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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. Usnsral Resume of Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. The death of King Eiward will make great changes in the politics! sit uation in England. A season of 20 weeks of grand opera In New York cost the managers (I,- 1 (Mi,000, yet they matie money. John A. Benson, who had aerv«-d time for land frauds in California, dropped dead from heart disease. Roosevelt will not l>e entertained at the German emperor's palace, as that government is in mourning for King Edward. Spectators .aught betting on the ball games at Loe Angeles arc ejected from the grounds. The manager believes the game would be demoralized. King George V, who now ascends the throne of England, made ' a good im pression by hie brief speech upon tak ing the oath, and hie people express great confidence in him. A compromise has been reach«! on the exposition question between San Diego and San Francis«», The former will hold an industrial exposition and the latter a world*» fair. An Illinois grand juror says if they want to )>aint the state black, he will help all he can, and has no d«»ubt It esn be done, as legislative bribery scandals are growing all the time. A Philadelphia policeman rescued, three children from death under the hixifs of the horses in a chariot race at a circus, l>ut was himself fatally in jured ami died soon after, DYING CAPTAIN BEOS PARDON. Wrecked Submarine Yields Last Mes sage From Commander. Victoria. B. C., May 9. While Com- maraier Sakuma and hia 14 men were lying in a wrecked submarine off Kure on April 15, the commander wrote a letter to the emperor lu gging forgive ness for loss of the vessel and com mending hia officers and men. The letter waa found after the submarine had lieen raised. Th«- submarine was of the newest type, and waa engaged on April 15 near Hiroshima bay, carrying out her part in the maneuvers, being submerged !,- 800 yards east of her parent ship. Two hours passed without notice of the sulo marine's failure to rise and then, sig nals being unanswered, a boat waa low ered atwi efforts made to locate the submarine. Much of the letter waa not |>ublish- ed, but it is stated that Lieutenant Sakuma expressed sorrow te» the rm- peror for the loss of his vessel and brother officers and crew, whom he praised for their heroism and calm wait for death, and he requested the emperor to succor their families. The last writing was made an hour and 20 minutes after the boat waa submerged, and convey«*! messages of farewell to the minister of the navy and friends, stating that breathing had liecome so difficult that further writing as im- possible. The letter said one of the crew had tried to close the valve of the ventila tion pipe, but the chain had broken. He tried to close the valve with hie hand, but was too late. Water liegan to enter by the rear part of the l>oat, which fell 25 degrees. The dynamo waa submerged and all the lights went out, bad gas accumulating al most simultaneously. The crew drove the current of water from the main tank and tried to get rid of it by hand |Aim|a. They were drenched as they worked and chilled. The message end ed with statements that all were ready for death. The submarine was !>etng tested on a gasoline semi submerged voyage. REQUIEM FOR 1,800. POWDER WORKS BLOWN TO BITS. Storage Magazine at Hull, Que bec, Destroyed by Eire. Baseball Crowd Gathered to Watch the Fire. Disregards Warning, and Many are Slaughtered. Ottawa, Ont, May 10. In an ex- plosion Uxiay the plant of the General Explosives ««mpany, of Canada, near Hull, Quebec, was totally wrecked. Fifteen persons were killed and 50 others injured. The force of th*' ex plosion was terrifying. The country for miles around was laid waste and many small buildings in the city of Hall, on the side nearest the explosion, were laid flat on the ground. A baseball game was in pr«>gr«-»s a short distance from the powder works, about 6 o'clock this evening. The teams were playing the last inning and when a fire was seen in one of the ■mall buildings of the powder plant, the «-row«! began to swarm up the hill to get a better view of the blaze. Warnings of danger soon came to the onl«x»ker« in two small exptesiona. Sparks and fragments of the wrecked building fell among the