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Death Claims Aged Ruler of the
. Belgians.
The Crown Passes to Nephew of Leo
pold, there Being No Hereditary Heir
to the Belgian Throne.
Brussels, Belglum.—Leopold 11, King
of the Belgians, died at 2:35 o'clock
Friday morning. 7The collapse occur
red suddenly and at a moment when
the doctors seemingly had the great
est hopes for his recovery from the
operation performed upon him tor In
testinal trouble, ot
Courts, schools and theaters are
closed, parliament and municipal coun
cil have adjourned, and flags are at
halt mast in every city, town and
village of the kingdom of Belgium
out of respect for the dead monarch.
Leopold Il Under the constitution,
the aftairs of the nation are in con
trol of the cabinet until Prince Al
pert takes the oath of succession next
Thursday, the day after the tuneral
of his uncle, before the joint houses
of parliament in the senate cham
ber.
An official decree lauds King Leop
old’s career, and declares his crea
tion of the Congo independent state
an act unique in history.
“posterity will judge Leopold a
great king with a grand reign,” it
says.
The filing of the will of King Leop
old shows that he divided $3,000,000
between his three daughters, Princess
Louise, Princess Stephanie and Prin
cess Clementine. 7This practical dis
inheritance of his children signals the
beginning of a gigantic legal battle
to obtain the Kking’s wealth, similar
to that which ensued on the death
of their mother, Queen Henrietta.
The exact amount of Leopold’s tor
tune probabiy never will be revealed.
Senator Winer, the Kking's friend and
confidential legal adviser, told the As
gociated Press that Leopold turned
over a considerable portion of it to
the Baroness Vaughan and her chil
dren, and created a stock company
of his estates in order to forestall a
possible raid upon them by the Prin
cesses Louise and Stephanie or the.r
creditors.
Leopold 11, king of the Belgians,
gon of King Leopold I, upon whose
death, which occurred December 10,
1865, he succeeded to the throne, was
born at Brussels, April 9, 1887. His
father was the former prince of Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha and his mother, Prin
cess Louise, daughter of King Louis
Philippe of France. On August 22,
1853, he married the Archduchess Ma
rie Henrietta, daughter of Archduke
Joseph of Austria. She died Septem
ber 19, 1902. There were three daugh
ters born of this union—Louise, Ste
phanie and Clementine. "The two eld
er princesses have been estranged
from their father, but Clementine re
mained in his affections.
Always conspicuous pbefore the pub
lic on account of the nature of his
private lite , particularly in recent
years, King Leopold has latterly had
much of the world against him on
account of his attitude towards the
Congo independent state. His great
interest lay in the development o 1
that country, for he was practically
the founder of it, and was its ruling
sovereign. -
King Leopold was looked upon as
one of the shrewdest and ablest men
of the time. He was essentially a
man of business, cold, reticent and
calculating. He was of a particular
ly independent gpirit, and more than
once is said to have told other sov
ereigns, who attempted to advise him
in connection with his private affairs,
to mind their own pusiness. Kor this
reason, King Leopold had become es
tranged from many of the courts oi
Europe.
Baroness Vaughan, who is said to
have been the King's morganatic wiie,
occupies a chateau close to the pavil
jon where Leopold died. She is the
mother of two children.
There being no direct hereditary
" heir, the crown passes to Prince Al
bert, the only son of Leopold’s broth
er, the late Phillippe, count of FKlan
ders. The new monarch was born
April 8, 1875, and on October 2, 1900,
married Princess Klizabeth of Bava
ria. They have three children—
Prince Leopold, 8 years; Prince
Charles, 6 years old, and Prince Ma
rie Jose, who was born on August 4,
1906.
Prince Albert is one of the most
popular members of the reigning
house of Belgium. His wife is equally
popular, their home life being such
as to attract the admiration and love
of the people. He dearly loves clean
and healthy sport. He is an accom
plished horseman, enjoys motoringe
and has taken a flight or two in a
dirigible balloon.
