sr AE 4 HS PEOPLE WILD WITH FRIGHT Earhquaie In India Causes Great Loss cf Life and Property. TROOPS CRUSHED TO DEATH A Number of Europeans, Children, Amcng Those That Lose Their Lives. The Kang of Lahore, having an area of over 8,700 square miles, aad a population of 800,000 people, is believed to have been devastated by the earthquake. The town of Kangra, with a population | have | of over 50,000, is reported to been reduced to rains. The loss of life must be enormous, but no authen- tic details are obtainable. Terrible news is at hand men of the Sec- he First battal- Gurkha regimeat, 20 ond, and 50 men of ion of the First buried alive, and it rescue them. The the Gurkha troops is «¢ occupying a new stone be Ar I + t was thrown up from the ground two | feet by the movement of the earth, causing its total e¢ 1pse. There were ma women, children and camp foliowe s in the buildin among the victims. S. awfulness of the ne time made and no attempt to r«¢ When the masses of masonry were removed more than 200 persons we extricated. y hese were te ribly cri Europeans are to be roll at Dharmsala. The shock was so oc- had no time f« » perished The movement of the earth, was ¢ companied by a roaring sound sembling thunder. Unofficial reports state that the number of deaths in the arca affected by the earthquake exceed 2,000. A private telegran town of Palampoor, with habitants, was levelled to the Fos Not a single house escaped dan in the town of Sialkot. reports that the Or in- TOWN ALMOST WIPED OUT Eighty Per Cent of Inhabitants of Charmsala, India, Dead. It is reported here that 80 per cent of the inhabitants of Dh hill station, 95 miles northwest of Simla, were killed, as a result of re ccnt earthquake there. The govern- Including | DISASTER IN MADRID rlundreds of Workmen Crushed by Collapse of Reservoir. Disorders occurred in Madrid, Spain among workmen as a result of of the new reservoir in were black demon- the collapse the city, when 400 workmea killed or wounded. gs, 5,000 Carrying vorkmen made a scene of the dis- ed the crowd ich many on Maay vic- stration near the aster. The police charg and a riot followed, in w oth sides were iajured. tims of the disaster &ad the work of rescue has not yet a valley, a district north | from | Dharnsala, 400 men of the Seventh | i which | med to be paralyzed by | ala, the | ment has dispatched from Lahore for | tents, food, blankets, ete., for the sufferers at The earthquake was severely felt at Kasuluh, but no lives were lost, and the Pasteur Institute escaped. A sec- ond shock at Simla caused such a panic that the residents rushed from their houses and slept all night a the open. doctors, nurses, Calcutta says Lady Curzon, formerly Miss Leiter, of Chicago, viceroy of India, had a narrow es- cape during the earthquake at Simla. A massive chimney fell through the roof and ceiling into the room above that in which she was sleeping. WATER BCILS IN CRATER La Socufriere Again Shows Signs of Disturbance. In view of the fact that earthquake shocks were experienced on the islands of St. Christopher, Dominica and Antigua and at Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe and of the prevalence of intense heat at Kingston, the chief of police and two constables, April 3, made the ascent of Ia Soufriere. They fouwad the area of the lake di- minished, and met with water, green and boiling, on the north side of the lake, steam rising from all over the lake, for the first time since the erupticas of 1902. Steam was also exuding from a large creek in the lip of the crater, and from numerous fis- sures inside the crater. MORMONS SUSTAIN SMITH Apostles Taylor and Cowley, Accused of Polygamy, Also Sustained. Joseph F. Smith was sustained as prophet, seer and revelator of the Mormon church by unanimous vote of the men.bers at the opening session of the seventy-fifth anaual confer- ence. When a vote was taken to sustain the 12 apostles two hands were ed in dissent. One of the dissenters rose to explain his vote, 1 permitted to speak.