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Proprietor, This hotel, formerly the Lawrence House, haa undergone a complete idiaiine, ...,l 1 nnw fu ril iwlieil With all tllH niO(b ern linnroveinents. Healed and lighted ilir.mir i.mi wilh natural iras. bathrooms, hot and cold wator, etc. The comforts ol Kiiests never neglected. iKNTKAIj IKH'SF.. Vf tiF.KOW A OF.HOW Proprietor, Tlimseta. Pa. This is the most centrally located lintel ill Uiu place, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will lie spared to make it a pleasant stopping place for the traveling public. First class i.iverv in mniiwuim. piIIL. KM Kit T FANCY HOOT A SHOFMAKF.lt. Shoo in Walters lull Id inn. Cor. him and alnut streets. Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work from the finest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given U) nieiKiing, aim pricw rea-aonable. 5 f H H III lH i At TKI ffARrH R'91KZt UllVUSITTt ( C larrvn, t. I ThtaMtt prcUtl,up-to-iUt Bua J S to Trainlnc icdool in pnnaylnia. J fl (iv our Students "bi-Md 1 C inning 4actioii- f t mm b iltl to Mil full par I tloulan to any mreii, upon raoaipt of application tor mm. our c"3u' ra baldlnf poti I f tlona of honor anl truat la ail parta f 1 er tna Uniid stataa. S ) for full trtlculara, adlreta, f 1 THf fABiUUI BUSINIfil UNIVIHdlTT. S SLAND FEDERALISTS. Memorial to Corgrrss Asking For Rights of a S ate. Batangai Province Cleaned Up D. A. R. Congress In Washington Mr. Schwab Returns Count Tolstoi Re ported to Be Very Low 3ritish Am bushed by Boers, The memorial of the Federal party of the Philippine Islands was trans mitted to tho Bennto by the secretary war. The memorial says: "To r.aV.e the Philippines a colony of tho United States, or to grant Independ ence to the Philippines, would be to hand the Islands over to disorder and to anarchy, to destruction and to chaos. In effect, tho coluulal system involves tho principles of difference of citizenship, inequality of rights and other consequent abuses and Injus tices, of all which we Filipinos were Burfeited under the Spanish govern ment, and for this reason we reject everything which tonds toward a col ony." ' The memorialists then pray a decla ration by congress that the Philippine Islands are an integral part of thj United States, constituting a terri tory with the rights and privileges which the constitution of the United States grants to the other territories such aa that of becoming a state of the Union. Anglo-Japanese Treaty. Lord I.anMluwne, foreign secretary. In the house of lords, made a similar reply on tho subject of the new duul lliance to the one made In the house of commons by the tin ier secretary, l.ord Cranborne. The object of the allinncc was three-fold the mainten ance of the status quo, the policy of the open dcor and tho maintenance of peace in the Far Kast. No other powers' interests In the Far East were at all comparable with those of Great Britain and Japan. C.reat Ilrltaln desired to protect Japan against what she conceived to be the gravest peril that might men ace her. namely a coalition of the powers against her. The agreement would compel Great Britain to come to tho rescue of a friendly country whose obliteration by a roalitlon of the pow ers Great Britain could not under any circumstances tolerate. The treaty was not crtinected with the govern ment's decision regarding Wei-Hal-Wei. Put the maintenance of the In dependence of Japan and the protec tion of Corea were of the utmost Im portance to Great Britain as well us Japan. Lord Roscbery expressed approval of the treaty. He snld tho effect of the trcntv would he felt In a great part of Kurc pe and In the rest of the civilized world. High Prices Continue. Bradstreet's report of the week says: Continued 8trcnj,tl Is to be noted In all the cereals and flour, fractional advances being shown during the week, while hog products, country pro duce generally, iron and steel and other metals are also quoted higher. The highest prices In years have been reached by butter and eggs as a re sult of cold weather, which In the northern part of the country, particu larly In the East, has checked ship ments and Impeded collections. Demand for cereals was dull and dragging early In the week on favor able crop news and bullish world's statistics and cables, but tho large de crease In the world's visible supplies reported by Bradstreet's Imparted strengih to the market. Provisions were dull and heavy on large receipts of hogs, but steadied and advanced later in sympathy with grain. A feature is the continued steady advance In cotton seed oil prices. Pt.siness failures for the week num ber :6.r,, as anainst 217 last week. 22 In this week Inst year, 109 In 1900, ICrt In 1 !!)