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BUILDING BLOWN UP.
Distressing Death of a Number of Peo.
ple in Chicago.
BiG LAUNDRY BOILER EXPLODES.
The Roof was Lifted from the Building, Which
Comes Down, Again Causing a General Col-
lapse and Burying the Employes in the
Burning Debris--A Number of Charred Re-
mains Have Been Taken Out.
Chicago (Special) A boiler of
Doremus Laundry,
the old Waverly
West Madison
and Loomis
ing the building
Mass debris
bodies have
several
occupying par
Building,
Neen I'l Te
i
loded, dest
heater
et. bety
streets, exg
moments
Of
Tins,
be missin
girls we
many of
ia
[he
dry
ter
had
two or
Just
GEORGIA RAILROAD BUILDING
Brunswick-Birmingham Road's Big Bond Issue
West Coast Connections.
Howard Frost, N
mechanical eng ¢
scalds while at
boilers at the
Frost was
steam guage blew out ¢
full pressure of
He was dragged
not until
body had been
He is not expected to
inside
the entire
Two Women His Victims,
Raleigh, N. C. (Special)
tindale, a white man, aged
six weeks ago near Carthag
Mrs. Brown, a young 1
while she was her
school. He was brought
vent lynching and was in jail h
days. Two weeks ago he was
Carthage A mob stormed
took him out, and hanged hin
outskirts of town
on
Costly Fire at Great Barrington.
Great Barrington, Mass
The Mahaiwe Building, the largest bus
iness structure in town, was burned,
causing a total loss of about $65,000, of
which $25,000 is on building and the
balance distributed among the numer-
ous tenants. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
{Special a
Million Dollar Exhibit.
Jefferson City, Mo. (Special).—The
House passed its own bill appropriating
§1.000000 for Missouri's exhibit at the
Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposi- |
The exhibit will be under the man-
agement of a board of nine directors, to
be appointed by the Governor,
Lightning Begins Season's Work,
Rochester, N. Y. (Special). —~Roches-
rainstorm, accompanied by lightning,
thunder and wind.
lotte, owned by
Greenleaf, was struck by lightning and
destroyed, together with 49 head of Jer-
hobby of Colonel Greenleaf.
Domestic,
1d had
} i ducl
Clevela:
On
ck Bay Club A
and the
wind and
occupant
107
Waves
ir s £9 o
Wall !
capturing fi
ror William's wound 1s
his satisfactory
correspondent of a German
who has been traveling
Northern Manchuria, gives
ubstantiate his
will
" y
onel Led
of the Great
hy
Fu
heal
’ condition is
The
newspaper,
statements
become an integral
Bebel, Socialist
vigorous attack In Reichstag
the imperial government con-
cerning the meat inspection law.
The Dutch troops captured
Achinese fortress at Pajarenbre
leader,
the
made a
against
the
Sev
were drowned
The official excommunication of
Count Tolstor was formally published
in the organ of the Holy Synod of the
Greek Church.
Emperor William's physicians say
that the wound in his cheek inflicted
by Dietrich Wieland, who struck him
with a piece of iron, is about an inch
and a half long and penetrates to the
bone, but that his general condition is
good.
The British government has been as-
sured by the Russian Minister of For-
eign Affairs that Russia has made no
»
Financial,
land increased £2,000000 and exports
decreased about the same amount
February, 1901, as compared with Feb.
1000,
The Pennsylvania Steel Company dis
dividend on the preferred stock of 134
per cent. payable April 15 to stock
Were Injured,
DESTRUCTION AT WILLS
Buildings Shattered and Their
Were the Chief Victims of the
The Property
£53,000.
Loss
SIXTEEN LIVES LOST.
Seven Men Caught
Buildings Demolished
Alleged Matricide's lasane
51
Doings.
' :
that the
Strong evi
was introduce
lowa Collcg: Building Buraed.
owa City. Iowa (Special} Fire de
{ the college of medicine and Int
buildings at the of
lowa. The 15 not less than $250,
000 Both buildings were burned in
two hours’ time. A severe blow was
struck to the university on account of
the recitation rooms. The col
lege medicine will close in three
weeks and arrangements have been
3 »
erary University
loss
joss
of
of
edly. -
Fifty Chinese Killed.
Berlin (Special). — The War Office
has received the following from Count
von Waldersee: "A company of the
| Third East Asiatics, under Captain
Knoerzer, came into contact, southwest
on Man-Sheng, with 400 Chinese regu-
from their main body.
killed. Two of their banners
taken.”
Blown to Pleces By Dynamite,
Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). — Gui-
seppe Confuno and Angelo Abatto, Ttal-
| ian laborers, were blown to atams by an
West Manayunk, a suburb
| dynamite. Instant]
: there was a terri
| fic explosion, -and
~onfuno and Abatto
| the pit. Portions of their bodies were
| scattered in all directions,
| stunned, but escaped injury.
Senate 57th Congress.