© Pr merely saying tl Rag he his objection to ties. The members afterward said that protest against si eers of the chure amy. Among the a Taylor and Cowle; accused of living ta p tor Smoot was not Aposties Taylor anc such offi- in poyg- Turk expect istence ers. WIFE AND BAIRNS Husband and Father / With the nis murder. Dharmsala. | Tuesday evening, | been completed. Ten of those who | were rescued alive have gone mad. Underneath the foundations of the | reservoir were water pipes used to were recovered, | supply the palace and old Madrid. It | ated that this was ile cause or e subsidence, and not the surface of the ground. The vault was built of cement with iron girders, as were also the supporting columns. The firsi all caused all the pillars to bend and the end of the iron work to stretch, resulting in a general and uniform coi- An exact estimate of the casualties s still impossible. It is stated that here were 236 men in the lower part | of the reservoir, all of whom were structure whica cociiapsed was uge quadriennial one, 350 by 150 rs, built on arches. As the part of the the work of extricating | killed | t r the vic- RUSSIAN SOC IALIST DEMANDS nt Witte Back of Movement for Church Freedor The central committee ‘of the So- revolutionary party has drawn up a document centaraing the main its program and of this of thonsands of copies are g 'inted for circulation in all parts oi Huropean Russia. The maia t + of the program is the establish- 1 democi 13 republic on the the autocracy. he inside ae of the move- ment for the freedom of the ortho- Tox church from the bureaucracy of he holy synod shows that it owed initiation to President Witte. At ceting of the committee of min- M. Witte spoke of the neces- sity of keeping alive the faith among | the ignopna jiks, as religion was the only compen- | sation in their sad let. Without faith, he Russian state would be The procurator general of the holy syrod tried to block the movemeat, but failed. | The reports of peasant uprisings in th Baltic provinces continue ex- tremely disquieting. Although Cos- sack and infantry patrols tered through the country, are unable to stop the plunderiag of estates by the larger peasant bands. FOUR ARE ASPHYXIATED Leak in a Gas pire. in House Causes ; | Deaths of Occupants. A dispatch to a news agency from | wife of the! Henry Monroe, his wife Anna, their 1i-months-old child and a brother of Monroe, were asphyxiated by gas in their home at 2956 Canal street, Chica- go. The body of the father and hus- band was found near the door with | | his arms outstretched, as if he had | been trying to oven the door when | overcome. The others were found ly- ng in bed. A leak in a gas pipe in | the kitchen was responsible for the accident. Russian Attacks Repulsed. | former Har i and battleships. The debris is under | poverty-stricken mu- | id, the foundation of the whole destroyed. | | have kept a good distance ahead oi are scat- | the troops | The following report has been. re- | ceived at Tokyo from tine Manchur- ian army headquarters: “April 5, at 2 O'clock in the afternoon, one battal- ion of the enemy's flaak and six companies of cavalry came and at- tacked Tsulushu, 20 miles north of Changtu. They were repulsed. On the following day, 24 companies of the enemy’s cavalry, with several guns, renewed the attack. They were again repulsed. The main force of the assaileats retreated to- ward Pamiencheng. A portion stop- ped near Choroyo, three miles north of Tsulushu.” BL OCKED BY | ENGLAND Refused to Allow Nation's sentative to Receive Money. A serious hitch in the agreement re- cently signed between ritish and German bcadholders ana ine Vene- zuzla gecvernment threatens to ren- ler the scheme for the satisfaction of the naticn’s claims unworkable. A clause in the contract, provides the proportion of the revenue to the boadholders shall be to the British legation and Y itish government refu bondholders are discussing an ive arreagement, but consid- doubt exists that the contract be carried out. Threatened Roosevelt. At Minneapolis, Alexander E. Gran- ville Gordon, charged with sending threatening letter to President osevelt was senteaced to one year the Stillwater prison by the United uit court. Gordon asked saying that he was under ea of cocaine at the time wrote the letter. He