MANY KILLED IN COLLIS! — | ours Fiood of Denunciation and “veetive Upen Board of Trustees Failure to Deliv:r Message B= to Have Been the Cause. | FIRE ADDED TO THE HORROR | | the insurance of Life Insurance ‘Company. Andrew Hamilton investigation. committee at Albany, N. Y. ficod of denunci and poured forth a | ation and invective up- | | appeared a on the members of the board of trus-| | tees of the Nev, York Life Insurance Company, several! of whom were eg A Blinding Snow Storm Darkened the | Rocky Gorges Where the Trains Met. | — | Thir out -five lives were crusl in a headend collision of two passen- fs | ent,’ d signating them “curs and trai- | tors,” and paying special attention io i one unnamed, whom he described as “the Pecksniff of three administra- e confidant of the Beers | and aunihor of the Beers pen- | sion, who rotates through one ad- trains near Adobe, Col., the & Rio Grande railroad a score of the victims were cinerated, several beyond identi tion. by a fire that destroved wrecked coaches. Over 20 were jured, but all will probably recover. Many of the dead were homese ers bound for the northwest. ger on Denver nearly and | in- fica- the in- | | ministration | McCall { since and and another, and thinks going to be an indispensi- able member of yet another.” “And do you think,” he demanded, that the man who held the same pos- ition to ‘Mr. Beers that 1 did to Mr. could sit for the 13 years not know how the expendi- disbursed? Yet he, and such like him, sit, not judging me as that he is tures were i fires crushed lovomativis act Or | oe ut Witch” me 5 dome i hetero all the hodies wera re- [or talking about ‘‘yeilow dogs. covered, the flames being so bot Hh Judge Hamilton s attack upon the trustees of the New York Life was rescuers could’ not approach the .deb- | made only the more dramatic by the vis until the fuel burned out. | fact that he immediately followed J. { It was a wild, stormy night in the mountain canons when the two heavy trains met. Blinding snow darkened the rocky gorges and speed was not high. Suddenly = headlights flashed out. and it was realized by the en- gincers that something was wrong. ‘According tg Fireman J.:31. the westbound train: Engineer Walt- er Coslett applied the ~ emergency brake, but the slippery rails. allowed the momentum of the heavy train to carry it on the fatal crash. Fiarmes Ran Through Debris. Hardly had thie noise of the wreck ceased when a sheet of ‘fire ‘Tun through the shattered cars of both trains. : Iu the forward coach of bound train every seat by passengers, most of whom homeseckers. A number of the for- eigners were among them and in their west- the terror they gave up life without mak- ing any attempt to reach safety out- side the burning car. They sank to | the floor of the car and were roasted | alive. The ccoler ones in. the .car, seeing {heir danger, rushed for the windows and doors, and with the aid of the possengers in the rear of irain ana those members of the ire crew who were unhurt managed reach the open air. A list of dead made up from close jnvestigation by responsible persons follows: William Hollis, engineer; | Walter Cesslett. engineer; H. D. Suil- duth: fireman; Edward E. Baird. dep- uty ‘sheriff, Denver; Archibald Whit- ney; prisoner in charge of Baird; Mrs, William Burnside, daughter and daughter’ s child, all of Kansas N. Barklo, Calida, Col.; Mi Grace Barglo, Salida, Col.; Enos DMckar- land, expre messenger; Taylor He- witt, Lebo, Kan.; Mrs. William He- witt, Lebo, Kan.; Pearl Hewitt, Lebo, | Kan.: Mrs. Catherine Hewitt and baby boy, Lebo. Kan.: Edward Cow- | ley, Lebo, Kan.; Mrs. Edward: Cow- Tey. Lebo, Kan.; Frederick Jones, Lebo, Kan.; Frederick Lemrooley, Denver; Mrs. Winona Hewitt, Lebo, Kan. The seriously injured were: Murphy. Florence, Col.; P. Peters, baggageman; James Proconone, im- migrant; Miss Mabel Fields, E. A. Hewitt, Lebo, Kan.; C. C. Kissell, New York; A. Gerber, ‘New York: C. N: Wright, New York; J. N. Lotton, Belifiower, Mo. FOUR BURNED TO DEATH Business Portion of Michigan Wiped Out by Flames, The business portion of the village of Tustin, Osceola county, Mich., was _ destroyed by a fire, which started in