THE NEWS,
J. C. Root was elected sovereign com-
mander of the Woodmen of the World for
eight years at a salary of &7,5600,
John Bigby, who was shot by the Pal
metto, Ga., mob last Thursday, died at Al-
lanta, his death making the fifth viotim,
During the absence of John Dian and wife,
of Greenfell, Manitoba, from their farm,
their residence caught fire and thelr five
¢hlidren were burned to death.
Toe Woodmen of the World, In conven
tion, selected Columbus, Ohio, as the next
meeting place, Charleston, 8, (., New Or-
leans, and Denver were the other candi-
dates,
The Iilinols House of Repressntatives
passed the Senate bill to prevent the intro-
duction and spread in Illinois ol the San
Jose scale and other frait insects,
Thomas Stubblefield, nephew of Circuit
Judge Robbins, was shot and fatally wouund-
ed at Mayfloid, Ky., by Joseph Hammonds,
of Clarksville, Teno., in a sudden quarrel,
A Pitsburg dispateh says ninety-eight per
cent. of the manufacturers of flint-glass ta-
bleware have given options on their plants
for the proposed combination. The lamp
combination Is also assured, with a eapital
of $6,000,000,
A last passenger train on the Erle load
jumped the track at Rittman, ten miles west
of Akron, Ohnlo, killing Eugineer Wallace
Logan, Fireman Barney Ward and two
passengers were injured,
Every employe of the Buffalo (N. Y.)
Smelting Works, the local branch of the
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, re-
ceived a bonus of ten per cent. of the wages
earned during the past year in lieu of ar in-
crease In wages,
Maurice Chaney, who Is wanted in New
York, charged with operating a swindiing
game among the wholesale druggists of that
city, was arrested in Chloago. Chaney rep-
resented himself as a leading druggist of
Chicagu.
By the death of Mra. Annette Hyde Col.
ton, in Springfield, Mass, a bequest of §35,-
000 becomes available to the town library of
Stafford, Conn., the bequest having been
made by her brother, Arbey Hyde, formerly
a prominent resident of that town.
Henry Miller, the old veteran at Montreal
who sent threatening letters to President
MeKioley and others and was arrested at
the request of the Unfted States Cousul Gen.
eral, has been examined by the police physi-
elans and found to be insane,
The Buffalo express, ou the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, was deralled at North Wilkesbarre,
Pa., by crashing into an engine whieh over-
lapped a switeh, The engloeer and fireman
escaped with a few bruises. The passengers
were badly shaken up, but nose was serious.
ly injured.
About 650 operatives in the Warren Cotton
Mills, at Warren, B. I. stopped work on ac-
count of the dismissal of one of the em-
pioyes.,
Six hundred employes of the Fox Pressed
Steel Company, of Pittsburg, Pa., have quit
work becaus® the firm has refused to grant
an advance of 10 per cent, in thelr wages,
Mrs. Frank Wilsick, of Oliver, Pa., used
kerosene in kindling a fire, and as a result
she and her two littie children were {fatally
burned in the explosion which followed.
C. W. Jefferson, conducting the largest
grocery In Louisville, Ky., flied a voluntary
petition fa bankruptey. His liabilities, ae-
cording tothe schedule flled, are #78170,
with assets of about £60,000,
Rev, Dr. Maitland Alexander, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church, of Harlem,
N. Y., bas been unanimously called to the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian Chureh,
of Pittsburg, Pa. The salary is #6000 »
year.
The window glass factories of D. O. Cun-
pingham, Cunningham & Co, lmited, and
Phillips & Co., all of Piusborg, were closed
down by tbe strike of eighty lebr-tender and
shove boys for an advance of 10 por cent,
Martin Schroeder, formerly of Buffalo,
N. Y., was fatally stabbed by as unknown
person in San Franciseo. The police incline
to the theory that the wound, which Is near
the heart, was loflicted by a woman.
