RENEGADE REWARDED. David Fagan, Deserter el th Twenly-tourth Intanlry, Now Lead Band ol Ouerrllla. David Fngin, n deserter (rom the Twenty fourth I'nileil States iiifiinlry, who has been rcwaidcd lor hi treason liy the pciil ii( general ill the I-'ilipino nrmv, nl I he head of I V rebels, nttai k rd liml captured n civilian lanm-ti near Arayat. Aimtican soldiers, healing the firing, turned and recaptured the launch and the barge loaded with im-r.-li;im I i f which it h:i'l been towing before tiny could he looted. Fngin has sworn especial enmity to wards hi burner comrades. I )f the 20 men he captured n month ngo seven have returned. One was killed in n fight, his limly being horribly mutilated. Fagm sends messages In his former coiuindcs, threatening theni with ven geance if thi v heroine hit prisoners. It was Vaunt's who captured I.ient. Frederick I.. AKtacltcr, who is still a prisoner. While seontinK near t.one a detach ment o( the Twentieth nml Twenty eighth regiments nndcr Capt. Ileiglcr Wire attacked by -too insurgents annul with rides under the command ol n white man whose nationality is not known to the Americans. The iiiMir (cnls (or the most nail were intrenched. After an heroic fight ('apt. Ileiitlcr drove oil' the enemv, killing mole than 7. The tight lasted for two hours, t'apt. Ibiglcr and three privates were slightly wounded, and two of I hi' Amer icans were killed. A BRUTAL INSUI'GENT. Rebel Captain Sentenced to Doalh lor Fiend ish Treatment ol Prlionori. The rebel Captain Novicio has been Irieil by n military commission at llalcr, Northern Luzon, chained with burying nlive a seaman named McDonald, of l.it'iilennnt Gilinoic's Voiktown party. Novicio was found guilty and sentenced to death. The coinmis-ioii's sentence is now in the hands i( (icneral MacArthnr lor approval. Testimony was produced at the trial allowing that Novicio also caused the death of Van Villc, another member of Lieutenant (iilinore's party, by deliver ing him into the hands of the native tribesmen known ns Igorrolcs, who, un der the pretext of going fishing, lured Van Villi1 into the woods and murdered hint and two Spaniards, who were Van Ville's fellow -captives. The tribesmen bound Van Villc, opened his veins and sucked his blood until he was dead. EXPLOSION TOO HEAVY. Daring Attempt lo Loot Bedford Counly Trcaturor't Sato. A daring attempt to rob the enunty treasurer's office in the court house at Bedford, Pa., was frustrated Friday morning by the force of the explosion, when the vault doors were blowji olT, breaking the windows in the building. The noise of the falling glass put the thieves to Hight. The entire town, al most, was awakened by the explosion, but the robbers made good their escape. The treasurer had just collected sev eral thousand dollars, but had fortunato ly deposited it in bank, and hail tile burglars gained an entrance to the in ner vault they would only have secured about $joa The commissioners have offered a reward of $2ix for the capture of the guilty parties. MUST FACE SERIOUS CHARGES. Capt. Hall, Who Commanded Marino at Pekin Accuicd of toward Ice. Gen, Hey wood, commandant of the marine corps, has ordered an investiga tion of charges against Capt. Newt Hall, of Texas, who commanded the American marines within the bclcag ured legation at Pekin. Minister Con ger preferred the case which practically amounts to charging Hall with coward ice. Minister Conger claims that Hall re fused an important strategic point in the legation compound, and afterwards re luscd to perform some routine defensive duty on the ground that it was impossi ble to do so. A number of Russian sol dier performed the service successfully, proving that Hall was wrong. Trantvaal It Annexed. At Pretoria Friday the Transvaal was proclaimed a part of the British em pire, with impressive ceremonies. The royal standard was hoisted in the main square of the city, the Grenadiers pre sented arms, massed bands played the National anthem, Sir Alfred Milner read the proclamation and 6,200 troops, rep resenting Great Britain and her colo nies, marched past. Two hundred Boers unsuccessfully at tacked the garrison at Jacobsdal. It was defended by a detachment of thn Cape Town Highlanders, who had 14 killed and 20 wounded. Will Open Negotiations. Minister Conger has been authorized to begin negotiations at once with the Chinese envoys on the basis of the points in the German and French notes, upon which all the powers are street Upon these points where divergence Jf views exist the governments will ne gotiate to reach a further understand ing. It has been decided that the min isters in Pekin shall conduct any