HSS HEREDITH MAKES CHARGES Seoulioa ■( the CoBveatioo of the United Mioe Worker*. PRESIDENT DENIES THE CHARGES. JUm Mertd lb. Farmer Employe at the Katlaaal Ottlce. Read a Typewritten Paper Accallay Ike Prraldcat aid Secretary at ShleUlay the Ex-Treaiarer. Who, She De-

ire*. Wi

dare*. Was Short la His Accounts.

ftolis.^5

ianapolis. (Specia

agsinst Prcsi^mt Mitchell. Secret: Wilson anJ jW exccutive board

crctary of the

Indianapbli*. (Special).—The charges

itchcll. ilive bi

United Mine Workers of Afmerica caused a flurry of cxcitcnient in the convention C here. President Mitchell, in a voice full of emotion, addressing the convention. Said that charges had been made by Miss Mollie Meredith, an ex-employe of the national office, affecting himself as president. Secretary Wilson and the national ‘ executive board. He asked Mr. Wjlliam -D. Van Horn, of Indiana. Jo take the ' chair while the efiarges were being heard. A committee was appointed do escort Hiss Meredith to the convention lull. President Mitchell took a seat back was dressed in black and wore a Gain*J| borough hat. She read her statement, ▼which charged that at the time of the alleged shortage of cx-Secretary-Treas-urer Pearce. President Mitchell and Secretary-Treasurer Wilson did not give, out all the facts concerning ““—• actions, and that they "willfully the miners' committee a ytar demanded an investigation of

lied" to t ago. She

the books to sec h leged defalcation

_ Ily was. Miss Meredith intimated that both Mitchell and Wilson sought to protect Pearce, and for that reason did not give oat all the facts, and charged that Pearce frequently presented bills for double the amount of purchases. She also said that Pearce's "extra money" amounted to $2,000 a year, while Mitchell and Wilson reported that he had taken only St6a Miss Meredith declared that

' Mitchell allowed ~

“sick man" and

from French Lick Springs. At the* conclusion of- the . • woman's statement Secretary-Treasurer Wilson denied its truth and said it was the outgrowth of spite. Miss Meredith, he said, was recently discharged, as an assistant secretary'- She is the young woman to whom a gold medal was presented for discovering^ the Pearce

shortage.

CREMATED WHILE THEY SLEPT.

SIKKAKY OF THE LATEST NEWS.

wireless telegraphy, to release her from her engagement to marry him, and that

Mr. Marconi had complied.

A committee of experts advised the Newport News officials that the price at which the Consumers' Light, Heat and Ice Company offered to seU its plant to

the city was excessive.

Dr. I. H. Sciling was held for the action of the grand jury in York. Pa., on the charge of causing the death by malpractice of Miss Stchman, of Manheim.

Lancaster c6unty.

John L. Pearce. 30 vears of age. prominent in society in Norfolk and cashier of the Standard Oil Company's branch there, was found dead in a small skiff in Roanoke dock. \ . Governor Dockery pardoned J. L. Craft, sening a 15 years' sentence m the Jefferson City (Mo.) penitentiary, in order that he might be hanged for murder. Franklin Murphy, the recently elected Governor of New Jersey, was inaugurated. the exercises taking place in Taylor's Opera House, in Trenton. At a meeting of the executive committee of the McKinley National Memorial Association in Cleveland, O., it was reported that there will be a general observance of McKinley Day throughout

TO INTERCEDE FOR BOER LEADER A Resolution I* Introduced lo Centre** in Scbeepcr's Behalf. STATE DEPARTMENT AT WORK. A* He Was Ctpturtd While Sick *a« Woaadcd I* • Hospital. It Is Declared Thai He Should Be Considered EatIHed la AT ' Privileges aad Exemplioat ol • Prii •f War.

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Ta Report Ship Sataldy BUI. The Senate Committee on Commerce b*s authorized Senator Frye, it* chairman, to make a favorable report on his

thip subsidy bill.

Senator Frye's report accompanying the bill places the cost of the “tnail" subsidy at $4,700,000. Based on actual on of American vessels in for-

General Bell, military commander of the Batangas Province, has adopted drastic measures to quell the insurrection in his district, which, he says, is honeycombed wth treacherous' officials fnd

priests. ‘

Albert T. Patrick was called to trial Jieforc Recorder Goff, in New York, on an indictment charging him with the murder of William Marsh Rice, who

died in that city.

