THE NEWS. B. B. Wyatt, of Roanoke, Ya,, was nriested on a charge of felonious assault on Mrs. Thomas N. Simpson, of Newport News, who had been kind to him when he was sorely in need of food. Edward Doyle, of Chicago, has aumd John Robson. & Board of Trade operator, for $600,000 damagos, several times the amount of losses in speculation. Howard Tryday and his wife inhaled {llu- minating gas in Philadelphia. The husband is dead and the wife in a critical condition. Charles Tracy, confidential bookkeeper for ¥. B, Bayley & Co., of Chicago, has been missing for nearly a month, The strike of the girls at the Allen & Gin ter Tobacco Works in Richmond, Va,, was amicably arranged. Malor Taylor, surgeon in charge at Hono lulu, reported six deaths from bubonic plague up to December 15, Governor Roosevelt Cignaraie, who for murdering her husband. The accounts of ex-County Treasurer Her shey, of Lancaster, Pa., were found to be $£65.000 short, Peter Dunkle was arrested near Henpeek, Iud.. on the charge of murdering May Wol wig fn 1886. F. Bianchi & Co., wholesale dealers in mi linery goods in New York, n ade an assig: ment, Five death. two of them on the st Pass, Freeman of the Iron Hall, died in Phils W. Murray governor of Massachusetts, pardoned Chiara was serving a lilo sentence Klondikers wera fo I. Somerby, supr rand Was oan; Governor Hoosevelt's message 10 the New York legislature was largely taken uj discussion of trusts, Ha advocated the peal of the Horton boxing law. The United States tug Resolute in Boston harbor by colli ocean tug Swatara, except the engineer, North Carolina Republican the constitutionality of ment to the cor August, At the United States mi during 1889 there made, representing a 000.000. George LL. y with a sunk the steal Was vere saved contest amend- 1 next were months in the 8 i eceny of phot Edwayd Cressing was hanged in Sun! of Dalsy Smith The Dem legisiature nd the long term. The girls at the Company WOrks Birike Fleming ty te = 1 5 I. Suyder sdicted in rin s fnereased ir - his trial set TUary Fire ix part of and $50_000, Former Senat United States n ombe rs The lL. vote five mil roads all ove Water was age canal. n dollars Star York county, as paralysis, A baby's were injured ina fire York. Junius Robinson Dinwiddie county, Jolly. The wages of 25.000 men in [itis sdvanced from five to ten per cent aged Edwards, Charles J. Harrington, Kent county, Del. isdead. register f the Order of his home enty-five under o George ¥V. Metael, fe Heptasophs, died suddenly at Stewartstown, Pa. aged se On Pecember 15 he wedding. He was a native of Baltimore, The system of years eolebirated his goldes peasioning « | employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the lines east of Pittsburg was Nine hundred and fifty men were started, retired. The executive committee of the Nati } Anti-Trust Conference jssued an address de jaring that the special privileges of tha trusts should be taken from them, of arstiviens gas ot fire to Burch in Stromsberg meeting was in pro An explosion the Eden Baptist ( Keb, while 2 waleh ress Captain W. W. Marshall, former postmaster at Des Me lowa commit suicide, His death is During the week eight men of the Central Phosphate Works at Lady's laland, 8. C., died under mysterious cirenmstances, Ellen Labash was secidentally kilied af Passaic, N. J.. by the discharge of a pistal in the bands of Michael Be The stores of the. MeCorkls Company, and W. J. Clary, ia N.C. were destroyed by fire, Andrew Carnegie has given 2000 000 Lo Cooper Union to found a day school similar in seope to the night school, deputy tried to ex preted, ines, hwarts Dry tireennbora, Cyoods of the birth wichirated in The ons hundred anniverssir: of Dr. Constantin Hering was Philadelphia, ¥. RB. Hershey, county, Pa., is a defauiter. Hie to be in Canada, Eugenes 1. Packard, of the Lobioson In- yestment und Security Company, of New York, was sentenced to eighteen months ime prisonment in Sing Sing for uniawinily using the malls, Judge Sanborn, of the United States Cire euit Court in St, Paul, Minn, discharged the rocelvers