$10,000,000 FOR A GREAT UNIVERSITY Carnegie will Found lustitution of Learn- ing at National Capital, TO LEAD IN ORIGINAL RESEARCH. The Government Asked to Be the Trustee for the Splendid Endowment, No Appropriation Being Expected or Wanted—Carnegie Has Coanferred With Dr. Gilman and Other Noted Educators on the Subject. Washington, D. C., (Special) .—Presi- dent Roosevelt has received a letter from offers to make a donation of $10,000,000 to the United States. The letter be referred to Congress by the Presi- dent in a special message. Mr. Carnegie's gift pose of establishing in university for higher is for the pur- Washington a education. As SUMMARY OF TEE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. In a riot growing out of the street car strike in Scranton, Pa., officers who at- tempted to arrest a man who had as- saulted one of them were attacked by a crowd of miners, who fired at them. The officers and a nonunion motorman then fired into the crowd and wounded three men. A committee of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street Railway Employees submitted a list of grievances to Presi- dent Parsons,” of the Union Traction Company, Philadelphia. The conductors and motormen of that city are divided upon the strike quektion, There was a sharp discussion in the convention of the American Federation proposes a gift after the manner of the equest of James Smithson, the Eng- machine-made cigars. A resolution was the African Methodist in the pulpit on Sunday night by Anna Nelson, colored. In a battle between burglars who had robbed the general store of Edward Wood, in Gelena, S. D., and officers one row known as the Smithsonian Insti- tution. Smithson desired the institution founded by him to be a factor in the dif- fusion of scientific knowledge. negie proposes that the university which he is to endow shall be the greatest in- stitution in the world for the develop- ment of higher education. Mr. Carnegie has consulted ex-Presi- dent Gilman of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity: President Hadley, of Yale; Presi- dent Eliot, of Harvard; ex-President White, of Cornell, and all the leading educators of the country. They heartily indorse his plans. The proposed univer- sity will not interfere in the least with the educational institutions already e tablished, but will supplement them, f« according to the present plan, will be oper only to those who desire to take up a post-graduate Carnegie also wants the new university to take the lead in original res i that the United States stand side by side with Ge excel that nation, ment. Mr. Carnegie’s plan does not a national university in the sc an appropriation will OC a ed. The Government i the trustee of ment, just bequeathed by S that a board of as in the stitution, or ment will be board of directors, plated, shall consist of reputation. Mr. Carnegic has kept the p endowment a secret until he could nitely arange the plans and scope of the new university. Even yet all these de- ails have not been arranged, so that lit tle more than the outl: f his gift can be published. It is known, however, that he does not iw, its doors eitls » Aly COUrse. MAT can in scicnungd 0 OOSe prog ise as Oot r Case 1 rye ole propose to ask from Congress a sing foot of lz upon which the university buildings will be constructed. The entire expense i sto be borne out of his endow- ment. No site has yet been selected. It will, however, nece y be very la as it is proposed to magnificent structures. nd TRAIN FALLS THREE HUNDRED FEET. A Rock-Slide Causes It to Plunge Over a Biff Down Into Brazil River. Va hour a Canadian uver, B. C.