John Bauman, a farmer, living near Van Wert. O.. shot and killed John Garwood. his daughter's suitor, who refused to go away when ordered. Miss Sophie Zantiny was shot and killed in Cleveland. O., by Alexander Moore, a discarded suitor, who then

poisoned himself.

Mr. Carnegie offers to provide a libra-

ry for-Louisville if the city will contribute $25,000 annually for its_ maintenance.

The La Strain! a seven-story apart-

nent hotel, on Ellis avenue, Chicago, was turned. The building was occupied by tbout 30 families, all of whom escaped

afely. The estimated loss is $n

ers. a subject of the Orange Fret State, was captured while sick anc wounded , in hospital, and. therefore

Commandant Schecp )f the Orange Fret d while sick — 1

al, and. there 1 especially eni and exemptioi

aWisonet^Car: and

"Whereas his execution may lead_ tc

act*

makt , _____ __ prospects of peat "Whereas the

suffers / frot

and

"Whereas the people of the Unit

oved by feelings of humi

woun —, — — should be considered especially entitlec •(0 ell the privij*^:? and exemptions ol

[•••■'inrr ; and

"Whereas his execution may lead tc of retaliation and reprisal, and thui tc| more difficult and distant the

and

lized world war waged of nations;

trays * Creek, West VirgiaU. & ’ Hambleton, W. Va.. TSpecial).—At 5 o'clock in the morning Seven men lost k their lives in the destruction by fire of j the Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Company Camp No. 5. >3 miles above here, and a number of others were injured in miking their escape from the quartersK &> which 35 lumbermen were sloping. The Sr , o^ G ^™ H .rv.*LS ! »«•«'« unknown; Arthur Hedrick. 22 f years old. Dry Fork. W. Ya.; Forrest Ri Maynard. 35 years old. residence uni $n ] jured are seriously hurt, but many had ;■ narrow escapes. * DR. KRAUSE SENT TO PRISON.

London. .-y Cable).—The Lord Chief Justice. Baron Alyerstone. sustained the* contention of the defense of Dr. Krausef tfiaf the charge of inciting to murder mast fail..as there was no evidence that the letters in the case had reached Broecksman. but held that the question of “attempting to persuade” must go to Um jury. Dr. Krause was found guilty . aad sentenced to two years' imprisonmeat. Before he wav sentenced Dr. Krause protested that he never intended to murder any one. The Lord Chief Justice, in passing sentence, declared the offense was morally as great as .though the crime had been carried out. The prisoner, the court said, did Everything he could to insure murder being committed, and the maximum sentence was, therefore. imposed. 'V ...

Austrian officials admit that before the declaration of war between Spain and tRe United States Austria began a peace aganda. France was ready to seethe efforts. Germany and Russia maintained a passive attitude. German •Foreign Office officials declare that Germany never proposed intervention nor rpported any such a proposition made

r other powers.

. Count de' Castellano, in the French Chamber of Deputies, complained that France did not have a comprehensive plan of foreign policy, and that he would like to see imperialism exist in France as it existed in Great Britain. Germany and

the United States.

CoBiberfUpB*y«wtTlpL Los Angeles. Cal, (Special).—After being given up to die of fhat ihe dolors •opposed was consumption: James \V. Plunkett, a veteran soldier of the regu-

_ \ last saws' service with the Forty-first United States Vol- - untecr Infantry, is unable to account Tor the tip in his lung, bnt supposed he must Miave swallowed it He often used hii Bayonet as a can opener, and - presumably the point b/tfke off in a can of meat.

Big Deal la Caal Laid.

Juty on sugar uni bounties were withdrawn, was announced in-the internationar>ugar conferepce at

Brussels.

Unkmtown. Pa, (Special).—Jasper Prince Henrv's itinerary in. the United d. Fuiton „ srfisjris acres of coal land and 100 acres of sur- wauke*. Niagara Falls and Boston, face land for lujooo. A number of local Col. Arthur Lynch, the Iri&man reeaptlahsu are interested .n this sale, and cently elected to the House of Commons. ^ C °*i * re / l0 u be , 0 Pf n f^ up ** and who “ **' d to have fought on the once A portion of this land fronts on side of the Boers, is still in Paris, and the Monon$ahcla River, and from here says his future movements will \be . k 03 '- 5 Wl1 * u ‘ ed - guided by the advice of the Iriih party.

