CAUSED BY LANDSLIDES
Three Killed and Twenty-Five Injured
la Railroad Wreck.
SERIOUS DISASTER ON THE SOUTHERN.
Trala Plunge! Dowa a Steep Embankment
Other Fait Trains Hid A Lucky Escape Was
Caused by Freshets Plucky Engineer,
Kcallilai That Death Was Near, Refused to
Teach Whiskey.
Knoxville, Tenn. (Special). The fast
passenger train, Chattanooga to Sal
isbury, leaving Chattannogi at II. 45 p.
tn., was wrecked about tlircc and a hall
miles west of Lenoir city, Tenn., on
the Southern Railroad about 2 o'clock
a. tn. The wreck was caused by spread
ing of the rails. Three were killed
and 25 injured.
The wreck occurred on the top of
m steep embankment, and the tram
plunged down this. The locomotive
went within .10 feet of the Tcncee
Tiver. Four of the coaches were tele
scoped and partially piled upon the
engine. Three coaches were burned
outright. The Cincinnati Southern
train from Chattanooga to Cincinnati,
was traveling behind the ill-tatcd train,
it having to conic by way of Knox
ville on account of damage to track
r( the Cincinnati Southern between
Chattanooga and llarrinian. This train
was awaiting orders at London, when
it was advised of the wreck. The en
gine of the Cincinnati Southern train
ran up to the scene oi the wreck and
by pulling two of the rear sleepers back
on the track and away from the wreck
age succeeded in saving them irom
destruction by fire.
It is stated the wreck was caused by
two landslides. In the first, it is
thought a big builder came down the
aide of a bluff and fell upon the track, j
these landslides spread the track ,
and when the locomotive struck the ,
boulder it was thrown from the ties ;
and down the embankment. Several
coaches followed. The scene of the
wreck is between Loudon and Lenoir
city, Tennessee, where the railroad par
allels the Tennessee river for a consid
erable distance. The construction of the
Toad at this point was very difficult
engineering, and it is the most unfor
tunate place for a wreck.
Just before Engineer Bibb died a
physician endeavored to have him drink
little whiskey, in the hope of ex
tending his life as long as possible.
The engineer refused it, saying:
"I have never touched it yet, and
lon't expect to drink it now." Con
tinuing, he said: "I am going to die.
ao go and look after the women and
children in the coaches."
Ran Into a Landslide.
Easton, Pa. (Special). An east
hound passenger train on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, due here a little be
fore noon, ran into a heavy landslide
at Dempseys, near Freeman sburg.
The locomotive, baggage car and com
bination car were thrown from the
track and traffic was blocked, but no
one hurt. A watchman on duty saw
the slide a moment before the train
was due at that point from either di
rection. He succeeded in stopping the
westbound train, but could not stop
the eastbound train in time. Lehigh
Valley trains were run over the Cen
tral of New Jersey tracks between
Bethlehem and Easton to get around
the wreck.
Limited Express Derailed.
Battle Creek, Mich. (Special). As a
result of the derailment of the Grand
Trunk westbound limited express one
man was killed, one was fatally injured
nd several were seriously hurt.
The first day coach left the rails and
awept broadside acros-. Jefferson ave
nue. Flagman Dixon was standing in
the street talking to Parker, and both
men were swept under the car. The car !
was crowded with passengers, all of
whom escaped with very slight inju
ries. A defective switch caused the ac
cident. INJURED IN A WRECKED MILL.
A Wall ol the Factory Blowa In Girl's Hair
Twisted on the Spools.
Charlotte. N. C. (Special). The Avon
Cotton Mill, at Gastnnia, was partially
wrecked and four or five operatives in
jured, two probably fatally, by a wind
storm which visited that town. One
frundred and fifty feet of the southern
wall of the factory was blown down, fall
ing inward on the operatives and ma
chinery. Sadie Beatty, aged 12, and Bessie T-ay,
aged 15, were badly crushed. The Beat
ty girl was crushed against a spinning
frame. Her hair was twisted on the
spools, her head was gashed and she
was internally injured.
The Lay girl's jaw and one hand were
broken and the back of her head crushed
in. The injuries of the other operatives
were not serious. The damage to the
factory is $5,000.
The town academy building was
wrecked, chimneys were blown from the
graded school building, and the Modena
Cotton Mill was slightly damaged.
At Clifton. S. C. the dwelling of
James Reynolds was blown down and his
12-year-old son killed.
Port D Prli Destroyed.
Cape Haytien, Haiti (By Cable). A
despatch received here from Gros
Monw announces the complete destruc
tion of Port de Paix. Haiti, by fire.
Only the vessels belonging to the Hay
tien Company were saved. The town is
on the Straits, between the Haytien
Islands and Tortuga. thirty-five mile
northwest of Cape Haytien.
Clerfymso's Attempted Suicide.
Chicago (Special). Rev. Dr. J. M.
Caldwell, for many years presiding elder
f the Methodist Church at Chicago and
bow pastor of the Union Avenue Metho
Hst Church, attempted to end his life by
throwing himself in front of a railroad
train. He was unconscious when picked
tin. Ilia lea was broken and he was in
ternally injured, but it was said he might
recover. Dr. Caldwell was arrested on
charge of disorderly conduct and re
leased on bail.
