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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
EXPLOSION CAUSES ,
PANIC I'm A HOTEL

Chicago, Jan. PA panic among
the guests Of the ,IWindermere hotel,
followed the explosion early yesterday
- The s' *accidenSS caused stSssS Of
John Rapkoch, engineer , sBsas the seri-
Gus injury of Mrs SeetA May, a guest.
The. explosion. partially wrecked Che
hotel building and damaged adjacent
residences and apartment buildings
The guests of. the hotel were left il IL
darkness by the destruction of..the
lighting plant and many were obliged
to await, the arrival Of fremen, who bat:
tered down the doors of their apart
ments and released them. go 49,
Fire followed the crash, but was soo1
under control. The damage was esti
mated at SIS 900. ~ :<.|
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
FUNK TALKS WITH
H0DGSON'S SPIRIT
New York Publisher Says He Has
- Message from Psychic Re-
search Secretary.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
New York, Jan. .22.-Dr. I. K. Funk,
the w"ell-known New York publisher
and psychologist, announces that he has
had communication with DR.. Richard
Hodgson. -- r.
When DR.. Hodgson, who was presi-
dent Of the Psychical Research society,
died suddenly in Boston last December,
it was, announced that he had promised
to communicate with friends on earth
soon after his arrival in the spirit land
"rDr. Hodgson has kept his promise
to the psychical society,"" said DR.
Funk last night. "I have had a most
remarkable interview with him, az
agreed upon before death. I stood
face to face with his spirit and he tolt
me all was well with him. No one car
any longer reasonably doubt that the
spirits Of the dead communicate will
the ~living.' <-<
Beyond telling that the message
read: "All is well with me,' DR.. Funl
refused to 60 into details.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
MINERS WILL ASK
one YEAR PACT
Draft Of Demands on Operators
Will Contain Decided
Changes.

Pittsburg, Jan. 22.-The Post today
says:
IA completed draft Of the wage de-
mands that are to be presented by the
United Mine Workers to the operators
at the interstate conference at Indian
apclls this week was secured from re-
llab sources yesterday and shows one
former agreement of these interests.
The miners are now asking for only
a one-year agreement instead of the
two-year scale, which is to expire next
April and which was the first Of the
kind to be tried by the coal interests
The Demands.
The specific demands to be presented
to the operators are included in seven
propositions as follows:
F1rst-A straight advance of 4l2A
per cent for all miners and mine la.
borers.
Second-All bituminous districts tt
be admitted to the conference where
they are represented by both mine
workers and. operators.
Third-A 7-cent differential must bt
established between pick and machine
mining on the mine run basis.
Fcurth--A uniform day wage scale tt
be paid to all classes of labor.
a Boys to Be Barred.
Mfth-Boys under 16 years of ag,
shall not be permitted to work in O.
about the mine.
|" Sixth-That the wage agreement o:
contract between the United Min,
Workers and the operators shall con
tinue for one year from April l, 1906
Seventh-Au other conditions of tn,
present wage agreement that do no
conflict with the above demands shall
remain in force for the same periot
as the new scale.
The conference between the miner
and operators is to start in Indian
apolis on Thursday of this week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
AGED ELEPHANT
At BABY TRICKS
Sight Of Early Trainer Starts Him
at Franks Learned
Years Ago.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
New York. Jan. 22.-Bazil, the So
year-old elephant recently purchased by
the Hippodrome, unhesitatingly went
thru q series of tricks yesterday after
noon it had not performed for twenty
three years.
The test was brought about by an
argument between Peter Barlow, the
elephant trainer. and DR.. Martin j.
Potter. veterinary surgeon, which re-
suited in a wager of $500.
F BAIL was one of the first elephants
brought to this country by 2. 7. Bar
mum. It was in charge Of Bob Fryer
in Barnum's circus. AT that. time Pc.
tel. Barlow was a bareback,rider. but
"a fast friendship grew UP between him
and BAIL, so the animal executed all
the boys instructions with obedience
and zeal. .#
In 1880 there came a parting. The
moment the beast saw Barlow yester
day, tho it hadn t seen him in twenty,
three years, it began to trumpet loudly
and to Clap it's ears with vigor. The
bet followed, and, in turn,.the tests
BAIL going thru the old tricks will
accuracy and punctuality. =.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
RADICAL CHANGES
NEEDED In ARMY
Continued From First Page.

