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Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
JCEAHL LINER WRECKED
One Lifeboat Reaches Land. Another With TWenty-one
 Souls SWamped.
HARD FIGHT WITH ANGRY SEA

The Damara, From Liverpool, Strikes
 Rocky Ledge Near Halifax In Ter rife Gale-Nineteen Survivors Reach
 Shore After Intense Suffering From
 Cold and Exposure.
 Halifax. N. S., Feb. 8.-News of one of the most disastrous and tragic wrecks that has ever occurred on the north Atlantic coast has been brought here by nineteen survivors of the forty souls aboard the steamer Damara of the Furness line, bound from Liverpool for this port. The Damara; when driv- ing at full speed into terrific gale, struck shoal five miles from the mainland and thirty miles east of here and sunk in ten minutes. Tremendous seas overwhelmed the ship, and the water rose in her hold through huge hole in the bow. She slipped off rock and sank by the stern.
 The first officer of the ship reports that four passengers undoubtedly have been lost, together with Captain Gorst and sixteen of the crew. The lifeboats were launched after three boats had been dashed to pieces Against the side of the ship. All on board succeeded in getting into the boats. One of the tiny craft came over the towering waves to Pleasant point. The other is believed to have been swamped and it's twenty one occupants drowned.
 No Hope For Missing Men.
 Tugs have been dispatched to search for the missing lifeboat and to investi- gate the wreck No hope is enter tained, however, of finding the boat. The gale is still raging, and the ther- mometer is at 10 below zero. Even should the lifeboat keep afloat the pas sengers and sailors must perish from exposure
 So terrible were the experiences of the nineteen men now in the life saw ing station at Pleasant point that they were unable to leave the boat when it was carried far up on the beach by a giant comber.
 They were lifted out by the coast guards, and all the men are in state of collapse. The death of several is feared by physicians. Not one of the sailors escaped frostbite. Their ears were stiff and their noses frozen.
 For an kour they battled to get the boat ashore. Less than POO yards from the beach they were still threatened with death In the -tsrbuIent seas. Fl nally when their strength was almost spent, when there were only two of the men strong enough to hold the helm, a wave lifted the boat on it's crest and carried 1t along like a chip until it threw it far from its breaking crown up on the ice sheathed shore.
 The Damara left Liverpool on Jan. 24 for Halifax by way of St Johns, N F., laden with miscellaneous cargo. The crew was shipped in Liverpool Rough weather was experienced all the way to Newfoundland, but the ship rode easily and reached St. Johns without accident. On Saturday after noon the Damara cleared finally for this port, and then began the battle with the tempest, which ended in her destruction on Musquodoboit ledge, the i'll fated shoal that has sealed the doom of many steam and sailing vessels.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
eio A5Jltio, For Steel Plant,

Pittsburg, Feb. S.-Plans calling for an expenditure of S1,500,000 for the erection of twelve modern fifty ton open hearth steel furnaces as an addi- ton to the steel producing capacity of the Homestead Steel works have been perfected by the Carnegie Steel com pany, and the work of erection is eX- pected to start during March. The completion of the furnaces will give employment to 2,000 men additional to the 5,000 now employed.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
GRIM ES

cptmre Deceived by a thin
 blanket of snow which
 covered the ice on Oli- cAooHI plants mill pond, near Mount Holly, N. J., and which gave it the appearance of solidity and safety, $. o. Ballinger, well known young farmer of Burlington county; his wife and his wife's sister. Lizzie Taylor. at tempting to cross, broke through and were drowned before assistance could reach them.
 One of the strangest wrecks in the history of railroading occurred at Whitesboro, N. Y, on the Central line. Two persons, an engineer and a fire man, were killed, and large number of persons, including Justice Warren B. Hooker of the New York state supreme court, were injured The disaster was caused by the explosion of the boiler of one passenger train engine us the other train was passing.
 Near Belmore, O., Friday night, the northbound Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton limited train was ditched from a cause not yet learned. Mrs. Florence Frazier of Sidney, O.. was killed, Miss Garrett of Deshler fatally injured and more than dozen other persons hurt.
 Alfred Burk, twelve years old, living near Tawas City, Mich, on Tuesday accidentally shot and killed his sister Viola, ten years old, and wounded a playmate named Van Sickle when play ing with his brothers rife.
 Three children perished in a fire which destroyed the little home of MT. and Mrs. Charles Otis. in the outskirts of the village of Canastota, N. Y, Sat urday. The mother was also fright fully burned.
 Nine persons were injured, some of them seriously, in head-on collision between a passenger train and freight train on the Delaware and Hudson railroad at Plattsburg, N. r., Saturday. In Buffalo, Friday night, one woman was killed and four badly burned and otherwise injured in q fire thought to have been of incendiary origin at the Ingleside home, a retreat for women.
 Three small children were burned to a crisp in a log house at Poysophi, Wis, Monday night, while the parents were away. It is supposed the chil- dren played with fire in a stove. Mrs. Lamson, ninety years and two months old, was burned to death in small house near Charlton, Mass, Sum- | 5Iy, in which she bad lived alone for many years.
 Five men were drowned in Hooper's strait, on the Maryland coast, Monday, while attempting to reach shore from | icebound oyster vessels.
 On Thu, sday one death and four cases of illi Nss were caused in Chioa, go family ' supposed ptomaines in | canned tomn ps.
 Two men st their lives in fire
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
News of
 | A Week Paragraphic Photographs of the
 Worlds Doings

