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The Johannesburg Chamber of Mines
offers prizes for practical suggestions
for the cure and prevention of miner’s
consumption, which is thought to re-
sult from the fine dust made by the
drilling machines. The following
awards are offered for the three best
practical suggestions on the subject:
First prize, $2500 and a gold medal;
second prize $1250; third prize, $500.
There is nothing like having both
feet on the ground, says Medical Talk,
If a man should go barefoot, the con-
tact of his bare feet with the earth
and his head projecting into the at-
mosphere would make a perfect elec-
trical conductor, through which the
electricity of the air would pass
through his body to the earth. While
no apparent harm is done, yet being
insulated from the electricity of the |
earth by wearing shoes, the electricity
fails of its beneficial results. There
can be no doubt that it would be bet-
ter for everybody, especially nervous
people if their feet were on the ground
instead of in shoes.
The death. occurred tne other day at |
Moruya, in New South Wales, of a
Crimean veteran who had a good deal
of attention from the London news-
papers at the time of the war. George
Solly had for many years been a pros-
perous settler at Moruya, and was a
popuiar figure in the district, He was
one of the bluejackets landed from the
Rodney in the Crimea, and had the
clasps for Inkerman, Balaklava, the
Alma and Sebastopol. While Sebasto-
pol was burning and the fighting still
going on he regaled himself and his
comrades by dancing a hornpipe on the
ramparts, and the incident was after-
~ ward made the subject of a cartoon in
Punch.
J. F. Raffaelli, the well known
French artist, has introduced an in-
novation—a revolution some call it—
in oil painting in the way of a “paint
stick.” This_dispenses with the use
of brushes and palette and, according
to some artists#is the most important
invention of the kind since Jan Van
Eyck discovered, in the 15th century,
the method of mixing colors with oil
instead of glue. The value of the in- |
vention for painting the ab-
orbing topic of discussion among ar-_|
ists everywhere. The older mien Took |
on it askaneg or roundly condemn
while tiie younger men are inclined
coept it as a decided advance. W. |
Quiller Orchardson, thg@eminent Royal |
Academician, condem it as a device
merely to do thingg ily and an in-
vention of the en On the other
hand an enthusi advocate of the
“paint stick,” a summing up its
over the old brush
method declares that “M.
7 SPs discovery is noon Fry
ol, its importance is now triump-
is now
antly proved.”
An interesting contribution to the lit-
erature of vaccination was made by
Dr. J. F. J. Sykes, a London health
officer, in a report to the borough coun-
cil of St. Pancras. To illustrate the
difficulties he had to overcome, Dr.
Sykes says: “When it is suggested to
the average lodger in a common lodg-
ing house that he should be vaccinated
he asks, either orally or through the
glance of his eye, ‘What am I going te
get, gov’'nor?” When he is told that he
will get protection against smallpox,
he says, ‘Don’t want it, gov’nor; I'd
rather go into the country to ’orspital
for a month, If it is suggested that he
might die in the hospital, he (having
nobody dependent upon him) says,
when yer allus at werk!” When he is
fuither told that his revaccination will
not oily. protect him, but also others,
having, Philosophized in a circle, he
comes Found to the original question,
‘What gre they going to pay for it?
What am I going to get?” The man’s
only possession is his own body, and
he learns to make the most of it at the |
best price. A very natural impulse!”
Perhaps this tells as much about Brit-
ish peculiarities as it does about the
troubles of the official vaccinator. It
is hard to believe-that such a man as
this “average lodger” could be found !
in the United States, comments the !
New York Times,
i leaky valve.
A COMPROMISE OFFERED
Latest Plan May Solve the Venezuelan
Question.
MINISTER BOWEN WAITING ANSWER.
