STUDENTS PERISH
IN COLLEGE BLAZE
Three Dead io Rains and Nine S:ri
ouslv Injured.
LEAP FROM THE UPPER WINDOWS.
Kenon Acodem) Found Ablaze il 4 o'Clock
la Ibf Moro og Wb.lt 85 Cadets Sl.pl lo Ibe
Dormitories Many Jump Prom the Fourth
Sory, While Thrtt Art Cut Oil by
FIlOKi.
Gambler, Ohio (Special) Tiiree boys
are dead, nine severely injured and sev
eral others more or less hurt as a re
sult of a fire which destroyed Mihier
Hall, Kenyon Mlitary Academy. Del
ano aiid North Halls and North An
nex. The fire started nt 4 A. M.. while the
Students and college i.uthorttics were
sleep, and spread quickly through the
buildings nani'd. which were consumed.
The search for the missing hoys, the
bodies of whom it ! certain are in the
ruins, was kept up till !a:c in the after
noon, when the walls of the bunted
Structure? fell and their recovery is
now regarded as impossible for some
time. The search was impeded by
the fact tha- the ruins were still red
hot and made passage through them
nearly impossible.
The falling wails barely mi-scd Dr.
Peirce. p-eident of Kenyon, and Regents
"Wiant and William... who were lead
ing a party of searchers through the
ruins. The dead and injured are all
Students of the Military Academy and
old Kenyon.
Parents, sisters and brothers of the
dead and injured students arrive on
every train. The news of the fire spread
quickly oxer the State and telegrams
were sent at ottcc by the college -authorities
to parents of the boys injured.
The property loss by the destruction
of the buildings is estimated at Si 00,000.
with oy per cent, in? trance.
Eighty-live boys were in the dormi
tory when the live started. An elfort
was made to effect a military formation,
but the younger students forgot their
military training and rushed about the
burning building in a panic, shrieking
and crying for help.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
This is the second time the Kenyon
Academy buildings hae been destroyed
by fire.
The recent sensational hazing case, as
a result of which it was alleged that a
Student from Cincinnati lost his life, took
place at Kenyon College, a separate in
stitution from the military academy
which was destroyed.
0I Meteorite li Sold.
Port'and, Ore. 1 Special 1. The fam
ous Willamette Meteorite has been sold
to a Xew York scientist, who will pre
sent it to the American Museum of Na
tural History, in New York. The price
paid was $20,600. which is said to be the
highest price ever given for a meteorite.
The huge mass of ore is one of the bet
specimens of meteorite ever discovered,
weighing about 15 tons. It was found
near the banks of the Tualatin River, in
Clackamas Co-.tnty, Oregon. After its
discovery it was the object of much lit
igation between tho'e who claimed to
have found it.
Oapoo's Asslalant Caught.
Saratoff, Russia (By Cable). M.v.us
hensky, the absconding assistant of Fath
er Capon, vva: arrested here. He was
traced by a committee of St. Petersburg
workmen, but refused to deliver up the
$12,000 belonging to the funds oi the
workmen's organization which he is al
leged to have embezzled. Matushensky
Will be taken to St. Petersburg fr.r triii
The proceedings against the prisoner are '
expected to be enational on account of
his connection with Primier Wittc, for
mer Commerce Minister TimirazefT and
other persons prominent in the case.
Ts Compel Reitltutlon.
llarrisbtirg, Pa. ( Special). Attorney
General Canon filed with Governor Pen
nypacker an opinion on the finding of the
legislative insurance investigating com
mittee. In it he declares his belief that j
the fees of the actuary belong to the j
State, and recommends that bills in i
equity be filed against former Insurance!
Commissioners Luper. Lamber and Dur- i
ham and acainst I. Clayton l'rti a..
tuary, for an accounting and settlement.
Readlneta 11 Manila.
Manila, (By Cable). Active prepara
tions continue here for a possible emer
gency in China. Maj-Gcn. Leonard
Wood has postponed his contemplated
trip to Mindanao. A list 1ms hem cir
culated among the packers and teams
ters of this nty requesting the names of
those who are witling to enlist for service
in China. The nrccary outfits will be
issued to then,
Receive $2,030 Piosom.
El Paso, Tex.. ( Special ). The ban
dits who kidnapped Col. Robert Hauni
gan, the Deining (X. ranchman,
from a stage near Silver City, N. M.,
are alleged to have collected $2,000 ran
som money to date. $1,000 from the Col
onel and $1,000 from his son, vet they
still hold him. Officers fear to attack
them in their retreat in Mogolion Moun
tain lest they kill the prisoner.
Ncr Shops For A. C L.
Wilmington, N. C., (Special).!: is
announced from Atlantic Coast Line
headquarters that the contract for the
shops to be built at Wtiyrrn-s, Ga., has
been awarded. Seventeen firm submit
, ted bids. The contract is given to the
Pennsylvania Uridine Company, of Beav
er Palls, Pa. It is stipulated that the
work must be completed by January 1,
!r". The shops will cost not less than
$400,000.
