The Chitina leader., 1914-02-06


Thursday last when SO lives were
lost, have filed suit in the federal
court here for $1,000,000 damages
against the steamer Nantucket. The
plaintiffs claim that the collision
was due to carelessness on the part
of the officers on the Nantucket
which failed to answer the fog sig
nails of the Monroe.
LONDON, Feb. 3.-For the first
time in the history of the British
Isles a school teachers strike is in
full swing throughout the county of
Herford. The teachers demand an
increase of salary equal to rs per
cent. The county is well organized
and all the schools are closed.
Lorraine, o., Feb. 2.-The will
of Charles Hough, 35 years old, who
suicided on the porch of the resi-
dence of 15-year-old Harriet Frye,
because she refused to marry him,
was probated here today. He left
his property to his sweetheart.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. 2.-The
late Senator Cullom's body was laid
to rest in the Oakridge ctmetery at
shutdown yesterday. He was buried
between the graves of his two
wives, Hanna H. and Julia Fisher,
sisters. When he was struggling
lawyer Senator Cullom married
Hanna Fisher who died in 1861, and
two years later married her sister
Julia. His last wife died on August
Is, 1909. The funeral was attended
by friends from all parts of the
state.
TOXIC, Feb. 2.-It has been
officially announced that Japan will
participate in the Panama exposi-
ton in San Francisco, next year. A
bill is now before parliament appro-
priating $1,000,O00 for buildings to
be erected as soon as the contro-
versy regarding the site is settled.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2.-Wil-
liam D. Haywood, leader of the
Industrial Workers of the World,
addressed a big crowd of Socialists
and Industrialists here last night.
He severely scored the American
Federation of Labor as hindrance
to organized labor in this country.
The federation had called the Indus
trialists rebels which he denied but
declared that they would get their
rights even if they had to arm
themselves and fight against the
paid hirelings of the capitalists.
DUBOIS, Pa, Feb. 2.-Much will
depend upon the convention of the
United Mine Workers of America.
District No. 2, which will begin here
on February "a. 1t is feared that
trouble is brewing which may result
in tying up the coal mines and
throwing thousands of miners out
of work. The operators claim the
union has been guilty of fragrant
violations of the working agree
ment, while the miners claim the
operators have been the leaders in
the matter of violations OF the
agreement The Central Bitumin-
Gus Operators association has
threatened to start suit against the
union and has refused to meet the
convention and make a new working
scale.
SEATTLE, Feb. Julius Rebel
sheimer, the clothier, ard a pioneer
of this city, suffered a stroke Of
paralysis last night and is in a
critical condition. He amassed a
fortune by investing in real estate
in Seattle in the early days. He is
also interested in several canneries
in Alaska, having a controlling in
terest in the cannery at Seldovia.
FALMOUTH, Eng, Feb. Capt.
Lorenz and IS members of the crew
of the German bark Hera, from
Chile, struck a reef as she was en-
tering the harbor here at the end
of her voyage. A terrific storm was
raging and the bark apparently
failed to answer her helm. The
wreck was witnessed by hundreds
of people on shore who were unable
to launch boat to go to the assist
ance of the doomed sailors.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. A.
Information has been received here
by officials from w. T. Lopp, chief
of the bureau of education for
natives in Alaska, which leads to
the belief that the Karluk, the
steamer belonging to the Steffanson
exploration party, has been crushed
in the ice with the loss of all on
board. A life preserver bearing the
mark 'Karluk" has been washed
ashore and picked up by an Eskimo
near Kavalina, on Kotzebue Sound,
Alaska.
NEW YORK, Feb. At has
been learned that Lord Strathcona,
the grand old man of Canada"
no deid recently left 100000 to