SIXTY MEN ENTOMBED.
All trt Believed to Nay Mil Death by U
plosion or FUmot Tho Interior
I Mint Wrcckod.
Friday sixty men were entombed in
shaft No. 6 o( the WvtliiiK Colliery Com
pany at Victoria, II. C, and it in lianlly
possible that one of tlietn it alive.
Tlie first explosion was aliont II
o'clock. Ttiii va followed ly a scries
of explosion in rapid succession and u
dense volume of smoke and Maine was
soon pouring from the shall.
The latest newt is somewhat encour
aging, it being staled that Ihe fans are
again working, thai the cane has been
lent down 175 feel and i- Mill goi ig
liown 111 No. 4 shaft. t
F.tcn should the rescuing party reach
the interior of I ho wrecked working
tliere is little hope for any of the men
linked up in the shall.
The explosions ignited ihe mine,
wrecking the shall Horn midway dow 1
to the hoitom, and tilling it Willi a solid
mass of roeks. earth ami timhers. The
last report of the inspector of mines pr 1
tiouncrd the shaft rs eomplyiiiK with the
regulation governing eoal mines. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
I he only way in which any of tile nie.l
eonld eseape will he liy reaching some
remote porlion of the workings to which
the fatal gases and smoke eonld not pen
etrate. The Has no douht did its wot!
in a few minute. Heme the hopeless
iiess of the ta-k of saving men w ho have
heen in it for hours.
Sunday's telegrams say: All hope ln
heen given up that any of Ihe f5 miners
in shall No. (1 of the Union mines are
alive. Orders have heen given to Mood
the mine so as to put mil lite lire, whieh
has been raging with ureal fierceness.
As far as can he ascertained, the death
mil nitmhcr 05, all who went into the
shaft yesterday morning.
These consisted of two per cent while
men. eight of whom were Italians, nine
Japanese and twenty tight Chinese.
Ihe ea-ise of Ihe' explosion is 1111
kn w n. The bodies will not lie rccov-
red lor some days.
DLCLINE 10 SUICIDE.
Tho Chines tmp ror Wilhdriwi Mil Dca'.h
Sontcnco cf Guilty Bcxeri.
At least three of the Chinese to whom
I'.mperor KwattK Hsu sent a choice of
methods of suicide, in pursuance of the
demand of the powers for their punish
ment with death, have declined to com
ply and the emperor has withdrawn his
request that they should destroy thetti
silvcs. He now telegraphs Prince
Chilli that when lie agreed to the joint
note it only required that the punish
ment should lit the crime, and he armies
that it the worst of the guilty deserve
death the others should he lianished.
The foreign envoys, on the contrary,
say thai even those who are least guilty
deserve death, and, as there is no worse
punishment, all must suffer the same
penalty. although il China should ilesiro
to make distinctions regarding the
crimes, she can sentence the worst eith
er to uatlcring or to some other forms
of Chinese execution. I'nliss Ihe court
changes its views 110 imniediale settle
ment is possible.
WOULD SWELL THE RANKS.
Commandor-ln-Chlcf of G. A. R. Itsuot tn
Appeal to Votcrans.
Commander-in-Chief Leo Rassieur, i f
the G. A. K., has issued an address i l
which he urges all men who fought in
the civil war who are at present not
members of the Grand Army to join the
organization. The address, in part, say:
"Each comrade must he in our or
ganization if he desires to do his full
duty. The burden ceases to be a burden
when borne by all. Those entitled to
membership who remain outside of our
ranks arc untrue to their past history."
Roady to Soli tho Islands.
Important developments in regard to
the tale of the Danish West Indies are
expected shortly. It is said in well-in-for.ned
circles that the foreign office i
about ready to send a definitive ami fa
vo;able reply to the United States. King
Christian, it is understood, gave assur
ances that while he preferred the islands
to remain Danish, if the circumstances
could be improved he would do nothing
to i.revent their transfer.
The rigsdag has apparently conclud
ed that enough sacrifices have already
been made for the West Indies, so it :s
unwilling to give the further appropria
tions necessary to retain their posses
iop United States Consul Insana.
