fIRE DESTROYS HOTEL Conflagration of Supposed Incendiary Origin at Jackson, Ky. THE MILITARY WAS SENT TO SCENE, Chief Witness Against Curtli Jett and Tom Wbile lor the Murder ol Marcum Is IheVlc tin ol the Feudists Hotel Quests Escaps Without luury, But the Property is a Total Loss to the Owners. Louisville, Ky. (Special). The City Hotel, at Jackson, Ky., a three-story building owned by Capt. B. J. Ewen, the principal witness against Jett and White, now on trial for the assassina tion of Lawyer J. B. Marcutn, was burned to the ground. Fifteen guests were in the hotel, but all escaped without injury. There was no insurance on the structure and the hotel, with its furnishings and the ef fects of the guests, is a total loss. The origin of the fire is unknown, but the liclicf is general that the fire was of incendiary origin. Captain Ewen had recently put up an addition to the hotel. This was just completed and was as yet unoccupied. It was in this part of the hotel that the lire was discovered. The town of Jackson has no fire de partment and its citizens were awak ened by the firing of pistols and guns and much excitement prevailed. A de tachment of military came on the dou ble quick from their camp, across the river, and rendered valuable aid in as sisting the guests' to escape and pre venting the flames from spreading. Captain Kwcn has been kept at the camp of militia since he testified last Monday that he saw Curtis Jett fire the shot which killed Marcum. No body was seen to leave the hotel be fore the lire broke out. It was only two days ai;o that Jack son was put under martial law. The burning of Ewcn's hotel is iwt only considered as incendiary, but also as accessory to other act j of intimida tion in connection with the pending trial of those accused of the murder of j. B. Marcum, who was an attorney of the contestants for county offices now held by leaders of the faction, with which the defendants were iden tified. It has openly been predicted that arson would go along with assas sination, as disciplinary measures might be needed in Breathitt county. EAST ST. LOUS AN ISLAND. Flood Not Subsiding and 10,000 Refuges to be Fed. St. Louis (Special). With 10,000 refugees to shelter and feed, East St. Louis is still battlv'g against the flood, vhich, by seepage and additional en croachment through minor levees, is now an island. The city is entirely sur rounded by water, and two-thirds of its territory is under water. The river stage continues to fall, but the backwater that inundates East St. Louis remains static, '.nry, and it prob ably will be weeks before it is gone. Business has not been resumed to any extent, and the soldiers arc still aiding the local police in preserving order. Leading citizens have taken up the proposition to build a dike of solid masonry all ahrg the river front to pro trct the city from future inundation. They assert that such a flood-proof dike is essential for the future upbuilding of the city and that Congress should aid in the construction of one. Various estimates have been made re tarding the property loss in East St. Louis, but the estimated loss most gen erally accepted by the real estate men is $300,000. Yci'vce, Madison and Granite City are still submerged and the refugees are living in box cars, tents and places of refuge in East St. Louis and St. Louis. BANKS IN A GREAT MERGER. Mae Big Concerns la Pittsburg to Be Com blned. "Pittsburg (Special). Plans have been perfected for the formation in Pittsburg of one of the greatest combinations of banking interests ever undertaken in the country. By the deal the Farmers' Deposit Na tional Bank, Colonial Trust Company, Colonial National Bank, American Trust Company, Pennsylvania Trust Company, Columbia Natural Bank, Tradesmen's National Bank, Germania Savings Bank and Freehold Bank will be merged, making the largest and most powerful financial institution between Philadelphia and Chicago. The capital of the new concern, which probably will be known as the Colonial Trust Company, will be $7,000,000, with $i6,coo,ooo surplus and undivided profits and about $55,000,000 deposits, making total resources of $78,- OOO.OOO. Hayflcrran Treaty. Panama, Colombia (By Cable). Senator Obardia and Dr. Samuel Quin tero and Senor Jose Maria Jovar.c. members of the House of Representa tives, left here for Bogota. All three said they would do their best to obtain the ratification oi the llay-Iferran treaty. The congressional delegation from Panama is composed of two sen ators and four representatives who fa vor the treaty and one senator and one representative who are opposed to it. An influential petition to Congress, praying for the acceptance of the llay Iferran treaty, is now being signed at Cartagena. Cholera Spreads la Lai do. Washington, D. C. (Special). Official advices to the Marine Service represent a sharp increase of cholera cases in the Philippines since the brg'rning of the raiuy season. Many of the cases have occurred in Manila, but a rapid spread down the coast of Luzon alto is reported. About half cf the Manila cases oc curred among the crews of the launches and other small craft thatrvcr leave the harbor. Not a single case, it is said. could De traced to importation by sea. Rules ol a Larjs City Faaad. Ctty of Mexico (Special. The ruins of a Urge city have been discovered in a remote part of the. State of Puebla by Francisco