FELL INTO DEATH PIT. Collapse of a Roof Crowded with Foot- ball Spectators. KILLED AND INJURED ! NUMBER SIXTY | Kine Persons Slowly Roasted to Death in the | Hot Furnaces Upon Which They F.l-(Game Between Stanford and University of Cali fornia Elevens Disturbed by a Terrible Disaster Just Qutside the Grounds, San Francisco (Special) —During the progress of the California-Stanford young men and boys, were witnessing | the struggle between the universities from the roofs of one of the bulldings of the San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works at Fifteenth and Bryant streets, when it collapsed. A large number were precipitated into the gigantic fur- nace, fully 70 feet below, and 13 were 50 were injured, of whom die. One of the victims, whose has not yet been discovered, a tank containing burning oil ¢ ee until the flesh fell bones. It is safe to say that tims were roasted others were killed by While the furnace trying to give what could to the injured and dying heartrending cries for help were in strong contrast with the cheers of the football enthusiasts which loudly rent the air. These, however, were quick- ly stilled when it became known that the disaster had occurred. The crash of the falling roof was heard a great distance away, gands of people hurried to the scene. Messsages were soni to the City Re- ceiving Hospital and the morgue, and all available ambulances were hurried to the spot when the extent of the acci- dent was known. many identity fell and was from some of the vie- to death, while falling timbers. attendants were assistance they burning. In the glass works the fur- naces were at white heat, and the most of the unfortunates who fell upoa them were quickly burned to death. The smell of burning flesh and clothing added to the horror of the occurrence J. F. J. Frechtier, who was on roof of the glass works, but wi caped serious injury, said: *We were watching the game there were several hundred of us and no women. Most of us were men and boys. The game been going mg when which sheetiron, Several an f glass. All an remember crash. 1 came burning when dead men. old seven ho es- and re no Ady the you had not roof, fell igh oven ’ WO works, s hauling James roof at the time coun Leg father ar of the G nner per, tar a A LITTLE LAD'S CRIME He Chloroforms an Old Woman and Tries to Set Her on Fire. Philadeiphnia Goodman, a las yet fifteen yea of Mrs. wilh formed the leving he had kille sene over the woman's ¢ paratory to burn i's. 1 ot home chloro then, be- r. poured kero- lot pre- the body and de- stroying evidence his crime. After he had spent some time in the rear of the house, ostensibly to wash his hands, but really to lock the doors, he approached Mrs. Muller in the parlor, deized her Ly the throat and clapped a ghloroform-saturated cloth over her nose. He tried to smother and strangle her at the same time, and when she had dropped to the floor, overcome, be evidently concluded that he had killed her. After he had soaked the woman's clothes and hair with kerosene she balf recovered consciousness and cried out, which attracted a neighbor. The boy confessed that he chloroformed the woman to rob her. HIS SKULL A WATCH CHARM. Removed Shattered Bone Patient Made Use of It. Bowling Green, Ky. (Special). —Geo Clark of Pemberville has a watch ¢haln made out of pieces of his own skull. The chain is made of portions of bone fastened together by links of o 1.04 De «d her 3 ol ana hes ng ? Of Surgeons and which is the date of the accident which this chain figure, hangs as a pendant. Clark while in an oil derrick was struck on the head by a crown pulley and his skull was crushed. his home, for two weeks. could not live, in As a last resort they skull. To their amazement he recov- ered, and is now living with an arti- ficial top to his head. Double Tragedy in Oregon. Jacksonville, Ore. (Special). —G. Traynor shot and killed J. brook and then killed himself. to Miss Sarah IL. Beeson, a sister of | Mrs. Traynor, but Traynor objected to the match, and it is sald threatened Hardenbrook's life. About 11 o'clock Miss Beeson, Hardenbrook nad Mrs. Traynor were sitting around the fire when Traynor walked out on the | came crashing through the window, struck Hardenbrook In the head and he died in an hour. Gen. Lee Receives Orders. Washington (Special). ~Gen. Fitz. hugh lee, who recently was relieved from duty as Commander of the Divi sion of Havana and Banta Clara and ordered to take command of tho De. partment of Missourl, relieving Gen eral Merriam, was at the War Depart ment resciving final instructions. He 10, Diuicwmriurs of the ; maourl at within a few days to assume his new . General Merriam will retain pouition as Commander of the De- 2 oiorado, Wik heal Jatt Denver. ag NEWS IN BRIEF, An injutiction’ was sued out in Pousn- | cola, Fla., to restrain the sale by State | | Comptrolier Reynolds, of the Central and Peninsular Rallroad, Colonel A. LL. Booz Indignantly { denfes the story that Oscar LL. Booz, a former cadet at West Point, is eritical- | ly 11] as a result of hazing. F. N. Pike have given up the man- | ageme nt of the Hygela Hotel at { Point, Va., {lyday will have charge, {| The charter revision committee New York suggested a number ! American Battieship Kentucky to Be Sent to Morocco. York. Blanche Witz, { burned herself severely gloves with gasoline, The striking cigermakers in Tampa are trying to stop the transportation of cigars from that section. Colonel H. C. Symonds, a classmate | of General Sheridan, died at his home { in Los Gatos, Cal. Joseph Henry ored prisoner, was | News, Va. Governor Joseph E. Johnson retired from the executive office in Alabama. A meeting of the different railway orders of the Baltimore and Ohio was held in Newark for the purpose of forming a federation. This was n accomplished, but will probably be done in the near future. it is reported that Theodo B Noyes, of Washington, will be offered the position of minister to Austria, soon to be vacated by the resigoation of W. C. Harris. Cornelius Flame, a boy of 14 years employed on Thomas Cronan's farm, in Cénnecticut, admitted poisoning a large number of fowl and cattle for Bpite, | General Wood will | guards in Cuba under one head, to utilize them wherever { preservation of peace on the island. Mrs. Hattie Norton Welch dianapolis, was robbed and deserted { her husband within three hours thelr marriage. He was arrested. Miss Georgia ( New York actress, is a patient Sanford Hall Sanitarium, in island, a mental and physical wreck Timber Ridge Ch ton, Va., was rededi ing exercises in the congregation, Governor Lind the of Waynesboro, Pa. while cleaning obdurate col- in Newport Lee, an lashed ot Te rural fi RS unite the aft ay alter th . ayvan, the po f Minnesotn vacancy caused Senator Davis to Judge lins, The steamer Ol York w the cor RhipwWred i the Li Loren by ith Hod Jlaren: counsel filed an llionaire Rice, nade residuary legatee rested | i in which Patrick is Edmund J York for robbing fessed, Jacob Sc hrol il f Manchester Pa., cot mas a mule side Canal Comps McKinley pany’s tender government Fire that was discovered In the files- room, on the third floor of the Treas- ury Department, Washington, was ox- tinguished before serious damage was done. Bell was the ar ahip The from Pa., died Panama President the property to the alled on ! rofere ice of the to come- the Admiray Remey tution at Guam, phoon. The supplies sent. Miss Eugenie Washington, a great. grandniece of George Washington, died in Washington. A conviet burglar in Ohio Peniten- tiary was lent to crack the safe of a business man who died without reveal- ing the combination. A party of Japanese officials arrived at San Francisco, and will negotiate for the construction of gunboats or crulsers. reports great desti- caused by the ty- government has ordered company him to Germany. Tecover. The Vermont legislature has passed in the State, | homa Territory has | 182,719 to 310.146. Mrs. Anna Weed died at Merrimac, Mass., aged nearly 103 years, Nathaniel Wells died in Washington, i aged 107 years. It has been discovered that the ace counts of George Griffith, deceased, late increased from { Cincinnati, are short $100,000, Deputy Marshals Charles Gee and John Chapman were shot by moon- Mecklenburg county, Va. It Is supposed that Margaret Kelly, a school girl of sixteen years, was al ducted