iN ANGRY ms REVENGE A Trifle Act Among: the Andieoce io Plajrhonse. STAKED BIS HIFE IN THEATER. The Hatkaad, Wae ! Employe 11 Stage Iti4 ta Ik Lehanoa Academy, Stelag Ma Wife la the Audkocr, Reacnet Her SMeTferMgk Private Dwr iri Stabt Iter la the Brent Tvebanon, Pa. (Special). Mrs. Lottie Trottle, the three-month brido of Geo. Trostle, a ttage Iiaml at the Academy f Music, this city, is lying " condition at the Good Samaritan Hos pital as the result of ait attempt upon ker life by her husbanJ in the play house, and her husband is in jail charged with the crime. She is but 17 year old. As a result of the domestic infelicity of the young couple, the wife's parents took her home several weeks ago, further embittering the husband against her. It is alleged hat he met his wife on the street on Friday night, and, alter threatening dire things, used her roughly and fractured her collar bone. Warrants were issued charging Tros tle with assault and battery and threat filing life. County Detective Siegrist and two policemen went to the Acad emy on Saturday night to make the arrest, and when T rootle 'earned of their mission he resolved upon a hasty revenge. Securing a table knife used on the stage, he dashed through a private door the orchestra circle and grabbed his wife,-who was seated in a front seat with her parents, by the throat and be fore anyone could interfere lie lifted tbe knife in the air and plunged it into Iter breast. The act was committed in fight of a large audience, and created a panic. Women fainted and the shrieks of the young woman caused the greatest ex citement The officers were meanwhile apprised of the occurrence and jumped over the footlights to intercept the villain in the impromptu tragedy, hut were too late. Trostle was arrested, however, and was taken to jail, while the woman was car ried to the stage dressing-rooms. It was found that the knife had bent upon striking her collarbone, thus saving her life. She sustained several broken ribs, however, in the struggle and, with the nervous shock, is in a critical condition nt the hospital. Trostle is held pending the result of her injuries. The play went on after the excitement subsided. In jail Trostle stated that he could not control hit temper, and was unable to resist the impulse to get satisfaction, though sorry now for the deed. He is S3 years of age. STARVED TO DEATH. Aa A fed Brother and a Sister Is a Philadel phia Hovel. rhiladelphia (Special). A sad case of starvation and exposure, which re sulted in two deaths, has been revealed ty the police of this city. Saturday the police of Germantown, a suburb, were called upon to invetstigate a mysterious -death on East Haines street. They found Sarah Smith, aged 62 years, dead; Benjamin bmitn, 70 years of age, a brother, dying, and Louis Smith, 64 years old, another brother, 111 a aeriout condition. The house they lived in was a two-story frame affair. There was no fire in the place, nor was there any food to be found. Ben jamin Smith was removed to a hospital, -where he died at night, and the other brother was taken to the almshouse. A ctrange feature of the case is that the brother had been pensioned by their former employer, and a balance was still standing to their credit Neighbors tay that all three were eccentric TORTURED BY FIRE. A Car-cleaner'a Charge Agalutt Ills Fellow, workmen. New York (Special). His hands tied and his clothing saturated with kero aense and then set on fire, was the treatment accorded to Max Spitz, a car cleaner, by fellow-workmen in the yards of the Mew York Central Railroad, ac cording to a statement made by Spitz to the police. Spitz said that the outrage was per petrated in the roundhouse, and that upon escaping from his tormentors he ran away with his clothing ablaze and rolled in the snow until the flames were extinguished. An examination by a mrgeon showed that he had been terribly burned about the face, hands and bocjy. Henry Reis enheiser, a watchman in the roundhouse, -waa arrested on the complaint of Spitz, but denied any knowledge of the as sault. Corotlia Town Bur aid. Raleigh, N. C (Special). News has been received here in a letter to Repre sentative C V. Mitcheli, of Bertie, that Lewiston, in Bertie county, a town of 1,750 persons, with 10 or 12 stores, was totally destroyed by fire, with a loss of over $50,000. Only one building the tore of Baker 4 Hoggard is left stand sag, according to the report. Revolt ia tbt Caucasus. Odessa (By Cable). Reports have teen received here representing the whole Caucasus region as being in re volt Armed mobs have stopped the railway traffic, cut the telegraph lines ad looted the arsenals. Ta Slop Rtmarrlage of Divorcees. Helena, ont (Special). The lower branch of the Legislature has passed a bill the purpose of which is the restric ia of ill-advised marrying. Except ing in the case of the innocent party to a divorce suit brought on the ground sf adultery, divorced persons are for bidden to marry again, but the pro visions of the bill do not prevent the parties to the action for a divorce from remarrying each other at any time. Crads Oil Producers Unite. Chicago (Special). Representatives ttl about 6b crude petroleum producing companies met here and took the first step toward the formation of