E!C ill Cffil COMPLETED
GIGANTIC SCHEME.
The Conclusive Session Wa Held Saturday.
The Name ii the "United Staloi Con
eoildaled Steal Company."
J. rierpont MorK.m. of New York,
has jot completed 1 tie project ty which
another and tin- greatest r(tioliil;ili-n
of i a; i t :i1 ii added to ttic notable list
of those of the hist ten years. The
steel trust plan was cotriiiuinated nt a
or.ii renec in his oitice late Saturday af
Urtv.oit. An official aim luncetncnt says thai
the Carnegie Company, the Federal
Steel Company, the National Tube
( ompany, the Ameriean Steel it Wire
Company, the Ameriean Tmplate Com
pany, the National Steel Company, the
Ainiriean Steel lloo Company and tlu
American Sheet Steel Company are to
he cmhincd into one concern, which is
to i-'ic stock in return for theirs, the
a'uation Intiug been iletermineil upon
the assets anil earning power o the rc
spi' tivc corporations thus merged.
The new trust, it i- understood, will
he called the Cnilcil States Consolidat
ed Sn el Company. It will have a total
capitalization of If i.ioo.ixjo.ooo. Of this
$,(0,000,000 will be 5 per cent. general
mortgage bonds. $4n,ooo,oix will be 7
per tent, stock ami $400,000,000 will he
common .stock.
COIRS DEFEATED.
DeWet Routed by Col. Plumer'a Column and
Loses Hit Artillery.
(in. DcWct was routed Saturday by
Col. I'lutncr, with whom were Col-.
Hi nnikcr, Cradilock, Jeffrey and Cab
bo. This success was preceded by a si
lica oi desperate attempts on the part
of the Boers to escape from the water
licit of the Orange and the lin:ke rivers.
(.it'll. F'rencli reports from l'iet Rc
ticf that the result of the columns
sweeping the country ea-t is that the
liners are retreating in scattered and dis
organized p.irtii-s to the number of some
5.000 in front of him. Am-tcrday and
l'iet Keticf have been occupied and
there troops are protecting the Swazi
frontier. French will push on. but i
much hampered by the continuous
heavy rains.
Summary of total losses indicted up
on the enemy up to February 10: Two
hundred and ninety-two Hocrs known
to have been killed and wounded in ac
tion. 56 taken prisoners. 183 surrender
ed, one 15-pounder Run. 40J riiles, ics,
tioo lounds of snviU ammunition, 3500
1iores, 70 mules, .1.5,10 trek oxen, 18,700
cattle, 155.400 sheep and I.070 wagons
:ud carls captured. Our casualties arc:
Five officers and 41 men kiilcd, and (our
llicrrs and inS nu n wounded.
LEI T TO SAVAGEl' MERCY.
Ki'chcncr Turned fouth AHsan Homes Cvsr
to Forccious Dlacki.
London telegrams say: The British
war office meets with silence Gen. De
Wet's charge that Kitchener has been
conducting a war of extermination. The
fact was known before DeWet told it.
Not onlv have the lioer women and
children been left :o the mercy of the
kavaVc blacks, but the Basutos have
been incited to attack the defenseless
homes and destroy or carry off their ;n
m:".cs. The English have been content to kill
or deport the men, leaving it for the
blacks to finish the work on the women
and children, and as all weapons arc
seized when the English can get hold
of them, the women are utterly without
means of fighting off the savages when
they come.
Americans can get an idea of the sit
uation by imagining the male settlers nt
a frontier territory carried off as pris
oners, and the women and children loft
in their homes without means of de
fence with hordes of bloodthirsty In
dians nearby.
Chwang Commits Suicide.
Pekin advices assert that the empress
dowager has already caused the decap
itation of Vu-Hsien, and that under im
perial orders, Trince Chwang has com
mitted suicide. Li Hung Chang has
assured the foreign envoys that the sen
tence of the imperial court on these two
men has been carried out in accordance
with the demand of the powers.
TO TAKE OKLAHOMA LAND.
Chicago G. A. R. Mon Forming a Club to go
to tho Torritory.