Fuaroaces in the Mahoning Valley, Ohio,
bave soid 130,000 tons of Bessemer pig iron
this week at £14.50 per ton at the furnace,
The National Steel Company bought 90,000
tone; Carnegle Steel Company 20000 tons,
and 20.000 tons were disposed of to other
concerns,
Io the trial of Frank Aloswoith, at Car-
rolitown, Lil, who io an attempted hold-up
of a night express train on the Chicago,
Barlington and Quincey, shot and killed
Engineer Fred. Dempsey, the jury returned
# verdict of gality, and fixed the penalty at
49 years in the penitentiary.
Io an altercation at Tappabannoek Capt.
A. F. Bagby shot Georges NH, Soott in the arm,
The smalipox is fast disappearing from
Alexandria, Va., aod the inspection of boats
and cars between that city and Washington
has Leea discontinued.
Rev. E. T. Welitord, of Newport News,
Va., has received a fourth eall to the Pres
byteriaa Chureb, at Texarcana, Toxas,
In Barbour county, W. Va, Fraok M.
Simon, who struck it rieh io Kiondike, was
married to Miss Frances Simon, his fifteen
year-old cousin.
Reports to the West Virginia boar! of
agriculture show that all crops were badly
damaged by the cold weather in February.
It is estimated 90 per cont. of the penches
were kilied,
A large plant for the masufsotura of
doors, sash, ete, Is to be removed from Os
wego, N. ¥., to Keyser, W. Va,
Mrs. Martha Place was electrocuted at
Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaugh-
ter, Ida Pinoe, being the first woman io New
York to suffer death in the electric chair,
President McKinley, Vice-President MHo-
bart and Senator Hanna went to Jekyl Is-
land, Ga., where Speaker lived is also a
guest,
Two men were killed at Laredo, Texas, in
a fight with Mexicans, who resisted moas-
ures taken to stop the spread of smallpox,
The Brooklawn Hotel, st Cleveland, Ohio,
was partly destroyed by fire, fifty guests os.
eaping without injury,
The funeral of Mayor Patrick Welsh, of
Augusta, took place with imposing cere.
monies.
Herbert Putnam, librarian of the Doston
public Hbrary, will aecept the appointment
as Hbrarian of Congress,
Dr. Oliver Marey, dean of the North
ern Usiversity, Chicago, and professor of
natural history in that igstitutios, died nt
his home, in Evanston, after a long illness,
aged seveaty-uine.
Joseph Nelmoth, of Wilkes-Barre, 'a., has
confessed to having murdered John Giveon-
ouskl, who was struck on the head bya
stone while returning from a political meet.
ing at Doriea, in 1800,
The passenger train on the
Northern, which has
4 stalled for a month
near Iron ab on
yo, with a number
duleisnd trom fis
PUT 10 DEATH.
Revenge for the Killing of
White Planter.
PLOTTERS RUN DOWN.
Leader of the Colored Man Tried to Starts
Race War Ha Murdered sn White Man,
Was Arrested and Lynched, and Then
Mis Associates Were Unught by Aroused
Citizens,
o——
Texarkana, Ark., (Special. )~ Wild execite-
ment prevails among the negroes of Little
Hiver county, and seven negro men have
been lynched by residents of that section,
The affair originated with the assassina-
tion of James A, Stockton, a planter, by
“General” Duckett, a negro, last Friday.
Duckett was lynched the day alter Htock-
ton's murder,
. Among those who have fallen ‘victims to
the wrath of the whites are Edwin Goodwin,
Daniel King, Joseph Jones, Benjamin Jones,
Moses Jones, brothers” aad another man
whose name could not be obtained,
Joseph King and John Johason was also
taken in hand by mobs and whipped. They
were afterward turned loose and have dis-
appeared,
Stockton was murdered at his home, near
Rocky Comfort, by Duckett last Saturday.
The negro escaped at the time, but after re-
maluing in hiding in the swamps until Tues.
day he surrendered, sayiog he bad nothing
to eat since his flight. He was taken to
toeky Comfort, and soon after his arrival
thare Bheriff Johnson and deputies started
with him to Richmond. They were over-
iaken by 2 0 armed men, who demanded the
prisoner. Duckett was taken to the piace
where be killed Stockton, nod alter making
a confession be was lynched,
When the negro was takes to the George
plantation just before the start was made
for Richmond, it seemed as I! every man
within ten miles knew of the eapture. Bs
fore the officer and prisoner could get fairly
started the whole county was sroused,
After the lynching it was learced that
Duekett bad frequently tried to get the ne
groes io the county to join him ju a race
war against the whiter, A few hours after
be killed Stoekton be passed several negroes
al a farm house, and, it Is sald, told them
be had kliled one white man snd if they
would follow him he would kill more.
