A FIEND'S WORK.
Slid lo Have Thrown Ihi Switch Ittat Caused
The Torr,b: Accidont I'nlonlown t
pross Crashes ln:o FrolghL
The Uniontown express nf tin Pitts
I m iif. Virginia :int Charleston railro.nl,
which loll Pittsburg nt 4:20 o'clock
Thursday afternoon (or Uniontown,
crashed into a freight trnin, which sud
slenly r:m from a sidetrack on the
mtiliihmmd track lit C'nal Valley sti
tiim. I'a., al 5:05 o'clock. The engineer
if Iht' passenger train was killed nul
riKlit. the f iroriinti va injured, (he mail
clerk had a leg cut 11IT and died, and
the h.iggagcmaslcr was hurt. Several
passengers were also hurt. The liro
inan and the engineer mi t lie freight
train c-caped nnhurl. Both engine
were completely wreckeil. 'hvii cais of
the p.iscngcr train were destroyed by
lire a mad car. with all its content,
and a combination baggage mid smoker.
Two freight car were thrown down an
embankment, and were destroyed '.1
foe. Three store ImilitiiiKs located near
the M ine nf the wreck took lire, but the
Haines were soon put out.
thi of the worst features of the ter
rible wreck is the charge that it was
caused by some fiend who maliciously
threw a switch that ran the freight train
in the way of the passenger train, the
engineer of the former train claiming
that he saw a stranger throw the switch
and run away and escape. The dead
riiKinerr and those most seriously i;i
jnred were taken to Pittsburg, the in
jured being taken to the West Point
hospital.
TIIR I) RAO.
FR-VNK WIIITF. engineer. 45 yca-s
fill ; instantly killed: lives at Union
town: h aves wife anil (our children.
MII.TOX S. THOMPSON. posi.il
clerk, jt years old: lives nt tot Wi-t
Favctte street. I'nioutow 11 ; had wife
and two children: brought to Wes;
I'eun hospital; right leg amputated at
the thigh; left thigh sprained and
wrenched; burned in the face and on
th'1 head, face, neck, arms and dies' ;
died at I o'clock this morning.
Till'. IXJURI.D.
CUAKt.RS SIIAV'R.R. fireman of pas
senger train, 24 years old and single;
lives at Ho North Gallitott avenue,
I'nioutow n; brought to West Pctv.t
ho-pital; burned in the back and
chest and has contusions of body; not
dangerously hurt.
MRS. AN'N'iK Cl.ARK. of Mouonga
hela, mercantile messenger; stilTeriinr
seriously front nervous prostration;
taken home.
DR. J. S. SCOTT. Coal Valley; cnt
about the head by glass from a broken
lamp in a passenger ear.
SAMUEL DAVIDSON. Monong.v
hela; cut ill the face by broken glass,
MICHAEL KUI.OCK, l.aeoek street,
Allegheny : back hurt; hardly able i
walk: taken home.
CHARLES STROUD, Jr.. baggage-ma-ter,
of Pittsburg, burned about
body, but not seriously; came home
last night and was able to walk.
NEW JERSEY SALOON WRECKED.
Woman Imitate Mrs. Nation lo Induce Hus
band lo Leave Saloon.
Mrs. Henry Wortansky, of Secnueits,
N. J., smashed the saloon of William
Rose in that town, wounding the pro
prietor. She was finally arrested and
hold in $200 bail. The reason that she
went on the crusade was that she could
not got her husband to stop frequenting
the place.
Mr. Wortansky found her husband
in the saloon and when he refused to
come out she wont out into the road
and gathered up all the stones she could
carry. Then she walked up to the win
dow and with two throws smashed all
the glass front. The windows gone, the
next attack was directed toward the
mirrors behind the bar and these were
quickly demolished. Bottles of whisky
and other liquors met a similar fate.
Texas Oil Lake Burning.
The. big lake containing thousands 01
gallons of oil, near the Lucas gusher, at
Beaumont, Tex., is burning. Several
cars on the side track and a boarding
house have been destroyed. The tire
caught from a passing switch engine
Sunday. Oil from the well lias flowed
at the rate of 20,000 gallons a day for 10
days, covering several acres of ground
two feet deep, and when ignited the
flames shot high into the air. '
Plcguo it Spreading.
