The ensl operator* are making preparation* t<> '•ell O’.rcct to the coiuum-

j rr* in New York through which'rapacity »omc o‘ **-‘

cr» will be retained.

‘ ,r

LATEST NEWS.

agenejev in c r«-tfin deal-

BLOW TO THE REBELLION 0F T " E

Noted Colembian Rebel. General Uribe

Yields With Hi* Amy.

INSURGENTS WERE SURROUNDED.

Ocacrtb IribclIHka aad Ustiil* SamaOcr , riln ol - thc Philadelphia alnulnnue With Tea Thsaaaad Caaaee, 0>tr Two died from tubercular peritoniti*. the Tboasaad RlOe* end a Great Qaaoth) ol I Kerm* of which were contracted from a *■—Ho.-WW-Ur— at Adaowbdnd utlheT% hrt ' d thc „ lg ^ Leader ot the BcToiatioa. w atchman and then robbed thc Prairie

City Bank ..i $4,000. They exchanged ! a fi"<ibida of *hut* with the police and

rd.

^ ..jianMtons are bring made for, a

.too.coa round* reception to General Chaffee upon his idered to Gen- | arrival a: San Francisco frortt tlic Phil-

! ippine*.

Hie missing Russian boundary mon-

..*,0-^ iwchw. toZtrSZZiM numbering ijoo men. having lieen dc Mists Julia Marlowe, the actress, who feated October 14 at l-acieiuga. retreated ! was taken ill in New York, has gone to » w» - •«* '... General Majarres, with 2.000 men. pro- , res|cd Nfw York l .h a rged with eeeded against the rebels from Lacien*-’ — r-t— — : “-

and engaged them for “TV - "' omk ° 'r'""■■

rounding the rebel* an., loecmg them to j Thp dve-year meeting of the Society nder. General Castillo was with , ,.f Friends in Indianapolis issued a clr-

REASON CUBA OBJECTS Thinks This Nation Wants too Mnch, Offers too LitUe. PALMA FAILS TO APPROVE TREATY. The Return of the Draft ot thc Reciprocity Treaty Mas Not Shakes the Confidence ol th: Stale OfflcUls—The Matter it Still Open to Adjastiacat—Ohiectlans ot Caha to the Undue Concessions Demanded.

Panama (By Cable).—Thc revolution-

arv general. Cribe-llribe, with his arfn). i r 'p' rp ”

10 cannon, 2,500 rifles and .too.coo rounds

of ammunition, has surrrm rral Marjarres at Rio Frio,

Marta.

ark. charged

>m Lacicnaga swindling by means of the fake wire 1 days. The i "tapping" game. The complainant is rded in -sur- ' "Th'^na* Jordan, who says Vincent pro-

General Uribe-L’ribc.

.The news of this victoi

y Gcreral Pei

lacking, but heavy losses on lioth sid r reponrd. The siirt^ndcr of ^Urib

here by Geperttl Perdonio^nd Go^eln^ i jj" n ^ Salazar in a tel«ram from General Mar- I «he_dr,nk

with .,,{ I-'-i,

1 cular !

d

all Christian churches asking appoint delegates to a conveofind some way ot ovcrcomiog

noted leader of thc Colombian rebel 1 He has been carry ing on the r—

CANAL TITLE GOOD. United SUtcs Attorney Ocoernl Knox Snb.

■Its His Opinion.

Washington. D. C. (Special).—Attor-ney-General Knox has decided that if the United State* should accept thc offer of the new Panama Canal Company submitted last spring for the sale of the canal for $40,000,000 it wou.d receive through thc parties in interest a valid and unincumbered title to the nropertr. This decision nra* arrived at after a thorough and exhaustive investigation of the situation in Paris—first by Special Attomev Charles \\’. Russell and later by the At-torney-General himself. Tlie AttorneyGeneral formally submitted lie opinion to President Roosevelt. It makes about joo

s|>etit i that th

Washington. 1). C. (Special).—New obstacles have been placed in thc way of favorable action at the next session of

Congress on a Cuban reciprocity treaty, j pages.

