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THIRTY DEAD; SEVENTY HURT In Frightful Impact Between Pas senger and freight Trams. A SCENE OF HORROR Victims Were Happy Excursionists Taking a Holiday—Cars Were Splintered and Occupants Mangled. s Thirty people are dead and more than seventy injured, several of them seriously, as the result of a head-on collision Saturday between Salem, Mich., and Plymouth, when a Pere Marquette excursion train, bound from lona to Detroit, crashed into a west bound freight in a cut located at a sharp curve on the Pere Marquette railroad, about a mile east of Salem. The passenger train of eleven cars, carrying the Pere Marquette shop em ployees of lona and their families to the Michigan metropolis for their an nual excursion was running at high speedy, probably fifty miles an hour down a steep grade. It struck the lighter locomotive of the freight train with such terrific force as to turn the freight engine completely around. The wrecked locomotives lay side by side, both headed eastward. Only a few of the freight cars were smash ed, and it was only a few hours’ work to remove all traces of them lrom the scene. But behind the two wrecked lo motives, six cars of the passenger train lay plied in a hopeless wreck. Four of the passenger coaches remained on the track undamaged and were used to convey the dead and injured to Iona; one coach was entirely undam aged, with only its forward trucks oft the rails. These were the rear ilve ■cans. The two coaches next ahead of these were telescoped. The next car forward stood almost on its end after the wreck, its forward end resting on the roadbed and the rear end high in the air, upon the two telescoped coaches that had been following it. Two eoaches were thrown crosswise of the track and lay suspended from bank to bank of the cut ( five or six feet above the rails. Of the baggage car not enough remained to show where it had been tossed. Portions of bag gage car and of the lccemotoive ten ders and freight cars were piled in a tangled mass of debris. Janies Boyles, a farmer, was working in the field near the scene wheii the two trains approached from opposite directions. The freight came slowly up the heavy grade and had just reached the curve when the pas senger train appeared running at high speed. Boyles saw the passenger ehgi. neer shut off his steam and apply the brakes and saw the crews of both engines jump before the crash. He ran to the tracks, where he found the un injured passengers from the rear coaches running forward and joined with them in pulling ou: the injured who could be seen on every hand. There was a panic among the pas sengers for a few minutes. Then, as the uninjured people realized that they had not been hurt, they rushed from the cars to the rescue of their friends and relatives who were pinioned among the wreckage. Families were scattered. Mothers ran screaming up nnd down, searching for their children, while many of the young people were as frantically calling for their par ents. The dead were placed in a row alongside the track and the injured were made as comfortable as possible until the arrivafi of wrecking trains from Saginaw, Detroit and Grand Itap ids made it possible to send them to lona and Detroit. Responsibility is put squarely upon the crew cf the freight train by offi cials of the road, who arrived at the ccene of the wreck soon after the ac cident, and who secured from the crew of the freight train the orders under which it was running, and which clearly showed the position of the .passenger excursion train and that the freight train had encroached upon the otjier train s running time. The freight crew explained simply that they had forgotten. The collision occurred at 9:13 o’clock, and the freight train should have reached Sa lem at 9:10, to be within their or ders. The crash of the colliding trains was heard for a great distance up and down the tracks _ -r-3 KOREAN EMPEROR OUT. Japanese Influence Forces We.k Ruler te Abdicate Throne-Son Wiil Take His Place. Advices from Seoul state that the emperor of Korea has turned over the reins of government to his sou, the heir apparent. Briefly, the emperor in the imperial rescript of abdication, expresses his regret that during the forty-four years of his reign national calamities have followed in rapid succession, and the people’s distress has become so aggra vated that he deemed it now time to transfer the crown to the heir appar ent in conformity with ancestral usages. The throne, tottering with forty-four years of misrule, toppled Friday. Upon his arival, Viscount Hayashi, the for eign minister of Japan, was greeted by 15,000 Japanese, who were expect ing the anexation of Korea. A London special says: The emper or of Korea is without a friend among the governments of Europe sufficient ly interested in the status of the an cient Korean empire to interpose a word in