AIERICiN IN A BATTLE Was ia CoaMr.aad of a Body ol Honduras Insuryeots. CUT HIS WAY OUT WITH FORTY MEN. Uf Cbristress. ■■ Amcrkss. sad Friend et Senor Bonllls. a Claimant at the PresMenev •1 Honduras. FeB lata a Trap and His Fare* Was Almost AnaiWlitcd-Was At-tac-ed aa All Sides. Atlanta. the Constitutioi

says:

"The steamer Breakwater, from Puerto Cortea. Honduras, brought news here of a desperate battle between government troops and a force of insurgents under command of Lee Christmas, an American, which resulted in the defeat of Christmas and the ■mplete annihilation of his lit-

. (Specii ion froi

THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.

President Ramsey, of the Vabash Railroad system, refused the demands of the firemen and the trainmen. Judge Adams, in the United States Court at St.

Louis, issued an i.., —. the chairmen of the labor committees and all others from interfering with the traffic of the Wabash system. According to a special from New Orleans, a fierce battle has been fought between government troops and a force of insurgents in Honduras. The insurgents, who were under the command of Lee Christmas, an American, were defeated. Twenty thousand acres of timber land • 1 —m- i been

s in the s

quarters at Asheville. Representatives of the anthracite operators and miners have been summoned by the Mine Strike Commission for a conference in Washington. It is thought the aard of the commission will soon be

announced.

Two Frenchmen, said to be stewards the French liner La Savoie, were arv ’— York charged with smug-

id fancy articles

almost com

tie band. . "Christmas went to Honduras about . rested in New six years ago. He is a close friend of glmg cmbroic

Senor Bonilla, who now claims the from France. . . presidenev. He organized a force in Several prominent business men of the interior of Honduras and was ; Toledo O.. were badly injured m a street marching at the head of a column of car and carriage collision. 300 men when he fell into a trap set by | The TMaware legislature

the government forces .at Mani. senatorial deadlock by eletuu* penses > •He was attacked by the government Senator J. Frank Alice, Union Repub- £ itsion "Christmas, with 40 men. cut his way to the short term, which ends m 1905. H . through the lines of the attacking force The. tesuh regarded at Dover as an ?f

and Th S c C gm d cmmcnt forces lost one col- | Mrs Emily A Gordon was granted by onel and three non-commissioned of- I Judge ^

MILLIONS APPROPRIATED A Blf la crease Over the Amount of Laal

EX-QUEEN LIUUCKALAN1 IS CUT OFF. Report of tht Conferees ol the Sundry Civil BUI—The Senate Cut OH Appropriation lor New PostOfflce at New York-Money lor

ashington, D. C (Special).—The report of the conferees of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill shows that of the in : creases made by the Senate the House conceded $2.423,oo5 and the Senate re-

ceded from items amounting in the aggregate to $4,203,325. The principal items of recession were those making jppropri-

oposed nev ~

York, for th. of the immigrant station at Ellis Island and for the navment of tf-~ * —

Queen Liliu As the bil

of the immigrant station at I and for the payment of the cl

‘‘‘••ecn Liliuokalani.

is the bill becomes a law it carries a il appropriation of $82,272,955. an increase of $22,109,595 over the amount carried by last session's act. The appropriation of $100,000 for the proposed monetary conference was retained, as

ictary confcreni

also that of $100,000 to pay ics of the Alaskan Boundar

laskan _

but the Senate receded from i rnt for the revival of the Joi

imission for thi with Canada.

1—j a]] business in Hon- > Gordan.

reporte

pletely paralyzed

duras.”

MAY SOON BE RELEASED.

say Gordon.

The Buffalo police authorities say tliat they are strengthened in their belief that E. L. Burdick was murdered by a wo-

is that it was a mem-

set,

iber o

j man, and the theory is

State Departumo: Said to Have luformatlan ] W^of his^own social

That Mrs. Maybrick Till Be Freed.

