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IF YOU WANT TO BUY Property consult the real estate pages In today Pott Exceptional ppor tunltleaare offered dally Weather Partly cloudy today and tomorrow with possibly showers cooler today light variable winds Temperature yesterday Maximum 61 minimum 45 NO 11919 WASHINGTON TUESDAY JANUARY 26 1909 FOURTEEN PAGES THREE CENTS BALTIC 1524 ROM AS ER Survivors Praise Coolness and Skill of Republics Men teller of the stirring tale of the few days past went their ways Many went to hotels Dead Sank With Republic The few Injured were removed to hospitals The sea had buried the two dead passengers An undertaker was needlessly waiting the bodv of Mrs Lvnch of Boston Her sisters had not heard rnnQPfTJltPfl Rfchfin flf WilOl that the sealed coffin went down with UilbCtrdlCU J31MlUp Ul YiiiMl the Republic The Floridas steerage passengers were landed at Ellis Island They remained there during the night passing through the regular course of all immigrants in being detained for examination Their period of detention will be over tomorrow when it is expected that they will be released ind allowed to proceed to thir destinations FurnctSias Story Told How the steamer Kurnessa from Glas DR HARDING III SEE ington at Trinity Church GREAT THRONG AT SERVICE gow helped the two goveniment vessels i DnTuttle0fflciatesAssistedbyBlsh the Seraca and the Gresnam in their ef ops Scarborough and Whitehead FLORIDAS HELMSMAN BLAMED Captain Said to Have Felled Him With Iron Handspike for Blunder Which Caused the Collision Thrilling Incidents of the Collision at Sea and of the Changes From Ship to Ship Told by Passengers forts to drag the waterlogged Republic to shallow water before she sank wa told tonight by the officers of the Fur nessla which docked some hours after the Baltic The Furnessa got word of the collision Saturday night by wireless message from the Baltic and came up with her early Sunday learning that the passenger Kol tun trficfxro1 fli TnlH fill Furnessa fought to aid thp Republic With the Furnessa as a rudder the Uresliam began her effort to Republic being aided later by the Seneca Their combined efforts however resulted In little good the waterlogged Republic moving like a snail and constantly settling lower In the water Early Sunday night the Furnessas line to the the vessel in the fog Abovt 830 the officers said the relets brought them word tivit the Republi had gone down Nt York Jan 25 Less than 72 hours ditions of the sea kept his ship beneath afKr the crash between the ooean liners him as long as there was enough of her public and Florida off the Nantucket afloat to afford him a foothold And ihncils which eventually sent the one to practically all accounts agree that aside bottom and reduced the ither to a from tiie starting of an incipint panic igp of staggering helplessness the sur among the steerage passengers on tie nors of this thrilling deep sa tragedy Florida both ships forces and passengers found a haven at last kept their neads well in the midst of Ai nightfall tonight l5 4 of the passen most trying conditions iiTs and crews from the two vessels Survivors had warm words of com ut rc safe in this port brought hero by mendatiun for the officers and men of the Up Baltic while nearing it wrr the Florida who worked like heroes with ic cued officers and crew of the Republic their own ship in sad case to get the iff on board the derelict destroyer Pen passengers from the worse damaged Re 1 to which they were transferred from public to comparative safety on board ti reenue cutter Grcsham after staying tne Italian essel i to the last moment by their sinking When the Florida in from her fateful 1 s5t experience passed up the harbor late At her dock In Brooklyn was the bat today sne looked every bit the part of ircl Florida aboard which her crew had the ocean battring ram she had played i mained throughout her trying expc Flying the signal Not under control cices Khe was guided up the bay by two tugs only the ill fated Republic was wanting Her bows were crumpled up from the tu lomplete the list And she too was imrVct with the Republic the plates and port her last port of call what doubt beams being buckled and twisted for a ss will proe her final resting place be distance of fully 30 feet Caught on line ath 3S fathoms ot water 15 miles south jagged iron braces and angle irons wis i Nantucket south shoals lightship a tanvas covering to keep out as much A Thrilling Adventure water as possible from her forward com the stirring story of what occurred Prtment wit er forepeak full of hii the steamers crashed together in water her burdened diPPed Iow and mist of that memorable wile the ster wed hie above the morning of last Saturday and the urface Sloly and with difficutV she inaue incidents which followed was flnall carped into her pier at iclies completeness is apparent i a the past three days have witnessed at is beyond questionone of the most irkahle series of happenings in thr i tory of modern navigation Tne passengers on the Republic and unen the steamer collided Brooklyn Three of Her Crew Dead When the Florida reached her dock It leu ned that it was three and not if her crew who had been killed ida whose lives wero in jeoparJy torn hours while