1 BRAVE STAND UM KONES. ROBERTS' FORCES HALTED. British Commander Says Ovjr Ons Hundred Dead Wore Found and Twenty Frisonorl Takon Several Offlo.-rs Lot'. That Gen. Roberts ha begun his advance tin Blocmfontein, the capital of the Orange Tree State, is evidenced by n tlispntih front him, dated at Drie ontcin, 7:13 a. m., Sunday, which is as follows: "Th enemy opposed us throughout yestenlay's inareh, and from their in timate knowledge of the country gave its considerable trouble. ( wing, how ever, to the admirable conduct of the troops, the enemy were tinable to pre vent us reaching our destination. The brunt of the. fighting fell 011 Gen. Kelly Kenny's divisions, the to battalions of which, the Welsh and F.sscx, turned the ltoers out of two strong positions at the point of the bayonet." A dispatch of Sunday's date from Greytown. Natal, 50 miles southeast of l.adysniith, says: t "A force composed of Bethune s mounted infantry, the ITinveti mounted rirles and the Natal police, with three Maxims, under Col. Hethune, reached Pomcroy Thursday. The following morning the Boer pickets opened fire. A general engagement ensued, the Boers using pompoms and two big guns. There was heavy firing on both sides. Col. Bethune, seeing the im possibility of dislodging the Boers without artillery, retired south of the Tugela with one man wounded. The Boer loss is said to be considerable." "According to Boer reports, the fall of Mnfcking is certain. There has fieen heavy fighting this week and the Boers have been shelling the town from all the outlaying forts which they have captured. Col. Baden-Powell cleared all the natives out of town, but the Boers drove them back. The Boers arc preparing for a final assault, with the idea that the capture of Male king will raise the drooping spirits of the burghers. " NF.WS Telegrams from Poplar Grove, Or ange Free State, dated Friday, say: Gen. French, who is 10 miles ahead, re ports that his front is clear of the Boers. All other reports tend to con firm the state of disorganization .of the Hocr forces, Transvaal ns well as Free State. The general impression is the further progress of the British to Blocmfontein will not be opposed. A great amount of ammunition was destroyed to-day. This included sev eral boxes of explosive bullets, on the outside of which the Boers had marked "manufactured for the British govern ment." Clements has occupied Norval s pont and the adjacent drift. As soon as the engineers, pontoon and troops arrive he will cross the river, when the neces sary repairs to the railway bridge will be commenced. Gatacrc occupied Burghersdorp March 7 and was greeted with great enthusiasm on the part of the loyal in habitants. His scouts report that large numbers of the rebels in the neighbor hood are anxious to surrender. Presidents Kruger and Steyn were both present at the fight of March 7. and did all in their power to rally their troops. The rout, however, was com plete, the men declaring tint they could not stand against the British artillery and such a formidable force of cavrlry. It is said there has been dissension be tween Kruger and Joubert and that the latter has resigned, as well ns several other generals. Kruger will probably assume command himself. It is also declared the Boers will resist to the death against a war of conquest. A correspondent at Lorenzo Mar ques savs: I am reliably informed that high officials openly avow that the Brit ish flag shall never fly at Johannes burg. The place will be razed to the ground and the mines put in readiness to be electrically exploded from the fort as occasion requires. Most of the gold mines, excent those which the government controls, are in a shocking state. They are flooded, and the machinery is rusting and being wilfully smashed. Thomas Clayton, a negro of Her nando, Miss., was shot to death Sat urday night by members of his own race because of an assault on a girl. He was called to his cabin door and bullets from a dozen Winchesters were fired into his body. Wheeler Going to Congros:. Gen. Joseph Wheeler and party, who have been in quarantine since their ar rival at San Francisco from the Philip pines, on the transport Warren last Monday, were permitted to land Wednesday night. The general says he expects to take his scat in Con gress and doesn't see why he should be kept out, as lit resigned his commission November 30, though he was not re lieved from duty until January. He thinks the guerrilla warfare will soon end and says when the Filipinos, whose Keneral character he praises, learned the real character and purpose of the Americans, they seemed reconciled to our government. After American Go'd. J. P. Morgan & Co., of New York, have been authorized to receive and forward any American applications for the British war loan. This is the first time in the financial history of this coun try that cngland has asked for a loan. The governor of the Bank of England gave the authority and empowered 10 bankers to deal with applicants, just as the Bank of England might deal with them if communicated with direct. Nearly 1,400 persons were killed by an earthquake in Transcaucasia. Decrease In Puerto Rico Customs. The effect of the uncertainty of the tariff situation as to Puerto Rico, is shown bv a renort oreoared bv Colonel Edwards, chief of the insular bureau of the war department, according to which the customs receipts for January were $68,460, a decrease of $51,410 com pared with the receipts or January, log. Mtrr Sharrettl. BishoD of Havana says there is no truth in the story that he has asked Konie to recall mm. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Thirteen business firms were burned out by a fire in Redficld, la., Sunday. Mrs. John Gallagher, nn insnne wo man, cut her husband's throat in bed at Joliet, 111. The grip has become epidemic In Boston nnd caused 19 deaths during the week just closed. Joseph Ryan, secretary of the Irish Federation of America, died Friday night in New York. Miss May Snyder, of Alliance, O., killed herself with carbolic acid because her father rebuked her. Within six weeks too persons have died of smallpox in the southern part of Hinds county. Miss. (ireat dining rooms for the poor, capable of feeding 12.000 persons daily, were opened in London. A geological survey report gives the value of gems produced by the United States in iX)) as $iKo,ooo. Jose Miiniz, vice president of the Cigarmakers' Association, was found dead in bed at Tampa, F'la. Baron BanlTy, late premier of Hun gary, and Deputv Ugron fought a bloodless duel nt Budapest. It is estimated that 0,000,000 bushels of coal were shipped south from the Pittsburg harbor last week. Captain S. W. Terry has been trans ferred from the battleship Iowa to com mand the Washington navy yard. Henry J. DuHois, n Wilkesbarre pigeon fancier, shot ICugenc Smith, who was in his pigeon loft, and the man will die. The San Francisco health board has decided that the suspected case in Chinatown was not one of bubonic plague. The Katydid breaker of the Mount Jessup Coal Company, at Winton, Pa., was burned Saturday night at a loss of $40,000. General Otis is installing civil gov ernments in the Philippines in antici pation of the arrival of the civil coin mission. The gold mines in the Transvaal are going to ruin, being full of water which the government will not allow to be pumped out. Warner T. Allen, indicted in the Rrooklyn Ranid Transit case, surrend ered to the New York authorities and gave $.'.500 cash bail. The American Fisheries Company has gone into voluntary receivership in or der to mortgage and reduce its capi tal stock from $10,000,000. The United States cruiser Philadel phia sailed Sunday from San Francisco for San Diego, and the horse transport Siam for Manila, via Hilo. It is saiil at Sioux City, la., that rehbishon John Kcane has been nomi nated to the Pope ns the successor of the late Archbishop Hennessy. Four children of the family of Arthur Williams, who were caught in a flood near Peru. I nil., and lived in a sub merged hut four days, will die. Bv an exnlosion in the Smith fuse factory at Pompton, N. J., Friday, four workmen were killed and the factory damaged to the extent of $50,000. The reported selection of Rev. Fa ther Moeller as bishop nt Columbus is lenied at Rome, where it is said the propaganda has made no decision. The latest insurrection against the gov ernment of Santo Domingo has been tided bv the troops, who arc chasing Pepin, the leader of the insurgents. The President has received from ex Mayor Cotes, of Bournemouth, Kng- land, a Wedgewood ware copy of lloudins famous bust of Washington. F.dward Williams was hanged nt Trenton. N. J., for the murder of Min nie ICizley. As the drop fell he was singing "Nearer My God. to Thee." A. H. Morris, of New Castle, Pa., claims 4o,ono acres of coal land in Pres ton count v. W. Va.. held bv the Pitts burg Coal Company, and will sue for it. i Miss Ellen Terry has almost entirely recovered from her illness and will leave Toronto for New York to reioin Sir Henry Irving at the end of this week. Colonel James E. Barnett, of the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment, is agi tating the movement for the erection of a monument to the late Colonel Hawkins. The bodies of 64 soldiers who died in Cuba were buried Wednesday in Ar lington cemetery, making the whole number of Cuban victims buried there about 500. Fire in Philadelphia destroyed three business houses in the retail drygoods district, entailing a loss of nearly $800, 000, and throwing 1,503 people out of employment. The body of Abraham Lincoln has been removed from the crypt of the monument at Springfield, III., to a tem porary vault, pending the rebuilding of the monument. Mrs. Annie Mathers, wrjo