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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-06

F. B. Joseph & Son., Phone 10S9. 9 N. Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
THOUSANDS SHUT OUT
THIRTY-TWo READING COLLIER
les ARE CLOSED.
Men Did Not Work Nine-Ho Day
Saturday and We're Told They
Were Not Wanted.

POOTSVILLE, Pa, April o0-Of the
forty-three collieries of the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company all
but eleven are shut down today owing to
the employees being locked out by an order
Of the company. At the thirty-two idle
operations many Of the employees on Satur-
day refused to work nine hours as demand
ed by the management of the company. The
mines at work are the Eagle Hill and
Wadesville Good Spring and Lincoln in the
Pottsville district; Alaska and Reliance at
Mount Carmel. and the collieries generally
in the Shamokin region. In the Shenandoah
of the Reading operations are closed today
Upward of 10000 mine workers are locked
out by this company alone.
SHENANDOAH, Pa, April 20.-The
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company forced lockout at every one of
their collieries in this district today. The
men were notified Saturday that If they did
not work the full nine-hour day, they
could consider themselves discharged.
When they reported for work today they
were told there was no work for them. The
idle collieries in this vicinity are Maple
Hill, Kohnoor, Ellangowan. .Knickerbock-
er, Indian RIDGE Shenandoah City, West
Shenandoah, Suffolk, Turkey Run and
Plank Ridge of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal and Iron Company. and the Cam
bridge, an individual operation.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2O-President
Baer of the Reading Company declined to
kill region today. He would not even admit
that the company had closed it's collieries.
It was learned that the company has a
large supply of coal in storage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
COMMANDER UNDERWOOD.
Reports Satisfactory Conditions in the
Samoan Islands.

The Navy Department has just received
reports from Commander Underwood Of the
Wheeling recording the results of visit
he made to the Samoan Islands which is OF
interest in view of previous reports of ex-
tensive damage and loss of life caused by
hurricanes in February. The dispatch is
dated Pago Pago, March 80 Commander
Underwood says that on March 1S he pro-
ceeded on the Wheeling to Leone and found
the district in good. condition, though re-
ports showed that considerable destruction
of cocoanut trees as well as bananas and
other fruits was occasioned by the hurri-
cane of February 10 to February IA. How
ever there was no danger OF the, people
being reduced to low rations. The COM
mander saw evidences Of slight disturb
ances> and petty feuds and jealousies, but
these were neither numerous nor alarming.
March 20 he proceeded on the Wheeling to
Fagaitu bay and Alopai and held a con-
ference with the chiefs. Conditions in that
part of the island were satisfactory, and
the officer conveyed to the chiefs the mes
sage of interest and sympathy confided to
him by the President of the United States,
which was gratefully received by the
Samoan people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
A BILLION FOR LIQUOR.
Comment on the Huge Drink Bill of
the Nation.

CHICAGO, April 2O.-"The danger In the
huge national liquor bills reaches beyond
misery and moral degradation. Civilization
itself is menaced by the growing economic
waste"
With this statement D. D. Thompson,
editor of the Northwestern Christian Advo-
cate, opened a lecture last night on Eco
nomic Aspects of the Liquor Problem"
THE First Methodist Episcopal Church,
in which he spoke, was well filed. He
said this view of the danger was not the
idea of prohibitionist fanatic, but of
scientific Investigator. DIR. E. r. L. Gould,
lecturer on social economics and statistics
in Johns Hopkins University, who had
investigated the effects of the use of LIQUOR
Of Europe and this country. The most
important, though as yet scarcely OBJ
served, new phase of the temperance
move" he continued, lis the economic The
economic phase is so many sided and ap-
peals to so many selfish interests that it
attracts classes of men who regard the
moral aspects of interperance with indif-
ference. Business men and workmen will
in time come to realize that the liquor
problem concerns them vitality, and that
the 81, 0000Oo0OO now annually spent for
drink in this country would settle many
labor problems and help to settle many
more. Perhaps the most important lesson
to be impressed upon the rising genera
ton is that their business and industrial
future will depend on whether they use
alcohol"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
WILL PAY THE JUDGMENT.
Salvador Will Accept the Arbitration
Decision

