mil IT BE AN ECONOMIC WAR "Russia and Austria-Hungary Threaten Germany. THE AMERICANS ARE FAR AHEAD. Vttj Will Not Negotiate Commerc al Treaties - Ibt Dull of tho Pending Tnrllt A Con sMcrablt Volume of American Products Wh cb Now Go to Russia Through German Traders Would Also Be Excluded. Berlin, (By Cable). The tariff bill Boes to the committee this week, anJ nobody expects its reappearance for months. Herren Bcbel and Richter and other opposition leaders have agreed to lclay the measure as long as possible in committee. They are determined to make a fight on every one of the 046 items. This well-worn form of parlia mentary obstruction is to be continued in the House after the bill leaves the com mittee, and it is quite possible that the final vote will not be readied until 1003. unless the government offers a compro mise, which is unlikely. The govern ment, being aware of the dilatory tactics ahead, is considering changing the rules of the house so as to block the obstruc tion tactics of the opposition. A variety of estimates of the majority for or against the bill arc in circulation. The general impression is that the gov ernment commands a large majority. It is not the United States that the government will be concerned about should the tariff bill be put through in its ? resent form, but Russia and Austria lungary. It is the belief of the foreign office that Germany is well able to uphold her side should the United States make TJ)risals. Russia ami Austria-Hungary have al ready informed Germany that they are iiot willing to negotiate commercial treaties on the basis of the pending tariff. These notifications are considered equivalent to the declaration of an eco nomic war, in which the broad markets now open to Germany will immediately "be closed, and the considerable volume of United States products now finding its yay to Russia through German traders would, in consequence, be excluded with German goods. The manager of an American tool company's works in Berlin has made a remarkable comparison of the wages paid and cost of tools made here with the wages paid and cost of tools at the American works, both sets of laborers using identical machines. He finds that the American workman, making an exact allowance for the difference in wages, turns out a clear 25 per- cent, more prod uct for the same unit of wages. Man for man, the German produces two-fifths of what an American does. A shoe factory at Breslau. using American machinery, secured tatter results by im porting eight American workmen and paying them by the piece to stimulate the German workmen, who then came within 10 per cent, of the Americans' work. TRAIN FALLS THREE HUNDRED FEET. A Rock-Slide Causes It to Plunge Over s Bluff Down Into Brazil River. Vancouver, B. C At an early hour a Canadian Pacific freight train was proceeding east at a slow rate around a dangerous curve, 400 feet above the Brazil river, when Engineer Randall suddenly came upon a rock-slide scarce ly 50 yards ahead of him. A signal was given to the brakemcn and the engine was reversed, but it was too late. The train was going scarcely five miles an hour, but the heavy train behind piled the engine on the rocks and before the engineer and fireman could jump the locomotve rolled over and over 300 feet down the bluff to the river. Engineer Randall and Fireman Potruff were crushed to death beneath the engine' Three care were wrecked, going over the bank after the engine. Traffic was delayed six hours. PUT IN COFFIN TOO SOON. This Murderer Was Cut Down Before Life Was Extinct. Little Rock, Ark., (Special). Bud Wilson, the convict who killed R. H. Naylor, a guard of the Veil County Con vict Camp, last December, was hanged at Danville. Before the lid was placed on the cof fin the body began moving about. Wilson opened his eyes and his whole frame shivered. He was taken from the cof fin by the deputies and carried up the steps to the scaffold for the purpose of banging him again. When the platform was reached the body became rigid, remained so for a moment and then became limp. Wilson was examined carefully by the physi cians, who finally pronounced him dead, death having been caused by strangula tion. CHINA WANTS TIENTSIN. Tbe New Viceroy Asks Foreigners to Glvt Up Control. Pekin, (By Cable). The principal ob ject of the visit to Pekin of Yuan Shi Kai, the new Viceroy of Pechill, who arrived here December 3, is to induce the foreign powers to relinquish their con trol of the Government of Tientsin. Yuan Shi Kai has assured ail the Min isters of the foreign powers that he is personally able and willing to maintain order at Tientiin and in the province The American, Russian and Japanese Ministers are inclined to comply w ith the suggestion of the viceroy, but a majority of the foreign representatives insist that the powers retain control of Tientsin until the re-es'.ablisliment of the Chinese court at Pekin. Three Negroes Killed. Andalusia, Ala., (Special). Governor Jelks sent troops to idJ Sheriff Brad shaw in prolcct'ig- the nejro rioters in jail licie. and the town is under martial law. The Sheriff is fearing an attack at any moment by a mob from Oj.p and is pr-pared to protect his prisoners. Three negroes, whose names are un known, were caught and killed by a posse near Opp. because, it is alleged, the y tool; part in the riot, and the whole cultuty is in ar.nn r.inst the negroes. Alabams Wants (food RosJs. Montgomery, Ala., (Special). Per manent organization of the Alabama Good Roads Ajrocb.'