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EVENTY IViEN DEAD
s Result of Terrific Explo
sions in Coal Mine.
OBROR MOST FRIGHTFUL
l|t Majority of Victims Lost Lives
* Her oic Efforts to Save Others.
Bodies Are Entombed Far
Under Earth.
k special, from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
Between fifty-five and seventy
it developed Sunday, lost their
j B two explosions Saturday and
a turday night in coal mine No. 1, of
Union Pacific Coal company at
, a -phe explosions were caused
1 gases
(lowed by fire.
Th- tirst explosion occurred at
SL. Killing
MEXICO CITY SHAKEN.
Earthquake Disturbances Cause Dam.
age to Many Buildings and Result
in Wild Panic Among People.
Mexico City experienced two severe
earthquake shocks Thursday.
The flrs t shock, which occurred in
tho afternoon, lasted 4 minutes and
28 seconds, and did little damage.
The second shock, which occurred at
9:17 oclcck Thursday night, was much
more severe. Four persons were injur
ed during the quake, one of them mor-
tally and great damage was done to
buildings.
Walls were cracked and clocks all
over the city were stopped. The thea
ter crowds rushed to the streets. The
people are greatly alarmed over the re
peated shocks. A number of walls have
fallen. For a short tlmo telegraph
communication was Interrupted.
1 he shock was felt over an area of
some 500 miles from north to south,
HE SANDERSVILLE HERALD.
JUDGE IS OBDURATE
Pritchard Holds His Grip in
Carolina Dispensary Case,
WON’T OUST RECEIVERS
Says Action of State Supreme Court
Was Taken After His Orders
Were Issued, and He is Not
Bound by Decision.
an d coal dust, and each was expending Itself at Guanajuato on the
j nortl1 ’ aild Rincon Antonio on, the south.
Calle San Francisco, the main thor
oughfare of the city, was cracked In
Places fop many blocks, it i 3 fom-od
that the chocks will bo repeated. It
; has been many years since successive
! shocks of any severity have been felt
| In the city. All of tee Injured were
Mexican workmen.
eighteen miners, in*
a superintendent and three
luding
njses.
The second explosion occurred at
„ 30 o'clock Saturday night, snuffing
u j the lives of from forty to lifty res-
uer3i including State Mine Inspector
M. KG©-
Tho wildest excitement prevailed on
unday in Hauna and at the mine,
here hundreds of persons oongregat-
j including widows, children undoth-
.j relatives of the victims. Men and
•omen ran abfmt wringing their hands
ni crying, while many little children,
ejarated from their mothers, sobbed
■ith fear.
The bodies of four of the eighteen
who lost their lives in the flrst
xplosion, were found Saturday night,
ut, owing to the increasing volume of
which threatened to explode at
ny moment, no effort was made to
emove them to the surface.
Fire started in the colliery Sunday,
larch 22nd. Since that time attempts
t regular intervals were made to ex-
iish the blaze. Saturday it was
Vtned unsafe to send the miners
vn into the workings and they were
told not to report for duty. Superin-
lendant Briggs, with the best and
most experienced hands In the camp,
went Into the mine to fight the Are,
but at 2 o’clock the flames were be
yond their control.
At 3 o'clock the Are reached the
gas, ttiid u torrifir* pvnloslr.n fullowpd.
In a few minutes many men volun
teered to enter the mine to rescue any
possible survivor. Those on the sur
face had begun to expect results from
the intrepid daring of the rescuers,
ibut at 10:30 o'clock the camp was
startled by the second explosion, that
partly shut off the shaft of the mine
and most likely killed the volunteers.
STEVENS DIES OF WOUNDS.
Korean's Bullet Proved Fatal to Amer
ican Diplomat.
Durham White Stevens, the diplo
matist shot by Wan Chang, a young
Korean, on Monday, died at tho St.
Francis hospital Wednesday night fol
lowing an operation. Death was due
to peritonitis. Tho operation disclosed
that the assassin's bullet had perfor
ated the intestines In six places.
