STRIKERS REJECT
THE AGREEMENT
Arbitration Verdict la Norfolk Fills to
End Trouble.
DECLARED IT TO Be ONE-SIDED.
la a Clash Belweca a Mob and Four Compaa
lei ! Mllltlo Five Soldier Wert Badly la
fcred The Milllla Charged tha Mob Wllb
Fltd Bayonet and a Number ol Person
Were Hart Situatloi Reaches Qrsve Stage.
Norfolk, Va. (Special.) The strike
situation in Norfolk, according to con
servative opinion, has reached its
gravest stage.
The street railway employees abso
lutely refuse to comply with the terms
of settlement set for them by the arbi
tration committee, by which the rail
way officials have announced their inten
tion to abide. The strikers declare that
the decision is one-sided, and that in
agreeing to return to work with non
union men they would forfeit their
charter in the international union. This
they positively refuse to do. The com
mittee's report sets forth that the bond
required by the railway company is jus
tifiable and reasonable and will work no
hardship upon the men. The company
is asked to reinstate 138 of its former
employees, who are to give the required
bond, and also to retain under like con
ditions IS per cent, of the men brought
here to take the strikers' places.
The strikers met, and after a closed
meeting lasting several hours, formally
decided not to go back to work under
the conditions prescribed in the decision
of the committee. Hugh Gordon Miller
and D. J. Coleman, Jr., their counsel,
told them that they were bound by their
letter to the Chamber of Commerce ac
cepting the arbitration committee to
abide by that body's decision. The
strikers refused to accept this advice,
and counsel, it is said, withdrew from
the case.
R. Lancaster Williams, president of
the Norfolk Railway and Light Com
pany, received the result of the meeting
at the Monticcllo Hotel. The company
is determined to run its cars regard
less of the strikers, and will not further
treat with them as an organized body.
THE WAESLAND SUNK.
Collided With the Harmonides la a Dense Fog
Two Drowned.
London, (By Cable). The American
line steamer Waesland, Captain Atfcld,
from Liverpool, March 5, for Philadel
phia, and the British steamship Harmo
oides, Captain Pentin, from Para, Feb
ruary 13, for Liverpool, met in collision
off Holyhead, Wales. The Waesland
sank. Her passengers and crew were
aaved.
The Harmonides rescued the passen
ger and crew of the Waesland and took
them to Liverpool. The Waesland car
ried 32 cabin and 82 steerage passengers.
The Waesland is owned by the Inter
national Navigation Company, but flies
the Belgian flag. She plied regularly in
the American Line service between Phil
adelphia and Liverpool, touching at
Queenstown each way. Formerly she
wi! known as the Russia. The collision
occurred in a thick fog at 11.30 o'clock
P. M., when the Waesland was about 40
miles southwest of Holyhead. The Har
monides struck the Waesland amidships
and there was a terrible shock.
Reported Rebel Victory la Columbia.
Panama. Colombia (By Cable). For
the last two days it has been persist
ently rumored here that the Government
forces have sustained a severe defeat.
It is said that when the Colombian gun
boat Boyaca landed reinforcements at
Chiriqui, the civil and military chief of
the province, R. Lastra, prepared to at
tack the revolutionists at San Pablo,
about five miles from David, and sent
Colonel Luque forward with 200 re
cruits. The latter, not knowing the
country well, are said to have been sur
prised by 500 of the enemy between two
embankments, from which position the
revolutionists were able to shoot down
the government soldiers.
Changing It Tax Laws,
St Paul, Minn.. (Special). After de
feating several taxation measures, a con
ference committee of the two houses of
the Legislature reported a compromise
on what is known as the constitutional
amendments bill, and it was adopted by
the Senate. A tax on franchises or on
gross earnings of corporations at the
optior of the Legislature, a tax on the
income of credits not to exceed 10 per
Cent, and a general income tax on in
comes exceeding $1,000, are the princi
pal changes over existing statutes.
Foreigners Being Eliminated.
Washington, (Social). The Russian
government is gradually eliminating .ill
foreigners from the public service, ac
cording to a report from Consul-Generul
Ifolloway, at St. Petersburg, dated Feb
ruary 4. The report is made in view of
a number of inquiries from young Amer
icans which have been received at the
St. Petersburg consulate as to the pros
pect of securing employment from the
Kussian government as civil, electrical
or mechanical engineer or in public
work.
Murder In Richmond.
Richmond, Va. (Special). William
Clayton, a well-known contracting paint
er, was murdered here in a manner that
hu far battles the police. He was
und on the street in a residential sec
ion of the ci.y frightfully beaten, and
Aied without having regained conscious
ness. His head was rrtislied and one of
bis eyes almost pinched out. Clayton left
three grown daughters and two sons.
SI.M aa Ounce for Sliver.
, a New Haven, Conn., (Special). "A
dollar and a half at once and no ques
tions asked," is the offer made by Gen.
George Hare Ford to the thieves who
broke into his home and stole a quanti
ty of silver articles valued at $1,500.
Many of them are family pieces and
much more valuable to the owner than
to anyone else. Among the goods stolen
from General Ford were a collection of
loving cups, a Kussian snuffbox, inlaid
with precious stones, and silver spoons
ttbat had been in the family since 1740.
