—— ————— A ——————. S—— PRESIDENT GOES TO CHARLESTON Mr. Roosevelt Will Spend Two Days at the Exposition. SECRET SERVICE MEN ABOARD TRAIN A Large Crowd at the Station to See Him and His Party Start For Dixie Land The President in Good Spirits and Prepared to Enjoy His Trip—Stops Made at Various Places. Washingtton, D. C., (Special). —Presi dent Roosevelt and party left for Charleston, S. C., Monday afternoon at 3.30 The traveled in a o'clock. party There was a large crowd at the sta- tion. The President driven to Sixth entrance, of was street stead and passed rapidly to the train as doz- ens of hats were lifted in the air.. He was in an especially cheerful mood. parture of the ‘train in chatting _and laughing with Mrs. Roosevelt and Com- wore the full uniform of his rank in the navy. bid the President good-by. A large num were spread about the depot, and several accompanied the party on the train. The crowd cheered the President heamily twice. As the long train pulled out of the train shed exactly on schedule time the President, with face diffused with smiles, from the rear platform of the train bowed low and repeatedly in ac knowledgment of the cheers and salutes of the crowd. Col. L. S. Brown, general agent of the Southern Railway, is with the party, su- pervising the trip over the Southern$ tracks, and the train is in direct charge of Conductor W. M. Johnson, who has handled most of the presidential specials in recent months McKINLEY'S DOCTORS’ BILLS Said That They Will ceed $25,000 Buffalo, N. Y., (Special) inced It Is Now Not Ex- ~It mq authoritatively annot that amount to be paid to the surgeons who : E attended President Buffalo will not exceed $23 Many statements have garding the some placing it This has been guesswork geons declined to send the question of compe settled entirely apart dered by them Edward L New York city, the death mask o c ¥, is now making the cast from which a bronze bust of the martyred President is to be molded. The bust is to be placed in the Philadelphia Postoffice, the em- ployes of which ordered it from Mr Pausch. It is to be dedicated on Memo- rial Day. The cast one and one-half life size McKinley in 000 surgeons’ compensation : be as as hgh 3 ol 50.000 Wages of 2,000 Mea Increased. Pittsburg, iron and bridge workers, ' structural ( Special).—The of whom there are 2,000 in the Pittsburg district, will be granted an increase in to per cent. and after May 1. The of the visit here of | New York, presiden he American Bridge Co. at Pencoyd, and his ference with D. F. Mcintyre, secretary of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Workers The concession will probably prevent a strike, which, it is said, would have i volved New York, Chicago and oth large cities wages amounting an eight-hour day ion is a result 1a Hatfield, of 2¢ yd con- Of Iron n r Rope Industry in Danger. London, (By Cable).——~The English ropemakers will shortly submit to the tion of Congress in abolishing the ex- port duty on Manila hemp shipped direct to the United States, but enforcing the tax on hemp shipped to other countries. This discrimination, the English rope- makers say. entails on them an extra cost of 30 shillings (about $7.50) a ton, leaving them on a “most unequal footing as competitors with the United States.” The ropemakers state that “the Ameri- can action constitutes a grave menace to trade” : Held a Pistol to Her Head. Carlisle, Pa, (Special) —At an early hour in the morning Miss Kate Swartz. who conducts a small store in Worms- leysburg, this county, awoke and found a masked man in her bedroom. He laced a pistol to her head and ordered robbed the store below. For an hour he remained, and after his departure it was found that cigars, bananas and The only other person in the house was an older sister of Miss Swartz, whose awakened by the noise. Thirty Bulidiogs Burned. Chicago (Special). —~Thirty persons were driven into the street by a fire which destroyed a block of frame Build- ing on Cottage Grove avenue, between irty-ninth st. and OakWard boulevard Nine buildings were destroyed. They burned like tinder, Hetty Green is one of the owners of the buildings. The to- tal loss is put at $20,000. There were a number of narrow escapes, but no casual- tes, RA SAAR AIM Applauded Murder of McKinley. Rome (By Cable) —Enrico Malatesta, the Italian