BUGANDS filVE UP I1SS STONE Baabaad ol Miu StOM's Companion Charted With Campllciiy. WAS CAPTURED SEPTEMBER l LAST. The Twe Weaei Wert TrereBai Teftther at (be Time They FeB leu the Ueede •( i be Bri(tad* — ToriUh Aalherltiee Saepnled the Ber. TUlkn el Co»plklty

la the AMactioa.

Paris, fay Cable) —The Temps publishes a /dispatch from Constantinople . which announces that M)*s Ellen

John A. Stewart, president of the United States Trust Company, tendered his recommendation at a meetinf of the trustees, and recommended that l^rman J. Gage, former Secretary of the Traas-

en M

Stone has been released by the brigand dtho have held her captive siote Septen Ibtr 3 last and handed over in goo slth to the dragamon of the America

| last and handet

health to the dragamon of the At

legation

i adds that the “Rcveri been arrested on the

i the kidnapping

The dispatch ad

end Tsilke" has b charge of complicity i

of Miss Stone.

London. < Special).—The Revercr TtilVa. who. acording to the Constant •topic correspondent of the Pans Temps in a dispatch enouncing the release of

Si'S

It was announced ish authorities i of complicity i

missionaries

arrested on the i the kidnapping

simplicity in the kidnapping

of the missionary, is the husband of

Mme. Tsilka. Miss St(— 1

tone's companion

itly that the Turkipeeled the Rev Tsilka the abduction of the

a party of about fifteen

ids. was captured by brigands in the •ict of Salomes, September 3. Since that time vigorous^eftorti have been

and by missionaries

frient distric

that

atm govern!

1 by missionaries to obtain the release of the captives The brigands de-

1 of Usjooo (Turl

tnanded a ransom but onljL $73,500

ransom, and. this sum

the brigands

‘ lo. chief

Stati >btain

t briga

£25.000 (Turkish).

for the

C;

February dragoman

^ istantinople. and'-W. W. Peel, treasurer of the American mission at Constantinople, who met the brigands the road to the Podrome Monas-

Lient. Clarence M. Furey, 1

collected for the ond United States Infantry, commi was paid over to suicide at the barracks in Columbus, f 6 by M. Gar- A permit was issued in Chicago for of the American ^the bnilding of an office building that is sple. and-W. W. to accommodate 9.000 people.

M. Snyder, a New York probo pushed the Traction Bill

DEWEY WILL WOT SEE HENRY. WH Not Disc With the Prise* Becaasc si

Mrs. Dewey's Uacss.

Palm Beach. Fla.. (Special).—Admiral Dewey received the following dispatch from Washington: "Will you dine with me on Februar aR, at 7.30 P. M.. to have the honor t meet his Royal Highness, Princ

Henry of Prussia?

-HOLLEBEN.

‘Imperial German Ambassador.” "I regret exceedingly not to accept your invitation to dine and have the honor of again meeting_his Royal Hiph-

Dewey is tqp

eting his Royal High y of Prussia, but Mn

'cave he

Saaltar! an Barsct at Night Battle Creek. Mich., (Special).-The Kellogg or Seventh Day Adventist Sanitarium here, which was located 1 at the highest point in the city, atroyed by fire and the property loss is estimated at from Jjooxno to $400,000. So far as can be learned, only one person is missing of the 400 people in the aamtarium. The missing man is Abner Case, aged 83. of Bath. N. Y. Mrs. Case, who was at the sanitarium with her hnsbaml. escaped. She said she supposed the nurse who was attending her band succeeded in getting him out Fell Foarteea Stories. , Cleveland, 0.. (Special).—Harry JWilson and Fred Buell, structural ironworkers on the Scofield Building, at the corner of Erie street and Euclid avc-

j fourteen sto-

•e de-

rr of Erie street an

nOe. were killed by falling ties to the ground. The r

scending 10 an elevptat A projecting froniTKe elevator caught in a passing floor and tore (be floor of the elevator out.' -allowing the men to drop

rvator out.' -a _ e awful distance. Both

when picked up.

