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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
GOVERNMENT READY TO
 PROSECUTE BEEF TRUST

Washington, January 21.--The beef trust" so called is to be prosecuted by the national government The department of justice evidently believes its existence is leading factor in maintaining the high prices of fresh meats. The contemplated action of the departments follows and n- vestigation which has been conducted by it's special agents
 The contemplated action of the depart ment will bs the Investigation of it's agents reports and proceedings instituted at Chicago in an effort to develop crirn- inal action. The firms mentioned include Swift & Co.,. Morris & Go. and Armour & Co.,, all big packing house concerns, and all of whom it is said are interested in the National Packing company.
 The first three named concerns are com monly represented to control the national corporation for their own benefit. The aim of the government has been to ascer- tain the relationship between the several firms Individually and the National Pack ing company. for the purpose of deter mining whether they have operated to control the prices of fresh meats, which, have been going higher and higher.
 From the fact that proceedings are to be instituted the inference Is made that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
Fifteen Men Killed By Nitr0-GuceYin
 Explosion M 7ur1ns;

Fishlxill Landing, N. F., January 21- Fifteen men, three of them Americans, were killed late this afternoon by pre- mature explosion of nitro-glycerin in a tunnel which Is to form part of the great aqueduct which will carry water from the Ashkoan dam in the Catskills to New York city. Five others, terribly mutt lated, were rescued alive. It is believed that one of the workmen, carrying a torch, ripped and fell, igniting a fuse and setting off series of charges of ni- tro-glycerin. The contracting firm, R. K. Everett & Co.,, employs 15o men in all and the premature explosion indicated immedi- ately that there had been disaster
 hundred laborers rushed to the tun- nel's mouth, and after dragging forth the injured, set to work clearing away the rock and earth to get at the dead.
 As the nitro-glycerin had been purpose ly set to shatter rock, it did not damage the tunnels interior more than the con- tractors had planned. and after two hours work the bodies were reached. The scene was such as to preclude possibility of Identification except by a roll call of the
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the officials are satisfied they have a good case.
 One possible method of action may be that of suit to dissolve the company under the Sherman antitrust law as an organization operating in restraint of in- terstate trade
 Proceedings against individuals also may result. The investigations conducted by the department resulting in the deter imitation to proceed in the courts against the alleged combination had their incep- ton in an inquiry into the practices of one of the western railroads in making shipments for Morris & Co.,, which 1t has been charged amounted practically to re- bating
 These were gone into fully at that time and the conclusion was reached that while they could be readily regarded as improper, yet they had actually had noth- ing to do with rebating.
 The practices complained of, however, were discontinued.
 Promptly upon learning the decision of the department of justice to take action against the so-cal1ed beef trust Alfred R. Urion, head of the legal department of Armour & Co.,, one of the packing con cerns affected, left hurriedly for Chicago.
 MT. Urior had been in Washington more than week watching the developments in the governments proposed action, and it is understood he had some conferences with the Attorney General and the de- partment of justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
Death In AWtuI Form BIOtS Out LipeS As
 Train Goes Into Riper

the side of a steep hill. which is skirted by the river The forward part of the train passed over the break safely.
 The day coach, which was the fourth from the end of the train. was the first to leave the rails. The train was running at the rate of about f0 miles an hour and the momentum carried the cars down the hill in terrific plunge. About 9 passengers were in this car and 1t is practically certain that no one escaped.
 Two minutes after the first crash only the roof of the day coach showed above the floating ice In the river. The second- class car, the next in the train. smashed against the end of a culvert and was crushed like an eggshell. Some of the passengers were killed outright but others, caught In the wreckage, which almost immediately broke into flames. were roasted to death before they could be rescued
 The stanch construction of the dining car saved its occupants. It followed the day coach to the very brink of the river, but every one on board escaped with out serious injury. The sleeper turned over on it's side and down the embank- ment There were a few of the train crew in the sleeper at the time and they escaped.
 Every man who was able to stand re turned to the work of rescue. Snow was piled up on the burning cars and the train crew made frantic efforts in res cuing those pinioned in the burning wreckage.
 Physicians were hurried to the scene from Sudberry as soon as word was re- ceived that the train had been wrecked. A train was made up at Sault Ste Marie
 The injured were taken to Sudberry hos pital,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
TESTIMONY IN THE
 BLACK HAND TRIAL

