er ———— A AA PHILIP D. ARMOUR DEAD. Heart Lisease Carries Off the Noted Chicago Millionaire. HE GAVE MILLIONS TO CHARITY. The Head of the Greatest Meat-Packing Estab- Fifteen Thouzaand Mil. Army of Twelve to People, and the Dispenser of Many Hons a Year in Wages. Chicago (Special).—Philip Danforth Armour, philanthropist, fifty times a millionaire and the head of the vast packing establishment that bears his name, died at his home here at o'clock p. m, Muscular affection known to the medical of the profession as of death. He had been rapidly recov- weeks had threatened his life. At 9 o'clock his heart gave way under the strain of his recent illness, his pulse running up to 103. That was the be- ginning of the end. Mr. Armour was surrounded by his family when he died. Those at his bed- side, besides his physicians and nurses, were his wife, his son's wife, Mrs. Philip D. Armour, Jr., and Mrs. J. Ogden Armour. The millionaire retained ness until within an hour of his death. During the day he had realized that death was near. To those around him he had said: “I know I am very sick and am ready for death when it comes.” Soon after lunch and just before the physician forbade his talking more Mr Armour, in feeble tones, said that he would like to hear the Lord's Prayer read. One of the had been attending him drew a chair to the bedside and slowly read from the Bible that which the dying man had asked. It was read sentence by sen- tence, and each was repeated by Armour. When the “Amen” had been repeated by him he sank back en the pillow and closed his eyes restfully It was the*last word the great finan- cier spoke except feeble farewells to his family a little later. Hig illness, said his physician, Frank Billings, developed about years ago. Pr to that time he had been practically a sound man. The trouble was a muscular affection of the heart, caused originally by the burst- ing of a blood vessel. It grew worse with advancing years. conscious- Dr. two ior INCOMPATIBLE WITH PUBLIC INTERESTS. The President Refuses to Send the Lawshe Report to the Senate. ial),~The Pres dent sent a message to the Senate de lining the request of that body, mad in a n on the 15th of December and addressed to the Secre- tary of War, for t transmittal of the Lawshe report in regard to Irregulari- ties in connection with postal affairs in —uba. The declination considered sxceptional, and it is possible it will “reate more or discussion. The President's message is as follows To the Senate of the United States In reply to a resolution of the Senate >t December 19, 1900, directing the Sec- retary of War to transmit to the Sen- ate the report of Abraham L. Lawshe, giving in detail the result of his i vestigation m under the direction 3f the War Department into the re- ceipts and expenditures of Cuban funds, the Senate is informed that for che reasons stated in the act ompanying communication from the Secretary of War, dated December 28, 1900. it is not Jeemed compatible with the public in- terest to transmit the report to the Senate at this time. (Signed) WILLIAM McKINLEY. Executive Mansion, January 3, 1901. Secretary Root's explanation to the President was couched in the following language: “The document referred to is a con- fidential report of an investigation made under your authority for the pur- pose of enabling you, through this de- partment, to properly direct the prose- Washington { Spe resolati passed i ho it is 3 ous }~ a ade laws of Cuba.” FIRE IN TENEMENT ROW, On: Woman Burned .to Death, Another Car ried Out and Masy Homeless. Woman was driven from bed while 11, and three other persons were injured at a fire which destroyed a row three-story frame tenement houses on Bushwick street, Jersey City. The rovered by insurance. The dead woman was Mrs. Mary De- vine, 60 years old. The younger wo- man, Mrs. Minnie Arnickle, 27 years old, was in the hands of a doctor and uurses when the flames reached the house. She was lifted from her bed. placed in an ambulance and hurried to the home of her mother, where she gave birth to a child. Policeman O'Connor was overcome while rescuing the Inmates of the burn- ing houses, and is in a serious condi- tion. John Mankein and Mrs. Salva- tore Areta received severe burns. Twenty-eight families were driven from bed into the bitter cold night and made homeless. Many were rescued with the greatest difficulty. Puzzled Over De Wet. London (By Cable).