AMERICANS BAYE NARROW ESCAPE Forced (o Abandon Scorch and Hasten to tbe Boats. ■OL’NT PELEE IS AGAIN ACTIVE Nrilaat Eipcritocc •( the Aacricaa •»< Britts* ExMl'los Sent » St Pkrrn in Be cover the Bodies ot tke Aaerlcat sal BrWsI Coot sis - - St renal el Mattel Urn Poor lalt the Sea nntf a FearW Storm Bates. Fort dt France. (By Cable).—Tuesdaj Kiorning at 5 30 o'clock a thick, heavy cloud, lit up by flashes of lightning and the rising sun rose from Mount Pelee The people of Fort de France at once became panic stricken and. in scant attire, rushed excitedly through the streetf of the town Stones from the volcano ax big a> hard nuts fell in the etreets Many of the inhabitants hurriedly embarked on the vessels in the harbor, and it was with difficulty that they were events*Ily reassured. At 7 o'clock, however,- the excitement was over and the ' people became calm. This phenomenon was similar to the eruption of Thursday; May 8, hut hot

so severe. The expedi

L “ j: ’s of the

st came Indefai

to recover the and British con-

e nearly resulted in an-

ster. The vessels taking part edition were the United Statei

and the British cruiset

bodies of the American 1 suls at St. Pierre nearly

igable. 7 id of Liet

nd the British cniixet

• Potomac, under the

ijamin B. McCor-

' command of Lieut. Benj;

mick. arrived there first at it o'clock the morning and landed working parties One party went to the site of the American consulate, and the other, headed by Lieutenant McCormick, went to the north end of the town, to the spot where the British consulate stood, from where

Mont Pelee,

the Lieutenant could see Mont and noticed that a huge column <5T

ption ol

y 8 last lie of tl reed all The A

heavy, metalbv^v.

containing the rt ___ States consul, Thomas T. Prcnt carried it to a boat. The Arne ty was in imminent danger.

' In the meanwhile the ledefatigable had arrived off St. Pierre, but left the shore, heading for the sea. blowing her siren. At that time a huge stream of molten natter was pouring'into the sea. raising Annins of steam, and the whole sea was

May 8 last. He thereupon rushed to rite of the American conAilate and

ed all hands to the boat.

Phe American sailors picked up a ivy. metallic ^coffin, in a wood case, itaining the remains of the United les consul, Thomas T. Prentis, and -ied it to a boat. The American par-

steam. and the who

having turned a yellow greet

vhile what was apparently smoki

.u:—> from ih f mountain. tions were continuous, and inied by a fearful storm of ider aod rain. The flashes c violence, and'during the

ied in Mont Pe-

htdeou- ^

was rushing from

The detonatii were of terrific

storm new craters openc

Bapitis to Bio i Big MIL a

Pittsburg. (SpeciaO^Fhe Pittsburg Reduction Company will erect one of the firlt big industrial plants at Massena N. Y-, t ' ~

inc powe

.-eured by the S«. Lawrence Power Cotnwhich has bridled the Long Sault

: 0.000.000

T Fermi's these co v committed ai sea and acts of the p

Rapids at a cost of ■ •«. Lr PitUburg Reduction Company's first plant will cost $500,000 and will be for j' the manufacture of aluminum, which it bring made at • similar plant owned 'by

this company at Niagara.

L . New law la Sea Criaes

^ ‘ Manila. (By Cable).-The United

F States Philippine Commission

I an act conferring, marin ' upon the courts of first ii

ivost court*

.•iwSwsTK Stl

. BUSS ion

. EartbgMke la flHIarrit i San Francisco. (Special).—An earth-

‘ST Ted

uc er

shock was

Felano county reports the

1 has passed jurisdiction ince. which lish crimes itary orders ts referring

to such crimes, previously in force.

t passed by tbe <

f. o’clock A M In this city and the im BV mediate vicinity windows were broken

tdiatc vicinity »

d in semie other places the shock

tSSiSZin

years. In Sui-

snn clocks were stopped at 10.33. The tremor was from northwest to southeast and lasted about 20 seconds.

