In- A Mission Of Mercy [uternational complications may result frm serious friction between Governor Swettenham, British execu- tive of Jamaica, and Rear Admiral Davis, in command of the American warships sent to Kingston by order mane purposes, According to the Asoclated and correspondents of English papers at Kingston, Admiral of t battleships Missouri and In- diana and the gunboat Yankton galled Saturday Brit- B ish reports from correspondent new Press he afternoon, having peremptorily or- viral to re-embark the » rains the Governor dered bluejackets | of the Ameri in keepi The the fix warsh that aid the American declared American the and for honor need sed bet Admiral, in ultingly ques- the motives and peremp- »mbark his ( ween the Gover which tioned of the torily men The the the vel Americ ler or food for Ab the Governor which the fc rie in Dead. {By as great Francis and V of pe have Thousands Jamaica Cable) as calamiti paraiso been killed, being taken dreds The and the gre: smouldering burnt flesh | The earthqt oscillation, n direction, but up and Jdown ands of of Kingston numbers of Many Am killed and hav Realizing the p the made The military, however, possession of ments of troops were placed on guard They concentrated in a central position No one allowed to pass through the ruined sections of the city. Old Volcano Active, rsons dead bodies debri 2 town a sudden particular Thous- the streot perso Ki buried gibility of famine, ts to loot once took Detach- been Ff people attemi at foodstuils is is injured there that at Anotta Bay an extinct voleano is and smoke, and it is the earthquake origi The records of Jamaica of ac It is reported the crater of emitting flam¢« thought that nated there { contains no previous mention { tivity of this voleano Coast Lines Changed. from Phil: y ithh a small The jella, del | phia, arrived here w | go of provisions I standstill Some she by Chinamen, prices on good This angered the Chinamen were hops looted. of famine rop which Medical gteamer 2+ $ y i at a 15iness 34} been Ope ned who rais | ed | cent. the 80 rell “ni { ied «fd and the Committe r enti n Vv a total Tourists Fleeing Swepts Coast Line, Tidal Wave City Gaandually Sinking. 8t. Augustine, Fl 3 i Wireles gtation Electric ton is sink and cracks 1 ed by the eart fears are hquak¢ 4 ill slip in Another tal corps, @ ndant from the United at Guantanamo have the stricken island Escape Of Noted Englishman. London (By Cable) head of the party WEAR States naval ¥ oeen Wir of distin- ure of water supply, owing to the bursting of a reservoir, and no water will be obtainable before Friday The military suffered severely. The hospital camp, where there were several hundred soldiers, was burn- ed *and a number of the men lost their lives. Major W. H., Hardyman and Lieutenant Leader are dead. Col. J. R. M. Dairymple-Hay and Major Lawrenson are seriously in- jured. Part of the town of Port Royal has sunk, and two men were drown- ed. The batteries sunk eight feet, killing a sapper. In some places the water is spouting through the debris. The shock was severe at Rich- mond, and this town also was de- gtroyed by fire. Spanish Town also was damaged. One man was killed Compliments Judge Gray. Washington (8pecial)-~The House adopted a joint resolution suggesting the reappointment of Judge George Gray, of Delaware, as one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institu- tion, his term having expired January 14, It is desired that this appoint. ment be made now, as the regents are to meet Wednesday to elect a successor to the late Professor Lang- ley. Jamaica earthquake, had from death in the Evening Standard prints a sent from Holland Bay, ing detalls. Sir Alfred had just finished lunch- eon at the Myrtle Bank Hotel and gone on to the hotel pler with Jesse Collings, M. P., and other members of the party, who were amusing a escape The patch Sir Alfred left to return to the hotel reached the open space of the building when the came Both the hotel and the pier he had just left were destroyed. Being in the open, Bir Alfred escaped all in- jury. Gerald Loder was another who had A NArrow escape. He was in the Jamaica Club, in Hanover BSireet, at the time the bnilding was demolish- ed. He was thrown to the floor by the rocking of the building, but a chair fell over him, protecting him from falling timbers, He was dug out later with slight injuries. the He in front crash gro divers, plier had IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Bank of England reduced its Jdis- count rate from 6 to § per cent, John Kent Kane has been elected vice-president of the Lincoln Savings & Trust Company. Lackawanna has on a transaction of 200 ghares. It fell 32% points to 480, A big stock or bond issue by the Southern Raflway and another by the Erie are supposed to be surely quite a tumble { forth coming. A TRAN BLOWN FROM THE TRACK Sixty Killed and Injured On The Big Four. FREIGHT CAR OF FOWDER EXPLODES. Terrible Accident Occurs in and Rain Near Terre Haute Score of Charred and Mutilated Bod- jes Have Been Taken From the Wreck and the Death List May Reach Forty. Over a Ferre Haute, Indiana (Special) broken, muti the accomino charred, two ed bodie were taken from nouldering ruins of the the Cleve and St follow lation passenger train on innati, Chicago Four) Railroad, by nowder as Louis truction the explosion it passed Ind., five Haute, The total at least at Sandford, Terre will Shock Felt Chirty Miles, the mined, need Town Of Sanford Damaged. ‘ 300 HOUSES FLOODED. Cincinnati Flooded And The Waters Overflow (iy f $ €Y Riverfront Tracks, HOTEL WASHED AWAY, legheny River Gone, Three the Pa., t as gov- con- urg., Pa. (Special) et of the west b Ri at ank of gdale, the nigh ver Sprin 1 of the bursting of dam, and the e A large frame dwelling, Forniff House, was car down the river Nine other ellings and the Heldenkamp Mir- ror Company's plant aire in imminent danger The occupants of the removed their hou the n ros he houses } all sehold goods The Forniff building and unoecuiped for sometime o'clock the river