FOUND MANGLED IN BED
JKIsi Alice Matthews and Her Daughter
Attacked at Night.
SKULLS WERE CRUSHED WITH AXE.
.A Horrible Crime at Sbreveport, Li Although
There Were a Number ol People la the
Hone, No Oos Heard Any Suspicious
Somd Believed That (he Murderer Crlml
all Assaulted the Womio.
Shreveport, La. (Special). Mrs.
Aline Matthews, aged 45 years, wife of
Frank Matthews, a well-known civil en
gineer, was brutally murdered in her
bed, and her daughter Aline, aged 10,
was fatally wounded. An ax was the
instrument used in both cases. Ed Por
ter, a negro, strongly suspected of the
rime, was shot to death by two police
sergeants while attempting to escape.
He had been run down at a point about
live miles from Shreveport.
The discovery of the crime was made
at 5.30 o'clock a. m., by a servant who
entered the bedroom of Mrs. Matthews.
The unfortunate woman, v.ho was al
most hacked to pieces, had been dead
for some time. Her little (laughter was
still alive when the servant entered.
The murderer got in through a fide
window, and although there were 15
" persons in the house, which is situated
m the very heart of Shreveport. no one
"heard a single suspicious sound during
the night.
The skull of Mrs. Matthews was
crushed, and the indications arc that
she had been criminally assaulted. The
child's skull was fractured, her chest
crashed and shoulder lacerated.
Mrs. Matthews wore a diamond ring
and diamond earrings, which were not
touched by the murderer. Three .pocket
books containing money were left in
the room. An a.x covered with blood
and hair was found in the kitchen.
Bloodhounds took up the trail, but
lost it after going a short distance. A
Kansas City Southern Railroad engi
neer notified the police oi the appear
ance of a negro covered with blood on
he tracks of the railroad, and a posse
was organized to hunt him down. The
posse separated, and Sergeants Gerald
and Roquemore soon came upon the
negro. He made a da6h for a ravine
and the officers tired four shots at him.
two of which took effect in his back,
killing him instantly. The negro's
clothing was covered with blood and his
shoes fitted the bloody footprints in
the kitchen of the Matthew's home.
FOUR KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
Passenger Express onJ Fast Freight Trains
Crash Together.
Halifax, N'. S. (Special). Four per
sons dead, two fatally hurt, at least one
missing and several others slightly in
jured, is the record of a head-on colli
sion on the Intercolonial Railway,
which occurred just before midnight
near Windsor Junction, seventeen miles
from Halifax.
The poles and telegraph lines along
the roadside were wrecked and this city
was cut off from communication with
the outside world for hours.
The trains in collision were the Ca
nadian Pacific Railway express, from
Montreal and Boston for Halitax, ami
a fast freight, from Halifax for Mon
treal. The conductor and driver of the
freight had orders to take the siding
at Windsor Junction and let the ex
press pass, but for sonic unknown rea
son Driver Copeland oi the freight
Tan past the junction on the main line
d1 met the express two miles beyond.
It is thought that Copeland may have
lost control of his train, which was
made up of seventy-five cars. The
freight was running twenty-five miles
an hour and the express, which was
two hours late, was traveling about forty-five
miles an hour.
WORK OF TORNADO IN ILLINOIS.
One Person Killed and Others Injured by a
Severe Storm.
Springfield, 111. (Special). One
death, a fatal injury, and a score or
more of injuries resulted from a torna
do that swept over Loban, DeWitt and
Piatt counties.
The fatality occurred in the Halsa
rarzer Settlement, a little farming com
munity three miles from Atwood, Piatt
county. The home of Clifford Halsa
darzer was demolished, and after the
storm Halsadarzer's infant son was
found dead .100 feet from the place
where the house stood. Mrs. HaUa
Jarzer was hurled across the village
street and fatally injured. Mrs. J. U.
Martin's home was destroyed, and sev
eral guests were painfully injured.
Deer creek, in Logan county, where
the storm first struck, was swept dry
of water. Reports from this district
state that three houses were destroyed
and a number of people more or less
injured. Supervisor Adam Schanaur
ct's residence was dc-trnyed.
Test ot Large Guns.
Washington (Special). The big six-teen-inch
breech-loading rifle at Sandy
Hook, the largest gun in the United
States, is now being tested and has been
fired seven times. The report to Gen
eral Crozicr, chief of ordnance, shows
that satisfactory results have been ob
tained and that on the sixth round tin
big 2400-pound shell was sent away at a
velocity of 2.V4H ieet per second. Tile
powder charge averaged over a quar
ter of a ton for each charge of smoke
less powder, and it required sixteen
anj one-half pounds of black rifle pow
der to set fire to the smokeless powder
at each charge.
Alleged Lazy Man Sold lor $0 50.
Jackson, Ky. (Special). Bruce Mar
xian, aged 27 years, has been sold into
servitude for six months tinder the Vag
rancy law. He had such a reputation
for abhorrence of work that the highest
bid for him was only $6.50. The bid was
snide by William Griffith, w ho must pro
vide for him for the time he is in servi
tude. Marcum is a member of a well
known family. United States Court
Commissioner James B. Marcum is his
wnclc.
lava's Repairs Will Cast (590,300.
