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Tragedy of the Coal Fields Occurs This Morning in Indiana f.'inef in ; the Lackawanna District.1 ONLY VERY FEW MEN . ARE ACCOUNTED FOR -v. t ' j Work of Rescue Goes Gallantly On, While Weeping Women Stand About the Mouth . Of Ill-fated Mine. Pittsburg:, June 23. An- explosion in the Lackawanna Coal And Coke company's mine, Indiana, in Lackawanna county, occurred this morning, and' it la believed that the loss of life will be . In the neighborhood of eighty miners. The property loss will also amount to thousands of dollars. , The cause of the explosion is thought to be due to a prematura discharge of dynamite, used in loosening the coal, and the accumulated coal gas exploding,. . . There were 100 miners In the mine when the explosion occurred and only -a 'few had reached the surface at noon today. They were near the mine shaft when the explosion occurred and from their stories the explosion was a severe one.' . Form Rescue Party. A rescue party was immediately organised and although little headway is being made by them, they have succeeded In reaching a few of the entombed miners. At least 80 .of the miners are unaccounted for and it is impossible to tell whether they are dead or alive. r Officials of the mine realize the awfulness of the tragedy and have given out a statement to the effect that the list of dead will be very large. j While the men of the nearby village are working with almost superhuman strength in order to reach their comrades before it Is too late, the women, including wives and daughters of the ehtombed miners are gathered around the mouth of the mine praying for the safety of their loved ones. A few ot the women fainted and are in serious condition, but the majority are bearing up bravely in the face' of the disaster. ',"- y-" ' i It Is believed - by., the 'rescue party that the men are entombed and not buried . and that it the Intervening dsbrls can be removed in time, their lives can be saved. It la necessary taat the work progress much - more rapidly than it has in order to save the men- from suffocation or drowning. . The Indiana mine was one of the finest in Lackawanna county. It has never experienced such a serious disaster before. V ' J ' GOLFING SCHEDULE . . ; .r . -. .. v -essBsssssssssss) Country Club Will Have Many Interesting Events This ' -Season. CUP CONTEST JULY THIRD Interest In golf among the members of the Country Club la at fever heat and several excellent contests have been played up to date. On Saturday, July 3, the members who wish to compete for the Nusbaum cup will qualify. Later in the season the club's annual tournament will commence. The program for the season's sport so far arranged, is as follows: Saturday, June26--Two -club team contest. Brassy and mldlron only. " Teams chosen by two captains. Saturday, July 3 -Nusbaum cup tournament. . Sixteen- to Qualify. . Saturday, July , JONusbaum cup tournament. 'First round. t Saturday, July ; ,17 Nusbaum cup tournament.' Second round and first consolation round. Saturday, July 24 -Nusbaum cup tournament. Semi-finals. Saturday, July ' 31 Nusbaum cup tournament. Finals. Thirty-six holes. Saturday. August 7 Individual club contest. No. 1 putter. No. 2 mashie, No. 2 mldlron. No. 4 driver. No. 5 brassy. No. 6 cleek. No. 7 putter. No. 8 brassy. No. 9 driver. Saturday, August 14 Annual club cup tournament. ' Qualifying round. Sixteen to quality. Wednesday. August 18 First championship round. Saturday, August 21 Second champtonahip round and first consolation round for president's cud. - ' Wednesday. August 25 Semi-finals for championship and consolation. Saturday. August v 28 Finals lor club cup and president's cup. Thirtysix holes. , - Saturday, September 2 a Gala day for-golf players. - - u Their Caller I dent see why Coast Parches! and his American wife should quarrel. , Miss Davis Their interests clash, do they not? , .. Their Caller Not to any marked degree. Che wanted a foreign alliance and ha a foreigu allowance. Tcrrcw (Thursday) is L:4rciin CJcirt day at Itncncnbcrg's Stcre.

