J the day coim thf O an i Ze r j Usp I c t .vt- f . STIR UP PUERTO CABELLO Qcrmagt Land Marines and Seize the Custom House. EXCITEMENT IN VENEZUELAN CITY. Th People Prepare to Dcleod the Town From tfca Invaders Calmer Feeling Prevails Wfcea l Becomes Knows Thai Iht Qermans Only Wasted la Clear the Port Arbitration CoamlssJoo. Laguayra (By Cable). The Germans suddenly landed a force of marines at Puerto Cabello and took possession of the customhouse and wharves before resistance could be offered. The ex citement of the inhabitants was intense and they prepared to defend the rest of the town. Streets already had been barricaded when it was announced th.it the land ing; pf the Germans was only a move ment taken in order to clear the port of small craft and render the blockade more effective. This had a calming effect on the people, who at first be lieved that the allies intended to oc cupy all the customhouses in the coun try. The revolutionists are active on the outskirts of Puerto Cabello. The British gunboat Zumbardo, for snerly the Venezuelan war vessel of that name, which left here for Trini dad with a number of prizes in tow, was obliged to fcturn to this port ow ing; to the hawsers carrying away re peatedly on account of the heavy gale blowing and strong, contrary currents. The British cruiser Tribune went out to her assistance. The Italian cruiser Giovanni B.iusan kas left here for Curacao, where she will coal. ARBITRATION COMMISSION. Veaciaela as Large a Representation as That of Allied Powers. Washington, D. C. (Special). De tails of the terms of the proposed ar bitration between Venezuela and the allied foreign powers are gradually be coming known. The arbitration commission will be composed of as many members repre senting Venezuela as represent the al lies. If the foreign court is made up of seven members, the powers will name three and Venezuela three, and the six will agree on the seventh. In that case Germany, England and Italy each would name one. But if the tribunal is com posed of only five members, as is thought likely, the three powers will have to agree on their two arbitrators. Some think the allies overlooked a point in agreeing to have only as many arbitrators as Venezuela, but that has been the understanding of the State De partment from the first. As the allies afe operating jointly, it is regarded as natural that they should present their ease through joint representatives. AIDING THE REBELS. Mlalater Bowea Confirms th: N:ws of Crisis for Cas!ro. Washington, D. C. (Special). Any nour may bring the news from Vcne mela that President Castro has been forced out. This may be accomplished by means of the revolution led by Gen eral Matos or by means of pressure causing Castro's voluntary abdication, which would mean his flight, if possi ble, from Venezuela. The State Department received a cablegram from Minister Bowcn, the purport of which was to a great ex tent confirmatory of the news that a crisis had been reached in Castro's ten ure of Office. Minister Bowcn repre sents a condition of chaos in Venezuela and especially Caracas, which is grow ing steadily and rapidly more serious. ALLIED POWFRS SILENT. Ne Aaiwer as Yet to President Castro's Amended Proposition. Washington (Special). Nothing has been heard here from cither London, Berlin or Rome in the nature of an answer to President Castro's amended proposition relative to arbitration. The United States ambassadors and charges at the capitals named have advised the State Department that they have deliv ered the Castro proposition at the For eign Office in their respective capitals, and it is assumed here that the holiday season is the- cause of delay, though it is also known that exchanges are in progress between London and Berlin with a view to insuring uniform action by the allies, Trestle Goes Down With Train. Bethlehem, Pa. (Special). At Bath, near here, a trestle bridge which the Bath and Northampton Railroad is building swung from its abutments with a locomotive and seven loaded cinder cars, .. with laborers and carpen ters. It collapsed . -- int. and cars and men were thrown to the h- ' distance of 20 feet. Lafayette Schall, carpenter, had several ribs fractured and was seriously cut about the head. Skin (trailed oa Her Lip. Lowell, Mass. (Special). Miss Ber tha Deenan, who went to McKiuley Hospital, in Trenton, N. J., to have a lip constructed, has returned to her borne in Lowell with as sweet a mouth as the most fastidious young woman need wish for. Drs. McCullough and Brown performed a kin-grafting opera tion with perfect success, using skin ' from the girl's arm in their work. Her lip was burned away when she was a baby. Miss Jeanlc Creek Fatally IIL Richmond, Ind. (Special). Miss Jen nie Creek, the Mill Grove girl who won a wide reputation by saving a passenger train from plunging through a burning bridge, is now at the home of her sister, in Converse, Ind., fatally ill. The girl is suffering from a complication of dis ease and cannot recover. In the sum mer of 180J she nude a danger signal of her petticoat and at the risk of her own lif halted a passenger train on the Pan handle route in time to save it from a frightful wreck in a burned bridge. lUlUd Wall Hunting. Raleigh, N. C (Special). At Rock ingbam, Richmond county, James Le (rand was accidentally hot and in stantly killed by Henry Dockery, Jr. They were returning from a birdhunt and stopped to rest 011 the edge