Richmond. Va. (Special).—The release of Mrs. Florence C. Maybrick j jjuc 1

from Aihworth Prison in Eng , ''~ , *« ' us *

promised May I, 1904. These

>ught

mprisoned woman, who

a suit involving I

1904.

were brought here by representatives j ing of a part of of the imprisoned woman, who is a j families had to fl<

party to a suit mvolvit oi land in South we;

other States The infon

^ The breaking of a dam at South r tidings 1 Schenectady. N. Y.. caused the floodematives j ing of a part of the town and many ‘s a families had to flee for their lives. tcsI Four men lost their lives in

idary Comled from its

vival of the Joint the settlement of

he House provision for the enlarget of the Capitol went out, but the provision for a building to be used % offices and committee rooms for the House of Representatives was retained. The Sepatc amendment looking to the construction of a similar building for

the Senate was disagreed to.

The Senate provision for the beginning of the construction of the new Department of Agriculture build.ing remains in the bill, as does the provision authorizing the beginning of the construction of a new building for the National Museum in Washington, to cost, when completed, $3,500,000. The conferees also left undisturbed the provision allowing the coinage of subsidiary silver without regard to the amount outstanding. The amount appropriated for military posts was compromised and placed at $1,500.-

'a Peo'

Four men lost their 1 floods at Findlay and Fremont, j pie living in the lowlands wen

The inlormation that she would be j to abandon their houses,

freed after spending 13 years in prison The waters have receded in Pittsfor the murder of her husband came j burg, but the damage caused by the from the State Department at Wash- ; flood throughout Western Pennsylvan-

— 1 :— 1—— ——™..-i ca t c d, jt ia will ’be extensive.

ton, having been communicated, jt j understood, by the Britl^i Atnbaj- |

idor.

The land in question was y Mrs. Maybrick on the even-

in consideration pending here is ent, and it is said

ing of hi .of $10,000.

Nzpsei by the agreement .... by Mrs. Maybrick's representatives j sylvama in that she will be released in time to ap- I A heavy sn< pear as a witness and regain her rights, j caused the

will 'be extent

j Vermilye & Co, -of New York, have . purchased the $10,000,000 bond issue of deeded ] the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and

LADRO.NES CAPTURED.

Twcaty-Ntoe of Tbea limed tad 1

Southern Roai

Floods and windstorms caused rablc damage in Wisconsin.

Manila (By Cable).—A detachment of sconts under the command of Lieutenant Nickerson attacked and defeated a body of ladrones near the village ( of Mariquina,- seven miles from Mai nila. After an hour’s fighting the ladrone* were scattered and 19 were kill- [_ i ed and many wounded. There were

'said ; t uck)\ b T e nnMsee ind^tern'Penn ^ ^onX^te ofthTsc^ sissssAfsaSgffiSSSIS

INJURED IN A WRECKED MILL. A Wall el the Factory Blowa la—ObTs Heir

Twisted •• the Spools.

Cotton Mill, at G

wrecked and four or five opci jured, two probably fatally’, bj storm which visited that

hundred and fifty feet of the southern ; wall of tl^ factory was blown down, fall- ' -ir.g inward on the operatives and ma- |

C Sadie

were and *

I surprised and captured me stronghol

trains. i of the ladrones in the mountains of Albert KWP. the modeen Blttebe.rd *"“>■ ' h "'n *, j° r £'

S!h?r h SjLiS:

r^eJTt,' T 0 , , r«H.T,e'7o\S:: '

c ladrones’ strong-

rere burned,

jl Sumner, com-

irtment of Mindanao,

of $76,610 worth of stamps. I telegraphs that he expects trouble

calling himse.f ^Tgm- j

Buffalo, and 453 i Suh . an Mindanao are friendly and

, iws and various [ anxious for peace, but are unabl Td tt, ^ Be,«_U,. | o.h.e .rllele. -et, tehee letee hi. | rf,'

| soldiers to avoid a Fcreiju. , carefully guard

plies were

able to

ir unruly followhas warned the

frame. Her hair was twisted on spools, her head was gashed and

was internally injured.

The Lay girl’s jaw and onp hand were broken and the back of her head crushed in. The injuries of the other operatives were not serious. The damage to the

factory is $5,000.