Rodriguez, an archxologiit, who has just made a report cf his fv d to the Government authorities here. The city contains large pyramids and exten sive fortifications. It is in the midst of dense forest, and much excavation will be necessary to learn its true extent and importance. A commission will be ap fioirUed by the Government to explore lie ruins. THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic Lewis Nixon resigned as president ol the United States Shipbuilding Com pany. Thomas Marcum, bother of J. B. Marcum, for whose murder Curtis Jett and Thomas White are being tried at Jackson, Ky. made a dramatic address lor the prosecution. The Equitable Assurance Company has refused to pay $55,000 insurance on the life r.f Arthur K." Pennell, who fig ured in the noted Burdick ease in Buf falo, on the ground that Pennell was a suicide. The hotel employes' strike has caused rich women to help do the hotel cook ing, the guests to wait upon each other and to eat under police protection. In the TeMi'e Workers strike the eighty-ninth linn granted the demands. It is rumored that Col. Robert C. dowry is to retire from the presidency, of the Western Union Telegraph Com pany, and Charles A. Tinker take his place. 'J he one hundred and twenty-sixth annivcr.ary r-f the American (lag was observed at the Betsy Ross House in I 1 mladi iphia. Judge Gray, chairman of the Anthra cite Strike Commission, appointed Prof. Charles P. Neil, of Washington, commissioner to compute the increase of miners' wages under the slidinir scale. Mrs. Isaac Poore, the wife of a far mer of Washington county, Tenn., who was criminally assaulted by a negro, is expected to die. A mob was dis suaded from lynching the negro. The doors of the Bessemer CMa.) Savings Bank and the Bank of Com merce were closed, the president of the former, who is a confessed defaulter, being a fugitive. James Dumas, proprietor of a trans fer company, in Indianapolis, Ind., killed Sarah F. King, wife of Wesley R. King, a workman, and then com mitted suicide. Mrs. .Mary McKnight, who confess ed having poisoned her brother and his wile and child in Kalkaska. Mich. was arraigned and pleaded not guilty, j 1 iic Hearing in me case 01 tile charges against the coal-carrying rail roads was continued before the Inter state Commerce Commission, sitting in New York. The United Slates Circuit Court of Appeals refused to modifv its recent decree allowing the Pennsylvania Rail road to remove Western Union wires. A number of New York merchants brought charges of extortion and con spiracy against various steamship lines running to South Airica. President Ramsey, of the Wabash Railroad, denied that there was any truth in the various sensational rail road rumors. 'J hrce robbers looted in express train on the Eric Road, rear Englewood, Ind., and two were captured with their pockets full of loot. A meeting was held in New York of the Cotton Duck Corporation, but nothing was done toward the proposed combination of plants. In the trial of Robert A. Amnion, in New York, William F. Milier testified that he gave Amnion $.355,000 and got back (,'ly $5,000. Governor Heard, of Louisiana, signed the death warrant of A. E. Batzon, con victed of killing seven members of the Early family. Judge liorton, in Chicago, fined the members of the Northern Illinois Coal Dealers' Association $500 each for con spiracy. Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook, United States Army, retired, died at the home of his daughter, in Dayton, O. Seven persons were drowned at Aber deen, Ark., on White River, by the capsizing of a houseboat. Robert Neill was robbed while en route from Liverpool to New York on the steamer Germanic of $20,000. Justice Lacombe, in the United States Circuit Court in New York, decided that the presidents of coal roads must answer certain questions propounded by Interstate Commerce Commission. Fcreijn. The army is controlling Servia and the pciple remain calm in advance of the election of the new king. Ex-Congrc sman W. Bourke Coch ran was given a dinner by members o the Irish party in the House of Com mons restaurant in London. Premier Giuseppe Zanardelli formally announced the resignation of the Italian Cabinet. The Allan Line steamer Norwegian is ashore at Cod Roy, N. F., and is likely to be a total wreck. Monsignor Kelly, rector of the American College in Rome, gave a din ner in honor of Mgr. F. Z. Rooker and Bishop Dougherty. Lady Henry Somerset was re-elected president of the World's W. C. T. U., in session in Geneva, Switzerland. Prince Peter Karageorgevitch, declared k'rg of Servia by the conspirators and military officers who murdered King Alexander i.nd Queen Draga, who is still at Geneva, says he has not yet received the tender of the crown. The provis ional premier of Servia says the Parlia ment must first elect the king. Kara georgevitch will be chosen because Rus sia and Austria will favor his selection. The European powers are awaiting de velopments. There is a feelirg among the intelligent classes in favor of the abolition of the monarchy and the crea tion of a republic, but Russia and Aus tria will sec that this is not done. J. Pierpont Morgan, Profcsso New- comb and Bishop Lawrence, of Massa chusetts, were among the Americans pre served it King lulwarus last levee oi the season. A crisis exists in the Italian Cabinet, but the King has induced Signor