BRIDGE FELL KILLING THREE
People and Teams Thrown into
the lcy River.
FOUR PERSONS BADLY HURT.
The Accident Resuited‘From the Slip-
ping of Cables From Their
Moorings.
Three rsons were killed and four
others seriously injured by the col-
lapse of the suspension bridge across
the Elk river, connects east
and west Charleston, W. Va.
The dead: Mamie Higginbotham, .
aged 11; Annie Humphreys, aged 17;
Ollie Gibbs, aged 15. The.injured:
Zella Smith, aged 17, compound frac-
ture of elbow; William Holmes, ne-
gro, driver, cut and bruised; Henry
Fielder, driver, serious internal 7in-
juries; Elma Tueker, aged 13, both
arms and leg broken.
On the bridge when it went Soh
were six children on their way to
school, and ‘a number of other pedes-
‘trians, together with six teams. The
noise of the crash was heard through-
out the city. The bridge went down
without warning, but a number of
those who were near the ends of the
structure managed to reach land be-
fore it collapsed. Those who went
down with the wreckage fell a dis-
tance of 40 feet into the ice-covered
water of the river... The steamer
Baxter broke the ice to allow small
boats to reach the scene and the res-
enue work began immediately. The
injured were first assisted to the
shore, and later a search was made of
the river for dead bodies. The bodies
ef Mamie Higginbotham and Annie
Humphries were taken out and the
search continued until nightfall, put
no others were found. A girl named
Lillian Callender saved herself by
hanging to'a cable.” Ollie Gibbs” died
to-night of injuries’ réceived. |
The bridge was-a single span 500 |
feet in length, and was built in 1852. It
had been known to be unsafe some |
per
which
time, and heavy traffic was not aliow- |
ed on it. |
During the Civil ‘War one cable of |
the bridge was cut by General Wise
when he evacuated Charleston, the
bridge at the same time being par-
tially burned. The same cable was
afterward spliced and has been in use|
ever since.
The accident was caused by two ca-
bles on the north side slipping from
their moorings. When that side
dropped another cable snapped, and
the floor tilted and turned completely
BONDS HOUSES SWINDLED.
Into
over.
Man Gets Securities Running
Thousands of Dollars.
Detectives are searching Canada for
@ man who, under many aliases,
swindled two big New York and Bos-
ton bond-dealing business houses out
of securities running into thousands
of dollars.
A year ago last September he open-
ed an office for the sale of real estate
at Lynn, Mass. He carried on an in-
eurance business and appeared to be
prosperous. Soon afterward he call-
ed on the bond brokers and purchased
gilt-edged bonds costing more than
$30,000. Certified checks were ten-
dered in payment, and, after the buyer
disappeared, it was found that the cer-
aification of the checks was a forgery.
‘calendar
i M.
The office in Lynn was closed mean-
while and no trace of the pseudo real
estate broker could be found. .The
police in the larger cities were noti- |
fied. A month passed and then the
suspect appeared in Birmingham, Ala.
There he was looking over sites to
start a cotton seed oil mill and soon
became a member of the Commercial
Llub of that city.
He obtained about $9,000 on some of |
the sfolen bonds from a Birmingham
bank and then was next heard of in|
New York city. He rented an office
and tried to sell the bonds almost
within a stone’s throw of the firm he
had robbed.
Detectives were close upon the trail,
but he fled just before they arrived ang
35 now reported to be in Canada. s
Some of the bonds placed with brok-
ers here for sale are understood to! 2
Rave been recovered
IRELAND CALLS FOR HELP.
Mationalist Members Adopt Resolu- |
tions on Failure of Potato Crop.
A meeting was held in the Mansion
House, Dublin, for the purpose of dig~ |
cussing the failure of the potato crop. |
Resolutions were passed calling on the |
government for assistance and to ap-
ply the provisions of land act to the
west of Ireland. Employment on |
public works is demanded for the
poor. Irish landlords are demanded
for collecting full rents.
There were present John Dillon, T.
©. Harrington, Joseph Devlin and Sir |
H. G. Esmonde, and a majority of the
Nationalist members of the House of |
Commons. |
Strikes Can’t Be Enjoined.
Justice Jenks of the Appellate di-
vision of the New York State Su-
preme Court handed down a decision
that an injunction against organizing
a strike cannot stand.
|
Mining Property Burned.
The Hutchinson Fuel Company's
tipples and mine rigging were totally
destroyed by fire near Byron, W. Va.