A number of Civil war veterans of
Chicago, 111., are discussing the advis
ability of organizing a club to go t
Oklahoma in search of homesteads next
summer when President Mckinley is
sues a proclamation declaring 2.500.000
acres of good farming land open for
settlement. George S. Cragg. of U. S.
Grant post No. is one of the leaders
in the movement, and says that a score
or more of veterans have expressed a
desire to join in the scramble for land
next August.
The old soldiers will have an advant
age ever other citizens. Under the
law a man mv.r-t live on the government
I reserve for five years before he owm
it. With old soldiers the length of
time tln-y served in the war is deducted
from the five years. Each man who
stakes ofT a claim is limited to 1C0 acres
under the law.
Co!. Robert L. Pollock Dead.
Col. Robert L. Pollock. U. S. A.,
retired, died Sunday at Cornelius. Ore.,
in his Sjd year. He was a veteran of
the Mexican and Civil wars and of many
Indian campaigns in the West.
Five Were Cr: mated.
At Versailles, Ind., George James
and his (our daughters, Georgia, 17;
Theresa, is: Nora, 12, and Electa, 7,
tverc burned to death in a fire that dc
atroyed their home. Edward James, n
ton 14 years old, escaped.
Fatal Gas 1f out Explosion.
By an explosion in one of the build
ings nt the city gas works at Rich
mond one man was killed, one end of
the building was blown out and six men
were injured, but none seriously.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
It has been decided to open the gates
of the Pan-American exposition on Sun
day,. The payment of secret premiums is
said to be the cause of Russia's tarilT
reprisals.
Twelve persons arc dead as a reu!t
of the railway disaster near llordcn
town, N. J.
At Woodruff. Wis., fire destroyed nil
the business houses with the exception
nl one saloon.
Americans living in London will as
sist in raising funds for Juecn Vic
toria's memorial.
At Mcna, Ark.. Peter Hcrryman, col
ored, was taken from the city jail and
hanged by a mob.
Fire in the business portion of At
lanta, (in., destroyed property vahu d
nt nearly $500,000.
Japan, provoked by Russian occupa
tion of Manchuria, may compel lonccs
sioiu or go to war.
The Copl.iy Cement Company, of Al
lontown. Pa., sold out to a New Yoilc
syndicate for over $1. 000,1:00.
Negotiations for the purchase of the
Danish West India islands by the Unit
ed Slates are still in progress.
The first snow in Mis,i-.ippi in two
ears began Friday, Similar ne,vs
comes from Georgia and Texas.
A contribution of a quarter of a mil
lion dollars by John I). Rockefeller to
Drown University has been announceil.
The American government is urging
a reply from Dritish government on
amendments to 1 lay-Pauncefotc treaty.
In a quarrel at Ondurman, Egypt, be
tween soldiers of two Soudanese regi
ments live were killed and 20 woiiudc.!.
Consul General Wildman lost his lii'e
in the Rio de Janeiro disaster while
waiting for treasure he had in the ship's
sa ie.
It i thought the Dritish government
will establish tariff for revenue to rai-e
money to pay the expenses of the Doer
war.
The big leel combine is to be known
a. the United St:itcs Consolidated Steel
Company, with a capital of $1, 100.000,
000. Tin re has been a tich strike on Le
pine creek. 15 miles from Dawson,
where quartz assaying $84 a ton was
found.
The question of an extra session of
congress will depend largely upon '.h-'
conduct this week of four filibustering
senators.
General Cailles, of Manila, - has is
sued a proclamation offering ten Mex
ican dollars apiece for the heads oi
Americans.
Brooding over a scolding from his
father. Janles Tallison, a sensitive boy
of 14. tried to kill himself at his home,
at Brooklyn.
Snpt. Dillingham, of the New Yoik
health department, urges the people of
the city to be vaccinated, a3 smallpox
is spreading.
The arrangement whereby farnvng im
plements may be imported into Turkey
free of duty has been renewed for an
other decade.
Illinois Legislature adopted a resolu
tion to investigate Dowic's Zionist
bank, but the latter says he will resist
the committee.
