Tragedy in the Williamsbarg District,
Brooklyn.
TWO WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OUT.
Smothered Before They Could Reach the Fire
Escape in the Rear of the Building The
Blaze Started in the Cellar of a Grocery
Store at an Early Hour of the Morning
Firemen's Work Hampered.
New York
before they could cou
(Special).
id reach the rear
fireescape in a burning tenement build
ing at 186 Troutman street, in the Wil
liamsburg distric irooklyn, 12 per
sons met death before
O'clock A M.
Two
ranio Triolo and Cl}
entire
wiped out, the last living member
each being nov
hope of
Charl
ROBBERY OF A CIRCUS CONCERN.
Forepaugh & Sclls Brothers Pay Wagon
licved of $30,000.
show, who
ner the
comn!
mpi
takis
WOMAN DEFIED RAILROAD.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Latest Happenings Condensed
Reading.
Domestic,
f regulars
guard
Andre Vv
)
Be 3
under
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charged
and
rland
Independence
ma: DIrOcCessio
IMposing itary
W im Bate, a chauffeur,
2 » 2 X24
shot dead in an automobile
ncago
killed
Reuben
Pesnsylvanis.
Pittsburg Special)
Ferris, worth $100,000
of the man who
Ferris
COrps
i ¥
name, a rejative
the
off the
1 : ;
sylvania Railroad for
1 £ - : 2
world-famed wheel, stood
surveying of the Penn-
36 hours, ©
a club, a revolver and the family dog
The railroad people had sought te
throw a foot brighe across the Alle.
gheny River at this point, and Mrs
were encroaching about five feet
her ground.
revolver, the chair and
went to the bank, threatening
to shoot anyone who trespassed
The family attorney sent her word
to hold fast, that she had the right
end of it. The Pennsylvania Railroad
people soon abandoned the project
She remained on guard for 316 hours
and then retired,
A
on
club and a
river
ss
Whitecappers Indicted.
Jackson, Miss, (Special). ~Twelve
white men, accused of being white.
cappers and interfering with home:
steaders on United States lands, were
brought here by a United States dep
uty marshal under indictments found
by the federal grand jury. The me
were placed under $1,000 bond each
for their appearance at the next term
of court. The Yrand jury returned 1¥
indictments for alleged unlawful in
terference with United States home
steaders,
g € cout
he Sorbonne in Paris
Barrett Wendell, of Harvard
movement has bezn started
the United States acquire the ¢
on of private of Chri
res at
ect papers
the Duke of Albe, in Paris
Jahla, Brazil, mutinied and the com-
manding officer was shot dead by the
ingleader of the mutineers.
The Italian government
structed its ambassador at
ton to sign an arbitration
the United States.
The Chinese Minister at Paris
vocates the applying of Secretary
Hay's open-door policy to Manchuria
has mn
Washing
treaty with
and suspend building operations on
Sundays iv France is assuming pract;
cal shape.
Emperor William has directed the
troops at Lippe to take the oath of al
legiance to Count Leopold, son of the
late regent, Count Ernst, pending a
settlement of the succession by an ar-
bitration court, which the Ml
Chancellor 1s authorized by the Fed.
eral Council to form.
Ex-Judge Parker, recent Democrat.
ic candidate for president, has opened
a law office in New York city,
FIGHTING NEAR SHAKHE
Other's
|
| Opposing Armies Feeling Each
| Positions.
the Trenches at
| Arther the Gas From It Overcomes
| Russian Soldiers General
| That Operations Against the Forts Are Pro-
ceeding as Prearragged.
It Bursts in
yama Reports Operations,
LARGEST ENGINE IN THE WORLD.
Will Be Placed on the Conpellsville Division
of the B. & 0.
Cif € a@
SUrns sig
Panama Coup Rumored.
{By Cable)
dia went to the troops’ barracks to be
As
Panama Senor Guar
secretary of war
Huer-
the Pan-
to
Arias, and Gen
commander-in-chief of
forces, the event gave rise
Senor
President Amador, however,
Everything 18 quiet here
Uncle Sam's Pensioners in Denmark.
