fm GREAT BLAZE ON BRIDGE a ———— Fire in New York at Height of Over Three Hundred Feet. NEW EAST RIVER BRIDGE DAMAGED. A Million Feet of Blazing Lumber Falls Hiss ing Into the River, Carrying Along Thous- ands of Tons of Bolts, Burs and Tools Fireboat is Seriously Disabled by a Falling Bar. New York (Special).—Fire damaged the the East river bridge, in course of construction, tween New York and Brooklyn, to the extent of about $1,500,000. structure of new Firemen are reported missing. The k nown, only injured, so is John Haggerty, a fireman, who man was struck by a falling bolt concussion of the spine, he was taken {to Two of 4 signed to sustain the ture have been sO SErious heat that it is fear they be “ac inches in diamete steel strand from Gouverneur Hospital great main cables de struc impaired by he fe ur ht of the have to 181-4 iste of 7,000 of each being he total may these 1s renlaced three spanning falsework and th have beer loss Upon THE GRAVES THEY ROBBED. ladianapolis Ghouls Point Them Out to De. tectives. Cantrell and the gangs ¢ between id 40 graves which they said were » ghouls Ander Cemeteries for ti urpose The hor other robbed by them were taken to the son detectives wi bodies rants nted WOMEN TO RUN A BANK. A Novel Mapagemeat for a New York lov stitution. it | 1 $s.000.000 in de the first ye { ng t Mrs Dick offer, although the oF 3 y ill-hea to decline alary was attractive Salina Arana Acquilited. Madrid (By Cable). —At Bilb: jury in the trial of Sabino Arana, leader of the Autonomist party in the Basque congratulatory dispatch on the granting of Cuban independence, returned a ver the prisoner. The public received decision of the court with satisfaction. Arana the public prosecutor took the ground that the prisoner's telegram to President Roosevelt infringed the be imposed. Czar of Russia Has Melancholia. Copenhagen (Special) ~~According to information received at the Danish Court, Emperor Nicholas of Russia is greatly depressed in mind and is melancholy. His condition has created anxiety here The Czarowitch, who will leave St Petersburg in a few days for Copen- hagen, does not want to go to Yalta (in the South of Russia), where the Czar is, and will return to St. Petersburg at his mother's wish, EE Spanish Cabinet is Out. Madrid (By Cable). —Premier Sagasta presented to King Alfonso the resigna- tion of the entire Cabinet. The King will decide whether he will accept the Ministers’ resignations, The Cortes wag informed of the crisis and suspended sittings until it is solved. Should the King accord a continnance of his con- fidence in Premier Sagasta, the Ministry will be modified, and probably the Min: “isters of War, Marine and Justice will be sacrificed. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, ———————— Domestic. The employes of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company have notified the superintendent that unless the 218 officials of the local unions in the Pan ther Valley are reinstated this week a general strike will be ordered I'he difference between the miners and Coxe Bros. & Co. also continue. Governor Black made an able argu ment in behaif of Roland B. Molineux, accused in New York of the murder of Mrs. Kate Adams, and Assistant Dis trict Attorney Osborne began the sum ming up for the prosecution Hill. the former residence of Jefferson Randolph, grand Jefferson, near Char was sold to Robert D. Newark. N. J., for $30, tdge Thomas son of Thomas Ballentine, of O00, The wer n Central filed an an the State Railroad Cor Frankfort, denyn concerned in ratlroads John Mitchell, ot declared emphati 5 not ac the IHlinois Ky., any mission, in that it was President the mineworkers, he would the American Labor Miss of the (Cs heart di » cle Te Abbie Won HMIRTCK H-KNOW auth $424 5¢€ willie ! tin collar bone broken Italian caused ar the composer, at jas unpleasant impression in Italy Germany will assign several cruisers to duty the Pacific coast and North America Premier Sagasta Alfonso the resignation of ish mimstry on SOULH King Span tendered to the Emperor William arrived at Port Victoria. England, and was given a na val and military reception. He review ed his regiment of Enghsh dragoons in a storm, and then proceeded to San dringham Castle to visit the King The Imperial Court in Saxony, has four Italians who betrayed to France military secrets regarding the fortress of Metz to varying terms of imprisonment ranging from 9 to ¢b months, of ousted from the French Chamber and falsehood rioting in the mining towns. At Du. ray four soldiers were wounded in a melee and houses and stores by the strikers. Financial. Standard Oil advanced the price of refined to © cents a gallon, Northwestern Elevated, of Chicago, is earming about 7 per cent. Gould's brokers are buying Missouri Pacific in good quantities. Cotton Oil has declared a 6 per cent. dividend for the coming year. Silver in London has this wegk touched the lowest point on record. New York banks have lost through the Subtreasury since Friday $200,000, GIVE NORE THAN MEN ASK Western Railroads Head Off a Threaten. ed Strike, ENCROACHMENT OF BROTHERHOOD. Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen lu Chicago Demand an Increase in Wages, and the Raliroads Are Prepared to Offer Them Nearly Double What They Ask Switch men's Union. Chicago (Special). + Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has voted vor of a strike in case the railroad the Chicago district i of more than | one WARECSH Brotherho« wl ha to quit ome ad announce Wag: would ¢ Brat Hn a EIGHT LIVES LOST AT MINE Driven Ashore and Lighters Wrecked in Storm. Three Vessels ‘ A Mother's Strange Suits Boat. Lag Special { Special 1.400 Miles in Open of the gett. ocean which abandoned they after she hae been hurr October 158 ane vy Pong a 593 0 ana HecCanit here on the dismantled in a waterlogged, arn steamer Grenada i rinidad When the crew leit OO tober 18 they took to the long boat, and after many privations d in reaching Grenada on October 25, hav distance of 1.4% miles hoat The Edge tt was Bear river, N. S to with a cargo of lumber irom the vessel on succeed ing covere Jd a in an Bound Buenos open from Avr 4 Liability of Express Companies. York (Special).