Toledo, O., January 21.-A threat to kidnap some of his 10 children induced Fabiano Chincola, fruit dealer of Cin- cinnati. to give up s15OO, according to his testimony in the trial of the IA al- legged Black Hand conspirators here to- day. Chincola said that the payment was made in room over the saloon of Fran cesco Spedara, in Cincinnati, October IS, 1908, Spedara and Salvador Reggie, whom he knew, receiving the money.
 The threatening letters demanded $500. he said. but he could not raise that much.
 Francesca Canat of Cincinnati said he journeyed to Pittsburg and paid $4OO to some man whom he could not identify Baptiste Marcurio of Columbus, O., tes- tined that he received four letters from Valley City, N. D., each demanding $5OOO He paid $500 through third person, but could not tell to whom the money went
 Ignacio and Augustine Anarino of Co., lumbus, O., testified that they fled to Sicily after dynamite was exploded un- der their house in the spring; of 1908. They received another Black Hand let ter in Italy.
 E. F. Weber, banker of MeadvilIs, identified the signature on a letter to Salvatore Lima as being that of Peppino Galbo.
 D. c. Mason, postmaster at Dennison, testified that acting under the instruc- tions of Inspector Oldfield he marked 25 stamps with red ink dot on the let ter "o'' in the word "two' and gave them to the stamp clerk with instruc- tions to sell them to no one but Augustine Marfusi and the, two Vicarios. The wit ness identified one of these stamps on a letter received by Mateo Rino of Cleve- land. One count of the indictment against the IA defendants is based on this let ter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22

North Bay, Ont, January 21-Death in it's most terrible form plotted out the lives of at least a score of persons and perhaps two-seore persons were injured when four cars of Canadian Pacific passenger train on the Soo branch leaped from the tracks of the railroads, tore down a steep embankment, plunged through the ice-covered surface of the Spanish river, and submerged itself.
 Some were drowned and some crushed to death in grinding timbers. Most ter rible of all maimed and injured caught in the wreclSage of one of the cars were burned to death The exact number of dead and injured was still unknown here at late hour tonight, as telegraphic communication has not been established with the scene of the wreck, but accord ing to tales of the injured passengers brought to Sudberry. it was one of the worst catastrophes in the history of Ca nadian railroads.
 The train wrecked was known as No. ', en route from Montreal to Sault Ste Ma rie and Milwaukee. An official state ment given out here says that the wreck was probably due to broken rail.
 The engine, tender, baggage car, ex- press car and one second-class coach remained on the rails, while one second class, one first-class, a dining car and sleeper went down the embankment.
 The first-class car and diner went Into the river. The sleeper and second-class car stopped on tSe embankment, the second-class car at the same time catch ing fire.
 The wreck occurred about 37 miles west of Sudberry, where the tracks cut into
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD.
1-Graham to take Lloyd's place on cor
 Inittaa

1--Graham to take Lloyd's place on com
 mittee.
 Death blots out lives in wreck. Unionists gaining over liberals. Fifteen men killed by explosion. Boycott on meat is spreading. Legislative outlook is very poor. Government will prosecute beef trust. 2-Birmingham gets closer to Cuha. Cotton trading on better basis. Ensley receiving more poll tax. Wallace talks of oyster decision 3-Good roads will be an issue. Lang brothers captured in Chatta- nooga. 4-Editorial comment. 6-Young Mems Christian association fund now s145,S9O. NFrank M Briggs probably fatally in jured when struck by runaway laun- dry wagon.
 New comet seen in Birmingham. Anti-Saloon league will probably centralize warfare on O'Neal. Nesbitt returns from Louisville and discusses politics.
 Matters to come before Mondays committee meeting.
 Plans for 1910 make years outlook unusually bright. 6-Taft tired of delay in Congress. Senator Carter plans waterpower bill 7-Birmingham society notes. Dolly Dalrymple's department 8-Trade situation Is very healthy s-Stocks make substantial advance. Cotton goes higher without effort. Wheat advances on good demand. l0-General sportinx newA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22

Washington, January H.-(Special) 1.-The situation is admittedly serious with re- gard to the absolutely essential business of the House of Representatives.
 "This session of Congress Is likely to last until the middle of summer" said Representative Tawney of Minnesota, chairman of the House appropriations committed today, unless something is done about this privileged business of the House.
 Recently there have been several con ferences on this subject, participated in by Speaker Cannon, MT. Tawney, Whip Dwight and other republican leaders. It was conceded that things didn't look bright for the conduct of the business of the body within a reasonable length of time.
 A member of the Senate steering com 1nittee came over to the House today to see what was the matter with things In general. He complained to the leaders that the Senate was ready and Willing and waiting to take up the annual sup ply bills. After examining the House
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
THOMAS TAGGART SHOT
 WHILE OUT HUNTING

