t NEW Mil Oil FIELD LOCATED. A LARGE GUSHER. Th Well It Located Near tho Gulf of Mexico and In New Territory Land Being Leased. J. M. Guffcy, of rittshurg, Ta., has just struck in Tcax what promises :o be a phenomenal oil gusher. The well was drilled in last Thursday and began to belch forth oil at an estimated rate of 15.000 barrels a day. On Saturday Mr. Guffcy received a telegram saying that the production o( the well had increased to 20,000 barrels. Sunday night Mr. Guffcy receiv ed another telegram which stated tljat the well was (lowing at the rate of between jo.ooo and 25.000 bar rels a day. A lake of fully 50,000 bar rels of oil has been formed by banking and damming a ravine into which the well product tbnvs. The strike was made at a depth of about l.om feet, and the specific gravity of the product is about 37 degrees, the same as that of the oil from the Corsi eana development, which is 240 mil.'S northwest of '.lie present well. Land trailing divides excitement with the oil. Hundreds of leases have been negotiated ami every foot of ground for jo miles around the property is being tapped for sinus of oil. Large orders for special machinery arc bring sent out, and representatives of syndicates are sending away scores of cipher telegrams. Beaumont, I'ort Arthur anil Sabine Pa-s are wildly hilarious at the developments and prospects. RAW MATERIAL IMPORTS. figures, ol the Bureau ol Statistics Hnvo Nearly Doubled Since 18S6. The manufacturers of the eouncy hav: imported more raw material for use manufacturing in the year 1000 than in any 1 receding year in the history of our import trade. The total material of for eign production imported in a crud.; condition during the year just ended amounts to over $-'75,000,000, and if to this is added the total of "articles wholly or partially manufactured for use as ma terials in manufacturing" the grand total of manufacturers' materials im ported would amount to over $".60,000. coa, or nearly 45 per cent, of the total importations. This statement is bas.-1 upon it months' detailed figures alread;' received by the treasury bureau of sta tistics, to which is added an estimate for the twelfth month. December, based upon the figures of the preceding month. This statement puts the importation of taw material in the 12 months ending with December, 1000, at $j-6,6jS,ooo. against $267,403,050 in 1809: $i62I7J,7j'j in 1806, and $100,523,494 in 1894. PLAN NEW CAMPAIGN. Irish Members ol Parliament Hope to Get Home Rule. The Irish nationalists are preparing for .a vigorous campaign at the coming session of parliament. The difference between the factions are settled, and the general sentiment is one of uncompromising determina tion to assert Ireland's right to self-government along the lines laid down by Charles Stewart Parnell. There is no hope of any concession of Irish home rule by Lord Salisbury's government, but something may be wrung from the Tories in the -way cf wiping out the remaining evils of land lordism. The Irish cause was never more hopeful than to-day, for the greater the troubles of England abroad the better the prospect for the vindication of Iri ill rights. CUBA'S NEW CONSTITUTION. Congress Will be Asked to Dispose of Cuban Question. Members of the Cuban constitutional convention have decided to complete the work by January 28,' when Congress will be asked to dispose of the Cuban question. Natives demand that pledges be carried out. The constitution will be similar to that of the United State. The presideot is elected for six ycara. There will be six states, each with a governor and a legislature, the former having absolute veto power. Rela tions with the United States are left to the first congress that meets upon the island. RAIDED MOONSHINERS. Government Officers Confiscate an Illicit Still, But Owners Escape. V. J.. Dixpn, revenue inspector of the Twenty-third district of Pennsylvania, assisted by F. O. Dupont and. 'Squire GiUlner, of Rockwood, captured, the largest- still ever taken in the county. There wore two large copper kettle, with a capacity of about 240 gallon, both bright and lately put to use. There were also eight coils of copper, knowi as a worm. The still was- situated in a ravine in the heart of the Laurel Hill mountain. Two paid guides le I them to the spot. The moonshiners would have been captured, but a gnn was fired as a signal when the officers were withi 1 aoo yards of the place. Fatal Crush in Thoater. A harmless little spark, mounting up ward through a register in the Twelfth Street Turner hall, Chicago, caused some timid person in the packed audi torium to cry "Fire." This caused a panic, and in the struggle of 600 wo men and children to get out, seven, three children, and four women, were crushed to death, while 22 were injured and eight are missing. Samoane Receive Money. The monev, amounting to over $41, 000, which the government of Great Britain, Germany and the United States promised to pay . the Samoans for the surrender of their arms after the la.it war, is now being distributed. There is yet a large number of guns held by t bamoans ol uerman-samoa, and Uov ernor Solf has issued orders request . ing the delivery of all guns held by na tives to the Government before the end of the month. