Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 January 1904 — Page 2

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Weekly Courier.

NEWS IX HI! I F.F.

Cor.i oiled from Various Source.

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IMUASA.

FIFTY EIGHTH CONGRESS.

William A. Kii.il' a broker filed a

pvtition in voluntary bankruptcy in

Chi'HR.. on the S2d

echeduled at t2 end asseu of t SO.

d'trst geestoa Senat-The BOSl eCReS imjiilry retfluHon owl the P ...:... i.ttl.ll il tion Jl-

.11, I,.,!, liii. i vlittil lht attention of the 'lud'. on the Vim IliiUUiriPS , ,v,,, ... i, .1 ... ,1... inm w i

I'll. , " IM i i ... t , . .11. ' .....-. -. . . (lun up i ihm Inquiry, M mn li. ii.' and Gorman being Ihe spcakera Mr

II. .1 m.otc a plea for tin- reference or an

Capt. Daniel C. Parr e.nc of the oldest aiiti wealthiest ii; cns of Louisville. Kr , wa found dad in led. on the 19th He at one tunc operated a line of bCatl on the Ohio and Missise.ppi i : er Representative Spaulding. of North Dakota. introduced a bill in congress, on the Hat, appropriatins 1100 000 each

for monuments to William McKinley and to Alexander Hamilton, in the Dis

trict of Columbia.

i to ih Mr lort he would

the qttcM-

inltte- of the wh otnee scandal n

W 1 .,- !i

lulu si..: nun! ! ; Cowherd, of Mia Loul wan irr i (V the ml. to lei i ii

19th. announced that there was nothing A:, ; p: nTth to bar ivvstmas-ors or other federal of- ! ..! ,''-:-.' fice-holders from serving as delegates a minute, on the

t : i i ' ;. to ri-irr i.

postal llletlajt.'ti resell i. ni no 1 1 ce oti pout .'ii.. . -man rp-ted in assurance te atlsAcJ with that ilifpo I loa. Thf dtaeuaeton of tne uie.toii wa confined to ii'

f Mr Teller' argument ttit the course of the fnited tl..l. In lhe reeetit revolt

of Panama h oontrar) to International law and sound moral. The senate, at 4 J7 p Hi. Went Into executive session, and at 5.") p. m adjourned Mou The house devoted a hri. J session to l)iirict of I'oluinlil.t business V hile in cm-

n one bill. ia cud. Mr Uartductng a litter from ii aaarteved at car BrUlow report Mr. I nolnted "in t -. it

in canal ,,f Honor

II I II'.. U 'II

Prof Kotiert St latt Page supertnten 1 nt of the froeporl 1 1 11 I publig ekoolti and prominent in fffofflt'lrnfil crelo.-, in the west, died at Fr; port, on the HM, fn in the effects of a paralytic stroke i ne Southern (Jruin and Stock Co., of Io Angeles, Cal. went into voluntary li pitdation. oti the 22d, as a re suit of the en ,t.,- act. on of certain stocks in New oik. Preaidettl Harper of Chieaso tnU ersity and tlari Molchors, the art;-t wet,, dcjporttetf Jt Paria, Freute, 'i tin ltd. with the cross of the l. n

H008IEEHAPPENTNG8 1

Post m aater-Oeperal Pa y i

houM adjourned

to pollUcaJ conen';ons. whether lional, state or txiunty.

na-

The estate of Charles Hall, forwhirb more than a doion wi.ions entered elaimF.wasilistributodlty order of court on the 1Mb, at Los Angeles. Cal. The entire csr.ve. amounting to JMS 10 went to heirs tn BatU The will of former Gov. Asa 8 Bu-hneli was filed at Springfield, O., on the 2"th. for probate 1' provided lor th" distribution of practically all of bis estate, valued at $7.""0.000, among his wife and children. n .I- ! ' -I .. An ur-"-..! deficiency appropriation Of ItOOOOO was requested of oni-Tes,

on the 1. th. by Postmaster-General Paviie. to enable the estaMishraont of

rural free deliver?' routes after March 1, when funds wrould be exhausted. John Alexander Dowi. with his party from the east, sailed from San Krane ist o. for Australia, on thr steamer Sonoma, on the Tlst. While in San Francisco Howie dplivered two addresses, but was coldly received on both occasion.

