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(known as
liter, died
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rdoncd by
24 years in
" f tlie Ediiar
have-'accepted a
years old. confessed
icity in the Youngblood murder at
, Lot.
. Fred Tabst. head of the Pabst
trewing Company, died at li is home in
iilwatikee.
Three men are in the Newark City
Hospital as the result of a tire in their
ime.
The Morning Star Thresher Factory,
apoicon. t). was humeri down.
be National Kollmsf Mills, at Mc-
esport, have resumed oncrations.
The Clyde Stcainshin Cor.inanv has
lemanded in New York $105,000 for
images sustained bv the Kiowa when
he) was rammed bv thi Admir:i! I)iwrv
rjf. Ihe American Steamship Company.
jraers nave hecn received to lmmrrii-
rately put in operation Mast (urnace No.
?at Duquesne and furnace II, of the
Cdgar Thomson Steel Woiks, at Brad-
aoctc
f cicign.
i Leonard Seyboth, a member of the
rrman Reichstag, was sentenced to
nonths iinprisonnicnt and the loss
civil rights for five years for forg
bills of exchange.
lieneral Piitaluga, of the Italian
iy. will probably be appointed to
inland the gendarmes in Macc-
Irua, in accordance with the Russo-
kstnan reform scheme.
Maron Ilayashi, the Japanese minis-
Uondon, says lie has received no
intended dispatch of a
11 to Ma San I'lio.
port.
ylc marine engineers
Mianesc government
leccivcd cable orders
ately to Japan.
ld and the other
Ivcdifh Antarctic ex-
Vigo, Spain, and
kholm.
has delivered to
the decoration of
gion of i louor.
ptnr Lucchctti
the late Pope
1 of the new
was put out
ncc.
contemplates
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reception was
Americans in
cruised King
I'orlsmoulh lor
send the state
Louis Lxposi-
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llpaign in Cuba.
an official re-
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lo go to 60 this
Continues to be bearish on
lock and is selling steadily.
tiounccd that Union l'acitic
ted 130.000 shares ol Atcbi-
f Pac.'fic's grots earnings in
n November $402,000, and the
Va $207,000.
uld'f output of gold in 1903
cd at $ tiouo.ooo. which is
jo nioro than in iom.
1
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Jporied in Uecrmlier.
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VER 500 FIRE VICTIMS
Men, Women and Children Burned and
Suffocated inChicago Fire.
PANIC IS CAUSED BY- FLAMES IN THE SCENERY.
Many of theJZictims Overcome By Gas Which Filled
The A V ium Others Were Trampled to
DeatftsJScenes of Indescribable Distress
Attend the Great Catastrophe.
Cssli ago (Special). Chicago is stun -
ncd by the worst theatre catastrophe
in the history of the country.
Five hundred and thirty-six men, I
women and children, according to the
count of tlic police and 562 according
, , . ,., .
to the estimates of the Chicago news-
papers, met death by fire, smoke and
panic at the matinee performance of
"Mr. llluebcard" at the beautiful new
frotiois Theatre. Most of the dead
arc women and children.
In addition to the d ad, 55 persons
are missing; H6 of the dead have been
identified.
Scores were burned, while hundreds
were suffocated by smoke and Ras and
crushed into pulp by one another while
struynliiiR to escape the impending
doom. Still other hundreds are lying
between life and death, with limbs
broken and burned, at their homes and
in hospitals.
(ihouls mingling with those who
were risking their lives in the cause of
humanity robbed the bodies right and
eft. Two men were caught with their
pockets bulging with pockelbooks. The
articles were taken from them by the
police and they were allowed to go.
The police themeles gathered up val
uable inrs. pockelbooks and many arti
cles of value, which were taken to the
station.
There was little attempt on the part
of police to keep any track of the
property fikcn and men were seen go
ing along t'Aje streets robbing the
bodies that were' fjs-ing on the sidewalks
under the very eyes ol'-he officers.
From pit to clonic thc'-.Jiousc was
packed. Mothers and their l"t(flc ones
had laughed themselves hoarse atthc
antics of hdilie Toy, the chief coifK-
dian of the piece. It was in the middle
milinii
"
of the play, and the chorus, s
and frolicsome, had just concluded
singing a moonlight song.