—~Lord Kitchener reports to the War Office from Pretoria as follows: “The Boers have reap- peared along the rallway in the neigh- borhood Rhenoster, but it is doubt- ful if De Det is with them, With re- gard to the situation in Cape Colony, the western commando seems to be making towards Calvin, and the cast- ern party appears to have broken up into - small parties. Another small body crossed the Orange River, west of Aliwal.” The Third Rail Test. Baltimore, Md. (Special). ~The first private test of the Murphy third-rail sectional system, recently installed in the Baltimore and Ohio tunnel and Camden yards, took place in the Cam- den yards. A number of elvil engineers were present, One of the heavy locomotives was run up and down the yard tracks at a gn rate of speed by the sectional third-rail system. Everything worked ectly, not a single hitch occurring. ptain Murphy was congratulated on the thorough success of his invention. - A ARB AO 5 A DOUBLE CRIME, Father and Son Shot and Tobacco Factory Burned. Winston, N. C. (Special).—An as- sault evidently with murderous intent, was made upon Charles Cox at the to- bacco factory of Cox & Son, eight miles northeast of Winston, Mr. Cox was i 8hot in the left thigh with a pistol and received several painful gashes on i the back, his assailant being unknown. The son, Charles, who lives with his father, heard a noise in the factory, and upon going out to investigate found a stranger in the factory. The latter grabbed young Cox and began cutting him with a razor. Mr. Cox gave an alarm and his assailant there- {upon drew a pistol and shot him and then ran away. By this time it was discovered that the tobacco factory, a two-story structure, was on fire There were about 10,000 pounds of manufactured tobacco, part of it being stamped, and two barns of leal in the factory, besides a quantity of machin- ery. The loss is $10,000, with $3800 in surance, BIG RAILROAD DEAL. { Th Reading Company Secures Corirol of the Jersey Central. | New York (Special).—J. Pierpont { Morgan, the greatest engineer of gigan- { tic railroad deals in the world, has jus! {completed another big deal. { Official announcement was made thai the controlling interest in the Central { Railroad of New Jersey, recently ad quired by J. Pierpont Morgan & Co | has been sold by that firm to the R« ing Railroad Companrs: It under stood that the terms are that the Read ing shall guarantee at least 6 per cent dividend on the Jersey Central stock It is reported also that J. Roger Max well, president of the Jersey Central, will be president of the Reading. The two roads hb been close together for a having ¢ fect agreement upon rates and ti i tribution of traffic The acquisition o ownership by the Reading in Central will, however, further advantages. For one thing Jersey Cen ¢ i made most of the route from the Reading veloping a | Coal was once ing's 1 been deve that . is we W Bye Year, Koy HE DHKINess traffic NEELY WILL NOT ESCAPE. H His Extradition is Refused He Will be Trice in New York. { Special) it is Department that so plan has been pon Ww reference to the cases of Ne ely, | et al connection Cuban postal frauds, in the of the the of sit eT decided 1 bone in in decisic Neely case involving the jurisdiction f the i States in Cuban affairs. The s i was made, however, that the cas doubtediy would prose ntry in Supreme Court me the O be uteq Cait $d + $51 § ¥ Cou tiie ssl ever pi i vel fos In what ma Nooly he was arrest. it 3 should i the extradition of Neely i ner this be plained, but it wae stated might y on the charge on which ed, viz, bringing stolen goods int country, it should be decided i he could not be {to Cuba f« i ton the charge of embezzling publi funds. Secretary Root sald that future {action in these cases would depend en jtirely upon the character of the do. f islon of the Supreme Court Ge Against would done was t that be tri in Nev possibl n il sry “en Chief Justice of North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C. (Special). —-Governo Russell just announced the appoint- ment of Judge D. M. Furches, of Ir i dell county, as Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of North Carolina, to sue {ceed the late W, T. Faircloth, Furches { was aiready a member of the court and i an additional judge will have to be ap- { pointed to succeed him. This will not i be done for several days, and it is | believed that C. A. Cook, of Warven- ton, will be appointed to this vacane ¥ Eight Suffocated. Minneapolis, Minn. (Special). Eight men lost their lives in a fire here. The fire started in the roof of the Stand- ard Furniture Store. The victims were overtaken by an intense volume of smoke in the Harvard Hotel, which occupied the second, third and fourth floors of the same building, and death ‘in every instance was due to suffoca- tion. The loss on the building and contenty will not exceed $3000, Railroad Shop Burned. Bristol, Tenn. (8Special).