I
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
WAB SCARE ONLY TRICK.
Shipbuilder* and Steel Trust Wut Big
Order*.
Washington —Back of th* war sears
I caused by Secretary D.eklnson's coufi
! dent «1 answer to the request of Con
gre««m.xn Mcluxchlan of California is
the artirity of the shipbuilding interests
! 4nd the steel trust ss an active factor
I in the agitation. A year ago eorres
| |H>udents of Pacific Coast |«pers were
General Resume of Important Event*
! importuned by representative* of Pa
Presented In Condensed Form
eifie Coast shipbuilding concern* to
for Our Busy Readers.
urge the need of a fleet of submarines
and the enactment of a law to provide
that during the nett ten years flu sub
English Tories ar* bitter over their marine* be built on th* Pacific Coast.
defeat and threaten reekl««e filibuster
This frank admission that th* West
ing ia parliament.
era shipbuilding interests wer* largely
Th« leading hotel* of San Francisco
will allow women to smoke in any part responsible for th* agitation which at
that time was carried oi to alarm the
of the building, the same aa men
A boy at Salem, Ore., died of lockjaw West roast people, was made to me
but not the slightest evidence of infec when I sought to sKertain why So sud
tion could be found upon hi* body.
deal* patriots bad discovered the so
Magnetic brake*, operated by wire called defenseless position of the West
less, have been madr entirely «ucees* coast.
ful on the Canadian Pacific railway.
A meeting of some of the Pacific
An aviator at Memphis, Tenn., Coast senator* and representatives had
reached an altitude of 9,364 feet, hi*
been called and a dinner had been giv
aeroplane l>eing coated with ice when
en, on* of th* resulta of which had l>een
ho alighted.
Queen Lilinokalani of Honolulu now th* appointment of a committee of
ask* the territorial legislature for a members from Washington and Call
lump sum of *2'*0,000 in full settlement fornia to present to the president a
of all claims against the I'nited Slates memorial embodying plan* for subma
t man from Okanogan, Wash., I* in rinc*
These facts were given me by a rep
Pennsylvania to gather tin 1,000 cat*,
to be shipped Weal Io rid too farm* and rosentalive of a Kcsttl* ship yard.
garden* of Okanognu county of rat* ‘ working with whom, a* he admitted,
was the vice president of a Han Fran
and gophers.
cite» ship yard.
Prisoners in th« Lima, Ohio, jail a*
AI kiii I that time Recretary Meyer de
saulted their guard« and four escaped livered an address at Philadelphia in
The 15-year old aon of the sheriff which he advocated th* building of bat
bluffed the other six with an empty tieship* for one reason—that it gave
rifle and held them at bay until help businrs* to the steel industry.
came.
Apparently Congressman Tawney is
General Hodges, commanding the De right in charging mor* or less conspir
partment of the Great Lakes, any* it acy to scare th* country into bolstering
would undoubtedly be easv for a for up th* program of military enthusiasts
eign power to invade the Pacific Coast, Th--«« rviileneea point to^activities by
but he i* certain Japan does not want a ship yard to lobby and the advocates
of a large standing army,
war with any one at preaent
Recretarv Dickinson hint* nt the nec-I
A Spokane boy aged 17 died from of a etnnding army of 450,000 men, in
the effect* of raw alcohol given him by stCe.1 of th* present effective fvtcr of
a trainman.
115.000.
The international importance of the
Roosevelt advised the students of
t act* of those war propagandists is
Harvard to go into politice* "for their
, «hown by editorials in Japanese new«
own good."
paper*, telegraphed to the stat* depart
A Kansas man applied for a divorce me^t her*, citing th* proposal* to for
because his wife smoked cigarettes.
standing army and create a powerful
but it was refua<«L
F»<-ifi<- fl.'-.T. n« --vi lt-nr--* to the
Tl>e Supreme court of the United ties* that thia country desires war with
States ha* decided that a conspiracy them.
Strangely, the war «care come« at the
under the Sherman anti trust law may
very time when the peace society is in
be a "continuing offense.”
»c«sion here, ar if the scare had boon
An Atlantic Coast liner with 309 planned to offset th* pleas for dinar
passenger* and a hold full of cotton moment.
took fire and was destroyed.
The pas
sengers and crew were saved.
MEXICAN TROOPS LOSE
joings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
»
Representatives of the Mexican relí
ela have presented proofs at Washing
ton that their wounded and prisoners
were butchered by the government
troops.
A mechanic attached to the govern
ment forces at Fort Stevens. Ore., has
invented a safety appliance to prevent
large guns from being fired prema
turely.