Chine Troops Aahnsacl
Telling (By Cable). Five hundred
Imperial troops were caught February
16 in an ambush in the Yang-Uing
ran oj wie reoeis 01 inc province oi
Kwang-Si. South China. All the ml.
alters were killed and the rebels cao-
turtd large supplies of arms, which the
troops were taking to the besieged Har
rison at Chi-Yuen. The official reports
admit that the rebellion in Kwang-Si
ia increasing and has spread over the
border into the Province of Hunan
The Viceroy of Hunan has sent troops
to the boundary tu check the advance
f the rebels.
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THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
Floods and windstorms caused con
siderable damage in Wisconsin, Ken
tucky, Tennessee and Western Penn
sylvania in the vicinity of Pittsburg.
A heavy snowstorm in South Dakota
caused the abandonment of railroad
trains.
Albert Knapp. the modern Bluebeard
of Ohio, is said to be considering an
other confession that will cover other
crimes. An aunt of his first wife says
the latter died in Tcrec Haute 10 years
ago.
A woman has furnished the Chicago
authorities information that furnishes
damaging links of evidence against the
men accused of robbing the Chicago
Postoffice of $7(1.610 worth of stamps.
A man calling himself Claude Trim
ble was operated on at the F.rie
County Hospital, at Buffalo, and 453
carpet tacks. 142 screws and various
other articles were taken from his
stomach.
The insubordination of a squad of ar
tillerymen in Havana caused President
Paln'ia to separate the artillery force
stationed at Cabanas fortress from the
remainder of the guard.
Twenty-two laborers arc suing the
Pennsylvania Coal Company and the
Kric Uailro.id for $50,000 apiece for
injuries alleged to hac been received
during the coal strike.
A number of men are believed to
have l t their lives in a fire-damp
explosion that occurred in the Hos-tetter-Co-mellsville
Coke Company's
mine, near Latrobe, Pa.
Miss Kbt!i Curzon, of Red Bank.
N'. J., who was supposed to be dead,
came to life while the undertaken was
making preparations to embalm the
body.
A passenger train collided with a
light engine near Brownsville, Pa.,
in which a number of passengers and
trainmen were injured.
Louis Messier and John Cullcn.
Imlllw.t'C r,.-,,i 1, nrri.c.a.l li r i, rl
.,1, P'r.i,;., , v,. vrW hr.
u.,. .,.re indict(,j )y ,le Kram) jury
,he ch:irKe of KrarKi arccllv m thc
,....,...1 .iVBTe, 1 i,e noi;,.- hel'ieve the
boys got $!oo,coo worth of jewelry and
money.
Stephen Yubich, a contract miner, in
the employ of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company, was assaulted by
two unknown men near Tamaqua, Pa.,
and died of his injuries.
The National Tube Company, a sub
sidiary of the 'uitcd States Steel Cor
poration, will expend $9,000,000 in ad
ditions and improvements to its 14
plants.
Mabini. former president of the Phil
ippines Supreme Court, took the oath
of alcgiancc on his arrival at Manila
on the transport Thomas from Guam.
Gen. George P. Ihrie, late of the
United States Army, and the only sur
viving member of General Grant's
Western Staff, died at Asbury Park,
N. J.
New York detectives made a search
of the French steamship La Cham
pagne for suspected anarchists.
A fire in the town of Peaks, on the
Southern Railway, in South Carolina,
caused a loss of $50,000.
Mrs. Sarah F. Kittredge, a writer,
perished in a fire in the Burbank Block,
at Lowell, Mass. Losses, $125,000; part
ly covered by insurance. There was a
wild rush of lodgers from the building
and many made narrow escapes.
George F. Kroehl, president of the
First National Bank of Asbury Park, N.
J., and director of the Monmouth Trust
Company, was arrested on the charge of
making a false statement.
Foreign.
An unidentified man, claiming to be a
citizen of the L'nited States, was arrested
in Vienna, charged with fraudulently
cashing a letter of credit for $10,000 is
sued by Lazard Freres, of New York, in
favor of Samuel llirsch.
The French Chamber of Deputies,
after an exciting discussion, voted a tax
on 'ctrolctiin and incorporated in this
law a provision asking the establishment
of a government monopoly on petroleum,
Emperor William decided to postpone
sending the Frederick the Great statute
until the spring of 1904.
The Italian government denies having
contemplated the ceding of any portion
of her Somali possessions to Great Bri
tain.
The Cunard steamer Lucania com
municated with the Campania, of the
same line, at sea bv wireless telegraphy.
1 he voluntary otterings in the Church
of England during 1902 were $41,850,000.
terrific gale swept England and Ire
land. Churches, mills and other build
ings were damaged. At Cork a building
collapsed and one person was killed and
a number injured. A number of vessels
were blown ashore.
rive hundred Chinese imperial troops
were caught in ambush in the Yangung
Pass by the rebels and all killed. The
rebellion in Kwangsi is increasing and
has spread to the Province of Hunan.
An explosion in the ce lar of the im
perial palace in Vienna, caused by the
ignition ot some sporting ammunition.
created considerable excitement.
