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CL Q N. M.i F. ICTA F. M 2nd. 'jjJlOth 3 17th. (Si'4th. pastTand present AS IT COMES TO US FKOM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many Illinois Farmer Attacked by Wolves. A pack of eight timber wolves attacked Henry Lund and his horses while be was driving through the woods near Montgomery, 111. The wolves first attacked the horses, severely biting them and then attempted to leap into the sleigh. Lund fought desperately the attack of the wolves with a heavy whip and his horses, bleeding and exhausted from a long gallop through the heavy woods, managed to reach a clearing' where the wolves were frightened off. Such an experience has not been reported in that section , of the country in many years. Farmers near Montgomery organized a posse to exterminate th'j wolves. Wreck Cost Five Lives. Five trainmen were killed and twj were fatally hurt in a collision between freight trains Nos. 51 and 93, a the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad, twenty miles west of Seymour, Ind., near Fort Ritner. The trains met head-on on a sharp curve, apparently because of a misunderstanding of orders. Engines and cars were smashed and their wreckage piled high. A relief train was sent as soon as word of the wreck was received, but the injured suffered terribly from the cold before help camo. Aged Couple Found Murdered. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ritter, both aged about 70 and wealthy, were found at their home in Elmore Township, Daviess County, Indiana, under circumstances Indicating murder. It is believed that the crime was committed several days, ago as there were no footprints in the snow about the Ritter home. The county coroner is making an investigation. The Ritters, who were quite wealthy, were said to have kept considerable money in their home. One Killed, Many Injured. Frank Kendall. 2 years of age, of Plymouth, Mch., was crushed to death; Richard Roe, 7 years old, of Detroit, lost one hand and is In a critical condition, while a score of other passengers were less seriously hurt as the result of an interurban car on the Detroit United railway jumping the tracks and tipping over on a curve four miles north of the villafe of Wayne, Mich. Man Kills Woman and Himself. Because he thought she had laughed at him in passing, Conrad Yox. 45 years old, a teamster at Baltimore, Md.. shot and instantly killed Mrs. Rita Phillips and fired five bullets Into the body of Miss Edith Spencer. He then barricaded himself in the building in which he lived and, scattering kerosene about, set fire to the building. It wa3 destroyed and Yox was burned to death. Fire Chief Dead from Auto Crash. Benjamin Dillon, chief of the Louisville (Ky.) fire department, died as the result of Injuries suffered while making a fast run Xo a fire. The chief's automobile was overturned at Ninth and Jefferson streets and the four occupants were seriously Injured, the other three, however, being now out of danger. Chief Dillon took charge of the department less than six weeks ago. Admiral Dewey is 72 Years Old. Admiral George Dewey celebrated the seventy-second anniversary of his birth recently. Except for a flood ok telegrams and jersonal messages of congratulations, nothing disturbed the serenity of the Dewey household In Washington, D. C. The admiral has not been In especially good health for some time and therefore all observances were waived. Car Plunges Into River, Drowning Two. A trolley car running beside the Naugautic river, near Seymour, Conn., In the storm jumped the track and, plunging down the bank, crushed through the ice. Motorman Fred Beard and Conductor Marcus Donovan, who were in the inclosed forward vestibule, were drowned. The five passenngers escaped. Three Cremated; Two More Missing. Michael Malone, Michael McGraw and Fred Malone, miners, were burned to death near Harrisburg, Va. Patrick Malone and Frederick Dugan, who boarded at the same place, are missing. Pennty Flyer in Collision. West-bound passenger train No. 29, Tcnown as the Pennsylvania Flyer, struck one of a string of detached box cars near Massillon, Ohio. Fireman J. W. Alexander was badly Injured. Blind Woman Wins Honor. Born with defective sight which became total blindness when she was 8 years old. Miss Theodora J. Franksen, of Chicago, ha3 been elected at the University of Chicago to the Phi Beta Kappa Society for high scholarship average. Muncie Police Chief in Accident. Van Benbow, chief of the Muncie (Ind.) police, while riding a bicycle, was knocked down by an automobile driven by Walter Pedro. The chauffeur was injued about the head. $500,000 for White Plague War. Announcement has been made by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia that Henry Phipps had presented to the university 1500,000 to be used In the campaign against tuberculosis. The plans for a nevr hospital to be used for this purpose are now being drawn. The Rev. C. P. Fisher Dead. The Rev. George Parke Fisher, D. D., LL. D., an authority on ecclesiastical history, died in New Haven, Conn., from a hemorrhage of the brain.

