The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-06-12
NEWS OF
THE WORLD.
What is Taking Place in this Coun-
try and in Foreign Lands.

twenty-five persons were injured in
st. Louis on Sunday two of them fatal
ly, in collision between a car on the
suburban electric line and Missouri
Pacific engine at Brentwood. The
electric car brakes did not work and
this caused the smashup.
The hanging in effigy of J. Pierpont
Morgan in one of the streets OF South
Wilkesbarre, Pa, by crowd of men
aud boys was the only incident to mar
the stiffness of the Wyoming valley
Saturday morning. After the effigy had
been hung the coal strikers sheered and
pelted the object with stones until the
police came along and dispersed the
several hundred persons that made up
the throHg.
The news from Washington that Pre-
sident Roosevelt could not find his way
clear to take hand in bringing about
peace between the miners and operators
was received in Wilkesbarre with gen
uine disappointment.
The whaleback steamer Thomas Will
son, Capt Cameron master, and the
wooden steamer George u. Hadley,
Capt. Fitzgerald master, collided just
outside Duluth canal Saturday, and the
Wilson sank within less than minutes
time.
The Hadley made run for the beach
and reached there none too soon. The
life-saving crew picked up several mem
bers of the crew of the Wilson, but sew
eral are known to have been drowned.
None of the members of the night crew
escaped.
Capt. Barry of the United States
cruiser Dixie just returned to New
York from hearing supplies to the vol
cano victims in the West Indies, said
regarding conditions in the island;
Conditions are not as bad on Mar
tinique as on st. Vincent, because on
Martinique the people are fairly well
supplied with everything and there is
no danger in future eruptions. Only a
small area of twenty square miles has
been devastated, but on st. Vincent the
destruction extends over third of the
island. Plantations, orchards and
everything have been ruined and the
means of subsistence has been taken
away from the people and thousands
have been left without any kind of sup
port"
OF the scientific results of the Dixie's
expedition, Prof. l. c. Russell, of the
University of Michigan, said
THE overheated rock, bursting
against the water near the base of the
mountain caused superheated steam
and burst the mountain open.
Prof. Hill advocates the establish
ment of scientific observatories in the
Caribbean district for the detection of
the imminenoe of the volcanic ernp-
tions so that human life may be saved.
II think Pelee will smoke and re-
main active for months" said Prof.
Russell. 1T probably will be case of
Vesuvius again. | hardly think Pelee
will SIN )ulder and blow up in one
gigantic explosion. l believe it will
quiet down and gradually die away. A
new lake will form in the crater, tro-
pical verdure will grow where there is
nothing but black gray ash.
THE people will build new villages
and towns at its foot and again hold
their holiday picnics on its side; and
Pelee will remain quiet for probably
fifty or sixty years. There should be
at least seismograph in every volcano
The instrument would give the popu- |
lace ample warming The seismograph |
at Vesuvius for thirty-fye years has
done satisfactory and valuable work
There il absolutely no occasion for such |
tremendous loss of life as occurred at
St Pierre.
Prof. Borchgrevink made the impor-
tant statement of his belief that the |
whole chain of mountains, of which
Pelee and Soufriero are parts. is in a
state of unrest. The professors state
ment is as follows:
1.-The entire chain of islands is in a
state of unrest, and the same is true of
the basin or floor of the Caribbean sea.
From what | know of volcanic phe-
nomena and from what | saw in
Martinique and the adjacent islands |
Judge there is little to warrant the
belief that the disturbances are over.
'In fact, saw enough almost to