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A BLOWN TO ATOMS Eleven Men Lose Life in Dynamite Expicsicn. BIG PLANT DEMOLISHED .'Nothing Left of Victims for Identification?Five Others Were Seriously Injured?Cause of Explosion Unknown. 9 Eleven men were blown to pieces .and five others were seriously injured by the explosion of a dynamite plant Saturday near Pequea, Pa., along the Susquehanna river. Those killed were: Benjamin Gebhardt, Benjamin Riner, George Riner, Fred Rice, Col.lins Parker, Charles Shift, William Funk, John Boatman, all young men between the ages of 17 and 23; an unknown man; two unknown men, .residents of York county. All except the last two lived :n "the immediate vicinity of the dynamite riant: The victims were literally torn to pieces, not enough remaining of a single body to make identification possible. The cause of the explosion is not known. The two unknown residents of York county who were killed had just started to <lrive from the place with a load of dynamite. They had scarcely gained a distance of 50 feet, when the plant blew up with a detonation that was plainly heard 15 miles away. A great cloud of smoke covered the site of the factory, and, when it had cleared away, there was not a vestige of the wagon, horses or men who had left the fartiftrv rvnlv a moment ho t fore. The air was filled with debris and fragments of human bodies and piec?3 of fiesh and limbs were found hang ing to trees neariy 100 yards from tlit> scene of the disaster. People living near the factory rushed out of their homes, and began the work of rescue, but there were few persons who had not been blown to atoms. The remains of these were gathered up and placed in soap boxes, The injured, some of whom it is thought will die, were taken to their homes in the vicinity. The plant consisted of a dozen building. All were htown to pieces, except a remote structure in which several girls were JV. >?- J < at work. The dynamite plant was owned by G. R. McAbee & Co., of Pittsburg, and manufactured the explosive for use ' In the Pennsylvania construction work in that section. ? CHECK ON CORPORATIONS. Senate Bill Forbids Contributions to Camoaian Funds. ** The bill prohibiting corporations from making money contributions in connection with political 'campaigns was passed by the senate Saturday. - The bill reads as follows: "That it shall be unlawful for any national bank or any corporation, organized by authority of any laws of congress, to make a money contribution in connection with any election to any political office. It shall also be unlawful for any corporation whatever to make a money contribution in connection with an election at which presidential and vice presidential electors or a representative in congress is to be voted for or any elee tion by any state legislature of a United States senator. Every corporation which shall make any contribution in violation of the foregoing provisions shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $5,000 and every officer or diiector of any corporation who shall consent to any contribution by the corporation in violation of the foregoing provisions shall be subject J to a fine of not exceeding $1,000. Order Adds More Men to Army. An order just issued by the secreAf Tirol* Trill Q H rJ QCn TTlOn frt ! army. It provides for the organzatlon r of a .machine gun detachment for each regiment of infantry and cav* airy. WOULD-BE RAP,1ST SHOT. Young Lady Telephone Operator Fills Negro With Lead. With rare presence of mind, Miss Pearl Jones, night telephone operator ,at Selma, N. C., Saturday night, shot and fatally wounded Bud Anderson, who, by his own confession, premeditated rape upon her. Miss Jones r heard noises in the rear of her office, and went to investigate. The negro attacked her, and she shot five times, several bullets taking enect. *i ne negro, wno win cue, maae a confession, implicating a companion. The latter has been jailed. PROVED A BOOMERANG. f Sunday Beer Costs Reverend More Than He Expected. At Appleton, Wis., Saturday, Rev. A. H. Zechel, a representative of the Wisconsin Anti-<Salocn League, was found guilty of violating the Sunday , labor law by purchasing beer on the Sabbath to secure evidence that a saloon keeper had violated the Sunday closing law. The jury was out half an hour. -A GORMAN'S SUCCESSOR. | Ex-Governor Whyte Appointed by Governor Warfield to Fill Unexpired. Term in United States Senate. A Baltimore dispatch says: Ex! Governor William Pinkney Whyte has been appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late United States Senator Arthur P. Gorman, whose death left a vacancy in the federal congress. The appointment of ex-Gover Warfield has caused much comment on account of the impression which is general that Whyte was the bitterest enemy of Senator Gorman. Ex-Goveraor and ex-Senator Whyte will now "enter* the senate for the third time, and for the second time by appointment to fill an unexpired term, he-having been named by Governor Swann to fill out the term of the late Reverdy Johnson upon the appointment of the latter as United States minister to England in 1868. William Pinckney Whyte was born in Baltimore August 9, 1824. He began the study of law with a prominent law firm, later entering Harvard law school, and he was admitted to the bar of Baltimore in 1846. In 1847 he was elected to the house of delegates of the Maryland legislature, this being his first public office. He refused renomination for the legislature !n 1849, was defeated for congress in 1S51, was elected comptroller of file treasury of the state of Maryland in 1S53, was again defeated for congress in 1S57, was a member of the democratic national convention in 1868 and was in that year appointed by Governor Swann United States sena^ x - clf /M.+ Via farm r\f tVl o lotd IOI WJ iill UUV IUC CW.ua v/jt vuv >??? Reverdy "Johnson, appointed minister to England. In 1S71 he was elected governor of Maryland and in 1S74 l<ed States senator. He declined re-election as senator in 1880 and in the following year was elected mayor Baltimore. In 18S3 he became attorney general of Maryland and in 18S9 was appointed by President Harrison a delegate to the congress of American nations, which he declined. In 1898 he was made chairman of the commission that prepared Ihe new charter of the city of Baltimore, and in 1800 h'e became citt solicitor, that being his most recent office. It. is related that his first meeting with the late Senator Gorman, whom he Is to succeed, occurred in 1S71, when the late senator called at his office to tender Mr. Whyte his support in the contest for the governorsnlp of the state then in progress. ELLERBE NOT TO BE BLUFFED. Will Stand Pat on Resolution Anent Cotton Acreage Report. Representative Ellerbe gives out the information that he proposes to stand pat on the resolution introduced by him charging the manipulation of cotton acreage. An attempt had been made to discredit him by the statement that the Idea was inspired by Harvie Jordan in an eHort to bulldoze the department of agriculture. "As a matter of fact," continued Mr. Ellerbe, "Mr. Jordan was not consulted one way or the other before I the introduction of my resolution." HOWELL AND SMITH MEET. First Joint Debate Between Georgia Gubernatorial Candidates. Before an audience of more than I 6,000 people, a mass of enthusiastic j humanity cheering and applauding to the echo, and taxing the utmost capacity of the Peachtree Auditorium, Clark Howell and Hoke 'Smith met in Atlanta Friday night upon the same stage, in joint debate upon the issues involved in the pending campaign foi* | governor. SOLDIERS WERE TOO LATE. Florida Mob Got to Jail First and Negro Was Lynched. Jim Davis, alias "Dago," the negro who murdered Mr. Russell and his negro servant at Felicia. Fla., Tuesday, was lynched at Inverness Thursday - ? ?? - i ? ? ? men DlaDl Dy 3 large jja.i l.y wi mocnv-u uvu. The soldiers sent from Brooksville to protect him arrived too late. GOREMYKIN WEAK LEADER. Wltte's Successor May Be Fired by Czar for Incompetency. According to reliable reports from Peterhof, Emperor Nicholas has about decided to retire Premier G-oremvkin. From the first it was apparent to outsiders that ML Goremykin did not possess the force, capacity or skill necessary to steer the ship of state in the present crisis, and the emperor, who is extremely dissatisfied with the premier's sorry Tailure to make any headway toward a rapproachment with the lower house of parliament, is now ready to sacrifice him. JONES DECLARES FOR BRYAN. Arkansas Ex-Senator Favors Renoml. nation of Nebraskan. Former 'Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas, two times chairman of the democratic national committee, and one of the closest friends of William J. Bryan, called cn President Roosevelt Saturday. Afterward he declared for Bryan's nomination by the democracy for the presidency. MINERS SHOT DOWN