CAUSED BY LANDSLIDES
In Railroad Wreck.
Train Plunges Down a Steep Embankment
Caused by Freshets Plucky Engineer,
Touch Whiskey.
Knoxville, Tenn. (Special).
passenger train, Chattanooga
isbury, leaving Chattannogn
m.,
miles
the Southern Railroad about
was wrecked about
west of Lenoir city,
a. m. The wreck was caused by spread
the
injured.
ing of raiis Chree were
and 25
The
a steep
plunged down this fhe locom
went within 30 feet of the Tene
river. Four of the coaches were t¢
scoped and partially piled upon t
engine Thre burned
outright The ymthern
train from Chattanoo Cincinnati,
was traveling behind the ili-1: it
it having to come b if K
ville on account «
of the incinnati
Chat a and Harriman
was 1.01
it was
on
and
wreck occurred
embankment,
$41
See
ie
}
ne
te 4
Cincinna 5
rain,
10X
1 between
This
wher
Southern tra
¢ the wreck and
two of the rear sleepers back
and away from
age succeeded in saving
destruction by fire.
It is stated the wreck
two In
thought a big b-ulder
side of a bluff and
these landslic
and when the
boulder it was
and down the
coaches followed. The scene
wreck between Loudon and
city. Tennessee, where the railroad par
allels the Tennessee river for i
erable distance. The
road s point
engineering, and it
tunate ol “qe LT
Ju
physic
a hittle
tending
The engineer
T 1
don’t ex
tinmng,
Hing
on the track
he wr
them from
was caused
first, it
e down the
wn the track,
the track
struck the
ties
Several
3
the
landshdes the
a
fell up«
ies spread
comotive
rown
bankment
' sevy the
from Tig
i
ol
1s [Lenoir
at th
wr a
Engineer
Atl endeavored O have him drink
whiskey, hope of ex-
his . 1
refused
che
Ran Into a Landslide.
y
]
wer the I
ick between
]
arouna
Trunk
man was
and sev
The fit
swept bros
nue
the
eral
sireet
swept
€1
was crowded
whom
rics A
cident
escaped
defects
INJURED IN A WRECKED MILL.
A Wall of the Factory Blowa la—Girl's Hair
Twisted on the Spools.
N. C. (Spec
¥
lotte
Cotton Mill, at Gastonia
wrecked and four or five «
11
jured, two probably fatally,
h
visited that
storm whic that
hundred and fifty feet of
wall of the factory was blown
ing mward on the
chinery
Sadie
aged 15,
ty girl
frame
spools,
was internally
The Lay giri's
operative
Jeatty, aged 12, and Bessie Lay,
were badly crushed. The
was crushed against a spinning
Her twisted on the
her gashed and
Yeat
was
head was
injured
in. The injuries of the
were not serious
factory is $5,000
The town academy
The damage
building was
Cotton Mill was slightly damaged
At Clifton, S. C., the dwelling of
12-year-old son killed.
Port De Prix Destroyed.
Cape Haytien, Haiti (By Cable). A
despatch received here from
Morne announces the complete destruc.
tion of Port de Paix, Haiti, by fire
Only the vessels belonging to the Hay-
tien Company were saved. The town is
on the Straits, between the Haytien
Islands and Tortuga, thirty-five miles
northwest of Cape Haytien,
Gros
Clergyman's Attempted Suicide.
Chicago (Special).—~Rev. Dr. J. M.
Caldwell, for many years presiding elder
of the Methodist Church at Chicago and
now pastor of the Union Avenue Metho-
dist Church, attempted to end his life by
throwing himself in front of a railroad
train. He was unconscions when picked
up. His leg was broken and he was in-
ternally injured, but it was said he might
recover. Dr. Caldwell was arrested on
a charge of disorderly conduct and re-
leased on bail.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
windstorms caused
siderable damage in Wisconsin,
tucky, Tennessee and Western Penn
sylvania in the vicinity of Pittsburg
X heavy snowstorm in South Dakota
abandonment of railroad
Floods and con
Ken
Albert Knapp, the modern Bluebeard
of Ohio, 1s said to be considering an
other that will cover other
crimes »f his first wife says
erce Haute 10 years
confession
An aunt
{
I
has furnished the Chicago
nformation’ that furnishes
A womat
damaging
robbing the Chic:
$76.610 worth of sta
Claude 1
accused
Postoffice of
A mu
ble
meen 0
n calling himseli
was operated
Hospital, at
tacks, 142
article were
on
carpet
other
KC
',
taken
i of ar-
sident
to separate the artillery force
at Cabanas fortress fr i
the guard.