the call of the wiro was gradually bringing aid nearer iiil nearer to them reached New Yoik Tiny were sleeping their forecastle iiKTters and met instant death two of them being badly mangled and si tan etod in the wreckage that it was not iirtay on the bteamer lijUic No argosy untft Ul1 steamer wt nto her guiu i uras bertn tonipht tnat their bodies could le uif imme was ever more heartily wel iinri Frenzied cheers rom the thou in at th ier when sue docked greet 1 her arrival tears of thtankfulness vvre lied affectionate greetings were ex hanged and only here and there did a not of sadnss intrude itself upon the ne extricated Th men killed were Pasqtiale Ldtall iaterogo Martuscelli and Salvatore DAmico Three others were seeiely injured Two had been transferred to th Balticr The other Pietio Oneto was brought in on his own estel Battered Florida In Engineer Lynch May Die Following the Baltic up the harbor Eene Lynch one of the Republics ii the linvr Florida battered almit Passengers who was severely injured the sinking iioint leiself bv the force was on the Floriia when slle came in I the blow she dealt the Republic and I wicn 1e was taken Uter to the onng the boies of her own three dead I IsIand oilc Hospital it was found I the injured memliers of her crew i tliat fcotl1 Icss were urokn hs right i the dread wenes of anguish that tnieU fractureJ ad that lie wa inter nally injurea it is iearea ne will die The last rites had been administered to him at his request while he was yet on board the Republic by Father Norris of the Trenton diocese another passenger Tht there had been any trouble at the steeling wheel of the Florida was denied tonight by the Floridas purser Marbila Gima When asked as to the reports ot the helmsman delinquency he said that he quartermaster had been thrown from iiilil hae been enacted had not fortul i rcumstance stepped in to aid human i il ienttfic marvel there was hardly i ngaestion ii the important work of rescue thus i ically finished attention began to be icd to endeavors to learn definitely if ilil how the two big ocean travelers ul come to crash into each other and I her their fateful meeting was un College Mate of New Prelate the Right Rev YToodcock Preaches Sermon Dignified Services Mark the Elevation tow the of Clergyman to Episcopal Honors Re ception to Head of Diocese Held in Evening a Remarkable Tribute GETS TIP ON BIG GAME President Learns How to Shoot Beasts of the Jungle SEEKS NO TAMED SPECIMENS jl Want to Take a Hunters Chance Mr Roosevelt Tells Capt Duquesne Just Back From Wilds of East Africa and Who Points Out the Best Way to Bring Down Elephant and Rhinoceros Marked by the presence of distinguished Episcopal prelates and laymen the Rev Dr Alfred Harding yesterday was consecrated as bishop of the diocese of Washington In historic Trinity Episcopal Church For twenty years Dr Harding was rector of St Pauls Church and was recently selected to succeed the late Bishop Henry Satterlee The day chosen for the consecration was the feast of the conversion of St Paul the apostle The exercises were dignified and impressive Among the distinguished attendants outside of the clergy was Mrs Roosevelt who was accompanied by Capt A Butt the Presidents military aid The consecrators were the venerable Rt Rev Daniel Sylvester Tuttle of Missouri who preside the Rt Rev John Scarborough bishop of New Jersej and the Rt Rev Cort landt Whitehead bishop of Western Pennsylvania The attending presbyters were the Rev Walter A Mitchell and i kneeling In turn he was followed by tne have taken Just as much risk as they You as well as the whole church are entitled to believe that you will have all the prayers the loyalty and the cooperation to which the clergy and laity of this diocese are committed by their actionln electing you their chief shepherd Never let your faith waver in true confidence that this will be yours in rich abundance We have come to elevate you to this high office and to wish goOcyeed Iri your many and great labor To you and your people may God give His blessing and that peace which the world cannot give Strange Incident Recalled Then came the solemn features of the consecration As Dr Harding arose the congregation stood with him Kvery eye In the church was fastened upon him and of those who stood there watching the significant ceremony many could not fail to remember how several months ago the bishopric of Washington had seemed far from the thoughts of this devout churchman It was recalled that just one year ago on St Pauls day there was a service at St Pauls Church The late Bishop Satterlee was the preacher upon that occasion and after the service one of Dr Hardings parishioners presented the bishop with a beautiful ctoss of rare workmanship Bishop Satterlee taking the cross blessed it and slipped it around Dr Hardings neck saying Coming events cast their shadows before Not a sound could be heard as the bishop elect was escorted before the presiding bishop The usual form both In behalf of the clergy and the laymen showing that Dr Harding had been duly elected was gone through with and then the bishop elect stepped forward and re peated the promise of conformity as follows I Alfred Harding chosen bishop or the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Washington