At Capetown the bubonic plague is
spreading. Five corpses, all of colored
persons, have been found since Saturday
tiiornin;;.
Ten colored persons and one Euro
pean woman, believed to be affected by
the disease, have been removed to a
hospital.
Numerous persons who had come
into contact with suspected cases have
been isolated.
INSURGENT OFFICERS TAKEN.
Cip'ain Draper Captures Sixteen Prisoners
, and Twenty-Six Guns.
The Thirty-fifth United States Volun
teer Infantry arrived at Manila, Sundav,
from the province of Btilucaii and wi'l
probably sail for home March 15 011 the
transport Thomas.
Captain Draper, commandant at OIoii
gapo. scov.ted along the west coast r,f
the province of Uataan with 1K0 marines,
capturing two insurgent officers and 14
men, taking 26 rillos and destroying 14.
000 b"shcls of rice and 104 carnbaos.
The insurgent Colonel Cristobal has
surrendered at Naic, province of Ca
vitc. with two officers and 12 men. He
handed over 12 ritles to the Americans.
An Insane 'otliei Deed.
After kissing her two little children
a mother threw them over a high bridge
(panning the Monongahela river, then
tried to follow them, but was intercept
ed. One of the children was evidently
killed by the fall, and the other was
Coating down the stream to death, but
was rescued. The mother is in the
county jail, insane, awaiting the inque't
cf the coroner on tne death of her off
spring and a legal inquiry as to her
mental condition. This, in brief, is the
story of one of the v most distressing
tragedies tint his cccurred in Pittsburg,
Fa., for years.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Twenty-one fishermen on the ice were
blown out inn) Lake Eric and four lost.
A large body of Russian troops were
defeated by 10.000 banditti near Siting
Mug, China.
Rive business blocks nt Bnllslon, N.
1 ., were dritroycd by tire, causing a
loss of $80,000.
Rear Admiral Sampson is writing nis
memoirs to vindicate himself in the
eyes of posterity.
A customer in a New York restaurant
was beaten to death because he could
not pay (or a meal.
Richard Croker says he will return to
America in iroo,I timn t int, t,:,n tn
the coining campaign.
Ruth N.ilh'.rd. of Kansas City, Mo,
was killed in a nuarrel liv Hint Tavlor
a former baseball player.
Two dead, one la'allv hurt ami ninpv
others seriously injured by lire ill u dye
works at Rochester, N. Y.
An explosion in t tic Blue Canvon coal
mine, a few miles from New Whntc.mi,
wash., killed two of the day crew.
France and Italy failed to auroc on an
extradition treaty, bianco wanted also
a similar treaty with ilic United States.
Thomas Darker, wdio shot and
wounded Rov. John Keller, at Arling
ton, N. J., was released on $j,wx bad.
A Fight with pistols in which one ma-t
was killed and two others were mortally
wounded occurred at Brush Hill, 1. T,
An American contractor at Manila.
charged with aiding the insurgent Fi1-
ipinos, has been released on $10,000 cadi
bail.
woman was arrested in London
w ho masqueraded for 40 years as a man
and in that tunc had married a lady's
maid.
Recent events show that Filipinos in
Ralaan province cannot be trusted and
they gave evidence of treasonable con-d-d.
The controversy between Haiti and
Santo l)oniin :o, which led to a small
light on the funnier, has been amicably
sc'.'.lcd.
One American soldier ami two Fili
pino scouts were killed in an vngag"
1 in nt Willi the iti-mgents on the island
of l.cyte.
In an automobile smash-up near Na
innr. Franco, an American named Willis,
of Newport was hurt. Another rider
vas killed.
The Centennial bank at Ashley, III.,
ami Palmer & Mayer's bank at Des
plaincs. III., both private institutions,
have suspended.
Near Bellefontaiiie. (')., five men and
one women were scalded and cut by lly- j
nig pieces 01 iron as tue result 01 a
boiler explosion.
