=~ PANAMA HARBOR HAS NAVAL BATTLE Insurgents Sink War Vessel of Colom. bian Government. GENERAL CARLOS ALBAN KILLED. Chillan Steamer Lautaro, Which the Govern. ment Had Just Armed for Uemeral Alban's Expedition, Is Burned During the Fight. ing on Panama Bay-—The lasurgents Open the Battle. Panama, (By Cable) —A novel naval battle was fought in the harbor of Pana “warships” of revolutionary ma between the so-called the government and the forces The government got the worst of it. Gen. Carlos Alban, the military com mander of the Panama killed, and the Chilian line steamer Lau taro, recently mounted with cannon and used by the government for was partly burned A number of the men on this vessel were killed. It is reported that her crew rebelled. : The revolutionary fleet consisted the steamers Padilla, Darien and Gai tan. They sought to force a landing off Saoana. district, was is line steamer Lautaro, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Chicuito and the Panama Canal Company's steam er Boyaca. The first-named steamer was two had been chartered by the Colom bian government The revolutionary gunboat Padilla sur prised the Lautaro at the [ tl fight, and began shooting : Many men on board the killed The United phia $tood near during the £1 pared to take any action to prevent bombardment of tsthmian any injury to American in The the Philadel in extinguishing the fire on The killing of General A ernor of Panama, death may have the effect the n large BENNY Op ning States cruiser the towns crew of the Iban, 1s deplored, of bri governt number the rebel shir A THRILLING FIRE ESCAPE. From a Fourth Floor. Boston 1}. ~Cut cess to a fire escape a few Helen M. York and John type operators, fourth floor of a with stood in a wind Milton Place bui flames below and b Slowly the firemen raised a lon until the top reached the windows,v Mrs. York was trying to keep her dress from taking fire. The man helped her to step on the ladder through smoke, lighted up sweeping over the sill they cated, both descended was the most thrilling fire incident wit nessed in Boston for many months Though the aspect was. serious for some time, the actual loss was not very heavy being only somewhat over $30.000 fhe building was occupied by printers paper dealers and f f trical goods beside her [hen by flames had just va fo the street It or storage ot elec French and German Trade. Berlin, { By Official provi sional estimates of the foreign trade of Cable) Germany for rgo1r give the imports at $4.491,750.000, a decrease of $19,000,000 from the imports of 1900. The same au thority gives the exports for 1go1 at $1. 189,750,000, which is an increase of $1, 750,000 over the exports for the preced mg year. The actual values of these im ports and exports are much smaller than the figures given, as the amounts are based on the prices of goods prevailing in 1900. Confessed Old Murder. Elkhart, Ind, (Special). — Mather, formerly a well-known business man here, has confessed to the murder of Pcter Olsen, near Muskegon, Mich. 20 years ago. The murder was the re sult of a quarrel. Olsen's body was not found until the following spring. Mather is a patient at the State Hospital for the Insane at Logansport. He declares he was driven mad by memory of the crime Largest Min og Tunnel. Port Wash. (Special )-— Preliminary work has been commenced Townsend, on one of the largest and longest mining tunnels in the world, near Juneau, Alas- ka. The tunnel will be more than 8.000 feet long, and will be started on the mountains to tap a large number claims in the Silver Bow Basin. A large mill will be built on the beach, where it can be operated the year round. tunnel will probably cost $2,000,000. Rich Gold Field in Utah Salt Lake, Utah, (Special)—Mail ad- vices from the New Thunder Mountain mountains by show that active development is being sontinued, in spite of deep snow, and con- firm the first reports of the great rich- ness and extent of the fields. Tt is al- most impossible to pack provisions over the trails in winter, and but few are ven- turing it. At Mackay, Boise, Salmon City, Ketcham and Weiser, however, hundreds of prospectors are alread gathering to start in as soon as the trails shall be passable, a —— Struck Oil in Boring for Salt, Roanoke, Va. (Special) Capitalists who have been boring for salt at Hiltons, Scott county, Va., have struck lubricat- ing oil at a depth of 280 feet. This is wholly unexpected, as the drills are being sent down for salt, and not oil, Belfast, (By Cable) ~A wall of the Smithfield flax mills collapsed, burying the operatives, who included many women. As this dispatch is sent 10 bodies have been extricated from ruins, SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. At a meeting of the executive com- mittee of the McKinley National Memo- rial Association in Cleveland, O., it was reported that there will be a general ob- servance of McKinley Day throughout