A MILLION-DOLLAR BLAZE Destruction of Great Plant of Armour & Co., at Sioux City. BUILDINGS RAZED FROM FOUNDATIONS. Twenty-tour Drumt, Each Containing One Hundred Pounds at Ammonia, Explode, Followed by the Explosion ot the Big Storage Cistern Three Thousand Dressed Hogs 'Burned. Sioux City, Iowa ( Special). The big plant of Armour & Co., which occupied three and a halt acres of ground at the extreme south end of the stock yards dis trict, was destroyed by a fire which start, ed soon after midnight on the second floor of the fertilizer building. Six hun dred men are thrown out of employment. The loss, as estimated by Charles V. Lennon, manager of the company, is $900,000 ; the insurance. $721,500. The cause of the fire was said by Mr. Lennon to have been either spontaneous combustion or an imperfect dryer. The fire was discovered by a watchman of the building, who, only a few minutes before, had pulled a messenger box on the floor where the flames started. Quickly the Armour private fire de partment of six men was called out, and the entire city department followed. By J. 20 a. m. six streams of water were be ing thrown upon the fire which was de stroying the fertilizer building, but the pressure was inadequate. This building, which was of brick. 120 by to feet, four stories high, was located between the beef-killing house and the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapalis and Omaha railroad tracks on the cast. The floors and contents of the build ing burned like chaff. At 1. 25 a. ni. the roof fell in, and a moment later the fire burst through into the beef-killing house. Simultaneously the cattle chute ignited and lasted only about five minutes, when it fell with a great crash. From the beef-killing house to- the oleomargarine building was only a step, and wlien the lard was ignited the fire presented a most spectacular appearance. The big bee(houe. where 50 carcasses were hanging, caught at 2 o'clock. By this time the entire plant, except the hog house, was a lake of fire. The roar was terrible. The country for miles around was lighted up. Suddenly come a terri fic explosion, followed quickly by an other, and then another. Twenty-four drunts, of 100 pounds of ammonia each, exploded before the reserve supply in the ammonia cistern was reached. That ignition almost razed the entire plant from its foundation. At 2..10 a. m. the flames burst through the heavy fire wall that separated the big hoghousc from the other buildings. This was the last building to the north j and the largest of all. Steadily the fire crept against the wind and through the office building, which from the first had been enveloped in flames. Not a scrap of paper was saved from the of fice. The burning roof of a chute fell upon a bunch of live hogs and their squeals were added to the chorus. When the hoghouse caught fire all streams were turned in that direction, but the water seemed like oil. In the building were 3.500 dressed hogs and 2.500.000 pounds of pork product. After the fire got a good headway there all hope of saving anv part of th plant was abandoned. The shops, chicken packing plant, icehouses and ice run ways ana smaner department nouses were consumed in quick succession. HUSBANDRY PATRONS CROW. More than 250 Oranges Were Organized Last Year. Lansing, Mich (Special1). At the session here of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry the delegates listened to the reports of the secre tary and treasurer, which showed the order to be in a flourishing condition. Last year 256 new granges were or ganized in the several States, Michigan leading with 96. A number of resolu tions were introduced and referred to the resolutions committee. The rest of the day was spent in vis iting State institutions here, inspecting the local sugar refinery and com'erring the seventh degree on about 800 per sons by the national body. At night Prof. T. C. Atkcson, of West Virginia, chairman of the com mittee on transportation, gave notice of a resolution to put the Grange on record on the question of public own ership of railroads. Professor Atke fon is an ardent advocate ot public ownership. Fire In Editor Patterson's Palace. Washington, D. C. (Special). Fire caused thousands ot dollars of damage to the magnificent white stone resi dence in course of construction on Du pont Circle for Robert W. Patterson, the editor of the Chicago Tribune. The exact loss cannot be estimated. The building is to cost $350,000 and is the largest residence in the city, and in the heart oi the fashionable section. The fire is attributed to spontaneous com bustion. Canal Will Need Much Water. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Geological Survey reports that in order to make the Panama canal route feasi ble with the necessary lock system there must be a summit-level supply of water equal to a constant flow of 1.070 cubic feet per second. Accord ing to the report the success of the canal will depend 011 the ability of the Chagres river to furnish this supply. Confederate Pensions. Charlcstown, S. C. (Special). The report of Comptroller General Der ham just published gives the total amount paid out this year in Confed erate pensions as $.'00,2.7. The total number of pensions is 7.750. Eighty- -ncvcn veterans collectively received $1,009. in lieu of artificial limbs. The increase in the number of pensions grows yearly, and if this condition con tinues much longer the appropriation will furnish a pittance much smaller than now received. A Nonagenarian Walker. Saratoga, N. Y. (Special). Capt. John Erkenbrock, who was born on September 9, 1808, and is consequently in bis ninety-fifth year, has been per suaded by friends to postpone until next May his projected tramp of 200 miles to New Vork citv. He origin ally intended leaving here on Novem ber 25. He said: "Pve used liquor moderately since I was nine years old and have smoked for 80 years, and if there's any better preserved man of my age on earth, well I'd just like to see imn. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic Receivers for the National Asphalt Company anil the Asphalt Company of America hied in court at Trenton, N. J., report stating that they have made progress in iiducing expenses by con solidating the underlying companies. During a controversy over a board bill James Matcron fatally shot M. P. Brittingham. proprietor of the Hotel Bratt. in Mat-cluster, ().. and then kill ed himseli. Brittingham was shot three times. It was reported in Philadelphia that the Reading, the Baltimore and Ohio, and other Eastern railroads will fol low the example of the Pennsylvania and increase the salaries of employes. The Anthracite Strike Commission began the hearing of evidence in Scran ton, Pa., President Mitchell reading a long satcmcnt and then taking the wit ness stand. Col. Edward Bntlrr, the millionaire politician of St. Louis, was convicted of bribery in Columbia. Mo., and sen tenced to three years in the peniten tiary. In the American Federation of Labor Convention yesterday at New Orleans a number of resolutions bearing upon labor conditions were introduced. The Methodist General Missionary Conference, in session in Albany. N?. V., made appropriations for the vari ous missions in China and Korea. The Central National Bank of Bos ton closed its doors as a result of im paired assets. The failure had no ef fect in financial circles. William Becker, who sent threaten ing letters to a number of wealthy men in New York, was arrested on the charge of blackmail. One hundred and ten Presbyteries have thus far voted for revision ol the creed, none having voted the other way. Superintendent Pratt, of the Carlisle Ind ian School, submitted his report to Indian Commissioner Jones. The twenty-second annual convention of the American Federation of Labor opened in New Orleans, and President Gompers, in his annual address, warned the members of the dangers of the con flicting claims of jurisdiction made by different bodies. Four men were killed and 40 more or ' inured by the explosion of a large boiler in a scrap puddle furnace at the American Iron and Steel Manufacturing piant at i-eoanon, fa. Frank C. Andrews, the convicted vice president of the wrecked City Savings Bank of Detroit. Mich., was taken to the Jackson State Prison to begin serving his 15 years sentence. Mrs. Tingley has appealed from the decision of the board of inquiry in New York to deport the Cuban children de signed for the Buddhist home at Califor nia. J. W. McNight. former president of the defunct German National Bank of Louisville, Ky., was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary for embezzle ment. The grand jury of Freehold, N. J., has not yet indicted Laura Biggar on account of any charge growing out of her alleged marriage to Millionaire Bennett. A young woman .in whose possession was found a watch chain stolen from one of the murdered Boston women, is likely to prove an important witness, in the case. The General Missionary Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Albany, N. Y., decided not to admit the secretaries of conferences as members. The coroner's jury held Charles Caw-le- of Homestead, Pa., responsible for the murder of his mother and four brothers and sisters. Rev. James Hill, a Marylander bv birth, and senior member of the Indiana Con ference of the M. E. Church, died at the age of 83. Foreign. Two mentally deranged women, mother and daughter, who formerly liver) in Brooklyn, N. Y., caused a sensation in trying to get to Queen Alexandra at Sandringhnm to present a petition. They were arrested and sent to an asylum. Many thousands of wealth" English men and also a number of rich Ameri cans will go to Delhi for the Indian Dur bar festival. Fabulous prices are being charged for apartments and accommoda tions. Lady Colcbrook has become a Power ful ally of Lord Rosebtry and has caused several defections ' from Mr. Campbell Bannerman's wing of the Liberal party. Emperor William hade farewell to King Edward and left London for Low ther Castle, Penrith .Cumberland, where he will visit Lord and Lady Lonsdale. It is reported that the Crown Prince of Siam is engaged to marry the eldest daughter of the Emperor of japan. The Princess is 14 years old. The tariff obstructionists in the Reichstag have not given up the fight The Reichstag has abandoned voting by roll-call, and has adopted the French Chamber method of voting by card. An Austrian court has decided that the marriage of an Austrian man to an English woman was invalid on account of the difference oi religion of the par ties. A rich find of Aztec relics is report ed to have been made in a cavern in Mexico. Several of the Venezuelan revolu tionary generals have been made pris oners. The French Minister of Marine ex plained to the Chamber of Deputies that as the naval contracts in force exceeded the