4 St w Jl rM ribtuxe. .--sSTiKiU tiri i i-LY a- 'iBl JWS&f i A'S TWO CENTS. SCRANTON, PA., MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1900. TWO CENTS. a ib. y BIG BATTLE IS EXPECTED No Change in the Situa tion at the Seat of War. ANXIETY AT LADYSMITH Besiegers Havo Been Quiet for Two Days but Arc Evidently Making Preparations for Another Attack. Everything Points to a Desperate Battle Within the Next Two or Three Days The British Prosecu tions of the Dutch Are Regarded as Impolitic Boberts and Kitchener Welcomed with Tcrvor. Lad smith, Jan. 12 Friday. By hellogiaph. Tho bcslegcis have been quiet for two days, but can be soon in active movement on the distant hills. Wo have perceived two small bodies galloping with two machine guns. The Boer heavy piece on Hulwrna lilll lias not been lired for two davs. .Menu liner dead have been found at the base of Clears rami), All Is well hoie. Boer Hc.ulquaiters at Colcnso, Thuisduy, Jan. 11. Via Pietoiia, via Lourenzo M.iiques, Friday, Jan. 12. Kvetythlng points to a great battle within tlio next few days. Ladysmlth for tlio last two nights has been tiling lockets. The object la not known lieie. No Change in Situation. London, Jan. 11. The war office is sued at midnight a dispatch fioin Field Marshall Bobeits, dated Capo Town, Sunday, Januaiy 11, S.IiO p. m., nayiug: 'Theie ii no change in the situation today." London, Jan. 15. Th war office simultaneously irued tiie following fioni Lord Bobeits dated Cape Town, Januaiy 13, 3.30 p, in.: "Mi thucn's cavalry loconnalssancc letumed on January 11. Went twenty-five miles Into Fiee State. Country dear ot enemy, except patrols. "All quiet at Modeler river. 'Tiencli reconnolteted around the eiiem.v's left flank on Januaiy 10. Ad vanced from Llutugcis farm on Jan uaiy II, with cav.tliy and horfp nrtll Iniy to bombard Boer laager east of Colesluug Junction, but was finable to nmil.i'ik tl.e cnemv. "Reconnaissance of civalry and mounted Infantry pushed noith to Uaatai fix N'ek and examined country lioi th ot ridge. "UatJcii rcpoils no change. "All well on December IS at Mafek lng." Cape .Town, "Wednesday, Jan. 10. The proceedings for treason instituted against the Dutch colonials who wero tnKeu in aims at Sunnyside are being pressed. Witnesses have been inter rogated today. The preliminary ex amination before the magistrate will be held inter and tho trial will prob ably be conclude 1 by the supreme couit. The colonial Djtch point out that these picRpeutlons will seivo to make moie libels, as they consider the treatment of the ptlsonera designed to terrify thrm. Some Hi Items regard th? piosccutlons as Impolitic, in view of the fact that the Boers ate able to let.illate upon tho 100 Uiltish officer and the 2. MO privates In their hands, and might t,o so unless all who fight In the Boer ranks aio treated ns prls ( on eis of v,ar. I The IJjor keep up a continuous sniping near Dordrecht, Five colonials wcie captured on Mon ti n v. YeMerclay the Amciican residents gao a dinner to Webster Davis. United States assistant seciotaiy of the interior I,oi d Ttob.T'T and Lend 'Kitchener weie mot fe.vently leeeivod on their arrival at Cape Town. Boer Casualties. Prctoiia, Jap. 11, via Lorenzo Mar ques. I'm sldent Kiuger, In the course of o stilling address Just Issued to Die butgheis, nllirms that Providenv 's on their side: that their cause Pi just, and that they must succeed. fiepoits Hum Colesburg repiosenl tho position theie; as favoiable to the lepublleans. but that tho British aio roncentiatlng for opeiationa on a laigj i.eale. The official list of the Boer cas unities in whit Is cilP-d the Pla: Band light on Saturday, Jan. 6 (the at tack upon Ladysmlth), shows twenty six killed and seventy-seven wounded. These flguien aio dehciiliod as tin "first returns." The ernbaigo at Dulagoi luy upon Tiansvaal impoits is tho question of the hour with tho buigheis. Jf thii Is not temoved it is asseited that steps will be taken prejudicial to piisoneiB and aliens. Dnrban, N.vtiil, Jan. 10. Theru Is .: Hour commando in SJambaans coun try, Kululund, within a day's march of tho sea, with wagons. It Is' believed to be wnttlng for supplies and ammu nition seeictly landed near St. Lucia bay. The Boers havo looted all the stores and mines In the Swaziland teirltoiy and the lulned native aio completing the dcsttuctlon. Modder Blver, Thuiaday, Jan. 11. General Bablngton, with two legiments of Lancers, the