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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-30
AT LEAST EIGHTY PERISHED.
A Deputy Customs Collectors Esti-
mates of the Loss of Life.

DETROIT Mich, Nov 29-An interview
this evening with Thomas E. Moran, dep
uty customs collector at this port. practi-
cally verifies the estimate that at least
eighty lives were lost in Wednesday nights
collision of passenger trains on the Wabash
Railroad, near Seneca. The two immigrant
cars in which the greatest loss of life oc-
Cured and in which many of the wreck
victims were roasted TO death, were part
of a train which crossed the Detroit river
from Canada on the ferryboat Great West
ern on Wednesday afternoon. and Deputy
Moran inspected the baggage of its passen-
gers He says there were at least one hun
dred Italians in the two cars. In addition
to these there were ten more IN the smok-
ing car, which was ahedd or the TWO lmml-
OficiaI advices to Superintendent Burns,
of this division of the Wabash, says that
of the Italians in the wreck twenty escaped
unhurt and were taken TO st. Louis, and
fifteen are in the cOmpanys hospital at
Peru Ind. There are six others in Peru,
and two are near Adrian. injured. Sub
tracing these forty-three from the 10 i'm
migrants Deputy Moran says were aboard
the train, leaves a loss among the Italians
alone Of siXty-seven. In addition eight
other bodies were recovered and identified,
which makes total of seventy-five dead.
The first car of the immigrant train, as
Ii crossed on the ferry said Moran was
a combination baggage and smoker. There
were about ten Italians in this car, for |
remember that they motioned to the next
car back when l endeavOred to find their
baggage. The first immigrant coach was
well filled, probably forty people occupy
ing it, The smoking compartment of this
coach was filled from floor to ceiling with
the baggage Of the immigrants. 1t had all
come through Canada in bond so that
| did not examine IL. The second coach
was completely filled with passengers my
recollection being there was not a vacant
seat in the car, even the smoking room
BEING crowded. | should say that there
were sixty passengers in the coach. The
men were typical Italian workmen There
We're about a dozen women in the two cars
and half that number of children As
worked through the train ! noticed that
there were also six or seven Italians I'm the
chair car that was the fifth car of the
train. They did not seem 10 be members
Of the party of immigrants"
When seen tonight Superintendent
Burns. of the Wabash Railroad insisted
that the death loss in the wreck near
Seneca Wednesday night was estimated
very much too high our Attorney, Mr.
Winston" said he. has telegraphed TO
New York for complete list of the immi-
grants that were on train No 13 and when
il is received. which will probably be to-
morrow. official statement will be is
sued by the road. AS near as / can esti-
mate now there are twenty-five dead We
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SWITCHMEN HAVE HOPE
STILL THINK THEY WILL WIN THE
STRIKE AT PITTsBURG.
Allegheny Valley Road, However, Is
Crippled for Lack of Men.

PITTSBURG, Nov. 29-Traffic was not
interrupted in any marked degree to-day
on any of the railroads save on the Allie
gheny Valley This road is still badly Grip
pied by the switchmen's strike, and as a
consequence several industrial plants along
the Allegheny river were compelled to tenn
porarily suspend operations owing to their
supply of coal being exhausted. The Shoen-
berger plant of the American Steel and
Wire Company, at Twenty-fifth street. sus-
pended operations to-day owing to a lack
of coal as did the American Steel and Wire
Companys plant at Twenty-sixth street
The Marshall Machine and Construction
Company, at Twenty-sixth street, and the
Zugs Sable iron works at Thirteenth street,
which closed down on Wednesday night,
did not resume operations to-day. None
of the works of the Crucible Steel Com
pany along the Allegheny river was forced
To cease work on account of coal shortage.
superintendent c. b. Price, of the Allie
gheny Valley Railroad. said tonight that
everything was in better condition on the
road to-day than on the day before. He
said that extra switching engines and
crews are cleaning the side tracks and
making up into trains the accumulatiOns of
loaded cars, and that these trains are being
shipped just as fast as the regular freight
engines can take them away. He said that
after tomorrow there would be absolutely
no traces that a strike had existed.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad is
still blockaded at different points along it's
divisions with loaded freight trains. Many
OF the switches are filled, but j. NJ.
Schoonmaker, vice president and general
manager, claimed to-day that nothwith-
standing this things were in better shape
than on Thursday.
The striking switchmen have not relin-
quiShed hope of winning the battle. They
claim that, despite the statements made by
railroad officials they are rapidly gaining
ground. and that before the next few days
the companies will be compelled To accept
their terms.
n committee appointed by the strikers
stated tonight that there are still 500 men,
bers of the SwitchmenS Union idle and
that all of these are determined TO remain
away from railroad yards until they return
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A London Editors View.