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Count I.amsdorf has been appointed Russian minister of foreign affairs. Federal authorities nrc taking steps to stop threats to Millionaire Cudahy. - No Knife, the last chief of the Omaha Indian tribe, is dead, aged 1 15 years. A mine boss at Steubenville, O., is threatened with assassination by anarch ists. Incendiaries attempted to destroy the Cudahy mansion at Omaha, Neb., Fri day evening. General O. O. Howard favors the army canteen and says Congress has made a mistake. William Waldorf Astor has made an other gift of $J5,ooo for the families cf British soldiers. Dr. I'upin's discoveries at Columbia university makes telephoning across the Atlantic now possible. The congressional committee secures additional important evidence in its in quiry into the Booz ease. Efforts of a faithful sister finally se cured William W. Kennedy's pardon from the Indiana penitentiary. The Pawnill Lake Irrigation Com pany, of Kansas City, Mo., capital $1, 500.0110, has been incorporated. London physicians claim the elixir of life, known as sodium chloride or com mon salt, is many centuries old. An explosion of gas in coal mine No. 5. at Hondo, Caliuila. Mexico, killed (our men and injured jo others. Ex-Congressman Hogg, of West Virginia, life-long Democrat, announces his conversion to Republicanism. From Merlin it is denied that Germany is trying to place a loan of ooo.ooo.oix marks in New York and London. Absolute control of the van interests of the nation's express companies said to be the plan of railroad magnates. Rankin Clemens, a wealthy farmer f Fayette county, Ky., will probably die as the result of an assault by robbers. The act for the organization of the metropolitan police oi Manila has been passed by the Philippine commission. Patrick Dondy and James Hooliha i were fatally injured by an explosion in the Standard (Jil works in Brooklyn. Russia's representative denies any in tention on the part of his government to make separate treaties with China. The Greene county (Ark.) bank sus pended and went into the hands of a re ceiver. There is a shortage of $34,000. Twenty nurses have reigned from the Bellevue hospital. New York, and more sensational developments are expected. Filipino civil officers notify insurgent leaders that they must lay down their arms or be hunted by their own country men. The law department of the W-sconsin university has been closed, owing to a case of smallpox among the. 300 stu dents. The transport Sheridan has sailed from Manila with 27 officers and 654 men of the Thirty-seventh volunteer in fantry. Ex-Councilman II. F. Lehan, of Cam bridge, Mass., has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for illegal natural ization. T. W. Lewis, an American locomotive engineer, imprisoned in Mexico because his train ran down a native, has been released, A resolution has been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature favoring elec tion of United States senators by popu lar vote. ... The Escuadra gold mine, near Oa tian, state of Oaxaca, Mexico, has been sold' to a New York syndicate for $3, 500,000, . Fire starting on the isteamcr Idlewild, in the Erjc basin, nt New Y'ork, did $500,000 damage to shipping, stores and buildings. ' The heaviest snowstorm that has vis ited Colorado in many years is now rag ing. Most of the railroads arc entirely blockaded. Many measures for the benefit of the farmer will be pushed by State agricul tural department in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Receivers have been appointed for the Wilson Mercantile Company, of Wash ington, 1ml., which went into voluntary bankruptcy. The United States gunboats Annap olis, Frolic; Wompatuck ahd Piseata qua have sailed .from Hamilton, Ber muda, for Manila. At Philadelphia. Ta.. John Gee. 16 years of age, committed suicide with a icvoivcr. Me had been reprimanded ot itis mother for laziness. Samuel R. Vansant was inaugurated governor of Minnesota Wednesday. Robert Pitcairn, superintendent cf the Pennsylvania railroad, has been ap pointed brigadier general for the inaug ural parade at Washington. The Cowcnhaven tunnel, near Aspen. Colo..