The Jones brothers were Intimate with
Duckett, and it was discovered that they
were at the head of a scheme avenge
thelr comrade’s death,
Plots that the followers of Duckeit had
coneocted were unearthed, and when the
revelation was made a basd of men began
their search for the prineipals, Friendiy
negroes, who had originally Informed
Btoekton of Duckett's threat, knew the plans
of the negro schemers, but had best wargsed
under penalty of death, not to communicate
them to the whites,
It was learned that
to
BE
=
pegroes were Ime
bent ou meting oul summary pusishment to
all the conspirators,
od, and the work of wipiug out the entire
list continues without relaxation, All Ime
plicated In the plot are known, and parties
of white men, varyiag in number from 25 to
50, are seouriog the country for them,
Wherever one was found be was quickly
sirung up and his body perforated with bui-
or three was ao easy matter. Bat the news
soou spread among the negroes, who, in-
the battle they bad threatsasd, became
panic-siriokon and began getting oat of the
community as quickly as possible
Reducing Grades.
The contracts have besa let by the Reesiv-
ers of the Baltimore and Ohlo Ealiroad,
through General Manager Underwood, for
the proposed improvements on the line be-
tween Wheeling and Pittsburg. A few miles
south of Pittsburg thers are two very bad
hills, ones known as Whitehall, asd the other
as Thomas, The grades on the present ilae,
both sides of Whitehall Summit, are 152 feet,
plus the survature (from the fact that they
were not equated when pul lo) equaling a
grads of 158 leet per mile,
The grades at Thomas Summit ars 138 fost
per mile on the west side and 78 to 104 fest
per mile ou the east side, without equation,
which add «d makes them equal to 164 and
178 feet por mile, necessitating heipiog
power at both summits in boll directions,
The proposed new los will shorten the dis
tanoe 2.97 miles, and the savitg in elevation
at Whitehali Summit will bs 157 feet, equal
in equated distances to 31.400 feet, and at
Thomas Hill a saving of 32 test in swevation,
equal in equated distancs to 6.400 feet, The
new line will not exceed 66 foot per mile and
will save about $50,000 a year in operation,
FIELD OF LABUA
Milwrukeo bootblaoks have organized,
Great Britain has 210,000 onion miners,
Isthers talk of formiog s natiocanl union,
Bt. Paul hasn't an idie onion stone-cutte,; |
Claeionst! dlergymen want Sanday fuser
als abolished,
Cincinoatl unionists want a place on the
Democratic tioket,
Great Dritain’s 1,000,000 unionists may
form a pational federation.
Cineinnatll molders will sirike on May 1
for 80.75 a day. They now get $2.50,
Boye employed in a Muncie, lud,, glass
works lost a strike {or the dismissal of eo)
ored youths,
A briek trust at Milwaukee bas raised the
priee to &7 a thousand, an advance of $2.50
and §38 per 1.000,
Tuere are more workers employed, says
the American Federatiooist, than at any
time within the past few years,
Bome New York diamond polishers are on
strike becanse they can earn oniy #17 a
week, They used to get $35,
New York union elgarmakers spent $5,000
in prosecuting sucomsiully a firm thet used
a counterfeit inbel,
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, has Innugurated
an eight-tour scales on the police fores and
has extended the same to all eity publio
work. .