Victoria Mounted Hlfies and a battel y of horso artillery, left here on the evening of Jan. 7 (Sunday) and crossed the Free State border on Tupsday mom lug. Simultaneously other movements weie made. A column under Colonel Pilchcr went ftom Belmont to tho south of General Uablngton's route, while a portion of the garrisons of Klokfonteln and Honey Nest Kloof, under Mujor Byrne, advanced toward Jacobsdal. (Icnctal Bablngton pene trated twelve miles and his scouts twenty. They saw no signs of armed Boers. The farm houses weio found empty, the occupants having had news of the advancu and gone further Into the Interior. Tho British bivouacked at Bumdon. They burned three farm houses, tho property of Lubbe, one of the Hoer leaders. Nothing was accom plished except a reconnaissance. Col onel l'llcher came Into touch with Gen eral Bablngton and then teturned to Belmont. Major Byrne rcconnoltercd the hills about four miles from Jacobsdal and saw "00 Boers. London, Jan. 1C A despatch to tho Dally Mall, dated Jan. 12, from I'letei marltzbutg, says: "Sir Charle3 "Warren marched with 11,00 men eastward ftom Feietc, by way of Weenen. His scouts found no sign of the enemy at Gioblers Kloopf, and Colcnso was ascertained to be de serted. "There arc lumots that tho Boers are piopjilng to leave Natal, discour aged by their failure to i educe Lady smith. "Among tho Free Staters killed in tho attack on Ladysmith on Jan. fi was Commandant Do Vllllers, who, but for his well known friendliness to Eng land, would have been commander in chief of the Fieo State fortes. The Battle at Ladysmlth. London, Jan. 15. A special despatch f i oin tho Hoodfd laager, at Ladv smith, dated Jan. 9, via Lorenzo Marques, describing tho assault of Jan. 6 upon Ladvsmlth, says: "The British made no attempt ta hold the Hist line of breastwoiks, but made an exceedingly stubborn resist ance at the next two. Bvery inch was stubbornly contested, and conspicuous bravery was displayed on both sides." "After 10 o'clock tho Biltlsh aitlllery tire slackened, and a terrible indivi dual contest ensued among the i Hit men for the possession of Plat-Band I ridge. At noon a heavy thunderstorm inteirupted tho battle, lasting for two hours. "Although the burgheis succeeded In ultimately cninlng possession of most of the British positions on tlu western side ot the Plat-Band, they weie finally obliged to reliie fiom most of the ground they occ I'pled. The British weie most stiongly entrenched, their ledoubts being skillfully loop holed, and the combat was o close that rifles weio frequently fired at arms length. It was a hand to hand encounter. The men mi l.oth sides fought like demon?, and the henror and bewlldeiment of tho scene could scaicely be paralleled. "The operations weie continued the nct cl.iv (Sunday) on a. smaller scale, but it is reported that as a result of one of the forlorn hopes, one gun and two ammunition wagons weie cap tured." LADYSMITH RELIEVED? Persistent Rumor to That Effect Is In Chculntion at Duiban. Durban, Friday, Jan. 12. Tho entire absence of news fiom Chieveley or Freio camp continues, but there is a persistent rumor here that Ladv smith has been iclleved. BLEW OUT THE GAS. Two Men Asphyxiated in New York. Another Nearly So. New York, Jan. 14. Two joung men, John "Woessner and George Lehman, German fanners, from Ackley, la., on their way back to their former homes in Germany for a visit, put up at the True Blue, a Second avenue hotel, on Saturday night. One of them blew out the gas, and Woessner's dead body I was found today, with Lehman in on I unconscious condition lying beside it. Lehman was taken to a hospital, where . it was said he has a very small chance , of recoveilng. In Woesner's poeke's weio round several hundred dollars. Daniel Peaisali, tho Brooklyn mana ger of a well known hat concern, was asphxlated by gas In a hotel on Dey street last night, where ne was in tho habit of stopping. The gas escaped fiom a gas stove. Pearsall died soon after he was taken unconscious from tiie room. LONE ROBBER'S WORK. In Western Fashion Cleans Out Two Restaurants. Kansas City. Jan. 14. In true west ern fashion a lone lobbtr, masked and urmed, cleaned out two ivtr.urunts in the center of the city at C o'clock this morning under the glaie of an elec tiie light. In Lewis' restaurant, at 1210 Walnut street, he polnttd a pistol at tho cashier and lobbed tho cash register, while lie kept his revolver In plain