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THE BRITISH
ARE FORCED
TO RETIRE
General Warren Is Un
able to Hold Splon
Kop.
ABANDONED ON WEDNESDAY
Buller's Report to the War Office.
News Caused Consternation in Lon
don No Demonstrations or Scenes
Witnessed, However Nation Grim
ly Resolved to Fight It Out Press
Comment Suggestion That the
Value of the Hill Was Exagger
ated. London, .Ism. 2fi.--lt.10 a. in. The
war ofllce has just posted the follow
ing dispatch ftom Genorol Hulcr, dated
at Spear nr in's camp, Thursday, Jan
uary 23, noon:
(rural Wuircn's garrison, I am
sorry to so, I Unci this morning, hail
tn the night aluiHlonul Splnn Kop
Whatever m.iy bo the explanation of
the abandonment of Splon Kop by the
Hritish It will doubtless, have the same
lemporaiy initial effect as a leveise.
It appeal a to have been so entirely un
expected at the war otllce that (leneral
IJullc'i's despatch caused something In
the nature of consternation. The lob
bies woe .soon crow elect and theie was
evidence on all sides that the news
had bad efleet. The only official com
ment was:
"Appaiently Geneial Warren found
the position too hot to hold. '
No Reason for Throwing Up Hats.
Ah ,i matter of fact, the British pub
lic assumed that the point gained was
mote conclusive than it leally was,
hence tlie extreme l evulsion ot fi cl
ing caused by the lepoit of Ocneial
Puller'.s announcement of the aban
donment of Splon Kop. Considering
that the Roeis who held the position
tied, that the Riitish casualties In le
tabling it dining subsequent attacks
weie hiay, and that the strategical
alue of the point has htill to lie de
monstrated, there never was any great
reason for throwing up hats, and un
til fttrthei particular uime It is im
possible to estimate to what extent
the public disappointment is Justified.
It i.s Impossible at the piesont time
to say whether the British puttered a
ii'verse or whether the movement was
dictated by strategic reasons. Obvi
ously, the position was uslcss unless
guns lould be planted on It, and, dis
covering that was. impossible, Geneial
Warren may have decided It was un
safe to attempt to bold the position
nny longer: or, peihaps, he Is seeking a
moie profitable accent clsewheie.
Grave Fears for Ladyemith.
Military ciicles made no effort to con
ceal their chagiln, expressing the
giuvest fears as to the ultimate fate
of I.adysmith. Such men as Major
General Sir Frederick Carrington, who
is under ordeis for South Afilca, and
Lord Glfford, who won the Vlctoila
Cross while scouting for Loid Wolso
ley during the Zulu war, say they
would not be astonished to hear of the
capture of Geneial White's force with
in a week. Lord Glfford, who knows
the country well, cannot understand
how Geneial Warren got to the top of
Splon Kop without ascertaining what
positions eommandedjt. The poorness
of thf. mars, It is pointed out, could
hardly be an excuse for that, as theie
must be with Geneial Wan en suveial
scouts, to say nothing ot oflieers. who
at one time or another have scived at
Ladysmlth, and whose meio hunting
expeditions would have given them
Knowledge of the countiy.
Buller's Aimy Weaker.
London, Jan. 27.-4 a. m. Se en d i s
ct fighting have left the main lioer
posit. -ms intact and General Uuller's
army 70S men weaker, aceordliii; to
the official casualty lists, which seem
ingly do not include the Mplon Lop
losses, as those last foi warded do not
mention General Wooclgcte's wound
ing. Knpland Is possessed by a dVpiess
Ing cense of falluie. al'.liouph not a
word of irlticism of lur geiici.ils nud
soldleis Is utttied. Xot much effort
i made to place a happy construction
upon Geneial P.tilWs Inie eighteen
words telling of the rotlremert from
Splon Kop, and time is an uneasv im
pression abioad that woise news is
yet to come.
At one of the mllltaiy olubh tonight
the statement passed from one mem
her to another that tlm war oilice nad
lecelved an unpleasant supplementary
dispatch from General Built r which
was being held up for twehe hour.
Spencer Wilkinson, in the Morning
Tost wiltes as follow of the s Ion
Kop loss: '
"This is a seilous matter and an at
tempt will not hero be mad to mn.
itnl26 It, for no gi cater wiong ian be
done to our people at homo than to
mislead them about the significance
of the events of the war. The right
way is to tell the truth as far as w,.
know It."
But facts fiom the neighboihood of
the Tugela are scantier than oer. The
censorship now is simply prohibitive,
and something Is wiong with tho
cables. Tho lueak on tho cast coast
lines hart been repaired, but the cable
between San Thonio and Luanda, on
the west coast, Is now Inteiiupted.
More Tioops Wanted.
"More troops," Is the only sugges
tlon heie as to tho way to lueak the
Boer' resistance. Mr. Wilkinson ic
grets that Gcnoiul Duller has not 20,100
more mm, decluilng that, If they would
not make victory rcitnln, his nter
prl without them In hopeless.
