ANOTHER BIG
RAILROAD DEAL
Pepnsylvania Said to Have Gotten
West Virginia Central,
THE PRICE PAID IS $17,000,000.
Thus the Goulds Would Be Shot From East
ern Outiet— Rivals Have Been Bidding
President Cassatt [s Stated to Have
Clinched Victory By Offering $7,000,000
More Than His Competitors.
Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special.)—The
West Virginia Central and
Railroad for
to part
through line to the seaboard.
interests
was have been
The Pennsylvania Railroad now has
every road and every coal field in this
State.
lost their grip
Davis.
clinched
ex-Senator Henry G.
all negotiations were by the
the West Virginia Central for $17,000,
000.
The Elkins-Davis combine
and in glove with the Goulds, who be-
sale of the road. It was the Gould
scheme to put a trunk line through West
Virginia by way of the Little Kanawha
route from tidewater to the Great Lakes,
combining in Ohio with the Wabash sys-
teh. The fact that the Elkins-Davis
combination bought 50,000 acres of Pitts
burg ‘coal land in the counties of the Lit
tle Kanawha Valley lent color to reports
of its alliance with the Little Kanawha
Company and the interests behind it in
the background. It was generally under-
stood that the Goulds relied upon
Messrs. Elkins and Davis for the con-
summation of their plans.
But the Pennsylvania, through Presi-
dent A. J. Cassatt, outwitted the New
York magnates and offered for the West
Virginia Central $7,000,000 more than
the Goulds had arranged to pay. Mr.
Elkins jumped at the opportumty. Thus
the Pennsylvania has blocked the Ge
at a time when they most expected
cess in their outlet to the seaboard
The West Virginia Central is one of
the greatest coal roads, considered from
the tonnage point of view, in the country.
Along its main line from (
to Keyser, Elkins and its br
Davis-Elkins combination owns and
erates 15,000 acres of coal lands.
BURNED WITH RED-HOT IRON.
A Crazy Half Breed Indian Mutilates His Wife
io a Horrible Maaaoer.
Mich.
breed
Sault Ste. Marie, Sp
Joseph Buz
went on a rampage at Garden
enaw, a half-
Canadian village,
here, and as
Buzenaw became crazy
terrorizing the inhabitants of the vi
went to home, whe Ie gave
wife a brutal pounding
side of her face with a re
The woman crawled ou
her hands and
the y
1 h 3
ICT NCad
lage
his
his
knees, and Bu
i, where he
ard,
on
followed her to
tempted to chop
axe
The woman's sister-in
interfered. but the crazy
wife a. glancing blow with
ning her. He was taken
locked up, but
Then he returned to the
an attempt to cut his wife’
a knife. Buzenaw finally escaped across
the river to United
States territory f
him.
broke dos
Sugar al
An arme
THREE TRAINS IN A WRECK
Mail Collided With Freight and Another
Freight Crashed Into Them.
Johnstown, Pa,
of a wrong signal at Nineveh tower, a
(Special) .—Because
express train ran into a slow
ahead five miles west of this city, and a
few minutes later a west-bound freight
crashed into the wreck, causing the death
of four persons and the serious injury
of at least five others.
The wreck occurred about 10 PP. M
The passenger train got a “clear block”
at the tower, and, running ahead at full
freight, wrecking the engine and two
passenger cars and the cab and two cars
of the freight.
almost immediately piled into the debris,
the river. ;
The injured, it is thought, will recov-
er. The wreck occurred on a sharp
could not stop after coming in sight of
freight ran in before a flagman could be
sent forward.
Beaten Till He Was Insane.
Chicago, (Special). —A coroner's jury
listened to evidence showing that a some-
what remarkable series of occurrences
led to the death of Frank J. Schell
here. The jury returned a report show-
ing that Schell had been held up by two
highwaymen and beaten so severely that
he was rendered temporarily insane.
While in this condition he walked some
distance to the river and jumped or fell
in. Schell and his brother recently came
into possession of a $100,000 estate. The
footpads stole his overcoat, which is
said to have contained valuable papers
pertaining to the estate.
a
Ex-Premier of Hawali Weds.
San Francisco, (Special), — Samuel
Parker, formerly Premier and Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Hawaii, has been
married to Mrs. Abigail Campbell, of
San Jose, widow of the millionaire plant-
er, James Campbell, the engagement of
whose daughter Abbie to Prince Ka-
wananakoa was recently announced.
wedding was private, the ceremony
performed at the Occidental Ho-
y Superior Court Judge Hubbard.
/ marriage was followed by a dinner.
Domestic.
A lien on the Detroit and
was filed in the register of deeds office
York contractor.
wheelman,
1als, has
Frank Lentz, the American
who was killed by Turkish
been paid $7.500 damages
Upon the recommendation of the Cu
Onc
pardoned 27 prisoners, now confined
various jails on the island.