view of two customtis eating neat by. He went across the Ft wet to the restaurant f noheit McCllntork, covered tho cashier and commanded two waiters and three custumets to hold up their bunds. They compiled promptly and the lobber emptied this register In a twinkling. He pocketed tho contents, $146, and dlasppeared. Last Officer of the "Monitor." Washington, Jan. II. Lieutenant Sam. uel Hovvaid, United States navy, tho pilot and la.Ht of tho utile urn and ciow of L'tlrc. bon's "Monitor," during her memorable engagement with the Coufedciato Iron clad "Merrlrrae," died heio today from concussion of tho brain, the result of a fall. Ho was 79 years of ago and for moio than fifty ears had truveised the seas. Jealousy Causes Murder. Washington, Jan. 11. Alexander Jack sun, a negio, whoso homo Is In Jlultt more, was shot and killed toduy at Reno City, near Tenmillytown, by Nelpon Vale, also colored, 'Jcalouny over Mary Kills, a colored woman, vvaH tho pihnuiy cause of tho shooting. Gen. Greely Improving. Washington. Jan, H General A. W. Clrei'ly, who was badly Injured by being thrown clown his steps by a diuiiken man last Sunday, was able to sit up for bev iral hours today and hU general condi tlon continue satlstactory. AMERICAN CAPITAL GOING TO RUSSIA BIO MANUFACTURING PLANTS ARE TO BE ERECTED. Moscow and St. Petersburg Will Re ceive First Benefits Wcstlnghouse Electric Company, Singer Sewing Machine and Other Large Manu facturing Concerns Will Compete with European Firms 98,000,000 To Bo Invested Superiority of American Machines. New York, Jan. II. The Tilhune to day prints tho following in legaid to loccnt plans to.1 the expansion ot Ameilcun ontei prise: Thomas Smith, consul of the United States at Moscow, returns to Kussia on Tuesday, after a shoit stay In this count! v, with authoilty fiom thice or four manufacturing concerns In this countiy to negotiate tho prellmlnaiy steps for the building of Amctienn nianufuctuilng plants in Moscow and St. Petcrsbuig, to cost $(5,000,000. Mr. Smith told a Tribune leporter last night at tho "Waldoif that the plans of American manufacturers who will In vade Bussla with American machinery and Ideas within tho next twelve months Involve an expenditure of $1!!, 000,000. Of only a pait of the so would ho speak, saying that negotiations for some of the others were not far enough ndvnnced to warrant his talking about them. The "WestinEhouse Electric company will build a large plant in St. Peteis buig In the coming year at a cost of $.',000,000; the Standaid Pump company, I which, according to Mr. Smith, Includes I tho Worthingtons, the Dunlups and j otlieis, will build a plant elthei ut St. ! 'Peteisburg or Moscow, to cost $.',000,- ' 000, and the Singer Sowing Machine ' company, whose intention was an- nounced some time ngo, will put up a factory In Moscow us large as any tho company owns In this countiy. A caie- l ful examination of the Held has been made by the Singer company, accord- ing to Mr. Smith, and its membeis be lieve thev can drive out the German made machines after their factoiy is equipped and tunning, us the Ameri can built machines aie much lighter and swifter than those manufactuiod In the Bhine countiy The Singer com pany's waieiooms me to be at St. Poteisbuig, but the factory will be at ' Moscow, which Is nearei- the centre of commettl.il Uussle. thin the other city. Besides these mentioned, Mr. Smith says that thiee other large concerns, after sending their lawyers to Bussla, aio satisfied that the field theie Is a piomlslng one, and warrants the elec tion of extensive manufaetotle?. Amciican Machinery. "Ameiiean machlniy will drive out Bnglish and German machines within tho next ten veais," said Mr. Smith. I "When Ameiiean machinciy began to' invade Bussla, the emplovere and tho operatives were doubtful about Its last- ins quality. Thev had become accus tomed to tho clumsier and heavier machinciy supplied by Cheat Biltaln, and they feaied that the lighter ma chines trom this country would break down and become worthless. They hav ' dlscoveied that the better giade of material used In tho tonstiuctlon of the Ameiiean machines lnsuies their I durability, while their lightness makes opeiatlon much easier and quicker, i Shoitly before coming away I visited a factory where English, Get man and Ameiiean lathes are used side by side. There Is Intense ilvalry on the part of tho Busslan workmen In this shop to get as-signed