—At an early Pacific freight tram proceeamg cast a a Siow rate aroun dangerous Brazil suddenly came upon a rock-sh ly 50 yards ahead of him. A signal was given to the brakemen and the too late. The train going scarcely five miles an hour, but the heavy train behind piled the engine on the rocks and before the engineer and fireman could jump the locomotve rolled over and over 00 feet down the bluff to the river. ngineer Randall and Fireman Potruff were crushed to death beneath the engine Three care were wrecked, going over the bank after the engine. Trafic was delayed six hours. PUT IN COFFIN TOO SOON feet above Engineer curve, river, when 400 Randall de scarc ngine was reversed, but it was was Was Extinct Little Rock, Ark. (Special) —Bud vict Camp, last December, was hanged at Danville. wounded. H. J. Fleischman, cashier of the Farm- ers and Merchants’ Bank of Los Angeles, Cal, has disappeared with $100,000 of the bank's money, An extra freight ran into a freight train on the Northern Pacific near North Yakuma, Wash. five were injured. A writ of habeas corpus was sued out | in New York in behalf of Albert T. Pat. rick, accused of the murder of million- aire Rice Three robbers secured $2,000 from! the bank of the Archibald Banking Com- | pany, in Archibald, Ohio iwrence Wright feath by runaway ship, Pennsylvania. wo more of the convicts who es caped from Leavenworth Military Pn son were recaptured. Steve Barnes, a Wilkesbarre (FPa.) frozen to death. A young woman of arrested Two were killed and | was dragged to mules in Fawn town- | at watchman pesthouse, many names was in New York at a hotel, where she was living in style, on the charge f and other i over $2000, from the Albert D. Merrill, Brookline m she had been employed down and made a n to the police Judge scorde a jury that had acqui Willard of robbing Sigler Bre : stealing dimonds valued at oke complete con ‘ roundly ed George Cleveland, thers’ jew ) 1 eiry store, the Judge claiming that he had clearly been proven guilty Walter Cay Kansas City fo. who sweetheart to steal [.2XX In § anaug A forced his $ pension money from her wid owed mother, was sentenced to five years in State prison The grand jury in Barnstable, Mass indicted Nurse Jane Toppan for the al leged murder of Mrs. Mary E. Gibb Alden P. Davis and Mrs. Genevieve A Gordon The Orient express ran into the rail way station at rankfort, Ky, and wreck ed it, many of the passengers and peo ple in the waiting-room having narrow escapes At a meeting held in Paris plans for the proposed French college in America to study American commercial and | ness methods were di thousand b sky are to be houses of the Low r to avoid taxation arged in York, orthern Central ex s train, was committed for cot ‘hree runaways from the wol at Carlisle, Pa, were cau arkersburg, W. Va. and sent back Seven shipped to Foreign. government Berlin are worried over the o Poland caused by the convic- tion Polish parents hom mobbed Prussian teachers for flogging chi who refused to learn catechism in Ger- man I'he The German . 1 WCIALs recent up Hamburg-American Company has contracted to carry 30.000 tons of iron to the United States at $1.08 a ton, and on the return trip to carry American coal to Germany at $1.32 a ton Bookkeeper Goudre of the Bank of Liverpool, Bookmaker Kelley and Prize. fighter Burge were arra‘mned in Bow Steam hip Dr. Hasse, the pan-German leader in the Reichstag, has been defeated in his of bringing Chamberlain's | before the Reichstag. i General Alban, commander of the Co- | hanging him again. was examined carefully by cians, who finally pronounced him dead, death having been caused by strangula- tion. Three Negroes Killed Jelks sent troops to aid Sheriff Brad- jail here, and the town is under martial at any moment by Three negroes, whose names are un- known, were caught and killed by a posse near Opp, because, it is alleged, they took rt in the riot, and the whole county in arms against the negroes. What's His Name? Washington, D. C., (Special), = The State Department has been advised that the Crown Prince of Si Maha Va- iravudh, has aranged to visit the United tates next October. No member of the royal family of Siam ever has visited America. Waats Library Open on Sunday. Washington, D. C., (Special) ~The Nicaragua has agree to lease a section | of country six miles wide to the United | States for a route for the Nicaraguan Canal. Confirmatory dispatches are published | in London of the report that Major Van | was wounded in defending her from! husband, and that the Queen! with her own hands, stanched the wound | and made her husband beg the Major's | pardon. A dispatch from Amsterdam says Van Tets died of his wound. Dutch socialists introduced a motion in the Parliament at The Hague to take | measures to obtain, with the sanction of | Great Britain, the