The Proposition Suggested by a Representa-
tive of One of the Allies, Is That for a Short
Period of the Year the Allies Shall Exciu-
sively Recelve a Percentage of the Custom
Duties.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—Prop-
ositions involving a compromise of the
allied powers’ contention for preferen-
tial treatment in the settlement of their
claims against Venezuela have been
submitted to the governments of Great
Britain, Germany and Italy by their
representatives at Washington, and,
while no answers have been received as
yet, there is reason for the belief that
the allies will see a way to accept the
latest proposition. This compromise
has been suggested by one of the rep-
resentatives of the allies here, and
while it has not formally received the
indorsement of Minister Bowen, it is
felt that he will not enter serious ob-
jections to its adoption, provided the
United States and the other claimant
nations outside the alliance can be
convinced that their own interests in
Venezuela will not be substantially in-
jured by yielding to a plan which seems
to offer a solution of the present seri-
ous hitch in the Washington negotia-
tions. i
The details of the proposition now
under consideration by the three allied
natlons are not obtainable, but in a
general way it is understood to be a
modification of the al'ies’ contention
that they be recognized as Venezuela's
preferred claimants in the payment ol
the indemnity. The plan suggested
provides that for a short period, per-
haps six months or a year, Great Bri-
tain, Germany and Italy shall receive
exclusively a percentage of customs re-
ceipts of the ports of Porto Cabello
and Laguayra, and that at the end of
this period—the exact length of which
is yet open to decision—that all the
{ claimant nations be placed on the same
footing, and at the expiration of that
time the 30 per cent. of the receipts ot
these two ports be divided among all
the claimant nations in ratio based on
the amount of each nation’s claim.
The plan is regarded as a compromise
which will enable the allies to with-
| draw their ships from Venezuelan wa-
ters without a serious loss of prestige.
Whether the claimant nations outside
the tripartite agreement will assent to
this scheme is not yet known. The
British ambassador called by appoint-
ment on Secretary Iav this afternoon
at 2 o'clock, and it is believed that some
such plan as this was under consider-
ation, the British ambassador wishing
to acquaint himre!f with the exact at-
titude of the United States regarding
Lord Lansdowne’s contention for pref-
erential treatment for the allies.
BOY MURDERER GETS 29 YEARS.
Judge Landis, at Lancaster, Pa., Thinks
Sentence too Light.
Lancaster, Pa. (Special).—Clarence
McCoy and William Guterman, the two
Columbia (Pa.) boys convicted of mur-
der in the second degree, were given the
maximum sentence of 20 years by Judge
Landis, who stated he was sorry he could |
not make the punishment more-severe.
The prisoners are ezch 20 years of
age, and the crime-for which they were
convicted was_the murder of Jacob H.
Bostick, a trackwalker on the Pennsyl-
vania railfoad. After shooting and beat-
ing~him over the head the murderers
placed the body on the track, expecting |
that a train would run over it and hide |
the evidence of murder. |
The body was discovered a few min- |
utes before the passage of a train.
$1,000,000 DEAL REPORTED.
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Chicago Concern May Buy Four Minss of
Perry Company.
Clarksburg, W. Va. (Special).—A re- |
port is current at Clarksburg that the |
Perry Coal Company will sell its hold- |
ings in this county to the Weaver Coal |
Company, of Chicago. The price is re-
ported to be $1,000,000. ;
The Perry property consists of four
mines—the Howard, at Wilsonburg; the
Perry and Gore, at Adamston, and the
Pooz, near Lumberport. The three lat-
ter plants arc modern and were con-
structed at considerable cost. In the
tract of coal lands is comprised 2,000 or
3,000 acres of the regular nine-foot
“Pittsburg vein.” It fronts on the Balti-
more and Ohio and the Short Line rail-
roads.
Will Work Day aad Night.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—The
three-shift system, by which work will
be kept up day and night, has begun in
the gun-carriage shop at the Washington
Navy Yord. There is an imperative de-
mand for completing the orders now on
hand, and this step is taken with a view
to expediting the completion of work
the orders for which were given over
two years. It is the purpose of the naval
officials to keep the other shops at the
yard in full operation during the entire
day and night as soon as sufficient work-
men can be obtained.
Fatality ou the U. S. S. Boston.
Vallejo, Cal. (By Cable).—The blow-
ing out of a plate in the engine-room of
the United States steamer Boston cost
Edward Lee Baker his life and another,
Concord Tate, lies in a critical condi-
tion. The two men were naval machin-
ists and were endeavoring to repair a
David P. Jones Dead.
