THE NEWS. Sm A report comes from Chicago that as ® result of the recent agreements of the trunk line ofMclals, separate city ticket offices will be abandoned in Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities, and joint offices will be substituted. The tobacco growers of North Corolina have agreed to sell none of their product to the American ‘I'obacco Company for five years, A. 8 Van Wickle & Coleraine, Pa., have advanced their men two per cent, It is reported that forty thousand miners in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania have decided to strike, Thomas McDowell, the first mayor of Sac- ramento, Cal, died at South River. N.J., aged eighty-three, Henry Smith died in Rockbridge county: Va., aged eighty-nine. He had 262 descen- dants, Captain Charles I. Steele, of the Eigh- teenth Infantry, died at Fort Bayard, New Mexico. Some Egyptian cotton Kouth Carolina, the first state, Mr. Ryan made another move at Norfolk in the Seaboard Air Line matter, Major J. C. Bryant died at Newport News, Va., of pneumonia. Franols P. Owings, of Chicago, presented an indebtedness of over five and a-hall mil- lions of dollars in Chicago, the largest sched- ule for liabilitles for discharge ever known under the national bankruptey act, Deputy Sheriff Alfred Henry, while feed- ing the prisoners in the Howell county (Mo.) jail was dragged Into a cell and killed. All the prisoners in the jall escaped, At Spruce Creek, Pa., Charles Robinson found John O'Nell in his house with his wile, and killed him instantly. The American Steel and Wire Company has advanced the wages of its men at Crown Point, N. Y., ten per cent. Three men were fatally scalded by the ex- plosion of a boiler on the yacht Caperon at Delaware City, Professor Enoch Howard Vickers, of West Virginia, was married at Toklo, Japan, De- cember 20, Miss Maud A. Cleary and Mr. Edward J. Brady, of Garrett Park, Md., were married at Norfolk. The arm of Jacob Crumbling, a farmer living near Wrightsville, Pa., was blown off by dynamite, The Tygart Valley Bank, at Philippi, W. Ya., was robbed of a large sum by burglars. Five men of a section gang of nine were killed by a train near Oxford, N. J. Negotiations have been closad in Detroit which, it is contended, will be the beginning of the end of the independent telephone movement, The annual convention of the State Horticultural Convention Staunton. Captain J. W. Murphy, cashier Third National Bank of Columbus, Ga, shot and killed the teller. P. T. Shutze, and then killed himself, soon alter the bank opened. William Gurley, proprietor of the Indiana House in Phoebus, Va., was arrested, charged with killing Joseph New, a soldier at Fort Monroe, Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has written a jeter to the Democratic committee of Mecklenburg county, N. C., on the race question. Fred Sibeley, of Taylorvilie, lil, was sen- tenced to prison for life for complicity in the murder of Mrs. Jane Brunot. The old frigate Saratoga started out from Philadelphia with boys of the Pennsylvania Nautical Behool, The marine department of Chamber of Commerce identifies mer wrecked at St, Marys Bay, Newfound. land. as the Norwegian steamer Parrao, which safled from Baltimore January 5 for Sydoey, C. B. Jadge Waddill, of the United States Court in Norfolk, Va., denied the injunction asked for by Mr. Thomas F. Ryan to prevent the consolidation of the various lines of the Sea board Raliroad system. Two bids were made for constructing the rapid trapsit road in New York, Mr. Jobn T. McDonald's being for thirty-five millions Nearly a hundred people at a wedding dinner in Chicago were made violently ill by eating chicken cooked in a copper Kettle, Jamea Welch made an atiempt (0 Assass n- ate Judge William Loehren, of the United States Court at St. aul, Mion, Negotiations are in progress for the eon- solidation of Chieago tatlors who work for the wholesale trade. Louis August, the Fort Monroe soldier, couvieted of murder, committed suicide at Newport News, Va Riek Gilligan, acensed in No murderiog his sweetheart's dered, The rod employes at and Wire Works at strike. The National Convention of the Usited Mine Workers was opened in Iadiarapolis, Rates 5n all trans- Atiantie lines have been phised ten per cent, or more, Boiler makers in Baflalo, N. Y strike, Joseph Leach, of Baltimore, a private in Company B, Fourth Artillery, was found guilty, at Topeka, Kane, , of Killing Corporal Thomas