AT THE MATION'S CAPTAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. Becretary of the Navy familiarizing himself wi ministration’s THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Domestic. H. Morrissey, grand the Brotherhood of Railway Train men, says he thinks a strike of the gwitchmen from the Pacific Coast to Buffalo, N. Y., is extremely improba SRAFT AND LOOT IN REVOLUTION Cuban Rebel Leaders Made Their Jobs Pay. MANY PEOPLE PERISH ON A BLAZING SHP Terrible Fire Panic Upon the Steamer Hankow. BANKER, YACHT IND CASH GONE and a Million Are Missing. MURDER OF AN ENTIRE FAMILY Barney and Three Parsons, Wife Children Killed. Houston, Mo. (Special). Parsons, a farmer, his wife and three Lick P. master of A Financier 1 yy arney Bonaparte th the ad- fu children were murdered near battle with the tru . LARGE NUMBER LEAP OVERBOARD. Two Thousand Chinese Passengers and Seven Europeans Aboard When Fire Breaks Out, Just After Dock- ing of the Ship at Hongkong Fire Probably Incendiary. Hongkong (By Cable).—Hundreds of Chinese, men, women and children, passengers on the Hankow, were burned to death in a fire aboard that ship Sunday morning. Numbers of others leaped overboard the and steamer early to escape flames were drowned. The passengers, dren, and cargo including 560 Chinese chil- and of and with women Hankow, 2.000 and men, seven Europeans a mat- 400 bales silk bales waste silk, arrived from Can- ton at 3 o'clock A. M., and was short- ly afterward moored at the wharf, Her chief ported to tain Branch that the ship was The eaptain directed the engineer to turn on the the This was for the that wi utes after I Hankow was Captain Branch European down the gangway, night clothes, The crew was the ship, which by veritable furnace age passengers frightful panic. and sav heard, ing to Cargo. death harbor 200 ting, bales of raw officer re then impossible hin five fire hose. reason the the Ww fore given, and awakened who the ladies in thei: al ablaze then passengers, aft rushed compelled to leave this ti 1¢ Chinese steer thrown ifying their lives me cries to e wer the inflammable nature of the Hundreds were burned to and jumped into the and were drowned Responding to signals British cruiser Flora the yard dispatched gines and s star I'l floating i herculean efforts ‘ flames, which leaped to over feot, The WAR tower tion others from the naval dock contingent 60 yards the fi Ing « ing seeking cu that an o set fire. to $ it was caused b tric wires A four that is eons is that the was an outgrowth against British A women. The Hankow lost during the ~hotse¢ idered th fire was of a rive of COMPS boats majority victims owning three recent typhoon MAGOON NOW GOVERNOIL Taft, Bacon And Funston Sail For The United States. Havana (Speci; War Taft and State peace commis acon, labors here and United States on board the ba Louis They sea and ned by and ex- former no disposition to join either collectively individ no nt Moderates the palace or the in the leavetaking Liberal Nationalis and only highly p the Government party off. The principal event of the day preceding the departure of Messr Taft and Bacon was the taking over of the government by Charles E Magoon, which was done by the is. | suance of a proclamation declaring that he had entered upon and would discharge the functions of govern. ment as directed by President Roose velt by virtue of the authority of the Platt amendment. This was precise. ly in line with President Roosevelt's appointment of Mr. Magoon, which states that {t was made “by virtue or the authority conferred upon me by the appendix to the Constitution of Cuba and by act of Congress March 2, 1yv1.” Asylum Children Poisoned. Findlay, O. (Special).—All of the 14 children of the Orphans’ Home, eight girls and six boys who were poisoned, supposedly by drinking milk, have recovered except two These two are in a critical condition. WO accel: y revol onary leade Government offi i ¥ in the or * rnin promine Governor Congressman Govin, were rominent memb group who saw Killed Himself Instead Of Pig. Stratford, Ont. (Special). — Ag Charles Kimber, an employee of the White Packing Company, was killing a pig the animal kicked and diverted the knife, which injured Kimber's abdomen, inflicting fatal Injuries ble. Former Governor Douglas says he will again a candidate for the governorship of Massachusetts if the people of the State demand it. Dr. Frank Brouwer, of Tom River, N. J., charged with the mur der of his wife, will offer a defens« of ptomaine poisoning. Twenty white men have been in dicted for the Atlanta rioting. Sixty have already been indicted on the same charge Daniel Francis, colored, who wa hanged in went to deat!) thanking God he was going to hea yen. A policeman and two high were