THOMAS R REED DEAD ExSpeaker of Honse Expire at Arling ton Hotel, WiKhinrloo. WAS ILL LESS THAN FIVE DAYS. Aatfcor M The Rale Wbkk Bear flit Nim Aad Wkkh flirt Aatocralk Power To The Speaker Froa Fenaer'n So To A Mlfaty Power la Shaping of Oar Legls brio. Washington. O- C, '(Special) Ex Speaker of the National House of Repre sentatives Thomas Braokctt Reed, of Maine, died at 12.10 oclock Sunday morning at the Arlington Hotel, where lie was stricken suddenly on Tuesday night with what was believed to be acute gastritis. Mr. Reed's condition lecame worse Saturday nurnirg, when signs of blood poisoning reappeared. On Friday night he was attacked with nausea, which was taken as a svmptom that Bright' disease had dc. doped, and all of Saturday he was in a condition which hi physicians knew meant an early dissolution. At timej Mr. Reec. spuk.1 and seemed to be in a cheerful frame of mind but it was easily seen that deatn was approaching. At midnight a consultation was held, participated in by Drs. Gardner, Mc Donald, Bishop and Goodnow, the latter being called as an expert consultant from Philadelphia. At the conclusion of the consultation Dr. Gardner announced that a complete condition of uraemia was found to exist and that Bright" disease had developed as the latest complication. It was then decided that the case was hopeless anil that death was a matter of minutes only. Mr. Reed reached Washington Novem ber 30. having come to attend to some matters in the I'mted States Supreme Court. He was at the Capitol Monday visiting with friends and former asso ciates in Congress and witnessed the con vening of the second session of the Fifty seventh Congress. Apparently he was enjoying good health, but later in the day he called on Dr. F. A. Gardner and complained of gastric distress. The following day his physician com pelled him to remain in bed while a diag" nosis was made of his condition. Mr. Reed was strongly averse to staying in bed, but a rise in temperature made it imperative that he remain quiet. Symp toms of appendicitis appeared, though his condition was not considered as alarming. A trained nurse remained with him throughout Tuesday night, and the patient showed signs of improvement. Mrs. Reed and daughter, Miss Kittie, arrived Wednesday and remained with Mr. Reed at the Arlington Hotel since. On Thursday the pnysicians announced that the appendical symptoms were abat ing, but that kidney trouble had dc- velopcd, giving a more serious aspect to the case. Dr. fioodnow' was summoned from Philadelphia for consultation. Creator ol Reed Rules. Thomas B. Reed was conspicuous in the National House of Representatives during four Congresses, in three of which the Fifty-first, the Fifty-fourth and the Fifty-fifth he was Speaker. Nature made him conspicuous by reason of his ample proportions, and his service as presiding officer gave him a place in history as the creator of the so-called Reed rules, which even to-day guide the deliberations of the House, and which won for him the titles of "Czar" and "Aatocrat." He was born on October 18, 18.50, in Portland, Me., in a house which yet re . mains as one of the "show places" of that city. In the corner of the right angle formed by Hancock and Middle streets are the houses in which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Thomas Bracket! Reed first saw the light of day, and in the same smiare is the site of the first building erected in Maine, the dwel ling of George Clecve, the first white settler of Portland, and the grandfather seven generations removed 01 the late Speaker. KILLED BY PRACTICAL JOKE. A Boy's Stomach Blown L'p With Fatal Results. New York (Special). Harry Ruit, an employe of a locomotive works in Pater son, N. " died as a result of a practical joke played on him by five of his fellow enrployes. They were arrested charged with causing his death. It is alleged that they "blew up" Ruit with a pneumatic air pump having a pressure of no pounds to the inch. The boy's stomach became greatly distended, and after several hours of great suffering he died. When the men accused of having caused Ruit's death were arraigned in court in Paterson the dead boy's friiher rushed at one of them, named Dorn, knocked him down and started to kick him. The father was restrained by the court officers. The accused men were held without bail on a charge of man slaughter. Dr. Cutlcs, Composer, Dead. Swampscott, Mass. (Special). Dr. Henry S. Cutler, composer and musical conductor, credited with introducing vested male choirs in this country, died here. Dr. Cutler formerly was organist and choirmaster of Trinity Church, in New York city. When the Prince of Wales, now King Edward VII., visited this country in 1X00, Dr. Cutler con ceived the idea of having a vested choir in Trinity, similar to those in the Eng lish churches, because the Prince of Wales had decided to attend the service there. The idea was at once taken up in this country and became general. Dr. Cutler's setting to the hymn, "The Son of God Goes Forth to War," is the best known of his compositions. All the Dead Were lasured. St Louis, Mo. (Special). Deputy Coroner Boogher. in an official statement made, declared that the result of the in- quest held over the body of Mrs, Kate Smith, whose death was the sixth oc- ' oinn during the last 11 months of per sons nearly related revealed the fact that all of the dead, exceot a baby, had been insured. Nearlv all of the six persons , died suddenly. The fact that they were insured and that they all exhibited simi lar symptoms caused the inquest to be held. His Brother Traitor. Chicago (Special). E. W. Reitz, former secretary ol the Transvaal, said that the man whom Gen. Christian de Wet had in mind when he denounced n his book, some of the Boers as trai ' tors, was his own brother. 