Largest Mia ag Taw el

Port Townsend, Wash. (SpcciaL)Prriiminary work has been commenced on one of the largest and longest mining .tunnels in the world, near Jmieau. Alaska. The tunnel will be more than 8,000 . ^ng. and will be started on the beach south of Juneau and run into the

estimated loss is $100rx ruination of E.'G. Rathb

Cross-examination of

ex-dircctor-gencral of posts of Cuba, in trial of charges growing out of the office frauds, was concluded.dC. F. Neely \vas examined and explained why he made no record of the surcharged stamps he gave to the stamp clerk with instructions to sell. In a buggy, near Coffeen, 111., were found the dead body of Miss Gertrude Clifford, and Fred Brockman seriously wounded. The girl had been shot in the temple. Brockman had two bullet nnds in the head. He was placed

Rev. G..'F. B. Howard, who served a rm in tlic Ohio penitentiary, was sen:cnced to two and a half years in the

of Correction ‘— 1 — money by false pretenses.

securing

irquette Railway Steamer steamer struck at the mouth

harbor, and

tcnced to t

Detroit House of oney by false pi The Pere Mart Company's steam

of the Ludington harbor, and the passengers and crew were taken off by the

breeches buoy.

James Cooke van Ben Schoten, LL D., professor of Greek language and literature in Wesleyan University, died at Middletown, Conn., at the age of 74

jition

LouExposition should be postponed for one year.

President Francis, of the Expositi Company, finally decided that the Lc isiana Purchase Exposition should

nission of the French gov-

__ —1 arrived at Nice on'k visit son. Don Jaimo. who is recoil-ring

om an attack of diphtheria.

Lord Kitchener reports that sinee Jan-

killed, 13 wound-.

cm me to his

oary J3. 31 D ed.t/O' were

rendered.

Boers were killed, 13 wo ide prisoners and 41 sur-

Thc French Chamber of Deputies voted to maintain the appropriation for the 'French embassy to the Vatican. HT'seply to interpellations in the French Chamber, of Deputies. M. Delcasst the minister of foreign affairs, extplained that while the French people’s

Boers, the got

'"Co

the sufferin could not into

I Jitter- - behalf, as such action would ic foreign policy of France. Secretary Chamberlain stated

Boer envoys. He further stated t:

the Boers bcliev time secure a repi er's' terms they v

: Boers believed they could

)«ition of Lord _ were mistaken.

tain’s^

3 impose a unless the

Company, will increase its capital from

$3^00.000 to $4000,000.

1 ° f 'H* MockholdThe (jrand Rapids Railway director.

Washington. D. C. (Special.)—Representative William Alden Smith, ol Michigan, a member of the. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, introduced t resolution directing the State Depart ment to request the British Govcmmen to withhold the sentence of death passer on Commander Scheepers, who is abotr to be shot, and the order for whose ex ecution was recently signed by Gen Lord Kitchener. The resolution is a;

follows:

"Whereas it is officially reported thaC the British miliury authorities in Soutl Africa have passed and are about to ex ecute sentence of death upon Command-

ant Scheepers. of the am Orange Free State: and

"NYhereas said

‘oinmam

irmy of th«

whole civil!

n the effect of * r of the family *

States are movet .

ity in behalf of the sufferers from the terrible warfare now being conducted in

South Africa: therefore. ^ftohed, By the Hoi

Rrsok

sentatives. the British

asidi

side t

upon Comt cord *

privi teed

of Repreirring. that

Government be requested tc of death passed

1 aeand

By 1

the Senate concurring, thi

[nested I

sentence of death pas

Commandant Scheepers and to ifn the customary immuniti—

a Convention.