ne gotiations that may be necessary with the Chinese government in place of confiding these to commissions to be ent out from each country to Pekin, Do Not Wish to Be Sold. Intense adverse feeling has been ex cited at St. Thomas by the renewal of the report that Denmark intends to sell the Danish Antilles to the United States. A meeting of the Colonial council has been convoked at St. Croix lor the purpose of making a formal pro test. The newspaper discuss the question, declaring in bold type, "We do not wish to be sold." There is no desire, much less enthusiasm, among the popu lation to belong to the United States. LATEST NEWS NOTEi. Typhoid fever Is epidemic at Titu- ville, Pa, A severe snow storm prevailed in Spain Wednesday. Several Indian skeletons have been unearthed near Sharon, Pa. Joseph t'hrssor. a lumber merchant, was assassinated nt Norton, Va. Austria Hungary has given her as sent to the Anglo-German agreement. Th total ratch of seals In Bering son luring the season just closed was 32,- 517. The flooded mines nt llerla No, a, Westmoreland county, are ngain in op eration. The total of contributions for relief of tialvesion flood sufferers to date is f l,lo,.VH. Fire destroyed the business portion of Iliinavant, Kan. The losses are $.?vm, partially insured. Two thousand rertuits will be sent to the army in the Philippines within the next three weeks. Frank Williams, n civil rngineer, was drowned while attempting to cross a liver in Puerto Rico. Carry Caldwell, a negiess, killed her three children and then committed sui cide nt Charlotte, N. I', The Shcnaiwo tin plate plant, of New Castle, Pa , will resume operations in full Tuesday morning. The New Castle nml Sharon (Pa.) Street Railway Company, capital $150, ism, has been chartered. Johnnie Leach, a 5 year-old boy nt Fianklm, Pa., fell into a tub of hot wat er nnd was scalded to death. Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky, has ap proved the election bill passed at the cxtia session of the Legislature. A trustee of Beloit, III., college has promised to give the institution $-,-000 if another $150,000 is raised. Seeds Brothers' bank nt Bridgeport, liul., was robbeil of over $1,000 in cash and a considerable sum in notes. Alexander McKctmc, n Noith D kota absconder, has been raptured with $50,000 in gold III Ills possession. William Killv. a tool dresser, was killed by the explosion of a boiler nt the W ilson farm, near Washington, Pa. Four persons were killed and three injured in a Great Northern freight wreck on the coast line near Seattle. The Columbia Zinc and Lead Com pany, of W ilkesbarre. Pa., has been in corporatcd with a capital of $100,000. The Hebrews of Palestine have pro jecteil a great university of Jewish learning, to be located nt Jerusalem. Mrs. T. I'.. Carber, of Maylown, P.i died from locktnw. Physicians were unable to find any wound or scratch Patrick Rice, formerly one of the greatest of American race horse trainers, committed suicide by taking laudanum. The Republic Iron nnd Steel Com pany w ill erect an iH inch finishing mill at their Bessemer plant nt oungslown t lliio. A big power plant is being established at Massena, N. V., which bids fair to rival the famous Niagara Falls Supply center. At Falls Village, Conn., fire wiped out the National bank, the postolh.-e, the Methodist church ami a store. Loss, $.o,ooo. The Cariboo gold mine, of Britisli Columbia, has shipped to New York an ingot weighing 753 pounds nnd valued at 1 54.703. Fourteen strikers nt the Shenango furnace. Sliarnsville. Pa., have been en joined from trespassing and intimidat ing employes. Consul McCook estimates that the Klondike will yield from $15,000,01x1 to $o,oon,ooo of gold annually for many years to come. Owing to the ravages of n mad dog, cattle are being killed at Madison Westmoreland county, Pa., to prevent an epidemic of rabies. The State of Alabama claims a tract of land n mile wide on the western bor der of Florida, nnd loo miles of the southern end of Florida. The La Belle Company has just com pletcd nt Stenbcnville, ( )., the erection of a continuous mill, which will be put in operation in a lew days. The United States transport Ijtwton has arrived at Seattle with 500 stranded miners brought from Cape Nome at the expense ol the uovcrnnicnt. It is rumored that ex-President Cleve land will be offered the presidency of Washington and Lee university, vacat ed by William L. Wilson's death. At St. Paul. Minn., fiftv-two horses 41 vehicles and a largo livery barn were destroyed by lire. C. D. Snapp, confidential agent for Caldwell fir Smith, cotton brokers; of Memphis, A'cnn- has been arrested on