1'iet de Wet. "I want the people of this country to know this," he said. "Piet de Wet turn ed traitor, receiving a commission in the English Army and led British troops against his kindred in the last days of the war. If the brothers ever meet Gen. Christian de Wet will kill Viet.- SUMMARY ' OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic The Canadian Pacific fast express, which lift Halifax fur St. John anil Montreal, was wrecked on the Inter colonial Railway near Itelniont Station. Four persons were killed and seven passengers and one brakeman injured. Swift & Armour have acquired the stock oi the L'nion Depot, Bridge and Tc'ininal Company, which own valu able terminals and hundreds of acres of land on the Missouri Kivcr at Kan sas City, Mo. The reckless running of a racing au tomobile is responsible (or probably fatal injuries to a park police. nan in Chicago and the death of two horses. The ' Fort Payne Hank, of Port Payne, the oldest bank in DcKalb county. Ala., capitalized at $50,000, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. At the Delaware Breakwater the schooner Virginia Kulon was blown on the rocks and sunk. The crew of six men was taken off and lauded by the Lewes (Del. I life-savers. Fred A. Smith, proprietor of the burned Lincoln Hotel, in Chicago, in which 14 lost their lives, and Night Clerk Weber were arraigned on a charge of manslaughter. Investigation has shown that the ex plosion on the steamer Progreso at S.m Francisco, which cost 14 lives, was due to the poor .nudity of oil furnished. George Sherverton, a driver of an ex press wagon in Philadelphia, becoming confused by the snow, drove his team into a trolley car and was killed. The schooner Wesley M. Oler went ashore at Ocracoke, N. C. during the storm and went to nieces. Her crew is believed to have been lost. Dr. Henry S. Cutler, composer and musical conductor, who introduced ves ted male choirs in this country, died at Swampscott, Mass. The two-master Flo F. Madder was wrecked off Gloucester, Mass., and the captain and crew were saved by the lite saving crew. President Harriman, of the Southern Pacific Railroad, has established a sys tem for pensioning old employes of the company. George Bear, the Indian convicted of murdering his sciuaw, was hanged in Sioux Falls, S. D. He behaved with great stoicism. James Sullivan and a man named IV Kibbis were killed in a suowslidc near Baker City. Ore. George Dickinson, the Philadelphia robber, was seuteifccd to 15 years in the penitentiary. Three men robbed about ,15 who were rambling at the Eagle Club, in Pocatcllo, Idaho. Dickinson Hall, at Princeton Univer sity, caught tire and was saved by a bucket brigade. I he gale blew down a w all in Allen town. Pa., and two men received fatal injuries. The prices of California nuts have been advanced. Jacob Ansbach, a fireman, employed in the Hazleton region, testified before the strike commission that on every other Sunday he was required to work 24 hours without relief. The Rev. Jas. Y. Hussie, a Catholic priest, told the commission that the conditions among the miners in that region were deplor able. Zero weather prevails in Northern Kansas. Rain and snow fell in the South. The Red river, in Louisiana, is rising, and a number of families on the bottomlands have been forced to leave their homes. Grand Master Morrissey. of the Brotherhood of Railwav Trainmen, is sued a statement that there. is a move ment afoot for the federation ol rail way labor organization, with a view of making a combined demand for higher wages. Foreign. Emperor William, in an address to a delegation of workingmen at Breslau, Prussia, declared it was a lie that work men had to rely upon the socialist party for a betterment of their position. The British Board of Agriculture will remove the embargo on cattle from New England ports soon as the American De partment of Agriculture considers that the outbreak is suppressed. The British ship Leicester Castle ar rived at Queenstown from San Fran cisco. Her captain reported that three American seamen had mutinied and shot the second officer dead. Premier Combs announced to the French Cabinet that he had suspended the salaries of the Archbishop of Besan con and of the Bishops of Orleans and Seez. The rebel Indian leader, Victorian Lo renzo, in Colombia, w ho is held respon sible for many crimes, has been forced to give tin his arms and is now a pris oner. Emperor William. has appeared in the role of a bandmaster, having led the band of the Cuirassier Regiment in a profes sional style. Severe cold prevails throughout the British Islands and in Eurone. Gales and heavy seas interfere with the chan nel traffic. The Pope has approved Archbishop Chancllc's suggestions for the religious administration of Cuba and Porto Rico. United Slates Ambassador Choatc left London with his wiTc anil daughter for a tour of Eirvpt. T..e French Chamber of Deputies ad opted the new sugar law. A revolutionary movement is threaten ed in