TRYING TRACY TACTICS
Holding Up Farmers in lllinois and
Missouri.
SHERIFFS’ POSSES IN LIVELY CHASE.
Two Men Who Robbed a Bank at Union, Mo,,
Threatened to Murder Farmers’ Wives and
Children Unless They Give Them Food
Officers Locate Them at Richview, but they
Get Away.
St. Louis, Mo. (Special).—William
Rudolph and Frank Lewis, the Union,
Mo., bank robbers, who were located
i Ill., have
and POSSes of
of Sheriff Howe are
in a cabin, near Richview,
citizens
again escaped,
m addition to that
being formed to pursue and
them if possible I'he entire commu-
nity 1s in arms
commu-
According to reports from
robbers have
nities through which the
passed they have adopted Tracy tac-
fating farmers and t
The
women
tics, intimic
mg to kill
converse only
dren, from
them
pursuers tw
with and chil-
all the details con-
whom
1, ex
hy
cerning have been learne
cept the general descr
iption given
hunter who encountered them
woods Friday.
They
standing some distance away, call loud-
approach a farmhouse and,
ly until someone 1 s his appearance
H ait
to him
then they
is a man, keep on talking
until he
throw ther
and order him to leave
him
ike Tracy. they accompany
ses. |
a threat to
Massa
Hnpt
order with
tire family if any
SUMINOT
obtained
As
:
att
Ong
mer's wile
ordered her to get
ted hil
'
mea
selves
ed
whil
acte
MUST WAIT THE LIMIT.
Demands Immediate
Bowen Reluses.
Paymeat of Veaczuela
Washi
German
resentatiy
Sternberg,
Bowen
the £
the
ading nati
mination.
Mr. B
cede to the
on Ste
protocol,
the German repre
30 days from Fel
be on March
Fhe reaso
governme
not
aware of
some
the
Germans during th
Vet been returs
During the
from the Frene
and ; the Spz )
and the Belgian
cheur, in regard to t p
in preparation for the s
£
i
wen
fe
al
g1g §
Sign
fact
ador, M. Jusser
ster, Senor Ojeda
Baron Mon
that are
sister
rotocols
claims of the their countries
against Venezuela Rough drafts
these instruments already on their
way by mail to the European govern-
ment's interested, but certain
provisions regarding them about whict
the envoys desired to consult Mr. Bowen
The protocols are expected to reach their
Citizens
are
there are
pending which no final steps for their
joint signature can be taken
Orphans Brutally Treated.
Binghamton, N. Y. (Special).—An in-
Valley Orphans’ Home is in progress
here. The institution contains about 200
children and is under the care of the
State Board of Charities,
and a dozen rattans were shown as the
implements with which the boys were
whipped by the assistant superintendent.
Hotel was a Furnace.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Special). —~Ten
to death and at least four
jured as the result of a fire which de-
stroyed the Clifton Hotel
100 guests in the hotel
broke out, and most of
buried in the debris
the
dead
when
the are
of the missing have been unobtainable,
Hundreds Washed Into Ses.
Washington, D. C. (Special). ~The
Department of State has received dis-
tidal wave completely depopulated Haio
and Makemo, and caused great loss in
Hikueru, where 400 people were washed
into the sea.
Reported Bogus Victories.
Willemstad (By Cable). ~—Advices re-
ceived here from revolutionary sources
at Tucacas, Venezuela, say that the re-
cent engagement between revolutionists
and the government forces in the neigh-
bothood of Parquisimeto was a small af-
fair. and the government troops, who in-
tended to force their way through the
cemer of the revolutionists, were driven
hack. All the victories recently claimed
by the Venezuelan government are, ac-
cordin~ to the advices which have been
received here, absolutely false,
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
The district attorney at San Fran
cisco says the fact that the Delaware
legislature is considerng the appropria
tion of funds to defray the cost of
prosecuting Mrs. Cornelia Botkin
the killing of Mrs
sister will not interfere with the
of the woman in San Francisco
Nearly 300 pieces of silverware, stol
en recently from one more families
in Philadelphia, were found by detec
tives in the two colored
burglars under arrest in New York.
The Attorney General
making inquiries into the plans
trial
ofr
DOSSCSSION 0!
