TRYING TRACY TACTICS
Iloldlac Up
Farmers in
Missouri.
Illinois and
SHERIFFS' POSSES IN LIVELY CHASE.
Tws Me Who Robbed Bank at Union, Mo.,
Threatened lo Murder Farmers' Wives and
Children Unless They Oivt Them Food
Officers Locate Then at Rlcbvlcw, but they
Oct Away.
St. Louis. Mo. (Special). William
Rudolph and Frank Lewis, the Union,
Mo., bank robbers, who were located
in a cabin, near Richvicw, 111., have
gain escaped, and posses of citizens
in addition to that of Sheriff Howe arc
being formed to pursue and capture
them if possible. The entire commu
nity is in arms.
According to reports from cominu
Siities through which the robbers have
passed they have adopted Tracy tac
tics, intimidating farmers and threaten
ing to kill pursuers. The two men
converse only with women and chil
dren, from whom all the details con
cerning them have been learned, ex
cept the general description given by a
lunter who encountered them in the
woods Friday.
They approach a farmhouse and.
standing some distance away, call loud
ly until someone makes his appearance.
If it is a man, they keep on talking
to him until he comes" up closer, and
then they throw their rifles down on
liim and order him to leave the prem
ises. Like Tracy, they accompany this
order with a threat to massacre the en
tire family if anv attempt is made to
summon help. In this way they have
obtained food.
At one farmhouse they found the far
mer's wife and children alone. They
ordered her to get breakfast, and chat
ted freely while she was cooking the
meal. All qustions concerning them
selves they parried. The man suppos
ed to be Rudolph stood on guard
while the other ate, and Lewis then
acted as picket.
MUST WAIT THE LIMIT.
Demands Immediate Pay mint of Venezuela
Bowen Refuses.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
German government, through its rep
resentative here, Baron Spec von
Sternberg, has made a request of Mr.
Bowen for the immediate payment of
the 5500 which it was stipulated in
the protocol signed on February 13
should be paid within 30 days from that
date as a preliminary to the raising of
the blockade against Venezuelan ports
and the agreement to send the question
of preferential treatment of the block
ading nations to The Hague for deter
mination. Mr. Bowen promptly declined to ac
cede to the request, but informed Bar
on Sternberg that, as provided in the
protocol, the money would be paid to
the German representative at Caracas
30 days from February 13, which would
be on March 15.
The reason that animated the German
government in making the request is
siot disclosed here, nor is Mr. Bowen
ware of it. The matter, however, has
some significance perhaps, in view ,,j
the fact that th'.- -.hip taken by the
Germans during the blockade V,ave not
jet been returned t - Venezuela.
During the d-iy :,,, bowen had calls
from the Frv.'.i'n ambassador, M. Jusser
and, the Spanish minister, Scnor Ojeda,
and the Belgian minister. Baron Mon
cheur. in regard to the protocols that are
in preparation for the settlement of the
claims of the citizens of their countries
against Venezuela. Rough drafts of
these instruments are already on their
way by mail to the European govern
ment's interested, but there are certain
provisions regarding them about which
the envoys desired to consult Mr. Bowen.
The protocols arc expected to reach their
destinations the latter part of this week,
pending which no final steps for their
joint signature can lie taken.
Orphans Brutally Treated.
Binghamton. X. V. (Special). An in
vestigation of alleged cruelties practiced
t-pon the inmates of the Susquehanna :
Valley Orphans' Home is in progress
liere. The institution contains about 200
children and is under the care of the
State Board of Charities. At the hearing
butts of horsewhips loaded with metal
and a dozen rattans were shown as the
implements with which the boys were
whipped by the assistant superintendent.
Hotel 111 Furnace.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Special). Ten
jersofi are believed to have been burned
to death and at least four times that
number are known to be seriously in
jured as the result of a fire which de
stroyed the Clifton Hotel. There were
son guests in the hotel when the fire
broke out, and most of the dead are
buried in the debris. .Owing to the de
struction of the hotel register, the names
of the missing have been unobtainable.
Hundreds Washed Into Sta.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
Department of State has received dis
patches from the Consul at Tahiti, So
ciety islands, reporting that the recent
tidal wave completely depopulated Haio
and Makemo, and caused great loss in
Hikueru, where 400 people were washed
Into the sea.
Reported Bogaa Victories.
Willemstad (By Cable). Advices re
ceived here from revolutionary sources
t Tucaeas, Venezuela, say that the re
cms engagement between Revolutionists
nd the government forces in the neigh'
bothood of Rarquisimcto was a small af-
tair. and the government troop, who in
tended to force their way through the
center of the revolutionitts, were driven
berk. All thr victories recently claimed
by the Venezuelan fovernmcnt are, ac-
cnrdin" to the advices which have been
received here, absolutely false.
Killed by Bsrglars.
Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). Archi
bald McCurdy was shot and killed, pre
sumably by burglars who had entered
the department store conducted by John
McCurdy. s brother of the dead man.