Honduras. A general strike has been ordered at Amsterdam by the dockers' union. The French Chamber of Deputies rat ified an additional monetary convention of France, Italy, Belgium and Switzer land autlvorizing each country to issue additional silver coins to the value of $2,500,000. The note of President Castro present ed to the German minister at Caracas is deemed inadequate by the German government, and it is likely an ulti matum will be presented to Venezuela in a few days. Financial. Morgan has been absorbing steel stocks. American Snuff has gone upon a 10 per cent, basis. Hard work for Baltimore & Ohio to keep above par. There are above ground and unsold 135.000 tons ol copper. New York banks are losing about $500,000 daily through Subtreasury transactions. Standard Oil has raised the price of Pennsylvania crude 3 cents, making it $1.45 a barret. Great Britain's wheat crop is now reported at 56,676,000 bushels against 52,457,000 last year. The Boston & Philadelphia Steam ship Company has declared a quarterly dividend of 1 1-3 per cent. The rule to sell Sugar when above 120 and buy it back below that figure has recently worked well. Boston & Albany hands out quar terly dividend of $2, and an extra divi dend of 25 cents a share. St. Paul follows Atchison and Union Pacific in reporting for October the largest gross earnings in its history. There was an advance in net (or St. Paul of $204,000. BIG CHICAGO HOTEL FIRE Fourteen Victim Perish la the Lincoln Hotel. THRILLINQ RESCUES AND ESCAPES. Thirteen of Those W ho Lost Their Lives Were StHlcd While Lying la Their Beds One Was Tskcn From The Building Before Life Was Extinct, Bui Died In the Ambulance on the Way Is the .Nearest Hospital. Chicago (Special). Fourteen men met death by suffocation in a fire which oc curred at 6 o'clock in the Lincoln Hotel, l"6 Madison street. Thirteen of those who lost their lives were stifled while lying in their beds. One was taken from the building liefore life was extinct, but died in the ambulance on the way to the nearest hospital. Coroner Tracer, after inspecting the building, united with Fire Chief Musham in declaring that the building was a veri table trap and never should have been used for hotel purposes. Chief Musham declared that there were such wide cracks in the Doors that the smoke poured through the building in clouds, rendering escape extremely difficult for those on the upper floors. There was no fire-escape on the front of the building, although one was in process of construction. I he scaffolding was ni), and from it dangled several ropes, down which a number of people slid to the pavement, after all escape by the stairway had been cut off. j Heath came suddenly to a few, but I with awful slowness to others, who were I penned in the death trap and suffocated or Jiurncd to death. Some died in their rooms, some risked their lives in jump I ing, and lost, while others were found in 1 the hallways, where they had expired with their fingers dug into the cracks of the floor. I All of the bodies were recovered, as I the hotel was not destroyed. I The building was a lire 'trap of the j worst kind, according to experts. There j were but two exits a narrow stairway ; leading down the four floors of the bnild ': ing and an uncompleted lire escape in the 1 rear. i The hotel was four stories in height ; and contained an unusual numlier of 1 rooms for a hotel of its size. After the j fire Chiew Musham, of the fire depart- ment. declared that the rooms were the j smallest he had ever seen in anv httild- ing. Had there been fewer nartitions, he declared, the chances of life for these j sleeping on the miner floors of the hotel ! would have been greatly increased. ! F. A. Smith, --oprietor of the hotel, I declared that there were, as nearly as he could jmle without his books, about 125 people in the hotel. It was, in fact, filled to its utmost canacity, and many appli cants for rooms were turned away last nipht with the information that they could not be accommodated. . LIVES LOST IN A FURIOUS STORM. Vessels Wrecked, Wires Crippled and Roads Blocked. Baltimore. Md. (Special). The storm from the Gulf that started with heavy rains in Louisiana turned to snow and sleet as it swept up the coast, and de veloped in blizzard proportions in Vir ginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania. Dela ware, New York and New England. Along the coast the wind blew a hurri cane, and several vessels were wreck ed. A dozen or more lives were lost. Tw-o disasters occurred off Ocracoke, NT. C. The big schooner Wesley M. Oler foundered during the storm and went to pieces. It is believed all of her crew of 10 men have perished. The three-master Ida Lawrence lost her rudder in the same vicinity. Her crew abandoned her and were rescued by the Creed life-saving crew. The three-master Virginia Rulon sunk at Assateague, Va. Her crew were taken off by the Assateague life savers. '1 he fall of snow in many places was unusual for this early in the winter. Trains were delayed on the railroads and the telegraph service for a time crippled. During the height of the storm in Philadelphia George Chiderton drove an express wagon into a trolley car and was killed. The snow fell to a depih of eight inches in the anthracite region, but the mining of coal was not interfered with. The fast mail 011 the Delaware and Lackawanna Road was caught in the meshes of