U nited States Consul Sawter. at Gua
yaquil, started back shortly after his ar
rival there, fearing yellow fever.
t ort de Paix, Hayti. was destroyed bv
fire and only the vessels belonging to the
Hainan company were saved.
Keports of war preparations and fight
ing come from the various Central
American republics.
.Nathaniel Duiilon. chairman of the
Allan Line, at a meeting of the Glas
gow Shipowners' Association, denounc
ed the British shipping laws and de
clared that British maritime suprem
acy was endangered by the American
railroad uuring ineir own carrying
trade on land and sea.
1'he aipointment of coadjutors to the
Archbishops of St. Louis and Cincin
nati, which was to be decided at a
meeting of the Congregation of the
1 ropaganda March 2. has been post
poned, owing to objections received
trom America.
Financial.
Labor troubles on the Wabash arc
growing easier.
San Francisco has sent to New York
this week $1,000,000.
Buying by Americana has put up the
price of pig iron to $14 at Glasgow.
Mining companies in the United
Statea last year paid $150,000,000 in
dividends.
Louisville & Nashville for the third
week oi February gained $19.67$ gross.
Germany's pig iron production last
month was 782,484 tons, breaking all
records.
The New York Subtreasury holds a
little over $200,000,000 gold, the top
notch record.
It is said that Lehigh Valley's state
ment for January will show a record
month for coal business and profits.
In January the Lake Superior region
produced more copper than ever before
m one month, the value being $2,041,-
Welsbach Company officials made
no defense in the Brnokl vn r&ktt in
' which a Sheriffs' jury awarded damages
A of $100,000 against the company. The
reason is that Welsbach people prefer
to have the matter tried before a Fed
eral jury, which will be dune.
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FAMINE IN PHILIPPINES
President Sends a Message to the Sen
ate Urging Legislation.
A REDUCTION IN THE TARIFF WANTED.
Productive Industries ol the Islands on the
Verge of Collapse Conditions Now Pre
vailing Encourage Ladronlsm and Clsatlec
lion Reduce the Tariff as a Measure of
Humanity.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
President sent the following message to
the Senate:
"I have just received a cable from
Governor Taft, which runs as follows:
" 'Necessity for passage of House
tariff bill most urgent. The conditions
of productive industry and business con
siderably worse than in November, the
date of last report, and growing worse
each month. Some revival in sugar and
tobacco prices due to expectation of
tariff law. The interests of Pbilipinos in
sugar and tobacco arc extensive, and
failure of bill will be blow in face of
those- interests. Number of tobacco fac
tories will have to close, and many sugar
haciendas will be put up for sale at a
sacrifice if the bill will not pass.
" 'Customs receipts have fallen off this
month one-third, showing decrease of
purchasing power of islands. General
business stagnant. All political parties,
including labor unions, most strenuous
in petition for tariff bill. Effect of its
failure very discouraging.'
"Vice Governor Luke Wright indor
ses in the strongest manner all that Gov
ernor Taft has said, and states that he
has the gravest apprehension as to the
damage that may come to the islands if
there is not a substantial reduction in the
tariff levied against Philippine goods
coming into the L'nited States. I very
earnestly ask that this matter receive the
immediate attention of Congress and
that the relief prayed for be granted."
TORTURED BV MASKED ROBBERS.
Even the Baby and a Little Girl Were Sub.
Jected to Cad Treatment
Toledo, O. (Special). Ten masked
robbers went to the home of Christian
Jochlin, two miles from the city lim
its, battered down their doors with
clubs and entered the residence, leav
ing two men outside as guards. In
the house were Mr. and Mrs. Christian
Joehlin, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Jochlin,
John Anderson, Joseph Joehlin, also
a three-year-old boy and an 18-months-old
girl. All, including even the baby
boy and girl, were clubbed into insen
sibility, bound and gagged. When the
Joehlings recovered consciousness the
robbers demanded $20,000 which they
said they knew was secreted in the
house.
When told that no such amount was
there the bandits applied burning
torches to the faces and feet of all
their victims, blistering even the in
fant's little feet. Christian Joehlin, an
aged paralytic, was beaten so frequent
ly that there is not a spot on his head
that is not bruised and raw. The ma
rauders, leaving their victims securely
tied, searched every corner of the
house, securing $.?oo in cash and several
articles of jewelry. They drank several
gallons of wine which they found in
the cellar, prepared a meal, including
meat, potatoes coffee, wine and other
edibles, and coolly devoured it. They
were in the house five hours, leaving at
4 o'clock a. m., after notifying the fam
ily that they would return for the $20,
000. Every policeman nnd detective in
the city is working on the case, but not
even a clue of the intruders' where
abouts has been discovered.
ENGINEER DEAD AT LEVER,
And Train Rusbed Across Bridge at Sixty
Miles an Hour.
Columbus, Ohio (Special). When a
passenger train on the Panhandle road
reached the Big Walnut bridge, just east
of Columbus, it did not decrease speed,
in obedience to orders, but rushed across
at the rate of 60 miles an hour.
