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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-12-12, Page 7400 MEN ENTOMBED, HAVE ALL PERISHED. Eighty.five Bodies So Far Recovered. Five Rescuing Parties In Work of R elief. Broken -Hearted Women liorror-Stricken. Monogah, W. Va., Dee, 0.—With un - 'abated energy five resetting parties, working from every possible point to Miter and explore mines Nos. 6 and 8, of the Fairmont Coal Company, a sub- sidiary of the Consolidated Coal Com- pany, of Baltimore, where a. terrific ex- plosion of black damp occurred yester- day, are this meriting putting forth every effort to reach the 315 men whom they have every reason to believe are still in the mine, deed or alive, although there is scarcely a hope entertained that a single one of the 400 or more men who went into the mine yesterday morning has survived. the terrific explosion and the poisonous fumes with which the wines hnmediately after the death- dealitig tent'. Ileglity.five bodies have so far been terenght to the surface, and the dozen nndertakers from this and surrounding 41111 towns, who were on duty all night, by daylight had these bodies washed and made as presentable as possible in an im- provised morgue, into which one of the mine buildings has been converted. Wtili the dawn of the day there began heart-rending march up and down along the aisles in which these bodies have been laid by surviving wives and mothers and sweetheart% orphaned chil- dren and strong men, earth seeking a Auer relative or beloved friend. There are between 5,000 and 6,000 inhabitants in the mining town of Mono - gale and it is doubtful if in this entire population there are a score of persons who have not either a near relative or close friend numbered among the vic- tims of the disaster. People Are Stunned. The people of the town are stunned by the catastrophe. They had long ye. garded these mines as practically im- mune from the dangers so common to the coal mining industry. The plant of the company was provided with every device for the protection of life, and the equipment was considered the most modern and complete outfit used in the produetion of bituminous coal. A mine disaster here was considered next to Impossible, and the fact that these mines sbould be the scene of the most frightful disaster that has ever occurred in the bituminous coal mines of America comes as such a shock to the residents of the town that they are stupified by it. All of last night hundreds of men stood about the entrance of the awe mines. They said nothing, but when ap- preached and asked a question they would give way to their emotions. Some Sad Scenes. 'During the night few women were to lbe seen, but all day yeeterclay the wo- men were the chief actors in most pathetic and heartrendine scenes. They crowded the sides of the"hills overlook- ing the ill-fated mines and cried aloud. As the day advanced they became an' most crazed through grief and suspense. One woman pulled out her hair, hand - fulls at a time. Another tore all the tkin from both of her cheeks with her finger nails. Some lay down on the frozen ground, and cried themselves to sleep. In this condition many were car- ried to their homes nearby without awakening. It is thought that by to-neeht the full extent of the horror will be knoWn, an.d it is feared the knowledge of this will precipitate even more pitiful scenes than those of to -day. The rescuing parties penetrated mine No. 6 about 3,500 feet befere they came upon the first of the dead. A majority of the corpses will, it ie believed, be found about a mile further back. The four hundred men were working in a territory one mile sienna. It will be days before a thorough search. of all of these can be made. As the rescuing parties advance they must clear away the debris. The explosion wrecked over 600 mine ears, and these choke the entries on all sides. Many heavy brattices were also demolishe. A peculiar and remarkable feature is that notwithstanding the force of the explosion, very little of the mine roof was wrecked. By those who svitnessed it, the explosion was likened to the discharge of a cannon. Every moveable object shot with terrific force through the mine. At the entrance to No. 8 a concrete power house was com- pletely demolished. A piece of concrete weighing fully 10,000 pounds was blown clear across the West Fork River, land- ing the side of a hill. In a radius of a half mile not another piece of concrete can be found. Great holes were torn in the hill on either ,side of the entrance of No. 8. Mine care were crushed as though made of paper, and the huge steel tipple was blown apart. Car'a Miraculous Escape. On all sides electric light wires were 'thrown to the ground and many per- sons narrowly escaped death from these in the rush for the mine, following the explosion. The Fairmont & Clarksburg Traction COAS cars pees within ten yards of the mine entrance, and a large car crowded with passengers mitten" - °Italy escaped being blown into the eVeat Xoork River. All the passengers were stunned by the therific cencussion. The mine offichtls state that forty per mt. of the victims are Americans. Fifty physicians are at work near the mines attending members of the res- cuing party, many of whom have been overcome and veeded medical ettend- ance and ready to eneeor any wbo may be brought from the depths of the mines. The company has sent rush orders tor coffins to Pitteburg, Zanesville and oth er towns, the total number ordered; be- ll) ing 380 ,up to this. thne. Governor Dimwit, of West Virginia, notified tho company offieials that he had wired Chief Mine inspector Pent, of Charlestown% to the enene. The gover- rier eaid that if he eould be of any as. j aistance in any eapaeity be would be t gled to do anything Within his power. 1 ,....6.