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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
BIG STEAMBOAT is
BLOWN TO ATOMS
Many Lives Are Lost In the
Mississippi River.
OVER A SCORE ARE MISSING.
The w. T. Scovell, Plying Between
Vicksburg and Davis Bend, is Blown to
Bits by an Explosion That Occurred
While She Was Taking on Freight at
Gold Dust Landing, Near Vi:ksburg.

Vicksburg, Miss. Especially One
of the most disastrous accidents in
the history of the Mississippi River
occurred at 10 minutes past III
O'Clock Wednesday morning, when
the steamer w. T. Scovel, plying in
the Vicksburg and David Bend trade,
was destroyed by an explosion.
Owing to the large number of ne
groes on board it is impossible to as
certain the exact number of the dead
and injured, but officers of the boat
who arrived here state that no less
than 10 nor more than 16 were
killed. The probabilities are that a
like number were injured.
The number of dead and injured
negroes cannot be stated at this time,
but of crew and passenger list OF
about so, about half are missing.
The negro dead were cared for at
the place where the accident oc-
Cured, as were some of the injured.
About five of the injured negroes
were brought to Vicksburg on the
steamer Senator Cordell with the
white dead and injured. The acct
dent occurred at Gold Dust Landing,
about II miles south of Vicksburg.
The Scovell was. at the landing
taking on freight, when suddenly a
terrific explosion occurred and the
boat was blown practically to atoms.
Many of the timbers of the boat
were thrown hundreds of yards, and
some of those on board were blown
almost as far.
Lot nd front norf nf
the cabin were blown to splinters, and
some parts of the boat were so badly
damaged that she began to sink i'm
here she was listing heavily and her
cargo of 1000 sacks of cottonseed
and SO bales of cotton will be lost.
Pending the arrival of the Senator
Cordell, the injured were cared for
at Gold Dust Landing as we'll as pos
sible
OF the white dead only the body
of Lavell Yeager has been recovered.
Wade Quackenboss was heard to call
for help soon after the explosion, but,
according to the reports of those who
were on the boat, escaping steam
soon smothered his cries. Captain
Quackenboss was not seen after the
accident.
Pilot Dougherty was blown several
hundred feet out into the river, but
despite a dislocated shoulder man
aged to swim to the bank.
The injured were taken to the
Vicksburg hospitals.
The captain was one Of the oldest
and best known residents of this city
and was we'll known to every man on
the river. The steamer Scovell was
only recently purchased by him and
others for the Vicksburg and Davis
Bend trade. The boat was insured
for $4,000
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
MANKIND is MADE OF SOAP.
Kind In His Body Is Purest, And
Maybe He Was Self-Cleaning
Once.

New York Especially Man is
made of soap and not of dust, &C
cording to statement delivered be-
fore the Harvey Society, at the
Academy of Medicine, in this city,
by Prof. ]. D. Adami. Man is not
entirely made of soap, OF course
but there are scattered through his
body an unknown number of tiny
globules, called "myelins," which
are now believed to be primitive
form of true soap.
1t is the only pure type OF soap
on earth, and scientists say 1t may
he that man was originally con-
structed on a self-cleansing princi-
Pile.
All he had to do was to exercise
his will power-think hard-and set
his myriads of soap globules in mo-
ton. The soapy nature of human
beings has been discovered by means
of the polarizing microscope.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
THE DISMISSED TROOPS.
The President Tells Senate Why He
Did 1t.

Washington Especially President
Roosevelt, in response to Senate
resolution asking him why he dis
missed the members of the Twenty
fifth Regiment (colored Infantry
without honor, sent his reply to the
Senate, together with full report of
the investigation conducted by Off
GERS on the ground.
The President wastes no words in
giving the Senate his reasons, and
says that he is glad of the opportuni-
ty to do so. The President says that
the punishment melted out to the reg
iment was inadequate, as "a blacker
crime than that committed never
stainted the annals of our army"
and he regrets keenly that he is I'M
able to properly punish the real cul-
prits. He resents with indignation
the charge that the men were dis
missed because they were negroes and
the intimation that one of the Off
GERS who conducted the investigation
was prejudiced against the troops,
he being Southerner.
The President concludes by chal-
longing "as right the support of
every citizen of this country, what
ever his color, provided only he has
in him the spirit of genuine and far
sighted patriotism"
Accompanying the Presidents re-
ply is a report by Secretary Taft, in
which he enters into an exhaustive
discussion of the law and the evil
dence in the case. He quotes the
authority for the Presidents action,
and with regard to the new evidence
presented says he has examined it
with care and that he does not find
anything contained in it which
should lead to different conclusion
of fact from that already stated in
his annual report.
The question whether the Senate
should make an independent inves-
tigation of the Brownsville raid was
raised by Mr.. Foraker Immediately
after the reading of the Presidents
message,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
OUR PROSPERITY
INVITES ENEMIES
DOnaparte Says We Should Be Ready
To Fight.
NOW UNLIKE WAsHlNGTOEs TIME
The Attorney General Pleads for an
Army and Navy Sufficient to Assure
the COuntry's Peace and to Main
tain Her Strength in War-A Worlt :
wide Empire Now.

