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bisastrous Explosion in and Illinois
Coal Mine.
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Heroic Rescuers Lose Their Lim
Igor Others,
Disaster Caused by Hay Taking
Fire Underground,
Curry, Lie Nov. 14.--Near1y 400 idol
and boys, it is belle.ved to -night, are
dead or periehIng in the St. Paul mine
ns n result of yesterday's fire, though
-experts who penetrated thesmoke-filled
air ellen to a, depth of 300 feet .early
to -night returned with a ray of hope
for the ,grief-strickea relatives of the
entombed men,
Tina the fire is extinguished is the re-
port of mbetag expertsent by Governor
Damen to investieeete -the calamity and
its cause. For more than thirty hours
the prisoners had, been cut off from
fresh air before the shaft was entered
to -night, and undoubtedly have been
subjected to smoke and gases.
That life could °fist' under the terri-
ble conditiona is doubted by many, but
because no trace of high temperature
waafouno in tho depths pf the mine to-
night friends ef the re:ners and even of -
&ere of the company regained some of
their failing hope.
When explorations were abandoned
to -night it was annonimed that men fit-
ted with oxygen armor would probably
penetrate to the bottom of the mine to-
morrow.
The list of the missing miners,com-
piled to -day, reached the total of 385, in.
eluding the twelve dead whose charred
bodies were taken from the burning
cages Saturday, t wits declared to be
probable that this might be increased.
Cog -hundred and seventy men who
entered the mine Saturday morning have
been accounted for. .Among the missing
are many Amtsirieans who have lived for
years in the mining fields of Illinois,
thmegh most of those entombed are for-
eign -born. Most of- the men had Mini-
liee. Arrangements are under way to
(Hoye the families of the victims. It
is probable that supplies for their needs
will be arranged for by the railway com-
pany. With winter approaching, the
catastrophe has dealt every home in
Cherry a terrible blow. The bread -win-
ners in hundreds of homes are either
dead or incapacitated for work.
.Williain Vieker, who was at worlessat
the face of the coal mine, was one of
the few who came out alive. For more
than 200 yards he scrawled in the dark
on hands and knees, using the rail as a
guide to the bottom of the shaft. At
one point. he says, he met about 05 min-
ers sitting. in row along the road.
They had given up the struggle .and were
waiting resignedly for death.
• "I and my buddy (partner) were at
work on the second vein level, when
the fire alarm was sounded." said Viek-
erss "We started for the bottom, but
had gone but a few feet when out ighf
went. Our *.entry was . fast Mine with
smoke.
"All about us- we could- hear ehonte
of our comradesin adjoinhig. Tomes. I
dropped to my hands and lafees aul be-
gan to crawl around the rails &limiting
at intervals to,eny buddy. When w:thin
a hundred feet of the mine mouth, I lee
gan to grow faint. I pulled try 'oat
elesely 'trotted my face and struggeed
I escaped death by 'pet three minutes.
When I arrived at the bottomof tile
shaft the last cage was about to itecond.
I shouted as the signal bell was ringing
Two men broke their way to me and
dragged' me to the cage. Then f lost
eonseiousness. When I eamp to I was
eately on top."
The fire which caused the tragedy
had an origin almost trivial? A pile,
of hay caught fire in one of the. tinier.
ground stables. and, being aline -ad to
smoulder too long, finally ignited ths
timbers of the mine, and lief ire the work-
ers realized their danger, the mine was
filled with smoke, gases and flames, and
all exit was impossible. Heroine such
as is rarely mightiest was shown by (std.
chyle of the mine and the residents of
)1L-. the town of cherry. While smoke and
even'jete of flame swept up _through the
entrance of the mane, the eage which
carried 'the minces to their work e main -
lied to ascend and descend.
Fourteen men front abere deseended
lifter the exploeion to render what as.
sistance they could. Only one of them
came back alive. The bodies a five
were brotight to the straw, while those
of the others are still below.
Standing out above all the tithe's
is the story of Dr. L. 13. Maya. Ib -
"num 'sell° came back," the ouly (11
of the heroic fourteen who survived
to tell what heppened. Seven times
before the, other resvitees began ta go
into the burning shaft he • desevuded
alone in a 1ift, and each time brought
to the surface his , quota of saved.
Twenty.five miners owe their lives to
hiut
His hands are badly burned. When
asked to describe his experience,he
merely said: "I couldn't have done
anything eise than 1 did. It is not
worth talking about."
Fiiin•Ily it was decidea that the only
way to check tbo flames was to board
over the entrance to the mine. The
opening wets almost hermetieelly sealed
and theflames left to smother them-
erlves. To -tight they are believed to be
out.
TO 131l1 BROUGHT BEFORE FEDERA-
TION,
John Mitchell, Vice•Presiden 1 f tin,
American Federation of Lab wand
representative of the ndning 01 ganize-
that, when steel last night, said Ulu the
Cherry dieaeter would ba brought before
the Federation on the reeuanition of
bueiness this morning. Ile esplairted that
the Federal:4in had no power to Semi'
any financial aid to the sufferers, nal
that the inost that tould be done ivonld
lie the ndoption of a teeoletiost of eyne
pathy with the relatives of those vein
lied been killed.
Mitehell'e home tras for nutty
years at Spring Valley, whieh1s not
far from Cherry. The mine in whteh
so +many have hest their lives is rem.
trolled by the (Mileage°, Penneylvanta
& St. Paul Rallways•Company, the eit.
Paul Coat Company being the 111111' of
the operating .cantpany. The output is
about 2,000 tone a day, while' einne 300
men fire employed. Of thet number,
the great majority are foreigners. The
mine workinge. roach or depth of three
hundred. feet.