Natchez, Miss, January 2--Thomas Taggart, democratic national committee man, of Indianapolis, while with his pri- vate secretary. Harry Horton, was ac- cidentally shot in Jefferson county to- day. Two bird shot struck MT Taggart in the face, several in the chest and as a result of other injuries it is said the sight of one eye will be destroyed
 Details of the accident were not told in the dispatch received early tonight other than MT. Horton fired when a covey of birds was f1usned, the charge striking his companion, who was in the heavy underbrush
 Mr. Taggart was taken to Indianapolis for surgical attention aboard a special train tonight The train was chartered immediately after the accident The acci- dent occurred near Lafayette while MT. Taggart was hunting. The surgeons who dressed the wounds said they were not necessarily fatal.
 MT. Taggart was accompanied by MT. Bell, a friend of Indianapolis. on the hunt When covey of birds was flushed MT. Horton, another friend, fired from a thicket. Half the charge struck MT.
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Taggart, who himself was hidden from view in a clump of underbrush He was struck in the face, breast and right arm.
 r One shot struck under tho right eye and may cause an impairment of vision. The injured man was hurried to Lafay- ette and thence taken to Natehez for further treatment, accompanied by MT. Horton and Bell.
 Both men accompanied Mir Taggart to Indianapolis on the special.
 Indianapolis, Ind, January 21.-Thomas Taggart, who was accidentally shot while hunting in Jefferson county, Mississippi today, left his hotel at French Lick Springs, Ind, last Wednesday on a hunt ing expedition. He was accompanied by Joseph E. Bell, an attorney of this city
 For many years MT. Taggart has been a prominent figure in democratic politics in the state. He made his entry into pol itics in 1886 and since 1900 has served as the Indiana member of the democratic national committee. In 1904 he was chosen chairman of the.democratic national com mittee and served during the campaign of Alton B. Parker.
 MT. Taggart has extensive hotel inter- ests in this city and is principal. owner of the resort at French Lick Springs of Casino fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK
 VERY POOR IN THE HOUSE

calendars, he was convinced that busi- ness was in bad shape and that the up per branch of the national legislature would have to keep on waiting for some time.
 The above refers to the regular budgets, but the Taft legislation policies are even in worse shape It is declared to be the purpose of the organization senators to rush through the regular appropriation bill and adjourn. In the meantime the Senate insurgents are planning to shake things up unless there are distinct signs that the regular leaders are preparing to bring important measures out of commit tees.
 The insurgents are getting impatient because of what they criticise as the slowness of important committees. They take the view that Aldrich, Hale. ct al, are planning to let as little important legislation through as possible and cer- tain committees are accordingly piTeon- holing bills. Insurgents say they Will wait while longer and if there Is nothing doing they win move to discharge committees considering such measures as railroad regulation and postal sav ings bank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
Laughing at the Boycott.

New York, January 2l.-Representatives of Swift & Co.,, Morris & Co.. and the Cudahy Co.,, declined to be quoted con- corning the "no-meat' movement in New York but took the attitude of laughing the whole matter of. Retail dealers, however. said the boycott seemed all ready oh. Their sales had fallen off 50 per cent in the past fortnight.
 Joseph Conron, president of large firm of wholesale dealers. said:
 "All the food products are high but the whole thing Is natural. When the supply increases the prices will go down. Prices are not artificial and cannot be in this business The meat is killed ono week and sold the next. How can you hold up that kind of market?'
 On the other hand, representative deal CTS spoke in part as fellows:
 The price of beef has never been so high for so long. Years ago when beef was high the people bought eggs or poultry. They cannot do that now when roasted chicken brings 20 cents. eggs 4e and soup fowls 12 to IA cents.
 Buying has fallen off just one-half. It will fall farther if prices do not go down. Pork is phenomenally high and f, looks as if 1t would go higher. Pork tenderloins are % cents the wholesale, and s5 cents the retail. If the situation continues many dealers will be forced out of business and the trust will run In it's own shops.
 we are simply clerks for the trust nOw n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
Coal Mine Properties Merqed.

Nashville. Tenn, January 2l.-A com pany of capitalists composed chiefly of Tennessee men. has just completed a merger of coal mining properties which becomes the second largest coal company in western Kentucky. The new concern has a capital stock of $l,5oO.00O. It will be incorporated under the name of the Elk Valley Consolidated Coal company. The properties purchased and merged are the Wiciffe mine at Browder, the Elk Valley and the Diamond mines at Elk Valley and the Louisville and Atlanta mine at Drakeeboro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22

firms employees, and the list of f0Ss aad not been announced tonight. TIA sere exactly 20 men in the squad. SD sver. and five wounded are accountfs H and although the tangled mass o68 aanity was so grewsome as to make & uniting of bodies almost impossible, 0 fcertain that the number of dead z. not ex- ceed 15.
 The squad of 20 men who wess involved in the accident having drilled the holes and placed the explosive were trooping from the excavation 15 In all in the rear, 15 being killed, and the five foreigners in the van. As the five neared the mouth of the tunnel there was a terrific roar, the countryside shook and the five for eigners were hurled senseless to the ground near the opening
 Inside, however, death was instantan- eous to the men remaining there. Besides the three Americans there are among the victims Italians, Hungarians and ne- groes.
 The scene of the accident was near the top of a small mountain, mile and half southeast of Cold Spring, eight miles south of this place.
 The explosion today marks the first serious accident of any work connected with the aqueduct.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
Petitions Are Signed.