Constabulary and Strikers Engage in Gory Conflict. TWO DEAD; MANY HURT Tragedy Occurred in New Mining Town of Ernest, Pa.? Detail of of Constabulary Was Guard* ing Company's Property. The new mining town of Ernest, Pa., on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad, was the scene Friday of a conflict between a detail of state constabulary and striking coal miners in which two strikers were hJUICU clilU Clgut ULUC19 wuuuucu, three of them fatally. A body of strikers, headed by a brass band, marched from the Anita mines in Jefferson county to receive one of the mine officials expected from Punxsutawney. On the way to the station the marchers encountered a detail of twelve members of the state constabulary. As they passed a member of the band fired his revolver at the troops. No one was struck, but the constabulary immediately retaliated with a volley from their carbines. When the smoke cleared away ten strikers were lying on the ground and the others had fled precipitately down the hill. ; After the excitement had subsided the wounded miners were removed to Adrian hospital. As the result of the shooting a mass meeting arranged for Friday was canceled and Sheriff Wettling has ordered the arrest of the leaders of the parade. The mines at Ernest are owned by the Buffalo and Rochester Coal company. The strike began April 18. Three weeks ago the plant was startAll TTM+V? TlATl.TITllfin TTI OT> t> Tt f? O Hptflll 4>l the state constabulary has since been guarding the coal company's property. PACKERS ARE CLEANING UP. Tragic Haste Madt? by Purveyors of Meat to Use Whitewash Brush. In response to a request from the house committee on agriculture, President Roosevelt Friday forwarded to Representative Wadsworth, chairman of that committee, the report made to him by a committee of the department of agriculture regarding conditions in the Chicago meat packing houses. Accompanying the report was a letter from the president in which he joints out that there is no conflict in the substance between the NeillReynolds report and that of the agricultural department experts. It is said in the latest report that the packing house proprietors are manifesting almost "a humorous haste to clean up, repave and attempt to Jlan for future changes." New toilet rooms are being provided, with new dressing rooms and clean towels. The report says this haste toward reform "would be amusing n rt was not so near tragic." The president says his investiga/ Hons have not been completed, dui "enough has developed, in my judg. ment, to call for immediate, thoroughgoing and radical enlargement of the powers of the government in inspecting all meats which enter into interstate and foreign commerce." GRAFTER AIKEN IS FIRED. : "S* - '.J K ' Railroad Clerk Dismissed by Orders of President Cassatt.' Joseph A. Aiken, chief clerk of Monongahela division, has been dismissed by direction of President Ca3-' satt. In his testimony before the interstate commission, sitting at Philadelphia, Aiken said that while his salary had averaged between $30 and $120, he owned nearly $75,000 worth of coal stock. He admitted having received checks from coal companies and also gifts from company stores. AFTER SCALP OF JEROME. Removal of New York District Attornew Demanded of Gov. Hlggins. Removal of William Travers Jefmm the nfflcp nf district attor 1V1UC A* v*** v?V- ? ? ? V ? ney of New York county is demanded of Governor Higgins in a complaint which has been filed at the executive chamber in Albany by William N. Amory of New York city. Frank E. Perley, secretary to the governor, admitted later that such a complaint had been filed, but he would say nothing as to the nature of the charges made against Jerome. VILAS ENDORSES BRYAN. Former Member of Cleveland's Cabinet is for Nebraskan. The Milwaukee Journal prints as interview with former United States Senator William Vilas, who was also a member of President Cleveland's cabinet during his first administration, endorsing William J. Bryan for the nomination for president at the next national convention. '** vt ' . ; -" /> . ** ' 'i"7'-. " YELLOW FEVER CASES Taken Off Steamer from Colon Bound for Gulfport, Miss.?Now Quarantined on Ship island. The fact that three cases of yellow fever have been under quarantine for the past ten days at Ship Island, a government quarantine station in the gulf of Mexico, about midway between the mouth of the Mississippi river and MobHe, Ala., was made public in New Orleans