to the Yankee machines. One manufactuter told me. that he had four times cut down the wages of the men on the Ameiiean machines because they made so much more money than their associates. He had to make the cut in order to allay the discontent on the pan of the men running the older German and English machines." m, au. ,. i ....,. ... .. .,.i,,w, , o i luiiauiiawun uisc night with Mr. Ciune, of tho Westing house Electtlc and Manufacturing com pany, of Chicago, and his biother, who is the English manager for the com pany. When Mr. Smith was asked about tha truth of the rumors alleging that Bus sla had immediate designs on Petsla and was moving an auny toward tho Persian border, he said after some hesi tation: "I have lived for thirty-five years In Russia, and am on Intimate terms with tomo of the prominent men In that emplie. If I should tell nil I havo heard about the somewhat Inter esting position occupied by Teheran on the Busslan war map it would be likely to embairass men when I get back home to Moscow, and I will therefoio have to be excused. It is hue that Bussla has ambitions to become a sea power of the Hist magnitude, and it is also ttuo that Port Arthur Is occupy ing tho attention of Busslan states men to an absmblng etent. Theie are blx Busslan admirals at Port Arthur at tho present time, and each admlial, of course, has more than one shin. It Is doubtful, however, about Japan und Bussla going to war." REGISTER WITH CARRIERS. New Plans To Be Adopted in Sixty Cities by Postofflce Department. Washington, Jan. 14. The postoftlco depaitment Is to add on Monday an other important convenience In the way of mall facilities. It Is expocte I on that day to put in practical oper ation in sixty cities tho plan of regis-, teilng letters through carrleis, fiom residences and offices. The carrleis will recelvo the legis lation fee and glvo a receipt for tho matter rcglsteied at the house of tho sender and thus obvlato the necessity of the sender going to the postofllco to register tho letter. An Electrician Shot. Brunswick. Md Jan. U. Chuiles K. Keebergcr, an electrician In tho employ of tho Bultlmoru and Ohio Hallway com pany, was shot thrco times and probably fatally wounded hero today, by Jerome . Swutley, a conductor on tho s.uno rull load, Swutley recently had tpiibo to so, pect an illicit intlmucy betwocn his wire nnd Hecbeigcr. COLLEGE CRISIS. Prof. Ayers Causes a Row in Uni versity of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Jan. 14. This has been a day of anxiety among those connected either dlicctly or Indirectly with tho University ot Cincinnati. Following tho declaiatlon of President Ayers tha! the members of the faculty shou J all l coign and that he would then accept such lcslgnatlons as ho might select, conies a movement on the part ot the professors to stand together and not only l of use to resign, but for all to quit if tho trustees at their special meeting tomorrow sustain tho tcccnt decree of Prof. Ayers. Tho trustees last year before electing President Ay ers adopted a resolution giving the pi evident power to nppolnt incmber3 of the faculty and declare vacancies One of tho professors said today: "lively btidge has been burned. Uven If the trustees refuse to sanction what 1,.i linoti ilrinn ec ,, wmiM rlnMI,,., r 1w I longer associated with Mr. Ayers. One or the other must go." The students, alumni and others have been Industriously confetilng to day with the trustees reg.it ding the oi sis. BIG FIRE AT HAWLEY. Five Two-Story Frame Buildings Are Destroyed Loss to Business Section. Spcclil to the Sotonton Tribune. I law ley, Jan. 11. Five two-story , buildings In tho center ot the town wero totally destioyed by a tlio which broke out at 9.C0 this evening In the clothing stoic of J. Freeman & Sons, I on Main trcet. I Peter Smith's wholesale liquor stor;. 