Harvest of Death Reaped by Blizzard That Strikes Eastern States.

SNOW COVERS THE NORTHWEST Worst December Storm in Decade Sweeps Wide Area and Cost Is High. Driven in a terrific northeast gale. Mewing more than sixty miles an hour, a tidal wave swept the coast of New England Sunday foenooii, broke over the seventeen-foot sea dike at Chelsea, engulfed 250 houses, took a toll of three lives, made 1.200 houseless and left the shore to the north and south of Boston strewn with the wreckage of summer cottages. Water reached to the second stories of many houses, and the fact that the loss of lives was not greater was due in a large part to Policeman James E. Dolan. who saw the tidal wave come over the dike and sounded a warning which sent people scurrying to the upper floors of their houses. One man fell dead from excitement and two children were found unconscious in two feet of water and were sent to the hospital and were resuscitated. The tidal wave swept over Atlantic avenue in Boston, along' which the coast steamers and fishermen dock, and filled the cellars" of warehouses, causing damage estimated at. $1,000,000. For several hours the town of Hull was an island and life-savers rescued people from their houses in the lowest section. At Biddeford, Me., scores of cottages were wrenched from their foundations and swept out to sea. Wreckage of houses is strewn along the beaches at Prout's Neck. Old Orchard, Ferry Beach, Camp Ellis and Biddeford Pool. The Northwest woke up Christmas morning to find that the weather man had presented them with the worst December snowstorm in more than a decade. From the northern limits of the country to the southernmost tier of counties in Illinois a smooth, fleecy, blanket lay over the whole country,hMIng out of sight the bare tops of hills, filling up valleys and ravines, and in the broad open spaces where the wind had full play wrinkling up in:o fantastic drifts that buried fences, blocked roadways and completely obliterated miles of railroad tracks. Whipped by a gale that at times reached a velocity of forty-eight miles aa hour, the snowstorm swept eastward from the Mississippi Valley duriig the day. It took a wide path, reaching as far south as Tennessee and North Carolina and extending north into upper New York State. In New York City it almost stalled street car and suburban train service. A picturesque Christmas gift and one most suitable to the day Chicago found It. but, with the romantic features left out of consideration, an inconvenient and expensive one. Before another twelve hours had passed thousands of dollars had been spent in tearing rents through the blanket to make way for 'the trains that carry the country's traffic, and all night linemen were at work repairing the telegraph wires that the snow had broken down in its descent. ZELAYA FLEES HIS COUNTRY. United States Allow3 Him to Escape Upon One Condition. It was learned the other day that former President Jose Zelaya of Nicaragua has left Corinto on the Mexican gunboat Guerrero for Salina Cruz, Mexico. Zelaya's departure was very secret. Only a few of his most loyal friends knew that the former dictator of the country was about to board the Mexican gunboat. The ship left without being molested by the United States officials. The United States has compromised with its original attitude toward former President Zelaya of Nicaragua. The news was general the other day in the departments In Washington that this government had purposely interposed no objection to the flight of Zelaya from the anger of his own people, and that this compromise was based on the assurance from Mexico and Nicaragua that Zelaya would go Into perpetual exile. BIG DEFICIT IN POSTOFFICE. Hitchcock on Losses in Second-Class Mails and Rural Routes. Confronted with a deficit of $17,479,770, the present administration of the postoffice department began Its operations. This was the largest deficit in the history of the postal service. So long as the deficit in the department aggregated only a few millions of dollars annually little attention was paid to it; but when, in the last few years, it leaped to upward of $10,000,000, and finally, in 1909, exceeded $17,000.000, "ordinary business prudence suggested that the causes be definitely located." These aie statements in the annual report of Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock, made public the other day. "GUARANTEE" BANK IS PROMPT. Kiefer, Okla., Institution Losses Mntle Good In a Week. At Muskogee, Okla., State Bank Commissioner Young said he had just paid In full the depositors of the State Bank of Kiefer. The Kiefer "Guarantee" Bank closed Its doors a week before a3 a result of the failure of the Farmers National Bank of Tulsa. Forty-four thousand dollars was drawn from the State guaranty fund to make good the Kiefer bank's losses. FORTY HURT IN TRAIN WRECK. Mall Clerk Ilarely Escape from BarnlnK Car r Mankato, Minn. St. Paul passenger train No. 43, running north at thirty-five miles an hour, spread the rails one-half mile east of Good Thunder, Minn., and plunged Into the ditch. Forty passengers were hurt, none fatally, it Is believed. The mail car rolled down a thirty-foot embankment and caught fire. The mall clerks had a narrow escape. IX pays to advertise in this paper.

