THMENSE LOSS “5° BY GREAT FIRE The Damage at Waterbury, Conn, is Fully $3,000,000. ACRES OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED. Rarely Have Firemen Been Obliged to Con- tend Against Worse Conditions Thana Those Which Prevailed From First to Last in the Disastrous Fire— The Wind Was Blowing a Ggle, and the Cold Was Intense. Waterbury, Conn. (Special.)—For 15 hours—from P. M. Sunday until 9.30 A. M. Monday—the heart of this city was a furnace. As the smoke of the ruins is dying away with the gale it is estimated that between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 dam- With the wind roar” 0.30 age has been done, erless for a long time to cope with the destroying wall of flame. With all this great property loss there and but few ' accidents been re corded. z All the buildings in the business sec- tion bounded on the north by Exchange Place, on the west by Bank street, on the south by Grand street, and on the cast by South Main street, embracing four acres of the center of the city, are in ruins. The first fire, which begun in the big store of the Reid & Hughes Drug Goods Company, on Bank street, was not con sidered under control until about $2,000, 000 worth of property had been stroyed. About the time the firemen supposed they had controlled this a dis- astrous fire started mm another quarter of the city, near the city hall and the police station The Scovell the city’s leading hotel, remodeled by the late Judge E. C. Lewis a few years ago at an expense of about $75,000, was discovered to fire about 4 A. M. and was a « wreck at daybreak. At the out blaze its occupants irced the street in thesr night clothes With the ringing of a t the city was thrown into a pa jaded firemen dragged their apparatus from the scere of the first conflag and poured a flow of water hotel. The gale and flames wered them, and the hotel ar ing property soon went the buildings. Spraying sparks ing snowflakes ness center of the « and the occupar pathway in wh prepared to icave bility of using but Mayor Ed that the use of an expl IVE acter was dangerot blowing up buildings 1 stances was called into pl Through the efforts of the Mayor electric currents thro he ¢ cut off shortly } first alarm “lectric ht went out, | . with the cuttir graph wires the city ¥ 1.1 woria rom the outside ave de- House, be on 1 ymnlete were fi CON 15 unle r the send LOSS NEARLY A MILLION Extent of the Big Conflagration is Norfolk, Virginia. a . (Special. ) —A Norfolk, Va heap of smoking ruins is all that remains of the Atlantic Hotel, the office building, which adjoined the ho- massive Columbia stores in the center of the city. The conflagration, one of the greatest in the history of Norfolk. broke out shortly before 2 o'clock in the morning, when finally subdued nearly stroyed. The loss is believed to be fully covered by insurance The flames started in the Columbia, which is the largest but one of Norfolk's office build- ings. It was a structure six stories high, and was built in 1802 by David Lowenberg, its owner. The fire was first discovered at 1.55 o'clock, and shortly afterward over 1.000 gallons of whisky stored in the building exploded with terrific force, tearing out the front wall. The firemen were driven back by the explosion, and before they could get a stream of water on the flames the entire building was afire CARNEGIE HEADS THE LIST. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. Judge Cowing, in the Court of Gen- eral Sessions, in New York, charged the February grand jury to investigate the New York Central collision and the ex plosion in the subway. In his charge to the grand jury in St bribe-takers and directed the jury to in vestigate the charges brought - Mrs her son Joseph, aged 30. living on the outskirts of Philadelphia, died starvation. Miss Florence Ely, who HUNDRED MEN PERISH IN MINE | Mzjority of Victims of Hondo Cxplo- s'on Were Mexicans. BUT FEW AMERICANS WERE KILLED | Every Mule in the Mine Was Killed, Three Dead Ones Being Taken From the Debris The Work of Clearing Away the Wreck in Order to Get to the Bodied is Being Rushed as Rapidly as Possible. been located in Casselton, N. D. Stewart