Late Telegraph News
CALCUTTA, Jan. 15.—The High
Court of Allahabad has emphasized
its condemnation of the practice of
"sutee”—the burning of a widow
on her husband's funeral prye—
by increasing the sentences of two
of the relatives of a woman who
thus recently sacrificed herself. She
was the widow of a wealthy Brah
man and, according to the ancient
rite, which has been prescribed by
the Indian government since 1829,
caused herself to be burnt alive on
his pyre in the presence or tne
whole village, her relatives assisting
at the ceremonies. Five of the
later were arrested on the charge
of “abetting suicide” and were sen
tenced to imprisonment by the trial
court. In their appeal to the high
court they failed to substantiate the
defense that the fire was lighted by
supernatural means, the flames de
scending from Heaven, and the ap
peal was promptly dismissed and
■ the increased sentence imposed.
HOUGHTON, Jan. 15.—President
Moyer and 38 other officials of the
Western Federation of Miners have
been indicted by a county grand
jury on a charge of conspiracy.
The indictments are the outcome
of the federal grand jury investiga
tion of the assault made on Moyer
at Hancock when he was made the
victim of violence at the hands of
gunmen hired by the Citizen's
Alliance.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The
‘ Mexican government has given for
mal notice through O'Shaughnessy,
the American representative, that
the nation would be unable to pay :
the annual interest on the national
debt. Payment has been suspended
indefinitely.
The national debt of Mexico be
fore the war began three years ago
was more than $225,000,000. with
an annual interest of $14,500,000,
and total revenues of only $55,-!
000.000. No figures of the national ’
debt have been published since the
war began. The country is bank
rupt and is unable to secure further
leans. The loan which was said
to have been negotiated in Paris to
pay off the soldiers has failed to
materialize.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Richard
D. Lankford, vice-president of the
Southern Railroad company com
mitted suicide in his home last
night. Deceased was engaged to:
marry Miss Nellie Patterson, of
Brooklyn, and the wedding was to
have taken place next Saturday. The
cause of the suicide is a mystery as
Lankford was prosperous and ap
peared to enjoy the best of health.
VANCOUVER. B. C., Jan. 16.—J.
D. Sword, who is extensively inter
ested in quartz mining in British
Columbia, was drowned last night.
He has been in the interior looking
after his interests and was en route
home. W’hile trying to cross a river
on horseback the animal was swept
from its feet and carried down
stream. Parties are searching the
banks of the river for the body. He
was rated as a millionaire. '
SEATTLE. Jan. 16. — Former
Mayor Hi Gill who was made the
subject of a recall by the electors
of the city and was afterwards badly
defeated when he again sought office,
has again filed notice of his candi
dacy for the mayorality. The Times
i8 supporting Gill again.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The
new federal industrial commission
today met for its second full-board
session. Work already undertaken
includes an investigation of health
conditions among workers, with
the co-operation of the public health
service. Plans for the coming year
were to be taken up in today’s ses
biuu.
SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—Beryl Bell,
a girl who has been working in a
laundry, was run over and instantly
killed by an auto being driven by
S. W. Boswell a realty dealer. The
accident attracted a big crowd ahd
only the arrival of police kept the
driver from being roughly handled.
Boswell was so drunk that he was
enable to give any account of the
accident when he was taken to the
police station. He is being held
without bail pending the finding of
the coroner's jury.
SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—The State
Bank at Granite Falls, a small town
In the Cascade mountains, was held
*ip and robbed by bandits. The
robbery took place shortly after the
bank had opened business this
looming. The robbers secured
$1,500 in currency but did not
Lave time to empty the safe. They
escaped to the mountains and are
now being followed by deputies.
The sheriff has wired for blood
hounds to enable his men to follow
the bandits as he believes they haTe
a camp in the Cascades.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 16.—the Brit
ish submarine A-7 while maneuver
ing in the sound failed to come to
the surface and it is feared that all
or. board have perished.