Th Spectator, dealing with the ne
cessity of larger additional military
piepaiatloiiM, savs: "It may be that
wo hao yet another cycle uf disasters
in fiont of us,"
Tho trnnsport Assac urtlvod at Cape
Town last Friday with 2,127 otllcers and
men. The Hist portion uf the Seventh
division is afloat. Hence with the 10,
000 men of this division and about 0,000
others now at sea, it lies in tho power
of Lord Unbelts to iclnfoice Buller
heavily. This couise Is advised by sev
eral mllltaiy wrlleis.
Although Knglnnd's nerves aic se
veiely tiled, her nerve Is absolutely
unshaken, and piobably nothing tint
can happen In South Africa will change
In the slightest degree her Intentions.
She will continue to receive bad news,
if It comes, with dignity and will main
tain her determination to win at last.
An Important Position.
London, Jan. 27. Tho Times pub
lishes the following dispatch from
l'"ierc Camp, dated Wednesday morn
ing, and evidently wiltten befoie the
taptuie of Splon Kop was known.
After describing the position of the
Boers, who were actively eutieiichlng
and bringing flesh guns foiwaid, the
correspondent says:
"Their fiont extends ten miles, and
we shall have to try to break It In the
middle, livery prisoner says the Boers
will never let us reach Ladysmlth. This
Is their last chance of pi eventing us,
for behind this bill lies open countty,
without a single' foi tillable position,
Therefore they will stialn ccry nerve
to throw tis back heie."
The Boer Losses.
London, Jan. 26. Special dispatches
f i om Durban say the Boer looses on
tho Upper Tugela timing the lighting
on Sunday last were ery gieat Gen
eial Warren's men captuied 160 pils
oneis and 130 Boers were touud dead
In one tiench.
BRYAN IN DELAWARE.
Regales an Audience in the Blue
Hen State with a Criticism of Re
publicanism Old Aiguments Re
produced. Wilmington. Del , Jan. 26. William
J. Ury.ur spent today among the
Democrats of the Blue Hm state and
was 105 .illy received wherever he went.
Although he made only two speeches
Mr. Biyan put In a veiv busy ela. He
left Ilairisburg, Pa., at 1 ei'doel: this
morning and ate breakfast in tho
I'eniis.Nhaiiia ralltoad depot in Phila
delphia. He anived here at 11 o'clock
and a few moments litir was belli,;
whit led tcwatds Smyrna, about half
way down the state. The itin fiom
Wilmington to Smyrna was somewhit
of an oation. Good-sized ciowcls
cheering the famous Xebraskan as h3
sped past the little stations.
Mr. Brvan u aicompunled o
Smjina by Guveinor Tunnel!, ol IXda
vvaio; ex-Congressman L living
Handy, also of Delaware, and J. l'iank
Turner, former comptroller of Mary
land. On the run down through the state
an Inteiesting Incident tool: place.
Abncr McKlnley, brother of the picsl
dent, happened to be on the trail, ho
being on hl.s wav to Norfolk, V.i.
When he learned that Colonel Bran
was aboard he went to the pailor car
In which Mr. Bryan was and gieeted
him. The gentlemen had met befoio
and recognized one another readily.
They exchanged pleas intiles for about
fle minutes to the great amusement
of the small party in the car. Colonel
Bryan was met at Clayton, whera
tialns were changed by a leception
committee and a bard and was es
coited to Smyrna amid nunh enthus
iasm The whole population of Smyr
na seemed to have turned out to wl
eome the visitor. Mr. Bryan was on
tei talned at luncheon by Governor
Tunell and a number of piomlnent
Belawaie citizens of Smyrna, nrter
which the p-.rty walked to the op-ra
house, a short distance away, where
the colonel spoke to a Urge audi
ence. Tho opeia house, the capacity of
which is S00, was uowded to the doors.
Governor Tunnell pieslded und Intro
duced Mr. Bran. The colonel staitcl
out by saying that he only had one
hour and twenty-rive minutes to speak,
as he must hurry to Wilmington. He
wished for moie time, because theie
were many things he wanted to dis
cuss that are of such importance they
cannot easily be dismissed. He said
he was gl id to meet and address the
farmers of Delawaie, because the is
sues of the day weie of ltbl Import
ance to them.
He told his hearers that the' Repub
lican party ub not taking care of the
faimeis and that tho time had eomo
when the faimeis could not be mem
bers of that patty. He said that Hie
tiller of the soil was the most helpful
man in business and even If nrosnerltv
swept the land and crops weie good
tho farmer would not get his just due.,
I because the moneyed man controlled
i the tiade.
j The monejed men control the Be.
publican party, ho said, because it
places the dollar above the man.
"This party is run In the Inteiest of
the trader and not in the Inteicsts
of tho producer," the speaker con
tinued. Colonel Bryan then said he
wanted to speak to Bepubllcans in par
ticular, as he wanted to show them
how the Republican oiganUatlon wis
controlled by moneyed men who got
the bist of tho pioducer from day l.i
day. He believes the privates in :h
tanks of the Republican party aie hin
est, but wished to Impress them with
the fact that they are being misled.
