A RAIN OF IRON POURED BY LIBERALS Alban'i Troop Beaten 0(1 by Terrific Ride Fire at Perequete. EASY TARQET FOR THE LIBERALS. A Niaber of tilt Mea oo the Quabaat Boysca Woanded Two Schooner! Scat Ahead oi tka Oanboat Oo Afroaad The Liberals Claiai That Tnrtt Hundred of Oeotral Altai's Force Wirt Csptared. Colon, Colombia, (By Cable). Many vertiont are current, all biased in favor of the Liberals, regarding the where- aboutt and fate of General Alban't ex' pedltion, which left Panama on Sunday last. The following is the most authen tic and plausible : On arriving off Pcre Cjuete, distant about 30 miles from Pan ama, and 10 miles beyond Chorrera, as the crow flies, General Alban, on the gunboat Boyaca, sent forward two schooners, which grounded. The lib erals on land immediately poured a terrible rifle fire upon these vessels, causing much havoc on board. General Alban then ordered the Boyaca's boats to go to the assistance of the schooners. The crew of the Boyaca complied, with the result that many of them were wounded, and the boats returned to the Boyaca. When ordered for the second time to go to the assistance of the schooners tlie boats' crews refused on the ground that it was useless to do so that that such a step meant sure death to them. Hence, the Uoyaca returned 10 Panama, taking manv wounded men with her. The Liberals claim that 300 men of General Alban s force were cap tured in this way. and that they now strengthen the Liberal ranks. It has been held all along that General Alban undertook no easy task when he attempted to land troops in the vicinity of Chorrera. The General's return to 1'anama was looked forward to with great hopes, but when he returned in the manner in which he did many people there were discouraged and downcast, which leads to the belief that the gravity of the situation is recognized. Captain Perry's Report Washington, D. C (Special). The Kavy Department has received the fol lowing cablegram from Captain Perry, commanding the battleship Iowa: ''Secretary Navy, Washington. "Situation quiet and satisfactory to is. All trains running. RATHBUN IS INDICTED. Body ol Victim of Conspiracy In Charge ol the Coroner. Jeffersonville, Ind., (Special). The special grand jury selected to investigate the Rathburn insurance conspiracy and murder case returned an indictment against Newell C. Rathbun, charging him with murder in the first degree. The body of Rathbun's alleged victim, supposed to be that of Charles Goodman, arrived from Little Rock and was taken in charge by Coroner Coots. The indictment against Rathbun em bodies six counts, as follows: That of administering a poison commonly call ed laudanum to Charles Goodman ; ad ministering unknown poison to Charles Goodman; giving laudanum to a male person unknown to the grand jury; giv ing an unknown poison to an unknown mile person ; administering an anaesthetic poison to Charles Goodman, and admin istering an anaesthetic poison to an un known person. Rathbun pleaded not guilty, and his trial was set for December 19. FOUR BOYS WOUND TEACHER. They Slip Up Behind Him la School and Stab . Him la the Back. Savannah, '.Mo., (Special). Luther Montgomery, a teacher in the school at Cawood, 10 miles north of Savannah, was stabbed in the back by four of his pupils. Just before the recess hour, while his back was turned, four youths, none of whom is over 18 years of age, slipped tip behind Montgomery and dealt him a blow with a knife in the back of the head. He was then set upon and drag ged to the floor, and received three other wounds one in the neck, one in the shoulder and another in the back. The boys are all of good families, and have previously borne a good reputation. Montgomery will probably die. The boyt were brought to Savannah and lodged in jail. Verdict Under a New Law. Sioux Falls, S. D., (Special). A jury awarded Mary Garrigan a verdict for 9l,8oo damages against Samuel Kenne dy, a Dell Rapids saloonkeeper, for sell ing her husband liquor. Evidence was introduced to show that Garrigan be came intoxicated on liquor bought of Kennedy, and that he later committed suicide. This is the first conviction under the new license law prohibiting the sale of liquor to inebriates. Bart Women Lawyers. Baltimore, Md., (Special). Chief Justice McSheny decided in the case of Miss Etta Maddox that a woman could not take the examination to be admitted to the bar of Maryland. The Court says that there is at present no law author izing such examination, but that it is within the province of the Legislature to pass an act authorizing women to be admitted to the bar of Maryland. A Record Breaker. Tipton, Ind., (Special). A 50,000,000 foot gat well came in on the Hobbs Farm, four miles south of this city. The flow came in at 4 o'clock, and when the tools were thrown out the drillers had to run for their lives. The well is equal to if not larger than the celebrated Wal lace well, which was discovered near Fostoria, O., several years ago, and which was at that time said to be the biggest gusher on record. Wlft Charted With Murder. Memphis, Tenn. ( Special ). The grand jury has returned an indictment against Mrs. Maud Emma Hooks, prominently lrnown, charging her with the murder by poison of her husband. ( Several weeks ago C. G. Hooks, a well-known business man, died under suspicious cir cumstances. A chemist was ordered to exhume the remains of Hooks and perform an autopsy. The chemist re ported to the coroner that he found enough powdered glas ami arsenic in th stomach to cause death. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. A contract has been closed by the Wil liam R. Trigg Shipbuilding Company, of Richmond, Va., with the Standard Oil Company for the construction of a tank steamer to carry 1.500,100 gallons of oil and to cost $439,000. The United States Court to Spring field, 111., refused an Injunction restrain ing the Chicago State Board 6f Equaliz ation from assessing the atock of the traction companies. Caballos, the insurgent leader in the Philippines, has 500 fully armed men in his command, and it it reported contem plates an attack upon Mauban, Laguna Province. Isaiah Bollin, principal of the colored school in Lexington, Va., resigned his position because of recent attempts to assassinate him and left for parts un known. By the dropping of an elevator cage in the retail dry goods house of Town send & Wyatt, St. Joseph, Mo., two per sons were fatally hurt. Smallpox is raging in the southern islands of the Philippines. The United States Commission is preparing an act to compel vaccination. The grand jury in Jeffersonville, Ind., indicted Newell C. Rathbone. the con fessed insurance swindler, for murder in the first degree. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will spend $25,000,000 next year for roll ing stock $10,000,000 for cars and $6. 000,000 for locomotives. Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell, of New York, and William Marks, a broker, were accused of conspiracy. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad advanced the wages of all its shopmen in Louisville 10 per cent. Charles Larken, aged 32 years, died in a Boston hospital from the effects of biting off his tongue. Geeza Granzer, who shot Mrs. Susan na Miller in Philadelphia, committed suicide. Lawyer John L. Semple, of Camden, N. J., on trial in Philadelphia for being concerned in counterfeiting, testified in his own behalf, denying the charges and producing judges and lawyers to testify to his good character. Santiago Ig!esias, agent in Porto Rico of the American Federation of Labor, who was arrested on a charge of conspir acy, has been released on $500 bail, fur nished, by President Gonipers. John B. Berthoff. Western Union manager at Jersey City, and Isaac Ker shaw, an operator, were prrested on the charge of carrying on a green-goods game. Elmer Frcy, of York, Pa., identified John Kottcamp and Harry Ream, who, he says, robbed him and put him, bound and gagged, on an electric car track. Walter Strattan. alias Ben ruarne, pleaded guilty of holding up a Missouri, Kansas and Texas train and robbing the United States mail at Cancy. I. T. The American Tobacco Company ab sorbed the firm of D. H. McAlpin & Co., of New York, paying $2,500,000 for the property. Mrs. Elizabeth Dale, of Chicago, was arraigned in Hoboken on the charge of murdering her five-year-old daughter, tmehne. C. D. Upchurch and Leslie Lynch, two farmers, had a pistol duel at Fiynns Creek, lenn., Lynch receiving a fatal wound. Joseph W. Jones died on his farm. near Winchester, Va., where he had lived ever since he was born, 02 years ago. A great deal of mail matter was burn ed in the .disastrous wreck on the Santa Fe near the Needles, in California. An unknown man threw himself head long into ona of the furnacet at Schoen berger's mills, in Pittsburg. L. Z. Cook, a railway mail clerk, was arrested in Pittsburg on the charge cf embezzlement. Robert Coburn, of Chicago, shot Charles and John Miller, whom he found near his hen roost. Robbers got into the postoffice at Dun- cansville, Pa., and got $1,000 in stamps and cash. Capt. John Lawson, a pioneer loco motive builder, died at his home, in St. Louis. J. E. Davidson committed suicide in Union City, Tenn. Foreign. It is reported from Sofia that Consul General Dickinson will notify the brig ands, fixing 10 days as the period within which they must accept i 10.000 as Miss Stone's ransom, or the United States will stop all dealings with them. Count von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg. for mer German ambassador to Great Brit ain, died at the embassy, in London. Through the dishonesty and betting transactions of a bookkeeper the Bank of Liverpool loses $850,000. A conspiracy was discovered in Jo hannesburg and a number of suspected parties arrested. United State, officers' at Panama re port fiuiet there. It is said that no im mediate attack upon Panama is contem plated. The government is still build iiifr breastworks near the railroad prop erty. Captain Perry will probably land a force from the battleship Iowa to pro tect transit. The foreign military comander atTien tsin refu-c to turn over the collection of taxes to the Chinese. They also decline to submit the question of the right of control of the native city to the foreign ministers. The revolt against the proposal to translate the Gospels into modern Greek continues in Athens. Marines were landed to co-operate with the troops in guarding the palace. Col. Arthur Lynch, who fought as a colonel in the Boer Army, defeated Hor ace Pliinkett, Unionist, for member of Parliament from Galway, Ireland. It is reported that Germany