"There is the moon now!" cried a
little chap in the front row as a curl of
smoke and a tiny bit of flame shot out
from the wings to the right of the
stage.
The children clapped their hands in
glee. Mothers laughed a bit and the
whole audience was in a fine humor.
Hut the flame reached out and caught
a piece of inflammable scenery that
hung over the center of the stage. '
Instantly there was a large ribbon
of flame. A calcium light on a stand
six feet above the level 01 the stage had
exploded and in a moment everything
back of the footlights was a broad wave
of fire that lighted the half-illuminated
house with weird effects.
"Eddie" Foy stood out from the
panic-stricken group on the stage to
assure the audience that there was no
danger. Iiy his orders the great as
bestos curtain was let down, but it
caught on one side and failed to work
fully. In another instant smoke burst
out from the top arch of the stage
and from under the bottom of the cur
tain. Before a man or woman in the seats
could arise the whole roof of the audi
torium was in a blaze. The gas tanks
exploded in the flics on the east side of
the theatre, and black, choking fumes
beat down in a cloud of death from
every wall.
Fear, uncontrollable ai:d terrible,
reigned. Men and women fought like
wild beasts, li Med only with the desire
for self-protection. Babies slipped
from their mother's uplifted arms and
in an instant their lives were crushed
underfoot. Girls threw themselves
from the balconies and lay crushed and
dying until suffocation ended their
misery.
Ma uy in the orchestra seats, with
easier access to the doors, gradually
made their way to safety, but most of
them threw aside wraps, pockelbooks,
hats everything that seemed 10 bur.
den them in their rush for life and
the open air.
But in the balcony and the gallery
the demon of destruction ,h, hi.
frightful work at will. The flames and
smoke gathering on these upper floors
caught the people before they realized
mc hiii cmciu 01 tne danger. It seem
ed incredible that the little rush of fire
could lap the walls so quickly and reach
out after them like a stroke of light
ning. Then when the full meanincr of iVi.
disaster came to frightened ones they
Coal lor Jupta'i Sblps.
Norlolk, Va. (Special). The British
steamship Knight Errant it loading
11,500 Ions of coal here for the Japa
nese Government to be delivered at
Yokohama. It it the same kind of coal
as that used by the United States war
ships and there is no secret of the des
tination of the coal and of the inference
that it it hurried because of the pros
pect of war between Japan and Russia.
I he Knight Errant is expected to leave
here this week 011 her two months' voy
age. Meictary Staaa'ara' lor Ma ilea.
Mexico City (Special), A plan for re
forming the currency has been prepared
by the fifth subcommittee of the Na
tional Monetary Commission. The com
mittee advises that in order to obtain
stability or fixity of international ex
change the government should be ad
vised by a monetary commission to adopt
a monetary system phased on the gold
standr.rd. The committee docs not rec
mnivund th itiitiilLt a. I.. -1 t.
old standard, bat rathrr creating a sys--i
similar to that which the United
V sfovernment has put in operation
''nlippinc.
(with, the smoke curling about them,
everything plunged in absolute dark
ncss, not even a friendly lantern to
show them tlic way out of this dance
of death.
The theatre, with its classic outline.
beautiful plii-h hangings, the arched
-.'.1 ... -.1. . I l .1
winnows, wuii ineir siaincu glass, anu
... st.lt.,iv ...ii-.r, 1,,.,-aine a nmrirtic in
five minutes alter the first little flame
made its way along the stage.
Women who had managed by
strength or terror to get into the aisles
found their awful ending in a mingled
doom of smoke and fire and tearing of
limbs in the aisles and in the open
space back of the seats. Dozens of
others, swept, carried, dragged or
thrown out lo the stairways and even
beyond them to the landings in actual
sight o( the da light that streamed
through the big front doors in sight of
the throngs outside, with fire wagons
and the smoking horses, died in great
masses 10 and u feet high, limbs min
gled fearfully together, clothing burn
ed off and faces caught in their last
agonies all turned toward the doors
they could not reach.
From windows at the north and west
end of the building they streamed,
blinded by the smoke and crazed beyond
any possibility of helping themselves
farther or of taking advantage of the
aid extended to them from the upper
lloors of the buildings facing the the
atre. Ladders, plank, ropes, poles, every
thing that. could possibly serve to as
sist these poor creatures in their battle
for life were rigged and turned into
bridges, but few got across alive. Rap
idly one blackened corpse after another
was passed along until every building
on the north and west side was tilled
with them.
