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LONDON HORRIFIED.
Women and Children of the Boer Being
Starved to Oeath Order Itsued
to Tak No Prisoner.
Telegrams from London jay: There is
a strong expression of discontent with
Lord Kitchener'. course nt the Cape.
The- disastrous turn which the war lias
taken since Lord." Roberts .'withdrew
from the field is attributed in a large de
gree to llocr resentment antued by the
crurl and oppressive methods which
Kitchener has adopted for the suppres
sion of ibe conllict.
If the reports in regard to Kitchener
are true, Weylcr, the Spanish tyrant,
who drove the Cubans to revolt, was
humane in comparison with the English
general.
The floor women and children .ire
bring concentrated in camps, and then
deliberately starved to death. Their
farms arc burned and their crops de
stroyed, and then they arc herded with
in certain lines which they arc forbid
den to leave under pain of being shut
du'i.
The women and children are said to
be perishing by scores nml hundred,
and when it is remembered that the
Boers are a free people and not rebels
against the power which is seek inn to
crush them, the Kitchener policy seems
all the more infamous.
It is in effect a policy of extermina
tion and it i the knowledge of this
fact and the feeling that their own ex
tinction will follow the crushing out
of the Transvaal Dutch that is making
nearly every British subject of Dutch
descent in Cape Colony and Natal a
friend of the Uocr invaders, and a se
cret or open foe of the English.
Hundreds of Dutch colonists have en
listed in the llocr ranks and the latter
are at least twice as strong as they v-rc
when the crossed the Orange liver.
A dispatch from Cape Town says tint
the English residents arc in a panic and
in the sections of Cape Colony occupied
or threatened by the llocr. the En;
lish are appealing to their Dutch neigh
bor for protection.
The feeling against Lord Kitchener
and lii s barbarous system of warfare has
been much intensified by a report to
the effect that he had ordered the troops
operating against DcW'et to take ivj
prisont rs.
NO TIMBER FAMINE.
Annual Cul On'y Amounts to Two Per Cent
ot Forest Land.
The total exports of timber, lumber
and manufactured wood for the fiscal
year ending June .10, icjo.i, amounted to
$50.50X416. Imports of corresponding
products amounted to $20,591,008, show
ing a balance of almost exactly $.10,000,
000 01 exports of this class over, imports.
About half of these imports come from
Canada, consisting mainly of planks,
boards, logs and shingles. Another prin
cipal feature in our timber imports is the
tropical timber, including Cuban ma
hogany and cedar, and Mexican mahog
any and cedar, and mahognay from
Central and South America and Africa.
The wooded area of the United Stales
is 1.004, 496 square miles, or if per cent,
of the land area. From this standing
supply of timber it is estimated that
from i.8,!0.ooo,ooo,ooo to 2..too,poo,ooo,
000 of board measure feet of lumber arc
available. The annual lumber cut has
been estimated for the year 1800 at 40,
000,000,000 feet; that is, we cut approxi
mately 2 per cent, of our National tim
ber resources annually. Of this cut 13,
000,000,000 are credited to the lake re
gion, 10.000,000.000 to the Southern
States, 6.000,000,000 to the Northwest
and north Atlantic States, 5.000.000,000
to the Central States, 4.000,000,000 to the
f.. Pacific States and 2,000,000,000 to the
y mountain States, indicate that our timber
f supply is not disappearing at an alarm
ing rate, provided the destructive waste
of forest fires can be prevented.
California Town Snowed In.
Wolverville, county teat of Trinity
county, in the northern part of Cali
fornia, has been snowbound since the
latter part of December. Two men
have come out on horseback, enduring
many hardships. They report provn
lons extremely scarce. One man was
frozen to death. Efforts will be made
to take in mail and supplies by pack
trains,
NO REWARD FOR MOB.
Gov. Stanley, of Kansas, Sayt it Would Bo
Useless to Offer it.
