FATHER SLEW CHILDREN
Killed (he Little Ones to Spile
Wife.
His
FLED FROM WRATH OF LYNCHERS.
To the Jill Turnkey McClure Admitted the
Murder of Hi Two Ch Idrco, and Said He
Had Killed Tbem ft.cause Hit Wife Had
Lett Him and Refused lo See or Hove Any
Thing to Do Willi Him.
Marion, Irul. ( Special.) Jesse Mc
Clure, a farm hand, murdered his two
oris, aged five and seven years, leaving
their bodies in a fence corner. While a
mob was funning to capture and lynch
Jiim, he drove on a run to this city and
Eave himself up. lie has been secreted
ty the authorities, who fear attempted
violence.
McClure lived near Frankton, and had
aeparatcd from his wife a year ago, she
Tefnsing to live with him and returning
with her children to her father's home.
At noon McClure hired a rig at El wood
and drove to the Kilgore farm, the owner
ling Mrs. McClure's father, lie found
the children playing in the front yard,
and induced them, with candy, to take a
ride with him He .drove a mile up the
road, carried the children to a fence cor
ner and shot them with a revolver. The
older one was found dead a few minutes
later and the younger one was dying,
a piece of the candy bcinir till in hi
tnouth. McCitirc tied and was rur-iud
ly a crowd of young farmers hmt on ,
deadly vengeance. '1 lie alarm wvs given
and from all surrounding towns arm'1 I
pursuers started. McClure succeeded in ,
Teaching the jail in safety. ;
To the jail turnkey McClure admitted j
the murder of his two children and said j
lie had killed them becatt-c his wife had !
left him and refused to see him. lie;
said : j
"When she refused to see mc I de
cided to In: revenged, and drove down,
the road to a little clump of small trees j
My two children were asleep ill the buy- i
fry. When I stopped the jolt awoke my I
little b'A1, Dec. Hi; looked up to me and i
said :
" Tapa. what arc. you going to do?'
"I put mv hand over his eves and took
tny gun from my pocket and diot Inm '
In the forehead, killing him in-tantly. I
The shot . awoke little Homer, and If
took him by the shoulder and fired a shot j
into his head. '1 hey both fell to the hot- ;
toni of the bui'ay. 1 drove the horse to :
the side of the road and Iiftoil both
bodies out and laid them out on the with
ered grass. I then drove directly to Ma
rion, to the jail, and am here to give
myself up.
The neighbors w ill lynch mc when
they find out what I have done. I do
do not care what you do with mc. I am
ready to die, and expect to hang for this
crime. All that I ask is to sec my dear
little ones buried."
Late in the evening it was learncil that
a mob was being formed to come to Ma
rion anil lvuch McClure. Deputy Sher
iff Willn.ms then spirited the murderer
away from the jail and started with him
to Indianapolis.
S25.0JO REWARD OFFERED.
Amount Will Be Paid for Return ol Philadel
phia Millionaire.
Big Stone Gap, Va. (Special). Pre
vious rewards offered by D. 15. Wcntz,
iirothcr of Edward L. Wcntz, the
Philadelphia millionaire who disappeared
on Wednesday. October 14, not having
brought forth the desired results, all re
wards offered by D. I!. Wcntz have been
withdrawn and the following rewards of
fered by the Virginia Coal and Iron
Company :
1. If the person or persons who ab
ducted Edward I-cincring Wcntz Wed
nesday. October 14. t'KM, will return him
alive they will he paid $25,000 by the Vir
ginia Coal and Iron Company.
2. A reward of Jjo.or.o will he paid by
tlie Virginia Coal and Iron Company
for information which secures the arrest
and conviction of the murderers of lid
ward L. Wcntz.
DliATH IN Till: CAN.
Two Peddlers Mistake Nllro-glycerine for
Maple Srup.
Butler, Ta. ( Special;. William. Marks
was instantly killed and Patrick Hardy
fatally injured here by tin explosion of
liitro-glvcerine. The men were peddlers
of small notions, and hud camped in the
woods near here.
'I hey found an empty ran which they
supposed had contained maple syrup
from the small bit of siicky substance ad
hering to the top. Marks' s-.t down with
the can between his knees and com
menced 10 cut out the top, Vj ui to trails
form it into a water ve s"l.
'J he small portion of tbc niiro-glycer-ine
at once exploded, ami Marks' head,
bands anil feet were l.b.w 11 011 ;md his
body disemboweled. Ilardv, who was
Handing close by, had bis' eyes blown
out and the bone-, in hi, ;,rms and legs
shattered in a dozen places. J!c cannot
recover.
Girls as Vbsscnjjers.
Boston (Special) .The collection j
and delivery ,i tele-rams by the We t :
ern Union Telegraph Company by j
means 01 messengers was practically
cut off owing t.. liic lockout oi ih'
150 or more messenger-, in tin; employ
d the American Di-trict Telegraoil
Company. Several girls were used lor
the collection and delivery nf m"s
sages, but the greater part of the work
was carried on by telephone Super
intendent Ames, of the Western Union,
said that the messenger service here
after would be conducted by girls. Dur
ing the day the rather limited force of
jrirls at first employed was gradually
increased ami me service showed con
siderable, improvement.
Favoritism 10 Women.