spectators and there wax a scurrying from what was considered the danger Zone. Some men in the crowd, aware of the |xieaibility of the danger when the main magazine should be reached, pleaded with the crowd to go still fur ther back. Many heed«! the warning. Other», apparently enjoying the ele ment of danger in the spec!tele, stood within 1,000 yards of the burning building». They were kept on the qui vive by the continuous detonations that sent shower» of burning brands in all directions. The »ccne where the crowd from the ball game stead resembl'd a battle field. Headless, armless and legless bodies were lying about among scores of unconscious forma. The silence that followed the final death dealing blast waa broken by the terrifying cries and moans which came with a re turn tei consciousness of the badly in jured. EARTHQUAKE RUINS CITY. Hundreds Killed at Cartago. Costa ' Rica —Bodies Being Recovered. San Jose, Costa Rica, May The I earthquake that laid waste the town of Cartago occurred at (5:50 o'clock Wednesday night and continued about 11* seconds. In that brief time the buildings of the place collapsed, bury- . ing hurv!r«ia. The dee«! were first es timated at 500, but it is believwl to night that the fatalities were much greater. Four hundred !»>diea were recovered today. Following 'the shock twilight waa turned into darkness of midnight by clouds of dust that rose from the ruins. Panic ensue«! and the cries of the injured and fleeing survivors filled the air. Cooler heads went to the telegraph office to summon help, only to ¿find the operators dead, lines down and traffic impaired on the reailroad. As soon as the news reache«! San Jose, President Gonzales Vieques, ac companied by President elect Richard Jiminez and-1 many doctors and nurses, started on a special train to aid the survivors. Upon the president's ar- rival at Cartago, martial law was pro- claim«*L Provisions, medicines and clothing were dispatched from here. Throughout the day special trains ar rive«! here, bringing the woun«!<<d. Hundreds of survivors were camped outside the ruined city awaiting trans- They are l*>rtation to other points, Seven being fed at public expense, carloads of provisions have been dis patched from here and Alajuela. The beautiful peace palace, the gift of, Andrew Carnegie, erected at a coat of (100,000, was convert«! into a pilo of debris. Other publ>c buildings met the same fate. Many students at the college of the Stlesten Fathers were killed. The tremors «continue tonight and the terror of the people increases. The fear of further shocks has extended to the neighboring towns. Only the early h »ur of the evening at which the disaster occurred pre- vented a much greater loss of life. At the time many people were in theo|ien. So far no deaths have been report«! among the American colony. The disaster waa not precedi-d by any activity of the volcano Poax or of other volcanic vents. The shock was felt throughout Costa Rica an«! in parts of Nicaragua. Great fissures opened at many places in the volcsnlc zone. The minister» of Mexico and of Cen tral American «'ountriea have asked their governments to contribute to the aid of their sister republic. Several prominent Spanish-Americana are among the dead. These include the wife of Dr. Becanegra, the Guatema ____ __ ________ to ____________ lan magiatrate the Central _______ Amari- can arbitration court, and Honor Trejos, KING IS DEAD PASSES TO REST Peaceful Reign of Nine Years Suddenly Ended. Savers Cold Brings Bronchitis. Which Develops Pneumonia Was III Only Six Days. London. May 7, 5 A. M. King Ed ward VII die«i from pneumonia at 11:45 last night at Buckingham Palace, aid at the same moment the crown an«! scepter of the Empire of Great Britain passed automatically to his son and heir, Prince George of Wales, now George V. Death struck down the mightiest hereditary ruler of the world with as little compunction as if his victim had been the meanest of that king's sub jects. The prayers of the whole na tion, bound to its monarch by cen turies of trailition ami by a love torn of complete and intimate knowledge of that ruler's foibles, almost as much as of his great virtues, availed to stay the hand of the Reaper not one jot. King Edward died almost before hia subjects had begun to realize that he was seriously ill. He was taken