TATESTNEWS| | BY TELEGRAPH AA 555 Domestic The Interstate Club will erect a clubhouse on Walden's Ridge, near Chattanooga. The house and grounds will cost several million dollars, Former Senator Blackburn will be president and President Roosevelt will be vice president. ; The New York Public Service Com- mission has decided that scrip divi dends cannot be issned under the law, and has denied the application of the Erie Railroad for authority. to issue such dividends. District Attorney Jerome is prepar- ing his answer to the charges of aeglect of duty for falling to prose- sute the men who bankrupted the Metropelitan Street Railway Com- pany. Commandant Fullam, of the naval sraining station at Newport, reports that it {8 expected to graduate this rear 7,000 apprentice yoemen, mu- Heians and cooks for the service. Rev. Dr. Theodore M. Riley, rector »f Christ Church, at Hudson, N. Y,, sxplained his withdrawal as first vice jresident of the recently organized Ainglo-Roman Union. Joseph Gallloux, 37 lumber's helper, was found mur- Jonca in his shop at Lowell, Mass, ind a former roommate has been ar- rested on suspiclon. During a riot among Italians em- loved on construction work north of Steubenville, O., one foreigner was atally stabbed and another was ‘hrown under a street car and ground io pleces. A fire which destroyed the plant of jhe Rubber Goods Manufacturing Sompany, Chicago, drove about nen employed in the place into the itreet in a panic. Dr. C. Voline, years old, a 25 president received threatening letters stating that he is under sentence of death by the Black Hand. The extreme cold and deep SDOWS | pave caused the more ferocious wi ild | ingdon, Pa. to become exceedingly dangerous. the house at Florissant, Col., then blew out his own brains. The first state 12 miles south Nortl yorn Pacific, $3,000 in currency. Edward R. homas F. Thomas, terprise, were for violating while they were Provident Life Bociety, which they othy L. Woodruff information that Snow, the de Cloud, on was robbed of and Orlando | indicted in New the Insurance Law in control of the Savings Assurance bought from Tim- Henry Company, who disappeared two weeks ago, had been seen botel Toronto, Can. day reached the Brooklyn police. phone in burned, a dozen more severely in- jured and scores were rescued during two early morning fires in New York. Portuguese in New England held united services in memory of King | Carlos and Crown Portugal. Mrs. Anna M. Philadelphia, one of women of America, was Frederick Courtland Penfield Patrick's Cathedral, New York. and Mrs. Penfield left the richest married to in St Mr. Brazil, E. at and Mrs. prayer, A coroner's jury have blamed Mr. Palmer, healers by death of their child. Miners at Juneau, a riot when officiate at the funeral of a nonunion | miner. The Great Northern Railway Com- | pany will pay the State of Minnesota | a million in taxes this year. Chillicothe, Mo., option. Justice Guy, of the Supreme Court of New York, set aside a verdict and | fined 12 jurymen who had tossed a coin to decide a case. gassinated in Denver, wore bands of | gsharp-pointed steel next his body to scourge his flesh. Foreign In the ratification by the Prussian House of Lords of the principle of the Polish expropriation bill a num- with the Emperor voted against the government. The . Women's Disfranchisement Bill pacsed its first reading in the British House of Commons by 271 to 92. The suffragettes went wild when they learned the news. The French government has taken more vigorous measures to end the state of anarchy in the Moroccan Eme- pire and reinforcements of 5,000 men will be sent there. Noted Russian writers are engaged in preparations for the international celebration of the eighticth anniver- sary of Count Tolstol's birth. Two bombs were thrown at the _ Shah of Persia in Teheran. He es- “ecaped, but three of his outridens ware killed and 21 persons injured. ' he principle of the French gov- ernment’s Income tax bill was indors- ed by the French Chamber of Depu- ties by a vote of 386 to 148. Boven of the terrorists charged . with complicity fi the plot to assas- ginate Grand Puke Nicholajevitch “and the Minister of Justice were con- ~ demned to death by a military court in Bt Petersburg. Lord Kitchener's expedition against the Zakkakhels tribesmen for ralde In the Indian Territory has been suc- “cesaful, The tribesmen's foree has been scattered dnd thelr forts de _ #troyed. Official denial was given in Paris to the story that there was friction . between the United States and France over the Haytian revolutionists who ate. refugees in the French consu- ate Extraordinary efforts are being ‘made to secure the release of Nicho- las haikovsky, the revolutionist, rom the fortress in Bt. Petersburg. | OVER 300 BUILDINGS BURNED IN TAMPA, FLA. Fifty-Five Acres of Southern City Laid in Ashes. BLOW TO THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY. Many Cigar Factories Being Among the Buildings Destroyed—One Cuban Weman Drops Dead from Fright —Weak Water Pressure Cripples Fire Department. Tampa, Fla. (Special) .