ait or ganization which they declare will be national strength inside of a year. A committee was appointed to draft by law and s constitution and to report at a meeting which will be held in this y February 25. W. J. Van Keur taa of Indiana, was elected temporary t Cjsxary. NEWS mSBQIT ORDER. Ttie litest rlapptoioga Condensed tor Rapid Reading. Domestic In view of the threatened strike 011 the New York, New Haven and 1 1 art- lord Kailrnad, the official of the com pany have opened employment offices. A holdup titan tort a Ss.ooo brooch front the dress of Mrs. Join Y. Cornish in New York, fired two shun :it lu-r hits- band and escaped. At a meeting of the creditors of Mrs. Chadwick in Cleveland Attorney l.ocs cr, whi) has been acting as receiver, was fleeted trustee. Former Congressman Christopher A. Bergen, of New Jersey, is dead at his home, at ilavcrford, a suburb of Phila delphia. The law firm of McPhcr-on. Hyde & Damon, of Boston, announced the theft of notes and bond to the value of $50, 000. Five persons wove burned to death in a dwelling at ihe Howe Brook planta tion, near Island Falls, Me. Five men were killed and 13 injured by a fall of rook at the I.ytle Colliery, near Pottsvillc, Ta. The remains' of Gen. Lew Wallace were buried with simple ceremonies in Crawfordsville, Ind. Dr. T. Tones Watson, of Denver. Col., was acquitted of wife murder in New London, Mo. William If. Pardon, the paper manu facturer, of New York, died at Palm Beach, F!a. Six armed rubber- entered a delivery office in Chicago, held up the employes and compelled a clerk, at the point of a revolver, to open a safe, from which they secured $Jsik. Tliry made their es cape. Tuberculosis farms will he established in different sections of the country by labor organizations for treatment of union workers afflicted with consump tion. The body of the man who committed suicide in a Boston hotel was identified as that of Hiram McColluni, formerly a department clerk in Washington. Because of difference with the facul ty, the senior class at Massachusetts Agricultural College, at Amherst, has de cided to withdraw. Governor 1 loch,, of Kansas, signed the bill appropriating $200,000 for the erec tion and maintenance of a state oil re finery. A dozen persons, cut off from escape by -moke and flames, were rescued by firemen from a Cleveland apartment house. The second trial of Nan Patterson, ac cused of the murder of Caesar Young, will begin on March 6, in New York. A negro, charged with assaulting a white woman, was shot to pieces by a Texas :110b. Governor Toole, of Montana, signed a bill prohibiting employment of chil dren in mines. An effort will be made to establish lodges of the Knights of Pythias in Lon don. England. The Religious Education Association concluded its sessions in Boston. Bish op W. F. McDowell, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, was elected president, and President Faunce, of Brown University, first vice president. Damaging evidence against Wallace A. Lowell, alleged "wildcat" insurance man, was introduced in the trial of Low ell and W. M. Cowcll in Chicago, charged with using the mails to de fraud. Judge Judson C. Clements, represent ing the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, began an investigation in Pitts burg of charges of excessive rates on terminal railroads in that city. In the United States District Court, New York, an order was passed dismiss ing the involuntary petition in bank ruptcy against the brokerage firm of Munroe Ki Mttnroe. Mine, Rejane, the French actress, and her daughter, Germaine, were among the passengers who sailed from New York on the steamer La Tourainc for Havre. Harrison F. Johnson, a wealthy New York lawyer, died in a hotel from mor phine or some other drug. A woman of the Tenderloin is under arrest. Three children were burned to death at Springdale, Mich., and their father, Frank Pearson, so badly burned, that he probably will die. Bigler Johnson was convicted of the murder of his wife in Tonawanda, Pa., and sentenced to death. Eight workmen were seriously injured by an explosion of sulphur in the Brook lyn Sulphur Works. Sam Bowen was declared not guilty of the murder of Prof. E. L. Cotton at College, Pa. Foreign. The Ambassadors of Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia presented a note to the German Foreign Office defi nitely declining to accede to the propo sitions of Prince George of Greece in favor of the annexation of the Island of Crete by Greece. The mining law amendment bill in troduced in the lower house of the Prus sian Diet provides that owners must operate their mines when there is a prospect of profit or when their suspen sion is detrimental to public interest. A violent explosion occurred in front of the Vice Consulate General of Mex ico in Paris, and a Spaniard, whose clothing was burned from his body, when arrested, said he had a complaint against the Mexican authorities. The late Grand Duke Sergius is re ported to have taid that every member of the Liberal party was at heart a bomb-thrower. His fate was a realiza tion of his policy: "Better perish by bombs than by reform." The Czar has restored Grand Duke Paul, youngest brother of Grand Duke Sergius, to rank and family. Paul was degraded several years