appropriations by $5,000, 000. orders ior three new battleships had been canceled. British Colonial Secretary Chamber lain denied in the House of Commons that the Bond-1 lay convention prohib ited Newfoundland from according pref erential duties to its mother country. A presidential decree re-establishing Caracas as tire capital of Venezujla has been issued and the disbanding. of the revolutionary forces continues. General Matos has arrived at Willem stad. Financial. Little hope for easier money before New Year. Gold in 'he Bank of France decreased during the week $405,000. Burlington no longer issues a monthly statement of its business. Canada railroads have ordered 40,000 tons of steel rails and fastenings. New York banks have lost to the Sub trcasury this week about $4,500,000. Now it is said Rockefeller took 60,000 shares of Southern Pacific from the Keene pool at a private transaction. The wheat yield of Kansas is now placed at 40,oto,ooo bushels. Over 6,000,. 000 acres of wheat will be sown next year. The Shenango & Beaver Valley Rail way and the Pittsburg, Lisbon k West ern Railway have consolidated tinder the name of the Pittsburg, Lbn & Western Railway Company; capital $i, 000,000. A seat on the Montreal Stock Ex change was sold Saturday for $23,500, which is $2500 advance on the best for mer price. Until a year ago there were only forty members of the exchange. Now there are fifty. Five years ago the seats were worth only $2000. KING LEOPOLD SHOT AT Itall&n Anarchist Fired Thrice at Belgian Monarch. ALL THE BULLETS MISSED MARK One Bullet Smashed the Window of the Car riage Containing (he Urand Marshal Would be Regicide Formerly Employed In the Italian Secret Service to Watch Anarchists In London. Brussels (By Cable). Leopold, King of the Belgians, narrowly escaped assas sination. An Italian anarchist named Rubino fired several shots at the car pages containing the King, the Count and Countess of Inlanders, Prince and Princess Albert of Flanders, the Princess Clementine and aids-de-camp and ladies of honor. The royal party was return ing from the Cathedral, where they had attended a Te Denm in honor of the late Queen Marie Henriette. The shots were intended for the Kinct. and one bullet smashed the win (low of the carriage containing Count d'Oultremont. the grand marshal. The anarchist stood in front of the Bank of Brussels, on the Rue Royale, and fired as the carriage passed him. The would be regicide was immediately seized, and would have been torn to pieces by a mob had not the police seized and thrown him into a cab. When rescued from the mob Ru bino was placed in a cab. and infuriated crowds of people immediately sur rounded the vehicle and attacked it with knives and sticks. The police had great ditticttlty in forcing a way to the police station through the crowd, which shouted alternately: "Kill him!" and "Long live the King! The cab was hacked with knives. A search of the prisoner revealed a pack age of ball cratridnes. He at first told the police that his only reason for the shooting was ex asperation at seeing "so many tired looking personages occupying such grand coaches. Subsequently he ad mitted that he was an anarchist, and that he intended to kill the Kinir. The self-confessed would-be regicide is a small, bald-headed man, with a heavy black moustache. He maintain ed perfect calm during his interroga tion by the police. He informed the police that he came from London, where he went on a (utile search for work. There Rubino obtained assist ance from the Italian Embassy, and, it appears, was temporarily engaged to watch anarchists. He was dismissed, however, as the embassy officials dis covered that he sympathized with the anarchists. It was then that he bought a revolver and 50 cartridges and came to Brussels. PROFESSOR LOEB'S ELIXIR OF LIFE Experiments With a Powerful Restorative tor the Dying. Chicago, III. (Special). Prof. Jacques Loeb and his assistants in the Chicago University have shed new light on the old problem of life and death. Salt and water, the "elixir of life," discovered by Dr. Loeb two years ago to be efficient in making turtles' hearts beat again with rhythmic throbs, has been found to be a powerful re storative for dying mammals. The ex periments, ol which Dr. Loeb told his class, were made by an assistant. Prof. Edward Lyons, in the laboratories at the university. "If a heart can be taken from a baby after death and the regular beat tem porarily restored by immersing it in a solution of salts," argued Dr. Lyons, "why cannot the heart of a warm-blooded animal be restored by an injection of salts into the veins, if done when the animal is at the point of death?" Dr. Lyons began his experiments with the lowest forme of nii,,-,l lif. mice, then dogs and cats. Taking tne animals Kept 111 the University of Chicago laboratories for experiment, he brought them to a condition where life was practically extinct; then by injec tions of sodium and calcium solutions into their veins he was able to restore (or varying periods of time the heart beat in its normal rhythm and strength. '1 he exnerimi'iits u-r rn,m,L, ....... ..... .. . v',.,i.vu ssy eral weeks ago, but not until Dr. Loeb spoke of the matter to his class had they been made public. "I am giving this to you for the first time." said the Profe SSOT "Tf itt - nr.tu discovery and has not been announced Sagasta Forms New Cabinet. Madrid (By Cable). Premie- Sa- gasra