T KILLED 61 1 Storm Causes Great Lc.53 of Life I and Property. FIRE ADDED TO THE HORROR Wide Path Plowed Through Heart of Populout Community Victim J Mostly Negroei. Mcrldan, Miss., was lilt by a cy clone. The dead are placed any where from CO to 200. At. least 20 bodies were burned to a crisp In a fire which occurred Im mediately after the tornado. Four complete blocks along the trucks of the Queen & Crescent railroad were wiped out of existence, one building, that of the Armour Packing Com pany, be 1 11K much damaged. Several trains went out from New Orleans to the assistance of the stricken town. The cyclone broke over the city as the people were returning from their woik In the evening, anil tunny were struck with flying bricks mid timbers. Three entire squares are leveled to the ground In the business district. The Northeastern freight depot was wrecked, thousands of dollars worth of freight, being ruined by water and another large amount by lire. The negro tenement quarter In the north of the city was demolished and the debris caught lire, threatening a new danger, but the local department with the help of hundreds of citizens, overcame this after a hard fight. THE NANCHANG MAS3ACRE Governor Extends All Protection He Could and Friendly Natives Aid Escape, The following account of the recent attack on foreign missionaries at Nnnc.hang, China, has been received: Fifteen Methodist, 12 .English Pro testant and 14 French Catholic mls selonarles were In the city lust Thurs day night, when the French Catholics had a quarrel with un officer over a suit for the possession of property. ( Great excitement prevailed Friday. A j mass meeting was held Saturday and was followed Sunday by a riot, during j which the property of tho Catholics i was burned. The Protestants took refuge In Ihe adjoining house of Mr. Kingman. The house was burned and six priests and two members of the Kingman family were killed. The Chinese (iovernor attempted to check the riot. nnU rescue the mis sionaries. The men of the Methodist mission aided by CITinese soldiers, took their school girls to Chinese homes in the city and brought. Miss lloyt and Miss Kubu from a hospital. All took refuge In Nud river In a launch furnished by Chinese officers. The launch waited until Chinese sol diers brought the remaining mission aries at daylight. Mondav. The launch reached Kiuklung, Tuesday. The wounded Kingman girl died on tlie way. The Chinese could have blocked tho passage of the launch during tho 12 hours' Journey down the river, but they were friendly. Rv. A. P. Quiruibac'n of the .Meth odist China Inland mlss'.cn remained at Nanchang to care for property. He la under the protection of tho Governor and Is probably sale. Rev. Spencer Lewis, superintend ent of the Methodist Kpiscopal Mis sion at Chengking, wired the facts to Bishop Bashford at Shanghai Sun day; warning him of the disaster. Captain Fletcher, commanding tho American ships, had the location of every American missionary In the Yang-Tse valley. After consultation Monday, Captain Fletcher ordered the gunboat El Cano from Nanchang to meet the fugitives at Kiuklang or Poyang lake. They were met at Kiuchlang. The cause of the riot was local. Serious blame attaches to the French Catholics. Chinese friendly to the missionaries obier-t to priests exer cising civil functions. There is much dissension through out China, but here is no indication of a general uprising against foreign cm. The Nanchang magistrate who was wounded during the dispute with the Catholic missionaries Is dead. Mr. Rogers. American Consul at Shanghai, in a cable dispatch to the State Department received says: ''It Is definitely known Amerlcnn proper ty at Ni.nchang is safe. Refugees are at Kiukiang." Fixes Penalty for Hazing. Representative Rixey of Yf.rgin.ln, introduced a bill providing that here after hazing at Annapolis shall be dealt with as other offenses against the order and discipline of the Naval Academy. It provides that no mid shipman shall be dismissed for hazing unless convicted by a court-martial, whoso findings and sentence mny be reviewed by the convening authority and the Secretary of the Navy, as in other courts-martial. The bill also empowers courts-martial to fix either dismissal or a lesser punishment for bazing. It forbids the reappointment