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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.
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| 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
|
|
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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,
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