to Town the basement of the Hotel Compton from a defective furnace. Ten guests escaped in their night clothes, while four were burned to death. The dead are William H. Mece- Crane. the hotel proprietor: Mrs. Wil- | liami H. McCrane, Edward Demorest, | Workman, a trav- The financial porter and Charles eling man, of Pierson. loss was $22,000. ADMITS CHECK FORGING C. S. White, Arrested at Lima, Says His Men Did a Big Business. C. S. White, the last of a gang of forgers, who have ly in Chicago, Omaha and extensive- Louis worked St. was arrested in Lima, and confessed in Dayton, O., ater that he had led the check-workers. tie stated that |’ checks were printed by himself and his pien. identical with those u by the Illinois Steel Company. They were made out in sums of $50 and $51, and on paydays at the plant the men would dress as Hungarians, get Jn the crowd, and present thelr payment at panks or saloons near the checks fo Vhite said he had cl y about G6 before leaving $65 bog Well Cored For. George C. Watts, a contractor of Chicago, recently provision that $20,000 be used for the support of his dog and $300 a vear for keeping his horse. Watts was a bachelor and his estate is val- ued at 310%, 900. died leaving in his will a (astucky Honors Lincoin. The Kentucky State Senate con- curred in a House bill appropriating $200 for a tablet at Hodgenville, Larue county, to the memory cof Abra ham Lincoln. Hodgenville is th county seat of the county in whi Lincoln was born. The Governor w approve the bill Brock, George P. formerly jer of tl.e Doylestown (Pa.) National Banlk. which failed, has been ) on trial charged vit] meat and Smith of | "killed, that was occupied | were | the | Patrick | 0. | ed | ii. Meclntosh, general solicitor of that company, who had been eulogizing the members of that board, and challeng ing any man to give reasons why hoo should be removed from office as con- templated by the pending legislation. The only name he mentioned was | that of the late President McCall, in i the reference whom and to whose b death he displayed marked emotion. | Fie spoke of Mi. McCall as a vielim, as having ‘been shouldered with the blame—‘the.anly one, the dead man, they drove to his grave | and deserted,” and declared that the { memory of this man had appealed to | him “to come down here and say | something for him and just a { for himseif.” He declared uneguivocally | every payinent to himself by fhe New [ York Life was made with the knowl- | edge and appro { pecially of the ‘committees. He pointed out that if there had been anything the matter with his vouchers for these payments it was their duty to bring him to book ior yet, hei said, month after | month, and year after year, for 10 vears they passed them “and then, when the ery at last comes out, they say: “Well, we did not know anything about this is the fellow, this is the man who has done it all.” When they say they did not know what was going on it cxcites my laughter and derision.” He declared again and the payments weaere proper ¥ to finance and auditing it— i, aecain that and legiti- apology to { word that | al of the trustees, es- | make for himself or for President Mc- | Call. BIG COAL LAND DEAL Capitaiists Secure 100,000 Acres Ohio and West Virginia. i { | | | | ' | | + ot wd that he had no | | : | in | | ie ate of gapitalise from Pittsburg Wellsburg and dv taston. W. Va, have secur- ed “control of about 100,000 acres of coal land in Inwrence and Gallie counties, Ohio, and Cabell and Mason counties, West Virginia. The price was $3,500, 000, the having been bought up at prices aver- aging $35 an acre. In addition the coal the purchasing syndicate se- cured the oil and gas rights. - .. The purchasers are headed by W. I. Taylor, of Wellsburg, and A. E. Cox, of Huntington. tion of these two, the names of the purchasers are ent. "SE | of a century. The entire block is | underlaid with the Pittsburgh vein. | Test wells are now sunk to ascertain vein of coal. Tests for oil and are to be made al once. The C. P. A. has ruled verse route’ tickets may | that territory hereafter, | been a mooted question time. that be sold In that having for Chilean iEinet Resigns. ! The