THE MUTINEERS
STILL IN CONTROL
Situation at Vladivostok Has Not Been
Improved.
FUMES ARE SPREADING IN GOMEL.
At Lodz, Russian Poland, Thret Men Eatered i
Hospital aod Slabbed to Dtith a Mao Who
Hid Bcca Condemned By Revolullonliti-Tbt
( Value ot Caillei Burocd by (be Revolutionists
In the Baltic Provinces li $4,000,000.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). Beyond
the fact that the revolt at Yaldivostok
is not subdued and that the mutinous
sailors and soldiers are still standing
by the gnus at the Holy Innocents'
Battery, the War Office had nothing to
jive out regarding the situation at the
fortress.
The only further news available was
n newspaper dispatch, stating that two
squadrons of the Ncrtchink Regiment of
Cossacks had arrived, and that many ar
rests had been made. From the absence,
of news it is concluded :hat General
Mode, who is temporarily in command
of the troops is awaiting" the arrival of
Lieutctiant-Gencra Mistchcnko, who is
expected at Vladivostok, before ventur
ing on serious measures against the.
mutineers.
TL - . ..
me seizure 01 arms Dy tne imui.iccrs
was a sequel of a street fight, in which
a number of sailors of the Sibiriaii con
tingent were killed.
The public takes only a languid in
terest in the latest mutiny. The papers
mercy print tlic news, which had no ef
fect on the Bourse, without comment.
The Government has been advised
from Irkutsk, Siberia, that a number of
officials and employes of the general of
fices of the trans-'liaikal Railroad have
been arrested on i!ie charge of being im
plicated in abstracting from a Govern
ment munition train 1.000 rillcs, 1,000
revolvers and 10.au cartridges and giv
ing them to the revolutionists. A search
was instituted for the cartridges, during
which many of the rifles were recovered.
The authorities also discovered nine
bombs.
A large number of summary searches
and arrests have oecured lately at Tsars-koe-Selo.
The store of a Jewish drug
gist named Ahramovitch was r.r.isaikcd.
but no seizures were made. The police
say the affair was unimportant, and that
they merely desired to keep an eye on
all suspects in the immediate neighbor
hood of the Emperor. The plot at Mos
cow revealed by the arrest of the pseudo
Princess Koslovaska January iH, how
ever, was found to be really serious and
to have wide ramifications intended to
encompass the death of Governor-General
DoubasofT. of Moscow, and all his
staff at the biessing-of-thc-water cere
mony. The authorities are convinced
that the revolutionary leaders have elim
inated uprising and street fighting from
heir program for the time being, in
favor of terrorist attempts against high
officials, and have already succeeded in
breaking up several conspiracies in em
bryo. STOLE FOR WEDDING TROL'SSEAU.
Pretty Woman Accused ol Shoplifting to a
New York Store.
New York, f Special) Tearfully con
fessing that she was stealing underwear
and ornaments for her wedding trous
seau, and that her friend was helping
her, Lottie Yedder, 26 years old, and
pretty, was arrested with Florence King,
a. dashing brunette, in a Sixth Avenue
department store by the store detectives.
Tucked in their shirtwaists, under
their coats and in their muffs, they car
ried two silk waists, two cut glass per
fumery boitlcs, boxes of face powder,
bottles of toilet water and more than a
dozen pieces of lingerie.
Both women 'aid they were mani
curists by trade. Lottie Yedder told the
police she had never been a shoplifter,
but that she is engaged to marry a Vir
ginia business man in a few months and
is anxious to get together a trousseau.
Kept 5 Yeere Reading; Bible.
Geneva, N. Y. (Special) Dr. William
R. Brooks, director of Smith Observa
tory and professor of astronomy at llo
bart College, discovered a new "comet in
the northeastern sky. Its position is
right ascension 16I1. 19m. 30s.; declina
tion north, 47 degrees and 10 minutes.
It has a moderat motion in a north
westerly direction. This is said to be
the first comet of the yeir and is the
twenty-fifth discovered by Professor
Broc ks.
Moled Aeronaut bead.
London (By Cable). Stanley Spencer,
the aeronaut, died at Malta while on his
way home from India. Spencer on Sep
tember 19, 100.2, made a remarkable flight
over London in an airship of his own in
vention. It was estimated that he trav
eled nearly 30 miles and had complete
control of his vessel. Spencer's father
and brother Percna! were also aero
nauts of note.
Nlae tlouri j Panama.
Washington, D. C. ( Special). The
House voted to adopt the rule nuking
the provision tor the abrogation of the
eight-hour lav; in the canal zone an or
der in the urgent deficiency bill. Dila
tory motions were made by the minority
to prevent the further consideration of
the bill. ;
MUCH I.N UTILE.
The Mexican lap dog is the smallest
member of the dog family.
Seal skins to the number of 3,128
were shiped from Alaska last season.
The Christian population of the earth
is estimated at 5S2.000.000, of which 43
per cent, is Catholic.
An eminent sciemist has estimated that
the average man's eyelids open and shut
4,000,000, times during the year.
la Govan, Scotland, the health author
ities have traced o wandering diseased
cats recent deaths from diptheria.
