THE NEWS.
An effort’ will be made to have Moors,
charged with embezzling from a bank at
Boston, and now in Santiago, Chili, extra-
dited,
The President has
recommendations to
franchises in Cuba,
Rear Admiral Schley was given a dinner
by the Clover Club, in Philadelphia, prior to
his departure as commander of the South
Atlantic squadron. Among other guests
were Captain Clark, formerly of the battle.
ship Oregon, and General Fitzhugh Lee.
The pilot of the ferryboat Chicago, w hich
wollided with the steamer City of Augusta at
New York on October 31, has had his license
suspended for six months,
The steamer Conestoga sank at her pier at
Chicago, after a race for life. She had a
hole punched into her bow a mile and a half
out in the lake,
The Pennsylvania councils of the Junior
Order of American Mechanics, who were
suspended by the national council for re-
bellion, have obtained a hearing
The Ross House, at Ridgeway, Pa., was
burned, the fire being caused by the explo-
sion of natural gas.
Congressman Evan E.
wnth Kentucky district,
heart disease,
The Virginia Court of Appeals has decided
that the land-grabbers’ act is constitutional,
The Secretary of the Treasury has an-
nounced that he will buy $25 000,000 of the
United States filve-per-cent. b nds of 1504
and four-per-cent, bonds of 1897 at any sub-
treasury.
Charles R. and Albert O. Meolain were
arrested in Chicago on the charge of fraud-
lent use of the mails in running a bucket-
shop. They are reported to have made over
£500,000 in two years,
In the case of the assignment of the
Plankington Bank, in Milwaukee, the court
ordered the settlement of debts aggregating
$990 483 for $11,884,
A wreck on the Norfolk and Western Rall-
road occurred at Riverton, Va., by which
two brakemen and an unknown negro were
killed.
Professor Wo strong argu-
ment in Chicago in of the adminis
tration’s policy in the Philippines,
The crew of the Gloucester as ing
schooner Ethel D, Jacobs, wrecked off the
Irish coast, were brought to Boston.
Judge Reagan and John J. Hy
cussed the subject of railroad re
fore the Industrial Commun
Police of other cities are anxious to secure
the New York swindlers who are charged
with extensive operations,
The Supreme Court of Tennessee decided
that the anti-cigareite low passed by the
legislature was valid.
Admiral Schley, who is about to assum
command of the South Atlantie Squadron,
called at the Navy Department, and had a
long conference with Acting Secretary Allen
concerning the character of the service on
whieh he is about to embark.
Four men were arrested in New York and
one in Pitts whom the New York police
gay have been impli ated in a number of
schemes upon banks, ho and
mpanies in air parts of the
decided to make no
Congress about the
Rottle, of the Bev-
died suddenly of
reester made a
defense
and dis
gulation be
ission.
rg,
swindling tals
trust
country.
The broom manuafa
to take steps for pr
against the increased
The result will bo an
of brooms,
erent
oy
surers
met in Caleaco
tecting themselves
r
r
price fo
broom corn.
advance in the prices
President Cassatt, the board of directors
and the deparument heads of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad inspected
at Norfolk,
al ia flities
rth Carolina,
Business men “of | New; rt News, Va. are
making an effort to secures from Congress
an appropriation to dredge the channel over
Newport News middle ground bar,
James Monroe; charged with swindling
and bigamy, was argested in Chicago and
turned over to the Rochester police. Twen
ty-six women claim to have married him,
Frank Thompson, eity undertaker
Memphis, Tenn, was arrested In 8t Louis
for trafficking in human bodies for medical
colleges, He confessed.
General Edward 8. Hyde, of
died suddenly of apep lexy at
Chamberlin, Old Point.
Two Hungarians, while engaged in a fist
fight on the Beading Rallrosd tracks, near
Shamokin, Pa., were run down and killed by
4 train,
Rev. De Witt L. Poiton, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Chureh, of Bloomington, IL,
resigned to enter the Protestant Episcopal
ministry.
George Oaks, who m
Caraway, near Dakersvilie,
dered himself to secure hall
offered,
Officers of the Merchants and Miners’
Transportation Company made an inspec-
tion of the terminals at Newport News, Va.
