THE IWERS ASK
HUGE INDEMNITY.
XiMsIa Demands RigM to Deal Inde
pendently Regarding Manchuria.
JAPAN'S CLAIM VERY MODERATE.
Oermany Wants Lesi Thao Russia, Whose
CUn la $90,000,000 -The Total Will Be
Far la Excess ol the Amount Which China
It Able to Pay-Russia Ha Stated that She
Had No Idea ol Annexing Manchuria.
Washington (Special). The efforts of
the Slate Department, through Special
Commissioner Kockhill. to keep down
the total of the indemnity demanded on
China to a sum not to exceed $joo,ooo.
ooo have so far proved a failure, and
there is little prospect of success.
The British Government is in entire
harmony with the United States in this
matter and has agreed to take a stun
somewhat lower than that of the United
States, which is approximately $j.s.o:,o,
ooo. though our Government is willing
to reduce its claim if others will do the
same. The British Government, like
that of the I'nited States, prefers com
mercial privileges to money demands
which China cannot meet.
The heaviest claim for indemnity so
far put in is that of Ru-sia, which wants
$jo,coo.r.co, ;md in addition claims the
right to deal in the Manchurian matter
separately with China without any re
gard to the other Towers. Germany is
willing to take $30,000,000 less than Rus
sia, or $'K).cxxi,ooo, hut if Russia insists
on $)G.ooo.ooo Germany will prubahly in
sist on SXo.ooo.ooo.
Japan is reasonable and agrees entire
ly with the United States and Great
Britain. France, however, insists on a
large stun, while Italy, Austria and some
other nations, such as Spain, Belgium
and Holland, that suffered no particular
loss, and contributed nothing in the way
of troops, are putting in demands in ex
cess of those of the I'nited States, Great
Britain and Japan.
This is a condition of things that gives
very little promise of bringing down the
claims to any reasonable sum, such as
China can pay. At the present time there
seems to be no hope of reducing the ag
gregate below $300,000,000. and it may
reach $400,000,000. Nothing has yet
been determined respecting the mi thod
of raising the indemnity fund, even after
an agreement is readied.
Court of Arbitration.
The Hague (By Cable). Dr. V.'. II.
De Beaufort, president of the adminis
trative council of the permanent court
of arbitration, has notified all the pow
ers concerned that t'.te court is now con
stituted. This notification is intended
to take the place of a formal installa
tion. The court has not yet been signed
by China, Luxemburg, Mexico or Tur
key. Colonel Musick Dead.
Omaha. Neb (Special). Colonel
John R. Musick, author, journalist and
politician, died of heart failure at his
apartments in this city. Injuries receiv
ed while rescuing the injured after a cy
clone at Kirksville, Mo., were causes
which led to his death. Colonel Musick
devoted a great part r.f his life to writ
ing historical stories for young people.
Disaster at Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek, Col. (Special). An
electric car on the high line of the Crip
ple Creek district railway jumped the
track and completely turned over at the
terminal station, corner of Second and
Myers avenues, injuring the motorman
and ten of the twenty passengers. The
car was running 20 miles an hour when
it struct; the curve, which is very .sharp
at the point where the wreck occurred.
Boy Saves .Many From Death.
Frankfort. Ind. ( Special ). Milo
Hughes, aged 8 years, saved a Monon
freight train from a wreck. The boy
lives near the rarlroad four miles north
of here, and while at the creek discov
ered the bridge in flames. He knew, the
southbound last freight was due, and,
running up the track he met it and by
waving his hat succeeded in stopping
the train. The trainmen took the little
iellow in their arms and hugged him.
Bank Robbers Get Seventy Cents.
Stamford, Conn. (Special). A large
safe in the office of Frank E. Weed &
Co., coal and lumber dealers, of New
Canaan, was blown up at 2 o'clock in
the morning by robbers. As a reward
for their waste of dynamite they carried
off just 70 cents in cash and two checks
for small amounts that they will be un
able to use. The cracksmen, supposed
to be three in number, g;Jned access to
the office by forcing open a window.
Industrial Depression Abroad.
Berlin ( 3y Cable). It is stated that
the Krupps are about to discharge 5000
hands from their Essen, Buckow and
Kiel works. They have already dis
missed 4000 since October," The indus
trial depression continues. According
to a recent estimate one-fourth of the
workers in Berlin are very insufficiently
employed or totally idle.
Victim ol Kentucky Feud.
Sneedsvillc, Tenn. (Special). Even
Bledsaw, a feudist, was found dead, sit
ting upright against a tree, grasping his
rifle tightly. It is believed be had been
decoyed to the desolate spot in hope
of capturing the man who killed his
father, several years.
St. Louhlaa Shoots a New Yorker.
Memphis (Special). C. A. Ross, of
St. Louis, shot and fatally wounded
James Redmond, of New York. The
two men are followers of the races. The
tragedy resulted from a heated argu
ment. King's Gift to McKinley.
Washington 'Special.) Mr. Grip,
Minister of Sweden and Norway, had an
audience with the President to present
Count Waehtnieister, the head of the
celebrated Swedish family of that name.
Count Waehtnieister was commissioned
by King Oscar II as the bearer of a line
photograph of His Majesty to President
McKinley. The King's autograph is on
the photograph. The presentation was
made by Count Waehtnieister, who
spoke of King Oscar's qreat esteem and
high opinion of the Chief Executive oi
the United States.