The town academy building was wrecked, chimneys were blown from the graded school building, and the Modena Cotton Mill was slightly damaged. At Clifton, S. C.. the dw-lling of

fton, : .

s Reynolds was blown down ar-old son killed.

ling of agaii and his i Tent

government to participate in the St. ! Springfield, 111. (Special).—An exploLouis Exposition. President Francis, sion w hich resulted in the death of J. H. Wallace, formerly secretary of: time 0 f the accident and it was the late Sir Francis Cook, secured a ' ii me before the fact became kt

erdict

gainst !

Baa on Skyscrapers.

New York (Special).—Alderman

Downing, of Brooklyn, introduced an ordinance at the meeting of the board

of aldermen limiting the h buildings hereafter erected wi

y limits

height of

with in the

city limits to 150 feet. The ordinance, was neferred to the committee on buildings. The preamble sets forth that the extreme b*'"*-’ - f '— :lj:

heretofore

ders them a me my in case of fii

in the traits

>k, securi

of $3250 damages for Lady Cook, better knot

- of New York.

ProL Adolf Wagner, the noted German political economist, says "the Monroe doctrine is an empty pretension, behind which is neither energetic

will nor actual power.”

Lorenz, in an address in the

Professor Lorenz, in an ienna. paid splendid tribi

referred jestingly to

:hat he had been "banqoctcd

nittcc on build-T 10 ocaln -

r sets forth that the Chancellor von Buclow, o 1 of many buildings ] i* meeting with strongoppoi erected in New York ren- 1 Bundesrath to the

o life and prop- j the anti-Jesuit law.

Chancellor von Buclow, of Germany, meeting with strong opposition inthe

proposed repeal of

Port Dc Pali Destroyed.

Cape Haytien. Haiti (By Cabl. despatch received here from

Mome announces the complete destruction of Port dd Paix. Haiti, by fire. Only the vessels belonging to the Hayticn Company were saved. The town is on the Straits, between the Haytien Islands and Tortuga, thirty-five miles

northwest of Cape Haytien.

ble).—/ n Gro

Kilted By Teacher.

Spartanburg. S. C (Special).—Edwin Foster, the 17-year-old schoolboy who was shot by Reuben E. Pitts, a teacher in the academy Foster attended, died here. It is said that several of the students attacked Professor Pitts while he was whipping Foster, and that in the scuffle which followed Foster was shot by Pitts.

Baron Tweedmouth and Lord Roberts criticised in the House of Lords the British government's conduct in the Venezuelan dispute, particularly the alliance with Germany. Secretary Lansdowne defended co-operation with

Germany.

President Francis, of the St Louis Exposition, had im audience with President Lorbet in Paris. A grand dinner was given in his honor by the French Minister of Commerce and he was the recipient of other social at-

tentions.

French oil refiners declare the additional tax means more profit foi American Sundard Oil Comp; they will not be able to compel! also assert that a government :

oly it impracticable.

Reports received at Willemstad state > Venezuelan revolutionists are

ival

Company, as compete. They

ernment monop-

WMKrat-J^SMH MMtaL

Washington. D. C. (Special).—General Crozicr, chief ol ordnance, has made preliminary arrangements for arming the entire organized militia of the United States with the Krag-Jor-gensen musket of the regular service, in accordance with the provisions of the new militia law. He already has collected about 60,000 of these arms ai the government arsenals at Augusta. Ga.; Benicia, Cala.: Rock Island. Bland San Antonio.’ Tex., and more will be shipped to those points from the

armory at Springfield. Ma« .

'enezuelan rev

Encamado awaiting

3000 more revolutionists fc. bined attack upon Caracas.

:ionu arris

a com-

Lahor troubles on the Wabash arc

”1=7,

troul easie

San Francisco has sent to New York

this week $1,000^00.

Buying by Americans has put up the price of pig iron to $14 at Glasgow. Mining companies in the United

States last year paid $11

King by Aroeri pnee of pig iron to $14 a Mining companies in

State* last yer

dividends.