The rejection by President Palma of I The opin^n open* with a Instonr of tte the instrument drawn here la« »pnn« by . K 'S Secretan Hay and Minister Quesada is | ^-ps Panama Canal Company of France, now said to be on its way to Washington j the failure of this company in 1888, thc ' o \r“vi d "'“"""rr r"- : piv wirdL** say; ' h .; make it acceptable to ihe Cuban «ovem- France by the liquidator appointed by the ment. ’i he original treaty was drawn ] French, court to wind up thc affairs of hurriedly with ihe hope that it might be j old company, and of the laws jias»cd by submitted to Cuba and then to the United j «^ CerninB ,hc liquidation of the States* Senate and acted on before ad- | The op*n?on then takes up thc principal joumment pf the last session of Con- . objection* which have lieen made in this gress. This failing, it was later more country to the title proposed to be given

carefully considered and sent to Havana j to the United States, for President Palma's inspection. 'ITic ! it says, resolve thcmscl Culian Congress will reassemble in No- , support of the following propt

vember for a brief period and there may j The Quesilaas Coaside red. j P^J'- *' — * “"S Sr «*>• «• '™" .•'!«' 1 1. Thtt Ik mm Tamm Oml-Om-1“

pany has not thc power to sell the SSVhTSffiu,, p.n-,

Canal Company has not power to i . , pr

lima.

THE COMMISSION MEETS' natowlcapital apfos.

Army Strcsftb at Mlolnom.

1 general order v

that th«

Slrlke Arbitrators Stifle Some Impor-

nan'. Question*.

PRESIDENT .BAER AGAINST UNION. Obiccts to President MUcbell Appcarlai as the Head tf the Mlaeworkers' Union, and the Latter Replies That He Is Actisi as lb: Represeatative el the Miner*-Coball-

sloaers to Make Inspection of the Mtoes.

Washington. D. C. (Special).—The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission held its first meetingMonday afternoon.having been in session an hour and a half. This time was occupied almost entirely by purely formal proceeding*. After the transaction of routine business adjournment was taken, to meet at Scranton. Pa-

in., Thursday, which day will be in visiting mines. It is intended the commission shall make a sonal investigation of the situation

conditions in the strike region, and in all probability the meetings of the body from

now on will be held in that locality.

lings n

nued announc-

ing that thr organization of the enlisted -trength of the army under the Reori ration Act of February 2. 1901.

inimurn rder the

general i

that they are so *1

constru

1 i;x Grat BroUieHujpd

: most ««« lh <\

SKSit, , 5urS3kgf.i“SS! a,'^=cSS paign on the Isthmus of Panama. The : «« se 01 the suspe

'££!£?£ j tssiszpxts.

one of fimircs than of nrinciple. _ The opinion say* that tl

-. s-z'fiSSs

. of the Michigan ^ '«», Senates for approval. 4 . That, at all event*, th rent on strike be From the little information received would take the property as a tru

K sr*”' i£=v„srsr

'•ssissippi Valley ‘ in the remission of duties on other-creditors of both Baton Rouge.' United .State* products entering Cuban The historj-and natm. :

iding Coal and Iron Corn'd that the nerator* did

,11. i. -k VJ'S WHkSt . M-O.» M capacity of the head of that organization mortality of 7: before the commission. Mr. Mitchell. : ^ Ilc^says. rm

| neared from th< iccted. but those crl arc suffering

gain ration Act of

shall lie reduced to 56.989. the ...... authorized by law. Under this ord I various arms of the tfriny will be

ganiml as follow*:

i-iSK'Sfta&^'vSSs: 120: two siege batteries. 160 each; cavml1 ry troops, 65; engineer companies. 104. | except tliat at the service schools at ; Forts Leavenworth and Riley thc cavalry ! troops are allowed 85 enlisted men and ! the infantry companies 130 men. An ! other except inn i* made in thc case of 1 the Wat ion guard of infantry at Pekin. I These rcductions^rc to lie effected by ; casualties a* they occur, through expiration of service, etc., or by transfers if hereafter directed, *0 that recruiting. e»pecially for artillery and engineers, will noeo ' ro "fincd to the re-enlistment of der- t 'SX’T S and other fn1i‘tmchts as may be specially

authorized.

n,*X Stricken With Cholera.