Finoell, the verdict being “Guiity, without capital punishment.” The tormal presentation by the women of South Carolina of a gold modal to Lieuten- sat Victor Blue was made on board the battle ship Massachusetts, The remaine of Geperal Dabney H, Maury, after lying in state in Richmond, Va, were taken to Fredericksburg snd there buried, N. K. Goss, un merchant of Edenburg, O., was killed in his store by burglars, Three tramps were subsequently captured by a oman, H. H, Tammer and Frederick ©. Bonfils, editors of the Denver Evening Post, were shot by W. W. Anderson, an attorney, James House, a lunatic, leaped from the second-story window of a sanitarium at St, Louis and killed himself] The authorities of Mount Vernon, X., think they have found powd « stains on the might gown of Mrs, Alfred Morrison, who was shot by ber husband, Frank Davis wos sentenced to the peniten- tinry for forty-five years in Carbondale, 11. for murder, Edward Hayoes shot at his mother-in-law fu 8, Lous aod killed his wile, Jacol Shudin killed bis wife and come mited suicide in Knoxville, Tenn, John Barrett, ¢x- United States minister to Kiam, in a speech fu Chicago, named Senator Hoar asthe United Biates senator whose avil-ex pansion » wis cabled to Hong Kong and placed io the baods of the Plllpls Co., conl miners at the wages of received In to that WAS ever sent Virginia was beld in of the the Doston th t the Nea the American Steel Cleveland went on a went on a the Caster House, lo Charlestown, W, Va, WARLIKE SIGNS. on ns bo WHY M. LOCKROY WANTS A LOT OF FAST CRUISERS, wo - SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENTS. They Could Frey Upon Great Britain's Commerce in the Event of War— Vast Forces of Russian Troops Leave Trans- Caucasian on Their Way to the Borders of Afghanistan. Paris, (By Cable.) The government has not quite settled the details of its naval re- construction program. But only another council probably is needed before the bill will bo submitted to the Chamber. M. Lockroy, the former minister of ma- rine, intends to submit a counter proposi- tion to the Chamber, demanding that 400.- 000,000 francs be spent, not on big lron- clads, as the government proposes, but on the construction of fast cruisers, which could prey on Great Britain's commerce in the event of war, It is reported here that at jeast seventy thousand Russian soldiers have left Tiflls, Trans-Caucasia, for Baku, on the western coast of the Caspian Sea, They will cross at once to Krasnovodsk, whence they will pro- ceed to Kouschtka, the frontier station on the borders of Afghanistan. They will soon advance to a point even nearer than Herat, the occupation of which now depends only on events in Afghanistan and on the move- ments of British troops in India. Russia's preparations for war are all taken In Siberia, snd as close to the frontier of Dritish India as la possible. Two hundred and fifty thou- sand men are now assembled, General Yoooff, recently designated for the especially important command of the Rassian forces in the SBemirietschensk dis- trict, bas arrived at Kouschtka, The Rus sian squadrons at Port Arthur aad the Per- sian Gulf are belong inereased. A despatch from St. Petersburg, credited to a diplomatic source, says that on rush orders from Paristhe troops inthe local French garrisons are belong concentrated on the frontier. Among the diplomats at that eapital the opinion prevails that the International situ- ation as regards Germany and France in their relations with Great Britain is more dangerous than appears on the surface, and that exciting differences way yet lead to war. The French smbassador to the Holy Bee has notified the Pope of the existence of a tusso-French agreement, initiated by Count Muravieff, Russian Minister Foreign Affairs, when he was in Paris, whereby the exclusive Influence of Russia in European Turkey and that of France in Asiatic Turkey are reciprocally recognized. The two gov- ernments similarly divide responsibility for the interests of Roman Catholic missions in the two halves of the Ottoman empire, Mgr. Rampolia, papal secretary of slats, is understood to have expressed bis dissatls- faction with the arrangement, for ROUTING THE FILIPINOS, A Strong Position in the Meuntains Cap. tured In Cavite. Manila, (By Cable, )— Advices from report a sharp fight on January 85, between a batallion of the Nineteenth Infantry and a body of Insurgents oecupyisg & strong position in the