r

ISLAND OF CUBA FOR ITS PEOPLE

Orders I»s«ed to Oeo. Wood for the

Evacaatioa ol the Island.

INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT PALMA Oeaeral VimO ie Call ib« N«w Coafrsts T> (titer Bclorc »'•> 21 taa Mats PreparaHost for laaB(nralla| Palma aa Hut Daj -All foe Traaju la Be WIlMrava Escepl

MO Mea al Ike Caail ArtUUrr.

Washington. I). C. (Special.)—At the Cabtftrt meeting Tuesday it was decided dfut the rems of government Will be Ifunded over by the Americans to the Cabans May 30 neat, and all the United States troops except about 800 men. comprising six batteries of coast artillery, who will remain indefinitely, will be brought home, (ieneral Wood will issue a call convening the first Cuban Congress May to, in order that any-necessary leg- . salation may lie provided between that date and the time for the inauguration

of President-elect Palma, t definite understandin

A definite understanding was reached after conference between General Wood, Secretary Root and Mr. Palma, and later with all three in conference with President Roosevelt. The arrangement of details of the transfer has been left to General Wood and President Palma.

on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic. This will call for the appointment of a minister and the creation of consular posts at C ports where United States consuls w< maintained during Spanish "——- : —

larger part •ach the Ur

S.

ainfeined during Sp _ . The larger pan of the troops is expected

3 homt In all there are now about 4.000

t number at

SUMMARY OF THE UTEST NEWS.

Harvey Green was found dead in a clubroom at’Chester, Pa., with his head crushed. The National Bank of Martintburg will be succeeded by the Old National

Bank.

450 people in the Cheney silk mills, at| South Manchester, Conn., went on a strike. Neely. Rathbone and Reeves will appeal to the highest court in Cuba. Rev. J. V. M. King drowned himself at Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Postoffice Inspector D. W. Peters chased George Irons, the leader of a gang of postoffice robbers. 5.500 miles and finally captured him and brought him back to Kansas City, where he is under indictment. The six railroads centering in Chicago, against which the Interstate Commerce Commission had instituted proceedings under the Sherman law, agreed to the granting of the injunction. Joseph Wilson, a wealthy farmer and stock raiser, was robbed and_ murdered near the mining town of Thai' Tug river, in West Virginia. A person known as Williai ard. who died at Canandaif proves to have been a woman. The convention of anthracite mine workers at Shamokin, Pa., favors a strike, but again deferred a final deci-

sion.

A subpoena server offended J. P. Morgan by getting into his house by a ruse and summoning him to testify in a rail-

road suit.

Outlaws attacked the town of Lytton Springs. Texas, but a posse of residents surrounded them in aa intrenohed position a few miles distant. Paderewski's special car had to be turned aroend on a drawbridge at Davenport. Iowa, because he would sleep with his * 1 **

A switch ci _

mad race, caught a prevented a collision and Ohio Southwestern.

Trial of Major Waller and Lieutenj„. v ant Day, of the Marine Corps, on the

soldiers i/ har 8 e o{ executing Filipinos without

0 assist in

the batteries of Havana and to

the instruction of the new Cuban artil^(Jieneral Wood's detachment will follow the inauguration of President Palma. Denial is given to the report that ' be t* ' ' ^ =

“ft Hava been

known, therefore, by most of the populatii

_-arly in May. He has not to Cuba for over 25 years and is

refore. by reputation only

ad jurisdiction. Mr. Cleveland,

when shown a dispatch J. Bryan, in the Coms him as a “traitor and

all troubled

.Icve!

stating that

moner. denounce ingrate." said he was not at The barge Hamilton, from News, is believed to have

with Capt. John A.