- was discovered on tire Wcdnes day. .1 he-fire is Hear the Smuggler nunc and, is considered dangerous. Thomas.C. Mosber,' a young farmer, was murdered at Gorham, Me his aged mother nearly killed and the premises looted by a negro and a white man, Fourteen1 hundred and fity pounds of dynamite exploded at Colchester Point, Vt., wliile the workmen were all at din ner. . According to the annual report of the New York state commissioner of prisons, drunkenness throughout the state has increased to an alarming ex tent. Capt. C. W. King, charged with ac cepting bribes from a contractor on government work at Alobile, Ala., is being investigated by the war depart-. ment. , . At Trenton, N. J., application has been made in the United States circuit court for the appointment of a receiver for the Cuban Land and Steamship Company. Carupano, the last town occupied bv the Colombian revolutionists, has sur rendered. The departments of Bolivia and Magdalena are said to have bee l completely paeihcd. Sevante Anderson, a Swede, hot and killed his wife and probably fatal v wounded his mother and 5-year-old boy at their home in Jamaica i'lain, Mats, He then killed himself. The meeting of the Beet Sugar asso ciation at Detroit adopted resolutions protesting against any reciprocity which would admit tropical sugars to the American market tree ol duty. IHE BOERS STRIKE ANOTHFR BLOW. DESPERATE RAIDS. Dewet Flogged and Shot British 8ubecti Whs Went to Arrange Terms ol Peace. Lord Kitchener Reports. Gen, Kitchener reports as follows from Frctoria, under date of Sunday: About 1.400 Boers crossed the line, at tacking both Zuurfontein and Kaalfon tein stations, but were driven off. They are being pursued by a cavalry brigade. Three agents of the peace committee were taken as prisoners to Dewet'J laager, near Lindley. One, who was a British subject, was flogged and then shot. The other two, burghers, were Hogged by Dewet's orders. Details of the attacks upon Kaalfon- tein Zuurfontein show that there were only small garrisons of about 120 men at each station. The British had excel lent trenches, which enabled them to withstand the attacks until the Boers, having ascertained that reinforcements were coming to the garrisons, 'retired. At Zuurfontein a party of Boers in khaki captured a British patrol of eight men, whom they subsequently liberated. SITUATION IS WORSE. England Greatly Worried Over tho Condition in Couth Atrlca. The situation in South Africa grows worse rather than better. Lord Kitch ener's dispatches are more laconic tha 1 those of Lord Roberts and little else ot importance is allowed to come through 1 lie London limes in nil editorial InuU comfort in the thought that the "pro cess of attrition is doing its work and must shortly lead to the inevitable re sult. " In other quarters, however, theie is less satisfaction with the position of I'flairs, which has practically necessitat ed the fortification of Cape Town. No steps linve been taken to comply Wt.i Lord Kitchener's demands for reinforce ments. Friday morning's dispatches report that a small party of Boers carried off cattle close to the east fort at Pretoria. Nine hundred Boers under Command ant Kritzinger are 13 miles from Rich mond, in the direction of Murravshiiri'. Kumors are spreading at Porterville that the rebels have joined the Boers in the Calvinia district. Kitchener's latest report of fights along the railroad be tween Pretoria and the coast says thai l British were killed and 62 wounded. MONSTER LAND DEAL. Last ol the Federal Land Grant ot 1864 Hat Been 8old. What is said to be the largest real estate transaction ever made in the Northwest was closed Saturday, where by the Northern Pacific Railwaay Com pany disposes of the entire remaining portion of the Federal land grant of 1004 to a syndicate composed of iManka- to and St. Paul capitalists. 