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.Minneapolis Journal SENATOR M'LAURIN IS DEAD. End Comes to Mississippi Leader at Brandon Residence. United States Senator Anselm J. McLaurin, who had been a leader in Mississippi Democracy for many years, died at his residence in Brandon, Miss., Wednesday night. Death was due to an attack of heart failure, and rame without the slightest warning. When the fatal stroke came upon him Senator McLaurin was seated in a rocking chair in front of the fireplace in his library. He suddenly fell forward, without speaking a word, and life was extinct when members of his family reached his side. ' Senator McLaurin, who was 61 years old, began his first term in the United States Senate in 1894, but was elected Governor of Mississippi in 1S93 and served in that office four years. He was elected again to the Senate in 1900 and served one term. He was returned for the term which began on March 4, 1907. His present term of office would have expired on March 3. 1913." Senator McLaurin began the study of law in 1868, after he had served throuL,n the civil war as a private In the Confederate army. He was born near Brandon and raised on a farm. Seven children survive him. In the Senate chamber he was known a3 one of the strongest defenders of the feouth. He believed in the South, its resources, and future. He did some active work on the Senate committee on the Mississippi river and tributaries and was a member of other important Senate committees, 'among them those on civil service, commerce, Immigration, interstate commerce, public expenditures, and the joint committee on revision of the laws of the United States. ESTRADA VICTOR IN BATTLE. Zelayan Forces Completely Vanquished by Nicaraguan Rebels. Gen. Estrada's victory at Rama, Nicaragua, is complete. The Zelayan forces have been practically annihilated. Those not killed, wounded or captured are cut off from , retreat. Six hundred are dead on both sides, the government loss being by far the heaviest. In addition, Estrada has captured more than 2,000 men, 1,500 rifles and a million rounds of ammunition. Fourteen surgeons and assistants 'have been landed from the United States cruisers Tacoma and Des Moines at the order of Commander Shipley and are caring for the wounded in Improvised hospitals In Bluefields. Grand Duke Nicholas 'Icholalevitch, second cousin of the emperor, has been designated to take full and direct charge of affairs In Finland. Twenty Japanese were killed and fifteen were Injured, several of them fatally. In the recent wreck of a Great Northern work train between Vancouver and New Westminster, B. C. The republic of Liberia has requested the assistance of the United States government in organizing a police force with a view of controlling the many tribes of the African hinterland. Sensational charges have been made by directors of the Dai Nippon Sugar Company, involved in the sugar scandals of Japan, against cabinet ministers and elder statesmen, of sharing in the graft of $3,000,000 secured by the Formosa Sugar Company. It is reported from London that a cataract is rapidly forming on the remaining eye of Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation Army. An operation is inevitable. Meanwhile he is busy addressing meetings, controlling the army and dictating correspondence. No less than 80,000 perso:ii are starving in Armenia, according to advices received by the National Armenian and Indian Relief Association of this country. Princess Waldemar died recently in Copefhagen. She was the wife of the youngest son of the late King Christian. Prince Waldemar and his three sons are traveling in India. The Swedish government is about to undertake an investigation of the causes of the large emigration from that country to America, with a view to applying remedies which will prevent the depletion of the country '.ts very best blood. At Calcutta Lord Minto published his plan for an increased representation of the Hindu and Mohammedan peoples of India on the vice regal and provincial councils. The functions of the former body are to be greatly increased and its members will take the oath of allegiance to the crown. English courts have now ruled against the suffragettes, who appealed from their prison sentences, on the ground of their right to petition the government Mrs. Pankhurst, the leader, who has just returned from her American tour, expect d to have to serve her sentence, but some man anonymously had paid her fine.