the charge of embezzling $32,000. The miners employed by the Tcnii Gas Coal Company at Irwin, Pa., will erect a fountain as a memorial to their late superintendent, John I Wolf Chicago postoffice clerks have affil iated themselves with the Federation of Labor, with the avowed purpose of striving lor an eight-hour workday. It is reported the Lnughlin Nail Com pany' mill, at Martins Ferry, O., is to be remodeled into a wire nail plant to be operated in opposition to the trust, At Brushy Mountain, Tenn.. Differ ences which led to a strike of .100 miners employed by the Crooked rork Coal & Coke Company have been adjusted The government has chartered the British steamship Royalist, which it is intended to operate as a United States transport between Seattle and the Phil ippincs. James B. Dill, the eminent corpora tion lawyer, says adequate trust legis lation is possible only in Congress. State laws cannot deal successfully with the question. A total of $20,166,687 in gold dust and buluon has been received at the assay office at Seattle, Wash., during the year, of which $3,173,320 came from Alaska and $16,374,488 from the Klondike. A mysterious epidemic has aftlicted the Indian along the Yukon river in Alaska, 60 in 150 dying in two months. Owing to inability to fish and hunt they are now threatened with famine. Four engineering corps have begun laying out a railroad between Oren burg and Taschkend, Russia, for which American locomotive have been order ed. The engineer will probably finish the survey in 1000. BOXERS CROW BOLD. Chine Authorlllot Indifferent lo the Prog res ol Rebel Two Thoutind Villager Slalnind the Town Burned. Rebellion is spreading nlong Fust river and North river. In the province of Kwang Si, China. It is supposed to c nimed at the overthrow of the Min im ilvnastv. but the report nrr so con tradictory that it is next to impossible to form n lucid impression. In Cnntoit the Chinese officials are taking the in surrection so lightly that foreigners be- lieve it will be very ihllicult to .sup press. I he governor of Hongkong lias been informed that 4, 000 villagers in the Sainloi linok Kwaishln district were iit- 111 k nl by rebels at Pengkok. 1 he vil auers were defeated and 2,000 ol them killed. The rebels, who lost 4"o killed, burned two villages containing 3.""" houses. A force of 2.000 troops went to the assistance of the villagers nnd en gaged the rebel oil October 22. No letails of the result have been rccciv d. Gen. I lo. with 2.000 troops, has re turned to Hongkong, having burned the tillages of Slum liauliti nnd Malanlau, ( hitiese ofhclals have placarded the Shetoni district, offering several hun dred dollars' reward for the bends i.f four foreigners who lire sunposctt to be lending the rebels. The rice crop has failed ill Kwang Si province and rob bers nre pillaging. Rebellion and fam ine there nre certain. BAYONET FOR STRIKERS. Canadian Mlllll Charge Upon a Mob Eight Soldier and Fifteen People Wounded. Over a score wounded, one fatally, is the result of a conllict between the mi litia ami the striking mill bauds nt Vnl leyfield, province of Ouelne. A couple of hundred men employed by the Mon treal Cotton Company on the founda tion ol a new mill went out on strike, demanding nn increase of 2 cents a day in their pay. The company refus ed lo deal with the union. The strikers prevented the company from shipping goods, and held up the company's coal pile. The local police were powerless. Consequently a message was sent to Montreal asking lor military assistance. Thursday evening the mob gathered near the I'.mpire mill nnd began throw ing stone through the windows ind otherwise destroying property. The troop charged the mob with fixed bay onets. They were driven back. Fight of their number were wounded, two of them seriously. 1 he strikers had IS men injured, one fatally. FIRE BOSSES IN DEATH TRAP. One Man Klllod and Another Severely Burnt by a Mine Ga Explotlon. Ily nn explosion of gas in No. 3 llnr- nuin shall ol the Pennsylvania Coal Company nt Pittston Saturday one man was killed nnd another fatally hurt John II. Clark and Matthew Kdwnrda, lire bosses, entered the nunc to make an inspection preparatory to the col liery resuming operations. They had not been in the mine long until n heavy explosion ol gas occurred. Rescuers went down the mine nnd found F.itwnnls trying to make his way out. lie was badly burned nnd will die. The search continued for Clark, but he could not be found until several hours after the explosion. When the rescuers reached him he was dead, his body being badly mangled by the force of the explosion. The mine was nlso damaged