Barely live minutes after the first
alarm was turned in firemen were strug
gling into the theatre, making their way
in some miraculous manner, though
the maddened mob was pouring out
of the auditorium, doing what little
they could not only to check the lire,
which was fast turning the whole in
terior shell into a cauldron, but to res
cue the frantic hundreds in the tinner
f A'ckom'!' ,jy ladders stretched from the
ttittd llrw,r
A icv ;3p at most were rescued in
this way, aiiu' ,'Jien the firemen after
con rolling the dailies abandoned their
lengths of hose to go 'vvith the gather
ing police and make thcM" way to the
horrors that waited for the.vj on the
upper stairways and in the balcony
seats. Here was no more struggling,
no more frantic haste. Hundreds ivith
homes in every part of the city still
showing at their windows Christmas
wreaths, still filled with the decora
tions of the holiday season, lay be-
yond all thought of worldly things in
silent heaps oi death.
And still outside the main entrance
to the building many passersby at
tracted by the presence of the fire en
gines had no knowledge of the fearful
disaster- inside. Tens of thousands
passed and repassed within a block
without knowing it. Hundreds of po
lice officers stationed in the roadway
were asking one another if there had
been any among the audience badly
hurt.
But when from the inside began to
stream a procession of tircnun carrying
between them the charred bodies of
those who a little while before had
been happy in the enjoyment of an af
ternoon's pleasure the scene without
changed as if by magic. From every
business street of the city men whose
wives and families had gone to the mat
inee, came with white faces and eyes
blinded with tears to the theatre and
screamed like madmen the names of
those they were seeking. Many of
them found their loved ones safe but
still half crazed in surrounding stores
and hotels. Others discovered . them
among the dead by some particle of
dress, a half-charred hair ribbon, a shoe
or a locket.-
Eyewitnesses of the Iroquois fire de
clare that no words can begin to de
scribe the pandemonium that occurred
nor the frenzy of the men and women.
Among the hundreds of persons who
rushed to the rescue when the call of
fire was heard on the streets was Bish
op Samuel Fallows, who happened to
be passing the theatre. Without fear
or hesitation he made his way through
the darkness that was intensified by the
volume of smoke which filled the audi
torium to the top gallery and assisted
in carrying out the victims.
"God forbid that I ever again see
such a heartrending sight!" said the
Bishop later. "I have been in wars
and upon the bloody field of battle, bm
in all my experience I have never seen
! :J,',n" P "a" s" Kruesome. as he sight
. 1. : . .
) .L "7. rf nS?A,r?. . " a,U of
i Zt " ' X' nkJ I" "1 7 ' ".V" CI
etrate the inky blackness of that bal
cony.
There was a pile of twisted and
bleeding bodies 10 feet high, with
blackened laces and remnants of char
red clothing clinging to them. Some
were alive and moaning in their agony.
Others, and by far the ureater number
I were dead. I assisted in carrying many
Balltl la Mis Brala.
Portchester, N. Y; (Special). Al
though Charles Braun, the 16-year-old
son of a prominent grocer of Williams
bridge, was found shot through the brain
on Wednesday afternoon, he is still alive
Ihe physicians in the Ladies' Hospital
have probed for the bullet, but they have
been unable to locate it. Braun has been
unconscious ever since the shooting and
the hospital surgeent will use the X-ray
to locate the bullet as soon at his condi
tion will warrant. The chief of police
feels certain that the boy was shot
through his own carelessness.
Bralal la Their Olltarlag.
New York (Special). Because of the
affidavit of Dr. W. Travit Gibb that he
had found 65 abrasions, contusions and
burns on the body and bead of 5-year,
old Lawrence Bateman, Magistrate
Barlow, in Yorkville Court, held in
$1000 bail John F. Bateman, 30 years
old, and bis wife, Nellie, the parents
of the child, charged with inflicting
the injuries. That it was the most in
human case th Society for the Tre
veution of Cruelty o Children ever
had, was the statetntnt the society's
agents made in court
ALL CHICAQO THEATRES CLOSED.
Proprietors of Iroquois Theatrt Under Arrest
Also a Building Inspector.
