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Score of People Lose Lives
in Fire at Fort Wayne,
ENTRAPPED BY FLAMES
Blaze Starts in Big Hotel at Early
Hour of Morning and Many of the
Guests, Cut Off from Escape,
. Were Buried: in . Debris.
An unknown number of persons, es
timafted at from fifteen to twenty-five,
lost’ their lives in a fire that destroy
ed ‘the New Aveline hotel in Fort
Waf_yne, Ind., early Sunday morning.
The entire interior of the buflding
was left a smeldering heap of ruins
and how many dead ‘are concealed by
th_g‘ debris can oftly 'be “®onjectured.
~ The hotel register was consumed by
the fire, and there are no accurate
means of determining who is miss
ing. :
The fire was discovered. at 3:30
o'¢lock a. m. in the elevator shaft
by. Night, Clerk’ .Pipkins. ‘He _rushed
to the upper floors ~alarming the
guests until the flziines,-- which ' had
spread with appalling rapidity, drove
him back. His effort, however, saved
Jueany lives. The hotel was -erected
half a century ago, and the woodwo ek
was as dry as tinder. It burned like
matchwood, and within a few minutes
from the time the fire was discovered
the whole interior of the hotel wag a
mass, of - flameg . that filled (the corri
dors and rooms with s_'uffocating clouds
of smoke and laid - fiery: barriers
acrdss all means of escape, save by
the windows. .
- The fire department rescued many
‘by means of ladders, but some, fren
zted by the onward rush of the flames,
leaped from high windows to the
‘paved street.
EXPECTS HIGHER FREIGHT RATE.
‘Railrcads Must Either Make More
; Money or Cut Wages.
~ A Washington dispatch says: It
;ap'pears likely that the anticipated in
.Q®rease in railroad freight rates is
‘about to be made. A’ few days ago
-a member of the interstate commerce
' commiscion expressed’the opinion that
> within taree or four months, unless a
~ decjded improvement in railway .con
« ditions should take place, it probably
. would be necessary .for.the carriers
. either to increase freight rates or
* to reduce the wages cf their employ
ees. Personally and officially the com
- missioner deprecated the taking of
- either horn of the dilemma by .the
" railroads, but he believed it to be in
~ evitable that one or the other would
be taken. ’
- WILL PROBE EIGHT HOUR BILL.
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Lawyers of the House Will Pass on
Important Measure.
- Three lawyers of the house were
authorized Saturday to--make a final
examination of the eight hour bill now
pending before the house committee on
labor to decide on the constitutionality
cos the bill. :
The bill provides net only that all
work for government ‘shall be done
under the eight hour system, but.also
that the government shall be able to
purchase no materials and supplies
which have been produced by labor
that was required to put in more than
eight hours a day. '
HOUSE PASSES RELIEF BILL.
Storm Sufferers to Get $250,000 from
the Government.
The house, Saturday, passed a res
olution introduced by Representative
Bowers of Mississippi appropriating
$250,000 for the relief of tae sufferers
~ from the cyclone which occurred in
‘the ‘states of® Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia on April 24,
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TAFT OFF FOR PANAMA.
Goes to Isthmus on Speciai Business
for President Roosevelt.
Secretary Taft left Washington on
Thursday afterncon for Charleston, S.
C, where he embarked on the United
States cruiser Prairie Friday and pro
ceeded to Colon, whither he goeg at
the suggestion of the president to in
vestigate several important questions
connected with the construction of the
Panama canal apd the relations be
“ tween the United States and the Re
public of Panama, and also the boun
dary dispute between Panama and Co
lumbia.
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DID NOT APPEAL TO BRITONS.
American Play, “Way Down East,”
Coldly Received in England.
A London dispatch says: The Amer
ican play, “Way Down East,” which
was put on at the Aldwych theater on
April 23, ‘with an American cast, clos
ed /its run Friday night. The life
portrayed by the play did mot appeal
to British audiences,
'ORDER SIGNED BY SPEER
h ‘n Complaint Filed Against Railroads
by Georgia-Florida Sawmill
Association.