is a descen- 22 honored English famil; accor to informa- one of his close per- is now sound- the state in When Burton io. a Remre- | | tory, t for 5,000 tons of ar officinls in Venezuela, but | the opinion recently handed down by RUSSIAN FLEET SIGHTED Passes Singapore on Its Way to Meet Togo. TOGO BETWEEN TWO SQUADRONS Big War Vessels of Russian Feet Not Seen—Ships from +Viadivostok May Attack Rear. pre Fifty-one ships of Vice Admiral] Rojestvensky’s second Pacific squad- | | ron passed Singapore on the Sth inst. The most important fightng vessels of the sq uadron, including the battleships Kniaz puvaroff, Alexander 1II, Bor- | ordino and Or with their comple- | ment of cruisers, torpedo boat destroy- | ers, etc, did not arrive and their whereabouts is unknown. The fieet, steaming slowly at eight knots an hour, four abreast, presented a striking spectacle. The vessels, however, bore evidence of the effects of their long sea-voyvage, and at the water line showed seaweed a foot long. The squadron was led by a large cruiser, followed by three converted nburg-American line ves- sels. Then came the cruisers, colliers coiiiers were | mostly fa the center of the fleet. The | decks of the warships were coal-lad- en, while the colli and the former | Hamburg-American liners were light of draft. The fleet passed seven miles out. The Russian consul visited and gave dispatshes” to a torpedo boat. The fleet did not stop to receive dis- patches or to consult with the consul, ently the consui visited Vice | stvensky-s ship, talking | consul A 1 J to him from a launch. - The ave the fleet the first news of the I re is reason to believe that Vice Admiral Rejestvensky’s entrance into the China sea has been followed by | orders for the cruisers Gromoboi, 30 and Bogatyr, which have been ready for some time at Viadivostoxk, to put to sca. Whether it is the in- tention to send them south immediate- | Vv or to hold them in the vicinity of Vladivostok is not known. Their ap- pearance outside the roadstead of Vladivostok would constitute a po- tential threat against Admiral Togo’s rear, wheh' will compel the retention 1 or dispatch of a number of heavy fighting ships to Japanese waters. Thus Admiral Togo seems virtually to be placed between two fires. From Penang a report says that a Japanese scouting party had been sighted there. There were 12 Japan- ese vessels and they are supposed to o the Russian fleet. Strikers Capture Trains. Dispatches from the Caucasus paint the railway situation there in alarm- ing colors. The authorities, it is represented, are afraid to run trains at night lest they be wrecked. Striking section hands seize trains and travel up and down the lire, forciag other employes to cease work. “ TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Pecple fled from a distrior in Silesia where there have been many cases of spotted fever. Baron Suyematsu, Japan’s former minister of the interior, has declared his nation will press the war until Russia is willing to pay a fair in- demnity. Andrew Carnegie gave Miami uni- versity, Oxford, O., $40,000 for a new library. The condition attached is that the college raise a like sum for the maintenance of the library. It is know that Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford left an estate valued at $7,000,000, of. which $3,125,000 is to go for legacies and bequests, and a residue of not less than $3,875,000, to Stanford university. Charles H. Sanford of Cincinnati, has been made defendant in a $50.000 breach of promise suit by Miss Ella W. Farnham, of Chicago, who alleges in her petiticn that the Cincinnati man promised to marry her several years | ago, but had wedded another. J. G. Phelps Stokes, maulti-million- aire and member of one of New York’s most promiaent families is engaged to a young Jewe writer who formerly worked in a cigar fac- The Lehigh Valley has placed orders steel rails, the Philadelphia & Reading for 10,000 tons, and the “Soo” railrcad for 5,000 tens. Seve other small lots have | also been ordered 3 cgating with the larger lots, about 25,000 tons. Securities Case is at Rest. After having carefully considered the Supreme Court