do promise conformity and obedlance to the doctrine discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America So help me God through Jesus Christ Laving On of Hands As the choir sang the bishop elect was vested with his robes and then came trie most solemn and impressive part of the entire ceremony the laying on of hands Bishop Tuttle first rested his hands on the head of Bishop Harding who was President Roosevelt yesterday learned something of the details of how he will shoot big game in Africa ln a talk of more than two hours with Capt Fi itz Duquesne who recently returned from the wilds of East Afrka the President went over the entire program from car rj ng i ifles to how he could most coii enicnty lug the rhinoceros fiom the langanyika lak lie leJrned Jlso the Rev James Craighill two of the oldest clergymen in the diocese The consecration sermon was delivered by the Rt Rev Charles Woodcock a college mate of the new bishop Historic Book Used The prayerbook used in the ceremony was once owned by Bshop Claggett of Maryland the first Episcopal bishop to be consecrated on American soil At night the laymen of the city united in a reception to Bishop Harding at the New Willard Hotel which will long be the caliber of suns used for the diff Tnt remembered as a wonderful tribute to a species where the shots could be placed mans personality and to the Episcopal Church and wherein th be most effectiv greatest danger lie I dont want to shoot down any animals that aie not thoroughly acquainted with a ritlt the President said when In lowned that owing to his promintne he Packed to suffocation was the spacious house of worship while outside were many who patiently awaited admittance to Trinity Church where the services probably would be taken to the game re were held The police arrangements were scres where game is pltntitul and ame wint tr iji i 7 admirable a detail of men from various i want to take a hunters eh ince the President continued I i precincts under Capt Boyle manning the the gamp wheie ft i must dangerous I i doors and keeping the streets clear have been leading up the names of thp i Every lienor that could be extended to i5rCnAa1ac and swaml1 wrte usedthe junior member of the house of bishop amonc the shlU nree 1 ho a i taoi ui II evtonrferl fn Africa Has a Bully Rifle Weve got a bully rifle here Thats our Tnited States 30 Springfield I iaVa had a sporting stock and sporting eights put on it Thats a bully gun Anybody who knows it knows its the best gun and weve got it too Will Cunningham take me where there are any lion the President asked Thats what I want to get at lions lions ni th have the roan antelope or as the DuLh ail it the bastard eland I intend to et some of them and ll llessbock and oyx too nd I want a cluetah and leooard theyve got such bully marks I want to run uu against white rhinoceroses because I like something that 11 come back tit me I dont want to hnve my own way Wheres the best place to get an ele was extended to Bishop Harding and following the ceremony and as he left tm church tears came to his eyes as he heard tfie well wishes of clergymen anl amen Men and women stood with bowed heads as the procession moved from the parish hall to the church shortly before 11 oclock the hour set for the beginning of the services Following the bearer of the crucifix came the choirs singing the Processional Next in line were the theological students and then the lay delegates to the diocesan convention and lay members of the Cathedral Council Escorted by Mace Bearer Then came the bishop elect escorted by the mace bearer and attended by other bishops Bishop Tuttle personally presented the Bible to Bishop Harding and the communion service followed Vhen the procession of clergy had left the church Bishop Harding was the center of a throng of people who were determined to congratulate and wish him well Reception Is Imposing The reception at night at the New Wll lardlard was an imposing tribute to the new bishop Long before the hour for the reception there was a line of people extending from the hotel up street and around to Fifteenth street At 715 ocock the reception ine began to move Two abreast men and women marched Into the red paror of the New Willard past the receiving line of bishops It was 1015 oclock before the Jast person in the line had grasped the haad the newly consecrated prelate It was estimated that 4000 people had been in the line Mrs Harding received with the bishop She was attended bv her three sisters Mrs Rolf Crej ke of Toronto Mrs Edward LOve of New York and Miss Harriett Douglas of New York her cousin Mrs Frederick Drury of Mew York and Miss Justine Henderson of Brooklyn a niece of Bishop Harding In the receiving line with the bishop were the bishop of central Pennsylvania and Mrs Talbot the bishop of Nevada Dr Robinson bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire Dr Parker and Dr Courtney formerly bishop of Nova Scotia Californian Wants Ships to Equal Those of Japan TALK OF PEACE IN T0KI0 Ministers in Diet Announce That Armament Is to Be Reduced Newspapers in Mikados Kingdom Declare Feeling Against YeUow Race Is Growing Here Bills Introduced in Legislature at Sacramento Calling for Increase in Warships in Pacific