office th various resolution an inveatiKatlon Of th P01 lfl meet. After the passatf of . bills, thts senate return 1 to

t in wary.

th in f the i post una to

Hot: AiiKUst is Anderson of Strut ford, la. one of the oldest and most highly respected etttKN in central Iowa. died, on the Sfd. aged CG years it trat reported, on the J2d. that four people or drowned in the Wi bash river, at Moroni. Ind . by Hh sweeping away of a BOuaeboat ir iMiiund Andrews, one of lh oldoai and most widely known p&)td cians in the treat, died, on the ::d at Chicago. LATE NEWS ITEMS.

foil, the l at rupt

The third atmi -rary of th" dath of Queen ctoria was observed, on the 22d. In lindon There was the usual memorial service at Froj-'more, which was attended by the king and Queen Alexandria, and other members of the royal family

.' f.. i ; m. -t two hour in support of lours "' I. administration, and was wed t' M'' 1'ai' rson, who ernuixed preldnt'a course In Panama. Mr. . r-. ii wi subjected m many later on, and had not concluded when the I adiourned at 5 p. n House

The bouss considered t)v Hepburn pur food bill, but did not complete it. l h. I,rlneii,.,l si., eh- of tile dav Wi re made

by M.-r II. nburn .oi l Mann, in favor

' of the bill, and Adam n and .uk. In Op

position, n motion or .Mr tn-puum. in t; took a recess t j o'clock until 11:36 a m . "ti th- 2"th. Sonate-Mr Patterson, on th.' MHh, completed, and Mr Piatt, of Connecticut, began a speech on the Panama canal qui Eton. Mr Patterson declared that the president was larKeiy responsible for the revolt In Panama, and announc.d his decidM pn ference for th.- Nlcaracu in routi- Mr Piatt took this pronounce-

' m.-nt for Xleara;ua as the t.-xt for hi

j remarks, sajrlng it raplalned the myst ry of the otherwise unexpl.dtia'.do opposition j cm the pan of th- democratic senators I of the Panama treaty . ..House--The houe passed the Hepburn pure food hill j on a nlnt' V"te, t '- ll n-:.l. , being unable to teure a roll call n thbill The UK fixes the Standards tf too Is

I and Invs us t their purlt. strength .out character, and defines what shall be con

sidered adulteration of foods or druns. It also nrohibit lnterst.it.- commerce, importation and exportation In or of auch j mlsbranded or adulterated articles. Senate Senator Piatt, of I 'nnttSSllf ill I eoi.c.utied his speech on Panama, on ÜM 21sU He defended the course of the pn - 1 tdent throuKhout the Panama revolt, and I eulogised the executive personally a being brave and fearless. During th- morn- ! Ing. Mr. M T-an spoke In explanatn n of hi bill for th - annexation oi Panama to I the fnltt-d Statts, basing his argument I on th groutui that the i ling canal

treaty oaotemplated that r- su'.t H"U Thn army appropriation hill was uiuh-r consideration in cosamittee of th- wi. . for five hours. mtst of Which was votad to a general discussion of the t-lff question. Mis Alle- Roosevelt occupied

a seat In th

The officials of Wells. Farm Co. In San Francisco, on tho Jd. reiterated their previous "statement that

the express safe stolen from the Sun- moments- during the dl um m of the ,. ' . , . 'army bill. Mr Williams of Mississippi.

r i.iuneti .rain nar ran unis vjoispxi. Cal . on the .'1st. contained but a small mount of treasure.

About fifty leading citizens of tho state of New Hampshire, at a meeting at Concord, on the loth, azr to try to raise not less than lift, 300 by popular subscription, in order that the state miRtit be represent- 1 at the coming exposition at St. ijuis.