A man i:-. Portland. Ore., proposes to
purchase fir logs wh.ch the sawmills of
British Columbia will not us, build
them info enormous raits, and tow them
to San Dicfco, to be there cut into fire
wood. Expir.iihcrts made with kites 'on the
Mediterranean have shown that over a
large surface of water ihe temperature
and the rapidity of air movement de
cline sujdtly 111 proportion to the alti
tude. Representative Longwori'i. who will
marry Misi KcosevcU in February, has
a coi:rcti"iis of violins which includes a
SlradivariusT a Giiillauus, formerly be
longing to Yayc. and uu Amato, oikt
the property of Theodore Thomas.
An elephant hat 1 delicate a sense
cf smell lha; when i-i a wild stale it
ran scent an cruelty at a distance of 1,000
yards.
TIE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC
Captain Van Schaick, master of the
General Slocum, on which 1,000 lives
were lost, has been sentenced lo 10 years
in jail, lie has made an appeal from
ihe decision.
Nelson Morris & Co. and Armour &
Co. deny the giving of bribes to Chicago
newspaper men lo influence reports of
the beef packers' trial in Chicago.
Kcv. H. S. Little, just returned from
the Orient, says the students of the
Chinese universities are fomenting a rev
olution and favor a republic.
Mrs. Susan Day I'arker, accused of
participating in the firing of the yacht
Scythian for the insurance, has been
declared not guilty.
Charles L. Tucker, convicted of the
murder of Mabel f'age, of near Cam
bridge, Mass., has been sentenced to be
electrocuted.
Secretary Loch announces that the gov
ernment may prosecute the wreckers of
the Enterprise National Bank of Pilts
burg. Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's
Weekly, was acquitted of a charge of
criminal libel prelerred bv Justice Joseph
M. Deuel.
In the Grcene-Gav nor trial telegrams
bearing upon the allegation that an at
tempt was made to bribe a Government
inspector were admitted.
The miners of the Southwest at In
dianapohs decided to stand by the de
mand for the admission of the joint
conference.
There arc indications that District At
torney Jerome is preparing to prose
cmc cenani persons involved 111 in
surance irregularities.
Fire 111 the sanitaruin of Miss Anna
L. Alston, in New York, endangered
the nves of a number of patients who
Had recently been operated on.
Constantina Levi and Retro Forac
ika, alleged secretaries of the Baird
(id.) anarchist band, were arrested
near Monongahcla, fa.
Fourteen lives were lost in an ex
plosion 111 the hittcv iile Mine, Indian
lerritory, that was caused bv tire-dami.
The Pennsylvania State Senate or
dered an investigation of the Insurance
Department of that stale.
'ihe Bank of S.in Luis Obispo, Cal.,
closed its doors by order of ttie bank
commissioners.
Charles Winn killed his wife, her
sister and himself in Prov idence, R. 1.
l'nited States District Attorney Morn-
sun denounced the attorneys for the beef
packers ot Chicago as trust lawyers and
uint tneir defense 01 immunity is clap
trap. Mary Mct'all, age 16 years, saved
two Northern Central Railway trains
t'roin a wreck near Harrisburg, Fa., by
signaling that a bowlder had rolled on
the tracks.
James Debuys, for 32 years a member
of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange
and prominent in the social and business
world of that city, died suddenly.
The Mississippi compress, at Jackson,
Miss., with 9,500 bales of cotton, was
destroyed by lire. Loss $,-50,000, with
insurance of $500,000.
Seven St. Louis women have been
stabbed by a "Jack the Cutter."
Remarks by Colonel Mcldrin, of coun
sel for Greene and Gaynor, now on trial
in Savannah, were construed as a re
flection on the court by Judge Specr,
who ordered the attorney to his seat,
and delivered a scathing address from the
bench.
The suit of Morris C. Mengis against
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald for a fee of a
million dollars in connection with the
sale of the Western Maryland Railroad
will come for retrial in Brooklyn in
February.
The wage scale committee of the Uuit
ed Mineworkers Convention has report
ed in favor of a ij'j per cent, increase
in wages, an eight-hour workday and a
working contract for a year.
Mrs. Anna Howard, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., known as the ' baby carriage thief,"
was sentenced to five years at hard labor.
JoKKlUN
Nearly 250 revolutionists in the Baltic
region have been shot, several thousand
are under arrest and 5,000 rides have
been captured. The revolutionists have
burned 200 castles, with an aggregate
value of $4,000,000.
i'rivalc conferences between the French
and German delegate; 10 the Moroccan
conference have developed a plan where
by Italy would be charged with the or
ganization of a seniimihtary police.
A mass-meeting of Servians held to
protest against Austria-Hungary's aelion
in closing the frontier to the importation
of Servian cattle urged a commercial
union w ith Bulgaria.
Twenty-live members of the diplomatic
corps at Caracas haie notified President
Castro that they cannot accept his atti
tude toward M. Taigny, the recent
French charge d'affaires.
The Japanese Legation at Rome will
he raised to an embassy and M. Uchida
will receive the appointment.
Trouble has been renewed in Morroco
between Raisuh, the bandit chief, and
the Anjera tribe-men.
J he Kiis-ian government is abolishing
the sinecure portions in the army and
navy.
