"a
FOUR PERISH IN A FIRE
Mother and Two Children Killed
in Burning Theater.
OTHERS HAD NARROW ESCAPES
.
Fire Department Did Not Have Lad-
ders Sufficiently Long to Reach
the Windows.
Four lives were lost in a fire which
destroyed the Verbeck theater at
Lorain, O. The dead are: James
Dwyer, 28 years old; Mrs. William
Marsh, 24 years old; Grace Marsh, 2
years old; Clifford Marsh, 7 years
old.
The Marsh family
had apartments
in the front of the building on the
third floor. William Marsh was
stage manager of the theater. Dwyer
another employe of the theater, slept
in the basement, where the fire origi-
nated, and from which escape was
cut off. Mrs. Marsh and her child-
ren were suffocated by the smoke
which poured up the narrow stairway.
William Marsh was not at home
when the fire occurred. When he got
home he supposed his family was
safe and made no attempt to locate
them until some time later. Mrs.
John Vesper was rescued by the fire-
men after she had fainted and was
leaning out of a window.
The loss on the theater,
comparatively. a new one,
The loss on the entire
$50,000. The theater. was owned by
the Verbeck Amusement company, of
Oil City, Pa., and. leased by H. H.
Dykman, of Elyria, O.
The Marsh family came from De-
troit about four weeks ago. A dozen
people living in the building had nar-
row escapes from being suffocated.
The fire department did not have a
ladder sufficiently long to reach the
windows where the imprisoned per-
sons were gathered. William Shultz,
a merchant, climbed to the top of the
longest ladder, raised and held a
second ladder to the window where
which was
is.-$35,000.
the frantic men and women were
waiting for help.” They climbed down
the improvised escape * and Shultz
stood in his perilous. position for 30
minutes while the descent of the ten-
ants was made over his body. Eight
persons were rescued in this man-
ner.
The bodies of Mrs. Marsh and her
baby were not found for several
hours, when Dwyer’s body was also
found. The infant child of Mrs.
Marsh had been ill with pneumonia
and the mother had been watching
over it for some days. It is believed
the mother fell asleep from fatigue
and never awoke, being suffocated
while asleep.
TWO KILLED
Engineer and Brakeman Are Crushed
to Death in Wreck.
Two men were killed in a rear-end
freight wreck on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Coverts station near New
Castle, Pa. Two others were slightly
injured.
Dead: Engineer J. J. Welch, New
Castle, aged ‘48; crashed and scalded
under: his engine; Brakeman J. A.
Harris, Cleveland; was, .
Welch’s engine; caught between cab
and tender and instantly killed.
Four freight trains, eastbound, were
on the block between Edenburg and
Lawrence Junction, and Engineer
Welch of train No. 7742, at Edenburg,
received a signal notifying him that
there was a train ahead and to pro-
ceed with cauten. It is said that
Welch was rununing about 20 miles
an hour when he collided with the
rear end of freight train No. 7006.
The engine was overturned and rolled
down the embankment.
Senate Passes Canal Bill.
The Senate passed the Panama ca-
nal emergency appropriation bill. A
substitute for A. O. Bacon’s amend-
ment, offered by Eugene Hale, of
Maine, was accepted. It specifically
requires that Congress shall be sup-
plied with regular
salaries, “except those paid to labor-
ers, skilled and unskilled. Otherwise
the bill was passed as reported from
committee.
REVOLT AT BATOU M
Porte Will Send Warship to Care for |
Turkish Refugees.
A dispatch from Batoum, in
governinent of Kutais, Transcaucasia,
reports the outbreak
there. It says the streets were barri-
caded and that fierce fighting took
place. The military employed artil-
lery and many persons,
jects of the Ottoman
killed.
including sub-
In response to a request made
by the Turkish consul the porte is |
now arranging for the dispatch of
sels to Batoum to bring back refugees.
The dispatch says that a
state of affairs prevails in.
the same government,
town of Kutais.
Asked $50,000; Got One
Mrs. May S. Bradley, aged 48 years,
daughter of Rear Admiral Stevens,
of the aavy, in suits brought at
folk, Va., for $50,000, as the result
of an accusation that she stole from |
a department store a belt valued at
16 cents, was given
cent.
