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HAD RIFLE BATLEt ti Deadly Fight in tha Streets of Chicago. ONE WAiCIMAN FATALLY fiIJT. Another Clash Over' the flade Land Along the Aristocraic Lake Store Drive. Chicago, Snecial.-During a ight with Winchester rifles between the fol iowers of rival claims to property along the Lake Shore drive, the most aristocratic boulevard in Chicago, Frank Kirk, a watchman for one of the claimants, was shot through the head, sustaining a mortal wound. The property in dispute onsists of znade land lying east of the Lake Shore drive and betwcen it and Lake Michi gan. Captain Ceorge W. Streeter, who has for many years been a thorn In the side of North Side property owners, because of his propensity to settic on vacant ground and then claim in the courts the rights of a squatter, has erected several small shanties upon this ground. He el-ims that the offi Cials of the city of Lhicago or the S:ate of Illinois have no right upon it. To night Henry Cooper, a lawyer who has been active in his opposition to Strart er, accompanied by Policeman O'Mal ley, went upon the ground and was at tacked by Strecter. who knocked him - down with the butt of a revo.ver. Eev era! of Streeter's followers zovcred O'Malley with their weapons and he was ordered to leave or be shot. Shortly after Cooper and O'Ma1leY had left the ground a pitched ba:tle broke out between three of Streeter's followers, William McMannera, 7il liam Block and John Hoeldtke. and two watchmen employed by Cooper, Frank Kirk and Sampel Portorous. Cne of the first shots fired struck Kirk in the top of the head. Portorous returned the fire of the Streeter men with a Winchester. A riot call was hastily sent to the Chicago avenue police sta tion and a wagon filled with officers under the command of Captain Revere was sent on the run toward the place. When the pfficers arrived Kirk's body lay In the snow outside the shanty, while from the window, Portorous kept a steady fire upon the tfree men in the other house who were rgturning bis 'fre with all the speed with which they could work their rifles.. cesdas the police appeared an cordon of officers was at once thrown around the shanty in which McMan ners, Block and Hceldtke were. Th'-ee men and Mrs. McManners were placed under arrest and taken to the pol.ce station. Return~ng to the building in a short time the off'ecrs found that Streeter had barricadled the horso once more. He was summeoned to surrender and at ter some parley gave himself up. When he came out of the house he carrie I a rifle and four revolvers. All persons iv ing on the "District of Lake Michigan" were placed under arrest pending the death or recovery of Frank Kirk. A: the hosnital to which he was taken be died without regaining consciousless. 330 rie" D-nwned Viotoria, B. C.. Sp.ecial.-All hope ioi the missing British sloop of war Cca dor which ist here December 2. jutst before the b~g storm which wrecked thl Collier Matthews off Cape Flattery wai abandoned with the arrival of the sl:it Egeria from a trip along the west co::si of Vancouver. The EBgerla's offiei found wreekage from the Coodat which shows that: she must have gcnt down or was smashed to pieces by thi heavy seas. The crew of the Condoi numbered 130) omeio-o and men. Roanoke, Va.. Specal.-Charles Foy the negro who narrowly escaped bci a lynched after he had murdered Daytox H. Miller, troasurer of a coal companl at Tom's Creek. V'a.. on December 20th last, was tried at Wise Court HousE and sentenced to be hanged on Maret 14. Foy's case was heard in the same court ten days ago. at which time th. jury failed to agree. A Move A'ral't Rues-a. London. Special.-The ministers sc. well kept the secret that the paper is sued after Parllament had adjourned for the night announeing the first Im portant alliance between a Western and yellow er AsIan race, comes as a startling surprihs to the public and al though the idea ,jf an alliance with: Japan Is 111-r'ly to meet with general approval, the outcome of this sensa tIonal departure will be anticipated with no little anxiety. It is regardd' as a move against I'ussia and to explain the abandoenment of the colony c' Wei-Hai-Wei T"'e [ry (ion's Market. New Yc~k. Sp'ecin.