! and 209 In 1898. British Ambushed. One hundred and fifty mounted In fantrymen while patrolling the Klip liver, aouth of Johannesburg, Feb. 12, Bunounded a farmhouse where they Luspetted Boers were in biding. A single Boer broke away from the bouse and the British started to pur sue him. The Boer climbed a kopje. the British following. Immediately a heavy lire was opened upon them from Ciree slde. The British found them selves in a trap and in a position where they were unable to make any defense. Eight of the British officers made a gallant effort and defended the ridge with carbines and revolvers until they were overpowered. The British had two offlcers and 1" men killed and several offlcers and 40 men wounded before the force was able to fall back under cover of a block house. American Press Dinner. Herman llidder, who Is in charge of the arrangements for the dinner to be given In New York city to the American press In honor of Prince Henry of Prussia at the Waldorf-Astoria on the evening of Feb. 26, said that both Arrhbishop Corrlgan and Bishop Potter had been Invited to at tend and that while no reply had been received from Bishop Potter It was ex pected ho would bo present. Arch bishop Corrigan accepted the Invita tion. Mr. Rldder added that as the dinner would occur In the Lenten season and - as the Wednesday on which it will be held will be a fast day ot obligation Archbishop Corrlgan bad granted a dispensation to those Cath olics who will be present to partake of meat Mr. Rldder said it was esti mated that 1,100 persons would be present at the dinner. Imperial Yacht Arrives. The Imperial acht Hohenzollern sent for use of Prince Henry of Prus sia during hla forthcoming visit, has arrived at New York. She was not ex pected for she came by the southern circle and It was calculated that the tun would take at least one day more '.nan it did. Passing craft gave her a noisy wel come with their whistles and the man at ber jackstaff was kept busy dipping her big naval flag with Its field of white, black Prussian eagle and black cross. She stood high out of the wa ter and looked Impressive beyond her real size. She was painted white all over, save touches of gold astern and a long stfeak of red that showed be low her water Hue. She has a ram bow and In general type resembles a modern man-of-war. Fire In Geneva. Geneva, N. Y., suffered by a $100,000 fire on Thursday night It broke out in the Y. M. C. A building at 6 o'clock and In 10 minutes the big building was a mass of flames. Thirty boys who were In the gym nasium on the top floor escaped In their gymnasium suits down the lad ders. Two young ladles employed by M. H. Harmon & Co., nurserymen, es caped on the roof to the next building. A general alarm was turned In and aid was sent from Waterloo. Tho flames shot high In the air and In quiries and offers of aid came In from 30 miles distant. A brisk northwest wind fanned the flames and nothing but a fire wall pre vented the fire from spreading to the adjneent property. Object to Colored Orator. The selection of B. T.Washington as commencement orator at the Nebraska state university next June has created considerable Ill-feeling and may result In either the withdrawal of the Invi tation or of half a dozen or more mem bers of the senior class from college. The objectors are all Southern young men who look upon the extending of the honor to a negro as an Insult to them. A class meeting to discuss tho matter has been called and five of the seniors have served notice on the class president that the Invitation to Washington must be withdrawn or they will refuse to appear at the grad uating exercises, even though they forfeit their diplomas. President Leaves Groton. The most eventful day at Groton Bchool duringthetlmeTheodore Roose velt, Jr., has been ill closed with the departure of President Roosevelt for Washington late Thursday afternoon. Before that time the president In the homely phrase, "Ted has Improved with such rapid jumps that I am sure he Is out of the woods," had told of the load lifted from his mind. The day was full of happiness for the pres ident and Mrs. Roosevelt and In fact for all who were at the Infirmary or near