_— SEVEN RESCUERS WERE DROWNED Five of Wadena's Crew Went Down With Life-Savers. OHIO SHIPOWNER AMONG THE LOST Of the Twelve, Seven Were Life-Savers of the Monomy Station, Cape Cod, and Five Men They Had Taken From the Stranded Barge Wadena — Heroic Work Saved One Man Chatham, Mass, (Special). —Seven life-savers, practically the entire crew of the Monomoy Station, on the south end of Cape Cod, met death at their post of duty, and with them into the sea which capsized the lifeboat went five men from the stranded barge Wadena, whom they tried to bring in safety to the shore. heroic work of Capt. Elmer Mayo, of another stranded barge, the John C. Fitz- patrick, was rescued from the bottom of the upturned lifeboat. lost was William H. Mack, land, O.. , Te] senting his company, the Boutell Tow- of THE NEWS BRIEILY TOLD. Domestic. Seven members of the crew of the Monomoy Life-Saving Station, including the captain, were drowned while trying to reach a distressed barge in a terrific sea off Chatham, Mass, Strychnine was found in the stomach of Mrs. Nannie Bell Wilkerson, and her husband was arrested on suspicion of having poisoned her. An attempt was made in Elizabeth, N J., to kill Rev. Dr. Houst, of the German Lutheran Church, who denounced the an archists. All the textile plants in Fall River, Mass., resumed, an advance of 10 per cent. having been granted to the opera- tives. The Sunday night fire will prove a se- rious blow to Bryn Mawr College, as destroyed. paid out $21,500,000 dividends of Standard Oil and Consolidated Gas Com panies Mrs. testified York said New Burns Brooks, that im a Florence l she marry her. The factory owners at Fall River Mass, have agreed to the 10 per cent. in crease in wages demanded by the strik city, while Capt. Marshall N. Eldridge, one of the oldest lifesavers on the coast, went down with his men. All the life- savers came from Chatham and Har wich. The scene of the accident was in the well-known tide rips off Monomoy Point, which make down from Chatham into Nantucket Sound. Last Thursday the cargoes of Shoal with on the way to Boston Shovelful coal, stranded on the ; 1 ; 3 44 about three-quarters of a mile off Mono moy Point. STEAMER LOST, CREW MISSING Steamer Tiber. Halifax, N. S. patch received here nounces that the wreck of the Dominion Coal Company's steamer Tiber has been found off White Point led west of Canso. The news was brought to Canso by lobster fishermen [he steamer 1s below the water and pieces o wood and other wreckage floating abo led to the discovery No trace of the member: has been found, and it is perished. The le C. B, on February 26 with 1000 tons of coal f nothing more was i March 3, when some wreckage and buoys from the steamer the vicinity of Whitehead To Combiae 230 Stores. New York, (Special). —To prevent dissipation in legal warfare of : part of the wealth left by George Gilman, the tea merchant, practically agreed to an ment of their claims tlement is the formation of a corporation to conduct the 230 tea st h Gil man owned in the 1 d States and Canada, and to allot to each stock in proportion to the amount of his or her claim. These shares ’ bulk of the estate, and the residue. it is will be divided on the same no interference by other claimants (Special. )—A dd Canso an from sicame “rancis ores whi heir > nd, Hanna to Settle Strike. Tenn., (Special) Knoxville, machinists are informed of machinists on the Southern Railroad 1s soon to be settled, and that Senator M A. Hanna is to represent their interests m arbitration. The information is that Senator Hanna and President Spencer, of the Southern, will hold a conference, and that an agreement will be Teached by meal Preside miners’ ce lowa, wddenly While speaking to a tion at Des Moines, John Mitchell was taken st : W. S. Smith st work in many Gen scrapers i oon A new burst forth let, Alaska Notices s Corrod bec 1 VYoicano 1s Kenal, me Gangot near were pos he Reading Company he Reading Company that the present tor another year Butler, a prominent St was rested on charging him with offering a Ie was released on bail Henry Clark and Emm ored, were . yolitician, a bencl Brown, arrested ir lexandnia, of havi of Richmond Yerkey, of suddenly ins Raps. suspicion iraered ton yi Lafe 3 ns wi hatchet in his throat J. Cauffma ariver, 1 Lif his home Mrs. O { attempted months ago may return to work Plot to Destroy Warships Vienna, (By Cable). —A sensation has been caused here by the discovery of a plot to destroy the Austro-Hungarian warships Habsburg and are stationed at Pola. A large quantity este, and the government has been in- Habsburg and the Arpad were imperiled The vessels have since been guarded. Seven Men Injured by am Explosion Huntington, W. Va., (Special).