Of
the
of
met in Chicago last week
Agreements were mto in
Chicago by labor unions with the em
ployers’ union, which will prevent sym
pathetic strikes in the b
The steamer Brooklyn
at New
to make
coun
foers
entered
the trip from Swansea on ac
hurricanes and
have bought a |
land from the Southern
road in the Bear River
on which they sett]
A passenger train ran int
on Illinois Central, nea
IIL, killing three trainmen and
mjuring a fourth,
Dr Friederich
Lorenz's assistant in his bloodless
erations, will come to this ¢ }
March to attend to the after-treatme
in the case of
accept the chair
Chicago Medical Co
More €1
in the trial of
of gales.
irge tr
Pacific Rai
Valley, Ut
e
ict
11
Will
i
the
Muller,
Lolita Armour,
Of orthopedy
1sational eviden
progress
snowbound pa
The Canadian
home government
of Senators
on the Alaska Comm
Emperor William
fleet at Venczuela, his apprecia
tion of the manner in which the
ade had been conducted.
The Polish leader mn
Reichsrath andalous charges
against Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg
Gotha, the husband the Princess
Louise of Belgium
The wife of a dentist in Dresden has
sued for divorce, charging that she
found mm her husband's pockets love
made s
of
of Saxony
A revolutionary army of 2800 men
Caracas. The revolutionists and
Pope Leo celebrated his silver jubi
lee, and after performing the functions
tt
the happiest day of his hie
It is reported from Tangier that El
Moroccan minister of
war, was killed in battle February 12
Mr. Cranborne stated in the Hous
of Commons that Great Britain had had
no correspondence on the Mexican and
for the establishment of a fixed relation
standard countries and the silver
tions,
President Castro asked the
States government that the
Marietta be permitted to convey the of
cers and men who are to man the Ven
na
United
fleet.
Financial.
loans a shade. stronger.
New York banks have lost this week
to the Subtreasury $2,436,000.
America sold $300,000000 more
goods abroad last year than it bought,
The Bang of France notes of cirenla-
tion decreed $7,500,000 for the week.
The chairman of Wisconsin Central
says Grand Trunk will not buy his
road.
A higher price for copper metal has
helped boost the quotation for Copper
sates
SCOOPED IN MILLIONS
the Torf Tipsters Gulled the
Public.
| A TRACK “TOUT” THAT STARTED IT.
| How
| Jack Shechan Sold Three Winners for Ten
Cents on the Long Island Race Trains—
The Originator of 8 Scheme That Has Been
Worked by Sharpers on a Gigantic Scale
All Over the Country.
New York,
| sérvative
Pp. C.
men
Con
that
| $200,000,000 has been garnered from a
(Special)
racing estimate
gullible public during the past two
years by the get-rich-quick turf tip-
i
| sters “Racing Commissioners,
now being
all the big
San Francisco
and
3 1
wo
1 are
| lice
in
to
raided by the po-
cite irom
i York
Jack Sheehan, a racetrack
sell
the
SIX years ago started in by
img three for
Lot
natos
ALO]
WINNers 10 cents on
Island race trains, was the orig
15
of the general scheme, which has
developed and grown to such
proporuaons
his brain,
great concerns
where he had
which sought out
ana
The idea, bor:
}
1
devel
active
ned
ped
tonk in mi Ons,
ted
ACC ey dime
their nook
the {
public
cor
ner ol non
against
and the
meth
scattered
3 }
who have
tence by the
it
4
com
rel Bi
want
WANT PRIZES RETURNED.
Vencruclians Ask Bowen fe latercede With
the British,
STILL ANOTHER COLLISION.
Passenger Train Runs lato Freight Train.
men the Victims.
{ Spe
{
e locomotives,
the passenger
the wreck of
caped uninjured
and baggage car
{ from the rails,
The
and the occupants
All the m
Engineer 1 , of
Were crash under
irakeman sleeping
to the rails,
vinjured
Swept By Fire at Night.
Roa Va. (Special) —~Fire de
noxe
stroved the bu
Scott Nine buildings were
county
with but little insurance. The
of Head & Sloan,
spread to adjacent buildings
tore
the town are the depot and two hotels
Friends Thought Him Dead.
WITH THE NATIONAL LAWMAKEKS.
Currency for Philippines.
The House Committee on Insulor Af
fairs, by a strict party vote, authorized a
favorable report on the Philippine cur
rency bill as it passed the Senate, hut
recommend that it be amended by strik
mg out the Senate provision for an in
ternational commission; also by insert-
ing at the end of section 3 the following:
“Provided, That debts contracted prior
said islands existing at the time of the
making of said contracts unless other
wise expre sly provided by contract ”
General Pension Bill Reported.
bill reciting “‘that in the administration
of the pension laws any
the military service of the
during the war of the 1
held to be entitled to for
disability contracted by him during
and all enlistments by
War Department as
disability or disabi
during the performance of military duty |
within the meaning of the pension laws, |
any ruling or decision of the Secretary |
the Interior contrary notwith
standing.”
eiiion
¢l
pension any
any
recognized
valid,
ities
ot to the
Congress lavited te St. Lonis.