Attorneys representing H. H. Tift
iand otheérs forming the Georgia-Flor
ida Sawmill Association filed com
plaint in the United States court at
}Macon Friday against the railroads
of the Southeastern Tariff Associa
tion on account of alleged failure
of the lines %o muke the wetyins
~every three months of such collec
tlons of freight charges on lumber to
Oanio river points, and the west as
come under the ruling in the famous
Tift case in which a permanent in
junction ordered by Judge Emory
Speer stopped the payment of an ex
‘tra 2 cents per hundred pounds.
; Judge Speer signed an order in the
. bill ‘requiring ‘the raittway lines to
show cause before him in Macon, on
| May 12, why they should not be called
‘upon to pay over tie. $500,000 indem
‘nity bond they made ‘'when the court
‘agreed to. allow the returns to be.
'made and the shipments to continue’
iu’nder the tariff which was attacked:
by lumbermen. A large number of
claims have been established by the.
‘lumber p‘ro"ducers under the arrange
.ments, but it is now a requirement
upon tie. part of the railway lifes that
)vthéy ‘make reports of what.amocunts
'they have received on the extra tar
iffs every three months. '
\ " FIRST STEPS ARE TAKEN
‘Looklng to the Erectlon of Embassy
' ‘Buildings by Uncle Sam. ‘
The senate committee on appropri
ations Kriday took the first step look
ing to the acquisition of property for
} the American embassy at Paris by in
serting an advertisement in the dip
lomatic and consular appropriation bill
.appropriating $400,000 for the pur
chase of a site and the erection of
a building for the use of the embassy
in that city.
An appropriation of §53,267, also,was
made for the purchase of the residence
of the Japanese secretary of the
American embassy at Tokio, Japan.
Still another addition to the bill made
by the committee is that of SIO,OOO tc
pay the expenses of representatives
of the joint high commission of >B9B
for the settlement of questions relat
ing to Canada. All told the commit
tee increased the appropriation car<
ried by the diplomatic bill to the
to the extent of $463,642 over the
amount' carried by the bill as it pass
ed the house, bringing the total up to.
$3,967,985. ; 2
~LOST SIXTY-THREE THOUSAND.
Wells-Fargo Company Says That
~Amount Was Taken from Train.
The Wells-Fargo Express company
has reported to the authorities of Tor
reon, Mexico, a loss of $63,000 in
Mexican currency which, they claim;,
was taken from a through safe on
their City of Mexico train. The mon
ey was consigned to one of the banks
of Chihuahua.,
It appears that one of the agents
of the company boarded the express
train at a station between the City
of Mexico . and Torreon, afterwards
leaving the train. It is said that hLe
was the only man who was in the
car who knew the combination of the
safe. He is being searched for, but
has not yet been apprehended.
LETTEN GIVEN SEVEN YEARL.
Embezzling Tax Office Clerk Found
Guilty by Jury in New Orleans.
Charles L. Letten, formerly chief
clerk in the office of the state tax
collector for the first district of New
Orleans, was Friday sentenced to
serve seven years in the penitentiary
after a jury had declared nim guilty
of embezzling SIOO,OOO.
Letten disapeared last summer and
upon the discoverey of the shortage in
his accounts a gearch for him was be
gun. He was finally found on the
river front, where he had been attempt
ing to, summon up sufficient courage
to drown himself.
GLASS WORKERS TO BE DEPORTED
Alleged They Were Imported in Vio
iation of Labor Contract Law.
Secretary Straug of the department
- of commerce and labor has ordered
%(loporwi as contract laborers fifteen
| glass workers brought to this country
from Belgium.
The report in"the matter, it is said,
indicates that labor unions, whose
'rm.‘mhr:rs the alien contract labor law
I was intended to protect, have resorted
‘to the importation of foreigners as a
result of disagreements, with rival
unions,
FOR REVISION OF TARIFF
Ways and Means Committee May Hold
" Bittings During Recess.
Representative Sereno Payne of New
York, chairman of the committee on
ways and means, introduced a resolu
tion in the house Thursday authoriz
ing that committee to sit during the
recess of congress and to gather in
formation looking toward the prepara
tion of a bill for the revision of the
tariff.
Planned at Executive Con
ference Held in St. Louis.
INCLUDES WHOLE SOUTH
About Five Million Acres Will Be Rep
_ resented and Capital Stock of $300,-
000,000 is Proposed — Holding = °
P Company is Suggested.