of the Northern Pacific Hallroad Company, A strike of miners in the bituminous conl regions of Pennsylvania is threatened, The men want a general increase of thirty per cant, in wages, By the will of the late Daniel Sharp Ford, of the Youth's Companion, the Baptist Social Union eomes in for a large bequest, The stock and plant of the Charles Helser Hhoe Company, at Hanover, Pa, was de- stroyed by firs, John 'T, Whitehead, a wesithy Virginia farmer, died at hils home, near Buy View. Charles L. Pike, one of the original Free Boilers, died in St. Paul, Minn, ©. B. Turner was murdered at his home, near Ferguson's Wharf, Va, Comptroller of the Currency Dawes says the general financial condition of the country is sound and stable, and thers Is nothing to trensurer Lancaster is supposed CURRENCY BILL. PROPOSED MADE IN THE AMENDMENTS PRESENTED. Tue CHANGES TO BE TEXT. Provisions May Be Made for the Hedemp tion Authorizing the Exchange of Bonds Will Make the In tention of the Bill More Clear When En weted Into Law. of Greenhacks Washington, members of the Senate Finance Committee authorized Senator Aldrich to presest amondments to the financial bill which he offered in the Senate, The most important relates to the greenbacks, and ix as follows (8pecial,)- The Hepubiean The New Ulause. Alter the word authority, in line 5, page 14, sirike out remainder of the section, insert “and the gold coin received trom the sulle of said bonds shall first be covered int the general fund of the Treasury and then exchanged, in the manner hereinbefore pro vided, for an equal amount of the notes re aud the Uni. and leemed and held for exchange, led States potes exchanged in accordance ith the provisions of this covered into the Treasury, be reissued god coin with the re. ded in sedition shail, p provided by law, and the s reserve fund, together notes held for use as provi section, shall at no time 1 sum of 2150 000,000." An Eliminated Section, All of Section © is sliminated owing new section substitute Nee, 6--That the Secretary of t is hereby authorized to receive att the oy nited NSiates bearing ioteres ury any of itstanding i per annum, payable F any bonds of the sluruary United States terest at J August 1, therefor an equal ame per annu cent, per 1908 ' istered bonds of the form as he i of £80, or terest at the rales payable quarteriy 4 fh f eh 1 prieasure « the years from the date of tl bonds to be payable, principal in of the present italian interest LUere x after such call, The Gold Reserve. dmenl iat where iL pr id reserve. The t the duty of ii AB the Seoretary of ported 3 iry to maintain the gold reserve al $100 000. ( 3 bonds, T pendmen rovides that when the reser int it shall be his duty s of $150.000.0.0 members of ithe Treas # Ane i ve vit 10 the maxima It is stated sittee that the amendments are for the pur pose of the Intention of Uy the the com Te 8 al Stier masking and t struct { the law when more Ciear v 2 : : or +1 ’ ee Ui, leave no question as 1 bL enue CREENSBORO'S BIG BLAZ) Store Destroyed S100 Large Dry Goods O00 Damages. vO, { Special Fire nt Green ri § 1 Nf sateen [Osnes y $10: 000, partly [he fire started in the elev Hague Me( + ala WOOWsa L£ aggregating nes vered by insurance ator shaft of the Pry CGoods and soon enveloped that rkie Compan 1a, building and spread to the adjoining store weapied by W, J. Clary. Water frome Ls { sre it struck the burning building and added the hardship of subduing the flames, A quantity of cloth and notions damage done by the wa arge burned and much wr. The losses are estimated as follows Hague-MeCorkle Dry Goods Con $820,000. insurance, 55.00). W. J, Clary $6.50), The damage he buildings will ageregate $4,000 wer $12 500; insurance, Mas Save Mrs, Maybriek. New York, (Special, A Iotter from Lads fiandolph Churchill has been reesived by Mra. Caroline J. Taylor, chairman of the Committees of the Physiologica Medico-Jegal Society, in which she says the only rational way to base a petition tor the release of Mrs, Maybriek is not on the piga that she Is fnnocont, but that even if she is guilty, she has been