Shortly after midnight two policemen
discovered that the door of the store was
. opsin. Suspecting burglary, the sum
snorted the uroorietor and. uoon inveiti
gallon, found McCurdy's body lying on
the floor witb a bullet wound in the head,
McCurdy was acting as night watchman,
It is believed he interrupted the burglars
im their work. The cash drawer had
Wen broken open and f 50 taken.
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
The district attorney at San Fran
cisco says the fact that the Delaware
legislature is considcrng the appropria
tion of funds to defray the cost of
prosecuting Mrs. Cornelia Botkin for
the killing of Mrs. Dunning and her
sister will not interfere with the trial
of the woman in San Francisco.
Nearly 300 pieces of silverware, stol
en recently from one or more families
in Philadelphia, were found by detec
tives in the possession of two colored
burglars under arrest in New York.
The Attorney General of Illinois is
making inquiries into the plans of the
Glass Trust, reprcscsentatives of which
met in Chicago last week.
Agreements were entered into in
Chicago by labor unions with the em
ployers' union, which will prevent sym
pathetic strikes in the building trades.
The steamer Brooklyn City arrived
at New York, having required 28 days
to make the trip from Swansea on ac
count of hurricanes and gales.
Boers have bought a large tract of
land from the Southern Pacific Rail
road in the Bear River Valley, Utah,
on which they will settle.
A passenger train ran into a freight
on the Illinois Central, near Galena,
III., killing three trainmen and fatally
injuring a fourth.
Dr. FYiedcrich Muller. Professor
I.orenz's assistant in his bloodless op
erations, will come to this country in
March to attend to the after-treatment
in the case of Lolita Armour, and to
accept the chair of orthopedy in the
Chicago Medical College.
More sensational evidence was heard
in the trial of Dr. Ellis Duncan for the
shooting of Bruce Head in Pittsburg.
A love-letter alleged to have been writ
ten by Head to Mrs. Duncan was sub
mitted in evidence.
George H. Pell, who some years ago
was well known in Wall street circles
in New York and in fashionable cir
cles, was sentenced to three years and
six months in State's prison for grand
larceny.
Money sharks at Chicago have raised
a fund to defeat legislation prohibiting
the assignment of salaries as security
for money loans to employes.
Mr. Carnegie added $125,000 to the
endowment fund of the Carnegie Labo
ratory of Engineering at the Stevens
Institute of Technology.
A number of lives were lost and
many persons injured in an early
morning fire that destroyed the Clifton
Hotel, at Cedar Rapids, la.
The confession of Insurance Agent
Foster in the New York insurance
frauds made public some startling
methods of the swindlers.
An old resident of Morris, N. Y.,
has made the arrangements and paid
his undertaker's bill, and also settled
for his lo-niistonc.
James Flynn. former assistant cor
poration counsel in New York, was
stricken with heart disease on an ele
vated train and died.
Count von Quadt, 'of the German
Embassy, and Countess von Quadt,
paid a farewell visit to President Roose
velt. A man serving a term in the St.
Louis workhouse who, as "Lieutenant
Colonel Seymour Barrington, of the
British nobility." married a woman in
Kansas city, has been identified as
George Barton, an English criminal.
Thousands of acres of bottomland in
Indiana, south of Vinccnncs, last week
under water from the floods, are now
covered with ice and many families arc
destitute and unable to get away from
their ice-bound houses.
The extreme cold has so congealed
the natural that niii'iy rcMdenv.es 111
Pittsburg and '.icViiity are without ht.u
or In'1.. nd the people have to go to
Mil to keep warm.
Foreign.
Gen. Sir Harry Macleair, commander
of the bodyguard of the Sultan of Mo
rocco, says the power of the pretender,
Bu Hamara, who is reported wound
ed, is completely crushed.
. The court in Hamilton, Ont., cen
sured the captain of the steamer Ma
diana for not taking proper precau
tions to prevent the wreck of the ves
sel. The blizzard continues in Newfound
land, and relief parties are making
slow progress in trying to rcacn the
snowbound passenger trains.
The Canadians have protested to the
home government against the appoint
ment of Senators Lodge and Turner
011 the Alaska Commission.
Emperor William cabled Commo
dore Scheder, in command of the Ger
man fleet at Venezuela, his apprecia
tion of the manner in which the block
ade had been conducted.
The Polish leader in the Austrian
Reichsrath made scandalous charges
against I rince rnuip 01 saxe-oourg-
Gotha, the husband 01 tne rrmcess
Louise of Belgium.
The wife of a dentist in Dresden has
sued for divorce, charging that she
found in her husband's pockets love-
letters from the Crown Princess Louise
of Saxony.
A revolutionary army 01 sjsoo men
has reached a point 20 miles south of
Caracas. The revolutionists and the
government troops both occupy strong
positions.
Pope Leo celebrated his silver jubi
lee, and after performing the functions
according to the program declared it
the happiest day ot his lite.
11 is reported irom jaugicr wiui 1.1
Meneblue. the Moroccan minister of
war, was killed in battle February 13.
Mr. Cranborne stated in the House
of Commons that Great Britain had had
110 correspondence on the Mexican and
Chinese proposals to the United States
for the establishment of a fixed relation
ship between the moneys of the gold
standard countries ana tne silver na
tions. President Castro asked the United
States government that the gunboat
Marietta be permitted to convey the of
cers and men who are to man the Ven
ezuelan craft captured by the blockading
fleet.
