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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
TELLS OF EXPLOSION
Disaster at ConneIlsviIIe De-
scrIbed by a Pit Boss.

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. Nov. %
This has been sad day in the little
mining settlement Of Ferguson, nestled
in the hills a mile and a half above
Dunbar. When the books of the COM
pany were consulted today to deter
mine the identity of the dead and in
jured in last nights explosion in the
Ferguson mine, it was found there
We're twenty-one men in the mine at
the time of the explosion. Ten bodies
were taken from the mine last night.
OF the ten injured one died today and
one man is missing whose body is sup
posed to be still in the mine.
Coroner Arthur Hagan, of Union
town, went to Ferguson early this
morning and viewed the bodies as they
lay in the blacksmith shop and sum-
moned jury Of inquest. Coroner
Hagan says he will not hold the in
quest until some of the injured men
at the hospital recover.
Pit Boss -McGurk is the only man
who can give any definite details of the
disaster and the scenes that followed
it. He said:
Il think the explosion was caused
by the flames from the Old Hill Farm
breaking through the wall that had
been erected when the Ferguson slope
was opened. Ferguson mine is prac-
tically the Old Hill Farm mine
When the explosion occurred I was
standing in room with ten or twelve
men about me. The place was rent
with terrific noise and men were
thrown in all directions. I must have
been knocked unconscious for a few
minutes. When I regained conscious
ness I felt the blood streaming from a
cut in my head but, filled with the fear
Of death, jumped to my feet and call
ed to the men to follow. None of them
moved and going to several of them I
shook them roughly. Then lost con-
seriousness again. In few minutes
was back on my feet The room was
filled with smoke, broken timbers and
flames. 1 made for the mouth of the
mine and fought my way back through
the smoke and flames, but fell exhaust
ed thirty yards from the pit mouth and
was picked up and assisted from the
mine by the rescuing party
The doctors fear that McGurk can
not get we'll. The flesh is burned from
his face and his hands and in many
places the bone is exposed.
Mine Inspector Bernard J. Callaghan
said:
1.-THE explosion in the Ferguson
mines was Htlle less tndn freak OIL
nature and was caused by a fall crush
ing the old stoppings between the Hill
Farm mines and the Ferguson mines.
The miners were pulling the pillars for
the stoppings and instead of the falls
filling in completely and shutting off
any future danger Of fire from Hill
Farm mine, which has been burning
since the explosion there in 1890, a
bend or tunnel was left between the
roof and the fall. The solid cemented
stoppings were crushed and the gas
that accumulated in this bend was ig-
nited by the fire from the old working.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
PISTOL IS FIRED
IN THE COURTROOM
Judge Desires to Ascertain Its Contents
Prisoner Is Peppered With Shot.

DAYTON, Ohio, Nov 22.-To determine
whether or not a revolver contained a
charge of bird shot Judge Snediker in
structed Capt Shoemaker to discharge the
weapon in police court yesterday Some
of the shot flew out of the upper window
and rebounded into a window below, pep
pering q prisoners face. - suF
Thomas Mccarthy was on trial for
pointing firearms. He commended that the
discharge of the revolver could hurt no
one The estimony showed that he had
placed the muzzle of the weapon against
his motheri n-laW's ear and threatened to
shoot A detective examined a cartridge
In the court room and reported that 1t
contained half shot and half powder. The
prisoner was fined. c 80
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
PETROLEUM CARTEL IS STRONG
Prices Have Been Boosted Fifty Per
Cent and Nav Go Higher.

