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THE LEE COUNTY . JOURNAIL.
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Carnegie Hangs Up a Dona
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tion of Ten Millions,
A NEW PENSION SYSTEM
Money Has Already Been Transferred
to Trustees and Consists of First
Mortgage Bonds of Great
Steel Combine.
A gift of $10,000,000 by Andrew Car
negie to provide annuities for college
professors who are not able to con
tinue in active service was announc
ed Thursday by Frank A. Vanderlip,
vice president of the National City
Bank of New York. Professors in the
United Siates, Canada and New
Foundland will share in the distribu
tion of the income of the fund.
United States Steel Corporation 5
per cent first mortgage bonds for $lO,-
000,000 have been transferred to a
board of trustees and steps will be
taken at once to organize a corpora
tion to receive the donation. 185
Pritchett, president of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, and Mr.
Vanderlip have been selected by Mr.
Carnegie to obtain data on the sub
jects to be presented to the first
meeting of the board of trustees,which
will take place on November 15.
Annual Income of §500,000.
The bonds have a par value of
$11,000,000 and will produce an an
nual income of $500,000. The corpo
ration which is being formed will be
Btyled “The Carnegie Foundation.”
Mr. Vanderlipe has sent a letter to
the press, giving the forggoing infor
mation and inclosing a letter from
Mr. Carnegie, dated April 18, which
says, in part:
“I have reached the conclusion that
the least rewarded of all the profes
sions is that of the teacher in our
higher educational institutions. New
York city generously, and very wisely
provides retiring pensions for teach
ers in her public schools and alse
for her policemen. Very few, indeed,
of our colleges are able to do so. The
consequences are grievous. Able men
hesitate to adopt teaching as a career
and many old professors whose
places should be occupied by young
er men cannot be retired.”
Np Race, Sex, Creed or Color.
M. Carnegie says that the fund will
ap; to universities, colleges and
teMnical schools “without regard to
2efie, sex, creed or color,” but not
) }institutions supported by state or
/J#@fonial governments. Another class
| Bcluded is sectarian institutions.
dnly such as are under control of a
| ¢t or require trustees or a. majority
| Liéreof, or officers or students, to be
long to any specified sect or which
impose any theological test are to be
excluded.”
Mr. Carnegie specifies the duties of
the trustees ang concludes with €he
" hope “that this fund may do much for
th \ cauge of higher education and to
rel Ywe a source of decp and constant
am ‘ty to the poorest paid and yet
olpe of the highes of aii-professions.”
Among those 'amed as trustees are
f’residents Edwin B. Craighead of Tu
lane and George H. Denny of Wash
ington anq Lee.
WILL DEPRECIATE THE PRICE.
Too Much Cotton Being Sold, 'Says
President of Cotton Association.
~ Too much cotton has been finding
#ts way to the market lately, and the
fact that so much cotton is being sold
will have ,a large influence in depre
clating the price next fall, unless the
sales are stopped. Cotton mills and
coiton dealers are buying all they can
“syithe present prices, and unless the
}fmers and others who have cofton
{# their possession stop these sales
tle surplus which is now being held
wll all be upon the market next fall
Wien the new crop comes in. Presi
dint Harvie Jordan of the Southern
" Ostton Association calls attention to
5 QH fact, and asks the question, “Why
@ll for 7 cents now when in a few
months you can get 10 cents?” |
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LABOR WAR IN CHICAGO.
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Business Men Accept Gage Thrown
Down to Them by Unions.
. With 8,100 teamsters on strike in
Chicago and with constant acoessions
being made to their number, and with
the express determination of the Em
ployers’ Asgociation to take a firm
stand for the ¥open shop” and fight
the ‘teamsters’ union to a finish, the
city, qtz [ appearances, stands on the
eve 1§93 0f the greatest Industrial
upheavals™in her history. There was
rioting: in v nfi parts of the city
Thursday, degpite the strong guards
of 90"09. 3 7‘5'5 .%%’".xj“ s'u i)
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"EXPOSED BY BROTHER. {
#ow Gigantic Defalcation of Banker
Bigelow Was Accidentally Revealed.