Deputy Coroner Samael P, Balter, of Phil
adelphia, gave ball to answer a charge of
fraud during the recent election,
Two men wero killed by the wrecking of a
double-headed freight train at McKeen
Roeks, Pennsylvania,
Orin Springer was Xilled and William
jusby wounded ius fight ou the latter's
farm, near Kokomo, Ind.
Mise Lillie Reed, living near Spring Run,
Pa., was 50 badly barned that her life is de-
spaired of,
Tha 'oeked-out piano and organ workers
in Chicago propose to start a co-operative
piano factory.
John Armstrong was killed in 8t. Louis,
Mo., and the police arrested Mrs, Rose
Louvier, his eook,
Two people wore killed in Kansas City,
Mo.. by ptomaines in mince-mont ples,
They wiligo
Bath, Me.,
the Hotel
urdered Ambrose
N. C., surren-
the reward
Warwick 1. Price, a superintendent of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, in New
York, and John A, Meade were arrested on
the charge of stealing internal revenae
stamps,
A grain elevator at Shenandoah Junetion,
filled with wheat and corn, was burned to
the ground, Loss covernd by insurance,
Senator Mason, ol Lilinols, as a Benate
committees, hoard statements in New York
on the adulteration of beer and bread.
Judge Betts, in the Supreme Court in
Kingston, K. Y., gave permission to Attorney
General Davies to take proceedings for the
annulment of Ramapo Company's charter,
Mr. Joseph Carroll, of Washington, olaimed
the body of J. Jerome Carroll, who died
during the week in New York.
Three masked robbers robbed the Inmates
of a fast house in Titusville, Pa., and then
had a battle with policemen,
The boller of a locomotive on the Port
Deposit Road exploded, killing Abraham
Newf!, the fireman,
Lieutenant Commander Soars received
orders to report to Admiral Behley on the
cruiser Chicago,
Mrs. George Mummert fell through a
hateh-way at Menges Mills, Pa., and broke
ber neck,
SHELLED TRAIN.
BOERS DERAIL ONE OF THE FIGHT.
ING TRAM CARS,
IS GEN. JOUBERT DEAD?
Reports of the Fatal Wounding of the
Noted Burgher-News is Not Confirmed
Generally Credited in as It
Has Been Received From Many Peint
Fall of the Fasileers.
London,
Estcourt, Natal, (By Cable,)—An armored
train having on board a half company of the
Durban Volunteers and a half company of
the Dublin Fusileers steamed to Chleveley
early Thursday morning.
On its return it was shelled by the artillery
of the Boers placed in four positions, Two
trucks in front of the engine left the rails,
toppling over, While the train was thus
helpless the Durbans and Dublins faced the
Joers in skirmishing order, and the Boers
poured shot and shell into the erippled train,
The deralled wagons were with great difil-
culty removed and the line was cleared,
when the engine and tender steamed back.
During this juncture Lieut. Winston
Churchill, of the Fourth Hussars, and son of
Lord Randolph Churchill, displayed much
courage, as did also the driver and fireman,
It is feared the Dubling and Durbans fared
badly. A Red Cross party has gone
Seven of the Durbans have just come in,
making 23 missing, Only 15 of the Dublin
have returned,
The naval seven-pounder, which was in
front of the truck, had fired three shot
when in was shattered by the Boer artiller
The armored engine bas many bullet
marks, and {ts dome-cover is smash od
also, is Its automatic exhaust ply
Jack-screw, The tender Is als
bullet marks, It is rumored tha
Churchill is a prisoner
Fought on Foet.
Natal, (By
has a disg
Cable.)
pateh from
Durban,
Advertiser
which says
‘When part of the armored train was oy
turned by the Boors, tearing up th
sritish alighted and ex
the Boers, The engine driver, when the
were replaced, seeing the position was hop
less, steamed back to Esteourt with a few «
the Dublins and 15 of the
ing Captain Wylle, who
the tender. The
Durbans and Dublins
Churchill is unknown.’
The Natal Mercury, describing t
“The encmy apparently
fire with a Maxim und two nine.
getting the range ace The
#0 severe that telegraph wires and j«
Their guns were posted
a kopje covered with brushwood, and ©
sharpshooters were hi iden behind boulder
The Dublins and volunteers, figh
equal battle, thrice drove
but the flerceness of
fire was too much for the
e rails, the
shanged volleys with
ris
Durbans,
WAS WOU ,
fate of the remainder
ap $ Ti ”
Ba LAU
nt, says
urately,
were destroyed,
ting an
the
the rifle
brave
which was
IS JOUBERT DEAD?
