UNISTER BOWEN ARRIVES TV First Steps Takes Far Peace Nejo-

ANXIOUS TO HAVE BLOCKADE RAISED.

KU Rctpccti to Secrcua Hoy *od Makci Foraoi CaDo at the Britiib sad Qer««a Eaibaosk*—Poarporters May Be

Ex peeled «> Be jin at Uacx.

TIE UTEST NEWS IN SNORT ORDER.

A daneerMU bomb was toend on the otoap of the hondxocne residence of Peter Doeleer, a rich brewer of New York, and the police believe that an attempt was made to wreck his home. At New Albany. K>., Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson said he had an under-

The death of Capt. William Livingston Flanagan, millionaire brewer and hotelowner of New York, was the result of a two-week debauch at Coney Island. The chief feature of the Miners' National Convention at Indianapolis was

from Charleston being j the annual address by President John ours late. 1 hey were met at the j j ut )g C Penny-packer was inaugurated a by their nephew. Hamilton ; governor of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, of New York, and drove at once i 1 he ceremonies were elaborate,

rlington Hotel.

ately after luncheon Minister , tempor , rily » uspel died at the State Department. | Mr Peter Mari

( Trust (

pended payment. ^

Washington. D. C. (Special).—Minister Bowen, accompanied By Mrs. Bowen, reached here shortly after

noon, their

, five hours late. They

Holt, of New York, and drove

to the Arlington Hotel.

Immediately after luncheon Minister

Bowen called at the Slate Department. | mV Peter Marie Willed' his c where he had a long conference with of modern miniatures to the Ni Assistant Secretary H.ll He then 1 Mmopolitan Museum of Art. wen: to the home of Secretary Hay to | ( J C f„ Stated, report his arrival. j Thomas C Platt United

Mr. Bowen is a man of great energy ! Reed Si and has undertaken the important and 1 senator fr delicate duties connected wiith the set- in separab llement of the Venezuelan difficulty. ' Former

with an earnest desire to discharge j elected United States

them with the greatest degree of speed Missouri^ legislature^^ lected

tor‘by'the Mkhigan

lection

York

lected Hon.

United States senator. t was elected United States Utah, the houses balloting

session.

Governor tiled Stall

. J. Stone was senator by the

itcty. It is cxpcctsentatives of the als is now known, are i of terminating the

; «£

Gen, Russel

Unitea States

legislature.

consistent with * ed that the repn

lies, who so far a. „ ,

sincerely desirous of terminating the Congre.-sman Albert J. Hopkins was unfortunate situation on the Venezu- elected United States senator by the Illi-

clan coast, will lend him every aid in nois legislature.

his task. I Jacob H. Gallinger was re-elected There must be frequent exchanges , United States senator by the New

between the ambassadors here and j Hampshire It their home governments, but it is fully ; The New

expected that frequent recout had to the Atlantic cables.

AfiUlNALDO’S NEW SCHEME wm TBE NAT10 ^i u ''* ul;E ' s Aa Attempt Made to Bribe Coeretsaes

Leakier.

subcommittee

Aiks tV United State* Government for

■ Bit Loan.

CONTROLLED BV CIVIL COMMISSION. He Wants UMbMM Cub and Credit ef SSUMMN With Whkb te Beth Banking la Philippines te Supply Capital for Dc. velopaeal el Islands' Resenrcce, Public

Improvements.

Washington, D. C (Special).—Secretary Root transmitted to the Senate and House copies of a petition received by him. through Governor Taft, from Aguinaldo. the late insurgent lender in the Philippine*. The petition it a remarkable presentation of the conditions now existing in the Philippines, and Secretary' Root hastened to send it to Congress because it went a long way toward supporting the statements he had made to the committees of that body, and also demonstrating the necessity for ipt and exhanstive action on the part of Congress to prevent disaster and

distress in the archipelago.

Aguinaldo bases his appeal on conditions which Secretary Root describes in his annua] report. The Secretary records the ravages of disease among the Carabaos and the people, the locust plague

‘be -

and the fall in the price of silver. "Profoundly impressed by the sorrows and calamities which afflict ray people." he continues, "and bearing in mind

! Atlai

this newer methi change in largi place formerly

is fully

_ will be . declared

c cables, and that [ franchise of diplomatic ex- j The Nat part will take the j Association rcupied by the mail ; Ind.