(iencral Kitchener reports to the Lon
don war office that No British scouts
surrendered to the Boors after susta'n
ing 20 casualties.
Capt. Hornier, the French Canadian
navigator, has practically completed ar
rangements to start on a trip to '.he
rorih pole in May.
Mayor Samuel M. Jones, of Toledo,
O.. of "golden rule" fame, has an
nounced that he is a candidate for re
election as a non-partisan.
At Long Meadow, Mass., John D.
Casels fatally wounded Mrs. Mary J.
Lane because she would not elope with
him, and then committed suicide.
An appeal has boon made to the de
partment of the interior for aid for suf
fering Zuni Indians in Northeastern
Arizona and Northwestern New Mexi
co. The United States transport Warren
is to be repaired at an expense of $150,
coo before she again goes to sea. J'he
work will be completed in about three
months.
The United Mine Workers of the
Georges Crcck-Mcyersdale district have
called out all the miners of Mcyersdale,
Pa., over 2,000, because of the discharge
of some men.
Major II. O. Curtis, recently a mem
ber of the United States insular com
mission, which established the govern
ment in Porto Rico, is dead at his homo
in Atlantic, lo.
Solomon Gross, of Allegheny, Ta.,
has been arrested near Youngstown. O.,
for cutting and seriously woundi'ig
Peter Sarver. a fanner, in a quarrel
over a leasehold.
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and
Iron Company has boon compelled to '
close the Hammond, Gilberton, Indian I
Ridge and Ellengowan collerios near
Shenandoah, Pa., owing to lack of ,
va'.cr.
Mrs. Rebecca D. Lowe, president of
the General Federation of Women's
clubs, has announced that the next bi
ennial meeting of the federation will
take place March I. 1 902, in Los An
geles, Cal.
The Chcstcrtown (Md.) Building &
Loan Association is in the hands of re
ceivers with assets of $.55,000 and lia
bilities footing up $120,000 as the result
of alleged misappropriation of its funds
by its former secretary. Harry Rickey,
who committed suicide a few weeks ago.
Three small children of Daniel Ire
land were burned to death in their
home in Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.,
during the ubsonce of their mother.
Senator Edward O. Wolcott has re
signed as a member of the Republican
national committee from Colorado, and
Archie M. Stephenson has been desig
nated as bis successor.
In a railway collision nt Michaels,
Ind.. Engineer Rufus Jauman. of Del
phos, O.. was probably fatally scalded,
and George B. Harper, fireman, sus
tained bruises and internal injuries.
Bcrthaughton Shcppard, a former
Syracuse (N. Y.) university student,;
was arrested in that city on the charge :
of stealing $d.coo in bonds and ca-h I
from the Syracuse and Lakeside Rail
road company.
Colonel William S. Rogers, of the
Brusli Electric Company, announces
that a company would be formed nt
once to establish sanitariums through
out the country for the treatment of con
sumption by electricity.
At Binghamton. N. Y Albert O.
Rood, a centenarian, has married 18-year-old
Marie Waters, who was born
in Allegheny, I'a. Rood is wealthy and
70 years ago was engaged to Miss Wa
ters' great-grandmother.
Roman Catholic priests in the Philip
pines will refuse the sacraments of the
church to members of the Federal
party.
GETTING ffilDT 10 QUIT PIKING.!
WILL LEAVE SOON.-
American Troops. Save Two Cempinles, Will
Sail for Manlla-trlllsh and Fronch
Also Making Ready lo Move.
The American preparations for de
parture are going actively forwnrd. All
supplies, except enough for two com
panies, have boon packed and marked
for Manila. The British plans rontein
plato a summer along the Pel Ho river
and a general withdrawal of forces to
India, leaving behind by next winter
half a battalion of Welsh fusiliers as a
legation guard in Pekin, together Willi
an Indian regiment to guard the rail
road. The Germans show few signs of
intention to depart, but they are en
deavoring to sell s.(kkx) American and
Australian horses, as well as n quantity
of camels. It is reported that the
French intend to withdraw most of tln.ir
forces, leaving one infantry brigade, n
regiment of cavalry and some artillery
to protect the French legation and t i
guard the lines of communication.