••••••••• President 1,Vatson answering the gov- emir said the mine explosioU woe met deplorable and that probabl yall who were in the Mine at the time -are dead. Preparations are beiug made to bring the bodies from the mine in electric ears with whieh the Mines are equipped. The system is being repaited for this purpose, Mine experts pronounce the rescue work in this diameter the most thorough ever provided under similar cireamstance tied Mende and relatives. are being giv- en every coueideration. Coroner Amos, of Fairmont probably will begin the inquest into the °Woe. ion Monday morning. lefonongah, W. Vt., Dee, • 9.—Sixty hours after a terrific explosioo of black damp, wrecked minea Nos. 6 and 8, of the Fairmont Coal Co:, at this place last Friday morning, 53 bodies, or wily about one-eighth of the fond 'lumber 'of vie- . time, have beea brought to the surface, while less than one-fourth of the total number have been actuelly 1oeated, The others, undoubtedly between 300 and 400 in number) lie in unknown sections. of , the cast workings that extend two miles and more back from the main entries to the mines. These unlocated bodies are seriously menaced by two deseroying . elementh—by decay. in the overheated, humid and vapor -poisoned atmosphere of the mines and by fires that are smolder- ing here and there in the workings and from thne to time bursting into flames Steadily. -the chance Is ebbing that these bodies will be broueht to the surface identified by friends and relatives, and given Christian burial. A large force of skilled miners volun- teers for the hazardous task of rescue work, are on the scene, ready to re-enter the mines. and take up the work where they were forced to leave it yesterday, when fire broke out in mine No. 8. These men await only the word !vim Clarence Han: the expert of the Federal Government, and J. W, Paul, West Vir- ginia's chief mine. inspector. Those two men are now in charge, su- perseding .officers of the mining company and others, who directed the first res- cue work. New difficulties and complications have confronted the. reseneau on every hand, but only with brief interruptions the work was continued' until 3 o'clock yesteeday afternoon. Then the fire drove all from the unexplored regions: and the search had to be abandoned. The flames have been thught by every possible mean% including the lay.ing of a water pipe from the lever far into .the mine. The bediee so far recovered are in a horrible condition. An undertaker is au- thority for the statement that of the 53 bodies handled, only thee° were intact. .S"oine were headlese, arms were missing from stone and legs or other members from others. . The condition of the bodies still in the mine is euch that in the interest of pub- lic health, the county health board yes- terday at a special meeting adopted re- solutions calling for the speedy burial of bodies in a bad state of decompo- sition. The volume of after -damp is eteadily increasing- in the mine and the danger of another explosion is becoming ominous. Several leaks have been found in the bmttices, which the metiers put up as they worked their:way forward theough which gas is eseaping. in dengerous quan- tities. Those are being repaired as rap- idly es found and enery other possible precaution is being taken. A second ex- plosion would undoubtedly be attended with great loss of life among the crowds that constantly surround the entrances. Forces on hand are powerless to keep these crowds back, and it may yet be necessary to call out militia for that purp•ose. Almost from the first it has been said that many of the bodies ere in the entries ready to bring to the sur- face but it is now evident that it is go- ing 'to require a long time to complete this work. That the company now re- cognizes this is evidenced by the fact that temportiry buildings were erected and equipped for cooking and serving warm meals to the' reseuers. It is estimetted that thee are betteeen 330 and 400 families of the men who lost their lives now in want. Some ef these will later receive insurance, but many tave nothing to look forward to. Headed by the churehes, relief work has been started, and ae general appeal to the public is being made. WARRANT FOR HIM. ZULU CHIEF MUST STAND TRIAL IN NATAL COURT. If He Refuses to Come in a Military Force Will Be Sent Against Him— Large Numbers of Troops Are Placed on the Frontier. • - Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Dec., 8.— Magistrate Stuart has been entrusted with a warrant for the arrest of Dial - suit', the Zulu chieftain, whose loyalty has been questioned and whose alleged support of the rebels iss declared to be responsible for the threatening. situation in Natal arising from the increasing boldness of the natives. Mr. Stuart will proceed at once to tIsutti, the Zulu capital. Should Dini- zulu refuse to come in and stand trial by a civil (Tuft, the military forces al- ready mobilized. will take the field im- mediately. Large nuntbers • of Natal troops have been stationed on the frontier. It is asserted by those who knaw the situation well that the Zulu uprisivg is part of a general movement all over the eontihent below the equator, havieg for its motto "South Africa fot the blacks. What is known as the Ethiopian move - meat has taken a firnt hold upon the Smith African waives for years pest. Friends of missionary effort resent the cletrge that this is a political propagan- da, but careful hivestigation shows that melee the cheek of religious effort it is really an agitation to drive the whites into the sea.' • • 0 010 WED IN CANADA, • SEEK DIVORCE. 'two Suits Chicago to Break the Nuptial Tie. j Chicago, Dec. 8.—Harry I'. Whitely, manager of credit department of le- i cal bank, is suing for divorce, s Seven 1 years ago, Mrs. •Whitely obtained .a di - I voree from her husband in South Da- kota, the charge being non.eupport, end then married another man. Mr. Whitely deelared toelay nett be never aceived notification tif the divorce un- il last winter. On the witness .stitiul Whitely said they were marriel in Belleville, On- tario, in May, 180e. In the spring of 1898 his wife went to visit her par- ents in South Dakota, and did not return to him. Suit for divorce was begun against Frank M. 