THE NEWS.
Mr. Montenlm Oldham, clerk of Accomae
(¥a.) County Court, committed suicide by
shooting himseit at his home, At Acoomac
Courthouse, Mr. Oldham was about fifty-
five years old and had been clerk of Acco-
mae couffty for twenty yoars,
The bill to permit persons holding diplo-
mas from reputable medical colleges to pras-
tice without taking a state board examina:
nn —
House of Delegates,
The Dook
Epdscopal Churob,
fixed the salaries of
Committees of the
the effactive
ishops 4,00,
New York, de-
five-million trust
the inheritance
$4 750; missionary
surrogate Fitsgerald, in
cided thut the Vanderbilt
fund is not exvmpt Gin
tax,
. B. Markle & Cs
operators, have inereased
mine
{ their
_anthracita coal
the wagea o
ent.
Thomns McKean, of
given #25000 to iho
Pennsylvania,
1.800 employes five per ©
Mrs,
hns
Philadelphia,
University of
sult was filed in the Cirenit Courtin Frank-
fort, Ky., Ly Governor Tay to enjoin
Beckh {
and Castleman from
functions of the respective offices they ¢
flied uit
the
lor
exercising the
Inim,
Tavior.
iso against
in court sitting In
original
cass might be car-
yf error
damage in
Towns in Ver
hie Chattia
led,
Stewart,
had no
on writ «
wureh,
Maria
burned
sq t hy » thes wy +
tO Genin aome as
stony
rank Sussex
I'he steamer H . Stanley struck the
entucky pler of Southern Raliway
ridge and sank,
Jacob Shirrefll in Richmond
opening letters addressed to Miss An
Eskins
was arrested
killed by a fall
Elia Leabelt was instantly Kit
Pa.
f siate at & gun at Siatington,
The New York
try Rev. Dr. McGiffert for
Martic Jordan, his
months oid babs were asphyxiated by gas in
their home in Chie
rey
Presb
wile
no
I'he protected crulser San Francise
be very thoroughly improve d at the Norfolk
Navy Yard,
James Hweeney,
lynched
Port Arthur,
(lovernor
Kiates to have the right
mian Canal.
Masked men ro!
ton, an aunt of Mrs
Ohio,
The postoffice gs. A
larized and every lette
Governor Taylor bas refused to sign the
Louisville agreement, and has aanounced
that be will allow the controversy to take its
course. The matter will now be fought out
in the courts. Gov. Taylor has ordered the
troops to disperse and the lagisiature to
at Frankfort. The Demoocrsts, however,
have concluded to hold their legislative ses
sions In Loulavile for the present.
The Virginia Senate committees, by a vote
of 31to 4, reported in favor of
charter to the Richmond snd Washington
Alr Lise Hallway Company.
United Btates Commissionar Hhields de.
cided in Now York that the Gaynors and B.
I). Groene must go to Savannah for trial in
the Carter conspiracy ease,
Letiibe or
KiNG
Tex.
Haooseyeil
3
se
M
shut
pe, (GR, W
WAS pee ‘
meet
compromised before the matier comes into
eourt,
Tho jury in the ease of Justice Oscar i
murder, was unable to agree.
on the charge of using the malls for fraudu-
leut purposes,
John and Thomas Morrison were con-
victed of robbing Samuel Cooper in Rom-
ney, W, Ya.
Drooklyn Navy Yard, Admiral Philip was
slightly hurt by broken glass,
eloped from Uniontown, Pa., with his step-
mother, seventeon years old.
A windstorm swept through the North.
west, demolishing a pumber of houses and
jnjuring Bfteen people in Collinsville, Mo,
In 8t. Louls a number of dwellings were
wrecked and two people were killed,
William F. Miller, the absconding head of
the “Franklin Syndieato,” of Brooklyn, a
soneern which promised to pay investors ten
per cont, a week, was brought to police head-
quarters in New York. ;
~ FINANCIAL BILL.
BY VOTE OF 46 TO 20.
AMENDMENTS CARRY.
The Dollar
of 25.8 Grains, Nine-Tenths Fine, Shall
13e the Standard of Value of the United
States, and All fle Meld at
Parity With It.
