FOUNDERED IN LAKE ERIE.
Barge Charles Foster Carries Her Whole
Crew to the Bottom.
TOWLINE BROKE BY HEAVY SEAS.
The Captain of the Steamer That Was Tow.
ing the Barge Saysthe Boat Was Over |
whelmed So Quick That Not a Cry Could
Pe Heard From the Sinking Men--Impossi-
bie to Have Saved Them.
of
Erie, Pa. (Special).~~In the midst
one of the most bitter gales that ever
swept Lake Erie the iron
8. H. Foster, in tow of the steamer |
Iron Duke, went to the bottom, 10
miles off Erie, and eight persons were
drowned i
The 8. H. Foster was one of the
fleet of James Corrigan, of Cleveland,
and for two months has been running
from Duluth to Erie with iron ore.
Her cargo consisted of 1500 tons of ore. |
Captain Ashley, of the Iron Duke, |
made Erie in safety. In an interview |
he said:
“The Foster w in tow, about 600]
feet astern. I was up all night, and |
there were three men on watch with
me. The seas were rolling tremen-
dously fromm the northwest and the
gale carried with it a blinding snow- |
storm. We made the harbor light all
right. When we turned for the har-|
bor a sea much heavier than any other |
experienced struck us. I ran to the |
stern. Just as I got there the Fos-
ter plunged in an awful sea and dove
down nose first
“There was not a cry from a soul of
the crew of eight she carried. Just as
she pitched down I saw a man on her |
fore-castle with a lantern, The tow
line parted when she went down. The
storm was so heavy that I could not
put about to hunt for any one. There
would not have been a particle of use |
anyhow, because in those tremendous |
geas no one could have lived a minute,
even if the water had not been icy |
cold. Had there been a cry for help I |
would have turned and risked any ves-
sel, but # was no use. I had all I
could do to make port in safety my-|
self.”
When asks
cause of sinking
Captain Ashley said
tell,
“Apparently everything
] } her until she
There had
of dist
£4:
ore barge |
of
that
not
ress from
Burling
Martin a
sity, attemptied
ware River d
they reach
swamped Martin
Lippencott was rescu
struggle in the le
23 years of age,
The you
warned agains
eross the
laughed at
REBELS
No Serious Opposition fo American Advance
in Luzon--Death Sentences Approved.
Ww *
Wy
child. ng n
t making the
ugh water, bu
&
suggestion of danger.
ABANDON TOWNS,
Manila (By Cable)
tures f i
of
those
"omy
gurgen
Ti¢
Hew
ind ©
southeast coast o
an attempt
anchoring
upon by
short engagement,
thor chain and sailed for Catanduanes,
with two killed and two wounded. The
games have not yet been received here, |
Capt. Richard T. Ellis, of the Thirty-
third Volunteer Infantry, captured in
the mountains near Barbar a large
quantity of Krag, Mauser and Reming-
ton ammunition, together i
nal outfit, a printing press, and ot
squipment. All of this was destroyed
Thirty rifles and several hundred
sartridges were secured at Victoria
A detachment of the Fourth Iafantry
saptured Maj. Garion and three officers
of lower rank in the town of Pasay
Another detachment destroved Gen
Ug.iad's camp. The enemy had fled
but the Americans subsequently round-
*d up twenty-five insurgents
General MacArthur has
feath sentences passed upon
additional persons convicted of mur-
fer, arson and pillage. In a few other
instances he has commuted death sen-
#nces to Imprisonment.
BiG BLAZE IN BALTIMORE.
the
sixty
Americs
riflemen,
they the
cut an-
#3 “ aio
With a 2ig-
approved
several
$350,000 Worth of Property Was Destroyed + |
Blazed for Many Hours.
Baltimore, Md. (Special).-~Pouring
forth volumes of dense black smoke |
:hat blinded firemen and hindered them
in their work, one of the largest firea
that has occurred in Baltimore for
years consumed the entire interior of |
Nos. 212 and 214 West Baltimore |
street, occupled by the Baltimore Bar- |
gain House, It is estimated that the
damage will amount to nearly $3560.
300, which 18 covered almost entirely |
by insurance. The heaviest loss will |
fall upon the firm of ¥rank & Adler, |
which owned the building, valued at!
$60,000. It was Insured for only $25.