Pittsbi'rg (Special).—David Phillips
Jones, Chief Engineer of the United
States Navy, retired, died at his apart-
ment at the Iroquois here. As father of
modern engineering in the navy Chief
Engineer Jones was prominently known
throughout the United States. The dis-
tinction was earned by his establishment
of the engineering department of the
Naval Academy. After the course was
opened he became one of the professors
and was one of the most successful and
popular ones ever at the naval school,
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THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's famous
20-hour special between New York and
Chicago will be abandoned in order to
aid in removing the traffic congestion.
Justice MacLean, of the Supreme
Court of New York, has denied an ap-
plication for separation based on an
antemarital error on the part of the wife.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial As-
sociation has issued an appeal through
its president, Admiral Dewey, for funds
to erect a memorial to Jefferson at the
capital.
At the Indianapolis wage conference
the operators unanimously voted not to
grant the demand of the miners for
higher wages and certain changes in the
method of mining. The question was
discussed and referred to the scale com-
mittee.
C. B. Allison, an electrical contractor
of Sheraden, a suburb of Pittsburg, was
called to the front door of his house and
shot down by an unknown person.
The Southern Pacific has reached an
agreement with its firemen on the wage
question. The increase granted aver-
ages between 6 and 12 per cent.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
has voluntarily increased the wages of
all its machinists, boilermakers, black-
smiths and car repairers.
An appraisal of the estate of the late
Augustin Daly, of New York, shows
that it is not sufficient to cover his debts,
Jean Jules Jusserand, the new French
ambassador, and his wife reached New
York on the French liner La Lorraine.
The schooner Minnehaha sprung a
leak and sank at the entrance to Winyah
Bay, South Carolina.
The big department store of Weni-
stock, Lubin & Co., in Sacramento, Cal.,
was destroyed.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion of the Strike Commission in Phila-
delphia Attorney Wolverton, for the
Reading, announced that at a conference
held during the noon recess between
John Veith, general mining superinten-
dent of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company, and George W.
Hartlein, secretary of District No. 9, of
the miners’ union, it was agreed that the
weighing of coal in the Ninth district,
which takes in all of the southern coal
field, is impracticable because of the
pitching veins. This settles, so far as
the lower fields are concerned, one of the
principal issues in dispute in the other
two regions.
The National Board of Education,
which was incorporated by a recent act
of Congress, organized by electing W. H.
Baldwin, Jr., president. John D. Rocke-
feller, Jr., is a member of the board.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., has given $100,-
oco for 10 years.
Levy Ankeny, the millionaire banker
and farmer of Walla Walla, was elected
United States senator by the Washing-
ton legislature.
Mr. Abraham Gompers, son of Mr.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, died in
Denver, Col.
While crazed by drink at Titusville,
Pa., John Fiddler shot and killed his
wife, tried to kill his son and then killed
himself.
John Beard Allen, a former United
States senator from Washington, is
dead.
Foreign.
A story is current in. ¢ cprovinenl |
| and Berlin papers-#yat the Crown Prince
of Saxony¢ determined to renounce his
Succession to the throne in favor of his
son, George, who is 10 years old.
United States Minister Powell and a
representative of the Dominican govern-
ment signed a protocol to submit an
American company’s claim to arbitration.
Brazilian generals, with guns and
ammunition, have gone to the Bolivian
frontier to take command of the Brazil-
{ ian troops there.
The French Chamber of Deputies,
| amid a patriotic demonstration, adopted
| the first chapter of the army budget.
The engineers of the Netherlands Rail-
struck, stopping traffic between
Sousa’s Band played American airs in
Waterloo Castle, London, for King
Edward.
Serious floods have been caused
Scotland by the melting of the snow.
Herr Ballin, director general of the
Hamburg-American Line, explained that
the French Line has renewed the usual
trafic agreement, but has not entered
into the shipping combine.
Dr. van Lynden, the Dutch foreign
minister, announced that Carnegie’s
offer of $250,000 for a library for the In-
ternational Court of Arbitration had been
rejected.
Countess Isabella Wesierska Kwilecki
was for the second time arrested in Ber-
lin on the charge of palming off a bogus
child as the heir to a large Polish estate.