A THRILLING FIRE ESCAPE A Man aad a Woman Rescued by FIrti From a Fourth Floor. Boston, (Special).—Cut off from access to a fire escape a few feet away, Mrs. Helen M. York and John Blanch, lii type operators, stood in a window of the fourth floor of a Milton Place building, with flames below and behind them. SldWty-4iie firemen raised a long lade! until the top reached..the windows,whi Mrs. York was trying to keep her dress from taking fire. The man beside her helped her to step on the Udder. Then, through smoke, lighted up by flames sweeping over the sill they had just vacated. both descended to the street It was the most thrilling fire incident witnessed in Boston for many months. Though the aspect was serious for some time, the actual loss was not very heavy, being only somewhat over $50000. The building was occupied by printers and paper dealers and for storage of electrical goods. SEEKS TO BLAME BOTHA. KUcbeaer Say* He Offered to Spare Farm

London, (By Cable).—A blue book just issued on the subject of the concentration camps in South Africa contain* further detailed expUnationa from Lord Milner, the British High Commission and Lord Kitchener, as to the causes the excessive death rate in the cam. and denials of the charges of cruelty. Lord Kitchener emphatically denii Commandant Schalk-Burger’s allegations of the forcible removal and exposure women and of rough and cruel

of the forcible remoi _ of sick women and of rough and cruel treatment of women and children. He

Don Carlos, the Swinish pretender, by in d* relatives of ^htfng'BurgherHri'um ■ecial permission of the French gov- disturbed possession of Their farms if

wool _ .. of the families of surrenden Botha emphatically refpsed, "** mtitlril to force-e

Martin,

idered burghers,

sed, saying:

"'I am entitled to force every man to join, and if they do not join, to confiscate their property and leave their fami-

lies oia the veldt’ “

‘The blue book gives the sUtisties for iber, when there were 117,017 inmates of the camps and 2.380 deaths, ol which number 1.767 were of children. L"" MAIL'PACKAGE EXPLODED. KaszrlUe Posleffiee Cleric lojared—ProbaHj

Smokeless Powder.

Knoxville, Tenn., (Special) .—J. W u 'a postoffice clerk, was injure* explosion ota package of powder

infernal machine

and package: > a package ad

rare house ex ploded when struck with the stamp.' Ex amination revealed on it the name of 1 New York smokeless powder concern. The interior of the parcel showed 1 tin box, in which the explosive had beei packed. The Ictal'hardware firm -dU claim having ordered such a package 01 having been notified of its shipment.

Big Order for Sowtkera Works.

Birmingham. AU., " (Special).—Um Cincinnati Southern Railroad placed ai order with the Southern Car and Ft

' " ' ‘ box

Fotin 1 fla

monds, said to be of the first water, havi been found ip the northern part of Fer gus, county, according rq a report whid has just reached here. fHic new* of thi

■mcrii — — — 1900, the subsidies proposed

—it to $i.072j)oo. The boune deep-sea fisheries is estimated

navigation ol eign trade in would amoi ties on the 1 at $175,000.

He says the receipts from mail postage will provide $3, this amount, leaving a deficit

of nearly $2,000,000.

mad«

:ean

I4»o,ooo of

‘ the

system proposed of nearly $2,a The committee made several

menu to the bilL The most importanl

illowmg mail- . _

the bill to be either iron or steel insti of sled only, as originally provided* 1 another reducing to \xxjo gross regisi

the vessels receiving a bou

ic bill.

Indian!

-carrying vessels under iror. or steel instead

under the I

President's Visit to Cbsriettoa. Arrangements for the President's visit to the Charleston Exposition next month have been concluded at the White House and include his departure on the evening of February 10. accompanied by Secre-

and Wilsor

tarie* Root, Hitchcock and Wilson, Post-

Payne and

Knox, of his Cabii

master-General Payne and Attorney-

General K - - -

Roosevelt ;

Iher

Roosevelt and some He will spend one

: on the evenirning of the ay be absent

ax, t

idMi

few other persona. **c 1 day in Charleston and leat ing of the )2th,or the 13th. in order that he

from Washington not more man 1

days.

D. S. Purse, president of the Boai Trade of Savannah. Ga., invited President to visit Savannah on

Savannah people,

o be thi

to the

of his mother. The Presi Mr. Purse for the inviutio

his intention

to ' — ... Southern trip. The Savannah people, he

said, were anxious to be t'

were anxious to be the first to welthe President to the native State s mother. The President thanked o..—. f or (j, e invitation, but said it lention to go to Charleston and

Washington direct

Case •( Asakl ManklckL

The United Sutes Supreme Court set for hearing on April 14 the first criminal case to be brought to that court from the

Territory of Hawaii.