.ion was effected bere. and R. R. Poole, Commissioner of Agriculture o Alabama, was elected president. F.cr.otutioii3 were adopted urging the Stale Legislature to create a State highway commission and to make an appropriation to extend the building of better roadj. A mrnioiia! to the Leg islature was adopted urging sui impropri ation for better mw.t of the roads in the State. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NLWS. Don-estlc Three robbers secured $2,000 from the bank of the Archibald Banking Com pany, in Archibald, Ohio. Lawrence Wright was dragged to death by runaway mules in Fawn town ship, Pennsylvania. Two more of the convicts who es caped from Leavenworth Military Pri son were recaptured. Steve Barnes, a watchman nt the VVilkesbarrc (Pa.) pcsthoiiso, was frozen to death. A young woman of many names was arrested in New York at a hotel, where she was living in style, on the charge of stealing dimonds and other jewels, valued at over $.2,000, from the family of Albert D. Merrill, Brooklinc, Mass., by whom she had been employed. She broke down and made a complete con fession to the police. Judge Thillips, in Cleveland, roundly scordc a jury that had acquitted George Willard of robbing Sigler Brothers' jew elry store, the Judge claiming that he had clearly been proven guilty. Walter Cavanaugh. of Kansas City. Mo., who forced his sweetheart to steal $1,200 in pension money from her wid owed mother, was sentenced to five years in State prison. The grand jury in Barnstable. Mass., indicted Nurse Jane Toppan for the al leged murder of Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs, Alden P. Davis and Mrs. Genevieve A. Gordon. The Orient express ran into the rail way station at rankfort, Ky and wreck ed it, many of the passengers and peo ple in the waiting-room having narrow escapes. At a meeting held in Paris plans for the proposed trench college in America to study American commercial and busi ness methods were discussed. Seven thousand barrels of Kentucky whisky are to be shipped to German warehouses of the Louisville Warehouse Company to avoid taxation. Henry Hoover, charged in York, Pa., with dynamiting a Northern Central ex press train, was committed for court. Three runaways from the Indian school at Carlisle. Pa., were caught at Parkersburg, W. Ya., and sent back. Judge Newburger, in New York, de nied the motion to dismiss the indictment against Roland B. Mohncux. James Argyl Smith, former Confed erate general, died in 'Jackson, Miss, of pneumonia. Sirty-five persons were poisoned at a wedding feast in Prairie du Sac, Wis. Herbert Marx, of New York, who shot three men at Oak Grove. Westmoreland county, Va., and was acquitted of any blame by the coroner's jury, started for New York. J. Q. Stiff, the third man shot, will also die. as the wound has completely paralyzed his body. Twenty-two negroes are under arrest in Andalusia. Ala., charged with com plicity in the killing of J. V. Dorsey and the fatal wounding of F. Atkinson, a policeman. Attorney General Douglas, of Minne sota, upheld an opinion that, under the State Constitution, the Lord's Prayer could not be used in the public schools. President Clark, of the World's Chris tian Endeavor, will visit President Roosevelt for a consultation over the campaign for Christian citizenship. Capt. Richard R. Turner, who was keeper of the famous Libby Prison, dropped dead in Isle of Wight county, Virginia. The factory of the National Starch Manufacturing Company. in Des Moines, la., was burned. Loss, $200,000; insur ed. Ben Knox was shot and killed by Tos sie King, who wanted to arrest Knox for a crime of which he was innocent. A combine is reported to be in pro cess of being effected among the tobacco growers of the Philippine Islands. Foreign. Confirmatory dispatches ur? published in London of the report that Major Van Tets, of Queen Wilhelmina's bodyguard was wounded in defending her from her husband, and that the Queen with her own hands, stanched the wound and made her husband beg the Major's pardon. A dispatch from Amsterdam says Van Tets died of his wound. Dutch socialists introduced a motion in the Parliament at The Hague to take measures to obtain, with the sanction of Great Britain, the removal of the women and children from the concentration camps in South Africa. The Immigration Restriction Bill, which excludes from Australia all per sons who cannot speak a European lan guage, has passed the Comonwealth Senate. An anti-ducking league has been or ganized in Vienna, and it includes a number of members of the Reichstag. Thousands of starving unemployed people are rioting at Prague. The City of London entertained the Prince and Princess of Wales at a lunch eon in Guild Hall, which, of course, was made the occasion of a demonstration in favor of the government and of Cham berlain. Kerr Bebcl. as the representative of 2.800,000 o;ers, in a forceful speech, presented to the Reichstag the socialists' protect against the "hunger duties," as lie called the triffs on grain. Queen Wilhelmina and her husband are appearing in public together, and re ports are given out that she has for given him in order to allay public indig nation. The