The fireman, M. G. Coristan, was sur
prised and looked over at Engineer John
W. Smith. He was horrified to find the
engineer crouched against the reverse
lever with both arms about it.
When examined, after the train was
brought to a standstill, a deep gash, ex
posing the brain, was found in the en
gineer's right temple. It is thought that
while leaning out of his cab window he
was struck by some protruding otiject
and killed.
Three Miners Killed.
Springfield, III. (Special). An explo
sion which resulted in the death of
three miners, occurred in the Auburn
and Alton Coal Company's mine, twen
ty miles southwest of Springfield. The
men were alone in the shaft at the
time of the accident and it was some
time before the fact became known.
Ten of the eleven mules used in .the
shaft were also killed. The accident
was caused by an explosion ol dust.
Fears Yellow Fever.
Guayaquil, Ecuador (By Cable).
United States Consul General Sawter
and Mrs. Sawter, who arrived here
February 25 via Payta, Peru, have
started on their return to the United
States on the same steamer which
brought them south. Mr. Sawter, it
is alleged, became afraid of yellow fe
ver when he saw the room at the con
sulate where Thomas Nasi, the former
consul general, died December 7, of the
fever.
Strlkt Commission's Work.
Washington (Special). The Anthra
cite strike commission is making con
siderable progress in its labors. It
has carefuly gone over practically all
the important points involved and a
tentative agreement has been reached
on some of them. No statement has
been made as to when the actual fram
ing of the report will begin, but it is
exnected that the final conclusions to
be embodied in the report will be def
initely shaped very' shortly.
Robbers Art Busy.
Grand Rapids, Mich.(Special). Two
robbers blew open the safe of Hub
bard's private bank at Cedar Springs
during the night and secured between
$4000 and $5000. They obtained admit
tance to the bank by means of keys
and then opened the safe with two
charges of dynamite. They stole a
team from Miller's livery stable and
were seen coming toward this city. In
the morning the sheriff found the team
loose in the street here. The robbers
; hv it yet been captured. ,
WITH THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
Oeneral Deficiency Bill.
The Senate Committee on Appropria
tions concluded its consideration of the
General Deficiency Appropriation Bill.
The committee added as an amendment
to the Deficiency Bill the House Bill
making provision for the conduct of the
business of the Department of Com
merce and Labor and appropriating
$3oi.57o for the same.
The following is made a part of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
provision :
"That the President may in his dis
cretion direct the diversion from the ap
propriation of $500,000 for the enforce
ment of the provisions of an act entitled
'an act to regulate commerce' and divers
other acts heretofore made for the De
partment of Justice in the act making
appropriations for the legislative, execu
tive and judicial expenses of the gov
ernment, approved February 25. 1903, an
amount not exceeding $100,000 of said
appropriation.
Other important amendments are as
follows :
Giving the President authority to ex
tend the leave of absence of Minister
Bowen; appropriating $946.08.1 to pay the
prize-money claims of Admiral Dewey
and the officers nnd men under hint at
Manila ; appropriating $."0,000 for the
payment of claims of Confederate sol
diers for horses taken from them in vio
lation of terms of surrender and barring
all such claims under the Act of 1902
which are not filed by March 1, 11104.
As reported to the Scm.te, the bill car
ries a total of $18,306,449, an increase of
$3,593,472.
Naval Reserve and Mlillla.
The House Committee on Naval Af
fairs authorized a favorable reports on
a resolution calling upon the Secretary
of the Navy to transmit to Congress
the recommendations of the general
naval board, and the reports of the naval
war college in reference to the policy that
shall be pursued by Congress in making
appropriations, and other information
relative to the cost of equipping and
maintaining a naval reserve and militia.
The provision in the resolution request
ing the Secretary to inform Congress as
to the appropriations that would be ne
cessary to annually increase the navy to
the extent of four battle-ships was
stricken out of the resolution.
A favorable report also was ordered
on the resolution calling upon the Secre
tary of the Navy for information as to
the letting of any contracts for the pre
parations of plans for the new Naval
Academy.
Report on Wireless Telegraphy.
A joint resolution was introduced in
the House by Representative Loudcn
slager, of New Jersey, directing the
Secretary of the Navy to submit a report
to Congress as to the best system of wire
less telegraphy, with an estimate of the
cost of purchase, and the establishment
of a system for the use of the several de
partments of the government, and the
desirability of such purchase.
To Encourage American Snipping.
Representative Jones, of Washington,
introduced a bill providing for a dis
criminating duty of 10 per cent in favor
of American vessels.
A Government for Alaska.
Representative Sulzcr, of New York,
introduced A bill tn rrpnfi thp TWritnrv
of Alaska, and to provide a government
ior 111c 1 erruory.
In the Departments.
Members of the Naval Board of
Construction told the House comitiit
tee it would not be possible to con
struct up-to-date battleships upon the
amendments to the Naval Bill adopted
by the Senate.
Baron Gevcrs. the minister of the
Netherlands, and Mr. Bowen, signed
the protocol for the settlement of that
country's claims against Venezuela.
The Secretary of the Treasury tele
graphed to Assistant Appraiser J. B.
Stillman, of New York, asking for his
immediate resignation.