HOB LYNCHES A COLORED PORTER Swift Vengeance for Assault on GrayHaired Womoo. VICTIM IDENTIFIES HER ASSAILANT Tbs (fob Takes Hits Froto tbc Sbcritf, Wbo Was Bria(io( Him to Poabto, aa* Uad Hitt) Back le the Scaae ol His Crime, tbs Saata Fe Railroad Varda at La Jaala. C«L—Mrs. Miller Waa a Pas sea (tr. La Junta. Cal., (Special).—Mrs. Henrietta H. Miller, a gray-haired woman, aged 67, going from Los Angeles, Cal., to Denver to visit relatives, was brutally assaulted here by a negro porter on a Pullman car running between Denver and La Junta. Washington H. Wallace, a porter, was arrested in the car of which he had charge. He was identified by Mr*. Miller. Bloodhounds brought from Canyon City trailed the man who accompanied Mrs. Miller through the yards to the car in which Wallace was found. Wallace was lynched at 8 o'clock in a corner of the courthouse square* being hanged to an electric light pole by a howling mob of 4x00 persons, who had been hunting for him all day. After the hanging the body of the negro was riddled with bullets Wallace had been kept out of town all day by Sheriff Farr, in an attempt to save him from the mob. The prisoffcr made no resistance to the lynching, and died protesting his innocence.

$.730,657 f

dairy

Shat in 1899

Aaoibrr Lysehfog.

shington, N. C. (Special.)—The of James Walker, the negro who pled to poison the whole family of

attempted to 1,

Dr. David T. Tayl '- f — J: —I examiners,

the limb of :

ison the whole family of lyloe, of the State board

found dat

of medical examiners, was found dangling from the limb of a gum tree on the Greenville road, jnst outside of the town limits of Washington. A man coming to town ran into the body, which hung out over the walking path. He hastened to inform the authoritie*. Coroner Tayloe was summoned and he impaneled a jury, which brought in a verdict that the negro came to his death by lynching at the hands of unknown parties. The ne-

gro was about 19 years old.

COSSACKS SENT TO OBENT.

have proved of great value in giving

Art Stow ol AH Natloos.

Vienna (By Cable).—Emperor Francis Joseph opened the IntemationaTFine Arts Exhibition. Prominent among the exhibitors is the Paris Society of American Painters, including the works of Hitchcock. Stewart, Weeks, Bridgmann, :Ewen and Hnmphreys. The Vienna 1 highly compliment the Ameriexhibition and especially refer to

the work of Messrs. Hitchcock and mtprno* say that the Stewart. The Emperor praised the c * m ?* l , ,n Pro 1 v American works and asked to see Mr. car *' D,1 y maintained and ' ' the exhibit. ,rados *' en “redfor^

iring that the | rnj< .

artist had gone to Paris. romgm.

McE critic cant'

Newport

to have gone down

_ ,.. , _ ,. Shoemaker and his

the joi; acquittal " »“

Stewart Fife, who had been on trial in I ✓ Japaaese Move.

Sav^mah. Ga., for the murder of Frank | St. Petersburg, (By able).—In con- - afJTc^rmhrmnrf n-seenfrer. / rnm ' nection with the eastward movement of atea stormbound passengers trom _ . ......

•rived at St. Paul. Minn..! Russian troops it is announced that ths great hardships. first section of Cossacks is already in the

Far East and that the second section has

alas La Croix, who murdered his ' — 1 ' ri * *— *'*"

wife and an old man who tried to protect

her, was hanged in Hull, Quebec.

Harry J. Anderion. a postoffice robber and cracksman, who is wanted in a dozen

cities, urns arrested in Pittsbui

Tarry J. Anderion. I cracksman, who ’

ities, was arrested . Rev. Dr. Granville Soul the Methodist Church it Kan, was served with pa him to defend himself at 1

on charges of heresy.

The sentiment at the convention of the ; liner* of Virginia and West Virginia \ tM at Huntington seemed in favor of a :

. The movement has been

extensive recently.

On the subject of the Franco-Russia* declaration the Novo ye Vrema says: “The Franco-Russian alliance was

compelled to restore <he balance oT ither, pastor of 1 power in the Pacific, which was distrib-

McPherson. ; uted by '

papers —

_ __ mt expressed it

accordance with

BOERS ARE WELL SUPFUECL

losenberg. who served undir both

s' in the

*' Ri

flags in the sent to jail in Richmoni days for stealing a pair of Filipinos say that the <

of Fight

very |

the reconcen-

London. (By able).—A dispatch Times from Kierksdorp, Transv

ony. says that the Boers in

Tican works

Hitchcock, who arranged ' He expressed regret at hea

! artist had gone to Paris. ,

[a -——————-— , Acting President Schalkburger and Shot Brother When Down. 1 party proceedetfc'to Kroons tad in «... ! Albany, N. Y.. (Special).—John De- ' P sn 7 w ‘ , h British officers Reports from I*,,, 45 >«'•■ , »,».kno«, bn,.- Bril

render. Ab

lean war. was

id. Va, for 15 \ the Times

I shoes. Colot

concentration ■ — Transvaal are well supplied with

and ammunition and havt

the West-

; tierre. aged 45 years, a

■ess man, shot and almost instantly killed his brother William here. The cause of the murder was a family fend as a result of their father leaving the bulk of his fortune ro .tfje elder son and , disinheriting the-remainder of the family. John met his brother and a quarrel