__ Uoirersily Maa s SwkMe. Providenct^R. I. (Special.)—In his

dumber in Hope Hall, into which gas was pouring from a wide-open jet. and with two bullet wounds in his body. ,Richard Montague, Jr, of Newton, Mass., a student at Brown .University.

NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Tu'rfJs;

1-year-old boy under confesses to "having

arrest in Chicago, confesses to* started 14 fires in buildings just for the fun of seeing the engines come —*

ked barge T ashore nei

come ( • of thi

He of Oregon, the Lane Hill

was wash«) ashore Life-Saving Station.

The United States gunboat Machias was damaged by being driven against the coal dock at the Pensacola navy-

yard.

Miss Alice Morton, daughter of the former Vice-President, was married in New York te — ' “ * * ‘

ew York to Winthrop Rutherford. Charles L Tiffany, senior member of ic New York jewelry firm, died at the age of 90. ■ \ William H. Tweed, son of the former Tammany chieftain, died in Stamford.

Connecticut.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the United States Steel Corporation was held in Hoboken. N. J. All the acts of and contracts made by the board were approved. A church is to be erected on the site _» .1- —:—j Quarter House, in Ken-

luring s tight between

intaineers.

a member of a colored el troupe, who shot into the audience at New Madrid. Mo, was lynched

by the whites.

Frank M. Beckwith, of Bellefontaine. Pa, killed his wife because she did not get back home at the hour be set for-

her return. *

Two safes in the street railway company’s office in Northampton. Mass, were blown open and $1,000 in cash and checks taken. • # ' i Capt Henry T. Allen, commanding the constabularv in the Philippines, reports that it is doing very effective work. Lieut. Clarence M. Furey. of the Sec-

itttd

moter who pushed the Tractu through the St Louis Assembly,

dieted there for bribery.

The Virginia Constitutional Convention refused to take a recess to allow the Legislature, whicn is to meet this

week, the right of way.

William Jackson, an engineer, fell leep on his train and caused a wreck near Hayesvifle. Pa, ip which Maurice

Burk was killed.

The Virginia Division of Street Rai way Employes addressed resolutions t the Legislature opposed to the Jim Cro Judge Lacornbe. in the United Stall Circuit Court, in New York, passed an order for the payment of Countess Cas-

illane's debts.

Prof. Joseph facMurran. a prominent icator. of West Virginia, died from

leral debiT

SENATE RATIFIES DANISH TREATY There Was No Opposltioi to the Agree-

■eat With Dcaaark.

CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE INHABITANTI TW Halted States la Taklef tba tataadt Assises No Berdte ol DobL as by th< Trrwi el (be Agrocacat AH Ctalas Held by Dessert Agalest tba lasatar Treason

Would Da CeecaHed.

Washington. D. C. (Special).—In a ittle more than an hour’s time the Senile disposed of the treaty with Denmark

to the United States

sideration 01 $5,000,000 the islands of St Thomas. St. John and St Croix, composing the group of the Antilles known as the Danish West Indies and lying just east of Porto Rico, and thus, so far at this country is concerned, consummated a transaction which has been under consideration intermittently since the ad ministratioo of President Lincoln. Senator Cullom, as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, explained the advantages of the acquisitior of the islands, and Senators Bacon ank McLaurin (Miss.) made brief remarks saying that while they could not indorse all the provisions of the agreement they would place no obstacles m the way ol

ratification.

Senator Bacon moved to amend the treaty hr striking out the second paragraph of ^rtidc 3 of the treaty, reading

convention. He based his oppositior

> this pro d that the

when they become a part of the United States. He said, however, that the failure to accept the amendment would not prevent his voting for the treaty, for he believed in the Monroe doctrine. Under that doctrine this country could not permit any European power to acquire

the islands, and the United States could not in fairness take this position and then refuse to buy them when they are

in fairness take this position

1 reft •

sale.

The amendment was rejected without division. Senator Cullom gave a detailed account of the islands resources and of their trade value to the United States. He saiA the provision affecting the dvil righU^f the inhabitants was simlar to •1— : — •»— subject in the

DM BOULDER KILLS SEVEN MEN.