Emperor William of Germany cele
brated his forty-seventh birthday.
Meager ne,v. reaches St. Petersburg
of a mutiny among the reservists at
Vladivostok.
Colonel Prosorovski, chief of the gen
darmes of Persia, East Russia, has been
notified by revolutionists that he is to
be assassinated.
Thomas, HigKins, Irish Nationalist,
elected to Parhmcnt Thursday, died of
heart disease F'riday.
The chairman re-pectively of the French
and the German delegations to the Moroc
can conference held a private meeting to
'discuss the situation. It is nrobable
that Switzerland or some oilier small
neutral power will be intrusted with
the organization of the Moroccan police.
Jules Jaluzot, former member of the
French Chamber of Deputies, charg
ed with illegally using funds for spec
ulations in the Paris sugar market,
thereby causing a panic, was sentenced
to one year's imprisonment.
Five foreigners three Frenchmen,
a German and an Austrian have been
convicted of conspiring 10 disturb pub
lic order and expelled from llayti.
The British House of Commons
contains a larger representation of
Jews than ever before. Sir Edward
Grey, the new foreign secretary, has
been returned by a large mr.joriiy.
It is reported that the Panther in
cident has caused the Brazilian gov
ernment 10 ignore ijrnrrin siupyards
in placing contracts for warships 1111
,'er the new plans for the enlargement
of the navy.
In reply to an interpellation Chancel
lor von Buclow informed ,he Prussian
Mouse of Lords that he did not think
special legislation was necessary in deal
ing with the Socialists.
Alexander Barry, a naturalized Ameri
can and a manufacturer of Moscow, says
,0 per cent, ot the Ktissian workmen will
be idle this year and proverty will make
them turn to lawlessness.
SIX HOWL QUESTS
DIE IN FLAMES
Chief 4foui
in Lowell,
Destroyed.
Mass.
Is
SEVERAL BURNED AND INJURED.
The Rlcbardsoa Hotel, One ol Lowell Lead
log Hostelrlei, la Partly Destroyed by
Fire Rapid Sweep of Flamaa Through
tbo Building Cut Oil Those 00 Iba Upper
Floora.
Lowell, Mass. (Special). Several per
son, are thought to have lost their lives
and more than 20 arc injured in a fire
which partially destroyed the Richardson
Hotel, one of the leading public houses
in the city, early Saturday morning.
The fire started a few minutes before
2 o'clock and by the time the firemen
reached the scene the flames had pene
trated to all of the floors and dense smoke
was issuing from the windows, to which
many of the guests in the upper part
of the structure had fled to escape suffo
cation. A second alarm brought assistance to
the firemen within a few minutes, and
dozens of police officers were hurried to
Middlesex Street from the Central Sta
tion. The firemen and police rescued
many guests 20 or more of whom had
been injured, but during the first half
hour that the fire was in progress it was
not known that there had been any fatali
ties. At 2.30 o'clock the firemen reported
that they had seen a half dozen bodies
of women on the fourth floor.
There is some doubt, however, about
the number of fatalities. It is thought
that several more persons lost their lives,
but up to 3 A. M. it has been impossible
to tell the exact number, as the hotel
continued to burn fiercely in places, and
an investigation was out of the question
for the time being.
Few of the guests had time to carry
away any of their clothing, and most
of them left their valuables behind.
In the panic which ensued during the
excitement attending their escape many
people were severely injured and burned.
The most seriously injured were re
moved to St. John's Hospital. Within
half an hour after the fire broke out
more than 20 of those hurt had been re
moved to that institution.
Shortly after 3 o'clock the bodies of
two unknown women were removed from
the burning building. It was then be
lieved that there were more bodies in
the hotel, but the fire was burning so
fiercely that a search was impossible.
The Richardson Hotel is a moderate
sized structure of brick and of four
stories in height, with a flat roof. The
hotel is situated at the corner of Middle
sex and Dutton Streets, directly opposite
the Middlesex Street Station of the Bos
ton and Maine Railroad. The hotel was
usually largely patronized by commer
cial travelers.
CUBANS' 0IFT TO MISS ROOSEVELT.
Senatt Authorizes President Palma lo Ex
peod $25,000.
Havana, (Special) The Senate un
animously passed an appropriation of
$25,000 for the purchase of a wedding
gift for Miss Alice Roosevelt. Just be
fore the conclusion of the session the
secretary of the Senate read a bill which
had been introduced iointlv bv Senator
Mendez Capote, the vice president-elect;
senator av-as, president of the Liberal
party, and Gen. Manuel Sanguily, the
leader of the independent party, direct
ing President Palma to select a wed
ding gift for Miss Roosevelt and appro
priating $25,000 therefor.
Each of the senators introducing the
bill spoke in a similar strain to Senor
Zayas, who said that Cuba owed some
evidence of appreciation to her unfail
ing friend, Theodore Roosevelt, and that
the wedding of his daughter afforded
opportunity to demonstrate Cuba's love
for and appreciation of her illustrious
father. Each speaker pointed out that
all parties had agreed to the propriety
and appropriateness of the making of
such a gift.