Clergyman Scot lo Priioo.
Philadelphia ( Special . At the con
clusion of the coroner's inquest into the
death of Grace Hates, 3 years old, Daniel
R'it s, the chibl's father, and Key. Ant
brose Clark, assistant pastor of Faith
Tabernacle, were committed without bail
(or trial. The father is charged with
criminal neglect and the clergyman i.
held as an accessory. The defendants an
members of the Church of Christ and
both testified that they tried to accom
plish the recovery of t lie girl through
prayer, and that medical attention was
not provided for the ihild, who died of
typhoid fever.
DOMESTIC
To correct report that the date for
the coming reunion of United Confeder
ate Veterans in New Orleans had been
changed from April to May, Gen. Steph
en D. Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the
veterans, has issued an order to the
effect that the dates first named, April
25, 2( and 27, will stand for the annual
gathering.
Treasurer R. J, llynicka, of Hamil
ton County, Cincinnati, testified before
the Ohio State Senate Investigating
Commission that he has received about
$20,000 iti gratuities from various bank?
for the deposit of public funds.
A contract was awarded the Pennsyl
vania Bridge Company for the erection
of -hops for the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad at Waycross, Ga.
The National Hoot and Shoe Man
ufacturers' As-ociation took important
action concerning matters affecting the
trade.
Returning to her burning apartments
to get money left behind, Mrs. John
llanley, of Chicago, met her death.
Louisiana has adojited quarantine reg
ulations against Cuba and Central Amer
ica, effective March 15.
Profe-sor Montgomery, aeronaut, near
ly lost his life in a flight on his aero
plane in California.
Eighteen girls were injured during a
panic, in which 75 fell with a platform
while rehearsing their part in a human
flag in the Hanover (Pa.) Opera
House.
The new hall of McKee-por: Lodge,
B. P. O. K.. erected at McKccsport, Pa.,
at a cost of $125,000 was dedicated by
the grand officers.
Major A. G. Hammond, of the Third
U. S. Cavalry, died at the General Hos
pital a: the Presidio.
Prof. Nott W. Flinch, teacher of Eng
lish in the University of Chicago, died
of tumor 011 the brain.
Mrs. Cora Carpenter was arrested at
Tiffin, O.. accused ot w recking a Penn
sylvania freight train.
George Small, colored, has confessed
that he and not Rufus Johnson, colored,
murdered Miss Allinson in Moorcstovvn,
N. J., compelling Governor Stokes to re
prieve Johnson until the new confession
can be investicated.
Hearsay evidence was given in the
Patrick case that Yalct Jones, the prin
cipal witness against the condemmed
lawyer, bad given false testimony at the
trial to save himself from suspicion.
Professor Stillman, of the Stevens In
stitute of Technology, gave a full course
dinner at the Hotel Astor in which dish
es of chemicals and acids -were substi
tuted for natural food.
Alfred M. Bard, a nephew of Senator
Bard, of California, has mysteriouly dis
appeared from Brussels, where be was a
musical student, and it is believed that
he was murdered.
Gen. Charles IL Grosvenor was de
feated for renomination after a service
of jo years in Congress as representa
tive from the Eleventh Ohio district.
A throng that over taxed the church
attended the funeral of John A. McCall,
in New York.
Samuel Thomas, a pioneer pig iron
manufacturer, died in Allentown, Pa.
A resolution was introduced in the
Iow a State Senate demanding that Gov
ernor Cummins be compelled to prove
his statement that the Iowa railroads
were using money to defeat the primary
bill.
James Preen, the owner of a small
traveling show, cut his wife's throat at
Mantau. O., and then slashed his own
neck. The woman is dead, but Dreen
will recover.
Engineer Willard and Brakeman Shc
ahan were killed and Fireman Rogers
was injured in a head-on collision of two
Iowa Central freights near Eldora, la.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles accepted an in
vitation to be the orator at the annual
commencement of the Nebraska State
University on Thursday, June 14, next.
Depositors made a run on the Jack
son Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago,
believing it was involved by the failure
of the Bank of America.
Governor Jeiks appointed Samuel D.
Weakley, of Birmingham, chief justice
of the Supreme Court cf Alabama, vice
Thomas X. McCleilan, dead.
Travelers returning from China report
that plans are being considered for the
erection of a big jail in Shanghai for
fi 'reigners.
The will of Mrs. Jennie T. Cha-e,
of Swampseott, Mass., who committed
suicide, was set aside by the court.
President Compers says the Federation
of Labor will support the miners in
whatever stand they take.
FOREIGN
An amendment to the King's address,
exprcss:ng regret that the reputation of
the country had been brought into con
tempt by describing the employment of
Chinc.-e in South Africa as slavery, was
(let'.ated in the Bri:i-h House by 410 to
01 votes.
Reports of Premier Witte's resigna
tion arc discredited at St. Petersburg.
Wiue and Father Capon are charged
with a corrupt understanding to buy off
tile Russian labor leader.
vv 11 isug-iang, lormer 1 ,nnee num.
