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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-13
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COURT CALL.

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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-13
10000 DIE IN
TIDAL WAVE ON
YANGTSE k|ANG

SEATTLE, Wash, May 13.--News of
one of the greatest disasters that
China has ever known, q sudden tidal
bore in the Yangtse Kiang, which in
volved the loss of nearly 10000 lives at
Hankow, was brought by the steamer
Titan, which arrived last night.
a bore 26 feet in height flooded with
out warning down tho river. in the
middle of tho night, overturning thou
sands of junk. sampans and small
boats and wrecking some large river
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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-13
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The sudden tidal bore referred in
the above dispatch has previously been
reported by cable, but former advices
did not show that the flood was by any
means as disastrous as does the report
from Seattle.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-13
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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-13
Rapid Fire Chat.

After the reception the Governors as
sArnblcd on the portico Of the White
TIouse with the President and Vice
president. and the guests, who included
William ]. Bryan. Andrew Carnegie,
Jan,es J. Hill and Gustave Schwab,
where several groups Of photographs
we're made. While the group was being
fconttnued on second PageD
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-13
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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
|WllL PUSH TRIAL Of HAMS
Tx Jurors Secured to Try Thornton J.
Hams After Two Long Ses.
siOns of Court. =;

Flushing. N. Y, Dec. 16. - When
court adjourned last night after two
long sessions consumed in wearisome
examinations of talesmen, six jurors
tat in the jury box competent to try
Thornton ]. Hams. author and story
writer. on charges of being an access
Sorry in the killing of William E. An
mis-, an editor. shot down at the Bay
side Yacht club last summer by Capt.
Peter c. Hams, Jr., of the United
States army. The difficulty of secur.
ing a jury because Of opinions formed
became apparent in the examination
of talesmen, and Justice Crane decid-
ed that night session be held. JUS
tice Crane hopes that the trial may be
concluded by the end Of the week.
The questioning of talesmen by
Hams counsel indicates that the de-
tense will be based principally on the
proposition that Thornton Hams, fear
ing that his brothers life was in jeop-
ardy from the crowd at the club
house. drew his revolver and held the
crowd back. His act was one Of de-
tense. according to his own counsel.
John F. Mcintyre, counsel for Hams,
announced last night that Hams would
take the witness stand in his own de-
Tense. He will likely tell of those
events at Fort Hamilton which led up
to the separation of Capt. Hams and
his wife and to the tragedy. Mr.. Nc.
Intyre will also offer in evidence the
alleged confession made by Mrs. Clau.
dia Hams to her husband.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
KAISER INSANE is CHARGED.
Wilhelm Suffering From Acute Reli
qious Dementia. Saws Reoort.

gious Dementia, Says Report.
Chicago, Dec. Is. The German
press of Chicago has received trans
lations of articles published by. the
Dresdener Nachrichten, the leading
Conservative newspaper Of Dresden,
openl. charging that Emperor Will
liam of Germany is insane.
The publication AYERS that the en-
peror has an acute religious demen-
tia. According to the information the
editors claims to have from attaches of
the royal household, the ruler spends
many hours in bed daily reading re-
ligious books and making prayers that
are hours long. The emperor's alb
normal mental state is said to have
become apparent since the recent out
burst of popular indignation against
him. The emperor's refusal to grant
audiences to his lifelong friend and
counselor. Won Buelow, and his ex-
tTaordinary conduct towards men,
bers of his household Indicative of his
suspicion that all of them were in
some way connected with his humilia-
ton, are regarded as significant.
The charge that the emperor has
given most of his time to the contem.
plation of piety on his prie-dieu and
refuses to consider matters of state
has created profound sensation and
gives rise to guarded limitations that
the deposition of the ruler in favor of
some other member of his family is
not beyond probability.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
NEWS CT WEEK SUMMARIZED
Digest Of the News Worth Telling Cor
ccnsed for Tire Busy
Reader.
Washington.