Money to
ha Benate sub.
stitute for the House currency bill was
passed by the Senate by the declsive ma-
jority of 46 to 29. Prior to the flan! passage
of! the bill amend ments wears considered un-
der the 10-minute rule. Only two of these
amendments wera adopted, viz, one offered
by the Finanos Committee keeping the door
open to international bimetallism and one
by Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, providing for
national banks with $25,000 capital in towns
of not more than £4,000 inhabitants,
The bill as passed consists of 10 sections,
It provides that the dollar of 25 8-10 grains
of gold nine-tentiis fine shall be the standard
unit of value, and that all forms of United
States money shall be maintained at a parity
with it, and that Treasury notes and green-
backs shall be redsemable in gold
The Secretary the Treasury is to set
apart a fund of #150.00,000 in gold for the
redemption of th and to maintain
this fund at a figure not below £ 100,000,0
of the United
exeoeding
Washington, (Sneecial.}
of
a6 notes
he is amp ywored to sell bonds
States bearing interest at not
per cont.
1t shall also be the duty
of the Treasury, as fast as standard sliver
dollars ined
of treasury notes and to
of the Secrets
are © to retire an equal amount
{ssue silver certiil
olned Unde
certifioates
against
provisions, too
be Issued against the gold held in the
the silver 80 «¢
Mn gold
Treasury. No United States notes or Treas
, be issued in denominations
of less than #10 and no silver cartificates
ye than #10
The Bouded Debt.
cretary of
{zed to refund the
ury notes shall
in
jominations of m
The
He the Treasury
bonded
‘nited States in 30-vear bonds bearing 3
snt. interest, the prineipal and interest
The 2 per
it less than |
with
these bonds to be paid in gold
ponds shall be issued
par. Any national bauk,
United is of
all bo permitted to lasus ore
of the bonds
ain
by depositing
this con
the
States bon
aint
fssuacireulatin
to the (aos value
ing allowed to
t
ank being
of the amount
a bank
of tha pal
REPLY TO MACRUM,
That Was
Diseredited
fis Mall
No i nnecossary Delays.
Statement Opened
os Dos
rrespenden
opened, in
ge Ww a
sithoritios,
Mr. Macrum
Mr. Van Amer gen,
took the cath of allegivncs
and went frout as a burgher., The
re yw that when Mr. Ameringen aj
plied for appointment as vice-0onsui at Pre
ois he stated that he was born in H siand |
al residence was at Pretoria, and |
was a naturalized citizen the
Afrionn Republic. This application |
inted Pretoria, November 12, 1853,
Jritiahs
stated his vice-consul,
closed up his business,
to the repubil
to the
sords sh
’
hat
hat
t he
Lia of
sth
Mi
TORTURED BY FILIPINOS,
Three Straggling Massachusetts Soldiers :
Maltreated and Killed. i
Boston, ( Special, A deapatoh to the Globe i
trom liotlo says: Three Massachusetts sol
diers of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, U, 8. ¥
have been tortured to death by Insurgents,
[he men were Dennis Hayes, Wm. Dugan
Jud Michasl Tracy, privates of Company F,
inder Captain William M. Tutherly They
remained behind the column at Balinag last |
November to get a tuba, and refused to a
company orporal sent by
Tuther y to bring them along.
Capiain
They were
rear of the column, and were sruelly tor
tured and murdered by rab=is in the
ialinag, the action being
eountenanced by the Spanish priest,
0 left his parish for the
the
public plaza at
The padre hans sin
mountains
When the men remaiosd tshind they bad
with them their full equipment of arms and
ammunition, which was captured,
REMEMBERED THE MAINE
Second
Anniversary of Loss of Warship
Observed at Havana.
Havana, (Special) ~The second anniver-
sary of the destruction of the United States
| pattleship Maine in this harbor was scitably
obsatved here,
At 0 o'clock several hundred Americans
boarded lanachies and tags and went to the
wreck of the Maine, over which the United
States flag was Aying at hall mast.