lost her voice some years ago, has iust recover ed it after screaming at a mouse which had frightened her. She can now talk as well as ever. The phosphate mining firm of Hood & Hubbard, at Dunnellon, Fla., has suspended temporarily, and H. J. Hus sard, a phosphate miner at Juliette, has also suspended. England's great military prepara tions and the active campaigning of the queen are now attributed to a fear of an earlv war with France, in 'which country the national fever has almost got beyond the control of the govern ment. Saturday a pitched battle took place between Cuban police and sailors of the American transport Williams for pos session of the safe of the sunken Span ish torpedo boat destroyer Furor, which was supposed to contain $12,000 in gold. The navy department has received additional advices that some of the of ficers of the cruiser Charleston were intoxicated at the time she was wreck ed in the Philippines. Residents along the Little Vermillion river, in La Salle, 111., were driven from their homes by high water and an ice gorge, which threatened the de struction of their homes. United States Commissioner Douglas Wright and Horace H. Blunton fought with pistols at Nsvada, Mo. Blanton was dangerously wounded in the .stom ach and Wright had a scalp wound. Iffll WIS SELECTED BY 101. FATAL BLACK BEAN. Kentucky Officials Investigating a Startling Revelation Concerning Goobol't Death Frankfort Full of Armed Men. It is reported that Information has been received which points to a de liberate plot to kill William Goebel in which many men were Interested, and that there was knowledge that the selec tion of the assassin was decided by lot. According to this story one black bean was placed mining n large num ber of white ones, ami the men who drew this black bean was to become, and diil become, the assassin. This information came to Common wealth's Attorney Robert B. Franklin, of Frankfort. Ky., in a letter in which it was stated that Bransfield Bertram, sheriff of Breckinridge county, who re cently died from pneumonia resulting from exposure wdiile here, stated to the members of his family shortly before his death that he was in F'rankfort when Goebel was shot, that he had knowlcdgcbeforchandlhal Goebel would be assassinated and that a meeting at which there was a casting of lots was held the night before the occurrence of the crime. The names of the men who were nt this meeting were not given, nor was that of the man who drew the fatal black bean. It is said that twenty-five persons were in the plot anil participated in the drawing of lots. The meeting is said to have been held nt midnight, in the office of the secretary of State. After a full discussion of the matter it was decided that all should draw from a box in which had been placed twenty-four wdiite beans anil one black one. The person drawing the black bean was to kill Goebel. The men in the meeting are said to have been largely picked men from the mountains, many of whom had par ticipated in feuds and were crack shots. They were desperate characters, who bail come to Frankfort spoiling for a tight ami who were ready to engage in any sort of hazardous work, caring lit tle for their own lives nnd equally care less of the lives of others. They had learned to hate Goebel so intensely that it was considered an honor to cut him down. The Democrats and the Republicans in Kentucky are, for the first time since the present political complications as sumed acute form, divided into armed and organized factions. Surrounding the cnpitol and the Slate executive building nnd camped in the grounds around Governor Taylor's home are nearly 200 Slate militia well provided with ammunition, while in the corridors of the Capitol hotel, in which the Democratic State executive offices arc located, and in the streets adjacent to that building, are 60 special officers, and the men and boys of a militia company that was organized in F'rankfort Sun day as the nucleus of Beckham's State guard, besides scores or more of heav ily armed citizens, partisans of the Democratic claimant. INDIANS LOST MANY. Five Emagomjnts Bstwoen the Yaqult and Mcx cane-Killed 200 In One Battle. During the four days ending on Fri day the Yaqui Indians and the Mexican troops had four engagements near Cocorit. The Mexican troops arc en deavoring to force their way through this section of the country so as to keep a roadway between Torin and that point open for travel. The engage ments resulted very disastrously for the Indians, as in the neighborhood of 200 are known to have been killed and pos sibly more. The Mexican troops suf fered very little loss of life, though some 25 were wounded. A dispatch from Ortiz, State of So nora. says that on Friday reports reached there of a bloody skirmish be tween a band of 300 Yaquis and about an equal number of soldiers about 50 miles west of