WOULD INVETIGATE CONGRESS.
Resolution Introduced Asking That
Corruption Charges Be Probed.
washington, D. C.—Charges of cor
ruption against members of congress
and of the subsidizing of newspapers
for and against ship subsidy which
caave been made in various American
newspapers are recounted in a resolu
tion introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Hardy of Texas.
He asks that a committee of two
democrats and four republicans, three
opposed to ship subsidy and three fa
voring it, be named to learn to what
extent money has been spent by those
favoring and opposing ship subsidy
and to what extent newspaper writerl
and lobbyists have “t;_een hired, it any.
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SOUTHERN _RAILWAY WRECK.
Disaster Occured Near Greemsboro,
North Carolina.
Grersboro, N. C.~Local passenger
train No. 11 on the Southern Rall
way, known as the KRichmond and
Atlanta train, was wrecked at Reedy
Mork trestie, 10 miles north ot here.
12 persons were Kkilied and 25
injured are being cared for at the
nhospital, The dead are;
A. P. Cone, superintendent of the
Richmond and Danville division ot
tne Southern Railway, with headquar
ters at Richmond; H. C. White, trav
eling auditor, Washington, D, C.;
|saac Dammals, porter on the Rich
mond sleeper; C. B. Nolan, Pullman
conductor, Greensboro; Frank W. Kil
by, &n expert accountant of Anniston,
Ala.; Virgil E. Holcomb, Mount Alry,
N. C.; Ed Sexton, Denton, N. C; Rich
ard Kames, & prominent mining engi
neer of Salisbury, N. C.; John G.
Brodnax, Richmond, Va.; Ed Bagby,
Richmond, Va.; Charles T. Broad
field, Americus, Ga.; Henry Stribling,
Atlanta, Ga.
George J. Gould, who, with his son,
Jay Gould, was in one of the Pull
mans when the train jumped the
track and who was reported dead,
escaped uninjured. He, with his son,
Jay, and friend, R. H. Russell, of New
York, former editor ot the Metropol
itan Magazine, had just gotten out
of their perths when the jump occur
red. Mr. Russell was badly hurt by
coming in contact with a car stove
and is at the hospital.
The derailment of the train was
caused by a broken rail about 200 feet
from the trestle that spans the small
stream. "
At the point where the first coach
left the track the right hand rail be
ing broken, about 18 inches from a
joint, the rail was pbroken into frag
ments for several feet and torn en
tirely from the crossties. The truck
wheels ran on the ties until near the
trestle, when the outside wheels went
over, allowing the brake beams . and
axles to fall on the guard rail of the
bridge. As the last coach was about
on the trestle the five coaches top
pled over, broke loose from the mail
and express car and tumbled to the
mud and water below.
The Norfolk Pullman fell in the
water, while the Richmond sleeper,
just in front, landed only partially in
the water. 'The most of the injured
and killed in the sleepers were in the
Richmond sleeper, which was totally
demolished.
FINAL CROP ESTIMATE.
Average Weights Per Bushel of Crops
Also Given. '
Wwashington, D. C.—The crop re
porting board of the department ot
agriculture in a bulletin just issued
estimates the average weight per
measured bushel of various crops to
be as follows: . .
Spring wheat 57.1 pounds; winter
wheat 58.4 pounds, and oats 32.7
pounds, against 57.3, 58.3 and 29.8
pounds, respectively, last year. 'l'he
quality of corn is 84.2 per cent against
£6.9 last year. The final estimates in
dicate the harvested acreage and pro
duction, important farm crops of the
United States, in 1909 and 1908, to
have bene as follows:
Crop— Acreage. Bushels.