and Rus sia are preparing a joint circular note proposing an antianarchist conference. Financial. The New York Subtreasury statement shows that the banks lost $2,882,000 last week. It is said a $2,000,000 car wheel com pany is to be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. One report has it that the rise in Jer sey Central is due to a supplementary offer by Reading interests for outstand ing stock of tie company. Lee, Higginson & Co., of Boston, were awarded the $1,000,000 Boston & Maine Railroad 3'A per cent, twenty-year bonds at $102.92. It was reported in Wall street that H. C. Frick is interested in the new $100, 000,000 steel combination. Promoters of the proposed $100,000, 000 hardware consolidation are said to have offered $20,000,000 for the property of the Chicago manufacturers. On account of time cutting between Chicago & St. Paul and Omaha several of the weak lines may withdraw from the Western Pasengcr Association. The American Tobbacco Company has purchased control of the D. H. McAlphin & Co. for a turn approximating $2,500, oa. Control is to be secured on January FOR REPRESSION OF ANARCHISTS United Stales Solicitor Oeneral Richards Tells How to Do It THE TIME FOR ACTION HAS COME. Unnecessary, Sayt Mr. Richards, to Amend the Conttltatlon to Obtain tht Power to Snpprett Antrchls m Congress Caa Intrutt to tht President the Power to Exclude Allen Anarchists. Philadelphia, Pa., (Special.) J. K. Richards, Solicitor General of the Uni ted States, in a notable speech at the Founder's Day banquet of the Union League here spoke on the need of leg islation for the repressiftn of anarchy. He said the President of the United States ought to be protected by the law of the United States. "Not only his safety, but the dignity of the republic demands this." said Mr. Richards. "The President takes nn oath that he will 'faithfully execute the office of Presi dent of the t inted States, and wil 'preserve, protect and defend the Con stitution of the United States.' This Constitution enjoins him to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.' The solemn obligation thus imposed is not intermittent, but continuous. From the time he takes the oath until he dies or retires, wherever he may be, without interval or cessation, he is President of the United States, and engaged in exe cuting that office. And for this reason the power of the nation should safe guard and protect him always and ev erywhere. Authority to do this is clear. Every right secured by the Constitution may be protected by Congress, and there is no nigner rigni unuer ine constitu tion, no right whose free exercise is more vital to the Constitution, than the right of 'faithfully executina the office of President of the United States.' A murderous assault upon the President, aimed as it is at the life of the govern ment, imperils the security of the whole country, and whether successful or un successful, should be punishable by death. "If Congress intrusts to the Presi dent the power to exclude alien anarch ists and to deport all unnaturalized ones. I fancy it will not be difficult to put in operation an effective plan of ridding the country of these bloody-minded pests. "Surely the time for action has come. No more atrocious crime can be com mitted than the one for which we know anarchism is directly responsible. I take the view that it is safe to repress crime, no matter in what guise present ed or how widespread and reckless its adherents. By the concurrent action of civilized nations anarchists ought to be placed under the ban of universal law. The red flag of anarchy should be driv en from the land as the black flag of piracy has been driven from the sea." ATTEMPT TO BURN STEAMER? Match Heads and Cannon Crackers' Pound to Her Cargo. Fensacola, Fla., (Special). What seems to have been an attempt to burn the British steamer Cayo, 2,223 tons, which is loading a cargo of 16,000 bales of cotton for Bremen, was discovered here. The plan was frustrated by one of the cotton screw men at work in the hold of the vessel finding a quantity of heads of matches. About 10,000 bales of cotton had been placed in the vessel when the discovery was made. This led to an in vestigation, and about 20 cannon crack ers 12 inches in length were found jam med between the heads of the cotton. In each instance matches had ben placed in the heads of the cannon crackers ad joining the stem, with the heads protrud ing in such a manner that slight friction would strike the matches and ignite the cannon crackers. W. C T. U. APPROPRIATIONS. Over $14,000 Is Set Aside for Work of the Organization. ' Fort Worth, Texas, (Special). The report of the committee on appropria tions of the National Woman's Chrit tian Temperance Union was adopted by the executive board before adjournment. Fifty-eight hundred dollars are given to the president, vice-president, treas urer and secretary. The "Y" branch gets $800 and the "L. T. L." $500. The departments get an aggregate of $7,255. Among the various appropriations for departmental work are : Legislation, $1,000; foreign speaking people and missionary on Ellis Island, $650; colored people, $500; scientific temperance institution, $800, soldiers and sailors, $250; anti-narcotics, $200; physical education, $250; purity, $200; non-alcoholic medication, $350; fran