shot during a des; streets of Toledo, The women delegates tional Purity Convention ming in Chicago Counsel for firm of J M the b« detect ¥ heen 1 been Dn be negroes Chicago, wavmen erate battle 0. to We on the the Na nt of oO ignee & C world Manuel the a Ceballos in the track of vl f Ves the it on viera, the Havana a Frederick Cole Fairbanks Vice President f the } f shurg ea irom marri gent O-0ODeTrs and A the New {1 Destitute Broke was 3 th ha Edir York caused mates f the Blind rsen eC). ne ( F O60 ir i entire Foreign. hich ears ft) i? Anti and decla wa which violate yYoeott called Of Turki equent 100 § annealing f+ y CARUBINE | arms, in one of which The new financial budget for Ans estimates the revenue at $378. 000000, nearly $5L,00.000 in excess officials the but have been Russian sphere merchants are ex in ad Japanese from Manchuria, mitted, The cussed ration sion. The Russian Constitutional Demo- cratic Congress, at Helsingfors, ad- journed after adopting a pronuncia- mento denouncing Premier Stolypin's administration. French ministry again dis the Church and State Sepa- Law, but reached no conclu- Ten pirates shipped as laborers on the German steamer Anna at Viadi- vostok and when the ship got to sea bound the officers and robbed the passengers. It is reported that Japanese emis. sarles have been sent to Java to cre. ate incidents to justify a Japanese naval expedition. The Portugese Chamber of Depu- tien adopted a bill providing for the renewal of the tobacco monopoly, Five terrorists were hanged in Lodz, Russian Poland, and five were shot in Bendzir. They had been con demned by drumhead court-martial. ONE SCOOPED IN ABOUT $7,000. Counts Upon Another Revolution to Fill His Purse When He Has Spent the Money He Stole in the Last - Disarmament Does Not Kill the Revolutionary Spirit. Huge stacks fit only for his- laid the insurrectors, about oncluded their “disarmament,” are inything but convincing proof to the 'eople of Havana that the uprising all over, No one here helleves that here will be any serious trouble that Havana (By Cable) ff antiquated arms torical museums down by ‘uban who have he force of the American arms in island at the present time cannot I with adequately any battles a dozen Irish-American not win nightsticks confidently that brush occurrence Or cop with but expected of frequent rebel rea War ir INSUrred fow the recent months war, rofital i nes ting each other usted Moderates revo that ho them and their own g od a took won't final to the brush DISPROVED IT WITH KISS. Rumors That And \Vife Were New York (Special) By imprint- ng a kiss on his wife's lips Elliott © Elliott Shepard Estranged. Shepard disproved the rumors of As she sailed for Havre on the French liner La Loraine, Shepard was asked regarding the report that he and his wife were estranged and that she was going to Paris prior to legal action Mrs, Shepard was sitting in the ship's saloon, near by, and smiled ns Mr. Shepard sald: “You can deny that for me. Here is an example of our happiness." With this he stepped over and kissed Mrs. Shepard. He said that he will follow her to France on an- other steamer in a few weeks, divorce a Three Men Killed. New York (Special). Three men were killed and a dozen others ren- dered unconscious by an explosion and fire in the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel under Long Island City. The dead men are said to be a superin- tendent named George Chapman, a lock-turner named Michael Daly and + foreman named Joseph Pearce. The cause of the explosion is un- known. ing, Mo has Hamilton arrested charged with the murder, and is said to have confessed Parsons had sold his farm and crops to Hamiiton, and it is alleged that the men quarreled over the terms of the sale Parsons and family set out from their former home in a covered wagon, bound for Northern Missouri The body of Parsons was found to death, and the mother and children had been eclubbe d to death Joda Hamilton, the alleged derer i8 in the Houston (Mo.) girongly guarded to prevent 1v He is sald to have made a confession, of which the following a summary: At a timber bordered place road, A farmer named been nd shot three mur jail nching complete in the as Parsons and his family were Iriving they armed aim ( along, were I Hamilton, Delibe rated discha and Par | Hami then d h IY with a Pa shotgun Ham- the ind reons, wl] both sons fell 14+ Hiton of { gun 10 the HOY 16 Ero iton advanced clubbe from of two of the ut noon 1iorhe ts A TOURIST'S NECK BROKEN. AN OLD FIRM FORCED TO WALL J. M. Ceballos & Co., of New York, Assigns, With Liabilities From Three to Four Millions Defal. cation of Manuel Silveira, Causes Financial Disaster. 