Bu r s i TAQUIS COMMIT OUTRAGES Ten Killed Others Wounded and Captives Carried Off. RAILROAD EMPLOYES ALARMED Station Agent Refuses to Leave His Post and He and Wife Narrowly Escape. Details received at Bisbee, Ariz., December 29 say that last Saturday evening a Yaqui Indian band attack- ed and destroyed a new town of Lancho, on the Cananea, Yaqui River and Pacific Railway, south- east of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. They murdered 10 men, women and children, fatally shot two others and took three women away captives to thelr stronghold in the hills, not far from the burning town. The Indians retired from the town after nearly two hours of plunder, riot and arson, being i ned away by a work tren frc amas, which they doubtless m for a 1% train. Soldiers from the fort tw miles east entered the town 15 min- utes later. There is a fort and rison of 100 soidicrs just west of sacked town. Business of Sonora, Mexico, recently arriving at Phoenix, Ariz. say within the last two menths 16 Americans have been killed by Yaqui Indians at one point. A @ispatch from Fl Paso, .Tex., dated Dccember 27, says: Meager de- WHOLESALE BUSINESS GOOD Christiras Week Makes Favorable Comparison With Previous Years in Volume of Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of Trade” says: “Chri 1s week made a favorable comparison with previous year as to] the volume of trade. Retailers’ stocks of winter goods have been so well gistributed that there remain less than the usual assortments for bar- gain sales. Wholesale business is good for the season, and collections show further improvement. ‘“Jobbe are delivering spring goods in some lines, adding to the freight congestion, which has not UNGLE SAM'S BIG INGOME| ,.... oo me cn fr Returned by Grand Jury Against Treasury Officlals Repcrt Large Reckerelier Et Al, Increase in Customs Receipts. lay O., when Judge W. INTERNAL REVENUE GROWING it in the Probate Court and threw out the recent verdict of guilty against the company. Prosecutor David some time filed an information in the Probate Customs Surplus for First Half of Present Fiscal Year Will Amount to $25,000,000. For the six months of the current fiscal year up to date the surplus of income from customs receipts over of the state. He maintained that he could get action quicker against the been relieved, except in isolated cases. Manufacturers complain of the light | receipts of fuel and raw material | which has reduced activity at many | plants, and there is also some inter- | ruption because of inventories and re- pairs. On the whole, hewever, there | is less idle machinery than is custo- | mary at this time. i “Lack of snow greatly building operations at many citi and work is making rapid progres although delayed deliveries of ma- terials retard operations in this in-| dustry also. “High prices are maintained in all sections of the iron and steel indus- try, which is only natural when all departments are crowded with work and contracts run so far into the fu- ture that there is no prospect of idle machinery for at least the first half cof next year. “Pressure for pig iron is especially gevere, partly because of railroad | blockades that retard delivery and in | some cases cause idleness: at the fin- | ishing mills. As current deliveries | are interrupted, there is more dis- facilitated | Ss wn tails have been received of the Indian outbreak on Saturday at ILencho, Mexico, on the Cananea, Yaqui River | & Pacific railroad, in which eight Mexicans were killed and several tent houses burned, say no Americans were killed. Reports from the of murders and outr by the Yaquis Th and Friday nights. The tims were all Mexi- | cans, who were taken by surprise on their ranches. For several weeks | restlessness has been observed among the Indians. The band of outlaw Indians is said to number about 100. The first intimation of the atlack was a volley of rifl2 shets fired into the tent houses. Immediately after-, ward thie houses were set on fire, and by the light of the flames the Yaquis shot at tha frightened Mexicans who | were trying to escape. | At a time when the residents of the camp, including Thompson and his ne vicinity tell 5 American wife seemed doomed, a work {rain pulled into ths station. The crew of the train immediately went to the assistance of the people at the station and the