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Hours—lo a. in.to sp. m. Telephone 1486. PA T AL MINNESOTA CYCLONE. Rnrn Crumbed Tlirouuh '• Snloon nnd 101klit People Killed. Faribault, Minn., Sept. 25. —Meager details have reached here of a terrible catastrophe which visited the village of Morristown, ten miles west of here, shortly before 6 o'clock last evening. The village was struck by a cyclone, and a barn was raised in the air and dropped directly on top of Paul Gatzke's saloon, where It! people had taken refuge from the storm. The saloon collapsed, and all the occu pants were buried in the debris. It is paid that eight dead bodies and three injured persons were taken from the ruins. TLe dead: Jake Miller, Jake Wea ver. Jr.. Otto Gatzke, John Rohrer, Jr., Elmer Brooks, H. S. Wait and Frank Wilder of Morristown and Frank Pit man of Waterville. The injured: Paul Gatzke, Porter White and Lewis Pitman, Jr. The stoi m came without warning upon the citizens of Morristown from a southwesterly direction, passing over to the northeast. The length of its path in the village was less than half a mile. The stoi m mide jumps of one block, but whenever it came down ev erything was crumbled by the power of the wind. The barn, belonging to Dr. Dargabel, was picked up and carried a block, leaving the floor .uninjured, with two horses standing oA it. Before reaching the Catzke saloon there is a two story building, which was left untouched. All of the people killed and injured in Morristown had hurriedly taken refuge in the saloon when the storm was seen on the outskirts of the vil lage. Before the building fell three people managed to escape, but the other 13 were cither killed or injured. After leaving the saloon the storm crossed tin* stieet and-destroyed the barn of J. P. Temple and took the roof from the barn of W. M. Bigolin. It then crossed the Cannon river and de stroyed the barn of Adam Snyder, killing several hegs. The flirt f.:i: •it v recurred before the village was re .bed. At the farm of John Ol s-1: his hired man, Peterson, wa3 killed. Spnninh War Veteran* In Convention Washington, Sept. 25. —The National Association of Spanish War Veterans met in annual convention here this morning. Sessions will continue three days. Gen. J. Warren Klefer, the com mander-in-chief, announces that he will not be a candidate for re-election. One imporant question to come before the convention is the status of troops in the campaign in China. The con stitution and by-laws restrict member ship to regular and volunteer members of the army and navy and the marine corps who participated in the war with Spain or the insurrections incident thereto. As many of those who were ordered to China also operated in the Philippines or elsewhere it is not un likely that the men in the Chinese cam paign will be admitted. A Hundred Square Mile* l»y Klnmc. Santa Rosa, Cal., Sept. 25.—A forest and grass fire which has been burning in the vicinity of Occidental the past three days yesterday assumed vast pro portions. the fire has covered a space of about 100 square miles, and is esti mated to have done over a quarter of a million dollars' damage. Only by hard work was the town of Occidental sav ed. The fire is now traveling south. Three county bridges are in ruins and about 18 farms have been swept clean of their buildings and crops. The towns of Free Slate, Bodega and Sebas topol are in immediate danger. Near ly a thousand people are fighting the fire. •_ Iron Worker* on Strike. Lancaster Pa., Sept. 25. According to the sentiment expressed this morn ing there will be no break in the ranks of the striking Iron workers at Colum bia. who yesterday quit work upon the attempted enforcement of a reduction of 25 per cent in wages, cutting pud dlers from $1 to s.} per ton. The strike affects about a thousand men and boys employed in the four mills of the Sus quehanna Iron and Steel company at Columbia, and t'>oo or 700 more employ ed at the Aurora furnace, at Wrights ville, the Vesta furnace at Watts Sta tion and the York rolling mill, all of which are controlled by the Susque hanna company. Prineetnn Will Protect the Senl. Princeton, N. J., Sept 25.