Copenhagen (By Cable) -~In conse-
quence of a personal appeal of the
American Minister, Mr. Swenson, the
Minister of Justice has issued instruc-
that no notarial fees shall in
future be charged by Danish officials
for witnessing the vouchers of Danes
receiving pensions from the United
States. This ie intended to relieve
the pensioners of the payment of the
fees, which pensioners within the
tons
reach of American officials escape.
HUEXKTAS HAS RE:1GNED.
|
Love Gets Pension,
AN UNUSUAL OPERATION
fiver Tube Cut From the Breast of Harry
Elwell,
Rob Miniature Road.
¢
Burned Aurtrizn Fiag.
:
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Netherland
that
‘
nvene
suggesti
he te {
placed a wreath
tomb of Washington at
The President has promulgated reg-
for the appointment of un.
skilled laborers in the civil service,
Frank J. Hecker has resigned as
mission
Austro-Hungarian government
willing to participate in the second
Hague Peace Conference called by
President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt is being offer.
ed special escorts of honor to attend
on his manguration, next spring.
Pre.ident Roosevelt has removed
Frank H. Richards, United States
marshal for the Nome district,
Albert Relyca, a chief of divisior
in the office of the Treasurer, com-
mitted suicide,
The civil setvice regulations have
been extended to all the employes of
the Canal Commission
The Comptroiier of the Currency
has issued a call for the condition of
national banks,
The Supreme Court of the United
States adjourned for two weeks to
permit the preparation of decisions,
is
| BIG BLAZE AT FAIR
| stroyed.
GARBENBACH
and Attracted Vist r. From All
the Grounds
Government
Parts of
Sparks Were Carried to the
Buildings Bucket Brigades
Formed to Save Property.
GEISHA GIRLS TO PETURN,
Department of Commerce Orders
portation.
Their De-
Ambushed nod Sisie.
{By [he news
received here that nine
the Thirty-cighth Company and
ane American attached to the Hos.
pital Corps have been killed in an
ambuth on the east coast of Samar
Manila Cable) has
been
of
SCOuULs
Two Jobs for Judge Parker.
New York (Special)—Former Judge
Alton B. Parker appointed a
member of two commissions to acquire
dock and wharfage rights for the city
on the East River. The appointment
was
Supreme Court
Held Robber's Head Under Water.
Lacrosse, Wis, (Special) George
Tuchek, a young man of good repu-
tation, has given himself up to the
police, saying that he had killed a
stranger by holding the man's head
under water. The police have found
the body but have not yet identified
it, Tuchek claims the stranger at
tempted to rob him, but that he threw
the highwayman down an embank-
ment twice and then to save hic own
life held the man's head under water
until death ended the struggle.
| ADMIT FIRING ON THEIR CRUISER.
Russian Officers Did Not Even See the Vessels
of Their Crulser Division.
BRAZIL'S REVOLUTION,
The Movement Reported Crushed
Mitiiary School
MARINES LAND AT PANAMA
Was
ban at First Supposed.
Revolulionsry Movement More
Serious T
i r ¢
Was
of an em-
wi He Was
very high Miss
lowe, who was riding be-
s0 seriously injured
this ci by ing ove:
}
bankment mm his automobile
neg at
res Ma
Neare,
she
v q
speed
Dole
1
SIGE
that
Was
will die
Bomb Outrage in Barceloss.
Barcelona (By Cable)-—A bomb was
Calle Fernando here. The building
was not much damaged, but nine per-
sons were seriously mjured, and sev-
eral others were slightly hurt. There
is an unconfirmed romor that two of
the wounded have died The Calle
Fernando much frequented as a
nromenade by the upper classes
Awaiting Baltic Squadron.
London (By Daily!
Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent
says that Lieutenant-General Stoes-
sel's report expresses a firm convic-!
tion that he will be able to hold owt)
at Port Arthur until the Baltic sqoa-!
dron arrives in March, on the condi
tion that he is supplied with muam-,
tions and stores
The Government. the correspondent
adds, has mstrocted its agents abroad
to supply Lieutenant General Stoes-|
sels requirements Gt any cost
is