Loss, $25,000, with $5,000 insurance.
The fire is still raging at the two en-
trances and it is feared will spread to
the interior.
Im 3 collision yesterday between
two freight trains on the Toledo,
wilhonding Valley & Ohio road at
Isleta, the caboose of the forward
train was rsduced to kindling and
three trainmen in it were injured.
| 976; Boulton, Peopl
| was confirmed by
i Co. for
| to 102,700 tons,
EXPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS.
Amount Falls Far Below the Figures
For Previous Year.
Breadstuffs exported from the
United States in 1904 seem likely to
be less than one-half in value those
exported in 1903. These figures re-
late to the calendar year and are
based upon thg eleven-month prelim-
inary statement issued by the De-
partment of Commerce and La-
bor through its bureau of
statistics. The figures _ of the
November advance statement of
xports of Dreadstuffs, provisions,
cotton, and mineral oils issued by the
bureau of statistics’ show that the to-
tal value of breadstuffs exported in
the eleven months ended with No-
vember was in round terms, $82,000,-
000, against $176,000,000 in the corre-
sponding eleven months of last year.
Despite the . fact that the bread-
stuffs exported will show a fall of
practically $100,000,000 for the entire
Vear, indications are that
the total exports will differ but little
from those of the preceding calendar
year. This, of course, means that: in
other articles there has been an ad-
vance sufficient to nearly offset the
great loss in exports of breadstuffs.
"IDENTIFIED MRS. CHADWICK.
Matron of Penitentiary Says She is
Madame De Vere
“How do you do, Mrs. De Vere?”
This greeting was addressed to Mrs.
Chadwick in her cell at the county
jail in Cleveland Thursday morn-
ing by Mrs. L. M. Kissinger, of Co-
lumbus, formerly an
women’s department
tiary, who was well
employee in the
a prisoner there.
A look of mingled recognition and |
terror flashed over the face of the
prisoner, and instantly she covered
her face with her hands.
Mrs: Kissinger was accompanied by |
Mrs. Flora Kissinger,
law, who was matron in the women’s
department during the incarceration
of Mme. De Vere.
Both women positively
identified
Mrs. Chadwick as Mme, :
De Vere. “1
| will take my oath on it,” said Mrs. IL.
Kissinger. “She has hardly
changed .at all since she was a pris-
oner in the penitentiary.”
FIVE KILLED ON WARSHIP.
Explosion con Massachusetts While
Workmen, Are Making Repairs.
Three men were killed and two
others were so badly injured that
they died an hour latter, by an explo-
sion of a. boiler on the battlesnip
Massachusetts, which is lying at
League Island navy yard. I'here were
half a dozen men at w
ork in the boil-
er-room when tlie explosion occurred.
The dead are: Edward J. Bub,
boilermaker; John Wilson, boiler
| maker; Andrew Hamilton, beilermak-
er; Joseph Adore, helper; Charles
Ritzer, helper. They were all of
Philadelphia. Bub Hamilton and
Ritzer were instantly killed.
The gasket on one of the boilers
blew out and the force cf the explo-
sion closed the autcmatic door, thus
preventing the escape of the men
from the compartment.
Lieutenart Cole, chief engineer of
the battleship, was scald4d, but not
fatally.
NEW YORK’'S OFFICIAL VOTE.
Roosevelt's Plurality 175,552 and
Parker Runs 49,000 Behind
Herrick. es
President Rdosevelt's plurality in
the State of New York at the last
election was 175,552, as shown by the
official returns certified to-day by the
Board of State Canvassers. That of
Higgins, for Governcr, was 80,560.
Parker is shown to have run nearly
49,000 behind Herrick, the Democratic
candidate for Governor.
For Governor, a total] of 1,625,907
votes were cast, of which Higgins re-
ceived 813,264, a plurality of 80,560
over the total of 732,704 cast for Her-
rick. Other candidates for Governor
received: Pendergast, Socialist-
Democrat, 36, 259: Prohibition,
20,568; DeLeon, ialist-Labor, 8,-
party, 6,015.
So
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Secretary Shaw has sent gold med-
1s to Fred Dishinger, Jr., and James |
Hamilton, residing on Kelleys Island.
| Erie county, Ohio, in recognition of
i gallant conduct in saving three per-
sons from drowning Tine 29, 1903.
