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The Washington times., 1905-08-13
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Canfeld's Club.

A great brick building 200 feet deep
and 100 wide. with extensions even larger
20 shelter the restaurant where the
most elaborate menu obtainable any
where in the world invites discussion at
prices that make a St. Regis card ap-
pear cheap But the folks who breakfast,
dine and sup there think they get their
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

sz-<z.e .e=rzzzzszzszz THROUGHOUT the long
aaSA A4 history OF the world are
EEEagsgA found names which are
- closely connected ii
s4SssgsSySss.Sz:S mems minds. and win 50
ssisfEsfssgk continue for all time.
There are David and jon
athaa, Caesar and Pompey, Cleopatra
and Anthony. Heloise and Abelard. Web
er x Fields. jerome and Lawson. and
last but uot least Monte Carlo and
Saratoga
Saratoga with the .Hd" off! To the
professional gambler il represents the
acme Of gain. to the sport" it is the
seventh heaven. with its unbounded pos
sibilities Of getting money irresponsibly
from any easy mark that may turn up:
to the plckp0cket II Is what the Elysian
fields were TO The ancientS. to the young
man who has more money than he
knows what 10 do with it Is another
chance TO relieve himself of some OF his
superfuous coin 10 him who Graves ex-
citement and new sensations it is filed
with spice and piquancy: TO the rich
Seo-pounder who loves q good dinner and
does not mind paying for It Saratoga to-
day is the place Of all others.
While Saratoga has been named Amer
80 -'-'ii'S SS1-to' anu NlliIS LiS SL4i-L
which pervaGes the two most famous
gambling 'hells'--with apologies to Mr..
Garfield and Monsieur Blanc. who have
both done their best to make the two
places as near human perfection ia ap-
po4ntments as modern civilization per-
r1its-there are many differences be-
tween the two; in fact as many differ
ences as there are between European
railroads and those OF this country. be-
tween the marriage Of convenience as
arranged in the cid world and the free
and easy courtship so common in Amer
lea, between a three-Ting circus and the
Metropolitan Opera House.
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

and the other gamblers here would
not be loath to see him offered up II
some one had to be sacrificed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
BURNED TWO AGED FARMERS.
Brothers May Die of Injuries Inflicted By
Robbers.

Elgin, III. (Special) Andrew and
John Fohren, old and wealthy farmers
living near Spring Lake, IL miles north
of here, were nearly murdered by three
men who forced an entrance to the
house, bound and gagged the two and
plundered the premises, securing 5000.
In an effort to find the location OF
other valuables the robbers placed burn
ing papers at the feet of the two men.
In the struggle the elder brother, An
drew, was so badly injured that he may
die
When the assailants found they could
not gain the information, they left hur-
riedly. Andrew started to secure as
sistance, but tainted before he had gone
far. and lay in field until 5 o'clock in
the morning, when he revived enough
ito reach cheese factory, where he sum
moned help. He said that his brother
had been murdered.
Assistance was asked from Algonquin
and several men fastened to the house.
DR.. Mason was the first to arrive and
found John Fohren with a towel tied
around his neck and nearly dead from
exhaustion. He has rallied, and is not
in such a serious condition as his broth
err, who is suffering from the all-night
EXPOSURE
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
CAR FALLS FROM Z" ROAD IN new YORK
Twelve Passengers x,,s;iej and Forty hjued-Open
Switch Direct Cause of the ACCident---MOre
Than Fifty Fell With Gar That TOppled Over