In French military circles it is as
serted thai the French intend lo send a
force to bo stationed permanently nt
Hankow and to guard tbte other end
of the Lit I Ian railroad. 120 kilometres
of which have been completed. More
definite information on this point is
awaited with anxiety by the British, who
regard such an intention with serious
misgivings, because calculated to bring
about complications with the Yang Tsc
viceroys, if for no other reason.
MANIAC'S WILD DEEDS.
Murdered His Son, Burned Slock and Build
ings and Killed Himself.
Becoming ,1 maniac suddenly, Henry
Warn, a well-to-do German farmer,
committed murder, arson and suieid".
Warn lives six miles north nf Denisoii,
la. lie became seized with a savag.'
desire to kill and destroy, lie kilbd
his son, Williatu. aged 21; burned the
house and then proceeded systematical
ly to set lire to everything be possessed.
Warn destroyed the farm water workv,
fasti ued his cattle, hogs and chickens
securely and set lire to every building .111
the place.
When he was at his work neighbors,
seeing the smoke, rushed lo the place,
but he drew a revolver, fired several
shuts, and drove them away. After
tiling the remaining buildings he went
into the burning barn, and his charred
body was found among the bodies of
the horses. No trace of the son's body
has been found.
Warn was known to have bad over
$1,500 in cash in the home, and 'his
was also destroyed. The properly de
stroyed was worth $ft,ooo.
DEARER COAL IN ENGLAND.
Houso ol Commons Votos to Shorten Miners'
Hours ol Labor.
The house of commons has passed the
second reading of the bill rcstiictiug the
work of minors lo eight hours daily by
212 to lyo, votes. The opposition insist
ed that such action would enormously
enhance the price ol coal. Sir Allied
Hickman said the country had had tin
object leson of the effect of dear coal.
The British government had to buy
bridges in America for Uganda, Egypt
and Burmah. The railroads bought
rails in America and even coal had to
be imported into this country. In the
United Slates miners produced 50 per
cent, more coal than they did in Eng
land, not because they were more skill
ful, but because they worked to hours
per day.
PRAYER AT A LYNCHING.
Colored Missouri Miner Hanged lor Killing
Whllo Man Claimed Soil- Dofonso.
Dowcy Smith, u negro miner, who
killed Chester Stanley, a white minci'i
at mine No. 4. four miles south of Rich
mond. Mo., was captured by a mob and
taken back to the scene of his crime and
lynched.
A member of the lynching party re
peated a prayer before Smith wis
hanged to a tree. Smith made no denial
of the shooting, but said he had done
so in self defense. It is not denied by
the people of Camden that there was a
qv.arrcl.
Advocates the Whipping Post.
In summing up his work as police
irdge in the four years in which he nas
bft.11 mayor of Akron, O., W. E.
Young makes a plea for the establishing
of a whipping post in that city. He
especially advocates that it will be the
most effective punishment wifc-bcatcrs
can receive; that they are cowards, and
all cowards fear physical pain far wore
than work house sentences. He would
not, however, confine the post to that
class of offenders.
His first Death Sentence.
Lord Chief Justice Baron Alvcrstonc
for the first time in his career has pro
nounced the death sentence. The man
whom he condemned to the gallows is
Herbert I.. Bennett. 22 years old, who
was found guilty of having strangled his
wife to death with a shoe laco at Yar
mouth last September.
To Pay Americans.
The Sultan of Turkey has ordered a
financial commission to negotiate a loan
guaranteed by a 6 per cent increase of
the property tax for urgent payments,
including the claims of the American
and German contractors for ships and
guns. '
Supptylni Arms lor Rebols.
Advices received from Hong Koi'g
say a flourishing traffic is being carried
on in arms and ammunition between
that British port and the insurgents in
the Philippines.
While Hong Kong has suffered in
some degree through the decline of
Philippine trade, owing to the insur
rection, it has more than made up for
the losses through its profitable trade
with the followers of Aguinaldo.
But for this British colony, the in
surgents could hardly have held out
against the Americans.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
For Insular Legislation.