The Speaker
the invitation of the
House
Louis Ex pe 381
before the
St
laid
Com to be
at the
April 30-May 2
AL wm i .
Mr. Tawney
tion, wh Was
invitation and
/
tion ston to Congress
dedicatory exercises,
offered a joint resolu
ich adopted, accepting the |
vidir
0 i
Status of the Isic of Pines.
lution agreed to in the ©
ident
Toasted Ko .
mea Slate
property and settied in the Isle
Grecian Treaty Ratified.
The Senate
fied the treaty
gotiated
im executive session, rate
of friendship récently ne
between the United States and
Greece. The portion of the treaty
mg consular i
amended in language to
of Senator Hoar
to trials was
the
meet
Cisma
Life-saviag Station st Nome.
The House Committee «
and Foreign Commerce authorized fav-
orable reports on the bills which have
passed the Senate providing for the con-
struction of a life-saving station at Cape
Nome, Alaska, and to increase the num- |
n Interstate '
Free Importation of Thoroughbreds.
The Senate Committee on Finance |
*
wealthy farmer, had a narrow
escape from being buried alive.
The
supposed corpse was laid out when, to
the terror and amazement of those who
up. His illness had almost al-
together disappeared and later he was
tu: and about the house.
Miss Roosevelt Bethrothed?
Dallas, Texas (Special).—Friends
and relatives of the Mcllhennys are
satd to be authority for a rumor that
Miss Alice Roosevelt, now visiting in
New Orleans, is engaged to John Mec.
Ithenny, one of the “Rough Riders.”
Members of the Mcllhenny family,
when shown the Dallas dispatch, declin-
led to make any statement.
Seeing Things in the San.
Laporte, Ind. (Special). —~Alexander
Young, of this city, says that from ob-
servations made by him he is confident
that the sun is inhabited; that with his
instruments he has seen on the sun's
surface mountain sides, with great and
precipitous rocks which glow with pris.
matic colors, mingled with the verdure
of a perennial vegetation, and with a
floral radiance more beautiful than that
on earth. Beyqnd these mountains he
says he saw valleys and plains where
| people live,
for the free importation of
thoroughbred live stock for breeding |
The bill extends the privi-
lege to such live stock imported for
sale,
io the Depariments.
The cornerstone of the Army War
College was laid with impressive cere-
speeches being delivered by |
‘resident Roosevelt, Secretary Root and |
Gen. S. B. M. Young, president of the
war college.
Representative Gaines introduced a
resolution calling upon the Secretary of
the Navy for information as to the con-
tracts made for plans for the new Naval
Academy buildings.
The General Deficiency Appropriation
Bill as reported by the House Committee
contains provisions for additional assist.
ant attorney generals to carry out the
anti-trust laws,
Minister Combes, of Guatemala, has
cabled the State Department that Senor
Arias was elected president of Guatemala
by Congress.
Secretary Moody ordered the trial
of Lieut. Chester Wells, of the tug
Leyden, and of Ensign Wortman, of
the battleship Massachusetts, by court-
martial.
The House Committee on Naval Al.
fairs laid on the table the bill to give
Admiral Schley the pay and allowance
of a rear admiral on the active Rist.
The House adopted the Fortification
Bill and the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation Bill,
Secretary Cortelyou, as head of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
attended his first Cabinet meeting.
Mr. William Loeb, Jr, assumed his
new duties as secretary to the President,
and Secretary Cortelyou went to his new
office
Lackawanna Fast Express Cuts Newark
Trolley in Two.
MAIMED SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SNOW,
Brakes Failed on a Dangerous Grade and
Hill on the Icy Ralls in Front of the
Injured.
Newark, N. J. (Special. )—A fast «
on the Lackawanna railroad cut
crowded
Clifton
trolley {
at
ar
children the
sing. FE
Or mor
of
will die
school
Cros
e of
the
and
injured
stuck
a score
them
car, who
post, the
engineer
of the
was 30 badly hurt that there i
little hope of his recovery
Both the express and the trolley were
going &t ]
signaled and the cros
t the
on steep grades
was
Ng gate were lnwer x 4 Hew
ing gates were lowered wi troiiey
the hill
and
way dawn
off
brakes, but almost
slip along the
It gained tremendous
{ the
motorman the
plied the
ly the
power ap
immediate
car began to icy
momentuy
the botio
at
through the gates
directly
plowed its way through
.’y
The accident h
locks of the Higl
the « i
ar
1pils A
¥
Nanageq
ar before
Paid $10 for it, Wants $6600
Canada Loses $40,000,
Montreal ~Andreas M
the Mil
viciimize«
{ Special)
vil
at Ottawa,
to the extent of $40,000
discoveries made in a
When arrest
ar
servant in 113
Department has
country
according to
$:12.400 on his
having person
checks, Martinean
name he had an acount at
ereign Bank, and speculated in stocks
Carnegic's Peace Palace.