Louisville, k Nashville for the third week of February gained Dtpj'

my’* pig iron

Germany’* pig iron products wa* 7*2-484 tons, br-alr;

>nth W

:ord«.

lion last king all

I be

Ten of the eleven mule shaft were also killed. used by an expios

ime known, used in the

Fear* Yellow Fever.

Ecuador (By Cable).—

United States Consul General Sawter Mrs. Sawter, who arrived here

“ Peru,

Guayaquil, ited States

and Mrs. Sawter, February 25 via Pa;

started on their return to States on the same stea

Mought them south. Mr. Sawter. it is alleged, became afraid of yellow fe-

con fev«

lleged, bee when he s

late where Tl m*ul general,'

•u. have i United - —hich

r. it

'3IctW^ecci

t, the nber 7,

Kilted Jailer ud Escaped.

Olympia. Wash. (Special yN-Chris T.

Benson, a,grand larceny prisortpr in the

killed Jailtt’ David Morell and

jail, has 1 made his

ssr

his escape. Benson left open the and outer doors of the jail.. Mr*, ise Mills, wife of the sheriff, arrived the scene with a revolver in time to — from gaining

in dose pursuit lid to have him

posse

. and is sai surrounded near town.

Clergyman's Attempted Salcid*. Chicago (Special).—Rev. Dr. J. M. Caldwell, for many years presiding elder of the Methodist Church at Chicago and now pastor of the Union Avenue Methoditt Church, attempted to end his life by throwing himself in front of a railroad train. He was unconsdons when picked up. His leg was broken and he was internally injured, but it w*s said he might recover. Dr. Caldwell was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct and released on bail

S:rik* CommlsUon's Work. . Washington (Special).—The Anthracite strike commission is making considerable progress in its labors. It has careluly gone over practically all the important points involved and a tentative agreement has been reached on some of them. No statement has

the actual fram-

been

mg a.- M exoected that the be embodied in ’

oi the report will begin, but h is ccted that the final conclusions to

WITH THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.

Genera! Deficiency BUI

The Senate Committee on Appropria-

tions concluded it* consideration of the

General Defidency Appropriation Bill.

The committee added as an amendment

to the Defidency Bill the House Bill provision for the conduct of the

taking usinesi

1 of the Departir and Labor and

appropriating

! Cornpriatint

■ part of the : and Labor

iwing is 1 Department of Cot

provision:

“That the President may in his discretion direct the diversion from the appropriation of $5001000 for the enforcement of the provisions of an act entitled ‘an act to regulate commerce' and divers other acts heretofore made for the Department of Justice in the act making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government, approved February 25. 1903. an amount not exceeding $100,000 of said

appropriation.

Other important amendments are as

follows:

Giving 111^President authority to extend the leave of absence of Minister Bowen; appropriating $946/383 to pay the prize-money daims of Admiral Dewey and the officers and men under him at Manila; appropriating $50,000 for the payment of daims of Confederate soldiers for horses taken from them in violation of terms of surrender and barring all such claims under the Act of 1902 which arc not filed by March t, 1904. As reported to the Senate, the bill carries a total of $18,306449, an increase of

*3.593.472.

Naval Reserve and MUtla.

The House Committee on Naval Affairs authorized a favorable reports on a resolution calling upon the Secreury of the Navy to transmit to Congress the recommendations of the general naval board, and the reports of the nasal war college in reference to the policy that shall be pursued by Congress in making appropriations, and other information relative to the cost of equippiim and maintaining a naval reserve and militia. The provision in the resolution requesting the Secretary to inform Congress as to the appropriations that would be necessary to annually increase the navy to the extent of four battle-ships was

stricken out of the resolution.

A favorable report also was ordered on the resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Navy for information as to the letting of any contracts for the preparations of plans for the new Naval

Academy.

Report on Wizvlesi Telegraphy.

A joint resolution was introduced in the House by Representative Loudenslagcr, of New Jersey, directing the Secretary of the Navy to submit a report to Congress as to the best system of wire less telegraphy, with an estimate of the cost of purchase, and the establishment of a system for the use of the several departments of the government, and the

desirability of such purchase. To Eacoarage Americas SWppiag.

