wm 500 MORDS SLAUGHTERED General Wood Reports a Fierce | Fight Near Jolo. f BAND OF OUTLAWS ALL KILLED Artillery Had to be Lifted Up 300 Feet or More by Block and Tackle. | An important action between Ameri- can forces and hostile Moros has tak-! en place near Jolo: Fifteen enlisted men four commissioned officers and 22 enlisted men wounded. The Moros lost 600 men killed. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, command- er of the division of the Philippines, reports from Jolo, the capital of the Sulu islands: a: .0fvos).... | for grand larceny and three Tor forg,! 4 terrible explosion occurred in a ery. The alleged larceny and forg-! y + : ai ot . ery was brought about. according to | coal mine in the Courrieres district of the indictmenis, by payments of $9.- | the Pas-de-Calais. 18 miles from 000 of the company’s money to law | Bethune, France. Out of 1,795 men were killed, wounded mfwly mfwyp m fwy m “A severe action between troops. naval detachment, constabulary and hostile Moros has taken place at Mount Dajo, near Jolo. The engage- ment opened during the afiernoon of Msrch 6 and ended in the morning of March 8. The action involved the capture of Mount Dajo, a lava cone 2,100 feet high. with a crater at its summit and extremely steep. “The last 400 feet were at an angle of 50 degrees and there were fifty per- pendicular ridges covered with a growth of timber and- strongly forti- fied and defended by an invisible | force of Moros, *Ensign H. D. Cooke, Ir.. com- mandincg the Pampanga fort, was se- verely wounded and Coxswain Gil-| more was severely wounded in the el- bow. The constabulary casualties were: Capt. John R. White, wounded in the thigh, severely: three eniisted men killed and 13 wounded. Capt. Tyree Rivers sustained a slight flesh wound in the thigh. Lieut. Gorden was slightly wounded in the right hand; Lieut. Wylie 7. Conway of the Sixth infantry was slightly wounded in the left eve. are doing well. ‘Col. Joseph W. Duncan of the Sixth infantry directed the operations. All the defenders of the Moros strong- hold were killed. Six hundred bodies were found on the field. “The action resulted in the exfinc- tion of a band of outlaws who, recog- nizing no chief, had been raiding friendly Moros and, owing to their de- flance of the American authorities, | had stirred up a dangerous condition of affairs.” The artillery was lifted by block ang tackle, a distance of 300 feet. into’ a position on the lip of the crater. Brigadier-General Bliss and myself were present throughout the action. The attacking columns were com- manded by Maj. Omar Bundy. Capt. P. Lawton, Capt. Rivers, Capt. L. All of the wounded M. Koehler, Capt. MecGlachlin and Lieut. Johnson. The officers and men engaged | highly commend the Moro constabu- *lary who did excellent work, their casualties numbering 17 out of a force of 44 engaged. SMUGGLING ARMS TO ORIENT. Rifles and Ammunition Found on Ves- sel at San Francisco. Twenly-two modern rifles ana 10,- 000 rounds of ammunition were seiz- ed in the quarters of the Chinese crew on the steamer Manchuria, scheduled to sail from San Francisco for the Orient. The company’s officials or- dered a ‘thorough search, which re- sulted in two more boxes of rifles be- ing found in the room of an assistant engineer. The engineer and the Chi- nese were questioned and it was found the guns had been purchased by the engineers and smuggled aboard the vessel. The officials say they believe there are no more guns aboard, but this will not be certain until the freight has been discharged from the steamer on her arrival at Hong-kong. Nothing is known as to how long the smuggling of this character of goods has been going on. BURNS HERSELF. Woman Unbalanced by Study of Fire Worship. | Miss Madie Smith, 45 years old. ! who lived with her mother, in Chica- go, saturated her clothes with kero- sene cil and hiding in the coal room beneath the sidewalk of her home set | fire to her garments and yag Cre-| mated before assistance could reach her. | it developed at the inauest that] Miss Smith had been a follower of! Oroman Zar Adusht Hanish of fire] worshiping faith. The Coroner was of | the opinion that her mind had been | unsettied by study of fire worship and | the Parsee religion. | Not Afraid of China. | General Corbin, who has just ar- rived from the Philippines, takes an | ontimistic view of the situation in China and does not believe that it will be necessary to send our troops into that empire in the near future. He claims that the recent reinforce- ments sent to the Philippines were only for the purpose of properly strengthening our position in them. REBELS ARE TREACHEROUS Dominican Revolutionists Attack | Government Forces. i The -State department is in receipt of a cablegram dated Monte Christi, San Domingo. =aving that on the pre- | ceding day, while the terms of sur-! render were being carried out be- tween the government force and ‘the | revolutionists, the