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. Their status is ex
actly the same as that of all other ein- |
;Mons.
Conscience Return of 313,009.
Secretary Gage has received from an
unknown person through the Collector |
of Customs at New York a conscience
contribution of $18,669. :
: BIRD MANNA!
The greas secret of the canary breeders of
the Hartz Mountsins in Germany. Rird
Manna will restore the song of cx Is,
will prevent their cilments, and rect
them to good condition. If given during
the season of shedding feathers it will
carry the little my T
critical period without the loss of song.
Sent by mail on receipt of 15¢. in stamps.
Sold by all druggists. Bird Book rea.
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No. 400 N. Third 8t., PLiladalphia, Pa.
n through this |
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$1.00 per Bottle.
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for all Female Complaints, $1.50 per bottle,
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30 years of constant study of Catarrh of the
Vose and Throathave convinced Dr. Jones tha
his AMERICAN CATARRH CURE is the best o
111 remedies for these annoying complaints
Neither douche nor atomizer are necessary 1)
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the hearing, cures the hawking, cough am
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1 a hearty meal,
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