Postotfice officials from the United States have conferred with officials in London and France and announce the following important postal improve ments: Sorting the mails on board the steamships so as to be ready for distri- button when they arrive at New York, readjustment of the transcontinental railroad charges for carrying British mails across the United States to and from Australia and parcel posts be tween the United States and England and the United States and France.
 On Saturday and Sunday Atlantic coast harbors and rivers, from Phila- delphia northward, were seriously blockaded by ice, the result of five days of continuous cold Long Island sound was practically impossible for their way through the ice, which blocked the Delaware capes, and fifty vessels were held fast in the lower bay at Philadelphia. A like condition pre- vailed at Newport and Boston.
 In New York, Friday, within the briet period of ninety minutes the banking firms of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Speyer & Go. disposed of $75,000,000 first re funding per cent gold bonds of the Southern Pacific Railroad company, guaranteed by the Southern Pacific company.
 After receiving the last rites of the Catholic church and hearing her fa- ther confessor read the prayers for the dying Mrs Mary Rogers, confined in the Vermont state prison at Windsor, was reprieved by Governor Bell a few . hours before the time set for her exc. cution.
 A storm of sleet and rain, which froze as it fell, tied up traffic and did much damage in Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas, Mississippi. Kentucky and other states the first of the week. Tele- phone and telegraph lines were almost entirely crippled.
 Charles w. Darling, assistant secre- tary of the navy, has rendered his res ignation to the president, asking that it take effect in December, 1905. The president will appoint him collector of the port at Burlington, Vt
 The Indiana senate has passed an anticigarette bill. The measure makes it unlawful to own, sell or give away cigarettes, cigarette wrappers or ciga- rette tobacco under penalty of fine and imprisonment or both.
 It is announced that tunnel will be constructed under the Detroit river be tween Detroit and Windsor to facilitate the transportation of ears and do away with the delays caused by the ice ev- cry winter.
 At Camden, N. J., Sunday, a woman past eighty years and paralyzed in one side was wheeled out on the ice in an invalid chair and baptized in the Dela- ware river by an elder of the Church of God.
 Milk producers in Pennsylvania are making plans to forward their output to New York and Philadelphia by a pipe line. thus following the example of the Standard Oil company.
 After many years of trials the pro duction Of rubber In commercial sense has been established in Hawaii A rubber plantation started six years ago is now yielding sap.
 A gift of $1,10O,0oO to the Union Theological seminary of New York city was announced Wednesday by pr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, president of the faculty
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Senate Glands by Mitchell.

Salem. Ore, Feb. S.-The state sen, ate, with bu: one dissenting vote, -adopted a- concurrent resolution ex. pressing confidence in United States Senator John H. Mitchell and at the same time proposing to adjourn sine die net later than Friday night, Feb. r. It has been reported that cer. tain faction in the legislature had pro posed to adjourn to fixed day, with the object of electing successor to Senator Mitchell should he relinquish or he deprived of his seat as result of the indictment returned against him in connection with the alleged land frauds. Senator Mitchelrs supporters, however insist on an adjournment without delay,
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Feb. g In History.
l5e7-Henry sunni nord