F. H. du Martheray, the eiew Swiss
minister, was formally presented to
President Roosevelt.
At the Cabinet meeting the view was
expressed that the present Senate would
not ratify the Panama Canal and Cuban
Reciprocity Treaties and that an extra
session was inevitable.
President Roosevelt sent an urgent ap
peal to Congress to pass the Philippine
Tariff Bill as a measure of humanity and
to prevent the spread of disaffection in
the archipelago. 1
The Senate passed the Naval and the
Military Academy Appropriation Bills,
and by a party vote refused to take up
the Littlcfield Anti-Trust Bill.
President Roosevelt received a golden
key with an invitation to visit Pasadena,
Cal., on his Western trip. He has ac
cepted. The French Ambassador and Mr.
Bowen signed the French-Venezuelan
protocol.
The Senate passed bills for the govern
ment of Guam and Tutuila.
Senator Burrows presented to the
Senate a protest signed by Rev. J. L.
Leilich, representing the Ministers'
Association of Salt Lake, against the
seating of Reed Smoot.
Freight and traffic reprsentatives of
the various railroad companies explain
ed to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission the reason for the advance in
freight rates.
Charles A. Thompson, of Irwin, Pa.,
filed charges with the Interstate Com
merce Commission accusing the Penn
sylvania Railroad with discriminating
against him.
Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, of In
diana, was unanimously re-elected pres
ident general of the Daughters ol the
American Revolution.
The Senate appropriated $2,000,000
for the purchase of a site for the New
York Postoffice.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
transmitted to the Senate a letter from
the Attorney General recommending an
appropriation of $946,083 to satisfy the
claim of Admiral Dewey and his men.
The Interstate Commerce Comminion
has submitted a report to the Senate re
garding securities issued by railroad
companies.
Count Yai.tgiwana, a cousin of the
Mikado, has arrived in Washington,
According to United States Consul
McWade, at Canton, it has remained for
an American physician to discover a
means of curing and exterminating
leprosy.
The decision in the lottery cases has
occasioned much- comment in Washing
ton, as it seems to strengthen the ad
ministration's contention that the Sher
man Anti-Trust Law did not exhaust
the constitutional power of the Federal
government over commerce.
It is said that the negotiations now
pending with respect to the option the
United States holds on the Panama
Canal will be kept alive.
The State Department has approved
Mr, Bowen's proposal to the allied
powers that the Czar be asked to name
the three arbitrators who, as The
Hague tribunal, shall decide the ques
tion of deferential treatment.
HAD A DESIRE TO KILL
Alfred Knapp Found Satisfaction
Choking Women.
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HE MURDERED TWO OF HIS WIVES.
lie Has Confessed to Also Having Killed a
Child and a Young; Woman at Cincinnati
Relatives of the Fiend Assert that He Is In
saneHis Indiana Bride of Two Weeks
Still Loves Him.
Hamilton,' O. (Special). Five mur
ders, the victims of which were all wo
men, nnd two of them his wives such
is the revolting record of Albert
Knapp given in a sworn statement by
the murderer before Mayor Bosch.
Knapp, according to the police, is a
degenerate of the most pronounced
type. The murder of his third wife,
Annie Goddard Knapp, which led to
Knapp's arrest in Indianapolis, was
done 'T don't know why," to quote the
prisoner.
Knapp's confession is as follows:
"On January at, 1894, I killed Em
ma Littlcman in a lumber yard in Gest
street. Cincinnati. On August 1,
1894. I killed May F.ckert in Walnut
street, opposite the Y. M. C. A in
Cincinnati. On August 7. 1894. I kill
ed my wife, Jennie Connors Knapp, un
der the canal bridge in Liberty street,
Cinicnnati, and threw her into the ca
nal. In Indianapolis in July, 1895, I
killed Ida Gebhard. On December 22,
1902, I killed my wife, Annie Knapp.
at 339 South Fourth street, in Hamil
ton, and threw her into the river at
Lindcnwald. This is the truth.
"ALBERT KNAPP.
"I make this statement by my own
free will and not by the request of any
officer or anyone else.
ALBERT KNAPP."
Sworn to before me this 26th day of
February, 1901.
C. F. BOSCH, Mayor.
The confession clears up the mystery
of at least one death that of Jennie
Conncrs Knapp. Knapp's second" wife.
This woman's body was found in the
sluggish waters of the canal near Cin
cinnati. Bruises were discovered on the
head, but an investigation led to no
definite conclusion concerning the
manner of her death.
The most recent of the murders to
which Knapp has confessed that of hi-,
third wife, Annie Goddard Knapp, of
Hamilton led to his arrest at the
home of his fourth bride, in Indianapo
lis. An uncle of the victim, hearing of
Knapp's marriage to a Miss Gamble, in
Indianapolis, a few days after the mys
terious disappearance of his niece, for
merly Annie Goddard, started the in
vestigation. The police were prepared for a grue
some story, Knapp having admitted his
guilt of the Goddard murder, but they
were dumbfounded at the revelations
which the prisoner made when put un
der oath.
After his confession Knapp admit
ted that he had repeatedly assaulted
women. He said: "I met the Little
man child in the lumber yard and chok
ed her to death when she made an out
cry. "I went into the room with the Eck
ert girl and sat down with her. She
cried and I strangled her with a towel
and hurried from the house.