Poison la His Stomach.
Moris, III. (Special). Mrs. William
Clark and a hired man are under ar
rest, charged with murdering with poison
the former's husband, a fanner of Lis
bon, who died Tuesday. Four sons give
the principal testimony against their
mother. Rat poison was found in the
house, and on examination disclosed a
quantity of the drug in Clarke's stomacii.
The t '.ner had been svirTriiig from
grip, but was nearly well, when the fatal
illness seized him. He suffcr-d intense
ly, but no physicians were called until the
st moment.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Dimestlc.
F.vidcnce was taken in New York in
the case of Miss Lena Manchester, of
Cincinnati, who charges that she was the
victim of a bogus marriage. K. M. Bon
ner having brought her from Cincinnati
to be married.
Solomon Hotema and Sam Frye,
Choetnws. who were on trial in Texas
for killing a number of alleged witches,
were acquitted on the ground of insanity.
Charles Henry, 14 years of age, acci
dently shot and killed William Myers,
Jr., while playing at the former's home,
near Martinsburg. W. Va.
The new hosptial at the University of
Virginia was inaugurated, the anniver
sary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson
being celebrated at the same time.
A tirni of accountants engaged by the
Merchants' Club of Chicago to investi
gate the accounting methods of the
cny of Chicago, in a rciort to the club
state that taxes to the amount of J.sco.coo
I a year for the past decade have been re
1 leased as loss and deficiency: that cleri
cal errors, such as posting hundreds
j of thousands of dollars, have remained
1 uncorrected, and that books of record
I have been destroyed.
! At the trial of a Chinaman for the
I murder oi another Chinaman in New I
j York, next week, the District Attorney
1 expects to sfio thai an .issociation of
highb-ndcrs exists in Chinatown.
The I'nited States Court in New Or- j
leans the I'nited Stales Court .lis- (
missed the suit brought by Boer rep- j
rcsentaives to prevent the shipment ol
mules and horses for British use in the
Tra nsvaal.
The Rockingham Co.tVa ) Democratic
Convention nominated State Senator
George B. Kcezeweil and Talfourd N.
Haas for the Constitutional Convention.
Mrs. Rachel Frye. whose mind was j
unbalanced by long sickness, dr.iwned j
herself in a mill dam near her home, in I
ardcnsville. a.
The Jersey Central Railroad officials
came to an agreement with its engi
neers and firemen, and their wages will
be increased.
Nearly forty cotton mills in the Fall i
River district will shut down tempo
rarily, throwing 17.000 operatives out of
work.
A hundred and fifty newly enlisted
men in the Fourteenth I'nited States
Cavalry deserted at Leavenworth, Kan.
The 650 employees of the Jersey Cen-
! tral car shops at Ashley. l a., accepted
I the terms offered by the company.
l ive stables were burned and a num
ber of other buildings damaged by an
incendiary nre at v ayncsuoro. r a. 1
Brevet Brigadier General James C. '
Lynch, a veteran of the Civil War, died
at bis home in Philadelphia.
The steamer Awashouks, lying at an
chor at Tiverton, R. L, was burned to
the water's edge.
Plans are being arranged for a big
exposition in Richmond in too".
John Norris. business manager of the
New York Times, told the Industrial
Commission how the trust in news
paper had increased the cost of paper.
Wm. E. Coffin, formerly of the bank
ing house of Coffin & Stanton, in New
York, applied to be adjudged a bank
rupt. Liabilities. $4,150,007, assets, $25.
By a registered letter Johnnie Motiitt,
who was stolen from his father's house
in Chicago, was located at his uncle's
home in Altoona, Wis.
The will of Fernando Ynaga, filed in
New Y'ork, leaves all of his property to
his sister, the Dowager Duchess of
Manchester.
Foreign.
Crown Frince Frederick William of
Germany, arrived in Vienna and was
welcomed by Emperor Francis Joseph
and the Austrian archdukes.
From British sources ernes 3 report
that President Steyn has broken down
and that he has advised the Boers to sur
render. Prince Ching declares that the mis
sionary statements regarding a rebellion
in Mongolia arc not supKrtcd bv the
facts.
Emilia Kempin. a leader of the wo
man's movement in Germany, died in an
insane asylum.
There have been ,toj cases of bubonic
plague in Cape Tow n, 15.? of which have
proved fatal.
Sir Edward William Watkins, a noted
English railroad man, is dead.
Chief of Staff Surgeon Schimmel
was convicted of freeing, for a financial
consideration, the sons of wealthy fam
ilies from service in the German army.
Other parties will be prosecuted on
similar charges.
The three gold bars stolen from the
specie room of the steamer Kaiser Wil
helm der Grossc during the voyage
from New York to Bremen, were found
by one of the stewards concealed on the
ship.
The London authorities have refused
to order the exhumation of Sir Francis
Cook's body at the rertiest of Lady
Cook, who wished it done to quiet ru
mors as to the cause of his death.
Official inquiry shows, gross igno
rance among the recruits (or the Ger
man army. Out of 78 recruits 21 were
unable to tell who was the Emperor of
Germany.
The Administrative Council of the
Permanent Court of Arbitration in The
Hague has notified all the powers that
the court is now constituted.
