WAR IN SAMOA
——
Combined British-American At-
tack on Mataafa.
SHELLING VILLAGES.
Rome Sallore and Marines Killed Naval
Officers Adopt a Hesotutlon Dismissing
the Provisional Government and Order
ing Mataafs to Vacate-Tho Rebels
Attack the Consu'ates.
Aria, Banos, via Auckland, N. Z., (By
Cable. )—The troubles growing out of the
recent election of a king of Samoa have
taken a more serious turn and have resulted
in a bombardment of native villages sloug
the shore by the United States eruiser Paii-
adeiphin, Admiral Kautz commanding, and
the British crulsers Porpolse and Royalist,
The bombardment has continued inter.
mittently for eight days. Ssveral vilinges
have been burned and there have been a
number of killed and wonnded among the
American and British sallors and marines,
As yetit is impossible to estimate the
number of natives kilied or injured.
Kautz Issues Proclamation.
As Mataafa and
the provisional
defy the
government, continued to !
Augio-American-German treaty
after the arrival of the Philadelphia, Ad.
miral Kautz summoned the consuls and
senior paval officers to a conference on
board the Pulladeiphia, when the
situation was carefully canvassed, The re-
SUIt was a resolution to dismiss the provi
ional government, and Admiral Kautz is.
sued a proclamation esiling upon Mataafa
and his chiefs to return to their homes.
Mataafa then evacuated Mulinuu,
town he bad made his
went into the interior,
German Consul Dissents.
Herr Rose, the German consul at Apla, i
issued a proclamation, supplementing the |
one he had issued several weeks before, up-
hoiding the provisional government, As a
result of this the Mataalans sssembled in
inrge force and hemmed in the town of
Mulinuu
The British cruiser Boyalist brought the
Mailetoa prisoners from the islands to
which they bad been transferred by the
provisional government. Mailotos, it will
be remembered, was: the rival ecasdidate to
Mataafs, and was declared elected by the
Samoan chiel justice, Mr. Chambers, but |
Mataafa, who was backed Ly the Germans,
overthrew him,
The Americans fortified Mulinuu, where
2,000 Malletoans took refuge, The rebels
the adherents of Mataafa—barricaded some
roads within the muunieipalliy, but outside
the settlement, and asized British houses
near the fortified part,
War Follows Ultimatum,
An ultimatum was then seat to them, or-
dering them to leave the vicinity, and threat
ening them, in the event of refusal, with a
bombardment to begin at 1o'clock on the
afternoon of Mareh 15. This was ignored,
and the rebels began an attack in the direc
tion of the United States and British con
sulates about a hall hour before the time
fixed for the bombardment,
The Philadelphia, Porpolse and Royalist |
then opened fire upon the distant villages.
There was great diffienity in joeating the
Mataala men, owing to the dense lorest, but
several shore villages were soon in flames,
German Consulate Struck. i
A defective shell from the Philadelphia
exploded near the American consulate, and
the marines outside narrowly escaped. A
fragment struck the leg of Private Radge, |
shattering it so badly as to necessitate sm- |
putation., Another fragment of the same ;
shell traversed German
smashing the crockery. The Gerinane then |
went on board the German eruiser Fa ke,
Hebeols Make an Attack,
During the night the rebels made a hot |
attack on the town, killing British |
sailors, A British marice was shot in the |
leg by a sentry of his own party, another |
i
i
i
tha
headquarters, and |
ihe constuinte, |
threes
was shot In the foot, and an American sentry |
was killed at Lis post,
The bombardmest continuing, the inhabl- |
tants of the town took refuge on board the |
Royalist, greatly crowding the vesgel. Many |
persons are leaving Bamos, the eapiain cf |
the Royalist urgiog them to go, #0 as not to
interfere with the military operations.
Mataafas Boats Captured.