i567-Henry Stuart u.ord <mN
 Darnly). husband of KIA Mary. queen Of Scots, l,rs &xA father of James l. of F1M England murdered; S,&ES0 =;$;; :;:::$: E: ;: $s,;$ 3; ;, g$ss E;s A ed States, born in Iar,.s Is.r,o, Charles City county 'N''' Va: died in Washington city iga. iSz2-James Parton. American author born in Canterbury. England. died 1891. lSsG-Samuel Bowles, noted New England journalist. born in Springfield. Mass died 1878; he edited the Springfield Re. publican s4 yearh.
 isss-General Winfield Scott Hancock. distinguished Union leader. died on Governors island. New York bay; born 1924
 iss4-Msxime du Camp, noted French author. died at Paris; born iS20 lsS-Edna Lyall (Mlss Ada Ellen Bayly). the novelist, died at Eastbourne, Eng. land
 isot-Night attack by the Japanese fleet at Port Arthur. The Russian battle. ships Cesarevitch and RetviEan and the cruiser Pallada disabled The United States addressed an identical note tc the powers suggesting that the neutral. ity and integrity of China be maintain. ed by Russia and Japan
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Bryan Hired speoiaI Train.

St Louis. Feb. S.-In order to fill an engagement to address an audience at New Harmony, Ind, more than 150 miles from St. Louis, last night Wil liam J. Bryan, who arrived here late, was compelled to hire special train on the Louisville and Nashville road He had telegraphed ahead and made arrangements, and when he arrived on the Burlington road his special was made in little over three hours. Al Mount Vernon carriage was waiting and Mir. Bryan was driven eight miles to New Harmony in time to fulfill his engagement
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
smallnox Scare In a coIIeae.

Gettysburg, Pa, Feb. S.-The entire student body of Gettysburg college has been placed under quarantine because of the discovery of smallpox in the ln- stitution. Two freshmen. Roy w. Stambough of Perry county and Ralph Zimmerman of Somerset, were stricken with the disease, and the board of health has deputized a large force of men 10 guard the dormitorles
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Feb. l3 In History.

17e6-BenJamin Franklin appeared before the house of commons to plead the cause of the American colonies 1T7s-The commons presented before the lords the article of impeachment against Warren Hastings. 1s05-David Dudley Field. jurist. born in Haddam, Conn.
 iS43-Commodore Isaac Hull, American naval hero, commander of the famous Constitution, died at Philadelphia born in Derby, Conn, 1T73. Ise4-Hans von Bulow, the celebrated pi- anist, died at Cairo. Egypt; born 1880. lss7-John Randolph Tucker, a noted Vir- ginian. died at Lexington, Mo. aged "A General Joseph O. shelby cele- brated beyond the Mississippi ar s dashing Confederate cavalry com mander. died at Adrian, Mo.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
BLOODSHEO IN POLAND.
Workmen Killed by Strikers In War.
 saw-Deadly Riots In Radon.

saw-Deadly Riots In Radon.
 Warsaw, Feb. S.--Several men were kiIied here by strikers in bakeries and elsewhere where attempts were made to resume work. Many arrests have xSsens made. The prices ef provisions Eve gone up. The peasants are afraid to bring in their produce.
 Strikers attempted to bring out the employees of the electrical plant of the innatic asylum, but the doctors sue. ceeded in pacifylng the men.
 According to report from Radon, twenty workmen have been killed or wounded in strike disorders there, while at Skarzysko twenty-four have been killed and forty wounded. Grave trouble is also reported at Kutno. Troops have been sent to Kutno from here.
 The Catholic bishop of this diocese has issued an appeal to the strikers to attend the cathedral and definitely state their claims. The pupils of all the schools here except two refused to re turn to their classes until the Polish language shall have been introduced. The general strike situation is un. changed.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
More Tunnels For New York.

New York, Feb. 8.-By vote of 6s to 1 the aldermen ratified the fran. ehise granted a month ago by the rapid transit commission to the New York and Jersey Railroad company to ex. tend it's tunnels under the Hudson riy- CT from the terminal at Christopher and Greenwich streets northward to Herald square under Sixth avenue and eastward to Astor place under Ninth street. As soon as Mayor Mcclellan signs the franchise the company will he9in work on the extension.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Feb. 10 In History.

is7o-wlliam Congreve. poet. born. i6Ss - Isaac Nossius. celebrated German scholar, died. .. i763-The French and Indian war ended by treaty at Paris. By the torms of the treaty Canada and its dependencies were ceded to Great Britain 1T7b-Montesquieu, noted French phIloso. pher author of Spirit of the Laws" |" dlod: born lGS9
 ls76-Reyerdy Johnson, statesman. died in Annapolis; born I7p6. lS92-James Redpath, Irish Nationalist and author died fin New York. leo&-Prssident Roosevelt proclaimed the neutrality of the United states in the Russo-Japanese war.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Eirs, R.rc. Canal A.,rd.