The Senate confirmed the nomina- |
tions of the follow
Chio—Edmund I. Calley, Middle-
town; * William B. Wallace, Oxford
John A. Koeper, New Bremen; Mil
ton B. Dickerson, Marion. Pennsyl-
vania— R. C. Keefer, Clairton. West
Virginia—Grace O. Montgomery, Tun-
nelton.
The nomination
Kenna of Penns;
Judge for the di
postmasters:
of Charles F. Me-
vania to be District
rict of Puerto Rico
the Senate.
Orders for Steel Rails.
for the steel rail require-
the Pennsylvania Railroad
its lines east and west of
Pittsburg for the year 1905, amounting
were placed as fol-
Big
Orders
ment of
lows: United States Steel Corpora-
tion, 55,500 tons: Lackawanna Steel
Co., 7,000 tons; Cambria Steel Co,
20,100 tons;
20,100 toms.
Pennsylvania Steel Co.,
Protest from Women.
Senator P. C. Knox presented to
the Senate petitions from women so-
cieties of Pennsylvania protesting
against the use of the word “sex” as
it appears in the Statehood bill now
before the Senate. In this measure
women are classed in the same cate-
gory with lunatics, felons and non-
residents.
Directors of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company have de-
clared a cash dividend of 3 per cent,
payable February 10.
| to be a New Yorker.
in the peniten-|
acquainted with | 4 :
: 3 | Tw > ats were lowered an 0
Lydia De Vere when the woman was| 40 ifs honts ; and, np
her mother-in- |
|a New York
MINE PERSONS PERISHED
| A Long Island Steamer Burned
to the Water Line.
CREW SHOWS GOOD DISCIPLINE.
All of Those Who Perished Were En.
tirely Cut Off Before Alarm
Reached Them.
By the burning of the Starin line
steamer Glen Island, in Long Island
Sound, nine lives were lost and prop
erty estimated at a quarter of a mil
lion dollars was destroyed. That
more lives were not sacrificed un-
doubtedly was due to the fine dis€ip-
line that prevailed on the vessel from
stem to stern. The only persons who
lost their lives were those whose es-
cape had been entirely cut off by the
fire before the alarm reached them.
Of the 31 persons including 10 pass-
engers who sailed away on the Glen
Island 22, including eight passengers
were brought back.
The dead are: unknown Hebrew
woman, believed to be Rosa Schulpki,
who lives at No. 206 Hamilton street,
New Haven. unknown man, supposed
W. E. Hender-
son, assistant engineer. Inman Mil
ler, fireman. Frank Bush, fireman.
John Burke, fireman. Otto L. Alol-
fran, fireman. O. Berg, deckhand.
Peter Benson, deckhand.
The Glen Island left her dock Fri:
day night for her regular trip to New
Haven. The fire broke out about mid-
night and, fanned by a stiff breeze,
soon swept every part of the boat.
these the passengers leaped and were
| rowed away from the burning craft.
They were later placed on an incom-
ing steamer and brought back to New
York.
While the cause of the fire is un-
known, it is supposed to have start-
ed in the boiler room. The probable
cause may never be known, as the
three firemen perished in the boat.
CRY AGAINST WAR.
Revolutionary Demecnstration
Streets of Moscow.
The city of Moscow was the scenes
of a revolutionary demonstration Sun-
day from noon till nearly evening.
Probably 5,000 people actually partici-
pated. Fortunately the agitators did
not ‘succeed in drawing the working-
men from the factories into the dis-
turbance, and after many collisions
the police firing blank volleys and
charging with their sabres, the crowds
were finally dispersed. Many were
wounded and more were arrested. As
far as known none of the rioters was
killed. One policeman is reported to
have been fatally injured. Many on
both sides were roughly handled.
The police ‘had orders to exclude
demonstrators from the precinct of
the palace of Grand Duke Sergius, but
the demonstrators ignored all warn-
ings and pushed along Tverskaia
street, shouting “Down with the war,”
and singing revolutionary songs.
They stopped in front of the pal-
ace and refused to disperse. After
a few blank cartridges had been fired
from the revolvers of the police the
latter drew their swords and with
the assistance of gendarmes ana Cos-
sacks, drove the demonstrators, stu-
dents of both sexes, into the neigh-
boring street, including the boulevard
Pushkin, where the struggle was con-
tinued around the Pushkin statue.
The general public did not participate,
but appeared to disapprove of the
demonstration. The students had
counted on the co-operation of the
workingmen, but’ employers, by a
threat to withhold the customary New
Year gifts, induced the men to ab-
stain.