removal of the women and children ' from the concentration camps in South Africa. The Immigration Restriction Bill, which excludes from Australia all per- sons who cannot speak a European lan- uage, has pas the Commonwealth Senate. An anti-ducking league has been or- ganized in Vienna, and it includes a number of members of the Reichstag. Thousands of starving unemployed people are rioting at Prague. Financial The General Electric Company has de- clared the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, The New York Subtreasury statement shows that the banks lost $7,115,000 last week, The depositors of the Dresden Sav- Bank, which made an assignment, MINTS COINED LOTS OF MONEY The Report of Director Roberts for the Last Fiscal Year, THE IMPORTS EXCEEDED EXPORTS. Original Deposits Showed an Increase of Nearly Twea'y Millions of Dollars Opera- tions Were Conducted During the Year in the Mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco and New Orleans. Washington, D. C. (Special).~The report of Mr. George E. Roberts, di- rector of the mint, upon the operations of the mint service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, has been completed The coinage of the mints during the fisoal year amounted to 176,000,132 pieces of the value of $136.340.781. Of this $00, silver dollars, $10,006,648 was in frac- tional silver and $2,000,568 was in min- or coin. There also were coined at the Philadelphia mint 225,000 gold pieces of the value of $340,014 for the Govern- ment of Costa Rica. The coinage of silver dollars during under the act The amount ef this bul accumulated July 14. 18¢0, ard ounces ury to retire the treasury notes issued ply the pressing demand which has ex H tail trade Coinage operations were conducted dur ing the year in the mints at phia, San Francisco and New Orleans [he Philadelphia mint 1s now in its new iarters and the old site, including the tructure, will be offered for sale to the bidder on December 19, 1001 upset price of $2,000,000 has been placed upon it. The original cost of the ground to the Government was $35840 he cost of the new site and structure has been $2,000,000, and the appropria tion for equipment $440,000, but a con siderable portion of the latter is yet un Ne an have been spared nint with the best ma had, and believed equipment it will 1: " - # " seb sree leted, a model mstitution expended to provide this chinery to be that in methods it Is and be, when comj F 2 of its kind. BEEN IN PRISON THIRTY YEARS Pathetic Appeal of Woman Who Wants te Die Outside of Jail Walls J, (Special) —Like a om the tomb comes the plea for i i freedom and a chance to die prison walls of Lizzie Garrababt, the New Jersey murderess has been For 10 years she a prisoner in the State prison here A girl of 17 only when she entered the prison, she is now an old, gray-bired with but a few more years to Influential women in Jersey are trying to have her released so that she can die in freedo rter managed to see the woman for a few minutes, for the first time in many years she has been enabled to icate with outside I want 1s Ceo woman f ve 3 AT ee iv Te} and world she said as kind of eft me but the be free” as if God | here £1 fittle 11 want 1s to escape dying ROBBERS BIND B. & 0. OPERATOR His Pockets and Company's Cash Drawer Then Rifled. Ohio, { 5 Wilmington, Special) Three broke in the door of the and Ohio depot masked Balt the operator, R men imore here, bound D.Walm, rifled his pock- ets of $3.50 and took $20.55 fron company s cash drawer. 1 he robbers then entered the office of Langdon’s flouring mill, across the street from the station, blew the safe open and The operator lay bound and unable to move for three hours listening to the train dispatcher Finally City, where they had been abandoned by the robbers, who took to the woods. Atlanta, Ga. (Special).—~The Doug- lassville (Ga.) bank was robbed of $a.- s00. The robbers escaped on a stolen handcar. Kitchener as “Old Rip.” London, (By Cable).—A letter just received from an officer in South Af- Winkle leading a centenarian soldier up a kopje. A staff officer showed it to Kitchener, and the chief gave one of his grim smiles and said: “It is an ugly prophecy, but if necessary we will hang on here until we are that age. Our duty is to win, and we will.” he subaltern was paralyzed with terror until assured that Kitchener had not asked for the artist's name. First Bill by Roosevelt Washington, D. C.,, (Special) .