Financial ,
Money is lightening up a bit. Time
loans a shade stronger.
New ork banks have lost this week
to the Subtreasury $2,436,000.
America sold 9,100,000,000 more
goods abroad last year than it bought.
The Bank of France notes ol circula
tion decreased $7,500,000 for the week.
The chairman of Wisconsin Central
says Grand Trunk will not buy his
road.
A higher price for copper metal has
helped boost the quotation for Copper
shares.
John W. Gates will, it is now report
ed, remain in his brokerage firm at
least another year.
The Transvaal loan which will be is
sued by the British Government in
April will be Sjoo.ooo.ooo at .1 per cent
A contract for 25,000 tons of steel
rails will be placed in England for the
Intercolonial Railroad of Canada, on
account of the inability of the two steel
mills in the Uomunon to make them.
Of all high priced stocks, New York
Centra has been the weakest since Jan
nary 1. it has declined about , 10
points. So much for the plans to in
create the capital stock or bonded
debt.
SCOOPED IN MILLIONS
How the
Turf Tipsters
Public.
Gulled the
A TRACK "TOUT" THAT STARTED IT.
Jack Sheehan Sold Thres Winners for Tea
Cents on the Long Island Race Trains
The Originator of Scheme That Has Been
Worked by Shsrpers on dlganflc Scale
All Over the Country.
New York, D. C. (Special). Con
servative racing men estimate that
$200,000,000 has been garnered from a
gullible public during the past two
years by the get-rich-quick turf tip
sters and "Racing Commissioners,"
who are now being raided by the po
lice in all the big cities from New
York to San Francisco.
Jack Sheehan, a racetrack "tout."
who six years ago started in by sell
ing three winners for 10 cents on the
Long Island race trains, was the orig
inator of the general scheme, which has
since developed and grown to such
great proportions.
The idea, born in his active brain,
developed into the great concerns
which took in millions, where he had
accepted dimes, and which sought out
their victims in everv nook and cor
ner of all the States in the Union.
The uprising of the public against
these so-called speculators and the
publicity given their peculiar meth
ods have in a very brief time scattered
them to the winds. Those who have
not been forced out of existence by the
police have rushed to cover. It seems
likely that the "turf speculator" and his
get-ridi-quick circulars will be want
ing. To such men as William C. Whitney,
August Belmont, James R. Kecne and
J. G. Follansbee, all lovers of clean
racing, is due the credit of cleansing
tfle turf of these people, for it was the
action of the Coney Island Jockey Club
in refusing the entry of Gold Heels in
the Suburban that first directed atten
tion to the owners the E. J. Arnold
Co., of St. LouTs. With the downfall
of this concern the war against all
of them began.
WANT PRIZES RETURNED,
Venezuelans Ask
Bowes to
Intercede Wltb
the British.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Minis
ter Bowen received a cablegram signed
by the "Prize Sufferers, Trinidad," re
questing his good offices with Great Brit
ain in securing the return of the prizes
taken by that country before the raising
of the blockade by the allied powers. The
cablegram is as follows:
Port of Spain, February 21, 1903.
Minister Bowen, Washington:
All prizes returned by Germany and
Italy. L'se kind influence with England.
Nearly all prizes belong to poor fisher
men, who have lost ail and are penniless
here.
( Signed)
PRIZE SUFFERERS, TRINIDAD.
. Minister Bowen sent a copy of the
rablegram to Sir Michael Ilerb'-rt, the
British ambassador, requesting him to
transmit it to his govrninent, ,1 )1H
earliest convenience.
.L ANOTHER COLLISION.
Passenger Train Runs Into Freight Train,
men tbe Victims.
Galena, 111. (Special). Three train
men were killed and one fatally injured
in a head-end collision between the Chi
cago and Minneapolis passenger train
and a southbound freight train on the
Illinois Central Railroad.
The freight train had stopped to take
water. It was about to pull out from the
.water tank, when the passenger train,
consisting of a combination baggage car
and four Pullman cars, rounded a curve
and crashed into the locomotive of the
freight. All the men on the locomotives,
except Engineer Lake, of the passenger
train, were crushed under the wreck of
the locomotive. Lake escaped uninjured.
The combination library and baggage car
was wrecked and crowded from the rails,
Villing Brakeman Clock. The sleeping
cais held to the rails, and the occupants
were uninjured.
Swept By Fire at Night.
Roanoke, Va. (Special). Fire de
stroyed the business portion of Clinch
port, an enterprising commercial village
in Scott county. Nine buildings were
leveled to the ground, entailing a loss of
$.10,000, with but little insurance. The
blaze started from a defective flue in the
store of Head & Sloan, and quickly
spread to adjacent buildings. The only
buildings left in the business section of
the town are the depot and two hotels.
Friends Thought Hla Dead.
