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t 4 T!IK (iFOKG LAN’S NEWS HR 1 EES. PANIC AT CHRISTMAS PARTY COSTS SEVENTY-TV/O LIVES ceroniBE!” Police of Calumet, Mich., Are Seeking Man Who Caused Terrible Caastrophe. CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 24.— Police, private detectives and citizens oi‘ Calumet to-day were united in thoir efforts to find the man who cried fire in the Italian hall where last night 72 persons! gathered about a giant Christmas ! tree were killed in a panic. The j authorities feared the man would he lynched- The dead were members of striking eopper -min-1 ors’ families. It was understood I that the man who caused the panic was not ip sympathy with the mine strike. The real horror of the disaster did not dawn upon the people of Calu- I met until to-day when the city aw T oke ; to the most cheerless Christmas in , its history. There was little observ- i once of the day. Residents of all j parts of the city joined in the general J mourning for the scores of dead. The sorrow of friends of the dead j was increased to-day by the remem- ! brance that the panic was unneces sary. There was no fire in or near I the building in which the celebrants were gathered. Several hundred miners, their wives : and children, were gathered about the ! big Christmas tree. The happy lit tle folk were pressing eagerly toward the stage in the front of the hall! where Mrs. Annie Clemens, president of the Women’s Auxiliary of the mners’ organization, was superin tending the distribution of presents. Christmas joy reigned. It was the happiest time in the lives of many of the little ones. They had waited weeks for this event. Babies Trampled by Men. Suddenly a door opened. A man thrust in his head. Trumpeting through his hands he uttered a wild cry: “Fire! ” Instantly the hall was a scene of wildest confusion. Mothers were torn from their babies and saw them trampled to death under the feet of panic-stricken men. The cry of fire was taken up by a hundred throats. Mrs. Henry Isola was holding her little boy and girl by the hand. The boy was jerked away from her. He escaped from the building. The moth er and daughter were crushed to death by the frenzied mob. Christian Klarich and his two little daughters were trampled to death. Mrs. Kla rich escaped unhurt. There were scores of such incidents. The panic was over in less than a minute. Rescurers rushed into the building. They found bodies piled to the top of the only regular exit, a narrow stairway at the rear of the hall. When order was restored there were counted the bodies of 37 little girls, 18 little boys, 15 men and 13 women. Every undertaking establishment was filled with bodies this morning and bodies were given to the authori ties, who arranged the dead in as or derly a manner as possible to make identification easier. All through the night surviving members of families that were nearly wiped out went from place to place seeking their dead. Friends sought the bodies of those they had loved. Sorrowing children who lost both their parents were led from one im provised morgue to another in an effort to find parents, brothers and sisters. The Coroner’s assistants, checking over the bodies, found that 54 fami lies had suffered a loss of i ue or more members. When the cry of lire was raised many of the men forgot everything except their own anxiety to escape from a possible death in the flames they thought would soon reach the celebration hall. They trampled upon mothers who were trying vainly to save their little ones. They crushed the life out of infants and weaker men. Contrast to this action was shown in the action of some of the cooler headed miners. John Heikkenen and Henry Manley were crushed to death with several children they were try ing to rescue from the mad rush. One man was seen to stoop and pick up a little girl. The madly pushing crowd knocked him from his feet. He and th® child were trampled to death. A little •-,irl aged about five leaped from a window to the street, two stories below, and was practically un hurt. Many of the deaths in the panic were due to suffocation under the great pile of human bodies. This was evidenced by the fact that many bodies bore no mark of injury. Saloon Is Blamed. Tracing the man who caused the panic, private detectives employed by the mine owners to-day learned that he came to the hall direct from a saloon. Persons nearest the door when he shouted fire said that the breath blown into the room with the cry smelled of alcohol. A Coroner’s jury was impaneled soon after midnight and an effort was made to make a careful investigation of the disaster. M ISS C HA LETT A HALL, a stenographer, who gets a half-million dollars if she weds in a year. $500,000 Goes to Girl If She Weds in a Year CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Chaletta Hall, aged 19, and formerly a nigh school girl in Man ton, Mich., is the heiress to a half million dollars, provided, however, “she marries a desirable young man inside of a year.’’ She is a stenographer for Swift & Co. Joseph Snyder, great-uncle of the girl, dying recently in San Fran cisco, left his fortune to his favor ite grandniece, with the provision concerning her marriage within twelve months. Snyder’s domestic troubles separated him from his wife and he was divorced. With his own marital failure in mind, he left his fortune to the girl under the one con dition. LOPEZ STILL SAFE. SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 25.