The senate confirmed the nomina-
lions Of Luke f. Wright to be secre-
tary of war. and Truman H. Newberry
TO be secretary of the navy.
seventy.three public bills and $50
private bills were dropped into the
hopper of the house on the first day
of the session.
Tho secretary of the treasury re-
ceived through the collector Of Gus
toms Of Georgetown, ID. c., Il con-
science contribution of twelve 800
bills. They money came by express
from an unknown party in Chicago.
The secretary of the treasury trans
mitted to congress the book of esti-
mates Of appropriations required for
the service for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910. The estimates for
1910 total $S24,40S,9S4. which is $751;
900,C76 in excess of the appropriation
for 1909.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
Seizure of G',ard Ship by Dutch
Results in Violent Dem.
c1stratiOns.
CASTRO GROWING UNPOPULAR
People Are Hostile to President-Sev.
eral Seriously Injured ID
Ri0t-One Dead.

Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 16.-When
news of the capture of the Venezuelan
coast guard ship Alexis by the Dutch
cruiser Gelderland became known in
Caracas big crowd at once assem-
! bled in the Plaza Boliver and demon
started in support of the govern
ment.
Then a crowd Of citizens, including
a large number of students, went to
the Office of Ell Constitutional, the or
gan of President Castro, and INDUCED
in counter-demonstration.
The feelings of this crowd were
plainly hostile to Castro and to the
policy adopted by Acting President
Gomez, who has issued a decree plac-
ing the republic in state of defense.
Pitched Battle Fought.
A pitched battle ensued between
the employees of the paper and the
crowd on the streets. Many shots
were exchanged and the fighting last
ed for five minutes. Several men
were wounded and one has since died.
The police were summoned, and
when they appeared on the scene,
armed with rifles, the crowd dis
persed.
The news that the republic had
been placed in state of national de-
Tense against Holland ran through the
city like wild fire, and in a few mo.
ments there was an enormous crowd
in front of the Yellow House, the ex-
ecutive mansion, to greet Acting
President Gomez.
Speeches were made demanding
that all political prisoners be set at
liberty and that the existing govern
ment monopolies be abolished. The
threatened danger from without had
a double effect on the people; they
demanded measures of protection, but
at the same time they insisted upon
the termination of one of the most I'M
popular courses of the Castro admin
istration, the maintenance of govern
ment monopolies in the necessaries of
life.
Foreign Minister Paul replied on
behalf of the acting president. He
exhorted the people to trust Gomez
to solve the difficult problems con-
fronting Venezuela.
The hostile demonstration at the Of
fees of Ell Constitutional is taken as
an evidence that the unpopularity of
President Castro is growing in inten-
sity and is spreading among the peo-
pie.
.. Castro In Berlin.
Berlin, Dec. 15.-President Castro
Of Venezuela and the members of his
party arrived here last evening. The
train reached Geological Garden sta
ton, on the edge of the city, some
what later than expected, but it was
awaited by a dense crowd of people
who had gathered out Of curiosity.
Castro will visit DR.. Israel today,
when the question of an operation will
be decided upon.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
Chicago Police Believe Bomb
Thrower Designed to Wreck
the Coliseum.
WORK OF W0ulD-BE R{FORM{R
Plan to Prevent First Ward Ball
Against Which Much Opposition
Has Been Made.