— Edwards and William Strank were prob- ably fatally injured in an explosion steam boiler at a grist mill at Blue phur, a village, 10 miles from here. five other men were slightly hurt Tom Sul- The A Martin J FOVErnor's from the transpe Foreign. Sir Henry Car Liberal lead ipbell- Bannerman He appomtment er in the use of Co moved the of a co to investigate the contracts for and meats for the army in Mr government dic Ten thousand people in ot horses replied that an in s ticipated odrick not fear vestigat par Petersburg Sunday and cavalry charged the mobs and a number of the rioters were The Czar while driving in a slei nearly came in one of mobs When questioned House Lords concerning the enforcement martial law in South Africa, Lord Salis bury replied that the government was determined to defeat the designs of the er injured 1a, . § 2 # wird COnLad with in the The Duke of Connaught. commander lin The Venezuelan insurgents captured soon afterward recaptured by the ROV- ussian students drew up a Count Tolstoi, in a letter to a Swed sh curse. de Constant, Baron d'Estournelle from the flues getting too hot for lack of sufficient water, motive engineer and runs one of the ident Roosevelt A wooden boat, supposed to he nearly was dug up in County Mayo, Ireland. : Capt. B. D. Greene and Col John F Gaynor, who are in Quebec, have en- gaged some of the most noted lawyers in Field Marshal Lord Wolseley Sais and owns the mill > Miss Stone Grateful sentative here has received a letter from Miss Stone, the American missionary, in which she expresses her surprise and gratitude at the universal manifestations of joy at the release of herself and Mme. Tsilka. Miss Stone also conveys her heartfelt thanks to all those who by their labor, their money and their pray- ers co-operated to the release of her. self and companion. Russia Seeks fo Borrow $93,250,000. Berlin (By Cable) Particulars of the new Russian loan are published Sere. The loan amounts to $08.250000, of which $75,000,000 is issued now at 4 ner cent. The loan covers Russia's portion of the Chinese indemnity. It is offered for subscription in Germany, Holland and Russia. American Clalms la China. Pekin, (By Cable) ~The United States Minister, Mr. Conger, has commissioned Messrs. Bainbridge and Ragsdale (the latter is the United States consul at Tientsin) to adjust the indemnity claims of Americans, approximating $2,000,000 in gold. Cholera at Hongkong. Manila, (By Cable).-~Owing to chol- era at Hongkong, a quarantine of five days will be enforced against all vessels arriving here from that port. and probably direct British himself in South Africa. Mrs. Conger, wife of the United States ; legation, entertained 11 princesses—another departure from the exclusiveness of the Chinese court A dispute has arisen between the mu nicipality of Lyons, France, and United upon that official. Princess Alice of Albany started from ham, Crown Prince of Germany, The French government may send war ships over to participate in the exercises when the Rochambeau statue is dedicated in Washington. The Lower House of the Danish Parlia- ment approved the treaty for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Floancial, Rock Island has declared regular quar- terly dividend of 1'4 per cent. payable May 1. The principal movements of currency this week indicate that the banks have lost $6,020 800, Pennsylvania Railroad new bonds are quoted at 106 to %, $ro.000 changed hands at 106 and interest, The directors of the United Shoe Ma- chine Company have declared a regular quarterly dividend of 14 per cent. on preferred and 2 per cent. on common stock, payable April 13. His Request to Be Sent to the Philip pines Was Denied, HE HAD PLAN TO END THE WAR Proposed to Employ Methods Used by Him So Successfully In His Indian Campaigns Secretary Root Disapproved the Plan as Submitted in Detail and President Roose- velt Concurred in This Action. Washington, D. C. (Special) —Lieut.- Gen. Nelson A. Miles, of the Army, and in connection therewith submitted a plan by which, in his opinion, the war of life to either side He pro 1 108S§ posed to employ methods similar to those used by him so successfully in his due considera and The See retary Root, denied General M the plan submitted papers, so indorsed by were sent to the White House, and the concurred in the final itter after Miles tion, request, disapproved President subsequently action The dor ry i of the m ¢ said to NCE WwW first appearance there, save functions, since the severe ered te Chey Chse was reconct M'KINLEY MEMORIAL CERTIFICATE it Is a Flac Piece of Work, Nine by Eleven Inches in Size. 1 ‘ s naniey n Iv report of Herrick, sh that tl mont rapidly contributions during February being larger for any month since the orgamzation of the association I'he following members of the execs Ive committee were present at the meet n Judge William R. Day, Canton: ¢ B. Cortelyou, Washington: Wm nch, Canton, Ohio: William Me- Pittsburg: Ryerson Ritchie, the nnent 1s INCreasing, received than B