Attacks on President Roosevelt Sacramento Cal Jan 25 Nathan Coghlan of San Francisco today Introduced a joint resolution In the assembly calling on the California delegation In Congress to urge the establishment In Pacific waters of a fleet whose war strength shall bo as great as that of any other natlcfi on the Pacific Coghlans resolution is similar to one Introduced by Senator Anthony except that it does not mention the Japanese as one of tlie peoples against whom protection is sought The Asiatic Exclusion League following a letter to assemblymen urging hem vote for the Drew and Johnson bills prohibiting aliens from being members of corporations and from holding lands and segregating them in schools and resi dential quarters has Circulated at the capital another communication In part i is as follows Insults Alleged In the press dispatches of the 20th Inst there are several assertions purporting to emanate from the President which If permitted to pass unchallenged may lay the people of Cali fornia open to the indictment of being unfair and unreasonable California is accused by innuendo breaking faith With whom With the President or Japan The assertion that the numbers of Japanese in the United States are decreasing Is not warranted by facts pre ented by the report of the commis sioner general of Immigration for 1908 It is worthy of note that the Secre tary of Commerce and Labor has failed up to the present date to explain the discrepancy in his annual report as to the addition of the Japatyee population In the United tate and the statements contained In his monthly reports Ministers Explain Tokyo Jan 25 Maruls Katsura the premier Count Jaturo Komura the minister of foreign affairs and Viscount TerauchI the minister of war made brief speeches today before the diet in answer to questions regarding the reduction in armaments and the foreign policy of the government The speakers said that Japans relations CABBIE RATION EGGED Hatchet Wieldexs Lecture Broken Up by British Crowd London Jan 25 Mrs Carrie Nation who is attempting to deliver a series of lectures here met with a hostile reception at the Canterbury music hall tonight She was pelted with eggs one of them striking her In the face From the very beginning the audience maintained a chorus of boos and hisses Her manager vainly appealed for fair play and Mrs Nation was obliged to quit the house under police protection FAILS FOB 0VEB A MILLION Former State Treasurer Shaw of Massachusetts Goes Into Bankruptcy Boston Jan 25 Former State Treasurer Shaw of Newburyport a railroad financier Hied a voluntary petition In bankruptcy today with liabilities of 1023305 andsassets of J275765 The principal liability is said to be indorsed paper for the James Sha Company amounting to J661738 which is held by 60 creditors The assets consist of real estate of VaCO and stocks and bonds valued nt SEVEN ON COOPER JURY One Added to Panel as Net Result of Days Work 493 TALESMEN ABE BEJECTED First Venire Exhausted and Another Called Making 1003 Men So Far Summoned Fines for Business Excuses May Oust Leigh for Drinking Accepted Men Warned Judge 111 Again HOME THE KEYNOTE Child Conference Takes Up Problems of Dependents PRESIDENT OPENS SESSION Delegates Declare Efforts Must Tend to Preserve Family Circle Where This Cannot Be Done Little Ones Must Be Surrounded by Conditions Such as They Would Have if in Good Parents Care Executive Receives Delegates at White House and Makes First Address Meetings Today When it was all over Bislwp Hardintr witn tne powers of the world were so im remarked to several friends wen I Droved tnat the proposed reductions were fully warranted Premier Katsura said fVVTiart Ueres Vle pldce to use I presbyters FollcinS Dr Harding were im uan vii iictL UrtI dable as at first appeared On the hi wheel by the shock of the collision Fjuhlics side little was to be learned sticking to his post until the crash came ii passengers told graphic details of the i The prrser likewise denied that the ish of the excitement on board of the wheel had been thrown the wrong way ivery of the officers the good behavior as the vessels were approaching each lie crew and the efficient work of other or that the commander had struck frue down the steersman Capt Rospinis Story Floridas Quartermaster Blamed I iht all had not gone so well with the 1 rida and that possibly on her bridge i slit be sought a contributing cause of disairter was indicated bja late de lopmcrit of the day Capt Rosplnl talked but briefly He Giil hfi nroforrnfl In aoI iW oau i oLtiicintriii by the Republics commander before making his He stated however that he hid heard the Republics whistle at intervals for some time en the morninsr ot Tliiie are two versions of what hap he disaster but they seemed quite far Td on the bridge of the Florida when av Suddenly the big liner loomed up Republic loomed up in front of her li rough the morning fog Little could be off and the Republic was swallowed up earned from Capt Rospini when he wasi again in the mists on board his vessel on her arrival A cautious search for her was then be in the harbor I gun and il wa t0 nours the captain in tne naroor sald before tne Fiorida again located her ciording to others who had been on partner in misfortune and began the