At a banquet of engineers resolu-
tions similar to those adopted by the
zemstvoists were passed.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
in
L.and has been purchased in West
One Hundred Twenty-third street,
New York, for the erection of a Mor
mon church.
The National Association of Carpet
Merchants, at its meeting in Washing-
ton, decided to hold its next meeting
in Pitteburg in 1905 Cyrus
Roberts, of nl was elected
president.
Mary Lachman, a six-year-old girl,
of Wauseon, O., died in a Chicago Pas-
teur institute of hydrophobia
William Stevenson and wife and
Mrs. Wiliam Barrett, a visitor, were
| cremated by the burning of the Steve-
| son home near Monticello, Ark.
By the explosion of
apartn
Swinson, Charles R
les Painter, childre
death and Isaac S
Reypolds were se
an oil stove in
ent house, Alice
10lds and Char-
were burned to
ith and Charles
sly injured.
Oo
WILL MEET BALTIC FLEET.
American Consul Confirms Report of
Approaching Naval Battle.
The Japanese dispatched a
leet of 40 vessels to meet and destroy
the Russian Baltic fleet. This news
has come to this government from
official sources at Tokyo, the original
source of information being the
American consul on the island of For-
mosa.
Tne news to this government is
gonmined in the following Tokyo cab-
e
have
“It is reported that a Japanese fleet
of 40 vessels passed Pescadore islands
yesterday going south. This report
has been confirmed here.”
Radical Victory in Switzerland.
The Bundesrath elected M. Ruchet,
Vice President of the Federal Council,
President, and M. Forrer, minister of
commerce, industry and agriculture,
to be vice president of the Confeder-
ation for 1905. Both are Radicals.
Captain James Wilson, of the Alle-
gheny police bureau, was indicted by
the grand jury on six charges based
on the evidence collected in the Alle-
gheny graft investigation,
$3,000,000 FiRE.
Several Large Buildings in Minneapo-
lis Destroyed.
Fire which brcke out in the photo-
graphic supply house of the O. H.
Peck; Company, at Fifth street and
First avenue, Minneapolis,
o’clock at night, spread to adjoining
buildings and caused a loss roughly
estimated at $3,0006.000. The Peck
building was entirely gutted, while
the six-story furniture house of Bou-
tell Bros., one of the largest establish-
ments of its kind in the northwest,
was ruined, and a number of smaller
buildings were destroyed.
The Powers Mercantile Company,
an immense department. store, just
across First avenue @ south, caught
fire, but heroic efforts on the part of
the Minneapolis and St. Paul fire de-
partments saved the building, al-
though immense ‘damage’ ‘was done to
the stock by water. For a time the
best part of the retail district of the
city was threatened, and the firemen
seemed powerless to stay the progress
of the flames, which were driven by a
high wind from the north. By allow-
ing the buildings already on fire to
burn themselves out, and confining
their efforts to - adjacent buildings,
however, the firemen had the flames
well under control at 2 o’clock this
morning.
One man was reported killed by com-
ing in contact with a live electric wire
and two firemen are also believed to
have been killed.
Two Banks Robbed.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
Bank of Rice, at Rice station, 15
miles north of St. Cloud, Minn., and
secured $2,000 in cash and $15,000 in
negotiable paper. The robbers es-
caped, using a team of horses which
they had stolen 1or that purpose.
Three suspects have been arrested.
A lone highwayman held up the Bank
of Chisholm, Minn. and secured $2,-
200. He forced Cashier Greiser into
the vault at the muzzle of a revolver
and locked the door. The robber es-
caped.
TERSE TELEGRAMS.
Edward Rosser, 54 years old, is dead
at New Castle, Pa., from burns receiv-
ad from an explosion of a lamp.
Jacob Beilhart, head of the Spirit
fruit society at Lisbon, O., has been
sued for alimony by his wife.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
at San Francisco, but no damage was
done.
A small steamer was driven ashore
in a gale near We mouth of the Spey.
The whole crew, numbering 10 were |
drowned.
John H. Wood, president and cash- |
ier of the First National bank, or |
platthews, Ind.,
entries. .
Twelve business
‘and, Tex. were
Rich-
fire.
houses at
destroyed by
Only one carried insurance. |
The Mergenthaler Linotype com- |
pany has declared a quarterly divi- |
dend of 214 per cent. and an
dividend of 5 per cent.