Monday by Dr. C. H. Irion, president of the Louisiana state board of health. The announcement of the yeltow fe .ix M - ver cases was tne reaun ul a mauuesion between Dr. Irion and Health Officer Hunter of Mississippi over the fact that they had not been notified immediately of the fever's presence. The cases came from Colon, and were taken off the steamer Whitehall,which was bound for Gulfport, Miss. Ship Island is a short distance south of the Mississippi coast, and in charge of United States marine hospital officers, who immediately notified Surgeon General Wjyman of the United States public service and marine hospital service. Or. Irion commented upon the circumstances under whicft this report was made.' He aunounced also that quarantine orders have been issued against Ceiba, Honduras, at which port it is reported that refugees are gathering to escape yellow fever, which is said to be breaking out at several points in Honduras. He also said that he had received reports that there is yellowfever in Havana. BANKERS OF TWO STATES Meet in Georgia Capital for a Joint Convention. The ball room of the New Kimball in Atlanta was on Monday the home of one of the most notable conventions ever held in the Georgia capital, and among the men who attended the joint session of the Georgia Bankers' Association and the Florida Bank a urera many of the ers Aiisuuauvu, .. , most prominent and influential citizens of the entire south. The address of United States Treasurer Charles H. Treat, was the feature of the joint convention. Tumultuous applause greeted the following statement by President Joseph T. Orme of the Georgia Bankers* Association, in his address: "Among the many things we have to be thankful for in this great commonwealth, is the wise and economical maimer m which our state government has been administered. For over a'quarter of a century, while stories of graft &Ed coruption have. been coming to us from almost every part of the country, our ship of state has sailed on serenely in placid waters, and not th3 faintest breath of scandal has tainted the fair name of a single one of our statehouse officials, or of a member of our judiciary. The people of our state are enjoying unbounded prosperity, and our financial skies were never brighter." / GIRL'S SLAYER ELECTROCUTED. President Was Asked to Save Tucker, But Declined. Charles 'L. Tucker was electrocuted in Bostqn, Mass., at 12:12 Tuesday morning for the murder of Mabel " O 1 AAi .rage, xuarcu o, jlj?v<?. One of the incidents of the da)' was a telegram received at the state i house by Governor Guild from President Roosevelt in relation to the case. It was as follows: "Governor Curtis Guild, Boston, Mlass: Have been requested on behalf cf certain parties in Boston to interfere With the execution of Tucker, it being alleged that it is my duty so to do inasmuch as I have the power uDder the federal laws. "No showing has been made to me that I have the power, but without regard to this I desire to state to you that in my judgment your decision not to interfere with the carrying out of the sentence of Tucker seems to me entirely sound, and commands my hearty sympathy. It seems particularly a case in which there should be no interference with the carrying out of the sentence. ~llH!KODOKE ROOSEVELT." "GAS" ADDiCKS RELEGATED.1 j ? I Cmk4 trs * C a?v4 I lavflvo kviivj f i^iik wi t avniik ov?i from Delaware in U. S. Senate. At Dover, Del., Monday night, CoL Henry A. Dupont of Wilmington, defeated Edward A'ddicks in the contest for the vacant seat from Delaware in the United States senate. Mr. Dupont was selected to fill the vacancy by a caucus of the republican members of the legislature. This ac tion ends a contest which has been continued for eleven years, during which time Addicks was the candidate of the union republicans for United States senator. ONLY TALK IN THE DOUMA. Agrarian Debate Taking Up Time of Russian Parliament. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: The debate on the agrarian question in the lower . house of parliament promises to continue throughout th9 week, and when it is finished the solution of the question will hardly be much further advanced than when the debate began. A BOOM FOR BRYANT Launched by Indiana Democrats in State Convention, i WATTERSON HEARD FROM ' < Veteran Editor of Courier-Journal j Says Nebraskan Will Be Nominat- i ed by States Before Convert* 1 tion Meets. Democrats of Indiana, in convention, at Indianapolis, Thursday, adopted a ; platform strongly indorsing W. J. Bry- 1 an for the presidency, and selected a state ticket for all offices except gov- ' ernor and reporter of the supreme court Benjamin F. Shively of South Bend, former congressman from the thirteenth Indiana district, was permanent chairman. Referring to W. J. Bryan he said: "That which is today eulogized and approved as broad statesmanship and patriotism in Theodore Roosevelt was a few years ago denounced as reactionary, revolutionary and unpatriotic in William Jennings Bryan- The aftersight of the one is almost equal to the foresight of the other." The resolutions committee report was read by Samuel I. Ralston, and among other things it said: "The democracy of Indiana, in convention assembled, sends greetings across the sea to that wise and conservative statesman, unaltering patriot and superb leader, William Jennings Bryan, and pledges its vote in convention and the electoral vote of Indiana to him for president in 1908. 'Tor nearly ten years the republican party has been in absolute con trol in all departments in the national government, with power to change unjust conditions and to rectify evils. Yet, during that time colossal combinations of capital have dominated the people and have stifled competition and unfairly limited the opportunity of the individual citizen. Wealth thereby illegally obtained has been unsparingly used to control legislation and corrupt elections. No honest effort has been made or is being made by republican legislation to cure or eradicate these evils. We denounce the hypocrisy of the republican party which, while pretending to legislate against these conditions, deals only with the symptoms and not with the disease. The unfair, tyrannical features of the so-called 'protective tariff' have made these things possible, and no permanent relief can bo secured until its obnoxious features are removed. We demand that this be done by a tariff for revenue only." The following were nominated: Secretary of state, James F. Cox, Columbus; auditor, Marian Baiely, Lizton; fro9#nK>r Tnhn Tsenharsner. North manchester; attorney general, Walter J. Lotz, Muncie. Editor Watterson in Line. In Friday's Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), under the caption "Hurrah for Bryan," Henry Watterson oomes out flatfootedly for the Nebraska statesman as the democratic nominee for president, and predicts hisnomination by states before the meeting of the convention. He says that Cleveland and all sound-money demo crats will support him. SENATOR GORMAN'S FUNERAL. In Accordance with His Wishes the Services Were Simple. With simplicity and complete absence of ostentation, the funeral services of the late Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland took place in Washington Thursday from his late residence. Before the services began many prominent men and nearly all of Senator Gorman's closest political asso elates in Maryland, as well as colleagues from the senate and house, In addition to members of congressional committees, .were afforded an opportunity to view the body. The body was placed in a vault in Oak Hill cemetery, temporarily. COBURN DECLINES HONOR. Arkansas Governor Must Try Again for a Successor to Burton. Foster Coburn, who was appointed a few days ago by Governor E. W. Hcch to be United States senator, succeeding Joseph R. Burton, has decided not to accept the appointment Governor Hoch immediately offered the vacancy to Judge A. W. Benson of Ottawa, Franklin county. Judge Benson is a close friend of Governor Hoch, both politically and personally. STORM CAUSES DROWNINGS. Nine People Lose Life While Cros3Ing Niagara River. During the height of a heavy storm which swept over Detroit, Mich, early Friday. Nine persons were drowned on their way across the river to a resort in Canada. Trees are down all over the city, and much damage ha3 been ca.ised to wires and telephones. r ' " ' " -7.1 . M WHITE HOUSE EXPENSES | Throwrt Into Limelight by Represeiv tative Brundige? Extravagance on Part of President Alleged. The house Thursday listened to a jitter arraignment of the president at the hands of Mr. Brundige of Arkansas, a member of the appropriations committee. Taking the items for the refurnishing of the white hcuse, the care of the % grounds and the traveling expenses . ^ Df the president as his text, Mr. Bruadige compared the expenses of the last . ]Q Cleveland, the McKinley and the Roosevelt