Reports of the Killing of the Boer Genera
Are Not Confirmed.
{By Calle The most starting
the seat war {
Gen. Plot Joubert, the (
nander-in-Chiof of the Boer forces, The
» report comes fr
f * peDOrt
of
any different
tars, it obvi
same time, Many opie
to be well
sald to have oot
Boer riflemen were
1,500 yards of Ladysmith
As severe fighting between the Dritish and
the Boers the same day has been reported, it
is oradited In some quarters as quite possi.
bie that General Joubert, al noted for
his personal courage and inves, may
have dangerously exposed himseil in a per-
sonal reconnaissance of the British p t
believe the
1 o hy * . it
sled, as the General's death ls
urred November 9
andersto
when €
* within
SCHLEY BANQUETED.
Gen. Lee Also a Guest of Philadelphia
Clover Club.
Philadelphia, Pa., (Special. )—Bear-Ad
miral Schley was given a dinner by the Clo
ver Club, prior to his departure as com
der of the South Atlastic squadron for So
African waters,
Among other guests were Captain Clark
formerly of the battleship Oregon, who was
with Schley in the great naval battle off
Santiago, and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who is
now ona visit to this eity. Forthe first
time a woman appeared at & Clover Club
dinner, Mme. Emma Nevada, the distin.
guished operatic singer, was Introduced to
the diners and shook hands with the guest
of honor. She favored the club by singing
‘America,’ in which she was joined by the
entire assenh age, Admiral Schley leading
CONGRESSMAN SETTLE
He Defeated W. C. P. Breckinridge for
Congress in 1804,
Frankfort, Ky., (Special. Congressman
Evan E. Settle, Democrat, representing the
Seventh Kentucky district, died suddenly at
Owenton of hear disease,
Congressman Settle was a prominent law-
yor of Owenton, Ky. He was born at Vrank-
fort, Ky., in 1848, and wae a graduate of the
Louisville High School. He was admitted
to the bar in 1870, and has sines practiced
law at Owenton, Mr. Settle was county at.
torney of Owen county and a member of the
Kentucky Legislature. He was elected to
Congress in 1808, defeating W. ©. P. Breck-
inridge, the Fusion eandidate of Republi.
cans and Gold Democrats,
DEAD.
FALL OF AN AEROLITE.
It Partially Wreeks a House and Caaces
a Panie,
Crescent, 111, (Special. } By the falling ot
an acrolite, seven miles south of Crescent
City, the residence of John Meyers was
partly wracked and the neighborhood was
panic-stricken. The meteor came from a
point in the sky a little cast of south, and
struck the north end of the house, tearing
away a part of the upper story, The aero.
Hite buried itself in the ground about three
foot from the foundation of the house,
AR ARIS
Commercial Treaty with France.
Parte, (By Cable, )—The Customs Commit.
tos of the Chamber of Deputies met and re.
solved to invite the Minister of Commerve to
present to tho Chamber at the earliest possi.
be momont the lerma of the commercial
treaty bet eon France and the United States,
ithe terms of which are only known through
thelr publication ab abroad.
Earthquake Canses a Panio,
"ROUT OF THE REBELS.
Americans and Filipinos Have a Hot
Battle Bad Roads Prevent
Maneuvres,
Manila, (By Cable, )~The Thirty-third In-
fantry, in one of the sharpest engagements
of the war, with an equal foree of Filipinos,
five miles from San Fabian, lost one officer
and six men killed and one officer and 12
men wounded, News of the fight has just
bean received hore,
The Americans captured 29 Filipinos and
100 rifles, They found H1 Filipino dead in
the trenches and rice flelds. It is probable
many more Filipinos were killed or wounded,
General Wheaton was informed that the
natives were gathering at San Jacinto for
the purposs of preventing the Americans
from controlling the road from Dagupan
north, by which Agulpaldo’s escort might
retreat. The Thirty-third Infantry, Colonel
Howe commanding. and a detachment of the
Thirteenth with were sent to
disperse them,
The troops encountered what is sald to be
the worst road found in Luzoa, There was
creeks, whose bridges the
Americans had to stop and repair, and miry
ditches, At places nud horses
struggled waist deep In quagmires,
The Fiilpinos opened the fight two miles
from San Jacinto, while the leading Ameri-
ean battalion was passing a clump of houses
in the midst of a cocoanut grove knee deep
in mud. The native sharpshooters, hidden
In trees, houses and a small trench across
the road held their until the Ameri
were close to them, When they began firing
other Fillpinos opened
right and Jeft, farther away.
