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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK TWELVE KILLED IN EXPLOSION Terriffic Storm Sweeps Atlantic Coast — Life Savers Busy. Boston, Dec. 17.—A northwest bliz W ashington.—Back of the war scare zard last night and today brought dis caused by Secretary D ickinson’s confi aster to shipping along the Massachu dential answ er to the request of Con setts coast and tonight four schooners gressman McLachlan of California is were known to have been wrecked, an the activity of the shipbuilding interests other was in tow, disabled, one barge and the steel trust as an active factor Ir in the agitation. A year ago corres had foundered, and other barges were Thai of Pacific Coast papers were Trolley Car Hurled on Top of Auto reported adrift and missing. Says English-Speaking Nations C«i W General Resume of Important Events pondents importuned by repreconUtives of P a The revenue cutter Gresham, which By Blast—Children In Hospital Insure Success—Believes Eng. Presented In Condensed Form cific Coast shipbuilding concerns to Grov took aboard the crews of two sinking Narrowly Escape. land Is Ready. for Our Busy Readers. urge the need of a fleet of submarines schooners and assisted other vessels, Fr and the enactment of a law to provide spent the entire day and most of the that during the next ten years 50 sub his The new lift span bridge at Portland marines be built on the Pacific Coast. New York, Dec. 19.— Twelve persons night undoing the havoc of the storm. ; Iro nm aster’s Leading Known Ben Satin were killed, two of them women, and Up to tonight no definite report of loss is thrown open to the public. frank admission th a t the W est JO were injured in a double explosion efactions A ggregate $179,- K arl Hagenbach, the anim al show ern This Th' shipbuilding interests were largely of gas and dynamite in the new electric of life had reached this city. 600,000. man, is not dead, as reported. The vessels which suffered from the now Aycona appeals to the people of*the responsible for the agitation which at power house of the New York C entral storm included: Follow ing are the chief known U nited States to protest against D iaz’ that time was carried os to alarm the Railroad, shortly after 8 o ’clock this Schooner Thomas B. Garland, of contributions of Andrew Carnegie Hartl West coast people, was made to me morning. alleged tyranny. Portsmouth, a total wreck on Great to benevolent and educational pur. Wn The railroad m achinists’ strike in when I sought to ascertain why so sud The force of the explosion shattered Point bar, Nantucket. The crew were poses: St. Louis has been settled, the men denly patriots had discovered the so- hundreds of windows in the big hotels rescued early today by the Coskata L ibraries, U nited S ta te s ...................$ 36,000000 viney L ibraries, E u ro p e ................................. 1 t ! ooo *QM Grove receiving more pay. called defenseless position of the West and apartm ent houses in the neighbor lifesaving crew. ducational fou n d atio n ..................... 15!000000 hood of the railroad term inal, causing Schooner Abbie G. Cole, of Machias, E P ittsb u rg In s titu te ............................... 16iooo!oo0 The commercial and labor organiza coast. alarm among the guests. The dynam ite She W ashington I n s titu te ......................... 12^000 000 tions are planning to drive “ loan A meeting of' some of the Pacific blast picked up a northbound trolley Me., stranded and waterlogged in Peace F ou n d atio n ................................. 10.000000 ready sh ark s” out of Chicago. Scotch U n iv ersities............................. 10 000 000 Stone Horse shoal, off Monomoy point. Coast senators and representatives had car, lifted it in the air and sent it H ero fu n d s............................................... ¿OOO’OOO Once Steel C om pany’s Pour girls were saved from the tide been called and a dinner had been giv crashing down upon an automobile The crew were rescued by the Gresh Carneifie ployes’ E ndow m ent................... 5,000000 at Seaside, Or., by Captain Geo. H en, one of the Tesults of which had been which was passing along the other side am this morning, when Monomoy point D u Em n ferm lin e........................................... 5^000 OOOi the street. Four of the passengers lifesavers found the seas too heavy to Polytechnic Smith of the life saving crew. School. P ittsb u rg ......... ¿oooiooo the appointm ent of a committee of of The Haffue Peace T em ple................. IJM.OOO i were killed, and every one in the car launch their lifeboats. Chief Justice W hite of the U. S. su members from W ashington and Cali was injured. Allied E ng in Societies............... l!50o!o00' The two-masted schooner H. E. B ureau of A m eers’ erican Republics .... 