The case is that of Osaki Mankichi, a

lident of the Hawaiian Isl-

Jty of manslaughter *

PANAMA HARBOR

HUNDREDS DEAD IN RULN5.

HAS NAVAL BATTLE ^

Insurgents Silk Wir Vessel of Colom-

bian Government.

Ibqaakr.

Gty of Mexico (Special) -*-One of the most terrible catastrophes ever recorded in this country occurred when an ex-

—■ - j tremely violent earthquake shock was GENERAL CARLOS ALBAN KILLED, j felt at Chilpancingo. causing great loss of life and injuring many persons. CHK,. Sinn, Luu„. «Kct ■» 0"*- , Daail. from th, „rid» toMkl m •allM IMUM ttr O.nr.1 | ra ,Urir. K r,po,t, ■SaaiU. I> Bnracd Dnria, »■ FI,S|. I ht , c , h „ p n , M bl y ,, ,.,.0,,,

\ were killed and as many mere injured, j In foine quarters it is rej-orted that Ooo e killed, but tiffs is believed to be •ssive. It is known that the State

the Battle.

Panama, (By Cable).—A novel naval battle was fought in the harbor of Panama between the so-called "warships” of the government and the revolutionary

forces.

The government got the worst of it. Gen. Carlos Alban, the military com-

mander of tly Panama district, was killed, and the Chilian line steamer Lautaro, recently mounted with cannon and

r the government for its force

was partly burned. A number of the killed. It i

excessive. It is known that the State Capitol, the parish church and many business houses and residences are in ' One of the buildings that suffered most was the Federal telegraph office. Though the telegraph lines and other apparatus at Chilpancingo were badly damaged. the employes, all of whom were uninjured. quickly proceeded to erect an improvised office on the outskirts of the and , 0 f jtaihs was greater in rccs ' j the parish church than in any other sin- ■ I gle place, as a crowd of worshipers was

on this vessel j gathered there for the afternoon service. I 'hat her crew t The solid masonry-walled roof came top-

rebelled. j pling down as if it had been wrenched The revolutionary fleet consisted of i f rOTT , ils bearings by a thousand strong

the steamers Padilla. Damn and Gai- | hands.

tan. They sought to force a landing off Th e duration of the shock was 50 sec-

Saoana. | ends.

The government ships were the Chilian , The War Department has ordered the line steamer Lautaro. the PacificSteam , t roop5 j n t h t neighborhood to co-operate Navigation Company s steamer Chicuito j n t h c work of rescue. Until this work is and the Panama Canal Company s steam- . comp i etf d j t w jU be impossible to learn cr Boyaca. The first-named steamer was 1 accurate i v the number of victims, seized by General Alban, and the other -ri le greater part of the people of Chiltwo had been chartered by the Colon- pancingo are now camping out under

bian government.

The revolutionary gunboat Padilla surprised the Lautaro at the opening of the fight, and began shooting at close Many men on board the I-autarc

killed.

■Die United States cruiser Philadelphia stood near during the fighting, prepared to take any action to prevent the bombardment of the isthmian towns or

any injury to American interests.

The crew of the Philadelphia assisted in extinguishing the fire on the Lautaro. The killing of General Alban, the gov-

Panama. is deplored, and his

Japanese resi_. ands. found guilty of manslaughter by 1 majority vote of the jury by which he was tried. This proceeding occurred in . the interim between the surrender of I Hawaiian sovereignty and the act of Con- j

-gress providing a government for the ... , territory. Mankichi secured Vis release | “ ere ,or ' ; writ of habeas corpus on the ground will thorough!

death may have the effect of bringing to the government side large numbers of

men anxious to avenge his loss. During the fighting the guns Bovedas fired at the rebel ships.

LUKBAN MAY SURRENDER

rhich f the coffee district. 1

lave a very fair coffee crop next . _ irobably from nine to ten million bags.

aiian Islands were Ui

States territory, and that conviction majority rote of the jury was invalit The case was appealed to the Supreme Court by the Territory. The motion to advance was made by District Attorney

Breckons.