Wan Chang, when informed at the
Jail of his victim's death, received tho
news without surprise and with mani
fest delight.
Since the day of the shooting Chang
has been expressing the hope that
Stoveiss’ wounds might prove fatal.
Wednesday night, when asked If ho
was sorry fer what he had done, Chang
said:
"No, I am glad. He was no frlond
of Korea, and he is bettor dead.”
KAISER BILL RELENTS.
German Emperor Now Says He’s Will
ing to Receive Ambassador Hill.
Emperor William of Germany, hav
ing been fully advised as to the atti
tude of President Roosevelt and the
feeling of the American public in re
gard to the alleged refusal of his maj
esty to receive Dr. David Jane Hill
as American ambassador to Germany
in succession to Charlemagne Tower,
has withdrawn all the expressions of
disapproval he recently sent to Presi
dent Roosevelt, and would be pleased
to receive Dr. Hill as American ambas
sador.
The empreor has caused this view to
be communicated to President Roose
velt,
BATTLE LINE OF DEMOCRATS.
Williams Maps Out What Legislation
the Minority Will Approve.
Representative John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi, as leader of the minor
ity In the house or rupretreiuau
Thursday Dight Issued a statement de
fining the attitude of the democratic
party in the house toward the legisla
tion urged by President Roosevelt in
his messages to congress at the pres
ent session. The statement describes
what republican legislation the demo
crats will support, whnt they will op
pose and what concessions they de
mand on the part of the majority as
the price of refraining from an organ
ized filibuster throughout the remain
der of the session.
Judge Pritchard, in tho United States
circuit court at Asheville, N. C., Fri
day decilnod to grant the motion pre
sented by counsel for th > South Caroli
na dispensary commission in the suits
against it by whisky firms, that the
court dismiss tho (receivers it had
named for the $800,000 dispensary fund,
and abrogate Its jurisdiction.
Counsel for the commission argued
that since the federal court has made
its orders, the supreme court of South
Carolina had decided against it in tlie
mandamus proceedings brought by At
torney General Lyon, to compel It to
pay out of tile fund $15,000 for criminal
prosecutions, It was argued that under
the supreme court rules the federal
court wa3 bound to accept the interpre
tation by tile state court.
Judge IJrltc hard’s opinion holds that
while he might have been bound by the
interpretation of the South Carolina su
preme court, If it had been rendered
prior to his decrees, there is no rule
to cause him to accept adtc letaohp
to cause him to adopt the interpreta
tion rendered after he had decided, al
though he would yield to such inter
pretation if lie had any doubts as to the
correctness of his ruling, but he had
none.
Counsel for the commission then pre
sented papers for appeal und prosecu
tion bond was fixed at $1,000.
HEFLIN nbTOL.
Alabama Congressman Shoots Negro
and a White Man While Riding
on a Street Car in Washington.
In a desperate affray on a Pennsyl
vania uvenue car in Washington Fri
day night, a negro and a white mau
were shot by Congressman Thomas
J. Heflin, of Alabama.
Thomas Luiftby, the negro, was shot
in the head and is ifi a critical condi
tion, and Thomas McCreary, a New
hnrup trainar Is suttoriug from
a wound in the leg.
The snooting of McCreary was pure
ly accidental.
Mr. Heflin was arrested and taken
to the sixth police precinct station,
where the charge of assault with la
tent to kill was placed against him.
Later ho was released on $5,000 ball.
Upon boarding the car Mr. Heflin
observed two negro passengers, one of
whom was Thomas Luinby, and wiio
from
nuin-
boomerang for robber.
was in the act of Liking a drln
a bottle of whisky. There was
ber of other pasengers, includijg sev
onion-
ilm to
Union Cigar Makers Locked Out.
Cigar manufacturers at New Haven,
Conn., to tho number of nineteen lock
ed out their union men Saturday to
enforce the ultimatum given to the
union to the ofTect that they must
tak. off the ban against a shop in
which the men had struck following a
disagreement with a foreman over a
fi bop rule.
Blast Intended for Opening Safe Blew
Off His Head.
