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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
STORM IN LAKE REGION
Terrific Gales Drive Vessels on
Rocks Wrecking Several.
-AkEs WERE LAsHED TO FURY
Heavy Snowfall Stops Railways and
Street Cars In Many Sections
of Northwest.

In one of the most terrific gales In
the history of Wisconsin or the great
lakes, even surprising in fury the ter
rible storm of last September, in
which so many men lost their lives
in the vicinity of the Apostle islands,
three big lake steamers were driven
ashore within sight of the lighthouse
at the Duluth entrance to the local
harbor, and several members of the
crew of one of the boats, the Mataafa,
are believed to have perished.
The wrecks are the Crescent City
and the Mataafa, of the Pittsburgh
Steamship Company, and the r. w.
England, owned by the England
Transportation Company of Cleve-
land.
In the Lake Superior District, the
worst storm since 1872 created wide
havoc. Belated news from lake ports
told of vessels being smashed on the
rocks, or cast ashore to be pounded to
splinters by the fury of the storm.
In Superior, Wis, and many other
cities in that district, six feet of snow
was reported, with the people practi-
cally snowbound in their homes, bat
Ting with the rapidly incoming drifts.
Street car traffic in many northwest
ern cities was entirely abandoned,
while the steam roads were paralyzed
or the trains running without sched-
ule At Milwaukee the liohthOuSe
was wrecked the stranded steamer
AppomattoX torn to pieces by the
gale, and farther up the lake the big
Steel Corporation steamer Crescent
City, built entirely Of steel and sup
posed to be stormproof, was battered
into junk after the crew had escaped
to the shore on a plank.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
NINE BLOWN TO ATOMS
Explosion at Powder Mill Causes
Great Loss of Life.
HORRIBLE SCENE PRESENTED
Portions of Bodies of Men Found
Scattered Among the Ruins of
Spintered Buildings.

The Keystone Powder Company's
plant at Emporium. Pa, was com
pletely wrecked and nine men killed
by an explosion.
The dead are John Bessie, James
Joyce, James Campbell, John Hamil-
ton, John Butler. William Murphy,
Thomas Welsh, Frank Harrington and
William Sprung.
Joseph Ganey was perhaps fatally
injured, while a dozen others were
more or less injured. Two explos-
ions occurred simultaneously in the
mixing room and a packing room,
The cause Is not known.
The body of William Sprung is the
only one recovered, that being identi-
fled by the clothing. The top of his
head and one leg were blown off.
Searching parties are still looking for
bodies, which are being picked up in
small pieces.
The explosion took place at 10
O'Clock. Schools, stores and indus
tries in town were closed and a
stream Of excited humanity, among
them the families of the men en-
ployed at the powder plant, started
along the road to the scene of the
accident.
A great hole where the main
buildings stood, with sowing of
splintered timbers and warped iron,
gave ocular evidence of the destruc-
tive force, while here and there, ly-
ing among the wreck, the ghastly
portions of mems bodies added horror
to the scene.
There is no chance of identification
Of more than two or three of the vic
Tins. Indeed, for the most part,
there is nothing to be found of the
bodies of the men, they having been
blown to atoms. Ganey, the man who
escaped with awful burns, may not
have been in the buildings at the
time of the explosion, for he was
found 80 yards away from where the
buildings stood.
1t is presumed that the explosive
which ignited was dynamite, for the
plant has been engaged on a large
order of this for several weeks past.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
FOOTBALL PROHIBITED
Columbia University Will Not Permit
the Game as Played Now.

Columbia University Will Not Permit
the Game as Played Now.
Columbia university has abolished
the game Of football, as at present
played, as one of the sports in which
students of the university will be
permitted to engage.
This action was taken at meeting
Of the Columbia University committee
on student organizations held at the
university, at which were present the
members of the committee, Prof.
Lord, chairman; Prof. Mitchell and
Prof Odell, and also President Nicho-
las Murray Butler and Dean Kirch-
wey and Prof. Bogert, the two latter
former chairmen of the committee.
Prof. Lord said, after the meeting
Of the committee.
"The reasons for this action need
no explanation. They must be pat
ent to the mind of everyone acquaint-
ed with the game as now played.
Only by such radical action can the
university and college life be rid of
an obsession which, it is believed,
has become as burdensome to the
great mass of students as it has prov
ed itself harmful to academic stand
ing and dangerous to human life"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
eoMPERs REELECTED
American Federation Of Labor
Chooses Officers.