000. All other losses were fully cov-|
sred by insurance, \
In addition Grotjan, Tobe & Co. |
wholesale auctioneers, who occupy the |
adjoining building, 210 West Balti-|
more street, suffered a loss of about
$560,000, due principally to smoke and |
water in thelr stock. : i
Sissi ——‘—
The Alleged Hazing of Booz.
Washington (Special).—~The House
Dommittee on Military Affairs re-!
ferred the resolution in regard to the |
tase of ex-Cadet Booz to the Secretary |
of War for such action as he deemed
proper. Secretary Root replied to the
sommittee that he had just received a
report from Colonel Mills, superinten-
dent of the Military Academy giving!
the result of an investigation of the |
ruse personally conducted by himself, |
and that he would forward & copy of |
the report to the committee for its in- |
formation as soon as it could be pre.
pared for transmission.
NEWS IN BRIEF,
preacher of Wyoming, Pa., who was
accused of camming the death of his
wite by administering carbolic acid,
was released in Wilkesbarre, Pa., no
case having been made against him.
The demurrer of Oberlin M. Carter
now serving in the Leavenworth Peni-
tentiary for defrauding the govern
ment, has been refused by the federal
courts, and he must serve out the re-
mainder of his sentence.
The
ern elected officers in Clnecinnatl, prac
tically completing the plan of consoli-
laltimore and Ohio.
Rev. D. M. Hench, a United
minister of Shippensburg,
Brethren
was de
rotten to the
Prosecution the Scranton
councilmen for bribery was d
was Core
(Pa.)
ropped on
of
BSeAls
There was an uprising of cade at
the University of Alabama and all mil-
itary duties were disregarded.
Mary Deborah Biddle,
many benefactions, died
in Edgewood, Pa.
Former Congressman
son, of West Virginia, died at Clifton
Forge Hospital.
Major Henry Sweeny, U.
died at his home in
who founded
at her home
Hastace
8S. A. re-
San Diego,
The State Department has received
by cable from Pekin the text of the
entered into by the repre-
sentatives of the powers, and it is be-
lieved in Washington that all the gov-
ernments interested will ratify it
The Presbyterian which
examined the pres-
that some revision
of the creed is demanded, as well as a
committee
returns from the
The
heard
army
The
Senate
arguments
canteen,
Naval
for
101
Military Committee
for and aguinst the
Appropriatio
two battieshi
cruisers
Officers
‘tod by
RL
mane,
OD
ed having }
Mra. James Jo |
Mrs. Annie Connell an ounce of
landanum in Ya. with i
cidal intent, gaved
Mr. Frank Roane was found dead in
his bed in Lynchburg, Va.. from heart
disease,
ips 4 £v es od
Richmond,
but was
Typhoid fever has broken out among
the inmates at Sing Sing, New York
A movement is on foot in Richmond
» redistrict the city. One ward con-
ins one-fourth of entire popula-
tion, but its representation and its ap-
priations are basis of the
other wards, which contain only half
as people. It is thus hoped in
this manner to diminish ward politics,
Count Pietro Alesso, a young Italian
nobleman, through his representatives
in New York, asked the United States
authorities to hunt up wife, who
ran away, and his missing bonds
Drunken negroes caused consider-
able excitement by long-continued and
indiscriminate discharge of firearms in
Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News.
the
pr on the
many
is
The United States Circuit Court in
Newark, N. J., appointed a temporary
Mr. Addicks is believed to be
behind the plaintiffs,
Bretange and spoke hopefully of the
Boer Cause.
who is 65 years old, was sued
Lynch. They had been engaged for 21
years.
pointed Congressman Charles
Towne United States Senator to tem-
Car at Gray's Ferry.
Peculiar Accident Occurs on ihe Pennsylvania
delphia~-Passenger Coach Telescoped--Side
Torn Away of Several Others.
Pa.
and women
jured, two perhaps
wreck on the Penns
just south of Gray's
t freleght car of one
just the Wa
express
Philadelphia,
teen men
(Special).
were badly in-
mortally, in a
vivania Rallroad
Ferry, caused by
train jumping
hington and
train was
and badly damaging seven of
man and pass
The train struc
with consid
two minutes elapsed
had occurred bef
patrol
the
track ax
York fast pass
the
CH EC]
Cars
we 1
dashing
The
11
Wagons were
sireets to the scene,
left Washington
CXPress
o'clock,
lead
which
at
rmoker
Benger
was the
coaches,
The train left
and was near the tunnel
Ferry, about a mile and a
the city proper, and w
firet of the pas
Chester at 1.56 p.
at Gray's
half from
as
§
slightly reduc
rain zoing
wheel on
freight
diverted
Across
right
i 188
: } 5% wt
anreast
south jumped the track. a
the rear box car
having broken. The car,
from the rails, ran slanting
the roadbed and struck
hand side the
meer train
of the
rear of
of
box
of the
of
The
gide of the
Bo
away the solid
were much
of the ps
80
ENRer coal
ving on the seats
* rent broken
smoker
STILL CHASING DE WET.