telegraph wires blown across the track on the Jersey Meadows, and was blocked for three hours. Plaything Killed Child. Columbia, S. C. (Special)..!, P. Roache, living near Woodruff, found a queer looking thing in the road near his house a year ago. He gave it to his little girls to play with. They amused themselves rolling it about and whiled away many an hour with the toy. Saturday they decided to "see what was in it." The eldest, 8 years old, took it into the yard ami was fol lowed by tots of 5 anil x She put it on a rock and hammered it with an other stone. The plaything was a rail road torpedo. Its explosion instantly killed the eldest child and prabably fa tally maimed the others. Georgia Town Terrorired. Nicholas, Ga. (Special). Lee Cribb, a white man, ran amuck here, killing Mar shal Holton and seriously wounding a boy, the engineer of a train and a mer chant named Hart. Cribb was captured after much difficulty. There was, talk of lynching, but the man was hurried off to the jail at Dougles. No reason is as signed for his murderous craze. Accused ol Sixty Robberies. Philadelphia (Special). Geo. Dick inson, alias Westcott. the burglar, who was arrested about 10 days ago after a desperate fight with a policeman and who was discovered by detectives to be a robber by night and business man by day. was tried and convicted and sen tenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. The police accused Dickinson of nearlv 60 robberies, but could secure legal evi dence in but 2S cases. It is said near ly $10,000 worth of Dickinson's loot was recovered by the police. Inventor Arrested. Chicago (Special). Joseph Patson, inventor, creator ol men of wealth, who ten years ago was worth $200,000 and employed 1200 men, was up in Police Court here for theft of $50 worth of goods, with whirii to buy whisky. Clay ton Mark, president of the Malleable Iron Works, said he once worked lor the prisoner and the story was true. "He invented the first high wheel bi cycle, the chain bicycle and link belt," said Mark. Whisky has been the ruin ation of my life," said Patson. The charge was dismissed. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Iron and Steel Imports. The import figures of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics show that the im portations of iron and steel manufactures in the 10 months ended with October, li)02, are double those of last year and three times as much as those "of lH)8, and arc larger than in any year since lHot. The total value of iron and sterl manu factures imported in the 10 months ended with Octolier. 1002. js $.17,087,056, against $6..140,427 in the same months of last year, and $10,5.11.000 in the correspond ing months of 1808. In practically every class of articles the figures of the year just ended are larger, both in quantity and value, than those of last year, and in many cases the figures are more than double those of last jear. Tig iron, for example, has increased from $.to,,l.lO tons in 10 months of 1901 to 406.610 tons in 10 months of 1002: bar iron has in creased from .18,2.1.1,515 pounds in 10 months of kjoi to 51,5,16.822 pounds in to months of 1002; ingots, blooms, bil lets, etc., have increased from 14.9t.617 pounds in 10 months of la- t year to 407. .(04,854 pounds in 10 months of the pres ent year. More Annapolis Middies. The House Committee on Naval Af fairs has taken up the question of an in crease in the number of mids.iiptr.cn at the Naval Academy. There seems to be a ger.eral sentiment among members of the committee that there- should be such an increase, and it is probable that the naval bill to be re ported will so provide, although the ex act augmental ion to be made is not yet decided on. The committee at a meeting instructed the subcommittee on rank, pay and organization to report on the ques tion. One proposition suggested, and which seemingly meets with approval, provides for an increase of too per cent, in the present number of midshipmen. It is not certain, however, that this will be adopted. No Danger of a Moro Outbreak. The War Department has received the following cablegram from General Davis, commanding the Department of the Philippines, dated Manila: "Capt. John J. Pershing has crossed lake with boats borrowed from the Mo ros. visited Iligan, returning by the same route. Met with friendly recep tion everywhere. Present p:i-Ue pol icy of armed strength executed by wise commanders should make further" fight ing unnecessary. "No danger of Moro war. Report ; as to their .strength greatly overstated. Captain Pershing located Spanish gun boats; will investigate raising." Opening of St. Louis Fair. Former Senators Thomas H. Car ter, of Montana, and John M. Thurs ton, of Nebraska, of the Government Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, discussed with the Presi dent preliminary arrangements for the opening of the Exposition April 30 next. 