mn,
IMPERIAL EDICT.
0 Stand for Best Terms—Will Ask That
“Forts be Merely Disarmed Instead
; of Destroyed.
t
The
een unexpectedly ordered to sign the
Chinese plenipotentiaries have
fo joint note and have notified
the foreign envoys to that effect. The
Chinese themselves were greatly aston
ished at receiving the imperial instruz-
tions. Neither Li Hung Chang nor
Prince Ching had expected success in
persuading the court under ten days.
The emperor's instructions are to
agree fully to the note, but to endeavor
to get the best terms possible, parti
larly in the matter of limiting the num:
ber of the legation guards and also as
to the places where these are to be lo-
cated. The plenipotentiaries are in-
structed to endeavor to limit the num
ber of army posts along the line of rail-
way to as few as possible and finally to
request the powers not to destroy the
forts, but merely to disarm them.
The foreign communities in Pel
are greatly satisfied at the decided to
of the collective note and the asse
that the powers are determined to enter-
tain no proposals for the modification
of their demands. It is understood Li
Hung Chang sent a memorial to tae
throne, couched in very strong terms,
urging complete compliance.
The Germans killed 40 Chinese troops
Man Cheng, northwest of P20
Ting Fu. They had no casualties.
Among the natives a fecling of great
mistrust is being caused, apparently by
the high-handed action of the Germans,
as the Chinese suspect them of an in-
tention to force a serious engagement
with the Chinese troops.
DIVIDING CHINA.
Territory Parcelled Cut Among the Pcwers
for its Temporary Government.
Telegrams from Pekin, dated Thurs-
day, say: The proclamation announcing
the division the country around Peking,
Pao-Ting-Fu and Tien-tsin to districts,
placed severally under the control of the
different military cemmanders, has been
posted in the German section only. It
recognizes the Chinese military and civil
governors, but makes no reference to
Count von Waldersee.
Germany's action is strange. She, for-
merly so severe, now recognizes Chines
authority. The largest districts have
been allotted to the British, German and
French troops.
Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching,
the Chinese peace commissioners, have
heard from the emperor, Kwang-Hsu
The court objects strenuously to reduc-
ing the forts and also to allowing perm
nent legation guards. It was decided
to hold further communication with the
court before seeing the ministers.
Many Chinese war junks, laden with
stone, have been anchored off Wu-Sung,
presumably to block the channel in case
of an emergency.
TROUELES INCREASING.
Russia Now Prohibits Importation of Cer-
tain German Meats.
Consul Talbot J. Albert, at Bruns-
wick, Germany, has informed the state
department that a new and important
phase of the meat question has arisen
between Russia and Germany. Russia
has prohibited the importation of Ger-
man meat, which has seriously affected
one of the principal industries of Bruns-
wick, the manufacture of various kinds
of sausage, and has been the cause of a
ve.opetition by the chamber of commerce
to the department of interior at Berlin,
calling attention to the commercial
treaty with Russia and urging that the
imports from Germany should not be
barred from the Russian market by any
kind of prohibition. ‘he Germans
claim that certain products can only be
excluded under special circumstances
when hygienic or veterinary police reg
ulations come into question.
PLANS TO ISOLATE LEPERS.
Thirly Thousand People Suffering From the
Disease in fhe Philippines.
An appended report to Gen. MacAr-
thur’s review of civil affairs of the Phil-
ippines for the past fiscal year gives
startling facts regarding leprosy in the
islands. According to the estimates of
the Franeiscari fathers, says Maj. Guy
SER the writer of the report, there
are 30,000 lepers in the archipelago, the
major portion being in the Viscayas.
house to house ‘inspection begun last
January found more than 100 lepe
concealed in dwellings. These were
sent to San Lazaro hospital, in Manila,
but many others escaped into the sur-
rounding country. A commission is
now engaged in selecting a suitable
island or islands for the purpose of iso-
lating all the lepers.
GOEBEL
An Important =
£
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
A pitched battle at Ardmore, I. T,,
resulted in twe deaths.
France is about to place an order for
200,000 tons of American coal.
Chief Justice William T. Faircloth, of
Goldshorough, N. C., is dead.
John W. Tinsley killed his wife and
himself on the eet in Los Angeles,
Cal.
A bill will be introduced in Congress
providing for a naval reserve of 20,000
men.
Recent Russian settlers near Ana-
moose. N. D., are suffering from a lac
of food.
Winona, Minn.. has 500 cases of small-
pox, and a strict quarantine has been
established.
Colombia rebels have refused to ac-
cept any terms but the surrender of the
government.
Thirty lumbermen on the Kennebec
river, in Maine, rioted over religion and
one will die.
A dispute in a card game over $2 re-
sults in the killing of three men at Ab-
beville, S.
A destructive fire wiped out half »f
the business section of Eau Claire,
Mich. Tuesday.
The O'Leary club house, at the Chi-
cago stock yards, was burned, causing
a loss of $60,000.
English steel manufacturers and ship
builders are talking of establishing
plants in America.
Three attendants at the Bellevue hos-
pital, New York, are charged with the
death of a patient.
Harry L. Wilbur, a popular Philadel-
phia (Pa.) clubman, was unhorsed at a
fox hunt and killed.
George Fuller, a negro, was lynched
near Marion, Ala. e was charged
with burning a barn.
A general storm swept the English
channel, wrecking many vessels and
drowning many seamen.
A receiver has been appointed for
old Town bank of Baltimore, Md.
which admits insolvency.
Eighteen carloads of mules have been
shipped from Virginia to San Francisco
en route to the Philippines.
Frank Richardson, a wealthy business
man of St. Joseph, Mo., was murdered
at his home Tuesday night.
The statistician reports 10,100,000
bales as the probable cotton production
of the United States for 1900-1901.
John Kelley and William Hull were
drowned by breaking through tlre ice on
a skating pond at Norwalk, Conn.
President of Barber county (Kan) W.
C. T. U. has been locked up for smash-
r paintings and mirrors in a saloon.
male prisoners in a Brooklyn (N.
jail attacked the matron and
jjured her before aid was had.
“ufaula, I. T., a drunken Indian
celebrated Christmas by killing three
persons and fatally wounding a fourth.
se
At
Slippery rails caused two street cars
to colidle in Pittsburg, Pa., on Christ-
as, in which eleven people were injur-
The Barre (Vt) chief of police was
shot and probably fatally wounded after
quelling a row at an Italian anarchist
ball.