'leg*, a prominent Month Water street mei!. chant, and member of the firm of Lep. man Se in the Superior Court,. Mrs. Emma M. IIeggie filing a bill alleg- ing erunkenness. They were married Sept. 5, lt6/1, at St. 'Thomas, Ontario, awl lived together until Dee. 4 of this year. Mrs, lleggie declares she was compelled to flee front her home. READY TO STRIKE SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND EN. PLOYEES ON 65 ROADS INVOLVED. Canadian Lines Affected—Men Will Demand Higher Pay and Uniform Rules—Ballot on Demand in Pro- gress. -- Pittsburg, Dee. 8.—Seventy-five thous- and railway men on 05 different lines east of the Mississippi River, and includ. ing eastern Canada, are preparing for a strike in January unless wages are ad- vanced and uniform working rules adopted. Members of the union here began vot- ing to -day on demands intended to be made June 2nd next. The result of the ballot will be known December 2Oth. The Order of Railroad Conductors and the Brotheehood of Railway -Trainmen are working together in formulating the demands to be presented to the different railreads simultaneously. If these de - mends are not met, it is threatened that more than thirty railroads will be tied up at. once, 'Radical changes and increases of . pay are to be asked in every branch of the service. A circular outlining plans for the movement has been received by union railroad men. One of the changes demended is the abolition of the "double header" (two locomotives with only one train crew), the two engines to be per- mitted in extraordinary eases only. The vote being taken is not a strike vote directly, but one to determine the sentiment of the men as to the ques- tions proposed. AS ROME FELL. SO 'MAY BRITISH EMPIRE PALL ERE LONG. Baden-Powell Gives Some Illustrations From Ancient History--- Composes Professional Football Players and , Gladiators. New York, Dec. 8.—The Herald has die following special cable from London: A cheery soul is the hero of Mafeking, Major-General Baden-Powell. He has been prephesying the downfall of the British Empire Just in the same- way that the Roman Empire fall of old. He was lecturing to a big gathering of boy scouts in the Regent street Polytechnic, and here is a bit of what he is reported to have said: "Great Britain is to -day just about the same as the Roman Empire was two thousand years ago. We know the latter'i history 'and all her faults. We should take care we do not fall into the same errors. Rome, too, had a muni- cipal council which ran up the rates and which was always making squabbles on party .grounds, which seems to be just what is happening now in this coun- • try. "Rome, too, had a question of free food. Rome had games, but. gradually gave up the playing of them and peed others to 'do it. They didn't mind kill- ing a few gladiators, because they could quite easily buy a* few more. Bub I don't suppose it could be done in the same way now, because I understand that the football players cost about .£2,000. "By giving up playing the Romans be- came puny. The foreign manping of their ships was another reasori for their fall? 'but I could keep on giving com- parisons between the Romans at their fall and the Britons at the present time." All this, of course, was merely a pre- face .to encourage the boy scouts to grow up with determination to do their duty. ESCAPED DEATH. CANADIANS HANDED OVER TO THE BRAZIL COURTS. Out of Clutches of Military—Death Pen- alty Having Long Been Abolished, They Will Remain in Jail Till Case is Disposed Of.. Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 8.—The New York party of filibusters who termed themselvo "Colonists," and who were captured. by Brazilian troops recently, while engaged in an. armed attempt to overthrow the Government of the State of Minas Geraes, and establish a new republic, have been hands.; .ser to the civil authorities by the militasy committee whichhas been enquiring into the affair. As the death penalty in civil cases was abolished in Brazil nineteen years ago, the men no longer stand in dan- ger of suffering capital punishment. Therefore, Lieutenant Gordon, Samuel Weston, Herbert Parker, Fisher and Jay Foraker, citizend of the United States, and Herbert Ricold and Cecil Baker, Canadians, will remain in jail until their cases are disposed of. COFFIN AND ROLLS OF LEAD. Baker. Street 1Vierchant Never Saw Druce Without a Beard. , London, Dec. 8.—The hearing of the perjury case ngainst Herbert Druce connection with the myatery of the late Duke of Portland's identity MS re- sumed in the Marylebone Police Court leridfty. The ease went over until to -morrow. Homy Marks was the first witness called. lie testified that he fortherly kept a fish shop on intket street and served T. C. Druce with Bah daily for ten years. Drueo always wore a lecard and. witness never flaW him without oue, lIe knew George Vassar, of the Baled etrert Benet went to Vasser's room in December, 1864, and found him itb 'work on a coffin and also saw four rolls of lend theme. Sue for Parent's Death, London, Ont., Dee. 8.—The four ehild. Ten of the late Mr. and Mrs. Tatttum Itowitt, v10,11118 of the Crystal Hall col- ] lapse. have itietrueted their • solicitor to enter. stetion for ditnitiges against the firm of W. J. Reisl & CO. KING DEAD. --LONG LIVE THE KING King Oscar of Sweden and Norway Passes Away..... King Gustave Now Reigns. Stockholm, Dec. 8.