of the town, planning for the next hunt. Dock cry tripped backward and became un balanced, and, it is supposed, clutched hi gun in a movement to balance him self and both barrels were discharged, tM loads taking effect in Legrand's stack. Lcgrand was the eldest son of tV late James T. Legrand. He and Votkety were cousins. THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic. Former Governor David R. Francis, of Missouri, the head of the " . Louis Exposition, was robbed on 1 electric car in Chicago nf his pockctbook, con taining $.?o and valuable papers and railroad passes. Swanti Trigunattita. a distinguished Hindu savant, has arrived in San Fran cisco direct from the Kama Krishma Monastery, in Calcutta. India, to make a pilgrimage around the world. V. H. Reeves and K. W. Ncwcoine, of the Dowie Zion community, were arrested on the charge of kidnapping Harry Bonn, a boy of 15. Miss Maud Reed, aged 20 years, died suddenly from emotional excitement at a revival meeting of the holiness faith at North Attlcboro, Mass. There was a wreck on the Grand Trunk, near St. Catherines, Out., in which one man was killed, the pas sengers escaping with slight injuries. The final report of Special Master James M. Beck in the matter of the sale of the Philadelphia Record was confirmed by the United States Court. Graham C. Vorhis, formerly in charge of a postal substation in New York, was sent to Sing Sing for two and a half years for embezzlement. Stephen T. Garland, who was for many years prominently identified with railroad interests, died at his home, in Philadelphia. W. X. Sullivan, paymaster of the Bussoy Coal Mine, was held up and robbed 0 SiSco. He shot one of the men. Miss Iona Dunlap was acquitted in Aledo, 111., of the charge of killing Miss Allie Dool with poisoned candy. The settling ' of the Delaware and Hudson mine-workings at Olyphant, Pa., caused J. V. O'Brien's hotel and the residence of Mrs. Mary F.vans, ad joining, to cave in. The buildings took fire immediately after sinking. The Pittsburg Local of the Interna tional Association of Bridge and Struc tural Iron Workers has submitted a new scale to the manufacturers calling for an advance from 4754 to 50 cents an hour for an eight-hour day. In a fight among Italians, brothers and cousins, in Santiago dc Cuba, two were killed instantly, two died from wounds, the tilth is fatally and the sixth serious ly wounded. Dr. Edgar F. Smith, professor of chemistry and vice provost of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, was clccteil president of the American Philosoph ical society. The Pressed Steel Car Company has adopted the profit-sharing scheme and its employes may secure preferred stock easily. lhe Tmcw Orleans-ban rrancisro Kaii road was chartered in New Orleans, with a capital of $5,000,000. A gorgeous carnival of flowers was held at Pasadena, Cal.. 1 lie proces sion of carriages, automobiles, bicycles and carts decorated with flowers re quired .10 minutes to pass a given point. A young woman was found in 1 11c Campbell House, in Newark. N. J., nearly suffocated from gas. Another woman was found nearly dead in the same hotel troni carbolic acid. Henri Wattcrson issued another philippic against the Smart Set, being moved thereto by the promised com ing of the King of Belgium and the Crown Princess of Saxony. lhe Riverside Woolen .Mills, ot Knoxville. Tenn.. announce a reduc tion of hours of their employes, the re duction being from it to 10 hours as a day's work. Foreign. King Edwacd has appointed Sir Francis l.evcson Bertie, now an as sistant under secretary for foreign af fairs, to succeed Lord Currie, of Hawlcy, as British ambassador at Rome. Lord Currie resigned his post December 19. It was reported at Madrid that the pretender to the throne of Morocco had entered Fez. Another dispatch says the Sultan's condition is critical, as the 10,000 Jews in Fez arc inclined to support the pretender. Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany, will make a trip to Russia, and possibly later to the United States. Volcanoes in Nicaragua, Salvador and Guatemala are showing symptoms of becoming dangerous. Thousands of British and Indian sol diers participated in a grand assault-at-arms at Delhi. Ambassador Storcr presented his credentials at the palace in Vienna. The King of Saxony is reported in a critical condition. The pretender has announced that he is not fighting for the throne of Moroc co for himself, but for the Sultan's im prisoned brother, Mulat Mohammed. The dispatch of Spanish reinforcements to Morocco has been countermanded. Detachments of French troops have been ordered to the Morocco frontier. The Sultan may summon the border tribes to a holy war. The Archduke Leopold says that Archduke Johann Satvator, who re nounced his titles and took the name of John Orth. and was supposed to hive perished in a shipwreck, is really alive. G. H. F.ldcr was remanded by a London police court, charged on his confession with having embez zled ;.. ''om his employers, Brown, Shipley U inkers. The Portuguese Cortes opencu ... .' the King in his speech spoke of the cordial relations existing between Por tugal and nil the powers, especially Great Britain. Bulgarian and Turkish troops had a fight at the village of Drcnovo. in which the Turkish commander and IS of his men were killed. The German Commrreial Treaty So ciety has issued a circular complain ing of the United States customs' treatment