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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
MINISTER BOWEN CALLED HOME.
Must Justify Ills Attack on Secretary LOOMS
l His Successor.

Washington, D. c. (SpeciaD .-Secre-
tary Taft has received Instructions from
the PRECEDENT to call Minister Bowen,
now at Caracas, to Washington; also
to send Mr.. Russell, now minister TO
Colombia, to Caracas, and Mr.. Barrett,
now minister to Panama, to Colombia.
1t is stated that if Mr.. Bowen's action
relative to the charges affecting. Assist
ant Secretary LOOMS are not subject to
criticism it is the Presidents purpose
to send him as minister to Chill and
then probably as ambassador to Brazil.
The cablegram to Minister Bowen, IN
structing him to report to Washington
forthwith, was dispatched by Acting Sec
rotary LOOMS. If the Minister is par
tcularly active, he may reach Washing
ton about May 8. the day the President
expects to break camp and start home
ward. If he misses this steamer, the
Minister must wait at least week Tor
another. Arriving here before the Presi-
dents return, Mr.. Bowen will make his
statement to Secretary Taft, who is
disposed to deal with the case himself
and not permit it to remain open to
add to the bulk of important business
which will confront the President upon
his return to the capital.
Secretary Taft also sent cablegram
to Minister Bowen stating the reasons
for his summons to Washington. They
are, in brief, first, because Mr.. Bowen
has filed charges against Mr.. LOOMS !;
second, the publication of those charges
in the New York Herald; third, Mr..
LOOMS complete denial; fourth, Mr..
LOOMS countercharge that Mr.. Bowen
had secured that publication, and ith,
Mr.. LOOMS desire to be confronted by
Mr. Bowen here. The Secretary added ::
"If all goes well, you may return to
the diplomatic service"
The official admission that there is
possibility of Mr. Bowen's eventually be-
coming ambassador to Brazil indicates
the Presidents purpose to make change
at Rio. AS matter Of fact, David T..
Thompson has for sometime past been
seeking to effect the transfer from Rio
to the City of Mexico The President
was DESTROYS of accommodating him, but
found it necessary to promote MINISTER
Conger from his place at Peking, and
Mexico afforded the only opening among
the embassies. So Mr.. Corger was sent
to Mexico with the understanding that
he should relinquish the place within the
year in favor of Mr.. Thompson, and, to
console the latter for the delay in the
realization of his aspiration, the Bra
lillian ministry was erected into an en-
bassy. Mr.. Thompson will, however, in
the ordinary course of events, succeed
Mr.. Conger as ambassador to Mexico
sometime next winter at the latest.
The changes announced leave the mis-
sion to Chill vacant, even in the event
that Mr.. Bowen, having satisfied the au-
thorities here that he is blaheless in the
matter of the circulation of the rumors
in the asphalt case, is transferred to San
tiago, for that detail will be only tenn
porary, and the post is likely to be filled
permanently in the end by the appoint
ment of John Hicks, of Wisconsin, who
was American minister to Peru during
President Harrison's administration.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
TWELVE KILLED IN NINE EXPLOSION
DANGEROUS Gases Ia Shaft Became lgni'
ted.

Dubois, Pa, (SpeciaD .-Twelve men
were killed and one will die as the re-
suit of an explosion at the Eleanora
shaft, near Big Run. The shaft is To-
Gated one-and-a-half miles from Big
Run, on the Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg Railway, IL miles south of
here. 1t is in an isolated part of the
country. The mine is owned and oper-
ated by the Rochester and Pittsburg
Coal and Iron Company, and is COM
paratively new shaft, having been opened
two years ago.
q The mine was thought to be free from
dangerous gases. The night shift was
small, or there would have been more
fatalities. Every man who was in the
mine at. the time; of. the explosion ex
4cept one is reported killed. Three bodies
have thus. far been recovered. Two Of
them were brothers named Kirkwood.
The men were English-speaking and
resided at Eleanore, small mining vii
lage two miles from the shaft.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
OGDEN SP CIAL TRAIN WRECKED.
Prominent PepIe Norrowly Escape Death
ONE Are Injured.

