I
ood
EN
ot
dalene river, Son "
in a decisive i CERTE BR
It is reported th
many hundreds a ea. on
tories b
utmost importance have been ar. roc.
ed
Ordered to Move North—Em. |
Dowager issues Instructions to
General Feng- Tse- Tsai.
ube or Ching has suffered a relapse,
Ri because of the serious effects of this
his great age, it is feared that he
pes: be unable to act as plenipotentiary
in arranging a settlement of the trou-
bles in China, and that the difficulty and
delay in securing a successor may caus
the postponement for a time of negotia-
tions.
It is reported from Sian-Fu that
empress Sowagss has orderer General
Feng sai, commanding in the
Broce #7 Yun-Nan, to proceed with
is army to the Yangtse valley, anil
from that section to move northward.
His force is said to consist of 15000
men, armed with modern weapons.
Count von Waldersee, it is asserted
has arranged with Prince Ching and
Li Hung Chang that the allied troops
are not to operate in the prefect es of
Shun-Te, Haung-Ping and Ta-Ming, in
the province of Chi-Li.
the
Chang-Chih-Tung, the Wu-Cl
viceroy, wired the Chincse envoy
strenuously urging them to delay tl
signing of the note until several clauses
had been amended and that
the- Preamble had been expunged which
charges the imperial court with the
sponsibility for the attacks upon 1
tions. He further urged the imp
personages not to return to Peki:
the ground that the joint note permits
the powers to maintain 10,000 troops be-
tween Peking and the sea. An open
decree was issued to del
the signatures; but the
potentiaries replied that
ble to recall the assent a
T6 TRY AMERICAN COAL.
x cady given.
Russla Buys Six Thousand Tons for the Navy.
May Order More.
Fersen of the Rus-
Through
siem“navy the Russian government has |
Baron
England Has Decided to Build Two Monster |
Battleships.
portion of
Four miners were aspl
damp near W
Eight men lost
Minneapolis, Min
ig
r lives in a fire at
I
Ire,
A meteor t in diameter feil
into Senex New York state.
According to a reliable Fili-
pino sources, Agt 21do died six weeks
ago :
Millions of doll involved in a
huge Minnesota deal just con-
cluded.
The transport Meade, with a large
amount of specie on d, has reached
the rate of $135
A big gold st
m Tanana, on
to the pan,
117
is rep
the Yukon
The Molokanen, a Russian sect nuia-
bering 40.000, contemplate emigrating
to Americ
John exander Dowie, of “Zion”
notoriety, has sailed from England for
the United State
The Senate confirmed Frederick
Rittr of y, to be auditor for
the war der
"Boers continue to march southward
i columns plindering farms of
they
United States
si
Haas, of the
department, committed
Michael
I 1 Catholic
J., is dead.
rts received a
returned to Le
campaign.
lland and Harvard buildings,
Wigger,
diocese of
n enthusiastic
ndon from
. were damaged to the
E xtent of »,000 by fire.
| The Boers now threaten the gold
mines, and Kitchener has called ior
5,000 men to guard them.
hers and school children cf
k raised $27,007 for the school
children of Galveston, Tex.
Philip D. Armour, the
meat packer and grain dealer,
his home in Chicago Sunday.
Five trainmen were killed and one
vadly injured in a collision between two
freight trains at Melton, Mass.
millionaire
died at
doned.
|
|
|
- ; : 1 | » Colorado Legislature is contem-
purchased 6,000 tons of American coal | the passage of bill Tos the
: : ct § 1 assage of [
for trial by fie vessels comprising be storation of capital punishment.
J Ss + ; “ o
siatic quadron. . 1] Forty cars of hay in the Boston &
yrder is important, as, if the coal | Male vor RY oR
atisfactory, it may lead to other | aine yards were ruined by firer and
S 1 v water, entailing a loss of $113,000.
ts being placed in the Unit A 3 Eh
The only thing that will prob- | " har ss Westervelt, cashier Ne hed
ably militate against the exclusive use [Lime Savings inst itution, of Newark, |
of American coal by the Russian gov- |‘ pleaded guilty to forgery. _
ernment is the enormous freight rat nk Cashier Edward C. Remme, of
that it has to pay to transport the coal ort, , has been arrested at th
to Bort Arthur. The coal purchased | instance « 1k Examiner Tucker.
by Baron Fersen costs only $2.75 per| Noaks, a Goebel witness, who c
ton, but the cost of its transportation | vieted Caleb Powers, has disappear
to Port Arthur is $11.50 per ton, mak- | iiter admitting that he swore falsely
§ al] Tot ae § )
Ing the con PS 14.25. ne got] F'om Wilson, colored, who stabbed a
aa les a n 1€ Riek an hid De { white man at Wilsonville, Ala., was tak
se si
9 lish and Japanese, but it | { en from the sheriff by a mob and hang-
not entirely ry led :
| ed,
| Great Britain is willing ake
LARGEST KNOWN. { reat Britain i wiliing now to make
ee Jernusteinns to the Boers, and the ““un-
conditional surrender” attitude is aban-
|
The British admiralty has decided to
build two battleships which are intend-
ed to be the largest in the world. The
distinction of having the largest war
ships has hitherto been held by Italy,
with the Lepanto and her sister ship
the Italia. Great Britain's two pro
jected large warships, to be respective-
ly named the Queen and the Prince of
Wales, will be 2,000 tons heavier than
the Italian ships mentioned, reaching
the enormous displacement of 18000
tons, which is 3,500 heavier than Amer-
ica’s biggest armor-clad vessel. These
enon British vessels will carry
nothing larger than 12-inch guns. Their
batteries will chiefly be composed of
these guns and of 7.5-inch and 6-inch
guns.
A Large Increase Assured.
As the result of the recent combina-
tions engineered by J. Pierpont Morgan,
culminating in his purchase of the Cen-
tral Railroad of New Jersey for the
Reading Company, the stockholders in
the corporations engaged in the anthra-
cite coal trade will pocket $25,000,000 :
year in addition to their former profits.
The lion’s share of this vast sum will
go to Me Morgan and his associates,
John D. Rockefeller and the Van
bilts, who together control lines which
handle 82 per cent. of the total output of
50,000,000 tons. Without any advance
to the consumer they will reap an ad-
ditional profit of 50 cents a ton.
New Plow Combine.
The combination of plow companies,
of which there have been rumors for
some time, will soon be launched with
a capitalization of $65.000,000. Thirty-
one firms are said to have agreed to
enter the new concern, which will prob-
ablybe called the American Plow Com-
pany. The promise is that the combine
will be able not only to reduce the price
of plows. to the farmer, but also will
turn into its own treasury a profit great-
er by $5,000.000 or more.