Funeral of Dowager Duchess.
Berlin, Jan. 26 Tho funeral ot tho lalo
Dowager Dmliess ol SchleswlB-Holsteln.
ir other ot the empress of Germany, will
tako place Sunday nt Primkeuvu, a town
ot Silesia, in tho Llcgnltz district.
Daly Knocks Out Burke.
Wilmington, Del.. Jan. 26. Jack Daly,
of this clt, tonight knocked out Jack
Burke, of Galveston, Texas, in the se-iond
round of what vvus to have hern u ilftcen
round hnut.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
I.ewlMowu, Jan, 26. Rev. O. O, Me
i 'lean, 1). ., u retired minister of the
Presliiteilun iluiuh, died suddenly todav
al the nun of i-i jmrs. He was pastor
of the Lew' own iliuuli foi twenty-two
years.
NEW SEISSAI10IN
IN THE EYRE CASE
MARY COHEN APPEARS WITH
A CONFESSION.
A Wilmington Woman Claims That
Jim Pierce Acknowledged Having
Murdered Eyre Tho Story of Sink
ing the Body in Raccoon Cieek
Told in Detail.
Chester, Pa., Jan. 26. Jumcs anil
Amos, or "Plnney," Pieice, weie com
mitted to jail without ball by Alder
man Smith tills evening, after a hear
ing that lasted all afternoon, and the
brothers will have to answer at the
Mai'-h teim of court for the minder
of George B. l!yio on Becember 'H
last, and whose body was found on
Sunday last on an Island In tho Dela
ware liver at the mouth of Hacioou
creek. Up to the last wllne.'s it looked
as If the case would full, as not uno
witness ot the twenty connected tho
Pierces In I he most remote way with
the murder, but the last wltneis
oicuted th" gieatest sensation that has
been inlected into this sunMitlonal
ease. This witness was Miss Mitry
Cohen, of Wilmington, Del, she said
that Jim Pierce came to the house on
Tatuall stieet. Wilmington, in which
she lives, on Krlday, December 2J, and
called her to the parlor, and thtt after
supper they went out together, when
Pleiie bought lur a walili and some
other ai Ililes. Continuing her tsti
mony the gill said Pl-rce returned to
the house and during the night he
oiled out in his sh ejv
"Oh, 1 did If; I did it."
"What did ou do, Jim," the Cohen
girl asked, and Pierce, awakening,
said:
"I murdered him; I murdered hltn,"
and continuing, he said that he and
his brother, Pinney, had shot and
Killed Lyie, then Irid sunk his body
In tho Delaware rher at the mouth
of Raccoon cnek. In his recital of the
stoiy she testified that Pieice told her
that he and Pinney weie gunning with
Byte, and being short of Christina:)
money, he shot and stiuck Lyre In
the back of the head, killing him In
stantly. He and Pinney then took
lire's money and valuables and then
sung the body. L'yre's boat wa.i nKo
sunk.
Miss Cohen said that she did not
tell any one of the confession of Jim
Pierce until the weight upon her mind
grew so burdensome that one of thf
inmates of the house, noticing her
worried appeal ance, asked her what
the trouble ws und she told hoi. Tho
stoiy was given to Dl-nilct Attorney
Smith and Chief of Police Berry.
MAFIA GETS ANOTHER BLOW.
Signor Pollizzolo's Council Is Dis
solved. Paris, Jan. 26 The Temps Rome
cor respondent sus: "The government
has stiuck the Mafia another blo'v.
A royal decree dissolves the Palermo
Municipal council, which as com
posed mostly of the fi lends of Slg.
Pollizaolo. The council almost caused
a liot recently by inci easing the oc
troi." On Dec. S last a sensation was caused
throughout Italy by the trial of two
railroad men on the charge of muider
and robbery in a railroad car near
Palermo, the victim being Signor No;
aibartolo, a former magistrate of Si
cily and one of the most prominent
citizens of Palermo, The tii.il was at
tended by a number of dramatic in
cidents, the murder cd man's son ac
cusing Signor rollizzolo, a member of
the- chamber of deputies from Paleimo,
of giving the order for the muider of
Signor Notaibartolo. As a result of
this accusation tho chamber of depu
ties met In special session and author
ized the prosecution of Signor Poll!.,
zolo, who was arrested in Palermo on
tho evening of Dec, 2.'.
MONEY SENT TO MANILA.
Pay for the United States Troops
Shipped on the Pennsylvania.
San Francisco, Jan. 26. Tho trans
port Pennsylvania sailed Thursday for
Manila. She carried $1,500,000 in gold
coin and a consldeiable sum in tieas
uiy notes for the paj merit of the Unit
ed States troops. Lieutenant J. B.
Lelgle and a detachment of nine men
ate In charge of the money.
Major W. H. Conugs, paj master;
Major M. A. Markley and Major Hen
i.v Wlgant, Flist Lieutenant Walter
Cox. surgeon, und thiue assistant sur
geons, all for the Twcntv -fourth In
lantiy, are among the cabin passen
gers. Two government printers, thno
men to assist in putting up a refriger
ating plant at .uanlla and twenty men
of the hospital service also sailed.
