THE PANAMA ROUTE
IS RECOMMENDED
Supplemental Report of the Csnal
Commission.
ISELL FOR FORTY MILLION DOLLARS
31m Report li Very Long, Ooloi Into All the
Phases el the Question, aod Attempt! to
Meet the Objections That Any Legal Com
plications Will Arise Out ot the Purchase
Tke Report Seat to President Roosevelt-
Washington, D. C, (Special). The
supplemental report of the Isthmian
Canal Commission on the proposition of
the Panama Canal Company to dispose
W its property to the United States for
$40,000,000, has been delivered to Presi
dent Roosevelt. The members of the
commission refuse to discuss the nature
of the report, and like reticence was
maintained at the White House, but it
was stated on excellent authority that
the report unanimously recommends that
the offer of the Panama Company be ac
cepted. The report, it is stated, is very volumi
nous, going into all phases of the ques
tion and attempting to meet the objec
tions that any legal complications will
arise out of the purchase or that there
will be any international differences
should the deal be consummated. The re
port was completed about 6 o'clock, and,
after being signed by the members of the
commission, was carried by Admiral
Walker, chairman of the commission, to
Secretary Hay, who transmitted it to the
President.
The report goes fully into the steps
which must be taken in order to insure a
perfect title to the United States, for in
addition to the present Panama Canal
Company, the old organization and the
Colombian government must be reckon
ed with. The report finds, however, it is
said, that the new company can give a
clear title. It is stated that the report
says that when the commission made its
recent report, favoring the Nicaratigan
route, no offer to sell to this government
liad been made by the Panama Company.
The offer of $40,000,000 made in behalf
f the company by M. Lampnc, it is said,
changed the situation completely. It is
further stated that the report shows a
little over 1.000 shares of Panama Rail
road stock is owned by individuals out
side the Panama Canal Company, and
that these can be purchased for a com
paratively small sum. Other obstacles
to the sale, the report says, also have
been removed.
BOILER OF ENGINE EXPLODES.
Two Men Killed on a Fast Train on the
Rock Island Rojd.
Victor, la., (Special). As the Denver
limited passenger train No. 5 of the Rock
Island Company was passing through
the town the boiler of the engine ex
ploded, resulting in the death of the en
gineer and fireman, and slightly injuring
two porters and a brakeman.
The accident took place within 250
feet of the depot, and the noise of the ex
plosion aroused the town. The force of
the explosion threw the seven coaches of
the train from the track, but overturned
only the Des Moines Pullman. Fortu
nately the passengers were uninjured.
Prices of the wrecked engine were
strewn around for a distance of 200 feet,
and the boiler was found 150 feet away
from the scene of the accident. The
bodies of the engineer and fireman were
terribly mangled. Train No. 5 is not
scheduled to stop here, and was running
at full speed when the accident occurred.
A THRILLING" FIRE ESCAPE.
A Man and a Woman Rescued by Firemen
From a Fourth Floor.
Boston, (Special). Cut off from ac
cess to a fire escape a few feet away, Mrs.
Helen M. York and John Blanch, lino
type operators, stood in a window of the
fourth floor of a Milton Place building,
with flames below and behind them.
Slowly the firemen raised a long ladder
until the top reached the windows. where
Mrs. York was trying to keep her dress
from taking fire. The man beside her
helped her to step on the ladder. Then,
through smoke, lighted up by flames
sweeping over the sill they had just va
cated, both descended to the street. It
was the most thrilling tire incident wit
nessed in Boston for many months.
Though the aspect was serious for some
time, the actual loss was not very heavy,
being only somewhat over $50,000. The
building was occupied by printers and
paper dealers and for storage of elec
trical goods.
French aod German Trade.
Berlin, (By Cable). Official provi
sional estimates of the foreign trade of
Germany for 1001 give the imports at
$4491,750.000, a decrease of $19,000,000
from the imports of 1000. The same au
thority gives the exports for 1001 at $1,
189,750.000, which is an increase of $1,
750,000 over the exports for the preced
ing year. The actual values of these im
ports and exports are much smaller than
the figures given, as the amounts are
based on the prices of goods prevailing
in 1000.
Confessed Old Murder.
Elkhart, Ind., (Special). James
Mather, formerly a well-known business
man here, has confessed to the murder
of Peter Olsen, near Muskegon, Mich.,
o years ago. The murder was the re
sult of a quarrel. Olsen's body was not
found until the following spring. Mather
is a patient at the State Hospital for the
Insane at Logansport. He declares he
was driven mad by memory of the crime.
l argest Mining Tunnel,
Port Townsend, Wash. (Special.)
Preliminary work has been commenced
on one of the largest and longest mining
tunnels in the world, near Juneau, Alas
ka. The tunnel will be more than 8,000
feet long, and will be started on the
beach south of Juneau and run into the
mountains to tap a large number of
claims in the Silver Bow Basin. A large
mill will be built on the beach, where it
can be operated the year round. The
tunnel will probably cost $2,000,000.
Shipwrecked Crew Picked Up.