The Porpolse has shelled the viliages east |
and west of Apia and captured many natives’ |
boats,
The Americans and British are fighting :
splendidly together, but there is a bitter i
feeling against the Germans,
Two men, a British and a German subject,
have been arrested as spies, . The bog bard.
ment of the jungle was for a time very hot,
SIXTY DROWNED,
A Misslssipp! River Stembonat Goes Down
Off Tylor, Mo., With All on Board,
Tyler, Mo., (Special, }~ Between three and
four o'clock in the alterncon the steamer
Rowena Loo sank in midstream in 70 feet of
water, with about 60 persons on board,
The steamer had just backed out from the
landing asd bad reached the middie of the
river, when she suddenly stopped and lurch- !
ed as if a snag had been struck. The text!
moment the boat parted in the middle, a!
volume of steam aed debris arose and the |
detonation of an explosion thundered over |
the water,
All on board perished except Captain Car-
vell and one mate,
There were about sixty people, among
whom were M. C. Lewis, traveilog freight
agent of the Lee Line, and 8, C. Hamphrey,
general agent for the Chicago Miliand Lum
Ler Company, of Cairo. Names of the other
passengers corld not be learned, The cause
of the disaster cannot be obtaiped,
phis, She had a light freight load and about
sixteen passengers on board, as thers had
been Ite business since the bigh water,
Most of the erew lived fa Memphis. In
addition she had about thirty deck hands,
At Caruthersville, Mo,, she landed and
took aboard 15 more passengers, It is estis
mated that with passengers and crew she
then had aboard about 60 people,
She made the next landing at Tyler, Mo,,
where the disaster occurred,
BURGLAKS MAKE A MAUL,
A Postofiies, Express Offices and Stores
Robbed on the Ohio Kiver,
Huntington, W, Va., (Bpeclsl.)j~At Le.
sages, an small village ten wiles above her
om the Oblo River Rallrond, burglars mads
# big buul, Every stamp ia the postoffice
The uation vile wan Jursiars 4, ud ni
packages of any ue “hn, # general
store of Frank Dickey was robbed of a large
THE NEWS,
A number of Pennsylvania legislators
testified before an lovestigfting committee
that they had recelved offers of money or
position for thelr votes fn the senatorial
contest and on the McCarrell jury bill,
Cosfllasng raports are made of the loss of
life by the sinking of the steamer Rowena
Lae at Tyler, Mo,
Au unusually deep snow fell in Kansas
and Missourl,
Delaware democratic legisiators who were
read out of the party by the State central
committees say they will not resign their
offices,
Workmeu on the farm of Henry R, Brewer,
at McOonnelisburg, Pa, were attracted to
the woods by a dense smoke and they found
Christian Zelliff, a peddler, with all
to a erisp. He was so badly burned that
denth followed inn short time, Ho was
sixty years of age and eame to this section
of the State each spring to peddle notions.
A special to the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
from Naylor, In Lowndes county, says:
Mra. J. A. Turner, a bride of a few mouths,
was found iying on the floor with ber head
in the fire when her husband went home to
dinner. It is thought she fainted and fell
into the fire. Her bead was almost entirely
consumed by the fire,
J. E. Dickerson, director of the defunct
First National Bank, of Ashevilie, N, C., was
sentenced to ten years. Dickerson wiil
appeal,
labama democrats selected delegates to
the State constitutional convention, to be
held nexs August, "
The Warren Line steamer Norseman ran
on the rocks near Marblebead Neck, Mass, ,
cattiemen to the number of
A ten-ineh cannon burst on the Sandy
Hook (N. J.) proving grounds, kiillng one
man and icjuring two others,
Representative Mark 1. Davis, of the jast
Daiaware Legislature, was arrested at Dover
i
the balloting for United Stites Benator,
Rev, Dr. James O. Murray, dean of Prince
ion University asd professor of English lt.
srature there, died at bis home In Privee-
ton, N. J.
W. H, (“Coin”) Harvey has resigned as
general manager of the ways and means
committee of the national democratic eom-
mittee,
The Fifteenth Minnesota Regiment was
mustered out in Augusta, Ga., without spec-
ial incident,
Fire In Acker, Menall & Condet's
story buliding on Chambers street, N.
caused a loss of §100,000,
About forty employes of the Anchor Bliver
Plate Company are on strike, at Oswego, N.
Y., because of a redustion in wages,
Ligbtulag struck J. E. Howerton's barn at
Oskvilie, Ky,, killing Robert Pesrod and
dangerously injaring Mr. Howerton,
The names of the United States transports
Scandia aud Arizona have been changed.
five.