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Cherry, Ilia, Nov. 15,13efore
fall, it seems probable the fate of the.
000 men entombed in the St. Paul mine
wilt be known. This Morning it Was the
plan of the Mate mining °Metals, who
have taken charge of the mine ithlee the
fire on Saturday last, to roime the teem
of the hoisting haft arid lower It aige
of eeseuers to the third vein, where, a'
nlive, the men now 400 fret beneath the
,Littt
sin face are wading. Under the direction
of James Taylor, state wino. tweeter;
and Mr. NOWSAM, tho regular cage wil
he lowered to -day. lt,fits the shaft like
IL piston awl tha. persous it will carry
eau, step row it into any gallery ea
traneet
Mrs, Vaulty Duek, wite of J. P. Duck
eltief Oak of the mine, lute organized the
women of the little town of Cherry int(
a society to extend relief and comfort
to those needing it. There is no. desti
A party of nurses. front Chicago, who
arrived last night, today turned inte
eomforters of the hunillee bereft
Throughout the little hamlet are seat
leveed cottages in various stages of 0010
Onion. Yantillee of 111011 entombed are
living in the small houses, many still
luseduig glass for all the windows. It
I('0)115 likely that many of the cottages
never will be finished. Undertakers
from uearby towns have beeu notified
to be in readiness, it is said, for the re-
moval of the numerous bodies.
President Earlineo, of the Chicago, alit-
witukee & it. Paul R. R., will share the
tairtt expenses of the more needy fain -
lies, at least, and offers of aid have come
from the more prosperous inhabitants
of Cherry.
The Knights of Pythias lodge, the
most important organization in the.
town, had it membership of 75 last week.
To -day them are only Aix members; the
rest. are in the mine, either dead or dy-
ing.
From the miners who were rescued it
was learned that another act of heroism
was performed by 0110 of the men in the.
shaft below, it unto who is in all proba-
bility dead at the present time. Ile was
Walter Waite, an assistant foreman•in
the second vein..
°When we got to the elevator the
first time," said Isaac Muli, one of the
men who was fortunate enough to reach
the eurface in the first cage load,
"‘Vaite was standing near. He refused
to come up in that load, but said be
would stay down and give the other
boys a chance. I know Flood tried to
pull him into the cage, but he refused
to come. •
"Let me stay where I am,' Said he.
'There are it lot of other fellows who
ought to get out of here. Hurry. 'up that
cep and got them. l'll try and do what
I can down hero. Maybe it, ain't as bad
as it seems.'
"When I asked about him, after the
second load had come up, no ono knew
anything about him. It looks like if he
was overcome by smokeand died down
in the shaft. He did not have to stay,
because he could have climbed in the
cago the first time, if he had wanted
to.
Several of the rescuinocparty returned
from the secorel vein at 9.30 this morn-
ing. They reported that the mine is cav-
ing in in several places.
The mine still is on fire and it is now
known that more than 300 eniners are in-
side. None of the entombed mineee were
near the lauding and. it is impossibje as
yet to explore more than a few feet be-
yond the shaft entrance.
Three descents were made to -day, but
no sign of life was seen, and the res-
cuers declared that no life could exist
for hundreds of feet beyond the shaft
entrance. A few miners' caps and
lamps were Seen, tragic tokens of the
first mad rush for safety by the
miners who escaped, but no bodies wore
found. This indicated to the rescuers
that When the miners realized' they
weee hopelessly penned they rushed to
the furthermost end of the vein in the
hope .of finding air to sustain life till
help came.
SHE GOES FREE.
Madame Steinheil Acquitted of
Murder Charge.
People Cheered and Made a Big
Dem on strati on.
- Paris, Nov. 14.—Madame Margher-
ita Steinhoil was acquitted at an early
hour .this Morning of the. murder of
her husband, Adolph Steinheil, a
noted painter, .and her stepmother,
leladame Jame The verdict was ren-
dered at 12.e..7 it. en., after two and a
half hours' deliberation, during which
time,the jury thrice summoned the
President of the court for explana-
tions. It is understood the jury stood
nine for acquittal and three for convic-
eion. There was a dramatic scene
in the court room when the jury re-
turned to delivere its verdict. The
red -robed Judges and counsel filed in
and took their places. Every eye
was riveted on the door through
which the prisoner should enter, but
sbe failed to appear. M. DeValles,
the presiding Judge, turned to the
jury and said: "Have you reached a
verdict?" The foreman rose and re-
plied: "On our cOnneienee we answer
no to every question."
A. salvo of "bravos" followed and
it perfect bedlam broke loose. M.
Anbin, counsel for Mme. Steinheil,
embraced his colleagues. Men and
women in the rear of the hall jumped
and screamed for joy, The Judge
threatened to clear the court -room and
when a semblance of order was reseored,
he called: "Britig in the accused."
Fully two minutes passe(1 before
the black -robed figure, with it white
face drooping Oh her breast, ap-
peared in the doorway, supported on
either side by a gendarme. The woman
swayed and seemed to be faintingcbut
in response to a wild outburst of cheers
she lifted her head and looked about,
smiling faintly in acknoWledgmcnt. Then
she tottered forward and sank on the
floor beside the 'mit
When the Judge repetited the ver
-
diet, her feint Timmer of thanks was
boldly heard. An inetant after, M.
Aland was over the rail, liftiug her
in his ems. The crowd surged for-
ward in a solid wall, making the
rafters rieg with cheers. Outside
tho gloomy court house tens of thou.
sands, who heel been 'trailing for
hours, took up the ery. Special edi-
tions of the papers sproul the news
ilke wildfire through the boulevards,
Where thousands more were tlraiting
in fent of the tifes, and the same
memos of rejoicing were witnessed
there.