. •*. 1 later he -

liam'j body. He reloaded 1 and, after intimidating the c

t drew o Wilr pistol, wd that

A Friibtlsl Expfoslos.

Dubois. Pa, (Special).—Three men t' were killed and several injured by an ^ explosion at the Punxsutawney powder __ mill. The dead are Clark Simpson, Orrin Bergstock and Joseph Weiss. The

Colony through

Transvaalers favor sur-

ib.-aham Fischer, the Boer del-

egate at Amsterdam, on the contrary, says the Boers are “fighting with confi-

dence to a happy end “

John Redmond gave notice in the Britih House of Commons of a motion juivalent to a vote of censure on the Speaker for not having made the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, withdraw his recent remark io John Dillon in reply to which Dillon called the

Secretary a liar.

The opponents in Denmark of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States try to induce Queen Alex

force ofthe explosion was terrific, breaktag windows in the town of Punxsutawney. a mile and a Half distant. The

tree 500 feet

building.

Russia to intervene and prevent cation of the treaty by the Landstl Alfred Reynolds, charged with «ng an indorsement on a check. »

manded in a London police court, the

’-— z — that he was guilty

^ „. j mile and a half

1 bodies of the men who were killed f: fearfully mangled. The head of a

- ' them was found lodged in a from the wrecked building.

Bariad Under Big Clay Bask. i Cleveland, O, (Special).—Eight or 5 nine workmen were buried in an ^xca- ! ration for the foundation of a new tank I at the plant of the Cleveland Gaslight | Company, on Lighthouse street, and : seven of the men have thus for been I lalrgn out dead. A large gang of men was at work digging and shoveling 25 J feet below the surface, when, without the slightest warnThg. several tons of clay f toppled over upon them.

Findlay, O, (Special).—John Doran, a teamster employed by the Hercules Torpedo Company, was blown te atoms while loading a wagon at the magazine, north of this city. Seventeen hundred qua.- of nitroglycerin went up, making 4a * v 'jck that was felt for a distance of 40

mi ics.

Prince Henry's Thanks.

Berlin, (By Cable).—Admiral Prince Henfy ol Prussia has sent a telegram to Secretary John R Jackson, as charge d'affaires htee. in the absence of Andrew W. White, the American ambassador, in which the EVincc says: “I pray you to accept for yourself and the member* • of the American embassy my very best thanks for my welcome on my return I from the United States. I shall never [ JmjTrtthr ,cordial and splendid hospi :

n your com

ipicnuiu nospicountry or the

guns and ammunition and have unlimited support and a large amount ol ock. that their numbers give them conlencc. while the blockhouse system has >t yet been extended enough to alarm

icm.

What is possible has been done, conthe correspondent, but owing ts

iroops, the British

Empress of revent ratifi-

thing.

ih forg-

leck. was re-

of an attempt m defraud the King! Emperor William has named a new

aval yacht Alice Roosevelt.

The French "Budget for this year

mounts to $720.000000.

A Carlist rising is again feared in

ipam. 0

Emperor Francis Joseph opened an international art exhibition in Vienna. Colonel Grimm, the Russian officer who was arrested at Warsaw, confesses

high treason.

Chinese rebeh captured the town of Kan-Chow, in the province of Kwang-

Tung.

"Hie Edinburgh Association of Retail Tobacconists declines to sign the Imperial Tobacco Company's agreement not to sell American goods for a term of years. The Belfast dealers decided to accept the American proposition. London tobacconists also refused to sign the Imperial Tobacco Company's agreement. Pnnce Henry ha* expressed his thanks

•American Em-

Pnnce Henry has expressed his to the members of the -America: bassy in Berlin for their welcome to on his return from (he United Statt Lord Francis Hope secured a in London on the ground of t

fa djj

conduct of bis wUe.”Miy Yohe, the actress, with Opt. Putnam B. Strong. The Allan Line steamer Huronian. from Glasgow for St. John’s, a month overdue, is believed to have foundered

and all on board lost.