U:r to the United States, speaks in favor
of the boycott as retaliation against what
he considers unjust discrimination.
Ambassador White, of the American
delegation to the Moroccan conference,
says a strong spirit of conciliation is ap
parent. The French authorities drove people
out of churches who objected to the inven
tories by playing hot water on them.
The. rebellion in Turkish Arabia is
spreading add Turkish troops refuse to
go to the scene unless paid wages in ar
riars. A statue in honor of Alfred dc Mus
sel, the celebrated French poet, was un
veiled in Paris.
The French Chamber of Deputies pis--cd
a bill providing for workingmeti'-pen-ions.
Ambassador Keid tonne: iy opened the
-econd section of the sixth annual ex
hibition of the International Society of
Sculptors, Painters ami Gravers in Lon
don and paid a tribute to Whistler.
The Moroccan gunboat Sidi El Turki
resumed the bombardment of the French
filibustering parties at various points
aloiv, the Moroccan coast.
Chancellor von Buelow opened the dc
batc'in the Kichstag on the governments
proposal to extend reciprocal tariff rates
10 the United States.
A force of religious fanatics in British
West Africa destroyed a French post
l iar the frontier and killed 'five French
ofiicers.
Prince Strorgnli, who wan to have
bctn married in a few hours to a
daughter of the Puke of Corigliano
committed suicide at Naples.
In honor of Washington's Birthday
American sailors snd marines went
ashore at Gibnilter and fraternircd with
the British.
BLUEBEARD HOCH
HANGED IN A HURRY
Rush io Execution Before the Time
Limit Expired
DROP FALLS WHILE HE TALKS.
8lgamlsi't Lawyers Appealed (or Slay ol
Execution Shortly Bclort Hour Set
lor Oestb, Delaylof Haiflng Until
Judfe Decided He Could Not In
terfere. Chicago ( Special). After one of the
most remarkable contests to save a man
from the gallows ever waged in the
courts of this State, Jobann Hoch was
hanged at 1. 34 o'clock Friday afternoon
for the murder of his wife, Marie Wclc-keker-Hoch.
He died protesting his in
nocence. Hoch was believed to have had numer
ous wives, the names of 10 of whom the
police claim to know. His conviction
and execution came about as the result
of having administered arsenic to the
woman he married in Chicago, and who
upon her death was succeeded in Hoch's
affections by her sister. It was the sis
ter who told the police when Hoch de
serted her, and her statement led to his
arrest.
Of all the legal battles that have been
w aged since Hoch's first conviction, that
at the verge of his grave was the most
stubbornly contested, because only a few
moments remained in which the attor
neys hoped to snatch him from death.
The execution was to have occurred in
the morning, but it was postponed until
the afternoon, and the final blow was ac
tually suspended in order that Hoch's
lawyers might appear in court and argue
for a stay.
Briefly, the points raised in Hoch's
petition to the Federal Court were:
That the judgment of the State court
was void because given by a court not
of competent jurisdiction.
That the sentence was in violation of
the Fourteenth Amendment in that Emi-
lic Fischer-Hocb, wife of the defendant,
testified.
That Hoch was compelled to and did
give evidence against himself.
That he was arrested in New York
and extradited on a charge of bigamy
and was forthwith charged with murder.
Judge Landis denied the writ, saying:
"The proper remedy for counsel was
a writ of error from a decision from
the Slate Supreme Court to the United
States Supreme Court. The counsel
failed to take advantage of that move.
The writ is fatally defective and can't
be made good."
Preparations for the hanging were im
mediately begun following Judge Landis'
refusal of a writ of habeas corpns-, but
Hoch's attorneys strenuously continued
efforts to secure further delay. While
the death march was starting in the
jail, the attorneys were just leaving the
Federal building to get Hoch's signa
ture to an appeal bond.
After Judge Landis had apparently
closed the case, Hoch's attorneys hastily
prepared an appeal bond and again ad
vanced to the court and renewed the de
mand for an appeal.
"Under the circumstances, I don't
think you have any right to appeal,"
said the Court.
"Any citizen has the right to appeal,"
said Attorney Edward Maher.
"In view of the fact that this matter
was delayed until within an hourt of the
execution, I don't think so," replied the
Court.
There was a hasty conference of jail
officials, and then Assistant Sheriff Pet
ers consulted by telephone with Federal
Judge Landis.
Judge Landis said:
"I have refused to do anything in the
Hoch matter. You need not delay the
execution on my account."
Hoch slept well all night, and when
he awoke in the morning was apparently
in a jovial mood. He turned to Guard
James Cummings, who was in the room
with him, and wished him "Good morn
ing." Cummings immediately summoned
Night Jailer O'Neil, wdio came at once
to the room and greeted Hoch:
"Good morning, John. How are you
this morning?"
"I feel fine," replied Hoch. "I had a
good night, and was not disturbed. I'm
feeling fine."
