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TWELVE PERSONS KILLED AND TWENTY-FIVE INJURED. • s ------ Accident Happened on Nickel Plate Road at Klshman, Ohio—Caused by Misunderstanding Orders—Passen ger Engine and Three Cara Leaped Over Freight Engine. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 14.—Â fast eastbound passenger train on the Nickel Plate road collided with a west- bound frelghuat Klshman, Ohio, near Vermillion, resulting In the death of 12 persons while at least 26 others wcro Injured, eight of whom probably will die. The wreck, according to the officials of the company, was caused by a misunderstanding of orders, or neglect to obey them on the part of the crow of the freight train. The Dead, Charles W. Pool, engineer of pas senger train, Conneaut, Ohio. Joseph Alexander, Newark, N. J. Frank Weaver, Findlay, Ohio. Nine Italian laborers. The Injured Include the following: John W. Long, Cleveland. Richard A. Long, son of J. W. Long. Louis Rheinbold, Baa com, Ohio. E. E. O'Hara, Findlay. Ohio. B. L. Kerr, Grafton, Ohio. John W. Murphy, West Haven, Conn. Phillip Baskima, Tiffin, Ohio. Floyd Turner, Ada, Ohio. John Dedtout, Tiffin. Ohio. Frank Phillips, Findlay, Ohio. Aside from the engineer, the men killed on the passenger train, riding In the smoking car and were mostly foreign laborers In the employ o f the Standard Oil company on their way from Fort Seneca, Ohio, to Brook field, Ohio. In charge of a foreman. Engineer C. C. Poole of the passen ger train, was killed on the passenger train while trying to reach for the air brake. His fireman saved himself by Jumping. The high speed of the pas- songer train threw Its lOMlfcnotlve and first three coaches over cm the engine of the freight train, teloscoping the smoker and the car following. Several cars of the freight train were splinter-, ed to fragments. Of the passengers lnt the smoker, none escaped Injury. Fortunately there was no fire, but the heavy Umbers of the wrecked cars pinned down many and prevented tnem getting out unUl assistance arrived. Doctors ere sent on a special train to the scene from Lorrine. When the trains came together, al most' everybody In the smoker was dozing. The sudden jar hurled them out of their seats into the aisle and the roof and sides oi the car seemed all at once to crush in like a paper bag, pinning down the passengers. The passengers In the second car were more fortunate. There the violence of the Impact was not so severe, though fow got off without cuts, bruises, sprains or broken bones. No passen gers In the sleepers were Injured. The men on the train who escaped injury worked hard to rescue the vic tims and .were aided by residents from the vicinity of the wreck. Some of the injured were placed In the sleeping cars while others were removed houses near the siding. Blunder Over the Time. President Canlff of the Nickel Plate states that from the lnformaUon in the hands of the officials the freight crew had orders to go'on the siding at Klshman and there await the passage of the passenger train. This done in time to permit the passenger train to go by. or a flagman to be sent out to protect thé train. Great Match at Spokane. Charles Neary of Milwaukee and \Kid” Goodman, the Boston boy, have been matched for a 20 round go at the S. A. A. C. in Spokane, for September 8. The directors announce that Eddie Quinn, matchmaker for the club, has closed the arrangements and set the date for the two little men to fight. In the selecUon of Neary and Good man, Quinn has made a wise choice. The Boston boy Is one of the moat clever little fellows In the business and any man winning from him will have to go a hard clip. Goodman Is managed by John Mooney, the young promoter who handled Honey Mellody. Non-residents should write to Man ager Quinn for seat reservations. Bottle of Kansas Water Is Used In Christening. Philadelphia.—The battleship Kan- sas, the largest war vessel ever built In the east, was launched at 12.47 p. m. Saturday at the yard of the New York Shipbuilding company in Cam den, N. J. The launching was witness ed by Governor Hoch Only One Person In 3000 Is Opposed whose daughter acted as sponsor for to the change—Scenes of Greatest the ship. Along with the governor was a christening party of 30 Kansans. An unusual feature of the launch ing was the fact that the vessel was christened with water brought from Kansas by Governor Hoch Instead of tho cuBtomary bottle of champagne. This was the first Ume that water In stead of wine has been used In launch ing a vessel in Lus vicinity. Governor Hoch of Kamsas made the suggestion and he made the announce- after the- launching that the christening bottle contained onljr wa- The Kansas Is a sister ship of the Vermont. The keel plates of the Kansas were laid February 10, 1904. She Is known as a 460 foot battleship and her con- calls for a maintenance of 18 knots speed for four consecutive hours. Her armament will be: Main battery, 'four 12 Inch, eight 8 Inch, twelve 7 Inch breech loading rifles; secondary battery. 