mansion, in New York. Four stockmen were killed and five tral at Apple River, Illinois at Pinehurst, N. C. : ['hree and a half tons of impure bak various cities for swindling physicians, was arrested in Chicago Miss Agnes Inglis, a sophomore cal student at the University of gan, killed herself A second operation was performed on General Kansas City I'en thousand people Schley at the State Tenn Governor the Admiral to the Sta ral fittingly res Judge Whi medi Michi- 107 cheered Admiral ponded i jue! Steve An agreement York y +41 s transatiant: by Represe Cc CO ain and prevent rd of E 4 O i Wade an hanged in Portland, Ore Morr WwW Joseph f for the mus of James B Daniel Tucker, ¢ in Newport News, Va murdering his olored on the « harge Oo wife, Foreign The Earl of Munster, who was a ma of t Scots, was accidentally killed at the Lape Mines, in South Africa An avalanche buried village of Bleiberg, in Austria, and a number of persons were killed The subject of Christian in the Reichstag Stoecker, formerly court preacher clared that “Christian Science product of bad philosophy, and worse theology, imported the Umsted States.” Many lives were lost m wre English Coast naral was capsized by her cargo shifting and only one man of a crew of 22 sur- The Italian bark lofaio was wrecked off Sicilly Islands, the Sq ence Was Herr de- discussed from ks off the San latest Antonia, Tex (Special) —The information from the Hondo ion shows it to have { Mex.) mine explos been fully as serious as at first reported in the mine when the explosion occurred, all of them are The the victims Mexicans and few Amer and dead ma- are very cans having Every 1 fi the mine was The work of clearing away the wr order to get to the bodies 1 rapidly POSS but the 106 m being there 15 1.4 thie, en will be ng a4 Hk gas prope ty ot R. M. Mc i he name heen learned ned of the HOWARD WAS CONVICTED But Fixed Punishment ment for Life. Jury at lmprison- HAGUE DIPLOMATS ARE BUSY. Conference Between the British and Mwich Officials Over Boer Matter. War 1 oa Of shows engage Koffy 28. Col ex Reg i and ment at Abrahams wraal. near feyrtetn tontemn, nent i itt y were killed wounded seven I he nger French dened to death, 15 not men wer nritz General report the ommandant i Wi De was captured by ether 1v had heen con fro Africa. w ould inced , that Kritzinger's but nothing heard of his case ANON ! triag week, since Across Contigest in Three Days Paul ocean in three days is a dream the Cana St ( Special) From ocean to dian Pacific will make a reality early m the spring The equipment will the system nearly $1,000,000 and will be supplied by builders the United States I'he new service will be in ad- dition to that formerly operated and the cet $0 NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, A “Colonial Office” Next? The direction of the destinies of our insular possessions may be raised to the dignity of an independent Cabinet posi tion, Secretary Elihu Root has prepared a plan for the transfer of the Insular Bu rean of the War Department to another executive department and to enlarge its scope and make it a colonial office with a civilian head. It was the plan of the late President McKinley to create such an office, to be styled a colonial office, placed under the authority of the State Department Mr. Root's scheme follows closely that of Mr. McKinley and has in view the creation of an extensive office under which will be placed all important af fairs relating to the Philippines, Port Rico, Guam and Hawa. New Department Building. The Senate Committee on Public authorized Sen to make a favorable re bill providing for the erec old of of the the corner on the site Corcoran Art Gallery, at Pennsylve that the and prov ides to the eet The bill building shall be the State Department and t Depart ment of Just and that space shall the devoted use be allotted mn buildin o the clerica force under tl control of the President, and which now finds House. Ne authority working appropriation given building. TI Space 1 the chitect es to and erect eauire acam je UDEervisIing that 2 suitable building can be put up for $7,000,000 When Employes Seck a Raise. follo