John Dillon, Irish nationalist, was suspended in the British House of G0B1mom for calling the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, (‘a <1—d liar.” in Paris, on applica-

tma anal Company, apitual cession of the canal

United State*.

ly, -it is stated, would not have the Franco-Russian declaration

had she been

[oseph Chat The civil tril on of the Pai

eventi

property to the L Germany,-it is stated, would joined in the Franco-Russ" as to Eqstem Asia even

tinurs the correspondent,

the insufficiency of troop*, me oiiu*n columns have been too small to cops adequately with the Boer forces, which arc all composed of fighting men without any intention of surrendering. Dyaaaihc 6trw Up la Baraia( House. Houghton. Mich. (Special)—A terrible explosion of dynamite occurred neat Oskar, eight miles north of Houghton, resulting to the death of two men and serious injury to another. The scene ol the explosion was in the bouse of John BouUard. The building caught lire while the family was at church, and when the heat became intense two boxes of dvna mite, which were stored away for Mowing up stumps, exploded. Jenkala and Kalianen were killed, being struck by

'gbbors of

hile fight-

ing the flames.

Physic (so Killed by a FaM Pittsburg, Pa., (Special)—The dead body of Dr. Harry Whitesell. a rising young physician of Sewickley, was found resting on a ledge of rocks along the Ohio river bank, near his home. At first it was thought he had been murdered. but investigation by the coroner showed that he was killed by a fall. His family say he was caljed to see a patient at 6 o'clock, and it is suposed that in walking along the high bank at that point he slipped and fell to the rocks be-

Flortacr Baras Free.

New York (Special).—After six weeks in prison, the center of interest in a sensational hearing in a crowded court, the agony of being picked to pieces, and having even her emotions dissected by those who feed on criminal cases. Florence .Burn* was set free. The

~ - ,

r alter

pretty young Brooklyn girl who charged with the murder of Wj Brooks, who was found dying in

Glen Island Hotel the-night of St \

Wstaea Prisoarrs Break JalL Fort Scott, Kan. (Special.)—Four women prisoners broke jail here and were captured. One, Birdie McOrty, charged with being a horse thief, was found hidden und« a blanket in ibc bottom of-a wagon driven by Peter sheflky, twelve miles from here. The others were captured near Hammond, after being chased for three miles. The fessed that Shefflcy, Red Charles Snyder, all of ''

The complete census statistics of daii

latter 730.6 report

matters just announced show that of

r far

cows and dairy p the tout dairy p

LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Aairica's Dairy PrtoacL

tiry the

itry. 4.5U^i° products and products had Of the farms

reporting dairy cows and product, 357,178 were classed as dairy farms, having derived at least 40 per cent, of their ■pts income from dairy products. The number of dainr cows wsi 17.139,•74 The receipts from dairy products sold aggregateed $281^29^)58 and products consumed on the farm were valued it $190,739^97. There were produced from the dairy cows reported a total of 7.266,392,674 gallons of milk, an average af 4^4 gallons per cow. Of this milk 2,134,915^42 gallons were sold for which the fanners received $: 84,842.292. The fanners also report the sale of 30,768,662 Cal Ions of cream, for which they received $8,838.7^. Farms numbering 3,617,440 report the manufacture of butter and 15,670 report the manufacture of cheese. The farms reporting butter manufactured, 1,071.745,127 pounds, of which 518,139026 pounds were sold, for which farmers received $86,606,446. Farms porting cheese manufactured 16.372,330 pounds, of which 14,692.542 pounds were sold, for which the fanners received

$1342444.

Ms kli| Motto Mom Sals. The bill recently introduced in the Senate by Mr. McMillan, of Michigan, to prevent robbing the mails, provide* a

ase the po*itroduccd in

' 'ligan.

ncan

COAL MINERS WILL STRIKE

RMolotioo Adapted al the UaHed Woritera’ Coaveolior at Shamokin. THIS ACTION AFFECTS 144,OM MEN. Tto Caavtatha Detldtd to Saspead Work at tto Mites Three Days la Each Week After April I If Ne(atUUoat Are Thea Peedtot—Tbit le to leaded Io Prereal foe Storap

•I Cool by tbc Caatpaak*-

Shamokin, Pa.. (Special).—Unless the efforts of the Civic Federation arc effective with the coal operators it is more than likely that a repetition of the struggle of 1900 will occur in the anthracite region. In that year 140poo employer

region. In that year 1 of the anthracite mint strike for six weeks.

