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The Washington times., 1907-12-08
Rescuers in Hospital.

The Emergency Hospital is crowded
with men who have been overcome
with mine gas In their heroic work,
and a second one has been equipped.
One Of these men en- route 70 the hos
pital said:
7 have seen a good many mine ex-
plcsioGs, but have never seen any
thing to equal this disaster. As we
worked our way into no. s. braUtiCing
and bracing. the dead were lying all
about us. They were IN tangled heaps.
seemingly blown together IN lunches
bv the awful fo-Ce OF the explosion
We saw hands and arms lying here and
there. and shoes with human feet still
inside. It was a sight AT once terrific
and overwhelming.
As darkness fell the scene around the
stricken mines became intensely pic
turesque On every hand dared the
lights or the miners hats Occasionally
a squad Of men would disappear down
the mine entrance, going nobody but
themselves knew whittier. Gradually
the crowds thinned cut until at o'clock
they began 20 bring the bodies from
the mines Then. as II BY magic. the
sorrow-stricken women auC children
began to gather around.
Each body. as IL appeared from the
mine. was greeted with tears Of rity.
Those whose tears had been dried from
excess OF sorrow Wept again. The bod
les of the dead were mangled bevond
description and IL seems dOubtfui if
half Of them VIII ever be identified.
At O. clock II was estimated that I0L
bodies were ready to be brought out
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Falr and warmer Sunday.
Increasing cloudinesS
Monday.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
CASTRO RAPS HAGUE.
Proposition of Graduated Representation
in Peace Board Unfair and In
sulting, He Declares

CARACAS, Venezuela. Aug. 31.-Via
Willemsted, Island of Curacao, Sept. 81
In view of the attitude of Brazil and
Venezuela at The Hague, President Cas-
tro today was asked his opinion Of the
reported proposition to constitute prize
and arbitration tribunals by graduated
representation, giving some powers per-
manent representation while others
would be represented only periodically
The President made the following state
ment and authorized its publication:
This proposition Of the powers is
equivalent, i'll my opinion, to the head
of a nation inviting all or some of the
heads of other friendly nations to a
feast III his house and after assembling
them there. proceeding 10 classification
IN order to determine who should eat at
the first table, who at the second and SO
on, and who should dance in the prin-
cipal rooms of the palace and who in
others.
The action proposed is therefore. in
my opinion. an insult cast in the face
of the smaller nations, who. it is sought
regarding representation.
From the political standpoint. | be-
ieyc the suggested classification to be
unwaranted and even impossible.
From the legal aspect the matter be-
comes still graver because a court of
international arbitration to have all the
responsibility required by such high
tribunal. should be clothed. among other
CAPABILITIES, with impartiality. so as to
inspire complete confidence in its de-
ciSiOuS"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
DENIES IT'S IN A TRUST.
Temple Iron Company Declares That
Governments Charges Are vague,
Impairment and Scandalous."

PHILADELPHIA Pa, Sept. 3.-An-
other answer, that of the Temple Iron
company, was filed in the United States
circuit court here today i'll the suit of
the federal government against the rail
roads and coal companies that are
charged with maintaining a monopoly
of the anthracite coal industry in re-
straint of trade.
The answer denies that the coal roads
purchased the capital stock of the Tenn
pie Iron company and also denies that
the Temple Iron company has 'thrOttled
competition i'll the transportation and
sale of anthracite coal
The answer admits that the corpora
ton acquired several small companies
concerned in the mining of coal, but
claims the purchases were under the i
thority of the laws of Pennsylvania.
The defendant contends that the United
States courts have no jurisdiction to
enter a decree enjoining the other coal
companies named in the bill of COM
pIaint from voting the stock they hold Ill
the Temple Iron company as the govern
ment has petitioned the court to do.
The Temple Iron company's answer, az
did those Of the three Reading compa-
MES filed last week, refers to the gov
prnment's charges as vague, indefinite,
impertinent and scandaIous."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
BIG SHAKE-UP In NAVY
YOUNG OFFICERS TO TAKE WAR
FLEET AROUND HORN.
Only Fsur Battleship Captains Will Make
Cruise According to Plans
of President

