THE INSURGENTS AREA6A1N ACTIVE TfeMsiM* of Persoas Lcavlai Province

ol Balaacaa.

A RENEWAL OF THE FIGHTING. A FUlplae Fare*, C«ailiU>| •( 290 Rjncacn uA MO Bolomea kcctallr AlUckH Naf partlia, Prorlacc el North IUxm—Coapanj M. El|hth lalaatr), Act lax aa the

Dckaalr*. Drart

• 0(t tba Batmj.

VtTS.

[ Batangas province.

:ot#, for places of safety, owing to the cwal of war there by the Filipit

pinps. cetitly

ManilL, (By Cable).—Thousands of

t lea’ place

war

A large force .of Filipinos recent attacked the town of Lipa, in Batagas. killing one soldier and several pro-Amer-ican natives. Troop H. First Cavalry killed to of the attacting party beforejhe

remainder escaped.

A Filipino force, consisting of aoc riflemen and 400 bolomen. attacked Nag' partian. Province of North Uocos. ComJi of the Eighth Infantry, acting on the defensive, drove off the natives, killing it of them, with no loss to them-

sefves.

Gen. James M. Bell reports an important engagement between a force of natives at I .a bo. Province of Camarines, and a detachment of the Twentieth Infantry. Three Americans were killed, The loss of the natives is not known, but it is believed to have been heavy. General Bell expects a speedy extermination of the irreconcilable*. The natives of Samar and Leyte are stirred by the closing of the ports and bitterly object to reconcentration. William B. Preston, formerly a captain in the Forty-third Volunteer Infantry. has committed suicide. The Philippine Supreme Court has dismissed the writ of habeas corpus in the case of Mr. Patterson, an Englishman, who is private secretary to Siito Lopez and whose deportation is sought by the authorities here, as he refuses to take the oath of allegiance to the Uni(eji States when he landed at Manila. Justice Cooper dissented. Patterson will be deported on the first steamer bound ,0 The 0I Amcrican and Fusion Fedcrals elected their full ticket at the local elections held in Iloilo. Island of Panay. The constitutional code allowing soldiers to vote played an important part in the elections.

Bid NINE FIRE

SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.

The Southern Securities Company was incorporated at Trenton. Its object, it is believed, is to carry through projeett ‘

~:i—j dp,), t j, e Somh.

1. of r

ill^be

—Iroad

John Kinonen, of Copper Falls, Mi6h.. became despondent because he was out , of employment and cut the throats of his * wife, two sons and then committed *ui-

ride.

Alonzo P. Douglass, a well-known lawyer of Philadelphia, comVnitted suicide in his office by sending a bullet through his brain. Despondency was

the cause.

The way has been paved for the removal of the Bureau <}f Identification from Chicago to Washington. A deal involving the consolidation of the silk mills of York, Pa., has been car-

ried through.

The third Sunday in January observed as "McKinley Day" am

diana churches.

In a riot growing out of the street car strike in Scranton. Pa., officers who attempted to arrest a man who had assaulted one of them were attacked by a * crowd of miners, who fired at them. The officers and a nonunion motorman then fired into the crowd and wounded three A committee of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees submitted a list of grievances to President Parsons, of the Union Traction Company, Philadelphia. The conductor* and motormen of that city are divided upon the strike question. There was a sharp discussion in the convention of the American Federatjon of Labor on the question of boycotting

$11,Ml,IN PRESENT

TO THE NATION

Caracfie Will Fond lutitiitioa of Lear*

lot if National Capital.

(TO LEAD IN ORIGINAL RESEARCH Tb* (krtiMCf t Asked la Be tke Trustee fei Ike Splendid Eadowmeat, No Approprlallor Belaf Bxpactad or Wanted—Caraegla flai Caaterred With Dr. Oilaia and Other Niter

Edacators oa the Sabject

Washington, D. C, (Special)Presi dent Roosevelt has received a letter fron Andrew Carnegie, in which the lattei offers to make a donation of $10000,001 to the United Sutes. The letter wil be referred to Congress by the Presi

dent in a special message.