Canadian* de*ire a permanent pence
treaty with the United State*.
With
in the last two years, nine di*(>ute* be
tween Canada and the United States
have been di»|>oeed of by negotiations
and agreements.
Flood* in Northern Italy are becom
ing serious and many village* are iso
lated.
Aldrich and Lodge intimate that
they are willing to revise the tariff
piecemeal.
¡•Government Forces Nearly Annihllated
by In»urrectos at La Ju".la.
El Paso, Tes.—President Dias’ Meal
can army has suffered a loas of 95«
men in dead and wounded ia a battle
at Ln Junta, according to the latest
news from the scene of hostilities The
federal troops engaged in the fight
numbered 1000 men. When they raised
the white flag there were only 50 able
bodiel men in the force that surren
de red to thr victorious revolutionist*.
La Junta is a small town on the
Mexico, Northwestern A Orient rail
road. Near* of the battle and its re
suit wns sent out bv railway employes
The telegraph wires were cut later
There ha« been fighting near Ojiniga,
south of Marfa. Toxas. Many horses
belonging to Mexican troops escaped
into Texas and it is believed that the
federal* were annihilated
Reinforce
monte should have arrived there last
night or today if the» were not de
feated, marching westward from the
Orient railroad station at
Falomir.
They left Chihuahua last Sunday for
Falomir
Troop* «ent out from Jimines, the
railroad junction point for the road
leading into Parral, have not been
heard from
They were attempting to
ioin Navarro's force* marching from
Chihuahua.
Today order* were issued throughout
the state of Chihuahua by the Jefes of
village* and towns instructing all men
having arms to come in and register
thdm and give an account of why they
are in their possession.
TWELVE KILLED
IN EXPLOSION
,*('W
FIRST BLIZZARD OF SEASON
Tsrrifhc Storm Sweep* Atlantic Coast
— Life Savar* Bus*.
Boston, Dec. 17.—A northwest blis-
sard last night and today brought dis-
aster to shipping along the Maaaa. hu
eetta coast and U.IgM four ach««>r..r*
I (irk ( ent Till lower House
Completely Wrecked.
wer*known u ha,re l*cn wre^'d-
r
other was in tow, disabled, on* barge
had foundered, and other t arge* were
CARNEGIE GIFT
TO END WARS
Stocks and Bonds Worth $11,
500,000 for That Purpose
Sara English-Speaking Nations Can
Trolley Car Hurled on Top of Auto r*Port«i adrift and missing.
Insure Success Believes Eng
The revenue cutter Gresham, which
By Blast Children In Hospital
land Is Ready.
look aboard the crews of two sinking
Narrowly Escape.
schooners and AM.strd other vessels,
spent the entire dsy and rn«-at of the
N«w York, Ifac. 19 Twelve persons night undoing the havoe of the storm.
Ironmaster'* Leading Known Ben
were killed, two of them women, an<l Up to tonight no definite report of loss
efaction* Aggregai* •179.-
30 were injured ia a double explosion of life had reached this city.
600,000.
of gas and dynamite in th* new electric
The vessels which suffered from the
puwi-r house of th* N*w York C*ntral
Following are the chief known
Railroad, shortly after 6 o'clock this storm Included:
contri bullona of Andrew Carnegie
Schooner Thoma* B Garland, of
morning
to benevolent and educational pur-
The /»roe of th* explosion shattered Portsmouth, a total wreck on Great
(«■e«-* :
Point
bar,
Nantucket.
The
crew
were
hundreds <>f windows in the big hotel*
Librarlas. t’ntwd Slat»«
and ipartmeut houses in the neighbor rescued early today by the Coak ata
Ijbrarwa. Kurae«
f '
tern
lifesaving crew,
t-dur«temei fts-Miellon..............
15 ««>.000
|*ttl»bwra Insolute
....................
IS.CSXl.OOO
alarm among the guest*. Th* dynamite i
Schooner Abbie G. Cole, of Machias.
Wash.nsttm Instituís
12.«e.000
blast picked up
. a northbound' trolley
------ .. . :■ Me., stranded and waterlogged ir
l-w- lindáis«
10,(i«l.«0
ear, ) '■-« “ ■
Hcotek
t'nlvsroose
to
<m ion
'he *?
Stone Horae shoal, off Monorooy poinL
Hero tund«
..
5.000.
crashing down upon an automobile !
The crow were rescued by the Gresh
t arrwew Steel < -«npsny,
which was passing along the other side am this morning, when M<.rorroy point
f.m|.ko*s Knduwmsnt.
...
»,000.000
tSinferTnltne
............ ..