—Presi- dent Roosevelt Saturday signed the first bill sent to him by Congress, thus creat- ing the first law to be enacted under his administration. It was the act to ad- mit free of duty and permit the trans- fer of foreign exhibits from the Pan- American Exposition to the South Car- olina Interstate and West Ipdian Expo- sition at Charleston, S. C. Alabama Wants Good Roads. Montgomery, Ala. (Special) —Per- manent organization of the Alabama Good Roads Association was effected here, and R. R. Poole, Commissioner of fture of A Agticultur labama, was elected NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Philippine Trade in 1901 A comparative statement of the com- merce of the Philippine Islands for the fiscal years 1901 and 1900, prepared in the War Department, shows that the to- tal value of merchandise imported dur- ing the fiscal year 19001 was $30,270,406, as against $20,601,436 for the fiscal year 1900 ; and the total value of merchandise exported during the fiscal year 1901 was $23,214,048, as against $19,751,008 for the fiscal year 1900, an increase of 47 per cent. in the value of imports and an increase of 37%; per cent. in the value of exports. The value of imports of merchandise from the United States was $2855085, an increase of 724 per cent. over the previous year; from the United King- dom, $6,056,145, increase 76.3 per cent. ; from Germany, $2,135.252, increase 76.5 per cent, and from France, $1,683,029, The value of exports of merchandise to the United States was $2.572021, a decrease of 27 per cent. ; United King- dom, $10,704,741, increase 72 per cent. ; Germany, $81,526, decrease 16.3 per cent.; France, $1,034,256, increase 389 per cent, Officials at Loggerheads. Secretary of War Root and Comptrol- ler of the Treasury Robert J. Tracewell are officially at loggerheads. I'he War Department has outstand- the national defense fund of 1BgR, and Secretary Root, in a communication to Mr. Tracewell asking that payments thereon be authorized by the account- ing officers, stated that “It appears that the President and his Cabinet were agreed that the national defense fund 1, 1901, in making payments under con- tracts properly entered into during the Mr ment Tracewell replies that his judg- not influenced by the “views of certain executive officers. 1 hold that the accounting officers are not author- ized to allow any payments made from is al defense after June 30, 1901." Secretary Root regards Mr well's decision as a “misinterpret: of law. Mr 15 right Trace- tion ’ Tracewell insists hat nat Hepbura's Canal Bill Representative Hepburn, of introduced his Isthmian Canal by reason of his being .a last year, and from his probab ance at the head of t § ded as the rve as a basis for action by the House It differs from the Hepburn | ed last vear in making the « priation $180,000,000 o0,000. Of the total amos 000 made immediately begin work. In other respect f that of last year, instead follows of the President to acquire a right from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, a then to direct the Secretary of War to begin the construction, from Greytown, on the Caribbean sea Brito, on the Pacific ocean, with defenses, etc io s suitable Exclusion of Chinese. Representative Kahn, who represents district the San Francisco containing the Chinese quarter, in which about 30,- introduced a Chinese strictly the have a excluding teachers, and re- these ex. the of of (OVerne. ooo Chinese reside, Exclusion law It status of those who enter the except Chinese students, merchants, turning laborers. In each cepted cases a section is rigid dentibcation the persons included Chinese the ment is required to furnish a hist of its officials coming to this Kane says this will overcome sale creation of official the Six Compa have defines by country, treaty io offi 1als travelers of g voted to and specithcation In the case Chinese ie officials Coun been made otha them outside of the exc Work of Weather Burcasn. In his annual report Prof. Willis L Moore, chief of the Weather