Mr. Carnegie's gift is for the pur >se of establishing in Washington > liversity for higher education. Ai s as his idea has been developed, il proposes a gift after the manner of the bequest of James Smithson, the Eng lishman who gave $1,000,000 for the es tablishment and maintenance of what ir now known as the Smithsonian Institution. Smithson desired the institution ‘ led by him to be a factor in the dif1 of scientific knowledge. Mr. Carproposes that the university which

F.ftcen Men Reicaed, Bat Tweaty Maks We a

Roasted or Saffocatri

Harrisburg, Pa., (Special).—Fire

broke out in the Big Lick mine, near Lykens. Fifteen men were working in the mine when the fire was discovered. They crowded into a car, which was hoisted to the surface through a wall of Are. None of them were injured. Twenty mules were either roasted alive or suffocated by smoke and gas. A steam pump was gotten ' in operation, and the mine is being flooded to pre-

vent the flames from spreading. The mine is operated by the ‘Lykens

Valley Coal Company, and is one of the

¥—j—

endiaries, as it broke - out in a por-

it has not been worked for

on the question . .

machine-made cigars. A resolution was adopted omitting reference to machinery,

but denouncing child labor.

Rev. A. A. Johnson, colored, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Okaloosa, la., was shot while in the pulpit on Sunday night by Anna

Nelson, colored.

In a battle between burglars who-had robbed the general store of Edward Wood, in Gelena, S. D.. and officers one ot the robbers was killed and another

wounded.

H. J. Fleischman, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Los Angeles, Cal., has disappeared with $100,000 of the bank's money. An extra freight ran into a freight train on the Northern Pacific near North Yakuma, Wash. Two were killed and

five were injured.

A writ of habeas corpus w in Kcw York in behalf of Albert rick, accused of the murder of 1

aire Rice.

Three robbers secured $2,000 from the bank of the Archibald Banking Company, in Archibald. Ohio. Lawrence Wtjght was dragged to death by runaway mules in Fawn town-

ship, Pennsylvania.

Two more of the .convicts who escaped from Leavenworth Military Pri-

son were recaptured.

Steve Barnes, a watchman at the Wilkesbarre (Pa.) pesthousc, was

frozen to death.

A young woman of many names was arrested in New York at a hotel, where she was living in style, on the charge of stealing dimonds and other jewels, valued at over $2^100, from the family of Albert D. Merrill. Brookline, Mass.. by whom she had been employed. She broke down and made a complete

‘tPxL

unily. Falls,

__ . Company, and is t productive in the Lyki

It is believed the fire was start* incendiaries, as it broke-out in a tion that has not been worked for time. A large number of men and boys have been thrown out of work by the

conflagration.

MAN KILLS HIS FAM1LV.

After Call lag the Threat* of tt'.s Wife sad

Seas, He Comadts Snlcidc.

Calumet, Mich.. (Special).—While in a fit of despondency over hit inability to find work and provide for his fami John Kinonen. living at Copper 22 miles from here, arose from bed, and while the family was sleeping he cut his wife's thtoat, the throat ot a son 16 years of age, slashed a younger son less seriously,'’ and then committed suicide by cutting his own throat. 'Kinonen is dead, but the other members of the family, while in a strious condition, are not fatally wounded; and the attending physicians think that they will recover. The younger boy. with blood streaming from his gashed throat, ran to a neighbor’s^ and physicians tyre soon *um-

Bick's Cash Gone.

Los Angeles, CaL, (Spccjal).—H. J. Fleishman, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, of this chy, has disappeared with a sum of the bank's money, which Vice-President H. W. Heilman estimates at $100,000. Fleishman has been cashier and assistant cashier of the Fanners and Merchants' Bank for many yeers. He began work for the tank when a bdy, n ib75- He was under bond with a surety company for $30,000. In addition to this, he has real estate and personal property in this city sufficient, in the opinion of Mr. Hellman, to protect the bank from the loss

of a dollar.

