As to Who Did ReaHy Shoot Up Brownsville, Tex. SHOOTER CONFESSES To a Negro 1 >«■(«■<•(ivo, who Had IVm-ii J*hii|>loy<>d to Work the Pa-ne I’p by the War Department—A Dis- < Negro Soldier Tells All About It. : . i Q Washington, Dec. 15.—President. Roosevelt sent to the Senate Tues day a special messTige in reference to the shootitrgr up of Brownsville, Texas, by a batallion of ne.gro sol diers in the sum me r c7f~ i y o 6. ttr eluded in the message is the general report of inspection by Herbert I. Brown, a colored detective, who was "employed by the war -department in conjunction with Capt. W. O, Bald win to probe the occurrence at Brownsville. Brown submitted the following to the detectives agency, which he says Is the confession of Boyd Conyers, one of the discharge i negro .soldiers, who now lives a: TheB audits Were Getting Ready to Rob the Ranks of the Town and Showed Fight. i •GreenwichrO., D»c. lf>.-*-ln a run- ning midnight encounter between a gang of safe-cracKers and the police of this village. Night Marshal Wood was hurt, and one of the burglar, slain. „ ‘ v . The other burglar escaped, carr ing one of their number. Mnrstnrt Wood—neco.Oed—-a—m-ui standing near the. postofTice ap'd itet^ iiig in a suspicious manhor. In reply rfo questions, the unknown mau sai l he was a stranger, in the town, but desired to leave on a freight train."""’ The marshal escorted him to the raiilroad and Just as they reachrl M'titnuii, PopullsH the tracks four other men suddenly jumped from behind a car and or dered the ofTcer to throw up his l-.ands. .' •He complif'd, but intone hand had an autoiratie revolver which he fired, one l*»uMet piercing the heart of one' of the quartet. The firing was reterhed by the other men an t the marshal w as struck in* the back. As he fen, the* melt heat him iino Monroe, tia., and wlto helped shoot . . „ ... . —*■— — , , mV, I trsl!)|,|lv :ltu l th 'U eseapref. T. xas town in August., |'.idi,. i • 9 confession Uo Brown Con- up th In hi> • vers says: y -Th* immors of trouUle^jover th» assigiunent ■ of colored tr<*ops te Brownsville were circulated befon the- troops left Fort Niobrara, am preparations were made 1 among th nie'it to -ge; even with tin 1 crack’ rs. . so .the whites were called. Som cartridges were held out at rang * pi'aetice, but more en route' !• Bretwnsville. Pretenc was mad that they we re given away at sta i tions a lev n't; the -reeael. Sevme w.er**^ 1 hut a large nnnVIver were s ereled. *•. At inspection in Brownsville’_ Lie'iit. Lawrence. Company B. threat Vneel punishment to .the men • wh > w re ,-heirt e>f ammunition, lent hevth- Ing was' ejetiie' about tL^-aiid thq eie - flcie'ucy was supplied'., I tie frte’llon The firing arouse'ej mr jmt the 1 w-vumted marshal was found .in • he ra il road yarels, A posse 1 s<'a rch- ed the' surrounding territory fe>r the 4 men. The ejead man was about 3. years of ag<' and wa 11 dre’ss< d. CAVT SCARF .lOSFIMf. I'ulit/er Says Re Will F.elit His I’ajH'r From Jail. •Tevseph \< W Ye'rk. Dele. 1 “!*uMt7«'r; of ''ThruAVofri. in replying- *e» the tirade’ of President Roosevelt says: ‘.Sev far as I am personally con- t: UITTi rTrrZe'PS ■ n Brownsville' ...feegan at evnre\ It Boyd Conye rs' language', ‘ Whiskeq made all the* ^troiibb’.. If we hadn't bee n'eiririking we* wouleln't have had tiie^nerve to shoot u]> the' town."; It was agrebelT as a gathering •»! a fe’W im'ii In th saloon of Allison the- cevlore'd e'x-solelier, on the* after noon of August 13, Ih'tfi, that th« rjiiel shetnbl take* place' that night a T3 o'clock. It see'ins to have be i eb layeei a fe'w minute’s to b • Tamayo, the' Me xican scavenge'r, ge away ffom tbi' B barracks. jeihn Holloman, the money bb 1 em of Comitaitv B. was the edib f co e spirator ami le ader in the raid an. e’lisroeliaiv and ~ disi rtlnHor mf tji cartrielge's, but bis plans e'evutel no have iieo 7 !! carrie'd out had not’Serg’ (b'eirge .lack'oh, etf ('eMupany' B. it e hari: ■ of Urn ke'ys to the gun rack in B barraeks. and Sorut. Ri'Td, ir ewmmane] of the.' gueirds. co-ope'rate. bofh before-,ane\ afte-r the raid. Thee four nii'n who led the rah we're JoTfn Hrrtloman, John Brown Boyd Cony rs ami ^ Carolina' el Saussure, all of Corbpany B (a.