Alexander Roland Milne. C. M G. collector of customs for many years at Victoria. B GL, died there, on the 16th lie was a recognized authority on mat

ters pertaining to sealing, and

decorated w ith tho order of St Mkhael

and St. Ge..r-:e by the l.Ve y i. V; toria

dtsaussed for an h "iir th

! Icy of the republican par j at length on his pending ' the duty on coal. He i ,"l I timony before th-- bouse i a i vestigatl n of the last CO . coal Question to sh.iw thi j cents less a ton during the Was repealed Senate -Th.- senate, on tt I the resolution f Inquiry i fair In Panama Intr lue iriM by Mr. Uorm.in, and

speech on the Panama 'iustlon by

, D'dltver. ami nmthar on the sai.j- ; recess appointments. The senate ti Rtij..urn until lbs 2Vth Houst house passed SO rn-nslon bills, and I fwoolu'i ns i illtng on secrets y of w ar ;

i the t. ee on inon thiI wi-.s tC the tariff

ntd to a

attorney-general for infi immlH r of horsen and

tained at gov ,-rnm. rit field's of th -se resiwctl

way I A bid jwrmitting th-

rre.- irom tii" s. i.oii srticles donated to r 1 1 educational or literary ftaaeed. At 3:30 p. m. the

Georce Hill, defaulting county collector of St. Joseph, Mo., who left there nine years ago with a d. f'; it of over HO, n Ml accounts, on the 22d, sent word to his bondsmen that ne was now in Monterey. Mex . ar,d would sism r turn to reimburse? them for .

PERSONAL ANO

to the main-

ious adjourned GENERAL.

The contract for the Ulimtloti ot the extension of the federal building at Kansas City. Mo. was let. on the 19th, to John C Robinson, of Chicago, at 1311.911, work to be lornpleted by December 1. lfOS, the granite to match that m the present building in color, quality and texture.

A disastrous tornado swept ovei Moundvllk'. Ala., a towr of M0 inhab

itants, IS miles smith of Tuscalssa.

The main dining room, dormitory and laundry of the state normal college, at Greenshoro, N C . w i re destroyed by fire, on the 21st The MO young women students were forced to flee In their nii;ht clothes, some being dragged from bed by their companions. lOSS $1'H. The Spindle Top oil field", at beaumont, Tex . caught fire, on the 2!st. and the flames burned fiercely for a long time, doing a tremendous amount if damage. The loss was estimated nt 11.000.000. Over forty derricks were burned, also many wells. Three Slav coal miners in the Rous nine, ten miles from Walsenhurg. Col., were killed, and two others were badly injured, on the 21st. ling run down by a string of empty coal cars on an

Ala . early tin the 22d. and as a result

7 persons were killed ami more than lru line ,unnP' l.dOO fost btiOW ground.

House Tne house, on the 3d, adopted a resolution requi -tiii of the secretary of the navy information as to the number of horse, carriages ami automobiles maintained at the expense of the government for officials' of the navy departnv at Tha urgency deficiency bill was Imported and notice given i.mt the !ill would lie called up for considt ration Immediately after the army bill had be n disposed of. The house then went into comuiitteo of the w hole, nnd restUBvJ ctinsideration of tha army appropriation bill. An amend moat by Mr. Slayden (Texas), limiting the appropriation for books to the purchase of techincal works pertaining to the work of the war department, was agreed to The paragraph

providing 1321,580 for a submarin, cable from Sitka to Fort Liscnm, Alaska, went cut on a point of order. United States Senator Joseph Ralph Burton, of Kansas, was Indicted, on the 14th. at St Louis, bv the federal

grand jury, on a charge that he received I2.&00 from the Rlalto drain and Securities Co.. of St. Louis, for services rendered at Washington, 1). c, in an attempt to prevent tha post office deportment from issuing a fraud order against that concern. Mrs Catherine Bachtel, the asod mother of Mabel Bachtel, who was foind murdered, last October, at Allentown. Pa . was acquitted, on the 23d. Of the charge of being an accessory

to the murder after the fact. Her trial

occupied nine days, and the jury deliberated on hour before rendering the

verdict of n it guilty. L N Walker, conductor of the Iowa

Central wrecking train which collided with a switching train near Peoria 111., Jan 2S. killing three men, waa

arrest, ii, on the ..;d. on a coroner s warrant charging him with manslaughter, fie was released on $ä.tK0 bonds, on the 14th. Maddened by the intense co'd which had fro.t-n its ears and trunk, an olpnant boloogtng to an animal show which had been exhibiting at a SL Paul (Minn i theater, on the 24th, almost killed its ket per, Conrad Casteus, and partially wrecked the Milwaukee