iird the Florida and were brought Into I work of rescue which resulted so fortu hiiv by the Baltic however something natey lnPPrPfl hT7 Hlicra VhTyrter USV VAJ nt wrong with the Floridas steering i Kp i when tlie collision was imminent One story Had It that a quartermaster Scores of people who a few days ago had waved adieus to Mediterranean bound friends on the pier of the White the wheel when the commander yele lner Republic augmented ty in kc joiuuTO iu oiaruuara in numcers Dy hundreds who would wel IUt it to port instead and the liners I come the homecoming of participants as i raMied into each other survivors resuers or spectators in the nother version of the story is that the wirelessly averted disaster near Nan dropped his wheel a panic when i 7 shipthe Bac astu steamer was slowly warped into position shortly after noon for discharge of her threefold human cargo the rescued hsi er impended Felled by the Skipper oi the anim I mean Suppose an ele phant charges me what should I do to distract his attention Air Duquesne tolj the President there were many things to do but one of the best was to run like the wind Asks About Shikarees I tl ought you had the natives fire in the other dn tioii so tlie elepiianls will run away from you said the President What sort ol shikarees do you suppose Im getting down there Mr Duouesno who is well acquainted in Africa told the President he would the other bishops who were in the city to take part in the consecration The I people who had gained admission to the edifice remained standing until the procession had entered the nave One feature of this procession was the fact that for the first time in the history of the Episcopal Church laymen marched In a consecration procession Bishop Woodcocks sermon was a piwerful message not only to Dr Harding but to the nation as well His end never knew what a reception ment be fore Just look at my little finger This one on my right hand That is where I am to wear my bishops ring I ha 1 to take it off because you see the skin is cut clear through from the many hand shakes I have had tonight The committee in charge of the recep that ln such matters the Japanese govern ment always would be guided by world conditions coupled with the economic conditions of the country The leading newspapers in commenting imittee in cnarge oi ne recep editoriaU on the California situation say tion was headed by KearAomraiEnui twi must not fni cet cott and the following Messrs jonhs Rust Kenyon Hynson Singleton Mc Kinney Hillyer Bundy Glarebrook Johnston Cobey Kriedler Weaver Poyn ton Gordon Looker Parris Dent Chew Pool and Erant EARTHQUAKES CAUSE PANIC get the st that Cunningham can pkk ing was a personal address to Dr Hardin the country Mr Duouesne was much lltg who sat near nim impressed with the President and espe ciaily Wtli his knowledge of the animals My brtner he said you have been cf the African jungle The President chosen to the highest office within the Refugees at Monteleone Decide to Flee to America Crazed Victim Found Alive at Messina After Twenty nine Days Suffering More Money for the Needy Is interested in rhinoceroses more than an thing else Mr Duouesne said I was astonished at the thorough wiy he hasprepared for his trip He seems have mastered all details he added The President will be one about one year After his return lie said he would go West and be a Western man HIS AIM WAS WILD Italian Fires Four Tmes at Mine Superintendent but Misses Special to The Washington Post Cumberland Md Jan 25 Frank Rowone an Italian aged about 40 who was held today on a charge ot attempting to shoot A Brooks Fleming jr superintendent of the Fairmont Coal Company at Hutchinson near Fairmont Fleming is a son of former Gov A Hrooks Fleming Tlie Italian claimed his pay envelope was short and while Supt Fleming was making inquiry the Italian became so abusiva that he was twice ejected Then he drew a revolver and fired at Supt Fleming through the window He pulled the trigger three times but tlie weapon faild to discharge The fourth time it discharged but his aim was wild hic considered the seaman3 recreancy Vn injured quartermaster from the Flor wah brought to port on the Baltic to 1 Bolh versions agree in saying that the passengers and crew from the Rtoublic immander felled the quartermaster withJ the 830 passengers and two of the crew iron spike following what he must of tlle colliding Florida and the Baltics I own js cauin ana many steerage passengers It was a singularly motley and in considerable part strangely attired strong that tilled the Baltic It wa He stoutly asserted that he wa not stirringly emotional and gladsome throng i the wheel when the accident occurred that cheered and waved endlessly from Probably not until both commanders ier mtn tlie debarkation began i ki i Tle following scenes were varied as 1 luman natre and as the sea enacted Hi actual facts be known Possibly Hie tragedy had circumstanced things for ruict or a marine court will be needed ech of the unwilling participants therein to determine them Fortunately there fir Little time was lost In friend finding cass of questionable behavior on the I frlend and the hundreds of little knots iiMi df ilnv nne Wlnpprn 1 in Trqitfilu itrxm to bo probed Sealby a Hero Standing