The Pennsylvania curies a large
cargo of aimy supplies.
STRIKE AT PARIS EXPOSITION.
Five Thousand Carpenters Demand
an Increase of Wages.
Paris, Jan. 2b. A gieat sullen of car
penters employed tu the exposition build,
liirfs, involving 5,000 men, has been In
augurated. Tho striker & demand an In
cicaso of wages to 1 franc pe'i hum. Tlie
movement has canted gieat i oniinotlon;
and the police ,u massed mound tlm
Hotel ties Iuvalldcs and tho work vimb.
Tho stilke Is not considered si rlous bv
the otllclals, who believe It will be scl
tied In two or tin eu days
Lynching Feared.
Deimr, Colo., Jan. 26. News has Jut
bun received hern of the captuio of
Reynolds and Wagner, tho fsuiped con
victs, and tho subsequent esiapo of Was
nir, Renolda Is tho man charged with
killing Iv'lght Captain Roomy, or Ihn
Colorado penitentiary, at Canon City, and
Wagner Is said to havo held Roomy
while Reynold.) stabbed him. Lynching Is
feaied.
Death at Shooting Match.
Hamilton, O. Jan. 26, During a shoot
ing match at Dan town today John Kulp
was killed by John Wllloughby, of this
city. Kulp was vvoiklmr tlm naps and
looked over tlm bonds. Holh men ato
well known No lihtmu attaches ro Wll.
louchby.
BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION.
Oiganized nt Pittsburg Yesterday.
Officers Selected.
Pittsburg, Jan, 26. Organization
work occupied the attention of tltii
mcmbeis of tho Pennsylvania State
Brccdeis' association at Its session at
the Monongahela House this morning.
There were ubout one hundred pioml
nent brccdeis from various puts of
the statu tuesent.
After the members: weie called to or
der the lepoit of the organizing com
mittee, E. S. Bayard, of Pittsburg,
chuliman, was considered. It was con
sidered by sections and adopted with
some amendments.
Under the provisions of the lepoit It
was decided that tho organization
should bo known as the ' Pennsylvania
Live Stock Brccdeis' association,"
Tho following oftlceis were chosen:
j John I. (loidon, Mercer, president;
, Henry Palmer. Avondale, first vice-
president; M. 1. Shoemaker. Greens
burg, second vice-president: 11. S.
Bayard, Pittsburg, secretary; J. I
Lantz, Altoona, treasurer.
An executive committee consisting
of these oflieers and five other mem
bers to repiesent the various breeders
Interests were chosen; as follows:
1 W. T. Powell, Crawford county,
hoi so inteicsts; H. W. Comfort, Bucks,
cattle; Julius Le Moyno, Washington,
sheep; George W. Church, Greene,
swine; T. B. Oir, Plttsbuig, poultry.
A number of Interesting papeis were
lead at the afternoon session, after
which the meeting adjourned sine die.
MANILA CAMPAIGN.
General Kobbe'3 Troops Occupy the
Hemp Ports.
Manll t, Jan. 266 4," p. in. A dis
patch fiom Sorsognn, dated Thursdayt
January J., says Brigadier Geneial
Kobbo's expedition has occupied Sor
sogon, Donznla, Bulan, Logaspt and
Vlraca, on Catandtiane) Island. The
only resistance was at Logaspl, where
five Americans were wounded end
toity-live dead and titfecn wounded
Filipinos weie found.
Washington, lin. 26.-C5ene.-al Otis
cabled the war department today as
follows:
Manila, Jan. 26. Kobbe's troops occupy
tlie lump ports of Sursogon, Duiibol, Bu
lan, Albay and I.cgaspl, .icmtheajtcrn
Luzon, Vlr if Island, Cutandiiauus, will
piohahlv cieiupv th' polls ot C.ilbavcc,
Cathhalng.in und Tacloban on the M nuis
of Simiii and l.etu beloru tomorrow
i veiling. No opposition except at I-caspl
where mo insiir-rentt, stiongly untreueh.d
under Chlne-e Gem.rt l'ouah, lnadn a
stLliboru resistance: Hoops landtd un
der pioteettim of guns of N rsbvlll.i which
11 r.ily buiiibardcd fuilltl. aliens at clo-o
r.'inje.
laiernv's los:) over fifty killed or mor
tallv wounded, 2S killed at Bridge head
at almost hand to hand encounter, re
fusing tci sm render. Our casualties:
Captain Boudley Hancock, j tttrninser
voluntecrr, aid to Kobbe, Tloundcd In
hand; six men, including one sailor en
Nashville, slightly wounded. These ports
contain gieat quantity of hemp rt.ulv for
slilpmc nt and will be open oa oOth Inst.
(Signed) Ol is.
r
FEELING NOT CORDIAL.
Breach Between Miners and Opera
tors Seems to Widen.