Philadelphia Especially Attorney
General Bonaparte, in an address be-
iore the students of business scnool
IN this city, gave a vivid portrayal
of the changed conditions OF the
United States as to peace and war
between the present day and WASH
!ngton's time.
"Our detached and distant situa-
don," in the words of Washington,
which made us the friend and not
the enemy of other nations, MT.
3onaparte said had changed decided
y.
But" he added, while we have
irawn prodigiously nearer to posi-
Die, and possibly dangerous enemies,
We have also grown prodigiously big
ger and richer and more obtruslve
and therefore vastly more likely to
awaken envy, distrust and fear, or
n other words, to have enemies.
Americas empire, he said, now
stretches from sea to sea on this
continent, has spread to the Antilles
md the Isthmus, the jungles of Asia S
stands and the SHOWS of Alaska.
For u.s." he added, "the days of
,bscurity and isolation are gone for
ver, and safety must now be sought
elsewhere"
Mr.. Bonaparte quoted from Wash
ngton, Jackson and Madison to show
hat the statesmen of old recognized
he human impulses that lead to war,
md added: "Aad when such times
,ome one might as wisely seek to
lam Niagara with straws as to turn
rack with reasoning the resistless
ide of human energies and human
PASSIONS" He concluded with a
flea for adequate support for pre-
,aredness for self-defense. saying,
II ask then, of all thoughtful and
PATRIOTIC citizens their aid to my sue
lessor in the great department of
sur federal government but lately in
ny keeping, and to his colleague in
;he administration of the sister SER
rice, and, most of all, to the Com
mander-in-Chief of our forces of land
and sea under the Constitution in as
SURFING our country's peace by main
tanning her strength for war; ask for
the Congress a hearty support from
public opinion in liberal provision
for the national defense, and, more
over, a loud and clear assurance of
such support to drown the clamors
of self-interest, of delusion, of preju-
dice, or parsimony, in dealing with
this great question; and as with the
worlds approval, the noble title of
'peacemaker,' has been bestowed on
our first public servant, l ask that the
nation be qualified for a like honor
In the just judgment of mankind by
giving her such strength as may gain
and guard for her the peace of right
eousness."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.

The Enterprise Transportation
| Company of jamestown, r. l., tllec
| complaint with the Interstate Com
merce Commission against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company and the
New England Navigation Company
as to existing transportation rates
| In his annual report Rear Admira
Rae, chief of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering of the Navy Department
says that the steam turbine presents
one of the greatest problems of the
day.
Captain Mark, of the Navy, re-
ported experiments for coaling YES
sells at sea to be unsuccessful.
Edwin T. Sanford, of Knoxville
Tenn, will succeed ]. G. McReynolds
as an assistant attorney general.
President Roosevelt will spend q
portion of the Christmas holidays at
Pine Knot, Va.
Joseph w. Lee was nominated by
the President to be minister to Qua
temala and Honduras.
President Roosevelt's Panama mes
sage is to be reprinted for the Senate
in normal" spelling.
Senator Elkins introduced Dill
to carry into effect several or the
recommendation of the Secretary
of the Treasury to enable him to ex-
tend relief to money markets.
William A. Reid & Co. by Dlo
of 105.777 for all or any part OF the
100000 bond issue for improve
ments in Manila obtained the greater
part of the issue.
Senator Berry presented kilograms
objecting to the recent order OF the
Secretary of the Interior In Withdraw
ing lands from allotment In lndlan
Territory.
Representative Gregg. of Texas
introduced bill to purchase 10 SUD-
marine torpedo boats at total cost
of $5,000,000.
Ten of the South American repup-
lies have accepted invitations TO pc
represented at the jamestown Elk
position.
The Senate passed bill providing
for bridge across the Allegheny
River near Pittsburg. =
Senator Patterson introduced In
the Senate a resolution for an III
vestigation of the reports that loppy
has been endeavoring to influence
matters relative to the Congo free
State.
In the Senate the increasing ex-
penditures for the Army and navy
establishments were deplored.
Director Wolcott, of the Geologl-
cal Survey, was before the senate
committee investigating the values
of the coal and oil lands in Oklahoma
and Indian Territory. :.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor decided that foreign laborers
assisted to migrate by a State are
not liable to deportation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
bit Sherifrs Daughter.