Mr. Bowen, as soon as he had . Cramps' shipyards to r shaken the dust of travel from his ; Anthracite coal has clothes and paid a visit of ceremony Louisville, Kentucky.

Secretap; Hay, start* the British and Italiai

iocs to secure the removal of the I j n g tw blockade; that is the heaviest charge escape laid on him by President Castro. So Mrs. when he called on the representatives cjtfy WM of the allies here he urgently request- has been ed there to name an early moment for ' dcring h( **-r beginning of the —- » •

pie." he continues, "and bearing in mind the good intentions which have inspired the acts of the Civil Commission, I have

. . taken heart to present a project of a inconstitutional the special I at , eaM in parl , hc p rccar j OUI situfomri « Mmupolu, ■ „ obtai „ from Congru, •

i=,: SMSSEsaSiSaSSSSs'S

dors, and at the German Embassy. M. Schwab, president where, in the absence of Count Quadt. States Steel Corporation

he saw Baron Ritter, the acting charge locomotor ataxia, d'affaires. Seventeen — ! -*- Mr. Bowen above all things is anr- , Miss., who 1

the removal of the j n g two negroes

escape arrest. Mrs. Letitia

MADDEN SENT TO PRISON.

' r dcring her Judge Herrii tided that the

10 fill

Eagle, a prominent Avalon, near Pittsb arrested on the charge

ird.

■ick, in Albany. N. Y.. t

iring candidat

1 Treasury, like the loan, and both would be without interett, and could never be transferred to any other foreign nation. “Wlwn thr loan and credit were ap-

Motormaa Ran Car late Prcslice!

Carriage.

Pittsfield. Mass. (Special).—Euclid **

Madden, motorman,

Kelley, conductor, indicted

slaughter in conne«ion with the accident here last September in which President Roosevelt was injured and William Craig, his bodyguard, was killed. retracted their pleas of not guilty

and pleaded guilty.

Madden was sentenced to sene six i months in the House of Correction | and to pay a fine of $500. Kelley's cl

1^' Euclid An ^ coaple wcre buroed to death - | PhiliPI«ne

T - i; a boiMm S rtich wa, fctreyri >“ ■ , hc for man- the business section of Pittsburg. ; ,

pay a fine of $500. Kelley's vase | j n

was put on file. ’ cisco. District Attorney Malone severely ar- [ a ramboi raigned Madden in a sutement to trie Ohio at court, charging him with criminal neg- j j w0 ligence and especially referring to his i an a p arl

ily to the President immediately

. _ .iness section of Pittsburg.

Col. William E. Midtlc, of Mobile, Ala., was elected chief Si staff of the

United Confederate Veterans.

Fraud and violence were evident at an election for officers of the Federation of

Labor in Chicago. | Cleveland teamsters went on a strike. ^ o{ Tbursda; thus adding to the discomforts of the ^ . n

morning the wound

show that it

UscomI

shortage.

Five Chinamen

a Chinese restaurant

d whi arid 1

insular government."

QONZALTS WOUND PROVES FATAL Soatk CeroUna Editor Shot By Lientensnt

Governor Is Dead.

C (Special).—The tragly afternoon ended. Mon-

Columbia, S. ly of Thursdi.

j day in the death of Editor Narcjso G.

shot, two fatally. Gonzales, nt in San Fran- l_. Monday

1- | | In

iver began to show tl

« Madden's part.

