Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 16, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 January 1907 — Page 2

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$ 7th. jgjl4th 1 -1st. J 2Un FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE. PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Courts and Crimes Accidents and Fires Labor and Capital Grain, Stock and Money Markets. HORRORS OX TIIC KAIL. Fowaer Explosion Wrecks His Four Pcwnctr Train Other TVreeka. Big Four accommodation train No. 3 was destroyed by the explosion of a car load of powder as it passed a freight train at Sanford, lad. Twentytwo charred, broken and mutilated bodies have been taken from the smouldering ruins. The number of injured will total at least thirty-five. The cause of the disaster is not fully ex plained, as several theories are adTanced. The shock was felt for thirty miles, many believing It an earthquake. The three coaches of the illfated passenger train were filled. The entire train, including the engine, was blown from the track, the coaches being demolished, the engine hurled fifty feet and the passengers either blown to pieces, consumed by fire or rescued In a more or less injured condition. The locomotive drawing the eastbound Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe freight train No. 3d exploded on a bridge near De Sotc, Kas. The bridge was demolished ard the engine and fourteen freight cars went into the creek. F. W. Bartell, engineer; W. W. Dortch, fireman, and II. F. Shaw, brakeman, of Argentine, Kas., were killed, their bodies being burled under the wreckage. The Winnipeg flyer of the Great Northern railroad, south-bound, was wrecked ten miles out of Minneapolis, Minn. The entire train, with the exception of the engine and baggage and express cars, left the rails. Three passengers two men and one woman who were in the overturned cars, were Injured, but not seriously. An overturned telegraph pole hurled across the Nickel Plate tracks by a heavy gale, wrecked the west-bound passenger train on the Nickel Plate railroad at Fairview, Pa. Six persons, occupants of the two coaches overturned by the force of the collision, were injured. A south bound Lake Shore passenger train is reported wrecked at Riga, Mich., with four coaches off the track. It is reported that one person was killed and a number were injure!. A Pere Marquette passenger train was wrecked by a broken rail nine miles west of Alma, Mich. No passengers were hurt. Fireman Homer JohnEon was killed. By the wreck of a suburban train on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad at Hammond. Ind., thirteen persons were Injured, none of them fatally. 97MW Fire at Yon a- town, Ohls. A fire thought to have been caused by the crossing of electric wires in the basement of the building occupied by the H. L. McElroy Company, furniture dealers at Youngs town, Ohio, completely destroyed that building and the adjoining one occupied by the J. N. Euwers Sons Company, dry goods dealers. The Eastman Hotel was entirely destroyed. The total losa is estimated at 1700,000 with Insurance about two-thirds. Terrific Gale at Buffalo. A terrific gale, which blew ninety miles an hour at times, swept Buffalo, N. Y., for eighteen hours and has done $1,500,000 damage to shipping. Five large lake liners, wintered just inside the breakwater wall, were torn loose from their moorings and driven aground. Former Governor Hlg-gln Dylua Former Governor of New fork Frank W. Higglns lo dying at Olean, N.'Y., of an affection of the heart Doctors say there Is no hope for him. SkawBeetowa People Fire From Danger Hundreds of Shawneetown, 111., refugees have arrived at Carml, III., having fled from their homes in fear of the flood in the Ohio river. Earthquake Shakes Italy. A severe earthquake was felt at Tolmezzo. Italy. The inhabitants are panic-stricken and have fled from their homes. There was no loss of life. Wreck an the Santa Fe. Santa Fe passenger train No. 4, east bound, the Chicago limited from California, was wrecked at Hutchinson, Kas. The engineer was killed and a number of passengers Injured. 300,000 Fire la Savaaaah, Ga. The plant of the SouUi Atlantic Car and Manufacturing Company at Sa vannah, Ga., was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $300,000; partly covered by insurance. Bryan in a Train Collision. Th Montana Central's west-bound train, on which Mr. and Mrs. William J. Rrvan were passengers, collided with a witch enzine und stone cars in the Great Falls yards. The feine of the passenger train was badly damaged, the baggage car was wrecked and several passengers were shaken up badly. Manna Loa Is in Eruption. The volcano of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, is m , 1 ir. eruption, a scream 01 lava caving oeout flf the crater. The erunVllU V sv" - - v tion forms a magnificent spectacle, which is visible for 100 miles at sea. "Wife Horsewhips Girl Bival. ?Jrs. Jennie McCauley, enraged by her husband's attention to Miss Gail Renn, wnvlaid and horsewhipped the young nnmnn in th street in Baltimore. Thft "irl ran to a slore, where customers proeet cd her. Mrs. jucuauiey was arrested. The court admonished her to be less stren uous. To Hunt for North Pole Again. It is reported that the Duke of Abruzzi intends to make another attempt to reach the ii!rth pole. It will not be made, however", until the result of the Wf.il man polar expedition is known.

