1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
213 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Thirty-three miners were 
killed, and 17 injured in an explosion in 
the Browder coal mine near Drakesboro, 
Kv., February 1. There were 100 men in 
the two wings of the mine at the time of 
the explosion, but the 50 in the west wing 
were uninjured and escaped. Those in the 
east wing felt the full force of the explo¬ 
sion. One or two of the injured are in a 
critical condition. Of the dead about half 
were whites, all Americans, and the re¬ 
mainder negroes. 
Montague Henry Roberts, a chauffeur of 
international fame, has begun serving a 
sentence of thirty days in jail, imposed on 
him last December for reckless driving of 
automobiles in Southington. Conn., on Sep¬ 
tember 17. When sentence was pronounced, 
Roberts appealed to the Supreme Court; 
but Februarv 2 he came to Hartford from 
his home at'Bristol and said he was ready 
to begin his sentence, his appeal having 
been withdrawn. There is also a fine, and 
this will be paid as soon as his sentence is 
completed. Roberts has won cups in Van¬ 
derbilt races, and was the driver of the 
American car which won the international 
run from New York to Paris'. 
A total of 73 bodies has been taken out 
of the Faulau mine of the Esperanzas Min¬ 
ing Company in Coahuila, Mexico, where the 
carelessness of a miner February 2 resulted 
in an explosion that is believed to have 
killed almost a hundred. Very few Ameri¬ 
cans were caught in the disaster, but it is 
said that, at least five foremen were Ameri¬ 
cans. and they were among the victims. 
Many of the miners were Japanese. 
Liquid egg. 273 cans of the meat of 
broken eggs, frozen, was seized February 3 
by United States Marshal Henkel at the 
storage plant of the Merchants Refrigera¬ 
ting Company at 150 Reade street, New 
York. Pure Food Inspectors Duff and Lind 
made the complaint to United States At¬ 
torney Wise, who secured an order from 
the District Court for the seizure of the 
eggs as unfit for food. The eggs will be 
destroyed on February 22 unless it can be 
shown that they are a useful article. Egg 
is used for other purposes than food. 
Five hundred thousand dollars’ worth of 
United States army medical supplies were 
destroyed February 4 by a fire in the depot 
in which they were stored, at West and 
Vestry streets, New York. Among the things 
lost were $10.000 worth of drugs and surgi¬ 
cal instruments which had been stacked up 
readv for immediate shipment to the Pana¬ 
ma Canal Zone, where they are urgently 
needed. Major Edwin P. Wolfe, in charge 
of the depot, had a narrow escape, but 
finally got out of the building oh a fire 
ladder that had been run up to the window 
of his office on the fourth floor. Large 
quantities of benzine, alcohol, and drugs 
in the building made the fire a particularly 
dangerous one to fight, _ and tenants of 
nearby structures were driven to the street, 
not by danger of the flames, but by the 
suffocating fumes and dense smoke which 
poured from the burning building. 
A verdict which will assess $222,000 dam¬ 
ages was rendered February 4 in the United 
States Court at Hartford. Conn., by the jury 
in the suit of D. E. Loewe of Danbury 
against 200 liatmakers of that State. The 
jury fixed the actual damages at $74,000 
for'a boycott by union men against the hat 
manufacturers in 1902 and 1903. As the 
suit was brought under the Sherman anti¬ 
trust law triple damages can be recovered. 
It was decided to give the attorneys for the 
defense a hearing on March 7, when a mo¬ 
tion to set aside the verdict on the ground 
of excessive damages will be argued. The 
assessment of costs and the fees of the 
counsel will also be determined. It is esti¬ 
mated that the costs will amount to at least 
$10,000, and these, with the counsel fees, 
mav bring the bill against the hatters to 
fully $250,000. The suit of D. E. Loewe & 
Co. against Martin Lawler and others grew 
out of the boycotting of the company in 
1902-3 bv labor organizations, especially the 
United Hatters of North America, whose 
officers and members originally, to the num¬ 
ber of about 2,500, were made parties de¬ 
fendant. It was begun six years ago. con¬ 
siderable time being taken up in disposing 
of various motions and in deciding whether 
jurisdiction should be taken by the State 
or Federal courts. The trial began on Oc¬ 
tober 13 last, and it became evident that 
the struggle was virtually one between the 
labor organizations and the Anti-Boycott 
Association, with able counsel on both sides. 
Witnesses for the plaintiff testified that the 
boycott against its goods was maintained 
all over the country. In San Francisco the 
boycott was extended to Triest & Co., dis¬ 
tributors for the Loewe concern, and both 
firms were placed on the “unfair ’ list of 
the American Federation of Labor. Its sales 
were practically stopped on the Pacific 
Coast, and great damage was done to its 
business in Philadelphia, Chicago, Rich¬ 
mond, and other cities. 
Eleven miners were killed by an explo¬ 
sion of gas at the Rochester and Pittsburg 
Coal Company’s mine at Ernest, Pa., Feb¬ 
ruary 5. Violations of the mining law were 
discovered at Wilkesbarre, February 5, at 
the first occasion of the newly appointed 
board of miners’ examiners. All miners are 
required to appear before this board and 
qualify. Almost one thousand applied and 
nearly all were found to have forged and 
fraudulent miners’ certificates. Barely 10 
per cent passed the examination to show 
that they are qualified as miners, although 
this examination consisted only of 12 com¬ 
paratively simple questions. 