The Foxey Boer Leader Keeps the Brit
ish Going Right Along.
War Offtes
following dis-
from General Kitchner, from
“Have just recelved
news from Knox, at Rouxville, that
De Wet's foree, having failed to fore
Commassie Bridge, which we held, has
northeast, abandoning 50(
and many carts. His attemp!
London (By Cable). The
received the
patch
Aliwal, North Cape Colony
most and 1
all
dangerous position
his
Aris
Vith
strategy
gltrong
and two
front, the
to be
four
British column
gwollen
British com
$id
Lila
on three
barring his
glides
begin hopeful
£reat chase by column: which
f ih as | y 14 {
of the will result io
Definite
was firel receive
War,
Wet,
abouis
of
d De
news
ners
The
arted
next General Knox
ana
morning
n hot pursuit,
columns
to making a turning movement,
three hours’ march General
doubled back past the dritish
Carmel farm, the site of the
laager, which had evidently
and hurriedly moved.
General Knox started again at day
crossing Karrepoort Drift, but he ar
too late The British
enced very great difficulty
owing to the rise
4
n the river
From
Boers
Lhe
€h-
beast
of
logs of a man or a
time on the pursuit
taken up without
being supplied by foragers,
1g them to make mor
and ke Pp in touch
Cans
REVIEW OF TRADE.
the
baggage
rapid move.
with the
SECRETARY HAY'S VICTORY.
Proposcd--Demands Are Now
Modified.
~ £5
meeting formuils
with
st
coraance
and
Germany, which China
a ex id
AiG
structed
the
SLIT
to sign th adopted by
Ministers
PRESIDENT HAS THE AGREEMENT.
Will Net Be Made Public Until All the Powers
Have Accepted IL
Washington (Special). The next
important step in the Chinese situa
tion will be the formal presentation to
the Chinese plenipotentiaries of the
agreement arrived at between the rep-
resentatives of the powers at Pekin for
reparation for the Boxer outages. In
partment, although the probability ls
the document will be handed to
the Chinese by the dean of the diplo-
As has been stated already, the
agreement is simply a statement of the
upon which the powers will
negotiate with China for final settle-
as a matter of form. The
fiegotiations for final settlement will
come later, after the Chinese have
been given a reasonable opportunity
for the consideration of the conditions
laid down by the powers,
The complete agreement diciphered
from the code is now in the hands of
the President. Officials decline to
make its text public in advance of
successor.
Rev. I. E. Stuart, of Wilkeabarre,
Pa., was released on the charge of com-
mitting a criminal operation on his
Former Train Dispatcher W.8. Grove
was acquitted in Philadelphia of the
charge of causing the fatal wreck at
Hatfield by his criminal negligence,
Frank Lantell, a Baltimore and Ohlo
towerman, was acquitted in Philadel
phia of the charge of causing a fatal
wreck by his negligence,
Charles W. Morgan and Claude Tur.
ner, brokers, were released on ball In
New York on the charge of securing
money fraudulently.
Harry 8. Bollenbergér and Ezra
Sheets were sentenced in Philadelphia
to three months in prison for killing
by faith. cure. :
-
been formally accepted by the powers,
although the advices which have here
tofore come from Mr. Conger leave:
no doubt that thiz will be the ease.
The essential features of the agree.
ment already have been outlined in
the press dispatches.
A I OARS
26 Miners Killed
Mexico City (8pecial). ~An explosion
of dynamite at the mines at San
Andres de la Sierra killed or wounded
many miners,
At the latest advices 26 dead bodies
had been recovered,
Fifteen injured persons, some of
whom will die, were taken from the
wreckage, and the ruins are thought
to contain other victims,
it is not known as yet how the ox.
on ocourred, but nine eases of
ynamite blew ap at the powder house
with an appalling roar, shaking the
and Holiday Trade Brisk at
All Points.
{8necial)
8 '
Yori
iow Of
ctwear has qui
“Failures for WeeK
against 22
twenty-five in Ci
last
three year.