Cent.
Republicans for Two States.
The Republican members * of the
House in caucus unanimously declar-
ed in favor of admitting Oklahoma and
Indian Territory as one State and by
a vote of 110 to 65 declared in favor
of admitting Arizona and New Mexico
as one State. The only opposition to
the program was directed against
joining Arizona and New Mexico. The
Hamiltén bill; already Introduced, will
be the measure reported by the com-
mittee;
building is:
riding an-
estimates of all,
the
of a revolution |
empire, were |
similiar |
Poti, in}
and in the
Nor- |
a verdict for 1]
HAZING MUST STOP
Secretary Bonaparte Will Stamp Out
Practice at Annapolis.
Hazing of every kind will be stamp-
ed cut of the naval academy, at An-
napolis, regardless of the number of
dismis¢nls from the brigade of mid-
shipmen, necessary to bring about this
result. Two midshipmen, Coffin and
Van Derveer, will be dismissed from
the academy by the secretary of the
navy, one for hazing and the other
for countenancing, it by failure while
on duty to report its occurrence.
Other dismissals will follow as often
as midshipmen are found guilty of
hazing or countenancing it.
Arouscd by the condition of affairs,
hich reports show to exist at the
lemy so far as the treatment of
rth class men are concerned, Sec-
retary Bonaparte telephoned to Rear
Admiral James E. Sands, superin-
tendent of the academy, a request to
come to Washington as soon as pos-
sible for a conference.
It will be the initial step in a new
and vigorous campaign to be waged at
Annapolis against hazinz. Admiral
Sands “will have the unqualified sup-
port of the navy department in his ef-
forts to abolish the evil, and Secre-
tary Bonaparte announced that the
admiral possessed the full confidence
of the officials at Washington, in his
ability to handle the situation to the
entire satisfaction of the department.
Congressional investigation of the
conditions at the academy has already
been proposed, in a resolution intro-
duced in the House by Representative
Loud, of Michigan.
SHIPPERS INDICTED ALSO
True Bills Found Against Both Them
and Railroads.
At the conclusion of the investiga-
tion into the charges of granting re-
bates and of discrimination made
against various railroads and shippers,
13 indictments were pr_sented by the
federal grand jury at Philadelphia.
True bills were found against the
Great Northern Railway Company, for
offering a rebate in the R. D. Wood
Company case; C. E. Campbell, gener-
al freight agent of the Great Northern
Railroad Company in this city, on .the
same charge; L. W. Lake, New York
agent of the Mutual Transit Company,
for giving rebates in the R. D. Wood
Company case; Walter, George, Stew-
art and Richard Wood of the firm of
R. D. Wood & Co., for accepting and
receiving rebates; Paul J. Diver,
freight agent of the” Mutual Transit
Company, for offering rebates to the
National Essence for Coffee Company;
the Mutual Transit Company, for of-
fering rebates in the same transac-
tion; Paul J. Diver, en two counts,
for offering rebates on shipments for
Nationa! ¥ssence for Coffee Company
April 17, 1905, and another for grant-
ing and giving the rebate. The Mutual
Transit Company, on two counts, one
for offering a rebate on shipments of
National Essence for Coffee Company
and aaother for granting and giving
rebate.
SAFETY APPLIANCES INCREASED
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Reports Progress.
The annual report of the Inter-State
Commerce Commission was made- pub-
lic on the 14th,
The report shows 568 complaints
filed withthe Commission duri: ag the
year, including: formal and informal
proceedings. The number. of investi-
gations .on formal complaint institut-
ed during the year is 65, involving di-
rectly the rates and practices of 321
carriers. Seventy-nine hearings and
investigations Were held. Six cases
were settled through . concession: of
relief by carriers and 22 cases were
discontinued. Forty-five formal de-
cisions were rendered.
Within the year improvement has
taken place in the condition of safety
appliances. This gratifying condition
is in great measure due to the action
of the courts in clearly defining the
statute, leaving no room for doubt
concerning its proper nterpretation
and application.
The great progress in the case of
air brakes has been accompanied by
marked deterioration in the condition
of hand brakes. There is still room
for improvement in the maintenance
of the retaining valves of air brakes.
