BRIDGE FELLKILL1NG THREE People and Teams Thrown Into the Icy River. FOUR PERSONS BADLY HURT. The Acclient Resulted From the Slip ping of Cablet From Thtir Moorings. Three persons were killed and four others seriously Injured by the col lapse of the suspension bridge across the Elk river, which connects cast and west Charleston, W. Va. The dead: Mamie Higginbotham, aged 11; Annie Humphreys, aged 17; Ollle Gibbs, axed 15. The injured: Zella Smith, aged 17, compound frac ture of elbow; William Holmes, ne gro, driver, cut and bruised; Henry Fielder, driver, serious Internal in juries; F.lma Tucker, aged 13, both arms and leg broken. On the bridge when It went down were six children on their way to school, and a number of other pedes trians, together with six teams. The noise of the crash wns heard through out the city. The bridge went down without warning, but a number of those who were near the ends of the structure managed to reach land be fore It collapsed. Those who went down with the wreckage fell a" dis tance of 40 feet Into the ice-covered water of the river. The steamer Baxter broke the ice to allow small boats to reach the scene and the res cue work began immediately. The injurevl were first assisted to the ahore, and Inter a search was made of the river for dead bodies. The bodies of Mamie Higglnbotham and Annie Humphries were tak?n out and the search continued until nightfall, bui no others were found. A girl named Lillian Callender saved herself by hanging to a cable. Ollle Gibbs died to-night of Injuries received. The bridge was a single span 600 feet In length, and was built In 1852. It had been known to be unsafe some time, and heavy traffic was not allow ed on It. During the Civil War one cable of the bridge was cut by General Wise when he evacuated Charleston, the bridge at the same time being par tially burned. The same cable was afterward spliced and has been in use ever since. The accident was caused by two ca bles on the north side slipping from their moorings. When that side dropped another cable snapped, and the floor tilted and turned completely over. BONDS HOUSES SWINDLED. Man Gets Securities Running Into Thousands of Dollars. Detectives are searching Canada for a man who, under many aliases, swindled two big New York and Bos ton bond-dealing business houses out of securities running Into thousands of dollars. A year ago last September he open ed an office for the sale of real estate at Lynn, Mass. He carried on an in surance business and appeared to be prosperous. Soon afterward he call ed on the bond brokers and purchased gilt-edged bonds costing more than 930,000. Certified checks were ten dered In payment, and, after the buyer disappeared, It was found that the cer tlflcatlon of the checks was a forgery. The office in Lynn was closed mean while and no trace of the pseudo real estate broker could be found. The police in the larger cities were noti fied. A month passed and then the suspect appeared in Birmingham, Ala. There he was looking over sites to start a cotton seed oil mill and soon became a member of the Commercial Club of that city. He obtained about $9,000 on some of the stolen bonds from a Birmingham bank and then was next heard of In New York city. He rented an office and tried to sell the bonds almost within a stone's throw of the Ann be bad robbed. Detectives were close upon the trail, but he fled Just before they arrived and Is now reported to be in Canada. Some of the bonds placed with brok ers here for sale are understood to have been recovered IRELAND CALLS FOR HELP. Nationalist Members Adopt Resolu tions on Failure of Potato Crop. A meeting was held In the Mansion House, Dublin, for the purpose of dis cussing the failure of the potato crop. Resolutions were passed calling on the government for assistance and to ap ply the provisions of land act to the vest of Ireland. Employment on public works Is demanded for the poor. Irish landlords are demanded for collecting full rents. There were present John Dillon, T. C. Harrington, Joseph Devlin and Sir H. G. Esmonde, and a majority of the Nationalist members of the House of Commons. Strikes Can't Bs En Joined. Justice Jenks of the Appellate di vision of the New York State Su preme Court handed down a decision that an Injunction against organizing strike cannot stand. Mining Property Burned. The Hutchinson Fuel Company's tipples and mine rigging were totally destroyed by Are near Byron, W. Va. Loss, 125,000, with $5,000 Insurance. The fire Is still raging at the two