pittsh,,re. January 2l-Petitions piedg. ing abstinence from meat for 30 days be- ginning next Tuesday were signed today by hundreds of householders. The Iron City Trades Council which has G.oo members, Is waiting the word from lead CTS before putting into effect resolutions adopted last night binding the members to join the boycott.
 From all towns in western Pennsyl- vania. eastern Ohio and West Virginia come reports of like crusades. Butchers who have stalls in the Diamond market, the Central market house here. tonight held a meeting to discuss the outcome of the threatened boycott. The butchers were of one opinion in welcoming strict boycott, in the hope that it would force downward the price of meat on the hoof. One of the leaders, George F. Smith. claimed that whisky Is the real cause of high prices. He said
 '.The farmers will not raise hogs which he has to fatten with corn when he can sell his corn to the distilleries for a much greater profit than he could realize by putting it into hogs.
 Thomas Toomey, out of work, who was arrested for stealing $12 worth of meat from butchers wagon, will probably be released from his cell through the cru sade of the boycott leaders.
 My children must have meat. l have six children. 1 am not going to let them starve. l can't buy meat, but I can get it." he said today.
 The effect of the boycott, as the union men figure. allowing one pound of meat to each person. would mean that l5e,dC pounds less meat will be eaten each day than has been the case. In the 30 days the figure will be 135O0.000 pounds. Fig urng the price of meat at 15 cents c pound, the loss to the dealers in % days will be $2, ,025.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
HENRY PROVIDES
 FOR SUCCESSION

Washington, January N.-To meet the possible contingency in event of death of President-elect or vice president-elect before installation into office, Represen- tative Henry of Texas today introduced a joint resolution clothing Congress with complete power to deal with the success sion problem.
 The bill provides for the change in date of the presidential inauguration from March to the last Thursday in April, aS in the former Henry bill, which the House recently sent back to the judiciary com mittee, but it adds clause designed to meet one of the points of attack that re- suited in the temporary defeat of the former measure
 The clause directs that Congress either can provide for reconvening the electoral college to fill such vacancy or it may pro- vide some other statutory method as to who the successor shall be, as in the 1886 law of succession, under which the Secre- tary of State comes first and then the other cabinet officers in certain .succes- sion.
 ern markets. Tn addition, Dr. Melvin says that with the eradication of the ticks the southern farmers are enabled to produce good breeding animals and improve the grade of their stock.
 The supreme court will hear arguments Monday in the case of Alfred Dozier vs. the state of Alabama, from the Alabama supreme court. Dozier, an agent of the Chicago Crayon Co.,, was convicted by the supreme court of carrying on the business of soliciting orders for the en- larrement of photographs without license. He appealed to the supreme court. Att torney General Garber of Alabama has filed a brief in support of the state law under which conviction was had.
 Senators Bankhead and Johnston of Alabama and Senator Elkins of West Virginia called upon the Attorney Gen eral today in the interest of James L. Pugh formerly of Eufaula. a son of the late senaor. MT. Pugh wants to be the oitys new police judge and the Ala bamians are doing all they can for him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
Twenty Men Are Injured.

Paterson, N. J.. January 2l-Twenty men were injured here tonight by three explosions of an economizer in the boil CT house of the Edison Light and Power company and all the lights in the city went out Trolley traffic was paralyzed for time There was a panic in a theatre when darkness shut down on the audience, but no serious injuries result ed It was three hours before the v|y got back to normal conditions. The in- 1ured will recover. it is said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22

No Strike Is Threatened.
 New York, January H.-The announce ment today that the New York Central. the Erie and the Lackawanna railways had refused the demands of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen, including the conductors, was discounted tonight at the eastern headquarters of the trainmen.
 Although it is now definitely known" said Secretary F. K. Williams, that all of the railroads east of the Missis- sippi river and north of the Ohio will not accede to the demands. it should be remembered by the public that the roads and the men are working har- moniously and all talk of strikes is pre- mature if not foolish. Each road has asked for further conference which clear ly indicates that more money Is coming to the men. National officers will be here tomorrow and then more confer enoes will be held.
 J. c. Stuart, president and general manager of the Erie, and chairman of the General Managers association, said:
 Though their demands are too high to be considered now. the railroads. I believe, are ready to meet the men half way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-22
Montgomery Beats New Orleans.

Montgomery, January H.-In the second game of the championship series of the Southern Basketball league the New Or leans Young Mems Christian association team was defeated here tonight by the local association team by the score of A to 26.