- The en- tire extreme northeastern section of the city proper was destroyed by fire, which raged from 9 A. M. to 1 P. M, Sunday. The area burned covered 56 acres and 308 buildings were de- stroyed, with a loss estimated at £600,000. The burned section large and one small cigar factories, and numerous restaurants, saloons, boarding-houses and over 200 dwell- ings, occupied by cigar makers. The factories burned were those of AL Stachelberg & Co., losa $100,000; M, Perez & Co. lass $50,000; Gonzales, Fisher & Co. loss $40,000; Esberg, Gunst & Co., branch of Stachelberg, loss $40,000; Fernandez & Brother, loss $20,000. All factories carried large stocks of tobacco and cigars. The area swept by fire embraced all that por- tion of the city between Twelfth and Michigan Avenues, and Sixteenth and Twentieth Streets. It originated in the boarding house of Antonlo Diaz, 1714 Twelfth Avenue, and fanned by a strong wind, spread out, fan-shap- ed, defying the efforts of the entire city fire department, which was crip- pled by very weak water pressure, Occupants of over 200 dwelling- houses, thrown into a panic, out, attempting to save thelr belong- ings. One woman, included four fatality is reported, a Cuban who dropped dead from | her body being rescued from | [the burning house with difficulty. In the Stachelberg factory was de in whic h| at the | valued | the cigars were displayed 0060, home of Miguel Rodriguez, f achild in At the the buildings other than destroyed were the hotels of Perez and Caras, six saloons, Among factories cafes Maxima twelve | car barns of the Company, containing and owing of trolley The Tampa Electric 20 cars, was to the de- wires cars could fire finally burn- RISKED LIFE FOR HIS DOG, COUNTRY MORALLY SOUND AND BETTER Roosevelt Lauds the Dignity of Manual Labor. PRESIDENT TO EDUCATORS, “Fundamentally, | is sound, morally no less than | physically. Fundamentally, in its | family life and in the outside ac | tivities of its individuals the country is better and not worse | than it formerly was, This does | not mean that we are to be exe | cused if we fail to war against. | rottenness and corruption, if we fail to contend effectively against the forces of evil; and they waste their time who ask me to with- hold my hand from dealing there- I with.” this country “I trust that more and more our people will see to it that the schools train toward and not from the farm and workshop. We have spoken a great deal about the dignity of labor in this country, but we have not acted up to our spoken words, for in our education we have tended to | proceed upon the assumption that the educated man was to be edu- cated away from and not toward labor.” “Teach the boy that he is to | be expected to carn his own live- | lihood, that it is a shame and | scandal for him not to be self-de- | pendent, not to be able to hold his own in the rough work of actual | life. Teach the girl that so far from its being her duty to try to i avoid all labor, all effort, that it | should be a mmtter of pride to her to be as good a housewife as | her mother was before her.” : 1OCAL OPTION FOR OHIO, Passes Measure And Believed Governor Will Sign It | House Ohio two { Special). — After debate, the Columbus, more than hours’ the county aption bill. The vole was 78 to 36. Several amendments were offered, but all were voted down. will now go to the gov- will sign The bill provides that election may ibe held within any county to vole on the question of banishing saloons upon petition of 356 per cent, of the qualified voters. A majority of the | the policy county. Stringent regulations for the en- of the law provided law will not go into effect until are Many Spectators, Paterson, N. J. (Special) .- —Robert | a silk worker, ving at To-| near this city, risked his life life of an old bulldog had thrown into the basin. Walker, who descended perpendicular cliff on falls basin and Falls marooned on an icefloe off shore. It was impossible | launch a rowboat in the basin | 50 i About 300 persons saw the rescue i rope was tied around the It had been a prisoner for | 18 hours, PILLOEIED FOR PUNISHMENT. phone Pole. Il. (Special). Harrisburg, H i Dillou, said to be a former Chicago gambler, {pole all day for refusing to pay his {fine on the charge of Neecing several | young men of the town. He was running a poker game, Shackles were placed about his feet, and he was | in the lockup yard. Chief Pridwell says the character of the punishment was advised by Judge McKenzie, who fined the prisoner. The Chief said Dillon would be chained up daily until he