pun tahed enough, deetion of the and Children, Chattanooga, Tenn. Mills, a collector for an lnstallment house attempted to seize furniture in the house of Mary Venable, for a small delt. The womas suempted to prevent it, and, in the struggle that ensued, Mills shot the woman and her Hitle son, nod danghter, all seriously, {(Bpecinl, je Bamue) Fight Men Lost in a Wreek, gt. John, N. F., (Special. <The schooner Puritan was driven ashore on Cabot Island io a heavy gale, and eight of her crew ol nine were Jost, Six were married men with tarmilies. ‘The surviver broke his arm, Ith feared that other disasters will be ehironicied withing day or two as the results of the sane gale, ———— . BRIEFLY TOLD. The Castle Rilk Company, of Franklin, N J.. ade on assignment Tor the benefit ol creditors, Liabilities, $60.00); assets, $33, hn BE. V. Smalley, sditor of the Northwesters Magazine, aud secretary of the National Sound Money League, died suddenly at Hi, Prul, Mino. of nervous dyspepsia, Al i apecinl convention of the American Flint Glass Workers’ Uplon beid at Plte burg, John Kuozler was elected president to EXILE AND PRISON. sentences of Convicted French Conspiva tors Gaerin Sentenced to Ten Years Confinement in a Fortress. Paris, (By Cable )—The French Senate High Court condemned Derouleds, Buffet snd Marquis de Lur-Saluces to ten yours’ banishment for conspiracy against the re- publlie, Guerin was sentenced to ten years conlinement in a fortress, When the High Court opened the Presi dent, M. Falllores, road the decisions which had besn reached, The prisoners who were acquitted thereupon rose and shook hands with MM. Derculsde, Buffet and Guerin, ‘Then, raising various shouts, they left the Linki, Among the spectators were wife and daughter and many women [riends of the prisoners, Deroulede H After the reading of the decisions, 31. ¥al ieres ordered the expulsion of the men nee quitted, and the puhliv prosecutor nsked for the application of sentences against the cot- victed, M. Buffet's sounsel, M. Normand, followed and began to expall- ate on the latter's sentiments, when M. Fal- eres stopped him, and told the lawyer 0 keep to the question of the sentences, ““Well.' #0 that the o whalf of his client, Hatrike 1 the ex which aunlmate snld M. Normand, country may judge hate and fear srrapted § BhAre LUO the sentences MISSISSIPPI SENATOR YW. YY Sallivan Nominated sy the crats to Vill the Short Term for ele o against ex-Goversor Hobert Lowry unpalgn was productive of severa fof among which RTH were ter of a amply pr witho Barges ETAYE yen, how it foanda i Were ENGLISH MISTORIES THROWN oOo'y Will Only Heference to England, . IH Histories of Eng- jand furnished as supplemental reading for the asventh and eighth grades in publie thrown choo! management committes of the Board of Eduention, and the district superintend. ardered to recommend other books on Eaglish history which would contain any refercoce to England as “raother country.’ When the malter came ap on the to adopt several hundred books for mentary reading, Trustees president of the fang, said Every book on this fist is good, with the exception of the histories of England, | think it is time the public schools of Chicago should have histories which show the rapa. ity and tyranny of England in their true fight. The history of England is worth studying: but our children do not want to be reminded that Eogiand is the only coun- trv on the globe. What we want in the sotionis is on history of England which wiil be Hiberal enough to allow credit to other countries, Aevept Those Containing Ne {Special} Chicago schools wern out by the onle not the motion su ppae. who is of Hibern- Keating, Order Anvient Acensed of an Old Crime. Kokomo, Ind, (Rpescial, )-- Detectives ar- rested Peter Dunkle near Henpeck for a erime alleged to bave been committed ot Franklin, O., in 1586, The erime charged is the murder of May Wolwig., For fourteen years a reward of #1,60) has been standing for the apprebension of the murderer. ankle denies knowledge of the crime, Women and Children Burned. Johnstown, Pa., (Bpecial.j—In