of German goods. The Saxon Court will make an at tempt to obtain possession of the ex pected child oi the Crown Princess. Financial. Gold shipments from London to Ja pan are considered likely. The English Government is expected to issue the Transvaal loan in March. Lake Superior in 1901 shipped 209, 000 tons of ore and in 1902 more than 300,000 tons. The Government report will most probably put the cotton crop under 10, 000,000 bales. Susquehanna Iron and Steel has de clared its regular semi-annnal dividend of 3 per cent. It does not require tales of mergers of the hard coal roads to advance the price of shares. James M. Guffcy denies that be will sell his Texas properties to the Stan dard Oil Company. Standard Oil has again advanced the price of crude three cent barrel. standard Oil stock row to 715 y ester uay. American Sugar Company's net earl ings ior 1003 are estimated ut Sil 000,00a 18 Price of railroad stocks Una id k about 4 per cent, higher tlwn they A . last year. Industrials arc about on' n level BILL TO CRUSH TRUSTS Senator Hoar's Measure Has Far-Reach. Inr Provisions. PROVIDES SOME SEVERE PENALTIES. Requires tbe Filing of a Csoiplet Statement of the Financial Status ot Corporations En (aged to Interstate or Foreign Commerce, Also of Their Relations With Other Corporations. Washington, D. C. (Special). Sena tor Hoar made public the antitrust bill which he asked leave before the Senate adjourned for the holidays to introduce. The bill goes to the Committee on Judiciary, of which Senator Hoar is chairman. It provides, first, that none of the existing laws regulating com merce or directed against trusts or mo nopolies shall be in any wise repealed or restricted by this act. The sum of $500,000 is placed at the disposal of the Attorney General to pros ecute offenders under any antitrust act. It then provided that no corporation shall engage in interstate or foreign commerce until it shall file a statement in the office of the Interstate Commerce Commission, signed and sworn to by its president, its treasurer, its general man ager and a majority of its directors, or by the persons exercising the powers usually exercised by such officers and directors on or before September IS. in the year 1904, and shall on or before September 15 in each year thereafter tile a like statement for the year show ing the amount of its capital stock, the market value of the same, how much of the same has been paid in full in cash, or. if the same has not been paid in full in cash, what has been received by the said corporation, joint stock company or other association, in lieu thereof, and the value of whatever shall have been so received by it: the names of all the offi cers and directors and all agents ; the amount it has paid in dividends during said period, the rate of percentage and times of paying; a statement of all the stock owned by it of any other corpo ration, joint stock company or other as sociation, specifying the corporation, joint stock company or other associa tion, and the number and value of shares in each ; the amount of its own Stock held by other corporations and the value thereof, and the amount of stock in other corporations held in trust for it ; or in which it has any interest, directly j or indirectly. I An undertaking signed by said officers, 1 general managers and directors, that they will comply with the provisions of this and all other laws of the United States in the management of the affairs of said corporations. This statement shall be in addition to all statements now or hereafter required by the Interstate Commerce Commission or by any other public authority. The Attorney General of the United States may at any time require of any such corporation any statement he may think fit in regard to the conduct of its business. And he may especially require any sucli corporation to give a list of all contracts or transactions entered into within the 12 months preceding such requisition in which it has sold any ar ticle or product or carried by any other person than the party to such transac tion. And he may further require the reasons for such distinction. TALLEST OP SKYSCRAPERS. New Bank to Be 25 Stories and Highest In the World. New York (Special). Workmen are now busy upon the foundations of what is to be the tallest office building, from basement to roof, in the world. From basement to roof the building will be 3,17 feet high, which means about 327 teet from the street level to the roof. This excels even the Park Row building, which is now the tallest office structure in the world, for, while the towers of the latter rise 382 feet above ground, the roof itself is only 309 feet. The proposed structure is being erect ed for the National Bank of North America, and is to be known as the Wall Exchange Building. It will be 25 sto ries high, the lower io of granite, those above of brick and terra-cotta. Charles W. Morse is the real leader of the enterprise. Several months ago Mr. Morse and his associates got control of the bank, which then had a capital of $100,000, absorbed and merged it into the Bank of the State of New V'ork, which had a capital of $1,200,000, and moved the enlarged bank to the home of the latter concern at the northwest corner cf William street and Exchange Place. That corner plot, containing only 3,300 square feet, has since been sold for $ 1,000,00a Mr. Morse organized from among his fellow-directors an associa tion