Prices Have Been Boosted Fifty Per
Cent and May Go Higher.
VIENNA, Nov. 22.-Much indigna-
ton Is expressed here over the stead
lily increasing price of oil. Since the
formation of the Austro- Hungarian
petroleum cartel prices have been adj
vanced so pei. cent, with the prospect
that they will go still higher as soon
as the present stocks become exhaust
ed. The advance inflicts the greatest
hardship on the poorer classes, espe-
cially on the thousands OF ta1lors and
dressmakers, who work in their own
homes.
The local authorities Of the several
districts have taken the matter up and
are urgingsthe city council to use every
means to break up the oil monopoly.
There is, however, not the. slightest
prospect that these efforts will be sue
eessful. The cartel has completed its
orga nization, the only matter remain
ing still unsettled relating to the ex-
port trade. Both, the Standard Oil
company and the Deutsche bank are
continuing their efforts to come to an
agreement with the cartel regarding
the German market, but a strong Sec
ton of. the Austrian reiners wish the
cartel to remain Independent Of both
parties. n laser
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
PORTO RICAN PRESS
ROASTS NEWLANDS
Suggestion to Make Porto Rico a Prov
Ince of Cuba Cried Down.

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Nov. o.
United States Senator Newlands' resolu-
ton inviting Cuba to become state Of
the United States upon terms of equality
with the other states of the Union and
providing that Porto Rico shall become
a province of Cuba has been received with
derision by the Porto Rican press and
public.
Reciprocity between the United States
and Cuba finds general commentator in
this island, few believing that it will have
any bad effect upon Porto Rican inter-
ests.
The action of President Roosevelt in
recognizing the new republic of PanamA
is approved everywhere.
The United States cruiser Baltimore,
which left SANTANA bay, Santo Domingo,
yesterday, arrived here today and is coal
ing. She will await orders from Wash
ingtOn.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
LAWYER INVENT5 A
NEW SAFETY SIGNAL
1t Is Guaranteed to Work Even If En-
gineer and Fireman Drop Dead.

A young graduate of Yale the same
who invented the submarine arc light re-
Gently adopted by the United States gov
eminent, has invented a safety signal
for railroads which he believes will pre-
vent accidents. 1t Is an electrical affair,
operated by a dynamo on the locomotive.
works es as Veil We'll in % fog or e storm as in clear
weather. 1t works if the engineer and
fireman drop dead. 1t flashes a light in
a sleepy engineers face and rings a gong
or blows a whistle in his ear. Brakes are
applied automaticaIl at all sidings and
crossings which may not be clear and
at all bridges which may be open or out
of repair. 1t is not possible for a train
equipped with this apparatus to enter a
block that is occupied. The inventor is a
lawyer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
TWO Added to Death List.

JoHNsTOWN, Pa, Nov. 22-Two Of
the Italians who were burned in the
lodging shanty fire at Lilly Saturday
morning died at a hospital in this city
today. This brings the total death list
UP to thirty Ten other victims of the
disaster at the hospital here are in a
serious condition, four of whom will die.
All the victims were Italians, and most
of them leave families in the old coun-
try. The scene of the fire was visited
today by hundreds of people. The bones
and pieces of charred flesh, all that re-
NAMED of twenty eight men, had been
gathered up and placed in twelve caskets.
They will be buried tomorrow.
Coroner Miller has impaneled a jury
and will begin an investigation tomor-
row morning.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
Russian Troops Praised.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. ga
military order is published here prafs-
ing the conduct of the troops in what
it describes as an ARRAY between the
soldiers and a mob at Orsha, in the
district of Wilma, Nov. 10. The trouble
was the outcome of an attempt by a
crowd of Jews to rescue six core
ligionists, who were being escorted to
prison. No details of the ARRAY are
given, except that the Jews attacked
the soldiers with stones and blud-
geons, and that the soldiers defended
themselves with the butts of their
rifles.
The report that fresh anti -Semite
conflict has occurred at Gomel Is de-
MED, but it is stated that rigorous
precautionary measures have been
adopted in the provinces Of Wilma
Kovno and Grodno against revolutions
ary' and anti Semitic troubles and
strikes which are expected to occur.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
Strikers Refuse to Settle.

DENVER, Col, Nov 22.-Miners of the
northern coal field In mass meeting at
Louisville tonight for the second time
operators for a settlement of the strike
In this district. It is expected this action
is in the nature of sympathetic strike,
as the operators have practically conced-
ed all the demands of the men. The vote
is said to have been in opposition to the
wishes of the union mine workers Of
ficials, who have been trying to effect
settlement in the field. About 1900 men
are affected by ths vote.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
General Storm in Western Europe.