Good Chance far Coffee Crap. Consul-General Seeger, at jRio Janeiro, informs the State Department of a desire on his part to correct an impression conveyed in previous reports from him in regard to the next Brazilian coffee crop. Mr. Seeger says he L that the pessimistic reports the beginning of November have contradicted by subsequent events, ai copious rains in t district, and that

fair coffi from nine

Man for Ararat aa Ships. The Urgent Deficiency Appropriation bill was completed by the Appropriation Committee and reported to the House. It carries $16,701,445, distributed among the different departments. The naval itez^S in dude $44XX>.ooo for 1 ships now under construction. FHIpteas Surrender. The War Department is advised of. the surrender of 365 insurgents to Brigadier General James F. Wade at Cebu, rtiilippine Islands. January 14. On January is they took the oath at Taglibaran, Bohol. Special Earn to Spain. Dr. J. L. M. Curry has been appointed Special Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to represent the President at the coming of age of the King of Spain. Prarisfoa for Orient Longslrart. Senator Morgan introduced a bill placing Gen. James Longstreet on the retired list of the army with the rank of major,, the rank he held when he entered the service of the Confederacy at the beginning of Ac Civil Was. Capital News la Otaeral

Letter From Ike Filipino Junta at Hoar-

koag Discovered-

Manila, (By Cable).—General Chaffee

for the Island of Samar. investigate the situation

np out

Samar insurrection during the dry

son.

A captured communication from the Filipino insunzent junta at Hongkong, addressed to General Lukban. insurgent leader on Samar island, authorizes Lukban to surrender if he wishes to do so, but docs not advocate this action. If he surrenders, the letter goes on to say, he need not deliver a single Filipino soldier or officer to the Americans, nor must he

y other officer be forced

ippointment.

tigrate if allowed to 1$

n it. The robbers ti

through safe, but failed. Then tried the mail car, and, it is s:

or any 0 civil appi

ipino must be obliged of allegiance to the

1 the

they

the mail car, and, it is said, secured

a quantity of registered maH.

The robbers flagqed the-train between Spiro and Redland. While two of the seven men covered the engineer and fireman with revolvers, others forced a porter who had appeared on the forward coach steps to uncouple the baggage car

from the rest of the train..

John Block, a traveling salesman from Fort Smith, alighted from the train and was about to fire upon one of the robbers when he was prevented by Conductor Sullivan, who feared that the men o do so^ fovould fire into the passsenger coaches,

to take The baggage car uncoupled, the cn-

directing the State Department to. request the British Government to withhold the sentence of death passed on

Commander Scheepcr.

Admiral Schley's appeal from the de-

trt of inquiry was sub-

sided. It ’

t is a rolumi-

of the court

milted to the Presi nous document.

Arguments were made before the Senate Committee on Immigration for and agaimt the Chinese exclusion bill. The President nominated Dr. P. M. Rixey to be surgeon-general of the Senator Gallinger, from the committee on pensions, reported to the Senate the pension appropriation bill as it came from the House, without any amendThe Philippine tariff bill was reported to the Senate and the bill for tbfc creation of a department of commerce was

further debated in the House.

The Senate passed a reaoldtion according the franking privilege to Mr*.

McKinley.

Henry'* trswela in the United States and

States. Under these terms the Hongkong junta has no objection to Lukban s

United Hong-

RIDICULE PEACE MOVEMENT.

Baers Declare TUt the Stories Are Fabricated by tbc BrIHsE London, (By Cable).—Dr. Leyds, the ive in Europe of the Transding to a dispatch from AmRmter’s Telegram Company, •ith the Boer delega- , at the house of Mr. Wolmarans. h been given out, ty for asse _ merely a periodical meeting. The dispatch says the reports of vement arc ridiculed I

representatii vaal, accord! sterdam to I held a conference wit tion at The Hapie at the house of No official statement t, l>ut there is the best thority for asserting that the conference

agents, with a view to British public tion, subsequently Jumiim to advtantai in .South Africa. The Boers deny that any negotiations arc in progress.

Eo|laeer Went to Sleep

Kansas City, (Special).—The west-

bound Missouri Pacific pass

(hat left SL Louis at 7 o'clock collided

head-on with an east-bound 1

one mile east of Etlah, Mo: Five passengers on the passenger train were injured, but no one was killed. Theiwreck proved a costly one for th'e road* Engineer William Maze, of it* freight train, Jiad fallen asleep in his catrwnd ran past Etlah.. where he had Wen ordered to

meet the |

engers on t ured. but no d^a costly

jjad fallen' asleep in fits c^&-*nd*ran past-

passenger train.