' Total Debs Nearly Three Million.
A Milwaukee dispatch says: That
Willlam Bigelow, vice president of
the First National Bank and brother
of Frank C. Bigelow, defaulter, ac
cidentally exposed his brother to the
directors, is the story that is accept
ed in banking circles as the true ver
sion as to how the crime was brought
out Saturday night. It seems that
Frank Bigelow was called out of town
Saturday and that the affairs of the
bank were left in the hands of his
brother.
- Saturday morning a telegram came
~addressed to Bigelow from a New
York bank, stating that it was will
ing to take care of a draft for $5O,
000, even though the bank was already
indebted to the New York house for
- $200,000. William Bigelow could not
understand the matter and was more
puzzled when he discovered that the
New York bank was charged in the
books with being indebted to the
First Nationg.l for $200,000. He asked
the bank to explain and found that
the telegram was correct. An exam
ination of the books followed and he
found so many queer things that he
decided not to wait for his brother
to return, but to comnsult with Mr.
Pfister. They immediately suspected
one of the cashiers of defaulting, and
called @ special meeting of the di
rectors.
Frank (. Bigelow returned, but did
not see his brother until he reached
the bank in the evening to attend
the meeting. When the directors had
assembled Wiillilam Bigelow, the broth
er, told what he had discovered, and
stated that he had no idea of the
amount taken or who the criminal
was. Thereupon his brother arose,
and made the startling disclosure that
he was a defaulter for over $1,000,-
000. :
The latest step in the case is the
filing of a petition involuntary bank
ruptey by Bigelow. The revised
schedules show g total liability on his
part of $8,277,000, of which $1,795,-
000 is wholly or In part secured.
GREAT COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS.
Institution Assured for Nashville by
Aid of Peabody Fund.
Dr. Wiycliffe Rose, dean of the Pea
body college at Nashville, Tenn., ‘at
tended the conference for education
} at Columbia, 8. C.
. He announced that the trustees of
the Peabody educational fund, who
mef in Washington, January 24, voted
$1,000,000 for the establishment of
a teachers’ college on condition that
the trustees of that institution raise
an additional $BOO,OOO, and that this
$BOO,OOO had been raised, all In the
state of Tennessee. This will insure
the establishment of the teachers’ col
lege at Nashville for southern teach
ers, with an endowment of $1,800,000
to begin with. Of this $BOO,OOO the
state legislature of Tennessee voted
$200,000, issuing bonds to be paid off
so much every year for ten years. It
is also expected that the county of
Davidson, in which the city of Nash
ville is located, will give *550,000.
- Dr. Rose also said that a member
)og the board had made an offer to
dive an additional $250,000 on his
\ persoval account, provided the college
; raised a ‘#imilar sum. While it is not
announced, ii- |8 understood that this
member is Mr.'d. /crpont Morgan.
REDUCTION AN ASSY/RED FACT.
Reports Remove Ail Doubt Regarding
Curtailment of Cotton. Crops.
There is no longer any doubt about
the farmers of the south hHaVing re
duced their cotton acreage. The fact
that the amount of fertilizer uged this
year is smaller than in many y€ars.
before is an assured fact, and all that |
remains for the southern farmer to do
now to make his victory complete is
to hold on to the cotton he now
has on hand.
Reports received frem various states
by the headquarters of the Southern
Cotton - agsociation show beyond any
doubt that the reduction® of acreage‘
is already an assured fact. 1
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UNITED. STATES LEFT OUT.
Our Tariff Agreement with Germany
Will Be Allowed to Terminate.
A Berlin special says: The imperial
government, preparatory to excluding
the Unitec Spap; from the privileges
of thes new reciprocity treaties signed
recently with seven European states,
hag formally unotified the American
gpvernment that the tariff agreement
bgtween Cermany dnd *‘the United
ftates, signed April 10, 1900, will
erminat? May 1, 1906, the day new
;eaties go into effect, but that Ger
many stands ready to negotiate a reci
procity treaty with the United States,
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1905
Brilliant and Peerless Soldier
Taken By Grim Reaper.