sick a week ago. After three days a ser ious «implication began to develop. The fourth day his physicians issued bulletin that stirred the whole nation to its depts. On the sixth day the king was dead. The shock to Great Britain and to the world had been tremendous, not in a national way, for tffi- death of the king has been discounted in the mar kets for many years, but to the em pire's sentimentality. King Edward was sincerely loved throughout the length and brvadth of England’s possessions. He was loved as a great son of a n«>- bte mother, and he was loved for him self because he had in hie character that rare commingling of democratic simplicity with kingly dignity which made him justly the "first gentleman of Great Britain.” Politically, the death of Edward VII contains grave potentialities. The common» ia now engaged in "reform- ing the house of lords.” To Edwards liberal ministry had looked with confi dence for the creating of such peers as would carry out the will of the |»eople as expressed at the last election. Now a new king steps forward to take Ed ward's place. What attitude he may assume in this, the greatest political crisis England has fac«d in generations, i remains a problem. Nearly all members of the king's immediate family were at his bedside when the king died. Just before the end came, the royal patient rallied and spoke weakly to those about him. "1 know it is all over," he said, "but I think I've done my duty." Th«»«- were his last words. The fir»t official act of the new king. Ge^'ge'v? wo‘^t7»rt^i^d7.’^ Iy .fUr hi. f.tht.r hatJ l>reathed hi, ’ || je <^',l’*t<‘hed to the lord mayor of A brother of Dr. Cook says he ia a physical wreck, and ia living near a Desth List in Costa Rica Earthquake sanitarium, under the care of ila |>hy- Orows Appallingly. siciana, l«ut has never been in South San Jose, Costa Rica, May 9. America, as was reported. Chimes of the historic Church Del Car King Edward is seriously ill with men, the belfry of which withstood the bronchitis, earthquake shock of W«inesday, totted The theatrical trust of Klaw * Es- a requiem at sunset tonight for Car RECLAMATION SHAKE-UP SURE tago's dead. langer ia declared to be broken up. White the bells |>eated out the 'lid- » It is estimated that 80 per cent of Ings of sorrow, 5,000 homeless men, Ballinger Say* If He Stay* Every Du- the shingle mills of the Northwest are women and children, their uncovered loyal Suoordmata Must Go. idle. heads bowed with grief, stood in silent Washington, May 10. R«rganiza- James J. Hill has announced defin prayer u|»on the hill tops overlooking tion of the reclamation servlet, long itely that a new passenger depot will the ruina,of the ancient city. Hour by rumored. Is regarded a* a certainty hour the magnitude of the disaster be be built in Portland for hia lines. 'since the declaration on the witness APACHES ATTACK WOMAN. comes more apparent. stand yeeterday of Secretary Ballinger An explosion In No. 3 coal mine at Eighteen hundred arc dead. Almost that if he continued at the head of the Prospector With Clubbed Revolver Palos. Alabama, entombed about 200 as many ar«' '.-.'ound«l. many of whom department of the interior, the men. B«diee are being recover«!. Makes Rescue Against Odds. will die. Ten th«»uaand ar« homeli-as, > “snakes" would "all be killed every Four hundred striking miners at hundreds are starving. 8«>res have one of them." Globe, Aris., May 7 Drunken jApa- Pittsburg, Kansas, wrecked several been driven insane. chcs attacked the ranch of Daniel Ma Secretary Ballinger makes no secret coal mines and drove away the men For the brave survivors, who for ben, four miles F.ast of Globe, last of his determination to have a loyal who were at work. three days have wilncascd almost un night in quest of Maben, who had for«*- around him. Washington knows speakable horrors, perils of famine killed an Apache several months ago. The pure f<«d commissioner of Ixai- pretty well the difficulties with which and pestilence remain to tw far«-«!. ______ Maben is now in the territorial insane iaiana has condemn«! and order«! des he has hail to contend, which are the asylum anti only hia wife and 16-year- Pioneers of (oata Rica are facing «««■„.«,«„ . — , . . troyed thousands of cases of canned - -rn will, h...,i. diffi.