SIX PEOPLE ARE BURNED
Uaiecasut la the West Virginia Mining
Towo of Lelter.
CAUSED BY THE EXPLOSION OF LAMP.
Tba Bowta Was Frame Slruclur tod Burn
t Wltk Qrtit Rapidity Nothing la tb
mm Wat Saved, and the Sleeping In
states Awekt t Find the Lower Part el lb
Seractar ta Blast.
Elkins, W. V. (Special). In tlie
training; of a double luntc at I-citcr, a
mining town below Elkins, six persons
aunt known to have lost their lives and
several were badly injured.
It i believed by some that seven per
sona in all lost their lives one other man
Icing missing.
The house was occupied on one side by
Thomas Coughlan and on the other by
Silas Finley. They kept a hotel together.
The fire was first discovered in. Miss
Coughlan'! room and is believed to have
km caused by the explosion of a lamp.
The flames made such headway that the
lmilding collapsed a few moments after
the blaze was detected. Those who did
escape barely had time to do so. There
were 14 persons in the house.
Mr. Anderson was foreman of the
Soaring Creek and Bcllington railroad
operations. He and his family lived on
the Finley side of the house. The others
who were cremated lived on the Cough
laa side.
A brisk south wind was blowing at the
time the fire occurred. The house was
Vrilt in a flimsy manner and the weather
toarding was dry. It burned like tinder,
die flames spreading from one part to
another with astonishing rapidity.
The lower part of the house was full
of fire and smoke when the inmates
woke. Those who were saved were
compelled to leap from the upper-story
anaoow. They were sleeping soundly
when aroused by the crackling flames.
Anting from their beds, they just had
time to run to the top story and jump
out of the windows. Clad only in their
sight clothes, they saw in a few moments
the (wilding entirely consumed and knew
that (iz of their friends had met death
an the blazing structure. Hardly an
article out of all their numerous personal
belongings in the house was saved.
After the ashes had cooled off to some
extent the search of the ruins began.
Soon the bodies of the six victims were
treeorered. All of them were terribly
famed, being charred beyond all recogni
tion. Leiter, where this tragedy occurred, is
anull town eight miles south of Elkins.
Almost its entire population is composed
of persons connected with the mines at
that place. There is little apparatus for
fighting fire there, and no matter how
good it might have been the house burned
o rapidly that it would hardly have been
fjossible to have saved any of those who
were cremated.
NEW CRUISER LAUNCHED.
The Chattanooga Glides Down Ibe Ways
Large Crowd Attended.
Mew York (Special). In the pres
ence of 3000 spectators, including offi-
ciala of the State of Tennessee, the
City of Chattanooga, the City of New
York and many i.aval officers, the
United States cruiser Chattanooga was
launched at the shipyards of the Unit
ed State1" Shipbuilding Company at
lizabcthport, N. J. With flying col
ra the warship slid gracefully down
the ways and took the water amid a
tumult of cheers and deafening whistle
Uasts from yachts and other vessels
crowded with spectators. The Chatta
nooga was chriMcncd by the young
-daughter of the Mayor of Chattanooga.
Xillian Chamhlis, who broke a bottle
of champagne against the prow, with
the words, "I christen thee, good ship,
in honor of Chattanooga." The maids
fjf honor were Miss Trances Bond and
Mist Kieta Faxon.
EXPLOIT OF FOUR ROBBERS.
Six Hoadred Dollars World of Goods Stolen
From Moving Car.
Seaford, Del. (Special). Detective
Jltrtchins, of the Delaware Railroad, as
sisted by Special Policeman Thomas
34essick, arrested four alleged thieves
kere who arc charged with breaking a
eai on a freight car at Koss Station, one
rule north of this town, and robbing the
car of $xjo worth of shoes, jumpers and
overalls consigned to parties in Poco
aoke City, Md.. and Cape Charles, Va.
ITie robbers boarded the train at Wil
tnington, and when it reached the lonely
icung at Koss, threw the cases out, jump
ing oif the train here. They returned to
their plunder, broke the cases open and
carried the contests off in sacks. They
concealed them in a shanty near town.
KM SENT TO INSANE ASYLUM.
Be Shot Two Sisters at the New York Found
ling Asylum.
Kew York (Special). Henry J. King,
who has been confined in the Tombs
Prison since July, 1011, having been
found guilty on two counts of assault in
the second degree, was declared insane
hj a commission appointed by Recorder
Ooff. He will be sent to Matteawan In
sane Asylum.
A yar ago last July King went to the
ew York Foundling Asylum and shot
two of the sisters there, slightly wound
ing them. He had been an inmate of the
ntvlum ivhrn a tmv mt tin rl n t,-.lt.
tion that he was the illegitimate son of
srrallhy parents. He demanded that the
aaatera tell him the name of his supposed
wealthy parents. While they were try
ana; to calm him he drew a revolver and
hot two of them.
Qboal Teds of lilt WoTk.
XoLletville, Ind. (Special). Hufus
Cantrell, the alleged gra robber, came
lere from Indianapolis to testify before
the grand jury. He was accompanied
hf hit attorney and two detectives. Can
treU wat before the iiiry ail the morning
d ena4e a full confession of his alleged
relations with men of this ccunfy who,
fce aaya, have been robbing gravts in
aaearlj every cemetery in the county for
eren or eight years. He said that bodies
were taken from the river in boats and
feruled to the colleges in wagons.
ffoaJieds Peris!) Lt Snowstorm.
