mn
ria" "wm 2Cular orders for cast iron pipi
COLD-BLOODED DEED.
Samuel MacDonald, a Treasury Clerk, Shot
and Killed Frank H. Morris, Auditor
for the War Department.
Frank H. Morris, of Cleveland, O.,
Auditor for the War Department, was
shot to death in his office at Washing-
ton, D. C, at 2.30 o'clock Saturday ai-
ternoon by Samuel MacDonald, a $1,400
clerk in the office of the Auditor for
the Postoifice Department, who after-
ward unsuccessfully attempted suicide
by shooting himself in the stomach
and slashing his throat with a knife.
MacDonald came to Washington over
30 yeas go from Steubemille, O.
The trou le grow 2ut of the fact that
M:cDonuld abou a vear ago was re-
moves from the £2700 positior as d.s-
bursing officer in the office of the Aud-
itor for the war department and trans-
ferred to a $1,400 clerkship in the post-
office department. He =lamed Andito-
Morris for this degradation. As a fact,
it appears that Auditor Morris had noth-
ing to do with MacDonald's transfer,
which was due to the discovery by other
treasury officials that he was careless in
his methods and short in his accounts to
the extent of about $1,000. :
MacDonald is in a precarious condi-
tion, and his death is expected to result
from self-inflicted wounds.
CUBA GROWING HEALTHFUL.
Yellow Fever Confined to Havana—Stalement
From General Wood.
General Wood, commanding the de-
partment of Cuba, has written a letter
to the adjutant general, for the purpose,
as he says, of correcting an erroneous
impression in the public mind concern-
ing the existing sanitary condition of
Cuba. He says:
“The island as a whole is free from
epidemic or contagious diseases at pres-
ent, with the sole exception of Ha-
vana, where there still remain a few
cases of yellow fever, though not enough
to receive serious consideration. The
total death rate from all causes in the
city of Havana for November was the
lowest of any month, without regard to
season, for the past ten years. 0
“Inasmuch as apprehensions arising
out of the yellow fever situation of the
past summer still remain, it may be ad-
visable to give this subject general pub-
lication, in order that f-!l commercial
and other relations with the island may
be resumed.”
DEPRESSION IN GERMANY.
Heavy Falling Off in Many Lines of Industry
According to Report.
A pronounced depression in German
business enterprises generally has been
reported to the State Department by
United States Consul Albert at Bruns-
wick. In building, in railroad projects,
in the construction of electrical and
street railroads, and in projected elec-
trical plants for lighting there
has been a decrease as compared wiih
last year of from 30 to 60 per cent. The
number of projected gas w orks 1s almost
a third less, and in mining and smelting
metal manufacture, breweries and watcr
works there has been a considerable fall-
ing off.
The Consul characterizes the depres-
sion as the natural reaction after so
much prosperity in 1899, and says that
ermany never was so flourishing as
during last ye year.
BURNING F FORTY TWO YEARS.
Celebrated Pennsylvania Mine Fire at Last
Under Control.
The officials of the Lebigh Coal and
Navigation Company are jubilant over
the fact that fire in the celebrated burn-
ing mine at Summit hill, near Tamaqua,
Pa., which started 42 years ago, is now
under control and it is said that the next
two years will see its extinguishment.
The fire, which has consumed about
35 acres of the finest coal land in the
anthracite coal region, has moved west-
ward toward Lansford.
Two immense drilling machines which
have been constantly pressing toward
the fire have now honeycombed the
earth to the west of the burning por-
tion. Culm is being poured into these
holes and a solid mass will thus con-
front the fire.
Na'ural Gas Near Tacoma.
Great excitement prevails at Rosalia,
Wash, over the discovery of natural gas
over a wide area along Pine creek. In
many places heavy flows of gas have
been obtained by thrusting an iron rod
into the soil until it reached gravel.
When the rod is withdrawn gas escapes
from the hole. Strong indications of
oil have been found throughout ihe
same belt. Spokane men have leasad
20,000 acres and have commenced sink-
ing wells.
Worried oy Americ aa
The central bureau for #4 Zparation
2
of commercighapreics, TL A a
circu s < regarding the re-
cers ’ #5" of American: in getting
2 1 3rders. The circular mentions
to be used in the Dutch colonies, at 23
per cent. below the German bid, and
also orders for locomotives to be used
in Calcutta at figures below the Eng-
lish prices and on terms of delivery bat-
ter than those offered by the English.
After citing the bridges constructed by
Americans in Uganda and East Africa,
the circular points out that ships are
being constructed at San Francisco for
China and Japan and it concludes with
the statement that American competi-
tion will be seriously felt in China after
peace is concluded.
Staamer's Big Mail.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived in
New York Thursday with 600 cabin and
641 steerage passengers and an unusually
heavy mail. The postal clerks on board
report that the number of letters han-
dled during the vovage was 273,000.
There were 5.829 registered letters,
making 2.276 sacks of mail. The post-
age on about 40,000 letters was insuf-
ficiently prepaid. The receiving, check-
ing and openine of this amount of mail,
together with the separating and regis-
tering, required the constant work of
four clerks and two tants for 11
Cowie Elder Eggel.
I.
At Granville, O., G. Mason, a
Dowie elder of Chicago, was mobbed
Wednesday night while delivering a lec-
ture at the opera house. He made a
bitter attack upon the Masonic and ot!
er secret orders, and was i
eggs and other mis
for protection, and a nu
connected with the
had attacked gathered
kept the crowd back w
corted to a safer place
injured.
nen
which !
him ani
he was ¢ {
Mason was 1
mber of
about
Great Battle in Ccicmbia.
The State department has received a
dispatch irom Charge d’Affaires Deau-
pre, at Bogota, stating that a great ba:-
tle has been fought at Girardot, Mag-
dalene river, Colombia, which resulted
ina decisive victory for the government.
It is reported that 600 were killed and
many hundreds wounded. Other viz-
tories by the government forces of the | ritics say
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Mass.,
Fires in Boston, cause a loss
of $200,000
The Santa Fe telegrapher’s strike has
been declared off. 3
Ex-Gov. Roger Wolcott, of Massa-
chusetts died at his home in Boston Fri-
day. . :
Nearly half a million foreign immi-
grants found homes in the United States
in 1900.