Every available piece of wreckage above
| the water was banked with laurels, and from
| the searchlight piatform short prayers were
offered by Pr. MeGoe, of the Eplseopal
Church, and Pather Jones, of the Catholic
| Chureh,
At the Church of Moreed the municipal.
| ity arranged for imposing mamorial serv.
| foew, which were attended by Governor
General Wood, officers represanting the de.
| partments, the civil oMcials and the secre.
i taries,
AGAINST CIVIL SERVICK,
| Bi Affecting Diplomatic and Consalar
Servies Ia Dead,
Washington, (Special) ~The plan for a
reorganization of the diplomatic and con-
sular service on a civil service basis, which
has been embodied in several blils nod has
| attracted widespread attention, was a Ape
| cial order of business before the House
| Committee on Foreign Affairs and on a tie
vote of 7 to 7 was defeated and then perma
The committe noted favorably on the bill
for the appointment of A woman delegate to
he unveiling of the Lafayette status &
| nently disposed of by being tabled,
" MOLINEUX GUILTY.
Jury Brings in a Verdict of Murder in the
First Degree Scene in the
Courtroom.
New York, (Special.)- Roland Burnham
Molineux is gulity.
By a verdlet of 12 of his peers, rendered
in his presence in the Court of General Bes.
sfons, he was convicted of murder in the
Urst degree,
The splendid nerve that has sharnoterized
bis conduct since the day of his arrest
than a year ago did not desert him
gravest noed,
Erect, with his head tilted {ar back, every
muscle in his Lody tense, Molineux stood to
hear his fate,
*“(ientlemen of
diet
Goff,
“We find the defendant guilty of murder
in the first degree,” came the first nnswer,
Molineux's slight frame lifted far
his eyes opened wider, his head and
body stiffened,
more
in his
the jury, what is your ver
said the low, soft voloe of lecorder
back,
Lis
Through the crowded courtroom passed &
shudder, Women moaned,
“Rilenee thundered a eourt officer,
hen, as the individual poll of the jury
was begun, from out on the street came the
tolling of a clock striking slowly the hour of
Each juror answered to his name ina
firm volee, acqulescing tn the verdiet,
Molineux still stood facing, in turn, each
Hips tight pressed, his
azine, his sititude one of deflance, Unt
and to the spectators it
did
hd
that roll was ended
seemed interminable tho convicted mur
3
uerer relax
When :
When the last question had been asked he
'
took his seat and turned his lawyer with
bitter trony. At
ublimest figure of fath.
uld pletured, sat
hen the crusting ver
fe
to
confidenes 1
the
that
leneral Molineux.
an
Lis son's side
eriy devotien be
* eame that wit al ones
wd hb
r was ralsedd to
Lils pri
of the old Be
to hide
pe, the withered band
eyes ns if
m then hideous s'ght of 12 men sit
ting In ju 2
Slowly the ryea rested onoe
yn bis son's {4 closed. and thus
mained until the ¢
When M
of lesa firm, }
re
ny was less acute
lineux left the courtroom his step
‘
He was Toll
is bearing b
1 when he entered,
that crowded court
SHOT FROM AMBUSH,
Murderer Fatally Wounds a Detective and
Is Himself Killed,
OUR TREATY WITH ITALY
Germans Think United States is Prerting
Pressure | pon Germany
Cat
troaty
Probably Fatal Sheeting.
In this
wer Deer Went
NN. Va., (Specia
pute ar
ke (
{nent Inwyer, ove
Thoe
L
the
GEmpany,
Jenki
ronteat bet
fe,
niest was
t feels
became 2
estiting in Jenkins
the breast,
The physicians
only a short lame,
that sb
« in and
t in the hip
Ware are under arrest
Headless Body Found.
The head
man was found floating
The body was covered
and there Is every indication
has been committed, Marks
of Wii
employe Union
Company, has been missing
dunce Saturday night last, Walland's hat was
found on the banks of the basin Sunday
Ia
a white
basin,
New Orleans,
Av of
+5 i
Special
in the
new
liam Wallard, an of the
who
Fire in Nrookiyn Navy Yard.