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. To Bay James**s UtauA Representative Nevin, of Ohio, introduced a bill in the House for the purchase of historic Jamestown Island. Va, with a view of converting the island into a national park, and $300000 will be appropriated by the bill for the property It is also understood that Senator Hanna will introduce a similar bill in the Sen»te. It is proposed by the American Scenic and Historical Preservation Society, of which J. Pierpont Morgan is vice-prer dent, to acquire the island from Mi Louis J. Barney, of Meadowville, Va, and ask the United States Government to buy the’property. Mrs Barney was originally from the district which Mr. Neein reprt ' * 1 " '

o the Aisi ■ation of Virginia Antiquaries. Considerable importance is attached to the scheme on account of the projected tercentenary celebration at Jamei in 1907.

Rusau-Cblacse Bask Pact Russia has intimat States that she regret)

;ted to the Unit

.^...ts its action in protesting against the Russo-Chinese bunk

rhich is on the point of

signature in Pekin. This intimation has been made through Ambassador

er, at St. Petersburg,

was reported that as a result of the —— protest, the Russo-Chinese cement will be modified, but

American

bank arrangemei

State Depat

received no

ices to this effect. It would not irise well-informed officials however.

FOUR LIVES LOST IN THIS WRECK Ligkt Engine Crashed Info a Passenger Train Near Gifford. SEVERAL PASSENGERS INJURED. Tbs Wreck Was EvUcstly Ceased by Em glaser Frew Belug Mistakes as Is the Tl*« or Falling lo Remember tbe Eslstesc* of I be Passeagcr Train, Wbkb He Should Hate Ptssed at Gifford.

BOERS LEAD BRITISH INTO TRAP. Two Officers sod Ten Mou killed si

Muuy lufurtd.

Pretoria. (By Cable).—One hundred

fifty mounted infantrymen, while palling the Klip river, south of Johannesburg. February 13. surrounded a

Marshalltown. Iowa (Special).—Four

lives were lost in a head-on collision the Iowa Central Railroad,

north of Gifford, northbound crashed

train. The dead: [ 40 e Wallace Frew. Kenthsburg. Ill, engi- | able

head crushed.

farmhouse where they suspected Boers were in hiding. A single Boer broke ■way from the house, and the British started to pursue him The Boer climbed a kopje, the British following. Immediately a heavy fire was opened upon

them from three sides.

The British found themselves in a trap .a c where they were un-

defense. F.ighl of the

allant effort

o n j British officers made a gallant effo

naurouu, wire ..tile! and defended the ridge with carbine.

1 ^"'Tt'SnS 1

td into a passenge j tcn men kl || e< j and K-veral officers and

i 40 men wounded before the force was

Centhsburg. Ill, engi- j able to fall back under cover of a block-

.J'

the State Department has advices to this effect. It surprise well-informed officii should Russia make concessi

her friendship for this country. | Thi It is stated emphatically that if such j Engn

concessions be granted they will not be time, or tailing 1 given because ot the threat contained in j ence of the passenger train, the Anglo-Japanese treaty. That treaty | should have passed at Giffori

would, on the other hand, tend to cause !

ials however, j tne Inns. Several lions to show ; slightly injured.

The wreck

evidently was caused

Frew being mistaken as to the failing to remember the exist-

by

the

Decrease la Exports

The monthly statement of the imports and exports of the United States for January. 1903, shows as follows: Merchandise—Imports. $79436.146; crease as compared with January. I95>1. $10,000000; exports. $136023.217: de-

PRINCE HENRY SAILS. Baud Plays -Star bpsagied Beeser”

as Ship Leaves.

iry sai

j 343 P- M. Saturday j Kronprinz Wilhelm.

on the steamer

compared with Jam

0,000000; exports. * '

crease. $7.300000.

Gold—Imports. $!.,„ , , . .