—President Patton, yesterday referring to the re ports that a Philadelphia brewer had secured the patent right to use the uni versity seals on casks and whisky bar rels, with a view to furnishing univer sity brands of liquors, said: "I am sorry that the college seal is to be used in this way. The matter will doubtless be brought to the attention of the board of trustees and they will take whatever action they think will be wise relative to the points in question. It seems as if the college corporation must get things of this kind patented nowadays to ensure their safeguard." Charged with embezzling SIO,OOO be longing to the Union National bank, of Chicago, William D. Duncan was ar rested at Old Point, Va. Fire destroyed the large five story building on Water street, Pittsburg, oc cupied by Wilson, Bailey & Co., doing $75 ,000 to SIOO 000 damage. A Shocking Calamity. Lot -\y befell a railroad laliorer." ri». A Kellett, of Williford, Ai l:. J• i« '•.!>: wan badly trrushed, but 1:11.• I•ii ;i Arufoa Salve qniekly eared him. I: V simply wonderful for Burns. Pet I- Pili 'ii.i skin eruptions. It's the world champion healer. Cure tjuai auleed Sold by Patties «V Co. THE AMNESTY ENDED. Filipino Insurgents Refused to Lay Down Their Arms. AMERICAN CASUALTIES GROWING. The Dend. Wounded mid Mlnslnß in Ten Day* Appronrli 11 Hundred. Anuiiitildo Heelings I'eaoe I'ropo ■nlM—by Senor llneueamlno. Manila, Sept. 24. —The amnesty ex pired Sept. 21, and the conditions that existed previously have been resumed. The insurgent demonstrations last week prove to have been more extend ed than was at first reported. From Cagayan and Isabella provinces and the northwestern districts of Luzon come accounts of insurgent operations and American precautionary measures. Merchants in the province of Albay are getting their hemp in Manila as rapid ly as possible, fearing that otherwise it will be burned by the insurgents. At Iloilo there was considerable anx iety lest an uprising should occur, but the insurgents there are ceasing their activity and returning in white cloth ing to the garrisoned towns of the dis trict. As a resumption of insurgent operations is considered quite prob able, the Americans there are taking the necessary steps. The American casualties in killed, wounded or missing during the last ten days approach 100, including those at Siniloan, at the east of Laguna de Bay, where the insurgents, after the engagement, delivered ten bodies of our dead. An insurgent proclamation, signed last month by Aguinaldo, directing that American prisoners be set at lib erty, that good treatment be accorded to captives, and that S4O be paid to each American surrendering, has reach ed Manila. Few prisoners were re leased under the proclamation. Two, who have just arrived from the Cail less district, report that the insurgents in that locality are in "better spirits" than they had displayed at any time before since April. The insurgents recently murdered ruthlessly three persons in the Lukban district. Samar is short of rice, but as the hemp supply is abundant the people are shipping hemp to Bulan Island and smuggling rice in exchange. Senor Buencamino has received from Aguinaldo an answer regarding his peace proposals. Aguinaldo declines to consider them and declares that he is unwilling to agree to a compromise. LORD SALISBURY'S MANIFESTO. I'rKfH llritikli Klcctorn to Support tlie Government With Their Vote*. London. Sept. 24.—Lord Salisbury's manifesto to the electors of the Uni ted Kingdom, in anticipation of the parliamentary general elections, em phasizes the necessity that the queen's government should be supported by a strong parliamentary majority as "the only means of convincing the inhabi tants of the conquered South Africa territories that there is no hope of di verting the government from their policy by persistent resistance or agi tation." After remarking that "all the recent troubles in South Africa have been due to a shift of parliamentary opinion at a critical moment," the prime min ister goes onto say: "It will depend upon the disposition and conduct of the Boers how long an interval is to elapse before their full position as a British colony is at tained. The brilliant success of Lord Roberts' army must not blind us to the imperfections disclosed in our own defensive armor, imperfections which, but for the war, might have remained unnoticed. It will be the urgent duty of parliament and the government to remove the defects, a duty which cer tainly could not be discharged by a ministry depending upon a broken party." Fntnl Cloudburst in Texan. San Antonio. Tex.. Sept. 24. —A cloud burst in the valley of the Neuces river has done much damage to property and also, according to reports received here, has resulted in loss of life on the ranches in that vicinity. The Neuces at Uvalde rose 25 feet in two hours' time and broke telegraph com munication. A number of ranches were inundated and one English sheep