The formelity of "lifting. the bolts"
,
required , by minter proceddre, took
pleat!. immediately • after , Madame
Steitheil had been conducted form the
court room, and the freed prisoner, en-
tering it high-power automobile, was
this en rapidly ANA y.
MORLEY'S PENERAL.
tendon Ont., Nov. 1.5. --The funeral of
Ramuel A. Morley, the wine of Bertha Litt-
zna. 10 awning neer rietrolt, en Imursarty
Melo was held frcm the residence of Ills
whlewod Mother there MI,: Afternoon, find
wa, oe 0. erivate efatire.
KITCHENER AND MIKADO.
Todn Nnv, 111.—riel4 11faroba1 Lord tut-
ehentor 1:111 11 prWato nitrite:ice and lunched
with Ilw Mentor to -day.
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MADAME .STEINHEIL ACQUITTED OF THE CHARGE OF MURDER
IN PARIS.
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1 News in Brief I
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A very severe storm Is reported on
Lake Superior..
William Allen, of Chatham, was acci-
dentally shot and killed hunting on
Saturday.
Sir William Thompson, honorary sur-
geon to the King in 'eland, died on
Sunday at Dublin. ,
Archbishop Bruchesi has 'tweed Catho-
lics of Montreal to cease attending the
Academie Theatre.
In response to an appeal issued a few
days ago on behalf of the Alexandra Hos-
pital, Montreal, $28,820 has been raised
for the liquidation of its mortgage in-
debtedness.
By the accidenbal di -charge of 0 shot-
gun in the hands of her hueletnd at Bette
River last Friday night, Mrs. Josepa
Parent, it resident of Windeor, had the
top of her head blown off.
With a erew of twenty -jive men on
board, the steamer jamas IL Hoyt, of
Duluth, is on 0. reef two miles northeast
of Otter Island, in imminent danger of
going to pieces. A heavy sea is raging.
On Sunday afternoon the youngest son
of Mr. George Brown, of Wyoming,
Ont., was missed from the house, and
3vas found in a cistern near the back
door. All attempts at resuscitation fail-
ed.
Walking around behind one car li-.
reetly in front of another, Lyon Daw-
son, 72 Prince Arthur avende, Toronto,
a probationary constable,' was knocked
down and injured abottt the head on
Saturday night.
As the result of the record plenary
council held at Quebec there will be no
less thaa 115 degrees sent to Rome for
the approval of the Vatican authorities.
Many of them aro of great importance
to Roman Catholics.
The dry kiln and heading mill at the
Wallaceburg Cooperage Company's plant
was burned at an early hour on Sunday
morning. The adjoining mills were sav-
ed. The heading mill is a complete loss,
but will be rebuilt. eb
His Grace Archbishop McEvay per-
formed. the ceremony of the laying of
the corner -stone of the new St Cecilia -'s
Roman Catholio Church, corner of Lu-
nette street and Pacific avenue, Toron-
to, on Sunday afternoon. ,
At the annual 'netting of the Domin-
ion Commercial Travelers' Association at
Montreal on Saturday evening, Mr. S.
J. Mathewson, of Montreal, was re-elec-
ted president, j. 33. Giles, vice-president,
end Max Murdock, treasurer. -
Mr. N. K. Laflamme, K. C., who was
defeated at Montreal, irt51, 3-arnes' Di-
vision for the Legislature, announced to-
day that if Sir Lomer Gouim will re- I
open the investigation into Montreal's
eivie affairs he will tonduct it without
any elorge.
While out moose hutting near Kenora,,
Duncan French, a farmer, Was inistalc-
en for a gnoose by C. E. Hanon'and
'shot through the breast. Reeovery' is
cousidered hopeless. The two men Were
in a thick bush at the time, and were
only 90 feet 'apart.
A prisoner in the county jail at Whibtby\
by Inaeto a. sensational and suceeseful
break fOT liberty. Russell Franklin, E.
'Niemen, with but a month of hie terun
for vagrancy to teems, was the mete et
eheated chase by the jail offieiale,
was not recaptured,
Acting on the advice of the Cabinet
Connell, his Excellency has declined to
intprfere in the case of Dillon, the Mont-
real murderer, who shot and kille(1 a
pollen:tan, aud wounded Chief Detective
Cerpenter. Dillon will be banged next
week on the date fixed.
Minnie Renshaw, a woman about
years of age, attempted suielde 011 Sun-
day -evening about 7 o'clock. in her room
at 110Yorkville avenue, TOrouta. She
had talon a quantity of larelainon.
WOMati hod been drinkhes quite leeway
for the Viet two week,. .and tree not
been table to get work.
JehieI el, linker, an employee td tha
Miehigan Central Railway, died muddenly
in 0 bailer fahop 111 141, Them re on Sit tor.
day .eveninge tie took hie pi tee 111 the
chair, leaned thl ek, a nil inatleu ly, without.
warning, paesed away. Riker was 70
years of age, and lind been M. 0, IT, ds-
potemeter for welly yeaee.
When George Stocks was yesterday
fixing the bell in the tower of St.
john's .Churelt, Portsmouth, Ont., he
slipped and fell .sixty feet, lighting on
picket tette. In the hospital it wait
fonnd that not it bone was broken, but
the fiefilt about his legs was lacerated to
a, maims! extent. Ire will recover.