The French Miners' Congress has
voted in favor of a general strike if the
locked-out men are not reinstated.
Read Admiral Schley embarked at
Buenos Ayres on the steamer Clyde for
the United States.
The falling of a pillar in Westminster
Abbey caused some alarm.
A force of British mounted infantry,
after a hard fight, captured Command
ant Bresla and 80 Kocrs near Dc Wets
dorp. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
and York arrived at Colombo, Ccyl jn,
and were given an enthusiastic recep
tion. The indemnity claims now before the
ministers of the powers at Pekin total
about $300,000,000.
Lagouski, who tried to assassinate
the Russian Privy Councilor Pobre
donostzeff, was sentenced to six years'
penal servitude.
The interchange of friendly courtesies
between President Loubct, of France,
and the Duke of Genoa, representing
the King of Italy, at Toulon, was con
cluded by felicitous speeches at a ban
quet on the Italian flagship.
Officers of the North German Lloyd
Company express the belief that the
gold bars missing from the specie-room
of rlie steamer Kaiser VVilhelm der
Grosse were stolen the night before the
ship sailed from New York.
Financial.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex
change sold for $59,000.
Louis F. Newman of Springfield,
Mass., has engineered a coal combina
tion to control 30,000 acres of undevel
oped coal lands m Southeastern Ohio.
The price of silver bullion has fallen
1 1 per cent, since the first of the year.
The New York Sub-Treasury state
ment shows the banks have lost
663,000 since Friday.
It is said the independent furnace op
erators are forming a combination with
$14,000,000 capital.
THE SCANDALS IN
THE COMMISSARY.
Disclosures Made at the Trial of
Sergeant Meinson.
TREACHERY OF A NATIVE GUIDE.
Testimony that Quantities ol Flour Were
Taken From a Oovernmcnt Storehouse in
Manila and Sold by Three Commissary Ser
jeants and Others, Who Divided the Proceeds-Business
Men Involved.
Manila (By Cable). The trial of Ser
geant Memson, the first case in the
commissary scandals, began with the
startling disclosures expected. Two
witnesses testified that quantities of
(lour were taken from a government
warehouse and sold by three commissary
sergeants and two others, who divided
the proceeds, Finnick. proprietor of an
American bakery, was incriminated, and
other business men were also involved.
The extent of the illegal sales has not
been ascertained.
General Mac rthur has forwarded to
Washington a special report on saloons
and the social evil in the Philippine
Islands.
Information concerning the doings of
Agninaldo is wilhhled by the authori
ties. The wife and mother of Agninal
do have been almost his only visitors
during the past week.
General MacArihur considers inop
portune the suggestions made here that
Agninaldo visit the United Stales.
By the treachery of a native guide
Lieutenant Mills, of Company G, of
the Forty-third Volunteer Infantry, was
almost entrapped while pursuing insur
gents in the interior of the Island of
Leyte. After a sharp skirmish the at
tacking insurgents were defeated. Sur
geon Lewis Thompson and Private
Pros -et were severely wounded.
At Silang. in Caviie Province, the in
surgents have surrendered several Nor
(lenieldts. KILLED FOR WINTER'S WAGES.
Young Woodman Waylaid and Murdered After
a Struggle.
Greenville Junction, Me. (Special).
The finding of the body of Matliison
Pare, a woodman, at Askwith, has re
vealed a most brutal murder, with rob
bery as the motive.
The victim, who was 21 years old.
hail worked this winter on Mooschead
lake. On March 8. when he had fin
ished his work, he received his wages,
amounting to $108, and started for his
home in St. Betioit, Canada.
No tidings as to his whereabouts
were learned until Thursday last, when
his mutilated body was found by a party
of wood cutters. The body, which was
frozen, lay in the snow. The man had
evndently been shot by a rifle ball,
which struck him in the face. There
were indications that a struggle took
place and that the rifle wound had not
proved fatal, as there were knife cuts
on the face a-id neck. The right side .of
the head was crushed as if from a blow
with the butt end of the ritle. His
money and a valise filled with clothes
were missing.
DEVOURED THEIR SHIPMATES.
Ghastly Tale ol Cannibalism From Nova
Scotian Bark Angola.
London (By Cable). The Singapore
correspondent of the Daily F.xpress
wires a ghastly slory of cannibalism at
sea. brought to Singapore by two sur
vivors of the Nova Scotian bark Angola
wrecked six days' sail from Manila, Oc
tober 23 last. The correspondent says:
"The survivors, Johnnsen, a Swede,
and Marticornu, a Spaniard, assert that
the Angola struck a reef. Two rafts
were built. The smaller, bearing five
men, disappeared. The other, with
twelve men. drifted for forty days. The
sailore ate barnacles, seaweed, and final
ly their boots.
"On the twenty-fifth day two became
insane and killed themselves. On the
twenty-sixtli a Frenchman killed the
mate with an axe, drank his blood, and
tried to cat his brains, but was prevent
ed by the others. Next day the French
man was killed while attempting to
murder the captain. The survivors, all
of whom were now insane, ate the
Frenchman's body."
Peace Story From Boer Source.
London (By Cable). "It is declared
in Transvaal quarters in this city," says
the Brussels correspondent of the
Morning Post, "that General Botha
will shortly renew the peace negotia
tions." The Cape Town correspondent
of the Daily Mail wires that Mr. Cecil
Rhodes, who is at Kimberley, is now
in good health, having recovered from
a recent slight indisposition.