20 three Inch, or 14 pounders, rapid fire guns, 60 caliber In length; 12 three pounder semiauto matic guns, six one pounder auto matics; two one pounder semiautomat ic three Inch fieldpieces; two machine guns of .3 caliber. These guns will be amply armor protected and well placed. Joy Everywhere—Women 8igned Pe titions—Member of Cabinet Makes Statement—Want a Monarchy«-' Christiania, Norway, Aug. 14.—The Norwegian people, in a referendum vote taken Sunday, pronounced in fa- ; vor of the dissolution of tho union with Sweden with remarkable though not unexpected unanimity. Of 480,000 votes, 320,000 cast ballots. The differ ence between the «total number of voters and the number of votes cast Is attributable to absentees, such as sailors abroad and others who are out of the country at present. There were scenes of the greatest irywhere. Thousands of NO EXTRA 8E88ION. Many Reasons Urged on President Against a wall. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aug. 15.—Not withstanding the more or less definite announcement which has emanated from various sources during the last few months, congress may not be called Into extraordinary session next November. Indeed, the Indications are now that no extraordinary session will be held this year. This statement Is made on the au thority of President Roosevelt hlm- He has not decided definitely yet and will probably not reach a de termination until he shall have- re turned to Washington the latter part of September. The chances of an ex traordinary session appear, however, be fading. Strong pressure Is being brought to bear upon the president to Induce him to call an extra session. So much Interest has been manifested In subject throughout the country that the president has received a large number of letters regarding It. Many senators and representatives have urged against an extra session. DEAD RETURN8 TO LIFE. Left for dead and stripped for post mortem examination, Louis Viele, an Italian, frightfully stabbed at Moines by a negro, astounded the hos pital corps recently by coming to life. The heart had ceased beating and res piration had ended when Dr. Wilbur Conkling Inserted his hand In wound which had been made by a razor, pinched the heart and awaited developments. Suddenly a shudder passed over the frame of the patient, the pale face became suffused with a swift inrush of blood, and thé veins and arteries began to pulsate. In five minutes the erstwhile dead was living and the physicians proceeded to sew the gaping wounds. Five Convicted of Turin, Italy.—The Jury has found five persons accused of the murder of Count Bon Martini guilty, with ex tenuating circumstances. Tulllo Mur- ral, the victim’s brother In law, was sentenced to 30 years solitary confine ment. The affair dates back to 1902 and PEOPLE OF NORfAY FAVOR SEP- ERATION FROR SWEDEN. women who did not have the right of franchise, signed petitions In the streets Indorsing the dissolution. In Christiania and other cities the total population turned out, everywhere wearing long streamers of the national colors and pictures of Premier Michel- One member of the cabinet said to the Associated Press: \The result surpasses the most sanguine expectations. The next of ficial steps will be taken after the storthing meets on August 21, when the result-of the plebesclte will be communicated to Sweden through the Swedish cabinet and the riksdag. The storthing will repeat me request that the riksdag declare the rlksakt In op eration and the union dissolved. The storthing will also express a willing ness to negotiate concerning the de tails of the dissolution. It Is the est desire of Norway to conclude the dissolution amicably. Norway never retract, but everything will be done to meet the wishes of Sweden other directions. ‘If peace depends upon abolishing the forts they will be abolished. Nor way must remain a monarchy; the people do not desire a republic.” DOUKHABOR8 GO NAKED. Men, Women and Youths 8tand Naked and (jnashamea. Winnipeg, Man.—Another pilgrim age in search of the Redeemer has been instituted by Doukhabors and the vanguard of the main body of modern seekerB of the holy grail arrived in Yorkton, N. W. T., and stripped them selves of every vestige of clothing, which they piled in a heap. After a brief sort of funeral i mony they set fire to the pile and burned every stitch before the local police could interfere. In the party were 16 men, 18 women and six youths anu they stood In the twilight unclad and unashamed. Sergeant Jungle of the northwest mounted police, with • a posse of redcoats, surrounded the fan atics and a fatigue party from the police barracks shortly afterward brought up a pile of rough clothing and blankets, with wfrinhj the imita tors of Adam and Eve were forced *\ dress. When this was accomplished the horsemen herded their excited and refractory charges together and drove them to the courthouse, where they await the decision of the bewildered federal authorities, whose wards they Will Pay Dollar for Dollar. Denver, Col.