Before the vote was taken General Cis-
ncros, who has been called the most
anti-American man in Congress, voiced
his approval of the bill, and moved that
it be passed by acclamation. It was so
passed. Assurances arc given that the
1 louse will take similar action.
Killed Wrong Colonel.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). Colonel
Prosorovski, chief of the gendarmerie
at Pensa, East Russia, has been inform
ed by the local revolutionary organization
that the recent murder of Colonel Lis
sovski, commanding the Seventy-eighth
Infantry Division, by members of the or
ganization, was a blunder. He had been
mistaken for Colonel Prosorovski, and
the organization has notified the latter
that the error will shortly be rectified.
Costly Staircase Unsafe.
St. Paul (Special). Pearl Hall, aged
ii years, who was adopted when a baby
by her grandfather, Anton Myers, here,
has spent the last five years of her life
mainly studying the Bible. The girl did
so on a bread-and-water diet, with an
occasional bit of boiled rice. Since she
was 6 years old her grandfather com
pelled her to read the Bible at. all hours
of the day. The girl would would not
even be allowed 10 go out and play.
Her health has been seriously injured.
The Humane Society interfered in her
behalf and the court placed her in an
other family.
Another Brooks Comet.
York, Pa. (Special) Colister Morton
Craig, an architect, of this city, has been
awarded second prize a silver medal
given by the Architectural League of
New York in a design competition
which was open to all architects, stu
dents, and draftmen under 30 years
of age and residents of the United
States. The winners of the first and
second prizes have been invited to at
tend the annual dinner of the Architect
ural League in New York, when the
medals will be presented.
York Men Wloa a Medal.
Alabany, N. Y (Special).-The As
sembly staircase in New York's $30,
000,000 capitol, which has been under
suspicion for several months, was order
ed closed on the ground that it is un
safe for use. It is believed by those
familiar with the conditions that the sit
uation is exceedingly serious, and that the
best part of the building will be out of
use for two or three years while repairs
are being made. The engineers have in
formed the State Architect that the in
tegrity of the capitol building as a whole
should be investigated.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
" 1 1 1 1 '
Nearly $3,000,000,030.
The foreign commerce of the United
States approached surprisingly near to
the $3,000,000,000 point in the calendar
year, 1905, according to a report issued
by the Bureau of Statistics of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor.
"The total imports and exports of mer
chandise," the report says, "is $2,806,
000,000, against $2,307,000,000 in 1000, an
average increase of $100,000,000 a year
in the five-year period. If to the $2.
806,000,000 of foreign commerce in 1905
were added the figures of trade with
Hawaii and Porto Rico, formerly for
eign territory, and included in our state
ments of foreign trade prior to 1901, ihe
total would approximate $2,900,000,000,
or about $600,000,000 more than five
years ago and $1,200,000,000 more than
10 years ago.
"Another notable characteristic of the
year's foreign trade is the fact that the
exports in the month of December were
practically $200,000,000. the lareest
month's exportation in any year prior
to ucccniDcr 1905, being that of Decern
ber, 1004, when the total was $174,810.
500-
1 he report adds :
"The import record for loos is also
in excess ol that of any preceding year,
Demg tor the 12 months ended with De
cember $1,179.840, against $1,03?,
009,190 111 J904. The growth of imports,
while not rapid, lias been steady and con
tinues to be so. kecnine pace, annroxi-
mately, with the growth of population.
"The commerce with the noncoiitigu
ous territory of the United States also
makes a new high record for lOOs. and
win amount to about 5110.000.000 in
value, against a little ess than $100,000,
000 last year."
Year to Complete Bridge.
The Senate Committee on Commerce,
through Mr. Frye, of Maine, submitted
report to the venate in favor of the
passage of the joint resolution providing
lor an extension of one year m the time
in which the highway bridee and ap
proaches across the Potomac River at
W aslungton is to be comnlcted.
ay a joint resolution approved Feb
ruary 18, 190?. the time for comnletina
the construction of this bridge and its
approaches was extended to February 12
1900. While the work on the bridce
proper will be completed by that date
and the opening of the bridge and ap
proaches need not be delayed, it is esti
mated by Secretary Taft and the Chief
of Army Engineers that it will require
the entire working year of 1906 to fin
ish all the work on tiic approaches, the
most important work being the construc
tion of a steel, and concrete bridge over
the. Washington channel in the Wash
ington approach.
$1,000,000 Philippine Boods.
The PhilipLine government has author
ized the Bureau to Insular Affairs of the
War Department to sell $1,000,000 gold
public improvement bonds of the Philip
pine Islands, under authority granted
rjy tne act ot umgress approved Febru
ary 6. 1905.
These bonds are redeemable at the
pleasure of the Philippine fiovernment
after 10 years, and will be payable in 30
years alter date. Principal and inter
est at 4 per cent, are payable at the
Treasury of the United States. The
bids must be received in the Bureau of
Insular Affairs of the War Department
not later than 3 o'clock in the afternoon
ot February 15.
Wider Market For Cotton.
The Senate Committee on Commerce
heard arguments by a number of reore
sentatives of the cotton growing and
manufacturing industries in support of
Senator Lee S. Overman's bill providing
for the appointment of a commission for
the extension of American markets in
the Uncnt.