$2,800,000; exports. $!.973.675; decrease., Atncri(

^Snlver^-Imports, $2,187,681 ; decrease. ! _

Jioooooo: exports. $4-5090)3; decrease. | the aXTetm _ Vith her band playing "The

**0000. ,| Star-Spangled Banner.” During the last year the imports ot , The i ast , cfn o{ lh e Prince from

crchandisc amounted to $890,538,976, ,j K)re was

t the corresponding pc- 0 f die shij

| Bremerhaven. usually a dreary place j was bright with color in the Prince'! j honor. All the shipping in the river flew * icrican and German flags. The srves were black with chering crowds the Kronprinz Wilhelm drew out into

' West Virginia, died

general debility at his home, in Shep-

herd stown.

Dr. Thomas Neall Penrose, medical director. United States Navy, retired, died in Philadelphia at the age of 67. A lamp explosion started a fire that destroyed neany the entire business and residence section of Elizabeth City, N. C

Fart if s.

Major General Truman, inspector.general of the remount establishmeat of the British War Department, has sAt in his provisional resignation on the suggestion of Lord Roberts, pending investigation of charges. 'S' Tbe premier. Dr. von Koerber.. explained in the Austrian Reichirath ihat anarchists, and not workmen, were at the bottom bf the riots in Trieste. Tbe bodies of 800 victims of the earthquake at Shamaka, Transcaucasia, have been recovered. M. CavaignaeJ fought a duel with M. Renoult, near Paris, in which neither

was hurt.

Rev. Dr. Newman Hall, former president of the Congregational Union, died

in London.

The British press censor in South Africa is suppressing information concerning the trial of Comn— ingei. which, according t made in the House of (

begun February 15.

The Marconi station ex

less telegraph signals with the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm,•'with Prince Henry on board, at a distance of 140 miles from

the Enslith coast,

Yang Yu. the Chinese minister to Russia. died at St. Petersburg. He was formerly minister at Washington, but was transferred to St. Petersburg in 1896. Forty thousand men arc on strike at

and the troops have

Little Rock. Ark. Ren were killed and

r* 1 a i < ZT *L Brown • Uwver *i , > , : Barcelona, Spain, and the troops have nitt*d suicide on aeeounr of de- , rnnblM havr ,1^, hmkm nut m Rome

a.’SS i&kJS

. D. D, a well-known Baptist

troubles h

. A Phml .

Herr Faulkenhagen, an army officer, to six years' imprisofiifta^t in a fortress for killing Landraih von 'Basinigicn in a

Chicago. (Special).—A permit

/ duel.

• Mrs. Toweii the wife of Ambassador was Tower; Mrs. (Horace Porter, Mi

planned to be the largest office building

of -what Jr and other*' ice bnilHinv prominently in

! XT

Staffer* Earning (ML

LouisviUr. Ky, (Special).—The plant of the Louisville Bolt and Iron Company was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $100000: insurance. $48,000. Tbe Games were started by tbe explosion of a pipe carrying crude oil to the iornaces. scattering the burning oil in every direction. The plant covered two'and onehalf acre*, and was one of tbe largest <- of its kind south of the Ohio River.

St- Loans. Mo, (Special)—A derision eras*rendered by Judge. Caldwell. Thay er and Sanborn, of the United States

s Por-

. figured

t ball

1 the grand court

ic Winter Palace, at St. Petersburg. The Mormons are proselyting with iccnu in Denmark. Some of the prom-

of the Mormons are Danes, d the Agrarians on the Ger-

the govern-

:, ( Special).—Seven 1 at least 14 ware seriously injured by Jtoulder weighing 15 tons, which crushed into the caboose of a work train on the homa and Gulf Railroai of Little Rock. The work train was headed west, the engine pushing six cars and a caboose. As the train was passing under tbe high bluffs bordering tbe river two pules west of Little Manmello, the crew saw a heavy rock rolling down, which had been detached from the hillside by the rains. Engineer Nazor reversed his engine at once, but the rock struck the caboose and shrivered it into splinters, and of the men who were killed and d were in the caboose. There was w of 54 men, white and colored BIRIAL OF A GIANT. Twelve Strsag Mea Were Need* Is Carry

tbe Body.