The fearful ravages of plague and cholera in the Old World arc set forth Quarantine Officer Perry mgkes a conservative estimate that the cases of cholera in the Philippine islands since March 20 last aggregate 5-000. with »

s to the 1

and the . men “ their views

j arc to contain only

The history and nature of thc French 1 fact* and without ygumcm. 1 nc*e per . companies of the kind/ in question are , be submitted to the commission in order

level 20 per cent, cut explained at length, they arc said to 'hat (t jnay secure a clear grasp of the

1 lo : he altogether different from our corjiora- | situatiol^ After examining conditions in

States pPrators are Mill i . f, ind 1 xition to thc union. io the! Bt>lh J'* 1 ”.*' 1 ! f

non. ated eprei

;hr age-.t -

who had taken part

t served to show that tlie still intense in their oppo-

1 who was'present. stated to the c I ^ion that he did not represent that orgai ization. but acted as the age'i of thc ai

1 . ...I.

disease has practica

c provinces

most 1

sides will present w if their views of the

written staircase, which nary of the

trzz r: . ,..

sr&r! ~~ tsssj - is i ssr

•eution must do twit forbid the exercise of the liberty j

tood if trships.

the strila region, test! " beginning

trees first inrcecmly infect-

"tV,'„d ,h. cent Island of Negros are badly infected and the situation is alarming. Some of the towns in those provinces have lost to per cent, of their population, and the epidemic continues severe.

Recommend More Warships.

Thc Naval Board on Construction ha* made a report to Secretary Moody urging thai Congress this winter authorize, the building of the following men-of-

er and , ._

Magdalena. In Santander of an army pf over 10.000 ously menaced the capital, he was defeated by a sup<

ment force May 26. 1900. when thc losses

numbered about 5.000 men in all.

It has beer, repeatedly charged that General Uribe-Uribe received substantial aid from the Goverment of Venezuela, he having visited Caracas and had'frequent interviews with President Castro. Last

s do not change t

of the concerns as partnei

-tablish any tie bet wee

held on F street, b and lasting until *30 o c room was crowded when began. A spirit of defer

pJS;

disnlaremem. 22 knots speed.

battle-

inning at 2 o clock ; displacement. 18 knots speed. 4 12-inc o'clock p. m. The ; 8-inch. 12 7-inch and 20 3-inch guns, hen the proceedings 1 Two armored cruisers of 14.500 tons

year he visited the United Slat a time was in correspondence p ficials of the legation p‘ — ’

d States and for molders enjoining them mcc with the of- ! fenng with the nonunion at Washington, | The difference bctwc<

against

' worker

cnce between thc engi-

writlTa view to reaching honorable terms j neers of the Georgia Railway and the of capitulation, but the efforts in that | company have been settled by the cothdirection were without substantial result, pauy agreeing to adopt the tntleage

system ot pay.

John D. Rockefeller and James Stillman. president ol the National City Bank of New York. will, it is sajd finance thc S-ioo.boo.boo Beef Trust.

direction were w Kills Brother ia Bed.

Manchester. Vt. (Special).—Gifford

s. of Londonderry, was by his 16-year-old

brother Melvin. Both boys worked on their father’s farm. Mrs. Johnson went upstairs to awaken them and found Gifford Vtn the bed with a terwound Hi hi: left breast He died

Johnson. 13 years, o shot and killed 1

. f deference was shown j disnlacwnent. 22 k by repesentatives of both side*, and^thc j to 6^nch and 22 3-inch guns. ^

property as freely as s of his if no special '* —"—lit and n *

actual 1

contract!

retain thc propPanatna Cotnnany is , Wilkesharre. Pa. law for- | coa | waR mined and ployed in minit

irtesv was displayed

which there was c<

MORE MINERS AT WOtf.

