TIDAL WAVE DROWNS MANY
An Earthquake Cause Ocean to
Sweeps Villages Away.
WHOLE FAMILIES WERE LOST
8ailing Vessels Along the Coast Re-
port Finding Hundreds of Float-
ing Corpses and Dead Fish.
A message from Beuna Ventura,
Colombia, dated February 25, says:
An earthquake occurred at 10:31 on
the morning of I'ebruary 21, lasting
about seven minutes, the movement
being from the north to the south.
The town was considerably shaken.
The damage, however, was small, but
the people were thrown into a panic,
kneeling, weeping and praying in the
streets. All the clocks in the town
were stopped. while the cables were
broken in many places.
Following the earthquake there was
a tidal wave, which was of no con-
sequence here, but the reports from
the coast, including an area of 50
leagues to the south, state that 2,000
were killed by falling houses or
drowned by the wave, whole fami-
lies having been lost.
Sailing vessels report having en-
countered hundreds of corpses and
| three lieutenants
i als, 245 brigadier generals,
quantities of dead fish, and many
small settlements were completely
swept away.
The damage by the earthquake and |
tidal wave at Tumaco was greater |
than here, and a few lives were lost.
The shock was felt in the interior, |
and five people were killed at |
Tuquerresin.
At Popayan the people resorted to
tents, and thanksgiving services were
held on February 21 and 22. Twelve
distinct shocks were felt, but it is
believed that all danger is
now.
over |
CADETS BURNED TO DEATH
i all of whom
! Youngs.
SHOULD EARN |. PROMOTION
Congressman Finds Fault With Treat-
ment of Officers in Army.
The house of representatives refus-
ed to adjourn in celebration of Wash-
ington’s birthday, and its members
participated in a general field day of
debate on the army appropriation bill.
The speeches took wide range. First
the system of promoting and retiring
army officers was attacked by Mr.
Prince of Illinois, who elicited many
interjected comments from members
in disapproval of the methods for
which he said the President and sen-
ate werc resposible, and which, he
pointed out, has resulted in a retired
list costing yearly $2,700,000 consist-
ing of officers who, he said, were hold-
ing the flag with one hand while the
other was in the treasury for money
that had never been earned.
Referring to the question of the re-
tirement of officers and the abolition
of the grade of lieutenant general,
Mr. Prince criticised the system by
which it was possible to have such
a large number
tired list. With an army
he said, there were now 903, officers
on the retired list drawing an aver-
age of $3,000 a year, or a total of $2,-
700,000. Asked as to the rank of these
officers, Mr. Prince said there were
generals, 21 gener-
76 colonels
70 lieutenant colonels, 226 majors, 169
captains, 65 first lieutenants, 11 sec-
ond lieutenants, 16 chaplain majors
{and 11 chaplain captains.
There hd been 62
als who served for one day in that
rank and were then retired, from Jan-
uary 1, Mi to a2nuary. 1, 1306.
“And,” he continued, “I am inclined
brigadier gener-
i to think the moving picture is going !
! on today
at the same
Prince said,
rate.” Up to
1895, Mr. there had been
i but four lieutenant generals, Washing-
Sheridan,
generals.
and
became full
ton, Grant, Sherman
| Since 1895 there had been five lieu- |
tenant generals, Schofield, Miles,
Chaffee and Bates. He fav-
| ored the provision of the bill abolish-
Fire Destroys Buildings of Military
School at Gambier, O.
Fire destroyed three buildings of
Kenyon College at Gambier, O., caus-
ing the death of three students, and
injury of others.
The charred bodies of Cadets Win- |
fleld Scott Kunkle of Ashtabula, O.,
J. B. Henderson of Ridge Farm, Inn, |
and James J. Fuller of Warren, O.,
were found in the ruins of Delano
hall.
The bodies of Fuller and Hender-
son lay ciose together. They had
been room-mates. It is believed that
they were suffocated to death in bed.
. The lifeless forms were also close to
the beds they had occupied and lay
in the basement almost directly be-
neath their room. Xunkle’s body had
been carried to the west with the fall-
ing floors.
Trouble was experienced in finding
it. The fathers of the cadets hur-
ried te Gambier Saturday night and
were present when the finding of the
hodies removed the last doubt as to
their fate.
