CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doiugs of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
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Locomotive Engineers Get Increase
Aggregating $ 4 ,0 0 0 0 0 a Year.
Term s on Which Engineers
tied Fight.
NAVARRO YIELDS
TO REBEL .TROOPS
Set-
Mexican General in Dire Straits,
Forced to Surrender.
French Government Takes Steps to En­
force Arbitration.
Paris.—The text of the government
measures formulated for the purpose of
preventing general strikes with partic­
ular reference to the employes of the
public service corporation was made
public here.
The measures constitute a comprehen­
sive plan for ending the strike evil on
the railroads and in other public service
by means of a conciliation commission
composed of representatives of the men
and companies. The commission will
meet at regular intervals, and when
conciliation fails, compulsory arbitra­
tion is provided, the principle being in­
troduced that where the arbitral sen­
tence imposes an additional charge, the
corporation can indicate the method
whereby the railroad or other service
MINE EXPLOSION
KILLS 300
Little Hulton Colliery, Near
Bolton, England, Destroyed
Amount o f increase in yearly
Wages, $4,000,000.
Average increase, 10 1-3 per cent.
Average demand by engineers, 15
per cent.
Original demand, 17 per cent.
Tw enty Bodies Found Near Mouth
General Resume o f Important Events
Further Revolts Are Feared as Re­
Increase offered by roads, 9% per
o f Shaft— No Hope fo r Oth­
sult— Government Rushes Troops
Presented In Condensed Form
cent.
ers in Mine.
to Scene o f Hostilities.
Increase asked on Mallet type en­
fo r Our Busy Readers.
gines, 100 per cent.
Increase granted on Mallet en­
gines, 75 cents to $1 differential.
Bolton, Eng.— More than 300 me,
Mexico City— General Navarro has
About $45,000,000 has been allotted
Other increases granted were:
lost their lives in an explosion in the
surrendered
to
the
rebels,
according
to
by President Taft for various irriga­
Forty cents per day in passenger,
Little Hulton colliery of the Hulton Col­
tion projects.
a report that has reached here from
suburban, or through freight service.
liery company, located a short distance
from this city.
Twenty-five cents differential on | authorities which
have heretofore
Aviator Hoxsey, at Los Angeles,
The explosion occurred early this
engines 215,000 pounds on drivers, j proved reliable in the matter o f war
broke the world’ s altitude record by
morning, soon after the miners had en­
Engineers or helpers on wrecking
going up 11,474 feet.
news.
tered the pit. Its force was terrific
trains, snow-bound or mixed grains,
The Chinese government resisted
and later investigation showed that the
The government denies the report
increase o f 40 cents per day.
the demand for an assembly and the
lower' passage had been blocked.
Switching rates, 50 cents increase j and says that he is awaiting reinforce­
radicals backed down.
Heroic efforts were made by rescue
ments.
Officials
say
Pedernales
is
not
in yard and transfer service.
parties all day, but a fire which fol­
menaced
seriously
by
the
rebels.
Exports and imports o f the Philip­ * Twenty-five cents increase per day |
lowed the explosion prevented the res­
It is known from other sources that
pines showed a large increase during - for hostlers o f the Brotherhood of
cuers from penetrating beyond 400
Navarro has been having a hard time.
the first year o f free trade.
Locomotive Engineers.
yards into the workings.
Controllers
o f motor-cars, 40 j His men are not used to the severe
At 9:30»o’clock tonight the rescuer«
A Klamath Falls, Ore., man found a
winter
climate
o
f
Chihuahua.
They
cents increase.
were called out o f the mine and a con­
perfect pearl as big as a large grain
are
not
properly
clothed
and
are
short
Roads involved, 61.
ference was held, at which Government
o f corn in a 15-cent oyster stew.
o f food and ammunition.