which purchased the plot adjoining the old bank building, 100 feet square, and began the erection of the skyscraper. MARCONI'S WIRES ALL OVER CANADA. Wireless System to Bring the Oreat North Country Into Communication. Winnipeg, Man. (Special). Marconi is preparing to instal a wireless trans continental service through Canada. j ..y, .' '' experts passed through Win nipeg on their x'rst to arrange for a scries of tests in the koc.,, ! '-"'mains, where it is expected the diverse elect.! cat currents in the rarified atmosphere of the high altitudes may interfere with the successful sending of messages. Winnipeg is to be the half-way house of the system. It is understood the sta tion will be located at Stony Mountain, an eminence 12 miles from here. It will receive Eastern messages from Muunt Royal at Montreal, and it is the work of the experts to locate the next Western station in the Rockies. Five Skaters Drowned. Evansville, Ind. (Special). Three boys lost their lives while skating on a pond a short distance below the city. Pembroke, Mass. (Special). The bodies of Oscar Pratt and George Sil via were found in Big Sandy pond. The hoys started out on Christmas morning for a day's skating on Big Sandy pond, and nothing was seen or heard of them afterward until their bodies were found Saturday. , I7S.M0 ta Ask Mora Pay. St. fcene IE! St Louis, Mo. (Special). That the eneral movement of Western railroad ployes for a wage advance is rap- 1 approaching a crisis Is evidenced the early arrival of many delegates to the national conference to be held here this week, at which committee reports will be received and acted upon. It is declared that the conference will represent fully 175,000 railroad em ployes. While it is difficult to learn the exact nature ol the reports to be submitted by the committees, it is said on good authority that the schedule which will probably be fixed Upon will call for an advance of 12 Oct cent. ' DOINGS AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL. Over Tea Million Surplus. The monthly comparative statement of the government receipts and expen ditures shows that for the month of De cember, 7902, the total receipts were $47,151,290 and the expenditures $36. 533,744. having a surplus for the month of $io,6i8,coo. The receipts for the month are about $100,000 in excess of those for December, 1001, and the ex penditures $785,000 less than for that month. The receipts from the several sources of revenue are given as follows : Customs, $23,670,004; increase as com pared with December, 1901, about $2, 630,000. Internal revenue, $20,979,318; de crease, $2,215,000. Miscellaneous, $2,501,886; decrease, $320,000. The expenditures on account of the war department show a small decrease and on account of the navy an increase of about $1,213,000. For the first half of the present fiscal year a surplus is shown of $24,734,000, as against a surplus of $42,621,897 for the corresponding period last year. Although the receipts from the inter nal revenue arc less than for December, 1901, the amount of the decrease is sur prisingly small, and it is a noteworthy fact that in some of the larger revenue districts the total collections are greater than they were before the war tax was removed on July I, 1002. The monthly circulation statement is sued by the comptroller of the currency shows that at the close of the calendar year the total circulation of national bank notes was $384,929,784, an increase for the year of $24,640,058. and an in crease for the month of $75,270; the cir culation based on United States bonds amounted to $342,127,844, an increase for the year of $17,118,538, and an increase for the month of $1,027,433. The circulation secured by lawful money amounted to $42,801,940, an in crease for the year of $7,51,520, and a decrease for the month of $052,163. The amount of United States registered bonds on deposit to secure circulating notes was $344,252,120, and to secure public deposits $153,384,070. May End Disastrously for China. Administration officials have been forced by the discontent of European powers at China's refusal to pay in gold the second installment of the Box er indemnity to regard the Chinese question as one of the most menacing now obscuring the horizon of world politics. The United States has always held that the protocol signed by the powers provided for the payment of the install ments of the indemnity at the rate of exchange prevailing in April, 1901. The European powers insist that each pavmcnt shall be made at the rate of exchange prevalent at the time of pay ment. No secret is made of the fact that the Administration regards the situation as extremely serious. It is feared that the impatience of Russia, Germany, Eng land and other foreign cowers will de velop into something more threatening to China. The claims of these powers always have been regarded by the United States Government as extor tionate. A high official said: "There is no question but that the powers will attempt to practice extor tion on China, foolish though that may be, for China is in dire straits finan cially and commercially. The United States has always been China's friend in this matter, simply because "China is right in refusing to pay trie indemnity at a higher rate of exchange than pre vailed in April, 1901. "Just when the powers will take it upon themselves to threaten China with partition or attempt some other dras tic measure remains