The mouthpiece of the German gov-
ernment declares that the Davis amend-
ment to the treaty was a slap at Eng-
land.
Dr. George W. Howland was killed,
and C. H. Quigley fatally injured at
Flint, Mich., by their horse running
away.
Prisoners at the county jail at White
ins, N 7 attempted escape by
but their plans went
ting a fire,
wrong.
About 1,700 employes of the Conti-
nental Tobacco Company, at Louisville,
Ky., are out on strike for an increase in
wages.
On January 2, 1901, it is calculated,
over $175,000,000 will be distributed in
the United States as interest and divi-
dends.
The Cramps have received the Turk-
ish order for a cruiser at a price suffi-
cient to pay American missionary
claims. >
for aid.
has ended.
two cents.
increased.
oi his acts.
Maxham estate.
and Altoona, Pa.
Dr. J. C. White. of Morgantown, W
Geological society of America, in ses
sion at Albany, N. Y
o SL
Tne 86y » STEMERS
It will
aneite audi-
Ky., in search-
Leach Mfr for old records, found a
Me. box containing® eight metal
patched smokeless powder cartridges
38-55 caliber, corresponding exactly to
the bullet found in the hackberry tree
and which was believed to have passed
through Senator Goebel's body.
The significance of the discovery
in the fact that Henry Youtsey, convict-
ed of participation in the Goebel
sination in October, was a clerl
auditor's office at the time of the assas-
sination, and had access to the v
where the cartridges were found, an:
that George Barnes, another clerk in
the office, testified that he saw Youtszy
with a box of cartridges.
assas
Trouncing the Rebels.
United Statés Charge Beaupre, of
Bogota, has cabled the state department
that he has been informed by the
0-
Jombian government that the invading |
troops were overtaken by the govern-
ment forces at Rosario and that their
leader, Gen. Uribide, was defeated at
Corazel, in the province of Bolivar. He
was retreating with a few remaining
followers through the department of
Madgdalena toward the Venezuelan
line. The war is said to be progress-
ing favorably for the Colombian govern-
ment.
Await the Coming of Christ.
Thirty-six persons from various parts
of the United States who by recent
signs and events have been led to be-
lieve that the second coming of Christ
is at hand are assembled in convention
at Chicago watching, worshiping a
praying that they may be in readiness
receive the robes of immortality.
They are to remain in session until
January 3, by which time a number claim
they expect to behold the object of their
vigil.
New Elixir of Life Discovered.
Selixir of life, the secret of pro-
SS ; :
‘man existence, which has
“antiby the chemists in
ns, by adventurers
t 4 1g y°nd by scientists
in a decisive vier dB CE RY simmemortzl,
It is reported that 60w
zientists at
many hundreds wounded. Oo ast been
tories by the government foree. ~cy-day
utmost importance have been ar po ~ nS
» >
5 A
| political belief and intimated
cin the |
At Binghamton, N. Y., two
boys set a bear trap for Santa
smal
| sonating the ancient saint.
Mrs. Cornelius L. Alvord,
| of the defaulter, has given
{ worth of jewels to the First
{ bank in partial restitution.
W. J. Bryan at a banquet
| .
| that he adhered still to his
Nationa
declare:
origina
I might be a candidate again.
| Rev. J. L. Leonard, pastor of
| Providence Methodist Episcopal church
St. Joseph, Mo., was fatally burner
a fire that destroyed the edifice.
McDonald, who shot
H. Morris, of Ohio,
| Samuel
killed F.
an«
| morning of his self-inflicted wounds.
{ W. D. Coleman, president of the Li
| berian republic, resigned his office, ane
1G. W. Gibson, secretary of state,
| elected to succeed him by the legislatur
| More than 6,000 persons, four-fifth
of whom went to the United States, emi
the last 12 months, as against 3,300 11
1800.
The
prov ement
directors of the California Im
Company have authorizes
the project of building a railroad from
Los Angeles to Salt Lake City.
A most serious fire broke out Thurs
at the East India docks, London
ve immense sheds filled with goods
including a thousand bales of hemp anc
quantities of jute, were consumed.
of Philadelphia, Pa., and a leading writ
er of ecclesiastical literature,
Wednesday of bronchial pneumonia.
The Norwegian financial
shows great improvement.
vear’s end the Swedish banks have suf
ficient funds for all purposes. The in
terest is high, but business is good.
situatios
has given 1
an institution for learning for poo
boys and girls in New York.
will be ready for occupancy by March 1
kidnapéers of his boy to whom he recent
ly gave $25,000 ransom, threatened t«
akidnap another of his children _unles
withdrew his offer of reward fortheir
Qetection. A,
The Chinese empress dowager has ap-
pointed a new boy emperor, but Kwang
Hsu will resist and appeals to reformers
The Scranton, Pa., street car strike
Strikers demanded an in-
crease of three cents an hour, but got
Grover Cleveland said that Presidents
should be elected by the popular vote
and that the tenure of office should be
Tt is intimated that Mr. Conger, the
United States minister to China, will
shortly resign because of the criticism
The New Jersey training school for
feeble minded children, at Vineland, has |
received a bequest of $100,000 from the
Pat Crowe, alleged kidnaper of Eddie
Cudahy, has been located simultaneous-
ly in St. Joseph, Mo., and Boston, Mass.,
Va., has been elected treasurer of the
Claus
{and caught their cousin, who was per-
Jr, wife :
150,000 | parently the disturbed area of
that he
the |
|
£ |
auditor |
K ] |
for the war department, died Sunday |
i |
was
orated from Christiana, Sweden, during
the winding up of its affairs, including
Rev. Dr. Thomas Murphy, one of the
most eminent Presbyterian clergyi.en
At the
- | fights that has occurred in New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the
president of the Standard Oil Company,
$250,000 for the founding of
The
school is now in course of erection and
Another letter was thrown into the
yard of E. A. Cudahy, the millionaire
packer of Omaha, Neb., in which the
BOERS GAIN ANOTHER. VIGTORY.
KITCHENER’S REPORT.
The British Position at Hevoetia Captured.
Burghers Take 200 Prisoners and
Inflict a Loss of 50—More
Invaders.
Gen. Kitchener reports as follows
from Pretoria, under date of Sunday:
Gen. Lytleton reports that our post at
Helvetia was captured yesterday morn-
ing by the Boers. About 50 were kill-
ed and wounded and 200 taken prisoin-
ers. Kitchener reports that he is
following with a small force in the track
of the enemy, Helvetia being reoccupied
by Reeves, who has been reinforced
from Belfast. Helvetia was a very
strong position on the Machadodorp-
Lydenburg railway and was held by a
detachment of the Liverpool regiment.
