The Alaska citizen., 1912-04-29
Outside Happenings of the Week for Quick Reading

that of the daughter of Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom Browns School Days"
 i NEW YORK, April 24. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, the young widow of the late millionaire, has collapsed completely under the great nervous strain resulting from the loss of her i husband and her own very narrow | escape.
 1 SOUTHAMPTON. April 24.-Three hundred fremen on the Olympic de- serted today at the moment the ship was due to sail declaring that the i lifeboats of the Olympic are unsea- worthy.
 ST. JOHNS, April 9. Captain Moore. of the steamship Mountem- pie. denies that his vessel was close to the Titanic at any time after the collision with the iceberg. He claims that the Mountemple was fifty miles distant when the signals for help were received, and that the ice was so thick he did not dare take his ship in the direction of the Titanic.
 
 liner Frankfurt, which arrived in port today, proves to be the ship which started to answer the signals of distress sent out by the Titanic, and then turned tail and steamed away
 The captain of the Frankfurt says that he was scared away by the Ice berg which was l20 feet high and 900 feet long.
 The dead bodies recovered from the Titanic wreck now number 204
 SOUTHAMPTON April 25. The Olympic still is at anchor here, be- ing unable to replace the firemen who have left the ship because her lifeboats are unseaworthy.
 NEW YORK, April 25. The body of Major Archibald Butt, aide-de-camp of President Taft, has been recovered from the Titanic wreck
 NEW YORK. April 26. The bod ies of Jchn Jacob Astor and lsidore Strauss have been recovered from the sea and embalmed and will be brought to this city, according 10 a telegram from the Mackay Bennett cableship
 " o->, Aplll 70. nt senate investigating committee this morning issued summons 10 the ofn- cers of the Mountemple and Califcr- nia to appear and show why 1t was that the Mountemple did not go to the assistance of the Titanic when summoned.
 WASHINGTON, April 26. OffI- cer Franklin of the Titanic is on the stand this afternoon
 POURTSMOUTH, April 26. The Olympic this morning preceded as far as the Isle of Wight. when fifty ideckhands followed the striking fire men ashore, and the steamer was ordered back to Southampton and the trip abandoned.
 SOUTHAMPTON. April 26 Elf ty-four of the crew of the steamship Olympic have been arrested for mu- tiny. The passengers of the Olympic have been transferred to the Baltic and Lusitania.
 OTTAWA, April 26 The house of parliament today voted Sl00O0 fer the relief of the survivors of the Titanic wreck.
 LONDON. April 26. = Immediately upon the arrival here of the stesm- CT Lapland with the surviving mem bers of the Titanlc's crew. and others who lived through the wreck, those on board will be served with subpoenas, summoning them 10 ap- pear at the inquiry which will be held by the government to fix the blame of the disaster
 HALIFAX, April ?. - The Can adian Steamship Company's steamer Empress of Britain, while on her way to this port, struck an iceberg near the scene of the Titanic wreck. For tunately it was a glancing blow. and the Britain sheered off and brought the 1900 passengers safely to port 1 LONDON, April 27. The sub scriptions of New York and London for the sufferers of the Titanic total $1 ,500 900.
 WASHINGTON, April 27 Ern- est Gill, the donkey-engineman of the steamship California, testified today before the senate Investigating com mittee that Captain Stanley Lord of 1 the California saw the Titanics rock cts, but refused to allow the ship to go to the Titanic's assistance. Captain Lord makes a sweeping denial of the charge.
 WASHINGTON, April 27 The testimony of Captain James H. Moore of the steamship Mountemple discloses the fact that there were two steamships and schooner with 1 in a short distance from the Titanic when she sank, but that they were held back by the ice from going to the Titanic's rescue.