freight house. Two masked men entered the office of the Anheu-. r-Buscfa distributing

plant at St. Joseph. Mo . on the 2 id, and, at the point of revolvers, ct mpelled tbe manact r to give them 2j0, all the funds on hand Senate The senate, on the ?th, heard further discussioa on the question of appointments to office made durlni: Congressional recesses, listened to a speech on the isthmian canal question by Mr Morgan and passed a number of bills of a semi-public character. Among the hills passed was one authorizing the erecting (if a monument to

the memory of John Paul Jones The senat. at f.:02, went into executive

Told in Brief by Disp.it lirs from Va. ... Localities. Drunk.-iiiiek ii liiere!-. IndJaaapoUa, lad. tlaa 22 Brunkenties- in liititai.it wu- ;- - a i r in p." .: i ban in 1502, according to the n ports of county iherifih mads to tl S board of state ahaiitlea, The total aamheroi lutoxtcat.ti pi raona barbon d ti the jaiit In 11K3 was ISM4, and in IMS, 11, Mt, Of the total number admitted in IMS 11.M4 wtrc whites ai.d SM colored, There were 3J bo. and t9Vi n gtrla under the ane tif 16 years, it.": 1 men and fit'i srom en from 17 to 80 years; i.v. i men and io women v.. re a re than ."0 roaraold. Of the remaining 383 the a , is unknown. The f to riff of Wabafh eooatj reports that one man a mttted oa acaoaatof dntnkennce wa : I yean old.

EXPLOSION

KILLS NEARLY IW

Rescue Purties Are At Work With Little Hope For the Muiera. ML ARE PROBABLY DEAD

The IVrrillf. I ! ilnliiii Oi-euireil ll tin- Has w tea altos mi lam Altesihooi toni fiapni at heaw ii-u, t'u.

I'n 111 rut tajnstOSh rtaauMMut, lad., Jan 22 sea races adjusters from Indianapolis and Chicago have tot claded the an just men 1 ot Insurance on the bin plant of the (' cano st.ii Manufacturing company, of this city, bun.nl December 2s. Th companies, M in nun. bei-, settled with the corporation for 160,4 06, The stock holders nu t in Chicago and d cided to rebuild the big id int on a larger scale thaa ever, and work will begin at once, Manager L H O'Donceil retires. Three hundred nun Were thrown out of employment by the fire.

SalwtS Ilie I'lart. Indianapolis. Ind , Jan. 22 The Woman's Relief corps, the auxiliary to the Indiana Grand Arn.y of the RepubUc, is sending circulars to the public achoola of the state in Which it is advocated that . vi ry morning In the opt nlng exercises the school ri.- e and each pupil

lalata tlie flag, declaring allegiance to the Surs and Stripes and the anion. "America." "Star Spangled Banner," 'Hall Colombia" and other oatrlotla

i nga are recommended Domnwod i i-Ii'imI. Columbus, Ind., Jan. 22.- The r.orth Wall of the building occupied by the construct urei iron works, and owned by Caldwell A Drake, fell from the pr ssure of the water, and the whole interior of the building was flooded, causing Kroat damage to the machinery. The twitch of the Indianapolis. Coli. minis Si iihern traction at Dab ville was . oav pletely washed away. The handle factory owned by p H. Bassitt Is completely flooded.

Death II. -fort- lllinri'r. Marion, Ind , Jan. 23. The a. tion of the court is not necessarv in the diroree case brought by Bdward C Matthews acainst lles.sie Matthews Heath has stepped in ahead of the

oon. fur two years Matthews had not aaea his wife. .After she deserted him ha had no tidings to her whereabouts until he reeeiv d a BWWaa Mating that she had died in R BOBpital at Cincinnati. t nrpel Weater'n Keeortl. Plainfield, lad., Jan 22 Mrs. Mary Frazier. who has just celebrated bet eighty-fourth birthday, baa been a

Carpel weaver for M years, and It la estimated that she has in that lima woven 1,000 yards, in the day I of hat j youth she planted cotton, wove the I material and made the dnaaaa Which ' she wore. She was bora in North Carolina.