Two fresh commandoes are entering
the colony. Ont has already crossed
near Knaapdaar. and the arrival of an-
other is momentarily expected in the
Steynsburg district.
There is not much change in the sit-
uation in Cape Colony. The eastern
force of the enemy appears to have brok-
en up into small parties at Utrecht and
to be moving about rapidly in the same
district, evidently waiting for support
from the north. The last report states
that the western force is moving to Car-
narvon. De Lisle and Thorneycroft are
in close pursuit. French has occupied
Ventersdorp. Clements reports that he
is opposed on the road to Rustenburg.
The eastern line was blown up near Pan,
and a train was held up Saturday morn-
ing on the Standerton line, near Vaal
station,
‘BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Remains of Six Men Scattered by a Dyna-
mite Explosion.
One of the worst accidents in the
history of West Virginia railroad build-
ing happened at Baker camp, near Dyr-
bin, Pocahontas county, on the line of
the coal and iron railroad now building
out irom Elkins. As the result of a
dynamite explosion six men are dead
and others are not expected to live.
The accident happened at noon Fri-
day while the men were at dinner.
Some dynamite had been placed about
the stove to thaw out and shortly after-
ward a terrific explosion wrecked the
camp, killed three outright and injured
about eight others, three of whom have
since died. The dead men were blown
to atoms—legs. arms and hands and
even parts of their heads, being found in
different directions from the little build-
ing in which they lived among the
mountains.
CAPTURED REBEL POSITIONS.
American Troops Have Been Successful in
Northern Mindanno.
A pushing campaign has been carried
on by the Fortieth infantry during De-
cember in northern Mindanao. The
town of Jemeniz was captured, as was
also the insurgent stronghold in the
mountains, further inland. The coast
town of Langarin was captured by a de-
tachment of 100 troops, who scattered
the enemy, killing and capturing sever-
al. A portion of the troops thus en-
gaged have returned to Cagayan and
joined the campaign which Brig. Gen.
Kobbe is personally prosecuting. Gen.
MacArthur's proclamation is resulting
in many arrests of alleged insurrection-
ists in Manila and vicinity, a few of
those taken into custody being promi-
nent. One prisoner was shot dead and
another wounded in an attempt to es-
cape.
HAZED THEIR TEACHER.
Pupils of an Indiana School Nerrly Cause
Instructor’s Death.
Wesley Dugan, a public school teach-
cr near Petersburg, Ind., was the vic-
tim of a hazing at the hands of his pu-
pils, which came near costing him his
life. He was set upon by the larger
pupils in his school and carried to the
edge of a pond in which it was pro-
posed to duck him.
Breaking away he ran into the water
and waded to a stump some distance
from the bank. There he was pelted
with stones and clubs till forced to take
to the water again and try to reach ‘he
opposite bank. He was already numb-
ed with the cold and before reaching the
opposite bank lost consciousness and
would have drowned had not a farmer
rescued him.
Kentucky Feud Fatalities.
Four men have been killed and 10
wounded in Clay county, Ky., fights
within the past two weeks, while two
other Clay county men were killed and
two wounded in a fight just ovér the
Clay county line during the same period.
The factions are again becoming hos-
| tile, and drastic measures may be neces-
sary to quell the feudists.
BOERS ARE AGGRESSIVE.
Gen. Kitchener Failed to Repel the Invaders
1 of Cape Colony—Yeomanry Trupped.
London advices say: The paucity and
obscurity of the dispatches from South
Africa give rise to renewed anxiety. Ap-
Cape
1! Colony extends further south than it did
| last December, and Gen. Kitchener does
1 | not appear to have had much success
|
TERRIBLE MASSACRE.
Victims to Their Death—Leaders
Beheaded—Frightful Scene.
Treachery of an Imperial Officer Lured the
News of a terrible massacre of the re-
LEADS THE WORLD INEXPORT TRAD.
GREAT SHOWING.
The United States Ahead of the United
Kingdom—Gain of 200 Per Cent.
form forces in China and the beheading
of 27 of its leaders has been received in
a dispatch by W. A. Cumrow, secretary
of the Chinese Reform Association in
America. The engagement took place
in the province of Cichila, a populous
section of the Yang Tse valley in Cen-
tral China. It resulted in the killing of
1,500 men and the complete demoraliza-
tion of the reform forces. As a result
of the treachery the reform movement
has been dropped in all that part of the
country. It appears that Long Tom,
the reform leader, at the head of a bad-
ly armed force of 12,000, paid a visit to
Chung Hi Tung, governor of the dis-
trict, who, though an imperial officer,
was believed to be in sympathy with the
reform movement. long was invited
to the governor's palace, and with his
12,000 men was march. into the city.
They leit all their arms outside the
gates, taking the precaution only (0
carry their loaded revolvers. There
were 5,000 imperial troops in the town,
but nothing was feared from them.
delay of a day took place in order that
other reform leaders might be sent for,
and when the audience with the govern-
or was finally arranged, there were 27
in Twenty-five Years.
The United Stat
stand at the head of the world’s list of
exporting nations in 1900.
United Kingdom led the United States
by nearly $250,000.000, and in 1897 the
United States had so i
that she was but
1808 the United States took
our exports i
those of the United Kingdom by near-
ly $100,000,000.
Kingdom again stood at the head of the
list, her exports exceeding those of the
United States by nearly $35.000,000. In
11 months of 1900 the domestic exports
of the United States exceed those ~f
the United Kingdom by $5,473,780. and
should this rate of gain be maintained
in December the United States for 1900
will show a Jdarger exportation of do-
mestic products than any other nation
3 ir the world.
: Comparing the growth of our exports
during the last quarter of the century
with those of the other great nations,
we are able to better measure the won-
derful progress shown,
In
in that
es seems likely to
In 1804 the
rapidly gained
,000,000 behind. In
first place,
year exceeding
1800 the United
France shows
Wei admitted.
Then a disagreement arose.
governor had the leaders seized
were beheaded.
rabble of the reformers.
completely by surprise, but the
escaped.
wounded, but left 1,500 dead on
city. The butchery was frightful.
PHILIPPINE TRADE.
Months was $20,196,938.
war department makes
ippine Islands for
ended May 31, 1900.