Bermuda, (Special). The shipwrecked
crew of the American Ella, of Philadel
phia, which was abandoned at ea, ar
rived here. They were picked up and
brought here by the BritiU steamer Co
ronda, Captain Smith, from New York,
January 13, for River Plate. The Ella,
in command of Captain McLaughlin,
sailed from Perth Amboy, N. J., January
10 for San Juan, P. R. She vvaj built
at VVet Brook, Me., in 1800.
SlfViMARY OF THE LATEST NLWS.
Domestic
Mr. Carnegie offers to provide a libra
ry for Louisville if the city will contrib
ute $25,000 annually for its maintenance.
The La Strain, a seven-story apart
ment hotel, on Ellis avenue, Chicago, was
burned. The building was occupied by
about ,10 families, all of whom escaped
safely. The estimated loss is $100,000.
Cross-examination of E. G. Rathbone,
ex-director-gencral of posts of Cuba, in
the trial of charges growing out of the
postoftice frauds, was concluded. C. K.
W. Neely wa9 examined and explained
why he made no record of the sur
charged stamps he gave to the stamp
clerk with instructions to sell.
In a buggy, near Coffecn, III., were
found the dead body of Miss Gertrude
Clifford, and Fred Brockman seriously
wounded. The girl had been shot in the
temple. Brockman had two bullet
wounds in the head. He was placed
under arrest.
Rev. G. F. B. Howard, who served a
term in the Ohio penitentiary, was sen
tenced to two and a half years in the
Detroit House of Correction for securing
money by false pretenses.
The Pere Marquette Railway Steamer
Company's steamer struck at the mouth
of the Ludington harbor, and the pas
sengers and crew were taken off by the
breeches buoy.
James Cooke van Ben Schoten, I.L. D..
professor of Greek language and litera
ture in Wcslcyan University, died nt
Middletown, Conn., at the age of 74
years.
President Francis, of the Exposition
Company, finally decided that the Lou
isiana Purchase Exposition should be
postponed for one year.
Two negro miners were killed and
eight injured in an accident at the Cum
berland Coal Company's mine, at M'll
stone, Tenn.
A syndicate of Pittsburg capitalists
concluded negotiations for 11,000 acres of
coal land at a price said to be $$,000,000.
Isaac N. Conklin, of the Tenth
Pennsylvania regulars, accused in Cali
fornia of bigamy, tried to commit sui
cide. An application was filed by the di
rectors of the Commercial Bank of Al
bany, Ga., for a temporary receiver.
General Chaffee will make a thor
ough investigation of the Filipino situa
tion on the Island of Samar. I he junta
at Hongkong has authorized Insurgent
Leader Lukban to surrender, if he so
desires, but says he must not deliver any
Filipino soldiers or officers to the
Americans. ,
The Flood amendment, providing for
biennial, instead of quadrennial, sessions
of the Virginia Legislature, was adopt
ed by a vote of 38 to 37 in the Con
stiutional Convention.
A. B. Cummins was formally inaugu
rated as Governor of Iowa. His in
augural address discussed the remedy
for the combiue evil.
The State Pure Food Commission is
having sellers of impure vineear and
adulterated flavoring extracts indicted in
Chicago.
Officers of the Independence Mine, in
Victor, Col., had a desperate battle in
the mine with ore thieves, who escaped.
Willis Petty, who narrowly escaped
lynching in Alexandria, Va., was set free,
a nolle pros being entered.
Open winters and overproduction have
caused a shutdown of the Woonsocket
Rubber Company's mill.
J. V. S. Oddic, secretary of the New
York Yacht Club, died at his residence,
in New York.
foreign.
Col. Arthur Lynch, the Irishman re
cently elected to the House of Commons,
and who is said to have fought on the
side of the Boers, is still in Paris, and
says his future movements will be
guided by the advice of the Irish party.
Herr von Bennigsen, landrath of Han
over, died from his wounds, inflicted in
a duel with Herr Falkenhagen, the result
of intimacy of Falkenhagen with Von
Bennigsen's wife.
The French Chamber of Deputies, bv a
vote of 308 to 214, adopted a resolution
approving of the statement of General
Andre, the Minister of War, in reply to
an interpellation, in which tie explained
that he took the system of army promo
tions out of the hands of the former
array commission and assumed the task
himself.
Dr. Kuypcr, the Dutch premier, after
a conference with leaders of the Boers
at Brussels, proceeded to London, with
the view, it is said, of presenting to the
British government a basis upon which
the Boers would consider peace negotia
tions. Col. Arthur Lynch, recently elected to
the British House of Commons from
Galway, who is said to have fought on
the side of the Boers, will be arrested so
soon as he lands on English soil.
Mr. Balfour states that Lord Lans
downe recently pointed out to the Ger
man ambassador that Mr. Chamberlain
had made no charge of barbarity against
the German Army.
Herr von Bennigsen, governor of
Springe, near Hanover, Germany, was
seriously wounded in a duel with Herr
Falkenhagen.
The British government issued a blue
book 011 the concentration camps in
South Africa.
The Poles are boycotting articles of
German manufacture.
Earl Spencer, in the British House of
Lords, criticising the address from the
throne, said that while he recognized
the impossibility of granting the Boer
demands for independence, he depre
cated insistence upon unconditional sur
render. King Edward opened Parliament in
state. 1 here was a gorgeous proccsbion,
the King and the Queen riding in the
state coach. The King read the speech
from the throne.