to be seen. Moral sentiment is unquestionably on the side of China." Australia Needs Wheat Two hundred thousand tons of bread- stuffs must be imported Trom wheat producing centers to Australia during the coming season to meet harvest de ficiencies, says United States Consul Gooding, at New Castle, in a report to the Slate Department. The crop in New South Wales, he says, will not reach 50 per cent, of the quantity reaped last year and Victoria will require imports of 3,637,929 bushels of wheat to supply her needs. The situation is not so bad in South Australia, though the crop is less than last year. Fifteen thousand tons of California flour are afloat for New South Wales, but the Consul says the price of California flour has risen so greatly that the effect will be to divert a good deal of trade to Canada, which raises hard wheat of a class well suit ed to mix with California flour. Panama Canal Negotiations. Mr. Herran, the Columbian charge here, and Mr. Cromwell, counsel for the Panama Canal Company, called at the State Department by arrangement, separately, though in pursuit of a com mon purpose. Naturally in the incom plete state of the canal negotiations the State Department officials are unwilling to discuss details. Mr. Cromwell, how ever, was willing to be quoted to the effect that now, in the judgment of the canal company officials, the negotiations are progressing satisfactorily and prom ise to result in a settlement and the sign ing of a treaty. With the Lawmakers. Acting Secretary of the Navy Darl ing sent a letter highly praising En sign Cronan and the crew of a lifeboat of the Marietta, which saved at great risk a Venezuelan from drowning. Walter Wellman says he knows how the North Pole can be reached and will give the information to anyone who will properly utilize it. Secretary Hav gave a cabinet dinner in honor of President and Mrs. Roose velt. . The President and Cabinet discuss ed the Venezuelan situation, and Sec retary Hay said that no definite re sponses had been received from any of the allied powers to President Cas tro's last communication. Charges were brought before the In terstate Commerce Commission against the Chicago, Burlington and Cjuincy Railroad by Gilbert Barr, of Kearney, Mo., who alleged onjust tariff on live stock. A valuable collection of relics of Gen eral Grant's tour around the world has been placed on exhibition. A committee from the llniversity' of Virginia called npon the President to invite him to attend the annual com mencement. v At a cabinet meeting it was decided to close the postoffice at Indianola. Miss., wife re the postmistress, Minnie M. Cox, a colored woman, was forced to resign by threats of the people. President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a reception in the White House, which was attended by Washington official society, including the diplomatic corps. The Assistant Secretary of Agricul ture says there is no reason for the existing high prices for meat. He urges tb people to demand a reduction. BY CABLE TO HAWAII Message Flashed to (he Presidenl at Washington. THE GREAT JOY OP THE ISLANDERS. The Completion ol the Cable to the Islands In the Pacific a Notable Event Operators Waiting Impatiently lor lbs Signal lo let Them Know That All Was Ready-Tns Line Is Now Open for Business. San Francisco, Cal. (Special). San Francisco and Honolulu are now con nected by cable. The first words passed under the ocean a few moments after it o'clock. The wire worked per fectly. The Silvcrtown, just before splicing the ends, some. thirty miles off . shore from Honolulu, telegraphed both ways for the land stations to wait until it. to o'clock, San Francisco time, before trying the cable. That time was de sired to insure the perfect hardening of the gutta percha in the splice after the joint should be lowered overboard from the ship in about 2500 feet of water. Operators sat anxiously and eagerly about the instruments in King street, at Honolulu, and in the cable office on Market street, in San Francisco, waiting for the time lime limit to ex pire. Just alter it o clock a signal went from this end to Honolulu. The first response from Honolulu came into nan Francisco at exactly lt.03 o'clock It was 8.41 in- Honolulu, the time dif ference being two hours twenty-two minutes and a tew seconds. The first message received was from Goveror Dole to President Roosevelt. It was merely a formal greeting and congratulation from the people of Ha waii to. the people of the United States, from one chief executive to the other. The message was transmitted at the Market street oflice to a wire leading directly to the Executive Mansion at Washington, and its receipt was im mediately acknowledged. After the first message came a sec ond message from Honolulu. P was a greeting from the people of Hawaii to Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Cable Company, congratulating him on the completion of the cable and expressing sorrow that John W. Mackay had not survived to see the instantaneous bond between the islands and the American Continent. This message was signed by Henry E. Coo per. Secretary of the Territory of Ha waii. The paper ribbon containing the rec ord of the first experimental work be tween San Francisco and Honolulu was cut into little sections of a few phrases each and divided among the score of spectators who were assem bled about the instruments when San Francisco and Honolulu