The convention of districts Nos. 1. ; nd 9. United Mine Workers’of Amer

districts 1

ica, which districts comprise anthracite field, made a provil. strike declaration, leaving the date to be decided by the executive boards of the three districts. This was practically the last official act of the delegates and th' convention adjourned sine die at 4

o'clock.

The adoption of the resolution containing the ultimatum of the mine workers was followed by a &«ot wild enthusiasm. and the opera noose rang with the acclamations ol the delegates, who with lusty cheers, approved the work ol *1 ;-i 1_: nittee and ex-

in President

the special resolutio: pressed their confidence

Mitchell.

The bill is indorsed by the American The convention from the first

Newspaper Publishers' Association. showed a disposition to insist on It provides that all paper money here- justment of the mine workers' grievafter issued by the United Sutes of the ances. but the delegates were willing tc

nination of $t, $2 and $5. except relmr —*• : -

denomination of $t, $3 and $5. except national bank notes, shall be of the form known as the post check hnd shall be convertible by the holder thereof into a check to a named payee. These post checks will be exchangeable at any Upiled States money order postoffice for current funds, after which the postmaster will cancel them and forwa-d them to a repository designated by the Postmaster-Griieral and shall receive credit therefor. This paper currency will have appropriate blank spaces in which the holder may write his name and postoffice address of a payee, and wherein the payee may .give receipt.

Protest Fro* Go*per*.

Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, has sent to the Senate a protest against the "Conspiracy," or Anti-Injunction, bill, as reported to the Senate by the Com-

mittee on the Judiciary.

He says that when the bill was first reported February 3 "it was received by all parties in interest as a measure calculated to right a wrong too long endured." This feeling, however, was rudely changed, he says, by the latest report. He quoted the opinion of an attorney to the effect that the bill as now reported "is completely subversive of all principles of liberty,' and added: “Or-

ganized labor seeks no immunity fn the law applicable to all other citizens and people of our country, but must insist that those things which are legal when performed by other citizens ought

il when performed by

perfe

— lo be illegal , members of organized labor, and it was to recover those rights to the members of organized labor that the original bill

was drafted."

He concluded by saying that the

^ad-

legates were

linquish the question of recogni oviding other more important conces-

providing

tint

fart is evi-

adopted. which

is were granted,

denced in the resoluti sutes. as the dtief d

work day. a minimum day wage scale, a uniform increase in wages and the weighing of coal wherever practicable. The Civic Federation is regarded by the delegates as the last hope of the mine workers in their demands for improved conditions, and the gravity of the situation is manifest in the words of

KILLED AT A SPELLING MATCH. Yaant Mae Shot His Rival ato tto School Vienna, III.. (Special).—At a spelling match given at the schoolhouse at Dou-

ble Bridges, this co shooting affray occui

Frank Rushing and John Adams, twe young men of the neighborhood, had been paring their respects to the same young woman. She had told Adams that she would have no more to do with him. This so enraged him that he is

said tc *

rival. At tl

a desperate

0 its passage, te original bil

e labor

of the !

asks. ! : fa-j

Mart Room for PreaMeaL

President Roosevelt and Representative Mercer, of Nebraska, chairman of the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, discussed the enlargement of facilities for transacting the

White House busituss.

Heretofore therrthave been plans for remodeling and enlarging the White

House in 01

dent ~~

RoosevSfo opposed to changing m ^ jn ^ State o{ Falco £ c

Vice-President Ayala, who viously been sent against Riera

stances enlarged facilities would have

nlitles would have to here. At one time tiem of a presidential

of making t tiai establish

would be devoted But the tendency now is in favor king the White House a residentablishment for the President, locating the official quarters elsewhere. Senator Fairbanks has proposed that the new Department of Justice have a branch for the executive business. It is understood also that Attorney-General Knox has a. plan for increasing the executive facilities. Hitchcock Nat te fealfo. Secretary Hitchcock has returned from Sl Louis, where he was called by the serious illness and subsequent death'of his brother. He denied that he had any intention of resigning his abinet portfolio or ever Tud contemplated retiring. He refused to discuss the reports to that effect that have been current beyond characterizing them as without foundation. He replied in the negative when ’■ necessary to *i-

fci* deceased brother in directing their private business in the Wcsl Maay Fenners Keep Beet. The Census Bureau issued a complete report showing that for the country as a whole on June 1, 1900, there were 707.361 farms keeping bees, or substantially one for every eight farms in the nation. These farms reported 4.109,626 swarms or colonies, valued at $10,186313, averag- = little less than six swarms to each

farm reporting. The twelfth census is the first to repon the number and value of bees or the number of farms reporting them.