The real struggle for Insular Irgislrt
lion nt Ibis session began Monday in
the Senate. The nrmy appropriation
bill was under consideration and the
Philippine amendment was reached. In
addition the Cuban amendment was of
fered by the committee on Cuban affairs
and the general debate on these propo
sitions began. The Cuba amendment
was referred tn the committee on mili
tary nlTuirs.
Senator Curler, who Is one of the sen
ators in charge of the army appropria
tion bill, insists that the Cuban amend
ment to the bill must be further amend
ed so as to compel Cuba lo render in
accounting to the United Sfates for the
money which has been expended by
this government in Cuba with a view to
the repayment nt some future time.
The House jettisoned the authorisa
tions for two battleships and two cruis
ers which were in the naval appropria
tion bill ns it passed that body. The
Senate had rejected the proposition,
and against the appeals of the Hon e
conferees the House voted, by a big ma
jority, to ngroe to the Senate amend
ment striking out the authorisations.
Philippine end Cuban Issues.
The Senate passed the army
appropriation bill at 12:54 o'clock
Thursday morning. containing the
propositions of the Republican
majority for the temporary gov
ernment of the Philippines nnd for
the future relations between the Unit
ed States and Cuba. The original S110011-
or amendment was amended regarding
Iranclnses as proposed by Mr. Hoar.
The Senate held a session which ex
tended late into the night. The
Spoouer Philippine amendment to the
army appropriation bill was adopted at
a late hour by n vole of 43 to 25.
The Cuban nmeudmont was also adopt
ed, a x to ro, as follows:
The House had a busy day of routine.
agreeing to the conference reports on
the foiiiliealiims, District of Columbia
and the military academy bills, the last
named containing the niili-h.izing legis
lation. The naval appropriation bill was
sent back lo conference, after the dele.it
of a motion to concur in the .Senate's
provision for three more submarine tor
pedo boats. The Louisiana purchase
exposition bill, which bus been in a pre
carious parliamentary slate, was finally
sent to conference for an adjustment 'f
differences.
Agreolng on Tax Reduction.
The Republican members of the con
ference committee on the war tax re
duction bill have agreed on the most im
portant features in dispute between the
Senate and House. The rate on beer is
lo bo $1.60 per barrel without any dis
count, and the tax on tobacco is fixed at
n.6o cents per pound. The lax on
checks is repealed, which will reduce tlv;
revenue about $7,000,000, nnd the tax
on proprietary medicines is abo repell
ed, as is the tax on life and fire insurance
policies. Conveyances under $2,500 nr:
exempted, nnd a tax of 25 cents per $500
over $2.51x1 is imposed. The special
taxes on theaters, circuses and exhibi
tions are removed. The rale on cigars
probably will remain at $.1 per 1,000.
Extra Sosilon Not N cessnry.
By concurring Friday in the Senate's
Cuban and Philippine amendments to
the army nprorialiou bill, the llou.e
removed all possibility of an extra ses
sion of Congress. The vote was 159 t'
U4-
Earlier in the day the river and har
bor bill was referred to the River and
Harbor committee, and the revenue
cutter bill was sidetracked. The final
conference report on the Indian appro
priation bill was adopted. The confer
ence report on the bill giving $5,000,000
to the St. Louis exposition was sent
back to conference because the Ilott'e
refused to agree to the Senate amend
ment appropriating $250,000 to the
Charleston exposition.
More Appropriation Bills Pass.
The Senate cm Saturday passed the
general deficiency npproiiriation bill and
the omnibus public building bill, which
increases the approprations lor public
buildings $2,000,000. At to:.to p. m. the
Senate took a recess null .1 o'clock Sim-
day afternoon.
The House passed bills creating a Na
tional standardizing bureau, conferring
bronze medals on the enlisted men of
the navy and marine corps for distin
pttisbed heroism and to amend the Chi
nese exclusion law. A recess was taken
until 2 p. m. Sunday.