Hoch then gave orders for break
fast, and while awaiting its arrival he
was given several papers to read.
"Look here, O'Neil," he called. ' Sec
what one of the papers says about me."
lie then read to O'Neill an article
which said that he had given up all
hope and was in a state of collapse.
"That thing says that I have lost
hope." remarked Hoch. "But I haven't.
I will keep my nerve to the last."
A shorn time before the hour set for
the execution a petition was filed in the
United States Circuit Court by Hoch's
attorneys asking Federal intervention
to save Hoch. The petition said that
the State authorities were endeavoring
lo execute Hoch in violation of the Four
teenth Amendment of the Constitution
and without due process of law.
After filing the petition the attorneys
left the Federal Building immediately,
intending, it was said, to go to the
Criminal Court to try to get a stay of
execution pending action by the United
States courts.
As a result of the legal complication
Jailer Whitman announced that the ex
ecution would be delayed until applica
tion for a writ of habeas corpus could
be passed upon by some judge in the
Federal Court.
Rooster Attacked Child.
Bristol, Va. (Special). The eighteen-inonths-old
child of Mr. and Mrs. Stan
ford Jordon, in North Bri-lol, is in a
critical condition as the result of having
been attacked by a game rooster which
Mr. Jordan had just brought to his
home. The rooster attacked the child
in the yard and cut ugly gashes in its
face and head before the mother discov
ered what was going on. B'ood flowed
freely from the wounds, and but for
timely intervention the child would have
been killed.
Blackburn It Indicted.
Asheviile, X. C. (Special) The grand
jury of the special term of the L'nited
States District Court returned two true
bills against Congressman Spencer
Blackburn. The bills, of indictment
charge the Eighth District Representa
tive with practicing before the Treasury
Department and receiving fees for such
service, in violation of the laws. He is
accused of receiving $500 from Asa Din
kins snd $100 from A. P. Davis. Each
bill containi two counts. No action look
ing toward the arrest of Mr. Blackburn
'a been tdken.
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LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Provision ol Pur Food Bilk
The Pure Food bill, passed by the
Senate makes it a misdemeanor to man
ufacture or sell adulterated or misbrand
cd foods, drugs, medicines or liquors
in the District of Columbia, the Terri
tories and the insular possessions of the
United States, and prohibits the ship
ment of such goods from one State to
another or to a foreign country. It also
prohibits the receipt of such goods.
Punishment by fine of $500 or by im
prisonment for one year, or both, is pre
scribed. In the case of corporation., of
ficials in charge arc made responsible.
The Treasury Department and the De
partments of Agriculture and of Com
merce and Labor are required to agre?
upon regulations for the collection and
examination of the articles covered by
the bill, but no specific provision is made
for investigation, except by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. ' The investigation
by that department arc placed in the
hands of the chief of the bureau of
chemistry, and if he finds that the law
has been violated the Secretary of Agri
culture is required to report the fads
to the United States District Attorney,
who in turn is required to institute pro
ceedings in the Federal courts.
The bill defines foods, drugs, medi
cine and liquors, and also defines the
standards for them. There is an exemp
tion for dealers who furnish guarantees
against adulteration and misbranding.
$7,785,528 For the Indians.
The Indian Appropriation bill, which
has been completed by the House Com
mittee on Indian Affairs, carries a total
of $7,785.5128, which is $.(58748 less than
the current appropriation, and $427,000
less than the estimates submitted.
The bill embodies no change in the
policy for the administration of Indian
affairs. Indian schools and other insti
tutions are appropriated for practically
as formerly. The appropriations for
irrigation on reservations are liberal.
Rolls Cost More Here.
The selling price of steel rails abroad
and for 'use 111 the United States was one
of the subjects on which David W. Ro s,
purchasing agent of the Isthmian Canal
Commission was examined by the Sen
ate Committee on Intcroccauic Canals.
He showed that he had purchased from
American mills rails for use on the Isth
mus at from $1.50 to $2.50 a ton less
than the prevailing price to railroads in
this country.
For Many Monuments.
The Senate Committee on the Library
has made favprable reports on a number
of monument and memorial bills, as fol
lows :
For a statue of John Paul Jones in
Washington, $50,000: of Gen. James Mi!
ler at Petersboro, X. IL, $5,000: for a
monument at Point Pleasant, W. Va.,
to commemorate the battle of the Revo-
lution fought there on October 10, 1774,
$10,000; cquestanan statue of Maj.-Gen
John Stark at Manchester, X. H., $40,-
000; as a part contribution toward the
erection of a monument at Province
town, Mass., in commemoration of the
first landing of the Pilgrims at Cape
Cod, $40,000; to aid in erecting a momu-
ment on the battlefield of Prmcetown
X. J., $30,000; for the preparation of a
site and erection of a pedestal m ash
ington for a statue of Henry Wadsworth
Longtebow, 4,000, and a joint resoln
tion for the erection of a monument to
Dorothea Lynde Dix at Hampden,
.Maine, $10,000.