New York. (Special).—It required the strength of 13 strong men to bear to a grave in Calvary Cemetery the body of Dennis Lahey, a giant, who before bis death Wednesday weighed 689 pounds. It was necessary to have a coffin made for the body. He was 37 years old, and the son of the late Dr. Salvator Lahey, a New York physician. Almost from his youth Lahey was corpulent, and his pan tried in many ways to reduce his wri{. They were unsoccesful and his weight

feet 3 inches.

Mr. Lahey was engaged in ■sines! with his brother. He

lia Tuesday and

next day wss unexpected. With the body the weight of the coffin was 1.000

pounds. \ Fir* Ho.se ts BMs Crisre.

Rome, Ga, (Special).—What is believed to be an attempt to murder a young woman and bum her body occurred here. The woman, Estelle Swann, is said to be related to Policeman Reuben Wilson and Jesse Wilson, of At- ' man named Barnes, who says

A disj that the

dispatch from Constantinople states

of Miss Stone and her

. -1 me. Tsilka, has been paid, but the time limit allowed lor their re-

lease has not yet expired.

United States Ambassador White, at

Berlin, in speaking r' '

by . -

with Great Britain, said that the German

e New York suixrw s that the banks |

Th* 1 St. Lawrence and

er and Sanborn, of the United StateCircuit ( ‘■dr- ui Appeals, releasing the

raX-te-t'.-T,

merchandi

an increase over

riod of 1901 of $71.—,

Thj exports of merchandise for the year aggregated $1457^391883, a decrease

of $39*xxyx».

Oil ss Steal! Craft Fast be substhued for boat destroyers and

Liquid

coal on torpedo boat destroyers

other naval small craft.

Testa extending over a year have completed by the department and ort presented. Admiral George W.

of 1

lifted his cap in response of th« assembled crowds. Commander William H. United States naval attache

bade the Prince good-bye in behal the United States Embassy. Ser Tichirsshky. Prussian Mmister_ to

the flower contracted

his death the

ests

a report presented. Admiral George Melville has asked for $304x50 to conduct further experiments which he believes will demonstrate that the smaller craft can be steamed by ofl and thus conceal themselves from the enemy at night by the absence of smoke and flare

from their stacks.

* • I —liral Melville has received ntimer:ers from Tex^s companies to furil, some of which he will accept.

ItdlsB Approprtatisn Bill

The Indian appropriation bill just completed carries $8,844,500. The item for support of schools is $3047.930; for fulfilling treaty stipulations. $2,102,157. The bill omits the usual appropriation for an Indian school at Grand Junction. Col, owing to a local controversy, it being claimed that the government is made to pay for sewer and other imrovements which the public enjoy. Before the bill was reported the committee added $402300 for an Indian exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Expo-

ion at St. Louis. More Pay for Coosals.

The diplomatic and consular zpproiation bill completed by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs carries about $1,9094x50, a small increase over last year. A new United States Legation at Pricing is provided, to cost The salsify of the Consul to Pretoria. _outh Africa, was increased from $24x50 to $3,000, and at 'Dawson City, Alaska, from $3,000 to $3,500, both on account

of cost of living.

Berlin, half of

irsshky. Prussian Minister to the Henseatic critics, said fareweM for Emperor William, who also sent his brother

a telegram.

lanta. A m, .

he is the woman's husband; — arrested. Just outside of. tbe city Barnes left tbe girl in an isolated'cakin, saying he would go to town and get a carnage for her. Shortly afterward the burning cabin a traded attention. The woman was found inside, badly burned and with

knife wounds on her body. A TsakaloM UwMas Next)

Omaha. Neb. (Special).—A number f the marble dealers of tbe country are a session here with a view to fbnning _ combine, it is said, which will take a majority of the Urge marble concerns in the country “It is a pUn,” said an 1 marble dealer. _ “to put prices on

only on tl icries, but

TMis. Russia (by Cable).-Two Y died bodies ol victims of the eartbqe h dtatroyud thv tow. of Sham