Bradstreeots says
"Wheat, including flour, shipments
the week aggregate 3.432.158 ba-
Is. against 2.487.880 alst week, and
in the corresponding week of
Corn, exports the week ag-
6.371.377 bushels, against 4.-
801,030 last week, and 3.815.608 in this
Ar ARO."
for
Panic Caused By Explosion.
Richmond, Va. (Special}.—
accompanied by very exciting
A panic,
and dis-
the Vir-
inia Hospital by the explosion of a
can of olls and turpentine which were
being heated on the Kitchen range, In
the basement. The interior of the
room was immediately a mass of
flames and dense, badly smelling
smoke filled the entire bullding It
was impossible to know at once what
had happened, and it seemed that the
splendid buildings just remodeled and
completed were doomed. Patents
screamed and filled the hallways in a
helpless state, and as many as possibic
were taken from the building.
FIELD OF LABOR
1owell is to have a textile school.
fllinois has 449.317 factory opera-
tives.
New York has a Hebrew bakers’
union,
Inman, Ga., is to have a $200,000 cot-
ton mill
New York's Store Clerks’ Union de
mands a ten-hour day.
The ‘Frisco Linemen's Union des
mands a working day of eight hours,
with a wage of $3.
Australians hold a world’s record
in tea consumption, drinking nearly
eight pounds a head yearly.
A course of lectures for journeymen
electrical workers has been arranged
to be given at the New York Trade
School,
The San Francisco stablemen broke
the record for initiations last week,
conferring the oath of membership
upon more than 175 applicants,
Labor men in Vancouver, B. C., arc
urging the imposition of a heavy tax
on male domestic servants, the object
being to diminish the employment of
Japanese and Chinese.
“Phe 8. Louls Whiteners’ Unlon har
asked the co-operation of the Central
Trades and Labor Uniom in Hs fight
against a new machine, a sort of
sprinkler, which, to a considerable ex.
ent, 1e taking fhe plate of Jen wha
ve
The Government Report Starts a Ra-
pid Fluctuation.
PRICES RANGE OVER FIFTY POINTS.
Rumors of a Leak In the Statistical Bureau
At Washington Responsible For the Flurry
The Acreage, After Eliminating All Land
From Which No Crop Will Be Gathered,
Is Estimates at 25,034,734.
has been
ions on
New York (Special) —H#
many months sines fluctu;
New York Cotto Exchange
reached 50 points ws gpecul
3
the
have
alion
has equaled that
From the ning
gegsion was one of great
market opened peaceably enough
prices 3 points higher 10 6
and easy as tone
ings and 1
Opi
intere
point
10
en a drop of
# red under
§ gelling, preci
ly large receipt i
market news. Then cam
action, which carried
rush 14 to 17 points
Government i was
“leak” and was strongls
Shorts lost falth in their
a number of room ir:
ciently impressed
risk the long side
The close of the first
market decidedly steady
half hour unimportant
curred and business became quite
gish, But as midday drew
factions became nervous and f
that they had oversh mark
scamper for safer g id resulted in
feverish trading and
ment in values.
The Government
the wire promptly
present crop at
an acreage 25.01
same as estimate
Liverpool Cotton
while be
CeEl
Occur
on raul
repor
hour saw the
For the next
Variations
nea
wie
erratic move
report
i
ang esi
100 GOD
10.1
of
Pryor
ng «
08s 1 o
of local expect
600.000 bales larger
Neill :
and
prices
Lf hBere
20 pag ns
LEAP RESULTS IN DEATH
Joseph Stark Miscalculates His Distance and
Kills Himself.
Farrell, Stark's
matinee was given in
and a large crowd assem
ness the various feats 8
moun ted
pariner
the afternoon
f 10 wit-
iy before
hicvelo
CYC
ble
Ort
§ o'clock Stark his
and peddled it rapidly
Just before reaching the end of the In-
cline, nt the proper place he jumped
from the gent and then jumped to-
wards the tank, bievcie, in the
meantime, falling into the pet In-
stead of falling directly into the cen-
ter of the tank Stark struck the far-
ther edge of it head-first, and then fell
into the tank, apparently lifeless.
Members of the regiment jumped in
and quickly bad Btark out of the
water, but death had already taken
place. His head had been crushed in.
Crushed in Their Bunks.