British made a large capture of Boers, securing 20 prisoners. The Brit ish rounded up three laagers, with only a few casualties on either side. Philip Watts, director of the warship building department of Sir W. G. Arm strong, lias been appointed director of IJrniMi naval construction. Mclvil van Lyndon, the Dutch foreign minister, announced in the Chamber that the government could not intervene in South Africa. Financial. The General Electric Company has de clared the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent. The New York Subtrcasury statement shows that the banks lost $7,115,000 last week. The depositors of the Dresden Sav ings Bank, which made an assignment, will lose 7,500,000 marks. '1 he Pressed Steel Car Company has received an order for 1000 hopper and ore cars from the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie. It is reported in Cincinnati that the Chesapeake & Ohio is negotiating for the New River coal fields and will prob ably get them. The report from Chicago that a new steel combine with capital of $Xoo,ooo. 000 is to be formed to take over princi pal concerns outside of LTnited States Steel is discredited in well-informed iron and steel circles. A seat on the New York Stock Ex change has been sold for $71,000, the record price. It is understood that the engineering department of the New York Central has prepared plans for a union station at Mott Haven to be used jointly with Manhattan for electric service. Nil A NATIONAL NAVAL RESERVE Bill Providing for a Reorganization In dorsed With Modifications. ALL STATES WERE REPRESENTED. Lieutenant Commander Southerland Pre sented the Views of Navy Department with Regard to tbe Question, and After Some Discussion the Foss Bill Was Indorsed, With Several Modifications. New York, (Special). The Associa tion of Naval Militias of the United States has just concluded here a series of meetings at which discussions were held on the bill introduced in Congress by Congressman Foss, of Illinois, which provides for the organization of a na tional naval reserve. The naval militia organizations of the following States were represented at the meetings: California, by Lieuten ant Commander White; Connecticut, by Comander Averill; Maryland, by Com mander Gecr ; Massachusetts, by Cap tain Bufhngton, Lieutenant Commander Edgar and others: Michigan, by Com mander Hcndrie; New Jersey, by Com mander Irving and Commander Potter; New York, by Capt. J. W. Miller. Com mander Franklin and others; Ohio, by Lieutenant Yost, and Pennsylvania, by Comander Beschenberger. Lieutenant Commander Southerland and Ex-Lieutenants Anderson anil Satterlee, United States Navy, represented the Govern ment. The meetings were presided over by Captain Miller, of New York. Lieuten ant Commander Southerland presented the views of the Navy Department with regard to the question, and after some discussion the Foss bill was indorsed with several modifications. These modi fications are on lines suggested by Pres ident Roosevelt in his message. Another matter considered was the question of taking steps toward securing the abolishment of the rank of "naval cadet" in the navy, and substituting in its place the rank of "midshipman," but nothing definite was decided on. BEEN IN PRISON THIRTY YEARS. Pathetic Appeal ol Woman Who Wants to Die Outside of Jail Wallr. Trenton, N. J., (Special). Like a voice from the tomb comes the plea for freedom and a chance to die outside prison walls of Lizzie Garrababt, the New Jersey murderess. For 30 years she has been a prisoner in the State prison here. A girl of 17 only when she entered the prison, she is now an old, gray-haired woman, with but a few more years to live. Influential women in Jersey are trying to have her released so that she can die in freedom. . , A reporter managed to see the woman for a few minutes, and for the first time in many years she has been enabled to communicate with the outside world. "All I want is to be free." she said, '"so it will seem as if God has kind of forgiven me. There is little left mc but to die, and all I want is to escape dying in this place." ROBBERS BIND B. & 0. OPERATOR. His Pockets and Company's Cash Drawer Then Rifled. Wilmington, Ohio, (Special). Three masked men broke in the door of the Baltimore and Ohio depot here, bound the operator, R. D.Walm, rifled his pock ets of $1.50 and took $20,55 from the company's cash drawer. The robbers then entered the office of Langdon's flouring mill, across the street from the station, blew the safe open and secured $50 and escaped. The operator lay bound and unable to move for three hours listening to the train dispatcher at Columbus calling at the key. Finally he was discovered and released. A posse found three stolen rings near Midland City, where they had been abandoned by the robbers, who took to the woods. Atlanta. Ga., (Special). The Doug lassville (Ga.) bank was robbed of $2, 500. The robbers escaped on a stolen handcar. WRECK ON GEORGIA RAILROAP. Passenger Train Goes Over an Embankment One Killed. Macon, Ga., (Special). The Central of Georgia passenger train from Savan nah, after crossing the river entering Macon, at about 4 o'clock A. M., with about 100 passengers, jumped a switch on a high embankment. The engine and tender parted from the train. The bag gage and express cars were thrown over into