Greenville, S. C. (SpeciaD.-While
rounding srve inside the yard limits
of the Soutftrn Railroad, at Grecnville,
and runhingat the estimated speed of
90 miles anhour, the special Pullman
train bearing Robert c. Ogden and 100
members ofthc Southern Conference
on Education crashed into the rear end
of a freight tain at 7.55 o'clock A. M,
killing four Irsons and injuring score
of others. Nnc Of Mr.. Ogdcn's guests
was killed.
The conbhtion baggage and club
car and two liners, together with the
locomotive an freight car, were piled
into a heap, M in an instant FIRE broke
out in the cbking end of the diners.
Mr.. McKelway, Professor Farnam, Mrs,
Farnam. Mrs. Thorp, DIR. Drcher and
Robert M. Ogden were eating breakfast
in the second diner, which was torn to
pieces The h0pr collapsed and the pas
sengers were picked up from the track.
The seven sleeAng cars behind the din
ers were left inhct, but the shock sprung
MANY locks, imRrisoning the occupants.
Seth Low and Mrs. Low, DR.. McVickar
and others were rescued when the doors
were smashed oden with axes. The pas
sengers in the st. James were quickly
removed, but th1three negroes could not
be saved. They breathed the flames and
died. When he Aw that the crash could
not be averted Agineer Hunter, Of the
Ogden train, 8plied the emergency
brakes and jumf I'D. Practically all OF
the baggage, sail to be valued at $I2,-
no was destrO,41. i.. -.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
0reign.

Count Won Tattenbach- Ashold, who is
in Morocco to arrange special conitner-
cial treaty between Germany and Mo
rocco, practically states in an interview
that Germany does not recognize French
influence in Morocco.
A St. Petersburg newspaper says that
while sentiment in. the. United States
seems to have favored Japan during the
war, the attitude Of sthe American gov
ernment has been strictly correct.
The business sessions of the Worlds
Conference of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association came to close in Paris.
John Wanamaker and Ambassador Por-
ter made addresses.
The number of British emigrants to
the United States in 1904 was nearly
double the combined total of the emf
grants to all the British colonies.
French Foreign Minister Delcasse re-
ceived General Porter, the retired United
States minister, and his successor, Mr..
Mccormick 80
The Antidueling League of Germany
is endeavoring to strike at the causes
OF duelS.
Lord Grimthorpe died at St. Adams,
England, at the age of 50.
King Edward arrived in Paris and
was cordially received. II 80
The estate of Baron Rekki near
Mitau, Russia, was plundered by armed
peasants and the Baron was assaulted
and almost killed. .
Sanao, capital city of Yemen, Province,
Arabia, capitulated to the insurgents,
who are now proceeding to besiege
Manakhe.
For the first time permission has been
granted for publication in St. Petersburg
Of a Jewish paper in the Hebrew Ian
guage.
The international exhibition in honor.
Of the seventy-fftli anniversary OF Bel
pian independence was opened at Liege.
Z
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
AT WORK ON THE CANAL.
An Effective Organization Already Formed
Many Men Employed.

Chicago, (SpeciaD Speaking OF the
actual physical work of building the
Panama Canal, Mr.. John F. Wallace,
chief engineer of the Panama Commits
sion, said that an organization had al
ready been formed, cmbodying total
of 5000 men. OF this number practically
5000 men are engaged in equipment and
construction work, and 1000 men are
engaged in policing the canal zone and
in sanitary work and in cleaning up the
isthmus. This organization will be
rapidly increased and has been increas'
ing at the rate of from 500 to 1000 men
a month.
Of the total number of men employed
about 10 per cent, are high-class men
from the United States and the rest are
mechanics, artisans and laborers that
have been brought from the nearby
South American and Central American
coasts and from the West India Islands.
There is demand for men expert IN
the mechanical trades; for instance
steam-shovel men, craftsmen, railway
track foreen, enginemen, carpenters
skilled in heavy timber work and in the
construction of dredges and bridges.
Should it be decided to change the
canal to sea level, Mr.. Wallace said II
had been estimated that IA miles OF
summit cut would be necessary, and this
would require 100 steam Shovels, about
300 engines and train crews and 5000
dump carts, The service would necessi-
tate four double-track railways for the
removal of the material, which would
have to be hauled on an average IS miles
Approximately $50 miles of construction
track would be necessary.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
North and South United.