Giolitti, minister of the interior, to withhold his resignation. An insane man was seized as he ap proached the carriage of the Emperor of Austria in Vierna. The British budget bill passed the House of Commons without a division. Financial. The South African gold output for 1002 exceeded $,35,000,000. "Reorganization plans" are all laid on the shelf. Good thing. America's debt to Europe is lower now than it has been for a number of years. Good estimates put it as low as $),OO0,CG0. Call loans in Wall street fell to the unusualy low figure of 1 3-4 per cent. Directors of the Northern Central Railway Company have declared the regular semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent. It is safe to predict that Rockefeller will not get even a little control of Pennsylvania. Copper metal prices stiffened up in foreign markets and reflected the healthier tone of share values. About $.40,000,000 of Mexican Na tional Railroad stock has been deposit ed with the bankers under the reorgani zation plan. I-abor troubles have largely induced the .Baltimore St Ohio to abandon some important improvements that were mapped out. ' Bears are hard driven for "cards" 'when they put out foolish reports such that President Cassatt will retire. KING AND QUEEN OF SERVIA KILLED The Queen's Two Brothers and Six Others Also Slain. KINO ALEXANDER SHOT ONE ASSASSIN. Conspiracy Resulted from King Alexander's Arrogant Course and Hatred of Queen Draga Prince Peter Karageorgevllch Pro claimed King by the Assassins and Choice Will Be Ratified by Parliament-Populace Acquiesces In the Bloody Deed and In Sympathy with the New Dynasty. Belgrade (By Cable). A military conspiracy, which subsequent events show had the sympathy of the ma jority of the Servian people, was car ried out in the early hours of Wed nesday morning, and King Alexander, Queen Draga, her two brothers and several ministers were assassinated. Prince Tetcr Karageorgevitch, the pretender to the throne, has been pro claimed king by the army, and there is every reason to believe that this de cision will be confirmed by the Servian Parliament. The victims of the assassins were: King Alexander. Queen Draga. The Queen's two brothers. Premier Markov itch. The Minister of War. One other minister. Two aides-de-camp and two other officers. The revolution was executed without any opposition on the part of the peo ple of Belgrade, and the capital and country remain tranquil. While the main outlines of the events which took place within the royal pal ace arc known, the details are conflict ing, owing to the extraordinary secrecy with with the plot was contrived anil carried out. The chief conspirators were all men of high rank, who acted in concert with the army. The partic ipation of the latter in the assassina tions, which blotted out the Obreno vitch dynasty, which has ruled Servia, with a short intermission, for nearly a century, is mainly due to the atti tude of King Alexander and his con sort towards the officers of the army, whom he always treated with scam courtesy. His desire to remove the war school from Belgrade to Shebatz par ticularly gave the officers offense. The date is a sinister one in the his tory of the Obrenovitch house, being the thirty-fifth anniversary of the as sassination of King Alexander's grand uncle Michael, who was done to death by agents oi Alexander Karageorge vitch, the then leading member of the house which has long disputed the throne of Servia against the Obreno vitch family, and whose head. Prince Peter Karageorgevitch, has been pro claimed king. The prime movers in the plot were Liubomir Schiokovics and Vojislav Yclikovics, who had entered the new cabinet as ministers of justice and finance, respectively. M. Schiokovics was condemned to 20 years' penal ser vitude for an attempt to assassinate former King Milan. The King and Queen passed the eve of their death quietly. They attended a choral festival, then took supper in the Kor.ak and afterwards retired to rest. Meantime the conspirators held a meeting in the Kalimcgden Park. The Sixth Infantr- Regiment, which was chosen to carry out the coup d'etat, was recently punished f.ir having used its weapons agaiiut a crowd of dem onstrators. Dissatisfaction against King Alex ander's rule has been accentuated since his suspension of the constitution last April, and it is from that time that the military plot dates. The organization of the bloody deed was carried out with consummate skill. The King for the past two months was thrown off his guard by the apparent quietude of the reception of his recent coup d'etat. In the meantime the conspirators had decided on June 10 as the date for the execution of the revolution for two reasons firstly, it was the anniversary of the murder of King Alexander's grandunclc Michael, and, secondly, be cause it was feared that further delay would permit the Skupschina to set tle the succession , to the throne ac cording to the King's wishes, and it was believed that the brother of the hated Queen would be his choice. About 1 o'clock in the morning the Sixth and Seventh Regiments were called to arms and were led to the royal palace, which they entirely sur rounded. A band of 30 officers, led bv Colonel Maschin and Colonel Mis chics, forced their way into the palace, shooting all who attempted to bar their passage. They were aided by treason within. The aide-de-camp on