en trances and It Is feared will spread to the interior. In a collision yesterday between two freight trains on . the Toledo, Walbondlng Valley ft Ohio road at Isleta, the caboose of the forward train was reduced to kindling and three trainmen in It were injured. STEADY GAIN IN TRADE. Let Idle Machinery, Material for Tun nel and Canal Construction Be ing In Demand. H. G. Dun ft Co., say; Manufactur ing activity increases, testifying to the general confidence In a heavy de mand next year, nnd trading branches report seasonable conditions. - Holiday goods sell more freely than staples, but nil classes of merchandise are going Into larger consumption, while It is the exception when there is rnmplnlnt regnrdlng mercantile col lecttons. Iron and steel plnnts are gaining steadily, footwear forward Ings arc running close to the large figures of Inst year, nnd Irregulnr raw material supply In the only serious element of uncertainty In the textile industries. Farm staples are returning Inrgo profits to producers nnd foreign trade returns for November showed a very small loss In exports, considering the abnormal figures Inst year. For the last week at. the port of New York Imports were $2,677,3(18 Inrger than In 1903. but exports declined $2,0:12. 800. Far from meeting with the set back that many trailers anticipated, the Iron and steel Industry has gone steadily forward. There Is no evidence of Inflation In the present sttuntlon, fuel shortage Increasing the cost of production, while orders covering all the product of some furnaces for the first quarter of next year testify to the faith of consumers. This forward business is the best feature of the market. Rail ways are beginning to anticipate their needs during the early months of next year, which is one of the fun damental features of strength In the present situation. Cars, locomotives, rails and structural materia! for brid ges are among the active divisions, while machinery nnd tools are stimu lated by orders for big tunnel nnd canal construction In addition to Jap anese orders. Pipe and tube mills aro receiving large orders, and con struction work promises to be very heavy next year, which accounts for the rapid Increase In the output of material. Packer hides are steady, but weakness has developed In coun try hides, and buyers of native steers wait for concessions. In a few exceptional cases lower prires are now quoted for cotton goods, but as a rule the market has held firm. Failures for the week numbered 27G in the United States against 329 last year, and 25 In Canada, compar ed with 20 a year ago. FIVE KILLED ON WARSHIP. Explosion on Massachusetts While Workmen Are Making Repairs. Three men were killed and two others were so badly Injured that they died an hour latter, by an explo sion of a boiler on the battlesnip Massachusetts, which is lying at League Island navy yard. There were half a dozen men at work In the boiler-room when the explosion occurred. The dead are: Edward J. Bub, boilermaker; John Wilson, boiler- maker; Andrew Hamilton, boilermak er; Joseph Adore, helper; Charles Rltzer, helper. They were all of Philadelphia. Bub Hamilton and Ritzer were instantly killed. Tho gasket on one of the boilers blew out and the force cf the explo sion closed the automatic door, thus preventing the escape of the men from the compartment. Llautenant Cole, chief engineer of the battleship, was scalded, but not fatally. NEW YORK'S OFFICIAL VOTE. Roosevelt's Plurality 175,552 and Parker Runs 49,000 Behind Herrick. President Roosevelt's plurality lu the State of New York at the - lost election was 175,552, as shown by the cfficlal returns corttflad to-day by the Board of State Canvassers. That of Higgins, for Governor, was 80,660. Parker is shown to have run nearly 49.000 behind Herrick, the Democratic candidate for Governor. For Governor, a total of 1,625,907 votes were cast, of which Higgins re celved 813,2ti4, a plurality of 80,560 over the total of 732,704 cast for Her rick. Other candidates for Governor received: Pendergast, Socialist Democrat, 30,259; McKee, Prohibition. 