—Ra fael Lopez, the Mexican bandit, still is safe within the workings of the Utah-Apex Mine at Bingham. Utah. This was the statement to-day of Sheriff Smith, a noted Western gun man, who is in charge of the hunt. All entrances to the mine are sealed up and the Sheriff and his men are waiting to starve the slayer of six men. According to the plan, the mine will be unsealed New* Year’s day and a party sent into the mine to hunt the body of the fugitive who for five w r eeks has eluded all pur suers. The impression prevails that Lopez has had assistance from the outside. He is known to have had a sweet heart in the Bingham underworld and she is suspected of having organized a relief committee among friends of her circle. TO FIGHT SULLIVAN. SPRINGFIELD. ILL., Dec. 25.—As a result of the organization of the 'men Secretary of Treasury McAdoo Receives Many Messages of Congratulation, WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Secre tary McAdoo and other officials of the Administration are gratified at the response from the country to the enactment of the new Federal reserve banking law. Messages of congratulation from banking interests in all parts of the country have been pouring into Sec retary McAdoo's office and there is a steady stream of telegrams from presidents of banks making applica tion to become members of the new system. This morning telegraphic applications were still being received and 231 institutions—national banks. State banks, saving banks and tru3t companies—from 37 different States had applied for membership and for the privilege of subscribing to the stock. These banks extended from Maine to California and from Min-, nesota to Texas. The 213 national banks that applied for membership had a combined cap ital and surplus of $181,580,420. Here is the summary of the list, with num ber of banka per State and capital and surplus: Alabama 4, $3,082,500; Arkansas 1, $542,500; California 9, $5,963,500; Col orado 6, $7,772,000; Delaware 1, $175,- 000; District of Columbia 1, $500,000; Georgia 9, $9,675,000; Illinois 10, $34,- 064,000: Indiana 4, $1,010,000; Iowa 8, $1,405,000; Kansas 7. $1,615,500; Ken tucky 5, $780,200: Louisiana 3, $4,- 725,000. Maine 2, $750,000; Maryland 14. $12,895,720; Massachusetts 3, $17,450,- 000; Michigan 3, $1,450,000; Minne sota 1, $40,000; Mississippi 1. $210,000; Missouri 11, $19,025,000: Nebraska 3. $472,000; New Hampshire 1, $250,000: New York 5, $2,460,000: New Jersey 5, $1,225,000; New Mexico 1, $225,000. North Carolina 4, $1,730,000; North Dakota 2, $180,000; Ohio 22, $35,818,- 000; Oklahoma 5, $339,000; Oregon 3, $132,000; Pennsylvania 8, $71 353,000; South Carolina 2, $725,000; Texas 7, $6,407,500; Tennessee 6, $3,117,000; Utah 7, $2,685,000; Washington 5, $3,- 961,000; Wisconsin 2, $730,000. Eleven trust companies, of which three are in Texas, one in Tennessee, one in Virginia, one in Maryland, two in Missouri, one in New York, one in Illinois and one in the District of Columbia, applied. Five State banks applied, of which one each is in Cali fornia, South Carolina, Texas, Mis souri and Wisconsin. Two savings banks made applies: i and both are situated in California. GREET PRESIDENT WILSON. PASS CHRISTIAN, MISS., Dec. 25. President Wilson arrived in this quaint French hamlet on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico at 6:30 o'clock to-day and found “Merry Christmas- emblazoned around him everywhere. It was cold and damp and the skies were leaden, but the crowd of natives shouted at the President: “Wait until to-morrow and well show you some real gulf weather.” The President and bis family left their private car at 9 o’clock and went immediately to the “Winter White House,” one mile up the beach, chris tened “Beaulieu.” The home is owned by Miss M. A. Herndon, who will have charge of it during the Presi dent's stay here. Joe Murphy, the President's secret service man, who was sent to Pass Christian in advance, brought word to the Presidential party of the quaint Christmas celebration that awaited them here. He said they observed Christmas with fireworks instead of holly and mistletoe, and have many delightful French traditions for the entire Yuletide. The President’s cheery “Good morning” and “Merry Christmas” found responsive echoes in the cheers that went up on his ar rival. Representative Harrison, of Missis sippi, who accompanied the Presiden tial party from Washington, probably will remain in Pass Christian throughout the Christmas season. He will see to it that the President is not bothered with any business or poli ticians of any kind until he is entirely willing to see them. SECOND ARREST. Following close on the arrest and con fession of James Thomas Turner, mes senger for the Southern Express Com- Goes to Pass Christian, Miss., for the Holidays—Southerners Give Him Greeting. President Woodrow Wilson was in Atlanta late Wednesday afternoon. He came in at 4:55 in a special train of four cars, carrying his private physician, Dr. Cary Grayson, Mrs. Wilson and Misses Eleanor and Mar garet, and sundry secret service men, newspaper correspondents and serv ants. He left at 5:20 en route to the Gulf ('oast, where he will try to get some rest, after his strenuous work on the currency bill. in the 25 minutes the President was here he walked up and down the plat form ten times, pointed twice, once north and once south; smiled any where from 10 to 20 limes, bowed twice, jerked his cap down over his eyes once, and chatted volubly at all times—with Dr. Grayson and the se cret service men who hemmed him in like a hedge fence. His arrival w r as attended by no ceremony, and his departure was the same, unless the spectacle of police men clinging to the steps of the train could be called something in the na ture of a ceremony. Some thought it might be a ceremony; others couldn’t figure out just what it was. Poisoner of 4 Gets 4 Life Sentences MERIDIAN, TEXAS, Dec. 24.