After proceeding
1 : 1 .
lasting only six days
the
th
the Sen
ext 0
raordinary session of
ate was declared adjourned sine die, at
1.55 p. m. Saturday During the se:
sion practically no business, except that
of executive char transacted.
acter, was
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
Lord Pauncelote,
sador, formally
retary Hay
Government
Ambas
the British
communicated to
1
instruction His
the
an from
rejecting
amendments
Points for Letter Writers
A 8 I? ty ctor. {si T1000
San Francisco.
Our New Possessions
Nine natiy
ma "
presidente of
trial by court
LJuisin ng
es are on
murdering
Calamba, in the Philip
pines, because he was the
Americans
General MacArthur reported
render of General
354
rtial |
friendly to
the
Marian de Dios, four
sur
and 7 uniformed men
Judge Tait and associates, of the
Philippine Commission, sailed
Manila for Lucerna, Province of Tay
abas. Luzon, where they will organize
provincial government
The Methodists report 120 converts
in Manila last week.
The western part of Batangos
province, Luzon, formerly an insurgent
stronghold, is becoming pacified
The transport Garonne sailed from
Manila with the officers and men of the
Twenty-sixth Volunteer Infantry
The American authorities have seized
small steamers plying on Laguna de
Bay on the charge of trading with the
insurgent Filipinos
The Luzon commission has passed a
bill providing an additional $1,000,000
{(Mexical currency). for the improve-
ment of Manila harbor, and an act em-
powering General MacArthur to or-
ganize municipal governments in those
cers
from
Frank A. Brannigan, disbursing offi-
mission, has been appointed treasurer
of the Philippine Archigelago at a sal
ary of $6000.
Secretary Root issued an order abol-
duties on tobacco
from Cuba after April 1,
Additional inducements have been
made to the revolutionists to surrender
uns. General MacArthur has di-
rected all department commanders to
release one prisoner for every rifle sur-
A Filipino who surrenders
srmitted to name the
RADICALS STILL DEFIANT.
Cubans Will Not Accept the Platt
Amendment.
HAVANA: PLACARDED WITH POSTERS
Addressed to the United States, and Read-
ing: “De Not Make Promises That
You Are Not Sure to Keep, and
Never (lo Back on the Word You Have
Given.”
NORMAL SCHOOL BURNED DOWN,
Big Blaze in
Facilities to F.ght the Fire.
Shepherdstown-lnadequate
he \3
Reported Sziz of the Seaboard.
Baptist 20th Century Movement.
Production of Precious Stones.
Wash
g
i he
in the United States |
as compared with
gain of $46.440, OF
Tried to Blow Up a Bank.
T« edo. {his
to the
(Special)
broke in store of
Perrvaburg., and made two att
blow a hoie through the wall
nitro-glycerine into the Citizens’ Bank,
adjoining They aroused the town
and abandoned the attempt. As they
were leaving the place, George Reither
saw them. They fired a shot at him
Fred Hillabrand saw the crowd from a
second ry window, and recognized
all. Henry Kellar and Geo. Tavior were
arrested, and warrants are out for the
others, All are tough local characters
emp
with
ut
Chris. Magee Dead.
Harrisburg, Pa. (Special). Senator
Christopher Lyman Ba of Pitts-
burg, editor, statesman, philanthropist,
and financier, died here after an illness
of more than two years. His death was
unexpected, as it was generally believed
by friends that he was improving in
health,
Must Not Sell to Foreign Power.
States government has addressed a note
to the Danish government, almost
threatening in tone,” says the Copen-
hagen correspondent of the Daily Mail,
“to the effect that it will not permit
any transfer of the Dani® West In-
in the event of Denmark refusing to sell
the United States will require that in-
roperly guaranteed and the United
tates’ sphere of influence be respect.
ARMISTICE TO BOTHA.
The Boer Commander Will Confer With thy
IT WAS ROSS RAYMOND.
The Man Who Has Posed as “Lord Rosse’
Thus ldentified--Prince of Adventurers.
BRYAN RAPS SAMPSON.
kekes Admiral for Morgan Letter and Sos
tis Imperialism
CONDEMNS STOCKADES,
Anderson, S, C., Grand Jury Presents Names
for lndictment.
Judge
ourt of
mvestigatas
y laborers are held,
signed by
in stockades in this county
or armed guards, and that they are
often whipped and otherwise cruelly
treated
The grand jury was made up of 18
men, of whom 14 are farmers The
charges were found to have been exag-
gerated so far as they represented that
the contraci system was general in the
county. After a three weeks investiga-
tion the grand jury reports that about
20 farmers in Anderson county have
been using the contracts. Many cases
of whipping and shackling of labore-s,
and at least one case in which a man
was shot at repeatedly, are reported. A
number of names are presented for in-
dictment for false imprisonment and as-
contracts
Accused of Killing Her Daughter.
Knobnestzr, Mo. (Special).—Mrs,
Ellen Allen, mother of Nellie Allen
was found in the street here, was taken
Henry Wisely, a negro. was ar-
rested for the murder on the strength
It is believed that
the girl was suffocated in the Allen
home and the body placed in the street
by the murderers. Mrs. Allen is &