—The report of the < mittee appointed by depositors of the Western National bank to inquire in- thc condition of that institution gave assurances to the depositors that a careful Investigation bad been made Into the affairs of the bank and that tho securities of every character found by the committee gave promise- that depositors would receive dollar for dol lar and that the affairs ef the bank could be wound up within a year, pro vided litigation did not ensue. Discomfort of Envoys. Conditions at Portsmouth, N. H., so far as the arrangements lor the fort of the plenipotentiaries are peraed are far from satisfactory, and in any accurate reflection of evenU there it is Impossible not to take no tice of the complaints heard on all sides. The fact that foreigners do spot as Americans do has not been taken into account by the hotel mana ger, and little effort has been made to provide for their personal comfort Bullfrog, Nev., Ang. 17. — It is stated here on good authority that John Y. MoKane and his associates, repre senting Charles M. Schwab, have pur chased the interests of the Montgomery Mountain Mining oompany, taking in the Shoshone Polaris property on the northeast and the Montgomery Sho shone Mining oompany, .on the east,the Crystalling company, controlled by Sohwab, being the purchaser. The property, it is said, has been boi for $8,000,000. It is said the railorads have aooepted ' the ultimatum issueaTby the Brotther- ' hood of Looomotive Firemen and to 1 hsve signed the scale asked for by the ‘ men, thereby averting a strike whioh has'been threatened for some time past. I Midnight .Monday, was the time limit extends through the whole of Italy.1 by the firemen for the aooeptanoe of owing to political lntriguos. More than : their oontraot, the and railroads held 100 counsel were engaged In the trial, off until the last minute of the time which lasted many months. | limit that had been given them. nano, wmen ror me past ,two _ has practically decided the col- J OORT TELEGRAPH ITERS FROI ) championshipampionship of the Pacific ALL POINTS OF TOE GLOBE. The annual football game between ihe state universities of Washington and Idaho, which for the past years leglate ch lorthwest, will probably be played In Spekane October 28. Colfna, Col.—About 2200 sport thuslaBts came to Colma to witness the scheduled 25 round go between big fellows, Gus Ruhlin, the Akron giant, and Jim McCormick, the protege of John L. Sullivan. McCor mick was knocked out In the 18 th round of one of the poorest contests ever witnessed In this ring. The national baseball commission has decided that players who wilful ly break their agreements with clubs which enter Into contracts with them good faith shall be permanently blacklisted. The cycling world Is promised a big eat in the near future. Negotiations are now being made to bring about a series of match races /between Frank Kramer, tne sprinting champion of America, and Iver Lawson, who has Just returned to this country after defeating all of the greatest short dis- nce men In Europe and Australia. It Is stated that Ralph Rose, the phenomenal Young Californian whose record breaking performances at Mich igan during the last two years were brought to a close last spring by, his being deprived of his amateur stand ing, will enter Stanford next fall. Horsemen from all parts of the Pa cific coast have been attracted by the six $1000 stakes offered by the Mon tana state fair October 2-7. H. Chandler Egan successfully de- Tended his title of national golf cham- ilon In the 11 th annual tourney Chicago Golf club's links Saturday at Wheaton, defeating D. E. Sawyer of Exmoor, 6 up and 5 to play in the finals. Rumors that a baseball team will be placed in Butte are utterly without foundation. One of the greatest horse races of the year was run at Saratoga Satur day, when James R. Keene's Sysonby fully Justified his title of king of the turf in winning the Great Republic stake, worth $39,000 to his owner. Cleveland, Ohio.—Earl Kiser of Day- in, who first acquired national fame as a bicycle rider and recently as an automobile racer, met with an acci dent recently at the opening of the Cleveland automobile club's summer meet that may prove fatal. B. Bevan of Iowa state collegi* j will train the footballers of the Spo kane high school this season. The state university of Washington and the Washington state college will play their sixth annual football game in Pullman October 28. Vancouver and Bellingham broke all previous records In the Northwest league at Vancouver Saturday by play ing a 19 inning game. Harmon and Callff both pitched their game through. Harry Green of Spokane announces that it Is his intention to go Into base ball next year. Mr. Green will attend the meeting of the Pacific Coast league at Portland August 24, and it is un derstood that he has been requested represent Spokane by Henry Harris of the San Francisco team and by others well up in the management of the coast league. An effort Is being made to form an eastern Washington racing circuit. The Wenatchee fair is the last week In September. The Harrlgton race meet will take place the first week in October and the county fair Is scheduled for the third week. Wilbur has an annual fair and racing tour nament and an effort Is being made to have Wilbur choose the second week in October. This arrangement would afford continuous racing for a month at places not widely separated. Review of Happenings In Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week— National, Historical, Political and Personal Big 8outh Dakota Crops. F. A. Miller of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul railroad, has re ceived dispatches from correspondents in all parts of South Dakota telling of enormous crops. The crops harvested wllL be tho largest in tho history of the state. The acreage of wheat was increased by about 15 per cent and the average yield Is fuUy 60 per cent more than last year and probably; 15 per cent greater than the average,for the past seven years. ¿f Fear Attack on Americans. Soochow reports that the- American boycott is assuming a _ . cal' character. An. antlforelgn outbreak Is feared. Onjy the northern Cbjpese authorities arA sternly repressing the movement The viceroy oi .