> probably R. L. Collier, of Compan C. 1 Holloman w as in Jvarraek - Brown in the. bake shop-. Cnnycr and de Saussure' in the’ guard house- The* twe> latte-r wire- in the sam detail, and had been redieved a about 11 o'clock, de Saussure on the post at the guard house, and Con vers on No. 2. around the barrack; and facing the* town. Holloman go the parky together. Conyers and d Saussure slept on th° same bunk it the g|Uafet house. oi.Hmlng that the wanted to get umle r- the mosqui't net, and they had the' trrrk of kikuu the i/ guns into the bunk instead o placing them in the- open rack, m the excuse that they didn’t rust s- badly under coyer, but really so th absence of the* guns from The op ’ guard house'• rae’k would nevt attrae attemtieen, ami their ow-n— abseuic would lie’ aseribe-d tee a visit to th” closet, w hie h. w as back (*f the* guar house.' These two men sli|>i>ed ou the, remr door of the' guard house’s passed through the' sally port, am joined Holloman and Brown. Thp party -e-reis: tel the* wall. q . the'Lfffit down ne-ar they enel of barraeks^ we-nt up th" roadway -t’ the entrance to the* Ceiwen alfev where tji<' signal -shots were* fm d The’se ^shote we-ro imnie'diatelv tal lied onto by the' alarm shots o' Joseph B. Howard,,guard on No. fl an el formed the series testified to b' Mrs. Katie- E Leahy, of BroWt^villo now| all this |ierfe’c(l\v He knows aura chronic invalid and mostly briieel, I ^a.as ttL a during tip ‘ vvnote'Hf Oc\ob'r ami, in fact, pra- “leaHy for- fw^ years I have been -Vtichting on account of my h' 3 alth. T never reaet* a word ?TT s’- l.aide p' this Panama, story, was nevt in con 'lection with the pape'r and had Doth rng to elo with it. Mr. Reiosev'!• know I , ihroad yae'.ititlgi on acemunt evf my health. I think his anger, is simp'y 'lie to the sharp attacks made by The* W'oijef on him political.t'y. For hat perliaps. 1 am ri'sjfonsitd''': thiv is for the political rritiedsfn of Koosev- velt on public and polft-ical groune 1, '.<’»hdy. 1 am really sorry dp’ sboul 1 'n' so' very angry, fun "The Wort i will continue toe-rite ise hiiq wit hoe* i shadow of fear, if -<'elit t!i ‘la^n- from jail. Ile-arst's Imh'peiHlence Party Polled Ix*s.s Than One Hundred Thousand Votes in Wh«>le Country. New York, Dec. "157—The total popular Vote of th<* various presi dential candidates at ttfe last election was made known today in an official fprni by fhe filing of the last of the official vote,-that of Mich igan. fhe total shows the* follow- fng yote.s raM': j»’’ - Taft, ( Republlcar.) 7,637,670 Bryan, ( Democratic^. ... 6,393,1^2 Debs, Socialist)’ .. 44-7,651 Chafin' 4 ( Prohibitionist) -.■'’£41.25£ Hisgen, I Indepemlenfj'" . . 83,186 33,871 ■ J5,421 Gilhaus, (So^atist Daivor). , Total for all candidate's.! 4,852,239 This grand total exceeds by 1,341,- j31 the total number of votes cast in the presidential election of 1 904, when the grand total was 13,510,- 708. _ -Compared. with that Ide-ct ion the candidates of the Republican, Dem ocratic ami Socialist parties incre-as- "■ti their vote' this year. The reverse hibition. Populist and Socialist Labor parti-s. The Independent party did not figure in the presiden tial election of four years ago. The* lijfggest .difference in a party is shown in an increase for Bryan i>8. 1.315.21 1. over the, t Total ’■ast in 1904 for Alton. B. Parker, the Democratic candidate. Taft receiv- SAYS PULITZER LIES Aluvut and Slanders the Nation When He Charges a Deal in the Ituying of the Panama C'unul and Suit Will be Brought Against '* * Him Says the President. _ > ' > Washington, D^c. 15.