Clinton, Iowa (Special). Wm. Mar
shal, a wealthy farmer, had a narrow
escape from being buried alive. He
had been ill for some time and was de
clared to be dead by doctors. The
supposed corpse was laid out when, to
the terror and amazement of those who
were sitting by the body, he stirred
and sat up. His illness had almost al
together disappeared and later he was
up and about the house.
Miss Roosevelt Belhrotbed?
Dallas, Texas (Special). Friends
and relatives of the Mcllhennys are
said to be authority for a rumor that
Miss Alice Roosevelt, now visiting in
K,yu Or aans. is encaged to John Mc-
llhenny, 6ne of the "Rough Riders."
Members of the Mcllhcnny family,
when shown the Dallas dispatch, dccltn
cd to make any statement.
Seeing Things Is lbs Sns.
Lanorte. Ind. (Special). Alexander
Young, of this city, says that from ob
nervations made by him he is confident
that the sun is inhabited; that with his
instruments he has seen on the sun s
surface mountain sides, with great and
precipitous rocks which glow with pris
matic colors, mingled with the verdure
of a perennial vegetation, and with a
floral radiance more beautiful than that
on earth. Beyond these mountains he
says he saw valleys and plains where
people live.
Th Slats Mllltla.
Washington, D. C (Special). Militia
reports from various states show an ag
gugate of 11859 commissioned officers
and enlisted men organised and 10,853,
306 men on whom the country can call in
an emergency not in any organization.
New Stamp Unsatisfactory.
Washington. D. C. (Special). Third
Assistant Postmaster-General Madden
aays the new a-cent postage stamp is
generally unsatisfactory in appearance,
both to the Postoflice Department and
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
sod new design bat been ordered.
WITH THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
Currency for Philippines.
The House Committee on Insulr.r Af
fairs, by a st -ict party vote, authorized a
favorable leport on the Philippine cur
rency bill as it passed the Senate, hut
recommend that it be amended by strik
ing out the Senate provision for an in
ternational commission ; also by insert
ing at the end of section 3 the following:
"Provided, That debts contracted prior
to the 31st day of December, 1003, may
be paid in the legal tender currency of
said islands existing at the time of the
making of said contracts unless other
wise expressly provided by contract."
General Pension Bill Reported.
Representative Sulloway introduced a
bill reciting "that in the administration
of the pension laws any enlisted man in
the military service of the United States
during the war of the rebellion shall be
held to be entitled to pension for any
disability contracted by him during any
and all enlistments recognized by the
War Department as valid, provided his
disability or disabilities were contracted
during the performance of military duty
within the meaning of the pension laws,
any ruling or decision of the Secretary
of the Interior to the contrary notwith
standing." Congress Invited to St Lonls.
The Speaker laid before the House
the invitation of the St. Louis Exposi
tion Commission to Congress to be
present at the dedicatory exercises,
April 30-May 2.
Mr. Tawney offered a joint resolu
tion, which was adopted, accepting the
invitation and providing a committee
of 7 Senators and it Representatives to
represent the two houses.
Retirement of Enlisted Men.
The House Committee on Naval Af
fairs authorized a favorable report on the
bill which has passed the Senate provid
ing that service in the army, navy, and
Marine Corps shall be credited in com
puting the necessary thirty years' time
for the retirement of petty officers and
enlisted men of the navy.
State Laws Regarding Trusts.
The House Committee on Printing
favorably reported the resolution which
passed the Senate providing for the com
pilation under the direction of the Attor
ney General of all State laws relating to
trusts and to the organization and regu
lation of corporations.
Not a Unanimous Report.
Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, reported in the Senate the
Littlefield anti-trust bill as amended.
Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, a member
of the committee, stated that it was not
a unanimous report, and that he was op
posed to the measure. He said a large
proportion of the bill has been more
wisely and appropriately treated in legis
lation recently enacted. Concerning the
new features, there were, he said, un
constitutional provisions in them. Even
if they were within the constitutional
authority of Congress they are mischiev
ous, and will work great injury to the
business interests of the United States.
Status ol tbe Isle of Pines.
A resolution was agreed to in the Sen
ate calling on the President for informa-
ion regarding the present status of the
Isle of Pines and what government is
exercising authority and control in said
island ; what instructions, it any, regard
ing said island were given at the time
when the military occupation of Cuba by
the United States was terminated ; and
what action, if anv. has been taken for
the protection of the interests of citizens
of the United States who have purchased
property and settled in the Isle of Pines.
Grecian Treaty Ratified.
The Senate, in executive session, rati
fied the treaty of friendship recently ne
gotiated between the United States and
Greece. The portion of the treaty relat
ing to consular trials was slightly
amended in language to meet the criti
cisms of Senator Hoar.
Life-saving Station at Nome.
The House Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce authorized fav
orable reports on the bills which have
passed the Senate providing for the con
struction ot a lite-saving station at Cape
Nome, Alaska, and to increase the num
ber of lighthouse districts to eighteen.
Free Importation of Thoroughbreds.
The Senate Committee on Finance
agreed to report favorably the bill pro
viding for the free importation of
thoroughbred live stock for breeding
purposes. 1 he bill extends the pnvi
lege to such live stock imported for
sale.