75oioooi preme court took the oath of office The railroad service was only tem Ayer, taken in tow by the Gresham off Small Colleges, U nited S ta te s......... 20,000!(W) and, at the conclusion, kissed the Bible fornia to present to the president a porarily M iscellaneous in E urope, estim ated 2,50o!ooo interrupted. The new sub-sta Old Harbor. embodying plans for subm a tion power A djutant General Lauck of Califor memorial house, where the explosion British schooner [S. A. Fownes, M iscellaneous in U . S .,^estim ated.. 20,000,0®! rines. nia declares th at state's entire coast These facts were given me by a rep occurred, is at Fiftieth street and L ex ashore off Monomoy Point. The T o ta l....................................................... $179,500,0001 is open to invasions of foreign enemy. resentative avenue, which is half a dozen Gresham took on board the crew late R ockefeller benefactions, estim ated 120,000]000| of a Seattle ship yard, ington Balance in favor of C arnegie.. Senator Jam es Frazier of Tennessee working with whom, as he adm itted, blocks north of the Grand Central sta today. $ 59,500.00(1 denies that he “ whitewashed” Senator was the vice president of a San F ran tion. Lumber-laden schooner Stephen G. Thè explosion partly wrecked the Lorim er of Illinois in the recent inves cisco ship yard. house near by and prevented Loud, abandoned 33 miles southeast of Washington—Surrounded by 27 tn John tigation. About th at time Secretary Meyer de engine the firemen gtting their appar Boston light. The crew were rescued tees of his choosing, comprising eJ Iprospei an address at Philadelphia in atus into the from Prosecutor Ileney would block the livered street. Monsignors La this morning by the steamer A. W. cabinet which he advocated the building of b a t members ex-ambassadors, i Iwere c\ attem pt of F. P. Mays and W illard ette and Hayes and Fathers O ’Connor, Perry and brought here. for one reason—that it gave F McQuade, Jones, guilty of land fraud, to escape tleships Sinnott and Byrnes, of St. lege presidents, lawyers and educati ISaturd; At Portsmouth, N. H., the three- business to the steel industry. prison sentences. P a tric k ’s Cathedral, hurried to the masted schooner Annie F. Conlon ar Andrew Carnegie transferred to A pparently Congressman Tawney is scene Finsi adm inistered the last rites rived today in a disabled condition, 21 $10,000,000 in 5 per cent first Six hundred and eighteen school right in charging more or less conspir of the and church to the more seriously in days children were marched from a burning acy to scare the country into bolstering jured. B icyi out from Philadelphia. gage bonds valued at $11,500,000, school building in Boise, thinking they up the program of m ilitary enthusiasts. The barge Maywood, one of. a tow of Umb; A t the postoffice substation at F or were at practice drill. These evidences point to activities by tieth and Madison avenues, the explo three behind the tug Margaret, found be devoted primarily to the establish Um ln a ship yard to lobby and the advocates sion English Tories are b itter over their of slightly injured several clerks and ered last night off Cape Cod, and the ment of universal peace by the aboi| a large standing army. defeat and threaten reckless filibuster other barges of the tow, the Scranton the mail all over the floor. In tion of war between nations and M r. a Secretary Dickinson hints at the need threw ing in parliam ent. the New York Nursery and C hild’s and Binghampton, are missing. One friction as <nay impair “ the pro land dai of a standing army of 450,000 men, in Hospital ceilings were partly shaken of the barges in tow of the tug Cum and happiness of man.” The leading hotels of San Francisco stead of the present effective force of down, and the windows broken, but berland is also reported missing. ■ Sun .ay will allow women to smoke in any part 115,000. fortunately none of the 300 children When wars between nations 1 Dr. i.nd of the building, the same as men. The international im portance of the there badly injured. JAPAN HAS TROUBLES. of these war propagandists is The was have’ceased, the fund is