STRICKEN BY APOPLEXY
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General Att;cked by Fatal Stroke on
Train While En Route from Bos
ton to Washington, and Died
Later in Providence Hospital.
General Fitzhugh Lee, United States
irmy, retired, and one of Virginia's
foremost sons, died at the Providence
hospital in Washington Friday night
from an attack of apoplexy, which
he suffereq early in the morning on
a train while en route from Boston
to Washington.
The end was peaceful and without
pain, the general remaining conscious
until five minutes before he died. None
of the immediate family had time to
reach his bedside before the end came.
The general was 68 years old. A wid
ow and five children survive him. Two
of the boys are army officers, and
two of the girls are wives of army
officers, while the remaining child is
a young woman still in her teens. The
children are Mrs. J. C. Rhea, wife of
Lieut. Rhea, now at Fort Oglethorpe,
‘Ga.; Lieut. Fitzhugh Lee of the cav
alry branch, now in Manila; Lieut.
George Mason Lee of the seventh cav
alry, now in San Francisco; Mrs. Anne
Brown, wife of Lieut. Brown of the
gseventh cavalry, now at San Fran
cisco, and Miss Virginia Lee,.
General Lee was stricken with apo
plexy, the entire left side being af
fected, at 3 o’clock Friday morning.
The train had just left the Harlem
river when the stroke came. The
train bearing the general arrived in
Washington directly after 10 o’clock.
Under the direction of Major Kean,
U. S. A, of the surgeon general’s
office, the patient was removed to
Providence hospital. The news of the
general’s condition had preceded him
to Washington, and many of his army
and personal friends were at the
Pennsylvania station to meet him:
General Lee had been spending a
few days in the ecity of Boston, in the
interest of the Jamestown exposition,
and was returning to Washington, on
his way to join Mrs. Lee. His heart
and soul was in the exposition work,
and he labored zealously to make it
a success. His visit to Boston was in
this connection, and he had appeared
before the legislatures of New York,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and other places
in behalf of the project. Since he
took up the work of the Jamestown
!exposition. he has made his official
residence at Norfolk, Va. However,
his activities in connection with this
work have given him very little time
there. During the session of con
gress just closed, the general spent a
large part of his time in Washington
In the interest of the necessary leg
islation authorizing the exposition.
General Lee long has beem a promi
nent figure in Washington, and he al
ways was given a hearty reception
wherever ie went. General Lee was a
nephew of the famous confederate
general, Robert E. Lee, and, like him,
saw active service in the confeder
acy.
Prior to the civil war, at the begin
ning of which he resigned his coni
mission in the United States army,
General I.ee saw considerable fron
tier duty against the Indians. He was
an = expert cavalry officer. His
services in the confederate army as
a major general are well known, and
during his active work in the Spanish.
American war, General Lee filled a
number of important positions, in
cluding the governorship of Virginia,
the presidency of the Pittsburg and
Virginia railroad, the collectorship of
internigl._ revenue for the Lynchburg
district and tHE consul generalship “at
Havana. it b anir e
Followinz his honorable discharge
from the volunteer army on March 2,
1901, General Lee was appointed to
the regular army February 11, 1901,
with ranik of brigadier general, ahd
with this rank he was retired in the
month of March following.
FINAL COTTON CROP FIGURES.
Census Bureau Places Number of
Baleg for 1904 at $13,584,475.
The bureau of the census at Wash
ington has just issued the final reporj
of the cotton crop grown in 1904.
The crop of 1904, as returned by the
ginners, and including linters, is 13,
584,45 Y bales, of 500 pounds. It ex
ceeds the crop of 1903 by 3,497,386
‘bales, or 35.4 per cent. The largest
crop produced in the United States
prior to 1904 was that of 1898, which,
according to commercial returns,
‘amounted to 11,235,000 bales, or 15.%
per cent less than the crop of 19{e
EOMM-I-****-I-M-&HMM}
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
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Body Found After Long Search.