many Of the officers from service with
prises 56,o64 enlisted men and $3.50
officers. OF the officers, 25.3 per cent
belonging to the line We're absent dur
ing the last year from their companies
and 1l.2s per cent of the staff We're Off
GERS not filling duties called for by
their rank. .
The inspector general found that at
the last annual inspection of the army
about .40-per cent Of -&he captains of
the line were absent from their com.
mands and that 10 per cent Of the cav
airy. artillery and infantry companies
were commanded by second l~ieutenants.
; Secretary: Taft is alive to the serious:
ness Of this condition. and has stated
that these, conditions cannot continue
without great detriment to, the service.
eHEven with the full complement of
trained oHicefs,o the secretary said,
Git takes a long period of unremitting
effort to make a good cavalryman Out
of a raw recruit, and this remark ap
| plies with even greater force to the ar
tillery service, which has now-partlcu
/ larly in the. coast branch-become o.
a highly technical and specialized char
acter. And when we consider that oul
small army is maintained chiefly. as {
nucleus to the army that would be re
quired in the event of a national cri
sis, and must, therefore, always be kept
in the highest state Of efficiency, the
conditions disclosed by these figures are
so startling as to- call for prompt re
medal action -.' T. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
TEACHER ROBBED
BY: HER PUPILS
Chicago Sunday School Teacher
Forced to Sign Warrants
Against Boys.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Chicago, Jan. 22.-When Miss Ethel
Hansen SO Humboldt boulevard, a
teacher in the Sunday school Of the
Bethel Norwegian Lutheran. church on
humboldt street, went to the, West
North avenue police station yesterday
afternoon to identify the handbag and
money stolen from her Saturday night,
she was sadly surprised. The four con
fessed culprits were members Of her
own Sunday school class.
At first Miss Hansen positively re-
fused to sign warrants against the
boys, but when Informed by lieutenant
Banner that she would be compelled to
come into court as a witness, she
yielded, and, with tears falling from
her eyes. attached her name to the
four writs. @
The boys, all of whom wear knee
trousers, told Lieutenant Banner they
were. members of a "gang,' and thai
some Of them had been in the highway
business before. They all are Of gooe
families. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
FRANCE FREE TO
CHASTISE CASTRO
Washington Promises Not to In.
terfere in Solution Of Vene-
zuelan Problem.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Convinced Of
the sincerity of the assurances re-
ceived from France regarding her 10y
atty to the Monroe doctrine and all
that it involves, the Washington govern
ment has given the Paris government a
free hand in the execution of the pro-
gram for the{solution of the Venezuelan
problem. .4
The conferences on this phase of the
question occurred some time ago, and
Mr.. Jusserand, the French ambassador,
has. final assurance that the efforts of
France to obtain diplomatic treatment
for her charge d'affaires at Caracas will
not be interpreted at Washington as in
any way violative of the Monroe doc
trine.
Squadron's Movements a Mystery.
The first move in the execution of
the French program may be expected at
any time, but on this point the French
government is observing the strlctest
secrecy, the orders to the squadron go
ing directly from Paris and not thru
the embassy here.
The whereabouts Of the French ships
remains a mystery so far as the officials
here are concerned. 1t is as
in touch with the ministry Of marine at
Paris and are awaiting an opportune
moment to take action.
Il Great interest is felt in diplomatic
! circles here about the exact nature Of a
sentence found Objectionable in the
] note of President Castro to Mr.. Taigny.
This sentence in substance referred to
the presentation by Mr.. Taigny of a
note of the Venezuelan government and
announced the complete severance of all
relations until adequate explanation was
made of conduct.
France Will Wait.
Paris, Jan. 22.-It appears to be GER
ain that the French government has
esolved to take no action with regard
Venezuela until the full report OF
M. Taigny, the late charge d '%affaires
at Caracas, reaches the foreign office
This report is expected to come by way
+ of Washington, where M. Taigny will
turn it over to NJ. Jusserand, the
French ambassador.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
HEAT %PROSTRATES
SEVERAL In OHIO
Continued From First Page.