The vice consul at Kehl. Germany,
telegraphs the state department thill
Consul Alexander Wood has suddenly
gone inane nnd has been taken tn
Strausbourg for treatment, lie adds
that there Is hope of his recovery.
To Increase the Tar.fl.
M. DeWitte, Russian minister of fi
nance, has issued a decree regarding
the application of the increase of tariff
to certain imports from the United
States. The decree is based upon the
first paragraph of article 028 of the cm-,
turns statute. The measure will become
effective a fortnight after its pronutlgv
tion.
Alton R. Da rymplo Doad.
Alton R. Dalryinple, of St. Paul.
Minn., a millionaire, who, with hh
brother, Oliver Dalryinple. owned and
operated the "Bonanza'' wheat farm m
North Dakota, is dead. The Dalrymplcs
formerly had as much as 35,000 to jo,
000 acres sown to wheat at a time.
Judg Ta t lor Oovernor.
It is said that President McKinley, as
soon as the Spooner amendment to the
army appropriation bill becomes a law,
will appoint Judge William II. Taft. of
the present commission, to be governor
of the Philippine islands.
Military rule will ihen be superseded
by civil government and a status, similar
to that of Puerto Rico, will be estab
lished as soon as possible,
It is believed by the administration
offisiaU that this changcin the form of
government will be welcomed by the
Filipinos generally.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Charles Voss murdered his wife and
commuted suicide in Milwaukee.
A New Mexico professor claims to
have found n cure lor consumption.
It is reported that the Cuban consti
tutional convention mav adjourn until
fall.
An American lawyer named Uradv
rouimitteil suicide in a hotel at Ilelfast,
Ireland.
The training ship Topeka. which w:u
fill -ply said to be overdue, has arrived
at llarbadocs.
L'r. Alfred Meyer, of New York was
drugged, beaten and robbed of $1,000 at
I.I I '11 so, Tex.
Sentiment in Cuhii opposes granting
to ihe United Slaies the right to main
tain naval stations.
Present King Alexander of Servia i.
leported lo lie geing in-aue and his sub
jects Moiled III- palace.
At Milwaukee. Wis., Charles Vn-s
killed his wife with a butcher knife and
then cominilted suicide.
Six men were killed by an cxplosio-i
in the (Jiilworih gunpowder work.,
near Guildford, F.itgkind.
A Roman mob ignored clerical pro
test for purity anil inaugurated a nude
mt ili-p!av on :i fountain.
Grrmait people and press are divided
in their censure of Lmpcror William (or
bis pro-Itritish sentiments.
Mrs. Mary Jane Hall, aged Ho, living
atoi e, was burned to death in her home
in .Smith. Wilkcsharre, Pa.
Anthracite coal operators said to be
storing coal at tidewater for Use in case
of a miners' strike in April.
In a bloody Hungarian light at II d
lister, (., Albert Shter shot and killed
Michael Johnkac and Joe l;obish.
It Is reported that Minister Cnitg-r.
now at Peking, has consented lo be a
candidate for governor of Iowa.
U libers dynamited the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad station at River
Forest. III., but secured 110 plunder.
A Center eouniv (Pa.) po-lmisirev-was
arres'ed becan-e she opened other
people's hoc letter-. She confessed.
Cnbi'tt economic convention seeks
lower duties from the United Slates,
and wauls no duly on tobacco exported
I.. M. Trumbull, former general coun
sel for the Texas Pacific railway, was
killed by a train in a St. Louis suburb.
The United Stales cruiser ToptrJ. 1,
concerning which there has been some
nnxicty. has arrived safely at llarbadoi i.
Iiinacio Caxialo, a prominent rancher
has been ambn-hed and killed by Yaqni
Indians at Siris, near I lerinobillo, Mexi
co. The Taft commission established cod
government for the province of Pani
pauga with American and native officer-.
A big salt plant will be built near
Akron. ()., which will employ Noo peo
ple. The contract for the wells lias
been !e..
The print mill of the Kiniberly tt
Clark Paper Company, at Appletoii.
Wis., w;ls destroyed by lire. Lost,
$jix,oeo,
A monument to (Jreen Victoria is to
be erected, probably at the parliament
building-, in Winnipig, Man., at a cost
ol $30,1x10.