-There was at material eba~ r ir the market for dra goods at first hana . Loa1 jo'i e s generally reer.cted quite a marked im. pr-ovent in the volume of business A large ntutier of buye-'s were hbr and jobbers felt the bene~t. Narr'v print cluths were 'iu!et. but firm. witt a better den-and for w:de goods at fulI prices Piece silks were In good de .and anid the market was strong3 IN CONGRESS. Detailed DoIngs of Our National Law makers. HOUSE. Forty-first Day-G:eneral debate in thq Hous.., ca the oleomargarine bill have deelded to offcr an amendment to make the 10-cent tax on oleomargarine in imitation of butter "of any shade of )ellow." The amendment is designed to meet the charge of the opponents to the bill that without this amendment the language of the bill might be con strued to absolutely prohibit the sale of oleomargarine. The speakers wece: Haugen and Thoms. of lowa; Shallenberger, of Nebraska; Dahli, of Wisconsin; Gaines, of Tennessee. and Lamb, of Virginia, for the bill, and Messrs. Feeley, of 11 linois; Slayden. of Texas; Mondell, of Wyoming; Berkley, of Georgia, and Wooten, of Texas, in opposition. The House adopted the conference report on the urgent deficiency bill and it was again sent to conference. Fcety-third Day-The House passed the oleomargarine bill, which has been under consideration in that body dur ing the last ten days. There was no ivision on the final passage, the real test of strength having been made up on the motion to re-commit, which was defce: ed by a majority of 34. the vote standing 102 to 11S. The provis!on to require the inspection and brauding of -en ovated butter which was adopted in committee of the whole yesterday was retained today on an aye and nay vote. As finally passed the bill is somewhat modificd from the form in which it was reported from the committee on agri eultu: e. It makes oleomargarine or imitation butter or cheese transported into any State or Territory for use, sale or consumption therein. subject to the laws of such States or Territories, nciwithstanding that it may be intro duced in ceiginal packages. Penalties for violat:on of the act are a fine or not !css than $50 nor more than $500 and imprisonment for not less than 30 days nor more than 6 months. War e.aims occupied th0 -:tt-nt;f of the House after the passage of the oleomargarine bill and the day was made notable by the passage of the first bill for the payments of claims of Uinited States citizens arising out Of the Spanish var. It carried something ovce $55.000 for the payment' of 202 claims for property taken within the ITnited States for the use of the army An omnibus bill carrying claims aggre gating $2,114.552 for stores and sup plies taken from loyal citi during the civil war was also pas . These claims were allowed und e provis ions of -the Bowman d the bill was identical with on 'passed by the House at the last ses ion. Two other bills which have been before Congress [cc 2. years to refer certain cl s for addi.ional compensation by tl .build ers oi certain monitors during the civil war to the Court of Claims were like wse passed. % Forty-fourth Day-The War Deart ment's bill for the reorganizatio of the army staff branches and the ctea tion of a general staff corps was trans mited to C~~n~ ull, of the H ii c twnd b in divislo an o cer -anking as major general, with l'rigadier generals in charge of the br ad'es of supplies, commissar.7 inance and transportation. The "gen eral staff corps" Is to consider the "military policy of the country and prepare comprehensive plans for the national defense and for the mobiliza tion of the military forces in time of war." It also haschargeo f all questions af fecting the army and the co-operation of the army and navy, equipment, etc. A lieutenant genccal is at the head of this board, with one major general, one brigadier general, four colonels and numerous officers of lower rank. T1'ere is a proviso that General Mile3 shall be chief of the general staff while he continues in active service. Forty-fifth Day-The House hold a short session, and did practically noth ing. It adjourned at 3:35 p. m. SENATE. Forty-first Day-Throughout the early sessIon of the Senate, the Philip. pine tariff bill was under consideration. Mr. Turner. of Washington, concluded his speech begun last Friday. He de voted his argument es on the previous day, to a discussion of the legal and costitutioral phases of the Philippine question, holding in the main, that as the Filipinos had established an inde pendent government In tne islands rrior to the fall of Manila, the United S'a'es. under the principles of interna ti-:d law had no right to the islands. Forty-third Day-With the exception~ of a sharp clash between Mr. Lodge nd Mr. Patterson over the admission of r opresentatives of the press to the investiration which the Philippinea conimittee is conducting, the discussion of the Phiiippine tariff bill in the Sen ate was quiet, The Colorado Senat>r dsred that all newspaper men