QUAKE AND FIRE RAVAGE KINGSTON.

Jamaica's Capital Visited by Awful Double Disaster. NEARLY 1,000 DEAD. Public Buildings Wrecked and Dying Choke Hospitals. TJ-fE JRO YJIL ttElL STZIiri PEOPESTY LOSS IS ENORMOUS. Cables Snapped "by Shock and Meager Details Tell Story. Nearly l,fXK) persons are reported dead, at least 23,000 more have been wounded more or less seriously and property loss estimated at $25,000,000 wrought by a terrible earthquake which visited the city of Kingston and tbe southern coast of Jamaica late Monday afternoon. Fire followed the wrecking of the city, as was the case In the San Francisco disaster. The disaster at Kingston, Jamaica, X AI. seems to nave oeen as great as me calamities at San Francisco and Valparaiso. The number of dead will never be definitely known, and the property loss Is likely to reach $23,000,000. The whole town was left In ru ins and hundreds of dead liodics were taken from the debris. Many bodies in a state of decomposition or charred beyond m-ognition had to be burned. The earthquake came as a sudden oscillation, not from any particular direction, but up and down. Thousands of persons were on the stiects of Kingston at the time and great num bers of them were crushed. Many Americans In Kingston were killed and have Iw'en buried. Realizing the possibilty of famine, the jKJople made attempts to loot. The military, however, at once took possession of the foodstuffs. Detachments of troops with fixed bayonets were placed on guard. They were concen trated In a central posltjfn. No oie was allowed to pass through the ruin ed sections of the city. Famine and pestilence threatened to add their horrors to the situation at Kingston. The provision stores were destroyed and the only food within reach of the thousands of homeless poor was fruit The stench from de caying bodies scattered through the de bris threatened an epidemic, and the few doctors in Kingston, although working night and day, were unable to cope with the threatened plague. The ships In the harbor were crowded with Injured people, and corpses lay In the streets until thrown Into trenches or burned. Business was at a standstill'. Some Shops were opened by Chinamen, who raised the prices on goods 1,000 per cent This so angered the people that the Chinamen were driven out and their shops looted. Direct communication with Kingston was cut off when the earthquake snapped the cables to America. Temporary land lines were established, however, connecting with other cable lines, through which sources meager details of the disaster were received. Kingston was overwhelmed by the earthquake. All the houses within a radius of ten miles were damaged and nearly every house In the city was destroyed. Fire broke out after the earthquake a.id completed the ruin. The business ectlon of Kingston Is a heap of smoldering ashes. The killed number about 1,000 and thousands were Injured. Fires broke out again Tuesday night. The negroes looted the rumshops. A dispatch says that 1,200 persons have been killed. There were weird and terrible scenre. Forty-five invalid soldier i were burned to death in the military hospital. Several shocks were felt Wednesday. Cables from Colon Indicate that many victims were burned to death, the operator using the words furnace of human souls." He also described the "dead by hundreds." Hospitals Choked with Wonnded. The hospitals that remain standing were choked with injured : dead lay in all portions of the city and souie of the bodies were burned up by the flames which swept over the place. Jamaica, being a great winter resort, with the city of Kingston the main point of interest, attracted hundreds of pleasure seekers to its shores, and alarm was felt all over America for persons from this country who were near the scene of the seismic disturbance.