Farmers Had
Dun’s review-2: Tummary review-
ot the year just closed,
closing year of the century
“F¢markably satisfactory one for
y and planters, notwithstanding
the* fact that some sections harvested
smaller crops than in preceding years.
While the south produced less cotton
than in the two previous record-break-
ing seasons, prices were the highest in
10 years, and the net profits made on
plantations were enormous. Spring
wheat States lost much grain, but
Kansas a ndother large winter wheat
growers made big crops, and the aver-
age price was high. In fact, the cereais
were all abnormally advanced until
there occurred a natural loss in exports,
so that Russian ports were able to secure
much foreign trade that had belonged
to American producers.
up to within a fraction of
and speculative
Chicago price still higher. These oper-
ations had a naturally deleterious effect
on exports ation and foreign surplus
countries reaped much of the benefit
from excessively inflated domestic mar-
(ets.
Lynched Two Negroes.
Two colored men were
night from the county
Fla., by persons unknown,
taken Friday
jail at Madisca,
led into the
woods about a mile from town, and
hanged. The bodies were riddled with
bullets. The negroes were charged with
farmer.
fled to Georgia, were arrested and
From the num-
the
|
killing Frederick Redding, a
They
taken back to Florida.
ber of empty cartridges found at
place of lynching it is estimated that
number of lynchers was 100 or more.
Found a Diamond Eed.
The discovery of diamonds in the vol
canic hills near Capitan, Otreo county,
N. M., has created intense excitement
among mining men. The discovery
was made by J. J. Blow, general man-
ager of the Linderman Coal Company,
who picked up four gems in an ant
heap. He took them to 4 jeweler, who
“nounced them genuine diamonds.
Pie dug into the ant heap, and,
of 12 feet, uncovered a bed
sernor Seated.
andhoes., was Tuesday
$2 \and Boe
Foren “HOT of he
lage, rid
Corn was put!
50 cents here, |
reanipulation forced the |
D. White,
at
of
the United States
has been elected
Berlin Academy of
Andrew
{ ambassador
imnember
Berlin,
the
killed and nine
China, through
with a defective
Germans
wounded at Lei
the firing of a
cartridge.
The trustees of the
fund will develop the
ibine, N. T,, the
| sian Jews
| John Mitche
ed Mine
been the
bor
were
Tung,
salute
Baron de Hirsch
town of Wood-
benefit of the Rus-
|
|
{
|
i
for
president of the Unit-
Workers, says that 1900 has
best year in the history of la-
unions
Seven miners were killed and
wounded in an affray of Altgebirg,
Hungary, between riotous miners anc
gendarmes.
rantining a smallpox infested camp near
Sparta, Minn., was shot and killed by a
lumberman.
Ambassador
from France,
taken by the
exposition.
At Yreka, Cal,
snow fell within 48 hours and many
week buildings have collapsed under the
great weight.
Cambon just returned
is delighted with the part
Thursday Charles H. Dietrich was in
augurated governor of Nebraska. He
recommended the passage of a strong
anti-kidnaping law.
The steamer Tunisian,
sailed from Liverpool for Portland,
Me., has on board 50 lacemakers bound
for Dowie’s Zion city.
The divisions the Cuban
tion to draw up a
ported one ed on
that of the United States.
of
the
salt, has been purchased in Lisbon,
Portugal by the
pany, of Kansas City,
Eight Italians aed
Unites States “treastiry secret servic
agents in New York on the charge
running a big counterfeiting plant.
Tuesday the United States transport
Mo.
WEeIA: Aran 1 by
Ignatius Donnelly, of Minneapolis,
Minn., who for 35 years had ese prom-
inent in local and national politics and
in literature, is dead.
At Pueblo, Colo., Walter C. Casley, a
druggis t. was shot through the head and
instantly killed in his store by a burglar.
The murderer escaped.
is the pen: 1lty the State of Nebraska will
inflict if the members of the State Legis-
| lature remain in their present temper.
Officials of all the great railroads will
vis it the principal shipping points 10
vise a way to discontinue ‘fast
freight” lines and local freight agencies.
| A monument in honor of Baron ar
Baroness de Hirsh and to commemor:
radication of racial prejudice fs to be
erected in Central Park, New York
| city.
| Four
attempt
1
Louisville (Ky.)
to defraud
men indicted
insurance
com-
| panies, one of them being the intended
victim, who failed to drink himself to
death or suicide.
The report of the American board of
foreign missions says that $317,013 in do-
nations was received during the year,
and complains of the treatment of mis-
sionaries in Spain.
Thomas Cunningham, president of
the bank of Joplin, Mo., received a let-
ter threatening him with death unless
he deposited $1,000 in gold in a sack in
a certain designated spot
Cashier John W. Shotwell,
County bank at Richmond.
missing, and the directors
scribed $21,000 to cover
deficiency in his accounts.
of the Ray
Mo., is
have sub-
any possible
The order of Railway Telegraphers 1s
threatened with internal dissention be-
cause all the members employed on the
Santa Fe railway system did not obey
the recent order to strike.
The Guatamalean National Assembly
has ratified the contract with the Cen-
tral American Improvement Company
o build the Northern railway from
Port Barrios to Guatemala city.
The secretary of war has submitted
to Congress an additional deficiency es-
timate of $3,000,000 for army subsistence,
caused chiefly by the heavy demands
made by the forces in China and the
Philippines,
The Indiana State authorities have
been notified that 500 persons in Spen-
kio’
ORgLL d
the government forces L
ANTacks having been ordered to leave
eale
yo
cer county have organized a vigilance
committee and are secretly trying
roes for alleged offenses, many of
ne-
the
the
is)unty.
40
One of the guards employed in quar- |
United States in the Paris |
which recently
conven-
constitution have re-
lines of
Twenty-five thousand tons of common
Armour Packing Com-
the
of
Thyra sailed for Manila with 530
horses and a cargo for the army in the
Philippines.
Hanging for the crime of kidnaping
seventy-two inches of | cl
land guns
of Fraserburg
of the colony
as quite
at Spionberg
and
BOER INVASION OF CAPE COLONY
COLONISTS ALARMED.
The Burghers Very Active Along the Western
Border of the Transvaal—More Mounted
Infantry from England.
Such is the fear of the Boer invaders
that the British battleship Monarch wiil
as a precautionary measure.
The situation is undoubtedly serious.