—Oscar If., Ring of Sweden, deed at 9.10 o'clock this morn- ing in the Toyal apartment of the palace, surrounded by the members of his ly, including the aged Queen Sophia, Crown Prince Oscar Gustave and high Ministem of State. Outside the palace great crowds stood with bowed heads and tearful eyes long after the announce- ment camo of the death of their well- loyed sovereign. The whole country is bowed with grief, for Oscar was something more than a ruler of his people, and had endeared himself to them as an intimate and per- sonal friend. When the flag on the pal- ace was dipped to half-maste there was e moan of anguish from the eeeembled multitude, and many of them cried, "Our dear old King is dead!" King's Last Hours. The last hours of the expiring Mon- arch were passed in unconsciousness, and up to the end he gave no sign of recog- nizing those about him. The Queen was grief-stricken because he could not bid her farewell. All through yesterday the King had remained in a comatose condi- tion. At tiines there were faint signs conseious periods as the attending physicians brought some temporary re- lief to the patient sufferer. But their administrations were without avail, and they held out no hope last night beyond a promise to keep the spark of life burn- ing a few hours or perhaps until morn- ing. At 5.15 the gentlemen of the King's Court were aroused and ordered to ap- pear at once in the bed chamber. The Premier and Foreign Minister and the highest court officials, together with all the members of the Ring's family, as- sembled there and remained at his side until the end came. In the palace courtyard in the dim, cold, grey mist of the morning waited a crowd of schoolboys, being Oscar's most devoted friends. Here' they stood for hours, cold and shivering, watching the palace flagstaff. There' also gather- ed many old men and women in rags, such as the Ring had always stopped. to conifort with mild worde and generous alms when he met them in the parks or streets, their faces tear -stained, because their beloved King and benefactor was dying. Suddenly as the flee dropped to half-mast old folks claspeetheir hands and prayed and wept aloud, and the school boys' lamentations were pitiful to hear. New leing's Proclamation. In a room near the death chamber the first marshal of the court read to the Cabinet a draft of the new King's proclamation to the Swedish people. In an ante -chamber high officers and offi- cials discussed the policy of the new King. One by one the ships in the har- bor and the buildings throughout the city displayed the flag at half-mast, and the people soon crowded the streets and open places near the palace, but all spoke in whispers, bearine witness to the kind- liness of him whobhad departed and to the love they bore him, In the death elmmber knelt the heart- broken Queeo, and gathered about her her children, grandchildren and groat - grandchildren, while without the church bells tolled and the minute guns began to boom. King Gustave V. By succession the throne of Sweden passes to Oscar Adolphe, Duke of Verm- land, eldest eon of the dead Monarch, who will reign as Ring Gustave V. Ile took the oath of office before the.Cabi- net and court assembled in the graod gallery this afternoon. Then the Princes of the blood swore allegiance to the King, who embraced and kissed them, giving his favorite brother, the giant Garb a hearty slap on the back. This ceremony concluded, the Cabinet resign- ed, but the King begged the Ministers to remain at their posts. They acceded. King Gustave read his proclamation and announced his motto, "With the people for the fatherland." The officers of the army and. the navy and the civil officials then took the oath of allegi- enTeelie new ruler was born in 1858, and was married in 1881 to Princess Victoria of Baden-Baden. He much resembles his father in gigantic stature and in his light Saxon features. He is.not unused to the cares. of State, as he has frequently act- ed as Regent during the ellness or ab- sence of his father and has displayed good sense and ability. Gustave has throe children—Prince Gustave, Printe Wilhelm and Prince Erich. Failing for Several Years. King Oscar had been in failing health for several years, and when it IA as announced Wednesday last that : Crown Prince had been appointed ts gent it did not cause great uneasi- ness, especially as the physicians in timated that all that was necessary to restore the King to health was corn- plete rest for a time. From that on, however, the aged monarch continued to lose strength and his physiciane were in eonstitrit attendance, its they feared that his heart would refuse longer to perform its functions. An affection of the kidneys) and vescial troubles also caused them anxiety, particularly the latter, from whicb the patient at times suffered extreme pain. Friday night Mb Majesty lapeed to Ittleotitteibutmese at intervals. The Phesicians then abandoned hope and devoted their efforts to prolonging life by artificial means. The final sutcess of the movement which broke his dual kingdom in Oc- tober, 1905, was a grievous blow to the venerable King, whose pride and heart were deeply wounded by the severance, and there is little doubt that brooding over his loss hastened hie end. Grandson of Bernadotte. Xing Oscar, unlike most of the Eutopesn Rings, could not trace his descent from a long line of sovereigns. H's dynasty, that of Ponte Corvo, extende no farther backward than to the isme , of his grandfather, Heron dotfe, who was born a peasant near Paw, but who rose to become first one of Napoleon's famous field mar- shals and afterwards Crown Prince and King of Sweden in succession to the childless Charles XIII. His grandmother was Desiree, daughter of a Marseilles stockbroker, wbo was at one time betrothed to the great Na- poleon, but deserted by him for Jos• ephine de Beauhiernitis. Oscar was born in 1829, and ascend ed the united throne of Norway and Sweden on the death of his brother, Charles XV., in 1872, when he was forty-three years old. He married in 1857 Sophia, daughter 'of the late Duke 'William of Nassau. Three children survive, besides the