Hum. ui- in mi grtetaa Munde. Ind., Jan. 22.-Thou.-ar.. 1 of dollars of damage has been den in the ' oil fields by flood. Derricks are dOW lad all operations will beauapcttded tor j several days. Many wells an- covered

With water. White rivr at thi- tee and thf small creeks are covered with oil which is being wash, d out of tbe Indiana field around Montpaller and Parker CltV.

100 injirreil Kvery business hous.With the WKCCpttoa of a small dnj atore. was destroyed.

Hon. Jame K. Jones, chairman o. the demoTatic national tommittee, oc the 18th. annoum ed the personnel ol the committee on arrangements for tht democratic national committee, and alled a meeting of that committee bj February 2 next, at 1" o'clock a m. SU the Southern hotel, St Louis. w The firt lake of oil ever ris overec in Colorado was tapped. .ri the m while drilling wall No Ml a- Spindlt Top Heights, three miles south of Floren . Col. The oil body was encountered at a depth of 2 77.". f. et ini

Fire, on the 21st. while the i hormon-

e'er was .Tä detrrees lelow- zero, earned a loss of 1M,000 at. Dawaoa, Alaska The Ladue company, in whoso storae plant the fire started, lost $7.",0O0, and the Ames lompany $.; The t'nion Traction Co s new bridge over the M s.-issine river, at Mariop, Ind , was swept away, on the 21st, by i.oating loa Sireet car traffic between Marion and Gas City, Ind. was si pendeJ for some time. Srntor Mark Hanna wis confined to his bed in Washington, I) C, on the llat, by a svere cold. A physician said that Mr Hanna must have

rest, although tht attack was not ae--ious

'lt.. I . . i . t t r. m

the well it win ..iu..-.i ,., nar ocna -ler,

" - " MT-ll- inj, T 1 I i l I I III IP - .

aiuce more than amy six wells in th

Post ofiie inspectors In Chicago, ot toe 21st. arrested A. F Mdntire. formerly of Bt Louis, on a harüe of opratinc a cet-rnh-qtiP k BOacora. Il Wan alleged that in St. Ixmis Mclatln wa. at tha head rf a brokerage and bankim: ot,eorn which did as illegitimate busines. Meint, re was 'aken to St Lnls

'Guiltv

as charged, with rccom

Biendatlon to the court for tnrcy," Was the verdict rendered by tho superior court jury, on the 2-' h. in tho Cfctio against Alderman Jacob H Klb-n. Of tirand Rapids. Mich, charged with hsvlng accepted a bribe of .,r,0 from ex-Hy Attorney Iint K Salshury. to She Lake Michigan water deal scandal.

atln in the Bedford (Ind )

high school, was found In a carriage house, on tbe 22d. Sh had been assaulted and robbed, and the body was badly mutilated The appearance of the shed indicated a terrible struggle with her assailant. Miss Kchnefer went to Bedford from Flk! art. Ind. President I'lantz of Lawrence university at ApphKoa, W.. on th. . 1. said that there would be no more Thanksgiving football for that lnstiution. The derision was p ached bocause of agitation in religious ,Up,.P8 against the game on that day. All cares against Frank Siegel, for me-, praalaont trfTfiv defunrf '"sieg.-I-Sandtrs Live Stock CaaaaMagMg Co. of Kansas City, Mo , wbo was charged with MBbsitlamwal on seven indict ments. were dismissed, on tha 2d, Pi the pragajtiaUiiaj attorue.

session. ancLat 5:"S P. m adjourned House -The h.v.jse paBMd tbe

army appropriation bill, carrying approximately 171,000,000, after adopting a Bomber of amendments The nro

Vtatoa for the consolidation of tha

adjutant-cenrral's departmen' and the

record and pension offices of the war

department into one bureau, to be

known as the militarv secretary's of

nee, was itncxen from the bill on a

point of order raised by Mr QrOBVenOT

of Ohio Af 4:u.r. p m the house ad

journed

The north and central wings of the

state school for indigent children, at

OwatOBOa, Minn . was gutted by fire

on trie '.,t) ah t10 inmates were

taken from the building uninjured Nineteen bebt domiciled in the south wing were safely taken out The loss was not Itated, but there was Insurance oa the building of K0.00O,