man, Ethelbert McDonald, together with some Mexican sheep herders, are said to have lost their lives on a ranch in the mountains near Brackett. From reports of a colony of Nomadic Italians it is thought that two lost their lives in the flood that went down the Neuces. "I'lnne|' w Pierce Free. Media, Pa„ Sept. 24. —Amos Pierce, better known as "Pinney," is a free man. He was charged with being an accomplice to the murder of the late Chester gunner, George B. Eyre, who was murdered on the Delaware river, and the dead body weighted with stones and sent to the bottom of the river. District Attorney Smith had no evidence to present against "Pinney," and the ending of one of the most sen sational murders ever committed in this section was to formally take a ver dict of not guilty when court convened this morning. A lteiniirknhle (iiiN Well. Dubois, Pa., Sept. 24. —A gas well gusher was struck at Lane's Mills, six miles from this city, yesterday, at a depth of 3,000 feet. The gas came to the surface with terrific force, blow ing tools and rocks over a hundred feet in the air. It is estimated by ex perts that the well is good for 3,000,000 feet every 24 hours. The well is in an entirely new territory, and will come into direct competition with the Stand ard Oil company, whose wells supply this city and neighboring towns, and are located 25 miles from here. Government Steamer Abandoned. Halifax, N. S., Sept. 24. —The Domin ion government steamer Nowfleld is ashore and will be a total loss at White Cove, Digby Out, on the Bay of Fundy. The captain decided to abandon the steamer Saturday. The Newfield was engaged in the lighthouse service, and went ashore on Saturday during a dense fog and firmly wedged herself between two huge boulders. Growth of tlie Curpentern' I nlon. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 25.—At yester day's session of the biennial conven tion of carpenters and joiners, now entering upon its second week. Sec retary-Treasurer P. J. McOuire. of Philadelphia, presented his annual re port. It showed a marvellous increase in membership in two years, the num ber of local unions increasing from 428 to 718 and from 31,508 members to 68,413. The finances of the union are in splendid condition, July 1, 1900, there being a balance of $30,268.fit) on hand. It was decided yesterday to hold the next convention at Atlanta, Oa. We noted something which pleased us recently In a trip through one of the western states, and that was that there were three times as many butter tubs piled up on the depot platforms us there were beer kegs. Whenever a community gets around to swapping the beer keg for the butter tub it is on the straight fond to prosperity. Detectives who have been guarding the Chinese legation at Washington have been withdrawn. Dr. Nansen and the Duke of Abruzzi have agreed to undertake a joint ex pedition into North Polar regions. At Oeneva, N. Y., Dr. William R. Brooks has succeeded in protograph ing objects solely by the light from the planet Venus, WrrnnKAWFROM CHINA Is the Order Sent From Washing ton to General Chaffee. A LEGATION GUARD TO REMAIN. Men nt ime Alnrmiiiu Vleporta* Hnve It<>fi<»ltes there has been no loss of life, but that the rise in the Colorado has swept all bridges away and destroyed cattle and crops. Many houses have been de stroyed and a hundred families are homeless, though they escaped to the highlands. A special from Llano says the Llano river, a tributary of the Colorado, is 17 feet above normal, and has done r.it c'i damage i:i the valleys. Reports from various points in west and north Texas are to the effect that all the small streams are greatly swollen and are sending a large vol ume of water into the larger streams. <;OYt:it\Olt AW'VS THE PEOPLE, Moat Tcrrillp h'lim.. in the lllatory of tlie Colorndu Klver. Austin, Tex., Sept. 25. —Governor Sayers wiied last night to all points south of here warning notices that the most terrific flood in the history of the Colorado river, which flows by this city, is now surging down through the mountain gorges to the northwest of here. The warning was sent out by Governor Sayers in response to the fol lowing telegraphic warning from Hon. Phil. B. Clement, dated Goldthwaite: "Notify all towns on Colorado river and have towns notify country points that river is ten feet higher than ever before known, and is still rapidly ris ing. Very urgent." The river has beer, rising very rap idly at Austin since 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and reports from Gold thwaite at 8 o'clock last night say that