DISTRESS BY BLOCKADE The cr i —————— THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER, SEVEN MEN KILLED. KING OF SPAIN A Man IN PERIL | Wm THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. | COAL TRAIN 1S HELD UP. { House Committee Votes to Favorably Report | Court | Gold Standard for Philippines. Domestic. Several Others Likely to Be Added to the ? Fired at One of the List— Wreck Near Pittsburg. food Supplies of Veneczuelans | tatialh i oone, daughter Cut Off. of the Texa { the Union Pacific Railroad, ACCOMMODATIONS FOR COMMISSION. | Pre Newman, of | Central, eloped Jo Italian Ambassador Will Likely Preside Over | leading nan at jhe Ne w Am the Confercnce—Germans Fear that the |, x Re Foreign Subjects in Venezuela May Not Be | Citizens of Arcola, lll., Find Relief From | Fuel Famine, auditor Carriages. 1¢ A { lL nave TRE Bits Ev. AiICer G y report the bill | 10 4 { BUT THE BULLET MISSED THE MARK. of | PASTORS WERE INCLUDED IN RAID. |: | Alfonso Heard the Shot and Put His Head Out : . | E the Carriage Window, But the Queen Mother | '¢'" In the Tiulippines, with certain | Quickly Dragged Him Back-— Man Who change prop elog with entative Cooper a urrency : : forts to Buy the Coal From the Raliroad Company Were Fruitless and the Crowd of 500 or 600 People Set to Work to Unload | 1ICago Were ity Overick } Ie Andrew Safe After Minister Bowen's Departure Large Gathering Sees Minister Bowen Off. Washington (Special) Minister Bo State Department conveys tion that he the United should be ng irom received sailed from States Sunday, and tor or 10 days I'he that Minister also stated in his mes considerable dist 18 be ress sage ing blockade in the cutting off of felt through the operation ol food plies. While arrangem been made for the ezuelan has been appears e meet nts have not weeting of the Ven COMMISSION, ome the United subject, and States given to that the i to provide ac bod It 111 i tons that accommue here, tled to pr be to BLOWN TO BITS BY DYNAMITE. Workmen Killed A Panic Amonz Women. in Explosion gotten on ed t« ar Eight hun north wir and the i for many mil FROZEN FOR LACK OF FUEL Two More People Killed While Picking Coal at Chicago. Chicago (Special A of carloads of the caty limi death Sund to heat the Carncgie's Offer Accepted. Philadelphia (S negie’ s offer of tion of i this city trustees brary cept John 0 bray of Free The City ' itl Mr also ac letter to Library, Carnegie, of the it Thomson, mn @ Free construction of each branch A Carnegie Partner Killed. Patsburg, Pa. (Special).—<Andrew MeéWilliams, one of the junior partners of Andrew Carnegie, and superinten- dent of carpenters at the Edgar Thom- by a yard engine. fnsared for $1,000,000, sued has been written out by the Fidel- ity Mutual Life Insurance Company for John M. Mack, the Philadelphia contractor and The amount of the risk is yolitician, 1,000,000, country who carries an individual pol icy for that amount in one company. ofyNew York Polish boardinghouse murdered, and Wil was arrested 15D murderer Mrs. Walter L | known elocutioni her n Pittsburg Szwiabi am on on st, four-year-old a runaway accides United States Court of rk in his of G x? 10 against the Putnam & S¢ Chi of MAISPIT publish M$ ARO Wi acy be suit P special grand jury 4 the alleged coal operators, railroads to increase the price of coal Mrs. Vir Heinisch has rawn her caveat to the will « Rogers, which bequeaths to the Metropolitan Museum of mn | Investigate tween dealer + ginia with d C S Art soreql to gel WwW at Four men who are al up Burlington trai were arrested and taken I1l., for trial rtgage for Ma {| held 1 Carroll, Am \ a $1,000,000 inted sending the ra § crowd bad start money race committed Oovyer a the raged manded bet depredations Archduke Joseph Ferdmand, brother of the Crown Princess ony. will to un to break off her relatior with Gi and take up her residence in Austria Richard Lampre. secretary of the i new Panama Canal Company, denied { that any German offer of any kind had | been made for the Panama Canal prop erty. | General Botha announced at a meet ing of burghers in Pretoria that $525. ooo had been collected in America and | Europe for the relief of destitute Boers Of AX endeavor duce Nis sister ron Financial, Lehigh Valley is now earning more capital stock. | $1,500,000 from the Subtreasury thi week. Bank of England still keeps its dis count rate at 4 per cent, There is more talk about combining the Gonld Western lines into one cor. poration, of the American Svgar Company to suc ceed the retiring members, Fired the Shot Reported to Have Said Wanted to Kill the Lord Chamberlain. Madrid (By Cable).—While King Al 10ONso, the court were returmng from who aferwards hi man, Feito, gave at pistol roval prox ess1on fired a one Arriages n the bullet went wild and no one was I'l King heard the shot and it the carriage window, mediately dragged back the rds queen mother threw dSSaASS King the Duke » carriage he had TO RECORD BRAIN ACTION. Pn:umeoncgraph Being Used on a Girt With Lost Memory. SANG HER JAW OUT OF SOCKET. Miss Mershon Also Dislocated It By Yawning, It is Said. Twin Sisters Froze in Blizzard. “ D { Special) 1, ace received 1¢ set out weir father, but lost ther all might, pen father was not bad were 14 years old in lzzare format for home "nn hing {eine i he G Fire Destroys a Hotel Mich. (S here Haven, pecial ~The Hotel buildings were destroyed by fire, tal aggregating about. $50,000 Owing to a hgh wind the fire depart