anarchist, was sentenced by a court of justice to five months’ impris- onment for contumacy on account of cer- tain articles applauding the murder of President McKinley, which were written for and published in an anarchist news- paper. Three Reported Killed. Des Moines, Iowa (Special) Three men are reported killed and others in- ured in a wreck on the Chicago Great estern at Reinbeck, Towa Famine SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. General Smith, commanding the American forces in Samar, in testifying | before the court-martial trying Major Waller, stated that he never gave the | Major power of life and death, and that | his order about not being burdened with | prisoners meant to disarm and release those prisoners not charged with serious offenses, Albert T. Patrick, convicted in New | York of the murder of William M. Rice, | was sentenced to death by Recorder Goff. The date of execution was fixed | for Monday, May 5 i Ernest IR. Dickson, a 19-year-old | youth, of Chicago, was arrested on the | Chicago diamond merchants Henry V. Lucas, once the owner of $2,000,000, was discharged in banlguptey | in Chicago. He is working for a living James Whitfield, president of the cide at his home, in Kansas City. Six Princeton students were fined $250 The wife of policeman McNernie, of vorfolk, Va., was sent to jail on charges f obtaining clothing by false pretenses Andy Minor, colored, was arrested in Newport News, Va.,, on the charge of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee announced that he 1s not a candidate to become minister to Cuba or consul general John B. Scott, of Richmond, Va. drank a wineglassful of carbolic acid from the effects The remains of Major General Wm. B. Whipple were buried in Arlington Cemetery I'he officials of the Atlantic City Fire and Police Departments have not yet ex actly determined the origin of the great fire. They are of the opinion that it started in the rear of the Tarlton Hotel, but whether from the explosion of a gasoline stove or an overheated kitchen range is not definite I here theory that crossed electric have started the blaze Eloise, the seven-year-o Mrs. Ella J. Furbush, of who was shot by William H ored, when the latter killed bush and another daughter, Lane was convicted of frst degree after a quicl also a may 15 wires Id daughter of Philadelphia, Lane, CQ Mrs 1 18 murder ¢ t K trial celebration of the J landsh ie caused at Cragdell, Pa. in killed and one seri Justice Gaynor, in th York, refused restraining streets In which usly "at iT New stra the f their form ton Foreign. is published Berlin in Young man; Gen Japtise, attacked a town the south 3 [wo men number wounded Enrico Malatesta, an Italia: was sentenced to five months in prison of articles published appl ing the murder of President McKinley I'he British House of Commons reas- sembled. An attempt to press the gov ernm for information on subject of the peace negotiations in South Africa failed A third attempt was made to assassi- nate General Trepoff, the prefect of po lice of Moscow, and there appears to be a widespread conspiracy against that offi- cial A former trooper of the Bushveldt Carbineers says that the recently con- victed Australian officers murdered from 30 to 40 Boers, including several chil dren It is now reported that the Right party in the upper house of the Danish Par liament is in favor of the cession of the Danish West Indies to the United States Representatives of an American agri- cultural syndicate have requested per- mission to establish warehouses in Rus sia and to sell direct to the peasants Numbers of Russian students of St Petersburg have been sentenced to exile in Siberia for participating in recent dis- turbances. King Menelik has appointed Ras Ma- and captured on ayti were on account the — fis to represent him at the coronation of King Edward. Natural gas was discovered in Heath- The. executors of Cecil Rhodes’ will, | about $7,000,000 among themselves, Swedish friends of America have sent a $500 subscription to the McKinley na- tional memorial, Cecil Rhodes’ will provides for a foundation of about $i10000000 for! Scholavships at Oxford University for | students from every British colony, and from every State and Territory in the United States, there being two Ameri- can scholarships to each State and Ter- ritory, tenable at Oxford for three years. Similar scholarships are pro- vided for German students. % i ———— Fisanclal The Tennessee Coal & Iron Company has declared the regular quarterly divi- dend of 2 per cent. on the preferred stock, payable May 1. The Rock Island's increase of $341. 