Dr. H. W. Wiley, c ricultural Departmcn statements before the

rated foe e pflre-fo

Me arid the Hepburn bill is a broad and honest measure designed to protect the public and not to annoy the trade. Dr. Wiley characterized other so-called I pure-food measures as subterfuges ' ’ : the Hepburn

to do with that he is

have sworn vengeance on his the close of the exercises, as Rush-

ing came out of the schoolhouse door, young Adams walked up behind him and without a word of warning shot Rushing in the back. Rushing fell off the porch, and Adams shot him twice after he had fallen, inflicting faul

wounds.

Adams then shot Greeley Jones, the teacher of the district, inflicting a slight wound in the shoulder. VENEZUELAN REVOLT SPREADS. Castro Pressing Into His Sendee Every

Available Mia.

Willemstad, Curacao During the past five days in Venezuela has bro) everywhere. The Govt

control the country east of Cu

Barcelona is still besieged by the revo1—and arupano is partially in

Castro has sent First ViceGomez, with I.500 men.

General

-f CapaFalcon. Secondly ho had pre-

viously been sent against Riera, returned to Caracas without defeating rite revo-

lutionary general. V

It is believed that if the revolutionists win one important battle all Venezuela will rise against the government of President Castro. Castro is recruiting day and night. Every man and boy procurable is being pressed into the service.

(By able).-

1 the revolution iroken out almost

sent cannot

lutionists and (

their power. President C resident Gi

Charleston. S. C (Special)—The

steamer reported ablaze

Inle

rolin, Major Barrett, bound from *,• Te *’ ‘‘ -

the Oregon Inlet Lite-Saving Si in North Carolina, was identified ;

North Carol! oil steamer M Sabine Pass,*

:e by-the c e-Saving ‘

sX

New York, Philadelphia.

though no definite information t

effect has been received here. Co*trilled Stridde by Fire.

Little Rock. Ark. (Special)—A special to the Gazette from Rogers^.Ark.. says: Mrs. B. F. Dyer, wife of one of the oldest and most prominent business men of Rogers, was fatally burned. Mrs. Dyer saturated her clothes with kero-

sene and then set fire to them. A

young gif)

were unable *

sene and then daughter of the « were in the hotn

woman and a younj

, bat 1 , who had been men

: years.

Labor President's Head Bfowa Oft Lead, S. D. (Special).—George W Holvey, president of the Lead Miners Union, was killed by a premature blar on the 200-foot level of the Homestakt mine. He was firing blockholes and on« of the charges exploded while he wa; directly, over it, blowing his head entirely

Clalas That He Helped CxolgoR. B*taboo, Wis.(Special.)—Jacob Steinnan, who was taken to Waupnn under

to Sheriff Stackhouse anarchist, and was present at the lodge meeting when Czolgosz was selected to

Czolgosz just before the shooting, rther said that a well-known woman

TRAIN RUNS INTO LANDSLIDE. Disaster od the Soottorn Railway. Near CtoriottcvUlc, Va. Charlottesville, Va., (Special).—The 'Washington and Southwestern Vestitmled Limited" train, due here at 3.37 A. M.. wa* wrecked by a landslide in Coleman's Cut. 15 miles south of Charlottes-

ville.