Washington, D. C. . (Special). The
temporary men clerks in the War De
partment arc disgruntled over what
they declare is favoritism shown women
who have been transferred to the pcr-
snancnt roll. These clerks were given
places at the outbreak of the Spanish-
4 American War. No examination was
required- After the war all were re
tained on account of the mass of work
caused by the acquisition of new terri
tory. When Congress convenes some
thing may be done for the men clerks.
Caoadion (iovernm:ol Detailed.
Toronto, Out. (Special). The Do
minion government has lost and the
Americans have won in the case of the
seizure by the cruiser Petrel of the fish
ing schooner Kitty D., last July, (or,
tlie government claimed, illegally
fishing in Canadian waters in Lake
1-rie. Judge llodgius, of the Admir
alty Court, decided against the govern
ment's contention that the vessel was
on the inside of the boundary hue and
ordered the restitution of the vessel
to its owner at Dunkirk, N. Y. It is
10I unlikely a suit for damages against
the Dominion government will lubuw,
THE LATEST fCWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
It is reported in Philadelphia that the
Pennsylvania Kailro.nl Company will
award the contract for the erection of
the new union station at Washington,
D. C In I'odvhotise, Arcy iV Co.. of
Philadelphia. The contract will amount
to about $1,250,000.
The report of Keceiver Smith, of the
United States Shipbuilding Company,
recommends that Schwab's $10,000,003
bond issue be declared, void and that
the common stock of the company ho
assessed.
Judge Wing, in the United Stales
District Court in Cleveland, Ohio, sen
tenced Albert W. Deibel, former paying
teller of the City National Hank of Can
ton, (.)., to the penitentiary for live
years for embezzlement.
Edward Kocdel, aged 62, a traveling
doctor, was arrested at Cincinnati,
charged with counterfeiting. One-dollar
bills have been changed into tin
dollar bills and passed in Southern In
diana and Ohio.
Construction of the ship canal which
is to connect the .smith end of Lake
Michigan with the Calumet river was
commenced at Indiana Harbor.
I '1 he bandits who are supposed to
have looted the liurrton (Kan.) Hank
were caught alter a desperate battle, in
1 which their leader was wounded,
j A hearing was had at Lancaster, Pa.,
1 nit the application nf John (J. Denny
tor a receiver lor the Susquehanna Iron
and Steel Company.
John K. Urown. motive cashier of
the Union Hank of New Holland, in
dicted for embezzling $10.3.000, was ar
reted in San Francisco.
V. K. I.attiuier. a merchant, was at
tacked and killed bv hiuhwaymcn as he
was about to enter his home, in Won!
Sto.'k. O.
Plans for amalgamating the two na
tional organizations of carpenters have
In in formulated by Albert Strausser,
tin1 umpire.
I'.y the will nf Miss Mary P. Ropes,
of Saiem, Mass., Sl.ooo.ooo is to be dis
tributed among various educational and
other public institutions after the death
of her sister, Kliza O. Ropes.
A skiff containing five Hungarian la
borers wa.s swept over the Springdale
Dam. near Colfax Station, in the fog
and iour nf the occupants were drown-
At the American Hanker" s Conven
tion in San Francisco. Ellis II. Rob
erts, treasurer oi the United Staes, read
a paper on the effects of the inllow of
gold.
'I he will of the Rev. J. H. W. Stuck
enburg, nf Cambridge. Mass., contains
a bequest of $35,000 to the Pennsylvania
College, at Gettysburg.
Heulah York, a Maine farmer's
daughter, was killed by Ora Green, who
was infatuated with her, and who also
blew his own head off.
George Neyulus was sentenced by
Judge Kirkpatrick. in Trenton. N. J.,
to 10 years in the State prison for coun
terfeiting. A monument erected to the memory
of Shabbona. the famous chief of the
Pottauattomies, was unveiled at Mor
ris, 111.
Thre bandits dynamited and robbed
the State Hank at Hurton. Kan., and
obtained between $1000 and $2000.
A pitched battle at Port Riley was an
interesting and dashing feature of the
army maneuvers.
I he question of taxing Indians was
considered at the Lake Mohonk Con
ference. I trojn.
An American who has been studying
the situation at Dalny, on the Liaotung
Peninsula, says Russia has 200,000
tioops in Manchuria, and is also
strengthening her position on the west
bank nf the Yalu river. Japan contin
ues her policy of settling Korea.
The plan of the powers for the
amelioration of affairs in Macedonia,
just submitted to Turkey, provides for
control of all branches nf the adminis
tration of the disturbed provinces by
Austria and Russia for two years.
Emperor William was present at the
unveiling nf monuments at Kuestrin,
Prussia one to mark the grave of Jo
haiiu, who built the fortress at Kues
trin, and another in memory of Fred
erick the Great Fleeter.
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the
British ambassador at Madrid, has been
selected to succeed the late Sir Michael
Herbert at Washington.
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the
Briti-h ambassador at Madrid, will
probably succeed the late Sir Michael
Herbert as ambassador to the United
States.
At the suggestion nf Signor Zanar
delli. who has resigned the Italian pre
miership, the King has charged Signor
(iinletti with the iormation of a new
cabinet.
The underwriters at Lloyds have dou
bled the insurance rates to the Far
l'.a-t. covering all risks if war is de
clared within time months.
The 1 lirkish authorities have hurried
Hoops to L'skub because of the dis
covery of a military plot to kill the
Russian consul there.