5.000,«10
of the street. Four of the passenger« j
llfesaver* found the sea* loo heavy to
(■«Iterhnir Seh>>.| Intuburv
S.iwu.oou
were killed, and every one in the car |
The
Fracs Tesn|.l*
1.".'«>«W
launch
their
lifeboat*.
was injured.
« led t t’, ineer» .'■■<.•• —
l.fro.OUO
Hvrvau ■ Amvru-sn FepuMte*
»Mi.uOB
The railroad aervic* was osly tern- I The two-masted schooner IL E.
fanali
t
.dieses.
t'nitsd
States
20
<*■> «O
p<>rarily interrupted The new sub ata Ayer, taken In tow by the Gresham off
MlsesUarw—us tn lunt*, estimated
2.14)0 («O
lion power house, where the explosion ■ Old Harbor.
MlssaUansous tn L'. S..Xsstunalsd
20.000.Oto
British schooner *S. A.
Fowne*,
occurred, is at Fiftieth street and Lex !
T..-al
»It*.» 0*0
ingion avenue, which is half a doren ashore
off
Monomoy Point
The
Kurkrfellrr brnsfwtssi*. estimated 1211.0O.<00
blocks north of the Grand Central ata Gresham took on board the crew late
Ilalanc«» In fukur
Camr<w». .
I !*9,5uru<lO :
tion.
today.
The explosion partly wrecked the
Lumber laden schooner Stephen G.
engine house near by 'and prevented
txrud, abandoned .'13 mile* southeast of
Washington Surrounded by 27 trus
the firemen from gttiug their appar
Boston light. The crew were rescued tees of his choosing, comprising el-
atuv into th« street. Monsignor* La
I’ette *n<i Hayes and Father* O't'onuor, thia morning by the steamer A. W. cabinet members ex-ambassadors, col
McQuade, Sinnott and Byrne*, of Rt Perry and brought here.
At Portsmouth, N. IL, the three- lege presidents, lawyers and educators,
Patrick's Cathedral, hurried to the
scene and administered the last rite* masted schooner Annie F. Conlon ar Andrew Carnegie transferred to them
of the churefa to the mor* seriously in rived today in a dies tiled condition, 21 110,000,000 in 5 per cent first mort
jured.
days out from Phildadelphia.
gage bonds valued at {11,500,000, to
At the postofflre mibatation nt For
The barge Maywood, on< of a tow of
lieth and Madison avenue«, the explo three behind the tug Margaret, found be devoted primarily to the establish
sion slightly injured several clerk« and er cd last night off Cape Cod, ana the ment of universal peace by the aboli
threw the mail all over the floor In other bargee of the tow, the Scranton
tion of war between nations and such
the New York Nurwry and Child's!
One friction as may impair "the progress
Hospital ceilings were partly shaken | and'Binghampton, are missing.
down, and the windows broken, but of the barges in tow of the tug Cum- and happini M of man."
li also rvp-.rU-d m »»mg.
When war* between nations shall
there was bndly injured.
JAPAN HAS TROUBLES
The power house, which ia buih of
have*ceased, the fund is to be applied
stone an.| brick, and is six «tori«« high.
Ito such altruistic proposes as will
' *-
■ ■ r ■1 . ■ xp • .. ,i■> j ■ .. Will Strsnghtan Navy. Despite Her
"beet help man in his glorious ascent
latariar was prsetinally hu^ndl out
Heavy Indebtedness.
i onward and upward" by the banish
sltiw! what rauttM the doubli* exptoaion
niav probably never be known. For
innately for the thousands of eomniut
er* on the New York Central lines, th*
for** of |he dvnemit« blasts was di
rooted in an opposite direction from
the railroad track*, otherwise the load-
cd incoming trains might have been
wrecked.
Official* of the railroad learned that
there were many workmen in the bui!<l
itig at the time > of the explosion, and
these had been account
ed for. In th* Bible Teachers’ Train
ing School. <>n Lexington avenue, di
rcctly nptwisito the power house, 125
m«n an<l women who were on their
way to breakfast, . wore thrown to the
floor by the blast t
Many of the men
and women were injured, and several
of them were I taken to hospitals
All the window« in
I the building were
blown in and the ceilings fell.
The damage to I the power ____
house ____
and
other building* has not been estimated
but it was stated that it will likely
exceed »*><10.000.
The employes of the railroad have
been unable thus far definitely tn an
• ign the cause of the explosion, but it
is believed a large quantity of dyna
~
’
1
mite stored ‘ 1 in magatine«
close
to (he
substation was responsible for the
greater part of the damage.
