FROZEN IN THE RIGGING SaJior Loses Life in Wreck of the Montana. TESSEL STRANDED AT PEA ISLAND. Ber Crew Lasbed to lh Rigging, Halt Froien. far Sixteen Honrs Before Being Rescued Tic Vetsel Will Probably Be Total Loss 111 Understood Tbat the Montana Is Owned In Summer's Point, N. J. Norfolk, Va. (Speci;il).Tlie three mastcd schooner Montana, Captain Itooye, from New York, for Charleston, S. C, with a cargo of either salt or coal, tranded at n o'clock P. M. at Pea Is- u lis. c.) Life-Saving Station, 50 ntiies north ot (Jape Hattcras, during a lieavy northern gale. Within 20 minutes after the vessel stranded she was full of water and wash, so that the crew, consi-ting of Captain Booye and six men, were forced 1o take to the rigging, where they re mained until a o'clock P. M., when six of the seven men were rescued by crews of Pea Island, New Inlet and Bodies Is land Life-Saving Stations. One man, Henry Edwards, was frozen to death and was lashed in the rigging in such a manner that he could not be Trachfa'- 1Iis bo,,y is sti" aboard the ship hanging in the rigging, head down ward. One other member of the crew was almost frozen to death by exposure and exhaustion when he was rescued by The members of the life-saving crews, but probably will recover, although his condition 13 serious. The rescued crew are now at the Pea Island Life-Saving Station. Great difficulty was experienced in landing the crew, owing to the fact that the vessel had sunk and a heavy sea was running at the time. The freezing weather' hampered the work of rescue, and the seamen were so overcome by ex posure and exhaustion that only two of inose in tne rigging were able to assist -in hauling the whip line aboard the ves scl. Again and again the line was shot out, and one by one the men were taken off the ship in the breeches buoy, after a harrowing experience of more than 16 hours spent in the rigging of the sinking vessci m a temperature much below freezing. Their clothing was coated with thick layers of ice. An attempt will be made later to Bring ashore the body of Henry Ed wards. The vessel will probably be a total loss. It is understood that the Montana is owned in Summer's Point, N. J. A considerable fleet of sail, perhaps 25 chooners, mainly large vessels, are in Hampton roads windbound. About half his fleet, bound from Southern for Northern and F.astern ports, pnt in from ca Saturday to await a favorable wind. The list of schooners is headed by the great and only seven-master, the Thomas w. Lawson. The Montana was a vessel of 336 tons net, was built at Bath, Maine, 'in 188., and was owned by J. T. Booye, of Som ers Point, N. J. HIS FINGER IMPRINTS. They May Coovlct a Mionesota Dentist of Murder. New Ulm, Minn. ( Special). Dr. C. Koch, a dentist, is under arrest, charged with the murder of Dr. L. .C. Gebhardt, another dentist, who was killed in his office on the evening of November 1 last. The warrant accusing Dr. Koch of the crime was sworn to by a brother of the victim. Dr. Koch made no resistance when taken into custody, but fought des- -perately when the sheriff attempted to take an imprint of his finecr tins for ih.. purpose of comparing it with the marks oi bloody fingers found on the wall an 1 tloor casing of the murdered man's of fice. This i:.. print, however, was at lasl secured, and will be sent to a Chicago expert for examination. DEFICIENCY IS $42,770,572. Secretary Shaw's Statement of Receipts and Eipeoditures. Washington, D. C. (Special). Sec retary Shaw transmitted to the House . a combined statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Government for the fiscal year ended June 30, too t. The receipts were: Customs, $26t, 274.564.8i; internal revenue, $232,1)04! 119.4s; lands, $7.45.1,479 72; miscella neous, $38,999.585 -W- Total, $540,631. 74940. The expenditures were: Civil and miscellaneous $186,766,702.0.2; war, "5.035.4'0.sn; navy, i02,oi6,i0f.55; Indians, $102,956,101.55; pensions, $10, 438,350.00; interest, $14,559,266.36. Total, $582,402,321.31. Neither Would Yield. Salt Lake, Utah (Special). Locked in a life-and-death struggle, Giristo pher Tripp and a masked bandit fought in a burning building at the little town of Murray, six miles south of here. Neither man relaxed his grip until their clothing was afire. Then both crawled through the dense smoke to the outer air. The highwayman, armed with a revolver, tried to hold up Christopher and Samuel Tripp in their brother' tore. He fired at Christopher when the latter resisted him. In the struggle that followed the stove was overturned. The fire consumed the store, a meat tnarlet and a vacant building, the dam ace amounting to $10,000. The bandit escaped. 