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,