The Venezuela steamer Librrtador is
believed to .have landed more arms on
the Venezuelan coast. President Cas
tro's gunboats do not dare to attack the
Libertador.
Financial.
'Ihe Investment Company of Philadel
phia has declared a dividend of i'j per
cent., payable February 15.
The Southern New England Telephone
Company will increase its capital from
$3,000,000 to $5,000,000.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the United Slates Steel Corpora
tion will be held in Hoboken, N. J., on
February 15.
The Grand Rapids Railway directors
have declared the regular quarterly divi
dend of per cent, on the preferred
stock, payable February 1.
It is said the Atchison Company will
pend $13,000,000 for equipment.
English provincial bank earnings in
Kjoi showed decrease of id; 4 per cent, at
Manchester, usg at Liverpool. iS at
Newcastle and 3) at Birmingham.
The production of the gold mines of
Western Australia for the year were I,-
8O.I80 ounces, as COIlluarrd uith 1 cHi .
950 ounces in jgou, an increase (if
The United Slates Steel Corporation
has purchased for $250,000 the rolling
mill plant of John H. Palmer, Muncie,
lnd. It was the last independent rolling
mill in Eastern Indiana.
THREE HUNDRED
DEAD IN RUINS
Cily of Chilpaocingo Destroyed by an
Earthquake.
CHURCH FELL IV-ON WORSHIPPERS.
Slate Capitol and Other Buildings Wrecked
Telegraph Line Interrupted by Destruc
tion of the Office and Instruments Troops
Sent to Assist In the Work ot Rescue Tbt
Shock was Also Very Severe at Cnllapa.
City of Mexico (Special). One of the
most terrible catastrophes ever recorded
in this country occurred when an ex
tremely violent earthquake shock was
felt at Chilpancingo, causing great loss
of life and injuring many persons.
Details from the stricken district are
meagre, but scattering reports received
here indicate that probably 300 persons
were killed and as many more injured.
In some quarters it is reported that boo
were killed, but this is believed to be
excessive. It is known that the State
Capitol, the parish church and many
business houses and residences are in
ruins.
One of the buildings that suffered
most was the Federal telegraph oflice.
Though the telegraph lines and other ap
paratus at Chilpancingo were badly dam
aged, the employes, ali of whom were un
injured, quickly proceeded to erect an
improvised office on the outskirts of the
city.
The number of deaths was greater in
the parish church than in any other sin
gle place, as a crowd of worshipers was
gathered there for the afternoon service.
1 he solid masonry-walled root came top
pling down as if it had been wrenched
from its bearings by a thousand strong
hands.
The duration of the shock was 50 sec
onds.
The War Department has ordered the
troops in the neighborhood to co-operate
in the work of rescue.. Until this work is
completed it will be impossible to learn
accurately the number of victims.
The greater part of the people of Chil
pancingo are now camping out under
trees around the town.
Earthquakes were felt in many other
cities and towns. In this city the shock
came at 5.17 P . M and was of such
violence as to move the most substan
tial buildings. The Tan-American Con
gress was in sesssion at the time, and
many of the delegates were greatly
alarmed.
The first earthquake movement here
was sharp. It was followed by an easier
oscillatory movement nortli-northeast
to south-southwest. The duration was
55 seconds. The actual damage in this
city was slight.
SEEkS TO BLAME BOTHA.
Kitchener Says tie Offered to Spare Farms
of Burghers.
London, (By Cable). A bfiid book
just issued on the subject of the concen
tration camps in South Africa contains
further detailed explanations from Lord
Milner, the British High Commissioner,
and Lord Kitchener, as to the causes of
the excessive death rate in the camps,
and denials of the charges of cruelty.
Lord Kitchener emphatically denies
Commandant Schalk-Burger's allegations
of the forcible removal and exposure
of sick women and of rough and cruel
treatment of women and children. He
says :
"I offered Botha to leave the families
and relatives of fighting Burchers in un
disturbed possession of their farms if
Botha would agree to spare the farms
of the families of surrendered burghers.
Botha emphatically refused, saying:
" T am entitled to force every man to
join, and if they do not join, to confis
cate their property and leave their fami
lies on the veldt.' "
The blue book gives the statistics for
December, when there were 117,017 in
mates of the camps and 2.380 deaths, of
which number 1.767 were of children.
DR. KRA11SE SENT TO PRISON.
The Charge That He Had Incited to Murder
Not Sustained.
London, vy Cable). The Lord Chief
Justice, Baron Alvcrstone. sustained the
contention of the defense of Dr. Krausc,
that the charge of inciting to murder
must fail, as there was no evidence that
the letters in the ease had reached
Broecksman, but held that the question
of "attempting to persuade" must go to
the jury. Dr. Krause was found guilty
and sentenced to two years' imprison
ment. Before he was sentenced Dr. Krause
protested that he never intended to mur
der any one. The Lord Chief Justice, in
passing sentence, declared the offense
was morally as great as though the
crime had been carried out. The pris
oner, the court said, did everything he
could to insure murder being committed,
and the maximum sentence was, there
fore, imposed.