The Tillman-Gillespie resolution call
ing on the Interstate Commerce Commission-to
report on the alleged dis
crimination of railroads in favor of coal
and oil fields owned or controlled by the
common carriers was passed by the
House.
Secretary Bonaparte accepted the res
ignation of Jerdon P. Kimbough, of
Tennessee, the hazing of whom was the
cause of the investigation of Xaval
Academy affairs.
The liquidator of the J. Whitaker
Knight Companies in London, in his re
port, shows that the assets, which were
estimated to produce $14,505,100, real
ized $2,575,970.
The monthly report of Engineer Stev
ens shows that the cost of work has been
reduced 100 per cent, and the amount
of earth removed almost doubled.
The House passed the Mussels
Shoal Dam Bill to create an immense
wate-povver plant on the Tennessee
River.
Rear Admiral Walker will succeed
Rear Admiral Chester in charge of the
Naval Observatory, at Washington.
The Hepburn Railroad Rate Bill, af
ter a year in committee, has been thrown
into the Senate for debate.
The system of army promotion and
retirement was referred to in the House
as a "moving picture scheme to get graft
from the government."
The Senate passed the bill authoriz
ing the purchase of coal lands in the
Island of Butan, Philippine Islands.
Commander-in-Chief Tanner has out
lined the program for the G. A. R. En
campment to be held in Minneapolis.
David W. Ross, purchasing agent for
the Isthmian Canal Commission, testi
fied before the Senate Committee.
Pipe lines are made common carriers
by a bill introduced by Keprsentative
Rliinock (Kentucky).
F R. Hathaway, of Saginaw, Mich.,
concluded his statement before the Sen
ate Committee on the Philippines in op
position to the Philippine Tariff bill.
Chairman Hull of the House com
mitter, in advocating the Army Appro
priation Bill, called attention to the
possibility of fighting in China.
The Senate committee ordered ;n ad
verse report on the bill to prohibit the
handling of postoffice money orders, on
Sunday.
In the Senate Mr, Rayner presented
a memorial submitted by Second Vice
President Bond, of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, in answer to the charges
filed by the Red Rock Fuel Company of
West Virginia.
David W. Ross, general purchasing
officer for the Lsthmain Canal Commis
sion and the Panama Railroad, testified
before the Senate Committee on Inter
oceanic Canals.
Kimbough, the hazed cadet, is one of
the midshipmen found deficient in the
midyear examination.
Postmaster General Cortelyou lias or
dered the reopening of the case of for
mer chief of the money order division,
James T. Metcalf, who was dismissed.
The Senate Committee on 'Indian
Affairs agreed tentatively on amend
ment to the House bill winding up the
affairs of the five civilized tribes coin
mission. Wood alcohol manufacturers appear
ed before the House) committee in oppo
sition to the bill to remove the tax on
denatured alcohol, '
THREW BABIES
INTO THE SFA
Crazed Mother Follows Them
To
Watery Grave.
A TRAGEDY ON A STEAMBOAT,
Stateroom Occupied Jby Mrs. John Waters
ad Her Ihree Children ol New York
Found Empty on the Steamer Plymouth'!
Arrival it Newport A Note Pinned on Door
Asks Husband's Forgiveness.
New York ( Special) Mrs. John Wat
ers, of 279 Kingston Avenue, and her
three children, two girls and a boy, the
eldest four and the youngest six months,
took passage on the Sound steamer Ply
month for Fall River. Before the boa!
arrived at Newport the stateroom they
had occupied was found empty.
Notes in the room show beyond a
doubt that sometime during the night
the mother had carried out a purpose
conceived apparently before she look the
boat, and had thrown her three children
overboard and perished herself.
Nobody knows when ibe awful trag
edy occurred, for nobody appears to have
seen them when they went to the state
room. Mrs. Waters had been in ill health
ever since the birth of her second child,
two years ago. Her actions, however,
were at times strange, and her act can
only be ascribed to a crazed mind.
When she left her home with the
children Monday afternoon she said she
was going to take the children to n
photographers. That was the last seen
of her by anyone that knew her.
Her husband, John W. Waters, general
manager of the insurance bureau of
the National Manufacturers' Association,
spent a sleepless night looking tor his
missing family. He arrived at his of
fice, at 170 Broadway, early to be met
with a message from the steamboat com
pany telling him of the notes found in
the stateroom indicating that the woman
was his wife. It was the first news he
had that they had even taken passage on
the boat.
When he received it and realized that
his little family bad all perished he was
like a man suddenly paralyzed. He left
later for Fall River.
Mrs. Waters was ,32 year old and frail
looking. She was the daughter of Capt.
James Brady, a politician of Fall River.
and now collector of the port there. She
and her husband were married there nine
years ago. They lived in Providence for
some years. There their eldest child
(Helen) was born. Four years ago thev
moved to Chicago, where Mr. Waters
became the secretary of a fire insurance
company. I he other children born there
were Dorothy, aged 2. and John, the
baby, six months old. The Waters fam
ily moved here from Chicago four
months ago.