Cadets Harry
, Baker,. both,
were moved
Cleveland.
Cadet J. R. Stearn, whose feet were
burned, and who sustained injuries
by jumping from the burning build-
ing, went to his home in Cincinnati.
Cadets Alexander W. Walton, of Cin-
cinnati, and Milan L. Bartlett, each of
whom was burned about the arms,
also left.
There is no satisfactory explanation
ag to what caused the fire. Some are
of opinion that oily rags may have !
cauged spontaneous combustion. The |
floors of the buildings were oiled and ;
this, in part at least, accounts for the
rapidity with which the building
burned.
Barnes and Lenox
residents of Cleveland,
on cots to hospitals in
Says Miners Will Not Strike.
In a statement issued at Indianap-
olis, Vice President T. 1. Lewis, of
the United Mine Workers of America,
declares that there will be no strike
on April 1, saying the operators will |
restore the reduction accepted by the !
miners two vears ago, and perhaps
more.
APPALLING TALE oF CRIME
Governor Gooding of Idaho Says Or-
chard Confessed to 26 Murders,
implicating Miners.
Gov. Gooding of Idaho issued the
following statement with respect to
the assassination of former Gov.
Frank Steuneburg:
“I want to state officially that Harry
‘Orchard has made a full confession.
The assassination was the, third at-
tempt that Orchard made. This con-
fession was made to James McPar-
land.
“In that confession Orchard impli-
cated all those now under arrest, and
others, including J. I.. Simpkins. He
told the story of 26 murders, ‘the re- |
sult of conspiracies in which all the |
accused parties were interested. When
this story is given to the public, I
believe it will be the greatest narra-
tive of crime which the world knows."
Privy Councilor Ivanoif, who was
active in suppressing the recent rail- |
road strike in Russia, was assassi- |
nated by an unknown .man in War-
Saw.
FANATIC BAND RUNS AMUCK
Destroys French Post and Over-
whelms British Detachment. |
A force of religious fanatics is re- |
ported to have invaded and overrun |
a portion of Sokoto, West Africa,
from the north, to have destroyed a
French post near the frontier, killing
five French officers and capturing two,
and to have overwhelmed a British |
detachment, whose casualties are not |
given. |
of the New
| tire
. of Cook
| big fortunes recently
! Jegacies must bear
lv observed
ing this rank.
RUSSIAN AGRESSION
Posts in China Taken Before Treaty
Was Concluded.
Advices from Peking are
impasse has been
that an
reached in he
negotiations between the Russian and |
Chinese government in regard to con-
ssions demanded by Russia in Man-
iy and Mongolia.
It has been expected that pressure
would be brought on China to block
the advance of Russia into Mongolia |
| and Chinese Turkestan because of the
added menace such an extension of
Russian lines would be to England's |
Indian
which
possessions, the security of
Japan is bound by the new
treaty to guard in every possible way. |
It is said, however, on fairly reli-
able authority, that Russia has not
waited for the formality of the treaty
negotiations, bui has already estab-
lished a military post at -Urga and
laid plans for a still further exten-
sion of her lines southward.
INSUR RANCE REFORMS
Report of New York Committee Sug-
gests Many Improvements.
The rcport of the Armstrong com-
mittee inquiring into the institution
of life insurance as carried on br the
companies doing business - in the
State, was presented in both houses
York Legislature. Ac-
companying the report were eight bills
embodying the recommendations of
the committee, with the exception of
the proposed standard forms of poli-
cies. .
The remedial legislation recom-
mended provides for the safeguard-
i ing of the rights of policyholders in
| mutual companies, in the election of
directors;
recommends that stock
companies he given authority to re-
their stock and become mutual
companies, but that such mutualiza-
tion shail not be compulsory: various
regulations are urged to prevent un-
wise investments and improper syn-
. dicate operations.
MUST PAY INHERITANCE TAX
Ruling in Wlinois Will Increase the
Sum in Cook County Treasury.
