SIXTY PEOPLE A8E KILLED A FriltaM Wreck oa the B«1tl«ore and

Ohio Railroad.

UUTED HURLED OVER EMBANKMENT Aamj Vlctiat Scalded By iltaa Fraa Eagtaa—Tk: Inlojered R:ader Preap' IrHtf la Ike Lea» Fertaaale Paieeafm— Bar(a(:ain Slope Oacoalar EepetM J«»l la TiaK la Prtreal Addlilaaal DiaatKr. ConnrIUvillr. Pa. (Special).—With terrible low oi life, the Dnqueanc Li*>heel, the la.le.t through paetenger train iron) Pitt>burg to New York ou the Baltimore and f)hio Railroad, was arrecked two jnilrs west ol Dawson at 7-C5 o'clock p. m. ^ Stxtjr-three persons arc known to have been killed, while report* indicate th4t the death h'l may run as high as seventy fi\e or eighty. The number of the fatally injured is placed at twenty, ancf thirty or forty are •aid to base been morekor less serious-

ly hurt.

The w reclj mas occasioned by

ginc colliding

fallen from a westbound freight t cast track. The limited’s engine derailed and with the baggage ea

THE LATEST NEWS W SHORT

Judge Kiifcpatrick. of the United States Circuit Court in Newark. N. }„ authorized Receiver TatnaU to issue a call assessing Jhe rhareholders of the Asphalt Company of America in the sum of $14,000,000. Upon the petition of Mrs. Ella S. Russell, a receiver was appointed for the Windham County National Bank of Danielson, Ct. Mrs. Russell charged that the officers speculated with

bank funds.

The twin brother «>f Miss Elizabeth Gillespie, rif Rising Sun. Ind., and other members of the family were arrested for her murder. Writs of habeas corpus were secured in their be-

PEACE PROBABLE IN EAST Sltaatiofl fa Qrkve, But Pacific Sclatira of Differences May Bs Reached. THE JAPS WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.

Counsel for the Ship Trust protnot-

’ ers were indignant at the publication

of letters and cablegrams which show-

ed how the promoters had tried to.

drive the French underwriters.

| The five officers and instructors of

a school in Chicago which taught students how to manufacture and imitate all kinds of liquors were arrested on the charge of operating a disrillery. _Rcar\Admira! Walker arrived at New

i thro

bankment into the rtvcj. Escaping* steam rushed

smoker, and those that were not >

. .>rk frbnt Panama, and says the rines onithe i- thnCu - will be able tp dcaT witlt any situation that may arise. Joseph nauii.enblitt. one of the coun-

•hich had 1 terfeitys who tnmed State's evidence,

testified in New York against the other

members of the gang.

Albert Driscoll and J. E. Russell, iuspected of be.ng safe»blowers,

the

, sentenced to the county chain gang in

Mobile. Ala.

| -The cruiser New York will shortly , sail for Panama from San Francisco with the torpedo-boat destroyers Pre-

gled to death were scalded allVc. All ble and Paul Jones:

“uSU- .h,!?« rmitoCirc^-. gr.v,. h» work •k'tl' «■> dimtoli o«- j d Fmit.mKh.r, ,tcu.,d

to fire that quickly enveloped the t . - - -

' wined iron and splintered ;

lined along the cm- ] The Building Trades'. Council and tellsville. three miles ! t he plumbers' Union were'temporarily

JapaMM Olflc'slt Atfalt Tbit Ik* Sitaatfaa It Orircr Tkaa at Aay Tim* Since Ik* Negotlatloat Wert Btgaa—JiyaatM Prtt- ' slag GoTtroa;Dl la Set Ualt la Rnalaa la tale ice. Tokio {By Cable).—It is asserted in official circles here that the Japanese reply to Russia rejects the fundamental points at issue, which are understood to include mutual guarantees for the preservation of Chinese and Korean sovereignty while securing their individual interests. , The situation is graver than since the beginning of the negotiations, but is still •susceptible to a pacific solution if Russia will quickly reconsider her

reply.

The fact that Former Minister Komura called on Baron De Rosen, the Russian minister, instead of Baron De Rosen calling on Komnra is explained by the fact that the Baron is suffering from an ear affection. But the explanation has obvious diplomatic significance and is interpreted that Japan is dptermiped not to afford Russia possible ground for claiming Japanese impetuosity as aii excuse. Komura's communication is dot believed officially to necessarily be tantamount to an

ultimatum, as rumored.