FEARS FRIENDS Or LUNA.
AGUINALDO HAD RIVAL SHOT.
Manila (By Cable). Agninaldo will
probably be removed in a few days to a
private house in the vicinity of Mala
canan, where he will be held provision
ally as a prisoner under guard. It is
said that Aguinaldo fears the vengeance
of the friends of General Luna, who was
assassinated by order of Aguinaldo, and
that the authorities are afraid to let him
out of their hands. The authorities re
fuse to say a word on the subject, and
their actions are not explained.
Aguinaldo is said to have prepared a
brief manifesto the I-'ilipinos, in which
he advises them to submit, and gives
reasons for doing so. He acknowledges
the incapacity of the Filipinos to gov
ern themselves and advises the leaders,
as for their best interest, to give in.
This manifesto is being translated into
Slain lu a Friend's Room.
Columbia, S. C. (Special). Captain
John J. Griffin, commercial agent of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany, was shot to death in the rooms of
Major Bernard B. Evans, brother of
ex-Gov. John Gary Evans, of this city.
Major Evans was arrested on suspicion
of having committed the crime. The
two men were alone at dinner. Major
Evans summoned Dr. K. W. Gibbes.
who found Captain Griffin dying and
speechless on Major Evans' bed. A 44
caliber Colt's revolver bullet had en
tered just above the left nipple.
Olri Arrested for Murder.
Elkton, Md. (Special). Another chap
ter was added to the Simpers tragedy at
Strahorn Mills when State's Attorney
Evans had Sarah Simpers, aged 13 years,
sister of the murdered boy, arrested and
lodged in the Elkton jail, charged with
committing the crime. Thomas Simpers,
aged 10, is already in prison under the
same charge. The two youthful pris
oners accuse each other of killing their
7-year-old brother Howard, but on ac
count ol their age the District Attorney
will endeavor to have them committed to
the Reform School until they become of
POUR PEOPLE STRUCK BY EXPRESS.
Three Killed and One Slightly Hurt, Two
Homes Hurled Great Distance.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. (Special). -A party
of four people, while crossing the tracks
of the Lehigh Valley railroad, at South
Wilkesbarre, were run down by the Buf
falo express going north. 'Three of the
party were killed and one injured. The
dead are: Morris O'Connell, aged 4I
Mrs. Morris O'Connell, aged 31); Mrs.
Frank Cranmer, aged 40. Injured : Frank
Cranmer. O'Connell and his wife were
entertaining the Cranmer couple, whose
home is in Bradford county. During
the evening they visited relatives in this
city, and at 1. 30 started to return to the
home of the O'Connells. When they
reached the crossing at South Wilkes
barre a freight train was blockading it.
As soon as the freight train moved
out the party started to cross the tracks,
but did not notice the approach of the
passenger train from an opposite di
rection. The engineer of the express
failed to see the people on the track until
the locomotive had plowed into them.
The two women were hurled a great dis
tance in the air, and when picked up
w ere dead. . Both bodies were badly
mangled. Mr. O'Connell had both legs
and tine arm broken. He was taken to
a hospital, where he died in a short time.
Mr. Cranmer was able to step back
from the track before being struck will
full force and escaped with slight in
juries. ANOTHER MOVE TOWARD PEACE.
Botha Said to Have Made Overturcs-De Wet
Still Refuses.
London (By Cable). The following
censored dispatch received from Cape
town is received with a grain ol salt 111
view of the fact, announced in Parlia
ment, that Kitchener, and not Botha,
began the recent peace negotiations
which failed.
"General Botha has reopened nego
tiations with the British for peace. It
is understood here that altough Gen
eral De Wet in his recent interview
with Botha refused to surrender, yet
Botha, regarding him as irresponsible,
undertakes to negotiate in behalf of the
entire Boer forces. The British authori
ties here consider that if Botha sur
renders Dc Wet's following can be
easily taken.
"As explained here, this action was
determined in part by Botha's discov
ery at a recent meeting that Dc Wet's
intellect had weakened and that bis in
fluence with his followers was diminish
ing, and that a continuance of the cam
paign, in view of De Wet's irresponsi
bility, rested with Botha alone."
Regarding General De Wet's mcntat
condition, reports have been conflicting
for sonic time. His recent seeming in
activity, it is said in London, points to
there being some truth in the rumors
which allege that' long continued hard
ships, under the harassing British pur
suit, have unhinged his mind. But it is
well known that Lord Kitchener has
been suppressing news oi De Wet's re
cent raids. A correspondent of the
Times recently acknowledged the "won
derful foresight and fertility of re
source" which characterized General
De Wet's retreat from Cape Colony.
George Q. Cannon Dead.
Monterey, Cal. (Special). Apostle
George Q. Cannon, oi the Mormon
Church, died here after a brief illness.
The body was taken to San Francisco
for embalming, after which it will be
taken to Salt Lake City.
George Q. Cannon was 74 years old.
He was a native of Manxland and had
been one of the leaders in the Mormon
propaganda, doing as much as any
other one member, perhaps, in promot
ing the cause of the Church.
To Build Monument to Harrison.