The latest reports show it to be gener-
ally as follows:
Kuruman, if still uninvested, probab ly
soon will be. Griqualand west is filled
with small parties of Boers who are
working south toward Prieska for the
purpose of co-operating w h or sup-
porting Commandant Hertzog, whose
advance parties are in the neighborhood
The Boers are close to
G Retoer where, of late, the Dutch
have given many demonstrations ol ¢x-
treme sympathy. In the eastern part
advance guard of the
Boers is close to Maraisburg, about 23
miles northeast of Cradock
The general opinion in Cape
the
Town
is that the position is not properly appre-
ciated in
Many old residents
Dutch
“England
regard a general uprising of the
likely.
commanded
Wessels, Pretorius and
are continuing their march on Fraser-
burg. reported they have arrived
i.ooting continues. Com-
munication with Frase rbury is suspend-
ed. Col. Thorneycroft and Col. De
Lisle are continuing the chase, but their
horses and mules are tired.
by Hertzog,
Nieuwenhaut
) A
Joers
1¢
It is
REWARD FOR PAT CROW.
The City of Omaha Has Offered $13.000 for
His Arrest.
rd of $13,000 is now oi-
Pat Crowe, and
is 1 in the offer about con-
viction. The police of Omaha, Neb,
are sending out 5,000 circulars bearing
a picture and minute description of
Crowe. They will be sent broadcast,
will also bear the lescription of
two other men and a woman, supposed
to be c: h the Cudahy ab-
A specific rew:
fered for the arrest of
nothing
nnected with
| duction.
I'he offer for Crowe is made uncondi-
tionally, the arrest and delivery to the
authorities being the only requisite for
securing the reward This will
no excuse for anyone refusing to turn
him over on the score that he cannot
be convicted, and the police expect this
will greatly in securing his ar-
rest.
assist
CHECKMATED h STRIKE.
A Scranton Compahy Oders the Affected Col-
liery Closed Down.
The 800 employes of the Mt. Pleasant
colliery of the Elk Hill Coal and Iron
Company at Scranton, Pa., are again
on strike, for the third time in a ye:
They decided to strike Satur
because the superintendent r
give a driver boy the rate of wages the
boy claimed he was entitled to. The
company anticipated the strike by post
night
fused to
of the Elk Hill Company
out is persisted in at the
mine.
the
Pleasant
if
Mt.
Explosion Killed Three.
Three men were blown to pieces and
half a dozen others bruised and cut by
| flying debris as the result of an explo-
sion of dynamite the works of the
Repauno Chemi Company, at
Thompsons Point, N. J., a thinly set
tled spot on the Delaware river. The
men had been punching dynamite into
eight-inch paper shells for use in blast-
ing. It is probable that Jae machine,
1sed in packing the d created
1 spark and set off the Offi-
ials of the say the loss will
company
not be over $5,000.
Another Boxer Rehieatiod,
Advices from Sian-Fu confirm the re-
ports of the execution of Yu-Hsien, the
former governor of Shansi, guilty of
massacring about 50 missionaries, whom
he had invited to accept his protection,
by order of the Dowager Empress.
Prince Tuan is still at Ninghai. There
are 30,000 Chinese regulars at Sian-Fu.
The court has made no preparations to
return,
Captured by Insurgents.
Private George H. Ray, of the engi-
neer copps; his assistant, Private Lyons,
of Company K, Fifth infantry; five
scouts and two native policemen have
been captured, while on their way to
Batac, by insurgents. On the receipt of
the ne in American column was dis-
patched against. the Filipinos but failed
to overtake the party,
PROVED A WINNER.
Refunding Operations Dlose with an
Gain of $10,700,000.
Refunding operations under the finan-
cial act of March 14 closed Monday, the
books of the treasury department hav-
ing been open to the exchange of bonds
Annual
of the old bonds, 3s, 4s and 5s of 1908,
1907 and 1904, respectively,
tarily offered for exchange into 2s,
proximately $430,000,000 out of
000,000, leaving outstanding of this part
of the interest-bearing public debt less
than one-half the amount subject to the
law. The net saving to the governme nt |
| of interest is substantially “$10,700,000, |
jacc lished by the payment now of |
| 9 which is really an anticipa
| tion of 2,000,000 interest which would
have had to be paid within the next]
eight years, in case the old bonds we
per cents of 1004, $70.500,000.
Prony March 14 to date, 395 new
banks have been organized, of which
280 er with a capital stock less than
$50,000. and 115 with capital sto:
over that umount. The aggregate cap-
ital cf the Jormer class was $7.372,000,
and of the latter $12,650,000, a total ad-
dition 10 banking capital of $20,022.000.
Bank note circulation in the meantime
Venezuela’s War Cloud.
In consequence of disquieting reports
of conditions in Venezuela the navy ed-
partment has ordered the
Scorpion, now at San Juan,
Laguyra and relieve the Hartford on
duty at that. port for protection to
American lives and property. It is sai 1
that ernandez, the dreadful “Fi
Mocho,” once a candidate for pres ident
of Venezuela, has escaped from prison
and is expected to lead an outbreak
against the government.
gunboat
to sail far
Want Canadian Independence.
The Independence club, of Montreal,
Can., has published its platform and
constitution. The clauses call for the
dissolution of the colonial relation with
Britain and a declaration of independ-
ence, the new federation to be known as
the United States of Canada; provinces
to become states with sovereign power,
and universal suffrage to be granted,
The list of officers is kept secret.
allow |
ing a notice that the colliery from this |
date would be shut down. This will
save the officials from any dealings wit h|
the union. The company will keep tl
colliery closed until the men rescind |
their strike order.
The men threaten to call out all of
the 7,000 employes of the 12 i
for nine and one-half months. Assist
ant Secretary Vanderlip says: The re-
funding has been successful. Holders |
have volun- |
permitted to run to maturity. The 4!
per cents of 1907 have been exchanged
mn greater amounts than any other ¢ |
their total up to December 29 being |
3o84000,000, Of the three per cents of |
$06,000,000 were exchanged, and of
MORE GOLD AND SILVER.
Production in the United States Greatly
Increased Last Year.