1 he Japanese milli ter at Paris in
i is that the negotiations between Ja
pan and ku-.-ia continue and predicts a
pc.-.cei.d result.
The detachment of the Honourable
Artillery Company of London, arrived
at Lis : pool on their return from the
L'nite'l States.
While de. r-sta'king at Roiiiinten F.m
pcror Will. am sank to his hips in the
bog un 1 the foresters pulled him out
of the mire.
Itriti.h Secretary Lytthton, I.iberal
I'lioiiit, Ins been re-elected to the
House oi Commons by a greatly re
duced majority.
The Kii' sian viceroy of the Far Fast,
Admiral Alt r.teff, is opposed lo the open
ing of Manchui iau towns to foreign
trade. 'I be treaty nf commerce between
China and the United States provides
that concc1 .-.ions be given "t Mukden and
Aiitung.
I Inanclat.
i Illinois Central will issue $jo,ooo,ooo
ol 4 per cent, refunding bonds.
I he Philippines have stopped buying
silver bullion and will recoin 12,000,000
Spanish dollars.
Gould's friends gathered in more Mis
souri Pat die. llu y say it must go to
par on the first real rally.
The Alton pool is still active. Since
the tip was invcn that it would go to 40
it has risen from 10, to 28.
It is denied by Like Superior people
that President Shields will retire to
.:kc ruom for Keceiver Fachcnthal.
Its annual report shows that Crucible
eel (.aid out $227,450 more in dividends
.ban was earned during the year.
Northern Pacific directors yrsterday
declared the usual quarterly dividend of
1 'j per cent, and an extra 't of 1 per
c nt.
Amalgamated Copper lost its big suit
with llcinzc. The Court decides that the
Hoston & Montuna CoiiiKiuy must not
pay dividends to Amalgamated.
New England will tins year ship 4,
o,;X,ooo cases of shoes or 560,000 cases
more than last year.
William C. Parks, an able steel manu
facturer, has been elected to the board of
the Crucible Steel Company.
17 BURIED IN SUBWAY
Frenzied Workman Diij With Bare
Hands to Rescue Men.
THE ROOF FELL IN AFTER A BLAST.
It Is Believed That Not One ol the Seventeen
Men at Work at the Spot Where the Cave
In Occurcd Will Live, As Those Who Were
Not Mangled Wens Shocked by the Terrific
Explosion.
New York (Special). Following a
blast of rock in the rapid transit sub
way under Washington Heights a col
lapse of the tunnel roof occurred, bury
ing 17 laborers who were working at
that point. Within 20 minutes of the
explosion, which echoed and re-echoed
throughout the neighborhood, rescuers
had dug out four dead bodies and four
of the victims who arc not expected to
recover were soon taken to an opening
farther along in the subway and lifted to
the street.
Ambulances and surgeons from the J.
Hood Wright, the Fordham and the Lin
coln Hospitals were hurried to the scene
and a truck from the Fire Department
reached the spot within half an hour.
'1 here were wild scenes as some of the
fellow-workmen who had escaped any
serious injuries ran to the spot and fran
tically dug with their bare hands at the
huge mound of earth and broken stone
in hysterical endeavors to get at the vic
tims buried under tons of debris.
The surgeons went about administer
ing anesthetics to those who were' still
alive and, then bundled them off to the
hoiital for treatment. It is believed
that not one of the 17 men at work at
the spot where the cave-in occurred will
live, as those who were not mangled
were shocked by the explosion.
The wildest rumors were in circula-
I tion. and at one time it was reported that
tlie tunnel had caved in for a distance
of a quarter of a mile and that .10 men
had been buried, rordham Hospital was
promptly notified and urged to send its
ambulances and to arrange for trucks or
I tlicr vehicles to convey, the injured to
its doors.
About ir o'clock another report at po
lice headquarters, that later proved to
be greatly exaggerated, placed the num
ber of victims at 65. of whom it was said
15 were killed outright and 50 were so
crushed and bruised that the number of
dead might be greatly increased.
After sifting down these incorrect ru
mors the truth was ascertained.
Suffering from cuts and bruises,
Thomas Yendran and a man named Wil
liams were taken to Fordham Hospital.
They said they knew that a number of
persons had been killed by the cave-in
and many more injured.
Hoth ambulances of the hospital, car
rying members of the house staff, in ad
dition to the regular ambulance sur
geons, were hurried to the scene in re
sponse to the first call.
DYNAMITE CARS IN COLLISION.
Terrific Force of the Explosion that Follow
edSome Strange Effects.
New York (Special). Three freight
cars, one of them loaded with dynamite,
that had broken away from a freight
train on the Harlem River branch of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad, at liaychestcr, collided with
the remainder of the train at the bottom
of a steep decline, and the car with the
explosive in it was blown up, demolish
ing three other cars.
The engineer, Thomas Corrigan, was
thrown off his seat and was for a few
minutes slightly stunned. He managed
to regain his presence nf mind, however,
and shut off the steam, bringing the train
to a stop.
Nearly every house in Baychestcr suf
fered damage from the explosion. A
woman who was thrown from bed is
believed to lie the only person who was
injured by the explosion.
A policeman who wan crossing the
tracks a mile from the scene was knocked
down by the concussion.