20,508; DeLeon, Socialist-Labor, 8,- 976; Boulton, Peoples party, 6,015. IDENTIFIED MRS. CHADW1CK. Matron of Penitentiary Says 8he Is Madame De Vers. "How do you do, Mrs. De Vere?" This greeting was addressed to Mrs. Chadwick in her cell at the county Jail in Cleveland Thursday morn ing by Mrs. L. M. Kissinger, of Co lumbuB, formerly an employee In the women s department In the peniten tlary, who was well acquainted with Lydla De Vere when the woman was a prisoner there. A look of mingled recognition and terror flashed over the face of the prisoner, and Instantly she covered her face with her hands. Mrs. Kissinger was accompanied by Mrs. Flora Kissinger, ber mother-in-law, who was matron in the women's department during the Incarceration of Mme, De Vere. Both women positively identified Mrs. Chadwick as Mme. De Vere. will take my oath on it," said Mrs. L. M. Kissinger. "She has hardly changed at all since she was a pris oner in tne penitentiary." Protest from Women, Senator P. C. Knot presented to the Senate petitions from women so cieties of Pennsylvania protesting against the use of the word "sex" as it appears in the Statehood bill now before the Senate. In this measure women are classed in the same cate gory with lunatics, felons and non- residents. Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company have de clared a cash dividend of 8 per cent, payauie reuruarv iv. Some Strange Things Practiced by Latter Day Saints. INSIDE CHURCH POLICY TOLD. Former Clerk Reynolds, of the En dowment House, the Father of Twenty-Six Children. Hearings of the protests against Reed Smoot, Junior Senator from Utah, retaining his sent In the United Stntcs Bennte, were resumed before the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The first witness was Rev. J. M. Buckley, editor of the "Christ Ian Advocate," of New York, who told of a-, Mormon meeting he attended In Salt Lake, Utah, last summer In which President Joseph Smith de clared he would not give up his plural wives. George Reynolds, a high official of the church, testified In regard to ceremonies that have taken place In the endowment house and concern ing ecclesiastical divorces granted by the church, and John Henry Hamlin told of the plural marriages of hi. sister, Lillian Hamlin, to Apostle A bra in Cannon, which ceremony he said ho understood to have been per formed by President Smith since the manifesto of 1890. In answer to questions by Senator Overman Mr. Reynolds said marri ages were performed with dead per sons In the endowment house. Mr. Tnyler then asked if divorces were granted in the endowment house. VTho church grants divorces to those who have been married for time nnd eternity, but does not divorce leg al marriages until the courts have acted," said Mr. Reynolds. "Plural marriages are not recognized by courts nnd therefore the church does not consult the court In granting di vorces In cases of such marriages." Senator Foraker asked If such di vorces are granted from dead per sons. "In a few Instances only, I should say," said the witness. For something done after death or before?" the Senator asked. "In lifetime." Mr. Reynolds testified that he has 26 children. . He gave the names of the seven presidents of the seventies of which he Is the fourth rank. Three of the seven were polygamlsts. He (Reynolds) had two wives now. WORK OF DESTRUCTION. Port Arthur 8quadron Wrecked Fire Concentrated on Town. The commander of the Japanese naval land battery reporting says: Four Russian battleships, two cruis ers, one gunboat and one torpedo store ship lying In Port Arthur bar bor are completely disabled. There is no further necessity for bombard ing the Russian naval force. Are now engaged shelling the town of Port Arthur, which is being heavily dam. aged." Dispatches received from the Jap- anese army besieging Port Arthur re port that the interior of the fortress was bombarded with heavy guns Sun day, BerlotiHly damaging the wireless telegraph station at the foot of Gold en Hill, and setting tho arsenal on r.re. WESTERN UNION LOSES. 8upreme Court Decides Case About Cutting Down Poles. The Supreme Court of the United States decided against the Western Union Telegraph Co. In Its case against the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. on account of the letter's tearing down Western Union poles and wires along the railway's right of way in 1903, upon the termination of its contract. The opinion was handed down by Justice McKenna. The court held that the congressional act of 186G, which controlled In the case, does not grant eminent domain to telegraph companies over the private property of railroad companies. Edward Rosser, 54 years old. Is dead nt New CaBtle, Pa., from burns receiv ed from an explosion of a lamp. IOWA P08TOFFICE ROBBED. Thieves Get $2,500; Two of Them Caught and $1,300 Recovered. Robbers entered the postoffice at Relnbeck, la., and secured $2,500. There was an exchange of allots be tween a posse