7 TROOP TRAIN BLOWN UP All Soldiers in Twenty-four Car. Killed or Badly Injured. THE CZAR VETOES DEMAND Refuses to Grant Universal Suffrage— Strike Begins Quietly, but With Grim Determination. Twenty-four railway cars were de- molished and all the soldiers in them were killed or badly injured when rebels blew up a train with troops gent to quell the rebellion in Livonia, near Stockmannskof, a railway sta- tion. The rebels also wrecked namite one of two trains sent assistance. General Andronikoff many soldiers were killed. A message to the London Telegraph, s the Czar, on Wednesday, defi- nitely refused to grant universal suff- rage. All the members of the Cabi- net were present at the Council, and among the chief speakers, was Witte. A majority of the Council voted un- hesitatingly for universal suffrage, al- though some members of the majority admitted that the experiment was fraught with dangers, but all consid- ered the conditions in the country demandzd this concession. After having attentively listened to arguments on both sides, the Emperor deliberately, firmly and decisively re- fused to grant universal suffrage. This refusal, says the correspondent will surely raise more thorny prob- lems than the present Cabinet will solve, There is now mo hope of re- storing tranquility in Russia by peace- ful means. with dy- to give aad MUTUAL BOOKS MISSING Records of Supply Department stroyed or Stolen. Discovery was made that books of record that should show in detail the De- transactions of the Mutual Life In- | surance Co.’s supply department while ft was under the management of An- drew C. Fields, have been destroyed or stolen from the safe in which the department records are kept. For more than three weeks this has been known to the company’s temporary president, Frederic Cromwell, has searched the Mutual Life Build- | ing from top to bottom without find- | ing the least trace of the missing books. it was a demand for the production | of these books before the Mutual in- vestigation committee, of which W. H. Truesdale is chairman, that brought to light the fact of their dis- appearance. BANDITS ARE MERCILESS Shoot Down American Who Refuse to Give Up Valuables. Details of the murder near Diaz, Chihuahua, Mex., of Robert Ruther- ford and M. S. Murray of Philadel- phia, and the wounding of H 1. Finstad of Los Angeles and another man, show that the four Americans were returning from Diaz to Ruther- ford’s ranch when they were beset by | bandits and commanded to give up their valuables. The men gave bat- tle. The bandits, outnumbering them several times, closed in and rmerci- lessly shot them down, taking their valuables and escaping. Mexican officers are on the trail, but the bandits have evidently escap- ed in the rough surrounding country. MEXICAN VILLAGES Much Property Damaged of Life Resuit. Reports from Mazatlan are to the! effect that torrential floods have de- | ia | gtroyed a number of villages Sinalea, Mexico, occasionings much damage to property and loss of life. The town of Ahome .ig reported de- stroyed by the Fuerte river. Hun- dreds of persons were made home- | less. San Ignacio, near the Piaxtla river, was partly destroyed. The grades and tracks of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railway, aow build- fag, were greatly damaged. JURY CONVICTS HUMMEL Bentenced to Pay Fine Prison. Abraham H. Hummel, the York lawyer, was convicted of con- gpiracy in connection with the Dodge- Morse divorce case. He was sent- enced, within a few minutes after |¢ the jury's verdict had beea pro- pounced, to one year’s imprisonment | and a fine of $500 which is the ma mum penalty for the misdemeanor of which he was adjudged guilty. A motion..of his lawyers for an rest of judgment for 24 hours denied and Hummel was taken Tombs preparatory to penitentiary: Hummel was released Tembs under $10,000 bail of reasonable doubt secured Judge Woodward of the court, in Brooklyn. Was going to the on. a writ from Dutch Lose in Pensangan. A Dutch convoy and he | FLOODED | and Loss! and Go to! New to the from supreme has been ambus-| Tt $1,000,000 FIRE Ferry House of Lackawana and Jersey Central Burned. Two of the largest and most mod- ern ferry houses on the North river front, the Deleware, Lackawana & Western and Central at Twenty-second and streets, were destroved by a fire, tailing a loss of fully $1,000,000. structures were new, having en- already meiting the The floors of leaving little and the Jersey almost as cop- this heat per sheathing. block soon fell, wails standing, ral building was wrecked. The rescue of $200,000 worth tickets and cash from a safe in the Jersey Central office was a feature of the fire. A. H. Jakin, an ofiicer of the road, ran into the office and got possession of the valuables be- fore he