Representative Jones, of Washington, introduced a bil) providing for a discriminating duty of 10 per cent in favor

of American vessels.

A Govern men! lor Alaska.

Representative Sulzer, of New York, introduced a bill to create the Territory of Alaska, and to provide ~ ~ *

for the Territory. In the Departments.

Rear Admiral Charles S. Cotton, commandant of the Norfolk Naval Station, will be detached in the near future and ordered to the command of the Euopcan

Squadon.

Gen cal Crozicr. chief of ordnance, has liminary arrangements for arm-

MANY PERSONS INJURED sa8w,s “ MS !^P ,Esoml *l

Terrible Explosion ia a New Jersey

Cement Works. IGNITION OP OAS

COAL BIN. ! passenger train. Chattanooga

1 isbury, leaving Chattannoga

A Bars! *1 Flam, Envelapes the U.l Hons, m wak wrccked lhret

Ibree Killed aad Twenty-Five Injured

In RaUroad Wreck.

| Knoxville, Tenn. (Special).—The fasi

! passei

I isbury. leaving Chattannoga at lt.45 »

and Quickly Spreads to the Ollier Buildings—AU Bat Slz of the Workmen Acconnl*d For, Mo*l of Them Being Injnred-Fears

For the Injnred.

11.45 P I a-hal!

miles west of Lenoir vcity, Tenn., or the Southern Railroad about 2 o’clock a. m. The wreck was caused by spread of the rails. Three were killed

' ing

Eulo* Pi (SpKnl).—Six ™ “ d « ‘"i"'" 1 *.4 ,„d , 5 o, „ „h,„ , X"~L'Es=? ,"d are injured, several of them seriously, I plunged down this. The locomotive from the effects of an explosion at the 1 went within 30 feet of the Tenesser Edison cement plant, at New Village. N j d Four of the coadte* were tele J-jjeven miles from here, on the line of , e „gj ne Three coache*s were burnec tW' Delaware, Lackawanna and Western | outright. The Cincinnati Southeri Railroad. A large part of the plant was | train from Chattanooga to Cincinnati burned. Six men are missing, and it is j **»' r V ,e,i " g behind the tram feared their bodies arc in the ruins. vi || e ' on “accou""’^ & m agc to track: Their names have not been learned. of the Cincinnati Southern betweet All of the injured men have been | Chattanooga and Harriman. This trair

broudh, ,0 E*nnn n. remind,, oi I

the injured are being cared for at New i g i ne 0 f ,he Cincinnati Southern trait

Village

vicinity of the plant.

ic Cincinnati the scene of

ignition of a quantity of gas. The day | „ ; g stated the wreck was cau^d by

‘bout , fwo landslides. In the first, it if

! 8 ,n e

i J,,

ne wreck ant

ling two of the rear sleepers bad track and away from the wreck-

them iron

ignition of a quantity of gas. force had discovered a slight 5 o’clock, but •'

extinguished it

fire

thought they h

Rose went

two landslii

blown to pieces.

TORTURED BY MASKED ROBBERS.

„ .1 big boulder c

( side of a bluff and fell upon the track. ! these landslides spread the track 1 and when the locomotive struck the j boulder it was thrown from the tie* : and down the embankment. Several \ coaches followed. The scene oi tbt

‘ ‘ wreck is between Loudon and Lftnoii

Even the Baby and a Little Girl Were Sob. city. Tennessee, where the railroad par

jected to Bad Treatment ! allels the Tennessee river for a consid-

t 1 j -.ire- , , erable distance. The construction of the Toledo. O. (Special).—Ten masked 1 road at t hi s point was very difficult robbers went to the home of Christian engineering, and it is the most unfor-

thlin, two miles from the city lim- i tnnate place for_ 1

battered down their doors 1 ‘ "