Chilean ministry has resigned. The Chilean August 1, 1903, all cabinet s organized the ministers be- President was as fol- interior, Juan of foreign dw: ninister of jus- public education, Antonio minister of war and navy, Admiral Lais Uribe: minister i ks, Enrique Villegas. ents of adher personal Its ing membership r of the Grie 20 { A atouio Coilision Was Accidental. Secretary Bon has received the court of inquiry ap- circumstances attend- | harbor of New York January 6 | when the Kentucky and the ! : a ran aground. and the Ala- 1 avoided the Kearsarge and ran , into the Kentucky, Admiral Evans to in- | winia coal | to | amendments "which would give the students a right | to trial by With the excep- withheld for the pres- The deal just closed is thought to! be the largest for virgin territory in| this part of the country for a quar ter | the depth quality and thickness of the | gas | 3 ’ | you heaven in Place { of it, | fdi- | some | | were i: which ! dead are | man, general mix-up of warships in! damaging | her so that she had to be taken to the | rd for It is under- t the ground- were ac- court found tha collision cidentul. | Twelve Years for { 0©Olo E. Finstad and 1. C. Coughe- | ner were sentenced at Santa Rosalia, 5 to 12 years each in the peni- | the murder of "R. W. | of Philadelphia, and C. y, of L.os Angeles, at the { Chihauhua recently. { hor of School Histories Dead. J Jacob Anderson, author of ATIC School Hist s, died of nome klyn. Bb J | TOE MUAOS WEEE DEFNT.,. Report Says They Scorned All Overures to Surrender. TRIED TO SPARE THE: WOMEN | Those and the Children Slain at Mt. Dajo Were Killed at Long Range and by Shells. | develops the | and children Further investigation fact that many women were saved in the attack against Mo- | ro outlaws by American troops on| Mount Dajo recently. Those killed! were struck at long range by shell | fire. | The attack was delayed six months) while Gov. Scott was endeavoring to persuade the outlaws to surrender. | All overtures were scorned and the defiant attitude of the leaders of the outlaws and the Arab priests persuad- ed their followers that the govern-| ment would be unabie to dislodge! them from their fortress within two years. l.eading Moros in their desire for the extermimation tf the outlaws, aided the troops in the fight. Two hundred Moros under the direction of leading dattos formed columns and carried water to the troops. The reports of company and troop com- mandeis to Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood show that every effort was made to save women and children. After the fight was over Gen. Wood ordered supplies and assistance. for the wo- men and children remaining alive in the crater. The sultan and the principal dattos | are still congratulating Gen. Wood on | the kiliing of the outlaws, which | made possible the tilling of the fields. | TRUSTEES WILL SETTLE | Ncw York Life Treasury will Be Re-| imbursed $148,000. Each of the 15 trustees of the New York Life Insurance company, who were niembers of the finance commit- tee during the Presidential campaigns of 1895, 1900 and 1904, will contrib- | ute $10,600 to reimburse the company for the $148,000 given for campaign purposes. This decision was reached | vesterday. Tt was originally planned to hold the estate of John A. McCall | responsible for all of the political contributions and to bring legal ac- tions against it to obtain reimburse- ments. Abandonment of this plan is involved in the decision of Satur-| day. 1t is hinted that the scathing An-| drew Hamilton gave certain persons! before the legislative comriittee at | Albany hastened action. CADETS IN CONSPIRACY Save: They Keep Class Records Level. Midshipmen at Annapolis have been conspiring to prevent a high standard of scholarship, according to the state- | ment of Secretary Bonaparte before the house committee on naval affairs. Brillianicy has been discouraged and a | sort of trade union agreement to hold | all midshipmen on a dead level, so far as the class records are concerned, has been in existence, so the secretary of the navy told the commitiee. The secretary entercd objections to to his anti-hazing