of citizens and the rob- bors. The posse pursued the robbers up on a handcar for six miles, and after a number of shots had been fired one of the robbers surrendered. Thir teen hundred dollars were recovered from him. He gave his name as James Roach and said he was a rail' road man. Another one of the rob bers was captured at Beeman, two miles farther on, by the town mar shal. All trace of the third robber was IobL Will Not Disturb Rates. It is now admitted by the adminls tratlon that there la no prospect of legislative action at this session on the railroad rata question which President Roosevelt referred to so em phatlcally In his message. There Is absolutely no prospect of the inter state commerce commission, as now constituted, being given additional power to revise discriminatory rail road rates with reasonable ones. A Total Wreck. The British steamer Buckingham, from Baltimore, having on board a cargo intended for the United Fruit Co., at Bocas del Toro, Panama, struck on Koncador bank and is a to tal wreck. Schooners were chartered to bring to Colon the crew and 64 labor ers who were passengers on board the steamer. A small steamer was driven ashore In a gale near the mouth of the Spey. The whole crew, numbering 10 were drowned. $3,000,000 FIRE. Several Large Buildings In Minneapo lis Deetroyed. Fire which broke out In the photo graphic supply house of the O. H. Peck Company, at Fifth street and First avenue, Minneapolis, at 10:30 o'clock at night, spread to adjoining buildings and caused a loss roughly estimated at $3.ono,000. The Peck building wns entirely Rutted, while the six-story furniture house of Bou toll Bros., one nf the largest establish ments of Its kind In the northwest, was mined, nnd a number of Binnller buildings were destroyed. The Powers Mercnntllo Company, an Immense department store, Just across First avenue south, caught fire, but heroic efforts on the part of the Minneapolis nnd St. Paul fire de partments saved the building, al though Immense damage was done to the stock by water. For a time the best part of the retail district of the city was threatened, and the firemen seemed powerless to stay the progress of the flames, which were driven by a high wind from the north. By allow ing the buildings already on Ore to burn themselves out, and confining their efforts to adjacent buildings, however, the firemen had the flames well under control at 2 o'clock this morning. One mnn was reported killed by com ing In contact with a live electric wire and two firemen are also believed to have been killed. Two Banks Robbed. Robbers blew open the safe: In the Bnnk of Rice, nt Rice station, 15 miles north of St. Cloud, Minn., and secured $2,000 In cash and $15,000 In negotiable paper. The robbers . es caped, using a team of horses which they had stolen tor that purpose. Three suspects have been arrested. A lone highwayman held up the Bnnk of ChiHholm, Minn., and secured $2, 200. He forced Cashier Grelser Into the vault at the muzzle of a revolver and locked the door. The robber es caped. The Chadwick Case. Mrs. Cnsslo L. Chadwick arrived at Cleveland In the custody of federal officers and was taken to Jail amid the Jeers and hisses of crowds In the street. The federal grand Jury return ed five indictments against her. An drew Carnegie will give testimony in the case as soon aa his health will permit. Mrs. Chadwick says she pre fers Jail to freedom and again declares she will pay all her debts. TERSE TELEGRAMS. James Rankin, his wife nnd four children, are dead at Stddell, 111., frbm eating poisoned cabbage. John H. Wood, president and cash' ler of the First National bank, of Mntthews, Ind., was found guilty of misapplication of bank funds and false entries. Twelve business houses at Rich land, Tex., were destroyed by Are. Only one carried Insurance. The Mergenthaler Linotype . conv pnny has declared a quarterly dlvi dend of 2 '4 per cent, and an extra dividend of 5 per cent. The syndicate organized by Spey. er ft Co., to finance the $35,000,000 Cuban loan has been wound up. Par ticipants are said to have divided a profit of slightly less than 5 per cent At no time were the members called upon to pay any part of their sub scriptlons. Fire at Sardls, O., destroyed 14 bulldlngR. Tho property loss Is not given. Woodsfleld, but a few miles distant, was visited by a similar Are, supposed to have been Incendiary. The Lake Shore & Michigan South' era Railroad Company reports for the quarter ended September 30 a sur plus over charges of $1,434,140, an