Wishington. D. C. (Special.) The
eut of repairing and overhauling the
Iow, including th damage caused by
the recent explosion, is.estimated by the
Navy Departincr. at $500,000. It is not
thought these repairs possibly can be
completed in less than six months, dur
ing which time the vessel will be out of
commission at the New York yard. The
Jo a has been in commission about five
years, and prior to the accident recom
ja nidations had already been made for
an rtvmtiv overhauling oi U !
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER,
Domestic.
Mrs. Kate Wolscy, of Covington,
Ky., author of "Republics Versus Wo
men." has written a letter resigning
membership in the organization of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
of which she was a charter member, be
cause the founders of the republic did
not give women the right to vote.
The attorney general of Illinois cer
tified to the state's attorney of Cook
cotvnty (Chicago) the names of .1000
corporations which have failed to com
ply with the Anti-trust Law, and di
rected that official to proceed against
them.
Charles W. Sell, Jr., shot and seri
ously wounded Miss Mabel French, and
also wounded Grovcr Davis and Jos
eph dough, who were escorting her
home from a grange meeting, near
Manchester, X. II.
The United States marshal at St.
Louis began the payment of 12.000
creditors of John J. Kyan & Co.. the
race investment concern. They will re
ceive 15 cents on every dollar they in
vested. Gen. John S. Jones, president of the
board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors' Orphan Asylum, at Xenia,
died at his home, in Delaware. O.
Justice Murphy held an inquest in
Buffalo in the matter of the death of
Mr. and Mrs. I'ennell, and decided that
he could not determine from the evi
dence whether the tragedy was acci
dental or designed.
The gun explosion on the battleship
Iowa is reported, upon investigation,
to have been due t i a defective fuse.
The three who were killed were buried
in the National Cemetery in Pensacola. j
Spreading rails caused a drill engine
on the Jer-ey Central Railroad to
plunc down an embankment into a
pond near Elizabeth, N. J., and the en
gineer, fireman and a brakenian were
killed.
Daniel I.amont says the decision in
.he railroad merger case will make little
difference in the management of those
roads, even if the decision is affirmed
by the Supreme Court
Lonuressiiian I. 11. Southard, of
Ohio, is investigating complaints of ex- is estimated that there would be. if all
orbitant charges being made for the j the veins were put together, about i;o
disinterment and shipment of the bodies 1 fiTt ( coal spreading the whole width
ot dead soldiers from Cuba 0f ,,c ,;isin in that ,,arti makin? ato.
I. Ogdcn Armour and the other I gether about .loo.ooo.coo tons. The esti
wheat bulls associated with him in the ; ,uMe i, that it now costs about $l.So to
big corner now being formed arc count- i produce a ton of coal and put it on lin
ing upon a war 111 the Last to be ot as- ,rat.k n.a(lv to fon, to niarketi all(I ?t
sistancc to tlieni. , ,,,t ratt. ;e , , jM
Lewis Good, the only formidab c ..1
,-,,li,l D... ...... T 1 ci.-f
vmiimki.,,1 U.IIIISl 1 ItTMUVIIl 1. j. r-nai
icr. 01 tne Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers, has with
drawn. The rear end of a freight train on the
Susquehanna Railroad broke loose and
12 cars plunged into the Poquunnock
river, in New Jersey.
The Rev. William Henry Milburn, the
blind chaplain of the United States
Senate, died in Santa Barbara, Cal.
Captain Pershing captured Bacolod.
island of Mindanao, killed a hundred
Moros and wounded many others.
The wife and five-year-old daughter
of Capt. George Merritt. of the steamer
F. It. Thnrber, were drowned in the
cabin of the vessel as she sank at her
dock, at Perth Amboy, despite the cap
tain's efforts to rescue them.
The firm of Tiffany & Co., of New
York, has bought a large plat of
ground at Fifth avenue and Thirty-seventh
street, where the house will re
move from Union Square. The trans
action involves more than $2,000,000.
In a riot between union and non
union ironworkers at the Walkcrvillc
Bridge Company s plant, in Walker
ville, near Detroit, one man was shot
dead and several seriously injured.
l-cicign.
The death of M. Stchcrbina. the Rus
sian consul at Mitrovitza, European
Turkey, who was shot by an Albanian
sentinel, has greatly alarmed the Turk
ish authorities, who fear complications
with Russia.
Moses Fowler Chase, a wealthy young
man of Lafayette, Ind., whom United
States Consul General Goudy found in
a sanitarium in Paris, is now on his
way to the United States.
An official cable message from Nica
ragua states that President Zelaya's
forces have recaptured Fort San Car
los, at the Lake Nicaragua entrance of
the San Juan river.
Notifications have been received here
from the governments of Salvador.
Uruguay. Guatemala and Korea of
their adherence to The Hague conven
tion of 1809.
Queen Wilhemina has sanctioned the
Anti-strike Bill in Holland, and it has
become effective. The troops continue
to guard the railroads.
M. Rcvoil. the governor general of
Algeria, resigned under circumstances
that caused something of a sensation in
Paris.