was overcome by smoke. Two clerks carried him out of the build- ing. was MANY MUSSULMANS PERISH by Armenians. The latest news received Tiflis, Caucasia, says that 300 houses in the Mussulman quarter were set on fire by armed Armenians, who pre- vented the inmates from leaving and fired on the firemen who attempted to extinguish the flames. The total number of Mussulmans killed is not vet ascertained, but 57 Turkish jects are known to have perish ed. over-crowded with refugees. A continuance of the disorders at | Batoum. Caucasia, is reported. Great i fears of a massacre (prevailed in the Mussulman community. The government transport hag left Constantinople for take off the Turks. Ismir Overlook Cash and Bonds. After binding the railroad watch- man, William Jones, and his 12-year- | tion at Suffield. Conn., six robber | entered the Suffield Savings | blew open the safe and made away ed bonds and stocks, which are not Big Stock Issue. Proposed. holders that the capital stock be in- creased from $16,000,000 to 000. ‘The stockholders will vote on | the proposition February 20. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS The bank of Udella. Ia. | broken into by robbers. The cafe v | dyna:nited and $500 taken Richard Robert Cherry and Red-; | mond Barry, members of the Irish | | bar, were apointed Attorney General for Ireland and Solicitor Ireland, respectively. Four robbers blew of the bank at Baldwin, onen the tled with citizens and escaped. It is! {mot kncwn how much they secured. { Nobody was hurt. Colonel Charles W. Johnson, for several years clerk of the United States Senate and now Treasurer | Hennepin county, Minn., was stric | with paralysis. { Engineer Jobn D. of the { Poughkeepsie train, cked on the | New York Central viaduct, was held by M.gistrate Whitman for homic Libbie Garnabrandt, the { (N. J.) murderess, was | parole by the Beard of had been yrison 24 3 i ! Gov lletie of Wis | to the lature his re } | governo take effect the fir day in January. : $27,000,070 IN GEMS Stupendous Value Brought Into United States monds and into New York table total of $: BL year. of 000.000 for has the annual 000,000 to $1,500,000 but the barner year $26,092,275 worth i beaten by nearly increase been of rom 1904, has Not only $1.- maiatained | with 4 | | | of New Jersey, | Twenty-third | | THE LETTS FORMING AN ARMY Both | been | 1,300 Mansions FAMILY OF FIVE | PEASANTS IN REBELLION | 200,000 Letts In Armed Revolt Againsi Russia. CREMATED | ie | Father Loses Life in Effort to save | Wife and Children. The entire family of Peter Martell, | a blacksmith of Red Lake Falls, Minn., | five in all, were burned to death by a fire which destroyed their The dead are Martell, his wife | two soas and a daughter. | Martell was sleeping in a room on the first floor when the fire broke | out. He was seen to emerge and] make an attempt from a ladder to break in a window in the second story | home. and of Estate Holders Burned to the Ground, Loss Be- ing $100,000,000. BEER where the rest of the family were | Civil is ene throughout a Senn phil Fave way an os wide circle of country in European — | Russia. [.ettish provinces in the CAPITAL BRIEFS. Io west. Saratoii and neighboring pro- — ib | vinces in the east. Ekaterinoslay and President Rovsevelt sent to the | | adjoining provinces on the south are Senate these nominations of Pean-| | ali ablaze with the flame of revolu- an A tion. Kays, Monaca; J. Clayton Whitby, The insurrectionists have resorted | Rosemont. | | to firing 1 opened for last September. Although several smployes of the contpanies and some of the firemen were severely burned, no lives were lost, was saved. Tl isastrous fire the ithin the last their station ¥ Ho- boken destroyed with a loss of $500,000, d a temporary siructure is still being used there. The fire started in a paint shop in | the lackawana building, presumably from a defective electric wire. A ferryboat was just discharging 500 5s into this building when and the series of ex- plosions bur st from the paint shop nearby. So rapidly did the flames | spread that when the fire depart- Three Hundred Houses in Tiflis Fired | ford son to chairs in the railroad sta- | | with about $50,000 worth of register-! safe I11., and bat- other hav et ment had gotten te work, the intense | except | Cent- | badly ! S | ants who are in open revolt against of | the property of land owners, and it is estimated that at least 1,- 300 palatial mansions of estate hold- ers have been bu ned to the ground. In many cases ali the contents of the The United States Supreme Court | granted ieave to the State of Kentucky to file a petition for a writ of man- damus: in the case of Caleb Powers and made the rule returnable January during the month, which he says in- dicates the early