the winter. Telephone and telegraph
service. turnout the northwestern part
of III indian Territory Is greatly Dam
The sudden change in temperature in
the southwest is expected to cause much
suffering among livestock, and reports
from Texas say the cattlemen fear dis
%astrous results If freezing weather con
inues. In ST. Louis the summer-like
weather of yesterday has beer followed
by a steady rain, which turned to sleet
tonight and greatly crippled streetcar
service. - .'s- -. ="
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
NOTE POINTS TO
. SUICIDE IN RIVER
Man Believed to Have Taken His
Life on Vanderbilt Estate,
Asheville.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
3 AshevilIe, N. c., Jan. pa scrap of
paper sticking on a river reed along
the bank of the French Broad river on
! the estate. of George w. Vanderbilt was
found yesterday by James Beck and a
friend while out walking. On the paper
was this message:. ~
- Glove drove me to this. When you
find my body notify P. T. Williams,
5ll Fifth avenue, New York, my
father.' !.
There were fresh marks of footprints
leading to the waters edge, and upon
the very edge of the rivers brink was
plainly discerned in the mud the i'm
print of a mans right foot, giving rise
to the theory that a man had jumped
r. into the river. All afternoon a large
party was engaged in dragging the
river and this work was kept up last
night by the light of lanterns.
New York. Jan. pr. r. Wilson,
the banker, lives at 511 Fifth avenue
The facts in the above dispatch were
made known to him last night. He
said he was positive the writing did not
concern. his son or himself, and that
there is no one in his house or con,
nected with his household named P. T.
Williams.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
.IAGGARD SCORES TRUST
tAGNATES FROM PULPIT
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Window, Mimi, Jan. 22.-Justice A.
f. Jaggard of the supreme court, who
came to Window yesterday to attend
the reception. to Judge Brown, was in
vited to give an address at the Metho-
dist church last night. He spoke for
more than an hour, taking as his sub
iect, "a Stronger Government. -. He
handled Depew. Rockefeller and others
severely and told the congregation
that if the people want a stronger. gov.
eminent they must be better citizens
themselves and make a better govern
ment. -. .s,.
About fifty lawyers are here with
Judges Quinn and Cray, besides Judge
Brown and Justice Jaggard. The aft
ernoon will be spent in addresses be-
fore the court. A banquet will be
served in the evening.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
e ARE
Transatlantic Ships Encounter Hurri-
Cane and Icebergs. ,-

Transatlantic2& Ships Encounter Hurri-
4s3 G and Icebergs. sr
Journal Special Service. ~
London, Jan. 22.-Both the American.
liner Philadelphia, arriving last night
at Southampton, and the Cunard liner
Carmania, arriving at Liverpool, were
delayed by 1easterly gales and fierce
snow squalls after passing out at Sandy
Captain Mills of the Philadelphia
says it was the worst storm in all his
experience. On the second day from
Sandy Hook both ships experienced a
terrific hurricane which lasted seventy.
two hours. During these three full days
both steamers were reduced to nearly
half-speed. On Wednesday and Thurs.
day several icebergs were passed by
both ships. Bergs were afoat in the
transatlantic steamship route and a
dangerous menace to navigation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22

tudinous details, frequently unnecessa.
ry, which are now placed upon the
army.
Secretary Taft recognizes that the
general staff, in its present shape, is
not giving the results which had been
expected, and he is searching for a way
for it's reorganization which will result
in greater efficiency thruout the rank
and file. Something must be done, it is
agreed by officers who have the good
Of the service at heart, to require cap
tains to remain in command of their
companies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
APPEAL TO MISS ALICE.