London (By Cable). The St. Pctcrs
nwrar cot respondent tf the Daily Mail
telegraphs that teniblc snowstorms have
lieen raffing- durimr tl.c nast week in
government of Samara and have caused
tnmrirrds of deaths. Horses drawing
ticket have returned to villages with
r .... ....
wie petif.crt itozrn to ucntii. 1 lie vil
lage betlt are rui-g nightly to enable
travelers to find their way to shelter.
Many persons brve hern frozen to death
within the villages while starching' for
the doors of their own homes.
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.
Nellie Fletcher, who was found dead
in a New York boardinghousc, it was
found, was a New Haven girl, who had
gone to Chicago with a Yale graduate,
but had returned East.
President Buchanan, ol the Interna
tional Association of Ironworkers,
stated that the strike was ordered be
cause the American Bridge Company
had violated its agreement.
The cry of "Fire' in Proctor's Fifth
Avenue Theater, New York, nearly
caused a panic. Five women fainted.
There was no fire and the engines were
only passing.
The ferryboat Neptune, plying be
tween Allegheny, Pa., and the West
End, was sunk by the steamer Marga
ret and all on board were forced to
swim to the shore.
In a head-on collision between pas
senger trains on the Burlington Rail
road, John Peterson was fatally crush
ed and three other passengers injured.
David W. Bucklin, who was arrest
ed in the raid on Canficld's, in New
York, sued the Trenton (N. J.) chief
of police for $25,000 damages.
The Porto Rico House of Delegates
passed the Million-Dollar Insular
Loan Bill. All the American members
of the House opposed it.
The plant of the Franklin Baker
Company, importers of cocoanuts, in
Philadelphia, was partially destroyed
by fire.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned several indictments against
get-rick-quick turf investment con
cerns. The officers and joint committees of
the Brotherhoods of Firemen and Train
men sent a circular to their respective
lodges advising them not to strike pend
ing a decision by the court on the injunc
tion proceedings instituted.
Mrs. Albert Zorn. who died of strychnine-poisoning
in Chicago, according to
her husband's statement, committed sui
cide after reading Tolstoi's "Resurrec
tion" and comparing her life with that of
the heroine.
Charles T. Molony, general superin
tendent of the Pennsylvania Warehous
ing and Safe Deposit Company, secured"
$7,oco from the Girard National Bank
on an alleged forged check and disap
peared. During discussion of the reciprocity
treaty in the Cuban Senate Scnor San
guily denounced it as a scheme on the
part of the United States to keep Euro
pean commerce out of Cuba.
A general strike has been ordered by
the International Association of Bridge
and Structural Ironworkers against the
American Bridge Company.
Rev. J. M. Caldwell, at one time a
presiding elder in the Methodist Episco
pal Church, was declared insane by a
Chicago jury.
The Convention of Negro Presidents
of Agricultural Colleges in an address
urges members of their race to take up
farm life.
Judge Cantrill, in Versailles, Ky., de
cided that Governor Beckham is eligible
for re-election as governor of Kentucky.
Cornell University professors are to
be retired after attaining the age of 70
years on a pension of $1,500 a year.
Charles E. L. Henderson was executed
in Dulutli, Minn., for the murder 1 Ida
McCormick, his mistress.
A conference of Sunday school mis
sionaries, at which 17 states are repre
sented, was begun in Chicago.
Rufus Cantrcll, the resurrectionist,
made a full confession to the grand jury
in Nohlcsville, Ind.
District Attorney Coatesworth, of
Buffalo, declares himself to be satisfied
that he knows who committed the
Burdick murder, but has not yet suf
ficiently strong evidence to convict.
A negro Wednesday night entered
the hot:.c of a white man at Cordova,
Ala., for robbery, and in a fight that
followed killed the white man and
murdered his wife and child.
I cieign.
Lord I.ovat, who commanded a corps
of scouts and won the Distinguished
Service Order in the war in South
Africa, in making his maiden speech in
the House of Lords failed utterly and
had to sit down.
A new steamship company is being
formed at Hamburg under the name of
the Dampfschiffs Rhederei Verein, the
directors including William Volkens and
Herman Siclcken, of New York.
President Francis, of the St. Louis
Exposition, was the recipient of a very
demonstrative reception in Paris, in
which personal representatives of Presi
dent Loubet participated.
Prince George, eldest son of the
Crown Prince of Saxony, disappeared
from the palace at Dresden and was
found in the cathedral praying that his
mother might return.
Iunperor William will not visit King
Christian on the occasion of his birth
day because it falls in Holy Week, but
will make the trip a week earlier to
Copenhagen.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has di
vorced all but four of his wives, and has
made this number the limit for all of
his subjects.
The Trans-Siberian Railway, whose
length is about .1700 miles, was report
ed to have cost $19.2,300,000.
It is reported that the Venezuelan
revolutionists have gathered their forces
around Caracas and that all the eastern
part of the country excepting Cumana
is held by them.