the school grounds. Mr. Schwab Returns. Charles M. Schwab, president of tho United States Steel corporation has arrived at New York city from Eu rope on the American liner St. Paul after an absence of two months spent In travel on the continent and in Eng land. He was accompanied by his wife and sister and was greeted when he landed by his father and mother, Mr.and Mrs. J. A. Schwab, his brother, Joseph Schwab, and a large party of friends. He declined to discuss his trip or the annual general meeting of the steel corporation at Hoboken, N. J. D. A. R. Congress. The 11th continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revo lution began In Washington, D. C, Monday and will continue throughout the week. The attendance promises to be very large, there being over 800 accredited delegates. Since last congress 3.600 women have been ad mitted, making the total membership of the society nearly 40,000. The pres ident general, Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, wife of Senator Fairbanks of Indiuna, will preside. Reports From Batangas. General J. Franklin Bell has prac tically cleaned up the Insurrection In Batangns province, Luzon island, the troopB under his command having made a clean sweep of the district It is not believed that all the Insurg ents In arms havebeencaptured or sup rendered, but that a rumber of them hataybcen taken by the insurgents to other provinces or safely hidden. New York State Fair. The New York state fair com nilHf.ion has decided not to change the date of the next state fair from the last week In August to the second week In September, as proposed by those who desired the grand circuit trotting races to be held In connec tion with It. Held For Murder. Counsellor McDowell, attorney for Jack Tracy, charged with the murder of eweler Bcla E. Brown of Roches ter, N. Y., at an adjourned hearing In the case, waived examination In be half of his client and Tracy was held to await the action of the grand Jury. Dumonfs Airship Lost M. Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, met with a disaster at Monaco bay and himself had a narrow escape from H,.Mh His airship is a tattered wreck, while his motor lies at the bot tom of tho bay of Monaco. Count Tolstoi Very Low. Count Tolstoi's temperature is 100 while his Dulse is 4. He Is very weak i,i u 1, (urine un well. It la still b:ped that he may recover. DANISH WEST INDIES. Senate Ra'ifi-s the Treaty With Denmark. Resources and Value ot tht Uiands. Harbor of St. Thomas Said to Ba One of the Best In the West Indies. Status of the Inhabitants Strat egic Importance. Washington, Feb. 18. In a little uore than an hour' time the senate in executive session disposed of the treaty with Denmark ceding to the United States for a consideration ol 15.000,000 the islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, composing the group of the Antilles known as the Danish West Indies and lying Just east of Porto Rico and thus, so far as this country is concerned, consummated a transaction which has been under consideration Intermittently since the administration of President Lincoln. ' Senator Cullom, as chairman of the committee on foreign relations, made a speech explaining the advantages of the acquisition of the islands, and Sen ators Bacon and McLaurin made brief remarks, saying that while they could not endorse all the provisions of the agreement they would place no ob stacles in the way of ratification. Senator Bacon moved to amend the treaty by striking out the second par agraph of article 3 of the treaty read ing as follows: "The civil rights and the political status of the Inhabitants of the Islands shall be determined by the congress Biibject to- the stipula tions contained In the present conven tion." The amendment was rejected with out division. Senator Cullom explained all tho provisions of the treaty and gave a detailed account of their resources and of their trade value to the United States. He said the provision affect ing the civil rights of the Inhabitants was similar to the provision on the same subject In the Spanish treaty concerning Porto Rico. Senator Cullom said In taking the islands the United States would as sume no burden of debt, as by the terms cf the agreement all claims held by Denmark against the Insular treas ury would be cancelled. He placed the total of these claims at $2,000,000. He also said that on the telegraph fran chise It would be necessary to pay a subsidy of $1,000 