A ruling in Springfield by the su-
preme court of 1llinois has ordered a
radical change in the vsual practice
in collecting inheritance taxes that
will put at once into the treasury
county about $750,000 from
Marshall Field's estate and large
amounts from the Yerkes and other
probated
that residuary
their share of in-
heritance tax immediately after the
death of the testator and not at the
end of the period of trust.
that the tax on the huge sum left in
trust for 40 years to the grandchil-
dren of Marshal Field must be paid
The ruling provides
I TOW.
In Honor of Washington.
Vashington’s Birthday was general-
at the national capital.
Celebrations were held by various
; local patriotic societies in commmemor-
ation of the anniversary. All Federal
| offices and municipal offices as well
| as most of the
i closed.
business houses were
Field Will Probated.
The wiil of Marshall Fiald was ad-
mitted to probate at Chicago by
Cutting, of the
sued letters
| thur B.
the Merchants Loan & Trust
pany as executors. The
| signed a personal bond for
000.
of administration to Ar-
Com-
executors
$100,000,-
The pure food bill passed the Sen-
ate after 15 years consideration, by
the surprising vote of 63 to 4.
of officers on the re- |
of 60,000 !
It means |
Judge
probate court, who is- |
Jones, Chauncey B. Keep and |
HOGH HANGED AT CHICAGO
.
Attorneys. Appeal to the Federa
Court to Stay the Execution.
HOCH MET HIS FATE BRAVELY
insisted Upon Living to the Last Mo-
ment Allowed by Law—Prayed
for Executioners.
Johann Hoch, convicted uxorcide,
confessed bigamist, and who, if a frac-
tion of the stories of crime that are
told of him are true, was one of the
greatest criminals this country has
ever known, was hanged at Chicago
for poisoning his wife, Marie Welcker
Hoch. He faced death with a pray-
er on his lips for the officers of the
law who took his life; and save for
the words ¢‘‘goodby,”” his last utter-
ance was an assertion that he was in-
nocent of the crime.
The last scene in his career
{at 1
still
making desperate efforts for a
little more time on earth for him.
death, the lawyers say, has not ended
the appeal that was made in his be-
half, and although the man himself is
dead, they promise to carry the case
to the supreme court of the United |
States.
The time set for
the hanging was
came |
:34 P. M. while his attorneys were |
His |
Titters.
between 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. Shortly |
| after 9 Hoch’s attorneys appeared
in the office of the clerk of the United |
States circuit court, where they filed
| an application for a writ of habeas
corpus on the broad ground that Hoch |
was held in peril of death in direct
| violation of the Fourteenth
ment to the
amend- |
constitution, which de-
|
|
|
clares hat no state shall deprive any!
person of life, liberty, or
without due process of law.
Delayed to Last Minute.
As soon as the application was filed, |
Attorneys Mayber and Comerford
hastened to the jail where they in-
formed Jailer Whitman and Deputy
Sheriff Peters that the application had |
been made. The jailer and the deputy
sheriff agreed to wait. The attorneys
then appeared before Judge K. M.
L.andis. asked that the writ issue]
forthwith
“It is requisite,” said Judge Landis,
‘that proper cause be shown.”
should be
court was
issued because the state
not a court of competent
| jurisdiction, that the sentence was in
| violation of the Fourteenth
| ment, that Hoch was compelled to give
and did give, evidence against him-
self: that he was arrested in New
York, and extradited on a charge Of |
{ bigamy, and on being brought to |
Chicago was charged with murder.
After some consideration, Judge Lan-
dis replied:
“The apvlication for the writ is de-
nied. The proper remedy for counsel
was a writ of error from the decision
of the state supreme court to the su-
prenme court of the United States.
The writ is fatally defective.”
JEWS RUTHLESSLY KILLED
Fifty Dead in Massacre After Procla-
mation of Anti-Semite Leader.
Fifty persons were killed and 300
injured in an attack upon the Jewish
residents of Wjetka, near Gomel, fol-
lowing the proclamation issued by
Kieshoif. the leader of the anti-Semite
movement in that part of the empire,
calling for a general and ruthless
massacre of the Jews.
Mobs of armed men marched sud-
denly upon the Jewish quarter. Their
coming had been anticipated and all
of the Jews had either fled or bari-
caded themselves as best they could |
in their homes and places of business.