a culvert and burned. The second class coach was thrown on its side and burned. The first-class pasenger coach fell over the embankment. The Atlanta sleeper, filled with passengers, caught fire and was destroyed. The only per son killed was Julia Boynton, colored, of Columbus, Ga. KiUbener as "Old Rip." London, (By Cable). A letter just received from an officer in South Af rica says that a subaltern drew a cari cature of Lord Kitchener as Rip Van Winkle leading a centenarian soldier up a kopje. A staff officer showed it to Kitchener, and the chief gave one of his grim smiles and said: "It is an ugly prophecy, but if necessary we will hang on here until we are that age. Our duty is to win, and we will." The subaltern was paralyzed with terror until assured that Kitchener had not asked for the artist's name. Capital Is Taxable. Washington, D.'C.,( Special );. TheCom niissioner of Internal Revenue has ren dered a decision in which he holds that bankers must return for taxation capi tal, surplus, undivided profits and bor rowed nmney used in the business of banking. The Commissioner holds that capital is taxable, whether invested, as in the case of the United States bonds or the bank building, or circulating, as in the case of money, including money borrowed; also, surplus, including undi vided profits. McKlnley National Park. Washington, D. C, (Special). Rep resentative Brownlow reintroduced in the House the bill of the last Congress for the creation of a park in the South Appalachain Mountains. The bill pro vides that the park shall be called the McKinley National Park, and shall con tain 4,000,000 acres. Miss Stone's Surrender "Impending." London, (By Cable). A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Sofa says that the surender at Salonika of HUiss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, and her companion. Mine. Tsilkti is impend ing. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Fhlllpplno Trade In 1901. A comparative statement of the com merce of the Philippine Islands for the fiscal years loot and Toon, prepared in the War Department, shows that the to tal value of merchandise imported dur ing the fiscal year 1001 was $,50,270,406, as against $20.601.4,1(1 for the fiscal year 1000; and the total value of merchandise exported during the fiscal year loot was $2,1,214.948, as against $10,751,01' for the fiscal year uyoo. an increase of 47 per cent, in the value of imports and n increase of J'i per cent, in the value of exports. The value of imports of merchandise from the United States was $2,855.68:,, an increase of 72.4 per cent, over the previous year; from the United King dom, $6,956,145, increase 76.3 per cent.; from Germany, $2,135,252. increase 76.5 per cent., and from France, $1,68,1.929. increase 246.7 per cent. The value of exports of merchandise to the United States was $2,572,021, a decrease of 27 per cent. ; United King dom, $10,704,741, increase 72 per cent.; Germany, $81,526, decrease 163 per cent.; France, $1.9,14.256, increase 38.9 per cent. Officials at Loggerheads. Secretary of War Root and Comptrol ler of the Treasury Robert J. Tracewcll are officially at loggerheads. The War Department has outstand ing contracts which werc'to be paid from the national defense fund of i88, and Secretary Root, in n communication to Mr. Tracewcll asking that payments thereon be authorized by the account ing officers, stated that "It appears that the President and his Cabinet were agreed that the national defense fund of $50,000,000 could be used after July I, 1901, in making payments under con tracts properly entered into during the year 1898." Mr. Tracewcll replies that his judg ment is not influenced by the "views of certain executive officers. I hold that the accounting officers are not author ized to allow any payments made from the appropriations made for the nation al defense after June 30. 1901." Secretary Root regards Mr. Trace wcll's decision as a "misinterpretation" of law. Mr. Tracewcll insists that he is right. Hepburn's Canal BIIL Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, has introduced his Isthmian Canal bill which, by reason of his being author, passed last year, and from his probable continu ance at the head of the House Com merce Committee, it is regarded as the measure which will serve as a basis for action by the House. It differs from the Hepburn bill pass ed last year in making the total appro priation $180,000,000 instead of $140, 000,000. Of the total amount, $10,000, 000 is made immediately available to begin work. In other respects the bill follows that of last year, authorizing the President to acquire a right of way from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and then to direct the Secretary of War to begin the construction, from Greytown, on the Caribbean sea, to Brito. on the Pacific ocean, with suitable defenses, etc. Exclusion of Chinese. Representative Kahn, who represents the San Francisco district containing the Chinese quarter, in which about 30, 000 Chinese reside, introduced a Chinese Exclusion law. It defines strictly the status of those who by treaty have a right to enter the country, excluding all except Chinese officials, teachers, students, merchants, travelers and re turning laborers. In each of these ex cepted cases a section is devoted to the rigid identification