Chicago. Dec. II - Two buildings
were wrecked and windows were
! shattered for block around by the
terrific explosion of bomb in I'm al
ley in Wabash avenue. near Sixteenth
street, last night. At first it was re-
ported that several people had lost
their lives In the ruins, but after
searching until after midnight the pc.
lice stated that they believed all had
escaped. The wrecked buildings ad-
join the Coliseum, where the First
ward ball, the annual revel against
the holding of which this year much
opposition has been made, is sched-
uled to be held tonight, and the po-
lice are working on the theory that
the unknown bomb thrower designed
to wreck the Coliseum in order to
stop the ball.
Was Heard for Mile.
The report of the explosion was
heard for a mile. The congregations
Of Grace Episcopal church and of the
Open church and guests of several
nearby hotels rushed to the streets in
a panic. A two-story frame building
at 1913 Wabash avenue, which ad-
Joins the south wall of the Coliseum
annex, Immediately collapsed and
took fire. The fire leaped across an
area and spread to another frame
building, which was also wrecked.
Properties of the Coliseum stored in
the two buildings added fuel to the
flames. Crowds of excited people, be-
lieving that the great stone structure
of the Coliseum had been blown up,
rushed to the scene.
intended for Coliseum.
That the bomb was intended for the
Coliseum and that it was an effort of
some would-be reformer to make i'm
possible the holding of the ball to-
hight, the police express little doubt.
Another theory is that the bomb
was thrown as another chapter in the
gamblers war;" which has been
marked by the firing of a series of
bombs. The First ward ball has long
been a source of contention between
reformers and the promoters Of the
annual festival.
Recently the pastor of a church in
the neighborhood sought and failed to
secure an injunction to prevent the
holding of the ball on the ground that
It was prejudicial to the morals of
the community.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
BLAST costs MANY LIVES
Twenty-Five Tons Of Dynamite Explode
Prematurely, Causing Death
and Ruin.

Colon, Dec. 15.-The explosion Sat
urday at Bias Obispo Of twenty-five
ton dynamites blast was the most Sc
rious accident in connection with the
building of the Panama canal since
the United States took control. A
thorough investigation, with a view to
fixing the responsibility, has been or.
dered, and already officials are taking
evidence and endeavoring to ascer.
tain the cause of the premature dis.
charge of the blast.
The dead now totals fourteen. That
many bodies have been recovered,
but it is believed that score or more
are still under the masses of rocks
and earth that were thrown up. At
least fifty persons were injured.
Train Has Close Call.
The death list would have been ap.
palling had a train conveying 500 la
borers passed a few minutes later.
This train steamed through the cut
and was barely out of view when the
explosion occurred.
For a distance of 800 feet in length
and 400 feet in width the Bas Obispo
cut presents graphic picture Of the
terrible effects of the explosion. The
whole hillside has been devastated.
the dynamite rending the earth in
twain and tossing huge boulders in
all directions. A ninety-ton steam.
shovel lies complete wreck, crushed
under the weight of falling rocks.
Every one of the crew was killed. All
the tracks in this section were torn
to pieces and are now covered with
tons of debris.
Hundreds Work Heroically.
The work of clearing away the
wreckage continued throughout the
night, but a much longer time will be
necessary to take away the great
heaps of earth and rocks in the,
search for the buried dead. Hundreds
of men were on the scene yesterday
working heroically to find the bodies
of their dead companions. Many evi.
dences are come across of the terrible
force of the blast, as here and there
paOSSS VI Au1udu uCSu duU UOuS are
turned over with pick and shovel.
Three Americans Killed.
The charge consisted of fifty-one
holes, sixty feet deep, and spread out
over large section Of territory. The
last hole was being charged by John
j. Reidy, an experienced powder man,
when it exploded. The others were
exploded by the conclusion. Reidy
was blown to pieces. The other
American dead include John ]. Korn.
steamshovel engineer, and ]. T. Hum4
mer, steamshovel crane man. Two
Spaniards were also killed and eight
West Indian negroes. The badly in
jured include B. H. Cole, powder man,
and Arthur Bassett, drill foreman,
Americans. The officials at the Alb
con hospital, where many of the in
jured were taken, report that they
are doing we'll, some of the men not
being seriously injured.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
THE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.

Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock centers.
st. Paul, Dec. 16. - Wheat - No. I
hard, Sill IA; No. 1 Northern.
$1.10 Ia; No. Northern, $1.0s 1-4@
1.os 10. Corn-No. 2 yellow, So $40
So 1-4c. Oats-No. white. AZ 3-sc.
Minneapolis, Dec. 6.-Wheat-No.
1 hard, Sill IA; No. 1 Northern.
$1.1O IA: No. 2 Northern. s1.os lao
1.0S ~. Corn-No. 2 yellow, So $40
50 lac. Oats-No. 5 white. At CSC.
Duluth, Dec. 16. - Wheat - No. 1
hard. SLIP IS: No. Northern.
Sill 10: No. 2 Northern, $1.o9 1.s.
Flax-$1.4o s-4. Oats-No. 3. 471-2c.
Chicago, Dec. 16. - Wheat - No. 2
red. $1.05 1-2@1.07: No. 2 hard. S1.05
@1.07. Oats-No. white, 4s@49 3.4c.
Corn-No. 2, GO 3-4@s1c.
Milwaukee, Dec. 16. - Wheat-No.
Northern, s1.oS IL; No. 2 Northern.
$1.o5 IL. Barley-No. 2. 62c.
Chicago, Dec. 16. - Cattle-Beeves.
$3.25@7.40: stockers and feeders.
$2.5004.60: cows and heifers. $1,000
$50. Hogs-Bulk. $5.50@5.75. Sheep
Natives, $2.40@4.4o: lambs, $3.750
600.
Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 16. - Cattle
Grass steers, $3.30@615: stockers
and feeders. $3D4.25; calves and
yearlings. $2.40@3.3o. Hogs-Range.
$5.10@6e5.
South st. Paul, Dec. 16. - Cattle
Granted steers. $4@6.75; cows and
heifers. $4@5; veal calves, 1880
6: good to choice stock steers, $40
$50. Hogs-Bulk. $5.25@5.40. Sheep
- Yearlings. $4.10@4.25: spring
lambs, $4.50@5.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
HAY WAGON cRusHEs BOY.

Chippewa Falls, Wis.,, Dec. Is. -
Richard Taggart. seven years old, had
a remarkable escape from instant
death here. He was run down by
horses hauling large load Of hay.
and his head became wedged against
the front of the hind wheel, causina
1t to stop revolving, and he was drag.
ged thirty feet before the team was
stopped. The driver. John Cornell
was arrested, but will not be prose
cuted unless the boy dies. H.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
GEN. FIRMIN ON BAND WAGON.
Is Welcomed at Port au Prince and
Urges People to Support Simon.

Is Welcomed at Port au Prince and
Urges People to Support Simon.
Port au Prince, Dec. Is. - The
steamship Virginia, with 11e exiles
aboard, among whom was Gen. Ante.
nor Firmin, arrived here yesterday.
Immediately upon arrival Gen. Fir.
min landed and was welcomed in the
name of Gen. Simon.
Gen. Firmin was driven to the pal.
ace along streets lined with cheer
ing multitude.
At the palace Gen. Simon, the pro-
visional president, extended most
cordial welcome to Gen. Firmin, who
at once declared that he had surren-
dered all ambition for political prefer.
ment: He urged all Haitiens to rally
to the support of the Liberal govern.
ment.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
Otherwise,