Foreign Minister Prinetti, of Italy,
had an attack of paralysis while attend-
ing a conference of the ministers with
the King at the Quirinal.
An American chamber of commerce
was organized with 101 members, who
are engaged in business in various Ger-
man cities.
The Crown Princess of Saxony has
Leen excluded from all rights and dig-
nities of a member of the Saxon royal
house.
It is reported that Ben Hamara, the
pretender to the throne of Morocco, has
been defeated.
in
Financial.
The Reading is producing. an average
of 33,000 tons of coal daily.
Standard Oil brokers freely sold St.
Paul when it had risen to 179.
St. Paul Railroad is putting Eastern
freight in storage, the railroads being
so badly blocked.
European exchange rates were un-
changed, money conditions running
smoothly despite Venezuela.
Storage battery jumps about very
nimbly. It is so closely held the in-
| siders can do anything they care to
{ with it.
Chicago Great Western is to be trans-
ferred to one of the big railroad sys-
tems, says Vice-President Oppenheim.
Of seventy-nine independent tin plate
mills only eighteen are now running
owing to a reduction from $4 to $3.60a
box. There are 227 out of 264 trust
mills in operation.
$50,000,000 WAS INDANGER
Fire in United States Assay Office, New
York City.
BLAZE STARTED IN WOODEN FLUE.
The Ewployes Hastened to Save the Millions
of Treasure Before Looking for Their Own
Safety—Damage Was Slight to the Build-
ing—Cause of Fire Unknown—Building an
Historic Cne.
New York (Special).—Fire broke out
in a laboratory on+the second floor
of the United States assay office, which
is next door to the Subtreasury, and
destroyed a portion of the roof and up-
per story and some apparatus.
Assayer Torrey said the loss on the
apparatus probably would not exceed
2000, and that the loss on the build-
ing would be nominal. He thought the
business of the assay office, which
amounted to about 75 assays a day,
would not be interrupted longer than
three or four days.
Mr. Torrey believed that nitric acid,
which is used in testing bullion, was
the cause of the fire. He said it might
have eaten into the wooden flue which
leads from the glass basins when the
gold and silver bars are melted and sub-
jected to chemical action. :
The flames, which were first seen in
one of these flues, soon got beyond
control. An alarm was turned in, and
the 63 government employes in the
building hastened to save the millions
of treasure in their care. There was
about $40,000.000 in bullion in the vaults
and about $1.5c0,000 lying outside in
various parts of the building. [he
$1.500,0c0 and about $100,000 in a melt-
ed state, as well as the books of ac-
count and record, were hastily locked
in the vaults. : : :
Then the employes hurried out of
the building for their own safety. As-
sayer Torrey, who has been employed
in the building for 40 years, said it was
the first serious fire in the assay office.
Several times the flues for conducting
the fumes up the chimney had caught
fire, but the flames always had been
put out easily by men in the laboratory.
The building used by the assay of-
fice is historic. Before it began to be
used as an assay office, 40 years ago, 1t
was a government mint, and for a time
it. was the United States or Government
Bank. The structure is of gray stone
and brick and very old-fashioned.
CUBA CLAIMS ISLE OF PINES.
Nunez Says Americans There
Must Pay Taxes.
Governor
Havana (Special).—General Nunez
Governor of the Province of Havana
in which the Isle of Pines is included,
stated that the Government had direct: |
ed the municipal officials in the Isle
of Pines to collect taxes which the
American residents there decline to pay
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WITH THE
Accepts Sta
The Senate Com ire
agreed to place the atehood
bill on the Agricultu ropriation
bill as a rider.
This proposition was strdngly antago-
nized, but it carried by a two-thirds vote.
Senators Henry C, Hansbrough, Addi-,
son G. Foster (Wash.) and M. S. Quay
(Pa.), Republicans, and William B.
Bate, Henry Heitfeld and F. McL. Sim-
mons, Democrats, voting in the affirma-
tive and Senators Redfield Proctor. J. P.
Dolliver and J. V. Quarles, Republicans,
in the negative.
Senator F. E, Warren (Wyo.) and H.
D. Money (Miss.) were absent and were
not recorded. It is stated, however, that
Senator Money would vote for the
amendment if present.