that place, in which the fighting was continued most of the day. The loss among the soldiers was light, owing to their being ensconert behind a natural breastwork of bould ers on n hillside, with the Indians in the open. It was a cleverly laid trap into which the Indians were led and while they left none of their dead on the field it is thought their loss is heavy, as a number were seen to fall. TO DAWSON BY AUTOMOBILE. Three Frenchmon Expect to Make the Trip- Trie Machine to be Used on Wa'er. The French liner Aquitaine Sunday brought from Havre three Frenchmen who say thev intend to attempt to go to the Klondike by automobile. They the Janne de Lamare, who has been to the Klondike, and was for a time editor of "The Klondike Review"; Raphael Morville, who is a brother-in law of de Lamare and who holds a fast automobile record, and E. Crom. They sent ahead of them an automobile of five horse-power and a motor cycle of three horse-power. De Lamare said that he intended on April 19 to start by automobile from Lake Bennett for At- lin. "The automobile will go in front, the motor cycle will follow with a sleigh carrying provisions will bring up the rear!" he said. "It is na miles from Lake Bennett to Atlin, and we expect to cover that in one day. Then we shall start on the long trip to Dawson City, which is about 600 miles from Atlin. At the places .where we must travel by water, I intend to place the automobile in a large flat canoe and use the power in the machine to work the paddles ' The report of the statistician of the department of agriculture will show that the amount of wheat in farmers' hands March I was about 158,700,000 bushels, or 29 per cent, of last year's crop, as compared with 198.000,000 bushels on hand on March I, 1899. The corn in farmers' hands in esti mated at 773.700.000 bushels, against 800,500,000 bushels on March t, 1899. The amount of last year's crop ship ped out of the country where grown is estimated at 348,000,000 bushels. Of oats there are reported to be about 290, 900,000 bushels still in farmers' hands, about the same at one year ago.. LAWTON'S SLAYER. Ha Reoelved a Small Fortune at HI Reward. Fund lor That Purpoia Rilled In Luzon. The tntest mail advices from Manila tell n startling story of intrigue ngainst the lives of American officers on the part of high Philitipino citizens. The story was published in the New Orient newspaper of Manila, tint wns never cabled to the United States, probably because the censor would not allow it. It is ns follows: "It is known that the insurgents nt tcmpted to kill Gen. Lnwton while he was on the north line, and the occa sion was when Major Howard was kill ed on a river boat. General Lnwton wns to take that boat, but owing to some fortnn.-le accident did not. "When the news of I.awton's death reached Manila there was great rejoic ing in certain native circles. It wns nt once proposed to rnise n purse for the man who killed him. The officers of the Knlichunnn Society took charge of the nfTair. Senor Pablet, editor of the F.I Pueblo Del Grito, wns mnde treasurer, awl within 24 hours he hail over $100,000 in voluntary contribu tions. "The man who did the deed wns n second lieutenant in the Gunrdin Civile named Garcia, and $100,1x10 was thought to be entirely too large a sum to be pniil a man in his position. After some discussion the amount deemed proper was put nt $25,000, and this was paid over to Garcia. "The cash in the fund is constantly growing, and amounts to over $200, 000. The fund will be kept to reward others who kill American officers." MUST FEEO PORTO RICO, Gen. Davit Reportt That Free Supplies Are the Only Alternative to Starvation Gov. Gen. Davis, of Puerto Rico, hns informed the war department that he has decided not to stop for the pres ent the distribution of free food in the island, as the industrial conditions ex isting in certain portions of the island rendered it absolutely necessary to feed the starving inhabitants for some time longer. In sonic sections the inhabi tants arc beginning to raise sweet po tatoes, but 111 the center of the island, or the colTee-growing district, there is nothing for the poor to eat. Any dis continuance of the food distribution would result in n large increase of sick ness and the death rate. The coffee planters nrc making strenuous efforts to clear up their fields, but having no money for the payment of their hands, the laborers have been laid off and are drifting into the towns, thereby becom ing public charges. Unless fed at pub lic expense, stnrvation will result and Gen. Davis has requested a shipment of 500 tons of rice, codfish and bacon, in addition to the 500 tons asked for about three weeks ago. Gen. Davis is of opinion that the quickest and most effective way of se curing relief would be through large ex penditures upon public works. He states that if he could put about 25,01x1 