The houses were broken into. The
attack was at first concentrated npon
the more prosperous Jews. The
ircops an: the police made no effort
to stay the assassins, who struck
down men, women and children, mu-
tilated their bodies and pillaged the |
houses and shops. In several cases
thie bodies of victims were collected
in houses which were then fired.
Dynamite was used to blow un two
. srnagogues.
AWARDED BIG CONTRACT
The attorneys argued that the writ |
amend- |
property |
| the success of the
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BIG RUSSIAN CONTRACT
Westinghouse Company Will Equip
St. Petersburg Traction Lines.
American interests are to build an
extensive modern electric traction
system in St. Petersburg which be-
fore completion will ¢ost about $10,-
000,000. The contract is being under-
taken by the Russian Waestington-
house company, controlled by the
American Westingtonhouse people.
St. Petersburg is the only capital of
any country in Europe which has not
hitherto employed electricity as a mode
of transportation.
The contract for the first portion
of the new lines calls for the con-
version of the present horse car lines
in the Nevsky prospect—the broad-
way of St. Petersburg—and other im-
portant streets in the center of the
city. About 20 miles will be recon-
structed in the first instance, entail-
ing an expenditure of almost $6,000,-
000. ater on about 30 miles will be
built at an additional cost of nearly
$4,000,000.
Thirteen Miners Killed.
An expiosion in the Vietor Fuel
Company's Maitland mine near Wal-
senburg, Col., caused the death of at
least 13 miners and perhaps 16. The
dead so far recovered: Archie Miller,
fire boss; Billy : Moran, James W.
Battista Robera, Corona
Costa Sopris, Joe Costa and Nicholas
Company's Maitland mine caused the
Yockibetz.
Morrocan Gunboats Still Bombard.
A dispatch confirms the report that
the Moroccan gunboat Sidi el Turki
resumed the bombardment of the
French filibustering parties at various
points along the Moroccan coast.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
Mrs. Silvia Langdon Dinham, the
second oldest person in Connecticut,
died, aged 105 years.
Gov. Pennypacker
uniform divorce
| congress recently held in Washington.
The body of Johan Hoch, the wiue-
beard who was executed Friday in
Chicago, was buried in the potters’
field.
Rear Admiral Chadwick,
| manded Admiral
who com-
Sampson’s flagship
| of being ready to Nght for
was pleased with |
| martial for
SHOULD PREPARE FOR WAR
Congressman Says We Should
Be Ready for Emergency.
CHINA MAY GIVE US TROUBLE
Says Japan is Not Inciting China to
Make Disturbance, but will Pre-
serve Peace.
Chairman TT. A. Hull, of the Mili-
tary Affairs committee, in presenting
the army appropriation bill to the
House urged the necessity of complete
preparedness as to our army and
navy for trouble in the Orient. He
declared that any nation not prepar-
ed to defend its position in China
might as well haul down its flag and
quit the Pacific.
Mr. Hull scouted the idea that
Japan was interested in stirring up
trouble in China to injure the United
States. Japan's interests in China,
he said, was identical with those of
the United States, and
of peace there was the only manner
in which they could be maintained.
Mr. Hull made an interesting di-
gression to the situation in China to
emphasize his position that the fight-
ing arms of the government, the army
and navy, should be kept in efficient
condition {to meet all emergencies.
He hoped no trouble would come,
“but there exist to-day conditions in
the Orient that make it necessary for
us to preserve our prestige, our pow-
er and our rights, even to the extent
them.”
Senate Passes Hazing Bill.
The hazing bill was passed in the
Senate. The bill gives authority to |
the Secretary of the Navy to dismiss
at any time a midshipman whose
presence he considers for any cause |
contrary to the
service, but the accused has the right
to demand a court-martial. It repeals
the existing law requiring the
hazing;
gives authority for
hazing under certain con-
i ditions and authorizes gradation sen-
| 1874, and of March 3,
in the Spanish-American war, will be |
retired February 28. »
4,000 persons in buildings to be re- |
big New York terminal of |
pleced by
the Pennsylvania.
sets of less than
$13,000,000 of debts.
The senate committee on interstate
$1,000,000
| | commerce selected Senator Tillman as
| spokesman for the epburn rate bill |
Beaver Falls Company to Erect Shops |
for Atlantic Coast Line.