Is Iks Departments.
The cornerstone of the Army War
College was laid with impressive cere
monies, speeches being delivered by
President Roosevelt, Secretary Root and
Gen. S. B. M. Young, president of the
war college.
Representative Gaines introduced
resolution calling upon the Secretary of
the Navy for information as to the con
tracts made for plans for the new Naval
Academy buildings.
The General Deficiency Appropriation
Bill as reported by the House Committee
contains provisions for additional assist
ant attorney generals to carry out the
anti-trust laws.
Minister Combes, of Guatemala, has
cabled the State Department that Senor
Arias was elected president of Guatemala
by Congress.
Secretary Moody ordered the trial
of Lieut. Chester Wells, of the tug
Leyden, and of Ensign Wortman, ot
the battleship .Massachusetts, by court
martial. The House Committee on Naval Af-
fairs laid on the table the bill to give
Admiral Schley the pay and allowance
of s rear admiral on the active list.
The House adooted the Fortification
Bill and the Legislative, Executive, and
juuiciai Appropriation Din.
Secretary Cortelyou, as head of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
attended his first Cabinet meeting.
Mr. William Loeb, Jr., assumed his
new duties as secretary to the President
and Secretary Cortelyou went to his new
olhce.
Upon the advice of his physicians
President Roosevelt has postponed hit
Western trip until May.
Conrad N. Jordan, assistant treas
urer of the United States, is reported
to be seriously 111.
The General Board of the Navy clan
ned an extensive program for building
110 the Navy.
Solicitor General Richards was nom
inated by the President to the United
States Circuit Lourt ot the Sixth or-
cuit, and Assistant Attorney General
Hovt was nominated to succeed Mr.
Richards. The nomination of Judge
Day for the Supreme Court was also
sent to tbe Senate.
BOY AND 7 GIRLS KILLED
Lackawanna Fast Express Cuts Newark
Trolley In Two.
MAIMED SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SNOW.
Brakes Failed es s Dangerous Orade and
Allowed Crowded Car to Slip Down the
Hill 00 lb Icy Ralls la Front sf th
Oncoming Train Twenty Were Severely
Injured.
Newark, N. J. (Special.) A fast ex
press on the Lackawanna railroad cut
through a trolley car crowded with
school children at the Clifton avenue
crossing. Eight children were killed and
a score or more of them injured. The
motorman of the car, who stuck to his
post, will die, and the engineer of the
express was so badly hurt that there is
little hope of his. recovery.
Both the express and the trolley were
on steep grades, going at right angles.
The express was signaled and the cross
ing gates were lowered while the trolley
car wa3 half way down the hill. The
motorman shut off the power and ap
plied the brakes, but almost immediate
ly the car began to slip along the icy
rails. It gained tremendous momentum
and ot the bottom of the hill crashed
through the gates directly in the track
f the oncoming train. I he locomotive
plowed its way through the trolley,
throwing the children in every direction.
the accident happened within three
blocks of the High School building, and
in the car at the time were nearly 100
pupils. As many as thirty others had
managed to throw themselves from the
car before the crash came. The trolley
was one of the specials which every day
ring the children to school. It had more
than its ordinary load owing to the cold.
contained every child that could
squeeze inside, and others stood on the
rear platform.
Peter Brady, the motorman, promptly
hut off the power and applied the
brakes. The speed of the car was
checked, gut it continued to move slow
down the incline. 1 here was no
thought of danger. Then it began to
move faster and faster. The ice covered
rails afforded no hold for the wheels,
and although Brady jammed his brake
harder and then swung on the reverse,
the momentum of the car grew" at every
yard, and the car shot down toward the
railroad. hen it was right at the
gates the express thundered into view.
Warned by the cries of those afoot
and by their own sense of danger those
on the platforms began to throw them
selves off into the snow, and as the car
sped along the few remaining feet to
ward the rails, perhaps one-third escaped
death or injury in this way, but there
was no time for those within the car to
do more than crush toward the rear
door. The gates were swept aside like
toothpicks, and before the cracking of
the gates died out the air was tilled
with frantic cries of those who saw
death dashing down upon them.
1 he wreck of the trolley car was com
plete. The pilot of the engine struck it
almost amidships and turned it partly
around, and then the ponderous' engine
cut it in two. The upper part of the
trolley was reduced to fragments under
the drivers of the locomotive. Une-halt
of the car was thrown to one side and
ay on the tracks. The other section was
hurled some distance away. In every
direction lay the injured and dead. Ihe
engine was brought to a standstill and
from the train and from ncarhy houses
men rushed to the rescue. The specta
cle was appalling, and many who .started
to work had to give up unnerved.-
Paid $IB for It, Wants $60 0)0
St. Louis (Special). A reputed Leo
nardo da Vinci painting of a Madonna
was sold by a second-hand dealer in
Crondolct for $9 to a St. Louis man,
who sold it to James Hilton for $10.
Hilton declined an offer of S15.000 for
the picture a few days after he bought
it, and now holds it at $00,000. It is
pronounced a genuine one. and one of
those stolen from the Vatican over
100 years ago.
Canada Loses $40,000.