Indians fled. Mexican troops are now in pursuit of the Indians, and it is believed the Indians will be scon run down an captured. Soldiers are rushing to the troubled region in large numbers. Colonel H. B. Maxson, vice presi-| dent of the National irrigation con- | | mn gress and secretary of the board of education of Reno, Nev., after spend- ing the past few w in the state ef Sonora, Mexico, arrived at Los | Angeles, Cal with a graphic story of the massacre of Mexicans and whites | by Yaqui Indians. According to the statement of Maxson his train stopped an hour at Lancho. While there rumors were received that the Yaquis were on the | warpath and that the few people in | the neighborhood of the State Central | railroad were massacred. | The station master, a man named Thompson, belittled the matter and said he and his wife would remain at | their post. The train bearing Colonel | Maxson and party had not left the station over an hour when the Yaquis descended on the little party of Mexi- cans and butchered four. Station Agent Thompson wife escaped by boarding a work train that pulled in at the time. The train appeared after four of the people had been killed and Thompson wife had defended themselves back of the barricaded decors of the station. | As the work train approached the In- dians withdrew. The train bearing Colonel Maxson and party continued to a station 15 miles farther along the line, and then | as the signs of the uprising became | more alarming the party decided to return. The train started back to- ward Lancho and, when it arrived there, the house had been burned and | demolished and four human bodies lay | nlong the track. Not many miles along the road the scene was duplicated. Tour more dead bodies of Mexicans and Ameri- cans were discovered along the tracks. MORE JAPANESE ARRESTED Some of Them Persistent in Efforts to Cross the Border. Immigration officers have arrested five Japanese at Fort Hancock out of a large number smuggled over Christ- mas night and all were deported to Mexico. Some of them had been re- jected previously by imr -atien officers at El Paso, Tex. as all came under the pauper classification. ! Nine Japanese applied for admis- sion at the Immigration Bureau and 1] were rejected under the ¢“con- tract labor” clause, the officers being satisfied the Japanese were under contract to go to work at Barstow, Cal. 5 Care of Live Stock. The department of agriculture is determined to enforce the law pro- hibiting railroads from confining live stock beyond the 36-hour limit. It has sent to the department of justice records involving seven leading lines, with a recommendation from Secre- tary Wilson that suit be brought with- out delay. The companies charged with violating the law are the Great Northern, Oregon Short Line, South- prn Pacific, Lake Shore, Santa Fe and Burlington. ages perpetrated | T | put is 1 202 West and his iol no sui and his | position to prevent a repetition of this difficulty by placing larger orders for future delivery, and a very heavy ton- nage was purchased during week { hiy it during the | of next year. Railway congest | most disturbing to Scuthern maces, while best reports of prompt | are received f 2s Coke | ‘ec on unprecedented out- being handled without disturb- ing quotations. | “Woel gcods continue to develop a | little er than worsteds, that the trend has changed, or that larger stocks of the latter ried over.” =] + 13a) indicating | were car- | | Head cf Pennsylvania Railroad Dies | Suddenly. | Alexander Johnston Cassatt, pres dent of the vania Railro: Company, and p 1bly the fi 'e in the ralircad C died suddenly at his Rittenhons 3 delphia frem heart dis being indirectly due io 3 | whooping cough, from which he suf-| fered six menths ago. | He was pronounced reeovered from the dis >, which he contracted frem | one of his grand-children while at| Bar Harbor, in the summer, but never! fully regained his strength and had | heen in poor health ever since. Mr. Cassatt’s career is summed up | in the following outline: Born in Allegheny, Pa., 5S, 1IS'0. Schooled as a boy in Pittsburgh. ated from German University. | Graduated from Rensselaer Poiy- | technic Institute. | Entered service of Pennsylvania | railroad as rodman in 1861. ! Became general superintendent | Pennsylvania railroad in 1871, general | manager in 1872, third vice