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The Richmond Palladium, Thursday, December 6, 1906

! JT THE THEATERS

IH FACTORY FIRE

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Panic Follows Explosion of

Thousands of Matches in Indianapolis Plant.

A MAD JAM ON STAIRWAY

COMBUSTION TOOK PLACE IN A

FIREPROOF STORAGE VAULTOTHER FIRES ATTENDED BY

LOSS OF LIFE.

fire

.Publishers Tress. Indianapolis, Ind., Pee. 5. In a

xhat started from an explosion

thousands of paper matches at the fee

f.ory of F. A. Rathburn & Co., eight

nroune women were burned, rour or

fthem seriously. The others were pain

fully burned and injured In their fran

tic efforts to escape from the building.

The Injured are: Helen Stapp, bad-

?lr burned about the head, face and

arns, also hurt by jumping from a sec

oir story window; Ilattie Breedlove,

bun.ed about the face, arms and

1 1 id: Lizzie Richards, burned about

the face, arms and back, also hurt by

lumping; Myrtle Stapp burned about

the face, head and arms; Lulu Breedlove, arms burned and injured by

Jumping; Anna Reese, hurt about the

back by falling down a stairway;

Georglana Mitchell and Nellie Iters

ere slightly burned and hurt by fall

ing Several other girls were slightly

hurt in the panic that followed the ex

plosion.

Ten girls were at work on the sec

rmd floor of the factory when an ex

plosion in a fire proof storage vault

forced the door and hurled a sheet of

flames across the work room. There

was a rush for the stairway, which be

came choked with girls struggling, screaming and unable to reach the stairway. Some jumped from th9 windows to the ground. At the stair

way several of the girls fell and were

trampled upon.

Two girls made an unsuccessful ef

fort to get to the Are apparatus and de

Toted their efforts to beating out the lire, which ignited garments of fellov

employes. The forewoman of the fac

tory reached the telephone and while ?e w cnling the Are department.

others smothered the fire that was

burning hr clothing.

Westfleld, N. J., Dec. 5. Four chll

dren, two boys and two girls, ranging

Jn age from two months to five years, were burned to death at their home

near here. Mrs. W. F. Were! and

Mrs. Oscar Felter, who lived together with their two children each, went out to work, leaving the little oes at

home alone. During their absence their house caught fire. Firemen extinguished tie flames and found th-s

bodies of the children burned beyon J

recognition.

"Washington C. H.. O., Dec. 5. Lit

tle Charles, 2-year-o!d son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Crosby, was burned to

death at Mrs. Hugh McCoy's, south of,

town. Ita mother stepped to the door

to empty a pan of water when the ehPd thrust a small broom into the Biflte, from which it ignited its out

ing gown. When the mother returned

the child was struggling on the floo",

its tongue being burned out and nose burned off. It died in a few hours.

Seranton. Pa., Dec. 5. Two chil

dren, a boy and a girl, belonging to

Alfred Small, were burned to death

at their home at Pittston. It is thought tae girl played with paper in the kitchen fire, setting herself ablaze

and also the boy.

Indianapolis, ' Ind., Dec. 5. The

3-year old son of Mrs. Ora Wilson, was burned to death. The child's clothing caught fire while it was standing near the kitchen stove.' Wants Absolute Power. Washinglon, Dec. 5. The president sent a special message to congress urging legislation giving the executive authority on his own Initiative and responsibility to - dismiss any officer whom he thinks unworthy to remain in the service. The law at present provides that in time of peace no officer shall be dismissed except in pursuance of a courtmartial or in mitigation thereof. This provision, the president wants repealed. Illustrating the necessity for the legislation desired the president cites the case of a naval officer, whose name is not given, but who was accused of "indecent and disgusting behavior." He was convicted, but the courts, to his surprise, the president says, did not sentence him to dismissal. Bank Teller Gone. Kansas City, Dec. 5. William C.' Anderson 49, collection teller of the First National bank of this city, is missing, and E. F. Swinney. the presilent. admitted that he is short $9,000 In his accounts. Anderson, who was In the employ of the bank 19 years, left the city Monday supposedly on a hunting trip. It developed that he abstracted $9,000 from the bank's funds, taking the money in three lots, last week. Anderson has a wife and grown Saughter here. Accused of Stealing Plans. Chicago,., Dec. 5. E. A. Steinhof! and R. G. Blackshaw, said to be agents of the American House Cleaning company of St. Louis, were arrested here in connection with the alleged theft of specifications and plans rt machinery, said to be valued at $100,000. No formal charge was made against the men by the local police nI they, were detained here on warrants taken out by a St. Louis man, charging them with, being fugitives from justice.