men at work for three months on the roads, involving expenditures for labor, tools and supervision of some $22.1,000 a month, the period of acute distress could be tided over. The acting com missary general of subsistence was di rected to secure the food asked for for immediate shipment. ASLEEP SIX WEEKS. Girl Smiles, Answors Questions and Takct Nourlshmen1 Remarkable Case. Pauline F'itz Gerald, 17 years of age, who is strong and vigorous, has been lying in a cataleptic state nt the New Haven, Conn., hospital for six weeks. During this time she has only spoken twice. Her eyes arc closed and she appar ently is sleeping peacefully. The phy sicians have given her food by force, and she has digested it nnd gotten nour ishment from it. They have not been able to discover any cause for her con dition. They sent her Wednesday to the insane ward of the almshouse. At the almshouse the physicians tried hypnotism on the girl, and in this way got her to speak. During the first four weeks the girl was in the hospital her condition was cataleptic. During the Inst two weeks, however, this condition has decreased. In response to numerous questions she would often smile, but that was all. Such cases ns this, it is said, are rare, and arc usually due to some powerful hereditary mental disease. The girl was born m Ireland. Plague Suspecll in San Francisco. A case of what is supposed to be bu bonic plague has been discovered in Chinatown, San F"rancisco. The pa tient, who is a Chinese, was immediate ly isolated nnd a large force of police is kept in Chinatown to maintain the quarantine placed upon that section pending the outcome of the bacteriolog ical examination of the suspected Chi nese. The physicians arc not yet pre pared to make a definite statement, but from others who have had experience in such matters, it is learned that the case will hardly prove to be one of plague, as the dead man has long been a resi dent of this city. Had lie been a re cent arrival from the Orient, greater alarm would be felt. Preolout Stonet ol Thlt Country. George F. Kunz, gem expert of the geological survey, reports an increased output of sapphires in Montana and the discovery of a fine blue stone that -a i 1 . . 1 ttuurucu gems up 10 inree carats 111 weight. Beautiful sapphires of various colors were discovered in Grant county, Montana. The total value of gems produced last year was $185,770, a gain of $24,850 over the previous year. Dia monds to the value of $vx were pro duced in the United States. Eaten by Cann bait. In two different letters received in San Antonia, Tex., from members of the Thirty-third infantry who pressed Aguinaldo so closely in the mountains of Luzon, comes the story that a mem ber of the regiment who fell behind while up in the hills was killed and partly eaten by natives, known as Y go rotes, a tribe of cannibals. Private Mohavier writes one letter and Ser geant Bateman another, telling of this. Joseph H. Choate. the United States ambassador at London, has gone to join hit wife at Cannes, France. RED M MINE DEATH LISI IS 62. MAY BE OTHERS. Retout Work Stilt Going On-Slato Hat Caved in to naaiy mat Tim May Never Be Completed. 1 here hnvr now been ei txi.tia t,l,ti from the rilillS of the faed Ah tnino. at I hurninii, W. Va nnd it is now defi nitely known 1 lint nt lenst two more bodies are in the debris, possibly more. nave one, ail the Doilies taken out bnvc been identified, the one unidentified being tin last one removed from Ibe mine Sunday night. Five more of the lioilies taken ott Sunday night were identified as Albert Collins, led Har vey, Arthur Until, J. L. Word nnd Dodc Long. Six days have now elapsed since the explosion nnd the effort to recover those retnnining in the drift Is being pushed ns vigorously ns it was nt the beginning. The two bodies known to still be in the mine nrc those of Charles Perfather and F.il llanibrick. the latter a boy. The mine officinls acknowledge that there may be a few more, ns the miners employed here hnve the privi lege of hiring laborers to assist them and no record was ever kept of the men thus employed. The senrchiug party hns now pene trated every room in nil the entries snve a few in the eight left, nnd in these the slate has raved in so badly that if the bodies nre under the mass it is said that It will be impossible to ever recover them. There is also a pool ol water in the eighth right entry which has not been searched, and late this afternoon it wns stated by the rescuers that Charles Pcrfatller's vest had been found near the pool. It is believed that the body mny have been blown by the force of the explosion into this pool. An ingenious theory lias tiecti nl vnnced by an official of this mine: "From the report oS the rescuing party as to the location nnd position of the bodies taken out I am of the iminion that the explosion took place in one of the old