The court said that as each had pleaded guilty he was obliged to take the District Attorney's statement and

punish Madden have imposed

ney's statement and rordingly. He might

— ntence of three years in State prison or a fine of $1,000. Madden was removed to the House of Cor-

rection in this city and began his sen- near the Rock of Gibraltar, was

' without injury and reshipped her

1 Mio-

rptic poison and that this was rritonitis. It was realized that

:less, and bulletins

is neari

irgeons opened ijected a soln-

thousam* * ,: “

A* a last resort the sun a vein in the arm and inji

lion of one in five

of one in five thousand formalin,

Bo.™ ,0 o>™ the

01 ms courar, s ouugiiious «o uk Mr ^

member to raise a debate on the Krupp tioa

MAVOR SENT TO PENITENTIARY.

o'clock

preparing to make a

, , the formalin prepara- - • ' i xioa -

incident

The steamer Lahn, which went ashore |

Tock of Giliraltar, was floated i ——

jury and reshipped her cargo. : With Other Officials ef Brooklyn. UL. Was r . . I ~~TZ~ The furs and a pearl necklace ot the I Guilty of Malfeasance, i Jnfje Sznt to JnlL w „ c w hBe being shipped j „ .. ... — • . Tampa. FL. (Special).-Judge Isaac ! from Paris to San Francisco. ‘ Brookljm. HI (Special)j-The trial A. Stewart, of the Criminal Court of! The German cruiser Venetta has, it is ! * Fred F. V.nderburg. Mayor; W.1CMosia county, was sent to jail for 30 j said in Berlin, been ordered to Lake j liara D. West, City Clerk, and John

days by Judge Graham, of Ac Criminal | Haracaibo.

-I Hillsboro co„,,. .or Stewart was Switzerland.

1 an! Pietro f fhenff | director “> »he Pesara

ru * c<3 i It was stated in Berlin that the govI ernment had not ordered the shelling of San Carlos, and the bombari'

t to jail l of <he Crii

llsboro comity.

tempt of (

summoned to testify in re| alleged purchase from a dej of letters which were obtai «a#ms of a physician who u of Cl ~ »---v -r

by a

Brooklyn. 111. (Special).—Tl | df Fred F. Vnnderburg. Mayor; 1

> Lake j liam D. West, City Clerk, and J Strycklin. Commissioner of Streets of

>ck lasting for Brooklyn, charged with malfeasance Davos-rlatz, in office and a conspiracy to defraud

the city by carrying dummies on Slfycklin's payroll, which has been on in the St. Clair County Circuit Court r the last four days, came to an end icn the jury returned a verdict, find-

art r

reading a written stateroi ing in his refusal to be sworn, imprisoned for contempt of Judge Stewart was no* connect* any of the persons implicated previous case.

ourt. with

Fatal Hotel Fire.

Morrissey, B. C (Special).—Four men were burned to death in a hotel fire here. Fonr others are missing, and h is believed they also perished. The Spooner Hotel caught fire by the orer-

1 oHS

they

otel ca

turning of a lamp ii proprietor —*

be barroom.

10m escapei

- . . The aroused the guests, most of aped in their night clothes, coal miners or prospect*

f any. was done by £ommander Scheder

(pon his own initiative.

A battalion of Spanish infantry and a mountain battery embarked at Aigedras for Ceuta, the Spanish seaport on the coast of Morocco, opposite Gibraltar. The Armenian patriarch, Ormanian, ! was shot, but not fatally wonnded, while celebrating mass in the Kumkafu Cathe-

IriaL by a drug clerk. Twenty-fire thou si and their assistants

* * liter 1 d Ms

•ived in St. Peter) sit two days in M<

All were coal miners or prospectors. It was impossible for the proprietor to

The remains of

is impost

reach all the rooms, the four dead

tified.

47U Perish at AadQas. St Petersburg (By Cable).—The official figures show that 4714 persons lost their lives and that 33.1 H houses were destroyed as a result of (he recent earthquakes at Andijan, Russian

. Wenatchee, Wash. (Special).—Nine men are dead and 8 or 10 injured as a result of a rear-end collision on the Great Northern at a point known as Happy Hollow, just above Chiwankum. A bridge gang train ran into an engine standing with ;j rotary snowplow. A cur containing 50 men belonging to the bridge crew was thrown from the track. The dead and injured were all members pf the work gang. Neither engineer, fireman or brakeman among the injured

'wemy-five thousand garmentworkers I their assistants in Vienna went 1 trike for better pay and shorter houi

Lieutenant General Miles and his party

ryburg, after having

*P«‘

Th — to Minister Powell the b due on the Sala claim.

pin in the 1

begin Deputies. The Venezuela government forced loan of $482,000 was fully subscribed. Four steamers, loaded with coal, sailed from Blyth lor America. John Redmond. M. P., in an address at Edinburgh, said he believed a measure would soon be adopted that would settle the Irish land question and heal the wounds of centuries.

when the jury returned a verdii ing all three men guilty. V'ani was given two years in the Per" and a fine of $$oo; Strycklin

'anderbs

the Penitent

; Strycklin received fined $250, and the

one year and was . ... .. . . punishment of West was left with the

Court. •

Steward Swept Overheard.