Th, situation in Pot tuamaii t
1,01`4,Y graV0, (111-41p,` 10 a 1041111 of the 111
tiVek The guile mounted on the outer
d.ddoittelmati60121miittablikaattom. ,
defsneee of Rellensa bora (minuet]
by 'no 1111•111g-Illt.i. Sem-al buildings on
theprin et pet et rev te, anti it5 magnifi-
cent chime', are reduced to ruins. It
is feared there have been mealy victime.
Workmen discovered the body of it
woman lying in a yard near the new
Telephone Builitog on .adelaide elveet,
Torento. Investigation showed that she
had been dead for 301110 till1 0, an.l tile
police identified the remains as thoet
of•Delia Ilarria who lived at 110 York
etrect. Her death Wai (1110 to alcoholism
Ina expoenra,
The chief of police of Buenos Ayres,
Senor Firkin!, and the police secretary
were assassinated olt Sunday while driv-
ing in Calla street. A inau'supposed to
be it Russian anarchist, but not yet
identified, suddenly sprang from a se-
cluded spot where he had .been in wait -
Ing, and threw a bomb 'directly uuder
the eariliage.
Robert Wileon, it Grand Trunk Rail-
way engineer,savas fired at three time:
by an unknown man, armed with 0 re-
volver, while driving his Imeimetive
Wronger the Nepeeen yarde of the R.
Buoth Company on Ftia.tylI' ceeapal
injury, although two 1)11111' 14 imbeilitea
themselves in the wootliera k slue orael-
beg the cab window.
;T. B. MeViear, chef at London Asylum
for Insane, was found under one of the
windows Saturday morning, dying a few
hours later. He returned to the asylum
from the 'city about midnight, and ac-
corditeg to the night watchman, went at
once to his own room, on the fourth
floor.. It was on the ground directly be-
neath his window thnt he was found.
The eeeemony of unveiling the new
satiate in the Queen's Park, Toronto of
Hon. Jahn Saudfield Macdonald, Prime
Minister of the old Parliament of Can-
ada, and first Prime Minister of On-
tario, will take place to -morrow after-
noon at 3 o'clock. Addresses will be
deliaered by the Licutenant-Govet nor.
Sir jams Wirtiney, Iron. A. G. MacKay,
Mr. D. B. Baelenaram, N. C., of Cornwall,
nftee which thoee present will proceed
to the foot of the etettue and the Lim `an
lint -Governor will unveil it.
Natural gas claimed its first vielim
at Windsor on Smiley. Raymond. Kelly,
aged 22, residing at 84 Janette avenue,
was overcome by the fatal funree
while taking a bath this afteenome and
although he lad apparently made a lea
prate effoet 10 reach and open the
bathroom doer, he fell overcome. \VIwn
the door was broken open an lino'
tater the young man's dead body was
found lying on the floor.
The body of five-year-old Frank Dor-
080, who it was supposed had been kid-
napped ten days ago and for whom wide
search was ma& was found on Sun-
day jammed in die top of the chimney
at his aunt's house. on East Sixty-third
street, New York, where he had been
visiting with, his mother, when he ;suet-
denly disappeared, It was the coroner's
opinion that the boy had been strangled
end pushed down the chimney.
The whole of Germany is being rav-
aged by it storm of phenomenal violence.
Great havoc has been caused in Ber-
lim. Scores of chiraneys have fallen, and
slates, bricks and tiles aro scattered
broadcast. Trees have been uprooted,
the fronts of stoes blown in, and pedes-
trians have been lifted up and thrown
down by the . wind. Many persons have
been blown into lakes and drewned.
Thirty cases of serious injury have been
reported.
Plans for a general striker by wage -
workers throughout the country foe a
period of two weeks, beginning on the
day the officers of the American Federa-
tion of Labor aro imprisoned for
gontempt of court, were inaugurated
at Philadelphia on Sunday at a ineethig
of the Central Labor Union. Resolutions
to this effect were unanimously adopted
by the union, which represents about
175,000 workers in ninny lines of em-
ployment in this city.
As he was talking to a number of
hienas in the Cobalt platform on Sat-
urday afternoon, James Stevens, it
Seoteh section hand, was stabbed by
Sam Sealgo, an Italian. Scalgo attacked
the Seoteltman viciously with a long
knifelte dealt him lightning blows in
the chest arra abdomen, ono of them per-
forating the lung. Then he broke oat
of the (gored on the platform, but the
erv was raised,- and he was speedily cap-
tured by Provincial Constable Woods,
Iffor Pattersen, Itemised of fraud at
'Winnipeg in counection with the 1118113'.
1111(0 volley carried. -on his household of-
fects1, was rtequitted by it jury Saturday.
A most sensation:a etatement Was made
that the Prosincial fire eommissioner
advised Patterson to jump his bonds
and flee the country while out on bail,
the .eounniseioner claiming to have evi-
derive that :world temilt In hie eonvie-
time Ile promieed'Sir. Pa tterion that
ir woom elaim
, ag.linst the eemjetuy and eeeapt, from
rthe 001111117 the preeeention would 110t
is lat1110(11.
THE WAR ON
STEEL TRUST.
American Federation Flanging to
Give Big Trust a Fight.
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Sympathy For the Entombed Miners
in Illinois.
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Gornpers Tells the Delegates to Get
a Gait On
Toronto, Nov. 15.—Two sharp de-
bates at the convention of the Am-
erican Federation of Labor,.in Massey
Hall on. ,Se.turday niOrning gave to
the public in the gallexies the first
taste of the Federation's debating
quality. They also gave an opportun-
ity to President Sam Gorapers to dis-
play 'his ability for keeping a grip
on the reins of a meeting when a
dozen different speakers on the
floor, and motions, sub.Wiry Inca
tions, amendments and athendments
to the amendments are flying in the
air.