Aldermen A L. Gray and George Schwartz. City Attorney Fontaine and City Assessor Farmentier, of Green Ray. Wis . were arrested on the ?:,th

on warrants based on indictments returned by the grand jury charging them with bribery All were admitted to ball. In every one of 22 churc hes In Belllngham. Wash , resolutions were passed, on the 21th. calling upon Senators Ankeny and Foster, of the state of Washington, to cast their ballots in the senate against the eating of Senator Reed Baaoot, of 1'tah. On recommendation of Senator Heyhum. of Idaho, the president, on the 2öth, appointed H Smith Woolaf, a former bishop of the Mormor church, to be aeeapef of the mint at Betai city,

Idaho. The chief lattice of the supreme cWurt of the United s'aies. on the jr.th aamrjaht'otr IMfrhh'' F.Tr'iaVv" i the court Waaldj take a recess for three weeks. Dald K Thompson. 1,'nlted States minister to Draiil, arrived nt New York, on the Mth, on the siearaer Tennyson, from Rio Janslro.

C Imnunl It, - ,,.. South Bead, InI.. Jan. 22 - The international Team Owners' union has tinisheci the business of its roaven tion. Several 1 haagea were made io the coaatltutioa and by-lawa ander Which the union will work the coming year. The next convention will be held in Toledo. O.

Librarian, Anderson. Ind., Jan. 22 - W Jenkins, who has been elSCtwd librarian of the stale university, graduated from that institution in IM1. He was then a reatdi nt of this city, and after graduating at BloomiBgtoa ha taught Bngltah two years in the Anderaog high school.

Out Porwto, Roahvilie, lad., Jan 22.- Frank Norrls. who was convicted of robbery at the Septet), li r term of the Ros circuit court in 1MB, has been paroled by Gov Dtirbin. Norrls' father died last Sunday and his mother is lying probably fatally sick at her home in this city. SWmrieed No FHeiHls. Klwood, Ind, Jan. 22. Miss Ida Rehrens. a te( her in the Blwoud

aehoola, slipped away to Indianapolis and was married at that place to John

Stone, a business man of Louis

ville. Ky , who met her by pn rhWag arrangement. They will Jive in LOCUW-

VIMe. t nnnwt u re-. Sullivan, Ind , Jan. 22 Frank H HU

clcrlirantl, Junior member of the- firm o

Hi! le rbratid At Son, carriage manulac-

Mirers. has brought suit for divorce frort

Delia I. Hllderbraad, alleging incom

patibility of temper. Mrs. Hilde rbrand is a daaghter of Mr. aad Mrs a l. st Clalf, of Tirre Haute. They Won married three months ago fn mi aasmolt. Msatda, Ind , Jan. 22 Harlev t-'IsV er was fatally assaulted In tins city, and He rt Ilishop. a saloon kaaf Sf, i held nendlnir n Investigation.

Pittsburg. Jan 2t -From all thai ran ha gathered, batwaen IM and IM

1 men are lying dead in the lit adings ruul passage ways of the Harwick mine I of the Allegheny Coal Co, at Chatv.ik. the if ult of a terrific explosion 'Monday Cage after cage ha- '.-.11110 1 own into the mine and ionic up again, . nd ool) one miner of all those w ho ' til down to work Monday morning 1 been brought to the sulfate Th le 'iitti man is Adolph Ounia, and he is s till in a aenai-conacloua condltloa at the temporarp hospital at the rude schoolhouaa on the hillside above the mine. Minion Roarlnoee im i,ir n ietim. Iu addition to the miners who were at work when the explosion occurred,

It is now believed by practically all of the men of the rescue party who have come up the 22'-foot vertical shaft for a warming and a breathing pel!, Uit Belwyu M. Taylor, the Pittaburg nutimg engineer, who plotted the mine, nnd who was the first to reach the bottom after the explosion happened is also now among the list of dead tjf those in the mine, all are probably dead No limine ,,f in. Kspiaataa, The explosion occurred at R:2' o'clfM k Monday morning, and the Mrat warning

was the sudden rumble underground.

