FOUR PERISHED IN A HOTEL FIRE. | Jlany of the Guests Have Thrilling | Escapes. STOVE STARTED THE FIRE. | ihe Building Was of Wood, and Burned | So Rapidly That the lamates Had to | Hustle to Get Out-~Iln Less Than an Hour It | Was a Mass of Ruins, and Four Were Buried ia the Debris. W. Va lost in a (Spex disas CI al’ Hotel, burne« the 0 one ot th i $ the 10 In » occurred at sel + Gi iS SUPPOSE en frightiul rapidity house were throws crally fo } which om The into & Qf ging Ie entrance fre te ig era beneath sned th have per though, ug Ug hotel was of the ghests to clothing Charles Brown and E. L. Canby, of the First National Bank of Vancouver. Vancouver Brown and | cashier, respe tional Bank closed Sa the ( miles selves were clumg weapon Two Badly Hurt | Seve 18 A firey at a Brooklyn Fire. 11 y r ¥ NEW hi Oil work and tice in the Wheeler C these men were 1 hia hans about the head Dad d t ody. and Fruit Injured in Atlanta, Ga patch from Gainesvill says: “Fruit SOC the South 1 -A speci to the (Spe be stitution lieved injured in past few days and ph stripped ground soms mountain white April.” tives he L107 Ww 1 s. Many of the frees by the overed with fell pear, peach um have been partially nds an buds and Monday Gainesville are unusual s strong is € Snow here tops with sn 3 north ot an eras IW ght in Pennsylvania Farmer Drowned. Pa iarmer of {Special } th Car a pro Cumber Fairview dam the boat and h Stone licle, Tohn nent el lane! county land county, While capsized Cro SINR the Mr hired man the water an overcoat and hip boots and was unable to reach hired man escaped. The found two hours later is wore : Te Ww sore ine body Was Jealousy Causes a Double Tragedy. Milton, Cal. (Special).—~John H. Gor- ham, foreman copper mine, shot and instantly killed George B. McCar- thy, a prominent young man of Copper opolis, and then blew himself to pieces with giant powder, Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause £,060 Chinese in the Field. Shanghai (By Cable). —Native ports say that General Feng Tse Tsai commanding in the province of Yun- nan, with 6,000 infantry and 2.000 cay. alry, well armed and disciplined passed through Chengtu lately, bound for Hsian. Of a re- Serious Raliroad Wreck. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). «A fatal | head-on collision occurred on the Ply- mouth branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Tyrol Station, near | Conshohocken, Johan Fallows, engineer of a westbound passenger train, which ran into an eastbound freight train, | was instantly killed, and his fireman, Grant Eisle, was seriously injured. The locomotives ol both trains were wrecked and many of the cars were damaged. Several passengers were shaken up and bruised, but none was seriously injured. SUMMARY OF THE NEWS, Domestic, of Fire In York by ie Conti The purchase the Eagle Company in Vice-President Evans, nental, 1s regarded New wl tl as the first step in msurance combine The arrangements made for Presi dent McKinley's Western trip will save trams on nis patience 10 wi ich } 10Us trips Nes and his voung wif durance and wa subjected on pre c . Ie \ an Newburg ornelius 8, {N.Y and they “s tied up iis ¢ William sure when Di elect on Walder Buelow. ad ake an uncoi toward China hal Count v to t 1 peror tude The Dutch troops at west coast of Achin, who were trying ft the for St Admiral Canevaro, of lia Italian minister of foreign the future civilization European to started Petersburg, ister, of nations require unite Agamss The London Spectator says this view corresponds with that of the Austro-Hungarian For eign Minister. The Chinese government has ordered the Chinese troops at Huailu to resnove outside the Great Wall. The Franco German expedition has, accordingly, been abandoned. France will shortly 10,000 troops Financial It is said London is largely » Paul, The Treasury hae paid out about 000.000 in bond purchases, Chicago and Eee Hilinois hort of St Puy 7 SOAres It seals is said $65,000 has been bud on the New York Stock Ex- There has been concentrated buying The new Stock Exchange building in will cost $1,000,000, THE WAR RENEWED AGAIN IN MANCHURIA. Russian Forces Storm Kule, With Slight Losses. CHINESE FORCE AGGREGATES 27,000. Thirteen Men Killed and Four Officers and Eighteen Men Wounded-Russian Forces Advancing Upon Turchausen, Where There Are Massed 12,000 Chinese, Under “Boxer General Lutanse, AGED HUSBAND ' Holds His Wife and Fires Her Body. A MURDERER. Four Bullets lato M David YCars, iG Boers Ambush British, ¥ BIG RAIN AND SNOW It Sweeps From Cleveland, 0., on the A PHYSICIAN'S BIG BILL. He Calls It the Utterance of a Mag Who Has Yielded to Force. (Special ).