Montreal (Special). Andreas Mar-
tineau, a civil servant in the Militia
Department at Ottawa, has victimized
the country to the extent of $40,000,
according-to discoveries made in a
search of his accounts. hen arrest
ed in Ottawa he was ready for flight,
having $12,400 on his person. the
charge against him will be forgery and
embezzlement. Having charge of blank
checks, Martineau filled one occasion
ally to Charles Da Cota, under which
name he had an acount at the Sov
ereign Bank, and speculated in stocks.
Carnegie's Peace Palace.
The Hague (Special.) It is said here
that negotiations have been opened be
tween a financial syndicate of The
Hague and Andrew Carnegie for the sale
of an estate here, which formerly be
longed to the grand ducal family of
Saxe-Weimar, upon which Mr. Carnegie
proposes to erect a "Palace of Peace."
Elkln's Rebate Bin Signed.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
President has signed the Elkins antire-
bate bill. This bill, which has become a
law. in addition to the two previous
measures which metwilh the executive
approval, completes the administration's
program for antitrust legislation.
Only One List Printed.
Washington ( Special.) Commission
er of Pensions Eugene F. Ware with
held from the newspapers the usual list
of pensions granted during the day. Mr.
Ware says he will save something like
$4000 a year to the government by this
ii.novation.
Explosion Is Fort Lafayetfe.
New York (Special) Three,men were
killed outright, one so injured that he
died later, two others fatally and at
least seven seriously hurt in an explo
sion in the workroom of the naVal stor
age magazine at Fort Lafayette, in New
York bay, about 2 o'clock. The dead :
George Rotham, Brooklyn ; Gustave Doz
ler, Bay Ridge; John Mason, Brooklyn;
unknown man, thought to be Martin
Thargensen, Brooklyn.
Held UpTrolWy Car.
Los Angeles, Cat. (Special). The
daring deeds ol highwaymen who seem
to have invaded Los Angeles in force,
reached s climax when the unmasked
men held up and robbed a carload of
passengers on the Los Angeles-Pasadena
electric line. Thirty-two patsen
gers, one-half of whom were women,
were forced at points of, revolvers to
surrender cash and jewelry to the
amount of between $500 and $700. The
robbers performed their work quickly
but effectively, 1 The car was held for
10 minutes. The men then left it and
disappeared in the darkness.
NO RIQHT TO INTIMIDATE.
Labor Leader os the Rights of thj Union-
Strike Without Lawlessness.
Boston, Mass! (Special). A winter
series of lectures on economic ques
tions, under the auspices of the Twen
tieth Century Club, was brought to a
close here by an address on 'Strikes,"
by E. E. Clark, of Cedar Rapids, la.,
a member of the Anthracite Coal
Strike Commission. Mr. Clark is the
representative of organized labor on
the commission. In his address he
defended ttie union and the right to
strike in support of a demand for bet
ter conditions.
He said, however, that all such con
flicts must be conducted with a propel
respect for the law. "If organized la
bor cannot work out its salvation with
out resorting to unlawful acts," he de
clared, "its existence cannot be de
fended." In the course, of his address Mr.
Clark said:
"If by divine right some are given
charge of many and great interests, it
is not, that they may exalt themselves
above all men and reap great personal
profit and reward, but that they may, by
the exercise of the talents intrusted to
them and the opportunities given to them
work out the will of the Master by ele
vating and improving the condition of
mankind.
"It should be done by encouraging
order, industry, thrift and self-rest.
"There are certain rights of property
and of personal liberty which must be
recognized and defended and protected.
The worker has a right to quit or to
strike in conjunction with his fellows.
He has neither right nor license to de
stroy or damage the property of the em
ployer. Neither has he any right ot
license to intimidate or use violence
against the man who chooses to exercise
his right to work.
"If the employer rids himself of the
service of an employe either by dismissal
or by filling the place where he struck or
quit the employer has no right, legal ot
moral, to hamper or defeat that man's
efforts to earn a living in the service of
another employer by secretly blacklisting
him.
"The employer who uses the blacklist
cannot be heard to complain that the em
ploye uses the boycott. And the employe
who uses the boycott beyond the exer
cise of his own free will to trade where
he chooses cannot be heard to complain
that the employer uses the blacklist."
Girls Rob Hen Roost.
Derby, Conn. (Special). Because
they wanted pin money, Nellie Hawks
and Bertha Mahoncy, schoolgirls ol
Huntington, raided the hen coop of
William Piper. With a pullet under
each arm, they went to the home of a
Sister of the Hawks girl, and, tying the
chickens in a bag, hid them in the cel
lar. In the morning they tried to sell
them. When arrested and taken be
fore Deputy Judge Hubbard (hey
broke down and confessed.
Kansas to Stop Lynching.
Topcka, Kas. (Special). The House
has recommended a stringent law
against lynching. It provides that a
sheriff permitting a prisoner to be
taken from him shall immediately for
feit his office. Any person participat
ing . in a lynchuig may be
punished by death -or impris
onment for life, and any member
of a mob at a lynching, whether he par
ticipates in the deed or not, may be
imprisoned in the penitentiary for
twenty-five years.