After pearly nine years of existence the
Bt. Paul Retali Clerks’ Union No, 2. has de
aided to abandon the ualon aud return its
obartes,
The Cleveland Conteal Labor Union has
and take “breakfast” at a i0-cent lodging
ane,
Bundstone, Minn, stonseutiers bave not
only been oneded the eight-hour day. bat
J Sues raseive 43 & day. They received #2.75
i ow Hew Fork obi si Ny hans Union
TO BURN A TOWN,
Rebels at Malitbog ‘Threaten
elgners— A Heveolt,
Manis, Philippine Islands, (By Cable, j=
Trouble has begun at Malitbog, the rebels
imagining that the foreigners urs plotting
agalost them, Catbalogan line been fortified
aod the women have been removed,
General “Lukban!l threatens to burn the
town before he will surrender, The condis
tion of the foreigners thero is preearious,
and there can Be no immediate movement
from Manila for thelr protection, There Is
urgent nesd about Manila for all of the
troops hers and on the way from the United
Btates, and the present small fores renders
extensive movements impossible,
Advices from Cebu roport everything quiet
thers, but say that a feeling of uneasiness
prevails, The British guaboat Plover left
Cebu on March 14 for Oemoc to reseus O, I,
Cogan, » British subject, who wis a prisoner
in the hands of the natives, Arriving at
Ormoe, it was found that the prisoner had
bean removed, and the ganboat proceeded
to Catbalogan, the headquarters of the in-
surgents.under General Lakbanl, where a
native officer was taken on board,
The Plover then went to Loyte, where
Cogan was found, but a fight was narrowly
averted la getting him on board.
Alter getting Cogan Captain Cowper, com-
mander of the Plover, offered to take three
Spanish prisoners who were held by the na-
tives, but tHe insurgents refussd to give
them up.
the Fors
SCARE AT NEGROS.
Native Tribe at Panay Threaten to Revolt
— May Unuse Troable.
Liollo, Panay Island, A sonre is reported
in the Island of Negro.
Upward of 6) Spaulsh refugee planters
have arrived at llollo, and state that a na-
tive tribe of 20000 strong, living on the
Montsseos River, 20 miles south of Bacolad,
threaten to destroy the hacienda nnd crops,
They have a few firearms,
equipped with spears and bows. The Hpanu-
fards requested arms from Geperal Miller to
defend themselves and thelr property.
There is no change In the situation here,
The wounded men are recoveriog.
ADDRESS TO THE NATIVES,
United tates Commissioners’ Has
Made Public
Mdtiln, Philippine Islands, (By Cable.)
The address to the natives of the Philippine
Been
sion in behalf of the United BSiutes Govers.
ident, has been made public, After
transiated into all the antive dialects It
be disseminated throughoutthe archipelag:
The address assures the Filipinos of
intention of the Americans to develop
powers of ssil-government in the people,
It explains that the United States has
international obligations
then
whieh It
to the whole civilized world for the
The Cou
of the
natives the purposes and intentions
shall suit the capacity and requirements
onsistent with the ine
10 be exercised in any apirit of
vengoutos: but haviug
tyranny
sovereignty
States fs bound
the Philippines. To
ny
them
The majority of the Commissioners incline
under »
tral government whieh shall be mil
be Tens
NAVY HAs ANOTHE ® v x SSEL,
boats, Has Been Saved,
Washington, I. C., (Special b-Anotber
oy
in the shape of the ganboat Baracoa, The
sunk pear Guantanamo, Caba, It is a Gee
fultype of vessel for patrol work and is
about 30 per cent. larger thas the gusbonts
Sandoval and Alvarado, sow at the Waal
ington navy yard,
The Baracos is of steal, 114 feet long, 16
feet boa and 8 feet draft, Its displavemeans
is 135 tons and with 220 horsepower it is able
to make 10 knots an hour. It curries one
Hostoria gun of 3.5-inch ealiber, one of 1.7
caliber and two machine guns, he Bara
con will be ordered north as soon as it ean
be made ready lor the voyage,
The Navy Department is still waiting to
hear from the Swedish Company which has
undertaken to raise the Crisioual
The project has not been abandosed ly
means, Exper: engioeers in the employ of
earelul stady of the situation,
tuted to Sweden and, sccording to thele
report, began the preparation of exact esti
mates of the cost of raisiog the ship,
entertained no doubt of their abiiity to raise
the ship,
JOHN MOORE CONFESSES
The Kansas Marderer of His Children
Says it Was "Like sn Dron"
MeDPherson, lan. (Special. )-~John Moors,
the Hutchinson murderer, made a algued
statement of his horrible erime, Moore
murdered his five children with a hatebet
and knife, then burned the house over their
heads,
He and his wife Bad quarreled, and he
says they were about to separate, Iu the
statement Moore says:
“I had bean feeling prety bad for tho
past two or three days, The children were
all in bed asleep. I turned the lamp down
and wenttobed, 1 then had one of my
worst spells, and my bead hurt me awlfuily
and everyihing seemed floating before me,
nud the pext thing that | remember alter
this was in irging to get cut of the house,
I have a recoliection of going throagh =»
struggio Hike a dream thet 1 hall remember,
HAH the recollection I have about this
is that | wonid rather soe my children dead
than to leave them in the hands of my wifi’
people, It was like a dream 10 mw that I
done something to the children, but | do
not recollect using the knife or hatehet, 1
loved my children and 1 lived for them,"
A iso
A Your of Grant Prosperity.