new King. They are Princes Oscar Berna- dotte, Prince Carl and Prince Eugen. Being a younger son, Ring Oscar had not been educated for a ruler„ but had been destined for the navy, and entered that. service after his gradua- tion as a doctor of philosophy front the University of Upsala. While thus engaged he took an active part in several scientific expeditions, vis- iting nearly every country in the civ• liked world. His fondness for science showed itself again after his acces• sion, when he not only encouraged Dr. Neilsen in his polar expeditions, but gave him material assistance. A Scholarly Sovereign. King Oscar was recognized as one of the most versatile and most schol arly of the European monarchs. He could speak and write all of the.mod- ern languages and several of the clas- sical, and held an enviable reputa- tion as an orator, as a poet and a historian. He was also a recognized authority on international law, and e liberal patron of all the fine arts. He was a great reader, particularly of religious, philosophical and his- torical books, and his private lib- rary of these works was one of the best in Europe. Politically King Oscar was a suc- cessful ruler, though internal diss sensions made it impossible for him to hold two private kingdoms togeth- er. Personal contact with his people was one of the secrets of his hold upon them. As an example of this may be instanced the public audienc- es he granted every Tuesday. On that day, when the flag was mounted on the palace, any Swede, rich or poor, could obtain an audience of hie Ring. All the visitor had to do wa,s to ascend to the first fleet write his name in the visitor's book and wait his turn. Wore a Hero's Medal. Oscar was not a soldier. but lie wore on his breast a medal of bravery for all that. It was conferred upon hint by the French Government as far back as 1861, long before he as- cended the throne, for two feats of courage porforrned in the neighbor hood of Nice. The first consisted in checking at the peril of his life two runaway horses hitched to a carriage that were on the point of dashing themselves and the vehicle with its occupants over a precipice. Five days afterward he Lumped into the water and saved a 'child from drowning. He declared that he deemed it best, to leave Nice after this, lest he should be accused of posing for professional lifesaver and of staying on the Riviera for the sole object of exercising his profession. NURSE HELD PRISONER. Locked in Room and Forced to Fight for Life and Honor. Asbury Park, N. J., Dee. 0. --Locked in a log ea,bin midway between Weldon end Halifax in North Carolina, kept prisoner by an old slave owner who rep- resents himself as a southern gentleman of 01(I and kinored connections, and forced. to fight eonstantly for her life and her honor, Olga Sijostedt, a Swede, lit letters to friends in Asbury. Park, threatened to commit suicide and ene it all unless help came to her teelay, The response to the appeal Was prompt. Last night Officer Broaerick left for Halifax, where he will gather it posse and make an attack upon the log fethin in which the young girl, who is a train- ed nurse, is 'barricaded in a dark room in company with rata and vermin by T. H. Pewter, whose visage is described as Ivey and cruel. Pender answered Miss Sjostedt's aelvertisement for a, position before Thanksgiving, and ehe WO8 80 pleased with Pender's eosy picture of a southern plantation ehat she took a trftin for Halifax. What happened efterwards is told by the young nurse hi a series of letters addiaieled tu end UM Henry Lange, of Asbury Park, with whom she recently lived, render,. she says, locked her lit a dark roma arid gm her twO coarse meals every day. She says ehe is half frozen, half starved and in conetant peril of her life. In one of her letters she sap: 'If I do not get help to get away from here before Sunday rather than be textured to death by. this old insane brute. For God's sake do some- thing," In another letter elle wrote: "leXy the first night I had to fight for ins life. The windows are fastened with long heavy cross bars, My eyes are swollen and my hands ate cracked and bleeding. I ani starving and freezing all for nothing, "He will not pay my fare back again and he will not let me go. He has taken $10 which I had to pay my way back. The ceiling, walls and. flooring have big holes in them between the logs. In the room I sleep in, the rats and mice run loose. He puts water in my milk. He sloes not allow me to talk to anyone." Yesterday with the Swede girl's threat of suicide before them, they took Mayor Atkina and the Chief of Police into their confidence. As a result Officer Thomas Broderick was despatched under instruc- tions to raid the Pender cabin and rescue the young nurse. Broderick is due to arrive at Halifax some time to -night end. will collect a strong fame and proceed to the lonely cabin in time, if possible, to eave the girl from suicide. MUST DINN CHAIR. First Murderer to be Electrocuted hi New Jersey. Somerville, N. J., Dec.' O.—leather Cor- tese and the relatives of Sa,verie Di Giovanni, who is under sentence of death for killing Joseph Sansome, re- ceived word to -day that Governor Stokes had refused to interfere with the execu- tion of the condemned man, which will take 'place during the week of Dec. 9, Di Giovanni will be the first man to die by electrocution in New Jersey. The exact time of Di Cliovannes execution is kept secret by the prison officials, Di Giovanni is an undersized man of low mental order, who shot Sansome in Raritan on the night of Sept. 21, after the two men had quarrelled .in a eigar store and Di Giovanni was thrown into •the street. He laid in wait for Sansome and shot him as he was cross- ing the street. Sansome fell dead in the gutter .o,t the first shot, but Di Giovanni stood over his victim and fired repeat- edly at his body, exclaiming with each shot: "He no dead yet." When he was satisfied that Sansome was dead he fled to his boarding house, where he was captured an hour later. When he was taken in custody he said to the police: "Has joe been put in a box yet?" Di Giovanni sang and danced in the corridor of the jail the day after the Murder, nod made light of his crime during his incarceration here. He told the prison officials on several occasions that he expected to get not more than ninety days for the crime, and he was dazed when jostice Bergen pronounced his death sentence. -4 - BICYCLISTS HURT In the Six -Day Bicycle Grid at New York. New York, Dec. 9.