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It seems that the hunting of orchids in the tropics is to be classed as a dangerous profession. Rare species are 50 much in demand that parts of South America and Africa are every year searched for the beautiful flow- ers, but nearly all the orchid hunters soon succumb to the tropical fevers. Glass is now being manufactured by electricity. The materials used are fused on a hearth fed by an Archime- dean screw, and the arc is produced by a direct or alternating current of 50 volts. The low voltage required makes the fusion exceedingly economical, particularly where the electricity is produced through the agency of water ower. Actording to The Electrical World and Engineer San Francisco leacs all cities of the United States in the number of telephones to population. With a population of only 342,782 it hag 21,324—a total only surpassed by New York City, Chicago and Boston. It has a telephone for every 16 inhabi- tants, whereas Philadelphia has only, one for every 96. Even in Canada, that land of grand dimension and scattered population, the tendency of movement is cityward. “ "Rhe. towns grow in the number of in- habitants; the rural districts fall off. This drift is accelerated by the use of machinery on the farms. The land is planted and the LIVES LOST IN A MINE DISASTER Fire Imperils Two Hundred Men in Tun- nel of Smuggler-Union Co. DEADLY GAS AND SMOKE CAUSE. Suffocating Fumes Baffle Work of Rescuers— Bodies of 22 Are Found—Shafts Act Like Chimneys and Increase the Blaze to Terri: ble Proportions—Rock Blasted Into Tunnel to Stop the Flames. Telluride, Col, (Special).—What is likely to prove the most disastrous-geci- dent that has ever occurred in a mine in Colorado resulted from “a fire which burned the buildings.at the mouth of the Bullion Tunnél, through which the Smuggler-Union Mine is worked, and filled the ‘mine with deadly gas and smoke, It is impossible to give even an esti- mate of the loss of life, but it is be- lieved that it will reach nearly 100. Hugh J. O'Neill, the engineer, was taken out alive, but is not expected to recover. Every physician in Teiluride was summoned to the mine and was kept busy attending those of the rescuers who were overcome with gas. Seventeen of the twenty-two bodies found were discovered on the seventh level. Between 75 and 90 men were working on that level, and it has not yet been fully cxplored since the fire began. On account of the gas and smoke most of the levels could not be entered because of the danger of suffo- cation. The fire started early in the morning from a defective flue in the bunk house at the mouth of the tunnel. It quickly comunicated to the other buildings. The dense ‘smoke from the burning con- verter house, which was saturated with oil, began pouring into the tunnel, which, with the shafts of the mine, acted as chimneys. The day men had just gone on duty, and before they could be warned of their danger the levels were filled with gas. .. As soon as the men became aware of their danger efforts were made to reach the surface through different exits, and about half of those in the mine es- caped. The Smuggler-Union mine is one of the oldest in the district and has several abandoned openings. Most of those who escaped did so through the other Union workings and the old Sheridan tunnel. A rescuing party cut a connection through from the Commission workings | adjoining and took out of it some of the | men. HORRIBLE COUGH CURE Natives of New Guinea Massacre Those They Blame. London, (By Cable). — Lieut.-Gov. George R. Le Hunte, in his annual report on British New Guinea, tells a strange story of native superstition which is causing the sacrifice of innumerable lives. Whooping cough was introduced there by two white children and spread with frightful rapidity. It first swept the coasts and is now ravaging the interior. As the natives hold that death from any cause is always compaszed by an un- known enemy, only discoverable through witchcraft, whenever a village is at- tacked with whooping cough a sorcerer is consulted. The latter invariably des- ignates another village or tribe as cul- pable and a midnight massacre of iu- nocent persons follows. BeRURGLAR ON SCENE. ned by Explosion The IN. °C, SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. The verdict of the cornoner’s jury in the case of John W. Scott, the young club and society man of Richmond, who was found horribly beaten in the door- gaining consciousness, was ; Scott's injuries were infligfed by a weapon in the hands of s known. Professor