has formed a new Cabinet, as fol lows: Duke o Almodovar, Foreign Minis ter. Senor Puigcerver, Minister of Jus tice. Senor Equilior, Minister of Finance. Senor Moret, Minister of the In terior. General Weykr, War Minister. Duke of Veragua, Minister of Ma rine. Count Romanones, Minister of Pub lic Instruction. Senor Salvador, Minister of Public Works. Fire Balls Fell From Sky. London (By Cable). According to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Syd ney, N. S. W., an extraordinary red-dust-storm lias been experienced in Victoria and New South Wales. Dark ness enshrouded the city of Melbourne at noon and balls of fire fell and set fire to several buildings. The people were thrown into a state of panic, as they thought the world was coming to an end. Last ol lb: Fox Sisters. Newark, N. Y. ( Special). The an nouncement of the death of Mrs. Maria Fox Smith at her home, near this place, at the age of 85 years, marks the passing of the last of a trio of sisters whose fame 50 years ago was world wide. It was at Spiritualistic medi ums that the Fox sisters, as they were known, became noted. They were pio neers of Spiritualism in this country, and their libt of patrons included some of the brainiest men and women o( that time. Garrison Gets 32 Years. Roanoke, Va. (Special). William Garrison, who was raptured in Chi cago and brought here to answer to two charges of rape ancj an attempt at murder, committed three years ago, was sentenced by Judge Woods, in the Hustings court, to 32 years in the pen itentiary, and left for Richmond an hour later to begin his term. The tnai was without jury, and the prisoner made no attempt to deny the charges against him, but said he was the vic tim of a mania which he could, not control. Garrison is 40 years old. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Cheaper Ocean Postage. A radical reduction of the postage rates on mails to the leading commercial nations of Europe will be urged nt this Fcssion of Congress by Postmaster-Gen eral Payne. It is confidently expected that in case the project is successful the United States foreign trade will be greatly stimulated. It is believed that the nations who arc to be approached with a view to being parties to the ar rangement will readily give their acquies cence. The present rate is 5 cents per half ounce on letters to foreign countries, save Canada and Mexico, between which and this country the same postage rates arc applied as affect mail within this country. It is proposed to out the Gov rrnmcnts of 'Cngland, Germany and France on the same footing. In view of the greatly increased volume of postal business and the number of commercial transactions between this country and Europe the foreign rate is held to be entirely disproportionate to the domestic rate and serves as a detriment to the business interests of the country. The Guam Earthquake. Commander Seaton Schroedcr, naval governor of Guam, has sent to the Navy Department a detailed report of the dam age caused in that island by the earth quake of September 22. Fortunately, the disaster occurred in the daytime, as did the hurricane of two years ago. and the casualties included but one child and a few of the townspeople of Agana hurt There was considerable loss of property, however, and funds are asked for to make the necessary immediate repairs. It is feared that the rented building used as a naval hospital is damaged beyond repair, and the sick are being cared for in a nearby mortuary chapel pending the completion of one ward of the Maria Schroedcr Hospital, when they will he removed there. Commander schroedcr requests $1,000 for this emergency work, as there is no money in the island treas ury. The total damage to the buildings under the control of the bureau of yards and docks will reach $8,700, the slight expense being due to the fact that most of the buildings were rented. I he Ma rine Corps fared worse, and $14,000 will be needed to repair their property. Last Year at Carlisle. The annual report of Lieut.-Col. R. H. Pratt, superintendent of the Indian In dustrial Institute, at Carlisle, Pa., to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones shows that during the year a maximum enrollment of 1.073 was attained. The pupils earned during the year an aggregate of $.li,6tg. According to the report excellent results were obtained from the industrial training, and the schoolroom work shows increasingly sat isfactory results in the advance of the standard of scholarship and improvement in articulation and English. Colonel Pratt says that nature study has a special interest for the pupils and that this class of educational work was pressed with more system and larger results. Marines to Leave Panama. As a measure of precaution, in view of the appearance of yellow fever, it has been decided to order the marine battal ion away from the Isthmus of Panama. They will be taken on the Panther to Culehra Island, where they will go into camp for the present. I he flagship isconsin orobab v will proceed leisurely up the Pacific coast to sail hrancisco, and if another vessel is needed at Panama the cruiser Boston, at San hrancisco, will be sent there. 