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CYCLONE IN PHILADEPHIA I he iViount Inion limes ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE PERSONS NOW FOR FIXINGTHE BLAME FOR FIRE DISASTER 0010 FIRE If! NEW YORK PERISH IN Victims Nearly All Girls, Crushed on Pavements. Smothered By Smoke or Incinerated. I -r nil? i iippph fi nnp? piame quedt Urrtll ILLUMO rmillC OHLTl Conflagration In Three Top Floors of 10-Story Building Occupied By Triangle Waist Company Fifty Bodies Found on Ninth Floor; 63 Crushed Lifeless By Leaping. New York. One hundred and forty-eight persons, nine-tenths of them flrla and young women, employed as shirtwaist makers, perished in a disastrous fire which swept the upper floors of the 10-story loft building at 13 and 29 Washington Place, and In a incredibly short time transformed a quiet by-way of commerce into klackened canyon of death.

It was the replica of the Newark a Horror enlarged sevontout, and tow tors were on duty, and they tell stor-ity has had nothing comparable with ca nf numerous trips up and down It since the burning of the Sloctim strewed the gates of the sound with oro than a thousand dead. I Ono hundred and forty-one bodies fcad boen removed from the ruins at midnight aud seven of the fatally in-; Jured had died in hospitals. This, it i Is believed, completes the list of dead, most of whom are unidentified. Grief-razed relatives besieged- the morgue as the bodies were laid out. Its cause is to be found somewhere in the fllimsy fabrics on which some S00 persons were at work, either from a bit of defective Insulation, a tip of gas flame or perhaps the spark from forbidden cigarette.

Such a catastrophe, according to the view of Edward Croker, chief of the fire department, was due solely to the ineffective laws which do not make mandatory the placing of fire-escapes on the fronts of the structures used as factories. The building where the fire started Is on the northwest corner of Wash ington Place and Green street, and the block In which it is situated is Inclosed on the north by Waverly Place and on the west by Washing- WHEN THE FIRE WAS AT ITS HEIGHT The scene of the fire was a ten-story brick-and-stone structure at Washington Place and Greene street. The single fire-escape Inside the building reached only to the seventh floor. Fifteen hundred persons employed by manufacturing concerns occupied the lower floors. The three upper floors -the eighth, ninth and tenth wero occupied by the Triangle Waist Company, makers of women's waists and coats, who employ 750 women.

When the lire department reached the scene every window-on the upper three floors was crowded with faces of those cut off from escape. Flames and 'smoke were rolling out the windows of the eighth floor. The extension ladders of the fire department could not reach to the upper windows. Scores of women leaped out the windows with clothing aflame or already burned off. The impact of the bodies tore the life-saving nets to shreds.

Falling girls collided in the air or descended in groups. THE SOIL TRAIN DROPS INTO RIVER The Atlantic Coast Line's Flyer Ten Dead in Wreck. Dixie Ocilla, Ga. Ten persons were killed and a score or more injured when the Atlantic Coast Line southbound train No. 95, known as the "Dixie Flyer," running from Chicago to Jacksonville, went through a trestle over the Alapaha River, IS miles east of here.

The wreck occurred on the Brunswick and Western division of the line. The baggage and express cars, two day coaches and a Pullman went into the river. Five Pullmans remained on the track. According to an official statement the wreck was caused by the breaking of an axle on the engine when midway of the trestle, the weight of the train causing the. trestle to collapse.

The train carried down with It 4 00 feet of the trestle. The baggage car was telescoped. The disaster came without warning and as soon as those in the rear Pullmans rushed to the edge of the river and rusliel to the edge of the river and rendered assistance to the victims. Over 30 Killed In Strike. Lexington, Ky.

That more than 30 men were killed and many of them buried beside the railroad tracks is the report received here from a prominent citizen of Somerset, the centre of the strike district, on the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railroad, between here and Chattanooga. It was stated that very few of the homicides become known to the press, and as most of the men killed are negroes. Miss Taft Joins the Helen Club, Chicago. Miss Helen Taft, the daughter of President. Taft, has written her acceptance of an honorary membership in the Helen Club of Northwestern University.

Her letter was read at a meeting held in WI1-lard Hall, Kvanston. Five more young women were initiated into the club, which is composed exclusively of young women named Helen. Five Cut Wires and Rob Rank. Hudson, Kansas. Five men blew open the safe of the Hudson State Hank and after seriously wounding Max Rice, a watchman, who attempted to grapple with one of the robbers, escaped In an automobile with $4, COO.