BERLIN. Nov. Communication
by telegraph, particularly west of Han
over, has been interrupted by a general
storm. All of Western Europe is at
present only Indirectly connected with
Berlin. At Frankfort the Main all
street car traffic has been stopped and
trees have been upfooted. A new four
story building with surrounding
scaffolding has been demolished at
Chennitz. A tug sank at Emden, one
man being drowned. Several lighters
were sunk on the River Ems, and it is
believed that numerous lives have been
lost. Seven passengers were seriously
injured by the derailing of train at
Seehausen.
Many shipwrecks in the North sea
are reported.
The Hamburg-American line steam
er, Deutschland, broke adrift at Cux-
haven and sustained extensive damag e.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
CANADA sTocKMEN STUBBORN
May Issue UItimatum Refusing to Send
oli Stock to St. Louis Fair. 70


81 OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. Pit is I'M
'derstood here that the officials of the
st. Louis exposition are unwilling to
meet; representatives of the live stock
interests of Canada until the latter de-
eide whether or not they will exhibit
at st. Louis. This attitude is hardly
likely to bring about, any change of
front on the part Of the breeders and
stockmen ofACanada.
In fact the likelihood is that they
will issue an ultimatum refusing to
send stock to st. Louis unless there is
a decided modification of the regula-
lions under which Canadian animals
are admitted into the United States, as
well as. of the conditions upon which
the prize lists are based. Breeders in
Canada freely express the opinion that
those engaged in similar pursuits in
the United States are. afraid of Cana
dian competition This fear, they say,
is based upon the success which Cana
dian live stockeexhibits achieved atthe
expeditions at Philadelphia, Chicago
and Buffalo
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
Wos Y GIL WILL RETIRE.
President of Santo Domingo Makes
Rebels an Offer.

SAN DOMINGO, Nov. 20.-Negotia-
ton of a treaty of peace between the
rebels and the government Of Presi-
dent Wos Gill has been begun. There
will be suspension of hostilities for
forty eight hours under an amicable
arrangement. 1t is expected that the
rebels will demand that President Wos
y Gil announce General election.
The United States gunboat Newport
has arrived here to relieve the cruiser
Baltimore, which leaves Saturday for
COAL
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
MEN WITH CORK LEGS
FORM AN OIL COMPANY
Every Member of an Indiana Concern
Wears an Artificial Neither Extremity

PORTLAND, Ind, Nov. 22-Perhaps
the most remarkable oil company in the
country is the one which opened up a new
pool in the field today. 1t is known as
the Cork Leg Oil company, every mem
Der of the company wearing an artificial
leg. B. F. Fulton and MIN Griffith, of
this city, are heavy stockholders in the
company, the other members living in
Indianapolis.
They drilled in their well No. on the
Abe Springer lease today and the we'll
will make at least 500 barrels the first
twenty-four hours. At twenty -four feet in
the sand the hole was filled up with oil,
and when drilled forty feet in the Trenton
rock the well began flowing and has flow
ed almost constantly since.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23

laration respecting st. Pierre and
Miquelon becoming a part of the
American republic has excited great
interest in st. Pierre. That colony has
had the worst fishery season in it's
history. Trade there is depressed and
the outlook is gloomy. The people
are ready to welcome any settlement
of the fishery dispute that will insure
them prosperity, and the feeling in
favor of. annexation to the United
States finds much favor.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
croatian Peasants Break Loose.