CANNOT DISARM NATION
| President Replies To Requsst of De-
legation of Shakers.
President Roosevelt told a delega-
| tion of Shakers that he did not think
| the disarmment of nations was prac-
| ticable at this time, that he regarded
| a recourse to war as entirely proper
in the case of a great and provoked
wrong affecting the honor of a nation,
| and that the extension of arbitration
| to causes that have induced wars in
past would settle almost any
difficulty arising between nations.
“I intend soon to appoint deleg
to the second peace cc
The Hague,” said the Pr
{they will be instructed
an’ extension of arbitre \tion of
i causes of war.”
the
1 000 employes 10 per cent, on
{the United States alone,
The committee,” which cor ed of
| Bidress Anna White 1 Sister Sar- |
ah Burger, of the Shakers’ community |
| accompanied by Mrs. Kate Wailer
Barrett and Mrs. John B. Henderson,
| of Washington, presented the resolu-
tions adopted at the peace convention
| of the Shakers at Mount Lebanon.
| ar
|
iVidniac Shoots Relatives.
William Guy, just discharged from
Newburg insane asylum at Cleveland,
slot and Killed his "brother-in-law,
Harry Flint, aged 15, and an
month-old child at 280 Brownell
street. Guy then went to No. 314
Central avenue and shot Mrs. Eliza-
beth Benneft. He was later arrested.
He is a wire-drawer and 29 years of
age. He bad been in the insane
asylum three years and upon his re-
his wife had been unfaithful.
| the new
|
|
|
| the aged woman who was murdered
18- |
TROOPS FIGHT PEASANTS
Bloody Encounters in Streets in
Machine Guns Are Used.
REGULAR WARFARE WAGED
Insurgents Capture a Baronial Strong-
hold After Most of Its Defend-
ers Are Killed.
It seems to be beyond
that bloody collisions have occurred
between troops and the united
peasantry and workmen in the streets
of Riga, during which machine guns
were used.
The situation is most serious in the
country, which is practically aband-
oned to the revolutionary bands owing
to the concentration of the troops in
the cities and towns. Against some
of the estates where the landlords,
aided by a few faithful adhereats,
are attempting to protect their prop-
erty, the revolutionists are conduct-
ing regular military operations. They
reduced the garrison of the estate
of Baron von Loewis to submission
after most of the defenders had been
killed, and plundered and burned the
buildings and carried off the baron.
The survivors were made prosoners.
The outbreak of the mutinous spir-
it in the Manchurian army is partly
attributable to the failure to pay and
properly feed the troops. The latter
problem is. especially difficult owing
to the impossibility of forwarding |
adequate provisions from Russia on
account of the practical paralysis of
the railroad to Siberia. .
Reports from the provinces indi-
cate that the country generally re-
mains close to the boiling point. The
situation in the Caucasus is again
serious. The Tartars and Armenians
are murdering each other as of yore.
At Elizabethpol especially there has
been a savage exhibition of race
‘hatred.
question
TO STOP REBATES
Attorney General Directs District At-
torneys to Enforce Law.
Attorney General Moody sent a
circular letter to all the United States
district attorneys, 85 in number, di-
recting them vigilantly to enforce
the provisions of the Elkins act
ainst rebates and discriminations of
all kinds by carriers. The method of
proceedings suggested is by way of
indictment.
It is the expectation that this let-
ter will result in the prompt investi-
gation of all complaints made of dis-
criminations by carriers, followed by
the indictments where the evidence
warrants.
CAPITAL BRIEFS.
The President has nominated
Charles D. Elliott to be Marshal of
the Northern district of West Vir-
ginia.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of David H: Moore to be Cel-
lector. of Internal Revenue for. the
Eleventh Ohio district; William E.
Glasscock. = Collector for the West |
Virginia district.
Chairman Payne of the Ways and
Means Committee presented in the |
House. a joint resolution pr oviding for
the holiday recess. It proposes ad-
journment of hoth Houses from De-
cember 21 to January 4.
The President sent the fo! lowing
nominations to the Senate: To be
Treasurer of the Island of Puerto!