Gov. Stanley, of Kansas, says he will
not offer a reward for the arrest of any
one concerned in the burning of Fred
erick Alexander, the negro, at the
stake in Leavenworth, "It would be
of .absolutely no use to issue the offer,"
. said the governor. "If the guilty per
sons were arrested they would neces
sarily have to undergo the first trial in
Leavenworth county, and on account of
the present condition of public senti
ment there it would be useless to at
tempt to prosecute anybody there for
the crime,"
A joint resolution has been passed by
the Legislature 'condemning the Leav
enworth lynching. It favors rigid in
vestigation and demands that the per-
Went Over Niagara Falls.
John Wiser and John Marsh, of Ni
agara Falls, attempted to cross Niagara
. river above the falls. They lost control
Yof their boat and were carried into the
y rapids. Wiser, who was unable to swim,
was swept over the falls and drowned.
Marsh, after a desperate struggle in the
, icy water, was rescued by persons along
' the shore.
Oklahoma Mission Destroyed.
The Catholic Mission of the Sacred
Heart was burned in Potawamac coun
ty, Oklahoma, rendering homeless four
hundred persons. No lives were losr.
he building was entirely destroyed, en-
ailing a heavy loss. The Sacred Heart
Mission was established in 1876 by the
Vsuit fathers, for the Indians. The
'lurch was the finest in the West, cot
.ining a library of 20.000 volumes, in
iding many ancient books from Italy,
nce and Spain.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
. A mob of 2no masked men burned the
pesthousc at South Omaha, Neb.
The business portion of Roanne, Ind.,
was wiped out by fire. Loss, $75,000.
It is reported that Andrew Carnegie
will give Conncaiit. O., a free library.
At Lebanon, Tenn., fire destroyed five,
business houses. Loss, $75,000, partly
insured. ,
As a result of a riot nt Corbiu, Ky.,
three persons are dead and three or four
others wounded.
Wholesale dealers in tea are com
plaining that their business' is suffering
from the war tax. ' .' ' .
The Italian steamer Lono ha been,
lost. Many bodies from th Week have
been washed ashore. sty
Gov. Allen signed the first bill passed
by the Puerto Kican Legislature, pro
viding for jury trials. 1
The U. S. S. Scorpion has been dis
patched to Guianoco, Venezuela, to pro
tect American interests.
Four firemen were injured and $35,000
worth of property was destroyed in a
Chicago fire Saturday night.
A death in New York revealed that
the deceased, who always passed as a
man, was really an old woman.
DeWet is said to have crossed the
Vaal river and to be concentrating hi)
commandoes for a united attack.
ft is rxpected' that the public Ses
sions of the Cuban constitutional con
vention will begin next Monday.
Five Chinese girl were sold at auc
tion in San Francisco, Cab, Saturday,
bringing from $1,750 to $2,500 each.
The naval appropriation bill carries
$77,016,635, and provides for two new
battleships and two armored cruisers.
Four children of Benjamin Miller, of
Elkhart. Ind., were burned to death by
a lamp exploding while Miller was ab
sent. An Ashtabula (O.) colored youth,
who tried to extort $500 from a banker
by a threatening letter, was trapped and
captured.
Uncle Sain will hold the present gov
ernment of Venezuela responsible for
any damage done to American asphalt
interests.
Lord Kosebery says immense for
tunes and business sagacity of Ameri
cans threaten England's commercial
prosperity.
The lynchers of a Florida Iranswreek
er cut otf his lingers as mementos. One
of them fainted at the negro's efforts to
save himself.
Congressional committeemen investi
gating the Ilooz cases nt West Point
characterize hazing as villainous and
contemptible.
Frank Crowell, superintendent of
Swiit & Co.'s glue factory, was killed
by smoke at a tire in a Chicago apart
ment house.
The National Rolled Steel Car Com
pany is preparing to build a $1,500,000
plant near Pittsburg, Fa., to build cars
of rolled steel.
F'x-Gov. James A. Mount, of Indiana,
expired suddenly at his hotel nt In
dianapolis Wednesday. Heart trouble
was the cause.