Mr. Carnegie got bis $J5,ooo.ooo ca-it
in part payment in the big steel deai
and the minority stockholders have
been placated.
It is almost certain that the vessel
wrecked on the Newfoundland coast
was the steamer Lucerne and that ,10
lives were lost.
Sunday an army of 500 men and wo
men led, by Mrs. Carrie Nalin't
smashed joints and held mass meeting'
at Topeka, Kan.
Five $1,000 bills have been stolen
mysteriously from a Kansas City bank,
and banks in all parts of the country
have been notified.
Carrying $2,000,000 in gold coin to
pay the troops in the Philippines the
transport Sheridan nailed from San
Francisco Saturday.
The Michigan supreme court decided
in the case of the Detroit United Rail
way Company that franchises granted
by a city are taxable.
In the Hooding of the Santa Rita
mine in the liactatc mountain-, An.,
four miners, including the superintend
ent, were drowned. .
The daughter of a wealthy Indiana
man is mysteriously missing after at
tending church, and it is believed she
was kidnaped by her escort for a ran
som. The work of laying mines and tor
pedoes about the entrance of the Port
Orchard dry dock at Taconia, Wash.,
will be started shortly.
At Kingsland, N. Y James Gorman
tried to thaw out some dynamite. He
was literally blown to pieces and nearby
buildings were shattered.
George T. St. Clair, a member of a
well-known Canadian family, has been
found guilty at Dawson of the murder
of II. Davis and sentenced to the gal
lows. Quite a severe earthquake shock was
fell at 6:15 o'clock Thursday at Union
City, Tenn. Houses rocked and win
dows and crockery rattled.
At Goffs, Kan., fifteen masked wo
men broke into the Missouri Pacific
freight depot and destroyed 15 jugs of
w hisky and four kegs of beer.
The Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar has
signalized his accession to the throne
by proclaiming a comprehensive am
nesty, including political offenses.
W. H. Moore is said to be organizing
a combination of tin can makers with
a capital of $10,000,000 that will control
all the large factories in the country.
T. H. Fordyce has secured from Ohio
a .10 years' lease of the Miami & Erie
canal, from Toledo to Cincinnati, wi'.h
the privilege of building electric lines.
The latest thing in combinations is a
collar and cuff trust. Several manufac
turers whose interests aggregate $60.
ooo.coo are said to be behind the move
men:. A crowd of men, women and hoys
smashed a "joint" at Winfijld, Km.,
Wednesday. The boys wcie mostly
students front the Methodist College nt
Winfield,
At Cleveland a sett'emcnt In the strike
"between the 600 molders and the Na
tional Foundrymrn's Association has
I been reached and 300 molders will go to
i woik 2 few t!:;-ii. .
WEYLER ENDS SPANISH REVOLT.
NO MERCY SHOWN.
In Charge Eight Wer Killed and Out Two
Hundred Wounded Troops are Ring .
leaders -Queen Would Abdicate.
General Weylrr nnd his subordinates
have succeeded in suppressing Ihe dis
orders in Madrid, and many nrrrsis
have been made. The slaughter Inn
been great. The soldiers were instruct
ed not to fire blank cartridges, but to
shoot as if in battle. Hence the killing
of eight persons and the wounding of
nearly two hundred.
Orders have been sent to all parts of
the kingdom for the stern suppression
i f rimers. Some of the ringleaders are
said lo be returned soldiers from Cuba
and the Philippines, who do not think
they bae been treated justly, and many
of whom are in poverty.
The royal family, however, is still sur
rounded in their palace by an nrmy of
troops and arc ready to escape should
(light be necessary. The tiiccii regent
is ready lo abdicate.
Officials are -i'et't on all nf the meth
ods adopted by the government lo sup
press disorder, Iim it is noted that there
is n mysterious disappearance of promi
nent malcontents, and the Spaniards
have never hesitated under similar cir
cumstances in the recent past to lake
the severest measure both to gel .it
facts and to punish social incendiaries.
TRAOE OF THE PHILIPPINES.
