E cas Ss and on telegraph- on the car may be ordered 1 go or New York City. some men who will put eir han@@@hen they are told to by a man with a gun, and others t will not. When the man is found o will not do it, the chances are that one is also found whose courage is weightier than the other’s gunpowder. An express messenger, who, with a hole blown through his car by dyna- mite, with bombs exploding around fm and with pistols leveled at him hold-ups, can pick up a lighted mb and hurl it out of his car, at the p defying all the bandits who ge him, certainly deserves rave man. This was essenger Charles did per day, and in doing handed the attempt There are few finer d of the triumph of and determination Pn more active and instinet for de- k, says Charles E. \ antic. Together e a formidable combination. ey are often divided in opinion, d yet oftener in their sympathies. Reporters, like ‘the average citizen, are more apt to pity the prisoner, if for nothing else for the very reason that the police are down upon him. It is an ambition of reporters to unearth more facts than the police. Newspa- pers print news from, a prisoner's friends as readily as news from his persecutors. Nevertheless, they spread abroad the charge against a suspected person more than he or his friends wish. Since the newspapers * gin ong before a trial to work up u- r interest in all the perso, on- rned, the results cannot be J ther n an exaggeration of the impor- gato the public of what stimulates fies curiosity, whether or not the question of the: prisoner's 1 3 ot, ant d to digging for the ho were buried deeper. Cl AWFUL CALAMITY TO FANILY. r— Four Young Girls Dead as the Result of Start- ing Fire With Kerosene. sons were burned to death and two se- riously,, injured. in a. fire at 4.30- o'clock | A. M. which destroyed the residence of J. G. Miller, on Charles street, Knox- ville, a suburb of this city. The dead: Rose ‘Miller, aged 23 years, terribly burned ‘and died on the way to the hos- pital; Amelia: Miller, aged 19 years; suf- fe caving mat English people do focated. by: the smoke; Amanda Miller, aged JO years;: suffocated ; Sylvia Miller, aged O years, suffocated. ‘ Two other daughters aged 11 and 13 years, escaped without injury. The fire was caused by the eldest daughtér,- Rose, ‘pouring ‘kerosene in the std%e to start thé fire for breakfast. The ®il in the an ignited, and the ex- plosidn which: followed = scattered ‘the burning oil over the room. The flames spread so quickly. that Mr. Miller was forced. topjump: fram the: second-story | window, after’ rescuing his wife. and | two .of his younger daughters. Rose was ‘burned d1didst ¥6 “a crisp and died before reaching the hospital.” The three other§ ‘Were: overcome ‘by: the smoke. Theif- bodies ‘were’ found in the ruins after: the fire had .been extinguished. Mrs. Miller. was just: recovering from a severe .illness,. and. is. almost distracted over the terrible affair. . Fears are en- tertained. that she will not survive the shodh Tos at sue “* Robbed of $1,000. ‘Wheeling, "W. Va, (Special).—At Belton, Marshall county, four masked men assaulted and robbed Lindsay Bur- ley and members of his family, securing over $1,000 in cash, besides other valua- bles.: The family, consisting of father, mother, son and daughter, were bound | hand and foot by the robbers. While one stood guard over them the others ran- sacked the house. The robbers tortured the father and made him reveal the hid- ing place of the money. A posse of citi- tens and bloodhounds are scouring the country in search of the robbers. China to Learn From Japan. London, (By Cable).—“China asked Japan,” disnatch from Shanghai to the Daily Express, “to lend one general and 50 officers to drill the Chinese troops, and also to lend experts to reorganize the Chinese fi- has says a 3 - . { nancial and police departments.” Canadians for South Africa. London, (By Cable).—The War Of- fice has announced that it Canada’s offer of 600 mcginted men far: s~rvice in South Africa. iti RL id I Tr 1 U | le Q Pittsburg, J a (Special) .—Four per- | peopl | inthe Nineteenth Century, nounced that should no one else chal- has accepted | DO . Astor. ab on a crowded firing through ithless wife and | f hundreds of | | NowPreported that the brigands will | wait ulptil the disappearance ot snow be- | fore résuming negotiations for the re- lease off Miss Stone. James Fletcher, for 18 years United | States consul at Genoa, Italy, is dead. Sir Thomas W. Reid, in an article quotes a member of President Roosevelt's Cabi- | that A husband boulevard ir the was not realize the depth of feeling existing outside of England on the subject of the South African War, nor the ex- treme gravity of the situation. It was also stated that appeals are being made to the United States by European pow- ers to take some step to end the war. Sir Thomas Lipton, at a banquet given in his honor in London, an- lenge, he was willing to consider mak- ing another attempt to lift the America Cup. The German Foreign Office an- nounced that the report that the nations to the Triple Alliance were making a concentrated demonstration in South American waters was false. Miss Helén Vanderbilt Wackerman became violent and tried to throttle her nurse in a London asylum. She was placed in a padded cell. : The French Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 295 to 249, adopted the sum of = 265,000,000 francs for the Chi- nese indemnity loan. Dick Burge, the pugilist, was arrested in London on a charge of complicity in the recent Bank of Liverpool frauds. It is reported from Sofia that Consul General Dickinson will notify the brig- ands, fixing 10 days as the period within which they must accept £10,000 as Miss Stone’s ransom, or the nited States will stop all dealings with them. Count von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, for- mer German: ambassador to Great Brit- ain, died at the embassy, in London. Through the dishonesty and betting transactions of a bookkeeper the Bank oft Liverpool loses $850,000. Financial. The New York Subtreasury statement shows that the banks lost $2,882,000 last week. It is said a $2,000,000 car wheel com- pany is to be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. aay One report has it that the rise in Jer- sey Central is due to a supplementary offer by Reading interests for outstand- ing stock of the company. Lee, Higginsoft & Co., of Boston, were awarded the $1,0004000 Boston & Maine Railroad 3% per cent. twentysyear peop $650; colo temperance and sailors, physical edt Pe $250; purity, $200; non-alcoholic medication, $350; fran- chise, $175; total appropriations for the year, $14,355. Multiplex Telegraphy. Boulder, Col., (Special).