in the Northe Securities case, counsel for the Harri- | mes interests have decided not to |¢ demand another hearing. The litiga- tion regarding the of | assets is thus ended. Will Be Hanged. The Supreme Court of Nebraska | has denied a new trial to Frank Bark- er, who killed his brother and his brother’s e that he might get pos- session of their farm, and thus be able to offer a home to a young wo- man he had asked to marry him. He will | Many Killed in Earthquake. Caicutia from earthquakes at Mu provinces. Niae killed at Dharn a commandi the troops two daugl Capt. Mus | aceidents. | Naples on the | amidst the booming ! oper: mands. DECREASE IN FATALITIES Report on Railway Accidents Shows Many Killed and Hurt. A report of the railroad accidents in the TUited States during the months of October, November and December, 1904, as compiled by the Inter-State Commerce Commission it shows that in the quarter 5 pas- sengers and 189 employes were Kill- ed, and 1,430 passengers and 1,868 employes injured, a total of 242 per- scas killed and 3,298 injured in train Other accidents to pas- senge and employes not the result of collisions or derailments Gquring tne mon bring the total number of casualties up to 14,978—951 killed and 14,027 injured. The report indicates a decrease of 175 killed aad 624 injured, as com- pared with the last preceding quar- ter. Of the total number of 53 pas- sengers. killed in train accidents, 29 were killed in one collision between a passenger train and a freight train The total :aumber of collisions and derailments in the quarter was the financial damage aggregating $2,- 406,081. The number of employes killed in coupling and uncoupling cars in the quarter was 71—12 more than in the preceding three months TWO MEN KILLED iN WRECK Tue Steubenville Be ohimb sation on C. and P. Crashes Into Freight. Two trainmen were killed and a third injured in a wreck on the Cleve land and Pittsburgh Railroad at Cos tonia, O. The" Steubenville accom: | modaticn, eastbound, was struck by extra freight No. 7241, jes ad-on. engine of the pass railed, and went ove The cars of both trair damaged. No passeng jured. The dead are: of Wellsville, O., engineer : were i Edward Fulle passen | train. H. C. Ewing, of Mansfield fireman, passenger train. The injured trainman is: DM. C McIntire, of Cleveland, brakemah passenger train. The freight train was running at a much higher rate of speed than’ the passenger, and the nature of the country. there is such that the 'en- gineer of neither train could see the other until the collision was ine vitable. tngineer Fuller and Fire man Ewing attempted to escape_by jumping, but were carried along with the locomotive when it went over the embankment. UNSIGNED BANK NOTES Decision of Supreme Court These Notes Good. : Information at the Treasury depart ment that the National bank notes without the signatures of the proper officials of the banks to whom the ‘notes were issued were being circu lated ‘in Western Penn i has caused a stir among the 'officials of the express companies under whose care and supervision these bank motes left the Treasury for their destination It is understood these notes bear evidence that they have been in a fire and are believed to be part of thos2 supposed to have been consumed in a recent burning of a mail car cn ths Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Connellsville. The Supreme court has held thai unsigned notes as issued to the Na ticaal banks are the “promises to pay” of the Federal government se cured by bonds deposited before the notes are issued and that the signa tures are net necessary to make them negotiable. ? Makes Gives $50,000 to Knox College. The authorities of Knox college at Galesburg, Ill, announced a gift of 50,000 by Andrew Carnegie to that a1- stitution for a new science build: ing. CABLE BRIEFS. Ambassador Meyer has left Paris for St. Petersburg, to assume his new duties as Ambassador to Russia. Emperor Joseph has left Budapest: for Vienna. There is no prospect of an early formation of a Huagarian C'¢ binet. Frank Stevens, one of the twc Americans injured in an autcmobils accident near Monte Caro, Ap 5 is