ago because he contracted a morganatic marriage. The assassin of the Grand Duke Ser gius, though attired as a peasant, is be lieved by the authorities to belong to the upper classes. All li.i papers were forged. The Empress Mother and others of the Russian imperial family have re ceived warnings from the revolutionists. They are all living in dread of the ter rorists. An American named MacLean, and an English lecturer in a commercial academy in Moscow, was shot dead by a student, who then committed suicide. Emperor William will accept the de gree of doctor of laws from the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. It will be con ferred upon him in absentia February 72, at the same time it is bestowed upon President Roosevelt. Instructions have been cabled. Managers of the Poutiloff Iro.l Works, in St. Petersburg, have refused the strikers credit at the company's stores, and 10,000 persons are thus de rived of the meant of obtaining food. UNCLE OF THE CZAR KILLED BY A BOMB Grand Duke Sergnis, Who Was Called Ihe Evil Genius of Russia. WITHIN V ALLS OF THE KREMLIN. A Bomb btplodcd Beoeiib the Carriage ol the Grand Duke, Who Hid Been Condemned to Death By the Revolutionary Party Others Marked to Share Hit Fait I nlest Conditions Chsntt. Moscow (By Cable).--t '.rand Dukr Sergius was assassinated here Friday. While the Grand Duke waa driving from the Nicholas Palace through the Sen..te quarter his carriage was followed by two cab-. At the Law Conns a sleigh in which werr two m n, one of whom w as dressed as a workman, went quickly ahead of the Grand Duke's carriage. The sleigh then slowed up to allow the carriage to pas, and at that moment a bomb wa thrown beneath the carriage. The force of the explosion broke all the windows of the Law Courts, and the report was heard outside the city. The carriage was blown to pieces, noth ing but the four wheels remaining. The horses were not hurt, and bolted. The Grand Dnke was instantly killed. His head was blown off and his body frightfully mangled. The coachman was also killed. He was so frightfully burn ed by the explosive with which the bomb was charged that he died while being taken to a hospital. On the arrest of the murderers, neither of whom was known to the police, one of them coolly said : "I don't care. I have done my job." An immense crowd gathered at the spot and made a demonstration against a number of students who commenced scattering revolutionary proclamations. Within a few minutes after the explo sion people might have been seen gath ering up pieces of wood and clothing as mementoes of the tragedy. When the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, widow of Sergin, was informed of the occurrence she went to the scene with out waiting to put on a hat or cloak. T'ne gates of the Kremlin were closed as soon as the news of the assassination was conveyed to the authorities, and the remains of the Grand Duke were taken to the Nicholas Palace. St. Petersburg (By Cable V The news 01" the tragedy in which Grand Duke Sergius was blown up created a tre mendous sensation in St. Petersburg, where the announcement arrived during the afternoon. The tragedy in reality was no great surprise, as it was known that the ter rorists had already condemned the Grand Duke 10 death, and ever since the, af fair of January 22 the inauguration of a bomb-throwing campaign had been an ticipated. The news of the assassination of the Grand Duke reached Tsarskoc Selo while the Imperial family was entertain ing Prince Frederick Leopold of Prus sia. It created the greatest consterna tion. The Emperor is reported to have been completely prostrated. All festivi ties in honor of the Prussian guest were at once abandoned. Ambassador McCormick and the other Ambassadors drove to the Palace to ex press their official condolences, also leav ing their cards at the palaces of the va rious members of the imperial family. At the time sentence of death was pronounced by the terrorists upon Grand Duke Sergius it was reported that Grand Duke Alexis, Procurator of the Holy Synod Pobiedonostseff and General Tre poff, then Chief of Police of Moscow and now Governor General of St. Peters burg, were also condemned to death, and, according to some reports, a simi lar sentence was imposed upon the Dow ager Empress, Maria Feodorovna. London (By Cable). An early Renter dispatch had it that an explosion had oc curred at the Kremlin, where the Grand Duke Sergius has been residing, and that it was rumored that the Grand Duke was killed. The dispatch added that the population of Moscow is greatly excited. GENERAL LEW WALLACE DEAD. Wat Famous at a Soldier, Diplomat aod Novelist. Crawfordsville, Ind. (Special). Gen. Lew Wallace, author, former American minister to Turkey and veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, oied at his home in this city, aged 78 vears. The health of General Wallace had been waning for several years, and for months it had been generally known that his vigorous constitution could not much longer withstand the ravages of a wast ing disease. For more than a year he had been un able to properly assimilate food, and this, together with his extreme age, made more difficult his fight against death. At no time had he ever con fessed his belief that