Mr. Artel! Leaves Jad(r. New York (Special).—W. J. Arkell, who for.rtn years has bedn president of tbe Judge Publishing Company, has resigned to accept the presidency of the Beisel Engine Company at a salary of $254100 a year. C. M. Schultz, who has been general manager of the Judge Company, will go with Mr. Arkell The Beisel Engine Company will manufacture electric-power engines, and is hacked by a big corporation of English and American capitalists. Reported Battle Is Colombia. Panama. Colombia (by Cable).—A Government soldier, who was a prisoner in the camp of the liberal General Hererra, made his escape and arrived here. He reports that last week an Indian chief named Lorenzo attacked the Government forces under the command of General Castro, at Agua Dulce, and was ated. Reinforced with 800 men sent general Hererra, Lorenzo made another attack on Castro’s forces and eras again repulsed.

Treason la tbe PUlppiad Senator Hoar offered the amendment to the Philippines now pending in the Senati be inserted at the e_ _ > person hi the Philippine Isllall, under tbe authority of the States, be convicted of treason tribunal civil or military, unless testimony of two witnesses to the same overt net 'fir on confession in

■enator ! rudment liH, now p* vision to be bill: “No f inds 1 United by any 6 on the 1

... j'xlrif mate, the proic eud of the

The Industrial CommUison, created several years ago to investigate indus- ' problems and ivport on them with nmendarions to Congress, expired by Uuntarion of law Saturday. The quarters of the commissioo have been dismantled of moot of the furniture, but 1 number of the commissioners, a clerk tnd a messenger will be here for several days longer dodiof op affair*. Dcitk of Doorkeeper fan. Capt, Joseph J. B. Ball, one of the doorkeepers of the United Stats* Senile for nearly *5 years, died here. During the Civil War he won distinction on teveral occasions by valuable and hazardous work. Captain BaD- was bora at Orange. Mass, June 13, 182& CwMU News la Oeaerzi. 'A re the Ui

it seen of

5 when he stood

the ship in an admiral’!

ed his cap in

the

the bridge

; uniform and to the cheers

tales was icld in. the

of Mr. Kruger February 12. Wolmaran* and Wessels intend ■ the United States in the interests

Frank Patton, Marshalltown, fireman of light engine: skull crushed, died in* stantly. Body brought here. Elmer Ogle. Marshalltown, fireman of passenger engine; driven against boiler, head badly crushed, died instantly. Re-

mains brought here.

Lawrence A. Jegan. of Chicago, trav1 cling salesman, was badly bruised about | the hips. Several other passengers were

Messrs. 1

to tour the Cni of the Boers.

Paris. (By Cable).—The Temps, in an authorized note, says that the journey of Wesssels and Wolmarans has no diplomatic object; that it simply appeared necestary that they enter into direct relations with the pro-Boer Committees in the United States, with a view to mutual understanding and organization.

CARS RAN AWAY ON GRADE Tkree Mea Killed, Fvmr Likely te Die sod Two Trains Wrecked. Altoona. Pa, (Special).—Three men

ably fat

injured

complete wreck and another train near!]

itally injured, two : freight train ;

so, 1 Pent

iriy

the results of an accident on the nsylvania Railroad on the steep grade

steep gr;

a few miles above the Horseshoe Curve. Control of the second section of an east-bound freight train was lost soon after emerging from Gallitzin tunnel, and two — * * " - :♦

ran into

Ten cars,

e wrec . nginecr iped whi

icrging from Gallitzin tunnel, miles west of Allegrippas it the rear of the first section.

caboose and two engines

nuke

ere wrecked.

Engineer Fluke

jumped when they saw the

of them. Fluke was found unconscious

50 feet away from the-track.

fireman

tin ahead

MILUONS FOR BRITISH NAVY.

EatlBates lor 1M2-I90J Aw

SI56.MK.Na.

London, (By Cable).—The Admir-

alty's naval estimates f

to Over

1902-3 tb<

total of £31.255,000 (about $1564754)00), as compared with £30^754x50 (about T«54J754W>) last year. There will be under construction April 1 of this year 13 new battleships. 22 armored cruisers. 2 second-class cruisers. 2 third-class cruisers, to torpedo-boat destroyers, 5 torpedo boats and 8 minor

craft.

