SIX MEET DEATH
ON KEARSARGE
The Powder in Big Warship®s Turret
Ignites.
TWO OFFICERS AMONG THE KILLED.
Disaster Occurs Just After Target Practice on
the Battleship in Caribbean Sea-—-Several
Bags of a Thirteen-inch Uun Charge of
Powder Explode While Belag Moved Below
from the Forward Turret.
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consternation
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off
nsacola, Fla
graphed
for aid
promptly,
companies
to Spr
Missouri
Religious War in Poland.
London i Ti
at Warsaw of the I
the conflict between th
and the C
Ing in intensity.
whiel
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Orthodox
1) pers
Friday in
resulting in t
and 30 wounded
tained of distur
fetes.
on
Six Killed By Tornado,
Dallas, Texas, 1 It
ed that six persons were killed
eral injured in the tornado whi
over Briggs, Texa A number
mgs in the district
Cleburne, Texas, the
the grand stand in the ball park during
the progress of a game. Several per
sons were injured. The heaviest rain in
years fell in Dallas and a general rain
1s reported over North Texas
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were destroye
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storm b dow
Blizzard in Colorado.
Omaha, Neb,
snow and sleet storm of
is sweeping over the
Nebraska and
{ Special) A wind,
unusual severity |
western part of
extending into eastern
Colorado and into the Black Hills, At
Union Pacific headquarters the storm
was reported more severe in the vicinity
of Julesburg, Col., where the wind reach
ed a rate of 60 miles an hour, with a
hedvy snow falling.
Russia To Get $450,000,000.
London (By Cable). —A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph Company from
Paris says that the negotiations for the
new Russian loan have been concluded
The loan will be issued on April 26, and
will be for $450000000. Of this sum
$240,000000 will be allotted to France,
a portion to be given to Geneva and
Brussels financiers; $100000000 to St
Petersburg, and the balance will be sub-
ses se ——
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ervihed in Fangland and Austria
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the go
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on |
manding
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of their right to
vernment
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and a recognition
Organize
The French Cs
position of the mother of
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emprey, who tried her son
marrying the wife of
it de Pourtales, an American woman
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Of the 179 members so far elected to
divorced
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TON
Lt
parliament the Liberals have an over
whelming majority
Premier Witte 1s reported to have the
best of the fight with Minister of the
Interior Durnovo, and downfall of
the latter 18 imminent
Emperor Francis Joseph privately re-
ceived Bellamy Storer, the retiring
American ambassador
the
The French Chamber of Deputies vot-
ed the Algeciras credits and the Premier
stated that the agreement conformed with
French interests and satished the other
powers
It is denied that Germany instigated
Russia to call the second Hague confer
ence for the month of June, in order
to compete with and detract from the
importance of the Pan-American Con-
gress
A large number of invitations to social
functions have reached the American
Embassy in London for Congressman and
Mee Longworth,
A SEVEN-YEAR
FIGHT IN COURTS
Gaynor Convict:d
Lonspiracy.
MAY NOW GO TO HIGHER COURT
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| Contractors Accused of Defrauding Govern:
ment in Savannah Harber Work Face
Penitentiary — Guilty on Three Indictments
— Law Permits From Two to Seventeen
Years in Prison.
Green and of
LOGY OF GRI
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VOIR (
AN EMPEROR'S HUMILITY.
Francis Joseph Waghes the Feet of Twelve
Aged Men,
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LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Elect Senators By Popular Vote.
The Czar Is Willing,
A Big Hall For
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Was
charter, exempt
A Plucky Preacher,
Dallas, Texas, (Special), — “Not
jtfe” was
Brooks, of
invited by a
on
the responce made by Dr
Washington, D. C
highwavman «
J L
when roid
up his hands. Suiting the action to the
words, Dr. Brooks knocked down the
man, and then turned to the man's com-
panion, who was unarmed. The latter
ran away. The man with the pistol snap-
ped it twice at Dr. Brooks, and then ran
off, too. Dr. Brooks chased them four
or five blocks, and then notified the po-
lice. Dr. Brooks is a Methodist min-
ister, and is attending the Methodist Ed
ucational Convention of Texas,
War on Mosgaltoes,
Tampa, Fla, (Special) ~At a meeting
of the authorities of Tampa, West Tam-
pa, Fort Brooke, Port Tampa City and
the county of Hillsborough at the board
of trade rooms, steps were taken toward
organizing a municipal sanitary league of
Florida, one of the main objects of which
is to wage war on mosquitoes. Dr 1.
