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.
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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
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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
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vel re ched tie
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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.
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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,
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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,