—————— BLOODSHED IN ST. PETERSBURG Arrest of Strike Leader Aggravates Crisis, FORCING FOR A FINAL STRUGGLE. Migister of the luterior Throws Down Gaunt. let to the Laboring Classes and Fans the Flames of Revolution Arrest of the President of the Workmen's General Council Enrages the Strikers. More Trouble For Witte. $804,.296,415 TO RUN GOVERNMENT. Statement Issued By the Appropriation Com mitices of Senate snd House. $863,463 le and the amounted 181.875, i tirely this year th these every department ] asked fi 1¢ appr priat The two | the Navy ($21.220038) and the Department ($1 2,187 076) The of commitices excee Shaw omitted except: I he government ha im Fm than the Argest increases are the d those s 200,000,000, which wiimaile tet that the See a : estimates for th fly me from the that fnienan Cc, fry the SUPP d Hi Department $7 625,000, t of the appropriations com $193.210070. $80,000 Fire in Nashville. Nashville, Ten, (Special). fire the plant of O'Bryan Bros, At two o'clock in the morning destroyed manufactur cornet quare. The loss on stock ix at $60.000, fully insured The Joss on building, the property of B B. Allen, is estimated at $20,000 ; insured, The big Methodist Publishing House plant is directly across the street from the burned building and was for a time in danger, ers of overalls, on the northeast of the public estimated THE LATEST NEWS BRIE!LY TOLD. DOMESTIC hip No. 38 on sta l Sprang message at Newport, {oO sinking, and asl Lights tucket a wireless a leak shoals, Lon wa Insurance Cor 3 Hug! he boycott American rrangement and 3 LF The « the appointed Amen OMmission massacre of to Iinquir into an mission including a Buddhist m Japanese iranaps t Jinsen, which ke her propeller off the Korean coast t t drift with y troons ad is adrift with 1,000 troops and 300 peys 3 ure oMcCial in Hagashi ador King Edward has been has been to Great ain Railroad men at Riga and Orioff the procla in the Baltic prov ire ces The rebellion among the Russian troops in Manchuria is spreading, and many of the officers have been killed James Coulter, a farmer, of Shel bourne, Ont, murdered his wife, daugh- ter and son, and then killed himself. Admiral von Tirpitz, secretary of the German Admiralty, in introducing the naval bill, said the six large cruisers asked for were primarily for foreign ser vice. Major General MacArthur, U. 8. A, is watching the British Indian army maneuvers in India, in which about 57,000 troops are engaged. WOMAN FACED DEATH BRAVELY Mrs. Rogers Calmer Than Her Exe cutiomers. SHE WAS SILENT TO THE LAST. Deoned a Black Glows, Walked Calmly and Cap Without Saylag a Word More Composure Than Clergymen. Exhibited | FIRST THROUGH NORTHWEST PASSAGE Magoetic North Pole Was Found on Kisg Willlam Island. Tooth Costs Senator's Life Settilag With the Sultan. inople (By ( he six powers able) i at i | i he have accepted S038 the Porte cations proposed by he financial ec and an forwarded to their for ratification is expected promptly, when the in will closed he original scheme for ¢ of Macedonia, has been tr clive governments | De A Basker Burned. ffalo, N. Y Blodget, the hermit banker Yes by { Special) James L of Hermitage, Wyoming county, burned to death was «1 the ground He was estimated to be worth $1,000,000 He was a Yale College, in the class of 1830 in hig house, which burned to raduate of An Explosion in Washiagton. Washington, D. C. (Special). —An ex plosion at the plant of the Washington Gare Light Company in Southeast Wash- ington resulted in damages to the ex tent of $150,000. The double building that housed the engine-room, togethér with the intricate machinery it contained, was completely demolished. The explo- sion occurred in the six-inch by-pass gas main. This connected with a 20-inch main that led to a condensing engine, the head of the smaller main being blown out. NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY, New Yorx Crry, N. Y. Some uvknown per ut the guy ropes of th Altman building ‘hirty-ffth & McC He Waging MUCH IN LITTLE ’ = 11 LOST IN STEAMER WRECK. WRECKED TRAIN BURNED TO RAILS Nine Perish in Crash of the Overland Limited. THE DEAD ENGINEER BLAMED. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Be Pre DECrelary is wilh ng «Several of Dead lncinerated, NEW TREATY WITH DENMARK. For Extradition Are raoged. Better Provisions y , ® ! Disaster. re lands, of 17, caried sey passengers, J. Leslie, a member nt and a Parliamen of Leslie, Hart member of & Son, which Canadian he Lunenburg had been running be- tween Pictou and the Magdalen Islands since last spring. During a high gale, accompanied by blinding snow flurries, it is thought that the steamer went out of her course in trying to make Amberst harbor 1 brought up. on rocks, FINANCIAL. Ari It is now asserted that St. Paul's ex- tension will cost over $75,000,000. It 1s probable that the Lake Shoe will nitimately get the Pere Marguette, Russian 4s fell 234 per cent in London, which indicates seriousness of the Russian situation the “Imports in this country are relatively too large to suit me. 1 don't think this is a good sign.” This is the remark of a prominent Philadelphia banker. W. I. Bull says the reselling of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton to J, P. Morgan is a favorable thing for Erie, [It was too big a burden for Erie to assume, articuldrly as the Cincinnati road is not in good physical shape and the price paid by the Erie was very high. Indeed, it was doubtful if that company would earn ¢ h to pay the dividend guaranteed by the frie and Erie is in no position to build up any lide but its own, oT and there detained of carrving contraband was learned tha was on of i ond COIMpe be Saigon refused to pay her time charges. War Vetersns Fleeced. W. Va, (Special) nlaced Huntington, John AM | here in default Meader was in jai of $2.500 bond by United States Commis Gibson Meander, it alleged, victimized many old soldiers in var of the southern state, passed spec agent of tl wernment, and pensioners | id give him S10 he would recommend an mcrease Many were fleeced. L1omHer 14 counties as a Pensions For the Lonely. Washington (Special). Pensions for the lonely are provided for in a petition lard before the Senate by Vice President Fairbanks, The petition is signed by Miss Sarah Miranda Clymer of Bridge- ton, N. J., who asks that a bill be passed instructing the United States Treasurer to make monthly ‘payments of not less than $30 nor more than $500 to all per- sons “alone in the world when they can not maintain themselves,” The p tition was referred to the Committee on Tidu- cation and Labor, KILLED BY SMOKE IN MINE. Micers Sufiecated During a Fire st Horton, WwW, Va. IN THE HELD OF LABOR. About ses in have recently been taken ito the Wan ers’ Umion. It is said that there is an unprecedented for switchmen among the rail 500 waitresses in Boston, Mass, The state of Wisconsin will in the fu- ture compile labor statistics, reports oi Further spinning mill building in Lan. ployment to fully 12,000 operatives The total amount paid in wages to the Chinese miners in South Africa between Tanuary and June last was £316,084 The threatened duruption in the Lon. don (England) cab trade is again immis went, Conferences have been held, but no definite action has been taken by cither side, Nie more companies, employing over sooo men, are dismissing their working foree and leaving Chicago, 11, forever, for the cougtry, on account of the cease. fees labor troubles. . Female barbers, numerous in Agstrian cities, are always compellad to pass an examination before commencing busi ness, to demonstrate their slilty in shav- ing. haircutting and hair curling.
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