disappearance of tae disease. Only one case was an em- ¥ ble > 5, r s : | palaces, including _valua be libraries, | 1=° he order will permit argument | catalogues and paintings, have been 3 : : on the case. | destroyed with the mansions. The Fhairendrt off Calonel WC. Gebr damage caused in this manner is esti- ag report o Colone . C. Georg- | mated at $100.000,000 as, Chief Sanitary Officer of the | The total number of armed peas- Panama Canal Zone, for October | shows three cases of yellow | government may be estimated at Against these revolutionists the 200,000. | the government cannot oppose more than 100,000 soldiers, and many of ploye of the commission. them 2 of doubtful loyalty. Conferees of the Senate and House | The Czar's authority has totally jon the Panama canal emergency ap | ceased. to exist in the Baltic pro- | propriation bill agreed to restore to! vinces. where the Letts, who number | the bill the: provision relating to the | | 1,500,000 souls, are showing wonder- issuance of bonds for canal construe- | { ful from | i themselves and join the national Let- Satoum to | | a . 1 | been as serions as in the Lettish pro- | bank, | perate every day, as the troubles of Sunumarily dismiss cadets from the | the peasants there increase. Within Annapolis academy, for hazing or the last forinight the peasants have pther ofenges, The mode provided | plundered 213 estates, driving the is for trial by court-martial | iahl T , rar 1 © B | > Pesta {oe gusHogied iin ers have been carried off by the TLE y ; 3 In cash and Regoting e oads in a evolutionists. The peasants have al- mitting all Philippine products iato ye y. he robbers made |, geclared that the land is the com- the United States free except sugar NT £ 2. | he directors of the Bell Tele-| phone Company of Philadelphia de- | cided to recommend to the stock- $30,000, | i the approach of the peasants. > iroff’s | holding the peasants | check by General for | of “Preoi ous Stones! been |. has been caded .in the Pensaagan district of | made in the face of a rising market. Achin, Island of Sumatra. Twels | Diamonds, pearls and other. gems men were killed and eight were | have advance 1 prices are ny The Achinese lost six men | now about 25 what they killed. a year Columbia Abolishes { were Football. Rojestvensky in St. Petersburg. The Columbia university faculty ] Rojestvensky and the has’ definitely abolished football at |X of his. staff arrived Columbia, and in addition President | "The admir 1 Nicholas Murray Butler has been di-| rected to take steps to eliminate all | ev intercollegiate spol the institution This means that Dr. Builer fol-| lows the recommendation no more | Célumbia teams ever will be seen oa the intercollegiate 1d in vy line. “ne plan is that athele ¢ < hereaf $ be confined and departments gion and bave plenty of arms and agreed upon by the Senate Finance | ammunition, including artillery. Committee. | At a meeting of 1,500 delegates to Secretary Taft has submitted to a pan-Lettish congress held at Riga, Congress through the Treasury De- | ministration of affairs. sub- | ole 1 ; | eral The fighting was continued Decem- | ber 17 and the Turkish consulate was | 1.600 to 5,000 are being formed to oppose the Cossacks. Armed with a {| guns, scvthes and other weapons, To Reduce Representation. :v have attacked small bodies of Representative Bennett of = New i : pair 1 y i 7 ¢ acks patrols which have been bill fo cut down TE | to 7; South Carolina, from 7 to 3; Big Gift to Salvation Army. Tennessee, from 10 to 8; Texas, from Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army |16 to 13; Virginia, from 10 to 7. wrote to King Edward aanouncing —_—_— | that George Herring, chairman of the Japanese Fleet Dissolved. City of London Electric Lighting! The combined Japanese fleet has Company and a prominent member of | been dissolved. Admiral Togo has ' many other corporations, had donated | been appointed president of the gen- $506,000 to the army, to be used in eral staff of the Navy. The Man- a home colonization scheme, but that | churian army headquarters has been tion. The Senate struck out the House | provision concerning the bonds, and | passed as a separate measure a bill | powers for organization. They are now in possession of a number of the impertant fortresses of the re- partment an additional estimate ecall- ing for an appropriation of $250,000 for the construction of sea coast de- fenses for the naval station at Susniapaniy bay. Cuba. The Navy Department is informed | that Medical Inspector David O. Lewis | of the navy, died suddenly of apoplexy at Honolulu on December 16, where he had just arrived on the Chicago Lewis was appointed from Peansyl- vania. depreseniative Williams of Missis- sippi has introduced a bill to place on the free