MAIL PACKAGE EXPLODED.
Kooxvllle Postofflce Clerk Injured Probably
Smokeless Powder.
Knoxville, Tenn., (Special). J. W.
Martin, a postoflke clerk, was injured
by the explosion of a package of powder,
nito-glycerine or an infernal machine.
While stamping letters and packages
with the "received" stamp a package ad
dressed to a local hardware house ex
ploded when struck with the stamp. Ex
amination revealed on it the name of a
New York smokeless powder concern.
The interior of the parcel showed a
tin box. in which the explosive had been
packed. The local hardware firm dis
claim having ordered such a package or
having been notified of its shipment.
First Quality Diamonds In Montana.
Lewiston, Mont., (Special). Dia
monds, said to be of the first water, have
been found in the northern part of Fer
gus county, according to a report which
has just reached here. The news of the
discovery caused commotion among the
prospectors of this region, and dozens of
them are on their way to what they be
lieve is a new land of riches. The dis
covery was ma le on Hood Creek, a
mountainous country.
Out a Bag of Diamonds.
Glcndive, Mont., (Special). Robber's
got between $10,000 and $'0,ooo worth of
unset and set dimonds by stealing two
trunks from the baggage-room of the
Northern Pacific Station, and breaking
them open. A bag of unset diamonds
and 300 or 400 rings, mounted in gold
settings, arc missing from the trunks, but
the other articles were left intact. A
tray containing 24 set diamonds was
overlooked by the robbers. The trunks
were the property of C. B. Clausen, trav
eling representative nf S. 11. Clausen &
Co., of Minncanclis.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIR3.
To Report Ship Subsidy Blil
The Senate Committee on Commerce
has authorized Senator Frye, its chair
man, to make a favorable report on his
ship subsidy bill.
Senator Frye's report accompanying
the bill places the cost of the "mail"
subsidy at $4,700,000. Based on actual
navigation of American vessels in for
eign trade in 1000, the subsidies proposed
would amount to $1,072,000. The boun
ties on the deep-sea fisheries is estimated
at $175,000.
He says the receipts from the ocean
mail postage will provide $3,000,000 of
this amount, leaving a deficit under the
system proposed of nearly $2,000,000.
The committee made several amend
ments to the bill. The most important
were :
Allowing mail-carrying vessels under
the bill to be either iron or steel instead
of steel only, as originally provided, and
another reducing to 1,000 gross register
ed tons the vessels receiving a bounty
under the bill.
President's Visit to Charleston.
Arrangements for the President's visit
to the Charleston Exposition next month
have been concluded at the White House
and include his departure on the evening
of February 10, accompanied by Secre
taries Root, Hitchcock and Wilson, Postmaster-General
Payne and Attorney-
General Knox, of his Cabinet; Mrs.
Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt and some
few other persons. He will spend one
day in Lnarlcston and leave on the even
ing of the 12th or the morning of the
13th, in order that he may be absent
from Washington not more than three
davs.
D. S. Purse, president of the Board of
Trade of Savannah, Ga., invited the
President to visit Savannah on his
Southern trip. The Savannah people, he
said, were anxious to be the first to wel
come the President to the native State
of his mother. The President thanked
Mr. Purse for the invitation, but said it
was his intention to go to Charleston and
return to Washington direct.
Case of Asakl Manklchl.
The L'nitcd States Supreme Court set
for hearing on April 14 the first criminal
case to be brought to that court from the
Territory of Hawaii.
The case is that of Osaki Mankichi, a
Japanese resident of the Hawaiian Isl
ands, found guilty of manslaughter by a
majority vote of the jury by which he
was tried. This proceeding occurred in
the interim between the surrender of
Hawaiian sovereignty and the act of Con
gress providing a government for the
territory. -Mankichi secured his release
on a writ of habeas corpus on the ground
that the Hawaiian Islands were United
States territory, and that conviction by a
majority vote of the jury was invalid.
The case was appealed to the Supreme
Court by the Territory. The motion to
advance was made by District Attorney
Breckons.
Oood Chance (or Coffee Crop.
Consul-General Sccger, at Rio Ja
neiro, informs the State Department of a
desire on his part to correct an impres
sion conveyed in previous reports from
him in regard to the next Brazilian coffee
crop. Mr. Seeger says he is of opinion
that the pessimistic reports sent out at
the beginning of November have been
contradicted by subsequent events, among
which were copious rains in many parts
of the coffee district, and that Brazil will
have a very fair coffee crop next year,
probably from nine to ten million bags.
More for Armor on Ships.
The Urgent Deficiency Appropriation
bill was completed by the Appropriation
Committee and reported to the House.
It carries $16,791,445, distributed among
the different departments. The naval
items in elude $4,000,000 for armor on
ships now under construction.
Filipinos Surrender.
The War Department is advised of the
surrender of 365 insurgents to Brigadier
General James F. Wade at Cebu, Philip
pine Islands, January 14. On January 15
they took the oalh at Taglibaran, Bohol.
Special Envoy to Spain.
Dr. J. L. M. Curry has been appoint
ed Special Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to represent the
President at the coming of age of the
King of Spain.
