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.
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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.