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A STOVE Small Fire at Home of Omer Thompson Resulted From The Flare Up. MRS. THOMPSON INJURED An exploding gasoline- stove - damaged the residence of Omer Thompson, 241 Charles street this morning and burned Mrs. Thompson severely about the hands and arms. The stove was leaking and when the match was ap plied the explosion resulted. ; The fire department was called and found little trouble in extinguishing the flames. The damage was slight, although the injury to Mrs. Thompson will be painful for some days. The departments were called' to the home of Al Brooks 37 North Third street yesterday afternoon." A pile of rags in' a wardrobe hard caught fire. The cause is unknown. No damage was done. . Baseball' Results NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Won Lost Pet. Pittsburg. . . . . . . . V. 38 , 13 .745 Chicago ..35 18 .660 New York '.. ..24 22 .522 Cincinnati . . .28 26 . .519 Philadelphia .. .. .. ..24 25 .490 St. Louis .. .. .. ..23 30 .433 Brooklyn .. .. .. . ..17 33 .340 Boston . .. .. .. ..13 35 .271 AMERICAN LEAGUE. .Won Lost Pet. Detroit.. .... .. .. ..36 19 .655 Philadelphia ........ 29 23 .556 Boston .. .. .. .. ..30 24 .556 Cleveland 29 24 .547 New York.. .. .. ..25 26 .490 Chicago 23 28 .451 Washington .. .. .. ..19 32 .373 St. Louis .. .. .. .. ..19 34 .358 ' AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won Lost Pet. Milwaukee.... .. .. ..34 29 .540 Columbus ..' .. .. .. .34 30 .531 Indianapolis .. .. .. ..34 31 .523 Minneapolis ........ 33 31 .516 Louisville ...... .. .33 , 31 .516 Toledo. i. .. .. .. .. ..28 33 .459 Kansas City .. .. .. ..27 32 .458 St. Paul .. ...... ..25 31 .446

RESULTS YESTERDAY. National League. ' No games played. American League. ' Detroit 1; St. Louis 0. Philadelphia 6; Washington 1. Boston 9; New York 6. Cleveland' 32; Chicago 2-7-0. American Association. St. Paul 3; Indianapolis 2. Kansas City-Columbus Raln. Milwaukee 4; Toledo 1. . Minneapolis 31; Louisville 03. Locating the Trouble. Ost Mary eame to her mother and said, "Mother, my ear aches!" "Does It ache very bad, Maryr staked her mother. "No." . "WelL ran mt and play. r Then yon wta forget about 1L If ary went wot but pretty soon she came back and said: "Mother, my car doea acb. It is not the beta, bwt th rofle arovnd It." aeveland Leader.:

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AT CAMBRIDGE CITY Will Consider the Revision of Districts. Delegates from the different, churches of Whitewater Valley Baptist association, of which the First Baptist church of this city, is a member,: will meet at Cambridge City tomorrow" to settle the Question of dividing the district and enlarging the Flat . Rock association,' and also the Muncie .district. The delegates from the local church include, Rev. R. H. Smith, Rev. A. Parker, A. J. Ford, Will Ferguson and Charles Farnham. U They will favor the discontinuance of the Whitewater Valley association. However It is probable that the delegates from other churches will fight the change. ' Local delegates assert that the change is necessary owing to the difficulty in all charges reaching a central meeting place. It the change is made the local church will be placed in the Muncie district: H ELD II 0 M 1 11 ATI 0 IIS AT COUEfl DE L H. H. Miller Candidate' for Chancellor Commander. At the meeting of Couer De Lion lodge. Knights of Pythias last evening nomination of officers to be elected next Tuesday evening was held. Owing to the late hour the nominations for certain offloes were not closed but will be left open until the next meeting night. Included in the list of nominations is that of H. H. Miller, a linotype operator for the Palladium, tor chancellor commander and Will Reller as outer guard. Two candidates, E. H. Harris and Mr. Grisley, were given the third rank work; JAMES B. GENTRY IIOYH FREE MMI Pardoned by the Governor at Midnight. Philadelphia. June 23. James B. Gentry,. the actor who was pardoned after serving fourteen years of a life sentence tor the murder ot. Madge Yorke. a pretty young actress with whom be was infatuated, left the Eastern penitentiary early today, a free man. It was nearly midnight when Gov. Stewart's pardon reached Philadelphia and Gentry was released at 1:05 a. m. W0 SESSION OF BOARD. The board of works was at Lafayette today to attend the municipal league convention. No session was held. President Hallowell of the board did not attend the convention. -. There was once an Egyptian king, so It is said, who built a pyramid and died ot mclaacbely. His nam was Dassops, yet there are probably few persona who know that they are perpsrsmttag the meaaory of his tragic that they