in Wilkesbarre, Pa., by two strange men. The oath of office was adtministersd to Colonel W. J. Sanford as governor of Alabama on his sick bed in Ope- lka, Ala. George L. Wolfe, a musician of Ham- melein’s Ideal Company, committed suicide in Wilkesbarre, Pa. The three-master Robert MeQuillin became disabled off Hog Island, Va. and was towed to Norfolk. Some unknown person blew up the barroom of W. K. Morrie in Warsaw, Va., with dynamite, Hoboken, N. N. te polies are following an alleged clue to a plot to kill Presi- dent McKinley i | The Moorish Government Failed to Punish | the Murderers-~The Consul Will Proceed | to the Moorish Court, and the Battleship | Will Back Up His Demands~ Relations with Turkey Still Friendly. Washington Department (Special).—The State has sent instructions to States Consul Gummere, at | Tangiers, Morocco, to proceed to the capital of that country, 80 far as pos- sible, on a United States man-of-war to present afresh the claim of the States for indemnity on ac- of the murder of Marcus Eza- a naturalized American citizen, was killed in June, 1900. The warship, which probably will be the Kontucky, recalled from Smyrna for that purpose, will convey the Consul Tangiers to Mazagan, which is the nearest port to Fez, the capital of Morocco. The indemnity demanded in behalf | the widow of Ezaguin amounts $5000, and was based on the fallure of the Moorish government to punish the | murderers, The Moorish government lined the first demand, on the | ground that Ezaguin, by long residence in Morocco, had hecome a Moorish | citizen under the terms of the Madrid Convention. The State Department, however, holds now that the returned paturnlized citizen has a right to elect he shall become a Moor or leave the country, and Ezaguin was | prevented from exercising that choice | i murder. of thin fact, and the fact that the last discussion on this subject between United States Consul Gummere and the Moorish authorities was without result, the Btate Depart ment has thought the present a fitting occasion to let Gummeare pay a | isit to the Sultan's where no | presentative of the United States has been for years, with full powers to close th of the murdered man and the claims that have been government of ni lisposit i tn ec ¥ his In view further to be court vy Y * re » CREE the ion of rely frie: been given the Navy {Oo By proper Depart- a man has no and aaked POSTMASTERS NAMED DURING YEAR Report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Gen- eral Bristow Recommendations. Washington oon m laws HNnLmen postal app aiaidished Ws Were effort has postoffices nade eted been country 4 poratic 3 mod We patent There Were wignationa leat esidential postmaster 819 deaths g 8013 rave Our and 45 8. and resignations of wiimasters. On June 20 the number of postoffices was 76.- 688. as class, 184; sec. ond, 852; uo 3187; fourth, 72.455 The total number of during the year for gf enaes against the postal laws was 15626, inc 118 postmas- ters, 20 assistant postamators and 144 carriers and other clerks, postal employes. Of the total number 526 were convicted, { arrested Baby Has $7,000,000, Newport. R. 1. (Special) olas Brown, ® months old be the richest baby in the world, His fortune is estimated at $7.000,000, and is likely to be augmented before he becomes old enough to know of his | wealth, When the wills of John Nicholas Brown. Sr, and Howard his of pr h-cinss p inst arrests ding posto John Nich- in : bell eved to millionaire, were made public last June it was thought that the baby would hold the record. Confirmation | ie given in a partial inventory of the which has fust been filed here by Mrs. Natalia Bay- of A Brave Chicago Girl. Chicago (Special). Walking a nar- row stone ledge thirty feet from the ground, connecting the balcony of her father's residence with that of & neigh- bor, Miss Jennie Younglove gave the alarm that a burglar was at work in her home. A squad of policemen re- but the servant were alone in the house, Hav- ing given the alarm, Miss Younglove steps to protect her mother. Manila (By cable) Four natives were hanged at Dagupan, Luzon. They were convicted of arson and murder, ing two American prisoners. The mili- tary courts are now returning numer ous death sentences upon natives. oan a Must Put I" in Writing. Washington (Special), ~~ General Hughes, in command of the Depart. ment of the Visayas, Philippine group, has issued a circular directing, in con- nection with the “notice of amnesty” recently issued, that “persons coming in and announcing that they had dis- ered thelr error and wished to quit arms and teturn to thelr | otter. U. 5. SENATOR C, K. DAVIS DEAD. Chairman of the Senate Committee op Foreign Affairs Passes Away« Brave Struggle. St. Paul, Minn. (Bpecial).