Sudion Mountains, The enemy was routed, the Americans capturing a smooth-bore cannon, some rifles and de- stroyving the fortifications. Four Americans were wounded, The insurgent general, Flores, tablished a tendezvous, Ceba having es. with one hundred men, at Humingan, Province of Nueva Vis. cays, Captain Benson, with two troops of the Fourth Cavalry, was sent to dislodge bim, The insurgents were scattered, their horses were captured and the position was burned, the Americans sustaining The American foroes have occupied Mag- slianes, Provines of Cavite, eapluring twen- ty insurgents, inclading a colonel, RO 0Nses The Sagasta Ministry Defended In =» Speech by Senor Gullon. Madrid, (By Cable, )—1n the Senate, reply. ing to criticisms of the goverument's jroiiey toward the United States during the in cumbency of the Sagasta Miuistry, Gullon, former minister of foreign affairs, deciared that the note presented by Gesieral Woodlord demanded the pacification ol Cuba within a short period. Spain, he said, desired the arbitration of the ope, but, un- fortunately, the United States provoked the war. Senor Guilon concluded by demand. ing the good will of the Banate on behall of the Sagasta Ministry, which saw Spain drawn into a war for which she was unprepared, Senot COWBOYS FOR THE BOERS, A Nebraska Cattleman Says He Has Raised a Regiment, Minneapolis, Minn., (Special.)-John G Maher, a weoll-koown cattleman of Chadron, Nab, is here en route to Chicago and New York. He says he had raised a regiment of one thousand “cow punchers’ and plains. man to go to South Africa and help the Boers, Transportation will cost $200 per man, and the money has been pledged in New York, Chicago and Omaha, He is on his way tc find out how far the pledges can be relied cn before getting the men together. The plan, be says, Is to embark them as emigrants to the Transvaal, and thus csenpe loderal in. terference. He denies that it Is an Irish regiment, a number of nationalities being represented. The men are ali accomplished rough riders and erack shots, Maniae's Faml Leap. fit. Lous, Mo., (Bpecial,James House, of of Blue Mound, Ills, patient at a private sanitarium, jumped from a second.story window, and died of his injuries a few hours later, Before making the leap, the [renszied man assaulted and seriously injured his nurse, Albert Dubirin, whose condition is eritical, It is feared that Debrin's injuries may re. sult tntally. ’ House was a merchant of Blue Mound, 11, He was brought to 8t. Louis to be treated tor alsoholism, BS — A Domestic Tragedy. Knoxville, Tena. (Broeial, J Jacob Shudin murdered bis wife and then killed himself at their home, six miles from this place, The tragedy is supposed to be the culmination of domestic troubles, Joseph Bhudin, a son, bas been arrested, eharged with being a party to the murder of kis mother, Bank Onshier Missing. Adel, Oa, (Special. )—W, L. Warnell, cash. for of the Bank of Adel, has been missing for two or three His accounts are said to be all right and the bank ia doing business as usual, Meanwhile an examiner is chook: ing up the missing cashier's books. The Report of Special Commissioner Carroll Recommends Territorial Form of Government. Washington, (Rpecial,)— Henry K. Carroll, special commissioner for the United Btates to Puerto Rico, under appointment by the President, to investigate the eivil, industrial, financial and social conditions of theisiands, has made his report, It covers all the im- portant facts about the island, One of the greatest needs is good roads, The erops most generally raised are, In the order of areas occupied in 1896: Coffee, 121,176 acres; cane, 60 884 acres: tobacco, 44,222 acres. Coffee cannot be raised with- out shade, as in Brazil, The coffee bushes need five vears for full development, under the shades of banana or other trees, and con- tinue bearing twenty-five, and even to fifty, vears. Bauanas give both shade and fruit the first vear. Coffee farms are exempt from taxes for the first five years. The grades of coffee are among the fluest. The fruits of the Island are such as are common to tropical countries, The raising of cattle is an important and lucrative industry, The dally wages of the common flald laborer ranges from thirty-five to fifty cents, native money. Commissioner Carroll recommends that the Constitution and the laws of the United States be extended to Puerto Rico, and that a territorial form of government, similar to