Contrary to expectation, the resolu-
tion on woman suffrage passed with-
out debate, One solitary delegate,
ventured a dissenting "No" when the
question was put, but even he dared
not phrase his objections in an amend-
ment Only one small alteration was
made to the resolution. Instead of
saying that it pledged the affiliated
onions to champion woman suffrage,
it was made to read that the conven-
tion "urges the affiliated union," eta.
Save for this amendment, the resolu-
tion passed in the shape in which
its mover, Miss Agnes Nestor, dele-
gate of the International Glove -mak-
ers' Union, presented it.
The more important debate came
when 1VAnnesota's State Federation's,
resolution came up, asking that the
Executive Council be instructed to
take' steps to prepare a defence fund
as an answer to the Employers' As-
sociatien. The committee recommend-
ed that it be not concurred.
Delegate Max Hayes protested
against the committee's action. He
said it was the duty of the stronger
unions to come to the aid of the weak
ones. The hatters and the seamen
got so little that they couldn't hope
to- finance a defence fund of their
own. He instanced what had result-
ed from the action of the typos, who
for over ten months had made a levy
of 10 per cent. and win the eight-hour
day for the printers of New York.
He was opposed by Delegate James
Lynch,president of the typos, who
asked • the convention to accept the
committee's report. ••
Delegate J. M. Barnes, of the aigar-
makers' International, thought that
a defence fund was the only fitting
reply to the millions piled up by the
manufacturers for purposes. of offence.
Delegate John Mitchell, of the
United Mine Workers, said that a
resolution more dangerous or destruc-
tive in its possibilities had never been
submitted to the Federation at tiny
of its conventions. As illustrating
the ineffectiveness of such a fund,
he said that iv the, great strike of
the United Mine Workers all the
treasuries of all the affiliated unions
would have been exhausted without
accomplishing much. In that strike
$40,000 was collected, but that meant
less than ten cents per week per man.
If such it fund were formed it would
mean that someone would be vested
with power to disburse it, and who-
ever had the power would have the
power to say who' would be able to go
on strike or not. He attributed tile
success of the mine workers to the
fact that the conscience of the pub-
lic was behind them. No strike would
be successful unless public opinion
was behind it, and if public opinion
was behind it, then the money could
be raised in time of need. Treasurer
John B. Lennon condemned the pro-
posed resolution,
Upon a vote of thd convention it
was voted down by a large majority.
Among the resolutions which pass-
ed without opposition was one ask-
ing that the United States Congress
pass legislation to control employ-
mene agencies; that action be taken
to favor the passage of a univereal
eight -hours bill through Congress,
and that action be taken to secure
for the people of Porto Rico recogni-
tion as citizens by tho United States.
In support of the last-named resolu-
tion„Delegate Santiago y Glesias was
heard'.
One resolution of international im-
portance was poised. It was present-
ed by Delegate P. J. Doherty; of the
Alabama State Federation, asking that
the Executive G'ouncil of the A. F.
of L.investigate the feasability 01
establishing and carrying on a na-
tional sanitarium for • the cure of
tuberculosis.
Toronto, Nov. 15.-14everal inefkeetual
attempts were made at the resmitption
of the convention of the American Fed-
eration of Labor at lluesey MOE this
morning to secure mania femn the dozen
or so committees which form part of the
body. None of -them were ready, how-
ever, which caused President Clomeers
to inquire, "Well! When will you le
ready?" As an incentive to the ceintnit.
tees to get buss' quickly, lie mentionett
that the hill will be taken up en Titers -
day afternoon and three evenings
the week.
On the motion of Delegate Devoeathe
settleineut of a dispute betavecu a local
unio111 and the International body of the
Garment Workees was made a mattee.
of record,
Delegate John [Relit:1r then in ti'oduc-
11 resolution of condolenee for the
relatives of the iniorne who met their
death in the mine disaster at Cherry,
IlL, on Saturday. It was carried by ie
Alluding vote.
Business teemed to be at it StalldS1 ill,
80 President Gompers read the de1egatet4
a lecture.
"-May I submit a partial report of the
Committee 031 OrgalliZilti0/1 1" asked
Chairman Perham, of that eommittee.
"Sure," snid Mr. Gompers; "we're
hungry for it."
'Ile committee reported in favor of
the reeolution introdoetal by the .Sinal-
gamated Meociation of Iron,. Sleet . &
Tin Workers of Ameriea 111 eeferenet, to
the prospeet of yt general 31111' of the
United States Steel 'Faust end leiter.
and oonclutling 'Nutt we believe the
thorough organization of all branehes of
its business is the most important, and
,neceseery wet k that eould twig.* the
attention, time etul effort of the Amer-
ican Federation of Tabor, and its dal-
iated national and intern:Ai:mat org
tn-
1'/ulti11s, and Vint WO 1V0011111101111 that in
meeting be held during the seseione of
the eonvention of the exeentive officers
'f a 11 0rail 11 ti : N't t. len Md. 1 one they
with the President oral Seerethry of the
• S. I% of 1... eoneeler and inolie 0
C.111:.1i511 ntliresairie Mon enema Hp 1•111
riloyeve of the tarittel Shave Stied (ei r -
iteration. and to centiliter and devise
ways anti meatti of making the strikes of
the ieffillatee ergetniattitala now psittling„
moTaretelififat
e:tis4".e,it-400,iytilil, o,,etvr•
Irotight td ,stlecessftil eoneinsino."