A valet, an ex-United States soldier,
looted the jewel box of Mrs. Joseph
(iarsidc, in a London hotel, securing
$75,000 in valuables.
W. II. Haskins has been re-clectcj
president of the Ohio Mine Workers,
b. H. Sullivan, of Coshocton, was
elected vice president.
Physicians announce that Queen Vic
toria's death is fast approaching. Mem
bers of the royal family arc at the bed
side, awaiting the end.
At New rtaltimare, Mich.. WillianrF.
Sandell & Co.'s bank was broken into
by cracksmen, wlio forced open the safe
and secured about $3,500.
In a battle with horse thieves Cashier
Volt, of a fifayelte, Ind., bank, was
shot and one of the thieves was serious
ly wounded before capture.
An anonymous gift of $400,000 has
been made to Syracuse (N. Y.) univer
sity, conditioned upon a similar sum be
ing raised by the institution.
Attorney David C. Fitzgerald, of Buf
falo, has been indicted in eight cases
by the grand jury', charging subordina
tion of perjury in divorce trials.
Martin Wright, late Socialist candidate
for governor of Utah, was instantly kill
ed bv the discharge of'a revolver, which
accidentally fell from his pocket.
Venezuela is defying the United
States in the dispute over the asphalt
lake claimed by the Bermudcz Aspha't
Company, and bloodshed is feared.
The four classes at West Point held
meetings and decided to abolish all
forms of hazing, and the congressional
investigating committee was so notified.
Both branches of the Colorado Legis
lature have adopted resolutions provid
ing for a joint committee to investigate
the grievances of the striking coal min
ers. At Berlin, Ontario, a 5-year-old child
of Mrs. Katherinc Ebcl was abducted
by a man wdio secured the child under
the excuse that he wanted its photo
taken.
It is practically assured that neither
West Virginia nor Iowa will be admit
ted to the competitive coal field nt the
coming convention of miners at Indian
apolis. Two persons were seriously injured
and .15 others slightly hurt in a fire
which destroyed the Stewart hotel, St.
Louis. Mo. Forty guests lost their
clothing.
It is reported that a lot of Creek In
dians, known as the Snake Band, are up
in arms near Eufalula, I. T., and that a
peaceable Creek, resisting arrest, has
been shot.
The plant of the Pennsylvania Chair
Company, at Towanda, was destroyed
by fire Friday, causing a loss of $30,000
on the buildinf and machinery and $65,
000 on the stock.
The India government has accepted
the Indian currency committee's pro
posal of 1898. providing that the profit
on the coinage of rupees be kept in gold
as a special reserve.
The coroner's verdict in the Fredonin
(N. Y.) normal school fire finds that do
officers of the school were criminally
to blame lor tne ueatns ot tlie 11 stu
dents and the janitor.
The Pacific Charter Company which
has been organized in San bUncisco,
proposes to bring 1.000,000 Jfhinese to
Mexico and establish fisheVes, canner
ies and warehouses along Jhe coast.
PLOT REVEALED BI RNARGKIST.
WANTS PROTECTION.
A Greek Tellt New York Judge of a Band
Formed lo Rill Americans Several
.', . Conspirator Arrested.
Elia Masuras, a Greek, the com
plainant in an assault case which came
before .City Judge. Kellogg, of Yonkers,
N. Y., Sunday, told a startling tale of
a plot of Greek anarchists to kill prom
inent Americans, and would have told
more had the court not stonned him and
turned him over to the police that they
might quietly investigate the case. Sev
eral arrests have already been made and
a number more are planned.
itn tlie stand Masuras said that In
Greece he had been a member of nn an
archist society. Some time ago it feil
to hi lot to kill a public man in the
United States and he was ordered to
conic to this country and place himself
under the orders of the American
branch of the society.
After reaching America he affiliated
himself with a branch of the anarchist
organization at Yonkers, but finally be
came frightened, withdrew and refused
to carry out the mission entrusted to
him. whereupon an attempt was made
to kill him which led to the exposure.