If is consid­
Inspector Gerrard, the engineer» and
Engineers affected, 37,000.
ered here that if Navarro has not sur­
Since the d^ath o f Mrs. Eddy the
the mine manager wore present. In­
spector Gerrard issued a report, after
Stetson faction
o f the
Christian
Chicago— Four millions o f dollars a rendered, he is liable to do so at any
making a descent into the pit, in which
time.
Science church predicts the downfall
year was what the officials o f 61 West­
he said it was impossible that any of
Another report says that Navarro
o f the hierarchy.
the miners are still alive.
ern railroads put in the stockings of has not surrendered, but has deserted
A six-year-old child fell three sotries
He added that nothing could be done
This is
The g ift with his men to the rebels.
at Los Angeles hotel and lit on a wire the locomotive engineers.
except to bring up 20 bodies found ly­
not
believd.
netting over a skylight.
She is not brought “ peace and good will” and
ing near the shaft. This report wae
The government now acknowledges
averted what might have proved one
believed to be fatally injured.
communicated to the anxious crowd«
that the situation is very serious. All
around the pit mouth, after which the
Admiral Dewey was 76 years old De- o f the most disastrous strikes in the available troops are being sent north
Bishop of Manchester conducted a
cember 6, 1910. He went for a drive history o f the country.
aa fast as possible to assist Navarro.
touching service in the open air and
and missed many noted personages
the people slowly dispersed.
Commissioner o f Labor Charles P. Three hundred prisoners were taken
who called to pay their respects.
No explanation is given as to the
Neill played the part o f Santa Claus to from the Belan prison and drafted into
the army. A ¡considerable portion o f
cause of the explosion, which complete­
Two maids at the Rockefeller resi­ the engineers.
For seven days he
ly wrecked the mine.
the army at present is made up of
dence at Forest Hill, Ohio, received
worked to bring the railroads and the prisoners.
The explosion resulted in the tem­
gingham aprons as Christmas presents
porary disablement of the machinery
In all the battles that have occurred
from their master, and promptly tore engineers together and with his work
whereby the cages are lowered and
them up and threw them in the waste accomplished he left in the afternoon so far, it seems that the rebels have
drawn to the surface, and it was a con­
been
shooting
particularly
at
officers.
JVZZUZr
basket.
for his home in Washington to spend
siderable time before the first rescue
The per centage o f these wounded or
Commissioner o f Labor, who was the principal party reached the bottom of the pit.
Dr. Cook is again in New York City. Christmas with his family.
killed is very large. At the battle of fig-ure in settling the trouble between the railroads
In spite o f their repeated assertions Mai Paso, the rebels, who were en­ and engineers and averting a big strike.
Prize scores o f grand opera worth
SCORE DEAD IN FIRE.
that they had reached the limit, the trenched on mountains forming the
$50,000 were stolen in New York.
can
secure
compensation,
either
by
rais­
managers made concessions in the face side o f a canyon, rolled immense boul­
Walls of Five-Story Building Crush
“ Jack the Slasher” is again at work
ders down on the troops.
These did ing the rates or by other means.
o
Concessions more damage than the shooting.
Firemen and Police.
The report accompanying the meas­
in San Francisco, slashing women’s f a threatened strike.
were made by the engineers also, but
dresses.
Philadelphia.— Probably twelve fire­
The serious condition o f affairs in ures is a remarkable document. It
quotes the declaration of the rights of men and as many policemen lost their
Missionaries in China are calling for they established two o f the chief points the North is the principal topic of con­ man to prove that public services have lives and scores were injured in a fire
relief for 3,000,000 natives left starv­ for which they contended—jurisdiction versation here. There is much specu­ been instituted for the public good, not whieh destroyed D. P. Friedlander’«
lation as to the outcome. It is expect­ for the benefit of those to whom they
ing by floods.
over motor-trucks and an increased
leatherworking plant, a five-story build­
ed that the reverses suffered by the have been confided, from which it de­ ing at 1116 to 1120 North Bodine street,
A woman’s club at Eli, Neb., has schedule for the Mallet type o f engine. government recently will lead to other
duces the conclusion that the interrup­
declared that baldheaded men make The increase granted the men runs as uprisings throughout the republic as tion of public service is a crime. At when walls crumbled and crushed them.
