CONVENTION IN CHICAGO. MINE DAMAGE MYSTERY. Republican* IKE FATALWRECKS OCCUR Will Meet There Next neavy Explosion Underground Causes June. mm Sensation. COLUMBIA ARMYDISAPPEARS TWELVE PERSONS LOSE THEIR Chicago has been selected as the RECO6NITIONJL Mont., reported place ASSISTANT Butte. Doc. 14. —A for holding the next national re- BECRETARY LOOMIS underground CRUISER CARRYING TROOPS DID LIVES, SEVERAL INJURED. publican battle hau caused a sen- convention. The committee EXPLAINS OUR POSITION. sation here, though the affray 1b cloth- NOT LAND ON PANAMA COAST fixed June 21, at 12 o'clock, as the ed in much mystery. A heavy explo- passenger Train Derailed Near Albia, time for the meeting of the conven- sion Saturday night entombed a num- tion. During a Banquet at New York He Uncle Sam's Warships Keeping While on a oor of miners and for a time it waa an lowa, Bridge—Cars Piled The offers made by the different cit- Tells of Conditions Under Which liar.,! iner a score of men had lost Eagle Eye Open to Apprehend Them Up and Burned—Two Engines ies were Over- $40,000 by St. Louis, $60,000 i heir lives. It appears that the blast- by Chicago, Republic Was Established—Cites If They Attempt to Land Soldiers turned Near Piedmont, W. Va. and $100,000 by Pittsburg. ing of the Amalgamated miners in the After some discussion the Chicago of- Possible Result—How France Could Pennsylvania mine caused an Indians Freights Collide Near immense Indifferent—The Colombians Adel, lowa. fer was raised by Committeeman Stew- oavein the Heinze workings, im- Have Borne Down on the Isthmus. of May Have Landed in Gulf of art to $74,000, he guaranteeing that periling the lives of miners. The Amal- Darien. Ottumwa, la., Dec. 14.—Five per- Chicago would contribute that amount gamated official! deny any attempt to pay goua were killed and 10 injured the expenses of the assembling New York.—The conditions which was made to destroy the workings of Colon, Doc. 14.—Through the exam- in a of wreck on the Chicago, Burlington the convention in that city. resulted in the recent establishment EielSM'l property and declare the ination of tin' ban Bias roast mauo by . & The Quincy road, threw miles west of Al- committee on arrangements for of the republic of Panama were dis- cavt'in the result of defective timber- tilt U. S. S. Atlanta and the converted the cruiser Maynower, bia, iowa. The westbound passenger convention are: Senator N. B. Ctmed recently at the banquet of the ing on the part of Heinze. hoth of which vcb- »cott of West Virginia, chairman; AI Frank, engineer Mlfl have retUTIMd here. It has train was in some manner derailed Sen- Quill club, held at the Hotel Manhat- of the Rarus been ator Hanna, Postmaster General at the ciearly that while running on to the Cedar creek tan, by Francis B. Loomib*, assistant mine, scene of the blasting, established the Colombian Payne, Harry Scow of Indianapolis, charges the Amalgamated people cruisers General and Cartage- bridge and live cars were wrecked by secretaiy of state of the United with Plasm and R. B. Schneider of Nebraska. na appeared in tho gulf collision with the steel girders of the States, and M. Phillippe Bunau-Varil- wholesale destruction of ore and says of Darien The decision of the deposits about 84 hours they bridge. The wreckage immediately national com- la, minister for Panama. Ich of mineral are destroy- after wero report- mittee to have the republican Mr. Loomis ed as having left Cartagena. took fire and several of the victims conven- said: ed, and wrecked timbers are buried No reli- tion meet on June 21 created consid- beneath of tons able evidence, however, bo were badly burned. The dead: "We have not desired to annex Pa- thousands of rock. could ob- erable talk about the capitol at Wash- The damage none is in the tained to show that any of the troops Mrs. W. E. Mitchen, Albia, killed nama, and we have not done so. The thousands ington as to the probable date of the of dollars. Seven men were caught in ranied hy the cruisers had been In wreck. president simply executed the will of land- adjournment of congress and the fact one explosion and precipitated ed, ciiher on the gnu coast or north- Mildred Mitchen, three years old, the American people, with due regard some developed that there has already been distance below. Their escape west thereof. burned to death. to international law and rights. He was more or less exchange of views among miraculous. The Atlanta and the Mayflower made Thomas Beatty, killed in wreck of was instructed uy congress to the leaders of the senate and the house secure a thorough inspection of the entire smoking car. a canal route on the