American Federation Of Labor
Chooses Officers.
The silver anniversary convention
Of the American Federation adjourn
ed November 25th to meet next year
In Minneapolis, MINI. Samuel
Gompers, of Washington, d. c., was
reelected president by practically
unanimous votes, only two votes hav-
ing been cast against him. The re-
tirement of Thomas l. Kidd. as fifth
vice president, advances the can
didates behind that office, and all
who were candidates for reelection
were successful except Eighth Vice
President w. ]. Spencer, Of Dayton,
o., who was defeated for the seventh
vice presidency by w. d. Huber, Of
Indianapolis, Ind. Joseph F. Valen-
tine, of Cincinnati o., was the only
new officer elected, defeating William
ID. Mahon, of Detroit, Mich.
Frank X. Foster, of Boston, and
James H. Wilson; of New York, were
chosen to represent the federation at
the British trades and labor congress,
and Thomas A. Rickert, of New York,
was elected to attend the Canadian
labor congress.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Senator Fined for Contempt.

United States Senator Thomas NJ.
Patterson, was held by the Colorado
supreme court to be in contempt for
printing certain cartoons and editor
ials in his two newspapers, and was
fined $1,000, to be committed to Jail
until paid. Subsequently the court
ordered a stay of execution for six
ty days. Senator Patterson declared
he would go to jail rather than pay
the fine. His attorneys also informed
the court that Senator Patterson
would exercise his constitutional
right as a United Senator to claim
exemption from arrest while Congress
was in session.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
puN's WEEKLY SUMMARY
Feeling Of Confidence in Future Of
Business in All Lines-Manufac
turing Plants Busy.


R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review Of
Trade says: Business conditions GER
tainly warranted day of gratitude
this year more than ever before, but
in many industries it was difficult to
take time for holiday without falling
still further behind orders and increas-
ing the complaints of importunate
purchasers. An idea of the volume
of trade in November is shown by a
daily average of bank exchanges that
exceeded last years figures by four
per cent, which in turn surpassed all
previous monthly records. Yet un-
seasonably mild weather in Novem-
Der has postponed retail business in
winter goods.
Christmas trade opens with vol
ume that promises to eclipse all earl
Ter records, and the feeling of conf
by the encouraging statement that the
strike of structural iron workers may
not become general.
Crops supply the foundation of this
country's commercial prosperity and
the value of all farm products, accord
ing to the annual report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, was even great
er than estimated. Manufacturing
plants make most satisfactory re-
turns, despite the high level of prices
for raw materials and inadequate
transporting facilities. Railway earn
ings thus far available for November
were 6.5 per cent. larger than year
ago and foreign comerce at New York
for the last week shows gains of
S4,2S6 ,535 in exports and s2,S74, 9O7
in imports as compared with last
years figures.
Progress is fully maintained in the
iron and steel industry. Quotations
of all forms, from ore to finished steel,
are firmly maintained, several small
advances being noted and all available
statistics testify to unprecedented ac-
tivity. In the primary market for
cotton goods it is rather a matter of
delivery than Of price, the upward
tendency of quotations having little
effect on the attitude of purchasers
Conditions are unchanged in woolens
and worsteds, the raw material being
strengthened by the London auction
sales. Quiet conditions in the packer
hide market have become so pro-
nounced that the tone is less firm al
though no definite change in quota
tions can be recorded.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
SHELL PIERcES ARMoR
An Eieht-lnch Ball Goes Through
Plate and Dock at Proving

What an eight-inch arlnor piercing
shell fired at distance of 1,50O yards
will do to the side of an armored
cruiser, protected by a five-inch ar
NOR plate on a protective deck nearly
three inches thick, was demonstrated
by an important test at the naval
proving grounds at Indianhead. The
shell pierced the five-inch plate, went
through the inclined protective deck
and buried itself in the coal bunk
ers.
The test was in the presence Of
the board of construction of the navy
department and officers of the bureau
of ordinance, steam engineering,
equipment and construction and re-
pair. The results of the test will be
considered at an early meeting of the
board of construction in connection
with armor to be supplied to the new
ships.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE
Steering Gear Breaks and Machine
Plunqes Down Hill.

Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, wife
of former Congressman Francis Bur-
ton Harrison of New York, was kill
ed by the overturning of an auto
mobile in which she was riding with
party of friends from San Francis
co. The car was running down a
steep hill near Long Island City when
break in the steering gear caused
the accident.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurence T. Scott Of
San Francisco and Charles T. Crock
er, also Of San Francisco, a Yale
student, and brother of Mrs. Har-
rison, were injured. Mr.. Scott
suffered fractured rib and is in a
serious condition, his wife was rend-
cred unconscious, but later was re-
vived. Mr.. Crocker was bruised, and
the chauffeur slightly hurt. Mrs.
Harrison's neck was broken.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
czAR's GUARD UNDER ARREST
osaffection In the Army Spreads to
the Imperial Palace.


General excitement has been caus-
ed by an unconfirmed rumor that a
Russian grand duke shot at the czar,
wounding him in the right hand.
The most alarming indication Of
the spread of disaffection in the Rus
sian army. extending even to regi-
ments near the person of the EN-
peror, was given in the arrest at
Tsarlioe- Selo, of a number of soldiers
belonging to the Yellow CuirassierS
Of the guard, the Hussars guard and
the Life Guard rifemen for present
ing, series of petitions. including
one against the use of troops for
police purposes.
The regiments in question are
those which have been specially Sc
lected by Gen. Trepoff to guard the
Emperor and his family. They have
been counted upon as being loyal to
the last, ready even to be torn to
pieces in defense of his majesty, like
the Swiss guards of Louis XVI. Their
arrest, however, although not for
open sedtion, shows how the leaven
of discomfort is working even within
the precincts of the imperial park at
Tsarsko-Selo.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
McCURDAY REGIME ENDED
President, Son and Son-in-Law Quit
Life Insurance Company.

Richard A. McCurdy, president of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company,
has resigned. The date of his resig-
nation depends only on the time re-
quired by the trustees to find his sue
cessor. The investigating committee
did not accept Mr.. McCurdy's offer
to cut his salary in half, because such
acceptance would have pledged them
to continuance of the McCurdy re-
gime.
Quickly following the retirement of
President McCurdy, his son, Robert
II. McCurdy, general manager of the
Mutual, and his son-in-law, Louis A.
Thebaud, the favored general agent
for New York, have resigned. Each
of these three men has been drawing
approximately $150,000 a year in sal
aries and commissions from the COM
pany, besides their indirect profits in
financial transactions with Mutual
money.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
CoNFEsSES KILLING FAMILY
Prisoner Admits He Murdered His
Wife and Five Children.

William S. McWilliams confessed to
the murder last week of his wife and
five children at his farm house, near
Independence. McWilliams says he
committed the act because he be-
lieved his children would be better
off dead than alive, and because he
could live no longer with his wife,
whom he accused of driving him to
desperation with demands for money.
McWilliams said he first struck his
wife and each child down with a ham
mer and then stabbed them with a
butcher knife.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
FOOTBALL VICTIMS
Present Season Holds the Record for
Dead and Injured

Nineteen dead and 1877 seriously in
jured is the record of the football sea-
son of 1905. This years record of
deaths is more than double that of the
yearly average for the last five years,
the total for that period being 45.
The increase in the heavy armor
worn by players and the close mass
plays are responsible for much of the
slaughter A significant fact is that
the teams playing an open game have
ecaped with less than their usual
quota of accidents. OF those killed
IL were High School players and 10
We're boys of II and under Three
hardened, seasoned and presumably
physically fit college men were slain.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Korea Will Make Protest.

The Korean minister, Min Yeung-
Tchan, will sail for New York for the
purpose of presenting a protest at
Washington against Japan assuming
authority over Korea. The minister
says the protest emaaated from the
emperor of Korea, who cables instruc-
tions to present protest to France
and the United States. The minis
ter's advices say that Japans as
sumption of power was accompanied
by display Of armed force and that
the emperor was treated violently.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
DAMAGE BY LAKE STORM
Eleven Lives Lost and Ten Vessels
Wrecked in Gale.

