BELIEVES DEATH CAN BE PREVENTED Prof. Loeb Makes Statement Before Physiological Society. UNRAVELING MYSTERIES OF DEATH. Scientist Claims to Have Discovered That Death Is Not a Breaking Down of the Tissues, But an Active Agent Born With the Birth of the Egg--Declares That He Has Been Able to Check the Destroyer. Chicago (Special). — Experiments which it it declared are a beginning of the unraveling of death’s mysteries were made public by Prof. Jacques Loeb at the fourteenth annual meeting of the American Physiological Society at the University of Chicago. During the last summer the noted scientist has been continuing his series of experiments with the eggs of the lower marine animals, especially those of the sea urchin, and in a paper entitled “On the Prolongation of Life of Unfertilized Eggs of the Sea Urchin by Potassium Cyanide." he told a group foremost physiologists in America that by means of observation of the effects of certain chemicals upon these minute bits of protoplasm he was ready to make a tentative definition of the heretofore unknown nature of death. Death, Professor Loeb affirmed, was not a negative process, a simple breaking down of tissues, as it has been regarded up to this time, but an active agent born with the birth of the egg, and destined, if not checked, to gain the upper hand of the life instinct and bring about extinction. But, greater even than the apparent discovery of this death agent in all life substances, is Professor Loeb's declaration that he has been able to check it all in the eggs of the sea urchin, at least, by means of chemical agents.This, it is held, means nothing less than that on a minute scale the secret of eternal life is in the power of mankind. The experiments, Professor Loeb said, were simple. Unfertilized eggs of the sea urchin were placed in a weak solution of potassium cyanide and abandoned for several days. In ordinary conditions an unfertilized egg dies in a few hours, destroyed by the death agents born with it. At the end of several days the eggs were again examined and were found to be still capable of fertilizing and of producing healthy animals.In explaining the result, Professor Loeb said that the "mortiferous processes" were due to the actions of certain ferments of an unknown nature, whose destructive tendency was counteracted by the potassium salts. Several other papers of importance were read during the meeting. Prof. D.J.L. Ingle, of the University of Chicago, gave the results of his research into the effect of common salt upon the heartbeat. He affirmed with great emphasis that contrary to the statements of Prof. W.M. Howells, of Harvard, salt is the sole agent responsible for the rythmic action of the heart. FLYER IN A WRECK. Four Persons Killed and Many Others Hurt--Freight Crew Blamed. Chicago (Special)--Four persons were killed and twenty-nine injured, several of them probably fatally, in a collision on the Chicago Northwestern Railroad at Malta, Ills., sixty miles west of Chicago. The trains in collision were the Omaha Flyer, an eastbound passenger train, and an eastbound freight train. The wreck caught fire and two passenger coaches, one sleeping car and eight freight cars were burned, and another sleeping car was partly consumed. The freight train had taken a siding at Malta, but the train was longer than the siding and the freight locomotive protruded upon the main track beyond the side track. The incoming train from the West was not stopped until the two locomotives "cornered" at the switch, the passenger engine being thrown into the ditch and several coaches piling upon the wreck. The cars caught fire from the locomotive. A statement given out by officials of the railroad company explains that the switch at the east end of the siding was opened through mistake, and that the responsibility probably lies with some member of the crew of the freight train. This statement places the company's property loss at about $30,000. ROBBERS MAKE BIG HAUL. Two Houses Broken Into Simultaneously--All in Church at Time. New York (Special)--Two house robberies, apparently having some connection with each other, though widely separate as to locality, were committed here and jewelry worth $50,000 secured. The house of Howard Willetts, of White Plains, was almost stripped of jewelry, furs and other articles of value while the Willetts family was at church. Less than half an hour after the loss was discovered, the housekeeper of Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Thebaud, whose town house is on Madison avenue, this city, telephoned Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, who were in White Plains, and guests of the Willetts family, that the Thebaud residence had been robbed of jewelry to the amount of several thousand dollars. Waterspout Brings Death. Tangier, Morocco (By Cable)--A waterspout has burst over the town of Saffee, Morocco. It inundated the lower part of the town for the space of twelve hours, sweeping everything into the sea. Two hundred persons are reported to have been drowned. There are no Europeans among the dead. The damage to Saffee was enormous. Train Wrecked in Fog. Nashua, N.H. (special)--A dense fog and a misplaced switch in the north yard of the Boston and Main Railroad in this city caused the wrecking of the "Cannon Ball Express" bound from Montreal for Boston. Two men were killed instantly and short half a dozen persons were injured. Several of the passengers of the "Cannon Ball" were bruised but in no case was it necessary to send any of them to a hospital. The wreckage caught fire but the flame was extinguished without further damage.

SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.

Domestic.

Bridges were wrecked and serious damage caused in the Southern States by the floods. Several lives were lost in Georgia. The Schuylkill river flooded the mills at Norristown and other points near Philadelphia. Many of the mines near Shamokin, Pa., were again flooded and 1,000 men were thrown out of work. While a Filipino memorial procession in honor of Jose Rizal was passing the Augustine Monastery in Manila the marchers cried down the friars. The Pacific mail steamer San Blas was wrecked on the Remidos reef, near Acajutla, all the passengers and the crew being saved. Robert H. Hatfield, wanted for wifebeating, was killed at Globe, Ariz., by Deputy Sheriff Devine, who was trying to arrest him. John A. Wilson was seriously stabbed in Buffalo while intervening in a fight between Albert Preusser and Charies

McCarthy.

Judges Stewart and Bittinger. in York. Pa., severely arraigned constables and other officials for charging exorbitant

fees.

The four-masted schooner James W. Fitch, bound from Boston for New York, was burned at sea. All hands

were saved.

Prof. W. O. Atwater, in a paper read before the State Science Teachers’ Association. said that temperance education as conducted in the public schools,

, was based on a scientifically wrong

principle.

The fog and a misplaced switch caused a collision between an express on the Boston and Main and a freight

near Nashua, N.H., in which two men were killed and a number injured. Austin B. Fletcher sued Wellington R. Burt, president of the Ann Arbor Railroad, for $5,000,000 damages for

depreciating the value of the road and

buying it at a bargain.

H.R. Penny, head of a defunct brokerage firm, was arrested in Omaha, Neb., on the charge of maintaining

gambling devices.

Peter Mitchell, colored, who was accused in Northampton, N.C. of assulting Mrs. Lucinda Hill, white, was

lynched.

Prof. John Bright, of the Johns Hopkins University, was elected president of the Modern Language Association.

German warships are gathering off the coast of Venezuela, and the North Atlantic Squadron of the United States Navy is in Porto Rican waters, only a short sailing distance from Venezuela. The Germans will likely blockade Venezuelan ports to compel payment of indemnity owed to German subjects. In a hand-to-hand fight between 18 men, Company E, Ninth Infantry, and bolomen near Dapado Samar, Philippine Islands, Capt. F.H. Schoeffel was wounded and seven men killed and a number wounded. An Ontario and Western train of 50 coal cars ran away on a down-grade near Scranton, Pa, and left the track at a curve at a speed of 90 miles an hour. Every car was completely wrecked and four men were killed. The Eerie Telegraph and Telephone Company is to be reorganized, with a capital of $32,000,000 and to be controlled by the American Telegraph and Telephone Company. The Unalde Asphalt Company of San Antonio, Texas, has been awarded the contract for sewers and pavements in Havana, Cuba, at $12,000,000. Antonio Segnio was frustrated as he was about to kill the false friend on whose account he had mortgaged all his property. One person was killed and a number injured by an explosion in a powder mill of the Moosic Company, at Jermys Pennsylvania. Foreign. An official note issued by the German government states that the negotiations between Germany and Venezuela continue, and that there is no truth in the dispatches from Caracas stating that the German minister has left the Venezuela capital. The German Foreign Office has also received a dispatch from Secretary Hay expressing full satisfaction with Germany's position. The British War Office issued a further list of the British casualties at Zeefontein, showing that 50 men were wounded and that 245 were made prisoners. The latter have all been released. The British steamer Bardsey collided with the Spanish steamer Pinzon in the Elbe, and the Pinzon was so badly damaged that she had to be beached. The Zionist Congress at Basle, Switzerland, decided to established a branch of the Colonial Bank in Palestine, with a capital not to exceed 400,000 francs. It is reported from Shanghai that a missionary and a number of the Christian converts have been massacred at Ning Sha Fu, where Prince Tuan resides. Commander Ssheepers, a prisoner in the hands of the British, at his trial denied six of the seven murders with which he is charged and declared that the burning of the government buildings was in the shape of reprisals, in accordance with De Wet's proclamation. In the battle with the Boers under De Wet and the British under Colonel Firman at Zeefontein, Christmas Eve, 6 British officers and 50 men were killed, 8 officers wounded and 4 missing. The Boers captured two guns. The British wounded and prisoners number 150. A leading German official says that large American business concerns, like the great meat-packing companies, are interfering with and hampering the diplomatic course in connection with the commercial controversies between Germany and the United States. Senator Derew and Miss May Palmer were married at the Catholic Church of Notre Dame, and the ceremony was repeated an hour later at the American Episcopal Church at Nice. W.W. Peet, treasurer of Missionary Society in Constantinople, accompanied by the dragonman of the American ____, is on his way to meet the brigands who hold Miss Stone captive. Financial. The New York Subtreasury statement shows banks have lost _____ during the week. The Southern Pacific Railroad's creating works at Houston Tex, have been burned: loss____. The Arlington Mills directory have declared a regular____dividend of 3 percent, payable January 1,____. Texas____Company has declared_____________.