War preparations continue apace. The transports and the warships can

sail at five minutes' notice.

The Japanese government proposes immediately to undertake the completion of the Seoul-Fusaa Railroad under the direct tupepision ol Japan. Popular sentiment and the press are eagerly urging the government to set a limit to the "Ruisiansttetics of ag-

temporanly j g rcss j on and insolent negligence."

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAUSs

CHINESE OFFICIALS WORRIED.

Ota. W.W Asked far Uv«gli|*ties. The W»r Department has made public tHT following letter from General

Wood:

"Manila, P. I-. July 38. 1903 "To the Adjutant General U. S. Army, Waahington, D. G: "Sir:—I have the honor to invite your attention to statement s_ made in the editorial columns of the New York Sun of June a, 4 and 6 and later dates, which clearly charge me with conduct of a most censurable character, perhaps contemptible would be a better word. I also inyitc your attention to the source from which the paper claims to have obtained its information, namely. statements of First Lieut. James E. Kuncie (late major of the U. S. volunteer cavalry) 'made t/v various reliable parties,’ and request fnat the matter be referred to the inspector general of the army for such action as may be required under the cirromstancts, or to any other authority which the War DeK artment may deem proper. I enclose rrewith statements of the facts in the case, together with true copies of letters, extracts from letters, etc, bearing on the subject. "The matter is now one of three and half year's standing, and during the greater portion of this period I have been within easy reach of the aggrieved party or parties. The statement closed gives the addresses of mot the persons who have more or knowledge of the affair. "It will be noted that many of the letters are confidential in character, the originals of which are in the confidential official file* of the Secretary of War. Very respectfully. LEONARD WOOD. "Brigadier General U. S. Army.”

Tall Rasbcs.

Governor Taft, who left Manila Thursday to come to Washington to relieve Secretary Root of the duties of secretary of war, is expected to break the record for the trip between the. two points named. Rapid transit bysea and land hai been planned in order to insure Governor Taft's presence in Washington not later than January .to.

FAILED TO FLAG TRAIN DisMlroas Wreck k Caused by Cardestuess. BRAKUAN OF TRAIN DISAPPEARS Tkt -Mafa.ar," Traia m tb* St Uafs awl Saa Fraadsc* Rallraa*. Ron fat* Opts Switch aad Is Tkrawa Down Emkaskarai —Nfac Persons Dead, aad Tk'etylwo lafared. Foor art Likely to Me.

HE WAS PROMPTED BY POVERTY.

Cleveland Maa Slay* HU Wife aad

Three Children.

Cleveland. O. (Spcfial) —Roscoe W. Derby, a machinist, about 45 years old, exterminated his whole family by shooting his wife Della, his three children

and then himself.

Tile crime is believed to have been due to despondency over the impoverished condition of the family purse and the near approach of Christmas The crimes were extraordinary io their thoroughness, and there was evidently no mishap in their enactment The wife was killed first while sleeping her husband's side in bed: two of tile children w?rc killed as they ran hither and thither through the house io the darkness of early nfShiing. endeavoring to escape their merciless parent The third child was killed in its bed after his elder brother and sister had

The injured w«

bankment and Connellsville, three miles | t j,e numbers’ away, was telegraphed for aid. Medi- ; enjoined by the Suprcmq Court cal assistance was furnished, but in j cmnati from interfering with'employes insufficient numbers. of the Contractors' Association by way j

The train left Pittsburg, running a 0 f discipline.