RELEASE GMIITED TO ISAAC LOUIS Man Held at Request of Kentucky Officers Secures His Freedom.

HABEAS CORPUS ACTION AFTER THE ARREST OF THE MAN NO WORD WAS RECEIVED FROM KENTUCKY AND STAUBACH IS ANGRY MAN. " Isaac Lucas, who was arrested yesterday morning and detained In the city jail as a fugitive from justice, was released this morning on an order of the circuit court '' Lucas entered habeas corpus proceedings in circuit court yesterday afternoon. Supt. Staubach appeared in court this morning and stated frankly he had no reason t3 bold Lucas except the request from Lagrange, Ky. Supt. Staubach Is displeased by the action of the Kentucky officials. Comply With Request. Lucas has been about the city for some time and the Lagrange authorities were notified. Yesterday Staubach received a request to lock' him up and hold for an officer. The request .was complied with and word was sent to Lagrange that the man was in custody. Nothing further was beard from Kentucky and the , man would have been released today without the Intervention of the court. Lucas broke jail at Lagrange after being arrested for passing a fraudulent check. BATHING IN THE SEA. It Orla-late4 In Kalast4 1st the Blshteeatk Ceatarr. ' " j Sea bathing bad its origin in England before 1750, when Dr. Richard Russell published bis treatise on the virtues' of sea water. The healing virtues of the sea bath were not understood, nor was the practice of sea bathing generally resorted to. There seems to hare existed a horror of the sea; Indeed, in mediaeval times a compulsory dip i its waters was a sentence often passed on the public offender. In the earlier decades ot the eighteenth century western Europe suffered heavily under "king's evil," the popular name for that tuberculous affection which scourged all classes from peer to peasant.- : : ' Tr. Russell, a Sussex practitioner, had observed that dwellers "on the coast used, to drink of the sea water, bathe n it, .even wash their- sores, in it " and bind them up. witb sea weed. Having t- satisfied himself as to the efficacy of the practice he began to prescribe for, bis patients with most satisfactory 1 results. His treatise resulted in the coasts becoming largely patronized by the ailing, and the demand for seaside lodgings , wss soon a growing quantity. This gradually spread to the continent. Then people commenced to see . that fresh water was a good thing, and the vital Importance of the skin ss an excretor of waste was greatly emphasized somewhat later (in 1S34, when the morning "tub" was Instituted and has since acquired a worldwide reputation. OLD JEWISH TRADITION. The War the Israelites ( OM lest Their Third Bye. The Jews of eastern Palestine and Asia Minor have a queer tradition which has survived from ancient times and tells of a remote period in their history when every fully devolped Israelite was equipped with three perfect eyes. The two main optics were situated in the front part of the bead, just as eyes are today, but the third was located in the back part of the head just above the nape of the neck in the edge of the bair. This wonderful third eye in man was not "evoluted" out of existence, but was closed by divine injunction on the day when Moses was given the tables of stone on Sinai. - You remember that God's command on the day that the tables were renewed was to the effect that no man should be : seen in the vicinity of the holy mount. (See Ex. xxxiv, 3.) The believers In the three eye tradition say that Moses supplemented God's command , by ordering the faithful who were encamped in the valley to turn their heads from the mountain. This they did, but took good care to uncover the eye that was situated In the back of the head. . Moses, noticing tills show of duplicity on the part of bJs followers, asked God to dose the third, or rear, eye, and since that day the Israelites, hi common with the remainder of humanity, have been forced to depend on two eyes only. rfMKMIiQM PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY.