the end was near, and his rugged constitution and remark able vitality have been responsible for prolonging his life. Minister flit Four Wlvea. Commerce, Ga. (Special). Rv. J. D. Woodward, a Baptist minister, charged with bigamy, has been tried in Jackson Superior Court, found guilty and sen tenced by Judge Russell to serve four years in the chain gang. At the trial it developed that Woodward had been mar ried four time and that thrte of his wives are still living. Ctplaln Mulllkea Disgraced. Washington, 1). C. ( Special) The President has approved the sentence in the case of Capt. David B. Mullikin, Seventh Infantry, who was recently tried at Fort Sheridan, 111., for duplication of pay accounts, and for making false offi cial statements in his personal reports in which he represented that he was a single man, whereas he had married a Filipino woman. The sentence in this case was dismissal from the Army, . Disaster on a Submarine. Quecnstown (By Cable). Four men killl-d and 14 injured, of whom 3 arc in a critical condition, was the result of two explosions on board the Brit ish submarine boat "A 5" in the har bor here. The killed included Engineer Artificer Chaffe, a leading stoker and a stoker. Lieut. H. G. Goodcommand er of the vessel, was blinded! His con dition is critical. Lieutenant .'Skinner, an officer of the submarine Moat, subse quently died of hjs injuries Only one man 01 tne entire crew esJcaped unin jured. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. S7.7IA.6ft Increase! The House Committee on Appropria tions completed and reported ihe Sun dry Ciil Appropriation bill. The bill appropriates $'5.55f,KSo, which is Mi increase of .$"tKio, over the appropri ations for 1 lie current year, and is $.-00.2.4)- less than the estimate of the various departments. The increase i accounted fur as follow under three heads ; Excess , rcquirrd to meet contract obligations for the construction of 'pub lic buildings, $3,224,330; excess required to meet contract obligations for river and harbor works, $2.571,0,32: amount required for construction of buildings for the National Museum and 10 meet contract obligations therefor, a re quired by law, $1,500,000. Other unusual sums carried in the bill which were not in ihe last Sundry Civil act include : Toward the ' construction of new building for the Department of Agri culture, $700,000; office building 'for the Mouse of Representatives. $Ho.ooo; Friedman's Hospital (District of Co lumbia), $250,000; hospital building for Ellis Island Immigrant station (New York), $.250,000. All of these appropriations except the Ellis Island project have been hereto fore authorized by law. Paoama Bill Passed. The House passed the Mann bill pro viding for the government of t'ne canal zone and the construction of the Panama Canal. This bill was unanimously fa vored by the House Committee on In terstate and Foreign Commerce, wincti recently made a journey of investiga tion to the Isthmus. The bill has been the continuing order in the House for more than a week. The most important feature ot the bill is Ihe fifth section, which abolishes the Isthmian Canal Commission by repeal ing so much of the Canal act of June 28. kjoj. as provides for the appoint ment and existence of the commission. In the third section of the bill as ap proved by the House authority is granted to the President to designate some one of the executive departments to take up the work of the commission, ana it tne bill is approved by the Senate with amendments the President will control the construction of the canal through the j W ar Department. Stricter Steamship Laws. Representative Sulzcr (New York) in troduced a bill amending the revised statutes by making it impossible for owners of vessels carrying passengers in the waterways over which the United States has jurisdiction to avail them selves of the statutes for exemption in case of accident, where loss of life or injury has been caused as the result of incompetency of the officers or crew, or failures to comply with the law. The Senate Committee on Commerce ordered reported favorably the bills passed by the House for the improve ment of the steamboat service. One of the bills was amended to provide that 75 per cent, of the crew s shall be able seamen of at last three years' ex perience. $62,05 For Inauguration. The inaugural committee reports thai $62,085 has been paid into the guaranty fund the largest fund in the history of inaugurations. General Chaffee, grand marshal!, has decided to organize a brigade of school cadets to march in the military division. The command of the second civic divi sion of the parade has been accepted by Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and another di vision will be commanded by Gen. O. O. Howard. Reviewing stands are be ing built along the line of march. Mailt Barred to Insects. The House Committee on Agriculture has authorized a favorable report on th-: Lovcring bill to prohibit interstate trans portation of insect pests and the use of the United States mails for that pur pose. 1 The pests mentioned in the hill are the gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, leopard moth, plum curculio and hop plant louse. A $5,000 fine and imprisonment at hard labor for five years is