YY.
the Hancock,
Articles of incorporation of the Compress.
ed Alr Traction Company, with a capital of
$15,000,000, were flied at Trenton, N. J.
The San Francisco Call says that Gov-
ersor Bradley, of Kentucky, bas decided to
settie permanently in San Franciseo snd
takes up the practice of law,
Lyman Emerieh, the fireman on the Phil.
adelphia and Reading engiue whieh explod-
*d at Mohrsviile, Pa., died at Reading of hi
Company, of New York City, certified to the
75,000,000,
Charles A. Chipley, general freight agen
of the Pennsylvania Hallroad, bas tenders
his resignation, tc take effect May I. He
probably succeeded by Jobn EB.
Thayer, Jr., bis assistant,
TEN-INCH RIFLE M
ber
BEECH BURST,
Hook Proving Grounds.
New York, KN. X., (Special }—At the Sandy
Hook proving grounds one of the ten-inch
i
i
i
ward, penetrated the sand butt fo its Sight,
killing Henry V. Murphy snd injuring FPri-
Department, It is thought that the Injuries
of the wounded men are not serious
Capt. Babbitt, in charge of the proving
grounds, says that the aceldent was caused
by excessive pressure of the smokoless-pow-
der charge. The gun, which burst at the
fourth round, was of the 1505 model. It was
totally destroyed, and it partially wreeked
the barbette oarriage on which it was
Murphy bad for masy years been the re-
cording clerk at the testing of guns here,
aod bad several narrow escapes befors,
WINDSUR SAFE FOUND,
Its Contents, Including $200,000 In Valn-
ables of Guests Intact,
New York, N, Y., (Special.)—-From the
ruios of the Windsor Hotel workmen dug
out the Inrge office sale, The top of the
safe bad been broken by a heavy beam, acd
the sides were bulging a litle, but the cone
tents were little damaged,
Papors near the sides, top and bottom of
the safe were a iiftle browned, but othae-
wise uniojured., Many small packages con.
taining the valuables of patrons, whish one
man estimated to be worth £200,000 were
taken out, and all of them were found to be
intact and uniojured, The books were
found to be in excellent condition, A little
water bad gotten into the safe, but had in
jured nothing, The day's receipts, about
$4,000, was intact,
There was no change in the morgus record
of the victhos of the Windsor Hows fire. The
dead still number 38, 27 bodies being wok
dentified,
Compound Locomotives,
A dozen of more of the 45 sonsolidation
compound freight locomotives, recently or
dered for use oa the southwestern division
of the Baitimors & Oblo Rallroad, are in
sorvios and are giving sploadid satisfdetion,
On the Mississippl division, they have ine
eroased the train haul 40 per een, over the
old Hoe. Woen the grade reductions are
compisted the Improvement will be even
more notigeabie, The compound ten whee)
pasgenger engines have developed unex
proted pulliog power sad unusual speed,
aw“ vis aly
BURNED TO THE GROUND,
i —————_
Postal Telegraph Ballding Destroyed,
Columbia, 8. O,, (Bpeeinl,) The big Clty
Halband Operas House was burned to the
ground, together with the adjoiniug build.
. fod by the Postal Telegra
aud fn a few minutes had sovelopsd the ove
Tus
MALOLOS
IS TAKEN.
of Americ
an Forces.
Manila, Phillppine Islands, (By Cable.)
seat of the so-called insurgent government,
nt ball-past nine o'clock Friday morning,
the rebels burning
SOURIY evacuating it,
They are now In full retreat
north, whers Aguinaldo and
hava been for two days,
Gensral MacArthur
about seven o'ciock, He was met
strong opposition, the rebels resistiog des-
perately, vul losing heavily,
General Hall's brigade advanced
water works, and drove the
the
began the
north
left
SHOWER OF BULLETS,
Five of the Brave Yolunteera Killed and
Thirty wounded,
Mantis, Philippine
The United States
night in the
quarter from Malol
began at two o'elock, and covered a distance
of about two and a-hailf
Guaigulto River, niosg the rallroad.
brunt of the battle was on the right of
Islands, (By Cable,
troops rested 7 Bursday
jungle, about a mliie and a
wo. Tbe day's advance
The
the
| MacArthur west foto camp near the station
it 6.00 o'elock, four miles from Malolos,
i GEN, OTIS’ REPORT,
| Gen. Hall Captures n Town sud Puts the
| Enemy to Flight
The follow.