MANY PEOPLE BURIED ALIVE

Four Trainmen Lose Their Lives

Near Lynchburg, Va.

TRAIN WAS TRAPPED BY EARTH

Narrow Escape of a Passenger Train From Being Buried Under an Avalanche of Earth

Near Lynchburg--Four or Five Were Killed, and It Is Thought That Others May

Be Buried Under the Debris.

Lynchburg, Va. (Special.)—A passenger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad struck a landslide about five miles west of this city, and it is probable that the death list may reach 25. The railroad officials here admit the loss of three lives, but one of the survivors of the wreck says that not less than ten persons were buried beneath an enormous landslide, while late information obtained by telephone from the scene of the disaster was to the effect that probably 25 persons had lost their lives. The accident occurred about one mile west of the Reusens, a station four or five miles west of Lynchburg. The train was a westbound passenger, which left here two hour late. The track at this point is between a high bluff and the river and the latter is higher than it has been for many years. CURRAN. At 11 o'clock a man claiming to have been a passenger on the train walked into the city, stating that he was a Chesapeake and Ohio employe on his way to the company hospital at Clifton Forge, for treatment. He tells the following story:

"At about 8 o'clock the train ran into the slide, derailing the engine. Conductor Whittaker called on the passengers to help him move the two coaches back from the engine so that the latter might be free to attempt to get back on the track. The passenger coach was then pushed back about 60 feet, and while all hands were engaged in pushing back the baggage car a tremendous slide of earth came from the bluff, turning over the engine and carrying with it the engineer. fireman, conductor and some of When asked how many were buried, he said he thought there were about 10. The railroad, officials claim that Engineer Fisher attempted to back the train, which was composed of a baggage car and passenger coach, and in doing so the engine turned over, burying the engineer and fireman under it on the edge of the river. The conductor, young Whittaker, of Richmond, in going out to see what was the matter, was swept into the river, and as he went down he was heard to cry out, "Say good-by to

my wife and children."

SUICIDE USED PISTOL AND AX. A Wealthy Bachelor Determined to End

His Life.

Norfolk, Va. (Special)--Sitting in a pool of blood, wounded by a pistol shot, cut on the head in 14 places by an

ax, with throat also cut, but still living, William R. Cox, a wealthy bachelor, 62 years of age, was found in the smoking house an the farm of his sister, Mrs. McAlpine, with whom he made his home, near Nimmo, in Princess Anne county. Mr. Cox left the house at 2 o'clock in the morning, and as he did not return, search was made for him about six hours later. He was found in the smokehouse by relatives, who located him by hearing his groans. He was conscious, and said that in trying to kill himself he had made a bad botch of the job. He said he did not want to get into the newspapers because people would say he committed the act while on a "spree" while the truth was that he deliberately planned to commit suicide. It is said he was addicted to drink and that a schoolmistress in Southampton county recently withdrew her promise to marry him. He told no one, however, why he wanted to die, but said he wanted no medical aid. GIANT OF THE NAVY. Big Battleship Missouri Launched Into Her Own Element. Newport News, Va. (Special.)--About 15,000 enthusiastic spectators saw the battleship Missouri successfully launched here. In the crowd were many distinguished persons, including Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her party, who witnessed the launching from the deck of the dispatch boat Dolphin. Secretary Long, Secretary Hitchcock, Rear-Admirals Bowles, O'Neill and Melville, Capt. S.C. Lem_y, Governor Tyler, Senators, Congressmen, Army and Navy officers of rank and prominence, and scores of widely known business men, including the heads of great ship-building and other industrial plants. The vessel was the heaviest that ever went down the ways at this yard. This great hulked moved slowly into the water, the trip down the ways occupying about one minute. It was an imposing spectacle the extreme slowness of the trip making the sight all the more impressive. Steel Plant for Tennessee. Elizabethton, Tenn. (Special)--Chas. P. Tonoray and George E Rosen have returned from New York, where they closed negotiations with the Electric Furnace Company for the erection of an electric steel plant at Elizabethton. It is claimed that by this method steel ingots can be produced directly from iron ore in 30 minutes. An 8,000 horse-power electric plant will be commenced as soon as the site can be decided upon on the Watanga river, near Elizabethton, and this will supply the power for the plant. Negro Lynched in North Carolina. Raleigh, N.C. (Special)--While Governor Aycock was signing an order for a special court at Northampton, N.C.. to try Peter Mitchell, a negro, for assaulting Mrs. Lucinda Hill, a whte woman, a telegram come saying that citizens took Mitchell from jail at Jackson and lynched him.