Three Negroes KMcd '-Andalusia, Ala., (Special).—Governor

s to aid SI

Jelks sent troops to aid Sheriff Bradshaw in protecting the negro rioters in jail here, and *he town is under martial law. The Sheriff is fearing an attack at any moment by a mob from Opp and is prepared to protect his prisoners. Three negroes, whose names are unknown, were caught and killed by a posse near Opp. because, it is alleged, they took part in the riot, and the wjioic county

What's His Max? (Special). —The been advised that

Crown Prince of S

“ ‘ ed to

the Crown F

d to 1 isit the United

. Ho mem her of the loyal family of Siam ever has visited

Washington. D C, (Special)— aMmal report of Horhert Palana. Li-

iwn and mac d the police. Philips, in

scorde a ju- 1 •*—-«—

Willard of

dry store. , had dearly been

Judge Phillips, in Cleveland, roundly rorde a jury tba^-had acquitted George

Irothers’jew-

daiming that he

i guilty.

A stir has been caused in London by the premature disclosure to a favored few of the derisions in favor of Charles T. Yerkes for the dectrifying of the underground railroads, thus enabling them to make big profits on the ri— : *—

It was announced Hi the 1 lament that the govemmenl

measures to safeguard the. rights of the Italian victims of the wreck on the Wabash Railroad near Seneca. Mich. The Belgian Chamber of Deputies discussed the question of the Boer concentration camps in South Africa, but a

vote was deferred.

Lord K : —*-

alian Parvould take

Kitchener ceports that last week 31 Boers were killed, 17 wounded and 352 made prisoners. King Edward lias fixed June a6, 1902, ■as the date for his coronation. J. Rierpont Morgan is reported to be buying, iron mines Jit-Swcdcn. The German government officials at n " ,: - i«d over the recent up-

eonvicmobbed

of Polish parents hoi£ isian teachers for flogginjf 1

roar tion

Prusi 7 __ ___ who refnsed to learn

^ SEE The Hamburg-Amerii _ Company,has contracted to car tons of iron to the United State a ton. and on the return trip

ican

1 to carry 30000

"lies at $108 ip to carry

*t $1

Bookkeeper Goudre of the Bank of Liverpool. Bookmaker Kflley and Prizefighter Burge were arraigned in Bow Street. London, in connection with the forgeries on the Bank of Liverpool. Dr. Hassc, the pan-German leader in the Reichstag, has been defeated in his purpose, of bringing Chamberlain'* speech reflecting upon Qcrtfian soldiers before the Reiriistag. General Alban, commander of the Colombian government forces, will shortly make an effort to recapture the port of Tumace, which is now held by 3,000 Liberal*. Nicaragua has agree to lease a section of country six miles wide to the United States for a route for the Nicaraguan

Canal.

Confirmatory dispatches are published in I-ondon of the report that Major Van Tets, of Queen. Wilhelmina’s bodyguard was bounded in defending her from

band, and that the Queen own hands, stanched the wound : her husband beg the Major's A dispatch • from Amsterdam

was her

with

r~ n h o,

The General Electric Company has declared the regular, quarterly dividend of 2 Tkc'New York Subtreasury statement shows that the .banks lost $7,115400 last The depositors of the Dresden SavBank, which made aa l.Mgoml.

negie pr* ■ to

that the university wl

he is to endow shall be the greatest institution in the world for the develop-

ment of higher education.

Mr. Carnegie has consulted ex-Presi-dent Gilman of Johns Hopkins University; President Hadley, of Yale ; President Eliot, of Harvard: ex-President White, of Cornell, and all the leading educators of the country. They heartily indorse his plans. The proposed univerrill not interfere in the least with

lished. but will supplement lira..,

according to the present plan, its doon will be open only to those who desire t# take up a post-graduate course. Mr Carnegie also wants the new university to take the lead in original research, so that the United States can eventually itand side by side with Germany, if not rxccl that nation, in scientific developMr. Carnegie’s plan docs not propose

national university in the sf — —iropriation will be asked

an appropriation will be asked or needed. The Government is simply to be trustee of the magnificent endowit, just as it administers the fund bequeathed by Smithson. It is probable that a board of regent* will be appointed, as in the case of the Smithsonian Institution. or it may be that the Government will be represented upon the board of directors, which, it is contemplated, shall consist of men of national Ifr. Carnegie has kept the proposal endowment a secret until he could definitely arangc the plans and scope of the new university. Even yet all these details have not been arranged, so that little more than the outline of his gift r~

be published.