Aline 'Workers, urged that eatrealtints
else besides passing reatilittions SIL 1311(1
be done on. 'ilia, all hole:dant 18aker.
s"lluh
tltutilw o tlltu 11111(1 to (14)
e fseti;
o
lutioas. of sympathy," he said. i :11
life and death struggle, and ite ought to
put ourselves on recut!, lila arl
going to stop at tesolittiOne, hut we are
going to mai tlie eame motivate the Stool
Tried has been using might and :Irvin
non -unionize their' employees, ant we
Inuit organize them. This resolution 14
net -enough, I -suggeet that it bk. ref Ire('
to a, epedial eomittittee that wi:1 bring
in a elear-eut, tangible reprna en whet
this Federation should do,"
The convention adopted a resolution
asking the federatien ta, beam 11 Circular
letter urging organization utueng Lite
laundry workers. The reeolution
duced by .the Indiana Federation of La-
bor asking the federation to assist weak-
er international bodies finaneialiy was
referred to the Executive Committee.
"There is not it particle of justice or
sense in the resolution., It is so ridieue
loos I won't take tithe' to discuss it,"
stated jitmee Duncan, referring to the
resolution introduced by the Interna-
tional Union of liammersmen, asking
that hannuersinen, Daggers, Wage and
stone curb setters have the privilege of
organizing the blue stone cutters within
their ranks,
The matter was referred. to the stone
trades for consideration and adjustment.
• eaii
MAY BE ONE
OF ROBBERS.
Andras Slauder Tried to Change
$1,000 of,Canadian Money.
Was Purlued and Killed Himself
W ben CornereJ.
71. 1.011i$, MO" Nov. 1-I.—Surma-
ad on all sides by detectives and
weak from .. exhaustion, Andras
Slander, nineteen- believed to be one
of the three bandits evno robbed the
Rainy River branch of the Bank of
Nova Scotia, terminated a runnine
duel of theee miles through the botc-
toms of the Harlem Creek Valley
last evening by firing a bollet into
hie brain and died instantly. The
clue leading to the discovery of
Slaeder, or Edward Mynarski, as; he
also was known, cam eta the police
from a broker, at whose office he had
exchanged for American money one
thousand dollars in Canadian currency.
The detectives arrested Slander in a
Gilmore aveniue flat, where he and his
pretty nineteen -year-old wife, now a
prisoner, were living. When the pave-
ment wa.s reached Slander boson to
struggle with Detective Kilker to re-
lease his arm. Both men fell to the
ground, and as Slander arose he held ,a
revolver in his hand. It is believed that
he had the weapondeoneealed, with the
cartridges, in the front of his trousers.
Ife fired five shots point blank at De -
Weave Rannagen, encl then ran down
-
the incline to the bottom of the Harlem.
Creek Ravine. Ilannagen and Kilker
followed Slander, and Detectives War-
denski and Lalley, who had been hiding
at the collier, started to head him off.
Wardenski, who was ocompanied by itis
seventeen -year-old son, Andrew, was the
nearest to Slender, and as the detectives
ran they fired. Each time they fired
Slander would stoop down, screening his
body with the weeds. The detectives
would do likewise when he fired back.
The ehase continued in this manner for
deer two miles along' the creek, but the
detectives, who were rapidly exhausting
their euppiy of ammunition, could not
get near enough to the fleeing man to
wound him.
Finally Slander bid in a elump of
bushes. The detectives began creep-
ing toward the bushes, but before they
could reach them a shot rang out.
Three citizens, watching the battle
from a high knoll, yelled to the detee-
tivee that the fugitive had shot him-
self. Careful lest Slander had fired the
'shot as 0 ruse to gain time, the detec-
tives closed in on the bushes with
revolvers drawn. The bandit ley face
downward, bleeding from it wound in the
head, A hasty examination convinced
the detectives that life was extinct. A
magazine revolver, with which Slander
had fired forty thirty -eight -calibre bul-
lets at the detectives, was empty, indi-
cating that the bandit had used his lad
cartridge to end his life when the .last
chalice for escape was gone. •
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 14.—(A. P. De-
spnteh.)----Chief of Detectives Smith has
partly identified Andress Slander, a
fugitiee, who committed mikado- yester-
day when surrounded by detectives as
one of the robbers who attacked A elerk
of the Canadian Express Company at
Niagara Fate, Ont., November 70, and
stole $14,000.
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UNION JACK.
Foreign Flags to be Prohibited on
Crown Lands.
Toronto, Nov, 15.—The banishment of for-
eign flags from Ontario's Provincial parks
and other Crown lands whereon tourists and
holiday seekers are wont to locate is a re-
gulation which will be shortly adopted by
the Government. The enaetment will pro-
bably be a part of the general park policy
which is now in course or preparation for
the Legistuature.
Some years age., as a. result of the pro-
tests of certain ultra -loyalists, it was decreed
that foreign campers and cottagers flying
the bunting of the country to which they
belonged mtist, 011 Crown land, have the
display stirmounW by the tinien Jack. Dur-
ing the Past r,eason, however, protests have
been 'edged by several Canadians that their
American SUMMat. neighbors, With ntOte
li)V1111Y than common sense, have been de-
ooratinp their flag -poles with niammoth edi-
limn= og "Old glory," capped by miniature
ani ter buten Jacks which were hardly vis-
ible.
/ PINE DEAD.
Louis Riel's Lieutenant -Died Sun-
day Neer Winnipeg.
Winnieete Man., Nov. la—Ambrose I:Amine,
Louis ItiePs liententint in the Nerthwest 4.13 -
hellions of 1869 and 1881, died $tinday at
St Norberto, south- etMs city. IIe was
one of the best Ittiotrit half-breed lettdere in
western Canatin. 'Amine ltved for years 111
Mitoweeta atter the Ceateliati rebeinea, when
it mire Was (Alt Oa hie head by the Dom-
inion Govern:Meat. Ile was pardoneAl and
returned here.