~The ear shops of the Virginia and Southwestern Railroad were burned. A new locomo- tive and other rolling stock, together with office records, tools and machin- ery, were destroyed. The loss is esti mated at $75,000 to $100,000, Death of a Noted Singer. Denver, Col. (8pecial).—~Miss Belle Fremont, prima donna soprano of the Bostonians, died at the Tremont Hotel here of pneumonia. Her home was in Washington, D. C. — ‘ Another Carnegie Library. Sesitle, Wash. (Special). ~~Andrew Carnegie has promised Seattle a gift of $200,000 to be. expended in fhe cone struction of & new publie NI . He requires a vearly guarantee of ,000 for maintenance and improvement, A Nin Horrible Death of a Farmer, Carlisle, Pa. (Special). — While threshing William Gardner, a farmer living near Newville, in this county, was instantly killed. His clothing caught in the flywheel of the engine apd his head was crushed to a pulp, MANY ORPHANS PERISH Nineteen Lives Lost at Asylum at Rochester, New York. MANY INMATES OVERCOME BY SMOKE Fire, Smoke and a Terrific Explosion Filled the Night with Horror, and the Fraatic Cries of the Children for Help Could be Heard Amid the Din--Origin of the Fire Unknows, Rochester, N. Y. (Special). Fire broke out in the hospital section of the Rochester Orphan Asylum at one o'clock a. m. on Hubbel Park, and, the flames x ad rapidly to other sections of the institution. It is known that 18 of the children perished, and It is | feared that many more victims may be reported later. The fire was first discovered by two | men passing the asylum, They hastily sent In an alarm, and then turned | their attention toward arousing the nurses and the children. A ter-| rific explosion was then heard, and’ in a moment the entire hospital ection was in flames On the ar- rival of the fire apparatus a general alarm was sent in, calling out the en- tire department. The smoke began to pour out of every window in the main building, and the screams and frantic cries of the children could be heard. The work of rescue began with a will, Children and nurses were carried from the building all in an unconscious eon- dition, dead. Ambulances from the City, Mary's Homeopathic and Hahnemann Hospitals were summon- ed, and the victims were removed the several Institutions here were 109 children at the pital and a corps of about thirty nurses and attendants, Two of the women at- tendants are among the dead. The origin of the fire Is not known. The property will probably ex- ceed $20,000, CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Some of the Work Being Dome By the Na tional Legislature, Senate eliminated Reorganization Bill the i establishing a t pre some Bt to hos- loss from the amend- y ' The Army ment as a di velerinary cory stinet eo f the War Depar rps « ¢ and Ju was reported introduced a reso- Root for Lawshe r to Pettigrew ndema i ing to send DE Secretary A e port In the Senate the Shipping Bill was Bill by the filibustering tactios « mploy- ed by the Populists, and the Army Bill was then placed under discussion FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The reports of an outbreak of tho plague at Viadivostock have been con- firmed. Severe cold Is reported in France and a number of people have frozen to death on the streets of Paris. It is predicted that a ministerial crisis will occur in Spain after the sus- pension of the sittings of the Chamber, A decree has been issued restraining German physicians from exceeding humane bounds in experimenting upon patients, Russian newspapers predict further trouble In China, and regard the Chi- nese acceptance of peace terms as merely a formality. Prince Ching say he does not be- lieve the people in Bouthern China are antagonistic to the present dynasty, and will start a revolution. The Columbian government paid £6000 indemnity to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company for the seizure of the British steamer Taboga. The British government announces apnolntments of chief civil officials for new colonies in South Africa, including Bir Alfred Milner to be governor of the Transvaal and British high ecommis- sioner. 