'Bank Robbers Ott Nolbl. Dallax, Tex. (Special). After mid night burglars entered the First Nation al Bank of Crand View, Johnson coun ty, and with nitro glycerine blew off the outer doors of the Urge safe. They were unable to enter the inner chests, and after wrecking the bank with heavy hammers, stole horse and buggy and left without getting a cent. Until the safe can be opened the bank has ar ranged with the bank in the surround ing towns to meet all its requirements. There is no clue to the robin-rj. Mold-Up By Masks VUa. , Altoona, Pa (Special). Two masked men knocked down and gagged William Ale, a clerk in the Leahy Coal Mining Company's offices in the Masonic Tem ple in the heart of the business section of tli is city, bound him to a safe and Sole over $2000 that was in a satch.f ready to br taken to Lilly to pay the miners. Charles Leahy, of Lilly, 'pay tnabter of the company, came down to Altoona to get the money for the men. lie made up all the sutrmrnta and pUced the mon'-y in satchel. He then went out to dinner, leaving the valise uh Ale. NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The litest ffapnenlngs Condensed for Rapid Readlnf. Domestic. The factory of the Henry H, Sl.eip Manufacturing Cntnpanv, in Philadel phia, I a., woodworker and manufactur ers of cigar boxes, was partially de stroyed by lire. The jury in the case of William Mv crs, murderer of Mayor Bennett, of IhoniMin, III., returned a verdict finding Myers miiltv and nl death. While trying to slide down a rope from her room, on the fifth floor of the North Sine Hotel, in Chicago, Myra Delaro; fell and was killed. A petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United Stales Court in Philadelphia against the Ncafie & Levy Shipbuilding Company. There is some mystery about the death ot .Mrs. Sadie Cohen, whose frozen body was found in the ice in the Harlem Kiver. The Bethlehem Steel rnrnnrai!,,,. ..-. chartered in Trenton, N. J., with an au thorized capital of $30,000,000. Robbers knocked down the clerk and stole $2,000 from the oliice of the l.cshey Coal Company, in Altoona, Pa. In Philadelphia John W. Grange was appointed receiver for the Neafie & Levy Shipbuilding Company, one of the oldest concerns of the kind' 111 the coun try. The company recently completed the cruiser Denver for the government, and is now constructing the protected cruiser St. Louis. I. N. I 'erry, the former bank presi dent, of Chicago, who was accused of setting fire to the American Locomotive Works plant to obtain the insurance, was discharged after a long bearing in court. Joseph Jacobs, a former detective on the staff of District Attorney Jerome, of New York, was sentenced to prison for one year for perjury. Mortimer Brooks a New York mil lonairc, was accidentally and probably fatally wounded while hunting in North Carolina. Six schoolboys were arrested in Chi cago followinu the death of Rabbi Ahra- ham Click, who was struck by snow- nans. A Chicago man was superintendent of a printing establishment during the day and a highwayman at nieht. The contribution of Mr. W. L. Doug las, governor elect of Massachusetts, to the campaign fund was $39,300. Stock-raisers of the Central Western ami rar western Mates are forming a vuiuuiiiuuuii iu manual!) prices. nrm 01 worsted manufacturers of muring, r ranee, may establish a branch the Chamber of Commerce at Hunts plant at V oonsocket, R. I. ville, Ala., has invited President Roose velt to visit that city. . According to an expert, the borrow ing capacity of New York city is $03,- 1 ThV. ,Farmers' State Bank of Lam- hurt lib ....... ILL . as rouuDeu Dy three men, who dynamited the safe, obtaining $?.ooo as their booty. While two robbers wo.Keu inside, the third guarded them, holding the horses. The robbers made for the Gloss Mountains, pursued by a posse. J. V. Brown, one of th v.nltl.i,.c nien Williamsport, Pa., president of the illiamsport Water Company, and also president of one of the local banks, was found dead in bed. Some unknown persons murdered Ben is. ilughes, a wealthy merchant and planter, of Newton, S. C, his wife and two daughters, and then set the house on fire. Alderman Hubert W. Butler, of Chi cago, charges that wholesale corruption has been used to secure the passage of the Ravenswood Elevated Railroad or dinance. Eleven miners were killed bv an ex plosion in the Burnett coal mine, at Burnett, Wash., and it is believed the number of dead will reach n. Handwriting experts reported to the Supreme Court in Denver, Col., that in the recent elections both sides had resorted to repeating. The Order of Railway Telegraphers of Mercy, at Loretta, Pa., was destroy dent McNicoll, of the Canadian Paci fic Railway. Howard Cale, a former law partner of Benjamin Harrison and a director of Butler College, died in Indianapolis. The Children's Home of the Sisters of Mercf, at Loretta, Pa., was destroy ed by fire. All the orphans escaped. Warrants charging grand larceny have been granted against former President Emory. Cashier Werner and Assistant Cashier Luedcke, of the German Bank of Buffalo. John B. McDonald, the N ew York contractor, has resigned from the' board of directors of the Interbor ough Rapid Transit Company. General Sickles is heading a move ment for the erection of a monument on the site of Andersonvil'.e (Ga.) prison. Foreign. Lord Selborne, first lord of the Brit ish Admirably, in a statement dealing with the future distribution and mobil ization of the British fleet, says the de velopment in foreign nnvics throughout the world constitutes a new and definite stage of affairs. The liberal movement in Russia has resulted in the resignation of Grand Duke Sergius, uncle of the Czar, and M. MuraviefT, the minister of justice, who sought to influence the Czar against the proposed reforms. Premier Combe' victory in the French Chamber of Deputies assures the carry ing out of his program, the chief fea ture of w hich is the separation of church and state. General 'Maximovich, hetman of the Don Cossacks, is reported to have been appointed to succeed Prince Galatzin as governor general of the Caucasus. The Czar's