his behalf. His majesty had always been friendy with Russia, and the outcome of the Russo-Japanese war was a great blow to him. He even look ed to the United States for support. When Edwin V. Morgan, who was American minister to Korea from July 26 until November 29, 1905, when the legation was abolished, refused the re quest of the emperor that he take ref uge at the legation at the time the Japanese w r ere pressing the emperor to sign a treaty giving Japan control of the foreign affairs of Korea, the emperor of Korea was greatly disap pointed, and the final removal of the American legation was a great blow and disappointment to him. Almost all foreigners who know the emperor con sidered him as a well meaning but weak man, and his son, the present crown prince, is not regarded as an improvement on his father. A special from Tokio, Japan, says: Speculation is rife among the foreign ers in the city as to the origin of the idea of pressing the abdication of the retix-ed governor of Korea. It is definitely known, however, that Marquis Ito, was only a silent specta tor of the event, and that the idea originated with the premier, Marquis Salenji, strongly supported by the min isters of agriculture and justice, both of whom are strongly in favor of a life of exile in Japan for the retired emperor. Some thought that blood must be shed before the abdication of the throne could be effected, but fortun ately that expectation was not fulfilled and the aftermath is also likely to prove les sserjous than present occur rences at Seoul might Indicate. It is believed that the wisdom and resourcefulness of Marquis Ito will pre vent the spread of any agitation de signed to menace the general ipeace of Korea. RULES AGAINST THE DEFENSE. Testimony Regarding Conspiracy by Mine Owners is Eliminated. The field for argument, both for the prosecution and defense of William D. Haywood, has been limited by Judge Wood, who, in a decision, handed down in court at Boise, Friday, removed from consideration by the jury all evidence bearing on the alleged conspiracy by mine owners and others against the Western Federation of Miners. Judge Wood decided that the defense had made no legal connection of the Mine Owners’ Association, the Citizens’ Al liance of Colorado and the Pinkerton detective agency as laying a founda tion for the evidence introduced by the defense to show that the charge against Haywood and his co-defendants is the outcome of a conspiracy to ex terminate the federation. Immediately following the anounce ment of this decision argument corn fenced. TELEGRAPHERS REMAIN FIRM. Strikers Refuse to Accept Concessions Of fered by Companies. The striking commercial telegraph ers, at a regular union meeting in Oak land, California, Thursday, refused to accept concessions as framed by their national executive committee. The Western Union and Postal Tel egrah companies’ concessions were de clined. They offered 25 per cent in crease of pay, and would take back all but three of the strikers. The Postal would reinstate 80 per cent of the strikers. With Our Lawmakers “Until a state prohibition bill has been passed by both houses of the general assembly, signed by the gov ernor, and enrolled on the statute books, there will not be any other legislation, whether demanded by the Macon platform or not.” That is the ultimatum which has been laid down by the prohibition forces in the legis lature. Though the measure has been passed by the senate and was shown by Friday’s test votes to be favored by a great majority of the members of the house, still the opponents of pro hibition claim sufficient strength to make an effective filibuster, and it Is to meet such tactics that this ultima tum has been issued. Practically the whole of the session so far has been devoted to a discussion of prohibition, and a long-drawn-out fight In the house w'ould undoubtedly block every thing for weeks and possibly make It necessary for the governor to call an extra session. In this connection mem bers of both hc.:ses are talking of an interesting conference held between Governor Smith and the prohibition leaders. The governor, though a local optiouist, stands pledged to sign a state prohibition bill if such a meas ure is seut to him by the legislature, hut above everything else he is Inter ested in si* ing those issues on which he was elected actd upon by the gen eral assembly. With this end in view, it is said, he talked the matter over with the leading prohibitionists, but found them determined to go: their bill put through before everything else. It is said he urged a compromise, ma king prohibition effective on July 1, 1909, instead of January 1, 1908, but to this the legislators interested in prohibition would not lis:en. A message to the house from tho senate announced the adoption of a joint resolution in which the concur rence of the house was asked, empuw ring Attorney General