Indianapolis. Jan. 26. The feeling
between the miners and operators is
not cordial. The bleach seems to
widen every hour. The action of tho
miners' convention in deciding to
bieak up the "continuous joint ses
sion" plan and have a sine die ad
journment of the conference was ex
tremely radical. "Gag rule" and tho
exclusion of the Iowa operatois, who
have departed in digu.st, aie given as
the reasons for forclnz1 a sine die ad
journment. The executive session of
the miners today was another incllca-
tlon that they are detei mined to keep
seciet their wage scale demands, and
compel the operators to show their
hand and strength.
Yesterday the operatois of Ohio, Il
linois. Indiana and Pennsylvania arc
repented as having voted an a unit
to prevent an agreement that will
bind the operators of the four states
compact to adopt the run of mine sys
temso strenuously demanded by the
miners' end of the scale committee.
As it takes a unanimous vote to bind
a sc lie agreement trouble If expected
and a long debate whn the scale com
mittee reports to the lojj-.t conferenciV
Some opeiators arc jucdletlng a
dc rdlock.
Several Ohio opeiatuis are willing
to give 10 cents, but the majority arcs
against this much. The Illinois oper
ators ate detei mined not to giant thi
mln is' demands,
PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDS.
Must Not Be Used for Sectarian
Purposes.
Columbus. 0., Jan. 26 The ciuestlon
whether the board of education or a
special school district, In which the
patrons ure all Roman Catholics, could
authoiize the teaching of the catechism
and Bible history of the crunch In tlie
schools was submitted to tho attorney
general fiom Fulda, Ohio. The attor
ney geneial, In an opinion rendered to
day, says:
"That If any religious sect In the
statu of Ohio Is using the funds of the
public school In the manner suggested
In your ciuestlon even It authorized by
thu bond of education, it is an unlaw
ful diversion of the school funds of tin
state of Ohio and should be prohibited,"
Mrs. Rich Guilty.
I'.l Paso, Teas, Jan 26. Sirs. John D,
Rich, tlie Chli'iRii woman suiiemk'iod to
bo tihd tor tho murder of her husband
In Juaici last May. was today adjudged
guilty by tlm .Me.xkau eouit ami sen
tenced to setvo fomtn'ii iais in ptisan,
t-'ho will bo Imprisoned at Chluhuahua.
Judge Mitchell 11).
Wllllamsport. Jan. 26. A spi clal from
Wellsboio s.iss Judgei John I Mitchell,
of rho superior mint, was stricken with
paialvUs Wiihicsdav. whlln eating din.
ner at his home. His coiidlllou is said
to bo serious. L.tto today ho was slUhtly
Improved.
Republican Congressional Committee
Washington, Jan. 26. A rail has been
Issued for the Joint cum us of Republi
can senitors und representatives In con
gress at 5 n. m., J'ui. u", In the hall of
thu boiihe for tho puiposo of organizing
th" Republican national cungicHsloiul
committee.
RESULTS. OF THE
ASHLEY EXPLOSION
SIX MEN KILLED EIGHT ARE
INJURED.
Many Houses in tho Town. Badly
Damaged Thrilling Escapes from
Death A Largo Number Employed
Yesterday in Replacing Glass in
Broken Windows Six Locomo
tives and 'Seventy Cars Wrecked.
Experience of Trainmen.
Wllkes-Barre, Jan. 26. Five men
killed and eight badly Injured Is tho
result of the runaway tialn and tho
explosion of dynamite that followed on
the Cential Ralhoad of New Jersey at
Ashley last night.
The Dead.
FRANK M'LAUGHI.IN, brukeman, aged
2 single.
PBTBR FRBY. engine wiper, aged 16.
MlCHAUt, BIRD, blakcmali, aged 22,
single,
CHARLES HANUV, aged 15. who went to
the engine boue to idle away thnu
Instead of nt tending ntght school,
UNKNOWN TRAMP.
The Injured.
John Rehilg, engineer, of Mauch Chunk,
John Bovtn, Jcrrcy City.
Henry Gelssler, engineer, Ashlev.
Thomas Rowe, brakeman, Wllkes-Barrc.
Michael Cojle, flagman, Ashley,
John Ruhl, engineer. Ashley.
Bdwarel 3 lough, fireman, Lelilghtoii.
William Brown, foreman lound house,
Ashlcj.
Some ot the Injured were taken to
their homes and otheis to the hospital
in Wllkes-Biiie. it Is thought all will
recover. Bovln Is a tramp and was
steullng bis wav fiom Jersey City to
Seianton. .Many houses in Ashley In
the vlcinltv of the wreck weie badly
dam:1 god and the Inmates were Injured,
although none of them seriously.
Thrilling Escapes.
Many thrilling escapes nre chronicled,
John Thomas, an invalid, was thrown
out ot bed onto a hot stove. He was
uscued bv the other members of the
l.imlly. The house of John tortz Is a
complete wreck. The floor and ceilings
were tot n loose- and dropped Into thu
cellar. All thu members of the family
were injured. In Mrs. John Hewitt's
house the furnltuie, dishes, etc., were
cracked to pieces. A stove In the
kitchen of J. C. Osborne was blown
acioss the room, As the window glass
In all the bouses weie broken, much
discomfort was experienced this morn
ing, as It was ciulto cold. A large num
ber of persons are employed replacing
the broken glass. The car containing
the dynamite was crushed Into Hpllnt
ers. A large hole was torn out of the
raodbed under the car and the rails
broken and twisted in every Imagin
able shape. Six locomotives and sev
enty cats were wrecked.