VIENNA, Nov 22.-Croatian peas
ants of Nagylak. near Macy Enyed, in
Transplant, Friday last, organized a
murderous attack on their Hungarian
neighbors. The Croatians assembled
during the day and armed themselves
with revolvers sticks and hayforks,
and at nightfall stoned the Makyar
houses and dragged the inmates into
the streets. One farmer was beaten
to death and most of the Hungarians
were injured, many of them severely.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
UTAH BOARD PARDONS
NUMBER OF PRISONERS
One Is Murderer Who Was Sentenced to
BE Shot to Death.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. o.
The state board of pardons has committed
to life Imprisonment the sentence of death
passed on Nathan F. Haworth for the
murder of Thomas Sandell in 1899. Ha-
worth was to have been shot to death
Dec. IL.
The board also granted pardons to or
commuted the sentences of a number Of
other prisoners who rendered material
assistance to the penitentiary guards in
preventing a wholesale delivery Of pris-
oners during the recent outbreak.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
Dubois Has 100000 Fire.

DUBOIS, Pa, Nov. 22-Fire broke out
in the Summit tannery of the Elk Tan
ming company at Curwensville at an ear
ly hour today and destroyed the main
building. entafling a loss of $500 900. 1t
is claimed that the fire was caused by
friction Of the pu1leys. The departments
destroyed were the beam house, rocker
room, dry loft and roller room. The loss
will temporarily drive 100 men out OF
employment.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
Russian Art Exhibit for Fair.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 22-The
leading painters and sculptors of this
city have promised to cooperate in
organizing a Russian art exhibit at
the st. Louis exposition.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
Turkish Command Rescued.

SALONICA, European Turkey, Nov.
22.-On the arrival of the battalion of
troops which wasIMspatched yesterday
from Sores, in Macedonia, to reinforce
the Turkish command besieged for two
days in the mountains near .Spatovo by
a band of $50 insurgents, the latter
withdrew. The losses of the insurgents
are unknown. Thirty of the Turkish
soldiers and one officer were killed, and
forty-seven wounded.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
A Great Test to Be
Made i'm St. Paul
5000

This Free Distribution Begins Today
at a. m.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
Newfoundland Is WiIIinu.

ST. JOHNS, M f., Nov 22.-Unit-
ed States Senator Lodges recent dec.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-02
PROGRESSIVE WILKES
10 School Districts ConsOli-
dated in One Year.
The Watts Law Will Not Work any Injury to The
Democratic Party and Will Help Fac
tories and Morals.

Mr.. G.. c. Wright, member Of the State
Board of School Examiners and County
Superintendent of Schools Of the county
of Wilkes, who has been in Raleigh this
week in attendance upon the meeting Of
the State Board, was asked yesterday as
tc the condition and progress of public
education in Wilkes county. He said:
THE situation there, we are glad to
say, is improving gradually. / see from
my annual report completed last week
that the enrolment in the public schools
and the average attendance for the past
year, ending June 30th. 1903, is larger
than ever before in the history of the
county. The people have recently voted
on the question of local tax for schools
in the two districts in the county, Wilkes
boro and Boomer In one OF these dis
tricts the vote cast was unanimous for
schools, in the other only two votes we're
cast against it. We are planning an edu
cational rally at about five or SIX different
points in the county. The rally is to come
off sometime during the month OF August.
Much progress has been made along alt
educational lines during the past year
and the outlook for the future is very
gratifying to the friends Of education all
over the county
Eighteen districts in the county have
been consolidated during the past year
Special notice is taken where these CON
solicitations have been made and in al
most every case the enrolment and aver
age attendance at these places were great
er than ever before
Mr.. Wright was asked what effect, in his
opinion, the Watts law would have IN his
county. He said:
''Well, we think the change there would
be for the better. The dstilers are al
ready casting about in their minds for
other business in which to invest their
money. One furniture factory will be
opened in a few days in North Wilkesboro
giving employment to quite a number OF
laborers. Other business projects are
talked of. / have not heard of any OF
the distillers moving out. of the State. The
fear once entertained that the men who
had their money in the liquor business
would move out of the State does not
now exist. The impression prevails that
these men will invest their money IN other
which will give large employ
ment to labor and will be more remuner-
alive to the whole county than the stills
have been and will have no element of
decentralization The law is growing in
favor every day"
what effect will this law have upon
the political situation of the county,
asked Mr.. Wright He said:
II think that by the time election IS
held next year we viii have very few. II
any, Democrats deserving the party be-
cause of this law. Some people think we
will gain many more votes than we VIII
lose. At any rate the best opinion IS
that the party viii not suffer from this
and that the morals of the county will be
greatly improved. The best people IN
Wilkes county are deeply interested IN
the education of their children and they
know that the still was inimical to edu-
cational progress
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-02
: A WONDERFUL PREACHER
A Born Preacher and Ought to be Heard in the
Great Centres of the Country.