Wheeling, W. Va, (Spocial, } The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Pitts
burg, Wheeling and Restueky Ratiroad
Company was held In this city, The follow.
ing directors were elected: LP. Hubbard,
. List, 8e, H. K. List and Joseph
i, ot Wheeling; James MeCron and
rE A tart
year was gue 0 great prosperity
with this lise, which is operated by the
. The gross Sen
show An inrenus of over 8
RIOTS IN HAVANA.
om————
Many Persons Wounded in a.
Conflict With Police,
w———
PEOPLE OPENED FIGHT.
Bad Feeling Between the Folice snd the
to Fifty Persons Were Wounded.
—————
resulted in much shooting and elubbing,
From thirty to fifty persons were wounded,
some seriously,
Captain Estampes, formerly a Colonel in the
Cuban army,
week ago with the demonstration in boaor
of Gen, Maximo Gomez, the police have been
them and deelnre them inefficient, Certain
newspapers let no opportunity escaps to
criticise the foros, denouncing the arrests as
unfair, and charging the police with “tramp .
ling upon the rights of a free people,’
who have to make the people fear them in |
order to secure obedifnee,
record to fall back upon for example,
ball in Ban Jose street, an unsavory quarter
of Havana, Many Cuban officers,
and Captains among them, attended the
affair. A policeman on duty on that street,
Hie request was unheeded,
the group, whereupon many men
his elab
roughly,
The polloomen Immediately notified head-
quarters, who ordered tweutly reserves lo
trouble, The crowd had pre.
pared for thelr arrival, Itis sald they opened
with a revolver fire upon the police, which
14
and revolver, and bandied him
until
The opponents of the poiles acted with dee
termination In the affray. Many who were
the rool,
od Hired upon the
up
is comparatively low,
poiles from that point, They were appar-
well armed and, this fact together
with the resolution with which they fought,
Gg party was mostly made up of Cuban offi.
cores, as ordisary olvillans would
Pabilie opinion
conflieting
charge thet n with interfering with the rights
of the people, As the facts becomes kpown,
however, opinion
foree,
respecting
American troops were ealied to
When the trouble was Over,
arresis followed. Police Capt
who is well known io Cuban military elreles,
is #0 badly Inj ited that fears are entertained
that be will pot recover, FP
Baoul Arango, who came into polices ou the
day ol the Gomez
the scene
bis atliem pts to break up the procession, and
who sulsequently chaliouged Gen, Alejandro
chief of staff of Gen, Gomer, or
efforts to resic order,
ype
BANDITS KILLED,
Miller Hepulses Their
Upan Liolle.