Peace (toy Be Near. » London. (By Cable).—No details have I S Mail understands that peace is absolute per to anootmee on Apnl 18, that peac. Xh was assured. That, was before anythin* X had been said about meetings betweet lord Kitchener and the Boer leaders. I i Less if Oerwaa SttMcr. * Aden. Arabia. (By Cable).-The Ger man tteamer Ehrvnfels. belonging to tht Hansa Line of Bremen, waa totally low on May g in Utrtude 12 degrees .north crew has been landed at this port. Tb. captain and 40 other persons who wer. on board of her left in smitl boats, aix nothing has siace been heard of them. ’ Boston. (Special)—The death of' Cpi William Beals, whose fame at a decor ..r.rtetsr'JLSsrs t pMriav was the cause. Colonel Bealw.hia famous Tippecanoe and Tyler

Struck by Kb

Washington, D.-C- (Special).—Blipr Ch^plain Milbum. of tbe Senate, .» •truck by a runaway borw attached • boggy as he was leaving the Capitol just‘after offering the prayer at the ^p enmg of the session The large toe o'

kk a buggy as he was leaving the Capitol K just 'after offering the prayer at the^p K cning of the session The Urge toe o' K one foot wa» cut off aod several of tb« ■- other toes badly injured. The accideqi P would have been far more serious buj If., for Mr Mitborn's daughter, who pulleC H.- Mm from a jxiutsoc unmediatelv ir g front of the runaway horse at hr_waj

HV«fcopt to dash upon her father

toes badly I have beer

itbuni's daughter, who pulled ttoc unmediatelv ir

SUMMARY OF THE* LATEST NEB’S.

iident Roosevelt r

lisknis

General Assembly at Carnegie York. The ocasion was the

of home raisi

Lewisfa

celt made aiTaddreis to the Presbyterian it Carnegie Hall, New 1 was the centennial

irk.

iburg. near Covington, Ky..

a waterspout swept away a house with all the occupants. The debris demolished other houses in its course. Two lives

are reported lost.

A number of women and children were rescued froth suffocation during a fir? in pr. John Alexander Dowic't "Zion

Iphn

oaic of Hope." in Chicago.

The legal fight between the Beef Trui

and the United States

"^our*

governr iporary

ied.

killed and iy

years old, and aged 17 years 1 asphyxiation.

The encampment of t Veterans will be held

—2'

ihnie Strixel. 40

• niece Jennie Sterel, unit ted suicide by gat

Spanivh War : Indianapolis

:he veteran showman.

INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT PALMA General Wood Lowers the Stars and Stripes, Hoistf the Cuban Standard and Then Embarks for Home—Great Enthusiasm Among the • People Attending the Ceremonies at Havana.

Havanm, (Special).— The natal day of the republic of Cuba found Havana arrayed like a queen to await the coming of her lord She seemed reinvested for the occasion with the dignity of the prosperous day* of her power and

wealth.

Mr. Palma was inaugurated as President. The American flag was taken

yum 111 V1!!VS£U.

t a special meeting of the stockholders of the United States Steel Corporation tbe resolution to pay 4 per cent, commission to the underwriters of the issue of $250,000,000 bonds was adopted though there was a minority protest.

Because his proposal U

he Ai

own and the Cuban ) the breeies. Genera)

to th __ _ .. _ been military governor of

-way. The Amerii

icepth rican

1 tak

jlors were thrown il Wood, who has

: island.

American troops, of a detachment to

the island, lean rule is

I property on l nd the America

r the'

guard Amei

disembarked, and

os'er.

It was a beautiful day for the inaug-

Becausc his proposal to’niarry a 13- oration of the first President of the Re-year-old girl. Abittra McCullough, was public. All Havana was in holiday atrejected. William Austin killed the child I tire, which meant gay colors everywhere,

s and committed Good order prevailed.

id lour other persons and committed I oood order prevailed,

ncide near the town of Hastings, Fla. The inaugural ceremony was brief and Judge Lafontaine. in Montreal, again simple. JAr. Palma, General Wood, the remanded Gaynor and Greene to the distinguished persons invited to witness custody of the detectives having them the ceremony gathered in the Spanish in charge in behalf of’thc American au- i palace. At noon, after formal greetings,

^ meral Wood read the

the

1 chai

thorities. ' ^e Tol

General Wood

mgs.

documentary

_ _ War Departdictments against city'officials and oth-1 ment. pledging the new government to ers involved in the municipal scandal on , immediately proclaim the constitution various charges of corrupton. ! and the Platt amendment contained in Bishop William Taylor, of the Metho- 1 the appendix, and to undertake all oblidist .Episcopal Church, died at Palo, AI-! Rations assumed by the United States, to. Cal., at the age of 8i veaps. (.with respect to Cuba, by the treaty of