LONDON, Nov. S0.-The Daily Graphic,
discussing editorially the troubles in South
America, ridfcules the accusations made in
the press of the continent that the United
States is fomenting disturbances In Colom-
bia. The Graphic points out that what the
United States has done at Colon, Germany
may soon be compelled to initiate in Vene-
zuela with the result of disturbing the
existing relations between Washington and
Berlin The paper asks whether il is i'm
possible to arrive at some arrangement
permanently and effectively TO prevent
these crises, such as the recent one at Colon
and suggests If the United States will add
to the Monroe doctrine a guarantee of
foreign interests in these explosive repub-
lies and will Itself undertake TO perform
police duties there, there is no reason why
the European powers should not cease
their opposition to MonrOeism.
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CONFIRMATORY ADvICEs.
CabIegrams from Consul General Guds
ger and Captain Perry.

WASHINGTON. Nov "a cablegram
was received at the State Department from
Consul General Gudger, dated Panama, to-
day saying that the Liberals have been de-
feated and that the government forces are
in possession of Colon. Captain Perry of
the battleship Iowa. cabled from Colon as
follows: Arrangements for surrender to-
day OF Colon and Liberal forces have been
completed
With the restoration of order and open
trafic on the Isthmus of Panama il is ex-
pected that the Navy Department will be
able 10 withdraw some of the United States
warships now on duty in that quarter. and
IL is probable that one ship will be with
drawn on either side OF the isthmus There
will be no haste. however. in reducing the
naval strength. as the officials feel that the
surrender OF the Liberals on the isthmus
NAV not terminate the entire struggle
throughout Colombia The country is so
extensive and the signs OF unrest at in
terior points are so numerous that il il
believed there may be a recurrence of
trouble the isthmus II the insurgents
at other points continue TO show strength.
When the Iowa is withdrawn she will prob
ably go TO Talcahano TO be dOcked. The
Machias when relieved will come north and
be docked.
Some OF the dispatches reaching here
show that there is apprehension on the
part OF some Of the ColOmbians on the
isthmus including men OF considerable in
fiuence as 10 the duration OF the stay of
the American marines. II has come TO the
knowledge OF the officials here that many
wild rumors have been circulated on the
isthmuS. some OF them going TO the extent
OF asserting that the United States forces,
having once landed would not be with
drawn These reports have led TO inquiries
between Panama and Washington, bringing
out responses that the rumOred American
occupation was wholly maginary. and that
the most positive and definite assurances
had been given that Immediately on the
fulhllment OF this governments obligation
10 keep open the tTaffic forces would
De re-embarked and all American authority
would be terminated. This purpose Of the
authorities here has been made known TO
those In influence on the isthmus and has
served 10 allay the fears caused by reports
OF American occupation.
Mr. Herran, the Colombian charge. said
tonight that General Alban will grant
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THREE OFFICERS INJURED
FELL INTO A PITFALL THAT WAS
LINED WITH BAMBOO SPIKES.
Lieutenants Feeter and WetheriII
Badly Hurt, and Lieut.. Smith
Slightly Injured.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-General Corbin
to-day received the following cablegram
from General Chaffee, dated Nov. 2S: Lieu
tenats Feeter and Wetherill, Nineteenth
United States Infantry, badly wounded by
bamboo spikes in a pitfall near Carmen,
Bohol Feeter wounded in foot; Wetheril
in thigh. Operation necessary to extract
sticks Lieutenant Smith slightly hurt"
First Lieutenant George l. Feeter is a
native of New York He entered the army
as a second lieutenant in 1889. Second Lieu
tenants Wetherill and l. r. Smith were ap-
pointed from the ranks in February last.
MANILA, Nov. 29.-The insurgents are
active in Batangas province. Brigadier
General Bell, with a battalion of the Fifth
Infantry. leaves here to-day to assume
command of the troops in Batangas. Re
Gently the insurgents killed a merchant in
the town of Batangas, terrorized the peo-
pie living in the outskirts of the town and
escaped after running fight with a small
detachment of the Eighth Infantry.
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MUST RETURN TO IRELAND.
Judge Thomas Sustains the Ruling
Against Consumptive Boden.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20. = United States
Judge Thomas, sitting in the United States
Circuit Court, to-day decided in favor of
the ruling of the Treasury Department at
Washington in the case of Thomas Boden,
of Philadelphia. The decision prohibits
Thomas Boden, a supposed consumptive,
from remaining in the country Judge
Thomas decides that as simple question
of fact was before him in the premises
he could not officially do otherwise than
sustain the Treasury Department. No
question of law, he observed, has been pro-
pounded in the writ of habeas corpus asked
by Boden's attorneys. The case has to do
with the right of consumptives to land
here as immigrants.
+. T. Tobin. of Philadelphia, Roden's
lawyer, obtained stay from Judge Thomas
late this afternoon pending an appeal
which will be taken to the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals. Assistant ImmI-
grafton Commissioner McSweeney said to-
night that inasmuch as an appeal in Bo-
den's case had been taken, his deportation
would, of course, be deferred until the
Appellate Court had passed upon the case.
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Diplomatic Relations Severed.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The State De-
partment has received confirmation of the
notification from the Colombian govern
ment to Venezuela that it has terminated
diplomatic relations. This came in the
shape of cablegram from Minister Hart.
This action is the result of the hasty
withdrawal last August from the Venezue-
Ian capital of DR.. Rice, the Colombian
minister there Such a breach does not
necessarily mean war, though it is un-
doubtedly a step in that direction. Vene-
zuela has had several affairs of this kind,
some of the European nations withdraw
ing their representatives from Caracas for
long terms. and only year and half
ago our own government was obliged to
give Minister LoOmis an indefinite leave of
absence from Caracas as warning to
Venezuela of our dissatisfaction with its
attitude in the controversy growing out of
the aSDhalt dispute.
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IN MEMORY OF M'KINLEY.
Roman Bronze Tablet from Italians,
Who Want 1t Under the CapitOI