New York Especially Cheering under
the Stars and Stripes entwined with the
old Confederate flag, 800 women of the
North and South sang yankee Doodle
and Dixie" with equal enthusiasm at the
annual luncheon of the New York Chap
ter of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy at Delmonico's. Mrs. Fairbanks,
wife of the ce-President, struck the
note of sympathy in saying, 'Your or
ganization and the one / have the honor
to represent have helped to hide the
scars of the past division of our country,
and they have covered the divisions with
the flowers Of forgetfulness and the gar
lands of gentle remembrance"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05

f1dfly, and Inc Imperial OOVCiHiioH'
holds itself prepared to enter into ne.
gotiations for the conclusion of new
commercial treaty with the United
States"
The German view, as held at the
Foreign Office and at the Ministry OF
the Interior, is that the United States
cannot reasonably expect to share in
special benefits given by Germany to
certain European states in exchange for
other specific tariff reductions. Should
the United States have the same adj
vantage without giving anything in re-
turn treaty countries could justly COM
plain that they were in effect discrlmi-
mated against because from them certain
things were exacted by bargain which
were freely given to the United States.
But if the United States desires to
take up the general tariff question and
arrange reciprocal agreement Germany
will be very glad to do so. Otherwise
Germany's new general tariff, which
goes into effect Match I, 1906, will be
applied to imports from the United
States.
The Government in terminating the
present modus vivendi has done what
the agrarians have steadily asked for
since the new commercial treaties were
concluded. Public opinion in Germany
has also been fully prepared for the
Governments act by publications of the
Commercial Treaty Association and the
Central European Industrial League
and articles in the principal financial
periodicals written by persons in afilia-
ton with the Ministry of the Interior.
Washington has not yet replied to
Germanys PROPOSAL.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
FACTS wo3H REmEMBER'Na.

Japan persistAin its refusal to allow
foreigners to seA Ire any property, mines
In two year, at the outside. the
strength of the japanese Navy Will be
renTesented by abut 100000 tons of dis
placement.
Over one-fort4 of China's popula-
ton of 4oo,ooo,o is slaves. Every tam
n, of means ked its girl slaves, it be-
ny y cbeaner to by them than to hire
them.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
CONDITION OF Y. M. c. A.
A Total Membership of 6SS,0oO 10 Forty
co n'ries.

Paris, (By Cable) The greetings OF
King Edward were presented to the
Worlds Conference of the Young Mems
Christian Associations now in session
here, through Lord Kinnaird, one OF
the vice presidents. Messages were also
received from rulers and notable per-
sons in Norway, Italy and other countries
and from the Young Woman's Chris
tan Association. The report of the
condition of the associations by Prince
Bernadotte, second son of King Oscar
of Sweden and Norway, showed there
were 1901 associations in 40 countries,
with membership of $4,000.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
Skulls Are of White Men.

Victoria, British Columbia (By Cable).
f. Adyices from Quatsino report that an
investigation of the cave discovered near
there by prospectors, in which IS skulls
were found, tends to show that the bones
are evidently those of white men-not
Indians. None. Of the skulls has the
high cheek bones peculiar to indians of
that section of the coast. Settlers in the
vicinity believe the skulls, are probably
those OF a5shipwrecked crew murdered
by the Indians in the early days.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
KILLED BY A TORNADO
A Furious Windstorm Sweeps Across
TsIas.
|rHE CITY OF LAREDO IS IN RUINS.
Enormous Property Damage. Accompanied
by Great Loss Of Life, In Southern Texas
A Hundred or More Are Injured, but II Is
Thought They Will Rseovsr-Sehool and
Hospital Wrecked.