increase from the same quarter last year of $375,425. The Chicago, Rock Island ft Pacific Railway has declared a dividend of 2 per cent, payable January 3. Tho last dividend, 24 per cent, wbb paid October 1. The January dividend last year -was H4 per cent. Rev. Charles W. Tyler, D. D., rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church of New Castle, Pa., ba resigned. Dr. Tyler says he wl'l remain until anoth' er rector Is secured, but no later thun July 1, 1905. Reports from Ohio, Western Penn sylvania and West Virginia say there Is danger or a water famine. A sharp earthquake shock was felt at Snn Francisco, but no damage was done. President Roosevelt announced that Secretary Morton at his earnest request had consented to remain in the cabinet after March 4, as secre tary of the navy. The Michigan Central railroad has placed an order for 4,000 tons of steel rails with the Lake Superior Corpora tion. The price is said to be qual to the equivalent of the American pool figure. Governor Dunn decided to call a special session of the Delaware legis lature for December 29, in order that a blunder In a Judgment lien law may be corrected. The District Court of Appeals af firmed the decision in the postal con spiracy cases pf August W. Machen, George E. I-orenx, Samuel A. Groff and Dlller B. Goff, who were sen tenced to two years' Imprisonment in the West Virginia penitentiary and to pay a fine of $10,000. The directors of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad company have declared a semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent., payable De cember 81. The directors of the Nor thern 'Central Railroad company de clared .a semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent., payable January 16. The Mormon Oath. Endowment bouse secrets, Includ ing the terrible oaths which Mormons who go through these ceremonies are compelled to take, were revealed at the Smoot bearing by J. H. Wallls, Sr., of Bait Lake City, who, once a Mormon, bas now renounced the faith. One of the oaths which he described Is pronounced by the opposition to Senator Smoot to be a direct renunci ation of allegiance to the United States in favor of tbe church. NOT ONE VESSEL AFLOAT Port Arthur is In Ruins and Few Soldiers Patrol the Streets JAPS SHELL TOWN AND HARBOR. The Only Battleship Remaining was Driven Out and Attsoked by Torpedo Flotilla. Every part of tho city and harbor of Port Arthur Is vlslblo from 203 Meter bill. The streets of the city are deserted, and but few soldiers are doing patrol duty. Many buildings have been burned and others shatter ed. .The shelters of tho harbor pres ent a strange appearance with the turrets, masts and funnels of war ships showing Just above the water. There Is not a vessel afloat in the har bor. The docks and buildings on tho water front are torn and burned. The Japanese shells reach every part, of the city and harbor. The Russian battloshlp Sevastopol the only Russian warship that escap ed destruction, being docked when the other vessels were sunk after the Jap anese captured 203 Meter Hill, escap ed from the dock and harbor Inst night and is now anchored under a protecting mountain. Some torpedo craft are also outside of the harbor. The report of .Vice Admiral Togo Is as follows: "Commander Kasnma, commanding the torpedo flotilla, on Monday night at midnight attacked the Russian battleship Stwnstopol, lying outside Port Arthur. The result of this at tack has not been ascertained. Sub sequently two torpedo boats tinder Commander Masado attempted sev eral attacks, facing the enemy's vig orous fire. The shock of the explos ions of torpedoes was felt, but the next day the Sevastopol remained in the same position. None of our ves sels was damaged. On Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock in the morning another torpedo flotilla, under Commander Arakawa, attacked the Sevastopol, but tho result of this attack was not learned. In this attack a shell from the enemy struck the funnel of one of our torpedo boats and another struck the engine room, disabling the vessel, and she lost her freedom of motion and was towed away by her comrades. There were no casualties. The commander of the naval guns over-looking Port Arthur, reporting at 10 o'clock Tuesday night, says: "To-day's bombardment was princi pally directed against the arsenal and torpedo storehouse at Tigers Tall peninsula and the vessels anchored In that vicinity. The storehouse was set on fire and burned In about an hour. About six