ment had hard work preventing the de struction of the entire business portion of the town. Frozen hydrants caused a considerable delay before any streams South and several other the to- losses Suicide By Fire. Meridian, Mise, (Special)—A blaze was seen in the home of Policeman W. In the dining room the body of Mrs. Boyd was found upright in a chair, the body severely scorched. In room Mr. Boyd was asleep in a bed Mrs. Boyd had been in ill health for Myre, Boyd placed her 10-year-old daugh- tions as to its rearing should anything United State | authorized in tl legal tender in the is] introduced provided t money of the Un i States legal tender. The cf | the report in « “The object of the bill 1s to change the money now islands, but simply to give to it, and especially | between the Philippine | the i of d 11e¢ mmittee of not the natern 144 3 xplanation value S1IVEr gold dollar the U It 1s the fluctuation in this by the depreciation in silver { to 30 percent dur { has resulted the business besides invol trea nited ratio caus - +y am in such interests ving approxima great injury of the isl to t} 1 tely a loss ury of 1.000.000 Priatiog of President's Message. on offered by Representa Mic h gan, a Congres ! ith, of CARL ywhereas, rnting 4d docu I ’ “E vy Draught Animals for Philippines. se | res w Ee Bill to Increase Pensions. in the Departments. Rear Admiral Ge W of the Bureau of Steam Engineer- been placed on the retired list, the age i y continue his of the bureau until on expires, August g, 1003 [he decision of the court of inquiry, approved by General Bates, condemning Major Ayres for making unfounded charges agamst Captain farnum, was received at the War Department By resigning his snug berth mm Wash | ington with a lieutenant colonelcy | sight to go to the Philippines with his | company Lieutenant McKinley has won | the admiration of arcuy officers {| The Naval Board of Construction rec- | ommended the acceptance of the Cramps bid for the building of the battleships Tennessee and Warhington President Roosevelt has sent yee chief reached imit of 62 years at the comms Services his a mes i { Senator DBrrrows told President Roosevelt that the beet-sugar men would appose the Cuban treaty unless a five-year clause is inserted United States Consul Monaghan re- ports that a crop of Egyptian cotton has been successfully raised in German East Africa i The first formal wireless | across the Atlantic from this country will be sent by President Roosevelt to King Edward. Senator Mclaurin urged President i It. Took Part in the Raid. Arcola, 11] ial) ( Spe the past weeks ha cuffered to bu two famine, now has Ilinoi Ol coal rm Central train, coal, stopped here yal Zens 10 y ~ locom Ihe was confis Ove i Cate d by Efforts a body of cit to buy the coal from the rail were fruitless and had ympany which mereased Col were DASHED INTO CARS Sigoal Given Too Late to Stop the Fast Freight Three Passengers Killed. 3 1 i et to bat the fire late the 134 mn eral minutes Owing to wetorm the engi a? g see the cpeed No coaches it 10 3 wa unab slacken nto the onsisted ol 18 ed rear of tw he rea £393¢ ] ation bag with Both were tel passenger cs Ihe t bemg a combs gage and car, another | passen r Car in front escoped, and scarcely a sOrt passenger ge ury of 1 ties caped mn and fireman some engi neet : lightly vent them from assistance to tho distress Filipino's Want Taft to Stay. Manila (By Cable) intend to organize meetings and popu fo not to leave the meeting already been held attending filling the palace { grounds Ihe general opinion is that {if Governor Tait leaves Commissione: { Wright will succeed him, and that Com will become Vice-Gov The Filipinos {lar demonstrations Governor | Taft { large | those urge Yhilipy has missioner Ide { ernor Hung Her Baber, Thea Sell. Palmyra, Wis. (Special). — Mrs. Amel. ia Roller, of this place, hung her two children, Arthur, aged 3 years, and Clarence, aged § years, and then com- mitted suicide by hanging herseli. She is supposed to have been insane. In a | pote written to a friend before the trag- {ody Mrs, Roller said: “1 am driven to lit by gossips of Palmyra” A coroner's | inquest was held and the jury's verdic was in accordance with the facts stated a ths wivnants during the day a8 on time cording to the 1 +1 ie siding at Co of {| rear car an ¢ | taken the aboose trach CASTRO GETS AN ANSWER. Delivered to Venezuelss Presideat Br Migister Bowen. Italy's Amswer, Ex-Governor Hastings Dead P: Special a Leneral served in that the 188 charge of town in White House Entrance Closed. D. C (Special). The he White House, which Washington north door of t for more than a hundred years has been the main entrance for the public, will hereafter be closed to all except per sonal friends of the President. The daily throngs of sightseers and all | guests invited ta official functions will enter the house by the new cast en i trance, opposite the Treasury Building | Patients Rescued From Berning Buliding. Raleigh, N. C. (Special).~The in firmary at St. Mary's College, an insti tution for young women, under the care {of the Episcopal Church in North and { South Carolina, was burned. The | lames spread rapidly and patients were ( rescined with difficnlty. Several had '$ | be taken ont through windows The {college being outside the city limits, {It was some time belore the firemen iconld render assistance. The loss is Fenversd hy inserance
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