—During ter- rine sprint in the sixth hour 'of the International 6 -days bicycle race, Harry Reynolds, of Balgriggan, Ire- land, and James .Banyon, of London, England, the Irish -English teaxn, in relieving each other collided and both were so painfully injured that they were unable to continue. Reynolds suffered from a severe concussion of ehe teft forehead, and his partner, eeanyon, was bruised about the body 'and lower limbs. The sprint was started by Breton, slosely pressed by Fogler, and after wild burst of speed dupree, Banyon and Reynolds fell, the result being that Wilcox, Lawson, Galsin and Jac quelin each lost one lap and Lim - berg lost two laps. Bobby Walthour, of Atlanta, who was paired with Mat. E. Downey, of Boston, suddenly withdrew from the race at 9.30 a. m., when he had com- pleted 187 miles and one lap. He de- clared tha he had a lame arm and shoulder and that he should be in hoepital instead of krace. Manager Powers denied this and accused Wal• thour of "quittnig". Dr. Kramer, the physician at the track, said that Walthour was in as good condition as any of the Tel o41.1 the track. London, Dec. 9.—Tommy Burns (who defeated Gunner Moir in this city a week ago) and Jack Palmer, of Newcastle, signed aiticles at noon to -day for a match. at $2,500, the winner to take 75 and the loser 25 per cent. The tnatth is to occur on or be fore Feb. 7. FORCED TO FEED ON OATS. He Had Picked Up the Grain on Old London's Streets. terrible London, Dee. 8. — The depths of poverty to which the un- empthyed are reduced' in nthloaris once the pinch of winter is feLlot bean recorded more than once, For thousand% already London is a city of starvation. .A pitiable example was brought to light in 4 Police Court to -day when an elderly. man appear- ed on a charge of begging food. He was arrested as he was at the door of the house. The policeman toid the magistrate that the man appear- ed to be very hungry. and was eat- ing some oat& whieh he picked up in the street. The prisoner, who showed a letter which geve him a good, cheracter for the fourteen years where he has been employed, and whieh stated that his dismissed was due entirely to lack of work. said he had not tasted food for thirty hours with the exception of the oats. • • Night Robe Caught Fire. Stretford, Ont., Dec. 8.—frs the re- sult of her night robe catching fire while lighting a eoal stove early this morning, Mrs. Jane Battereby, Douro and Queen etreets, was terribly burned, and died a few hours later at the hospi- tal here. Her tries of distress itroused some of the other members of the film- . ily, Who sueeeeded in extinguishing the blaze. Fred. D. linker fell off the Government elevator at Port Colboroe aml wits killed. Tugs from Port Dalhousie 'twitted tits sunken tug Boort, but were nimble to raise het PAYS $80 FOR TWO KISSES. THE YOUNG SWAIN LOSES BRIDE AND MONEY, TOOs Farmer's Blasted Romance is Pried Open for I3enefit of Justice—Youth De - mends Girl or Cash, But is Cheated Out of Both. ••••••••••,..,0 Cleveland, Dee. 9.—Youag Alec. Stet% fanner boy of independence•Road, says he paid $80 for a bride nod then didn't get het All he got, he says, was two eieees aud he had to steal him. , "My teeth or my nioney," was his cry amiterday, as he sued the girl for breach ef contract in Jusbice Hanou•sek's court. tle didn't get either. The little romance brought an odor of wilted mune blessoms and heart-sick- aess into the court. Stobe tole. the story ef the romance from first to last. Edna Sahn, the who lives at No, 1204 west 24th street, had called on ithhe's aister in the eountry. It wee June, The farmer boy as he unhitehed the terse and went .back to the corn. field saw in eaeh geld= corn Weed, the .mage of her yellow tresses, "Was there—oh—new mown hay and lowing kine, and eh—ah—all that sent of thing around?" asked Attorney Clem 1111"101,1, no, the hay wasn't ready th mow yet," said Stobe, unamiling. He lamed ip the kine reference as too deep. The boy admits that he fell in love as he lrove home th town with the girl lathe moonlight. "Did you propose to her, then?" asked Justic.e Hanousek. "Oh, no," said, the boy. "Not till we had. gone buggy riding several times." "What did you say when you did pro- pose?" asked an attorney, wishing to bring out the idea of a pre -marital con- tract. "Oh, I just told her I was lonely and was tired of doing my own cooking, and that. I wanted her to marry me. And she said she would as soon as she was 18, and wanted me to give her $6.60. "Did she promise ehe would marry you if you gave her the money? Or did you just like her and voltmthered it?" tsked the squire. "Oh, I liked her, all right," admitted the boy, who went on to tell how he had given the girl $10, $12, $26 out of hie elendor earnings. She wanted to go to work, but he didn't like the idea and eave her the money so she could stay home. One day he bought the ring—$5.75. That was the day she kissed hem the first time, .he said. •"I didn't," broke in the girl. "I never kissed you." Being pressed, she admitted that she had allowed him to take a cou- ple at two times—two times, just two. One evening as he drove in he saw her in the other porch with another fellow. The other chap was being allowed a kiss, too, he thought. She denied it, however, so he pressed her for an early