of midshipmen dismissed for hazing. Banker Walsh in Custody. John R. Walsh, president of the defunct Chicago National bank, which closed its doors December 18, 1905, was taken Into custody on a Federal warrant which charges him with vio lation of the National banking laws fn making false returns to the Comp troller of the Currency, and also as serts that he converted to his own use, without proper authority, funds of the bank amounting to $3,000,000. He was released after giving bond to the amount of $30,000. DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW Preparations for Large Spring Trade Manufacturing Plants Report Little Idle Machinery. Prospects tire most encouraging for continued acllvlty in the commercial world. Seasonable merchandise Is going into consumption more freely, and preparations for n large spring trade keep shipping departments busy. Meicantlle collections are ntlll gomevthal Irregular, although satis factory on the whole, especially in view of the firm money market. Manulaclnring plants report little Idle machinery, except ut Northwestern flour mills, where the heavy output has exceeded demands for a time. Probably the best news of the week was the prompt response to Presi den Roosevelt's pacific letter to the contesting coal Interests. Another favorable report estimated that, contemplated new buildings in New York City alone 'would con sume 200,0011 tons of structural steel, while National prosperity Is evinced by the various Slate reports showing noteworthy gains in savings bank de posits. Dividend distributions In March will also largely exceed last year's, and foreign commerce at this port for the last week showed gains of $!0;',l!Mi In exports, au.l $l.2liS.lT." in Imports, as compared with l!io.". Comiuoiciiil failures In February were only IMS In number, against 1.0i:i last yenr. but liabilities In creased from !i.7.so,::7o to $io,85o, 01!), owing to a few large brokerage defaults. Trading losses were al most. $2,000,000 less than In 1005, while a small Increase occurred In manufacturing llubllllles. Railway earnings in February exceeded last year's, but a further decline occur red In the prices of securities, attrib uted to the financial stringency. No setback has occurred In the Iron and steed Industry, mills and furnaces operating at. the limit, of capacity without overtaking orders, which come forward more rapidly than they can be filled. Primary tex tile markets are quiet, and in some lines of cotton goods a. little weak ness Is noted. Several lines are sold so far nhead that, prices are readily maintained, notably In certain ex port grades and some fine yarn goods. ROBBER KILLS FOUR Barricades Himself in Room and for Hours Holds Police at Bay. The pursuit, of the bmdits, who en tered the Russian Slate bank at Hel singfors, Finland, killed the guardian and secured $:!7.5tMi, resulted in an other highly dramatic. Incident and cost four more lives in Tnmincrsfora. where two of the fugitives were cor nered. One of the bandit.-! got pos session of the town hall and held It for hours, but finally was subdued by a st remit of water directed by the firemen. Wblie Commlpnry of Police Bnlu shin v.'iis cxatulnlnir the twri motives one of them grabbed : revolver from I the belt of the chief of police and with it killed Diilusliing. The bandit, then rushed upstairs, where he bar ricaded himself in a room. He de fled the police for three hours, mean while. Iiarraiigulng from Ihe window a crowd of thousands of persons many of whom were In sympathy with him In Socialistic! speeches. Two po licemen who tried to pick off the des perado from a liouso opposite were killed by the bandit, who was an ex cellent marksman. After all other resources had been exhausted the llermen were culled out ami poured a flood of water into the window. Simultaneously a picked ; party of police the firemen stormed tne stairs, une of the Hlormlng par ty was killed and nine were wounded before the bandit, who fought desper- j ately with a big knife, could be over powered. Tho rubber, who Is a blacksmith, boasted of membership In the Baltic revolutionary committee and said the robbery of the Russian State bank was committed to swell the revolu tionary war fund. Six thousand dol lars of the booty was recaptured. BIG ORE DEAL ! Steel Corporation Will