considerably by the explosion. Chicago Church Wrockod. An explosion of acetylene gas which was to be used lor a stercoptiean enter tainment wrecked the interior of the First Presbyterian Church nt Austin, a suburb of Chicago, Sunday night. The operator, recently returned from mis sion work in India, lost his right hand and sustained other injuries. One of the tpnks sprung a leak ami the escaping gas was cxpiuueu oy me. iigm 01 me lantern. Confoderat Money tor the Germans. A band of American confidence men has been successfully doing llcrlin and other German cities, passing off Con federate Jio bills, which have been rend ily accepted at 40 marks each. The police have received reports of scores of victims. Max Muller Die at Oxford. Friedrich Maximilian Muller, com monly known as Max Muller, corpus professor of comparative philology ut Oxford University, Sunday, aged 77 years, ror half a century he bad been celebrated as a philologist, orientalist, scholar and author. It was intended from his birth, in 1823, that he should be n scholar. Friedrich Max Mullens title to rank as one of the most distinguished phil ologists of the century is secured by long lifetime's output of industrial re searches into the origin of language. Will Rcvlte the Tariff. The Philippine commission has de cided to compile the revised Philippines customs tariff from its own investiga tions, assisted by the report of the army board. The result will be forwarded to the United States for publication and discussion among those interested in foreign commerce. The details appear to be satisfactory and the draft has been approved by the secretary of war. The commission will promulgate it here as a law. The measure has taken on a new and international commercial interest and the course of the commission heartily commended here. Fortune In One Nugget. The biggest nugget ol gold ever re ceived at the assay office has arrived from a mining company in British Co lumbia, consigned to the New York agent of the Bank ol Montreal. It contained a fraction over 753 pounds of the yellow metal and is valued at 000. It came in a solid cone and stood about two feet high. This cone was wrapped in canvas and fitted into an oblong box made of two-inch plank and heavily bound with iron, It re quired lour men to handle it. COLD MINERS STRIKE. Ohect la Reoenl Order and Three Hundred Walk Out. At Victor, Col., alt miner employed nt the Independence gold mine, about ,V III number, have quit work. The cause (or their action Is the personal search plan that was begun at the mine in order to stop the alleged pilfering of ore. A meeting of miners wns held nt which it was unanimously resolved that: "After thi dale all men employed nl the Independence mine shall lenve the mine In the digging clothes." Several weeks ago, when the mnn agrr of various mines In the district announced that the miners must strip to the skin in the presence of guards before leaving the mines, the turn at the In dependence, where the order was first put in force, reached nil ngreemeiit with the management resulting in n modi fication of the rule to the extent that all miners winking under ground should wear their underclothes and pass before a detective when going off shift, The resolution now adopted lakes no cog- mrnnee ol the lormer ngreemeiit. Claims nre made by the men that other grievanrrs must be settled brfore they will return to work. STUDENTS' WILD CAPERS. College Boy Take a Cow to Third Story ol Obis' Hall. One hundred students from Mount Union college nt Alliance, O., robed in white and closely masked, obtained en trance to the girls' hall by breaking in 1 window sash. President Kikcr lain ly cow wns then taken into the build ing, curried up to the third story mid securely tethered. 'I hen ntnid cheers and songs the student made their way to the college. They overpowered the watchman nnd proceeded to upset the stoves, overturn the college piano nnd throw all movable fiiiniluie out the win dows, The faculty were serenaded, niter which the while robed figures made their wny down town nnd ended the de monstration with n war dance on the liblii: square. It is expected that nny action from the faculty as a result of the iemonstratiou will meet with concerted resistance. MONEY SCARCE IN SWEDEN. Balance ol Foreign Trade Against the Coun try Crlsl Threatened. The extraordinary scarcity of money which has been growing more acute for a month Is so seriously affecting com mercial circles as to threaten a crisis. The balance of foreign trade continues against Sweden, mid the repealed cou ti action of gold loans abroad fails to palliate the situation. Industries are daily launched, but adequate capital is not available and the newspapers arc filled with appeals from manufacturers in desperate straits for money. Rural people, attracted by the Indus trial activity, are Hocking to the towns nnd, consequently, the demand for houses is so great that rents have ad vanced 20 to 10 per cent. 