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.