The Salvadorean government appears to
have made up it's mind to pay the Judgment
rendered by the arbitration in the case OF
II Triunfo, according to reports reaching
Washington. Before coming to that colS
clusion professional opinion was called
for from General Regalado, the former
president of the republic. 1t was stated in
the report that there was nothing more un-
just, nothing more vulgar and nothing more
unusual than the decision which the arbi-
traitors of Canada and the United States
rendered, in absolute disregard of the il
lustrious opinion of the Salvadorean arbitra-
tor Dr. Pacas, whose powers were brutaliy
ignored by Messrs DickensOn and Strong.
The report declares that the sentence which
they rendered was iniquitous, rude and Inn
moral in several respects. Despite all
equity and despite all right it is stated,
"the consequences of that decision must
weigh with Salvador for the simple and OBJ
vious reason that compulsion cannot be re-
sisted by force. Therefore. General Regal
ado says that the simplest way to put an
end to this question is "hurling at the
claimant a little gold with the contemptu-
Gus manner of one who is disposing OF
something immaterial and thus not conced-
ing an iota with reference to its dignity and
its rights"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
War Department Changes.

Changes in the classified service in the
War Department have been announced as
follows:
Appointments under civil service rules
Office of the Secretary: Cornelius A.
Holmes of North Carolina. assistant engi-
neer, at $720. Record and pension office:
Paul j. Smith of Kansas; clerk at $1,000.
Promotions-Record and pension office:
Benjamin J. Wrightsman of Kansas, from
clerk at 81 400 to clerk at 81 900; Kenton N.
Harper of Pennsylvania and William Nj.
Deck Of West Virginia. from clerks at 81. 2OO
to clerks at 81 400: Mrs. Emma Leckie of
the District of Columbia and Alanson 8.
Douglas of Vermont. from clerks at $1,000
to clerks at 81 200 Office of the chief signal
officer: William M. Reading of Maryland,
from clerk at 81 600 to clerk at 81 200; Chas.
r. Linn of Indiana, from clerk at 800 to
clerk at 81 600. A
Resignations-offlce of the adjutant gen.
eral: Everett NJ. Aten of New York and
Stewart G. Griswold of Michigan. clerks at
81 200. Office of the quarterMaster general:
Thomas ]. Longley of Georgia, clerk at
II, 200. Office of the chief signal officer: j..
Luther Johns .of Pennsylvania, clerk at
8. 200
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
FIRE CONTROL TESTS.
Gen. Miles and Others Tave Gone to
Witness Them

Lieut.. Gen. Miles and Col. Reber, his mill
tary secretary; Gen. Randolph, chief of ar
ttllery, and his aids, Capts. Chamberlain
and Landon, and the other members of the
board of ordnance and fortfications have
gone TO Warrington. Fla, to witness test
of the system of fire control recently in
stalled at Fort Barrancas. In the event that
the test demonstrates the success of the
system it is probable that the board will
recommend it's adoption by the army for
use at all the seacoast defenses. The ex-
ecution of such plan would involve an
outlay of two or three million dollars, and
1t is on account of the important character
of the tests that the members of the ord
nance board decided to make personal in
spection of the system before taking final
action on the proposition to extend the sys-
tenn to other coast batteries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
ROGUES FALL OUT.
Mystery Of the Jennie Hickey Murder
May Be Cleared.

CHICAGO, April 2o.-Two men charged
with completely in the murder of Jennie
Hickey in Douglas Monument Park. a
crime that has baffled the police depart
ment of Chicago for nearly five years, were
arrested last night. One is Richard B.
Finn, a well-to-do plumber. The other is
Martin L. Marooney. clerk for a big
commercial house. Both men are held
without bail Finn denies all knowledge
of the crime. Marooney said that he was
sitting at the entrance to the park when
the murder occurred. that he saw Finn
strike the girl and carry her unconscious
toward the lake and that in the course
of half an hour he saw Finn return alone.
Marooney offers no explanation of his
long silence, and has made many con-
Trajectory statements since being arrested.
The Hickey girl was only fourteen years
old. Her body was found in Lake Michi
gan at 35th street in September. 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
REBUKED GOV. MONTAGUE.
Called Him to Account for Keeping the
People Waiting.