1 lie lands lie 111 North Dakota, be tween the Missouri and the James rivers, and embraces a tract of a mil lion and a half acres. The lands arc mostly wild, but include some of the finest ranch property in the West. Set tlements will be pushed at once and al ready applications have been received front more than 700 families desiring Homes upon the tract. Commodore Henderson Dead. Commodore Alexander Henderson. chief engineer United States navy, re tired, is dead at his home in Yonkcrs, N. Y. Commodore -Henderson wis born in Washington, D. C, on July 12, 1832. He entered the navy. as a third assistant engineer in February, 1851. He was in Commodore Perry's licet which visited the Orient in 1852-5, and opened up Japan to intercourse with western civilization. He served in the Mediter ranean 111 1857, and took part in the Paraguay expedition in 1858. He again served in the Mediterranean in 1859 and 1800, and in the Northern fleet throughout the Civil War. Another Kidnaping. - Frank G. Thompson, son of a wealthy farmer living near Steward, III., is miss ing from his home, and it is believed has been kidnaped. A reward of $500 has been offered by the youth s father for any information concerning the whereabouts, and double that amount will be paid for his return. ... To Raise Tea In the South. The announcement was made bv the agricultural department in .Washington a few days ago that two syndicates were being formed to raise tea in larore 011:111- titics on the fertile 'truck lands near Charleston. 1-allowing this statement is the announcement that Connecticut millionaires have negotiated for the nur. chase of more than 4,000 acres of land near Charleston, where 300,000 pounds of tea would be raised annually for the American market, and that other lands would nrobablv be bought for the use of the syndicate. . German Canal Figures. The enlarged canal bill introduced in the lower house of the diet at Berlin provides for the Midland canal 260,000, 000 marks; for the .Berlin Stettin canal, 41,000,000 marks; for the improvement of the Warthe and a connection with the Vistula, 23,000,000 marks; for the Oder tidewater canal, 41,000,000 marks, and for the Havel and Spree canal, 10, 000,000 marks, a total of 384,000,000 marks. X lie finance minister is empow ered to sell bonds to raise the neces sary funds. A Reward Offered. Capt. N. H. Frazer, of Union Springs, Ala., has offered through Chief of Poll. Ilixon, of that city, $500 reward for the return of his son, Bass Frazer, who is supposed to have been kidnaped from the Atlanta Technological ichool, whence he disappeared on January' 5. He Is 19 years old, and Mr. Frazer has received letters purporting to come from kidnapers, saying they are holding the I boy for ransoms. - RICH PICKING. Nearly $18,000 In Money, Promlstory Nolei nd Jewelry Carried Away Work of Professionals, No Clue. When David Ozier, of Shiloh, O., opened the snfe of the Exchange Bank Tuesday morning, he found Just two two-cent stamps with which td begin the business of the day. All the con tents of the safe were taken by cracks men who looted the bank at an early hour Tuesday morning and secured from 17.000 to $18,000. lhry got something over $1,000 in money and considerable jewelry and other valuables, but the bulk 01 the booty was $12,000 to $15,000 worth of notes. A few of these were secured by mortgages, but the greater part were promissory notes ranging from $10 to $500 each, representing money loaned by Mr. Ozier to the farm ers of that neighborhood nnd for which he now has nothing to show. With tools stolen from the railroal section house, near the station, the rob bers forced open the front door of the building. A hole was drilled in tlu combination of the safe and worked the combination by band. The safe was closed after being rilled and everything was left in order. The burglars then drove to Norwalk, J5 miles away, wheic they turned the stolen rigs into a field. The thieves did their work so quietly that no one was aroused, and left no clew beyond the strong probability tint the job was engineered by cracksmen from Cleveland. MINT MADE A RECORD. The Coinage Output Was Groetcr Last Year Than Evor Boloro. Mr. George E. Roberts, director of the mint, in his annual report, sljows that the coinage of the past year was in excess of that executed in any previous car in the history of the service, aggre gating $141. 351,1)60, as compared with $130,855,(176 in the last fiscal year. The value of the gold coinage was slightly below that of the previous year, being $107,937,110, as compared with $108,177, 180. The coinage of silver dollars was $18,244.1)84, as compared with $18,254, 700. in the previous year. The chief in crease was in the output of subsidiary and minor coins, which surpassed all records, and. it it stated, may doubt less be attributed to the extraordinary activity of retail trade throughout the country. The coinage of subsidiary sil ver amounted to 54,114,270 pieces of the value of $12,876.8411, and of minor coins to the extraordinary total of 103,301,753 pieces of the value of $2,243,107. The scignorage, or profit, on this coinage was $5,477,525. CABLE FLASHES. The czar will review a marine celebra tion near St. Petersburg