It was announced from the
Coast Line headquarters that the bids
for the erection of the shops for the
Atlantic |
tion of a trolley
Second ‘division had been -vpened and |
the contract awarded. There were 17
bidders The contract was
to the Pennsylvania Bridge Co
of Beaver Falls, Pa.
While the officials refuse to
1e cost of the shops it is known that
we amount will exceed $400,000. It
is stipulated that the work is to be
leted by January 1, 1907. Way-
., which on the lines between
Montgemery and Savannah, will be
onmipany
tl
1
1
i
awarded |
state i
the point at which the new shops are |
to be built. When completed
men will be regniarly employed,
News of the safety of the dry
Dewey,
by the tug Potomac, was
with great relief at the Navy
partment. The dock is believed now
2,000 |
dock |
brought {o the Canary Islands i
received |
De- |
to be about 900 miles from Gibraltar, |
and should pass into the strait inside
a fortnight.
Mont Pelee Again Active.
Mont Pelee,
active,
land are in terror of a recurrence of
the greyt eruptions of four
ago. Five persons are in the hospital
in Fort de France,
by falling rocks thrown up by the
volcano, and most of the residents
have fled to shelter behind the moun-
tains to the southward.
have been demolished, and the walls
| of many others are tottering.
i
who were struck |
| peace
| eign conditions was in a
which the committee agreed to report
to the senate without amendments.
acts of
1903; requires
officers at the
tences under the
all instructors and
| Naval Academy to report .offences to
Railroad served eviction notices on
the superintendent and defines hazing
as “the unauthorized - assumption of |
authority by one midshipman over an-
| other.”
Liquidation of companies promoted |
Wright showed as- |
to pay |
Boston Wool Market.
Continued heavy trading in all
| classes of wovols has brought the sup-
| ply down te limited proportions and
| hardened prices to correspond.
The house of represenatives unani- |
mously passed the resolution for an |
investigation of the alleged
of the Pennsylvania
roads.
R. J. Hynicka, treasurer of Hamil-
ton county, O., told senate investiga-
tion committee that he received $20.-
000 in gratuities for deposit of pub-
lic funds from various’ banks so far
this term.
National President John Mitchell
of the mine workers declared a bitu-
minous coal strike inevitable and ap-
pointed a committee to assume duties
of local President Patrick Dolan.
An unconfirmed dispatch
reached the Government
that five British
pany of native troops have heen kill-
ed by fanatics near Sokoto,
ern Nigeria.
Conditions on the Indian
tions in the State of New
and other
reserva-
York are
merger |
rail- |
has |
reporting |
officers and a com- !
in North- |
The
finer”
in fine demand. The grades are be- |
ing constantly broken in the usual
way at 60 to 62c. Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania, XX and above, 3414 to 35140;
X, 33 to 34c;i No. 1, 38 to 3%¢: No.
2, 38 to 40c; fine . unwashed, . 26 to!
26% c; quarterblood, unwashed, 32 to |
32%5c: three-eighth blood, 83 to 34c;
halfblood, 23 to 3314Lec; unwashed and
delaine, 28 to 29c; fine washed de- |
laine, 37 to 37%ec.
Freight Rates Too High,
The
sion decided the case of TF.
against the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad company, holding
that the carrier's rates om potatoes,
from Mankatoa and Good Thunder.
Minn., to Washington, Scranton and
other eastern destinations are unreas- |
onable and unjust. The
company is recommended
its tariff and the
J. Hoerr
to adjust |
awarded the reparation he asked.
pronounced a discredit and a disgrace |
in the report of a special committee
of investigation presented in the As-
sembly.
The Bell Telephone Company, of
Philadelphia, has authorized an in-
crease in its capital stock of $14,000,-
000 to $30,000,000.
Directors of the Calumet
declared a dividend of $15.
the same as declared three
and a year ago.
The Consolidated Mercur
mines Company declared a
quarterly dividend of 21,
share, payable March 26.
Indiana (Pg
raised $35,000
This is
months
Gold
regular
cents a
business
toward the
men have
construc-
line from Indiana to
Ernest.