Before entering the bank the robbers cut all of the telephone and telegraph wires out of the town leaving no way for citizens to alarm neighboring cities. Handbills to Coax Recruits. I lH'troit. Members of the loca United States Army recruiting office in charge of Lieut. M.

C. Corey, dif trlbuted 10,000 highly colored hand- I bills telling of the advantages of i army life among the automobile fac- tories of the city in an effort, fo in- I duce mechanics to enlist. According to the recruiting office, enlistments during the last, few days have nearly doubled. To Tax Unmarried Women. Madison, Wis.

A bill to fax J5 annually every unmarried woman 1 over 25 years old and to create a "matrimonial commission" consisting of the governor, superintendent ol public property and chief clerk of the Assembly, was introduced In the As- sembly by Assemblyman Hansen, of Manitowoc, of "trouserette" fame The matrimonial commission is' charged with the duty of bringing' together kindred souls when nppli cation Is made for an affinity by any lovelorn maiden. Stabbed in Nose by Hatpin. I Providence, It. I. The crusade on long hatpins gained a strong support- er in Representative John B.

Leclerc, who, after being wounded by one of the socalled dangerous weapons, an- nouneed that he would introduce a bill in the legislature limiting the I Some fruits that sre sweet when jraw but which become sour hei i i cooked do so because the beat changes the cane sugar Into lesj sweet inverted sugar and releases the I acids. I John Patten, a truckman of Utica. N. fell heir in one day fo 30. nm from one brother and $10 from an-, other.

imported ore than 1.. 770,000 rabbP kTrs from Acsrir lat year. nVi Mount Union. Pc. Helen pink la tha newest color.

Inls will no doubt make Alice blu. Austrulla wants the world to know that It runs a meut market of its own. Reports Indicate that It takes two hobbles to make one "harem" skirt. 8nme of the season's new hats will look well If they surround a pretty (ace. The Chicago millionaire who has turned artist can at least draw beautiful checks.

It la to be noted thai all those pictures of smiling Rills in aeroplanes axe taken on the ground. Luther Hurbank can do a great deal with fruits and vegetables but he has never jet turned out a winterloss winter. President Falierrs of France gets a salary of $700,000, and the sum sounds even bigg when expressed In francs. Physicians who are successfully using hydrant win ox as nn anesthetic will fall to score a hit with the manufacturing chemists. A Cleveland imn has been robbed of $2,400 which he kept in a dlshpan.

Ho ought to have had it hidden under the rubber 'plant. Will prison sentences stop women from smuggling, or will society look upon the brief detention as merely an Interesting diversion? Still some men would rather hear a 40.000 word hypothetical question than an angry's wife's: "Well, where have you been till now?" Though a Chicago man has paid $10,000 for a young hull calf frugal persons will hesitate to purchase their porterhouse steaks on the hoof. Chicago is thinking of changing the names of her streets. While they are at it they might also change the ap. pearance of many of them, with profit.

London has produced a comic opera without music. This is indeed a novelty, although they've been producing ionic comic operas without the com rdy over here for some time. "Don't eat vtien you're tired," says nn easiern physician. On the other hand, never go to bed hungry, we are elsewhere advised. Life is getting rather budty mixed.

A California g'rl offers to sell to the government Lincoln pennies for tl each. Next thing we know she will be asking someone to give her two tei.s tor a five. A man who was put in the Tombs prison lor carrying concealed weapons was robbed while there of $600. Investigation might disclose the presence of thieves in the iustitution. The New Jersey architect who designed ouse without any stairway evidently thought that the district should he uptodate and bring 1n its upper floor scholars by airships.

Probably the woman who her life's-- savings Im the cellar and invoke to find them stolon has reached the conclusion that our national banks are not the most ritky things in the world. Los Angt les hr.s an Su-year-old citizen who he will wed when he has reached the century mark. At ny rate, it can hardly be said that he is rushing precipitately Into mat rlmony. A Pennsylvania justice has upheld the right of a wife to paint. The dis puto had nothing to 'o with her earn- lug a living by ilevou herself to art, but was one Involving her own facial decoration.

A savant breaks into print with the startling statement that "sowing wild oats'' is harmful to youths. Let us hope the savant is not laboring undei the Impression that he has uttered a new thought. RobDera broke intp a jail In Penn t-ylvania a few nights ago and robbed the only prisoner -of $20. People who go to jail In Pennsylvania should take the precaution of leaving their valua bles at the desk New York aldermen have rejected a bill iiiui; 'ng tlie length of hat j-ins Done in sell No doubt every- one of them had to go back homo und face a woman armed with couple nf the dangerous things. The klss i microbe has been oft-m attacked as pernicious, but it Is to be feared thnt people can no more be persuaded to give up the ancient practice of osculation than they can be made shy of acepting money which i suspected nf conveying germs.

