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) ~<A rear-
smd collision betvreen freight traing os
he Illinois Central at Apple River, IL
«station 30 miles east of here, resulted
m the death of four stockmen and the
mjuring of five others. The steckmen
were oil asleep in the caboose when the
sollision occurred. The forward tran
had stopped for water, and it is claimed
the rear train was flagged, but could not
stop owing to the failure of the airbrakes
to oparate.
&
gates now in Europe be permitted to pw
to South Africa and endeavor to per
suade the Boers in the field to surrendes
Lord Kitchener reports that the came
of the Sossex Regiment, Col L. El
du Moulin, was attacked by the Beers,
and that, after severe fighting, the latter
were repulsed.
Continual gales are reported in the
English channel and shipping is suffering
severely.
Revolutionary meetings are being held
in Roscommon county, Ireland, amd
John O'Donnell ix reported to have ad-
dressed a midnight meeting, at which he
challenged Mr. Wyndham, chief secre-
tary for Ireland, to come into the open
ut the head of 5000 men, either soldiers
or police,
Col. 1. E. da Moulin, of the Sutsex
Regiment, and eight men were killed and
seven wounded in an engagemen {wi y
the Be Boers near fontein. 3 xn