to be ap A boy at Salem. Ore., died of lockjaw acts power house, which is built of shown by editorials in Japanese news stone but not the slightest evidence of infec papers, to such altruistic pruposes as wi| The h and brick, and is six stories high, telegraphed to the state depart took fire after the explosion, and the Will Strenghten Navy, Despite Her “ best tion could be found upon his body. I osene i help man in his glorious ment hore, citing the proposals to for Heavy Indebtedness. Magnetic brakes, opeA ted by w ire tify the Panam a canal, increase the interior was practically burned out. onward and upward” by the banialf Itile ligti less, have been made entirely success standing army and create a powerful Ju st what caused the double explosion Tokio, —The budget for 1911-12, as ment"of the “ most degrading evil lai or:e h ful on the Canadian Pacific railway. Pacific fleet, as evidences to the Jap a may probably never be known. For finally completed, was announced today evils” then harassing mankind. tunately for the thousands of commut as follows: B. M a tii An aviator at Memphis, Tenn., nese th at this country desires war with ers on the New York Central lines, the them. As Mr. Carnegie read an inform^ reached an altitude of 9.3G4 feet, his Receipts, ordinary, 492,138,000 yen; force of the dynam ite blasts was di aeroplane being coated with ice when Strangely, the war scare comes at the rected in an opposite direction from extraordinary, 487,969,37; expendi deed of trust announcing at length very time when the peace society is in the railroad he alighted. tracks, otherwise the load tures, ordinary, 407,113,274; extraor general purpose of his gift, there waj session here, as if the scare had been Queen Liliuokalani of Honolulu now planned to offset the pleas for disar ed incoming trains m ight have been dinary, 133,821,699. A yen is equiv prolonged applause. He -then ei| wrecked. asks the territorial legislature for a alent to about 50 cents in American plained the incidents which inapin lump sum of 1200,000 in full settlem ent mament. Officials of the railroad learned that money. of all claims against the United States. there were many workmen in the build Marquis Katsura, premier and min the gift at this time, and decla MEXICAN TROOPS LOSE. ing at the tim e of the explosion, and ister of finance, takes a hopeful view with emphasis that if the Englisl A man from Okanogan, Wash., is in th at but few of these had been account of Pennsylvania to gather up 1,000 cats, situation. During the speaking race in the United States i for. In the Bible Teachers’ T rain year the past fiscal to be shipped West to rid the farm s and Government Forces Nearly Annihilated ed the government has had a Great Britain once consolidated in ing School, on Lexington avenue, d i gardens of Okanogan county of rats by Insurrectos at La Junta. particularly heavy burden to carry. rectly opposite the power house, 125 for international peace, and gophers. El Paso, Tex.— President D iaz’ M exi men and women who were on their The navy has called for an increased movement Sh-isoners in the Lima, Ohio, jail as can army has suffered a loss of 950 way to breakfast, were throw n to the expenditure in order to avoid the criti success of the measure in the rest saultod their guards and four escaped. men in dead and wounded in a battle floor by the blast. M any of the men cism of neglect in the face of the ad the world would be assured. The 15-year-old son of the sheriff at La Ju n ta, according to the latest and women were injured, and several vance made by other powers. The an That Great Britain stood ready bluffed the other six with an empty news from the scene of hostilities. The of them were taken to hospitals. nexation of Corea and disastrous floods co-operate with this country, Mr. rifle and held them at bay until help federal troops engaged in the fight All the windows in the building were have added materially to the extraord negie said he felt certain, and all I came. numbered 1000 men. When they raised blown in and the ceilings fell. expenditures. was now needed was the concur white flag there were only 50 able The damage to the power honse and inary Marquis Katsura lays down these of General Hodges, commanding the De the the president and the senate in ] other buildings has not been estimated, bodied men in the force th a t surren partm ent of the Great Lakes, says it dered to the victorious revolutionists. hut it was stated th at it will likely two rules