—~United tates Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis, chairman of the Committee on | Foreign Relations of the Senate, died at his home, in thie city, after an ill- ness of two months, He had suffered greatly during his sickness, and grad- ually sank away, being unconscious for and, so far as known, suffered no pain. For more than a week it has been known that the death of SBenator Davie was certain to occur within a short time. However, the announcement of death came as a profound shock to the friends and fellow townsmen of the distinguished statesman. The Sena. tor's devoted wife, who had been in constant attendance upon hig sick bed had never lost hope, The Senator, in his moments of lucidity, expressed a strong determin. and within the past United States District At that he well, that see him, was positive hs Indeed, it the Senator's general belief iron past week. On Sunday, November 18, a serious worse was noted, Pre time the Senator had reported as having occasional periods of delirium. On that day these delirious spells became more marked, and since then the lucid in. vious to that until the Senator was almost! constantly out of his mind. Afer his return from the Maine campaign in September Senator Davis was troubled by twinges of pain one of his feet, which he paid little attention, thinking it due to some which would soon He began an active campaign in tn LBs, kim relict another operation he began to and was apparently on the way complete recovery, when, on No- 11. kidney trouble became ap- both nephritis and diabetes After mend, vember Cane, STORMS SWEEP COUNTRY. Vessels Wrecked and Many Towns Flooded Lives Reported Lost Violent wind in West West congidern and Ken- hav 0 prog Ain storms Ohio, fucky and caused erty, and, it is number of have been | CRIN telat oo WA « POT BRITISH LOSE HEAVILY. Six Officers and Fifty or More Men Wounded, GEN. PAGET IN SHARP ENCOUNTER. General Kitchener's First Report as the New Commander-in-Chief Contalus List of Losscs ~The Boers Attack Bochop, But Are Promptly Repulsed- Another Big Battle Reported. London (By Cable).—~—During the past week there has been more fighting and heavier losses on the British side than occurred during the preceding five or six weeks, Over a score of British soldiers have been killed, more than a hundred wounded, including a number of officers, and 400 taken prisoners. It is reported that a great battle was fought between the British General Knox and the Boers under General de Wet near Rouxville, in the southeast- ern extremity of the Orange River colony, The first dispatch from General Kitchener in his eapacity of command- er-in-chief of the British forces in Africa is dated Bloemfontein November 30, and confirms the reports of fighting between General Pllehes and General de Wet, and adds the esl reports—that General Knox touch with General de Wet's force Tafelberg, 12 miles north of Bet (Orange River colony); that the Boers attacked Bosho! November 28, renew- ed the attack November 28 and were repulsed without British loss General Kitchner also reports that November 28-29 General Paget was fighting with the Viljoen and Erasmus commands, and that he drove he Boers to a position in the vicinity of Rietfontein. The British Colonel Lloyd were wounded, and 50 were iat casualties and five ve men wounded, were other Were heavy officers killed 1,200 BOLOMEN SURRENDER. Food Supplics Run Short, and They Gave Up Fightiag Under General Tino. Manila (By C Goodrell, latialion, With 100 to Subig rebels of late, detachment able) Lieutenant C onel the 8 k marine tu TO0 hay tO rol that vicinity