Hart to take at his discretion a decree in the United States supreme court perpetually en joining the Ducktown, Term., copper mines from continuing to damag/ sur rounding property in Georgia with de structive sulphuric fumes. The res olution was concurred in. At Saturday’s session the house con tented itself with the Introduction of new bills, the passage of local meas ures and the reading of a number of bills for a second time. One of tho more general measures introduced was that by Mr. Huie of Clayton, which seeks to redistrlct the state, senatori ally, increasing the number of sena tors and districts from 44, at present, to 59. Another bill of a general char acter is that of Mr. White cf Screven, which seeks to make it a misdemean or to give, furnish or sell to any mi nor in the state tobacco in any shape or form. There was no session of the senate Saturday. On Friday the solons caught up with all their work, having clear ed the calendar. Soon after the senate was called to order Monday morning, Senator Felder sent to the clerk’s desk, a petition from the Fulton County So ciety relating to the prohibition bill before the house. The clerk began to read it before any one discovered just what it was. The president asked to see it, and when he informed the sen ate the nature of the document, Sena tor Knight arose quickly and objected to the reading of the petition. On a motion by Senator Felder that the com munication be read the vote stood 12 to 12, when President Akin again asked to look ac the document, for now he was called upon to decide the question. Senator Knight arose quickly, and, drawing from under his desk a large bundle about the size of a good size tub, said; “I have here more than 500 petitions signed by more than 40,000 people, asking for a straight prohibi tion law, which I shall insist on being read in case you permit that petition to be read.” The president took a has ty glance at the large bundle on Mr. Knight’s desk and smilingly said, “Be cause of the length of time which would be consumed n. reading so large a number of petitions, I vote no,” hence the motion of Senator Felder was lost, and the petition was not heard by the senate. Solicitors General of the several su perior courts of the state will receive an annual salary of $2,650, instead of fees, which run from $5,000 to $20.- 000, according to the wealth of tha circuit, if the report of the special judiciary committee of the house made Monday afternoon is enacted into a law. This was brought about by the favorable report given the three com panion bills which were introduced by Mr. McMichael of Marlon, whereby this change is to be wrought. Eighteen members of the railroad committee of the house on Monday morning filed a minority report to the report of that committee recommend ing that the Hal lanti-pass bill do pass, as amended. The minority report points out that the Hall measure fails to reach the evils of the free pass sys tem, and but inadequately undertakes to deal with the prohibiting of the use of free passes by public officials. It declares that the substitute prepared by a minority of the committee and voted down in the committee rooms deals with the evils of the free pass system from a political and economical standpoint, and is in conformity with the overwhelming sentiment of the peo ple of the state of Georgia. TYPOS SPENT IMMENSE SIM. Outlay for Past Year Was $1,642,441 But Membership Decreased. The annual reports of the national officers of the International Typograph leal Union to the fifty-third session of the International, which will be held at Hot Springs, Ark., Augus; 12- 17, have been printed, and are being mailed to the convention delegates. The report of the president, James M. Lynch, touches on the struggle for an eight-hour work day, and says the strike roll has been reduced compara tively to inconsequential propor ions in all except a few cities. Considerable space is devoti and to the efforts toward sanitary conditions and the effort to stamp out tuberculosis. Various other ina.ters of general in terest to the members of the Interna tional, including the relations between the five international unions in tne printing trades, tha Union Printers’ Home, the apprentice problem, etc., are set forth. The report of the secretary-treasu rer, J. W. Bramwood, shows that there was received during the year end and May 31, 1907, $1,804,950, and that there was expended during the same period $1,642,441. The assets of the organization as r. presented by the money In the vari ous funds May 31, 1907, is give;, at $283,952, an increase during the year in the regular fund of $162,489. The report shows that the average paying membership of the last year was 42,357, a decrease of 2,623 mem bers. It is stated, however, that “In this connection it is well to remember that for twenty months the organiza tion has been battling for a universal