New York, (Speecial)—Ballding No. Tin
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, occupied by the
sqaipment department, was de.
stroyed by fire. The loss ls £100,000, equally
divided between the building and machinery,
A large quantity of valuable records were
saved. Admiral Phillp himself took charge
of the forces that fought the flames and re-
wived several cuts about the face from
hroken ginse,
New “Jim Crow’ Law,
Columbia, 8. C., (Special. )-The Lagisia-
{ure has adopted changes in its “Jim Orow"
ear law, which provides separate coaches for
the white and colored races. Instead of
having separate compartments in one conch
and fiest and second-class coaches, with
different fares, as at present, the now law
provides for one coach for each race at a
aniform rate of fare-thres cents a mile,
The law goes into effect in GO days,
A Brakeman Killed.
Alexandria, Va. (Special.)-Charles M.
MeLoary, 25 years of age, employed as a
brakeman on the Southern Railroad, was
mashed between two freight cars in the
Southern yard here and instantly killed,
He was married,
Fxports Fall OF 10,000,000.
Washington, (Hpedal.) — The monthly
statement of exports, Issued by the Bareau
of Hiatisties of the Trensury Department,
she ws that there wore exported in January
breadstuffs to the value of 817,541 M9; pro.
visions, £11,508 340; cotton, $27,104,291; min
eral oils, $6,839,185, The total exports for
the month were $64.39 0608, as compared
with $74,729,762 for January, 1899,
Your Men Seriously Injured.
Durham. N. C., (Special. )--The boller at
the power house of the Durham Eleotric
Light Company exploded, wrooking the
buliding and seriously injuring four men,
NAMED FOR ACTION.
WORK EXPECTED OF THE N rw
PHILIPPINE COMMISSION,
DUTIES OF THE NEW BODY.
President MeKinley Carefully Selecting
Men of Character and Standing Thelr
Duties Will be to Organize Municipal
Government in the Islands and Super:
vise Their Work.
Washington, (Special. )—The only rofer
ence In the Cabinet meeting Tuesday to &
matter of public interest was as to the new
Philippine Commission, Ionsmuch as the
commission will not leave this country for
slx weeks or two months President McKis
ley has been in no burry to complele the
metubership. He has been carefully seeking
men of national standing and unquestioned
character. The duties of the commission
will bs of the highest (mportance. In Ade
ministration circles the new commission is
regarded as one of the most nporiant ever
It differs a great deal
original Philippine Commission, That body,
which will soon be i
visory nature, It
over, confer with the Philippine leaders and
report to the President country what
was adyvisalde To
this
created, from the
defunct, Was of an KG-
was to look the ground
and
anil intents and purposcs
has been done,
Not for Advice, Dut Action.
The new commission has been cree
for advil
to organize municipal
there and everywhere, sel
ut Its duty
governments
them Rolng A
they are a
far sction,
se 1
here,
supervise thelr work ull
stand
munlelp
firmly by themselves, Groups
ities will then be gathered
provincial governments, and the
in turn will be gathered under =
the hend !
The
on A sound
authority, at
governor-general,
stich A system
Lis
k of the pew commisgic
The Beuthern member the
been seeking
tor Mela
foned at one
has not been sele
most
but
yw whether he Ww coept,
wen stoned H
March, &
already filled by
rin was pre
time, it has never Leen
Senator
® term
gy bas alse
in
19
A Coming Declaration.
is sald that the I'res
lie jnsurrect
Agninalde to Continue the
regular warfare will be «
tion of white flags and ex
ers will not take place
FELL FROM FOURTH STORY
Death of Congressman Charles A. Chick
ering at New York.