president | in 1874, first vice president in 18890, Resigned official position in 1832. Director of road and gentleman farmer, 32. to. 1599. President of Pennsylvania railroad, 1899. Died December 28, 1906. Limits Bond Liability. Secretary Shaw has issued a circu- lar in which he decides that hereafter ty comj shall be accepted | under the provisions of the act of { congress, approved Auenst 13, 1894, | as sole surety en any stipulation or | bend in which the United States is | interested for an amount greater than 10 per cent of its paid-up capital and surplus, unless such company sh~1l be | | Penn history 12 | home at! \ | | | { December | | ahead of the receipts for the | the last fiseal year, while expenditures | their sentences to . ten | Japanese | President Roc { era] at Honolulu, intima | lest the coming here of great numbers company by this proceeding than through indictments in the Common Pleas Court. The Standard attorneys contended that the Probate Court had no juris- diction in the matter; that if there had been a violation of the law the prosecutor should have proceeded against the ecompany through indict- ments. This point was upheld by Judge Duncan and the case is thus thrown out of the Probate Court. This Ge cision in now way affects the indict- ments recently returned in Common Pleas Court by the grand jury against John D Rockefeller and the other officers of the Standard; Oil Co., charging thcm with violating the antitrust laws. . ADMIRALS SENTENCED outgo amounts to about $22,000,000. The first six months of the fiscal year will soon be over, and all indications are the surplus for that period will be in the region of $25,000,000. : Conditions are much improved since a year ago. Then the surplus at Christmas time was but little over $8,-° 000,000, and there was much talk eof a deficit before the end of the fiscal 12- month period. Congress was serious- ly asking itself whether it would not be ‘necessary to revise the revenue laws in some way to get more money out of the public. Never before in the history of the United States has there been such an: inflow of money into the Treasury from’ the custcms collectors. The customs receipts thus far in the fiscal year in round abers have been $159,000,000. This is about $14,- 000,000 more than receipts from cus- tcins in the same period of the pre- ceding fiscal year. When the customs for the last fis- cal year ran over the $300,000,000 mark there was much comment over | Nebogatoif and 78 officers of his the way all prior records had been squadron for surrendering to the broken. At the rate the customs are! Japanese at the battle of the Sea of returning revenue now the receipts | Japan May 28, 1905, has handed in its will go abou $30,000,000 ahead of | decision. the last fiscal year by June 30, 1997. | Vice Admiral Nebogatoff, Commo- Widespread general prosperity is |dore Lichinec of the coast defense iron- the cause ascribed by Treasury offi-|clad General Admiral Apraine; Rear cials. | Admiral Gregorieffi of the coast de- Internal revenue receipts thus far in | fense ship Admiral Seniavin and Lieu- the fiscal year likewise have been |tenant Smirnoff," who succeeded to the heavy i have run about $10,000,000 | command of the battleship , Nicolai cor- | were sentenced to death, but in view spending period last year. | of extenuating circumstances and Altogether the Government receipts | the long and otherwise blameless ca- have been over $30,000,000 heavier |reers of these officers, the court will than they were in the same period of | petition the Emperor to commute years’ im- Russian Court Martial Condemns Naval Officers to Death. | The court martial at St. Petersburg, which has bean trying Rear Admiral ave run along in about the same |prisonment in a fortress. channel. | Tour other officers are sentenced to | short terms of imprisonment in a | fortress, while the remainder are ac- | quitted. Adverse | Sentiment Following Extension of Influx to America. IMMIGRATION iS DISCOURAGED Apprehensive of Attorney Genera! of Minnesota Begins Suit to Prevent Stock Issue. General Young began an the Hawa 1 ~ ry tor s evelt by Frank P. Sar Attorney : \ gent, commission migration and | action at St. Paul, Minn., on behall - | naturalization “of his re- | of the State of Minnesota against the i ’ 4 fo a | Great Northern Railway Company, asking