chise, $175; total appropriations for the year, $14,355- Captain Jumped Overboard. Mobile, Ala., (Special.) The British bark Birman, Wood, from Rio Janeiro, in charge of Mate Poe, arrived here and reports that on November 18, the cap tain, named Morris, killed the vessel't steward. The body was buried at sea. The captain kept in his cabin, pac ing up and down. When informed that Sand Island light was sighted Novem ber 22, he gave the mate the course, picked up a sea lead, jumped overboard and was drowned. Big Fire at Murfreesboro. Murfreesboro, Tenn., (Special.) Fire started in the warehouse of J. L. Rather & Co. here and soon spread until the entire Depot Hill district was in flames. About $80,000 worth of property is in ashes. Immense Baok Swindle. ' Liverpool, ( By Cable. Announcement was made here that the Bank of Liver pool had been victimized by a trusted bookkeper for a large sum. Vhat the losses amount to is not yet exactly known, but an official statement issued by the bank says that through the dis honesty and betting transactions of a bookkeeper the institution may lose 170,000 (about $850,000). The bank's shares fell ti (about $5) on the Stock ex change. The defaulter has not yet been arrested. Multiplex Telegraphy. Boulder, Col., (Special). Dr. Wil liam Duane, professor of physics nt the State University, has been granted a pat ent for an invention by which a large number of telegraph messages can be sent oyer one wire and -return ut the same time. It is said he ha had n manv as eighteen circuits working on the same wire ana return ait at the rame time. On any of these circuits the Morse in strument can be placed and used exactly as with the fcinirle wire now in no Iw Duane's invention is based on the prin ciple 01 synchronizing motors. TREACHERY CHECKED IN LUZON. American Negroes Said to Have United Wilb Flllploos to Attack Manlaa. Manila, (By Cable.) It has been officially reported to Gen. Chaffee, that the insurgent leader Caballos has 500 fully armed men, including a number of American negroes, under his com mand in Laguna province, Luzon. An insurgent officer has just been cap tured carrying papers dated Mauban, Laguna province, Nov. 18, and signed by Caballos. The prisoner admits that Caballos has 1000 men with him and contemplated attacking Mauban. The patrolling gunboats along Samar have captured over $20,000 in cash and $100,000 worth of hemp, upon which a tax had been paid to the insurgents, has ben confiscated. The system of taxation and the collection of taxes maintained by the insurgent leader Lukban was per fect and exhaustive in every particular. Hemp was the most important feature of commerce. Two per cent, of its price was given to the local presidentes, who collected the majority of the island's revenue from those natives who had sworn allegiance to the United States, and turned it over to the rebel authorities Smallpox is raging in the southern islands of the archipelago. The United States Philippine Commission is prepar ing an act to compel everyone to be vac cinated. MILLIONS FOR ROLLING STOCK. Expenditures by the Pennsylvania Said to Be Unprecedented. Philadelphia, Pa., (Special). The ex penditures to be made by the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company in 1902 for rolling stock will aggregate $25,000,000, a sum believed to be unprecedented in railroad history. Of this amount about $19,000,000 will be expended for cars and the other $6, 000,000 for locomotives. As already an nounced, the company will require 19,000 new freight cars for 1902, the greater number of which have already been or dered. While no locomotives for 1902 delivery have been ordered, the require ments in that direction for next year have been determined upon approximate ly at 400 locomotives. Of this number 300 will be required for the lines east of Pittsburg and 100 for the Western lines. All of these locomotives will be of 'the heavy modern type. With the exception of about 100 all of them will be duilt by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the American Locomotive Building Com pany. FAMILY A BURGLAR GANG. People Well Thought of In Church and Social Circles Lived by Thieving. Pittsburg, Kan. (Special). George Lane and family, consisting of his wife, a 14-year-old daughter and an adopted son, 18 years old, have been arrested here, charged with being leaders of a gang that has been systematically rob bing merchants of this city for the past year. Lane and his wife are prominent in society and church work. They have a beautiful home on West Fourth street, where nearly $1,000 worth of the stolen goods were found. It is charged that the boy would conceal himself in a store and be locked in when the store was closed, and then in the night he would open the rear door, after which the rob bery was easy. The arrest was caused by the boy being captured in a store and confessing. Lane is a contracting builder by trade and has always been considered a respectable citizen. HORRIBLE COUGH CURE. Natives of New Guinea Massacre Those They Blame. London, (By Cable). Lieut.