administrations. Under the Cleveland administration, i he said there was expended for the | executive department, including the salary of the president, $137,200. Under the McKinley administration there ^ was expended $144,500, while the bill '1 under consideration carries for the executive department, including the ^ care of the white house, green houses, ?? etc., $253,340. X? in addition to this, Mr. Brundige ^ said that there were forty policemen Jgj detailed to the care of the white _: 9J house and the grounds, and this was J| an additional $40,000 added, bringing :ll the total to nearly $300,000, which he o|| denominated as extravagance. He said he did not know whether forty po? licemen were too few or too many, yaa hut he thought a section of the army ought to he detailed for the proteo tion the president and care of the grounds, and these policemen permitted to go into the sparsely settled sections of Washington, where thugs and marauders were preying upon Jsl defenseless women and children. He criticized the item appropriating JS $25,000 for the traveling expenses of ^ the president and incident thereto, vJ3 and said it was probably made for the purpose of providing for a repe- ;;JS tition of the "muck rake" speech. "No wonder, in view of the pres- :|j8 ent appropriations and present penditures, no wonder the president should hold up to public ridicule magazines and newspapers of this country and public men and private citi- :M zens who dare to criticise. ' "I entertained the hope and belief that the time will never come .in the history of politics of this gov- ^9 eminent when any man occupying ft 'A position of public trust and public office will rise so high and become so ' |a great that the humblest citizen and the humblest newspaper or the largv v|| est may not justly and properly crlfrfrjjj icize his official conduct and ae- }* tions." :* He spoke o! the president's stable and enlarged on the number of the /J| horses contained therein and finally ,^ spoke of the arrest of Mrs. Minor 'W Morris and the appointment of the^ljB secretary to the president, Mr. Barnes, as postmaster of Washington, as show- % -} ing the high-handed way the presi- dent conducts his office. During the :1| speech Mr. Brundige was frequently ^ " applauded by the democrats, the re- .">? publican side of the chamber beingV fjja almost deserted. In referring to the policemen detailed for duty in and about the white JsB house grounds, Mr. Brundige satirf- |||; cally said he recalled the fact that recently the policemen made one very ^ important "brave and gallant arrest" . '':i Continuing along these lines, he said: "By the aid of a burly negro, jaj those gentlemen succeeded in ejecting vja| from the white house an inoffensive, f quiet, peaceable American woman. ^ They carried her out It Is true, with . 3 force; they carried her out in a man- ."'3 ner that has ever been and ever will : remain an insult to the American & people, to the American manhood and- 'Jag to the American womanhood." (Ap- ,Jjl plause on the democratic side.) PREACHER ALLEGED DESERTER. Baptist Sky Pilot Arrested for Taking French Leave of Navy. J||i 'Matthew Fortner, aged 28 years, a duly ordained Baptist minister and ; student at Furman University, was ;.J| arrested in Greenville, S. C, for deserting from the navy. He is mar- || ried and. has a child. Fortner enlisted in the navy four years ago, and is Jg said to have deserted from the steamship Lancaster in Hampton Roads three months afterwards. He has ;|| been preaching and teaching ever. ^ since. Jaj BRYAN TALK AT WASHINGTON. 3| Apinion Among Democrats That Na? -??! braskan Will Again Be Named. The action of the Indiana democrat* ic convention endorsing William X -j| Bryan for the presidency, following as this does immediately on the heels ^ of similar action by the democrats in Missouri and Arkansas, has brought '*?j a great revival of Bryan talk among democrats in Washington. It is the almost unanimous belief ::-|s among the democratic leaders at the J capital that conditions are pointing to another nomination Sor the Nebras* ^ kan. JETT MAKES CONFESSION. *- 1 - "T'-ll- .< A.UHIH?. .--M KeruucKy rcuaist icus ui n?Mum?tions in Breathitt County. Curtis Jett, now In the Cynthiana, Ky., jail awaiting trial on the charge ' of killing James Cockrell, in Jackson. > three years ago, has made a full con- ^3 fession, telling, of the assassination | of Dr. B. N. Oox, James Oockrell and James B. Marcum.