Capital News In General.
The government officials at Washing
ton have arranged the itinerary for Prince
Henry's travels in the United States and
cabled the programme to the Emperor
for his approval. Extraordinary precau
tions will be taken to protect the Prince
from cranks or anarchists.
A census bulletin says the population
in the large cities is increasing very rap
idly in proportion to that of the country.
Five thousand two hundred and thirty
three soldiers have been ordered to the
Philippines.
The date for the opening of the fair at
St. Louis will be postponed until May I,
1004.
Before the House Committee on Com
merce, Government ownership of the
proposed Pacific cable was advocated by
General Greely and others.
Orders were prepared at the War Of
fice for the return from the Philippines
of the Ninth Infantry.
A majority of the Isthmian Canal
Commission is favorable to the Panama
route.
The House Ways and Means Commit
tee continued its hearing of arguments in
reference to the proposed Cuban reci
procity proposition.
A number of amendments were pro
posed in the United States Senate to
the bill providing for a department of
commerce.
Wholesale dismissals have begun i"
the Census Bureau and the force will
soon be on a permanent basis.
'I he Senate Committee on the Philip
pine Islands made some reductions ii
the House Tariff Bill. I
Admiral George W. Suninef 'was as
signed to the command of the South
Atlantic Station.
The House passed the Pension Appro
priation Bill and the resolution provid
ing for memorial services in the House
in honor of Mr. McKinley 011 February
27
1 Ion. 1 lenry C. Payne was sworn in as
Postmaster-General.
Hatchet Cuts Mr'. Nation's Foot.
Topeka, Kan.. (Special) .Mrs. Car
rie Nation, while flourishing a large
hatchet which she received as a present
from an Eastern manufacturing firm,
dropped it. and the keen edge of the in
strument severed the large toe of her
right foot.
Died at Ihe Ag of 106.
Oswego, N. Y-, (Special). Mrs. Ellen
Collins, died suddenly here. She was
said to be 106 years of :ig-
SIXTY KILLED,
JANY INJURED
Spanish Mill Town Wrecked by ao
Explosion.
TERRIBLE SCENES OP SUFFERING.
Sixteen Mutilated Bodies of Working Peo
ple Burled In the Debris Hare Been Re
covered These Include th Manager of Ihe
Spinning Mill and His Two Sisters The
Dead Included Many Children.
Barcelona, Spain, (By Cable). The
explosion of the boiler of a spinning mill
destroyed half the village of Pttcnte dc
Vilumara.
A hospital is filled with the injured.
Sixteen mutilated bodies of working
people buried in the debris have been re
covered. These include the manager of
the spinning mill and his two sisters. It
is estimated that 60 were killed and 100
injured. The dead include many chil
dren.
Queen Regent Maria Cristina has
wired her condolences.
The boiler exploded . in the evening
when the the mill hands, many of whom
were accompanied by their wives and
children, were eating supper before be
ginning their night's work. The build
ings of the mill collapsed and the debris
was hurled in all directions, destroying
other buildings and killing or injuring
many of those in the vicinity. Owing
to the darkness the work of extricating
the victims proceeded with great diffi
culty. Groans came from victims whose
mutilated limbs were pinned down by
the ruins.
LUKBAN MAY SURRENDER.
Letter From the Filipino Junta at Hong
kong Discovered
Manila, (By Cable). General Chaffee
left here for the Island of Samar. He
will thoroughly investigate the situation
there, as it is desired to stamp out the
Samar insurrection during the dry sea
son. A captured communication from the
Filipino insurgent junta at Hongkong,
addressed to General Lukban, insurgent
leader on Samar island, authorizes Luk
ban to surrender if he wishes to do so,
but does not advocate this action. If he
surrenders, the letter goes on to say, he
need not deliver a single Filipino soldier
or officer to the Americans, nor must he
or any other officer be forced to accept
civil appointment.
They may emigrate if allowed to do so,
but no Filipino must be obliged to take
the oath of allegiance to the LTnited
States. Under these terms the Hong
kong junta has no objection to Lukban's
surrendering.
RIDICULE PEACE MOVEMENT.
Boers Declare That the Stories Are Fabri
cated by the British.
London, (By Cable). Dr. Lcyds, the
representative in Europe of the Trans
vaal, according to a dispatch from Am
sterdam to Renter's Telegram Company,
held a conference with the Boer delega
tion at The Hague at the house of Mr.
Wolmarans. No official statement has
been given out, but there is the best au
thority for asserting that the conference
was merely a periodical meeting.
The dispatch says the reports of a
strong peace movement are ridiculed by
the Boers themselves, who say that such
stories are simply fabricated by British
agents, with a view to British publica
tion, subsequently turning to advtantage
in South Africa. The Boers deny that
any negotiations arc in progress.
Engineer Went to Sleep.
Kansas City, (Special). The west
bound Missouri Pacific passenger train
that left St. Louis at 7 o'clock collided
head-on with an east-bound freight train
one mile east of Etlah, Mo. Five pas
sengers on the passenger train were in
jured, but no one was killed. The wreck
proved a costly one for the road. En
gineer William Maze, of the freight train,
had fallen asleep in his cab and ran past
Etlah. where he had been ordered to
meet the passenger train.