sited the ntion, serv in inder any of the Executive " ing hereby indirectly Departments, and rther 80 serv are tc passage 0; for transfer in the alse Philippines’ Treason Acts. y ' s Rawlins introduces ts aking War whether the Philippifes Philippine Co ' Ihe resolution cites a esrcnlar purport ing to give the language of the act provi makes aoncealment treason agamst the United States or Pi i and other prisomment im {ne 1G the of hippines yhle by a fine of $1.00¢ seven pun mprisonment ides a fine of $2000 and two for and a third provides 3 fine of $1.000 and imprisonment for one sear for persons belonging {O secret =O cietied having for their object the pro motion of treason Another prohibition is against advo cating the mdependence of the Philip pines or their separation from United States, “whether by peaceable or forcible means ihe penalty for the infraction of requirement is a fine of $2000 and imprisonment for a year The resolution went over for future con sideration. for years: an- pros m for YOars seditions words thse CHINA TO EMBRACE OUR WESTERN WAYS Empress Bitterly Repents the Attack on the Legetions, The Dowager Empress, at a Kemarkable Re. ception to the Ladies of the Diplomatic Corps, Grasps the Hand of Mrz Conger, end, Trembling, Declares the Attack Upon the Legations Was a Terrible Mistake. Pekin, (By Cable) ~The Dowager ladies and children of the members of the Diplomatic Corps in the private apartments of the palace that China would abandon her isolation and The Dowager Empress declared adopt the best features of Western civil- ization, The tionary court to reveln return of Jusiveness audience was the event since Pekin. The Chinese royalty and against the a i and th waiveda, ang the most the nl prejudice were for *X( the the was less in European court meeting of CONES mecting ol x function occupied several of cended the and bowed ts Mrs. ( throne Empre Dowager f U States United onger Longer orp: ted THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION Organization Completed by the Election ot Executive Committee. rev » Ing the geneross yegie in the found to x of the tr desire express stees mot tated in hie deed of and hereby fort r accent the ¢ and the responsibilities connected with it The mecting today srief Fx-Maver Hewtt sided 1 by careful ¥ hanges 1 were made terme of office of stead of five years was New of consifiered an a ane pre ution few nn the language of the inal draft changes make the three A specific provision was in the fifth article that ne expenditure thall be authorized or made by the executive committee pursuance previous appropri by the board of he laws the Vere These frisiees mserted exer of a ROCKEFELLER'S GIFT TO HARVARD A Millien Dollars to Supplement Morgan's Million for Medical School. Cambridge, Mase ing the announcement at Harvard com { Special. ) Fallow mencement exercises last June that J. P DRIVEN INSANE BY HARDSHIPS. The Terrible Experience of a Compsny of Marines in Luzon. Washington, D. C. (Special, )—Gen- eral Chaffee has cabled to the War De partment a report of the march of Major Waller It is the first and his marines across Samar, ' full ace » march tf and Waller, 4 officers and Marine Cor Liculen Twelftn Ir and started di ’ « Yast from lL: , on the » island to The the tale of terrible fering hardship. Major 50 men, of the ant Lyles, of the 30 native week in December east coast of Sam to Bas ey bearers about following dispatch “The War advised of De partment 0 native days’ rations, who week of December from ; Samar, to bearers, with started the last Lanang, on the ‘ross the isl wm map. Trail at found in places only. Li Twelfth Infantry mand. Incessant rains wollen stream les made progres rations were dropping on separ: teat Lieutenant R P. Will rast of t of about 35 miles ted, bot Lyles, to Bases one ime ex SCOOT F gy {remy nd other n: extremely CONSUME rapidly » 3 » Ww aller irom tf Of the men hen he arrived BOY MANGLED BY ICE PLANER Drawn Into 8 Machine and His Flesh Mutiieted in a Horrible Manocr. y Sse ; . ™ basing his re M. Secrestat fionists ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS The Somerset apital of $4.000.000 New