There were two separate disasters
much the best husbands.
the same time it admits that public ser­ during the conflagration. Firemen
high as 14 per cent on certain engines soon as they become known.
vice employes, like other workers, have fighting the seething furnace of the
Railroads are making every effort to and as low as 8 per cent on the higher-
a right to amelioration of situations, leather factory were caught when the
settle the controversy with conductors paid runs. The average increase to
IR O N W O R K S D Y N A M IT E D .
and in conciliation and arbitration it is south walls fell, and while efforts were
and trainmen regarding a raise in
proposed to give them a weapon “ as being made to rescue the survivors of
the payrolls o f the railroads is 10 1-3
wages.
Los Angeles Concern
Involved in powerful as the strike.’ ’
the wreck and policemen had been sent
per cent.
The companies must accede, the re­ in to prevent a repetition of the acci­
S
trike
is
Victim
.
A Los Angeles iron plant, involved
port declares, “ because it is now con­ dent at the north wall, that part of the
in a wage controversy and strike, was T W E L V E L IV E O N $ 1 .3 5 A DAY.
Los Angeles— A mysterious explos­ ceded as a principle of jurisprudence building tottered and fell, burying half
partially wrecked by a dynamite ex­
ion, presumably o f dynamite, wrecked that the state, in conceding public ser­ of the thirty policemen at work there.
vice monopolies, does not waive its right
plosion.
More than twenty injured have been
Pittsburg Family Holds Record for a considerable portion o f the building to interfere and compel the concession­
o f the Llewellyn Iron works, one of
taken to the hospitals. At least twelve
T h rift.
lieWuor Curtiss, o f Kansas, seeks
aires
to
grant
ameliorations
in
ths
in­
are still in the ruins.
the big industrial institutions o f the
'harmony and will propose Governor
Pittsburg— A tale o f comfort and kind in the Southwest, at Redondo and terest o f public good and the preserva­
Of those taken to hospitals, half «
tion
of
public
order.”
Stubbs for vice president in 1912, thrift contrary to the usual ones of Main streets, at 1 :45 o ’ clock this
dozen have fractured skulls and are
with Taft for re-election.
internally injured. The chances of re
distress was unfolded ¡in the Juvenile morning.
covery are slight.
SHOOTS FROM AEROPLANE.
J. E. Asbury, a nightwatchman,
The compromise offered by Commis­ court here by Miss Nance Oppenheim-
sioner o f Labor Neill is accepted by er, a probation officer, to the court and who was in the office o f the building,
W H ITTIER’ S POEMS FOUND.
both sides and the threatened strike o f spectators. A family o f 12 is support­ was slightly injured. Windows o f the Aviator Latham Kills Duck for Gam«
37,000 locomotive engineers is averted. ed on an income o f $1.35 a day, but adjoining plants o f the Lacy Manufact­
“ Whole Nest” of Hitherto Unpub­
Dinner.
how it is done has not been disclosed.
uring company, the Johnson Machine
lished Verses Discovered.
Los Angeles. Dec. 23.— When Hubert
Aviator Hoxsey, at Los Angeles,
Miss Oppenhemer told the story works and the Stearns Gas Engine
Amesbury, Mass.—Samuel T. Pickard,
reached an altitude o f 7,299 feet and when she requested Judge Cohen to al­ company were blown out and minor Latham, the French aviator, sat down
to dinner tonight, wild duck was served the biographer of John Greenleaf Whit­
disappeared toward sea. He next ap­ low Antonio Elf, 10 years old, to go damage was done.
as the honor dish of his menu. It was tier, and now living in the old Whit­
peared by diving through a cloud over home. He was arrested for being in
Residents o f the Westlake district a little duck of the “ scaup” species, tier home in this town, tells of his re­
the aviation grounds.
the streets late at night.
