New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-19
MANY FEARED THE COMET
LaborerS StopWork and Negroes
Profess Repentance.
FANATICS PLAN SACRIFICE
Posse Saves Girls Life-"Comet
Insurance Peddled at
Capital.

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of the country will probably breathe freer.
Miners refused 20 work yesterday, South
ern negroes rushed to the stool of repent
| ance and father confessors heard unusual
tales OF evil doing. Minnesota farmers de-
serted their low-lying homes on the lake.
! fearing they would be drawn into the
vortex of an awful vacuum. Wisconsin
farmers pulled down their lightning rods.
In Oklahoma only the timely arrival of g.
sherir's posse prevented a human saeri-
| fee.
| In this city some East siders hailed the
| falling fragments of a burning balloon as
| visitation from the ethereal visitor, and
bartenders with an eye TO business did a
thriving trade In comet cocktails" Syzygy
cigars were also on sale. Qook it up in
your dictionary
In Washington a bright young man dis
pensed comet insurance" at 81 throw
in the very halls of legislation Who was
going TO pay who In case of complete an
initiation he didn't say
Aline, Okla, May 1S-Miss Jane Warfeld,
sixteen years old, was rescued from band
OF religious fanatics twenty-five miles
southwest of here to-day. Sheriff Hughes
of Dewey County had been informed that
the band known 1.-The Select Followers
had given out that their leader, Henry
lehman, had received a revelation from
God that the world was to end to-day fol-
lowing contact with the comets tail; that
the only thing that would avert the dis
aster was a blood sacrifice; that TO save
the world a sacrifice had been planned. and
that the lot had fallen to Jane Warfied,
Sheriff Hughes, with six deputies, reached
the dell in Glass Mountains barely in time
to rescue the girl She was clad in spotless
white with a wreath of white roses about
her head. Her hands were bound, and
lehman was standing in front of her with
long keen hunting knife in his hand.
About him were grouped his forty fol-
lowers
The sect came to Dewey County two
years ago, led By lehman, who is said to
be from Leesburg, Ohio, and a graduate Of
an Ohio university.
Washington, May 1S-An enterprising in
dividuaI whose name will be omitted until
he patronizes the advertising columns
visited the House press gallery at the
Capitol to-day with something novel in the
way of a business proposition. He was
seller of comet insurance, and he offered
a policy of s. 600 for 81 premium.
lie explained that gaseous atmosphere
would undoubtedly irreparably affect the
bronchial tubes of many who were forced
to expose themselves to to-night's air. he
painted other dire misfertunes that might
afiict the human race, including utter
humiliation. He was attracting a fair au-
dience until he spoke of annihilation, ana
then somebody asked him where he would
be if the humiliation came and where his
s.. 600 would be. He paused for an answer
and then admitted that he would leave out
the humiliation in his next spiel.
| Wilkes Barre, Penn. May 1S.--Thousands
| OF mine workers refused to go into the
mines to-day because they feared the ze-
suit when the comet struck the earth.
Meetings were held last night and this
morning and the foreigners were loud in
expressing their fears. Most of the Eng
| Iish speaking miners were willing TO work,
| but the foreigners were not.
Neenah. Wis. May 1s-Fearfui that tie
rods might attract dangerous substances
accompanying Halleys comet, many farm
! ers in this neighborhood removed the light
ming rods from their houses and barns to-
| day.
/ Duluth. Mimi. May 1s.-A temporary
! general exodus TOOK pldCS lc-ooy AipAi
| Minnesota Point, a long and narrow strip
| of land containing several thousand homes,
| situated between the finger of Lake Su-
perior and ST. Louis bay. reaching between
| Duluth and Superior, Wis.
Residents of the district have read with
/ misgiyings the reports Of the approach of
! HaIley's comet. The more timid declare
! that the point, situated at the apex Of Lake
! Superior and not more than dozen feet
| above the lake level, would easily be sub
! merged should the comet forming a
vacuum in its fight, drag tidal wave up
| the lake and sweep on into St. Louis Bay
Therefore the timid ones came uptown"
| to-day to await developments.
Stanford. KY, May 18.-Scores of negroes
professed salvation at all-night services
held in their churches here last night TO
prepare themselves for whatever might
| happen when the earth passed through the
comets tail tonight Fields were prac-
ticaIly denuded of farm hands to-day, for
negroes refused TO work and iocked into
| town.
San Juan. P r., May 1s.-Fearlng dis
! astrous consequences frenl the comet, hun
dreds Of Porto Rieans parade6 the streets
| of San Juan and other towns in Porto RICO
last night, carrying candles and chanting
prayers. Many Of them also spent a long
time in the confessionals.
A large number Of workmen failed TO re-
port to-day at the tobacco factories and
plantations. and pineapple shipments have
been curtailed because the laborers have
| refused TO work.
Pittsburg, May 1S.-At midnight tonight
| great number OF the many thousands who
! had spent the evening on the streets or
1 housetops went 10 bed grumbling, firm In
| the belief that they had been swindled. and
/ that Mr.. HALEY, of comet fame. was an
! impostor Pittsburg was unable to see
either head or tail OF the comet tonight.
True, Pittsburg had been warned by all
local astronomers that she would be un-
able either 10 see the comet tonight or 10
! feel the swish of the tail as it passed over
| the earth but that made no difference.
All Halloween records for crowds were
broken on the streets. Chief OF Police Nc
Quad gave orders to-day for his officers to
deal lightly with victims of comet crazI-
ness which. he explained, would likely be
akin 10 the Stiffness OF the Halloween
period.
Brazil. Ind, May 1s.-AIany foreign coal
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