The officers of the
at Oakland, Cal, for
against the mutinous crew.
Actor Melbourne McDowell signed a
ficials
was drugged at the time
tied in Baltimore
The St. Paul Trust Company, capital
ec Was mar-
chief cause is a recent supreme
company
judgment for $100,000 in the
DD. Strong, which had been
in charge of the company
The circuit court of Toledo, Ohio, af
Mrs
judgment of $5,400 against the estate of
the late President Hayes. Mrs. Smith
was bitten by dog that belonged to
Mr. Hayes
Four robbers entered the town of St
3 1 §
Bank of Camden
lhe explosion aro:
zens and a pitched battle with
Point wit}
3
15641
The Chicago Northwestern Univ
preposes to abandon the wor ’
cal department, and James |}
a trustee of the university,
it 15 IMposs to
ible
np
MAK
fice emebzzlem
d to begin 1
for Rat
m of trial
ICVS
A t
ings and Banking (
and
tage of the fo day 5
lernard Michael
found in his of
with his
estate bu
John G. The
“argo Express Company
has
accounts arc
ompany
land. the bank official
notice 1
aged
m ot
He x
been miss:
Foreign.
Nnoero
TR
fighted
a collision be
+ and the foreign troops
» shooting of a student named
in a duel
Emperor against
the military
a German officer
the
appears
by
aroused dueling
It that court of
was the best shot in his regiment, and
cieties had proposed sa-
bers
General Riera and other revolution-
ists are reported to have landed on Ven
The German officials have handed
which Germany's claims against
tinue unconfirmed.
John Murray, who recently surren-
have been concentrated and
the city to prevent trouble
The Count de Turenne, of the French
diplomatic service, has suggested a basis
for the settlement of the South African
war,
in
nobleman, committed suicide in a rail
road carriage near London,
The Dowager
again showing anti-foreign tendencies.
foreign army corps.
press and Yung Lu fear the foreign offi-
arrival in Pekin.
A philanthropist in London has placed
$1,000,000 at the disposal of King Ed-
ward for a sanitarium for consumtives,
Syrian officials were sharply rebuked
by the Ottoman government for arresting
naturalized American citizens.
Financial
The deposits of Erie Telephone stock
under the reorganization plan are very
large. ;
The New York Subtreasury statement
shows the banks have gained $1,406,000
since December 27. :
Mr. Post, of National Sugar, denies
the rumor that his sompahy has ac-
quired sugar plantations in Cuba.
Application hae heen made to the New
York Stock Exchange to list $3,200,000
additional capital stock of the Rutland
Railroad Company.
MR CARNEGIE'S
SPLENDID GIFT
Formal !ncorporstion of the Institution
in Washingion,
NO CONGRESS!ONAL INTERFERENCE.
Mr. Carmegic Will Not Give the Ten Mil
lions to the Government, as Was Originally
Intended, But to a Corporation Selected
by Himself, Which Met and Adopted Artic
cles of lacorporation.
Washington, D. C { Special)
first step toward accepting Mr. Andrew
of to the
offer
United States
:
ment fund for the promotion of higher
Carn £10.000,000
egice’
Government as an endow-
education was tal
the
District of Columbia for the Car
ere filed with
of the
negie
lhe incorporators are!
John Hay, Secretary of State
Edward D. White, Justice
United States Supreme Court
of the
the Johns Hopkins University
). Walcott, superintendent of
ological Survey
S. Billings, ex-Sur
urg
{
Commissioner of
fix the
institution as the
' and show
that
1
ai term
‘tor
promotion study the
power to
estate
voy
sh general
Of
act
and other property,
nd special
and { ai
FIGHT WITH BANK BURGLARS
Building Surrounded by Armed Men, Bat
Three Robbers Escape.
n Point
dynamite
Pp
ank, an . 4 YV. a4 i
3 local mer
a country dganc
the ex plos
the |
chant
ant, refur
the ! 1
wecurred Hastily a
and summoning a
posse surrounded the bank
opened fire on the robbers
After a fusilade lasting several min-
utes, int which one of the robbers was
shot in the shoulder, bandits re-
treated from the bank, ran to the rail-
road tracks and escaped on a hand car
They secured no booty. Several armed
2 :
passed
passcq
frit errors
shotguns
they
the
L43C
A FLUID TO PETRIFY THE DEAD.
Bodies lodefinitely.
Memphis, Tenn. (Special. )—The Mem-
phis Medical College has for
balming fluid declared by the inventor
to be superior to the embalming prepa-
ration used by the Egyptians
The infusion, it 15 said, petrifies the
The shriveling that was insep-
arable from the Egyptian embalming is
absent.
The principal experiment up to this
time has been upon the body of a dog,
It ap-
rigid,
but in a natural pose, There is no trace
symptom of decay
Protocol Not Yet Signed.