the switch The train took the switch
at rapid speed, and the first car held
to the rails through the weight of the
cars behind. The strain was so great
that when half way around the curve
the coupling broke between the first and
second cars, and the second cars front
trucks jammed the rails. There was
nothing left to guide the second car, and
it kept on in straight line withou.
turning, and went over the side of the
structure, falling to the ground directly
in front of the southeast corner of Fiji
ty-third street and Ninth avenue.
ct was physical impossibility for
the switchman to have turned the switch
while the train was moving rapidly over
it. Statements to that effect are abso-
lutely incorrect"
Mr.. Hediey said the switchman as
serted that the train showed signals in
dicating it wanted the Sixth-avenue line
and that the motorman disregarded the
signals indicating that the switch was
set for that line, and ran the train as fast
as though he were going to run straight
ahead down Ninth avenue.
The train was a southbound Ninth
avenue local. and should have contin-
ued on the straight track, instead of
being switched to the curve, by which
Sixth avenue trains proceed on Fifty
third street from Ninth avenue to Sixth
avenue. A Sixth avenue train had just
passed, and the switch to the curve was
open.
Owing to this open switch the first
car of the Ninth avenue train took the
switch, just barely staying on the rails,
and turned into Fifty-third street, in
stead of going down Ninth avenue. The
first car of the train made the curve in
safety, but the second left the rails at
the curve, and the weight of the train
behind it swung it around end on end,
while still on the elevated structure.
Then it rolled over bottom up and
plunged through the fimsy guard railing
and dropped end first into the street.
AS it went into the street some of its
passengers jumped from the platforms
and windows either onto the elevated
structure or into the street. Some saved
their lives in that fashion, but others
were killed by their own fall to the
pavement. Then the trucks of the car
behind fell upon the already wrecked
car ana Nelpeu 10 CIuSH IT'S HLpilooiiCo
passengers to death.
More than 50 persons who were in the
second car were hurled in heap into
the lower end of it, where many of them
were killed. Some who were not badly
injured climbed painfully over the seats
and along the interior of the roof, which
then formed the bottom of the car, to
the upper end, which rested against the
elevated structure, and were helped out
by Conductor Johnson.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
Worked With Fractured Skull.

Chicago, (Special). After working
three hours and walking to his house
unassisted while suffering from frac-
tured skull, Benjamin S. Schooley, AZ
years old is dead. Schooley was EN-
ployed in the repair shop OF an express
company as wheelwright A heavy wa
gon box which he was repairing, slipped
from its supports and fell on him. He
recovered consciousness within few
minutes. finished his days work and
walked to his house unaccompanied. He
soon became delirious, and died few
hours later. An examination showed
that his skull had been fractured.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
Palma Renominated.

Havana (SpeciaD.-President Palma
was unanimously renominated as can
didate for the presidency of Cuba. Men
DEE Capote received the nomination for
the vice presidency. The platform does
not mention the Plat amendment, as the
Moderates consider the constitutional
appendix settled. 1t declares strongly
for a fve-year extension of the reci-
procity treaty with the United. States
and for amendments thereof according
to the interests of both countries.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
Killed By Premature Blast.

Butler, Pa, (Special).-One man was
killed and seven badly injured by the
premature explosion of a charge of dy-
Mantle at sand plant owned by the
Standard Plate Glass Works, at Saxon,
Pa. The men were all foreigners. Three
of the injured are suffering from frac-
tured skulls. and will die. The other
four hurt are badly cut and bruised. All
the injured were brought to the Butler
hospital.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15

missioner bearing a white flag and es-
corted by 50 soldiers, arrived at a post
near the railway and handed to the
Russian officers who went to meet him
letter from Field Marshal Oyana to
General Linevitch, congratulating him
on the conclusion of peace and begging
him to appoint Russian plenipotentiaries
to arrange an armistice.
Field Marshal Oyama appointed Cen
eral Tukushima as plenipotentiary for
his side, the letter announced, and he
suggested Chakhedza as the meeting
place.
The negotiations received no official
recognition in the field prior to their
successful conclusion, the army keeping
in state of preparedness for battle
until the receipt by General Linevitch
of a telegram from Emperor Nicholas
declaring that the treaty had been signed
and that he accepted the conditions ar
rived at This telegram was officially
published in the army newspaper on
September 6, and the outlines of the
peace conditions were printed in the
same publication.
The officers thereafter observed mill
tary decorum in the strictest sense, but
the soldiers, with the consent of the Off
GERS, engaged in feasting and other
forms of celebration.
1t will be week more before the en-
tire army is fully informed of the con-
clusion of peace, but the news was dis
counted long since by the prevailing
conviction that since the appointment
of the plenipotentiaries, peace was a
foregone conclusion. 1t may be said
that to the great majority of the Off
GERS and men so far informed the news
that the war is at an end is most well
come.
Thousands are daily drinking to the
health of President Roosevelt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
FORTY WERE DROWNED IN LAKE STORM.
Bodies Of Four Men and a Woman Are
Washed Ashore.