Get Control of Hill Leases. Negotiations Involving over 11, 500,000,000, which have been on for over a year, between the United Stales Steel Corporation and the vast ore Interests represented by James .T. Hill, of the Great Northern rail road are now said to be so nenr a satisfactory consummation that many of tho details have been given out, and are causing no small Interest In Iron and steel circles. The Immense Hill ore' leases cover ing practically all of the Lake Su perior Iron ranges not already held by the steel corporation or the' larger In dependent steel comoanles. are under stood to be ready to I urn over to the steel corporation on a 80-ycar lease, with a possible production from the properties of HOo.0000,000 tons of ore during that period. The House agreed to n Senate Joint resolution which ctiro.ies the tribal government of the live civilized tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory until the property of the Indians shall be disposed of. Philippine Tariff Bill Killed. The Senate Philippine Committee, defeated the Philippine tariff bill. It refused, by a vote of 8 to 5. to report It favorably. By a vote of 7 to U It refused Senator Lodge's request to report It adversely. so that tho Sen ate might have the privilege of con sidering the subject. Senators Dick of Ohio and Nixon tif Nevada are the Republicans who. Joining with the riPmocraV. made It impossible for the Administration's bill to get even a hearing in the Senate. 11ED FOR HOSTILITIES .'lited States Arranging to Pro tect Citizens in China. GENERAL FERMENT IN EMPIRE Boycott Against American Goods and a Revolt Against the Reigning Dynasty Also. For three mouths the administration has been preparing to give the full est possible protection to American citizens and American property in terests in China, should an outbreak occur there. It entered on these preparations as a result of advices coming from lis agents, consular and diplomatic, In the empire giving warning of the dangers of an anti-foreign outbreak us a consequence of the boycott, of American goods. This boycott serv ed to revive the general anti-foreign feeling which characterized Hie I'.ox er excitement of 1900. Side by hide with the nut l-forelgn feeling arose a movement directed against the governing dynasty. This hitler movement had for Its aim the modernization of Chinese Institutions, political and social. Broadly, these movements seem to have produced a general fvrmenl In all parts of Hie vast empire. Increase Forcss In Philippines. To meet the situation of danger which seemed to threaten, the ad ministration in December decided to Increase Its forces in the Philippines, and to put the forces already there in a high state of preparedness, so that If It. became necessary to send a military expedition on to China, the troops would have the training and equipment necesRary to make them thoroughly effective In the new Meld of operation. The additional forces sent to the Philippines consisted of two regiments of Infanlry and a small force of Held artillery. These troops sailed for the Orient about Febru ary. Measures have also been taken to Increase largely the strength of our navy In Oriental waters. In addition the consuls have been instructed to keep a sharp watch on the trend of events find to send the earliest pos sible notice of dangerous movements to the authorities here. BATTLESHIPS ARE PREPARING Shoe Cast at the Dowager Empress American Missionaries Reach a Place of Safety. A message from Pekln says: The sub-prefect of Naushang. who hail a mid reputation among foreigners since llie Boxer I roubles. Invited Hie mis sionaries to a banquet.. After the banquet Ihe sub-prefect withdrew and nl templed to commit suicide. This act. In Chinese eyes, necessitated vengeance mid led to the massacre. The feeling in Pekln Is apprehen sive owing to the fact, that a Chinese shoe was thrown ut the dowager em press wnile she was walking In Ihe palace garden. The miscreant, has not been discovered. American Consul General Rodgers telegraphs from Shanghai that the II American missionaries who fled from Nanchang all reached Klnukiang In safety. The gunboat El Cano Is pro ceeding from Nanking; to the scene. The survivors of the ninssacre of missionaries at Nanchang arrived nt Kiuklang. The French cruiser Des cartes