The crew of the runaway car told of
their experience In an interview today.
Conductor Law, Brakeman Edward
Median and Robert Carroll, of Mauch
Chunk, weie In tlie caboose and all es
caped without a scratch. They said
the caboose rocked like a ship at sea,
and they were pitched from one side
to the other. They tried to hold fast
to the benches. At one time thy weie
tempted to jump, but the terrific speed
of the train appalled them and they
concluded to remain In the car and
taku chances. It will take the wreck
ing crews two days to clear up the
debils.
Another Body.
Wllkes-Barre, Jan. 26. The dead
now number six. Tho body of an tin-
Known m in vvas taken out of the
twreek this afternom. Ho was prob-
'ably a tramp stealing a ride.
BASE BALL SITUATION.
National League to Run with Ten
Clubs.
New Voik, Jan. 26. Messis. Abell,
Hanlon and Kbbetts, of the Brooklyn
Bultlmoro base ball syndicate, returned
to this city today fiom Cleveland,
where they had been summoned to at
te nd the meeting of the National
league's cluult committee. Abell and
Hanlon declined to admit or deny any
thing in regard to the circuit reduc
tion. Hanlon left for Baltimore dur
ing the afternoon. Bbbetts in an In
terview said:
"We discussed the base ball situation
thoroughly, but no satisfactory agree
ments could bo made. Wo have, there
fore, decided to go along on a basis of
ten clubs, Baltimore and Washington
remaining In, with the prospect that
Louisville and Cleveland or two other
cities may be added. As regards the
Baltimore players we will sign them
at the usual time on Baltimore Na
tional league eontiacts."
BOLOSSY KIRALFY ARRESTED.
Shareholders of the Columbia Thea
ter, Paris, His Accusers.
Pails, Jan. 26. In consequence of
charges brought by shareholders of the
Columbia theater against Bolossv Kir.
alfy, tho latter has been ar rested and
the books of the theater havo been
seized at his home. The shareholders
claim he falls to give a proper account
ing. Dinner to General Gobin.
Ilairisburg, Jan. 26. Tho staff officers
of the Third bilgado National Guard of
Pennsylvania, tendered General Goblu a
dinner this evening at tho Common
weal Hi hotel. Theio were also present
Governor Htotio and the colonels of tho
regiments attached to tho Thltd brigade.
Bryan Will Visit Richmond.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 26. Tho joint com
mittee appointed to Invito Hon. William
J. Bryan to addiess tho general assem
bly here, has received a reply from Mr.
Bryan saving bo will bo hero for tho
purposo of making an addicss somo eluy
between tho Mil and 13th of Fcbruuiy.
Hendricks to Succeed Payne.
Albany, N. Y.. Jan. 26. Governor Roosc
vilt announced tonight that ho would
send to tho senate Monday evening next
tho nomination of former Senator Fran
cis Hendricks, of Syracuse, to succeed
Louis U, Pa nc, as state superintendent
of Insurance.
THE NKWS THIS MOKM.SU
Weather Indications Today:
FAIR AND COLO.
1 Grncral-Iiitervlow with Colonel Wat-
res. "
Boers Recapture Splon Kop.
Details of tho Ashley Bxploslon.
Confession In tho Bs to Case.
2 General Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Financial and Commercial.
J Generul "Penn-y'H" Washington Gos
sip. 4 Bdltorlal.
Another View on tho Water Question.
5 Local Social and Personal:
Ono Woman's Viows.
6 Local Judge Archb.ild's Opinion In
tho Mt. Pleasant Case.
Common Pleas Court Proceedings.
7 Locul Rev. Thomas Maisluill on For-
elgn Missions.
Convention ot tho B'Nal Brith.
Testimony In Soverat DBorco Cases.
S Local West Seianton and Suburban.
0 Round About tho County.
10 Local RellKlous News of tho Week.
Sunday School Lesson for Tomoirow.
11 Story "Cheated by Lawjers."
12 Local Live Industrial News.
ANOTHER AWFUL
FACTORY FIRE
Twelve Persons Injured in the Con
flagration at tho Mills of the An
gola Manufacturing Company.
Women in a Panic.
(Philadelphia, Jan. 26. Tlie Angm.i
Manufactuilng ccunpiny's plant was
destroyed by lhe this afternoon and
one of the employes, Ll.zle Blackbuin,
aged seventeen ye.ns, is missing. Her
body is believed to be In the lulns. Tho
factory was located at Arnoi.i, In the
southwestern cti entity of the city, and
employed 120 bauds in the manirlactuie
of cotton yatns. The lhe was discov
ered In tho "mule loom," and is be
lieved to have originated fiom an over
heated bearing on cine of the machines.