was within 30 feet of the West Penn Railroad tracks, and families beyond the rallroad were preparing to move out During the day five more were undermined and fell into the river None of the buildings were occupied, the tenants having vacated Major Sibert has decided that only way to prevent further destruc- tion of property dam near the current from the shore He has no- tified the War Department and awaiting instructions. dwelling had been At houses was an old £100,000 Fire At Scranton, Pa. (Special). Fire fromh a burning culm pile at the Avo- ea Colllery, of the Erie Company, at Avoca communicated with the break- er and the structure was destroyed, The flames spread to the washery building, 100 feet from the breaker, and it was badly damaged. Many breaker boys had narrow escapes, but all got out safely, The loss on the washery and breaks:r will reach nearly 8100,000. Scranton, 50 EWE former ident nal pre Bank, rer yy el graiag after he h Andrew Cari bi 4 l ne Pe nn (quire 3 « and Erie A hither with bone | Tennessee, The MacAndres pans of New 000 and Baltimore, | States Circuit | for combining trade in lic Miss Mary found with schoolhouse a Hall, who in his throat {had a quarrel I'he plant of Manufacturi nnan ontrol York, the § i was the Rob- with a gash had ert found and (a Chin their starving ring famine- hat and devou the tricken own chil tatride x is \ at 1 Alps, gevere the Carnie Italy Two earthquake were felt at Kuba, Province of shocks Baku, rr It is believed in British official cir- cles that the aproaching meeting be- | tween Secretary Root and Earl Grey, governor general of Canada, will re in arranging the controversies | that have Wen lohg pending The Ameiican consul general at | Antwerp has discovered important frauds in the exportation to the I'nited States of infected rags in the guise of jute bagging ! Neg for peace between the Germang and the rebellious na- tives in German Southwest Africa | have been broken off and serious i fighting is in progress The North German Fire Insurance | Company of Hamburg will appeal | against court decision that it must | pay sustained in San Fran- | eisco earthquake. | The pretender to the throne of | Morocco hag about run his race, and | his followers are said to be desert- jing Three terrorists were hanged in {a row in the public gardens at Odes- ga, Russia. Count Nicholas Tolstol, adminis- | trator of the imperial estates in Mos- cow Province, lost his life while try- {ing to save imperial funds. ault losses ed with a speech delivered by Crown Prince Gustave Two prisoners were killed and sev- eral severely wounded while trying to break jail In Lugansk, Russia. A second attempt was made to blow up the Russian Company At- lantic Line steamer Gregory Moreh. Simon Newcomb, the astronomer, has been made a commander of the Legion of Honor. Smallpox is adding to the suffer. ings of the famine sufferers in China. A general stike of the stevedores fg threatened at Havana. HOUSE VOTES FOR THE. HIGHER SALARIES Increase From $5000 to $7,500 Per Annim. Opportunity Offered When the Legis- Some Interesting Happenings Erieily Told, Decides Power For Companies, | | | | the Senate Themselves on Record. LE § y Washington, House to $7 and | ate acquis { House, through val The an amendment Judicial the Executive and Bill, which t The Hou of sa #4 is ation iB ite salari Startling Charges Against Suicide Congressman. ated to bonds Robert Adams esgman kevs to : had fa Canal bonds tified his brother, was fixed Cariton dition such that not attend to business and th ters were left in the hands Congressman A hroker testified that Adams had pleged Pennevivania any bonds valued at $10. a loan $2,900 Of the remaining bonds, valued at about $60,000, no trace has been found It also claimed that a part of the accumulated income of his fath- er's ostate, of which Congressman Adams had charge, was unaccounted for. In proof of his assertion the at torney for H. Carlton Adams produc- ed in court a letter from the suicide congressman, written in Washington the day he ended his life, in which he said he was sorry he had caused a “mess,” and urged that H. Carl- ton Adams be not held responsible J iscoven were (iss Robert, Sub- con- he at Congress mat Canal Comjy 000 for of Was It Is thought that counsel, upon in- Convention Of Mineworkers, Indianapolis, Ind. (Special) .—-The convention of the United Mingwork- ers of America voted $1,000 for the relief of the families of the victims of the Clinton (Ind.) mine disaster, in which eight were killed, and adopted a resolution pledging the support of the national organization to Mover and Heywood, the imprison. od miners in Idaho. The action of the last national convention regard. ing them was reiterated. fommniiss Artillery Co Congress And The Deg | be commissioner o Office I'he Senats r increasing Arms passe the Senator | amendment | vilie resolution tention the question the icharge the negro troops Secretary of State panied by his wife and dau Washington for Ottawa. Canada where we will be entertained by Earl Grey, the governor general A report was made by Chairman Shonts to the Senate committee, Je claring that borings made had shown a suitable foundation for posed Gatun dam A resolution was adopted National Board of Trade proposing changes in the Bankruptey Law The Isthmian Canal Commission is disposed to award the contract, for building the canal to Oliver & Bangs at their bid. The House Committee on Military Affairs decided to make a favorable report of the Hull Bill for the re. organization of the artillery of the Army. Representative Olmsted. of Penn- sylvania, became the champion of the Carlisle Indian School in the House. Commissioner of Corporations Gar- field, while before the House Come mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, indorsed the Townsend bill, providing for an investigation by presidential direction of all labor. the disclaim part to on re A its froesigen ? yn loot. accom ghter, left the pro by the and eapital disputes,
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