The Thirtv-scventh infantry, the first
of the volunteer reg'ments to return
from the Philippines, was mustered oct
at San Francisco.
The Columbus (O.) Anti-Saloon
league proposes to bring suit against
saloons on the ground that they are
public nuisances.
There is scarcely a city of 8,000 pop
ulation or over in Indiana that has not
sent 10 Andrew Carnegie its petition for
a public library gift.
The salary of every telegrapher on
the Dig Four railroad has been advanc
ed liVi per cent., a total increase of
about $too,ooo a year.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine presented to
Chicago university the Chicago insti
tute on pedagogy, representing an en
dowment of $2,000,000.
Gen. MaeArthur's reception at a
Philippine city was extremely cordial.
Important arrests of insurgent sympa
thizers have been made,
Senor Clsncros, delegate to Cuba
constitutional convention, refuses to
sign the document, and predicts war
with the United States.
It is believed in Germany that Rus
sia's real tariff war will be with that
country, and that the present one with
America is merely temporary.
Three persons -were killed and sev
eral injured at Goshen, Ind., by the
Wabash westbound passenger train run
ning into a sleigh filled with people.
President Steyn and Gen. DeWet, in
behalf of fighting burghers, issue a
proclamation in which Dritish soldiers
arc charged with all manner of crime.
At Rochester, N. Y.. the Gcncssee
National Savings and Loan Association
went into the hands of a receiver. Lia
bilities of $joo,ooo are double the as
se'.s. While riding on a Washington, D. C.
street car. a negro swallowed a piece
oi tobacco, lie became very ill, and
died upon being removed to the hos
ptlul. The 5 I'.aiv.okin (Pa.l silk mi'!, employ
ing 250 operatives, has been closed
down by the owners for an indefinite
period because the employes formed a
'nio 11.
A thief entered the St. John Evan
gelical Roman Catholic Slovak church
at Ni-w Haven, Pa., and stripped it of
eventhini; valuable, robbing the poor
boxct.
Trouble has becu caused in Ripley
county, Indiana, by a club formed by
young women who agreed not to asso
ciate with young men who drink 3r
smoke.
The William II. Crocker expedition
from the Lick observatory to observe
in Sumatra the total eclipse of the sun
May 17, sailed from San Francisco
Tuesday.
The German 'government will soon
send to this country an expert to ex
amine American agricultural machines
with a view to their introduction into
Germany.
The work of recovering the bodies
of the victims of the mine disaster at
Cumberland. D. C proceeds slowl '.
So far eight bodies have been found,
fov.r bcinu white.
B. NATION MIS HER UNIT.
THREATENS THE; JUDGE.
Write tho Court lo "Quit Fooling" and Re
loase Her Latter Ignored Other Mes
sage Reach Judge) Hazen.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, tiring of jail life,
has written Judge llazcn a letter de
manding release.
"I want you to quit your fooling,"
she writes, "and let me out of here. If
you cause me to miss my engagements
I won't ferl like a ministering angel un
to yon. It is lime for you to recover
yourself before the devil, your master,
makes a clean sweep with you into h .
You know you are persecuting one of
God's children, who loves you for Jesus'
sake. Let me out that I may go about
my Business of saving sin h poor deviis
as vou. Write or come to see me rinhl
off:"
Judge Harm has ignored the letter,
placing it in the waste basket with doz
ens of others received on the subieit
front different parts of the country.
Some of these letters threaten the judge.
One from Hunker Hill. Kas., says ,a
committee of 50 will administer a coat
of tar and feathers to him if Mrs. Na
tion is not released nt once, and anoth
er from n woman in Douglass, Mich.,
ays: "We now propose if Mrs. Nation
is held longer to raise the greatest army
of women the world has ever known
and wipe men out of existence. It is
our intention to begin with you."
TEN WERE KILLED.
Bad Railroad Collision In New Jortoy Fire
Added lo tho Horror.