passages in the eighth left entry nnd was caused by a trnppnr boy whose body has been found in this pas sage. The lad had evidently hidden some oil 111 there, as boys about the mine have n habit of doing this sort of thing. When the little fellow enter ed this passage with his tamp the gas ignited. We have been nwnre tor a long time that there was gas in that locality nnd hnve nlways been very cautious about it. From the position of the debris in the mine it nlso shows thnt the explosion took place on the left side." A TIDE OF LAWLESSNESS. Reign ot Terror In a New Pennsylvania Coal Field. A reign of terror exists in the new Mnsontown coal field, near Union- town, Pa. Robberies arc every day oc currences, frequent shooting and cut ting affrays take place and a general wave of lawlessness is being indicted upon that recently staid community. Speakeasies are said to flourish on every hand and the local officers who began investigations arc threatened with death if there is any legal inter ference. Constable Huston, of Ger man township, the seat of the reported illicit liquor business, resigned this week, to avoid the fulfillment of threats made against him. Huston began to look after the speakeasies, but was promptly warned that he would have to let up or summary punishment would be meted out. As 11 result of his resig nation German township is without a peace officer nnd the lawless clement lias' a free hand. Wednesday evening two Italians nam ed Domiuico and Petero. were waylaid nnd robbed near the I'.dvnborn works, the highwaymen, three colored men. getting $i'io in ca .h and three jugs of whisky. The Italians have risen in arms and many of them carry shotguns when away from home and have their sluintics well fortified. James Bailey was shot by an unknown man during a quarrel near McClcllandtown, but not seriously iujifrcd. Builcy't assailant es caped. The grand jury at Media, Pa found true bills of indictment against James Pierce and Amos (alias "Pinncy") Pierce, his brother, charging them with the murder of George B. I'yrc. of Ches ter, on December 21, last year. The trial of the cases has been postponed until the June term. IT THE NATIONAL CAPITA1. President McKinlcy has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence on Private George Murphy, of the Twenty-fourth infantry, who killed a comrade in Luzon. Secretary Root has submitted to Congress a recommendation that the cx tra services performed by war depart ment employes during the war with Spain be paid for by nn appropriation aggregating $5.394. The House Committee on Territories Monday gave a hearing to Governor Brady, of Alaska, and a delegation from that section concerning the pending bill to establish a territorial form of gov ernment tor Alaska. The Senate committee on foreign re lations authorized the reporting of an amendment to the diplomatic appro priation bill appropriating $20,000 to be paid to ex-Uuecn Liliuokalani and pro viding for an annual donation of $10, 000 to her as long 83 she may live. P. J. McCarthy, a fireman, was killed at a fire which caused a loss of $100,000 in the plant of the Massachusetts Maca roni Company, at Boston. Christopher Curran, another fireman, was swept off a roof by a stream of water and prob ably tatally hurt. R'hft ;i rirhiin-. Thousands of organized insurgents are resisting Lot. Houston t battalion of the Nineteenth regiment at Antique, province of Panay, which is the onlv province which Americans do not oc cupy. The Americans lost seven killed. A battalion of the Forty-fourth from Iloilo reinforced ..Houston s command, One hundred and fifty Tagalogs, armed with lirles. have surrendered at Capiz and have been transferred to Luzon. Six Americans were killed in an ambush recently laid by the rebels AIMED VERY HIGH. Gotbtlltet Accutt Prominent Men Amtf ' tint Warrantt Ittued lor Them Secre tory ol Slate Among Them. W. II. Cotillon, a clerk In the oifice "f Sl"e Auditor Sweenry. at Frank fort. Ky., was nrresled and placed in Jail Friday night, charged with com plicity 111 the murder 01 the late Will ion Gorbel. 'J he arrest was made by Chief of Police William at g o'clock. Warrants have also been issued for the nrrest of Secretary of Stnte Cnlcb Powers and Capt. John W. Davis, po licemen nt t lie Male cnpitol square. The warrants charge them also with, sinalion, and warrants against ex-Scc-ret iry of State Charles Finley and John T. Powers, brother of Secretary of State Powers, have bini sworn out and have been sent to Whitley county for service. Several witnesses who testified at the trial of Hnrlnnd Whittnker Tuesday swore that the shots at the time of the Goebel assassination were fired from the direction of Powers' office, and he and all of the parties for whom the warrants were issued F'riday night have been under the strirtcst surveillance ever since the assassination. Capt. Davis was