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special). Follow
ing the death and burial oi ex-President
Harrison, tHe Commercial Club of this
city and other civic organizations re
solved upon building a monument ro
Harrison. The proposition found favor
in the East, and Senator Fairbanks sub
scribed $1000 and reported he had re
ceived letters from Col. John W. Fos
ter authorizing a subscription of $1000
each by himself and Stephen W. Elkins,
making a nucleus of $3000.
Man Killed by Knock-Out Drops.
St. Louis. Mo. (Special). John P.
Smith, former mayor of Fort Worth.
Texas, died in this city, the victim of
knockout drops, administered late Fri
day night or early on Saturday morn
ing in a saloon near Union Station. Mr.
Smith was taken from the Planter's
Hotel to St. Mary's Infirmary on Sun
day in an unconscious condition, and
he never regained consciousness. His
daughter Florence and son, James
Young, arrived from Texas on Sunday.
The body has been shipped to Fort
Worth.
lagalog, Spanish and English, but it is
not known whether is has as yet been
signed by Aguinaldo.
Colonel Vellin, Aguinaldo's chief of
staff, and Dr. Barcelona, ex-Treasurer
of the Philippine "Government." who
were captured at the same time Funston
made a prisoner of their chief, have
been liberated.
Agoncillo, the agent of Aguinaldo in
I ans, received a cablegram announcing
that the Filipino General Sandico has
been elected to succeed Aguinaldo as
commanding general of the Filipino
forces, as well as dictator during the
continuation of the insurrection.
Sandico belongs to a distinguished
family residing at Pandakan, near Man
ila, lie is a man of energy, and is weH
educated, speaking several European
languages.
No Femile Suffrage la Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis. (Special). In the As
sembly a joint resolution for a consti
tutional amendment to enable women
to vote was killed by a vote of 2 to 1
after having been advanced to third
reading.
Don't Want Her to Mention Wine.
Toledo, Ohio (Special). Mrs. Ida
Eckert Lawrence, of this city, who will
read the poem at the launching of the
battleship Ohio, lias been requested by
a number of Ohio temperance wouitr
not to mention wine in her verses.
Plot to Kidnap Three Boys.
Cleveland, Ohio (Special). It devel
oped here that a plot was recently on
foot to kidnap the sons of two wealthy
East End residents. Letters of a
threatening nature have been received
by the families of the boys, and every
effort is being made to guard them
from harm. Two of the boys, Cvrus
and David Ford, are sons of 11. Clark
Ford, a lawyer and real estate man, and
the third boy is the 10-year-old son of
B. F. Whitman. Mr. Whitman is treas
urer of the East End Banking and
Trust Company. Both families are
wealthy
BUBONIC PLAGUE
' IS SPREADING.
Great Many Deaths Occurring In
Many Place.
SUSPECTED CASE AT SOUTHAMPTON.
It Is Steadily on the Increase In Cape
Colony and the Trekking Rats Are Curry
ing the Disease- From Place to Place
-We II-to-Do Persons la Cape Town Now
Attacked.
Washington (Special). Thousands of
cases of bubonic plague in all parts of
the world since November I last have
been reported to the Marine Hospital
service. At Rio Janeiro from February
1 to 20 there occurred five new cases and
three deaths. At Hongkong. China,
three cases, nil fatal, occurred during
the week ended February 18. The
plague is steadily increasing in Cape
Colony, according to reports received
both in London and Paris. The ollicial
report from Cape Colony for the week
ended March 2 shows 24 new cases, two
deaths and four suspects: for the fol
lowing week, 50 cases. 18 deaths and It
suspects. Several Europeans have bi-en
attacked and a number of natives have
been found dead from the disease. The
rats are reported to be "trekking" from
Capetown in great numbers, and at Si
monstown the rats are reported to be
dying from plague. At Mauritius dur
ing the two weeks ended March 8 there
were in the island 18 fresh cases of
plague and 23 deaths. On March 14
two fresh cases are reported to have oc
curred in Perth, West Australia. The
Marine Hospital surgeon in charge at
London has reported that the rumor of
suspected plague at Southampton pub
lished in the Paris papers probably is
Unfounded but extra precautions are be
ing exercised at that port in view of the
large number of troops returning from
South Africa. The plague at Karakuga,
Russia, is stated in the ollicial report
from Paris to be on the decrease, the
same report saying that 13 deaths from
cholera occurred at Singapore. Straits
Settlements, during the last week of
January. A report published in a Ber
lin paper March 11 and forwarded here
says the plague at Capetown is now at
tacking the well-to-do people. Marine
Hospital Surgeon Greene, at Berlin,
has just reported that in the Kirgisen
Reservation, Karakuk. Russia, 13 per
sons have fallen victims to plague, and
in the presidency of Bombay British
East Indies during the week ended Feb
ruary 8 there occurred 1770 plague cases
and 1293 deaths, an increase of 519 cases
and 314 deaths over the previous week.
In Bombay City that week there were
1056 cases of plague, an increase oi 309,
and 1359 deaths ascribed to plague. Up
to March 2 50 plague cases had oc
curred in Capetown, of which 12 ter
minated fatally. In Argentina five
plague patients were in the isolation
hospital at San Nicholas on February 7
and plague was suspected in the cities
of Belleville and Marios Juarez, of Cor
boda Province.
OUTLAWS USE THEIR GUNS.