'I he civil ser vants have already been granted 20 per cent, increase to meet the hard times and it is expected the employers gen erally will have to follow suit. SUICIDE WITH GOLD LEAF. Two High Chinese Official Dodge Punlth mont lor Inciting Eoier Outrage. Two high Chinese officials, Kang Yi and Yu Shien, whose punishment was demanded by the power for inciting the lloxer outrages, have solved that part of the Chinese question by com milting suicide. This information has been communicated to the state denart nient by Minister wit. (.ovcrnor Yu, who enticed missionaries into his yatneit lo be butchered, killed himself by the aristocratic Chinese method of eating gold leaf. Prince Tuan was driven from the imperial court and was icvercly censured. r.mperor Kwang-llsu lias commis sioned 1'rincc Clung mid Li Hung Chang to fix the penalties of those of fender whom the powers have desig nated lor punishment. I be latest Chi ncsc decree announces that several princes have already been punished. Drop Dead While Speaking. George W. Dlakc, of Ottawa. III., Democratic Candidate for member the Legislature from La Salle countv. dropped dead nt Dana while making a campaign speech. Heart disease is saiil to be the cause. Tortured by Robber. Two burglars stabbed and slashed A G. Rubcy, of Chicago, with a physi cian s lancet, in nn attempt to make hi in tell where he had concealed his monev. for nearly hall an hour the robbers tor tured the man. railing to make bun tell the hiding place of his monev. thev cut his tongue a number of times, until Rubcy cried out for mercy and revealed the hilling place of $.Ko in paper, $Xo in gold and .yx in Illinois hteel checks lhc robbers then made their escape. Boy' Body Riddled. While hunting near Concord, Pa., Walker Symcrman, aged 10 years, saw a squirrel and called to his brother to hand him the gun. While walking backward with the weapon the lad fell, The gun was discharged, the load of shot riddling the entire upper portion ol Walker s body and killing him in stantly. Both eyes were torn out Fought Sheriff' Posse. A sheriff's posse in pursuit of five prisoners who escaped from Doniphan jail overtook the men near Dalton, Ark. A battle was fought and two members of the posse were dangerously wounded. Ihree 01 the prisoner were wounded and one recaptured. V Will Send Chrlitma Present Free. Secretary of War F.lihu Root has sent out order relative to the sending ol Christmas presents to American soldiers in the Philippines. The name of the command of each soldier must be plain ly marked on each box, and the box sent to Columbia storage, Pier m. Brooklyn, so a to reach Brooklyn not later than November IS. when the transports leave New York lor the Philippines. Provid ed the transportation charges are paid to Brooklyn, the government will take be oackases Irom there fret. il BOERS ME STILL BATTLING RENEWED ACTIVITY. The Now Have Fifteen Thouiand Men In lh Field and Are diving the Rrlllih Much Trouble. According lo a ilispnti h from Cape Town, a force of Tbier attacked and surrounded a patrol ol Cnpe police with a convoy near lloopstad, Orange river colony, and a shiirn fight ensued. The police were compelled to abandon two Maxims. Ultimately reinforced by the Yeomnnry, they succeeded in getting away with Ihe convoy: but they lost sev en killed, II wounded nml t. captured. I he colonials were outnumbered to to one, and the engagement lasted two hours. The liners have lsono mrn In the field, tirntly half of whom are In Orange river colony. These are divided Into ommandoes nl some 3110 each, but ate npable of combination for large opera tions. Lord Roberts cables from Pretoila that in the fight between Gen. Ilartnu nnd Gen. I e Wet "the llrilldi losses were heavier than at first reported. An additional officer and u men w-re killed ami Hirer miicer ami 3 men were wounded. 