'•'—iwn, however, that he docs not

1 ask from Congress a single d upon which-the university

propose to a foot of land

buildings will — - expense i sto be borne out of hi ment. No site has yet been sell

: £i d0 ’lt

ment. No site has yet been selected, will, however, necessarily be very large, it is proposed to erect a series

lificent structures.

agnificent structures.

It is said that by offering to endow liversity in Washington with $10,00c - Mr. Andrew Carnegie does not ii to establish a new institution.

000 ! tend

nd to establish a new institution. The money is to be used for affording

—cilities for research.

Whether Congress will accept the of-

fer is a mooted question.

It is said the endowment will be in

Steel Company tion has been be politic to ai agitation again

securities, am

raised .whether it would accept them in view of the

3 against combinations. TRAIN E&LLS THREE H

Down Into Brazil R

Vancouver, B. G—At a

early hour

Canadian Pacific freight train was proceeding east at a slow rate around a dangerous curve, 400 feet above the Brazil river, when Engineer Randall

suddenly came upon a rock-slide ly 50 yards ahead of. him.

’ signal was given to the braketnen the engine was reversed, but it was too late. The train was going scarcely five miles an kour, but the heavy train behind piled the engine on the rorics and before the engineer and fireman could jump the locomotve rolled over and over .300 feet down the bluff to the, river.

to t,._. ,

Randall and Fireman Potrtifl crushed to death beneath the engii Three care were wrecked, going ot

ifter the engine. Traffic

hours.

F.r.gn wire 1

Three care the bank aft delayed six

PUT IN COFFIN TOO SOON. This N'nrderer Wait Cat Dows Betor Was Exflsct Little Rode. Ark.,,' (Special).—Bud Wilson, the conrict who killed R. H. Naylor, a guard of the Yell County Convict Camp, last December, was hanged at

Danville.

Before the lid was placed on tbe eoffin the body began moving about. Wilson opened his eyes and his whole frame shivered. He was taken from the coffin by the deputies and carried up the. steps to the scaffold for the purpose of hanging him again. When the bulfonn was reached the body became rigid, remained so for a' lent nd then became limp. Wilson examined carefully by the physi1, w*o finally pronounced him dead, h naving beat — '

Montgomery, Ala.,

. (Special).—Perof the Alabama

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFPAJRS. Philippi** Trade la WL A comparative statement of the commerce of the Philippine Islands for the fiscal years 190: and 1900, prepared in the War Department, shows that the total value of merchandise imported during the fiscal year 1901 was $30.279406. as against $20,601436 for the fiscal year 1900; and the total value of merchandise exported during the fiscal year 1901 was $23,214,948, as against $19.751468 for fiscal year 1900, an increase of 47 in the value of imports and an

exports. The value of imports of merchandise from the United Sutes was $2,855,685. *“ increase of 724 per cent, over the ir; from the United King-

nt;

previous year; from

dom, $6,956,145, increase 76.3 per cent; from Germany, $2,135,252, increase 76.5 cent., and from France, $1/183,929,

m?r

* 3467 per cent. ,

The value of exports of merchand > the United Sutes was $2,572,021,

United Kii

....rchandise

to the United "

decrease of 27 per cent

dom. $10,704,741. increase 72 per c Germany, $81.*36. decrease 16.3 cent; France, $1,934,256, increase

per cent

Officials at Lsaerhrads-

Secretary of War Root and Comptroller of the Treasury Robert J. Traeewell

are^officially at loggerheadi

The War Department has outsUnding contracts which were to be paid from the national defense fund of 1898, and SecreUry Root, in a communication to Mr. Traeewell asking that paymenU thereon be authorized by the accounting officers, sUted that "It appears that the President and his Cabinet were agreed that the national defense fund

of $50400,000

fx

payments under lered into during

tracts properly ..

year 1898.