-Gov. George R. Le Hunte, in his annual report on British New Guinea, tells a strange story of native superstition which is causing the sacrifice of innumerable lives. Whooping cough was introduced there by two white children and spread with frightful rapidity. It first swept the coasts and is now ravaging the interior., As the natives hold that death from any' cause is always compassed by an un known enemy, only discoverable through witchcraft, whenever a village, is at tacked with whooping cough a sorcerer is consulted. The latter invariably des ignates another village or tribe as cul pable and a midnight massacre bf in nocent persons follows. Bought by the B. 4 0. Marietta, Ohio, (Special). The Ohio and Little Kanawha Railway between this city and Zanesville, which was sup posed to have been sold soirie time ago to the Wabash system, has been sold to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Both systems were anxious to acquire the road, the former to complete its line from the lakes to the seaboard by way of the undeveloped coal lands of West Virginia. The latter wants it to con nect its Southwestern system with the main line. The purchase gives the Bal timore and Ohio connections with its own line both at Marietta and Zanes ville. Cost of Ciolgotx Trial. Buffalo, N. Y, (Special). The ex pense incurred in the trial and convic tion of Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinlcy, was $1,799.50. Of this mm $500 was paid the attorneys who defended him; $1,000 was paid the alienists who examined him ; $144 was paid the deputies who guarded him ; $36 was paid for pictures taken and there is a bill of $119.50 for the transporting of Czolgosz and his guards to Aubusn. This bill, it is expected, the State will pay. Plague Havoc In Russia. Vienna, (By Cable) .There has been an alarming spread of the plague jn South Russia. According to dispatches from Lemherg hundreds of fatal cases are reported in Moscow, Odessa, Kieff, Kherson and other towns. King Edward't Health! London, (By Cable). Sir Frederick Treves, surgeon to King Edward, offer ing a toast to the King at a banquet at Aberdeen, said it was pleasant to know that the monarch had never enjoyed such excellent health as at present. Stole $20,000 la Silver. F.l Paso, Texas, (Special). The fact that lia bars of gold and silver bullion valued at over $20,000, were stolen six months ago in transit from the smelt ers here to Eastern refiners, has just come to light. The shipment was made over the Galveston, Harnsbiirg and San Antonio Railway under heavy bonds. It was not missed until the car reached New Orleans. It has been since learned that the bullion had been thrown from the car near the city and that it now lies buried ill Western Texas. The thieve have been traced from place to place and a few bars have been unearthed. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Secretary Hitchcock Submits His An nual Report. POLICY TOWARDS THE INDIANS. Each Abte-Bodied Red Man to Work His Allotment He Dwells Particularly Upon tht Necessity ol Reservoirs as a Part of a National System of Forest snd Water Conservation. Washington, D. C, (Special). The annual report of Secretary Hitchcock, of the Interior Department, just made public, indorses the conclusions submit ted by Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones regarding the present Indian edu cational system. The Secretary says; "The management of the Indian serv ice in the field and in the schools, while satisfactory under existing conditions, is not deemed to be the best for the wel fare of the Indians, and different meth ods will hereafter be adopted. This policy contemplates requiring the work ing by Indian allottees able to do so of a fair, portion of lands alloted them and the contributing by their industry to their own support of all not entirely dis qualified by actual disability, physical or otherwise, the discontinuance of the issue of rations to those able to sun port themselves and the extension to the latter of every possible aid for their well-being and encouragement ; the in stitution of industrial training in all schools where not now established so that such Indians of both sexes may be taught the trades or industries adapted to their circumstances." The income of the various Indian tribes from all sources during the year aggregated $5,338,880, a failing off of $2(x,952, due mostly to the expiration of treaty obligations. The curriculum of Indian schools, the Secretary says, should be restricted to the common school course and the furth er extension of non-reservation schools should not be permitted. The Dawes Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory re ports that the rolls of membership of only one nation the Seininoles so far haev been approved and their lands have not yet been entirely allotted. There is a vast amount of labor yet to be per formed by the commission in investi gating the claims of applicants for en rollment and equalizing the value of the lands already classified, and Secretary Hitchcock recommends that the commis sion be increased by four members. He also favors a modification of the law re quiring distribution of lands on the basis of equalized valuation and that a definite period be fixed for the comple tion of all the work pertaining to the allotment of lands among the Indians in the Territory. SEVEN KILLED IN A WRECK. Three Passengers and Fourteen Trainmen Badly Hurt Los Angeles, Cal., (Special). A fatal wreck occurred on the Santa Fe Rail road one mile west of Franconia, Ariz., a switch station 