and specification of the persons included. In the case of Chinese officials the Chinese Govern ment is required to furnish a list of its officials coming to this country. Mr. Kane says this will overcome the whole sale creation of officials, including those of the Six Companies, who ate said to have been made officials in order to take them outside of the exclusion laws. Work of Weather Bureau. In his annual report Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau, refers to the extension of experiments with wireless telegraphy. An ittmirl r ti 1 pvtuntnin rf ill. f-,t-n- cast work was made during the vear, ! whereby meteorological reports from points in the British Isles, the continent of Europe and from the Azores are transmitted to Washington and with ob servations from Nassau, Bermuda and Turks Island are regularly published on the weather maps, together with fore casts of the wind an dthe state of the weather for the first three days out of steamers bound eastward. In a number of instances, when storms of marked strength were passing eastward off the American coast, forecasts for steamers leaving European ports westward bound were cabled to England. Reports from steamers show that these forecasts and other special warnings were verified. Capital News In Geoenl. A conference was held at the War Department to decide upon tariff legisla tion for the Philippines, hade necessary by the recent decision of the Supreme Court. Capt. Francis P. Fremont, Second In fantry, was convicted by court-martial in the Philippines of conduct to the preju dice of military discipline. The court-martial in the case of Col. Robert L. Meade, of the Marine Corps, who was tried on the charge of drunk enness, acquitted him and restored him to duty. The report of the mixed army and navy board was entirely adverse to the gathmann gun, and declared that the 12 inch army service rille surpassed any other for its purpose. The Senate Committee on the Judi ciary ordered a favorable report on the confirmation of the appointment of Attorney-General Knox. General Chaffee submitted his first re port as military commandant in the Phil ippines, recommending that there be no reduction in the troops in the islands before 1903. Secretary Long has ordered Captain Perry, on the Iowa, from Panama to lalcahuano, Chili, where the ship will be overhauled. Representative Kahn, of the San Fran cisco district, introduced a Chinese exclusion law 111 Congress. The Senate confirmed the nomination of William Dudley Ffoulke, of Indiana, to be a civil service commissioner. Rear Admiral EiidicoU, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, asked for $21,526,359 for the maintenance of navy yards aim stations ana improvements. The President sent a number of re cess appointments to the Senate and the new appointment ot George W. Licberth of Kentucky, to be collector of internal revenue for the Sixth District of Ken tucky. Among the recess appointments sent in was that of Attorney-General Knox. Senator Hale introduced a bill for the creation of four vice admirals, whose real purpose is to secure this coveted no sition for Admiral Sampson, although in its present form he would not be able to secure such an appointment, MINTS COINED L0TSJ)F MONEY The Report of Director Roberts for the Last' Fiscal Year. THE IMPORTS EXCEEDED EXPORTS. Original Deposits Showed an Increase ol Nearly Twenty Millions of Dollars Opera tions Were Conducted During the Year la the Mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco and New Orleans. Washington, D. C. (Special). The report of Mr. George E. Roberts, di rector of the mint, upon the operations of the mint service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, has been completed. The coinage of the mints during the fiscal year amounted to 176,099.133 pieces of the value of $136,340,781. Of this $90, 065,715 was in gold, $24,298,850 was in silver dollars, $10,966,648 was in frac tional silver and $2,009,568 was in min or coin. There also were coined at the Philadelphia mint 225.000 gold pieces of the value of $,149,014 for the Govern ment of Costa Rica. The coinage of silver dollars during the year was wholly from the stock of bullion accumulated under the net of July 14, 1800. The amount of this bul lion on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year was 3.268.054 standard ounces, and at the end of the year 52,562.927 stand ard ounces. The coinage of this bullion has been accelerated to enable the treas ury to retire the treasury notes issued in its purchase and at the same lime sup ply the pressing demand which has ex isted throughout the year for the small denominations of money required in re tail trade. Coinage operations were conducted dur ing the year in the mints at Philadel phia, San Francisco and New Orleans. The Philadelphia mint is now in its new quarters and the old site, including the structure, will be offered for sale to the highest bidder on December 19. igoi. An imset nricc of $2,000,000 has been placed upon it. The original cost of the ' ground to the Government was $35,840. ! The cost of the new site and structure has been $2,000,000. and the appropria tion for equipment $440,000, but a con siderable portion of the latter is yet un expended. No pains have been spared to provide this mint with the best ma chinery to be