bill; Bonaparte court martial. He says it ruinous to discipline. would be ——e | Celebrated 108th Birthday. The one hundred and eighth birth day of Mrs. Mary McKittrick of Uniontown, Pa., was celebrated by | a gathering of 20 persons at her | home. Mrs. McKittrick sat in the | chair and talked with her guests. She | received many presenis and to each | donor she said: “God Almighty give | Hundreds Perish in : Sorthaidice. A severe earthquake occurred Kagi, Formosa. Hundreds build | ings and many hundreds of people killed. | | i | = | | at | of TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. & Ohio is adding a ihe Cumberland divi ion between Brunswick and Wash- ington junction, and is enlarging the Cumberland yards for the storage of coal. The Baltimore third track on Three firemen were killed and nine | deceived | the church and believed that millions | | of money inventory of ! furnishings have { expected resistance. | Shock Felt | son, | stores i loads of goods. A "MORE TROUBLE Wits “of the Proviret Says She Has Been Deceived. John Alexander Dowie, head of the Zion Church, ‘and his.wife have part- ed, according to a story printed) It is declared the last message of Dowie to { his home was ignored and that Mrs. | Dowie has thrown in her iot with the | ordinary followers of Zion. It is asserted that Mrs. said to her friends that to the real iN ZION Dowie has she as conditions in were available, was no such condition existing. i Dowie called in brokers who made an the furnishings of the Dowie home in Zion City, which is decorated expensively. desires to sell everything for the good of .the church, and that when the been sold the house itself is at the disposal of the society. Dowie is said to be dying in the West Indies. when there 1 000 NATIVES Resistance to Arms of Brit ish Unavailing. received from Crespigny, indicates that the British expedition against the Nandi tribe, Northern Nigeria, i3 encountering un- "The captain says 1,000 natives were killed during the recent driving operations. ‘KILLED Nandis’ A letter Captain de has been! A FREIGHT SHIP WRECKED Mrs. | J | tragedies of the sea, attended the 10ss She said she! The Nandis occupy the territory in| the vicinity of Victoria Nyanza, the terminus of the Bombasa railroad, and! have been menacing the raiiroad and! raiding farms. The British attacked | and defeated the Nandis and subse- quently a rescrve 1ailroad. distance from Nandis objected some The the 8 TONS OF DYNAMITE BLOW UP 45 Miles-=Cnty Seven Men Are Hurt. In an cxplosion of eight tons of dy- namite at the the Great Northern at Thom- men were injured, powder house, a works of Power Minn., seven fatally. A C‘ompan none roundhecuse and a steam shovel were reduced to splinters and masses of twisted iron. At the time of the explosion there were 200 men within a radius of 1, 000 feet. Nearly all were thrown to the ground I'or a radius of 45 miles from Thomsen the concussion could be felt. In Duluth every house shook. decided to apportion them to way, KILLED ay SNOWBALL | Fatal Injuries inflicted by Missile | Thrown in Play. | Anna, the 15-year-old daughter of | David Trump, of Conneilsviile, Pa., | died of ccrebro-spinal meningitis, re- | sulting from injuries “inflicted at the! base of her brain by a water-soaked | snowball, . While she was returning {from school a boy playfully threw the snowball. pains she ang Later complained of in the head 1 a short time latér became violently ill. Russian Losses ‘the St. Petersburg Invalid, organ of the military, is still printing daily listg of the losses sustained during the in War. covering the fighting at just beginning to appear. Mukden are A remark | the darkness the |W as then water logged and helpless, war which, without including Port! i Arthur, now total 151,000 killed, | { wolinded and disappeared. The lists able feature is the percentage of men | whose fate is unknown, having been | abandoned on the field of battle. ‘ r—— ee Peddied Stoien Goodl After a search covering more six: months, have been rcbbed Officers Duncan, than Pa., Harper and during which time many! in Dunbar; Pratt arrested seven Polanders at Mt. | Braddock and recovered two foreign