shells struck the ships and three vessels used for vnrl ous purposes were destroyed. One took fire and sank. The bombard ment of buildings caused serious dam ago. The result of the Indirect bom bardment of the Sevastopol has not been ascertained, owing to the Incle ment weather." WILDCAT IN8URANCE. Promoters of Companies on Trial In Chicago Plead Guilty to Operating 8cheme to Defraud. A crusade begun several months ago by government officials against the operation of "wildcat" insurance companies reached a successful ter mination, when Steven W. Jacobs and Charles J. Van Anden of Chicago pleaded guilty to charges of operating a scheme to defraud by placing al leged fraudulent Insurance policies and using the United States malls to conduct the frauds. Witnesses from all parts of the United States were present hi the United States court ready to testify that they had paid premiums on fire Insurance which, when their homes burned, they were unable to collect. Complaints have been made from over 100 different cities and towns throughout the coun try that the two men awaiting sen tence had refused to redeem their policies, when presented for pay ment. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says definite Instructions have been sent by the Czar to Admiral Rojest vensky, commander of the Baltic fleet not to proceed to the Far East. Investigating Rural Mall Service. As a result of complaints filed with the postoffice department at Washington, D. C, over the proposed chnnge and reduction of the rural free delivery routes In Washington County, Pa., and through the media' tlon of Congressman Acheson, Special Agents F. P. Bouchee and G. P. Con way are now going over the routes making an investigation. By the changing of the routes- muny families were left unservod and it Is believed that the agents will report against the great reduction in the number of the routes. Girl Shot Herself. Near Barberton, O., Miss Grace Trumphour, 19 years old, was shot and killed at the home of Houston Kepler. Nelson Kepler, a son of the man at whose bouse tbe tragedy oc curred, telephoned Dr. W. A. Mans Held that Miss Trumphour had Bhot herself. The physician went to the Kepler home and found Miss Trump hour lying la a pool of blood. Japanese Cruiser Goes Down. The Japanese cruiser Sa'yen struck a mine and sank November 80. Fif teen officers and 175 men were res cued. Capt. Tajlma and 38 others went down with the ship. HAS DEBTORS IN BELGIUM. Mrs. Chadwick Lived In Luxurious 8tyle In Brussels. In a search in Brussels for Dr. Le- roy S. Chadwick, the Etclle BelgouJ, asserts that it bas discovered that bis wife left debts In Brussels, notably $18,000 due to a Jeweler and $12,000 owing to a lace merchant. Mrs. Chad' wick while in Brussels lived expen sively, ber hotel bill amounting to $30 a day. 1 v CONGRESSIONAL NOTES. Monday. The House transacted large amount of miscellaneous business, starting with pension bills and con sidering the Hill financial bill later In the day. During the day 148 private pension bills were reported favorably by the committee of the whole. A bill amending the law preventing tho carrying of obscene or immoral litera ture Into nny Btnte or Territory so as to prevent the Importation or ex portation of such matter was passed. The Speaker announced committee assignments as follows: Mr. Needham, California, to Ways and Means: Messrs. Wood, New Jersey, nnd Knowlnnd, California, to Coinage, Weights and Measures; Mr. Webber, Ohio, to Insular Affairs; Mr. Heflln, Ohio, to Mines nnd Mining; Mr, Thomas, Ohio, to Militia and to Edu cation; Mr. Croft, South Carolina, to Manufactures and to Expenditures in the Navy Department. Tuesday. Sitting as a grnnd Jury, the House of Representatives, with almost a full membership and after more than five hours' discussion, adopted a resolution providing for the Impeachment of J ml ne Charles Swayne, of the North ern district of Florida, for "high crimes and misdemeanors." A resolution granting the use of tho pension ofllce building for the Inaug ural ball wns passed by the Senate. The House committee on appropria tions has reported nn urgent deficiency bill carrying $2(4,noo. Among the items are $12,500 for the pnyment of electoral messengers nnd $1,500 for the printing of the electoral returns, $200,000 for equipment of the Chicago postoffice building nnd $25,000 for testing coals and lignites. Thursday. The Senate Committee on Territor ies completed Its work on the state hood bill and authorized a favorable report on