eve the The in A the the camp of quin forsaken the trees near (he f tha Lares AME thi roche Ww rain had “hesapeake and Oh i that there lie the schooner Wal known of on #4 nuik of ashore ered Ce went Nothin on & Sands, th Lae Ih wer Ham aon ispor Rickien d Malvin Beach, £ at steamer M woners Spademan an hore Marblehead and the a went on Lake wind biew Edie. The iven by gale to wires through Canbridee, ., blown down, £0 miles an hour ove heavy sleet that was did great damage Northern Ohio. At several bulldings were and at Batavia a young Woman was drowned A tornado swept thr Georgia Considerable damage done in the village of Siloam Snowstormes in Maine, Vermont Hampshire delayed $ ue pod part of was ough a and raliroad travel OSCAR WILDE DEAD. Once the Idol of Aesthetic Cult, He Expires in Obscurity. london (By cable). —~Oscar Wilde died here at a small hotel in the Latin of Paris For the last three days he had been ab- the doctors Inflamma- scess in the could not tion from ear, which locate exactly. this gradually mounted to the brain. He died attended by a few faithful friends, who declined to ac- cept the general verdict of the world The Parig Journal says it is rumored that Wilde committed suicide. It is interesting to note that “Mr. and Mrs. Daventry.” a play with the authorship of which Wilde was credit- ed, is now a rage here. The majority consider it shocking, and many rush to see whether it 18 as bad as reported. Wilde, it is declared, was receiving one-fourth of the profits of the plece, in which Mrs Patrick Campbell ap- pears as the star. Physician Accidentally Shot. Moorefield, W. Va. (Special).~Dr. J. 8. Goochnauer, of this place, was shot, it Is feared fatally, by Richard Chipley while hunting deer. Dr. Goochnauer was at a crossing watching for a deer the dogs had started. The game came in sight of Mr. Chipley, watching at another crossing, and he fired several shots, one of which accidentally struck Dr. Goochoauer. He is a very promi- nent physician. ” Stabbed fo Death, Minneapolis (Special).~Frank H. Hamilton, a Minneapolis newspaper man, is a prisoner at the Central Police Station with the charge of mur der against him a= the result of the stabbing of Leonard Day, a young mii- Honaire of this city, at 1 at the West Hotel, seu FOREIGN AFFAIRS. sb bo It was reported that General French sed by the Boers all the way imperial supreme court, The London Times continues to bite terly ptintk x vary move made the United Sta tes government in in the e a ruthless Freeman latter of of Cole prosecution © ched Preston After allegi rd] [nto takin Limon by i. Howed ai ance # Bs 2 Denver to the assur neoln © tO pass to Hugo SO piace heriff Freeman impossible n or any i convict any pation in the | unty he Limon would be he county iares that get a jury in ing county that charged with ing of Porter d be throuch nmolested 5 roid Erte Porter jail A a it woul id be 0 1 is l4ncol won ld pari Reported Seaboard Defalcation. New York ceived at the effect that a Alr Line has been arrrested at nandina, Fla., for the peculation very large sum of money from line. The clerk's name was not giv It is said that the money taken by clerk was lost through speculat with the firm of Chester B. Lawrence, Jr.. & Co., which failed last week ar amount taken was reported to be O00 Air Line here it was said that no one there had heard of this arrest were certain that no one in the York City department had run r been caught. (Special). Word was re- of that en the Exploded in His Hands, Hagerstown (Special).—Wade Ane derson, a boy aged 16 years, was prob- mark near Clear Spring. of the gun, heavily charged, fragments pierced They were removed, precarious condition, The burst and leaving him in Trying to Save Mrs. Maybrick. Norfolk, Va. (Special). ~The Norfolk friends of Mra. Florence Maybrick are again moving in the matter of securing the release of the unfortunate Ameri. can woman from Woking Prison, Eng- land. President McKinley will asked to interfere in her behalf, There fs no doubt in the minds of any of the Norfoik people who knew the May- bricks during their residence here but that the husband, who was a confirmed arsenic eater, killed himselt by an overdose of the drug. Christmas Box for Soldiers. New York (Special).