Cleveland, o., (SpeciaD-W. A. Haw-
good & Co., owners of the steamer Iosco,
which foundered in the recent heavy
storm on Lake Superior. received tele-
gram from Marquette, Mich, saying that
the bodies of four men and one woman
have been washed ashore at Pine River
with life-preservers attached to them
bearing the name "Iosco." The woman
is believed to have been the wife of the
cook, who shipped from Fairport.
The Iosco carried crew of 10 persons,
all of whom undoubtedly persisted. The
total number of lives lost in the Lake
Superior storm is now placed at 40.
Word was received by the Hawgoods
that body believed to be that of Cap
TIN McGreery, of Buffalo, commander
of the steamer Olive Jeanette, had drifted
ashore at Lance, Mich.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15

New York, (Special) Twelve per-
sons-ten men and two women-were
killed and more than 40 injured by the
derailrnent of an elevated railroad train
at Fifty-third street and Ninth avenue.
A south-bound Ninth-avenue train
crowded with passengers, leaving Fifty
ninth street station at 7.o4 A. M, struck
an open switch at the junction with the
Sixth avenue line. One car fell into the
street, turning over in its descent and
standing on end in the street.
The switchman, c. A. dickinson, who
disappeared after the wreck, is blamed
for the accident by Coroner Scholer
after an impromptu inquiry, but is de-
Tended by General Manager Hedley,
dickinson was arrested at his home. He
maintained that he had set the switch
right.
81 am satisfied that the whole acci-
dent was due to the criminal neglect
of the switchman," said the Coroner.
'In the first place, he made mistake
in turning the Ninth avenue train into
Fifty-third street, and then added to his
blunder by turning the switch back again
in an attempt to divert the train into
Ninth avenue again. The last mistake
caused the terrible accident and loss of
life"
Coroner Scholer has caused the arrest
of ]. w. johnson, the conductor of the
train; Timothy Higginson, J. McDavitt,
w. L. Berry and D. Clark, the four
guards. Motorman Paul Kelly is being
sought.
General Manager Hedley of the Inter
Borough Rapid Transit Company ex-
planned the wreck as follows:
"The signals in the switch tower were
set for open track for the Sixth avenue
southbound. The train went down
Ninth avenue at rapid pace and struck
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
FINANCIAL.

The ginning of cotton so far this year
has run well ahead of the amount in
1904.
Business in this country as meas
ured BY bank clearings is greater than
ever Before.
Union Paci6c's net earnings in July
gained S+5I,ooo and Southern Paci6c's
gained $5oI,ooo.
America exported of last years great
cotton crop over 100000 bales. This
is the South's contribution to the ma
Ation's wealth.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
dummere 10 Danger.

Tangier (By cable).-Samuel R. Gum
mere, the American Minister, and a
number OF European inhabitants have
abandoned their residences in the sub
urbs and removed to the center of the
town, at the request of the Moroccan
authorities, who said they were unable
TO guarantee their security owing to the
disturbed condition of the surrounding
districts. Severe fighting continues be-
tween Raisuli's and other tribes. Raj
sui is Governor of the province and is
trying to restore order.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15

The second car of an Elevated
train in New York was hurled
from the track to the street
below at Fifty-third street. and
Ninth avenue, at the junction
of the Sixth and Ninth avenue
trains.
Twelve persons were killed
and many injured, some so seri-
ously that the list of dead is
likely to be increased.
The disaster was due to the
fact that the switch had been
set for the train to switch off
slowly to Sixth avenue, instead
of which the train kept right on
without decreasing its speed.
The switchnan says the mo-
torman had signaled for Sixth
avenue.
The switchman has been ar
rested and the motorman has
disappeared.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING.