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. The Incident Is Closed. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has returned from his holiday trip to New York. He refused to say a word in regard to the reprimand administered to him last week by the President and Secretary Root for his Schley-Dewey interview. It was known before General Miles returned to his desk that he had decided to let the matter pass without a reply or statement from him. He regards the incident as closed and settled, and his friends, who have a right to speak for him, say that he will not be the one to reopen it. There is no disguising the fact that the cordial relationships hitherto existing between the General and the Secretary of War are strained by the recent episode, and it is likely that future relations between the two officials will be confined to formal communications on official business. Wireless System for Navy.

The Navy Department has taken steps toward the adoption of wireless telegraphy as a means of signaling between

warships at sea. To this end Admiral Bradford of the

Bureau of Equipment, has asked that the armored cruisers of the Pennsylvania

class have their masts and riggins

so arranged that the wireless system can be introduced. This will necessitate the

lengthening of the masts of the ships and the insulation of the metal rigging by use of the hempcovering for halyards. It is intended to get test sets of instruments of the various wireless systems now being operated. These include

the Marconi system.

The British Navy already has a number of its ships equipped with the wireless system.

Decrease In Revenues. The monthly statement of the collections of internal revenue show that the total collections for November, 1901, were $23,178,951, a decrease as compared with November, 1900, of $2,165,330. Sources of revenue are given as

follows:

Spirits, $12,080,812. increase $1,330,492; tobacco, $4,262,700, decrease $640,366; fermented liquors, $4,973,188, decrease $474,598; oleomargarine, $212,814,

decrease $25,813.

Special taxes not elsewhere enumerated $58,666. increase $24,916; miscellaneous $1,588,768, decrease $2,379,965. For the five months of the present fiscal year the total receipts were $120,654.395, a decrease as compared with the corresponding period in 1900 of $10,625,392. This decrease is wholly due to the decrease in the rate of taxation under the Revenue Reduction act passed at the last session of Congress.

Minister Wu May Return.

It is said that, according to private advices from the Imperial Court of China, Minister Wu Tingfang's term of service here will be extended for another period of three years. Minister Wu is a holdover, as his first term expired last spring, and the present term, therefore, has yet more than two years

to run.

There has been for some time much uncertainty as to the attitude of the Chinese court toward Minister Wu. Some say that the court has been somewhat concerned over his too progressive Western ideas, and it is reported also that some ministers of the Gospel and others have been trying in tibs country to prevent Mr. Wu's reappointment mainly on the ground that he has expressed too much regard for Confucius and exhibited a too earnest indorsement and interpretation of the great philosopher's sayings.

Carnegie's Gift Ready.

Soon after Congress meets the President probably will be able to lay before it a proposition from Mr. Andrew Carnegie to present to the nation in a form that will raise no objection $10,000,000 for the use of higher education. It is announced that the gift will not be in United States Steel Corporation bond, but in a shape that will be satisfactory to Congress and the people. Since his last visit to the President, Mr. Carnegie has been considering how he should present the gift in an acceptable fashion and he has about concluded that a cash donation which would involve no future trouble is the most advisable. The gift is expected to take this shape, and if Mr. Carnegie makes his offer so that the money is not covered in bonds, the Government doubtless will accept it. Smith Is Asked to Wait. Senator Mason, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Postoffices, called upon Postmaster-General Smith and presented a request that no further action be taken by the Postoffice Department in the matter of dropping publication which are now classified as second-class mail publications pending the investigation proposed by Senator Mason's committee. The Senator stated that it is his intention to begin the investigation proposed by Senator Mason's committee. The Senator stated that it is his intention to begin the investigation immediately after the reconvening of Congress, and said that he had received several hundred protests against the department's plan of action. No definite understanding was reached with the Postmaster-General. War Veteran Exempted. The President at the instance of the veteran association has amended the civil service rules applicable to the rural free delivery service, so as to except from the operation of the age limit veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American wars who file applications for appointment as carriers. Volume of the Census. Director Merriam of the Census Bureau announced the publication of Part I of the report on population, to be known as Volume I of the Census Reports. It contains _____ pages and__________.