20 miles east of Nee dles, Cal. Seven trainmen were killed, three pas sengers and 14 trainmen injured. Lim ited trains, one cast, the other west bound, crashed touether while running at full speed. The castbound train' was drawn by two engines, while the west bound train had but one locomotive. The three engines were crushed and blown to pieces by an explosion which followed the collision. Both trains were made up of vestibule cars of the heaviest kind, and while they stood the terrific shock well and protected the passengers to a great extent, several of the cars took fire and burned up. The dining cars, one on each train ; one Pullman and two composite cars were destroyed. i he collision is said to have been due to a disregard of orders by the crew of the westbound train From all accounts, however, it is gathered that the east bound train had orders to take the siding, at Franconia, and await the passing of the westbound flyer, which was running two hours late and trying to make up time. The eastliound train failed to reach the siding, and, as the westbound train did not wait for it, the two trains came together without warning and with an awful crash. The boiler of the westbound engine is said to have exploded immediately after the crash, scalding to death those of the engine crews who had not been killed outright. The bodies of Case and Armi- tage, firemen of the eastbound train, and Sam Brown, waiter of the onoosite train. are missing, and it is believed that they were cremated in the flames that follow ed the collision. The sleeping cars, with one or two exceptions, suffered slightly, and as a result the passengers were afforded com parative immunity from injury. ODDS AND ENDS OP THE NEWS. The verdict of the cornoner's iurv in the case of John W. Scott, the young club and society man of Richmond, who was found horribly beaten in the door way of a West End residence one night last week, and who died without re gaining consciousness, was that Mr. Scott's injuries were inflicted by a weapon in the hands of some person un known. Professor Ritchey, of the Yerkcs Observatory, Chicago, has secured pho tographs of the new star in the north ern sky, from which he draws additional proof of the nebular theory of the crea tion of the world. The New York Grand Jury returned an indictment against Police 'Captain Gannon, charging him with neglect of duty. Governor Van Sant, of Minnesota, has invited governors of other States in the Northwest to a conference to discuss resistance to the consolidation of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railroads. Admiral Schley has declined the offer of the Knoxville Sentinel to collect a fund with which to defray the expense to which the Admiral was subjected by the court of inquiry. A pro-Boer meeting in London was broken up by Tories, and Sit Patterson Nickalls, who presided, was subjected to a demonstration of disapproval on the Stock Exchange. W. D. Brockman, of Chicago, believ ing that he had killed his wife instead of a burglar, shot and killed himself in his remorse. British officials now want to try Dr. Kratise, former go zernor of Johannes burg, in London on charges of high trea son and incitement to murder. The scheme of an Anglo-American syndicate to erect a big building on the Strand according to American ideas has caused a sensation' in London. The students at the University of Alliens made a demonstration in opposi tion to the translation of the Gospels,' and fought the police and soldiers. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Plant for Isthmian CasaL. Unless the unexpected happens Con gress will this winter vote to construct the Nicaraugua canal at a cost of $189, 000,000. This is for two great harbors one at Greytown, on the Atlantic or Carib bean end of the canal, and the other at Brito, at the Pacific end for a canal of eight locks, and for an enormous dam at Conchuda, on the San Juan river, several miles above the mouth of the San Carlos river. The Greytown harbor and entrance to the canal will cost $2,196,860, and the Brito harbor and entrance will cost $1, 509,470. The Greytown harbor half a century ago had a depth of 50 feet of water. It is now only a little better than a lagoon, with half the depth, and light ers bearing cargoes from ships anchor ed in the offing have to cross a bar that carries lest than six feet of water. As the canal should have a depth of 35 feet, it is necessary that the harbor and entrance should have the same. It is proposed to have harbors at each end of .the canal, protected by jetties 3,500 feet long. These jetties will be con structed of loose stone nnd will be six feet above the water. The entrance will be 500 feet wide and of 35 feet depth. Much more dredging will be neces sary at Greytown than at Brito. The sand movement at Brito will be less than at Greytown and the cost of main tenance will be far less. Within the harbors there will be a turning basin of 1,800 feet. Report of Philippines. D. R. Williams, secretary of the Phil' ippine Comission, has delivered the re port of the commission to Secretary Root. The report is a long one, covering in detail every feature of the Philippine government. Besides the report proper there are several volumes of appendices containing reports of diffeaent officers of the Government. It is