-Janklng ap parently is undecided what steps to take. Soochow has a population of 1,000,000, and it Is situated In the most populous district of China, 125 miles south of Nanking. Everett . . .. . ........................ Spokane -- — -• -- -- - Bellingham ............................. Vancouver _ ______ _ . . .. . . . Pacific Coast Seattle ............... Portland............ Tacoma . . - ------ Oakland -- . . — -- -- . San Francisco - --------- Los Angeles ............... American. :he ’ ¿inti- g a 3*1U- ....................... 600 ........................ 683 New York .. Pittsburg .. Chicago . Philadelphia Cincinnati Louis .. .........................705 ......................... 627 ........................ 670 . ........................663 ....................628 .. .. .376 .........................324 Brooklyn --------- -- - .............. 316 National. Philadelphia . . ......... — — — Chicago------— — — — — — Cleveland .. -- - ----- — — -- New York . . . . -. — -. — Boston -- . . . . — — ------— — Detroit .......................— Washington ----- -- -------- . . .400 SL Louis . . . . — — — — — .364 Mayor W. H. Belcher of Paterson, N. J., who disappeared more -than 10 days ago, leaving his financial affairs In a bad way, has been located at Stockton, Cal. A warrant h Issued for his arrest on a charge of embezzlement the Japs have asked for secrecy, and the Russians at Portsmouth prefer publiciyt An order will be issued by the war department shortly diminishing the term of service for army staff officers in the Philippines from three to two years and a half, counting from the time of soiling until the time of re turn. la this way the time during which those officers will serve will be two years and tour months. Shanghai.—The governor reports that the rising at Pu Chou Fli in the province^)! Chansi Is purely local. Waitei^Ferral, a prominent lawyer of San Francisco, killed himself Cloud, Cal., recently. The chief of ponce of Radom, Rus sian Poland, received many wounds from fragments of a bomb thrown at him recently. Mrs. Mary Genders, a widow 21 years old, has lost $3tnMJ from her safe deposit box In a Chicago bank, and has sworn out a warrant charging Charles C. Hammlt with the theft. Joseph Garron of Chicago returned home Intoxicated recently and his wife told him to jump Into the lake and drown himself. “All right,” said Gar- ‘T ll just do that,\ and although he was alive when taken from the wa ter he died two hours later. '.—The long list of murders resulting from the strike was Increas ed by the assassination of the mana ger of the Ulpoprau ironworks, who was shot down at hla residence by strikers recently. The latest discovery to be announc ed Is the discovery of pearls In the ECankabee river. In Indiana. Despite the sentiment against Pres ident Cornelius P. Shea, which has been plainly manifested at various times during the convention of the International Brotherhood of Team sters, there were enough delegates fa vorable to his administration his reelection. A freight wreck is reported on the Rio Grande road In the vicinity of the Royal Gorge, Col. Sunday, the day set apart for the holding of a national referendum on the dissolution of the union, observed as a fete day throughout Nor way. The International conference called by the sultan of Morocco to discuss reforms In Morocco will convene at Cadiz, and Senor Prendergast, former ly Spanish minister of the interior, will preside. October 2 Is announced as trial day for 24 packers and five corporations Indicted on charges of combining In restraint of commerce, accepting of bribes and interfering with govern- ent witnesses. The convention of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' alliance has adjourn ed after electing officers and fixing up- Atlantic City, N. J., as the place for holding the next meeting, in July 1907.. Madrid.—Telegrams received here from Seville, Malaga and Cordova re port that the agrarian crisis Is becom ing increasingly seripus. Wilhelmhohe, Prussia—At the cas tle here Emperor William received Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbus university, New York, and Professor Burgess, also of that uni versity. Caracas, Venezuela.—Congress has voted estimates to the amount of $11, the largest ever granted. The estimates Include $2.256,000 tor for eign debts, $2,600,000 for the army and navy, and $496,000 for public works. Prescott, Ariz.