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Fresh details of the disaster came from various sources. According to one reiort the whole city of Kingston seemed to shrivel up, buildings crashed together and fell in a crushed mass under the first shock. The business streets at the time were well filled with tourists and no doubt many of them were caught In the falling brickwork and buried in the debris. Fire broke out immediately after the crash at three separate joiiits. The fire department station was wrecked, rendering resistance to the names Impossible. The conflagration continued unchecked until Tuesday morning, by which time the whole business quarter of Kingston had been wiped out, the damaged area comprising about a square mile. All the large warehouses In the lower part of the city were consumed ami not a single house anywhere remained undamaged, the majority being unfit for habitation. A conservative estimate of the casualties made by the police of Kingston places the number of killed at 1,200. The treasury In Harbor street was standing, but the postoflice and courthouses were In ruins. The government olficcs were unsafe for occupation, government house was badly damaged, the Colonial Hank was burned out, the Nova Scotia Hank was a heap of ruins. The Roman Catholic cathedral, the Paris church and the Scotch, Wesleyn and Baptist chapels had disappeared and the theater was destroyed. At Port Royal', at the entrance of Kingston harbor, one of the batteries sank and a gunner was killed. The ships In the harbor were transformed Into hospitals. The cabins of the steamer Port Kingston were full of dead and dying. BBgllibmrn In 1'erll. Sir James Fergusson, noted Engllshman.was killed. The most distinguished visitors at Kingston were members of a party of English statesmen, agricultural experts and men of affairs, who under the leadership of Sir Alf od Jones had arrived in Kingston witijn the last few days to attend au arleultural conference there. Noted Hotel Wrecked. The Myrtle Bank Hotel, the principal hotel at Kingston, which probawly sheltered the great bulk of visitors -in the island, is reported destroyed. The great military hospital was burned & id forty soldiers are reported dead. The city Is one of low-lying bul.dIngs clustered along the shores of cne of the finest and most securely latdloeked harbors in the West Indies. 1 iie population, which numbers 50,000, Is largely made up of native blacks. Many steamers carrying tourists to Jamaica were en route to the Islaul when the earthquake occurred, but Jt so happens that, according to schejules, none of the ships from New Yoj or Boston was In Kingston barlx r Monday afternoon. History of Klnaston. Founded in 1093 by refugees from t, luined City of Port Royal, which in 10L2 was destroyed by an earthquake. Constituted a city in 1S02. February, 1792, half of the city w.i destroyed by fire that caused about -"VOO.OOO damage, half of the houses beiladest royed. In IS 1.1 another destructive fire brolj out ami nearly wiped the city from Uj foundations. The loss was then $lv000.000. Next came the famous Mansion Hourv fire, which resulted in the deaths of maqj who were housed in the hotel. State Department officials are withoi advices from consular or diplomatic oft-c-r rs in China concerning the mass meeting reported to have been held in Canta.i to revive the boycott on American good,.. The selection of the first division of tl armored cruiser squadron to represei4 Great Britain at the Jamestown nav. review was officially communicated to th.t American embassy In London. William R. Hearst, speaking before tL,i Xew York City committee of the Independence League, said: "I myself am n. and w'll not be again a candidate for a&y office."