One of the purses at athletic games
held recently at Baltimore County Cork)
was postoffice savings bank book, with
a deposit of Iss ($37s).
Government revenue officials are wor-
ried because more Havana cigars are on
the market in this country than is justi-
fed by the Havana tobacco crop.
Ex-President Cleveland has survived
his entire first Cabinet, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Villas, who presided over the
convention which nominated him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
Kaiser For Peace.

Hamburg (By Cable).-Speaking at
provincial dinner here, Emperor Will
liam recalled childhood memories of the
province. In this province, he said, he
had received the reports of the great
unihcation struggle; but he had also
witnessed the sorrow and desolation that
war brought a country, and therefore,
he declared, his chief care as a ruler
would be to preserve peace in his coun-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
TRMpERs PURE doLDa
Californian Claims 10 Have Discovered the
Process.

Los Angeles, Call (Special).-Years
of unceasing toll has brought z. F.
Vaughn, of this city, the secret of tenn
pering gold, silver and copper TO con-
sistency of fine steel, making springs,
knives and needles of them.
1T has been my life work." he said
Il have succeeded where others failed.
Now l am beginning to enjoy the fruits
of my labor"
A company has been formed for the
manufacture of hypodermic needles and
surgical instruments generally from pure
gold. A shipment of machinery has been
received from the East, shop fitted up
and work is going on.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
Accuses Father Of stsbbIag Him.

ST. Louis, Mo-, (SpeciaD In criti-
cal condition and believed to be dying,
William Miller, Jr., dry goods sales
man under treatment at the City Hos
pital accused his father of having in
fiicted stab wounds from which he is suf
fering. The father was arrested and ad.
mitted having had trouble with his son.
but denied having stabbed him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
KILLED BY BLAST
Ten Buildings Of the Rand Powder
Mills Blown to Pieces.
SHOOK BUILDINGS MANY MILES AWAY.
Tore Rails From Baltimore and Ohio and the
Electric Railway Windows Smashes.
Cattle 10 the Fields Stunned. Trolley Car
Derailed and Persons Badly Shocked over
an Area of Many Miles.

Ten buildings of the Rand
powder mills, at Fair Chance, 20
miles from Connellsville, Pa,
were blown into splinters.
Out of 81 men who went to
work in the mills 10 are known
to be dead.
A passenger train had mar
row escape shaving passed a mo
ment before the explosion oc-
Cured.
Windows were broken and
houses shaken in radius OF
20 miles. Many persons were
painfully hurt in nearby towns:
Cattle in the fields were stunned
and wheat stacks overturned.
Seven explosions in all oc-
Cured.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
Ex.Mayor Goes to Prison.

Raleigh, N. c., (SpeciaD The ST.
preme Court denied the application of
ex-Mayor McCown, of Durham, for
writ of habeas corpus and directed that
he serve the term of 80 days in jail, to
which he was sentenced for cursing and
striking Judge George Ward, of the SUI
perior Court, because the Judge refused
to increase the sentence of man who
had killed McCown's brother-in-law.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15

