CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
COMPROMISE REACHED.
Locomotiv« Engineers Get Increase
Aggregating 44.00 OOO a Year,
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NAVARRO YIELDS
TO REBEL TROOPS
■TRIKES MUST END
Trench Government Takes Steps to En
fore* Arbitration.
Paris.—-The test nf tbs govsrnmsat
m< ss.ire« formulated for ths purpose of
preventing g»neral strikes with partie
Doings of the World at Large • Amount of Increase in yearly • Mexican General in Dire Straits, iilar refers*»« to th« empl-ye« of th« Little Ilulton Colliery, .Near
• wage«, »4.000,000.
publie servie» corporation was mads
•
Average increase, 10 1-3 per cent. •
Told in Brief.
Bolton, England, Destroyed
public her*.
Forced to Surrender.
Average demand by engineers, 15 |
The measures constitute a emprshen
, per cent.
sirs plaa for snding ths strife« svi] oa
Original demand, 17 per cent.
General Resume of Important Evant*
Increase offered by roads, 9S pct ! Further Revolts Are Fssred ss Re '.he railroads asd ia other publie servie« Twenty Bodies Found Near Mouth
of Shaft No Hope for Oth
by means of s conciliati«« Commission
sult Government Rushes Troops
I cent
Presentad In Condensed Form
ers in Mine.
composed of representative* of ths mtn
Increase asked on Mallet type en- ;
to Scone of Hostilities.
for Our Busy Readers.
ginea, 100 per cent.
sad eompaniM Tbs e-mmission will
meet at regular intervals, and wbsn
Bolton, Eng—More than 3'HI men
conciliation fails, compulsory arbitra
Increase granted on Mallet en- •
Mexico
City
General
Navarro
has
Dr. Cook is attain In New York City.
ginea. 75 cents Lu 11 differentia).
surrendered to the rebels, according to H*» is provided, tbs principle bs.ng la I lost their lives in an explosion in the
Little Ilulton colliery of tbs Hultoa Col
Prix* scores of grand Opera worth
Other increases granted were:
•
a report that has reached here from tr - luted that whsr« ths arbitral sea liery company, located a short distance
»50,000 were stolen In New York.
Forty cents per day in passenger. •
have heretofore ter «• in>[ >«*» an ad.lit r.-nal charge, tbs 1 from tb<s city.
suburban, or through freight service. • authorities which
corporation can Indicate the method
"Jack th« Slasher** is again at work
The explosion occurred early this
Twenty-five cents differential on j proved reliable in the matter of war whereby th« railroad or other ser vies
in San Francisco, slashing worn« n’a
1 morning, soon after tbs miners bad m-
engines 215,000 pounds on drivers. I news.
leri.l the pit. Its force was terrific,
dresses.
Engineers or helpers on wrecking j
<r
and later investigation showed that the
The government denies the report
Miaaionariea in China arc calling for
trains, snow bound or mixed trains, <
lower passage had been blocked.
and aaya that he la awaiting reinforce
relief for 3,000,000 natives left starv
increase of 40 cents per dsy.
Heroic efforts «ers made by rescue
men la. Officials say Prdernale* is not
ing by Moods.
Switching rates, 50 cents increase ; menaced seriously by .the rebels.
parties al) day, but a fire winch fol
in yard and transfer service.
lowed the explosion prevented the res
A woman’s club at Eli, Neb., has
It ia known from other sources that
cu<*ri from penetrating beyond 4(X>
Twenty-five cents increase per day • Navarro has been having a hard tim«.
declared that baldhcsded men make
yards into the workings.
for hoatlcra of the Bmth«rbo<*j of ;
much the beat husbands.
His men are not used to the severe
At U 30 o'clock tonight the rescuers
Ixwomotive Engineers.
winter climate of Chihuahua.
They
were called out of the mine and a con
Railroad« are making every effort to
Controllers
of motor-cars, 40 •
are
not
properly
clothed
and
are
abort
ference was held, at which Government
aettlc the controversy with conductors
cents increase.
of food and ammunition.
Lt ia consid
Inspector Gerrard, the engineers and
and trainmen regarding a raise in
Roads involved, 61.
ered here that if Navarro ha» not rar-
, the mine manager were present. In
wages.
Engineers affected. 37,000.
spector Gerraru i-suej a report, after
rendered, he is liable to do so at any
A Log Angele« iron plant. Involved
maxing a descent uto the pit, in which
time.