KeJ York (Special).—The Cunard Liner Lucania arrived from Liverpool and Queenstown and anchored in quarantine at midnight The Lucania had a very stormy passage with strong westerly gales and high, dangerous, confused sea*. On Monday. January 12, an enormous boarded the steamer and flooded the

the portaide. ' The treof water filled up the

xded

saloon deck

mendous body of water filled up the decks and swept overboard the deck steward. Frank Hardy: knocked a passenger do rim, and tumbled him about so violently that he was badly cut about the head. All efforts to save the deck steward was rendered futile by the tempestuous condition of the weather.

littee on i

:c of the House CornAffairs ^s investigating

tlie charge that Representative Lessler, of New York, one of the members of

Naval

that

New^Tork, l_. . Naval Committee, had been approached with a bribe of $5A>oo for his support of a proposition looking to an appropriation for additional *uinnarine

torpedo-boats v^*- - “*—

ing whether th for the committee

order a regular investigation

with a view to ascertainthere it sufficient warrant littee to ask the House to ir investigation of the mat-

Tbe sensational charge was nttde by Mr. Lessler himself at a meeting of the Naval Affair* Committee. The question of the Holland torpedo boats was up, a^D M r. Lessler. who was opposing the authorization of additional boats, told the comminee that he had been approached with a bribe. Hi* statement startled the committee .and several members. among them Mr. Butler, of Pennevlvania, and Mr. Robert*, of Massachusetts, immediately suggested that so serious a charge should be investigated immediately. After some discussion Mr. Wheeler, of New York, offered a resolution. which was adopted, to appoint a subcommittee to investigate at once and

* 1 to the full coi— : **“

committee.

House *t Representatives Reisses to Authorize aa lasarance Bsresn At the end of a struggle, which prolonged the session until alter 6 o'clock, the House -passed the substitute for the Senate bill to establish a Department of Commerce and Labor. The vote stood 137 to 4a All the Republicans and 29 Democrats voted for the

bill.

In committee Tof the whole the Democrats and a sprinkling of Republicans, led by Mr. John B. Corliss, struck out the part of the bill providing for a Bureau of Insurance. By a piece of parliamentary strategy Mr. William P. Hepburn, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, sought to have

this provision re ‘"ion stood fast

s ove:

ats then attempted to rebill, #ith instructions to

rperate bill for the e

ored. but the oppo-

sition stood

The Democrat

commit .the

report back a separate bill for the creation of a Department of Labor, but the motion was lost. The only other substantial amendment was one to authorize the President to transfer the Interstate Commerce Commission to

the new department.

EDWARD. R. AND I. x not only the first full

messages sent by wireless telegraphy

between Welflcct and Poldhu. «... .-id the first atterai

unication.

home from 1

not learned the details of the engagemem. Count Quadt. a charge of the

first letters

tablish communication. *t>g ' Mr. Marconi availed himself of the j would be maintaii

words sent by the President for bis in- ’ ment of all parties concei

itial attempt to test the perfection ol j the case to The

u. but t nipt to 1

s introduced by RepresenC. Bell providing that any

it or

A bill

tathre John C. Bell providing that producer, dealer, transporter, agent other person in any territory of United States who shall join with

other pe pose of tide of fi. handling, A maxim

person

of raisii

o, 1 !

join with any

persons for the purthe price of any ar- ' its carriage and

foci,

shall be guilty of extortit

ilty of $5,000 fine or — year is provided.

imprisonment

Mill teas far Naval Acadeay. The Nasal Affairs Committee of the House adopted by an almost unanimous vote. Mr. Mudd's proposition to appropriate an additional $2,000,000 for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Mr. Mudd made a strong argument in favor of the increase, which, he said, was required to meet the increased cost of building materials and to make the Academy what it should

mem exprei American r

you and your country every ; re | Un prosperity. „ . »,r. . not 1«

j mem. _ _

1 German Embassy, is still in New York, and inquiries at the Embassy brought

mi information on the subject.