'The President desires to so arrange his plans to enable him to attend these ceremonies. He expects, about that time, to make an extensive tour of the West and Northwest, and it is his pres ent purpose to time that trip so that he may be in St. Louis when the Ex position is opened formally. Bullet Narrowly Missed. Connressmnn J. M. Mood" represent ing the Ninth district of North Carolina, had a narrow escape from being shot at 2 a. m. soon after his train crossed the Virginia border. Some person fired at the passenger train with a 38-calibcr revolver. The bullet crashed through the double win dows of the sleeping car in which Mr. Moody was traveling, ranged upward in a line less than two inches above his head and struck the woodwork of the opposite berth, which hapnened to be empty. It rebounded and fell to the floor, where it was found and picked up several hours later by the porter. Bacteria by the Million. Twelve million bacteria inhabit the skins of a half pound of cherries, ac cording to Dr. Ehrlich, German scien tist, who has made extensive experiments in regard to the infection of fruit with bacteria. Currants come next, with 1,000.000 to every half pound, and grapes next, with 8,000,000. An account of these experi ments has been transmitted to the State Department by United States Consular Clerk Murphy at Frankford. Dr. Ehr lich urges that all fruit be cleansed by either peeling or washing before it is eaten. Anti-Trust Legislation. Representative Charles E. Little field's subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the House, which has been charged with the consideration of all proposed anti-trust legislation, held its first meeting and there was a gen eral discussion of the subject. All bills which may be introduced while the question is before the com mittee will be referred to this subcom mittee, as well as all pending bills. Barrett to Be Minister. At the White House it was said that President Roosevelt will nominate Mr. John Barrett, of Oregon, to be Minis ter to Japan. The appointment will be made to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Alfred E. Buck, which suddenly of pa ralysis of the heart while hunting ducks with the Emperor of Japan on the Im perial preserves, near Tokyo. Would This Check Suicides? A bill introduced by Representative John J, Jenkins, of Wisconsin, by re- flllfsl. makes !l(A'r,:inirc nr rlir nri. odirals unmailablc which contain any pictures of suicides or details relating to suicides beyond a simple statement of death by suicide, and imposing a penalty. With the Lawmakers. The It Cuban children held at New York by the immigration authorities pending an investigation of the Univer sal Brotherhood School, in California, were ordered to be released. - The House Committee on Insular Affairs reported the Philippine Con stabulary Bill, provides that army of ficers shall be detailed as chief and as sistant chief. In the House Mr. Wachter argued in favor of the bill to prevent the army and navy band from competing with civilian bands. Richard C. Parsons, second secretary of the Embassy of the United States at Home, submitted his resignation to President Roosevelt. Arthur Ferguson, secretary of the Philippine Commission, stated that Judge Taft is beloved by the Filipinos. Alfredo Baquerize Moreno has been apoiuted minister to the United States from Ecuador. The House passed the Pension Ap propriation Bill without debate. The War Department issued an order whereby 15 Philippine regiments are to change places with the same number of troops now in the United States. m DIES JT GUAYAQUIL Cartoonist Thomas Nast Victim of Dread Yellow Fever. HIS SATIRIC PENCIL WAS FAMOUS. Was Appointed Consul Oeneral by President Roosevelt, Who Once Said That He Learn ed Politics From Nut's Cartoons Impor tant Part the Noted Caricaturist's Pictures Played la Political Campalftt. . Guayaquil, Ecuador (By Cable). Consul-Gencral Thomas Nast died here after three days' illness of yellow fever. He was interred at 5 o'clock. The funeral was attended by the Governor, the Consular Corps, the American col ony and many friends. The coffin was wrapped in the Stats and Stripes. The British Consul recited a prayer in the cemetery. The death of Mr. Nast is deeply la mented by the natives, who held him in high esteem. Thomas Nast was a unique genius, who at one time was regarded as the foremost American cartoonist. Though at the time of his death lie was Consul Gener.il at Guayaquil, he will be re membered for the work of his pencil rather than for anv official Position he held. Born in Landau. Bavaria, September 27, 1840, Nast was brought by his pa rents to America when a mere infant. Writing of his boyhood, he said: My natural inclination was toward caricature. I was never fit for anything else. In the old National Academy Art School in New York city in the fifties, when I was but a young boy, the sides of my crayoned sheets used to be full of caricatures, in great part those of the political heeler. I loved him then; I love him now. Old William E. Bur ton, of the Chambers Street Theatre, New York, gave me my first idea of comic art. When I was 14 years old and rather diminutive, I applied for a position at the great publishing house oi Frank Leslie. Frank Leslie told me to go down and sketch a ferryboat. I sketched it. It was accepted and I started upon a salary ot $5 a week. The most important work Nast did for Leslie was the Heenan-Sayers fight in England. Soon afterward he began work on Harper's Weekly. He did not at once develop the gift which made him the most powerful cartoonist in America, but from the first he made cartoons and little else. They were not humorous at the start, 111 1K64, but were upon war subjects. SILVELA THE NEW PREMIER. Conservative Cabinet Succeeds the Liberals in Spain. Madrid (By Cable). A new Cabinet was formed and sworn in. The Minis ters, with their portfolios, arc as fol lows: Premier Senor Silvela. Minister oi Foreign Affairs Senor Abarzuza. Justice Senor Dato. Finance Senor Villa vcrde. Interior Senor Maura. War General Linares. Marine Senor Sanchez Toca. Instruction Senor Allende Salazar. Public Works Marquis Vadillo. Senor Silvela thus forms a Conserv ative Cabinet to succeed the Sagasta l-iberal Ministry, which resigned on Wednesday. 