One of the worst collisions in the
history of the Aniboy division of the
Pennsylvania railroad occurred Thurs
day evening at Ruslings siding, near
Uordentown, and about eight miles
sou:h of Trenton. N. J. The "Nellie
Dly" express front New York for Atlan
tic City collided with passenger train
No, 3.to, running from Camden to Tren
ton. The number of dead so far as
known is ten and the number of injur
ed upward of 25.
Most of the injured arc Italians who
were riding in the smoking car of the
express train. They were being taken
to Atlantic City to do construction work
for the railroad company.
The scene at the wreck is described
by those who were present as horrify
ing. The two trains collided at full
speed nnd both engines were complete
ly demolished. The forward car of
each train, in both instances a combina
tion baggage and smoker, was entirely
demolished also, and to add to the hor
ror the wreckage took fire. The second
car of the "Nellie Dly" turned over on
its side and the passengers had to climb
out through the windows.
COMPROMISE AT PEKIN.
Foreign Mlmstors and Chincso Official Fin
ally Reach an Agreement
A compromise has been agreed upon
between the foreign envoys and the
Chinese plenipotentiaries, Prince Citing
and Li Hung Chang. The envoys pro
pose to permit the court to commute
the sentences of decapitation in the
cases of Prince Tuan, Duke Lan and
Cjcn. Tung Fit llsiang to life imprison
ment, and will agree to the following
punishments: Prince Chwang to be
strangled, Yu llsicn to be decapitated,
Cliao Shu C'hiao and Ying Nien to be
permitted to strangle themselves and
Chi Hsin and Hsu Cheng Wu to be be
headed in Pekin. If the court advances
no new obstacle, the negotiations on the
first point of the demands of the low
ers may be considered closed.
This agreement removes the excuse
for Count von Waldcrscc's projected
military expedition into the interior.
The foreign ministers think the gravity
of the situaton over, but it is expected
that difficulties will arise when some of
the governments send their indemnity
claims.
AN IMPORTANT ARREST.
For Aiding the Filipino Rcbola Fronch Sub.
oct Come to Griot.
At Fagsanjan. province of Laguna,
Lieutenant Vaughan, of the Thirty
seventh infantry, arrested Fernanda
Rustan, general ngent of the Tabaca
laria Company, on the charge of having
aided the insurgents,
Rustan is a French suhicct and a'close
friend of the insurgent General Cailles,
and was to a certain extent associated
with W. D. Carman, the American con
tractor, who was recently taken into
custody charged with having furnished
supplies to the insurgents.
It has also been learned that Rustan
furnished the insurgents with supplies,
information concerning the American
troops and their movement as well as
with money. He dealt directly with the
rebel General Cailles, who has been op
crating continually in the district cast
of Manila. Mr. Webb, the bookkeeper
of the Philippine Trading Company, has
made a partial confession to the effect
that certain Belgians residing in Manila
and the Day Lake district were impli
cated in the plot to kill Captain Jones,
commanding the American troops stv
tioneil 111 the town of Jiay.
Drcwncd Her Six Children.
Mrs. Rose Wurzcr, a widow, in a fit of
insanity, drowned her six children, agod
from 4 to IJ years, at Uniontown, Wash.
Two were boys and four girls. She
threw them into a well 30 feet deep
containing two feet of water, then jump
ed in herself and held the heads of the
children beneath the surface until all
were drowned. Mrs. Wurzcr was found
alive in the well.
Miner Drowned by Flood.
As a result of the giving away of a
wall the Asylum mines at Tuscalossa.
Ala., were flooded and 30 negro miner
are now entombed in ten feet of water,
it is thought, with little prospect of be
ing rescued.
Two Costly Flit.
The nuckeyo hosiery mills at Dres
den, Muskingum county, O., were en
tirely destroyed bv fire Wednesday. The
mills were' owned by Messrs. McGov
era and Prettvman. Loss. 6,000.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Exposition Measure Paned.
The bill to authorize the holding of
the international exposition in cehbri
lion of the centennial anniversary of the
Louisiana purchnsc nt St. Louis In loo.i,
and appropriating fj.onoooo therefor,
passed the House Monday under sus
pension of the rules by a vote of 191
lo 41.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was taken up and it was figured that the
appropriations would total $094,118,59?,
exclusive of the sinking fund require
ment of $5.1,000,000, against $057,150,86
lor the current yenr.