Mr. Traeewell ment is not influenced by the "views of certain executive officers. I hold that the accounting officers are not authorized to allow any payments made from the appropriations made for the national defense after June 30, 1901." SecreUry Root regards Mr. Traceweirs decision as a “misinterpreUtion” of law. Mr. Traeewell insists that he

is right.

Hepbars's Csul BOL

ReprcsenUtive Hepburn, of Iowa, has introduced his Isthmian Canal bill which, by reason of his being author, passed last year, and from hii probable continuance at the head of the House Commerce Committee, it is regarded as the measure which will serve as a basis for

action by the House.

It differs from the Hepburn bill passed last year in making the toul appropriation $180,000400 instead of $140,000400. Of the toul amount, $10400,000 Ti made immediately available begin work. In other respects the follows that of last year, authorizing the President to acquire a right of way from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and then to direct the SecreUry of War to begin the construction, from Greytown, on the Caribbean sea, to Brito, on the Pacific ocean, with suiuble defenses. etc. ;

Eiclasiofl of Chinese.

ReprcsenUtive K*hn, who represcnU the San Francisco district containing the Chinese quarter, in which about 30,000 Chinese reside, introduced a ChineseExclusion iaw. It defines strictly the status of those ' ' ‘ ' ‘

itudents, merchants,

uraing

who by treaty have a the country, excluding

rials. \ teacher!

officials. \ teal

U. travelers am laborers. In each of these

ascs a section is devoted to identification and specification of

the persons included. In the case of Chinese officials the Chinese Government is required to furnish a list of its officials^ coming to this country. Mr. Kane says this will over com* the who' sale creation of officials, including the of the Six Companies, who are said to have been made officials in order to take them outside of the exclusion laws.

Work of Weather Bnreas.

In his annual report Prof. Willis Moore, chief of the Weather Bureat refers to the extension of experiments

with wireless telegraphy. -

An important extension of the forecast work was made during the year, whereby meteorological reports from points in the British Isles, the continent of Europe and from the Azores

transmitted to Washington and with servations from Nassau. Bermuda

' * iland an

ob!

Turks Islam the weather

su. Bermu

regularly published on

Jier maps, together with forecasts of the wind an dthe sUte weather for the first three days steamers bound eastward. In a number of instances, when storms of marked strength were passing eastward off the American coast, forecasts for steamers

stward bound Reports from

these forecasts and other special warnings were verified.

To iBvestlyat* Crop Pi

The Secretary of Agriculture nounced the establishment of a new

&

merly professor of sou physics tn the .University of Wisconsin, tn charge. The work will consist of following up the

soil surveys an: connected with .

, of crops and the best methods of cultiva-

tion.

Capital News la QeatrsL Mr. Richardson (Tetm.), the leader of the House minority, offered a resolution to place upon the House payroll the four special smployes usually allowed the minority. The resolution was adopted without division. Congressman Wachter has decided to abandon his scheme to induce Congress to pass a bill to prevent football ga between Annapolis and West Point. Mr. Grow (Pa.), made a speech in the House upon prospective legislation for the Phtlipainw-fialands. He contended that the Constiufcn granted Congress the power to govrrtsth*- islands.

V. 'idL

HANY MILLIONS ARE LOST ON COPPER Rich sad Poor Alike. Hove Suffered Ke«vy Losses. DALY ESTATE OUT 15 MILLIONS. A Dtcllsc of Over On* Hundred Millions Is tbs VsIms of Iks Amslxunsled Stock —Tbt Fiasaclal Msrkcts of tbs Whole World Affedod- Cblcaxosns Loss Many MHUoas.

New York, (SpecisI).—Never in the history of Wall street has such a record been made as in Amalgamated. Less than six months ago it sold for $130 a share, representing a stock market value of the company's stock of $201,500400. Monday's prices cut the stock in half, that the decline amounts to $too.7’ This loss has fallen on the rich 1

alike.

rket in all

the poor alike.