had, and it is believed that in methods and equipment it will be, when completed, a model institution of its kind. PAN-AMERICAN HAS TROUBLES. No Money fo Pay for Diplomas, and All Its Buildings Are Attached. Buffalo, N. Y., (Special). The Pan American Exposition Company is so deeply embarrassed financially that it is unable even to provide diplomas for ex hibitors who won them. The announce ment was made, when it was stated that diplomas costing 82 cents each would be too expensive, and that the best the com pany could do would be to furnish two kinds of diplomats, one costing 33 cents and another costing 25 cents. About 10, 000 in all are to be issued, and the total expense will be $3,000, which the compa ny is unable to meet. An effort will be made to get the New York State Com mission to use some of its money for this purpose. The commission has a large surplus. Sheriff Cadwell caused more trouble 1 for the exposition officers when he at tached every building on the grounds, except those owned by private individ uals. She Is Wedded by Wire. Bowling Green, Ky., (Special). Miss Maude W. Wilcutt stood in the telegraph office here and became the bride of Dr. J. W. Simmons, a physician of Peaster, Texas They were married by wire. The questions were asked from the Texas end by a justice of the peace, and were answered by Miss Wilcutt. The bride is teaching school in Butler county. She and Dr. Simmons recently met while traveling. Water Better Than OiL El Paso, Texas, (Special). A dispatch from Las Cruces announces that the oil borcis at Eugle, N. M., have struck an artesian well at a depth of 200 feet which swept 1,000 gallons an hour through a two-inch hole. Engle is situated in the heart ot the famous Journey of Death desert, which is one of the most arid regions known, and the strike of water will prove far more valuable than an oil gusher. Lynched ou Electric Light Pole. Lake Charles, La., (Special). Saul Poydras, the negro who cut Chief Dep uty Sheriff C. M. Richard and wife se riously with a razor, was arrested near Walsh, 20 miles east of this town. Poy dras was brought here and the officers were about to lodge him in the pansh prison, when a mob overpowered the guards, took charge of Poydras and hanged him to an electric light pole a few rods from the courthouse. Corn Breaks 10-Year Record. New York, (Special). Grain markets wound up the week here in characteris tic bull fashion, with a spectacular dis play of the public's control over the situation. In all markets records were smashed right and left, while, at 7314 for May corn in New York, that market was higher than at any time in a decade. Wheat broke all records for the season. The biggest advance came after the reg ular close and forced prices up Ifsc a bushel, making nearly 6 cents advance for the week. ODDS AND ENDS OP THE NEWS. At Adrian, Mich., the coroner's jury found that the disastrous collision on the Wabash Railroad near Seneca be tween trains 13 and 4 was caused by the negligence of the Wabash Railroad Company and the trainmen of train 4. Prince Contort 1 lenry of the Nether lands, husband of Queen Wilhelmina, fought a duel with Major Van Teta, the Queen's aid-de-cauip, and another gentleman of the court who took offense at his conduct toward the Queen, and wounded both. A young woman arrested in Wilson, N. C, on suspicion of being the missing Miss Maud Cropsey. is said by the chief of police of Elizabeth, N. C, to be some other person. Dr. Paache, of the University of Hailc, warned the members of the Ger man Reichstag of the dreadful fate in store for industrial Germany from the "American Peril." Lord Hobhouse, the uncle of Miss I tollhouse, who was deported from the Transvaal, has sued I.ord Kitchener, Lord Milner and other South African officials. General Diaz, the leader of the revo lution in Colombia, agreed to surrender on the same terms that the liberals sur rendered at Colon. NL'RSB IS INDICTED. Miss Jose Toppan Formally Accused of Three Murders. Barnstable, Mass. (Special). Miss Jane Tappnn, of Lowell, stood up in the Superior Court room here and heard indictments by the grand jury charging her with the murder of three persons whom she had been engaged to nurse back to health, but who had died under her charge. There are three indictments, one charging .her with the death of Mrs. Mary D. Gibbs, of Cataumct, the second with the death of A. P. Davis, also of Cataumct, and the third with that of Mrs. Genevieve A. Gordon, of Chicago. It is declared in each case that the cause was the administration of poisonous drugs, 10 grains of morphine or atro phine or morphine and atrophine togeth er, "or tome poison unknown to the jury." For to minutes the woman stood tightly clutching the lail while the clerk read the indictment charging her with the murder of Mrs. Gibbs. At length Miss Toppan's counsel spared her fur ther agony by waiving the reading, and all that remained was for her to plead. Three times she was asked if she was guilty and three times she replied in a low voice : "Not guilty." Miss Tappnn was led away to her cell, where she will remain until early next spring, when she will be given a trial. EIGHT-YEAR-OLD HEROINE. waved Her Little Red Jacket and Saved a Train From Wreck. Greenville, Iowa, (Special). A little blue-eyed heroine of eight summers, Clara Schlosscr, daughter of Fred