1 he Cortes will be dis solved, Kintr Alfonso having consented to issue a decree to that effect before Christmas. Don Francisco Silvela is a veteran Spanish statesman. Once before- March 5, 1880, he succeeded Sagasta as Premier. In turn he was succeeded by General Azcarraga, but on October 22, 1000, he again took the reins as head of the Cabinet. After a second brief tenure Sagasta was called to the base of power which he has just laid down. DAILY EARTHQUAKES IN UTAH. Feared that Old Volcanoes Are Showing Fresh Activity. Salt Lake City, Utah (Special). Since November 17, when an earth quake shook up Southern Utah and as far north as Salt Lake, there have been daily shocks felt in the extreme south eastern portion of the State. According to advices received from Pine Valley, a hamlet in the mountains of Washington county, not a day has passed since that date that at least one earthquake shock has not been felt Serious alarm is felt for the safety of the place. Every chimney in the town has been cracked or demolished. At Pinto the shocks have been so severe that the public school has been aban doned for several days. About 15 miles south are five or six old craters, and the continuance of the earthquake shocks has strengthened the bilief'that there has been a fresh outbreak of volcanic activity in the mountains of that region. From Washington to Henry. Boston (Special). A letter from George Washington to his friend, Pat rick Henry, Governor of Virginia, writ ten October 29, 1785, was sold at a col lector's sale by auction for $580 to a New York man acting as agent. The letter is given in full ia Sparks' Life of Washington and is of some length. Its subject matter relates to a grant of money by the Virginia Legislature to Washington in reward for his services in the Revolution and his refusal of the same. Shah has Only 3 Lelt, Vienna (By Cable). The Tagblatt states that Shah Muzzaffar ed Din of Persia has caused great agitation in Persian court circles by reducing his harem from 1,100 to 60. The act is re garded as the most astounding reform ever accomplished in Persia and has provoked a formidable agitation against the Shah. It is charged, says the Tagblatt, that he has been convert ed to the reckless Western revolution ary ideas by his European travels. ' Joking Olrl Shot Kingston, N. Y. (Special). As a re sult of her desire to masquerade in male attire to frighten her neighbo-i, 19-year-old Eva 1 fender son was shot through the leg by Policeman James J. Murphy while trying to escape ar rest. Murphy saw tome one dodging behind trees and peering in windows. He gave chase. The peeper also ran, was overtaken, grappled and broke away. Murphy followed and shot to ward the sidewalk. The bullet glanced and struck the girl, whose identity was discovered at the jail. She was taken home. Her injury may be serious. STEAMER TORN ASUNDER. Eleven Live Lost and Many Men Wert Hnrl Vessel Broke In Two, San Francisco (Special). While the steamer Progreso was lying at the wharf of the Fulton Iron Works, at Harbor View, an explosion occurred. As a re sult 12 men arc missing. A score were more or less seriously injured, and prop erty valued at $200,000 w as destroyed. The disaster occurred at 0.45 o'clock while 40 mechanics of the iron works and 20 employes of the ship were on board. Below the decks the mechanics were busy completing the work of changing the vessel from n coal-burning coal-carrier to an oil-burning oil-carrier, when suddenly one of the oil tanks blew up. Men were hurled against the steel wall and a sheet of flame came sweeping into their faces. On the upper deck men were hurled into the air or thrown into the water. Three sailors engaged in washing paint outside the -pilot-house disappeared as the cloud of black smoke came up from the ship and were seen no more. Following the explosion the ship sag ged in the center, sl.owin" that she bad broken in two. In the office of the iron works, 20 feet away, every window was shattered and flying glass cut the faces and hands of many of the officials and clerks. As they rushed out into the open, survivors who were able to help themselves were leaping from the ship. A creat crowd of mechanics came run ning out of the works. As soon as the panic had subsided these men set to work to rescue men from the burning vessel. A stream of burning oil running from the tanks spread out until the ship lay on waves of fire. The flames crept under the wharf and soon the timbers were blading, adding to the difficulty of the work of rescue. As the ship was built of steel the fire was nearly all below deck. There were 14 oil tanks containing about 403 barrels of oil in all. itsd.