two miles away were awakened by the and familiarly called “ bluebilf” by cent discovery o f a “ whole nest of
“ He has a splendid home, your force o f the explosion, which shook hunters of water fowl. And the bird poems by Whittier never before recog­
The commission form of government
Who placed was killed by Latham himself.
nized as his.” In commenting on his
is proving a great success at Baker, Or. honor,” said Miss Oppenheimer. “ His the whole neighborhood.
mother,” pointing to the woman stand­ the supposed charge o f dynamite is not
Latham brought down the fright- stndy of a volume of the New Englaed
An explosion in the Little Hulton ing by the lad’s side, “ is a splendid known. The company has been in­ driven little bird with the first «hot Review of 1830-31, Mr. Pickard says:
colliery at Bolton, England, entombed housekeeper, and they have 10 bright volved for many months in a strike o f fired from his fast-flying Antoinette
“ While it was edited by Whittier, I
230 miners.
monoplane while going at the rate of find much that has escaped me hitherto
children, o f whom the oldest is a girl union metal workers.
50 miles an hour, at the Bolia Chics I have found a whole nest of poem
Russia is arotmed over the numerous 13 years old.”
A hole in the ground 18 inches deep
by Whittier. The signature was ths
attacks on the Cossacks by Chinese in
“ I don’ t know how they do it ,” said and about six feet in diameter bears Gun Club, at noon today.
The bluebill dropped into the ocean odd one, ‘ Feramorz. ’ I find that Fera-
Manchuria.
Miss Oppenheimer, later, “ but they witness to the place o f origin and prob­
50 yards from the beach, but was car­ morz poems are W hittier’s, and that he
are nice people and better home condi­ able cause of the damage. This hole ried ashore by the surf and picked up
used this signature before and aft«
About 20 Philadelphia firemen and
tions
couldn’
t
be
asked
for.
Every­
is just outside the business line and after a frenzied dash by a score of per­ he became editor of the Review.
police were killed by falling walls at a
thing
is
neat
and
orderly,
and
there
is
sons.
adjacent what was the wagon entrance.
fire in that city.
no lack of wholesome food for the en­ On trie other side of the hole was a
HARBIN APPEALS TO JAPS.
Robert S. Lovett, successor to E. H. tire family.
The father is a laborer wooden shed, which, with its contents
Robber Holds Up Train.
Harriman, favors government super­ and earns one dollar and thirty-five o f stored iron, was reduced to a mass
Russian Physicians Refuse to Suce*
vision o f railroads.
cents a day. That man is a credit to o f debris.
El Paso, Tex.— The Sunset express,
Cholera Victima.
The front o f the main building, a ’ he Southern Pacific passenger train to
Fire at Cincinnnati destroyed one of any community.”
St.
Petersburg.—
The correspondent«
Without further ado the boy was al­ three-story frame, for a distance of New Orleans, was robbed in the heart
the best blocks in the city, causing
at Vladivostok o f the Rech telegraph
lowed to go home with his mother.
a loss of abou $2,000,000.
probably 75 feet was shot to pieces and of the city. The robber boarded the ob­ that the ravages of the bubonic pl»g**
its contents o f furniture, and office servation car as it waf leaving the sta­ in Mongolia are unchecked. Corps’*
Government officials believe that
paraphernalia are piled together in ap­ tion. With two drawn revolvers, he frequently mark the sites of abandoBM
Son ot Rich Man Starves.
fraudulent refunds on sugar exports at
parent ruin.
The material damage, forced a porter to walk ahead of him camps of nomads.
New York will reach millions o f dollars.
New York — Half delirious from
however, is confined to the chipping through the Pullman and command the
The situation in Manchuria is jgr»ve.