Antwerp, Belgium. Jan. PA committee Of
prominent Belgians, appointed for the, purpose
of seeking the release by the Turkish government
Of Edward ,Joris, the Belgian condemned to death
by q. native court at Constantinople for alleged
participation in the attempt to assassinate the
sultan in July last, yesterday decided to send a
petition to Miss Alice Roosevelt, asking her Ito
interest President Roosevelt in the hope that he
would personally intervene in behalf of Joris.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
Taft Asks More Officers.

Secretary Taft wanted authority for
the commissioning of 113 officers, but
according to the system now followed
in assigning officers to attend to multi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-22
Hoods

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bly, the greatest blood and
liver medicine known. IL
positively and permanently
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-12
LUCK FAVORS BADGERS;
ILLINOIS IS DEFEATED.
In a Desperately Fought GridirOn Com
test at Champaign, Wisconsin Wins
BY the Score of 16 to 6.

Wisconsin defeated Illinois, 6 to c.
Saturday in an exciting and sensational
contest that was far more close than
the score indicated. The tide of bat
tie wavered from the Badgers to the
Illini, but turned in the last half.
Predictions that the elevens would be
evenly matched We're more than borne
out by the battle, which was tight from
the kickoff to the finish, when the car
dinal rooters clustered about their vic
torious warriors and sang them off the
field with the Wisconsin hymn.
The first half promised to be a score
less battle, until fate dealt four aces
to the Badgers when Rogers crossed
the local goal in triumph. From the
start Illinois easily had the better of it.
The Illini had carried the war within
the cardinal lines, and the Badgers
were forced to punt time and time
again, without essaying an attack on
the local line.
The half was well nigh over when
Rogers, scurrying down the field on a
punt by Clark, got his chance when
Pettigrew failed to catch the oval
which bounded to the ground. The car
mine CARRIED warrior, scarcely stopping
! in his gait, bent over, snatched the ball
and made like mad for the local goal
while Clark and others of his comrades
warded of the diminutive Sinnock, who
vainly tried to stop the feeting Badger
Rogers sped over forty white chalk
lines and scored.
Aghast at the touchdown, the Illinois
fought desperately, but the Badgers
We're hard to buck, and their ends eff
fectively stopped plays directed at
them. The half ended with the Badgers
delirious with delight, but chary of the
outcome, while the Illini We're de-
termined TO turn the tables in the sec
ond half.
The second half, however, except fol-
a brief interval when Hodge carried
the oval across the cardinal goal amid
the wild cheers of the orange and blue
partisans, was tame. But for Hodges
feat there was nothing doing for the
Illini. for the Badgers managed to keer
the ball almost wholly in Illini terri.
tory.
Soon after the KICKOFF Messmer add
ed four more points to Rogers six By
a clever place kick from an easy poin
of vantage fronting the local goa
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-12
WHERE FOOTBALL is FATAL;
HOW TO RESTRICT GAME
Action of the South Park Commission
ers in Controlling the Game a Good
Example for Principals of High
Schools.

