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"i 0 3 ally 1 I I lis Eleventbilear-No. 234. ALEXANDRIA. DIDIAIIA, SATURDAY. NOVEMBEK 27, 1909 One Cent a Ccpy his clothing.

Every pocket was turned THIS -M All -WAS BEDFORD CALLS saw them said that the men appeared to have been killed only a few hourt beforerThii statement was -denied officials, who say theyhad reports that decomposition had already set in BODIES LAY 111 HIDEOUS HEAP PcrstilBt Osaili ISsrvPul lng the issuance of bonds in the sum 1120,548 to pay a claim on the part the university against the state. The bonds were prepared by the auditor of state and turned over to the governor, who locked them in his desk, refusing his official signature. When Thomas R. Marshall became governor he announced that he would sign the bonds at the end of thirty days If he was not enjoined. No such actiion having been taken, he signed them.

Then the ex-governor brought suit to enjoin the auditor and secretary. Six alleged errors are assigned by the appellant, who sets forth that tht lower crt erfd sustaining the demurrer- by the fcretary of state, auditor ct state and 'M trustees of the university to the two paragraphs of the original complaint, the demurrers declaring that In neither paragraph was sufficient cause for Injunction shown. FORMER PAS7C3 MISSING Rev. Vshood, Who appears in 1 BeiV S. Mr cod.

I eft Illinois, Die- 25. The Rev. istor of Trinity Is city, has mys Episcc. i.1 church teriously disappeared and no trace of him can be found. When the Rev.

Mr. Mahood gave np his pastorate in Belvidere about a year ago he was suffering frqm overwork, With his wife and three children he went to Queen's Bay, British Colum bia. He left there early in the spring to make a trip down the coast and through California. He appeared in Sacramento some time later and is supposed to have left there to return home, but since that time nothing has been heard of him. The Masonic lodge here, tot which he was a member, and every lodge in the west will be asked to search for him.

Editor Will Appeal Sentence. Mt Carmel, 111., Nov. 25. Orra F. Havill, editor and publisher of Havills, has been sentenced to the county jail for sixty days' for libeling ex-State's Attorney George B.

Ramsey of this city. Havill accused Kamsey or accepting a bribe of $500 in a murder case and of otherwise being corrupt. Judge W. H. Green of the Second Ju- dlcial paused sentence.

The a Inside out and a gold watch that he is known to fiavt carried la missing. Succeeds Vespasian Warner. Washington, Nov. 25. James L.

Davenport, first deputy commissioner of pensions, haa been selected for the office of commissioner made vacant by the resignation of Vespasian Warner. Mr. Davenport is from New Hampshire and has been In the pension office sinco 1S8L ZELAYrVS STORY Ho Says That Cannon and Grace Wre Given a Fair Trial Phasma, Nov. i execution of 'i-oy Caniif.n'and t-jo. art Grace1, President Zeis a of Nlcirv gus.

has telegraphed the ripressn ativt of the Nlcarnguan government-here. He says that the revolutionists eni-j ployed the two American to mine ths I San Juan river and thr.t one of trej mines they, planted explt fied near tl.i' steamer Diamante. Canr.ui and were captured in the and tried by a Court martial. They vers amply They pleaded yu lty and were condemned tc death a cordance with the laws of the repao- 11c. Cannon was engage In fonuir revolutions.

He was captured In Honduras in 1907, but was liberated on his promise not to meddle-further in Centra! American FOURao IMPLICATED In Shocking Sit rf Pepravlty Told by a Woman in New York. New York, Nov. 25. Mrs. Mary Ada Hadow, who says that she is thVwidow of Captain P.