It has been supposed here that noth- : ig more than a peaceful blockade ould be maintained after the agree:ent of all parties concerned »o submit

sipt to test the perfection ol { the case to The Hague tribunal. The

arrangement. He said when an- 1 bombardn nouncing the achievement; an agreen "We were really not quite ready, but and bccai had reached a point where a trial was sailors warranted. A set of signals was pre- > surprise

arranged for snch purposes, but. as wai remirked by Mr. Bradficld. who was with me. 'Why not use the President's 1

message?' We did so accordingly, and ; He* is-| BC b Rifle, Lart> ^en called up Glace Bay to assure Well—2B-M1

ourselves of the success of our efforts.

The message was repeated to Glace ' New York (Special).—The most Bay and sent thence. While this was , powerful gun ever built in America.

rr- -

to Poldhu had gone through all n^ht " j successfully tested at the Government

There was no mistaking the air ol j provii exultation that prevailed in Mr. Mar- j t , coni’t demeanor. His usually quiet, re- !

served manner had relaxed perceptibly . ... , and there were unmistakable sips of re- > lew civilians and Congressm lief from a heavy menu) burden. He ; lette. of. Massachusetts, who 1

Representative Joy of Missouri introduced a concurrent resolution directing the House Committee on Naval Affairs to prepare a bill for the construction of 25 additional battle-ships, at a cost of not more than $5,000,000 each. Mr. Joy said: . “With $700,000,000 in our Treasury, we certainly are able to build a navy which will make it absolutely certain that we can enforce the Monroe doc-

to the Dcpartseats. The House passed the District of Columbia Appropriation Bill, and subsequently began consideration of the Philippine Coinage Bill. The general debate on the District bill was largely devpted to discussion of the Alaska boundary line dispute. When the Slat in the Senate Mr. Qua) immediate rote, coupling- his demand with the statement that he did not care whether any senators desired to speake on the subject or not. The subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee has completed the draft of Die Anti-Trust Bill. Publicity of the affairs of trusts is its main feature. Something of a stir was caused just before Mr. Cochran (Mo.) conduded a speech in the Hotter by a young woman in the jgallery who shouted “You lie." Aguinaldo has addressed a petition to Congress for a loan and United States credit to give banking facilities in the Philippines. The Senate passed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill Senator Lodge introduced a resolution directing the Finance Committee to in- - - «ia

By a vote of 7 to b the House Committee on Foreign Affairs decided to report favorably the bill introduced by Representative Adams providing for the reorganization of the consular ser-

vice, with modifications.

Lehigh Valley is earning 15 per cent, on its $40,000,000 capital stock. The Gould group of stocks is the easiest of manipulation on the fist. They are is excellent control. It is reported that the United States Steel Comfteny will buy the Eastern Steel Company's plant at Potts vflle. ■ Country bunks are ponring money into Phtlfiriphi. and New York as rapidly as ■ flowed the other six weeks

le negotian at Wssh-

Berlin (By Cable).—In the lions which are about to begin

ington. Great Britain and Germany, aa the result of further correspondence, are quite determined that the irreducible condition of arbitration it that President Castro shall pay or give collateral security ter the sums already

The powers will not consent ‘ blockade umil Venezuela

: nondiscriminating countries preferential

duties.

There are indications that Germany

and the transcontinental railroads are at work with Colombia with a view; to preventing a close of the negotiations for

right of way for an isthmian canal. Representative Crum packer, of Indiana,

introduced a resolution requesting the Postmaster General to submit to the House all correspondence bearing on the

Indianola postoffice controversy. It was committee suspension day in the House, and immediately after the rcadu of the journal the speaker recogni several member* to move the pastagi bills under suspension of the rules. The House Naval Committee acted

favorably upon construction of three

large battleships and one cruiser. The House Judiciary Committee re-

ported favorably the bill to create a bureau in the Department of Justice for the study of criminal, pauper and de-

fective classes.