At 3 o clock Monday morning Con-
cress had passed all the appropriation
bills except the river and harbor and
sundry civil bills. Conference reports
upon them had been rejected in both
House and Senate and both houses were
still in session.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL
The President has nominated Milton
E. Ailwes, of Ohio, to be assistant sec
retary of the treasury, vice Frank Van-
derlip, resigned.
The general deficiency, tne legislative,
executive and judicial and the Indian
appropriation bills have been approved
by the President.
A committee appointed by the Cali
fornia club is in the city making efforts
to prevent the destruction of the
Calaveras big trees.
In accordance with the provisions pf
the naval appropriation bill, ns it pas -
ed, the six-years' course at the Na:;l
Academy will be continued.
The Senate in executive session Tues
day confirmed all the naval nominations
for promotion sent in except those of
Admirals Sampson and Schley.
This Congress has been in session 107
days, less than any previous session for
years. The number of bills introduced
was 14,3.16; number of reports, 3.000;
public acts. 345; private acts. 1.250; to
tal acts, 1,505; number of joint resolu
tions, 395.
Edward T. Williams, claiming to be
a native of Ohio, and recently interpret
er at Shanghai, has been appointed Chi
nese secretary to the United States li
gation at Peking,
The President has signed the army
appropriation bill, which contains the
provisions relating to the relations of
the United States wth Cuba and the
government of the Philippines.
The monthly statement of the collec
tions of internal revenue shows that dur
ing January, 1901, the total collections
from all sources were $23,047,778, an in
crease as compared with January, 1900,
of $928,803.
PROPOSED RELATIONS.
No Treaty lo be Made Thai Will dive for
eign Parly any Foothold, Auth)(y
or Right Cvor Ihe Island.
The Cuban constitutional convention
has agreed to the following definition of
relations between Cuba nnd the United
States:
The government of Cuba will not
make a treaty or agreement with any
foreign power which may compromise
or limit the independence of Cuba or
which may permit or aulhnric any
power to obtain by means of coloniza
tion or for military or naval purposes,
or in any other manner, any foolhold
or authority or right over any portion of
Cuba. The government will not permit
its territory to be used as a base of op
erations (or war ngainst the Unite I
Stales or against any foreign nation.
'Ihe government of Cuba accepts in its
entirety the treaty of Palis, in which are
affirmed the rights of Cuba to the ?x
tent of the obligations which are e
plicitly indicated in these, and espocia ly
those which ; lis? inlet national law im
poses for the protection of life and
properly, and substitutes itself for the
United Stales in the pledge, which they
assumed in that sense according to ar
ticles 12 nnd 10 j of the treaty of Paris.
Cuba recognizes as legally valid nil acts
of the military government during the
period of occupation, also the rights
arising out of them, in conformity with
the joint resolution and the Foraker
amendment and the existing laws of th
country. The government of the
United Slates and Cuba ought to regu
late their commercial relations by moans
of a treaty based on reciprocity and with
tendencies Inward free trade in natural
and manufactured products, mutually
assuming ntnilo special advantages in
their re-prctivc markets.
NEBRASKA PENITENIIAftY EURNtO.
One Convict Cromatoil Olhor Inmates Guard -od
by Armed Deputies.
A large portion of the Nsbrask.i pen
itentiary, three miles from Lincoln, was
destroyed by fire Friday. George Plleii-
ger, a convict, was burned to elealli. lie
had been marched out in company with
the other prisoners, but went back to
bis cell to get some of his personal cf
feets. The main building was wrecked,
the fire originating in a kitchen of the
warden's apartments in that wing. The
,100 prisoners were quickly marched out
into tne court yard, where tncy wi"c
kept standing while a score of armed
guards patrolcd the wall. Afttervard a
company of the National Guard wis
summoned and did guard duty. I lw
prisoners made no attempt to escape,
and were antiarentlv the tno't uncon
cerned spectators of the fire. They will
be provided for 111 11 cell room that was
not touched by the tlames. The loss is
about $21x1.000.
PREPARING FOR WAR.
Bulgarians Provoking Flqhl wl:h Turkiy by
Inciting Revolution.
An imperial irado orders the concen
tration of to.000 Turkish troops on th'!