$30,000 (or a Portrait. 1
New York, (Special). A Paris ca
blegram to the New York World says:
Charles T. Yerkes, who is promoting
rapid transit in London, recently sent to
Benjamin Constant, the artist, a check
fur $.50,000, probably the highest price
ever paid by anybody for his own por
'trait. An original feature of this pa
sunt is that the price demanded and
agreed upon was $jo,ooo, but Mrs.
Yerke wai so pleased with her hus
1 ""! llfcrn-cj tV'j the railway mtirn.i'e
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Domestic
James Webster, a traveling salesman
of Rochester, N. Y., who was wanted in
that city on the charge of forgery, com
mitted suicide in a New York hotel,
where he had registered under an as
sumed name.
The Central Labor Union of Norfolk,
Va., adopted resolutions condemning
Governor Montague and the civil author
ities of Norfolk for having militia sent
to the scene of the street car strike.
The Virginia Senate reported favora
bly the bill for a tunnel as a means of
transportation between the cities oT Nor
folk, Portsmouth and Berkley, and ad
versely on the other propositions.
Charles Hudspeth, of Richmond, Va..
who was for some time at the head of
a transatlantic transportation company,
is missing and is believed to have com
mitted suicide.
Christopher Garrison, an employe of
the Winchester (Va.) City. Ha". 'a
sentenced to six months in jail for let
ting a female prisoner escape from police
headquarters.
The burned body of Mrs. James M.
Howard was found hanging in the cel
lar of her home, in Barakhamstead, Ct.,
with no traces of fire around it, and the
police are mystified.
Thirteen people were killed and 28
more or less injured by a wreck caused
by a broken rail on the Southern Pa
cific Railroad near Sanderson, Tex.
The coroner's jury in Lowell. Mich.,
decided that Mrs. William Klitntp died
from strychnine mailed in a package
labeled headache powder.
Three men looted the house of an
aged retired farmer named Smith at
Saxonburg, Pa., murdered the old man
and tortured his wife.
Gen. Julius S. Estey, president of the
Estey Organ Company, died at his home,
in Brattlcboro, Vt.
The General Education Board, to pro
mote Southern education, was organized
in New York.
A strike of the anthracite miners in
Pennsylvania now seems imminent.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company filed a mortgage for $75,000,000
in the County Court at Clarksburg. W.
Va., in favor of the Union Trust Com
pany of New York to liquidate all out
standing mortgages previously given on
lines operated by the Baltimore and Ohio
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir
ginia. Advices received at the head office of
the Hudson Bay Company, at Winnipeg,
Man., declare that evidences have been
found of the killinig of Explorer Andree
and his companions by an Eskimo tribe.
In view of the action of President
Roosevelt and the Attorney General, the
executive officials of the Western rail
roads, at a meeting in Chicago, voted to
abolish pooling agreements.
The main office of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad will be moved from
New York to Philadelphia because the
Pennsylvania's interests now practically
control that road.
Ex-Mayor Frank. A. Magowan was
arrested in Trenton. N. J., as a fugitive
from justice in Philadelphia, where he
was indicted for securing $14,000 under
false pretenses.
The surveyors who are engaged in the
restirvey of Mason and Dixon's Line have
found many of the old markers and have
had some interesting experiences.
By a gas explosion in the Catsburg
Mine, near Monongahela, Pa., five men
were entombed and a number of their
comrades injured.
Mrs. William Klump died in Lowell,
Mich., from poison which had been
mailed to her in a package labeled head
ache powder.
A perfumery combine, with a capital of
$5,000,000. is in process of organization,
with headquarters in New York.
Foreign.
C'ueen Alexandra was the sponsor at
the launching of the British first-class
battleship Queen, and King Edward of
ficiated at the laying of the keel plate
of the first-class battleship King Edward
VII. at Plymouth.
Berlin newspapers publish reports that
the Boer Commandant Kritzinger, who
was captured by the British, had been
tried by court-martial and sentenced to
death, but his sentence has been com
muted to banishment for life.
The British steamship Harmonides,
which was in collision with the steamer
Waesland off Holyhead, was towed into
Liverpool with a great hole in her liows.
She brought the passengers of the Waes
land. which went down.
The French Minister of Finance stated
I in the Chamber of Deputies, in answer to
a query, that all sugar bounties would be
abolished, and that he thought the result
of the convention would he beneficial.
In the City Temple, in London. Rev.
Joseph Parker arraigned King Edwaod
fur brewing beer and attending a Sunday
concert.
Hon. Alfred Littleton, according to an
English rumor, may succeed Lord
Paunccfotc as British Ambassador at
Washington.
King Edward laid the foundation for
a new roval naval college for cadets at
Dartmouth.
The White Star liner Celtic, with
American tourists on board, arrived at
Jaffa.
The refusal of the Bankers' Commis
sion to accept the February installment
of the Chinese indemnity owing to the
foreign governments being unable to
agree to terms concerning its division
will, it is feared, rinil,r rnll-rt,,r tA
I ture installments more difficult.