The Workmen's Defense Committee
of Amsterdam decided to proclaim an
end of the general strike, but the feder
ated trades unions repudiated its ac
tion and determined to continue the
strike. The diamond-cutters returned
to work. An agent of the Dutch strik
ers has been in Berlin arranging for
German socialist support. The strik
ers in Rome, Italy, have resumed work.
The foreign consuls at San Domingo
having failed to bring about a peaceful
settlement of the troubles. President
Yasquc resumed his attack upon the
capital city, and after a hard battle was
reprised. Italian and German warships
have landed marines to guard their con
sulates. Arthur Randolph Douglas, Liberal
Unionist member of Parliament and
second son of the Earl of Minto, will
succeed William Hayes Fisher as finan
cial secretary of the British Treasury.
Mascagni, in an interview in Paris,
attributes much of his misfortune in
America to his refusal to give private
concerts at clubs and residences, al
though offered large sums.
1 he inhabitants of the district of
Petrich, in European Turkey, have re
volted, and Turkish troops are engaged
iti trying to suppress the uprising.
Financial.
The Bank of England retains its 4
per cent, discount rate.
Warwick Steel Company is doing a
good business this spring.
Northern Securities decision checked
an upward movement of prices.
Keene's European trip will remove
the biggest bear from the market.
A Philadelphia banker said: " I could
loan $1,00000 in half an hour if we had
it. Money is scarce here."
President Lorec, of the Baltimore &
Ohio, has been elected a trustee of a
large trust company in New York.
Governor I.anhan vetoed the South
ern Pacific merger bill because the
roads involved are parallel and compet
ing lines.
Lackawanna Railroad jumped from
US to 25J. then fell to 24H. Only mil
lionaires can afford to deal in a share
like that.
Gould says, after traveling through
thousands of miles ot wheat country,
that the winter cfop promises to be a
banner yield.
The general impression on the street
is that the great interests behind the
, Northern Securities will organize an
other corporation which will accomplish
lha intended purposes. 1
BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIND
A Great Discovery of Anthracite in the
Wyoming Region.
COMPRISES TWO THOUSAND ACRES-
Will Give Work, It Is Estimated, to 6,000 Men
for 200 Vears The Marketable Value at the
Present Tlmj is More Than $1,000,000,000
Altogether About 300,000,0)0 Tona Can Be
Mined.
Wilkcs-Barre, Pa. (Special). Veins
that indicate the greatest discovery of
anthracite coal in Pennsylvania since the
first general discovery was made have
just been uncovered by the Lehigh and
Wilkcs-Barre and the Delaware, Lacka
wnnna and Western Companies near this
city.
Two liorcs, one of 2,000 and the other
of 3,3vo feet, have been completed. They
passed through 22 veins, one of which is
a continuation of the celebrated Mam
moth vein of the Hazleton district,
l'.levcn veins not previously marked on
the geological maps of the State were
among the 22 pierced, and these lie
closely from 50 to "00 feet below the sur
face. The other veins arc deeper.
The discovery was made at a point
three miles below this city. The district
comprises an area of more than 2.000
acres, reaching from the river to Sugar
iNotcli and Warrior run
It is the hie
est point in the basin where a bore has
ever been started, the next highest being
at Askam. several miles awav.
Of the tinner veins in the "first too feet
of the boring the experts knew nothing,
although they discovered indications
some time ago that there was coal there.
'I he borings have been conducted
secretly.
The fact of chief interest directly in
the region is that enough coal has been
found to give work to 6.or,o men for 200
1 years. 1 he marketable value at the nres-
fin nrl ; mnmih,,, tiv, t.
.
This discovery sets at rest all the re
peated assertions that the coal in the
Wyoming Yalley will be mined out in 5,0
years.
KILLED 100 MOROS.
Co plain Pershing Captures Stronghold at
Bacolod.
Manila (By Cable ). Captain Persh
ing's force captured Bacolod, Island of
Mindanao, on Wednesday, killed a hun
dred Moros and wounded many others.
"1 hree Americans were wounded.
The force consisted of Shaw's battal
ion of the Twenty-seventh Infantry, Kil
patrick's troop of the Fifteenth Cavalry,
and McNair's battery.
Captain Pershing was surveying the
west shore lands when the Bacolodians
opposed his advance and provoked the
fight. Pershing surrounded and at
tacked their stronghold, first shelling
them, and then, rushing his troops for
ward, charged gallantly. After crossing
a deep moat and entering the fort the
Americans engaged the Moros. bayonets
against krisses. A hundred of the de
fenders were killed, including the Datto
of Panandungan, and many were wound
ed. Only three Americans were wound
ed. After the capture of the fort it was
destroyed.
The Bacolod leaders and the majority
of the people of that' district had been
hostile to the Americans and encouraged
attacks on the American camps. They
rejected tenders of friendship.
It is expected that the defeat of the
Iincolodians will result in all the Moros
acknowledging American sovereignty.
Set on Fire by Burglars.
Lakewood, X, J. (Special). The Mat
thews Block, a three-story apartment
building adjoining the Palmer House,
was destroyed by fire. Anratn van Wag
ner, a paralytic. ;0 vears old, was burned
to death. An investigation showed that
the safe in the fruit store had been blown
open with dynamite and $200 stolen.