After moving here Mrs. Waters be
came worse and imagined that she was
unhappy. At times she expressed a de
sire to return to Chicago. Her husband
finally sent her to the Bristol Sanitarium
for treatment.
JOHN B. STETSON'S FORTUNE.
No Provision Made For His Florida L Di
versity. Philadelphia, (Special). Contrary to
expectations, John B. Stetson, the mil
lionaire hat manufacturer, made no pro
vision in his will for the university at
Deland, which he founded, and which
bears his name, or any of the charities
in which be had been interested.
The will, filed with Howard White
head, Deputy Register of Montgomery
County, divides his entire estate among
the members of his family. The value
of the estate is not mentioned in the tes
tament, but from another source it v.as
learned that Mr. Stetson left more t) tin
$5,000,000. George A. Elsasser, an attor
ney of this city, and J. Howell Cum
mings arc named as executors and tr i-.-tees.
Both of these gentlemen, together
with Attorney I.arzalerc, of Norristovvn,
two of the witnesses and two memb rs
of the family were present when the
will was probated.
3,000 REPORTED DEAD.
A Tralnload ot Rutalau Troops Blown Into
River.
Tokio (By Cable). Telegrams from
Vladivostok to Japanese papers report
the destruction of a train loaded with
soldiers, which was blown up and pre
cipitated into a river. The loss of life
is given as 3,000, but this is considered
exaggerated. On January 25 another
collision occurred between-Cossacks and
prisoners from Japan, the latter un
armed, and 1,500 were reporied killed or
wounded. About one-third of the
wounded were taken to hospitals, the
others being left lying on the snow.
Prince Poluta, a Mongol prince, chief
tain of the Turguta Atili, has been
given permission at Peking to travel in
the United States.
The Japanese government has declar
ed March 10 as ilie date to be celebrated
as the anniversary of the war.
Smashed His Colfin.
Loyal, Wis., (Special). lame; Mulli
gan, of Ioga, Wis., narrowly escaped be
ing buried alive. The funeral proces
sion was 011 its way to the church when
the driver of the hearse heard groans
from within, followed by smashing of
glass. The casket was opened, and Mul
ligan, fully restored to consciousness,
sat up and inquired where he was,
Japan's Famine Sulfircra.
Washington, ( Special). The State
Department has received a telegram from
Dr. Klopsch, of the Christian Herald,
New York, stating that upon informa
tion received to the effect that famine
conditions in Japan r.rc very much more
serious and distressing than was first
supposed, he has forwarded a check for
$10,000 in addition to a similar amount
already contributed, for the relief of the
sufferers. The money lias been made
immediately available to the order oi
the Red Cross.
Plot tu Rclcaso Murderess.
St. Petersburg (By Cable).-The po
lice have been advised of the discovery
of a plot at Saratoff to release the mur
deress of General Sakharoff, who was
shot and killed -at Saratoff December 8
last; the man who threw a bomb at Vice
Governor von Knoll, and other political
prisoners. A number of revolutionists
secured positions as jailers, constructed
a tunnel and smuggled into the pruon a
quanity of poison, which was to be ad
ministered to the officials. The death of
one of the conspirators revealed the
plans.
NO STRIKE ON APRIL I.
Poihlve
Statement By Olllclal ol
norkers.
Mine
Indianapolis, (Special). in a state
ment issued Vice President T. L. Lewis,
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, declared that (here will be no strike
of the minevvorkers on April I, saying
the operators will restore the reduction
accpted by the miners two years ago
and! perhaps, more. The statement fol
lows "You may accept one proposition as a
fixed fact that there will be no general
strike in the mining industry April I
The operators will restore the reduction
accepted by the miners two years- age
ami, perhaps, more.
".Mr. II. L. Kohliins, of Pennsylvania,
and Mr. Taylor, of Illinois, leaders ot
the operators, recognbtc their untenable
position at Indianapolis, and have gracc
fu'ly submitted to the inevitable, anil
will pay an advance to the miners. A'
general strike will be averted. Business
will not be pa'-a!y;:cd by industrial strife.
An era of peace will be established for
another period of years, and the trade
agreement method of settling labor dis
putes will win new friends to its stand
ard. "The anthracite operators must now
grant an advance in view of the action
of the bituminous operators.
"The details will be worked out late
and probably through a special national
convention of the tninevvorkers.
"For two years it has been my deter
mined purpose to have all wage agree
ments of the miners terminate on the
same date so that unity of action might
be secured without violating existing
agreements on April t. ioofi. The first
move in this direction was made in
Pittsburg, Pa in the summer of 1004,
when the expiration date of the contract
was extended from the end of August
to the end of March, this year. Prac
tically all of our aprccments expire
March ,11 next. Ry virtue of this ar
rangement the tninevvorkers of the conn
try arc now in a position to compel the
operators to deal with us justly.
"At the recent joint convention in In
dianapolis, I advocated an advance foi
the miners because I believe they arc en
titled to it.