Berlin has passed the 2,000,000 mark
in the population of the city proper.
The adjcining suburbs have a popula-
tion of nearly 750,000 persons.
Father Ignatius, an Anglican monk,
~ho founded Llanthony awooney, in
Wales, is attracting world-wide at-
iention to himself by his assertions
hat he can and dees, through the
cower of God, al the sick and raise
the dead.
The syndicate organized by Spey-
sr & Co. to finance the
Cuban loan has been wound up. Par-
{icipants are said to have divided a
extra
profit of slightly less than 5 per cent. |
At no time were the members called
apon to pay any part of their sub-
scriptions.
Fire at Sardis,
buildings.
ziven. Woodsfield, but a few miles
listant, was visited by a similar fire,
supposed to have been incendiary.
The [.ake Shore & Michigan South-
srn Railroad Company reports for the
juarter ended September
plus over charges of $1,434,146,
Increase from the same quarter
year of $375,425.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway has declared a dividend of
2 per cent, payable January 3.
fast dividend, 214 per cent,
Dctober 1, The January
last year was 134 per cent.
Rev. Charles W. Tyler, D. D., rector
of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church
of New Castle, Pa., hae resigned.
Tyler says he will ramain until anoth-
ar rector is secured, but no later than
July 1, 1905.
Reporis from Ohio, Western
sylvania and West Virginia say
is danger of a water famine.
President Roosevelt announced
that Secretary Morton at his earnest
request had consented to remain in
the cabinet after March 4, as secre-
lary of the navy.
Governor Dunn decided to
special session of the Delaware legis-
lature for December
0.,
af
last
was paid
Penn-
there
be corrected.
The District Court of Appeals af-
firmed the decision in the postal con-
spiracy cases of August W. Machen,
George E. Lorenz, Samuel A. Groff
and Diller B. Goff, who were sen-
tenced to two years’ imprisonment in
the West Virginia penitentiary and
to pay a fine of $10,000.
The directors of the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Railroad
company have declared a semi-annual
dividend of 2 per cent. payable De-
cember 31. The directors of the Nor-
thern Central Railroad company de-
clared a semi-annual dividend of 4
per cent., payable January 16.
The Mormon Oath.
Endowment house secrets, includ-
ing the terrible oaths which Mormons
who go through these ceremonies are
compelled to take, were revealed at
the Smoot hearing by J. H. Wallis,
Sr., of Salt Lake City, who, once a
Mormon, has now renounced the faith.
One of the oaths which he described
is pronounced by the opposition to
Senator Smoot to be a direct renunci-
ation of allegiance to the United
States in favor of the church.
‘at 10:30
| ous
i age.
$35,000,000 |
destroyed 14!
The property loss is not |
30 a sur-|
The |
| structures in the northwest was burn-
dividend | The insur- |
Dr. |
{ change
call al
29, in order that |
a blunder in a judgment lien law may |
| curred,
| field that Miss Trumphour had shot |
NOT ONE VESSEL FLOM
Port Arthur is in Ruins® and Few
Soldiers Patrol ‘the Streets
JAPS SHELL TOWN AND HARBOR.
The Only Battleship Remaining was
Driven Out and Attacked by
Torpedo Flotilia.
Every part of the city and harbor
of Port Arthur is visible from 203
Meter hill. The streets of the city |
are deserted, and but few soldiers are
doing patrol duty. Many buildings
have been burned and others shatter-
ed. The shelters of the harbor
ent a strange appearanee with the
turrets, masts and fumnels of war-
ships showing just above the water.
There is not a vessel afloat in the har-
por. The docks and buildings on the
water front are torn and ‘burned. \
The Japanese shells reach. every
part of the city and harbor:
The Russian battleship Sevastopol]
the only Russian warship that escap- |
ed destruction, being docked when the |
other vessels were sunk after the Jap- |
anese captured 203 Meter Hill, escap- |
ed from the dock and harbor last
night and is now anchored under a
protecting mountain. Some torpedo |
craft are also outside of the harbor. |
The report of Vice Admiral Togo is |
as follows:
“Commander Kasama, commanding
ht
the torpedo flotilla,
on Monday nig
at: midnight attacked the
battleship Sevastopol, lying (
Port Arthur. The result of this at-
tack has not been ascertained.
sequently two torpedo boats
Commander Masado attempted
eral attacks, facing the enemy’s
orous fire. The shock of the explos-
ions of torpedoes was felt, but the
next day the Sevastopol remained in
the same position. None of our ves-
sels was damaged. On Tuesday at
2:30 o'clock in the morning another
torpedo flotilla, under Commander
Arakawa, attacke od the
but the result of this attack was not
learned. “In this attack. a shell from
the enemy struck the .funnel of one
of our tornedo boats and another |
struck the engine room, disabling the |
vessel,
under
sev-
vig-
comrades.