Only Eight Per Cent, ol tho Import! are Frcm
the United Staloi.
The Division of Insular Affairs of the
War Department has made public a
statement show ing the commerce of the
Philippines for the seven mouths ended
July ,tl. I'joo. The total value of mer
chandise, gold and silver, imported into
the islands during the period named was
$1.1.300,554. an increase of $.,Kjn,.yiH, or
i.ver 40 per cent, compared with H).
'Ihe total exports from the Philip
pines to all countries combined amoiim
ed in value to $15,(14.015, an increase if
.14 -2 per cent over iHim.
The trade with the United Stales was:
tmporls from this country, $1,00,47.1(1;
exports, $i.Kj(i.(7H. These'lalter ligur-s,
;. compared with Ihe results for the
same period of the preceding year, in
ilicale a gain of over 7K per cent, in the
imports and a material decrease in the
exports.
tUflPRISED INSUfCLNTS.
Some Incriminating Evidonco Found Against
Contractor Carman, an American.
Lighty men of the Fifth United
Stales infantry and a detachment of
scouts surprised the insliigent liade-s,
Yillamor and Alejandris, near Papcria.
Villainor was wounded. There have
been further incriminating develop
ments in the charges against Dr. I). M.
Carman, the American contractor, who.
with his partner, Theodore Carrana, a
Spanish merchant, recently arre-td.
charged with furnishing supplies to aid
the insurgents. Proof has been secured
of his dealings with the rebels, showing
that lie supplied them with uniform.!,
provisions, money and some arms. The
investigation will be continued. Mae.y
insurgent officers are surrendering.
Rumor ol War In China.
Telegrams from Tien Tsin say: It is
reported that seven nations have declar
ed war against China, owing to the
breakdown of the negotiations at Pekin.
It is asserted that the real reason for
the deadlock in Peking is. a difference
cf opinion between the foreign envo'.
and the military authorities, the former
favoring a withdrawal of the troops to
'lien Tsin and the latter urging a for
ward movement. It is regarded as pos
sible that a certain power may advance
independently should the deadlock con
tinue. Street Car Accidenti.
Twenty-nine persons were injured Fri
day in the derailment of a trolley car
en route from Dayton. Ky to Cincin
nati, O. It is feared several of the ;n
jured will die. Only one of the 30 pass
engers aboard the car escaped unhurt.
By a car on (he Hamilton avenue d:
vision of the Consolidated Traction
Company. Pittsburg, Pa.." jumping the
track Friilay night, and then overturn
ii'K. 19 persons were injured.
Kansas Raider Busy.
Fifteen prominent women, led by the
wives nf a Methodist minister and a
bank cashier, raided several "joints" at
Perry. Kan., Saturday night. With
hatchets and axes they demolished fix
tures right and left, entailing a loss in
that particular alone of more than $1,
000. Twenty whisky barrels and 62 kegs
and 20 case: of beer were carried into
the st'.eets, dierc they were chopped
into kindling wood and their contents
llo'-.ed away in the gutters.
Blew off Husband's Head.
Bound to n chair by two of his brothers-in-law
and then'shot to death by his
girl-wife was the fate of John Bruckcr,
a wealthy young farmer of Marrientt
township. North Dakota. The woman,
after blowing off the top of her hus
band's head with a shotgun, walked to
the nearest house, told what she had
done and fainted. She is in custody.
Bolivian City Inundated.
A dipntch from La Paz, Bolivia, says
that the overMow of the river has caus
ed the inundation of the city and the
destruction of bridges. The electr'c
lighting system has been disabled and the
city has been in darkness for two nights.
Many lives have been lost and the
damage will aggregate a million dollars
(Bolivian).
Silk Strike Become a Lockout.
The strike of the 4,000 silk worker
at Scrunton, Pa., has become a lockout.
The mill owners declare they will not
reopen their mills until the girls are
willing to resume at the concession of
33 cents' a week, recently offered. The
strikers have asked all silk workers in
the country to strike if the mills at
which they are employed handle Scran
ton material,
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Army Appropriation Bill.