The police assert that they believe the
story told by Alasuras. and they say that
the affair has led to the discovery of an
anarchist band of a dangerous charac
ter. TROUBLE WITH VENEZUELA.
President Castro la Provoking a Quarrel WWi
the United States.
The navy department has sent its in
structions to Commander Sargent, of
the gunboat Scorpion, to sail from La
guyra, Venezuela, for Guanoco to pro
tect American interests at the latter
place.
hile our efforts to straighten ogt
the complications with Venezuela are
much embarrassed by the growth of the
revolutionary movements, fur there are
two, the issue is made directly with the
Venezuelan government, as represented
by the de facto president, Castro. . It is
his agents who are threatening to seize
the arms of the New York and Iter
nuuiez Company's employes, which
movement the Scorpion is to prcve.it
if she. can reach the point of trouble
in time. Stale department officials re
gret that the Castro element is not meet
ing the ndyances of the United States
in n conciliatory spirit, but is showing
n disposition to resent the department's
request that no arbitrary action be tak
en respecting the asphalt concessions
until the incumbents have had an op
portunity to assert their legal right.
The aspect is regarded as unpromising
for n speedy settlement, and the case
will require to be handled with great
delicacy to avoid an open rupture.
DIED TO ESCAPE LYNCHING.
Defaulting Bank Cashier Suicides Rather
Thin Risk Mob Violence.
The town of Wathcna, Kan., is in a
panic over the wrecking of the State
bank, whose cashier, Frank Harpster,
blew out his brains and thus escaped
lynching at the hands of the townspeople,
more than 250 of whom are rendered
penniless by the wildcat speculations of
the cashier with the bank's funds. . It is
definitely known that Harpster squan
dered $1.10,000 of the people's money
and how much more it is impossible to
tell at present.
1 he feeling against the board of direc
tors of the bank is bitter, and it only
requires a leader to attempt to inflict
capital punishment upon those wdio are
morally guiltv of some of the acts of
the cashier, because they paid no at
tention to the affairs of the institutions,
but permitted Harpster to loot it at his
will.
The losses from the failure of the
bank have wide ramifications. All
classes are affected. It will fall most
heavily upon the poorer tradesmen,
workiugmcn ajid farmers.
Pension Claims Lost.
More than 80.000 pension claims in
the office of Milo B. Stevens & Co., at
Washington, D. C, were dcsiioycd in
the fire Saturday night. Many of the pa
pers were to be used as evidence in at
tempting to secure favorable action bv
the Pension Office on claims, and can
not be replaced.
In addition to the nension claim.
there were destroyed thousands of
claims pending before the Treasury De
partment and J'atent UlJice. In these
the loss will fall upon the claimants.
HAZING CONDEMNED.
Senator Allen Makes Pointed Remark on
West Point Practice.
In discussing the army bill Senator
Allen, Populist, Nebraska, made a vio
lent attack upon hazing at the West
Point military academy and declared
that the prize fighter is a gentleman
compared with some of those young ruf
fians nt West Point. "Place one,'" he
said, "of the old volunteer officers at
the head of that place, and in six weeks
he will stop hazing or there will be
some dead cadets. I have information
which leads me to believe that hazing
at West Point is r.csorted to for the
purpose of forcing out of the institu
tion cadets appointed from civil life, in
order to make room for the sons of
army officers. And if thev cannot force
out the cadet by humiliation and in
timidation, they prescribe a course of
examination which they could not pass
themselves, and thus force the proscrib
ed cadet from the school."
Gen. A. J. MacKay Dead.
Gen. Andrew Jackson Mackay died
after few days' illness in New York,
Friday. He was quartermaster general
on the staff of Gen. George H. Thomas,
who commanded the army of the Cum
berland. He was born at Caledonia, N.
Y., and possessed a ranch in Texas un
til the war began. He enlisted in Wash
ington when the first call for volunteers
came and rose to the rank of general af
ter servipg throughout the five year of
strife.