Manila, Phillippines Isiands,
Attack
{By Cable}
untais bacditii of Pasay Isiand re-
threatened a sericgs aitack upos
Liolio, but they were repulsed, with a loss
ef two hundred gen, by General Miller,
It is reported, oo hitherto reliabies author
ity, that Agoisaido Is taking extreme mons.
ures (0 suppress sigus caleuinted to cate A
cesstition of hostilities, Twelve adherents
independetce, residents of
Manila, have been condemoed to death bee
en dod upon 10
Ou Friday last General Lagarda
Aguisaido to quit, He argoed with the jo
him of the foliy of his persistence in the
face of overwhelmiog odds, Aguinaldo was
furious at ihe advice, aud ordered Goneral
Lagarda to be executed immediately,
The unfortuuste general was promptiy
Among the Incidents of the fighting was
the coolness exhibited by 8 compnny of ‘the
Washington Volunteers, who crossed ine
filteats being taken across ol each trip of
small bodi-win aitack the caswy's
The ivaldiity of the commissary train to
keep up with the advance ied 10 considers.
bie suffering, and many of the men were
compioieiy eaisusted when they were ree
called, and, falling from the ranks, ware
sirung along for a distance of almost six
miles, numbers returning to camp in the
artillery ambulsoces, wiieh were always
close up to the lines. The work of tue
ambulances was especially worthy of meus
ticu,
NO APPOINTMENT Yrom UTAR,
Only One Senator From Utah Until the
Next Lagistature Moots.
Balt Lake, Uiab, (Special j—Governor
Wells bas decided for the present, at lonst,
not to appoiot a United States Senator to
sticeerd Senator Cannon, whose successor
falied of election in the jolt assembly,
which closed (is session in a deadlock March
§ Inst,
Should s Senator be appointed from one
of the States, and the Senate acts favorably
on the appointment, Governor Wells wil
then name Seoator Cannon's saeceasor, but
otherwise bo will allow the matter to be seis
tied by the next legisisture,
CAMBON TO ACT YOR SPAIN,
ir
SMOKELESS POWDER BLOWS UF
| Three Men Killed and a Number Injured
wt the Dupont Works,
Penn's Grove, N. J.. (Bpecinl, j=-Over
3,000 pounds of smokeless powder exploded
j at the E, I Dupont Powder Works, st Car.
ney Polut, near here, and opposite Whiming-
{ ton, Dal, lostautly killing three workmen
| and injuring a number of others slightly.
} The bodies of the dead wore blackened
| and disfigured by the explosion,
| It bas not boon determined what essed
{ the accident, whieh took place about I
i o'clock in one of the arying Louses, The
{ shoek from this explosion shook the eoun-
| xy for miles around and fu this town heavy
| panes of glass were broken In many houses,
Aeross the Delawsre river in Wilmington
the noise of the explosion was also heard,
Immediately following the first #xplosion
same several other distinet, apd nearly me
oud, explosions In small storehouses, Both
the dreylug bonuses and the storehouses were
1smolished, and other small buildings abou?
ihe works were damaged,
Francis G. Dupont and his nephew were
| at work fo the laboratory at the time of the
| explosion and were slightly injured by
ploces of glass, but personally directed the
sare of theother injured and the recovery
i of the dead,
| The works have bess runnlog on large
government orders for smokeless powder,
MORE sAMOAN TROUBLES,
| Germans Demand the Removal of
Chief Justice and the British Consul
Berlin, (By Calis, A petition was re
{ eeived at the Vorelgn OMece beto signed by
| the Gormuaus in Beamon, protesting vehie.
| men:ly against the retention of Chief Justice
Chambers and a further malntenstce of the
i Beriin treaty, which is characterized as no
longer bearable, Toe petitivoers detnll a
i number of alisged contraventions of the
{ treaty by Mr, Chambers, especially toward
Herr Grevesmubl, the ebiof of polles,
The petition and the cMdal reports will
{ be sent tothe United Btates Ambassador
Andrew D, White, in support of the Germs
case,
The Lokal Anze
from its Samoan correspondent,
{ Wolltorsdorff, dated February 21. After
| recounting the eritienl situation the writer
| declares that if the German
{ will not help the Germans of Apia agninst
{ the alleged Injustice and outrages of
{ Chambers the Gormnans wii rise armed
i obtain the desired redress,
The correspondent then describes
the
ier publishes a iets:
the in.
{ tions of the Foreigo OMoe arrived,
{ the recognition of Mr. Chambers.