duty. Colonel Nauniovics, had been won over by the conspirators and was en trusted with the plans for action within the royal inclosure. Several doors leading to the royal apartments were blown in by dynamite, Colonel Nau niovics himself bursting in the door of the royal bedchamber with a bomb. The officers had called on the King to open, but he curtly refused. As the door felt the King rushed to a window and appealed for assistance, but no an swer came. Realizing the situation, he returned to the Queen, holding her in his arms to protect her, and awaited the conspirators. Colonel Naumovics and the officers then entered the room. Naumovics presented to the king a form of abdi cation for his signature. The docu ment contained the statement that by marrying a "public prostitute" the Powder Plants Combine. San Francisco, Cal. (Special). The negotiations in progress during the last month for the absorption of the four California powder manufacturing com panies by the $50,000,000 corporation re c'.tly organized under the laws of New Jersey by the Duponts, of Wilmington. Del., are declared by officers of the local companies to have teen practically com pleted. It is expected that' all the Cali fornia plants will pass into the control of the Dupont Company by July 1. Mob Oave Up Negro. Johnson City, .Tenn. (Special). Mrs. Isaac Poore, wife of a Washington county farmer, was criminally assault ed. Adam Jackson, a negro from Char lotte, N. C, is accused of the crime. A mob caught him and had strung him up, when a deputy sheriff and posse arrived. The negro was taken down in response to appeals of the posse. He confessed to his crime, was bound to court and is now in jail at Jonesboro. ' King had degraded Servia and that he must abdicate. The King's answer was to draw a revolver and kill Nau movics on the spot. Colonel Mischics picked up the document and present ed it again. King Alexander waved it from him. The officers then, with their revolvers drawn, fired a hail of bullets and the royal couple fell to gether to the ground. The King lin gered until 4 o'clock, when he died. The floor of the royal chamber was almost covered with blood. The band who carried out the assas sinations appear to have met with a great resistance on the balcony side of the palace, where the curtains arc torn and the window broken as though the occupants had tried to escape into the garden, Torn gloves and articles of soldiers' clothing lie scattered be low. This resistance was probably of fered by two loyal aids-de-camp, who were killed. a POWERS MAY INTERFERE. Not Prepared to Recognlz; Assisslns May Demand Punishment. London (By Cable). The powers may yet take a hand in the Servian situ ation should there be any tendency to anarchy or the development of a revolu tionary spirit. It is believed that con ditions at Belgrade are not as serene as the government born of assassins would have the world believe. A special dispatch from Rome says a semi-official note published there de clares that whoever is made King of Servia the powers will exact the punish ment of the murderers of King Alex ander and Queen Draga, as civilized Europe cannot tolerate that high ad ministrative and military positions in any country should be occupied by as sassins. Another dispatch from Belgrade says the draft of a bill, with marginal notes written by the late King Alexander, has been found in the palace. It provided for the proclamation of Queen Draga's brother as heir to the throne. This, the dispatch adds, is held by the conspirators to be complete justification for their ac tion. The official Servian dispatches c -infirm the press and other statements to the effect that the provisional government has decided to leave the choice of a king to the Skuptschina. Filipino Outlaw Taken. Manila (By Cable). The constabu lary captured in Rizal province Faus tino Guillcrmo, the most noted outlaw in the Island of Luzon. Guillcrmo ap proached a detachment of constabulary and offered the man a bribe to desert and join him. A successful trap was planned and Guillcrmo was made pris one. During and since the insurrection Guillcrmo has committed many mur ders and robberies. Six Men to Be Hanged. Montgomery, Ala. (Special). The State Supreme Court broke all records by handing down opinions in the cases of Felix Hall, Sidney King and Albert Jones, of Jefferson county; William Starks and Alex Means, of Montgom ery county, and James Stuart, of Wil cox, affirming the action of the lower courts of convicting them of murder and sentencing each of the prisoners to death. The court fixed June 30 as the date of the six executions. Earthquake Shock In the West. San Francisco (Special). A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced here at 12 o'clock, lasting over 10 sec onds. No damage is reported. The shock was felt to the south in Los Banos, Acton, Sergeant, Oakland and Santa Margarita, and on the cast side at Newman. Northward the shock was severe at Tiburon, San Rafael, Peta luma and Vallejo, where it was quite prolonged. "Fire Bugs" Kill Five. New York (Special). Five persons; four children and a man were burned and suffocated in a fire at 347 East One Hundred and Thirteenth street, which, the police say, was started by incen diaries. Two other persons were re moved to the Harlem Hospital suffering from burns. The police say that the hallways were soaked with kerosene