| Murderer Believes He
Scale
jority was Two to One Against the Scale and
for a Str ke President Mitchell Much Pleas-
cd Another Conference Between Operators
and Mine Workers to Restore Agreement.
Indianapolis, Ind,
national
Mineworkers of
headquarters
Amer
the vote of the miners
puted by the
are positive t
cepted and there will be
Of the
voting it
voted, and of the
the scale and 46
and in favor of a strike
Maryland did
sure it
Virginia
nations
' .
ne scaie
100,000
nminers
1
estimated
is
Ez
S¢
was
report
estimate 1s made
votes—a major
the scale [ir
with a majority of
the scale in
Pennsylvnia
a majority of
Kentucky ha
to one for
000 votes, with a
Michigan
scale. Ohi
four to
Preside
pleased
ana
tne
cast
come in
that the
would
case
joint scal
be called
sign the cont
petitive fi
When
understood
for
operat
field an
manner
ment sv
The
cont inc
wi
represen
of 100,004
EXPLOSION OF LIQUID AIR.
the ne
"rs
8 exXne
One Man Killed, Another Injured and the
Vicinity Shaken,
New Y« ri
sion of a
laborat ry
Air Compan
a panic ar
place, and
hood
Corliss, of i
at a comps
the tank,
away fr
report. (
its
Jated.
Only {4
HIKE
ne le pt
SOCke
1
ly
tory at the time
hurt
Soon
sel, regain
the superinter
resigned
“If 1h
desperate
would have
be said as he
and Jeparted
«LIKE A CITY OF DEATH."
Port Arthur Seemed to Be on Fire From a
Boat.
London,
from Cheefo
correspondent
By
scribes an
made from
seemed to be
smoke were
Bread Hill
fered terribly
tered and the ear
guns were vis
on the T
have sufferec
sign of life
and Port Art}
death. TI
anside
up.
Charged With Peonage.
Savannah, Ga, 1
United States District
Judge Speer, argument
on the constituty
{ ND
¥
ionaiity $
Congress against peonage
gies indicted are Sheriff McClell
Ware county, and Attorney Crawley,
of the Way Cross bar, charged with
selling negroes to be held
Judge Newman, of the norther
trict of Georgia, has 4
be invalid An argun
law by William Toomer
right of the state c«
needed action
Ticket Office Robbed.
Harrisburg, Pa,
ing revolvers into }
Operator and Ticket Agent C. U
sel, in the Hammelstown
oar
ya
AT
1 Dey
in Pe
held
ent
ssrt ty tal
iE 8 LaAXKe
any
(Special)
. :
the ace
Station
mustaches, demanding all the
in the office. Cassel, who had been
sitting with his back to the door, was
taken by surprise and compelled to
open the cash drawer, which contained
$15 in small change. The men took
the money and escaped, going toward
Harrisburg.
Russian Treason Case,
Vienna, (By Cable).—A telegram
from Lemberg says that Captain
JX. eontieff of the Russian General Staff
having sold to a foreign Power a list
of the secret agents maintained by the
Death Penalty,
N. XY
received
al) Governos
| Albany,
| Odell has most extraordi
nary letter from a man condemned
{to death for murd ting
mterterence ot he executive to pre
vent any
1
ty
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Happenings Condensed for
Rapid Reading.
Domestic.
New
confirmation of the
W
$
base
fio,
mur
L.aboree,
Persia
Benjamin
E
points
wm of the
ar
40,
tn
of
Paris are consid
French law to insure
United States
voo.000 for Panama Canal
made
[14] eC?
payment ot
property
:
wines
is
The German government has asked
the Reichstag to appropriate $1,675,
ooo for expenses in suppressing the
Herero South
Africa
Lewis Vernon-Harcourt, RON
of Williams Vernon-Harcourt, has been
elected to the House of Commons
a :
rebellion nn German
wed
eldest
It is admitted in British government
that Premier Balfour suffered
1
i
i
i
i
:
:
i
!
maitority of 406
tinued in the investigation of the War
Office documents in the Dreyfus case
On account of conflicting
of the intentions of the
commanders in Manchuria the Russian
i
|
|
districts of Russia's western neighbor
The discovery was made through
the delivery of a money order to an-
‘other person of the same name,
.Leontieff is reported to have been
shot,
Twenty-four States of the United
mm laws
Waitresses at Rochester, N. Y., have
A shorter workday
tie
is desired.
The trials of the rioters and mur.
derers at Kishineff were concluded,
One man was sentenced to 20 years
for the murder of a Jewish couple.
|
{
| Northern Securities Company.
| Harlan, Brown, McKenna, Day and Brewer
Outvote Others. Chief Justice
By White, Peckham and Holmes
Supported
Sherman
NO POISONED SWORDS.
Blow Up
sian Cavalry.
talk of "pyre
having
1
§ OSE
nations Holding Company a Mere Dodge.
i
Brewer
PENSIONS FOR Mall CLERKS.
Penrose’s Bill Alms to Proteet Those Employed
on Railroads.
A plan for pensioning railway mail
Senator
bill
clerks has been advised ny
embod
Senate
Penrose and is
presented in the
be accumulated by deducting per
cent a month from the salary of the
clerks and from fines imposed on them
by the department for neglect of their
duties. iniractions of discipline or for
other reasons. This fund will be con
trolled by the postmaster general and
will be irsed under his direction
The bill provides that cierks who
have years in the railway
mail service and have been (ncapaci
tated by reason of such service, be
cause of ill-health or by accident, or
who have attained the age of 656 years,
shall be eligible to retirement at full
pay No clerk so retired shall re
celve more than $1,000 a year, all
salary payable to him in excess of
that amount being turned into the pen:
gion fund. One per cent of all pen
glong shall also be deducted for the
benefit of the general fund
It is understood this has the
approval of the postoffice department
and was in part prepared by the de
partment,
$4
diab
iG
gerved 20
1
ii
Suicide to Music.