an appointee of Gov. Brad ley and was continued under Gov. Tay lor. F.x-Srrretnry of State- Finley was one of the promoters of the mnss meeting 01 me mountain men in irnnt 01 ne s. Stnte capitol. January 2. He served at secretary of State during the Umf yean when W. O. Bradley wns governor, lie wns not in the city the day of the assassination, but left the day before. Conlton, the only one arrested Fri day nifrllf. wns fihirf.fl In A rfll flnrl not allowed to talk to any one. The other arrests will be made Saturday. The warrant on which Coulton wat arrested and the warrants for the arrest of the two Powers', Finley and Davis, were based on nn affidavit made by Thomas II. Cromwell, of Lexington. . Cromwell has been assisting the detec tives in hunting down the case and it is said that he spent several days in Hardin. Bell. Whitley nnd Knox coun ties, where, it is alleged, the evidence against the parties arrested was secured. COST OF THE WARC OUNTED. Sixty Million Pounds it the Estimate Mid by the British Gotrernmeiil In the house of commons. London, 1 iiesoay anernoon, Mr niirimel MlcKt Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, be gan his speech introducing the budget by saying that the deficit for the fiscal year ending March 31 would be 17, 770,000. Of this, 8,000,000 has been provided for by exchequer bills, and 5,500,000 had been provided for war . out of the revenue. 1 he chanrellor estimated the expen diture for the coming year would total . l54.oH2,ooo. 1 lie deficit lor the com ing year was estimated at 37,000,000. The cost of the war would be 60,- oco.ocxj. In order to meet the increased expenditure, the income tax would be increased from eight pence to one shill ing in the pound, and there would be : -.1 . . ! iniuscti me lonowiug increases in duties; One shilling on a barrel of beer, six pence on a gallon of spirits, lour pence on a pound of tobacco, six pence per pound on foreign cigars, two pence per pound on tea. 1 fie chancellor of the exchequer nlso announced that the government would . contract a loan 01 4.43.000,000. 1111s, he said, I hope will be sufficient to 1 terminate the war, but it is impossible to be certain that the war will end by September 30. nnd we may be compell ed in July or August to ask for further provision." MEXICANS FEAR MASSACRE. In Jinn Bands Maraud and So'dlert Fear to Puitur. Advices from Ortiz, state of Sonora, Mexico, arc that the Indians have broken up into bands of 200 nnd 300 and arc doing great damage over a great stretch of country. 1 he Mexican sol diers do not show much inclination to go into the mountains, fearing ambus cades and mnss.M-res. The Mexican government is puzzled to know the source of supply of guns and ammuni tion for the Indians. A few miles out irom Guaymas on Tuesday half a dozen Mexican soldiers were found swinging from trees, and near Potam on the same day, five In dian braves were hanging from Mes- qtiitc trees. Near La Moucha 13 bodies were discovered lying in the under growth, some of them being , Indian men, though most of them were In dian squaws and young Indian girls. HONEYCOMBED WITH SMALLPOX. Wholo Familiet In a Mlstitt rpi Communitf Wlp:d Out An official report made to the Hindt county, Miss., board of supervisors re veals an appalling state of affairs in the Jonesville neighborhood in the south ern part of the county. The community is literally honey combed with smallpox of the most viru lent and loathsome form, and, during the past six weeks nearly ico deaths have occurred. On some days the death rate has been so large that it was impossible to secure coffins and rude caskets were made from rails. Whole families have been wiped out of exist ence, and of several large families only one or two children are left Many of the patients are now in a critical con dition, without medical attention and dying at the rate of from three to five per day. The death rate exceeds 75 per cent., and the entire lower portion of the county is demoralized. The board of supervisors will make an effort to check further spread, and at its morning ses sion carte blanche was fiivcn to the physicians' to purchase supplies and medicines. A bill for 43 coffins used within the past two weeks was al lowed. Plague's Inereatt in India The bubonic plague increases, thert having been 411 deaths from the dis ease at Calcutta last week. This is caus ing a great exodus of merchants. Tht viceroy, Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, addressing some of the plague stricken patients, said he considered it his duty ' to visit all the quarters of the vast de pendence committed to his charge. A number of cases of what is sup posed to be the bubonic plague have been officially reported at Bucno Ayres. Urgent methods are being' adopted to prevent the spread of tht disease. at Aparri.
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