Three robbers attempted to rob tho
bank at Sprlngtown, Ark., Thursday
night, but a premature explosion blew
off the head of one robber and so mu
tilated him that identification is im
possible.
The other two left hurriedly without
securing any spoils. The noise of the
explosion aroused the citizens of the
village who hurriedly formed a posse
and started in pursuit.
JUDGE FIRED FROM BENCH.
Black-
INJUNCTION MADE PERMANENT.
Judge Jones Renders Final Decision
Regarding Alabama Rate Laws.
in a sweeping decision making per
manent the preliminary injunction de
cided August, Judge Thomas G.
Jones of the federal court of Alabama,
middle district, declared that acts
which sought to prevent the railroads
the state from going into the fed
eral court were unconstitutional and
that the anti-railroad acts of the Ala
bama legislature should be suspended
Pending an investigation of the com
plaints of the railroads that the acts
w ere confiscatory.
Virginia Legislature Removes
stone for Gross Immorality.
The general assembly of Virginia,
at. Richmond, Thursday, adopted a res
olution removing Judge J. W. G. Black-
stone, of the eleventh circuit from of
fice. The grounds upon which this act
ion wa« based are immorality and gross
neglect of official duty. There was
but one dissenting vote in each branch.
TO PROSECUTE “RED” EDITORS.
Roosevelt Suggests Court Action
Against Anarchist Publishers.
President Roosevelt states in an
swer to mi appeal from Mayor Mc
Bride of Paterson, N. J-, to exclude
the anarchist newspaper, "La Ques-
tione Sociale,". from the mails for the
purpose of suppressing the publication
that besides directing that the news
paper be denied the use of the mails,
he has requested the department of
justice to make every effort to prose-
cute criminally those responsible for
the publication.
eral ladles. Mr. Heflin says lie
strated with Luinby and asked
stop drinking, saying:
"Don’t take that drink; therehi'e la
dles here and it is not right, J.t is
against the law for you to lo tills
■thing in a street car und 1 hf>e you
will put that bottle away."
It is said that Luinby becine of
fended at Mr. Heflin’s remonjrances
and applied vile epithets. Mil Heflin,
who is a large, powerful maj threw
Lumby off the car as it cab to a
stop.
The negro arose and, it is began
cursing Mr. Heitin again ancmade a
motion for his hip pocket as (to draw
a weapon, whereupon Mr. H|in tired
at him through the car w injur, miss
ing the negro and hitting Tinas Mc
Creary, who was about trjity feet
from the cur. Mr. Hetlin fill once or
twice agalu, one of the shj striking
Lumby in the head abovthe ear.
Lumby ran a short distanland fell.
An ambulance was called fl he was
taken to a hospital.
Mr. Heflin explained atjie station
his reason for going arniJHe is au
thor of a Jim Crow caiiw in the
District of Columbia aijsays that
since he introduced the injure ha has
received many letters of (hreatening
character, and securedpermission
from the authorities to armed.
Mr. Heflin represents J fifth Ala
bama district, in which I Tuskegee
institute, of which Bookr. Washing
ton is at the head, is loci.
A SPECIAL MESSAGE
Transmitted to National Law
makers By President.
IS LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
Which Was Recently Agreed Upon at
White IHcuse Conferences—Sum
mary of Special Features of
the Document.
A special message from tho president
was read In both houses of congress
soon after convening Wednesday, and
in both it was closely followed. In the
house the declaration that the time had
come for a revision of the tariff elicited
hand clapping on the part of the demo
cratic members. Democratic approval
also was given by the way of pound-
inR desks to the suggestion that con
gress could with advantage forthwith
remove tho tariff on wood pulp, with
a corresponding reduction upon paper
made from wood pulp.
1 lie republicans waited and confined
the applause to the message as a
whole. In the senate the message was
received without comment of any kind.
The message urges the adoption of
child labor laws throughout the nation.
Recommends the enactment of em
ployers’ liability legislation, for gov
ernment employes as well as those con
nected with common carriers and pub
lic utilities corporations.