The German Navy Department offi
cials decline to disclose in Parliament a
li't of warships ready to be equipped for
service.
A meeting was held in London to con
sider plans for celebration of the centen
ary of the British and Foreign Bible So
ciety .
Sir Edward Bertram Bates, aged 26,
member of the firm of Bates & Sons,
steamship owners, Liverpool, died at
Bombay.
United States Minister Powell has
succeeded in requiring the Dominican
government to treat American interests
fairly.
Financial
( Mercantile financial troubles in New
i'ork have been adjusted.
Six per cent, is charged for somr six
month loans in New York.
Gould put his shoulder under Missouri
Pacific and lifted it two points.
Kansas City Southern preferred jump
ed 2 per ccr.t. the last ten minutes.
Another drop in foreign exchange
rates. Uncle Sam will keep his gold at
home.
l he benr raid on I'nion Pacific led by
Kctne has meant the selli. g of about
-vo.ooo share.
After all the cotton bulls have not suf
errd worse than the bears, but the cam
raiun )a, )rcn shorter for them.
The t ew United Stales Steel bonds
have suffered much more in the present
slump of prices than the" shares of that
company.
During the present year the average
prices 01 active raiiroa'l shares have lc
timed So from the highest point, and in
dustrials have fallen li.
' All mitmnfi m.n n u mtUlnr tt.ltU 1.
r' '- "oiiiiiis "'Hi mc
keenest interest fur the outcome of Wa-
nash t legal battic against the strikers. If
strikes can be prevented by injunction it
will be a tremendous victory for all cor
porations. (
MORE PAYJOR MINERS
Commission Will Reccmiund Approxi
mately Ten Per Cent. Increase.
RECKONING BY ACTUAL WEIGHT.
The Qjetllon of Recognition ol the Miners'
Union It Considered Question of Policy
and Legislation, and the Best the Com
mission Can Do It to Make Recommends
tlont to the President.
Washington, D. C. (Special). There
is no doubt that the coal strike com
mission has decided that the miners
should have an increase of pay, and it
will approximate the to per cent, which
has been under discussion. There also
appears to be no doubt that a majority
of the committee stands for payment
by actual weight instead of by "inspec
tion" and car measurements.
Some of the committee hold that
since the passage of the Hoar bill ex
pediting cases on the docket, no strike
would ever be necessary if the cause
of complaint were sent immediately to
a federal court, promptly argued and
promptly settled.
The application of the law of injunc
tion, these members hold, would oper
ate under the Hoar bill to the benefit
of both operators and miners. A cut
ting down of wages, for instance, could
be made the immediate cause of a case
and decision in court.
There will be in the historical part
of the report an adverse criticism of
the delay of the operators in agreeing
to the present form of arbitrating the
strike.
It is said that the committee has
made no declaration directly on the
principle of boycott. The solution of
that question, it is regarded, is involv
ed in the character of legislation to
be suggested by the President. The
commission will, therefore, say that
pending the enactment of law the prin
ciple of the boycott be held in abey
ance. That is practically a decision in fa
vor of the miners' union, because it
will require a year, perhaps two, for
the enactment of any specific law deal
ing with the most important question
of the recognition of unions. A boy
cotted workman's remedy, pending
such enactment, would not be the stir
ring up of strife in the coal fields by
himself or by the machination of op
erators, but by recourse to the federal
court.
Until the President, who has under
taken the work, and Congress have
acted, the committee will secure an
agreement which is said to be two
years, or the life of the Fifty-eighth
Congress.
BRIDE AS A BURGLAR.
Sayt Her Husband Forced Her to Assist In a
Robbery.
Oswego, N. Y. (Special). Alonzo
Clark, 22, and Elizabeth Austin, 19,
were married six weeks ago. They are
now in jail here, charged with burglary
and larceny in breaking into and rob
bing the store of Truman Cook.
Mrs. Clark is the pretty daughter of
Judson Austin, of Phoenix. Before
her marriage she was a bookkeeper.
On the night of February 5 she says
her husband forced her, by threats and
fear of bodily harm, to accompany
him to the Cook General Store, at
Hastings Centre, near here, and assist
him in entering and robbing it. She
says she dressed in male attire and
waited outside the store while he
broke a window in the rear and went
in. He signaled, and she followed him
through the window. She says she
pointed out the most valuable goods,
and held the bags and baskets while
her husband filled them. They had
been married two weeks at the time of
the theft.
BOY OPENED THE SWITCH.
Wrecked the Seaboard Limited Train Just to
See What Would Happen.
Savannah, Ga. (Special). It was de
veloped by officials of the Seaboard
Air Line that a boy named Birdie Ry
als, eight years old, opened the switch
at Evergreen, Fla., which caused the
wreck there a few days ago of the Sea
board's limited from Jacksonville to
New York. No reason is assigned ex
cept that the child wanted to see "what
would happen.'
Thirty minutes before the arrival of
the train the boy told Postmaster A.
Herring, of Evergreen, that he in
tended to open the switch, but the
postmaster, though he lives within 150
feet of the switch, took no notice of
the boy's threat. Both the boy and
Herring have confessed to these facts.