B Judge Confesses He is a Defanliter. N. Y. (Special. )—~John D. F Stone, a prominent lawyer and until a year ago judge of the City Court of this city, appeared before Supreme Court Justice Scripture, at the Justice's cham- bers in Rome, and announced that he was a defaulter in the sum of $2,000 in the moneys of the Thomas L. Kingsley estate, of this city. He told the Justice that there was no way in which he could make restitution and asked to be com mitted prison to expiate his crime Justice Scripture refused to do this. He Utica, to quested that Stone make an effort to have someone indorse his note and make Chatham Swept by Fire. Danville, Va.. (Special). —Fire broke ham, the county seat of Pittsylvania, and The losses are: J. P. Hunt, dwelling house of Mrs. Sallie M. Coles, $1,000; Hotel Bennett and stables, $7.000; two stores of W. R Fitzgerald, value not stated, and several small dwell- Help for a Southern School. Danville, Ky.. (Special). — President W. C. Roberts, of Central University, and the committee in charge announce that they have been successful in rais- ing a fund of $25000 in order to meet the terms by which a like sum was of- fered to the endowment fund of Central University by Thomas H. Swope, of Kansas City, Mo. Asether Rockefeller Gift Liberty , Mo. (Special).~John D. Rockefeller has offered to give $25,000 to the endowment fund of William Jewell Coll provided $75000 additional is raised by January 1, 19003. College of- ficials say the $100,000 will be obtained. RSA I $100,000,000 for Good Roads Washington, D. €, (Special, )~R sentative Otey, of Virginia, troduced a bill appropriating $100,000,000 as a “good roads fund,” to improve the highways of the country. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, For Three New States. The House Committee on Territories favorably reported a bill providing Statehood for the Territories of Okla- homa, New Mexico and Arizona. It is the intention of the members of this committee, when the bill is consid- ered in the House, to change the name of the Territory of New Mexico, This 1s not provided for in the bill, but an amendment will be offered to that effect. Representative William S. Knox, chair- man of the committee, is among those who believe that the name should be changed. He does not think that any { State in the Union should bear a namé { identified with that of any Latin country { upon the Western Hemisphere. Several | suggestions have been made regarding a | pon, Among the names mentioned are | “Montezuma” and “Lincoln.” | ter favorably impresses many members { of the committee. { The bill will embrace the three Ter- ritories, taking the place of a separate | bill for each. New Chinese Legation Home. The Chinese Imperial Government will have a legation building of its own in | Washington Minister to this j occupied a massive brownstone building on Columbia Heights. The prese Ain- ister tone Wu Tin country tu g-fang was legation Before accredited i taste ran to white st . mg around for a residence he the beautiful ar + sh (0) conveying property at the northeast cor ner of y and and “NG massive st IC BRT a ¢ southeast corner of Eighteenth as 1 streets Deeds were placed on record extended Peck Nineteenth street ” 1 1 ue from Julia 1 the site. The price paid was itly has been a boom among } : direction iis Lon ent the ity for building by one of while there I 1o bought one of finest the « the Paris For a 1 iegations pieces of property in » wv - 1 embassy and plans now being prepared are aitects the of we who were MTVICE empl vees whe Pare-Food Legislation. : of Chicago, con legislation Committee H. Mose nae SALON in pure food on of New i onfec f a pore fon 1d Robert for the ent national the but * argued, vention Moses said the clause of the Hepburn ball confectionery rn ill 1s satisfactory to the confectionery interests Hogiery and Kalt Goods The Census Bureau has issued the fol lowing preliminary report regarding the manufacture of hosiery and knit goods in the United States in 1900, with per centage of increase since 1890. Number of establishments 021, increase 16 per | cent. | capital $81 800,604, increase 62 per cent Wage-carners, average number 83.387. increase 40 per cent. ; total wages | $24,358,627, increase 47 per cent.: mis | cellaneous expense $6,500865 increase | 82 per cent 071,850, increase 42 per cent products $05,482.66, increase | cent value of 42 “Red Albumen” for Hens. fraud order against the United States Salyx Company, of New Concord, ,, oe to them of a mixture make hens lay more eggs in the winter” the work. Samples of the stuff were analyzed by the Pater of Agricul- ture. The egg food, it is said. proved i to be nothing more than oxide of iron, or ordinary red paint Printers Complain of Ruling. A committee of representatives of | printing crafts talked with the President : i {and banded him a memorial r vesting | that the ruling of the Postoffice Depart- ment barring from publications issued annually, semi-an- nually and quarterly, be set aside. They stated that they represented 1,000 firms. employing 100,000 persons, and that the ruling was a great hardship. The Pres. ident took the matter under advise | ment, Cavite Marines to Be Relieved. Washington.