first spoke to each other tinder the Pacific ocean. MAYOR UNDER ARREST. Charged With Destroying Evidence ol Alleged Peculations. San Juan, Porto Rico (Special). The mayor of this city, Manuel Egoz cue, has been arrested, and is held in $5,000 bail on the charge, made by In sular Official Inspector Hoist, of de stroying the records of the city water receipts, which constituted the only evi dence of alleged extensive peculations and embezzlements. The allegations against the Mayor were originally made last October in a petition of citizens which was present ed to the governor, and which asked for the prosecution of the mayor. The editor of the News, which published the text of the petition, was arrested on October 23 on the complaint of the mayor on a charge of libel. This ar rest caused considerable excitement, which ended in the shooting of two men. Since then three other officials have been arrested and are being pros ecuted for alleged shortages in their accounts and for embezzlements. The peculations arc said to range from $8,000 to $43,000, and niisappropria t'ons of other funds are also alleged. Miners to Gel More Pay. Wheeling, W. Va. (Special). A wage advance averaging 10 per cent will be granted by every important mining con cern in West Virginia. It was given January 1 in the Norfolk and Western Raijroad and Fairmont regions, and oth ers indicate like concessions this month. The famine caused by the anthracite strike increased the selling price of coal considerably, and thus allows the vol untary wage concessions, but it is said the threat of President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, to estab lish headquarters in the Fairmont re gion January 25, and remain until the Wist .Virginia field was thoroughly or ganized, was a strong factor in influenc ing the operators, who fear a general strike in the spring. Cuban Editor Killed. Santiago de Cuba (Special). Con gressman Corona, editor of the Cuhano Libre, shot and instantly killed Senor Insula, editor of the Republica. Both men were prominent politicians and lead ers of rival parties. Senor Corona was drinking in a cafe, when Senor Insula and a party of friends entered the place and began a political discussion. Per sonalities and insults followed and quickly was started a fight with canei, during which Senor Corona, it is al leged, suddenly drew a revolver and shot Senor Insula three timei. Senor Corona then walked away and has not yet been arrested. Twins Bora la IHffereut Year. Chicago (Special). There is a curi ous situation at the home of Mr.' and Mrs. John Stift, of this city. They are the parents of twins, and the story of the birth of the babies in different years is now going the rounds. One of the twins was born at 10.30 p. m. on the last day of 1902, and along after mid night, an hour or so after the birth of 1903, the second child was born. The birthday of one is December 31, 1902, and that of the other January i, 1903. Araiy Barracks Barasd. Sault Ste. Marie, Mick' ( Special ).j The army barracks at Fort Brady were completely destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $80,000 The barracks were occupied by a battalion of the Four teenth United States Infantry, and the men saved their accoutrements and the furniture of the building. 1'here was little water in the city standpipc when the alarm was turned in, and consequently- not sufficient pressure in the mains for the faremcn to cope with the flames. An investigation of the lack of water is now being made. The barrack were built in 1892. CASTRO DISPLEASED. Arbitration By Hit Hague Not lo His Uklqg His Views Not Accepted. Washington, D. C. (Special). A con dition which President Castro attached to his response to the allies' arbitration proposal was in the nature of an altci native proposition. Almost from the beginning Castro has shown an aversion to The Hague tri bunal, and, while accepting arbitration, ne nas asked that trie case be tried by one of the American Republics. As President Roosevelt already had declined to act as arbitrator, and as some of the reasons which inspired him in his declination would apply with equal force to the chief executive of any other American State than the United States, he was obliged to withhold any indorse ment of this proposition of President Castro. Therefore, it may be dismissed from tbe field of possibilities and. un less Castro is unexpectedly insistent upon his own plan, the original proposi tion of reference to The Hague tribunal will carry. Berlin (By Cable) The Foreign Of fice here is satisfied with the spirit of Castro's answer to the allies. A fur ther interchange of views, preparatory to signing the protocol, will take place in Washington. The only really import ant question to be settled is what shall be done with the blockade. A continu ance of the blockade is relied upon to hasten the conclusion of the arbitra tion preliminaries, especially on the part of Venezuela. London (By Cable). The Birming ham Post says that Germany, through her Ambassadors at Washington and London, has asked whether the United States and Great Britain think that dip lomatic relations with Venezuela should be resumed, pending the inves tigation by The Hague tribunal of ar bitration. The opinion of official cir cles in Germany is against the res'.irrp tion of these relations until the claims are paid. BANK PREri DENT'S SUICIDE. Financial Difficulties May Have Led to S:lf Destruction. Silverton, Col. (Special). At noon James II. Robbin, the missing presi dent of the Bank of Silverton, which w;ii closed on account of his disap pearance, was found dead three miles from town. He had shot himself in the head. It is supposed that financial troubles caused him to commit suicide. He was about 45 years old and leaves a widow and three children living in Den ver. Mr. Robbin was principal owner of the Iowa-Tiger mine and chief promo ter of the Camp Bird Extension Com pany, and was heavily interested in nu merous mining ventures. He was re puted to be worth $5,000,000. 