Mr. Cnnnon showed that the incrense
in the army bill was $j.f7.f5.l; in the
naval bill, $1,1.51)8,057: in the postoffic?
bill, fj2.i4J.joi. a total of $49.49.871.
The sundry civil bill is reduced $5,6l V
f5l and permanent, appropriations nre
cut ?sj..i54.ooo. I lie government lias
saved $0,400,000 in interest on the pti.t
lie debt by the refunding bill of last ses
sion, and deficiency appropriations will
I. e reduced $J..5o,ooo.
In the Senate the postoffiee appropria
tion bill, carrying $w.i..o8.o88, was tak
en tip, but no action taken.
Reject Conference Report.
Dy the emphatic vote of 18 to 43, tlu
Senate Tuesday rejected the conference
report on the military academy appro
priation bill." This action came at til'.
conclusion of a spirited debate on the
provisions against hazing inserted in
the report by the conference committee
of the two branches of Congress.
The House spent the day on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill. The fea
ture of the day was the debate on thi
question of national irrigation of arid
lands in the west, which came up inci
dentally. Mr. Cannon reported the last
of the general appropriation bills, the
deficiency.
Civil Appropriation Gill.
The House finally passed the sundry
civil appropriation bill Wednesday ami
entered upon consideration of the gen
eral deficiency, the last of the general
appropriation bills.
The Senate spent the day on the post
office appropriation bill. The amend
ment of Mr. Duller, of North Carolini,
proposing a reduction of about 9 per
cent, in the pay for railway postal ser
vices, war, defeated, 18 tp 51. A sharp
controversy on the pneumatic time
question was precipitated by an amend
ment offered by Mr. Mason extending
that service to Chicago, and one by Mr,
Vest extending it to St. Louis.
Claim and Pension Bill Pa;.
Two of the great supply bills of the
government, the postoffiee and the dip
lomatic and consular appropriation
bills, were passed by the Senate Fri
day. Early ill the day Vv'ashington's
farewell address, in accordance with a
custom of the Senate on Washington's
birthday, was read, the reader behtf
Senator Dacon. of Georgia.
The House devoted the day to odds
and ends of legislation. Under an ar
rangement entered into, a large num
ber of these smaller bills, in which
ineinhcri arc individually interested,
were passed. Twenty-nine claim bills
and 1,19 pension bills were passed.
Among the latter was the Senate bill
to pension the widow of the late Gen.
Henrv W. Lawton. who was kiilcd in
the Philippines. As the bill passed the
Senate it carried $100 a month. The
House cut the amount down to $50 nn
the representation that Mrs. Lawton en
joyed a comfortable income.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL
Senator Dcpcw reported favorably
from the committee on expositions the
House bill for the Louisiana purchase
exposition at St. Louis.
Capt. Nehcmiah M. Dyer, who com
manded the cruiser Baltimore during
the battle of Manila bay, has been re
tired on account of age.
More than 1.000 sailors and marinri,
the biggest contingent the navy has had
in Washington since the civil war, will
march in the inaugural parade.
George D. Gear, who was appointed
judge in the circuit court of Hawaii, is
the man who preferred charges in the
House against Delegate Wilcox of that
territory.
The Senate committee on mi'itary if
fairs Wednesday completed its consid
eration of the army appropriation bill.
The committee endorsed the action ct
its sub-committee in adding the Spoon
er Philippine amendment to the hill.
As a result of several conferences be
tween the secretary of war and the Cu
ban Economic commission, correspond
ence has been opened with Gen. Wood
at Havana with a view to the creation of
a joint committee for the revision of the
tariff of Cuba.
Gen. Thomas M. Anderson,' senior
vice commander of the Sons of the
American Revolution, and other officials
of that organization, were before th?
House committee on judiciary Tuesday
advocating legislation against the dese
cration of the flag.
EDICT RECEIVED AT PEKIN.