The body of Rev, J. L. Anderson,
the Methodist minister who was
drowned near Ellijay some time ago,
has been finally récovered.
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Cotton Burned at Montezuma.
Sunday morning at 3 o'clock the
cotton warehouse of Patrick & Mead
ows at Montezuma was destroyed by
fire. About two hundred bales of cot
ton were virtually consumed, but fully
insured; no insurance on the ware
house. The salvage will probably
reach $5OO. The cause of the fire.is
unknown.
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Admitted Crime, But is Cleared.
The jury at Thomasville, in tlie
case of J. B. Barrow, accused of the
murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Min
nie Parigh, on December 29, brought
in a verdict of not guilty.
The jury was out for fifteen hours.
Barrow is an engineer of the Atlantic
Coast Line and on the day of the trag
edy attempted to kill his wife. Bar
row had confessed the killing to sev
eral people, and for this reason the
verdict caused a sensation.
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Frost Given “Parsifal.” \ |
The engagement of the Metropol ‘
tan opera house company, rendering
“Pargifal” in Atlanta, was a financial
fajlure, as a result of the unusually
high prices charged, and the fact that
the same company was seen in other
citles not so large as Atlanta at much
lower figures. This fact became known
in Atlanta and the people simply re
fused to be treated in a way that they
deemed unfair and remained away
from the performance. ‘
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Road from Albany to Florida.
Following the petition of the Alabny
and Northern railroad, filed a few days
ago with the secretary of state, to
‘nxtend its road from Albany to Col
qwitt, in Miller county, notice is now
given of the intention of the Albany
and St. Andrews Railroad company
to apply for a charter to build a rail
roaq from Albany to St. Andrews,
Fla., touching at Newton, Colquitt and
Donaldsonville.
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Short Line to Ocean.
It is reported in Columbus that the
Central of Georgia railway is pre
paring to extend its line from Anda
lusia, Ala., to Pensacola, Fla.,, a dis
tance of between thirty and forty
miles; that it now has surveyors on
the scene. With this extension made
and the short gap filled in between
Greenville and - Newnan, which con
struction work has practically been
decided ugpon, the Central would have
a short line from Chattanooga, Tenn,,
to Pensacola, via Columbus.
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" Negroes Held for Murder. '
Two of the negroes—Ben Slaughter
ang John Russell—who participated in
the killing of Kelsey Crawford in the
upper part of Morgan county, two
weeks ago, have been caught and
jailed in Madison.
The other two negroes, Jack Bivin
and Ernest Mitchell, are still at large.
| Public sentiment is intense in the
| neighborhood where the young man
lwas killed. It is said warrants will
| be sworn out for several prominent
jwhite persons as accessories to the
killing.
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| Almost the Golden Egg.
W. A. King of near Tifton, has a
very valuable goose. The fowl is 30
years old and has been owned by Mr.
King for twenty-seven years. The
goose lays an egg every day and once
a year she will set. From this goose
- several flocks of geese have been rais
' ed and from her product enongh feath
' ers have been gathered to inake a
feather ved for every member of his
family, jeight in number, and a pair
of pill each. Besides, he has feath
ers forfi ¥0 extra beds and thé goose
gtill 1 and is, now on hey annual
set,
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A ff on Fertilizgr Tags.
That tH fertilizer companies have
bought mote tags than fhey have used
‘this year, ‘gnd that numbers of fer
tilizer tags have beshr thrown mfi‘ay,
Lund five or Slx IgBK placed on each
sack is a very dent fact now, gpd
\ the public c#4@ no longer be foolefiy
the statemenys that the heavy increase
in the sale of tags indicates a heavy
' increase in the use of fertilizers. Pres
' [dent Harvie, Jordan of the Southern
|Cotton ass(;ation, in an article on
lthc subject, of fertilizer tags, calls at
| tention t¢f the methods which have
been goursueq for advertising pur
’ prues,
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/ Georgia is Second in Line,
According to the final cotton cen
h“'es bulletin Issuwed at Washington a
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tew days Sy Texas has held the
drst rank amons COtOR produglng
atates for twenty FOENG - e ProgNC:
tho th 1004 wes SIT6ATE Wee: Shoer
gia, with a production of 1,960 1
balcs, was second, having passed Mis: )
sissippi, which held the gsecond rank
in 1908. Mississippi 18 third and Ala
bama fourth.