'William 11. F.lgart's vailcty storc Dr. j S. P. Cooke's dental rjdlce and resi dence and M. 1. Barrett's residence, together with the clothing store, wherein the the ailglnated, weie con sumed with most ot their contents. A number of stables and other outbuild- ings were also destroyed. The loss is timatcd at $30,000, with small insur WOMAN EDITOR STOLE DIAMONDS Mis. Elizabeth Everett, Formerly Connected with a Philadelphia Newspaper, Chaiged with Stealing Jewels Many Pawn Tickets on Her. Philudelphlp, Jan. It. Mrs. Eliza beth Everett, formerly editor ot tho woman's page of a morning newspa per, has been held in 5', ."00 ball for a fuither hearing on the charge of steal ing diamonds valued nt $l.ilr fiom vailous stoics In this city. Mis. Ever ett lrm borne an os.col!ent icputatlon hetetoforc. and the elm pes against lift came" as a piotourui sensation to her wide circle of acquaintances. As she was unable to fuinlh ball she was looked up In a cell at the Central station. She will bo given a fuither hearing on Wednesday. The fair prisoner, who resides at b20 Noith Broad street, was known in many stoics along Chestnut street, where she had been a constant cus tomer It Is alleged that In teveral instances she traded upon her reputa tion to secuie the Jewels which sho afterwaul pawned. Seveial pawn tickets weio found upon her when seaiched. She was taken Into custody and at a "star chamber" heailng In Magls- tiate Jeimon's pilvate olllce at tho I city hall, It wa3 in evidence Hgalnst I her that she entered Wlllniott's jewelry store, "21 Chestnut street, and usked to be shown diamonds. A salcs I woman placed a tiay befoie her and i ' l ' "" , ' FY""" !T? '""?,' 'left the store without uchn iu i-Miiiiii. it,,.- ".luiirn. .tun. Interested, but making a pur chase. After her departuio It was dis covered that a pair of earrings valued at ,fJ30 were musing. Mrs. Evrett fell under suspicion and was arrested, Tho pollro say she confessed and gavu up the pawn tickets for the earrings, which she had pledged. Sho was held In $100 ball, which was tnteied. No inkling of thee facts leaked out. Yesterday Mir. Evoiett was again arrested by Detectives Govvr and Hamm, and Special Franklin, of Strawbrldo & Clothier's 'tore. Shu was taken to the Cential station and publicly analgned at the morning' healings. When she was brought Into the ciow.led court loom she war stylishly united In a neat fitting black tallor mnde gown. She went' a splendid fur boa atound her neck and can led a black muff, which she used to hide her feat in os fiom the gare of the cur ious spectators. The thai go against her was larceny. KILLED IN MONTANA. Joseph Maxwell, Formerly of Scran ton, Dies in Butte. A tc'lcginm was iccelved heio jes tcrday by John J. Jennings, of Neaiy & Jennings, from his biother, Patilck Jennings, of Butte, Mont., announcing the death theie, jesteiday morning, of Joseph Maxwell, who up to two years ago wus a resident of Mary sheet, Piovldence. How ho camo to his death Is not known, the telegram simply stal ing that ho was killed. Ho winked in tl' imir mines. The deceased was thirty-five yeais oi ugi unci unmarried. A widowed mother and three sisteis, icsidents of this) city, survive him. Tho latter aio Mrs. Daniel Neville, Mrs, Joseph Doyle and Miss Kate Maxwell. The lemulns will bu brought heio. Death of General Sharpe. New York, Jun. II. Cleurrnl George Henry Sharpe, ot Kingston, N, Y died scstorday In this city of shock, following an operation, aged "J cais. llo win lnevetted major general for cllHtnlguUhrd servbes duilng the Civil wur. Ho was present as a member of General Grant's bluff whim Geneial Leo surrendered ut Appomattox und it was In bis custody that tho ui my ot Vliglnta and General Leo were paroled. CUBAN REFORMS ARE PLANNED MEASURES TAKEN TO CORRECT PRISON ABUSES. Secretary Root Has in Contempla tion Many Reforms Oeneral Wood Has Been Giving Attention to This Matter A Commission Appointed to Investigates the Subject Will Meet Soon at Havana. Washington, Jan. 14. Secretary Jtoot has taken steps to Institute ntmco sweeping loforms in tho Judicial sys tem in Cuba, the purpose being to cor rect as soon as possible the Cuban prison abuses which have alicady been tho subject of rcpiesentatlons to this war department. General Wood has been giving attention to this mittci, and his investigations into tho condi tion of tho prisons and tho fnuPs of the Cuban judicial system generally have contlimed Secretary Boot in his purpose to apply corrective mc.isuics at the earliest possible moment. To accomplish this purpose tho sec retary has decided to appoint a com mission composed of three Americans and an equal number of Cubans. This eommlFslon will probably consist of Horatio Bubens, E. L. Conant anJ Mr. Buncle for tho Amciican side. They are all lawyers, well versed in the Spanish code as well as thoroughly acquainted with American pr.u'tlce. The Cuban members will probablv be selected by Governor Wood from among the membeis of the Hav.mx bar. Tho commission will meet