Albany, N. Y.. Feb, S.-Superlntend- ent of Public Works Franchot has made the first awards of contracts un- der the barge canal act. The success ful contractor in both cases was Lin, don w. Bates of New York city. The awards cover contract No. 1, Cham. - .in canal, for $605, ,00S.40, and con. ,lact No. 4. Erie canal. for S728,s15. Both amounts are based on item prices.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Forty three Wives Itnd Hoeh.

New York, Feb. S.-Governor Hig. gins, at Albany, has granted the requi. sition of the governor of Illinois for the extradltiou of Johann Hoch, the alleged bigamist who is under arrest here, and he will be talsen 10 Chicago at once. As the. investigation ints Hoch's marrying career "cntlnn~s t,.e list of women who have followed him to the altar grows and now reaches forty-threp
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
JUDGE HOOKER DELlRIoUs
His Injuries In Train Wreck May Prove
 Fatal.

Fredonia, N. Y., Feb. 8. Judge Rockers friends admit that he is not yet out of danger. He Is at the home of his sister-in-law, where he was brought on Saturday after the wreck near Utica in which he was injured. Dr. A. Wilson Dods of Fredonia Is in charge of the patient, and every one, even his family. is excluded from the justices room.
 Justice Rockers injuries consist of severe body bruises and internal in- juries. the full extent of which are not known. The danger lies in the possible development of these internal injuries in the next twenty-four or thirty-six hours.
 Tie patient is delirious part of the time. has had almost no normal sleep for two days and can take no nourish- ment
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
ward from t,,e Cnlvc.si;y Of Ry,..,

ward from t,ie Unlvcrsi;y or Ry,..,s ter.
 In Ne~- Paltz. X. Y.. Saturday, the Hon. Jacob I.ctevra. former assembly nan and cons scssman. HtAsvas ore If the promoters of the Waikill Valley railroad president of the Huguenot National bank and trustee of the New Paltz Normal school.
 Tn Allentown. Pa. Monday. James K. Mosser, a millionaire leather mer- chant, the largest owner of tnnneres in Pennsylvania and member of the firm of Neck, Mosser X Co, with of fees in New York and Boston, aged seyenty-five years.
 Rev, c. E Bentley of Lincoln, Neb., candidate of the Liberty party for pres islent of the United States in 1896. died at Los Angeles. Cal. Sunday. under mysterious circumstances, and the po- lice are investigating his death.
 ropr,cn The Rev Reuben A.
 norre Torrey and Charles NJ.
 Alexander, the Ameri- pr INTEREST. I.ican revivalists. Sun- day night had one of the most success ful public openings of any revival work in the experience of London. Thou sands of people collected outside Al. bert hall hours before the opening of the meeting. An enormous number was turned away. At the close of the meeting 300 persons made public con- fession.
 Soisalon Soininen, procurator general of Finland, was assassinated in his of fee Monday at Helsingfors. Following the murder of the procurator general there was a revolver duel between the dead mans son and the assassin, in which both were shot, but not fatally. The official had earned the hatred of the Films because of his pro-Russian administration.
 An assembly of nobles in St Peters burg, Monday, issued an address to the czar demanding that some sort of rep resentative parliament should be estab- lished and informed the cZar that he could not hope for the success of his SDN uOE lllt ness of Russia until he ordered the election of representative assembly.
 It has been discovered recently that the slime, or residuum, from the ther. nal springs at the city of Baden-Ba. den. Germany, contains very powerful radium. Professor II. Gertel of Wolf. enbuttel, Germany, says this radium Is forty times more powerful than that found in the residuum of cold water springs or In mud baths.
 At Mons, Belgium, Friday, about H.. 900 coal miners struck. They demand. ed higher wages. The national con. gress of miners will meet shortly to dis. cuss a general strike.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Bank Closed. Banker Missing,

Marengo, Ill.,, Feb. 8.-The Citizens bank of Union, village four miles east of here, has closed it's doors, and the whereabouts of the head of the in stitution, E. w. Settle, are the subject of inquiry. There is nearly $15,O00 on deposit. Settle has banks in Forest, H., and in Michigan
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
Feb, l5 In History,

