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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-11-18, Page 7400 M1N. ENTOMBED'. bisastrous Explosion in and Illinois Coal Mine. .10•••*1,0, 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. 4 *Ai* • 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. •• .00 MADAME .STEINHEIL ACQUITTED OF THE CHARGE OF MURDER IN PARIS. 0,5,0000.000.0.0 1 News in Brief I 000.00006000.000000 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. ••••• Sympathy For the Entombed Miners in Illinois. ,•••••111,1* 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. • .• 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