for a permanent injunction against the company from proceeding with the prcposed issue of capital stock recently authorized by the Board of Directors in New York. The Attorney General, after reciting that the company’s original authorized capital stock is $30,000,000, that being Sargent that the Japanese government | the limit fixed by the company’s chart discouraged its people from coming to | ©, Says that between February 1, the United States because of its 1850, and March 1, 1896, the defendant knowledge of the conditions existing |Mmade several large increases of capi- in this country, especially on the Pa-|tal stock: until on March 1, 1906, the ; and it was a ~ | total aggregated substantially $150,- 000,000; that all of the increases were made without applying to and obtain- ing the consent cf the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of Minnesota, | as required. cent v to the islands. Commissioner Sargent expressed the cpinion that there are fewer Japan- ese in the Hav an islands now than there were two years ago, a great- er number having come to America | in that period than arrived in Hawalil Miki Saito, the Japan consul gen: ed to Mr. of Japanese might induce a feeling against them that would be embar- rassing. Standard’s Latest Move. The Standard Qil Company of New | Jersey and 60 odd other corporations | o y oud individuals olited witha it os de | Roosevelt's Address to the People on | fendants in the Government's suit to | Famine Situation. break up the alleged oil monopoly, fii- | President. Roosevelt issued a procla- ed a motion in the United States Cir- | mation calling on the people of the cuit court at St. Louis, attacking the | United States to contribute funds for juriadiction of that court to bring in | the relief of millions of famine suff non-resident defendants by process and | erers in China, who are on the verge petitioning the court to vacate the of starvation. The proclamation says: order of service issued by Judge San-| “There horn November 15. | China. Throughout a district cover- | — — ing over 40,000 square miles and Drop Five Hundred Feet to Death. | supporting a population of 15,000,000, Elias Lehianen and Joseph Bardes- the crops have been destroyed by | sono were killed in the Colby iren|00ds and millions of people are on mine at Bessemer, Mich., by falling the Yerge of Starvation; thousands of | 50¢ feet to the bottom of the shafyphdwellings have heen destroyed and | { ASKS AID FOR CHINA when o “skip” on which they were | their inmates are without homes. An | secure s any excesz bv reinsur- | riding to the surface was dumped by ; : secured as lo any excess by reinsur teiLh te na: “Two assistance of the United States. | ance to the satisfaction of the de-|striking on a projecting beam WO : Es — : - omnanies | other miners riding in the skip saved | RA { partment. Two or more companies { : 5 x ALLEGED JAPANESE PLOT may be accepted on any bond, the | their lives br eatching hold of the | penalty of which does not exceed 10 i per cent of the ag up capital and surplus. Army Maneuvers. The war department is planning to conduct brigade camps and maneu- | vers in accordance with the schem2 |'of last year. The war department | wants a larger eppropriation for the | militia maneuvers. Last year $1,000,- 000 was allowed th2 regular army and | $700,000 to the national guard. It is | the desire of the department to have | the latter appropriation increased to | $1,000,000. The regulars will be kept out of doors under tents for the great- er part of the sun r and early fall Celebrates 106th Birthday. Mrs. Mary Hanley of Cumberland, Md.. celebrated her one hundredth and ¢ixth Christmas anniversary at the home of her grandson, William Dan forth. She came to Cumberland when there was no railroad, traveling by wagon, and remembers when Cumber- land was a very small town. She is in good health. Murderer Lynched. Lawrence Leberg wa Las Animas, the murder of T.avenm; Henry About 40 men entered easily overpowered the the under sheriff and two © officers building. They took Le! distance from t! to a telegraph rderer made gave no statement. ite of the paid- | lvnched at} Ss ol, by masked men for | |. A eoromer’s jury returned a verdict on and locked them in a room of the | rope and clinging to if. Fw | Santa Badly Burned. and the Philippines. At