The llames spread rapidly and soon
the entire mill, a four-stoiy brick stiuc
tuie, was levelled to the ground. The
male emplojes, most of whom vvoiked
on the first floor, escaped without dif
ficulty, but there was a panic among
the worhen and gills, and many of them
were Injured by jumping from the win
dows, and others vaj-rc severely burned.
These were removed to their homes and
the hospitals in the vicinity. '
The loss is about JluO.ono, paitly cov
ered by Instil ance.
The list of Injured number twelve,
two of whom are men. Several of the
female employes were overcome by
smoke, and othois sustained broken
limbs and bruises through leaping to
the giound. None were fatally huit.
SESSION OF THE HOUSE.
Eulogies Upon the Life of the Late
Vice President.
Washington, Jan. "i". Tne senite
vvas not In session today, having ad
journed yesterd'iv over to Monday.
The greater poition if the se.csion of
tho house was devoted to ulogles on
tho life and public sCi vices of the late
Vice Piesident Hobalt. The tributes
paid to his memory were not the usual
perfunetoiy eulogies b'lt bieathed the
love and admiration ..nd nspict In
which he was universally Icld.
These1 who spoke were Missis.
Gardiner, Sleuutt, Parker, row'oi and
Daly, of Now Jeuev Mr Payne, of
New Yoik- Mr. Daiell and Mr. Bio,,
lus, of Pennsylvania Mr. lUehiulson,
of Tennessee, and Ml. ililgg, of Geoi
gia i Before tlie eulogies began lhe
eonfeieilee repoit of the unsib bill
vvas adopted and an attempt was mad"
to pass a bill to ;ny the ( 0"t of ie
paiung the Manila cable v h'i h D .i-v
cut just piior tn his gi",it victory.
Opposition diveIoped, howiver. and It
went over.
DELAWARE WATER IMPURE.
Must Not Be Used for Drinking
Purpose Unless It Is Boiled.
Trenton, N. J., Jan. 26 Di Mitchell,
of the state health ' oaid, has ileeland
Delaware river water unfit for di ink
ing puiposcs, and nil order was sent
out to the public schools of th, i Ity
not to permit any pupil In diluk city
water without It Hist being Killed. The
teachers weie gieatly surpiKed today
to sei their pupils tiooplng into sehool
carrying palls of boiled water, which
they had seemed at their homes.
There) nre foity cases of tphod heie
at piesent and seven deaths have ic
sulted within a week.
HARRINGTON SUBDUES TAGAS.
British Expedition Against Wild
Men of Borneo lb Successful.
London, Jan. 26. Tho Biltlsh expo
dltlon against the rebellious Teens, un
der Mat Salleb, In BrUMi North Bor
neo, has been entirely siuci rful. Cap
tain Ilaiilngton. with 100 Sikhs, after
two days' fighting. January S and ',
against a tliouand robe's, capture I
two foils and tvui Wages, blew up
the tc-bclV inagas'.Inii and Killeil or
wounded sixtv Tagas. The BiUMi
had four men wounded.
Tho remaining villages of the dis
turbed ellstiict submitted.
Politicians Fined.
Trenton. N, J Jan. 26. John Hlggiiis
nud William Storms weie each lined ,,o
by Justice Uummero today for lalsely
swearing names on the registry llt la
last spring's illy election. Thu two men
veto Democratic politicians. A petition
for elrineiuv was signed by leading men
In both p titles.
Pennsylvania Pensions,
Washington, Jan. 26, Pension ceitlfl.
catcs: Original, Theodore Utt. Olyphant,
Lackawanna, 6. Increase, John Wil
liams, Canton, Bradford, 117 to 2I, Orig
inal widows, Mary J. Baker, Cambria,
Luzerne, U.
SITUATION
VIEWED BY
COL. WATRES
Thinks the Republican
Party Needs Re
forming. PHILADELPHIA INTERVIBW
Nothing but a Sudden Awakening to
the Danger and Duty of the Hour,
He States, Will Save the Proud
Name of tho Commonwealth, front
Merited Reproach and Disrepute.
Vigilance Should Bo Exercised at
the Organization.
Philadelphia, Jan. 26. Hx-Llcutcn
ant Governor Watics, of Lackawanna,
eoiinty, who was chuttniau of tho Bc
publlcan state committee in ISM. anl
who some time sincu declared hlc op
position to the methods of those 1 i con
tiol ot the Bi publican oiganlzatlon In
the state, in speaking today at the
Stratloid hotel of the recent expose ot
ballot bo: fiauds in Philadelphia, said:
When election t lauds were llrst al
leged, It was hoked upon by many as a
pluv to thu galleiie-, and part of a fac
tli nal light. The auests and subsequent
lllght ot the nceiisiel have convinced tho
general public that the eh irges weio
based on facts and that election frauds
are frcenrciillv practiced
It Is a most humiliating thing that tho
llepubllcutt orgiiiUitlun In a glen Be
pulillean state llko I'uinsjhatila with its
el.oimolis malorltles with Us lair record
and gloilous historv, should rely upon
tricky piimailes and liaudulcnt billots
to keep It In power.