'I he Montgomery, now cruising in Haitian waters, leing no longer required in that vicinity by reason of the practical cessa tion of hostilities, will be sent to Colon to replace the Panther in case it is neces sary to have a warship in that neighbor hood. Armor Undergoes Severe Test. Satisfactory tests with armor plates for the battleship New Jersey were made at the Indian Head (Md.) proving grounds. A 10-inch plate, representing the barbette plates, was attacked with 10- mch shells with striking velocities of from 1,740 to 1,745 foot seconds, and gave penetrations of less than three' inches. A capped shell was fired later at the same plate with 1,633-foot seconds, striking velocity, and got its' point into the plate not more than three inches, in dicating a quality of plate that wi resist either the capped or uncapped projectile. Quiet on Isthmus. The Navy Department received thf following cablegram from Rear Admiral Casey, dated Panama: "Your di.spatch has been received. Owing to the recent changed conditions my presence here not necessary. Leave in about one week. Government forces now on line of the railroad and reinforce ments expected soon. Think govern ment will be able to insure a free transit and to permit withdrawal of the train guards and embarkation of marines soon. Panther to remain here until relieved by a vessel sent to Colon or Panama." Pay ol Enlisted Officers. The Adjutant-General has warned company and detachment commanders of the army that under a decision of the Comptroller of the Currency soldiers who are detained in the service after the expiration of their terms of enlistment are to be paid only on the basis of third year's pay and not to increased pay on account of fourth year's service. Elaborate Views on Foreign Armies. The officers who recently were in Europe observing the German Army maneuvers arc preparing an elaborate re port of all their observations not only as to the German Army, but as to the armies of other countries they visited. The report will not be ready for some weeks. To Build Government Structure. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor awarded to W. O. and C. G. Bar ton, of St. Ixuu's, the contract for the erection of the Government building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be completed January 1, 1904. 'llie con tract price is $o8,;Ho. Items ol Interest The Pennsylvania filed with the Inter state Commerce Commission its answer to the charge of discrimination in its rates for carrying anthracite. The answer denies the charge. Commissioner General Sargent, who is now in San Francisco, has been di rected to investigate the Universal Brotherhood School in connection with the case of the Cuban children. Mr. Cromwell, counsel for the Pana ma Canal Company, conferred, with Secretary Hay with reference to the next step for transferring the property to the United States Government. An autopsy made by Deputy Coroner Glazebrook r.liowed that Miss I ouise Hoge, who had been treated by the Chris, tian Science healer, had died from pneu monia and not from typhoid fever, which she was supposed to have had. ' THE COAL STRIKE COURT President Mitchell Averse (0 Being "Put Out of Business." HE THINKS $600 A YEAR FAIR PAY. Attorneys Think Some Arrangement Will Have to be Agreed Upon to Expedite the Pto ceedlngs Non-Union Miners Must State Their Exact Position Mr. Mitchell Subject ed to Cross-Examlnation by the Attorneys. Scranton, Ta. (Special). President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of America, was again the wit ness of the day before-the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. For hours he was subjected to a cross-examination by the attorneys for the mineowners. In the course of his testimony Mr. Mitchell said he regarded $600 a year as the low est wage that would permit a miner to send all his children to school and do away with child labor. Attorneys think some arrangement will have to be agreed upon to expedite the proceedings. The miners have a large number of witnesses to be heard, and the attorneys for each of the coal companies are anxious to cross-examine them. After the miners have close ! their case the companies will also present a long line of persons to testify, and it is the intention of the lawyers on the miners' side to croiss-examine the witnesses for the companies. At the opening of the session Chair man Gray, for the commission, addressed John T. Lenehan, one of the attorneys for the non-union men. Mr. Lenehan said he wanted to know what would be the status of the. non-union men before the commission. Chairman Gray said: "The commission has considered the matter of your application and has de cided that it will ask you to submit to it a statement showing whom you repre sent, by 'what authority, what points other than tholse already at issue between the formal parties to this controversy you wish to inject into this hearing and a concise statement of what you claim or what your position is in regard to the general propositions between the formal and logical parties to this commission, and also state that you guarantee sub mission to the award of this commis sion." WILL RESIST DEMANDS. The Mine Operators will Not Recognize tbe Workers' Union. Washington, D. C. (Special). That the anthracite coal mine operators will resist to the utmost every effort to make recognition of the United Mine Work ers of America an issue in the arbitra tion which is now in progress is made evident by the replies to the statement of president John Mitchell, of the miners organization, which have been filed with the strike commission. There are five of these answers in addition to that of President Baer, and all dwell with es pecial emphasis and marked unanimity on this point. They also agree in re sisting the demands of the miners for an increase of pay for piecework, a re duction of hours for timework and for the weighing rather than the measure ment of coal. In addition to the statement made for the Reading Company by President Baer, the list comprises the replies of the Delaware and Hudson Company, the Delaware and Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania and the Scran ton Coal Company. 