NEW YORK, Nov. "a Roman bronze
tablet to the memory of the late President
Mckinley will be sent to Washington in
a few days as a tribute from the Italian
residents of the United States. President
Roosevelt will be requested to give the
tablet place in the Capitol. On the tablet,
in bas relief. is a figure of President Nc
Kinley as If walking toward a tomb In
the lower right hand corner is a sharply
drawn facade of the Capitol at Washington
In the lower left hand corner four infant
figures represent the four sections of the
United States-East, West, North South.
A gracefully draped figure in sombre shade
also sits by a shield with cluster of newly
Dlucked grain
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NEEDS OF CUBA.
General Wood Says American Tariff
Reductions Are Necessary.

Reductions Are Necessary.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Among the pas
sengers who arrived to-day on the steamer
Monterey, from Havana, were Gen. Leon
ard Wood. military Governor of Cuba. Mrs.
Wood. his secretary, William A. Vary,
Lieutenant Mccoy, of the Tenth Cavalry.
his aid. and Gonzalo de Quesada, special
commissioner from Cuba to Washington.
Immediately after luncheon the Wood par
ty left for Washington.
'I came here this time" said General
Wood, when interviewed, ito perfect ar
rangements by which Cuba may be turned
over to the Cubans and to talk over with
the President and Secretary Root the eco
nomc situation of the island. We do not
expect any troubles at the forthcoming
elections. The chief features of the eco
nOmic situation in Cuba to-day relate TO
sugar and tobacco l am assured that the
Cuban people will not, under any circum-
stances, restore the export duties on these
products levied by the Spaniards. which we
abolished two years ago to stimulate indus
try. and they will only ask some reasonable
tariff concessions by us on sugar and to-
bacco. Upon the rest of the products of
the island the people are willing to pay
duty.
1.-The island now imports between $500 OOO,-
600 and $500 ZOO worth of stuff every year
OF this amount we furnish only s2S OOO, 600
worth, Notwithstanding our superior mar
kets and proximity. OF wine alone Cuba
imports s50o0,O00 worth each year from
Spain. She also spends in foreign coun-
tries 81 2500000 for shoes S60O0OOO for cot
ton fabrics and 5000, 900 for rice
More freedom in the tax on the two
staple products will save the island be-
cause sugar is now raised at a loss of so
cents hundred pounds. Cuba is bigger than
Java and has population OF 100000 in
habitants, while Java supports a popula-
ton of 100000. Cuba comfortably
take care of a population of 10000 900, and
the people of influence and wealth on the
island anxious for an accession of
strength from the United States Immi-
grafton will solve the question Of Cuba S
f1rft1
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MINERS FALL 700 FEET.
Eight Go Down with "a Cage and All
Are Seriously Injured