1 races ot dynamite were tound in tne
store. Some of the occupants of the
building had narrow escanes. but all es
caped except Van Wagner. Miss
1 hompson, a trained nurse, who occu
pied a room in the apartment house, was
badly burned about the hands. The
Palmer House adjoining was seriously
threatened at one time.
Five Med Hurt In Riot.
Chicago (Special). Lieut. Maurice
Moore, of the Twenty-second Street
Police Station, and four Italians were
wounded by pistol shots in a riot here.
The trouble started in a post-election
argument in a saloon, followed by a
hidit. Lieutenant Moore, at the head
of a squad, rapped on the door and
ordered those inside to open it. He
was greeted by a volley of shots, one of
which grazed his head and another his
right arm. As the police entered the
lamp which had lighted the place was
put out, leaving the room in darkness.
Another was procured and more than a
dozen men were arrested.
An Umbrella Fire tscap:.
Xcw York (Special). Using an um
brella for a parachute, John Oshay, a
former circus employe, escaped from a
burning building in Yonkcrs. Oshay
landed in the street and then assisted
in subduing the flames. When the fire
men arrived the flames had gained
much headway. A policeman saw
Oshay on the window-ledge of the third
floor. While he was watching the man
opened an umbrella and sailed down.
He landed uninjured, save for a
scorched neck.
Dales Buys Mexican Mloes.
Monterey, Mexico (Special). John
W. Gates and his associates, who for
some years have dealt in Mexican min
ing properties, have entered the Sonora
field. They have bought the Creston and
Colorado mines, old properties, 15 miles
east of Torreon, on the Sonora Rail
road. What price they have paid for
these is not known, but it is understood
to be near $1.0.000,000. This was ask
ed for the combined properties after the
discovery of ore deposits,
. CoL Bill Root Dead.
Salt Lake. Utah, (Special). Col."Bill"
Root, a frontiersman, a companion
through his life of "Buffalo Bill" and a
friend of "Bill Nye during the latter s
reportorial days in Laramie, died sud
denly of heart failure here. He was
about 60 years old. W'hen a young man
he settled in Laramie, became interested
in the Laramie Boomerang and took
"Bill Nye' into partnership with him.
This was the beginning of the latter's
fame as a writer. As a catcher of wild
animals Colonel Root had an interna
tional (m.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Shakeup la the Posloffke.
There were two important develop
ments in the investigation of the af
fairs of the Postoffice Department. The
first was the filing of charges that ad
vance information had been furnished
wagon manufacturers regarding rural,
and the other was the issuance of an
order to Postmaster Van Cott, of New
York city, directing him to hold up all
of the promotion and extra clerk allow
ance cases recently announced for the
New York city service for the next
fiscal year. Fresh charges were filed
by a Western establishment engaged
in the manufacture of vehicles, alleg
ing that competing houses had gotten
the benefit of advance information re
garding rural free-delivery routes and
the appointment of rural free-delivery
carriers. The. charges allege that the
complaining company, upon announce
ment of appointment of rural carriers,
gave instructions to their agents in
various sections to negotiate with them
for the sale of the wagons, buggies or
other vehicles for use in performing
the postal service, and that in a num
ber of cases cited the agents made reply
that the carriers had previously pro
cured their outfit sometimes, it is as
serted, several weeks before. It is also
alleged that in one instance cited a rep
resentative of a certain factory was ac
companied on the route by the regular
carrier thereof, the latter advising and
ruging the sale of the articles offered
hv the commercial representative. The
complainants say in the charges that
the .-onditions cited "savor of the star
route methods of 20 or 25 years ago."
To Reduce Force In Cuba.
General Randolph, chief of artillery,
has recommended to the Secretary of
War that four companies of artillery
now doing duty in Cuba be brought
back to the United States and assign
eel to service at Portland in connection
with the joint maneuvers to be held
next summer. Should Secretary Root
adopt the recommendation, this will
mean a reduction of the force of the
United States soldiers in the island to
about 500.
These troops were left in Cuba for
the purpose of manning the artillery
defenses of the island until the new
Government organized an efficient force
of its own. Reports received from
Cuba indicate that under the careful
instruction of American officers the Cu
bans are now rapidly getting in such
shape that it will be no longer neces
sary for the American soldiers to stay
t here to take care of their guns and
show them how they should be handled.
1 he eight, companies of coast artil
lery now stationed jn Cuba arc distrib
uted at Havana, Santiago and Cieniue
gos, hut should the proposed reduction
take place the remainder will probably
be distributed to the new naval stations
at Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
Examinations for Naval Academy.
Examinations for candidates for ap
pointment as midshipmen to the Acad
emy at Annapolis will be held in the
principal cities of the United States be
ginning April 21, and will Be conducted
under the direction of the Civil Ser
vice Commission. A second examina
tion will be conducted in Washington
May 12. and a final examination at the
academy June 16.
Accepted a Dangerous Post.
The State Department announced the
appointment of Herman R. Dietrich, of
Utica, Mo., as consul-general at Guay
aquil, Ecuador, to succeed Thomas H.
Nast, the cartoonist, who licd of yel
low fever while serving at that post.
Mr Dietrich is the editor of the Iler
ald, a newspaper published at Utica,
Mo.
In the Departments.
Second Lieutenant Theodore Monell,
United States Marine Corps, now at
tached to the battleship Massachusetts,
has resigned from the service and his
resignation was accepted.