and that bundles of oil-soaked rags were also found. Kerosene Explodes. Milwaukee, Wis. (Special). An ex plosion caused by pouring kerosene into a lighted stove at the store and residence of John Brozokowski, here, resulted in the death of two persons, the probable fatal injury of one other, and the burn ing of six more so badly as to require the attri lion of a physician. The fire department had a hard fight for an hour before the fire was extinguished. "Species of Slavery and Unlawful." Chicago (Special-). Sixteen strikers, alleged to have violated an injunction obtained by the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company, were fined $10 each in Judge Holdom's court. "For a corporation to be compelled to contract with a union to have in its employ only ivJon men," he said in his decision, "is a species of slavery and unlawful." The case will be appealed. Historic Mm Dead. Columbia, S. C. (Special). Major W. H. Gibbs, who is said to have fired the first shot of the Civil War upon Fort Sumter, died in this city. Major Gibbs was a gunner in Capt. George James' company, to whom General Beauregard sent the order to open fire upon Major Anderson. He served as postmaster at Columbia under President Cleveland, SPARKS FROM THtJ IRES. Twenty Bulgarians were killed in an attack on the village of Yenijc, in Pru nelia. Donations of $400,000 to Columbia University were announced at the com mencement of that institution. One of the two gifts, of $300,000, is for the erection of a dormitory. A stage traveling between Weavcr ville and Redding, Cat., was held up by two masked robbers, and the passen gers compelled to surrender their val uables. Columbia University conferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon Jules fusserand, ambassador ol France in Washington. It is estimated that the 8500 men now out because of the tieup in the building trades in Pittsburg may be trebled. In the United States Court at St. Faul, Minn., argument was heard against the Northern Securities Com pany, In the trial of Curtis Jett for killing Attornev Marcum J. B. Ewen told of seeing Jett commit the murder. A terrific hail and rain storm pros trated wires and blocked tha trolley cars in Philadelphia. COAL ROADSTHE VICTORS Not Compelled (0 Produce Their Con tracts. THE STOCKS RISE WITH THE NEWS. The Announcement That President Bacr Wat Upheld Started a Buying Movement In the Coal Roads Stocks la Wall Street Read ing, Erie and. Pennsylvania Were Taken In Large Blocks. New York (Special). Judge La combe, in the United State Circuit Court, handed down n decision uphold ing the contention of the coal-carrying railroads that contracts between them and sales agents arc privileged doc uments, and ns such the Inter-State Comaicrcc Commission has no right to compel their presentation as evidence. The decision also upholds the refusal of President Baer of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and other witnesses to answer questions re lating to the conduct of their business. Judge Lacombe makes but one ex ception. He holds that Mr. Baer should have answered one question which was put to him regarding details of general expense. Judge Lacombe claims that documents had already been introduc ed in evidence containing items such as were asked for, therefore Mr. Bacr err ed in not answering that particular question. The Judge decides that the Commis sion has the right to conrpcl the pro duction for its inspection of any con tracts which refer wholly to the trans portation of coal. He states, however, that he has carefully inspected copies 01 tnc contracts which the Commission had asked for and which were furnished to him for that purpose by the attor neys for the defendant corporations, and decides that they are contracts for the purchase of coal in Pennsylvania and not merely transportation contracts. CONFESSION OF A BORGIA. Her Brother, His Wife and Child the Victims Meant No Harm. Kalkaska, Mich. (Special). After two weeks' work Prosecutor E. C. Smith has secured the confession of Mrs. Mary McKnight to the cold-blooded and pre meditated murder of her own brother, John Murphy, Gertrude Murphy, his young wife, and their thrce-month-old baby. A partial confession was made Monday evening, in which Mrs. Mc Knight denied killing the baby. Late Tuesday night' Smith again called at the woman's cell at her request, and this time she made a complete confession. In her first statement she admitted giving Mr. and Mrs. Murphy capsules of strychnine and quinine mixed. Tuesday night she said: "I didn't intend harm to any of them. I did give the baby the strychnine. It woke up and cried while its mother was gone, and I mixed up a little strychnine in a glass with some water and gave a spoonful to the baby. I didn't mean to harm the little thing. I confessed all to the Lord and I feel that he has forgiven me. 1 really didn't mean to harm any of them. When Ger trude came home and found the baby dead she got awfully nervous. She came to me and said: ""Mary, can't you give me something to quiet me; something that you take yourself?" "I said that I would, and I really didn't think that it would hurt her if I gave her one of the capsules. She had spasms right aiter that, and I suppose that it was the strychnine that killed her. I really didn't mean to hurt her, though. Then John seemed to feel so badly about it. so broken up. that I