Big Comyizks Rushfag Aathrmcile to Market

Ii^mAking these recommendations, the BojW has recorded its objection to the flolicy of the Congressional committee that there shall be an increase of the material of the navy only once during

each Cor

(Special). —More j

GIFTS TO MITCHELL

Foreign.

M. Declasse, the French foreign mini that Germany. Great

lave agreed with ic Hague Arbitra-

riuTwoend A hT, lei. bTeas. He died J.»P»« «o submit to The Hague Arbi.ra-

EHr° s Pi “Is

the boy near Manchi

Foreign Minister Prinetti says Italy will not intervene against the Mad Mullah, of Somaliland unless he provokes a disturbance in terrtiory under Italian

sovereignty.

Uribe-UrnTc. with to cann

2.500 rifles, is reported to have surcen- ' " I Majarres near Santa

Rokbers Hoped to Get $4MM-

Irwin, Pa. (Special).—After binding

»nd gagging thc night watchman at the d 'e r Vd IO Genera j Westmoreland Coal Company's office. Marta,

io Wert Irwin, four masked men enter- American and other art collectors cd the building and blew open the safe have been notified to repiovc their ” ,h : ,fe “Ag%?^5Z'A^r£zi!i‘

a tD.\ Capt. Erwin Schaefer has been ap-

pointed naval attache, and First Lieu-

i Brcdow military attache, of

d all the

mey that it contained. The robbery, „ _ . was evidently timed, as it was just be-1 Lapt. trw 1

■ fare -

r pay day. when about $40.0 rarsed for the regular .two-

noney is not kej

i secured only They escaped without leavi

to their i J — : *-

the regular .two-week 1 1 «' ant von B " do » r nl

pay. The money is not kept there, and • Germany at Washington, the robbers secured only about $200 Premier Combes, of

-.t . ■ : 1 nlams that the c-m*e

raving any cl

r identity.

Gcargta Engineers May Strike.

Augusta. Ga. (Special).—Georgia , ! railroad engineers who are members | of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers made a demand for increased Nrages and for the reinstatement of a : committee of the Brotherhood, who called on the general manager and who are now out of the service of the road. The 10 days’ time agreed upon at the expiration of which the road was to

give final reply is ended. Gets the BmIm JomcL

Boston (Special).—Frank A. Munsey, of New York, has bought from Stephen O'Meara and his associates all

'“'ISbtoito. . ! to prove successfulMacedonians rfrpoi

of the

Company, the Bosti

Sunday Journal,

velop the property 1 building for the pa|

for occupancy.

Journal Newspaper iwns and” publishes ring. Evening and . Mtinsey will destensirely. A new rr is almost ready

Sixty

Belgrade. Servia .fighting has taken and Bulgarians.

ittalion

JJSSr

garians

MpMU*

trim (By Cable).—

ken place between it, cjhefly on the

ober 18. when a T 9 Sakarica and die ■

Cable).—Severe

Turk* Uskub

• that the goven ation to the mint

flirted *

France, ex:nt’s offer oi ners is likely

Ihapman. a former Ameriraigned in a London police

. that the insur-

gents inflicted severe losses on the Turkish troops during thc fighting in

na Pass. ;orgc Cha|

can, was arraig .

court, charged with hairing poisoned a young woman who had lived with him as his wife. 'She i* the third woman who -has died within five years in

houses owned‘ by Chapman.

The Colombian cruiser Bo grit a arrived at Panama, and the commander, Captain , Marmaduke, who will ct mand the Colombian fleet, and his c„. cers were entertained by General Sala-

zar. the governor of Panama. ; With the_ assistance of Liberal

. e assistance of Liberal members, the Irish Nationalists mustered mgh votes to permit William )nen to move thc adjournment of House of Commons for the dis-

•“n of the ~

oj’ri

cussion of the Crim Negotiations bcti

Premier and the mineowners for a settlement of the Dimers’ strike by arbitration are slill in progress. _

Reports that the Pt of Wales would visit in 1904 Jiavc created

London:

King Edward reviewed the 4.000 men of the Guards Brigade who recently returned from South Africa. A fire io Guildhall. London, caused

intense excitement, particularly . occurred directly after the King

r had left. The dat

the royal guests had left. The damage

rs ajs&s: si r»”

•was severely x

hall were saved.