Olis were re-
Wasbington, D. C., (Special)
| ing despatebes from General
ceived at the War Department
Mantia, March 81,
Adjutant General, Washington,
MacArthur made dispositions Thursday
| for attack on Malolos, Engagement opened
at seven o'clock, Casualties four killed and
23 wounded; all brought to Manila, Hall
moved out from camping station at daylight
with three batisliond nporthess:; attacked
and has taken Marlquios, and is
enemy; ordered to return,
[Signed]
ursuing
Oris,
Manila, Mareh 31.
{ Adjutant General, Washington, D, C,
MacArthur eaptured Malolos st 10.15 Fri.
day morning. FEoemy
resistence and firlug the
quite & severe cugagoment
Quine. Casualities twenty
Lack.
i [Signed.}
eity. Hall had
beyond Mari.
Enemy driven
Tin,
the
yntenirated,
The First Nebraska, First South Dakota
woods, and the Americans advancing agross
the open, sullerad a
hour, Four men of the Nebraska Regiment
were killed, and thirty were wounded, Bey
eral men of the Dakols Hegiment were
wounded, and one of the Peonsylvania was
killed,
back, Although thers were three lines of
enemy made soareely any defense there,
shooters In trees and on
theses were speedily dislodged,
The enemy's loss was apparently small,
that the Americans were unabis to see them,
and ia firing wers guided only by the sound
of the Fllipiao shots. Tne American artil.
lary was handicapped for the same reason.
Thursday night's Jong Hoe of camp flres
made s beautiful sight, with the Twentieth
Station, and the Pennsylvania regiment on
the right, beyond the river,
SL a——-—
BURNING EVERY TOWN VACATED,
Fight at a River Crossing Two Americans
Killed and Twenty Wounded,
Manila, Philippine Islands, (By Cable.)
After a couple hours of rest MacArthur's
division pushed on across rice fleids and
rivers, through the juogle, without meeting
any opposition, the enemy flying from the
villages of Ueat, Taal aud Bigaa, after burn.
ing them.
Even the town of Bulacan, the capital of
the provinse, wes burned and abandoned,
a'though General MacArthur passed miles
to the right. At five o'clock the enemy
made a stand la trenches hall a mile beyond
Guiguinto Station, wt a river orossing,
The Kapsas and Pegnayivania Regiment
immediately deployed, erossing the raliroad
bridge under heavy fire, and attacked the
enemy's position,
Tue rebels withstood the musketry fire
for hall an hour, but the artillery discon
worted thom, and at the end of a forty-five
minute fight, the insargents boited towards
the bills, Our loss was two killed and
twenty wounded,
The enemy's loss was severe, COenieral
1
THE SUPPLIES ABUNDANT,
Washington,
lowing has
{Bpeeial, }-The
the War
Manila, March 30, 1809,
Adjatant Goarral, Washington:
Sutmistence suppiles exeelient and abun
dant. Meats deteriorating in this hot eli
mute ars sold at publie suction at bigh fig-
ures, Considerable bard bread spoiled; will
i be some joss, Sapplies fs all other depart.
menis good; medical supplies abundant,
[Bigned.] Ors
WHECKED BY A CYCLONE,
Churches and Oiaer Bulldings Destroyed
in Alabama and One Life Lost,
| Beims, Ala, (Special, }—A cyclone did con.
i siderable damage to the little town of Rider.
ville, twenty-two miles north of here. The
| sawmill of the Jackson Lumber Company
| and the company’s store was badly wroeked,
‘and a pumber of dwolliag bouses demol-
{jehed, A large dwelling was carried mors
{than a hundred yards and over, and paris of
| several houses wero blown completely away.
| Ex-Gov, Jackson, of Maryland, who Is
| President of the lumber company, was vie
| iting the mills, and, with several others, was
| in the office during the storm. The office
| was wrecked, but all miraculously ssoaped
| injury. The eyclone was about cae-eighth
| of a mile wide, und moved in a southeasterly
1
i
direction.