Suggests remedial legislation for la
bor and capital disputes. Declares that
no temporary restraining order should
be Issued by any court without notice
and all hearings for permanent injunc
tions should be within a reasonable
time.
Amendments to interstate commerce
and anti-trust legislation are urged.
Laws should be framed which would
allow railroads to enter Into traffic
agreement subject to approval of
commission. Issuance of all securities
by railroads should be flrst passed up
on by federal commission. Where rail
roads or corporations are placed in re
ceivership the attorney general should
appoint one of the receivers so as to
protect stockholders.
Anti-trust legislation should be mod-
fled so ns not to prevent legal combina
tions. Publicity in cases of all combin
ations and corporations is recommend
ed.
Mutual trade agreements between
'L 1 Foyer and employe are strongly
U ! g& V While arbitration is the be3t
plan, the ri h ui ... ,
... , '•’'table organization
by labor and capital in...* be
nlzed.
Legislation to suppress financial de
pression is recommended, and the es
tablishment of postal savings banks
is urged.
The revision of the present tariff
schedule is recommended, Including
plans for the protection of forests by
putting wood pulp upon the free list.
The establishment of a waterways
commission is also urged.
HIGHWAYMEN ROB BANKER.
Two Are Caught But Third Got Away
With the Money.
Frank Frorer, president of a hank
In Lincoln, 111., and of the Lincoln
Mining company, was held up by three
highwaymen Wednesday afternoon two
blocks from the public square of Lin
coln and robbed of the $5,000 monthly
pay roll of the mining company. Two
of the robbers were caught, but the
third escaped with the money.
".BEER KING” SURRENDERS.
Missing Alleged Violator of Carolina
Dispensary Law Gives Up.
James S. Farnum, known as the
"Beer King," for whose arre3t a war
rant was issued more than two months
ago, charging violation of the South
Carolina dispensary law, and who left
the state the same day, surrendered at
Columbia Wednesday and was releas-
i ed under $10,000 bond.
KERN FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Australian Chinese qott Japs.
A Chinese boycott oipanase, on
account of the Tatsu ’u Incident,
has been widely taken by Chinese
merchants throughout tralia.
Indiana Democrats Indorse a Running
Mate for Bryan.
The Indiana state democratic conven
tion closed after naming a state ticket,
adopting a platform demanding an im
mediate revision of the traiff, and in
structing the thirty delegates to the
national convention to vote for W. J.
Bryan for president. John W. Kern,
of Indianapolis, was indorsed for tho
vice presidential nomination.
"UNCLE JOE" CANNON INDOR3ED.
BIG BANK RESUMES BUSINESS. SENATE VACANfILLED.
For Presidency by Illinois Republicans
in State Convention.
Republicans of Illinois, In state con
vention enthusiastically Indorsed Jo-
Be Ph G. Cannon as candidate for Cho
presidency, declared in favor of a re
vision, of Lie tariff, and elected four
delegates at large to the national con
vention.
.... i . • .... ... .
institution in Kansas City Has Cre
Restored With Six Ml". 0 " 8 n Cash
With its credit restored, with $8,000
000 in cash and exchange with which
to pay a deposit account of $12,000,000
and with financier, of national proml-
uenco i» charge, the NaWnhl Ba-k »t
Commerce reopened at vans.
Monday, three months and weu V
five days alter it was closed.
Stewart Succeeds L^nator Red-
field Proctor iiffimont.
John W. Stewart 0 ldlebury, for
mer governor of Verr has been ap
pointed to tho unite, tes senate by
Governor Fletcher ^ctor to fill
the vacancy caused
of Senator Redfield
art's term will e
fall.
Militia to Guard Tobacco Beds.
Lieutenant Jenkins and fifteen men
from the Whitesburg company of mili
tia at Lexington, Ky., were sent to
Mount Snelling Saturday to guard to
bacco beds and other property. They
had been on duty at Hopkinsville for
several weeks.
TOBACCO TRUST YIELDS.
Report That Farmers in Kentucky
Have Won Long Fight and Will
Get $14,000,000 for Weed.