Chicago ( Special) . Every theater in
the City of Chicago is dark and with
doors locked. Not one of them will be
open to the public until their managers
have complied in the fhllest manner with
every section of the ordinances regulating
playhouses.
'flie total number of dead in the Iro
ouois Theater disaster has Ucn definitely
established at 587, of which but 13 remain
unidciitfiicd.
The order compelling the theaters to
close was issued by Mayor Harrison
after a conference with Corporation
Counsel Tolman, who assured the Mayor
that ample legal ground existed for hit
action.
Will J. Davis and Harry Powers, pro
prietors of the Iroquois Theater, and
Building Commissioner Williams are un
der arrest, charged with manslaughter.
1'hey have been released on $10,000
bonds, and their hearing is set for Janu
ary 13. The warrants for their' arrest
were sworn out by Arthur E. Hull, who
lost his wife and three children in the
fire. Mr. Hull explained that bis action
was not inspired by any motive of ven
geance, but simply to make it certain that
the owners of the theater should not es
cape any chance of punishment that was
rightfully theirs while stage hands and
electricians and other employes were
compelled to suffer.
ft is a noteworthy fact that Building
Commissioner Williams, who is now
charged with manslaughter in connec
tion with the greatest fire horror the
country has ever experienced, owes his
appointment to a tragedy of similar na
ture, but of much less extent, which oc
curred two year? ago.
Mr. Williams' predecessor vacated his
office af'er the burning of the St. Luke's
Sanitarium, at Twentieth street and Wa
bash avenue. This was the institution in
which a score of men suffering from de
lirium tremens were burned to death
while strapped to their beds. Mr. Wil
liams was selected with the idea that he
was the proper man to sec that no such
catastrophe could happen again.
CAUSED BV HEAT FROM FLOODLIGHT.
Important Testimony at the Investlf ntloa By
the Coroner.
Chicago (Special). Fire Inspector
Monroe Fulkcrson renewed bis investi
gation into the causes of the disaster.
Two stage hands were questioned for
two hours. Then W. A. Mcrriam, man
ager for the George A. Fuller Construc
tion Company, builders of the theater,
was called into the office. The company's
attorney was with him.
William McMulleth manager of the
spot light, which is alleged to have
caused the fire in the Iroquois Theater,
testified before the investigation hearing
that the spot light had nothing to do with
it.
He said the fire was caused by the
heat from the floodlight used to "flood"
the theater.
McMullcn said his floodlight was
turned out when the fire started. He
said he was looking at the floodlight and
saw the flimsy border blow directly over
the floodlight.
The heat from this light, he alleges,
caused the fire.
The city electrician followed with tes
timony that the heat from the floodlight
waV.sufficicnt to cause the fire.
McMullen is considered by the police
to be oi1 of the most important wit
nesses. He War? fai charge of the spot
light which seT tire to the .f4lryand re
sulted in the large loss of life"""
James J. Hamilton, a scenery shifter,
explained what seemed to many at the
lire to be an explosion.
rive minutes after the hre started.
said he, "the big set piece in the shape
of a fan used as a finale in the second
act fell 40 feet to the stage. The piece
was studded with ISO incandescent lamps
and weighed several hundred pounds.
1 he noise of its tall and the breaking
lamps gave forth the sound of an explo
sion." Hamilton said he was in the stage
hands' room below the stage when
someone came downstairs, saying:
"Come upstairs quietly. There's a
fire up there."
"When I reached the stage," said
Hamilton, "the fire curtain was com
ing down very slowly. I stepped un
der it and joined others in urging the
audience to keep quiet. The curtain
should have dropped quickly, and I
was surprised to see it stick. I stayed
on the stage until my clothing was
scorched. When I first came up, the
orchestra was playing, and the dou
ble octet was singing, with sparks
falling all around them. Not a musi
cian nor player moved until it was a
matter of life and death."
Hamilton denied that it was the cus
tom to have the cables controlling the
ventilators above the stage blocked so
as to make it impossible to open the
ventilators.
"The ventilators were opened, I be
lieve, at every performance," he said.
"Many times the draft from them was
so strong that it was uncomfortably
cool on the stage."
Coroner Traeger has learned that
each of the 180 drop scenes in the the
ater was hung with new, oily, manila
rope. It is estimated that there were
75.000 lineal feet of this inflammable
material used in suporting live drop
scenes and that it added fuel to the
flames in the rigging loft.