The commander
over-locking Port Arthur, reporting
at 10 o’clock Tuesday night, says:
“To-day’s bombardment was princi:
| pally directed against the arsenal and
| torpedo storehouse at Tigers Tail]
There were no casualties.
was found guilty of | peninsula and the 'vessels anchored |
misapplication of bank funds and false | in that vicinity.
The storehouse was
| set on fire and burned in about an
hour. About six shells struck the
| ships and three vessels used for vari-
purposes were destroyed. One
took fire and sank. The
Sevastopol
ascertained, owing to the incle-
WILDCAT T INSURANCE.
Promoters of Companies on Trial in
Chicago Plead Guilty to Operating
Scheme to Defraud.
A crusade
ago by government officials against
the operation of “wildcat” insurance
companies reached a successful ter-
mination, when Steven W. Jacobs and
Charles J. Van Anden of Chicago
pleaded guilty to charges of operating
a scheme to defraud by placing al-
leged fraudulent insurance policies
and using the United States mails to
conduct the frauds. Witnesses from
all parts of the United States were
present
ready to testify
premiums on fire
when their- homes burned,
unable to collect.
been made from
they
Complaints have
over 100 different
cities and towns throughout the coun-
try that the two men awaiting sen-
tence had refused to redeem their
policies, when presented for pay-
ment.
The Holy Rosary Church, of Minne-
apeclis, one of the finest “Catholic
ed.
ance
The loss is $65,000.
$50,000.
Investigating Rural Mail Service.
As a result of complaints filed
with the postofiice department at
Washington, D.
and reduction of the. rural
free delivery routes in Washington
County, Pa., and throug
tion of Congressman
Agents F. P.
Acheson, Special
Bouchee and G. P.
way are now going over the routes
making an investigation. By the
changing of the routes many families
were left unserved and it is believed
that the agents wil} report against. the
great reduction in the number of ‘the
routes.
Girl Shot Herself.
Near Barberton, O., Miss Grace
Trumphour, 19 years old, was shot
and kiiled at the home of Houston
Kepler.
man at whose house the tragedy oc-
telephoned Dr. W. A. Mans-
herself. The physician went to the
Kepler home and found Miss Trump-
heur lying in a pool of blood.
Japanese Cruiser Goes Down.
The Japanese cruiser Saiyen struck
a mine and sank November
teen officers and 175
cued. Capt. Tajima and
went down with the ship.
HAS DEBTORS IN BELGIUM.
30.
38
Mrs. Chadwick Lived in
Style in Brussels.
In a search in Brussels for Dr. Le-
roy S. Chadwick, the Etecile Belgeuj,
asserts that it has discovered that his
wife left depts in Brussels, notably
$18,000 due to a
owing to a lace merchant. Mrs. Chad-
wick while in Brussels lived expen-
sively, her hotel bill amounting to $30
a day.
"bill carrying $244,000.
pres- |
Sub-
Sevastopol, |
and she !ost her freedom of |
motion and was towed away by her.
of the naval. 'guns | >
bombard- |
ment of buildings caused serious dam- |
; The result of the indirect bom- |
| bardment of the
{| been
| ment weather. bs
has not |
begun several months |
| the ouyalent of the American pool
| boats
C., over the proposed |
h the media- |
Con- |
Noiaoh osler : ied five indictments against her.
pler, a son of the | 3.0 Carnegie will give testimony in
| passed the Senate.
others |
| ber,
Luxurious
jeweler and $12,000 |
| that
| nation for the blood of Joseph Smi
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Tuesday.
Sitting ‘as a grand jury, the House
of Representatives, with almost a full
membership and after more than five
hours’ discussion, adopted a resolution
providing for the impeachment of
Judge Charles Swayne, of the North-
ern district of Florida, for “high
crimes and misdemeanors.”
A resolution granting the use of the
pension office building for the inaug-
ural ball was passed by the Senate.