CONNELSVILLE, Pa, Nov. 29.-At the
Lambert mines, near Masontown, eight
men. after dropping a distance of seven
hundred feet down a mine shaft, were all
brought 10 the surface. living. but with
three dying and the others probably fatally
hurt. Just as they got aboard the cage the
cable parted and the cage dropped. few
seconds later the miners at the top heard
the sound of a crash and splintering wood.
The cage the opposite side was immedi-
ately loaded with a rescue party who, on
arriving at the bottom. found the men ly-
ing unconscious the floor of the cage
with crushed chests, broken arms and legs,
and in some cases the bones prOtruding
out through the flesh. one mans skull was
fractured. Two of the injured miners were
Americans and the other six Hungarians.
The names of but three of them could be
learned. They are Peter BabyOk Steve
Lotinska and Vincent Conatv.
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BANK CASHIER MISSING.
Wrote n Note Saying He Was a Wan
derer on the Face of the Earth.

MONTAGUE, Mich, Nov. 29-Henry H
Twerliger. cashier of the Montague Bank
a private institution, is missing from
Montague. He wrote letter to S. Nufer,
and his statement in the letter that the
banks assets exceed its liabilities by s15. 900
is borne out by an investigation finished
to-day. In a note to his wife he says he
is a wanderer on the face OF the earth and
that he will never return TO Montague II
is the general belief that Mr. Twerlfger's
mind has been affected by long and close
applica ton to business.
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Would Employ Only American seamen

BUFFALO. n. V, Nov. 29-The commit
tee on resolutions of the sixth annual
convention OF the International Seamen's
Union of America reported to-day. The
employment of Asiatics as sailors is con-
demned. Attention is called to the loss of
the Rio Janeiro and conduct OF the Chinese
crew on board that vessel when she was
wrecked of the coast of California. I'VE
would insist the report says. that If our
country is TO be able 10 its growing
navy seamen must be provided. and prefer
ably native seamen Unless the American
boy can be induced 10 seek the sea for a
livelihood, there will be no field from which
the navy can be recruited in time OF need
Ii is idle and dangerous TO depend upon
foreigners 10 defend at all times the honor
OF the flag under which they serve as mer-
cenaries
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Scale VIII Expire Next Year.

PITTSBURG, Nov. 29.-The various sub
lodges of the Amalgamated Association
have voted on the proposition to make the
scale now running extend over a period
OF three years and have almost unanimous
ly rejected the proposition. The scale will.
therefore. expire June %. 1902 as usual
The American Tin Plate Company has been
officially notified OF the result OF the vote
The men are understood 10 be satisfied with
the terms OF the scale. but the three-year r
proposition would carry with IL the con-
tinuance OF the classification OF mills as
union and nonunion. and they think fl will
be benefit TO them 10 have the subject
reOnened next summer.
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BOLD WORK OF THUGS.
They Rob Man and Throw Him
Through an Plate Glass window