"The operators at the recent Indiana
polis convention showed the strongest
evidence of the weakness of their posi
tion when they ignored our arguments
that they could pay an advance to the
mincworkers at the present selling price
of coal and still make a large profit.
Developments will prove additional facts,
namely :
"First That some of the larp.c corpor
ations represented at the recent Indiana
polis joint convention were not in a po
sition to make a successful resistance
of the miners' demands.
"Second That the great coal consum
ing public will not materially suffer by
reason of the advance which will be
granted to the miners.
"(Signed) T. L. Lewis,
Vice President.
DRVDOCK DEWEY SAFE AND ALL WELL.
00 Miles Westward ol Las Palmas When Left
By Navy Tug.
Las Palmas, Canary Island (By Cable)
The United States Xavy tug Potomac,
which arrived here, reported that she
left the drj'lock Dewey 500 miles to the
westward of this port, all well.
Officials of the Maryland Steel Com
pany have never felt the slightest con
cern regarding the Dewey. They said
that although reports Slated that the
weather was good and that the dock was
averaging 100 miles a day, actual figur
ing showed that since the great dock
left the Chesapeake Bay it has only
averaged 71 miles a day, and at this rate
it would not be due at Gibraltar until
March 4 or 5. Among the Baltimoreans
with the convoy is Walter E. Mullen,
son of Capt. G. M. Mullen, I2j8 North
Caroline Street, who is in charge of the
wireless telegraph outfit on the docks.
The drydock left American waters on
December 29, and it was calculated that
she would make 100 miles a day. Tin
usually traveled route to Gibraltar is
3,300 miles, but in order to escape pos
sible bad weather a sweep was taken to
the southward, making the distance about
4.300 miles. She is, therefore, about nine
days overdue. Officials figure that head
winds have been encountered which
have caused delay.
Kossuib'a View ol It
London (By Cable). Francis Kos
suth, in an article contributed to the
Chronicle on the Hungarian crisis, em
phasizes the danger to the peace and
balance of power of Europe inv olved "in
these complications. Herr Kossuth says
that 1:0 one can tell what the issue will
be except that Austria-Hungary has
ceased to be a great power, and
will not become one again till internal
peace has been re-established 011 the ba
sis of constitutional libertv.
Lived To Ue 105 Vears Old.
Southington, Ct., (Special). Mrs.
Silvia Langdon Dunham, the second
oldest person in this state, died, aged
105 years. The oldest person in th.
state, Mrs. Debora Sillinian, of Eastou,
who was 106 years old Wednesday, is
seriously ill as the result of shock
caused by the death of her son, which
occurred during a fire at his home.
Mission School Burned.
Constantinople, (By Cable). The
American College at Ainlab. Asia Minor,
has been entirely destroyed by fire. The
loss is covered by insurance.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
The highest inland lake In South
America is the Titicaca Sea, situated at
1 1.0.00 feet aiiovc the level of the sea.
Women are to be admitted to be doc
tors of medicine by the University of
Prague, which, however, refuses to ad
mit them us doctors of philosophy.
In .Stuttgart and some other South
German cities, fishes are imported by the
carload under municipal supervision, and
sold at low prices for the benefit of the
poor.
Two Japanese prisoners of war who,
owing to illness, could not return to their
homes, have died in Germany, and their
bodies arc to be cremuted and the ashes
sent to their relatives.
London-has vegetarians who go to the
extreme of refusing to wear shoes that
have the "animal taint" of leather,' They
wear shoes made of rubber, canvas and
"bright American cloth."
For a collection of 564 bookplates,
mostly by Chippendale, $140 was given
at Southeby'j, London, the other day,
when the late J. K. Brown's collection of
nearly 20,000 platea were sold for $J,-945-
TDE KEYSTONE STATE
lb Lattit Penrmylvaola Newt Told la Short
Order.
By h collapse of a platform on the
stage of the Hanover Opera House, dur
ing a rchersal, live Rirls were seriously
injured, and a dozen others received
painful cuts and bruises. One hundred
and fifty girls ranging in age from li to
i.S years were seated 011 a double in
top, when one of them raised a cry of
top, when one of the tnraiscd a cry of
fire, though there was no fire. The
children immediately became panic
stricken and rushed for safety. The
.scramble cau-ed half of the platform to
sway and it fell with a crash that was
heard a square away. Seventy-five per
sons were c irried with it r.nd buried un
der a pile of broken lumber. Fortunately
those on the other section obeyed a warn
ing given by William H. Long and held
their places, eise that also would have
collapsed with fatal results. The work
of rescue was quickly begun by J. Ed
ward Bovvers, Paul Nitcbman, J. Carroll
Welsh and William H. Long, who had
lerding parls in the patriotic entertain
ment called "Making of the Flag." Piti
ful cries from the struggling, frightened
children made a heartrending scene.
Physicians soon arrived and as fast as
the imprriled children were rescued
they received surgical attention and were
sent to their homes.
