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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. v — 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, i e L 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. ; G 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 ; - '__————.'-—_‘—'" 5 } 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 S 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, iFU.ISiié FOR, THE|) 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. &N - Y b oo Caatl T Cund - e SRR o SRR NS, , W e T QA f - [ w@‘ A ot . N fie w g.n-. 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