Chicago Four millions of dollars n
in a wage controversy and strike, was
he said it was impossible that any of
Another report »ays that Navarro'
the miners are still alive.
partially wrecked by a dynamite ex- year w as what the officials of 61 W<-st- haa not surrendered. but baa deserted
H> added that nothing could be done
plosion.
with
hie
men
to
the
rebels.
This
is
ern railroads put in the stockings of
except to brmg up 20 bodies fouud ly-
Senator Curtiss, of Kansas, seeks the locomotive engineers.
The gift not believd.
ng near the shaft. T'bis report was
The government now acknowledges
harmony and will propose Governor brought "peace and good will" find
communicated to the anxious crowds
that
the
situation
is
very
serious.
All
Stubbs for vice president in 1912,
around the pit mouth, after which the
averted what might have proved one available troops arc being sent north
with Taft for re election.
Bi.-hop of Manchester comlucted a
of the most disastrous strikes in the as fast as possible to assist Navarro.
touching service in the open air and
The compromise offered by Commis
Three hundred prisoners were taken
I the people slowly dispersed.
sioner of Labor Neill is accepted by history of the country.
from the Belan prison ami drafted into
No explanation is given us to the
Commissioner
of
Labor
Charles
P.
both aides and the threatened strike of
'cause of the explosion, which complete-
the army. A .'considerable portion of
37,000 locomotive engineers is averted. Neill played the part of Santa Claus to
I
ly
wrecked the mine
the army al present is made up of
The explosion resulted in the tem
For »even days he prisoners.
Aviator Hoxsey, at Lot 'Angvles, the engineers.
porary disablement of the machinery
In all the battles that have occurred
reached an altitude of 7,299 feet and worked to bring the railroads and the
whereby the cages are lowered and
disappeared toward sea. He next ap engineer» together and with his work so far, it serins that the rebels have
drawn to the surface, and it was a con
peared by diving through a cloud over
t>een shooting particularly at officers.
CAM".
J=>
siderable time before the first rescue
accomplished he left in the afternoon
the aviation grounds.
Th.- jM-rcentage- of thi-sc ««-unded <>r OtmmtaBlrxner uf Lahor. * ho »** the pnnrtpal i party reached the bottom of the pit.
for his borne in Washington to spend killed is very large. At the battle of i Atfur**
in Milling the
hrtws*n th» rathuad*
The. commission f
'
>vernm«nt
and averting a b»< atrtka,
Mai Paso, the re lie Is, who were en- and
i
is proving a great success at Baker, Or. Christmas with his family.
SCORE DEAD IN FIRE.
trenched on mountains forming the
In spite of their refloated aMct!
An explosion in the I.ittls Ilulton
»»cure c.-mpeaaation, either by rale
side of a canyon, rolled immense boul- can
i
Walla of Five Story Building Crush
colliery at Bolton, England, entombed I that they had reached the limit, the deri down on the troops.
the rates or by other means
These did mg
1
Fireuicn and Police.
managers made conceaaions in the face more damage than the shooting.
”30 miners.
The rc|>ort srcompsnying ths mess
is a remarkable document, it
were
made by the strike.
engineers Concessions
also, but
a threatened
The serious condition of affairs in ares
1
Philadelphia. —Probably twelve fire
Russia is aroused aver the numerous of
l i t.-» the declaration >f the rights of men and as many polier-ineii lost their
attacks on the Cossack« by Chinese in they established two of the chief points the North ia the principal topic of con
_
r ..„»
.« >U*S »M« II
— nnd
- • score»
n,.i:i to prov* that public service« have lives
were injured in a fire
Manchuria.
versation
here.
There
is
much
specu-
;
for which they contended jurisdiction
been instituted for the public good, not which destroyed D. P Friedlander’»
About SO Philadelphia firemen and over motor-trucks and an Increased lation as to the outcome. It ia expect , fl.r the 11- .rfit ,f 1!. - to whom they lentherworkn g plant, a five story build-
«1 that the reverse» suffered by the have
|
police wrre killed by falling walls st a
been confided, from which It de ing at 11 >6 to ll'J'i North Bodine street,
schedule for the Mallet tyt>e of engine. government recently will lead to ot^er i
fire in that city.
duces the conclusion that th« interrup
s t>-n wall» crumbled und crushed them.
The incrvaM granted the men rune as uprisings throughout the republic ax tion
of public service is a crime. At
I
Robert H. Lovett, successor to E. H.