The sharpshe picked off the office
first. Five of the Americans who fell wore
shoulder straps or chevro: tut the Thirty-
third never wavered, Its mark
knocked the Filipinos from the trees
squirrels, aod the Americ
trench, leaving four dead nat
The regiment then deployed fire,
with Major John A. Logan's n in the
Majo & on the right asd Major
Marsh's on the Jeft. The skirmish ne
whi
iit
a Gatling gun,
a succession of
some nen
fire Ans
from thiciels
fire
yoters
SrReK i
Hke
ans rushed Lhe
vei there,
battail
center, r Cronie
long. sdvagesd
OnE, RAVEDONS
constant fre,
» isading bh
th was 8 mile raph
keeping up a
was shot dead while
The Filipinos made a
stand, many of the
until the America
Major Marsh flan
all of %
fall © natives,
them.
holding a
them,
slaughter!
The Gatti! kille
bridge and swept
vond the town, driving
into the
gi g
ies, saving
killed and 15.000 w
Colonel Wesanl
while 3
x train los
War De
Lie
Wheaton
Young on 8
Prisoners deci odd that Aguis
y, with ag army wh y entice
prof@ainy
slog
& great exaggeration
ward Dagupan, intending to
for the rtherast, &
the Filipino army
by LEE g BL Whe
overed or
vy hnjieve
snd ed
to be o
that he passed San
rihiwest, a fortnight
line inte
Aguinaido's
Fabian, g
Be»
Ago,
MES. DEWEY GETS THI HOUSE.
Gift of the People Will Be Hers Soon ar
the Necessary Papers are Sigoed.
Washington, Preliminary steps
have beenn taken, it ds sald, to transfert
Mr=, Dewey the titie to the Dewey
1747 Rhode Island avenue, which the Amer.
ican people presented to the Admiral in
recognition of his brilliant naval victory at
Manila, The matter is in the hands of the
District Title Company, and the papers, it is
understood, have wen drawn and await the
necessary signatores,
The conveyance will be through a third
party, presumably one of the Admiral's sec.
rectaries. The matter was placed in the
hands of the title company some days age
with a view to such conveyance, and it has
been the understanding that the transfer
would be completad upon the return of Ad.
miral and Mrs, Dewey, Unless present plans
are changed, the deads will be put on record
shortly.
Special.
home,
TOBACCO FACTORY nu RNED.
Destructive Fire in Danville - Mach To.
bacco Goes Up In the Flames,
Danville, Va,, (Special. )- Fire destroyed
four tobacco factories, several dwellings and
a number of smaller houses, together with
their contents, The buildings burned were
E. G. Moseley & Co.'s factory, a {four-story
structure filled with leaf tobaceo: s large
three-story bogshead factory, owned and
oecupled by Keen Brothers; the four-story
frame tobacco factory of Terry Orgain, with
small stock, the buliding belag owned by J.
T. Burton, and the vacant fourstory brick
factory building, owned by Col. George C,
Cabell, The loss will aggregate probably
$60,000,
General Miles Brief Report.
Washington, (Special. )—The asnual report
of Major General Nelson A. Miles, com-
manding the army, was made public al the
War Department. It boars date of October
17, 1899, and is extremely brief and formal
in charneter, It announces the transmission
to the Becretary of War of the reports of the
department and staff commanders, and
makes a brief statement of the strength and
distribution of the srmy, including the
muster out of the volunteer regiments, most
of the details of which have already been
published in the reports of the adjutant
general,
FIELD OF LABOR.
Vancouver has a Tabor temple,
Indians has & Belgian hare farm,
"Frisco has a Japanese newspaper,
Winnipeg bleycle workers organized,
Sweden has forty co-operative socletion,
California bas a 1,000.acre lomon grove,
London servants average $1.88 a week.