fc. ninjtn 1.1,. in durge ot Engmm | Al^mnn John J Himnan ni Chi-1 W.r j Governor T.ll’. fir.t rioj will I* Wm. Thornley, of Connellsville. Ap-t cago, was sentenced to one year in. > „- n ,,,„ proaching Laurel Run. which is a par- J the. House of Correction by Judge . Peking (By Cable).-Thc Chinese H^Rkorg w^re fee win Ul« the ticufarly fine piece of roadbed, the train ; Gary.on'a charge of complicity in elcc- j officials are awakening to the peril . Yokohama lanuarv 6 and San was running at a high rate of speed. „o„ frauds .'confronting China in the even, of a ! ^.tiioJan^Jy ^tLko"! has Suddenly the passengers were thrown james KL Edge ^ I Russo-Japawege war, and they arc : been ordered ,0 break her schedule from their ^eats by the lightning-hkr , the First National Bank 01 l aterson, , *• _ • '..-m,. ;i n««.,>,t. -ill h.Ktv application of the airbrakes and a mo- N. J.. who enibefczled $110000. was sen- • greatly distressed. Wu Ting-Fang has | ‘J * n ® "V 1 '!^' y merit later there was a terrific crash. j tenced lo the penitentiary for seven | urg i n g the United States Lega- i{ific At San Francisco a revenue cutThe train was made up of two bag- ! year*^ / , ion on own responsibility ,0 seek | t, r will meet (he steamship in the lower gage, two day coaches, one sleeper, and The Meteor. *. <**'.‘ r »'" ^ a special audience of the Dowager Em- | bay and hurry Governor Taft ,0 Oakone dm.ng car. and w as carry ing at the ( Louis »" d t S » n J'.« nc,s '” Ra, ‘.V y ' I press and impress on her Chma's peril- I land, where, in case of necessity, a spetime, at the lowest estimate, 150 pas- wrecked at Godfrey. Kan. Nine per- ^ itjon al , d , he need of a slw ng cial train will be jn waiting to take him *™' rs I so, ?‘ wcre g . k,,led , and _® V _ e I_* '"'“X; ! army ind ministers acquainted with across the continent.

.. . ! 1—,^w, - U a speci '

tor "Taft

Karsas City. .Mo. (Special).—In wreck at Godfrey. Kan., of the 'Me leor," a St. Louis and San Francisco fast train from the South, nine persons were killed and 33 were injured. Of the injured, 4 probably will die, w

were severely hurt.

AH the dead lived in Kansas and Oklahoma, and the injured arc 1

dents of the West.

J. A. Bartley, a freight brakeman,

whose failure to flag the passenger been slain. train caused the wreck, has not been The dead children are: Harold, aged found. A; Alice, aged 7. and Thomas, aged 5 The wrecked train was one of the Derby had been down town until it finest and fastest in the service. It was o'clock, ostensibly engaged in Christmai made up of two baggage and one mail shopping, but in all probability-securing car. a xmoker. two chair Ckrs and , 1 ammunition for hi> r ''° lvc , r , 1 got home his wife and he talked with z flee per VUten the tram reached God- , “ clghbori who had fa ii, n g. ovet frey it was running at full speed ,0 j t h e approaching festival Derby seemed n-ake up time. The crew of a freight 1 pale and nervous Shortly after his ar

h,d p-veeded u,,

left the switch open and the passenger j -j-j le lf belied t© luve beer train jumped the track and rolled down ' committed about 4 o'clock A M.. Mrs a slight embankment. The sleeper j Derby was shot to death in bed, twe , .... .1,, , r .. n ! bullets having been fired into her b.retumed over, and so fas, was the tram , ^ ^ a ^ pr(|bab , y fired aftfff running that the engine and the forward j thc chlldrcn had exterminated, ir baggage car landed 60 fee, off thc , the back of the neck She probably wai roadbed before it stopped. The sleeper i killed during sleep, the expression on he. j ■ 1. a . ,1,. face showing no sign of a struggle, anr

r,in,.ncd vprie!>l vnd non. ol lb. P»> ! „ ^

sengers in this car was injured. 1 tie j Two of the children, awakened by thi baggags cars were completely wrecked ; noise of the revolver being fired, sough 1 and the smoker was badly damaged. Joescape. but without r—' u * '

1 j I body was fottna lying ir the forward , . ’ .fi,.

Harofd'i

Fi„ ol .ho,, billed .... m ,h. lo„„d |

In order that the formal transfer of the i end of the smoker and four of them ( dining-room, with her face ,0 the .floo*

' ’ were killed instantly. A news agent. ^ and a bullet in her breast

.*0 -.. bedl, o,.^. d,.d o„ .b.|

relief tram that carried tne dead and j jn ^ mann( . r in which thf furnishingi

injured to Fort Scot,.

Almost every passenger on ,1 except those in the sleeper, v caped with a severe shake-up. jured. some, of'them seriously.

