TWENTY-THREE MINERS PERISH Terrific Explosion Near Dayton, Tenn. —Ten Bodies Recovered. WAS LIKE A VOLCANIC OUTBURST. It Is Supposed That Ope of the Fuses Was Defective and Resulted in What is Known as i From the Blast Igoited the Gac, Which in Chattanooga, e.n explosion of gas im the Nelson mine of the Dayton Coal and Dayton, Tenn, at 445 P. M,, ignited the terrific explosion, known to have | een killed. ine It The men who work in the m were required to use safety lamps is the rule of the company f l place their fuses read blasts just before gq Fi Qi the miners are blasts Fhe miners quit work It takes them about 45 1 of the mine. The two firemen who are have caused the explosion Hunter and John Harney. They blasts at 445 o'clock, before miners could get It 1s ti one of the fuses was defective and resulted in what is known as a “blown blast.” The flame shot out from the blast and ignited the gas, which in turn ignited the accumulation of dry coal dust The explosion that to v rible in its intensity. I the mouth of the mine and wrecked shed at the entrance. Three killed while standing outside two seriously and one f The mine has been the previ explosions four men were ed and injured by an ex in 18935, an explos curred. in which May, 1001. an nature rary throm remen go tire we out at c 1 1 Howed wi Ous serious 1-4! 1 + Kid eight oston of ga ot mine Girls Get Out of Burning Building. street, were occ Saddlery floors by pany, destrove MOsStiy fire gotten ly the girls who w hie Believes Wilcox \' { a¥, Will Hang. abeth City on me heard August Church Moved Bodily. WwW Va \ the oil storm derricks wires Lauckport from its fous away, with th was a panic, | eral houses burg were tions and hal roofed. in were Tried to Wreck Traie. Mo Busch, aged 16 years, and George Young, aged f respectable parents of this city, made an unsuccessful attempt to wreck an eastbound Chicago, Rock ls- land and Pacific passenger train about five miles east of here. The track at this point is on a high embankment, and a derailment could scarcely have occurred without the of many i loth boys were arrested and have confessed Their motive appears to have been re- venge for having been put off a freight train. Dime novels are believed to have played a part Trenton, { Special.) « George 20, SONS o 3 oss Ss A Tunnel Five Miles Long, Auburn, Cal. (Special. )—A of Southern Pacific surveyors and engineers has just completed a survey for a new tunnel through the Sierras, which will be one of the longest in the world. Ac Corps will be five miles and Boo feet in length. It will eliminate nearly 1.000 feet of grade and. will reduce the length of snowsheds 28 miles. The proposed work will cost millions of dollars consume years in construction. Farmbouse Barned by Lightning. Crown Point, Ind, (Special).—A bolt of lightning during a snowstorm struck the farmhouse of Christopher Larson, near this city, and set fire to the struc ture. The bodies of Mrs. Larson and her 10-year-old daughter were found in the ruins, burned to a crisp. Bank Treasurer Ends Life. {ohn Wycoff, treasurer of the two hours later. A meeting of the di- rectors of the bank was called imme. diately after the shooting and the treas- urer's accounts were gone over, public that the funds were intact, SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. Mrs. Addie M. Francis was married by contract min the Tombs in New York to Albert T. Patrick, who has bee con victed of the murder of millionaire Rice A jury was impancled in Hudson, N Y., for the trial of the three Van Worm ser brothers for the murder of Peter A. Hallenback, a farmer, of Greenport. A number of hold and murderous assaults were reported in Richmond, Va., and a crusade HeRro gambling joints Roy C. Tompkins, dicted in Winchester, "no '} wis begun agaist Buffalo, was in on the charge of \ vd, of paying for peaches with a worthless | F. S of 1 Hobac k, i Howard The 1 Frust wrecked Cit non the Lompany, as re r Saving to per $5018 Bank of Detroit, asked the cour tit of aia JNK the stockholder being less than Liabilities over $3,000. threatened strike in Souther E Als aany big nN ded lemar el report fled OPPOSING Adventists in a churcl Charles Woodward, ay whose issued by day, was I'he and other any T0Mes I Jr. people 1d LL were « SOK latest cordon drawn b throug British lines excepting 179 1, includ ing Command H. Kruger [here were exciting ces between the British and the former recovering two guns captured by the Boers in Feb ruary. Prayers peace were offered the churches England and Pre tora Dr. Leyds, the European agent of loers, denied that he was to an interview with Lord Rosebery and other British Liberal leaders in Paris Colonel Rus<ian charged with revealing military to Germany. has been imprisoned he Turkish government has ordered the mobilizing of 00,000 troops, it is be lieved for use in Macedonia. Turkish troops attacked a Bulgarian post and one Rigo an was killed and several wounded King Edward