and tho American gunbont (iulros sailed roin Shanghai for Kiuklang. II. Is -understood that, the British, sloop Clio and the gunboat Teal are already there. The battleship Ohio, flagship of the American fleet on the Asiatic station, sailed for Hongkong, where she will dock and rush repairs so as to bo prepared for possible exigencies. Dr. H. K. Carroll of the Methodist Missionary society announced that lie bad received from Bishop Bashford, at Shanghai, the following: 'James, Charles and families; Lewis, Howe, Ogborn, Kahn, Newby, Hughes all reached Kiukiang safe. Property unbiirned. Trouble due French Catholics' falal qiiurrcl with i magistrate." WESTERN BANK ROBBED Thieves Open Outer Vault and Get $600, but Miss $5,000, Five burglars dynamited the Peo ple's hank at Kenny, 111., securing $1100 In coin, but failing to open the Inside safe containing $.1,000. They were observed by servant girls In an adjoining hotel, who were too badly frightened to give the alarm until the burglars had escaped on an Illi nois Central train. The bank Is own ed by Sr-.r.i- v Ingram, of Clinton, 111. No More Free Seeds. The House Committee on Agricul ture decided by a vote of 8 to 7 not to recommend any appropriation to buy seeds for free distribution by the De partment of Agriculture. This means a saving of $250,000 annually. The tinly seeds purchased by the depart ment hereafter. If Congress sustains the committee's action, will bo rare and unusual varieties for use at ex periment stations. House Passes Ship Canal Bill. By a vote of 190 to 81 the bill In troduced by Representative Dalzell to incorporate the Lake Erlo & Ohio River Ship Canal Company was pass ed by the house. For four years this bill has been pending before congress, being introduced each congress by Mr. Dalzell, It was reported favorably by tho committee on railways and canals, but some strrAig Influences have been working to prevent Us passage. Whether it will pass the Senate or not is uncertain. MISSIONARIES SLAIN Six Catholic Workers anu Ai, Eng lish Family of Four Kllk-5 b.- Chinesc-. The Chinese guvoinnieii' lias ie- i ccived u report from the govr.'.or of Nanchang w'.m state:.' that six Ca- lliolie missionaries were killed, be sides mi Ktigllsh family of four. An Knglisb missionary named .Morris Is believed to have escaped slightly in jured, limiting ii ltd Fife also are belle- ed to have escaped. According to the official report Hie trouble arose during Hie course of n law-suit In the magistrate's yaiueu. In which Hie Catholics became Invol ved. The tight, occurred In the yu men. The Fngllsh missionaries were In no wise concerned, but Sunday morning it mob attacked Hie mis sions iiidlscriiuiiialely. The (Iovern or stales Hull he has suppressed the rioting and sent the surviving for eigners in deals to Kiuklung for safely Sir K. M. Salow. Hie British min ister nl Pekln, has telegraphed to the British consul at Kiungkiang to proceed to Nanchang. taking a gun boat as far as possible, to Investigate the facts of Hie massacre and help the survivors. Chinese hostility to Catholics mid lion-Christians has been us preva lent In the province of Klangsl lately as In Hie provinces of llonan and llupeli. Native papers report that the Catholic blslioti had trouble with the authorities for Issuing ap peals for subscriptions for the church, which were written in an official si ve to which he had no right. ROOSEVELT AS PEACEMAKER President Intervenes Between Coal Operators and Miners. President Roosevelt has again In tervened as a peace-maker between the coal miners and operators, and as a result of a letter addressed by him to John Mitchell, president of the I 'tilted Mine Workers of Ameri ca, n national convention of tho mem bers will be held March 15 to try to reach an agreement with the bitu minous operators in Hie hope of averting the threatened strike of April 1. The President's letler and the an nouncement that tlie national con vention would be called were made public by Mr. Mitchell after a long conference with Francis I. Bobbins, chairman of the hoard of the Pitts burgh Coal Company, and chairman of the bituminous operators, held In New York. FORAKER OPOSES RATE BILL Thinks Hepburn's Proposed Legisla tion Would Fail to Remedy Evil. For almost three hours, Senator Foraker held the attention of the Senate