Eleven lives lost and 10 shipwrecls
constitute the net results of the storm
which lasted two days on Lake Su-
perior. OF the wrecks those of the
steamers Mataafa, Crescent City,
Edenborn and Lafayette seem to be
total. IN addition the Elwood sank
in Duluth harbor; the barge Manila,
in tow of the Lafayette, was beached
near Two harbors; the steamers Eng
land and Bransford were stranded,
while the barges Madeira and Con-
stitution are missing.
A fireman of the Lafayette was
drowned, and the second assistant
engineers of the Edenborn was lost,
while nine members of the crew OF
the Mataafa were frozen to death or
drowned.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
FAMILY OF FOUR KILLED
Gas Escaping Near House Isnites and
Explosion Ensues.

In gas explosion at their home
near Weston, W. Va, Charles f.
Douglass, his wife and their two chill
dren were instantly killed and their
bodies were roasted almost beyond
recognition.
The Douglass family lived on a
farm, and near their home ran large
main, containing heavy pressure OF
gas. A valve was blown out of the
pipe and tremendous volume OF
gas poured out, enveloping the house.
1t ignited from a gas jet on the op-
posite side of the house from the
pipeline, and an explosion resulted.
The house was blown to splinters
and the ruins, under which were bur
led the four victims, were consumed
by the flames.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
BURTON GETS SIX MONTHS.
Senator Must Also Pay $4,000 Fine
and Loses His Civil Riqhts.

United States Senator Joseph
Ralph Burton of Kansas, was SEN
fenced in the United States circuit
court to serve six months in the Iron
county Jail, Ironton, Mo-, and to pay
fine of $2,50O as the penalty for
conviction on the indictment, charg-
ing that he had acted in the capacity
of paid attorney for the Rialto
Grain Company.
The sentence carries with it the
further penalty of being forever bar
red from holding any position of profit
or trust under the state or national
governments.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
CRUSHED BY ICE
Amundsens Expedition in Search of
Magnetic Pole Loses Ship.

George Cleveland of Massachusetts
returned to Dundee, Scotland, from a
whaling expedition in Davis strait,
bringing news from Eskimo sources
that Captain Amundsen's Arctic ex-
pedition ship Gjoa had been crushed
in the ice at Boothia Felix, the north
ernmost part of the mainland of
North America, and that the explor-
ers escaped and had been living with
the natives. The Dundee whalers
who were appointed to meet Captain
Amundsen with stores, have not been
able to trace him.
Captain Ronald Amundsen conceiv-
ed the idea of searching for the mag
netic pole. The expedition left Chris
tiania, Norway, June II, 1908.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Bank Closed at Boston.

The American National bank OF
Boston, closed its doors, the direc-
tors being dissatisfied with the ex-
ecutive management of the bank. 1t
is said depositors will be paid in full
and stockholders will receive divi-
dends. The bank was established in
1901 and owed depositors $685.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Officers to Cook and Bake.

Under a new policy decided by the
War department officers of the COM
missary department are to be taught
to bake bread and will be given prac-
tical instructions in cooking. 1t is
the belief that with the requirement
OF practical and technical knowledge
by officers in the baking of bread and
cooking of food great Improvement
can be brought about in the prepara-
ton Of food for the arm.-.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Fire DESTROYS pormitorv.

The boys dormitory at the Indiana
(Pa.) State Normal school took fire
and was entirely destroyed with most
of the furniture. The building was
erected 10 years ago and the loss is
estimated at 100000 with $4,000 in
surance. Six members of the faculty:
Profs. Walter Mitchell, R. E. Owens,
Sherman Lowry, F. A. Hildebrand, L.
L. M. Eaken, ]. M. Hickman, with
their families, lived in the building
and lost their furniture and libraries.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
WILL TELL ALL SHE KNOWS
Mrs. Chadwick Writes Note to Fed
era BankruptcY Referee.

Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick expressed
the desire to go on the witness stand
again in connection with the bank
ruptcy proceedings against her. and
wrote a letter<to Referee Harold
Remington, of the Federal Bank
ruptcy court, requesting him to set a
date for reopening her case. Mrs.
Chadwick declares that il an oppor-
tunity is again given her to go on the
stand she will tell without reservation
all the facts concerning her financial
dealings.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Sentenced to Prison,

Judge Thomas of Meadville, Pa,
filed an opinion refusing d. W. Ty-
ron new trial in two cases of en-
bezzlement. Tyron was interested in
the Spartansburg bank, which failed
a short time ago, and which held
state funds. Tyron is orderd to pay
fine of s766.72, costs of prosecution
and undergo Imprisonment in the
Western penitentiary for two years.
The defendant has appealed to the
supreme court.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
MARYLAND Railroad Sold.