Explosion Kills Two.
Bowie, Ariz. (Special). At the Buck
eye mine, nine miles south of this place,
two men Wm. Steel and O'Donncll
were killed ; T. J. Miller and Wm. Gavell
were seriously injured, and a number of
others were slightly hurt as the result of
an explosion of dynamite. Steel and
O'Donnell had been .told to thaw out the
two boxes of frozen dynamite. Steel
gathered up all the dynamite he could
hold in his hands and dropped it into n
bucket of hot water. An explosion fol
lowed immediately.
Memorised tbe Bible.
Saratoga (Special). Thomas Canty,
who was serving his third term as a
member of the village board of trus
tees, died of consumption at his home
here. When a boy he began the study
of the Bible, which lie gradually com
mitted to memory until ne uaa ac
quired the whole of it, and at a mo
ments notice could repeat verbatim any
chapter or chapters.
Victim ot Robbers.
Carlisle, Pa. (Special). Mrs. Alex
ander Duncan, of Leesburg, who a
short time ago was bound and gag
ged and treated roughly by robbers,
died, it is believed, from the effects of
the assault. She was 75 years old.
The perpetrators of the crime were
tried last week and sentenced to nine
years and six months in the peniten
tiary. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Howard T. Goodwin, confidential
clerk to the Philadelphia banking house?
of Cassatt & Co., who committed suicide,
was a defaulter to the amount of Soo.
ooo. Four men were killed and nine others
seriously injured in an explosion at
Fort Lafayette, on Long Island. The
explosion took place in the workroom.
The coal operators in the Middlesborc
district, Kentucky, have granted thcii
1500 employes a voluntary increase of
10 per cent, in wages.
A committee was appointed by Presi
dent Hardy, of the American Bankers'
Association, to consider proposed
changes in the currency system.
One man was burned to death and 18
others narrowly escaped death on the
fishing schooner Gertrude, lying at
Boston.
The new Y. M. C. A. Building. Foun
tain Square Theater and several mer
cantile houses in Springfield, O., were
destroyed by fire.
The ferryboat Pierrcpont went ashore
on Governors Island, New York, and
the passengers became temporarily panic-stricken.
; .
Miss Anita Rosecrans, daughter of the
late General Rosecrans, died at the
horns of her sister, in Helena, Mont.
The trial of Dr. Ellis Duncan, of
Louisville, Ky., charged with the shoot
ing of Bruce Head, was begun at Pitts
burg. '
Fernand H. Du Martheray, the Swiss
minister to th; United States, arrived
at New York on the Kronprinz Wil
helm. , ,
All the powers ' having given their
consent the Russian-Austrian note de
manding reforms and the protection of
Christians throughout Turkey was pre
sented to the Sultan.
It is reported from The Hague that
Carnegie is negotiating for ai estate
there upon which he proposes to erect a
"IVlace of Peace." ,' . . ' .
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
Nwa Bappenloj-s of Interest Gathered
Frta All Sources.
These pensions were granted Pcnn-
sylvanians: Daniel Nicol, Hastings,
$8; Charles Lenigan, Moon Run, $6;
Israel Hart, Saxton, $10; Andrew J.
Knipple, Johnstown, $.14; Danie?
schlottman. Mingovi e. $10: Benia-
min F. Markle, Maze, $12; Joseph
airotip. inner. $to; Louis bnyder,
t ittsourg, h; Daniel Lutz, New Cas
tle. $8: William If. Clark. Erie. Sij-
John H. Brown, Ruffsdale, $12; Johr
n. uodds, Heaver halls, $12; Albert
.'Ill, WTTVUtl, Dill, V , . IILAUII
der H. McKclvey, Warren, $24; Mary
crone, Altoona, $12: Henrietta Mnr
rclls. Huntingdon. $8: Marv Guthrie.
Callery, $8: Maria A. Brown. Ruffs-
dale, SH; R0se Kcifer, Indiana, $8;
William Drexler, Pittsburg, $8; George
w. Myers, altsburg. Sto: William C.
Barnctt, Kittannlng, $8; Reubei
Knetsn. Yeaeertown. Stcnhcn
Sawyer, Apollo. $12; William Serenca,
baltsburg. 18- Levi Kncoo. Airydale.
$12; John R. Belts. Johnstown. $8: las.
P. Fleming, Pittsburg, $12; France
uoyd, hittannmg, $10; bophia Law
rence, McKccsport. $8.
General orders were issued from th
headuarters of the National Guard an
nouncing the following appointments
on Governor Penny-packer's staff: As
sistant adjutant general. Col. Lzra 11.
Kipplc. Lackawanna: inspector gen
eral, Col. Frank G. Sweeney, Dela
ware; judge advocate general, Col. a
rrank Lshleman, Lancaster: quarter
master general, Col. Samuel Moody,
.Beaver; assistant quartermaster gen
eral. Col. Thomas Potter, Jr., Phila
delphia: commissary general. Col. Al
bert J. Logan, Allegheny; assistanl
commissary general, Col. Horace L.