The American Line steamer Waesland,
from Liverpool for Philadelphia, and the
British steamer Harmonides, from Para
for Liverpool, collided at night off Holy
head. Wales. The Waesland sank, biit
her passengers and crew were saved.
Gen. Tung Fu Hsiang is causing the
Chinese court much uneasiness by per
sisting in surrounding himself with a
large body of troops, and which may
add to the rebellion.
'ltie Pope received a number of en
voys from different parts of Europe, in
cluding one from Emperor William.
'1 hey presented him with costly gifts.
Financial.
The New York Subtrcasury statement
shows that the banks lost $4,338,000 last
week.
The "Monthly Supplement" in Ant
werp shows that the losses in the dia
mond market have been over $1,600,000.
W. E. Small & Co., stockbrokers and
member! of the New York Cotton Ex
change, with headquarters in Macon,
Ga., have suspended.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works has
received contracts for fifty oil-burning
locomotives and 60 coal-hurning en
gines from the Atchison Railroad.
The Pullman Pn1r.ee Car Company
has already received contracts for then
entire output for 1 00 J.
At the annual meeting of Canadian
General Electric it was decided to apply
to the government for permission to in
crease capital stock from $-',000,000 to
$3,000,000. The directors and officers
were re-elected.
The capital stock of the Dominion Se
curities Company is to be increased from
$1,500,000 to $3,000,000. The additional
issue of stock wi'l be placed in the treas
ury of the compr.ny for the purpose of
financing a railroad proposition and ac
ii' 'irin'ff !ir'ic','--. an-1 rr.fTti''l.
PREPARING FOR
WAR WITH JAPAN
Some Startling Rumors Through Chinese
Sources.
THE DISPUTE OVER MISSION LAND.
Merchant Declare Tbey Have Been Ordered
to Remove Their Families From Port Arthur
Russian Troops Sent loto the Jebol
Gold Country In China The Ctptur ol a
Priest by Bandit.
London (By Cable). In a dispatch
dated Shanghai the correspondent of the
Standard says that Chinese merchants
coming from Port Arthur declare they
have been ordered to remove their fami
lies from Port Arthur, because prepara
tions were being made there for a war
with Japan.
Tckin (By Cable). Chinese officials
are greatly disturbed over the conditions
at Jehol (Chcngte), about too miles
northeast of Pekin, where bandit sol
diery have captured a priest.
An official of the Foreign Office de
clares that the Russians have already dis
patched 500 troops to Jehol from the
Mauchurian border.
The trouble began over the settlement
of claims of native Christians, and it re
sulted in rioting between the Christians
and the non-Christians. Brigands took
advantage of these conditions to plunder
the country, and the Russian telegraphic
connections were incidentally cut. The
Foreign Office says that the captured
priest is a Belgian.
It was reported March 7 from Fckin
that the Chinese court had ordered the
immediate release of this priest in order
to forestall the entry of foreign troops
into the district of Jehol, which is rich
in gold mines.
Tien Tsin (By Cable). The mission
property here which is in dispute be
tween the French and American consuls,
is less than two acres in extent. It bor
ders the American mission property, and
was previously occupied by undesirable
Chinamen. The French consul stopped
building operations on the disputed
property and placed a policeman there.
The French flag has not been raised
over the property.
The American consul here, James V.
Ragsdalc, is maintaining a firm attitude.
and does not believe serious develop
ments to be likely.
MOTHER'S FATAL MISTAKE.
A New York Woman Gives Her Young Babe
Carbolic Acid.
New York, (Special). In great agony
Little Elsie Tins, the 16-monthsTOld
child of Mrs. Henrietta Tins, died here
as the result of a fatal mistake of her
mother, who gave the child carbolic acid
instead of soothing medicine the doctor
had prescribed.
Mrs. Tins is so prostrated with grief
that she is herself under a doctor's care,
and everything possible is being done
to quiet her. The mother had admin
istered a teaspoonful of the poison to
the little girl before she discovered her
mistake, and, though doctors worked
over the child for hours, the effect of
the acid could not be overcome.
Elsie had been suffering with an ab
scess on the back of her neck for sev
eral days, and a physician had prescribed
a wash of carbolic acid and an internal
medicine. Both medicines were in ex
actly similar bottles, which Mrs. Tins
had placed on a tabic side by side.
Tragedy In West Virginia.
Charleston, W. Va., (Special). At
Crescent, 25 miles above here on the
Kanawha River, George Conway and
William Anderson became involved in
a quarrel, which terminated in Conway
shooting Anderson through the right
temple, the ball coming out the eye and
causing his death. Conway escaped and
has not yet been apprehended. Both
men arc unmarried and Conway is quite
young. Conway accused Anderson of
"talking about him."
U. S. Squadron at Colon.
Colon, Colombia, (Special). The
United States squadron, comprising the
battleship Kearsarge, Indiana, Massa
chusetts and Alabama, under command
of Rear-Admiral Francis J. Higginson,
entered the harbor and will probably
remain here several days. United States
Consul Oscar Malmros boarded the flag
ship immediately upon the arrival of the
quadron and paid his respects to Ad
miral Higgitisoh.
Over Hundred Villages Shaken Up.