Customs officials are holding goods starvation, John Smith, who says he is room, the office and the space above passengers to stand and deliver. He The German consul at Harbin has ad­
a
decendent
o
f
Joseph
Smith,
founder
secured
$130
in
money
and
two
railway
valued at $600,000 imported by Duveen
dressed a pressing note to the Tsotjfc
them, and is relatively small.
tickets. After riding less than three demanding that radical measures «•
Bros., art dealers, of New York, for o f the Mormon church, and the son of
blocks
the
robber
commanded
the
brake-
Charles
Smith,
a
wealthy
retired
pub­
alleged undervaluation.
taken to stav the epidemic aad «tatisg
Sugar T ru at to Pay B a c k .'
man to stop the train. As it slowed that otherwise Germany will interfere-
lisher o f Princeton. III., is in Bellevue
St. Johns, Newfoundland, experi­ hospital critically ill. Twice an hour
New York — The American Sugar down, he jumped off and disappeared.
The municipality of Harbin has invit«
enced one of the worst storms in many he is fed warm milk like a baby. His Refining company will shortly hand to
Japanese physicians to attend the
years, and it is feared many coasting j
Aviator Lost at Sea.
eased in the barracks, as the Russia**
greatest desire is to sleep, but in lucid the United States government a check
vessels are lost.
w
intervals he gave his name and de­ for $700,000 in settlement o f a further
Dover. England.— The greatest ahx refuse to expose themselves.
James T. Harahan has resigned the scendants with a history o f family series o f customs frauds, according to ietv is felt concerning the fate o f Cecil
From October 26 to December U ”
presidency of the Illinois Central and troubles, wandering days and no work. the Herald.
Grace, a member o f the Royal Aero Chinese and 11 Russians were stricke*
will be succeeded by C. H. Markham, For 21 days he says he had little to
This will bring the total amount Club, who. in an attempt to win the
formerly of the 8. P.
from this company up to nearly $3,- Baron de Forrest prize o f $20,000. flew
eat.
Government Test* Potatoes.
over the English Channel from Dover,
000,000. This latest settlement is in
A shipment of oysters from New
Stockton, Cal.— The potatoes i* tk*
reached
the
Belgium
frontier
only
to
Jersey will be seised upon arrival at Germany Soon to Import All Meat. connection with the so-called "d ra w ­ be turned back by adverse winds, a l l -
five acre experimental field on th*
San Francisco. They are reported to
Washington— In the course o f a few back” frauds, which have been under ed near Calais on the return trip, started
have been taken from polluted waters. years Germany, in all likelihood, will investigation since the original customs from there on the homeward flight Rindge tract, west o f Stoekton, are h*
ing harvested by E. C. Butterfield,
An insurance expert says New York consume nothing but imported meat, frauds were detected two years ago. as aero« the channel and h u not since
the bnrean o f plant industry of
been heard from.
There a result o f the Parr disclosures.
City is at the mercy o f the fire fiend, according to consular reports.
ington, D. C., to secure data upon whi«
should some accident burst a water ia an immense decrease noted in the
Many Killed in Indies.
Steamer Lost With Twenty one.
to Work in improving the stareh in ^
main and start a fire at the same number o f animals for slaughter, ac­
Hamburg.—The Freneh steamer Sa­
San Domingo— Nears has reached
cording to the last count, made on Oc­
time.
tubers and an increase la the
tober 10, 1910. The especially notice­ here o f an engagememaent along the vona, owned by Slewan A Co., o f this thronghont the Delta dletr’ et.^evc v
After lying unconscious for 18 months able decrease is in young animals. Dominican ami Haytian borders. Sev­ eity, is believed to hare been lost with
her erew of 21, while bound from this it is very large at present. The ‘ "T005 ,
a Greek laborer tn Portland, who had
A gunboat port for Naples. The 8avona is a sister are planted under the supervision .
been injured by a blow ea the head, As a result, prices o f animla for eral are reported killed.
will be dispatched with troops to bs ship o f ths Palermo, which was recently Professor W. Stewart, of the W "l"|
relieved
by a surgical operation, slaughter are expected to
rellei
ssnt to tbs scene o f ths trouble.
States agricultural department.
high.
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