It has affected the whole mai

the bourses of the world. Money rates h*Ve felt it, and British consols, French rentes, and German imperial bond issui

have also f -

thr

»n imperial bond

been affected. Half the

tendance on the Stock Exchange fl< this morning was centered around

Amalgamated post

Losses of (be Daly Estate.

Butte, Mont., (Special).—When late Marcus Daly put his mining pro; ties into the Amalgamated Company,

organizing, he took

which he assisted, w.

$5400400 worth of the Amalgamated stock as part payment The exact interest he held in the compaoy is not known outside of the family and the Daly estate, some reports being that his

uted more than five mfly rate the estate's stock ated alone was estimated

$20400400 before the re-

decline.

figures are correct the losi*to ily and the estate together has ir $15 000400 during the few

months since the stock dropped from its high figure of $130 to the present low

point.

How much of the stock Mrs. Daly still holds is not known, but the report is that the bulk of that formerly held by herself and in the name of the estate has been disposed of. The loss she has suffered will not seriously, affect her great fortune, however, for her wealth it still estimated at $25400400. PAN-AMERICAN HAS TROUBLES

holdings represented m lions, but at any rate in the Amalgamated ah to be worth $20400,0c

cent decline.

If the figures are Mrs. Daly and the

been

No Mosey to Pay for Diptooas. and AH In

Bslldlsxs Are Attached.

Buffalo, N. Y., (Special).—The PanAmerican Exposition Company is so

embarrassed financially that it Js even to provide diplomas for ex-

hibitors who won them.. The announcement was made, when it was stated that diplomas costing 82 cents each would be too expensive, and that the best the < pany could do would be to furnish kinds of diplomats, one costing 33 o

' ^ cnls. About

and another costing 25 cents. Ab 000 in all are to be issued, and ti expense will be $3,000, which the

ny is u ’ ’

110,total

tnpa-

effort will be :w York State Comof its money for this

purpose. The commission has a large Sheriff Cad well caused more trouble for the exposition officers when he attached every building on the grounds, except those owned by private individ-

to get tl

n to use so

The c

WRECK ON OEOROIA

l

of Georgia passenger tralj from Savannah, after crossing the river entering Macon,' at about 4 o’clo k A. M., with about 100 passengers, jiAnpcd a switch on a high embankment The engine and tender parted from the train. The bag- : and express cars were thrown over a culvert and burned. The secondclass coach was thrown on its side and burned. The first-class pasenger coach fell over the embankment The Atlanta sleeper, filled with passengers, caught fire and was destroyed. The only person killed was Julia Boynton, colored, of

Columbus, Ga.

Cora Breaks 10-Year Record New York, (Special).—Grain market wound up the week here in che.-acteris-tic bull fashion, with a spectacular display of the public's control over the situation. In all markets records were smashed right and left while, at for May corn in New York, that market was higher than at any time in a decade. Wheat broke all records for the season. The biggest sdvance came after the regular close and forced prices up tj^c. a bushel, making nearly 6 cents advance

for the week.

She Is Wedded by Wire.

. Bowling Green,\ Ky., (Special).— Miss Maude W. Wilcutt stood in the telegraph office here and became the bride of Dr. J. W. Simmons,.a physician of Peaster, Texas They wee married

The bride

[Tie question's were asked from end by a justice of the peace, answered by Miss Wilcutt is teaching school in Butler e and Dr. Simmons recently

raveling.

St Petersburg. (By Cable).—Lieuten-ant-Colonel Scbebiko, military agent of the Russian embassy *( Washington, has been appointed to the Russian embassy. at Berlin. Lieut enanl -Colonel

artesian well at a depth swept 1400 gallon* ai two-each hole. Engle Heart .( (be famous “J

El Paso. Texas. (Special).—A dispatch’ from Las Cruet* announces that the oil borer* at Engle, N. M- have strode ac ' w«H at a d«pth of aoo fett which

AN ECONOMIC WAR

RnsiU aad Aaslria-Hssfsry Tb reals ■ Or* macy —American* Ahead. Berlin, (By Cable).—The tariff biD

gors to the cot

committee this week, ,

nobody expects its reappearance foi months. Herren Bebcl and Richter and other opposition leader* have agreed t* delay the measure as long at possible ir committee. They are determined tc make a fight on every one of the 946 item*. This well-worn form of parliamentary obstruction is to be continued is the House after the bill leave* the committee. and it is quite possible that thr final vote will not be reached until 1901

Mnpr*. jovero* tactiffi e rul«s

bstr no-

tion tactics of the opposition.