The value of merchandise
of the leading followers of Kang Yu
The
and
taken into the court yard, where they
In the meantime a se-
cret order had been sent to the imperial
troops to descend upon a poorly-armed
The 5,000 well-
drilled soldiers took the country people
latter
pluckily fought their way through and
They carried away their own
the
field and scattered in the streets of the
The Total Value of Imports During Eleven
The division of insular affairs of the
public a state-
ment summarizing the trade of the Phil-
the eleven months
imported
no increase in her exports of domestic
merchandisé in the closing quarter of
the century; Germany shows during the
same period an increase of about 50 per
cent., and the United Kingdom shows
from 1875 to 1000 an increase of nearly
40 per cent, while the United States
shows during that time an increase of
practically 200 per cent.
For the 11 months of 1900 exports
from this country were valued at $1.-
308,013,780, and from the United Kinz-
dom at $1,303,440,000.
AN IMMENSE YIELD.
Estimate of the Size of This Year's Wheat
Crop.—About Other Grains.
{
The statistician of the department of
agriculture estimates the United States
wheat crop of 1900 at 522,229,505 bushels,
the area actually harvested being 42.-
495,385 acres, and the average yield per
acre 12.20 bushels. The production of
winter wheat is estimated at 350,025,400
bushels, and that of spring wheat at
172,204,096 bushels, the area actually
into the islands during this period is
set down at $18,300.608. Gold and sil-
ver to the amount of $1,806,340 came in-
to the islands, making the total impor-
harvested being 26,235,897 acres in the
former case, and 16,250,488 acres in the
latter.
The winter
wheat acreage {o-
tation $20,106,038. The import
from
$1,450,807.
named amounted to $10,450,003; $17.
634,391 in merchandise and $1,824,612 it
gold and silver. The value of the ex
ports to the United States is set dowi
at $3,504,577.
ing the period stated, $3,405808 wort}
being shipped to the United States.
SMALLPOX IN MINNESOTA.
Work May Cease.
Smallpox is raging in the lumbe
utmost alarm prevails. Several thon
¢ trade
the United States amounted lo
The value of exports for the period
A total of 69,644 tons of manila hemp
valued at $10,682,173, was exported dur-
Woodsmen Deserting the Lumber Camps and
camps of Northern Minnesota, having
been taken in from Michigan, and the
tally abandoned in Ohio, Michigan, In-
diana and Illinois, is finally placed at
3,522,787 acres, and the spring wheat
acreage totally abandoned in North
Dakota and South Dakota at 1.793,467
acres.
: The newly-seeded area of winter
“| wheat is estimated at 30,282,564 acres.
1| While this acreage is slightly greater
than that sown in the fall of 1899, as es-
timated at the time, it is 600,654 acres
less than the area that was actually
| sown, the discrepancy being due to that
remarkably rapid development of win-
ter wheat growing in Nebraska with
which the department reports failed to
keep* pace.
The production of corn in 1900 is es-
timated at 2,105,102,516 bushels; oats,
809,125,808 bushels; barley, 58,025.833
bushels; rye, 23,095.027 bushels; buck-
wheat, 9,566,066 bushels; potatoes, 210,-
026,807 bushels, and hay, 50,110,006 tons.
-| The area from which these crops were
r
sand woodsmen have already fled from
the camps in an endeavor to escape the
dread disease, and the indications are
that unless stringent measures be adopt-
ed, there will not be a man left in the
83,320,872;
gathered was as follows in acres:
oats, 27,364,795; barley, 2,-
804,282; rye, 1,501,326; buckwheat, 637,
030; potatoes, 2,611,054, and hay, 39.-
132,890.
Corn,
week.
in the Deer river country, are unle
absolutely no regard for the mandate
of the health officers.
MANY SEAMEN DROWNED.
Sailors Perish.
Midsasha was sent to search for he
without avail.
Captain Matsumoto,
her disappearance was cleared up.
foundered during a typhoon in Surug
Bay, sinking after striking Senniw
rocks.
ed.
Mail Bag Stolen.
negotiable paper and an
amount of money was stolen from th
the Michigan Central railroad
time Friday night.
CABLE FLASHES.
som
Dowager Lady Churchill was foun
dead in her room at Osborn, England
T 1esday.
1.i Hung Chang, the famous Chines
{ities of age.
Vivar, Spain.
1}in driving back the invaders. A Burgh-
| ersdorp dispatch has a mysterious reter-
lence to “An unfortunate mistaking of
the enemy for Brabant’s Horse,” which
| resulted in the sounding of “Cease fire”
i {and enabled the Boers to occup,
y all the
| commanding the Br
itish re-
{tiring from a difficult predicament.
1 Gen. Clements’ inst
Joers in the Magaliesberg region is 4
doubtful, the last dispatch reporting
| that “It was considered : able not to
positions,
the
SO
success
- {force the Boers from their positions.”
1 felegrams from Cape Town, dated
| Wednesday. say: A squadron of Yeo-
manry, which had been following the
{Boers from Britstown, is reported to
_ | have been entrapped. There were sev-
i eral casualties, it is said, and the re-
) | mainder of the force was captured.
J Canadian Lumber Output.
11 Advices sent to the state department
{ by the United States commercial agent
1 at Stanbridge, Canada, show that the
| exports of lumber from Montreal. the
| principal port of Quebec, have decreas-
| od since last year by not less than 350.-
| 000,000 feet. Prices of lumber have
fas” higher and the advance in price
has been firmly held, the cause being,
supposedly, the destructive fire at Otta-
{ wa last April.
| exported from Montreal
during the
- | season of 1900 was nearly 227,000,000
died
feet, as against 280,000,000 feet last year.
Gamb'er’s Fierce Fight.
One of the
1
fiercest and blcodiest
_lin a long time took place in Harlem
early Friday. Four men were shot.
One died, and another is dying.
are looking for them.
fr
accused of shooting him.
for the most part gamblers.
British Minister Insulted.
Some Turkish soldiers
saulted and maltreated
grossly
the Brit
0
s {at Constantinople.
porte for apology and redress.
The quantity of lumber
Two
wounded men escaped and the police
One man is an-
der arrest and the dead man’s brother
has sworn to kill the prisoner, who is
The men are
- | charge d’affaires, Mr. De Bunsen, and
other members of the British embassy
The British govern-
ment has made sharp demand to the
The Ashanti rebellion in
rica has been ended by the surrender «
the native chiefs.
visited Rome during 1600. more than
any previous year.
poration, limited, suspended and 1
other firms promptly went under.
being washed ashore in England as
result of the recent great storm.
syndicate has been formed for the
Damaraland.
gen, Austria.
define his
cause he refuses to
as to the agrarians.