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ii mmii ii m. 9 -iriif- -:"K i. . . s ' v V - W Tf " ,-V. VXi A. . , 15 CITY SINKING INTO THf. SEA. Bottom Falls Out of Harbor and New Peril Is Caused. The city of Kingston, rocked by an earthquake and alinost destroyed by fire, next seenied In Imminent danger of sinking Into the sea altogether ami disappearing utterly from the face of the earth. With the number of dead still not definitely known i ml estimates running from 1,000 to l,noo and a property loss reaching into millions, fresh alarm was caused by dispatches from Port au Prince, Haiti, which said that the bed of the harbor was sinking and that it was dangerous for ships to approach. There are thousands of tourists In the vicinity of Kingston and this news from there caused widespread unrest. The water along the front portion of Kingston is said to be 100 feet deep In many places and that other portions of the shore are rapidly sinking. The Plum point and Tort Royal lighthouses are both at the bottom of the harbor. The navigation channel has materially changed and in some places the depth of the harbor has been altered from forty to 100 feet. A circumstance that tend to uphold the new danger Is a dispatch from Holland Bay, saying that the jiortlon of the town of Port Royal which sank 200 years ago Is again under water. The news from Havana regarding the huge tidal wave that inundated the entire oast near Jamaica's capital and changed the Jamaican coast line, following closely upon the heels of the cumulative details of the earthquake KINGSTON AND

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MAP SHOWING TLACESTnAT FIGURE IN STORY OF EARTHQUAKE. The map shows in Kingston the location of the Myrtle Bank hotel and parish cburcb, the destruction of which figures riomiuently iu reports of the earthquake and Ere; outside the city proper, the race course, now one of the camps of the homeless, and the Up Park military camp, where the greatest loss of life in a single building occurred, forty patients in the hospLal being killed In the destruction of that building. On the peninsula in the ;over part of the map may be seen the location of Port Royal, destroyed by earthquake and flood two centuries ago and iow ajain under water. At Fort Charles, near Port Royal, a battery sank into the sea with the first heavy shock, u trying with it a gunner. Dividing Kingston and Port Royal is the channel, where new bottom formations formed by the earthquake present a danger to relief ships entering the port.

Jamaica's Previous Disasters. June 2, 1C82 Whole island shaken by earthquake. Port Royal destroyed. Three thousand houses destroyed. 1722, 1731, 17G1 Desolating hurricanes. 1782, 181.1 Severe conflagrations. October, 1S1."j Great hurricane and flood. Whole island deluged. One thousand persons killed. Hundreds of vessels wrecked. Hundreds of houses washed away. 18." Epidemic of cholera fatal to about TiO.'OOO persons. August, 1880 Cyclone passed over eastern half of Jamaica, destroying nearly

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wirI AAA : ' Av. ' v V IHE CJ3PJTOX. BUIX.DIWG. GREAT Pi ARTH SHOCKS OF PAST. Lisbon was destroyed with 1 ,.0Q houses and :i0,000 lives iu 1JKJ1. Lisbon was again destroyed in 1753 and 00,000 lives lost. Valparaiso was completely destroyed in 17:50. Port Royal in Pamaiea sank beneath th ocean in tbe early rart of the last cot tury. Santiago in Guatemala was wiped out. with all its inhabitants, in 1773. In 1S22 Santiago de t'hile wis partially destroyed, and in 121 was devastated again, each shock changing the level of the coast line. Chile was devastated by earthquakes in lS.'ir, 1ST.) and 1ST.1, and in the last 100 houses were wrecked and many lives lost. In 1KS0 the town of Illapil. near Valparaiso, was destroyed and 2W people perished. Iu lStrj. 2.".000 persons ierished in an earthquake in Peru. In lSTil, 19,000 persons lost their lives iu the south of Italy, and in 1K.17 more than 10.000 ierson.s were killed by earthquakes in Italy. In 11)01, a sreat seismic disturbance convulsed the Carib!ean Sea and coincident with it the volcano Mont lVlec burst into violent eruption , and wired out the city of St. Pierre in Martinique. During the past year Valparaiso. Chile, and San Francisco have been visited by destructive earthquakes. and fire, caused the most profound interest in Washington official circles. N'avai officials were stirred. Secretary Metcalf expressed himself as greatly shocked at the advices from Ja-Jiaica. Notes of the Disaster. The whole town is in ruins. The cable line from Kingston was broken. Many Americans were killed and have 'cn buried. Hie body of Sir James Fergusson was found and buried. A school house fell at the first ßhock, k'Iing ninety children. The battleships Missouri and Indiana entered the harbor safely. A tidal ware inundated Anotta bay, washing out many houses. Appeals have been sent to all sections f the island asking for assistance. Thirty-five out of a total of fifty-five employes In a tourist bureau were killed. The shock was severe at Richmond, or.d this town also was destroyed by fire. The topography of the country has Wen changed and the navigation into the harbor materially altered. ' The Plum Point and Port Royal lighthe imscs are both at the bottom of the harLor. ENVIRONS. PLVPO)t all wharves in Kingston. December 7, 1880 Earthquake shocks felt throughout island. October 18, 1882 Port Antonio destroyed by fire. October 27 to .10, 1890 Destructive floods with great loss of life. May, 190Ü Volcanic dust fell in great clouds over island from St. Vincent. August 10, 190.1 Great hurricanes destroyed crops; Port Antonio in ruins from fire. November 1.1, lOOU Exceedingly sharp earthquake south and north of island, followed immediately by a second hhock.