W. Weedon, of this city, was elected
temporary president. A call will be is
sued to the authorities of other cities to
meet here at an early date and form a
permanent organization,
This
ironwork
T_T
ompany
of the government
purposes
the
to use
and construct an immense amphitheater
in which to hold imaugural ceremonies
and similar great gatherings of a na
tional character
Senator Tillman made char
Assistant Secretary of
lenjamin F. Barnes, accusing him of
brutal and inhuman treatment in eject.
ing Mrs, Minor Morris from the White
House
It was *estified before the House Com.
mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisher
ies that unless the Ship Subsidy Bill is
passed American lines to Japan and
Australia will have to be withdrawn
£8
th
the President
President Roosevelt and: Secretary
Bonaparte will entertain the officers of
the French warships, to visit Annapolis,
at luncheons in Washington
Congressman Thomas A. Smith, of
the First District, advocated in the
House the granting of a charter to the
National Educational Association
A bill providing for the erection of
a statue of Gen. Nathaniel Green on the
battlefield of Guilford Courthouse, N. J,
was passed by the Senate.
Representative Burton introduced a
bill in the House having in view the
nreservation of Niagara Falls,
A WOMAN'S LONG
Mountains,
Balloon Shot Skyward.
Pit
Typhoid in Pittsburg.
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‘
More Carnegie Blast Furnaces.
burg, Pa Special) —F
new Cases ;
t 24 hours
us phase hb
in the feports from the
wols about the city. At
are about
of
he pas
as ¢
Var
present there
1,000 pupils absent from school
because illness, and a great many of
them are suffering from typho
The city superiniendent of schools, Sam.
uel Andrews, aimtributed these cases
the unfiltered city water supplied
the schools
id fever
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tol
Showman J. A. Balle Dead.
Pittsburg, Pa . ~ Contracts
have been awarded by the Carnegie Steel
Company for the construction of two
large blast furnaces Rankin, Pa. at
a cost of $2000000. The furnaces will
be 100 feet high and 23 feet in diameter
at the bosh, and will have a rated capa-
city of s00 or 600 tons a day. Efforts
will be made to have them ready for
blast by January 1 next year
(Special)
ni
al
Pensions For Professors’ Widows.
New York, (Special). Announcement
that the widows of college professors
many be pensioned under the terms of
the $100000000 gift of Andrew Carnegie
to the Carnegie Foyndation was made
by the trustees of the foundation. A pen.
sion not to exceed cne-half the pension
of a professor, may be paid to his widow,
but it will be required that she must
have been the wife of a professor during
10 years of his active service. The pen-
sion is to cease on her remarriage.
GIVE UP HOPE OF SETTLEMENT.
The Miners Are Settdag Down For a Long
Strike
Angry With Officials,
CARNEGIE'S GOLD IS TAINTED.
Ciaclapati’s Mayor Declines te Theok Mik
Hongire
Migeowaer
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just
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drove to his hom 7"
entering
through the h
aware of
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of
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FINANCIAL ~ AFFAIRS.
One big firm of bankers was credited
with loaning $10,000,000 at 25 per cent
William A. Dick, of Philadelphia, paid
$4000 for a New York Stock Exchange
seat
Valker County
Seventh
Wun
His family
relurn until the
was formerly
Sheffield Steel
bedr shot him
Was
shot
an
and
his
Stith
the Sloss
was
official
Irom
Great Northern's gross earnings in
March increased $646,766, and the gain
for nine months wie $5.708.438, or about
16 per cent,
The Philadelphia News Bureau has is.
sued and will continue to issue a regular
supplement each month containing rail
oad earings.
Call money in New York rose to 30
per cent. last week. One large bank,
however, kept loaning blocks of $0000
at 6 per cent. The ban't's representative
who appeared at the exchange to make
the offers wag nearly mobbed by large
borrowers,