Officer Duncan that the large amount of goods at their and were peddling it lad told home around the coun- Double Yiroeds, Louis Nosser, a racetrack man, locked his wife in a bathroom and, { while she was a prisoner there, shot and killed Miss Stelia Reynolds, of ! said, was formerly an intimate friend of Nos:zser. fire] regi- others seriously injured at a destroyed the old Sixth ment armory in Camden, N. J.. The; Gee. W. Shields, Wm. Hill-| \Win. Jobes. i With the completion of the Tyrone | bridge over the Juniata, the P. R. R. | hag decided to establish another through freight run from Altoona to | msport. | i guilty of embezzlement. | has since been paid back Ev.oeate Auditor Guilty. wagon | men had a| try. An investigation proved that | i their house was filled with stolen goods. years’ New Orleans, an actr who was a visitor ai their home. and then { killed himself. Miss Reynolds, it was | | interior, | geois; David B®. Sherricks, formerly audi- | tor of State for Indiana, was found tried by a jury on indictments charg- to the State i treasury. The production of Pennsylvania an-! 3 | minister Sherriek was | ! merce, | finance, M. Poincare; ing misuse of $127,000 belonging to! { the State. He resigned on the de- mand of the governor, and the money jea 2 thre ii yh as = noted ta Rpiiroads Finshiy Consolidate. Po a De en The consolidation of the Chicago & to 0.539.152 tons, valued at $141,-! Alton Railroad Company with the { 479.000 : | Chicago & Alton Railway Company Iran j was formally certified at the office of | News received from = Seistan, in| the secretary of State at Springfield, | Rastern Persia, say that a pest is|Ill. The consolidated corporation is! spreading, that the populace is be- named the Chicago & Alton Railroad coming panic stricken and that many Company. The capital stock is $40,- persons are fleeing. | 000, 000. Killing Americans. | SENT - To SANITARIUM ee | Mrs. Virginia Knox Patterson Is De- | clared Insane. Virginia Knox Countess taken to suffering Mrs. Patterson, Italy, several Gipsomania | formerly Carussi of Bellevue from who was days ago was moved from the psychopathie | ward to the hospital to the pri ate |! sanitarium of Dr.’ Carlos ‘F. Dac-| Donald in Ple asantville, N. XY. | She has been declared insane by Dr. Gregory, the Be lievue send joint resolution providing for ! appropriation of $59,000 to enable | Interstate i investigate alienist. lL Favor TAppropriating $50,000. The House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce decided to { make a favorable report on the Town- an the Commerce railways’ and under the Tillman-Gillespie joint resojution. The 7 3 solu- tion also corrects cts in the resolution pointed the Pr i commission to! monopolies | | to year Mo uttdr impossibity to do else but w. ait | Big Steamer Goes Down and 27 Sailors are Drowned, i rr THE CAPTAIN LOSES HIS LIFE Crews of the Bostonian and Mann- heim Risk Their Lives and Res- cue 24 Men: Suffering, mental and physical, and numerous in saving life, record of acts of heroism rarely equaled in the of the Phoenix line steamer British King, which on Sunday last in a rag- ing Atlantic storm, foundered about 150 miles south of Sable island, and carried to death 27 members of the crew. Thirteen men were rescued from the sinking vessel by the Ley- land lane steamer, Bostonian, bound from Manchester to Boston, and 11 by the German tank steamer Mannheim, Rotterdam for New York. Five others who had been drawn down into the vortex into which the British King was engulfed, were picked up by the Bostonian from a frail bit of wreckage which they had grasped after a des- perate struggle for life in the whirl- pool. The Bostonian arrived in Bos- ton three days later and the details of the disaster became known. ‘ Capt -James O’Hagan of the British King died on board the Bostonian | from the effects of terrible injuries sustained in trying to save. © his ship. : The rescued brought James ‘Flanigan, the . ‘Crawford, the chief engineer; Adolphus Beck, the fourth engineer, and William J. Curry, the steward. The others were coal passers and sail- ors mostly Belgians, and one stowa- Henry Parkotck, of New York. The ‘liteboats from the Bostonian were crushed to fragments and the here include second officer; TREAMS OF MOLTEN ROCK er Chartered by Government to ons Women and Children From Danger Zone. The officers of the steamer Sierra, hich arrived at Honolulu, from Syd- ,'N. S. W., via Samoa, report tuat the eruption of the volcano on the is- land of Savaii, of the Samoan group, continues on a large scale. Thre villages have been completely destroy- ed, including Malaecola, where was located the finest cocoa plantation on ihe island. The residences of A. King and (. Barleley have be¢n reduced to ruins. The lava from the volcano is flow- ing into the ocean in a stream three- quarters of a mile wide and 20 feet deep at the rate of 20 feet am hour. At night a “solid wall of molten lava five miles long can be seen reaching far out into the sea. For some dis- tance ahead the sea water is boiling and the surf breaking over the fiery stream. Tne government recently chartered the steamer Maori to re- move women and children from the zone of danger. TOO MANY CHILDREN Triplets Cause Father to Appeal to the Police. The arrival of triplets in the home of William Cobb, a $10-a-week labor- er of Utica, N. Y., has proved not a blessing, but a shock upon which the home has gone to wreck. With wife and five children, the eldest 11, to feed and clothe on his scanty earnings, Cobb had all he could do before the sixth, seventh and eighth additions arrived. Cobb, upon the stork’s visit, notified the police. When the, policeman ar- rived they asked if they should ar- rest the triplets for entering the house at night or if Cobb wanted his wife arrested for conspiracy. Cobb ex- plained that he wanted the police to remove his wife to the hospital, where she would receive proper care. volunteer crews which manged them thrown ~into the high running seas while engaged in the work of rescue, but all were safely landed on board the steamer. , When the first lifeboat was lowered | from the Bostonian the small craft was swept against the stern of the | big ship and destroyed, and several of the seamen were bruised and maimed. Yet, ‘despite the condition of the sea, the volunteers! out ! were rescued by lines from the steamer. A sceond attempt {o reach the sink- ing ship was sucessful and 13 including Captain O'Hagan, were tak- en from the British King to the Bos- | thrown poisterous | men, | | {tre mother and three were removed | to the General Hospital, and the rest i of the family were bundled off to an orphan asylum. Fire Losses. house of Andrew Bunzo, a | wealthy farmer of New Sewickley township, Beaver ‘county, Pa., was de- stroyed by fire, the 103s being esti- { mated at $4,000. Fire destroyed the squab farm of tH. L. Baldwin & Co., near Washing- tton, Pa. About 1,200 pigeons with { many squabs, chickens and feed were | The { cremated. A new oil well rig erected by Cul- tonian. Then again a powerful bil- | be Tmo Molto: ot Busters on ine low: carried the lifeboat against the | es Am . DylesyiLe f., was side of the ship and destroyed it, and | esiroyen hy bre. the life savers were thrown into the a — sea, to be rescued only after an’ CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. hour’s etfort by their comrades. $ ERA : : Volunteers fiom the Mannheim, af- Dr. Manuel Quintana, President of ter ‘a heroic battle with the waves, had, taken off 11 men irom the Brit- ish King. but after this neither of the steqgmers, in consequence of the in- credsing gale, could make an attempt the foundering freighter. , darkness fell, and it was an eovel for {the moonlight to guide them. In jritish King, which plunged te” the BOTY, PANIC iN THE STEERAGE 1 Ship's Officers Quiet Passengers With Revolver and Knife. A terrifying experience at sea was reported by the officers of the French line steamer Hudson, which arrived at New York. During a storm which swept the Atlantic, the 3: passengers became panie-stricken | and were quieted only after the cap- tain and first officer them with revolver and knife. A terrific gale rolled up great seas, When the storm was at its worst the steerage passengers sought to go on deck. The stewards and minor offi- cers lost control