Mint Director Roberts estimates the
production of gold in the United States
during 1900 at 3,837,213 ounces, valtied
at $79.322,281, and of silver at 50,610,543
ounces, valued, at the average price of
61 cents per ounce for the year, at $36,-
362,461. During 189g the gold produc-
tion was $71,053,400, afid the silver pro-
duction 354.764,500 ounces. The Nome
gold and silver production for 1900
given as $5,100,000 and that of the LH
dike, which includes both the American
any Canadian fields, $22,287.556. Colo-
ado produced $29,500,000 in gold and
i, 206 ounces of silver; California
$14.377,200 in gold and 912,800 ounces
of silver; Alaska, $7.771,100 in gold and
318,400 ounces of silver; Arizona, $3.-
500,000 in gold and 4,250,000 ounces of
silver; Idaho, $2,067,183 in gold and 4,-
500,000 ounces of silver; Montana, $5,-
,015 in gold and 16,750,000 ounces of
silver; Nevada. $2,350,000 in gold and 1,
229,736 ounces of silver; Utah, $4,237, 726
in gold and 9,500,000 ounces of silver;
Washington, $826,873 in gold and 300,-
000 ounces of silver; South Dakota, $6,-
617,604 in gold and 280,000 ounces of
silver; Oregon, $1,715.762 in gold and
150,000 ounces of silver.
is
MONEY FoR Tue EAST.
A Forty-five Cent Coin Aeconms nded for
Use in the Philippines.
Telegrams from Washington say:
The President will ask Congress to pro-
vide a Philippine currency to consist of
a silver piece about the size of the
American dollar. It will contain 45
cents worth of bullion, and will be fur-
nished in unlimited quantities to anyone
who is willing to pay 50 cents for it. It
is to be redeemable in gold at its face
value. The coin will be a little lighter
in weight than the Mexican dollar,
which at the present price of silver
bullion is worth 52 cents in American
gold.
The primary purpose is to furnish a
circulating medium showing that the
United States is exercising all the func-
tions of a sovereign. The immediate
necessity is ed by the great scarcity
of the Mexican dollars, the recognized
medium xchange in the Orient
The American troops in the Philippins
and the 80,000 foreign soldiers in China
have produced such a call for-the Mex
ican currency that the shrewd Orient
have taken to hoarding it in hope
making a profit.
of
Mexico has also taken
i steps to prevent the depletion of her
stock of money, so the trade situation
on acccunt of the scarcity of dollars is
becoming very bad.
It is the purpose, if Congress grants
the authority, to pay the soldiers in the
Philippines with the 50-cent dollars, giv-
ing them two for one. All other gov-
ernment obligations in that part of the
world will also be discharged with Lhe
new coinage, so there will be no trou-
ble in getting it into circulation.
It is expected there will be a demand
for }2:000.000 or $3,000,000 worth per
month for quite a while,
FATAL BULL FIGHT.
One Man Gored to Death and Many Severly
Injured.
{ The bull fight arena at San Luis Pos-
Mexico, was the scene of another
ric exhibition of brutal sport Sunday.
While the fight was in progress one of
| the vicious bulls jumped the stone bar-
rier that separates the fighting ring from
{the spectators. The animal landed in
| the midst of the crowd and instantly
i charged upon the men, women and chil-
dren, who fled in every direction vainly
seeking the exits.
One man was gored to death by the
animal and a score or more were injur-
ed, being knocked down and trampled
under the feet of their panic- stricken
friends and neighbors. The bull was
finally killed by a rural guard.
tosi
Sentenced a Street Car Striker,
Frederick Northway, one of the three
men arrested on a charge of blowing up
a cable conduit with dynamite durin
the progress of the great street c:
strike at St. Louis; Mo., last summer,
has been found guilty by a jury and
sentenced to serve eight years in the
penitentiary. Maurice Brennan was
sentenced to 10 years in November last,
and James Schwartz, the last of the
trio, will be tried this month on the
same charge.
Earthquake in Missouri.
Telegrams from Nevada, El Dorado
Springs and Appleton City, Mo., say a
distinct earthquake shock was felt at
those points at 9:12 p. m. Friday. Ar
[El Dorado Springs window panes were
broken and other slight damages os
curred,
Native Rising in West Africa.
The colonial office at London is in
receipt of news of a native rising in the
Gambia river region of West Africa.
The dispatch conveying this information
adds that a punitive expedition is being
organized.
Chicago Pays Indian Claims.
The Pokagon Pottawattomie Indians
of Michigan, have been notified that the
$45,000 promised them for a quit-claim
deed to certain Chicago lands on the
lake front is ready for payment. Tt will
be divided equally among. about 300
men, women and children of the once
famous tribe
Crazy Moose Invades a Town.
One man probably {fatally injured,
three dogs and two cows killed and sev-
| eral hundred dollars’ worth of property
destroyed is the result of the visit of a
7 moose to the town of Farris,
CABLE FLASHES.
U nprefedented cold prevails all over
Europe and snow has fallen in Rome.
Snow is falling heavily over Central
| Germany severely interrupting railway
| traffic.
The German
another attempt
will make
canal
governme nt
to have
its
Baku. Russia,
springs and three ware-
The Duke of York has been promoted
from captain to rear admiral in ®*the
| English navy.
| he czar of Russia has recovered his
health and is able to take long walks
and drives da
Empress of “hina delays progress of
negotiations bv insisting on changes in
provisions of joint note.
Archbishop Favier, vicar apostolic of
Pekin, declares that the Pope is not ill-
disposed toward France.
Russia had made an agreement with
China for the practical acquisition of
Manchuria two years ago.
Charles Alexander, grand duke of
Saxe-Weimar, is dead at Berlin. He
was born at Weimar in 1818.
Cape Colonists call loudly for more
troops, fearing that the Boers have been
strongly reinforced by oer sympa-
thizers.
Five bags of registered letters have
been stolen .on the railroad between
Turin and Rome. The loss is estimated
at 200,000 lire.
The chief engineer of the Spanish
steamer Oleta was killed by the explo-
sion of one of her steam pipes between
Genoa and Las Palmas.
Von David, a rich land-owner in Ger-
many, killed himself on his wife’s grave.
He had lost his wife and two sons by
sickness within a fortnight.
During December the Paris police
made 12,970 arrests, including 6 Pde
ers, 025 thieves, 2,879 tramps, 2,4;
drunken people and 3,983 other arrests,
CIR 1S TRYING CONCILIATION
An Agreement Whereby St. Petersburg Will
Hav: a Protectorate of a Manchurian
Province—Concessions Made-
In a dispatch from Pekin Dr. Morri-
son gives the text of the Russo-Chinese
agreement for the Russian protection
of the Manchurian province of Fen
Ting. Russia consents that China shall
resume the civil government on certain
conditions which aim at aid being se-
cured in railroad construction and is
feeding Russian troops.
Following his announcement that the
Chinese emperor has decreed the ac-
ister Conger cabled the State department
that the ministers had been notified for-
mally, not only that the agreement was
accepted by the Chinese government,
but that the government felt able to
guarantee a performance of the condi-
tions imposed. It is believed in Wash-
ington that the result of an endeavor to
have equable commercial treaties will
be the framing of a general convention
to be signed collectively by the powers
which will insure uniform treatment to
all. The arrest and punishment of the
Boxer leaders is expected next.