—President Roosevelt today sent toothe Senat* a statemenL^ncerning Abe purchase of the Panama canal property by the United States, denouncing In strong language the chirgea that there was anything wrong In the acquisition by the United States of the canal • - vfr property. ** "These stories," . he continues, "were first brought to my attention as published in a paper In India napolis calletf* The News, edited by Mr.Deiavan Smith. The stories we e scurrilous and libelous in character, and false In every essential particu- lar." elters himself behind the excuse that he mendy acceple' statements which had appeared in a paper published in New York — The World'—owned by PniR^er." • ■ SummarlZfng the charges made in this connection the President says in part: ‘'These-'statements some times appeared In editorials, sonu- tlines-in the shape of contributions Accidents Are Excessive, Says Bu reau ‘of Ir\r* t r r\ 1 ♦ canijiaign purposes and In part sto rl>-> 0rigtnaHy.*i»onnf clod wiltm -view j-— -<—'AdtDFT A DOC of piossihle-blackmail.’’ , » I * The President adds and pillaged it crmpletelv, A steam laundry holonglng to Senor Rlvar also was wrecked. , The statues and pictures of Presl h-nt Castro were made Into a nugc bonfire on the Plaza Bolivar. Th* crowd cheered as the flames com pleted the destruction of these ef flgies of the dictator. of One Man and Wounding Another. in*': to e WHITE MEND IA ACHED. Stat**. Taft. Bryan. \ la bama .. ;. . . 25.308 ’ 74.374 Arkansas . . '. . i>i067 87.043 Florida . . . ... . .. 10,654 31.HM Georgia ... . . . . 11,6 92 72.350 Kentucky ... .. 2Trm 1 244.092 Louisiana . . . . 9,58.9" 63.568 Maryland . . ..111,253 111,117 Mississippi . . . . .. 4.463 64.250 Missouri . . . . .3 4 6.91 5 345.884 North Carolina . . 1 1 4,887 136.928 Oklahoma . . . . . . . 110.550 123.907 South Carolina . . * 3,847 62,289 Teiun ss***' . . 7 ...11 8.'287 135.63*0 My a Mob at .Montircllo, Ky., for | Texas rfginia Hi 1 - .Ci’in:**. 69.229 5 2.5 7 3 227.26 ! 8-2,946 MonMei’llo, Ky., Ijec. 17 Elnei Hill, a white man. w.ist ak<‘n frehT ail here this morning by an armed nob of about thirtv nu n and bang- 1 to a tre** j i'st-outside of 'he chy Hill was inc .ri’i'ratt'd on't'ie’M'haua >f n'PiHUiJtjiie V i.ni* Womack ag 1 '3 Venrs.".■indDmin'eriiU' her. Hill, when taken from the pi 1 ., latly d 1 ’rili'd th he rope had be icck and he apparently saw no way f .escape he toll tiie story of- the •rime. He said the gii JJ.as coming hbnn rom ,s* hool >vh* n* he atta* k.'it h**r ving a haukt rciiii'f around her-eer+r ■ilJ str'ingling V. -r 'When -the uii' ■.a •. iincons; ions he look hiT-irto the eoOd;: and killed her. , > The i-inctaTKt—|K)ll»'d 15,398 votes ! n North Carolina. 21.752 in Okla- loma, 8.524 in Texas. Jn no other Southern State did they poll over In South Carolina they polled 101 votes. CONVHT PROVED INNOCENT. i— cha but ••ajien n olaced around h : - llas Alri'ndy Served Ten Years of American j>cople." The President says^ His Sentence. "Now these I a ^ stores as a matter of fact, need no4 Om**’*! Killing investigation* whatever; no shadow of proof has' been or can be produced in behalf of alny of thenr; they ^con- Goldsboro. N. C., Dec. if:—-New sist sirnply of a string oFdhfarnous reached here today from Dudley, In libels. In form they are In pair thTs'fcounty, that Ira Hatch, a prom- libels upon Individuals, upon M* inent* resident of that place, trad Taft and Mr. Robinson, for instance; I fs'en shot and killed hy Badger J hut they are In fact wholly and in | Bowden, mayor of Dudley, form -partly, libel upon the United Bowden is in lied from wounds re States government. I do not believe celved immediately after the shoot- iye should concern ourselves with ing from a shot gun in the hands the particular individuals who wrote of the dead man's son. the b'iuK anf 1 libelous editorial*. About 1 o'clock thrift morning articles from correspondents or ar- some one passed Hatch's house and tides In the news columns. shot his dog. Hatch and his son "The real offender Is Mr. Joseph took shotguns and ^ent out to Pulitzer, editor and proprietor of recqnnolter and some distance on The World.’ While the criminal the streets met Bowden, whom the offense* of which Pulitzer has been *>ld: r Hatch Immediately accused of guilty is in the form of libel upon shooting his dog. individuals, the great injury done Hot words ensued and Bowden is in blackening the good name of shot Hatc\ through the heart with th* American people. Ukkhould not a pistol and thereupon' th** youngrir he left to a private citizen to sue Hatch shot Bodwen with his,, shot Poll tier for libel. He should be gun, but inflicting only fl«*>h prosecuted for libel by the govern-1 wounds, mental authorities." "The president cojilljUkwL. “It Is i-fherefore a high national duty to tWing to Justice this vjljifler of the forth..the' virtues of Castro and e< tolling bis powers next attracted th* etallntlon of the mob. and-cv* r< inscription bearing Castro’" ~ n*m* was hacked out and erased. Som* f thesis legends were carved on th public'buildings of the city. It was after 1 o'clock before th* crowd had gotten thus far In It* epredatlons. It liieked leader*hii nd paused !n .default, of othei elds for Its destructive cnergla* t was then that a detachment of roops was rallr'd out for duty or he etty streets, and ^'acting PresL ent Gomez l:su*'d n manifesto pro ihlticg further manifestvlons. These measur-s nnd the J^sl^*•* , ffect, for the mob quieted dowe and then dlsper-ed, after bavinf- burned many offices and stores o' be friends of President Castro Several people were*killed and th* indications are that Vene/.iilea is ot he verge of revolution. If Is no* known when President Castro, whr s now In Berlin, will return, bn* when he dors he will not be recog ntzed as President any longer. FIEND CAUGHT. 3,- . f.il Seven Men Drown. St. Pierre, M< q , Dee. T5 Seven iembers of tb<‘ crew of the I'reneb varship Admiral Aube, who startel 'or the shore last night are missing rid it is thought aM were dro.wned icks is unknown, ^lint p*'rliap: wenty men were involv *1. A simd! r numtier went to the ground an • ollowed th* 1 b'aders up the alley | will It- remembered that one of he " witnesses te-i-lfth’d to heariii- >ome one of the group of Hcjldjers 'xetaim, ".There Mie.y go!" .aAVh’ fri ipon these_nw'n leaped ^jvev the vva'l uni ran -up the alley. Boy<‘d C *ny rs is tie* man w hos ’Tun jjunnjed at the' exit of the alb ; Raleigh. N. l)*'r. 17. Judge 'horn.is H. Sutton, of Fayetteville nas a'ffidavits that go to prove th* nnocenee-of-A. It. Norton, who ha* ten years of a thirty years iiteiiee for murder: Affidavits signed tty men who were ssoriated with Thomas Whijte,, who eceiitIy di*’d at the .Northampton 'date farm set forth that White con fessed that he was guilty of the nnrder for which Norton is impris- ped. The erio^rTMn qir stion was com "ThW Attor ney General has unller considera tion the form In which the proceed ings against Mr. Pulitzer shall b< hroii^?h-t.” mitti'd in 18*98. in Robeson county. when Je.'se Kr T.dar. a w hite tenant.! Cromwell on December 11. ‘of White’s, was shot and killed \frhile 'acoahly entering the door of White's home. White and "Norton. mother tenanf each cHargod theJ^j,!,,,. | n His Seat for the uh< r with the killing, and Judge Who Attempted Criminal Assault on - jl. Woman. Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 15.—The us ually quiet county of Stanly Is In a State of Intense excitement tonight The president th*n explains th? I over the first case In the history of mo'hnd of concluding the purchase, the county of criminal assault of a saying .the transaction was carried white woman hy a negro, and It is through by the then Attorney Kipp- feared that-there may be mob vlq oral Knox- and not hy Mr. Hay'or lenre before tomorrow at Alber Mr Root. The President accepts marie, where Henry Young, rolor all the responsibility for carrying od, is in Jail, having been beaten in out the will of Congress. He says to unconsciousness at the home o F that his -government had nothing John R. Moss, near Whitney, lat to do with the distribution of th**' tpday by Moss and George Leffer $40,000,000. He also includes a who. attracted to the home of Sfor.s copy of the statement made by I hy the screams of Mrs Moss, foun* her In the clutches of the negro SENATOR TILLMAN. Sutton sentenc’d both to the peni tentiary for T hirdy -years. .> First Time. Washington, Dec. 15.—Senator making desperate efforts to reach the telephone to call for help. When the negro attacked Mrs Moss, she ran Into the 'house ant lor Med the doors.