often thought after Gertrude died that it would be better 11 he were to go, too. "John was feeling bad one t.ight a couple of weeks alter Gertrude died. He came to me and wanted something to quiet him. I had two or three cap sules on my dresser, and I told him to go and get one of lliem. I dulu t mean to hurt him, but I thought it would soothe him, and , then I thought it would be for the best ii he were to go anyway. He helped himself. I don't know whether he took one or two. Then he went to bed. and by and by he called me. Mother came, too, and he began to have those same spasms I suppose that the strychnine was work ing The whole of the confession was given voluntarily, end Mrs. McKnight signed it after Prosecutor Smith had written it out. Hotel at Palm Beach Burned. West Palm Beach, Fla. (Special). At 11.30 o'clock a. 111. t'-e Breakers, the smaller of the two largest hotels at Palm Beach, was seen to be in flames. The hotel building, powerhouse. Corv's block of stores, the Casino, south of the hotel, and one of the large cot tages north of the hotel were destroyed. Some furniture from the hotel was sav ed, but it was bady damaged. The losses are: The Breakers, $500,000: furniture, $joo,goo; Casino, cottage and Cory block, about $.'5,000. Other lesses about $5000. The hotel was in sured for $300,000, but the furniture was uninsured. Cory's block is sup posed to have been about half covered by insurance. Collision on Southern. Alexandria, Va. (Special). A head on collision occurred between two freight trains on the Southern Railroad near Ravensworth, twelve miles below this city, derailing both engines, which were demolished, together with several cars. Charles D. Keys, of this city, a railroad insurance agent, and Fireman Johnson, colored, of the northbound train, were badly injured. It is report ed here that Keys' condition is critical. Engineer Mason Saunders, of the northbound train, was injured in jump ing. Royal Medal lo7n(im. London (By Cable). In order to associate himself with the American na- tion and President Roosevelt in the re cent particular remodeling of the White House, King Edward has awarded the royal gold medal, for the promotion of architecture to C" F, McKim, the New York architect, who designed the work. The presentation of the medal is fixed for June 2i. On the following day a dinner will be given in honor of Air. McKim at the Royal Institute of Brit ish architects, the invited guests in cluding Ambassador Choate. Murder Mystery Solved. Rochester, N. Y. (Special). The mystery of the murder of Theresa Keating, committed November ' to, 1000, has been solved by the confession of August Russell, who admitted to Chief of Detectives Hay den that 4ie killed the girl. Russell says that on the day of the murder he had been drink ing heavily. That evening he met Miss Keating coming along the street and made a proposal which she resented. Russell says he then attacked the girl, striking and choking her, cuid finally left her unconscious at the place where her dead bodv was afterward found. I NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Porto Rico's Large Trade. Porto Rico is furnishing a market of a million dollars a month to the pro ducers and merchants of the United States and supplying nearly a million dollars worth each month of tropical products required by the United States. 1 ne total shipments ot domestic mcr cnaiidisc from the United States to Porto Rico in the 10 months ended with April were $0,344,318. and of for eign merchandise $18,276, making the total value ol merchandise sent to Porto Rico from the United States $10. 06.594. The total shipments of do mestic merchandise from Porto Rico to the United States in the to months ended with April, 1003. were S3.7m.ai7. and of foreign merchandise J&9.037, making the total shipments from that island to the United States in the 10 months ended with April, $8,833,464. In the month of April the shipments from the United States to Porto Rico were $931.5.76 and from Porto Rico to the bmted States $1.919,0.23. These fig ures indicated that the shipments from the United States to Porto Rico dur ing the fiscal year which ends with the present month will acurcuatc about $1.000,000, and those from Porto Rico to the United States nearly an equal sum. Shortage of $75,009 Alleged. James M. A. Watson, Jr., who has been deposit clerk in the office of the Auditor of the District of Columbia since December, 1898, was arrested here on a charge of embezzlement preferred by the District Commissioners. Rumors were current that he was alleged to be nearly $75,000 slwirt in his accounts. Hurried conferences followed, result ing in the arrest of the young man at his home, at 2020 Columbia'road. The Com missioners, after a conference with Major Richard Sylvester, the Chief of Police; Mr. Andrew B. Duvall. the Coropration Counsel, and Mr. J. T Petty, the Auditor, stated that the al leged shortage amounted 'to about $67,. 