Opelika, Ala, (Special. }-A terrifle storm
| passed over this ity, The rool was blown
| off the Minoeal Well Hotel, and in the east.
| ern part of the city 8 two-room house was
demolished and Amy Huguely instantly
killed. Many trees were blown dows wad
much damage done,
Ten Men Horribly Burned.
Johnstown, Pa., (Bpecial,) Ten men were
horribly burned, two of them probably fa-
tally, by the blowing off of a monster cylin.
der head on a blowing cogioe in a blast for.
naoe of the CamUria Stesl Company. The
fojured mon were at once taken to the hos-
pital, The physician in charge reports the
condition of ail ns serious,
Father and Son Waers Hang.
Kansas City, Mo, (Special, )—James Reed,
aged 22 years, color-d, was hanged here,
Reed shot Mr: Suse Blakesley to death in
ter home In a fit of jealousy, He died on
the same sealfold on which his father, Mar.
tin , died in 1894 {or the murder of his
wife, Jim Beed's mother,
ORILDREN IN A PANIC, +
Caused By Candie Setting Little Giel’'s
Nee (Bomeial, Floren
Hpringleld, : » oo
Tale, a pupl of tue Lorutta Acnismy, whils
AMERICAN GOODS IN DEMAND,
English Berlously Alarmed Over Oar
Growing Trade In the Orient,
Han
ish steamer Ettrickdale arrived here from
ABOUT EQUAL IN NUMBERS,
Amerienns Have 10,000 Mon on the Fight
ing Line and the Filipinos 12,000,
Washington, D, O., (Bpecinl,)—It is sald
at the War Department that General Otls
fans under bis command lo Mantia snd vieln.
ity about 27,000 soldiers, Agulpaido, ac
sording to Ouls’ last report, basabout 50,000
armed men, i
General Corbin says that the American
column which bas been in action is about
10,000 men strove, apd that the Filipinos
bave about 12,000 men in line, But Agul
onido’s reserve, 18.000 strong, Is not far
from the seene of tne hardest fighting; io.
deed, it 1s suspected that some of the re-
serve, fneluding the leader himself, may
Lave been drawn Into the struggle, in whieh
cases the odds would bave been heavily
agnlonst the Americans,
There is a possibility of eonfusion over the
samen of Generals Hale sod Hall, Gen, Ir.
ving Hale was Colonel of Colorado lufantry,
and bas been promoted to be Lrigadior-gon.
eral of volunteers, Genera! Robert H, Hall
was formerly colonel of the Fourth Infantry
and bas also been promoted to be briga-
disr-goneral of volunteers, Both of these
mun have been in the eugagement north of
Muuila,
ATTEMPE TO BUKN A HOTEL,
Narrow Escape of the Lafayette Hotel in
Fhisdelphin
Phbliadelphia, Pa,, (Special, }—A determin.
ed effort to set fire to the Lafayette Hotel,
in the heart of the city, with the apparest
purpose of causing a tragedy similar to the
Windsor Hotel fire lo New York City, was
mnde Leflore scarcely any of the many guests
io the hotel were awake,
The suspicions actious of an unknown
weil-dressed stranger, who was seen leaving
the hotel shortly before seven o'clock, ied a
buliboy 10 go upstairs with a thought that
someting might bave been stolen, From
purior B, oa the second floor, he saw smoke
coming out, and on entering found that fires
had been lighted in three different places,
atid were then guislog besdway., In one
corner & upumber of curtains were
thrown together and wers ou fire, He
ince
emploves succeeded in extioguishing the
flames without the guests knowing of the
great danger that bad threatened them,
That the purpose of the Incendiary was to
cause another great hotel fire, with the ln.
tention of committing wholesale thefts dar.
jug the excitement, is the belief of the hots
propristor. Local detectives were assigned
10 the case, and they sont for two New York
detoetives 10 ald them, The affalr was kept
a secret, but managed Lo jeak oat Friday.
It is the oploion of some of the dbtectives
work. Asa precaution against a repetition,
ali the hotels in the city now have au extras
lores of watchmen on duty.
KILLED WIFE IN A uREAM.
A Hemarkable Aceldental! Shooting Dar
ing a Troubled Sleep.