The French foreign
France has
offered to concede .the control of the
Moroccan poliee to the sultan if the
latter will select French officers.
Many miners are
positions in the copper® mines near
Houghton, Mich.. owing to the con-
tinued ‘‘earthquakes,” or air blasts.
which have now become so frequent
and dangerous that the miners fear
for their lives.
Gounterfeitens Crught,
The Secret Service has been ad-
vised of the arrest at Spokane, Wash.,
of R. 8S. Jewell, Patrick Jennings,
Thomas Sheehan and John G. Fores-
ter, alias Webber, charged with coun-
terfeiting. The men are said to have
operated on the Pacific coast. Six-
teen hundred dollars in counterfeit
gold coins and a complete set of molds
| were captured.
in Martinique, is again
and the inhabitants of the is- |
years |
Many houses |
Fallieres is Conservative,
President Fallieres,
his inaugural message
Parliament, pays a tribute to the
strength of the Republic
army as not being a menace, but an
assurance of the maintenance of
The only allusion to for-
statement
firmness
shows
that France’s moderation,
and fidelity to her alliance
| what a price she puts upon preserving
cordial relations with all the foreign
Powers.
CAPITAL NEWS NOTES.
The House Committee on Mines and
Mining agreed to make a favorable |
report on the Mondell bill, providing
for the endowment of schools or de- |
; partments of mining in connection
with State colleges for the benefit of
, agriculture and mechanic arts.
and Hecla
office confirms |
| an Algeciras report that
The following appointments of |
fourth-class Pennsylvania postmast- |
ers were announced: Helixville, Bed-
ford, Irvin A. Miller; Shippingport,
Beaver, John R. Haward.
Mississippi Gets the Sewage.
The famous case of the
Missouri vs. the State of 0linois, in-
volving the right of the city of Chicago
to divert its sewage ‘into the Missis-
sippi river through the Chicago sani-
tary canal and the Illinois river was
decided by the Supreme
Justice Holmes delivered the opinion
of the court, which was that Missouri
did mot prove its case. There was
i no dissent.
resigning their
| the most voluminous contains the !
| names of 8,000 voters, and Mr. Gall-
inger said that it was 264 feet, long.
. One of the
Petition 264 Feet Long.
in the Senate Mr. Gallinger
sented four petitions from
of Oklahoma praying for
pre-
residents
prohibition
in the proposed State of Oklahoma, |
others
. names oI 6,000 women and another
those of 6,000 children. The fourth
was signed by Indians only.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas I.ongworth |
started on their honeymoon from Alex- !
| andria, Va. They will go to Tampa, |
| Hav: ana,
of France, in|
presented to |
1
and to the!
| for conventions,
| round trip rates
Fla., and from there take a boat for |
Cuba.
Roads Retaliate on Ohio.
All forms of transportation except
the regular two-cent-a-mile rate piro-
vided by law will be cut off by the
railroads in Ohio, according to a de-
cision reached at a conference of pas-
senger representatives in Chicago. It
was agreed that the roads could thus |
recompense themselves for
caused. The action will
Ohioians of all reduced transportation |
charity business,
the loss
rates.
preservation |
best interest of the |
dis- |
misczal of midshipmen found guilty of |
courts- |
June 23,1
grades of pulled wool continue |
interstate commerce commis- |
railroad |
complainant is
.| sentative in
State of |
court of ;
containing the |
deprive |
and clergymen'’s |
| GROSVENOR DEFEATED
Sage of Athens Fails of Renomination
to Congress.
After a service of over 20 years in
Congress, Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor,
the “Sage of Athens,” was defeated
for renomination gn the first ballot
by Albert Douglas, of Chillicothe,
Ross county, the vote being 78 to 20.
The man who defeated General
Grosvenor is 53 years old and a law-
ver at Chillicothe. He was a presi-
dential elector at large and president
of the Ohio electoral college in 1896,
and was defeated for the Republican
nomination for governor in 1899. Ha
is a fine orator and has dominated the
politics of Ross county for years.
The ballot resulted as follows:
Athens, 21 for Douglas; Fairfield, 12
for Grosvenor, and .2 for Douglas;
Hocking, 10 for Douglas; Meigs, 13
for Dougias; Perry, 8 for Douglas and
8 for Grosvenor; Ross, 8 for Douglas;
Vincton, 6 for Douglas.