A convict in Texas became so ill a surgical operation was found necessary, when the cause of the trouble was discovered to be a Fio'cn di'ic-ond. The convict will now temporarily pusb the restaurant pearl thherv oyster out of the limelight The law of action and reaction If well flmstrated at this time are demandirg a wider field ol Action tl-rn ever and yet Is the great st vecue of the hobble skirt. Conrorrirs the promoters and spec tutors of that rather sickening fight Let a-i en a ri and bulldog if it Is to regarded a genuine it call? for ca'it-oi in condemning the iir of bu'l Hectics; Put where did th stern r-1 into rosse stien of a lixe c.rd K-'o. lc.iS Airicaa Northern Section of the City Is Hit Hard Two Fatalities Reported. Philadelphia.

A severe electrical storm, accompanied by a high wind which at times blew with cyclonic force, swept over the northern sec tion of this city Bhortly after 6 o'clock Tuesday, leaving destruction and death In Its wake. Buildings were demolished, houses unroofed and the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad was placed out of commission temporarily by the demolition of its tower at Holniesburg and station at Tacony, cutting off ail telegraphic communi cation. Tacony, the section where the greatest damage occurred, was completely cut off from the rest of the city. Telegraph, telephone and trolley wires were blown to the ground and it was hours before the details of the catastrophe reached the central section of the city, where the storm did not appear. The police station at Tacony was demolished.

The evening squad of policemen were preparing to leave for their beats when the roof of the was blown off and every window broken by a sudden burst of wind. At the Tacony station of the Pennsylvania railroad an unidentified man was killed when a portion of the structure was blown away. Many houses in this section were unroofed or completely demolished. In the manufacturing section of Kensington, In the northeast, toward Tacony, several factories were destroyed, trolley wires were blown down and roofs of houses hurled to the centre of the streets. AMERICANS SHOT TO DEATH Execution Ordered By Mexican Drumhead Court-Martall- State Department to Probe.

San Antonio, Tex. John Hamilton pignowitty, well known here as "Ham" Dignowitty, and three other Americans have been shot to death under order of a Mexican court-martial for participation in the insurrection, according to a dispatch received by members of the Dignowitty family. The news was brought. by Fred Dignowitty, a cousin of the executed man, but he had no particulars aside from the allegation that the execution was the order of a "drum-head" court-martial. "Ham" Dignowitty was 30 years old and was engaged in the cattle and mining business in the State of Chihuahua.

H. M. Burns, a mining man with Interests in Northern Mexico, declared that the closing of the mines had thrown many Americans out of work and that more than 150 having no other way of living were now with the insurrertos. In addition, Hums said, there were probably f0 American adventurers with the insurrectos, but the majority were mining men out of work. Washington to Investigate Washington, D.

C. Reports that four Americans had been shot under order of a Mexican court-martial will be given immediate investigation by the State Department, which has established a quick line of communication to the American Embassy at Mexico City. So far the press has been quicker on the trigger than the official advices which the State Department receives. The death of O'Driscoll, an American reported shot by insurgents, has been confirmed officially. It.

is not I given out what action the Depart- ment will take in this or other cases. HOW HE STARTED THE CANAL Roosevelt Says he Took the Canal and Let Congress Debate, Berkeley, Cal. Speaking at the animal Charter Day exercises in the Greek Theater at the University of California, Theodore Roosevelt made a plea for higher education and told how he started the Panama Canal. "I am Interested in the Panama Canal," he said, "because I started It. If 1 had followed traditional, conservative methods, I would have submitted a dignified state paper of probably 200 pages to Congress and the debate on it would have been going on yet; but I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate: and while the debate goes on, the Canal does also." Band of Seventy Defeated.

Lerdo. Coahuila. Mexico. A band of 70 rebels was defeated near the San Julian dam on the Agnauiadal river by a small detachment of Federal troops. The rebels left six dead and two wounded on the field.

The Federal loss was not given. Flies With 13 Passengers. Mouzon, France. Roger Somnier, the French blplanist, Friday broke Louis Breguet's "aerobus" record, which he made at Douai Thursday in taking up 12 passengers. Somnier carried 13 pwrsons, weighing in the aggregate 1 4 ft 0 pounds.