that established in Oklahoma, be provided; that the legislative power sball o xtend to all regulations for the exercise of the elective franchise: that the legal voters of the island be permitted to elect a delegate to Congress; that a commission consisting of three persons, who shall be natives of the island, and two of the United States, be ap- pointed by the President to revise the codes; that the jury system be adopted; that the banking and patent laws of the United States be extended to the island, that a court of alaims be established to adjudicate all claims to property, secular and ecclesiastical, aris ing under the treaty of Paris: that the rule adopted by the military government as 0 civil marriages be continued in the Spanish silver coins be retired and the colos of the United States be substituted; that the lottery be prohibited, and that the governor general and the legisiature be re- quired to provide for universal and obliga- tory education in a system where English shall be tan agricultural expeérim lished for the island. force: that free sehools that an and eslab- NO GROUND FOR SEIZURES, British Admit American Goods Were Not Liable Washington, DD. C, Ambassn- dor Choate Is prosecuting bis «forts to learn just where the provisions are that were safzed off Delagoa Bay on the Mashona, the Maris and the Beatrice. He has reported that the goods on the Maria are in the ous. tomhouse at Durban, subject to the disposi. State Department Satisfied, { Special, tion of the owners, The goods carried on the Heved to be still on board that ship at Cape Town, but, owing to imperfections in the ship's papers, it has not yet been possible to clear up the facts in that case. The Deatrice js at East London, and the British govern nent is trylog to learn from its officers the status of the carg It is authoritatively stated that there is ne difference whatever the govern ments of the United States and Great Britain as to the legal aspects of three cases, admitted da were not Mashona are be. bet won the seizures of Ihe British without reserve goods in thess government that these go linbie to That has given complete satisfaction t State Depadtment, It does not follow that the cepts as binding the view of the Dritish goy ernment as 10 the conditions un flour and food stuffs may band, bul the department prefers tof the usual role of has selzire the t my Be. $n ispartment ne lor wi become conira { international law and avoid passing on hypothetical cases, and content. ing itself with the fall acceptance « 5 by the British slance, 1 its vies government ia the present in. FARMERS AND THE CENSUS An Effort Will be Made to Get Complete Returns From Them Washington, (Special, } ~The efforts which Governor Merriam, director of the consus, js makiog to Induce farmers to prepare statements of their operations for the calen. dar year 1890, so that they will be ready to reply definitely and accurately to the enum- erators’ questions next June, are bearing fruit, some farmers have [orwarded copies of statements to the Census Ufflce, ascompan- fed by inquiries 6s 10 their completeness and correctness. The first, and the best, of these statements came from a woman, who oper ates a farm in Pennevivanin on her own ac- count. The paper shows not oniy the acre age, quantity and value of each crop, Lut cont«ias also a good Inventory of livestock and a detailed statement of the quantity and value of the miscellaneous articles produced, It every farmer would imitate this woman, the agricultural report of the twelfth census would be a marvel of completeness and nc. curacy, and would also show the entire pro- ductive strength of the United States in food products, one of CAN DEFEND HIMSELY, Roberts Will Have Opportunity to Speak on the Floor of the House. Washington, (Special) Chalrman Tay- ler, of the Roberts committee, and Repre- sentative Littlefield, of Maine, are preparing the majority and minority reports, respec. tively, in the Roberts case. They will be flied together on Saturday. [tis not expect. od that the cass will be called up in the House until next week. The debats is ex- pected to occupy two or three days, Mr. Roberts will be given an opportunity to be heard upon the floor in his own delense, Mr. Littlefield and Mr. DeArmond, of Mis- sourl, who will sign the minority report, are hopeful tat the mode of procedure which they favor—to a'low Mr. Moberta to be sworn in and then expel Lim will be