In an interview Li Hung Chang says
that the emperor is desirous of comply-
ing in all particulars with the demands
of the powers, On the other hand, he
thinks the powers should order a cessa-
tion of the frequent irritating expedi-
tions, which he looks upon as unneces-
sary and as doing a deal of harm.
The emperor, Li Hung Chang as-
serts, is willing to punish all those nam-
ed by the powers by banishment to the
furthest part of the Chinese dominions,
on the northwestern frontier; and their
raturn, he declares will be prohibited
under penalty of decapitation.
FLOODS IN ENGLAND.
Many Vilages Isolated by Water—Railroads
Suspend Operations.
Telegrams from London say: While
the gales continue on the coasts, floods
are causing havoc on the railway lines
The midlands are entirely
inundated. Railways are submerged to
the level of the station platiorm, .en-
gine fires being extinguished. Bridges
have been carried off and the overflow:
ing streams have inundated miles of
country. At Coventry the devastation
is greater thap at any time during 30
years. A number of factories have been
flooded, and hundreds of the inhabitants
imprisoned in their homes. The town
of Bath is endangered by the rise of the
Avon, which is 10 feet above the normal.
Immense tracts of land in several coun-
ties have been transformed into inland
seas, the inhabitants seeking refuge in
the upper rooms of their dwellings.
and farms.
Shoe Combine Planned
Shoe manufacturers are planning the
establishment of a national shoe com-
pany to dominate the distribution of
shoes to the retailers and eliminate the
middlemen’s profits, The company is
to consist of not more than 12 houses
manufacturing dissimilar lines of shoes,
with a total capital stock of $3,500,000.
Depots will be established in every lead-
ing city in the United States.
Suicide by D by Dynamite.
H. E. Webber, a well-to-do farmer cf
Lisbon village, Maine, blew himself to
pieces. Parts of his lower limbs were
scattered about the premises. The head
and arms and upper part of the trunk
were found on top of the barn. Notes
left by Webber said that the writer had
decided to kill himself by exploding dy-
namite cartridges. He had been acting
strangely for several weeks.
Boxers to Invade Korea.
Copies of the “North China Daily
News” received at Victoria, B. C, b
the steamship Tacoma have a long ar-
ticle on the plot by Korean Boxers to
massacre foreigners and follow the re-
cent Boxer program in China in Korea.
The Seoul correspondent of that paper
says that without question there have
been orders sent to every prefect to this
end. _
To Treat Separately with China.
A special dispatch from Peking says:
“According to an official Chinese
source Russia has arranged to make a
treaty with China at St. Petersburg.
The Chinese Minister there has been
appointed to act for China.
Library for Seattle.
Andrew Carnegie has promised Se-
attle, Wash., a giit of $200,000 to be
expended in the construction of a new
public library. He requires a yearly
guarantee of $50,000 for maintenance
and improvement.
Colorado Nearl; Bankrupt.
Governor Thomas, of Colorado, who
retired frm office Thursday, says in his
final message to the Legislature, that
the floating debt of Colorado is $2,073,-
077, and that the State is face to fare
with relief or bankruptcy.
NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES
Led to the Belief That the City Had Been
Attacked—Assassin of Baron von
Kettler was Beheaded.
The advent of the New Year and the
new century was celebrated in Pekin on
an elaborate scale. The discharge of
numerous guns at midnight created a
scare and many troops were sent to dis-
cover whether the city had been attack-
ed or whether it was a oxer rising.
Gen. Chaffee held his reception in the
morning and Mr. Conger received in
the afternoon. A feature which caused
considerable comment was a review of
the British troops in honor of Queen
Victoria and of Australian federation,
i send representatives.
| conspicuous by their absence,
bill |
has destroyed
| to which all the nations were invited to
The French were
not a sin-
gle Frenchman bei
Lie
teler,
June
of :
name
g present.
man who killed Baron von Ket-
the German minister to China, in
last, was beheaded in the presence
number of spectators. His
Su Hai and the execution
on the scene of his crime at
cember 31.
Mongolians are Earred.
The provincial government of British
C olumbia has proclaimed the new regu-
g
was
took place
3p. m De
lations for carrying out the immigra-
tion act which v passed at the last
session, prescribing the educational
“test
A big fight will be made by the com-
panies engaged in bringing in Japanese
and Chinese as the act is an effective
bar to their entry.
Famine on the Amur.
A dispatch received from Vladivos-
tock, Russia, reports that famine
threatens the Amur and maritime prov-
inces. The crops are bad and the rail-
. being almost wholly engaged for
var purposes, cannot be used for the
transportation of food to the inhabitants.
In addition the prohibition of foreign
coastwise trade has prevented importa-
tions into the threatened provinces.
Firm Against Cigarettes.
Governor Bliss, who has succeeded
Hazen S. Pingree as chief executive of
the State of Michigan,.in his inaugural
address declared himself most strongly
against cigarettes. e said on this sub-
ject: “I advise the most stringent legis-
lation possible, in order that the sale
of cigarettes may be discouraged, if not
prohibitied.”
District Attorney Baird, of Hawaii,
has received orders to proceed against
the alleged trusts in Honolulu.
—
OR. TALAAGES SUNDRY SERMON
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
Subject: The Outlook Inspiring — A Far
Look Into the Future-—Marvelous Ad-
vances Predicted — Religion and Sei-
ence in the Next Hundred Years.
[Copyright 1961.]
WASHINGTON, D. €.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage tells something of what he
expects the next hundred years will
achieve, and declares that the outlook is
most inspiring: text, 11 Samuel xxiii. 4,
“A morning without clouds.”
“What do you expect of this new cen-
tury?’ is the question often asked of me,
and many others have been plied with the
same inquiry. In the realm of inv ention I
expect something as startling as the tele-
graph and the telephone and the X-ray.
In the realm of poetry I expect as great
poets as Longfellow and Tennyson. In
the realm of religion T expect more than
one Pentecost like that of 1857, when 500,
200 souls professed to have been con-
verted. I expect that universal peace will
gn, and that before the arrival of the
two thousandth year gunpowder will be
out of use except for glasting rocks or py-
rotechnic entertainment. I expect that
before this new century has expired the
millennium will be fully icaugurated. The
twentieth century will be as much an im-
provement on the nineteenth century as
the nineteenth century was an improve-
ment on the eighteenth. But the conven-
tional length of sermonic discourse ill al-
low us only time for one hopeful consider-
ation, and that will be the redemption of
the cities.