They Kill a Man Whose House They Were
Robbing; and Kill a Detective.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Thomas D.
Kahney. a grocer at No. 13 Albert St..
Mount Washington, about 3 o'clock in
the morning was shot and almost in
stantly killed by burglars who were
looting his house. Kahney met his
death while trying to rescue his wife
from the robbers. Three men had en
tered his house and were trying to force
a gag in Mrs. Kahney's mouth to pre
vent her from giving an alarm. Sev
eral shots were tired at Kahney with
fatal effect.
After the shooting the burglars fled
frotn the house. As soon as the murder
of Kahney was reported to the police
department Superintendent O'Meara
put the entire force of detectives to
work on the case. Several of the offi
cers came upon the three burglars on
Fulton street, and immediately the fu
gitives opened fire. The officers prompt
ly returned the fire, and in the fusiladc
that followed "Paddy" Fitzgerald, one
of Pittsburg's oldest and best known de
tectives, was almost instantly killed and
two other officers are reported
wounded.
CUBANS DECIDE TO APPEAL
Will Send a Commission to Sec the President
-Former Action Revoked.
Havana (Special). The Constitution
al Convention has decided by a vote of
20 to 8 to revoke its previous resolu
tion against sending a commission to
Washington. Proposals regarding thf
commission will be considered at anoth
er session. Some opposition developed
to the revocation. Senor Udaldo Ta
niayo said that the sending of a com
mission would be mere hypocrisy, as a
majority of the delegates are against
the Piatt amendment. Senor Sanguilly
declared that many of the delegates,
though they would not now vote til
favor of the amendment, would do so
when every means to get it changed had
been exhausted. If the commission to
Washington failed these delegates would
accept the amendment.
Quarrel Ends in Murder.
Wilmington. N. C. (Special).
Mannie Breece, aged 21 years, was shot
and killed here by Lout Hardison.
They were discussing the physical
strength of an acquaintance and quar
reled. Breece stabbed Hardison in the
face with a knife and then ran. Hardi
son drew a pistol and fired at his flee
ing assailant. Breece ran into a store
near by and fell dead. Hardison is be
ing pursued by offcers.
Seventy Chinese Drowned.
London (By Cable). A special dis
patch from Hongkong says two Chinese
steamers came into collision yesterday
between Canton and Wuchow, and
that 70 Chinese were drowned.
Would Banish Negro Criminals.
Macon, Ga. (Special). Bishop Hen
ry M. Turner, of the African Methodist
Church, has been conducting services
among the negro churches here for the
past two days, and in a sermon lie open
ly advocated the banishment of negro
criminals. He thinks the United States
Government should send all negro
criminals to Africa. He also deplored
the (act that this Government has no
steamship lines between America and
Africa. He thinks Southern ports in
the United States would profit a great
deal by the commerce that would thus
be built up.
Stepmother's Hatchet.
Wheeling, W. Va. (Special). Miss
Edith Courtwright, 18 years old, was
struck on the neck with the sharp edge
of a hatchet by her stepmother, Mrs.
Jennie Courtwright. Mrs. Courtwright
became enraged at her three stepdaugh
ters, aged 13, 16 and 18, and attempted
to chastise them with Hie hatchet. The
young girls fled, but Edith stood her
ground and was cut severely. The
woman married Alfred Courtwright
who is an Ohio River Railroad engi
neer, about a year and a half ago. Sue
has had frequent altercations with the
girls. She was arrested and paroled
tier mental status will be investigated
LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS. .
President's Tour to the Pacific
The President, Mrs. McKinley and
party will leave Washington by the
Southern Railway, Monday morning,
April 29, at 10.30 o'clock, for a tour to
the Pacific Coast and return, covering
a period of between six and seven
weeks. They will have a train consist
ing of a private car for the President
and Mrs. McKinley, two Pullman com
partment cars, two Pullman sleepers, a
dining car and a combination car. Col.
L. S. Brown, general agent of the
Southern Railway, will accompany the
party from here to New Orleans, and
from New Orleans to Portland, Ore.,
E. O. McCormick, passenger traffic
manager of the Southern Pacific Line.
The members of the Cabinet will ac
company the President, with the excep
tion of Secretaries Gage and Root and
Attorney-General Knox, the personnel
including Secretary and Mrs. Hay,
Postmaster-General and Mrs. Smith.
Secretary and Mrs. Cortelyou, Dr. and
Mrs. Hitchcock, and Secretary and Miss
Wilson: Miss Mary Barber, Henry T.
Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Moore,
Secretary and Mrs. Cortelyou, Dr. and
Mrs. Rixey, Assistant Secretary Barnes,
M. A. Dignam, several stenographers,
representatives of the press associa
tions, three of the illustrated weeklies,
of the Washington dailies, and probably
a representative of the press of San
Francisco. The party will also be ac
companied by Mr. Marcau, manager of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
at Washington, and Mr. Ribble. man
ager of the I'ostal Telegraph Cable
Company.
Presidential Appointments.
The President has just announced the
following appointments:
State Robert P. Skinner, of Ohio, to
be consul general of the United States
at Marseilles, France; Oliver J. D.
Hughes, of Connecticut, to be consul
general of the United States at Coburg.
Germany, and Francis B. Gcssner, of
Ohio, to be consul of the United Slates
at Zittau. Germany.