latter acted in bad | faith and there was a fight in which two officers and six men were killed, including Gen. Cepin. The revoln- tionists escaped to the bushes, Anthracite Operators | conditions established INSURANCE MEN INDICTED Officers of Mutual Reserve Life Com- pany Held by Grand Jury Five Counts. on Indictments charging grand larceny in the first degree and forgery in the | i third degree by Frederick A. ham, president; first vice-president, George D. Mutual Reserve Life Insurance pany, were found by in New York. In all five indictments were brought against each officer, two! firms, the apparent purpose of which is alleged to have been to claims against the company, while the real object is alleged to have been to settle actions which had been brought againsi officers of the company as in- lividuals. of larceny is based -alleged that the officers embezzled two sums, one of $7,500 and the other of $1,500, on Oc- tober 24, 1901. The three officers ap- neared in the court of general ses-! sions, where Judge O’Sullivan fixed their bail at $12,500 for each and fix- ed noon next Thursday as the time for pleading. RRESI!DENT SIGNS BILL Says Congress Must Provide But Money for Commission. President Roosevelt sent a to the Congress announcing his sig- nature to-the joint "resolution Te cently passed instructing the Inter- State commerce commission to make exaniination into the subject of rail- road discriminations and monopolies in coal and oil. He says frankly that he s signed it with hesitation, be- usc it may achieve little or noth- indicates, too, that if the in- proposed by the resolu- tion is conducted thoroughly. it will It in giving immunity from erimi- 1 prosecution to all persons who are called and sworn as witnesses. In the opinion of the President the di- rection will remain practically in- operative unless money be provided to carry on the investigation and the commission be authorized to take tes- timony under itg provisions. He suggest therefore, that Con- gress give serious consideration to just what it desires the Interstate Commerce commission to do and thal the sum of $50,000 be placed at the | disposal of the commission to" defray | the expenses of the proposed investi- gation. KNOX DECLINES JUDGESHIP Prefers the Senate to a Place on the Supreme Bench. second time in P. C, Knox svlvania, has declined an appointment to the United States. The tender was made President Roosevelt Saturday, March 3. but Senator Knox promptly told the President he could not consider the offer. : The position offered was that of as- sociate justice to succeed Justice Ien- ry B. Brown, whose resignation wag accepted by the President. Justice Brown was 70 years old on Friday, March 3, and having served on the supreme bencn for more than 10 years he is eligible under the law to retire his public of Penn- ihe Senator For areer of ihe supreme court by on full salary although he has been in good health and retains full posses- sion of his mental vigor. Cassie's Pie Cut Out. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick cannot have pies and other viands sent her from Cleveland. Warden Gould has so ruled. A Cleveland firm had been shipping eatables of various kinds to Mrs. Chadwick, receiving payment through her attorneys. Staging Collapses; 41 Killed. By the coliapse of the gallery stag- ing in Earl's mine at Raibl, district of Tarvis, Austria, 40 miners and one engineer were killed. MINERS DEMANDS REFUSED Reject Propo- sition by Mitchell's Committee. The anthracite coal operators made their reply to the demands of the miners, refusing every demand insisting upon continuing three years more with the wages « by Pre commission and Roosevelt's anthracite 1902. The operators emphatically official the United Mine Workers of America, saying on this subject: “We stand unalterably for the open shop, and again decline to make an agreement with the United Mine Workers of America, an organization controlled by a rival indusiry.” In refusing the 10 per cent. incre refuse recognition of ed wages asked by the miners, the operators say that if this were grant- ed the cost of coal to domestic con- sumers would be increased $1.20 a ton, without a penny of increase in profit to the operator. Sel — MAN IS HER SUPERIOR Dr. Max Meyer Says Woman Less Inteligent. Dr. Max Meyer, professor of psy- chology, in an address before the stu- dents of the Missouri universiiy. de- clared that a man is more intelligent than a woman in the ratio of 44 to 33 The statement was greeted with ap- plause by the men in the audience. is the Dr. Meyer hastened to add that the | investigations along this line had just begun and that the ratio at any time might be changed to favor the women. TERRIBLE MINE DISASTER Burn- | Eldridge, | and George Burn- { ham, Jr. second vice president of the! Com- | the grand jury! settle | { France occurred in The indictments on which a charge! | see | Bloomdale, | two | snowstorm was raging and | famine in about half a century. was a0, | against any increase. li Explosion in French Pit Causes Frightful Loss of Life. ONE RESCUER LOST HIS LIFE Military Guard of 400 Soldiers Thrown About the Camp Morgue and Mines. who descended ‘into the pits to work, only 779 have come up, leaving over 1,100 buried in the three pits. The last great mine disaster. in 1885, when 203 persons were killed and 80 injured, but that and all others sink into sig- nificance before Courrieres. The vast mortuary is under tary guard, 400 soldiers having mili- arriv- ed there to assist in holding in check the crowds of distressed mourners. For a time hope had been held out to the people that tappings on pipes by the imprisoned men had been heard, but gradually this hope vanished and the people demanded admission to the bodies, and even threatened to break through the cordon of troops, | who had the greatest difficulty in keeping the crowds from the pit. One man named Sylvestre succeeded in entering the mine, but he never re- turned. It is believed he groped about inside until he was overcome by | the gases and perished. It is re- ported that a rescue party numbering | 10 has been cut off by the caving in | of one of the galleries. TWO KILLED; MANY INJURED | were Three Trains Ccllide—Cars Demolish- | ed and Burned. Two killed and 15 injured, one of whom will probably die, is the list of | fatalities in a wreck two freight | trains and fast passenger train No. ! 7 on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, which occurred about two miles from | Ohio. Two engines were | wrecked and the mail and express < iwo baggage cars, two passenger | coaches and four freight. cars were demolished and later burned up. of Cars The dead are: John Hootman, Chi- cago Junction, fireman passenger train; W. Hoy, Wheeling, W. Val! postal clerk. IZast-bound freight No. Garrett, Ind., was running tions. At Godsend, a small station miles from Bloomdale, the first! section stopped for water. A fierce obscured the first section from Engineer Albert | Guastke and Fireman Nicholson, of the second section, and {heir train | dashed upon it. When they discover- | ed it it was impossible to stop and | their engine crashed into the rear of the freight ahead, throwing one car over on the parallel track, which was open for the fast passenger, No. 7. west-hound. At this = moment, the passenger came along at full speed. The eugine hit the derailed car and was almost demolished. The mail and baggage cars were thrown over the engine, two passenger coaches | were splintered and a Pullman car was | derailed, but none of the occupants | injured. 98,. from 2 ° mm two SeC- Missionaries Removed. The Protestant missionaries Suichou, province of Kiangsi, have! been escorted to Kinkiang. The Ca- | tholic missionaries at Suichou re- | fused to leave the place and the Gov- ernor is sending another escort for them. The Chinese concerned in the recent rioting at Nanchang, province of Kiangsi, have confessed their guilt, | but maintain that they were justified | in attacking the Catholics, as the lat- | ter had stabbed the magistrate. Highwaymen Hold Up Stage Coach. A Mount Hamilton, Lick Observa- | tory stage, was held up at Grand! View, Cal. Daniel Howard and wife, | of Brockton, Mass., and other East- | ern tourists who occupied the stage were relieved of money and jewelry. at | PREDICTS IRON FAMINE Consul General at Paris Recommends Exchange of Coal for Ore. Consul General Mason of Paris, in a | report made public, predicts that the United States is likely to run short of iron inside of a century by the con- | tinued yearly absorption of 35,000,- | 000 tons, more than one-third the world’s total consumption. He sug- gests the sale of American coal to Europe in exchange for iron, especial- 1y in view of the prospective advance of British coal prices. The world has only ten billion fons | of iron ore available, Germany, Rus- sia and France each possessing more than this country, he says. In the comparison of coal qualities, the con- sul states that the advantage of North America over European countriez is overwhelming, and that with what is now known the présent 280,900,000 | tons annual output of American bitu- | minous coal can be maintained for hundreds of years, while the European fields are running out. The foremost | British metal journal predicts an iron ! Oppose Increase of Wages. At a conference of coal operators of | Ohio Cleveland, no formal action ! but those present were the proposed in- cent. in miners’ at taken, against of 5.55 per unanimous crease wages Several hot were made] was decided | to send a delegation of 100- operators | to the district convention in India- | napolis on March 19. The delegation | was instructed to oppose any advance | in the present seale. | speeches | have occurred in government's repres- | 1 30 artillerymen have been by court-martial to various terms of , HAMILTON READY TO ANSWER Returns from Europe to