ALBERT TAKES AS KING OF Hundreds of Thousands View State Entry of Successor to Leopold II. Into Capital. FAVORS HUMANITY IN KONGO New Ruler's Speech from Throne Gives Pledge for Mission of Civilization in Africa. Albert I., King of the Belgians, with his queen, Elizabeth, made a state entry Into the capital from Laeken Thursday., Cannon boomed forth a royal salute, church bells rang out and hundreds of thousands of people lined the route of the regal march crying "Long live Albert!" and "Long live Elizabeth!" When the procession arrived at the chamber, where the oath of ascension was to be taken, the successor to Leopold II. was given a notable reception by the assembled senators and deputies. A feeble attempt of tue Si clalist3 to make a republican demonstration failed miserably. At every discordant note a fresh outburst of cheering drowned the voices of the malcontents. King Albert's speech from the throne was an eloquent tribute to Leopold I. and to his uncle, Leopold II. He declared that the latter had performed a prodigious work in Africa, with the constant thought of enriching the nation and increasing the economic resources of Belgium. Turning to the subject of Belgium's future, King Albert said: "We must continue our unshakable attachment to constitutional liberty and the love of independence', and thus hold sacred our patrimony while advancing toward the peaceful conquests in the field of labor and science. In the Kongo the nation wishes a policy of humanity and progress enforced. The mission of colonization cannot be other than a mission of high civilization. Belgium always has kept her promises, and when she engages to apply in the Kongo a policy, worthy of her, none has a right to doubt her word." MONSTER WARSHIP LAUNCHED. Utah, Greatest of Battle Craft, Leaves Ways Into the Delaware. Declared without an equal afloat, the Utah, the greatest battle ship ever built in the United States, was launched from the yard of the New York Shipbuilding Company at Camden, N. J., In the presence of several thousand persons, who crowded the piers and every other vantage point. As the hull started to leave the ways, Miss Mary Alice Spry, of Salt Lake City, daughter of the Governor of Utah, broke a bottle of champagne against the keel of the ship. Launchings of warships on the Delaware have become a common sight, but the latest addition to the American navy aroused the enthusiasm of the crowd, whose cheers, as well as the din made by the whistles of river craft, continued several minutes. Fish President f Expelled. Frank O. Horton of Fairfield County, a student at the Ohio University at Athens, was expelled by the faculty as a result of an altercation and scuffle with President Alston Ellis in the latter's office during the day. Dr. Ellis sustained a broken ankle. Skater See Companion Die. While hundreds looked on powerless to save him, Edwin Gormley, 20 years old, was drowned in Lake Carasaijo, N. J. Ohio Hoys Ilnrned to Death. Two boys, Charles Myers, aged 16, and his brother, Peter, aged 14, sons of James Myers, lost their lives in the destruction of the Myers residence near Nowcomerstown, Ohio, by fire. The boys' escape was cut off from a windowles3 room In which they slept. Fight I! anted to Death. At Hillsdale, Pa., the exploding of an oil lamp caused the death of Santaco Cierbo, his wife, .'wo daughters an:l ton; Frank Ambnsino, - Ste Renipele and Mike Daradille, borders. Won; an Knntn Claim In Ilurned. Putting on the guise of Santa Claus, including a large false beard, to amuse the children of Charleston, 111., Miss Clara McClory drew too near the candles of the Christmas tret, her beard caught fire, and she is in a serious condition from burns. Fear for King Alton mo. A Paris paper prints a private communication from Madrid saying the condition of King Alfonso has created the gravest anxiety in court circles. Another operation Is imperative.