000 in gross earnings for the month of February is believed to be due entirely to increased mileage. A mortgage for $5000000 has been given by the Connecting Railway Com- pany, which connects the Norristown and Chestnut Hill lines with other trol ley roads, to John P. Green, ; MANY FALL IN SOUTH AFRICA British Losses Amount to 47 Killed and 210 Wounded. SHARP ATTACKS BY THE BOERS. The Boers According to British Accounts, Admit That They Lost 137 Men Killed or Wounded — The Action Occurred at Doore- balt Farm, a Few Mile: South of the Scene of Gen, Delarev's Defeat of Gen. Methuen. Cable) A Afri can casualty list, just issued London, (By South the losses sustained by the Second Dra the Boers near Boschman's Kop, in the Orange State, the evening of March 31, killed with were severe. Twenty were and 63 wounded. the southwestern extremity of the Trans- wounded. The Boers, according to Brit- ish accounts, admit that they lost killed or wounded at Doornbalt farm, a few miles south of the scene of General Delarey’s defeat of General Methuen, The Boers, who were commanded by Generals Kemp and Pot attacked with great determina tion, but the Canadian contingent, which was the last to arive in South Africa Canada—two squadrons of Yeo manry under Colonel Cookson and the artillery and mounted rifles under Col onel Keir—presented such a stout front that the burghers, British accounts say, were finally forced to Fhe casualty list shows that the Sec ond Canadian Mounted Rifles had o¢ killed and 44 wounded. The gallantry of the Canadian troops in this engagement attracts unstinted praise from the British press striking In printed notification f Lord Ru the had drawn to colonials wi had been ated as in from retreat + hese of a the mmander-in-« ases where awarded ¢ comments are recently attention view that O yherts, » f been rE SEY 4 ANIMAS 10NS i were tre feriors by the regular officers and other wise ma members of Roberts BLIND MEN FORM A COMBINE They Emplcy Attorneys to Secure $100 Fach From the State. Special Specia has never efforts ineffectu interests the tees of jtired tras every to sthe number of to certily the Mp In ISIOTIerS 151%000TS need of as are then 10 meet the obl wxville, Tenn s and Spring in a hotel i on the gas and then urmea Coxe was a While y he promoter of hving in Vir became involved 3 that in his murder. He was convicted of degree murder, but his was commuted to eighteen years in t penitentiary After serving four he was pardoned. He married a of Jerome Dickerson, a millionaire Springfield, Mo resulted COM sentence he years ward of New Wireless Company. New York nounced (Special) —It was to be known as the Wireless Telegraph Com an here that a company, pany of America, was in process of for- mation to take over the American rights of the original Marcomi Company fi the purpose of the backers of the con cern to organize under the laws of New Jersey, and it capital at $6,150000. F Marconi's attorney, said that the deal was not actually closed, but negotiations had been going on for a long time, and there was no doubt the contracts would be signed shortly 1% H. Moeran, Mr Robbers Hold Up a Train St. Joseph, Mo. (Special )—Passenger train No o'clock P. M., wae held up three miles north of the city limits by four masked men. Railroad authorities say the rob. Ten shots were fired at Conductor Cox and Brake- man Gaut, but none took effect. finding nothing in it they wanted, they left and the train proceeded. Killed Mis Wife anu Shot Himsell. Toledo, O., (Special).