Dreadful Family Tragedy.
Grundy Center, la. (Special). As a
result of the suicide of Miss Lizzie
Lynch by taking strychnine her sister
became hysterical and is lying dead at
their home. Their mother is insane as
a consequence of the two deaths and her
life is despaired of.
Crated By Hlrt Horror.
Giicago (Special). Her brain weak
ened from pondering over the Iroquois
fire horror, Mrs. Marie Hopkins seiz
ed her two children, threw them vio
lently under a bed, and securing ait ax
commenced breaking up a stove which
stood in the room. The crazed wo
man's frantic shrieks of "Fire! They're
burning save my children," attracted
the attention of policemen, who ar
rested her and rescued the children.
Mrs. Hopkins had suffered no per
sonal loss by the theater fire.
SPARKS t-KOM TUB WIRES.
confirmed the sentence of death im
posed on tour natives who butchered
three marines in September, 1902.
1 ncrc were great anu rapid fluctua
tions in the cotton market in New
York and klew Orleans and something
akin to a panic on the exchanges.
Frank Whit pimA un .
cuted 111 the State prison in Auburn,
N. Y., for the murder of George Gar,
a farmer of Oswego county.
A Penntylvania limited collided with
a freight train at Larwill, Ind. One
man wai killed mil m
les seriously injured.
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION
Treasury Department Experts Are Id
Charge.
THE SAFE IN THE OFFICE SEALED
At th: Request ol Acting Chairman Clements
ot the Interstate Comnterct Couimltsion,
the Persistent Rumors That There Have
Been Irregularities on the Part of Elward
A. Motley, Ihe Secretary.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Treas
ury Department experts instituted an
investigation of the accounts of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. The
action is taken at the instance of Act
ing Chairman Clements, of the com
mission, as a result of persistent ru
mors of irregularities in the drawing
of vouchers, etc. When the expert ac
countants, Nathaniel M. Ambrose and
Richard H. Taylor and James L. Chase,
the latter of the office of the auditor
for the State and other departments,
reached the commission they scaled the
safe and examined Secretary Edward
A. Moseley, H. S. Milstead, the cash
ier, and other employes. Milstead has
not been suspended. Acting Commis
sioner Clements stated that he did not
know that anything was wrong, but
that the rumors had become so per
sistent that they could no longer be ig
nored and the Treasury Department
was. therefore, asked to take charge
of the accounts. Mr. Moseley is un
der $J3,ooo bonds as disbursing officer.
It is understood that the rumors in
clude allegations' of payments made for
service at one place while the payee
was engaged elsewhere, and similar ir
regular methods. The investigation
will be thorough, and every phase of
the accounting work of the commis
sion will be thoroughly overhauled.
The commission handles about $J"5,
000 annually, the bulk of this being for
salaries, traveling expenses, etc. The
payments arc by warrants on the Treas
ury. II. S. Milstead performs the du
ties of cashier, but Edward A. Mose
ley, the secretary nf the commission, is
in charge of all the accounting work.
Acting Commissioner Clements, who
is head of the commission, in the ab
sence of Chairman Knapp in New
York city, said that he did not regard
the situation as startling, and that he
did not believe any wrongful conduct
would be found, but that it was the
unanimous opinion of the commission
that the rumors should be inquired in
to by experts to ascertain the exact
facts.
JAPANESE WARSHIPS ORDERED TO KOREA.
Unconfirmed Rumors That Selrure of Ihe
Port of Ma San Pbo is Contemplated.
Tokio (By Cable). A powerful
squadron, consisting of six armored
cruisers and Admiral Kamimura, is
expected to leave Sascho for Ma San
Pho, Korea. Sascho is a Japanese port,
25 miles to the west of Nagasaki.
The report is current that the squad
ron will seize the port of Ma San l'ho,
Korea, and that its departure has been
fixed for January 4.
In well-informed circles, however, it
is doubted that Japan would seize Ma
San Pho or any Korean port, except
to forestall Russia in the event of the
latter showing evidences of any in
tention to take a step or in the event of
the negotiations between the two coun
tries finally ending in failure.
Great activity prevails and the force
of workmen has been increased at the
Osaka arsenal. The holidays of the
arsenal operatives have been curtailed
in order to hurry up the work in hand.