out prominently on tne other hand is the conduct of Capt Sealby of tne Republic who true to the bet tra Kxlrn fare to Chicago On The Pennsylvania Limited leaving Washington 1153 a in arriving Chicago I 845 next morning or the rhicago Lim Ited Pennsvlvanla Railroad learln Washington 545 arriving Chicago i next day Through sleeoin cars MOB AFTER STRIKEBREAKERS Cries of Lynch Them When Officers Arrest Men for Firing on Miners Special to Th Washington Post Cumberland Md Jan 5 William Bridge and Dorey rbsast are under nrrest at Tunnclton Va charged with shooting into a crowd of miners which included Kirk liston Charles Mejers John Douglas and Wilbert Meese Fie shot were lired tlie bullets striking walls of nearbj buildings Bail was finished for the accused who are strikebreakers by the Union Coal Company at whoi mines the strike is in progress The prisoners claim rocks were thrown at them and they hred ln self defense When tliey were arrested they were followed by an angry crowd who cried lynch them but officers kept the mob in check next day Through sleeping cars The Man Who Knows Watch for him gift of the church Men rightly esteem this office to be an honor an honor which no man taketh to himself The honor of the office however weighs but little compared with its responsibilities You wll have cares which no one can share you will have duties which may not be delegated you will have to exercise discipline to dare when necessity arise to be unpopular for God and the churchs sake Will Lose Many Companions You will miss many of the intimate associations and close pastoral relations of the parochial life You will have hours when there is just a great human loneliness in a life separated not from your brethren but for your brethern Your associations with all men will broaden and your associates for companionship and sweet converse sake will decrease This is not their wish nor yours it is a necessity and a sacrifice made ln the peculiar work of this office But despite the Interruptions which occur and the less frequent intercourse with those whom you have learned to love the joy of service will be your compensation for all the sacrifices required in entering upon your new field Here at our National Capital you have a unique strategic position requiring the faithfulness of one wfjo realizes that his cali is to serve the Lord Christ If God be for you who can be against you Spiritual lcader shlp will count for more than worldly wisdom Must Preach Christ Preach Christ and Ills cross though to some they be a stumbling block and ty others they seem but foolishness The power of God will confound the wisdom of the world You have been chosen by your own people out of your people and you Florida and Carolina Reports Best reache1 by Seaboard Air Lfne Three dany trams villi tnrough Pullmans anl dining cars Office 1421 Fa ave Monteleone Jan 25 The earth shocks here are averaging a dozen dally and apparently are Increasing in number and intensity The refugees are in a constant state of alarm and hte vast majority of them have decided to emigrate to America as soon as they can secure transportation On the distant horizon Mount Etna can be seen emitting an immense column of smoke which being white the people consider a baa omen iMessIna Jan 25 Reports spread today of the remarkable recovefy from the ruins of Gaetano Mllitello an ocloge rarian alive after 29 days Investigation proved that he hd managed to escape from under the walls of a houe a few days after the earthquake fleeing in terror to the outskirts of the town where he hid For a time he sustained life with herbs but at length fell exhausted under a pile of wreckage where he was found by the soldiers The American supplies for the earthquake sufferers brought out here by the steamer Celtic are being distributed along the coasts of Calabria and Sicily north and south of Messina and Reggio by Italian torpedoboats There Is now sufficient food in Messina but the people still need clothing and shoes A thousand more blankets were distributed this morning Rome Jan 25 Ambassador Griscom has allotted 100 out of hc balance of the American relief funds for the relief of earthquake victims In the dsascr around Taormlna He has given also 400 to Enrico Vlscontl Venosta for relief in some of the smaller Calabrian towns Printers on Strike in Paris Paris Jan 25 All he linotype operators in the Paris newspapers went on a strike tonight for an increase in wages The publishers jnade arrangements to print their papers by hand They suffered only slight delay that the Japanese people must not forget that the unfriendliness toward Japan in America exists only among a small clique in California The editorials further assert that the cordial relations established by the visit of the fleet and the commercial delegates from California Annot be affected by the action of tese Americans who fail to understand the Japanese people Newspaper Criticism The Asahi in commenting on th California affair expresses the hope that the government will seize in early opportunity to closely define its policy and express its feelings to those Americans who are exerting efforts to pass legisluion Inimical to Japan Special dispatches published here today state that the antijapanese sentiment is