Pennsylvania in the past has entertain
ed a Just pride In her devotion and loyalty
In the principle's ol tho Republican parlv.
Nothing but a sudden awakening to tho
danger in. el duty of the hour will savo
tho pi oud name of tho commonwealth,
fiom merited lepioaeh anil disrepute.
If thu ballot is corrupt, what hope havn
we for pitio polities or pure government?
The situation briefly stated is: That
the Republican ptrtj In the st.Uo needs
i c forming.
It will ecrt.ilulv be reformed, Hither
within party 11ms, or by foiees outsldn
ot It. Party promises havo gone to - 10.
test und no responsible cri'loi-er for their
renewal by the present teglme Is In sight.
New men and better methods arc per
emptorily demanded.
Time for Action.
The piistnt is an opportune time for
action. The llist duty of tho citizen Is tn
address himself to tho rcmedvlng ot de
fective eloe tlon laws.
None but men of known politic Integ
rity sboii'd be sent to the next leglsla
ttiii'. Mi u w ho w 111 not swcir alleglatu n
to pmpcilv safeguard the people at tho
lnlm.ulii .'iid the ballot box and whoso
moid Is mil a siilllelent guarantee for
honest Iigsntloii should bo permitted to
remap at hnni"
To aeiiimpllslr this leipiliis vigilance,
efloit and iiigauii itiiiu Young men
should eulir politics, ami the liooclli r sent
lei the Hal.
I'topir men should be selected in rich
legislative dl-diirt as i milliliter ami a
v Unions campaUu put loith in their be
hall. I urn a Htm believer in oig nitxation.
'Ill It it Is sometimes called a mice bltio
does not change Its puipns,. Hut tlni
pinpcr plo'lncc of lhe uigaiiiatiim Is to
toimulifi' mil ext'i ulej the pul poller,
und not to u- the machine for peisonat
ends. lute hi Ity should be as much u
fundamental virtue with political pittlcs
as It is with Individuals
t lull r lhe piesent lilies and piactieo
cchiiiI and il'slri' t i munitions for tlm
elections .if ilt le. ales tci the stale inn
volitions an' held at dilliiciit elati'S and
when iienssaiv lor its purposi s aie ili
ricted lie the state organisation
rill i c nabb s the ol, animation tn eon
ertitiat. Its fore i- on eaill dlstMi t si par
alt Iv ami the uiioi-'anl.c d voter Is at a
gn it dlra Iv intace. 'I Ids should bo
c b 'need and prlniiihs lliioiiglioul tho
stale slieiuM bo slilltlll me ollslv hi Id
'lhe. puip'i-e of lb,' pimiailis should bo
to uomhiatii me u who will npiiseut tho
pi i, uli', ami rmt a oolitic al hns
Willi a leglsl.itllle compiled ot tl"v
and uiiti.immclnl men. Puuisvlvanli will
then senile honest piltnailts, honest elre.
Units ami horn st le (.Nation, taction ii
Ism would eea-e, Hie people's lights
would be pioleetid xtiavacaucn guard
ed against, p nihilism would be adviiin rel,
the lights ot capital and labm adusted,
and the peace, pnvpi'iltv tunl good n cme
of the i nnimoiivvcillli assuied"
Steamship Anivnls.
New Yoilc, Jan. '-. t'letued: Camp mil,
fni l.lviiuool. Silled: ("evle, for Liver
pool; I .a liretae'iii' for Ilavie, Aulved:
Clcorle, Horn f.lvirpool, Kllisdalc Pass
ed: Hovle, New York for I.hiipiol.
Privvle Point Passed' sHntendani, fiom
Rotteidam for New Yoil, llavr Ar
rived; l.i Gastogno, from New YurK.
Will Enforce Bogus Butter Law.
llanlsbiirg, Juti "". At a. eoiifeienco
todav bnwien Governor Hlono and tho
nlllclils ot the department of ngilculturn
It was ilnlilc'l to vigorously en fori u thr
law passu! h lhe last legislature 1
icgulativ manufae tine and salo ot oleo
maigeiiluu and halt ttlon butter.
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Bradford's Gas Company.
Iiovir, Del . Jan 51 A ceitlllcato ot In
corporation was nk-d here lod.ry bv tho
.Monarch Oil .mil Gas lomp.iny of lir.ul
loid county, I'.i The company Is ntl
thoilzed to ucciulio oil unci gas properties)
and deal In tho saiuo; capital tJ'HieM,
Chatters Granted.
Hsurlsburg, Jan. 26. 'Huso coiporatloni
wcrci chattered today by tho stale derail
ment: Tho Duck llaibor Lumber ami
Chemical company, Damascus, township,
Wayne, capital .U.OvO.
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WEATHER FORECAST,
f
Washington, Jan. 26. Poree.tst
for Saturday and Sunday: Eastern
-f Pennslvanla 1'uir nud continued
-f cold Sa tin day. diminishing!!' north-
westerly winds. Sunday, Increas-
lng cloudiness.
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