An end to the night riding in the
Kentucky White Burley district ha3
been brought about through a formal
agreement reached between the Amer
ican Tobacco Company and the ex
ecutive committee of the Society of
Equity In a conference at Winchester,
Ky., Tuesday, according to apparently
authoritative statements made in Cin
cinnati by members of the American
Society of Equity.
Nearly $14,000,000 and the purchase
of the entire crops of 1900 and 1907
on tho one side, and no planting of a
crop for the year 1908 on the other
side, are points In the agreement.
Word 1b said to have been received
by the executive committee of the So
ciety of Equity on Monday afternoon
from headquarters of the American
Tobacco Company in New York that
the company would buy the 1906 and
1907 crops at 16 and 18 cents per
pound, respectively.
The committee was sworn to secre
cy. and the report has been officially
denied, but is nevertheless declared to
be authentic. The two-year crop ag
gregates about 80,000,000 pounds of
leaf now In store in various ware
houses and private barns throughout
tho White Burley district. According
to the reported terms of tho agree
ment, the company will commence to
take over the big purchase immediate
ly. The reason for secrecy by the so
ciety lay in its determination not to
raise nny crop this year. Before ad
journing the executive committee
adopted resolutions condemning tho
night riders and disavowing any re
sponsibility for them.
A prominent member of the society,
in confirming the agreement, said:
"It is all settlod. The cruel war Is
over, and we have won. There will
be no more night riding or violence,
but there will bo no 1908 crop of to
bacco. The American Tobacco com
pany has agreed to buy all tho pooled
leaf of the 1906 and 1907 crops, and
will pay nearly $14,000,000 for it. Wo
have prevailed in the just fight, and
are now confident that the farmer and
renter can raise tobacco and market
it and have some money at the end
of the season after paying the grocery
bills.”
CYCLONE WHELMS TOWN.
Village of Lynn, Ga., Wiped from th*
Earth and Many People Hurt.
Just after daybreak Tuesday morn-
ins, - -vrione struck the small town
of Lynn, Ga., six miles noun »f Bain-
bridge. on the Georgia, Florida and
Augusta railway, destroying every
building In tho place and seriously In
juring a number of people.
The cyclono came without a mo
ment’s warning, and before the people
had tlmo to leave their beds. The
houses were blown down on them.
One house, In which were six people,
was so completely demolished that
only a few floor timbers could be
found. All the occupants were more
or leas hurt.
A little child was blown from its
father’s arms, and carried over two
hundred yards Into the woods.
The store of Rich & Bailey was de
stroyed and stock badly damaged. The
house of Tom Rich was raized to the
ground, without Injuring the occupants.
"BLACK HAND” CLOSES BANK.
Run Made on Dago Institution in Re
venge for Murder of Secret Agent.
A plot, relentlessly worked out by
members of the Black Hand, ended dra
matically in New York Tuesday In
a run cf depositors and the suspension
of the bank of Pasquale Patl, an Ital
ian banker, and his flight from tho
city in fear of death, threatened by
the Black Hand because he recently
shot and killed Francesco Palletro, one
of their alleged members, who had de
manded money under the pain ol kill
ing the banker and his family.
BANK LOOTED OF MILLION.
Paying Teller and Auditor Taken Into
Custody as Culprits.
More than $1,000,000 has disappeared
from the vaults of the Fanners’ De
posit National Bank of Pittsburg, Pa.,
according to information reluctantly di
vulged by officers of the bank.
Two arrests have been made and
the men taken into custody are Henry
Relber, paying teller and John Young,
auditor of the bank.
rector to
l« recent death
■or. Mr. Stew-
this coming
Jury Acquits Night Riders.
Alt Carlisle, Ky., Henry Fanning and
Butler MioClanahan, charged with the
murder of Hiram Hedges, who was kill
ed recently by night riders during oue
of the raids were acquitted.
PRIMARY LAW DECLARED VOID.
Louisiana Statute N. G., According to
Decision of This Judge.