Bristol, Va. Especially A heavily
armed posse is following the trail of
Wesley Wilkes, condemned negro.
and a white desperate named Eaton,
who escaped from the Gate City
(va.) Jail, after murderously as
saulting Sheriff Broadwater and af-
ter the negro had seriously wounded
the Sheriff's daughter by biting her.
The men made their way to the
mountains of East Tennessee, and
bloodhounds are on their trail
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
THE CAPTAINS COSTLY ERROR
Further Details of the Wreck of Tour
list Steamer.

Kingston (By Cable). According
to reports received from Port Royal,
the Hamburg-American Line tourist
steamer Prinzessin Victoria Luise,
which went ashore off that place dur
| ing the night of December 16, is
likely to become total wreck. The
vessel is so close to shore that people
can almost walk walk on board of
her from the beach. She is impaled
on rock, and the seas are pounding
on her starboard side severely.
She has heeled heavily to star
board, and it can be seen that her
bottom is badly damaged, and that
her boilers and engines are severely
injured. The German cruiser Bre-
men is still standing by the stranded
steamer and the steamer Virginia
went to the scene today to assist in
the salvage work if possible, but the
latter returned here after seeing the
condition of the stranded ship.
The, body of Captain BruDswig,
who killed himself in his cabin on
board the steamer after she went
ashore, was buried this afternoon.
The autopsy showed that the back
part of the Captains head had been
completely shattered by rifle bull
let.
The crew of the stranded vessel
started later in the day for Kings
ton. The Prinzessin Victoria Luise
is now practically abandoned. She
is fast impaled on rock, and the
seas are pounding her starboard side
severely.
One of the passengers of the Prin-
zessin Victoria Luise today gave the
following account of the disaster:
"At about 9 o'clock on Sunday
night, when we were abreast of Port
Royal Light, the ship suddenly APP
peared to shudder; then she stopped,
and terrible grinding noise was
heard from under her hull. The or
der was given to reverse the engines
and go full speed astern, but the
steamer remained fast.
''The discipline displayed by the
officers and crew was excellent.
Every man kept to his post, the pas
sengers retained their presence of
mind, and there was no panic. Rock
cts were sent up from the stranded
vessel, but apparently they were not
seen, for there was no response to
the signals from the shore. Eventu
ally the news of the wreck was taken
to Kingston by a sailboat, which
made slow progress, owing to the
fact that the breeze was light. At
ter breakfast Monday we went
ashore, hunted up some native boats
and made our way to Kingston.
The news of the suicide of Captain
Brunswig was kept from the passen-
gers for sometime"
Norfolk, Va. Especially The Nor
folk wrecking tug Rescue sailed from
here with the wrecking barge Sharp
for Kingston, Jamaica, to make an
effort to float the Hamburg meri-
can Line tourist steamer PrinZessin
Victoria Luise, which went ashore
off Port Royal Sunday night, while
bound from Kingston to New York.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
CASTRO REPORTED WORSE.
If He Dies, Gomez's Succession Will
Be Opposed BY Large Element.

A 1AC OACos OOAAAS1 . CuNNNoSAOH
BE Opposed BY Large Element.
Port of Spain, Trinidad (By Ca
ble) --latest Caracas advices indi-
cate that President Castro is much
worse, and it is even claimed that
he cannot live more than week
longer. Should he die, First Vice
President Gomez will Immediately
assume the Presidency, and will be
supported by large section of the
army A very large element of the
country, including the Andinos, or
mountaineer supporters of Castro,
however, will be opposed to Gomez.
Gen. AlcaRtara, president of the
State of Aragua, has accumulated a
large army and considerable war
material, and is determined not to
recognize Gomez, but to raise revo-
luton for the purpose of obtaining
the Presidency.
In the meanwhile, the rebel force
headed by Gen. Rafael Montilla,
which recently captured Barquesi-
meto, 100 miles from Caracas, is
daily increasing in strength.
The condition of Venezula is de-
plorable. Outrages by bandits are
increasing daily and the country is
threatened with anarchy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
ODDS AND ENDS.