Includes General Staff
The army appropriation bill was re-
ported to the Senate amended in various
particulars, the most important additions
providing for the retirement with an ad-
vance rank of officers who served in the
civil war, and for the creation of a gen-
‘eral staff. The retirement amendment
1s in the exact language of the bill re-
cently reported by the Senate Military
Committee, while the staff amendment is
‘in the language of the staff bill recom-
mended by the Secretary of War, with
the Military Committee's amendments
added.
The committee recommended increases
aggregating $3,366,000, the total carried
by the bill as reported being $77,241,277.
Free Postage for Blind.
The House Committee on Post-
offices and Post Roads has directed Mr.
Boutell, of Illinois, on motion of Mr.
Swanson, of Virginia, to report favor-
ably a bill to promote the circulation
of reading matter among the blind. It
allows the transmission of all reading
matter in raised characters for the
blind through the mail free of charge
when sent by public institutions for the
blind as a loan to blind readers or when
returned by the latter to such institu-
tions.
The bill was passed by the Senate
June 25 last, and will very probably
pass the House at an early day.
Marking of Confederate Graves.
; The House Committee on Military
Affairs reported favorably a bill to ap-
propriate $61,500 for marking the posi-
tion of the regular organizations, infan-
try, artillery and cavairy, on the Get-
tysbtirg battlefield. The positions of
the volunteer organizations were mark-
‘ed by the States. The committee also
ordered a favorable report upon the
Foraker bill to appropriate $200,000 to
mark the graves of Confederate sol-
diers and sailors who died in North-
ern prisons.
Sovereignty Over Isle of Plaes.
Senator Carmack introduced a reso-
lution calling upon the President for
information as to whether the govern-
ment of Cuba is exercising the right of
sovereignty and control over the Isle
| 'of Pines; whether steps have been taken
In default of payment the officials
will have recourse to the courts fot
the collection of the money. Governo:
Nunez attributes the memorial on the
subject, recently sent to
by the American residents,
land speculators who, he 2
informed the 10
Lae ound to belong to the
United States.
The Cuban officials do not
that the United States desires the
of Pines.
sentimental considerations, Cuba's only
advantage in continuing her sovereign
ty over the isle will be the prevention
SO ely
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They say that, aside from | ;
( ment provides that “the excess shall all
to transfer the island, from the United
States, and, if so, what feps have been
| taken to protect te property of citi-
zens of tye" thnk d States on the Isle
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Wellington's Wealth Limit.
Senator George L. Wellington, of
Maryland, introduced an amendment to
the Constitution prohibiting the holding
of fortunes exceeding $10,000,000 by any
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one individual in the United States.
In case of such holding the amend-
| be condemned, whether or not as a pub-
| lic nuisance,
of an easy means of smuggling through |
the Isle of Pines into Cuba, which
smuggling would be carried on if the |
former were in the possession of the |
United States.
CARS CRASH AND TAKE FIRE.
Cne Struck Wagon, Went Back And the Other
Ran Into It.
Pittsburg (Special).—One
worst wrecks the Pittsburg Traction
Company has experienced since its or-
ganization occurred here. A score of
passengers were injured and two cars
were destroyed. Traffic was stopped
for several hours. Eight victims are in
a hospital, the others having been taken
to their homes.
A car on the Homestead branch was
on its way to Pittsburg. Just as it
passed Forward avenue it struck a
huckster’'s wagon. After going some
distance it was backed up the hill to
learn what damage had been done.
Just then it was met by a second car
coming down the hill at a terrific speed.
When the collision occurred the trol-
ley wires were crossed, causing a fire
which consumed both cars. Fortunately
all of the injured passengers were taken
out before the flames reached them.
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Young Postoffica Robbers.
Newark (Special). — Commissioner
Jones had before him George Melius,
14 years old, of Minebrook, charged
with recent robberies of the Minebrook
postoffice. Two other boys, aged 9 and
10, were implicated, but on account of
their youth, they were not arrested.
Melius pleaded guilty and was remand-
ed. The boy had been janitor of the
district school, and had learned that
they kev of the schoolhouse door fitted
the door of the postoffice.
Selected to Kill King.