marriage eo that he could. be sure of having her. The girl pleaded for time, then refused aitogether. "And I had given her over $80," said Stobe. "Only $56," said the girl, facing hina and elenching her little fists in her earn- estness. "There's a lot of difference be- tween $56 and $80." When Stobe was conainced that the cause of love was hopelessly lost aoe 'also his money he hurried to the justice court. He wanted an atta.ohment. "She bought a lot of clothee and things with peemy ibnaocnkeyv,," he explained. "Can't I get A censtabie was sent out with a writ a attachment. The girl laughed at htm. "All the property I• have is turned over to my lawyer," she said, "except the things I have on." The constable blushed, apologized aud retreated. Next Stobe brought suit for bremeh of contract. He could not prove any centred with the girl after thee reached 18 years. The costs were over $8. "That mak as about: $88 for me," said Stobe, in deep gloom, -as he shelled out. "It's back to tho farm for me. I'm broken-heaxted, squire. BRITAIN HAS AERIAL HARBORS. Natural Shelters Where Balloons May Descend: London, Dee. 8. —A gale which brought disaster to the Nulli Secun. dus, the first British military airship, eaught the officers of the Balloon Corps at Aldershot a lesson, from which they have already profited. by reeognizing that a mishap -during an extended cruise may necessitate a sud- den descent some distance from Alder- shot, and they have set to work to diseover suit,able natural shelters or "aerial harbon" in various parts of the country. A special map has been completed upon which is defined in red, places which have been specially chosen, such as hollows in woods, shelters at the foot of hillsides and deep gravel pits, where .an, Airship may descend in case of emergency and lie shelter. ed - against a gale. .Aeronauts in fu- ture cruises will 'be equipped with this map. • • THE VERY RESTLESS KAISER. Sonte Steries of His Propensity for Changes of Clothes. London, Dec. 8.—The Raiser remains at Highcliffe, and, jydging from appear- ances, is benefiting from his holiday. The Emperor's health has been the cause of considerable concern for some time past. Ilis restlessness cannot be checked. Un- like King Edward, who, though leading - a busy life, maintains the best of health, the Kaiser eve. now does not retire to rest before 1 a. in. When he wits at Windsor Castle the officials wondered at his restlessness. At one moment he would appear on the terrace in mufti, the next he would be seen emerging from the courtyard in uniform. It was computed that he ehonged his clothes seven Unica it day. The Kaiserin is somewhat similar in this respect: She brought sixty thews for a five days' visit mid managed to wear the majority of them. • - • USUD WHIPS ON STUDENTS. Police in St. Petersburg Broke Up Meet- ing at University. St, Petersburg, Dec. 8. --Disorders have again broken out at the university here for the first time in several months. Yes- tereity the police enteree the univereity and dispersed a meeting of studente. Over one hundred arrests were made. In the afternoon the streets surrounding the university were patrolled by mount- -ea police, who dispersed little 'knots of students, oecasionally making nee of their Whips. TYPES OF - NEW CITIZENS. 44.WESTRXICK ALWAYS BY THEIR FIRST SIGHT OF ItTEW YORK. Pick of the Peasant Ciao Qf Europe Among the Imrnigrante NOW Colning Fe* Vao Fear the Camera Young Women Noot Eager to Find Husbands. Tito antasentent of inintlgrante co1ning up the Day to the North River artelta Of linerS on clear days has tamest as Mtlell ettree- tie» for the foreiga cabin voyager, eepeeial- ly the snapshooter, the !Wounding mete- tecturai heights of the city itself. Oa them uccasioris the main deck forward of 4 great ship re,senibles a section of a etartled end() at some marvellous metropolitan show. Boys and mem .perch on the hoods of ven- &Malone, the highest parts et tbe eteam winches und in tne rigging, with eyes belg- ing and moutns wide open as they endeavor to grasp tile etupendoue .spectacie or mai and Mune. They appear to be stunned at first, and for a long time the silence. forward is as profound acs that of a cathedral. As tjas.-- picture gets more faultier the. inaMigriihts swap exclamations in .pretty nearly all the dialects of Europe. The photographer, amateur and professional has- often caught the awe struck qroups under the faseinat- tion of the ekyscrapers. Ile snapshots them from the vantage of upper decks front the time they come aboard until they aro transported by barges to Ellis Island. There they are met and taken in charge by the Americau picture taker, Some of the imdligrants, particularly those who happened to be detained, get several days to loolc at the city, whose giant figure overwhelms them so long as they are with- in sight ef it. Even the nearby Statue of Liberty interests them only for a passing interval. Nearly always their eyes are turn- ed toward the towering terraces across the baTvhe hemeseekers taming to us .now, save perhaps the Russian Jews, are mostly a simple and sturdy lot of folk, the very plat of the peatsant class of Europe. Thar are examined for physical 'weaknesses at the ,Ptuorpigoorfoudsepiaahrytustreemanodverahraeulaingaginwhsuenbjetchteeyd land here. Nearly all of them like the pho- tographer, after it is explained to the sim- plest of them that he won't shoot. The Hol- landers. especially the twomen and the girls, aro docile when the picture man is around. They are not generally of the sort that is so unsophisticated as to mistake the cam- era for a deadly weapon. But they never twill look serious when posing. You can get their earnest expression only by taking them unawares, They refuse resolutely to look upon personal photography except as some- thing to be laughed at; the idea of anybody thinking that a girl or 'a woman of Hol- land is important enough to have her pie- 'taleireridli)cuntletunn.the papens seems to strike them The Americans and Syrians view the Meter° man more seriously. They must be teld to "look pleasant." They have the Oriental disposition to appear grand and Napoleonic when somebody is going to !mortally.