Cut. Flesh From 15 Girls.
Chicago, (Special J. In an hour's
time Dr. D'Orsay Hecht, before a clinic
at the Postgraduate Hospital, cut bits of
cuticle from the arms and legs of 15
young women and covered a burned and
livid face with tresii healthy epidermis.
The patient is Miss Helen Peck, 16 vears
old, whose face was terribly burned by
an explosion of gasoline. Three times
the number of young women chosen vol
unteered to make the sacrifice for their
suffering friend.
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS. !
The Santa Fe, it is stated, will issue ,
$30,000,000 of bonds, of which $13,000,- !
000 is to be used in practically renew- ',
mg ne equipment of the road.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Company placed an order with the
Southern Car and Foundry Company
for i, 250,000 worth of cars.
A mob stormed the jail at Flemings
burg. Ky., to secure Charles Gaskins,
colored, accused of murder, but the
sheriff kept the prisoner.
It is rumored at New Orleans that a
Boer spy has blown up in the Mexican
Gulf a British transport loaded with
mules.
It is reported that the British warship
Condor was lost in a typhoon on her
way from Victoria. B. C, to Honolulu.
Hon. David McConaughy, the oldest
member of the Adams county (Pa.) bar,
is dead.
Vincent Yeucclsick, a Pole, while
drunk, killed bis wife and children at
Pittsburg.
l'nitcd Slates Senator Joseph B. For
aker was re-elected by the Ohio Legis
lature. Norman P. Eyre was killed at Phila
d Ipbia by a train.
Fire caused a damage of $150,000 in
Los Angeles.
Fire 111 St. Louis caused a loss of
$.'x,ooo.
Cecil Rhodes has secured contracts
amounting to several million pounds
sterling for supplying South Africa, es
pecially the British troops, with meats.
It is reported that Russia, in spite of
her protestations of firmness, is disposed
to compromise with China 011 the Man
churian question.
The Emperor of China offered sacri
fice!! in the Temple of Heaven and gave
thanks for bis safe return to Pekin.
According to present plans. Prince
Henry of Prussia will sail on the Kron
prinz Wilhelm on February 15 and meet
the imperial yacht Hohcnollern at
Newport News, whence the Prince and
his retinue will go up the Potomac to
Washington. Rear Admiral Evans has
been selected to have charge of the
naval reception.
AWED TRAIN CREW.
Masked Outlaws Hag and Rob SoulhbounJ
Eipress.
Fort Smith, Ark., (Special). A south
bound Kansas City Southern Railroad
passenger train was held up half mile
north of Spiro, I. T., by seven masked
men. The local safe in the express car
was opened, but nothing was sccucd
from it. The robbers tried to open the
through safe, but failed. Then they
tried the mail car, and, it is said, secured
a quantity of registered mail.
The robbers flagged the train between
Spiro and Redland. While two of the
seven men covered the engineer and fire
man with revolvers, others forced a por
ter who had appeared on the forward
coach steps to uncouple the baggage car
from the rest of the train.
John Block, a traveling salesman from
Fort Smith, alighted from the train and
was about to fire upon one of the rob
bers when he was prevented by Conduc
tor Sullivan, who feared that the men
would fire into the passsenger coaches.
The baggage car uncoupled, the en
gineer was compelled to pull up the road
a distance of one mile. There the rob
bers, after disarming the messenger, went
through the baggage and mail car. Their
work finished, one of the robbers handed
the messenger the revolver taken from
him and all made for the timber.
Postoflice officials here deny that any
registered mail was taken, and the ex
press officials say that one package con
taining $3 covers their loss.
Spiro is a small station near the
Arkansas river in Indian Territory, 15
miles from Fort Smith. It is a desolate
place in the timber, which affords
good cover for a robbery. Potcau, the
second station south from Spiro, was tb
scene of a former train hold-up.
BRITISH SHIP BLOWN UP?
Bodies of Hundreds of Mules Floating on
Waters of the Oulf.
New Orleans, (Special). It is be
lieved in shipping circles here that a
British transport laden with American
mules bound for South Africa has been
intercepted and blown up by a Boer spy
in the Gulf of Mexico or else has foun
dered. A schooner arriving on the lower
coast reports hundreds of dead mules
floating on the waters of the gulf for a
distance of 30 miles. This news has
excited shippers, who fear that further
attempts will be made to stop the ex
port of mules to Cape Town.
Conservative persons attribute the
floating carcasses to a disaster to one
of the British vessscls during the storms
that have been raging near the coast this
week.
At Quintana, Texas, Captain Peterson,
of the schooner Olga, reports having
seen long rows of dead cattle and mules
floating in the wafer.
New Hope for Miss Stone.
Constantinople, (By Cable). Reliable
news has been received here that Miss
Ellen M. Stone, the captive American
missionary; Mrs. Tsilka, her companion,
and the latter's baby, are well. Negotia
tions which it is expected will result in
the early and safe return of the captives
are in progress. John G. A. Leishman,
the American Minister here, is now di
recting the negotiations.
Old Lady Burned to Death.