Tur-g Will be Degraded, Tuan and Lan Exi id
and Older Die.
Trincc China; and Li Hung Cha.i.
have received telegraphic instructions
from the court to notify the ministers
of the powers that an "edict has been
issued regarding the punishment oi
Chinese officials, confirmatory of the de
mands made by the ministors, as fol
lows: "General Tung Full Sian, to be de
graded and deprived of his rank; Prince
Tuan and Duke Lan, to be disgraced
and exiled: Prince Chuang, Ying Nien
and Chao Shu Chiao to commit suicide;
Hsu Chan Yu, Yu Nsieu and Ki Haiti
to be beheaded."
This is not exactly what the ministers
demanded, but it is considered advi sa
ble to agree to it, as the demand for
lives has been agreed to except in the
case of General Tung Full Sian, wdioin
the court is powerless to molest. There
is a private understanding that his lite
will be claimed when it is possible.
" Farmer Boy Hold Up a Bank.
The private banking institution of V.
D. Vennuni at Fosher, a small haml.'t
situated in the northwest part of Cham
paign county, 111., was robbed by ,n
lone highwayman who secured $i.6jj.
MANY PERSONS DROWNED.
Pacirto Mall Ship Rio do lanorlo Went to the
Bottom Near San Francisco, and
122 Live Were Lot.
The Pacific Mail steamer Rio dc Ja
neiro rim on a hidden rock while en
tering the Golden Gate, San Francisco,
Cal., early Friday morning in a denc
fog. She sank a few minutes after
striking. It is thought that about t-12
persons were drowned, most of whom
were Chinese and Japanese, but it is im
possible to ascertain die exact number,
as Purser John Roomy, who had the
passenger fist and rosier of the crc-.v,
is among the missing.
At five o'clock in the afternoon 10
bodies had been recovered, two white
Women, one white man and seven Chi
nese. The most prominent passenger
on the steamer was Koun-evillc Wild
111:111, United States consul at Hou
Kong, who was accompanied by his
wife and two children. It is thought
all were drowned. The ship was in
command of Pilot Frederick Jordan
when she struck. He was rescued.
Capt. William Ward went down with
his vessel.
A3 nearly as can be learned, there
were 201 people on board the Rio dc
Janeiro, as follows: Cabin passengers,
second cabin, 7; steerage, Chinese
and Japanese, 58; white officers, 30;
Asiatic crew. 77; total. 201.
The following have been account-'d
for: Rescued. 79; bodies at the morgue,
10: total, 89; missing, Hi.
The saved number 79, elas-ified ns
follows: Cabin passengers, u; wdiite
officers. 11: steerage (Asiatic), I?;
crew (Clunese), 41.
The lost number 12J. classed as fol
lows: Passengers, officers. 19; crew
(Chinese), 3O; steerage (Asiatic). 4.1.
That the steamer sank almost inini"
dialely after striking Is fie report of a
majority of tho.c rescued. Some 'f
the passengers say that she instatit'y
lifted forward, and that in five minutes
she went down, while others declare
that she remained a 11 oat fur half an
hour after she struck. The wreck lies
about three-fourths of a mile south of
Fort Point and about 1.000 yards oil the
rocky shore. The smokestack and a
portion of the upper works are visible.
TiME IS AT HAND.
Establishment of Civil Covornmont In tho
Ph llpplnes Will Occur Soon.
According to the latc-t advices from
the Philippine commission the time for
the establishment of civil government
in the Philippines is near at hand. It
was stated at the war department that
the evil government will be established
as soon as Judge Taft reports that the
conditions in the islands justify such ac
tion. It is generally understood that
Judge Taft will be the first civil govern
or of the islands and that Gen. Chaffee
will succeed Gen. MacArthur in com
mand of the military forces to be re
tained there to assi-t in the maintenance
of order and the eiu'orccmir.t of the
laws. It is not likely, .however, that
there will be any immediate change in
the military command or that there will
be any material reduction in the mili
tary strength for many months to come.