upon the facts contained in this report that Congress is expected to act in legislating for the Phil ippines. The receipt of the report en ables Secretary Root to complete his re port, which probably will be made public next week. Accompanying Mr. Williams was Charles A. Conant, who was sent to the Philippines by Secretary Root to make an investigation of and report upon the monetary situation in the islands. Tl.e information on this point will be used to shape legislation intended to improve present conditions. Minister Conger's ProtesL Minister Conger's action in protest ing to the Chinese Government against the arbitrary cancelation of a railway franchise granted to an American com pany, and its transfer to a French corpo ration, was taken upon representations made to the State Department by the American China Improvement Company, which has a franchise to construct a railroad from Canton to Hankow. It is understood that the forfeiture of the claim was based on two accounts : first, that the road was not completed within the stipulated period of time, and second, because the American corpora tion had passed into the hands of Bel gians. The State Department holds that the conditions in China for the last year and a half have been such as to make it impossible for an American Company to have completed its work, and that for this delay the Chinese Government itself is responsible. McKinlcy Fund Plan. Plans by which it is hoped to prevent differences between the Canton McKin lcy Monument Association and the Washington Memorial Arch Association and secure harmony of action were agreed upon at a meeting bf the Execu tive Committee of the later bod. A committee of five was appointed to con fer with the Board of 'I rustees of the Canton Association in this city Decem ber 7. 1 he plan is that the two associations shall make a joint poll of the country for a fund to erect both the monument at Canton and the memorial arch in this city, and that of all the money collected one-third 6hall go to the Canton monu ment and two-thirds to the memorial arch. ' Cubans Want Reciprocity. Reciprocity with Cuba will be agi tated in Washington during the week by a delegation from the Cuban Mer chants' Association of Havana, The delegation will call on the Presi dent Tuesday in relation td the subject, and will also try to impress several Sen tors with what they say would be the advantages each country would enjoy through trade reciprocity. The project is known to be opposed for the present by some of the American military offj cers in Cuba, Governor Taft Convalescing. A cablegram has been received from acting Governor Wrlgnt, at Manila, in which he says that Governor Taft 'is improving, but probably will be inca pacitated for four weeks or more. At the end of that time the physicians think it will be advisable for Governor Taft to seek a change of climate for a few weeks in which to recuperate. American Victory In Samar, Washington, D. C; (SncciaD. Rear Admiral Rodgcrs has cabled the Navy ucpartmcnt from Cavite as follows; "Waller renorfa thnt r,n .. - -1 - - " u,UIIU1.t , marines attacked an almost impregnable position ut oojoton, samar. three famns were nVttrrtv,! -m ,ii.n ViUA j --- ,v. mi.vu anu 40 bamboo guns, rice and stores captur- cu. iic reports no casualties ana com mends Porter and other officers." r. . Gunncrt Commissioned. Francis Martin and R. H, Soulc, form erly gunners in the navy, have been com missioned ensigns and are under orders to report to ' their ships. These men were appointed ensigns after a severe ex amination under the act of Congress passed at the last session. They have the distinction of being the "first men appointed to the line of the navy since the War of the Rebellion who did not receive a course of instruction at the Naval Academy. Their status is ex actly the same as that of all other en signs. Consul llsnns's DcolsL The State Department, taking notice of a recently published interview with United States Consul Hanna, of Monte rey, in a Western newspaper, In which the officer is said to have criticised the action of the State Department and Am bassador Clayton in the case of Williain iueaiy, which has figured before the Mexican courts, addressed an innulrr to Mr. Hanna on this subject. Mr, Hanna has telegraphed a reply to the depart ment, denying in the most sweeping terms the accuracy of the interview, The explanation ia regarded as satisfactory, LATEST 'HAPPENINGS All OYER THE STATE, Condensed Special Dispatches Boiled Down for Rapid Reading. NEW LIST OF PENSIONS GRANTED. Pittsburg Pritoncr't Death Sentence Commuted Pardon Granted a Lackawanna Comty Convict Another Street Car at Scraotot Badly Damaged by Dynamite Forty Ubor. trs Aroused From Sleep by Flames. These pensions were granted Pcr.nsvl. vanians: Godfrey K. fiibcr, Allegheny, $8; Theodore J. Ballantine, Pittsburg, $12; John K. Kclsey, Allegheny, $u; John C. Mark. New Alexander, $12; Theodore Robison, Mercersburg, $10; Maurice Dunbar, Phoenixville, $10; Car oline Foy, Homestead, $i8; Martha Mc Farland, Tatevillc, $8; Catherine I. Per ris, Rochester, $8; Elizabeth J. Cherry, Bellwood, $8; Elizabeth Crim, Shay, $8; Mary Reddick, Allegheny, $8; Gcorgetta Shotts, Irwin, $8. " . Pennsylvania Winfield S. Birchj Pittsburg,$i2 ; Norman G. Bundy, Dagus Mines, $6; Michael