° them. The artist got a good picture cif an American wife whose husband consente'd to hold the baby while she posed. He was willing to be great by .proxy, finding much solace in the sense of proprietorship of the "subject." He also got into the plio, tograph, not knowing that he was within ""In`hgenr.e was one woman whom the artist caught unawares. She was looking away from him and from the Statue eit Liberty toward the wonder buildings of the city. Maybe she was thinking of a very small cottage — a mere shack 'perhaps—that rose even higher, in her homesick ,faney, them the tallest of the domes — a cottage she had abandoned to make a new home /or herself in the land of promise. The most familiar groups on the iallinitzre...•`- formed of families eating the "Millar din- ner " Semetimee the top of a trunk or' a big clothesbasket serves as a• table. More frequently the meal is tableless. The dinner is put up in a big pasteboard box and le sold by the caterer of the island. There is enough solid food in each box for a bout four ordinary persons, but the frugal immi- grant, unaccustomed to feast except en cer- tain holidays, usually makes it serve for six. Sortie of the immigrants going long dis- tances buy several boxes to eat on the way. Those 'whose destinations are near buy only one, which they eat on the island pending the departure of the ferryboat. The influx of girls and women has been remarkable for this period of the year. Many go into domestic service and many come to meet their sweethearts, who have preceded them by many months and have got together enough household goods 'to Warant setting a date for the wedding. When sweethearts do not come properly chaperoned by anothers or _elderly women The o at he can get his girl in Is relatives they re - mes ancl the young m is sent for and told t at by marrying her or by proving that he is going to do so. There never has been a case in recent months of a lover refusing to go through the ceremony. Hundreds of young 'women who ve no difficulty getting work as servant att high wages do not come here primarir to get husband. Some of them even ' corn tee suggestion of marriage. There re lots of men. Including German farmers in the,West and Northwest. who would be mighty glad to get a helpmeet like some of the et g and .handsome girls that have been co in aboard the German liners. But these girls don't want farmer .bancle. They knew that they can at the cities and earn from $20 to $40 a n doing housework. The servant girls to keep up a live correspondence with er in the old country, and tbe neve;. comers know exactly what to demand as wages when they get here. These girls would not give up the liberty that gees with a good Job in an American household for all the farmers in the country and the drudwy-__ that goes with farm work. With every big ship that brings In a large consignment of Irish, German, Scandina- vian or Hungarian girls there usually is sent .out from New York a report that a so- ciety of marriageable maidens, "foreign ba- chelor girls," has arrived at this port and is waiting for proposals. These stories go "all over the West, and the lonesome farmer timim:eimesdoigsaetttelayttgeanttshitenb:issiyia;r14jLatitngoto the^officials at Ellis Island. dviii...44frigirls e. The farmers give flattering portraits of themselves, and their farms, lament their loneliness and request that their applications be put before some of the eligible maids. As the immigration officials have 110 right to carry on a matrimonial bureau the let- ters never reach the girls, even though the girls might be willing to consider the pre - ;maiden of being farmer.s' The inarriageable Italian .girle, and some are considered so when they are only et years old, never have any trouble getting husbands. There are many more Italian men residents than women In America. A. large part of t he mett are transients, re- turning to their old homes after they have made enough money to buy and cultivate a little place there. (Ycensionally two or three men will meet a girl, who, with her mothet, is permitted to land from the Eills Island ferryboat at the Barge °Woe. titn.es scraps among the lovers result later in stiletto mecum The Italian girls, like the Armenian, who look as much alike sometimes OS if they NV01•0 sisters of the same race, like to be photographed looking serious. The bandit type of Rattan, who never is a bandit but just a person who wants to appear pictur- esque and distinguished, never ranects to having s. camera pointed his way. In fact he will court its attention, making his Dock mustache fiercer looking than ever while he fold his arms like a hero In a _comic pbi‘r.attreadoop.cra. Often the bandit IS a better B. is difficult to get -an Irish girl to Pose alone. They insist on being taken In bevies' if nt all and they neYer fail to "jolly" the ohotographer, and ask him to send theM a picture to treasure 'as the "londing of a greenhorn." They do riot mind aliening to theInselves as greenhorns When they land, but they resent the t errn after they have been but a few weeks in the eountry. This le not peculiar to Irish, the Ger- man girls having the same seusitiventse On the subjeet. especially when other girls here only a few Months ahead of Merit Me the term toward them.—el. Y. gun. MAHLER COMING. Berlin, Dec. 9.---Gustetv Mahler, form- er (Bream. of the Imperial Opera 'here. left to -day for the United States. He is ti!re(c)ntsptInied by his wife, and will malt ISailsierintin.kbutg' 1)('`(t'iielto1r4111 ugusta ja. title eteitmer Harr 'Mahler is to fill the position of Opera MOO, "1:..e.(eitee Ythoerk. (Frankel direeto 1