1b6s--Gallleo Galilei, the noted astronomer, born; died in l642.
 iSos-John Augustus Sutter noted Califor. mia pioneer born in Kandern. Baden; shipwrecked ane left in California July 2. 1859; died M Washington 1880 ls4e-Otto von Kotzebue of noted Rus sian family, voyager and explorer. died in Revel. Russia: born there 17S7 lS5-Dr Leopold Damrosch, the eminent orchestra leader. died in New York city; born fin Roven. Russia, in 1892 1S96-The United States battleship Maine, Captain Charles Sigsbee, wrecked by a mysterious explosion in the harbor Of Havana; officers and 284 of the crew lost their lives.
 leo+-Mark A. Hanna, United States sen. ator from Ohio. died in Washington, born 1927.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
choked erandmother; Drussed Father

Choked Grandmother; Drueged Father.
 New York, Feb. 8.-Harlem's worst boy is sought by the police on the charge of drugging his father to the point of death in order to possess him. self of S400 which was in the paternal safe. He is Charles, the sixteen-year- old son of Dr. William H. Upton of 1894 Lexington avenue, who two weeks ago. out of the tenderness of his heart, had him paroled from the Elmlra re- formatory. Charles had been sent away for choking his grandmother to insensibility and then robbing her of money and jewels.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
4 ConscIensfou. Phy.icimn.

One of the most distinguished med. ical practitioners used to say that he considered fee so necessary to give weight to an opinion that when he looked at his own tongue in the glass he slipped . guinea from one pocket Into the othsr.--Loudou Nt-Bits,
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
The v.ndsrhlltn Sail Away.

New York, Feb. S.-William K. Van, derbllt and wife and Mir. and Mrs. w K. Vanderbilt, Jr., sailed on the Deutschland for Europe, where they will remain until the fall. A great part of the time will be spent in Rome.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09

 California miner. The first known dis covery of gold in Australia wns made in 1889 but the fact was suppressed nt the request of the governor of New South Wales. who feared it's effect on the s5.0oo convicts of EnRland's penal colony collected there Again. in lsu. geologiSt made the discovery. That also was suppressed. The discovery of 1851 led to extensive workings lsn-Alice Cary, author, died
 isSe-Horatio Seymour, statesman, dled in Utica, N. Yi born lS10
 ls97-Genersl Darius Nash Couch, noted Federal leader fin the civil war, died at Norwalk. Conn. aged 7b. 19o3-Rev Dr. J. l.. M. Curry, ex-minister to Spain and n we'll known educator. died at Charlotte, N. C.: born 1893.
Connecticut western news., 1905-02-09
THE FIRE RECORD.

structive blaze Thursday night which destroyed number of office and store buildings. Several persons were in- jured; property loss, $265,000.
 On Thursday morning fire of un- known origin swept the south side of State street, Schenectady, N. T., for a distance of several hundred feet. Four business blocks were almost complete ly destroyed, and two others on each side of the fire scene are damaged. The estimated loss Is S200,000.
 In Shamokin, Pa, Friday night, the stocking factory of Pauber X Co, Aucher's blaming mill and lumber yards, four dwellings and some other buildings were destroyed The esti- mate or the loss is $200,00g.
 At Birmingham, Ala, sunday, fire which started In the wholesale com mission house of F~enkisn, Sts5ss 2. Franklin destroyed property valued at $240,000. Two firemen were severely injured by falling walls.
 A spark frons workman's torch fall ing upon oily waste and greasy fiooi caused fire which destroyed the Mer. chant Iron mill in Rome, N. r.. Tues. day, entailing a loss of $200,00O.
 Several coal pockets of the Erie Rail, road company, a number of cars and several small buildings were burned at Port Jervis, N. r., Tuesday. The loss is about $10o,000.
 The couch factory of Riley Bros. iu Rochester, N. r., was burned Thurs day night, causing a loss of $25,000 and throwing 100 hands out of employ. ment.
 Armory Rolling mill NJ of the Trede. gar company, at Richmond, Va, was burned Sunday, causing loss of prob; ably $3O,000, fully covered by insur ance.
 In Gloucester, Mass, Thursday night. one business block OH Main street was destroyed and another seriously dam, aged. The loss is estimated at S150,, 900.
 Monday night, in Hardwick, Mass, the High school building, in which was also located the Hardwick Free library, was burned, with its contents.
 At Fort Wayne, Ind, Sunday. fire destroyed the Paragon Shirt Waist fac. tory, entailing a loss of 10000 The loss is covered by insurance.
 A fire which caused damage of $50. GOO broke out late Thursday night in a studio in Islip. N. r., and destroyed several buildings.