of them and appealed to the captain for assistance. Cap- tain Juham said the storm was the most severe he ever saw in his experience at sea. MINISTRY 1S COMPLETE New French Cabings, With M. Sarrien as Premier. French cabinet definitely constituted. the ministers: Premier of justice, M. Sarrien: senator of foreign minister of minister of marine, "The new Following are and minister minister of the Clemenceau; affairs, Mr. war, Mr M. Thomson; of public instruction and M. Briand; minister of com- M. Daumergue; minister of | public works, M. Barthou; minister of | ister worship, colonies, M. Leygues; agriculiure, M. Ruau. Puddlers’ Wages Advancad. The examination of the sales sheets at the office of the Steel company at minister of Youngstown, show- ed that the wages of puddlers, will be | advanced trom $5.75 to $6 a ton. The wages of the finishers will be advanc- per cent. This is the highest rate paid for puddling since October 1; 1203. Canal Commission Reduced. Reduction of the membership of the isthmian canal commission from seven members to three, and pro- vision that the officers of the adminis- tration shall be upon the isthmus, in- stead of in Washington, in the will be pro- canal act soon to be presented by the senate canal com- mission. The first draft of that act has been prepared and it is not prob- able that it will be materially chang- ed. vided for steerage had threatened 30 | has been | min- | Bour- Etienne; | minister of the | Republic Iron and | the Argentine republic is dead. In a six-round contest at Philadel- phia Battling Nelson had the Dosis of Terry McGovern, Col. Mann of Town Pontos has etn indicted on the perjury charge made 1 by Collier’ Gross earnings of Buffalo, Rochest- ‘er and Pittsburg for the first week in March increased $11,444. The Tonopah Midway Mining Com- pany hag declared a second dividend of 5 cents per share. The New York and New Haven system’s announce a reduction’ of pas- senger rales to the two-cent-a-mile basis. a Thirty-one persons were drowned owing to equitinoctial tides overtiow- ing or bursting dikes on the | Scheldt river in Belgium. At Chite, Eastern Siberia, a court- | martial sentenced three revolutionists | to death. Among them was the prin- i cipal of a school. 1 Senator Chauncey | New York is a very not likely to ever in Washington. A special trial has been ordered for Congressman Blackburn, indicted on a charge of accepting a fee for ser- vice performed before a Government | department. i Judge W. C. Marshdll of the Mis- souri supreme court, filled his resig- | M. Depew, of sick man and is resume his duties April 1. From the pockets cof boys in one Chicago school, in the foreign quart- | er, eight revolvers were taken I. Al Norfolk, Va. Louis Brown, | awaiting tria} for the murder of Fios- | sie Reese, at whom he threw a light- ed lamp, committed suicide in his cell, cutting his throat. Boston Wool Market. The wool market shows a firm out- i look. Yor fine medium 66 to 68c iS There is a moderately steady call in pulled wools for fine | A’s and A supers. Foreign grades are | steady. Leading quotations follow : Ohio and Pennsylvania—XX and | above, 35 to 35l%c; X, 33 to 4c; No. 1, 38 to 39%; No. 2, 38% to 40c; fine unwashed, 26 to 26lc; l4-blood, un- washed, 382 to 3214c; % blood, 3 14-blood, 33 to 33%c; unwashed delaine, 28 to 29¢; fine washed de- { laine, 361% to 37c. Michigan—Fine { unwashed, 24 to 25c¢; 14-blood, un- ! washed, 32¢: 34-blood, to 3314¢c; | 14,-blood. 32% to 33c; unwashed de- 27 to 23ec. + being paid. 1 ode; aa So aine, Bomb Smashes Stone Front. Some one threw a bomb early he morning at the front of the six- story building of Clark, Chapin and Bushnell, wholesale grocers, in Duane street, New York, and the explos- ion smashed several large plate glass windows and knocked over stacks of canned goods and cases Of grocer- ies inside. The damage was about | $200. Members of the firm 1 say 1it | was the vf striking teamsters l or their in work allies, nation with Gov. Folk to take effect ' A trvsressiatmtoons RA ™ 1% sa me = pp mmm [) A Am eA ee i . -- rm ea LES A A ob bell a aL E> aii Sl EX
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