In rr.tiini'tlee of the whole Tuesday
the House took tip the army appropria
tion bill, carrying $117,()4,(1,(1), Amend
meiits were adopted to give the eeiuivn
lent of two mouths' extra pay to all sol
diers who served beyond the limits of
the United Slates, and providing tint
$.15 shall bp paid to the nearest of kin
of any enlisted man and $73 to the near
est of kin of any officer who may he
killed or die in service, in the Philip
limes, upon the delivery of the body to
the family of deceased. The bill was
iHs-cd.
The Senate laid aside the shipping
snb'td" bill to take up the agricultural
appropriation bill.
A bill was passed appointing n com
mission to select n site in Washington
and have designs prepared for n me
morial or statue of Gen, Grant, the cost
of which shall imt exceed $250,01x1,
Senator Depew has reported from the
eommillee on expositions n bill appro
priating $.vx.om for the Buffalo Pan
American exposition.
Putlilng Appropriations.
The House devoted Wednesday to
consideration of the sundry civil ser
vice appropriation hill, but only pro.
periled so far n lo close general de
bate. In the Senate Mr. Gallingrr, in fa
vorably reporting some private pension
bills, gave notice that it would lie use
less to introduce any more such bills at
this session as the pension committee
could handle no more. The agricultural
appropriation hill wn taken tip nnd the
amendment authorizing the seizure of
adulterated imported foods, drugs nnd
liipiors, was adopted.
Brigadiers Conllrmod.
In executive session Wednesday the
Senate confirmed nil the nominations 01
brigadii r generals made by the Presi
dent und'T the new army bill as follows:
James II. Wilson, of Delaware; Fit
hngli Lee, of Virginia; John C. Hates,
Lloyd Wheaton, George W. Davis,
Theodore S.'hwan, Samuel S. Sumner,
Robert P. Ilfghes. George M. Randall,
Leonard Wood, W. A. Kobbe, Freder
ick I). Grant nnd J. Franklin Bell.
These are all of the regular arm;'.
Lieut. Col. J, R. Campbell, of ihe Tlor
tiith infantry, was confirmed as briga
dier general of volunteers.
War Tex Roduclion Bill Pnsod.
The Senate Friday passed the agricul
tural appropriation bill with an amen I
ment increasing from $170,000 to $-.71-cxxi
the item for the purchase of seeds
The shipping subsidy bill was then taken
up.
'Ihe House occupied ihe day with a
filibuster under the leadership of Mr.
Camion, chairman of the appropriations
committee. Under the inles it was pri
vate bill day. but Mr. Cannon moved
to continue consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation f i 1 1 . The House ad
journed with nothing accompli-hed.
Doadlcckod on Tax Itcduc'.lon.
At the meeting of the Senate a,i I
House conferees Saturday "U the w;.r
tax reduction bill 'i deadlock resulted.
Neither side shows any disposition to
recede.
In the Senate the shipping subsidy bill
was laid aside and the oleomargarine bill
t; ken up, but no progress was made.
Mr. Ilanna spent the day in discnssio.i
of the subsidy civil appropriation bill.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
The Senate appropriation committee
is considering the amendment to the
fortifications bill appropriating; $115,000
for a test of the (iathmaii gun. The
money is to be used in building a float
ing target of the heaviest armor plate
and the (iathmaii gun, it is expected, will
destroy this at one shot.
The conferees of the Senate and
lloiKc have reached an agreement up
on the bill for settling the claims of
citizens of the United States against
Spain as provided for by the Parrs
treaty of peace.
The Senate committee on civil service
Thursday for the second time took fi
voiablc action upon Senator Harris' bill
giving ex-oldiers of the civil war pref
erence in the matter of civil service ap
pointments. The state department and the treas
ury department arc being deluged with
telegrams from vast business interests
protesting against the imposition of the
countervailing duty on sugar imported
from Russia.
Connecticut, Louisiana, Tennessee and
Washington have been selected as the
names of the four warships authorized
by the House and the bill for the con
struction of which is pending in the
Senate.