Charles F. Stone was shot and killed
in an encounter with a burglar at Hous-
ton, Tex.
John D. Rockefeller has given an ad-
ditional $1,500,000 to the University of
Chicago.
Peter Early, Mrs. Josc oh Taylor and
Minnie Baker were drowned in Hata
lake, Alaska.
The Puerto Rico Legislature has
passed a bill introducing the jury system
in the island.
Furious gales on both British and
American coasts have caused much loss
to shipping. :
John Owens was hanged at Paris, In,
for the murder of James Hogue on Sep-
tember 22 last.
Gifts were
poor children by the
Pittsburg, Pa
Safe crackers at Everett, Pa., rob-
bed the postoffice of $500 in stamps and
$1,000 in securities.
At San Jose, Cal. four children per-
ished in the burning of a house, attempts
at rescue being futile.
The Sharon (Pa.) Coal and Limestone
Company putting down two mine
shafts near Volant, Pa.
The Pennsylvania Company will build
a branch railroad to the new coal field
in eastern Mercer county.
Andrew Carnegie has promised a $30,-
000 public library for Ft. Dodge, Ia,
on the usual conditions.
The death of former Governor Roger
Wolcott, of Massachusetts, makes a va-
cancy in the electoral college.
The American Express Company will
give each of its 10,000 employes a $35
gold piece as a Christmas gift.
At New York Carrie Hanley, the
school girl burned while playing Santa
Claus, has died of her injuries.
Six masked men cracked a bank safe
at Madison, O., but were frightened
away before they secured any booty.
Attempts to float the British steamer
Laura, ashore on the coast of Holland,
near Petten, have been unsuccessful.
Sternberg, the millionaire banker,
was convicted in Berlin of immorality
and sentenced to 30 months in prison.
John Keppleman. a private watchman,
was found in Louisville, Ky., with
brains beaten out and his money gone.
A car strike which is likely to tie up
1early the whole anthracite region has
nll] on the Scranton Company's lines
An invalid sister of General Castillo
the Cuban army committed suicide
by shooting herself through the heart.
A new company has been formed
with $10,000,000 capital for the purpose
of controlling the crude rubber market.
presented to over 10,000
Toy Mission of
15
his
of
the cause of the death of Oscar L.
Booz, Tuesday held a hearing at West
Point.
At
picture
Matthews
was
Toronto, Ind.
moulding factory burnad,
fatally.
John Morrison murdered a whole fam-
postage stamp.
Sufficient money
estate interests.
The increased demand for coal
result of the recent strike in the anthra-
all the colleries.
Channing B. Barnes, who held
found dead in
crime.
was near
scene of his
The Tenney
J., was destroyed by fire,
escaping guests being
their night clothes.
a swamp
many
driven out
a bill appropriating $500.000 for the
Chilian exhibit at the
Exposition in- Buffalo.
at Peking was signed Thursday
a-brac dealer, has commenced suit
Paris against
tellane for 6,500,000 francs.
of the Masonic
are members
-
=
sociation of Masonic engineers.
lem excesses against the Christian pop-
ulation in the central provinces of Tur-
key. where 200 Christians have
killed.
Bertha
New York,
cember 3.
Friedman,
naped.
The cause of the diplomatic snarl :t
Peking seems to be blunders of the cable
Friedman, 135 years old.
has been missing since pe
and her father,
believes she has been
kid-
structions from foreign capitals to
envo
Mayor Kelly, of South Omaha.
ic to be tried on the charge of t:
the
Neb.
had blinded Dr. Frank Taylor by throw-
ing vitroil in his face in revenge for her |
betrayal.
and got nothing.
Governor Roosevelt, of New York, re
moved District Attorney Asa Bird Gar
diner for alleged neglect of duties and
appointed in his place Eugene A. Phil
bin, a gold Democrat.
During the year the colporteurs of
the Young Men's Bible Socie ty, of
Pittsburg, Pa., have sold over 2,000 Bi-
bles printed in foreign languages to
foreigners in Pittsburg.
At Philadelphia, Pa., the big factory
i the F Baker Company, manu
cdded
1-1
a cocoanut was
hadi fire Wednesday. The
SS I's $150,000, fully insured.
of New
has been
The purpose of the co:
construct railroads a
ppines Company,
capital $1,200,000,
'
to
The fine behavior of the Ameri
soldiers in China, Oriental officials
London say. will result in increasng
America’s pre
and throughout
the
m
the Philippines
Japansts
Ame 2 ers
utmost importance have been announc- | the best all-around fighters in the al
ed armies,
Bed
Military court of inquiry investigating
Bros.’
and 12 men were injured, one probably
ily in the Moosoom district of Canadian
Northwest and has been sentenced to be
hanged.
Maj. Esterhazy, of Dreyfus scandal
notoriety, is an inmate of a London
almshouse, too poor to buy even a
as a
cite region is causing a rush of work in
ap
and robbed a train near New Orleans,
the
house at Asbury Park, N.
of the
in
The chamber of deputies has passed
Pan-American
The new note drawn up by the envoys
Tole
night
and will be presented to the Chinese
government Saturday.
It has been decided to hold the
Northwest International Mining FE
position at Spokane, Wash., from June
to November, in 1002.
Charles Werthemier. a London bric-
in
Count and Countess Cas- |
At a recent meeting of engineers who
order, it:
decided to form an international as-
A dispatch from Vienna reports Mos-
been
Andrew
i unexpected renewal of
and |
FORTY-FIVE REBELS WERE KILLED.
SHARP ENCOUNTER.
Sixty American Cavalrymen Attack and Put
to Rout a Body of Insurgents.
Capture Ammunition.
Advices from Southern Luzon say
that a lieutenant and 60 men of the
Ninth United States Cavalry attacked a
large body of insurgents near Guino-
balan, province of Albay. After the
battle 45 dead insurgents were counted,
together with many wounded.
The only American casualty was the
wounding of a sergeant who was cor-
nered by several rebels and struck in
the leg by a bolo. The rebel loss was
the heaviest recorded among recent en-
counters.