The Philippine commission has recom
mended the adoption of a tarilT system
and its report probably will be made
public in a few weeks in order that :dl
interests effected by be fully informed
and heard or. the subject before the pro
posed tariff is adopted and put into ef
fect. CONCEDED TO AV.EH1CA.
Powor Agroo Not to Sirza any Territory In
China Without Consent of All.
At the instance of the United States
government, the powers have accepted
the principle that no further individual
concessions of territory in China shell
be sought or obtained by any one power
without international absent.
Hereafter if any nation seeks to se
cure room for its individual settlements
or like privileges th" application must
be approved by the other powers before
the Chinese government will be permit
ted to assent, even if it desired it o.
Another important point oi the agree
ment is that the present is not the
most opportune time for asking new
concessions. It cannot be determined
whether the conclusion is retractive in
effect.
FINDLAND i MOURNING.
Protest Againit Russlanliation of the Comtr
Reverse Scnato'j Order.
The people of Hclsingforg. Finland,
have shown that they arc not reconcil
ed to the new order of things by hostile
demonstrations on the anniversary of
the publication of the czar's manifesto
to the Finnish senate, concerning the
Russianizing of Finland. Black -.sheets,
disnlr.vcd in the streets, were inscrib
ed with the names of the senators who
otcd in favor of the proclamation man
ifesto, while at ni'it the windows of
the resiliences of the Finns u-re hung
with black cf.it: ins and the 'i'.-hts were
extinguished. A ilei"t:'tii;n of wvmcn
placed a monrnir.;; band 011 the monu
ment of Alexander II. Grorvs of nun
marched through the town, forced the
Russian storekeepers and others to ex
tinguish thoir liuhts. and made a demon
stration in front of certain senators'
houses. ,
An address, signed bv F50 women,
was presented to the vice president ri
the senate, protesting against the trans
fer of the records of the Finnish state
department to St. Petersburg. Thf
transfer has been countermanded.
Girl Shocti Hor Ftiher.
Isaac Slater, of Fort Wayne. Ind..
was shot and seriously wounded by his
15-year-old daughter. The girl shot to
save her mother from being killed at the
hands of the husband and father. Tlu
girl was arrested, but immediately re
leased. New Smelling Proce .
A chemical process is alleged to have
been discovered by Dr. Millfr, of Mt,
Pleasant. Pa., which will reduce high
grade ores more quickly and at less cot
than ha been practical heretofore. ,
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. TWO LIVES LOST
In an Effort lo Rid Btringlown of law-Break
Ing Drug Slores and Speaktasl.t.
Further Troublt Feared.
Stringtown, an Isolated oil town in
Wetzel county, W. Va., was the scene
Wednesday of n calamity in which five
buildings were burned and two livel
lost.
Stringtown Is a characteristic oil Vil
Inge with rough wooden house and a
few irood buildings. It is in the non-
license neighborhood and "blind tigers"
run wide open under the guise of drtiu
stores and restaurants. There are mary
gambling joint, and dives, all of whicfl
are very distasteful to the native popula
tion, thought encouraged by the itiner
ant oil people.
Since Mrs. Nation lienan her crusade
in Kansas there have been murmuring
in Stringtown and threats to use fire
and dynamite to eradicate the saloons
and dance halls. Nitru-glycerin lias
been Used before to break up speak
casjes in the oil country nnd quite sui
ccs fiilly. Recently the drug stores and
"blind tigers" have kept watchmen
about when closed.
According to a report the building in
which Henry Dames' drug store was
kept, was soaked with oil and set 0.1
fire. Dames and John Clendenning, a
friend of his, were asleep in the second
story. So quick was the fire that both
were burned to death. The fire spread
and burned four more buildings.
It is said four men have been arresi
ed. charged with murder and arson, and
that several others are to be arrested if
they make a move. Th; oil people are
threatening to lynch them, and more
serious trouble is feared.
A SATISFACTORY RE. ORT.
Tho D. A. R. Society Ho Gained 3.873
Member.) During the Voir.