Tue Tageblatt domuads the removal of E
B. 8 Maxse, Beitles Consul at Apis
{ elaimivg be is rine canes of all the
| tre
the
the
ya bie,
A SMYRNIOTE IN OUR NAVY,
John
VYervevis Kilted in Action on
Winslow in Cabs.
Washingtos, D. « Special The
Department has received an
SOL msmorative service in
Minor, in honor of John Vervevis,
ote, who was a nom ie
{ torpedo boat Winslow and
i tion In the battle of
i May 11.1 The
BErvic as
Rav)
BOC
Bmyrne, Asis
a Smyra-
r of the crow of the
was killed in se
Cardenas, €
aseount stales
abs
nat
| posing luneral took plaos in
Church of 8, John the Baptist in the pre.
saoe of the friends aad Kinsmen of the dond
| snlior and many spectators
Mr. Stllpou the director of
| museum tho Greek {
or his warm admirs-
nation,
moved all
{ sonciuded by a panegyrie upon
can flag, which be bojped
i hmughtily lor centu and be respec
{ all countries, diffasing ol progres
¢ justios and civilization
Pitinkis,
and leader of
i well known, It Is said,
{tion of the American
| speech which deeply
delivered
the Ameri
ries
rays
DUG UP HIDDEN WEALTH,
Farmer Found Money Buarled in O14 Shoes
and Now He is Arrested
Terre Haute, lod. (Special. ) ~The police
of this city have arrested Rocam logran
farmer band, on a pocaliar charge.
Ingram was employed on the farm of
George Il Prink, near Chrisman, lik, and
several days ago, while digging sear
employer's barn, anearthod ac old tomas
ean coutnining $80, Ingram
search with such good resuits that
brought to the surface £160) which bad
bean tried In old cans snd
shoes,
Frank, whose mon=3 it was, discovered
bis joss nud telegraphed the police of this
pity. [Ingram has agreed 10 return to Li
nois without requisition papors, and an offi-
cer will take him back.
CAPTUKED BY BEAD HUNTERS,
n——
inn Yitipine Prison,
San Prapciseo, Oal,, (Special, A Jette:
trom Captain MeQuosten, surgeon of the
Twonty-sighth Infanty, now at Manila, telis
of the release of A. B, Peters, an American
photographer, who was eaptured and tor.
tared by Filipinos.
Voters was munds prisonet while taking
pictures oatside ths American lines, He
by a native captain, who tested bis sword
on the prisonor’s body and threatened lo
kill him, The Filipino chisel then ealied in
a number of naked savages, all armed, who
made passes at Peters, and one of whom
wonntded him In the arm,
The next morsing be waa itakenio Mal
iolos, where he found eight other Ameri
onus, two Eaglishmes and a Spaniard,
Finally be got his release through the fu-
tervention of American ofMelnls.
A A RAN
Recrnits for Garrison Dmy,
Columbus, O,, (Special. )—Au order for
the organization of a naw company at the
United Stalns barcacks hore ls believed to
mean that all posts in the United States will
be garrisoned by recruils, while the regular
infantry will bo sent ro the Philippines, The
cavalry only Is expected to be retained for
duty in the Woes,
Mother and un Bursed.
Uniontown, Pa., (B;welal)~Mre, Frank
Witslek, of Oliver, vo kindio the fire poured
coal oil In the stove while she was holding
n Lube in ber arms and another obild was
standing near, Baddenly thero was ab ex
plosion, and the flames shot out snd envel:
oped them all, Thelr clothing was barned
off and thelr bodies were fatally burned.
PERSONAL NATURE, ©
Gen, Biwell Oils is aiways ous of bed be.
Tore = feels geands, Nevada, is sald to be
ones,
stil ony of the beat rough riders in the
Senator Pairbanke has been
so sword, the Rif
——o——
Women Leap From a Blazing
Lodge Room.
sooo aor
TWO OF THEM KILLED.
A Number of the Women Rush Through
Smoke und Fiame Down the Only Stair
way —All of Them More or Less Burned
~Explosion of a Gasoline Stove the
Cause.