There were two separate disinters
the
sani<-
tins
it
admits
that
public
ser
Harriman, favors government super high as 14 per cent on certain engines soon as they become known.
during the conflagration. Firemen
vice employes, like other workers, have
vision of railroads.
fighting the seething furnace of the
and as low as 8 jicr cent on the higher-
a right to amelioration ef situation«,
leather factory were caught when the
IRON
WORKS
DYNAMITED.
Fire at Cineinnnati destroyed one of paid runs. The average increase to
and in conciliation and arbitration it is
the best blocks In the city, causing the payroll» of the railroads is 10 1-3
proposed to give them a weapon "as south walls fell, and while efforts were
being made to rescue the survivors of
a loss of alrtiu »2.000,1*00.
Los Angeles Concern
Involved ln jwwerfu) as th« strike.*’
the wreck and policemen had been sent
|>cr cent.
The
companies
must
accede,
the
r«
Strike is Victim.
Government officials believe that
■ r'
area,
it • n w con in to prevent a repetition of the acci
fraudulent refunds on sugar exports at TWELVE LIVE ON SI 35 A DAY
Lew Angeles A mysterious explos ceded as a principle of jurisprudent!« dent at the north wall, that part of the
New York will reach millions of dollars
ion, presumably of dynamite, 1 wrecked that the state, in c mceding publie ser building tottered and fell, burying half
I of the thirty policemen
,men at work there.
a conaidernblc portion of the I building vice mon .polies, does not waive its right .» .x-
Custom« officials are holding goods Pittsburg Family Holds Record for
More than twenty injured have been
Mare
one
ot
interfere
nn,j
ompsl
ths
toneassioa
of the Llewellyn Iron works,
valued at »»'•00,000 imported bv Duveen
Thrift.
ameli rations in ths in I taken to the hospitals. At least twelve
the big industrial inatilutiin. of the *irr' I"
Bro»., art dealers, of New York, for
terest of nubile good and tho preserve | are still in the ruins.
Pittsburg-
A
tale
of
comfort
and
kind
in
the
Southwest,
at
Kedohdo
and
alleged undervaluation.
Of those tahen to hospitals, half a
thrift contrary to the usual ones of Main atreets, at 1:45 o'clock this tion of public order ’’
: doten have fractured skulls and are
Ht. John«. Newfoundland, expert distress was unfolded Jin the Juvenile
- internally in jured. The chances of re-
enerd one of the worst storm» in many court here by Mias Nance Oppenheim morning.
ICovrrv are slight.
J. E. Anbury, a nightwatchman,
8HOOT8 FROM AEROPLANE
year», and it in feared many coasting
er, a probation officer, to the court and who was in the office of the building,
vessels are lost.
spectators. A family of 12 is support waa alightly injured. Windows of the
WHITTIER'S POEMS FOUND.
James T. Harahan han resigned the ed on an income of »1.35 a day, but adjoining plants of the Lacy Manufact Aviator Latham Kills Duck for Gama
Dinn«r
presidency of the Illinois Central an<l how it is done has not been disclosed.
“Whole Naat*' of Hitherto Unpub
uring company, the Johnson Machin«
will be succeeded by C. H. Markham,
Miss Oppenhemcr told the story work« and the Stearns Gas Engine
• * .-• '• D m 23—When Hebert
lished Verses Discovered
formerly of the H. P.
when she requ« sled Judge Cohen to al company were blown out and minor Latham, the French aviator, »at down
Amesbury,
Mam—Samuel T. Pickard,
it dinner tonight wild duck was served
A shipment of oysters from New low Antonio Elf, 10 yean old, to go damage was done.
, the biographer of John Greenleaf Whit
as
the
honor
dish
of
his
menu
It
was
Jer«ev will be seixed upon arrival at home. He was arreated for being in
Residents of the Westlake district a little duck of the ‘•scaup" apse Isa, tier. and now living in the old Whit-
Han Francisco. They are reported to the streets late at mghU
two miles away were awakened by the and familiarly called “Wnebill“ bv tier home in-tbis town, tells of his re-
have lieen taken from polluted waters
' cent discovery of a “whole nest of
"Ho has a splendid home, your force of the cxploaion, which shook
hunter« of water fowl And tbs bird
An insurance expert »ays New York honor." said Mine Oppenheimer. "His the whole neighborhood.
poem« by Whittier never before recog
Who placed win hilled bv Latham h m«slf
City is at the mercy of the fire fiend, mother," pointing to the woman stand the supposed charge of dynamite is not
I .at ham brought down the fright- nised as his.** In rommenting on bis
should some accident burst a water ing by the lad's side, "is a splendid known. The company haa been in- driven little bird with the
first ___
shot stndv of a volume of the New England
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main and start a fire at the same housekeeper, and they have 10 bright volved for many months in a strike of fl"' 1 from bis fast flying Antoinette Review of 1*30 31. Mr. Pickard aays:
“While it wa* edited by Whittier. I
timo.