Prospect, O., Miss Grace Wolga-| The New York World publishes the muth, ag | was saved from death | following special from Havana: by the presence of mind of E. C. “Gov. Magcon is investigating a re- Stockman. Miss Wolgamuth t that the Japanese are .planning was | Port playing Santa Claus and caught fire |an insurection in February again from the Christmas tree candles. American rule in Cuba, the Philip. Stockman car her to the yard, | bines and Hawaii. This information where he extin hed the blaze by |Wwas given to the governor by Mr. Pardinas, a government official. rolling her in the sr Both were seriously burned. ; | taking photographs and measurements Firemen. Strike, { of the fortifications of Yovany Pursuant to an ultimatum d byl the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- | men a strike cf locomotive firemen | bs % ont into effect Sunday after wy on | 20d his hand on the throttle the Ca- ent in effect Sunday afternoon on. the lines of the Southern Pacific com- Badisn Dead Man at Throttie. 350 men are involves alarmed at the increased speed, made | for the engineer's box and found the retary for Ireland, who is to succeed fmnan dead. He applied the emergency Sir Mortimer Durand as British am- | brakes and the train came to a stand- 1 ime 1 BE i amet rin On a ‘ passador at Washington, is arranging | SH ge engiirer oyas John Paul. to leave for the United States in about | n 13 huphosed Be vanatrosk by Sa three or four week | SEIMAPROLS, James Bryce, the retiring chief sec- Indicted for Land Fraud. CORONER HOLDS TRAIN CREW | : | ——tg “PE. Brady, a prominent . Great | Railroad lawyer, has been indicted by the Is Censured for Employing | Fall | Inexperienced Nean. | Fed the charge of having holding the for the wre | which 10 per freight crashed into a'pa It developed that the flagman of the | freight w inexperienced freight crew r ; at. End i | Valiey county. 5 | ‘his arance. It is’ said that cther ent persons are involved. a Mobile & Ohio train in ¢ resulted in a race riot in { which resulted in several deaths. t nositions Decision Does Not Affect Indictments The Standard Oil Co., won a vie- tory in Common Pleas Court at Find- S. Duncan decided that the Probate Court had no ———il jurisdiction-in the suit brought against ago Court against the Standard charging it" with violating the antitrust laws is an appalling famine in i i | road for $25,000. urgent appeal has been made for the | | Pianning Uprising in Cuba, Hawaii | Five Japanese are said to have been | With the engineer dead at his post | Facfiic railway Hamilton Ex- | S eral grand jury in Helena, Mont, | illegally | fenced 13,107 acres of public land in | Brady gave bonds for | The shooting of a negro by a con- | T0 STOP CONED ABUSES Prominent Men Ask Secrgtary Root to Take Action. CHILDREN HELD IN SLAVERY Hostile Tribes Pillage and Murder, and the People Have no Redress. A letter signed by J. Pierpont Mor- gan, Dr. Lyman Abbott, W. J. Have- meyer and other wellknown citizens of New York, was addressed to Sec- retary of State Elihu Root, directing his attention to conditions in the Congo Free State, where, it is as- serted, “flagrant inhumanity exists,” and urging him to use the ‘moral sup- port” of the United States govern- ment to correct the abuses the Congo natives are alleged to be suffering from. The communication says: “Over a year has passed since the report of the commissioners chosen by the chief executive and virtual owner of the Congo to investigate «eonditions in that State, was publish- ed. In spite of their natural desire to give all possible credit to their sovereign, the commissioners felt donstrained to report the existence of measures and practices of flag- rant inhumanity. Among these measures and prac- tices are the following: “The exaction of a labor tax so op- pressive that many natives on whom it falls have little if any freedom. “Appropriation of land to such an extent that the natives are practical- ly prisoners within their own terri- tory. “The employmen® under authority of the government as sentries of cruel, bruttish blacks, chosen from hostile tribes, who murder, pillage and | outrage the people for whose protec- tion the government is avowedly es- tablished. “The abuse of the natives by white representatives of officially recogniz- ed companies. “The binding of little children to vears