Rico, William F. Willoughby of the |
District of Columbia; Collector of |
| Customs, Frederick W. Collins of |
Mississippi, district of Pearl river, |
Mississippi; Attorney, Erastus J. Par- |
sons of Alabama, Middle District of
Alabama.
The Senate in executive session
confirmed the following nominations:
Charles A. Stillings, Massachusetts,
to be public printer; Heary W. Furn- |
iss, Indiana, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to
Haiti; William C. Dearing, Surveyor
of Customs, port of Louisville, Ky.
Postmasters: Ohio—Grant Coats,
Rockford; Fred D. Pierce, Wakeman;
John Finsterwald, Athens.
The Foreign Mission Work.
A summary of the work of Protes-
tant foreign missions, made public by
Rev. Dr. E. E. Strong, secretary of
the American board, shows that there !
are 6,003 male, 5,154 female mission-
aries, 65,2%6 native laborers and 2,-
325,825 communicants at the 20,641
stations and cut stations. This is an
increase during the past year of 10,-
163 communicants. The total income |
of all societies in the United States,
Canada, Great Britian and continen-
{al Europe is $15,151,368. Of those in
$7,060,700
Will Advance Wages.
Independent woolen manufacturers
in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
r | Connecticut, employing about 5,000
operatives, announce that they will
follow the action of the American
Woolen company, which recently de-
cided to advance the wages of the 30,-1
January
manufac-
i
1. It is expected that other
turers, which usually follow wage
schedule of the combine, adopt
scale on New Year's day.
Woman Chloroformed to
Physicians found that
| was used to kill Mrs. Morris Naftal, |
Death. |
chloroform |
and robbed in her apartments at As-|
{bury Park, N. J.. He husband an- |
| nounced that $1,000 cash was secured |
from Mrs. Naftal.
George W. Perkins resigned from |
the New York Life Insurance Com- |
pany and .Charles A. Peabody was |
nal Life
turn home declared that he fouad that | elected president of the Mut
| Insurance Company.
-stil
| Dark
but the latter has condemned the act.
| heavily
| The leader of the gang told the pass-
| engers they were only looking for to-
| Congress until March 4,
| his tenure
has
| eyclical
land to moderate action,
| mending the czar
| granting
UMIFORM INSURANCE LAW
President Commends Convention to
Urge Action by States.
Insurance Commissioner Thomas |
E. Drake of the District of Columbia, |
B. F. Carroll of Iowa and Thomas D.
O’Brien of Minnesota discussed with
President Roosevelt a uniform in-
surance law for the States. Com-
missioners of Insurance of many
States have decided to make an ef-
fort to secure the enactment by the
various State Legislatures of a uniform
insurance law.
The Commissioners informed the
President that Mr. Drake had been
authorized by the convention to call a
meeting of the Governors, Attorney
General and Insurance Commissioners
of the States and Territories February
1 in Chicago, where it is proposed to
induce concerted action in favor of
such legislation. The President ex-
pressed his hearty sympathy with the
movement.
HOW HARBIN WAS SACKED
Horrible Tale Told by Refugees from
Russian City.
The London “Daily Telegraph”
prints the concluding part of the dis-
patch from Moji, Japan, giving de-
tailed accounts by refugees of the al-
leged sacking and burning.of Harbin,
Manchuria, by mutinous Russians.
It says the mutineers set fire to and
pillaged houses in every direction and
seized all the weapons and ammuni-
tion they were able to lay their hands
on. When dawn came, according to
these accounts, all the mutineers
crept into hidding places.
Daylight revealed the Chinese
quarter in ruins and 400 Russian citi-
zens lying dead or wounded in the
streets of Harbin. The authorities,
the accounts say, really assisted the
mutineers in sacking the remnants
of the city, while pretending that
they were making efforts to suppress
the mutiny.
CZAR CHANGES HIS MIND
Project to Grant Universal Suffrage
May be Abandoned.
It is learned on high authority that
the government has finally decided
against universal suffrage and prac-
tically in favor of the old project of
21 workmen representatives and the
extension of the ballot to the small
rent payers, merchants and the edu-
cated classes. However, the law must
pass the council of the empire
and receive imperial approval. If the
decision is upheld it is apt to end
all question of the support of the
zemstvoists.