000. The alleged shortage is one of the most peculiar ever noted in the history of local or Government affairs. Watson, who is known as a "young man about town," serving the District as an ordi nary clerk at a salary of $1,500 a year is interested in half a dozen enterprises He is the son-in-law of John H. Rrvant a retired contractor. Mr. and Mrs. Wat son and Mr. Bryant live in a magnificent three-story hrownstonc and brick dwell ing at 2C20 Columbia road, and the young man and his wife have always been regarded as well-to-do persons. The Panama Cnual. President Roosevelt sent for William Nelson Cromwell, counsel for the Pan ama Canal Company, to confer with him about the canal situation, Mr Cromwell spent half an hour with the President in the forenoon, and the con ference was resumed by appointment at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. It is understood the President is con siderably concerned over the canal out look. The administration is not in the least disposed to be impatient with Co lombia, and is witliti to allow the Bo gota government a reasonable time to execute it obligations to the United States. At the same time the Washing ton authorities regard these obligation? as more binding than those of an or dinary treaty and cannot admit the right of the Colombian government tc recede from them. If not carried out by ratification ol the canal treaty, which conies before the Colombia Congress at. its meeting this month, the United States hope; Colombia will find some other means of executing its obligations to this country as regards the Panama Canal Mr. Cromwell declined to sec callers after his conference with the President Turks Kill an Ani.'rlcoi. United States Consul Hccnan, at Odessa, Russia, cables to the State De partment that Quarckin B. Chitjian, ar American citizen, was killed in that city by a number of Turks, who have bcei' captured. Chitjian was born in Harpoot, Tur key, in 1863. and came to the United Mates when a child. He lived at Wor cester, Mass., where he was naturalized and ordained as ,1 clergyman, returning . . r- ... , . c . . . , . . e 10 r.urope lai aepicuiDer. it is as sumed here that the Russian authorities at Odessa will.nietc out justice for the killing. Warships Mak? a Quick Ron. The European Squadron, composec" of the Chicago, San Francisco and Ma chias, arrived at Southampton, makin; a quicker passage from the Mediterran ean than was expected. They will b: joined there by the battleship Kearsarge. anu alter coaling will proceed to Kiel. la the Departments. Civil Service Commissioner Proctei sa'ys evidence seems to indicate appoint ments to the Washington Postoftice have been made without a strict regard for the public interest. The United States Steel Corporator is the first large concern to make a re port of its business to the Departnien oi Lommrrcc and Labor. The draft of rcgulatir,-s for the gen eral staff has been nearly completed They make the chief of staff a more powerful official than the commanding general or the adjutant general Unde; present regulations. William C. Hook, of Leavenworth, Kan., has been selected to succeed Judgi Caldwell, who recently resigned the cir cuit judgship of the Eighth district. Judge Peter C. Grosscup, of Chicago, had an interview with the President, al which it is, believed the subject of trust,' was discussed. The details of the project for the gen eral staff for the Navy were submitter' to Secretary Moody. It has been discovered that the steamer Vera Cruz, which was wrecked off Ocracoke Inlet, N. C, was a sinug filer. Count Cassini referred to his intimacj with a number of Jews to show that h is not an eyijcniy to the race. Prof. James C. Monoghan was ap pointed editor of the reports of thi Bureau of Foreign Commerce in th Department of Commerce and Labo'r Russian government declines to re ceive any outside aid for families of tht victims of the Kishcncff massacre; not will she receive any outside represent tiona regarding the affair. Robert A. Sedwick, a clerk In the Treasury Department, made despond ent by financial embarrassment, com mitted suicide. The monthly government report shows average condition of spring wheat 95.9: acreage spring wheat 17, ;57,ooo acres, a decrease of 36; spring wheat acres, 17. 27. Average ronditioc winter wheat. Ea.J; oats, 85. i. against 90.6. ' J here were no further development! in the grand jury's investigation of thi postoffice affairs ,and no further indie ments are to be looked for this week. The orders issued for American shiot to Valcaraiso have been revoked. THE KEYSTOiNE STATE Latest Nei ol Pennsylvania Told la Short Order. William A. Frazier, of Glasgow, Scot land, and Albert Gusnick, of Sandusky O., both stonemasons, were killed abnut noon by a Lake Shore passenger train at Eric. They were working for the railroad company on a culvert and no ticing an approaching freight train stepped on to the other track and were run down by the passenger train. Both were terribly mangled. E. A. Mcskill. of Wcllsville, O a Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad brake man, while walking on the tracks in the Conway yards, was run down and cut to pieces by a freight train.