uiiu men a seen ot name ioi low . .I jin the deep shaft. Both the mine cages were hurled through the tipple. 20 Let above the landing stage, tod three men on the tipple were hiirb-d to tho ground A mule was thrown high above the shaft and fell dead on the ground. The injured men were brougTit at once to this city, where tWO of them hive 5ince died. No Neons er 11 m-. As soon M the rumble of the explosion and the crash at the pit mouth startled the little village, the- wives ami chtldrea of the men below rushed to the scene of the disaster, but to

gain no enc ouragement Thi re was no way to get into ft,, deep workings The cnuev, that let the men into the mines ami brought them out again when the

day's work was done were both demolished. 'I lirt-e Bfortfl eil He. -in- Mag, All day long ihere v as a jam of alting women and chiMren about the Oath of the pit. There were e iils for ISSiatane ami for Surgical aid from the

men ;n e iiare or tne mine, hut it was not until four o'clock Moadap afternoon that the first attempt at p - oa was made This was a failure, as the tWO men who volunteered were elriven rn k by the foul air Shortly after five. Selwjrn M Taylor and one of bis eeelatanta signaled for the engineer tei lower them into the shaft Taylor i till down there. Three times efforts have he,.n made to reach him. but so far without avail. Late Monday night Manager Se iiee-r. telegraphed to Chief Mine Inspector 1. A Roderick at Harrisborg as follows: "Two outside men died of injuries

"1 - ewmng Rut one brought out of

the shaft who is still alive. Reselling; pnrty in mine, inc luding Mine Inspect ir Cunningham, who will advise later." Bateoi ef Cot teopaw laknwwn. II F Hutchinson, who gave out the lam;- o the miners be-feire they went to work in the pit Monday morn.ng said: "At 7 10 o'clock, the time when the whistles blew and when everyone in Opposed to be at work in the mine. I had given out between 18'! and 1 10 lapips "

RARE RELICS OF LINCOLN The Oldroyd Collection of Relics of Abraham Lincoln. It I To hW Hon u I.I lt Hi- fiat SSQ I i-iil ii ml I ' I1II111 .-a ih 11,,. st. 1.010 aVwrltl'a 1 uir. St. Iuils, Jan M The dbiroyj BOllaetfcNl of relics of Abraham Lincoln. WhtCh Is to be bought bv the

limed States gov era meat, and which is eveeutally to form the nucleus of ; great Lincoln memorial and m i - um to be established in Washington, may be exhibited at the World's fair. When Gov Sayeis of Teana was a member of coajrreea he pushe d a bill through that boely approorlatlag $21V (100 for the purchase ot tha house in w inc h Lincoln died, He was preparing to latroduce a aaeoad bill purchasing; the OMroyd lolb i tion of Linioln souvenirfor MS, when he was rlectsjd governor of Texas Mr Oldroyd has refused wveral offers of 1211,000 from individuals for t,e Collection, feeling that the government should own these invaluable re-iics Three Influential members of congress

nave recently revived the matter of ! buying the relics, ami it is cxmvted

that the proposition will be so advanced by the time the Worbis fair opens that they may bo displayed to all visitors. Among the thousands of interesting articles in th llectlon are hooka and mlscel laneoui articles once the- property of Mr Limoln: au'ograph letters, documents and pictures, illustrating his early Ufa and homes: scenes in ins life illustrating his journey from sprimj; id tobe inaugurated preaideal In 1 Hi; 1 ; pictures illustrating t!:.- assassination ami funeral of the president. The collection also COO tolas photographs and authentic relics of Rooth, the president's assassin There is S black locust rail split by Lincoln in lv ' the chair used by him in his law

office at Springfield, and In whic h he sat when he feirined his first cabinet and drafted his first inaugural address before he left for Wash.ngton The collect iOD is now stored in th. old house at HI Te-nth street, in Washington, opposite the bolldiag that was Ford's theater In a small room at the enel of the hall in this old house Abraham Lincoln breathed his last on tho nignt of April 1 1. im;:, Photogrnpfalo views of the house, and of the room in which the president died, will be com?risoel in the collection.

VASES SIXTEEN FEET HIGH. oih.-r Besintlfnl mm4 Mpissolo Klo mi Hwalffaa Prepared rr ttum aiaifa I tin- World I'ulr.