Among those who presented their
views were Senator Overman, of North
Carolina; former Senator A. J. Mcl.au
rin, of South Carolina; Editor William
Whittam, Jr., of the American Cotton
Record, and Dr. J. F. Crowell, statisti
cian, ot this city.
Col. Isaac Henry Wing, a wealthy
retired lumberman ot isconsm, ha
given $50,00 to endow a college of
matnematics at iiowdoin.
The House passed the Urgent De
ficiency Bill with a provision that the
eight-hour law shall not apply to the
istnmus ot I'anama.
Secreary raft defended before the
Senate committee his fiscal agreement
witn tne ranama government.
The Isthmian Canal Commission sub
mitted its report to Secretary Taft re
commending a lock canal.
Imposing ceremonies are to attend the
unveiling of the McClcllan nianument in
Washington, October 18.
The members of the Imperial Chinese
Commission were entertained at lunch
eon by Secretary Root.
Democrates in the House filibustered
in vain against the adoption of a rule
which will have the effect of suspending
the Eight-Hour labor law in the Panama
Canal Zone.
Members of the House are workina
for an omnious public building bill to
carry an appropriation ot about $12,
000,000. Chairman Theodore P. Shouts, of the
Panama Canal Commision, acknow
edged that he draws $12,000 a year salar
from the "Clover Leaf" Railroad.
President Roosevelt makes public tin
caarge of Government Attorney Mor
rison that a Beef Trust attorney ha:
been offering bribes to influence publi.
opinion in Chicago.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt issuci
invitations to the marriage of theii
daughter to Congressman Longworth
Secretary Taft explained to the House
Committee on Insular Affairs a pend
ing bill for the purchase of coal lands
to enable the United States to mine fue
for its own use in the Far East.
The Philippine Commision lias de
cided to sell $i,oooxx of the 4 per cenl.
bonds. The Commision has acceptec
the bid of the White syndicate to buih
railroads in the sugar distrhts.
The House of Representatives b
a vote of 194 to 150, passed the bill pro
viding for the admission of Oklahoni;
and Indian Territory and Arizona an
New Mexico as two states.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparo
has presented to the House Committe
on Naval Affairs a bill giving the Sec
retary power to summarily dismiss an
cadet guilty of hazing.
Members of the American Car.
Growers' Association testified before th
Senate Committee m opposition to th
lhilippine Tariff Bill.
Arrangements are being made fn
the dedication of the monuments mark
ing historic battle grounds in Cuba.
Governor Wright, of the Philippine
told the I ferine aommittea what is If
ing done with the rccendy acquired f r i
lands.
GALLANT OLD
. S0LDlTi DEAD
General Jce Wheeler Succombs to Pneu
monia in N:w York.
WAS A HERO OF TWO WSV.
Mis Brilliant Career aa Cavalry Commander
In the Coafederata Array and His Valuable
Services aa One of the Principal Comman
ders of Iba American, Army la tba Spanish
American Campaign.
New York (Special). Gen. Joseph
Wheeler, the famous Confederal caval
ry leader and a brigadier general of the
United States Army since the war with
Spain, died at 5.35 o'clock Thursday
afternoon at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Sterling Smith, in Brooklyn. The
veteran of two wars was 69 years old,
but in spite of his age, there was hope
until I hursday, of his recovery from
the attact of pneumonia which caused
his death.
General Wheeler was taken ill six
days ago at his sister's home, where he
has been living recently. He contracted
a severe cold, which developed into
pleurisy and pneumonia. F'rom the first
his age told against him, but the fami
ly did not give up hope until Wednesday
night, when the disease was found to
have affected both lungs. General
Wheeler's immediate relatives were all
with him. His daughters. Mrs. W. J.
Harris and the Mises Anne, Lucille
and Carrie Wheeler, had been sum
moned from the South and arrived ear
ly in the week. His son, Major Joseph
Wheeler, Jr., now stationed at West
Point, was also present," as well as Gen
eral Whcjler's sister, Mrs. Sterling
Smith, and her son.
The family was summoned to the bed
side of the patient at midnight, when
the doctors in consultation concluded
that the end was but a matter of hours.
The General was then awake and con
scious, and his mind was apparently
active. He seemed to know that death
was approaching, and, though too weak
to speak, he succeeded in giving signs
of recognition and encouragement to his
children. 1
Later the General sank into a peace
ful slumber, and, at the request of the
doctors, tlc family quietly withdrew
from the sick man's bedside. Gener
al Wheeler was never again more than
semiconscious. He lingered until even
ing, and passed away quietly.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler ranked high
among the brilliant cavalry leaders de
veloped by the Civil War. When he
surrendered as a lieutenant general in
the service of the Confederacy -he was
only 29 years old, yet he was senior
cavalry officer in the Confederate Army.
Trirty three years later, as a major
general of Volunteers, U. S. A., he was
leading American cavalry against the
Spaniards in Cuba. For accepting a
commission from President McKinley he
was severely criticised by Southerners of
the "unreconstructed" type. In the Ala
bama Constitutional Convention of8i90i
an effort was made to deny him the cour
tesies of the floor. He was snubbed by
the presiding officer qf a convention of
Confederate veterans at Charleston, S.
