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
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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«-«!.
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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.
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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.
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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.