In the congress of the Daughters '.'f
the American Revolution, held at
Washington. D. C, the report of the
vice president general showed that there
arc now 5(17 organized chapters and 77
unorganized chapters, nn increase of
During the year 2.1.204 application
blanks -and 2.704 membership circulars
have been issued. The secretary recom
mended that the chapters take care ol
the "real Daughters." of whom there
arc ceo, and assist in their support. Th?
register general stated that during the
year 3.87.1 members had been admitted
and during the last three years 12,739
women had become Daughters. The
report of the treasurer showed that dur
ing 1900 the net receipt! of the current
fund were $50,101. and expenditures
$.l...l6i. The ' Continental Hall fun I"
is $!);. !j8. The reports showed Nc
York State to have the largest member
ship, there being 44 chapters with 3.52.1
members. The most rapid growth was
shown in some of the Western States.
Mrs. Samuel Verplanck. State regent
from New York, was re-tlccted to thtt
position by an ' verwhclming majority,
Mrs. Donald McLean getting a few
votes.
f.'EW 0FFICER8 ELECTED.
Indiana Woman Has Been Solccted President
General ol Revolution' Daughter.
The wife of Senator Charles W. Fair
banks, of Indiana, was elected president
general of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution. The vote announced
is as follows: Mrs. Fairbanks, 33.1;
Mrs. Donald McLean, New York, 20S;
Mrs. Washington Rocbling, New Jer
sey, 42.
Other officers were elected as fol
lows: Vice president general in charge
of the organization of chapters, Mrs.
Miranda D. Tulloch, District of Co
lumbia; chaplain general, . Mrs. W. A.
Smoot, Virginia; registrar general.
Miss Minnie Micklcy, Pennsylvania;
treasurer general, Mrs. G. B. Darwin.
District oi Columbia; librarian generil,
Mirs Julia T. McDIair; editor Ameri
can Monthly Magazine, Mrs. EIroy Mv
Avery. Ohio; business manager of
magazine. Miss Lvjiian I.ockwcod. Dis
trict of Columbia; Mrs. E. W. HowaL
Yircinia. recording secretary general
The following vice presidents general
were elected: Mrs. William Lindsey,
Kentucky: Mrs. George M. Sternberg,
Distrrt of Columbia; Mrs. C. Waring,
South Carolina: Mrs. M. T. Scott, Illi
nois; Mrs, A. A. Kendall, Maine: Mrs.
I R. Mellon. Pennsylvania; Mrs. N.
If. Granger. Ohio; Mrs. Major General
Whc.-.ton. District of Columbia; A. G.
Fo.-ter, Washington.
CABLE FLASHES.
M. Paul Armand Silvestre. ths
French poet and critic, is dead. He was
born April 18, 1837.
At Madrid. Spain, there has been a
heavy fall of snow, the first in eight
years, and traffic is difficult.
There were three heavy earthquake
shocks at Artca. Chili. Wednesday. Tin
inhabitants were panic stricken.
Dr. T. D. Anderson, at Edinburgh.
Scotland, discovered a new star of great
brilliancy in the constellation Perseus.
Iierr George Speycr. the Frankfort
banker, has given 1,000.000 marks to the
I city to promote scientific instruction,
j The Dutch National prisent for Quen
j Wil'ulmina will lake the form of a new
; crow n, and x.oco has been sub.-cribed.
f Cold nnd stormy weather prevai's
I throughout Germany. At Lcipsic the
temperature was IJ degrees below,
zero.
Heavy snowstorms around KharkorF,
capital of the government of that name
in European Russia, have blockaded
tnree railway lines.
The Turkish minister at Madrid. Izzet
Pacha, has again tendered his resigna
tion to the porte, owing to the non
payment of his salary.
Affmadu, in British East Africa. th:i
headquarters of the Ugaden Somahs.j
has been occupied by a British pumtivi
expedition, anil the (Jgadon sultan 1
pr:soner.
The session of the Austrian parliameil
was suspended 111 consequence of a r
between the uerniant and Czechs,
hitter bombarding the president.
wars ot paper.
The official report of the firei
gan February 5 111 the petroleu
at Baku, Russia, say tint 127
perished and a number 01 othi
pected to die from their bur'
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