question. The opinion is quite on the ibthmus of Pana- SENATOR REED SMOOT. vicinity, it was learned that at one Franklin and unknown ma if possible. general among them that it will be He waited until the coast point the Cartagenu man. adjournment of the Senate embarked a possible to conclude the work of the Colombian con- Committee Maning Investiga- small quantity Of naval stores, a few Just what caused the accident is a gress and gave the government session by June 21. Republican sen- of tion. bullocks, some corn and BO pieces of mystery. As soon as the engineer no- that country every opportunity to rat- The senate; committee on privileges ators are trying to secure an agree- \u25a0mc roofing, but no Information could ticed there was something wrong he ify the treaty or to propose some prop- and elections met recently to ment with the house to adjourn for outline i>e obtained as to the direction taken applied the airbrake, but was unable er method looking to a policy to pursued investigating Christmas on Friday. The treaties the ratification be in by the cruiser theivatter. it has been to stop the train. Five cars were com- of a new treaty, the the protests filed against Senator will not be taken up until after the and Colombian Reed reported that Colombian troops were pletely burned and the remainder of congress, Bmoot being permitted holiday recess. in utter bad .faith, rejected to retain his landed ut v certain point on the Pana- the coaches badly damaged. The work the treaty and adjourned. seat, and decided that taking before ma coast, but the Atlanta was present of rescue was carried on difficulty further steps in with TOMBSTONE, ARIZ., JAIL BREAK. "In less than a week's time, and the matter, Senator at this place at the time when, ac- as the cars took fire immediately after president Bmoot should be given opportunity to before the could be reason- cording to the report, the troops should the accident and the bridge is a high Thirteen Prisoners Secure Their Lib- ably expected make reply to charges. to turn to grave con- the have been landed and saw nothing. one. The injured were erty. Nicaragua Burrows, taken to Albia sideration of the route, the Senator chairman of the All offlcen found the attitude of the and Ottumwa. Tombstone, Ariz., Dec. 17.—A sen- long expected committee, notify and inevitable revolu- was instructed to Indiana to be and sational jail break here and the Indifferent even re- Wreck in West Virginia. occurred tion in Panama came to pass; Un- Senator bmoot of the decision of pellant. The traditions of the Indiaiiß 13 prisoners effected their liberty by committee any Piedmont, W. Va., Dec. 14.—Five people arose as one man and in thor- and receive reply he for centuries have been against per- sawing the jail bars breaking may men were killed and several seriously and ough accord, without the firing of a desire to make in writing. mitting aliens in their territory through the jail walls. Two of the In addition to peti- and injured by the overturning of two en- single shot, unresisted, they quietly the Innumerable these traditions they still maintain. prisoners, Bert Alvord and A. tions filed with the ihe gines attached to a heavy Baltimore W. established a government of their own. committee for They Often declined to answer the Stiles, were held as the principals in expulsion of Smoot, pro- & Ohio freight train on the 17 mile They had thrice been independent and Senator two questions of the interpreters and ou the Coehise train holdup tests from pre- grade near this city. The dead: in this coun- the right of secession was, I believe, citizens of Utah were several occasions their information ty a year ago. sented and briefly considered by the Engineer Ernest D. Ervine. expressly stipulated in some of their was found to be misleading. The prisoners left in a body and committee. Engineer Emery Erwin. constitutions. The information hy At- headed for the Mexican It These protests charged Mr. obtained the Fireman Walter B. Mine. line. was "The president dispatched our mea- Smoot lanta and Mayflower indicates either learned that the fleeing escapes ap- with being a polygamist. They also Fireman J. H. Carter. ger naval forte ashore, consisting of thai the Colombian troops have been propriated a horse belonging cit- charge that Morman church, Brakeman John Hays. to a 40 marines, to do what they could to tho of returned to Cartagena or that they izen living below town. which Mr. Smoot is apostle, The most seriously injured are: Two Mexicans preserve peace, order and unimpeded an holds have been point En- suspected its laws to be superior landed at some on the gineer Michael J.