and Queen Alexandra took their final departure from Marl borough House. They will eruise during the Easter holidays on the royal yacht, but all escaped in the gaps i the Boers in the have Grimm, a officer, secrets up their residence at Buckingham Pal- | ace Kimberly, the “Diamond City,” is in [ mourning, the stores are closed. flags mines. The state funeral of Cecil Rhodes will take place April 2 at Cape Town. ernment, including Acting President | Schalburger, were at Kroonstad, Cape i Colony, the early part of the week in communication with Steyn. ! Financial The Lackawanna bas declared ular quarterly dividend of 134 Payable April 21, { The principal movements of curren | ey this week indicate that the New York | bunks have lost $1,314,500, | The American Sugar Refining the reg- per cent, Com- gars, Nos. 13 and 14, § points, It is estimated that the world's sup- ply of gold has been reduced by $20. 000,000 during the last two and a half years owing to the closing of the South ROOFS FALL ON | CONGREGATIONS Many Persons Injured in Accident Caused By Wind and Lightning. A PREACHER BURIED IN THE DEBRIS. | The Storm In and About Pittsburg Was So | Terrific That the Tall Spires and Chim. | neys Were Unable to Withstand the Great | Force—In One Church Forty People Were | Injured. of the! this | Pittsburg, Pa., (Specia ~{ Jc betore noon, did 10 property an niu ersons damage wn, telegraph 1.1 i oe A WOMAN FOR CONGRESS Platform is the Rule and Pro. hibition. Golden Boys Skinned a Horse. Ky ecial I whipped until they Harri with a pard fe ordered to do ide Was new cowh The bovs ir the horse Whale Siaks a Vessel Mass received KE bark that had been sunk at whale, Capt. Thomas H. Jen bles from Pernambuco, Brazil, that three of the four boats had arrived at that place. The missing boat contained sine men. The captain's wife and all the offi- | cers were among those who reached | land. The Kathleen was valued at $12 | She was built in 1844. Her gross | tonnage was 20% (Sg here Bedford, has of she New heen the Word rents whalin ag Refuses Caraegie's Offer. i Richmond, Va., (Special).-~The City | Council has virtually declined to receive Andrew Carnegie a public Jibroe. It would be necessary | to set aside $.c.000 yearly for the main- | The offer was accepted at first. A board of trustees was elected, but those chosen were not satisfactory, and the finance committee has declined to provide the sum needed to buy a site. , Clarke Wins Arkansas Fight. Little Rock, Ark., (Special). Returns from the Democratic primaries held Sat- urday show that ex-Gov. James H. Clarke has been indorsed for United States Senator, and that Governor Davis has carried 65 out of the 75 counties of the States. At the headquarters of Sen. stor Jones a telegram’ was received an- nouncing that Washington county, which was § sed to be for Jones, had for Clarke by nearly 800 majority. Clarke rently will have a majority of 12 on joint ballot in the Legislature, LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Sundry Appropriations. The Bundry Civil Appropriation bill, the most important of the Government supply measures, was completed by the House Committee on Appropriations. It appropriates $40,316,305, being $12, less than the regular and sup- plemental estimates and $12,570,512 less than the appropriation for the current fiscal year. Among the contract items provided in the present appropriations are for public buildings, $1.830,046: Yellow stone Park, $500000; Louisiana Pur mg and exhibits, office and twelfth census, $1,400, seacoast battery sites, $1,537, 050; ri and harbors, continuing con tracts, $5882 757 Some of the Atla Chics $20.000 : 3 000 ; ety ver are items as penitentiary, other main ((;a.) mauga and Chinese follow £100,000 * yo ol I irTK «200,000 { act efending I'reaty Claims Commissi Leavenworth (Kan) Penite 000; enlarg f militar y i i S100.000 ™ ihe 20.000 $118,000: ODS b Department Will Not Act. 11 . bors : irtment pa nent Ww 111 the po ons of the Is now pending in Con rtary Shaw has been request sident to examine the him as the allegations As Secretary New York, no action will be him in the direction of carrying until his into 0 report o to resident's instructions New Design for the Flag. Representative Shafroth, of Colorado, introduced a bill prescribing the size of arrangement of the stars The field shall be square and one-third The stars of the 13 original States are to be in a admitted States in the form of a star, with the stars of the last two admitted States ( Wyoming and Utah) temporar- ily one to each side of the interior star, Capital News in General ter, delivered a protocol to Secretary ernment will interpose no obstacle to the proposed building of the Panama Canal. an Perry, of the lowa, satisfied Secretary Long that there is no founda tion for the story that he has been guilty of indiscretion. Henry White, secretary of the em- vacancy to occur in the Italian embassy, The Senate Committee on the