On A Coral Reef.
Pensacola, Fla. (Special). The Nor
wegian steamer Ilydria, from Belize,
brought to this port the captain and
five members of the crew of the Ameri
can schooner Richard A. Bingham, of
Pensacola. The Bingham went on the
coral reef 20 miles from Belize at mid
night December 18, and was a total
wreck. The crew launched one of the
lifeboats, which was crushed in the
waves. Later they succeeded in launch
ing the other boat, and after spending
the night on the water, tossed by the
waves, they reached Belize, from which
place they were brought here. The
schooner bad a cargo of mahogany
from Belize for Pensacola. She was
owned here and was launched .about 8
months agi
uui.tu Ihe MillUa.
Cripple Creek, Col. (Special). Ex
citement was occasioned here by the
action of Attorney John M. Clover,
formerly a Congressman Irom Mis
souri, in defying the military, barricad
ing himself m his office, and only sur
rendering after receiving a bullet wound
in the arm. Colonel Verdeckberg,
commanding the militia, received a let
ter from Mr. Glover, denying the le
gality of the recent order for the sur
render of arms by citizens. In his. let
te, Glover referred to Governor Pea
body as "a cheap anarchist." He de
clared that he had two revolvers in his
office and defied the military to take
them from him.
Ship aod SI Men Missing.
Taris (By Cable). It is feared that
the collier Viennc, of Jhc French Navy,
with st officers and men, which left
Rochefort for Toulon, has been lost.
The Minister of Marine has sent war
ships in search of the missing vessel,
now 19 days out, which, though in the
track of steamers, has not been re
ported. It is believed that wreckage
cast upon the coast of Spain confirms
the apprehensions in regard to the safe
ty of the collier.
Aaatatr Fire Horror.
Chicago (Special). Three prrwins
were killed and four others injured in
a fire that destroyed the Louvre Hotel,
3l!-302j Lake avenue. Nearly too
guests were in the hotel at the time the
fire broke out, several of whom had re
tired for the night. With the remem
brance of the Iroquois Theater horror
froth in their minds, everyone in the
place became panic-stricken and rushed
madly for the streets at toon as it be
came .nowu that the hotel was on fire.
talqat Way lo Commit Salclde.
Salt Lake Gty, Utah (Special), T.
Russell Griffith, a portrait artist, com
mitted suicide in his cell in the county
jail. He first tried to sever the arte
ries in hit wrists and throat with a key.
Failing in this, lie picked a quantity of
wool from hit blankets, with which he
plugged up his nostrils, and then lie
stullcd his handkerchief down his throat
and slowly strangled. The other prison
ers hard hiinct''"s ''---i to at
tract the atten' ,rs b
pemnf '
think'
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toil
It was
partmcnt
D. J. Hug
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the Preside"
),
Saylor bad
le va-
rancy. Mr. S
t Uniteil
Stales Consul
ty, Yukon
I erritory. His
at that post
li;-s not vet been
Mr. Saylor is
ative of rcnnsyl-.
vania and was splinted Consul at
Dawson City in iJccmber, 1901. He
was Consul at Mtanzas for a few
months in the springof 1898.
Mr. Hughes was Lrn of American
parents in the Argcntie Republic and
entered the consular sevice in Febru
ary, 1808, as Consul at Snncburg. He
was appointed Consul Coburg in
May, 1898, and Cnnsul-Gneral at the
same place in April, 1901.,
The State Department alsv announces
the appointment of Prof. Jihn Todd
Hill to be Consul-General at treytown,
Nicaragua. "
Awiiling Smool't Reply. ,
.Senator Julius C. Burrows, 01 Mich
igan, who is chairman of the ',"nate
Cotnmittce on Privileges and Fictions,
which is conducting the investigation
of the charges against Senator iced
Smoot, of I'tah, said that the cin.
miltee probably will meet SaturGiy,
January 9, for the continuation of iif
inquiry.
Before going to Salt Lake City M..
Smoot said he probably will deny sonu
of ihe charges and admit others, but
nothing regarding his course has been
heard since tlic adjournment of Con
gress for the holidays. If Mr. Smoot'i
denial shall be such as to challenge the
.iii'hentu-ity of the information upon
which 1 he accusations are based, it ii
the opinion of some of the members
oi the committee that the authors ol
the charges will be given i.n oppor
tunity to prove them, and in that event
there probably would be a o .iite genera!
investigation into the prcsf.ht day prac
tices of the Mormon Ch'Jrch with ref
erence both to marriage and politics
Army Lleutena-t Disgraced.