- I he inquest into the death of WiFiam Washington, of Sharon, colored, who died from injuries alleged to have been indicted by abuse at the hands of hi, father, Henry Washington, and his step-sister, Cora Bolan, was held. Mrs Charlotta Washington, whose testimorv had not been taken before, told the story of how the boy had been burned with hot irons and placed on p red hot stove She testified that the father commllctj the boy to sleep in the kennel with 11 dogs. The jury returned a verdict that the boy died from abuse and held the father and Cora Bolan responsible. Great excitement has been aroused by developments which seem to point to an attempt to murder Mrs. Charles Ingles, of L-niontown. Some time agi she was shot from ambush and seri ously wounded, and Harry Arlis, of Fairchance, was brought before a jus tice in the case, but Mrs. Ingles did n .t appear against him. It is now charged that a few days ago Artis talked wish two colored men, H. O. Gradv ar.d Thomas Walker, offering them a gold watch and $50 to kill Mrs. Ingles, and providing them with an ironwood stick for the purpose. During an electric storm at H-dli. daysburg a bolt of lightning struck and killed a herd of seven cattle that vcrc standing in the pasture field of Jere miah Mattcrn. William Jasper, colored, who claims to be an ex-policeman from Pitt -bur?, is being tried for burglary at Union town. Mark Quin-i, of Cl.-urton. -.wis stt-.ia bv a tram at Cochran Station and killed. He was aged 30 1 Representative Samuel Rinn, oi tl.e Eleventh Legislative district, from Philadelphia, who last May was apmi-t. Pc '? ' "arrc". commisi.,:icr of the State dairy and food commisstnt as an nge::t in the department, in vin.n tion of th-? constitution of the S:atc. which prohibits any member of tie Legislature from accepting anv S:.ite appointment during the term for which he is elected, has returned to Dr. W.ir reit the amount of money which had been paid him while acting in the ca pacity of an agent. Mr. Ripp h3? ten dered his resignation to Dr. Warren. E. J. Bowers, a barber, of New Cr-'i-'n met instant death 011 the Mahoning alley electric line, when he was struck and dragged several yards. His head was almost severed and his body badlv mangled. His pockets were emptv. .mil Coroner Porter will investigate, as there is a possibility of foul play. Braddock borough school board re srganized with four new members. Ed ward J. Snail was elected president. Dr. William S. Stewart secretary and Edwin R. Oskiii treasurer. Fifty-two teachers were re-elected, and of the six not elect Ed five arc expected to marry in the coming year. All Susquehanna -ounty assembled at Mor.trosc to participate' in the - Wel come Home" to Galusha A. Grov, who, 'n his eighty-first year, is retirii's to private life, after half a century cf pub lic service. There was a par.id? ad "peechmakinp. Addresses were delr ;red by Mr. Grow. J. T. Dubois. Jl.iil- f-tcad; W. M. Post, Montros: ex -Congressman George A. Post, New York city; Burgess D. T. Brewster, Gen. D. H. Warner, Washington, and o;!ics. Letters of greeting were read from President Roosevelt, Secretary Hay anJ others. The waces of nuddlcrs at the Bethle hem Steel Company have been increased irom $4.75 to 55 a day. Miss Belle Schiffer died at the hos pital at Easton from injuries sustained several days ago by a fall from a roof where she was hanging clothes. Pottsviilc Aerie, No. 134, Fraternal Order of Eagles, initialed ninety new members, completing a membership "f l o. A banquet .followed. At a meeting of the Lancaster Dry Gcods Association, it was decided to rlose the stores at 5 p. m., daily, during July and August with a Friday ha't holiday weekly. Reaching for her doll, which had fallen over the railing of a twenty-foot porch in front of her home in Potts viilc. 6-ycar-old Ella Briuich p ur.gfd headlong to the pavement. Her head struck the eurb, and she sustained two tinctures of the skull. The Water Commission recently ap pointed by Bethlehem Council to inquire into the source of that town's water sup ply, has organized and elected Dr. H. Lacias president, and A. T. Ran, super intendent of the Moravian Parochial School, secretary and treasurer. Samuel A. Loose was elected ores' dent of the Hamburg Savings Bank, vice Peter Burkey, deceased. Rev. J. H. Neibuhr. of Allentown. "las accepted a call to the First Ger man Baptist Church, of Williamsport, nd will assume his new duties at once. The Lnngswamp school board organ zed with M. A. Wetzel president; ?annbcll Hcrtzog, fecretary, and Wil liam 'j. Fox, treasurer. Jesse Underkotller, a brakeman, had his foot severed, several ribs fractur fd and was internally injured when run down by a car ct Finland. His blouse catching on a spigot, Fire man Amos Sp.-ingler, of Tamaqua, was thrown under his engine. His right leg and right hand were cut off. Luke Dolling, aged 9 yrV r.river at West Shenandoah Colliery, was kicked by a icious mule, hurled down an embankment and seriously in jured. The Board of Education of Chester h organized for the jesr by tns election of William M. Bowcn. PrC5.'.' dent; David F. Rose, secretary; David II. Burns, treasurer, and George m Booth, solicitor. The newly clecte" members who took the oath of otn are James Waugh, First ward: David l' Rose. Second wurd; Joseph II. Lad' omiiB Ttiir.i n-nni. rwiiin! MacFay- den, Fo.irlii ward;' Thoipas P. Feeler. Attornev C. C. Lee 'filed ,the will of Peter 11. Miller, laic of Pittsburij. The value of the estate is said to be 9y-' 000, and the will provides that one tenth of the entire estate shall be neio in trust by the decedent's brothers the benefit of charities. , Colonel Joseph W. Hawley of Jl" dia, has been appointed by Gv.cr;V Pennypacker, chairman of the AIP tam Battlefield Commission . The contract tor the new Howe" street passenger slition for the rrni sylvania Railroad Company hi Ch' haa hn awarded Jr.. a local builder. . It will be brie structure, to co il $l$.cco,
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