Owing to the French government
hostile action against Catholic order
litical support from France.
that since the appearance of the bubon
disease have occurred in
state
Major Grower Botha, brother of tl
Transvaal commander-in-chief, has a
ger. e says the war will last fc
years.
The Holy Synod of Russia has orde
ed that all the churches in its jurisdi
an orthodox Russian church in Ne
York city.
The governments of Chile and A
the disputed territory of Ultima Espe
anza in Patagonia.
marks annually for five years to
steamship company for the purpose
keeping open winter communication b
tween Sweden and Finland.
pineries with the ending of the present
Many of the camps, especially those
quarantine, but the men are thoroughly
frightened and at the present time have
Japanese Training Ship Founders and 121
The steamer Rio Jun Maru, arriving
at Victoria, B. C., Friday, brings news
that the Japanese training ship Tsukis-
hima Maru has been lost with all hands,
numbering 121, near Namadzu, Japan.
She was long missing and the warship
It was not until wreck-
age from her, together with the body of
her commander,
was washed ashore that the mystery of r
he | ed remnants of a body already dispers-
ar
Not one of her company escap-
A mail pouch containing $100,000 in
unknown
Wyandotte, Mich., passenger station of
| diplomat, is failing fast from the infirm-
Two persons were killed and 11 seri-
ously wounded at an election riot at
3ritish Af-
It is estimated that 1,000,000 pilgrims
n
The London and Globe Finance Cor-
Many bodies and much wreckage are
At Cape Town a strong international of each,” he say
{a-
velopment of the mineral resources cf
Lainer and Kindlinger, German tour-
ists. were killed by falling into an abyss | in
while ascending Mount Schwartzenber-
Von Buelow, the imperial chancellor
of Germany, is called the “sphinx” be-
attitude
the Pope threatens to withdraw his po-
Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, says
plague in 1898 25000 deaths from the Rumors of a cabinet crisis
the Mysore
rived in Rome with dispatches for Kru-
tion take up collections to help build
gentina have signed a protocol agreeing
to take no aggressive action concerning
The corn crop of 1900 was one of the
four largest ever gathered, while the oat
crop has only once been exceeded. On
rl the other hand, the barley and rye
crops are the smallest, with one excep-
tion in each case, since 1887; the buck-
s | wheat crop is the smallest since 1883,
and the hay crop the smallest with one
exception since 1888.
CHINESE LOST HEAVILY.
Report of the French Engagement.— Tuan
and Chuang Arrested.
Field Marshal Count von Waldersee
in a dispatch from Peking says: “The
French troops encountered east of Cho-
chan, between Peking and Pao-Ting-
Fu, a Chinese force numbering 2,500
r | men with artillery. The Chinese fled
in the direction of Kuan-Huen. They
suffered losses and left behind them
five standards and four cannon. The
Chinese probably consisted of the reunit-
vA .
a The Chinese government has arrested
Prince Tuan and Prince Chuang on the
borders of the Shansi and Shensi prov-
inces. Yu-Hsien has been ordered to
return to Sian-Fu forthwith, to be exe-
cuted, it is supposed. It is inferred
from these reports that the imperial au-
o | thorities are preparing to concede the
demands of the joint note for the pun-
e | ishment of the instigators of the trouble
in China.
A FILIPPINO REFUGEE.
0
Aguinaldo’s Former Advisor Now in Ncw Vouk
Says Rebel Chief is Alive.
Rafael del Pan Fontela, a Filipino
d
};
CUT HIS THROAT.
Had Recently Been Transferred From Bar-
anquilla, Colombia, to Singapore.
Ill Health the Cause.
W. Irvin Shaw, who had been filling
the position of United States consul at
Barranquilla, Colombia, and who was
recently appointed consul general to
Singapore, committed suicide in a hotel
at Philadelphia, Pa., Tuesday. He open-
ed a femoral artery and slashed his
throat and wrists with a knife. Ill
health is suoposed to have effected his
mind. -
For three years he had attended to
his duties as consul at Barranquilla
while revolutions shook the Southern
republic. Heat, fevers, and the ardu-
ous duties undermined his health and
he asked for and obtained leave of ab-
sence early last August.
His dislike for the old post increased
and he sought another appointment and
was successful in his quest for a new
station and, a month ago, was named
consul general at Singapore.
Mr. Shaw was about 38 years old. He
was born in Clearfield county, Ae
where he practiced law for several
vears. He was a warm personal friend
of former Governor Hastings and many
other prominent State officials. He
was for a long time Republican county
chairman.
He had no financial troubles and his
friends and relatives are dumfounded
at his ending what promised to be a
brilliant future .
FNOTHEER MINERS’ STRIKE.
Fight of a New Miring Hamlet of Concern in
All Penn ylvania Fields.
Six hundred miners of the Bakerton
Coal Company at Sterling No. 12, near
Barnesboro, Pa% on the Pennsylvania
railroad, are reported as on strike, by
National Organizer Edward McKay,
who visited the miners’ headquarters
there. The strike arises from the re-
cent introduction of mining machines,
and five mines of the company have
been forced to suspend operations. Op-
erations of the company are new and
of considerable magnitude. A new
town is being created there.
The coal company is an interest of
Duncan, Spangler & Co., extensive coal
operators of Central Pennsylvania, and
ex- Gov. Hastings is largely interested.
The miners are demanding extra remun-
eration for the extra labor entailed by
the nse of machinery. President Ber-
nard Rice of District No. 2 of the Unit-
ed Mine Workers of America is in
charge of the campaign.
Questions are involved in relation to
the mining wage scale that are likely to
cause vexation in all of the Pennsyl-
vania fields and which it will be impera-
tive to adjust. Organizer McKay ex-
plained that the Bakerton miners dig
what is known as “B” vein coal. The
use of machinery in this vein is new.
The pick mining rate is 60 cents a ton.
By the introduction of machinery it is
necessary to rip down 10 inches of top
to give the men working room. On
this account the deadwork is much in-
creased by the use of machinery, re-
quiring additional miners, extra powder
and extra labor.
YAQUIS FIRED AND FLED.
Many Mexican Soldiers Killed in an Indian
Ambuscade.
KEYSTONE STATE REWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Railroad Company Organized at Connellsville
Ncw Brick Plant to Locate at Brook-
fieild—New Bottle Factory.