A detachment of the Sixth infantry
has captured Bautista, the head of the
Katipunan Society, in Northwestern
Luzon. A detachment of the Forty-
ninth infantry recently attacked a vil-
lage on the Caygayan river in Isabella
province, drove out the insurgents, kill-
ing several of them and captured a
thousand rounds of ammunition. The
Americans also burned the insurgent
quarters. The latest reports from Ilolio
say that the islands of Panay and Cebu
are being rapidly cleared of the enemy
and that in a few weeks the only oppo-
sition will be that offered by scatteriag
Ladrones. It is universally believed
that the rebel forces are greatly thinnad
and scattered throughout Luzon. Their
ammunition supplies are being rapidly
cut off and numbers of them are becom-
ing amigos.
SHORTAGE ALLEGED.
Teller of the York Security Title and Trust
Company Short $20,000.
Harry K. Weiser, teller of the Se-
curity Title and Trust Company, a
banking institutiod of York, Pa.
said by the officials of the company to
be short $20,000 in his accounts. The
bank posted a notice informing its cus-
tomers that neither its capital or sur-
plus was impaired by the teller’s short-
age and that it was prepared to meet
all its obligations on demand. Teller
Weiser has secured the bank by trans-
ferring to it real estate valued at $20,-
000.
How long Weiser's irregular transac-
tions have been going on the bank offi-
cers refuse to state. His methods con-
sisted in changing figures on deposit
slips. Weiser has broken down and lies
at his home suffering from nervous pros-
tration. It is believed that he had been
trading in the stock market.
15
Will Give Salary to the Poor.
John F. Hurley, whe has bean «lected
mayor of Salem. Mass., intends to give
his salary as mayor, $2,500 a year, to
the peor of the city. He does not in-
tend to give it over to charitable or-
ganizations, for he can disburse it to
ge himself, knowing every
case of deserving poverty in the city
cn account of his business dealings with
them.
y was an independent can-
didat te and elected himself mayor by his
personal efforts, his platform being
“economy and low tL " It is believ-
ed that Mayor Hurley's example will
establish a precedent in Massachusetts
ciies.
Coast Treaty Expires
On the last day of December the
Anglo-French modus vivendi respecting
| the New Foundland treaty coast expires
has been pledged to | and this, it is expected, will create ser-
relieve the Anglo-American Savings and | 1ous complications between these two
Loan Association by taking over its real |} powers.
It is highly unlikely that the
ew Foundland legislature will consent
{to renew the present arrangements, in
which case grave friction will probably
cnsue unless England makes another ar-
rangement with France. The colony's
position, however, is so strong with the
British public that such arrangement
must be decidedly favorable to the
colony.
A New Food For Soldiers.
Sauer krant is to be added to the bill
of fare of the United States soldiers now
i on duty in the Philippines. Bids will be
received by Major W. L. Alexander,
purchasing commissary officer of the
Department of the Lakes, on December
20th for supplying Uncle Sam's troops
stationed in and about Manila with 20,-
coo gallons of sauer kraut, and it will
be shipped from Chicago early in Jan-
vary. With it there will be sent 150,000
two-pound cans of roast beef, 60,000
pounds of bacon and 62.500 pounds of
hams.
|
Mob Used Tar and Feathers.
Edgar Plato. a piano salesman, was
tarred Ad feathered by a mob of seven
nasked men near his home, three miles
Kan., Saturday night.
The men told Plato they were his neigh-
bors and punished him for marrying a
i divorced woman. Warrants have been
i issued for three well-known farmers.
i!
i from Topeka,
1
!
|
| An Idea From Alabama.
| Richardson, of Ala
bama, who has just taken the seat from
fthat State vacated by Gen. ‘Joc
i Wheeler, proposes a startling innova-
| tion in the present federal soldiers’
i homes system. He has introduced a
| bill in the House which authorizes the
| National board of managers of the
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers to
establish a branch at Huntsville, Ala.,
Representative
company in trans smitting messages of in- i to which may be admitted not only veat-
che |
| erans of the union army, but such ex-
Ve ohtedel rates are recommended {or
| maintenance the Alabama State
as
by
king { board of examiners in charge of the
bribes from brewers to allow sa- i State confederate veterans’ home.
loons in the city to remain open an | ,,,—,——————
Sunday. To Preserve Valley Forge.
The Massachusetts superior court re- The Valley Forge Park association,
cased on probation Marion Hogan, who | nade up of various patriotic societies
| having for its object the preservation of
| the battlefield at Valley Forge, met
| w ednesday in Independence hall, Phila-
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, in the | lelphia. Letters were read pledging
history of his administration which he the support of Senators Depew, Hoar,
is writing, states that there have bee; nly odge, Wellington and Scott. The as-
5.320 holdups in the city limits within] ¢5ciation has a bill in Congress appro-
six years. | priating $200,000 for the purchase of the
Francis P. Blake, general superintend- | battleficld, and the intention is to lay
ent of the Puritan Coal Minis Com- | « wt a park.
pany’s plant at Puritan, Cambria coun- |
ty, committed suicide by shooting. | England Tuying Mcre Horses
Cause, ill health. | Captiin Heyyatz>, of the British army,
The night watchman at the State |i: purchasing 50.000 cavalry horses and
treasury, in Lincoln, Neb, found three | myles in the United States, for the Brit-
men endeavoring to rob the safe but | wv in South Africa, owing to the
they were frightened away by his shots, | : hostilitie They
¢ sent to New Orleans and shipped
3ritish transports, some of which are
| how on their way to the United States.
1 Gets an a Enormous Fee.
Former President Benjamin Harrison
has received his fee for his services in
connect! with the arbitr. ation of the
between British Gni-
The settlement was
It has been stated
Harrison's fee was to
boundary dispute
ana and Venezuela
de Wednesday
ally that Mr.
be $100,000.
Irish Coast Swept By Gales.
Acrial depressions of great size and
depth are spreading over Great Britain
from the westward. Storms are re-
ported on all the coasts, numbers of min-
or wrecks have occurred and the south-
west gale continues with unabated fury
on the Irish coast.
Negroes Killed by a Tornado.
A tornado passed through the eastern
edge of Noxubee county and the western
part of Pickens and Sumpter counties,
Sunday nig doing great dam-
n several plantations houses were
241 down. Two negroes are known
w Tove been killed.
