WAS LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE Two Men Killed and Sixteen Severely Injured. OVER HUNDRED PERSONS SHOCKED. Magazine of Dynamite and Blasting Powder in Giles County, Va, Blown Mangled Bodies of Two Laborers Found Near the Wrecked Building—The Earth Shaken {or Miles Around. { Spe sho ked. No. 1 on and West SLEEP THAT ENDS IN DEATH. Coma om Brink ef Etero'ty. Pope leo Lying in Rome in a state of doubts whethe His only action of weak, By Dynamite favana (Special).—Pres ¥ sent a letter President developed in both {« Hawaii to Kill Mosquitoes. Hu one of become convinced that Board lu (Special).—The Health, having | epidemic In mosquitoes, has plann nsec Other interests will aid the board and it is hoped eventually to exterminate the mosquito in the islands It has been announced that the Chi nese here will hold a mass-meeting to ed a war on those 18. exclu from the United States. sion Marder and Explosion. Salinas, Cala. (Special).—~Charles Craven, the son of a local rancher, kill- ed Sadie Block, a young woman, and committed suicide. Their bodies were found with their throats cut the girl was the daughter of the presi- dent of the Block Manufacturing Com- pany of Virgina. Four Kiited By Train. Cincinnati, O. (Special).—Four per- sons were killed near the Avondale Su- burban Station, on the Cincinnati, Leb- anon and Northern division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, while walking on the tracks. They were Louis and William Murr, messenger boys, aged 13 and 11 years, and two unidentified young men. While walking through a a deep cut on a curve they got out of the way of an outgoing excursion train and were struck on the other track by an incoming passenger train, THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic. Mrs. Grace Taylor had three young men arrested in New York on the charge of attempting to rob her of a chet elaine bag contaimng $40,000 worth of jewels, She admitted having taken a drink with the men, and was herself fined $3 for intoxication, a policeman having made that charge agaist her Dr S. geon himself of nd Thomas Berryhill, U of the cruiser B: tuberculost ving mm temt { in Territory and Counsel for Cseorge Divs the Po he Wtimore by n Southwe W. Beaver n of Sal toffice Depar er chief of Allowances of lared that thie ded not a fugitive hiv dres at Port Stanley temple Montevid the re i DY 4 negro intrude Mercantile Compan rk filed 11 foreelose the $16,000,000 mor Umted States Shipbu lerks’ Con ele i the next con British Foreign Office the assu et Russia to the the Ce gn China and United States respecting of the ports in Manchuria A number of Portuguese army off 11 by { wening of conspiring against King Charles, and they will be tried by court-martial, The American and Mexican Interna- tional Silver Exchange Commissions government at Berlin. It is un’er- coinage. The interchange of courtesies be Britain is seeking to maintain such re- lations with France as will prevent the latter from supporting Russia in the event of war with Japan. Fiaancial The directors of the Boston & Mon- tana have declared the regular quar- terly dividend of $2 per share. The weakness oi Amalagamated is due to the expectation of a cut in Lake copper to 13 1-4 cents this week. Amalagamated directors have declar- ed the regular quarterly dividend of one-hali of one per cent, 50 cents per share. The Galveston “News” estimates that there is a decrease in the cotton acreage of Texas this year of Rgg per cent : ISLANDS ARE UNCLE SAM'S Secretary of State Hay Can Substati- ate His Claim, Lansdowne's loquiry When It Arrives and Justify the Raising of the American Flag Over the Seven Isiands Off the Coast of 1 1 vel re ched tie 3 ) mm the Brit coast of Be Qtat United swer when reaches here USED DESPERATE MEANS. and Bible Mutilated to Forge Evidence. Tombstone Desecrated 1% he treatm Hospital aged the hand {In jaws lock urth Sun her fed tetany m« tigh tube, and e of init n very six hours 20 cubic cen antitoxm soluty : her spinal column day brought first } The jaws began to and the patient with a tle cure will timrietera the iT was Fri of recov yiected the CIEns lose their ri Was able ts effort. It is be thorough ery gidity, open them expected the in Electrician Shocked to Death. New York (Special).—James Martin, 30 years of age, electrician in charge of the transforming station of the Edi- son Park, was shocked to death while A current estimated at yo00 Martin was alone when the fatality oc- curred. It is supnosed he was “test- ing out,” when his right hand came in contact with one of the wires. The hand was nearly burned off. SR HANLON Five Persons Killed by Tornado. Streator, IL (Spectal).—~A tornado killed five persons, injured a score of others and caused a property loss of $2,000,000, { Special) —~ The Vulcain Western Company's plant suffered heavy lose Purcell was killed there. The Indiana, Minois and lowa bridge, costing $1,000,- ooo, is nearly hall gone. The hoistin works and buildings at Spring Hill shaft were ruined. Many buildings in Kang- ley, four miles west f Streator, were blown down and several persons werg injured. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Russia Agrees to Open Door. open door of have it China ured. The After in i5 ass hard k Se bees threatened years retary efforts and crowned with 1CCess whi for a time to be a serious difficult is straightened out in a mo manner ble S¢ governn { { would open , the imtima Ambas ' an pledge 5% Russia would not granting of the ria were then i; It is stated that he Secretary of State is home the formal roe ? open oor w sen. the Cost §24,051 to Collect $1,000. cature the ror the e expense of Mnmensurate 18Iness Preference to 0id Veterans. r Williams, Bureau, by di- colle of attention to President order of tors internal Gals! t > fseveit's January 17. 1002. t and retention rvice to honorably charged soldiers of the Civil War. lectors instructed ments is Col- are to carefully ob- of gauging and recom storekeeper and storekeeper gauger. in the Departments. Col. Thomas H. Barry, adjutant gen. eral’s department, has been selected for brigadier general in the ~ermanent serv- ice to fill the vacancy caused by the pro- motion of Gen. Leonard Wood, Treasury experts fix the shortage of James A. Watson, the defaulting clerk in the auditor's office, at $71.307 The President has directed that com- missions be made out for Gen. Young as lieutenant general, and for Briga- dier Generals Sumner and Wood as major generals, and for a number of colonels to be retired as brigadiers. The University of North America was incorporated in Washington, George W. Beavers, formerly chief of the salary and allowance division of the Postoffice Department, was in- dicted by the federal grand jury in Brooklyn, A bench warrant has Deen issued for his arrest. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, upon his return from the West, said the abnormally cool weather and the rain had retarded the corn crop. The conference between Secretary Hay and Theodore Hansen regarding the Manchurian situation was most sat- isfactory. i § i i i Many Foreigners at Ciudad Bolivar Given Protection. NO ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN FORCES, Many Women and Childred Board American Steamers of the Orinoco Company, Which, Under Escort of U. S. Gunboat! Bancroft, Sail Away From the Besleged Venezuelan City. Four Burned to Death » To Test Submarine Boats, { B® $8 Kills Girt; pany to the United States n has | Hudson thropist in died The strike of the Connecticut Railway and pany has been declared off. William Thacker, lynched at Flemingsburg, Ky The steamer Nadijeka, white Nizhniy-Novgorod. Twelve were burned to death. According to a decision of the Utah Supreme Court, a man is under moral person i plural wives, War Secretary Brodrick announced in the British Houce of Commons that 25,000 men permanently in South Africa W. E. Ashton, calling himee’f an American author, was committed for trial in London, charged with forging checks for $2,600 in the name of Laird Scholes & Co., of Philadelphia. The British Foreign Office his no information of the reported seizure of some 20 islands off the coast of Borne» by American warships, and not much importance is attached to the report. The United States International Ex- change mission was received in Ber. lin by Dr. von Muchiberg, the undersec- retary for foreign affairs, Several persons were killed and 20 or 30 injured in the wreck of the South port express near Liverpool, A young woman, frenzied by religious mania, ptempred to burn herself to death on the beach of the Gulf of Fin- land. near the Sergievo Monastery Kentucky Mob Was Tired of The Law's Delay. WENT DOWN THREE HUNDRED FEET. Mrs. A. E Johns, of New York, Plunges Into Crevasse in Yosemite Valley. MRS. JAMES G BLAINE DEAD. Widow of the Famous Leader Passes Awn From Old Age Lehmann Convicted. (Special COVEN vears penitentiary—the longest term yet inflicted in any of the i 11 1s also the y law convict. ho iM { maximum under the 1¢ Was gCVEen minutes for the ed. It took the \ to reach its verdict. ¢rime Declared losane. Washington (Special).—General Cor- bin has approved the recommendation Bates in the case of Lieut . McCue, First Infantry, and is now on his way to St Hospital for the Insane, in. William K The papers in the case have been re- the War Department, and McCue pronounce him insane. Among the papers is one tendering his Philippines, Novel Cause for Divorce. Dublin, Ind. (Special).~In the case of Mrs. Kendall against her husband, Alfred Kendall, a wealthy farmer, the complaint sets forth a unique ground for divorce. Mrs. Kendall is 48, while her husband is 68. Mrs. Kendall al leges that it was a frequent occurrence for Kendall to come to bed with his boots on, and that she has been dam. aged to the extent of $5000, which she - demands in her suit,