He flew, however, only two-thirds of a mile, whereas Breguet, who used a monoplane, weit two miles. The weight of Breguet's passengers was 1,316 pounds. Women Gets Laetare Ivledaf. Notre Dame, Ind. The Laetare medal annually awarded by the University of Notre Dame to a lay member of the Catholic Church in the United States who has performed conspicuous work in literature, art, science or philanthropy, is awarded this year to Miss Agnes Repplier, of Philadelphia.

She was chosen by the tor.rd of trustees for hT service tc American literature, extending over a vaiter of a century. i I i I Only Fire Escape Blocked by Iron Shutters. EXIT DOORS OPENED IK'VARD. First Evidence Unearthed at Beginning of Probe Into New York Fire Horror Started by Lighted Match or Cigarette. New York.

The fixing of the blame, for the loss of nearly 150 lives In the Washington Square (ire of Saturday drew- to a focus Monday the energies of the district attorney'! staff, the fire marshal, the coroner, the state labor department and Borough President McAneney, of Manhattan. Dozens of Investigators collected every scrap of available information. Grand jurymen turned personal probers and an additional grand jury, in a formal resolution presented to the Court of General Sessions, offered their aid to the district attorney, and declared that some, one should be prosecuted for the disaster. What the probers found evidence that doors at exits swung Inward; the crumpled Arc escape In the air-shaft, the one fire escape blocked by Iron shutters when opened, an empty water tank on the roof Rud the practice prevalent among cutters of lighting cigarettes a few minutes before quitting time all this and what i Is yet to be ferreted out will be placed speedily before the grand jury for action, District Attorney Whitman announced. A Match or Cigarette.

The tenement-house department summoned owners of a half a dozen faulty structures to police court as a preliminary step to a far-reaching Investigation of tenements. One man was held for violation of the law, and other cases, It was announced, will be pressed immediately. Fire Marshal Beers summoned the proprietors of the Triangle Waist Company and several employes to testify at a public hearijig, largely to Inquire into the truth of reports that doors leading to fire exits were blocked. "So far as I can discover," he said, "there has never been a fire drill in this factory. In my opinion it would take 700 girls three hours to reach the street by the one fire escape in that building.

Nine-tenths of the employes cannot speak English, yet I rould not find a sign of Yiddish or Italian pointing out the fire exits." The fire marshal said he was convinced that a match or cigarette, lit by a cutter and thrown in a heap of clippings, had started the fire. NEW MEXICAN CABINET Inclan Succeeds De La Barre to U. S. Cosio Retains War Folio. Mexico City, Mexico.

Coincident with the official announcement of a new Diaz Cabinet Monday came that of the appointment of Zamacona Inclan as Ambassador to the United Slates, succeeding Francisco Leon da la Barra, named Secretary of Foreign Affairs. At the same time the resignation Maeedo as sub-Secretary of the Department of the Interior became known. In the Cabinet, as announced at the office of Secretary ot the Interior was I vacant. Speculation as to its incumbent still favored Teodoro Dehesa, Governor of Vera Cruz and candidate for Vice-President at die last election. The New Cabinet Officers.

General Cosio retains the portfolio of the Department of War. The Cabinet as at present constituted follows: Foreign Relations Francisco 1-eon de la liarra. Interior Pending. Justice Donietrlo Sudi. Public Instruction Jorge Vera Estanod, Fo in en to a ii ue 1 a ro i Rivera.

3 Communications and Public Works Norbeto Dominguez. Finance Jose Yyes Limantour, Incumbent. War and Marine Gen. Manuel Gonzalez Cosio. incumbent.

Pinp'lck Kills Physician. Ijs Angeles, Cal. -Dr. N. G.

Gates, superintendent of a local hospital, and a leading surgeon of this city, died of blood poisoning, the result of having accidentally pricked his hand with a pin hile bandaging a wound in the operating room a week ago. Two Ki led; Twenty Hurt. Monroeville, Ala. Two men were killed and 20 persons were injured by a tornado which swept through this part of the state Monday evening. At Jones Mill, Stephen Byrd and Alexander McCroy, farmers, were killed and 15 persons more or less seriously hurt.

Several buildings were blown down and a number of persons injured at Kxcel. At Manistee. Dr. K. M.