8 A big battle was fought recently near the Venezuelan border between the Columbian government forces and 2000 insurgents, resulting in the defeat of the rebels, England will build the two largest battieships in the world. Their dis- placement will be 18,000 tons, and they will be named the Queen and the Prince of Wales, . The Cape Town officials are calling for reinforcements from England, on the ground that Kitchener's available forces are employed in protecting the lines of communication. The funeral services over the body of in the Central dist Episcopal Church, In Detroit, The transport Ingalls arrived at New York after having bad a hard time dur ing the storm, which caused consid- erable damage. Clarence DD, Brown University, at the home of his brother, Wood. an instructor in committed in General James Cavanagh, colonel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment New York, died at his home, in that city. E. Bt. John, vice president and gen eral manager of the Seaboard Air Line has tendered his resignation, Announcement was made that re- finers had advanced all grades of re- s 10 points, The bollermakers in the Erie shops at Susquehanna, Pa., went on a strike Divorce reform is to occupy a promi- nent place in the New York legislature Henry M. Hook, agent for Knights Templar and Masons’ Indem- nity Association, of Chicago, was rested in Chicago on a telegram Washington stating that he was want ed in that city on a charge of forgery. ¥ solved ure ret the the of of Savannah : the } in the Ho The police have not mystery surrounding Frank W. Richardson Mo. His wife, who was at the time and heard the pistol did not John C s¥ivania Railroad Company, died in Philadelphia hospital, where he had re- cently undergone shot see the assassin, a A bear belonging to landlord Dani Donovan, of the Frantz Hotel, Wilkesbarre, broke into the and caused a stampede among Euests, injuring one of them The 800 miners of the Elk ry of Elk Hill Coal Company, have gone on threaten to call out the if the company Tammany Hall to Bishop Potter { pector Cross and Captain i if would stop thd te hosts Hill and a strike 000 employes the i $14 ana nts mer Milas nt a repres¢ to b # o 1 OHeTrIngE { 1 i five ave hie money ner ily treasur rved a ter his home in that ¢ in lored. ¢ iled © f { cha had Hag drog ped sation Va ohn W. Shotwell ; State Examiner ix going over wks of the Hay County Mo mail steam Fy hands jank chmond The near = wT ars Was KEagwpy wed eved we'll Jost lien Mills Company gone into the to have The Dingley Woo of Philadelphia, has bande of a receiver, terrific whit h here was Pacific able damage. E. C. Remme, formerly cashier of the German National Bank, of Newport Ky.. was arrested on an affidavit of Bank Examiner Tucker charging him with aiding Assistant Cashier Brown in the embezzlement, several months ago, of a large sum. A number of councilmen in Scranton, Pa., were arrested out by the Municipal League accusing them of corruption. The grand jury of Louisville, Kyi, re- turned a bill against four men, charg. ing them with conspiring to defraud insurance companies, Several miners, including D. J. Wil. lame, the foreman of the Pine Ridge colliery, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., were killed by fire-damp. The north bound limited on the Chi- cago Great Western was wrecked near Sargent, Minn. No passengers were hurt. Bishop W. X. Ninde, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was found dead in bed at his home, In Detroit, Mich. | Everett Frazar, consul general for i Korea in the United States, died in | New York. i Both branches of the New York leg- islature organized and listened to the reading of the message of the new gov ernor, Mr. Odell, who advocated a number of reforms in administration. AA Civil Engineer Peter C. Asserson, of the Navy, was retired, with the rank of rear admiral. Secretary Long announced the award of the contracts to build the battle ships to the various concerns. The remains of Brigadier General R. N. Batchelder were