The Hague (Special. )—It is said here
tween a financial syndicate of The
of an estate here, which formerly be-
to the grand ducal family
proposes to erect a “Palace of Peace.”
Elkin’s Rebate Bill Signed.
Washington, D. C
Elkins antire-
bate bill. This bill, which has become a
law, in addition to the two previous
measures which met with the executive
program for antitrust legislation
Only One List Printed.
Washington (Special. ) Commission
er of Pensions Eugene F. Ware with.
held from the newspapers the usual list
of pensions granted during the day. Mr
Ware says he will save something like
$4000 a year to the government by this
f.novation,
Explosion in Fort Lafayette.
New York (Special)—~Three men were
killed outright, one so mjured that he
died later, two others fatally and at
least seven seriously hurt in an explo.
sion in the workroom of the naval stor
age magazine at Fort Lafayette, in New
York bay, about 2 o'clock. The dead:
George Rotham, Brooklyn; Gustave Doz.
ler, Bay Ridge; John Mason, Broow,n;
unknown man, thought to be Martin
Thargenson, Brooklyn:
NO RIGHT TO INTIMIDATE.
Labor Leader on the Rights of the Union
Strike Without Lawiessness,
Mass
of lectures
Boston, (Special) —~A winter
Series On economic ques
tions, under the auspices of the Twen-
ox 7
an address on "Strikes
by E. E. Clark,
a memti of
ia.,
Coal
the
of Cedar Rapid
the Anthracite
Mr. Clark i
organized
In
and
Commission
¢ \ -
ive of labor on
' $s addres
COMMIssION Nis acore
thie
defended union the right
q
strike In of a demand {or
support
ter conditions
He said, however, that all suc?
flicts t be with a
respect ‘1 organized
DOr Cannot work out its
resorting to unlawful
existence
mu conducted Prog
for the law
salvation
cts,”
In the his addres:
Clark said:
‘If by divine
of m
of
course
right some
and
may
are given
great interests, it
not that exalt themselves
all men great personal
profit and reward, but that they may, by
of the fo
oppo y them
‘
y €i€
any
they
¥
and reap
the exercise talents intrusted
work out the
neouraging
property
must be
ted
r ¢
28
rote
Explosion Kills Two,
A» weil 3
Gavell
smber of
the result of
Steel and
n told to thaw out the
frozen dynamite Steel
: dynamite he could
and dropped it a
ater. An explosion fol
1m diately
Memorized the Bible.
Saratoga (Special) Thomas Canty,
Serving third term as a
member of the village board of trus-
tees, died of consumption at his home
here. When a boy he began the study
which he gradually com-
until he had ac-
and at a mo
who was his
mitted to memory
chapter or chapters,
Victim of Robbers.
Carlisle, Pa
Duncan,
Alex
who a
(Special). —~Mrs
Leesburg,
time ago was bound and gag-
ged and treated roughly by robbers,
died, it is believed, from the effects of
the assault She was 75 year: old
perpetrators of the crime were
tried last week and sentenced to nine
of
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Goodwin, confidential
Howard 1
of Cassatt & Co., who committed suicide,
was a defavlter to the amount of $60.
000.
Four men were killed and nine others
injured in an explosion at
The
explosion took place in the workroom.
Fhe coal operators in the Middieshoro
Kentucky, have granted then
1500 employes a voluntary increase of
10 per cent. in wages.
inted by Press
A committee was a
merican Bankers
Association, to consider proposed
One man was burned to death and 18
others narrowly escaped death on the
fishing schooner Gertrude, lying at
Boston,
The new Y. M. C A. Building, Foun.
tain Square Theater and several mer.
cantile houses in Springfield, QO. were
destroyed by fire,
The ferryboat Pierrepont went ashore
on Governors Island, New York, and
the passengers became temporarily pans
ie stricken. :
Miss Anita Rosecrans, dar r of the
Iste General Rosecrans, died at
bone of her sister® in Helena, Mont,