A bill has been introduced in the
Minnesota Legislature appropriating
$10,000 for a statue for the late Unit -d
States Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis,
to be placed in Statuary Hall, at Wash
ington. Spectators of the inauguration arc be
ginning to arrivi
Orders have been prepared at the
war department for the organization, as
sembling and equipment of the 10 addi
tional regiments authorized by the army
reorganization law.
An amendment to the sundry civil im
propriation bill, appropriating $5oo,'o
for the construction of a telegraphic ca
ble to Hawaii, was offered in the Sen
ate Friday by Senator Perkins.
The retirement of Gens. John M
Wilson and Fitzhugh Lee will take ef
fect immediately after the confirmation
of their nominations as brigadier gener
als by the Senate.
The Senate committee on postoffices
has inserted in the postal appropriation
bill an item of $500,000 for pneumatic
tube service, which was struck out il
the House.
It is said in official quarters that P.
C. Knox, of Pittsburg, Pa., has been
selected by the President to - succeed
Mr, Griggs as attorney general after
March i-
. The long-expected Philippine tariff
act, as perfected by the commission, his
just reached Washington, where it
awaits the approval of the secretary of
war.
President McKinley has announced
that It will be impossible to get alon
without an extra session of Congrcis.
The date will be about March 2j.
PLAYING FOR TIME.
II I Thought that Chin I Preparing for War
In Ihe Spring Prospect ol Belli
men! I Remote.
Telegrams from Peking sny: The .lit
llat'on is again becoming complicated,
i.id the prospects of a settlement are
more remote than ever. It is reported
tha; the signatures of Ihe Chinese plen
ipotentiaries to peace conditions are not
in I'.rrect form.
It is believed that Sir F.rnrst Mason
Satow will take decisive early action.
Count von Waldersrc is reported to
have sent mi ultimatum to the imperial
cotitt. All appearances indicate that
China's immovable obstinacy is merely
intruded to faeilitale Ihe active prepara
tim.s she is making for a renewal of
hostilities in the spring.
No official fommtitiicntiou has yet
been made to the foreii'n envoys by the
Chinese plenipotentiaries on behalf if
Ihe lotirt, but it is known that (luring
the last three days four dispatches from
the court have been received. At pres
ent tile negotiations are no further ad
vaiicrd than they were nt the meetim
the C hinese plenipotentiaries agreed t
the death of Prince Cliuang and Vil
li sen.
Private dispatches from Siaii-Fil say
that a strong opposition has developed
among the officials to 1111 agreement by
the court to the demands of the powers
ns well as nil opposition to the reform
edict. Several memorials have been pre
sented to Kmperor Kwaug Su. urging
him to refuse further negotiations and
lo 1 romote those whom the foreigners
dej.ic executed.
STEP T0WAR0 PEACE.
Many Officers and Mon Surrendor In Luzon
with Gun and Ammunition.
The following dispatch was received
from General MacArthur Wednesday:
"Col. Simon Teeson, with seven ofli
rers, 71 soldiers, 5') guns ami 2,000
rounds of ammunition, surrendered un
conditionally nt San Miguel de May-uni-:.
Liton.
"This breaks up the group of insur
rectos heretofore operating in the moun
tains east of llatacan. It removes from
Northern Luzon ihe last formidable ir
ganized force, excepting in the First
district.
"The rigid enforcement of the procla
mation has resulted in the spontaneous
action of the people through the federal
party in behalf of peace and .self-protection,
"It is producing the most satisfactory
results and encourages the hope of the
entire suspension of hostilities at an early
d.rte."
KILLED HIS BROTHER.
A Eoyiih Quarrel Rosufs in a E'cody Trar
cdy In West Virginia.
The home of Mrs. William Crawl rd
on Stony creek. Monroe county, W, Va..
near the Summers county line, was tlu
scene of a tragedy Tuesday. Charles
Crawford, aged 14, decided to go to tin
woi.ds for a hunt, and g t his father'.
shotrji'r.
I lis brother Frank, 17 years i.ld, had
not been consulted and decided to pre
vent the boy from going. A quarrel
en-ited in which Frank struck his young
er brother. Charles still had the gun
and tired both barrels at his as-ailam.