Santiago de Chili, (By Cable) —
Chilian minister of foreign affairs, and
Senor Portela, the Argentina minister to
Chili, and has asked the Chilian govern-
ment for further explanations.
AR AH bt le
A Double Tragedy.
Grafton, W. Va, (Special) ~News
reached here that Samuel Carothers,
who came here, accompanied by his 3-
year-old girl, from Whitman, Nebraska,
to visit his mother, 10 miles north of
this place, had, shortly after arriving at
his destination, deliberately shot and
killed his little girl and then blown his
own brains out. His wife is in a hospital
in South Dakota. [It is supposed that
domestic trouble was the cause of the
tragedy.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
Nation of Coffee Drinkers.
The coffee importations of the United
States will in the calendar vear 1001
be the largest in the history of the coun
try's import trade.
Eleven months’ figures of the Treasury
bureau of statistics show that these im
portations amounted to 067,000,585
pounds, against 707,400,152 in the corre
sponding months of 1000, B17,223877 in
the corresponding months of 1899, 744+
910,179 in the corresponding months of
1808, 720,110,006 in the same months of
1897 and 567,020,817 in the 11 months of
1806,
These figures indicate not only that the
coffee importations of 1901 will be larger
than those of any preceding year, but
The value of these
about
1,000,000,000 pounds,
imports will reach
any preceding year, the cost will be les
than the average during the years from
1800 to 1897, when the cost per pound
far the
coffee impor
the United States In the 11
months ended with November these im
ports amounted to 762,148,514 pounds,
while the next quantity came from other
American countries, 01,207,714
America, 04,554,400;
Brazil furnishes, of course, by
Central
pounds ;
Mexico, 21,504,432.
In Need of More Room.
Tt
year wa
minor subjects
departments
ie first Cabinet meeting of
to i
relati
among
hie 1s
ated t
ve 1
¥
t
dey
hem
crowded condition of some
ings
and War
evident and
some discussion of the n
sity for a building. . It
gested tha Department. o
State Depa could be
Lack of Navy
Departments is especially
there was
was sug
f Justice
* a
and
{sage rem
half
Yield of Gold and Silver.
ferrin ne ¢ ren est
uced is show y have been
of the val i $80.3 [he
silver
having a commer
The comnage
oximately $77
Fi
pro
duced was gf
cial value of
value of the
000,000
Clemency for Soldiers.
The army regulations have been
amended so as to provide that the pow
er to pardon or mitigate punishment im-
posed by a court-martial vested in the
authority which confirms the proceed
ings. or the coresponding authority un-
der whose jurisdiction the sentence is
being exectited, extends only to the us
executed portions of a sentence
An aphcation for clemency in the
case of a prisoner sentenced to confine
ment In a penitentiary must be forward
tion of the President. General Miles
being vested in military commanders, can
only be exercised by the President.
At the King's Coronation.
It is understood that a way may be
found by which two saval officers of
high rank will take part in the corona-
The present indications are that the
President will select a civilian represent-
and one officer of the navy to accompany
this civilian. Quite apart from this, the
navy will be represented by a squadron
in command
ment will be to place two naval officers
of high rank in service in connection
His Visit to Charleston.
«
Exposition in February. The President
the members of the Cabinet and some
of the Cabinet ladies, They will leave
here probably on February 10 arriving
in Charleston the following day.
Capital News in General.
Rear Admiral Schley called ™ the
White House by appointment and spent
nearly an hour in conference with the
President. The Admiral refused to dis-
cuss the conversation, sayi that it
was of a personal character. Presi-
dent also declined to intimate the nature
of the conference.
The Pacific Coast members of Con-
gress have agreed upon a Chinese exclu:
sion bill. It is drawn so as to absolute
prevent Chinese from coming to this
country, save officials and s¢ who
already are here.
GENERAL BELL'S
Warfare Until Insurrection
Is Subdued.
Rigorous
CONDITIONS ARE UNSATISFACTORY.
The Arrests of Members of the Rich Lopez
Family and of Members of Religious Cor-
porations Known to Be Instigators
Insurrections Are Havisg a Good Effect
Driving Filipinos in All Directions.
Manlia,
Bell is
| paign
{ By Cable)
Frank-
(yen J
lin :
{ avialable
columns under the command of Colone
Wint
lent work, and dri
all
are fleeir
the nati
valuable ;
rifles
and Daugherty
ving the Filipinos
f the latter
province,
directions. A number «
: :
ig to 1has where
Ve lary are rendering
“4 . y = 1
SStance in capturing men and
y
ie §
recate 5 employed by
i
General Bell
savs that thes
nuymerons opport
fluence, as thes
wates have had
their
been given passes
lines almost for
it has been after-
often only went
of
General Bell
wis now 1s
{to use imn-
purpose
y
completels
= Hamel i)
The a
One
Lope:
ther
arrest
TO PRODUCE ITS OWN COAL.