Harper and Miss Alice Lambert were badly hurt. Walked 75.000 Mites. Reading, Pa. Daniel Klous-r. ot Hesins.

for 39 years was a trackwalker between that place and, Urookside for the Heading Railway, has been placed on the pension list. Jt.t is alleged that during his service ith the company Klousrr walked 75.000 miles. Fp'demic in Amoy, Amoy, China. Because of an epl-ricnMe of plague and snialIio in the i jiative eusrter a general quarautin tiss len ordered. (Copyright.

13LU PLEDGES AMITY Message Expressing Gratifica tion at Taft's Assurances. SILENCE ON CABLE INCIDENT. Administration Trying Tacitly to Dis credit the Report ot Secret Wire to Japare.e War Office. Washington, D. C.

Regardless of the fact that it is an open secret to almost every army and navy officer, as well as State Department officials, that all possible steps are being taken to build up the defenses of the Pacific Coast and the Hawaiian Islands at the earliest possible date, President Taft. and Emperor Mutsuhito have apparently reached a definite understanding, even if that should prove to be a "misunderstanding. Baron Uchida, the Japanese Ambassador, who visited the White House several days ago at the express invitation of the President, called again Saturday afternoon, by direction of his Emperor, to convey Mutsuhito's thanks for the "kind message" sent to him by the President and also to characterize the various reports tending to discredit the good faith of Japan with the United States and Mexico as "false and wicked." The Emperor's personal message to the President was as follows: "I was greatly pleased to receive your very kind message conveyed to me through my Ambassador in 'Washington, and I thank you for it. I was already convinced that you had given no credence to the false and wicked reports regarding Japan, but it was especially a source of profound satisfaction to me to receive from you the assurance that the relations of amity and good understanding between our two countries were never better nor more cordial than at this time. I am most happy to be able entirely to reciprocate that, assurance." If these friendly exchanges are sincere, President Taft must have dismissed as untrue the report made to him of the discovery of the loose end at Guam of a cable leading direct to Yokohama.

Locked in Vault by Robber, Decatur, 111. Two robbers walked into the First National Hank at Blue Mound, 111., shortly after noon and drove Francis Peck, 20 years old, assistant cashier, into the vault and i under threats to kill him made him I unlock the safe and hand out $2,500 in currency. They then locked Peek in the vault, and escaped, 44 Killed in 9-Hour Battle. A gun Prieta, Mexico A nine-hour haitle at La Colorada. south of Her-mosillo, resulted In the deaths of rebels and eight Federals, according to an official report received here.

Therebels had possession of the town, but after hard fighting were driven out. Bull Kills Farmer. New York. A bull attacked and killed William Payne on the old Stuart farm, at Newton. N.

tearing the man's body to pieces and then hurling it into some underbrush, where it was found several hours later. The bull some time' ago. attacked other employes on the farm, but they managed to escape. Reciprocity is Paramount. Washington, D.

It was good news for Canadian reciprocity that came out Friday after the Cabinet meeting. President Taft, after giving heed to all the arguments, pro and con, has decided that the Canadian trade agreement is para- JAPAN'S EMPEROR I I I iMi a tuitowr a scurry for water buckets and finally several were found. The efforts of several of the uienj with the buckets was pitifully Inefi fectual. Shirtwaists, which had juaS been completed, hung from rods audi lines, and plies of materia! were here) and there. The cries of fire sent the panic of fear through every floor.

The toilers lout all reason and rushed fram tit-ally out, seeking means of exit. They battered at, closed doors on thfl ninth Hour, ran to the remaining opening in a stampede, and hurled themselves into the narrow at which was a landing and a frail, single (ire-escape. About this otm point 30 or 40 bodies were found wedged together in a charred and ghastly pyramid. There are two pRSsenger elevators In the building, at which the opera- wlth women and girls. The two proprietors were giving orders that the men and boys should use the stairways, of which thefo were two.

There were also tw-o freight olnva. tors, which, as far as could be learn ed, were not in commission at all. Other means of egress were the stairs leading to the roof, both of which were broad and strong, and at tha top of the flight was a large flooi which was easily oiened by thosa who went in that direction. Theoretically the employes, calm and well poised through frequent fire drills, should have used thes methods of escape. The most ol them staggered over machines and chairs, cut off from flight by thi fiahies, which were converting th stairs Into a fiery flue.

There were others who were stilled where they sat at their machines ot were flung suffocated to the floor to be trodden upon. Women and girls, terror maddened, raised the windows, seeking air and aid. Rack of there was roaring toprtet, before them death In the brick-walled abyss. Some made the choice, others were in- voluntarily hurled off the window ledges by the crazed and stifling-niol at their backs clamoring for air. In twos and three the women and girls dropped from the window sills tragedy to which they had given unwilling witness.