"I was mad at my wife, Jennie Con
nors Knapp, when I killed her. We
were walking along Liberty street. 1
sat her down under the bridge and
choked her to death. I deny that I
poisoned her. I never told anyone I
did. After she was dead I threw the
body into the canal.
"Ida Gebhard I killed, but my mem
ory is not clear as to what I did. I
cannot tell what made me kill these
people. I could not help it. Some kind
of a desire to kill took hold of me and
I could not resist the temptation to
kill. I am sorry for my crimes, but
now I hope they will be easy with me."
After the confessions a formal charge
of murder in the first degree was filed.
463 Tacks In His Stomach.
Euffalo, N. Y. (Special). Physicians
at the Erie County Hospital state
that, as a result of an operation per
formed at the hospital, 453 carpet tacks,
41 small knife blades, 142 screw nails,
40 pin points, resembling the points
on a shoemaker's awl: six and one-half
ounces of ground glass, and a wire
chain about three inches in length were
taken from the stomach of Gaude
Trimble, 24 years old. who says he is
a cook. He went to the hospital com
plaining of indigestion and dull pains
in the stomach. The physicians re
port the patient is in a fair way to re
covery. Dr. R. J. Oatlinf Dead.
New York (Special). R. J. Catling,
inventor of the Gatling gun, died here
at the home of his son-in-law, Hugh
O. Pentecost. Dr. Gatling, besides the
gun which bears his name, invented a
number of agricultural implements and
a gun metal. Although he graduated
from Ohio Medical College, he never
practiced medicine.
Powder Mill Explodes.
Cherokee, Kan. (Special). The press
mill of the Laflin & Rand Powder
Company's plant at Turck, eight miles
south of here, exploded, killing three
men and injuring fifteen others, some
of them fatally. The explosion is the
fourth since the establishment of the
works here in 1889.
Presldeat Signs Statues Bill.
Washington, D. C, (Special). Pres
ident Roosevelt signed a bill providing
for the erection in this city of statues
at a cost of $50,000 each to the memory
of Brigadier General Count Pulaski
and Major General Baron von Steu
ben, of the Continental Army.
Bank Trtasarer Attempts Salcide.
Boston (Special). Walter S. Cooke,
selectman and former state representa
tive from Milford and treasurer of the
Milford Co-operative Bank, recently at
tempted to commit suicide. It developed
that his accounts at the bank are short
an amount, which the president of the
institution says may be $5,000 and might
reach $15,000. Cooke ia in a critical
condition. No move towards criminal
action a has Leen taken. It is. believed
Cooke's bond will cover his defalcations.
Women Robkara la Troatera. I
Chicago (Special). Dressed in men's
clothes, conforming to the latest fash
ion, two young women, accompanied
by another woman somewhat their se
nior and dressed in the conventional
feminine costume, accosted John
Thomas at Thirty-fifth street and Ar
mour avenue, and after a sliort con
versation dragged him into an alley
and relieved him of $7 and his watch.
The two young women used the canes
which they carried to beat Thomas into
a state of insensibility, and the trio
then made 'heir escape.
BATTLE WITH OFFICERS.
As a Result Three M.-n Ar Dead and Two
Mortally Wounded,
Charleston, W. Va. (Special). At
Staniford city, Raleigh county, a ter
rible battle occurred at dawn between
the joint posses of deputy United
States Marshal Cunningham and Sher
iff Cook on one side and rioting min
ers on the other, as a result of which
three miners were killed, two others
mortally wounded and a number of
others on both sides more or less ser
iously hurt.
The trouble grew out of the attempt
to arrest thirty-four miners for vio
lation of the blanket injunction issued
by Federal Judge Keller last August.
Deputy Marshal D. W. Cunningham
went last Saturday to Atkinsvillc, a
mining town in Raleigh county, tn ar
rest men charged with violating the
injunction. He was surrounded by a
large party of miners armed with ri
fles, who ordered him to leave the place
an order which he quickly obeyed.
Sheriff Cook at this time attempted to
make some arrests under process is
sued by the State Court, and was treat
ed in a like manner.
Cunningham returned to this city
and reported to the marshal and di
trict attorney that die could do noth
ing without a large force, and the:i
only at imminent risk of preciptating a
bloody conflict. He was instructed to
return with men sufficient to serve the
process given him. and to do it at nil
hazard. Before Cunningham returned
to Atkinsville, however. Marshal John
K. Thompson and S. C Burdette. at
torney for the United Mine Workers,
went to the scene, spending most ol
Sunday and Monday there. They found
everything quiet, the rioters having
withdrawn from the immediate neigh
borhood and crossed New river, goinn
into camp 300 strong near the Big Q
mine, on the north side.
Thompson and Burdette came home
Tuesday morning and Cunningham
and a strong posse went from here tj
make the arrests. When Atkinsville
was reached, the federal forces wcr?
joined by Sheriff Cook and his posse
the coal companies nearby furnished
some guards and the deputy and sher
iff found themselves in command ol
about a hundred well armed and deter
mined men. The rioters had recross
cd the river on Tuesday and were pa
rading up and down before the vari
ous coal works from 150 to 200 men
armed with rifles. They intimidated
miners at work, drove away the guards
of the mines and even went so far as
to disarm one guard and force him tc
march at the head of their procession.