made the penalty for violating the prohibitions of the bill. Otage Indians Have Millions. The House Committc on Indian. Af fairs authorized a favorable report on the McGuire bill authorizing an equal division of the lands and moneys of the Osage tribe of Indians. There are about 20,000 members of this tribe, and its property consists of 1,500,000 acres of land, $8,250,000 on deposit in the treas ury, an annual income of $150,000 from grazing lands and $100,000 from royal tics from oil and gas. Notes of the Dcpartmcott. A. R. Urion, counsel for the Armour Car Lines Company, claimed before the subcommittee of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce that the exclusive contracts of the com pany were lawful. President Drake and General Counsel Cromwell, of the Panama Railroad Com pany, testified before the House Com mittee with reference to the operation of that railroad. The Chinese Minister presented to President Roosevelt an oil painting of the Dowager Empress of China. Mutual felicitations were exchanged. .Col. William H. Michael, chief clerk of the State Department, has published an illustrated History of the Declara tion of Independence. The Postoftice Appropriation Bill as reported to the Senate provides an in crease for the pneumatic tube service. Eulogies were delivered in the Senate in memory of the late Scnttor Quay, of Pennsylvania. The House passed the Pension Appro priation Hill, carrying $lj8,2;o,too. Funds with which to prosecute the inquiry into the methods of the, Standard Oil Company in Kansas wen: asked of tbe House by Secretary Mctcalf, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, The statue of Miss Frances K. Wil lard placed in Statuary Hall by the State of Illinois was formally accepted by Congress. Eulogistic speeches were made in the Senate and House. The State Department has invited at tention of lite Russian government to the fact that three officers of the Rus sian transport Lena, who wore interned at San Franciico, have violated their parole and ate now in St. Petersburg. In the House the resolution tending the Statehood JJill to conterence was adopted 161 t 127- A parcelt post treaty with Great Brit ain has been signed. At the meeting of the joint inaugural committee of the Senate and House mem bers of the latter protested against a repetition of tha scant courtesy shown the House at the iast inauguration. , FIGHT ON THE OIL TRUST a President Roosevelt is Taking a Hand In It. OIL SCANDAL IN INDIAN TERRITORY. He Orders a Rl;ld Investigation to He Made hy Commissioner Garfield of Conditions, In Kansas - A Constitutions! Convention May He Called lo Olvc Ihe legislature nf That Stale Rroadcr Powtr. Washington, 1). C. (Special).- I'lr-t-tlcnl Roosevelt has directed James R. Garfield, cortimi-siotier of corporations of the Department of Commerce and La bor, to begin immediately the oil invesli Ration requested by the House of Repre sentatives in a resolution adopted unani moii'lv. The investigation, by direction of the President, will be rigid rind com prehensive. The President has directed a let 1 1 r to Commissioner Garfield, in which he lias given hi directions and presented in outline bis views. The inquiry will be pressed as rapid';, as possible. The copc ot t'ne investi gation and the lime it will occupy cannct be indicated at this time. Representa tive Campbell, of Kansas, the author of the resolution adopted by the House, bad a conference with President Roose velt. Mr. Campbell's idea is that the lvcsti gation should concern particularly the situation in the Kansas field, but he ex pressed to the President his belief that the inquiry, once begun, would extend to the operations of the Standard Oil Company in the lieanmont field, of Tex as, and perhaps to other fields. Piitburg, Pa. ( Special). William J. Voting, president of the Prairie Oil and Gas Compauv, of Kansas, against which the oil investigation resolution in ) Congress was directed, in an interview said that the company was not afraid of an investigation. lite cnarges being agitated at pres ent arc without foundation," he said, "and we are paying no attention to them. In fact, we will aid the investigators, so as to end the c0111r.1vcr.sy as quickly a pos-ible." Topcka, Kan. I Special). A constitu tional convention may be called to broad en the powers of the Kansas legislature, so that it can successfully fight the Oil Trust in Kansas. Mills striking at trusts, particularly those dealing with oil, having met with so many objections on constitutional grounds, that a .senti ment in favor of a new constitution meeting The situation has sprung tip. To this end a resolution submitting the question of calling a constitutional convention to a vote of the people in lyoo has been prepared, and will, it is said, be presented in the State Senate shortly. Governor Hoch has not yet signed the bill "providing for the erection by the state of an oil refinery. Along with its light on oil, Kansas also is making war on thoe who would pipe gas out of the state. In the House lloldren's bill to regulate the mode of procuring and transporting natural gas was passed by a vote of 78 to 32. Un like the oil legislation, which seeks to make a market for that product, the gas measure is intended to restrict