Philadelphia, Pa., (Special). Mrs. Ju
lia Mitchell, aged 70 years, while pre
paring breakfast, accidentally set fire to
her clothing and was burned to death.
Her son-in-law, Joseph W. Hammond,
with whom she lived, while endeavoring
to extinguish the flames, was severely
burned and was taken to a hospital. The
Hammond family and Mrs. Mitchell
came to this city about a month ago from
Boston.
Army Officer's Terrible P. If.
New York, (Special). Earl Edmond
son, believed to be an officer of the
United States Army, recently returned
from the Philippines, and said to be from
Nashville, Tenn., will probably die from
injuries received in falling from a third
story window of the Continental Hotel.
He struck on the dome of the dining
room, which is at the bottom of a court.
His skull is apparently fractured.
Nurse Hanged Child.
Cincinnati, (Special) While Mr. and
Mrs. W. 11. Whittakcr were off on a
visit their 5-year-old child was left with
Annie Loge, a domestic. When they re
turned the nurse was found on the sec
ond floor in an unconscious condition
from asphyxiation. She had turned on
the gas and inhaled it from the jet. Later
Mr. and Mrs. Whittakcr found their
dead child fastened to a gas pipe in the
cellar.
Train Blown From Track.
Vienna (By Cable). Over 100 per
sons were injured, many of them se
verely, by a great windstorm vviiich
swept over Vienna. Houses were un
roofed, chimneys were blown down and
the streets were so tilled with debris as
to seriously impede traffic. People were
mown down while on the street and a
number of horses were killed. A freight
train was blown off its tracks and pas
senger traffic has been tied up.
Mors Merciful Than Just.
Des Moines, Iowa, (Special). As
practically the closing act of his adminis
tration. Governor Shaw made public the
names of 473 prisoners to whom he had
extended executive clemency within the
lir.t two years. The Governor's -record
in this respect, it is stated, has never
been equaled in Iowa.
Direct Vote lor Senator.
Frankfort, Ky., (Special). The Sen
ate unanimously concurred in the House
resolution asking Congress to provide
for election of United States Senators by
direct vote. The House resolution peti
tioning Congress to remove the revenue
tax on tobacco and criticising the Tobac
co Trust was passed by a party vote.
Blew Her Head Off.
Toledo, Ohio, (Special). Louise
Avery, of Delaware, who was 23 years
old, committed suicide in a horrible man
ner. Her brother found her lying dead
upon her bed with the barrel of a shot
gun held by one hand against her tem
ple. Evidences were found that the
woman had taken paris green and mor
phine, but bad finally resorted to the
.shotgun. The entire top of her bead was
blown off. '1 he refusal of a man to
marry her is said to have prompted the
deed.
Chinese Murder French Missionary.
Washington, (Special). A cablegram
was received at the State Department
from Consul McWade, at Canton, stating
that a rench missionary bad been mur
dered by the natives at Nan Huing,
Kwang Tung Province, 260 miles north
west of Canton,
Big Order for Southern Works.
Birmingham, Ala., (Special). The
Cincinnati Southern Railroad placed in
order wilh the Southern Car and Foun
dry Company for 1,800 Ikix" and flat
cars, estimated to cost $1,250,000.
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Condensed
Special Dispatches From
Many Point.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
State's tocome During 1901 -Nearly $18,000,
000 In Revenues Collected, Part ol Which
Has Been Returned to the Counties Con
science Money $2.02 Farmer's Frenty
Causes Disaster Tries to Kill Himself.
Pensions granted: William Putnam,
Stoncy Fork, $10; Thomas Griffith,
Claysville. $10; Addison H. Simmons,
Banksville, $8; John Thomas, Bradock,
$12; lames H, Vores, McConnellsburg,
$12: Jacob Dutra, Kcrrmoor. $8; Olivet
S. Rumbergcr, Warriors Mark, $12:
David Bchana, Monongahela, $8; Henry
'Bearly, Lewistown. $10: Jeremiah M
IWiblev, Port Royal, $12; Robert Mil
ler, Soldiers' Home, Eric, $6; Mary
Bloom, Troy, $12; Peter J. Hand, Titus
ville, $8; William D. McTcctcrs, Black
lick Station. Sio: David Putt, Sax'ion
514: James Huffman, Oak Forrest, ?to;
acob Zimmerman, Coalport, $10; Bell
; McDowell, Grove City, $8.
; Patents granted: Harry W. Baker
iOakmont, hot air furnace; James H. Ba
,ker, Allegheny, brake beam; John T
: Blake,. Pittsburg, rail joint connection;
'Burtwin L. and W. P. Brington. Brad
ford, piston valve for air compressors ;
Henry L. Dixon. Pittsburg, glass pot
furnace; Simon J. Freeman. Bradford
coffee or tea pot; Edward E. Frutchrv.
Towanda, shoe lace fastener; John W
Frye. Oil Citv, casing head for oil wc'Is;
Franklin R. Heister, Centernort, steerinR
mechanism for motor vehicles; Julian
Kennedy. Pittsburg, shaft coupling;
: Walter Kennedy. Allegheny, plant fot
coke making; Daniel Lcsh. West Fair
view, spirit level ; Herman Moon, Grove
City, clutch ; George R. Moore. Erie,
mail bag catching and delivering me
chanism : Josph Morgan, Johnstown, ap
paratus for metal rolling; George Saylor,
Mattawana. grate; Edward A. Schoolcy.