The train is one of the finest on the Southern Railway and runs straight through between New Orleans and New York. It consisted of six PuKman deeping car*, one baggage and two mail car*, ill of which were destroyed by w recking

ind burning, except

engine also was wrecked.

irain.

the officers, ployes. about

e train, in addition V and the postal eni-

.so*,...

known. The railroad authorities believe :hat they- have knowledge of all those who suffered in the wreck. Il is said the train was running f to make up lost time, it being 40 mmu

u,.

he deposit on the track made by the landslide was small, amounting to probably tw# tons of earth, and in all likelihood would not have derailed the engine if it had not been at a sharp curve. The engine turned crosswise on the track and the two postal cars and baggage car were driven over it. In these three cars and the engine, all of which were wrecked, occurred the inThc heao of wreckage took fire at once, the flames spreading to the sleepers. Two sleeping cars were pulled out ^Wrecking* trarnTriom 'chiriottesv.lle and Monroe went to the scene of the accident and the road was cleared. A tram was made up here and sent to the wreck for the passengers. The injured went on to Washington, except John W. Turner. the colored fireman, who was taken to the University of Virginia Hospital, and Postal Clerk A. L. Holton, who was

e brought here, he loss of mail w-

ie»

Only about from the fir

a dozen It

one of the hearted in the South.

PEOPLE LIVING ON ACORNS. Maay Have No Food as -the Resalt ol Ar-

kaasas Fasioe.

Kansas City. Mo., (Special).—In an effort to relieve the condition of settlers in the drouth-stricken section of Northern Arkansas, the Live Stock Exchange is raising contributions to buy

provisions for the sufferers

A deplorable story of want and destitution was brought from Arkansas by A. L. Doss, of Sharp, one of the five counties in which the suffering is most

intense. He says:

"Since last April there lias not been a good rain in onr section. What little vegetation the sun did not dt? up was nipped by the fall frosts. Even peas, Kaffir com and turnips were a failure. 'The people have no source of income. They have had neither food nor w for fbeir stock, and finally, when

forced

or 4heir stock, and finally, when reluced to the extremity where they had

no food for themselves. 1

sell their ca.*' present com scribed. Ml

horses and mule*. Their

idiiion can fiardly be de-

-lany families have subsisted

for days on acorns alone.” Five Cremated Themselves.

Kosciusko. Miss. (Special.)—Five county convicts in an attempt to bum their way oat of prison burned the stockade house in which they were confined and cremated themselves. Those burned to death are Robert Burt. Philip Newell, James Culberson, Amos Ralford and James Jones, all negroes. The prisoners were leased to Robert Campbell, county contractor, whose farm is situated 16 miles west of this place. All of them were charged with minor offenses.

Has Elevta Alltfed Wire*.

San Antonio. Texas (Special.)—Shcr-

Plattsburg. Mo.

iff Wiser,

here, married nine women, left for that place. Sheriff Wiser and his prisoner had not been gone two hours before Sheriff Hendrickson^ of Conway, Ark, who also wanted Nelson for bigamy, arrived with a warrant for him. Sunday two more alleged victims of Nelson were heard from, making a total of 11 alleged wives.

ays the

Famera oa Strike to Italy. London, (By Cable).—A

.from Ro«ie to the Central News strike of agriculturists is spreading throughout Italy, and that 150.000 farm laborers are now out in the provinces of Ferrera. Bologna and Vicenza, while in 16 other provinces the laborers are reported to be organizing. Thus far no

violenqg has been reported.

CklMroa la Haaea.

Lexington. Ky. (Special.)—At 1 o'clock A. M. the. local fire department was notified that the State School of Reform, six mHes from the city, in which 287 children arc confined, was in flames. The inmates are thought to have gotten out safely. A fire engine was went from the city. At 1.10 o'clock the boys’ build- :— —11 1 The institution

_ collapsed. The institution erected at a cost of $100,000. Ther

eight buildings.

Orttlox Ahead ol Si. Loals.

Chicago. (Spedol).—A challenge _for an airship race in Chicago to be held as a preliminary event to the $200,000 aerial steeplechases at the St Louis world’s fair of 1903. was sent to M. Santos-Du-tnoni, at Paris, by Theophilus Williams, of Chicago. Rules and regulations similar to those that are to be in vogue at the SL Louis fair grounds will govern

" vena successful tests of

ODDS AND ENDS OP THE NEWS Conrad Kremer, an eccentric artt! wealthy resident of Winchester. Va. died at the residence of his son, near Lebanon Church. Suits were instituted against six companies in Chicago, accusing them of violating the Interstate Commerce Law. Ex-Justice Noah Davis, who presided St the Tweed and other celebrated trials in New York, died of old age. Mrs. Annie Lukas drowned herself and her duld in the Passaic river, near Pas-