The President ha', approved the pro
ceedings, findings and sentence of the
court-martial in the case of Second Lieu
tenant Paul B. MacLanc, Thirteenth
Cavalry. Lieutenant MacLanc was tried
at Manila on the charge of embezzling
about $700 of subsistence funds while
serving as commissary of the Maraquinn
River expedition. He was convicted and
sentenced to be dismissed and to be im
prisoner" .or a period of one year. That
portion A the sentence providing for im
prisorient probably will be executed at
the Bilidad Prison, Manila. Lieutenant
MacLanc is a native of Pennsylvania.
Patents QranteJ This Year.
The last issue of patents for the cal
endar year 1903 was granted by til!
Patent Office Wednesday. The patent!
granted in the United States to date
number 748,566: those for 1903, 31,699;
trademarks, 2186; labels, 990, an in
crease of 223 over the previous year;
prints, 270, an increase of 112 ovei
1902. The total number of certificate?
of registration of trademarks, labeli
and prints was 3449, an increase of 515
over the previous year.
Good Price tor Standing Timber.
Commissioner Richards, of the Gen
eral Land Office, received detailed in
formation concerning the sale of the
timber on the Chippewa Indian reser
vation, in Minnesota. The bids ran as
high as $12 per 1000 for white pine
lumber in the tree and $10 for Norwaj
pine. The aggregate of the bids on the
Land Office estimate of timber wa
$1,250,000. The timber 011 one section
of 640 acres brought $105,000.
Preparing to House Troops.
All the supply departments of the
Army have made arrangements for the
transportation of troops and supplies
from New York and San Francisco to
the Isthmus in case such a movement is
determined upon. Plans have also been
considered for jhc construction of large
storehouses and temporary barracks on
Panama territory, and it is estimated that
$.iii().0'K) may be required for such con
struction. The Friar Laads Loan.
Announcement is made that bids for
the new Philippine friars' lands loan of
$7,200,000 will be received up to 3 P. hi.
January 11, and allotments will be made
February 1, 1904.
In the Departments.
At the instance of Acting Secretary
Clements, of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, an investigation was be
gun of persistent rumors that then
have been irregularities in the conducl
of Secretary Edward A. Moseley.
The president approved the sentence
of dismissal and imprisonment impos
cd on Second Lieutenant Paul'B. M
MacLanc, of the Thirteenth Cavalry
convicted of embezzlement.
The Comptroller of the Currency ha;
directed the closing of the Fijrsr Na
tional Bank of Storm Luke. Ia.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt inaugu
rated the official social season in the na
tion's capital with a brilliant reception at
the White House.
The President mid his Cabinet dis
cussed the Panama situation at length.
On account of the illness of Secretary
Hay the negotiations with General
Reyes, the Colombian .commissioner,
will be conducted by Secretary Root.
Tltc year book of the Carnegie In
stitution makes announcements of the
work and plans laid out for scientific
research throughout the world.
Minister Lyon, of Liberia, report
(he massacre of J. G. Tate, a mission
ary, and 18 of his following by Doo
tribesmen.
Preparations hnve been made to
hurry Governor Taft across the Con
tinent immediately upon ,his arrival al
San Francisco and put him in his po
sition as secretary of war by the first
of February.
Col. Robert L. Meade, of the Marine
Corps, was placed on the retired list
two years iu advance of the date to
which he might have served on the ac
tive list.
The Comptroller of the Currency ao-
-. it. t r . "
poiuicu is. l- van .anit, 01 for
Worth, lex., receiver of the rami'
National Bank of Henrietta, Tex.
A naval court-martial was
fo try Gunner 1'ries and
Brooks on account of the
(he naval magazine at lo
Col. Henry L. lliom;
translator in the S;
died at his residcui
The executive
of the Climb
members of
corps.
secretary
ville, Ga.,
his bron
Unlei
the iic
lom"'
wb'
J
t .si
jliKirATC
st Nes of Peaosytvnla . Told in
Short Order.