the matter of admitting Arizona and New Mexico as one State and Oklahoma and Indinn Territory also as one State. The Senate adopted a reiolutlon an nouncing that it would consider the Impeachment of Judge Charles Swayne according to the demand of the House. The urgent deficiency appropriation bill was passed without debate In the Senate. LARGE STEEL EXPORTS. Increase of Shipments from Mills About Pittsburg. Upward of 60,000 tons of steel bil lets, rail, beams, bars, hoops. Iron pipe, wire and wire nails, manufactur ed In the plants of the United States Steel Corporation located In Pittsburg and vicinity, were exported to differ ent parts of the world last month. Similar shipments made during Octo ber represented about 38,000 tons. Compared with the previous month's foreign consignments the largest increases In November were In rails, there being a gain of nearly 225 per cent. Twenty-one thousand four hundred tons of steel rails went abroad last month. During Novem ber, 1903, the aggregate exports were but 6,140 tons. The total exports of steel billets last month were 18,404 tons. In October they aggregated 16.005. In Novem ber, 1903, they were but a few nun dred tons. Twenty-four hundred and ninety- eight tons of steel plates also were shipped abroad last month, while ex ports of wire, wire nails and pips amounted to G.958 tons. The wire shipments alone aggregated 3,840 tons. The nail shipment represented 1,651 tons In all for November, and 1,280 tons of Iron pipe also were con signed to different foreign countries, KILL8 CHILD WITH CHAIR. Negro Then Battles With Wife, Cut ting Her Hands to Pieces. Edward Harris, a negro 'of Ironton, O., murdered his 0-year-old stepson asleep In a crib, by hitting the child over the head with a chair and then striking a knife in each temple. He then turned on his wife and tried to cut her throat, literally cutting her hands to pieces as she struggled. Bhe finally got away and fled, and then Harris cut his own year-old baby in the mouth. He attempted to escape but was captured later, asleep under a boiler at a brick yard. Officers had to pro tect him from neighbors. Postoffice Employes Are Removed. Postmaster General Wynne removed from office Frank H: Cunningham, of South Dakota, president of the Nation al Association of Rural Carriers, and James C. Keller, of Cleveland, bead of the National Association of Letter Carriers. The dismissal of Keller was for alleged Insubordination, for being absent from duty without leave and of "pernicious activity" in the recent campaign. Control of the C, H. ft D. H. B. Holllns ft Co., announce that they have exercised their option on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road and have acquired control of that company. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton practically controls the Pore Marquette road and has Joint ownership in a number of smaller lines. It is stated that the deal does not Involve any changes In the man agement of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road. Jacob Bellhart, head of the Spirit Fruit Bociety at Lisbon, O., has been sued for alimony by his wife. Oath of Vengeance. The retribution obligation taken by Mormons In the endowment . house ceremony, as quoted by J. Lundstrom, Brnoot hearing before the Senate Com mittee, was as follows: "Oh, God, the Eternal Father, we ask Thee to bless Thy church, the holy priesthood, to help us to keep Thy covenants, and that all that raise their hands against Thy church be accursed forever, and that vengeance be visited upon the nation for the blood of Joseph Smith," KEYSTONE STATE CULLIIXS COLLECTOR WAS WAYLAID. Bound and Gagged by Unknown Men, Who Rob mm and Effect Escape. William Fleeger, driver and collect or for Holland & Million, wholesale liquor dealers of New Castle, while returning home from Neshannock Falls, was stopped by two men who at the muzzle of revolvers forced him to leave his wagon. He was bund gagged, robbed and then thrown Into a field beside the road, where ho lay for an hour until he worked the gag- from his mouth and his calls for help were heard. Several vehicles passed while he was still gngged. The rob bers secured $230 and drove toward this city In his delivery wagon. Michael Kissinger, charged with killing his wife at Catfish, on June 7, 1903 was found guilty of manslaught er by a Jury. Judge W. D. Patton of Armstrong county, presided at the trial. Kissinger, a widower, and Mrs. McKlnney, a widow, were married In 1900. The latter owned a farm. over which