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 3.-Of
the officers commanding the eighteen bat
tleships to make the long voyage from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, it is declared
Chat only four captains now commanding
ships will make the trip.
The President and the secretary of the
navy have agreed to forward the long
desired plan of advancing young men. to
the fighting line, and send the elders to
shore duty and the eighteen captains who
will command and be responsible for the
$1000OO,OOO worth of armament and
equipment to be sent through the
straights of Magellan to the Pacific.
fourteen will be younger men than those
now in command. AS the plan now
stands, it is said the following captains
will hold their ships and make the trip:
Potter of the Vermont Nreeland of the
Kansas, Osterhaus of the Connecticut
H., and Wainwright of the Louisiana.
The shakeup is scheduled to occur just
after the finish of the target practice
and maneuvers off Cape Cod this month.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
RIOTERS MURDER JEWS
BLACK HUNDREDS ATTACK THEM
IN ODESSA AND KILL MANY.
Mob Invades Cemetery and Butcher
Thousands Who Are Praying a
Graves-Police Are Passive.

ODESSA, Sept. 3.-The Black Hun
dreds began rioting here Monday after
noon. alleging that the Jews were re-
sponsible for the explosion of the bomb
in the courtyard of the central police
station here Saturday morning, resulting
in the deaths of an artillery officer and
four policemen, although it was stated
at the time that the bomb was dropped
accidentally by the officer. The rioters
ran through the streets inhabited by
Jews. shooting prOmiscuousIy right ana
left. Several were killed or injured.
The mob INDUCED in other brutal eX-
cesses and beat down many victims with
flexible rubber sticks. The Jewish GENE
terry, where thousands of Jews were pray
ing at the gravesides of their dead, was
the scene of fierce onslaught by mem
bers of the Black Hundreds, who shot
down many of the mourners with reVol-
yers.
Among the killed are a Jewish actor
and a girl Of Is, while the wounded in
clude two children, each about i years
of age, and a man of 70. A majority
of the wounded refused to be taken to
the hospital in ambulanceS. They feared
that the Black Hundreds would invade
the hospital and attack them there:
During this attack, which lasted for.
several hours, the police were impasslve
spectators and made no arrests. The
Union of Russian People passed reSo-
luton this evening to annihilate, with the
assistance of Cossacks. the members OF
the Jewish self-defense organization.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
Burglars Shoot a Policeman.
SEA RATE CUTTING
RAPIDLY SPREADS
Cunard Line Announces It Will Meet
Reduction of It's Competi-


LIVERPOOL, Sept. 2.-The Cunard
line has issued an official statement to
the effect that it will be obliged to follow
the example of its competitors and re-
duce its eastward Atlantic fares. This
action had been expected, as otherwise,
with all the lines running from the con-
tinent to channel ports accepting lower
rates. much of the Liverpool traffic might
have been diverted.
The situation is regarded as serious.
The most interesting question is, will
the Cunard lines competitors make fur
Their reductions. There is little doubt
that while the rate cutting at present is
limited to the American eastward traffic
eventually it will affect the Canadian
trade
The American lines have been foster
ing Canadian traffic via New York and
Boston, and it appears that the Cana
dian lines will be obliged to reduce their
rates or else lose business to the Amer
lean steamers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
CONGRESS NEVER PAID.
Undertaken Still Holds Claim Against
the Government for Garfeld's
Funeral.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 3.-The
estate of William Il. Speare, a well
known local undertaken, who died last
ment in connection with the funeral of
President Garfield.
Soon after the Garfield funeral. accord
ing to Mr.. Speare brother of the I'M
dertaker, Congress passed a bill appro-
priating q sum of money with which to
defray all expenses. The bill carried the
provision, however, that the secretary of
the treasury should appoint a commission
whose duty it should be to investigate all
charges and require all those presenting
claims to file receipted bills for the full
amount. and with these bills a general
disclaimer by agreeing to accept whatev-
er amount should be awarded by the COM
mission.
The idea of sending receipted bill
to any one and telling the debtor that
any amount agreeable would be accepted
in full payment did not appeal to the
late Mr.. Speare's sense of business or
right. Consequently he failed to comply
with the provisions of the act, and the
bill was net paid.
Several attempts nave since been made
to get bill through Congress to pay
off Mr.. Speare's account. but none was
successful. Il personally attended the
funeral IN CIeveland,' said Frank
Speare, land much of the amount in
cuded i'll our claim was for actual cash
outlay. In one instance | had to pay
$500 i'll Cleveland for cloth for sashes
for the pallbearers.'
Mr.. Speare would not indicate what
action, if any, he proposed to take to
press the claim against the government.
His only recourse, he believes, is in get
ting relief from Congress.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
CONTROL ALL CIRCUSES.
Ringing Brothers Purchase the Barnum
& Bailey Show and Are Now Mas.
tiers of the Tent Business.