In a recent sporting editorial in the
Sunday Tribune the sporting editor
treats the subject of the abuse of foot
ball in such a convincing manner that
it is printed in its entirety below:
The action of the south park com
missioners, closing the parks under
their control to prairie" football teams
meets the approval of all who have the
interests of Americas college game at
heart. The reasons given for the ac-
ton are solid, sensible and unanswer-
able. Even reformed college football
is not to be played by any one and
everyone Unfortunately with safety
and about the games on the open lots
there are none of the safeguards OBJ
served in college contests. Many of
these prairie" teams are made up of
immature lads who have few oppor-
tunities for anything like the necessary
physical training. The more mature
players are also usually in not fit con-
dition for such strenuous exercise as
the excitement of the game is likely to
lead them into. There are no checks
to roughness and brutality. The re
suit is bound to be accident and injury
of serious nature. Every report of
serious injury in football in Chicago
lot games and every injury received by
an unskilIed, unframed weakling is
blamed to the game by the public. Much
of the demand for the recent reforms
in the college game was the result of
agitation caused by accidents for which
the sport itself was in no way at fault,
and all the talk of absolute abolition
of it has grown out of the open lot.
The park commissioners require only
that a player or team shall present sat
isfactory proof of physical fitness to
play the game in order to be allowed
the use of the parks, and certainly
| this is not too much to ask as a pro-
! lection for the youngsters against their
own careless eXuberance. In a little
| but more serious way the existence of
professional" elevens is a menace to
| football. There are teams of profess
| SIGNALS who are trained and physically
| lit to play the game. They are made
up of graduate college football players
for the most part. But the few games
they play have been attended by a
| brutality and lack of craftsmanship
which is bound to become prominent in
| football the instant it is removed from
the influence of college sentiment. Pro
fessional players, whether organized to
| represent some town or as haphaZard
temporary teams put together for spec
| tal occasions, are answerable only to
themselves for what they do on a grid
iron and what some of these pro
teams have done in the past is writer
in letters OF blood against the good
name of the sport. The college game
of football belongs to the colleges anC
in lesser degree to the prep schools
where it can be supervised and con
trolled with an iron hand to keep il
check its dangerous and brutal posi-
| bilities. Professionalism and ungov
erned, football can be made, and usual
ly is, far more degrading and bruta
than the prize fight"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-12
Contest Between Michigan
and Pennsylvania Anti
Climax of Season.
.GOPHERS PLAY CARLISLE
Yale and Princeton VIII Go To 1t
Next Saturday and Exempli-
fly New Football.

With a fortnight of the football
season left, Chicago enthusiasts find
themselves in the predicament of
watching an anti-climax The one
big" game of the year in this sec
ton has been played, and the greater
part of the interest which remains in
the season is confined to the east.
Chicago has two games yet to play,
with Illinois next Saturday and Ne
braska a week later, but both of these
opponents have been beaten this season
and the chief goal of the Midway team
in both games Will be to make as
strong a showing against them as other
leading elevens of the west have made.
Stages men will try to beat Illinois
harder than Michigan or Wisconsin
did and to run up a larger score
against Nebraska than the Gophers
made, in order to retain the remnants
of prestige left them after their de-
feat of Saturday by Minnesota.
Considerable interest attaches to the
game next Saturday between Michigan
and Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, be-
cause it is one of the rare meetings be
tween eastern and western elevens. But
there will be little basis for compari-
sons as neither team has played the
representative teams of either section.
Michigan does not meet any of the
leading teams of the west this year.
and Pennsylvania does not play any OF
the big teams Of the east although ii
already has been beaten by secondary
institutions with sufficient ease and
frequency to establish the fact the
Quaker eleven of 1906 does not rank
in its old place in the big four"
The game between Minnesota and
Carlisle at Minneapolis next Saturday
Will bring together two elevens which
come nearer being representative OF
the two sections of the country, be
cause the Gophers have played one
big" game, while the Indians have
played Harvard to a close score and
have defeated Pennsylvania. Still
there Will be no basis for comparison
of the two sections, because the In
dians will meet Minnesota at the Goph-
ers' top notch condition, Williams
eleven having developed to its utmost
for the Chicago game, while the red
skins tackled Pennsylvania before it,
| practice season was we'll started anC
| Harvard while still in the formativ,
| process, two weeks before the Val,
game, which is the time the crimson
coaches aim to have their team at it!
| highest point of speed and development
The big game of next Saturday
| therefore, Will be that between Yalt
and Princeton on the Tigers gridiron
and there, for the first time, will b,
shown a real eXemplification of new
football, if the conditions will permit