a fire in Lower Yoder Township, a double dwelling, oeeupled by Fred Wesenberg and another family. ten women and children were either fatally or seriously burned, All have been sent to the Memorial Hospital, tirathers Drowned While Skating. Korfolk, Va, (Special, )~ New Year's Day, pear Dunwille, Essex county, Va. John and Charles Wheely, seventoon and fifteen years old, sons of a leading farmer, went skating on Robinson's mill pond. One of the youths wont through and his brother tried to rescue AGUINALDO. WIFE OF THE INSURGENT LEADER CAPTURED. TOGETHER WITH SISTERS. MRS. THE fhe First Movement of the General South. ern Advance Begins With u Hard Fight at Cabuyso, in Which Two Americans are Killed and Four are Wounded--The Enemy Suffer, Manila, (By Cable.) Aguinaldo’'s wile, flsters nnd eighteen Filipinos bave surren- dered to Major March's battalion of the Thirty-third Infantry, at Dontoe, province of that name, Three Filipino officers also surrendered to Major March, and the Filipinos gave up two Spanish aud two American prisoners, The Arst movement of a general southern advance occurred. when two battalions of the Thirty-ninth Infantry lande ! and occu- pled Cabuyao, on the south side of Laguna de Bay. Two were killed and four were Twenty-four of the iin Americans wounded, enemy's dead were found bundred and fifty prisoners and four six- pound rapid-fire guns were captured, The punbos La the town before troops from the under the enemy's shra evacunted the nerienns, ne house, One bombarded barkation of the made Thoenemy the disem CABO, nich was piace before the retreating they charging Hosa, to Heavy Baota 3 + insurgents filnog. The Ameri- yuntry between and around Banis 4 Wwwn ighting oveurred al vos, which was occupied Were arsed elrealing south ans burned thee Cabuyao, The ward unboal returned to Ca its, and thence mbna for ro fin 2 tured hes inition, Hae ehelny 8 sleam aan of i ( wriiiiery al slate and ug at San £, preg alory tu ri advan APT. MARSHALL SHOT HIMSELY, the Former ¥ Moloes. Attempted Suicide of master nt Des t - iowa 28 | Dide't Know It Was Loaded. New York { i Flies Labash was t Passale, N, J., al the begins af Liew vou Michae shot and SChwarle oelolirats } 8 «gst f the new year by goin aiside the Louse and fir four sh A f1x the hh ug ts {roe r entering ges he § twlieving There Miss Labtash fell to trigger, that there was no olh ballet In it was a loud report and the Noor, shot in the heart, arrested. Schwartz was The Texas Golng South. Washington, (Special. )~The Texas Fort Monroe for New York will be docked and repaired, and then sent to the West Indies to join Admiral Farqubas in his cruise, The Eagle has arrives tralning-ship Adane hw Buena Island, has salied fron She Earthquake Stirs Up Geysers, Charles Tag ity from the Coco Ran Diego, Cal,, (¥pecial gart, who arrived in (his pah country of that the earthquake of Ch marked effect un region, causing them to fares, Lower California, reporis istmas Day bad « f tha Hon goyeers of pout with redoubled Nig Vive in Savannah, Ga, Rhortly midnight the furniture store of Lindsey & Morgan and the dry goods Danio! Hogan, on Broughton and Barnard streets in the heart of the retail district, were stroyed ty fire. The fire started from un known causes in the first-named place, The tosses will foot up approximately $150,000 Savannah, Oa., (Special, j- befor store of do Oysterman Frozen to Death, Beaufort, N. C., (Special, A man named Huggs was found frozen in the bottom of his bont on the shore of Bogue Banks, near here 12 left Morehead City to go oystering. The wind shifting to northwest daring the after goon, blowing & gale, sleeting and snowing prevented his returning. He succumbed due ing the night. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Twenty-five hundred minérs at SL, Ltienue Prance, decided on a strike, their demands tor shorter hours and an increase in wages paving bean refused, Baron Ludlow died in London, The French Senate, sitting as a high Court, was again the scens of Intense excitement when the publie prosecutor made his closing speech in the conspiracy trials. The proso sation of six prisoners was abandoned for imck of evidence, The German government has abandoned he idea of acquiring the Danish West In. fies, Brazil will negotiate new treaties of com: neres with France, Spain, Italy and Ger many. Floods and gales have done considerable damage in Ireland, Darges bave foundered tn Queenstown harbor, Hon, Harry BEscombe, former prime min. stor of Natal, died in Darban. In closing his ¢pesch before the Fronoh jonate, sitting na a igh Court, the public prosecutor asked that a severe sentence bx mposed upon Jues Guerin, Two German military officers, named Sohlabits and Kiesllg, fought a duel, and the former was killed, A strong movement is on foot in Mexico to President Diaz to continue In the CHINA'S OPEN DOOR. Scope of this Country's Diplomatie Achievement Preserving China's Ine tegrity and Freedom of Trade. Washiogton, (Bpecial, )—~An international concert of the most comprehensive ehar- acter for malutainiong freedom of trade in China will be disclosed wher all the facts re- garding recent diplomatic sorrespondence are communleated by President McKinley to Congress. The announcement that asser- ances have already been recefved from all the powers Is slightly premature, but there is no doubt that they will bo reeeived and that they will finally be given a definite written form, The scope of the proposals of the United States, the results which have followed, and their effect upon international obligations in China can now be set forth for the first time with much greater precision and detail than has yet been done. All that bas thus far ccurred on the subject has heen preliminary y # formal exchange of written notes, When these notes are exchanged they will not only bind all the powers exchangiog them 10 re i United Blates in China, but they will bind each power to respect the rights « In other words, the United wes has not merely pro. tected Ils own interests Ly the { is i Epact the treaty rights of the others, proposal 1 guaranties the comn integrity of China but it has bound sae wer t in its sphere of Inf 1 the ot respect with. existing rights others, se all the transgression ROY ous power wii Da to all the powers given Lo the single public interests The appearance of leid of Eastern diplos therefore, by « mnenis ever res tion, Kuccess of American Diplomacy posed that the tin definit ord ong writien § Mr. Horatio nN ve ye rosnale sil Cubans in General W the crowds of « the island ¢ Supreme ( five men 10 be go onle plague is rej Asiatic quarter of Honol The arrival at Maniis wns rej orts Lenn ir The but i® in the trans x and Slang received of the battle at the n the lus OO Wer which was one of astro or the Filiph 6h 0 tion began, Colonel L of 2.50% mer routed the lnsurgs near Montalban Four transp Thinty-eighth Hegimonts, At a meeting of of the Cuban National pany, for said that their party wa gf the revolutionary principle ia tv and the propaganda committe Benot Mo esson tlinualion General Sania Ana, with a fore gents, attacked the Americsn subig, but was repulsed, In minor engagements w cans the insorgents have jos General Young has been tary governors of the provinoee of ern Luzon, The American toroes, according 1 poudencs from livtio, began, on November 13. to assume the aggressive (or the first time on the Island of Panay, baving previously been besieged Ly the insGrgents Efforts are being wade to stop the pro- seedings against the cestomhouse appraise. ors under arrest in Havans on charges of fraud, but General Wood says that if they are guilty they must be punished. The speech of General Wood at the fare well banquet to General DProoke has satisfied the Cubans that Caba will be independent within a reasonable time FIELD OF LABOR. Paterson, N. J, bast’t » non-unuiog ma shinist, Minneapolis is te have a Indies’ auxiliary to the Label League. The Bakers’ Union is now predistt botore many months every loaf of i Minuapolis will bear the union label, On and after the second Saturday in Fol. ruary the inftiaticn tee for the Diacksmiths' Hetpors Union, New