buried in Arling ton Cemetery with military honors. Admiral Remey reports the capture of a number of officers of insurgents and General Wheaton reports the de- struction of insurgent camp, windstorm on did consider 3 the a Coast, - Them No Mercy. { (THE SEVERE ROUTINE OF CAMP. Hl | Cadets Booz end Brett, Both of Whom, If Is | Alleged, Died From the Effects of Their Hh-Treatment at the According to the Evidence. Philadelphia (8pecial). According to the testimony adduced before the { congressional investigating committee which is inquiring into the charges of hazing at the West Point Military | Academy, Oscar 1. Booz. of Bristol Pa jand John E. Breth, of Altoona, Pa., had a rough of it during their “plebe’ year that institution. The star wit- was former Cadet An- { thony J. Burnam, Jr., son of Judge { Burnam, the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky, who was jtent-mate while in camp. The com- | mittee also heard for the first time tes- timony in regard to the experiences of ireth from the lips of his father brothers and sisters. Burnam, who was dismissed from the | academy for deficiency in studies, sald Booz became unpopular after his fight {With Cadet Keller, Personally he was low, but the cadet of the up p classes always taunted him coward. During the twelve months m was at the academy there were as far as he knew od cadets hk Ab 5 at ness of ‘day # Oi grey ia good fel » a a and as punished feared to make complaints, be- » they felt the hazers would ake all the more miserable for them coz while their had of how upper classmen had comp him to swallow penalty of f ourth cla in in tent tabasco ur Deng Were erty on Saturday aft but the allow sauce ali out.” men allowed their 1ib ernoons, according the regulat would not if they us to men camp ) ons upper class- them to leave them, the De ed disole yed Pie a rule would punist pl for it Exslosion ona Steamer. vs wt HOingo tex. (Bb r D rpool, arr an explosion the sughoy Lo ris @ natives t To Obtain Public Documents. i | oF ies To ¢ af the hand (Special) President the fiscal matters B® and 8S aver resolution department over which or control N. Y Government's the in March Roswell Beardsley ostmaster at North Lansing 72 consecutive VOR y is believed in the Government 91 years old, and witness McKinley on to be in , In was President 1828 postmaster in Quincy Adams June 2 by 8, A Concession From the Turk. Washington (Special). «The Turkish government has furnished Dr. Thomas Norton, who was appointed United States consul at Harpoot, what are Known as travelers’ papers, constitut- ing a safe conduct, to enable the Doe tor to proceed to hiz post. There is reason to believe that this action fore. jcaste a compliance by the Turkish gov {ernment with the request of the State i Dr. Norton. i Ten Hours in the Rigging. | Savannah, Ga. (Special). — The {schooner James Boyce, Jr. Captain { Allen, lumber-laden, sailed for Phila- idelphia Monday. She encountered bad | weather outside and put back into Ty- {bee Roads on Thursday. That evening a gale sprang up. Two anchors were put out. Both cables parted in the night and the schooner was driven on the south breakers. The sea broke over ithe decks and the crew took to the rigging for nearly 10 hours, McKinley to Honor Lincoln. New York (Special). General O. 0. Howard announced that President Me- the celebration of the birth of Abra- ham Lincoln to be held at Carnegie | Hall on the evening of February 11, Governor Odell will preside. Colonel Henry Watterson, of Louisville, will deliver his lecture on Lincoln. and Fred E. Brooks will read a poem on Lincoln, Croker Buys Some Lexington, Ky. (Special).—~Richard Croker has purchased of Col. W Barnes, of this city, six of the choleest thoroughbred colts of the 1900 product of Melbourne stud. The deal was made thro Bepator P. H. McCarren, of Broo , and the total amount in- volved is $20,000. The best colt of the lot is the handsome Beau | Prince of Monaco, which cost Mr. Croker 100. He is entered in the 1 © youngsters w ship. ped to England in June. : ae nm—————— COLLEGE MEN IN INAUGURAL PARADE. Many Educational Institutions Invited to Send Delegations to Washington. Washington (Special).