The British Premier announced
that the program of the second peace
conference would include the ques-
ton of the limitation of armament.
The Spanish government has no.
tilted the Vatican that it cannot take
charge of the archives OF the papal
nunciature at Paris.
By decision of the United States
Circuit Court of Chicago the Yerkes
millions will go to establish the hos
pital he planned for New York.
Chancellor Day, of Syracuse Uni
versity, denounces what he calls the
socialist movement against the
wealthy as "millionairephobia."
Dakota, Montana and Minnesota
are short of coal and railroad cars
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
ROBBED OF So, 900.
Woman Who Had No Faith In Banks
Loses Money.

Philadelphia Especially Mrs. Ella
V. Kober was robbed of $4,000 by a
pickpocket in the holiday crowds in
the shopping district here. The
money was paid to Mrs, Kober by
the Pennsylvania Railroad in settle
ment of a claim on the death of her
husband, who was killed in the cleo
trio railroad thoroughfare wreck near
Atlantic City two months ago. Mrs.
Kober had no faith in banks and had
refused to accept check from the
railroad in payment of the claim and
demanded cash. She received 30
500 and 6 $500 notes, which she
sewed in a secret POCKET in an un-
derskirt.
White shopping with friend she
discovered that the pocket had been
cut from her skirt and the money
taken.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
SEA INTO BURNING NINE.
Nova Scotia Coal Colliery Has Been
AbIaze Five Days.

Glace Bay, N. S. Especially Other
means having failed the tides of the
Atlantic Ocean will be utilized by the
Dominion Coal Company to drown
out the fire that has been raging since
Friday in the Hub Colliery. Day and
night shifts of men are being en-
ployed to open up concrete dam
placed some years ago at the base
of a cliff about a quarter of mile
from the pit mouth, where formerly
old rooms were worked. An old pas
sage is being cleared out, and as
soon as this work is done the dam
will be broken down and the rising
tides will flow into the old rooms and
thence into the pit where the fire
is burning so feet below the sea
level. In a week it is expected the
sea will flood nearly the entire mine.
In another coal mine in this province
a fire has been burning for about two
years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
Foreign.

THE North German Lloyd Steam
shin Company has decided to make
an appeal against the verdict OF the
british board of admiralty holding
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse aione
responsible for the collision with the
British steamer Qrinoco. off Cher-
bourg, November 81.
The British Parliament was pro
rogued until February. King Ed
ward expressed regret that the dis
mute over the Education Bill had not
been settled.
The parish church at Boldernock,
Scotland, where President Roose-
velt's maternal ancestors worsnlppeu'
was destroyed by fire.
The Gar has issued a ukase liking
February 10 as the date Ior the par
liamentary elections.
Intense cold has caused much sur
fering among the peasants in Rus
STA.
Prof. Karl Hau, of Washington
d. c., was remanded in London for
extradition to Germany to answer
to the charge of numbering his moth
er-in-law at Baden-Baden.
Lord Peterborough was married to
Miss Hermoine Schenley, of Pitts
burg. at st. Georges, In Chelsea,
England, before a large crowd OF
fashionable persons.
The French court has freed Ma
dame Anna Gould from all RESPONSE
bility for the debts contracted by
her husband, except in a few minor
instances.
The three hundredth anniversary
of the sailing of the first British col
ony for jamestown, Va, was. cele-
brated with a banquet in London.
Two bombs were thrown at Chief
of Police Cheshanowski in LODI, Rus
sian Poland, while he was driving
through one of the principal streets
A court martial in Lille, France
degraded Captain Marquiez for refus'
ing to obey orders in connection with
the taking of church inventory.
Rioting attended the evacuation OF
the episcopal palace and seminary al
Nantes, France.
Fifteen millions of people are re
ported to be starving in the famine
district of China.
Sir Edward Sassoon (Liberal-Un'
ionist). in a speech in the House Of
| Commons on the wireless Telegraph
conference, contended that Greai
Britain played second fiddle to Ger
many.
The Japanese consul at Honolulu
| saws the Japanese squadron will no
go to San Francisco, as originally In
| tended, because of fear of repeti
ton of the Maine disaster.
The steamer Prinzessin Victorit
Luise, which went ashore on Por
ROYAL, Jamaica, Sunday night, Ii
likely to become a total wreck.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
AN AWFUL EXPOSE
OF THE ICE TRUST
Sensational Charges Of GOuglng
and Deceit.
THE SUIT BEGAN IN new YORK.
Attorney General Mayer Asks for
the Dissolution of the Trust OF
Whose $46, 1926, 4SS of Stock $33, $780,
6O6 Represents No Tangible Asset
Restricting the Output.