ALL VENEZUELA NOW IN REVOLT. Revolution Grows, While Germany Also Threatens. CASTRO IN AN UGLY POSITION. Several Places in Possession of the Revolutionists--The Venezuelan Government Suspends Traffic Upon the German Railroad Because, Owing to Insurgent Threats, the Company Will Not Transport Troops. Willemstad Curacoa, (By Cable)--

Advices received here from Caracas Venezuela, say that the revolution

against President' Castro is gaining ground daily. Nearly the whole of the republic is in revolt, and bands of men

are scouring the country. Coro, in the State of Falson, and Barquisimeto, in the State of Lara, particularly, are in the possession of the revolutionists. Cable communication between Cumana, Carupano and Barcelona is interrupted and the government is without news from the State of Bermudez, in which these ports are located, which leads to the belief that it also has been induced to revolt by Gen. Domingo Monagus. Gen. Luciano Mendoza, the president-elect of the State of Carabobo, who rebelled against President Castro, marched on La Victoria an was reported to have been defeated, has escaped from the pursuit of the Government troops and is now in the neighborhood of San Juan de Jos Moros. Antonio Fernandez and 30 chiefs of the State of

Carabobo were not willing to engage the government forces before the revolution

was quite ripe.

Venezuela

is said to be on the verse of even more serious complications. The telegraph lines in the interior of the

country have all been cut.

Reports received here from Caracas say the relations between Germany and Venezuela become more strained every day. The Venezuelan government suspended traffic on the German railroad because, in view of the threats of the insurgents, the company refused to transport troops unless the government guaranteed it against losses which might be sustained by the destruction

of its road and equipment.

The German Legation at Caracas has entered an energetic protest against the government's action in this connection. NO COMMERCE IN SENTIMENT. The McKinley Association Warns Against "Monument" Schemes. Cleveland, Ohio (Special)--Judge William R. Day, ex-Secretary of State and president of the McKinley National Memorial Association, issued this statement: "The public is especially cautioned against any enterprise attempting to make capital out of the sentiments of affection which inspired the desire to rear at the grave of our late President a memorial which shall fittingly honor his memory. It is the desire of the trustees that all contributions shall be the free-will offering of the people, and they respectfully request the public to discourage all propositions which may seem to have as their object the obtaining of money by giving all or part of the proceeds to the memorial fund. "The public is hereby notified that the McKinley National Memorial Association has no connection with or relation to any other association, or to any enterprise of a commercial nature." CARNEGIE AND COLUMBIA Said to Contemplate Giving the University Over $1,000,000. New York (Special)--Andrew Carnegie, according to a well-defined report circulated here, has consented to provide a substantial fund for Columbia University. The tender of the endowment, amounting to more than $1,000,000, it was said, had been made some days since, but none of the details were made public. It was hinted that Mr. Carnegie had given the money for the establishment of a new building at Columbia, but it was also said that the gift would be used as a fund for the instructions and maintenance of poor but deserving young men who might desire to enter the university. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, the present acting head of Columbia, would not confirm or deny the reports. Steeple-Climber's Escape. Chicago (Special)--John Kelly, working on a church steeple 150 feet above the street, experienced a remarkable escape from death here. He sliped from the top of the steeple and fell 65 feet where the edge of the roof interfered with his fall in such a manner that his hands were thrown against a small projection. Though almost unconscious, he clung to this hold for three minutes until fellow-workmen rescued him. He was seriously injured internally, but it is believed he will recover. Blows Up by Natural Gas. Muncie, Ind. (Special)--Two probably fatal natural gas explosions occurred in this city within an hour. The first at the Dickey spool factory, terribly injured Lewis Staggs, aged 31 years. He was hurled some distance by the force of the explosion. Almost at the same time a stove burning natural gas in the grocery of W.E. White, in the western part of the city, exploded. White and a clerk, Claude Dunn, aged 21 years, were caught and both were horribly burned about their face, arms and necks. Bankruptcy Law Reforms. Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special)--The executive committee of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees has reported on its investigation made to secure the____of all________