RICHMOND, Va, April Potts a dis
grace and a shame" said former Alderman
Hardwicke to Governor Montague at Old
Point Saturday. after the launching of the
cruiser West Virginia. THE people who
came down here have been delayed more
than an hour waiting for you. You owe
them an apology"
The governor had been delayed by ban
Quet. the train being held for him while
the speeches were being made.
Colonel Cabell chief Of staff, attempted
to resent the insult to the governor but
was restrained. Before the train reached
the city Mr.. Hardwicke apologized for his
language
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
AN EVENTFUL TRIP.
The Coal Schooner Bayard Barnes Bat
tered by Storms,

NEW LONDON, Conn, April 20.-The
four-masted schooner Bayard Barnes of
New Haven. Capt. c. II. Roucher. has ar
rived from Newport News. Va. with coal
after eventful experience. The Barnes
encountered the heavy gales of last week
and lost her foresail, mizzen gafY and three
jibs. The coach house on the cabin was
ripped of. At one time there were five feet
or water in the hold. The gale left the
Barnes Friday battered and worn. and the
crew exhausted. Capt Roucher says that
Thursday, April 16, when ten miles south
of Cape Henlopen. he saw half of a vessel
with part of her bulwarks exposed FRI
day. the 17th. when twenty-four miles east
by north. one-half of Barnegat, the Barnes
passed the mastheads of a vessel above
water. Tuesday. April IL. the Barnes
passed through a quantity of lumber that
looked to be part of vessels deckIoad. All
the wrecks wore dangerous to navigation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
VICTIM IDENTIFIED
Clearing Away the Barrel
Murder Mystery.
WAS A BUFFALO MAN
PICTURE WAS RECOGNIZED BY
HIS SON.
Statement of His Brother -in-Law-Con-
trary Assertions by Water
bury People.
WAS A BUFFALO MAN

NEW YORK. April 2O.-Police Inspector
McClusky announced today that the iden-
tffcation of the body that was found in
a barrel last Tuesday would be positively
made within a few hours and that the
Identification would come from Buffalo
Il wish to say" said the inspector. that
all these stories stating that the murdered
man was mixed up in the Waterbury.
Conn, strike are absurd. There is no
foundation for them Whatsoever The So
luton of the mystery attached to the
murder will come from Buffalo"
Later the inspector said he was con-
vinced that the murdered man was Ma
duena Benedetto. forty years old. of AZ
Trenton avenue. Buffalo. N. Y. picture
of the murdered man had been positively
identified, the Inspector said by Joseph
De Prima, q brother-in-law of Benedetto,
who is now serving term in Sing Sing
prison.
The Identification Positive.
De Prima said his brother-in-law had been
In this country only two years. He de-
clared that Benedetto had visited him in
prison April IL. and when he went away
said he would return again the next day,
but he had not seen or heard from him
since that day. The convice also accurate
ly described the clothing found on the mur-
QeTeQ man, ana 1uTnlSneQ Otner 1nfOrma-
ton. the inspector said that made the
identity positive in the minds of the police
officials
The inspector would not say whether
Benedetto had been member of any secret
order. or whether the police believed him
to be victim of the vengeance of the
Malta.
Statement of Benedetto's Son.
A Buffalo dispatch says: "On information
from the police authorities of New York to-
day to locate Maduena Benedetto at AZ
Trenton avenue, this city. visit made
to the house, where Salvatore Benedetto.
twenty-one years old, who lives with his
mother and four brothers and sisters,
positively identified picture of the mur-
dered man shown him that of his father.
Young Benedetto said his father went to
New York about two weeks ago. He was
called there In connection with some law
case, but the son knew, or professed to
know. nothing of its nature. The elder
Benedetto was a Stonemason. Because of
Ill health he had not worked for the last
six or seven months. His wife lies at the
point of death in her home here. Maduena
Benedetto, according to the people who
York, coming to Buffalo. about ten months
ago."
Despite the identification of the murdered
man Benedetto of Buffalo, ]. w. Cham
bers of Waterbury. Conn.,. declared after
seeing the body in the morgue today that
1t was that of George w. Morrisette of
Taftville, a suburb of Norwich, Conn.
in Waterbury during the street railway
strike and had wife in Taftville. The
two other men who had worked with Nor
risette said the body looked like him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
WITHIN SIXTY DAYS
Work to Begin on New Rail-
way Tunnel.
BIDS TO BE ASKED FOR
ENGINEERS DRAWING UP THE
SPECIFICATIONS.
Operations to Be Started Near Garfield
Park - Statement Of Chief
Engineer Brown.
BIDS TO BE ASKED FOR
Special From a staff Correspondent.