dead. Stevens’ companion, Louis Hay, is recovering. Emperor William has steamer arrived at Hamburg of canuon and ringing hurrahs from thousands. Hc | was welcomed by the Duke of. Aosta y and will see the King Thursday. Hans Bierman, editor of tre Clden burg Residenzboten, has been sen: { enced to a ear’'s imp nment for accusing Franz Ruhsrtratt II, Ministe: of Public Worshin, Education and Justice of Oldenburg, of gambling, and alleging that be was not fit to su: perintend the. clergy, schools and courts. Santo Domingo Accepts Terms. A dispatch to Washingtca from © Dawson announces that President Morales has accepted the terms for collection of the revenues of San Domingo, especially regarding the salary of $500 a month to be paid Sapt. Colton. 1t is suggested, how- ever, that Colten to Santo Do- mingo befor collectors and arrange w ocminican govern- ment for th Operators Sig gn Mining The thre stri coal mines Central vania fiel fors gr The men will . man, who escaped. POLICE FORBID FURERIL Cossacks Disperse Crowds of Angry Polish Workingmen. RAID ON REVOLUTIO NARIES in A General Upheavel is Expected St. Petersburg After the Rus- sian Easter. In anticipation of the funeral girl who died of wounds rece the fighting in Dzika street, War last Sunday, workmen of all the tories in the northern part of the city ( left work and crowded Elekore L.eszno streets. The police, fearing a hostile demonstration, forbade the funeral and summoned Cossacks, who, | using their knouts and swords freely, succeeded in dispersing the gather- | ing. | Owing to the closing of the Uni-| versity of Warsaw, 1,600 students were dismissed. All stu conscription was post their university pelled to serve now. A non-striking workr works, whom strikers to death, was shot wounded in Wolska street, by a work- year, be com- The pelice and house-to-house. visitat of Wela Tuesday n arrested great « proclamations. Prospects of a the ‘eity of St. iry with the adve daily. Evidence accu: ‘adical forces® are aiting a signal, ally believed will after ‘the Rus Terrorists are ty, and reports all over the country prove that the workme 41 ia riany cases, have been form petty demands, whien are no aretated than they are succeede cthers, are acting under instru ftom the rexoluticnary leaders are only biding their time. ployers admit it is impo continue their busin of them have alread aeople are plainly and the authorities teal their FATAL EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA | Serious Loss of Life and Great Dam- | ane to Buildings. A violent earthquake has occurred ageompanied by serious loss of life a2d great damage to public and other | buildings. The town hall is almost | razed and the cathedral and Juma one of the finest mo Masjid, 3 in | India, are seriously injured. Other | i big buildings Aare cracl ched 2 and fissured Many houses in th collapsed. . At Mussoree, eleven shocks were experienced The first was continued minutes. It was impos without support. The left Savoy hotel entirely collapsed, Catholic church was wre every house in the place The Mall cracked in five pis woman was killed and many injured. Reports from the | Dun and Rajpur districts show exten- | sive damage has been done. native qu arter | INDIANS ON WARPATH Shooting Down Mexicans and Devas: tating Country. John St. Clair, a trus:worthy pros- pector, has returned irom the Yagul country, near Ures, Scuaora, Mexico, and he reports that the Yaqui Indians are still on the warpath. He says that Malpuche, an old chief, is at the head of a band of 50 pucks, and zs devastating the country. While g0- Pag from Ures to his camp in the mountains, St. Clair ndard firing and ran into what had been an Indian ambuscade. He found two : Mexicans, who had been killed only a few minutes before he reached the place, he says. CHICAGO ELECTS DEMOCRAT City Committed to Policy Ownership. The Republican party met defeat in a memorable effort to capture the mayoralty cf Chicago. As a direct result the city offici: mitted to the policy of the quickest possible cessation of private franchises for public utilities. Munici shij is especially threatenir ines. After winning successively four re- markable biennial fights of ' in¢ pendents against the regular Re lican party organization, Johan WN 1y- aard Harlan, son of Associate Justice Harlan, of the United States Sup: court, was loser as, Republican date for mayor. The victor is Edward F. Dunae, Democrat. of Public | Russian Troops Go Toward The Times of India authentically says Russian troops have replaced those of the Ameer of Bokhara at all posts on the Upper Oxus, d that 4,000 men have been de from the Merv risOn as a pe vddition to the Kushk and river force. India. 