her husband secured con trol. Kissinger, It Is alleged, made deal for the coal, but his wlfo re fused to sign the deed unless ber husband would give her half the pro ceeds. The couplo quarreled and Mrs. Kissinger went to live with her son, Martin McKlnney. at Catfish. On the night of June 7, Kissinger call ed at the Catfish houso and renewed his efforts to have his wife sign the deed for the coal land sale. No one saw them, but Martin McKlnney, whp was asieep in an adjoining room, was awakened when the woman fell. She was dead when he reached her. It' was alleged that Kissinger struck his wife with a club or some other blunt Instrument. Two masked men entered the Leahy Coal Company's office in the Masonic temple. Altoona, knocked down Cleric Wilbur Ale, bound and gaged him and stole over $2,000, which bad been placed In a satchel ready to be taken to Lilly to pay off the miners. Ale was alone In the office at the time, Paymaster Charles Leahy having gone to lunch. The robbers knocked at the door and aa Ale opened It, felled him with a blow In the face, rendering hlln unconsci ous. After tying him to the safe the men took the money and disappeared. Leahy found Alo on his return. At Franklin, . on recommendation of the Grand Jury Indictments were prepared against ex-County Commiss ioners Joseph W. Black. S. A. Thomas and James W. Plimpton, charging them with the violation of the act of 1870 relative to the awarding of contracts for bridges, etc. True bills, were immediately returned on the in dictments, but no processes for the arrest of the defendants were Issued. Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker ' fixed February 2 next for the triple execution at Pittsburg, of Charles Miles, Charles Jackson and Walter Obey, who killed an old man for hla money In Allegheny county one year ago. This will be the first trlplo exe cution In Pennsylvania since the hanging of three men In Snyder coun ty several years ago for"the murder of an aged couple for their savings. Fifteen new crews will be taken from the ranks of the present freight force of the middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad on December 19 and assigned exclusively to fast trains for the more expeditious hand ling of perishable goods. This is an Innovation in railroading and places the engineers and firemen In position of precedence for promotion to tbe passenger service. Charles Stottsberry, of Carnegie, -entered suit for $10,000 against Thomas Beadllng, of Bulger, on the charge of alienating bis wife's affec tions. Beadling Is superintendent of the Bulger mine of the Verner Coal company. Stottsberry was formerly employed by him. Through the overturning of a lamp In the Rlblett hotel, at Pulaski, a fire was started. A number of telephone lineman were sleeping In the hotel. and after a bard fight they succeed ed In extinguishing (he blaze. Two hundred dollars damage was sustain ed. Romte Lomire, who killed Attorney Harry M. Bhoff in a fight near Coal port, on July 4 of last year, pleaded guilty to Involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to one year and three months In the Eastern peniten tiary. Richard McKee. 37 years old. who was hurt Bome time ago in a wreck on the West Penn railroad. Is dead at Freeport. Mr. McKee was a popular engineer. His mother and several brothers and slaters survive him. The dead body of John Hoar, a glass worker, 63 years old, was found dead on the bed In his room at Washington, Pa. He had no relatives in this part of the country. Two sisters live in New York. As the result of a fall one month ago Mrs. Bridget Kavanaugh, about 75 years old, died at Sharon. Bhe Is survived by a son, Joseph Kava naugh. Rev. Herman Lang, of Knoxville. has accepted a call to the Baptist church of Salem, O., and Is expected to enter upon bis new duties January 8. At Ernest, Indiana county, Antonio Pachlllia was shot by an unknown Italian. The Injured man will prob ably die. Dr. E. L. Wasson and Deputy Sheriff J. Ralney Hoon, of Butler, Pa,, and J. W. Tooniey, of Mars, Pa., have sold their holdings on the Douthltt and Powell farms near Brownsdale, to tbe Devonian Oil Company, for $t8,000. Rev. Leon A. Harvey, pastor of tbe first Unitarian church, of Erie, haa effected a preliminary organization for a Unitarian congregation at New Castle. The new church will be or ganized with a good membership. Tbe Spangler Inn, at Bprangler. was destroyed by fire. The loss la about $20,000. Insurance, $5,000.
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