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Ketchel, who Meets Papke in July

By Tad. : New York, June 23. Cof froth's Colma arena will be enlarged to twice Its slse for the Ketchel-Papke battle, which is scheduled for July 5. The western promoter expects as big a crowd for that go as be had for the Corbett-Jeffries affair some years ago, at which the receipts ran up to 960,000 or more. That was Coffroth's prise card. He advertised it well, and Jeff's presence made it a card, that westerners will . never forget. It was the second largest crowd that ever witnessed a fight .in America. It wr.s held in the old Mechanics' pavilion, now down. I Coffroth's new arena will seat twice as many people as Mechanics pavilion did. and he expects to have ringside seats put down to $25. PLEADS HOT GUILTY Mrs. Cora Bradley was arraigned in city court this afternoon on the charge of petit larceny. She was accused ot stealing the clothes of Everett Bradle? from the home of his parents on South Tenth street. 8he plesd not guilty. Wilfred Jessup rep resenting Mrs. Bradley moved to suppress the warrant on which she was arrested. She was arrested under the name of Cora Taylor, her maiden name. . The woman, who is twentytwo years old married a boy sixteen, claimed she took the clothes but did so on the request of the boy she married. - ,fyy . C, DEVEBS Oil TRIAL Clester Devers was cn trial in city court this afternoon on the charge of harboring a dog on which the tax had not been paid. Henry Hiatt was the deputy assessor who appeared aa prosecuting - witness. Devers admitted harboring - the dog,- but claimed be did not own it. - The law takes no exception to lack of possession. Devers is not of age, however. The court took the case under advisement. Mathewson Still . . .-AT , - -weW

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This, the fourth meeting between the pair. Is the talk of the count-. When they met In Milwaukee first. Ketchel won a hairline decision. Later they met at Los Angeles and Papke knocked his man out. giving him a fearful beating. Some months later Ketchel turned around and knocked Papke out, regaining his title. Now, the fourth match Is looked up. on as a wonder, and esneciallv - as Papke has shown the snorts that be is still there with the wallop. His win over Hugo Kelly showed them that he was more confident than ever, and carried just as dangerous a wallop. It will surely be a grand battle, and. from here, it looks ss though the fellow who sends in the first bingle la liable to cop. Both being terrific punchers it's a hard fig'at to gamble on. A JEW SHAKE STORY Milton, Ind., June 23. Mrs. Catherine 8wafford. south ot Milton, who killed a large black snake In her orchard a tew days ago. killed ita mate yesterday. She again heart a noise among the poultry aad found the snake racing through the orchard. When killed it measured 5 feet. 7 inches. It was about 5 inches around it. The other measured 6 feet and 3 Inches in length and 8 inchea around it. Mrs. Swafford with the assistance of Miss Ruth Hacker, killed both. A Definite R An English paper tells of canny Scot whose neighbor met him flitting. The Scot bsd wife and children aad household furniture piled atop the wagon, and he -was solemnly driving his one horse along the street. "So ye're fllttin'rv said the neigh bor. - "I am. I want to bo near mo week.' "And Where's yer Job?" I haven't got one yet' Not a Romance.- - " "Dear fcr-Brt." she murmured. . "Only SO cents a Pound,' explained the butcher. "I think I'll take some liver." - LoolsTlllo Courier-Journal. King of Pitchers

THE WEARING OF SHOES.