C, in 1899. The same thing happened
at a Confederate reunion at New Orleans
in 190.3. Southern newspapers comment
ed unfavorably on his accepting comrade
ship with men who had fought against
the South. It is very probable, however,
that General Wheeler's reputation was
enhanced among oouthcrnern people gen
erally, just as his popularity was increas
ed among Northerners, by his patriotic
action at the outset of the Spanish-Amer
ican War. In his last service he showed
the same dash, the same capacity for
sudden, brilliant movement that worried
federal generals in the Civil War.
OIFTS FOR MISS ROOSEVELT.
Maganlllcent Silver and Jewelry Being Made
In New York.
New York (Special). Rare jewels in
unique designs, which friends of Miss
Alice Roosevelt have selected for her
wedding gifts, are bing set by skilled
workmen at Tiffany's Forest Hill plant.
The largest presents are a maenilicent
silver service, one of the most beautiful
ever made by Tiffany, which has been
ordered by the. Rough Riders' Associa
tion, and a Krag-Jorgensen rifle, fash
ioned of 22-karat gold, an exact full
size working model, to be presented to
her by the officers of the United Stales
Army.
Among the other jewels are a Dearl
collar of 10 strands, the largest ever
made by the company, and worth $31,000.
r diamond tiara, containing Wo stones.
is said to be another, and there are two
diamond collars and two bowknots of
dimonds.
Two diamond lockets arc believed to
have been ordered by Secretary of War
William H. Taft. Miss Carow, sister
of Mrs. Roosevelt, is having jewelry
made, as is also Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
sister of the President. Most of the
gifts have been ordered by well-known
persons living in New York, Washington
and Cleveland,
Hid $200,030 Worth of Oold.
Albuquerque, N. M., (Special). In
dismantling the old Albermarlc mill, in
the Jeme Mountains, north of this city,
Morris Brothers, contractors, discover,!
hidden under the foundations a big, solid
gold brick, supposed to be worth about
$200,000. It is supposed to have been
stolen and hidden there by some former
employe of the mill, when the latter was
in operation 10 years ago. The contrac-
ors have been taking out the machinery
o ship to the United Verde Mine, in
rizona.
Pistol Duel Fatal
Montgomery, Ala. (Special). A spec-
al to the Advertiser from Florida, Ala.,
ays: "Grady Miller, the 16-ycar-old son
if Dr. S. L. Miller, was shot and killed
y the negro porter ot the Lake View
lotel. There were no eye-witnesses to
he shooting, but the pistol shots were
leard. A search was made, and near
y was found the negro, in a dying con
liiion. He lived long enough to say that
c ana Miner nau engaged in a pislol
Itiel. There is no way to ascertain the
tiuse of the tragedy.
Filipinos Alarmed.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
ollowing cable message has been receiv-
(1 by the Secretary of War from Gover
or General Ide at Manila: "Natives
inch disturbed by cable slating Am
issador Wright has been authorized to
cBotiate sale of island to Japan. Au-
hentic denial from you might be useful.''
ccretary uu replied 10 me came mes
ii7 follows : "The cablo tntrmni
uforivff to ill vmir cable tnrtcacr ha. nnt
he sUtfk.t vestige of truth. It is nol
:ily uanrua, dim aDsuroeaiy so.
ALIGNMENT OF THE POWERS.
The Morocco Conference Seems Doomed
to Fail.
Algcciras (By Cable). The. confiden
tial exchanges now going on among the
representatives of the powers in the Mo
roccan conference disclose the extremi
difficulty of arranging an agreement thai
both France and Germany would accept
The German delegates put forward
the attractive principle of disinterested
ness and the equal privilege for all coun
tries. The French delegates, on th
other hand, maintain that France cannot
be disinterested. They affirm that, hav
ing followed an active policy in Morocco
for eight years mid having obtained num
erous advantages, France should not
now be asked to lake the same posi
tion as all the rest of the world.
F'rancc virtually cnnimriates in a mod
ified form the principle of the Monroe
Doctrine in Northwest Africa. She has
acquired and holds a position toward Mo
rocco that, according to her v iew, makes
rqtial political influence with other pow
ers impossible. On life question of eco
nomic equality she says "yes," but on
that of political equality she answers
"no."
Germany insists on political equality
with even more lenacily than she docs
on the question of economic equality.
The real struggle, however, is over
the political future of Morocco. -France
would rather withdraw from the confer
ence than lie up the political destiny of
.Morocco by international control.
While this is not an authoritative offi
cial utterance, it unmistakably represents
the feeling of the French delegation.
F'rancc refuses fo be excluded from what
she holds to he the legitimate expansion
of her influence in Northern Africa.
The F'rcnch delegates appear 10 realize
that the current of the conference is
against them because neutral powers,
such as the l'nited States, lean toward
the idea of disinterested equality lather
than toward I" ranee's special geographi
cal and historic paramouutcy.
France therefore may strive for a neg
ative result, so far as political questions
go, accepting fully a commercial equal
ity and joining in the eliort to reach just
economic conclusions but resisting sug
gestion;; or the iuternatio;v;!uaiion of
any of the publi. services of Morocco.