CHICAGO. Ill.,, Sept. 81 Special. i
With the ending of the present season,
six weeks away, Ringing Brothers, the
five boys who started out with one rail
road show i'll 1890, Will control practical
~ the whole circus business in tie
United States and, as the circus is dis
tinctiyely an American institution, that
will mean all of the great tent shows
i'll the world.
1t became known today that nCgotIa-
lions for the purchase of the Barnum Il
Bailey interests. which had been quietly
under way for some time, had been
closed. With the shows under the
name of the original circus man, L. T.
Barnum. goes the ownership of Buffalo
Bills Wild West show. and us the Ring
Ings already controlled Adam Fore
paugh and Sells Brothers shows. ii
glance shows that all of the big enter
priScS are in their list.
The Barnum x Bailey interests and
the Buffalo Bill show as well-the latter
has been owned by the former-werc
purchased by the RinglingS from Mrs.
James \. Bailey, controlling owner.
General offices of the Ringing shows
will be maintained in Chicago. This
city is regarded as center from which
the management may best handle its
several collections of beasts, freaks, and
performers.
While plans for next season have not
H-cen fully formed. the invasion of Eu-
rope. which already has given the warm
est sort of Il welcome to the great
AmericaG three rings, is Il settled
th'n:r
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
BURN JOSS TO LIBERTY,
Chinese Sailors Believe Statue in New
York Harbor Divine-Make $50
Stick Offering.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-Mistaking the
statue of liberty in the harbor here for
the American mo. l top side joss
thirty-seven Chinese sailors, who visited
this port for the first time last evening.
burned $50 joss sticks III reverence be
fore the strange shrine.
When the Warrack liner Braemer,
from China and Japan, slipped through
the dusk to anchor below Liberty island,
Wah Yu, oldest of the Chinese crew,
rushed aft and chartered down the hatch.
A few seconds later the thirty-seven
Cinnamon piled out Oh deck in an eX-
cited state.
They lined up at the port rail while
Wah Yu disappeared in the direction of
the Temple which they had rugged up
in the stern and where joss sticks are
kept continually burning. After short
interval, Wah Yu appeared carrying
many joss sticks. These he distributed
among the crew, pointing impresSlvely
meanwhile in the direction of the statue
of liberty, looming large i'll the sunset
glow.
Wah Yu. the venerable one, as the
oldest on board, had been assigned as
priest for the crew. Wah 1u appeared
with light, and soon all the Cinnamon
burning.
Him number one top side joss" said
Hi Yen, the quartermaster known to the
English officers as "Juggins," as he an
swered the look of inquiry in Capt Sax
by's eyes and pointed toward the statue
of liberty. Then it came out that tAe
Cinnamon, believing that Bartholdi' s.
statue was the American god. had gath
cred upon the deck to do honor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
Says America Must Hump"
BET WITH A TELESCOPE,
Gotham Gamblers Use Ingenious Method
to Get Racing Results from
Sheepshead Bay.