" Lumber men, represenfing compa
nieg comprising in their holdings about
5,000,000 acres, or practically all of the
yellow pine timber of the soutß, held
‘executive conferences in St. Louis’
Tuesday and Wednesday, and it is
understood, the purpose of the meeting
is. to form a hclding corporation or
merger, not only to conserve the tim
ber supply, but also to maintain equit
able prices on yellow pine products.
It is stated that the propgsed Organ
{zation will be capitalized for $300,000,-|
000, |
+ The holdings of the various compa
nies, representing one hundred plants,
will be vested in the corporation, and
the stockholders of each will simply
exchange their stock share for share
for stock in the holding company.,
That the companies may not run
counter to the anti-trust laws, the gov
ernment has been duly .advised, and
the ‘details of the proposed: corpora
tion -and the scope and general pur
poseg- fully outlined. . i
A committee was appointed to work
out- plans for the deal, and another
meeting will' be- held in .a month or
six weeks to hear the committee’s re
port. :
ROSWELL WANTS ROOSEVELT.
People of Home Town of President’s
Mother Appeal for Third Term.
One, hundred and seventy-four citi
‘zens of Roswell Ga., the home of Pres
ident Roosevelt’s mother, have signed
a petition urging the national republi
can convention to nominate President
Roosevelt for a second elective term,
and urging the people of Georglay, r
respective .of party, to sign the peti
‘tion. ]
This petition was signed by 174 vot
ers of Roswell, only two or three not
signing it on account of party affilia
tions. Party lines were forgotten, and
the petition was signed from the mayor
and couneil down, b
A former mayor of Roswell, R. G.
Broadwell, drew up and circulated the
petition, and the first to sign was the
present mayor, G. W, Wing.
While en route to Atlanta in the fall
of 1905 President Roosevelt visited
Roswell, the home ¢f his mother, and
was much delighted_wi’th his cordial ‘
welcome: there. /.7 'an ;
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HARPER AGAIN IN PRISON.
Notorious Murderer,Who Escaped from
Atlanta Tower, is Captured by Posse.
John Harper of Fannin county, Geor
gia, the murderer of Allion England,
at Mineral Bluff, Ga., last December,
and of Sheriff Ben Keith of Murray
county, near Spring Place, who escap
ed from the Tower in Atlanta, while
under sentence of death, was captured
Wednesday at the home of his father
in-law, William Wimberly, near Blue
Ridge, 'Ga., and ig 'now once more in
the Atlanta jail.
Harper was captured by A. C. Grlf-"
fith, sheriff of Fannin county; A. W.
Woody, United States marshal; W. J.
Cook, city marshal of Blue Ridge; W.
A. Wilson, justice of the peace, of
Blue Ridge; Gus and Elick Barckley,
Joe Starb, T. J. Addingtcn and J. J.
Thomas, deputy sheriffs of Polk coun
ty, Tennessee,
The capture was only made after a
seige of three hours. Harper had f.or
tified himself in the house, and, arm
ed with a winchester rifle, threatened
to kill any one who attempted to ar
rest him. When the posse threatened
to dynamite the house, he gave up,
Rewards to the amcunt of SBSO were
outstanding for his arrest. l
MANY PEOPLE ARE DESTITUTE. l
Governor Noel of Mississippi Explains
Situation to President. ‘
Governor Noel of Mississippi wired'
President Roosevelt that about 2,500
people at Hattieshurg and Purvis wili
need rations and tents for about thirty |
days. There are about 150 wounded
in need of hospital attention at those
places. |
“All the people of that section,”
says the governor, “wish federal ai)d‘
Red Crosg relief. Sufferers on the
Mississippi river plantations are difil
ferently circumstanced, and ask only
for 'tentage.” 3
TENTS FOR THE HOMELESS.
Federal Aid is Being Generally Extend.
ed to Storm Sufferers,
Federal ald is being extended to the
storm sufferers rapidly through the
department of the gulf, with headquar
ters in the Candler building in Atlanta,
Ga. Already 350 tents have been ship
ped out and more will be sent as soon
as requigsitions are received. 1
Household Matters.
PRI i oo sb i T N
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i Bruised Furniture, :
If the bruise is slight soak the
place in warm water and hold a red
hot poker near the surface of the
wood, keeping it constantly wet until
the bruise disappears. This will oc
cur in a few moments.