speech, read at the open ing of the Finnish Diet, contains the statement that the measures for sup pression of reliance to the laws unit ing the empire and the grand duchy were only 01 a temporary character and would be abolished as soon as the cause for the measures ceased to exist. Herr von- Vollmar (Socialist), in a' speech in the Reichstag, attacked the government, and, referring to Emperor William's telegram to President Roose velt expressing admiration for the United States, declared that the Social ists by no means saw' their ideal in American conditions. Chancellor von liuelow announced to the Reichstag that the body would be asked to consider commercial treaties with Russia, Kotimunia, Belgium,' Italy, Switzerland and Servia, and that it was proposed to revive negotiations with Austria-Hungary. The political associates of M. Syve ton, the French deputy who was as phyxiated, ansert that he was the vic tim of foul olav for the purpose of suppressing his intended exposures of the spying system. , The Emperor of Russia had as guests at dinner 400 officers and soldiers win) had been decorated with the Cross of St. George, the occasion being the cele bration of the V'-ast of St. George. A TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER Japanese Mowed Down tty the Hundreds at Port Arthur. WILL NOW STARVE THE RUSSIANS. First Complete Story ol the Qreslest Battle In Front of Port Arthur Sloe tbe Fortress Was InvcsKd-Futile Cllorls to Envelop Clly From the Essf and West-Oespcrale Kusnes over tbe Bodies ol the Dead. Ihrilling story of the latest general assault u,,o porl Arthur bv General Nogi s army is told by a correspondent wnn 1 11c army ,11 a dispatch dated No- emner 28 and received by cable direct irom lientsin, the dispatch having prob ably been held at headquarters for cen sorship, j he correspondent says that while one force attacked the forts at Rihlmig and Kekwan Mountains, with a view to enveloping the city from the east, another force tried a similar move ment from the west. The attempt failed after the most furious fighting since Porl Arthur was invested. In the terrific attack the Japanese were mowed down ly hundreds. Captain Clado, of Admiral Roicst vensky's squadron, who has been op posing the admirably by agitating in favor of forcing the Dardanelles and sending the Black Sea fleet to reinforce the Russian Second Pacific squadron in St. Petersburg, has been arrested in St. icierst.urg. Jt appears that Viceroy Alcxietf instigated dado's agitation and that he will be rebuked by being rele gated to the Caucasus as viceroy. In the fighting of November 30 the sccona son ot i.eneral wogi, command er of the Japanese army before Port Arthur, was killed on 203 Meter Hill. General Nogi's eldest son was killed in the battle of Nanshan and he is now childless. In official quarters in London it is learned that an investigation induced by the renewed suggestions of sending out the Russian Black Sea fleet shows that most of the ships of that squadron arc dismantled and laid up. Surprise is exnrcssed in St. Peters burg that the Russian warships at Port Arthur, when under fire, were not mov ed out and sunk in deep water, where they would be beyond the possibility of salvage. At Tokio it is stated that in disabling the Russian fleet so as to pre vent it reinforcing the Russian second Pacific squadron the Japanese accom plished the chief object of their des perate assaults upon the fortress, and it is now probable that they will rely upon starving out the Russian garrison. Line After Lloe Swept Away. Headquarters of the Japanese Third Army Before Port Arthur, November 28 (via. Tientsin, December 9). The general assault on Port Arthur which 1cnnii ai iiuun ;ovemncr 20 is still 111 progress. In the first series of assaults an attempt was made to capture the forts at Rihlung and Kekwan Moun tains by penetrating the principal line of fortifications surrounding them, and to envelope the city from the cast. At the same time a- strong force pushed up the gorge of Shiski Valley between two fortified ridges and attacked the supporting fort in the rear of West Rihlung Mountain, officially called Sung shu Mountain, with the intention of en veloping the city from the west. The attempt failed after the most fu rious fighting that has been witnessed since Port Arthur was invested. The fighting lasted from noon of November 26 until after dawn of the following day without cessation. The assault began in the early morn ing with a tremendous bombardment of the forts on the western half of the eastern fortified ridge by a battery which had been placed in position on the crest of a ridge to tbe rear. For hours the whole western half of the fortified ridge was deluged with heavy shells. At noon the principal line of fortifications was a perfect hell of bursting shrapnel, and the spectacle was more wonderful than anything previously seen. The front lines of infantry, having been strongly reinforced, began an at tack simultaneously along the entire line from East Kekwan Mountain to West Rihlung Mountain. Through the haze caused by the smoke of the .bursting shells the assaulters could be seen emerging from the cover of the parallels, as well as swarming up the fortified ridge at half a dozen dif ferent points. To Redeem Sliver With Oold. Washington, D. C. (Special). Rep resentative Hill, of Connecticut, in troduced a bill providing for