HUNDREDS KILLED OR HURT Collapse of New Water Reservoir at Madrid. THE PEOPLE ARE ENRAGED. Engineers and Contractors Held Resoosible — Women Parade Streets Carrying Black Flags — Serious Disorders Feared, Particu: larly If Authorities Try to Prevent Fuoeral Processions. Madrid persons were kil (By CG led or injured by the lapse of a new water resorvoir in cou of Fifty ready been recovered. The construction. bodies have Prince AY est Minister, the Gov the Asturias, the War ernor of Madrid and a repre the King h: intend the work of res gone to the spot LS Troops sent to the sc in helping the sufferers the dead Alfonso when he the bodies of King banchel was sh immediately and His ir mi pervising Working parties arrival was wn the crowds. 1 I, and insiste VE the ing the debris Said te Have An Appetite For Tubercle Bacilii. Washingt tape-w tuberculosis news the cOonsuiar ETVICE William W. Canada, at Vera Cruz, Mexic Department of Commer Says: “The Mexican Buenos Ayres that by a late scientifi been proved that natural enemy sumption, and that the ist when the other ig present ther says that the eminent James and H. Maudoul, after a found study of the subject as a fact in a paper recently laid before the Academy of Science at Paris tapeworm is said to prevent the organ ism from being infected with of tuberculosis, and it } in t case of a cons with tapeworm that covered his health, “To positively establish the efficacy of this remedy the doctors injected a li- quid prepared from the tenia into sever- al consumptives, which action resulted in retarding the progress of the disease in the worst cases, while in others it re- sulted in a complete cure” int of i iter « He fur entists, pro- assert this has imptive ompletely ery he affected re- Fell Into Boillag Mass. Huntington, W. Va. (Special).—Jas. Callen, aged six years, son of Frank Cal- len, of Wilsondale, became enraged at his five-year-old sister because she re- fused to play with him, and, grabbing his mother’s hat pin, he stabbed his sis- ter five times. The little girl ran scream. ing from the room and fell dead in her mother’s arms, the hat pin having pierced her heart. Killed By Her Brother. Peoria, 111. (Special).—Jerry Hardy, Joseph Byers and George Wagner, em- ployed as cattle feeders at the American Distillery, at Pekin, were working on top of a tank of hot distillery feed when the boards gave way, precipitating them into the boiling mass. Wagner was pull- ed, but died at the hospital shortly after. The body of Hardy, when removed from the tank, was found to be cooked into a pulpy mass. Byers was taken out alive, but will die. NEWS IN SHORT ORDER The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading, Domestic, Albion W. Tourgee, Amen consul Bordeaux, France, is 10 be very iil . The dead body of Miss Anna Stewart trom Madi Judge reported at was found in a cistern about a mile the mansion of her rich father, in son, Wis Three workmen fell into a tank of hot feed Peoria Two ooked to death and the other 18 not ex pected 10 SVE ral I distillery at wer live. tlroad presidents indorsed Samuel Spencer's 5, declaring that all they w a square deal Johm H. Fo n Russia wrote appealing to tterrn the existing and 5 Preside at seventh birthday anniversary, the felicitations of | Roosevelt and European sovereigns Premier Bostrom of Sweden bas | signed Prince Reg ent in his recent | on the subject of the dual government. The Right Rev. Joseph George Stross mayer, bishop of Diakovar and apostolic administrator of Servia, died at Diako- var. He was consecrated in 1830. The viceregal lodge at Simla, India, has been declared unsafe as a result of the earthquake. The shocks continue, and the loss of life at Kangra and other places runs into the thousands. Four hundred persons were killed or injured by the collapse of a new water resorvoir building at Madrid. The citi- zens are enraged and blame the contrac. tors and engineers for the disaster. The Czar and other members of the imperial family feared to attend the an- nual parade of the Horse Guards in St. Petersburg. Even the Grand Duke Via- dimir, commander of the military dis- trict, was afraid to show himself, Empress Avgusta of Germany and her sons (Princess Eitel and Oscar) have arrived at Messina to meet the Em- peror, who will go directly to Greece, returning to Messina on April 20. During a revolutionary demonstration at the funeral of a workman killed by a policeman at Smolensk, Russia, a banner inscribed “Death to the Czar, the As- sassin,” was borne, French Foreign Minister Delcasse, in the Chamber of Deputies, spoke of French policy toward Morocco, declaring it to be friendly, and not against the in- terests of anyone i ceived re- NAVAL BATTLE IN SIGHT Russian and Japanese Fleets Nearly in Touch. WILL BE FOR MASTERY OF THE SEAS. A Conflict Seems Immiment that Will Settle War Rojestvensky's Fleet of More than Forty Ships Sails Past Singaporz and Ao Engagement May Occur in the China Sea Ships Cevercd With Seaweed. naval A great, decisive wnminent in the vici a or the NOW ITS GREATER PITTSBURG Bill Passes Providing For Consolidation With Allegheny. 