Omaha, Neb, (Special).-~Maj Wil
H. Bean, U.S. A, committed
Ordered to the
Philpippines, be had his trunk pack.
ed and taken to the depot. Im.
mediately afterwards he asked his
wife to play on the piano, and while
she was playing he thrust an army
revolver to his right temple and fired
The bullet lodged in his brain and he
liam
died almost immediately.
N A ——
vot
Dealers
Philippines.
in the
To Mandamus a Judge.
plying
to the alleged
Diplomatic Appointments,
The Senate in executive session con
firmed the follow nominations
John
te
ng
Jarrett, Oregon, envoy
Arthur M
i
11inois, to be envoy extraordmary and
extra
ary Panama; Beaupre
William W. Russell
of Columbia, envoy extraor
Pu 3
New
of legation at 1.labon,
Nelson (Shaughnessy
Dawson
of Columbia, consul at
Mon
of the
of Columbia: James H.
agent for the Indians
Blackfleet Agency, Montana
Congressional and Departments.
Chief Judge Clabaugh sustained the
demurrer of former Commissioner of
Pensions H, Clay Evans to the amend-
ed declaration of Henry D. Phillips,
Professor Burr discussed the ques
tion of sanitation of the Panama Ca-
nal route before the House committee,
Commissioner of Pensions Ware has
jssned an order making changes in
the age considerations in ratings.
The Dietrich Investigating Com.
mittee resumed its inquiry into the
charges against Senator Dietrich,
NEW PENSION RULING.
ereau Fixes the Age Limit for Civil War
Velcrans,
Commissioner of Pensions Ware
with the fiteh
has
approval of
pri
becrelary
ymulgated the most import
that has been
The order fol
ruling
time
on of pen
’
gald act of June 27
it shall
evidential fact
not appear
NOL appea
taken
an
and if
ceedin
to he
biiitie other
tion
prefac {
Ling
hag eplal
Ago nature
of age;
Mexican
the
oid
war
per
soldiers whi
on
Commiss
leaving for
as foil
which he
EPOKe
BAC
ana the
money
has
Giers
of and
long
ing a
There
max
re 3
Veal
1Or
GERMANS WANT SANTO DOMINGO.
forts to Secure Control! of that Revolutionary
Island.
COURT HOUSE DYNAMITED
Attempt to Demolish Baliding Failed to fizve
Much Effect
attempt was made to W
Marys
red
at St
plosion occurred about ¢
night. and although Policeman Riggs
was on the spot within min
he found no traee of the perpetrators
Windows were ghattered, the ce ling
torn loose and the floor of the court
room raised in that corner A foot
Some thunk it was done by someone
who had once been confined in the
jail Others suggest that the deed
was committed by parties who are
in favor of a new Court House
vears ago the County Commissioners
caused to be recorded in their minute
book the fact tnat the building was un
gafe and also parsed An order pro
viding for the erection of a new build
ing. going so far as io pay about $2
000 for an architect's plans, but have
gince done nothing
All Three Shot Dead.
New (Special) —Dr. W
W. Jones, a of Philadel
phia, Miss, and Roy Esche, a planter
became engaged in a shooting affray
on Sunday, due to Dr. Jones circu
{ lating damaging reports concerning
| Esche's sister loth men were killed,
| us was Frank Burnett, a brother of
Feche., who tried to restore peace
Letween the two men
Saloonkeepers Held for Death,
The appellate court at Springfield,
| 111, holds that salcon men are lable
{ for the death of their patrons who
die while under the influence of liquor
sold them by the defendants The
cage was that of Kate Algood, who
was awarded $3000 damages against
William Botwinis, a saloon man of
that city, for the death of her hus
band. George Algood, who had been
deinking In the saloon of Hotwinis,
and who, while on hig way home in an
intoxicated condition, fell from his
five ites
Two
Orleans,
physician
| buggy and received fatal injuries,
UNIVERSITIES MAY MERGE.
Three Big
Washington.
Plan to Unite Institutions af
lore
WILD PANIC IN COTTON.
Rush fo»
of Failure Brings
Seling Orders.
Announcement
Reward for Indians.
deed of wh ornie
. gt Government
tor Quay can
gert an item
ss poronris
appropris
$lpw
iad end
Due
Wright
and her 8iX
White lod
aptive
COLLECE BITS.
BR aennt
fliave
conditional ple
made to thd
College
boon
Allegheny
eG Univers)
chair of railroad «
por
iv w pute hijel
ng and tra
n
nginees i
ation in general
* The chemical
State University was recently
with na loss of $100, © :
at Oli
burned
imboratory
A scholarship of $5000 hax been pre-
Brown University by Edgar
1. Marston, of liew York
President Tucker
mittee to a
has named a
S2H50.000 fond
fon
for
raise
lege
: It hae beey discoversd by the anthor
ies of the University of Michigan
that the gambling fever has struck the
institution,
Dickinson
Denny Hall,
fire. wis
College's finest bnilding
hae been destroxed hy
It valued at $50.000 and
Dr. BE. B. Wilson, professor of soaloes
i
{
1
i
ed 28 member of the Accademia del
The Rév. Joseph HH. George, Presi
dent of the Chicago Theologica! Sem-
inary, has been offered the Presidency
of Drury College, at Springfield, 1.