Ritchey. Observatory, Chica) has secured pho- tographs of the new star in the north- ern sky ifom which he draws additional proof of the nebular theory of the crea- [tion of the world. Governor Van Sant, of Minnesota, has invited governors of other States in the Northwest to a conference to discuss resistance to the consolidation of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railroads. Admiral Schley has declined the offer of the Knoxville Sentinel to collect a fund with which to defray the expense to which the Admiral was subjected by the court of inquiry. W. D. Brockman, of Chicago, believ- ing that he had killed his wife instead of a burglar, shot and killed himself in his remorse. The New York Grand Jury returned an indictment against Police Captain Gannon, charging him with neglect of duty. Bank robbers wrecked the safe of a bank at Ravenswood, W. Va. but did not succeed in carrying off any cash. The 400 marching miners from Mont- gomery, Washington, Petersburg and Princeton, who visited Vincennes, Ind, to unionize the miners in the Prospect Hill Mines. entered a house where sev- eral non-union miners are boarding and beat five of them almost insensible. The women in the house fainted. The police and sheriff were summoned. Secretary of State Hay made an im- portant speech upon thi foreign pol and commercial development and de- mands of the United States at the an- nual banquet of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, spoke on “The Monroe Doctrine of the Twentieth Century.” The court-martial ordered by the Sec- retary of the Navy to investigate the charges of intoxication and scandalous conduct made against Col. R. L. Meade, of the Marine Corps, was begun at the navy yard, Brooklyn. One person was killed and 12 injured in a rear-end collision between two Met- ropolitan Elevated trains in Chicago. The collision was due to a dense fog. Another collision occurred on the Lake Street “L.” Fire destroyed property at Charlotte, | valued at $100,000. Among the | establishments burned were the Pied- mont Cotton Company; Aglesby Broth- ers, dry goods, and Bryan & Co. gro- cers. The British steamer Monmouth, Cap- tain Troop, which arrived at Norfolk from Cape Town, South Africa, reports the existence of over 800 cases of bu- bonic plague in the vicinity of Cape Town. Eight hundred brakemen and switch- man on the New York Division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway have struck. The tug and float service of New York City is involved and the strike may be extended. Mrs. Marie Becker was made hysteri- cal by the sight of cattle being slaught- ered in the Chicago stockyards, and the physicians have not yet been able to re- store her. to her normal condition. Foreign. A pro-Boer meeting in London was broken up by Tories, and Sir Patterson Nickalls, who presided, was subjected to a demonstration of disapproval on the Stock Exchange. British officials now want to try Dr. Krause, former governor of Johannes- burg, in London on charges of high trea- son and incitement to murder. The scheme of syndicates of the Yerkes way of a West End residence ore SE last week, and who died witho EVEN PERSONS KILLED IN WRECK Thess Mining: and Fourteen Traine men Badly Hurt. . BLOWN TO PIECES BY EXPLOSION, A Switch Station om the Santa Fe Route Twenty Miles East of Needless, Cal, the Scene of the Accident—Two Lim ted Passen- ger Trains, Bound in Opposite Directions, Crashed Ianto Each Other. Los Angeles, Cal, (Special).—A fatal wreck occurred on the Santa Fe Rail- road one mile west of Franconia, Ariz, a switch station 20 miles east of Nee- dles, Cal. Seven trainmen were killed, three pas- sengers and 14 trainmen injured. Lim- ited trains, one east, the other west bound, crashed together while running at full speed. The eastbound train was drawn by two engines, while the west- bound train had but one locomotive. The three engines were crushed and blown to pieces by an explosion which followed the collision. Both trains were made up of vestibule cars of the heaviest kind, and while they stood the terrific shock well and protected the passengers to a great extent, several of the cars took fire and burned up. The dining cars, one on each train; one Pullman and two composite cars were destroyed. The collision is said to have been due to a disregard of orders by the crew of the westbound train. From all accounts, however, it is gathered that the east- bound train had orders to take the siding at Franconia, and await the passing of the westbound flyer, which was running two hours late and trying to make up time. The eastbound train