NEW YORK, Sept. "a wireless
outfit which, the police believe, was used
for transmitting racing news to the pool
rooms of New York city, was seized in
Il cottage near the Sheepshead Bay race
track yesterday. Two men We're arrest
ed III the apartment.
The fact that the race track managers
withheld racing news for Il stated period.
has led to many ingenious schemes to
get the coveted information.
The wireless method was the latest.
\ cottage overlooking the track was
hired and experts, with the air of a
powerful telescope collected such infor-
nation as was desired. AS the tele-
phone and telegraph wires in the track s
vicinity was closely guarded, the wire
less system was reSorted to.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
SWEDE PRINCE LAVISH.
Gives Doorman 500 at Hotel Astor and
Other Attendants Also Receive
Large Sums.

NEW YORK. Sept. 3.-From ali ac
counts Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, dur
ing his week S stay here was as generous
with his tips at the Hotel Astor as Gen.
Baron Kuro1i of Japan was when he
stayed at the same hotel about two
months ago If reports be true the man
who opens carriage doors at the main en-
trance of the hotel, received in all about
500 in gratuities from Prince Wilhelm.
A head waiter received 500 after din
ner given by the prince to some friends,
the chambermaid who took care of the
princes suite of rooms received $50 and
bell boys, elevator men and other attend
ants from So to $50 each.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
NOTED JURIST IS DEAD
FORMER JUDGE JOHN JAY JACKSON
EXPIRES.
Became Famous for Strike Writs During
Miners Struggle in Virginia
in 1902

ATLANTIC CITY, n. Y, Sept. B
Former United States Judge John Jay
Jackson. whose wholesale Imprisonment
of organizers and agitators during the
Virginia miners strike Of 1902 angered
the labor unions of the country, dropped
dead of heart disease here yesterday
The ex-judge celebrated his eighty
third birthday anniversary on August
and came here for his health three weeks
age. His body will be taken TO his birth
place, Parkersburg, w. Va, for burial:
Judge Jackson was appointed a district
federal judge by President Lincoln in
1861. For forty-one years he served
as jurist, with nothing special IN such
service to bring him to public attention.
Then he issued an injunction writ cover
ing every conceivable act Of striker
during q strike. when such act can be
construed as intimidation either covert or
open. The writ made him famous, ana
it was the opinion of many notable men
on the bench that Judge Jackson had
gone further in his restraint of strikers
than they dared, although they deemed
his construction of the law sound.
Judge Jackson was the son OF Gen:
John Jay Jackson. He was graduated
from Princeton in the class of 1916. He
became ready and effective speaker.
He was a cousin of "StonewalF" Jack
son. with whom he took issue on war
topics long before the great conflict be-
gan. He was a man of massive frame,
and with his long white beard and pierre
ing glance was notable figure on the
bench for many years. While labor or
CARNATIONS generally condemned his
strike writ of 1902. it was nevertheless
conceded that Judge Jackson was a
thoroughly conscientious man. fully be-
ieving that law and right We're rs he
annunciated them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
GIVES UP HER HUSBAND.
Wife of Artist Willing He Divorce Her
to Wed Woman He Now
Says He Loves

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Mrs. Ferdi-
nand Earl, Jr., wife of the artist. has
surrendered her husband to woman lie
loves better than he does her
Wednesday Mrs. Earl and her little
son will sail for her fathers home in
France. At the pier TO bid her goodbye
will be her husband and the other
woman
For the last ten days Mr.. and Mrs
Earl have had the other woman as
their guest at their country place in
Orange county. With them also was
the other wsmans mother and brother.
Mrs Earl gives her husband to the
other woman willingly. She intends to
return to France and obtain a divorce
Then Mr.. Earl will marry the other
woman. She makes the sacrifice willing
because she has been convinced her
husbands happiness depends on it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
DRILLED PEARLS
CASE UP SOON.
What Is Duty, 10 Per Cent. on so Per
Cent of Real Value of
Gems?