Pulpit and printing press for the most
part in ou re busy discussing the
condition of the cities at this time, but
would it not be healthfully encouraging to
all Christian workers and to all who are
toiling to make the world better if we
should this morning, for a little while,
look forward to the time when our cities
shall be revolutionized by the gospel of the
Son of God, and all the darkness of
sin yand trouble ard crime and suffering
shall be gon= from the » ar 1d it shall be
a morning without clouds?’
ry man has pride in the city of his
nativity or residence if it be a city distin-
guished for any dignity or prowe J
a
boasted of his native Rome,
Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthe-
nes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse
and Paul of Tarsus. 1 should have suspi-
cion of nse Leartedness in a man who
had no -peizl interest in the city of his
birth or oe exhilaration at the
evidence of its prosperity, or : artistic
embellishments, or its scientific advance-
ment.
I have noticed that a man never likes a
city where he has not behaved well! Peo-
B e who have a free ride in the prison van
like the city that furnishes the ve-
re When I find Argos and Rhodes
and Smyrna trying to prove themselves
the birthplace of Homer, 1 conclude right
away that Homer behaved well. He liked
them, and they liked him. We must not
war on laudable city pride or with the
idca of building ourselves up at any time
to try to pull others down. Boston must
continue to point to its Faneuil Hall and
to its superior educational advantages;
Philadelphia must continue to point to its
Independence Hall, and its mint and its
Girard College; New York must continue
to exult in its matchless harbor, and its
vast population, and its institutions of
7, and its ever wiglening commerce;
hington must continue to rejoice in
the fact nay it is the most beautiful city
under the su
Il ey ind a man coming from any
city, having no pride in that city, that
city having been the place of nativity
or now being the place of his residence,
would feel like asking him right away:
‘What mean thing have you been doing
there? What outrageous thing have you
been Lh of that you do not like the
place
Every city is influenced by the character
of the men who founded it. Romulus im-
pressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrim
fathers will never relax their grasp from
New England. William Penn left a leg-
acy of fair dealing and integrity to Phila
delphia, and you can now, any day, on the
streets of that city, see his customs, his
manners, his morals, his hat, his wife's
bonnet and his meeting house. So the
Hollanders, founding New York, left their
impression on all the following generations.
So this capital of the nation is a perpetual
eulogy upon the Washington who founded
it
I thank God for the place of our resi-
dence, and, while there are a thousand
things that ought to be corrected and
many wrongs that ought to be overthrown,
while 1 thank God for the past, I look for-
ward this morning to a glorious future. I
think we ought—and I take it for granted
that you are interested in this great work
of evangelizing the cities and saving the
world—we ought to toil with the sunlight
in our faces. ‘e are not fighting in a
miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on
the way to final victory. We are not fol-
lowing the rider on the black horse, lead
ing us down to death and darkness and
doom, but the rider on the white horse,
with the moon under His feet and the stars
of heaven for His tiara. Hail, conqueror,
hail!
I know there are sorrows and ti®re are
sins and there are sufferings all around
about us, but as in some bitter cold win-
ter day when we are thrashing our arms
around us to keep our thumbs trom freez-
ing we think of the warm spring day that
will after awhile come, or in the dark win-
ter night we look up and see the northern
lights, the windows of heaven illumined
by some great victory, just so we look up
from the night of suffering and sorrow and
wretchedness in our cities, and we see a
light streaming through from the other
side, and we know we are on the way to
morning—more than that, on the way to
‘‘a morning without clouds.”
I want you to understand, all you who
are toiling for Christ, that the ce
sin are all going to be captured.
tory for Christ in these great
going to be so complete that not
rth, or an angel in heaven, or
hell will dispute it.
know it just as certainly as (
that this is holy truth.
is
a man on
a devil in
How do I know? 1
towns
rod lives and
The old Bible is
full of it. The nation is to be saved; of
course all the cities are to be saved. It
makes a great difference with you and
with me whether we are toiling on toward
a defeat or toiling on toward a victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which I speak 1 have to remark there will
be greater financial prosperity than our
cities have ever seen. Some people seem
to have a morbid idea of the millennium,
and they think when the better time
comes to our cities and the world people
will give their time up to psaln singing
and the reiating oi their religious expe-
rience, and ‘as all social life will be puri-
fied thece will be no hilarity, and as all
business will be purified there will be no
enterprise. There is no ground for such
an absurd anticipation. In the time of
ich I speak, where now one fortune is
made there will be a hundred fortunes
made. We all know business prosperity
depends upon confidence between man
and man. Now, when that time comes of
which I speak, and all double dealing, all
dishonesty and all fraud are gone cut of
commercial circles, thorough confidence
will be established, and there will be bet-
ter business done and larger fortunes
gathered and mightier successes achieved.
e great busimess disasters of this
country have come from the work of god-
less speculators and infamous stock gamb-
lers. The great foe to business is crime.
When the right shall have hurled back
the wrong, and shall have purified the
commercial code, and shall have thun-
dered down frandulent establishments,
and shall have put into the hands of hon-
est men the keys of Dhusiness. blessed
time for the araoin . akers. I am not
talking an abstraction; I am not making
a guess; I am telling you God's eternal
truth.
In that day of which I speak taxes will
be a mere nothing. Now our business men
are taxed for everything; city ta coun-
ty taxes, State taxes, United State 5 taxes,
license taxes, manufacturing
stamp taxes,
taxes—taxes, taxes, taxes! Our busine
men have to make a small fortune every
year to pay their taxes. What fastens on
our great industries this awful load?
Crime, individual and official. We have
to pay the board of the villains who are
incarcerated in our prisons; we have to
take care of the orphans of who
plunged into their graves through ey
indulgence; we have to support the muni-
cipal governments, which are expensive
just in proportion as the criminal proclivis
ties are vast and tremendous. Who sup-
ports the almshouses and police stations
and all the machinery of municipal gov-
ernment? The taxpz
of
a
5
But in the glorious time
speak grievous xation will have
ceased. There will be no need of support-
ing criminals; there will be no criminals.
Virtue will have taken the place of vice.
which 1
1
=
EE pretest emp
Kies will be no orphan asylums. for pa-
rents will be able to leave a ¢ eteney
to their children; there will be no voting
of large sums of moneys for some munici-
pal improvement. which moneys. before
they get to the improvement, drop into
the pockets of those w ho voted them:
oyer and terminer kept up at vast exp
to the people, no impaneiing of jur t
try theft and n and murder and slam
tunes; richer opulence A Thing with-
out clouds.”