—The Navy Department has made arrangements to have a battal- ion of marines go to Cavite, P. 1, to re- lieve the present battalion, which has been there for some time. Major Paul St. C. Murphy will be in command of the detachment until its arrival at G where he will assume command of the marine barracks, AA Capital News In Oemeral The House Committee on Rules, rty vote, decided to report rumpacker’s resolution for a committee to investigate alleged disfran- chisement of voters in the . ved he Sh chivote of 42 ta 41, adopted the Ship Subsidy bill after voting the day to voting on the amend- ments, of which only those favorable to the bill were adopted, The House Committee on the Census a to place all emp ex u Bsn on the classified ey “ BRITISH TROOPS THROWN INTO PANIC Lord Kitchener Sends More Details of Methuen's Defeat GEN. DELAREY A THIVALROUS FOE It Is Confirmed That Most of the Boer: Wore British Khaki Uniforms Many of Them Also Wore British Badges—Even af Close Quarters They Could Not Be Distin guished From the Enslish Troops. London, (By Cable).—The War Of fice has received the following communi. cation from Lord Kitchener, at Pretoria “Lord Methuen has sent me a staff of- | ficer with a dictated dispatch, from which | it appears that certain particulars pre The i screen of mounted troops was rushed and at dawn. There was a gap of a mile between the ox and the mule | viously given are inaccurate. reat | overwhelmed The mounted supports to th Meth all the | available mounted troops and a section of the Thirty-e Jattery, maintained themselves for an hour in the kral m which the convoys were close upon with out dis “In | being di posed | sist the Boer | flanking i joers COIVOVYS, | rear of the screen, with General uen, immediately reinforced by hth oraer the were meanwhiie attempting to got completely away with the 1} the infantr Thirty-eigh Battery unprotected, but hand, rot rou of were in ith the excep hire continued CVEry man, w $s Aeutenant Nes Was was called on 10 do so was jan, itenant Neshan {pr So » stir and upon refusing to ka led “Lord Methuen, with 200 of t} berland Fi i gu Battery, then found himself mo id Dur. fantry, » “ ie North 1sileers and two guns of the urth held on for three hot the rema‘nin namely, 100 of the lL: some unted men, mostly Hoe, . x 3 1A red 3 contr noid out ued to wd Methuen alties were the repeated attacks of the B pompon were brough at about wore our Even at cloee qu d not be distinguished from wore our badges ters they coul our own men | "It is clear the infantry fought well and the artill pt up the traditions of the regiment. In add $ of bers tioned, a ion to the 40 mem- already imperial ved to e Lape t men- Yeo- hold sarpt police of cont few parties manry and Cape police : pol n their ground the bul i. ix after the had troops off the panic of the mounted field LYDDITE A BOOMERANG Friendly Vessels Almost as Much in Danger as the Egemy. London, (By Cable) —The extraord: nary effect of lyddite is revealed bv the statement that in the recent experiments with the hulk of the old battleship Belle Isle shells coptaining that explostve re fracted fragments upon-the attack ng ve:. sels, which were 00 vards distant. Other | fragments dropped close to a gunboat situated 2,000 yards abeam of the line of fire The deduction drawn is that when Jd - dite is used there is danger for a friendly vessel at least 2,000 yards away The Outlook compares lyddite with a | boomerang and points out that to be of any service it must be dropped right on board a hostile vessel, as “if the pro- jectile does not hit the right place it will fly back and slay the slayer.” Torpedo Factory Blows Up Cleveland, (Special) —An explosion in the powder-mixing department of the Fairmount Manufacturing Company re. sulted in the death of Anna Fritz. a 17 year-old girl. and the serious injury of Miss Christine Smitzer, Miss Kittie Howard and Frank Groch., who will probably die Four others were also hurt in the accident. The front of the two. story frame building was blown com. pletely out, and the plant burned out by | fire, which followed the explosion. The | company manufactured railroad torpe- | does i Automatic River Gauge. Chattanooga, Tenn., (Special) —Cable and other supplies have arrived in this | city for the construction of the test au tomatic river gauge, which is to be placed { in the Tennessee river here by Observer | W. M. Fulton, of the Knoxville station It will be the first gauge of the kind ever | constructed, and the workings will be tested