The situation is exceedingly omni-
ous. Public opinion is practically
unanimous that the government has
entered upon the fatal path of reac-
tion, and that Witte’s ministry must
fall :
FACTORY IS DYNAMITED
Friends of Dark Tobacco Growers Are
Suspected.
The tobacco factory at Elkton, Ky.,
owned by Mrs. M. B. Penyek and
operated by the American Snuff Com-
pany was blown up by dynamite.
This is supposed to be a move in the
fight against the tobacco combine.
The deed is thought to have been
committed by parties friendly to the
Tobacco Growers’ association,
The conductor of a passenger train
on the Elkton & Guthrie railroad
i that late at night his train was flag-
ged at Bradshaw's and 150 men, all
masked, boarded the train.
bacco buyers.
TEN MILLION DOLLAR DEAL
Andrews-Vanderbilt Interests Buy
Rochester Electric and Gas Plant.
The Andrews-Vanderbilt traction
syndicate has purchased the eatire
| property of the Rochester Railway &
| Light Company at Rochester, N. Y.
The transaction amounts to about
| $10,000,000, and puts this traction syn-
| dicate in possession of all the trae-
i tion lines, gas works, and electric
lighting plants of Rochester. It adds
another link to the traction interests
the syndicate is acquiring in its de-
velopment of a trans-State traction
line from Buffalo to New York City.
SUCCESSOR TO MITCHELL
Gov. Chamberlain Names
Gearin, a Portland Democrat.
Gov. George E. Chamberlain an-
nounced the appointment of John M.
John M.
Gearin, of Portland, to succeed the
late John H. Mitchell as United
States Senator from Oregon. Mr.
Gearin is a Democrat, but had the
indorsement of not only the Demo-
cratic party in this ‘State, but also
that of some of the staunchest Re-
publicans. The appointee will sit in
1907, unless
shall be sooner ended by
which will meet in
in January, 1907.
the
regular
Legislature,
session
former station
Topeka & Santa Fe
Kan., who is
M. LIL. agent
for the Atchison,
railway at Princeton,
charged with stealing $70,000 worth
of railroad tickets in 1903 and then
burning the depot to hide the theft,
been arrested at Panama, where
under an assumed
the Canal Com-
Letts,
he was working
name as a clerk for
mission. :
Pope Counsels Polish Catholics.
Pope Pius has issued a strong en-
advising the Catholics of Po-
and com-
for his ukase
freedom. He
killing or
religious
especiaily denounces the
ill treatment of the Jews.
Rev. Frank Okazaki, pastor of the
Japanese Baptist mission at Seattle,
Wash.,
Japanese residents, is
colony for immigrants from his coun-
| try.
i
supported by leading Christian
planning a
COLLISION KILLED THREE
| Frightful Accident Caused by a
Runaway Street Car.
SOME JUMPED FOR SAFETY
Force of the Collision Carried Both
Cars a Distance of alf a Square.
Running at a gate faster thna a
mile a minute, one of the heavy cars
of the Meadville-Cambridge Springs
line dashed down the entire length of
College hill at Meadville, Pa., and
meeting a car bound for Cambridge
at the foot of the hill, blazed from
there to Randolph street a path of
death and destruction.
The dead. Mrs. Robert P. Breed,
wife of Prof. Robert: P. Breed of
Allegheny college; John Beckman of
North East; Dwight Birchard, Cam-
bridge Springs.
The injured:
bridge Springs,
Samuel Grey, Cam-
in the hospital; bad-
ly cut and bruised ;condition ser-
ious; Mrs. Pitman Davis of Saegers-
town, cut and bruised about the head
and arms; Mrs. Mary Hickernall of
Saegerstown; painfully cut about the
head, face and shoulders; Miss Ethel
Case, aged 17, daughter of Andrew
Case of Saegerstown, suffering from
bruise in side; Mrs. Moyer of Wood-
cock, her sister and little girl; all
cut and bruised; Dr. M. B. Roude-
bush of Saegerstown; bruised about
the head, right arm and hips.