The states which show the most no
table increase compared With 1903
are Alabama, Georgia and South Car
olina, the largest increase being
feund in Qeorgia, where the crop ex
ceeded that of 1903 by 612,380 bales,
or 48.3 per cent. The increase in Al
abama is 46.5 per cent, in South Car
oline 45.7 per cent and in Texas 27
per cent.
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Georgia-Road Cuts Returns.
A cut of ($1,700,000 is made this
year in the property returns of the
Georgia Railroaq and Banking com
pany, received a few days ago by
Comptroller General W. A. Wiright,
below the returns of last year. The
Georgla railroad is not taxed on the
value of its property, as are other
radlroads in the state, being exempt
from such taxation under its char
ter. Nevertheless, the reduction in
this return, as may readily be seen,
cuts an important figure. The only
tax which the Georgia Railroad and
Banking company is required to pay
under its charter is one-half of one
per cent on its net income. This
yvear the net income is reported as
being $570,606.05, on which the state
receives total taxes' of $2,854.57.
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' Electric Line from Atlanta to Macon.
i With a view to building a line of
eloctric road from Atlanta to Macon,
a corps of civil engineers have begum
surveying a route via Forsyth, Barnes
ville, Grifin, Hampton, -Jonesboro,
Hapeville and ast Point, and the
superlor court of Fulton county is
petitioned fer charters for the Atlanta-
Macon Interurban Railway company
and the Atlanta Construction and De
velopment company. The capital
stock of the companies will be in ex
cess of $2,000,000. . .
The construction znd development
company will build the road and the
Atlanta-Macon Interurban company
will operate the line, after it has been
constructed. The directors of the two
companies are identical, and most of |
them are residents of ladiana, Ohioe
Nlinois and Michigan, '
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Big Tax Cases With Judge. 1
Final argument was made Saturday
before Judge John T. Pendleton in
irulton superior court at Atlanta in |
the Georgia railroad and Central of
Georgia tax cases, involving taxation ‘
of 80,000 shares of Western Railway
of Alabame stock, half of which Is
owned by each of these railroads, and
{ the case is now with the court.
There is nothing to indicate just
when a decislon will be rendered, but
Judge Pendleton has stated that he
would give the cases careful and
prempt consideration.
It is a serious question, however,
whether the cases can reach the su
preme court in time for a final ter
mination by that tribunal before the
October term, which will mean that
it will be some time in the lattor‘
part of the year hefore final decision
iz reached in the court of last re |
sort.
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Jury Exonerates Henderson.
At Macon, Saturday, the jury in
the case of the state against E. R.
Henderson returned a verdict acquit
ting the accused man of the charge of
embezzling $43,000 of the funds of the
Macon and Birmingham Railway com
lpany. Within two hours after the
charge had been delivered by Judge
Felton the verdict was made up.
For five days and nights during the
trial, the twelve men had been locked
in and had no communication with
any one except through the officers
of the court.
Nearly two years ago the charge
of embezzlement was made againnst
the auditor and cashier of the Macon
and Birmingham as the result of an
| investigation which, he asserted, he
}bronzht on. Jullan Lane was the
~~ogecugr of Hendergson and Hender
was tie utor of Lane. The
| state has proi. he ‘snocence of
! Lane and prosecu. soliy, and
i the acquittal is the resuie.
Solicitor General Brunson at once
no]l prossed the charge of embezzle
ment agdingt ex-Genera] Manager Ju
llan Lane.
BIGELOW DRIVEN FROM HOME,
l Def>.iting Cashier Gives Up Palatial
Residence to Receiver.