1 he reply for the Delaware and Lackawanna Company to President Mitchell's statement is signed by W. H. Trucsdale, president of the company, who says that the company owns is anthracite collieries and employs 12,000 jvim-ii in mis iiraucn 01 its business. Mr. Trucsdale. like Mr. Baer. obiects to making the recognition of the union one of the issues to be considered by the commission, saving that in the proposi tion made by the company for arbitra tion one of the express conditions was that "the findings of the commission should govern the. conditions of employ ment between it and its employes." He adds: "This company unequivo cally asserts that it will under no con dition recognize or enter into any agree ment with the association known as the United Mine Workers of America or any branch thereof. Nor will it permit said association or its officers to dictate the terms and conditions under which it shall conduct its business." Has Right to Bury Wife Alive. Emporia, Kan. (Special). Judge Mad den, in the district court decided that a man had the right to bury his wife alive. The city asked for an injunction to pro hibit a "professor" giving an exhibition of hypnotism by burying his wife under ground and leaving her buried six days. The city claimed the exhibition endan gered life. The hypnotist claimed the city had no right to draw a distinction against this kind of exhibition. 13 Drowned on Way From Nortolk. St. Michael, Azotes (By Cable). The Norwegian ship Tclcfon, Captain Thorscn, which left Norfolk, Va., Oc tober 21 for Cardiff. Enghnd, has been abandoned. Thirteen of her crew were drowned, including all the offi cers. The survivors were landed here ; by the steamer arheld. Conductor Killed by a Grocer, Greenville, S. C. (Special). John Stevens, conductor on the Southern railroad, running between Greenville and Spencer, N. C, was shot and kill ed by B. F. Rush, a former grocer of this city, at the Southern depot as the result of a quarrel. Rush surrendered. Attcr More Bnodlcrs. St. Louis (Special). Circuit Attor ney Folk, who has returned from Co lumbia, Mo., where he prosecuted the case against Col. Ed Butler, who was convicted of attempted bribery, is pre paring for the trial of other alleged bnodlcrs next week. The cases against Charles A. Gutkc, T. Ed Albright, Adolph Madera, Charles J. Denny. Emit Hartman, John A. Sheridan ami Julius Lehmann. former delegates, on the charge of bribery in connection with the .Suburban Street Railway franchise deal, are docketed for trial tomorrow. Gave His Life lu Save Flog. San Francisco, Cal. (Special). John Nystrom, a Swedish sailor on the United States Army transport Sumner, sacri ficed his life, while attempting to save an American flag which had been torn by a gust of wind from the stern of the vessel's steam laui.ch. He plunged into the water and secured the banner, but was caught by the strong ebb tide and drowned . The Earl of Shaftsbnry was elected commodore of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, succeeding the late Marquis of Dnfferin. FOUR KILLED, FORTY INJURED. Explosion of a Big Boiler at An Iron Works Eyes Burned Out. Lebanon, Pa, (Special). The explo sion of a large boiler in scrap-puddle furnace No. 3, at the west works of the American Iron and Steel Manufactur ing Company's plant, caused the death of four workmen, and. about 40 others were more or less seriously injured. , The calamity is the worst that ever occurred in Lebanon, The boiler ex ploded without warning and in an in stant the entire place was black with death-dealing debris. The wreck and ruin of the nine immediate puddle fur naces was complete. Thousands of persons were attracted to the scene, and weeping women and children crowded bout the place, mak ing frantic efforts to obtain tidings of their loved ones. The excitement was so intense, however, that considerable time elapsed before any information could be given them. Physicians were called from every quarter of the city nnd the hospital ambulances and other vehicles were hurried into service. The offices of the works were at once con s cried into a hospital and a corps ol nurses from the Good Samaritan Hos pital were brought to the place. Into this temporary hospital the maimed and scalded workmen were carried arid given attention. Some have their eyes burned out, others their hands blown off. Many of the injured cannot live. It is not known whether ihc explo sion was due to defects in the boiler ot not. The boiler, which was of 200 horsepower, broke squarely in half, one part sailing through the machinery and woodwork of the mill. BOGOTA'S FIRST ACTION. One American Killed and One Injured Alan; Rebels Killed. Panama (By Cable). The first American blood spilt as a result of the Colombian revolution was poured out Wednesday. The reorganized Colombian fleet, on board of which arc many Americans, captured a boat having on board cor respondence