In that better time also coming to these
cities the churches of Christ will be more
numerous, and they will be larger, and
they will be more devoted to th ice
of Jesus Christ, and they rill accomplish
greater influen d. Now it 1s
often the case that Cehurches are envious
of each other, and denominations collide
with each other, and even ministers of
sometimes forget the bond of
Jut in the time of which 1
while there will be just as many
ai
differences of opinion as there are now,
there will be no acerbity, no hypercriti-
cism, no exclusiveness
In our great cities the churches are not
to-day large enough to hold mcre than a
fourth of the pe spulation. The “churches
that are built—comparatively few of them
are fully occupied. The average attend-
ance in the churches of the United States
to-day is not 400. Now, in the glorious
time of which I speak there ar: going to
be vast churches, and they are going to be
all thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what
earnest sermons they will preach! Oh.
what fervent prayers they will offer! Now,
in our time what is called a fashionable
church is a place where a few people, hav-
ing attended very carefully to their toilet,
come and sit down—they do not want to
be crowded, they like a whole seat to
themselves—and then, if they have any
time left from thinking of their store, and
from examining the Style of the hat in
front of them, they sit and listen to the
sermon warranted to hit no man’s sins,
and listen to music which is rendered by
a choir warranted to sing tunes that no-
body knows! And then, after an hour
and a half of indolent yawning, they go
home refreshed. Every man feels better
after he has had a sleep!
But all these wrongs are going to be
righted. 1 expect to live to see the day.
I think I hear in the distance the rum-
bling of the King’s chariot. Not gays
in the minority is the church of God
going to be, or are good men going to be.
The streets are going to be filled with re-
generated populations.
What will you do with those who fleece
that young man, getting him to purloin
large sums of money from his employer—
the young man who came to an officer of
my church and told the story and franti-
cally asked what he might do? Nothing.
God’s love will yet bring back this
ruined world to holinesssand happiness.
An infinite Father bends over it in sym-
pathy. And to the orphan He will be a
Father, and to the widow He will be a
husband, and to the outcast He will be a
home, and to the poorest wretch that to-
day crawls out of the ditch of his abom-
ination, crying for mercy, He will be an
all pardoning Redeemer.
The rocks will turn gray with age, the
forests will be unmoored in the hurricane,
the sun will shut its fiex relid, the stars
will drop like blasted fi the sea will
heave its last groan and lash itself in ex-
piring agony, the continents will drop like
anchors in the deep, the world will wrap
itself in sheet of flame and leap on the
funeral pyre of the judgment day, but
God’s love will never die. It shall kindle
its suns after all other lights have gone
out. It will be a billowing sea after
other oceans have wept themselves away.
It will warm itself by the blaze of a con-
suming world. It will while the
archangel’s trumpet peals andthe air is
filled with the crash of bre king sepul-
chers and the rush of the wings of the
sing
rising dead. Oh, commend that love to
all the cities and the morning without
shits will come!
I krow pat sometimes it seems a hope-
less task. You toil on in different sphere
sometimes with great ragement.
People have no faith and say: “It does
not amount to anything. You might as
well quit that. Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea it
did not seem to mean anything especially.
People came out, I suppose, and said.
“Aha!” Some of them found out what he
wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted.
It did not amount to any thing, thi
stretching out of his. hand over the sea!
But after awhile the wind blew all night
trom the east, and the waters were gath-
ered into a glittering palisade on either
side, and the billows roared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits. Wheel into
line, O Israel! ~ March, march! Pearls
crashed under feet, flying spi gathe
into rainbow arch of victory
querors to march under, shout of hosts on
the beach answering the shout of hosts
amid sea, and when the line of the
Israelites reach the ach the cymbals
clap, and the shields clang, and the wate:
rush over the pursuers, and the swift
fingered winds on the white keys of the
foam play the grand march of Israel deliv-
ered and the awful dirge of Egyptian over-
throw.
So you and I go forth, and all the peo-
ple of God go forth, and they stretch their
hand over the sea, the boiling sea of crime
and sin and wretchedness. “It doesn’t
amount to any thing,” people say. Danan’t
it? God’s winds of help will after awhile
begin to blow. A path will be cleared for
the army of Christian philanthropists.
The path will be lined with the treasure,
of Christian beneficence, and we will be
greeted to the other beach by the clap-
ping of all heaven's ¢ mihals, while those
who pursued us and ¢ led us and tried
to destroy us will go eo n under the sea,
and all that will be left of them will be
cast high and dry upon the beach, the
splintereu wheel of a chariot or thrust out
from the foam, the breathless nostril of
a riderless charger.
or the con-
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The anti-foreign movement in Korea
® spreading.
Sweden proposes to establish direct
steamship lines to the United States.
Further discoveries of rich quartz
nines have been made in the Klon-
like.
The Peruvian Government has
ranted to two Americans about 300,-
300 india rubber trees.
The present debt of Chicago is $28.-
332,157. In 1892, before the Chicago
Fair, the debt of the city was $12,476.
200.
Farmers in Western Kansas are de-
pleting the county treasuries by the
capture of coyotes. Zach coyote
scalp is worth $3.
The French War Department has
appropriated $80,000 for secret experi
ments in wireless telegraphy, with a
view to perfecting its application in
war.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
clared unconstitutional the State law
permitting verdicts in civil cases by
three-fourths of the members of the
jury.
The Chamber of Commerce of Ber-
lin has presented a petition to Count
von Buelow asking for the mainte-
nance of the present tariff policy of the
Empire.
Great Britain is pressing the Otto:
man Government for payment of the
British Armenian indemnity claims,
(nspired by the success of the United
States in securing its indemnity.
Arrangements have been made for
the settlement of 450 Russian families
near the new town of Ladysmith
Chippewa County, Wis. The immi-
grants will come from the vicinity of
Odessa, in Southern Russia.
Since the loan of $L,130,000 and the
sale
ment by Russia, the Persian army is
being reorganized under Russian in-
structors, who are now urging a con-
siderable increase to its numbers.
Mexico sold the United States $700,000
worth of sisal grass in September, an
the sales for the first nine months of
this year amounted to over nine million
dollars. Tas shows an increase of over
fifty per cent. over the same period of
1800.
Last year the price ot unbound
French books was raised from 50 cents
to 55. Recently another 5 cents was
added, in consequence of the increased
price of paper.
all |
of guns to the Persian Govern-,
lowing persons:
chiki $12; John Gilliland, E
ford,
Wilk ansburg,
iston, $8;
by eight school
ery ;
Barnett and Superintendent @f
Instruction Schaeffer,
an end by the State authorities agreeing
to pay the full amount due the distri
prior to the reduction made by the gov-
ernor in the school appropriation.
day.
| incendiary origin,
000
| sex township,
(EYSTONE i HENS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Locomotive Burtts and Kiled Two Men.