Presi-

liquor met. to evade the Sunday liquor

selling law by inserting a provision in | Genera*Gomer, lie ascended to tli the charters forbidding the sale of liq- ; oUthe palace. He was instantly recoguors. nized and met with a great drmonstraThe Pennsylvania Railroad is reported 1 lion of welcome. General Wood himto have given notice to the Western Un- i self undid the halliards from the flagion Telegraph Company to vacate its staff and lowered the American colors, occupancy on the railroad right of way j As they fluttered down the cavalry' beon th< Pennsylvania system. . low saluted their flag and. like an echo The • Brotherhood of Locomotive Eli- : of the cheers that irose. came the

gineers, in conventii accepted an invitatk rharleston Exposition. Sydney and Junius 1

of the great-guns of

the hay. It was

■boHkt in

iotive Eli- j of the cheers Norfolk. Va., ! tant boom of attend the Cabanas Four

! followed by another apd pother in tlare tl

.. Booth, nephews of rhythmic succession until^5 shots had United the late Dr. Joseph Adrian Booth, filed been fired—one for each stale in the Un- At th in New York a /Caveat to tbe Doctor's ion. As the first gun spoke the flags on will _ Morro Castle and those on the Santa Rabbi Emil G. Hfrsch said in his sqr- . Clara and Punta fortresses were lowered

Brooklyn,

soon as possil harbor. ITie

Brooklyn v in answer t upon the ' departure.

A large flotilla of various watpr craft escorted the Brooklyn to sea.^ While this was occurring at Havana a similar scene was being enacted at Santiago, where General/Whitside at noon turned over the authority to his Cuban successor and sailed away with two troops of the Eighth Cavalry. Before the Brooklyn alas hull down on the horizon the Cubans resumed theii

festivities.

At night the whole city was illuminated, and a great pyrotechnic display was made from the walls of Morro Castle and Cubannas fortress. Rcascrtlt Scads His Best Wishes. Havana, (Special).—The good wishes of President Roosevelt are contained in the following letter, which accompanied General Wood's final proclamation: White House, Washington, May to. To the President and Congress of the

Republic of Cuba:

Sirs—On the 20th of this month

military* governor of Cuba will, by my direction, transfer to you the control and government of the Island of Cuba, to be henceforth exercised under the provistensHf the constitution adopted by your comMntional convention as on that day

■pdCmilpted; ar-* -~

1 the

Punta fortresses were lowered

in Chicago that the Jewish Sabbath | The jurisdiction of the United States had

was dead, and urged the observance of ended. Sunday. In the m

Gaynor pnd Greene, the contractors bent on the billiards ol .'barged with conspiracy* against the gov- Maff. and by his own hand eminent, are at a hotel in Montreal. | raised dt, as an act of the Unit guarded by detectives. There promises General Gomez assisting him. to be a great legal fight. As the flag flew free the

neral Woo lited Statei

As the flag flew fi

pulsed and Cc killed. A prii London star—

conference n the best

nandant

Presi Cront

terms procurable

an Hcerden received in r leaders in

peace stocks

lent Loubet, of France, arrived at

otstadt on the cruiser Montcalm, escorted by a French squadron, and was cordially received by the Czar, the Czares

witch and Russian officials.

The dispute between the -Amman and Hungarian governments over the question Of an autonomous customs* tariff. it is feared, may lead to a crisis re-

sulting in a split up of the 'monarchy. 7 1 Houston, '1 M. Waldeck-Rousseau, premier of from Goliad, France, announces that he will resign be- j ; n the afternoon

fore Jur— •

SCORES KILLED BY TEXAS TORNADO Between Fifty and One Hundred Persons

Reported Killed.

STORM SHATTERS PART OF TOWN.

Awny—Other Tsvas Partly Wrecked by

Faric Wlads — Scores •! ttc«s«s Are Blmri Down—State Asylna for the Blind

at Austin C««s!deraMy Daaagcd.

Tex- (Special).—A s

from Goliad, Tex- says: At. 3A5 o

tornado struck the iiad and- left death

Remarkable letters from residents -of historic town of Golii

St. Pierre. .Mnninique. wriuen several | and desolation in its pathwnrhryond ,be

days before tbe disaster, have been/re-! power of pen to portray.