DERESPORD A CANDIDATE.
London. Nov. 1.3- Admirol I.ord Mar,,
betertbed. it Is innoumed to -day, will ba
the Brilottist emateltee at the baseleetion in
Portsmouth. which will theme a suet:metre
tO the lain Jobe Baker.
BOMB FOR
LORD MINTO.
Unsuccessful Atteropt to Assasssin.
ate Lord and Lady Minto
Willie Driving in Their Carriage
in India.
Ahmedabad, Brithilt India, Nur, 14.—
Lord Albite, the Viceroy of India, and
Lady Minto had 0 narrow escape yester-
day front being killed by iambs. They
were driving through one of the streets
when, without warning, two bombs were
thrown at their carriage. A. dragoon,
Who Was riding. alongside, spurred, for.
ward and with ordstretched sabre inter
eepted the first bomb, hurling it some
distance away into A 51111d heap. The
second bomb struck the 'Viceroy's Joni -
dal', a native lieutenant, who was hold-
ing ae umbrella over Lady Milne, and
fell harmlessly to the geomul.
Neither bomb exploded, as the soft
sand acted as a buffer.
On examination they were found to
contain picric acid. just prior to this,
as the carriage passed through one of
the streets, a bomb exploded some little
distnfiee away. Police and. others, at.
traded by the explosion, ran up and
found it man on the ground with his
hand blown off. He proved to be eat in•
noeent bystander. The bomb -throwers
made their escape in the excitement,
and as yet no arrests have been made.
Attempts have been made in India
during the last year or two against the
lives of Lord Minto, Lord Kitchener, Sir
Andrew Fraser, _Li_eutenant-Governor of
Bengal, and many other officials.
REFORM IN INDIA
--
Natives to Have a Share in Legis-
lation of Country,
Simla, British India, Nov. 15.—The
plan for the reform of the British ad-
ministration of India, whirl was out-
lined by Lord Morley, Secretary- of State
for India, in the House of Lords last
December, and which is designed to
give India an embryo. constitution ad-
mitting the natives to an -independent
share in the legislation of the country,
, came into effect to -day. Thus begins a
new and striking epoch in the history
of British rule in India.
For more than three years the Im-
perial Government, and the Indian ad-
ministration have wrestled with the de-
tails of the plan recently consummated.
Under the programme adopted, all relig-
ious and special interests inay elect re-
presentatives to the Viceroy's and 'pro-
vincial councils, but in view of recent
anarchist outbreaks a safeguard is pro-
vided in a,' qualification which empowers
the imperial and provincial governments
to declare ineligible those persons whose
election is considered contrary to pub-
lic interest.
The Viceroy's Couucil in the future
will have 370,members instead of 126, as
formerly, of whom a total of 135 will be
elected as against 30 elected heretofore.
The functions of the Council will be
considerably enlarged, and it will ,be en-
abled to take an active part in the mak-
ing of the budget and all legislation.
The new councils will assemble in jantf-
ary.
100 DROWNED,
Steamer La Seine 'Sunk Near
Singapore.
Sharks Attacked Those Struggling
in the Water.
Singapore, Nov, 14.—The nuil steatnel
La Seine, of the aleseageries Maritiinc
Service, running between Java and Sin-
gapore,. and on her way to this port,
was in collision early this .inorning with
the steamer Ondro, of the British India
line, and sank witlun tee) minutes, 'Aaron
and Baroness Deniczky, the captain of
La. Seine, five European officers, and. 8.
obliere, eompekillg ullltiVti' paesengere
and members of the twee., tvert
drowned.
The aecideet occurred about 4 o'elock
in tile morning in a thick haze. The ves-
sels were !deeming at a good speed, iota
La Seine was cut almost. in half. Thine.
was 110 time for panic -nor for any at-
tempt on the par1 of the officers of tilt
foundering steamer to get out Mei'
boats, lite majority of those on beard
were caught in their berths and earried
down with the vessel. •
The force of the col -Heim.' brought
the Ondit to alinast it dead stop and
her engines 1V01!C at once -slowed and
boats lowered.
The moue work proved thrilling
for not only were t.lie rescuing par-
ties impeded the dark, but shoals
of sharks were already attacking. thoee
cling:lig to pieties of wreckage In the
water. Sixty-one persons feorn the ilh
fated steamer were finally dragged into
the boats mid brought by the Oxide to
this port. Many or them had been bitten
by sharks and several are severely he,
jured.
VILE DEEDS.
Little Girls Tell Terrible Stories
Against Chinese,
Montreal, Nov.. it —The white slave traf.
ne In Montreal was the item under consider-
ation in the Court of Xing's Beech ote Sat-
urday. The courtroom was tittered by Mr.
Justice Trettholin while several little girls
101 it row/ling dory connecting several 011111.
et01 with an outrage. The charge against a
eertate man was for keeping Meta under
eighteen years age at a certain house en
Vitr3 street for immoral maltase% Tho littre
eerie °Waited to the jury hew they had
boon looked in the rooms by their neeoyer,
aria the desperate eneonotere they had with
Mame.. The girls said they wore giveut
bor. to drink by tilde tormentors, alui that
their olothina were taken away from them
Thev declared that they bad need to woe
from the building, but as nil the Mare and
windowwere ieeked mid they Nate not get
Ottt of the oleo.
The invealgatiOn is to be continued.
Suptaintentleut W. IL Welsh,of the
anallian deteetive bureau, was in To.
onto on Saturday night oe 1(14 way to
14411 (1», Wash., I:1 identify a man 0.r-
11,s1e11 in that plave believed to im Ed-
ward Lee, one of the seven who broke
hum jail here on July 10, 1008.