as effective in directing the mulgating the movement on behalf would undoubtedly be easy for n for La Ju n ta is a small town on the exceed $500,000. policy of the government: eign power to invade the Pacific Coast, Mexico. Northwestern & Orient rail The employes of the railroad have First—To maintain the balance of the United States. but he is certain Japan does not want road. News of the battle and its re been unable thus far definitely to as revenue and expenditure in the general SECRET MESSAGE WARNS. war with any one at prosont. sult was sent out by railw ay employes. sign the cause of the explosion, but it estimates and not to look to loans as The telegraph wires were cut later. is believed a large quantity of dyna financial resources. A Spokane boy aged 17 died from There has been fighting near Ojiniga, m ite stored in magazines close to the Second—To maintain the program Wholly Unprepared tor the effects of raw alcohol given him by south of M arfa, Texas. M any horses substation was responsible for the of annual redemption of the public Country vasion by Foreign Power. a trainman. belonging to M exican troops escaped greater part of the damage. debt by an amount of 50,000,000 yen Roosevelt advised the students of nto Texas and <t is believed th at the or more. Washington—A report from tbe^ were annihilated. Reinforce Wireless Stops Train. Harvard to go into politicos “ for their federáis He says the government has com department showing how the« ments should have arrived there last O ttaw a, Canada.—D raw ing a train of mitted own good.’’ itself to these principles. In was inadequately protected agiirtu night or today if they were not de elve cars and rushing over the rails the next years 82,000,000 yen will vasion from foreign government» 1 A Kansas man applied for a divorce feated, m arching westward from the tw at a speed of forty-five miles an h'our be spent six in supplementing and improv sent to the house as a secret ( because his wife smoked cigarettes, Orient railroad station at Falomir. on a stretch of track near th e city of ing the navy. and, after several conferences and l They left Chihuahua last Sunday for . Toronto, but it was refused. a powerful engine on the Ca- ried telephone messages, was rett _ . . . ... . 1 nadian Pacific railw av service was The Supreme court of the United Falomir. to the War department became t troops sent out from -Timinez, th e , brought to a quick standstill, w ith the Four Lives Thought Lost. States has decided that a conspiracy railroad junction point for the road throttle wide open, and the engineer house could not receive a secret rep under the Sherman anti-trust law may loading into Pnrral, have not been standing in his cab. a mere spectator, Nome, Alaska—Four lives are be Members of congress who »«» be a "continuing offense.” heard from. They were attem pting to like those present w ith him to view the lieved to have been lost in the wreck document before its withdraw»'1 of the trading schooner Louise in the join N avarro’s forces m arching from wonder. the report of Secretary Dickir An Atlantic Coast liner with 300 Chihuahua. brakes had been applied on the ,o f B er*nK 8ea* off, C »!* Pr,'nce of passengers and a hold full of cotton orders were issued throughout biflf The locomotive and train of cars by a ',’ a ‘es* Remnants of the wreck were points out that the country is took fire and was destroyed. The pas the Today state of Chihuahua by the Jefes of wireless wave of electricity. It seemed found near the cape. The schooner unprepared for war; that there » I sengers and crew were saved. villages and towns instructing all men as if a giant had seized the equipment i sailed from Nome several weeks ago woeful inadequacy of men, gun»» ammunition; that the army should having arms to come in and register and held it w ith ease. ; w ith Captain Owens in command. recognized Floods in Northern Italy are becom them and that a council«® and give an account of why they Experim ents with a wireless train- W ith Captain Owens were Engineer ing serious and many villages are iso are in their possession. control system have been quietly con Laborde and two passengers, Fred tional defense, with a secretary of lated. by the Canadian Pacific Rail Rau and John Kelly. Nothing has at its head, should be created by Aldrich and Lodge intimate that Burglars, Trapped. Killed Police. ducted way company s.nce last May, and this t)een heard of them since they ,e ft gress. they are willing to revise the tariff London.