the sale of gas. Kansas wants the gas saved for use in its own industries, and to guard it a protective association ' has been formed. EMBALMING FLUID FATAL. Physician Fought Hard to Rid Hit System ol It. Philadelphia (Special). A victim of blood poisoning contracted from em balming fluid, which had entered his system years ago while an attache of the Coroner's office, Dr. Frederick J. Delkcr was found dead in bed in the St. Elmo Hotel. Dr. Delker was a physician and a teacher of embalming, being one of the first lo bring the fluid into use in this city. He was connected with the Cor oner's office in an unofficial capacity, and while embalming a body sonic of .the fluid entered a little cut on his right hand. He gave this little attention, and it was only a short time before the poison had forced its way into his ro bust system. .Then began the fight-lo overcome its effect, and what was con sidered by eminent physicians as a hope less case was controlled, and Dr. Delker, after months of suffering, was what he thought a well man. But the poison was not altogether eliminated from his system, and before he was aware of it he was again its vic tim. Gradually its effects became more apparent and slowly it undermined his health. KILLED DAUGHTER; WOUNDED MOTHER. They Had Begun tbe Firing on Loadholtz and Jury Discharged Hint. Jacksonville, Fla. (Special). Owen Loadholtz was ordered released from jail by the coroner who conducted an inquest over the body of Miss May Brown. The young woman was killed and her mother seriously, and probably fatally, wounded by Loadholtz in a shoot ing affray in a justice court Monday. Loadholtz had been brought into court on criminal charges by Miss Brown. She was accompanied by her mother, and when the court announced a post ponement of the case mother and daugh ter began firing on Loadholtz. He re turned the fire, killing the young woman and wounding her mother. The coro ner's jury returned a verdict of justifi able homicide. Suicide at Sea. New York (Special). A suicide at sea was reported by the North German Lloyd, steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm which arrived front Bremen. The vic tim was a fireman named Frolunak, of llobokcn, N. J., on the American Line steamer St. Paul. Frolunak jumped from the St. Paul soon after lilie passed Sandy Hook last Wednesday. The re port of the man's act was communicated lo the Kronprinz Wilhelm by wireless teleraph when the two steamers, met at sea. A Father'a Sacrifice. Cheboygan, Mich (Special). Albert Finery walked on the ice from Boise Blanc Island to tin's city lo get medicine for his sick child. The mercury was 16 below zero, and a wild storm was raging, but he bravely set out on the return trip about midnight, with a lantern and com pass to guide bi n. That was the last teen of him, and there il little doubt that he perished. His wife came to this city to look for him, and larse searching parties were organized both here and ou the island to search for his bod. He wa 31 yeart ef sja . LOOKING FOR TROIBLE. Castro Influences Ihe Court Against Amerlcar Comptjy. Paris (By Cable). A semiofficial dis patch from Caracas. Venezuela, ay thai upon the pressure of President Castro the court has ordered the sequestration of the landed property of the American Asphalt Company. This decision, the dispatch adds, has caused excitement in the American colony at Caracas. Washington,- D. C. (Special). The State Department received a cablegram from Minister Howcii, dated at Caracas, stating that the Supreme Court bad confirmed its former decree rcsquestral ing the property in Venezuela of the American Asphalt Company. The action of the court brings the asphrill dispute lo the critical, point, for it is now in cumbent upon the goverttmc-rtt here to make the next move. Some lime last spring the Venezuelan Court, before which an application has been filed by the Venezuelan government for vae.itio-v oi ihe franchise of the aj pha't company, decided that the corpora tion had forfeited its charter rights, and on application of the government appointed a receiver for the property. The American A'plialt Company sought to secure a reversal of the order for th.: appointment of the receiver, and the (court entertained its motion to that et i feet, but it has now decided adversely upon this. Tl)c decree -tops the a-.ph;ot company from further efforts to regahi possession of its property by appeal to the Venezuelan courts. It-.n at the sunc time it bulged the motion now dismissed by the Venezuelan Supreme Court, the asphalt company made a strong appc il to the State Department here for a:d. as serting that it had been demed justice by the Venezuelan government. The President requested Attorney Gen era! Moody to report whether or not there had been a miscarriage of justi-c in this case such as would warrant .1 formal protest by this government. Af'er an exhaustive consideration of the sub. ject the Department of Justice has pre- of Assistant Attornev General Russell, but so far thi has not been formally returned 10 the President. Il is believed that the opinion is to the effect that the Asphalt Company has not been fairly treated, not only according 10 the priu cip'cs of l-'.nglish law, but even taking as a basis the ordinary Venezuelan legul practice. However, the President has not yet determined upon the course be shall pur sue in this matter. The attorneys fu tile asphalt company are frequent vis itors to the State Department demanding justice. Minister Howen, meanwhile, is waiting for instructions, his status at Caracas being rather delicate owing to the fidelity with which he has executed the State Department's instructions at various sj;iges in tlc progress of the as phalt cases before the Venezuelan court-. Now that President Castro has returned lo Caracas, it is expected that our min ister will renew his efforts lo prevent the rase from proceeding to a point where a summary demand must be made upon the Venezuelan government to right the wrong which it is alleged to have connnitteed in litis case.