■nronlan* w'ille g->ing at tbe rat» of
children, of whom the oldest is a girl union metal workers.
find much that has escaped me hitherto.
'o
mile»
an
hour,
at
ths
Boisa
Chies
After lying unconscious for IS months 13 yean old."
A hoi« in the ground IN inches deep
1 have found a whole nest of poems
. | r(|
a Greek laborer in Portland, who had
"l-don’t know how they do it,” said and about six feet in diameter bears Gun Club, at noos today.
by Whittier
The signature wa« the
Ths
bluebill
dropped
into
ths
océan
I
n
j
been injured by a blow on ths head, Mias Oppenheimer, later, "but they witness to the place of origin and prob
odd
one.
‘
Feramorr
’ I find that Fern
10
var-ls
from
the
bea'h.
but
was
ear
was relieved by a surgical operation, are nice people and better home condi
able cause of the damage. Thia hole ried ashore by the surf and pieked up morx poems are Whittier’s, nnd that he
and is now recovering.
tions couldn't be asked for.
Every ia just outside the business line and after a a frenxied
----- • • dash
» * • by a score of per used
this signature before and after
?
I’nited States authorities sei red a thing is neat and orderly, and there is adjacent what was the wagon entrance. sons.
I he became editor of the Review.
t
large consignment of tomato paste in no lack of wholesome food for the en On the other side of the hole was a
Han Francisco The stuff was shipped tire family.
The father is a laborer wooden abed, which, with its contents
HARBIN APPEALS TO JAPS.
from New York and la said to contain and earns one dollar and thirty-five
Robber Holds Up Train.
of stored iron, was reduced to a tnaas
large quantities of decomposed vege cents a day. That man ia a credit to
El Paso, Ten.—Th« Sunset express, Russian Physicians Refuse to Succor
of debris.
table matter
any community."
Cholera Victims
The front of the main building, a the Southern Pacific passenger train to
A Trenton, N. J., burglar, groping In
Without further ado the boy was al three-story frame, for a distance of New Orleans, was robbed in the heart
Nt
Petersburg
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t
________
— The
inc correspondent»
rorrespon.lenf
the dark for valuable«, was caught la lowed to go home with hia mother.
at-----
■ *"
. 1»
probably
76 feet
shot to piccea
and o
the city.
boarded th*
the st.
oh
k *- • f —
'■?
’»'• ' ‘‘ _
inaph
Jte
entente
of wan
furniture,
and office
- f rv.t.-n
car The
a. robber
it was l-.ving
7. ‘ ”
,h* - b"h • "n1
P1*«"
a steel trap.
_
f the bubonic plague
Considerable opposition to the exon
... two
- drawn
,
------
3 "I* he f • M ■ if 'll.« are unchecked abandoned
Corps--«
Gather in ap
ap- tion
Hon With
revol
Son of Rich Man Starves.
paraphernalia are piled together
revolver,
eration of Senator Lorimer has devel-i
The material damage, forced a porter to walk «head of him___’___ .
New York
Half delirioua from parent ruin.
oped in the senate.
camps of nomads.
starvation, John Smith, who aaya ha is however, is confined to the chipping through the Pullman and command the
The situation in Manchuria I« grave.
A Pasadena, Cal . millionaire will eon a decendent of Joseph Smith, founder room, th« office and the space above passengers to stand and deliver. He
•••cured »130 in money nnd two railway Th* German consul at Harbin has ad
struct the finest office building on the of the Mormon church, and the »on of them, and ia relatively small.
tickets. After riding lew than three dressed a pressing note to the Tnotai,
Coast in Portland.
Charles Smith, a wealthy retired |iub-
blocks the robber commanded ths brake demanding that radical measures be
The lifeboat of the lifeeaviag crew liaher of Princeton, III., ia in Bellevue
Steamers Crash; Ons Sinks.
man to stop the train
As it slowed taken to star th* epidemic «nd stating
at Rockaway Beach, N. Y . turned turtle hospital critically ill. Twice an hour
that otherwise Germany will interfere.