ranldly spreading throughout the United States The proposed legislation of California preventing alters from owning land is regarded as directly affecting Japanese and Chinese residents in the United Staes who arc unable to acquire citizenship The newspapers here in commenting on these dispatches ask how this bill will affect ownership pointing out at the same time that while Japan does not allow foreigners to own land within the 1 oundarles of the empire hundreds of foreigners actually do own land ln Japan holding it usder superficies or perpetual ground which may run for thousands of years Nashville Tenn Jan 25 The net result of another days work in the trial of Col Duncan Cooper Robin Cooper and John Sharpe for the murder of former Senator Carmack was one lone Juror added to the six already in the box The new venire of 500 talesmen making 1000 so far called reported thi3 morning and at 350 120 had been examined Of these only one quallfi Vaughn a farmer 48 years of ag The hearing of the charges aga nst Juror Leigh will take place as soon an the present panel Is exhausted whici will probably be Wednesday The State has used 10 of its 18 peremptory challenges and the defense 14 of Us 72 Soon after court convened this mining Attorney General McCarn asked whether or not the defense proposed to res st the removal of Juror Leigh Judge Anderson said the defense had not nad time to investigate To Be Settled Later The defense has had time retorted McCarn It has had Leighs son working on the charges or for some othr purpose for several days And the SUie lshes to announce that it objects to Leigh not only because he was drunk when accepted but because he has expressed a violent opinion as to the Innocence of the accused We have the proof of that Has Juror Lee been arrested for perjury asked Judge Anderson Not yet replied McCarn suggestively Then McCarn offered to read the affidavit against Leigh but the defense objected The state then asked the court to set a day for the hearing The court said It would be better to continue the examination of talesmen and settle the Leigh case later Counsel then asked for time to consult upon the new venire which was granted A long list of talesmen were ready with pleas to be excused from service which led the court to remark The first men who presents a business excuse will be fined 10 right off the reel At least half of the waiting line of men melted out into the courtroom Warns Those Accepted During a recessjudge Hart sent for the six men already selected as jurors and said The court wishes to caution you against discussing this ca3e among yourselves This would be contrary to your oath This action was taken at the request of the state which professed to believe that those men on the jury against whom prejudice charges will be made might discuss the case and influence the others The first panel of 500 talesmen was exhausted in the morning and when the second of 500 was called Judge Hart who was feeling ill decided to adjourn court until this morning EIGHT ENTOMBED IN MINE Two Americans and Eight Foreigners Imprisoned by an Explosion Pittsburg Pa Jan 25 Two Americans and eight foreigners are Imprisoned in the Merchants Coal Company mine at Boswell Pa where a gas explosion occurred about oclock tonight Three foreigners badly injured escaped after the explosion and Supt Logan was carried out unconscious Rescue parties are trying to reach the imprisoned men The night force had not been permitted lo enter the mine because of anticipated trouble which the superintendent and party were investigating BOY MURDERER TO DIE 90O a for Sm York Ihis is the leaving time from Union Station Washington of the fast mornlcj express via Pennsylvania Railroad Parlor cars and dining car Walter Zeller Sentenced to Electric Chair for Killing Grandfather Brldgeton Jan 25 Walter Zelier the lS year old Vineland boy who was recently convicted of murder In thu Irs degree for complicity in the killing of William Read his grandfather oa November 13 last year was today sentenced to be executed In the electric char at Trenton during the week beginning March 8 Herbert Brlgg and CHne Wheelsr for complicity In the same crime were each sentenced to 30 years at hard labor in the State prison BERLIN SOCIALISTS ROUTED Attempts to Make Suffrage Demonstrations Balked by Troops Berlin Jan 25 Thousands of socialists including many women assembled today In front of the Diet building Their purpose was to make a demonstration in favor of reform of the electoral system Troops dispersed the crowd and further gathelngs were prevented The socialists then proceeded up Koe niggnaetz street with the intention of entering Unter dn Iinden through tne Brandenburg gate This was closed by policemen There were sporadic gatherings of socialists in other parts of the city WRITERS TRIAL GOES OVER Cleveland Could Not Be Present to Testify Against Brandenburg Special to Th Wuhlngton Poat New York Jan 25 The trial of Brough ton Brandenburg who Is under indictment on a charge of larceny ln connection with the sale of a newspaper article purport ins to have been written by the late rover Cleveland was today postponed af the request of the dstrict attorney It was said that the case had been postponed because Mrs Cleveland could