Cape Colony in the
Orange river are in more or less open
revolt, and that there is likely to be
sharp fighting on a rather large scale
before the invasion is crushed. The tac-
tics of the Boers in rallying as many as
possible of the Dutch in the back coun-
try to their cause are proving successful.
announcement: “In
position in South
reinforcements of mounted troops have
been arranged: Eight hundred will start
using the water tube boiler owing
the many accidents.
Livadia, « 2
St. Petersburg before the middle of Jan-
uary.
will show a population of about
000, and a startling shrinkage in
tive
of Ligny,
but the paintings and
works were saved.
ish
situation
miles from Kimberly again.
now on the way from England.
will replace less
some of the forts abou# the harbor of
Halifax, N.
vast tract
Puerto Cabello
ropean
BOER RAIDS.
Cape Colony Has Been Invaded by Two
Thousand Burghers — Demands
Made of General Dewet.
The situation in the northern districts
of Cape Colony is more serious. Fully
2,000 Boers have invaded that section.
Grave fears are entertained that Dutch
sympathizers will join the rebellion and
that this will spread.
The principal seat of action has been
transferred to the northern part of Cape
Colony. A large body of Boers have
crossed the Orange river toward Bur-
gersdorp. A British force followed, to
avoid which the Boers turned westward
and occupied Venterstadt, but they
evacuated the town the same day on the
approach of the British and marched
in the direction of Steynsburg.
Another 3,000 Boers crossed at Sand
Drift, making for Colesberg, but on the
dispatch of a British force, they diverg-
ed and occupied Phillipstown, cutting
the telegraph wires between Phillips-
town and Moukt Kraal. Early Thurs-
day morning a portion of these Boers
reached Houkt Kraal station and cut
the line there.
Considerable reinforcements have
been sent to DeAar and Hanover, and
it is expected that further invasion will
now be stopped, except in the case of
scouting parties which may slip through
to raid cattle and to obtain much need-
ed supplies.
DeWet had 6,000 men and 18,000
horses when he captured Dewetsdorp,
according to a gentleman who was im-
prisoned there.
then declared that he was not going to
surrender without a free pardon for all
his men,
The force of
three sections.
The Boer commander
including many Cape Dutch.
6,000 is now divided into
CAPE COLONY IN REVOLT.
The Dutch are Taking Arms in Sympathy
With the Fighting Boers.
Private advices have been received in
London that virtually all the districts of
vicinity of the
The war office has made the following
“ ‘lew of the general
Africa the following
next week. Two cavalry regimenis
have been ordered to leave as soon as
the transports are ready. The colonial
police will be increased to 10,000. De-
tachments will leave as fast as they are
formed. Further drafts of cavalry will
be dispatched at once. Australia and
New Zealand have been invited to send
further contingents. Three thousand
extra horses, beyond the usual monthly
supply, have been contracted for.”
CAUSING MUCH ANXIETY.
Chinese Desperadoes Burning Houses and
Murdering Natives.
A dispatch from Peking, dated Fri-
day, says the situation throtighout the
provinces is rapidly growing worse, and
is causing grave anxiety. The dispatch
adds that unless a definite system of
government is speedily installed a re-
crudescence of the anti-foreign out-
breaks is confidently predicted. The
pressure of winter begins to be felt by
the people, who are also suffering on a:-
count of the blackmail levied by the na-
tive employes of the allies, for which
the foreigners are blamed. A number
of desperadoes, imprisoned at San Chow
Fu by Gen. Mei, whom the Germans
released, are now hurrying to the Chi
Li Shang Tung border burning houses,
murdering and pillaging.
Lynched an Innocent Man.
Citizens of Gulfport, Miss., Thursday
lynched one negro and are on the trail
of three others as a result of the murder
of Town Marshal W. E. Richardson.
The negro lynched was not the one who
did the shooting, but he had been ar-
rested by a posse that was pursuing the
real culprit and his relatives. The negro
church at Gulfport has been burned by
the mob.
Canadians Going Home.
The population of the New England
States, but more particularly of Maine,
threatens to be reduced by 150,000 or
200,000, and that of the Province of
Quebec correspondingly increased carly
next spring, by the return to their na-
tive province of French-Canadians who
nave during the past 30 years crossed the
border with the hope of bettering their
condition.
Natural Bridge Sold.
The Natural bridge property,
ginia, including over 400 acres of land,
has been sold for $350,000, of which
$20,000 was paid in cash. The purchas-
in Vir-
ers are a syndicate of Richmond, Va.
and Northern canitalists.
CABLE FLASHES.
he census of Germany shows 33
cities with populations exceeding 100,-
000.
Count von Blumenthal, the oldest
field marshal in the German army, is
dead.
Seventeen thousand dock laborers,
sailors and coal porters are on a strike
at Antwerp.
Von Meerscheidt Huellessem, the
chief of the criminal department at Ber-
lin, died Friday.
The population
the suburbs, is
2,076,546 in 1803.
of Berlin, including
2,460,676, compared wit h
London war office have raised the
wages of English soldiers in Africa to
five shillings daily.
Royul
Aberdeen,
Lord Strathcona and Mount
has been installed as rector of
Scotland, university.
The British navy will probably stop |
to
The Antwerp police engaged in bat-
tle with the striking dockmen and 50 of
the latter
were wounded.
Thanksgiving service in London :n
honor of Lord Roberts’ return post-
poned until Boers are crushea.
The Czar of Russia will not leave
where he is convalescing, for
The coming census of Great Britain
41,270,-
the na-
Bri
The chateau in Belgium of the Prince
dating from 1146, was burned,
most of the art
h race.
The influenza epidemic at St. Peters-
burg is so severe that the mortality re-
turns for the last week have been the
highest for a decade.
Sir Alfred Milner,
South Africa,
grave.
governor of Brit-
sent word that the
The Boers are 14
is
Several modern long-range guns are
They
modern armament in
A German dyndtaan has acquired a
of tide-water coal land near
5, Venezuela. Many Eu-
stors have lately arrived
inves
there looking for coal.
A MILLIONAIRES SON KIDNAPED.
PAID $25,000 000 RANSOM
Conspirators Warned ihe Father That if He
Failed to Pay the Money His Son
Wouid be Blinded.
Omaha, Neb., has never known such
another reign of terror as that in which
it now struggles. Edward Cudahy, Jr,
who limped painfully into the home of
his millionaire father at a nearly honr
Thursday morning. had just finished an
experience with kidnapers which he will
long remember.