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Political King of Aew York Bower y lne Awny. Tknothy P. ("Little Tim") Sullivan, political king of the Bowery, and one of New York City's picturesque figures, died in his home, 222 East 12th street, of acute Brlght's disease and inflammation of the lining of the heart. From dawn until evening "Little Tim" was passing slowly away. At 5:30 p. m. he emerged from a semi-comatose state. He knew he was close to death, and said farewell to the Immediate members of his family and a few close friends' The news spread quickly, and in many houses there was weeping. Thousands he had befriended, standing between them and actual want, were inconsolable. ' ENGINE CRASHES INTO DEPOT. St. Paul Union .Station Hesemble . Wreek Caused by 1?xi1ohIoii. The engine of a Great Northern freight train plunged through the baggage room at the union depot in St. Paul at C o'clock the other morning and brought up in the basement. The cars piled up on the tracks outside, a mass of tangled wreckage, high enough to split the roof of the train shed. Engineer La Clair jumped just before the engine sfruek the building. He was not hurt, tnd declared the brakes failed to stop the train The havoc created by tho wreck resenibled that of a plosion. FARMERS PURCHASE AUTOS. J. C. Coe of Moose Jnw, Saskatchewan, Carrie Order of Neighbors. Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is the postoffice address of J. C. Coe, a farmer, who spent a day in Detroit on his way to New York. Farmer Coe'smaln reason In visiting Detroit was to buy an automobile. From ' his farmer neighbors he , had orders and bank drafts for twenty-nine more "whiz wagons." Coe's automobile cost $4.500. and the rest of the cars were all of high grades, several In f.he $5,000 class. Trustees' of the Carnegie College retirement fiind have modified the rules of the trust, so that the retirement age for instructors will be 65, or after twenty-five years. Frank White has been appointed director of education for the Philippine islands, to succeed Dr. Barrows, resigned. Mr. White has been assistant director of education at Manila for several years. He was reared in Nebraska and is a graduate of the University of Chicago. Louisiana will follow the methods of Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas and teach to every one of the pupils who enter the agricultural high schools the same curriculum that Is taught in the four Northwestern States. This is the'ttrst year that agriculture has been taught with system and practical work In the high schools of Louisiana. The first published report to the effect that the famous elective system at Harvard had been abolished prove3 to have been incorrect. It appears to have been true, however, that under the Lowell administration plans for improving that system are receiving attention. One change contemplated is to require students to complete the prescribed course in any study that they elect. At a meeting of the Graduates Club at New York the subject for discussion was "Do our systems of public education prepare children and youth to enter life with principles of honor?" A number of prominent educators expressed the fear that they do not, and Prof. John Dewey thought there was a much higher standard of morality In our colleges than there used to be. The introduction of the professional element in eöllege athletics was deplored. The university at Birmingham, Eng., this year, for the first time, has conferred the degree of doctor of laws, the recipients being men distinguished In letters, art, politics, science and philosophy. Among the men honored by the degree Is Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate. . Delegates from the Fargo and New Itockford (N. D.) Congregational colleges met recently at Jamestown. N. I)., and took the first steps to raise $250,000 for the two schools. President Creegan of Fargo College. President Hart of New Itockford CoHe.se. and i number of prominent capitalist:; of the State were in attendance. The edict has gone forth at Knox College that at foot ball games girls must abstain from joining in college yells and must content themselves with songs. It is declared a breach of dignity and decorum for girls to yell and indulge In noisy and vehement demonstrations. Students of the Iowa Agricultuial College were awarded first prize In the students' judging competition for the J. Ogden Armour scholarships at the International live stock exposition. The Iowa students won with a total of 4,940 points, taking first honors in cattle and hogs. Mississippi took first in horses and Ohio first tn sheep.

CZAR MENACED BY BOMB PLOT. Six Conspirators Arrested Explosives Found in Basement. The Russian secret Service police have unearthed a plot against the Czar and Czarina. There were arrested in Moscow the other day two women and four men who are members of anarchistic groups. It is expected these arrests may throw some 14ght on the killing by a bomb a few days ago in St. Petersburg of Col. Karpoff, the chief of the secret police of that city. The arrest of the men and women was made in a house on Baskakow street, where they had been livin? for fortnight. In the house, hidden in the cellar, were found several bombs filled with a high explosive. The secret police have been watching this house ever since Col. Karpoff was killed. v The information the police received was that the suspects were making the bombs to use upon the arrival in Moscow of the Czar and Czarina. The police say the bombs were to be dispatched to the Kursk depot and exploded there when the imperial couple and their suite arrived on the Livadia railway. A watchman implicated in the conspiracy disappeared immediately after the arrests were made. The arrests and the finding of the bombs created a sensation in the city and resuited in a more rigid supervision over all persons arriving In Moscow. This supervision always has leen a rigid one, but the watchfulness of the police is greater just at present than ever before.