while be read n carefully pre pared speech on the railroad rate question. Ills speech was a protest against any general legislation, on Hie theory that the existing Elklns law could be so extended as to make It answer all tlie requirements. He pointed out what he considered the defects of the llepbiirn-Dolliver bill and be made the declaration more than once that it would fail to rem edy the evils complained of. He announced his regret nt differ ing from the President, but said he could not see his way clear to pursue liny other course. FATAL RIOT IN CUBA Disturbers Attack Rural Guards, Kill ing Two and Wounding Four. j Guiinnbacon, occupied by 23 rur al guards, was attacked by 30 rioters, j armed with rifles and revolvers, who suddenly entered from the rear and j began shooting into the dormitories ; of the sleeping soldiers, shouting, ''long live the constitution." "long I live the Liberal party," nnd with the rural guards." "down The soldiers seized their arms and returned tho fire, whereupon tho riot ers fled. A sergeant in his bed and a corporal on guard were killed, while four rural guards were wounded. COMBINE BOILER WORKS Ohio and New Jersey Companies to j Form $13,000,000 Corporation. j The two largest manufacturers of j water tube boilers In the country are ' understood to have arranged to con- j solidnle. They are the Babcocl; & Wilcox Company. Itayonne. N. J.. and the Stilling Consolidated Bollor'Com-' pany, Mansfield. O., and Barberton, O. ; The Stirling company was incor-: porated In October to succeed the i Stirling Company and the Aultman & : Taylor Machinery Company. T.he , ' sa com).lnits all() r,0 of the prlnci capitai Is $1.8.3,000. Ii Is proposed to nn1 r.1irnillu of the Slate will have to Incorpoiated u Tie- company with a capital of $l.',Cii'0,i"i. Kaiser's Son Married. The kaiser's second son. Kilel Fritz, of Prussia, was married In the chapel of the imperial palace at j The case will be appealed to the Berlin to Duchess Sophie Charlotte, of j United Sto'es Supreme Court. It Is Oldenburg. The ceremony was attend- expected thr.t effect of this de ed by upwards of 1,000 Invited guests, , cision will be to drive all of the ex Inclitdlng members of nearly every j press companies out of business In royal family In Europe. Bolh civil j Texas. Ex-Governor Hogg Is al and religious ceremonies were per-; ready organizing an Independent ex formed, j press company to take their places. Two Companies Shut Out. Because of the alleged refusal of the North American Investment Com pany of the United States and the American Reserve Bond Company of Lexington. Ky., to permit examina tion of their books, the State Savings Bank Commissioners have revoked the authority of these companies to do business in Massachusetts. If a man has much rf tW Spirit of God. he will be sure to have great coi. filet? with the tempter. D. L. Moody Shooting of a Railroader Causes Riot at Springfield, Ohio. TROOP3 WERE CALLED TO SCENE Mayor Hurries Prisoner Away and Makes Request for Two Compan ies of Militia. Springfield, t) was the scene of mob disorder, the outcome of feeling over the probable fatal shooting of Rail road Bralteman M. M. Davis by Preston l.uild and Kdward Dean, ne groes, both of whom woro placed un der arrest, and, because of threatened lynching, hurried under cover of dark ness by the authorities to Dayton, where they were lodged In jail. When the mob learned that the prisoners had been taken from the city It went to that, part of town known as the ''Jungle," Inhabited by negroes, and began to burn and loot dwelling houses and saloons. At least six dwellings were burned and the contents of one saloon looted. A general lire alarm was sounded. The sounding of the gong served to fill the streets with people and the feeling in the crowds was tense. The moli entered Kempler's saloon In East Columbia street and looted it. Kempler and his wlfo fled, leaving (heir three little children asleep In a room over the finloon. The building was ilddled with bullets and stones anil It was only by the hardest ef forts of pollco and llremen that a way was forced through tho mob and the children rescued. Alter the pillaging of the saloon drunkenness was an added feature of the riot. Members of the mob broke through a cordon of police and set fire to a house la the "Jungles" which was quickly burned down. The sheriff wired Governor Pattl son to send troops to aid the local militia. Rioting continued In spite of the presence of the inllltla. Beside the house burned the first night others were set on fire anil stones thrown at some others which were partly de molished. A boy was shot and n wo men has a broken leg caused by Jumping from a burning house.. NOTED SCIENTIST DEAD Professor Samuel P. Langley Passes Away In His 72d Year. Samuel Pierpont l.angley, secretary of the Smithsonian institute, found er of Hie Allegheny observatory, and a scientist famed throughout the world, died In Aiken, S. C., as the re sult of a stroke of paralysis which he sustained while nt work in the Smithsonian institute on November 22, and which nfTected his right side. He was ordered south several weeks ago. and at the time of his death was accompanied by a niece anil an at tendant. Prof. Longley was "2 years old and had devoted his entire life to scien tific work and accomplished many Im portant discoveries. Though by pro fession n civil engineer and architect, be devoted most of bis time to as tronomy. The title of D. C, L. was conferred upon him by Oxford uni versity; P. Sc. by Cambridge, Eng.; LL. D. by Harvard. Princeton. Yale, I'nlverslty of Wisconsin, and Unl versity of Michigan, nnd Ph. D. by tho Stevens Institute of Technology. FIRE BRICK COMBINE New Concern Will Have a Capital of $12,000,000. .U-tt meeting of the independent fire brick' mainuactiirers held in... Pitts burgh, plans for the formation of a company with a capitalization of I 5i2,fi0o,0ti0 were taken up and ap proved. Another meeting will be held in tho near future, when all ar rangements for forming the new com pany will he completed and officers elected. The new company will In clude 60 independent fire brick manu facturing plants with a daily capacity of l.tUiO.Ooo bricks, and will take in about 9u per cent, of all the independ ent fire brick manufacturing piants In the country, not including the Harbison-Walker Refractories company, which has n dally capacity of 1,000. 000 bricks. TEXAS HITS RAILROADS State Supreme Court Gives Decision, Imposing Millions Penalty. In accordance with a docislon rend ered by the Supreme Court of Texas, the Pacific, the t'nlted States, the mnvlr!in unrl tlio WoIIh-Fh rffn .. Ir. , Slat(, - 103.000 oenaltv ; for alleged violations of the anti 1 trust law which forbids agreements I or contracts being entered Into In re Prlnce , stralnt of trade and to stifle competl- j don. I Insurance Company Withdraws. State Superintendent of Insurance Vandlver of Missouri, has received a letter from Vice President George D. Eldrldge of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company of New York, stat ing that the company will not file a statement of Its business, but will withdraw from the State. At Collins. Ca.. the family of Ru fus Woods, was stricken with trichi nosis, caused probably bv eating di seased pork, and five dJd RAILROADS DEFY LEGISLATURE New Schedule of Oil Freight Rates - Advanced 50 Per Cent. . . Representatives of all railroads of Kansas have fixed a new schedule of oil freight rates In Kansas in de fiance of the maximum freight rate law passed by the last 8tate Legis lature.' Tho schedule agreed . on amounts to an Increase of 60 per cent, of the present schedule, making the new rate about the same as the one In effect, before Ihe maximum rate law was passed. It Is said that the action of the Kansas railway traffic officers will af fect tho Independent oil shippers of Kansas more than any of the other patrons of Kansas roads. The Stan dard Oil Company, having u mono ply on oil tanks, It Is said, wlil suf fer. Tariff Rates With Germany. President Roosevelt has proclaimed for Germany the tariff rates and treatment provided In section 3 of the Dlngley law. In consideration of Germany's enactment of conventional rates for American Imports. This In sures commercial pence between this country and Germany until June, 1907. Want Former Congressman Owen. A police circular was Issued In Boston" calling for the arrest, wherever found of William I). Owen, of Indiana. He was formerly secre tary of state of Indiana and a former congressman. He was Indicted sev eral months ago on 126 counts in the Ubero Plantation Company case. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS At (irand Rapids, Mich., two daughters of (ieorge Storer of Cam den have been fatally poisoned by canned salmon. Postmaster Albert Hoerner of the West Seneca, N. Y. postofflce has been arrested charged with embezzling $5,000 postofflce funds. The New York Board of Trade has adopted resolutions favoring culti vation of trade with China apd con demning methods ndopted by subor dinate officials of enforcing the Chi nese exclusion law. Plans for a memorial to General Joseph Wheeler, to be held In Atlan ta, March 27, the day preceding the annuai gathering of the organization of the Blue nnd the Cray, have tnken 011 n national importance. Flint glass workers of the United States and Canada agreed to accept n sliding scale, which means a re duction of from 20 to :10 per cent. In lump chimneys, reflectors and globen the country over. Samuel MeFotridg a young farmer residing near St. Clairsville, O., was killed in the machinery of his feed mill. The Interstate commerce commis sion decided that railroads discrimi nated in the transportation of petro leum. Judge Shnfer o? Pittsburg, In re mitting a fine decided tobacco is a necessity of life and (an he sold on Sunday. Six men were killed and 12 so bad lyinjured that most of them will prob ably die In an explosion In Little Cnhaba mine No. 2 at Piper, Ala. The federal council of Germany has approved the Reichstag's action In passing the bill providing for the ex tension of the new German tariff to the United Staes until June 301907, and sent the measure to the emperer for his signature. The Stale Supreme Court of Michi gan has held unconstitutional the Galbraith law providing for the equal ization by a state board of assessors the assessment of railroad property and that of other properties in the State. Foster Hooper, vice president of the Hanover Bank, of Boston, which Is now in tlie hands of a receiver, has been held in $::,000 ball for the United States District Court of New Jersey by Commissioner Hayes on the charge of using the mails in a plan to defraud. Rev. John Hewitt, Secretary of the Ohio branch of the Red Cross, has sent out President Roosevelt's ap peal for contributions to the Japin famine fund. The London divorce court has held that a marriage "by habit and re pute" contracted In St. Paul, Minn., 1 without either church or civil cere mony, must be considered legal In England. Pursuant to a Sunday closing ord er Issued by the board of safety, and directed at places of amusement, the police made wholesale arrests of man agers and actors at three of Louis ville's theaters Sunday afternoon. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, has denied a writ of error in the case of Captain E. W. Jones of the Virginia National Guard, con victed of the murder of Maude Cam eron Robinson, and rer'enced to IS years In the penltentiar Ambassador Tower has presented President Roosevelfs message con gratulating the German Emperor and Empress on their silver wedding an niversary. The Emperor, in express ing his thanks, mentioned the wed ding of Alice Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth. FANATIC BAND RUNS AMUCK Destroys French Post and Over whelms British Detachment. A force of religious fanatics Is re ported to have invaded an! overrun a portion of Sokoto. West Africa, from the north, to have destroyed a f:oii'h post near the frontier, killing five French officers and capturing two. and to have overwhelmed a British detachment, wtnse casualties are cot given. KEYSTONE STATE GULLING CARSON WILL FILE 8UIT3 Attorney General Will 8eek to Re cover $187,000 From Former In surance Commissioners. After several conferences with Gov ernor Samuel W, Pennypacker, In which the legal status of the case wait fully discussed. Attorney General Hampton L. Carson has announced that he has decided to file bills In equity against George B. Luper. James 11. Lambert and Israel W. Dur uum, former insurance commissioner, and against Actuary Robert E. Forst erand J. Clayton Erb. Recovery of aut $197,000 will be sought by thai attorney general on behalf of thr state. It will be. contended that the commissioners, the actuary. and Mr. Krb misconstrued the law In accept ing the fees that came Into tho In-, surance department. i.ast July a stranger presented a check