Tacoma, Wash, (Bpecial j~Dr. Charies
Corey shot and killed his wife while the twe
were lying asleep, Corey was ill and his
story of the affair is that Le was isboring
under a nightmare, believing his wife ws
belug pursued by & stranger, who was in
tent on killing ber.
In bis dream Corey says be foliowed the
two from Tacomas to Washington, asd jus!
fired twice with his revolver, He awokd
with a start flod bimsell sitting io bed,
with a smoking revolver fu bis hasd, Corey
iad draws bis revoiver from its place under
10
The relations between Corey and bis wile
He i» nearly erazed
Lis suleide, Mrs, Corey was a leader
She was afraid of »
Wis Bot arrested,
the Cotiniry Present,
Port Arthur, Tex, The formal
opening of the Port Arthur Sulp Canal took
pince Saturday. Over 3,000 visitors from all
the country were present, and the
wers participated in by Gows.
Sayers, of Texas; Jones, of Arkansas, and
Stanley, of Kansas; pracileaily all the mew.
bers of the Texas Legislature, a large num-
ber of members of the Kansas Legisiniure,
a delegation of foreign caplinlists, and sev
eral train loads of excursionists,
The canal i= 87,700 feet long, nod will con-
pect Port Arthur, the southern terminus of
the Kansas Ciiy, Pittsburg and Gulf Rail
road, which controis the enterprise with
Sabine pass,
Bpevial, )
Ceremonies
Order for Twenty Piaced With the Bald.
win Locomotive Werks.
Phtladeiphin, Pa., (Special )—Orders for
foriy new locomotives, twenty of which are
to go to England and the others to the far
western part of the United States, have just
been received al the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, The Eoglish order came from the
Great Northern Baliroad Company, of Eug-
Yand, and is the direct resuit of a visit made,
to this oity a few days ago by one of the
corporation's directors. While here he
thoroughly inspected the Baldwin Works,
and before leaving completed the contract
or the twenty locomotives,
FOUNG LOVER'S DESPERATE ACT,
Parents Opposing He Kills His Sweetheart
and Commitee Baleide,
Kioston, XN. C., (Special. )--Mr. Lonno KE.
Laue, about twenty-two years old, and Mise
Gionanie Sauls, about fourteen, both of well
to-do families, took a walk together, Not
returning, search was made, and their bod-
fos were found pear the city, It appeared
that Lanes had shot Miss Sauls and then
killed sieSell with a pistol. His attentions
to the young girl were not acceptable to hoe
parents, and he had been forbidden to visit
the home, This was probably the cause of
the tragedy.
ANOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
It is probable that General Miller, who
now ut Dollo, will erect a summer residence
in Btockbridge, Mass, .
Late reports from Florida indicate that
Hugh MeLaoghiin, the Brooklyn Demo.
cratic leadar, has aimost entirely recovered
bis health,
P. Prostor Kuott, one of the best-known
lawyers in Kontaeky, has
ties to Nee Su Sal of tae 1a Centre Col.
toge, Danville, Ky. : :
Ex-Nasor Stmusi 3, King, of Philadel
‘who died re y Was a
Ea Et a ical ora
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Six Lives Probably Lost in a
- Chicago Fire. »
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ELEVEN WERE INJURED.
Terrible Panic Among the Your Hundred
Employes of Armonr’'s Curied Haz
Worke— Blaze Started by a Nall Catching
Ins Pleker und Causing Friction, Which
Ignited the Inflammable Material,
Chleago, 1l1,, (Special, )—Pire destroyed
the Armour Curied Halr and Feit Works,
Thirty-first place and Benson street, saus
ing a property loss of pearly $400,000, in-
luring eleven employes, one fatally, aud sn.
dangericg the ives of 490 others, who
rushed to escape through the bilndisg
smoke,
Later it was found that six people who
were in the buliding whea the firs broke out
were missing, and while it is not thought all
ol them are dead, itis probable that the
majority of them perished,
Employes of the floor on which the fire
started sald that & nall which caught fn a
picker caused friction, igniting the foflam-
mable with which ithe machines
Fiames spread to bales of curied
hair and in three minutes the entire foor
Woe dens with blinding black smoke,
Men and women leit thelr posts in fran.
