Semi-weekly herald., 1910-10-17
adjournment Saturday.


France and Spain today are menaced
by revolutions and reign of terror
and bloodshed is feared in both the
republic and in the monarchy.
In France the great strike of raf1-
road employees which tied up the en-
tire transportation system of the ma.
tion is rapidly extending to other un-
ion organizations, and government Of
for the impending revolt against the
government. Frances army is on q
war footing today and the troops in
readiness for fighting
In Spain, the anniversary today of
the execution OF Professor Francisco
Ferrer, the Republican leader, is ex.
pected to be marked by an outbreak
all over the country of the revolu.
tionary party, aided by anai chists from
all other nations. Spain Is an armed
camp and General Weyler, 1.-The butch,
er of Cuba" declares he will crush out
the first signs of revolution with blood.
shed.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 13.--The Phil.
adelphia North American wrote to
United States Senator Boies Penrose
last Monday that il he did not pre-.
vail upon Congressman Toler to re-
sign the Republican nomisation for
governor, that paper would print evi.
dences of Tener's alleged crooked busi-
ness dealings that would drive him
Off the ticket.
Senator Penrose was given forty.
eight hours in which to examine the
evidence. He failed to do so, and Mr.
Tener yesterday in Pittsburg refused
to get off the ticket and invited the
paper to publish its charges so he
could answer them.
The North American today publish
es the charges as being that John
X Tener is business friend and
associate of swindlers. convicted and
unconvicted. He sold his name as
president of a fraudulent concern,
formed and conducted by three men
the consideration they voted imme.
diately on the day he was elected was
salary of five thousand and fifty
| thousand in stock. BY the use of his
| name as president and director OF
the concern they have sold its worth
less stock to the public. The Tener
| corporation is capitalized at two mil
lions, the stock issued being based
upon worthless remnants of four other
corporations, organized and wrecked
by the same swindlers, who had fleec
ed numerous investors"
STARKVILLE, Colo, Oct. 13.-The
Starkville mine continues to give up
its dead. With eighteen bodies al.
than twenty others reported located
early today, the work of recovering
the corpses is being pushed with all
speed. 1t is now expected the bodies
Of all the victims will be brought
to the surface by tomorrow night
Eight corpses were found in the mine
yesterday, but were not brought tc
the surface until today.
According to statements made by
the rescuers, who assert that more
than twenty other bodies have been 10
Gated are not those killed by the ex
plosion which sealed the mine but
died from the effects of the deadly
afterdamp. The bodies are not main
ed lending color to the rumor that
the miners in the extreme end of the
tunnels in what is known as the "old
mine" asphyxiated while trying to es
cape. Those bodies were found near
ly four miles from the entrance to
five miles of slopes have now been
explored by the rescue parties.
PARIS, Oct. 13.-Five leaders of the
French railroad strike were placed un
der arrest this morning. This action
is in fulfillment of Premier Briands
promise to punish the agitators, who
he has declared, precipitated the in
surrectionary movement at the very
hour that the premier and NJ. Miller
and. minister of public works, posts
and telegraphs, were conducting nego
tiations looking TO a peaceful adjust
ment of the differences between the
railroad managers and their employees
The National Railroad union has
succeeded in thoroughly demoralizing
the service on the Northern and West
ern systems, but had less success on
the Eastern and Southern lines.
LONDON, Oct. 14.-English and
Irish coasts are covered today with
wrecks and grave fears are felt that
the hurricane, which is hourly in
creasing in violence, will claim the
largest death roll of recent gales. AL
ready more than $50 persons have
perished. Many of the big vessels
either foundered or have been driven
ashore, while numberless fishing
smacks are missing and believed to
have sunk.
Bodies are being washed ashore at
numerous places.
Sixteen passengers and sailors are
known to have perished in the found