By i«. Pmr «* , The yiters calmiy de- There were from too to 150! person* I0 it ^cnbe the rush of people to the city and . n , . / e im- ,hc suffocating sensations caused by the > _ ! volcanic heat and dust, qrfd speculate as j ^ correspondent reached (be scene at

volcanic heat and dust, y(d speculate as to when and in. what fijrm the final Calamity would ovcrwhelnfthfm.

, 7 o'clock on a special tram from Vic-

China* are conflicting The Chinese*For- ' ti'es of Goliad people and the O Connor,

rign Office notified the ministers of the Guards, foreign powers that the uprising had been quelled, but Russian advices —

the situation is serious.

h*<l i The view which met the eye on reach- % *' i ing the scene of destruction, which was

Nine English tourists and four boat- : in ,h * western part of the cky . was ap- ^ men were drowned by the upsetting of a palling. Between Church and Patrice . ° jT

- ?. reets * wh jch run north and south, for a j mbier. The an

fairly It wa

The demonstrai

rest when the cavalry wheeled marched to the wharf where they h diatrly embarked on the Morro Cas

ived with the cheer that arose was caught dp by* the people on th«

Ms and rolled over the city. ition was still in prog

airy wheeled anc where they imme

embarked on the Morro Castle,

ral Wood and his adjutant gen- . olonel Scott, with two aides, aftei a la*t exchange of good wishes, were driven to the pier, where they entered s and were flicked away to the

Both ships got under way ai >le and steamed out eif the man at the taffrail of the kept busy dipping the flag the salute* of the thousand] iterfront who watched hei

LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.

Locusts Arrive *■ Time.

1-arge numbers of J 7-year locusts have appeared in ibis city, and reports of s

■lar visitations have reached the Department of Agriculture from Altoona, Pa..

and Nashville, Tenn.

fill thereupon deif Cuba by the

ligated; and he wi the occupation ol

d States to l»e at an end.

the same time I desire to express to you the sincere friendship "and good wishes of the United States, and our most earnest hopes for the stability and success of yourgovemment. for the blessings of peace, justice, prosperity and ordered freedom among your people, and lor enduring friendship between the Republic of the United States and the Re-

public of Cuba.

-.THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United Stat«

LEFT HORRIBLE TRAIL OF DEATH Seve* Killed aid Six Wouaded in a

Fierce Battle.

FOUR OFFICERS WERE SHOT DOWN. Efforts la Capture Five Desperadoes Resalted la a Terri Me Slaogbtcr Near Atiaata —Two Negroes Riled With Ballets tad Oat C re Baird la Blaze Started to Drive Thea FroB Their Place* ai Retagt) Atlanta, Ga- (Special).—Four white men and three negroes dead, five white men and one negro woqnded and an tire block of buildings .burned, is the suit of a. conflict here between the police

and black*.

William Richardson, who is bclcved to have been half Indian and half negro, the owner of a store on XfcDaniel street, m the suburbs of Atlanta, called Pittsburg. and four other negroes brought on

resisting arrest and defying The officers attempted to arrest

negroes suspected of -having almost tally beaten former Policeman S. A. Kerim. The negroes resisted arrest by intrenching themselves in a bouse, and the

Many lives were lost and much prop- ] drit erty destroyed by a hurricane in the ' left Province ot Scinale, British India. V

fit - r ■ - - *

xled _ .. ^ the interior. - * | Tl An unsuccessful attempt was made to haih assassinate the Governor of Vilna. Eu- but*

Columbian revolutionists are re- j widhtT theii* b^SIdaneato-ern'widS^f

fhich run north of a mile only

i ding, little

leers approached n the negroes to !

r"5

house was j shots. County Officer Battle wa? t stantly killed. The attacking party re-

from behind

made was preceded by a heavy i and a deep rumbling sound.

ropean Russia.