The three detached cars and the rear
car of the main portion of the train were
burned.
Within half a mile of the Baychestcr
station not a pane of glass in any of the
houses remained intact.
In Westchester village almost a panic
reigned. Men rushed to the postothce
armed with clubs, guns and knives, be
lieving that burglars had blown open the
safe.
Two boathouses on Long Island Sound,
half a mile away from the scene of the
explosion, were wrecked. There was
some damage done at City Island.
DANGtROUS FIRE IN NORFOLK. '
Building 00 Commercial Place Is Destroyed
Sailors AiJ Firemen,
Norfolk, Va. (Special). The five-story
building of the Old Dominion Paper
Company, on Commercial Place, was
gutted by fire. A high northeast wind
threw blading brands for squares and
seriously endangered the heart of the
wholesale section, but the llames were
confined to one building.
The tire originated on the fifth floor
and had gained great headway before it
wa.s discovered. Alxmt 100 sailors from
the navy yard aided the firemen, and
one sailor fell from the top of a 40-tn it
ladder into the outstretched arms of
three of his companions, who saw him
criming and braced themselves to catch
him. lie was uninjured.
What portions of the building escaped
the llames were ruined by water, and the
stock is a total loss. The damage is es
timated at from $50,000 to $00,000, in
sured. On Strike for Oood Food.
Philadelphia (Special). Twenty-four
men and five girls, employed at the Mu
nicipal Hospital, are on strike for pure
and nourishing food. The force at the
hosjiital is crippled and the physicians
arc acting as ambulance drivers. The
strikers include waitresses, ward maids,
laundry pirls, yardmen, gatcmcn and
drivers. They claim that Emma Gil
lianis. the .matron, furnishes them with
tainted meat, half-cooked sausage and
hard potatoes.
Bandits Surrender Alter Fir lit.
Burrton, Kan. (Special). After a de
termined cliase and a bloody battle the
men who are alleged to have looted
the bank at this point have been cap
tured on an island in the Arkansas
river. The men give their names as
James Bell. George Olson, Ii. II.
Johnson, who was severely wounded,
Thomas White and Frank liar wood.
Johnson is badly wounded, being shot
in the head, breast, arms and legs. They
declare they were never in liurrton, but
W. L. Dailey, a merchant of Bunton,
identifies them as the men who came
into his store Thursday evening.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
' Immigration Increases.
The annual report of Commissioner
General Frank P. Sargent, of the Bu
reau of Immigration, shows a large in
crease of steerage immigration over that
of the preceding year, the aggregate for
the fiscal year of 1903 being 857,046, an
excess over that of last year of 208,303,
or 33 per cent,
The statistics show an increase in im
migration from all foreign sources, sug
gesting as the chief cause of the influx
of aliens into the United States during
the year the inducements offered to set
tlers here, rather than any special causes
of discontent in their own countries. Of
the total steerage immigration there
came from F.urope 814.507, from Asia
20,906 and from all other sources 12,573.
If to these figures arc" added those rep
resenting the total arrivals of alien cabin
passengers 64.260 tl,c result will show
that the total immigration of aliens to
the United States during the year aggre
gated 021,315, or 105.043 more than the
greatest luitnW heretofore reported for
any one year.
The greatest number of immigrants
230.O22 came from Italy, an increase
nf 5-2.247 over last year, while Austria
Hungary furnished so6,on, an increase
of 34.022; Kttssia 136.003, an increase of
28.746; Germany, 40,0, an increase of
11.782; Sweden, 46.028, an increase of
I5.I34: Ireland, 35,210, an increase of
6172, and England, 26.219, an increase
nf 12.644. Of the Oriental countries,
Japan was foremost, with 19,968, an in
crease of 5608, while China contributed
2209, an increase of 560 over last year.
Of the total number nf steerage aliens
613.146 were males and 243.000 were fe
males, of whom I02.43t were less than
14 years of age. There were of these
3341 who could read, but could not
write, and 185,667 who could neither
read nor write, leaving a balance able
both to read and to write of 668.0S.
The total H molttl t ("if nin'IPl' 111 Mt rrli f if
them into the United States was $:6,-
H7:5t3.
Exclusive of those denied admission
nt the land boundaries of the United
States 8?fiO nlifn iltiininrntitc ftm rn-
jeeted for various causes, the number
of reiections beino1 np.nrlv flntibl.. ttirc
of the preceding year. Of these 5812
were paupers, 1773 were afflicted with
disease and 10S0 were contract labor
ers. Program of Naval Increase.
The General Board of the Navy, of
which Admiral George Dewey is the
president, has recommended to Secre
tary Moody that the navy should b?
increased each year by 4 first-class bat
tleships, 2 armored cruisers, 4 torpedo
boat destroyers and 4 fast and large
scout ships.
Secretary Moody some time ago
asked the board to recommend a budd
ing program which would extend over
a period of several years, and which is,
in the opinion of the board, essential
to bring the navy to a strength ade
quate to the country's possible require
ments. It is understood the above rec
ommendation is the result, with the
suggestion that in case Congress in
any year fails to make a sufficient ap
propriation for all of these ships, the 2
armored cruisers and 4 torpedo-boat
destroyers can best be eliminated from
the program.
Interior Department Expense Decreasing.