A variety of estimates of the majority for or against the bill are in circulation. The general impression is that the gor-

ESKf-nTiVE,

present form, but Russia and AustriaHungary. It is the belief of the foreign office that Germany is well able to uphold her side should the United Sutes make

reprisals.

Russia and Austria-Hungary have already informed Germany that they are not willing to negotiate commercial treaties on the basis of the pending tariff. These notifications are considered equivalent to the declzration of an economic war, in which the broad markets noiv open to^ Germany will immediate?-

unless the government offers 1 compr* misc. which is unlikely. The govera of the house so as to block the obstri

tion tactics of the p

ly will immediatdy

be closed, and the considerable volume of United Sutes products now finding it* way to Russia through German trader* would, in consequence, be excluded with

German goods.

The manager of an American tool company's works in Berlin has made a remarkable comparison of the wages paid and cost of tools made here with the wages paid and cost of tools at the American works, both sets of laborer* using identical nachines. He finds that the American workman, making an exact allowance for the difference in wages, turns out a clear 25 per cent, more product for the same unit of wages. Man for man, the German produces two-fifths of what an American docs. A shoe factory at Breslau, using American machinery, secured better results by importing eight American workmen and paying them by the piece to stimulate th* German workmen, who then came withia to per cent, of the Americans’ work. NURSE IS INDICTED. Hiss Jane Toppao Formally Accused si -

Three Msrders.

Bamsuble, Mass. (Special).—Misf Jane Tappan, of Lowell, stood up in the Superior Court room here and heard indictments by the grand jury charging her with the murder of three persons whom she had been engaged to nurse back to health, but who had died under

jury.”

For xo minutes the woman •. tightly clutching the rail while the read the indictment charging her the murder of Mrs. Gibbs. At 1* Miss Toppan's counsel spared her

e murder of Mrs. Gibbs. At length !iss Toppan's counsel spared her fur...er agony by waiving the reading, and all that remained was for her to plead Three times she was asked if she was guilty and three times she replied in a

low voice:

"Not guilty.” Miss Tappan was led away to her cell where she will remain until early next spring, when she will be given a trial ROBBERS BIND B. & 0. OPERATOR

HU Pockets aad Compaoy's Cash Drtwei Thee Rilled. Wilmington, Ohio, (Special).—TUre* masked men broke in the door of the Baltimore and Ohio depot here, bound the operator. R. D.Wahn, rifled his pockets of $^.50 and took $20.55 from the company s cash drawer. The robbers then entered the office of Langdon's flouring mill, across the street from the station, blew the safe open and secured $50 and escaped. The opera tot lay bound and unable to move for three hoars listening to the train dispatches at Columbus calling at the key. Finally -he was discovered and released. A posse tbund three stolen rings near Midland City, where they had been abandoned by the robbers, who took to the woods. Atlanta, Ga.. tSpecial).—The DougUssYiUe (Ga.) bank was robbed of $2.-. 5oo. The robbers escaped on a stolen handcar. ♦ / ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS. The grand jury in Barnstable. Mass, indicted Nurse Jane Toppan for the alleged murder of Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs, Alden P. Davif and Mrs. Genevieve A. Gordon

The I

way sts _

ed it, many of the passengers and people in the wait : ng-room having yarrow "tn meeting held in Paris plans for the. proposed French college in Ameri— to study American commercial and bo]

. 1— j . ^: 1

methods <1

Seven thousand barrels of Kentucky whisky are to be shipped to Genual

of the Louisville. Warehous* •

Henry Hoover, charged in York, Pa, with dynamiting a Northern Central express train, was committed for court Three runaways from the Indian school at Carlisle. Px. were caught at in‘the Parliament at The Hague touke