-ult.es that be»el any man in high them with undaunted hearts. old daughter were at the ranch. salmon that was put up on the Colum position w K om subordinates resort to Huddled in camps of refuge, biv- Eugene Barrow», a pn>spector, res ''office polities” to prevent the results bia river. ouacked under the ahadow of the vol- cued Mrs. Maben and her daughter af he is s«»eking to attain. Hence, re Cartago, the picturesque and ancient cano Paas, the city’s wealthy and ter a thrilling encounter. capital of Costa Rica, has l«ecn almost poor alike arose today from a third gardless of views as to the merits of UHng hto WAP* - • Hub. Barrow. the BallingerPinchot controversy it entirely destroyed by an earthquake. night of terror, ready to plan for the fought hi. way through the Indians. self, there is a general sympathy with At least 500 jiersons ’were killed and task of reconstructing a new and who numbered half a dozen. . The .. last « the attitude of Ballinger himself. as many more Injured. grander city over the amoking rem one attacked him with i "J* London the announcement of Edward Any secretary, says that part of S|waking in the National theater at nant of what ia Cartago, a waste of Washington officialdom that has had Barrows broke the revolver over his VII . .1 a death, in pursuance of an age-old ashes and tumbled masonry. head. Christiana, Norway, Roosevelt gave custom. His telegram read: "1 am real experience and undertands, would Hundreds of victim» were laid to Barrows and the women succeeded deeply grieved to inform you that my hope of universal peace and reverenced l«e juatifi«! in enforcing loyal action the name of the gerat Norwegian poet rest today, Long trenches were dug by th«>»e lower down and in discharg in reaching the Sixty-Six ranch, half beloved father, the king, passed away and whole families buried together, Bjomson, who di«! recently. ' ! ing th«we subordinates who are insub- mile away, and came into Globe this peacefully at 11:45 tonight. Many of the dead were unidentified, morning. (Signe«l) ’•George.” orlinate. Consequently Washington In order to avoid a collision with an From the ruins scores of tmdies are again without reference to how it ' Big Soap Factory Burns. other ear containing a number of wo being remove«! hourly. may divide upon the personal issue That George V will leave any deep men, a L«w Angels» auto driver turned Kansas City, Mo., May 7 The plant Some Americana are reported killed, his own car into the curb and was t>ut indentification, even by the records, applauds the secretary's statement of the Peet Bros. Manufacturing com imprint on English histroy as a sover yesterday: kill«! in the smash which followed. pany, one of the largest soap and gly eign of force and commanding ability ia now impossible. "I have found that the only way to cerine factories in the southwest, waa is much to be doubted, but at least he The American colony imm«-diately An excellent photograph of Halley's control some of these fellow s is to dis- destroyed by fire tonight, entailing a is likely to prove a king of god heart comet has been taken at Lick observa set alxiut to rescue those pinned down . charge them." loss estimated at (1,500,000, The of conscientious attention to duty and tory, in California. The comet is now by wreckage. For other official Washingtonians flames for a time threatened the plant» of discretion in state affairs. plainly visible about 3:30 a. m. about _ . „ „ have been in the same boat. G«»gre brings to the throne consid- Detective Byrns. Dias. Ballinger refund pointedly to speci- of the Schwarxachild A Sulzberger 10 degrees above the eastern horizon. ______ w___ w__ ,,_____ _____ erable experience of hia own in rou- Packing company, and the ___ American New York. May 9. Thomas F. Byr-| fy which "snakes" will be killed, but Two French counts exchangixi six Dreastd Energetic l*ne demands of public service made- Dressed Beef Beef «»mpany. «»mpany. L nes. ex superintendent of police of the his previ«>u» tetaimony has helped shots in a duel and neither was hit. work on the part of the firemen pre- J*’100 Pr*nce of Wales, and city of New York, but mors famous Washington to make some predictions vented serious damage to the Schwarz- hv to the task of governing A daughter of Richard Crocker, ex- for hia work in the detective bureau, ■» to heads that will fall. child plant when the south wall of the ^"'r •^’•lity, a go«d personality Tammany boas, married a groom in a died at his home here tonight from Peet plant fell upon IL : an< a •er‘ous sense of his own rosponsi- riding academy. chronic indigestion, after an illness of Date for Revolution Set. --------------------------- I bilities. more than two years. He was 6« Mark Twain left pll his property to Changsha, China, May 10. The gen Great Northern to Build. "The Country's All Right.” his only surviving daughter. He left years old. Byrnes waa born in Ire eral uneasiness has been greatly in Great Falls, Monte, May 7.