—The Dispatch | says the estate of the late State Senator { Christopher 1. Magee has received a bil | from Dr. Walter C. Browning, of Phila | delphia, for $190,000 professional ser during the illness of Ses Ma Dr. Browning was in attendance n Senator Magee for 21 months pre vious to his death, and i al 1 for The fee is believe st of its kind ey yivania or the produced widespread comment circles bill 1s i, 21 and charged at the treatment hour. One charge for last summer's treatment City and another $12,000 for a o Hot Springs, Pittsburg VICK 1aior laces the recovery of his ed d ; reed United States, r cha in onal undager be timment, profi : A to itemiz ers months per £3 dt : nying the deceased t FAITH CURISTS BARRED. An Atlanta Court Refuses to Allow Them to Pract’ ce There, MANY FILIPINOS BURIED ALIVE. Priest Prominent in Society That Inaugurated Reign of Terror. STORM RUIN. North the fo Atlanta, Ga., on South-« Eastern Ohio an The Westing i car ny had two {orono, frye a ‘ tne track Hear They were « Turtle wale? reac and r got into the cars h £80.000 Wheeling. W. Va. (Special). ~The flood reached its highest stage--41 feet 8 inches—at an carly hour Monday morning, and has now begun to fall All day a large portion of the city was under water and was totally isolated from the world, not a train running in or out of the city. The Ohio River and Wheeling and Lake Eeria roads suffered severe dam. age from the water, and it will take sey- may Killed His Wife and Himsell. Chicago (Special). ~]. J attorney, 25 years old, killed his wile and then fatally shot himself in a hall way at 177 East Lake street. The couple roon separated. Shortly after Mrs, Gils len Jeft her husband the latter accused | bis wife's relatives of drugging her and | keeping her as a prisoner. He was are rested for threatening to kill. Mes il plen was the daughter of Cornelius Mes ! Guire, a wealthy manufacturer of this ety, d West Virginia, 4 and teie mpanics Saturday were twi mn crossed (Special) Owing * aging in the West ; leveland has been de The Grand wt presented a strang Western t late, Central ATance as Ours wiated rai with with sr long-overd the deg ! ail the weary came in wt crusted he ue pa TT: 1" ung meet pa a tran Dam Bur:ts io Massachusetts, Mass, (Special). ~The Flood in Middicfield, gave way, the water in the big reser rushed with terrific for west branch of the Westheld sweeping everything before it i ubmerging the greater part of this town No lives were lost, but great dan been done, the extent of which it posible now to estimate Wind's Terrific Force. Chicago (Special). ~~A high wind, which reached Chicago Saturday, loos ened a huge iron water tank from its fastenings on the roof of the Galbraith Building, Madison and Franklin streets, causing it to crush through six floors to the ground, injuring five persons and resulting in a damage to the building es- timated at $50,000. ver R anu . 15 Im A Shipbuilding Comb ne. Elizabeth, N. J. (Special). —Calvin B Orcutt, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company. who is at his { home in Elizabeth, said he had no deh nite knowledge that a shipbuilding com. [ biration would be affected during the leaning week, Negotiations, he declar. (ed, had been in progress for several months, but for some reason had not (culminated in anything tangible. They i were still being continued. but he was | not aware of Be fact that the project i had heen canaimmsied i SITION Show (Grounds, ing, Which Stands at the Grounds, is of Most Attractive Design. UNITED STATES NOW PROSPEROUS Exports Reach a Total Usheard History. in Nation's SHORTAGE OF $51,000 Baok Closed by Comptroller. First Nations! of Vamcouver, Wash. and $12,500; de tics, $301.348; undivid Bauk Official! Accused. urg (Special). —A. J he First 1% the embezzlement of . ' i Was re leased : sum of covered by Slack. who tries in ti bank not be D. (Special) Articles tion have been filed for the Wireless Telegrash Compan 20000000. The incor N. Huston, Th IL. C. Smith. James N United States Treas: e, first two years of Presiden Harris « administration. He was for merly an Indiana banker, but for several years has been a resident of New York Cephas Overs Hanged. Frederick, Md. (Special) a-Chas Overs, alias “Cephas”’ Overs, the ¢ ored murderer of Charles MeDonald, a young white man, was hanged in the jail yard in this city, the drop falling a few minutes after 12 o'clock. The exe- cution was witnessed by about 150 epec- tators, nearly all of whom had been given tickets of admission or summoned as deputies by Sheriff Troxell. Al de- tails and plans were carried ont with- out the shightest hitch. with a capital of Nas 3 ie Sars 3 i Lishop and Huston was er ‘ th n H § 54 Four Childrea Murdered. Chartres, town has been horrified by the brutal ed murder of their father, hood of Charires. Two tramps eniered the farmhouse in the alisence of Briere, 11, & and 4. and a boy » years old, with knives and cudgels while they were in bed and apparently aslesp. Briere re. turned wiule the murderers were rob. bing the house, ssa—— - —— LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Pensions--Postmasters. pens Exchange of Crop Reports. Pasamsa Cans! Route. Nearly 1,000,000 Pensioners. Henry Slates al President Cu ed riment aries he gunb was (3 at WN Rep is 10 the Mari { Hos vice show a steady increase the ages of the plague throughout world, Gen. John C. Gilmore. ¢olone! in the Adjutant-General’s Department, was re- tired on account of age. Ambassador Cambon has purchased a tite on which the French government will erect an embassy. Plans have been arranged 10 be pre. sented to Congress for an extension of SOT. rave. the Our New Possessions Aguinaldo, in an interview with the Associated Press correspondent in Ma. nila, declared that he was urging in the strongest possible manner all inene- gents to surcender and “ewear allegiance to the United States. He admitted that i various chiefs of the msurgents, who had been acting independently. Aguinaldo has been removed from the Malcanang Palace in Manila to a private residence, and the guard over him has been modified.
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