NEGRO IS HERO AT FIRE. Saves Physicians and Students When ; Kansas City Building- Is Hazed. Heroic work on the part of Washington Johnson, a negro janitor, saved the lives of a score of persons in the Rialto building, a five-story office structure at 9th street and Grand avenue, Kansas City, which was destroyed by a fire caused by a gas explosion. The loss is estimated at $300,000. Johnson discovered the fire and, realizing that a number of physicians ind medical students were sleeping on the upper floors, he rushed through the halls shouting an alarm. When he believed every one had escaped he made his way to the street. There he learned that Charles R. Manley, a student who slept on the fifth floor, was missing. Without a moment's hesitation Johnson rushed up the stairs to the top of the building. As he started through the hall on the fifth floor he met Manley, dazed and half-choked, groping about. Taking the man by the arm, the negro guided him through the smoke and flames and the two men reached the street just as a second explosion shook the building. ominu(fd on G7Sth Ballot. Former State Senator C. C. Dickinson, of Henry County, received the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Sixth District of Missouri. The convention took G75 ballots. Dickinson received forty-two votes and J. W. Suddath thirty-two on the last ballot. The vacancy in the Sixth District was caused by the death of Congressman De Armond. Mine Furnace for Years. Two Mexicans are dead and a dozen other persons are lingering between life and death as a result of a volcanic outburst of gas when workmen in the Weaver mine of the American Fuel Company near Gallup, N. Mex., broke Into the old workings of the mine, which has been burning for, seven years. ' Rdm Officer Bomb Victim. Col. Karpoff, chief of the secret police of St. Petersburg, was assassinated the other day. Col. Karpoff had been enticed to a modest apartment in a remote street of the Viborg district and there was blown to pieces by a bomb exploded supposedly by his host, one Michael Vosskessensky. Indian Official I Slain. Arthur Mason Tippets Jackson, chief magistrate of Nasik, in the presidency of Bombay, India, was assassinated by a native while attending a theatrical performance. Xasik is a hotbed of sedition. AVlll Prosecute Meat Packer. Attorney General Jackson of Kansa? will soon Institute suit against the Kansas City, Kan., packers for alleged violations of the Kansas an'I-trust Ian in fixing the selling prke of mcatj and other products. Knuine Kxploftlon Workn llnvoe. Five are believed to be dead anc seventeen injured as the result ot the explosion of an engine in the shopi of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa tific Railroad in Shawnee, Okla. The known dead are Robert Kerr and Jcliu Johns. Kerr and Johns were working on the engine. Bank (innrnnty In Void. Judge John C. Pollock In the United States District Court at Topeka, Kan., In a decision declared that Kansas bank guaranty law to be invalid.

Explosion Is Followed by DeathDealing Gases in Pit Near V Herrin.