—A distine- itive feature of the second inauguration f President McKinley, if plans now under way fulfil thelr early promise | Will be a large representation of the colleges and universities of the United States in the line of parade for the {first time, The matter has been put in hands of an Intercollegiate Com- which has addressed invitations i Lo the presidents of over 400 Americas { institutions of learning. requesting { that delegations be sent on to represent their respective institutions in the in |augural parade, The letter of invita {tion addressed to the colizge presidents {i an follows “Dear Bir: With a view of inspiring | patriotism In the young men of our country by means of the object lesson { which the inaugural ceremonies will { present, the inaugural committees has the honor to extend through you an in- vitation to the student body of your nstitution to particip in the inau- | gural parade of March 4, 1901. “A similar invitation bas been sent to all the leading American colleges and universities, with the hope of hav- ng as many of them as possible, whether large small, represented on the It is earnestly re- uested that you give this move your hearty approval, and, in person or through a commit- Vi tion, present this mat- the students’ consideration meeting mbled, “Respectfully, "WALLACE DONALD McLEAN “Chairman Intercollegiate Committee.” { the mittee | ’ ate “ or above occasion q i ment {either tee of Ur Re led ! tor "mi ARSE for gg VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. Indiana Citizens Organize to Drive Out Law Breakers. Ind. (Special).—The were informed that some persons in Spencer county * organized themselves into a vigl- committee have established court. and many negroes are away from the county ‘neces committed within Indianapolis authorities 500 “fs oliae and ng ordered fe alleged off red a 3 % # A his son was orde ity, and more LA than roes have nd eeu or said t ominent men of both =, and all the records of known have n any offenses again ng hunted up with aunty of them negroes have t said that committee is oO 43 been order the com- its atten- whi oposes also to turn wiite porsot certain : iW are uspicion TERRIBLE CRIME IN OHIO. A Young Woman was the Victim 20d 2 Lynching is Likely. Ohio of crimes was Morgan Con Morris and accor Miss Mor om the postoffi hrough the fields she Walter A 8, who lived nea er home improper proposa to her rted to run. Then he seized her to the ground and fought hard, finally ¢ { Mar One of the committed by which 1% Years lost her returning way of a Was accost- Winstock, ita b (Special) rutal Kney Nellie intly, aged ished, Was ce LY \ GROIN As fe il aged He and her She ¥ ra Ix sia get- § LA instock drew a razor from his and cut her the neck, evering the neck muscles and laying bare the jugular vein Miss Morris ized the razor with her hands and they were eut into pieces in her mad attempt to rescue herself from the man. Her fingers were cut off and her wrist was badly cut, the entire right and jell arms being also badly disfig- ured. The young woman's dress was torn from her in shreds, Winestock was finally captured by a crowd of men who had run to the scene. Mize Morris died from the effects of her wounds. She was the daughter of Benjamin Morris, a business man of this city, and was prominent in society of Marietta and Parkersburg ABCTOSER Wy Presidential Nominations, | Washington (Special). ~The Presi- ident sent the following nominations to ‘the Senate: Nolen 1. Chew, of Indi- ana, deputy auditor for the Postoffice { Department; Cyrus F. Adams, of 11li- | nois, assistant register of the Treas. jury. To be brigadier general in the {volunteer army-—Col. Samue! M. White- i side, Tenth Cavalry; Lieutenant Col- lionel James R. Campbell, Thirtieth in- |fantry, U. 8. V.; Major Charles Bird. quartermaster, UU 8 A. Navy—Com- (mander J. J. Hunker, to be captain: Lieutenant Commander C. K. Curtis, to be commander, Lieutenant J. C. Quim- by, to be lieutenant commander: Sur. geon W. A. McClurg, to be a medical inspector; First Lieutenant H. ©. Davis, to be a captain in the Marine (Corps. Famous Architect Dead. New York (Special), — Prederick Clarke Withers, one of the most fa- mous architects in America, died to- day at his Yonkers home. He was born in England 73 years ago, and came te this country in 1853. Washington (Special).—The post- office Inspector at St. Louis has ad- vised the department of the arrest of Luther Lambdin, postmaster Mo. for embezzlement. 26 he wired that his office had
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