The Secretary of the Interior has
completed and forwarded to the Secre
tary of the Treasurer his estimate of
the appropriations necessary to conduct
the affairs of the Interior Department
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1905.
The estimate places the total require
ment for the department at $156,000,000,
which is about $3,000,000 less than the
appropriation for the current year.
The proposed reduction will be made
in the Pension Bureau and the Indian
office.
The estimate for pensions is $135,800,
000, or $i,7oo.oco less than the appro
priation made for this year. There also
is a cut of $1,300,060 in the estimate
for the Indian Bureau. The estimate
for the expenses of conducting the af
fairs of the Five Civilized Tribes of In
dians is $259,695.
The reduction in the pension estimate
is due to a calculation of deaths oi
pensioners made by the Commissioner
of Pensions.
New Coun'crfelt la Circulation.
The Secret Service announces the dis
covery of a new counterfeit $10 m
tional banknote on the Miller's River
National Hank of Athol. Mass., check
letter B, series of 1882, Bruce register.
Wyman treasurer. It is a photographic
production printed on two thin pieces
of paper, between which silk threads
have been distributed. The bank and
litasury numbers are colored maroon,
instead nf carmine, and the seal is yel
lowish brown, instead of chocolate. The
back of the note is several shades
darker than the genuine.
In the Departments.
Lieut. K. E. Peary discussed before
the National Geographical Society the
plans for the next expedition to the
North Pole.
Adjutant General Corbin exchanged
farewell greetings with the officers and
employes oi the office.
The immigration officials ordered the
deportation of John Turner, the Eng
lis.li anarchist.
The Postmaster General signed an
order disbarring II. J. Barrett from
practicing beiore the Postollice Depart
ment. Harrison D. Barrett, ol New-ham,
Mass., was re-elected president of the
National Spiritualists' Associating.
Commissioner General Frank P. Sar
gent, of the Bureau of Immigration,
submitted his annual report.
The Woman's Centenary Association
of the Univcrsalist Church began its
thirty-fourth session.
In accordance with Attorney General
Knox's opinion, there will be 110 criminal
proceedings against Littaucr.
William II. Lantlvoight, chief of the
classification division of the Postofficc
Department, resigned by request.
Senator CJuay's sou was appointed
deputy naval officer at the port of Phila
delphia. The All-American Conference of
Protestant Episcopal Bishops opened at
Washington.
The State Department officials arc
disposed to attach little credence to the
reports that Russia intends to defeat
the operation ol the new treaty between
the United States and China.
The opinion of the Attorney General
in the case of Representative Littaucr
holds that he is not subject to prose
cution because of the statute of limit
ations. ,
An Increased force is needed in the
auditor's bureau, according to the rec
ommendations of retiring Auditor Cas
tle, of the Postofl'ice Department. '
The . sentences of Marion Marshall,
Cyrus Raines and Burton Harper, the
West Virginia conl miners, have been
commuted by the President.
INSURGENTS SURRENDER
Plan of Revolutionary Committee to
Avoid Rigor cf Winter.
LCAVE THEIR ARMS BEHIND THEiM.
Turks Report Botb Chakalaroff sod Sarafotf,
the Insurgent Leaders, Wcro Killed Recent
ly In thj Village of Doof, In the Fiorina
District The Bulgarians Assert That Sara
loff Is on His Way to Bulgaria.
Solonica, Macedonia (By Cable).
Recent advices from Monastir say that
a considerable number of insurgents
have surrendered in response to the
Sultan's last call. The first of those
who surrendered were beaten and
imprisoned, but under stringent orders
from the Yildiz palace all the men who
are now coming in are well received and
have been pardoned.
This, however, docs not indicate the
collapse of the rebellion, but is in con
formance with the revolutionary com
mittee's decision to thin out the in
surgent bands during the winter and
retain under arms only an aggregate of
about 3500 men. The insurgents who
arc coming in arc men of inferior phy
sique, who could not stand a winter
campaign. They leave their rifles with
the leaders, who secrete them in the
mountains, in readiness for operations
in the spring. Not one of the leaders
has surrendered.
The revolutionary committee has no
intention of resorting to the use of dyn
amite bombs in the towns this winter,
but it declares that if the powers do
not succeed in causing the establish
ment of a satisfactory form of govern
ment by the spring every available man
will be called out and every desperate
method for gaining the ends of the rev
olutionists will be resorted to.
The Turks report that both Chaka
laroff and SarafolT, the insurgent lead
ers, were killed recently in the village of
Moot, m the rlonna district. Ihe
Bulgarians assert that Satafoff is on
his way to Bulgaria.
The Rev. Henry Haskell, the Amer
ican missionary, has arrived at Mon
astir to help in the relief work inau
gurated by the Rev. Mr. Bond.
Constantinople. 1 he Austrian and
Russian ambassadors presented to the
Porte notes embodying the demands
agreed on at the recent conference be
tween the Czar and Emperor Francis
Joseph held at Mttrzsteg, Styria.
Sofia, Bulgaria. The war minister
has dismissed the reservists of the sec
ond class, and it is expected that all tru
reservists will be disbanded prior to the
elections.
PAID HIS FINE,
V. S. Minister Pearson Refused to Ask for
Its Remission.