While John Dadger and Joseph Knopp
each about 16 years of age, were on their
way home with the mail bag of Bethany
Orphans' Home at Woinelsdorf, they
were slopped by two men who demanded
lite pouch. Young Knopp ran home and
gave an alarm while the other boy re
sisted the efforts of the highwaymen to
get the bag and succeeded in holding
theui off until help arrived. The high
waymen escaped. Local post office in
spectors are searching for them. On ac
count of the hold-up arrangements have
been made with the post office to have
ihc mail sent to the Orphans' Home be
fore dark.
At the annual meeting of the Mont-,
gouivry County Historical Society at
Norristovvn Joseph Fomancc was elected
president; Miss I-'rances Fox, recording
secretary; Mrs. A. Conrad Jones, cor
responding secretary, and Dr. V. H.
Reed, treasurer. Rev. N. B. Grubb,
bishop of the Menuonite Church, deliv
ered an address upon "Snatches of Men-'
noni'e History." Ex-Judge Hiram Hoo
ver, the president of the Hoover family,
and a former president of the historical
society, was present and delivered an
address of greeting, congratulating the
Mxicty on its twenty-fifth anniversary.
Judge Hoover is 84 years old.
Ti c permission to smoke pipes ac
cording to the rules of the Sophomores,
was duly celebrated by the members of
the freshmen class of Dickinson Col
lege, Carlisle.
Despondent because he had sold his
farm and moved into town, Joel Moycr,
a wealthy farmer of Bcchtelsvillc, com
mitted suicide by hanging himself with
his handkerchief. Moycr, who was 70
years of age, and a veteran of the Civil
War, sold his farm three weeks ago
and decided to live at ease the remainder
of his day?, but be could not stand the
strain of unaccustomed idleness. He was
the father of ten children, all living.
After completing all arrangements for
his marriage to a girl from Philadlcphia.
Peter Conrad, of Parkview, disappeared
a short time previous t- the hour set for
the ceremony, and since then nothing has
been seen or heard of him. In connec
tion with his disappearance comes the
story that he was involved in financial
difficulties. The wedding presents have
been returned, and the bride that was to
be is prostrated over' her desertion.
To still the crying of her three-year-old
brother, William, the daughter of
Harvey Baker, of Brandtvillc, aged five
years, gave the little boy two teaspoon
fuls of laudanum in the absence of her
mother. The child sank into a deep
-sleep and died next morning. Dr. Lc
fevcr, of Bujling Springs, was called on
the return home of Mrs. Baker, but his
efforts were futile.
Engineer Edward McKanna was killed,
Fireman R. W. Yowng fatally hurt and
eight other trainmen were injured, three
seriously when a though freight train
westbound 011 the Panhindle Division of
the Pennsylvania Company lines, met in
collision with a yard engine and caboose
tit Carnegie, several miles below Pitts
burg. The wonderful increase in the de
posits of the State banking institutions
during the year shows that people arc
laying something by for that rainy day
that is certain to come some time. There
arc u6 banks, 13 savings institutions
and 300 trtir.; companies, or 445 in all,
that i-'-port to the State Banking Dcpart-.-ncnt,
and these show deposits for the
year ;-.s follows: Banks, $120,572,386.28;
savings institutions. $143,028,007.75 ; trust
companies. $378,117,232.15. or a total of
$641,717,716.18. an increase over last year
of $44.5-'4-8o-.04. The cash on hand and
due from banks was !?oi. '130.378.74, a de
crease from the previous year of $22,-,"-''s.73;7"-
During ihc year these in
stitutions loaned $270,843.3"5 05, an in-crca-e
of $4,480,84726. In the matter of
investment securities the figures reached
the big sum of $413,258,535.08, an in
crease over last year of $34,30.910.45.
The capital of the combined institutions
making report w?.s $107,124,708.13, the
increase being $2.270.83301. The sur
plus 011 hand was $116,231,87.81, an in
crease of $11,000,458.91. The undivid
ed profits wcro $28,730,855.84, an increase
of only $11,915.77.
Both requests were ignored, so the
class "struck" and were later suspended.
The board will investigate the matter at
a special meeting.
The Junior class of the Dubois high
school lias been suspended because the.
members refused to attend recitations.
On Friday ihe high school, with the ex
teption of a part of the Junior class,
were let nut early. The division kept in
r'.emtndcd that they be granted a recess
oi 3)!'j minutes Monday, and intimated
that the principal should 'apologize for
his actions in "treating them unjustly."
The plant of the lTaston Cordage Com
pany, located along the Bushkill Creek,
near Eas'.on, was damaged by fire to the
extent of $25,000.
While Joseph Rasark was returning
home in Springfield from Shamokin, he
was held" up in a lonely section by five
masked ufen. He tried to escape, but
was b:aten with cl ibs and stabbed a
number of times until he became un
conscious from the lost of blood. His
pockets were rifled, and the gang, think
ing him dead, fled. Several hours later
pedestrians found him, still unconscious.
He was carried hone and physicians had
hd work to restore him to conscious
neis. He il in a critical condition.