• . • . . i and then oportunity „. c mKaarwm ma ,

from fiomh Xfrl^r *£££ ■ T 3 '*' * nd ,h * ( 3^ one h * d ed view in three directions

*re said to indicate m a few moments. The section winch away policeman Thomas Gra that tbe negotiatwns between the Boer . has most sufered was tbe residence porleaders and the British at Vereemging, tion. the lower part being the negro

ml, will result in peace | settlor— 1 —‘-n- •*—

Tr -^* r *f 1 * w ' ll ,'; e ‘ u " • n f* 1 *', 1 settlement, while thj upp. The shareholders of the White Star ; mined many finerreSdcnce*. Lane, it is said, have ratified>the Morgan , The Methodiri and Bap Atlantic shipping combine agreement. and the Baptist

upper part i

churches of France for the victim's

tbe Martmiqne disaster. "

^Pifty rotfcer,« d the dead in the rains

«.j

Baptist churches J'ethodiif'chn

The Episcopal cht

celebrated. «n the | and the ne^' , X^^s??hu^i

rtmique disas

robbery of tl Pierre have been

lipti,

treated some distance and f

trees and telegraph and trolley poles began firing into the (tore. In a lew minutes the door of the house was thrown open and William King ran out and gave himself up to the officers. Inside

* ‘ a had an unobstruct-

lirections. A block

away Policeman Thonias Gram stepped fromJiis (belter to fire into the bouse A shot From.the besieged house killed

him before -be could fire.

sdly damaged, ere totally destt .

1 to | A stone residence wa* the only huild-

that 1 ing_ in the pathway of the

impn*otnnem. Investigation shows that [ ing ii two miles on the coast ofThe Tsland of ' —

St. Vincent, and that a section north of the island has dropped Mom Pelt* was again actiyi

people j thyir sister cities of'Cuero

panic- i for assistance, which was

immediately.

The officer* to whom King had gives

himself op determined to make use ol

the negro At (he point of a rifle tbej

I forced him to walk up to the rear ol

.the house and fire it As soon' as flames started the officer*, cart

tbe

theii

sea. day

in a

st rick i

that a section on Hie j

' into the!

fe was again activ-

night am) yesterday, and

of districts

people of Goliad, realizing at once the great calamity and the terrible loss 7 hurt- j of life and many injured.

—- . use

flames started the _ inmate* of the house, (teppd

every direction. Apait from the house and tbit

tt Edward Crabtree met death

rn houses was burned to the ground, ant

search of the ruins immediately fol

tbe wodsbed in the real

r shelter in e e was a shot f

— — In the wodsbed m the rear a

telephoned to Richasdgon's store was found a skull am i land Victoria j near it the steel barrel of a rifle. It ir responded to believed that the sknll represents all tha*

| is left of the negro who did the shooting

.$37o/>oo i Kansas City. Mo... (Special).—A

esville, Mo.,

1 cial from Keytesvi

B. Hawes. Board of J

says: “Harry

of the St

iK’sSrS'SSV

The New York subtreasurr stai shows that tbe banks have lost $.1

during thf week.

S. M. Felton, president of tbe Chicago A Alton, has leer, elected a director of

» MfcMri l^ilro.A j JsSii** W. R«ckc. of .j, Tlw National Lead Company has de- Villiam Flynn, of St Loois, dared regular quarterly dividend of ifc » other men.'including sever oer cant, on preferred stock, payable] of snMft Missouri towns Wifi I the Sute Supreme Com

dieted by the Graod Ji . „ .=fe*S3S~-

U Dr. wart la Kflhirorr.

London, (By Cable).—Nine tourists four women, and four boat drowned by the upsetting ot

i"bf

Con- a Boat on the lakes

lend of Tbis is a

The department sent 5.000 postal card? throughout the country asking for immediate reports on the first appearance of the locusts. The expats have a full record of their appearance in 1885 and know where to look for them this year According to the charts Maryland and Indiana, with the adjoining counties ol their neighboring States, are to be most affected by the pest. The department entomologists say that young nurserj trees and young shoots of mature tree; are all that will-sustain injury from the visitation of the locusts, and that there is no cause for alarm over their appearance. It is anticipated that the locust* will be reported from other portions ol Pennsylvania and Tennesse and from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Yir ginia. West Virginia. North Carolina South Carolina. Kentucky. Ohio. Indi ana. Illinois. Michigan. Wisconsin anc possibly a few other localities. Feraar Exrtas Is Check (A Ex-Senator Mandcrson, of Nebraska, who had been attorney for two beetsugar companies, was before the Senate Committee on Relations with Cuba and related details of the cut in sugar at Missouri river points. He said the action of the trust wa* for the purpose of destroying beet-sugai growing. He said that all previous legislation had been an invitation to grow beet sugar, but the proposed concession to Cuba had prevented several factories from being started- He said that farm«s arc going from the Middle Western States .to Manitoba, but that the bea *J'Kar growing liad arrested this emigration for a time. Military Academy Bill The Military Academy Appropriatior bill was reported to the Senate by Mr

Warren.