The responses fo the first, alarm of fire had been prompt and efficient, and soon the street was gorged with engines, trucks and towers which followed each other with precision to the fourth alarm. The ladders of (he fire Department would reach only to the seventh floor, but before the firemen could get even that far scores had gone to their death on the flagging of the street. It was the carniiKe of battle which tilled those short blocks in Washington Place and Grvn street. The women employes hurled themselves by twos and threes to their doom, some descending with hair and cloth ing ablaze. Here was the valley of the shadow of death, where had been a mart of humdrum trade.

There was no lime to perform the offices of the dead, for uncovered they lay with their faces to the sky. How the fire started will, perhaps, never be Known. A corner on the eighth floor was its point of origin and the three upper floors only wero swept. I Ilorra onl In -lilfo Ilmi.n and informed' President Taft. The President expressed pleasure at the Ambassador appointment and con- 'grafulated him warnilv.

Secretary of Slate Knox and Inform- ed him of the appointment. U. S. Takes 15 Men With Arms. El Paso, Texas.

Heading for the border, 15 alleged Mexican Insurrectos were arrested by United States Sn-ret Service officers at Sanderson, Texas. They carried 21,090 rounds i of ammunition, 56 nei rifles and had 12 horses. They werij taken to San i Antonio. I The noisel'-ss ho novelty, a French vented one that I and lash ef fall' alley is a havlne in-he clatter ton Square east. It abuts upon the large structure occupied by the American Book Company and certain schools of the New York University.

The building is occupied by matin- Jaeturers of clothing and fur gar-! hurled through the air and fell to metits of various kinds, the upper the pavements, here they lay a shat-three of the 10 stories being given to tered mass of riven flesh and protrud, the Triangle Waist Company, which ing bones. The sound of the fearful has on Its payroll 800 persons, con-j impacts, which came like a ol eisting of cutters and fitters and vari-' death, caused men to hide their faces ous operatives, the majority being ami women spectators to sink to theis vounz women and uirls of tender age 'knees on the flags and moan over the ho operate the machines upon shirtwaists intended for feminine year this summer. The eighth floor was devoted principally to cutting, and there were also many factory so machines. Most of the women were on the ninth floor, hack of a wooden partition, with many doors communicating to a narrow- corridor, on the other side of which were offices. There were hanks of machines on the tenth floor also, as well as shipping and packing rooms and ofpees of the I firm of Messrs.

Harris ti. Blanck. I The partners of the firm, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, escaped unscathed from the office on the tenth floor, carrying with them over an adjoining roof Blanck's two young daughters and a governess. The doors in the wooden partition on the ninth floor had just been locked and only one means of egress remained from the larger room to the carridor. according to the story of some of the employes.

The fire alarm came over the telephone at 40 minutes after 4 o'rlock. possibly three or four minutes after a mass of shirtwaists on a line on the eighth DE LA BARRA AS DIAZ'S PREMIER Ambassador to United States Accepts the Post Says Farewell to Taft. r. t- Washington, D. C.

Francisco De the United States, has Uen named: Minister of Foreign Relations of the! I 1 I Mexican Cabinet by President Diaz, Senor De La Barra has telegraphed When the Geological Survey com-his acceptance of the portfolio to pletes its present survey of the Mexico City. United States the athis that it will Immediately after telegraphing his I issue will contain more than 8,000 acceptance to Mexico City Senor Dejmaps. mount, so far as the Administration length of this feminine accessory, is concerned, at the extra session While riding to the State House His present intention is to confine Representative Leclerc was stabbed his message to Congress on April 4 i in the nose by a long hatpin, pro-to the matter for which he has called itruding from the new spring head-the extra session. pear of a woman passenger. Aeroplane Turns Turtle.

New York. August Emroel, of Detroit, who has been practicing in a biplane at Mineola, fell with his machine from a height of 25 feet when the aircraft turned turtle. Wrong Card Brings Death. Minneapolis. Minn.

L. Scott, one of the hfst known gamblers in the city, rut cards to see whether he would commit suicide. He drew the wrong i ard and ended his life. Wireless Goes Underground. Two German scientists, Drs.

Ieinibach and Loewy. have successfully applied wireless telegraphy for underground communication. Messages have been sent between the Potash mines in the North Mountains, a distance of nearly a mile and a baif. at a level of l.f.int feet below the surface. The mes-l saites were so clearly delivered that the scientists conclude much greater distances ere feasible.

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