^ Wiling brick down a door and entered, and sess and Lefler. they had a strug this session in his seat when the I gle and fist fight with the negro t) *w | senate opened up yesterday morn- fore they, subdued him. Sheriff Then Ran Away \\ ith Yi Male | ^ havlnR rear hed here .this morn J Green was called and took the pris Roanli'r. Bristol, Tenrir.” Dec. 17.—William by tliA Cowon house, tostifii’d fo li Herbert Elkins, and it was take Her testimony-*is further borne out I from hj ni py do Saussure and tixo'i by the statement that not over Thin' in the street wri^ie th<’ liglyt from seconds elapsed' before a number oi I h** streef ^mn at the corner o men of Company R-swarmed Out ot Elizabeth street shun on them the upper galjery and opened a fus Less than five minutes elapsed Blade on the town. ; - i'^rfrohi (lie time the 1 'first shot wa; It is an alisplute certauiby. that .U .tir«'d until these n.i n were all bact? would have been •impossible*, foi inside the fort. . Pf.'-fraj in have -ftoen'dUAJxe j-- Cotuer's sthfed that R< id wai toM gut! 1 1 acks-.-'fT ITfT' mfar to rave' 1A T !iarTbeT-vXT>r.’' -pnnTftTrr sboornrp ttr*- semliled, secured their guns, loaded *own, and he had laughed and said . , . - hn . ,—h, arn them, gone out to the gallery., and | ’Don't, go, out. ' .’h* r- and let ,h* | ^cked; nfi.^l ^arn started firing, all after the first was fired.'all around, as they fled unanimously. from slunHier, in less than tw'‘tnl in the confusion of a dark barrack I bunks. Sergt. Reid came in and Beyond the possibility of a swore at them, tint Conyers was so I er hf ing. The senator is looking well. I oner tef the Jail at Alhermarle. He is Just in time to get Into the great Panama scrap which threat-1 KILLED WHILE HINTING. Hudson, who . pent last night in thi+ens to materialize if the senate and city jail here as the- result of a warrant. sworn out by his wife..who barged that he had threatened^her jiff, avok*' to the full meaning of his Inearreration this morning when h* learned that hi? wife had eloped with Ed Hyatt,' a man wlto had be-n ibome-and who-as sisted Mrs. Hudson in having hof With Accidental Death. "This is the first time a presi dent Hver assorted the doctrine of leaa majeste or proposed, in - the alisence of specific legislation, the ,, rlminal prosecution by the govern ment of citizens who criticized the conduct of the government or the conduct of Individuals who may Kav j had btislness dealings with the gov- ‘NTITIU"mis tn-rdiithnn nT tt'rir ,rnme P t - NXther the king of Great VERV'-KAD DEATH. I,ad Kllhd While Carrying letter to Santa Claus. Britain nor the Germain emperui' would venture to arrogate such pow-. "r to himself. John Adams’ attempt 'o enfocre the sedition law destroy 'd the Federalist party in America. Yet Mr. Roosevelt, in the absence of aw. proposes to use all the power >f the greatest government on earth o cripple the freedom of the press m the pretext ’that the government has been libeled—and he Is the gov ernment. "It Is true that The W'orld prlnt- d the public report concerning the. Panama canal affair whlrn r suited from William Nelson Cromwell’s ap- >«*al "to the district attorney’s oflV* luring the recent campaign to pr**- •ent the publication of.a story which was said to be In the hands of th * Democratic national committee. It was Mr. Cromwell's own Set which -alaed the Issue In the campaign. "It Is true thgt when Mr. Roose velt made attack, " upon Deiavan -Smith The World called afentlon to ertain statements which Mr. Rooee velt must have known to he fabe iri misleading and appealed to eon- tress- to end all scandal hy a full ind Impartial Investigation. If this ie treason, let Mr. Roosevelt make • he most of it. "Mr. Roosevelt’s lamentable habit ' • * if Inaccurate statements makes Is impossible to accept either his Judg- New York, D* *’. 