That Alameat a hS aa . . . the Stae Itself. - What Is regarded as the earliest reference to shoes is found la the OKI Testament where Abraham rtfnsss to take aa much as a shoe lafcnet trees tbo kins of Sodom. Among the Jews the shoe played an Important part la many social usagea. When, baying or selling land It was customary to deliver a shoe, and the act of throwing dowa a shoe on territory implied occupancy. The finding of sandals on . Egyptian mammies . proves that tno wearing of shoes Is almost as old as the race itself. la Venice in the seventeenth century every lady of any pretension to fashion or posltloa wore what were called "choppine, high clogs or pattens, to elevate them from the ground. Thomas Coryat. a traveler who Tlslted Venice in 1G1I. says of them: "They are so common in Venicethat ao woman goeth without either In her house or abroad. It Is a thing made of wood and covered with leather in sundry colors some white, some red. some yellow. Many of them are curiously painted; some also of them have I seen fairly gilt. There are many of these chspineys of a great height-even half a yard high aad by bow mnch the nobler a woman ta by so much the higher are her rhaplneys. All their gentlewomen and most of their wives and widows that are of any wealth are assisted or supported either by men or women when they walk abroad, to the end that they may not falL Chicago News. SERPENT EATING SNAKE A Veaesseaa Keptlle That WUl AS tack Mas ar Beast. The serpent eating snake, or king of serpents (Opblophagus elaps) found la Burma, la among the most interesting ot our venomous snakes and the only! really aggressive member of the ophidians, readily attacking any man or animal that happens Ita way. The female la especially Irritable during the season of modification, aad aa adult snake attains a length of from . twelve to fifteen feet. Is superlatively, swift and active and possesses a poison , fang three Inches in length aad charged with a very powerful venom. It will be admitted that " Opblophagus elaps, Xala bungaros or serpeattvore, as it is also called, la a foe that had better be avoided. ' While being neither an arboreal nor a water snake, the Ophiophagus elaps climbs trees with facility aad takes to water readily, swimming with great ease and skllL Its poison is as deadly .la Its effect as tbst of the lesser hooded . snake (the Ophlophsgns elape also carries a hood), the cobra, but it Is believed that the sctloa of the venom Is not quite ao rapid. The shortest period within which ft proved fatal to a fowl was fourteen tnlnntee, while a og expired In two hours and elgiiteea minutes. Nicholson relates an account of aa elephant which succumbed to a bite ta tire hours. Amrlta Bazar Tstrika. - Viae CerereS BaUali If. as some ssy. ninety -nine .out of a hundred American buildings are commonplace or ujdy, it Is a good thing to coven the walla completely, bat when we have a piece of architecture that is a Joy to everybody something la which we can really take pride vines should never be allowed to cover tt.cn- 1 tirely. In such a case the beauty of the viae Is Its aspiration. Its incompleteness. This Is particularly true of a beautiful church, aad the right relation of architecture end follsge is well understood la England, bat not ta this . country except in Boston and a few ' other communities. Garden . Magaglae. . - " ' ' The Gaese aff Qalatftla. - The game of quintain survives only In the village ot Offnam Green in Kent. Englsnd. It Is so named from an instrument used in tilting on horseback with the lance. It consisted of an upright post, surmounted by a crossbar turning on a pivot, which had at one end a flat board ami at the other a bag of sand. . The object of the tllter was to strike the 'board at such a rata of speed that be would be past aad oat ' of the way before the bag of sead, aa It whirled round, could hit him la tbs back. , . 1 Pleasttttt t Csssparleeav. " Old Hanks (sitting for his photograph) Well, ain't yon ready t What ' are yon wailing for? rhotographer :' A little p!easanter expression, pt Mrs. Hunks (who Is standing at side) He's got his plcaaaater aloa on, Mr. Smith. I gasaa yew didn't notice how be looked Chicago Tril ' Rvvaed V aw l Vjpn Blnmer While I waa watching the ticker some stock I boocht went op 20 points in aa hour. Dimpteton So yea made, big money. Von Blumer No. I came oat about area. Uy wife was at ber dressmaker's at the same time. Life. hi Cassldy Hello: How's you? Casey Busy, very busy lndade. Cassldy la It so? Casey Aye! Chare, every time I'm at laysnre I her seasav thln to do-Phlladelpbia Praam. PALLACIU'J VVAfJT AD3. PAY, a CCZZ end teCcrccTrn t&Fr.i r??-?f?