F. Hadow of the British army and a magazine writer, and who was arrested In 1906, charged with keeping a disorderly house, selling liquor without a license, and exhibiting improper literature and was discharged and told a tale of police persecution, had another story to tell the police yesterday. She met ft policeman on West Thirty-seventh street, about o'clock In the morning, and said that she hud been lured Into a garage and that while there she had been criminally assaulted by at least four men there might have been more she could not tell, because she had become unconscious just then Xist'ilighraeteetives went to the age armed with descriptions furnished by the woman, and arrested three men. One of these she picked out pos itively as the man who had lured her in there and as one of those who had assaulted her. This man, Thomas F.

Ahearn, is a machinist. Jacksonville and Tampa have open-: ed race meetings scheduled to run all winter. Louis Coffman, iormer consiaoie ai Melissa, has been convicted on a charge of murdering his wife, and given the death penalty. The condition of Bjornstjern Bjorn-son, the Norwegian author, shows marked Improvement and he is now considered out of danger. The Wright brothers say that they have now enough orders from people in America alone to keep busy their aeroplane factory for one year.

Alma Bell, a young woman who shot her lover, Joe Arms, because she claimed he refused to marry her after betraying her, was acquitted at Auburn, Cal. The board of trustees of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at New York, has accepted the resignation of Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson as a member of the board. Benjamin S.

Cable, an attorney of Chicago, has been appointed assistant secretary of the department of commerce and labor to succeed Ormsby McHarg, resigned. Dr. Frederick A. Cook has completed the report which he will submit to the University of Copenhagen, In proof of his claim that he reached the north pole on April 21, 1903. APPEAL FILED BY FORMER GOVERNOR Highest Court Asked to Settle Historic Bond Contention.

Indianapolis, Nov. 25. Former Governor J. Frank Hanly, the complainant In the suit in a Marion county court before Judge Carter to enjoin Fred A. Sims, secretary of state, from signing thj VIncennes university bonds, and John C.

Blllhelmer, auditor of state, from accepting a receipt from the board or trustees of the university, has filed an appeal In the supreme court from the decision of the lower count, where the petition for Injunction was denied. Mr. Hanly Is represented by Charles V. McAdamt and Osm if at A pdnsn ttlti 1ar tji4 at I rjrZ: an act of tht len.ral asssmbly pa-td TT. over uovtrnor tianiy veto, as ui oris- of of jr T03JALI(ATIVE Imnlti Talklij AFFRONT TO THE COURT Justict of tht ftmsA at Terr Haute Corrlilts an Illinois Man For Con- i a i tempt of Csurt for Conveying an In- i i f.

tirr.ain,That tht Court Had Been Bribed In tht Administration of Jus-ttco Man Who Had Caused Arraignment of Another, Incensed at Acquittal, Made a Remark That Got Him In Bad With tht Court Torre Haute, 'Nov. 27. When Justice Hirsch acquitted Charles Reed on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, because he armed himself with a revolver while driving through) the country, Reed's brother-in-law, Charles Mulvaneo, who had preferred! the charge, angered by the decision, asked the justice, "How much did he-give you?" referring to the fact that the justice had conferred for a moment with the attorney representing Reed. I will give you three hours in jail and a fine of $5 for contempt of court," re plied the justice. Mulvaneo wished the justice to accept $20 and throw off the jail sentenoe, but Justice Hirsch would not do it.

After serving the jail sentence Mul vaneo called on several lawyers to get one of them to bring suit against Jus-1 tive Hirsch for $5,000 damages on account of the jail sentence, but the law yers declined and Mulvaneo returned to his home in the oil district of Illinois, declaring he would get an attor ney there to bring the suit. TO GREET EVANGELISTS Chicago Preparing Big Reception For- Xhapmaii.and.AI oxahdt r.te -v Chicago, Nov. 2,7. The Rev. J.

Wil bur Chapman, evangelist, and Charles. M. Alexander, the revival singer, who- have been conducting meetings in Aus tralia and who are now homeward TV CHARLES M. ALEXANDER. bound, will be given a recetlon in Chicago on Dec.