Acting Superintendent A. W. Tout
ley, of the F'ifth Division, said the boy
was in the custody of officers of the
road.
Burned to Death,
Washington, N. J. (Special). Two
men were burned to death at Oxford
furnace. The Empire Steel and Iron
Works recently erected a large air
compressor plant with which the mines
are operated. At one end of the build
ing a large coal bin had been erected
and had just been filled for the first
time. The weight of the coal caused
one end of the brick wall to give way
into the boiler room, breaking the
steam pipes. Benjamin Jones, 64 years
old, a fireman, was caught in the ruins
and his body was burned to a crisp.
A Hungarian-laborer was also killed,
but the body is buried under tons of
coal and debris and hat not been re
covered. Saxony Shaken.
Berlin (By Cable). Earth shocks
have been felt for two days in the dis
trict of Voigtland, Saxony, and in the
Erzgebirge (Ore mountains). The in
habitants of Graslitx left their houses
and passed the night in the streets.
Tremors were felt 10 far as Pluen,
Reichenbach and Zwickau. Houses at
Unter Sachsenberg and at Asch shook
for several seconds. . . There was great
excitement throughout the affected
district.
Scratch Resultt la Death.
Denver, Col. (Special). Jas. Stet
tauer, a prominent clubman and finan
cier of Chicago, died at Mercy Hos
pital, in this city, of blood poisoning,
resulting from a scratch inflicted
while shaving. The injury wat re
ceived a week ago. A day or two later
erysipelas set in and was followed by
a complication ol kidney trouble. The
body has been shipped to Chicago for
burial. Mr. Stcttauer left a fortune
estimated at $5,000,000. He came to
Denver two weeks ago to transact pri-business.
WITH THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
Fifty Seventh
Congress Endi A
Settloa.
Stormy
Amid smiles in the Senate and tears in
the House the Fifty-seventh Congress
ended at noon Wednesday.- There was
the usual crowd in both galleries of Con
gress, and persons eager to witness the
closing scenes in both branches flocked
through the corridors in the big building
on lapitol Mill, and for an hour before
the time of adjournment made the life
of the doorkeepers very uncomfortable
by repeated efforts to gain admission to
one of the galleries.
Both branches of Congress assembled
at 10 o'clock after their long night ses
sion, which lasted in the House until
nearly 4 o'clock and' in the Senate until
2, and as a consequence the senators espe
cially were late in assembling. At the
meeting hour, when President Pro Tern.
Frye mounted the steps to his desk, there
was considerably less than a quorum of
senators present in the chamber, and
after Senator I'rye had called the body to
order Senator Cockrcll insisted upon the
presence of a quorum, and slowly one by
one the delinquent senators made their
appearance until the requisite number
answered to their names, and the Senate
was able' to proceed with the business.
President Signs Ibe Bills.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt, ac
companied by several members of his
Cabinet, including Secretary Cortelyou,
the baby of his official family, arrived at
the Capitol and was shown to the Presi
dent's room in the rear of the Senate
chamber. Here he was greeted by quite
a number of senators and the other mem
bers of his Cabinet who had not come
with him from the White House. The
President drove down Pennsylvania ave
nue in the White House carriage, accom
panied by his son Kcrmit. who had ex
pressed a desire to see a "Congress die,"
and was taken by his father to ride down
the Avenue on a 4th of March.
The day. so far as the weather went,
was clear and balmy, and as the presi
dential party passed down the wide Ave
nue many remarked that it would have
been a perfect day for inauguration. On
arriving at the president's room Presi
dent Roosevelt found a number of bills
awaiting his signature, although the great
majority passed during the closing hours
of the session had been sent to the White
House and had become laws before the
President left his executive offices. The
two most important bills awaiting the
President at the Capitol were the Naval
and General Deficiency Appropriation
Bills. After conferring with Secretary
Moody and Secretary Shaw on these
bills, the President signed them and then
turned his attention to other bills await
ing his signature.
Billion-Dollar Congress.
Meanwhile in the Senate Senator Al
lison, as chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations, made a statement
regarding the amount of money ap
propriated by the expiring Congress as
compared with the appropriations of
the Fifty-sixth Congress. The total
appropriation for the present Con
gress, he stated, was $1,554,108,518, as
compared with $1,440,489,438 for the
Fifty-sixth Congress.
It was a curious but necessary thing,
he said, to make this comparison more
in detail than by a mere statement of
aggregates. The first and most impor
tant item included in this statement
for the present Congress is an appro
priation of $50,130,000 for the Panama
Canal, which,, he said, accounts for
nearly one-half of the increase.
There is also, he said, an agregate
appropriation for the Postoffice De
partment of $15.1.401,549 for the next
fiscal year, as compared with $138,
000,000 for the current year, making a
difference of more than $50,000,000 in
excess of the appropriations for the
last Congress for the postal service.
This, he explained, arises from the
enormous increase in expenditures
caused by increased postal business.
Then, too, he said, the rural free de
livery service required large sums.
There was, he said, a smaller deficien
cy than there has been in many years
in the postal receipts as compared
with the expenditures.
In the Departments.
Governor Mcrriam, director of the
census, resigned to accept the vice
presidency of the International Mer
cantile Agency of New York.