THREE MEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Accident at Old Furnace In the Town of Sharpsville, Pa. (Special)--An explosion at the old Sharpsville furnace wrecked the furnace plant and killed three men. Another workman was probably fatally injured. The men were working at the top the furnace when the explosion occurred, and Clay, Dickson and Batrtlett were burned to death. Their bodies were recovered at 9 o'clock. Donnelly was injured by jumping. The cause of the explosion is not known. No estimate has been made as yet of the loss. Scranton, Pa. (Special)--An explosion in the barrel mill of the Moosic Powder Company at its Jermyn works wrecked the mill and several adjoinging buildings and broke windows for miles around. The shock was plainly felt in this city, a distance of 14 miles. Jacob Hiller, who was in the engine room of an adjoining building was burned beyond recognition and cannot survive. John Gibbs, George Gebheardt and George Forkel, who were entering the mill yard, were caught by flying debris and seriously injured. Glass blown from a window in Albert Carey's house struck his daughter and cut a deep gash in her neck. It is feared she is fatally

injured.

A Delaware and Hudson passenger

train which passed about a quarter of a mile from the scene of the explosion at

the time of the accident was swayed by

the force of the explosion, and the

passengers screamed with terror as the train gace a sudden lurch. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

DE WET TAKES A BRITISH CAMP. . Night Attack in Eastern Part of Orange

River Colony.

London, (By Cable).—General De Wet has taken revenge for the recent successes of the British on rushing laagers at night, and has captured a British camp on the eastern part of Orange river colony by the use of tactics similar to those employed by the British. The scene of the reverse is within one of the areas of the Boer main resistance where General De Wet has frequently foiled the British commanders. The following brief dispatch from Gen. Kitchener tells all that it at present

known of the affair:

“Rundle reports that Colonel Firman's camp, at Tweefontein, was successfully rushed on the night of December 24 by a considerable force of Boers, under De Wet. I fear the casualties were heavy. Firman's column consisted of the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth and Fifty-third companies of Imperial Yeomanry, one gun of Seventy -ninth Battery and one pompon. "They were guarding the head of the blockhouse line, from Harrismith to Bethlehem. The First and Second Imperial Light Horse have gone in pursuit

of the Boers.”

KILLED ON WRECKING TRAIN. Fatal Accident Occurred on the Way to

Another Accident.

Cincinnati, (Special).—Unable to see the flagman's signal on account of fog the engineer of the south-bound Chicago express on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road did not stop his train at Hartwell until it had struck a freight train, which was crossing the track, and demolished three freight cars. Four passengers and two trainmen on the express train were injured. The wrecking train on the way to Hartwell met with an accident, killing Patrick McCoy and fatally injuring William Nipper and Louis Tenbrink. The chain of the wrecking crane broke and it struk the three men while .the train was in motion. KILLED BY CRANE BREAKING. Three Chicago Workmen Dead and Three Seriously Injured. Chicago. (Special).—Three men were killed and three seriously injured here by the breaking of the huge crane at the plant of the American Bridge Company.

Thirty men were working in the vicinity of the crane at the time of the

accident and many of these had narrow escapes.

Swan, Traver and Rock were

caught beneath the huge mass of steel, and each man was crushed so badly as to be almost unrecognizable. The crane was guaranteed to hold 30 tons, but was

carrying only 20 tons at the time of its collapse. The cause of the accident

may have been a flaw in one of the

chains supporting the crane. Girl Shot Her Father. Somerville, Mass.. (Special).—In defending her sister from an assault by her drunk-crazed father, Florence Dobson 22 years of age, shot her father and is now under arrest. The man has a serious wound, but it is thought he will recover. James P. Dobson, the victim shooting, to said to have been abusing his family at intervals during the whole day. At last he attacked his oldest daughter, when Florence procured a revolver and shot him. Held Up On the Street Fairmount, W.Va. (Special)--Louis Ring was held up on Park avenue shortly before 10 o'clock and robbed of $475. He had intended to leave for New York city and had just purchased a ticket for that place. While he was returning to his home he was assaulted by two men, who choked him until he was insensible and robbed him.