Baku, Russian Transcaucasia, (By Ca
ble). The official report of the commit
tee which has been investigating the re
cent earthquake at Shamalca shows that
u6 villages, with a total of 9.084 houses,
were included in the area of the disturb
ance; that 3,4j6 houses were destroyed
and 3.943 damaged. Besides the dwell
ings, 4.163 farm buildings, it churches,
41 mosques, 11 factories and three
schoolhouses were seriously damaged.
To Prosecute Railroads,
Chicago, (Special). The United
States district attorney has received in
structions from Washington to prose
cute all railroad companies whose repre
sentatives testified to violation of the law
at the recent Interstate Commerce Com
mission's hearing. Similar action will
be taken in other States.
Charlottesville's New Building.
Washington, (Special). Tile Senate
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds authorized a favorable report
on a new public building for Charlottes
ville, Va., to cost $100,000.
Scout Discover Boer Maguloe.
London, (By Cable). Lord Kitch
ener, in a dispatch from Pretoria, re
ports the discovery of a Boer magazine
in a cave northeastward of RieU, Or
ange River Colony, containing 310,000
rounds of rifle ammunition, hundreds of
shells and fuses, 300 pounds of powder,
a maxim gun, helios, field telegraphs and
quantities of stores. Thirty five Boers
have been captured in the same neigh
borhood since March 4- T he magazine
was discovered by Canadian scouts,
commanded by Colonel Koss.
A Big Oil Deal
Wheeling, W. Va. (Special.) J. B,
Robinson, one of the pioneer West Vir
ginia oil operators, has just closed a
deal by which he disposes of all his
West Virginia interest for $1,000,000
to the South Penn Company. The hold
ings comprise 7,000 acres in defined ter
ritory in Wetzel and Marion counties
and a number of producing wells. Mr.
Robinson follow sd the oil business into
West Virginia from Pennsylvania, and
drilled the first well in the famous Man
riinirton field on f!iePrit.'!KrJ heirs'
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Vast Area ot Arid Lands.
The Ncwlands Irrigation bill was re
ported (o the House by Representative
Mondell, of Wyoming, for the Irrigation
Committee.
The report says that the territory af
fected by the bill is nearly one-half the
area of the United States and that in
the 16 arid land States there are over
535.000,000 acres, or more than one-sixth
of the area of the country of public land
subject to entry. Of this vast tract only
10,000.000 acres will produce crops with
out irrigation, showing the wide extent
of the arid districts.
Mr. Mondell points out that with such
a vast domain no agency other than the
government can deal adequately with the
problem of irrigation. He also shows
that irrigation long ago passed the ex
perimental stage and that its great ad
vantages have been established in this
country and abroad. The bill, he ays,
proposes no taxation to carry out the
project, the entire expense being derived
from the sale of public lands in the
States to be irrigated.
To Bar Federal Officers.
Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi,
gave notice of an amendment he will of
fer to the Ship Subsidy bill intended to
prevent the high officials of the United
States government from receiving any
benefit from the enactment of the pro
posed law.
The amendment requires, that the
names of all members of firms or of
incorporators and stockholders of all
corporations, whether owners of subsi
dized ships or contractors to build the
same, shall be made public. It then pro
ceeds as follows:
No Senator or Representative or Pres
ident of the United States or judge of
any court of the United States shall be
directly or indirectly interested in any
contract under this act, or in any cor
poration having a contract under this
act, or directly r- indirectly receive any
money or thing of value or worth under
the provisions of this act, or be directly
or indirectly interested in any corpora
tion or vessel which is a beneficiary un
der this act.
Transfer of Reins to Cuba.
Secretary Root has ordered Governor
Leonard Wood, at Havana, to come to
this city at his earliest convenience, for
the purpose of conferring with the Pres
ident and the Secretary of War in regard
to the necessary steps to be taken for
winding up the affairs of the military
government in Cuba and the establish
ment of the Cuban Republic.
It is believed here that the transfer
of government can be effected by May 1.
The change in the control of the govern
ment does not necessarily mean, it is
said, that the United States forces will
he withdrawn from the island at that
time. The date of the actual transfer
of government and the time of the with
drawal of American troops are questions
which will be determined after the pro
posed conference with General Wood.
Spanish Treaties.
The new Spanish treaties must wait
upon the accession to the throne of the
young Spanish King before they can be
ratified, owing to internal political con
ditions in Spain and the reluctance of
the existing government to assume any
measure of responsibility pending the ex
piration of the regency and the corona
tion of the King.
This event will occur some time in
May, and, as it is expected that a new
cabinet, and a stronger one will be in
stalled, it is hoped that the delay in the
treaty negotiations will be very brief.
Dairy Trade Doubled.
The census preliminary report on but
ter, cheese and condensed milk, factory
products, including urban dairy prod
ucts, shows the following summary for
1000, with percentages of increase since
1800:
Number of establishments, o.s, in
crease 09 per cent. Capital, $36,508,015,
increase 120 per cent. Wage earners,
average number. 12.865. increase 2 oer
cent. Total wages, $6,170,670, increase
40 per cent. Miscellaneous expenses, $1,-
5X.7. increase 82 per cent. Cost of
materials used. $100,151,205, increase 113
per cent. Value of products, $$131,109.
317, increase 109 per cent.