The boy was carried by his captors
on Tuesday .evening into a deserted
house on the outskirts of the city, and
there chained ‘to the floor like a beast
while the brigands bargained ail his
father for his release.
Edward Cudahy, the millionaire pack-
er, paid $25,000 in gold for the release
of his son. The father was threatened
through a letter that unless he produc-
cd the money at once the eyes of his
son would be burned out. The hali-
frenzied parent drove to a lonely road
and leit the gold in a bag, at the spot
indicated by the brigands in their let-
ter.
Mr. Cudahy has announced that he
would pay $25,000 reward for the appre-
hension of the abductors of his son,
$5,000 for one and $15,000 for two of
them.
Edward Cudahy, Jr., related the cir-
cumstances attending his abduction and
his experience while in the hands of the
kidnapers. He appears well, though
pale and somewhat emaciated as :he
result of his terrible ordeal. His wrists
still bear the marks of the handcuffs
placed upon him by his captors. He
says there were six of the men, but
that all wore masks whenever in his
presence, and that the only one he
would attempt to identify was the onc
who kept guard over him during his
incarceration in the lonely building in
which he was held. He thinks he could
recognize the man’s voice, as it differed
much from that of any of the others.
TARIFF ON WHEAT
Agrarian Parly in Gormany Wants it Made
Prohibitive.
The Agrarian party in Germany, hav-
ing successfully brought about a law
at the last session of the reichstag pro-
hibiting, in effect, the importation of
American canned meats, is now using
its powerful influence to increase heav
ily the import duties on all grains en-
tering the empire, notably on wheat,
reports U. S. Consul Diederich at Bre-
men to the State department. The aim
of the Agrarians, according to the con-
sul, is to make Germany entirely inde-
pendent of all countries for its bread
stuffs and food supplies.
At present, however, says the consul,
there seems little doubt that the pro-
posed law will be passed by the reich-
stag. As a large portion of the im-
portation of wheat is American-grown,
this will seriously affect the interests
of the American farmer. “A duty of
40 or 50 cents on every bushel of wheat,”
concludes Consul Diederich, “cannot
fail to be well night prohibitive, and
the conseauence will be more limited
markets, fiercer competi tion, and lower
prices to the produ cer
MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.
Turks in Macedonia Klled One Thouand.
Men Crucificd and Flesh Sliced CH.
Further details of the
Christians in
re of the
Mussul-
Macedonia
by
mans are received from Salonica. In
the village of Bituch, in Northern Al-
bania, a horde of Mohammedans hE sie
fied every Christian male in the place,
through their hands and feet. Many
of the women were assaulted, and all
were carried off to Mohammedan har-
cms. Children were chopped up before
their parents’ eyes.
At Gruma. south
were assaulted in
bands and fathers;
bly mutilated, having their ears, fin
gers, toes and limbs cut off. Many
Christians were drowned.
At Ribaritz, the entire population ws
massacred, after the victims’ flesh had
been sliced off. At Banishka, a bonfire
was made of 20 Christians. The Ser-
vian consul at Mitrovitza estimated the
number of Christians killed at 470 men,
110 women and 430 children.
of
front
the
Bituch, women
of their hus-
men were terri-
Mary'and Bank Fcbbed.
Robbers blew up the of the
safe
activity.
of arms.
by
were notified that such practices will end
the possibility of their resuming normal
civ
tive criminals.
morning.
fixing them to trees with stakes driven |;
ENVOYS AGREE.
Not Made Irrevocable—Punishment of
Boxer Leaders Demanded.
Telegrams from Pekin, say:
Wednesday evening the terms of the
joint note were agreed to, including the
British modifications. The ministers 1e-
fuse to disclose anything, believing that
the home governments should give tie
particulars to the public.
The officials at Washington are ua:
able to say just what the British modi
fications referred to in the Pekin dis
patch are, but it is believ. ed they rested
upon the exclusion of the “irrevocable’
clause, which this government has in-
sisted must not appear in the preamble
to the note, and the preamble, it is un-
derstood, will not contain that word.
It is believed that the following points
cover the essential features of the agree- |
ment:
The punishment of the officials guilty
of the Boxer outrages. The payment
of indemnity for the wrongs inflicted
by the Boxers to the persons, corpora-
tions and societies which have suffered.
The revision of commercial treaties.
Some reform in the Tsung Li Yamen,
so that the ministers having business |
with the foreign office may transact it
more expeditiously and with a responsi-
ble head. A monument to Baron von
Ketteler and the appointment-of a prince
of the blood to proceed to Germany to
make formal apology to the emperor.
The right to keep legation guards in
Pekin desired. The exclusion of candi-
dates for examinations for office for a
certain number of years in the case of
those who may be guilty of anti-foreign
An interdiction of importation
of arms into China and of material to
be used exclusively in the manufacture
he taking of measures to
prevent further troubles.
PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED.
Gen. MacArthur Says the Laws of War Will
be Strictly Applied in the Islands
From Now On.
Thursday Gen. MacArthur issued a
proclamation warning the inhabitants of
the archipelago that strict compliance
with the laws of war will be required
of
ants.
mations
threatening natives who are friendly to
combat-
The proclamation refers to procla-
by insurgent commanders
non-combatants as well as
the American forces and to the orders
issued to their men to kidnap and as-
sassinate residents of towns occupied
erie The insurgent leaders
c relations and will make them fugi-
Residents of places occupied by Amer-
icans were notified that compliance with
the demands of the enemy will create a
presumption that such acts are volun-
tary and malicious; that pleas of in-
timidation will rarelv be accepted, and
that where secret committees are per-
mitted to exist in behalf of the insur-
gents even well-disposed persons will be
exposed to the danger of being tried as
traitors.
MADE A GOOD HAUL.
Bank Robbers Blow Open a Safe and Secure
$18,000.
The safe in the Citizens bank at Hope,
Ind., was blown open by robbers and
looted of its contents carly Tuesday
There were five explosions in
opening the safe. The telephone girl
saw the flash and called up a number
of citizens. Postmaster Spaugh, one
of the first to arrive upon the scene, saw
a man on guard in front of the bank
o ran inside the bank door just ia
time to avoid a load of shot from
Spaugh's shotgun. The robbers fled
with their booty, and made their escape.