of labor at uncertain wages by contracts they do not understand, and | even more serious maltreatment of | children supposedly under the im- | mediate care of the government. “Great injustice in the administra- tion of the courts so that the natives dread the name cof Boma, the place vhere the judicial system is central- ized. “The sending out of punitive ex- peditions, not for the purpcse of es- tablishing peace and order, but for the purpose of terrifying the natives into paying a tax, which, as adminis- tered, even the commissioners regard as inhuman. WORK FOR YANKEE TROOPS Cuban Rebels Get Busy for First Time During Present Occupation. Secretary Taft has received advices from Governor Magoon at Havana in- dicating unsettled conditions in cer- {tain parts of Cuba and that in Santa Clara Province lawless bands are pil- laging. Therefore, at the Governor's instance General Bell has ordered a considerable reinforcement of the gar- rison of American troops in that pro- vince. For the first time since the second occupation of the island by the Americans it has become necessary for troops to undertake the suppres- sion of these disorders instead of leav- ing this task to the native Cuban Rurales, which in some quarters is regarded as an indication of the in- ability of the Cuban civil authorities to ma‘ntain peace permanently in the island, General Bell, in company with Gen- eral Wint, who will succeed him Jan- | uary 1 in command of the American | troops in Cuba, is now making a tour | of the island with special reference | to the military neecssities in case | further disturbances occur. RAILROAD THREATENED | Blacksaailers Demand $25,000 from Northern Pacific Railroad. Unknown persons attempted to blackmail the Northern Pacific rail- ; They wrote the rail- | road that unless $25,000 was forth- coming the St. Louis-Burlington ex- | press would be dynamited between | Livingston and Billings. | giving up the money | were placed on the train. A supposed accomplice was found in the baggage car, but as he made no | move, either from fear or through | failure to communicate with his as- | sistants, he was not molested. The | train met with no unusual experience. Freight Hits Trolley. Three persons were killed and 11 hurt, one fatally, in a collision between {an interrurban train from Seattle and a work train. The collision occurred | near Edgewood. The dead are: George Ross, William Harris ° and George Rusher. William Guyon was fatally injured. The wreck occurred on a sharp grade in a deep cut near Taccma, Wash. | | Four Persons Cremated. 3 cid I 3 re throngh Parkdale station | pany Texas and Louisiana. About DISSS tore 5 To : 1 i i pany in Texa da ania | Saturday afternoon. The fireman, | The wife and child of Samuel Poy- ner of Norfolk county and the wife and child of William Grimstead of Princess Anne county were burned to death at the Grimstead house ‘on Morris Neck, Princess Anne county. Va. Fire is supposed to have started from an overheated wcod stove. Lynchers Are in Contempt. The United States Supreme Court decided adversely to the defendantz the preliminary questions involved in the case of Sheriff Shipp and 26 others of Nashville, Tenn., charged with contempt for the Supreme Court in ynching a negro named Johnson af- ar the Court had taken cognizance of | the case. The opinion was handed down by Justice. Helines, who an- { : . + | nounced that with the preliminaries isposed of the Court would proceed | with the prosecutien. r+ Instead of | six detectives | OUR MINERAL PRODUCTS Total Value for 1205 Far Exceeds that of 1904. The total value of the mineral pro- duction in the United States in 1905 amounted to $1,523,877,127, being an increase over 1304 of over $260,000,- 000, according to a statement issued by the geological survey. The value of iron in 1905 was $382,450,000. During the same period there was a total production of over 300,000,000 short tons of coal, with a value of $476,756,963. Of this amount there was produced 77,659,850 tons of anthracite coal valued at $141,879,000; of bituminous coal 315,259,491 tons valued at $334,877,963. The value of fuels amounted to $602,477,217. Porto Rica's Trade Growing. Porto Rico’s trade with the United States has increased from $4,000,000 in 1897, the year of annexation, to $40,000,000 in the last year, according to a bulletin prepared by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. The total value of merchandise passing in and out of the island, in 1906, is practically twice as great as that of any year before the United States assumed charge. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Capt. Macklin, U. S. A., was shot and dangerously wounded by a negro at Fort Reno. . The threatened strike of yardmen in New York was averted after con- ference with railway officials Alexander Berkman, who served 13 vears in prison in Pennsylvania for attempting to kill H.' C. Frick, at Pittsburg, has opened a job printing office in’ New York City. At Yarkton, S. D. a divorce was granted to Mrs. James G. Blaine, wife of the son of the former secretary of state, on grounds of non-support and desertion. In an explosion of nowder in a mine of the Fidelity Coal Company at Stone City, Kan., O. Cotteross and John Day, miners were killed and 15 other miners were severely burned. Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Methodist Episccpal church, South, died at Asheville, N. C., December 27, after a lingering illness. He was 57 years of age. John F. Hoover, a young civil en- gineer of Milwaukee, and Miss Mahala Ling of Johnstown, Pa., met for the first time on a Pennsylvania railroad train and were married soon after by a Harrisburg alderman. WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES. President Roosevelt sent Milton D. Purdy, assistant to the United States attorney general, to make a new and independent investigation of the riot and murders in Brownsville, Texas, which resulted in. the discharge with- out honor of negro troops in the First battalion of the Twenty-fifth infan- try. Three Suffocated. Fire starting from an overheated stove in the rear of Ira Hillman’s Bakséry, at Steubenville, O., destroy- ed the upstairs sleeping apartments. Three persons were suffocated: They were: Mrs. Ira Hillman, aged 25 years; Katherine Hillman, aged 2 vears; Elizabeth . McCoy, aged 18 vears; Mrs. Capt. J. Glance and Jacob Oxenrider were rescued by fire- men. | Bucket Shop Law Sustained. | In deciding the case of Gatewcod | against the state of North Carolina, in | which Gatewood -was prosecuted for | keeping a bucket shop in Durham, the | United States supreme court in ef- | fect, held the state. law prohibiting | the dealing in futures to be not re- | pugnant to the federal constitution. | Justice White delivered the opinion { of the court, affirming the decision of the supreme court of North Carolina. i Ee New Laws Before Cuban Elections. Governor Magoon signed the long- awaited decree appointing a, commis- i sion to revise the laws of Cuba. This | commission will submit to the Pro- | visional Governor the draft of an . electoral law, new provincial and i municipal laws, and other acts. This | is regarded as the first step toward | holding new elections. Furnace Men Get Increase. Notices were posted at all the in- | dependent blast furnaces in the Ma- ’ | honing and Shenango valleys of a 10 | per cent advance in wages for labor- | ers and turn men to take effect on i January 1. About 3,000 men in the | two valleys are affected. Laborers | are now receiving $1.50. Heavy Rains Drown Many Turks. | As the result of rains which fell | incessantly for 72 hours, the valleys of Magnesia and Aidin, in Turkey, have | been fiooded and there has been a | great loss of life. Many houses have | been wrecked, in several cases vil- | lages being practically inundated. Died on Train. W. D. Hill, aged 75, an attorney of Defiance, O., from 1878 to 1882 con- gressman from the Defiance district, died suddenly on a Wabash train while en route to Los Angeles, Cal, for his health. Mrs. Dr. Huber of De- fiance was with him. HExcitement caused by delayed trains is supposed to have caused death. The body was shipped lo Ohio. CHILEAN QUAKES DISASTROUS Half of One Town Destroyed and Others Damaged. Half of the town of Africa, in the | province of Tacna, Chile, has been de- stroyed by an earthquake, and other towns in the neighborhood have suff- ered more or less severely. The seaport of Iquique, 120 miles south of Arica, was not damaged. With the recollection of the August disaster at Santiago fresh in minds the people in the earthq zone are greatly alarmed. thair Lad a jo he N 4 i
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