TOKIO, Jan. 16.—The commander
of the naval squadron v.ho is in
charge of the rescue work in the
earthquake district estimates that
the dead on Sakura island alone will
number 7,000. The stricken resi
dents are being taken from the
island as it is covered several feet
deep with ashes. The shore of the
gulf near Kogshima is strewn with
the bodies of those who were
drowned while trying to swim across
when the earthquake was at its
| severest.
| CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Isaac O. Jor
! dan, a wealthy clubman and son-in
law of Judge Peter S. Grosscup,
killed himself in the parlor of the
Palmer House last night. His wife
recently- secured a divorce on the
grounds that he was intemperate.
He has been on a spree for more
than a month and was under sur
veillance by his friends as he had
threatened suicide.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 17.—
General Bliss. commanding the
troops on the Texas border, has
notified the department that his
men have arrested General Salazar,
the Mexican general. The message
also conveys the information that
refugees have reported the death of
General Orozco, the rebel leader.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.—
Blanche Wood. 24 years of age and
of striking appearances, shot her
self yesterday in the presence of
her uncle, A. B. Wood. Police were
summoned and while they were
present the grief stricken relative
seized the revolver and sent a bul
let through his brain.
SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—The schoon
er Grams, with six members of the
crew, have arrived in tow of the
tug Goliath. The revenue cutter
Snohomish, with the captain and
five members of the crew who left
has reported at Port Townsend.
SANTA BARBARA. Jan. 19.—F.
Lewis Clark, the Spokane million
aire mining man, is believed, to
have committed suicide here yes
terday. His coat and hat were found
at. a place which indicates that he
may have jumped from the cliff.
Mystery surrounds the finding of
the articles as the man who wore
them registered at a hotel under
another name and shortly after
disappared. Papers in the coaV iden
tifies it as the property of Clark.
The police have wired Spokane for
particulars.
CAPETOWN, Jan. 19.—The rail
way strike was brought to a sudden
close yesterday when the operating
force decided to resume work and
trust their case to arbitration. Traf
fic has been tied i»p for more than
a week, only mail trains being oper
ated under government supervision.
The men were striking for better
wages and a recognition of their
union.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 19.—All hope
has been abandoned of saving the
lives of the crew of the submarine
A-7 which stopped on the bottom of
the sound while being tested and
failed to come to the surface. No
signals have been answered since
Saturday morning and the crew of
11 men have undoubtedly perished.
iTorts are being made to bring i-e
submarine to the surface to ascer
tain the cause of the disaster. The
officers signalled that the machin
ery of the vessel was out of com
mission when she failed to come to
the surface and reported “all safe”
but no more messages have been
received.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 13.—Thirteen
members of the crew of the schoon
er Puller Palmer were rescued from
the ship when in a sinking condi
tion off Cape Cod by .the- steamer
i'Mariaia. *The fcre\v we’re exhausted
from their long battle to keep the
leaking schooner afloat.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.—
Formr Senator George Turner, of
Washington state, has resigned
from the International boundary
commission and left for his home in
Spokane last night. He will enter
the senatorial race. He is a repub
lican in politics but was elected to
the senate for the 1897-1903 term
by the People’s Party, a fusion of
the Silver Republicans, Democrats
and Populists.
SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—Four Mexi
can revolutionists, who liave been
serving sentences in McNeil’s for
depredations committed along the
border, were liberated this morning
and will be sent south to Texas.
They are Richardo Magon, A. F.
Figuerora, Enrique Magon and
Librado Rivera. They say that they
will join the forces under General
Villa, at Ojinaga.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 19.—
The organization committee for the
government regional banks, depart
ed for the western cities last night
to begin taking testimony to deter
mining where the reserve banks will
be located. The board expects to
begin its labors in California and
will then go to Seattle. There are
only 12 banks to be established
under the system and nearly one
hundred cities have made applica
tion for reserve banks.