Antwerp The Red Star Steamer down, he jumped off and disappeared.
and two of the crew are missing
he is fed warm milk like a baby. Hie Finland and the Belgian steamer Bal
Th* municipality nf Harbin has invited
T«panesc phv«icians to attend the dis
A San Jos«, Cal , lawyer will wed the greatest desire is to sleep, but in lucid tique collided Monday eff the mouth of
Avi»tor Lo«t at 8«a.
daughter of one of hie clients who has intervale hr gave his name and de the River Scheldt. The liner Finland
Dover, England.- The greatest snx eased in the barracks, as th* Russians
ref ■«* to expose themselves.
been sentenced to a term at Han (Juen- scendants with a history of family waa
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is felt concerning the fats of Cee l
bound from New York. __________
The Bal >etv
From October 26 to December 11 4*2
tin.
trouble*, wandering days and no work. tique, a steamer of 1.365 tone, was ^race, a member of the Royal Aero
Chinese sad 11 Russians wer« stricken
For
21
days
he
saya
he
had
little
to
outward
bound
with
a
cargo
of
aand.
L
lub
in
•"
•
’
••"•Pt
to
wia
ths
Customs authoritie« have discovered
an oil painting believed to bo a famous eat.
The exact cause of the collision la not Bar-'n de Forrest prit« of »20.000. flew
over the English Channel from Dover,
masterpiece stolen la Berlin some years
Oenn»n Birth Rate Lags.
known, but it la raid that th« Finland
ago
Germany Soon to Import All Meat. in ve«ring struck the Baltique amid reached the Belgium frontier onlv to
Berlin
—As a result of computations
be turned back by adverse winds, land
- - —
------ on
-c. the
------------
. Tr--. ntlV c. -npleted it I« f";nd ‘hat the
A Mexican government supply train
Washington- In the course of a few ships. The Baltique aank immediately. r l near
Calais
return rTTL
trip, started
------- — there
—-
•
and .'it*1 men have been trappdl ia the years Germany, in all likelihood, will Part of the crew waa reecued by the from
oa - th«
homeward"ffight 1'
*•'- ' Germane i. «Wereasing.
mountains by revolutionists and cap consume nothing but imported meat, Finland and others by a pilot boat. aero« the channel and has not sinee,
iplogj.t. ar. anxlou.lv drawing nt-
lured.
according to consular reports.
There Six men are unaccounted for.
been heard from
to the
menae«
-- -- | -- tention
-- -- ------
--- —
—-- — -W-- of
WV-- race
•»«« suicide.
WUIV-1HV’.
T —.
„
¡Mat year’s birth rate for every 1000
A Dayton, Wash., duck hunter ear is an immense decrease noted in the
Many
Killed
in
Indi««.
Lost
With
Twenty
ous.
Steamer
Twenty-ons.
(
»f
por'il»'i..n
throughout
the
empire
ried a charge of bnekshot in his thigh number of animate for slaughter, ac
Hamburg.—The Freaeh steamer fix- w»« oaly 33, as against 3<t f, 'or the de-
for a week before he would consent to cording to the last count, made on Oc
San Domingo
News has reached
call a surgeon.
tober 10, 1910. The especially notice here of an engagrmemsent along the vona, owned by Slewsn * C«.. of this rad* ending in 1*90, and 42 per 1000
eity, Is believed to hsv* been lost with ' 1*73
...» decline is n<vnonx*<f
The
attributed
With a gift of »10.000.000 John D. able decrease ia in young animals. Dominican ami Haytian borders. Sev her erew of 21, while bound from this p’Hly tn the increasing reluetane* of
--- ....ir un t ai'T or
A gunboat port for Naples The Harona
Rockefeller has completed his aid to the As a result, prices of animla for eral are reported killed.
Barn— is
*-------
*-*— ¡ prospero«* persons, especially in eities,
a sister
Vniversitv of Chicago He has given slaughter are expected to rise very will be dispatched with troops to t< ship of th« Palermo, which
Ù was recanti*
accept tn* bardes of raising large
about »35,000,000 to th« institution.
| high.
sent to the scene of the trouble.
I families.
I lost.
j Terms on Which Engineers
tied Fight.
1
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Set- ?