| Jrers are suing
al Company
$50,000 ap:
» have been
trike
men
ard be
in
occurred
lives
Coke
near
ngine near
number
Lhurches,
were damaged
nd One
miured
3
WI asi
Te
dred Chinese
aught in the Yangung
the } 3 all killed { he
rebellion in Kwangsi is
has spread to the Pros
An explosion in the
NCreasing
ince of Hunan
cellar of the
Vienna, caused by
ignition of sporting ammunition,
created considerable excitement
United States Consul Sawter, at Gua
all
sone
Port de Paix, Hayti, was destroyed by
Reports of war preparations and fight
mg come from the Central
American republics
Nathaniel Dunlop, chairman of
Allan Line, at a meeting of the Glas
gow Shipowners’ Association, denounc
vanous
clared that British maritime
acy was endangered by the
ratiroads during their own
trade on land and sea
suprem
Archbishops of St. Louis and Cincin
nati, which was to be decided at a
meeting of the Congregation of
Propaganda March 2, has been post.
poned, owing to objections
from America.
Financial.
Labor troubles
growing easier.
San Francisco has ent to
this week $1,000,000.
Buying by Americans has put up the
price of pig iron to $14 at Glasgow.
Mining companies in the United
States last year paid $150,000.000 in
dividends.
Louisville & Nashville for the third
week of February gained $10,675 gross
Germany's pig iron production fast
month was 782.484 tons, breaking all
records,
on the Wabash are
new York
FAMINE - IN PHILIPPINES
President Sends a Message to the Sen-
ate Urging Legislation.
A REDUCTION IN THE TARIFF WANTED.
Productive Industries of the
Verge of Collapse Conditions Now Pree
vailing Encourage Ladronism and Clsaffec-
tlon— Reduce the Tariff as a Measure of
Humanity.
D.C (Special).
President sent the following message 1
Washington,
cable from
follows :
of
“l have just received a
I'aft, which runs a
“INeces House
bill
sity for
most
passage
tariff urgent
siderably than in November, the
} RETrOWINg worse
Some revival in sugar and
due to expectation of
ts of Philipinos mn
re extensive,
Il be blow in face of
Number of tobacco fac
lose, and many sugar
ale at a
» fallen off thi
wing decrease of
islan General
All political parties,
INIONS, most stre
for tariff hill. Effect o
discouraging.’
Governor Luke Wright indor
ses in the strong nner all that Gov
ernor Taft has said, states that
has the gravest
lamage that n
nere 3
:
ous
ins
7651 mM
and he
apprehension
ay come 3
i liate atte on of Congress
that the relief prayed for be granted.”
TORTURED BY MASKED ROBBERS.
Evenths Baby sand a Little Girl Were Sab.
jected to Lad Treatment.
$ 1
yin the Hm
City
a 3
their doors
with
and detective
on the Case, but not
intruders’ where
yered
ENGINEER DEAD AT LEVER
And Train Rushed Across Bridge at Sixty
Miles an Hour.
eX
found in the en
It is thought that
cab window he
protruding object
was
some
Three Miners Killed,
Springfield, Il. (Special)
the
An exp
which resulted in death of
10n
three miners, occurred in the
and Alton
ty miles southwest of Springheld
alone in the shaft at
accident and it was
the fact became known
Ten of eleven mules used in
were also killed. The
men were the
the
before
the
time of
Fears Yellow Fever.
Guayaquil, Ecuador (By Cable)
who arrived here
Peru, have
Sawter,
25 via
and Mrs.
February Payta,
the
steamer which
Mr. Sawter, it
States on same
south.
ver when he saw the room at the con-
silate where Thomas Nast, the former
consul general, died December 7, of the
Sirik: Commission's Work,
Washington (Special).~~The Anthra-
cite strike commission is making con-
siderable progress in its labors. It
has carefuly gone over practically all
the important points involved and a
tentative agreement has been reached
on some of them. No statement has
been made as to when the actual fram-
ing of the report will begin, but it is
expected that the final conclusions to
be embodied in the report will be def-
initely shaped very shortly.