The crash was terific. Two of the
| heavy Cambridge line passenger
coaches had started up the hill, the
rear one being trailed by means of
a chain. The cars had reached a point
about in front of the Odd Fellows’
home on the steep incline when the
chain snapped. The rear car started
dashing down the steep incline. John
Van Horn, an employe of the
applied the ‘brake, but the car had
gained such momentum that he could
not retard its speed.
When the car reached the steep
part of the hill in front of the Alle-
gheny College gymnasium it was go-
ing at 40 miles an hour, and from this
point it gained speed at every foot.
The loaded Cambridge Springs car
had turned up North Main street. The
motorman shouted a warning to his
passengers. He either had to make
the Baldwin street switch or be
crushed by the wildcat car. The
men on the runaway car saw a col-
lision was inevtitable and started
jumping on all sides. Passengers on
the upcoming car followed suit but
the cars were so crowded that all
could not escape.
The two cars crashed together and
the momentum of the runaway car-
ried both cars below Randolph street,
a distance of about 150 feet. It is
said that Mrs. Breed was walking in
the street and was crushed by the
wrecked cars. The body of Mr.
Beckman was badly mangled. a large
piece of timber going through his
body.
MERIWETHER’S SENTENCE
Confinement in Academy for One
Year and Reprimand. .
Confinement to the limits of the
Naval academy for the period of one
vear and’ a public reprimand by .the
secretaryl of the navy is‘ the sentence
of the court in the case of Midship-
man Minor Meriwether, Jr., tried by
court-martial at Annapolis on charges
arising from a fist fight between the
accused ¥and Midshipman James A.
Branch, . Jr., on November 5, last.
Two days later Midshipman Branch
died.
The accused was acquitted of the
charge of manslaughter and found
guilty of charges of conduct to the
prejudice of good order and discip-
line.
.
Powder Plant Blown Up.
The mixing house at the works of |
the Dupont Powder company, near
Boyles, Ala., was accidentally blowa
up, killing five workmen instantly.
The victims were blown to atoms,
particles of their bodies being found
in tree tops a long distance from the |
scene of the disaster.
MISS ROOSEVELT TO WED
Formal Announcement of Engage-
ment to Congressman Longsworth.
Mrs. Roosevelt of |
their daughter,
| the President and
| the engagement of
| Miss Alice Lee Roosevelt, to Nicho- | | Korea, is in receipt of
|las Longworth, representative in con- from Korea in which the emperor de-
gress from Cincinnati. Coupled with |
the announcement of the engagement |
is the additional announcement that |
the wedding wil take place about the |
middle of next February.
While arrangements for the wed-
ding have not been made, it is ex-
pected that it will tal
White House.
Nominations Confirmed.
United States.
Qusen Lil Wants $10,000,000.
A petition from ex-Queen Liliuoka-
lani asking for the payment of $10,-
000,000 to her was presented to the
Senate by Vice President Fairbanks.
| The petition was accompanied by an
| autograph letter requesting early and
favorable consideration.
George W. Lewis, a Pittsburg
contractor, has sued the Wabash
Railroad company for $25,000, alleged
to. be due for ‘“‘extras” ordered in the
construction of the Taggart tunnel in
Washington county, Pa.
road. |
|
i
| agents, charging
| and conspiracy
REBELLION IN LIVONIA
Government Set Up by
People at Riga.
Two messengers who arrived at St.
Petersburg from Riga, not only con-
firm the report that a provisional gov-
ernment has been set up in Livonia,
but they say that many of the soldiers
have gone over to the insurrection-
ists.
Duina Fort, commanding Riga har-
bor, is in their possession, and the
Governor and other Russian officials
are prisoners.
The messengers add that the pro-
visional government exercises author-
ity throughout Livonia and part of
Courland.
The new Government has declared
the separation, of the Lithuanian peo-
ple from the Russian empire. They
have chosen new local officials and
have decreed the closing of the spirit
shops and breweries and ther annul-
ment of contracts between the peas-
ants and the landowners. There is a
general uprising of the native peas-
ants, who are traveling in armed
bands attacking the estates and driv-
ing off or killing their owners.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Forty-two deaths from starvation
have been reported by London cor-
oners during the year.