Germany will press for the internatioif
alization of Ihe police. It should be un
derstood that this question of police does
not refer to the ordinary force for the
maintenance of local order, but, in tin
larger sense, .to the .-.cini-military body
which is lo exercise a powerful genera!
control.
F'rance still counts upon Great Britai;-,
Russia, Spain and Portugal, but her ear
liest hopes that the United States would
be with her are beginning to diminish.
Germany believes that her view as to
international control has been accepted
in principle by the United States, Aus
tria and Sweden.
Belgium is noncommital through fear
that either France or Germany will raise
the Congo question into an international
issue after the conference if cither should
consider itself offended.
The foregoing tendencies arc the out
growth of constant private meetings of
the delegates. The British villa is one
of the centers for these meetings and
the French and American delegates are
frequent visitors there. The American
delegates have aKo conferred with the
Germans and the French.
The conference accepted all the articles
of the report of the committee on con
traband relating fo Ihe prevention of the
trade in contrahr.ind arms and passed
to the consideration of economic ques
tions. TROUBLE IN ISLAND OP PINES.
Amer cans Back Up J. M. Steere lo Resisting
Ihe Order ol Ihe Court
Ilavanna (Special). It is reported
from Nucva Gerona, Isle of Pines, that
trouble is expected on account of the
refusal of James M. Stcerc, the so-called
territorial secretary, to comply with the
order mf the court. Steere is the cus
todian of a warehouse in which the conn
has stored certain chatties involved in
pending litigation. Steere refused lo de
liver these until the storage charges had
been paid. He was arrested for defying
the order of court, but was allowed
his liberty until Monday last, when he
was called into court and instructed to
appear each Monday, as well as to fur
nish bail.
Steere refused to comply with the or
der to furnish bail, and, according to the
last adivces, was given a day more in
which to do so. Letters from Nueva
Gerona assert that Americans in the is
land are backing Steere.
Gen, Freyrc Andradc, the secretary of
the interior, and l.eneral Nunez, gover
nor of Havana province, said 'that the
number of rural guards and police in the
vicinity of Nueva Gerona was amolv
sufficient to put Steere in jail, notwith
standing any assistance he might be able
to muster.
Cleveland Won't Resign.
New York (Special). The Times has
the following from Princeton, N. J. :
"F'x-President Cleveland was asked at
his residence about a report that he is
thinking of giving up his post as arbiter
of rebates for the insurance companies.
Mr. Cleveland dictated this statement:
'There is not a particle of truth in the
report nor any excuse for its circula
tion.' "
Owner aod Cuesta Die la Mine.
Owensboro, Ky. (Special) The Belle,
wood Mines, near here, caved in instant
ly killing William Burnett, the proprie
tor, and Edward Pierce and Herbert
Waldon, his guests, who were inspecting
the mines. There were 110 miners in the
mine at the time of the cavein.
Mystery al Slraager'a Dealb. '
Huntington, W. Va., (Special). A
neartly dressed man was found dead
in rt alley in the rear of the Bennet
block, in the heart of the city, here, at
5 o'clock. Bruises and cuts about his
throat indicate foul play, and the officials
are investigating. There is not a paper
about the man's person that may lead
to his identification save a tclegrafn
which indicates that he was E. E. Tur
ner, of Newark, O. The telegram was
sent from Newark to E. E. Turner,
"Bcis."
$75,000 Worlb ol Collon Destroyed
Jackson, Miss. ( Special). The Mis
sissippi compress, with 9,500 bales f
cotton, was destroyed by fire, cntailin;;
a loss of $750,000, with insurance cover
ing about two-thirds of that sum, The
origin of the fire ,is not known, but
when it was discovered by the com
press employes it had gained great head
way and when the fire department ar
rived it was beyond control. The firemen
directed their efforts to saving the sur
rounding properly, which they succeeded
in doing. The compress plant was worth
$I0.000.
I
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Tba Latast Pennsylvania Ncwa Told la Short
Order.
"Good -by, L'.'.ie, I'm going to he'!,"
said 11. G. Gibson, a business man of
Monongahela, to his daughter, as they
were crossing a bridge over the Monon
gahela River. Gibson ihen leaped over
the bridge rail into the river and was
drowned. Domestic difficulties promp
.ed the deed. On the mantel in his din
ing room was found this letter to his
wife: "Good bye, Nell. You have ruiti
;d your family and sent mc to hell. I
see your finish. Will sec you later."
Lananaco Gungherno, an Italian, i
rears old, of Mount Joy, in a tit of pas
sion struck, with a pick and probably
fatally ' injured his fellow-countryman,
iniseppe Norlorana. .,.1 years old. The
iffair happened while the two men were
preparing breakfast in their shanty cast
A town, and was the result of a dispute
over placing a coffee pot on the stove.
Because their working hours were cut
from fen to nine hours, .sixteen laborers
t-uiploycd on flic Reading Railway near"
Lansdale, went on 'trike, and marching
Jown l!ic railroad as far as Ambler, in
imidatcd and compelled a number of
vidow living nt Plum Run, seven miles
j lorlh of Hancock. Washington County.
louse and contents were destroyed, nnd
Mrs. Carhiugh's daughter, Miss Mary
1'rabaugh, was perhaps fatally burned,
ihe was carrying a lighted lamp, which
txploded, scattering burning oil over her.
