NEV BECHTEL CLUES NUm S«rre«at ExpKU falaliaa el Mmitr MpaMrjr. TRACES THE CRIME TO A RESWT. Mr. Krana U K«tl u Crrula Ttai lb* O r Wu Kai:4 al a Brtori aa ikt Oetakirt* at tka Cky—Ska «a* Fa'U*t< Tk.lkcr B) Mtr Jialaaa Atalrrc. Hr Saya, Tkcrc tkc Martal Waaaei Wm lafiAtatf. Al!cni<iwn, I'a. (Special).—Ditf1»aBrt ol thr name of Mabel Bechtel'* murderer and all the detail* of the my*terious trasedy are |.r.mused thia week, according to the statement ol one ol the officer* at work <ai the'case under the. direction of Caj»t. Ja*. L. Schaidt. roontel for the Bechtel iamily. Tljjs officer i* Sergeant Edwin W. Knatoe, of the local police, who, from the hour Mabel'* body wa* forfnd in the arcaaay of her home, clung to the theory that the girl'wa* not killed at her hofhe. His views are now Mt]iported by injjre than 90 per cent, ol the people here. When the ^murder wa* ditcovcrcd Sergeant Knars* was one of the first officer* on the ground and it was not !oii)t||(ciore he left the home of the Bechtels and began to look in other directions tor cine*. The Ser-

geant said:

'The Bechtel mysicry is nearer solution now than rao*4 persons think and. although, the man at whom wc point suspicion is free from the law, we propose to show the truth. We have established the motive for the crime. We 'can show that only two day* before she wa* killed Mabel was threatened that if *he did hof marry a certain young man she would hot marry anybody else. Wc can prove by reputable witnesses that the young man demanded a fiual answer on the Monday -night of the tragedy, hot did not see Mabel thru. That night instead of being in bed at 9 o'clock, a* members of his family said, he was seen on the street shortly before it o'clock, when he gave a trolley car tran*frr to a

Iriend. ,

“Thus far jhere i* not a flaw in our theories, but the rest i* based upon inferences supported by some' strong proof that is becoming stronger every day. The man whom we suspect has given us account-, ot his movc.nem.* after 11 o'clock of th^.night that preceded the finding of the girl's Indy in the* alley and this i« the feature of the case we are now trying clear up." Sergeant Knanss a.Wn! that he i* next to certain that the girl was killed at a resort on the outskirts of the city. She was followed thither by her jealous admirer, he says, there the mortal wounds were inflicted and later the dying girl was taken home in a hack . "We have scattering piece* of evi- { dence on these point*." added Sergeant j Knauss, "trot in a few slays we expect : to have the whole story and witnesses ' to prove it." District Attorney I jehtenwulner characterizes the new theories of the friends of the Bechtel t as a scheme to create public sentiment in favor of them and be sarcastically remarked: “If those people, who say lacy kt Mabel's murderer .dim't soon reveal .... 1 will have them indicted as accessones after the fact to the murder for concealing the perpetrators of the crime. In connection with the agitation of the Bechtels there is promise of another

scandal.'"

The story is going the rounds that Italf a dozen or .more prominent business tnen paid liberally to lie excused a* witnesses in the- case .in order to escape cxTERRIJLE CKIMt SHOCKS ROANOKE. Colared Mas Tries la Km a Mather aa* tier

VAST SIWMOTS OF ARMY UIPPUHs Mlttlaai al Paart* al Matt Baaghl la thb . Caeary By Rasala aad Jayaa. San Brfincisco, Cal. (Special).—Kailroad freight official* have additional adtice* reUtitr to Russian and Japanese me** and canned beef shipment* from the East by way of this poet to their respectiye depot* in the Orient. Japan i* ordering for shipment from Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago 1.500,000 pound* of corned heel She ha* already contracted in Cincinnati for 14.000 rase* of mesa beef. By February 15 next Japan will have taken Irotn this country as loud for her war forces about y.ioo.ono pounds oi mc»» and corned bzef. Knasian *hipments of me** bed. up to February is next, from Chicago, Kansas City and OtnaHa. will ha*c amounted to an aggregate ol about (1,000,000 p >onds. inchisive of XOOO.QOO pounds now loaded on board ship in thi* lurbor. NEWS IN SHOUT OBDEi The Latest liapyealat* Condensed for Rapid Readiag.