list steel beams, plate, single irons, rivets, shaftings, propellers, castings and other material imported express prohibition of the governor, it was decided to abolish he present system of govern- ment and to elect special committees to be composed of both men and wo- men to take charge of the local &ad- in - spite of the It was also decided te form a gen- assembly of Letts to meet at liza, which was selected as the capi- ta] of the Leitish republic. All Letts were ordered to refuse to pay any taxes until the Czar sum- mons a national assembly. All male inhabitants of the towns and villages of the Lettish provinces must arm ig vv akine ¢ . % A i Brmys fang an ey to Dose for use in the construction of Ameri- pi recive measures attempted OY | can ships. 1 zat : ii wn 3 The situation in the south has not Attorney General Moody has ad- vised Secretary Bonaparte of the navy department he has no power to vineces, but it is growing more des- By a vote of 7 to 5 the House Com- mittee on Ways and Means has re- ported favorably on the Payne bill ad- their families away. rain of the own- land owners and The live stock and g and tobacco, which are to pay 25 per cent. of the Dingley rates until 1909 when they also are to go on the free list. mon property of all the peasants in perpetuality. Bands of peasants numbering from York introduced a the representation of Southern States in Congress because of the disfran- 1 chisement of the negro vote, The Gen. Sakha- | States would have their delegation re- succeeded in | duced as follows: Alabama, from 9 to € ts in temporary | 5; Arkansas, from 7 to 5; Fiorida, the brutalities in which the | from 3 to 2; Georgia from 11 to 6; under hiy command have | Louisiana, from 7 to 4; Mississippi, | from 8 to 3; North Carolina, from 10 found in isolated districts. Gdessa is filled with rich who have fled from their refugees, homes at In the Gen. Maximoviteh, successor, has east Cossacks indulged. BANKING HOUSES SUSPEND, | Clearing House Comes to th | WILL PROTECT THE DEPOSITORS | R. Walsh, | operations on the 18th. | This action prevented a disastrous fi- { Moscow Rescue and Averts a Panic Large Sums Had Been Loaned to Private Enterprises of the President. Three of the largest financial in- stitutions in the “West, the Chicago National bank, the Home Savings bank and the Equitabie Trust com- all of them controlled by John of Chicago, and in great him, suspended Their affairs will be liquidated as rapidly as pos- sible and they will go out of business. Mr. Walsh, who was president of the Chicago National bank and of the Equitable Trust company, and all the other officers and all the directors of the Chicago National bank have signed. National Bank Examiner C. H. Bosworth has succeeded Mr. Walsh at the head of the Chicago National bank, and the places of the directors have been filled by men ap- pointed by the Chicago Clearing | house. Back of the new management stand | the allied banks of Chicago, which have pledged their resources that every depositor shall be paid to the last cent and that no customer of any one of the three institutions shall lose anything by reason of the suspension. pany, measure owned by re- nancial panic. The immediate cause of the col- lapse of ihe institutions controlled by Mr. Walsh is said to be the large amount of money which they have loaned to various private enterprises of his. notably the Southern Indiana | railroad and the Bedford Quarries | company of Indiana. | | The liabilities of the three insti- | futions are estimated in the aggregate at $26,000.000. Against this amount the banks and the trust company have | resources that are, on a conservative estimate, worth $16,000,000. The bonds. ef the Southern Indiana Rail- road company are estimated by Mr. Walsh at $16,000,000. They are con- sidered by the Comptroller, the State Auditor and the Clearing House com- mittee to be worth a little more than half that sum. GENERAL STRIKE IN RUSSIA Leaders Boast That They Can Stop All Railroads. Russia apparently is on the eve of a great, if not a final, struggle for mastery between the Government and the Proletariat. Both sides have lin- ed up for battle. A call for a general political strike The call is approved by the Union of Unions, the Union of Peasants, the General Railway Union and the Councils of Workmen of St. Peters- burg and Moscow. A response received from the rail- road men of Moscow is unanimous for | Maryland, throughout the empire was issued. RIOTING IN CHINA United States Warship Lands a Force and Other Nations Take a Hand. The state department av Washing- ton was informed by cable from Shanghai that there had been some further disturbances there and a few casualties. The naval forces which were landed from the warships and the volunteer guard of various nation- alities, however control the situation. The Chinese authorities are also en- deavoring to suppress the disturban- ces. The United States cruiser Baltimore landed a force at Shanghai and the British cruiser Diadem is sending 500 men ashore. Other warships are ex- pected and it is reported that Ger- man trocps are coming from Kias- chau. The German gunboat Tiger has arrived. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at Shanghai says disquiet~ ing news has been received from the interior and that the Anglician miss- ionaries at Soochow Huchow and Hangchow have been recalled to Shanghai. The Shanghai correrpondent of the Morning Post says that the American authorities have ordered the Ameri- can residents into the foreign settle- ments and the German authorities are bringing their countrymen and coun- trywomen from the outlying districts into the German consulate. SENATE COMMITTEES Members from Pennsylvania, Ohio, ’ West Virginia and Maryland. The Senate committee assignments were announced. Among them are: Appropriations, W. B. Allison, Towa, chairman, with S. B. Elkins of West Virginia, a member. THE Foreign Relations, Shelby DM. Cul- { lom, Illinois, chairman. I'inance, N.-A. Aldrich, New Hamp- shire, chairman, with A. P. Gorman, as a member. Judiciary, W. A. Clark, Montana, chairman, with J. B. Foraker, vaio, and P. C. Knox, Pennsylvania, mem- bers Commerce, W. P. Frye, Muine, chairman, with S. B. Elkins, of West Virginia; Boies Penrose, Pennsylvan- ia, members Interstate Commerce, Elkins, chair- man; Foraker, member. Military Affairs, Francis E. War- ren, Wyoming, chairman, with Scott and Foraker, as members. Naval Affairs, Eugene Hale, Maine, chairman, with Charles Dick, Ohio, and Penrose, members. Inter-oceanic Canals. J. H. Millard, Nebraska, chairman, with Knox and Gorman, members. Postoffices and Postroads; chairman; Scott. member. Privileges and Elections, J. C. Bur- rows, Michigan, chairman, with Knox and Foraler members, . Public Buildings and Grounds, Scott, chairman. 300 SLAIN IN STREETS Penrose, Revolutionists Liberate Prisoners and Kill Officials, During the street fighting at Mitau, capital of Courland, 300 persons were killed. At Lennewarden, in. Southern Livonia, the revolutionists liberated all the prisoners. an shot Assistant District’ Governor Peterson - and M. a strike. The leaders have declared their ability to siop every railroad in Russia. The strike order renders every member of the unions signing it. lia- ble to arrest and punishment under the new strike law. Minister of the Interior Durnovo atfempted to telegraph orders to | to arrest members of the Railway Union and of the Workmen's Council, but the dispatches were held | up by the railroad telegraphers. Miss Roosevelt Pays $1,206 Duty. Miss Alice Roosevelt has paid $1,- payment was made by Miss Roose- | velt by means of a check drawn oa her personal account. The gifts in- clude some beautiful pieces of old Satsuma ware, cone of which is more than 200 years old. There are a num- ber of rare Oriental fans, and a beau- | ihe army had engaged to repay this | dissolved. Field Marshal Oyama re- sum in 25 annual installments to the | sumes the presideney of the general king’s hospital fund. staff. Boston Wool Market. | TROOPS MASSACRE REBELS The wool market is only moderate- | Io i sents Si Aft ’ : ¥ . n ain ily active with prices firm. The de- A salen igh h di fer be | Sia eatin rkis roo mand has been chiefly for flecces and | 9 o ps. | \ustrallsns but California and Texas! A serious Albanian rebellion has | asin alia Sar | broken out in the western provinces | wools have been selling with more or | of European Turkey. The first out- Fp pa mT ory Tar ; is o> 1 . : Beal freedom Fel ritory woois are preak occurred in the town of Tetovov aniet, with the offeri mall. For- where the rebels repulsed 3,000 eign grades are steady. The revised | Turkish troops sent from Uskub to otations in the Boston wool market guppress the outbreak. All: of the gas follows. Ohio and Pennsyl lIvania | Turkish officials in the town were —XX and above, 35¢; X, 33@34c; No. | murdered. (i, 38 @39c: No. 2, 38@3%c; fine un- | Reinforcements of troops with ar- ; guarter-blood un- | tillery succeeded in capturing the : three-eights blood, | town, whereupon the troops massa- ood, 33%4@34c; un- | cred all rebels found with arms. @30c. | The Albanian tribe in Liuma then tr | rebelled to avenge the Tetovov vic- Conspirators Sentenced. | tims and the Albanians of Prisrend Edward Joris, the Belgian, and | and Krichevo are preparing to fol- | | low this example. The Albanians are preaching a ven- | detta and have sworn most solemn with participa- assassinate the |three others charged tion in the attempt to Sultar f Turkey last y vere : ~ Dusan of Turke; last July, Were | haths to extirpate the Turks concern- | sentenced to death by the | native ed in the Tetovov slaughter. court at Constantinople. Alleged. ac-| complices were committed to penal | . 