Minister Bowen and Baron Mon
chcur signed the Belgium protocol for
the settlement of that country's claims
against Venezuela.
Lieut. Chester Wells, tried by court
martial for casting away his vessel, the
tug Leyden, was acquitted.
Minister Powell reported that the
Dominican government had settled the
Kos and Clyde claims.
Senator Gorman was elected chairman
of the Democratic caucus, which in
creased the membership of the steering
committee to nine and authorized the
committee to decide upon the course to
be pursued with reference to the question
of reorganization of the Senate commit
tees. By an arrangement for the distribution
of federal patronage agreed upon by
Senators Alice and Ball, of Delaware,
the ratification of William M. Byrne for
United States district attorney is assured.
The Bureau of Insular Affairs pub
lished a pamphlet containing the tele
graphic correspondence of Aguinaldo
prior to the fall of Manila.
Senator Tillman has declared his pur
pose of talking to death the nomination
of Dr. Crum as collector of customs at
Charleston, S. C.
Capt. B. If. Tillie, commandant at the
League Island Navy Yard, has made ap
plication for retirement.
The President sent to the Senate the
nominations of W. D. Crum to the
collector of customs at Charleston, S.
C, and of William A. Day and Milton
D. Purdy to be assistant attorneys
general.
The Anthracite Strike Commission
heard statement t made bv representa
tives of both tidct regarding the mat
ter of payment for coal mined.
The Western Retail Lumber Deal
ers' Association withdrew from affili
ation with the National Association of
Wholesale Lumber Dealers.
Dr. Hugh M. Smith, deputy commis
sioner of fish and fisheries, is going
to Japan to study the Japanese meth
od 01 terrapin cultivation.
Baron von dem Busche Haddenhausen
has been selected to succeed Count Quadt
as counselor and first secretary of the
German Embassy 'at Washington.
Galusha A. Grow, retiring represeuia-tive-at-large
from Pennsylvania, wat pre
sented with a reriet of resolutions of re
gret because of hit retirement 011 account
of ill health.
The speech of Representative Cannon,
chairman of the Appropriation Commit
tee, on the conference report on the Gen
eral Deficiency and Appropriation Bill
was an eloquent protest against legisla
tive blackmail.
Of the 30 senators whose terms ex
pired 1.1 failed to secure re-election either
through defeat or through their own re
fusals to enter the contests in their vari
ous state.
NINETEEN LIVES ARE LOST
A Terrible Struggle for Life In the Hud
ton River.
SEVENTY MEN WERE IN THE WATER.
While Crossing the River on a Scow to Their
Work on a Dam at Spier Falls a Boy Who
Had Fallen Overboard tbi Day Pre vl ens
Again Cansei a Scare, the Boat Careens
and Fills and All Are Tbrowa Overboard.
Glens Falls, N. Y. (Special). Nine
teen men are dead as a result of the
capsizing of the ferryboat used by
workmen at Spier Falls, about to miles
west of Glens Falls, on the Hudson
river. Over a thousand men are em
ployed there at present in the con
struction of the power dam of the
Hudson River Power Company. The
laborers and many of the masons are
Italians, who live in shanties on the
north side of the river. The main
portion of the work is carried on at
present on the opposite side of the
river. The men have been in the habit
of crossing a small bridge where the
river flows through the unfinished por
tion of the dam, but the river has been
rising for several days, and the com
pany, fearing that the bridge was un
safe, destroyed it with dynamite.
Below the work, about a half mile,
is a ferry, The boat is a scow-shaped
affair 30 feet long and 13 wide, and is
operated by means of cables. It is
large enough to carry a heavily loaded
team, and as many as 150 men have
been taken across at one time.
Friday, when the men were being
ferried across an Italian boy known as
"Cigarette" became frightened and fell
overboard. He was rescued, however.
Saturday morning 70 or 80 men got
aboard, and the boat started, leaving a
big crowd on the bank waiting for the
next trip. When 80 feet from shore,
the water splashed against the rail, and
the Italian boy who had fallen over the
previous day seized one of the tackle
ropes which ran from the overhead
cable to the stern of the boat. Some
of the men started toward him, and
instantly the boat careened and filled,
everyone being thrown into the water.
The Hudson, swollen by the freshet,
bore a score or more of the struggling
men down the stream. Many others
succeeded in catching hold of the boat,
which had righted, and they clung
there until pulled ashore.
The wildest excitement prevailed,
but the current carried many of the
men in toward shore, where they were
rescued.
Teams were quickly harnessed and
loaded with the skilled log drivers and
sent aown along the river to poiru ;
where the bodies would be likely to
land. Dozens of dinner pails, hats and
coats were fished out, but it was nearly
4 o'clock before the first body was
found. This was found in a log jam
two miles below the dam. and was rec
ognized as that of Fred Forran, an
Italian interpreter.
The river for miles is being watched
and dragged in hopes of finding bo
dies of the other victims. There were
but two or three English-speaking men
on the boat, the Italians being all des
ignated by number. The rolls of the
men were called and everybody had
been accounted for except 16 men, and
it is certain that these men were
drowned.
EXTORTION BV VICEROYS.
Collection of Indemnity a Double Hardship
on Chinese.