Koaimke. VI. (Special).—Thr wife and three -year-i-1 daugftter of G«*rge P. Shields arc m a dying condition a* a reault of a murderous assault made upon them by an unknown negro. It was one of the most fearful crimes ever committed in this city. When Mr. Shield . who is a well- J known young business man, reached his residence in the center of the town at noon for luncheon, he discovered hi* three-year-old daughter Mildred' lying on the floor of the reception hall in a

pool of bloxl.

The child was nil! alive, and the father placed her on a lounge and began a search for his wife. In the dining room lie found stain* of blood, which led to the second floor. Upstair* Mr. Shield* found his wife lying m a clothes closet, with her throat cut from ear to ear and and several gba-tly wounds m the bead

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injection* * of powerful stimulants. Mrs. Shields managed to gasn that she had been knocked down m the dining room by a negro, who nude hi* entrance through the kitchen door. Further than this. Mrs. Shields has not been able to throw light on the crime. There was every evidence in the dining mom of a

terrible struggle

The physicians Have but siTm hopes for the recovery of cither mother or child. The strange negro made a criminal assault on Mr*. Shields, after which he dealt her several Mows on the bead with a hatchet, fracturing the skull in two place*. He theti dragged her upstair* to the iccood floor, where he took a razor from 3 bureau drawer. ‘ With this he cut her throat and threw her into a cb>»et. placing a chair against 'the outside knob He then ransacked the house, carrying away a suit of clothe*

and two wstrbr-.

New York (Special).—Three men were arrested and roraterfeating machinery and die* were Seized at a' house ia the Grtrnpotm section of Brooklyn by Uaha^taies Secret Set site dete«ti*r' The men

Henry \V. Miller, president of the Morris" County Saving* Bank, died in Morristown. N\ J.. aged 05 vears. He wa* a graduate of the Naval Academy and served through the Civil War. A county judge and officials of the federal court were arrested on toe charge of conspiring with Charles Cunningham, the sheep king, of I'matilla county, to defraud the government. Mr*. Nannie Bryan, *i»teV of William J. Bry* n - died in ijncoln. Neb., before the arrival of her brother, who liad tried hard to reach her bedside before death intervened. Anna Rcinder*. a New York schoolgirl. who was sent home for writing a note to a boy. died from the effect* of carbolic acid she drank. A party of jo student* from the University of Chicago sailed from Boston on the steamer Canopic on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Tom Caruther*. colored, was hanged in Abbeville. Ga.. for the murder of H. L Byrd, a plamation superintendent. As the result'of an aitctnpt t o start a fire with carbon oil. Mrs. A. F. Gray, of North Scwickly. I’a- is dead and six other members of lier family are bunted one fatally. The State of Illinois will ereo in the National Military Park at Vicksburg. Mis*., a monument to the J&OOO Illinois soldiers who participated in the siege of that city. The big plant of the Delaware Cotton Company, employing 400 hands, ha* been dosed Ixrcause of the high price of the raw material. Mrs. I-olu Prince Kennedy Kramer was acquitted in Kansas Gty, Mo- of the charge of killing her first husband. Albert M Fragner. a Brooklyn lawyer pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing $m.occ front a trust estate. It The American Association of General Passenger Agents decided upon a season Fxcnrsion rate to the St. Louis Exposition at 80 per cent. oT double the The'illinnts Telephone and Telegraph Company has sold all its property to the Illinois Tunnel Company, with an Jlhortred capital of J.voxxxi.ooo. 'A panic w*» causerl' ou the ferryoat Princeton, wjtich was rammed in New York harbor by the Savannah Line steamer N'acoocbec. President Mitchell, at a meeting of miner* at Uglianapoli*. -aid lie had no intention of accepting a government