per year for three or four years and that in this case and the St. Thomas floating dock company there was an agreement to protect the charters for the time granted by Den mark. He also gave a detailed history of the St. Croix sugar company, ex plaining that the government of Den' mark had assumed debts amounting to about $4,700,000 for that concern, but had ngreed to wind up the affairs of the company as soon as practicable, Senator Cullom explained that un der the terms of the treaty the United States would take possession of the islands as soon as ratification could bo exchanged. The harbor at St. Thomas island was described as one of the safest and best In the West Indies and the Importance of its pos session from a strategic point of view was enlarged upon. Senator Cullom's motion to ratify then was adopted by a viva voce vote. NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR HOBSON. President Recommends That He Be Placed On tht Retired List Washington Feb. 18. The president has sent to the senate a message recommending the retirement of Naval Constructor Richard P. Hobson, and In accordance with this recommen' dation Senator Galllnger Immediately Introduced a bill providing for Mr. Hobson's tranfer to the retired list, In bis message the president gives as his reason the trouble that Mr. Hobson has had since 1900 with his eyes and recites the history of that trouble. It appears that Ir June, 1900, he was ad mitted to the naval hospital at Yokohama. Japan, when, according to the records, he suffered Irom weak ness of eyes and retlnlts, which In firmities it was stated had been con traded while on duty In repairing ships at Hong Kong. In January 1902 he was examined by a retiring board which decided that his Incapacity was not such as to justify retirement. The message concludes as follows: "In consideration of the foregoing but especially of the gallent service rendered by Mr. Hobson In the sink' Ing of the Merrlmac in the harbor of Santiago during the recent war with Spain, I recommend the enactment of a suitable measure for bis relief. Communicated 140 Miles. London, Feb. 18. The officials at Marconi's office In London say their Lizard station was In communication with the Kronprinz Wilhelm, which is bearing Prim e Henry of Prussia and bis uuite to New York up to 9 a. m. Monday when the steamer was about 140 miles west of the Lizard. A DOW' crful Marconi station at Mulllon, Corn wall, was continuing to dispatch wire less telegrams towards the Kronprlnx Wilhelm. but the limit of the distance covered will not be known until tho Rtenmer'B arrival on the other side of Ihe Atlantic, as she was not equipped with an apparatus powerful enough to enable her to reply. Irish Revolutionary Committee. London, Feb. 18. The Paris cor respondent of The Daily Chronicle be lieves there is some truth In the ru mor that an Irish revolutionary com mittee has been started in Paris by nn Irish-American who has Just returned from South Africa, lor the purpose ol nidinf th" l,,H'r cause by a leign ol dynamite and lertor. CRASH OF FREIGHTS. Terrible Aceier.t on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Altixra, Pa., Feb. 13. Three men killed, four probably fatally and two seriously Injured, one freight train a complete wreck and another nearly so, are tho results on an accident Friday morning cn the Pennsylvania on the steep grade a few miles above the Ik'iseslico curve. The list of vlc- tlma f Howe: dead: A. S. Grove, conductor of the forward train; U. B. Westner, brakrrran ca the forward train; T. V. Cftccy, brakeman of the forward train. Prcl-Bbly fatally Injured: M. W. Hi.rtman. flagman of the forward trplr; B. W. Klnl:ald, engineer of the forward train; J. W. Fluke, engineer of tho rear train; Slmoa Fredericks, brakrinan of the rear train. The firemen of both engines, names unknown, are seriously Injured. Control of the second section of an eartbound train was lost soon after emerging from Galltzen tunnel and two miles west of Alle;rlppas It crashed Into the rear of the first section. Ten cars, Ihe cnboose and two engines were completely wrecked. Grove. Westner and Cooney were In th ! ci.br ose of the forward train. Their boi'les were torn to pieces. Hart- man wss standing on the front plat form of the caboose and th! shock threw Mm far down over the, moun tain side. Frclneer Fluke and his fireman Jiimoed whei they saw the train ahead of them Fluke was found unoon scIoiir K0 feet away from