The train ploughed along for a

number of respondents

_ it respondents m roc i . « . -

siderable disiancc. and the cars were boodlitw catea-fa Grand RaokhsMi^-J Chma will attempt to rcmalft fientral. tom ,0 pwces. passengers jumping, appeared in court and pleaded not j , h h dou i, tk „ s j, e w i]i be subjected screaming, falling from the wreck as it ; gml«y- ^ 1 lo a ^rong Japanese pressure to par-

I ticipatc in a conflict for thc preserva-

' u -hr>'"kmkw his t>on of her integrity. The officials here

I recognize that the remnant of China's ' - : n Manchufia is lost if Rus-

tore along. ” . ! ” A ’successful operation was pctjprm Suddenly the engine swerved to the ed in Sioux City by Dr. Wilham Jcp left and the coathes plunged down over son on John Norstrom,

the embankment to the- edge of the I neck. _ ., . .. , . 1 SO vcrciitntv Youghioghcny river. There was a wild. 1 General I- \Y. Colby, indicted *nJ W'eragntjr

Cljin

succeeds and sec the difficulty of

indescribable 'scene. " | Omaha. Neb- on the charge of Many were pinioned beneath thc 1 bezzling government funds, gave b:

wreckage, and the screams and cries that ,

rent the air were beyond descriptio-. ' Ittefgm. . Many who were injured, in their mad , j n Japanese official circle* Hl is»4tatexotement plunged into the river. 1 rd t hat thc reply to Russia^cjRu thc ’ W( Others, pinioned beneath thc heavy tim- ; fundamental points at issue, which' arc bers. pleaded in agonized tones for rc- .understood to include mutual guaran !

i tees for the preservation of Chinese Chicago,

So terrific was the force of the wreck ; and Korean sovereignty while sccurthat nearly every passenger suffered a „ , hcir individual interests.

moment s unconsciousness, and many of ! . • ■ : - . . _ the able-bodied men were unable to as- . T *’f 7^ !?.! K ular verdict pronounced by Corosis, in lielping the injured from the ' Con*til Davi^for^he insults of' Physician Springer, after per.,«k « ^o..i .! hiving /uSSf V* 1 <«-iW •» -ow - W bod, oi

I Armenian, naturalized > American citi- ; Virginia Jackson, an aged colored wo-

irn. whose arrest caused the trouble. . man and (orm „ tlave .

W^ n -rt»Th.*.,rwed the United The autopsy was performed in the

<>% ”-""p “—:'■"<••

•f! press upon the Dowager Empress 1 0 ' I <wb«tt<rin iij the event 1 01 murder.

tvoidihg becoming entangled i

on her own territory. FRIGHTENED 10 DEATH.

1 laitfacd She Was Pebaeed aad

Died Fra* tbs Scare.

.w. .... - =-. - (Special).—"Not poi-

s the force of the wreck ] and Korean sovereignty while sccur- S on«d. but ocad because she thought ry passenger suffered a , inff lllc .i r individual interests. 'jibe had been poisoned,” was the * : --

STRUCK BV GIANT WAVE

, whose arrest caused the trouble,

Thrilitoy Experience oa tbe «Aea«»faee-Sb!p ' ^ becn liberated,

aa Her Beaiaa.

New York (Special).—A number

Ob ih t All^-iCTm. R ,^rnoujpo,ilioi I .-It* tM wamam tkMRM rte Md i„di,ldn.U. nolo., bm.r.CTcy tK Transport steamer Menominee. 01 a l> n . f Rox I been poispned sai4 Dr. Springer. ; (hcuId arisc whiefr should render it 1 for this port when the was JUr. ’Hz “1, T'SSLSLrS: • »i -cmn- <« 'K c«bioe, .0 „,„bk

■ woman's death Were indicative

s not heeded. Gotr-

ncntal trip in a special car of thc regular through trains. It is said that one of the Pacific railroads has offered to supply a special train free of cost with

a t-iew of making a record run. Asslstaat Secretary af Cow we ret.

Lawrence O. Murray, of Chicago, has been chosen assistant secretary of commerce and labor. The selection was announced by the President, who stated that the office had been , tendered to and accepted by Mr. Murray and that the-ohommation would be sent to the Senate immediately after the reccss. The appointment is made on the perannal recommendation of Setyetary Cortelyou. who has known Mr. Murray

for a number of years. All WUl Take a HaUdsy.