1) The & Co., ith Habilities Ne ansls Yor k of J M ers and ‘Ww (Spec ia > 1- ment Ceballos bank Ww | between $2,000,000 and $4.000.000, merchants, Wednesday in declared that a) to defal | wag announced | statement which was due absconding Bllveira & Co. New York falcation is $ £1 G00 6606 | Havana company alleged to He on October 2, o n ’ ‘ . New Yor ty. to x ({f con Cebal LE | N Out Of Car Window, BULL CHARGES A LION. The And Causes Stampede, York Against Latter's Cage head ane crashing There bystanders Anna Post, down and kK » Cage, great fore« among the and Mrs was thrown broken in Kelly, who § » bull by a nose nd but for the Detective Henry have run spectators FINANCIAL WORLD. to of her had 1 ring prompt action the big animal amuck among lead- Away, of On ran would Umndon Pacific gust increased $327.496. J. J. Hill says he long nearly all his Erie stock The Western Union's net revenue for the last fiscal year showed a de- crease of $117,482 Dividend action on the Chesapeake & Ohio will be taken this week Three per cent. is expected Frick wants a bigger dividend on Cambric Steel. He also favors a larger one, it is sald, on Pennsylvania and Reading Northern Pacific had a surplus of $11,000,000 after paying interest on bonds and the dividend on its stock. Net profits on the year increased $6,213,000, or more than 25 per cent, net earnings in Au- ago sold is at in deal attention Schwab's big wheat tracting considerable gpeculative circles, Western Union shareholders rati- fied the action of directors in decid- ing to Issue $25,000,000 of 4 per cent. convertible bonde. Henry Wal- ters and J. J. Slocum were elected directors. When copper metal was only 17 cents a pound the Amalgamated Com- pany paid 8 per cent. dividends. The speculators wonder why it can't do as well now with copper at 211% cents a pound. ths Insane, sheriff's Astor Descendants New Yor k found ial) A Peter { SP that Denotthec) ury and his sister, Gabrielle Denottheck. i ftom rnd tend incompetent to a Denottheck and great-great-grandehil Astor Their y Denottheek. who wa a granddaughter of Mr. Astor. died in August in a private sanitarium. a large fortune. Peter and his of John Jacob Coc mother, and Eugenia Denottheck. an- other sister asked for lunacy commis- for. A Silent Wedding. Augusta, Ga. (Special). Miss Car- both deaf and dumb, were married here by Rev. O. J. Whildin, of Bal- timore, also a mute. The bridesmaid likewise was a mute. The couple are prominent in Georgia, the groom being a nephew of J. H. Estill, pro- prietor of the Savannah News. ————————— Desperadoes Captured, Dawson, Alaska (Special). —Hen- drickson and Thornton, the escaped despéradoes of the Tenama district, were captured Tuesday near Nation City, below Eagle, not far from where they escaped last week from the steamer Lavelle Young while en route to Seattle. Both men had wan- dered several days through the woods without foods or shelter and were in such a bad condition that they Jdid not resist the officers. The capture was made by Deputies Gertz and Vil- leneve. to he ¢ quipped to take ip the conte when he in Febr Secretaries calf may ai Pure Food Law ing of A becomes UAry General {for the ry a )e avandonmer a military ajor J H ne ‘nited wf died suddenl Secretary ion foners I'he National i COoragia I i! Law Hazing ha ited re Food cording BU Je GOT BACK WEDDING RING Mrs. It Ago A Hipkins In River Drops ad Ten Years i om ox- mu fr ’ plain h were H. to Perton at wedding iblie the ring by newsy raph that and ed in and head. Ae the MDers., again. FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES, Havoe Wrought On The West Coast Recent part ted i ind 1 of Jalisco great de- of life " struction ORS The number ing along the yf 1 Mexican 123 Thousands of tons of earth and descended in great landslides the mountains The new steel rallwas destroved, from dros T= vianzan i extengio Central Railway bridge below and a steam tons was borne ap H In one place the water rose Many houses were destroved floods in Tuxpan and Zapotillie Twenty-five lives wore lost in Ban- tiago River Fifteen were drowned by the capsizing ‘of a boat while crosging the river. All were natives, It has been sometime since there were such tremendous floods on the west coast, by Gives Up 850,000 In Feces, Chicago (Special) State's Attor- ney John J. Healey turned over to Cook County all the fees of his office for the last two years, amounting to $51,213. Healey's act was in ae. cordance with promises made by him before election, In which he declared that if elected he would accept the statutory salary of $10,000 as his compensation, and wounld turn over all the fees to the county. This fa the first time in the history of this country that a state's attorney has surrendered the fees of his office.
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