11 Sues Nephew for $1,200,000. Former Judge Samuel I. Br of New Haven, Conn. who Democratic gov of in 1500, been made a suit 0,000 damages, by his aw tet has not of her bi A mob a tempted t inil there eT. ing {Ohio and P C3} 2 | Alexander, Pa the Transvaal, ARTILLERY DEPOT BLOWN UP Man Explcded Bomb at Harbin, Kill ing Himself and 75 Others. Seventy-five persons including four artillerymen and 40 Chinese eoolies, were killed by the t explosion of a bomb in the artillery depot in Harbin, Manchur The man who caused the explosion was also killed. e laboratory, a huge estab- was wrecked and 10,000,000 were destroyved—2,000 ases containigs 5,000 each. projectiles not yet, comple ted were made us The ¢ lishment, Boston Wool Market. Since the strong Closing of the London wool sales, mere confidence appears on the part of dealers in the »ol market. The forei wools are firm. Leadi quotations follow: ennsylvania—XX and above, 33@>54 X, 3 ic; No. 1, 36@37c; No, 37@33¢c; fine unwash- 25c; quarter blood, unwashed, three-elghts-blood, 30@3ic; a unwashed de- ei e, 27 28¢: 23@30c; fine 37¢. « Michig unvw quarter-blcod, unw 30¢; three-eights-blood, 28@29¢c; unwashed Hay’s Health steamship C Killed by DY -Glycerin, storage at the Afterdamp Caus Afterdamp, due 1g powder, set as yet unknown, 43 miners at Joseph mine at Zeigler, 11 verdict ‘of a coroner's turaed. Geatn of coa ng to the as (re; Calls for eretary Shaw the national bank treasury throughout payment into the treas 000. Under the terms tary’s call a part of ti be paid May 15 and a part July L Coal Land mi The D. BE. Mitchell com] acres of valuable coal April: 5, through R. Pittsburg to an e headed by J. V. an acre. Palace on Wheels. The most expensive and Iuxuriou private car ever constructed is build- ing at the Chicago works of the Pull- man company for W. K. Veaaderbiit. When finished it will cost Mr. Vaud- | erbilt, $50,000. NEWS NOTES. On his trip, Pres:aesnt Roosevelt made speeches in Kansas, Indian tér- | ritory and Texas. Lord Milner, retiring governor of saile d for Great Britain. Russia’s plans for the reconstruction of her navy include the building of 10 battleships and 39 armored cruisers, besides torpedo boats, destroyer ’S, Sub- marines and mine boats. The report of the betrothal of King Alfonso of Spain to Princess ’articia of Coanaught is officially declared in London to be unfounded. An eastbound passenger and ex- press train on the Lehigh Valley railroad ran into a derailed car of a freight train at Valois, near Seneca lake. The enginéer of the freight train was killed and the fireman bad- {ly hurt. Ralph Voorhees, of New Jersey, has donated $100,000 to the American Tract Societ Portable Wireless Tearvics. During his hunting trip in Colorado, President Roosevelt will keep in constant touch with Secretary Loeb and his official staff at Glenwood. This will be accomplished by means of the wireless telegraph under the supervision of the military arm of the government, where the receiving station will be located on top of Lookout Mountain. Two wires will be strung temporarily up Lookout Mountain and connected with the lo- cal lighting system which will furnish current for operating the induction coils. Messages will be telephoned to and from the hotel where Secre- tary Loeb will be located. Boxer Movement not Alarming. has been informed by the 1 States that’ so far as the merican minister at Pekin, Mr. Con- r, has been able to find oft, the re- anti-foreign movements in not unusual in extent or The Russian g jue sted Secretary Will Increase Union Pacific Stock. 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