The defeat of Grosvenor was rend-
ered the more bitter from the fact
that his own county, Athens, did not
give him a single vote, and he did
not get a solid delegation from any
couniy in the district.
THREW CHILDREN INTO SEA
Mother Then Plunged from Steamer
Ending Her Own Life.
The open door of a stateroom which
had been occupied by a woman and
three young children on the trip of
the Fall river line steamer Plymouth
from New York to Fall River, Mass.,
led to the discovery that Mrs. John
| Watters, of Brooklyn. had taken the
| lives of her three little ones by
| throwing them overboard, then
drowned herself. . The woman left
two notes addressed to her husband.
In one she begged forgiveness; in
the other she said that she ‘had
worried until she feared insanity and
| could not bear to leave the children.”
Mrs. Watters was about 30 years
{of age. Her children were: Helen,
| aged 4; Dorothy, 2 years of age; and
an infant son.
$50,000,000 HIDDEN
Trustess of the Yerkes Estate Dis-
cover a Large Sum of Money.
{ Another amazing development in
| counection with the series of sensa-
| tional developments .associated with
‘the late Charles T. Yerkes's millions
| came to light when it was discovered
| that the value of the estate of the
| traction magnate amounted to nearly
$70,000,000 at the time of his death,
instead of $20,000,000, at which sum
it was estimated by the lawyérs and
executors at the time the will was
read in this city. The trustees, it is
| said, have discovered $50,000,000
which Mr. Yerkes had hidden away,
| and of which he made no mention
weeks ago.
GARFIELD MAKES DENIAL
insists That: Stories Told by ‘Packers
on the Stand Have No Basis.
! Commissioner Garfield, on the wit-
! ness stand in the packers’ case made
ositive denials of assertions made on
the stand: by witnesses for the pack-
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District Attorney Morrison question-
i ed Mr. Garfield regarding his con-
| versations with Edward Swift, Ed-
i ward Morris and various other repre-
| sentatives of the packers, and the
| commissioner asseverated that he had
| never told any of them that informa-
tion would be regarded as confident-
ial, or that they would be compelled
to give up the information.
Congressman Indicted.
: Two indictments were returned by
| the Federal grand jury against E.
! Spencer Blackburn, Republican repre-
Congress from the
Eighth North Carolina. district, charg-
{ing him with practicing before the
i treasury department and commission-
fer of internal revenue, and with ac-
cepting fees for the service after his
| election to the House of Representa-
tive. He is accused of accepting
fees of $100 and $500 from A. Dinkins
and P. A. Davis, charged with violat-
ing the internal revenue laws Mr.
| Blackburn denies the charges.
! Mother of 25 Children Dies.
Mrs. Elizabeth Conway, the mother
of 25 children—19 boys and 6 girls—
of whom there were six pairs of twins
died at Denver Col., at the age of 59
I from heart disease. Mrs. Conway
| was the youngest of a family of 27
children. She was married at the
[age of 14, and her hushand was the
| youngest of a family of 30. ‘She was
| the grandmother.
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i Imprisonment for Mutineers.
A courtmartial at Sebastopol, haa
sentenced 42 of the mutineers of the
“Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkine
: to imprisonment, one of them to 15
vears. Twenty-five men were acquit-
ted. The mild sentences imposed are
explained by ‘the fact that the ac-
cused were mainly sailors who volun-
tarily surrendered at Kustenji, Rou-
mania.
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Pittsburg Elects Mayor.
The municipal election in Pitts-
| burg resulted in the election of
| George W. Guthrie candidate of the
| Citizens-Democratic party for Mayor.
In the city of Allegheny ‘Charles F.
{ Kirschler, Republican was chosen
| Mayor.
English Barracks Blown Up.
The London Evening News publish-
es a dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, an-
nouncing that a great explosion has
{occurred at the British barracks in
| Khartoum. Considerable loss of life
and much damage are reported.
The Senate confirmed the following
Ohio postmasters: RE. F. Ellis, Belle
| Center; C. Borroughs, Collinwood: S.
C. Stewart, Columbiana; A. Haworth,
Crestline.
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