the country, General Bell, military commander of the Batangas Province, has adopted dras tic measures to quell the insurrection in his district, which, he says, is honey combed wth treacherous officials and priests, Albert T. before Recorder Goff, in New York, on an indictment charging him with the murder of William Marsh Rice, died in that city. John Bauman, a farmer, living near Van Wert, O., shot and killed John Gar Miss Sophie Zantiny was shot and Cleveland, O., by discarded suitor, who then Mr. Carnegie offers to provide a libra ry for Louisville if the city will contrib ute $25,000 annually for its maintenance The La Strain, a seven-story apart burned about safely. Cross-examination of E. G The building was occupied by 30 families, all of whom escaped The estimated loss 1s $100.000 postoffice frauds, was concluded. C. F why he made no record of the s charged stamps he gave to clerk with instructions to sell In a buggy, near Coffeen, ind the dead body of Miss lifford, and Fred Brockman seriously wounded. The girl had been shot in the drockman had two bullet the head. He was placed it t the stam IL, wounds mn mnder arrest Rev. G. F. B. Howard the Ohio penitentiary, was sei tw 10 served a erm in al aC Marquette Railway Hretences pretense ars President Francis, | silana one vea postponed for killed acct ornt ¢ th steve accigent ai tne um it M fwo negro mines and eight injured i $ y 7 “rsa : ir erland Coal Compan or were min stone, Tenn . A syndicate sburg capitalists OF i ) or 11,000 acres of and at a price said to be SR .000,000 i Ienth bigamy, was filed by ¢ of the Commercial Bank ny, Ga.. for a temporary receiver General Chaffee will make a wigh investigation of the Filipino situs fhe jun application it Hongkong has Leader Lukban to desires, but says he must le or fficers the 78] he ver any Filipino soldiers Americans. Foreign 5 imterpeliations plained that sympathy oers, the ngle the foreign poli Colonial Secretary Chamberlain House for peace had been made He further believed in the of Commons that no over by the that if : wuld at res cer envoys stated doers time secure a repetition of Lord Kitchen er's terms they were mistaken Great Britain's intention to counte ig duty on bounties were withdrawn ternational sugar t Be the they « any Impose a stigar unless the was announced onierence at iva Brussels Prince Henrv's itinerary States, as approved by the En peror h self, include waukee, Niagara Fall Col. Arthur Lynch, cently elected to the Hon and who 1s said to have fought on the side of the Boers, is still in Paris, his futur movements will guided by the advice of the Irish party in the United and visits to Chicago, Mil and Boston the Irishman re 1s¢ of Commons, and Rays be Herr von Bennigsen, landrath of Han a duel with Herr Falkenhagen, the result with Von Jennigsen’s wife The French Chamber of Deputies, by a approving of the statement of General Andre, the Minister of War, in reply to an interpellation, in which he explained that he took the system of army promo- tions out of the hands of the former the view, it 1s said, of presenting to the tions, Col. Arthur Lynch, recently elected to the British House of Commons from Galway, who is said to have fought on the side of the Boers, will be arrested so soon as he lands on English soil, The British government issued a blue book on the concentration camps in South Africa. Herr von Bennigsen, governor of Springe, near Hanover, Germany, was seriously wounded in a duel with Herr Falkenhagen, The Poles are boycotting articles of German manufacture, Ficancial The Investment Company of Philadel cent, payable February 13. The Southern New England Telephone Company will increase its capital from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000, The annual meeting of the stockhold- ers of the United States Steel Corpora. tion will be held in Hoboken, N, J, on February 18. The Grand Rapids Railway directors have declared the regular quarterly divi- dend of 114 per cent. on the preferred stock oavable Febreary 1 ’ THREE HUNDRED DEAD IN RUINS City of Chilpancingo Destroyed by an Earthquake. State Capitol and Other Buildings Wrecked tion of the Office and lostruments— Troops Sent to Assist in the Work of Rescue The Shock Was Also Very Severe at Chilapa. when an ex shock felt at Chilpancingo, causing great loss in this country occurred tremely violent earthquake was of life and injuring many persons from the stricken district are but here indicate that probably 300 persons Details meagre, scattermg reports received more injured reported that Goo this believed to be known that the State parish church and many uses and residences are in were killed and as In some quarters it is wore killed, but excessive It 1s busine One he buildings Federal telegraph legraph lines and other ap pancingo were badly dam 11 i 1 all of wi that suffered p { hice ( aged, 1.1 : 4 4 quickly proceeded ie an t gle place, as a