General Deficiency BilL
{
tions concluded its consideration of
{
Bill,
The committee added as an amendment
the the dill
| making provision for the conduct of the
| business of the Department of
merce and Labor
{ $301,570 for the same
| The following is made a part of the
| Department of Commerce and
| provision :
“That the President may in his
i eretion direct the diversion from the ap
| propriation of $s500000 for the enforce-
| ment of the provisions of an act entitled
| ‘an act to regulate commerce’ and divers
i other act for the De
partment of Justice in the act making
appropriations for the leg lative, execu
1 judicial of the gov
| ernment, approved February 25, 1903, an
amount exceeding $100,000 of said
appropriation
Other importan
follow
i Giving the President authority to ex
| tend the leave of {
Bowen ; appropriatin
| prize-money clai
and the 1
Manila; appropriating $20,000
payment of claims of (
diers for horse
lation of tern
all such clan
which are not
wenieral Deficiency Appropriation
|
| Y 1
| to Deficiency Bill House
Com
and
dis
heretofore made
tive and expe
1
not
amendment
absence of
g $046,083 to pay the
f Admiral Dewey
i under |
officers and men
of onfederate
1004
i car
Ag reported a th E oy t bill
ries a total of $18 300,440, an
$1.503.472
Naval Reserve and Militia.
Nav al Af
ret . 1
reports I
The House Committee on
fairs authorized a favorable
resolution calling upon the
to tran
mmendations
of the Navy
the rec
naval board, an
mit to
of the general
{ the reports of the naval
War college in
|
i
{
i
{
appropriations and other
| relative to t} ost of equipping and
naval reserve and militia
{
+
to inform Congress as
s d be ne
navy
hip i
nips Was
Report on Wireless Telegraphy.
nt re $1101 Wa inte
House by Representative
i
¥
A Goverament for Alaska.
» \
Of NCW X¢
crritor
io the Departments
by the Senate
Baron
Netherland
3
the
(sever
rot
resignation
Marthera;
was formally
)osevelt
abinet
President Re
At the C
expressed that th
not ratify the
Recipe [ reaties
5€58 inevitable
President Roosevelt sent an urgent ap
peal to Cong ‘
ariff By
prevent the spread of disaffection
meeting the
¢ present Senate would
e1ty that an extra
1 Was
mn
te Senate passed the Naval and the
Academy Appropriation Bills,
the Littlefield Anti-Trust Bill
President Roosevelt received a golden
Cal, on his Western trip. He has a
cepted
The
Bowen
protocol
The Senate passed hills for the govern
ment of Guam and Tutuila.
Senator Burrows presented to
Senate a protest signed by Rev. |
Leilich, representing the
| Association of Salt Lake,
seating of Reed Smoot.
Freight and traffic representatives of
the various railroad companies explain
ed to the Interstate Commerce Com
{ mission the reason for the advance mn
| freight rates.
Charles A. Thompson, of Irwin, Pa,
filed charges with the Interstate Com-
merce Commission accusing the Penn
sylvania Railroad with discriminating
against him.
Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, of In
diana, was unanimously re-elected pres
ident general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution,
The Senate appropriated $2,000000
for the purchase of a site for the New
York Postoffice.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
transmitted to the Senate a letter from
the Attorney General recommending an
appropriation of 083 to satisfy the
claim of Admiral Dewey and his men,
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has submitted a report to the Senate re-
garding securities issued by railroad
companies.
Count Yanagiwana, a cousin of the
Mikado, has arrived in Washington,
According to United States Consul
McWade, at Canton, it has remained for
an American physician to discover a
means of curing and exterminating
leprosy. .
Ambassador and Mr
the
French
signed
the
i.
against the
Choking Women.
He Has Confessed
Child and a Young Womaa at Cloclonati—
sane—fis lodiana Bride of Two Weeks
Still Loves Him,
Hamilton, O.
the victims of which were all
(Special). —Five mur
ders, wo
men, and two of them his
the
Knapp given in
the
ives-—such
1 (‘3
revoiting Albert
worn statement
murderer bef Mavor Bosch
the
1 ’
Ponce, is 4
of the most
murder im this
$c.
winch
1804
lumber
(In
Eckert in
MM. C
1804,
Knapp un
Liberty treet
into the
July, 189s
On December 22
killed
South F
nd threw
hi
nwald
I mak- statement by my
not by the request of
or anyone else,
ALBERT
Sworn to before me this
February, 1903
C. F. BOSCH, Mayor
The confession clears ug ny 3
that Jennie
Knapp's se
officer
KNAPP
26th
tery
of at least one death
Knapj
Conners
recent
ich Knapp has
{ fe Anni
Trimble,
a cook
24
He
plaining of in
m the st
port the
COvery
Dr. RB J. Gatllng Dead.