Uegushes tothe exits, Many ran to wine
dows snd descended by the fire-eseapes,
but most groped through the smoke to the
first floor aod out of the corner entrance,
Jrremiah was bending over his
carding machine when the biszs broke out.
Btifled by the smoke, he staggered to 8 win.
dow, swung oyer the sill, and huog by bis
finger tips. Meanwhile firemen stretched a
drop. He did
net and shouted
. but ernabied 10 the stone sidewalk,
a
The loss is total. The jnsursace
£500 000,
material
were led,
Bteain
to Blesie to
ie
ADMIRAL DEWEY'S FLEET.
Bix Vessels Crulsing Among the Istande—
Frincetou Broken Down.
D, C., (Special )—Admiral
Dewey bas cabled the Novy Deparument the
tiluation and positions of the American ves-
sels of his fleet, The dispateh follows:
“Manolis, March 27, 1599,
"Becrotary of the Navy, Washington:
“Toe Oiympia aud the Oregon, the Mo-
nadnoek and Mooterey, Callan, Masiis and
the Helena, are cocupy strategic posi
Uous at Manila Bay. The Boston and
Charleston, the Couneord and Petrel are
cruising in the lasds to the south. The
Baltimore and the Yorktown corulsing off
Luzon, Have sent Bessingion to Hong
Kong to dock. The Prineeton is at Singe-
pore rejairivg, propeller is broken, The
Nansban bas gone to Guam. Iris will sail
shortly for Holic with coal. Will dispateh
Bolnce as early as possibile
Washington,
ng
“Dewey.”
AFTER WEST INDIAN TRAFFIC.
Southern Mallway Aboot fo Extend to Sa
vannah and Jacksonville,
Columbia, 8. C,, (Special) ~The State an
nounces thst the Southern Hallway is about
10 extend its lines from this city 10 Savage
nab avd silimately to Jacksonville, Chief
Engineer Wells is already in Columbia or-
The shortest possibie route
¢ Ssavapuah and 1 new line
mpleted in time for winter's
wi
wil
be Laken t hie
ee 01 next
Visine,
Tis extension is readered necessary by
Fiorida Cenf®al sod Peninsular,
Columbia
COLneCt
By
to Bavaunab
with the Plans
iis through business lute
the Bouthern will
Bystem and tarn
that elannel,
The increasing importance of the West In-
diss traffic, destined In the near future to
become very lucrative,” is the stimulus
this strong competition,
CONVICT MEANT TO MUEDER
Escaped From Cell and Lay In Walt For
His Victim,
Columbus, Obio, (Special, )—Conviet Otis
Hurley was detected st the penitentiary as
be lay In wait for bis former viotim, Miss
Dalsy Sprague, whom be had attempted to
murder in September last. Hurley had Leen
in solitary confinement and wore a bali and
chain, but with the aid of a steel saw be re
moved his fetiers and ent his way out of the
cell,
When discovered he was in hiding on top
of a sale in the offices where Miss Sprague
is employed as Lookkeeper, He was armed
with a stiletto made of ball of a pair of sis.
sors. Harley is servisg a 12-year sentence
for bis former attempt upon the young
indy’s life, with whom be is enamored,
PARRICIDE SENTENCED TO DEATH,
Makes a Bensationsl Speech to the Court
Protesting His Innocence.
Topeka, Kane,, (Special. )-—Jobn Henry
Collius received the death sentence lor the
murder of bis father, When asked by Judge
Hagen if be had anything to say, he made &
sensational speech which Lrougnt tears to
the eyes of many of the people who crowded
He sours room. Among olber things, be
said:
“Ikaow Iam innocent, I knowl did
not kill my father, I wish it were possible
that be might come back bere from beyond
the grave and be telore you, so you might
learn from bim I am not guiity. 1 would, it
it would avall soyiling, call upon Alm
God to read my benrt and show you that I
am an innocent man,” *
WR 8 Eg
x Killed in Friendly Boxing Mateh.
okomo, Lud. (Special, }~Charies ;
aud Carl ghey I= Su coy
years oid, were engaged in a trlendly box
ing match ut Center, this cvuaty, when Cone
nor gave MeCoy a Liow over tue heart that
cnused A hemorrhage, McCoy bad enlarge.
ment of the Leart. Connor was not ae
Missoni