Washington, D. C. (Special). While
no advices have been received at the
Chinese Legation here regarding the
serious condition of affairs which is
approaching a crisis in the interior of
China as a result of the renewed activ
ity of the Boxers and of other rebels
in various parts of that country, it is
the undcrstandinc; that the new Minis
ter, Sir Liang Chen Tung, who sailed
from Hongkonsr on February 27 on
the steamship Korea for San Francis
co, will bring to Washington impor
tant instructions bearing on the sub
ject.
In addition to tne uprising of the
rebels and the increased importation
of arms the extortion practiced by the
Viceroys in the collection of the in
demnity i3 said to have caused the
most distressing conditions in ntary
provinces. European advices that have
reached Washington in the last few
days show no evidence of weakening
on the part of the powcrt in their de
mands lor the payment ot the indem
nity in gold. This problem will be the
first which the new Minster will grap
ple with upon his arrival in Washing
ton. He is expected here early m
April.
Besides Sir Liang there are 60 mem
bers in his party, including lie
charges d'affaires and secretaries for
the Chinese legations in Spain, Peru
and Cuba, Consuls-General for San
Francisco and New York, a Consul
and Vice-Consul for Honolulu and
first Secretary, Mr. Chen, to succce:!
Mr. Shcn, who will return to China.
Paul Kmgcr a Wreck.
Paris (By Cable). From Mentonc
comes the most distressing news of
the condition of Paul Kruger, the vet
eran Boer leader, whose present home
is there. The health of the former
head of the republic in far South Africa
has become affected to fifth an extent
that his friends are alarmed and fears
are entertained of early dissolution.
Mr. Kruger is described as having
sunk into an absolute lethargy, his
mind having failed under the fearful
strain to which the old patriot has been
subjected during the long, weary
mouths following the reverses of his
army and his flight from his beloved
land.
Text ol the Protocol.
Caracas (By Cable). The text of the
protocols with the allied powers was pub
lished in the Official Gazette here.. The
protocols are coolly received by the Ven
ezuelans, who tay that Congress it not
favorable to their approval. The govern
ment issued a decree prohibiting naviga
tion on the Orinoco and declaring a
blockade of the ports of Barcelona and
Carupano, now occupied by the rebels.
The revolutionist forces have returned to
Guatirc.
Dies From Hlcteaght.
Chicago (Special). Exhausted by on
attack of hiccoughs,, which had lasted
without interruption for tevcral days, the
Rev. J. I", McC'eary, an Army chaplain,
formerly of Fort Logan, but lately on the
retired list, it dead at the residence of hit
son-in-law, Captain Alvord, 'at Fort
Sheridan. The chaplain, a hale and
vigorous man of 60 years, had an attack
of pneumonia three weeks ago, but re
covered after a stubborn fight against
the disease. He was rapidly convalesc
ing, when seven day (igo, he was at
tacked by a hdc'iI of hicduughs.
MASSACRE ALL FOREIGNERS.
Movement Organised In Northern China Bj
Tung Fn Htlng.
Victoria, B. C. (By Cable). Furthei
news regarding the rebel movement
organized in Kansti and Northern
China by Tung Fu Hsiang, having fot
its object the massacre of foreigneri
and the placing of a new emperor on
the throne at Pckin in the person ol
Prince Tuan's son, was received by
the steamer Empress of India.
The Shanghai Mercury sent its na
tive correspondents to the scene anc1
they have reported that the rebel lead
er is constantly in communication witl
Yung Lu and other officials. The cor
respondent saw the troops being drill
ed, the bodyguard being of foreigr
trained soldiers.
During the early part of January or
ders came to the imperial commandci
of Kansu to arrest l'ung. Tung vis
ited the commander, accompanied bj
his bodyguard, and intimidated him
Orders were afterward received froir
Pckin, which resulted in assistance be
ing given to Tung by the commander
The correspondents tell of different
messages which have passed bctweer
Yung Ln and Tung telling of impend
ing trouble and they also tell of many
threats made against foreigners. In
stances arc given of how natives sell
ing foreign wares have been beaten and
the correspondents say that no for
eigner would get through the district
alive.
According to a dispatch from South
China the tribes are said to have
thrown in their lot with the rebels in
Kwangsi.
NOVEL KIND OF A SUIT.
Old Man Oett Rid of Claim of an Alleger
Wife.
Oswego, N. Y. (Special). In the Su
preme Court here Wardwell G. Robin
son. 73 years old, president of the Oswe
go County Bar Association, a colonel ir
the Civil War, sued to judicially estab
lish the fact that Louise Simmons, agee
56, of 113 Broad street. Newark, N. J.,
is not and never has been his lawful
wife. Mr. Robinson claimed that she
fraudulently pretended to be his lawfu'
wife, thus casting a cloud on his estate
Her answer alleged that she had beer
Mr. Robinson's wife for 36 years and
that a 17-ycar-old daughter was born ol
said marriage. Mr. Robinson exhibited
papers showing that he had paid Mis!
Simmons $5,800 during the last 12 years
and large sums years ago in exchange
for a release from any right to his estate
Judgment was taken by default, it being
agreed that he pay the defendant $8oc
annually during her lifetime.