paye his fine or agrees to work on the city Streets. Woman Full ot Ground Glass, Marietta, O. (Special). Physicians here are much interested in the re- markable case of Mrs. Frank Stage, from whose body 810 pieces of glass have worked out through sores all over her person. It is believed that crushed glass was placed in the woman's food, and that it Is coming from her body. The pieces are mi nute. The water in the well on the Stage place was found poisoned re- cently. One Dead At Piteh Fire. Greensboro, N, C. (Special) <A 4- year-old child dead, a 2-year-old child probably fatally burned and a 15-year-old boy seriously injured was the result of the ignition of a pot of pitch tar near this city, The fath- er of one of the boys put a pot of pitch on a stove to melt, leaving the 16-year-old boy In charge, anl it caught fire. win Visit Acapulco. Mexico City (Special). — The tend. org and smaller vessels of the Amer fean fleet of warships will visit the port of Acapulco on their way to the Bay of Madgalena, The Mexipan government will accord this portion of the fleet an official welcome at Acapuleo, and plans are now being arranged. It is expected that a dele. gation of officials will go to Acapul- co from this city to greet the visi- |S2500 FOR GRE] TAN NOSE. Woman Physic -— . Marred in Crash, ' She Gets That Amount, Chicago (Special). — Beauty tendant upon a perefet Grecian nose was apprised at $2500 by a jury in the Surperior Court Dr. Bessie M Andrus, a8 handsome young physi clan, suffered Injury to her nose on a street car some time ago and sued for $20,000 damages. On the witness stand the young physician commented upon the form of her nose, “It was of the perfect type,” sald ghe, “many persons admired the beauty” of my nose and commented upon its graceful and perfect lines It was what is commonly called a perfect Grecian nose Since the ace cident its beauty has been marred and spoiled.” at- Southern Men On Wages, Washington, D. C. (Special). i Committees men and of the Railroad Telegraph- ‘way had conferences with General Managers Ackert on the general ques- | tion oi a proposed reduction of wages | ion the system. The conferences were | inconclusive and it was arranged to} further discuss the matter at a Ister | time, | WASHINGTON Postmaster General Meyer is of the | opinion that it is prejudical to the ploy boys as special delivery messen- | gers in the postal service, and has when a vacancy occurs the position shall not be filled and that substi- tute letter-carriers and clerks shall be employed. The President received the defense of Judge LI. R. Wilfley, of the Con- sular Court at Shanghal, China, and against whom charges have been filed. It is understood that Secre- tary Root has advised the President to exonerate Wilfley und send him back to his court. Passage by Congress of a new em- ployers’ liability law was asked be- fore the House Judiciary Committeo by H. R. Fuller, representing the railroad engineers, firemen, and brakemen of the country, and M. N. (logs, representing the railway con- ductors, Rear Admiral Mason, chief of the Burean of Ordnance, was before the Senate committee investigating the criticism of naval construction, The Senate Committee on the Phil- ippines made a favorable report on the bill removing the restrictions placed by the coustwise laws of the ping. The House formally agreed to the ftem In the Army Appropriation Bill for the increase of the pay of en- ficors of the Army. The House adopted by a large ma- jority the Mann resolution to move the Committee on W and Means ANOTHER COAL STRIKE MAY BE IMPENDING The Miners Threaten to Stop Work on March 31, MR. MITCHELL RETIRES APRIL 1. Conference Between Joint Committees of Miners and Operatorsat Indianapo- lis Adjourns “Without Reaching an Agreement — Warning to tiie Opera- tors Is Given by Secretary Wilson. Indianapolis, Ind. (8pecial).— The joint committee of coal miners and operators of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana ang Illinois adjourned here sine die, without reaching an agreement on the proposal to call a joint convention to re-establish the interstate agreement and fix a new wage scale to go into effect on 1. The final disagreement max to months of argument strategic sparring for position which characterized joint meetings held | October, December and January. less concessions are made by one or both sides the union bituminous coal miners of the country may Cease i work on March 31. i the final Chapman, moved that defeated before | disagreement. President tof the Ohio operators, the present wage scale be continued (during April that more time be given to reach an agreement Secretary Wilson, of the miners’ organization, opposed the motion and it was de- feated. He warned the operators that { there would be no continuance of mining after March 31 unless