A Milwaukee dispatch says: Bitter
ness was added to his already over
flowing cup Friday, when Frank G.
Bigelow, the defaulting banker va
cvateq his palatial home on Astor
street, the Wisconsin -Trust and Se
curity’ eompany, as receiver for the
~pigelow estate, having taken charge of
it. Mz, Bigelow, with his family, tak
ing little save their personal effects,
‘ went (0 the home of his son, Gordon
pigelow, where they wm’fi make their
| home for the time being. . \
NO. 48.
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A Disastrous Storm Swoops
Down Upon Laredo,
Majority of Victims Are Mexicans Who
Were Caught Undep Falling Walls
Of their Adobe Houses—Anm
7 Appeal for Ald. i
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Latest details of a tornado which®
struck Laredo, Texas, Saturday even
ing indicate that first reports were by
no means exaggerated either as to the
number of lives sacrificed or the finan
cial damage resulting. Scores of
people were injured and are being:
attended by the varfous physiclans.
It will be impossible to state the
number of the injured, but it is)not
believed that many deaths will result
from injuries. » :
The number killed is sixteen in La~
redo. The vietims, a majority “of
whom were Mexicans, were all crush
ea to death by the falling in of they
heavy walls of Adobe buildings, which
they occupied.
A trip through the town fails to
show a locality that has not suffered,
more or less from the storm. Trees,
fences, telegraph and telephone poles,,
corrugated roofs, chimneys and walls
and debris of all imaginable kinds
strew the streets.
The city authorities set diligently
at work cleaning away the wreckage
of the storm. *
Conditions in New Laredo, across .
the Rio Grande river, are similar to
those existing on this side. It is
not officially known how many dead
or injured there ate, but in an intew
view a city official of that place’
stated there were five dead that he
knew of, although rumor has it that -
ten lives were lost. The five known
dead added to the st of dead on this
side of the river would bring the
number of deaths in both cities up to
twenty-one persons. ®
Dr. H. J. Hamiiton of the United
States hospital servies-has plavea 16
tent, with bedding, etc., at the dais
posal of the homeless. LAY el
Tate Saturday afternoon the follow-.
ing communication from Mayor San- -
chez of Laredo addressed to Governor
Tanham at Austin was received: ..«
“TLaredo appeals to you and throughi
you to the good people of Texas for
immediate aid in our great misfor
tune of last evening. The cyclone
wrought untold damage to this city.
Several lives were lost and distressing
conditions prevail. It is impossible
just now to state the extent of loss
of life and damage to property, bat
have seen enough to satisfy me that
we need immediate assistance to re
lieve the suffering and the hecme
legs.” G |
In response to this request Gover
nor Lanham issued a general appeal
for help, expressing the wish that
Texans in general would be liberal
and prompt in their assistance,
A DEARTH OF ADVERTISING
Causes St. Paul Globe to Give 1
: After Thirty Years.
After a life of nearly thirty v
the St. Paul Globe with Sunday”
sue suspended publication,
The globe was the only dep'o
morning daily in Minnesota
was the recognized organ of itg
both in state and municipal &’
The reason announnced for susper
was that, in spite of its larg ci:
tion, the paper was nof properly
tronized by advertisers.
THIRTEEN MINERS ENTOMBED.
Disastrous Pit Explosion in Indian Ter4
ritory Deals Death.
The most disastrous mine explosion
to oceur in the Indian Territory since
the Savannah aceident of 1887, took
place at 1:20 o’clock Sunday morn
ing in the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
('oal company’s mine, near Wilburton. .
Thirteen men were entombed, with lit
tle prospects of their bodies belng
recovered for several days.
' RUSSIAN Ea.TER PEACE
I y e O 1
1 Expecteq Disorders Falled te
I ize in St. Petere’
‘ A st. petérsburg spes
! ter day, Russia’s grea’
' joy and peace, was v
' none of the disorde
‘I was dreaded. As fo
. of the Russian |
T the empire gather
' urday night in ¢
‘ thedrals, church(
greet the rising
‘mark the end
| gloom and sad