—Four 1 fe imprisonment sentences were pro- rounced on Mrs. Eilen Walker Ether idge. convicted of poisoning her four (epchildren. CAN SELL TO POST. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Atlanta merchants who want an opportunity to bid on subsistence supplies for Fort McPherson are not to be de prived of that privilege. Major Gen eral Aleshire, chief quartermaster general of the army, to-day wrote Congressman William Schley How ard to this effect. Mr. Howard re cently protested to the War Depart ment against an order issued by the Department of the East, which was construed to mean that the Fort McPherson supplies must be pur chased from New York. General Aleshire says the War Department has no intention of taking steps in imical to local merchants if the prices are satisfactory and that Circular 31 has been misunderstood. ORIENTAL WEDDiNG. KENOSHA, WIS., Dec. 24— Cus toms of the Far East were invoked at the marriage in Balguam, India, of Miss Eva Thelien, Kenosha, to Wen dell Kumlien, Appleton, Wis. Miss Thelien traveled more than three-fourths around the tvorld to meet her fiance at Bombay, whence they traveled on the back of an ele phant overland to Balguam, on the frontier. SWAINS ARE BALKED. POUGHKEEPSIE. N, Y., Dec. 24.— The scores of young “blades” who have been saving their coupons all year intending to convert them into chafing dishes for girl friends at Vas- sar College will have had their paias for nothing, as that dish has been put on the “forbidden” list. LONG-DISTANCE RIDE. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The record long distance ride in the New York subway has been established by David Shapiro, who traveled on the cars six days and nights. The boy was afraid to go home because he had stolen his mother’s gold watch and chain. STORM CLAIMS LIVES. CUXHAVEN, GERMANY, Dec. 24 - Heavy loss of life has accompanied the terrific storm which has prevailed over the North Sea for forty-eight hours. The gale wrought deadly havoc among the fishing fleet on the banks off the mouth of the Elbe. At least fifty-two fishermen perished. More than forty bodies were washed ashore to-day. ZELAYA SAILS FROM U. S. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—General Jose Santos Zelaya, former President of Nicaragua, who was arrested here last month charged with murder, but subsequently released, sailed for France to-day. Wilson-Bryan League here. Senators John W. Kern, of Indiana, and Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma, will be brought to Illinois to open the fight planned against Roger C. Sullivan, candidate for nomination for United States Senator, by his foes in the Democratic party. The two Senators will be invited to speak at a banquet to be given in Springfield probably on Washington’s Birthday. CONVICTS ARE FREED. MONTGOMERY, Dec. 25.—Thirty-sev- n Alabama State convicts were given heir liberty by Governor O’Neal to-day. eventeen of the number were convicted f murder either in the first or second egree and three were serving life sen- enees. Two of the prisoners freed were con- icted in Mobile, four in Montgumerv, our in Birmingham and others in dif- erent sections of the State pany a second man has been taken into custody and other arrests are expected .in connection with the systematic theft of express articles from the Southern i Express Company during the past year, j The second man arrested was D. J. (Alexander, a resident in Mills street, a railway employee. Alexander was taken before United States Commissioner Walter H. Col quitt and held tinder a bond of $1,000. He denied any knowledge of the rob beries. PEPPER FOR PRIEST. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., Dec 25.— En tering the confessional of the Holy Cross Church under the guise of desir ing to make a confession, a woman at tacked the Rev. Henry Jajeskai and threw a handful of red pepper in his eyes. Anne Bradek was later ar rested. She had barricaded the house and was captured after a struggle. Father Jajeskai was alone when the woman rushed in and asked that he hear her confession. BARN IS BURNED. DAHLONEGA, Dec. 25.—The barn on Colonel R. H. Baker’s farm near Dah- lonega burned this morning and Colonel Baker and G. W. Burns lost quantities of fodder and hay and one buggy. It is thought a negro who had a dif ficulty with one of the Burns boys started the fire. Dogs followed a trail to his house. American Thin Model Y !? R Watch $3Zf Sant C.O.D. by EXPRESS *r INSURED PARCEL POST BTEM WIND ^ "i m i 11 1 II^Hif flTFII To adrertlee ear buxinees end introduceour catalogueof ELGIN and WAL THAM SOLID GOLD FILLED WATCHES, we will send you rti.80 year W AICU C.O.D. fa. 7 A with eur 60 doji trUi offer. The oue la double bunt- inf »tj.« beautilully engraved, f old flnla bed throughout, ■t«m wind end item eet, fitted with a standard thin modal American made movement,quick train lever esoapemeat, steel pinions ,j ewe led balance, enamel dial; a correot time* keener and fully guaranteed for SO years; with leaf fold plated chain for Ladiae, veet chain or fob for Gent# or Boya. Mention If yen with Ladles, Grata or Bay* else and if C. 0. D. by mail or express. Address Dlamead Jewelry Co., A 1 7, 1SB W. sladlion St. (bkago.III.