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The time of ih Senate Saturday was devoted mainly to the discussion of the race question, in which Senator Tillman attacked the President's action in the Brownsville affair and Senator Patterson defended the executive. Senator Foraker gave notice that on Monday ho would endeavor to secure action on the resolution for an investigation of the matter. The Senate adjourned until Monday. The House was not in session. The Senate Monday passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill carrying $nO,S5."5.833, and devoted the remainder of the day to the Brownsville affair, following the receipt of a message from the President submitting additional evidence, and a cigar box filled with bullets and shells. The message was ordered printed. Senators who participated in the debate were Mallory, Clay, Tillman. Bacon and Spooner, the latter's speech being unfinished when adjournment was taken. The House spent most of the day considering legislation pertaining to the District of Columbia, after which consideration of the fortifications appropriation bill was resumed. The message of the President regarding the Colorado River was read. s m The time of the Senate Tuesday was taken up by the spcoch of Senator Spooner on the Brownsville affair, and at it3 conclusion the Senate adjourned. The House spent almost the entire day in considering (he fortifications bill, among the amendments defeated leins one to increase the appropriation for sea coast bat teries in the Hawaiian and- Philippine Islands to $1.000.000. Speaker Cannon announced the appointment of Representative Sherley of Kentucky to a place on the judiciary committee made vacant by the resignation of Representative Little. At 4:1.", after a roll call demanded by the Democrats, the House adjourned. The Brownsville affair again occupied the time of the Senate Wednesday. Senators Carmack, Stone. Money and Knox defended the action of the President. Senator Foraker offered n substitute for his previous resolution providing for an investigation of the matter and started to make his closing speech on the incident, lut had not concluded when the Senate adjourned. The House passed the fortifications appropriation bill without amend ment and began consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Mr. Foster of Vermont delivered a speech supporting the President for his message on the Japanese situation in California, and Mr. Sheppard of Texas discussed polities and the State of the nation. Sunc!ay, Feb. 21, was fixed. for eulogies of the late Representative II. C. Adams of Wisconsin. ' Senator Foraker, in the Senate Thursday, concluded his argument against the action of the President in the Brownsville matter and opposed an amendment to his compromise investigation resolution, of which Senator Blackburn gave notice. Consideration of the resolution was deferred until Monday at the conclusion of Mr. Foraker s address. Eulogies for the ;ate Senator William B. Bate of Tennessee were delivered, after which the Senate, as a mark of respect to his memory, adjourned. The House resumed consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill under the five-minute rule. During tbe day an emergency bill was passed for the relief of the sufferers from the earthquake in Jamaica. After completing f$rty pages of the district budget the House adjourned. The Senate on Friday deferred further action on the Brownsville matter until Monday, passed a bill authorizing relief for earthquake-smitten Jamaica, agreed to a' resolution directing an investigation of the "lumber trust" and passed a bill increasing the artillery corps of the amiy. Senator Whyte of Maryland delivered a protest against any encroachment on State powers by the federal government, nnd Senator Kittredge spoke on the "lumler trust." The session adjourned until Monday. The House, by a vote of 133 to 92, voted that the salaries of Senators, Representatives and delegates be increased to $7.r00 a year after March 4, 1907, and fixed the salaries of the Vice President, Speaker and members of the cabinet at $12,000. The urgent deficiency bill, carrying au appropriation of $311,G"0, vas considered in committee of the whole and later passed, after which hills on the private calendar were considered. National Capital Notes. The Senate confirmed the nomination o: Brig. Gen. Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the army, to be major general. Representative Sherley of Kentucky asked to be relieved from service on the juciciary committee, to which be was npiointed by the Sneaker. Th House passed a bill creating a new division of the southern judicial district of Iowa and providing for terms of court at Ottiunwa and for a clerk. Secretary Shaw has selected F. Jerome Starek of Cleveland as his private secretary, to succeed Arthur F. Statter, recently appointed assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The House committee on judiciary decided, by a vote of 9 to 7. not to consider the Hepburn-Dolliver bill making liquor carried in interstate commerce subject to the laws of any State it enters. The Mexican government has dispatched Senor Don Jose F. Godoy, the Mexican minister to Cuba, to Washington to take charge of the embassy pending the arrival of Senor Enrique Creel, the newly appointed ambassador, who will not arrive until early spring. Representative Lacey, chairman of the House committee on public lands, introduced a bill to place the Salton Sea problem in charge of the United States government. The bill creates a reclamation reservation in the Colorado river valley and appropriates $2,000,000 for dams en't ditches. Secretary Hitchcock appeared before the House committee on public lands to indorse the President's plan to have all government coal, oil and gas lands leased instead of sold. Rear Admiral Sigslee, who commanded the battleship Maine when that vessel was blown up in the harbor of Havana, has been transferred to the retired list of the navy on accouut of age. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock has withdrawn C0.",0')0 acres of unalienated public lands in western Colorado from all foims of disposal under the public land laws for an addition to the Uncompahgrc forest reserve. Advices to the State Department regarding the abandonment by the Japanese government of the plan to send its naval training ships to San Francisco officially assign no reason for the change of program, although a cordial invitf.ion was extended to Japan by the State Department. President Roosevelt received six chiefs, lepresenting the Uto Indians who deserted their reservation last summer. They told the President they wanted to settle among the Cheyenne river Sioux fa South Dakota, being wiping to purchase lands with their funds. The President promisetj to take ep the matter with Indian Commissioner Leupp.

COLLISION ON THE BIG FOUR RAILWAY.

Twenty-five Persons Are Killed in Disastrous Wreck. MANY BOASTED ALIVE Queen City Special Smashes Into a Freight at Fowler, Ind. Combination Car of Pasencer Train Im Ounhed to Splinter and Take Fire Those Who Did Not Die by Sliork Are Slowly Burned to Death Fojr Obscured a Signal. Twenty-five persons were killed in the wreck of Big Four passenger train No. 38 near Fowler, Ind., Saturday, twenty of whom were burned alive, and forty others were Injured. Those killed were nearly all in the combination car, which took fire and burned. The sleeping cars were not wrecked. The wrecked train was Queen City Sjiecial, east-bound, from Chicago, tnd was going fifty miles an hour. Owing to a dense fog the engineer otf the flyer was unable to see the light on the semaphore, which directed him to stop, as a west-bound freight had the right of way. The train dispatcher, knowing that the dense fog would prevent the trammen from seeing the block signal, wem outside and waved his lantern frantically and fired at least half a dozen shots from his revolver, but tbe train went crashing by and a moment later the crash came, the passenger running into the freight, head on. The tender or No. ÜS telescoped tho baggage car, the rear end of the tender cut through to within ten feet of the rear of the smoker. The firemen of both trains were killed instantly, ?ut the engineers escaped by jumping. The rcqort of the collision was heard all over the town. Fire bells and whistle's called the people to the aid of the injured. Immediately following the crash the wreckage caught fire and the people were burned before they could be 3xtricated from the ruins. The heat of the burning cars was so Intense that the rescuers could not g near enough to help. Crnfthed Like an I'srg-nhell. The trains met three-quarters of a mile east of Fowler. Both were at top HIeod. When they struck the engines were welded together. The combination car, first In the passenger train, was crushed like an eggshell under the impact of the sleepers behind. Before the grinding, splintering mass had time to settle bright flames sprang up In half a dozen places. The combination car was smashed to kindling and much of its wreckage, tossed up on the hissing locomotive wreckage, burned fiercely. In a few minutes the wind had driven the fire back into the first sleeping car. Its occupants knew the car would burn and before tke fire attacked It had fled, some of them In night attire. All