Bulgarian frontier near Kitstendil, ow
ing to the agitation of the revolutiou-
nry Bulgarian committee in Macedonia,
which is assuming the torm ol brigan
dage on a large scale. Prince Ferdi
nand opposes the operations ol -.lie
Macedonian committee, but is power
less to stop them, and there is no
doubt that sympathizers in Bulgaria 'ire
providing the promoters of the revolu
tion with arms. Numerous arrests of
armed Bulgarians in Macedonia have
been made, among them mtlganan o(
ficers, priests and merchants.
RIPPER CHARTER FJILL
Panod the House by a Majority ol Thirteen
Now In Governor's Hands.
The Pitt-burg ripper bill was passed
fina Iv in the Ho'.-se at llarrisburg
Thursday afternoon. It was hurriedly
sent to the Senate, where it originated,
received the signature of W. P. Snyder,
president pro torn, and was promptly
returned to the Hovsc, where Speaker
W. T. Marshall signed it. after which
the bill was carried to the Executive de
partment. The executive will approve
the bill at the earliest moment consi 1
cred by him coiisi-tcnt with common
decency, and the legislative monstros
ity seems certain to become a law with
in the next 24 hours.
Bloody Cattle h Columbia.
News has just been received that a
bloody battle was fought nedr Maria
La Baja, Colombia, between a small
force of government troops and live
hundred insurgents under Rozles, result
ing in a victory for the government
iorces.
The insurgents lost 30 killed and to
wounded and the government troops 8
officers and 7 nun killed and many men
wounded.
Ad the Passengers Injurod.
Passenger train No. 9 on the Vabas'i
railroad was wrecked two miles west 01
Millcrsbe.rK. Ind., Tuesday, by a bro
ken rail. Six cars left the rails, nnd the
rear Pullman rolled over on its side and
slid down a 25-ioot embankment. Of
th-j 40 or more passengers' in the train
not one escaped injury. 12 being severe
ly hurt.
Shot Her Hu:b3rd Dead.
As the result of a family quarrel, John
Hemmcrling. a car starter in the employ
cf the Cleveland (O.) City Railway
Company, was shot and killed by his
v.iie at their home. Hemmerlin was
lying in bed asleep when the deed wis
committed. Mrs. Hemmcriing is in
jail.
Appointed by Governor Ctone.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has
sent to the Senate the following ap
pointments for confirmation: Dr. J. T.
Rothrock, West Chester, to be com
missioner of forestry for four years.
John Fulton, Johnstown; Albert Lewis,
Pear Creek: Isaac B. Brown, Corry.
and A. C. Hopkins. Lock Haven.. to be
members of the Statu Forestry Reser
vation commission, the first two fW two
years, and the last two for four jflars.
c .1 r m:i!. i'.a,;. .. r
C.. to be -commissioner cf deedsjor the
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QUICK REVENGE.
Ocorge Ward, Negro, Taken Fiom Hhj
Terr Haute, tr.d , Jail and Lynahed
lor Killing Woman.
Punishment, swift and terrible, wt
nietcd out Tuesday at Terrc Haute,
Ind., to Cieorge Ward, the negro who
murdered Ida Finkelstein, the school
ttachrr, by shooting her and cutting her
throat Monday. A few hours after hie
arrest nil angry mob battered down the
floors of the jnll, dragged the prisoner
to the Wabash bridge, several squares
away, and hanged him to the bridge
diaw. The crowd cut the corpse down.
Mid. laying it 011 a sandbar under the
bridge, kindled a fire and cremated the
remains.
Ward was arrested at to o'clock, nt
the car works, where he was employed
i' 1 a laborer, and made a confession,
(lis only excuse for the murder was that
Miss Finkelstein called him a "dirty
nigger," and slapped him ill the face.
Sheriff Fasig communicated with Gov
ernor Hurbin, but the mob aceom
plislied its work before the militia could
be ordereil nut.
Being advised of the threatened sit
uation, ihe Governor wired Capta'n
Thomas to (dace his company, fully
armed, in a position to be immediately
ready for duty in response to a call
from the sheriff. Before the sheriff
could call on the militia the prisoner
was in the hands of the mob.