: IV

r Ko- c

■

Otssfd Psclflc hi Tex Dej s.

San Francisco (Special).—The eific Mail Company's new steamer

tea arrived at nopn from breaking the record across

The steamer m

coast of Japan and her home port came flying through water at the cragc rate of nearly 500 miles a day. From Yokohama by direct line to San Francisco is 4x100 miles. The Korea sailed from the Japanese port on October 18 and made the passage in 10 day*

averaging 470 miles a day.

nan ■"*.»» «?» Kg—"DhiSrS^Sf Io,

Prime report* a continuance of good

crop weather in the West.

fat New

Jersey is talked of, but rumor thought-,

fully fail* to say thc exact place. Standard Oi| people'deny that the $2.-

550,000 option on Wheeling Nattu^l

rtv. t~#> Pirtslmru is for {'

were

over tfc same week last year. OS °' A..United State* Steel mill in • . .. .. ^ tho

5?

St. Thomas. D.W.I. (ByCable).-The Island of St. Croix received the nyws of the rejection of the Danish West indies treaty very qufFtiy. There was exciiment anywhere. Thc planters illy were disappointed, but there feeling of relief at the fact that . icstion had been settled. The St. Thoma* Tidcndc says: "There is much gratification and satisfaction at the welcome close of a question which ha* kept the community in a state ofomrest and excitement for thc past three trying years. We hail it with gladness and we earnestly^ hope the peaceful era ndw entered upon after protracted turmoil and confusion will marked by prosperity.” ENDED IN A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Pottcenu Sued lor Divorce Stools His Wife

ccedings

1 H. Walker, a poll his* wife at the

Augusta, Ga. (Special).—Despondent over divorce proceedings instituted

against him. Char

liceman, shot and killed

home of her mother-in-law and then sent

bullet into his own brain, dying

stantly. After filing the applicati . Mrs. Walker returned to her husband's

mother's home. Walker's beat

hotne. and and whili

passed by the house and Wife. She met him at 1

called

the door.

: led by duty he ' h d

ew moment*, whew suddenly Walker drew his revolver and fired four shots at his wife, all taking effect. Walker then placed thc gun to his head, the bullet entering his brain. When witnesses reached them both were

lead.

Wotcfc Presei

td Badg: aod a OoU

lied By the Miners.

Wilkcsbam, Pa. (Special).—President Mitchell was in conference with the district presidents Nicholls, Duffy

and Fahy for seven He outlined hi* cas< sent it to the board

behalf of the miners, and the same re-

J hours Sunday, as he will preof arbitration, in

the same 1

;S,

kmgres* ? "* V7 *

On Threshold of New Era.

inual report of tlie

ipointcd to

anthracite region resumed ....... only districts that lag behind in the out- ' xdnur.isrtat put are Lehigh and Mahanoy. The indi- I fd . '

vidual operators

those districts In the Wyoi

gions all the collieries are with the exception of a few which still under water. The Delaware. Lacka-

Wertem, the Delaware and

of the fir [mission, a

idents. President Mitchell wxs presented with a gold badge and gold watch by the Polish. Lithuanian and Slavish members of the united mineworkers. The badge bears his monogram (J. M.) in diamonds just beneath the bar containing" the pin. by which h is fastened to the coat lapel. Below

this is thc button of life United Mine- i at Scranton only 13 at. workers' of America, from which hangs Erie has 33 places working ard on a pendant—a tiny pick and shovel, with the Delaware and Hudson 25 working miner's lamp in the center, underneath and 5 idle: Delaware. Lackawanna and of which is a medallion. The seal of Western, to working and 3 idle: Ontario the organization, in the center, is in and Western, it working and 3 idle:

‘ .... -anding in

form of a breaker boy standing in Tetnple. 7 workii the midst of a bank of coal. The pre- Butler coll

sentation took place at President which 1 Mitchell's headquarters, and a large workpd crowd listened to the speeches of prqr'

*enu.rion and acceptance. BOY HANGED BY PLAYMATES.