York Virginia Pocal was chartered in B General 1 VIROrOus the Filipino mst } the pach The pany Chaife oxpect campaign he Com received a ea «tual card warning hm that if he did not deposit $1.000 in grees backs at a certain place he would be killed Jim wed Wo ite declared Howard was sent Oave to Various lastitations $31,000,000 Dur. | ing the Year 190L New York, (Special) —During 1901 Americans gave $107,300.000 for educa- tional and philanthropic purposes, not including donations to churches or ap propriations for ordinary charitable pur- Secretary Shaw Takes Oath the presence of the chief officials Morgan had agreed lo erect, st a cost o | a million dollars, three of the build ngs required for the aconmmodapion or | | the Harvard Medical School, in carrying mut their new plans medical educa and research, President Eliot an sounced to the medica! facolty that 1. D i Rockefeller proposes to give a millions jollars in fertherance of this great preg imprisonment, the jury guilt i pation of Governor ( fucky There =wva: between a crowded ferry boat and a railroad tug | im New Yr number of women fainted was hurt The sleet storm in Kentucky, Arkan and Tem did ense dam age. the great masses of ice causing the roofs of buildings to break m I'he British war secretary introdoced a supplementary army cstimate in Pas hament of S22.000000, which brings the total cost of the war for the vear up | $308,000,000, It was shown in the Com {| mons that the contractors were making | enormous profits supplying horses to the government for South Africa. and at was declared that evidence before the committee revealed a gross scandal It now appears that the government of the Netherlands suggested to the British government that the Boer dele: ing the assges Ken | new train will be tri-weekly. The Cana Pacific will cut 24 hours from the, In running time. The new limited will have | ¢ The London Globe bitterly criticises ! the members of the diplomatic corps at sekin for “permitting their wives and De to pe Red by bowing to 2 72 hour schedule between Montreal the infamous woman” the Empress and Vancouver and will make average | Dowager running time of 40.3 miles an hour, | At a big meeting in London General | Booth, leader of the Salvation Army, poses | opened a social temperance campaign as A ae w C t heads the B ith | 2 feature of army work Saino, es a sr aa Emperor William has presented { oun | mation regarding Porto Rican prisoners is a close second with $30 yon Waldersee with a bronze cannon in in the Spanish penitentiary at Ceuta, Mo Among the other large Bree, Pecognition of his services in China Fhe records show that 40 pris- Christopher 1. Magee, bequest for hos. General Herrera, commander of the Cr cnt § s . x : “| As soon as the ceremony was concluded | nent. ital, Pittsburg, $4.500000; John | Calombian revolutionary forces, declares ! were sent from Porto ico 10 | Secretary Shaw was warmly congratn- ” . Ceuta between 1882 and 1808 Against | lated by each person present upon his D.} : . Yaoi ockefeller, New York, $3.046,500: J | that he has dominion over the Pacific | a B. per ’ ; 17 of these persons no specific charges | accession to his high office. were brought, they being. it is said, polit. | m—— him of complicity mn dian aver i ovbel, of the Department, Senator Dolliver and nearly all of Towa's dele- gation in the lower house of Congress and other friends, ex-Governor leslie M. Shaw, of Iowa, took the prescribed oath of office as Secretary of the Treas ury. succeeding Lyman J. Gage. The | sect, provided that other friends of the { i oath was admmistered by Mr. Justice | aniversity will raise a sum of money nt | Shiras, of the United States Supreme | he neighborhood of hai a million dol | Court, in the largest of the Secretary's | are to be used by the Harvard Medica office rooms in the Treasury Building. | School for land, buildings or endow Treasury torr collision 101 harbor A but no one ln Spanish Prisons San Juan, Porto Rico (Special) ~The House of Delegates has asked for infor. £A% Ffocco oners we ga ae Cars Skated Down Hill. Pittsburg (Special) Three people tilled, two fatally hurt and a score >= i sthers more or less injured, is the rec yd made by two runaway cars on the Monongahela branch of the Pittsburg allway. A number of others were Pierpont Morgan, New York, $1,463, | coast of the Isthmus of Panama, and | +. Dan ¢ <5 hicago. 