Rome (By Cable). Richmond Pear
son, formerly United States consul at
Genoa and now minister to Persia, has
been fined $60 and $15 costs for in
sulting an Italian railway official last
December, previous to his appointment
as minister. The government was de
sirous of settling the incident by par
doning Mr. Pearson, but the latter re
fused to ask for the King's clemency,
as prescribed by law.
Mr. Pearson, on December 2, had
some words at the railroad station at
Genoa with some other passengers,
about scats in a car and an employe of
the road intervened, whereupon Mr.
Pearson, it is claimed, used insulting
language- in addressing the employe.
The train left and the incident would
have been closed if Mr. Pearson, on
returning to Genoa, had not made a
report to the station-master against
the employe, repeating the alleged in
sults in writing and signing his name,
as consul genera) of the United States,
thus compelling the employe to defend
himself. The latter used' the consul
general's letter as evidence before the
judicial authorities and Mr. Pearson,
not appearing, he was sentenced by de
fault. Santos Dumo.it to Contest.
Taris (By Cable). M. Santos-Du-mont,
the Brazilian aeronaut, said: "If
there is no modification" of the condi
tions stipulated I shall participate in
the contest at St. Louis for the aero
nautic prize. The conditions named
are perfect, for the numerous difficulties
prescribed enable a splendid test of
the dirigibihty of balloons. There will
be three points to encircle, instead of
one, as in the contest for the Deutsch
prize, in whk'.x it sufficed to double the
Eiffel Tower. I believe my No. 7 will
attain the speed fixed upon. This bal
loon is really an arrow. It measures
154 feet in length, has a diameter of
22 feet and is driven by a motor having
Ho horsepower."
Gruesome Sljht at a Hanging.
Birmingham, Ala. (Special). .? grue
some spectacle was witnessed here when
Felix Hall, colored, was hanged for the
murder of Norwood Clark, white. When
the drop fell the rrpe slipped, and the
condemned man hung for 10 minutci
only half choking. He was hauled up
and the rope readjusted. This time the
fall broke his neck. Hall's last act wis
to write a declaration of his innocence.
Wife and Mother In-Law Su'pcctcd.
Helena, Mont. (Special). Mrs. J Pin
na Hall, mother-in-law of Albert W.
Falke. who died suddenly in Great Falls
last March, has been arrested here 011 a
warrant sworn out by Faike's lather,
charging her with having caused hi-:
death by means of poison. Faike's wife
was arrested recently in Labelle, Mo., on
a similar charge. Airs. Hall declares she
is innocent.
SPARKS FROM Tlld WIRJi
The second-class protected cruiser
Denver failed to make the speed of 17
knots an hour called for in her contract
in her official trial trip on the Cape Ann
course. Her average was 16.28 knots.
The Acme Harvester Company, of Pe
oria, III., has placed its affairs in the
hands of a committee and asked creditors
for an extension.
William Mills, aged 92 years, said It
be the oldest veteran of the Civil War
in New York State, died at his home in
Pumghkecpsic.
Arthur Carpenter and Frederick Av
ery, New York Central trainmen, were
arrested in Albany on the charge of as
saulting and attempting to rob Express
Messenger Miller.
Customs officers seized $25,000 worth
of jewels taken from Cant. S. Gelat. a re
tired French officer, who had declared
that lie had nothing dutiable.
Ijtlrones surprised the town of Iriga,
in the province of Amhos Camarines,
Lu.:on, and killed the wife, uncle of the
president and three volunteers. j t
The New Orleans Board of Trade lias
selected Philadelphia as the northern ter
minus of the proposed steamship line
from the Southern city.
THE MISSOURI NOW QUEEN.
New Battleship Proves Herself Very
. Speedy
.Boston, Mass. (Special). The new
battleship Missouri proved herself the
queen of the seas in her class in a
speed trial over the Cape Ann course,
with weather conditions of a consid
erably handicapping nature.
Steaming over a course of 33 nautical
miles and return, the battleship made
an average speed of 18.05 knots pet
hour, which, with tidal corrections
greatly in her favor, it is believed will
advance it to 18.22 knots, a new world'l
record for battleships of her1 class.
The first part of the run was made
against a strong northwest breeze,
which kept 'down the speed to 17.64
knots, but coming back the conditions
were more favorable, and the 33 knot
were covered in I hour and 47 min
utes and 9 seconds, a speed of i8.4?
knots per hour.
The big battleship at one time attain
ed a speed of 18.75 knots per hour, The
contract requirements call for IS knots,
and the margin was very gratifying not
only to the builders, the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Drydock Company,
but to the government officials 01)
board.
The best previous record made by a
battleship in the Missouri's class is
that oi the Maine, a sister ship, which
was 17.98 per hour.
The Missouri left her anchorage in
Presidents Roads shortly after 8 a. m.,
and steamed down to Cape Ann, where
the measured course began. On the
battleship was the naval trial beard, a
number of naval officers stationed in and
near Boston and guests of the com
pany. The weather was clear, but a
stiff quartering breeze blew from the
northwest and roughed up the water
considerably. The cruiser Chicago,
marking the southern end of the course,
was sighted soon after 10 o'clock, and
half an hour later the Missouri was
headed for-the line. It was found that
steam was' a tritle low, and so the big
warship described a couple of circles
before she again headed northward, the
stokers shoveling coal upon the fires
ali the while, until at 11 o'clock the
steam pressure was satisfactory to the
engineers in charge.