• • • •
KING MANUEL
Arrived To -day in London on a
Visit to King Edward.,
$.1101. .Likely Meet His: Prospective.
Irride.
London,. Nov. 15. ---Hing Manuel, who
is paying his first visit to England since
his neeession to the .throne of Portugal,
arrived in Portsmouth on the royal
yacht Victoria and Albert to -day. Ile
wits met bv the Prince .of Wales, repre-
Kitting King ;Edward, and welcomed by
an imposing naval display. Soon after
hie ;veiled the party proceeded by train
to Windsor,. where King Edward and
Queen Alexandra awaited their guests
at the station. The royal borough Was.
a mass of color and flags, in honor ef
the occasion.
A week'e•prograntme ot festivities at
Windsor has been arrauged. It provides
for state banquette, hunting trips and
theatrical performances. There will be
a civic reception and luncheon, by the
Lord Mayor at
Canadian Hunters
Won at New York.
Closing Scenes of Horse Show in
Madison Square Garden.
Now York, Nov. 14„—The dying hours
found society out in force and not one
whit Idx in its worship of the goddess
of fashion. There were brilliants by the
peck and raiment that would have sham-
ed even fairy stories or the splendor- of
the Orient. Great Britain and Canada
shared honore in many events with their
Ameriean brothers and few incidents oc-
curred to mar the grandeur of the mow
810Auffred Gwynn° Vanderbilt wou the
annual Arrowhead Inn Coaching Cup
race from Maurice Howlett, this after-
noon in phenomenal time. Mr. Vander-
bilt drove Ids coach, with seven passen-
gers from Arrowhead Inn, at One Hon-
dred and. Seventy -Seventh street and
Fort Washignton avenue to Madison
Square Garden and into the ring in 38
minutes. Mr. Howlett's coach finished
seven minutes later.
The distance is between eight and nine
miles. *The reute WaS (1011,11 Fort Wash-
ington avenue, Broadway, 110th street,
Morningside avenue, through Ceutral
Park and down Fifth avenue to 27111
street. Mr. Howlett won the race last
year in 48 minutes.
The cup was donated a year ago by
Ben Riley and only Mr. Vanderbilt and
Mr. Howlett entered. Mr. Howlett drove
his own coach to -day to the corner of
Amsterdam avenue and 1113th street,
where he turned the reins over to anoth-
er amateur whip, Charles Baudoine.
Taking out the time Wino necessary for
slowing up at street railway crossings
and getting into the garden, Mr. Van-
derbilt is estimated to have sent his
four along at an average speed of 40
miles an hour. Nevertheless the horses
were in fine condition when they reached
the garden and pranced around the ring
as though they 'Were in shape for anoth-
erIliatsliti
In ehaaupionship awards Lady Dil-
ham, owned by the Avondale Farm,
Housatonic, Mass., won the cup for sin-
gle harness horses, not over 15 hands
bigh, with Joelge Moore's Flourish sec-
ond.
Lady Seaton. it Moore entry, took the
eup for singleharness horses over 15
hands and under 15 hands two inches.
Nola, of the Avondale Farm, was ad-
judged the best single harness horse
over fifteen hands two inches.
First of the qualified hunters was Sir
Thomas, owned by Adam Beck, of Lon-
don, Canada. Second was Stityaway,
owned beeCrow & Murray, of Toronto.
Lieut..T. Gerard Hetherington,of the
18th English Hussars% whose entries have
won such .signal victories in the saddle
claws, received a cable to -day extend-
ing his leave of absegee from his regi-
ment to December 1. He will to -night
ship his string .of 11 horses to Chicago,
where he will endeavor to repeat his sue -
cosecs. The Chicago show opens next
week. Lieut. Hetherington paid a trib-
ute to the American horse to -day. To a
reporter he said: "k -our saddle horses
aro better schooled, better gaited and
possest conformation and blood lines far
superior to the Eng1.0_ish horeee.".
NO ABSOLUTION
To French Children Who Use Inter -
dieted Text Books.
Nantes, France, Nov. 15.—T1e Catho-
lic: clergy here to -day refused absolution
to Catholic children io the public schools
who are .u.sIng the text hooks inter-
dicted by the Church.
This action on the part of the clergy
is in fulfillment of a warning sounded
when the Church put its ban upon cer-
tain books used in the public schools,
and which were held to be offensive to
Catholicism. The Government has re-
fused to modify the character of the
text books, which include works of
history, and an native fight has been
instituted by the clergy' at many points
throughout. France. An element among
the parents of Catholic pupils thought
it better not to oppose the Department
of Edupation, and this element has now
made its members liable to the punish-
ment inflicted at Nantes.
30 SHIPS ASHORF.
Hurricane Works Havoc on New-
foundland Coast.
St. John's. Nfld., Nov. 15. ---Thirty
fishing vessels and trading sehoonere
are ashore at various points along
the coast of Newfound -lead and it half-
dozen craft are missing, driven to
sea aud possibly sunk, as the result
of a gale of hurnitane proportiens
which has raga for three days. tip
to a late hour to -night no lives of sea-
men on vessels meow:tett for have been
test .
Telegraph poles, trees, fiehing houses
and signal etations went -down before
the blast, Which also demolished
wharves, waterside buildings, and fish-
it•q: outfits. Many of those driven
shoe were at axlebor
The stertmer Portia left St, anima; to-
tlay to Search for the Missing Mil,
•
feed demerit -0e Canary Mena Nov. 11—
If4111'e earthquake chocks. ware Yelt bete ass -
Weave