followed, The majority of the eommitiee, on the other band, are confident that their report will be adopted, and that Mr. Roberts will bo ex- eluded without being sworn In. A a CSA HE CLAIMS MILLIONS, George W. Bailey, of Martinsburg, Ex- pects to Share in a Large Fortune. Martinsburg, W, Va., (Special. )— Geo, W, Bailey, of this piace, claims he is an heir to a $00,000,000 fortune, awaiting to be claimed in Eogiand, He claims that his share of the fortune amounted to $15,000,000 before his Brothers and sisters died, and since their death he fs sole heir to the entire fortune, has one ohild--n son, Jesse E. Dalley, of Hagerstown, Md. He Inherits the estate t rough Lis grandfather, who was an Eog- lishman, 4 THREE DEAD. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN TUCKY HOTEL THE FINISH OF A FEUD. Several Men, Including Two of Those Killed, Hit by Stray Bullets Ethelbert Scott, n Nephew of Ex-Governor Brad. ley, Killed -Ho and Colson Had Been Enemies Since Spanish War, A KEN. Frankfort, Ky., (8peeial.)—-The outbreak that was feared because of the attendance of so many excitable politicians at the legisin tive contests ocourred Tuesday. As a result three mon are dead and four wounded, one perhaps fatally, The dead: Ethelbert Beott, Luther Demaree, Charles Julian, The wound- ed: B, B. Golden, perhaps fatally; Harry Me- Eweng; W, 0, Redpatch, Chicago; Col. David G. Colson, former Congressman {rom Elev- enth district of this Btate, Colonel Colson did the killing, The trouble grew out of the renewal of a feud between Colson and Seott, who served together in the army last year, The tragedy took place in the crowded lobby of the Capitol Hotel, Two of the dead men and two of the wounded were shot by accident, Colonel Colson is in jail, charged with murder, but he claims self-defense, Colson was shot in the arm, but not seri ously burt, After the shooting he went the residence of Chief of Pollee Williams, near by, and gave himself up, Later a war rant was sworn out for him by Clinton Fogg who witnessed the killing. Fogg says Col son shot first, Seott, who was the first killed, was n nephew of ex-Governor Bradley. Demaree was assistant postmaster st Shelbyville and a prominsnt Eepublican politician, Charles Julian, who was at first thought to be but slightly hurt, died later from shock and loss of blood, Jullan was a prominent and wealthy farmer, The death of Julian Is most remarkable He walked to his room unaided. His cousin Judge Ira Jullap, examined the wound and congratulated him on his ors were busy with the dying and J He biseding to when the doctors turned attenti Was past recovery, B. B, G« fatally w Bart aptain of a Kentucky company daring the Spanish-American War He made a statement in which words passed between Seott and ¢ fore the shooting and that Colson Golden and Colson had W. O. Ridpateh, of Chiesgo, eRenpe, Doe ulian walted was death, he and Weaver. a to him he Iden, who is Capt the iRawyer wo aught to he inded, is a lived at grsvilie , RGA was he sald ison be fired first bad trouble before sustained & broken leg by the lifeless form of Beott fail if ing against him as iL rolled WAY down the stair i Colson Is inn i ily nervous stale from excitement attending the and, as he has never fully rece stroke of paralysis sustained year, his friends are greatly his tragedy 5 yered from a inst concerned over condition, Accounts of posnit je 16 che killing differ give mocurale than that while Col It I+ im detalls further friends rer of son and a party of : south west se were standing in the hotel and when Heott lobby Beott came I8t0 the pear Colson the firing After wing shot, ward the stairway io walked i king tot own the stairs dead against the barr who had every step, fired ri Colson, i of Reo iv al The fact 3% and part of X its Ix he w a part of 44 caliber as shot ut least six Hines that the bullets wore of that be someb dy besides Colson « indicates was shot r that { son had two revolvers, Withesses to the killing say that Doeonimares was directly between Soolt and ( that he was killed won when the shooting first bal opee through the breast vison, who killed Scott and wb fs charged with the killing of and and with long been a promivent fAgure in Kentucky He served two terms in Congress and declined a renomication at the hands of the Republican party of the Eleventh district 1: 180% in order 10 accept the ecoloneley of the Fourth Kentucky Regiment in the Span. ish war, Boott was