the track. All the Injured men were taken to tho Altrona hosptol, where It was said that Fluke was dylni and that there wai little, hope for the recovery t Hartman, Klnkald and Frederick. The homes of the dead and Injured were In Altcona. French Schools In America. Pittsburg, Feb. 15. "Pittsburg will get the new school for the education of engineers to be established In the United States by the French govern ment. The French school for politi cal science will be located In New York city. I have recommended the latter to my government and will rec ommend Immediately that the school for engineers be established In Pitts burg." The above statement was made by M. I.tsard Weiller. chief councillor of the foreign board of trade of France. M. Weiller said: "The decision to locate here was reached after a con ference with Mr. Frick, who, togeth er with George Westinghouse, has promised cordial support and patron age for the school. The school of political science In New York will have the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan nnd Charles M. Schwab, both of whom have given me this assur ance." Charged With Fraud. Pittsburg, Feb. IS. Attorneys on be half of the Pittsburg Coal company, the railroad coal combine, has entered suit in the county court3 asalnst Will- lam P. DeArmlt, John Walker, William H. Berger, George Lauder and ether prominent former stockholders of the New York and Clevelard Gss Coal company, the Fidelity Title and Trust company. Moore and Schley of New York, Pennsylvania Mining company and others. Allegations of rttempt at fraud are made against some of the defendants. Nearly $800,000 Is In dispute, the coal combine claiming that ths amount was Illegally withheld from It. An injunction Is asked for. The list of defendants Is the largest In any recent suit and Is composed of some of the most prominent people In Allegheny county. Escapes Or.e Death to Meet Arother, Beaver Falls, Pa., Feb. 15. Thurs day morning Calvin Harris, the man who had such a narrow escape last week at the Romeigh stone ruarrles, where the dynamite he was thawing out exploded and destroyed the shanty, faced death in another form. He was driving through a narrow passage at the quarry when he stumbled and fell, and was caught between the wheel of the cart and the rocky side of the passage and squeezed so badly that It is feared he cannot live. Wagon Wood Higher. Cincinnati, Feb. 14 The American Vehicle Wood Stock association, man ufacturers of spekes, rims, shafts, poles, &c, have Increased the prices of their products all around. It was said that this was necessary owing to a short supply of oak and hickory and the remoteness of such supplies from the plants and markets with In creased freight expenses. Snowdrift's Tragic Secret Oil City, Pa., Feb. 15. A force of workmen engaged In shoveling snow drifts In an endeavor to open the country roads near Dale station Wed nesday uncovered a horse frozen to death, attached to a sleigh. Relays of men are clearing the vicinity In an effort to find the driver. Engineer and Fireman Killed. Connellsvllle, Pa., Feb. 17. Lngl neer T. W. Lyons of McKeea R'.cKs and his fireman, P. W. Desot of Buf falo, were killed In a head-end collis ion of freight trains on the Pittsburg and McKcesport division or the Pitts burg and Lake Erie railroad at Round Bottom Sunday. Death Follows a Coasting Accident Johnstown, Pa.. Feb. 15. John Fal stick, aged 13. died In the hospital here Thursday of a fractured skull, the result of a rolllsli.n with a horse while be was coasting. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Pointed Paragraphs Chronic ling the Week's Doings. Long Dispatches From Various Parts of the World Shorn of Their Padding and Only Facts Given In as Few Words as Psssi'jie For the Benefit of the Hurried Reader. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was re ported as suffering from a treacherous jorm of pnet n-.cnia, but was in no Im mediate danger. Staff surgeons of the Bushwlck Cen tral hospital of Brooklyn profess to be willing to accept Dr. James Edwin Russell's tender of his live body for vivisection expariments. General Samuel Pearson, Boer rep resentative in the United States, asked the president to permit him to attack the British agents who, he said, were buyln; mules near New Orleans. Governor Taft advocated the pur chase of lands held by the friars in the Philippines. Railroad commissioners have placed blame for New York Central tunnel disaster on the railway company. The business center of Pater3on, N. J., was burned, with a loss amounting to $10,000,000. Thursday. President Roosevelt's son became worse and pneumonia has affected both lungs. Preparations to rebuild the burned district of Paterson are being made and the mayor says there Is no need of outside assistance. Lord Kitchener gives the Boer cas ualties for the week at 69 killed, IT wuunded, 57 surrendered and 574 tak en prisoners. Fifteen men were Injured by a dust explosion In a mine at Bon Air, Tenn. All were rescued, and all will prob ably recover. Five of the miners were seriously burned. At a meeting cf representatives of Italian lodges of Free Masons In Rome it was decided that Italian Free Ma sonry should cease to be a secret so ciety. Friday. Count Leo Tolstoi Is dying. Theodore RooBeveit, Jr., passed a very good night and it lookB more fn vorable for him. A detachment of cavalry had to be called In Brussels to disperse the So cialists who made a demonstration in favor of universal suffrage. The yacht Hohenzollern has arrived at New ork ahead of schedule time. Wreckage has been picked up off the coast of Vancouver which seems to show that the British sloop-of war Condor has been lost. Marquis of Dufferln, former gover nor of Canada, Is dead. In a fire in a Broadway paint shop caused by a runaway upsetting a stove, Terence F. Reilly was burned to death. Saturday. A Boer attempt to break the British cordon failed, after desperate lighting, but General Dewet and a few of his men got through Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Is consid ered out of danger and his father left for Washington Thursday afternoon. In a report to the Italian ambassa dor the police say the plot to assas sinate King Humbert was planned In this country. Judge Benttie of Orange county in a Judgment has declared that the 8 hour law as applied to state work Is unconstitutional. The Federal party In the Philip pines have sent a memorial to con gress declaring against Independence and asking for ultimate statehood. Arguments were given at Albany on the bill to prohibit live bird targets. Monday. A notice from the treasury depart ment at Washington Informs mariners that tho Bartholdl statue In New York harbor will not be lighted after March 1. By an accident on the Pennsylvania railroad, near AHoona, three men were killed and four probably fatally Injured. Rear end collision. Reports from Groton say that condi tion of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Is satisfactory and that he Is on the road to recovery. The ransom of Miss Ellen M. Stone and her companion. Madade Tsilka, baa been paid and their delivery to the American agents is expected hourly. A dispatch from St. Petersburg an nounces that the large town of Shamaka, Trans-Caucasia, has been destroyed by an earthquake. Tuesday. The worst snow storm In years Is be ing experienced In New York city. Five men blew open two safes In the office of the Northampton, Mass., Itreet railway, bound and gagged the watchman and got away with over $1,000. The bill to repeal the war revenue taxes passed the house unanimously, on motion of Mr. Richardson, the min ority leader. Gertrude Shea, the 2-year-old child severely burned at Worcester. Mass.. Saturday night In the fire resulting from her molher'a act In throwing a lighted lamp at her father. Is dead. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was re elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage associa tion for the ensuing year. Two thousand people are reported killed by an earthquake in the Trans Caucasia province of Russia. GOVERNOR TAFT'S IDEAS. Continuation of His Testimony Before the Senate Committee. Washington, Feb. IS. In reply to questions Uoeruor Taft said he agreed with General Funston that the estab lishment of a popular assemblago would give opportunity to demagogues to stir tip the people, but that he did not in, hide in this designation all per sons who are opixised to American control. There ure, he said, many men in the Islands who consistently appose the administration of the Unit ed States. To grant independence would, he thought, have the effect of consigning the 90 per cent of unedu cated people In the islands to the same servile position they held under Span ish rule. He thought there should be a declaration on the part of tho Unit ed States of its intention to hold the islands indefinitely with the under standing that