KANSAS LYNCHERS.
Supposed Murderer ol Pearl Forbes Dragged
From Jail and Cremated Dead Girl'
Father Applied the Match.
Fred Alexander, the negro who on
Saturday evening attempted to assault
Mis Eva Roth and who was supposed
to have assaulted' and killed Peart
Forbes, in Leavenworth, Kan., in No
vember last,' was taken from the sheriff's
guard by a mob Tuesday and burned 'at
the stake at the scene of his crimes, half
a dozen blocks from the center of the
city. Probably 8,000 people witnessed
the .lynching.
The negro wa taken from hi. cell
in the State penitentiary Tuesday after
noon 'and taken to the Leavenworth
jail, where he was. locked in a cell.
Hardly had the task been completed
when the mob reached the jail and de
manded the prisoner. The crowd first
attempted to gain admission to the jail
by peaceful menns, but Sheriff Ever
hardy refused to grant their demands.
In a trice heavy sledge hammers and
cold chisels were brought into action
and nfter a few minute work the doors
were forced open, and with an exultant
cry the infuriated mob espied the negro
crouching in his cell.
In a short time the doomed man wa
in the jail yard, surrounded by an im
mense throng, which clamored for re
venge. Still protesting his innocence,
Alexander was taken to the scene of the
murder of Pearl Forbes. The first thing
done was to plant a railroad iron up
right in the mud. This was made fast
to cross irons firmly bound to the up
right iron with wire.' Around the im
provised stake wood and boards were
piled. To this the man was dragged
and chained in a standing position to
the upright railroad iron. Chains and
irons were wrapped about him, and,
with his hands still shackled, he was
made fast to the post. Coal oil was
then poured over him.
Coal oil was then applied for tUe sec
ond time, and while it was being done
Alexander called to acquaintance in
the crowd, and said goodby to them.
John Forbes, the father of the mur
dered girl, lighted the match. Again
Alexander was asked to make a con
fession, but he replied that he had noth
ing to say. In live minutes the negro
was hanging limp and lifeless by the
chains that hound him. As soon as the
crowd saw that life was extinct, it be-,
gan to slowly disperse. Hundreds,
however, stayed to the last.
ALVORD GETS THIRTEEN YEARS.
New York Bank Teller Who Got Away With
$690,000, Sentenced
Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., the default
ing note teller of the First National
bank of New York, ha been sentenced
to i,i years' imprisonment. The amount
of his defalcation was $000,000.
Judge Thomas in imposing sentence
said that he must take into considera
tion that the banks were trusted by the
public and that the prisoner nt the bar
liad betrayed this trust. He then sen
tenced him to eight years in Sing Sing
under count 39 of the indictment, which
charged him with making false entries
in the books of the bank, and five years
under count 50, which charged him with
falsifying the clearing house sheet. The
live years' sentence is to begin at the
expiration of the eight years.
The maximum nenalty for the offense
to which Alvord had pleaded guilty is
10 years' imprisonment on each count,
or 20 years in all.
CABLE FLASHES.
The ship Noel Tryvan foundered in the
English channel and It of her crew were
drowned.
Y'oung Baron Rothschild was serious
ly wounded by Count dc Lubersac in a
French duel.
Attention is being called in England
to the commercial depression in Ger
many and Russia.
An explosion in the Koenig Ludwig
mine at Recklinghausen, Westphalia,
Germany, caused 10 deaths.
Verdi, the composer, refused to write
a. National hymn for Italy, saying it
could not be done in time of peace.
The steamer Kaiserin was wrecked on
the island of Rcnneon, in the Indian
ocean, and 25 persons were drowned.
The Prussian government has con
tracted for 255 locomotives, 505 passen
ger cars and 3,060 freight cars, costing
35,715,000 marks.
The city of Amsterdam, Holland, has
appropriated $2,412,000, for an electric
power plant, and there is a chance for
American" bidders.