Special From staff Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, April 20.-Within sixty
days the picks and the shovels will be fly
ing in South Washington, and actual work
on the great Pennsylvania railroad project
will be under way. The engineering de-
partment of the Pennsylvania railroad now
Is drawing up the specifications for the
contracts, and within thirty days will make
these specifications public and ask for bids
from contractors.
The general plan of the great work of
abolishing grade crossings and the con-
struction of a mammoth union station is
well known to the readers of The Star.
The details giving elevation of overhead
structures and showing the character of
the work to be done, are almost completed.
Chief Engineer Brown of the PennSyl-
vania railroad said today that he thought
the first work would be the beginning of
the tunnel under Capitol Hill. That will
be started in the vicinity of Garfield Park.
southeast of the Capitol, and will run be-
tween the Congressional Library and the
Capitol. Immediately after the work on the
northern approach to the depot will be be-
gun and in quick succession the contrac-
tors for the approach to the Long bridge
and the work between Garfield Park and
Benning will take hold.
Ihe construction OF the Statlon Will pe
In charge of the architects, but it is the
understanding of Chief Engineer Brown
that work upon the union station will be
begun as soon as the material can be OBJ
tanned.
Chief Engineer Brown admitted that he
was not prepared at this time to give an
estimate of the number of workingmen who
will be employed He said the province of
his deDartmant was to furnish the plans
and approve the payment of the money.
Necessarily however the immensity of the
work and the fact that its several sections
are to be prosecuted at the same time will
require the employment of. great number
of laborers.
The improvements in Washington do not
assume the Importance in the eyes of the
railway officials that attaches to them To-
cally, as ,the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is conducting in other cities engineer
ing feats of gigantic proportions. The
Washington improvements form but one
feature of the general scheme of better
ment of the road which is being worked out
elsewhere.
Assuming that the work is first to be
begun on the tunnel and that excavating Is
begun within sixty days. the engineering
department of the railroad calculates that
the tunnel can be completed within twelve
months thereafter. Chief Engineer Brown
said this afternoon that as soon as the
detailed plans are completed. specifications
drawn up and the contract awarded the
department will expect the contractors to
begin actual work at the earliest possible
moment they can secure their material.
Expedition is to be the watchword of this
immense undertaking. N. o. NJ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
FIRE FOLLOWS WRECK
FATAL DISASTER ON THE ERIE
RAILWAY.
Five Passengers and a Brakeman Lost
Their Lives, the Former Being
Burned to Death.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y. April 20.-Five
passengers and a brakeman lost their
lives In a wreck which occurred early to-
day on the Erie railway at Red House,
N. Y, about eight miles from Salamanca.
A freight train, which had orders to take
siding to allow the passage of the vesti-
buled limited express, which left Chicago
yesterday and was due at New York this
afternoon, through an accident to a cou-
ping had failed to clear the main track
when the express came along. The re-
suit was rear-end collision. in which two
women and a little girl and two men pas
sengers on the express and brakeman
of the freight train lost their lives, the
passengers being burned to death by the
flames. which destroyed three sleepers and
two coaches. An express messenger, Ga
briel, had his leg crushed, and Fireman
Bell of the passenger train was badly
bruised So far the names Of the dead
have not been learned.
After the fire the bodies of two women
and child who boarded the train at
Pittsburg, bound for Olean, N. Y, were
taken from the ruins burned so badly as
to make it impossible to identify 1t is
believed that other bodies are still in the
wreckage.
Six more or less seriously injured pas
sengerE and members Of the crew were
taken to the Salamanca hospital. Two
private cars attached to the passenger
train did not leave the track.
The fire department from Salamanca
reached the scene of the wreck on a special
train at o o'clock and soon had several
streams playing on the burning cars. Five
of the cars in the passenger train were
completely destroyed They were the sleep
ers Leon, Rubens and Clovedale, q COM
bination car and a ladies' day coach. The
freight train was made up largely of cars
loaded with hard coal, many Of them being
entirely consumed
The wreck occurred during a dense fog
the passenger train "side-swiping'' the
freight while the latter was pulling in
siding.
Dead and Injured.
R. s. McCready, mail weigher, Mansfield
Ohio. and Frank Barhite, a travelling sales
man. jamestown, N. Y, are missing and
two unknown passengers in the Pullman
sleeper and three in the day coaches are
said to be missing. Following are the
known dead:
r. S. Hotchkiss, brakeman, Meadville, Pa.
Two women and a child and two men,
unidentified.
The injured are: II. Pulsifer, New York
city, badly bruised; c. w. Mesick 22S
Adams street, Chicago, back badly injured;
very sick; H. F. Cleminger. mail clerk,
Gerry, N. Y, ribs fractured and body
bruised; John Drougouan, Duluth, bruised
and badly cut; Mrs. Foote. eighty years
old, st. Paul. Minn., bruised and shocked;
s. A. Cooke. negro porter. New York city.
back and ribs injured; c. S. johnson, negro
porter, Summervilfe, j., leg fractured;
E. c. Gabler. express messenger, Marion,
ONO, leg cut off, probably fatally injured;
r. T. Bell, fireman, head and back bruised.
The most seriously injured were taken to
the Salamanca hospital while others were
sent to their destination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
IN WINTERS GRASP
HEAVY SNOW STORM IN MIDDLE
EUROPE.
Railway Trains Were Blocked-Wires
Down, Trees Uprooted-Shipping
Disasters Reported.