showing the whereabouts of two revolutionary schooners loaded with provisions. The Government warships headed for the place, and on arriving there the Bogota formerly the Jessie Banning manned by an American crew and commanded by Captain Marmaduke,. lowered two boats with armed men." As the schoon ers were aground, they waited until high tide to attack them. In the mean while revolutionists were discovered in ambush close to the beach. When the Bogota's boats pulled ahead the second time the rebels open ed fire on them, killing the ship's ar morer, Richard Kane, of Washington, and wounding George Walker, who was shot through the legs. A seaman named Clark and Lieutenant Vasqucz were also wounded, but not seriously. The Bogota and Chucito then open ed fire on the enemy and killed every man in sight. One shot fired at a group of 10 rebels who were most ac tively engaged in shooting at the boats' crews killed every one of them. Gunner Cross, of the Bogota, thinks mat irom 40 to 50 rebels were killed. One of the schooners, the Helvetia loaded with rice, was captured. The tirst shot at the second schooner set her on fire and she was destroyed with her cargo. The body of Kane will be buried here with military honors. "R. Kain" has been mentioned in dis patches as being one of the crew of the Bogota. It has also been said that he totight under Dewey at the battle of .Manna. uunner j. cross, otMhc Hognta, is from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is only 17 years ot age. c Minister Hunt Resigns, .. Washington, D. C. (Special). W. Godfrey Hunter has tendered his resig nation as United States Minister to Guatemala. The President has accepted the resignation and has selected Leslie Combes, at present United States pen sion agent at Louisville, to succeed Dr. Hunter as .Minister at Guatemala City, Dr. Hunter also is Minister to Hon duras, and Mr. Combes will likewise assume that post. Dr. Hunter has had a stormy career in Central America ever since he went there in 1897. ODDS AND ENDS OP TUB LATEST NEWS. The Hamburg-American liner Dcutsch land limped into port at New York, hay. ing disabled her starboard enizine. The Anthracite Strike Commission is ready to begin the hearing of testimony ai .-scranton, ra,. to-uav. The Bankers' Convention in New Or leans, after electing officers for the ensu ing year, adiourncd sine die. I he I uited States Philippine Cnmnm. sion has passed a stringent law for the suppression ot ladronism. Mrs. Helen Costello, of Buffalo, was rescued from the brink of the American rails at Niagara. Many plants of the American Tin plate Company that have been idle arc now starting up. Governor Odell, of New York, de clared himself in favor of Senator Piatt's re-election. Chinese newspapers state that the withdrawal ol the Kntish and German troops from Shanghai to ether points in cnina is a menace to tne independ ence of the Yangtse Valley. The German Reichstag adopted the paragraph 01 the new J aritt bill author. using inc government to retaliate on any country discriminating against uerman goous. Sicilian police, while hunting a no torious brigand, arrested a number of doctors and lawyers, and a rich land owner shot one policeman and wound ed another. The Italian ambassador at Washing tion has been instructed by his gov ernment to lend all possible aid to Sig nor Mascagni, the composer, in his difficulties. . A hitch has occurred in Premier Sa gasta's efforts to form a new ministry. Vice Governor Wright, of the Phil ippines, in an interview says that fot the benefit of commerce a bill for the relief of the money market in tfic arch ipelago should be passed by Congress The hearing of the suit of the UnitcJ States against the Northern Securities Company was continued in New York city. The presentation of the defend ant s side was begun. Cholera has made its appearance among the troops in the Philippines, seven men of the Fifth Infantry hav ing already died from it. Commissioner of Education Lindsay, of Porto Rico, declares that the storiej of election riots 011 the island were exaggerated. William Mcffitt, said to have been a ghoul for 25 years, was arrested in Indianapolis on the charge of grave robbing. The Colombian cruiser Bogoto, manned by Americans, got into a tight with ambushed rebels and killed e nutn beY One American was killed and one "'oiiiidcd. THE KEYSTONE STATE. Nawi Happenings of Interest Gathered From All Sourcea. ' Patents granted: George W. Blair, Pittsburg, apparatus for finishing glasi articles: John A. Bridge, Wall Station, rail joint; George H. Clark, Pittsburg skirt attachment; Edward A. Cowles! Franklin, bit; H. C. Cooper, Oil City! boiler; James H. Danver, Pittsburgh washstand, basin and sink ; William Ferguson, Pittsburg, collar and necktie fastener; Jesse A. Heidrick, Butler, scale; George W. Kramer, Oil City, axle support: Charles Kttdrer, Alle gheny, apparatus for ventilating mines; Thaddeus S. Leese. Bcllvue, gas lamp; John R. Long. Warren, bench ice; William Maxwell. Pittsburg, can op ener; Olive M. Mowat, McKeesport, drill and lathe chuck; Jacob Pack, Mc Keesport, wrench; Jacob Schtnncller, Pittsburg, cash register; William R, W.. H. E. M. and D. J. L. Stciner, Braddock, device for detaching and re moving horses from their stalls in case of fire; Francis H. Vollcry, Alleghany, Pensions granted: Isaac Fox, Cribbs, $17; Daniel B. Sullivan, New Kensington, $6; Alfred M. Gorley, Uniontown, $12; Samuel