Judge King of the civil district court
at New Orleans has declared the pri
mary election law of Louisiana uncon
stitutional, and tho matter will go to
the supreme court;
The decision will have no effect on
tho recent primary election held by
the democratic party.
RATE LAWS BIFFE0
By Decisions Rendered in'
U, S. Supreme Court.
TWO STATcS INVOLVED'
dorth Carolina and Minnesota Courts
Courts Placed Under Jurisdiction
of Federal Tribunals — Disas
trous Results Predicted.
A Washington special say3: In
fusing to grant to Attorney General
Young of Minnesota a writ of habeas
corpus releasing him from the penalty
Imposed by tho United States circuit
court for the district of Minnesota on
the charge of contempt of court la
Instituting a proceeding In a stat*
court for the enforcement of the rail
road rate law after the federal court
had prohibited such a course, and in
affirming the decision of Judge Pritch
ard of the United States circuit court
for the western district of North Caro
lina, discharging from imprisonment
James H. Wood, a ticket agent of the
Southern railway at Asheville, after
he had been sentenced by the Ashe
ville police court to serve a term on
tho rock-pile on the charge of col
lecting for a ticket on that road n
greater price than was permitted by
the state railroad law, the supremo
court of the United States Monday add
ed another to the series of decisions
which have rendered notable the pres
ent term of that court.
In both cases the right of the state*
to fix rates for railroad transportation
was the issue, and both involved con
flicts between the federal and the stat®
courts. The decision in eacli case was
opposed both to the states and to
their courts. The opinion of the court
in both cuses was announced by Jus
tice Peckhani, and, with the exception
of Justice Harlan, all ihe other mem
bers of the court stood behind him in
the announcement of the court’s find*
lag. Justice Harlan read a dissenting
opinion in the Young case, In which
lie took the view that the suit was
practically a proceeding against tho
state, and therefore not permissible un
der the eleventh amendment to tho
constitution. He therefore character*
led the opinion as era-making in tho
history of the court, saying that It
had the effect of closing the courts ot
a state against the state itself, and
predicted that the result would be dis
astrous.
The two cases were so similar that
both practically were decided in one
opinion. The principal pronouncement
was made in the Minnesota case.
PERMANENT INJUNCTION
Issued Against Federation of Labor
In Buck Stove Company Case.
The American Federation of Labor
and President Gompers and others of
that organiatlon were permanently en
joined from "conspiring, agreeing or
combining to restrain, obstruct or de
stroy" the business of the Buck Stove
and Range company In a decision ren
dered by Chief Justice Clabaugh of
the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, Monday, making permanent
tho temporary injunction of Justice
Gould against the federation In that
case.
The federation's counsel immediate
ly noted an appeal to the district court
of appeals. Monday's decision bar*
the federation from in any manner
calling the attention of the public to
the Buck company, or Its business or
products, and also bars the federation
from placing the company on the "un
fair list" or from stating the company’s
products should not be purchased eith
er la Missouri or anywhere else.
STAID SENATORS AWED.
Untimely Death of Young Bryan Sub
ject of Solemn Comment.
The senate Monday for the fifth tlmo
in the present session adjourned be
cause death had robbed tho body of
one of its members. The announce
ment that Senator William James Bry
an of Florida died Sunday was mad®
by Senator Clay of Georgia* in the
absence of Senator Taliaferro, who left
Washington early Monday morning as
a member of the committee which
accompanied the body to Jackson
ville.
The untimely death of Senator Bry
an, wlio was familiarly known as the
"baby" of the senate, a title in which
lie took p; hi \ came home to the sen
ators with more force than any which
had preceded it. The seven sorrows
that have come upon this branch of
congress since adjournment a year ago
were a matter of solemn comment.
BUDOHfST CHURCH PLANNED.
Seattle to Have First Edifice of th«
Kind in This Country.
Within the next fortnight work will
be begun at Seattle, Wash., on what
will be the only Buddhist church In
tho United States owned by a Budd
hist organization. The ground has
'been purchased at^a cost of $6,000, and
the plans have been drawn for a $12,<
000 edifice.