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.
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