K. Johnson, Millrun, $12: Edward P. Sweet, Mo naca. $30; John T. Bond, Sandy Lake, ?8: Henry Sherman, Lcwiston, $10; Marshall B. Wheeler, Towanda, $24; James B. Harris, Huntingdon, $12; Andrew J. Tissue, Hopwood, $12; New ton Numbowcr, Sunset, $10: James L. Letizell, Spring Mills, $12; Henry Gor don, Bellefonte. $12; David Wilcox, Mansfield, $24: Mary J. Biddle, West Elizabeth. $8; Mary Linn. Lamartine, $8; Elizabeth Bolster, Mcadvillc, $8; Sarah Culler, Burnham, $12; Mary A. Young, Scwicfclry, $12; Mary Lance, Hanlin station, $8; Christine Marshall, Allegheny, $8; J. M. Jones, Franklin dale, $17; Christian Glockler. Richfield, fti: John Hepfer, Wormlcysburg, $8; William H. Alinshowcr, Cookport, $12; Simon Dunmire, West Lebanon, $10; Samuel Sullivan. Monongahela. $10; Thomas Hall. Worthville. $17; Charles F. Heichcel. Blanchard. $8; Bernard J. Delaney. Coupon, $10: William S. Taylor, Mercer, $50: minor of Malon S. Clenvelahd, Mansfield, $10; Lana Coats, Coudersport, $8. The postoflice at Falls Creek, recent ly removed from its old location, where it was robbed three times, starts out with no promise of a change of luck. Saturday night the office was entered and robbed of $160 in cash, a quantity of stamps and a number of registered letters. There is no clue. The Post office Department has offered a reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties. A singular fact in connection with the latest robbery is that the safe was not blown open, but was opened by means of the com bination. The official returns of the recent elec tion, just compiled at the State De partment, show that Pennypacket (Rep.) had a plurality over Pattison (Dem.) of 156,410. The vote of the' candidates follows: Govenor, Penny packer (Rep.), 592.867; Pattison (Dem.). 436.457- Lieutenant-Governor, Brown (Rep.). 605.508; Guthrie (Dem.), 410.985. Secretary of Internal Affairs, Brown (Rep.), 614,001; Nolan (Dem.). 306.788. F'ire which had its origin in a stable in the rear of Frank O'Neill's liquor store. Beaver Falls, destroyed that structure, the residences of Philip Ar thurs and Samuel Saunders, and a large warehouse adjoining the liquor store. The fire was in a thickly settled dis trict and for a time the flames threat ened to spread. The loss will reach f8.ooo, partially covered by insurance. Grading was begun on the extension of the New York Central from Burn side to Cherrytree. The road will fol low the west bank of the Susquehanna river and will connect with the Penn sylvania railroad at Cherrytree. The contract calls for the completion of the line by June, 1903. Mrs. Franklin Hewitt, an aged resi dent of Pcnfield, died after a protracted illness. A husband and three children survive. Msg. Louis Simbeck and James Corbley, two well-known resi-' d'.nts of Helvetia, arc also dead. A north-bound passenger train on the . Allegheny Valley railroad collided with a freight -in the dense fog which hung over Rosston. Fifteen cars of the freight were wrecked, completely blocking the tracks. The passenger train was not badly damaged, and none was injured. Thomas Anderson, aged 62, . was struck by a train at Anderson station, and instantly killed. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Sharon scored the City Coun cil for working on the Sabbath. It reached the cars of the woencn that the members of the Council had located a switch for the street railway company on Sunday, and a committee was ap pointed to wait on the Council at its meeting. The cotincilnien promised to be good and refrain from their official dv.ties on Sundays in the future. II. D. Harvey, the defaulting cashier ' of the Derry Coal and Cok Company, pleaded guilty at Greensburg and was sentenced to the Huntingdon reforma tory. Patrick .Delaney, of Hollidaysbitrg, charged with having poisoned a neigh bor's live stock, was held for court. Murrysville capitalists have organ ized a company for the building ot a street railway from Trafford citv to Murrysville. The board of directors of the Altoona hospital has named .1 committee to ap pear before the board of State chari ties asking an increase in appropriation tor next year. J. C. Lang was appointed warden ot the Blair county jail at Nollidaysburg over 15 other applicants. The "coimlv commissioners balloted for 20 days be fore arriving at a choice. In presence of his little 6-vear-old sister, who stood powerless to help him, Michael Lombardi fell into Stony Creek, near Norristown, and was drowned. When the little girl realized that her brother had sunk never to re appear alive she .summoned help. Dr. John O'Malley, a member-of the School Board, of Scranton, is endeav oring to- abolish clay modeling from the schools on thcjjround that it i unsanitary. 1 he State Board of Commissioners of Public Charities, in a report, recom mended many relorms lor enactment by the Legislature. What are believed to have been pro fessional eracksnien made a raid on the . post office at New Holland. Tbe safe was wrecked with dynamite and $.s4 ' rash and $69 worth of postage stump were taken. A pastor ' of two Presbyterian . churches in Armstrong county was sued for $10,000 damages for breach promise of marriage by a young wo man. 1 The Eastern Steel Company, a riva f the Steel Trust, put its plant a' Pottsville in operation. 1 he f ittsburg Presbytery postpoiiec sction on revision of faith after a wai"11 discussion.
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