Wireless Stop* Train.
Ottawa. Canada—Drawing a train nf
twelve ears and rushing over the rails
at a speed of forty five miles an hour
Representative Tawney, of Minne
on a stretch of track near the city of
sota, may succeed Ballinger aa secre-
Toronto, a powerful engine on the Ca
tary of the interior.
nsdian Pacific railway service was
brought to a tyiiek standstill, with the
Roosevelt announces he ia in favor
throttle wide open, and the engineer
of a radical program of refsrm, to be
standing in his cab. a mere spectator,
enacted by conservatives.
like those present with him to view the
Mexican relíela were routed In >
Wonder
The brake* had been applied on the
stubborn fight in which they lost 70
big locomotive and train of cars bv a
men, while the government loss was
wireloss wave of eleetriritv It seemed
14, including two officer*.
a* if a giant had seised the equipment
and held it with esse
Dr. Georg* Edgar Vincent, of the
Experiment* with » wireless train
University of Chicago, ha* been elect
control system have been quietly eon
ed president of th* University of Min
ducted bv the Canadian Pacific Rail
nesota, at a salary of 110,000 a year.
wav companv since last May. and this
Burglar*. Trapped Killed Pollc*
demonstration was the culmination of a
The A*ro club of New York has
London
Burglar* who killed two long series of successful testa.
challeng<-d the Royal Aero club of Eng
land to an all-round contest for the policemen last Right in a pistol duel
Tube 1000 Mil*« Long
with five officer* were tunneling to a
aeroplane championship of the world.
Chicago—The Record Harald tomor
vault containiag »lOn.ftoo. according to
Si* men were’drowned by the cspsia- Information given out at Scotland nur will annotince the eomplct <>n nf
ing of a launch on the ’Snohomish riv Yard
Th* robber* had started th* an Engineering project fnr the cr>n«triic
er, Washington. The boat wax being tunnel from a home in Cutler street to
rocked by three drunken logger* on top •hr vsutts f the llcnrv llsrri* jew-lry tlnn of a tunnrl he» wenn here and New
A«
of the cabin.
•hop at Hounilsditeh and the boring York and other Ea«tcrn eitles
■ was nearly completed. A policeman eording to the plan*, the tunnel will be
By an imperial order the ban against
nf «uffieient dimensinns to carrv tele
discovered th* tunnel and snmm«no>l
Jew* in Moscow. Russia, has been r*- help
In th* fight >hat fol! wr<l tW-> phnne and telegraph wiro« and a pneu
of
moved.
policemen wer* killed and th* robber* matie tnbe fnr the transmission
pvekagrs ••Terminals her* and in N«w
escaped.
Ths deficit In the Fustal department
Vor» have been eonstrueted,” *ity« the
has dwindled {11,000,000 during the
rep-.rt. '‘and in a short time men will
Tremendous Earthquake Recorded.
past year.
be . plaeed
__ ____
along
____
the nropoeed
nropo**d root
route to
Cleveland. O.—An earthquake similar begin the artna) work* of escavati Ion.”
A Missouri man has established hia to that which wrought such havoc in
claim to a 110,000 estate by a peculi the island nf Java many years ago,
Hebrews Ara to Convene.
was recorded on the seismograph at Rt
arity in hia voice.
the
Ignatius college
The records of
New
York Theodore
Roosevelt,
It ia announced that the Klamath two quakes are being compared.
Mavnr flavnor. Osear R Rtraiiss, Judge
cut-off of the Southern Pacific will lie
Toslah Cohen of Pittsburg, and Hr
Washington, Dec IT,—Reeretary of David Phillipaon nf Cincinnati will ad
finished by June. 1911.
the Navy Meyer this afternoon assigned ,lre«« the twenty second conference of
Four member* of one family near the obsolete cruisers Boston and Con the Pn'on of American Hebrew Congre
Silverton, Or., died of black smallpos, cord to the Oregon and Washington na gntions to he held here on January
val militia, respectively.
16 to If» inclusive.
and three other* are seriously ill.
Tokio,
The
budget for 1911-12, _
as ment of the "moat degrading evil or
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__________________
finally completed, was announced today
evils" then harassing mankind.
aa follow*:
Receipts, ordinary, 492,138,000 yen, [ Ai Mr. Carnegie read an informal
extraordinary,
487,969,37; expendi deed of trust announcing at length the
tures, ordinary, 407,118,274; extraer genera) purpose of his gift, there was
dinary, 133,821,699. A yen ia «quiv- prolonged applause.
He then ex
nk-nt to alout ;>0 cents in American
plained
the
incidents
which
inspired
' money.