water is still rapidly rising there. The rise at that point was reported to be 58 feet at dark. Along the Colorado watersheds very heavy rains have fall en during the past four days, and the rise reported coming down now is 20 feet higher than the one that broke the Austin dam and wrecked the city's light and power plant last April. All parties in the lowlands to the south of the city and all points reached by either telegraph or telephone were communicated with by the governor with the warning to escape before the flood arrives. Great alarm is felt as to the result of the rise. A telephone messige received here last night says that San Saba. 40 miles north of Llano, containing about 1,000 people, was partially swept away by the flood in the San Saba river, which was still rising. All bridges had been tarried off. THE ltlsi\<; TKIMTY RIVER. It Is l'Vnr«'«l That the Itlne Will Itr«*i< L VII ltee«»r«l». D.iliits. Tex. Sept. 25.—The Trinity river is hi.-.her than it has been since 181)0, when it broke till records. The water last night lacked only six feet of reaching the 1890 mark, and the river is still rising. Owing to the heavy rains on the Elm Fork, the West Fork and the Clear Fork, all of them emptying into the Trinity river above Dallas, the prospect is for the stream going past the 1890 mark. No lives have been lost in the immediate vicinity of Dallas, but cotton and live stock, notably sheep and hogs, have suffered heavily. The county commis sioners of Dallas county met yester day. They estimated the loss of coun ty bridges at $25,000, independent of the numerous small bridges and the street damages in the county of Dal las. which will be nearly as much. The item of damage to roads and bridges alone in the dozen or more counties affected in northern Texas will be about $250,000. A bulletin received here from Fow ler, in Bosque county, says: "Brazos river out of its banks; high er than in 12 years, and going higher." Fowler is 50 miles north of Waco. Worcester, Mass., Sept. 24. —George D'Vys, the last surviving member of the government relief expedition which rescued Dr. Kane, the American Arctic explorer, in 1855, died here yesterday of pneumonia, after an illness of only four days, aged 08. Mr. D'Vys was a gunner's mate ou tliu expedition. CONSUMPTION CAS BE CORED. T. A. Slocum, M.the Great Chem ist ntlil Scientist, Will Send Free, to the Afflicted, Three IV>tties of his Newly Discovered Reme dies to Cure Consumption and All Lung Troubles. Nothing could be lairer, more philan thropic or carry nioie joy to the afflict ed, than the oiler of T. A. Slocutn, M. (J., of New York City. Confident that he has discovered a reliable cure for consumption and all bronchial, throat and lung diseases, general decline and weakness, loss of flesh and till conditions wasting, and to make its great merits known, he will send, flee, three bottles to any reader of the AMKKICAN who may be suffering. Already this "new scientific course of medicine" litis permanently cured thou sands of apparently hopeless cases. The Doctor considers it his religious duty—a duty which he owes to human ity—to donate his infallible cure. Hi litis proved the dreaded consump tion to be a curable disease beyond any doubt, and has on file in his American and European laboratories testimonials of experience from those benefitted and cured, in all parts of the world. Don't d»''«iy until it is too late. Con sumption, uiiinterrupts), means speedy and certain death. Address T. A Slocnni M. ('., US Pine street, New York, and w hen writing the Doctor, give express and postollice address, and please mention reading this article in the AMERICAN* March 4 0. Sixty Thousand Iron and Steel Workers Resume AFTER THREE MONTHS' IDLENESS. The Conference Between Represent ative* of Employer* nnil Employes Ki-ui-lii-s n Satisfactory Aicreement on the Wiige Scale. Cincinnati, Sept. 24. —The conference committee of the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Iron and Steel Workers and of the manufacturers at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning signed the wage scale that will be effective until July. 1901. It is what is known as the yearly scale, which takes effect usually in July. Owing to the unusual fluc tuations of the market the new scale had not been signed when the mills shut down June 30 and the conditions have been unfavorable ever since, so that the mills have been idle for al most three months. As soon as the scale was signed mes sages were sent in every direction be fore the conferrees breakfasted, order ing the fires