A conference to discuss the bubonic plague was held. Surgeon General Wy-

man was the leader in tf

S3

t the mo Uof the tr

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SENDS ONE

NEW FEAT BY MARCONI «ov E t« e oe«uss »w»v. Vta.zaelea Bombardment The! Teraed 0ml First Wireless Message Between United , , Faltere—Three Weeaded. States and Enrope. | Maracaibo. Venezuela (By Cable).—

The German cruiser Panther shelled Fort ; San Carlos, at the entrance to Lake

-Waaderfal Trtaapb 01 SetesUfic Rzsearct Maracaibo, for one hour. The fort resad lageaalty" A Medium Fee The Expres. i turned the fire with four gun*. The sira ol Cordial Good Wishes Between Th) j Panther withdrew in the direction of CuTwo Rulers-Was Seal More Than i.tot rarao. Mile*. I Fort San Carlos is 22 miles from

——— j Marac-' 1 -' —

Wellfleet, Mass. (Special).—Inven 1 of the

tor William Marconi sent the follow ncssage direct to Poldhu, Cornwall

1 his station on Cape Cod: Majesty King Edward VII, Lon

Ion (by Marconi trans-Atlantii

vireless telegraphy):

In taking advantage of the wonderfu

triumph of scientific research hnd in genuity which has been achieved in per After a fight lasting an hour, during feeling a system of wireless telegraph) I which tlie fort used only four guns, the I extend, on behalf of the Americar Panther was obliged to abandon the fight . irdia , greeting* and g 0 ot ———* •

and to all the people o>

people.

wishes to you at

the British Empire.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The reply came by the same means i follows; , The President^ White House. Washing

ton, America:

I thank yfm most sincerely for tbt :ind message which I have just re ceived from you through Marconi'.' trans-Atlantic wireless telegraphy. 1 sincerely reciprocate in the name ol the people of the British Empire the cordial greetings and friendly senti-

ir inner bay.

The correspondent here has received the following letter from General Bello,

: the commander of the fort:

"Sunday afternoon at 12.30 Fort San 1 Carlos sja< attacked and shelled, without any provocation on otir part, without , previous notification or the delivering ot an ultimatum, by the German cruiser Panther, which tried to force an entrant* After a fight lasting an hour, durin)

Panther was obliged to abandon tl

and retreated in the direction of Curacao. The fort has suffered no damage, and

only three men were wounded'.’ There have ltern popular demonstra-

tions on the streets here as a result of

the shelling of the fort. SURPRISE IN WASHINGTON.

Another Attack on Venezuelans Was No*

ington bardm

igton (Speci: tceived the

it of Fort San cruiser Panther

rial).—Official Wash-

of the bom-

d by you on behalf of the No onc in official circ , es * ou i d con i. ion and I heartily wish , mrm on it and Secretary Hay. who just r country every possible re(urned home from N cw Vork. had

I the case to The Hague tribpna

| bombardment of Puerto Ca hello, before

rment of any kind was reached. iusc of an attack on English by Venezuelans, created lesr

BIG GUN IS FIRED.

coast-defense rifle, was

roving ground. Sandy Hook.

fired three times in the pres-

ence of several hundred army officers,

1 few civilians and Congt

lief from

said there was

of sending.

"It is enough for mk). “that a messai

distant

ivy mental 1 no hitch in

to k n be

the process 1 rued as a member of the House of . ; Representatives Appropriations Corn-

know. he mi,tee.

e sent that General Crozier said the tests show-

distance, more than 3,000 miles, and ed the gun was an absolute success we have no reason to suppose there was j an( i proved that 16-inch guns could be any special difficulty over there." j furnished whenever the country wanted

The message from President £00sc- | them,

veil was sent in the morning at one -n, e gun cost $100,000. It was said of the moments prearranged between that it undonbtedly would be mounted the stations when something might be , a . Sanday Hook. General Crozier said looked for. This scheme is necessary that while jts range at its highest elcon account of the deficiencies at vation was about 20 miles, it could be Poldhu and the conditions that have oc- : nset j to hit objects at a distance of only copied Mr. Marconi here for the last . four or five miles. Objects farther away

three da^s. Mr. Marconi Mid there I could not be seen.

response to an 11 ed to be ready fc in a few months.

iqniry that he expect- |4ears ago, r commercial business gress to as

gress to ascertain if guns of tl could be built when needed. He

To Measare “Tired FeeHo*."