January 24. Vancouver, u. is covered by about four feet of snow, which is, still falling. The liabilities of the 16 brokerage firms which failed in London as-irreaate $10,000,000. The American hospital ship Maine has arrived at Southampton with in valids from China. According to advices from Berlin the death of Dowager Empress Frederick is again causing anxiety. Passengers and crew of the steamer Russie. cast awav on the French const. have been finally rescued. The French Mediterranean fleet wi'l made additional experiments in wireless telegraphy and night signaling. M. Lukacs, former Hungarian minis ter of commerce, committed suicide by drowning himself in the Danube. Carlists arc agitating in Soain. and the government is sending warships to the coast to prevent the landing of arms. Advices from the Congo Free Stale say that a mutiny among native troops has occurred and that serious outrages are reported. Twenty persons were killed and 312 injured in a panic during the fete of Tashi-no-Ichi, in the Kanda district of Tokyo, Japan. . A large meeting of Zionists has voted to call a national Jewish congress for the protection of threatened Hebrew interests tn ucrmany. A dispatch from Reggio di Calabria announces the arrest of Stephano di Lorenzo, a companion of the celebrated Italian brigand, Mussolino. All . the German pipe foundries, a;- cording to a dispatch from Colomie. have joined the pipe trust, .winch is be ing organized this month. Heavy weather has set in throughout Spain. Snow is falling and the muil trains are delayed. ' It is officially reported that 400 fish crmen are missing nnd that they are supposed to have perished in a storm oil the west coast of Japan, Samuel Lewis, of London, the noto rious money lender and usurer, who has been called the- greatest and meanest of modern Shylocks, is dead. The Bucharest correspondent says that five, .Roumanian soldiers, wliile go ing borne, were attacked nnd eaten bv wolves after a desperate struggle. A nmsj meeting was held at Barce lona for the purpose of formulating demand upon the Spanish government or the suppression of bull fights. The Spanish government is project ing the establishment of wireless tel egraphy in Spain, Morocco and Ten cril'fe and the other Canary islands. Because of Willi am T. Stead's oro. Boerism. the poor law guardians of Wolly, England, have refused to accept his gift of books and pictures for the work house. Advices state that 120 people were frozen to death in a blizzard which raged for four days over Southern Rus sia. Railroad trains are buried in drifts 35 feet deep. In London a royal commission under the presidency of Lord Kelvin has been appointed to investigate the recent wide spread outbreak of arsenical beer pois oning. Prince Herbert Bismarck disavows the interview which quoted him as saying that Germany had completed plans to engage in a tariff war with the Unite 1 States. The mail from Demcrara brings a re port of large finds of diamonds in the interior of British Guiana. A company has been formed in England to work the cfaime. CHINESE HAVE SIGNED THE NOIL OBJECTIONS ABANDONED. European Power Object to Proposition to Transfer Future Negotiation to Wash Ion Suggestion Withdrawn. As the result of Inquiries in authori tative it is given out that the following statement in regard to the Chinese situa tion is correct: "The Chinese plenipo tentiaries have signed the joint not, thus concluding the preliminary stae tf the negotiations." With regard to the place for tbr nego tiations the feeling favors Shanghai, if any change is made, as it is pointed out that Shanghai is the most important trade center in China and that the south ern viceroys, who are favorable to for eigners and aniotis to further trade, could make their influence felt. Fail ing Shanghai, Berlin or Paris is most likely to lie chosen. As some of the foreign powers do not look with favor upon the proposition 'A the United States for the withdiawal 01 certain features of the negotiations from l'ekin to Washington or some other capital, the President has withdrawn the proposition and has directed the diplo matic representatives of the United Slates abroad to so inform the different governments. A Chinaman from Sian Fit, where th? court is at present, says tha within th? lity 85,000 Chinese troops are drillim? continuously, and the majority of them ure armed with modem rillcs. CHINA WILL BE DIVIDED. England Is Said lo Have Agrocd to the Rus sian Concessions. The London Daily Chronicle gives out the following important statement: "From a trustworthy source we learn that Lord Salisbury has agreed to cede to Russia