R
ling gun
son-in-law,
w York (Special)
{rat
home of his
Pentecost Dr
Bich bes his name, mvented a
of agricultural implements and
died here
a gun meial
from Ohio
practiced medicine
Powder Mill Explodes.
{Special).-
& Rand Powder
Turck, eight miles
here, exploded, killing three
Cherokee, Kat i he press
the Laflin
ot
of
south
of them fatally
fourth since the establishment
works here in 1830
President Sigas Statues Bill
Washington, D. C. (Special) — Pres
ident Roosevelt signed a bill providing
for the erection in this city of statues
at a cost of $50,000 each to the memory
of Brigadier General Count Pulaski
and Major General Baron von Sten
ben, of the Continental Army
of
Bank Treasurer Attempts Suicide.
Boston (Special) —Walter 8. Cooke,
seldctman and former state representa
tive from Milford and treasurer of the
Milford Co-operative Bank, recently at-
tempted to commit suicide. It developed
that his accounts at the bank are short
an amount, which the president of the
institution says may be $5,000 and might
reach $15000. Cooke is fn a critical
cordition. No move towards criminal
action has taken, It is believed
Cowler’e hand will rover hie dofaleationg
on
BATTLE WITH OFFICERS.
| As 8 Result Three Men Are Dead and Twe
i Mortally Wounded.
| 11) Af
ter-
Charleston,
| Staniford city, Raleigh unty, a
| rible battle oecurred at dawn between
the joint sses of deputy United
Cunningham and Shes
mn one side and rioting mie
a result of which
ed, others
number of
ser
| States
{ iff Cool
ers on the other. as
three were Ki two
mortally wounded and a
| others on both sides more or less
iously hurt
The troubl r out of
attempt
to Vi
lation { tl blanket 1 ction isswed
| by
4
arre
Federal last August
Cunningham
Atkinsville
count
+ ®
ar-
ing the
by a
{
re
10
rounded
with
place
Monday there
iet, the
Twi
three arrests were ma
hare sf Deotity (
re Deputy
to that
were
CURE FOR LEPROSY
Said to Have Been Discovered by American
Physician ia Chine.
al) Accord
rae
i HE
T
the state department
lertul
f this pt VSI
the attents
Chinese official
gan in | 1902,
niles distant from Can
cases treated, three ha:
reed completely cured, and th
ng a practical rex
jan urges strongly u
his methods for the treatment of lepers
in the Philippines and in Hawai
The main features of the treatment,
| which is shown in detail consul’s
report, appear to consist pinute and
prolonged sanitation and the use of
highly antiseptic drugs
Killed By Teacher.
{ Spec 1: Ea
overy
was BATE Srey
we adoplio
Spartanburg. S. C
than 19
year-oid schoniboy
Reuben E. Pitts, a
Foster
Foster,
shot
win
Was by
teacher in the academy
ed. died here. It is said that several
of the sindents attacked Professor
Pitts while he was whipping Foster,
and that in the scuffle which followed
Foster was shot by Pitts
attend-
Excitement on the Maine,
Newport News, Va -A
sailor on the battleship Maine is reported
i to have been killed by a marine guard.
The drydock has been flooded to prevent
the men from escaping Twenty-ope
| men are said to have deserted from the
{ Special )
| vessel this week
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Two masked men robbed the postofhce
| at Turner, Ariz. They held up the pose
aster, George Clark, at the point of a
| revolver and made him give over §1.000
in cash.
It is announced that the Pennsylvania
Railroad will spend $67,000000 on im-
provements to its lines between Phila-
| delphia and Pittsburg.
Two robbers blew open the safe of
Hubbard's private bank at Cedar Speings
Mich, and secured between $4000 a
$5,000. :
The body of E. L. Burdick, of the Buf-
falo Envelope Works was found in his
home, where lie had been murdered
Three men were killed and 15 were in-
ured by an explosion at the Laflin &
and powder mill, at Turck, Wis
The Colorado Supreme Court decides
the act granting home rule to Denver to
be unconstitutional.
Presadent Harper, of the University of
Chicago, ofiered to build chapter houses
foyer the 12 feateraitd