Laredo, Texas Especially .-Twenty-one
persons were killed and 100 or more
injured in Laredo and in New Laredo
by a tornado which tore through these
cities late Saturday night, crossing the
Rio Grande. Rumors of others killed in
places outside Laredo lack confirmation
TIE property damage is large
The damage wrought at the Laredo
Seminary is extensive Not one of the
group OF excellent buildings which &c
to make up that institution escaped
damage. The barracks, the primary
building. Emery Hall and the chapel
were damaged from so to IS per cent.
The escape of the teachers at the in
stitution was narrc1, as the walls OF
some of the buildings which they oc-
cupied were demolished. Mrs. Easley,
one of the teachers, was rescued by sew
eral young cadets, students of the insti-
tuition, who lowered her by rope from
a second story. She was severely
bruised.
The roof of the Mexican National
Hospital building was lifted from the
edihcc, and it will require much time to
repair the building for patients.
A "trip through the town fails to show
a block that has not suffered from the
storm. Trees, fences, telegraph and
telephone poles, corrugated roofs, CHM
neys and walls and debris of all kinds
strcw the streets.
The city authorities are at work clean
ing away the wreckage of the storm.
Linemen are at work endeavoring to
straighten out the tangle of wires, and
it is believed that within two days the
electric light service can be resumed 1t
is hoped to re-establish Geographic COM
munication, at least partly, within two
days.
Conditions in New Laredo, across the
Rio Grande, are similar to those exist
ing on this side. 1t is not definitely
known how many dead or injured there
are in New Laredo, but city officer
said !hete were five dead that he knew
of. Tht fye> known dead added to the
list of lead OIL this side of the river
would Iring the number of dead III
both cites up to FL persons.
The sorm made its appearance from
the southwest in the neighborhood OF
Lampasa, Mexico, IL miles from Lare-
do, and is reported that great havoc
was wroght at Lampasa, although it is
not thotht that any loss of life re-
suited.
When he storm struck Laredo the
huts occ,Nied by the poorer classes were
RACED; ah as the wind increased in
force the hore substantially constructed
buildings we're unroofed, and in many
cases, wen demolished.
Lightnin flashed wildly and contin-
uously, aiding to the fears of the peo-
ple The brm lasted about one hour.
The Me ican National Railroad has
temporarily abandoned its service on &C
count of lex of telegraph wires for
the dispatcfng of trains. Physicians are
busy attendig to the wounded, and it is
thought tina all the injured will recover.
DR.. H. ]. Hmilton, of the United States
Marine Ho,ital service, has placed $50
tents with b,lding at the disposal of the
homeless
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
Jealous Mans Crime.

Quincy, Mass, (Specia).-Albert T.
Spargo shot and killed his wife, Eliza
beth, and then put bullet through his
own head, with fatal results, at his
home in South Quincy. The tragedy is
believed to have been caused by jealousy
on the part of Spargo, who was a son of
Councilman William T. Spargo, of this
city. Spargo was SO years old and his
wife was g.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
Shot By a Burglar.

Newburg, N. Y. Especially .-Rawdon
Foster, a son of William Foster promi-
nent manufacturer awoke early the other
morning to find burglar in his room.
Young Foster grappled with the in
truder. The burglar placed revolver
close to Fosters body and sent bullet
through his lung. He then jumped from
second-story window and escaped.
Fosters condition is serious.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
Antitrust BIn 10 mlctls

Lansing, Micb9 (SpeciaI).
er house of the Michigan
passed unanimously the BI
Trust Bill. 1t is said to ID
sweeping antitrust measure I
in the country. 1t defes Al,
illegal all corporations Which
monopoly of any business.
ton or profession, and nj
agreement binding individu
engage in a certain occupatio
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05

range from PIC
The total amount is SIN
Pearsons announced that he h
requests OF over 400 institut|
selections are as follows: 4
Guilford College, GreensH !
$4,000; Piedmont College,
Ga, $4,000; Washington Col
ington Tenn, $4,000; Gran
Chattanooga, Tenn, $4,000;
ginia Seminary, Morgantow
$4,000. ',-->
DR.. Pearsons, who is awe
business man of this city,
donations heretofore aggreg'
$2,soo,ooo.
Referring to the gifts m
DR.. Pearsons said:
"The colleges to which |
presents must raise S. for e
! give them, and this must be
=. V -
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
Gas Wrecks Home.

Newark, N. J., (SpeciaD DAN ex-
plosion Of Illuminating gas from broken
pipe wrecked the home of Charles Koch,
machinist and set fire to the house.
causing the death of Koch and probably
fatally injury to his wife. While sup
posed to be temporarily insane Koch
broke the pipe in his dining-room, and
when Mrs. Koch entered the room with
a lighted lamp an hour later there was
an explosion which blew off the roof
of the house.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05

Stockholders OF National Lead voted
down resolution to the effect that if
ever the preferred stock is retired the
price shall not be less than $40 a
share.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-05
GEN. FITz LEE DEAD
Distinguished Soldier and Statesman a
Victim Of ApOpleXy.
HE WAS STRICKEN ON A TRAIN.
Had Been to Boston to Tell Of jamestown
Exposition Brother, Daniel Lee, was
the Only Near Relative With Him When the
End Came-Tis Notable Career Before and
After the Civil War;