the railway from Niu Chwang to Shan llai Kwam. It is not known what compensation will be received for the concession. Leading financiers, versed in Chinese affairs who were in terviewed, appeared to think that, if the news were correct it indicated that Lord Salt bury recognized the impossi bility of preventing the partition cl China, and that Russia would get the North and Great Britain the Yang Tsc valley. The original prospectus of the railway company stipulated that the bondholders, mainly Britis.'t, could be bought out at any time at the rate of 120 pounds per 100-pound bond." "Prince Uchtomsky's mission to Pe kin," says a St. Petersburg correspond ent, "was to secure a convention, I un derstand, on the following basis: In re turn for renouncing her claim for war indemnity, Russia demands an indefinite, instead of a oo-ycar lease, of the Liao Tung peninsula nnd of Port Arthur. In other words she demands annexation, as well as the complete possession of the Manchurian railway which, under the existing agreement, reverts to China af ter po years." FAREWELL ADDRESS. Governor Mount, ol Indiana, Make Refer enco to Lynching and Kidnaping. Retiring. GovernorMount, of Indiana, in his farewell message, said in part: "The people of Indiana feel keenly tlu sting of reproach and the justice of the criticism heaped upon the State by rea son of the brutal lynching that have dishonored her good name. Lax en forcement of law brings its fruitage . cf contempt for law. The remedy must be found through the 70-operalion of pood citizens in demanding a rigid en forcement of the law, and not through mob violence." A more stringent la.v is recommended. The governor favors the election -A United States senators bv popular vote and declares that kidnaping should lt made in extreme cases punishaldc bv death or imprisonment for life. Famous Confederate Colonel Dead. Robert Maxwell .Martin, formerly a colonel in the Confederate army, died in a sanitarium in New York, Friday. He was one of Morgan's men, and wis the author of the plot to abduct Vice President Johnson on his way to the in auguration. Martin succeeded to the command of the Third Kentucky cavalry and before the close of the war, when in Canada, formed the plot to abduct Johnson. A $5,000' EMBEZZLEMENT. Trusted Bank Messenger Suddonly- Disap pears Leaves No Clue. Harry K. Deer, of West Etna, Fa., clearing house messenger for the Far mers and Mechanics .bank of Sharpc burg, has disappeared with an embez zlement account of about $5,000 against him and with $5,600 in worthless checks. The. bank is .no financial loser by the young man's departure, as jt was pro tected for half the defalcation by a bond on the Equitable Trust Company, of Pittsburg, and covered the remainder of the amount by sales of the young man's stock and holdings. Detectives are on the lookout for Deer, but no clue is known as to his whereabouts. After Tax Dodgers. The Connecticut General Assembly convened Wednesday, and, after organ izing in both branches, met jointly to participate in the inauguration of Gov. George P. McLean. In his inaugural message Gov. McLean suggested that so-called "moneyed corporations'" should be taxed directly by the State, instead of indirectly through their stockholders, the revenue thus secured to be returned to the towns where tho owners reside. Whole Family Murdered. Louis Currier, of Albany, N. Y., aged 40 years, cut his wife's throat, broke his li-year-old son Archie's head with a base ball bat, took a dose of paris green and then cut his own throat from ear to ear with a razor. A ave dead. Capturing Many Rebel. Tuesday' dispatches say: Several in surgent companies have been captured and destroyed recently in various dis tricts of Luzon and Laroie. TERRIBLE CALAMITY. Fire Break Gtd In Section ol Ih Rochet ter Orphan Asylum An Explosion Add lo th Horror. Fire broke out In the hospital section of the Rochester (N. Y.) orphan asy lum in Hubbell park at l o'clock Tues day morning, and the flames spread rapidly to .other sections of the Institu tion. It Is known that 19 of the chil dren perished, and it is feared that many more victims may be reported later. " The fire was first discovered by two men passing the asylum. They ent in an alarm, and then turned their atten tion toward arousing the nurses and the children. A terrific explosion was then heard, and in a moment the entire hospital section was in flames. On the arrival of the fire apparatus a general alarm was sent in, calling out the entire department. The smoke b'. gan to pour out of every window in the main building, and the screams and frantic cries of the