J. H. Edwards, of South Charleston,
O.. formerly assistant private secretary
to the Postmaster General, has been
appointed private secretary to the Sec
retary of the Treasury.
Announcement of the successful trials
of the submarine boats Pike and
Grampusat San I-rancisco was received
at the Navy Department from Capt.
W. H. Whiting.
Charges of discrimination ill grain
freight rates were brought before the
Interstate Commerce Commission
against various trunk lines.
A successful test was made of an in
vention of George B. McAllister, of
Baltimore, to collect mails on a street
car.
Satisfactory tests have been made of
the 16-inch brcechloading ritle, the big
gest gun in the world.
Hugh F. Hanna, of Indiana, has been
appointed the third member of the
American delegation which will repre
sent the United States at the Interna
tional Monetary Congress.
Frank C. Partridge, of Vermont, has
been invited to represent the United
States at Caracas in the adjustment of
the claims of American citizens against
Venezuela.
Prospects are favorable for the
treaty providing for the acquisition by
the United States of the naval and
coaling stations at Bahia Honda and
Guantanamo.
M. Margerie. secretary of the French
Embassy, conferred with Second As
sistant Postmaster General Shallcn
berger regarding a parcels post treaty.
Charles Pepper has been appointed
United States commissioner for the
promotion of the intercontinental rail
road scheme in South America.
By ' direction of the Secretary of
War a class of gunnery specialists will
be formed at the artillery school ?t
Fort Monroe.
The Secretary of War has announced
the names selected by the board of of
ficers for the general staff of the Army.
The volume on foreigns relations of
the United States for 1002, published
by the State Department, is now in
press.
Hilary Bell Drops Dead.
Xew York (Special). Hiliary Bell,
the dramatic and musical critic of tha
New York Press, dropped dead in the
Barge Office. Heart failure is believed
to have been the cause of death. Hiliary
Bell was born near Belfast, Ireland, in
1K57. He took up portrait painting
after coining to this country, and later
went into newspaper work. He went
on the Press about the time of its in
ception as mu.'.ical and dramatic critic
and has been there since. Mr. Bell also
was editor of the Insurance Economist.
Wslked la Sleep to Death.
New York (Special). A remarkable
story of man who while asleep left
his berth, walked the length of the ves
sel and fell overboard was brought in
to port by the Atlantic Transport Lin
er Minneapolis. The missing man was
Thomas Bailey, aged 30, of Deal, Eng
land, a quartermaster. After being re
lieved from duty on deck he went be
low to sleep. A few hours later he
could not be found, though his cloth
ing was boidcJiis berth.
KILLED ON A WARSHIP
Twelve-Inch Gun Explodes on Board the
Iowa.
THREE DEAD AND FIVE INJURED.
Three Pieces of the Oun Each Weighing Over
a Toa, Passed Downward Through the Spar
Deck, Falling Upon the Men st Mess Mis
siles Stopped by Coming Into Contact with
the Heavy Steel ol the Armored Deck.
Pensacola, Fla. (Special). A disas
trous explosion occurred on the battle
ship Iowa while the vessel was at tar
get practice in the Gulf. The forward
port 12-inch gun burst from the prema
ture explosion of a shell, 12 feet of the
piece outside the turret being demolish
ed. Three men were killed and five
injured, two seriously.
The men killed or injured were on
the second, or gun deck, at mess.
Three pieces of the exploded gun, each
weighing over a ton,' passed downward
through the spardeck, falling ,tipon the
men at mess, instantly killing the three
named.
All of the men were horribly mutilat
ed. The heavy missiles after passing
through the gun deck continued down
to the third deck, where they came in
contact with the armored deck, the
heavy steel bringing them to the stop,
thus saving the engineers and firemen
who were at work below. Although the
upper decks were covered with men,
no one there was seriously injured.
The explosion occurred just as the
mess call had been sounded, l'iring
was to have ceased after the shot for
the dinner hour. The ranee had been
set and the Iowa was steaming along
at a speed of 12 knots an hour when
Lieutenant Reed, in charge of the for
ward 12-inch turret, gave orders to load
and fire. The time fuse was cut for the
range, the piece charged, breech closed
and the word given to fire.
Following the'report of the gun there
was a smothered noise as the shell ex
ploded midway in the gun and pieces
of the bursted gun and shell were scat
tered broadcast.
Three great holes were torn through
the decks. Those who were below be
gan coming on deck, some bloody ami
mutilated, while lying on the floor,
crushed almost beyond recognition,
were the three unfortunate men. The
Massachusetts, six miles distant, was
signaled for aid, and one of the cutters
put off with the surgeon and assistants.
The wounded men were taken to the
hospital and their injuries dressed.
The dead were brought to Pensacola.
Some claim the explosion was cau.i
ed by a defective shell, and others think
that the frequent firing of the pieces at
Culebra during the winter added, with
the work done here during the past 10
days, so strained the piece that the force
of the charge bursted the gun.
MERGER IS UNLAWFUL.
Government Wins In (he Suit Against the
Northern Sccu-lties Company.