1 jeal prisoners. An effort will probably | Only Salvation of Cuba. 030000; Daniel K. Pearsons. Chicago, | ™ = 10 Picquart, in an article on the | country has come to the end of her mili- Eo Cassels Cursed Mis Judges. Five Sentenced to Death in Porto Rica. | urging in the strongest terms the speedy 000; Mrs. Emmons Blaine. Chicago, $1.- that he will revent the transportation of | arms or soldiers for the government 55.000; Helen M. Gould, New York, | iit iti { F Jecl oa Be made 6 secure their release through | The War Department made public . ’ ] thts ‘rance, declares that | Secre ; . : ay. “ 12,200. Mt tary poss ion o ane iS ecremary of State ay four cablegrams from Cuban sources, tary resources, He favors an alliance | i : : with Great Britain, San “Juan, Porte Rico, reduction of import duties on Cuban Springfield, Mass, cuted during the week of May 4 for the murder of Mrs. Mary J. Lane, in Long Meadow, February 26. igo: became violent after sentence was im posed and he shouted: "May God curse every man who sent me to the chair!” He was hurried out of the court. SS A Killed Two, Threw Bodies in Weil, Whmipeg. Man. (Special } Walter Gordon, brought here from Halifax, charged with the murder of George J. Paw and Jacob Smith last July, has con- fessed. He says he shot Daw and put the body in a well. Daw's would not leave, so Cordon shot it and hid its body with the master’s remains. Smith discovered the murder and was about to denounce Gordon, when the latter shot him and also threw his body in the well. Gordon's umotive was to secure Daw's property. He is 23 years old. The increasing extravagance in wed- ding gifts in London has raised protests as an “unbearable social tax.” Mr. Balfour, government leader in the Parliament, showed his ignor ns AA Financial A special mecting of the Keystone Watch Case Company has been called for March 31 to vote on a proposition to increase the capital stock from $3, 300,000 to , There is a rumor that the General Electric Company has acquired a con: Consolidated Copper Compan there is no truth in the report that R. the Rock Island Read at the annual meeting. (Special) in February unless the sentences be com- mitted to life imprisonment, has been stistained by the Supreme Court of the Island. A number of citizens are peti- tioning the Governor's clemency. The men are members of a gang, five of | whom were sarroted at Ponce in 1900. site em Mot Bask Official’s Suicide. Middletown, N. Y. (Special) Ste. phen W. Robertson, for 19 years con- nected with the First National Bank here, committed suicide by hanging at his home here, after attempting to take his life with chloroform. His impaired mental condition is believed to have been due to worry over the fact that his brother-in-law, Joel C. Rundle, is serv. ing a life sentence at Sing Sing for the murder of Arthur Morgan, Robertson was 45 years old, One of them, addressed to the signed by Jorge de la del Rio, and a number of other officials of that city. Another is from Sanchez Tortal, Mayor of Santa Clara. Capital news ia Ueneral. Admiral Evans, Admiral Taylor, Cap tain Clark and Commander Wainwright liad a conference of several hours with the President on the matter of the ap- peal of Admiral Schley from the find- ys of the court of inquiry. te was begun in the House of Reetentatives on the Oleomargarine Bill, the Spponents of the bill having pmstccessfin y resorted to filibmstering tactics. The report of the Senate Committee on he Urgent Deficiency Bill was sub. mitted. surt, but none seriously enough to aken to the hospital. The accident oc wurred at the foot of the long hill ran aing into Wilmerding from McKees sort. A car without passengers got dashed down the ill, which is a mile long, at a terrific speed. At the bottoms it jumped into the Pennsylvania Rail road Station, carrying away the side of the depot and tearing up the platform. Airbrakes Did Net Held Dubuque, Iowa (S~ecial) ~