-despite the efforts of the fire department, this continued to burn fiercely for hours after the explos ion. Several minor explosions, due to the flames going from tank to tank, occurred at short intervals, but all the iniury and loss of life was caused by the first one. One peculiarity of the explosion was that several men who were on the other side of the bulkhead from where it occurred were uninjured, while others further away were hadlv hurt. Several men in the yards were injured by fl' ing debris. The loss to the Fulton Company by the wrecking of the building and the burning of the wharf w ill exceed $20,000. It is estimated that the Progreso was worth about $175,000. The explosion shook all the huil'dinrs at Harbor View, and the shock was felt a mile av.av. JOHNSTONE DIES OP HIS WOUND. Actor Who Killed Kate Hassett Succumbs lo Self-inflicted Wound. Philadelphia, Pa.- (Special). After lingering for nearly a week, Barry John stone, the rector who last Monday night shot himself after killing Kate Hassett, a member of Keith's Bijou Theatre stock company, died at the Hahnemann Hospital. Death resulted from peritoni tis. At Johnstone's bedside when he died were his two sisters and two broth ers, his mother having returned to her home in Syracuse, N. Y. The actor's body was sent to Syracuse. Kate Hassett's murder and John stone's suicide were the result of the man's insane jealousy. Miss Hassett in private life was the wife of Everett Bcck with, a business man of Chicago. Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hassett, reside in Aurora, III. A year ago she and Johnstone first met, when both were members of Mine. Modjeska's theatrical company. This season Johnstone was for a time, v-tith Richard Mansfield's ' company. Miss Hassett accepted an engagement with the Keith stock company, and this week would have become the leading woman. Johnstone was a frequent visitor to this city for a week previous to the tragedy. Two Killed by a Snow Slide. Baker City, Ore. (Special). James Sullivan and a man known bv the name of DcKibbis were killed in the snowslidc which occurred at the Cornucopia Mine. The mine was damaged to the extent 01 several tnousaml dollars. An other slide occurred at the South Pole Mine, carrying away the shafthouse and a monlinr r,f kmi:iM lu,iln,irr XT.. ... wt.oimip,.-,. yi uiit was injured. Owing to the sudden neavy lan 01 snow oth,er slides are blizzards la the West. Milwaukee, Wis. (Special). Heavy snow-storms swept the western part of Wisconsin. Railroad freight traffic b.i been seriously hampered on account of tne Dan condition of the telegraph sys tem. At Doclgeville the snow is two leel deep and badly drifted. Houston, 1 cxas. Reports are of heavy snows in No.-th and Central Jexas, accompanied by a blizzard. The siorm rcacneu as tar south as Waxa hachiu and a freeze is vi-t.i ;., ,u coast country, which would ruin tnou- suiius 01 acres 01 crops. ODDS AND ENDS OP TH3 LATEST NEWS. O win 17 tn A arnrr'tiv -.f t... legitimate use in the medical cuileire! r,f T ml.'-, . .1.'., I 1 ... . w. ...... 1, aim Louisville, t lie prices have risen to very high figures Fourteen iersrinc tnvr 1;...... 1.. . , ...... ims uj suffocation front smoke or in leaping. iium me ourmng Lincoln Hotel ir Chicago, winch proved a veritable fire trap. Horace E. Keilig, superinten dent of the Gcrinantown (Pa.) Cre niatOrv Comnanv rtt-n,r-.l I A. ol dynamite and was blown to pieces lhe Lucy Wharton Drexel meda was awarded by the University o' 1 eiinsvlvani.i n P,.,l rr r 11:1 u l ,- . . fill- precnt, the distinguished archeologist joke played by comrades, who distend yu ins siomacn witn an air pump, dies from the eeffcts. There are still lrtu'jA finnn 9000 men and boys out of work in thr 41 mill insinci 01 me antnracite region Sir Thntnaa 1 i . I . ' - l.ll Shamrock III., had a narrow escap irom nemg purncd in a hre which did great damage tn Dnmv'i l,;i,,. ;i.i..,.. yards, at Dumbarton. Captain Pershing has located part o) u iicei oi small gunuoats which the opuiiarus sunK in i.ake l-anao in 1H9H Charles II. Dow. fmniHrr of il U'n street newsgathr ring firm of Dow Jones & Co., died at his home in urooKlyn. K. B. ThnmaH wa nftiA ,....,i.,, . -- -- - w v 1 v. v, ). COI.JCIII of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com pany to succeed Alfred Walter. Howard T ftnnHuiin r, , . . - ..VWO..IV, ui in Columbia Mining Company in Phila- ucipum, comnimeu suicide. Elmer Kirsehnrr nrwt ('. were killed while descending; the Cran berry mine near Hazleton, Pa, THE KEYSTONE STATE. " Newi Happenlnt of Interest (lathered Fran All Sourcea. Talents. Charles A. Anderson. Pittsburg, cage: Peter p. Bcrkey, Jen ncrstown, rail joint; Charles A. firaden. Butler, steam explosive engine; Cyrui M. Carnahan. Allegheny, brake appa ratus; Samuel B. Chroniger, Allegheny, plastic compound; Perry D. Cullum, McKccs Rocks, combined coop and nest; Richard W. Pox, Altoona, draw bar rigging; Joseph Prrund, Wampum, rail bed for railways; Henry B. Key scr, Edgewood Park, continuous heat ing lurnace: Wallace W. Kyle, Pulaski, match safe; Henry F. Mann, Allegheny, plate metal car wheels; Wfiliam 1, Mann and N. C Ncemes, Pittsburg, supporting roller for conveyers; John C. McDcrmott. Allegheny, hat pin; Frederick G. Ottc, Pittsburg, folding crate; Peter Patterson, McKccspon. traking but-weld pipe: Henry T. Por ter, Pittsburg, railway track applia'uces. Pensions. Francis Moran, Bradford, S8; Walter S. McCormick, Pittsburg. Lewis H. Dalbv, Reedsvillc, $u; Asbury M. I.ias, Punxsutawncy, Jacob Hughes, Williamsburg. $S; Rob er; G. Mowry, Washington, $12; Mat thew A. Reed, Allegheny, $8: Janes .McClellaii. Soldiers' Home. Fric, $H; William Helms, West Elizabeth, ?H; John D. I.andis, Johnstown, $14; Mark Dreary. Soldiers' Home. Erie, $f; Sid ney Caldwell, Irish Ripple. $10: Martha I... Krwin. Sewicklcy. $f: Fannie Berry, Pittslv.rg. fS; Margaret Van. Pittsbu-g. $('; Elizabeth Bryan. Allegheny. $8; George VV. Mcpherson, Allegheny, $(: Joseph Propeck, Watcrford. $ii; James Capstick. Conemaugh. $S; John Cessna, Gastnwn, $8; John Eichcnaucr, Allegheny. $8: John A. George, Van dergrif:, $; Moses K. Ethcridge, Ed inboro, $S; Thomas C. Rigden, Shan nondalc. $10; James Weaver, Saycrs, $F; Frank R. Thome, Pittsburg, $8; Jacob Kramer, Soldiers' Home, Erie, $u, William Young, Washington, $12: Michael Shottsbarger. Port Royal. lx George Uayden. Grccnsburg, $12: riril pine Weiss. Pittsburg, $3; Matilda Firth, AHarata, $8. The K.