1 he liabilities of the bank are said to be about $300,000 ; assets unknown. Cuts Off His Own Foot. St. Paul (Special). His foot pinion ed under wreckage of. his,dismantlcd en gine, with escaping steam scalding his tace and slowly torturing lum to death, Engineer C. J. Wood, of the Burling ton road, drew a pocket knife from his clothing and amputated his foot below the ankle. Crawling away from the fury of roaring steam he sat shivering in the cold morning air, stanching the flow of blood with a handkerchief until the crew of the incoming Burlington train, with which the wrecked engine came in collision in the St. Paul yards, hurried to the scene and found the en gineer by the side of the track. Tralo Rolls Down Bank. Birmingham, Ala. (Special). A pas senger train on the Southern Railway bound from Atlanta to Birmingham wa.- derailed near Weems Station, about 15 miles from here. The baggage and mail cars were thrown down an em bankment and wrecked Engineer White was the only person killed. About 27 passengers were injured. 1 hey were brought here. None of the injured is in a serious conation, as trie passenger coaches remained on the track.. Horse Crosses High Trestle. Lockport, N. Y. (Special). King Stanton, a race horse, ran away over the railway tracks. He crossed the Market street trestle bridge and the rail road bridge which spans the big chasm, in which flows the Erie canal, 60 feet, below. The bridge is 500 feet long, un covered, and the ties were ice coated. The horse succeeded in crossing with out an accident. Fatal Fire In Dallas. Dallas, Texas (Special). Fire in the warehouse and stables of the Hughes Bros. Manufacturing Company, on Hughes avenue, burned J. W. Williams, a negro boy, to death and destroyed 20 head of horses. A warehouse contain ing machinery and manufactured goods also was consumed, making a total loss estimated it $50,000. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. At Fort Dodge, la., fire destroyed the grain elevator and 100,000 bushels Li oats belonging to the Great West ern Cereal Company. The loss is $125,000. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company has forwarded to the mine strike commission statistics of hours and wages of its employes (or 1901. There has been much fighting in the new oil regions in Wyoming by men staking off claims, but no bloodshed has been reported yet. Mrs. W. A. Clark, Jr., daughter-in-law of the Montana senator, died at Butte, Mont, Her child was born De cember 3. . . The wife 'of Governor Dockery, of Missouri, who has been seriously ill for some weeks, is dead. At Sioux City. Ia., fire did $100,000 damage, destroying one elevator and its contents and a number of other buildings. Marconi is preparing to etabli&h his system of wireless telegraphy through out Canada. Negroes of Boston observed the for tieth anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. . Associate Justice W. A. Little, of the Supreme Court of Georgia, has re signed. Gen. Francis V. Greene assumed the office of police commissioner of New York. Electrical workers of Indianapolis are on a strike for an increase in wages. B. B. Odell, Jr., was inaugurated Governor of New York for a second term. The capitol at Jefferson City, Mo., was slightly damaged by fire. ' The Iron Trade Review says that the iron industry is in good shape. Kite-flyer Eddy says he has discov ered a practical airship. Sir Charles Allen Lawson had his wife arrested, in London as an habitual drunkard. The exports from Germany tt tbc United States increased during the year. THE KEYSTONE STATE Nw Happealois of Interest Oathertd Front Ail Sottrcea, Patents granted: Edward BagnalL Pittsburg, apparatus for grinding smoothing and polishing plate glass; Charles W. Bray, Pittsburg, -manufacture of black plates or sheets, also ap paratus for making black plates ot sheets; William M. Brown, Johnstown, contact box tor electric railways, also electric switch ; James T. Callahan, But ler, well casing packer; Frank Conrad, Wilkinsburg, menus for measuring the energy of threu-phrse alternating cur rent circuits; also ground detector for electric circuits; James W. Cruikshanks, Pittsburg, leer for anucaling plhte glass; Thomas F. Davies, Duquc-up, ' rail joint and fastening; Lords B. J-tfl-ton, Pittsburg, pump governor. Pensions granted: Henry - T. Mc Kclvcy, MeKcesport,' $6; Patrick H. McGee, Beaver Falls, $to; Georg? Sharp, Camprnn, $0; John A. Willisrus, Roaring Spring, $10; George W. Neff, Hollidaysbtirg. S12; Charles H. Farrw worth, West Bingham, $10; Winfield S. Sniclds, Marion Center, $10; Andrew Bonner, Houtzdalc, $14: Jennie A. Pat terson, Allegheny. $; Hannah Mc Clure, New Castle, $8; Hatlie Hobson, Allegheny, $8; Mary S. Ferguson, Franklin, $8; Rebecca Adams, laren tum. $8; Albert V. Jerauld. Nicholson, $6; Jacob Josbcrger, dead, Pittsburg, $12; N orris Crossman. Titusville, $N; Laurice Dchan, Oil Ci.y. $8; Daniel Moc' McConnollsvillc, $-2; Absalo.n F. Mortimer, Fie, $10; Benjamin J. Caldwell. Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Erie, $8; George W. Confer, Venns, fi2; Timothy Sullivan, Jamestown, $8; nnie Ream. Johnstown. $8; Sarah M. Hayward. Bradford. $8; Martha E. Hays, New Castle, $12. Two new coal operations were start ed in Pottsville. which will laro-elv in-. rrease the output of this district. The Darkwater Coal Company started the opening oi a mine on the Pott and Ban ian tract, which contains an immense jmount of coal. This company is com prised of. Philadelphia and New York , capitalists, with offices in Philadelphia. The Stanton Colliery, which was aban doned by the Reading Company, ton vears ago, is being reopened by Smith. Meyers & Co.. who started the erection sf a large breaker on the ground. The Black Diamond Company, headed by Terrcnce V. Powderly, also expects soon to begin shipping coal. At the Oak Hill Colliery, at Dnn :ott, which employs 600 men, too sticks ol dynamite were exploded when a mi ner tried to pry off the cover of a case :ontaining the explosive. Three miners were killed and a score more or less injured. The accident occurred nearly a quarter of a mile under ground and 500 feet from the foot 6f the slope. Nine sets of timbers were blown out and there was a fail of many tons of coal and rock, which filled a large por tion of the gangway. Many miners were cut by tiying rocks', splinters ol timbers and other missiles. The bodies of tin men that were killed were badly dismembered. Sarah Ilickey. the 13-ycar old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hickcy. of East Smethport. perished in a fire that destroyed their home. The flames made such quick progress that the occupants of the upper part of the building had scant time to escape with their lives. The daughter-was thi first to emerge from the burning house and not seeing her mother she rushed frantically back through smoke and flame to rescue her parent, whoi in the meantime, hnd jumped to the ground from a windojw. Both Mrs. Hickey and the grand mother, Mrs. Conley, in their attempts, to reach the child, were badly bu-ncd. Announcement was made today at Lewisburg of the successful completion of the effort to secure $100,000 addi tional endowment for Bucknell Univer sity. The institution is now worth $1,000,000, and has an attendance this year of 620 students, an increase over that of last year. West College, the new dormitory, with accommodations for ninety students, erected two years ago, is occupied now and every roo:n is taken. 'Hie new physical laboratory, which includes a heating plant from which all the buildings are warmed, is being used this year for the first ti.ne. 1 The Schuylkill County Commission ers have reduced the county debt $27, 000 by calling in bonds to that amount. , There is over $100,000 in the treasury and the commissioners expect soon to clear the county of debt. Rev. F. J. Millman. pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Potts - vilie, has been indorsed by the Schuyl kill and Lackawanna delegates for chap lain of the Lower House of the State Legislature. Support of other counties , has been assured. Constables Michael and Roehricb took into custody, at Lancaster, Cyrus Sandoe and Frank Parmer, Welsh mountaineers, on charges of robbing the railraod station at East Earl and Martin's store, at Cedar Lane. Fan doe recently turned detective and w;i investigating other robberies in eastern Lancaster county. Paul W. Houck. of Shenandoah. ha just received word his appointment to th? vacancy on the State Pharmaceut ical Board, caused by the dcafli of Dr. Gcorgc W. Kennedy, of Pottsville The selection of Mr. Houck is receiv ed by Scfnyylkil! county with much grat ification. Th; position pay.) 6oo year. During the past week the Municipa' Hospital building at Oakview, where n-.any smallpox patients were treated last winter, has been broken into and numeious articles have been carrici away. Since the closing of the ' hospital blankets, sheets and other ne- , cessitics have been kept in the build ing on the second floor, and many ol these arc missing. At a meeting of the State Forestry Reservation Commission it was an nounced that during Governor Stone's administration the State holdings. oi forest land for State purpofes wax in creased to 653,000 acres. Resolution! ' were passed thanking Governor Stone for his co-operation Mrs. H. F. McReynold, widow ut II. F. McReynolds, for years editor and publisher of the Harnsbnrg ''Pa triot, is dead, aged 7$ years. Fred Gifford, of Penfietd, accident ally shot and killed himself while out hunting, hit gun being discharged at he was carrying it by the muzzle. William Carmont -was killed by fat!- V lug from a freight train at .Marietta, , Carmont hails from PitrsbuVg, is a traveling peddler and is known as th Buffalo Bill of Pittsburg. , Samuel Quimby, aged no year, com mitted suicide at his home in Reading. He had spent the afternoon with his sweetheart and declined an invitatioa ' to remain for dinner. Half an hoist after he left the girl received a n from him, s.ying: "By the time 70a get this IU be no more." She sew word to his home, two squares away, ana nis ooay was found in the rest yard with the jugular severed with one vslash of a razor. ith 1.1 , ' ; l v 1 ;
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