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Oscar T. Crosby, the .American explorer. who has completed a tour of Central Asia, including parts of Turkestan and Tibet, declares that China is now threatened by Iter rear door, and toe United States, which is interested in the integrity of China, must keep a watch : that direction. Twi .'■ears’ imprisonment and perpetual exile wa* the sentence imposed on a Moscow student who struck a Russian general.. _ The anniversary of the execution of Charles I. of England was observed in London and Boston. Turkey ha*, notified Austria and Russia that the Macedonian committee have arranged with thq Albanians to have them ki!I_ every foreign officer sent to reorganize ibe gendarmes. Hundred* of homeless women and children, as a result of the fire at Aalesur.d, Norway. Iiave been given quarters on tlie North German LJofd steamer German physicians who organized a movement against invalid insurance organizations have won their contention. The Panama Canal Company filed in tlie Parts court a partial answer to the suit begun in behalf of Cdlorabia. •Inten>eII»tioas as to the reports of dissensions in the French Obioet were postponed by a decisive vote. The English cotton spinners and manufacturers are uniting in a movement to fight gambling in cotton. The Key. Sir Henry Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, is dead. Tha hr Eaat It is said by Japanese government officials in Toitio that the pre-rmpfion that Russia has made concessions doe* not in the least warrant the conclusion that a peaceful settlement is assured. The British Foreign Office and the Japanese Legation in I-on don state that no reply has been sent as yet by Russia to Japan's last note and that nothing ia known as to its real nature. In official circles at Port Arthur the that there will

FOX PEACE IN FAR EAST rgMla’a Reply u Japaa Said to Be SatblacUf). ' ORE AT BRITAIN'S GOOD WORK. lapsrtsai lafanuatlM RKtirad by Afttat* DrpAiieet al Wath^giM- Ratals, M is I'aderatMd. Ha* Mad: Certata (.swceaalos* tad Orest Mala Wp Prevail aa Japaa !• Acetyl Thru Washington. I). C. (Special 1* said on the authority of the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg that the Russian reply i< satisfactory. Although uo further details are obtainable, it i* assumed.'if the information of the Ambassador ia correct, that Rfiam has made eerjain conceijion* and that Great Britain will prevail 011 Japan to accept them as satisfactory. The statement ol the British Ambassador went from St. Petersbnrfc to the British Legation in Tokio. where Mr. Griscom heard of it and cabled the new* to the State Department, the cablegram arriving overnight. RUSSIAN ADMIRAL'S VIEWS. Jtpaa's Csanerciil Las* By Mebllizattoa a)

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Srejtii. William Smith and Frank Mdr ahull » It is alleged that they were turuuag . Uuntd Start, hub dntur* Jrom

St. Petersburg (By Cable).—An Admiral who i* influential in the councils of the empire was interviewed a* fol-

lows:

"The enormous lot* which the commerce of Japan is sustaining as a result of the mobilization ol steamship for transport service probably accounts the impatience the Japanese are displaying over tlie delay in the' Russian reply, but this reply will go to Tokio next week. It will be so conciliatory 1 hat 1 do not foresee other than a peaceful settlement, although it is difficult to fed certain in thi* respect because of the erratic course of the Japanese government during the later stages of the negotiation*.^ Japan lias increased, her demands while the negotiations were still in progress by tn- *■ sting upon treaty recognition of the Chinese society in Manchuria. Russia has declared l»er intention not to annex Manchuria, therefore why comply with a demand that is tantamount to a humiliating reiteration ol a former voluntary declaration? Tt is undeniable that the attitude of Japan is causing irritation in St. Petersburg. and that a feeling of impatience is growing throughout Rti**ia. It is hard to account for Japan'spersist ent aggres-ivenes* but this must he attributable to the incendiary influence of thr Japanese press, which i* acting under foreign inspiration. The Japanese government must know it stand* no chance ofnleirating Russia, while Japan has mnch to lose i: Russia is forced back against the wall. “Should Japan proceed to hostilities lier first objective probably would be the catting of the Siberian Railroad, for which _ purpo*e she would land troop* tit Korea. She could not. however. land more than Kxxooo men. and Russia ha* an equal number of men in Manchuria to meet this attack, which L think would be quickly repulsed. I I do not believe in a naval war.' The Russian warships wonld make it impossible loss The Japanese to endanger Port Arthur. But, Jet ink repeat, war i* improbable." COLUMBIA WILL FIOHT PANAMA RcpsruS That tk: Fsrwrr tisvrrawrat Is Atoal la Organize EiptdMeo. Panama (Special)News.has readied here from Bogota dial insomuch as Generals Reyes and Cavcrillo have assured Colombia that the United States will only object to lier land rug force* in the canal zone, the Colombian government intends to organize and send an expedition against Panama. The only explanation of this new* from -Bogotii is that the government of Colombia is compelled to take step* to prevent its downfall. This is said to be imminent, a* President Marroquin has lost all the prestige he ever had. There is mndi speculation in Bogota as to the outcome of this move, should it be put throughColombian newspapers are complaining that h cost more than $i5.ooo.cod in paper money (a Colombian dollar is worth about seven-tenths of an American dollar) to move the troops Colombia lias at Tiutmati, on the Gulf of Darien, from Cartcgrna to that point. These men are estimated at from 2*00 to voocl and at ooe time they were wdl supplied with provirioos. Joaquin Velez, Perez y'Soto and oilier enemies of Marroquin have lieen imprisoned for allied conspiracy. People arriving here from Colombia declare the aitnatidn in that country to be growing worse every day. IS SCBOOLMARN TgC HIGHWAY MAN?

London (By Cable).—Lloyd's Weekly Newipaprr say* that Mr*. Florence Maybrick, the American woman who v/at serving a life sentence on the charge of having poisoned her hutband. was released from the Aylesbury female convict prison at 645 o'clock on the morning of Jannary 2$ on special license. Her mother, the paper aays, had visited her Saturday, January* J.T. and evidently was the bearer of important news. The governor of the prison on Sunday conferred with the prison official* with a view to arranging for the departure of the prisoner. which wa* earned out very quietly. Mrs. Maybrick, the paper concludes, during Jhc last few months in prison, wa* employed in the lightest work a* a Feward for good conduct. L1VEWASHIN8T0N AFFAIRS S'ralficaat AcJiM ol Dr. tlerran Colom-

bia# Charge.

T* Uli Cera* Mrary. Dr. Thomas Darlington, president of tlie New York Board of Health, appeared before the House Committee on Banking and Cttrrencv and heartily indorsed "Pending legislation for "clean Dr. Darlington had begun an investigation to ascertain scicntificaliv that old bills transmit disease germ*, hhonld these experiments show money in use in New York city i* loaded with disease germs, Dr. Darlington said, he will formHatc a plan for its daily or weekly sterilization. He believes that good will result to the health of the city by getting the money from the great arteries of trade, such as the it reel-car companies and the great retail store*, and putting it through a germ-killing process. In this plan it is contemptotmHo treat hot only the paper money, but also the metal coins.

The Fort Arthur authorities express • appointment of United it Mukden. Fort Dalny

Thr boom in Baltimore & Ohio prr-

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Failing prices of faffing hoods show what the financiers feel about in* suwation in the East. The average pcicc of active railroad slocks is now 12 per cent, above tbe low point Mat year Umon Pacific director* have dartsr-

Miss Hants Hicficr Scant* #1 Assistint In HaMap That Failed. Miller. 8. D. (Special).—This town n much wrought up over the mystery surrounding the arrest of Mis* Hattie PiIclier. a pretty and popular schooL learher. who is charged with having donned men’s clothing and assisting in the holding up. drugging and attempted robbery of Wilbur Quirk, a clerk in Collins' drug store, one night about 511* F§cher the next day, it was learned, had a bullet wound in her shoulder and she was arrested as being (he “short man" of the two. Miss Pilcher's testimony was offered to show that tbe told the physician who attended her wound that she was shot .with a noiseless gun, like that with which the robbers threatened Quirk.