be ad mitted to the comnmittee hearings, de claring that as now conducted they wre of a S:ar Chamber character. HeI said hIs recollection was that Mr. Ledge suggested that the hearings De eniely secret. This dr-ew the fire of the Massachusetts Senator, who in dignantly denied that he had suggested anything of the kind. He inassted that the repatts mode of the hearings by the "three press associations were ac curate and fair to both sides of the con troversy. The communication from the Secretary of War, transmitting a me moral of the Federal party of the Phil ippine Islands in support of American xule in the islanzIs Cew ?from Mr. Pat terson the statement that the Federal party had obtained its control in the Philippines by promiises to the Fili pi's that th'ey m:ould be admitted ilt: maey to statehood in the United Stats. Mr. Tole~r occupied tne time of the Senate diu:ing the grc'ter part of todays sess~on and has not yet son ciuded hissech Jo response to scme statements made durrg the debate Mr. Teller asserted that the promnin.et commanders of the Ar:c iratn army rii no: .agrce with the rinrsions rea-:hed by the m.embers of e:- Phjiinp):n comissi55on a.3 to the reC'neliton of the people of the Phi!pinc. He mnertcnerl among oth ers the nar-e of General Chaffee. Twenteth Day: When the house met there were a number of vacant seats, A great many new bills were presented. The senate sent oer word that it insisted on its amendment to the chicken bill. The house appointe to the committee on '%Mr. DominliC and Mr. Brown. where was a lot of discussion but notiag of general interest was done. Twedijcth Day-The senate was in session binth rImir;-and night,- !e yond the raiification of actsIthe pro ceedings of neither session were of in terest. The new code was adopted at night and Is now the statutory law of the State. The new jury law was also rati field. The governor was in waiting in his office and as soon as these two acts were ratified they were sent down to the chief executive and received his tignature and the seal of the State. "urors will probably he drawn in aev eral counties this week under the new jury law. Forty-fourth Day-A little flurry was created in the Senate over the employ ment, since the beginning of the ses sion, of a score or more of extra clerks and messengers. The charges of extra vagance made induced the reference of the whole subject of clerical employ ment to a committee for in;-stigation and report. The matter was brought up by Mr. Clay. of -Gorgia, who made a vigorous protest against a report from the committee on contingent ex penses authorizing additional employ es. He pointed out that during the past 30 days more than 20 extra mes sengers and clerks and been employed at a salary of $1.440 each per year. He had been informed, he said, that 9 c: these employes were for committccs that had not had a meeting in 8 or 1.0 years. The bill creating a permanent census office was under epnsderaton for a time, but was not disposed of finally. An effo-t to cut down the sal ary of the Director of the Census was defeated. After the passage of a I number of private pension bills. enate en logized the life and cha r of the late Representative Brosias, of Penn sylvania. Forty-fifth Day- en tire session the se- under consideration the bill ishing a permanent census bureau. was not completed but an agreement was reach ed to take it up again immediately after the executive sesson that M held on Monday next for the c Ion of the Danish treaty. The great contest ..of ' e ay, of course, was over the "ransfer to the classified service of the employes of the census office who are to be retained in the permanent establishment. It involv ed the entire civil service question and" the debate covered mueh of the ground that heretofore has gone over in congressonal' Cha th Forgery. Macon, G ial.-Dr. D. M. Mel toh alas Smith at Clay,. who is held here under charges of wholesale for gery, says he has made $37,000 since October and that he is good for all his obligations. He says his mother is worth $100,000 and resides in Seattle, is., and sends him money frequently. A officer from Sanfor , a., arrived is wanted on several of for gery. Killed on the S ge. Newport News, Speci 1.-Eva Gil bert, a trapeze performe at the Pow hattan Theatre, br-oke h neck Tues day night during the performance. In her aerial act she swung om a trapez! catching her foot in a op about 3i feet from the floor. Hel foot slipped from the loop and she fel head-long tc the floor almost amon he horrified audience. She died in ~n minutes. The woman came here about six weeks ago. Her home is in New York. She was a widow. Postal Bill Completed. Washington. Special.