Fitzer. Runville, $10; Charles Richardson, Pittsburg, $8; Sarah E. Miller. Pitsburg, $8; Amanda E. Crablc, Uniontown, $12; Emeline Pierce, East Smithfield, $12. Judge Edwards of Scranton, specially presiding, decided that the school board of Norristown has power to raise $5000 annually by taxation to maintain a Car negie library. Several citizens of the town had instituted equity proceedings to prevent the acceptance of Carnegie's gift. Michael Nash was arrested in Scran ton charged with trying to wreck the Buffalo express on the Lackawanna Rail road by placing an obstruction in a frog. A switchman discovered the attempt. Mrs. Carrie Cox. of Franklin Town ship, Lycoming County, was arrested charged with attempting to poison two children of William McFadden. A piece of dynamite fastened to the car track on Capouse avenue, Scranton, was run over and exploded by a car at 6 o'clock the other evening. No one was injured, but the car was badly dam aged. Several similar attempts to wreck cars have been made since the strike of the traction employees was com menced. Select Council has passed a resolution directing the City Recorder to offer a reward of $500 for informa tion that will lead to the arrest of a perpetrator of these outrages. The Board of Pardons commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of George W. McMurray, of Pittsburg, whose case has been pending before the board since April. A pardon was grant-, ed to Joseph Coschino, of Lackawanna county, serving a life sentence for mur der. Application for the commutation of the death sentence of John Lutz, of Luzerne county, and William Allen, of Fayette county, were refused. A large building tenanted by over forty Hungarian laborers, at Annville, was destroyed by fire. The foreigners, roused from their sleep by the flames, rushed panic-stricken to the outside,, leaving clothing and money to be con sumed. It is estimated that $1,500, the savings of the men for several years, was destroyed. Yielding to the request of their attor ney. Governor Stone decided that the two Biddle brothers, who murdered a1 irrocer near Pittsburir. should he handed on different days. John Biddle will be hanged on January 14, and Edward Bid dle on January 6. Three tramps who are believed to have robbed a hotel in Catasuaqua were captured after a long chase by Detec tives Johnson and Derail. The officers recovered clothing, jewelry and other goods. Thomas C. Hoopes' butcher wagon was struck by a train on the Dowing town & Lancaster Railroad at the Wash ington avenue crossing. The wagon was wrecked and Hoopes was badly in jured. Negotiation are pending for the pur chase of the Dcuise estate in Eddystone borough, comprising about forty acres, ' by Philadelphia capitalists, to be utilized for a large mill. Isabella, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barney McCafferty, of Allentown, died from burns sustained while playing at a brush fire. The Lancaster branch of the Woman's Needlework Guild of America distrib uted 2107 garments among the Poor of that city. Annie Pareiska, aged 4 years, was playing about a bonfire in Pattstown. when her clothing became ignited and she was burned to death. Three rural delivery routes will" be es tablished in Spring City and vicinity on January 1. The stables at Lindenthrope race track were destroyed by fire, a lighted cig arette, it is thought, causing the flame. The Chester Board of Trade appoint ed a committee to aid in. the endeavor to secure action in Congress in favor of a deeper channel for the Delaware river. Three negroes accused of many rob beries in Lancaster county were arrest ed in Atglen, Chester county, after a fight with the constables. Plans submitted by A. A. Richtcr, a Lebanon architect, were accepted for the new Memorial Reformed Church to be erected in Washington for the con gregation with which President Roose velt worships. The General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church con cluded its sessions in Pittsburg. The committee refused to, recede from its position in making an 8 peY cent, reduc tion in appropriations to missions. Aged John Waterson was found dead in bed at his home in Chester, the dis covery being made by his daughter-in-law, who went to hi room to call him. Death was due to apoplexy. Charters were issued by the State De partment to the following corporations; Keystone Stable and Storage Co., Pitts burg, capital $5,000; Eastern Warehouse Co., Philadelphia, capital $(0,000; The Lloyd Manufacturing Co., ' Pittsburg, capital $1,000; The Umbrella Specialty Co., Philadelphia, capital $10,000; The South Sharon Furniture and Supply Co., South Sharon, capital $10,000. Charles Kester, 22 years years of age, of Eastern Salisburg Township, was committed to jail in Allcnfown charged with stabbing Albert Stuber, a neighlnr. The two, it is alleged, got into an al tercation in -which Kester stabbed Stu ber with a pocket-knife, the blade pene trating a lung. The public school board of Tredyffrin Township has organized as a board of health, with Dr. A. W. Uaugh. of I'aoli, as health officer, and notice was sent out that all teachers and school, cliil-" drcn must be vaccinated. Michael Rendler, a Lancaster county fanner, 64 years old, was dialed to death by a frightened horse.
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