- _ gi oration the car may be ordered on to Chicago or New York City. ~ There are some men who will put up their hands when they are told to do so by a man with a gun, and others gt will not. When the man is found ill not do it, the chances are that also found whose courage is 8 han the other's gunpowder. An express messenger, who, with a hole blown through his car by dyna- ite, with bombs exploding around him and with pistols leveled at him by hold-ups, can pick up a lighted bomb and hurl it out of his car, at the same time defying all the bandits who "are threatening him, certainly deserves to be called a brave man. This was what Express Messenger Charles did in Oregon the other day, and in doing it he foiled, single handed the attempt to fob his car. There are few finer instances on record of the triumph of one man’s courage and determination over brute force. Reporters are often more active and more gifted with an instinct for de- tail than the officers, says Charles E Grinnell in the Atlantic. Together they make a formidable combination. But they are often divided in opinion, and yet oftener in their sympathies. Reporters, like the average citizen, are bre apt to pity the prisoner, if for othing 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 erson more than he or his friends wish. Since the newspapers begin ong before a trial to work up a popu- ar interest in all the persons con- erned, the results cannot be other jhan an exaggeration of the impor- ance to the public of what stimulates nd gratifies curiosity, whether or not affects the question of the prisoner's t. elegrapli™™ Four Young ‘Girls Dead as tke Result © ing Fire With Kerosene. Te Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).—Four per- sons were burfded to death and two se- riously injured in a fire at 4.30 o'clock A. Mi!'which’ destroyed the residefice 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- focated by- the “smoke; Amanda Miller, aged: ‘16 ‘years, suffocated ;' Sylvia Miller, aged: 9 years; suffocated. : Two other daughters aged 11 and 13 years, escaped without injury. The fire was caused..by the eldest daughter, = Rose, . pouring . kerosene in the stove to start the fire for breakfast. The oil in the cari ignited, and the ex- plosfori’ which “followed scattered the forced “to jumip: from ‘the ‘second-story window, hHafter: rescuing * his wife ‘and two of his younger daughters: :: Rose was; burned. almost. to. a. crisp and died before reaching the hospital. The three others were overcome by the smoke. Theit * bodies’ were found ‘in the ruins after” thé "firé'' 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 ._..-. Robbed of $',000. Wheeling, ,. W. Va, (Special).—At Belton, Marshall county, four masked men assaulted and robbed Lindsay Bur- leyand ‘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. (By Cable). —“China asked Japan,” says a dispatch 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- | nancial and police departments.” has 1 London, Canadians for South Africa. London, (By Cable).—The War Of- fice has announced that it has accepted Canada’s offer of 600 mounted men dor service in South Africa. -lease of Miss Stone. James etcher, for 18 years United burdifty oil ‘over’ tie room. The flames. spread so quickly that Mr. Miller was | { Cup. {2 OU less wife and | tw of hundreds of | eop f Nov ed that the brigands will | wait until fhe disappearance ot snow be- fore resuming negotiations for the re- States cofsul at Genoa, Italy, is dead. Sir Thomas W. Reid, in an article in the Nineteenth Century, quotes a member of President Roosevelt's Cabi- net as saying that English people do 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- nounced that should no one else chal- lenge, he was willing to consider mak- ing another attempt to lift the America 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 Helen 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 205 to 249. adopted the sum of 265000000 francs for the Chi- nese indemnity loan. i 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 United States will stop all dealings with them. Count von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, for- mer German ambassador to Great Brit- ain, died at the embassy, in Londen. Through the dishonesty and betting transactions of a bookkeeper the Bank of 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. oe 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, Higginson & Co., of Boston, were awarded the $1,00000 Boston & Maine Railroad 3% per cent twentysyear physical educa - non-alcoholic medication, $35 chise, $175; total appropriatio 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. & O. 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- timiore and Ohio connections with its own line both at Marietta and Zanes- ville. Lo 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 ket 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 overboard and was drowned. Stole $20,000 in Silver. El Paso, Texas, (Special).—The fact that 112 bars of gold and silver bullion valued at over $20,000, were stolen six months ago in transit from the smelt- ers here to Eastern refiners, has just come to light. The shipment wag gg over the Galveston, Harrisb Antonio Railway under | was not missed until New Orleans. It has bl that the bullion had bq the car near the city an bends at $102.92. buried in Western Tex IONS FOR RC Expenditures by the Be Unpred ’ Philadelphia, Pa., penditures to be madd vania Railroad Company rolling stock will aggregate $25,000,0 a sum believed to be unprecedented railroad history. Of this amount about $19,000,000 be expended for cars and the other § 000,000 for locomotives. As already a nounced, the company will require 19, new freight cars for 1002, the grea number of which have already been | dered. While no locomotives for 14 delivery have been ordered, the requi ments in that direction for next y have been determined upon approxima ly at 400 locomotives. Of this num 300 will be required for the lines eas Pittsburg and 100 for the Western li All of these locomotives will be of heavy modern type. With the except of about 100 all of them will be di by the Baldwin Locomotive Works ; the American Locomotive Building C pany. 200 Believed to be Lost. Manila, (By Cable).—The 1 steamer Alerta, with 200 passengers, cluding some discharged American diers, bound from Olongapo, Subig for Manila, is believed to have H lost. The United States distilling Iris has been aground on a reef Iloilo for three days. The cruiser York and the gunboat Yorktown H gone to her assistance. Big Fire at Murfreesboro. Murfreesboro, Tenn. (Special.] Fire started in the warehouse of J Rather & Co. here and soon spread the entire Depot Hill district wag flames. About $80,000 worth of prope] is in ashes. ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS. The grand jury in Jeffersonville, Ij the muy indicted Newell C. Rathbone, fessed insurance swindler, for in the first dgmeee. Charles en, aged 32 years, Boston hospital from the effect off his tongue. : e Commissioner John J. Sca ew York, and William Mar Foker, were accused of conspiracy. The Louisvilie and Nashville Rail advanced the wages of all its shg in Louisville 10 per cent.
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