February 4 47 men were rescued from the 
sinking steamship Kentucky by the Mallory 
liner Alamo off the coast of South Carolina. 
The Kentucky was bound around Cape Horn 
with a cargo of coal for Seattle. It was 
discovered that her seams had parted and 
she was filling. Wireless messages were sent 
out for immediate help, and were picked 
up by the Alamo, 90 miles away. Before 
help arrived the Kentucky was in immediate 
danger, and there was a fight to keep the 
water from reaching the dynamo, and thus 
cutting off the wireless apparatus. 
Bank Commissioner Chapin of Massachu¬ 
setts announced February 7 that the ex¬ 
aminers who have been going over the books 
of the Southbridge Savings Bank, which 
was closed on January 21 by the Supreme 
Court, have reported to him that the short¬ 
age in the accounts of Treasurer John A. 
Hall, now in jail awaiting trial, is $424.- 
442.89, or 14.05 per cent of the deposits. 
The report of the bank examiner says that 
Treasurer Hall has been falsifying the 
books practically ever since he took the job, 
about twenty years ago. Hall falsified his 
accounts in three distinct ways. By arbi¬ 
trarily raising the amount of weekly pay¬ 
ments entered upon the counter books he 
took $51,150. By arbitrarily raising the 
amount of weekly payments when posting 
the cash book he got $191,575. By crediting 
cash for fictitious personal or town loans 
or deposits in banks, the amount of which 
would be added to the weekly withdrawals 
and debited to deposit account, he took 
$ 100 , 000 . 
Fire February 6 destroyed all but one of 
the group of buildings of the Boonton, N. J., 
plant of the Westinghouse Electric Com¬ 
pany. The principal product of the local 
loca'l works was storage batteries, but the 
plant was equipped for other work and at 
times turned out all the various electrical 
appliances which the company makes. The 
loss is estimated at $240,000. Sparks and 
the great heat thrown off by the fire set a 
number of smaller buildings afire at a dis¬ 
tance, but each was saved by the details of 
firemen. The firemen, all volunteers, suffered 
greatly. Manv had fingers and ears frozen 
and several are suffering from the exposure. 
About 200 hands will be thrown out of 
work by the fire. The plant was one of the 
mainstays of the village. 
Three Nome merchants arrived in Seattle, 
February 8, having travelled from Nome to 
Fairbanks and Valdez on snowshoes, report 
that the Winter there is the most severe ever 
known. They left Nome December 7 and 
encountered 'continuous bad weather and 
temperature often 70 degrees below zero. 
On the Valdez trail they reached Miller’s 
road house just before the height of the 
storm and on entering the house found four 
persons frozen to death. After a brief res¬ 
pite the blizzard is raging again. The Cop¬ 
per River Railroad has been tied up. 
POLITICAL.—The House completed con¬ 
sideration of the agricultural appropriation 
February 3. The measure carries an ex-- 
penditure of $13,417,136. A provision in the 
bill authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture 
to make an inquiry into the cost of living 
went out on a point of order made by Rep¬ 
resentative Shirley, a Kentucky Democrat. 
R. A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, 
appeared February 5 before the House Com¬ 
mittee on Ways and Means to urge that fav¬ 
orable action be taken on President Taft’s 
recommendation that an issue of $30,000,000 
of certificates of indebtedness be authorized 
in order that irrigation projects now under 
way and projected by the Government might 
be carried forward. The indications are 
that a bill providing for these certificates 
will be reported favorably. The Senate 
Committee on Irrigation also gave some 
consideration to this subject. This com¬ 
mittee discussed a bill providing for allot¬ 
ments of the issue of certificates in case 
they were authorized by Congress. It was 
decided that the executive Government could 
better carry on the work if discretion in 
making allotments were vested in the Presi¬ 
dent. 
Because there is no provision of law 
whereby certain employees of the Isthmian 
Canal Commission who suffer injury can be 
recompensed by the Government President 
Taft February 8 sent a special message to 
Congress asking that suitable legislation be 
enacted so that employees of the canal or 
their relatives be allowed to recover in case 
of permanent disability or death. 
THE EXPRESS INVESTIGATION.—An 
investigation into the condition of the express 
business, as conducted by the four largest 
companies in the country, began February 4 
before Frank Lyons, an examiner for the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, at No. 69 
Wall Street. New York. The complainant 
was State Senator B. E. Sundberg of Ken¬ 
nedy, Minnesota. He charged that the 
American, Adams, United States, and Wells- 
Fargo companies were not competing in the 
strict sense of the word, and that under a 
working agreement they had raised rates 
and maintained these rates at an exorbitant 
level. Edward T. Platt, treasurer and di¬ 
rector of the United States Express Com¬ 
pany, was the first witness. Mr. Platt testi¬ 
fied that in his time as a director of the 
United States Express Company no fresh 
capital had been put in. He said that at no 
time had the capital been accumulated from 
the profits of transportation, but that the 
company had large interests in other prop¬ 
erty. Mr. Platt said that the United States 
Express Company held twelve shares of the 
Wells-Fargo stock, but no stock in other 
express companies. Asked if his company 
had raised rates, he answered that he was 
not familiar with the rates, but insisted 
that to the best of his knowledge there was 
competition between express companies. 
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