the re demption of silver certificates in gold coin and directing the Secretary of the Treasury, to set apart $150,000,000 in gold for the purpose. The Secre tary of the Treasury is required to maintain a gold reserve corresponding to not less than 35 per cent, of all United States notes in circulation. For the redemption debt the Secretary is to issue bonds of $50 or any multi ple thereof at 3 per cent, interest. Battle With Bank Robbers. Mctamora, Mich. (Special). With five heavy charges of nitro-glycerinu a party of six or eight 'burglars wreck ed the safe in the bank of Mctamora. The explosions awakened the citizens and a number rushed out armed witli revolvers. Several of the robbers were on guard, and as the citizens approached they gave the alarm. A number of shots were exchanged, and one of the robbers is supposed to have been wounded, as a trail of blood was found. The men boarded a pass ing freight train and escaped. Miners' Narrow Escape. Peoria, 111. (Special). The Sholl Mine at South Bartonville, one mile south of this city, was discovered to he on fire in the main entry at the foot of flie shaft. There were 100 men at work iu the mine at the lime, and for a while great excitement existed. The men, however, were taken to a second shaft a half mile distant and all made their escape, though some of them were tem porarily overcome by smoke and gas. The mine is still burniuit and the loss will be heavy. The origin of the fire is mystery. , Starved la Frtlgbt Car. Cincinnati. O. (Special). Rescued nearly starved from a freight car, where he has been locked in without food or drink since Saturday, Joseph Richter, ged 23, ot Ualtimore, Was arraigned in the police court here for loitering on railroad property. Rid iter, who had been workiinc in Mmisville, tried to. steal a rule, sun, climbed into a freight car, which was afterward locked up. He attracted the attention ot Railroad De tective Otto Roeber by kicking at the door of the car. A purse was made up by Chief Millikin, Prosecutor Holmes and'juiige L.ueuer, and Kichtcr was duiiisci . .. ! -. j LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Provisions for tbe Inauguration. A joint resolution t introduced into the Senate by Senator Gallinger ami in Ihc House by Representative Babcock authorizes the granting of permits to the committee on inauguration ceremon ies on the occasion of the inauguration of President Roosevelt on March 4. The resolution grants the use of the ciision Minuting tor the inaugural ball subject to such restrictions and regu- 1.1110ns as the .secretary of the Interior may prescribe in respect to the period and manner of use. The Secretary of War is authorized to grant permits for the use of any reservations or any other pubile space in Washington, and the uistrict ot Commissioners may dcsig natc streets, avenues and sidewalks for use of the committee in formulating and earning out a program for the cere monies. The privilege of stringing over head wires tor illuminations also is granted. Appropriarinnji arc made of $15,000 for maintenance of order and of $2,000 for erection of temporary public comfort stations. The Secretaries of War and the Navy are authorized to loan to the inaugural committee ensigns, fiags and other insignias suitable for decorating purposes, hospital tents and camp ap pliances and oilier equipment for the care of the Infirm and the sick. The Senate resolution was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. No Extra Se slon la the Sprlof. No extraordinary session of Congress will be held next spring for a revision of the tariff. That has been decided definitely. The question of an extraor dinary session next fall is in abeyance. President Roosevelt announced this decision to several of his callers. The President said he had abandoned any idea of calling Congress into ex traordinary session in the spring, as it did not seem practicable to hold a ses sion for tariff revision at that time. He indicated, however, that he might call a session for next fall, although no ab solute determination of that point has yet been reached. In view of this decision, the Jfrestdent told Representative Cooper, of Texas, hat he had decided to make a Southern trip early next spring. W. S. Tibbctts, collector ot customs at Mobile, Ala., invited the President to visit that city oil his Southern trip. La- er the invitation will be extenueu tor- mally in writing. The Inaugural Parade. Lieutenant General Chaffee, who has been appointed grand marshal of the inaugural parade, contradicted reports that the parade will be "a military affair, and that civic organizations are not wanted, and added : It is the intent to secure the partici pation 111 the parade ot civic orgamza tions from all parts of the country, and special attention will be given to that feature." General Chaffee issued his first een- eral order as grand marshal of the pa rade. It announced the appointment of the following members of his staff : Chief of staff, Brigadier General John A. Johnson; adjutant general, Major William P. Duvall General Staff; as sistant adjutants ge'neral, Capts. Frank DeW. Ramsey, Robert E. t,. Michie and John J.' Pershing, all of the General Staff. Cable to the Canal Zone. To connect the canal zone on the Is thmus of Panama with the United States by cable is the purpose of the bill introduced by Representative Wagner, of Pennsylvania. The