There was at least $18,000 taken. Three
or four men were connected with the
robbery. Twenty men are scouring the
country in search of the robbers, who
are thought to be in hiding not far off.
CHOATE MAY FESIGN.
/merican Ambassador to England Coming
Home—May Not Return.
Ambassador Choate will, it is said,
soon sail for the United States, the
death of his partner, Charles C. Beaman,
having rendered his presence in New
York necessary.
It is believed that Ambassador Choate
will not return to T.ondon. He is not a
rich man and his life there as ambassa-
At 3
meeting of the foreign ministers late
dor entails not only the loss of his pro-
| € y I
{fessional income, but is likewise a heavy
drain on his purse, as his salary is th
ly sufficient to pay his house rent. This
iin itself rendered him disinclined to re-
{tain the ambassadorship for another
Hampstead bank, Carroll county, Md.,
carly Thursday morning. So terr ie!
was the explosion that a portion of the:
wall of the building was demolished. |
The robbers escaped, using a hand car
and
going south on the Baltimore and | four vears, and now that his partner in
Harrisburg railroad. Officials cf the! i the firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman is
bank say the men secured about $30 in | dead his return to America for good has
coin, all the notes having been removed | become more than ever probable.
from the safe th the evening before ena
ana Prince Cai’ed to Account.
VOLUNTEERS TO RETURN. Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, pastor of the
he (1 ity Temple, w has assumed for a
week the editorship of the London
FPhilippine.Soldiers Are Soon to be Replaced |
ir in Tuesda
s issue of the paper,
by Regulars. [under the heading ‘Betting and Gamb-
- 3 2 _. iling Forecasts,” tilts at the Prince of
Telegrams from Manila say The Wi ales and Lord Roseberry as follows:
volunteer regiments will proceed to the Voce to any country in which the
|
I
United States, to be mustered out, in heirs to the throne and prime ministers
practically the same order as they ur- | favor the race course as it exists among
wds. They ius to-day. If princes are gnilty, it is
rived in the Philippine
will be replaced by regulars, provided
ly the army bill. The Thirty-seventh
volunteer regiment, which to begin |
a poor consolation {
pants. If the
has no right
r us to rebuke peas-
premier can blaspheme, he
to rebuke ribaldry upon
the street. I would rather have as pre-
i mier a man of solid character than one
{of brilliant mind addicted to habits that
i may have thie effect of a pestilence upon
2 il 1c Tising gencration
is
the pomevaid movement by embarking i
brought
and
on New Ye: day, will be
from the a de Bay dis strict,
will sail on the transport Sherid:
The officers of the regular
ing commissions in volunteer 1
wiil be retained in the Pre ies, and
wn
Britains Most important Vegetable.
If asked what was the most important
volunteer officers on special duty will
be relieved only on the authority of €vent in the history of British vegeta-
headquarters 2 bles, most people would say the bringing
It is believed that the temporary de- Over of the potato irom its home in
pletion’ of many posts and the checking America. They would be wrong. The
introduction of the turnip—that is, of
| of operations will result in renewed in x i
surgent activity. The announcement of the Swedish lorena of puch ay
the early commencement of transporta er yalue. hi \ A = tae ys
tion home of the Intecrs used turnip people had te live during the
winter chiefly on salted meat. And se-
vere winters were dreaded on account
of the terrible mortality among sheep,
which were then left ont at pasture all
| through the cold weather. The growing
of Swedes changed all that by providing
prise General Hi hes ; reports that 21,
000 persons in the island of Panay Ne ¢
sworn alegiane e fo ps e United States
American Wea'th.
In the last ten years the Uhited States cheap and wholesome food for stock
has increase d | it $£26.070,000.000, | when penned up. Turnips. like so many
which makes of the nation | other vegetables, came from Helland
about 1600.—Washington Star.
Morecco Comes
A message from United States Con-
Gummere, at Tangiers, informs the
State department that the Moorish gov-
$G1.000,000. < an average per
capita wealth of $1,195. This is not so!
great a per capita we alth as Great Brii- |
an’s, for her figures are $1.300 for each
inhabitant But aggregate wealth
sinks into the background before ours, |
she has
|
i
for only $30,000,000.000 agains had settled the claim of the
our © $01,000,00 ,000. Her increase 1 States for 000 indemnity on
wealth in ten years is $10,000.000.0c0, weccount of the murder of Marcus
against our $26,000.000,000. The incr | LEszagui, a naturalized American citi-
136
in wealth in this country in the last ten | zen,
years has been $337 for each inhabit
Beers Become Invaders.
It is reported that
in Morocco last spring.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Charles S. Francis of New York, has
been forced to abandon the pursuit of |been nominated to be minister to
Gen. Dewet, owing to the situation cre- | Greece. Roumania and Servia.
ated in Cape Colony by the Boers cross- The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
Gen.
has
Knox
ing the Orange river. Tt is said that{tion of John W. Yerkes, of Ketucky, 1
3,000 republicans have entered Cane |be commissioner of internal revenue.
Colony, and a similar number have John G. A. ishman, of Pittsburg.
reached Philipstown. Dewet, with minister : nd. has been trone.
about 4,500 men, is northeast of Lady- ferred to the m at Constantinople.
brand, and an astack on Winburg is ex-
h Senate voted > nsior
pected. The SEH 3 be 1S101S of $50 a
ee month to the widows of General John
The mayor of Atlanta, Ga., breaks his] M. Palmer and General John A. "Me.
pledge and is locked up in police sta-|Clernand.
tion for being drunk. The Senate passed the House resolu-
Attorney Gen. Griggs argued in su-|tion authorizing the retirement of Con-
preme court that the constitution does gressman Charles A. Boutelle as a cap-
not necessarily follow the flag. tain of the navy.