the coaches, except the sleepers and the private car of Vice President Schaff, were destroyed. Of the pasengers known to have been In tho combination coach at the head of the train only five were rescued. Most of the others died horrible deaths by fire and steam, pinned in the wreckage of the car. Lfiion In Sex Phyaloloa-y. Referring to the recent movement started by the Society of Sanitary and Moral American Prophylaxis, the New York School Journal "how declares that the necessity of recognizing sex in the practical teaching of pupils in the public schools is before us in a greater force than ever before. Dr. Mary Putnam, who had investigated the schools of twenty cities, found.no attention given to sex instruction, except in three girls high schools where women physicians' gave brief talks on topics relating to childbirth. The result was that shame, mystery and actual evil were "associated with y.ex in the minds of children, especially those over 10 years old." She opposes the doctrine of leaving the matter alone on the ground that disease will punish the guilty, as many innocent ones are infected for one guilty one. Dean Balliet of the New York school of pedagogy say the subject has passed the stage of inquiry as to whether these subjects shall be taught, for the present question is how the subject is to be presented. John R. Elliott of the New York ethical culture schools opposes the plan of having a physician brought in to teach sex knowledge, as it increases the wrong notion that the subject is unusual, and he makes the -practical suggestion of using the boy and girl leaders to influence their mates iu the right direction. Interesting News Items. A report that France had ceded Tahiti to Great Britrin is officially denied in Paris. The equestrian statue of Gen. George B. McClellan in Washington will be unveiled on May 15. Gov. Magoon signed a treaty of extradition between the republics of Cuba end Santo Domingo. The Paris Journal says that Jacques Lcbaudy, the self-styled "emperor of the Sahara," is making a tour of the United States. A lockout of 15,000 carpenters and jomers has taken place in Berlin because of the non-compliance of the unionists with the demands of the Master Carpenters' Association. The committee on railroads and public service corporations of the Oklahoma constitutional convention recommended a 2cent railway fare and the enactment of a feliow servant law. Prof. Albert William Berg, for forty years organist at the Church of the Transfiguration, commonly known as "The Little Church Around the Corner," in New York, died in that city, aged 81 years. Prof. J. F. Greer, principal of the publ'C schools at Waco, Texas, was thrown from a buggy while the horse was running away and instantly killed. Prince and Princess dc Broglie mado their London debut at the Tivoli Music Halt. They were well received. Prince de Broglie married EstcJIe Alexander of California and his family disowned him fcr so doing. A fire which began in a row of tenement buildings in Ferry street, Iljboken, N. J., spread rapidly to the adjoining tenements and did heavy damage. The loss was about $100,000. Tbe origin of the fire is believed to have been incendiary.

INDIANA! I LEGISLATURE ! BI1I Favorably Ilr ported. Senate bills which received favorable action by committees on Tuesday were as follows: Criminal Code Committee Senate bill No. 21; Kimbrough; abolishing capital punishment. Senate bill No. 10; Cavins; declaring farm tenant who appropriates crops guilty of embezzlement. Public Morals Senate bill No. 27; T. T. Moore; concerning establishment of proof of signatures to remonstrances in liquor cases. Public Printing Senate bill No. C6; E. E. Moore; concerning State printing. Senate bill No. 67; EL E. Moore; concerning the distribution of election ballots. In the House on Wednesday the Committee on Organization of Courts reported favorably Mr. Baker's bill for the creation of a Superior Court for Elkhart and St. Joseph counties. The Educational Committee reported for indefinite postponement Mr. Brown's bill fixing the time of school book revision. Mr. Condo's bill to abolish capital punishment was reported for passage by the Criminal Code Committee. Mr. Watson's bill permitting the dehorning of cattle was also recommended for passage. Bills Nos. GO and i6 were recommended by committee for indefinite postponement No. 4G for passage. Senate bills which received favorable consideration, and which were recommended for passage and ordered printed, were as follows: From Cities and Towns Committee Senate bills Nos. C, 20 and 80. From Criminal Code Committee Senate bills Nos. 65, 77, 115, and 110. From Finance Committee House bill No. 24, Senate bills Nos. 28, 45, 18 and 72. From Insurance Committee Senate bill No. 51. In the Senate on Thursday the following bills were recommended for passage: From Corporations Committee Senate bills Nos. 116 and 92. From Criminal Code Committee Senate bills Nos. 123 and 125. From Judiciary fill Committf! i Senate bills Nos. 52. 