Stee! Corporation Plapts Consome
3,500,000 Tons a Year.
Pittsburg, Pi
MINISTER BURNED TO DEATH
Daughter Cremated and Son Injured in the
Burning of Their Home.
ny, Conn.
{ Sey
: w retire i
aged Bo years
Peck, 318 years old,
ind his
1}
andsome h tead on the Bethany
o death in a fire which destroyed their
Oc
t
I
turnpike
I'he house was wrapg flames when
awoke at clock His
shouts aroused Charles Peck, who part
smoke, made his way
to the roof and jumped. seyerely injur-
ing himself. It was impossible to rescue
the other of the house, which
was reduced ashes in less than an
hour
Mr. Peck was active in the, Methodist
ministry for many years, but retired 20
years ago.
ed
a neighbor 4 D
ly overcome by
mmates
$
10
Big Deal in Coal Land. {
Clarksburg, W. Va. (Special) —A
4.000-acre coal tract in the Wallace dis-
trict, Harrison county, W. Va, on the
Short Line Railroad, is about tb change
hands. James R. Baines, of Uniontown,
Pa. is making the sale, the purchasers
being identified with the J. P. Morgan
syndicate, of New York. The grice to be
aid is in the neighborhood ff $400.000
he deeds are being prepared and the
transfer will be made in a few days,
The tract will be developed on an ex-
tensive scale
Regained Consciondoess.
Benton Harbor, Mich, (Special)
Camille, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
George Chamberlain, 9 years old, was
believed to have died at Hartford, a sta-
After being in its coffin for two days,
the child came to conscionsness 30 ming.
the friends here were notified that there
will be no funeral, Chamberlain is a
druggist at Hartford. The child has
not fully regained consgiousness; she
cannot see and will prob i
Charlotte, N. C. (Special. )-~A local
freight train and a work train collided
at Holtsberg, on the Southern Railway,
a bad smash-up being, the result. Two
deadhead engines and a number of cars
were derailed. Firetnan R. Harrison
was badly injured and was sent to a
hospital in Salisbury,
a ———— aa. si
Engineer.
Death of an
Santiago de ili, (By Cable). —
h, a well-known
$
Richard Goldshorgu,
American died here.
engined 1 ha
py, ped di
————
TWO KILLED, MANY INJURED
Engine and Five Cars cf Passenger Train
Leave Track
(:lencoe
were entirely de
by
non
troy
1 ‘ t
my ne irucks and
hurried
wath Dre
1.4 1
Claybrook and
Seven men
were brought to the hos
are «
severe pital t
umber
ere
nig well wer
ng well were
sdale, Pa
the wreck
ing
or
not
CoN down 2
the en
track
the
track
‘
irom
$:eard
Yiinaers
driven
WIrecKe
the
opened
Shot By Discharged Employe.
fie ic 1
n aus
ngs { Spec
World's Record Rain Fall
{ 11 { »
From
y inches
hroughout
heavy rams
irict ia mn
reported,
there were
cles: wy } - - » <
occurred, but there was no
Coliision of Two Freights,
Atlanta, Ga. (Special) —As the re
f a head-on collision between two
trains of the Southern Railway,
near Rex, Ga.. 14 miles from this place.
three of the trams’ crews were killed
and a number of freight cars destroyed
The two trains met on a sharp
the derailed cars catching fire
one of the two trains,
Burglars Used Five Charges
Bethany. Ill, (Special). —Four men
residents, who were aroused by the ex-
plosion and began shooting. The rob.
bers were at work two hours and fired
five charges of nitroglycerin before the
residents got out.
Anarchist Plots in Spa's.
Madrid, (By Cable). —The police
have discovered traces of anarchist plots
in the towns of Jerez de la Frontera,
Alcala de Jes Gazules and Arcas de la
Frontera, in the Province of Cadiz
Forty-nine arrests were made and the
prisoners conveyed fo Barcelona, where
they will be tried by the military
courts. .
Party Ended in Fight.
Augusta, Ga., (Special). ~-Three peo-
ple were killed and two wounded at
Robbins, N. C, in a fight which occurred
during a party given at the residence of
Jesse Griffin. participants in the
fight were White people and well known
in this part of the country.
AAAI SSB 5M
To Christisn Kaiser's Boat,
. Miss Alice Roosevelt, the eldest
daughter of President Roosevelt, will
christen the German Kaiser's new ht
vow building at Staten Island, N Y.
This announcement was made at the
White House. The Kaiser's invitation to
iss Roosevelt was exte through
Dr. von Holleben, the German ambas-
sador to the United States,
The. STE of Nothers ta Msn.
will hold its sixth al rao] ;
Washington from February 25 to,