Roosevelt Will Give Out News.
At the last Cabinet meeting President
Roosevelt requested the members not
to talk to newspaper correspondents
about matters under discussion at the
semi-weekly meetings. It was thought
best for the President himself to make
public such matters as he deemed proper
to be given out. Hereafter the President
will do this.
Manila Wishes Coolie Labor.
Senator Dubois had read to the Senate
a memorial from the American Chamber
of Commerce of Manila urging that the
immigration of Chinese coolies into the
Philippine Islands be permitted tinder
restrictions to be imposed by the Phil
ippine Lommission.
'The Territory of Jefferson."
The House Committee on Territories
decided to report the bill giving the In
dian Territory a territorial form of gov
ernment to be known as the Territory
of Jefferson, with a Legislature similar
to the other Territories, a Governor and
a delegate in Congress.
Important Ruling on Life Insurance.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue has decided that the proceeds of a
life insurance policy, payable to a party
insured, or his legal representative, is a
part of decedent's estate. If, however,
it is payable to someone else, the pro
ceeds are not to be treated as a. part of
his estate, but are payable direct to the
beneficiaries named 111 the policy, and
are not subject to legacy tax.
President' Trip South.
I Tt is nrohahle thnt PrtwUnf
velt, Mrs. Roosevelt and members of the
Cabinet will leave Washington for the
Charleston Exposition on the evening of
March 24, arriving in Charleston on the
25'h.
Capital New la Genera'..
Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, explains that the
proceedings to be instituted against
Western railroads on account of rate
cutting, will be civil actions in equity to
enjoin them from further violations of
the law. i
Dr.Ileinrich Muller, one of the Euro
pean diplomatic representatives of the
Orange Free State, told Secretary Hay
of the horrors of the concentration camps
in South Africa.
The President has signed the Philip
pine Tariff Bill.
Harry C. New, of Indianapolis, de
clined President Roosevelt's offer of the
first assistant postmaster generalship.
A census bulletin was issued showing
the statistics bearing upon the flouring
and grist nulls of the country.
Dr. Silva, the retiring Colombian min
ister, paid farewell calls to the President
and Secretary Hay.
The delay in the distribution of the
first installment of the Chinese indem
nity among the powers is due to the
refusal of two powers to accept the
proposition of the United States for a
blight pro rata reduction of claims to
!' iottlieii.ji jbciiitul n-tiirh, i'b:im
BURNED TO DEATH
IN TEXAS WRECK
Fifteen Persona Killed by a Southern
Pacific Train.
WRECKED TRAIN CATCHES FIRE.
The Train Was Onlng at Such a Rate of
Speed That the Tender and Engine Landed
Sevenly Flv Feet From Where They Left
the Ra!l The Cart Behind Piled Up Again!
the Engine, Causing the Fire.
San Antonio, Tex., (Special). A
broken rail caused a terrible wreck on
the Southern Pacific Railroad, near
Maxon Station, Southwestern Texas.
From the latest accounts received here 15
persons were killed outright and 28 were
injured.
Conductor Stock well, who reported
the accident, walked seven miles to a
telegraph office to warn an approaching
train and send the news of the disaster
to the superintendent's office.
The ill-fated train left San Antonio at
noon, two and a half hours late. At the
time of the accident it was running at
high speed in order to make up time.
The road at the point where the wreck
occurred is in a rough country, the
curves being sharp and the grades heavy.
It was when rounding a curve that the
triin left the track on account of a
broken rail.
All the passengers were asleep, and the
shock that followed was the first intima
tion they had of the danger. The train
was going at such speed that the tender
and engine landed 75 feet from the place
where they left the tails. Several cars
behind piled up against the engine,
caught fire and were consumed, except
the sleepers.
A private car owned by Thomas F.
Ryan, of New York city, with his family
aboard, was attached to the rear of the
train, but it was pulled away before the
fire reached it, and no one in it was
injured.
All the injured were in the coaches
just behind the express and baggage
cars. Those in the sleepers were saved
with the assistance of the uninjured pas
sengers. The wrecked train was the Galveston.
Harrisburg and San Antonio westbound
passenger. It consisted of an engine,
mail car, baggage car, one day coach, one
chair car, three tourist sleepers, one Pull
man sleeper and one private car.
WALLER TO BE TRIED?
Court-Martial Reported Ordered for Daring
Virginia Officer.
Manila, (By Cable). A court-martial
has been ordered to try Major Littleton
W. T. Waller and Lieut. John H. A. Day,
of the Marine Corps, 011 March 17 next,
on the charge of executing natives of
the Island of Samar without trial.
Report says that one native was tied
to a tree and publicly shot in the thigh ;
the next day shot in the arms; the third
day, shot in the body and the fourth day
killed.
Friends of the two officers are said to
attribute their alleged actions to loss of
mind, due to the privations which they
suffered in the Island of Samar.
Washington, (Special). Acting Sec
retary Darling, of the Navy Department,
received a cable message from Rear-Admiral
Rodgcrs, commanding the Asiatic
station, saying that the battalion of Ma
rines which made the hazardous march
across the Island of Samar, arived at
Cavite on the 2nd instant and are now
quartered in the marine barracks.