Cat Pkab Praia IS Girls.

Chicago, (Special).—In an hoar's time Dr. D'Orsay Hecht, before a clinic at the Postgraduate Hospital, cut biu of cuticle from the arms and legs of 15 young women and covered a burned and livid face with fresh healthy epidermis. The patient is Miss Helen Peck. 16 yeai

Twraed l, _ .iree times

. ing women chosen make the sacrifice

The patient is Miss Helen Peck. 16 ye old, whose face was terribly burned by an explosion of gasoline. Three times the number of young women chosen volunteered to make the sacrifice for their

suffering friend.

Chjacse Mirier Preach Mlislonsry. Washington. (Special).—A cablegram was received at the State Department from Consul McWade, at Canton, stating that a - rench missionary had been murdered by the natives at Nan Huing, Kwang Tung Province, afio mile* northwest of Canton.

Toledo,

Avery, of

Mtw Her Head Off. Ohio.

move the most subuahThe Pan-American Con- : .u. "^e. and

greatly

gress was in scsssion at the time,

many of the del<

mgo are nov

rees around the town.

Earthquakes were felt in many other cities and towns. In this city the shock came at 5.17 P . M.. and was of sue" violence as to move the most sub«iai

.:-i s-:(dings. ~ -

as in

many of the

alarmed.

The first earthquake movement here was sharp. It was followed by an easier oscillatory movement north-northeast to south-sonthwest. The duration was 55 seconds. The actual damage in this city was slight. AWED TRAIN CREW. AUsked Outlaws Flij sad Rob Sontbbound

Express

Fort Smith, Ark., (Special).—A southbound Kansas City Southern Railroad passenger train was held up half mile north of Spiro, I. T., by seven masked men. The local safe in the express car was opened, but nothing was secured from it. The robbers tried to open t

baggage car uncoupled, the engineer was compelled to pull up the road a distance of one mile. There the robbers. after disarming the messenger, went through tbc baggage and mail car. Their '■ one of the robbers handed

Postoffice officials here deny lliat any regktjered inail was taken, and the express officials say that one package .containing $ i 3 covers their loss. Spiro is a small station near the Arkansas river in Indian Territory. 15 miles from Fort Smith. It is a desolate “ ‘he timber, which affords for a robbery. Poteau, the south from S|' ner train hoi

BRITISH SHIP BLOWN UPT Bodies ol Hnndrtdi of Males Hoatlox on Waters of the Galt New Orleans. (Special).—It is believed in shipping circles here that a British transport laden with American mules bound for South Africa has been intercepted and blown up By a Boer spy in the GuH of Mexico or else has foun-

dered.

A schooner a frilling on the lower coast reports hurdreds of dead mules the waters of_the gulf fi

floating on the waters of the gulf for a distance of 30 miles. Th s news has

" ' ■’ ' ftrrtht

the ex

_ s ne

excited Shippers, who fear that

s will be mad<

attempts will be made to stop 1 port of mule* to Cape Town.

Conservative perrons attribute the floating carcasses to a disaster to one of the British vesssris dyring the storms that have been raging near the coast this

week.

At Quintana, Texas. Captain Peterson, of the schooner Olga, reports having

seen long rows of dead floating in .the water.

reports cattle a

New Hope lor Mbs Stone.

Constantinople. (B>-, Cable).—Reliable news has been received here that Miss taien M. Stone, the captive American missionary: Mrs. Tsilka. her companion.

Minister here, is now di-

the American J

reeling the negotiations.

Disaster lo Spate.

Barcelona, (By Cable).—The boiler of a apiiming mill near Mauresa exploded wrecked the building. A large num-

' jried in the

and wn ber of i

debris, and many of them were killed. A number o* the bodies were hurled long distance*. * ODPS AND ENDS OF TUB NEWS. Two negro miner's were killed and eight injured in an accident at the Cumberland Coal Company's mine, at M'U-

stone, Tenn.

A syndicate of Pittsburg capitalists concluded negwiation* for 114)00 acre* of

was 2» years horrible man-

Her brother found her lying dead upon her bed with the J*rrcl of a shotgun held by one hand against her temphW but had finally rerorted to the

The entire top of her head was