built at once. Some mills started this morning and all others will start as soon as poslble. This de cision means employment to over 60,- 000 workingmen who have been idle since June. In endeavoring to arrive at this agreement the wage conference com mittee of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Iron and Steel Workers has had five different conferences with the manufacturers, meeting at New York, Detroit, Indianapolis and Youngstown, as well as here. They have been in conference here since Wednesday, and determined Saturday night to sit until they got together or agreed to disagree. While neither side got what it wanted, yet both sides felt relieved when the scale was signed, after an all night session, and most of the conferrees left without sleep, so as to be at the mills this morning. President Schaef er. Secretary Williams and others re mained to arrange some details with Commissioner Nutt, and they retired about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, but the others did their sleeping on the trains en route to their homes. The reasons for the delay in adjust ing the wage scale, as well as the fre quent prolonged conferences, are found in the slump in the market and the fluctuations during the past year from the highest to the lowest price. The workers wanted $5 per ton, based on a one and four-tenths card rate. The manufacturers offered $4.50 per ton on a one cent card rate for boiling, and the differences were in about the same proportion in other lines. President Schaefer and Commission er Nutt jointly gave out the following official statement yesterday: The rate for boiling is $4.75 per ton, based upon a one cent card rate, with the same basis running up to one and two-tenths for the card rate, or $1.20. But the price for boiling for September and October shall be $5 per ton. based on a card rate of one and four-tenths cents. Muck rolling shall be one-seventh of the price paid for boiling. Busheling on sand bottom shall be $2.09 on a one cent card rate, with the same base running up to one and two tenths card rate. The following scale was fixed for the finishing mills: On bar mills the price to be paid is the same as last year, with a card rate of one aud four-tenths cents graded down to a one cent card. On guide (ten inch and hoop mills) the base and rates apply as they do on the bar and the 12-inch mills. Among the mills ordered started are those of the American Steel Hoop com pany at Girard, Youngstown, Warren, Pomeroy and Greenville, and of the Republic Iron and Steel company at Youngstown, Ironton, Terre Haute, Binghamton, Muncie, Franklin. Mar ion, Moline, New Albany. Minneapolis, Covington, Ky„ Brazil, Ind., Spring field, Ills., and Alexandria, Ind. I,leull*nilllt Hohson Is Sorry. Montreal. Sept. 24.—Lieut. Hobson arrived in this city last evening. He was shown the answer made by Ad miral Dewey to the interview with the lieutenant sent out from Vancouver. He said he was deeply grieved that Ad miral Dewey had taken the matter up in the way reported. He declared that he was not responsible for the state ment made in the Vancouver inter view. He had been approached by a reporter and in the course of a con versation had stated that the Spanish ships had been sunk because the plugs were drawn by the Spanish. He ex plained that it was imposible to sink a ship by hitting it above the water line. Admiral Dewey had, however, compelled the Spaniards to sink their ships, and that was just as effective as sinking them with shells. Corbftt Itetairntnic to Hi* Wife. London, Sept. 24. —James J. Corbett, who is a passenger on the Cunard line steamer Campania, which left Liver pool Saturday for New York, is trav eling under an assumed name. The Sportsman publishes tin interview had with Corbett on the deck of the Cam pania. He said he had parted com pany with George Consldlne. "Consi dine spoke slightingly of my wife," ex claimed Corbett, "and I am done with him. I intend to tell my wife that Mile. Corneille was nothing to me on the voyage this way, and never will be. My principal object in returning to New York is to bring actions against newspapers that have published mis statements about me, and to vindicate my name." A Submarine Voli'iino. New York, Sept. 24. Captain Liddle, of the British steamship King Bleddyn, which arrived here yesterday, brought in a tale of the discovery of a subma rine volcano on the northeast edge of the Camper-lie bank, at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico. Every man on the freighter corroborated the captain. The location by observation made by the captain was 102 miles north of Cape Taoche, the nearest point of land. The captain says: "We watched the vapor and the occasional boiling of the water for nearly an hour, and the disturbance was still going ou as lively as ever." I.l rn s t'linlleuice to llaiina. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 24. Vice ('hair man J. H. Edtnisten, of the Populist nationul committee, challenges Sena tor M. A. Hanna, chairman of the He publican national committee, for a joint discussion. Mr. Edtnisten makes his desires known in a long communi cation, which contains a list of 34 questions for Mr. llanna to answer In public debate. Serious Accident on Itnee TriirU. Chicago. Sept. 25. A bad spill oc curred in the last race at Hawthorne yesterday. Dad Steele, ridden by Gil more. fell as the how wore puiln| the paddock gate on the first time around, and Lady Meddlesome, ridden by Buchanan, and Catastrophe, with Kiley up, fell over him. Kilcy's col lar bone was broken and Buchanan's leg severely Injured. Oilmore was un hurt, and the horses escaped with trifling iniuries. 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The Vienna correspondent of The Daily Chronicle asserts that Kussia's reply to the German note is very friendly, but that, although it appears to consent to Germany's proposal. It practically disapproves by asking whether it. would not be best to open peace negotiations lirst and to make the punishment of the instigators of the outrages the first subject of dis cussion. According to the Berlin cor respondent of The Daily Express Ger many will make a new ' proposal, namely, that the great powers form an international court to try the Chi nese officials accused of complicity in the outrages. The Morning Post has the following from its Shanghai correspondent, dated yesterday: "The Russians recently organized an expedition toward Mukden, which has already reached Liao Yang, about mid way between N'iu Chwang aud Mukden. It will probably encounter opposition. "Prince Tuan's ascendency creates a very grave danger. The only Hope for foreigners is that the pro-foreign vice roy of Nankin has not yet been re moved. Tuan's emissaries are work ing hard to get him out of the way by murder or suicide." The British and Continental press is stiil discussing America's reply, which is generally regarded as encouraging Li Hung Chang to delay the negotia tions. Gen. Gribsky, military governor of Amur, has published elaborate regu lations placing all the regions along the Amur river now occupied by the Russians entirely under Russian law and authority. The Chinese are for bidden to return to the left bank of the stream. He has also issued a procla mation declaring the annexation of Manchuria to be a punishment for the attack made on Blagovestchensk, and exhorting the inhabitants hereafter to respect Russian power and to live In peace anil quietness on their fields. A semi-official communique to The Cologne Gazette, disavowing any de sire on the part of Germany to execute the instigators of the outrages on the strength of the testimony of the for eign ministers, says: "The international court of Justice would decide upon the question of guilt and would pronounce sentence. To look on complacently while a mock ery of justice such as the United States demand was being enacted would mean a renewal of the massacres." Commenting upon the reproaches which the Cologne Gazette and other German papers have leveled against the United States, the correspondent of The Times says: "Whatever may be thought of the attitude of the United States, it hardly seems wise from a diplomatic point of view to hurl these taunts at a nation which, an experience has shown, is by no means in the habit of pocketing or forgetting such attentions." A DENIAL FROM MR. BRYAN. Hum Mil ill- No I'ronlun of Position in fuse of MU Ktrrtlon. Chicago. Sept. 25.