17. Ttic body of | m ents or his conclusions. In his nessage he does not state correctly ■yen so simple a matter as the pre ended causes of his grievance. The World has .nevei^said that Charles P. Taft or Douglas Robinson made a frail little fellow, apparently about ten yitars old, li s in a police sta lion here today last night under th*’ trucks of a trolley ear near th branch postoffice in Third avenu* near Fifty-second street, wh+le on I \ny profits whatever. Mr. Taft de- hls way to mall a letter to Sant; Ged that he was concerned in the Claus. ' ... transaction in any - wjiy, which d i- As h** breathed tlis last under I Gal The World ptrbHshed and ac- the wheels, his hand stretched forti' I -epted. It would have been equally and the pitiful fi tter was seen b\ | Gad *° P r l n l M r - Robinson's denial the crowd. A Bystander seized i' and It was dropped in the postoffle* tiefore the l>oy expired. He tan dl rectly in front of th ; car, evident)* ould it have succeeded in obtain ing one from him as it frequently attempted. "The World has no evidence that wraped Ln thought about his letter j he was associated with Mr. Crom The niotorman was held on a tech lira! charge ' oFlmmlclde. Nr on** in the neighborhood seemed to- know who Mae child was, but h* probably will be Identified, today. * May TILLMAN PRIMING UI^. s- Make Spe. < h That Will Stir Up the Animals. the^country does not let President ri ^ mlnen( ~' Y oun£ Lawyer Meet Roosevelt bluff them th*^ of doing anything. Whether the senator will 1 ' take part, depends, he say.*; upon 1 Blackshear. Gp., Dec. 1 * .^—h Lawton Walker, newly elected so- . Bettor general of the Brunswick rlr-t Shot fn His Store. ~|cult, .this state, was almost instantly Hampton. Ark , Dec. 17.—Charles killed in the hunting field this after .holt, a,^merchant of this place noon, near Walkersville Mr 'Wa! Washington, Dec. 17.—-Senator Tillman is beginning to look in goo! form again",^ His trip abroad .seem; 1 | OPS th j s president, who besmirches well and would accept his word Jo •hat effect, for Mr. Robiijson Is in ■stlmahte gcirHemp# of«4flgh char-j*”*' acler, whose r^utatlon for veracl- •y Is Infinitely better than that of his distinguished brother-in-law. "If The World has ^Ibeled any body we hope it will be punished, but we do not Intend to he intimi- * % lated by Mr. Roosevelt’s threats, or hy Mr. Roosevelt's" denunciations, or by Mr. Roosevelt’s power. "No other living man- ever so grossely libeled the United'States as whether he can find any rocks t> throw. room. doubt, the racks had been opened I excited and out of breath that and the inside, ronspirators wpr | could hardly stand, so Reid skatWtied ready to pour out on the . signal | him at tho rear of the guard hour shots, Th" testimony is ample tha there were scarcely twenty second between the last of the signal fhotr and the first general vdlley from B barracks. The number firing from the bar- Drugged and Robbed. « Washington. Dec. 15.—John H. in the dark, where he could not belSehelck, a prominent. Mason, of scrutinized so-closely. j Charlotte. N C., was drugged and Holloman rame around with extra robbed of $600 and 250 shares of cartridges about daybreak and -Rei I Atlanta Milling and Mining stock assed th m out. The guns were all l early Tuesday morning while rldins cleaned'before daylight. ack with two strangers. action Intense excitement prevails I right ear. He fell to the ground tin and possrs are'^in pursuit of the ne-1 conscious and died within a few minutes. The shooting was en tirely accidental. * groes. President of Hayti. Port au Prince, Hayth Dec. 17.— I Gen. Simon, leader of the last revo-' lution in Hayti. was unanimously] Thirteen Men Killed. Vienna, Dec. 17.—Thirteen men were killed In an explosion cf fire elected President of the republic by I damp Wednesday itnrning in a mine the Haytien congress. • I near Roslcza, Hungary. to„diave dope him good, but his-ebrse friends sav he—is not yet in trim There is a feeling prevailing around th*' Senate that he will have some thing interesting to -say in a few days, and it may be about the Pan ama-canal. As was said today, if th** Senator does *1 ride to speak hi- mind about the canal he will throw rock or two that will dispiac" large volumes of water No man in the Senate can dntfv a larger crow 1 than the gentleman from South Car ollria • ;* ’ • * Awful Experience. r ^, Sydney. N. 8.. Dec. I^.—ExbaiJSt- e