No Cabinet meetings will be held during the holiday recess. Both President Roosevelt and his official advisers will observe the recess so -far as public business will permit. Such business as the several Cabinet officers may have with the President will be brought to his attention by them as

Die Duke and Duchess of Rox- , .' and £ affected her heart to inch a

1 7- a "d ! Sw rkSE *1. “o.it'Slrd'- ter . Mde too-1" * b ^ , *32*™** disabled so that she drifted at the men. preceded by pipers drawing thc ( taininK a fejn,! ©( brownish liquid. ! Gca^al Black Accept*.

" — c..:j .1.. .1.. „„l.„ nt4 «,t.

mercy of the storm for five days, ar-1 carriage to Broxmouth Park. rived here on the Cedric. They told a ; Laura Edith Beazell, of Ligonier,; ore( j woman jumped to the conclusion ««T. »• X, 'XX' ! 1 S.rzS&JK.tJx!

The Menominee leR London Decern- i A sfcond ceremony followed at the

ber 3. Four days later she ran into a 1 Methodist Church,

terrific gale and a huge wave which. I The report is confirmed that Great the ship's officers said, was fully | Britain and France have made repreaixty feet high, struck the ship : smtations ,o Japan with the view to throwing her #»n her beam ends. It j averting a crisis between that nation

e with snlh force as to crush in the 1 and Russia.

I Evidently, say the police, the old <»1-

tasted of the contents of the bottle, that she had been poisoned, and the

fear of death killed her. A RARE SURGICAL FEAT.

Successful OperaHoa m a Maa Wk* Craks

heavy deadlights in the cabin ports the starboard side and the staterooms were flooded. Most oft he passengers were in bed when the ware hit the ship They were thrown from their berth* to the floor with bedding, baggage and everything movable on top of them. Tbe utmost confusion prevailed for a time among the passengers, according to the story told, and the officers had difficulty in quieting them. When the ship righted itself :t was found that her rudder post had been snapped off. leaving the steering gear disabled anjl thc ship helpless. One sailor was caught in the back wash of the wave and dashed against the bulwarks. receiving injuries from which

he died an hour later.

Three other seamen were seriously injured by waves which broke over thr abip while they were trying to make repairs to tbe shattered steering gear, and it became necessary to lock the passengers in the cabin. Oil was used to still the waves, but with Buie effect. For five days thc ship rolled in the trough of the sea. Captain Lucas and his officers remaining on the bridge wight aad day without sleep. Finally at noon oa the fifth day a temporary steering near was rigged and the ship limped back to Falmouth, where thc pasaeufters were sent tb Liverpool and mtk of them as choose were sent to

Xrw York on the Cedric.

Tbe Vatican "newspaper says the recent stories of millions left to Pope Pin* by Pope Leo render the financul condition of the Holy See more diffi-

cult.

The second chamber of the Dutch

Parliament voted $1750,000 to purchase

new Krupp quick-firing guns.

Two Russians were sentenced ,0 five years’ penal servitude as the leaders in the massacre of Jews at Kisheneff last ipring. Twenty-two other Russians,

barged with being involved •"

(Special).—WUHam Kt acan. nephew of Gecrgi Kauffman, shot and fatally injured hit cousin. Rosa Kauffman, and wounded bis aunt. Mrs. Rega Kauffman, in the shoulder in a quarrel over Christmas presents. Kauffman declared that bit uncle had ■'. jpven trim a proper number of

The women endeavored to act as peace makers, and Kauffman shot them both. He nude his escape and kas not been arrested.

Gen. John G Black has accepted the civil-service commtssionership, and the President will send in his nomination when Congress reconvenes, January 4.

Sioux City, la. (Special).—An operation luring no parallel in the svgical world was performed at St. Joseph's Hospital here by Dr. William Jcpson, who has thc chair of surgery ft the State university. John Norstro.ii, of Danbury, Ct.. fell from a load of hay, striking on bis'head and breaking his neck. He has becn almost paralyzed for weeks, and Dr. Jcpson dccid.d to operate bn hir broken neck. Accordingly a portion 'ol the third _ cervical

massacre, were sentenced to periods vertebra was removed, the false growth ranging from one to two years. | 0 { tissue was cleaned out and the bone At a conference between the Japa- 1 rc piaced. The patient Is doing well,

nese Foreign Minister yid the Russian -£«- —

Minister at Tokio the fortrer presented Japan's reply, which, it is suted. is not in the nature ol an ultimatum, but asks Russia to reconsider oertain essen-

tial points in her reply.