— William J. Bryan came to Chicago yesterday from his home in Lincoln, Neb., held a confer ence with various members of the Dem ocratic national committee and re turned to Lincoln last evening. At the conclusion of the conference Mr. Bryan gave out the following statement in refutation of a report that positions in his cabinet, should he be elected, had already been promised: "I have not given to any one. either verbally or in writing, a promise of a cabinet position, and I shall not. during j the campaign, make any such promise. I have not authorized, and shall not authorize any one, verbally or In writ ing. to promise any cabinet position or any el her position to any one. If I am elected I shall be absolutely free | to discharge all the duties of the office according to my platform, as far as the platform goes, and according to my own judgment in all matters not cov ered by the platform." The tinlvexton OrHth f.lat. Galveston, Sept. 25. —The Galveston News list of dead from the storm of Sept. 8 represents a total of 3,859 names. The indications are that not more than 4,000 people will be actually accounted for. The News has made a diligent effort to get as complete a list of the dead as far as possible. It is reasonable to assume that 800 or 1,000 people were lost whose names are not obtainable, which would make the total death list on Galveston Island about 5.000. The News is of the opin ion that the death list on the island is slightly below rather than above 5,000. There are close observers at Galves ton. however, who are still estimating the death list on the island as high as 7,000. %eriilrnl or •In t Little Silver, N J.. Sept. 25.- Fred erick M. Randall, of Brooklyn, a manu facturer of piano plates, died yesterday at his summer home here from the ef fects of a rifle shot Inflicted by himself. He shot himself through the right side of the head with a 22 caliber rifle. There were no witnesses to the shoot ing, and It was not known whether the tragedy was an accident or not. Mr. Randall was 40 years old. and left a wife and son. Trnirurr Miners on Strike. Knoxvllle, Tenn., Sept. 25. — Four hundred miners of the Coal Creek company'* mines, at Coal Creek. Tenn., struck yesterday after holding a mass meeting and voting against the con tract for the year offered by the man ager. I'lriilt■ "hot Mine Unlrhiiiaii. Seranton, Pa.. Sept. 2fi.— Two incen diaries early yesterday morning set fire to the Lallln breaker, an Individual colliery at l.aflln. and shot the watch man. John Morgan, but as the watch man s wound consisted only of a slight scratch in the arm he was able to e«- tingulsh the blaze. Suspicion attaches to a Hungarian whom Superintendent Rollln Davis caused to lie arrested two weeks ago for making threats against his life when the superintendent dis charged him. i olllslnn 111-mill* In Tun llrllha. Springfield, Ills.. Sept. 26. While the Chicago. Peoria and St. I/ouls and the Chicago and Alton trains were racing to the state fair grounds yesterday af ternoon. on parallel tracks, the loco motive of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis jumped the track, struck the other engine and both were hatfly wrecked. Engineer John Kyaii and Fireman Jerry Hall, of the P. A St L. train, were instantly killed. A Pocket Cold Cure. Krausc's Cold Cure is prepared in capsule form anil will en re oolil in the head, throat, chest or any |Mirtion uf tin- In sly in '24 hours Yon don't ha v«i to stop work either Prion Mwld Rossmnn A - Sop a Pharuittoy MR. DAVITTC DISIiIST. Says He Was Deceived by Boers, Whose Cause He Favored. "THOROUGHLY DISILLUSIONED." Mr Declares the llnrgkrri' Threats to fight to the Heath Were Not Honest. Hot That Their One Objee* Was to Fits Ip Mold. London, Sept 26. -The Pretoria cor respondent of The Standard, in a re cent dispatch. throws an entirely new light upon Michael Davitt'e e*perl enceg in the Transvaal and hi.-" feel ings toward the Boers. In view of Mr. Davitt's contributions to tha American press during and sul -• '|ii» nf to his visit to the seat of war The , Standard's dispatch is of interest It is as follows: Mr. Michael I>avitt left Pretoria on the 15th of May. "broken and sick at heart," according to th* word* he him self used on the railw.ty platform Rev. H. J. Hatts, Haptist minister hag recorded them, and th«-y are »> -Hfi< J toby Rev. Henry W Goodwin. < nstr» gational minister. "He told ra<." says Mr. Hatts. "that he had that morning advised the Transvaal government, if they would commend themselv*•« in the eyes of the world and obtain the sym pathy of European nations, that they should at once wire Lord Roberta to this effect: " Now that the Free State Is con quered. and we are quite unable to resist alone the might of England, in the interests of humanity and to pre vent further bloodshed, we will sur render.' "Instead of doing this," said Mr. j Davitt, "they have sent a message of a threatening character, telling Lord Roberts that they will blow up tha mines or destroy Johannesburg if some terms are not made. What the terms are they do not state, and they do not really mean to carry out the threat Their whole action will cover them with Ignomy and contempt before the civilized world. They purpose