3 at the First Regiment armory. Plans for the meeting are in tht hands of the Presbyterian general assembly's committee on evangelistic work, the Laymen's Evangelistic council of Chicago, and the Moody Bible-Institute. Dr. D. B.

Towner, who had charge of the chorus choir of 1,000 during the recent "Gipsy" Smith meetings here, has kept the choir intact, and Mr. Alexander will be asked tt lead It on the night of the meeting. SUES LODGE FOR DAMAGES Indiana Man Says He Wat Severely Injured During Initiation. Brazil, Nov. 27.

James Eck-ard of Staunton has filed a suit in the circuit court against Staunton lodge No. 415, I. O. O. for $5,000 damages.

He alleges In his complaint that In December, 1907, while being Initiated tn the second degree, he was thrown to the floor and all the members of the lodge sprang on him like football players, breaking three of his ribs and injuring him so seriously that he was unable to leave his bed for two months. H. B. Bulkely, for many years controller of the Baltimore Ohio railroad and prominent In railroad affairs. It dead at Baltimore, aged olghty.

William F. McCormlck, a student at Moody Bible Institute. Chicago, Jumped from a third-story window whilst supposedly demented and was killed. iVsuass. VST i FOR THE GUARD Local Hiilliirities Fear Situation Vil 6roi Serious.

STRIKE TROUBLE IS 6BQW1K6 Dlsputt Between Twa Pactions of Bedford Haa Led to Situation Which Sheriff Box Fears Will'. Cul- minata in Riot Henct Call Was Madt For Trcops Governor i. Marshall Instructed-a. Company of 8tate Guards to Stand Under Orders, Beaiora, Nov. Zo.

Such an acute, stage has been reached Jn the dispute between the -general union stone cutters cu the one hand and the National Society of Cutters and Stone Mill Operators on the other, t-. Sher iff BfMt nf I.awrenivs rnitnl Governor Marshall id send nll-itia here to4 assist In preserviSg lh-3 peace. has beeri np serious rioting, frequent minor clashes between the general union men and their opponents have resulted, and the sherv Iff feared he would be unable to swear in enough deputies to maintain order. Several more mills have been forced to close, the employes going out in sympathy with the general union Cutters. Between 1,000 and 1,500 men are now idle and the general union men predict that all quarrymen in the district, numbering about 5,000, will strike In symapthy.

When Adjutant General Oran Perry arrived here he Immediately went Into conference with Mayor John B. Stlpp and Sheriff Thomas Box. At the conclusion of the talk General Perry said that he did not think it likely that troops would be needed to control the situation. With GenetellPeiirv was Woerner, who look carefully into. the trouble.

TROOPS READY FOR CALL Governor Will Send Them If Sheriff Fails to Preserve Order. Indianapolis', Nov. 25. Upon receipt of Information from the Bedford au thorities regarding the labor trouble at that place, Governor Marshall called Oran Perry, adjutant general of the Indiana national guard, instructing him to have a company in readiness to send to Bedford If tr'e call came in regularly. Company 1 of the FlrBt regiment, stationed at Bloomtngton, was called by General Perry, through the commanding officer, Captain Cham berlain, who was told to notify his men to be rendy for a call at any time.

DOUBLE FUNERAL Congressman De Armond and Grand son to Be Buried Together. Butler, Nov. 25. Congressman David A. De Armond and his little grandson, who were burned to death "Copyright by Cllnedlnst, Washington.

DAVID A. DE ARMOND. here, will not be separated in death. It has been decided to hold a double funeral for Mfem tomorrow morning. Burial will be In the Oak Hill cemetery here Flagman Victim of Highwaymen.

Mobile, Ala Nov. 25. J. W. Tillman, aged slxty flv years, Louisville Naihvlllt flagman at the junction a short distance from this city, Is dead from frightful wounds In tht head Inflicted by a blunt Instrument.