- Court handed down a decision holding New lost of for through the state its lability negligence, property because 1s not $50 lap's Express Company. Simon for $250, the value of a pair of lace cur tains, and secured judgment. Terrific Dyoamite Explosion. St. Louis, Mo, (Special) August Rapps and L. Bennock were killed and Patrick Doyle. Harry Cronin and Wil- liam Sanders were bady injured by the premature explosion of a blast in a cut which the St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Road is building west of Union, Mo., 60 miles west ol St. Louis. The five men were buried under a mass of stones and dirt, Rapps and Ben. nock were dead when taken out, while the others were unconscious and man- gled, hunt alive Rural Free Delivery Service. The annual gross cost of a complete rural free delivery service throughout the United States will approximate $24, con000, according to the annual report First Assistant Postmaster General Wynne received from August W Machen, the general superintendent of the The remaming 700,000 square miles not now covered by rural f delivery according to the report, will require the employment of Carriers to wf vi ¢ Service, 20,000 Of in addition those force of 27 000 extension of the VICE 18 Cf mpleted, within the next arrier vhen Rk He se three years, 20,000 this exten ompleted the anm rate of m ippropriation i 18 ar o per cent. other branche © X DEL rate the : LW Vear GF 310,000,000 1 $5,000,000 once the Prize Fights in the 3 Army. uni them in the mir iW common gentiment the divided contests of kind de and this adds to ing a rule, were there no legal 1 the way of its preparation.” ng no legal in the tablish a power 1 rue ubjec acting the left to the regulations of the post com mander Secretary of decides that gqueshion presented be Civil Service Classes. Commission urges that Congress pro- vide the reclassification of the en- tire departmental service OT justified in attempting to enforce ang uty wiotions in the civil service, It that each department adopt a system of its own, including where advisable, conditions examinations will best meet within the Items of Interest. Rear Admiral Bradiord, chief of the report recommended that the govern. ment keep control of the wireless tel egraph statons along the coast. American residents and landowners on the Isle of Pines called on President Roosevelt, urging that the protection of this government be given the island Secretary Hay gave Senators Cullom and Morgan, of the Senate Canal Com. mittee, Assurances that good progress was being made on the treaty with Co- fofmbia. William Grant Roe, a druggist, with two stores in Washington, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. The act is attributed to ill-health, Admiral H. C. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, in his annual report says the crying need of the Navy is more officers to man the warships. Prince Hey of Pless paid his re spects to the President. » GOEBEL PLOT REVEALED Convict Youtsey Signs a Confession, Giving All the Details. THERE WILL BE MORE INDICTMENTS. January Term of Kentucky Court Will Be Busy One-—Powers and Howard Appeal Until Other Trials of Those Yet to Be Indicted. AMBASSADOR WHITE HONORED. Congratulations to the Diplomat on His Seven. tieth Birthday. Operators will Accept IL i) i { Ned i Ger Echo of the Strike. with pis reenlt Eleven range, mg hit He of the as a tion matters, but bad blood had existed between the two men for several difference over elec YOeATS Serum to Care Scarlet Fever, Montreal, { Special). Dr. G A. Charlton. Rockefeller fellow of pa at McGill University, says that serum which will fever parasite in a Dr. Charlton experi- serum on patients mn the Quebec discovered a the scarlet he has combat The serum tends to the quick subsidence of the fever and rapid convalescence. Postmaster tor 74 Years, {thaca, N. Y. of service in the Umted States, is lying at death's door at his home in North Lansing. Tompkins county. ley was appointed postmaster by John Quincy Adams, and has served continu He has been 74 years in office. Mr Beardsley is 03 years old. Recently he was invited by the Postoffice Department to go to ashington, but his health would not permit. Pastor's Death a Mystery. Omaha, Neb. (Special). ~The coro- net's jury which investigated the deaths of Rev. W. C. Rabe and Miss Augusta Busch returned a verdict that death re- suited from asphyxiation by gas through carelessness. Nothing which could throw any new light upon the tragedy was brought out at the inquest. A telegram has been received from Mrs, Rabe, dated at Buffalo, N. Y, which says that she he "made until her arrival. GEN. CHAFFEE IN TYPHOON. Vice-Governor Wright on the Same Imperiied Ship. Honolulu (By Cable). —The transport arrived here October 30, on the San Francisco, with Gen r HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. According to the Latest Table Compiled Will be as Follows, FOR PAYMENT OF PIOUS FUND Money is to Come from Mexico's Treasury No Popular Donation. 1 their letter of Mexico to assume § the sake ol i argued that popular subscription would result in reasonable distribution of the burden. ODDS AND ENDS OF THE LATEST NEWS Private Arthur Wadsworth, of the Eighteenth Regiment, P. N. G., who shot and killed a striker, William Durham, hile uty 1m the strike regions, was Miteburg and released a hearing of the United States Des ‘Moines, imposed wittle on & arrested In Judge Munger, fraudulent use ol Balliett for the mails The board New York of nguiry mm California. The strike of yoo rubber-workers at the Morgan & Wright Company plant, in Chicago, inaugurates a fight between the Rubber Trust and uniz labor. Vice Chancellor Emery i a de cree in Newark, N. J. emoin the United States Steel Corporation's $200, 000,000 bond conversion plan, The Medal of Honor Lesion, in ses sion in Philadelphia, elected officers, Gen. "Daniel E. Sickel, of New York, being made president. : Tuo men were killed and thies in- ure a premature explosion of dyna. mite at Jeffriesville, 685 miles from St. ®. The sate in the postoffice at Cleveland, I broken open and looted by
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