-The postoffice appropriation bill has been practically completed by the House committee on postoffices and post roads and will be reported in a few days. It carries $137,916,598. an inacease of $14,133,910 over the ecurrent appropria3tion and of $3,185,022 over the estimates. The larg est Item Is $41,250.000 for mailway transportation of mails. The rural free delivery service gets an appropriation ol' $7,529.000, an increase of $1.525,000 and provision is to be made to place the rural carriers under a contract sys tem. instead of salaries as at present. Three Kiiled in Wreck. Altoona, Pa.. Special.-Three men killed, four probably fatally woundedi and two seriously Injured, one freight train a complete wreck, and another narly so. are the results of an accident this morning on the Pennsylvan':' Railroad on the steep grade, a few miles above the Horse Shoe curve. Control of the second section of :u east-boand freight train was lost soon after emerging from Gallitzin tunnel and two miles west of Allegrippus it crashed into the c-ear of the first sec tion. Ten cars, the caboose and two engines were completely wrecked. Wants to Fight to a Finish. New York. Speclai.-Robert Fitzsim mons said that he would accept a pro position made by James J. Jeffiries for a finish conteset between them, the win ner to take 60 per cent., and the loser 40 per cent. of the purse. Fitzsim mons said he was willing to sign arti ces at any time and the only stipula tion he wished to make was that the winner shoul have all of the picture proceeds. He thought the fight should take place before the club offering the largest purse. WVomi- Suffratists in Session. Washington. Snecal.-The first In enrntional Woman's Suffrage Confer Dfnce and the thirty-fourth annual con vntion of the No'iorsal Amneric'.n Woman's Suifferage A ssociation was be emn here with an unusually large nunm ier of delegates in attendance. The onvention was presided over by Mrs. 'rrie Chapman Catt. its president. The delerates were welcomed to the city by Hon. Henry B. F. McFarlan't. ,r'sident of the board of District com issioners. A rich man's foolish sayings pass to? &RP FEELS BETTER. Writes About dis Experience As a Grip Patient. RE IIAD CIIEERFUI COMPANY. arandchildren to Watch the Clock for Time to lake the Medicine Reads the Papers. This is a bright and blessed morning feel better-a good deal better. Think I will write a verse or two of poetry. If a sick man has good surroundinP it beats medicine. Good cheerful coal any to call and not stay long-good children to sympathize Pad watch the clock for medicine time, good grand children to come and kiss you and gu to and from and talk and make a noise ; a good wife to scold you and tcll how imprudent ycu have been. and a good doctor to look at your tongue and choke you with a spoon handle S1 as to see away down the esophagus. But nature has the best of medicins stowed away in the blessed sunshina that gives life and vigor to everything animal and vegetable.and revives the drooping spirits of the sick. It has been a long and hard winter-the coldest and most disagreeable ona hundrcd consecutive (lays that we have had fr years. How I enviey the good people of Florida while I read Tom Sawyer's rhapsodies in the Clear Water paper over the advent of spring with its peach trees and yellow jessamine per fuming the balmy air with their fra grant blossoms. But it Is coming gentle spring is not far away now and a day like this is its harbinger. If it were not for the daily catalogue of hor rible things 'that headline the daily pa pers even a sick man could 1e calm and serene on such a day as this. An aged country friend told me that he had quit taking the daily papers for it distress ed him to read such things. "I haven't long to live." said he, "and I don't wish to cloud my mind with a daly re cord of human misery." But most all people have to mix up with the affairs of nations and of men and keep posted about everything that happens. We can't skip the bad and read the good only. There Is a fascination about hor rible things that we cannot resist. They are the first things we look for. They Rxcite our pity or our Indignation or our wonder. Our childhood began that way for we never tired of Jack the Giant Killer and Rawhead and Bloody Bones and Robinson Crusoe. And now the editor of the press dispatches care lessly looks over the little slips that are laid upon his desk and reads "An other explosion in the mines-one hun dred killed;" "Another railroad wreck -thirteen killed," and