which proved to be bogus at the First National bank of Union town, given on the Charlerol bank, and purporting to be signed to C. IL MIckels. Some time ago J. H. Glh boney, with others,' was brought to t'ntontown from Connellsvllle on a larceny charge, and as he was about to be released on bail ho was Identi fied as the man who had got the money on tho alleged forged check. A warrant was served on him at t once and he was returned to Jail. Officials of the Mahoning and 8he nango Railway and Light company have announced that tho merger of the Pennsylvania and Mahoning Val ley Traction company and the Inter ests of the Youngstown and Sharon line have been completed. The nea , officers of the merged concern are: Prsldent, E. N. Sanderson; first Tie president, Randall Montgomery) sec ond vice president. M. E. McCaskey; treasurer, Alexander S. Webb; sec retary, Lelghton Calkins. There -will be an Issue of $6,000,000 of stock. A passenger train bound for Pitts burg ran Into coal cars near Murray Hill station on the Chanters Valley Branch. The locomotive was badly damaged and the passengers received a severe shaking up. Condnctor Stork, of Carnegie, was thrown be neath a coal car and severely Injur ed. Tratlic was delayed for hours. Angered because he claims he was Insulted In the presence of his sis ters. Santo Paiirero. an Italian lab orer, shot and killed Koiana mc- Cloud, 20 years old. as the latter stood in a crowd of Americans, In the old Washington county fair grounds. After the shooting Paurero was placed In the county Jail. Fire destroyed the plant of the Dun bar firebrick company at Pechin sta tion, owned by T. B. nnd John Pal mer. The loss Is placed at $75,000, partly covered by Insurance. Firs years ago the plant was destroyed by a blaze started by a locomotive spark. Now 135 men are thrown out ol em ployment. The mill of the Wheeler Lumber company, at Endeavor, ForeRt county, was destroyed by fire. The flames communicated to the yards and sev eral thousand feet of lumber and three dwelling houses were also burn ed, total loss, estimated, $20,000, in surance unknown. At Butler, John Hilllard, an old soldier, was shot through both hips by John Stoops, his neighbor. Stoops had slaughtered a steer by shooting; It with a revolver. The men were examining tbe weapon when It was discharged. The strike at the Pittsburg Reduc tion company's plant at New Ken sington, has ended. Both employers and employes made concessions. The men will return to work, about 500 of them being affected by the set tlement. James Caldwell, ex-chlef of police of Youngwood, was sentenced to pay $100 and six months in jail upon con viction of aggravated assault and bat tery. It was alleged that he shot 3. S. Naylor after having locked him in the police station.' The following appointments of fourth-class Pennsylvania postmast ers were announced: -EJk CItv, Clar ion county, Leroy F. Carson; Knonse town. Juniata county, L. Edwin Rhoads. While Miss Olive Matthews was re turning home after closing her meat market . at . Butler, an Assailant knocked her down. When she got up she found that her satchel con tainiag $140 was gone. Frederick Darman. of New Castle, was he!' rn and robbed near New Castle Jiinrtit.Ht by two masked high waymen. Darman submitted peaceful ly and was not harmed by the robbers. John Pagona, a wealthy Italian of Cannonsburg. received letters signed ''Black Hand," demanding $l,fi00 and threatening death if the money was not turned over. ' " ' Michael Ressenik, an Austrian em ployed at the Booth & Flinn stone quarries near Latrobe, was killed by being caught between two rollers. A double frame bouse owned by John J. Hoffman was destroyed by fire at Rochester. Loss on building, $S00. fully Insured. Rev. J. B. Pollock, of Washington, has been called to the pastorate of the New Alexandria United Presby terian church, Westmoreland presbv tery. to succeed Rev. Samuel Col lins. D. D., who died several months ajo after having been stated shb r'.j co the congregation for many years. Union City. JO miles from Corry. was visited by a disastrous Ore. Th fire was discovered in John Steva"? livery barn and before the flremei arrived the building was a snass ol names and 12 valuable horses hac been burned. I about $S,000.
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