To the Editor Rev D. H. Conan, of
Lenoir, most wonderful and powerful
preacher. has closed a two weeks meeting
in the Methodist church in this place. No
such preaching and teaching of the scrip
lures has ever been heard here. ! have
heard some of, the great Bible scholars of
America. and some of her greatest pulpit
orators and | have never yet heard the
scriptures expounded more clearly and
more powerfully than by him. People Of
all denominations Joined in the services
and the people, especially processing Chris
tians. were greatly strengthened Mr..
Conan is as plain and jealous as Moody,
but stronger in argument He IS as faml-
liar with the scriptures as Pearson, but
more convincing. He is born teacher,
and ought to be backed by Christian men
of wealth and sent to the large centers OF
population. GEORGE p. PELL.
Jefferson. N. c., June 80 1903.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-02
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-02

To show how veteran and non-partisan
newspaper correspondents view the Pres
| ldent's political power, we take two ex-
tracts from an article by "Savoyard" in
yesterdays Washington Post. He writes
Roosevelt dominates his party more
completely than any Republican President
since Lincoln. We may say that he is
more completely master of it than Lin
coin was, for there was a revolt against
him that went so far as to call conven-
ton and put ticket in the field; but Lin
coin was politician enough to knock that
movement in the head There was re-
belllon against Grant, and it was nearly
successful rebellion. Where is the Re-
publican Senator who would defy Roose-
welt as Grant was defied? Would Platt?
Would Quay? Would Aldrich? We have
seen what Hanna did when he was order
ed. Where is the man in the Republican
party who is bold enough to tell Theodore
Roosevelt that he is mortal? There is a
regiment of them ready to persuade him
that he can command the tides.
Gen. Jackson ordered the nomination of
Martin Van Buren, for Vice President in
1907. II INOUSeNelG sees III, lie can name
the man to go on the ticket with him.
There has been something in the nature
of a hint about that Senator Lodge, who
is to this administration what Benton was
to Jackson's and Conkling to Grants, has
suggested Senator Beveridge 1t would
be rather unique ticket. Nobody would
know what the head of it would do next.
and nobody would know what the tail of
it would say next, for Roosevelt can do
things and Beverage can say things. 1t
is true that the youthful Indiana Senator
is averse to accepting an honor that Thos.
A. Hendricks twice wore, and that Thomas
jefferson and John c. Calhoun did not dis
dain, but if Roosevelt says the word Jere-
miah Beverage would as well make up
his mind to be drafted on the ticket in
the good year 1904"
He will name his own running mate and
white his own platform. 1t will then be up
OF the people to defeat this strenuous Do
htical boss. He imagines he is a second
Cromwell. He has ability and courage
but he lacks the moral power of Old Iron
sides. Nobody except the President sees
any resemblance in Cromwell and Roose-
welt except that both desired to be the
whole thing. Cromwell wished power for
the religious and civic uplifting of the
people. Roosevelt wishes power because
he loves power.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-02
ROOSEVELT THE WHOLE THING

The tootoo admirers of President
Roosevelt have been fond of saying that
he is no politician, and that as president
he administers the office upon plan
wholly different from a politician. We
believe most of these magazine writers are
self deceived because they think Teddy
runs his administration along the breezy
lines of his early talk against machine
methods. Bless your life, he can give
Mark Hanna pointers upon political man
agement and manipulation Nobody in
Washington is deceived by these irri-
descent dreams. They know that Mr.
Roosevelt runs his machine upon purely
machine lines and then bitches the machine
to flashing meteor to dazzle the people