- RUSSIA'S LOSSES IN BATTLE. Estimates for the Year Put tbe Dead al About 53,009. St. Petersburg Hy Cable).--The oi'li- I cia! returns of the first year nf tlu war, j not including the Port Arthur s'.titis j tics, show that 1.VM.?1) officers and men j passed through the l'os-pital going j north, of which number rf,7io officers were wounded and 7,.oX were sick; 53, 8yo men were wounded and were sick; 4.007 subsequently died in hos pitals, 6,474 wounded and ILJ4K sick were invalided, 9.4JO returned to Russia and 21,554 are still in hospitals. Over 7,iXiO. therefore, presumably re turned to the ranks. These figures do not include the numbers of those killed on the field of battle nor probably those -.slightly injured who remained, temporarily in field hospitals. The show ing is considered remarkably good. The proportion dying in hospitals is very low, the total loss to the active army in wounded and sick being a little over 50,000, of whom almost half have still a chance of returning to the ranks. The other half will be invalided or returned to Russia. The killed in battle arc es timated lo have numbered, between 40, 000 ami 50.000. Killed His Professor. Savannah, Ga. ( Special). Sam Eow cn, a 17-ycar-old negro student of the Georgia Slate College for Coloscd Youths, at College, Ga was found not guilty of the charge of the murder of Prof. li. L. Cotton, a member of the fac ulty, .whom he killed with a brick on February d. The professor had ejected Uowen from a classroom, after an alter cation. He followed the boy out, threat ening him with a stick, when Bowen hurled a brick, striking Cotton on the head. Several hours later Cotton died in a hospital in this city. . Condemned la Death. Tovvanda, Pa. (Special). Bigler Johnson was convicted of first degree murder for the killing and burning of !m wife in September last. Judge Fanning immediately passed the death sentence. Charles Johnson, a brother, was con victed in December of the same crime. Their mother, brother and sister, charged with complicity, have been discharged for lack of evidence. FINANCIAL Philadelphia Rapid Transit's income is about df .tooo a day ahead of last year. President Gillingham, of the Chesa peake & Ohio, is expected to retire .shortly. The rise in the Southern Steel stock! caused a revival of t He rumors thai Tennessee Coal & Iron, Sloss-Shcffie! and Republic Sieel would combine. "We have enough stock in hand tc block ihe Ryan-Blair reorganization scheme," says ex-President Williams, ol 1 lie Seaboard Air Line. The Pittsburg Coal Company makes its annual report, which shows that prof its after deducting all expenses, were $4,211,511, compared wit It. $7.77,094 in 1 ).!. In its table of assets the com pany values its coal iniiici at over $78, 000,000, Last year the total output of Besse mer steel ingots and castings were 7.O55, 000 Ions, a decrease of h'A per cent., compared with 100J. In 1003 the output was 0,138,000 ions, Ihe record for this country. Pennsylvania made almost half the ingots and !,40i.a-io tons, or almost exactly half the output of slcc); rails. THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest Mews of Pennsylvania Told ia Short Order. In court, at West Chester, jury awarded $H25 lo Mrs. F.Uetl M. Kenne dy, wife of Jaliics G. Kennedy, a mer chant of Coatsvillc, in n suit brought against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany to recover $4000 damages for in juries which Mrs. Kennedy sustained in Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, on the night of October 24, 1504, when she was jostled, thrown down and trampled by a party of young men, said to be students, who had gathered at the sta tion to welcome back a football team. Mrs. Kennedy received injuries to hei back and other portions of her body. -Her attorneys declared the company was negligent in permitting the assemblage of the students and their disorderly con duct. For the ifcfensc it was contended that all reasonable precautions had beep taken ifor the protection of the patronf of the road. Judge Hassler, at Lancaster, has ap pointed City Controller J. Harry Rath fon permanent receiver of the defunct City Saving Fund & Trust Company. The City Finance Committee decided to notify the directors of the company, who are on the city bond that they must con fess judgment to the city for $75,000. payable immediately, or involuntary bankruplry proceedings would be insti tuted. The directors confessed judg ment in the sum named, but made