Emboldened by their success, they at
tempted to burn down a bridge of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad over
Pincy gulch and threatened the de
struction of other property.
About daybreak the officers and their
combined posse surprised the rioter?
in their camp and called on them to
surrender. The reply was a shot. This
was answered by a shot, and immedi
ately a furious battle was raging.
When it ceased three of the rioters
lay dead and many others were found
to be wounded, two of them fatally.
Seventy-three arrests were made, ten
falling to the share of Deputy Cunning
ham and sixty-three to that of Sheriff
Cook. All the prisoners were taken to
Becklcy, the county scat of Raleigh,
where the United States prisoners were
given a preliminary hearing by Com
missioner Dunn and held for appear
ance here.
CURE FOR LEPROSY.
Said to Have Been Discovered by American
Physician In China.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Accord
ing to United States Consul McWade, at
Canton, China, it has remained for an
American physician, Dr. Adolf Razlag,
to discover a means of curing and ex
terminating leprosy.
In a report to the state department the
consul says that wondcfful success has
attended the efforts of this physician and
his work has attracted the attention of
the highest Manchu and Chinese officials.
This work began in June. 1902, in a leper
village six miles distant from Canton. Of
the four cases treated, three have been
discharged completely cured, and the last
is making a practical recovery. The
physician urges strongly the adoption of
his methods for the treatment of lepers
in the Philippines and in Hawaii.
The main features of the treatment,
which is shown in detail in the consul's
report, appear to consist of minute and
prolonged sanitation and the use of
highly antiseptic drugs.
Killed By Teacher.
Spartanburg, S, C. (Special). Ed
win Foster, the 17-year-old schoolboy
who was shot by Reuben E. Pitts, a
teacher in the academy Foster attend
ed, died here. It is said that several
of the students attacked Professor
Pitts while he was whipping Foster,
and that in the scuffle which followed
Foster was shot by Pitts.
Excitement on the Maine.
Newport "News, Va. (Special). A
sailor on the battleship Maine is reported
to have been killed by a marine guard.
The drydock has been flooded to prevent
the men from escaping. Twenty-one
men are said to have deserted from the
vessel this week.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Two masked men robbed the postoffice
at Turner, Ariz. They held up the post
aster, George Clark, at the point of a
revolver and made him giva over $1,000
in cash.
It is announced that the Pennsylvania
Railroad will spend $67,000,000 on im
provements to its lines between Phila
delphia and Pittsburg.
Two robbers blew open the safe of
Hubbard's private bank at Cedar Springs,
Mich., and secured between $4,000 and
$5,000.
The body of E. L. Burdick. of the Buf
falo Envelope Works was found in his
borne, where he had been murdered.
Three men were killed and 15 were in-
i'ured by an explosion at the Laflin k
land powder mill, at Turck, Wis.
The Colorado Supreme Court decides
the act granting home rule to Denver to
be unconstitutional.
President Harper, of the University of
Chicago, offered to build chapter houses
for the 12 fraternities.
Anarchists from all over the world are
about to meet in a secret convention at
Paris to devise plans that may radically
affect the crowned heads of Europe.
The first blow was struck on the work
of constructing the Pennsylvania Rail
road tunnel under the East and North
Rivers and through New York city.
A battalion of the Fourteenth In
fantry, which is to go to the Philip
pines, has arrived at San Francisco.
Karl Evans was shot while hunting
at Fort Erie by his companion,' Wil
liam Bryant, a Buffalo lawyer. 1
Six girls were badly burned in an
explosion of fireworks in a fireworks Lip
lorv n MewsrV. f. .
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Ni Happenings of Interest Oatberetf
From All Source
.'vnnrcw carnegic has given the
loungwood oung Mens Christian
ssociaiion icco to apply to their cir
culating iiDrary.
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MUKI1 r. BOV CS. Inrnipr v nl I'M..
burg, night watchman at the Standard
steel car works, at Butler, was found
ncan in 111s room.
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.Mines viuricige, ot warren, was
comniitcd to jail for .to days for failing
to attend the drill of Company D, Fifth
ttcgimciu, 01 which he was a member.
Steven Suddick. of Vandegrift. was
crusnca to death by a railroad tie he
was carrying to his home to split into
kindling wood. He slipped on the ice
and icii. tnc tic tailing on his head,
iriisiung me SKUII.
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J. a. J.nillll)l)l. 01 I'lttsbtirc was enm.
mittcd to pail at Altoona, charged with
i-inut'zzicincnt. .
-Mr.i. Elizabeth Green, of Punxsu-
inwncy. iici suddenly while on a visit
to ncr son at Yatcsboro.
An ordinance granting the Wabash
Kauroad the right to enter New Cas
tle, was passed by councils...
A young child of John Rcott, of near
Butler, was burned to death by its
miming laKing nrc at a grate.
Michael Pollard, cmnloved nt th
Scottdale plant of the United States
Cast Iron and Foundry Company, was
instantly Killed while at work.