Maldeman. Lancaster; surgeon gen
eral. Col. Robert Gricr Leconte, Phila
delphia: general inspector of rifle prac
tice, Col. Frank K. Patterson. Alle
gheny; chief of artillery. Col. Sheldon
Potter, Philadelphia; aides-de-camp,
Col. James Elverson, Jr., Philadelphia;
Harry C. Trexler. Lehigh; James M.
Reid, F'ayette; Ned Arden Flood,
Crawford: Charles C. Pratt. Susque
hanna; Daniel B. Shcpp. Philadelphia;
Louis T. Brown, Allegheny; Paul S.
Reeves, Chester; Walter T. Bradley,
Philadelphia; George Broole, Jr.,
Berks; Edward R. Chambers, Centre;
Homer J. Lindsay. Allegheny. Non
commissioned staff Color sergeant,
Jacob Green, Philadelphia; chief musi
cian. Edgar N. Major, Dauphin; quar
termaster sergeant, William L. Hicks.
Dauphin; commissary sergeant, Ear)
R. Marvin, Allegheny.
By the provisions of a bill introduced
in the Senate by Mr. Scott, of Philadel
phia, the city of Philadelphia will be en
abled to accept the Andrew Carnegie
offer toward the establishment and main
tenance of free libraries. The bill is a
supplement to the act of 1895 for the
establishment of free libraries, and au
thorizes cities of the first class to cuter
into contracts and agreements with the
donors of funds for the erection of tree
libraries or branches and to provide
sites for the erection and funds for the
maintenance thereof. Contracts relative
to the management of the libraries may
be authorized Ey Councils to be executed
by the Mayor.
Mr. Hutt. of Philadelphia, introduced
a bill in the House appropriating S500,-
300 for the erection, equipment and main
tenance of two sanitariums for incipient
cases of consumption, one to be located
in the northeastern region of the State
and the other at Mont Alto, Franklin
county, each to have a capacity of 2500
patients. 1 he bill provides for the ap
pointment of a commission of five by the
Governor to select, the sites and deter
mine the manner of arrangement and
equipment of the buildings and shall re
ceive no compensation.
T. K. Beaver. Juniata: S. S. Gibbcl,
Lykcns; C. G. Engle, Columbia; Charles
A. Miller and Jacob u. Miller, Lancas
ter, representing the ownership of large
wiap manufacturing plants at Pittsburg,
Buffalo and Cleveland, will apply for a
charter in March for a corporation to
be known as the Pennsylvania Soap
Company. The object of the concern
is to purchase other scap plants 111 dif
ferent parts of the country. It will Le
capitalized at $625,000.
The Montgomery County Commis
sioners at a special meeting have decided
to offer a reward for the detection of
the slayer of Kegina Currie. The com
missioners met in Jcnkintown. District
Attorney Hendricks says that diligent
efforts are being made to hunt the cul
prit. Mr. Hendricks, from a study of
the case, does not believe Bernard tin
zuilty person. It was for that reason
he attended the meeting of the commis-
iioners and urged them to offer the re
ward.
Owing to the sudden death of Albert
M. Patterson, of aharon Mill, which re
tulted from diphtheria, the Board ol
Health has closed the public school the"
fot a few days and had it thorough!;
'umigated.
The Indiana Trust Company, com
posed of John S. Scott, J. H. Eaglr
Henry Hall, S. F. Telford. John S
Fisher, J. Wood Clark. J. C. Wallacf
and other prominent business men ha
been organized. The company has
purchased part of the Wilson buildinn
for $12,500 and will be ready for busi
ness May 1.
William Byassee, of Finleyville, ac
cused of the killing of William J. Gil
ford, was acquitted in court at Wash
ington.
As a result of the election at Sharon
ex-County Treasurer C. A. Ashto-i
made information against James E
Davis charging him with attempting t
wound him with a knife.
Canonsburg. a town of 5000 inhabit
nnts. will be without a hotel after Apn
1, the site of the Central Hotel havtnt
been purchased by the Citizens Triif
Company tor a new banking house,
In a bailer explosion near Grecnvil'f
Claire Cathcart was. killed and l'
brother seriously injured.
A convention of the superintenden:'
and principals of the public schools &
i-huvlkill countv was held in Pott
ville. Every district was represented
I he principal addresses were made p'
noerintendent H. H. Snavd. of Mis
frsville and Professor J. N. Newlin, ol
fottsville.
Charles E. Jefferson, colored. W
tcquitted in court at Washington or
the charge ol committing an assault
the 3-year-old daughter of Dr. Con
gcr, at Taylorstown.
Giles Gibyon. who was held by th'
coroner fan causing the death of Js
McClemciW, near Indiana, was "
leased on bail. 1 J
J. V. Thompson and others, e
Uniontown have sold 1000 acres ot Cop
land fronting on the Monongahtl'
river to the Wheeling Steel and
Company for $500 per acre.
Factory Inspector Delaney says th'
more applications for appointment '
deputy lactory inspectors have been n
ceived than for anv other position
der the State government. There n
700 abdications on ble from all Y
the State. Ihey are all relerred to u
uovcrnor.