it pay able on October I, 1005, and the city refused to accept this. A conference of the authorities was held but no definite action was taken. At a meeting of the directors they jointly confessed collat eral judgments aggregating $417,307.15 o protect all the creditors. The largest individual judgment was that of Robert K. Locher, a brother of the late presi dent, Charles II. Locher, being for $107, 500. , Among the letters received by the Hoard of Pardons in behalf of Mrs. tatc Edwards is one from a woman in Chicago, who asks that the life of the 'nurdetcss be spared. Five cents worth f postage stamps arc inclosed in the note. The wrircr says she understands hat Mrs. Edwards is very fond of ire rrcani soda anif asks that one be pur chased for her. The request and stamps 'lave been forwarded lo Reading. Burgess C. II. Pennypacker and James I-'.. McFarlan, of West Chester, while in their way to a public sale at the Vance farm, near Guthricvillc, were up et in a huge snow drift in the highway. As Burgess Pennypacker was not wear ing his high hat, that .noted headgear tseaped injury, and no serious damage esultcd, save that snow got into the tars and whiskers of the two travelers. Mrs. Charles Blanning, who resides in the East End, was shot in the neck by Ernest S. Looringcr. Iooringer was ar rested and at the hearing it was testi fied that Mrs. Blanning and Miss Carrie Hutlcr were returning to the former's home when Looringcr followed and tried to get into the house. The women be came frightened and left the house, looringcr ran after them and overtook them about fifty 'feet from the house, when, it is alleged, he threw Mrs. Blan ning to the ground and shot her, caus ing a deep wound rn the young woman's neck. After the shooting Looringcr as sisted in carrying the wounded woman to her home and himself went for the physician. He was at her bedside when arrested. He admits doing the shooting, but refuses to discuss the matter. The feature of the meeting of the As sociated Health Authorities and Sanitar ians of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, was a general discussion on the subject ol tuberculosis, which was participated in by Dr. Leonard Pearson, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, Stale veteri narian, who dealt with the subject of legislative measures in relation to the disease in animals; Dr. Charles J. Hat field, on "Infection;" Dr. Joseph Walsh, on "The Necessity of Early Diagnosis;" Dr. H. M. Landis, on "The Result ol Sanatorium Treatment," and Dr. W. F. Stanton, on "The -Importance of Topu Iar Education Concerning Tuberculosis..' Judge IL K. Weand at Norristowr decided that the County Commissioner" were guilty of no wrong and cannot b surcharged for the alleged inferior con struction of a stone bridge across Pen nypacker Creek, in Moreland Township The Court holds that the viewers to in spect the bridge exceeded their dutie in that part of their report imposing surcharge of 10 per cent, of the cost o) the bridge upon the County Commis sioners and orders it stricken from th report. The Court says if any defect) exist they i'.re chargeable against tin contractor. . After taking evidence for the past tct-' days to determine the degree of guilt o.' Bigler Johnson, who on February ( pleaded guilty to the general charge of murder, Judge Fanning at Towanda, fix ed the grade of crime as first degree and immediately pronounced the death sen tence. Johnson remained unmoved, and neither he nor his brother, Charles, whe was convicted in December of murder, would say a word beyond protesting their innocence. Both men had previous ly confessed to the crime, giving details. Their mother, Mrs. Sophia Merritt, and Alansan and Nancy Johnson, brother and sister, are now at liberty, the Court last week directing a verdict of not guilt ' in the case of the mother and the case against the children being dropped. Th family of five had been accused of kill Bigler Johnson's wife and her niece last September and setting fire to the house in which the dead bodies lay. Mrs. Rebecca Johnson, a colored resi dent of Hopewell Borough, near Ox ford, was arrested, charged with as saulting a public school teacher, Miss Rachel Hudson, daughter of Thompson Hudson, Justice of th.5 Peace, School Director, member of the Board of Health and one of the most prominent men of the lower end elf Chester county. The alleged attack upon Miss Hudson arose over a 12-year-old nephew of Mrs. John son, whom the teacher had punished for impudence. l'ponggoing home he told his aunt that lie had been brutally beaten and showed a bloody hand.' Now that Mrs. Kale F'.dwards has confessed that she killed her husband, and has implicated her d-'c'iler, Mary, who is jiow in St. Louis, one of the. first moves, it is said, will be to bring the daughter to Reading. The girl, who is 18 years old, is in constant fear of arrest and rfor this reason refused to come to Reading to say good-by to her mother. The. statement is made that Mrs. Edwards, who has exponerated Greason, cinnot testify in his behalf if he be granted a new trial, because tho testimony of a prejured witness cannot be accepted. She testified against hint at the trial and now wonts to clear him.
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