Thomas Millenard. Ynuno-wood. and
Jane Aycr, Grccnsburg: Harry Altman
anu Annie l-cehely. Johnstown, were
1 onnsyivamans wedded at Cumberland.
v.anoiisuurK merchants arc wi arms
against the Bell Telephone Companv,
wmcn nas announced an increase in
rates on April t. The merchants are
discussing the question of arranging
wiin anoincr company lor a local ser
vice.
In license court at Bedford. 17 ie-
tail and four wholesale liquor licerscs
were granted.
John Herold, a tailor, acred to. for
merly of Pittsburg, was found dead in
ued at ford city.
Work has been begun on the new
$60,000 St. Mary's Slavish Catholic
t-nurch at Uniontown.
The 3-vear-old son of George W
-Myers, 01 near Altoona, leu into 0
bucket of boiling water and was scald
ed to death.
In a Ciuarrcl amonor neornes near Mt
Pleasant, several shots were fired ai.d
two ol the principals were wounded.
John Grant, of Ellwood city, was ar
rested on information made by A. C.
Frey, charging forgery of two notes
ot $22 eacn.
Shire Oaks bovs. tired of attending
school, are alleged to have set fire to
the building. Volunteer firemen ex
tinguished the blare.
In SKcordancc with his intention to
learn all about departmental workings.
Governor Pennypackcr had with him
the heads ol several departments, in
cluding Attorney General Carson. Dep
uty Secretary of the Commonwealth
Bcitler, Superintendent Shoemaker and
Factory Inspector Dclaney. The Gov
ernor iounn mat cveryining is worx
ing smoothly.
After the meeting the following ap
pointments were announced:
Even R. Penrose, Quakertown, pro
moted from deputy factory inspector.
State bank examiner, taking the
place of (J. P. Cochran, who goes into
'.he banking business in Pittsburg.
James H. Ferris, Wcllsboro, deputy
factory inspector, to take the place of
W. W. English, of Wcllsboro, retired.
Lincoln L. Kniscly, Harrisburg, dep
uty factory inspector, to take the place
nt Alary Wagner. Harrisburg, -who is
made clerk in the department.
W. R. Fullcrton, Chester, deputy fac
tory inspector, in place of Thomas B.
Shaw. Chester, retired.
Ex-Reprcsr.ntative James Patterson,
Newportvi'.le, Bucks county, deputy
factory inspector, to succeed E. R.
Penrose.
It is said there will be more change?
next month.
Secretary of Internal Affairs-elect
Isaac B. Brown left today for Florida
to recover his health and escape the
mnortunities of the officeseekers.
Former Attorney General Elkin, and
District Attorney Millar, ot this city,
jvill leave here tomorrow to join Insur-
incc Commissioner Durham's party in
Florida.
William Bentley, colored, was be
headed by a train at McDonald.
John D. Grannis, aged 57, was found
lead in bed at New Castle.
Charticrs presbytery of the United
Presbyterian Church has organized a
new church at Donora.
St. John's Lutheran Church, at Kit
tanning, has extended a call 'to Rev.
Mr. Kline, of Hamburg.
The First Baptist congregation at
Oil Citv has extended a call to Rev
lames R. Edwards, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Warren Rorabaugh, aged 15. is i
jail at Kittanning, charged with as
saulting Ralph Ncwingham, aged 14,
with a club.
Indiana Normal school students ol
served Watshington's birthday with a
reception, at which several Pitts
burgers were present.
Mr. Salus, of Philadelphia, introduc
ed a bill in the House to regulate thr
sale of drugs and patent medicine
which contain poisonous substances.
The House thows decided oppositioo
to the election of United States Sena-to-s
by direct vote of the people.
Judge Yerkcs in the case of the pe
lition of the sheriff of Bucks county
declares the act of April 28, 1899, ere
sting "Prison Boards," is unconstiti
i.ional, unwise and impolitic.
Ground has been broken for a ne
seventeen-mile trolley road from Lan
raster to Safe Harbor, where it wil
connect with the Columbia and Por
Deposit. Railroad.
Auburn Sub-district Sundsy Schoo
Association will hold its twenty-sev
enth session at the M. E. Church, Ai
burn Centre.
' Rev. Charles P. Wellman. of th
Harvard Diviny School, has notifie
the trustees of the Unitarian Church
Lancaster, that he will accept the cal
extended.
Martin G. Prifrr has sued the cit;
of Lancaster to recover $10,000 dam
ages, claiming that through the au
thorities' neglcrt the contents of
sewer flooded his cellar, causing ty
phoid fever cssrs in his family.
Jacob F. Fell, aged 80, a well-knowi
resident of Norristown, died at hi'
home after an illness lasting about sir
months. He is survived by a wido
and three children.
John Boyd Snyder is dead at Sha
mokin, aged 67. When the town wa'
surveyed by John Boyd he said I"
would give a lot to the first male chil
born in Shnmokin, and Snyder wot
the prize. He built a home on the lo1
and lived in it all his life.
The Susquehanna County Teacher!
Association held its annual convention
at Hallstead. The attendance wai
larec.