The House committee on appropria-
tions has reported an urgent deficiency
Among the
items are $12,500 for the payment of
| electoral messengers and $1,500 for
the printing of the electoral returns,
$200,000 for equipment of the Chicago
| postofiice ‘building and * $28, 000 for.
| testing coals and lignites.
Thursday.
The Senate Committee on Territor-
ies completed its work on the state-
hood. bill and authorized a. favorable
réport on the matter of admitting
Arizona and New Mexico as one State’
and Oklahoma and Indian Territory
| also as one State.
The Senate adopted a resolution an-
nouncing that it would consider the
| impeachment of Judge - Charles
Swayne according to the dothand of
the House.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
| bill was passed without debate in the
| Senate.
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KILLS CHILD WITH CHAIR.
Negro Then Batties With Wife, Cut-
ting Her Hands to Pieces.
Edward Harris, a negro of Ironton,
O., murdered his 6-year-old stepson
asleep in a crib, by hitting the child
over the head with a chair and “then
striking a knife in each-teniple. He
then turned on his wife and tried to
cut her throat, literally cutting her
hands to pieces as she struggled. She
finally got away and fled, and then
Harris cut his own year- -old baby
in the mouth.
He attempted to escape but was
captured later, asleep under a boiler
at a brick yard. Officers had to pro-
tect him from neighbors.
Postoffice Employes Are Removed.
Postmaster General Wynne removed
from office Frank H. Cunningham, of
South Dakota, president of the Nation:
al Association of Rural Carriers, and
James C. Keller, of Cleveland, head
of the National Association of Letter
Carriers. The dismissal of Keller was
for alleged insubordination, for being
absent from duty without leave and
| of “pernicious activity” in the recent
campaign.
A Total Wreck.
The British steamer Buckingham,
from Baltimore, having on board a
cargo intended for the United Fruit
Co., lat Bocas del Toro, Panama,
struck on Roncador bank and is a to-
tal wreck. Schoorners were chartered to
bring to Colon the crew and 54 labor-
ers who were passengers on board the
steanier.
The Michigan Central railroad has
: placed an order for 4,000 tons of steel
rails with the Lake Superior Corpora-
tion. The price is said to be aual to
figure
One Killed and Others Hurt.
Effie Phipps of Rome, O., was killed
Ola Smith and Mattie Rice were fa-
tally injured and a score of others
hurt by jumping from windows after
an explosion had wrecked Lloyd, Ad-
ams & Simpson’s toy pistol factory
| at Portsmouth, O. Flames cut off the
in the United States court}
that they had paid |
insurance which, |
were |
escape of some and the frantic girls
leaped from the second and third
stories.
THREE WAR VESSELS LOST.
Two Belonged to the Japanese and
One to Russians.
The Japanese have lost two torpedo
during all - the operations
against the battleship Sevastopol,
which was reported in advices from
Port Arthur to be completely disabled.
A special dispatch from Tokyo re-
ports that the Japanese naval bom-
bardment on Saturday sank a Rus-
| sian torpedo boat at Port Arthur,
Control of the Co C. H. & D.
H. B. Hollins & Co., announce that
they have exercised their option on
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
road and have acquired control of that
company. The Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton practically controls the
Pere Marquette road and has joint
ownership in a number of smaller
lines. It is stated that the deal does
not involve’ any changes in the man-
agement of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton road.
The Chadwick Case.
Mrs. Cassie LL. Chadwick arrived at
Cleveland in the custody of federal
| officers and was taken to jail amid
| the jeers and hisses of crowds in the
street. The federal grand jury return-
An-
the case as scon as his health will
permit. Mrs. Chadwick says she pre-
fers jail to freedom and again declares
| she will pay all her debts.
Philippine Franchise Bill.
The Philippine franchise bill, amen-
| ded and remodeled beyond recogni-
Fif. | tion, and modified to meet the re-
men were res- |
quirements of many Republicans,
The vote was 44
One Republican, Mr. McCum-
voted against the bill.
to 23.
Oath of Vengeance.
The retribution obligation taken by
Mormons in the endowment house
ceremony, as quoted by J. Lundstrom,
Smoot hearing before the Sehate Com-
mittee, was as follows: “Oh, God,
the Eternal Father, we ask Thee to
bless Thy church, the holy priesthood,
to help us to keep Thy covenants, and
that all that raise their hands against
Thy church be accursed forever, and
vengeance be visited upon the
th.”
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