a lieutesant and Golden was captain of a company in Colson's regi. ment, and the trouble which led to the trag edy began then A feud sprang up belween Colson and Scott while the troops were in camp at An piston, Ala, and in which it is said by Col- son's friends that Captain Goiden was a warm partisan of Scott, The trouble be. tween them at that time culminated in a meeting bet wean them ina restaurant, which resulted in Colson being shot by Scott, The regiment was shortly afterward mus. tered out of the service as a result of the feud between the officers and the serious charges and counter charges which they had made at Washington against each other as officers, When the killing occurred the city was thrown into a state of the greatest excite. ment, it being supposed at first that i was the resuit of a clash growing out of the poli- tieal contests on trial in the Legisiature, Those in the immediate Colson party de. line to talk about the tragedy. While ft is generally understood that several others were engaged in the shooting, no names are given, The bodies of the dead were removed lo undertaking establishments, and ali the physicians in the oily were summoned to sttend the wounded. Hundreds of people flocked to the seane of the shooting. Profound sorrow exists over the accidental xiiling of Demaree and Juilan, and the (onl. ing against Colson among their [friends is exceedingly bitter, began and by the let fired He was shot twice, Colonel ( both Demares Julian shooting Golden, has polities, Her Fall Proved Fatal, Centreville, Md,, (Special,)- Mrs, James Burrise, of Spasiards Neck, this county, died st the home of her stepson, aged 71 yoars, from the effects of injuries received by falling down stairs about two weeks ago. in falling she broke ber hip. Fredecioa Mora, fiscal of the Bupreme Coutt of Havas, has been removed from office, BIG FIRE AT DAWSON, a Many Business Nolldings Destroyed. Loss B300,000, Beattie, Wash, (Special.)~The steamer Danube, at Victoria, from Skagway, brings news that many bulldiogs in the Lusioees portion of Dawson were destroyed by fire i've Joss will excesd $500,000, There ure 40 names of the balding or omen. The Skeg perator says great suffering ui oedly follow the ‘as the temperature st Dawson was 40° B & FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Russia and France ars undoubtedly mak- ing warlike preparations, Seventy-five thousand Nussian troops have left Transcau- ensin, ostensibly for the frontier of Alghan- istan., The Pope, it is reported, has been notified of the existence of a Busso-French agreement, Ambassador White, In speaking of the re- intions between the United Stntes and Ger- many, says that President McKinley's pro- posal for the appointment of a commission to consider the question of the inspection of American meats may be accepted by Ger- many. The Czar addressed a reseript to Count Muravieff, highly complimenting him for his conduct of foreign affairs, especially in his Chigese negotiations. Miss Constanc + Shicifeiin, of New York, was married in London to C. B. Ismay, who soon after the ceremony left for Bouth frica, The French Colonial party is pleased at the news of the French oceupation of the oasis of Insalab, in the Desert of Sahara, Germany is reported to be trying to per- suade or coerce Liberia futo accepting & German protectorate, The Czar established a department of trade, art and commerce, Confiictieg reports have been received of the revolutions In Colombia, Government despatches report a complete rout of the in. surgents near Cerrita, =1Iwo cases of bubonic plague, one fatal, are reported from Adelaide, Bouth Australia The Americans In Santo Domingo bave to dictate terms for the Dominion govern ment, Washington officials say they have not found it within their power to interfere. Louise E. Masset, a French governess, was hanged at Newgate, England, for the mur- der of her child, The big new Hamburg -American Deutschland was launched at shipyard, in the presence of Ham and was by Count strong speech, liner the Yulean Emperor Wil- notables, The christening von Buelow, who made a other The French court decided that the alleged coarse, but not obscene, sod acquitted the accused journalists, The epidemic of Inflagens throughout Great Britain, hold has not escaped. za is spreading The royal house- The reciprocity treaty with danger of Chamber, Maria I. Li American Paris. The her heirs, France Is in i the French