bill provides for the construction and operation of such a cable under control and direction of the Postmaster General, Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy, the cabel to be of American make and to be laid by American ships, provided the cost of American made cabel will not exceed 10 per cent, of the cost of a foreign made cable. The total cost of the cable is tied at $2,000,000, and $300, 000 is made immediately available for its construction. Another Arbitration Bill Austria-Hungary and the United States will soon conclude an arbitration treaty, if the negotiations initiated by Secretary Hay and Mr. Hcngclnniller, the Austro-Hungarian ambassador, con tinue to progress as satisfactorily as they have begun. The Ambassador in formed the Secretary that thcres now on its way to Washington a copy of the form of treaty which his government has signed with several other powers. Although differing in text, it is practi cally the same as the treaties this gov ernment has concluded with several countries. Japan Will Participate. Japan has adopted the American gov ernment's invitation to participate in a second peace conference at The Hague, provided the rulings of the conference should not affect the present conflict. The Japanese reply was presented to Secretary Hay by Mr. Hioki, the Japan ese charge d'affaires. Consular Nominations. The President sent to the Senate the following nominatios: To be consuls: Wm. II. H. Bishop, of Connecticut, at Palermo Italy; James Jeffrey Roche, of Massachusetts, at Genoa, Italy. . National capital affairs. The crop report of the Department of Agriculture shows the condition of win ter wheat to be 82.9, acreage 1,1 55,000, a decrease of 1.6 per cent. Dr. Howard Percy Deady, of Liberty, N. V., delivered a lecture in Washington on the open-air cure for consumptives. Postmaster General Wynne took the oath of office. The report of the subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will show that the case against Judge Swayne, of Florida, has been strength ened by the testimony taken during the congressional recess. In his estimates for the Diplomatic and Consular Service, forwarded to Congress, Secretary Hay recommends increases in the salaries of a large num ber of officials in the service. It is stated that there may be changes in the Diplomatic Service. Senator Latimer has aboudtned hope of securing favorable action on his "good roads" bill. Argument was heard in the United States Supreme Court in the case of las. C. Corey against the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. The closing session of the National Civil Service Reform League was held. A meeting of the Cabinet was held. Only routine business was transacted. M. Pulido, the Venezuelan charge d'affaires, denied that there was any revolution or disturbance in Venezuela. The President will appoint Joseph S. Harris potnu.ter at Kansas City, Mo. FEARS FOR MRS. C11ADW1CK She Is Denied All Means of Killing . Herself. KNIFE AND FORK ARE TAKEN AWAY. Warden of Tombs Prbon In New York Appre' hcoslvt That the Woman Might Commit Suicide Her Counsel Induced Her to Change ntt Plana to Return to Cleveland-ln Highly Nervous State. sew lork (Special). After a day full of disagreements with her counsel as to whether she should waive exatni nal.on and go to Cleveland, Mrs. Chad- .ck nnany consented to remain another night in the Tombs. Mrs. Cbadwick had made up her mind "o ignore the adv.ee of her local coun sel, Messrs. Carpenter and Powers, and go to Cleveland to stand trial there, when late in the afternoon she received a telegram from her Cleveland counsel, Judge Albaugh, asking her not to return to Cleveland just yet. Lawyer Carpenter then notified Mar shal Henke of her intention, and the Marshal mid United States Commission er bhiclds announced that they would not remain at their offices after the usual closing hour on Iter account. Lawyers Carpenter and Powers had a conference after leaving Mrs. Cbadwick, and Mr. Carpenter said that nothing fur ther would be done for the night. FKAR OF SUICIDE. For fear that Mrs. Cbadwick might do herself bodily harm. Marshal Ilcnkel had a woman attendant specially de tailed to watch her all night from with out the cell, but near enough to be at hand at a moment's notice. Mrs. Chadwick snent the oreairr nan of the time from 7 o'clock A. M. till 4 in tne afternoon m the corridor in front of her cell. She talked with her lawyers and others who called to sec her, including her son. F.mil. and her nurse, Freda. Most of her visitors re mained with her as long as the prison rules would permit. Mrs. Chadwick was led to her cell in the Tombs Prison bv an attendant ahout 4 o'clock. To the 'matron Mrs. Chad wick said : "I am tired cnoiich to sleen well. 1 think, even behind these awful bars. It has been an extremely trying day and 1 am thankful that it is over. I do not care to bo throush manv more snrli ordeals." In her cell Mrs. Chadwick ate a hearty supper. She had chopped beef, sprinkled with grated onion, coffee and oranges. The matron said Mrs. Chadwick showed a marked improvement over her condition in the morning. After enting, Mrs. Cha'dwick lay on her cot and said it was the first peace ful moment she had had since her trou bles in New York began. FAMILY MURDERED; HOME BURNED. A Mysterious Quadruple Tragedy Iu South Carolina. Columbia, S. C, (Special). B. B. Hughes, aged 42 