Found Dead ia Cenetery- His TUne Was Up

. (Special).—Yhe

The indi- | ^ tl t ® ^

and their employes in ‘Vi,, ' e still at loggerheads. : j,j s |in

Wyominj and Lackawanna re- caM .. involvine lhr ri-|t ^ the collieries are m operation ! 3f dtjens ^ ;ntn7T , arriaRC of the Choc-

tow and Chickasaw tribes. The condu-

-a-a JSii.’sasitrdS’iSs.'fi; heavy trains of coal were moved rapidly McKinley Memorial Fund, to seaboard point* The miners and la- P<,stmaster-Gcn. ral Payne and Sccrehorers who left the region during thc , ary |he p rt . sjdent B . Cortel'sSLSTjr,,^« , f , M ssr^i“svr > “ ka

mg ard one idle. , eate sum n f $050,000 which the

lion desired to raise it has in hai and pledge*, about $550,000.

New York contributed $150,000 01 uur amount and Ohio a little more than iioofioo- The trustee* will not be cramped for fnnds in carrying out their project. It i* likely that the memorial will be located on the most commanding site in thd Canton Cemetery, not far from thc present tomb of the dead Presi-

dent. .. - ’

Roosevelt Is 44.

idem Roosevelt was born in fork City. October 27. 1858. He celebrated the forty-iourth anniversary of his birth Monday in an entirely in-

r White

aggre-

_ssoaand, cash

it workini ring and 1 i

llierv of the Erie Cotnnany. ‘ .wed

[ in the levels

water.

About 80 per cent, of ihe old enMpyes of the collieries in the Lackawanna re-

gion .are hack at work.

During the strike the National Wa*h-

— “ J —•" -oricd

•TTie old employes have, all been takrti j for^l manne^rt^heTem^tT 1. j 2 1 . - ’ a Horise. lunching and dining with such

Atlantic City. N. J. (

jdy of 13-year-old Lloyd Hammelt/a ’ . ,

New York (Special).—At the tueet-

thc Teachers' Colli

Rockefeller Gives S500.90C

. (Spe^ _

ing of thc Teachers" College of Columbia University it

meed that John D. Rockefeller, had cred to give Ssoo;ooo to the college ivided the college could raise $190.000 to pay off the debt of the institution and $250,000 besides. It was announced also that Mr. Rockefeller' makes the gift as i "thank offering to Almighty God" for the preservation of himself, his family and household from the fire which recently dcstaiyed his country’ home at Pocatitico Hills.

Fire hi Ottfow's Baaktrc.

S»n, Francisco (Special).—The Bulletin says that a fire has been burning in the coal bunkers of the battleship Oregon for three days and that the officers of the vessel would not say that the flames “had been extinguished. A board of survey has been summoned to examine the vessel and it will be some time before fhe will be able to depart for Manila. Repairs win have to be made and a new supply of coal put on'board before the battleship can

sail.

thrown over-the limb of • tree in the Methodist Cemetery. I Upon inquiry it was learned that thc | lad was a member of «a boys' club which met nightly in a corn patch for thc discussion of heroic deeds as portrayed in thc blood-and-thunder novels which they exchanged in their nocturnal gatherings. A .search of liis school desk discovered several books of wild tales. Thc boy’s teacher said that he had told her that his -"time was up on

Wednesday."

It is suspected'that lots were drawn and that thc boy was hanged by his playmates. One tnd oi the rope was fastened to a fence »• feet away.

Mr. W« Ordered IUim.

