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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.