Philip- vines directed a favorable report on the Philippine government hill, Chairman Payne, of the House Com- mittee on Ways and Means, reported the Cuban reciprocity bill. The friends of Estes GG. Rathbone are making an effort to have him pardoned. Secretary Shaw appointed Robert B. Armstrong to be his private secretary. President Roosevelt sent to Congress the correspondence relating to the re. quest of General Miles to be sent to the Philippines and the refusal 10 comply wigs) his request, : : engagement was announced o Miss Alice Hay to James W. Wads. worth, Jr. of at, New York. President Roosevelt vetoed the bill to release Emanuel Klauser, who had been found guilty of desertion by court-mar- SLAUGHTER IN CHINESE RIOTS Hundred of People Killed in the Chi Li Province, MISSIONARY WARNED TO KEEP OUT. The Attempts of Local Officials to Collect Indemaoiiies for the Catholic Missionary Claims, as Arranged Between the Officials and the Priests, Cause the Trouble - Mowed Down by Trassse Pekin y { | say able) 1,000 pe ple I, oF id that | riots at ! ; 1 prefecture his, perhag Of ite VERDICT FOR TICKET SCALPERS. Chicago Judge Decides That Tickets Passing Through Their Hagds Are Good. However GOVERNMENT SOUNDS GERMANY. Latter's Attitude on Chinese Duestion. Wishes to Know surplus recently re about $51. £ 2.000 00x ported d O00 O00 Yoyng Woman's Body ia Mill Pond. NN. C has from a N. C ng of young woman in a mull pond fortunate girl Sarah & daughter of a and missing for three weeks blows on the head were discovered and { there was a large bruise on the breast There was no water in the lungs Charlotte { Special) News Wilkes county, the body of reached here of the find a Ihe un- Benge, the she had been Evidences of was farmer Youthinl Brothers Drowned. Middleboro, Ky and William Warren, aged 12 i KE Thomas and 1% { years, respectively, were drowned in the | flood which swept down the Powell Val | ley. Their father’s house was wrecked {but he escaped with their mother In swimming. The loss in that section i estimated at over $5,000 James R Garfield Accepts Position. Washington, D. C., (Special) Jame: R. Garfield, a son of the late Presiden Garfield, has accepted the position o civil service commissioner tendered hin about ten days ago by President Roose velt. He takes the place vacated by Mr William A. Rodenberg. { Special | —— a $350,000 Fire in Guitbrie. Guthrie, Okla. (Special )—Guthrie wa vigited by a $350,000 fire, and as a result the State Capital printing slant, the Ho tel Capitol, the St. James’ Hotel, the Cammack livery barn and the Richey eral merchandise store are in ruins verything in the State Capital newspa- per plant was destroyed, ingluding two presses, machines of every kind, linotype machines, electric and steam heating sys- tem, libraries and a large stock of sup- plies. The loss of the various buildingy 18 $350,000, — co. BULGARIA'S SLAP AT AMERICA. Mr. Dickisson as Diplomatic Agent Washington, D. C. (Special.)—As result of his activitiesiin the Stone case, Mr. Dickinson his diplomatic entative When he dressed some very Turns Down one has lost position as Bulgaria. 1 | A last fall he ad trong representations for he has information comes persona non grata 3 yatic repre to in Sofia was Minister Foreign be en 10 not now agent ca ) gainst the will accredited, It £1110M HATFIELDS IN A BATTLE fwo of Them snd Two Officers Killed Revival of Feud Shot Former Wife snd Himself 1 3 he char sh onsiderable excitement among the pri flames mers until the the Was « separated from ferers’ cells only 1} were extinguished convict fire insignificant y Oss the 3 Well-Knowa Diplomat Dead. Hanover, Berneburg, Prussia, {By Cable) — Prince better known ac ount Munester-Ledenburg. xvas, during the rerman Ambassador Britam and Russia, sorn in London von whi Career, France. Great dead. He was on December 3. 1Ran course of his to is Long Fevers Use of Water Bottle Denver, (Special). 3 etter forwarded to him asking for his opinion in the matter, cx Secretary of the Navy John D. Long says that per- sonally he favors the christening of the new cruiser Denver with water instead of wine. ~Responding to Postmaster Kills « Mas. Washington, D. C., (Special). Post master General Payne has received this telegram from Postmaster John R Guyer, at Clayton, N. M.: WAS at. tacked in the postoffice, and, in defense of myself and my office, shot and killed a man, SABA ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS Governor Montague, of Virginia commuted the death sentence of William 0. Boyle, convicted of the murder of Alma Hamilton, his mistress, to life im- prisonment. The discharge of 15 union miners at the Fairmount Company's mine at Mt. Clare, W. Va, is causing serious trouble and a number of men are under arrest. During the trial by court-martial of Major Wa ler, a native scout testified to 3 a Wailer expedition to murder the Major. the native leaders of the
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