Loyd Rothschild says one of the most

_ -Rus-

sian crisis is whether the

will seize the opportunity to Dress her claims for open ports in Manchuria, which action would help a peaceful solution. _ • . „ The crew of the French bark Querilly rescued Captain Edwards and his B of tbe American schooner Ira of Long Island, after they had clinging to the wreck of their ves-

sel for a6 hours.

America has stopped buying* gold in .nodon and Germany has suited.

The suspended Union Trust Comof Baltimore, has

elief of a dislocating of the lumbar tebra, but no other case it known which thc cervical vertebra, situated near the medulla oblongata, the seat of the vital bodily functions, lias becn successfully removed and replaced.

Cettingr, Montenegro (By Cable). A Christian judge and two Christian t endarmes have been murdered by fussoimans at Gusinye, in Northern Albania. The victim* were recently ap-

Fraaca Waits t* KaapOut Paris (By Cable).—An anffioriurtve dental is given here of reports from Peking that the Frrncb Mimster there fau notified China that if '

Wrself with Ji

FRIARS WILL LEAVE.

of the kitchen were thrown about. Froir ! the location of thc bullets in his hear ! the boy evidently was caught by hi." i father in a strong grasp and held whilt j the weapon was placed against the littll , fellow's forehead and the bullet* sent I into his brain There was also evideno

of a struggle on Alice's part.

GETTING READY FOR WAR

little fafaseackt far Tb:* ts Remato fa ^ _ PkJfapfaea Moody Cab es las-raclioas ts Our Nava Rome (By Cable).—The settlement of j Co***saers.

the friars' lands question in the Philip- | Washington. D. C. (Special).—"Let ptnes also practically settles, ft « coosid- j Colorffbuns take the initiative" i* ih# ered here, thq question of the friars ; rfStra j n j n g keynote of specific in: tHkmselves. Tbe Franciscans, it is be-:.- . .. - «..

lieved, will abandon the island- altogether. since they have 00 money to purchase lands and have no other means of support. A few of the Recollects will remain, as they have still some property there. Tbe Dominicans will be looked after by their university, and the Augustinians will reoccupy the building erected at Iloilo, which is now used by the Americans as a barracks, and will claim an indemnity from the govenmfent The Augustinians will use tne building as a

school.

It is believed that the number of fnars remaining in tbe Philippines, with the consent of the new American bishops, will not exceed >50, but no more will be sent to the archipelago, owing to lack of funds. Under the old regime Spam paid for thc tfamportation of friars'to

the Philippines.

ADMIRAL SCHL€Y WARNED.

Craaks Letters TeUfag HI* sf a I

Cincinnati (Special).—"Beware of the plot to assassinate you.” said a crank letter received by Rear Admiral Schley while in Cincinnati this week as the guest of the Mystic Shriners. It was the roost coherent of a number of letteYs of a stroHar character received by

him.

‘ The writer stated that he had overheard two men talking, and learned that on the following night a band of opponents of Masonry, with which order thc Admiral is identified, was to meet at a certain corner at 11.35 «nd proceed to the Admiral's hotel. They were to surround it and nnirder the Admiral on the

street at midnight

The Admiral showed this lei ter to local committeemen, all of whom considered it a hoax. On the fast evening of Uie Admiral's stay friends were just saying good-night when the midnight bells began to ring. They remembered the warning, and for a few moments everyone felt a little uncomfortable, but soon

hearty laugh dosed the incident. Svczt Freacbzr Coafesats Marler.

Everett. Wash. (Special). — B. F. Gootsch. a street Jireacher, who has been arrested' here, has made a signed confession of murdering a man named Rosa, his tenant, in a quarrel at Silver City, N. M- in ipoa. Gootsch was released on bail at Silver City and disappeared. Gootsch says he is ready to go hack to New Mexico and face the charges.

Secssa Trial far Met. BefkU.

San Francisco (Special).—The second trial of Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, charged with the murder of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Dunning, at Dover, -Del., by mean of poisoned candy transmitted through Ufa mail, was set today for February 15.

iFEC „ . , , The first trial occurred five years a^o not promote Wood to that office over and resulted in a verdict of murder tn

Tbe cruiser Olympia will bring United States Minister Beaupre from Cartagena to Colon.* the Colombian government furnishing him an armed escort from Bogota to Cartagena. Consol General Gudger, at Panama, reports that tbe Colombian volunteer forces in the Department of Cauca are

disbanding.