it the earliest possible moment in Ha.'ana. and begin at once a levlslon ot the criminal methods, following this up later on with amendments of tho civil code where necessary. It Is not tho purpose to outrage local sentiment and distill b well established practice, ex cept In instances where rank Injustiev llouiish under It. But it cannot V" tolciated that persons charged with tho smallest of misdemeanors and pet ty larcenies should languish, as at pre sent, for a year in Jail before any kind of a til.il, and to such abuses as this, as well as to the Incommunicado sys tem, tire commission will devote im mediate attention. Mr. Bubens had a consultation with Secietaiy Boot today and left Wash ington for New Yotk. Ho expects to piocee'd to Havana via Miami next Wednesday. TAX COMMISSION FOR CUBA. Refoims Under Governor General Wood Continue. Havana, Jan. 14. Governor General Wood on Monday will issue an order appointing a committee of three to study nnd report upon the problem of taxation thioughout the island. Tho lemoval of Senor Federlco Mora, fiscal of tho supieme court, continues the main topic of discussion In tho i city. All nie apparently coming to the conclusion that tho action of tho gov ernor general Is justifiable, the only question being whether Senor Mota should not be prosecuted. The people. .especially the lavers, have begun to realize tho fact that men who havo been allowed to lie in piison for year3 have not been bi ought to trial within the last few months Is due entirely to the fiscal. One man, who had been fourteen yeais awaiting trial, had ap plications on file In Senor Mora's office asking the reason for his non-arraignment. Theio are many similar cases, investigation of which will show, if nothing worse, culpable negligence and absolute Inattention to the duties of the office. The tecelpts at the custom house In Clenfuegos during 1S99 were $1,150,000. BROTHERHOOD BRANCH. Railroad Trainmen Organize at Shamokln. Shamokln, Pa Jan. 14. A branch of the Btotherhood of Railroad Train men of the United States was organ ized' here this ufternoon by Valentine Fitzpatrlek, of Cleveland, Ohio, third vice giand master of the organization. A large number of men from different rallioads became members. Including thirty-one from the Philadelphia and Beading Railway company. Last week a number of emplojos of the latter railroad wero discharged for attempting to organize the lodge hero. Mr. Fltzpattick will icconimend to national headquarters that a boycott bo instituted against tho company un less the dismissed men are reinstated. TWO MEN KILLED. Laborers Fall Down a Shaft at Pitts ton. Wllkes-Bane, Jan. 14. Two men lost their lives in an accident at tho Bar num shatt of tho Pennsylvania Coal company at Pittston Junction Satut day night. Tho vlcltims were Fied Smaltz and Michael Maloskl, both laboiers: They weio ascending In tho carriage when In some manner they were Jostled ff and fell down tho shaft, a distance of ISO feet. Smaltz was instantly killed and Maloskl died this morning. Tho Colombia Revolution. Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 11. Advices Just received from Colombia reiterate tho statement t twit tho main body of tho Col ombian revolutionists, after occupying Bucaramang.i on Jan. C and scouring largo quantities of stores, piocccdcd to wards Socorro, to which other bodies were converging, with a view of forming a junction and delivering a concerted at tack upon Bogota. Carter Harrison Declines. Chicago, Jan. 11. Mayor Curter Har rison today lefubcd formally tho offer of the Democratic nomination for governor. As a result of Muor Harrison's uctlon, f i lends of former Vlco President Steven son are urging him to accept tho nomi nation, Pittsburg Coal FJeet. Pittsburg, Jan. 11. A conservative estl nmto of tho coal In tho harbor uwaltlng shipment touth this morning placed the amount ut 8.000,000 bushels. Of this amount 1,395,000 bushels wero started down tho river today. THE NEWS THIS H0UN1NU Wetthcr Indication! Today) fAllf. 1 General Senator Hoar Ch irged with Inciting tho Filipinos to Bcvolt. Big Biltlo Expected In South Africa. Plans for Cuban Reforms. American Capital for Bussla. 2 General Northeastern Pennsylvania, Financial and Commercial. 3 Local Dr. McLeod's Forceful Sermon on Christian Science. Death of Bees Watklns. 4 Editorial. In Woman's Realm. 5 Local Annual Meeting of tho Albright Library Trustees. 