—Dr. Wil- liam Duane, professor of physics at the State University, has been granted a pat- ent for an invention by which a large | number of telegraph messages can be sent over one wire and return at the same time. It is said he has had as many as eighteen circuits working on the same wire and return all at the same time. On any of these circuits the Morse in- strument can be placed and used exactly as with the single wire now in use. Dr. Duane’s invention is based on the prin- ciple of synchronizing motors. Bought by the B. & 0. Marietta, Ohio, (Special).—The Ohio and Little Kanawha Railway between this city and Zanesville, which was sup- posed to have been sold some time ago to the Wabash system, has been sold to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Both systems were anxious to acquire the road, the former to complete its line from the lakes to the seaboard by way of the undeveloped coal lands of West Virginia. The latter wants it to con- nect its Southwestern system with the main line. The purchase gives the Bal- timore and Ohio connections with its own line both at Marietta and Zanes- ville. Captain Jumped Overboard. Mobile, Ala., (Special.)—The British bark Birman, Wood, from Rio Janeiro, in charge of Mate Poe, arrived here and reports that on November 18, the cap- tain, named Morris, killed the vessel's steward. The body was buried at sea. The captain kept in his cabin, pac- ing up and down. When informed that Sand Island light was sighted Novem- ber 22, he gave the mate the course, picked up a sea lead, jumped owerboard and was drowned. Stole $20,000 in Silver. El Paso. Texas, (Special).—The fact that 112 bars of gold and silver bullion valued at ove? $20,000, were stolen six months ago in transit from, ers here to Eastern refiners, has come to light. The shipment was over the Galveston, Harrisburg and n Antonio Railway under heavy bonds. It was not missed until the car reached New Orleans. It has been since léarned that the bullion had been throwg from the car near the city and that it rf@w lies bonds at, $102.92. buried in Western Texas. MILLIONS FOR ROLLING STOCK. Expenditures by the Pennsylvania Said to Be Unprecedented. Philadelphia, Pa., (Special).—The ex- penditures to be made by the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company in 1902 for rolling stock will aggregate $25,000,000, a sum believed to be unprecedented in railroad history. Of this amount about $19,000,000 will be expended for cars and the other $6,- 000,000 for locomotives. As already an- nounced, the company will require 19,000 new freight cars for 1002, the greater number of which have already been or- dered. While no locomotives for 1902 delivery have been ordered, the require- ments in that direction for next year have been determined upon approximate- ly at 400 locomotives. Of this number 300 will be required for the lines east of Pittsburg and 100 for the Western lines. All of these locomotives will be of the heavy modern type. With the exception of about 100 all of them will be duilt by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the American Locomotive Building Com- ! pany. 200 Believed to be Lost. Manila, (By Cable).—The local steamer Alerta, with 200 passengers, in- cluding some discharged American sol- diers, bound from Olongapo, Subig bay, for Manila, is believed to have been lost. The United States distilling ship Iris has been aground on a reef near Iloilo for three days. The cruiser New York and the gunboat Yorktown have gone to her assistance. Big Fire at Murfreesboro. Murfreesboro, Tenn, (Special.) — Fire started in the warehouse of J. L. Rather & Co. here and soon spread until American which has a franchise | railroad from Canton to Hankow. It is understood that the forfeiture o the claim was based on two accounts first, that the road was not complete within the stipulated period of time, an | second, because the American corpor: i | tion had passed into the hands of Bel gians. The State Department hold that the conditions in China for the la: year and a half have been such as nake it impossible for an America: Company to have completed its wor and that for this delay the Chines: Government itself is responsible. | McKinley Fund Plan. | Plans by which it is hoped to preven i differences between the Canton McKin ley Monument Association and th Washington Memorial Arch Associatio: ind secure harmony of action werc igreed upon at a meeting of the Execu dave Committee of the later body. | tommittee of five was appointed to con fer with the Board of Trustees of th. Canton Association in this city Decem ber 7. Fhe plan is that the two association: shall make a joint poll of the country tor a fund to erect both the monument at Canton and the memorial arch in this sity, and that of all the money collected ome-third shall go to the Canton monn ment and two-thirds to the memorial arch. Gunners Commissioned. Francis Martin and R. H. Soule, form- erly gunners in the navy, have been com missioned ensigns and are under orders to report to their ships. These men were appointed ensigns after a severe ex- amination under the act of Congres: passed at the last session. They have the distinction of being the first mer appointed to the line of the navy sinc the War of the Rebellion who did not receive a course of instruction at the the entire Depot Hill district was in flames. About $80,000 worth of property | is in ashes. | ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS. | The grand jury in Jeffersonville, Ind, ' indicted Newell C. Rathbone, the con- | fesse urance swindler, for Aarder | DS rst degree. harles Larken, aged 32 years, died in a Boston hospital from the effects of biting off his tongue. Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell, | of New York, and William Marks, a broker, were accused of conspiracy. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad advanced the wages of all its shopmgn in Louisville 10 per cent. Naval Academy. 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