-—-Miss Helen M. Gould bought $300 worth of tooth brushes, combs and other toilet ar. ticles which she will ship to the sol- diers in the Philippines for Christ mas, SA OS UNREAL Ho SHO Eaten by a Panther, Fort orth, Tex. (Special). ~Josus Lutere, foreman of the ranch of Vijo, near Cotulla, oat two small aren hunt TRADE NEWS OF THE WEEK Dun & Co. and Bradstreet's Report that the Markets Maintain a Satisfactory Condition. New York (Special). — Company's weekly BAYS: “Commercial failures in November were 850 in number and $12,200,216 in amount of liabilities, against 782 in October for $9,072,761 and 886 in No- vember last year, when liabilities were only, $8,046,848 Manufacturing de- faults wére but 192 in number and $3,- B83,1656 in amount, the bulk of the mortality occurring in trading con- cerns, of which 617 failed for $7.506,- 858. There were forty other commer- cial fallures with Habilities of $910.703. Four banking and financial companies defaulted for £822,000, “At first glance the November stat ment appears very unsatisfactory bat it must be remembered that a few heavy fallures in wool and other tex- tile Industries account for a large share of the reported labllities, Agide from this one of trads which has naturally suffered heavily from the tardy appr cach of Winter the figures show bus good foundation. Bradstreot's says { nae fod we back tn re i in many market situation Is ] one, RG Dun & review of trade n branch and hol ther etal 1 and ia dra tribution general igfactory coal lumber des situated The also deserving of nots striking absence idleness or troubles “The this week w fail Cessiul 1 DOGT ana ira “uo feature in as the lusion in Chi irregular because 10 4 suc- November Whear } oon corn corner been out Year Fallures { againet Argo Or the FLOODS CAUSE RUIN, Hundreds of Thousands Worth of Property Dameged and Three Lives Lost in Peaassivania, wen) wouniains : rivers howeves DE unprep pared waters and was ed fast risl been ( of families been driven living in the skiffs. There were many apes from drowning during id several men are reported ) as missing, but the n fatalities directly traceable to flood were those i Koppman, { Flocker and Davis { Davis and Flocker, panions, attempted Allegheny a and Unmanagen | coalboat men were thrown into the river and Davis and Flocker i drowned. The others clung to the up- | turned boat and were rescued after be- ing carried two miles down the river. At Neville Island, the four-span rail- bridge in cotirse of construction was swept away during the night. It was being erected for the American Steel and Wire Company, and was also to be used for passenger traffic by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad | Company. these districts from their upper floors in pa { homes or are | and using oR ony with three come the became lided with a in ble The col | road Killed in a Peculiar Way. Carlisle, Pa. (Special). ~Jacob Fry, a | prominent citizen ol Plainfield, a vil- lage three miles west of here, wae found dead with his neck caught be- tween two palings of the fence and with one hand holding firmly to the top of another paling. It is supposed he strangled to death. It is not known if he fell against the fence and was stricken with heart disease or whether he had committed suicide. Coroner Diven did not consider it necessary to hold an inquest. Fry leaves a wife and several children. FIELD OF LABOR. F. of 1. has 640 organizers, China has 1566 Chinese papers, 8t. Louis has, it is said, 70,000 union. ints, New York State has 1653 labor unions. New York brickmakers are erecting a co-operative hall Chinese coal miners work twelve hours for 6 to 10 cents, An universal label ix to be submit ted to the F. of L. convention. 8t. Louis grocery aris want early a and no Suda} work. Gov. Dockery, of Mfismonrs, will urge the law to tax w a woman ‘a Pacific. i Out in New Mexico a traitiaastar an te Suthers Shetland has had Wie Jargust herring bp at over $1. Iie Puyallup, Wash, hop market 1a 1950 14 14 COTwe Allied Printing ‘now represents 2500 men Typographical
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