No mention .is made in the message of
court-martial proceedings against Major
Waller or Lieutenant Day for alleged
brutal treatment of natives during the
inarch, nor is reference made to trouble
of any kind.
MOODY TO SUCCEED LONG,
Preparations Being Made by Latter to Retire
From Office.
Washington, D. C. (Special.) Secre
tary Lonr. who has just returned to his
desk from his visit to Boston, will prob
ably not again leave the Capitol until he
relinquishes his place to Representative
William Henry Moody, of Haverhill,
Mass., who will almost certainly become
Secretary of the Navy alxuit May 1.
Secretary Long has long desired to re
tire from office, but was unwilling to do
so while the Schley case was pending or
was in any way subject to appeal. Now
that this matter is settled, he feels that
he can retire to private life.
Representative Moody, who is now
serving his fourth term in Congress, is
regarded as a great worker and a man of
excellent executive and judicial ability.
Mutt Not Drive Out Chinese.
Denver, Col. (Special.) Goxerno,
Orman received the following telegram
from Secretary of State John Hay:
"The Chinese minister advises me of
reported attempts by the Miners' L'nion
at Ouray, Col., to drive the Chinese out
of town. The Miners' Union is alleged
to have declared a boycott against the
Chinese, who are said to be peaceable
residents. If the facts are as under
stood and represented by the Chinese
minister, the department would be
pleased if you would take such measures
as you may find appropriate to prevent
violence, and to assure the Chinese pro
tection and unrestricted enjoyment of
treaty rights and privileges."
Government Exhibit at Si. Louis
Washington, (Special). The House
Committee on Industrial Arts and Ex
positions authorized Chairman Tawney
to recommend to the Appropriation Com
mittee that the Sundry Civil lull con
tain provisions of $800,000 for the gov
ernment exhibit at the St. Louis Exposi
tion, $40,000 for an Indian exhibit and
$200,000 additional for the government
building.
Panic Among Factory Girls.
New Orleans, La., (Special). A panic
occurred among the 500 girls in Horns
heim's tobacco factory, resulting from an
alarm of . fire several squares away. A
strike occurred some time ago in llie fac
tory, and there had been a rumor for
some weeks that an attempt might be
made to blow up the building. When
the cry of fire sounded the girls fran
tically rushed to leave the building, and
many were trampled and bruised. Ber
tha Cantress, 17 years old, is thought to
be fatally hurt.
Morgan Buy Porcelain. '
New York, (Special). J. P. Morgun
has purchased the Garland collection of
oriental porcelains, the finest collection
in the world, which ha been on exhibi
tion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
here for many years. It was announced
that a London dealer had purchased the
collection from the Garland estate for
$600,000, and would take it to Europe.
Mr. Morgan decided that (he collection
should remain in America. What he
paid is not known, but it is supposed
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OEN. FL'NSTON'S WARM TALK.
Rather See Agitators Hanged TMo Soldiers
Killed Filipino Murderer.
New York (Special). Gen. Frederick
Funston was the principal guest at a
dinner at the Lotus Club. Discussing
the conduct of the war in the Philippines
he declared there had never been a war
in history where the soldiers had shown
such humanity as had the American
troops in the Philippine Islands. He
told of 24 American soldiers who had
joined the Filipinos and who were after
ward captured and executed as traitors,
and then said :
"There arc many men in the United
States who did more with their mouths
and minds to aid the insurgents than did
these poor men with the Krag-Jorgen-sen
rifles. I would rather see those men
hanged for treason than to sec one of our
soldiers dead on the field of battle."
"All sorts of men get into the army."
said General Funston. "There are good,
bad and indifferent, but I believe that 95
per cent, of the American soldiers arc a
brave and humane lot of men. The
other 5 per cent, who have been writing
letters to newspapers have ornamented
the inside of a grog house for a longer
time than they have distinguished them
selves in the field."
General Funston then mentioned sev
eral instances of personal bravery on the
part of the men in the army which re
sulted in their death, including those of
Captain Godfrey and Sergeant O'Brien.
He was present when Sergeant O'Brien
was shot, and said it was "one of those
wild moments that arc worth to years
of humdrum existence." His listeners
cheered the remarks.
Then General Funston said : "All of
those men who have fallen since De
cember. 1000, have been victims of a lot
of misinformed and misguided people
here in the United States. It is perfectly
proper for us to have all sorts'of opin
ions as to what we should do with the
Philippine Islands, but, for heaven's
sake, let us keep them to ourselves until
every square inch of that territory rec
ognizes the sovereignty of the United
States."
MAY BE SYSTEMATIC MURDER.
Four Bodies Striped of Valuable Found la
a Texas River.
Beaumont, Texas, (Special). The
finding of the body of C. B. Pearson in
Nechcs River, stripped except as to his
underclothes and with his head crushed
in, has convinced the local police that a
systematic plan of robbery and murder
is being conducted by unidentified per
sons in this vicinity.
When Pearson was last seen alive he
had on a suit of good clothes and carried
between $50 and $100 in cash. Within
three months four bodies, including that
of Pearson, have been taken from the
river, and in every case there were evi
dences of violent death and robbery, as
no valuables were found. In two of the
cases the bodies were not identified and
were buried by the county.