W hen the word was given the Mis
souri's whistle notified the Chicago that
she was rcatly to start 011 her trial,
and then Capt. F. M. Howes, who
steered the craft with great precision
over the course, hcatlcd for the line.
The new warship was abeam of the first
buoy at 11:13:50, and with speed that
increased steadily she sped away to the
northward, passing stakeboat after
stakeboat, until the cruiser Baltimore
was astern. The latter craft marked the
northern end of the course, and, swing
ing on 10 port, tnc -Missouri turned in
a circle and steamed back again. Go
ing to the northward, the warship en
countered heavy seas, that swept over
her low bows, and a breeze of half a
gale's strength. . Added to these
speed-reducing conditions, the tide ran
strong against the new vessel, so that
her speed was figured as averaging
17 64 an hour.
The vessels marking the course were
stationed 6.6 knots apart and the Mis
souri's lowest elapsed time between anv
two of the mark boats was 21 minute's
8 seconds, made on the homeward leg.
which makes her best actual speed
18.75 knots per hour. On the northern
leg the engine attained a speed of 121
revolutions a minute and the average
for the entire trial was 117. Commander
Cowles said that the tidal corrections
would no doubt add .17 of a knot pr
hour to the speed of the ship.
POISONOUS WORM IN CABBAQE.
Many Deaths Said to Have Been Caused in
Georgia by Insect.
Gainesville, Ga. (Special). A great
loss of life is reported in the counties of
Northeast Georgia, due to persons eat
ing cabbage saturated with poison by a
strange worm. During the past few
weeks persons coming here from White,
Union, Dawson, Forsythe and other
counties surrounding them have reported
over a score of deaths from this cause.
At first the many deaths were not un
derstood, until it was noticed that all
occurred after eating cabbage. Then a
farmer in White county, in gathering
cabbage, discovered a worm about two
inches long and about the size of a
r.ecdlc. Ho says when ha touched the
leaf the worm, which was on it, licked
out its tongue like a snake and acted in
every way like a reptile. Becoming
alarmed, he sent the worm ta the state
chemi-t, who reported that it contained
enough poison to kill 15 people. The
worm is so small that it is hard for
housew ives to find it when preparing cab
bage for cooking, and many have been
cooked in this way. The cabbage crop
is of great value in this section, but the
discovery of the poisonous worm htu
completely annihilated the demand. Up
lo t his time no scheme has been de
vised for getting rid of the worm, or
whatever it is that has been productive
of so many deaths.
More Dynamite on Tracks.
Missoula, Mont. (Special). Two
sticks of dynamite have been found
by section men near the mouth of Hell
irate canyon, on the Northern Pacific
tracks, cast of here, just before the pas
sage of nn eastbouiid passenger train.
Armed guards arc now patrolling the
canyon a distance of nearly ten miles.
- 3 Killed and 25 Injured.
Aurora, Mo. (Special). Two men
.veie killed and 18 seriously injured by
en explosion of dynamite used for blast
ing on the construction work of the
White River Road, in Stone county, 3;
n ilcs east of here. A telephone mev
s.igf from Stone county, the scene of the
o.pWi'm, says a second explosion oc
curred nt Tunnel C, 10 miles below there,
killing the foreman of the works and in
juring seven others. There are no
details.. ,.
Thirty-One Killed in Stoim.
St. Louis (Special). A special dis
patch from Austin, Texas, says; "Ad
viys received here from Mazatlaii,
Mexico, state that Hie terrific storm
which visited that city and port a few
days ago caused coif siderable loss of
life. In the city ifjipeople were killed
and a number olethcrs injured, The
ships in the hjtbor also suffered much
damage. Tl Danish schooner Clara
was entirely wrecked, and the captain
and liAailoM we're drowned,"
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest Nes ol Pennsylvania Told In'
Short Order.
Pennsylvania Patents Alfred M.Ack-'
lin, Pittsburg, casting metals, apparatus
for casting metals, handling glass batch
William A. Bole, Pittsburg, making mcta
castings; Issah R. and L. A. Brown
Fhensburg, Hash clamp; Alexander w!
Cadman. Edgcwood Park, gauge cock
Harry W. Croft, Pittsburg, brick dry
ing floor; Frank G. Farnham, Hones
dale, rotary brush; Harrison W. Fos
naigh, McKccs Rocks, curtain fixture
Edwin M. Herr, Pittsburg, electric heat
er for carsf William R. Jenkins, Belle
fonte. manufacturing rakes; II. Jarman
Johnson, Pittsburg, toy; Jonas Kauf
inann. New Castle, wire fence; William
Kearns, Mammoth, coke drawer; Joseph
Kelso, Pittsburg, car coupling; Joseph
Litchgcr. Pittsburg, wrench ; Charles P,
Martin, Lemont Furnace, unloading ap
paratus; John W. Offutt, Ellwood City,
rolling null : Stephen Ondrey, Braddock,
wrench; Alexander Patterson, Wilkins.
burg, pack for rolling sheet metal: Tcter
Sch reck. Pittsburg, lining for refriger
ators of the like: George W. Shade and
P. S. Knapp. Pittsburg, vault cover;
Milton 1". Thompson, Ridgcway, brush
holder for dynamo electric machines;
William J, Wright. Pittsburg, valve
mechanism for gas engines, also explo
sive engines.