Jochl its. 1

clubs and entered the residence, leaving two men outside as guards, the house were My and Mrs. Chri Jochlin, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Joi John Anderson. Joseph Jochlin,

leav ‘ j a little whiskey, in the hope of exIn j tending his life as long as_ possible. j an ; The engineer refused it, saying:

houre Mq, and M„. Chmunn | an. Vn Joehlin, | ^ ^

tinning, he said: "I am going to die. j so go and look after the women and

I children in the coaches.’’

lochlin, I

also |

an i8-months- |

ding even the baby : clubbed into insen- j

said they knew was’ secreted in the j galley Railroad, due here a Mile be house |More jnoon, ran into a heavy landslide

Anderson, Joseph Joehl

a three-year-old boy and a

old girl. AH, includi boy and girl, were c sibility, bound and g

' thlings

Ran lot* 1 Landslide.

Easton, Pa. (Special).—An

iansburg

•om

blocked, but

1 dul

duty saw the train

there „

torches to the faces and feet of all j bmati—- — their victims, blistering even the in- track and traffic was

fant’s little feet. Christian Joehlin. an . one hurt. A watchman o ffiSSS 3=r£= I ".“j “SS.:K i

1 =IS

„ ,1™* «,„.i

searched every

house, securing $300 in

articles of jewelry. They drank several gallons of wine which they found in

filar, prepared a meal, including potatoes coffee, wine and other

meat, potatoe edibles, and t

ere in the house fit

o’clock a.

wine and

levoured it. They c hours, leaving at

itilying the ’

4 o’clock a. m., after notifying the family that they would return for the $20.000. Every policeman and detective in

the city is working on the case, but not j llt tll ,, even a clue of the intruders’ where- ; swcpt {, ro . abouts has been discovered- i nue Fi agnian Dix.

• the street talking t<

Betl

the

icm and Easton rck.

Limited Express Dr railed.

Battle Creek, Mich. (Special).—As a suit of the deraillnent of the Grand runk westbound limited express one an was killed, one was fatallyinjured

id several were seriously hurt

The first day coach left the rails and

•*-idc across Jefferson a ve-

il Dixon was standing in — •- Parker, and both

ENGINEER DEAD AT LEVER.

ing the entire organized mi United States with the Kra;

nts for an lilitia of t

xag-Jorgcnsen

Captain Lentze has made a detailed report to the Navy Department of the trouble with the crew of the battleship Maine while she was at Newport New*. The Panama Canal Company has accepted the proposition of the United States to keep alive the option of this country on the company's property. Secretary Hay has announced the exchange of ratifications of the Alaskan boundary treaty, which has been con-

cluded.

Postmaster General Payne forwarded to the House all the papers in the Indianola postoffice case, including the result of the investigation made by a

special inspector.

Five specifications charging culpable inefficiency, are made against Ensign Wortman on account of the fatal explosion on the battleship Massachusetts. President Roosevelt nominated Geoise C. Holt as United States judge in the new district recently created in Southern

New York.

The Interstate Commerce Commission submitted a report of its investigation in the matter of domestic and import

freight rates.

William R. Day,

lay, of Ohici, was swon r of the Supreme Cour

The Navy Department authorized Rear Admiral Coghlan to take the warships away- from Venezuelan waters. Reed Smoot was among, the new United States senators who called at the

White House.

Members of the Naval Board

Construction told the H<

d of

c^'- ,n

comi con-

upon the " adopted

struction told the House tee it would not be possible struct up-to-date battleships u amendments to the Naval Bill

by the Senate.

Baron Gevers, the minister of the Netherlands, and Mr. Bowen, signed the protocol for the settlement of that country's claims against Venezuela.The Secretary of the Treasury telegraphed to Assistant Appraiser J. B. Stillman, of New York, asking for his immediate resignation. F. H. du Martheray, the new. Swiss minister, was formally presented to President Roo '*

At the Ci"

expressed tL_. . not ratify the Panama Canal and Cuban Reciprocity Treaties and that an extra session was inevitable. President Roosereh sent an urgent appeal to Congress to pass the Philippine Tariff Bill as a measure of humanity and to prevent the spread of disaffection in

And Train Rushed Across Bridge at Sixty

Miles as Hoar.