WOMAN'S HORRIBLE DEATH.
Her Burned Body Found Hanging In a
Cellar. ,
Winsted, Conn. (Special.) Coroner
Higgins is investigating a mysterious
death which occurred in Barkhamstead.
Neighbors entering the house of Mrs.
James M. Howard discovered the body
of Mrs. Howard burned to a crisp, hang
ing over a potato bin in the cellar.
A search failed to reveal a lamp or
any other article which would have set
fire to her clothing, and the woodwork
upon which the body was hanging was
not burned. Mrs. Howard's husband was
away at work at the supposed time of the
burning.
$8,000,000 For Pittsburg.
Pittsburg (Special). The following
are the estimates of the costs of im
provements to be made by the United
States Steel Corporation in Pittsburg,
work on which has either started or will
be started during the present year: Ar
mor plate mills. $3,000,000; "Bessemer
railroad, $1,000,000; structural mills,
Homestead, $750,000; American Bridge
plant, new, $1,500,000; Neville Island
furnace plant, $,500,000; other improve
ments, $250,000. Total, $8,000,000.
Bishop J. P. Spalding Dead.
Erie, Pa., (Special). Dr. John
Franklin Spalding, Protestant Episco
pal Bishop of Colorado, died here of
pneumonia at the home of his son, Rev.
Frank S. Spalding. Rev. Frank Spald
ing is seriously ill with typhoid fever
and his venerable father was summoned
to his licdside a week ago. The Bishop
stood the journey well, but later caught
a severe cold, which developed into
pneumonia.
For Thanks of Congress to Schley.
Washington, ( Special). Representa
tive Tearre, of Maryland, introduced a
resolution extending the thanks of Con
gress to Admiral W. S. Schley for his
service in the battle off Santiago July 3,
1898. He presented also a joint resolu
tion of the Maryland General Assembly
requesting the Senators and Representa
tives in Congress to use their utmost en
deavor to secure such action.
Long Want More Room.
Washington (Special). Secretary
Long will urge Congress to authorize
the construction of a new building for
the Navy Department, the structure it
now shares with the State and War De
partments having become too small.
ODDS AND ENDS OP THE NEWS.
The Mormon missionaries inTicnniark
arc even distributing literature within
the Danish churches urging young girls
to attend the Mormon meetings.
The Philadelphia and Camden Tunnel
Company was incorporated in Camden,
N. J., with a capital of $1,000,000.
A big demonstration occurred at Brus
sels in fnvnr of universal suffrage." A
serious collision occurred between the
Lilx-ral and the Catholic 1: indents.
Under the sugar convention signed at'
Brussels, Great Britain agrees to refrain
from paying bounties on sugar grown in
crown colonics.
Henry Fink has resigned tha presi
dency of the Norfolk and Western Rail
road Company. F. I. Kimball will be
his successor,
Mr. iiioderick, British secretary ot
war, in introducing the army estimates
(69.310.000) in Parliament, defended
the War Office.
The First National Bank tt Montgoin:
cry, lnd., was robbed of $10,000 by burg
lars. Frank V. Cottle, a bank cashier, killed
himself at Springfield, III.
W. IL Small & Co., stockbrokers, at
Atlanta, biispcnded.
Emperor William has expressed his
delight over the telegram he received
from Miss Alice Roosevelt, and his sat
isfaction and pleasure over tha reception
given his brother, Prince Henry, in the
United States.
Boer prisoners state that General De
Wet was shot in the arm during the at
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PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The Latest Happenings Gleaned
All Sources.
From
MAN KILLED; HIS WIFE TORTURED.
Misked Robber Commit Murder and Ransack
a Hou:e. Taking $200 Worlh of Booty The
inspect Captured Borrowed Cola to Sat
Her Feared Consumption; Killed Herself
Bodle of Mine Victim Recovered.
Pennsylvania Pensions : Jeremiah
Spriggs, Johnstown, $8; Robert B. Mc
Night, Eric, $6; Daniel B. Mowry,
Washington, $12; John W. Schconovcr,
Knoxville, $12; Theodore W. Hillytr,
Bloomfield, $8; Miller Ickes, Newville,
$10: John Walbcrt, Pittsburg, $8; Jarncs
J. McAfoos, Decker Point. $12; Samuel
Robertson, Harshavillc, $to; Mary J.
Stowdcr, Huntingdon, $8; Barbara Orr,
Pittsburg. $8; Marv Grandan, Cooneaut
ville, S8; Eliza A. Spatilding, Port Alle
gheny, $12; William Cheeseman, Girard,
$8; George W. Taylor. Edgccliff, $8;
Robert W. Thompson, Washington, $1 2 ;
David Clark, Venelia, $8; Warren Gra
ham, Northeast, $8; Orren D. Way,
Chandlers Valley, $14; Alex. O'Don
nell, East Watcrford, $10; James Vance,
Allegheny, $12: Elias Powell, Rankin
Station, $8; Mary Erb, Wormleysburg,
$8: Catherine Brant, Latrobc. $8; Mar
garet Schugarts, Punxsutawney, $12.