refers to the extension of experiments with wireless telegraphy An important extension of the fore cast work was made during the year, whereby meteorological reports from points in the British Isles, the continent of Europe and from the Arores are transmitted to Washington and with ob- Jureau, Turks Island are regularly published on casts of the wind an dthe state of the weather for the first three days out of steamers bound eastward. In a number of instances, when storms of marked strength were passing eastward off the American coast, forecasts for steamers leaving European ports westward bound were cabled to England. Reports from steamers show that these forecasts and other special warnings were verified. To lavestigate Crop Problems. The Secretary of Agriculture an. nounced the establishment of a new di- vision of soil management in the Bureau of Soils, with Prof. F. H. King, for- merly professor of soil physics mn the University of Wisconsin, in charge. The work will consist of following up the soil surveys and investigating problems connected with the proper distribution of crops and the best methods of cultiva- tion, Capital News In General. Senator McLaurin made a fierce at tack in the Senate on Chairman Jones, of the Democratic caucus and Senator Tillman, his colleague, both of whom came back at him, Tillman challenging him then and there to resigs, The House Ways and Means Com mittee discussed with ry Root the Jo tision of a proposed tariff law for the Philippines. Senator Lodge ted in executive session Y of the Committee on Foreign Rela on the Hay-Paunce- fote Treaty, fT dle t to . tion for the Philippines, h hade necessary recent of the Supreme Francis PF. Fremont, Second Jo- to the preju- MANY MILLIONS ARE LOST ON COPPER and Poor Alike Have Suffered Heavy Losses. DALY ESTATE out 15 MILLIONS, A Decline of Over One Hundred Millions in the Values of the Amalgamated Stock ~~The Financial Markets of the Whole World Affected—Chicagosns Lose Many Millions. Rich New York, (Special).—Never in the history of Wall street has such a record been made as in Amalgamated. Less than six months ago it sold for $130 a share, representing a stock market value of the company's stock of $201,500,000. Monday's prices cut the stock in half, $0 that the decline amounts to $100,750, 200. This loss has fallen on the rich and the poor alike. the bourses of the world. Money rates have also been affected Half the this morning was centered around Amalgamated post. Losses of the Daly Estate. Butte, Mont, (Special).—When the ties into the Amalgamated Compan which he assisted in organizing, he took $5,000,000 worth of the Amalgamated stock as part payment. The exact ir- terest he held in the company is known outside of the fam and Daly wing that his holdings represented more than fis | but 1 the estate, some reports Hons, any rate the estate's in the Amalgamated alone was estima to be worth $20,000000 before cent decline at . If the figures are correct th Mrs. Daly and the est been near $15,000,000 the irooped ¥ from not sen } for her wealth rated at $25,000,000. however PAN-AMERICAN HAS TROUBLES. Ko Money to Pay for Diplomas, and All Its Buildings Are Attached. ment was made when 11 was 14 ha 14 ye E2 cents each would : diplomas cost expense will be $1,000, ny 1s unable get the tO tise 8 y meet made to N mission its mor fut ih pus ii 5 re uroius i Sherift Ca for the expos 1 every except those $ a 1a Aik WRECK ON GEORGIA RAILROAD. — One Killed { Special the river entering 4 oclock A. M,, 100 passengers, jumped a switch n a hig! The eng: the train cars were thrown o nkment tender parted from gage and express ne and 1 he second burned. The first-class pasenger coach fell over the embankment. The Atlanta sleeper, filled with passengers, caught fire and was destroyed. son killed was Julia Boynton, colored, of Columbus, Ga. She Is Wedded by Wire. Bowling Green, Ky., (Special) — Miss Maude W. Wilkutt stood in the telegraph office here and became the bride of Dr. J. W. Simmons, a physician of Peaster, Texas They were married by wire. The questions were asked from the Texas end by a justice of the peace, and were answered by Miss Wilcutt The bride is teaching school in Butler county. She and Dr. Simmons