New Yo
A. Chickering, of
killed by falling or jumping fr
PRCAPS On the fourth story
Union Hole, He was {
from & fractured
street side of the directly
window of his room. The wind
There is no means of ascertainiz
aver the four-foot ralling of th
He had suffered mneh from rheumati
the pain had
mind,
Congress bickering arrived
hotel Sunday evening. Hetold
was not well, and that he was suffering from
rheumatism: was on his way to Washington,
and had a puss for himsell and attendant
on ths Pennsyivania Road. He remained
about the hotel lobbies all day Monday, and
at night ate a hearty supper and went to
bed at an early hour
the hotel about five o'clock A.
body of a man iying on the sidewalk.
clothing was saturated with rain, and blood
rk, (Special, Congressman Chas
Copenhagen, N Y
t
th
was
a Dre.
cf the Learns
this eity snd de
SEU
sal
hotel,
of his sickness effected his
at t
3
the clerk he
i
break in the skull at the right tem ple,
The speculation about the manner of death
from the pain of the rheumatism and have
jumped out of the window in the night, or
that he had been a somnambuiist and had
walked out of the window and eclambered
over the fire-escape.
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Aubrey Thomas Do Vere (a the oldest liv.
ing English poet,
Representative Mitehall May, of the Sixth
Now York district, has the reputation of be
ing the best-dressed man In Congress.
Lord Dalmeny, Lord RBossbery's eldest
pon, has just passed the Bandhurst examina.
tion. He is 19th out of 20 for the Cavalry
and Foot Guards,
Senator Hanna's rheumatio leg Is again
giving him some trouble, and for the last
few days ho has been walking with the nid
of a cane,
Henator Beveridge carries his papers in a
handsome black leather poriloiio bearing
his name, in sliver lettering, the gift of some
of his constituents,
ere is an enthusiastic New Yorker's ap
prociation of Paderewski: “Why, there's
only one pianist in the world; all the rest of
them are merely hired help.”
Josiah Quincy, Ex-Mayor of Boston, an
nounces that he will shortly marry Mrs
William R. Taylor, widow of the late bend.
master of Adams’ Academy at Qualnay.
Colonel Baden-Powell is & great admire:
ot Sir Frederick Oarrington, who bas Just
boon commissioned a Major-General to lead
guoeriline tn the Bouth Alrkean War.
MACRUM SPEAKS OUT.
Hritish Woulda't Let Him Tell
Pretoria Situstion Huwmilisted
Ly the Cousor,
Special, y-Charies E.
rut, formerly United Slater © prul nt
toria, who has beretofore deciin 4 0
the reasons whic Bim to leave Lis
Says
Mac
Pre
Washington
thle
hh caused
post soon alter the Bouth Afrienn war hroke
out, i wing signed state
ment
I'he situntion in Pret
as un official, Le
made publie the oll
ria was such thal,
first ould not remain thers
while my Goverument at home
ently in the dare as to the
in South African
citizen
wis appa
i
pais
SIRCY ©
SCO nd
i of the United Stat
main io Pretoria, sscrill
respect and that of the
while the Government st hon
leave me in the position
and pot an American
I want to say
not one siogle reques
the Departinent «
of British
not [ui sid
urders
fterests in §
Hon whicl
if Blste sl
1 went straight to Paria a
r
part
it for the
nent of my press
Ame Tr “Aan i .
York. 1
Monday, February 5,
sistant Secretary Hill, of th
offic
retary Hay's son had
place and that he was on his way i
arrived
fila TE
informed
ment, wh ially
Dean appoil
A FAMILY ASPHY AMATED
Bodies of a Man and His Wile and
Babe Yound in Their Home.
Chicago, (Special) Marlin Jordan
engineer, his wife, Mary, and their
months-0ld boy were asph) xinted i
Dead
five
v gas, in
Aldeak in u gas pipe in she bas
The leak
avenue,
ment deluged the house with gas,
was 80 large that when workmen Irom
gas company attempted to close it obe ol
them was overcome by the fules as ire
vived with difieuity.
statue of Lincoln.
Washington, { Special,
Lorimer (111.) introduced a bill for the sree
tion in Washington of a statue of Lincoln
and appropriating $500,000 for that purpise
Mr. Vandiver, of Missouri, introduced a
bill prohibiting corporations,
from contributing tw campaign funds or
trom influencing or intimidating employes.
Maj. Gen, Sir W, Gustavus Nicholson, who
has been ordered to join Lord Roberts in
South Afriea, is one of Bole’ old followers,
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
The Filipino insurgents in Albay provinee,
Luzon, have burned a large part of the
town of Albay by shooting burning arrows
into It, Nearly all of the large towas in
that province are deserted.