being defeated In vingstone, an lady, died in ber apartments consul general is inquiring for eccentric old Msaliston, former king of Samoa, makes severe charges against the missionaries, say. ing they extort money from the natives King Oscar, in a recent interview, ex- pressed the wish that the wars in the Philip. ploes and South Africa would soon be over, Many deaths from inflgens fi Berlin, ( a have oocurred nsul General Mason is {lL The Prussian defeat in a discussion of measures onl provincial the ministry sustained a moral the disciplinary magistracies who voted canal bill, against reported to detested the Batatolas near Daraka, hava rebellious OLT CHINATOWN, Authorities Determined Entirely Rid of the Plague. Honolulu, via San Francisec Rince the Ist instant nine Lave developed, making twenty Board of herole measures, and it work now in progress scourge in a short UUme, resolution was adopted “It is the sense © sound policy to remove to quaraniline as rapidly ss possible the residents of the China BURNING Honoluln {Bpecial cases of plague y-Awo Health has adopted is believed that the cases 10 date. The The plague, including the Aastruction of build- ings and other property.” Ia accordance with the foregoing, Chins town is belag rapidly burned out. Within a week 8 majority of the residents of the plague spot will be removed to new and cleaner quarters on the outskirts of the city. Thirty. one small bulldings are being erected by the government. These structures will accom. wodate about 3.000 persons. The Council of State has appropriated $273,000 with which to fight the plagne and place the city in a proper sanitary condition. San Francisco, (Special. })The steamer Chia arrived from the Orient via Honolulu. The China did not dock at Hopolulu, but anchored off that port, the Hawalian mall being carried out to the liner on tugs. Killed in an Elevator Accident. “hiladelphin, (Special. )— Harry Gray, aged thirty years, was killed, and John Clark, fifty-six years old, was painfully injured In as elevator accident, The men were holst. ing a wagon, and, when nearing the third floor, the front wheels of the vehicle slipped off the elevator platform. In attempting to prevent it from falliog, Gray was crushed to death. Clark's leg was broken, FIELD OF LABOR. Prussia has a marine school, Electrical tanning gains favor, Vienns maxes silver horseshoes, Luadon has 15,000 policemen. Russis boasts paper railroad ralle. Moroeco policemen carry lanterns, France has 80 000 union railronders, Ban Francisco has a Milkers’ Union, Alken, 8, C., has three non-union ear pentors, Minneapolis Label League has been re organized. #t. Louis hus a negro Tobacco Workers’ ¥nion, in Boston all the city work must be done by unionists, Japan has forty-five watch factories and a tobaeco trust, The corner-stone of Grand Rapids Labor Temple is 10 be iaid on Labor Day, During the your 1899 the railroads ordered 2.473 new locomotives, breaking all previous records, “It Adam had worked 3.0 days each year from the day be was created to the present time at & salary of 830 a day, be would not have earned by this time as much property as ls owned to-day by Rockefeller or Vander- pli,” sald Dr, Wright, of Detroit, At Atlanta a bieycle ‘noanced its intention of fghv tutionadty of the tax of $160 on sach of the different makes of wheels turned out by the At meetings of the 8t. Louis Central Trades SAYS HOAR DID IT. Barrett Declares The Senator's Speech Aroused Filipinos—It Was Cabled to Hongkong. Chicago, (Special, )—John Barrett, former United States Minister to Blam, for the first time publicly named Senator Hosr st Lake Yorest University as the United States Senator | whose antiexpansion speech was cabled to Hongkong and subsequently put in the hands of the Filipino soldiers, causing, Mr. Barrett, declared, the open insurrection. Frequently this spesch and its presumed effect have been mentioned, and the reading public has connected the name of Benstor Hoar with it, In the course of his address, which was on the geaeral subject of the “Philippines.” the speaker sald it had been discovered in the Government investigation that Senator Hoat's speech was cabled in cipher and in fragments to Paris, where it was put io- gether and forwarded to Hoogkong. The message inciuded several thousand words, and the cost for trunsmission was sald to Lave been 84,000, It interested the Govern. ment to know what friends the Filipinos had