—~Harry Pres- ton, a plumber, shot his wife in the head, killing her instantly, then shot himself three times. Shots took effect in his abdomen, and he died a few minutes later. Preston was under the influence of liquor, but otherwise no cause is given for the deed. He was 57 years of age and his wife 47. Murderer Hanged Trenton, N. J, (Special) George Hettrick, alias Franklin Williams, was hanged in the Mercer county jail for the murder of John Krause in this city on Thanksgiving Day last. Hettrick, who had shown signs of colla early in the week, walked to the gallows with firm step. The trap was sprung at 10.56, and Hettrick was prono dead 10 min- utes later. Just before his execution Hettrick sent a note to Sheriff Atchley, in which he said he did not wish to see any newspaper reporters or to make any statement. LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Tobacco Industry Galas in Growth, The Census Office has issued a pre liminary report regarding the manufac ture of tobacco in the United States, which shows the number of establish ments to be 15,252, an increase of 31 per cent. over 1890; capital invested, $124,080,871, an increase of 29 per cent.; AMERICA WILL ANNEX BRITAIN { an increase of 12 per cent repairing, $283,076,546. Miscellaneous expenses are placed at $70.405.422, increase of 111 per cent. over 1860 The number of establishments gages cent. over 1Bgo; capital invested, $07, 19 per cent. in miscellaneous ‘expenses, $31, value of products, The number of establishments manu- of 10 per cent. ; capital invested, $43.856, 570. an increase of 42 per cent. ; average , (blshrdlu hrdlu un nu nu nu number of wage-earners, 20.161, the crease of 2 per cent. ; value of products, $103.473.462, an increase of sR per cent. ; miscellaneous expenses amounted to $47,533,708, an increase of 144 per cent Near the $1,000,000 Mark The Department of Agriculture Country Will Take It All In, England Divided Into Two, Perhaps Three Looking Ahead” But [t That Cecil Rhodes Had Taken ar Andrew ( of =? ' . : New York, (Special) admiration his of the products It shows that during the year 1901 foreign countries purchased Amer: can farm products to the value of $052.- 000,000, representing the largest agri cultural exports in the country's history Compared with the record for 1900, the HNCTease 1s over $100 000, 000 United States agricult the other hand, disclose a considerable falling off when contrasted with the trade of the year preceding. I products were valued at $ $28,000,000 less than 1 KX of exports over imports was 0 i hese f - A trade United States in agricultural fiscal | ura ura » ON imports hese imported 102 000,000, OF The $60, Gd not mciu i and Porto R were not to be | a in CX~ Ces O00 1000 the agricultural d Porto Rice $24,000,000 and th wan ar at 3 1 € I8iang To Hurry the Powers Ou. learned that the Rus asked the (rOvernme test piece lated to Cuba's Internal Revenues. he IDhavision of lar War Department made a statement showing the i ba during December 31, 1001 period of 1809 and revenues jor 1001 were for 1800 $413.448 and for 190 Until July 1, 1901, there was : of 10 passenger which vielded from 1800, $140.723.53 th 14 vv Besnd here 18 8 gradua of ! t nterna AN same 1 G00 total m Cuba a tax and respectively, on rates, cember 31. this tax each period New Department Bill [ he Committee on after extended hearings on the hill for a department of nd labor, be gan considering the measure in executive with a view to perfecting and reporting it. Tentative amendments were made, one including a burcau of mnsur ance in the new department and an other omitting the bureau Wi labor. These changes are still open to reconsid- eration, but the opinion and votes indi cated that the changes would be made before the bill 1s reported House {ommerce. commerce SeLs1OMm The British Camp. The time of the last Cabinet meeting was taken up almost entirely with a communication which the President has received from the Governor of Louisiana protesting against the camp alleged to be maintained in that State by agents of the British government for the purpose of supplying mules and teams to the British army in South Africa. The President has directed an investi- gation into the facts and the law bearing upon the question Representative Sultzer introduced in the House a resolution asking the Sec- the nature of the Governor's report. A Victory for Labor. The House Committee on Labor or- dered a favorable report on the eight- ment it shall be specified that the work is to be done on an eight-hour basis. This measure has been strongly sup- ported by labor organizations and op- ordnance and other concerns havi tracts with the Government. con- The favor- Both the President and Secretary Hay have accepted the explanation made by Amabssador to Mexico Pewell Cla regarding the charges made against him. Capital