a agreement was then ided. ! President Traer, of the Iilinois ap erators, moved that the joint commit. tee adjourn until March 10. This was defeated by the Ohio and West- {ern Pennsylvania operators. Vice President James Clark, of the West- ern Pennsylvania miners, moved to adjourn sine die, and this was de feated by the Ohio and the lllinois miners A motion adjourn until March 16 also met with defeat. The last motion, made Ogle, of the Indi: adjourn sine die, ry effort falled the req of the operators nade and unde ¢ io AM operators, 1o carried after an agreement by ina was “Ve had At chell, b the to reach uest of President Mit. miners’ organization. and miners indorsed bill now before Congress to ap propriate $200,000 to investigate re- cent mine disasters and safety ex plosives and to make recommenda tions Both yoth operators and miners by influ nois operators, who are gow convention with the miners that state, have not reached an agree- ment, and they asked for more time before going into a joint convention President Mitchell retires of- fice on April 1, when he will be suc- ceeded by Vice President Lewis were [i joint ing CDCeR in Of op Pos i ¢ ry prom TREASURY'S GREAT STRENGTH. For First Time Gold Coin And Bul. Hon Reaches $1,000,000,000, Washington, D. C. (Special ).—The United States Treas ury at the present time was com- mented upon In the House of Repre- sentatives by Mr. Boutell (111). He sald he had just been informed by Treasurer Treat that for the first time the gold eoin and bullion in the | United States had reached and passed the suin of one thousand mil dollars "an event so extraordinary.” ‘he said, "that It will be and commented upon with surprise and amazement in center in the world; affiliation, may well and (regard to party ‘contemplate with satisfaction pride.” The announcement of Mr. was greeted with applause. TOOK PLACE OF CORPSE. Boutell Clergyman Rides In Hearse To Keep From Freezing, { Pittsfield, Mass eight miles inside a hearse to keep | from freezing was the unusual ex- i perience of Rev. Charles J. Palmer, an Episcopal minister, who was call- (ed to New Ashford to read the com- | mittal service over the body of one of | the oldest residents of that town. The ' | thermometer registered below zero, ‘wind. After committing the body to the earth, the rector took the place of i the casket in the hearse and rode to Lanesboro, stretched out inside the carriage. Shoots Three, Then Dies. Lamar, Mo. (Special). Lee Hart, a coal hauler, shot and killed Mr= Joseph Edwards, his mother-in-law, seriously wounded the latter's hue- band, and then committed suidide by I¥ing across the track and letting the Et. Louis, San Francisco fast express run over his body. Hart first fired two shots at his wife, following a family quarrel; but she escaped with a slight flesh wound. sons A ANA BAS 200 Men Entombed, Coahuila, Mexico (By Cable). At 5 o'clock A. M. there was an explo- sion of gas in Mine No. 3 of the Cla Carbon de Sabinas Mines, at Rosita, There are about 200 men working in the mine and none has yet come out. It is feared that many are dead or badly burned. simian ila ini Wolt Anvades Town. Chaffee, Mo, (Special). A fam- {shed wolf came out of the swamp near here and ran through the streots, biting three persons before ft was killed. Allen Stokes, a rail- road employe, was #0 severely bits | op ately started for St. Louis for treat. ment; Jeaving hydrophobla. John | th aad THE SH OF PERSIH HAS A CLOSE CALL a ————————n A HANIA WW OUST W. T. JOROME Ou'riders, Persia {( By Cable) the Shah Teheran, bombs Persia Bireets, were thrown us he through The ruler escaped unh but three of his outriders were killed and 21 persons were injured... The would be assassins escaped the fact that the Shah, many threats have made, had taken the send a closed motor car ahead own carriage there ig little he would have been killed. Tie gpirators were awaiting him on the on the street adjoin through which he passed is the street in which the was committed that it to do little more than drop the explosives from above practical certainty that the) miss the target It i8 plain that the j§ posed the ah was the two bombs were succession it pass hiding place. The first exploded in the second fell almost underneatl the car and burst with terrific lence, The motor was blown to |} and the guards and spectat lined the streets heaps The door of the h broken open by the building the would be murderer reached another roof and fled The driver of the Bhah's « had quickly pulled up report, and the vehicle, by guards, was driv fo the palace The ruler has points with a large element subjects for some of 1 efforts ‘o stitution The however been B ft drove who been precaution to against recently of ni doubt &0 in the one outrage otters si in the moto thrown as the wer: se va 1 the was Iy