MURDERER KNAPP.
No Doubt Whatever Abcut Defense Pleading
Insanity.
Hamilton, Ontario (Special). Alfre 1
A. Knapp, the self-confessed murder
er, was visited by his Cincinnati at
torneys and they cannot get ready for
the preliminary hearing this week
There is no doubt whatever about the
defense pleading insanity and the first
movement will be for an inquest.
Knapp's fourth wife, parents, broth
ers, sisters and brothers-in-law, will
testify that Knapp has not been right
mentally since he was kicked by a colt
when he was 5 years old. and it is
expected that neighbors of the Knapps
and fellow workmen of the prisoner
will testify as to Knapp's queer ways.
Knapp is as indifferent as ever, play
ing cards and reading, and apparently
is the most cheerful of all the prison
ers. Woman Saves Ten Lives.
Pittsburg (Special). During the de
struction of the home of Charles Rosen
steel, on Victor Street, Allegheny, by a
fire Mrs. Roscnsteel rescued her husband
and nine children, all of whom were
overcome by smoke. Mrs. Rosenstcel
first carried out her husband and then
went back repeatedly into the burning
house, carrying out the children two at
a time. Her clothing and hair were
burned away, but she kept at her work
until all had been saved.
Marshal Kills Negro Desperado.,
Columbus, Ga. (Special). Charles
Passniore, a negro desperado, was
shot and killed by Marshall Campbell,
of Phoenix City. Passniore was a
member of a gang of thieves, and when
the officers attempted to arrest him Ir
resisted and assaulted Campbell, who
shot him down. Garfield Thomas, a
leader of the gang, was arrested in
Phoenix City. Thomas is wantrd in
Buena Vista, Ga., on a charge of as
sault with intent to murder.
Sugar From HawtlL
Sail Francisco, Cal. (Special). Sev
enteen sugar laden vessels arrived here
from Hawaii during the month ol
February, the total receipts for the
month being 51,848.900 pounds. 'I he
total receipts at this port for the first
two months of the year foot up 97,
365,000 pounds, against 77,170.500
pounds for the same time last year,
showing an increase movement this
year of over 20,000,000 pounds.
SPARKS FROM TH3 WIRES.
Harry Sifton was arrested in Phila
delphia on the charge of shooting and
killing Archibald McCurdy. in the de
partment store of McCurdy's brother.
The steamer Montauk jailed from
Portland. Me., for Hango, Finland,
with 300,000 bushels of oats for the
relief of the starving Finlandcrs.
James B. Kellogg, while out on bail
pending final decision on two charges
of fraud, was arrested on charge of
fraudulent use of the mails.
Charges of conduct unbecoming a
bishop were brought against Right
Rev. Dr. W .11. Moreland, missionary
bishop, of Sacramento.
The effect of the strike on the Ca
nadian Pacific has been to tie up
freight transportation by water and
rail on the line.
Janict W. Osborne, assistant district
attorney of New York, who conducted
many important criminal trials, resign
ed. Prof, Gaston Paris, a member of the
French Academy, is dead.
Earthquake shocks drove the people of
Graslitx, Saxony, into the streets.
A bill was introduced in the Penn
sylvania legislature by the father of
II children to subsidize large families.
The Illinois coal operators refused
to grant an increase in the northern
field and Wilmington district.
Joel J. Bailey, a pioneer in the
wholesale notion business in Philadel
phia, died, at the age of 76.
A. Goodwin Munn, lr aged 64, a
charier member of the New York Cot
ton Exchange, is dead.
Ellen Vail and her daughter, Eliza
beth, were killed in a fire in their
home, in New York.
There wa3 a fire panic in the Stnr
tcvant House in New York, but no
bodv was hurt. It
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
ttm Itppenlaci ot Intorert 6alhcr:4
Froa All Sources,
Fra?.k Richards, alias Frank Tlerdon.
al;;o F.i.own under various aliasrr "vhT
a few days ago wts sentenced to tin
years' imprisonment in the Eastern 'rn
itentiary, after pleading guilty to blowing
open the safe of the Atlantic Refininir
Company, at Chester, sent for Di.-tfict
Attorney Tosiah Smith and Hnry T,
Kent, oresident of the Clifton Nation-il
Bank, to whom he made separate con
fessions implicating three other mn 'n 1
conspiracy to rob the Clifton BtrV.
White admitting they had the nams ol
Richards' alleged confederates, nri'htr
District Attorney Smith, Warden
Thomas S. Fields nor Mr. Kent wnulj
disclose them. Richards' confession in
dicated that an organized gang of burg
lars is operating in the vicinity of Phila
delphia. He satd he made the confession
because his accomplices made no effort
to defend him at the trial.
The large hotel owned by Gen. W.
A. Clark at Ncshannock Falls was de
stroyed by fire, causing a $10,003 loss.
At Kittanning the Grand Jury re
turned a true bill against Harvey A.
Zillcfrow, charged with the murder of
his wife at Brady's Bend.
Kathcrinc Diflley. aired 24, commit
ted suicide at New Castle by taking
carbolic acid, and Michael Grajciri
hanged himself ill his cell in l!ie
Grcensburg jail.