years, his wife, Eva,, about the same age, and two daughters (Emily and Hattie), 19 and 15 years old, respectively, constituting an entire family, are dead at Trenton, Edgefield county, and nothing remains to explain thc.njystcry of the tragedy. Citizens of the town were aroused at 5 o'clock in the morning by a fire at the Hughes house, and upon reaching the scene the fiatnes had gained such head way that it was impossible to enter the burning building, and not until the fire had burned itself out and the walls had collapsed was it discovered that the family was dead. Tbe bodies of the two girls were found in their bed with the heads of both crushed in. The body of Mrs. Hughes was in a room across the hall. Her head also was crushed and a pillow lay over it, while the body of Hughes lay near the door with a bullet wound through the left temple. A pistol with one empty chamber lay near his right hand. Hughes was a merchant and farmer, and was supposed to be prosperous. There is no reason known why he should have been murdered, as he was on good terms with the white and col ored people of the community. The conditions surrounding the crime all point strongly to Hughes as the murder er of his entire family and to a subse quent suicide. TEN-INCH GUN'sTlAVbc. Shell Passed Through Top of Parapet at Fori Wetberell. Newport, R. L, (Special). It was es timated that the damage caused by the premature dicharge of a big 10-inch gun at Fort Wetjierell will amount to $10, 000. Lieutenant Colonel Willard is to tally deaf, but it is expected that his hearing will be restored by surgical treatment. An official investigation will be made into the accident, which is believed to have been caused by a defective primer. It has been ascertained that the shell, after passing through the top of the parapet, went upward and finally drop ped six miles out at sea, striking the water. No vessel was near the spot. fc Moroa Retired (be Flag. St. Louis, Mo. (Special). It was learned that the flag presented to the Lanao Moros by the Philippine World's Fair Board was returned with the mes sage: "We have plenty of these flags in our own country." Thursday the various Philippine tribes that had been on exhibition at the World's Fair start ed home, and before going each was given a large United States flag. With the exception of that presented to the Lanao Moros the flags were accepted and carried along on the train. Kidnapping Conspiracy. - Laporte, Ind. (Special). Abram Henry Mullen, who is confined in jail at Knox, charged with the murder of Charles Haines, has revealed to Starke county officials what he declares was a plot to kidnap Dr. W. W. C. Brown, a wealthy Lafayette physician, confine the doctor in a cave and make demand for ransom. The plotters, Mullen declares, were Charles and George Haines. Mul len says he refused to become a party to the conspiracy, and reported the mat ter to State's Attorney Courtright. Mlll'oaslr Wounded. Raleigh, N- C ( Special). Mortimer Brooks, of New York city, while hunt ing ner Pittsboro, in Chatham county, this state, was accidentaaly shot, and, it is believed, fatally wounded by the discharge of both barrels of his gun. He was crossing a ditch when the gun struck an obstruction and went off, both charges entering his left side and passing through his body. Three physi cians are rendering all possible atten tion. Mr. Brooks is a millionaire, who has-been visiting this section for a num ber of years on hunting expeditious. CRUISER SAIYEN SINKS. The Japanere Navy 1a Deprived of Another Vessel. Tokio (By Cable). The Navy De partment announces that the Saiyen, commanding the detached squadron, while co-optrating with the army in bombarding Port Arthur November, 30, struck a Russian mine and was seen to be enveloped in smoke. The gunboat Akagt, which was also engaged in shell ing Port Arthur, immediately ceased fir ing and went to the rescue of the Sai yen. Finding that the latter was making water rapidly, the Akagi anclioivd near the sinking ship and, co-operating with the otjcr Japanese ships' launches, suc ceeded in rescuing 15 officers and 175 men, but Captain Tajima and 38 others down with the ship. , The Saiyen, while in command of the detached squadron, and at the same time engaged in blockading Port Arthur, was often exposed to dangers and frequently .L...iicu uisimguisnca services. The announcement of the Navv De- parinrnt concludes as follows: it is highly regrettable that such a ship should have met with so ereat a misfortune. It is reported here that since the com mencement of the bombardment of the Russian flret in Port Arthur barter lb. Japanese military observers on 203-Meter Hill have not seen anything of the Rus sian fleet of torpedo-boat destroyers, and it is presumed it has taken shelter be hind I.aoti Mountain. The Japanese fleet Ivinor off the en trance to the harbor is rnilstantlv nn the alert in anticipation of an attempt being made by any of the Russian war ships to escape and seek refuge in sonic neutral pott. The commander of the lananese naval guns at Port Arthur reported Friday night as follows:, Uur bombardment result?.! in hits on the Pobieda and seven on the ttayan, setting her on fire and cans-'' illg a 25-degree list to oort. She threat. ens to keel over at high tide. The uppet decks of the Retvizan and Poltava are submerged to the foot of the conniim towers. 