Schlossr, a saloonkeeper, received homage from scores of thankful travelers and the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul crew of passenger train No. 4, for her presence of mind and bravery averted a wreck. The track makes a sharp turn near the Schlosser home and the little girl knows when the train is due. A large dray horse in crossing the track became fastened in the culvert and the child knew she could not summon help be fore the train arrived. In an instant she had her little red jacket in her hands find standing in the center of the track waved it frantically at the approaching engine. Within a few yards of her Engineer Myers brought his locomotive to a dead stop, and the passengers and trainmen came from the train only to find their tiny guardian angel gone. Engineer Myers informed the police of the inci dent and they searched all day before she was located. . "I was afraid Mr. Conductor would scold me," she said, when asked why she ran away. 65 Wadding Guests Poisoned. Prairie du Sac," Wis., (Special). Sixty-five persons were poisoned at a wedding feast at the home of John Mul ky, at West Point, near this place. It is believed there was poison in the coffee. Physicians were summoned from Lodi, and after several hours' work hope was given that all would recover. Some of the coffee has been sent to a chemist to be eNamined. " ' Sampson In Feeblo Health Washington, D. C, (By Cable). It is authoritatively stated that there has been no marked change for the worse in the condition of Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson. However, he is now as he has been since he came to Washington, in very feeble health, and hi chances for withstanding any serious strain upon his vitality are said to be slight, r First Bill Signed by Roosevelt. Washington, D. C, (Special). Presi dent Roosevelt Saturday signed the first bill sent to him by Congress, thus creat-. ing the first law to be enacted under his administration. It Was the act to ad mit free of duty and permit the trans fer of foreign exhibits from the Pan American Exposition to the South Car olina Interstate and West Indian Expo sition at Charleston, S. C. Tbe Lynching of Italians. Rome, (By Cable). In the Senate Baron Fava gave notice of his intention io interpellate the Foreign Office regard ng the present status of the question pending between the government of Italy and the United States government arising from the lynching of two Ital ians at Irwin, Miss., in July last, and how it was proposed to settle the affair. John Bull Pays Indemnity. Washington, D. C, (Special). The State Department has received a draft for j6,ooo sterling from the government of Great Britain, in full of the claims of certain American citizens, who claimed to have been improperly expelled from South Africa during the Boer War. Appointed to Embassy. St. Petersburg, (By Cable). Lieutenant-Colonel Schcbiko, military agent of the Russian embassy at Washington, has been appointed to the Russian em bassy at Berlin. Lieutenant-Colonel Agapiejeff will succeed Lieutenant-Colonel Schebiko at Washington. Another Cruiser for Turkey. Constantinople, (By Cable). The Cramp Shipbuilding Company has noti fied the Porte that it is ready to cont inence building a cruiser for the Turk ish Government, and has asked the Gov erinnient to send officers to supervise the .vessel's construction. NEWSY CLE ANINGS. Attendance nt mass in 110 longer compulsory In tho Kronen Navy. .Many Boxers nt Kino Chow, Chllm, mc snld to be embracing Christian ''.v. Xotwny's Press AKsochitlons oppose inlnpliuu of 1 ho proposed American '' p.viit'bi treaty. Kiiv'.-iiiil and Germany Imve both of frivd prizes for thu iiuloiuobllo' best ailiii(cd to inilitniy sui vice. The turning of most of the Impor tant nillioiulH In tins United Ktatea uro Jinw, linger than ever before. Genniiiiy'g Imports for Oclober de cieiiHed !t7.'!,l.SI tons over bint year, wlilh' (ha exports Increased 71! 1:1 tonn. Two hundred car lomlu of steel have 'tint been Ment to Hiipphuit tho wooden rlilgMH In tho Kacrauieiitu Cnuyou, (Jul I'ornia. Thu tli-Ht public school III Muyngurg, Porio Itico, in to bo mimed the Me Kiiiley behool. It fronts ou McKlnley 4 venue. An :iutomobiIo Inspection car, for tho lino of jmul overseen nnd track lu specloiH, Iiiih been put into uo by u ii'.iu,li"i' of ralli umla. PENNSYLVANIA mm TOLD. The Lafcst Condensed Dispatches From Many Points. C0LPLE PLANNED TO DIE TOGETHER Fire Destroys Three Business Building on the "Square" In Wilkes-Barre, Causing Damaga to tbe Extent of $260,000 Oot Certificates But Prevented Successful Vaccination - Mother and Daughter Perish In Fire. Pensions granted Pcnnsylvanians t Urban L. Durst, Conncllsvillc. $6; Robt. K. Lytic, Franklin, $6; Wm. II. Stncky,. Everett, $.24; Benjamin Stoy, East Hick ory, $12; Augustus Hawn, Huntingdon,. 