A hole nearly three inches 11 diameter
was blown through Frank's head from
the fare to the back of his neck, death
being instantaneous. Charles was ar
rested and is in jail. The father of 'he
boys, William Crawford, is in the peni
tentiary at Moundsville, serving a six
year term for attempting lo assassinate
Charles Workman at Hinton last year.
Mysterious Hotel Fire.
Files were set simultaneously on four
floors of the Palmer House Thursday
evening and .15 minutes later fires were
discovered on two floors of the Great I
Notthern hotel in Chicago. Two nie.l,
supposed to be hotel thieves, were seen
to 1. in from the Palmer Hou-e. Duri ig ;
the excitement $500 worth of jewelry 1
was stokn from one of the rooms of.
the Great Northern.
A baze was also discovered in the I
Sherman House about the same time, i
Th:. in connection with a lire at the !
I on I Grace the day before, caused the1
different hi.lel keepers to be warned.
Invited to Kill Themselvrs. j
Prince Ching and Li Hung Citing)
have received a dispatch from the cou.t
which they have not disclosed to the (
foreign envoys. It is understood to;
contain, in addition to the recent reform
decree, an account of how Emperor
Kwang Hsu lias sent a choice of meth
ods of suicide to all those named tor
punishment by the envoys, closing with
the inquiry whether Prince Ching and
Li Hung Chang think the envoys Will ;
be satisfied. I
It is understood that the Chinese
plenipotentiaries reulied to the court 1
j that the foreign envoys could not obiect ,
strongly to an accompiisiicu tact, tint
that they would probablv insist upon the
sentence of execution being puhh.-hc I
throughout the eninire and possiVy
upon the heads of those condemned be
ing exhibited at various points.
Rochester Tumbler Works Destroyed.
Nearly the entire plant of the Roches
ter (Pa.) Tumbler works of the Nation
al Glass Company, the largot and fin
est in the world, was destroyed by a
fire that started about midnight Mon
day. The loss will amount to about
$200,000 and is believed to be covered
by insurance. An area of 300 by 1,500
feet was burned over, and the greatest
departments in the works destroyed.
In all eight buildings were burned
and the only portions of the plant left
standing are the punch department and
the blown warehouse, An overheated
furnace is believed to have started the
fire.
The Rochester Tumbler works had a
capacity of 85.000 dozen tumblers 4
week. The plant covered an area of 15
acres.
Four Dead la Train Wreck,
A Southern Pacific limited express
train was wrecked at Mills CifV, Nev.
Sunday night.
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JUOGI BLAIH'1 CAREER.
Wa Prominently Idenl.fled with th Found
Ing of Weil Virginia
Judge J. n. Blnlr, late of the supreme
court of Utah, who died Tuesday, wa
an ardent Unionist, serving In Congress
from this Virginia district when war
broke out. He was elected in iKbi to
serve the unexpired term of the late
John S. Carlisle. To his efforts, pro'j.
ably more than nny other, was due thfl
passage of the bill creating the new
Slate ol West Virginia, and it was In
great measure his inllitrnre which pre
vailed upon President Lincoln to sign
the bill. Judge Blair was born in Par
kersbttrg April It, iHji, nnd educated
in the common schools of the county.
His Inst step into public life was when
he was elected to Congress from iho
new Slate of West Virginia, bring the
fir-t congres-miin from ibis district, then
the I'irst district. At the expiration of
his term In Congress he was elected !)
the Leiislaliire, In W8 he was ap
pointed mini-trr to Costa Rica, remain
ing in diplomatic servire until
when he was appointed an nssoeiate jus
tice of the supreme court of Wyoming
Territory, serving in that capneily un
til 1HK5. Later he moved to Utah nnd
for a number of years occupied a similar
position ihe-e. At th" t:me of bi death
he was surveyor general of Utah.
FILIPINOS GnOWINQ LOYAL.
Th American Commission Welcomed on .It
Journey Over th Island.
The American commission has reach
ed San Fernando, province of Pampan
ga, on its trip to establish provincial
governments in Luzon. At every stt
tion there were bursts of music and
rheers for the commission and the Fed
eral parly. Addresses were delivered
by natives and responses were made by
Judge Tail, president of the commis
sion; Prof. Worcester, On. Floret,
Chief Justice Arellano mid Dr. Tavern,
president of the Federal party. The
natives repeatedly declared the people
were beginning to understand the pur
poses of the Americans and that the
commission's acts showed its promises
will be kept.