The Bolivian forces have been de
feated by the army of the republic of
Acre, South America, and are besieged
at Puerto Alonzo.
The Bank of Norway has lowered its
rate of discount from 6'A to 6 per cent.,
indicating that normal business condi
tions again prevail.
Ten persons were killed and many
were injured as the result of an explo
sion in a hat factory at Denton, near
Manchester, England.
The Crown Prince Oscar, of Sweden,
for the first time Thursday opened
rigsdag in his capacity as regent. He
made a good impression.
Mr, Johnstone, a collector of customs,
fought five lions in Northern Rhodesia,
South Africa, killing two, but afterward
died of bites he received.
A celebrated occulist. Prof. Hernnn
Pagenstrecber, of Wiesbaden, is touring
England and the continent attending to
the eyes of royalty and nobility.
Vera Gclo, a Russian girl student at
the college of France, tried to shoot the
aged professor. Another student inter
cepted the bullet" and was badly wound
ed. Fridav Ambassador White presented
the President's congratulations on the
occasion of the celebration of the bi
centenary of the coronation of the first
kiiif of Prussia.
Carupano, the last town occupied bv
the Colombian revolutionist, has sur
rendered. The departments of Bolivia
and Magdalena are said to have been
completely pacified,
A fire in the Institute of Pathology in
Berlin has destroyed a large part of
Professor Virchow's unique collection
of skulls, including specimen from
Peru and; the Philippine.
IS
ENVOY'S PLIGHT.
Delegate fo Fighting Boer Mad prisoner
by Burgher British "Stop the War" .
Commllteo Attack Kllchener. -
Telegram from Pretoria- say : Boer
women, brought in by the 'military, rc
poft that William Sleyn, who was-appointed
a delegate of the Boers to nsk
the fighting Boers to surrender under
Lord Kitchener' proclamation, wa
made a prisoner and sent to Pietrewief,
accused of high treason. . , .
Boer families and their stock are be
inu brought into convenient centers
from all over the country. They nrc
kept in camps and fed. Those who sur
render voluntarily are supplied with full
ration and the Women whose husbands
nrc still in the field are provided for
on a reduced scale, which is raised wh?n
the husbands surrender to a full allow
ance. Colville's column, marching from New
Denmark to Vlaklaagte, wa attacked by
1.000 Boers, divided into two forces.
The cavalry were compelled to retire
until protected by four companies of
rifle, .hidden behind a ridge, who were
waiting with bayonet. The Boers then
made a speedy retreat, leaving several
dead and wounded from the heavy Brit
ish fire. Eventually both attacks were
repulsed, the Boer losing heavily. The
British lost one killed and 15 wounded.
The London "stop the war" commit
tee has issued this declaration: "Orders
which a British officer report he per
sonally received reveal the adoption by
Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener of a
policy having for it aim the extcrmina
ton of a heroic nationality by starving
it women and children and the delib
erate massacre of unarmed prisoners."
The latter clause alludes to Gen, Kit
chener's alleged secret orders to Gc;i.
ESCAPED THE GALLOWS.
A Quick Votdict Reached in the Patterson,
- New Jersey, Tragedy.
"We find them guilty of murder in the
second degree." So said Charles Brett,
foreman of the Paterson jury, as he
stood up with his II colleagues, and
looked into the straining eyes of Wal
ter McAlister, Andrew Campbell and
Walter Death. It was 8:05, the hour
nml minute when three months to the
day that Jennie Bosschieter had left her
home in Paterson.' N. J., and started to
ward Kent's drug store, there to encoun
ter two of these men, and to be lured
to the midnight revel that ended in her
death.
The forfeit of life was not demanded.
The youngest of the prisoners will be 11
man of middle age or "more when he
leaves a felon's cell, for the Jersey law
fixes a maximum penalty of 30 years for
murder in the second degree, and tho-e
best informed sax. that Judge Dixon will
impose nothing less than the maximum,
especially as the jury made no discrim
ination and recommended lionc of the
prisoners to mercy. It was a compro
mise verdict that was reached after three
hours' deliberation.
