . charge cf the federal government, being under the protection of an order of the supreme court of the United || States. Acting upon that assumption, orders have been sent the federal officials of Tennessee to make a full and complete investigation, using the Vj force of the United States marshal, J and any ether force deemed neces* ; sary for this purpose." v In the opinion of the officials this ; movement is of great importance. All previous efforts to have the federal t authorities interested in lynching cases have proved futile because the puiiisiiuieui ui l^ucucid uad uccu xu v?BH the hands of the state courts and . state authorities. This case, in the ^ opinion of the department of justice, * itfSj clearly opens the way for the federal ^ government to take a hand, and the -C steps already taken show its purpose V%j|B A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says: v;g9 General J. R. Penland, United States >'rM district attorney. Thursday morning &j received an anonymous letter through the mails in which he was severely . criticised for saying that he thought ;.:|3 that the lynching of the negro Ed , '% Johnson at Chattanooga was not Jus- ,:|1 tifled and that the sheriff of Hamil ton county had been negligent. The letter was mailed in Knoxville,' and was well written. >1 The district attorney is warned IS against proceeding in the interest of the government, and is told that "if ' you know yourself, you will let the 1 J thing alone. That nigger -was guilty JgH aifd had made a confession that he . was, and what do you want to inter- u fere for? The state courts, like that in Knox county, that of the whole ufaBB state and of the United States, are "f >j| corrupt* and the people have got to take the affairs in their hands." pj FOR TWO NEW BATiLtsniro. ^ Bonaparte Wants Fighting Machine to Surpass Everything Afloat. ,- |1 'Secretary Bonaparte appeared be- ^ % fore the house committee on naval affairs Thursday in support of an. in- ' crease of the navy. He advocated an | appropriation this year for two 16,OOC-ton battleships, and in case congress does not see fit to provide for :.zM two such ships, he urged the construe- i tion of one 19,400-ton battleship. TO USE NAME COSTS MONEY. -JW Dealers Must Pay f:r Word "Ken- vJ | tucky" Branded on Liquor. ^ The lower house of the Kentucky I'M general assembly in extra session for consideration of the question of the j taxation of rectified spirits adopted a bill imposing a license tax of 1 1-2 "3 cents per gallon on all such liquors '|aH manufactured in the state or liquor shipped into the state for the purpose of branding "Kentucky" upon the bar- ^ rels and packages. 'V NEGROES DROWN IN RIVER. Tug Sinks, Causing Death of Four Deck Hands. . News of the sinking of the tug Mary B and the drowning of four negro deck hands was brought to New Orleans Thursday by Captain William f'||H Bisso. part owner of the vessel. The officers and crew all had narrow es capes and four cf the deck nanaa, .~&m whose names are unknown, were '*|g drowned. . RAN AMUCK AT FUNERAL. Jl Crazy Man Shcot3 Into a Crowd and is Himself Killed. Brooklyn, just acress the Patapsco river from Baltimore, Md., is horrified over the deeds and death of Walt?r Potee, an insane man 28 years old. who, entering his brother's house, just as friends and reltives were gathering to attend the funeral of the brother s little child, opened fire with a revolver, set fire to the house and himself died from gunsnui wuuuuo, ,:<a_ but whether self-inflicted or otherwise ^ is not known. PROFESSOR GOES NO PEN. College Man Sentenced at Tampa, Florida, for Counterfeiting. At Tampa, Fla., Friday, .Judge Boarman sentenced George H. Stephens, former professor in Lafayette college, at Easton, Pa., to a term of two years in the penitentiary for counterfeiting. The term will date from the incarceration of Stephens, eight months ago. Stephens wept when led away by the officers.