when they are suitable for such a condition they may be given a quasi-independenoe. Many of the common ppople do not, he said, know the difference between Independence and dependence. If the government of the Islands should be turned over to the Islanders themselves there would be nothing less than an absolute oligarchy, they having no Idea of civil government. Replying to Senator Rawlins, Gover nor Tatt advanced the idea that on account of the fact that the Filipinos have for Sot) years been under the In fluence of the Christian religion they would prove to be different from other Malay races, and that In time under the Influence of American education the people might become capable of self-government. He anticipated some trouble on account of undue or Illegal exploitation of the islands and cor ruption In rase of continued American occupation, but he would not on ac count of this danger turn the Islands back to tho fate of an oligarchy so long as there is a proballllty of suc cess as there is In this case. "I did not orlelnally favor the ac quisition of the Philippines and I was sorry at the time that we got them, but now that we are there 1 see no other way than to go on and carry out the plan that I have suggested. I may be a Mark Tapley In this matter, but If I did not believe that we could bring these people out regardless r,f the fact that the feat we propose Is to an extent without precedent If I did not believe we should succeed In do ing what we are undertaking to do I should resign Immediately and come home." Proceeding he said that his Idea was to unite example and actual practice In the American control of the islands and he believed that the result must be the uplifting and tho education of the people to a point which would put them on a plane far above that which Is at present occupied. Order of Cuban Veterans. Albany, Feb. 18. The Order of San ta Clara has been incorporated. It is formed by the officers and the former officers of the army and navy who par ticipated In the campaign of lS'JS In Santa Clara and Puerto Principe. Tho principal office of the corporation Is to be located In New York city. The directors are Major Carter P. John son of Fort toavenworth, Kan.; Lieu tenant Thomas W. Ilyau of the U. S. N. Asiatic station; Captain George P. Ahern of Manila, P. I.; Dr. Maximilian Lund, lute V. S. A., of New York city; Captain John F. Madden of Fort Sher idan, and Lieutenant Grover Flint, U. 8. V., of Boston. Cousin of the President Dead. New York, Fob. 17. Cornelius Roosevelt, the only surviving son of the late S. Wler Roosevelt, and a cous in of President Roosevelt, Is dead of heart disease in this city. Mr. Roose velt was born in this city 54 years ago, and was educated at the Troy Polytechnic Institute. Shortly after completing his course there he went abroad and had lived since that time chiefly In Paris. Six Dead and as Many Dying. Mlddlesboro, Ky.. Fob. 13. Six are dead and as many more are dying as the result of a battle between Mlddles boro officers and mountaineers which occurred at Lee Turner's saloon, three and a half miles from Mlddlesboro, Contractors and Workmen InJicted. New York, Feb. 14. The grand jury bas returned a series of indict ments against the contractors and Workmen alleged to have been re sponsible for the fatal and destruc tive explosion on Park avenue on Jan. 27, and the city officials charged with dereliction In connection with the storing of explosives. An Indictment for manslaughter In the first degree was found against Ira A. Shalt-r, the rapid transit subway sub-contractor, who Is building the Park avenue sec tion of the tunnel in which the ex plosion occurred. Shaler was also in dicted for Illegal storage of dynamfle a misdemeanor. Moses Kpps. the powder house watchman, Ernest G. Matheson, chief engineer, and Joseph Bracken, laborer, were also Indicted for manslaughter In the first degroe and Mutheson and Bracken for Illegal storage. Superintendent George Mur ray and Inspector Smith of the bureau of combustibles, were Indicted on a charge of criminal negligence .and Charles K. Frnser. engineer, for Il legal storage. Ball was fixed In each rase at $5 000, pycept for Murray and Smith, whose ball was made $1,000 each. Snow and Wind. I'.iirlili .'ton. Vt- Feb. 18. - Four Inches of snow fell Monday afternoon and evcaiiiu. The storm -i-panled by high wind ' ( the south ere about a;i hoc;' 'ate.
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