The plague continues in Manfia, there
being eight onsen among the Chinese and the
patives last week, Two officers of the
Thirty-sixth Volustear Infantry have died
of small pox.
Cuban vars ad vise Samuel Gompers
to return to the United States, and acouse
him of fomenting disturbances,
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Bmperor Willis. in a conference with ihe
Liritish ambassador at Berlin, is reporied 0
have exprossed sympathy with Great Britain
aud to bare touched
(riendly intervention,
spon the feasibility of
Hore Lichter, Badieal leader in the Relohs.
ny {ierman Navel bil, in-
sinuated that the British seizures of German
shipu were brought about opporiuney 10 se
ye
cure support for the bil
in opposing the
Diseatisfied over the news of the division
of the Samons Islands, Mataals men attacked
the bh Malletonns, routed Shem
out and sat fire Lo the bulldings
is sald Lo Lo
eharge of
Jus pauper io his gx
duet ls given t
Murs of ths
willing t»
the
on, If 8 sale eon
other proceed
Count Batlerbaxy
stand triad oa the having
iam smog |
; him against
ings
Bdmond 1
uaval officer, w
Geder, said to Le an Ameriens
udon on the
plates
an Brrost in Lo
charges of stealing LW
Soldiers fired op riotous miners in Mar
Unique, KLE Hine <
Tue first reading of the German naval bi
Admiral Th
1 shad it woud
Bata
snslag
gel nlo Bn war
¢ up] 5% the
ArT LAY
of the govyera
os Chat
SEW CABINET OF!
Mix 5
s Hon
es and
4
KILLED A BI RG)
r Canght Him Aat.}
Only Malm Him
Ps I david =
in the val Moand
to
ing.
ip, shok
Midway,
by members
robbing the
p, and
SAW LLe InAan as
1OBE
to maim the
Lkt
was if
a window
trigger LO man
3 ditire
Hedied
rd he was
Leokear, aged
d st Midway
ed by neight
twenty-eight vea™, ang VE
as a lalorer
BULLER'S LATEST EXPLAN ATION,
Hoberts
Held Vaal
n, (By « . he War Ofen bas
from Field
He
Rranis
leporis te Wh Contd Not
ond
received the Ic
Marshal Lord
Modder River, Sunday, February 1
“{ have rroeived a telegram from Ia
as {ollows, dated Friday, February 9
‘It was seizing Vaal
Krantz to entronch it as the pivol of further
operations. But l after trying twe
days, that owing tothe nature of the ground,
this was impractiosble, 11 was siso exposed
to the Sre of heavy guns in positions from
which our artillery was dominated it ie
esgantial to troops advancing on Ladys
ty Harding or Mougers Drift to hold Vasl
Krants securely, and, sccordingly, we are
not pressing the advance by those roads,
aud 1 Sud we cannot make it secure
wing des ch
ted
Boberts, Qated
Her
BeoCRsAry alter
found,
ROBBED BY MASKED MEN,
Aunt of Mrs. President BMoKinley Has»
iad Vright
Ospton, Ohlo, (8pecial,)— Four masked
nen entered the homo of Mrs. 5. Baxion, as
aunt of Mrs. President McKinley, west of
pare. Daniel Slacker, a brother of Mrs. Sax
ton, was awakened, but was prevented giv.
{ni an alarm by & revolver thrust in his face.
The robbers escaped with a small amount of
booty. a tsi on 5 La
ROBERTS TAKES COMMAND,
Methuen No Longer in Charge of the
British Forces at Modder River
London, (By Cabin)--In the Hous of
Lorda, replying to a question as to whether
Major General Sir Froderiek Carrington was
destined for a command in South Alries,
and whether General Mothacn was still in
command at the Modder River, Lord Lass
downs, the sec of state for war,
retary
answered that portion of the referring
tv Gusatul Carrington in Ae Slirmative
and added:
“Gensral Roberts 1» now at the yg
Riven! n ot the Rn i S