'Phone or write a card to the Palladium of the little piece of news your neighbor, told you and get your name In the news "tip" contest for this Week. i

Vaudeville at the Phillips.

Another large audic-nce greeted the performers in vaudeville last night at

the Phillips. This week's bill is of

such an attractive nature that it

proving especially pleasing to the pa

trons of the house. As expected, in

terest centers in the performing

bears Nip and Tuck and they are well deserving of close attention, for

they are bright and lively and seem able to acquire some habits that are

supposed to pertain almost exclusive ly to the human race for instance,

drinking .out of a bottle. The bill

other wiseis also of a very enterta

ining nature, and all told is worth

much more than it costs to see it

Saturday there will be a special mat

inee for children, and on Saturday

night the usual double performance.

BROWNSVILLE CASE

COMING UP TODAY

Absence of Senator Penrose

Causes Senate to Defer Action on Matter.

A CHILD LABOR MEASURE

SENATOR LODGE INTRODUCES

BILL BUILT ON THE SAME PLAN

AS THAT OF SENATOR BEVER IDGE'S.

Publishers' Tress. Washington, utc. a. ttusiiiesS heavy in the senate Wednesday. It was practically the first opportunity senators had to introduce petitions, memorials, bills and resolutions and rcany were presented. The vice president laid before the senate a number of communications from the executive department, which were - ordered rrinted as documents. Without debate the senate adopted

a resolution calling on the secretary of commerce and labor to furnish the senate copies of all official letters, telegrams, reports, etc., filed in the department in connection with the investigation of the matter of Japanese

attending public schools of San Francisco. The resolution was presented bySenator Flint of California.

After debate the senate postponed

until Thursday consideration of the resolutions calling for information

relative to the discharge of negro troops of the Twenty-ninth infantry, formerly stationed at Brownsvill -, Tex. The delay was caused by the absence from the city of Senator Penrose. , ,

The senate committee on naval af

fairs ordered a favorable report on

the nomination of Victor H. Metcalf of California, to be secretary of the navy.

Senator Lodge introduced a bill de

signed to i revent the employment of child labor by . prohibiting interstate

commerce in any article in the produc

tion of which a child under 14 years

old was employed, and the prohibition extends to children under 16 who can not read and write. The violation of the law is made a misdemeanor pualshable by fine of $500 and imprisonment one year.

The president sent to the senate the

nomination of W. Morgan Shuster, District of Columbia, to be a member

of the Philippine commission and

secretary of public instruction in the rhilippine iSif.rids.

The house ratified the action of the

Democratic caucus and placed on the rolls Paul D. Porter of Mississippi to

succeed the late Isaac R. Hill of Newark, O., as a special officer of the house. .

Congressman Ames of Massachu

setts has begun a propaganda for the immediate movement for tariff revision. He says he Is not undertaking

to secure action at the present session of congress, but is urging on Republican members the advisability of a general caucus to "give concrete expression of their determination to Im

mediately revise the inequalities in

our tariff laws, so that all possible notice to the country at large may ba given as to the time of revision." He

thinks the subject should e taken up immediately after March 4 and would have the caucus determine the best methods of procedure and whether the whole tariff laws should be revised or only particular schedules amended.

Requisition Granted. Denver. Colo.. Dec. 5. Governor

McDonald granted the requisition of Governor Yardman of Mississippi for

George Jenkins, colored, wanted on the charge of murder committed in Tunica county. Miss., after the receipt of a message from Governor Yardman reading as follows: "Will

have George Jenkins brought to Jack-

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Two Cars of Train Carrying 175 Passengers, Ditched Near Frankfort, Ind. 18 PERSONS BADLY HURT

OTHERS ARE BRUISED AND

SCRATCHED CAUSED BY BRO

KEN RAIL NO EMBANKMENT

AND CARS REMAINED UPRIGHT.

Publishers' Press. Chicago, Dec. 5. The CincinnatiChicago limited train on the Moncn railroad was derailed two miles north of Frankfort, Ind., by a broken rail. Of 175 passengers on the train 13 were injured, but nobody was killed, and it. is not believed any of the injured will die. The train was going at a high rate of speed, and the rail broke beneath the engine, which passed the place in safety. The baggage and mail cars, coaches and sleepers left the track, and some of them were badly damaged. There is no embankment at the scene of the accident and the cars merely plowed their way along ground at the side of the track a considerable distance before being brought to a stop. The injuries of the passengers are bruises and cuts received by being thrown about the cars. The conductor, Mort Mason of In

dianapolis, was bruised. The five passengers most seriously injured were: Frank Kelly, Frankfort, Ind., injured internally; Mr. and Mrs. Charles