Face Insur-! ance Committee. Andrew Hamilton returned to New | York on the steamer Deutchland, on | which he was registered under the name of W. Milton. Mr. Hamilton | was at the-head of the legislative bureau of the New York life Insur- ance Company and had charge of the! legislative work of several large com- panies. { To obtain an accounting from him of moneys alleged to have been ad- | vanced by the late John A. McCall, as | president of the New York Life In-! surance Company, John C. McCall, | seeretary of the company, went to Paris recently. The accounting was asked for by the Fowler committee. Mi. Hamilton's statement was also’ placed before the legislative investi-! Explaining his re- gating committee. turn, Mr. Hamilton said: I heard somethi about proceedings and here I am.” During the insurance investigation criminal Mr. Hamilton was in Europe and | when John C. MeCall met him in Paris and ‘urged his return Mr. Ham- ilton said that his physicians would not permit it. Mir. Hamilton’s con- nection with the New York Life was mentioned -at length in a recent re- port of the Fowler committee and it was urged that he should return to New York. Freezing and Starving in Japan. The Secretary of the American Na- tional Red Cross received mation that the unprecedented cold in has Northern Japan has greatly increased the suffering in the nine-stricken Millet is ing bought with some of the relief funds, as that is cheaper than i Many have starved to death or died of the cold. provinces. Marrying Couple Both Over 70. All license records ter, Pa.. when Rebecca JI. local marriage broken at lancas Ramsey and Jacob H. McVey, both of Quarryville, secured the prope: authority to wed. Ramsey is 77 and his intended bride 74. Neither has had any previous mairi- monial experience and both are pop-! ular in their home town. Killed by Automobile. The Marchioness of Gorsini, former- ly Princess Barb ni, was killed ‘by the overturning of an automobile in which she was riding with her -hus- | band, King Victor Emmanuel’s mast- er of horse. The marchioness, who was 62 years old. was driving the “n antomobilie, her linsband, a3 ting beside her. ed 69, Princeton Gets $3C0.0C0 Bequest. It was announced unofficially that Princeton university had been made residual legatee of the estate of Mrs. J. Thompson Swan, who died at! Princeton, N. J., last week. This is said to be worth about $300,000, and it is to be devoted to the Jdcvelopment of the graduate school. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The United States Marshal has seiz- ed 7,000 gallons of liquor at the State dispensary at Columbia, 8. C.. on the report of the Revenue Collector's office that it was improperly marked and branded. Judge Phillips, in the United States Distriet court at Topeka, Kan. ouashed the indictment: against State | Senator Frederick D. Smith, Roscoe Wilson and T. E. Ryan, charged with land frauds in Kansas. Four hundred military Livoniz executions | as a result of the Russian sive measures. Henry . W. Rocch, for eight years private secretary to James G. Blaine, i is now living a hermit’s life in a log | eabin near Winamae, Ind. For refusing to handle their guns against the revolutionists during the recent disorders at Odessa, Russia, sentenced | imprisonment up to 20 vears. The Servian Cabinet has its resignation to the King, s tendered ving the | Ministers cannot accept Austria's pro- posals for the conclusion of a politi- co-commercial agreement with Ser- via. i Fire at Sheboygan, Wis., caused a; loss of $100,000 in the furniture fac- tory district heve. The losers are: Sheboygan Couch company, $50,000; ears Roebuck, Chicago, warehouse $50,000: Montgomery Ward & Co. warehouse $10,000, miscellaneous $14 - 060. . The British steamer after striking the rocks { Ushant, 27 miles from Brest, France, but her crew of 25 men was saved. Attorney George D. Collins, convict- ed at San Francisco of perjury : sentenced to the State prison years. Nelson nerthwes for Fire in the Ansehei Meer Jes 1 synagogue, New York city, caused a panic among the 300 worshiper i several of the women and c were injured in the rush for safety. The “Waterleco tube,” one of the late Charles T. Yerkes's group of london underground railroads, has been opened for traffic. The United States transports, Kil- | a confession. i New York policemen with having re- i ceived | fortunate women whom they ostensi- patrick and McClellan, having on board the First infantry, bound for the Philippines. have reached Fort Said. Egypt. > Lower Freight Rates. Western railroads, the Chics “Record Herald" have decided to voluntary reductions suys make in transportations charges amounting in the aggregate to many million dol- lars annually. The proposed reduc- tions are to be made in all the six | freight is divided | entire | Sed- | classes into which and wil! be territory between board and ‘and the Missouri river. general, the reductions will to approximately 15 