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-The board of
United States general appraisers will
hear this month the Citeron and Tiffany
eases involving the question of duties on
collections OF drilled pearls. Importing
jewelers. and persons who contemplate
the purchase of necklaces abroad await
the outcome with special interest. for if
the government wins the duty will be 60
per cent. If the importers win the duty
will be only 10 per cent.
Explanation of Duty
The necklace question has worried inn
pOrters and people who buy pearls
abroad for the last six or eight years
The tariff law Imposes a III per cent
duty on pearls in their natural condition,
not set nor strung. The claim for a so
per cent. duty is imposed by the So
called jewelry clause of the tariff. y
completed necklace, it is admitted, is an
article of jeWelry, and the government
asserts that even though the pearls of
necklace are temporarily unstrung and
imported i'll that condition they are dutl-
able at 60 per cent.
Pearls of Immense Value.
The Citeron necklace is valued abroad
at S22O,61O, and the governments claim
of additional duties on it amounts to
$110,335. The pearls were brought to
New York by Bernard Citeron, who de-
livered them to Mrs. William B. Leeds.
The Tiffany pearls were selected in
Paris i'll 1902 by Morris Guggenheim,
the executive officer of the American
Smelling and Refining company. The
valuation abroad was Sl6,244, and as
10 per cent i'll duties was paid, the suit
is to recover upward of $4,000.
Whichever way the general appraisers
give their decision there will be an APP
peal to the courts, but the boards ruling
will be looked upon as important in at
fecting the practice while the litigation
Is in progress.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
MINNESOTA ROADS
FIGHT 2 CENT FARE.
Corporations Ask Injunction Restraining
Enforcement of the New
Rate Law.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept 3.-Judge
William Lochren in the United States
district court today began hearing az
guments in the matter of application of
the stockholders of the railroads operat-
ing i'll Minnesota for Il temporary lnJunc-
ton restraining the state from attempt
ing to enforce the commodity rates con-
tanned in a law passed by the Legisla-
ture last winter, and the 2-cent passcll-
ger rate law and the merchandise rates
ordered by the railroad and warehouse
commission last year.
Question of Injunction.
The hearing today is on the application
for a temporary injunction pending the
final judgment. Some time ago Attorney
General Il. Il. Young entered motion TOR
the dismissal OF the suit as against him
Oh the ground that by making him a
party defendant the suit was in fact
against the state and hence against the
constitutional provision exempting the
state from being sued without it's con-
sent. This motion Judge Lochren denied
and the case now comes up on the ques-
ton of the issuance of the preliminary in
Junction.
On this hearing it devolves upon the
compliments to make out a prlma tacle
case. AffidavitS were presented for the
purpose of showing the court that the
merits of the case are such that they have
a reasonable probability Of winning in
the end. The hearing now is on the
sutticiency of the prima facie to entitle
them to the preliminary hearing.
The hearing is merely in the nature of
a preliminary skirmish in the great bat
tie. 1t is a most important matter owing
to the vital questions involved. The
question of the right of the state to regu-
late rates on traffic purely within the
state, involved in these cases, is the same
question which is now being fought out
in the courts in other states.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-06
HELD ASBLACKMAILERS
Police Capture Three Italians After
Street Battle-One Leaps Vainly
Through Car Window

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Caught tax
ing $500 from Giro Annoni, a wealthy
barber. whom they threatened with
death. three Italians. believed to be ring
leaders of the BLACK Hand were cap
tured today by detectives, after wild
fight on a trolley car on Second avenue,
in which one of the Italians was shot
while diving through the car window in
a final effort to escape Annoni has for
more than year been receiving letters
demanding $500. He was told that his
place would be blown up and his family
aRnihilated lAnnehi Informed the police.