eight-hour work day in all branches of the printing trade.” The report shows that there were 576 local unions xMay 31, 1907, a de crease of 60. SHORT SENTENCE FOR GARNER. Stole Sum of $37,000 But Gets Only Two Year* in the Pen. At New Orleans Monday Rudolph Garner, formerly a voucher clerk in the office of the Southern Pacific rail way, pleaded guilty on two counts of an indictment charging him with ob taining money under false prtenses from the railroad company, and was sentenced to serve two years in the Louisiana state penitentiary. Garner issued vouchers at various times amounting in all to $37,000 to •‘Henry I. Stewart," under the pretense that they were in payment for rail road ties. POPE SCARED BY APPARITION. Alleged Appearance of Virgin Mary's Hand Moved Him to Action. A dispatch from Rome says: A mem ber of the pope's hcusehold In 'the course of an intend ;w says Pope Pius hesitated somewhat before he took the grave step of ordering the publication of the syllabus with regard to the so called moderni. in in the faith, but that all his doubts were removed by a miraculous apparition of the virgin, which extended its hand over his head, as though in answer to his prayer for heavenly guidance, and that the pontiff thereupon rose from his Jokob and signed the decree. WATERY GRAVE FOR HUNDRED Steamer Sinks in Collision Causing Frightful Loss of Life. VICTIMS WERE ASLEEP Passenger Vessel Was Rammed by Lum ber-Laden Schooner and Wont to Bottom in Five Minutes. A San Francisco special says: In a collision between the passenger steam er Columbia and the steam schooner San Pedro off the Mendocino coast, one hundred passengers lost their lives early Sunday morning. The Columbia was sunk and lies completely sub merged In the deep waters of Shelter oove. The collision occurred at midnight, when all on board save the lookout and officer on the bridge wire asleep ia their berths. The Columbia was steam ing north at an easy rate, having left San Francisco at noon. Suddenly out of the fog loomed the dark hulk of the steam schooner San Ptdro, southbound, which was evidently out of her course. Whistles were blown and frantic efforts made by the helmsman of each vessel to avoid the collision, but without avail. The San Pedro struck the Columbia In the port bow, tearing an immense holo In her side through which tha water rushed in great volume. Alarms were sounded on the passenger ship and the terrified passengers scrambled from their staterooms in an effort to escape from the doomed vessel. But the time was too short to aid the life savers. The vessel sank within five minutes of the time of the collision. A life raft was launched with a number of passengers on board, bu only a few of the entire number aboard were saved. Of the 249 persons on the steamer Columbia, one hundred and forty-four were landed at Eureka, Cal., Monday by the steamer Elder. Of these 107 were passengers and 37 mom ben; of the crew of the Columbia. In addition to these four life boats are reported to have been picked up, oue containing thfrteen people, one 18, and one 15. The number on the fourth boat Is not given. Nearly all of the Columbia’s passen gers and many of her crew were asle< p in their cabins and bunks when the crash came. As the San Pedro backed away the sea poured in through the ragged hole in the Columbia’s bow above ike water line, and in five min utes the Columbia sank to the bo tom, the deep waters of Shelter Cove cov ering even the tops of the Columbia's masts. The story of that five minutes is yet to be told, and aw it is to be told by some survivors, only Ihe facts of the tragedy can be guessed at. According to J. 8. Flynn, a passenger on the Roanoke, Captain Doran of the Columbia succeeded in launching four lift! boats and two rafts before the Columbia sank. Flynn, in an interview, is quoted a* saying that 88 passengers, all men, got away in that manner, and were saved; that Captain Doran acted with great coolness in the face of death, and went down with his ship. Flyim is further quoted as saying that none of the hundred odd women were saved. Shortly after tin- collision the steam ers Roanoke and George W. Elder and the steam schooner Daisy Mitchell, all southbound, came to the scene and stood by. The Elder took the San Pe dro In tow and the last report, an nounces their arival in Eureka. The stem of the San Pedro was smashed to splinters, one of her masts was 'snapped a, the deck, and she was set tling and had a heavy list when taken In tow. COBB RESIGNS THE JUDGESHIP. Associate Justice of the Georgia Supr Tire3 of His Job. Associate Justice Andrew J. < of tho Georgia supreme court. Me morning presented to Governor Smith, his resignation to take on October 12, 1907. Justice C< termined several weeks ago tl from the supreme bench, to rf in the practice of law at At/ Justice Cob, when he retly tober, will have served o J prema bench tor nearly el J