St Loula, Jan srreat floral clock f the Palate of Worbis fair will vasi-s ever built, us dial of 100 feel to be constructed so will the roses

"That was one lamp to a man?" "Yes " Did any of those lamps come bok'" "Not one " There Is a light In every cottage In the little hamlet above the pit mouth. There is still a crowd about the mouth of the shaft, but I will probably be hour before the full extent of t he rata, trophe is known.

AN EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX.

There Ire Thleff rates m Narsoalf hi. iiikIii Ne COaes Repartee SI are Loal aatoedoi . Rloomlngton, 111 . Jan 2' -The town of Normal is alarmed over an epidemic of smallpox, and a meeting was leid Monday night to discuss the advisability of closing Ihe state normal university and public se heads. There are now said to be fully ,'!0 cases, eight new cases being t-,,p,,rtee since Saturday. The families affected have in sone-

inMuiiiis ignored rpiarantlne nrdt rs, resulting In a serious spread of the

disease. POaaeawer Unit Raelaeeg St Paul. Minn. Jan M, The Soo line Monday announced a reduction In Its passenger rate to the east, batced

on nn fx rate to Chicago It Is un

derstood that General Pas t nger Aci nt Callaway Is in the fight to stay tills time llrtnn loeopta In Million. Frankfort. Ky , Jan M -Wllllnm J. Bryan Monday wired Speaker Rrown atcepiing the Invitation of the house to deliver an adelress February .'t. on the e,t i.r 1. in of the (iocbel memorial dav exe if oee

25.- Flanking the on the north side Agriculture- at tho the largest si As the clock, with in diameter Oppeora entirely of flowers, nppi ;n- to be built

ot Floras most beautiful offerings These giant raaea, in the tops of which are obloag Bower beda 12x16 feet, are designed by Mr. Hadkinson. superintendent of floriculture, art! they stanel eui the s(,. a 5. r;ace '' feed aide having ilanl e f ?fj eiegreea. The vases aaaunn tha torni of mammoth baaketa of tlowers, and so tall is eac h basket that the nandle rtsei seierai feet above the top of the terrace The gre at baskets are built of rustic boughs. A pedestal is built of heavy

timbers into the side of the te-rrace. The frattie wcrk is coyer, d with earth, and this is aoddsd, so that it appears that the basket is growing right up out of the earth While the frame Is rustle, and appears attractive in itself. Mr. Hadkla e.n has planned throughout the great structure innumerabla plants of ivlaa, plaia and variegated incas. ccdiea scandens. and numerous other clinging vines that in a ahoti while will clamber all ov.-r thi rarfaCO of the vase s and make them appear as though nature, Instead ol man. was the architect. The great handles, too, that nach high above, will affoN tho tenac ious brauche an Weal goal, and tha rigid outline-, of the timbers will lose their angle-s as the foliage is suspended naturally and grace-fully from It With tin- great - retch of a ."..," foot terrace for nn immediate, background, ami with the- beautiful northern facade of the Palae.- of Agriculture' to com

plete the- picture-, thin array of tho worbi's large st six vase-s. arranged on either side of the great tloral pkNtt, will hldeel be strikingly beautiful. nCvary day during the expo , 1011 these vases Will be crowded with blossoms. As fast as the blooming period of one plant is linisheel. fresh plants fre.tll the gre-e-nhouses will be installed, and thai each day there will be a mass of beautiful flowers. When the exposition ope ns, on April ;:. the vases will be lille'd with bright goranuims, petunias, salvias, colons, elraeaena. crotons, caladlamo, OtC . nml during tho season every blooming flower of the land may be seen. Io -,u 11 u.irlil' Intr. Pittsburg, Pa. Jan 2C Oraco 'oi BtOddlfOTd, who is here with the Red Panther eoninaay, has race! red and accepted at invitation from the music commit tee of the St Logli Worlds lair to sing three solos em the opening ot the fair.

morose wiiii 1 , in in. Nashua. N II . Jan M - John P Ctoggln. treasurer of the Nashua Trust Co, was arrested. Monday, charged1 with embeullag a sum of money from the bank. The amount Is placed at between 0.0io and liouootl.