BERLIN, April 20.-A gale yesterday
wrought such havoc on the grounds OF the
, palace at Potsdam that full report on
the subject has been telegraphed to EN-
peror William. Many splendid trees dating
from the time of Frederick the Great were
uprooted The imperial wild park was also
seriously damaged.
Throughout Middle Europe.
The thirty-six hours snow storm over
middle Europe ceased today at daylight.
The snow is two inches deep in Berlin. in
creasing to a yard deep In the Hartz high
lands. Snow lies deep in east Prussia and
Poland, where the wires are down and
trains are delayed. The temperature in
most parts of Germany is barely at freez-
ing point so that the damage to the fruit
crops may not be. so serious as at first sup
posed. The snow Is melting rapidly and
the streams are already flooding. The gov
ernment has issued notices that telegraphfc
communication with Russia is interrupted
and that the lines communicating with
Pomerania, Silesia and eastward of Berlin
are also down.
The snow was eighteen inches to three
feet deep on the Polish plains. At noon no
trains had arrived at Posen for twelve
hours Trains are showed in on the lines
all over SileSia and the province of PoSen.
The railroad administration has no snow
plows as such SHOWS as this are extremely
organized to dig out the drift-covered
trains and carry food to the belated pas
SengerS.
Reports From Many Cities.
kilograms from many cities read alike.
Street cars are immovable, telephone and
telegraph wires are down and the trains
are either not venturing to leave the ter
minals, are stalled in the country or are
arriving at their destinations after great
difficulty and hours late, with their passen-
gers wretched with cold and hunger. Minor
accidents have been numerous. The turret
over the Paradise Boor Of the Magdeburg
Cathedral was blown down.
Forty large trees in the Thiergarten here
were uprooted. Part OF the roof of the
opera house was blown off and workmen,
at the risk of their lives, sought to repair
it to prevent damage to the richly
decorated interior, but they were unable to
continue at work. The snow, however, did
little damage to the interior.
Berlin Thoroughfares Perilous.
Falling chimneys and tiles made Berlin
thoroughfares perilous last night. Twenty
one injured persons were taken to the hos
pitals. Count Won Ballestrem, president of
the reichstag, who is on his way to attend
the opening of parliament tomorrow, is
showed in between here and Silesia.
Among the fine trees planted by Frederick
the Great, which We're uprooted in the park
at Potsdam, was the largest of all the fir
trees.
Some shipping disasters are reported from
the Baltic and the North Sea. The German
schooner Sport was stranded near DantZic
and the Danish cutter Irene was wrecked
off Swinemunde. The crews of both vessels
were saved,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-20
OBSERVING PATEIOTS' DAY.
Massachusetts, Celebrates in Memory OF
Lexington and Concord.

BOSTON. Mass. April 20-The secular
observance of Patriots day. the anniversary
of the battle of Lexington, took place In
Massachusetts today. the date, April 10,
having fallen on Sunday. The principal
celebra ton was in the vicinity of Lexington
and Concord. where the opening battles of
the revolution made the locality historic.
The day was regarded as opening the sea-
son for out-of-door sports. The National
and American base ball leagues played
sheir first game of the season in this city.