then resumes the little anecdote he was narrating to a friend. We are all growing case hardened to pain and grief and suffer ing for the ame reason that the sur .cs .hardened to the pain of his atient. But ever and anon some new horror ome along that shocks humanity and astounds the world. I read three long columns last night about the horrors of adulterated food in Paris and how 18600 infants died the last year from poisoned milk. How the great Incorpo rated dairy companies In the suburban towns have to deliver 800.000 quarts every night. It Is skimmed before it is canned and then is watered 20 per cent before It is put on the cars. On arrival at their depots It Is delivered in cans to 800 milk boys (garcons) who get $1.40 a night and as much more as they can make by watering the milk from the hydrants that'are supplied from the river Seine, the filthiest river in all France. One hundred detectives are employed to watch these boys, but the boys have detectives, too, and are seldom caught or arrested. The super intendent of police says It is impossible for one hundred men to follow and watch eight hundred boys and he now asks for two thousand. This watered milk quickly sours and by the time It Is delivered to the retailer at day break It has to be watered again with a solu tion of bicarbonate of soda. This ia the milk that supplies all Paris, and Is daily fed to infant children and in a brief time they take cholera inantum or diarrhea and die. The medical facul ty all testifled that this milk caused the death of over 18.000 infants in Paris in one year and the mortality was on the increase. and this does not include the deaths of children over one year old. These eight hundred boys a-re organized Into a powerf'ul syndi cate for protection and defense. Each pays into their treasury $4 a week, making a total of $14,000 a month with which to pay lawyers' fees and fines and the wages of those In jail and to bribe the city detectives not to catch them when watering the milk. They water It while the wagons are on the go-pumping in behind with cans of vater. The mIlk suspected is turned over to the city chemists, who analyze and report that If the boys are arrest ed most of them escape punishment in some corrupt way, but none are dIs charged. They go back at once Into th" ompany's service. But Paris is arous ed as It never has been and declaies the death-dealing business shall be broken up If It takes two thousand de eotives to pursue the eight hundred boys. "Our children are ted on mIe-rob es from the river Seine," is now on ev ery tongue. Other cities have taken up the cry and Bouen and Dunkirk show larger death rate of Infants than Paris, and now thew say no wonder the population of France is decreasing. instead of increasing. We arc poison ng three fourths of all the children before they are a year old and half the remainder soon after. Seine water, mi robes and bicarbonate of sodJa This exposure comes froem late o% eal sources and is no doubt the truth > very near it. Just think of it an-.I shddr-8.000 innocent. bci!pless ba b's murdered in one yere in on'e cit-,. Tom Hood wro e a song about the poor sewing women that arousel all Lcn don. If he were alive in Paris n-ow hat a pitiful subjiect he would havo for another song. What a shame upom our sex. for it is not women who d., these things, but men and boys. Th "thers suffer in giving them birth They nurse arnd cherish and clasp the little things to their bosoms and lov* ad hope and pray, but the destroyer gr'eve and weep. England slaubmer ing the Boers and France her innoceti chi!dren. What next? A graphic writer in The New York Press describes a different kind of hor ror that we know not of, but is a liv ing, breathing, seething thing that is not new but has come to stay and grows bigger and more horrible as the years more on. He says: "It would have been unnecessary for Gustav Dore to follow Dante for a text in order to picture the horrors of hell." The gov ernment has established free baths at Hot Springs. where thousands of tho most miserable of all God's creatures cungregate and bathe for relief and a enre from their loathsome diseases. These wretches leave their rags upo the cemented floors which are an inch deep In water, then stagger or reel o; crawl naked as the fiends in the cham bers of hell. From thence they crowc into a third room where the water anc b the air is up to 110, and the stench o: foul odors is horrible. In this room art two large pools like vats in a tan yard, and the victims tumble into them li'a hogs into a mud puddle. No doctor, no v soap, no towels, no