St. Paul (Special). The position of
the United States Government in the
suit brought against the Northern Se
curities Company, the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern Railways and indi
vidual officials and directors of those
companies was sustained in the decision
handed down in the United States Cir
cuit Court of Appeals in this city.
' The individual defendants arc James
J. Hill, William P. dough, D. Willis
James, John S. Kennedy, J. Pierpont
Morgan, Robert Bacon. George 1".
Baker and Daniel I.amont.
The case was originally brought in
the United States District Court here,
but under a special act of Congress was
taken at once to the Court of Appeals,
which court was to expedite the hearing
and decision of the case in every man
ner possible. The taking of testimony
in this city and in New York lasted for
scvcral weeks, and the arguments in St.
Louis bciorc Circuit Court Judges
Caldwell, Sanborn, Thayer and Van
Devanter took several days. The deci
sion of the court was written by Judge
Thayer and was filed in this city, where
the original action was instituted.
An appeal to the United States Su
preme Court will be taken imme
diately. Big Crop ol Winter Wheat.
Xcw York (Special). Figures oi the
Government's first report on winter
wheat fully exceed the most sanguine ex
pectations. Crop experts state that if the
condition continues the crop this year
will amount to s.:o.ooo,ooo bushels. This
yicid, if garnered, .will be the largest in
t!io history of the country. In discussing
the outlook, Oscar Lylc, of the Produce
Exchange, said : "The last live crops of
winter wheat, on a census basis, aver
aged 30.005,000 acres, a yield of 418,325,
oco bushels. In iScji. a percentage con
dition was reported of 00 q that was
maintained to harvest and in that year
the yield was 15.3 bushels per acre."
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES,
The American Bridge Company, at
Pittsburg, landed 100 non-union men at
Amhridgc, near that city, and they were
put to work on the Wabash bridge.
Dresser & Co., New York, who tailed
recently, announced that the firm had
arranged to raise $50,000 and would
pay its creditors in full in 00 days.
General Davis disapproved the find
ings of the court-martial in Manila ac
quitting Lieut. Joel R. Lee, who was
accusetf of killing two prisoners of war.
The St. Louis Grand Jun; has begun
the investigation of the alleged bribery
in connection with State legislation on
the subject of baking powder.
The special Panama Canal committee,
consisting or Rear Admiral ' Walker,
General Mains and Professor Bun, 'sail
ed from Xcw York for Colon.
The 5000 Moorish insurgents who at
tacked the fortress of Trajana April 8-
were twice repulsed with heavy loss,
and the explosion of their powder sup
ply also killed numbers of them.
Heinrich Pariser, a wealthy money
lender of Berlin, was sent to prison lor
two years and fined $2500 for usury.
Dwight Benton, artist and journalist,
and formerly United States consul gen
eral to Hawaii, died in Rome, at the
age of 6g years. .
Prominent French government offi
cials and members ot the diplomatic
corps attended the funeral of Ambas
sador Porter's wife in the American
church in Paris.
The Passionist Fathers, who had
been conducting the Anglo-American
church in Paris, left for England.
William Waldorf Astor has bought
Castle llever, in Kent, England, winch
is said to have been the birthplace of
Anne Boleyn. The price paid was $185,
000. Sir Wilfrid Law son, an ardent pro
Boer Progressive Liberal, was return
ed to Parliament in the Camborne divi
ion of Cornwall.
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PEOPLE CRUSHED IN THEIR HOMES.
Twelve Persons Killed In Alabama and
Nine in Arkansas.
Hanccvillc, Ala. (Special). A tornado
passed over Hopewell settlement, one and
a half miles north of here, at a o'clock
a. m., and as a result twelve persons arc
dead, four arc fatally injured and a score
or more or less seriously hurt, while the
destruction to the property is heavy.
The storm came from the southeast
and its roar was so terrific that it woke
many people, some of whom fled from
their houses in time to escape death by
having the houses blown down on them.
Buildings were tossed about like paper
boxes and several structures were blown
a hundred yards or more. The body of
McCoy, who was a prominent farmer,
was blown 200 yards and landed in a
sand pit.
The house of Mrs. John Norton was
blown down, but the family escaped by
crawling under the bed. while the timber
and brick fell on top of the bed. breaking
the force of the fall.
The houses of the Odcn and Griffin
families were smashed to splinters, and it
seems marvelous that any of their occu
pants escaped death.
Trees wore uprooted in all direction!
and many were blown across the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad track, delay
ing trains for a time.
The roar of the storm was heard at
Hanccvillc, wdicre it awoke many neoplc.
but no damage was done here. As soon
as the destruction wrought became
known here rescuers hurried to the scene
to give attention to the dead and
wounded.
Little Rock, Ark. (Special). Special
110111 towns m mte and Cleburne coun
ties, Ark., tell of a cyclone which swept
through that section, leaving death anc'
destruction in its wake.
'I he record of casualties so far is nine
dead, three dying and thirteen other
badly injured.
The major portion of the country
through which the storm plowed its way
is remote from railroads, telegraph ot
telephone lines. A special correspondent
telegraphed from Searcy, Ark., that he
had gone over a portion of the track of
the storm and that trees were twisted
from their trunks and houses were de
molished. '1 bus far it has been impossible to as
certain where the storm began, but it is
known that it raged in those two coun
ties, and the list of casualties is likely f
be greater than is now known.