Jthcr workmen 10 trikc with them.
At the Lyttlc colliery there was an cx
ilosion of mine gns, in which three
uiners were badly burned. They are John
orinsky. August Lugan and Jacob Or
ufsky, all of Minersvillc. They were
ranght by a body of gas, which cman
led from a "pocket" opencp by a blast.
The men threw themselves upon the
'round and escaped death.
Annie Komensky, of Scranton, a small"
Polish girl of 12, went into frenzied
Inance on her own account in conncc
jon with the commissary department cs
ablished by the operatives of the Klots
silk mill. She look .1 contract to buy
aoonday dinners for twelve of her com
panions from a woman of her acquaint
ance, in the vicinity of the mill. She
tollected 25 cents apiece from each girl
ind was supp lsed to pay for the meals
.vith the money, but instead of this re
.ained $2 or more a (lay until the amount
Wed was $40. Little Annie was con
fronted with her up-to-date methods
Thursday. On promising to work and
li'.y back every cent, she was not prose
cuted. While watching patiently at the bed-,
.ide of her sick husband Mrs. lleury
Weaver, of New Tripoli, fell asleep anil
died. The husband wishing some atten
ion, called 10 his wife, and not being
hie lo awaken her, summoned his sons.
When they entered the room they were
horrified to find their mother dead.
Because Mrs. l'annie Light, of Pitts
burg, is an Anarchist and believes in
Ihe doctrine of "free love," Owen S.
Cecil, the master in divorce proceedings,
recommends that Harry Light be grant
ed a divorce from her. As it appears to
the master, the husband is .1 man very
submissive, quite and unassertive of his
right. His wife is the stronger of the
two, and is extravagant in her demands.
She professes anarchistic principles, he
says, attends meetings of Anarchists and
believes in "free love." Though not
drunken nor profligate, she lorded it
over her husband, says the report, con
tinually quarreled with him, threatened
to take his life and did actually
inflict bodily punishment upon him
by striking and scratching him and
tearing his clothes. In the testi
mony Light told an almost incredible
story of being abused by his wife. Re
latives and neighbors corroborated his
statements Once the pair fought all
night because Light said he needed a
shave and his wife contradicted him.
As the drill penetrated to an oil pro
ducing sand, showing that his farm is
worth a fortune, Mack Day, a farmer of
Video, Greene County, dropped dead.
The excitement incident to the discovery
of his pood fortune produced heart
trouble which killed him.
Thirty of the best Jewish families of
ork have organized with Lee Rcinc
berg as president, Max Grumbacher
treasurer "and Martin Lehmaver as sec
retary. They will erect at $15,000 church
edifice with the next few months.
The Spring inspection of Company I,
Sixth Regiment, N. P. G., was held in
their armory. The inspection was a hard
one and the command made a creditable
showing.
The New 1 lope-Perkasic1 Trolley Com
pany, which propose to build a line from
New Hope to Perkasic, via Doylestown,
connecting with the Willow Grove branch
of the Rapid Transit Company's line, was
granted a franchise by Norristown Coun
cil to lay its tracks on the borough
streets. The company expects to start
lo work this Spring.
Altoona merchants have joined the
movement against the $10 excess charge
for mileage books. At the meeting of
the Merchants' Association the question
was discussed and it was unanimously
agreed that the extra charge was nothing
more than a banking business by the
Pennsylvania.
Fire at Garland for a time threatened
the town with destruction. A bucket
brigade saved the village. It started in
the hotel and spread to a number of
dwellings. Loss, $5000; partly insured.
Frank Caum, General Manager of the
Hartford Consolidated Street Railway
Company, has been appointed manager of
the Scranton Railway Company, recent
ly acquired by the American Railway
Company, of Philadelphia.
The Socialists of Wilkcs-Barre nomi
nated the following candidates for city
offices: Treasurer, Harry Rafter; City
Assessor, Cms Adlcr; School Directors,
J. G. Roth and Andrew Dulgosh.
Under the will of Mrs. Annie Hart
myer, probated in Lancaster, $500 is be
queathed to Si. Joseph's Hospital, of that
city. Under the will of Mrs. Rachael
McSparran $100 is bequeathed to the
Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church,
Lancaster.
At the nineteenth annual convention
of the Lancaster County School Di
rectors Institute, held at Millersville,
these officers were elected : President,
J. ,C. ij.vlin. Paradise Township; vice
president ; W. P. Briton, East Drumore.and
Ainos Ziebler, East Druegal; secretary
If. F McCloud, Manheim; treasure
Alfred Wood, Fulton Township.
Two passenger trains' on the Northern
Central Railway were saved from being
wrecked by Mary McCall, 16 years old,
ihe daughter of a track walker living at
Clark's Ferry. The girl saw a boulder
roll down from the mountain side over
the tracks near- her home. Taking a
lantern she ran down the track and stop
ped the Erie express within a few yards
of the obstruction. - She then hurried
up the tracks in the other direction and
stopped the Erie flyer. The tracks were
cleared of the mass of rock by a wreck
ing crew several hours later. !