The Western Maryland railroad has
acquired the Georges Creek and
Cumberland railroad after negotia-
tions extending over several weeks
The price was in the neighborhood of
100000. The Georges Creek and
Cumberland runs from Cumberland to
Lolaconing, distance of about Al
miles, and the principal owners were
the American and the Maryland Coal
companies.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
SULTAN YIELDS
Said to Have Agreed to Fulfill De-
mands of the Powers.

Eight warships of the combined
fleet arrived at Mytilene. Admiral
Ritter Won Jedina, accompanied by
the Austrian consul, proceeded to
government house and handed an
untimatum to the governor. At 1
O'Clock in the afternoon 500 sailors
landed and seized the customs and
telegraph offices.
The Vienna "Neue Freie Presse"
published a dispatch from Constanti-
nople saying that the sultan through
Tewfik .Pasha, the foreign minister,
has announced to Baron Won Calico
the ambassador of Hungary,
that Turkey acceded to the demands
of the powers regarding the finan-
cial control of Macedonia.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
PRESIDENT IN COUNTRY
Roosevelt Family Eats Thanksgiving
Dinner at New Viruinia Home.

Universal observance of President
Rooscvelts Thanksgiving proclama-
ton was held in Washington. The
departure of the President and his
family for day at his country place
at Plain Dealing, about 10 miles from
Bid Hill, Va, had not been announc-
ed in advance, although plans for the
day on the part of the members of
the Cabinet and their families did not
contemplate any White House func-
ton. Two cooks from the White
House accompanied the party to pre-
pare the Thanksgiving dinner.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Tragedy in Michigan.

Enraged by gossip that his wife
cared more for his friend, Frank
Dubrowski, than for himself, Carl
Kokosinski, timer, of Grand Hav-
en-, Mich, shot his wife and Dubrow-
ski, shot and killed his little son,
Eddie, mortally wounded his 5-year-
old son Max, shot a neighbor, Joseph
Smith, who tried to stop the whole
sale shooting, and then sent a bullet
through his own brain.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
GRANDMOTHER AT 81.
A Vreinian Claims Palm Over Ohio
Woman,

In a letter to the Columbus "Dis-
patch" IN which she takes exceptions
to the claim of Mrs. Mary Scott, of
Mt. Vernon, o., to be called the
youngest grandmother in the United
States, Mrs. Katherine Hairston, of
Bassitts, Henry county, Virginia,
says: 81 was a grandmother at the
age of 81. l was married at the age
of II and my daughter at the age Of
Is and am entitled to take preced-
ence. ! am now the grandmother Of
two children and am still under 33
If any other woman can beat this
would be pleased to hear from her"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Unclaimed Fund of $73s, 900.

Through the failure of many per-
sons to take up money orders made
out to them there has accumn ulated
in the Postoffice department at Wash
ington, $735,516 of such funds which,
under the provisions of an act of
Congress passed at the last session,
was turned into the Treasury.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
TO FIGHT RATE BILL
Various Railway Organizations Move
to Oppose the Roosevelt Idea.

An organized movement on the part
of railroad employees in every branch
of the service has been put on foot
to secure concerted action against the
Roosevelt idea of rate legislation.
Preliminary steps have already been
taken by committees from the differ
ent brotherhoods Of railroad men for
a general mass meeting. Rate regu-
lation, in the opinion of the employ
es, means a subsequent reduction in
wages for them, and they propose a
strong organization to oppose any
move to give the government direc-
tion of traffic rates.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
Quay's New York Estate.

The appraisal of the estate OF Sena-
tor Matthew S. Quay, just filed in
the Surrogate's office, at New York,
shows that he left personal estate in
this State of $1O5,5S2, consisting of
625 shares of the Mergenthaler Limo
type Company stock.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-12-06
AMERICAN ATTACKED
Second Secretary of American En-
bassy Almost Killed.

Robert Wood Bliss, second secre-
tary of the American Embassy, who
has just returned to st. Petersburg
from vacation in Paris, was the vic
tim of an outrage by rowdies in one
of the most fashionable streets of
the capital, and only escaped being
beaten to death through the timely
arrival of the police. '