Barcelona (By Cable).—A Belgian
Anarchist, named Martin, has been ar-
rested in this city. He has confessed
that he was selected to kill the King
of the Belgians, but was prevented from
carrying out the deed by being arrested
during the strike in Barcelona a year
ago.
South China to Secede.
Hongkong (By Cable).—The revolu-
tionary movement which led to the ar-
rest here of seven Kwangsi rebels
said to be a very serious attempt to over-
throw the central power and establish a
separate government in the South of
China. None of the arrested men is
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peril, and be accordingly forfeited into
the United States Treasury.”
- Statutes Are Accepted.
The statues of Charles Carroll of Car-
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Kwei-Chau and Fokien. The insurrec
tionists are posing as reformers and are
anxious to socure foreign sympathy.
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Packing Plant at Fort Wayas,
Wrecked.
Ind.
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Fort Wayne, (Spe
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others seriously injur
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the President of the United States from | at Wi
$50,000 to $100,000 per antium. The bill | that se
provides that the increased salary shall [One €5¢
be effective on and after March 5, 1903. |
I'he bill secks to amend the act of 1874, |!
which increased the President's salary to |
$50,000.
In the Departments.
An important conference was held at
the White House between the President,
Secretary Hay and Senator Cullom re- |
garding the status of the Panama Canal |
I'reaty. >
The Gridiron Club gave its annual din-
ner, one of the features being hits at the
:xpense of J. Pierpont Morgan, who was |
bne of the guests.
The Postoffice Appropriation Bill was
discussed in the House.
The President sent to Congress a mes-
sage in relation to the currency and the |
coinage of the Mexican and Chinese |
papers |
governments accompanied by
from the representatives of those govern-
He recommended legislation
which would enable the government of
the United States to assist in carrying |
out the proposed arrangement.
The Army Appropriation Bill, which |
was reported to the Senate, contains the |
as reported from the |
Military Affairs some- |
Retirement Bill, |
which was also reported from the same |
Root Staff Bill
Committee on
time ago; also, the
committee,
In the Senate Mr. Hanna moved to
disagree to the amendments of
‘Bill and agree to a conference.
«chair appointed Messrs. Hanna, Nelson
and Clay on the part of the Senate.
Representative Bristow, of New York,
iritroduced a bill to increase the Presi- |
dent’s salary to $100,000 per annum.
In the Senate the resolution offered |
by Mr. Rawlings calling upon the Sec- |
retary of War for information regard- |
ing certain trials by court-martial in
the Philippines was called up and pro-
voked a lively debate.
Because of the absence of a member |
g 3 ; R
the House Naval Committee did not re- |
port the findings in the investigation
of charge of attempt at bribery pre-
ferred by Mr. Lessler. "
The House agreed
to the Senate
sion will give a hearing February 26 on
the recent advance in freight rates.
the |
House to the Department of Commerce |
The |
|
wrecking ¢
fect
dead a
ruins
50 by IO
height. The
| buried in the
| those yet living was in
fellowing the explosio
of large quantities of
in the basement. T
will probably reach §
TRAIN
mg
ANOTHER
Express and Freigint In Head:
Two Killed.
Hazleton, Pa. (Speci
| press train from Wilke
| delphia on the Schuyl
ion of the Pennsylvan
ed head-on with a
Lofty, nine miles
The engineer and fireman of
train were killed; the eng
| man and colored porter of
freight
south o
| train seriously hurt,and sever
{ slightly injured. Between Il
Lofty there is a single
used by both the Leh
Pennsyivania Railroads.
misunderstanding of orders
got on this single stretch ot
before the engineers saw th
t the ¢
was too late to avert
Wireless Taga
Berlin (By Cable).
the military railroad bd
Zossen in connection
| moving train in con
{ communication with the
have been completely st
{ Braun system was used.
Congressman Dies of C
Washington, D. C. (Speci
gram received here
death of Representative
| Rumpie, of the Second I
the St. Luke's Hospital
Rumple was icted
{ had been in the hospital |
winter.
Charged With Killing |
Hazleton (Special). —A«
aged 50 years, died here
bullet wounds inflicted by,
ing a quarrel. Mrs. Ra
I arrest.