'The Pallada is listing considerably tn port and the Pobieda to starboard, both exposing their hulls below the watet me. At high tide a nortion of their upper necks seem to be submerged. "The Pcrcsviet at high tide has bet sternwalk and fore topedo tubes sub merged. "The Giliak is lying close to land near the southern base of Peiyu Mountain. She .has listed 20 degrees is evidently danifigcd and is resting on the bottom. "The Savastopol left the harbor at dawn and anchored, evidently for the purpose of escaping our bombardment." Wary of Women Now. Pittsburg (Special). Since the nu merous reports of Mrs. Chadwick's ad ventures among financiers have been published there has been a wonderful tightening of doors around the offices of big moneyed men of Pittsburg. It is next to impossible for any well-dressed woman to get an audience with a Pitts burg millionaire these days. Two well known women went to see H. C. Frick regarding a small contribution for a public bathhouse to be erected in a mill district. "Give the ladies this and tell them Mr. Frick cannot see them," said the Coke King to his confidential clerk, who brought in the wishes of the callers. Orson Woodbury Dead. Madison, Wis. (Special). Orson E. Woodbury, author of the campaign song of 1840, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," is dead here at the age of 80. He wrote several other songs; was once a Wis consin editor, and was one of the three men that called the first Republican meeting in Berlin, Wis., in 1854. ' Mr. Woodbury claimed that the Republican parly was organized there. He was driven out of St. Louis during the Civil War because of antislavery sentiments. Maniac In Church Witb Ax. Grand Rapids (Special).T-Clad only in his underclothing and a raving mani ac from an attack of typhoid fever, Jas. Delatto, an Italian, 32 years old, with an ax held seven policemen at bay for over two hours in Wie Fifth Reformed Dutch Church shortly before the morning serv ice. Before being captured he jumped on top of the big pipe organ, and police men were compelled to climb into it from overhead to'captnre him. Camden Business Man Drowned. Camden, N. J. (Special). Charlei B. Richter, secretary of the Richter Electric Company and a leading Cam den business man, was drowned in the Delaware River. Mr. Richter was ahout to step aboard.! private yacht, when he made a missTep and fell into the river. Although rescuers were prompt, he was past recovery whei, his body was taken from the water. Sale ol Liquor at Army Posts. Washington, D. C. (Special). Sen ator Proctor introduced a bill in the Senate providing for the repeal of the law which "prohibits the sale of beer in any post exchange or canteen at posts located in states where such sale is not prohibited by the law of the state." . New Trial for Caleb Powers. Frankfort, Ky. (Special). The Court of Appeals reversed the deci sion of the Circuit Court in the case of Caleb Powers, now iu jail at Louis ville under sentence of death for com plicity in the muf'dcr of William Goc bel. This gives Powers a new trial. Prosecution In Land Frauds. Washington, D. C. (Special). An official statement was given out by the Interior Department announcing the government's purpose to prose cute every guilty man in the public land frauds to the full extent of the law and regardless of position in life. - FINANCIAL The net debt of the United States is now $8g,ooo,ooo. Illinois Central's net profits in Oc tober rose $367,673. I John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is going abroad tn recuperate. Manhattan got an extra dividend of three-quarter of one per cent, for the nine months. 1 Philadelphia traders have mads snug little fortunes in Lehigh Naviga-, tion. Steel billets are likely to be ad vanced at the next meeting of the bil let pool, ' In November the Reading- marketed more than 1 .000.000 tons of anthracite, 1 ''Lehigh Valley will some day go exactly as Lehigh Navigation is now going," said prominent banker iden tified with the former. Philadelphia brokers are busier now than at any time for upwards of three years. International Paper Company direc tors decided to issue $10,000,000 of j per cent, bonds, half of which will be THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Pennsylvania Told in Short Order. An application -will be made bv For estry Commissioner R. S. Conk'lin, to t-nieiJlatl";c' fo,r an appropriation of f.m'? ,, ,hAC, "'"""iptive Sanitaria . A,ont A,t.' Franklin county, to erect additional buildings, so that sev-eiily-hve consumptives may be cared for HL0nl t"."c'. Tl,,e ?'So00 appropriation made by the last Legislature enabled the forestry Commission to erect the pres ent buildings, which accommodate thir ty patients. Of the eighty patients treated, sixty-six per cent, were cured or recovered sufficiently to leave the ca.",P; The consumptive camp was es tablished on the State Forestry Reser vation by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, the for mrr forestry commissioner. An increase of $40,000 will be asked in the appro priation for the State Forestry School, to permit an increase in the number of scholars from twenty to forty. Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of Phila. flclphia, had a conference with Gov ernor Penny packer on the subject of personal registration, urging the Chief Executive to recommend it in his bi ennial message to the Legislature and to act favorably upon it if it should pass the Legislature. Mr. Woodruff says that the advocates of personal registra tion will support a bill to be introduced by Representative Shcctz, of Philadel phia, which will apply only to cities. Because the Schuylkill Traction Com pany increased fares, Town Council has instructed its solicitor to have the com pany vacate the streets on the ground that it violated its franchise. Powell Lvans, of Philadelphia, is president of the road. George Turner, of Quakertown, a fire-s man on a freight train running between Bridgeport and New York, fell from bis engine at Rydal Station, on the New York Branch, and his mutilated bodyt was found an hour and a half later after two trains had run over it. Turner was .standing between the engine and the tender, and leaned out while passing; Rydal, when the picket fence caught his clothes, causing him to lose his hold. The engineer did not miss him until the train reached Somerton. Word was received in Lancaster of the arrest at Portsmouth, 'Va., of a man giving his name as Charles W. Miller, who is believed to be Christian Hart stcin, of Lancaster, who is wanted for the murder of William Wagner on Mav 1. Wagner was killed as the outcome of a fight at a May-day picnic along the Conestoga. Hartstein secured a shot gun with which he blew off the top of Wagner's head. Hartstein disappeared, going South. The Lackawanna, Wyoming Valley & Western Railroad Company made a proposition to the State Department to build twenty miles of Hnnhle frarlr frnni; W likes-Barre to West Tittston by way of Nanticokc. The proposed line will be a continuation of the road of the) third-rail electric system from Carbon dale to Wilkes-Barre, bv way of Scran ton. The road will be built on private right of way. The company will even tually extend its line to Washington, D. C., by way of Sunbury and Harrisburg, in which cities large powerhouses will be built. The proposed road would b about 250 miles long. The charter ap plication was filed by S. R. Ketcham, of Philadelphia, secretary and treasurer . of the Transit Finance Committee, and Senator B. K..Focht, of Lcwisburg, one of the promoters of the railroad. Dr. Charles E. Woodward, secretary of the Board of Health, says no definite action has yet been taken by the board in the matter of the disposal of the sew age of West Chester, though several propositions arc under consideration anf will be submitted to Borough Council. Numerous sanitary engineers and agents of various firms have been consulted relative to the sewage question, the bids for thcopreparation of suitable plans and the making of a preliminary . survev varying from $400 to $2500. The cost of digging the necessary trenches and lay ing the pipes, with the building of a proper purification plant, is estimated at $100,000 to $200,000. Governor Pennypackcr issued a death warrant for the hanging of Waller Obey, Charles Jackson and Charles Miles in Pittsburg on February 2, 1905.' Justice of the Peace Bond caused the arrest of Edward Allen, of Wood mont, whose son, Luther, U now in jail at Norristown, accused of aiding in the escape of Frank Saylor, the negro who killed the Hendersons, near Bethayres. The elder Allen was also accused of aiding Saylor. Allen :ame to Norristown unaccompanied, jnd after Chief of Police W. IL Ro denbaugh, and District Attorney A. II. Hendricks had put him through1 '.he "sweating" process the two wero convinced that there was not suffi cient evidence to hold him, and ne was permitted to go. Allen told the authorities that Saylor, who was a friend of his, came to his home on the Saturday after the murder, while his wife and two other women were alone. His wife was alarmed, and drove to Hathoroj where Allen was working, to tell him. He, went home, lit a lan tern, and found Saylor sitting on ai wood pile iu his cellar, with a revolver in his hand. Allen told Saylor he would have to leave the house.- Say lor departed, saying he was going to Huntingdon Valley. When asked why he did not play the part of a good citizen, and effect Saylor' arrest, Al len said he was afraid to have the capture of Saylor take place in hi house for fear that he might be con- nected with the crime. He said ha has since realized that he made a mis take. The Brethren in Christ of Lancaster have a fire insurance company of theic own that is not chartered, but is reg ularly organized like any other comW pany dealing in mutual insurance.) Henry B. . Musser, of Florin, is thai treasurer. The company has about! 2,000,000 worth of property insured. ' The method is to insure property folk three-fourths of its actual value. j The Equity Manufacturings Com pany of Chicago, a concern operated1 by about 200 members of they Church! of the Brethren (Dunkers), haf bought a property at Lancaster ( A movement is on foot throughout the State to have a bill passed , by the approaching Legislature provid ing for the publication in not lessf than two newspapers of each county -of the laws passed from session td session, This movement is the outW growth of the large number of proj secutiona under the pure food and, game and, fish laws, it is contended that many persons are ignorant of that laws which are passed by reason of the fact that these . law are nol published in the newspapers. New) York, Ohio and other Stale hav been printing the laws for many yearsj
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