Ward was 27 years old nnd leaves a
widow and two children. He went to
Teire Haute five years ago from Cir
eleville, (J. The statement that he was
'no time In an insane asylum is denied
by his wife. He served a jail sentence
iti iMrt for larceny.
The leaders of the mob are unknown,
.I'd as public sentiment upholds the
Ijiiehmg, no prosecutions arc expected.
WYOMING HORROR.
Thirty-F,ve Men Impritoncd In a Burning
Mine Only One Licepr f Tullle Al
temp's to Roscuo Them.
The worst disaster in the history of
coal mining in Wyoming since the
Almy horror, eight years ago, occurred
at Uiamondville Tuesday night. Thirty
live men are believed to have perished
it: a fire which started in mine No. I
ol the Diamondvillc Coal and Coke
Company,
The blaze was discovered shortly after
the night shift commenced work, it
was thought to have originated from .1
careless miner's lamp in the oil room.
The flames made such progress that on
ly one man escaped irom the two en
tries in which they were confined. His
name is John Anderson, and he was
frightfully burned in running the gaunt
let of the flames. The first intimation
the minors in the other entries had of
a fire was when Anderson came rushing
into the upper level, his clothing in
flames. The fire had made such pro
gress that it was impossible to enter
tllC room of flames. The ntcrht wn cnpnl
in confining the fire to the two entries,
and this morning it was necessary tj
seal them up to prevent the flames from
spreading to other parts of the mine,
'i his step was only decided upon after
nli hope of saving the lives of the men
had been abandoned. The plugging of
the two entries will smother the fire,
but it may be several clays before the
barricades can be removed and the
chamber explored.
COLD FOUND IN SAMOA.
An Amtrican Company Formed fo Deve'cl
the New El Dorado.
A wonderful discovery of gold is re
ported in the Samoan islands. Black
sand running as high as $940 a ton it
said to have been found on the island of
L'pola.
Capt. Best, formerly of the Oceanic
Steamship Company, who passed
through Honolulu on the steamer Ao
rangi, on his way to Samoa, is authojv
ity for the statement that a company bis
been formed and an 800-ton schooner
bought to work the sand and carr the
product to Sydney. The company con
sists of Walter -Sclby and J. Waters, ot
San Francisco and H. B. Dearborn, of
Sydney, under the firm name of the
Sydney Gold Mining Company. Ten
tons of the sand already sent to Sydney
is stated to have averaged 47 ounces f
pure gold to the ton. Nickel and tin
ore are also declared to exist in large
quantities in Samoa. The company w:II
send these ores to San F'rancisco.
J. D. Bamburg, a teacher, who recent
ly returned to Honolulu from Guam, re
ports that preparations are being made
there for 1.500 Filipino prisoners. The
natives of Guam have a deep hatred for
'.he Filipinos and do not like to see
them brought to the island.
" Poison in Weii7
At Elwood, Ind., William Bannon, his
.wife and three children were poisoned
! supposedly by water from a well. Ban
non probably will lie. there are sail
to be traces of arsenic in the water.
Two Chinese Beheaded.
Chin Siu, former grand secretary, and
Hsu Cheng Yo, were publicly be
headed Tuesday at Pekin. The strot
in which the execution took place was
guarded by French. German and
American troops. The condemned of
ficial", were taken to the ground in cars,
escorted by a company of Japanese in
fantry. Chih Siu met his fate in a dig
nified manner, walking from the cart
o;dti!y nnd fearlessly. Hsu Cheng Yo
was stupefied with opium. ,
CABLE FLASHES.
Haitians and Dominicans have had a
skirmish on the northern frontier ol
Haiti.
I General Azcarraa has formally pre
; seined the resignation of the Spanish
, cabinet to the queen regent.
I The census taken December 1, 1000,
; shows the population of the Genua
1 iiMyui- 10 au.j.O'S'i. which nui
E. . . . . . . V. . . -A - . . . 1 ' I .
j her 27,731,007 were males.
i The trades unions in England too
the matter of an industrial
'combinations in America.
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