-.tcLick Railroad company has been organized at Scottdalc, and char tered under the laws of West Virginia, with a capitalization of $50,000. The ( Ihccrs are: E. A. Humphries, president; .1. A. Barnhart, vice-president, and Harry Dunn, secretary-treasurer. The direct ors consist of the officers and W. H. Clinpcrnian and J. W. Anawait. All arc well-known coke men. It is the intention to build a standard-guagc ,road over a line already surveyed from a junction with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Reynoldsville. Harrison county. W. Va.. to a junction with the West Vir ginia Short Line. It will be the outlet for the Chieftain Coal company, which ia developing a tract of 2,500 acres of coal land in Harrison county. Trof. H. V. Hilprccht, the eminent archaeologist, was presented by the Uni versity of Pennsylvania with 4 diploma awarding to him the Lucy Wharton Drexel medal for bis excavations at Xippur and bis publications on the sub ject. The fund for the medals was es tablished last month by Lucy Wharton Drexel, who donated to the university $2 000, the income of which is to be ex pended for medals to be awarded once a year for the best archaeological excava tion or for the best publication based 011 archaeological excavations by an English speaking scholar. The long wooden bridge that crosse lhe Juniata at the narrow on the Bed ford and Chambershurg turnpike, about a mile from Bedford, was burned down. The fire is believed to have been tht work of some persons who have becomf tired of the Ion" litigation over the con demnation of the turnpike by the court and taken the law in their own hands. A notice was left for the keeper of the toll gate, telling him to move out, as hii house would be blown up soon. There is no clue to the incendiary. Deputy Coroner T. O. Hazen has com pleted his investigation of the accident at the onen-hearth department of the Sha ron Steel company which caused tin deaths of three men and serious injur) of two others. He stated that the blame for the accident will lie placed on Crane man Callahan. It was through his care lessness, he suld, tint the ladle tilted ape1 spiilcd the molten metal. He stated that Ca!inh::n. admits that he caused the l.rdle to tilt. Mrs. Mary Shollple was arrested at Allentown in the act of shoplifting. Tht police searched her home and found thousands of dollars worth of stoler articles, including I.S2 silk mufflers, hun dreds oi yards of lace, three fur boas, sealskin sarques, boxes of buttons and other dry goods. The clothing store of H. J. Pyatt, Yoimgwood, at Grcensburg, was looted by burglars. The merchandise .'secured amounted to over $400. The general store of Walter Bros., Latrobc, was alf'J burglarized, but little booty was secured Earle Rouse, who shot his companion, Guy Black, i.t Eliwood City, was placcil under arrest on a charge of pointing fire arms. John J. Felgar, nged 30 years, ai"' single, committed suicide at his home i" East Huntingdon township by hangiup himself in the barn. Tire Noland. 23 years old. son "I Charles Noland, killed himself with a revolver at his home near Jacksontown. Through the bursting of a water t.mk at the brass works of McKce & Co Jeannette, damage to the amount of $J5, 000 resulted. The new Lutheran church at Wehruin, Indiana county, will he dedicated on Je cemher 14. Rev. S. F. Nicholas, of Alle gheny, will preach the dedicatory ser mon. The Maryir.nd Sheet Steel company. Cumberland, Md., in. which several for mer I'ittsburgers are interestcl, has in creased its capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000. "The family of Jacob Frankhouser, M L'nion, lad a narrow cscane from fire, which destroyed their house with a kisr of S 1,200. David A. Grimes, of Taylorstown, haf brought suit at Wheeling, W. Va-. against the Wheeling Traction company for $50,000 for the loss of his bands and a leg through an accident. David Rhoads. aged IS. of Lewis town, had his leg shattered in a gun ning accident. Duncannon Council has granted the right of way through the borough to the Perry County Electric Street Rail way Company. Application Ins been made for charter for the Tioga County Home (or Aged People. - 1 , The Pennsylvania Limited, at the Morrellsvrlle crossing struck a watfo" and instantly killed Robert Brtcke", aged 1.1, William Allison, aged 5.J, one J Lewistou's best-known cituens, died suddenly, . The Leesport Furnace is again out of blast because ol an accident to the stack, wh'ch it may require a month to repair. v William Stutchkiss, a miner at Pr" Place Colliery, Mahanoy City, waJ crushed to de:th bv faUinir coal-
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