Omaha, Neb, (Bpreinl, ) Comparatively
insignificant ju mwaterin! destruction, but
appalling in its burvest of deaths and suffer.
fog, was a fire that partially destroyed the
Patterson Block, at Seventeenth snd Doug-
ins streets,
Two of its victims have already puseed
away, one more is not expected Lo live, and
ubout 26 others are sufl.riag from broken
limbs and burned and incerated flesh.
The biszs started sboriy aiter 1hres
o'clock, A group of women, busy with the
affairs of the secret orders with which they
were affiliated, wore in a moment brought
face to face with death, Sixty seconds ister
reves of them lay burned aud bleeding on
the pavement to which they bad drop ped,
40 fest below, and the others wers rescusd
after they had been more or less severely
injured in their desperate dash down the
single fight of stairs that Jed to salety.
The fire originated from & gasoline sve
explosion in a room ip the rear of the third
floor of the building and next to the slave
It was not discovered until it had
About twenty members of the Women's
mittee meeting in the front weiting-room, ob
the same floor,
They were unconscious of danger until
janitor threw open tie door and told them
flames cut them off. The
warning came too late. The fire swept
WAY,
Those pearest the door the
with
The
rest faced au solid wall of Same, There was
a fire escape at the south front of the bulld-
of it. They
papie-siricken to the Windows
through which the smoke was siready pour
The fire, scarcely a foot behind them,
scorched their
fled through
In another instant the spectators sitracted
by the cloud of smoke were horrified 10 ses
one aftsr another spring from the open
beavily to lhe pejymmenti
They were quickly carried
bysicias across the
Most of them were bleeding from
in shreds,
uid be appited
Viarkson Hopi
the
tad.
out
As fast ss dressings co
DRECIOUGN NGS,
Aside from the fatslities and the injuries
one,
ball of
The losses are
Various secret
rupied halls on the second
lost their regalia and pa~-
exceed #50000
which was on the buiiding.
A PALACE OF SALT.
to Attract Visitors,
Balt Lake, Utadb, (Special )-Bomethiag
this city shortly.
Cities in a enid climate srest ice palaces,
put up a salt pale
Miilions of tons of salt rook ar~ avail
It #s sald that there are no difcuition
in the way of making the proposed palsce
be a noveily, and
iy from
from al
When completed it will
visitors not ©
inter-mogutsin section, bul
the country.
paris of
Aow it is an Ugster Trust.
New Haven, Conu,. (Special) -Uader
the laws of the State of New Jesey an or-
over 86 000.000, which will sontrel
the oyster grounds on both sides of Long
| leland Sound, in New York and New Jersey
| bays, oyster farms of Narragauseil bay and
! Rhode Island and orster ground« of Massa-
ehasstte, Andrew Radel, of Bridgeport,
pany, it is said, will be made president of
the pew company.
A Chattanooga Hallway Leased.
Chattanooga, Tesn., (Special )-~Presi-
dent 8. W., Divine, of the Chattanooga Rapid
Transit Company, bas just returned from
the East. Al Washiugioa he signed a cone
tract with the Southern Hallway for a nine
tracks snd will equip tbe suburban lip
with electricity, The same company
pow build an eisetrie line to Chickamauga,
the work to be commenced al once. Baltle
more, Poiladaiphin and New York eapitaie
ists are furnishing the fuods,
To Increase Southern Iron Oatput,
Birmingham, Ala, (Special }— Because of
utprecedented demand for Bouthern pig
fron, furnace operators are preparing to in.
arease the output of this distriot 50 per cont,
within the next sixty days by tlowing in
seven farnaces now idle, This will make 21
furnaces in operation, with a daily capacity
of 2.600 tons,
High iron prices are expected to cnuse an
other advance in the wages of 10,000 miners
Apri 1, according to the siding wags sonls,
Esverhazy to Jolin Aguinalde?
London, Boag, (By Cable Major Count
Eoterhazy bas made tome seemingly frank
statements thin week 10 aa Interviewer. He
raid that the French beadquarters’ staff sup.
plied bim with anti-Direylus articles “ready
written for ipsertion in the American pa-
He also expressed the wish that he had
a uianido und sayy .