New Oil Field Opened Near S ry
Rock—Another Coal Deal.
Pensions have been granted the fol-
Silas A. Bennett, New
st Water-
Goodman, Por
Mina, $8;
zrtha Park,
Simon.
Lew-
Titus-
$i George F.
oyal, $8; Dewitt C. Hens
ring, Holt, $12;
$12; in
“sg; Mary J. Myers.
Johnson,
Monroeton,
F rederick C.
ville, $6.
The mandamus proc eedings instituted
districts of Montgom-
State Treasurer
Public
were brought to
county, against
J. H. McCullough, receiver in Al-
toona of county and State taxes, is re-
ported to be a
from
ery that he was short in
was made last week.
defaulter to the extent of
to $50,000. The discov-
his accounts
When coniront-
ed with the charge McCullough broke
$30,000
down, and admitted that he had embez-
zled $10,000.
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsbu
Coal and Iron Company has purchase
about 4.000 acres of coal land in White
and Center townships, Indiana county.
The price paid to the land owners was
$113,563.56. Operations are to be stari-
ed at once to develop mines on the ter-
ri tory.
The discovery of a marriage certificate
in a compartment of an old valise is
likely to bring to an end the contest
over the will of the late Chauncey CC.
Ackley, who died at Wellsboro three
years ago, leaving an estate valued at
40,000
A heavy explosion of gas occurred
in the Hollenbach mine of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company Mon-
Five hundred men were at work
at the time. All succeeded in getting
out safely, with the exception of, two,
who were probably fatally burned.
At Greensburg options have heen se-
cured with a view of having same ac-
cepted by the county commissioners for
the new conrt house. The land is one
square south of the present court house
and can be secured for the present site
and $50,000.
Much excitement prevails at Slippers
Rock over the discovery of oil in a we.l
which was being drilled for gas by the
Fort Pitt Gas Company on the T
farm, two miles south of town. The
was tapped in the 100-foot sand and the
well started to flow.
B. E. Masters, an engineer; of New-
tonburg, and John Milier, of Dubois,
were instantly killed and a fireman nam-
ed Henry Patrick was probably fatally
injured by the explosion of a locomo-
tive boiler near McGees Miils.
The bondsmen of Tax Receiver John
H. McCullough, of Altoona, who con-
fessed to being short in his accounts,
have agreed to pay $25.000, and Judge
Bell has approved the compromise: The
reported shortage was $30,000 to $40,000.
The will of Mrs. Caroline Hays. late
oi Canonsburg, leaves $1.200 to tae Pres-
byterian board of relief for disabled
ministers and their families, and $1.000
to the Central Presbyterian church, of
Canonsburg.
The Sharon Boiler Works Company
has taken a contract from a Leeds, Eng-
land, firm for the erection of a mammoth
stand pipe near Buenos Ayres, Argen-
tina. The material will be shipped from
Sharon.
A burglar near New Haven, after
poisoning the watchdog of James Wil-
son,-an aged inhabitant, overpowered
Wilson and his granddaughter and rob-
bed the house of silverware and heir-
looms.
Charles Karchenir, aged 13, of Bethle-
hem, has returned home, saying he was
kianaped and chloroformed by two men,
who let him go on learning that he was
a poor boy. :
The brick knitting mill of William
Davis. in Downingtown, Chester ceun-
ty, was entirely destroyed by a fire of
The loss is abot $9,~
Albert Umstead, a farmer of Middle-
Butler county, went vio-
lently insane and was temporarily lodg-
ed in Butler jail, where he tore off
every shred of his clothing.
The Rev. E. A. Garvey, 1g stor of St.
John’s Catholic church, Pittston, has
beén named by the Pope as a domestic
prelate with the title of monsignor and
was invested with the title Sunday.
The decomposed body of a man sup-
posed to be George Kelly, a cigarmai-
er of Philadelphia, has been found in
a mill race at Union Furnace, Hunting-
don county.
Miss Mary Broderick, aged 20 yea:s,
a sister of Thomas D. Broderick, pro-
prietor of the Queen City hotel of
Johnstown, dropped dead while at a
dance. .
Ida Smith, aged 17, living near Char-
leroi, burned to death, her clothing tak-
ing fire at a grate. She ran about the
house until her clothing was burned off
and lingered in agony two hours.
The Greensburg, Jeannette and Pitts-
burg Street railway celebrated the open-
ing day of the twentieth century by run-
ning the first car into Irwin.
Jacob L. Caiter, engineer at Bucher’s
planing mill, Altoona, was found dead
where he had crawled into a manhole
to repair a leaking pipe.
William Shinabrook, a farm hand, has
been arrested, charged with the murder
of William D. Rebok at Newburg, near
Carlisle.
A lot of black Southern.
snakes, rarely seen in the
been captured on Davidson island, in the
Youghiogheny, near Connellsville.
Gov. Stone has appointed George
Walker, of Emporium,
of Cameron county,
resigned.
Workmen wt Donora, in lifting a large
stone, discovered a skeleton believed
to be that of Mrs. Ellen Bell, who mys-
teriously disappeared 25 years ago.
It is reported the Baltimore and Ohis
railroad will buy Mud island, in the
Youghiougheny river at Connellsville
and srect shops thereon. ’
Warren A. Wilbur, of South Bethle-
hem, has given $5,000 to Lehigh Uni
versity for the equipment of a Seiten
ical laboratory.
The National Malleable Casting Com-
pany, of Sharon, will build an addition
to their plant which will give employ-
ment to 100 additional hands.
Ambrose Hawk. a voung bookkeeper,
was found dead near Wilkesbarre with a
bullet hole in his head and a revolver
by his side.
Dr. F. B. Smith, of Philadelphia, left
by his will $20,000 to Margaret Coyne,
of North Scranton, a trained nurse wno
nursed him six years ago. J
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vice J. C. Bonham,
The 112 cotton mills’ of Mexico can-
sumed last year 57.000.000 pounds of
cotten and produced nearly ten million
pieces of woven and printed goods.
These mills give employment to 22,000
operatives, and the sales for the year
amounted to more than twenty-eight
million dollars.
The French torpedo bout Audacieux,
which has gone to L’Orient for her
trials, is the smallest ironclad in the
world. She carries an armor belt over
her machinery an inch or so in f{i.iek-
ness, ptoof probably against anything
smaller than a six-pound projectile,
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