Four school children were drowned
while skating on Kellog’s pond, at
Amsterdam, N.Y.
New York court of appeals doctded
against W. R. Hearst on question of
reopening ballot boxes.
Mrs. Grace Taggart has distppoated
Provisional
from Wooster, O., taking her two
children.
The President nominated Samuel
J. M. McCarroll as United States at-
torney for the Middle district of
Pennsylvania. ]
Beginning January 1, 30,000 opera-
tives employed by the American Wool-
en Company of New York will have
their wages advanced 10 per cent.
Japan has finaly agreed to accept
Russia's decision against raising the
missions at Tokio and: St. Petersburg
to the rank of embassies at present.
Four hundred acres of prehistoric
fossil remains have been discovered
near Danger Point, 100 miles from
Cape Town.
With a detachment of 200 marines
on board to relieve a like number
now on duty in Panama the cruiser
Columbia sailed from League Island
Navy Yard for Colon.
Practically all the railroad lines east
of the Mississippi have, through thelr
traffic men, expressed a willingness
to enter into an agreement to abolish
free transportation.
Alonze J. Whiteman, convicted of
defrauding the Fidelity Trust Com-
paay of Buffalo, N. Y., by means of
forged and raised paper, has been
taken toe Auburn State prison.
Preliminary legal steps to open 114
more ballot boxes were . taken by
counsel] for W. R. Hearst, who is con-
testing the mayorality election in
New York City. ha
The Southern California railway
has been bought by the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railway Company.
The trackage covers 478.07 miles. The
price is $17,312,400.
First Lieutenant Sydney S. Burbank
and First Lieutenant David A. Sny-
der; ‘both of ‘the "Sixth infantry, have
been placed in jail in the' Phillippines
for “conduct unbecoming officers of
the United States army.”
In the first election of the new pro-
vince of Saskatchewan one of the sur-
prises was the return of Dr. Schadd
in Kinistino. Dr. Shadd is a negro
—the first of his race to obtain a seat
in a Canadian legislature.
Miss Nellie Ainsworth of Madison,
Wis., and her cousin, Bert Stewart, a
voung farmer were drowned while
skating on Bishops lake near Brigh-
ton, Mich.
The Bureau of Insular Affairs is
arranging to call for proposals for the
construction in Manila of steel
wharves at a cost of about $500,000.
| Bids are to be opened in Manila.
Eleven indictments were returaed
by the Federal grand jury at Kansas
City, Mo., against common carriers,
| railway officials, shippers and freight
giving of rebates
to gain rebates.
EMPEROR STUBBORN
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| Korean Declares He Will Never Sign
Formal announcement was made by |
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Agreement With Japan.
Homer B. Hulbert, the special
| messenger from the emperor of
a cablegram
clares that the agreement between
| Korea and Japan is null and void, be-
cause it was obtained by force.
He also declares that he will never
| sign this agreement in its present
| form, and that the disturbances which
| attended the “outrage” of November
are likely to occur again.
Boston Wool Market.
The Senate confirmed thesa nomi-| More wool was sold during the past
nations: Thomas B. VanHorn, Ohio, | Week than for some time before.
to be consul at Rosario, Argentine | Leading gnotations follow: Ohio and
Republic; Joseph A. Howelis,' Ohio, | Pennsy Ivania—XX and above, 35@
consul at Turks Island, West Indies; age. X. 34@35¢: No. 1 39@40c: “No
Alexander Heingartner, Canton, O., |g ee Pee unwashed, 27@28¢:
consul ai Guelph, Ont.; Ehjot North | quarter-blood, unwashed, 331, @3415c;
cott, to be United States attorney for | three-eighths blood, 34@35¢: unwash-
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Boston Elects Mayor.
The Democrats were victorious,
electing former Congressman John F.
Fitzgerald, mayor over three other
candidates. Fitzgerald’s lead over
his nearest competitor, Louis A.
Frothingham, Republican, speaker of
the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, was 8,380.
Reduction of the American naval
force in Dominican wafers from a
squadron of protected cruisers to a
mosqtito fleet ‘has’ heen determined
upon ‘by the President.
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