Following pensions were granted last
week: Jacob Everhart, Johnstown, $10;
Samuel Kuehner, Carbon, $6; David G.
Schmidt, dead, Washington, $2; Isracl
Shatfer, Kittanning, $8; Juliette Bacon,
Hatch Hollow. $8; Mary Ann Mosier,
Rubles, $8; Nellie Rockwood, Union
City, $8; Eliza Fraser, Saxonburg, $3;
Nancy Hook, Meyersdale, $8.
Seventy-year-old Gustave Kindt, an
ex-convict, said to be known to the po-
lice of many cities of the country, was
arrested in Philadelphia Christmas for
burglary. When caught he was equip-
ped with all the tools of an expert
cracksman. While serving a term in
Sing Sing prison he invented a device
for simultaneously opening and closing
all the cells.
Two trolley cars on the Lebanon
valley street railway, crowded with
Christmas shoppers, collided between
Lebanon and Annville. A number of
persons were injured, some seriously.
An 18-months-old baby was trampled
upon by the panic-stricken passengers
and is not expected to recover.
A new company, known as the Flem-
ington and Astor Railroad Company,
has been organized by some capitalists
from Connellsville, who are interested
in the Tyr-Connell Coal Company, 10
build a line into a large tract of coal
land in Harrison county, W. Va., where
new mines will be opened up.
The inmates of the Western Pennsyl-
vania Hospital for the Insane at Dix-
mont, Tuesday night held their annual
Christmas ball in the large reception
hall in the institution. Mary, Queen f
Scots, and other historical women and
several kings and poets were represent-
ed by some of the patients.
It is the belief that shaft No. 1 of the
Ellsworth mines, Washington county,
the scene of the recent explosion, has
been filled with gas which comes from
an abandoned oil well from which the
casing had been pulled. The Ellsworth
company is sinking air wells to ventilate
the mine.
Margaret Necuwahl, of Greenwood,
Blair county, abandoned her four beau-
tiful children by leaving them in a street
rar. The youngest was a babe of a
Tew months and the oldest only 5 years
of age. They were taken in charge by
the police and sent to the county alms-
house.
The J. V.Rose & Sons Fire Brick Co.,
owning large beds of shale and clay in
Brookfield township, Mercer county,
have decided to erect a plant for
the manufacture of building and founda-
tion bricks with a capacity of 50,000 a
day. It will employ over 100 men.
The Pittsburg Seamless Bottle Com-
pany, of Pittsburg, which operates three
plants in Pittsburg and the Mononga-
hela valley, has been looking over a plot
of ground at Everson, near Scottdale,
and will locate if given a bonus of $8,-
000 and a free site.
The Sodom shops of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad at Connellsville, which
employed about 140 men, burned with
all the machinery and immense stores
of oil, waste and other materials kept
there for the Connellsville division.
Loss, $40.000.
An unknown assailant shot at Chief
Aonther slaughter of Mexican troops
at the hands of Yaqui Indians hds oc-
curred in Sonora, Mexico. While Col.
Francisco Peinado and a small body of
men were crossing the country near La
Misa, they were suddenly attacked by
the Indians from ambush and fiev offi-
cers and a number of men and Indians
were killed outright, Col. Peinado him-
self being seriously wounded. The sol-
diers had no knowledge that the In-
dians were in the immediate vicinity and
the attack was such a surprise they had
little time to prepare for it.
Nothing is known about the attack,
but that the Indians fled to the moun-
tains after firing a few volleys.
Gen. Torres has sent a brigade of
cavalry to follow the Indians and news
of a fight is expected daily, as the In-
dians are further from their base of
supplies than they have been for a year
before.
Another Boy Kidnapped.
The 35-year-old son of Mrs. Raymond
Thiervy, of Dollar Bay, Mich., has been
kidnaped, evidently in the hope of se-
curing a ransom. It is believed the boy
was taken by a well-known character
in the copper region, and the sheriff,
with a large posse of citizens, is scour-
ing the country, hoping to catch him
before he gets beyond the state line. It
is thought he is heading for Canada. ~
Our Trade with Denmark.
Denmark’s trade with the United
States is growing rapidly, showing rec-
ord figures for 1900. Imports have
trebled since 1896 and now exceed $20,-
000,000. The increasing commerce be-
{ween the two countries is inducing
many Danish-Americans to return to
! Copenhagen to represent American
duce American goods.
Beu;ht a Small Island.
The navy department has purchased
e | refugee, has arrived in New York from
Canada. When the war began he was
Aguinaldo’s chief adviser. He founded
the Filipino junta in Madrid and has
been attempting to set up a similar or-
ganization at Montreal, Can. He says
i | dead is nonsense. He has a large fc
lowing, and every man under him
there to ao or die.
demands of the Filipinos
Fontela, who was wyer and edi-
tor in Manila, says he will never :
3 | back while the United States is pre-
“1 dominant there. He says he came to
this country to be free, and that the
loyal party in the Philippines, of which
a | Biiencamino and Paterno are the lead-
ers, is doomed to failure. “As the force
, “amounts to
are double zero.”
<
their united forc
An Indian on a Rampage.
News from the Brule Indian Agency,
South Dakota, reports that Han:d-
some Elk, the most dangerous and des-
his wife in a brutal manner with a neck
voke. It is thousht she will die.
* Elk seized another Indian
Bear Bird's daughter, and alped her.
Then arming himself with his rifle and
's | other firearms. he went into the hills.
s, | a short distance from his home,
approach him.
Spanish Cabinet Crisis.
ic
Senor Sagasta, former premier,
change of ministry is inevitable on ac-
count of the differences in the cabinet
itself, as well as in the ranks of its sup-
1e
Tr
»r | porters.
_ Many Ministerialists assert that the
Azcarraga government will continue.
T- | Should it fail its only possible successor
¢- | would be a Silvela ministry.
Ww Stage Held Up in Arizona.
The Hot Springs stage, running bHe-
tween Hot Springs and Hot Springs
Junction, in Central Arizona, was held
up by a lone highwayman and the con-
tents of the express box rifled.
robber did not attempt to molest the
r-
The Finnish senate has voted 60,000 | mails.
a It is rumored that an important con-
of
e- | the mines near Hot Springs forms a
part of the booty.
“The impression that Aguinalde - is|
1
The war has just!
begun, unless America accedes to the,
zero, |
perate redskin of the Northwest, beat’
woman, |
and |
left word that friend or foe must not}
increase. |
who has |
finally broken silence. declares that a!