2 servitude for life, and 10 persons, | At Norfolk, Va., O. M. Baldinger charged with the same crime. who {| was for the second time convicted of have not yet been arrested, were sent- | enced? to. d years the Biaje Penitentiary. in 1t. | Republic’ Controls T. C. I. anlete Job of Made Con k v At Pa. John Kravoe, ai Important changes in the organiza- ei , left his boarding | tion of the Tenn Coal ‘'& Tron 111) morning. Later a | Company re 1 » at a meeting of ort S i the field | the directors at New York, and John | nd 5 nowed that | Ww. Gates heads the Executive Com- $ d to five | mittee. In Wall street it was' said and ther n laid "down that the' company is now controlled developments. His by the Republic Iron & Steel Com- to at { pany. President tn i it to be known rate | election fraud and sentenced to two | Pennsyl- | regula- | tifully embroidered screen, the gift | of the emperor of Japan. DYNAMITE USED ‘Open Shop” Employment Bureau in New York Blown Up. The front of the “open, shop” em- ployment bureau maintained in East Fourteenth street, New York, by the Allied Iron Association, firm of Post & McCord is a member, was blown to pieces by the explosion of a boiub thrown through a window from the street. Three men were in a room behind the one into which: the bomb thrown. None of them was injured. Thev are William Ward, boss of the non-union men employed to break the strike started against Post & Me- Cord by the Iron Workers’ Union, and two assistants, John Brennan and Palmer Hunt. The interior of ‘the employment bureau is a complete wreck. | | | | Brick Trust Officials Fined. | Officials of alleged brick | pleaded guilty in Judge Smith's eourt | at Chicago, and were fined $2.000 each for conspiracy | titrust laws. the | Bequeaths $400,000 to Negro. Joseph Weidman, 206 duty on the presetns given to her | on her recent trip to the Orient. The | of which the | was | trust and violation of the an- a wealthy Vien- | Maxicowitch, his secretary, and threw their ‘bodies into the river. Volga sails ehartered by to bring whose lives The German steamer | from Stettin for Riga, the German Government, away German subjects are endangered. Two Hamburg-American line steam- | ers, the Batavia and . Kehrwieder, { have been chartered by the Govern- mént to bring Germans from Libau. They can accommodate 2,000 passen- | gers. 8 CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Fire destroyed the Rothwell block, at Des Moines, Ia., causing a loss of $150,000. The building was one of the largest business blocks in the city. The marriage of the Infanta Marie | Teresa, second sister of King Alfonso | of Spain, to Prince Ferdinand of Ba- varia, has been officially fixed for | Janugry 12. The queen's fund for the unemploy- | | | | | ed of London has now passed the | $600,000 mark and is increasing at | the rate of over $5,000 a day. Letts, formerly: a telegraph | operator in the employ of the Santa | Fe Railroad Company, was brought {to New York city from Colon, Pana- { ma, charged with forgery. According to a dispatch from Sal- | erno, Italy, a terrible cyclone has | damaged almost all the houses in { Sarno, a city of 22,000 inhabitants. | Many houses fell in ruins and more than 100 persons were injured, many (of them seriously. The damage | amounts to $400,000. | Sailing oraers are in preparation | at the Navy department for the third | division of the second squadron of | | i i M. M. the North Atlantic fleet, under com- mand of Rear Admiral Charles D: Sigsbee, to leave for a long cruise in foreign waters. The ships will not { return until spring. : | The Belgian Legation at Constan- | tinople has demanded that Edward | Joris, convicted of attempting the | Sultan’s life, be handed over to the | Belgian consular authorities for trial, | in accordance ‘with the treaty of 1838, {The Porte oO! ts | Twin Children Burn to Death. | The 17-months-old twin sons of nese merchant, recently left Moham- | Joseph Danford were burned to death | med Medium, a young negro whom he | at Alpena, Mich., and the father was | had ‘adopted and educated, $33,000. | probably fatally burned in his efforts | te save the babies by: carrying their ra ei : as now died leavi blazi t 1 i Frau W eldm in ha qe d leaving | blazing cradle out of the burning ‘her entire fortune “estimated at |house. E $400,000 to: the "lucky negro. i Ferrata... a mas Jews Preparing to Rebel, The famous Whistler portrait of Sir The post and telegry at auction for Wars T 1. The portrai h Lady s Macbeth | urging preparati anr rection. 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