Bradford, which is on the Iron Moun
tain road, was the first point heard from.
Several houses were blown down there
and one man badly injured. The tornado
came from the west and had spent its
force by the time it reached Bradford.
SIstcr-in-Lr.w Trusts Him.
Xcw Haven, Conn. (Special). Miss
Helen C. Lamb, sister of Mrs. A. R.
Fcnncll, returned to her home here.
When seen she reiterated her faith in
Pcnncll's integrity, and said that the
members of her family who are in Buf
falo share that belief. Miss Lamb said:
"I have not changed my. opinion of
Arthur one bit since the recent stories
began to be circulated. I still believe
that he was not guilty of wrongdoing.
He never handled the funds of any mem
ber of my family, not even the private
fortune of his wife, my sister, and we
are in no way interested in statements
from Buffalo
Rioters Killed by Troops.
Berlin (By Cable). A despatch to the
Loknl Aiueiger from St. Petersburg,
says thirty persons have been killed and
that one hundred were injured during
labor disturbances. The disturbance oc
curred at a large factory near Nishni
Novgorod. The local civil authorities
were unable to restore order. Troops were
called out and artillery was brought up
and fired point blank into the" midst of
the rioters.
Practically Stamped Out.
Boston, Mass. (Special). According
to Dr. Bennett, agent of the United
States bureau of animal industry, the
foot and mouth disease has now beeft
practically stamped out in Massachusetts.
A housc-to-housc inspection has been
completed in nearly alt the towns in
Middlesex and Norfolk counties, and
twenly-thrc" arc now declared to be free
from the disease. The inspection is still
in progress.
Injured In Basket Ball Game.
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special). Miss
Freida Pink, an 18-ycar-old senior at
an Indianapolis high school, is dying
as a result of injuries received in a
basketball game at Crawfordsville..
Miss Pink went down in a scrimmage
and was kicked in the side, receiving
injuries which will terminate fatally.
She is prominent socially.
Double Tragedy la Georgia.
Columbus, Ga. (Spcial). As a result
of a family quarrel, one man is dead in
Girard and another is. at the point of
death. Ramsey Webster, a white man,
had a quarrel with his wife, and abused
her so that Marshal J. M. Bishop, of
Girard, went to the scene. As the officer
entered the house Ramsey met him with
a long knife and stabbed him three times.
Bishop drew his pistol and fired several
shots at Webster, who fell dead.
Czarina Reported III.
Paris (By Cable). The correspondent
of the Rappel at St. Petersburg says it is
reported that the Czarina is seriously ill
v.ilh peritonitis.
Adlal E. Stevenson Burned.
Bloomington, III. (Special). Adlai
E. Stevenson, formerly Vice-President
of the United States, lost his hair and
mustache and received painful burns on
his face, head and hands while trying
to extinguish a fire in his home. The
fire started in a bedroom. When M.
Stevenson riuhed into the room, the
curtains were in a blaze. Without
calling aid he attacked the flames. In
a moment the hair on his head went' up
in a puff of smoke. The fire then seiz
ed his mustache and blistered his face.
Three Firs Victims.
Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). Three
persons met death in a Monroe street
tenement house fire, and two others
were severely but not fatally burned.
The fire was caused by the overturn
ing of an oil stove, in one of the rooms
on the second floor, occupied by the
family of Morris Goldberg. ,' Escape
by way of the stairs was cut off by the
flames, which spread so rapidly that
the young woman and the two , chil
dren, who were in a rear room, were
burned to death. ' t
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest Ncrvs ol Pennsylvania Told Id
Short Order.
Pcnsiyns granted: John Snyder.
s.harleroi, $8; John F. Cassclbcrry,
V'andcgrift, $6; John Dugan, Belle,
fonte, $17; John Ango, Allegheny, $u
Robert W. Clark, Woodcock, $8; Or'
villc M. Mungcr, Corry, $H; John
Barkey, East Run, $10; Edwin C,
Moshcr, Shadcland, $12: Robert Hani,
ilton, Marklc, $12: Joseph R. Lannav.
Natrona. $12; William Ruttcr, Butler,
$10: John Bolingcr, Allegheny, $6;
Adclia J. Fry. Sterrettania, $; Andrew
J. Hadley, Eric. $6; Walter V. Tyler,
New Castle, $6: William VV. Land,s
Port Royal, $12; George Straub,
Krcatner, $12: James W. Wachob, Big
Run, $8; Washington Rector, Garrett,
$10: David Goodcm, Wayncsburg, $10;
Nelson Mattcson, Washington, $121
John P. Martin, Duncannon, $12: Ed
ward D. Stork. Johnstown, $17; Thom
as Shriber. Carnegie, $12; Samuel Vi.
hams, Wilir.crding, $10.
Prof. R. R. Rodgers. of DuRois. has
,,n c,larBe of the Clearfield Business
College.
James Starr, of Pcnficld. was attack
ed by hiccoughs, which physicians are
unable to check.
The Youngstown Lead and Zinc
Company, with a capital of $600,000,
has been organized, with J. Craig Smith
as president.