for a year before attempting gen eral introduction by the government. Battle With Bandits. Bowling Green, O., (Special) — Barri caded in his house, John Dries, a wealthy farmer of this county, two sons and sev. eral farmers who had come to their ae sistance, fought a battle with rifles with several men who had attempted to rob Dries of money. The sheriff and two deputies, all heavily armed, arrived later and the would-be robbers were driver off without booty. The bandite ex changed shot for shot with the men in the house. tn cr EER McKinley Monument Fund Chicago, 11, (Special) Alexanders H. Revell, chairman of the Illinois Aux. iliary of the McKinley Memorial Asso. Slation, reports Sonuittions to the mon- ment fund to amounting to $33.0063, bv increase of $2,440 pg vious statement. — Orphan Asylum Damaged by Fire. Denver, Col, {Special) St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, in the northern ye an badly damaged by stitution. rescued unharmed. ¢ were were : { i NELL CROPSEY'S DEATH UNSOLYED The Testimony of the Physicians Not Cow viacing— Was Girl Killed? Elizabeth City, N. C. (Special). —The Wilcox trial grows more interesting cach day. The State, so far, has not made out a clear case of murder, al though the majority of the people here believe that she was the victim of foul play. Though Drs. Fearing and Wood both expressed the opinion that the death of Nellie Cropsey was caused by a blow on the left side of the head, the defense has succeeded in creating an impression that the evidence against the drowning theory is not sufficient Some people go so far as to say Mr. Aydiett will ask the judge to miss the case on the ground that State has failed to prove that the was killed Dr. W. J. Lumsden, one of the leading physicians of this section of the State. gave the prosecutiom a hard blow when he refused to testify as an expert, giv his reason that he consider himself qualified to give expert testi mony in a case dead and in the water not on the stand more but he as good as were worthless in While there Wilcox that dis the gir} ng as did not where a person had been He was they re BLOODY IN COLOMBIA Insurgents Showed Desperate Valor in Agus Dulce Battie. received one welcomes ever he mpassa agealening Referring ! the oo men, government were attacke: thing ext Kiiled ment Dwelling Collapses. a { mOpvcial a > 1a debris, erated the and lac Herman wife shight injun rmmned the bull and three children Would Delay the Treaty. Copenhagen. ( Speci ] pecial , f the Landsthing., Dr. Matzen., who ie le of the Danish Wess 4 opposed to the sa Indies to the United States simed to delay treaty. He ha of the Landsthing for press criticises his attitude on ¢ that the delay is considered discourtent to the United States. It is thought that a few of the President's own party will support the government, thus insuring the ratification of the treaty without plebiscite by a small majority seems in f the meeting April ro nsrderation of called the first Phe + 3 € ground Two Powder Mills Explode. Kan {Special )—T we mills of the Laflin and Rand powder works, four miles north of this city. ex ploded with terrific foree Walter Reid a workman, was killed and several others were injured Many thousand dollars’ worth of properiv was de stroyed. The explosion was plainly felt 30 miles away Columbus ODOS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS Major General David S Stanley, re tired. who fought in many campaign: and was a corps commander during the Civil War, died at the age of 73 vears Washington Governor Odell New York, in structed his appomtee, Sheriff Dilke. to use force. if necessary, to evict Guden who holde on to his office Arthur Bathhurst, who attempted 1a shoot Miss Minnie Gohn in York, Pa. was arrested on the charge of attempted murder The transport Sheridan arrived at San Francisco, Cal., with soldiers from Ma nila. meluding a number of sick and in sane Andrew J]. Watrous, a well-known newspaper writer, committed suicide, in New York Nearly $1.000000 it pl use of the medical SCHOO! at Harvard The failure is announced of Lord Francis Hope, of England, he petitioning creditors’ claim being £4,000, Boer Commandant Mentz, with his men, broke through a British blockbogse line at Gothenburg. The North German Lioyd announced an increase of 10 per cent. in steerage rates In another fight between Russian and Tunguses in Manchuria ano tron: of the latter were killed. Mr. Brodrick, the war secretary, a» nounced in Parliament that Genera! Methuen, captured wounded the Boers, had been released by General De- larey. Timathy Healy. Irish National ist, suggested that the government show equal magnanimity to Commandant Kritzringer. : ish Cabinet 5 form a new one, to : Nl the sections of the Ih 1 Phe fT ; wos dened Srey by an Sarthe wad of ed for the 100 injured.
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