124 and 114. (Sen ator Farber's anti-lobby bill.) From Judiciary (A) CommitteeSenate bill No. 75. (Senator Slack's anti-lobby bill.) From Organization of Courts Committee Senate bills Nos. F5 and S3. From Public Health CommitteeSenate bill No. 126. From Public Morals CommitteesSenate bill No. 31. From Railroad Committee Senate bill No. 31. AIL committee reports were concurred In without debate. Jost a Dash of ralltlra. When engrossed House bill No. 24, which appropriated $120,000 to meet the expenses of the Sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, was reported by the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Goodwine, chairman of the committee,, offered a motion to the effect that the constitutional rules be suspended and the bill be put on its passage. The motion carried by a vote of fourty to four. Womai'i Suffrage Bill Killed. The House indicated that it does not think Indiana is ready for woman's suffrage, as it killed Representative Kelly's bill to provide that women might hold elective as well as appointive offices. Tho House concurred In the report of the Committee on Rights and Privileges that the bill be indefinitely postponed. A similar bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Fremont Goodwine. Considerable Interest attaches to the subject because of the recent appointment by Governor Hanly of Miss Mary Stubbs to succeed her father, the late Joseph Stubbs, aa State Statistician. No objection was raised to the appointment, but Miss Stubbs being urged to become a candidate for the nomination for statistician two years hence, and doubt exists as to whether or not she would be eligible without the enactment of the law proposed by Representative Kelley. Both branches of the Legislature are liable to hear more of the woman suffrage question, as Mrs. Helen M. Cougar, of Lafayette, Is In Indianapolis on behalf of tho Woman's Suffrage Association of Indiana, She Is asking for the appointment of woman's suffrage committees in the House and Senate to consider all bills on Piat subject. Lndrr tke Ax. The House killed a radical anti-lobbyist bill presented by Representative Johnson, of Clinton. Two other proposed reforms that were placed beneath the ax were Representative Garrard's bill exempting from taxation tbe property of poor widows and orphans, and Representative SIck's bill asking for the appointment of congressional boards to audit the books of the oounty officers In their district. Away, "Blind Ttrr.w The Senate Committee on Public Morals reported for passage Senator Ganiard's anti-blind tiger bill. Superintendent Humphreys, of the Anti-Saloon League. Is backing this measure. Humphreys informed the Senate Committee on Morals that he will not oppose the 1,000 license bills, although he Is not advocating thera. Fully half of the temperance advocates are against the high license propositionBooked to Pais. Senator Will Wood's bill to compel barbers to keep their 6hops closed on Sundays was advanced to third reading and probably will pass the Senate, Mitchell to Speak. On motion of Senator Klrkman an Invitation was extended to President Mitchell, of the Mine Workers, to address the Senate at his convenience. He accepted and will appear before the Senate soon to discuss legislation in which laborers are Interested. He is the first labor leader to receive such a compliment from, the Indiana Legislature. There are now more telephones in use connected with independent eich.ces than with Bell exchanges. A Fixture. Mrs. Kavier How do you liLe yur new girl? Mrs. Homer She's a jewel. But she Isn't a new girL We've had her nearly it week. Had a Deaperate Affray "That was a fierce fight you bad with Cholly," said Knox. 'He claims he licked you." Oh. the boastah! exclaimed GussJe. "I admit he wumpled my cwavat dweadfully, but you should bare seen his collah!" Philadelphia Press. Yea and JVeljrn The village Innkeeper bad a good horse. The peasants borrowed It S9 much that the innkeeper determined to discourage them. So one day when a peasant came to borrow the horse, the Innkeeper- said be was sorry, but he had let it already. Just then a neigh came from the stable. "You've not lent it. I beard It nclgb!ng." said the peasant. "Look here," replied the Innkeejx-r, "cither I or the horse Is telling a fie, and you take my word for it, iff tbd horse." Kolce, J