LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. 'VICE-ADMIRAL NAKAROFE SANK WITH HIS SHIP.|PINNED DOWN BY LEAD| NEWS IN SHORT owoee | The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Turned London, Cable) h that announce the Petersburg daybreak sdnesday Petrop destroyed at Arthur, and including Vicé-Admiral Makare The vessel was blown up by a drifted from its moori from Wei Hai Wei belief here that off Port and that the Por with 700 men ff mw Russian advices declare mine gS, oring induce had dispatches the confident engagement occured of ch telegrams will show suffered a severe racter that lat Russians <4 SCVETrer admitted. A Vice-Admiral ine rumor by ] conceaicad was attacked fleet, fands. His ret he with the resu was forced to fight against o« « It that all his shay damaged, while the Petropavle surrounded by torpedo boa by five torpedoes and blow: Another report Rear Admiral \ killed aboar RUSSIAN STORY OF CATASTROPHE. Dramatic Description of the Less of Petropaviovsk. Russia trom Port Arthur tellin ing } battles ni ' anda su Pe and the deat} roff up ININK thopa 1 of (In the me fe being nn bride the Yyiov ahead were | } tion in ti The the harbo ers on tl mense amidship Petropa fighting deluge tar cending stripped decks TWENTY-FOUR ie water in a jew Petre pavlo the but ne wurre be low d When the exnle S10 oocu cers immediately divin ne had struck r ide of th ecks or in geen Pensacola, “la. { Spec ial) 1 newest battieship of the navy, the Mi souri, had a narrow escape from ing blown to pieces bry the explosion of a magazine and also has just come to hight, 1 v1 ' $ 5 $C ¥ within WIng che latter when the vessel w. 250 yards of the beach crders that the ship's ve chatg- ed. Chief Gun: Mate Monson saved the ship aud the lives of over Goo men by jumping into the open him, It is stated, though not by officers of the Missouri, that when the officers heard the explosion in the turret and saw the fire lapping through the top they realized the hor magazine would next ~xplode and headed the ship for the beach, intending to beach her if possible before the explosion. Cap tzin Cowles quickly stopped the plan and put the ship back to ses. When the first explosion occurred in the turret the men in the handling room knaw im an ingtant what had occured. The big magazine door was standing against it of powder. Without a moment's hesitation Gunner's Mate Monson shoved these aside, and jump ing mto the magazine pulled the doo after him open and Were vite charges 1 loosed The magazine was tolally flooded | with water, and when the men opened | ithe door found Monson barely alive, the water having reached his neck The damage to the battleship 1s | much greater than was stated at first In addition to the large amount ot ammunition ruined by the magazine | being flooded, which will amount to | thousands of dollars, the after turert | is badly injured, the top being burned |! away and ali brass work melted in- | vide. The hoist is a charred mass, | and the mechanism of the guns is | completely ruined. The estimated damage caused 1 the explosion will reach $50.000 ! The total list of the dead numbers thirty-two The Missouri will not conclisde her target practice, but will go to Wew! York to be Jocked as soon a the | court of inquiry makest its findings. ficath Ends Hours of Terrible Suffer- ing of Diver. | Their Brother From His Prison, Under 70 | Feet of Water, at the Bottom of the Jersey | City Reservoir Signals From Man Grow Fainter as His Strength Fails, {Se BALTIMORE WILL LOSE $20,000,000 lnsuraace Companies to Pay Only $30,600,000 to the 258 Losers, plemented hreprov the claims tified by rociures oy in Baltimor CXney which t Exposition Hall Collapsed. Philadelphia, Pa., (Spe Hall, at that tional Export Exposition in 1809, and 11 which the republican national con vention met one vear later, collapsed, burying several workmen in its ruins Three of mjured men were Ladly hurt that they were taken to the Philadelphia hospital for treatment. while a dozen others, although braised and shaken up, refused to go to the hospital, and had their wounds attend ial) the main building Thirty-third served to on 1 RIOUp ana : a» the Na sireets, house the 4) Gift to Tuberculosis Camp, New York, Mre, An drew Carnegie has offered to equal the highest donation the Speedwell Country Home Society for the open { Special) fo poor children of the tenements, with in easy reach of New York City, The announcement was made by Donald Sage MacKay, the president, at the annual meeting, which was held at the home of Miss Helen Miller Gould. Reading. Domestic. | SIR jured automohle by asolinie ¢ cp! : im Detrost L§1 in tiurouegh [he set emen as been ar Berlin canals and waterways bills just to the Prussian {Jiet propose the expenditure of S100, 000,000 waterways, mmcinding # canal Berlin to Stettin, Urge presented on new from fOr vessels Financial, $000 000 of Japanese gold rived at San Francisco gets that vada, things ought to Nearly has just a When Lake Superior 00.000 from ( look up . Ls cay Al There has been better buying of Unit ed States Steel common this week than for three months “I'm bullish” says That doesn’t quite carry stich a remark once had (sates weight John W the i : i H P J. J. Hhil and E have gone West and J on the Atlantic Morgan is fined and $5,208 000 worth of erude oil Seventy-one railroads in February earned gross $80,648,000, an Increase of $2064.000, but net earnings were $10,586,000, a decrease of $1,470,000 N neither race nor creed distinctions. i £ 50,000,000, and net profits $8,512 000, A New Endowment By Mr. Andrew Carnegie. VERY GENEROUS BENEFACTION. Its Purpose Is to Place Those Following Peaceful Vocations Who Have Been Injur- ed in Heroic Effort to Save Human Lile in Better Pecuniary Condition Than They Were and to Provide for the Dependants, O00, 000 APPROPRIATION ASKED Ten Thousand Dollars ic the Amount Requested. Oc { his and his bods The burecan minces that the B. | tioned fispateh as f navigation I Mulligan, heen os od, and iy $5818 ¢ ule be found 3 :. f ras, 1} Joseph Mulligan, lands: dence, R. 1. Hic next as James Mulhgan street, Providence, CHILDREN WITNESSED TRAGEDY. John nan Prov of kin 1s giver 200 Chestnut I. hs fathers os of R Once Saw Father Mother's Life. South Hadley Falls, Mass, (Special The i children of | stand, ) Three Little Attem pi +} aria Cape Pen and 1s HH witd of chopper. died oi Capest Parts of the bodies SONY Mrs 1 « same malady vf two of the {came have been taken to Harvard for analysis, The three ghildren {4 who died very i buried Friday ithe cemetery Medical Examines | Branch, of Amherst; Chief of Police | Buchey, of the Falls, and Maj James | MeWay, of the state police. They are suddenly «« were } Retirement of Letter Carriers. { ute Departme i Labo the St Senate put any mmvests Department ed a hall Shipping zone ed himeelf for tae n the Navy in the retary of the In- mvolved in the im the pubic proposed Lali nol a general staf as introduced Seg 1 WN frande were still : and it why he House passed the bill APPIO 12 $3,000,000 for river and harbor GVements WOMAN AND CHILDREN POISONED. ce sO Police Are Having Analyeis Meade and Wii Search for Murderer. Pa. (Specal) Fred. erick Scaife, aged 32 years, committed rmicide after shooting his wife Mary. will recover. Mes, Schaife sad ason for her hus Pidadeiphis, less jealousy The woman saved her life by her When her husband Bout him and a fierce stropgle ens suet. Schaife managed to discha the weapon. a bullet entering his wife's back. She fell, and, thinking he had Filled ler, he turned the weapon upon The couple have three young childs ren and the shooting occurred in the presence of the little ones,
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