. War United States Army: To be
captain of infantry. Albert S. Brookes,
Thomas W. Dwyer, Fine W. Smith.
To be paymaster with rank of cap
tainHerbert M. Lord.
To be quartermasters with the rank
of captain Robert L. Brown. Freder
ick VV. Cole, Frank A. Grant, George I..
Goodalc, George H. Penrose, Robert
H. Rolfe.
To be commissary with the rank of
captain Hugh J. Gallagher, William R.
Grove, James A. Logan, Jr.
Volunteer Army To be surgeons
with the rank of major James D. Glen
nan, Charles F. Mason, Ogden Rafferty,
Thomas U. Raymond.
To be assistant surgeons with the
rank of captain William O. Cutliffe,
George B. Lawrason.
Patent Commissioner Resigns.
Walter IT. Chamberlin, of Chicago.
111., tendered his resignation as United
States Assistant Commissioner of Pat
ents. The resignation will take effect
May 1. when Mr. Chamberlin will re
sume the practice of patent law.- Mr.
Chamberlin called on President McKin
ley and explained that he cannot afford
to remain here and neglect his practice.
, balry Products Market
F. E. Emery, formerly of the North
Carolina agricultural experiment sta
tion, has been detailed by the Secretary
of Agriculture to visit China, Jaan, the
Philippines and other Eastern coun
tries with a view to extending the mar
kets for American dairy products.
Capital News la General.
As a result of a meeting during the in
auguration exercises the engagement is
announced of ex-Congressman J. Frank
Aldrich, of Missouri, to Miss Mathildc
Agan, of New York.
Col. James C. Berrctt, ex-mayor of
Washington, and a prominent figure in
politics in Maryland and in Washington
for half a century, died of paralysis.
Ambassador Cainlxm has purchased a
site on which the French government
will erect an embassy.
Tlans have been arranged to be pre
sented to Congress for an extension of
the Capitol.
The Navy Department gave a medal
and a gratitity to Sergeant Helms, of
the Marine Corps, for gallaiKry and he
roism, despite the recommendation to
the contrary by Rear Admiral Crown
inshield. The Comptroller of the Currency ap
pointed a temporary received for the
Farmers National Bank of Vergcnnes,
Vt., w-hose cashier had embezzled about
$90,000.
Secretary Hay has been sounding the
Senators to learn what sort of a treaty
with England bcarhfg on the isthmian
canal will be certain of ratification.
President James M. Waterbury, of
the Waterbury Rope Company, explain
ed to the Industrial Commission why
the Cordage Trust was a failure.
An attemrt to rob the express train
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Washington, was foiled by the express
messenger.
President McKinley appointed a
board of visitors to West Point Mili
tary Academy.
The Treasury Department was ad
vised by the big meat-packing concerns
in Chicago of a rumor that the British
Government intended to make war on
American meat.
The Congress of the Loyal Legion
adopted an amendment to the constitu
tion admitting veterans of the Spanish
American War.
President McKinley invited Senators
Spooncr and Piatt to a conference on
insular questions.
The ninth quadrennial congress ot
the military order of the Loyal Legion,
and the fourth general reunion of the
order, convened in Washington.
In his testimony before the Industrial
Commission Mr. Lyman R. Hopkins,
president of the American Thread Com
pany, advocated trusts because of their
tendency to lessen prices of commodi
ties to consumers.
Our New Possessions.
The Cuban Constitutional Convention
declines to pass upon the Piatt amend
ment, and the question has been left to
the commission which goes to Washing
ton to consult the President.
Archbishop Chapelle, the papal dele
gate in the Philippines, has been sum
moned to Rome.
The immigration at the port of Ha
vana, Cuba, during the last half of the
year 1900 was 14,578.
The American Philippine Commission
received a cordial greeting at Antique
Province, on the Island of Panay,
A native guide's treachery nearly cans
cd Lieutenant Mills, of the Forty-third
Volunteer Infantry, to be entrapped while
pursuing insurgents on the Island of
Leyte.
At a meeting of European members
of the Filipino Junta in London, it was
reported that General MacArthur was
preparing to torture Aguinaldo to com
pel him to sign the oath of allegiance,
the members of the Junta evidently not
being posted on the doings of Aguin
aldo since his capture.
General Martin Delgado, lormerly
chief insurgent commander in die Island
of Panay, has been appointed governor
of the Province of Iloilo.
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
Ncwa Happenings of Intereat Gathered
From All Sources.
Bid BATTLE WITH A 0VPSY BAND.
One Maa Killed, a Woman and Two C"Mf j
Shot In a Running Fight-Strange Malady
Stir the Towa el North Belle Vernon--While
a Committee Waited to Oreet a Pas
tor the Church was Set 00 Fire.