York, will be 83, in 1864 Abraham Lincoln wrote a lettee cordially accopting an bonorady member. ship fo the New York Workingmen's Asso ciation, The appointed mil Northwest OF res. thas sod oigarmakers’ anions of Chicago have GOVERNMENT REVENUE. Small Items Which Swell the Total of Receipts Rent for Islands of Alsska. Washington, (Special)—In transacting & business of over half a billion doliars & year the Government finds many sources of rev- enue, The statement of the receipts and ex- penditures of the Government during the last fiscal year, submitted to Congress by Becretary Gage, shows the smallast item in the way of receipts was 20 cents from & Chinaman's certificate, From illegal foes, presumably not refunded, the Government profited to the extent of £3, while the sweep ings of gold from the Treasurer's ofiies, Washington, netted $1, ¥rom the exhaust steam in the Hooe Bullding, Washington, an income of 875 was derived, while the gas company st Balt Lake refunded to the Gov. ernment #12 which had been deposited a8 security for the payment of the gas bill Counterfeit gold coin which fell into the hands of the Government netted $154. In Alaske enterprising fur merchants rent- od cortaln lslands from the Government for the propagation of foxes, paving therefor $900. The tax on seslsking amounted to $1,116,911 under the Chinese ex- clusion act Age regatsd e204 the Government gained §1,697 by exchange and $4,230 from penalties Hite rer premium on exchange Persons wanting discharges from the navy and Marine Corps paid 85.866 for them, and 1 over $120 which them in bribes, Allo nent had a fairly pros s TETOnUes, exclusive of o $515,960, Undertie ex. Department 18 ad nstional delense Begu- ry De igalion of r the pation RET IO partment spent s War De stent of and the expend entire «5 % 5% NEY SIT THERNERS PROTEST. They Want New Possessions Tariff Wall. Kept Out side Meetings of rE Aseria. Aswoeiation against the the Philip if the ate with the nislana. It 0 and the With the 3 id grow im wiih 0 Lhe rie alle labor, ruin of the Arkets, applies to sugar. Poerk the Northern markets for etaties as Savannah and Jack. B fruits and vege u free they would catch the Northern market, growers in Georgia ream and profi to the detrim snd Fiorida NEARLY READY FOR SERVICE. Rearsage and Kentoeky Soon te be Placed in Commission. The Eearsage placed in commission in Orders have been issued from the Navigation to make up the en. But three officers duty on the ship Was) r will probably be January. Bureag of listed foroe for the ship, have been assigned to Capt. W. M. Foiger, who will mmand her; Lieut. -Com. G. A. Merriam, who will be het executive officer, and Lieut, Emile Theiss, charge engineer de- { Rrserind } a, who will be in of the partment. It is probable that the Kearsage will ba placed in commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard, while the Kentucky, which will be ready for sea in a few weeks, will be com- missioned ut the New York Navy Yard, Three officers have been detailed for duty on board the Kentucky, They are: Capt. C A. Chester, who will command the battle ship: Lieut. -Com, Karl Rohrer, the executive ofMioer, and Lieut, Martin Bevington, whe wiil be at the head of the engineer depart. ment, When he first entered the Senate Mr Proctor, of Vermont, had = full set of whiskers, Edward Lad, a full-blooded Apache, of New Mexico, is said *~ be the best Indian in- terproter in the country, * James RB. Garfield, son of the mundersd President, announces himsell as a candidate for Congress iu the Twentieth Ohio Ins tried Prince Henry of Prussia, the German Em. peror's brother, proposes to visit the King of Siam on his way home from Hong Kong. The Rev, Jee Gam Is one of the best known Chinamen in 8an Francisco. He bas been & missionary there for the American ‘Missionary Bocioty for 20 yeam, An important London society wedding wiil be solemnizsd shortly, whea Viscount Castlereagh, only surviving son of the Mare quis of Londonderry, will wed Miss Chaplin aloes of the Duke of Sutherland.
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