KOGASH1MA, Japan, Jan. 20.—
Three hundred more deaths were
added to the long list of casualties
as a result of the earthquake and
breaking out of the volcano on
Sakira island. Hundreds of refugees,
whose homes had been destroyed by
the ashes and stones thrown up by
the volcano took refuge in a huge
cave under an overhanging cliff
near this city. The earth has con
tinued to tremble intermittantly
since the shock which preceded the
eruption of Sakurapima volcano and
had caused the cliff to become badly
cracked. Last night the whole top
of the cliff gave way and crashed
down on the camps of the refugees.
Hundreds are known to have been
killed while many more are im
prisoned in the cave, the entrance
of which is covered with hundreds
of tons of rock.
PARIS, Jan. 20.—Piqued with
France because of the attitude or
the French Press during the Balkan
war, Bulgaria has decided not to
send her officers to France to com
plete their military studies as for
merly, but to send them to Germany
instead, according to a report which
reached here today.
SEATTLE. Jan. 19.—J. E. Chil
berg. the banker, lias announced his
intention of entering the race for
the state senatorship. He will have
the support of former Alaskans ir
respective of party lines as he is
popular with all northerners.
Alaskans will hold a meeting in
this city to boost his political aspira
tions.
FARMERS MEET DEATH
AT RAILROAD CROSSING
SEATTLE. Jan. 20. — Patrick
| Courtney and John Loncke. both
| farmers in the White River valley,
were instantly killed last night
when their rig was struck by the
fast Milwaukee train at a crossing.
The bodies were thrown a consider
able distance and the buggy
totally wrecked.
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ROME. Jan. 19.—The next of the
series of Eucharistic congresses
which Pope Pius has inaugurated
will be held at the famous shrine of
“Our Lady of Lourdes" France,
September 9th to 14th, 1914. The
selection of Lourdes follows the
many miraculous cures which are
declared to have been effected the
past year amongst the pilgrims who
visited the shrine.
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WASHINGTON. D. C„ Jan. 19.—
Great Britain, Argentine, Germany,
France and Portugal have accepted
| the invitation of the United States
to join in the naval parade from
Hampton Roads to Golden Gate in
celebration of the opening of the
Panama canal.
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A concentrator is soon to be built
at Latouche which it is claimed will
result in revolutionizing the copper
mining industry of Prince Willidm
Sound. A new system, invented
several years ago and which has
been subjected to the severest tests,
using fuel oil instead of coke will
be installed. It is claimed that
ores as. low as two per cent copper
can be handled at a profit by the
new system, and as there are enor
mous bodies of low' grade copper
cres on Latouche and other Prince
William Sound islands much will
depend on the success of the enter
prise.
At present no effort is made to
mine copper ores which do not give
returns of 8 or 10 per cent copper
in addition to the other minerals
carried by the ores. The w'orlc of
erecting the buildings and install
ing the plant w’ill be done by Mr.
Norberg who erected the concen
trator at Kennicott.
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20.—Rela
tives of railroad employes from
presidents down to the humblest
stoker and track walker on the
Pennsylvania railroad system have
to pay the regular fare when they
travel. *The order to this effect
was made applicable today.
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HAND BADLY TORN
WHEN GUN DISCHARGED
Eli Stephen, of Nutchek,, was
brought to town yesterday suffering
from a badly lacerated hand which
he received from the accidental dis
charge of a shotgun. Dr. Council
dressed the wound. The hand will
be somewhat cripple but serviceable
for the rest of Eli's days.
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G. W. Grennan, of Juneau, who
is interested in Claim No. 12 on
Bonanza creek, Shushanna, with
Judge R. A. Gunnison, will come
north on the next boat to go in over
the McCarthy trail with an outfit to
develop his ground.
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SANTA BARBARA. Cal., Jan. 20.
—Mrs. Clark, the wife of the Spo
kane millionaire mining man. re
fuses to believe that her husband
suicided. His coat and hat were
picked up on the beach on Monday
morning indicating that he had de
liberately committed suicide by
jumping off the cliff.
Mrs. Clark states that while her
husband had suffered some financial
reverses he was still a wealthy man
and had no reason to take his own
life. The millionaire cannot be
located by the police and a strict
watch is being kept along the beach
where the clothing was found in the
hope that the body will be washed
ashore.
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