Beaver county commissioners have
fixed the county tax at four mills and
announce the assessed valuation at
$260,000,000. Much of the revenue will
be used in repairing and erecting
bridgps damaged during recent storms.
R. Curry, of Meadville. was killed by
an Erie train at Kent, O.
William Randolph, a wealthy land
owner at Moorfield, was drowned in
the south branch of the Potomac river.
Joseph Shcchan, of McKees Rocks,
a brakeman on the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad, was found dead abng
the tracks at New Castle Junction.
At New Castle Alderman Williams
held James Voca and John Madsla on
a charge of having participated i. 'he
riot at the Hillsvi'.le quarries.
Despondent because he imic'ned he
would not recover from injurie?, Hin-der-Devoghn,
an Austrian, p'.ungej
Irom the balcony of the Altooni hos
pital and. will die.
William Lawson, of Mt. Washing
ton, Pittsburg, and an unknown com
panion, both cc-lored, were f.-und deai'
on the cinder dump r.eir Grcensburg.
It is supposed they lay down to sleer
and were asphvx:?.t;d by the gos.
Harry M. Wilson, aged 32, Wl dcac
at Alexandria, Huntingdon county,
while on his way to a physician's of
fice. The barn of Samuel Working, neat
Bedford, was destroyed by fire and
much live stock perished in the flames
William Fox, a glass blower of Jean
nette, died in the Greensburg hospita'
from a fractured skull, supposed to
have been sus'tained in a fight. The
coroner will investigate.
The dead body of Ray Horn, the
Washington civil engineer who wr
drowned in Chsrtiers creek, was f-iunc"
a .short distance from where he fell in
to the water.
A convention of ma--,tcr builders wil'
be held under the auspices of the Build
ers' Exchange at Warren. Contractors
are expected to be prctcnt from al'
norihv.-estein towns.
Wesley Ritchie. Masontown. anc
Elsie Batsinger, Woodside; Willian;
Smatl and Sarah Stall!, Youngwood
John Ullciy, Altoona. and Stella Mc
intosh, Lilly, were among the Penn
sylvanians married at Cumberland, Md
James Evans, a foreman employed a
:he Tilt Silk Mill, Pottsville, was in
lormed by his family physician that lit
had smallpox. To inform one of hi
issistants that he would not bs abl(
:o work for some time, lie left his sic!,
bed and after reaching the assistant's
house and rang the bell and then rait
Dut into the middle of the street and
waited. When the door was opener'
and his- assistant appeared, Evans veil
cd, "Keep away from me; I have
smallpox and have come to notify yor
50. You can report off for me." Evan;
then hastened home, where he is new
under quarantine. When Evans mailt
his announcement people rushed in
doors and locked themselves in tlicii
houses until Evans was well out of tii
neighborhood.
Because the man he favored for the
office was not elected burgess of Wcs
Hazlcton, Adam Koch, aged 55 years,
committed suicide. Koch had state.''
that if Hugh McGeehan. Jr.. the Demo
cratic candidate, was elected, he woula
blow his head off. McGeehan rcceivec"
a majority of the votes and Koch car
ried out his threat.
A son was born Monday to Mr. am'
Mrs. Cormac McCallis, "of. Hazlcton
being the twenty-third child born u
!he couple. Mrs. McCallis is forty-five
years old. She was married at the ag
of seventeen years.
Mrs. Catherine B. Harnish died r"
Lancaster us a result of using a Icnvr
to soften a corn. The poultice was t
noved with a knite and gangrene di
velopcd. Although the foot was am
putated her life could not be saved.
Miss Mary Jacobs, a trained nurs
of Norristown, died at her home after
t short illness with typhoid pneumonia
Caroline Shellenburg, 87 years old
I life-long resident of Lewistowu, i
lead from diseases incident to old age
Caught under falling coal at Nort!
Mahanny Colliery, William Faust
atally hurt.
Thieves entered the hennery o
Acliool Director John Wctheril! .vk'
Uole forty fine Plymouth Rock fowls.
She having requested that there br
no flowers at her funeral, but that in
itead the money be devoted to mis
lionary purposes, the burial of Mrs
Mary McVaugh, of Williamsport, wat
jnique, sheaves of wheat taking the
place of customary flowers.
Reading dipped under 29 for the firs'
time in many months.
The strike at the Pen Argyl and Ba-i
gor shirt factories has been settled, tin
proprietors agreeing to reinstate tin
former forelady,
Walter Stewart, 18 years old, died
n the Chester hospital of smallpox
His parents are both confined in the
nstitution with the disease. Three
ounger children who were vaccinate.'
escaped the contagion.
Max Knoeller, aged 8, of Norris
town, was struck by the shafts of
passing wagon, hurled beneath the
vhecls and severely injured.
James Ryon, of New Castle, near
5t. Clair, died at the Pottsville! Ifosiji
:al from injuries ( sustained in fallino
.rum nit wagon, j
The trainmen on the Wabash con
lulled with their attorneys as to proceed
ngs for dismissing the injunction. Pend
ng action by the court the strike will nrl
e ordered.
The British Army estimates for loo.v
1004 tfall for ' a total expenditure ol
$171,225,000 and provide for
men exclusive of the troops in India.