Corn 'O9 . . .108,771,000 *2,772,376,000
Corn ’OB . .101,788,000 2,668,651,000
Win wheat 09 28,330,000 446,366,000
Win wheat ’OB 30,349,000 437,908,000
Spg wheat ’O9 18,393,000 290,823,000
‘Spg wheat ’OB 17,208,000 226,694,000
All wheat ’O9 46,723,000 737,189,000
tAll wheat 'OB 47,557,000 . 664,602,000
Oats 'O9. . . 33,204,000 1,007,353,000
Oats 08 .. . 92,344,000 807,156,000
*__Bushels of weight.
Killed in Salisbury, N. C., Fire.
Greensboro, N. C.—As the result of
a fire in the business section of Salis
bury, 49 miles sotuh of here, one per
son is dead, another fatally and a
third slightly injured. Damage, to the
Empire Clothing Company’s building
to the extent of $50,000 was done.
Magic Would Not Quiet Winds.
Juneau, Alaska.—Because She Shen
Jim, an Indian medicine man, insist
ed that by his magic he could quiet
the winds, he and six relatives were
drowned while trying to reach Juneau
from Gambler Bay in acanoe.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Captain "T'homas Franklin, United
States army, accused of embezzling
$5,000 from the cadets’ mess fund ot
the West Point Military academy, ot
which Franklin was treasurer. plead
ed guilty in the United States circuft
court. A question of jurisdiction will
take the case to the supreme court.
The will of Charles N. Crittendon,
name of his daughter, Florence Crit
tenton, in fourteen cities of this
country, and in Shanghai, Mexico
City and other foreign cities, filed for
probate in }ew York city, leaves half
his estate, cstimated at between $3,-
000,000 and $5,000,000, to the National
Florence Crittenton misison.
After being put out of business tor
several months, the lottery men of
Charleston, S. C., have combined forc
es and resources, hired attorne¢ys and
are now operating in defiance of the
authorities. As fast as ...eir ticket
sellers are arrested the men are
promptly bailed out of the police sta
tion and a jury trial demanded. This
lottery business is done on a five
and ten-cent scale, but involves hun
dreds of dollars at each daily draw
ing.
The highest recorded price for hogs
was exceeded at the National Stock
yards in' St. Louis when a buyer gave
$8.65 a hundred pounds for some fine
specimens. Nothing approaching this
price has been known in the open
market here since 1893. :
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Lothrop Withington, of Honolulu,
s the new Harvard football captain.
“Joe” Jeannette and “Sam” McVea
fought a thirty-round draw in Paris.
George Mullin, of the Deiroit Base
ball Club, leads the Amecrican League
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Penn State wants to enter the In
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Miss Marion Kennedy, of Great
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York.
“Jeifries isn’t sure whether he can
go ten rounds or not,” said James W.
Croffoth, “so he will try to bhaook
Johnson on the jaw in the first
round.”
Ban Johnson, American I.eague
president, says if necessary he will
name those alleged to be ccencerned in
the so-called umpire briberv case in
New York. e
LABOR WOLLD.
The labor temple project has been
revived in Pittshurg.
Color pressmen of New York City
have received an inerease in pay.
Iron workers in Wales have Dbeen
awarded an advance of one-half per
cent., dating from October 1.
John Burng, the British :abor lead
er, suggests that working hours
should be internationally adjusted.
Special committees have been ap
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cutters to confer on the question of
amalgamating.
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next year will see ‘he stone masons’
unions of Minneapolis and St. Paul
working as one organization.
During the last seventeen years
American coal mines have killed
22,840 men, made at least 10,000
widows and upward of 40,000 or
phans. '
In 1908 fatal accidents in mines
(in Great Britain) causec 1308
deaths, while the non-fatal accidents
kept 141,851 men incapacitated more
than seven days.
Five European countries have mors
trade union members than the State
of New York, but New York outranks
Russia, Hungary and Spain, as well as
the smaller countries.
Half the workers employed in the
industries of Pennsylvania are for
eigners, and in the coal mines of the
State the foreigners outnumber the
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Hundreds of men who have been on
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terms and returned to work. One
thousand miners, however, are still
out at the neighboring Clifton pits.
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