children could 'oe heard. The work of rescue began with a will. Children and nurses were car ried from the building, all in an un conscious condition, some dead. Am bulances from the city, St. Mary's Homeopathic and Hahnemann hospitals were summoned, and the victims were removed to the several institutions. There were 100 children at the hospi tal and a corps of about 30 nurses and , attendants. Two of the women attend ants arc among the dead. The origin of the fire is unknown. The property loss will probably exceed $20,000. Later telegrams say: Twenty-eight corpses lie at the morgue, and 13 per sons, more or less seriously injured, lie nt the hospitals as a result of the terri ble holocaust early Monday morning at the Rochester orphan asylum. Of the dead, 26 were children of either sex, ranging in age from 2 to 14 years, while the remaining two were adults. BOERS WHO WANT PEACE. A Cemmilloe Declares That Dewel and Steyn Alone Prolong War. The Boer Central police committee at Kroonstadt. Cape Colony, which in cludes W. E. DeWet, late assistant chief commandant, three members of the V'olksraad and two justices of the peace, has issued a circular appealing for sub mission to the British. They say: "The time has arrived for the inhao itants of Orange River colony to make an effort to save the country from furth er destruction. The farmers, ruined and facing starvation, are obliged to go to the towns for protection and huge refugee camps have been formed by the British for them. This is caused by on obstinate minority, who will not bow to the inevitable. The British government is willing to settle matters in a way not humiliating to us. We appeal to you to appoint another congress and to nomi nate men of influence out of your list to visit Mr. Steyn and Gen. DeWet and to try to persuade them to accept the terms Great Britain offers. These two men are the only obstacles to peace. We ask you to believe us when we say that Mr. Kruger and tho late Transvaal gov ernment are willing and would already have accepted the British terms, but Mr. Steyn has refused to have anything to do with surrender. He has continued the war and has encouraged the bur ghers with a hope that we would get European assistance. You know and we know how unfounded that hope is. It is your duty to assist us to make him understand this." SOUTHERN E0Y KIDNAPED. Stolen From School In Atlanta Father Un able lo Raise Money. Bass Frascr, son of Captain N. II. Fraser, tax collector of Bullock county, of Union Springs,' is missing from his school in Atlanta and a letter notifies his father that he is kidnaped. Monday afternoon ' Captain Fraser received .a telegram from the boarding house l'l which his son Bass, 18 years old, was boarding, asking his whereabouts. Mon day night Captain Frascr received a let ter from Memphis, directing him send a letter to Kansas City, Mo., -stating how much ransom he would pay, and if it was sufficient he would hear more about the matter. In order' to prove their claim the kidnapers had the son sign the letter. The signature was genuine. It is a peculiar affair, as Captain Fraser is an old gentleman of moderate means and greatly troubled because he is absolutely unable to raise money to recover h: boy. Fatal Railway Collision. The most disastrous wreck on the Monongahcla branch, of the Baltimore & Ohio since its opening to traffic oc curred Tuesday morning at Everson, W. Va., As a result of what is said t have been a misconstruction of orders issued, two locomotives plunged into each other on a high trestle, toppled over and dashed into a ravine, many cars were demolished and seven were killed, while four were injured, one of them seriously. Carnegie' New Tube Plant. Conncaut" harbor, Ohio, is to be the site of the most extensive pipe and tube plant in the world, according to an an nouncement given out by the Carnegie company. About $12,000,000 will be ex pended, outside the purchase price of the site, on a complete plant for the manufacture of iron pipe and steel tun ing, the field in which the National Tute Company now holds almost exclusive sway. Fought Triple Duel. The Mexico City police have arreste six street car conductors who fought' triple miei oeyona tne city limits, of the duelists fought with pistol! the other tour witn swords. I badly wounded by a pistol sJ betore any other casualties oco police arrived and took the w AT THE NATIONAL CAPITtJ The postoffi.ee at Gale, Wa county, has been discontinued; hast rinley. Speaker Henderson, who had I was tuesday able to preside House for the hrst time ne,s' Thursday.
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