Cromwell, Frankfort, Ind., cut and bruised; M. L. Davis, Frankfort, Ind., wrist broken; David Mabbett, Manson, Ind., bruised and cut about tho

head; John Wilcox, Hamilton, O., rib i broken and otherwise injured internally, may die; Samuel E. Murray, Ox

ford. O., hurt about the head serious

ly; F. B. Garber, Hamilton. O., rib broken and hurt internally, in a seri

ous condition; Frank Coulter, Frank

fort, Ind., head and hands cut; Thom

as McDaniel, Frankfort, Ind., shoulder dislocated; Ham Brown, Greetingsville, Ind.. face cut and hands broken; James W. Boyle, Kllmore, Ind., face

cut and badly bruised; William. Kenyon, Frankfort, Ind., shoulder broken,

George Cullom, Frankfort, Ind., face and hands cut; Miss Mary Miiner, Se-

dalia, cut and bruised. Other passengers received scratches.

DESTRUCTIVE MICE. "

flier Tried to Sink the Ark, Accord-

Ins to an Old Legend. Mice do not play a great part in folk

lore. Even the legend of the "Pied Piper" associates them with rats, but

one recalls a few oases not uninterest

ing. A Bohemian legend declares that they were created by the levil, where

upon beneficence produced the cat.

When Noah received a pair of them Into the ark they straightway began

to gnaw a hole through the bottom, instigated by their unholy parent. Wa

ter was pouring In when the serpent, with admirable presence of mind, stopx

ped the leak with his head. We should conclude that mice are specially de

structive in Bohemia, and so it proves

to be. Both the white and gray varieties flourish there, but the former is

thought inoffensive. When' harvests

are ripening the peasants anxiously

catch a white mouse, put it in a com

fortable box upon the window sill, feed and pet It and call ft "the luck of the house." If satisfied with these attentions the animal will banish all its gray kinsfolk from the vicinity.

In that very interesting island of

Bali, also, where Brahmanism and

Buddhism inextricably mingled, sur

vive, wtnle all, the populations round

have long been Moslem, some fortunate

mice receive like honor. The Balis

catch a pair, clothe them in white linen

and set them in a public place, where

all the inhabitants of the village bow

down before them. Then they release

the prisoners and straightway, with an

easy conscience, trap and kill every

mouse that can be found, for they are

terribly destructive In the ricefields.

Let us cite an old Greek charm which

is worth quoting. "Take a paper and write," It says, I adjure you, ye mice now present, neither to injure me nor to let others do so. I give you yonder field' specifying one not far off 'and if ever I catch you here I swear by

the mother of the gods I will tear you into seven pieces. Write this and fix the paper on an unhewn stone in your field, taking care that the writing lies uppermost." Thus a man directed all

his mice to a neighbor's property, as

some villa residents at the present day

pitch their "nails over the garden wall.

London Standard.

Picture and Frame. "The function that the framing of a

picture should subserve and the char-

son. He will be protected and any i icter which it consequently should statement to the contrary is only for j have are so obvious that seemingly the purpose of defeating justice." It i they ought not to be so easily and so required this guarantee, including a often lost to view, as in reality they waiver or the claim of the Pueblo au- j are, says Frederick W. Cobnrn in the thorities for possession of Jenkins, 1 1nternational Studio. "A pictorial com

bo was under arrest there awaiting

trial, to secure the requisition.

Accused of Wrecking Train. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 5. Patrick

Eagan, a former employe of the Baltimore and Ohio road living at West

Kewton, near where the Baltimore

lad Ohio train was wrecked last SatIrday night, was placed under arrest.

charged with wrecking the train.

New Hotel Destroyed. Regina. Sakatchewan, Dec. 5. The

Wascona. a five-story hotel in course

of completion here, was destroyed. by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,000

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by a frame of such a sort that its attractiveness will.be enhanced and that an agreeable transition will be established between it and its surronndings. Although the frame may in and for itself be beautiful. Its beauty must be kept distinctly subservient to the aesthetic value of the picture. In no event may it be positively ugly. If machine construction is necessarily involved, this must at least be made as unobjectionable as possible. However, the frame should be produced in strict accordance with handicraft methods. A man never knows where to begin nor a woman where to quit. Humor is that quality which makes you able to turn the worst of. it Into

something a little better.

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SHAVING ON TRAINS.

