“THEY DEMAND RANSOM. Thieves Threaten te Kidnap a Boy li It Is Not Paid. VERY BOLD AND UNUSUAL SCHEME. Three Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Diamonds Disappear, and the Owner Is Told That If a Ransom of One Thousand Dollars Is Not Paid for tie Return of the Gems, His Little Boy Will Be Kidnapped. Kansas City £3000 worth of & Sloan, threat to ki H. Edwards paid immediatley gems, 1s a story Lapec detectives a being guarded closely The th are wrest KILLED HOLDING HOSE. Fireman Tortured and Shocked to Death Electric Light Wire. (Gas Explodes in 2 Room. Nore The Mining Troubles, SCT I, I >i I ing of e di United Mine instead of propos ing from a orders to let ne hm. Dis Duffy, when meeting getting but NOtNINE was « sd bile Author of Juvenile vf Books Dead. Harpswe Special} Th El ah . ! $1 oO whose fame boys and his the Gladiators,” schoolboy has dead. A Vancing vears effects of which he suffered for 3 ron neumaoni me days. Boers Now Cutting Wires. Capetown (By Cable).—The Boers have cut the wires on the telegraph line connecting with Natal, th isolating that province from the forces in the Transvaal the time being. This, taken in connection with De Wet's' re- ported march Natalward, is regarded as serious. us for Many Bodies Entombed. Cumberland, B. C. (Special). —After nearly a week, during which a heavy column of water has poured continuous- ly into the shaft of No. 2 mine and No. é mine, the task of pumping out the water bas commenced. Kaiser Has Recovered. Berlin (By Cable).—The physicians who are attending Emperor William but he has practically recovered from his injury. No Peace Through Botha. London (By Cable).—The War Office has practically given the idea of peace being brought about in South Africa through the Botha ne- gotiations. The War Office has just is- in which the British commanding ral says: "Any comiorts which individ- vals may desire to send to the troops in view of the Approach of the South African winter will be acceptable and sible we SUMMARY OF THE NEWS, Domestic. A fire that started in t Anheuser-Busch Brewing Louis, burned the hat ny and ot regate loss $100.000 he plant of LLompanvy, int of Aw were ce her LOTARe pi property Two men i compa miured. All of Mr. John D res bus States 5 1 Rocketell iron Ines: United St Foreign, ore leaving Pekin Treaty between | it would ations the the ratified peace negot ceremonies steamer having on board Duke and Duchess of York and Corn wall, started tour, which to include all the British possessions is being brought to bear on the British government to bring about a countervailing, in addition to the half- penny per pound tax to be imposed on SURAT, The Reichstag passed to second read- ing the supplementary estimates for the China expedition, amounting to 123,323, ooo marks In the duel fought between Count de Castellane and M Ophir { . on its is Pressure uninjured. Advices from Durban, Natal, state that Pieters- troops, and the imoprted laborers Financial. than in 1900 at his fime, United States Steel will be listed in The Bank of England will £300,000 in gold April 1. The exports of British and Irish pre- rom India about Straits and the far East for the year 1 amounted to £87.521,211, against £ 56,040,024 for 1889, COSSACKS They Slash at PLY WHIPS. of Students in St. Petersburg. Crowds MANY OF THE TROOPS KEPT BUSY. Trying to Suppress a Demonstration of the Students in Memory of the Death of Vetrora, the Girl Who Committed Suicide Some Years Ago in a Dungeon, in Order to Escape ln- famous Persecutions, Petey MAY HAVE ISLE OF ay PINES, Cuba Will Submit 1 Disastrous Fire ia Kansas. heey al 320.000 Mob Acted When Jury Failed. { Special) At Tip . a mob hanged Tenn He, in Lake County itzgerald to a tree near the court- house. The was charged with assault on a white girl, Miss Mina Dav- enport, nineteen years old, and a trial jury had just reported that they could not agree and had been discharged. A different verdict had been expected, and the mob seized the prisoner before the sheriff could hurry him from the court. room and hanged him to the first tree, Slow in Settling Indemnity. Pekin (By Cable )~—Little was ac- complished at the meeting of the for- eign ministers on account of the delay sville FIVE negro to the conclusions reached in the mat ter of indemnity claims. No minister is allowed full liberty to act for his gv. ernment. Denver (Special). Georgiana Thomp- for hall an hour Saturday, shrieking when he attempted on several occasions to free himself from her grasp and stick- ing him violentl whenever he tried to throw off his bur. | #en, which rested upon him as he lay on i the hall flogr of a building on Seven- | teenth street, | Jail. Miss Thompson is ill with ner. ! vous prostration, but withal