Marquis Katsura, premier ami min- the gift at this time, and declared
> istcr of finance, take* a hopeful view with emphasis that if the English-
of the fiscal situation.
F ’
During
the speaking race in the United State* and
year past the government hs* had a 11 Great Britain once consolidated in the
particularly heavy burden to carry.
The nairy has called for" an Increasot n»*«’»«’» for International peace, the
<-x|>enditure in order to avoid the crili
cism of neglect in the face of the ad-
vance made by other power*. The an-
twxation of Corea and
have added materially to the extraord
in.ry expenditures.
Marqui* Katsura lay.> down these
fwn Mlle»«
**■ effective
»•frasi’f I Vo in
in directing
ilirecl inir the
fF,».
two
rule« aa
VSSM7 gk
V V I I I SSI«-I I fa e
policy V*
of the
government;
First To maintain the balance of
revenue and expenditure in the general
estimate* and not to look to loan* as
financial reaouree*.
Second To maintain th* program
of annual redemption of the public
debt by an amount of 50,000,000 yen
or more,
lie aay* the government has com
(n
milled itaelf to these principle*,
the neat ail years #2,000,000 yen will
be spent in supplementing and improv
ing the navy.
»ucreax of the measure in the rest of
the world would be assured.
That Great Britain stood ready to
. cuprate w>th th.a country, .Mr. Car-
r<fie ,aW he f<?|t ccnai
>nd
thgl
w
M now
*u
now ne^ed
nerded was
wan the
the concurrence
concurrence
of th(. (,rv.,dent Bnd the
jn
a
. .
_r .
mulgating the movement on behalf of
the United States.
SECRET MESSAGE WARNS.
Country Wholly Unprepared for
[¿vision by Foreign Power.
In-
Washington A report from the War
department showing h«>w the country
was inadi-quately protected againat in
vasion from foreign governments was
sent to the house a* a aecret document
and. after several conference* and hur
ried telephone messages, was returned
to the War department because the
Meteor Grate« Logger.
Astoria, Or.—While John McCulley, house could not receive a aecret report.
Member* of congress who saw the
an employe of the Sorcnaun Logging
company’» camp near Svenaon. was diH'ument before its withdrawal say
Dickinson
fastening the rigging t>n a lug a bias- the report of Secretary
ing rock ahot down as from the heav poinU out that the country is wholly
en* and struck the log 10 feet away unprepared for war; that there is a
from him. Examination of the object woeful inadequacy of men, guns and
showed that it was a meteor the aise ammunition; that the army should lie
and that a council of na
of a billiard ball.
The glow on the>, recognised
...
a<.rr»t>rv of war
aa- m *>
exterior had gone when McCulley ex tional
t,on‘l defense,
**»>•*. with • a secretary
amined it, but when he broke it open | at
h*“d' ,h<’UW ** <‘rea,cd bX «®*
be found the center red hot. The me
teor came with terrific force and made
Curtiss' Offer Accepted.
a dent in the log.
Washington The offer of Glenn IL
Man is Impaled Like Fish.
Curtis* to instruct a naval officer in
lew Angeles, Cal. — When a streetcar the operation of the aeroplane will be
struck his wagon on Broadway, J. H. accepted by the Navy department.
Craig, an express driver, was thrown Following the department’* expressed
out and impaled upon a bale hook view that the airship undoubtedly
which hung beside his seat
The would be a valuable adjunct of fighting
pronged tool caught him in the back of ships in the warfare of the future, Mr.
the neck, and, piercing the under side Curtirá proposed to drill an officer in
of his jaw. protruded from his mouth the flying and management of an aero
like a fish hook. The surgeons at the plane in all its details at the aviation
receiving hospital pronounced him set grounds in the vicinity of Ixw Angeles,
Cal. The instructions will be given
ioualy injured.
this winter.
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| 'Christmas Goods Burned.
Tacoma, Wash. Fire of unknown ' ___ 1,000 Teacher* Sought.
origin totally destroyed McCormack
St. Johns., N. B.- M. H. Stewart,
Bro*. big department store here, caus a member of the board of education of
ing a Iona which ’ will amount to up Alberta, ia here to sail on the Empresa
ward* of 1100,000. with insurance one- of Britain for Ireland to engage 1,000
third that amount
The McCormack school teacher* for Alberta and Sask
Bron, store was one of the largest in atchewan. He say* new districts have
the city, having a frontage of 160 feet been opened *o rapidly this year that
on Pacific avenue and running half a teachers cannot be found to teach the
block deep.
I school*.