| Washington, (SpeciaD. = Brighten
lFitzhugh Lee, United States Army, re-
ltired, and President of the jamestown
Exposition Company, is dead.
/ He was stricken with apoplexy at
about o'clock Friday morning while
Ion train en- route from Boston to
Washington and insisted on being carried
Ito the end of his journey. He reached
There at 10 o'clock an was removed to
the. Providence Hospital, where he died
at II.2o o'clock P. M.
| His death came suddenly. AT 9 o'clock
Major Guy L. Eide, of the Army Medi-
cal Staff, who had charge of the case,
issued bulletin stating that General
Lees respiration was 81, his tempera-
ture o8.S and his pulse liz.
Major J. R. Kean, Major Charles r.
Mason of the army, and DIR. Hardin
were in consultation with Major Eide
over the case.
AT Ills P. M. Drs. Kean and EIDE
reported that General Lees condition
had taken a turn for the worse. His
breathing became difficult and the pulse
was not so good. A few minutes later
he was dead r.. =.
AT his bedside when he died were his
brother, Daniel Lee, and Drs. Eide and
Kean. The end came quite suddenly
and was without pain. The dead Cen
eral was doing fairly well considering
the severity of the attack until 10 O'Clock,
when the change came for the worse.
General Lee was on the Federal ex-
press when he was stricken, the train
being near terminal of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad, IN
the vicinity of the Harlem river. ne
first complained of pain about his
heart. which. was diagnosed, but later
| he sustained a serious stroke OF paraly-
sis. affecting his entire left side. The
train was transferred to Jersey City
and the Pullman car Ludlow, IN which
General Lee rode, was brought all the
way to Washington.
General Lee was conspicuous as man
among men, He was born November
10, 1886, at Clerinont, Fairfax county,
Va. He was the son of Commodore
Sydney Smith Lee, who was the third
son of Gen. Harry Lee, popularity known
as Light Horse Harry Lee" Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee was nephew OF the late
Gen. Robert E. Lee and followed the
fortunes of his distinguished uncle and
of his native State in the Civil War,
but accepted, as did the former, all the
results of the war, and since Appomat-
tox has served Virginia and his country
in a number of important official Ca
pacities. TO him perhaps as much as
to any other man may be credited that
firm reuniting of the North and the
South, which existed even before the
war with Spain, disproving fayorite
theory abroad that the United States
of America was a conglomerated nation
90, II tooatl,er nv rome of sand.
The sun., 1905-11-12
DIED..

BELTS. Suddenly. at his residence, p East o5tN
ST, on Saturday Nov. II, 1905 Frederic Henry
Belts son OF the late Frederic J. and Mary "
Brts In the o3d wear OF his agt.
Funcral services will be held at ST. Georgv'i
Church. StuyVesant Square, on Tuesday. Nov
II, at 10 A. NJ. lntermCnt private.
FARRAND.--At Newark, n. j.. on Saturday. No
vcmbcr H. 1905 Louise Champenos. only
child OF Dudley and Jane Champenols Farrand,
aged 2years months and days.
Funeral services will be held at the home OF her
parents, is Lincoln Park on Tuesday Novem
Der II, al =. VI.
HART.-On Saturday November II. after a shor
Illness, Henry |. Hart, In his 5ith year.
Funeral services at his late residence, 2is West
5stA ST., on Sunday, November ~, at $50 p. NJ
lncrmcnt al Greenwood, private.
SAUNDERS,--At her residence. Madison av
Flushing, L. l., on Saturday. Nov. II. 1905.
Eliza Leggctt Corsc, widow OF Edward Angel
Saunders, and daughter OF the late Barney
Corse.
Funeral services at ST. Georges Church, Flush.
ing, L. l., on Tuesday afternoon. at 8 o'clock.
Philadelphia papers please copy.
The sun., 1905-11-12
FRANKO HOUSE FARMING.
The Musical Conductor Throws Open Hi,
New Home to His Friends.

Nahan Franko, one of the conductors
of the Metropolitan Opera House orchestra,
opened his new home, 2oe West Ninety
second street last night to some Of the
well known singers and orchestra leaders
and few intimate friends not connected
with those professions
The Metropolitan Opera House orchestra
supplied instrumental music and there
we're songs by the Messrs. Caruso, Dippel,
Barr, huffman, Campanari and Blass.
Among those present were HenrichConred,
Ernest Goerlitz, Walter Jordan, Charles
Henry Meier, Max Hirsch, Dr. Felix Adler,
and Conductors Zinga, Hertz, Mendeberg,
Stengel, Sam Franko and Victor Herbert.