Sulsun, Cal. (Special) During a
very heavy fog a west-bound freight
train collided with a work train of five
cars and an engine going east in a
deep cut about 600 yards beyond Van-
den Station, causing the death of nine
workmen and injuries of a more of
less serious character to about twenty
others. The victims of the disaster
were asleep in thelr bunks in one of
the cars of the work train when the
trains came together.
up the incline
the
Young Churchman in Jail.
Baltimore (Special). Thomas James
Pritchett, a young lawyer and promi-
nent in church circles, was arrested
here charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses through his
“Commercial Savings Bank.” Many
poor people became depositors. Priteh-
ett, when arraigned, made no defense
and was committed for trial in default
of bail. He taught Sunday School in
Grace Methodiet Church.
Bud Refus Lyached.
Rome, Ga. (Special).—Bud Rufus,
the negro who assaulted and fatally
wounded Mrs. Joseph White, wife of a
farmer living twelve miles from Rome,
was caught and lynched here. Rufus
was taken from the county officers at
midnight by a mob.
RA
Promotion for Cripples.
Washington (Special) ~The Attor-
pey General in an opinion in the case
of Lieutenant George Mallison, U. B.
N.. says “there is no reason why an
officer, wounded in the service, should
not be promoted as well as his fortu-
nate brother, if there are duties in the
higher grade which he can satisfac
torily perform.” When an
1895 Mallison was struck by a break.
Ing anchor chain and lost a leg.
AT THE
NATION'S CAPITAL.
Chalrman Ray, of the House Judl-
siary Committee, suggests a constitu
donal amendment authorizing Con
gress 10 pass laws regulating marriage
and divorcee,
The minority of the House Way
ind Means Committee submitied a re
ort urging a reduction of seventy mil.
Yon dollars in the war taxes
Mr. Charles A
38 senator from Minneso
the late Benator Davis.
The remains
was killed in
Ington,
The Benate
*uilve &
ci
Towne was sworn in
ta, fo succeed
of Color
China
spent fiv
gion ocongid
’auncefote treaty
The 14
ial
giglative
Appropriz
after less than
ish the cant
ditional surgeons
tal and a vete
The Ways
the House 4
the Hao
presented flect jm:
on its
The House
reported fay
adoption of the metric
passage
Committees on
orably
ry
A number of amendmen
gested by Senator Fry
3511
The House
margarine Bill, whi
oleomargarine and
passed the rout Oleo-
ch tax
that on
the
butter
The
Deep Waterw ry Commission
ported favor y th 3 #1 10 connect
Great lakes with th At by
re
[3 i
Lhe antic
Lean, and Admiral
The Kentucky Ordered to Manila.
Washington
Long bled
Chester,
with his ship,
Smyrna on
Manila to replace
Asiatic Station.
(Spe ini
to proceed
from
voyage to
Oregon the
annot be learned
officially that the mission debts have
been discharged, but it is said that the
Kentucky's mission, which was one of
courtesy, has been discharged.
freer boy
UCEY,
ia wn # anpveers nt mad
nis ! pied
on
The Father of the House.
Washington (Special). — Under a
gpecial order adopted at the last
sion the House devoted Baturday to
paying tribute to the memory of the
late Representative Alfred C. Harmer,
of Pennsylvania fulogies were pro-
nounced by Messrs Bingham (Pa)
Cummings (N. Y.). Grosvenor (Oho)
Adams (Pa). McCleary (Minn.), White
N. CC). McAleer (Pa), DeArmond
{(Mo.), Otey (Va.), DeMorrell (Pa)
Bf.
United States a World Power,
Berlin (By Cable}.—-The National
Zeitung devoted its first page to a
carefully prepared editorial dealing
with the United States as a world
power, After pointing out the enor
mous progress, cconomically and poli-
tically, of America in the world's af-
fairs, the editorial declares that in
both respects the United States are ar
rayed agains: Europe.
American Horses for the Emperor.
Berlin (By cable). — Emperor Wil.
liam will send a special envoy shortly
to make a tour of the notable Ameri.
can stock farms, with the view of
purchasing saddle and carriage horses
for the imperial stables. Hitherto the
court has purchased exclusively im
Hungary and England.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
A a
A blige book issmed by the British
povernment on the Colony rebels
he in wad 30 wiih sgtt
to up he willingness
the border Dutch to join the invaders.
ford Kitchener reports that the
under General Delarey, ate
ked a British convoy, killing 15 men
and wounding 28. The Bosrs also suf