Indisnapolls coremakers get $1.75 a day.
a anaaytyaua has a 5,082-feet-doep oil
The Tron Molders’ Unlon of Great Britain
$280,000.
CABELLO TAKEN.
GEN. PAREDES St RRENDE RS AFTER
TEERIBLE BATTLE.
HE IGNORED THE POWERS.
Fieets of
snd Devastation
Five Nations Bombard Ruin
Killed sand Wounded
Paredes Made
Guerra
Number 660 Peoople-—-Gen.
ua Stubborn But
Defense, Gen.
Vorced an Fulvance.
Porto C Yeonez
General Paredes, a former commander in
the army of Ex-President Andrade, who
bad refused the demand made upon him by
Gen. Cipriano Castro and the de facto au-
thorities to town, even when
this was re-enfor the request of the
British, German and
Dutch commanders, surrendered, after »
terrible battle,
Tue as pect of the
whello, ela, (By Cable.)
surrender the
rend by
American, French,
of ruin and
that up-
rwo
city is one
doy astation, and it is estimated
wards of 650 persons were killed «
during the fighting,
Dr. Bralsted
Dastr AUrgecns
fo 5 Wirral i harbor
nuded
United States cruiser
ol thi
are ministering
¥ 3 ¥ i
wounaedq,
Var.
1. Ramon Guerra began a land attack
upon the town and the position of
Paredes on Friday night, Desultory
Ing contisued until Saturday morning al
4, and then a ensusd,
eral Pareds ide a stubborn defense
Gen
General Gus
Lowa at
Baturday mornis
KENTUCKY VOTE
Result of Eleotion Will be for
Uncertain
Several Days,
Nrweels
jreciag
The
fl srmirild v the
IVY Fegarain ae
OVErnor «
rospect
o off
FOOLED BY AGULINALDO,
American Army Enters Tarlae,
Find Him.
but Fail ts
Fyne
Kiry eulery
Where and the
slid 4 4
ii 3 A Lyeley
Getieral MacArthur too samban Satur
This is supposed 10 be the strongest
heid by the Fill
f account
wived indicate that the
rding to their recent
after firing a fow voli
irty-sixth Regin
can reported killed,
General MacAribur began his
daylight, ( mel Fmoith, with
teetith Regiment, on the right;
command, the Ihirty-sizth, on the jeff, ar
the Ninth in the center, Colonel Smith en-
countered a small foree at six o'cloek, vasily
Bell secured
which be
rifles and
first line of the
The Filipinos stood the
fire for twenty minutes, and then retreated
to the mountains, General MacArthur en
tered Bamban st ten o'clock, and
Smith occupied Capas, the
yond.
General Lawtos's headquarters is still at
Cabanatunn,
General Young, with his cavalry and in.
fantry, is still pushing ahead through the
fearful mud, but his exact whereabouts ie
Got knows,
nos exo
fought
retreating
! officer
ent is Lhe only Ame
advance at
the
Major Bell's
NEYO
shed
mountain, from
poured au enfliading fire from
Hotchkiss guns upon
enemy's trenches,
the
Colonie)
Orst Lown bee
THE MONEY STRINGEXCY.
freasury OfMcinls Give Reasons for Ne.
lieving It Will Seen He Over.
Washington, {(Hpecial. } Treasury officials
expect that within a short time the money
drawn from the finsocial Institutions of the
East for the movement of the erops and
other purposes in the West will begin to find
its way to New York, and that the apparent
strincency in money will be accordingly re-
laxed. This returp, which this year, they
say, appears to be somewhat later than
usual, will be brought about by the payment
of the debia contracted by business men in
the West, whose notes either already have
matured or are closely approaching
maturity.
Fight With Footpads,
Chicago, (Special, )- Frank Giles, a police
telegraph operator, ‘was attacked ty two
footpads, Ho killed one, wounded the seo.
ond, and a third bullet from his revolver
struck a pedestrian in the calf of the leg, in.
flicting a slight wound. The dead robber
kins pot teen Identified,
A Young Lady's Suicide.
Pitteburg, (Special.)—Grace Gmisart, a
beautiful young lady of seventeen years,
committed suicide at MoKeasport by shoots
ing herself fn the heart, Investigation by
the police of the girl's late lite would iadi-
onto that the cause for the deed was despond-
ency, brought about by & visit to a fortune.
teller Inst week.