The,
signment of gold dust from one of
from several natives of Guam, for
lin gold. a small island in the harbor
of San Luis d’Apra, Guam, with a view
! to its use as a site for a naval coaling
station. The island is 130 acres in ex-
tent, and is said to be well adapted to
ts proposed use.
The Ncw Eread at Paris.
Among all the exhibits of bread and
bread-making at the Paris Exhibition
the one which interested the most was
a system of milling and baking combin-
ed. It is well known that all food sub-
stances when ground to a fine powder |
have a tendency to hecome oxidized.
As is the case with coffee, which is the
best when freshly roasted and freshly
ground, so it is with cereal flour, which
is never so aromatic or so nutritious as
at the moment when it is first made.
The Schweitzer system, in regard to
| the milling cperations, is a return to
| the old system of millstones, with the
| exception that corrugated steel grinders
take the place of the millstones of the
olden days. These grinders are so ac-
curately adjusted as to admit of the
making of the finest flour, while avoid-
ing actual contact of the two grinding
| surfaces. The simplicity of the appa-
ratus, its cheapness and the ease with
which it can be installed command this
system particularly for domestic use
and for the supply of villages and small
communities. Nevertheless, it is capa-
ble of being operated on an extensive
scale, as is demonstrated by the large
| establishment at La Villette, Paris,
{ where more than 100,000 pounds of
bread are made per day from flour not
| more than 24 hours old.
Chemical analysis show that the flour
| made according to the Schweitzer sys-
{tem has more than twice as much phos-
phate material as that made by the or-
dinary roller process. The importance
of this fact in respect to nutrition should
not be lost sight of, and we must admit
that nutrition, not whiteness of color,
is the principal object of breadmaking.
—Paris Messenger.
In China Christmas is a sun festival.
stice. It is called the festival of the
Winter Sun, nr sometimes the festival
of the Tree Spirits or in other localities
the festival of the Forest Dragon. It is
an occasion of much merriment and one
of the accompanying formalities is the
renewal of the “ghost papers.”
Secretary Griest’s report declares that
the Baker ballet law in ambiguous.
| |:55es and this is doing much to intro- |
and has connection with the winter sol- |
of Police Meyers, of Bellevernon, Sat-
urday morning. There were three men
together and he gave chase, and al-
though he thinks he wounded one they
all escaped.
Engineer F. I. Burbank, of Altoora,
was held responsible by the coroner's
jury for the railroad wreck at Kittan-
ning Point, in which William M. Prich-
ard, of Gallitzin, was killed and several
others injured.
Berjamin Bishop, of Penryn, aged 42
years, died at St. Joseph's hospital, Lan-
caster. Some time ago, while feeding
his hogs, Bishop was viciously attacked
by a boar, which bit him severely on
the leg. Blood poisoning resulted
At Ridgway burglars blew open the
safe in the Philadelphia and Erie Rail-
road station, but secured nothing. The
night crew at the freight station start-
| ed to investigate, but were forced to
retreat by revolvers.
The Philip G. Cochran memorial
chapel at Dawson was dedicated Sun-
day. It cost $15,000 and was erectad
in memory of Philip G. Cochran, presi-
dent of the Washington Coal and Ccke
Co., by his widow.
Alonzo Harmon, a young man who
has been confined in the Clarion county
jail, charged with forgeries committed
on business men, by means of checks,
has confessed. He implicates weil-
known citizens.
Trainwreckers turned a switch at
Cumbola, near Pottsville, and derailed
an engine and eight freight cars of the
Reading railroad. Fireman «William
Tamplin, of Tamaqua, was seriously in-
jured. :
Lehigh county's 26 public school dis-
tricts will join in an action to test the
governor's veto of a part of the school
appropriation which reduces the county’s
annual allowance by $7.581.93.
At Lancaster, the Ebenezer Baptist
Church was organized. The Rev. J. T.
Hamilton, of Steelton, aiter baptizing
three persons, stood in the icy water
and preached a sermon.
Thomas Lemon, of Latrobe, has just
completed the optioning of 5,000 acres
of coal, lying along the I.oyalhanna
creek between New Alexandria and La-
trobe, at $50 per acre.
George Urban, of Lemont, was found
dead near the railroad track at Union-
town, and it is thought he was mur
dered.
A woman and two children were cre-
mated in a conflagration which destrov-
ed the residence of a family named Har-
riger, near Sigel, seven miles north of
Brookville.
The total valuation of property, real
and personal, of Beaver county is $28.-
448,310, or $548.468 in excess of the
previous triennial assessment.
Patrick Quinn's infant child at Madi-
son Mines, Westmoreland county, was
| scalded to death by upsetting a bucket
| of boiling water.
| At Waynesburg,
| the safe in W. E. Hill's book store and
| got $200 in money. Three negro sus-
| pects are under arrest.
thieves blew open
|
| Francis Lowman, of Titusville, Pa, a
| structural ~~ ironworker employed - at
| Mingo Junction, had his throat cut with
| a dagger in the hands of Thomas, alias
“Ginger” Blue, colored.
| A.J. Staub has purchased a tract com-
| prising 10,000,000 feet of lumber from
the Jacobs Creek Oil and Lumber Com-
pany, of Jacobs Creek, Fayette county.
Mrs. Mary Kilgore, of Greensburg,
has left to the trustees of the First Pres-
byterian church z0 shares of Southwest
railroad stock, valued at $3,4%0.
Louis Harmon escaped from the Cla-
rion jail, where he was confined on a
charge of forgery.
The mortuary statistics for the Dis-
trict of Columbia during the past 12
months show a startling record of tu-
berculosis of the lungs. The mortality
from all causes was 5.053, and of these
713 were victims of consumption—an
average mortality from this one disease
of 13.69 for zach week in the year.
The astonishing total of $485,000 has
been realized from Kipling’s “Absent-
Minded Beggar” in various ways. the
proceeds going to the families of the
i men fighting in South Africa. This is
_ at the rate of $10,000 a line, which doubt-
/ less breaks the poetry record.
THE MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
WaeaT—No. 2 red 0@ TM
Rye—No. 2...... 60 61
CorN—N 43 44
42 42Yy
12 421%
291; 29%;
285; 291
9 400
870 8¢0
1500 1525
Clover No. 1...... 1375 1425
Frep—No. 1 white mid.,ton.... 18 50 19 0¢
Brown middlings. .. .. 1525 1550
Bran, bulk....... 157 1625
321 @ 28
241 25
18 19
1% 15
12} 124
Hess—per b.........covnnnn $3 T@ 74
Crickexs— dressed. ..... 18 14
Ecas—Pa. and Ohio, fresh...... 24 25
Fruits and Vegetables.