1,000,000 IMMIGRANTS. All Records Broken By Rush of locemiog Foreigaers. { Spex ial) of conti Washington, D. C. flow States present unusual mmigrant nited nue i immugration recore tal number of ithe county more th 1.000000 an per months which ' twelve Crank Taken From White House. Cannot Use Phitippines, { by represent LCUentral American Crimmmaiion uy rank one point Baltimore There Il of this except borough bill 1 to boroughs, of McKeesport, 34000, from the : nexed to Pittsburg without further legislation than that now contemplated Strawberries Injured. Wilmington, N. C (Special) —T le- graphic reports from practically all the leading strawberry and vegetable points throughout the trucking belt of the Caro. linas to the Carolina Fruit and Trock- ers’ Journal, of this city, indicate that the cold weather and light frost and the night before have done no damage to strawberries. The frosts were so light and buds so well protected by foliage that the effect of the cold snap is not no- ticeable. A few beans, peas, ete, were nipped by frost, but none were killed outright, and those slightly damaged will recover within a week AA AORN SA ARAN Wild Man lo Oklahoma. Lawton, O. T., (Special). A wild man of hideous appearance, ragged gar- ments, emaciated features and lacerated body has been terrorizing the residents of the southern and southwestern por- tions of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, for the last two weeks. On several occasions he has assaulted women and children and injured men who sought to capture him. He invariably makes his escape and renews hi tions in some other locality, Corbin has sartial at Manila to try ton on the charge of cond and a t (eneral tan officer The ican waters on patrol « Navy given to a proposition to send a European waters While the condition of Senator O. H Platt, of Connecticut, was reported as improved, hisfriends have gravest fears regarding the state of his health The appointment of Mr. C. E. Grunsky as engineer in charge of irrigating and reclamation service, is in conformity with the Irrigation Act Postmaster General Cortelyou has been made the first honorary member of the American Chamber of Commerce recently organized in Naples, Italy The Interstate Commerce Commission has submitted a report on railroad ac cidents during the last quarter of 1904 Satisfactory tests were made at Indian Head with armor used on warships of the Tennessee class, Secretary Shaw has announced a call on national bank depositories for about $27.000000 in two instalments, the first falling due on May 15 and the second on uly 1, 1 ) anna Sternburg left with Sec. retary Taft a memorandum declaring that (Germany stood for the open-door policy in Morocco. Three foreigners will be appointed members of the Board of Consulting En. gincers of the Isthmian Canal A cablegram from Minister Powell says that quiet prevails on the Island of Hayti. MANY BURIED ALIVE Part of a Native Regiment Entombed By the Earthquake in India. REPORT OF TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. Not a Siagle Building Left in Town of Palam- pur— Fears of More Disasters in Others | Hindoo Districts Millions of People Earth's Violence May | Have Had Appaliing Results. re Ledy Curzon in Peril Pot Full of ¥ Gold Cola Calling of Pastors Desonoced. vewark, N. I. (5 i hat some welll hrough the Conf Statement By Nan Patterson. New York, ( Special) her attorney, Daniel O'Reilly, the innocent of made Howing statement: having slain Caesar Young. and 1 confidently expect acquittal when N ew a nd my case goes before the jury startling evidence show that 1 bad neither reason for killing Young assured by my attorneys that the Morgan Smith letters have absolutely no bearing on my case” motive nor Socered at Death Seateoce Peoria, Ill. (Special) Judge Green formally overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of Otis Botts, convicted of strangling his girl wife to death with a hair ribbon. Judge Green fixed June 16 ns the date of execution. Botts re- ceived the death sentence with a sneer. Heavy Loss te Russia, Harbin, (By Cable) Affairs at the front generally are quiet, except for skirmishing by General Mistchenko's Cossacks. Reports are revived sf the movement of a Japanese flying column northward through Manchuria in the direction of Tsitsihar. The Joss and destruction of commis- sariat stores at Mukden, Hussitai, Tai Pass, Kaiyvan and Chantufu has been a heavy deprivation to the Roscian army coy GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE. Stay of Execution in Mrs. Chadwick's Case Cheered By News. eC P EXPLOSION WRECKS FACTORY To Death wvoean. Three Men Blown in Bridgeport ns was discharged The § «} ak en the explos a radius superintendent Ryland said that the would be about $30.0 the company ke Violent Earthquake Feit, London, (By Cable) —A dispatch to 2 news agency from Lahore, British India went earthquake has oc curred here accompamed by serious |} of life and great damage to other buildings. The town hall is RE public and aumnost jud, one of the finest mosques in India, Other big build- ings are cracked and fissured. Many Tourists Lost Heavily. Jacksonville, Fla, (Special) Emanuel, a baggagemuaster of the Flori da East Coast Railway, arrested, charg ed with robbing baggage of northbound tourists, waived examination and was released on $2,000 bail. More than $1.000 worth of jewelry has been recovered, and it is reported that the alleged thefts we (31s A AA ANS NLS FINANCIAL. There are several Philadelphians whose profits on Tonopah stock range from $1,000000 to each. Pittsburg houses were la b of Lead shares. 4, yen Crude rubber, which was o8 cents a pound a year ago, is now $1.40. No wonder rubber company shares are up. It cost the Philadelphia Railroad Com. pany $2,500,000 to have its new bonds. anderwritten at par by the banking syn. cate.
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