The aggregate appropriation remain* as fixed by the House. $2,627,324. but thae were some iimportant changes. Om of these increases the final limit ol cost of the proposed new* buildings from $5nno rw -. 1*.. ^k. .u- ll c-

. i«jscu new- [uimiings irom *5.>.000. as fixed by the House, to $6,ooo.- >. Provision also is made for a salaried architect at $5x100 a year to su per vise this work. Another amendment provides for the payment of the traveling expenses of candidates for cadet sh'P* while proceeding from their home*

cling expenses of candidates ships while proceeding from tl

to West Point.

Jaaes of Nevada to Retire.

John P. Jones, who has represeotec Nevada in the Senate since 1873, an nouneed that he would retire at the end of his present term, on March 4, 1903. Senator Jones sajrs he does not warn

icrc fig-

remain until he becomes a mere urehead in the Senate, but desi

in full

t*t* while he is in full possessic his physical and mental powers. It is likely that F. G. Newland!

.Representative from *'

Nevad

fiettlaj Bet I CaaMac E rid race

From the Rocky Mountain divide t the Atlantic coast and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico United States district attorneys have been engaged in collecting evidi

igair—

ously

plainant in Chicago. Attorney-Genera! Knox i*sued a general order addressed to the district attorneys of the country to gather all information possible.

Reply Pasta! Cards.

The commission appointed by Postmaster-General, composed of four assistant postmasters-gcneral i the auditor for the Postoffice Department, to report unon the advisability ami desirability of the adoption of the reply postal card and envelope system, will fleet here this week. to hear th« 'advocates of the various plans., All interested persons have been asked to appear First Mlstster to Caba.

The President s

the beef combine, rith the filing of the 1

‘ 'n Chicago.

iimultar 11 of coi

> the Senate thr

nominations of Herbert Goldsmith Squiers. New York, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary tc the Republic of Cuba, and Edward S Bragg, Wisconsin, consul-general at

The Daaisb Islands Protocol In view of the action of the Danish

. ifta th* in September. Secretary Haij Mr. Brun. the Danish Minister .her*, will at once prepare for submission to the Senate a protocol extending the time allowed for the ratification of the treaty New Lease SysteB Pays Well ^ A* the result of a change in the system of leasing grazing lands in the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Reservation, in Oklahoma, the Secretary of the Interior awarded contracts for leasing these lands for three years aggregating $1155409 pa annum, as against $38,308 receive for the same lands last year under the old

system.

Capital few* la OcarrsL The House adopted a resolution congratulatory upon the establishment of the Republic of-Cuba. The Philippine Bill was discussed in the Senate by Messrs. Bacon, Hoar, Lodge and Clapp. Blind Chaplain Milbum, of the Senate, was struck by a runaway horse and inTbe Senate adopted the conference report on the Omnibtw Claims BiH. The

agreement.

Board clain . item in dispute.

Corpora] Richard O'Brien, who served in the Philippines, made serious charge! against army officer* of improper con-

duct toward Spanish women.

The House passed tbe Naval Appropriation Bill with an amendment providing that three of tbe warships are to

be built in government shipyards.

Capt. Bertram & Neumann, of the

Marine Coma, wbo was tried bv court-on-four charges, was dismissed

rom the eerriee.

The United Stats* 1

—! officer* of the regular army tad no right to try a volunteer officer.

DISASTER IN

A COAL MINE

Over Two Hundred Men Were Imprisoned 4 and Probably Killed. ACCIDENT CAUSED BY EXPLOSION. Felly Three Miles Fra« the Mlaes Opceiai la tbe Piste Where tbe Mrs ead Boys Were at Work When as Eiplosion Marled Them lato Eterally — Flaae* Shoot I rom

the Eatraace.

Coal. Creek, Tenn.. (Spccialj—The worst disaster in the history of Tennessee mining occurred it 7.30 o'clock in the morning. Baween 175 and 225 men and boys met instant death at the Fraterville coal mines, two miles wen of this town, as a result of a gas exploOut of the large number of men and boys whd went to work in the morning, developments at to o'clock at night show that only one is alive, and he i* so badly injured that he cannot live. This man is William Morgan, an aged Englishman, who was a road man in the mine, and was blown out of the entrance by the

force of the explosion.