Hot a Difficult Talk, Says a Man Who Haa Tried It. "There was a hurrah when some of the railroads started barber shops on their fast trains," said a traveling man. "The newspapers said that at last travelers could hare the luxury of a shave whenever necessary and that no longer would we see unkempt men leaving the trains at the end of a long run. "Now, the barber shops on the fast trains are undoubtedly a blessing to men who are not ableUo shave themselves, but for my part I consider them far more dangerous than y the simple operation of shaving yourself, even when going at the rate of sixty miles an hour. "I always shave myself, and I do not use a safety razor, yet I would sooner scrape my chin with an unprotected blade while the train is going sixty or seventy miles an hour than let a barber on th same train lean over me with a sharp razor and perform the operation. "The reason for this Is that when one holds the razor in one's own hand the razor moves with you if there should be a sudden jar or jolt. If you fall toward the razor the razor falls away from you, as your arm is naturally outstretched to prevent you from striking a wall. "But suppose the barber is leaning over you as you sit in a chair and a sudden lurching of the train throws him against the chair. What chance have you in the chair to get away from the sharp blade coming in your direction?

"I have shaved myself dozens of times on fast trains and slow trains, and I have never cut myself once. Yet a number of my acquaintances who have patronized the train barber shops have been compelled to wear court plaster during the remainder of the trip. "Up to a year or so ago I never shaved myself on a train, and I never saw any one else doing it. Then perhaps because of the advent of safety razors it became a comparatively familiar sight to see a man shaving himself in the smoking room of the Pullman. "I have had traveling men seeing me shave for the first time express their surprise that I did not cut myself owing to the lurching of the train, and when I have explained to them how easily one can-shave on a train they have become Instant converts to the practice. Like all simple things, one does not realize how simple it is until one has tried It. "Another thing, it is Infinitely smoother shaving when tne train is going fast than when making only twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. The curves and the jolts seem more severe on a slow train. The steady motion of a swiftly moving train is more conducive to security and comfort than any slow train." Washington Post.

She I hope the opera didn't bore you. lie Oh, dear.no! You talked so entertainingly all evening that the music didn't bother me a bit. Philadelphia Press.

Of W ide Application. First Little Boy Let's play thug. Second Little Boy All right. I'll be the thug. First Little Boy No; you be the bloke that gets it behind the ear. I'll be the thug. ' Second Little Boy Then I guess I'll be the p'liceman. First Little Boy You'd better go home, then, fur ther ain't no p'liceman in this thug game. Oakland Herald.

ANIMAL LIFE.

Too much sugar ruins a canary's voice. The Mexican lapdog Is the smallest member of the dog family. The leech has three Jaws, each, fitted with eighty to ninety teeth. There are sixty-five species of bamming birds enumerated by oraltlioiogists. .. .

Hardly Satisfactory Reference. "That beauty doctor was so mad with Cholly Blanker for the recommendation he tried to give that he was going t? sue poor Cholly." "What did Cholly say?" "Told Miss Passe If she wanted Information about how to treat her face to go to this specialist; he could give her some wrinkles." Baltimore American.

Play las Safe. Policeman Say, Pat, why Is it I see ypu on the street so frequently of late? Pat Faith, an it's mesilf thot do be afraid t sthay at home. Policeman Why? Pat Oi'm afraid Oi'll be arristed fer Ioiterin, b'gorry. Puck.

Mavklng- Ready. He When I threw myself on my knees just now did jrou think I was going to propose? She No; I only thought you were feeling the ground. Young's Magazine.

And Get the Seat. To circuihvent poor weary men A woman uses "tact." That word describes her conduct when The trolley car Is packed. BufraloJSxpraa.

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McKinney is in Chicago atthe International, Stock show.

The Extravaganaa

Friday Evening, Dec. 7, and Saturdrr Afternoon and

Evening, Dec

The Most E'aborately Staged anArtistically Presented

Home Talent Operatic Production evr witnessed. One hundred and fifty people, Beautiful tostumes, Baitching Music. Read the cast: Glue Pot, toyman ...A. . Dowell King Katy I . Josephine Cates Angelica .. ... ... , .T. ... Marie Kauffman Topsy .. .. i.. Ramsey Poundstone Prince Carmel.. ... ............ ... ... Raymond Nicholson Sergeant Bon-Bon.. . Dean Jacques Sylvaniae .. .. Juliet Swayne Sand Man R. W. Stlmpson Man in the Moon Frank I. Braffett Prices 50 and 75 cents. Get seats at Westcott Pharmacy.

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G. MURRAY, LESSEE AND MAN AGER.

WEEK OF DEC. 3', 3 and 8:15 p Saturday 3, 7:45 and 9:15 p. m.

Overture, Miss Grace Miller. MILLS and LEWIS,

German Comedians, Late Stars of Weber and Field's Successes. C ILLUSTRATED SONGS, Cal. Lankert. D. NOVELTY ACT.

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