Connellsville, Pa. (SpeciaD. - The
Rand powder Mills at Fair Chance, SIX
miles south of Uniontown, were entirely
wiped out by an explosion at o.o5 o'clock
A. M. Of the 81 men who went to
work in the mills 10 are known to be
dead. OF these 10 have been identified.
Scores of people in the town Of Fair
Chance, within half mile of the pow
der mills, were more or less painfully
injured.
The shock of the explosion was dis
tinctly felt in Connellsville, 20 miles
away, buildings being rocked on their
foundations. At Uniontown hundreds OF
panes of glass were broken.
In the town of Fair Chance there is
|,scarcely house that did not suffer
damage. The sides were battered in as
though axes had been used. Haystacks
were toppled over in the fields and live
stock were stunned. The rails o fthe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the
West Penn Traction Railways Company
were rooted from the roadbed and traf-
fic was delayed from four to six hours,
transfers being made over the Pennsyl-
vania.
Train No. 81, on the Baltimore and
Ohio, had narrow escape from annih-
ilation. 1t had just passed the Rand
Mills when the explosion occurred. The
windows in the passenger coaches were
shattered and passengers thrown into
panic. Had the train been few sec
onds late it would have been blown up,
as the mills are within few rods of the
tracks.
A street car on the West Penn Rail-
way had also passed just few seconds
before the explosion and was far enough
away to escape damage, though it was
derailed.
There were seven explosions in all.
Every one of the 10 buildings was total
ly demolished. Not vestige of them
remains. The debris that was strewn
over the ten acres of ground where the
plant was located took fire soon after
the explosion and added its terrors to
the disaster. The dismembered parts
of the dead were burned in many in
stances. Identification of many was
made by parts of clothing alone. The
first three explosions were not as seri-
Gus as the last four Then the packing
house, pressing room and magazine blew
up, followed by two cars OF dynamite
standing on a nearby railroad siding,
which were set off by the conclusion
from the powder mill explosions.
Two other cars remained intact and
it was with difficulty that they were
moved to place of safety after the ex-
plosion.
Wherever a survivor or a finder of
some ghastly relic chose to talk he was
Immediately surrounded by eager groups
of listeners. Orville Swaney was work
ing in the glazing room and had gone
out for a drink of water. He was just
outside when the mixing mill went up.
The explosion threw him high in the
air, and he landed on his feet in net
work of fallen wires.
Dodging through these, he sped
around the hill and was so feet away,
when the second explosion threw him
on his face He lay there stunned and
knew nothing of the terrific blast that
came when the storage magazine went
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
THEY CHEER ROOSEVELT
Oyama's Peace Erecting to General
Linevitch.
ALSO PLANS FOR AN ARMISTICE.
Remarkable Demonstration Among the Russian
Soldiers American Correspondent Cen.
ter Of Admiration for the Cossacks--
ands Daily Drinking Health Of President
Roosevelt.
Arranging ArmIstice.

Field Marshal Oyama has
sent peace congratulations to
General Linevitch and asked
him to appoint Russian officers
to arrange armistice.
Oyama has suggested Chalk
hedza as the meeting place of
the Japanese and Russian Off
GERS.
The Russian army in Man
churia teens with praise of
President Roosevelt for bringing
about peace.
Thousands of the soldiers
cheer Roosevelt and drink his
health.
Russian soldiers are apprehen-
sive about returning to Rus
STA and many of them want to
settle in Manchuria.
Toxic has quoted down, al
though Japenese political agita-
tors continue to try to stir up
trouble.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15
TURKS INCITE RIOTING.
Many Villages in Ruins and People
Massacred.
PEASANTS ATTACK THE MOBILES.
The Whole Caucasus In q State Of Anarchy
and Revolution..A Authorities completely Sur
prised at the Magnitude Of the Tartar Up
risiug-Plames Still Sweeping Oil Works
and Factories In Baku.
Russia's Troubles,

Anxiety prevails in Russian
official circles over the revolt in
the Caucasus.
In the fighting at Baku 1000
people were killed or wounded
in an attack on the military
camp. No quarter was shown
by the troops.
Turkish agitators are blamed
for melting the Tartars to
bloodshed and pillage.
Managers of the oilworks
have appealed to the Gar for
more troops. The fires con-
tinue.
The extent of the Tartar ris-
ing is a great surprise to the
Causasus authorities.
The Tartars have devastated
and pilliaged many villages and
nassacred the residents.
Christian workmen of the
Caspian Company are surround
ed by thousands of bloodthirsty
Tartars.
Bands of peasants have or
gained against the mobiles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15

Godzyadani, Manchuria (By Cable).-
AT I o'clock P. NJ. Japanese COM
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15

The sergeant in the West Thirtieth
Street Station heard a voice but saw
nobody until he stood up and looked
over the desk. Then he made out WHIP
Archer, a grown man, who is just IS
inches tall.
Sergeant, I've been robbed" the little
man said. Il was going home on a
Thirty-fourth Street car, when two big
loafers, who were three. times as tall as
l. picked me up and stole my diamond
and turquoise scarfpin, worth $50"