—Burglars who killed two dem onstration was the culm ination of a u.,„ . . that long series _______________ of successful tests. ^ re were and ,U piecemeal. Curtiss' Offer Accepted, I they losL J * alm oet c e rta ,n policemen last night in a pistol duel Washington—Tne offer of Glens i Representative Tawney, of Minne with five officers were tunneling to a Balloonist’s Body Pound. Curtiss to instruct a naval office Man is Impaled Like Fish. sota, may succeed Ballinger as secre vault containing $100,000, according to Bremen.— A fishing cutter has found Los Angeleft, Cal.—When a streetcar the operation of the aeroplane tary of the interior. North Sea the body of Lieuten struck his wagon on Broadway, J. H. accepted by the Navy dep ^“ '“ information given out at Scotland in ant the Lange, pilot of the balloon Saar. Mexican rebels were routed in a Yard. The robbers had started the The Following the department’s e*l**"J eight other balloons Craig, an express driver, was thrown view stubborn fight in which they lost 70 tunnel from a house in Cutler street to started Saar in and a race that the airship undent»®^ out and impaled upon a bale hook from Essen-on-the was I the vaults of the Henry Harris jewelry men, while the government loss would be a valuable adjunct of ng* Ruhr, Rhennish Prussia, November 13. which hung beside his seaL The shop at Honndsditch and the boring Seven of the balloons made safe land- pronged tool caught him in the back of ships in the 14, including two officers. warfare of the future^ was nearly completed. A policeman Representatives of the Mexican rab- j discovered the tunnel and summoned ! I?*" fhe following day and later the the neck, and, piercing the under side Curtirs proposed to drill an oflk« els have presented proofs at Washing elp. Tn the fight that followed two 'n North Germany. 0f his jaw, protruded from hia mouth the flying and management of »" ^ ton that their wounded and prisoners policemen were killed and the robbers *?’ "**” "** he*r’j torpedo fro1" boats like a fish hook. The surgeons at the plane in all its details at the although the 22 German were butchered by the government escaped. hospital pronounced him ser grounds in the vicinity of Los J K 1 and other craft watched the North Sea receiving Cal. The instructions will be troops. iously injured. for several days. Lieutenant Lange. Tremendous Earthquake Recorded. this winter. Lieutenant Rommeler and a civilian, A mechanic attached to the govern O.—An earthquake similar Herr Zimmerman, were on board Christmas Goods Burned. ment forces at Fort 8tevene, Or«., has to Cleveland. wrought many sueh years havoe ago. in 1,000 Teachers Sought Tacoma, Wash.—Fire of unknown Invented a safety appliance to prevent th« that island whieh of Java origin totally destroyed McCormack SL Johns., N. B— M. H. Hebrews Are to Convene. large guns from being fired prema- «-as recorded on the seismograph at St. big department store here, caus a member of the board of edoe*^, turely. Ignatius college. The records of the New York.—Theodore Roosevelt, Bros, a loss which will amount to up Alberta, is here to qail on theBW" Mayor Gay nor, Oscar S. Strauss. Judge ing Canadians desire a permanent peace|,wo being compared, wards of $100,000, with insurance one- of Britain for Ireland to enf*|l* ' .Tosiah Cohen of Pittsburg, treaty with the United State«. third that The McCormack school teachers for Alberta in - r t w two o 'r fears, e ^ n i^ i line d T disputes s D U t ^ be S ' th, W ashington. 1 7.-3eer.ta assigned ry of : dress the P h twentv ^ ^ seesnd o f ' w conference i l l Z of . P Bros, P P store amounL in 'the the l last N avyM eyer Dee. this afternoon _ in at chew an. He says new distf1 ; was one of the S largest tween Canada and the United States the obsolete cruisers Boston and Con the Union of American Hebrew Congre c'ty, having a frontage of 160 feet been opened so rapidly *hia have been disposed of by negotiations cord to the Oregon and Washington na j gations to be held here on January on Pacific avenue and running half a teacher* cannot be found to nta. val militia, respectively. I 10 to 10 inclusive. i block deep. Shipbuilders and Steel Trust Want Big Orders. doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. New York Central Power House Completely Wrecked. i i i « a M ■ ■ • a ■ m ft* I.. _ < viiijk i v i . ... . v u ia il f . ... ill > 1 o n o n . 1 o n . i . I . 1 ■ m \ r . _ A. I- /I ... Stocks and Bonds Worth $n 500,000 for That Purpose’