'I he liners left 24 dead and l) wounded on the field nnd 26 lloers were taken prisoners. I lure lloers who held 1111 their hands In token of sur render and then fired on the Hritish were court-miirlialcd, convicted and sentenced to death. I have ronfirmed the sentence. Ilarton nflerwnrds srnltered l)e Wet's lloers near rredern kslaad, but v nvalrvmi'ii were iimbiished by lloers iclween Phillipolis nnd Snringfoiiteiii ami only seven escaped. FREETRADE ESSENTIAL. Greater Organlrallon Inr England Advocated by Sir Hick-Beach. The chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Michael I licks Ilea' h, in the course of an nddress before the Liverpool chain her of commerce ndvorated closer com menial union between the different coiiiitnes of the empire nnd greater or- kauiration for the empire's common in terests. He said, with regard to the former, that it was impossible for (inat llrilain to be other than n free trade country, mid that he sympathised with Sir Wilfrid LTluricr, the Dominion pre mier, in Ins opinion that mi impend ollverein was unobtainable without free trade within the empire. So far as imperial organisation was concerned he said he did not think there was any immediate danger of war, and he expressed a hope that the principles of the Anglo-German agreement would be universally accepted. COLOR LINE IN CUBA. I Being Drawn Very Closoly, Causing Bitter Feeling. Telegrams from Santiago de Cuba say: Ihe departure of provincial dele gates to participate in the progress of the lorthcouiing constitutional rotiven tion at Havana caused an immense demonstration. It is estimated that they were escorted to the wharf by upwards of 12,000 persons of whom nine-tenths were colored people. Ihe political parties are drawing the color line very closely and this is caus ing liilter feeling between the races. The whites predict thai the convention will last a year, alleging that most of Hie delegates will prefer $,too a month to the establishment of a Cuban republic. All the local papers dramatically ex hort the delegates to fulfill their fluty mid niiietly expel the Americans from the island. REBEL CHIEF8 ACTIVE. They Are Carrying Everytning Eefore Them In Southern China. Refugees from Ilui-Cliow say the rebels are welcomed everywhere. They take nothing without payment and are Heated as guests instead of as enemies. Their leaders arc supposed to number ten. each commanding a separate band. The leader operating in the Kow Lung hinterland is a mere stripling, but is everywhere successful. He is report ed to have defeated a large body of itqpcrial troops, killing loo of the Chi nese soldiers. The surnames of four of the rebel chiefs are Fong, Ho, Chinj; and Chan. Negro Killed by Hi Own People. Glostcr Barnes, colored, was lynched , iff- t it- by a mob of his own people in Mi - issippi Tuesday night. In a drunken fury Barnes murdered his wife, stabbed and badly wounded a negro who inter- fcrcd, and engaged in a rifle duel with a white man who attempted to arrest him. He was caught by a posse after a desperate fight, in which he was shot through the thigh. In charge of two colored deputies Barnes was started for the county jail at Vieksburg On the read his escort was put to flight by a big crowd of negroes who took the murderer into a thicket and shot him lo death. Falls to a Fearful Oeath. Headless and stripped of every parti cle of clothing, the body of John Gucr ro, an Italian miner, was picked up nt the bottom of the shaft of the Kennedy mine at Sutvr Creek, Cal., killed by a fall. Gucrro was on the day shift and two hours earlier in the evening he jumped on the "skip" at the seventh lev el, in company with 10 other miners. Guerro lost his balance anil fell down the shaft, a distance of 1.600 feet. Refused to Quit Piece Work. At Quebec, thirty shoe factories, em ploying 1,000 men, have shut down as the result of difficulties between the union and the manufacturers. ,The trouble grew out of the refusal of a union man to work for weekly wages instead of piece work. He was dis charged and a non-union man engaged. As a result all the men in the factory went out. The manufacturers' commit tee thereupon decided to shut down. Five children near Cumberland, Md., were poisoned by eating jitnson weeds, and ont i dead. WILL END STRIKE. President Mitchell Predict Thai Monday Will Wltnet Retiimptlofl Mora Com panlei Agree lo lh Inornate. At the nntlonnl hendfinnrfrr nl the United Mine Workers Tuesday the be lief wns unanimous t tint the end ol the mike will come In a very short time. As soon a all tlir onerntors slunlfv their willingness to pay the advance un lit April, the nntlonnl executive board will be called in session to vote on end ing the contest, President Mitchell's stntrment In speech nt Pottsville Turidnv that he believed that the strike would be ended by next Monday if nit the operator posted notices guaranteeing the ad vance until April l, wa rerHvrd hers with much pleasure by both side, It i believed that nothing will now Inter vene to delay the ending of the con test. The mlueworkers' strike hn been d Inreil off by the United Mine