Berlin (By Cable).—Among the curious exhibits at the St. Louis Exposition will be an apparatus for measuring mental fatigue. It is called a aesthesio- 1 meter and measures the sensitive

of the skin, which

then need

those present that the weapon might burst, as the charge of smokeless pow1 dec .was by far the largest ever fired,

i The gun *waf the grqpt* I vancc yet lafen in ordr

largest < - step in ad-

1 nance.

skin, which corresponds

ly to brain fatigue, the sensitiveness di- | “ ccn lu ‘ minishing as the the mind wearies. The ; January measurement of fatigue during class 1 numbere

, Y? nesf Mazatian, Mex. (Special. j been 107 deaths from the plague since

powers. Geometry and Latin are fat more exhausting. During the study ol . Latin the nerve power is reduced onequarter and memeory appears to suffer . gre*tlr- j

Ns Cheviot Gam. N* Wort

St. Louis (Special).—Because of an order issued by their foreman that they

from chewing gum during

girls, «

The deaths on January '15 red seven, and many new cases are

the ladies of the

icr class have left the city, and hardly women are -rfen on,the streets. Trade s reduced to the lowest possible point, xreat disappointment is felt in the noo- — 1 —* — the steamer from

refrain

working hoars, 65 girls, employed u band wrappers for the Samuel Cupplcs Envelope Company, went on a strike and refnse to return unless the decree is withdrawn. The foreman ssys Ihere is no objection to the girls chewing gum during the nobn hour, but there is objection during working hours.

Expte4te( Locomotive Kills Two. Baltimore (Special).—Two men were killed and two mortally injured by the

locomotive

1 of a freight 1 more and Ohii

lore and Ohio, near MonThe dead are: Fireman Lewis

1 Graham, both of flal-

Hahn and James Gr timorc. The injur*

The injured are Cutsail and Braker

tklin, ge of

Boilers Explode, kiltlot Two. Greenville. Mich. (Special). — Two boilers in the Ranney Refrigerator Factory blew up. killing two men, igjuring more than a dozen others and causing azi estimated money loss of $25,000. The side of the factory next to the boiler room tumbled in ruins, tons of brick falling and burying the engineer and fireman deep in the debris. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

llic Hanover National Bank moved into its new building and $65.000000 was carried safely through the crowded street* of New York. "(he Ohio Society of New York gave a banquet to Secretory Hay. Many .of the diplomats from Washington at-

tended.

Mrs. James R. Booth, wife of • prominent Philadelphia attorney, committed suicide at a hotel in Atlantic

City ^

has been compelled to use oil fuel, j did ^ lct)ow thal j ohn w. Gates While firing the boilers F. J. Peters' j secured possession of a majority of the clothe* became Mtnrated with oil, and stock of the road until he was actually

later, when he opened the furnace in control

door, the flames leaped through the The orerdoe steamer St. Louis was door a.id set fire to his clothes, burning sighted off Nantucket Shoals slowly him so badly that he died. j steaming toward New York.

night of Jane 9. The verdict was reached by the jury after brief deliberatkm. In ■ speech before the National Lhre-

1 destined as “Back" Out

Chicago (Special).—The second ol the 'robbers wbo held up a Burlington train near Marcus, III, on August 5 and murdered one of their companions to prevent betrayal, was positively

identified at the Pinkerton office ar

Thomas Clark, known as Butch | vented by the power _. r Clark, one of the most daring and no- The French Chamber of

stock Association in Kansas City Hon. W. M. Springer said that the incorpora-

tion of the Beef Trust hid vented by the power of public

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