New York Especially Attorney
General julius Mayer, in the name
of the people of the State OF New
York, began an action against the
American Ice Companw in the Sup
rene Court of New York County
for the dissolution of the so-called
Ice Trust. A summons and COM
plant issued here was forwarded TO
the New York City representatives
of the Attorney General for service
upon the proper officials of the COM
pany.
The complaint alleges as a prin-
cipaI feature of the scheme ana
arrangement" by which the company
secured a practical monopoly or the
natural and artificial ice output and
distribution, especially in Greater
New York and the communities IN
that vicinity, that it secured control
of the Main ice field and caused
reduction there last year of the usual
harvest from million and half tons
to one-third of that amount. The
other sources of supply are alleged
to be similarly controlled.
The key to the ice situation in
New York City is pointed out as ~
ing in the company's control of the
"ice bridges or landing depots, by
which means, it is alleged, the COM
pany is enabled to fix the price OF
ice, resulting last summer in an in
crease from $3.50 ton at the
bridges to IS and Sc ton to the
Independent dealers, who are alleged
to be controlled by the company,
and who supply the retail trade.
1t is said that by the time the
ice reached the poorer customers 1t
cost them at the rate of $40 to $14
ton.
Accused OF Double Dealing.
CORRESPONDENCE of the company
with it's agents and others is quoted
to show that at the very time when
the company was urging its custo-
mers to be careful in their purchase
and consumption of ice, owing to the
shortage of supply, it was informing
it's agents that the ice situation
from the company's standpoint was
satisfactory, and that offers were
being received from various sources,
especially from Maine Independent
producers, of ample supplies, and
the company was at that time refus-
ing to accept these offers on any
terms. 1t is contended that the eff
forts of the company were designed
to create a popular impression that
an ice famine was impending, in or
der to forestall public clamor against
contemplated enormous increase in
the price to consumers, which in
crease did, in fact, take place.
1t is declared by the Attorney
General that on the Hudson River
the American Ice Company owns all
but II of the 141 icehouses, and
that it contracted with the Mountain
Ice Company, operating in New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania, to restrict its
sales in Brooklyn, whereby the free
pursuit of the ice business in that
borough was prevented; that 1t had
like agreements with various indie
pendent concerns along the Hudson
River and elsewhere to prevent their
entering the field of competition in
production or distribution of either
natural or manufactured ice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
MINER LOSING HIS MIND.
Surrounded By Corpses, He Believes
They Are Laughing At Him.

They Are Laughing At Him.
Bakersfield, California Especially.
Though only a few feet of earth
and stone separate L. B. Hicks, the
miner entombed in Granite Mountain
by a tunnel collapse, from freedom,
the slightest mistake of his rescuers
will crush out the life of the man
who, for days, has lived in night
black hole with death threatening
every moment.
For IA days Hicks has endured
tortures. Without light and terror
biting at his soul by fears that any
moment would be his last, Hicks has
many times bordered ON insanity.
Only the voices of his friends COM
ing to him through the gas pipe with
which he is fed has been able to keep
him from madness. Sometimes the
miner is happy and again he is
bodies of his five dead companions
about him.
81 can see Jim's foot in this hell
hole" he yelled to his rescuers. IT'S
moving, l think. They are laughing,
too"
"If you don't shut up. Hicks" said
a miner, shouting through the tube,
"I'll jump right down the pipe and
shake your head Off"
In this way Hicks mind was
drawn from his illusions by the min
ers.
We'll get you out soon." shouted
grizzled miner.
"Well, be careful" replied Hicks,
cor this fool mountain will sit on my
chest"
Hicks drank a gallon of milk to-
day. He said that the fine cut tobac-
co which had been slipped to him
through the pipe was a lifesaver,
He said he would have rather had
that chew than got out.