Shot by a foreigner whom he had or-
ocrea olt Ins land, J. M. Fairchilds, a
farmer of West Berwick, has offered
a reward of $500 for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of the man
who shot him. The shooting occurred
in the evening. Fairchilds saw two for
eigners hunting in his woods and or
dered them away. One of the men
threatened to shoot. Fairchilds. who
was unarmed, started to retreat and in
stantly the man fired. The shot lodged
111 his ankle. The foreigners escaped.
Clyde Fritz and Archer IIcss, ol
Elk Grove started out to look after some
lumber and took their guns with them.
When near Gallows Point thev came
suddenly upon a bear and Fritz fired
when the bear was but a few yards dis
tant. Bruin at once cave
after giving the hunters the hardest run
of their lives for 200 yards dropped
dead. lie was a black bear and weighed
j-i.s pountis.
The Stourbridge Clav. Taint & Pot
tery Company was incorporated at
Honcsdalc for the manufacture of paint '
and other commodities from clay. The
company will erect a $5000 plant at East
Honcsdalc. The clay takes the place of
white lead now used in paint. The de
posits are in Berlin Township, Wayne
county.
John Smeltser, George Beed and
Monroe Airman were tearing out an old
chimney on the Shaffner farm near Yost
Church, Berks county, when they found
in the wall an iron kettle which con
tained $762.50 in old gold and silver
coin, all in good condition. The treas
ure was handed over to William Shaff
ner. Urvinza Ilauck, . the 16-year-old
daughter of Oscar Ilauck, of Flicks
ville, and William Ruth, aged 23 years,
who worked for Mr. Ilauck, slipped
away to New York last Tuesday and
were married. The pair returned to
Flicksvillc and informed the bride's pa
rents that they had been married. Mr.
Ilauck is alleged to have ordered his
daughter away from the house and the
couple went to the home of Ruth's
father.
Sixty-five veterans who fought in the
sixties in the Forty-seventh Regiment
under command of former Lieutenant
Governor General John P. S. Gobin, ol
Lebanon, met there at their annual re
union. Fourteen members of the regi
ment died during the past year.
Superintendent of Detectives Mc
Quaide, of Pittsburg, filed at the State
Department, Harrisburg, papers asking
Govcnor Penny-packer to request Sec
retary Hay to issue a requisition on
the British authorities for the return
to Washington, Pa., of Milovar Ke
vovich and Milovar Pattrowick. These
nu n are the Croatians who were arrest
ed at Southampton, England, charged
with blowing .Contractor Samuel T.
Ferguson to pieces with dynamite. The
evidence is such that the Governor hon
ored the request at once and 'designat
ed Mr. McQuaide as the agent for the
State to lake the papers to Washing
ton. While the firemen were on parade at
Wikes-Barrc in semi-annual inspection,
a fire broke out two miles from the
center of the town and was followed by
a second and third alarm, as an entire
street was threatened. The firemen, in
their dress uniforms, responded and for
two hours fought the flames. Six
houses were destroyed and several more
were damaged.
At a meeting of the stockholders ol
the Titusville, Cambridge Springs and
Lake Erie Railway Company at Ti
tusville, these officers were elected:
President, Mrs. N. N. Steel, New Y'ork;
vice-president, J. T. Blair, Grecnviilej
treasurer, Francis Dickinson, New
York; secretary, Eugene Mackay, Pitts
burg. Mrs. Steel is the wife of. the late
II. O. Steel and the largest stockholder
Df the company.
During a drunken quarrel at Van Me
ter, near West Newton. George I.uter
shot and killed Michael Chomo. Both
are Slavs. Luter made an effort to get
away, but was captured. Coronet
Wynn and District Attorney Cunning-,
ham will make a thorough investigation
of the causes which led to the shoot
ing and killing of Chomo.
Frank Dutton, who has been elected
president of the Farmers' Protective
Association of Twin Oaks, organized
three' weeks ago, for the protection ot
birds, is one of the best known resi
dents of Upper Chichester. It was
through his efforts that the farmers of
'.he locality were inspired to take actioo
jgainst illegal Running and to protect
themselves and the feathered tribe
against pothunters.
The Eastern Steel Company is turn
ing out at its bridge works in Potts
ville, the steel material for a large pub- ,
lie building to be erected at Havana,
Cuba.
J. K. Petty & Company s boiler
works and manufacturing plant, includ
ing blacksmith shops, pattern shops,
boiler houses, erecting house and en
gine room, were burned to the ground
at Lebanon, entailing a loss of nearly
$10,000. The isolated position of the
plant, on the outskirts of the city, in
terfered with the firemen's r light witl
the llames. ' ; ,
A $2500 organ was consecrated l
St. John's Lutheran Church, Columbia,
by Rev. Dr. J. W. Hassler, president
nf the Lancaster Conference of the .
Lutheran Ministcrium. The sermon was
preached by Rev. Dr. J. E. Whitter-ker,.
of Lancaster. The organ is one of the
finest in Columbia, and half of its cost
was paid by Andrew Carnegie.
Orders were issued by the Pennsyl
vania Raikoad Company to reduce the
lorce in the shops at Alloona 10 per
tent. This means that 800 men will;
e thrown out of employment. 'Ihe no
decs sent to the various foremen of)
departments, it is said,- ordered the:,
Italians to be discharged first.