News in General The Attorney General of the State of Washington asked leave to file a bill in the United States Su e Court to pre- vent the merger of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern Railroad Com- panies, : The House and Senate adopted the conference report on the bill to repeal the war taxes, and the bill was sent to the White House, The national committee decided to rec: ommend that the date for the inaugura- tion be changed from March 4 to the last Thursday in April he was somewhat acquainted with the Rhode “The will of Cecil he said, “but 1 am not altogether sur prised. You see, Mr. Stead knew him well, and | had heard through him some- thing of the ideas of the man. He saw as | see, and as | published 12 years ago, that if the other branch of the English- speaking race was not to be pushed into the eddy it must } of larger branch “Green, the historian, wane part tells us that the but on the Mississippi in his the just the the Ohio and Rosebery has rectorial address to Hudson, Lord of a united race, he would be willing that the capital be transferred to Wash ington. He is one of Cecil Rhodes’ trus. tees, very properly. He is also a trustee of the Carnegie fund, very properly, and I suspect he does not the race imperialists differ much from “There is no other destiny possible for the United Kingdom. She must look across the Atlantic the children of her own blood and finally enter the Union as six or eight States—Scotland, Ireland and Wales, each one, and Eng land divided into two, perhaps three “Of course, as | in my article upon this subject twelve wears ago, this looking ahead. But it is a look ahead that Cecil Rhodes had taken ‘As for the value of and whether ti 1 must a to said 1% the » £1 : BANK ROBBERS MAKE MAUL. Got $16,000 From the State Bank st Ruskin Bloodhounds og Their Trail Beatrice, ose of the explosion aroun stants in time to see three of the off to the westward special making hounds were secured by from Beatrice and trail of the three out half a mile t were then br at once the entire § dogs a westerly Ihe were direc that (he robbers reach the Railroad effort ty Burlington an the oward Denver South Dakota's Suit. N.C 1 5. hon o Ralewg! A quarter ‘ il { Special) mvolved indi f the State of South 1.11 m GOars 1s rectly in the suit ¢ Dakota against the State of North Caro- lina Jately begun in the Supreme Court of the United States. The answer of the defendant State was nied in the Su- preme Court in Washington. The gist of the answer is an averment that the bonds on which the suit is brought do not constitute a valid obligation for which the State of North Carolina is liable. Ground taken that the facts in the case do not bring it within f the constitution re- lating to legal controversies between States of the Union i$ also Bible Key to Millions. Middletown, N. Y., (Special) —Un- earthed among a lot of rubbish in the loft of an old barn in Huron county, Ohio. where it had been hidden from view for many years. an ancient Bible bids fair to establish the claims of many heirs to an estate of millions. Accord- mg to the statement of M. J. Dunham of this city, who has just returned from a trip through the West and Northwest in an effort to locate the descendants of Absalom Case, the large estate of the late Leonard Case, of Cleveland, Ohio, will eventually enrich hundreds of his descendants, owing to the discovery of Oyster Combine Proposed. Boston (Special) —A movement is on foot to form an oyster combine, A dele ation of dealers from Norfolk, Va. has in this city the past week to interest some Boston men who have houses in One of the dealers having a house in Norfolk said the proposed combine was similar to the National Fish pany, which was started in this city a year or two ago. “The object of the new combi. nation,” he said. “is to protect prices and prevent cutting.” tier Digestion New Brunswick, N. J. (Special. )— Miss Mary Martin, aged about 60 years, who lives in Metuchen, suffers from some malady that the local physicians ad- mit baffles them. are uncertain whether it is an § inary ai or a genuine affliction. For 24 days she has not broken her fast. Her sister and in. terested neighbors can do nothing to in- duce her to eat. she were to swallow any kind of solid food, the icians think it would afford mo nourishment, as digestion is dormant. She re- markably strong despite her fast, a—— —— S—————— CRUSH AT FOOTBALL GAME, Seventy Thousand Peopic in a Mad Struggle for Life. Glasgow (By Cable). —The casualty lists of the Ibrox Park disaster, in which a number of persons were killed or in- jured by the collapsing of a spectators’ football between England - ! 