crowd of wor gathered there for the afterno HIG slight SEEKS TO BLAME BOTHA. Kitchener Says He Offered to Spare Farms of Burghers. t further detailed expl Milner, the British and Lord Kit there were 117.017 s y 3 3 nps and 2.380 deaths were of children DR KRAUSE SENT 10 PRISON The Charge That He Had lacited to Marder Not Sestained. sustained the Kranse ¢ i tO murdes Justice, n of th C harge ¢ defense of Dr of fail, as there was no es contention the inciting idence that letters in the had case sman, held that the attempting to persuade’ Dr. Krause sentenced to two reached droeck bust of the and ment Before he was sentenced Dr protested that he never intended to mur. der any one passing sentence, declared was morally as great as though crime had been carried out. The pris oner, the court said, did everything he could to msure murder being committed 1 mist was tound Ycars go wes} guity prison the offense MAIL PACKAGE EXPLODED. Smokeless Powder. Knoxville, Tenn, (Special) J]. W or an infernal machine and ackages with the “received” stamp a package ad dressed to a Jocal hardware house ex: ploded when struck with the stamp. Ex- amination revealed on it the name of a nito-glycerine The interior of the parcel showed a tin box, in which the explosive had been packed. The lacal hardware firm dis- claim having ordered such a package or having been notified of its shipment. First Quality Diamonds in Montana. Lewiston, Mont, (Special) Dia. monds, said to be of the first water, have been found in the northern part of Fer- gus county, according to a report which has just reached here. The news of the discovery caused commotion among the prospectors of this region, and dozens of them are on their way to what they be. lieve is a new land of riches. The dis. covery was made on Blood Creek, a manntainous country NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, To Report Ship Subsidy Bill The Senate Committee on Commerce has authorized Senator Frye, its chair man, to make a favorable report on his ship subsidy bill, Senator Frye's report accompanying the bill places the cost of the “mail” subsidy at $4,700,000. Based on actual vigation of American vessels in for- eign trade in 1900, the subsidies proposed would amount to $1,072,000. The boun ties on the deep-sea fisheries is estimated at $175,000. mail postage will provide $3,000,000 of this amount, leaving a deficit under the system proposed of nearly $2,000,000 The committee made several amend ments to the bill. The most important were Allowing mail-carrying vessels under President's Visit to Charleston. Arrangements for the President's visit to the Charleston Exposition next month mcluded at the White House departure on the evening wccompanied by Secre Post Attorney Mrs wk and Wilson, General I Knox Roosevelt and 15 ‘abinet ; Miss Roosevelt and He spend One d leave on the even morning of the may be absent and persons will iarieston an j2th rider race or tne that he smington not 1 Phy 1 1 Was apptaicq Territory Good Chance for Coffee Crop. Rio Ja ms the State Department of a sul-General Seeger, at infar fesire on his part to correct impres ston conveyed in previous the next Brazil roared True Foeporis fom ian coffee im in regard to 3 ne Seeger says which were f that Brazil will year, if the coffee d next Vag 11 DAES More for Armor on Ships i Fig Loy he Urgent Filipinos Surrcoader. The War Depar Capital News in Geaeral ww Gallinger, reported to the Sq ropriation hill use, without from the committee nate the as it came any amend hilippine tariff bill was reported to the Senate and the hill for the cre- ation of a department of commerce was further debated in the House. The Senute passed a resolution ac- cording the franking privilege to Mrs. McKinley ton have arranged the itinerary for Prince Henry's travels in the United States and cabled the programme to the Emperor for his approval. Extraordinary precau from cranks or anarchists, A census bulletin says the population in the large cities is Increasing very rap idly in proportion to that of the country. Five thousand two hundred. and thirty- three soldiers have been ordered to the Philippines, The date for the opening of the fair at G04. Before the House Committee on Com: General Greely and others, Orders were prepared at the War Of. fice for the return from the Philippines of the Ninth Infantry. A majority of the Isthmian Canal Commission is favorable to the Panama rotite. The House Ways and Means Commit: tee continued its hearing of arguments in reference to the proposed Cuban reci- procity proposition, A number of amendments were pro- posed in the United States Senate to the bill providing for a department of commerce. Wholesale dismissals have begun in the Census Bureau and the force will soon be on a permanent basis, Hon, Hen Payne was sworn in as SIXTY KILLED, MANY INJURED Town Wrecked by an Explosion, TERRIBLE SCENES OF SUFFERING, Spanish Mill Sixteen