That Tillman was tht victim. of highway-me is Indicated by tht condition of There was evidence that the men, fully realizing the fate they were facing, worked desperately to save themselves until exhaustion overpowered them. They built a to protect themselves from smoke, flame and water; they constructed, a fan with their tools and what other material they, had at hand to keep a supply of air in their chamber, and sat down, weak and sick to await either death or rescue. I after days of waiting, the left their barricade, hoping to find some chance of escapd They reached the end of the stairway and there were felled -by a downpour of steam and smoke from abei. They fainted and fell on top of each other to die.

The fire in the' mind continues, at the result of which all efforts to rescue the. die oL ntorjhed men. has been suspr.ded. If -ontrol of the flames it ret med eoo.i it Is believed the en Un rn'ie and the bodies remaining thfre Ml be lost, together with more thr elf iteen bodies strewn about the turnels. The danger rf the fire work: in i 'hrc the coal deposits -in the scxr v'n up face of the rar'n hai is Increasing hourly.

'f rrl-an has disco -ered that the Are hs ea -n its way rough the coal fih cf several feet from the face inatn shaft and This 1 i -a. combustion, the extent or of which cannot b-? estimated may also ignite a large posiet of im prisoned gases cn the level. firemen within the nfit twenty-fT hou-s-ln extin guishing the fire, 1 i ass--ted that the mine will be sealed indefinitely. This means that the, bodies, found at the bottom of the third level will not bt brought up for burial. OLD RATE RESUMED Chicago, Peoria 8t.

Louis Road Go- lng Back to 3-Cent Fare Chicago, Nov. 25. Protected by an injunction granted the States court, Xhe Chicago, Peoria ft St. Louis road will immediately return to a 3-cent passenger fare'. The road secured the injunction restraining the enforcement of a 2-ceni.

jte showing that such a catory. The case may have some bear ing on the fight which the railroads In Illinois are to make against a 2-cant rate generally. BRAVADO FAILS New Albany Boy Bandit Breaks Down In Face of Arraignment. New" Albany, Nov. 26.

Thomas Jefferson Hoal, the boy bandit who killed Cashier Fawcett and seriously wounded President Williams and a negro chauffeur in his raid on a New Albany bank tecenlly, was arraigned here at 2 o'clock in the morning. Fearing that an attempt would' be made to lynch him. the officers took him from Jeffersoivm reformatory under cover of darkness to court, where the Judge was in waiting by a previous arrangement. The officers were heavily armed, hut were not mo lested. The boy pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering Fawcett and was then hurried back to the reformatory.

Before leaving the Institution he begged that he be not taken, declaring that he would be killed. The bravado which he showed after his arrest has disappeared. MODIFIES HIS OPINION "Bob" Traeewell Takes a Rise Out of the Grim Attorney General. Washington, Nov. 26, Attorney General Wickersham Is winning a rep utation for good nature.

A few days ago Robert J. Traeewell, the comp troller of the treasury, an officer who is me nnai arouer oi an questions in volving the payment of money out of the treasury, marched into the attor ney general's office. "Mr. Wickersham," said Mr. Trace- well, "I have called to say that some damn, fool In the department of justice has given an opinion here that is all wrong and for which there is no precedent." Mr.

Wickersham took the typewrit ten copy of the opinion in his bands and as be perused lt his face took on a grim smile. "Oh, I see," he remarked, slowly, "I am the 'damn fool' who wrote And the story goes that the attorney general was so much impressed with Jhe comptroller's view that ho modified the opinion. Orrln W. Watson of Hawklnaville, thirty-one years old, was killed In an automobile accident at Niagara Falls. Vincent and Joseph Altman, accused bomb throwers, were found not guilty by a jury tn Judge Tuthill's court at Chicago.