AEISTONE STH NES CONDENSED |
The Conditions for Negotiation of Peace Are
PENSIONS GRANTED.
|
bh Center County Preacher Making Musical
| Instruments—Accidents on Railroads
in This State Last Year.
|
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|
Pensions were granted the following
"persons last week: Wilson S. Smith,
Elizabeth, » James Gray, Dunbar, $3;
Francis M. Kessinger, Mifflinburg, $17;
Valentine Phipps, Shippensville, $17;
Horace Johns, Covert, $8; Eva Bales,
Fort Palmer, $12; Mary E. Houtz,
Philipsburg. $8; E tolonig Chew, West
Brownsville. $12; Sarah J. Bales, Ord,
8; Antoinette R. Horton, Wellsboro,
$17; Wiley C. Belcher, Clymer, $8
Rev. W. W. Rhoads, now pastor of
the United Evangelical Church
‘at Center Hall, Center county,
ter Hall, Center Hall, Center county,
js not only a very good preacher of the
gospel, but he is a thirough musician,
and is the author of quite a number of
sacred songs, both words and music,
and to add to his salary, this minister
makes violins. And they are not an o:-
dinary violin bv any means, but a very
superior musical instrument, for the
preacher sells them for from $30 and
upward.
The total number of passengers in-
jured on the steam railroads of this
State for the year ending June 30, 1900,
was 1,137 and the number killed was
30. The number of employes killed was
795 while 14,784 were injured. The
number of passengers carried this year
was 178,123,541 and there were 5,937,451
carried to one injured.
An immense charge of dynamite
Wednesday morning blew up the saie
in the postoffice at Midway on the
Panhandle Railway and the contents,
including cash, notes and stamps, aggre-
gating over $400, were taken by the
robbers. The building was wrecked
and the desperadoes safely escaped.
At Scranton, Patrick McNulty was
stabbed twice in the body and possibly
fatally injured by 68-year-old William
Murray during a fight. Murray is in
jail. The men quarreled over the pri-
maries which were held to select a suc-
cessor to J. I. Greer, one of the resign-
ed bribery councilmen.
President E. B. Sturges, of the
Scranton Municipal league has officially
confirmed the rumor of the past few
weeks, that ten more councilmen are
to be arrested for bribery. Arrests will
be made immediately after the holidays.
Twelve have already been through the
mill.
Judge McPherson, in the United
States court at Philadelphia, directed the
entry of judgment for ° $115, 327.48
against William M. Jacobs. who is serv-
ing a term of imprisonment for his con-
nection with the Lancaster counterfeit-
INY case.
The auditors’ of the defunct Pennsyl-
vania Building and Loan Association,
of Altoona, have awarded the stock-
holders 9 per cent. on their holdings,
which aggregate $110,000. A further
report with a second distribution - is
promised.
One result of the recent strike among
the glass workers at Arnold is the abol-
ishment of the company store. It was
known as the Union Supply Company.
Orders have been given to close out the
entire stock.
The Eckles school house and con-
tents, located near New Kingstown,
Cumberland county, was totally destroy-
ed by fire of incendiary origin. The
building was first or and then burn-
ed. Loss, $3,000.
The Everett postoffice was entered
and the safe blown open, the. burglars
securing more than $500 in stamps and
cash and $1,000 worth of valuable secur-
ities belonging to Postmaster John G.
Cobler.
David Rhodes and Orton Hough, two
grocers of Smithton, Fayette county,
narrowly escaped drowning while at-
tempting to ford the Youghiogheny riv-
er. They lost their wagon, one horse
and $200 worth of merchandise.
The Springboro school building and
O. G. Dewitts’ barn, in Crawford coun-
ty, were destroyed by fire. The blaze
originated in the school building, pre-
sumably from the furnace. The dam-
age is $8,000.
The new coal mines of the Pittsburg
and Baltimore Coal Company, being
opened at Adamsburg, Westmoreland
county, will be ready to begin operation
in {ull about April 1, The company is
erecting 200 houses for its men.
Josiah M. Black, administrator of
Newton Black, who died suddenly at
Butler, seeks to prove that Black's
death was due to an accident, and seeks
| to recover $5,000 each from two accident
insurance companies.
An estate valued at $250,000, in the fer-
tile valleys of Lorraine, Germany, has
become the heritage of George Wilhelm,
a_dairyman who lives on the Morning
sire road, near Highland Park, Pitrs-
burg.
William D. Rebok, aged 50 years, a
porminent citizen of Newburg, near
Carlisle, was shot and killed in his yard.
His own gun was used. but whether the
crime was murder or suicide not
known.
The directors of the Western Pennsy!-
vania Agricultural society, at Washinga-
ton have elected W. Baldwin
president; James S. Forsythe, secretary,
and J. P. Eagleson, treasurer.
Hon. Ebenezer McJunkin,
former presiding judge of th: Butler-
Lawrence county judicial district, and
the oldest member of the Butler bar,
is seriously ill at his home in Butler.
At Edeborn, near Uniontown, Larry
Garibalde, while drunk, fired into a
crowd of Ttaligns around a stove and
shot Antonio Fozzio seriously.
is
aged 82,
Thieves carried off the Commercial
Hotel safe at Tarr, Westmoreland coun-
ty, and blew it open. There was noth-
ing in it.
By a cave-in at the Ravine mine of
the Pennsylvania Coal Company at
Pittston, the principal street of the city
for 30 feet fell into the mines.
The Latrobe board of trade has re-
| ceived from an East Liverpool (0Q.) pot-
tery firm an inquiry regarding a site
for a plant to employ 500 men.
Mr. Clarence Josselyn, wife of a prom-
inent merchant, was fatally burned at
her home in Erie by an overturned lamp.
ine rouse nas passea a bil granting
a pension of $40 a month for D. R. El.
lis, of Somerset. Ellis is one of the four
survivors of the crew of the Monitor,
of civil war fame.
Four more Montgomery county town-
shipZ petition for a mandamus to com-
pel the State superintendent and State
treasurer to pay them more school
money.
Wm. McCracken, aged 17, was caught
in a belt at a lath mill at Glen Camp-
bell, and whirled arcund for 20 minutes,
when his mutilated body was discover.
ed.
English Live on the River.
F. Hopkinson Smith has just return-
-d from abroad. He says: “I went
over in June for my annual jaunt. This
time I painted on-the Thames, in Hol-
land and in Venice. The Thames is a
new subject for me. The greater part
of the work which I did on the Thames
was done at Cokeham, an hour out of
London. This is one of the prettiest
part of the river. The trees Overhang
it on either side, and the life is inter.
esting. We have no idea over here of
the life on the Thames. The Eng
live on the river. I wish we appr
ated our rivers as the English do.”
SrmawWheat.
Oat.
BurTter—EIgin creamery. .