at this time who were in a position to send the message, “I was in Hongk ng at the time” said Mr. Barrett, “and 1 remember the incident distinetly, I was coming downstairs in the hotel when I met the president of the Hong kong Junta, and he had in his hand the long dispatch he had just received, ftgave a large part of Senator's Hoar's speech in full and & summary of the rest of it. 1 asked the president what he was goingto do with it, and he told me that be meant 10 pend ft to the officers of the srmy in the Philippines, He was urged not 10 do it, but he protested that it bad been printed in the United States and was public property. “Four days after that speech had been delivered it was in the hands of those who of it. The speech was published snd dis- was the culminating Influence that brought shout the open insurrection. This speech, you must remember, was deliversd belore Washington, (Special. Senator Hoar de- clined to take any notice of the siatements attributed to Mr. Barrett, Ex-Minister to cause of the Philip- war. The Benator said that General Otis’ reports give the fullest account of the events that Jed to hostilities, and that he ex- pine WINDSOR'S BIG BLAZE. Every Building in Business Section of Isle of Wight Town Destroyed. Buffolk, Va Fire broke out ax Windsor, Va., a small place in Isle of wight i burned every building on the principal business block, Windsor bas no fire department. Men and women rushed out of their balf Thelr frantic efforts to stay the were unavailing. Boarding-school heroically. The destruction was urged on by a breeze till everything in reach was lic Pn The fire started in a warercom annexed 10 BR. W. Atkins’ store. Mrs. Atkins, who siept above, had just time to escape with ber life in her night dress, She was slightly scorched, There were burned 12 buildings, most of them small, including three stores, 1w9 blacksmith shops, two wood.-working places, two saloons, a toarding place, warehouse and dwelling. W. Atkins, store Eppes, 21,803 on £1,000 on bar Forty per cent. of thee yvered by insu The origin is mysterious, There had been no fire nor Ii in the wareroom except & ianters only theory advanced is thst the blaze was started by a burgiar, Special, } ounty, Ar homes finmes boys wo ried ked up. doctor's office, losers are I, and stock, #7000; E. W. building: W. T. Barrett & « and grocery stock Ions is The largest ranoe, ROBBERS MAKE A HAUL. R400 Worth of Jewelry. Parkersburg, W. Va., (Special. }—The resi- denee of Edward Gilfillan, on Eighth street, was entered by sneak thieves and about §400 worth of jewsiry stolen, Suspicion points to » woman who had been an ocoasional visitor to the house and who knew where the valuables were kept, Killed by a Soldier. Helenwood, Tenn., (Special. )--At Aimy, four miles from here, Andy Chitwood a highly respected young man, was shot and instantly killed by Elvia Phillips. The men had quarreled over a small Phillips was a member of the Fourth Tennesses Volunteer Infantry, While at Oneida be shot a drummer's valise to pleces, and the same day shot a man named Chambers, Saturday he shot at Charles Keelon, held up the Paint Roek engioe that carries the mall from the mibes to Onelda, and at 10 PP, M. killed Chitwood, ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Robert J, Bardette, Jr. is sald to inherit much of his father's ability, Congressman J. P. Dolliver, of lows. al ways carefully prepares his speeches, write ing them out a day or two before delivery. Many of the purses who went to South Afriom with the Canadian troops are mem. vers of well-known families in the Domine fon. Adelina Patti commen of a musieal 8 5 Her faifer, Salvator Patti, and his wife were both well-known singers of their tines, Her Highness the Maharanee of Dholpur, India, has presented a goiden challenge cup, worth $2,500, to the Ladies’ Kennel Club, to be competed for by the members, Gen. Charles King began his military snrver by leaving school in New York on the first eali of Lincoln for volunteers and ste taching himsel! as drummer boy to a Wis- consin regiment, 3 The London Mall states that the wror of Austria bas given the Archduke nand two years in which 10 consider whe he will marry the Countess Sophie ” 11 he does not marry her he must resign rights of succession, eredited to him, His speeches bave politically almost exclusively, At a recent t in New Henry Havemeyer hy
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