Beans—Navy, per bushel....... $210@215
PoraToes—Faney white, © bu.. 45 50
CABBAGE—per barrel. urn 100
Ox1oxs—per bushel ... . 75 85
BALTIMORE,
FLour 3 80@ 4 00
WaEAT—NO. 2 red 71% 7234
Corx—mixed .... lg 4234
3014 31
2 23
25 26
PHILADELPHIA.
FIOUR...i on vicina, $ 3 30@ 3 40
WueAT—No. 2 red.. 7234 73
Corx—No. 2 mixed... ay iL 42
0Oars—No. 2 white. . .. 3034 31
Burrer—Creamery, extra.
Faes—Pennsylvania firsts...... 25
NEW YORK,
Frouvr—Patents....... .& 3 90@ 4 25
WaeAT—NoO. 2 red 761
CorN—NoO. 2... 451g
OArs—White western. 31 35
BurTEr-—Creamery. . i7 25
Ecas—State and Penna . 19 2214
LIVE STOCK.
Centra: tock Yards, East Liberty, Pa.
CATTLE.
Prime heavy, 1500 to 1600 lbs... $ 5 40@ 5 60
Prime, 1300 to 1400 1bs..... 500 1528
Medium, 1000 to 1200 1b: 415 435
Fat heifers........... 360 410
Butcher, 900 to 1000 II 330 485
Common to fair.... 280 320
Oxen, common to fat.... Fo 9250.54 BO
Common to good fat bulls & cows 2 50 3 60
Mileh cows, each oa 20 00 35 00
Extra milch cows, each 55 00
HOGS.
Prime medium weights......... $5 05@ 5 10
Best heavy yorkers and medium 5 15
Good to choice packers 05 5 10
Good pigs and light yor! 520
Skip pigs......... 3 90
Prime heavy hogs 510
Common to fair. . 5 00
Roughs.. J 4 10
Bags sous one 3 90
SHEEP.
Extra, medium weight wethers.$ 4 00@ 4 20
Good to choice +865 390
Medigm. ...... 300 3:0
Common to fair 150 82
LAMBS,
Lambs, extra spring 5 60
Lambs, good to choice, spring 4 25
Lambs, common to fair, spring.. 4 25 4 90
CALVES.
Veal, extra
Veal, good to choice
Veal, common to fair .
Veal, common heavy...........
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Reports for the Year Now Closing Show it
to Have Eeen a Prosperous One.
Good Scason for Grain.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review
of Trade” says: Commercial failures
during 1900 will number about 10,630,
with liabilities of $137,000,000. Of this
number, 2.300 were in manufacturing for
$49,750,000; 7,800 in trading, for $60,000,
c00, and 530 brokers, transporters, etc.,
not properly belonging in either of the
other classes, for $27,250,000. , Besides
these, there were 60 financial concerns
with liabilities of $54,000,000, swelling
the total to 10,690 in number and $170,-
c02,000 in amount. This shows a large
increase over the preceding year, when
all failures numbered 9,393, and liabili-
ties were $123,132,679. However, 1899
was a year of exceptional prosperity in
business, and while trade was then stim-
ulated by rising prices, the succeeding
year had to bear the fruit of reaction.
So general preparation had been made
by Eastern business “interests for a
squeeze in money near the end of the
vear, that the expected advance did not
occur, and collections in the interior
were so good that banks made general
complaint of the scarcity of mercantile
paper offered for discount. More talk
of a general reduction in coke an
cheaper ore after navigation opens
might be calenlated to unsettle quota-
tions of the finished products, but iron
and steel continue the even tenor of
their way. In every department of this
industry more business is offered than
can be accepted unless purchasers are
willing to give much time for delivery.
One large foreign contract was lost on
this account, and at many points do-
mestic operations are delayed by inabil-
ity to secure material. Instead of the
agitation for cheaper steel rails preva-
lent a short time ago, producers are
said to contemplate an advance. Do-
mestic contracts in this line exceeded
50,000 tons at Chicago, and among for-
eign orders is one for 17,000 tons for
Australia, with many smaller sales.
Structural material is wanted for build-
ings and bridges, with noticeable activ-
ity in this department for export.
Wheat (including flour) shipments for
the week aggregate 4,011,105 bushels,
against 4.123.350 bushels last week, 3,-
610,557 bushels in the corresponding
week of 1809, 6,202,625 bushels in 1833,
5,405,061 in 1897. and 2,707.790 bushels
in 1806. From July 1 to date this se:
son wheat exports are 904.151.4535 bus!
els, against 103.004.1903 bushels last sea-
son, and 121,528.709 bushels in 1898-ga.
Corn exports for the week aggregate
3.868.165 bushels, against 5.465 578 bush-
els last week, 3,226.250 bushe's in this
week a year ago, 3.650.745 bushels in
1808, 4.086.866 bushels in 1897, and 2,-
742,004 in 1865. From July 1 to date
this season corn exports are 04,240,169
bushels, against 111,587,145 bushels last
season, and 80,050,630 bushels in 1898-00.
During the vear the colporteurs of
the Young Men's Bible Society, of
Pittsburg, Pa.. have sold over 2,000 Bi-
bles printed in foreign languages to
foreigners in Pittsburg.
Brunken So'dier’s Deed.
Frenzied by drink, James L. McDon-
ough. a private soldier at Fort Wash-
ington, D. C., Tuesday afternoon at-
tacked a sergeant and four privates at
the post who had attempted to place
him under arrest, and stabbed three of
the party with a bayonet which he had
concealed under his coat.
At a late hour McDonough was tak-
en into custody by the metropolitan po-
lice in one of the suburban districts.
Six masked men cracked a bank safe
at Madison, O., but were frightened
away before they secured any booty.
In China Christmas is a sun festival.
and has connection with the winter sol-
stice. It is called the festival of. the
Winter Sun, or sometimes the festival
of the Tree Spirits, or in other localities
the festival of the Forest Dragon. It is
an occasion of much merriment and one
of the accompanying formalities is the
renewal of the “ghost papers.”
In 1899 the German railways consum-
ed 8.000 tons of carbide for the illumin-
ation of cars. The consumption of car-
bide in Germany for 1600 is estimated
at 10,000 tons, equal to 7,000,000 gallons
of petroleum.
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