The Navy Department has been advised that the torpedo-boat destroyer Lawrence was disabled in a storm off

Hatteras.

The.State Department announces the appointment of Prof. John Tod#- Hill, to be consul general at Greytov-n, Nica-

ragua.

A European ambassador at Washington says the United States will relate (o consent to a proposition from Colombia for a reference of the Panama question lo The Hague Tribunal, which course will be approved by thc

European powers.

The remains of 42 private soldiers who Hist their lives in the Philippines and were brought to thi* country in the transport Kilpatrick were buried with military honors at the National

Cemet-ry at Arlington.

The brief of the State of Minnesota in the suit of that State against the Northern Securities Company was filed in the Supreme Conn of the United

States.

. The President has given army officers who are looking lor the lleotenantgeneralcy lo understand that be will not promote —-* *“ **"*

their heads.

United States Mmister Squires has reported that the Cuban government has accepted all thc suggestions of the State Department with reference to the

die first degree.

i-hich Secretary Moody has ca bled to thc American naval command ers in isthmian waters. The Secretarj

has taken active hold in the shaping

of the naval policy on the isthmus, anf from now on thc instructions, whetbei to naval or marine officers, will, as fai

as possible, be prepared at his persona'

direction.

It was announced that, while the sit nation on the isthmus was in no wa.< alarming to the Washington govern meat, it was sufficiently delicate 10 ne ecssitate the most ca-eful and diplo matic handling, and for th:s rcasot secrecy has been enjoined upon official? of the department regarding thc opera 1 lions of the ships and marines. Thi ! only official information on the sub ject will be given out at the directior

of the Secretary.

At a conference between Secretary Moody and Brigadier General George F. Elliott, commandant of the Marini Corps, the latter 'reported that upon 24 hours' notice he could get under way to Colon with the new Caribbean Sez battalion, which is under orders to.assemble at Philadelphia. This battalion which is intended to go south on the cruiser Dixie, now on her way to Phil adelphia from Colon, will probably sail between December 25 and January 1. the exact time depending npon the condition of the Dixie op arrival and

the repairs she may need.

General Elliott has been informed that unless the ishmian situation enters upon a decidedly more peaceful phase in tbe. meantime, he will com mand this battalion, and npon hi* arrival will organize the three battalion* of marines on the isthmus into a brigade, of which he shall assume su-

preme command.

It is possible that some marines will be encamped on the -highlands in tbe vicinity ol the border line, but General Elliott must determine this after his arrival on the isthmus. A potent factor in thc shaping of the naval policy on thc isthmus will be the health ol the marines. Care will be taken in the selection of camps, and every precaution against tropical illness possible will be observed. Some of the towns in which marines probably will be stationed are Empire, Gorgon* and Porto Bello. Capt. Harry Leonard, assistant aid to the commandant of the Marine Corps who lost his arm in the march to Peking, and was advanced for conspicuous bravery, has asked to be ordered to the isthmus The matter is now under consideration by Secretary Moody. Other officers of the Marine Corps have apS ied far similar orders, though, thus r. Cptaio Evans, aid to the commandant, is tbe only officer, except General Elliott, who has been definitely selected. There are several vacancies among the officers in the marine force-oo the . isthmus which will-he filled ip a few days, the reliefs going on the uixi*

with General Elliott.

Pert* fa Make

Constantinople (By Cable).-Rear Admiral Cotton left Beirut on board the

Cf. C F. SraocnuJctr. cWd of d* Fr^ ttnim cotter terrice, returned (too. ukiM Oomol Deru to Aleeendreta.

place Mr. Davis left, as

from here December 8. becanse he had teen insulted and aaaaultsd by the fajwd departing steazn^a^aatoraHsed AzncriSSSsrrt—

SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

A blizzard in Illinois causes t

suffering among thc poor of Chk__. A brakeman arms fatally kart and,several other trainmen injured in a crash

of trains during tbe storm.*

In a quarrel about Christmas presents William Kauffman fatally shot Us cousin. Rose Kauffman and wounded

his aunt. Mrs. Rega Kauffman. D. C Eyiar, president of the I hattan Coal Company of Co " has filed a bS in the Circuit C mg for a ftceiver for thc t~