Washington, D. C. (Special).—Wu Ting-fang, who has been the Minister of the Chinese Empire to ihe United States since May I. 1897. has been reailed to China by an_edict of. the Emperor cabled to Minister Wu by the Chinese Foreign Office. The edict is

Mr. Wu being directed

Crowd Mowed Dows Like Grass. Marion, Ind. (Special).—While

crowd of 7.000 people was watting

the special train bringing Senator Han-AJ—rc, ol na to this city a freight train on the j _ ’nte sti

Pennsylvania Railroad ran through the crowd. A brake rod on a flat car e*r tended over the fide and mowed the crowd down like grass. Alexander Ford, aged 68, a member of the Soldiers' Home, was struck on the head, fracturing hi* skull He wiK die. There

c no other srrioes injftries.

peremptory. Mr. Wu being dir return to China at as early a possible, even the route by which 1 is to make his voyage from this com try being indicated. Mr. Wu is tl , .1 i_. s 1 -

ng indicated. Mr. that he has been 1 re of Commerce, in a:

[ini Ml

“hang Chitung. E just vacated by Sheng, father died recently. -

k ininted

Train Robbery la Northwest

St. Paul. Minn. (Special).—Word 1 was received here of the robbery of a j Northern Pacific mail train, betw Bermount and Drummond. Mo tbout midnight. The —

and a*- =' -

1 rentembci j day gift. :

rom the family table. Ted the President with

has a'

lent with a btrt been her custoi

birth-

American Patents in Cuba. United States Minister Squiers r

Department fro

— , , — enginec. — the mail car was broken jbed of all registered mail.

[ States M

1 the State Department fr under date of Scplcmber as been notified by the C rnt of State that all U

BntjUrs Stool a Broker.

David Gty, Neb. (Special),—Harvey Lillie, a well-known'grain broker, was shot and fatJIIy^ wounded by burglars. . Two of three bloodhounds owned by Mr. Lillie were poitaped Wednesday night, evidently in preparation by the burglars for entering the honse.

Ihe intruders secured $350Cmjit Whipped by Masked Max.

Columbus. Ind. (Special).—It is re ported from Nashville, that in Polk Township, in the southeast comer ol

Mr*, j

‘ of further formalitie'

The Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department has received a dispatch from Governor Taft stating that the Phillipine Conuhission ha* passed an act inviting bid* for street railroad, electric

ither

to he opened

The bid* will be advertised

light and other franchises in Manila, the xsals to be opened March 5. >903.

don roe eoum

raty. Mr. and Mr*. Joseph :re , *| ten fr ®jn their lop

Lawson were taken from 1 cabin home by thirty masked whipped in a horrible manne

their _ d men and

: manner Tho

The Burea* v of Insular Affairs^ of

- ms

c Philippine archipelago months ended July 31,

thc War Department has prepared .statement showing that the custoi revenue* i* thc Philippine archipeiau 1 for the seven months ended July 31. 1902. were $52^4.032. a* compared with , ; $4,040,258 for the same period of 1901,

de * UiyHt tor 1900 aud $2,556,539 for

j f8 99

Mtjsr Evan Ac^alHad. Sabstitatea tor Caatoca.

Columbia. S. C (Special).—The jury 1 Secretary Root has approved a prein the trial of Major Bernard B. Evan* liminvy plan for the expenditure of the charged with the murder of J. J. Gri f - i appropriation of $5003)90 intended to fin. returned a verdict ol not guihy ! provide substitutes at military porta for

after being out only five minutes. Ma- ' the «ntte*i.

jor Evans is a brerthtr of ex-Govemor j Bureau, will be at the head fMfiKsr t saws ” Yzasuss*! -

ODDS AND ENDS OP Td2 LAfiST NEWS.

Wcsteroian, Filler & Co., of Sharon, Pa . operating five bituminous mines, granted their miners an advance in

' » of eight cents a ton.

* strikf of the ironworkers at the Reading plant oi the American Iron and Steel Company wax declared off.

The strike began last May.

MiS* Emma Miller, who sold the silver bottle holder that was sent with thc package containing thc poison that caused Mrs. Adam*’ death in New York, was the principal witness yes-

terday in thy MoHneux trial

ir the soldier*. The tdc in thc last Army