—Antoine Stenod, an aged German, recently stood over a charge of dynamite he had placed in an old pine stump and literally blew the upper part of his body into an unrecognizable mass. On account of the low stage of water only one side of the Morning Mill at Mullen, Idaho, is now being operated. This has caused a considerable reduc tion in the working force at the mine. Advices received at Victoria, B. C. indicate the reason of the dispatch of Admiral Kalagoa to the Siberian coast, with one squadron going to Kamchat ka, the other to Okhotsch Is that he is to seize tho Russian seal rookeries on Komandorski island, Bering sea, and Copper, off Kamchatka, and on Rob- ben Island, In Okhotsch Bea off Cape Penitence of Sakhalin. Killed Partner and Son, Then I Himself. Vancouver, B. C* Aug. 14.—Two Chinese merchants are dead and the of one of them Is dying in the hos pital, as the result of a tragedy. The dead men are: Fling Glng and Fling Sing, partners a tailoring business at No. 20 Can- n alley, In the center of Vancouver’s Chinatown. At 4 o’clock in the morning, Fung Sing started out on a tour o f murder. First he stmt and fatally funded Fung Lee, son of Glng, and then turn ed his attention to the latter. Having finished the family, Sing turnod the revolver on himself and sent a bullet through his neck and cutting his spinal cord, must have caused Instant death. MONTANA ITEM». Lloyd Boody, a boy 12 years of age, waa.drowned Monday in Tongue liver while swimming near Miles City. The Industrial association of Havre Is planning to hold a race meeting about the midale of September. Mrs. George Brown, wife of a well known rancher of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning recently. Saturday one Japanese was killed outright and three injured by a special train conveying Louis HU1 and other railroad officials, a few miles west of Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago has offered to give $25,000 toward the $100,000 endowment for the Montana College and School of Manual Art at Deer Lodge. The tax levy for the schools in Great Falls will be six mills, the same - last year. Of this levy, 4V4 mills will be for maintenance and 1}4 mills for Interest. Tired of living alone, despairing of attaining his ambition, Elmer Dore of Butte, swallowed laudanum and was found by his roommate In a precarious condition, but will live. The Elks all over Montana are look ing forward with pleasure to the com ing state meeting of that order at Ana conda, August 1.-18-19. It Is esti mated that there will be 2000 Elks in attendance. The Flathead county fair manage ment at Kalispell offers a complete housekeeping outfit to the lucky couple who acquire the privilege to be publicly married at the fair grounds during the exhibition this year. The doors of the Adams Dry Goods Co.\ one of the big concerns of Butte, were closed recently by the sheriff through the levying of attachment suits brought by a number of credi tors, the amount of claims being near ly $70,000. After deliberating about three hours, the Jury In the case of the United States against R. M. Cobban, charged with subornation of perjury In land cases, in the United States court, Sat urday afternoon returned a verdict of not guilty, and Judge Hunt discharged the case against him. There are still nine other charges against him. H. Gerry. Jr., general manager of the Missouri River Power company, has announced that the Light & Trac tion company property In Helena had been sold to J. a. White & Co., elec trical engineers and contractors, of New York. The purchase price was in the neighborhood of $500,000. It Is understood that the new owners will spend $ 100,000 In Improvements. Mrs. George Reese of Butte Is dead as the result of a peculiar accident While eaUng breakfast a piece of ba- rind gained access to her wind pipe and all efforts of physicians to dislodge the object were unavailing. An operation was performed but gave no relief. The patient died In extreme agony, literally strangling to death. The ailment Is said to be one of the most difficult ind dangerous with which medical men have to deal. Mrs. as 23 years old. Ferryboat Tank Explodes. South Haven. Mich.—By the explo sion of a gasoline tank on board the ferry Phllderya several passengers were badly burned, and a number who ere blown In the water narrowly es caped drowning. The explosion was caused by the ferry running so close under the stern of a. steamer in the river that the steamer's propeller tore through the side of the ferryboat, al lowing the water to pour into the en gine room and come In contact with the tank. Envoys Enjoy Sunday. Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 14.—Re lief from the heat of the past two days ind thé early decision to abandon the proposed 8unday session of the peace conference made relaxation . possible. The day was ideal from every point of view. The roads had been packed hard by the rains, the bay and ocean were smooth, and the air bright and crisp, making driving, automobiling, sailing and steaming all attractve. and all of th,ese diversions were enjoyed by vari ous members of the foreign visitors. Matilda Sorao, wife of a Naples edt- tor, is one of the most popular Italian novelists.