The reports published abroad that
the revolutionary movement has been
gaining ground in San Salvador are
declared absurd by the government
officials.
The librarian Of congress in his an.
nual report states that the number Of
volumes in the library at the close
of the past fiscal year was 1855, 00s.
net gain Of 101.160 over the previous
year.
Senator Gamble has introduced 4
bill to create new land Office in
South Dakota, to be known as the
Belle Fourche district, also to dis.
pose Of the balance Of unappropriated
lands on the Rosebud reservation.
A score of prominent artists and
aeronauts held meeting in New.
York to select design for gold
medal to be presented to the Wright
brothers in recognition of their signal
achievements in the development Of
mechanical flight.
Fifty-five of Ohio's eighty-eighA
counties are dry. Seven are wet.
This is the result of six months work
Of the present Ohio Anti.saloon
league since the Boise county option
law went into effect.
Segregation of the men and women
students at the University Of Chicago
has been pushed beyond the class
room. In the future goods will not
be permitted to live at lodging houses
where male students have rooms.
Zion City, ILL.,, long famous for the
prohibition within its precincts of TO.
bacco smoking, no longer claims that
distinction. In a record Of transfer
of property Just fled the usual clause
against smoking is omitted for the
6rst time.
A cable message which the dake Of
the Abruzzi Is reported to have sent
to Miss Katherine Elkins concluded
with these words: II will remembers
you forever" This cable message ia
believed to DO the last which will be
sent by the duke to the young won,
a.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
Sins and Sinners.

Charles w. Blow, manager Of the
American Linseed Oil company's
Grown works at St. Louis, shot and
killed himself at his home.
August Summers of Madison, Wis,
who has been working at Bronson.
Iowa, Vas held up in Sioux City and
robbed of s37. He was seized by two
men and overpowered.
While respondent, Nicholas Reed.
ing, Jr., son of wealthy merchant at
Hubbell, Mich, went into a store and
hanged himself. He was twenty years
old and his action shocked the com.
munity.
For "bootlegging" Frank Christian
sen of Storm Lake, Iowa, will serve
year and a day in the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kan, to which he
has just been taken by a deputy
marshal.
Mounted bandits raided an Ameri.
can shoe factory near Gomez, Palacio,
state Of Durango, taking several
wagon loads Of shoes. Rurales have
gone into the mountains searching
for the robbers
Will Davis, son of farmer living
near Murphysboro, ILL.,, was arrested
charged with being the blackmailer
who by "Black Hand" methods has
caused worry to many citizens Of this
| vicinity for six months. Among the
boys victim is his own father.
In the district court of Chickasaw
county, Iowa, Albert Ransom. charged
with rape, was found guilty by the
jury of assault and battery. John
Hinder, charged with grand larceny
from store at Iona, was found guilty
and sentenced to an indeterminate
term, not exceeding five years.
A feud of years. standing is beliew
ed to have been responsible for the
killing of DR.. Cullen M. Collangen, q
physician Of Trague, Tenn, who was
found MORALLY wounded lying on the
railroad tracks near his home. Sam.
Gus and JEFF Moody, brothers, are un,
der arrest charged with the killing.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-17
Foreign.

A bin prohibiting the use Of hop
substitutes In the manufacture Of beer
has been introduced in the British
house Of commons.
The Brazil senate has authorized
President Penna to grant the federal
guarantee or the Sac Paulo .cffee
loan of $75,O00.000.
The Nobel peace prizes have been
awarded to X. P. Arnoldson of Swe.
den and NJ. F. Bajer of Denmark, both
ex.parliamentarians.
The Sixth German Aeronautical
league has decided to hold information
al contests at Berlin and Cologne in
1909. The contests will be open to
various types of flying machines.
A strong plea for an exchange OF
professors in the technical high
schools Of Germany and those of the
United States is published in the
Berlin Techniker Zeitung over the
signature of Herr Weitzel. a we'll.
known Saxon engineer and treasury
official.
The statement of the London board
Of trade for November shows a de-
crease Of $36,1SS,0oo in imports and
$33,573,500 in exports. The decrease
in imports is principally in raw ma.
terial, while in exports it is confined
to manufactured goods, of which $780,
100000 is in cotton and wool textiles.
The French chamber Of deputies
has Endorsed the governments action
in relieving Of his command Vice Ad.
miral P. L. Germ'ntr, commander-ln.
chic Of the Ere l:h Mediterranean
squadron. because Of the publication Of
an interview in which Admiral Germi.
net declared that the warships Of
France were not sufficiently supplied
with ammunition.