proud to i tell of her experience, | LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS, May Make Evans Minister to Japan. One of the interesting l is to the effect lay Evans, Comm tO succeed Hon. Minister to Japan on a leay rumor hington that country reported may no No confirmation iat knowle in en under obtained deny any hange thc i itd i Evans would { } ippomtment x i irabl { Exploiting Dairy Products, Capital News in General Was app inted Assis ¥ War nant-General Miles eit for a trip to Cuba ite Our New Possessions. aon the i of Mar. + nl Islan ue have been the five principal towns The transport Kilpatrick arrived San Francisco with 388 soldiers Manila The Filipino Junta at Hongkong is P A : ‘ indug ordered to live Lieutenant General Trias to the Amerie cans is a bad blow to the cause of the insurgents, as he was a large conteihu. tor to the expense of carrying on thy war The transport Kilpatrick, with 400 sick soldiers, has arrived at San Fran- cisco from Mama. Four privates died on the voyage. It is stated in Washington that Cuba's | answer to the United States’ proposi- | tion was the result of the intrigue of | European agents interested in the Span. i ish loan, | There are a number of cases of vario- | general, | Two members of the Porto Rican {regiment at San Juan committed sui- leide. There have been seven suicides lin this regiment in six months, Lieutenant General Mariano Trias, {with nine officers and 200 men of the Filipino insurgents, surrendered to the Americans. Commandant de Jager, tried in Natal las a rebel, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $25,000. | GEN. HARRISON BURIED. McKinley at the Grave of the Ex-President. the Cabinet of (en. Harrison When Presi dent--James Whitcomb Riley an Active Pall- bearer-~An Impressive Scene in the First Presbyterian Church. Events in Gen. Harrison's Life. Nave Boni Shoots De Rodays. { By Cable) Die xs - 1 3 ane % ae Rodays Rodavs the thigh Bon: and the urnalist hands . Tl ¢ combata in tightly buttoned with the coilars raised to any shirt collar, and wore a silk hat Both looked The scene was curious, for the tw duel 18 ove has and received a Lount ; have fis Were dressed black frock coats, LA ’ not each calm ad As “ir show only exchanged a ‘parliamentary bow" as they took their respective places Megro Schoolhouse Burned. Corsicana, Tex. (Special).~A negro cendiaries. The negroes in that neigh- borhood were warned to leave in hours. Several shots were fired into a negro house, but none of the occupants were injured. The negroes feared ing of John Henderson Two Sleeping Cars Burned. Palatka. Fla. (Special) ~Two man sleeping cars, train No. 32, of the Plant System, Tam- a to gasiasonville, were destroyed by Bre at Buffalo Bluff. The sleepers were filled with tourists, and all of them were asleep at the time of the fire. So quickly did the flames spread that there was practically no time for saving clothes or valuables. The loss in money and jewelry is said to be, according to the statements of the passengers, be. tween $10,000 and $i15000. The total loss is estimated at $60,000, Pull- BIG ELAZE IN BOSTON. in ihe Advertiser and Record Newspaper Building. Fierce Fire Thret ASH IN CHINA. Tien Tsim But Trouble vom. Fire ia Washington Hotel Hitch in Negotiztions Probable, TOW B The vn By Cab general yantered will The clearly universal pened Generals and that the guer- gO untable ans of " Government Treasurer Robbed. Phialdelphia (Special) Messenger sagherty, of United States Sub- was robbed in the corridor of ostoffice of registered mail believed $1000. Dougherty re- nail from the registry clerk in the postoffice and placed the package of letters in his overcoat pocket. While he was removing general mail from the box in the corridor D treasury, the § {to contam « ceived the n ¥ i +} ia "nN ¢ r i Carnegie’s Gift to New York, New York (Special). — Controller | Coler called at the Mayor's office to con- | fer with the Mayor regarding the gift The men were closeted for some time. Upon leaving | the controller said: “We have decided to accept the gilt up to the limit. We will go to work immediately, so that | the city can accept the gift at once.” New Trial for Mrs. Botkin. San Francsico (Special).—The State | Supreme Court has granted a new trial (to Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who was con- | victed of the murder of Mrs. J. P. Dun- ning in the summer of 1808 and sen- tenced to life imprisonment. The trial resulting in the conviction of Mrs. Bot- kin was a noted one in criminal his tory. She was charged with sendin frgm this city to Dover, Del, a box o poisoned candy which caused the death of Mrs, Dunning, to whom it was ad- idressed.
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