failed to reach the siding, and, as the westbound train did not wait for it, the two trains came together without warning and with ar awful crash. The boiler of the westbound engine is said to have exploded immediately after the crash, scalding to death those of the engine crews who had not been killed outright. The bodies of Case and Armi- tage, firemen of the eastbound train, and Sam Brown, waiter of the opposite train, are missing, and it is believed that they were cremated in the flames that follow- ed the collision. The sleeping cars, with one or twa exceptions, suffered slightly, and as a result the passengers were afforded com- parative immunity from injury. HAY DISCUSSES POLICIES. Notable Gathering of Guests of the New Yorh Chamber of Commerce. New York, (Special).—The chiel event at the annual banquet of the New York Chamber of Commerce at Del- monico’s Tuesday night was a speech by Secretary of State Hay, in which he made important declarations regarding the foreign policy of the United States. Mr. Hay said in part: “I am asked to say something about our diplomacy. You want from me nothing but the truth, and yet if I con- fine myself to the truth I cannot help fearing I shall do my profession a wrong in the minds of those who have been in the habit of considering diplomacy an occult science, as mysterious as alchemy and as dangerous to the morals as mu- nicipal politics. “It must be admitted that this concep- tion of the diplomatic function is not without a certain historical foundation. There was a time when diplomacy was a science of intrigue and falsehood, of traps and mines and counter-mines. It may be another instance of that creduli- ty with which I have often been charged by European critics when I say that I believe the world has moved onward in diplomacy, as in many other matters. “I can say without hesitation that we n Anglo-American | have generally told squarely what we announced early gotiation \ TAMERICAN CONSUL | WAS BADLY BEATEN The Outrageous Treatment of Paul Schilling in Saxony. MISTOOK HIM FOR A BAD PREACHER. Police Ignore His Explanations, add Official Documents Proving His Identity and Take Him Openly Through the Streets to the Jail, Followed by Crowds of People—aA Demand for Reparation. ; Berlin, (By Cable) .—Dragged from bed as the result of a mistaken idemtifi- cation, searched, beaten and locked in a cell for five hours, Paul E. Schilling, American vice consul at Zittaw, Saxony, having secured his release with diffi- culty, came to Berlin to seek the co-op- eration of United States Ambassador | White in demanding reparation from the German government. Mr. Schilling was arrested in his resi- | dence at Zittau last Friday by a police- man, who believed him to be a default- ing preacher of the name of Matthes, who had fled from Magdeburg. Expla- nations and official documents proving his identity being of no avail, Schilling was led through the streets to the jail, followed by gaping crowds. The prison guards compelled him to give up his valuables, including several hundred marks in funds belonging to the consul- ate. When Schilling resisted the attempt to seize his wallet of private papers, the guards overpowered him and threw him into a cell. His identification was made by tele- phone from Leipsic, where his father is stationed as the representative of the American News Company. Then he se- cured his- release. Schilling was for- merely a resident of Chicago, where he attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons. A TRAIN DYNAMITED. An Express on the Northern Central Smashed Near York, Pa. York, Pa. (Special).—Part of the through train for the West which left Baltimore over the Northern Central Railway at 9 o'clock was blown from the tracks by a big charge-of dynamite soon after leaving this city at 10.44 P. M. . The train was composed of four Pull- man cars, a day coach, a combination car and express car. It was running at the rate of 45 miles an hour, when the engine struck the dymamite. Al- though the windows in the locomotive cab were blown to pieces, Engineer Thurmer stuck to his post and succeed- ed in stopping the heavy train after it had run over the ties for 200 feet. The scene of the wreck is about one mile north of the city, close to where Codorus creek flows between high hills. The Northern Central crosses the stream on an open iron bridge, which is 50 feet above the bed of the stream. Conductor Grove says the bandits evi- dently planned to throw the train into the creek. When the attempt failed the Foaers we believe, took refuge in the hills. NEARLY 500,000 IMMIGRANTS. Of These 117,587 Were Unable to Read or Write. Washington, D. C., (Special).