Three masked hurglars broke into the
house of Henry Smith, an aged resident
near Saxonburg, a little country town,
brutally murdered the old man, tortured
his aged wife in a fiendish manner and
escaped with $200 worth of booty, after
having ransacked the place. All day long
the suspects were tracked by a posse and
in the evening they were caught. Mr.
Smith was the father of L. H. Smith and
W. A. Smith, prominent Pittsburg busi
ness men and members of the L. H.
Smith Wooden Ware Company. The
burglars crushed his skull with an ax,
and to make their, work sure sent a bul
let through their victim's head. Mrs.
Smith was tortured until she revealed
the whereabouts of the money in the
house. While torturing the woman the
robbers vented their fury by breaking
every thing within reach. Mr. Smith
was a farmer of wealth and led a re
tired life. It is supposed the robbers
believed that he had a large sum of
money in the house, which is one and
a quarter miles from Saxonburg. The
murder occurred about midnight.
Michael Gwatt, who was arrested on
complaint of his wife for beating her
and trying to get away with a sum of
money for which she had sold her prop
erty, was sent to jail at Wilkcs-Barre
by Alderman Donohuc. As he was
being led from the squire's office Gwatt
cried to his wife, "Won't you give me
$5 to hire a lawyer?" "Sure," she said,
and handed him a bill. Now he will en
ter a counter suit against her.
Charters were issued by the State De
partment to these corporations: German-American
Savings and Loan As
sociation. Allegheny, capital. $1,000,000;
Eureka Knitting Company, Philadelphia,
capital. $50,000; the Pennsylvania Knit
ting Mills Company, Reading, capital,
$5,000; Majestic Apartment House Com
pany, Philadelphia, capital, $5,000.
Harry MeMullen, the 14-year-old son
of Charles MeMullen, of Lebanon, was
found dead in the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad yards. No one saw the ac
cident. The body was found by a car
inspector. Deputy Coroner C. D. Weir
ick decided that death was due to an
accident.
It is said that when Mayor-elect Vance
C. McCormick. of Harrisburg, takes of
fice he will appoint Lieutenant-Colonel
Joseph B. Hutchinson, of the Eighth
Regiment, National Guard, as his chief
of police. Colonel Hutchinson is a strict
disciplinarian.
Buildings containing five stories and
tenements were destroyed by fire at
Shenandoah. Loss, $20,000. Thev were
owned by Fitzgifibons Brothers, of Ring
town. Lawrence Colliery, at Mahanoy Plane,
owned and operated. bx the Shaffer es
tate, of Pottsville, was permanently
abandoned. The colliery employed near
ly 500 men and boys and had a monthly
pay roll of $25,000.
D. Lloyd Thomas, a young lawyer,
who campaigned with the Governor's
Troop in Porto Rico during the Spanish
American war, was thrown from a sleigh
at Mhhanoy City, fracturing several ribs.
Alice Finnegan, aged 37, a married
woman, living on Duquesne Heights,
committed suicide with carbolic acid,
because she feared death from consump
tion. Incendiaries attempted to burn the Ar
mory Hall at Summit Hill, but the fire
was put out before much damage was
done.
The five bodie of the victims of the
firedamp explosion at Catsburg mine
were recovered. They were dead when
found by one of the rescuers.'
The Lackawanna Railroad Company
has given a subscription of $10,000 for
a new railroad Y. M. C. A. building in
Scranton and the work of erecting a
$30,000 building will begin at once.
A dynamite explosion set fire to the
Catsburg mine. Monongahela. The min
ers were brought out and the air pas
sages closed. J'hc mine is too far from
the river to permit of its being flooded.
Leon Sisler, who shot and attempted
to kill Flossie Hampton because she jilt
ed him and then made an ineffectual at
tempt at suicide with the same pistol in
November 30, pleaded guilty at Norris
;ovvn of assault with iutentjo kill.
The blasting of a dangerous ledge
overhanging the Philadelphia & Fj it
Railroad at Ferney caused a big land
slide at that place. All the Western
Union and Pennsylvania Railroad wires
were broken by the slide, cuuing off
.onuuunication west of Ferney.
John Jiniski, of Scranton, does not be
lieve in banks, and kept his savings,
amounting to $1,350, sewed in the lipinujs
of his coat. Wednesday night he hung
his coat on -the back of a chair. When
he returned an hour later some one had
slit the lining nf the coat and takeo the
money out. He has -had Steve Polcwi
iiz arrested for tiieft.
The Montgomery Square rostoffire
lias been removed to Montgomeryvillc, a
mile distant.
The sanitary committee of the Allen
town City Councils has rejected the
propositioh to give a free franchise to
the United States Sewerage Company
The! Rockhill furnaces and coke ovens
at Huntington, which have been idle .or
ten years, are to be started up at once
by a new company, to be known as the
Rockhill Furnace Company, with a capi
tal of $100,000.
Judge Johnson, at Media, appointed
Frank I. i'aylor, Jarad Darlington and
Charles Crawford prison inspectors, and
the commissioners appointed J. Lord
Rigby and J. Herbert Odgen. The latter
succeeds Harry V.
were reappointed.
Pratt.
All ethers
The Pittsburg Time Glass Company's
rolls for the vc.ir were $1,501 fi-8 -jf.