One hundred : nd seventy-five miners were checked in for work by the mine boss. In addition to these wae boys who acted as helpers and drivers, road men and others to the number of perFratervillc mine is the oldest mine in the Coal Creek district, having been opened in 1870. It is fully three miles from the mines opening to the poin* where the men wae at work. They had not been at work long before the ta

not been at work long before the ta rihle explosion occurred. There was s fearful roar, and then flames shot frorr the entrance and the air shafts. New*

e wildfire, but rescuing parit the main en-

the entrance and the air shafts.^ News of the disaster spread like wildfire, but, as soon as possible, two rescuing ties were started in. one at the mai trance, the other through the Thistle mine, which adjoins and in which no men were at work. The Thistle party was unable to make any headway, as the

gas stifled the workers.

The Fraterville party went fully two miles under the earth, until a heavy fall of slate was encountered. At this barrier men worked like demons, hoping against hope that * those beyond might The scenes at the mouth of the mine while the workers were within were

beyond dsaiption.

77*.e hopes of the living were doomed, howeva. for when once the rescuas could enter and proceed they walked through a continuous tomb of death. CROWN PRINCE MAY VISIT AMERICA. Likely to Represcot l■peri4I Faaiiy at L'oveiliat of Frederick Statae. Berlin. (By Cable).—Emperor William's court marshal telegraphed here as

follows:

“The statae of Frederick the Great will

be executed, by his M. fnand, by Professor Upl bronze statue standing frrnnnds af Pn*t/tam 11

statue st;

grounds at Potsdai Professor Upht

ulptc

Majesty's

Jpheus, afti

most sculptors of Gamaji the statue of Frederick marble, in the Sieges All

is that whet

U fore-

ille series. The the s*- 1 —- -- —

icus is one of the foreif Germany. He carved

' ' ' the

expectation is that when the statue is unveiled at Washington a -member of the

HqhenzoHcm family will be p

siWy the crown prince. Frederick William. The idea is even mentioned that

William himself might be in e. .Any authoritative support i suggestion, however, has not been to the reportorial inquiry at Pots-

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Montgomery, Ala., (Special).—It has been announced by C. E. Borden, s 1 intendent of manufactories of the ginia-Carolina Chemical Company, that it had closed a deal for the purchase of the properties of the Montgomery Fa-

tiliza Company of

Alabama Fertilm gomery. the Opel of Opdika. the

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Fertilizer Company, of Momthe Opelika Chemical Company . ca. the Mobile Phosphate and

Chemical Company of Mobile and the Pacific Chemical Company of Dothan. Bully $1,000,000 is involved in the deal, and by its consummation the VirginiaCarolina Chemical Company edifies into possession of ^11 fertiliza manufacturing plants in Alabama except one located in

Troy.

Hosier Killed by a Bear. Roanoke. Va., (Special).—John Buron. a farmer, 23 years old, was fatally in

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e carniverous is found he w

irted om in search of imal. When the bear 1 shot scveralkimes a:

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ided. Burton, in his eagerness to itch the brute, rushed too dose, and before be could shoot afeain was bowled ova by the bear's paw. His face was lacerated, both arms wae broken and his stomach was gnawed in several places. Burton died in a few hours of his wounds. Thm MBm a Mlaatz. New York, (Special).—From Jersey City to Philadelphia in 30 minutes; to slide on rails at the rate of 180 miles an hour. That is what Dr. A. C Albatson expects to do with his invention in electrical transportation, and he say* that with it a speed of ova 250 mile* an. hour might ne attained. No dust, no smoke, no jolting,-Tie says; merelygliding through the air on an elevated track with the* rapidity of a projectile fired from a cannon. The heavier the load the less power required to draw the train, it i» asserted, and the speed will be measured only by the size of the driving wheel in the motor car.

St. Louis. Mo- (Special).—Before adjournment the convention of the National Hardwood Lusher Men’s Association selected Indianapolis os the meeting place year. A resolution was adopted reciting tbe fact that all tbe national for-' est reserves are in the. West, and urging upon Congress the importance of establishing, a national forest reserve in the hardwood region of the Southern Appa- • ian Mountains as a means of pre- ... ing these mountain*, and preventing the disastrous floods in that region.