Pittsburg, railway torpedo: James Shel
ton, Towanda. stocking: Herman Tirde
mann. Pittsburg, rail joint ; Christ Fa
re, Tyrone,' bolt fastener.
Tamaqua Lodge, Spanish War Vet
erans' Association, w'as organized at Ta
maqua, with about fifty charter members
The officers are: Commander, G. B
Kline: senior vice-commander, W. H.
Clewell, Summit Hill; junior vice-commander,
C..F. Shindcl ; adjutant, F'rank
D. Kcrshncr; quartermaster, Edward M.
B. Shepp.
During the fiscal year recently ended
the State collected as revenues $17,727,
432.46, and returned to its source about
$2,000,000, leaving about $15,000,000 for
the payment of all expenses. Of the per
sonal property tax three-fourths was re
turned to the counties and the depart
ments which imposed or collected them
received all of the fines for maintenance.
The School Directors of Vrpper
Gwynedd have received $50 bequeathed
by the late Lizzie H. Jones, of Bonilla,
South Dakota, with which to purchase
library books for the West Point and
Gwynedd Western Schools. Miss Jones
was for a number of years teacher of
these schools.
William Kinkus was killed and Rollis
Dumpsky was badly injured by a! ex
plosion of dynamite at Primrose Col
liery, Mahanoy City. The men under
took to tamp a charge of dynamite with
a drill. An explosion followed, which
hurled Kinkus and his comrade down the
breast.
Joel Troutman, aged 65, a farmer of
Center Township, was committed to pri
son at Reading charged with assault and
battery with intent to kill his son, How
ard, aged 35. As an outcome of the trou
ble two barns were burned. The prison
er is supposed to be insane.
The Schuykill County Medical Socie
ty elected the following officers : Pres
ident, Dr. Joseph P. Morris, of St. Clair ;
vice-president, Dr. George Little, of Ta
maqua ; treasurer. Dr. Dav id Taggart, of
Frackville; censor, Dr. J. S. Callen, of
Shenandoah.
Judge Johnson, at Medis. granted a
new trial in the suit of J. E. Johnson
against the Chester Traction Company
for damages for the loss of a leg by
being run oyer .bit a car. It was shown
that an official of the company was seen
talking to a juror. Johnson lost his case.
The business offices of A. M. Wcll
mer's Sons, wholesale grain dealers, and
Knerr & Bowman, coal dealers, Lebanon,
were entered by thieves, and at both
places the safes were opened by means of
the combination. Little booty was se
cured. Mine Inspector Edward Biennan, of
the seventh anthracite district, reports
that in 1901 there cre 158 accidents, six
ty fatal and ninety-eight non-fatal. In
1500 there were 140, forty-nine of which
were fatal and ninety-one non-fatal.
The Laubach grist mill, at Northamp
ton, owned by the Eastern Milling &
Export Co., and managed by ex-Senator
E. H. Laubach. was almost totally de
stroyed by fire. The loss is about $8,000,
fully insured.
F'dward M. B. Shepp, Tamaqua, was
unanimously elected captain of Compa
ny B. Eighth Regiment, to fill the vacan
cy caused by the resignation of Captain
H. B. Russell. , (
It was announced at Pottsville that W.
M. Stellwagon. master mechanic of the
Philadelphia & Reading Railway shops at
Palo Alto, has been placed on the com
pany's retired list with a pension.
Joseph Covelsky, a repairsman. fell
down an old manway, 150 feet in depth),
at the Shenandoah City Colliery, but sus
tained only slight injuries.
A man supposed to be suffering with
smallpox was nrrested at Darby, but be
fore a physician ivyild be summoned lie
escaped from his captort and fled.
A charter was issued by the Stale De
partment to the Keystone Silk Weaving
Company, Philadelphia ; capital, $30,000.
A two-wreks-old infant has heen aban
doned at the home of Morris Ropers,
West Chester, by a young woman who
recently came from the Maternity Hos
pital of the University of Pennsylvania.
John Brcker, son of Samuel Becker,
aged 21 years, was killed by falling from
a hay loft on the farm of John Hoflinger,
in Heidelberg Township.
The borough officials of the town of
Exeter1 have decided i.i view of the
smallpox epidemic to stop all weddings
and Burgess Max Gross has issued a
public order to that effect.
Conrad Ward, aged 27 years, a brake
man on the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, jvas accidentally knocked from a '
freight car and crushed to death beneath
the car. '
Alderman Irvin, of Altoona, is en
couraging men to sign a total abstinence
'pledge by making out the legal papers
jfrca of charge. It is reported that the
I number of pledges has run as high as
' forty in a day. ;
I James O'Miillcy, a pump runner at No.
,3 shaft, Olyphant, fell down the shaft,
a distance of 150 feet, but escaped with
out severe injuries.
Counterfeit silver dollars are in cir
culation throughout Schuylkill County.