OPEN LAMPS CAUSE DISASTER Prompt and Gallant Rescue Measures Are Put Forth by Management and Others. Eight men were killed and the live3 of 409 others were imperiled by an explosion of gas in mine "A" of the Chicago and Carterville Coal Company, near Herrin, 111. Open lamps carried by the mine's engineer and his assistants caused the disaster. Thee were three men and a boy in this party and all lost their lives. Prompt action by the management of the mina resulted in the safe exit of the hundreds of men who were at work below ground. Within five minutes of the first reports of the explosion the miners in the Immediale vicinity of the accident were started toward the surface and on the return trips of the cages rescuers were lowered to entries Nos. 7 and 8 west, where the catastrophe took place. The dead are: Eugene Barrett, assistant engineer; Salvatore Greeco, Thomas Harber, miners; W. T. Pierce, mine engineer; Pietro Romeo, laborer; George Snyder, miner; Thomas Williams, assistant manager; unidentified boy, about 1C years old. James Guinney, superintendent of the mine, and Robert Hueston, manager, headed the first relay of rescuers. Despite the black damp which flowed into the chambers adjoining those in which Pierce and his party were killed, these men plunged into the workings. Three bodies blocked their path. Hasty examination showed that the men were alive, and they were rushed to the surface. One of them was A. J. Hueston, a brother of the manager. The others were Charles Klem and Albert Shelton. All were, revived and are expected to recover from the effects of the gas. The rescuers next found the boiies of Snyder, Greeco and Romeo. None of these men had been burned, the condition of the bodies, testifying mutely to the force of the concussion. Barter's body was badly burned, the features being scorched almost beyond recognition. The valiant efforts of the rescuers to penetrate more deeply into the workings were repulsed by increasing banks of after damp. The ventilating aparatus of the mine had not been damaged, but it could not cope with the gases and Guinney and Hueston and their helpers were forced to retreat, leaving the bodies of Pierce and his companions. Fire also began to gain headway. Later all efforts were directed towards fighting the flames. Conditions are such that it is hoped they will be confined jto the two entries" affected by the explosion. The mine Is under the active management of 'J. B. Peters, of Carbondale, who is vice president of the Chicago and Carterville Coal Company. The president of the concern is Jame3 Pease, of Chicago, former sheriff of Cook County. WARRINER GETS 6-YEAR TERM. Big Four Embezzler Guilty and Asks Quick Sentence. With a hysterical plea that sentence be pronounced Immediately, Charles L. Warriner, the defaulting local treasurer of the Big Four Railroad, pleaded guilty to embezzlement In Cincinnati and was sentenced to six years at hard labor in the State penitentiary. The plea or guilty was made by prearrangement between the county prosecutor and the attorneys for the man who is alleged to have stolen at least $643,000 from his employers. Mrs. Jeanette Stewart-Ford, the woman in the Warriner case, will be brought to trial on a charge of blackmail, and the principal witness against her will be Warri.'ier, whom she 13 alleged to have driven from crime to crime for ten years. When Warrlner's lawyers entered a plea of guilty their client made ii wild, .passionate declaration of the agonies he had suffered during the years that he had been engaged in systematic thefts. He concluded with an appeal for an Immediate sentence. Hlar Whisky Warehouse Burna. A fire which for several hours threatened the destruction of an entire block in the heart of the city's business center destroyed the five-story whisky warehouse of Sol and Slg Frieberg, Fourth street and Central avenue, Cincinnati, and the firm's stock of whisky valued at $125,000. The entire loss is estimated at more than $200.000. Slays Wife, Children ana Self. George C. Cheuvrent, a prominent resident of Fresno, Cal., killed his wlfa with a hatchet and then perhaps fatally Injured his children, a boy of 11 and a girl of 10 years. Following this, Cheuvrent rushed to the Southern, Pacific tracks, threw himself under a passing train and ' was killed. It I thought he suddenly became Insane. He was a rancher. Heavy Loss of Life In the Orient. News was brought by the steamer Empress of India that heavy loss of life was caused oft Korea and Japan j by severe gales. Six hundred and twenty Korean fishing vessels were wrecked. It was estimated that the loss of life would exeoei 2.000. nig (ialn for I.ocnl Option. As a result of the local option vote In Manitoba eighteen counties were added to the seventy which previously voted In favor of it.' Fifty eountiei remain "wet." 1 1 cad I'. S. Indian School. II. B. Peairs, superintendent of the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kan., has been appointed national supervisor in charge of the work of educating Indians, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. I,enve Illrlies for Concert. William M. Ampt, noted attorney md known as "Citizen" Ampt, who died at his home in that city a few days ago, bequeathed $150,000 to tho city of Cincinnati, for concerts for tha people.

CHICAGO. Dun's Weekly Review of Chicago Trade says: The season of "good will" is marked by evidences of business prosperity which afford much encouragement for the future. Heavy payments through the banks te.stify to larger use money and Christmas trade In the leading retail lines here and at interior points is seen to compare favorably with all previous successes. Heavy-weight apparel, necessaries and luxuries have been under remarkable absorption and dealers' st;ks generally have undergone ample reduction. The purchasing power of the people during the past few weeks has been shown to an extent fully equaling expectations. High prices occasioned some adverse comment, but failed to check the onslaught, of buyers, and it has been demonstrated clearly that consumption maintains a pace close to the production of ordinary requirements. Bank clearings, $27S,19S,338, exceed those of the corresponding' week in 10S by 31.9$ per cent, and compare with $164.254,379 in 1M7. Both latter years contained five business days. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 34', against S last week, 22 in 120S and 22 in 1&07. Those with liabilitlesover $5.000 number 11. against 10 last week, 6 last year and 7 In 1907.