Columbus, Ohio (Special).—When a passenger train on the Panhandle road reached the Big Walnut bridge, just east of Columlps, it did not decrease speed, in obedience to orders, but rushed across at the rate of 60 miles an hour. The fireman, M. G. Coristan, was *urprisen and looked over at Engineer John W. Smith. He was horrified to find the engineer crouched against the reverse lever with both arms about it. When examined, after the train was brought to a standstill, a deep gash, exposing the brain, was found in the engineer’s right temple. It is thought that while leaning out of hi* cab window he was struck by some protruding object

and killed.

463 Tacks fat HU Sloaiack.

Buffalo. N. Y. (Special).—Physicians, at the Erie County Hospital state that, as a result of an operation performed at the hospital, 453 carpet tacks, 41 small knife blades. 142 screw nails. 40 pin points, resembling the points on a shoemaker’s awl; six and one-hall ounces ol ground glass, and a wire chain about three inches in length were taken from the stomach of Claude Trimble, 24 years old. who says he is a cook. He went to the hospital complaining ol indigestion and dull pains m the stomach. The physicians report the patient is in a fair wa> to recovery. '

Dr. R. 1 Qatfiag Dead.

New York (Special).—R. J. Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun. died here at the home of his son-in-law. Hugh O. Pentecost. Dr. Gatling, besides the gun which bears his name, invented a number of agricultural implements and a gun mctaL Although he graduated from Ohio Medical College, he never

practiced medicine.

was crowded whom escaped ries. A defccti'

cident.

to Parker, and b

swept under the car. The car ded with passengers, all ol J with very slight iniu

itch caused the ac

SPARKS FROM THE WUES.

til le: Pah

The insubordination of a squad of arllerymen in Havana caused President Ima to separate the artillery force itioned at Cabanas fortress from the remainder of the guard. Twenty-two laborers arc suing tht Pennsylvania Coal Company and the Erie Railroad for $50,000 apiece for injuries alleged to have been received during the coal strike. A number of men arc believed tc have lost their lives in a fire-damp explosion that occurred in the Hos-tettcr-Connellsville Coke Company's mine, near Latrobe, Pa. Miss Edith Curzon, oi Red Bank N. J.. who was supposed to be dead came to life while the undertaken was making preparations to embalm the

body.

A passenger train collided with a light engine near Brownsville, Pa., in which a number of passengers and

trainmen wqre injured.

Louis Messier and John Cullen, bellboys, recently arrested, charged ith robbing guests at New York hotre indicted by the grand jury

of grand larceny in the The police believe the 00 worth of jewelry and

tels, were i on the charge second degree

$100.<

Leaders of political parties in ly have signed an agreement dir

ony

against the Germany hai. vote in 1898. For the fin

an a ilists

first time in 50 years there

was a peaceful transfer of the presiden-

cy in San Salvador.

The British ship Cambrfin Prince it .-ported to have capsized and sunk. .An unidentified man, claiming to be a

unidentified man, claiming to be a citizen of the United States, was arrested in Vienna, charged with fraudulently cashing a letter of credit for $10,000 issued by Lazard F re res. of New York, in

Pawder MID Exptodeo.

I

French Chamber

Cherokee. Kan. (Special).—The press I a " exciting discussion, voted a Ux ■■ - - IiOin a R-n,

the United States Steel Cornoration. will expend $9,000,000 in additions and improvements to its 14

ylants.

Emperor William decided to postpone lending the Frederick the Great statute

cntil the spring of 1904.

The Italian government denies having ntemplated the ceding of am- portion her Somali possessions to Great Bri-

tempted to commit suicide. It developed j The Cunard steamer Lucania comthat his accounts at the bank are short mmicated with the Campania, of the

af England during 19012 were $41,850,000. Msbini. former president of the Phfl-

Court. took the o«h

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Boston (Special).—Walter S. Cooke, | selectman and former stole representative from Milford and treasurer of the l Milford Co-operative Bank, recently at- f

an amount, which the president of the institution says may be $5,000 and might reach $15,000- Cooke is In a critical

condition. No move towards criminal Some me

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