per cent. effective in the the Atlantic In | amount | and on infor- | { voters | by ‘enced to be hanged FRENCH CABINET RESIGNS Trouble Over Separation of Church and State Causes Defeat. RELIGIOUS WARFARE IS FEARED Turn in Events May Have Important Bearing on Franco-German Con- test at Algeciras. Like ae«bolt from a clear sky the Rouvier ministry was defeated in the French Chamber of Deputies and im- mediately resigned. The cabinet crisis eomes at a most dramatic mo- ment, when the Franco-German coil- | test has reached a decisive stage and. may exert an important adverse in- fluence on the Algeciras conference Luropean affairs. The defeat of the government came on a comparatively minor debate over the church disorders. The govern- ment succeeded in holding only 234 votes, while the various elements in opposition, Clericals.: Socialists and Nationalists united and polled 257 votes, thus placing the ministry in a minority of 33. Premier Rouvier, with all of his colleagues, immediately proceeded to the foreign office, where a joint letter of - resignation was prepared. Later M. Rouvier presented this letter to President IFallieres, who accepted the resignations. The president announ- ced his intention of consulting the presidents of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies relative to the formation of a new cabinet. ! The debate in the Chamber of | Deputies was upon the bloody riot resulting in the death of the mani- festant. Various orators severely tised the government's course, ass serring that it threatened to preci- pitate a religious war OHIO'S RATE COMMISSION Measure Provides for Appointment by Governor of Three Members. The Ohio House by a vote of 80 to assed bill ereating a Railroad commission. The bill provides the appointment by the Governor a commissi [ three members at alary of a year each. This commission is charged the investi: unjust discriminations or unreason- rates and has the ‘power to fix such rate or rates as it shall have de- ermined to be just and reasonable.” i commission is given the power to enforce by proceedings in mandamus any order whieh it may issue. Sp Rate for 1 the with able The bill applies to all steam, elec-| tric and interurban railways, express sleeping car, freight and freight companies. The measure has not! ssed by the Senate. AND REFERENDUM Passes a Bill Amendment. been pa INITIATIVE Ohio Senatz stitutional The Ohio Senate by a vote of 23 to = Repr ] ginia introduced a bill for the erec- 13, adopted a resolution by Senator Howe or Cleveland, providing for the | submission to the people of a consti- | tutional amendment permitting the i people to initiate and to vote by ref- To initiate al erenduir on legisation. law petitions for the same must be igsned by at least 5 per cent of the of the State. No law enacted General Assembly, the feetive under the proposed ment until 60 days after its during which period the same may be submitted to a vote of the people and! act as a| majority shall resolution goes an adverse veto. The House. to the Jury Convicts Negro of Murder. George Small, the negro, ence W. Allinson, near Moorestown, en January 18, vas convicted of murder in the first degree and sent- March at time Rufus Johnson will also be for the same erime. John- 9a 23, which executed son was convictedgyon February 8, Combine of independents. The “Wall Street Journal” Negotiations are now under way looking to the consolidation of four of the largest independent steel com- panies in the country, the Lackawan- na Steel company Jones and Laugh- Steel company, Bethlehem Steel company and perhaps the Labelle iron wor Negotiations have not gress far enough to warrant any statement te their ultimate clusion. ne lin 1 as Fatal Quarrel! Between Editors. L.. Stuckey, =ditor of the People’s Demands, was shot and killed at Col- fax, La., by A. M. Goodwin, editor of Colfax Chronicle. The cause tragedy was the publication of an 2 by Stuckey reflecting on the aracter of Goodwin. Charges Against Policemen. Berthe Claiche, whose pea of guilty to manslaughter was accepted, made charging a number large sums weekly from bly protected from arrest. O!d Age Salary Placed at $1,000. A provision limiting the salaries of government cierks over 65 vears old o 1,000 a year has been attached to the legislative appropriation bill, | which a sub-committee will report to the louse Ccmmitiee on Appropria- tions. The sub-committee has com- piled figures showing that $2,000,000 is paid annually to clerks in Wash- ington over 65 vears old, and that 77 per cent. of these clerks received more than $1,000 annually. ition of all complaints of | Ei | erfeiting. line except | cmergency measures, shall become ef-| amend- passage, ! who was | placed on irial at Mount Holly, N. J., | charged with the killing of Miss Flor- | says: | pro- | of | of | un- | - PRINCESS BECOMES CATHOLIC Ceremony Moves All Members of Royal Party to Tears. The impressive ceremony at the conversion ‘of the Princess Ena of Battenburg, to the Roman Catholic faith, prior to her marrying King Al- fonso, took place in the chancel of the palace of Miramar at San Se- bastian., Spain. The Rt. Rev. Root Brindle, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham, Eng., officiated. Premier Moret and ' the Duke of Alba were witnesses for the Princess. The members of the royal party were deeply moved, the Prin- cess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenburg, mother of the Princess Ena. ¥and Princess Ena were in tears. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. The three men who on February 10 tried to assassinate President Reyes of Colombia, have been shot at the spot where the attack took place. Andrew Carnegie has signified to President John M. Davis an intention to donate $25,000 to Rio Grande col- lege, a Baptist theological schoot, at Rio Grande, Gallia eounty Ohio. Governor John A. Johnson has an- nounced that he will. recommend to the next Minnesota Legislature an aggressive fight against the Cordage Trust. Imperial ukases are issued defining powers and providing for the manner of selection members of the new Rus- sian parliament. showing the conces- sions made to the people. Revolt of czar’s subjects results in assassinations, robberies and panic in Russian Poland. China is alarmed at the criticism from other nations and Chinese offic- ials are ordered to protect all for- cigners, especially missionaries. George C, Thomas, a retired bank- cr of Philadelphia, has presented $100,000 to the board of missions of the Protestant Episcopal church. 3ertha Gulick, 15 years old, was fatally burned at Steubenville O., her clothes catching fire from a gas stove. Fire destroyed the Odd Fellows’ hall at Fredonia, Pa., together with James MecCune’s grocery store. Loss, $4,000. A. SB. Young, of Titusville, was ar- res at Greenville, Pa.; on a charge of embezzlement and count- A special dispatch from Algeciras says Germany hag accepted the Rus- sian proposition that the control of the force for the policing of Morocco be entrusted to France and Spain jointly as the basis for an agreement. CAPITAL NEWS NOTES. The House Committee on the Elec- | tion of President, Vice President and | Representatives agreed to make a ! favorable report on a bill providing | for extending the term of Congress- for Con- men to four years and for the election of Senators by popular vote. Representative Davis of West Vir- tion by the Secretary of War, at. a cost not exceeding $10,000, of a monu- ment to commemorate the heroic de- fense of Captain Seybert and a com- pany vf men and women against In- dians under the noted Chief Kilbuck in 1752. Seyberts company was massa- cred at a place now called Fort Sey- bert. in the valley of the south fork of the Potomac. The Senate passed a bill for the admission of a new State to be call- ed Oklahoma and to be composed of the Territory of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. It was the House joint . Statehood bill, with all its provisions | relating to Arizona and New Mexi- | co stricken out. Says Trouble in China is Over. Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chi- nese minister to this country, who is in New York city with the imperial Chinese commission, headed by Prince Tsai Tse, received through the legation at Washington a series of dispatches from the Pekin government that absolute quiet prevails through- out the Chinese empire. Not an Easy Task. The New York Tribune says: There seems to be little doubt that the Chinese government ig earnestly trying to discourage and to suporess antiforeign demonstrations by the | people, but in so vast and so decen- i tralized an empire the task is not an easy one. The part of reason and of justice surely is, however, for foreign , countries not to embarrass but rath- con- | i government in its laudable efforts. It er to aid and sustain the Chinese would not be for the good of the world to have another Boxer out- break or to have the Chinese dynasty overthrown and the whole empire ! cast into the melting pot. Kills Bride of Six Weeks. M. L. Cohen, a young Hebrew of i Augusta, Ga., who was married here six weeks ago shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. They came from Savannah a few days ago. Score Killed in Snow Avalanche. A snow avalanche at the London is- lands buried a number of fishermen’s huts. Rescuers extricated 21 dead and 39 injured. Gifts from President and King. Rev. W. A. R. Goodwin, rector of Bruton Parish church, Williamsburg, Va., states that the Bible to be given by King Edward and the Lectern by President Roosevelt will be formally received when the restored church is consecrated, during the general con- vention in 1907. The gifts are made to Bruton as the official successor in 1699 to the church at Jamestown, and prior to the revolution the court church of Colonial Virginia. Sy i : 8 3 7
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