Worker' officials, so far ns it affect all com panies which have romplied with the sinkers' demands. The strike will tie continued against the companies whlrh nave not granted Ihe terms offered b (lie Seiaulon convention, The striker will return lo woik on Monday nt the places where the strike embargo Is lift ed. BANK TELLER ABSCONDS. New York First National Bank Robbed 0 $700,000 by Trusted Official. Charles L. Alvord, Jr., note teller ol (lie f irst National bank. New York. 1 a fugitive and a defaulter to the extent of $700,000, The announcement of the 'leiaii alion, made I tiesday nllernoon, created the utino't excitement in the liiiamial district, but Ihe well known stability of the First Nnlioiml nnd a taleinent iMiieil by the bank had a quieting effect. An official connected with the bnnlf mid: "A proof that the bank is not likely (o suffer by Ihe defalcation il that its profits for the year ending Septem ber I were $i,3;okxi. The siirplu i merensing fast. 'I he par value of the stock is $100 a share, but il bus brought as high ns $1,013 at auction. The book alue of its stock is $.,I(S per share, nnd as high ns $3.fxi has been bid. The percentage of increase to cnpital ac cording to its last year's earnings is 27012 per rent. It has for several year paid annual dividends of 100 per cent." EXPLOSION AT INDIAN HEAD. 8hock Felt Twenty Mile Powder Magaifn Supposed to be Doitroyed. An explosion occurred nt the Indian Mend proving grounds about II o'clock Wednesday night. A flash of light visi ble some distance accompanied the ex plosion, which was followed by a fire. Ihe explosion shook the window of houses in Alexandria, 1) miles away. There is no direct communication with ihe proving grounds and details cannot be bad, 'I lie grounds are 25 mile Sown the Potomac river from Washing ton, niul the big guns nnd armor for tho battleships nre tested there. It is believed the powder magazine ni'd other buildings were destroyed. A iiutnl.i r of explosions followed at in tervals, illuminating the surrounding country and the opposite bank of the river. CIVIN0 AWAY HIS FORTUNE. Rich Alatkan Chloltaln Making Brave Happy. Will Impovemh Himself, The greatest potlatih given for many years in Alaska, is now in progress at Kulckwan, mar Pyramid harbor. George Klnrfish, the richest Alaskan '. Iiicftain, who made his money in trad ing, is giving away the saving of 20 yars that his name may be handed down as a generous chieftain. Two thousand Indians are present. Feast ing, dancing nnd gaming make up the I'rogram, which will last for a month. Ten thousand dollars' worth of blank ts, flour, tents, guns and hymn book will be distributed. Ily the time the feast is ended Chief Klarfish will be penniless. John Addlton Porter Doomed. John Addison Porter, formerly secre tary to. President McKinley, lies dan gerously ill at his residence in Pomfret, Conn., suffering from a disease which must result in death. Recently a ver dangerous operation was performed. Mr. Porter rallied from the shock and is resting comfortable, but while hi death is not expected immediately, no hopes are held out for his recovery. , Oil Gusher on a Poor Farm. A good well was brought in on the T 1 . . U - I . t 1 i'.(il luiimy pool iririll SOUU1 Ul IIIO j fJhio rivcr J ie moll, of RaccorT creek three miles from Heaver, Pa. W. ' C. Kelly, of Shannopin, put down the well. The fact that he is leasing many farms in the neighborhood would indi cate that he has a good paying well. It is only a few miles from the famous Morrow well which in it time pro duced 5,000 barrels a day. CABLE FLASHES. The Bavarian government ha order ed the rebuilding of the tombs of the ancient German emperors in the cathe dral of spires. The French steamer Faidherhe was funk in collision with the steamer Mi tidja off the Spanish coast and 24 peo ple were drowned. At Lima, Peru, there is a str movement on foot to establish, , Peruvian capital, a line of steamsH to ply along the coast. Fifty persons were killed and mai others terribly scalded by a boiler I J plosion on board the steamer Eugent I running Detween iomsk and Barnat Russia. Lord Wolscley on retiring from post ol commander-m-chiel, will an extended tour in Canada. Baron von Richthofen, unde tary of the foreign office, has bee J jointed to succeed count von BU as minister of foreign affairs. I A dispatch from Guayaquil sa Ecuadoran congress has made a"' mruts by which the country its entire lortign debt. Hon. Wm. P. Schreiner, the ? premier ol Cape Colony, has re his seat in parliament, owing to tkd listent opposition of the ExtremuA the Afrikander.
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