Farmer in Schuylkill 'and Carbon
counties and the upper end of Berks
admit that a tacit trust was formed
lome time ago to control the turkey
nd chicken markets, and that prices
lire set by agreement. It also devel
ops that, the turkey scarcity in this sec
'.ion was a myth and that almost as
many were sold for the holidays as in
my previous year. The impression that
'urkcys were scarce gave the farmers a
:hance to dispose of chickens at high
prices also, many being sold at from
12 to 15 cents a pound, while the price
should have been from 10 to !J cents.
Each farmer was allowed to sell but a
certain number each week. The prices
charged here have caused much in
dignation, and a curbstone market is
bciiifr talked of.
Stanley Pollock, a railroader of
Elizabeth, N. J., began proceedings at
Wilkcs-Barre to recover $50 he says he
gave the girl who was to be hi brida
and who changed her mind. She is
Miss Sophia Shupinski, of Ashley, and
they were to have been married on No
vember 4. Previous to that time Pol
lock says he had given her $50 to buy
t wedding dress and had bought fur
niture for a house. A few days be
fore the date of the wedding, he al
leges, she threw him over. Now n
wants his money back.
"The State closed the year on s
sound financial basis and with a nice
sum in the general fund," said Cashief
Pearcc, of the State 'Treasury. "W
dose the last day of December with
$10,372,970.51, a larger sum for general
purposes than held by any other StaW
in the Union," he continued, "and dur
ing the month we paid out $1,618,266.82,
The collections during the year were
the greatest in the State's history, ag
gregating over $21,000,000."
The congregation of the old Menon
ite Church at Mt. Ville met and select
ed a pastor by lot by drawing tin
names from Bibles, as is the custom
in the denomination. There were nina
candidates and the one selected wai
Peter Ebcrsolc, a tenant farmer fof
Deputy Auditor General . Sam Matl
FiJdy.
toroner Scheirer held an inquest in
to (the death oi Mrs. Agnes Minerva
Lciby, of Allcntown. whose death the
police regarded as mysterious. Trie
bottom was knocked out of the fou)
play theory by the testimony given,
and the jury rendered a verdict that
death was due to cerebral hemorrhage,
due to a fall and weakness aggravated
by ' her physical condition. After tha
verdict was rendered Coroner Scheirer
ordered the release of ex-Policeman
Wiiliam J. Kunkle, Mrs. William Cla
dcr, with whom Mrs. Lciby lived, and
Frank Tobias, Mrs. Clader's brother,
who were detained as witnesses. It
clearly proved that the cuts on the
face were the result 01 lain
ihen she attempted to
she being too weak to
p
P
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and
BaltV
SOOffl
dent
able.
a
aster,
the P
operates
igan. It
certained
from the ca
William T.
elect, has decifl
tice of law.
ship with H. J.
County Solicitor.
offices in Media.
tire as ProthonoJ
week. When h.!
urer, in May in!
least three days
office.
Auditor Gene?
ask Attorney Generan
opinion as to whether
Judges' salary law applii
at present in office. It is
Judges now in office are
to the increase under the Cons?
which says that the salaries of no i
lie officer can be increased or reduced
during the term for which he was elect
ed.
Abraham Thompson, of Brooklyn,
and Lawrence Golderman, of Reading,
who were arrested for an attempt to
enter the tower on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, at Linwood, were given a
further hearing at Chester and sent to
jail for thirty days for vagrancy. The
operator at the tower did not testify
against the men.
While coming down from his breast
into -the gangway at the Pine Hill Col
liery, Pottsville, Daniel Williams, a
miner, slipped. To keep himself from
falling he grasped the timbering, but
in doing so he shook down a large rock
which crushed him to death. .
The trustees of the West Chester
State Normal School have elected Fred
erick A. Carpenter assistant to Prof. C.
B. Cochran, in the Deoartment of
Sciences. Prof. Cochran dutiet ai
chemist to the State Pure Food De
partment occupies much of his time
Mrs. tdwin Iroxell, aged 60 y
01 Aiientown, leu - downstairs
lighted kerosene lamp in her
Ihe blazing oil was scattered
Airs, iroxell s dress. She.
In the house, but she mar
tinguish the hre by roll,
carpet. .
Gasoline in bottle
that John Hohman,
mester, used near
ploded and threw
all over Iiohman
td and is now iu
William Jei
bers who w
door of
in Po
ihe.
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