6 Local West Scranton nnd Suburban. 7 Bound About tho County. 8 Local Live Industrial News. TROUBLE IN CANADA. Indians of tho Northwest Growing Restless in Consequence of With drawal of Mounted Police for the Transvaal. Montreal, Jun. 14. There Is said to be fear of tho Canadians Ind'j'ns in tho northwest rising, owing to tho withdrawal of some of tho mounted police for tho Transvaal, The department of tho interior has been Informed that a serious state of affairs exists In the noithern ptovlnce of Assinlbola and Alberta, along tho Saskatchewan. Tho Indians of tho northern dlstrlcts.pilnclpally the Croc., It appears, have been taking a great Interest In tho South African war an 1 have been anxious to got every scrap of news concerning it. At lint their anxiety to get news seemed to h? meie ly that of membeis of a fight Ins: :ace who took Interest In any trouYo uny vvhcic, but within the pan foitnlght affairs have taken on a dangerous as pect. White men, adventurers of a most undesirable type, have been telling tho Cree.s that tho British government Is doing exactly what the Indians believe th Canadian government did In 1SS3; that Is, attempting to steal from tho Boois the land on which their fathers lived and w hlch belong to them Just as much as, in tho belief of the Cru braves of a decade and a half ago, tho whole west belonged to the led men. The Indian agents and the mounted police have found the Crees to be ex cited by these talcs. THE PROGRAMME OF SENATE AND HOUSE Matters of Inteiest to Bo Con&ldernd in Congress This Week Financiil Bill to Be Pressed Philippines Question. Washington, Jan. 14. Tho house will plunge Into the loutlne work of tho session this week. Most of the tlm?, excepting Friday, which has been set ".part for paying trlhutu to thf mem ory of the late Vlco President Hobart, will be devoted to tho tons-Ideratlon of appropriation bills. It is expected that both the ursrent deficiency and tho pension appiopiiatlon bill will bo passed this week. The former, con taining us it does many millions for the army and navy, may i.ilso the whole question ua to the Insuirection in tho Philippines with Its allied Is sues and lead to a very protiacted d3 bate. The pension appropilatlon bill Is also likely to causu some splilti'd debate owing to the disposition In certain quarters to criticise) tho con duct of the pension office. Theie Is no piesent prospect that the Roberts caso will get into the house before next week. Tho penato piobably will rcume con side! ation of the Pcttiprevv resolution making lequest for reilaln informa tion concerning the beginning of tho war in the Philippines Monday morn ing. This will be succeeded at 2 o'clock by a speech on the financial bill by Senator Bawllns, of Utah. It the piesent programmo is followed. Senator Pettlgrew will continue his spee'eh on the Philippine tesolutlon and after he concludes Senator Beiry, of Arkansas, will take the floor for a general speech on the Philippine pinb lem If sulllelcnt time icmalns of tho morning hour. When the Pettlgiew icsolutlon is dis posed of the Hoar resolution will sup ply food for' talk each clay In the morn ing hour, and after that the Halo le solution concerning tho seizin o of Ameiiean goods by Gitat Biituiu will be taken up. It is Senator Aldilch's announced puipose to piess consideration of tha financial bill each day after tho con clusion ot the morning hour, but it Is not probablo that he will succeed in securing a dally speech on that sub ject. Senator Teller probably will speak somo time dining tills week, af ter Senator Bawllns concludes. It Is also undci stood that Senator Daniel will bo heard soon on tho question of the finances. Tho consideration of the Samoan treaty in executive session will be le sumed If tho legislative woik penults, and Senatois Bacon and Money will mako speeches In opposition to It, It Is also possible that the report in tho Quay caso may bo piesentcd In the week. MINE WORKERS MEET. Nearly Five Hundred Delegates to the National Convention. Indianapolis, Jan, 11. Nearly ilvo hundred delegates to the national con vention of United Mine Workers of America havo arrived for the opening tomonow and another hundred aie ex pected on tho euily trains. The larger delegations heio are: Ohio, 80; Penn sylvania, 15; Illinois, 130; Kentucky, 15; Iowa, 10; West Virginia, 20; Indiana, CO. Tho convention represents 100,000 workmen in twenty-seven states. HOAR CAUSED INSURRECTION