Lord Selbome, first lord of the Admiralty, announces that a new type of torpedo boat destroyer is contemplated. A committee will be appointed to consider the establishment of a volunteer

CMMres Baraed to Death.

v Johnstown, Pa, (Special).—The house of William C. Webb, a few miles from here, was destroyed by fire and two of his children, Frank\nd Dora, agod 4 and 5 years,- respectively, were burned to death. Webb, who is a minpr, was at work. A neighbor, who discovered the fire, rescued Mrs. Webb, her infant and another child, but it was impossible

save the other two children. ‘ A Wcaaa Baraed ts Death.

New York, (Special).—Mrs. Virginia Suret, aged 50. was burned to death in tbe apartments in which she and her husband Victor lived. Her apron caught fire at the kifehen store. Mr. Surct and Police Officer Blessing, the Utter a boarder with the family, were severely 1 burned in trying to extinguish the flames which cnvdpBML lira. Suret. There is e doubt of Mr. Suret’s recovery.

Philadelphia (Special).—Rev. -George Carter Needham, the noted evangelist died suddenly of neuralgia of the heart at home, at Narberth. a suburb of this city. He returned last week from a three weeks' evangelistic campaign through Tennessee, and expected shortly

1 go to Chicago to preach. Tfet nght al Up River.

London, (By Cable).—The casual reports of the fight at Klip River she that four British officers and 29 n> were wounded and two men killed. ? details of the engagement are give Skirmishes in the vxuuty arc of freque

One sf tbe Hindoo Twtas Dead.

Paris (by Cable).—The Hindoo twin named Dordica. who was separated frnra Radica by an operation February 9. died suddenly in oonvulsions due to the a

vanced stage of the tul which she suffered The to improve during last w . _

their time playing with toys. The d r ’— j: -a has been concealed i

’— making excellent p

1 oonvulsions due

of Dordica h Radica, who i

ess.

wins appeared

t week, and passed

he death

Oppose -lade Tom's Cabin”

Little Rock. Ark. .(Special.)—Little Rock Memorial Chapter. Daughters of the Confederacy, has adopted a resolution indorsing' the action taken by the chapter at Lexington. Ky, a opposition to the play of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." A committee was appointed to call on the local theater management and request, on behalf of the chapter and Southern women of the tit}', that this play be not

brought here again.

Genera! Foastoa Has Recsver*. Kansas City, Mo, (Special).—General Frederick Funston has entirely Recovered from the operation performed upon

him hene two weeks a

stated, t General

Regiment. K. N. G, then proceed to lola. Kan, on a visit to his parents, later going-m Washington and New York.

lere two weeks ago, and will it is !, be discharged from the hospital, al Funston will review the Third

Ossrgfaa Mikas M. P.’s Gtsp. London. (By CaM*).—A sensation was caused in Parliament by the appearance of aA American visitor from Georgia named J. F. Skinner, won stands seven feet seven inches high Sir Howard Vincent. M. P, esaorted the giant through both houses.

ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS

The palati y’s use. has

T Idler, for Prince

_ _ ;1 car Idler, for Prince Henry's use. has been completed at the Wil- ; mington shops of the Pullman Company. Reported in Baltimore that a number of steamship companies have formed a.

pooling arrangement.

Robert Kilpatrick shot and killed his houmkeeprr. Mrs. Elizabeth Baymorc.

in Chester. Pa.

The three-master George W. Anderson sank in upper New York Bay and the five men on board had to leap into the water to sara thcmselvet. Richard C Davis, cashier of the People's Na-jonil Bank of Washington, lad, withdrew his plen of no) gtfihy to

TsrrMt Fate all Tstepkao* Girt.

Charlotte. N. C, (Special).-With her clothing aUue from bad to foot. Mm a£^ C Tvtepw‘ ™ lhSr M i ftoV.' mSc wBsmm

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