CHICAGO, Nov. &.-In a crowded down
town street, at o'clock this morning ].
w. Rogge was robbed by two highwaymen
and thrown bodily through a plate-glass
window Rogge was attacked by the men
on Fifth avenue, near Madison street. and
while one of them choked him into help
lessness the other went through his pock
cts, securing a small amount of money.
The thugs then picked him UP and threw
him through large plategl restaurant
window. The men took to their heels, with
a crowd in pursuit, but finally lodged up
an alley and escaped Rogge's body had
gone half way through the window, but
beyond a few painful cuts and bruises he
was not seriously injured.
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GUILTY OF CONTEMPT.
Anson A. Flower May BE Punished for
Defying the Court.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Judge Lacombe.
in the United States District Court, made
an order to-day holding Anson A. Flower;
a director of the Boston and Montana Cop
per and Silver Mining Company, guilty of
contempt of court, and committing him TO
the custody of United States Marshal
Henkel until he shall answer before the
commissioner in a suit brought by John
MacGuinness against the company. On mo-
ton of counsel for the directors of the
company, a stay was granted pending an
appeal to the United States Court of APP
peals
The case of Flower was. by agreement
made test one as affecting William D.
Rockefeller, Henry f. Rogers ]. P. Nc
Intosh Frederick 2. Olcott, James Still
man and Leonard Lewiston, his felIow-di-
rectors in the Boston and Montana Com
pany. The action was begun in Montana
and an order issued for the taking of GER
tain testimony here for the commission
Mr.. Flower alone appeared before the COM
missioner and, by advice of counsel, de-
clined to answer the questions put to him.
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Governor Taft Ordered Home.

CINCINNATI. O., Nov. 29.-The Times
Star special from Washington says: THE
secretary of war to-day issued orders and
sent them to Manila ordering Governor
Taft home. so that he can recuperate and
regain his health and strength. Governor
Taft is to leave for the United States on
the first transport available as soon as
he is able to embark.
MANILA, Nov. 29.-The operation per-
formed on Governor Taft this morning
was successful. He expects TO start for
Washington Dec. 10 to recuperate and con-
fer with Secretary Root.
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ticularly of France and Germany. have
proved so successful in advertising the
American article among foreign consumers
of coal that almost daily orders from
French, German and even English manu-
facturers are reaching offices OF the Read
ing Company. Present low rates 10 Euro
pean ports on Ding vessels are prin-
cipally accountable for the foreign de-
mand The freight to French ports now
costs only $2.37 per ton, the price formerly
being at least 81. Agents of the Western
Railway of France say they are ready TO
order thousands of tons of American GOAL
ii they can continue obtaining it at this
pripp
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REFORM IN ALABAMA.
White Man Indicted for Assisting to
Lynch Negro.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Nov. 29.-James r.
King a sawmill owner. was arrested this
afternoon at Leeds on an Indictment found
by the grand jury Of ST. Claire county
charging him with taking part in the lynch
ing OF Charles Bentley. a negro. in August
Bentley was hanged by mob. He was
accused OF having murdered "A man and
his wife who had camDed by the roadside
The technical charges against King Is
murder. and ne admits having been at the
scene of the hanging shortly after Bentley
was dead IL is said that Sheriff North
of St. Claire. who repulsed mob at Ashe-
vile, was instrumental in securing the in
dictment against King.
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No Lives Lost on the Wright.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The War De-
partment to-day received the following ca
blegram from General Chaffee. at Manila,
dated yesterday: Transport Wright struck
on uncharted rock near south end Baram
island near entrance to San Juanico.
Badly injured; resting quietly on port
side. Fifteen feet Of water in hold. which
rises and falls with tide. Smith thinks she
may be raised with wrecking vessel. but
fear sufficient power cannot be obtained in
these waters. Large part of the cargo
will be saved In good condition. No lives
lost
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CONDUCTOR Is BLAMED.
Engineer Strong Thinks He should
HAVE Been Warned of Mistake.

DETROIT, Nov. 29.-Conductor G.. j.
Martin, of Wabash train No 4, which col
lded with train No. 1S near Seneca
Wednesday night, causing great loss of
life, said to-day that the orders given him
al Montpelier were TO pass No. Is at Sen
eca. My orders" said he, which 1 took
to Engineer Strong and read over TO him,
and which agreed with his orders, read:
No 4, Engine 6O9, will meet No. 13, Engines
ss and Isl, at Seneca, and No l3, Engine
623 at Sand Creek After receiving these
orders / remember asking the agent at
CONTINUED ON PAGE ,, COL. 81
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nothing short of a complete capitulation
by the rebel forces with all their arms
and ammunition. But ii is. Mr.. Herran
added. expected that General Alban viii
give immunity TO the persons and private
property Of those who lay down their arms
and they may be granted leave TO depart
on parole. They will not be permitted
however. TO remove any part of their mill
tary supplies from Colon and their parole
will prevent their joining any of the scat
tered bands Of Liberals al other points.