His Speech Encouraged Filipinos to Begin Hostilities. SO SAYS MR. BARRETT Senator Hoar's Anti-Expansion. Re marks Wero Cabled to the Hong Kong Junta nnd Placed Beforo the Filipino Army Offlcern nnd Un doubtedly Influenced Them to Make Attacks Upon the United States Troops nt Manila The Cost for Transmission of the Message Is Said to Have Been 84,000 The Government Interested to Know Who Would Spend That Sum in Order to Make Trouble for the Ad ministration Senator Hoar De clines to Notice Mr. Barrett's Re marks. Chicago, Jan. 14. John Barrett, cx mlnlster to slum, for tho first time publicly named Senator Hoar last night, at Lako Forest university, as the United States senator whoso anti-ex- panslon .speech was cabled to Hong Kong and subsequently put in tlio hands of the Filipino soldiers, causing, as Mr. Barrett believed, tho open in- suricction. Frequently this speech nnd Its pre sumed effect have been mentioned, and tho reading public has connected tho name of Senator Hoar with it, and it is probable that Mr. Bartett would not have used tho lawmaker's name on this occasion had he not been facing nn audience known to bo largely hostile to the administration's policy in tho oriental islands. It appeared further, fiom tho ex-minister's speech, that tho government has dlscoveied pilvately the stages by which tho anti-espanslon address reached Luzon. Chicago, Jan. 14. Thcro was much Inteiest in the reception Mr. Barrott'tf speech would meet. At tho close of the meeting he was cheered and tho audience of several hundred peoplu waited in lino to shako hands with him. In tho course of his nddress, which was on the general subject of tho 'Philippines," the speaker said it had been discovered in the government in vestigation that Senator Hoar's speech was cabled In cipher and In fragments to Pails, where It was put together and forwarded to Hong Kong. Tho message included seveial thousand woras, and the cost for tiansmisslon was said to have been JI.OOu. It In terested the government to know what friends the Filipinos had at this tlmo who wero In a position to send tho message. "I was In Hong Kong nt the time," said Mi. Bairctt, "and I rumembr tho Incident distinctly. t was conilns down stairs in the hotel when I met the piesldent of the Hong Kong Junta and he had In his hand the long dis patch just received. It gave a largo part of Senator Hoar's speech in full and a suminaiy of the rest of It, I asked the president what he wa3 go ing to do with It and he told me that he meant to cnd It ti tho officeis of the army In the Philippines. He was uiged not to do It, but he piotested that it had been pilntod In tho United States and wns public pioporty, "Puiir davB after tha: speei h had been cl"llviecl it was in the hands of thoie who saw an opportunity to m ike political capital of It. Tlu speech was published and distributed among the soldiers, and I beliovo It was the culminating influence that bi ought about tho open Insurrection, This speech, you mip-t lemembcr, was delivered before theie was an open Insmroctlon. ' Senator Hoar Silent. Washington, Jan. II. Senator Hoar tonight declined to take any notlco of the statements ntti United to Mr. Bar tett, ex-minister to Slam, In an addtesa on the Philippine question. The sena tor said that Geneial Otis' lepoits glvo tho fullest account of tho events that led to hostilities and that he expects, ns ho bus ulie.ulv given notice, to deal with the whole matter lu the senate. MYSTERIOUS WRECK. Nothing to Indicate tho Identity of Steamer in St. Mary's Bay. St. Johns, X. F Jan. 14.The galo hits not yet blown itself out und tho sea is still too rough to allow boats to get near the wreck in St. Mary's bay. As yet thero Is nothing to show the namo of tho vessel. Tho bodies have' bn locuted among tlio locks nnd others can bo seen floating about. Plans have been made for recovering these tomorrow, or as soon as tho weather permits, and It may then bo possible to got at the namo of tho steamer fiom pieces ot boat's wooj wedged In tho clefts of tho rocks. Steamship At rivals. Queenstown, Jan. 11. Balled: from Liverpool, New York. Campania t 4 -f f WEATHER FORECAST. Washington, Jan. 14. Forecast for Monday and Tuesday: Bast em Pennsylvania Fair Monday; f f f invraiBins c;ouaincss TUMaay: f vunauie wincin. 4, . variable winds, 4 4 s .-..,'. I t ' 'JxlU., i",.. ?'"' .-. Li- th. .'.. A f, " V.
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