As for the prisoners, they were almost
happy in escaping death. Counsel for
the prisoners announced that the case
would be appealed.
NEW YORK MURDER MYSTERY.
Mangled Eody Discovered in a Trunk on tho
East River Pier.
Within a rusty green trunk, which lay
unnoticed on a pile of skids at the en
trance to pier II, East river. New York,
was hidden a startling murder mystery,
which in many features resembles tbe
Guldensuppe case.
A curious policeman, whn opened the
trunk, found in it the body of a man
whose throat had been cut. Two hours
later the murdered man was identified
by a woman as Mayer Weissbard, a
jewelry peddler, who recently disappear
ed. The man had been murdered and rob
bed and his body stuffed into the cheap
little trunk to hide the crime. The
trunk had been left at the pier some
time early Wednesday morning. The
intention of the murderers wa evidently
to throw the trunk into the East river.
The cut in the man's throat was about
six inehes long and had been done with
unerring aim. The wound was a clean
one and had evidently done its work
almost instantaneously.
The murdered man is 35 years old
and leaves a wife and several children.
When he left home he had a stock of
jewelry valued at $200 and some money.
Philippine Legislation.
The Philippine commission has pass
ed acts giving in domestic products, the
Jolo ' archipelago free trade with all
Philippine ports and providing for the
issuance of licenses to masters and
mates of seagoing vessels.
The United States cable ship Burnsid:
has finished the -vork of laying the ca
ble connecting the island of Negro
with Vorthern Mindanano. Zamboanga
and Jolo will soon be connected.
Mr. H. Phelps Whitemarsh, recently
appointed governor of the province of
Bengnet, reports that several towns in
the province have held elections and
organized local governments.
Fourth Robbery ot One Bank.
Thieves broke into the bank of John
Conway & Co., Rochester, Pa., dyna
mited the safe and got away with about
$.100 in silver and small bills. Since
the bank was robbed last October, the
bulk of the cash has been placed in the
vault of the First National bank for safe
keeping over night and this accounts
for the small amount secured by the
thieves. There is no clue. This is the
fourth time the bank has been robbed.
Tortured With Hot Iron.
Martin Reich, aged 62 years, who liv
ed alone at his home at Shamokin, Pa.,
was the victim of a brutal assault by
masked burglars. The burglars, five in
number, overpowered the old man and
applied red-hot pokers to his body ami
feet until he finally told them where
his money could be found. This amount
ed to $1.13.50. After dividiag the money
among them the burglar pounced upon
Reich and kicked him until he wa al
most dead. They then) made their escape.
QUAY RE-ELECTED.
Th Pennsylvania Legislator Makt Rial
United State 8ena1or Received 1 30
Vote In Hous and Senate.
Colonel Matthew. Stanley Quay won
the battle of his life Tuesday .and will
again be the senior senator from Penn
sylvania. He received the vote of 26
senators and 104 representative .on the,
first and only ballot, three, more than a
majority of both bodies, 'of tlie men
who gave him their votes 128 are Re
publicans, O. R. Washburn is a former
Populist and W. J. Garvin of the first
Schuylkill district was elected as a Dem
ocrat. . '
The remainder of the- vote were
rast a follows: Guffcy, Senate 12,
House 44; Dalzell, Senate 10, House 24;
Smith,. Senate t. House 11; Huff, Sen
ate 1, House 6; Stewart, House 3: Olm
sted, t; Tubbs. ij Harris, 1; McCor
miek, 1; McConway, Ij Swallow, li
The scenes in the Senate and House
prior to and during the balloting were
intensely exciting. The combined ef- ,
fort 0 the Capitol police, reinforced by
a large squad of Harrisburg bluecoat3,
were powerless In attempting to pre
serve anything like order. Members
had to fight their way into the House
and finally the doors were broken down
and the rrowd rushed in without re
straint. Every foot of space in the
House was occupied. Members werffv,
crowded out of their seats and the desks
were occupied by one or more of the
dear people.