The Rochester council will take im
mediate action on complaints regarding
the sanitary conditions in the borough,
C. H. Gilmorc, of Freedom, died in
the Beaver County General Hospital
of injuries received in the Conway yard
of the Fort Wayne Railroad.
Miners at Yatcsboro and Cowansvillt
(Armstrong county) mines of the
Rochester and Pittsburg Coal Company
are out on strike.
Representatives from five counties in
terested in the Altr.ira Home for Aged
Women, in New Castle, met in thai
place and decided to build a $40,000 ad
dition to the Home.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to pay
half the cost of a pipe organ for Em
manuel Baptist Church, of South Nc.v
Castle. The congregation has decided
to purchase an organ costing $300
and a committee was appointed to ne
gotiate for an instrument.
The hotel and 40 cottages destroyed
by fire at Ridgcview Park arc being ic
bt'.ilt. Mrs. Sarah Coover, of near Carlisle,
celebrated her 105th birthday anniver
sary. Asbury Lewis, aged 79, committd
suicide near Uniomown, by slashing
his throat with a razor.
The North Side blast furnace at
Sharpsville was put in blast after 3
shutdown of several months.
John W. Wade, of Jamestown, had
his pocket picked of a valuable gold
watch at New Castle.
At Beaver, Judge J. Sharpe Wilson
confirmed the report of the commission
to divide the borough of Beaver into
three wards.
At a meeting of the Xcw Castle board
of school controllers, City Treasurer
Hanna submitted a report showing
that the monev in thn ,i,,KI,V ct,.,i
uml will fall about $14,000 short of
meeting the expenses for the current
term.
Work has hecrim nn tlm -,,.:...,
of the additional building at the works
of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
tMUj.iuy icw rsngnton.
Near lohimlnwn PmU M,; ...a.
killed by a freight train and Gcorpe
Harrott was crushed to death by a fall
of slate in the Bcrwind-White coal
mines.
An annendiritic rlnK ko. Inn .-.,-
t-d at West Chester. Fifty persons have
men successiuuy operated upon at the
CllCStCr CotintV Hosnitnt fr nn.nJi.
citis and all fi-nl tlmt -1,1 A.rrni.'iti...
01 their number is appropriate. The
viuu win nave oy-iaws ana a constitu
tion and the only requirement for mem
bership will he to liavo nnuJ i, Li
the surgeon's knife.
Twelve hundred miners employed bv
the Rpeeli Crnr.h rnn s. r....
- . . VUU, Ut VIJIC V.IJIII-
rany at tlurtccn mines at Patton, Cam
bria county, and Arcadia, Indiana coun
ty, arc idle. The scale signed by the
operators and miners states that "driv
ers shall not be required to harness or
unharness a mnli " Tim rlrl,.,.ro
pret this to mean that they arc not to
put on ine untile. 1 he operators arc
txt iUn I. '11 . . -
. .,. uj.iiiii'u inai 111c oritiie is 1101 a
part of the harness and therefore the
drivers should put it on. Hence the
strike.
Governor Penny packer vetoed the
bill to license barbers and two other
measures.
A till was introduced in the Legis
lature providing a more drastic libel
law.
Employees of several collieries ia
Schuvlkill and Northumberland coun
ties are on strike because of disputes
over the working hours.
Xewly elected city officials through
out the State took the oath of office
and City Councils organize.
'1 wo Lancaster policemen discovered
safeblowers at work, but the robbers
escaped after exchanging shots witli
the policemen.
Witnesses in cot-rt in Allcntown tes
tified that Thomas J. Maxwell, who
died recently, maintained a family in
Camden and one in Allentown.
Because a Mcnnouitc bishop threat
ened to depose a minister of the sect
for asking for a new trial of a suit
that had been decided against him in
Montgomery county, the minister with
drew the proceedings.
The barn of Samuel Carpenter, Lan
caster, was' entered at night and two
horses and two dogs killed by poi
soning. Annie Busslik, of Kills Village, had
most of her left hand blown ofl by tl
explosion of a dualin cap.
Jeremiah M. Baymiller, aged 36, fell
from a row boat into the Susnuchaiiw
river at Long Level and was drofc.d.
Chief of Police Evans, of William,
port, in his annual report, strongly
urges the adoption of a curfew law.
1 ine scnultzville Hotel, one of tne
oldest landmarks of Berks county, wai
sold to William Wise, of Little Olcy.
j Daniel Reed, of Bowers, had hi
thumb cut off while at work in his fatli
rs saw mill.
I Thomas Donnell, Chester, despond
ent, drank laudanum and it required
heroic efforts to save his life.
; Lewis Wagner, aged 35. of West
Coplay, fell from a trolley care at AI-.
Icntowu and sustained injuries likely t"
prove fatal.
When Harold Stoucjc. aged eleven,
of Williamsport, crawled under
freight train the engine started, and h
was so badly injured that he died thret
hours later.
The inhabitants of Lansford are
cited over the appearance of small-po
The first case in this section in thirty
five years has developed at Lansford.
Joel Shoomacker, aged 78, of VeJ
Pen 11, wandered from hia home and
was found in a swamp late at nif,Ja
suffering ss a result of exposure. 1"
condition is serious.
- Floyd Dunn, aged 14, is missing fron'
his home iu Orangeville, Mercet
county. , - , . ,