Mutilated Bodies of Working Peo ple Buried in the Debris Have Been Re covered These Include the Manager of the Sploniog Mill aod His Two Sisters— The Dead Included Many Children. (By Cable) —The explosion of the boiler of a spinning mill destroyed half the village of Puente de Vilumara. A hospital is filled with the i of Jarcelona, Spain, injured mutilated bodies people buried in the debris have been re- covered. These include the manager of and mjured. The dead include many dren. Queen Maria ( wired her condolences Regent ristina The boiler exploded in the evening when the the mill hand of whom were panied by wives : , Many aceon dren, were eating ginning their might supper work ings of the mil : LUKBAN MAY SURRENDER Letter From the Filipino Junta ast Hong. kong Discovered. RIDICULE PEACE MOVEMENT. Boers Declare That the Stories Are Fabri cated by the British ¥ { By Cable) to Re held a conference with the Boer delega ise of Mr has Dest au- tion at The Hague at the he Wolmarans Ne ficial statement Engineer Went to Sleep. City Special) ne west Jassenger fram silided freight train Five pas M1 Were in The wreck m Maze, of the freight. train his and ran past ordered len asleep mn cab been Cut Flesh From 15 Girls. Chicago, (Special) ~In an hour's D'Orsay juate Hospital, cut bits of legs of young women und covered a burned and livid face with fresh healthy epidermis time Dr Hecht, before a clinic 5 > - at the Postgr: and 15 old, whose face an explosion of gasoline the number of young women chosen vol- unteered to make the sacrifice for their suffering friend ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS of the Virginia Legislature, was adopt- stintional Convention. rated as Governos of lowa. His m- augural address discussed the remedy for the combine evil, The State Pure Food Commission is having sellers of impure vinegar and Officers of the Independence Mine, in Willis Petty, who narrowly escaped lynching in Alexandria, Va, was set free, Open winters and overproduction have caused a shutdown of the Woonsocket Rubber Company's mill. J. V. §. Oddie, secretary of the New York Yacht Club, died at his residence, in New York. downe recently pointed out to the Ger man ambassador that Mr. Chamberlain had made no charge of barbarity against the German Army. Earl Spencer, in the British House of Lords, craticising the a from the throne, said that while he recognized the Boer th ibility of tH . A for Ag he depre- AWED TRAIN CREW. Masked Outlaws Flag and Rob Southbound Express. Fort Smith, Ark, (Special). —A south- Kansas City Railroad passenger train was held up half mile north of Spiro, 1. T., by seven masked The local safe in the express car but nothing was secured The robbers tried to open the Then they bound Southern men. Was opened, from it through safe, but failed a quantity of registered mail Ihe robbers Sagged the train between Spiro and Redland, While two of the even men covered the engineer and fire others forced a por ter appeared on the forward baggage car who had coach steps to uncouple the st of the CH, A tray alighted from the train of the vented by Condu Ire Upon one 5 Pre 1 feared that the the 3 the jere the senger, went BRITISH SHIP BLOWN UP? Bodies of Hundre2: of Mules Floating on Waters of the Gulf, Le : in Mit he negotiat Army Officer's Terrible Full rar] Edmor NOC falling he C: dome at the bot ntinents apparently fractures Nurse Hanged Child : al} While ! left with Loge, a domesti they re f 2 condition bad turned on i it from the jet Littaker stened 10 a gas visit ther Annie turned the he from asphyxi the gas and 1 Mr . i SiS # dead oid 1a 11 and found pipe CC ¥ al Train Blows From Track. Vienna (By Cable) «Over were injured, many of verely, by a great windstorm wh swept over Vienna. Houses were un- chimneys were blown down and 100 per- them se- LOS People were while on the street and a train was blown off its tracks and pas- senger traffic has been tied up. More Merciful Thas Just. Des Momes, lowa, (Special) —As practically the closics act of his adminis. tration, Governor Shaw made public the names of 473 prisoners to whom he had sxtended executive clemency within the The Governor's record in this respect, it is stated, has never been equaled in lowa. Direct Vote for Senator. Frankfort, Ky. {Special).~The Sen- ite unanimously concurred in the House resolution asking Congress to provide for election of United States Senators firect vote. The House resolution peti- tioning Congress io remove the revenue tax on tobacco and criticising the Tobac- so Trust was passed by a party vote. a Blew Her Head Of Toledo, Ohio, (Special) ~Louise Avery, of Delaware, who was 21 vears old, committed suicide in a horrible man- ner, Her brother found her lying dead upon her bed with the bafrel of a shot- gun held by one hand against her tem ple. Evidences were that the had taken paris green and mor- *
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