not attend at this time BROKE DEAR TEACHERS RIB Girl Pupil So Glad to Get Back She Hogged Too Hard Special to Th Washinfton Post EH Paso Tex Jan 25 Miss Bessie Mc Gowan a teacher ln Baylor University at Waco sustained a broken rib front an overfond embrace today One of the girl pupils returning from her vacation did It The teacher is confined to her room Tke Col ton Sale Tsmoron The Colton sale of rare interior decorations opens at the Sloan Galleries 1407 St omerrow momng at 11 oclock The collection may be viewed today from a until 6 One hunlred and sixty of th most prominent charity workers of the country are in session in this city conferring on vital questions that come up from day to day in their dealings with dependent children The conference was calld by the President and after the invito members had been photographed ln group in front of the Treasury building they wo received at the White Home Mi Roosevelt at 230 oclock yesterday ift noon The conference was called by the executive in the east roonr Ji 45 Oclock During the afternopn 31 addresses we made on some of fie great nustion dependent childhood by as many nent workers in that field That the individuality and intern i of home life should in nearlv all is tu presered at any lost and that in asm where half orphans had to be pa irom the surviving parent for a ti oi time the consensus of opinion tnat as soon as possible they should restored to the home Another equally as important pnniple that all child caring agencies should operate for the betterment of wx Ml dltions and thus remove causes nt ii phanage was discussed at the af in session Greeted by President When the delegates were admltt to the White House the President hook hands and spoke a few friendly with each of the 160 distinguish Itora Mr Roosevelt their inade sh speech of introduction ii which out rned the work the conference Aft hat concluded he made as a suggen Tn which was immediately carrij out tiiwt Hpmer Folks mas Mulry and Juliarf Mack ma1 vice chalrm and that West be Je ted sepn i py He suggested that Mr lks preside at the afternoon session Mr Mulry at the night meeting and that the members ir range for the chairmen or the othe slons at their convenience The President announced that he would be glad to attend the deliberations of tn delegates as often as possible and at he would attend the dinner Tuesdav for a short time to receive the rt nf the committee on resolutions i tu thank the delegates for their inn Amid much applause the President men withdrew The Presidents Address Mr Roosevelts introductory gpee 1 as follows Ladies and Gentlemen In greet mi you here I wish to say a word of se i appreciation of the sacrifice which hm been entailed upon you in coming In this country much can 1 done by gove mental work but the governmental will go for nothing unless we continue be able to call upon bDrJIen like this wl I am addressing to the dlsiuten work which oj have done ip here It is a fine thing for yju i come it Is a fine thing that you ar do and I thank you in the name of on pie as a whole There can ls no more important ii Ject from the standpint of the i than that with which ou are to deal l-cause when you take caie of th chirtf ou are taking care of the nation i morrow and it is incumbent upon eer one of us to do all in his or her power provide for the Interests of those IdrtT whom cruel misfortune has hand i apje I at the outset of their lives I earnes nupe inai ins memoers ot mis cn reura will take a progresive stand a to estailish a goal toward which whoi country can wcrk In other words I earnestly hope that each of you will sider not only the interests of his mediate locality bu the Interests of ti nation as a whole Different Types of Conditions There are of course several diff types of ccnditiors which you are tr to meet I believe that we all us la come to the conclusion that win re pos stble the thing to be done for tly chld Is to provide a heme for it and that where that Is net possible we shoui 1 make the conditions as nearly as possible like those which the child would have in a home There are half a dozen different types of children for whom we need to ca There is first of all the complete orphan the child who has lest both father anl mother For this child we wish to make permanent provision My own belief that the best kind of permanent provision if feasible is to place the child In a home We then have to meet the case one the most distressing of casev where the father has died where the breadwinner has gone where the mother would like keep the child but simply lacks the earning capacity Surely in such a case th goal toward which we should strive Is to help that mother so that she can keep her own home and keep the child it that Is the beet thing possible to be don for that child How the relief shall come public private or by a mixture of both ln what way you are competent to say and I am not But I am competent to say what I think the goal should be Cases for Institutions Then we come to the case of the child who must be taken away temporarily from the parent or parents but where It Is not desirable that the separation should be permanent These children offer cases for which the institution Is peculiarly fitted There are otaer problems ot.