- The land, but came to thia «»untry when •lx>ut (180,(88). New York, May 5. Before sailing creased here by the ap|»earance of a Great Northern Railway company to very young. He joined the police I The jury return«! a verdict of mur force early and rose rapidly: at 28 he large num tier of posters unsign«*d de- | day started condemnation proceedings Uxlay for his summer home in Scotland. Andrew Carnegie had a few wonla t¿ der in the second degree for Charles was captain. During his term the ag mending the destruction of foreigner* for right of way through Fergus coun and of native Christians, and setting ty for building a branch line about 350 say about the tariff. W«-zler, Tacoma murderer. gregate of sentences imposed on prison May 27 as the date for a general anti- "In my opinion greater progress had mile» long, from Hauck’s siding on the A second man has been found who ers taken by him reache«! 10,000 years, j Manchu uprising. Government offi- Billings A Northern, a Great Northern been made by the latest tariff revision recciv«! (1,000 tor voting for Lorimer, j i rials have destroyed the posters and branch, te> a jum-tion with the main I towards the perfect tariff than ever Match Cost »2,000,000. of Missouri, for U. S. senator. before,” he observed. "Of course, it the city is being strongly patrolled. Victoria. B. C., May 9.- News waa Agitators arc holding secret meetings, line on the Great Northern at a point is han! to please everybody, and I can The New York state legislature fail near Mondak, on the Montana Dakota ed by one vote to pass « resolution en- ■ brought by the Aymeric that the lac but it is believed that the presence of line. In substance, this means that only express my opinion by quoting quer manufactories of Japan, centered foreign gunboats will act as a check to Something I rest! on a postal card late dorsing the Federal in«>me tax. the Great Northern is about to build at Wajima, in Noto, were almost the movements. ly: "Let the scowlers scowl, let the an entirely new line from the Montana- The police chief of Council Bluff», wiped out in a great Are at Wajima howlers howl, and the politicians go it. Dakota line to Great Falla. la., has been oust«! by the courts for on April 16. In all 1,608 building, Taft Will Open Fair. The country's all right and I know It” complicity in the Maybray fake fight including factories, temples, poetoffice New York. May 10.—President Taft Farmers Labor's Ally. frauds. and public buildings, were destroyed will tomorrow ojwn the third fair of St. Louis, May 7.—Organized labor Steel Employes Slaves. Woman suffragists will campaign and a loss occasioned to property of the Actor's Fund of America, through and organized farmers will work to Washington, May 5.- The report of over 12,000,000. The fire was due to which furxia are raised to care for ag«l gether hereafter in preserving the the entire state of lllin«»* during the the bureau of labor upon the conditions It ia the first rights and liberties of both classes of summer in an effort to carry the fall a small boy playing with a match. and destitute actors. at the Bethlehem Steel Works, of Three hundred lacquer manufactories time that a president of the United •lections. workers under the provisions of a reso South Bethlehem, Pa., which was sub- are engaged there, their exports States has thus honored the stage and to the senate today, says that President Taft eul«»gizes Secretary. amounting to half a million dollar* managers and players alike have united lution unanimously adopted by the ex ecutive committee of the Farmers Edu 2,322 men worked 12 hours a day for Knox and his work. yearly. to give him a spectacular welcome. cative and Co-operative Union here. seven day» a week.