BeaNs—Navy, per bushel. .
Brooklyn,
a neighbor, a box of fine kid gloves
against three Kisses
would be elected.
be delivered in Miss Davidson’s heme
in the presence of a number of friends.
Sunday night the young woman kept
her agreement.
somewhat bashful,
‘0 cancel the wager.
some hesitation gave the kisses,
her fiends cheered. —New York World,
THEE MARKETS,
PITTSBUEG.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
—No. 2red . «8 Me 7
®ve. No o Ty Ae 60 61
Re 2 yellow, ear 43 44
No. 2 yellow, shelled. 42 42
BAr......--0- 4114 4
@ats—No. 2 white. 1
Brown Tladiings,
Bran, bulk. .
Dairy Products,
Ohio creamery... ... 2417 25
Fancy country roll. 18 19
Cueesg—Ohio, new. . 11 113 bg
New York, new .............. 12 1214
Poultry, etc.
Hexs—per 1b T@ Ts
al eee 12 12) 3
Eces—Pa. anda Ohio, 24 244
Fruits and Vegotable: .
3210@ 215
»orATOES—Fancy white, Db 45 50
re barrel. : 9% 10
Ox1oxs—per bushel . 75 85
BALTIMORE,
FLOUB....s0vnresiies sedated % 3 80@ 4 00
WaeAT—NO. 2 red 2Y% 72}
CorN—mixed . 42 12%
OATS . . 30g 41
Eas. 23 25
Burrer—Ohio creame 26 21
PHILADELPHIA.
Eaas—Pennsylvania firsts. .
NEW YORK.
Frour—Patents. .... $3 0@ 4 2%
WreeAT—No. 2 red 764
CorN—NO. 2....... 4635
OaTs—White western 30Lg oi
BurTER-—Creamery... .. is 2
Ecas—State and Penna .. 22 21
LIVE STOCK.
Central Stock Yards, East Liboarcty, Pa.
CATTLE.
Prime heavy, 1500 to 1600 lbs... 8 5 30@ 5 45
Prime, 1300 to 1400 Ibs... , 490 510
Medium, 1000 to 1200 Ib: 425
Fat hejfers........... 410
Butcher, 500 to 1000 1b: 4 85
Common to fair...... 320
Oxen, common to fat... 4 50
Common to good fat bulls 3 60
Milch cows, each 35 00
Extra milch cows, each. 55 00
HOGS.
Prime medium weights......... $5 05@ 5 10
Best heavy yorkérs and medium 5 00 5 05
Good to Yo packers. 505 510
Good pigs and light yor 500 505
Skip pigs..... 380 39
Prime heavy hog 505 510
Common to fair. ; .. 495 500
Roughs...... ... 8350 410
Stags 300 390
SHEEP.
Extra, medium weight wethers.$ 3 902 4 10
shoice, 3 i 3 80
325
3 25
LAMBS.
Lambs, extra spring ........... 35102535
Lambs, good to choice, spring... 300 500
Lambs, common to fair, spring.. 425 490
CALVES.
Veal, extra 6 E0@ 7 00
Veal, good to choic . 600 6 &
Veal, common to fair. . 4:0 500
Veal, common heavy 350 450
TRADE REVIEW.
doliday Trade Has Made a Spurt and the
Iron Industries Are Vigorously
Boom ng.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review
of Trade” says: Better weather condi-
tions on the Atlantic seaboard and
pronounced activity in distribution of
all staple lines of merchandise at South-
crn cities have impaired a slightly more
aggressive tone to general business.
Distinctive holiday business, which
means retail distribution, has shown
further improvement and no complaint
is heard from any quarter, while the
jewelry trade is much more active than
for several years past. At this time in
ordinary years furnaces close down in
large numbers and dullness is general
at mills and shops where iron and steel
are handled. Instead of reduction of
working force or concessions in prices
this year, reports from the principal
cities indicate the existence of con-
tracts that will take months to fill, and
new sales are made at the former level,
despite much talk of cheaper ore next
vear. Fuel declined about 25¢ a ton
recently, but this is as far as the cost
of raw material has been reduced. It is
seldom possible to secure prompt de-
livery of partially manufactured forms
or finished products, and each week
brings more orders from abroad, while
the November statement of British 2x-
ports shows another decrease com-
pared with last year in these products.
Wheat is quiet, receipts aggregating 4,-
802,770 bushels, against 3,306,286 bush-
els last year, while Atlantic exports
were 2,701,412 bushels flour included.
against 1,536,164 bushels in the same
week of 1899. Corn advanced again to
about 7 cents above last year’s level
without important news. The move-
ment is much heavier. For three
weeks of December receipts amounted
to 14,792,257 bushels. against 9,404,868
bushels last year, while Atlantic exports
were 15,244,720 bushels, against 11,233,-
918 bushels in 18990. Failures for the
week were 293 in the United States,
against 220 last year, and 18 in Canada,
against 26 last year.
Two Killed in a Shooting /ffray.
At Sopchoppy, Fla, in a shooting ai-
fray among State Senator Rouse, Edgar
Jims, . E. Edwards and Frank
Walker, Rouse and Nims were kilied.
The others were badly wounded.
Open Alaska Boundary © Case.
It is learned that negotiations with
respect to the Alaska boundary have
recommended between the United
States and the British government, and
that an active interchange of diplomatic
notes is in progress. The members of
the Canadian ministry absolutely refuse
to discuss the matter, but it is said
that by the time parliament meets in
February the negotiations may be so far
advanced as to permit of a ministerial
statement being made then.
Th? Holidays in Flcnia
All military and civil duties
hoes ordered suspended in the Phi'ip-
for Christmas day and New
t's day, with the exception of ncees-
guard and field duties. General
MacArthur announces that he will hold
a formal reception on New Year's day.
An order of General Otis, former mi'-
itary governor, has again been promul-
gated to the effect that members of the
have
sary
volunteer force imprisoned for mi ‘itary
offense
may be released and sent home
in the discretion of the colonels of their
respective regiments,
not been dishonorably discharged.
provided they have
Paid Bet in Kisses.
Samuel Weldon of Fifty-sixth street,
bet Miss Louise Davidson,
that McKinley
The kisses were to
At first she appeared
and Wilson offered
Miss Davidson
would net consent, however, and after
whila
of