1 stand while the international match was in progress They eclipse all reports and estimates which previously current aster resulted in the death of 21 per injury of 250, Nearly 200 were so seriously hurt that ere taken to infirmaries for opera One hundred and Were The dis has RITES and the alter and treatment A A A large proportion of the injured had limbs broken, bodies crushed and heads Several more deaths w result from the most critical he infirmaries are be ieged and relatives of the victims by friends Heartrend when the names wied outside the witnessed of those who die “are jE hrox The action of 1} i neral pamc ie authorities at more ge averting a they encouraged the impression of the ure that the acci- ¢ w generally incongruity of the of applause mingling with the the struggling sufferers will be forgotten by those wit direful, is n ommended never who SCE SACATION INDIANS STARVING. Water Supply. Phoenix Ariz (Special) — Twenty housand Indias £ On i ans on the Sacalon reser- vation are suffering from famine, which, . ceils n to resuyl Pir Ew if allowed to continue, is certa ' n fearful mortality among the Maricopa tribes Agent Hadley is sorary relief for the Indians na and here to ns be sent to Congress al petily Kg he Nashinot in Wa ningion neans oo a SAYS, 1¢ re oriven ire give Ais White CONNECTED WITH ESQUIMALT. Welland Prisoners Said to Have Originated Previous Plot city and secured in other = that th "ot il cates thal the men alleged to destroy life prisoner 1900 are now 5 mgston (Unt. ) penitenetiary blow up the . ¥ a Canal some weeks attempt on the Es Karl : h 1] § been published that Dall is in re vy | Dillon tke 11K a former 1 ist leader forn alist leader ive said that he was drowned in Ireland” FEeavy Storm in Texas Prattville, Texas (Special uctive storm swept over this 20 minutes there was a perfect flood of rain and hail dorm. Along the path of the which resembles a raiir track, 1.2 is eft OaAq 1t a leaf nor a particle of fruit mnches deep is still lving on the The Methodist vlown from its foundation and the goods tround church was A store was scattered for To Rue Mines in Virginia Albany, N. Y. (Special.)—The Stee! res Company of New York was incor sorated here. Its capital stock is $500, wo, and 1t will do a general mining and steel manufacturing business, and con- The { he directors are T. Plant, J. R. ammer, W. D and F. N. a county, Virginia Kitchell, Makepeace, John T. Smith ark Three Burned to Death. Louis, Mo., (Special) Mrs. Wm. Ward, 32 years old, and her baby girl, Mabel, and a Miles, aged x years, were fatally burned by the ex- plosion of a kerosene lamp, from which the mother was pourning oil into a heat. ing stove at her home. Mr. Ward, who is an mvalid, was so seriously shocked by the accident that he, too, is in a dan- gerous condition. St son. Triple Alliance Defensive. Vienna (By Cable) —~With a view of giving a fresh proof of the pacific ten- dency of the triple alliance, the powers interested have decided, after the com- pletion of the new treaty, to publish a statement pointing out the unchanged de- fensive character of the alliance, which is operating only in connection with Eu. ropean questions. - "Bodies Found on San Jusa Hill Santiago, Cuba, (Special) —Workmen who were engaged on the park improve. ment of San Juan Hill excavated the bodies of three American soldiers 200 feet from a Spanish trench. They were evidently killed during the charge, and probably belonged to Ninth or Sey. enteenth Infantry. The bodies of o3 Spaniards have been exhumed while re- storing the trenches. Four Persons Burned to Death, Boyne City, Mich, (Special). ~The frame dwelling of Dr. Boyne, and oc- tupied by two families, was totally de- stroyed and four persons were burned to death. Mrs. Littlefield and her two shildren were from Spokane, Wash. At the time the fire broke out all the per- ons in the Houte Boyt upstairs asleep. crac 0 re awakened the bars only M
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