Oal., (8peaial,)—The Ten
Pranasineo
toon Tad, aad weal trio
camp at the Presidio propa to being
mustered out,
LONG MAY RETIRE.
His Heslgnation as us Member of MeHin-
ley's Cabinet Expected Within
an Few Weeks,
Washington, There is 8 ques~
tion in the minds of members of the Cabinet
whether Becretury Long will continue in
office than a few weeks, 1f he
retire, it will be entirely for personal res
song, There is not the slightest official rea-
on why he should desire to give
(Epecial, )
Ore does
on route (6 th
wughter beaith is poor,
urposs of trying the dry alras a
trouble, Mrs. Lon
and she has {
so trylog tha
her In
retary Is now
whose for
pulmonary
also, Is not good,
ghington climate
1 nt very little time here since
mad ain office,
In addition to thes
tary's dislike for department work. He took
the portfolio at the earnest solicitation of the
President, much against his inclination
After acoepting it he talked seriously of re-
signing, but when the war came on his §
caused him to continue at his post. Ne
peace conditions practi
stored he is disposed to yield to his 8
tion,
Las Le
reasons is the Becro.
have ally been
controversy has, « !
ited to his dislike for the
as in no sense been a Geterring
The President has nde
that matter atl all material points,
th he deavored to kee
cers {rom airing thelr 1
he Bewspapers
The Behley-Bampson
arse, contrib
on, but it ©
factor.
posi
ried his poss
tion in
aithoug has of
int
Fhe Becretary is nov sm bling
terial for his report, hie
return to o she at. It
surprise, 1
Lion as
if expo
would
hie tendered his resigns.
completes that, 1f he
retary Allen Is looked
i fill the vacs
serelary mu
i his cours
President,
r Frye will
A HUSBAND'S REVENGE.
City Horse Trainer Kills His
Wife and Wounds Her Lover.
A Bansas
arrest quie
. sonfessed 1b
OITy BOW
Floods.
The
Asworiation
Government and Miss ssippi
Memphis, Tenn. (8;
tion of the Weslorn Waterways
adjourted sine die. In the afternoon the
sommittee on resol ne made
The report was adopied without a
voles,
LE COR ven.
its report
dispentin 8
The reso utions recommend, among
other things, that the United Slates assume
exclusive control of the work now being
prosecuted ia o netion with the riparian
stated and levee distrie ois for the protection
of the Lower Miscissippl Valley from the
floods, which perpetsally endanger and fre.
quently inflict great disaster upon that sec.
tion of the country.”
Esplosion in a Powder MilL
Sauta Cruz, Cala, ( Anexplosion
ooenrred in the glazing house of the Call-
fornia Powder Mill. Four eviinders, con.
taining «sixteen thousand pounds of powder
exploded. A small amoupt was fuse powder,
and the remainder Liasting powder, The
explosion wrecked the mill, blew down miles
of fencing, destroyed the salipetre ware.
house, and extinguished the electric lHghte in
Ranta Cruz, Patrick Hogbes, night wateh-
mat, was Killed, Noosa for the explosion
at be ascerinined,
Special,
Another New Syatem of Telegraphy.
Chicago, (Spe-fal Anton Pollak and
Joef Virag, inventors of the rapid-sending
and receiving automatic devices, which
promise a revolution in Selegraphy, have
arrived in Chicago, from Budapest, Hun.
gary, to make demonstrations of their in.
vention,
A Duel With Knives,
West Plains, Mo., (Special. )--At Dakors.
field, twenty-five miles south of this place,
Luke Secls mortally wounded Postmaster
W. M. 8harp ina duel with a knife, The
men quarreled over Seel’s alleged attention
to the postmaster’s wile,
fandanam Instead of Congh Syrup.
Chicago, ("pecial. }~Corneling Coreoran
gave his five ebildren 'sudunum, mistaking
it for cough syrup. and all are danger.
ously ill
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
The expedition of 1 General MacArthur to
Tarlac, the supposed stronghold of the in.
surgent foroes, has failed to find Aguinaldo
and his so-called government, The town of
Pity privates of Company K,
Volunteer Infantry, at
poisoned by
wesdnd
General MacArthur has occupied Mabala-
oat. “The Americana sufered no loan, The
Sout 4 Kid moma 0 the —_——
SEL
CRUISER WRECKED.