At San I'crnando Ihe American paly
passed under an nrch of welcome and
was greeted by the military, nnd hun
dreds of children waving American Hags
and singing "Hail, Columbia."
An insurgent colonel, Simon Techon,
seven insurgent officers and 70 men.
with do guns, have surrendered uncon
ditionally to Capt. Co"lcs, of the Tliir-ty-fiflh
regiment, ft San Miguel de
Mi)Utno. In a fight at Sibuyan the
rein 1 general, Malbas, is reported lo
have been killed. Six insurgent officers
and jo men were raptured.
IX-KIVO MILAN DEAD.
Exiled Formor Monarch of Servia Pmed
Away at Vienna Monday,
King Milan of Servia, died nt Vien
na, Monday. The remains will be in
terred at Kronchol, .1 sarrcd monasli:
shrine in Syrmia. Slavonia, with the
honors due a member of the reigning
dyivs'.y.
Milan Obrepovilrh was the son of
Milosch Viphremovitch and was born
August 22. 1X54. On the assassination
of hi.; con-in, Prince Michael III,, of
Servia. he succeeded, on July 2, tfoH, as
Prime Milan IV.. and on August 22,
1X74. he personally assumed the reins
of government. Servia declared itself
a kingdom on March ft, iHrtj, and Milan
took the title of Milan I. Milan abdi
cated Mych (i. iHrto, proclaiming his
f-yn Alexander king under a regency '.ill
the attainment of his majority. Some
time aflir he renounced the rights of
his rank and nationality, .taking the title
of Count Takovo. Later he returned to
Servia and was nominal commander of
the .'irmy. N
Coal Ccmbino' Large Prodis
More than $2,000,000 undivided prof
its, and all dividends on preferred
stock, were interesting features of the
financial report of the Pittsburg (Pa.)
Coal Company, submitted to a meeting
of the stockholders held at Jersey City
Monday. , The report was made by .the
president. F. M. Osborne.
The profits, ai'ter deducting bad debts
and other losses, are $5,4X0,0)0.43. Less
reserve-royalty fund, $826,915.30; de
preciation of plant, live stock and cars,
$411.(4.00. The net profits for the 16
months ending December 31, 1000, arc
$4.;4-.orxi.l4. The rp.iartcrly dividends
on preferred Mock were $2,074,709. Tire
undivided profits are $2,107,381.14, which
ainnum is appropriated for preferred
stock dividends and working capital.
CABLE FLASHES.
I ord Salisbury says the South African
wai will be pushed without abatement.
The British are chasing the Boer wo
men and children, who often escape
them.
Irish members of parliament will
unite in oppojition to King Edward'j
policy.
A royal wedding at Madrid was dis
tributed by riotous indications of a riv
ol'e'.ion. General French' has recaptured a im
pounder captured from the British at
Colen so.
Five met' were suffocated to death hy
white damp at the Heath colliery in
Fifeshirc. Scotland.
A fierce blizzard is raging throughout
the whole of Southern Russia. The
fall of snow is very heavy.
In a clash between German and Rus
sian sailors at Kiel three of the Ger
mans were mortally wounded.
Commodore Martin Rivadavia, of
Bue'ios Ayres. the minister of marine,
is ciead from the effects of a fall.'
At Moscow about 300 students.in sym
pathy with the Keitf students recently
sentenced, rioted and stopped the col
lege lectures.
Professor Edington. the bacterid!
Cist, declares that the epidemic now
prevalent in Cape Town is undoubtedly
the bubonic plague.
The governor of the province of
shensi. China, is appealing for aid lit
behalf of 4.000,000 inhabitants of the
fanime-stricken districts.
Seven persons were killed and
wounded' hv the deraitiiiLT of a na.
utr mm 11. 'nr Si'ilenhnm Austral
Twelve hundred laborers out tf
had a fight with police and caf
Inula t i st. Hungary, in whic
the rioters were arrested.
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