I-ondon (By Cable).-Tbe Chef00 correspondent ol the Daily Mail aaya

It is now thought probable that W. W. Russell, a Marylander, but by residence a citizen of the District of Columbia. will succeed William J. Buchanan as United States Minister to Mr. Russell, who at present is secretary of legation at Caracas, Venezuela, has been appointed Charge of the United State* Legation at Panama, where he will represent thi* country after Minister Buchanan sails from Colon for home on next Tuesday. Mr. Buclianan will resign as soon as he reaches Washington, in accordance M'ith the understanding he had he accepted the mission to l‘ana:r

Ke OeM ta the Vralu.

For the firsf time in many years tjic .Trea.urj finds itself without any gold coin in its vault*- It is explained that this condition is the rcsnlt ol an unprecemed demand for .gold certificates during th* time when tlie mints havr have been fully employed in coining Philippine silver and subsidiary silver lor")he United States. The increased demand for gold certificates, which could only be issued for gold coin in the Treasury, came about through the needs of the larger banking institutions in the great commercial centers, which had large amounts oi notes of small denominations on hand which they wished to exchange for. gold certificates of larger ocmoniinations. The Secretary has given instructions for the tnfnts at Philadelphia and San Francisco to- berin the coituge of double eagles on February 1, and to work overtime until a sufficient supply has been coined to meet all demands. Pestmasier Gc*.r«t'» Urerj. Lost master General Payne answered tlie inquiry of the House as to the "livery of hi* department. He says there are no horses or carriages provided lor his department except those for himself. , He has ionr hores and three carriages maintained at government expense. Two men are paid to care for the "livery," one at the ate of $720 a year, on the rolls as a watchman." and one at a salary of .660 as a “laborer.” The total co*t of horses, carriages and harness was *3°05 Charges Agatat Army UtateaasL Second Lieutenant Frank Pratt, on duty at Fort Wayne, Mich., has been detained in this country, after having been ordered to the Philippines, because of more serious charges than those preferred against him i:: Manila, which lie was returning to face. He is charged with gambling in Manila and with being short in his funds to the amount o* $7500. He has explained that the missing money was placed in' an envelope and left at the. place where the mail was collected.

Craters fit the Nary.

Rear Admiral R. D. Evans, com-gnander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet, writes to the Navy Department that desertions in his command hare been reduced to a minimum. He says the worst drawback to discipline has been the excessive nse of alcoholic drinks. Admiral Evans recommends the establishment of canteens in the navy, where

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DEAD TAKEN FROM MINE Burial Procession aod Reacons Pau Each Other oa Raad. THE FUNERALS OF MANY VICTIMS. 01 lb: MS Bodies Ktctrttt* Am* Tsk.e I* the Scbeelfeecse Merge* Fitly-Ui Navi Bcea UciUlieA sad E'ghteea Have Beta tariad—The Varfc ol Racorartog tkc ■edlas WU Be KeptUpUatU AH Are Faaa4 Pitta burg. Pa. (Specnil).—Burial processions and rescue parties in charge of newly recovered bodir* pats each other frequently on the road that lead* from the Harwich mine to the morgue and many are tlie pathetic scenes. Of the 106 bodice recovered and taken to the echoolhonte morgue fiftyaix have been identified and eighteen have been boried. • The first funeral* of the victims were held at 3.30 o’clock. Rev. E. O. Graham. of the Lutheran Church, and the Rev. Vincent Manelli. of thi Italian Catholic Church, of New Kensington, were in charge. Out in the open air in front of the blacksmith shop where thr coffined bodies of the men have been placed, were gathrrrd the friend* and relative* oi those that have been identified. The caskets were placed in a group along one side of the building with the ministers who were to perform the last rites standing by them. Tbe bodies oi those miner' who belonged to the Catholic Church were placed in a group by themselves and over them the priest stood until all were ready to be movpd to the cemetery. It was a short and simple service, only a few words and a prayer and then the journey to the cemetery began. There a short service wa* held, the caskets were lowered into the grave, and for die friend* and surviving relaatives the last incident of-tbe great disaster was over. The foreign miners at Harwich almost to a man refuse to enter the mine to assist in the re»cue work, yet the volunteer* from outside points are doing such good workahat they are bringing out bodies faster than the corps of undertakers can handle them and the remains of the victims are being arranged in tiers ontside the schoolbouse The work of recovering the bodie* will be kept up continuously until all are found. The following appeal was issued by the relief commiuee by telegraph: "One hundred and eighty-four miner* killed. Families destitute. The committee urges immediate and generis aid." Among those to whom the telegram was addressed arc: Andrew Carnegie), New York. President Rooscveh, Washington.