—The annual report of Commissioner-General Powderly, of the Immigration Bureau, shows the total steerage arrivals in the United States during the year to have been 487,018, an increase over the pre- ceding year of 30,346, or approximately 9 per cent. Of this increase 2,020 came through Canadian ports and the - remainder through ports. of this country. The ratio ha ration, as NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, The Army of the Railroads. The Industrial Commission has issued a report on railway labor in the United States. It shows that railway employees in this country constitute an army of nearly 1,000,000 people, with probably nearly 5,000,000 people dependent upon ! the wages paid by railroads. The report states that for years to come the railroads will absorb an in- creasing number of employees. The ma- jority of the roads, the report says, are developing a system of discipline by which they avoid suspensions and en- courage loyal, personal service, and thus promote better relations between em- ployer and employed. A general ten- dency manifest on the part of the roads to exercise greater care in the main- tenance of their labor force and in its improvement is noted. The report urges some legislative lim- tations of the fellow-servant principle \ or doctrine of common employment. Cesslon of Danish Islands. The negotiations between the United | States and Danish Govenments relative to the cession to the former of the Dan- ish West Indies have been transferred to Washington. The negotiations were initiated by Mr. Swenson, United States Minister to Copenhagen, about three years ago, and later Mr. White, sec- retary of the embassy at London, took up the work in behalf of the United States. The transfer to Washington was brought about through the desire of the Danish Government to place its in- iterests in the matter in the hands of Mr. Constantin Brun, Danish Minister here. He spent some time at Copenhagen last summer and returned to Washington recently, prepared to carry forward the negotiations with Secretary Hay. It is learned that within the last few days there has been increased activity in the negotiations, and that material progress has been made toward the completion ; of a treaty of cession. Eat More Than They Grow. Considerable time at the Cabinet meet- ing Friday was devoted to consideration of the agricultural situation in the Philippines. Reports received by the War Depart- ment indicate vegetables grown there are “running out” and there is immediate necessity for a general distribution of seed. Secretary Root told the Cabinet that not enough rice, which is the great | staple, is grown there to meet local con- sumption. Secretary Wilson will send one of the | department’s experts with assistants to the islands to investigate the situation. It is expected that many things not here- tofore grown there can be produced. The seed will be distributed gratis. It is understood that the President, in his message, will make no direct rec- ommendation on the subject of taxation. The situation will be laid before Con- gress and its attention called to the rec- ommendations of Secretary Gage. Paris Green on Plants At the recent second session of the an- nual convention of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, at the Columbian University, the subjects of liquor and food adulteration, nitrogen, insecticides, cider fermentation and dairy products were discussed. There was a long report on insecti- cides which recommended the continu- ance of present methods for determin- ing the presence of formaldehyde in compounds. This led to lively debate re- garding the use of paris green as an in- secticide, the injury to plants and the use of lime as a possible preventive of this injury. It was finally agr ! that lime lessens the injury, but does not al- together overcome it. These Gold Shipments. Treasury officials say they feel no ap- prehension on account of the exporta- tions of gold. It is said Secretary Gage regards the shipments as a natural move- ment in view of the goperel demand for ope, and that he believes 2 the siti MYSTERIOUSIN ITS ACTIONS! QUICK IN AFFORDING RELIEF! IMMEDIATE IN ITS BENEFICIAL RESULTS! Unexcelled as a BLOOD PURIFIER! Marvelous asan ALTERATIVE in its stimulant effect on a TORPID LIVER. A sovereign cure for DYSPEPSIA; INDIGESTION, OPPRESSION AND WANT OF APPETITE. HEADACHE, NERVOUSNESS, PIMPLES and BOILS vanish as by magic after taking a few doses. 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