NEW YORK. Holiday trade has occupied the center of the stage th!s week. Shopping everywhere, except perhaps in parts of the South, has been of exceptionally heavy production. A number of cities report a record volume of business, and in practically every place the turnover greatly exceeds that of 1D0S. Regular retail trade in wiaterweight goods has also been stimulated by crisp weather, and trade in the country districts has likewise improved, country roads being in better shape. In consequence jobbers report a larger volume of reorders. On the other hand, wholesale trade has turned quieter, salesmen being off the road, with stock taking under way. Manufacturers are also inventorying or else preparing to do so; therefore industrial lines are relatively less active, though orders for finished steel continLues in surprisingly heavy volume. ' Business failures In the United States for the week ending with Dec. 23 were 264, 2g3inst 273 last week, 106 in the like week of 1908. 24S in 1907, 161 in 1906 and 212 In 1903. Business failures In Canada for the week number 23, which compares with 33 for last week and 21 forthe like week of 190S. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $S.75 hogs, prime heavy, JLJJOto $8.53; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $5.73; wheat. No. 2, 11.23 'to 11.27; corn. No. 2, 60c to 62c; oats, standard, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2, 77c to 79c; hay, timothy, $10.00 to $19.00; prairie. $S.OO to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 30c to 33c; eggs, fre;h, 30c to 36c; potatoes, per bushel, 30c to 45c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.75; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $S.63; sheep, good to choice, $2.23 to $4 50; wheat, No. 2. $1.23 to $1.25; corn, No. 2 white, 59c to 61c; oats, No. 2 white. 46c to 47c. St.' Louis Cattle. ' $4.00 to $S.50; hogs, $4 00 to $8.33; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2. $1.29 to $1.32; corn. No. 2. 61c to 63c; oats. No. 2. 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2, 73c to 76c. Detroit Cattle. $4.00 to SC.00; hogs, , $4.00 to $S.15; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; Wheat, No. 2, $1.23 to $1.23; corn, No.. 3 yellow, 61c to 62c; oats, standard, 43c to 4Cc; rye, No, 1, 76c to 7Sc. Mil waukee Wheat. No. 2 northern, $1.13 to $1.16; corn, No. 3, C3c to 6Gc; oats, standard, 43c to 45c; rye. No. 1, 76c to 78c; barley, standard, 6Sc to 70c; pork, mess, $23.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.25; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $8.50; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $3.20. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, $1.20 to $1.22; corn, No. 2 mixed, 60c to 61c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 77c; clover seed, $9.00. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $7.15; hogs, $4.00 to $8.45; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.28 to $1.30; corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 61c to 62c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 46c to 47c; rye. No. 2, 77c to SOC New York Cattle. $4.00 to $6.S0; hogs. $4.00 to $S.6ö; sheep. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.28 to $1.30; corn. No. 2, 70c to 71c; oats, natural, white, 47c to 50c; butter, creamery, 35c to 37c; eggs, western, 32c to 35c. 1 The fortieth annual convention of the general executUe committee of the Women's Foreign Missionary bociety of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held at Pittsburg. The next convention will be held in a New England City not yet named. Imports for November were more than $36,000.000 greater than the imports of November, 1908, and our exports for the month showed an increase of more than $32,000.000 compared with the same month of 1908, according to a statement issued yesterday by the bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. St. Taul, Minn., began Its light before Edward S., Abbott, special master in chancery in the United States Court, for lower telephone rates from the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company. The youngest chauffeur ever arrested in New York for speeding was arraigned in a Brooklyn police court the other day, and held under bonds for trial. The boy, who, the police say, is less than 14 years old. pleaded guilty to going thirty-two miles an hour on a Long Island loulevard. The Society cf the Army of the Tennessee elected officers for the ensuing year at Columbus, Ohio, General Grenville Dodge of Council Bluffs. Iowa, was elected president, and most of the other officers were re-elected to their old positions.

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