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Senator Hanna. Cleveland. 0 John D. Rockefeller, New York. The message seas also sent out by telegraph to the mayor of every important city in the conntry. The relief fund now exceeds $10,000 and contribution* continue to come in liberally. Speaking of the disaster, James E. Roderick, chief Slate mine inspector,

said:

"Laws could he framed that would prevent just such an accident, but the trouble lies at Hariisburg. The present bituminous milling law* seem to be a compromise arrangement between the miueworkers and the operators.” _ "Nothing of our investigation will be given out. he said, ■'•until tbe djy of

the inquest."

Brownsville. Pa. (Special).—Four men. all foreigner', were crushed to death in a new air shaft of the Bnar Hill Coal Company, near here. The shaft was 685 feet deep and the men were being lowered in a bucket when a 400-pound pilot weight broke, precipitating the bucket and men to the bottom. The heavy weight falling on them crushed the men beyond recognition. The men were in the employ of Contractor Samuel Henry, who was sinking the shaft. The Briar Hill Company is owned by the Republic Iron and Steel Company. It is claimed by the officials that the accident was due to the failnre of the men to remove the weight From the lever before starting down. TWO nuhl* AW* MX hoit.

UOflT PERSONS INJURED IN COLLISION Pasteeftr True flews la Branch WMrt Nad Stapprt ta Cral St. Louis, Mo. (Special).—A south bound passengrr train on the St. Lorn* and Iron Mountain road ran into thr White River branch passenger at Diar, near Newport, Ark., injnripg eight persons, several of them fatally. Thr branch train had just jK-JIcd onto thr main line tnd Hopped for coal wher thr fast train struck it and plowed entirely through tbe two coaches. That there wa* not great lots of life wa* due to the fact that Joe Pennington tl*r new* agent, saw the approach of the St. Louis train and ran through the coaches warning the passenger* to jump for their live*.

tafts Deganaeats. The House struck out the mileage appropriations for both House and Senate troni the Urgency Deficiency Appropriation Bill, which was then adopted. The sentiment in the caucus of the Democratic Senator* was more favorable than hitherto to the Panama Canal Treaty. Minister Thompson lias secured Brazil preferential rate* ou ‘

The Senate adopted a resolution calig on President Roosevelt for any adtinwal (acts beanag on die Panama hare art yet been commitniThe report of the

Pittsburg. Pa. (Special).—An explosion of natural gan in the cellar of the liome of Henry MageL m West Liberty, was the cause of the death* ot Jwo person* and the severe injury of six others. The dead are: Henry MageL aged 55 ; liumed to death in the cellar. Charles MageL-his son, aged ao: both legs burned off and caught under falling walls. Mrs. Henry Mage! fell through to the cellar and was seriously injured. Her children. William, aged 13: Annie, li and Otto, 18, and Charles Alma«r. a son-in-law. and hi* wife were all badly bruised and cut. Tbe explosion <i* 'opposed to Iiave bean caused by a leak from the gas main into the cellar, and when Mr. Magel went to the cellar for a bucket of coal, carrying a lighted candle a terrific exploaion followed, completely wtoclong tbe house. Shat fy fiargtae. St. ClainviDe. O. (Special).—A uegro burglar shot and probably fatally wounded Albert Troll, cashier ol the Second National Bank, and Ins brother. George Troll. manaRer ol TrolFs vlothing store. The three Trod brother*. expecting a thiel. were lying ia wait in the store. They caught tbe burglar. but the latter, by Wing his revolver, managed to get out ol their hands. A posse started in pursuit.