12; William Cot.kling, Soldiers' Home,. Erie, $12; George W. Morrison, Flem ing, $to ; Archibald Spratt, Lcechbnrg,. $10; William Remley, Beaver Falls, $8; William P. Kirkpatrick, New Castle, $8; Joseph Noland, Mount Union, $24; Sarah J. Reeves, Athens, $8; Dorothea E. Purhen, Nauvoo, $8; Rachel Skinner, Washington, $8; Sarah Stewart, Three Springs, $8; Kate R. Buckley. Antrim, $8; Mary A. Kerr, Kittanning. $8; Eliza beth I. Small, McKeesport, $8; Clarissa A. Wald, Sturtevant, $8; Gerome. Bas sett, Corry, $17; William Smith, Latrobe, $17; Elizabeth J. Carahcr, Altoona, $8; Louie M. Kifcr, Corry, 8; Emma Van sooyoe, Tyrone, $8; Lavina Wheeling, Ucckard, $12. Mrs. Sarah Klee and her nine-year-old daughter, Mary, perished in a fire which destroyed their home in Carnegie, and all the other members of the family were injured. The KIcc borne was a two story frame house on Broadway, the ground floor front lieing devoted to a grocery store kept by Klee. The fire was discovered about 4.40 o'clock, and the flames spread so rapidly that the occu pants of the upper story were shut off from the "stairway. When the firemen arrived the father refused to leave the building without his wife and the child, and the firemen were compelled to carry him out. The health authorities of Plymouth have discovered that some mothers, after the School Board req aired a certificate of vaccination, took their children to physicians, had the vaccination perform ed, got the certificate and then, hurrying home, washed off the virus. The result was that the child was not sick and there was no swollen arm. The mother of a child that was stricken with smallpox confessed this, and an investigation re vealed the fact that it has been done in bther cases. A fire at one of the business corners of the "Square," Wilkesharrc, caused a loss of about $200,000. The Corn Exchange Building, containing Weitzenkorn's shoe and general furnishing stores and many offices; the I-angfeld Building, contain ing the Globe dry goods store, and the Simon Long Building, occupied by the Simon Long clothing store, were de stroyed; The fire startrti in the Globe Wore, an electric wire, in the Christmas display window having ignited some cot- ton. General orders were issued from the headquarters of the National Guard, an nouncing that upon the recommendation of the First Brigade Examining Board, Captain Charles J. Erskinc, Company K, Second Regiment, is discharged from the service. Second Lieutenant Edward Jones, Company L, Ninth Regiment, is also discharged. Knauer Amole, of Coatsville, aged about 50, and Mary E. Irwin, aged 45, of Malvern, Chester county, attempted to commit suicide together in a hotel at Reading. The womean died, but the man may recover. Several veins of ccal J-.r.ve been un earthed on the farm of Urias Barry near Hopeland. Clay Towthip. The veins ere being worked to ascertain their value. William O'Gara, of Shanokin, aged 2t years, whose back was broken in a foot ball game at that place died at the State llospiial, Ashland. John Solick, nL Ashley, while stealing a ride on the planes, was thrown off a truck, run over and killed. The following fourth-class postmas ters were appointed for Pennsylvania: Seitzland. Charles C. Bollinger ; Vetera, Frank V. Snyder. August Misal, a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, fell under his train at Haines' Station, on the Fred erick Division, and was killed. Fire destroyed a barn and three tobac co sheds on the North farm, cast of Columbia, tenanted by J. J. Eiscnber ger. The loss is over $8,000. Harold Hcrr, of Lancaster, who went to the Klondike three years ago, has re turned, bringing a quantity of gold dust and nuggets. He is the owner of several paying claims. Gilbert Parker, of West Pittslon, was killed at the Exeter breaker, his cloth ing being caught by a shaft revolving at 1 high speed, and the body was badly mangled. Mrs. Amelia Edelman was standing by the stove in her home at Pottstown, when her clothing ignited. Neighbors hearing her cries came and smothered the fire by rolling her in carpet. Her condition is critical. Henry Hoovcn, charged with having placed dynamite on the tracks of the Northern Central Railway on the night of November 15, whereby the Western express was wrecked through the ex plosion, was given a hearing before Al derman C. V. Kccch at York, and com mitted to jail to await trial, William Templeton, a colored man, ittempted to rob the house occupied by Mrs. Mary Frograss, at Connellsville, but was shot in the acl hyMrs. Fro grass. When Templeton fell he pulled his revolver and fired, the bullet strik ing Mrs. F'rograss. Both were removed to the hospital. A man named Jones, supposed to have been a tramp', walked over the abutment of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at Port Royal, striking on the rocks fifty feet below, and was instantly killed. The Phoenix Hos.e Hook and Ladder Company of Phoenixville, took posses sion of its new building which has been erected at a cost of $12,000. Thomas Johnson was. sleeping in his paint shop at West Chester, when he was aroused by flames around liim. . He was forced to jump out of the window in his night attire. The building was consumed with its contents. While a party of engineers were sur veying the Grindstone coal mine, Union- -town, an explosion of gas occurred and several men were badly burned. Those most seriously injured were Chief En-, gineer William Heath, George Crosby and Charles Zimmerman. It is thought all will recover. , Mrs. Christiana Creider died in Beth lehem, aged 95 years. She was the old-, est female member of the Moravian church in Bethlehem. , Fire broke out in the tailoring estab lishment of Adam Buesky at Shenan doah. The building and stock wcio damaged to the extent of $J,ooo.
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