while sacked POLICY being 1 gy bes Ln time i% granted atiempt was re ! the disords raging in m and it WHE Over ubsided trouble American ( Sougratal: wics Washington (Bpecial) Ti Persia will intions of the 1 his escape This RBAKC, Root, was cab at Teheran “Convey wo ftulations of receive American from signed ied to on mes M His Ex CORRTA on 1 cape.” SYMPATHY FOR STOESSEL Cableg To Paper. Nogi Sends gram Cincinnati { Special of General Cincinnati Nogi., commander forces that captured Port pressed sympathy enemy In Lirief arrived here On the receipt General Stoesse]l had and sentenced to death duct of the defense of the Cincinnati Times-Star sent blegram to General Nogl stat fact and asking for an exp his views, The Japanese repl “As a soldier 1 with General Sloecasel I cannot to state my views ix his con- Arthn CA~ thi he for Port g ession of fed deeply mpathiz« hear Decision, { Special A Unique Columb 0. of Supreme The de- in the Bayer ver the court Olice 10 the County case of shows that ordinary n saloonkeeper not to sell to ard as sufficient a basis for « resulting from such subsequent In this case the wile simply said the management: "Don't rell ‘any If he in That te he id to cision Court Franklin gus Mschlite a a dru lamages CER NK- to be sufficient. To End Alleged Merger. Guthrie, Okla Haskell sent 5 ¢ Attorney-General West ceedings to dissolve an alleg ¢ nication to ing pro- ed mer- L408 {Special} aan BY ay y 4 . SLIT orde; i Railroads in Oklaboma recites that the interests that the manage- in the same they are lines are under ment, and that sense competitive. Poisoned By trend Pencil. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Special) Miss She was a clerk in a laundry, and had to mark articles with the pencils. To do this she moisivned it continually with her lips. A couple of days ago she was taken sick, and the physicians say she has heen poisoned, NA SBMS HOS ——— FINANCIAL Pennsylvania directors aniroved the annual statement. “Rallway traffic shows but little chanke,” sald a Philadelphia director in a leading company. A drive was made at Missouri Pa cific which was very weak. At $30 a share the stock has discounted un entire suspension of dividends. The k of England retains its 4 per cent. discount rate. Lake SBuperior's annual meeting has been postponed again to March 18. “ St. Paul railroad directors declar. ed the usual semiannual dividend of 3% per cent. Chi banks have overaubsoribe ed hE $5,000,000 of § per cunt. J3.90 Company's bonds. Pulao the beginning of the jyoar, Sccurding to iu. owns oficial report, ecru £3 i i | g Ettorrev, Beinr the Advocate of Allegation Tiat He Failed Insurance Of- Street Railway of the lich to Prosecvte Life ficial« or Pro e the Seandals, wr g § y {Bpecinly,; fwoenly- a i of Attor- York, Hughes Le f stock- ew York rie ari Dade in the to Governor Commi A sak ang X19 Mero; siroet Hughes Will Take Useal Course. { Special) Gover. hat the charges “Me rchants’ chargos whl } AtLOorne maintain,” f the bla i —— ieplorabd in rict ues oO Mr. Jerome, t prosecute the uential gre vhod our peonl dis graced name of our cily, coo mencing with the Ice, Trust in- famous liga” which fiiched the mon ey of policy holders from thoe* great ins IrANCS iid. last the list but ha Ie an dacily agtealin the the due to as District rich and afters 1 od have companies first in open and burefaced who looted and politan Traction 3 wWroes Company mon ed OHIO WIFE'S ORD Rn “GOES." “ell Drink To My Husband" Safficient, Court Holde, { Special) The Court in the of Baver against shows that the court regards any ordinery notice to a enloonkeoncs pot to gel! to a drunk- ard as sufiicient a bazis for damages resulting from snch sabseogquent sale. In this case thy wife simply said to the maoagor: sell any more dvink to Gua; comes in here kick him out” iz held to be sufficient Columbus, Olio County oagse bm a3. Laas Machiite, “iaon’t if Le That STOLSSEL ASKS rou PARDON, Port Arthar Commander Petitions Czar To Set Asie Sentence, St. Petersburg (Dy Cable) «Lies tenant Goneral Sloemsel, who on Feb raary 20 was conficmaed to death for the surrender of the Port Arthar fortress to the Japanese, has peti tioned Emperor Nicholas for a fall pardon. . The cour: recommended that the death sentence be corimated to ten venrs imprisonment in a fortress and that the general be excluded {rom the service. osm Steck Biast Injures Tr oar, Johnstown, Pa. (Epecial), ~~ With # concussion that shook houses and business buildings within a radius of goveral blocks, broke windows and inflicted, other damage (0 the prope erty, an explosion in the iron come verter building of the Cambria Steel Company, seriously injured four men and practically wrocked the largo building. In id of the mixing pans Ans thore 1a fee, and , ny aa
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