Thret trainmen vert killed and two faulty injured whea a holptr tngta crashed into a Great Northern panen- rtr train soar Lind. Wash. I Dssp'rate Fljtt FELL AT FOOT GF, STAIRVATf Th Appearance of tht Grtwtomt ef BooW 1M in-Allrthw La tat Dlaoovery In harry Daath Pit, Indicates Something of tht Mannar Which Valiant Struggle For Lift Ended Firemen Who Saw Bodies Say tht Man Had Not Been Dead Long Revised Flgurea omJIIInoU: Mint Disaster. Cherry. 111..

N3V. 23. The St. Paul' inine was sealed np todav when It became aprirent that it.i to- r-, tingulsh the flames in the main i'uU vere The big death mine in all probability will retrain Waled. several weeks, until fee" fl-e has been stifled.

If th fre It clared that all the bodies In the tan-Belt will be incinerated. The sealing of the mine was done under orUers 'from the state lnapectora. Number of men in mine when fire started (according to cager'a check list of loads taken down) 484. Number of men estimated to have gone down late and not counted by cagert 4j----- Total men 'In mine when fire start-' ed 527. Escaped and rescued Saturday, Nov.

18 124y Rescued alive Saturday, Nov. 20 20. Dead bodies recovered 101, Rescuing party burned In cage 10. Bodies in sight in third vein 168. Unaccounted for 204.

Estimated total death 'list as result of Are 393. Cherry, 111., Nov. 25. The hope ol stricken Cherry that its lost might re turn from the tomb was traced by the discovery of 168 bodies In the fated St Paul mine, Down in the blackened cav eras where they had struggled wltb death the lifeless victims were found in a grewsome heap. Somewhere in the unexplored chan nels of the chamber of horrors are 'twenty-one others, living or dead probably dead.

When these are found1 the greatest agony of the grief-bur dened ramiies tne pain or suspense that begets alternate hope and despah will vanish. The bodies were found in a hideout heap in a place near the winding stairway leading from the lower to the middle vein of the mine. There were indications that the men had not been dead long. Some of the firemen who EfTecttve April 11,1808. EAST BOUND m.m.

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aa. He- deaoie limited ears: Jf arte) flyer wrlt of error Files Suit For Reinstatement. South Bend, Nov. 25. George A.

Kurtz, attorney, whq was disbarred in October, 1907, on charge of malfea sance in office while acting as state's attorney. MEXICO GOING TO PUT PRESSURE ON ZELAYA Will Join Willi Us in Curbing Turbulent Spirit, Washington. Nov. 27. With a view of reaching an agreement for joint ac tion in the complicated political'sltua-tion in Central America growing out of the resent revolution in Nicaragua, diplomatic negotiations are in pro gress between the United States and Mexico.

Huntington Wilson, assistant secretary of state, declined to dis cuss the negotiations with Mexico Tlie execution of the two Americans, Leroy Cannon and Leonard Grace, of course, is a matter in which Mexico has no concern and will be handled by the United States without outside aid, In restoring peace In Nicaragua and In punishing President Zelaya of that republic for the repeated violations of the conventions of the Central Amer ican peace conference In Washington two years ago, Mexico will probably be asked to co-operate with the United States. It is expected that the United States will take decisive action within the next few days. The case against Zelaya, it Is understood, Is now near lng completion. It is fairly well established, according to press reports from Blueflelds, that Grace and Cannon held commissions In the revolutionary army at the time they were captured by General Toledo, the commanding offl cer of the Nlcaraguan troops now besieged in Greytown. According to the view of te legal officers of the state department, they were therefore en titled to treatment as prisoners of war under the usual rules of international law.

Officers of the department were gratified at the action of Commander Bertram S. Theslger of the British cruiser Scylla, In making an official coll on Juan J. Estrada, president of the provisional government at Blue- fleIdg recently. mey regara nis course as an Intentional Indication of the fact that Great Britain is support ing the policy of the United States. Another Postofflct Robbed.

Bedford, Nov. 27. Robbers broke Into tht postofflct at Tunnelton ten mile, east of here, and Wow ntu monev and stamDS. -J1.