recently met while traveling. Water Better Than OIL El Paso, Texas, (Special) —A dispatch from Las Cruces announces that the oil borers at Engle, N. M., have struck an artesian well at a depth of 200 feet which swept 1,000 gallons an hour through a two-inch hole. Engle is situated in the heart of the famous “Journey of Death” desert, which is one of the most arid fegtions known, and the strike of water will prove far more valuable than an oil gusher. Appolated to Embassy. St. Petersburg, (By Cable) ~Lieuten- ant-Colonel Schebiko, military agent of the Russian embassy at Washington, has been appointed to the Russian em- bassy at Berlin. Lieutenant-Colonel Agapiejeff will succeed Lieutenant -Colo- a iko at Washington. a — ra ns —— NATIONAL NAVAL RESERVE Bill Providing for Reorganization Adopted With Modifications. New York, (Special) ~The Associa- tion of Naval Militias of the United States has just concluded here a series of meetings at which discussions were held on the bill introduced in Congress by Congressman Foss, of Illinois, which provides for the organization of a na- tional naval reserve, The naval militia organizations of the following Stites were represented at the meetings: California, by Lieuten- ant Commander White; Connecticut, by Comander Averill; Maryland, by Com- mander Geer; Massachusetts, by Cap- | tain Buffington, Lieutenant Commander Edgar and others; Michigan, by Com- mander Hendrie; New Jersey, by Com- mander Irving and Commander Potter: New York, by Capt. J. W. Miller, Com- mander Franklin and others: Ohio, by Lieutenant Yost, and Pennsylvania. by { Comander DBeschenberger. Lieutenant | Commander Southerland and Ex-Lieu- | enamts Anderson and Satterlee, United States Navy, represented the Govern- ment, The meetings were presided Captain Miller, of New York Commander Southerland presented the views of Navy Department wit} regard to the guestion, and a some | discussion the Foss bill indorsed | with modificatios fications are on Roosevelt his 1 age nner over by Lieuten- ant the fier | was These modi- suggested by Pres- several ident A An matter wae tne | question of 1 bolish ai the cadet” in the {its place the rank of rest hir f ody eas wunng cennite NURSE IS INDICTED. Miss Jane Toppan Formally Three Murders Accused of Barnstable, Jane ~ mn ng the jictment ! of Mrs. Gibb Miss Toppan’'s counsel spared ther agony by all that length fur- and plead she was she was hice times she replied in af her waiving the reads was for her to asked if remained next trial. 65 Weddioy Guesis Poisoncd tse 3 Spex hs J i poisoned at a { John Mul- place from Lodi, Ope Was Some of a chemist © ' it hat there has for the worse in I. as he ington, wes for nding any upon his are said to be slg! : ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS Judge Newburger, in New York, de- i med the motion 10 dismiss the indictment | against Roland B. Molineux | James Argyl Smith, former Confed- | erate general, died in Jackson, Miss, of i pneumonia Sirty-five persons were poisoned at a | wedding feast in Prairie du Sac, Wis. | Herbert Marx, of New York, who shot three men at Oak Grove, Westmoreland county, Va. and was acquitted of any blame by the coroner's jury, started for New York. J. Q Stiff, the third man shot, will also die, as the wound has completely paralyzed his body. Twenty-two negroes are under arrest im Andalusia, Ala, charged with com- plicity in the killing of J. W. Dorsey and the fatal wounding of F. Atkinson, a policeman. Attorney General Douglas, of Minne- sota, upheld =n opinion that, under the State Constitution, the Lord's Prayer could not be used in the public schools. President Clark, of the World's Chris- tian Endeavor, will visit President Roosevelt for a consultation over the campaign for Christian citizenship. Capt. Richard R. Turner, who was keeper of the famous Libby Prison, dropped dead in Isle of Wight county, irginia. The factory of the National Starch Manufacturing Company. in Des Moines, 1a, was bummed. Loss, $200,000; insur- Ben Knox was shot and kiliad by Tos- sie King, who wanted to arrest Knox for a erime of which he wat Siac. combine is reported lo in pro- cess of being effected among the tobacce- growers of the Philippine Islands. of London