Mexico Chy (Special).—A great fite at Progreso, tbe ehiel port of Yoea

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15 HEN KILLED IN 1INE Marled Fifteen Hundred Feet and Dash ed to Pieces. Victor, Col. (Speciall.—By the falling of 3 cage in the Stratum Independencz Mine. located near the cciiu-r of this city fifteen men arc dead and one other *e verely injured. In the mam shaft sixteen men were being hoisted in a cage from the sixth seventh and eighth levels. When th< cage reached the surface the < ngineer for some unexplained reason, was unable to stop the engine, and the cage, with ii> load of human freight, was drawn u; into the gallows frame, where it becami lodged temporarily, 'flic strain on th* cable finally caused it to i«art, and th» cage, released, shot doivn the shaft witl terrific speed. Two^ol the occupant*. L. P. Jackscn and James Bullbeck. had become entangled in the timber rods near the toj of the gallows frame. Jackson wa* crushed to death b> the sheave wheel falling upon him while Bullbeck had a marvelous escapt from death, but received painful tnjcnei before he was rescued from hit peril Tl<e wther fourteen men were hurle* to death down the 1500-foot *haft As soon as possible the shaft bos* and a cumber of miners'went down inti tbe mine through another compartment of the shah. They found all fifteer dead, the bodie* scattered at different Arms and bodies had been lorn, beadcrushed and clothing stripped from thr victim*. From the 700-foot levi» v the bottom the shaft was spattered wit!' blood, while here and there were founr pieces or flesh clinging o the projection*. At tbe bottom of the shall stands twenty-five feet of water, am into thi* the cage plunged, carrying some of tlie men into the water with it. One of those killed. W. B. Collins was a Baptist minuter, who preacher on Sundays at Gold field and durinii the week worked in the mines. He wai 8 years old and came from Crom 'ell. England, a few month* ago. Mo it of the victim* had come here from th« Coeur d'Alene, I-ake Superior andSqhei district* to take the place oi the *trikers. Harry Geogen. one of the victimleave* a widow and three children it: Michigan. Frank Gelles. engineer ir charge, surrendered himself to tSr military officer* in tbe district and wa: locked op. lie would not talk. The militia has taken charge of the mir.r and a rigid examination will be made.

Chicago (Special).—Building Com misskmer William* ha* notified those ir charge of eight prominent hospital: that they mart receive no new patientin their mthtrtrons until certain speci fied changes are made. The hotpitalinvohred are the Englewood, the Posi Graduate, the West Side, the Chicagi Woman's, the Homeopathic, the Eme: gemy. the Baptist and the Hcring Med ical College. “In inning orders that no new patksts be admitted into thes« hospitals 1 led that I am giving ; reasons be time lor the alteration work, lvr A.

Toronto, Out. (Special).—Hie Chi coga express on the Grand Trani Railroad crashed into two light engine: near London East, killing the engineei ol one of the light engines and prob ably fatally injuring the fireman. Thi people in the passenger train were bad Is shaken, hot soar were scrionsljr inytiredr- The accident occurred m a blinding snowstorm. Ktag Scat* Haas Port Said, Egypt (By Cable).—Unit cd Stales Coned General Skinner sailed for h»s post at Marseilles, France on hit re*nn» from his expedition to Abyssinia. The United States gunboat Macbias is expected here from Jibuti. French Somaliland, with two lion* and other gift* which Eippcror McnefikT* tending to President Roosevelt. Bfcfc Mm «l Cotton. Raleigh, K. C-(Special).—A special from Burlington says: “At a meeting ol tbe representatives of the cotton mill* of Alamence count) held at Burlington it was unanimously resolved tc curtail the production one-fourth on ac lugh prices ol cottoc

There are twenty cotl

tirely mraffirintt to mm* drmiudi. Re ceipts base been reduced almost to (hr v—*«hmf total- TV effect haa hem,