In a fusiladc of bullets between a
posse of constables and a gypsy band
near Lilly, John Yachrumina. one of
the gypsies, was instantly killed, his
niece, Viola Yachrumma, was shot
through the breast, H. P. Titler, a dep
uty constable, was shot in the mouth,
and F'rank Coons, another deputy, was
shot in the bowels. The latter will
probably die. The gypsies were in the
neighborhood of Duncansville, Blair
county, last week, where, it is asserted,
they committed many depredations. Af
ter they left Blair county and came over
into Cambria, Constable Brown, of
Duncansville, followed with a warrant
for their arrest. He located his men
near Summit and called Constables For
deg and Wilt to his assistance. The
two deputized P. S. Titler, division fore
man of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
F'rank Coons as assistants, and the party
of alleged thieves was soon located. A
running chase was kept up until the
officers overtook the party. The latter
immediately opened fire and Titler fell,
shot through the mouth. The volley
was returned and Yac'iiruinina was
killed. At the second volley the woman
dropped and an instant later Coons was
struck. The loss of two men confused
the josse to a certain extent, and the
gypsies hurried away, carrying their
dead and wounded with them.
The town of North Belle Vernon is
stirred up over what appears to be an
attempt at wholesale poisoning. One
person is dead, another is dying and
five others are seriously ill. N. II.
Reeves, a prominent citizen and a
school director, died suddenly in con
vulsions from a peculiar affection ha-t
his puzzled the physicians. A. C. Conip
ton. principal of the public schools, and
A. W. Phillips, assistant principal, arc
down with the same malady, but there
is hope for the lattcr's recovery. It is
possible that the water in a well from
which School Director Reeves and the
instructors drank was poisoned, for five
others who used water from the well
are seriously ill, and it is believed that
none of them will recover. The public
schools have been closed and the great
est uneasiness is felt. A chemist h on
his way from Pittsburg to analyze the
water in the well.
A great sensation was caused at
Lcwisburg by the discovery of an at
tempt to burn the Beaver Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church. Joseph
Poeth, a teamster, was passing the edi
fice and observed smoke issuing fi'om
the chapel in the rear. Investigation
showed a brisk fire to be burning in
side, but with assistance Poeth extin
guished the flames. A bunch of oil
soaked rags was found just outside the
building. The church is one of the finest
edifices in this part of the State, costing
$150,000 and being the gift of Thomas
Beaver, of Danville. At the time the
fire was discovered a committee was at
the railway station to meet the new pas
tor, Rev. R. H. Culburn, who came
from Williamsport. The people are
much alarmed over the fire, as then,
was a $2500 blaze on Tuesday night,
which seemed to be of incendiary
origin.
Proceedings in equity were filed at
Sharon by citizens of Grove City
against that borough, A. E. Graham,
borough treasurer, and Grove City Col
lege. The suit asks to have set aside
the ordance passed a year ago by Town
Council accepting a gift of $30,000 from
Anrew Carnegie to establish a free li
brary in that town witli the condition
that the borough pay $1800 yearly for
maintenance. Petitioners allege that to
maintain the library the town would be
forced to exceed the constitutional tax
limit.
The American Steel and Wire Com
pany has just brought in a gas well 1400
feet deep, with a rock pressure of 800
pounds, at its new blast furnace plant at
Neville Island. The gauge showed a
steady flow, but it is too soon to deter
mine whether the flow will be perman
ent or not, but it is expected that it will
maintain a flow of about 500 pounds at
least for several years. Gas experts are
of the opinion that the whole of the
island is over a gas pocket and that it
will furnish enough fuel to operate the
manufacturing plants for an indefinite
time.
For fishing with a fyke net in the
Delaware river George Smith, of
Shawnee was fined $100 and costs.
There was nothing but suckers in the
fyke net, and Smith sold the catch for
50 cents. The arrest of Smith raises the
same question at Stroudsburg that tire
court in Berks county is now wrcstding
with, viz: is the sucker a game fish?
John Short, a 12-year-old boy. was
struck by a north-bour.d Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Ry. freight
train at the Welsh street crossing, Ches
ter, and fatally injured. Short was
halted at Welsh street by an accommo
dation train, southbound, and as the
rear car cleared the crossing he darted
under the gates and ran into the freight
train.
The jury in the United States Court
at Scranton rendered a verdict in favor
of the defendant in the suit of Michael
J. Walsh, executor of the Patrick But
ler estate, to recover $10,000 on an in
surance policy on Butler's life issued
by the Royal Mutual Life Insurance
Company. At a former trial the plain
tiff was awarded $11,170. It was alleged
that Butler was insured while known to
have only a few months to live.
John Hogar and three of his children
nearly died at heir home in Shamokin
after eating wild parsuips. Two of the
children are still dangerously ill.
The coach works and blacksmith shop
of L. M. Stoner, at Mountvillc, were
destroyed by fire.' The high wind drove
the flames across the turnpike and set
fire to the barn of John Kitner gnd it
was also burned. The loss, which will
reach $7000, is partly covered by insur
nce. Workmen passing through a gang- .
way in the Evans colliery at Bcavei
Meadow stun bled over the dead bodiei
of John Falkt and Andrew Bore. It it
supposed that they were killed during
the night by a blast which exploded pre
maturely. John Gabauer was killed by
falling coal in the Laurel Hill mine.
The German Carbolic Cemetery al
Wilkesbarre was damaged by tire, sev
eral of the tombstones being cracked
and many blackened. The grass ark
shrubbery caught fire and the fire de
partment had to be called out.
While sifting in the presence of hei
eight children and invalid husband, Mrs
Leonard Strunk, of Ashland,
stricken with paralysis and died almor
instantly.
John Koincsko, a Hungarian who las
November shot and killed Francis Shaf
fer, a bartender at Northampton, wai
found guilty of murder in the secont
degree at Easton.