pro longing tbe business, without serioaaljr meaning to fight, for the one object of heaping up the bars of gold they are taking from the mines and of ac cumulating and hoarding them In obedience to the dictation of that old man. Paul Kruger. "That old man. Paul Kruger," con tinued Mr. Davitt, "is engaged in a sort of spiritualistic seance business, with some blind boy predicting events that are to happen on certain days. I came out here at my own expense, and it has cost me £3OO. I was full of enthusiasm for these people. They know me, they know my feelings, but they have never trusted me. Today they refused to give me any informa tion as to the situation for my papers, and I go away broken and sick at heart. I am thoroughly disillusioned. For me to remain in this atmosphere Is no longer possible; I cannot endure It. They ask me: Why go away so soon? Things are not so bad as yoti think.' 'What!' said I. 'wh»*n lft.OoO men retire, as at Kroonstad. and prac tically run away without ti: "I went down to Kroonstad. and saw their positions. They were excellent. The Boers thoroughly deceived me. They assured me that they would dis pute every inch of ground, ami would sell their liberties with their lives. What happened you know All along the line I have been refusedtheirconfldence and been thoroughly deceived. I wrote to my papers this rubbish about the grand stand that was to be made at Kroonstad—speaking through 'hem to Europe. I would give £IOO to with draw what I have written. I go away today, but do not know that I can get a British passport from Relagoa Bay." A French baron came tip at this moment. "He has." said Mr Davitt. "fought through the war. He has given up everything for their cause. Now he is going away a pauper, ut terly neglected, without money enough to pay his fare." Texas Flood* \<>t tlarnilm. Houston. Tex.. Sept. 2f. The tiood presents no alarming features. Tha rise in the Colorado has done no great damage save to crops and bridges. There are no reports of a further rise coming down. The bulk of the water has passed Austin, and the worst of it is past Bastrop. The reports sent out from Austin of the washing away of the towns of Marble Falls and San Saba prove to be without foundation The first Trinity river rise is now get ting into the ly>wer Colorado, hut as the people had been warned there is no loss of life reported. The Brazos Is still swelling, but the water has not reached the overflow stage. Court Jurfi<* Potter. Harrisburg. Sept. 28 -Governor Stone yesterday announced the t >ll v»- | ing appointments: William P Potter. . of Pittsburg, supreme court Judge to fill the vacancy created by the death of Chief Justice Henry t»reen: Marshall Brown, of Pittsburg, common pleas judge of Allegheny, Pa., vice Jacol F Slagle, of Pittsburg; William B. K- n- j worthy, of Milford, coroner of P k« county, vice Dr Carl Kellv. deceased Mr. Potter Is the governors law part ner. New York. Sept. 24 An epidewte of suicide seemed to strike New Y rk yesterday. Magnus Sw.-nzin. a cabi 1 netmaker. drowned himself in th» • North river after tyint: hi* .iwn h .■ i with fish lines. George Burrk. an in I surance solicitor, shot himself in | Tompkins Square Park John MeyeT ! took poison in a Third avenue hotel. , and then turned on the gas. and was found dead later. James CampNHl who had been indulging tn t much j liquor, fatally shot himself m ' Park. Edward Schwartzwald a nc j time prosperous merchant of and later of Chicago, also ended t: - ■ life tn Central Park. Mary f'r.m* sw.il 1 lowed poison for some unknown t-a i hut did not take enough t • kiP * Elmer Bates, of Jersey City j'lrrc"! from the de< k of an Eas riv. r f.-rrv boat, but after a fight the wi iM V suicide was hauled aboard a t ' yacht. Arelrfealnllt Killed 111. « ..n.ln Gettysburg. Pa., Sept 24 William Hammers, aged years was si' t and t Instantly hilled late Saturday nisht by the accidental discharge of a reviver in the hands of his cousin Harvey Myers The revolver was s«|f »«ting and while replat Ing it In his p->. ke» after firing It In the air to frighten another man.he accidentally palled the trigger The r ball hl* ed In the right temple of young Ham mers The young men had been inti mate friends all their ll*es arid were on their way home from a nei«ht>->r's where they had spent th< «>». ning I buried H Ith "In rem* Wter TrsiM " Washington. Sept 24 Rlrkari K. ! Croiton. 2t» years old. of Atlanta tin , ! was arrested last night on » < harr* of "laneiiy after twist fr• '• 11. .112 '. 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