When Senator M. S. Quay is sworn
into the United State Senate he will
receive a check from the United States
Government for nearly $10,000. His sal
ary will date from March 4, 1899, when
he was retired and the vacancy created.
TEXAS OIL EOOM.
Th City ol Beaumont Enjoying tho Usual Re
Mi'. of an Oil Strike.
The excitement at Beaumont, Tex.,
over the big oil well increases each
hour. There is no indication that the
flow of oil from the geyser is diminish
ing nor is there any change in the char
acter of the fluid. '
The town continues to fill up and the
streets suggest a great holiday event.
Physicians are becoming real estate
men. The lumber indusirv i (nrcmMrn ,
in the wild rush for oil lands. The bus- J
..I 1.- ,i:-.:a . . ,, 1
: iomtici conn 111 ine middle
of the session has been continued and
the court is idle. Throngs of people
frequent the streets until late at night
and everything is oil. The Standard
Oil Company has scores of representa
tives there. City property without oil
prospects has increased five-fold in
value. A lot near the business center
which could have been bought last week
for $5,000 now is unpurchasable at $20,
000. The city council has granted a fran
chise over the streets for a gas and oil
pipe line company for the purpose of
transferring oil and gas.
CAPE COLONY BRITISH DEFEATED.
Six are Killed and Seventeen Wounded in
Sever Engagement.
The casualty list shows that there has
been a severe engagement, with a loss
of 6 killed, 17 wounded and 5 missing,
at Murraysburg, wdiere the Dutch are
said to have been joining the invaders.
Murraysburg is 16 miles west of Graaff
Reinet. s
The government has decided to send
large reinforcements to Lord Kitchener,
but the war office in carrying out this
decision, has determined to enlist 5,000
Yeomanry volunteers.
Lord Roberts Tuesday further empha
sizes Jhe unsatisfactory condition of
South Africa in. a letter to the mayor of
Portsmouth, postponing the presenta
tion of a sword of honor from that city.
He said: "It is most distasteful to me
to be honored and feted and called upon
to rejoice while so many are in bitter
grief and before we can properly re
turn thank that the cloud is being roll
ed away which has for more than a year
darkened the homes and crushed the
hearts of so many in our country."
Clark Elected Senator. ...-'
W. A. Clark has been elected United
States senator from Montana, to suc
ceed Thomas M. Carter. Mr. Clark re
ceived 57 votes out of 93 cast on the
first ballot, and was declared elected.
No one was elected for the short term.
FARMERS FIGHT A DUEL
West Virginians End a Family Quarrel With
Revolver On Dead.
NearDunlow, Wayne county, W. .
Va., William Porter was fatally shot
Wednesday afternoon by Moses Smith.
Both were wealthy farmers. Two
weeks ago there was a quarrel between
the families of Porter and Smith, and
since that time the men have been en
emies. Wednesday afternoon Porter went to
the home of Smith and called him into
his yard. Porter pulled a revolver, at
the same time demanding an apology
fro'n Smith for certain remarks alleged
to have been made. Smith had a gun
also, and after Porter had fired Smith,
who nroved the better marksman, shot
Porter dead.
0n Thousand Men Out.
The Williamstown (Pa.) colliery, con
trolled by the Pennsylvania railroad, has
suspended operations. The trouble is
the result of a demand made by the enu
ployes that the laborers and timbern
should have a 10-hour day instead
eight, the colliery employs i,
and was the last to quit work dy
anthracite strike last tall.
Mad $20,000,000 by
Samuel Lewis, the de
usurer, left 4.000,000, alii
under his will to his wii
exception of 200,000. wf
among relations. In hi -1
presses a desire that his
give in her own name 4
vide dwellings for the poof
x. 250,000 to tne rnnce i
Cital fund; 100,000 to
oard of guardian ol 1
aoo,ouo to various hoiol,