It the bruise is large, an actual
dent, wet the place with warm water
as before directed. Then take a piece
of brown paper, fold it six or seven
times, soak in warm water and place
over the spot. Against the paper
place a hot flatiron, keeping it there
until the moisture has evaporated.
This process should be repeated until
the surface is again level.—Suburban
Life.
"~ * - One Friday's Meals.
ot . Breakfast.
2l Hominy and' cream:
Codfish surprise; milk toast; coffee.
Luncheon.
Baked sweet potatoes; cocoa; French
toast.
Fried hominy and maple syrup.
Dinner.
Boiled fishwith parsleysauce; mashed
potatoes; scalloped tomatoes.
Prune fluff.
Coffee.
Prune Fluff — Four tablespoonfuls
of soft, stewed prunes, mashed fine;
cool, add two .tablespoonsful of pow
dered sugar and the stiff whites of
two eggs; put into small buttered
dishes, or custard-cups, and bake;
serve hot.—Harper's Bazar,
* How to Cook Rice.
' Few housewives understand how to
cook rice so that it puffs into a suowy
mass, each kernel distinct. I have
found a way. First wash it thor
oughly through several cold waters,
rubbing the kernels through the
hands.: This is to remove all the
loose flour on the outside of the
grains. After the water runs clear,
turn the rice into a colander and
drain; then put it into a deep stew
pan, allowing one quart of boiling
water to a cup of washed rice. Add
a teaspoonful of salt, and allow it to
come to a good boil. Cook steadily
for twenty minutes, lifting the rice
occasionally with a fork to prevent
its sticking. Shake the kettle also
for the same purpose, but never stir
or mash with a spoon. Take it from
the fire, pour off the water if any is
left, and place it on the back of the
stove, in the oven or even over a pot
of hot water until it finishes swell
ing. Cooked in this way you will
find the rice plump, light and white,
each grain distinct and separate.—M,
N., in Harper’s Bazar.
A Southern Barbecue.
The many barbecues which I at
tended last summer keep green in my
memory the time-honored *“Bruns
wick Stew” which Southern people
like so well, and sometimes, alas, di
gest so poorly. Yet the world is
obliged to admit that Epicurus him
self woud relish it. Here is the
recipe: One kind of any of these
three meats is used: lamb, chicken - »
squirrel. If chicken, which is prefer
able, it should first be parboiled an:d
cut in pieces and put over the fire in
enough cold water to cover it. ,"A
finely chopped onion, a large slice of
bacon; ¢ut fine, and black and red
pepper in abundance, and salt are
added, Cook until the bones are
loogened and can be drawn out. Then
add minced corn, cut from the cob,
or canned corn, and tomatoes,
chopped fine, and one-half pound of
butter. Let these boil together, and
just before serving, add a sprinkling
of stale bread crumbs, or pulverized
crackers. . Serve .in a tureen. It
should bhe the consistency of Scotch
broth. My friends have assured me
that my “Brunswick Stew” is a super
fine success. 1 guarantee this recipe.
—W. M., Georgia, in the American
Home Monthly,
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HOUSEKEEPER.
Verdigris on metal can be removed
by rubbing it with liquid ammonia.
«If your child gets a bump, butter
the spot well and, it will not turn
black and blue. :, ... ‘
Put a little saltpeter in the water
used for cut. flowers, for it will make
them last mugh longer.
A piece of lime or charcoal in the
new refrigerator will prevent the
“new” odor and taste from clinging to
eatables. i
To scent an invalid’s room :heat a
shovel and drop on it a little oil of
sandalwood. This may be bought of
any chemist and it will give a.de
lightful perfume to a room,
For cleaning brass emery powder
made into a paste with paraffin is ex
cellent. Use like any other polish,
and with the addition of a fair
amount of “elbow greasc” a very
good result is obtained.
. Vaseline makes a stain on linen,
which should he removed before the
article is sent to the laundry, for it is
set by soap. Soak such stains in
kerosene, alcohol, or turpentine bhe
fore touching them with water.
’ To make stockings wear well wash
them before wearing them when new,
for the washing slightly thickens and,
therefore, strengthens them. If the
same stockings are worn too long
tiey are apt to go into holes when
washed, so use two clean pairs of
stockings at least every week.
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