THE CHARLESTON STRIKES A
OFF THE COAST OF LUZON,
ALL ON BOARD ARE SAVED.
She Is n Large and Was the First
One Bent to Admiral Dewey's Relief
After the Battle of Maniin- Ustastrophe
Ocenrred on Tuesday, November the
Beventh
Ship and Olivers.
REEY
Vessel
United Slates
had been pa.
of Luzon, was
northwest coast 8
Manilla, ( By The
cruiser Charles
trolling the
Cable.)
which
CORN
slon,
orthern
wrecked on a reef off the
1 ue ey 1.
All on board wére saved,
Kover
Assignment of the Charleston.
(Bpecial, ~The Charleston
has been in Asiatic waters more than a year,
ihe was one of the first vessels 10 be sent to
Manila after the destruction of the Spanish
fleet by Ado Dewey, the Navy Depart
ment utilizing ber for the purpose of send-
ing smmmunition and other supplies for the
Asiatic Station,
Just previous to her
t undergone an ov
y she bad
Island Navy Yard, San Fran
Washington,
rad
assignment 10 that
erhanling at
AHo0,
for
e Mare
1, therefore, was in prime condits
pis of
belongs to
ferred 10 a8
She has 8 full co Hement
The slat jhe
beginning of the present year
William H.
commander
Ch ath #0
rece
class which {
w Navy.
# and crew naval re
uder Cap
Beutenan
Gottfried
ing Fecre-
ry Long.
) DORSAL eS
g the night,
Assistant 8 Secretary Alle?
ary duriug
It was slate
bad been
the absenos
d at his ho
received 1 by bin
Captain and Crew.
s following are
nL the
Washington
the officers of » Charleston as given 3
Navy Department's list « uly 18099
apt. George W,
eq
Wetteage
Henry,
The Lost Warship.
rieston was a
sur. Hbhe was arme
forward
brosd-
<PFOunaGar
uns Ang one
deck three
inches thick ob
battery,
Charieston was
¢ WhE
se was
the
286 men Her
Y servis
y Pacific Coast until
LIKE AX EARTHQUAKE
Explosion of Nitro-Giycerine
Magazine in Ohio,
A magazine used by
the Bradford nitro-giveerine factory to store
the explosive, josated two and s-hall m ies
east of Gitsonburg. exploded. The shock
was heard at towns within a radius of forty
miles, and the «fect of the explosion in the
immediate neighborhood was terrific. The
magazine is loeated in the woods & quarter
of a wile from any dwelling, and this alone
prevented terrible loss of life,
Benjamin Card, driver of a stock wagon,
had brought a load of 720 quarters of nitro-
glycerine from the factory at Bradford, and
was unloading it when the explosion took
place. Just how it happened will never be
learned,
Card apd the two horses driven by him
received the full effect of the expiosion. He
was blown to atoms, only a few shreds of
his body being found, and pieces of horse
fleah were buried several miles, IL is sup
posed that Card bad a companion, but this
i= pot positively known.
The explosion made a hole seven fest
deep in the solid rock, and trees in the vicln-
ity were torn to splinters, People within a
mile of the p ace were knocked flat, ples
tures wers torn from the walls, dishes
thrown out ot ath, windows shatier-
ed and houses moved from their foundation,
All the windows in Gibsonburg were broken,
There were about 1,500 quarters of giycerine
on the wagon, and in the magezine, Card
lived in Bradford, O., and left family.
DEATH STOPPED ™E FIGHT.
Two Men, Wrangling on a Railroad Track,
Strack by a Train.
Shamokin, Pa., (Special )-While John
Yunsk and Conrad Winske, young unmarried
Hungarians, were engaged in a fist fight on |
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
track pear Enterprise an expross train ran
them down and instantly killed them both,
The men bad been to a Hungarian christen- |
ing at Enterprise, and, becoming involved
in a quarrel, they walked down the ratiroad
to fight ft out. The trainmen wore abso
lutely blameless, the fighting men not bays
ing been seen by the engineer in time to
stop the train.
FOREIGN AF FAIRS.
Terrific
Tiffin, O
{Rpecial