attendants and they q are soon hurried out to make room for more, for seven hundred a day is thr maximum. Ten, fifteen or twenty at a i time soak their loathsome infirmitie . In 'he nasty. filthy, hot healing waterp. and then recloth themselves with their wet rags and go so-newhere to dry. Al; are benefitted and 10 per cent are cur- C ed. What a picture! Their lives. sue'.. as they have made them, are not worth saving, but they cling to them and live in hope and defy despair. One hundred and seventy-eight thousand of these r human beings passed through the firee baths last year. One bath room is for white men, one for white women, one for negro men and one for ncgro wo men. Not far away is a magnificent hotel. and there is a fashionable ball goirip on. The rich. the gay, the elite are I there. One moment a man is waltzin- c with his wife, the next with some oth a er man's wife, the next with som body's mistress. Everything goes, and all is hell. A famous physician took his daughter there this season, but sent her home quickly to keep her from the company of wealthy and diseased par sites Almost every one who goes there registers under an assumed name and plays incognito during his stay. A southern judge was recently called up- 1 on for a toast at a hotel banquet anc I said: "Here's to the names we left be- 1 hind us." But the half has not been told-some of it is too bad to tell. Ev ery night the poker rooms are in blas: and thousands won and lost. The read er ponders and wonders can suer things be in this Christian land, and in this God's country. Verily, the hum ble and the poor who live around us or the hills and In the valleys or down In the piney woods should be thankful for the health and morality that comes from poverty. Burns never wrote a truer verse than that which says: "And I know by the smoke that so gracefully curled From among the dark elms that a cottage was near, And I said to myself If there's peace in this world, The heart that is humble might hope --fedt-tere." -Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. HAM'S H ORN BLASTS. THE easy path leads, nowhere. A license is an in ,lorsement. Results are the best rewards. Calmness is the .mark of true cour age. Education is . , greater than in 'struction. Salva tion is not a mat S ter of Shibboleth. GodlIness is true and eternal great ness. A conspiracy of silence is usually one of sin. With God Egypt is preliminary to Canaan. Vice Is never so vicious as when ar rayed as virtue. Truth Is not made false because we doubt her. Dark days make a goodt background for bright lives. Only those whom the cap fits will criticize its cut. You cannot make a live church out of dead people. The source of lust is as low as that of love is high.* Daily Drdgery may be the door to di vine delights. Some people forgive by forgett!ng, but the true way is to forget by for giving. When the heart is full of faith the hands will be filled with good works. When the heart of the church is with her Lord her hands will be wilth His lost. The drunkard carries the disregarded danger signal half way between his lustful eyes and his devouring mouth. The life of the saloon depends on the death of souls. God's forgiveness does not depend on His forgetfulness. A world struggling with its problems needs more than pilgrim Christians. Many take their business into the house of God who are afraid to take Him into their house of bu'siness. As to the N'ext "SinltL" Marmaduke writes in the London Graphic: What will eventually be the limit of individual wealth Half a century back "ten thousand a year"~ was considered to be a vast fortune Then "fifty thousand a year" was the phrase commonly used to describe the Income of fabulously rich men or women. Later we took to speaking o~ ""millionaires." In quite recent times the "multi-millionaire" with twenty mIllions had reached the limit of pri rate wealth; then forty mil'lons; now the limit has risen to a hundred mill lions, and already the word "billion aire" has come Into use in the Ur Itedj States. Will the mul-b!llionaire evei replac the multi..millIonaIre? CONDUCTOR SHO Tragedy Near Asheville, N. C., Last Wednesday. II. SALISBURY BALLY WOUNDED. he Shooting Occurred at the Glen Rock Hotel-Salisbury Slapped the Negro. Asheville, N. C., Special.-Wednes ay morning at 7 o'clock J. H. Salis ury, one of the best koawn conductors a the Southern between Salisbury and noxville, was shot and seriously rounded by Press Dillon, a colored ater at the Glen Rock Hotel, where alisbury was breakfasting. Salisbury as taken to the Mission Hospital. He as shot in the abdcmen, the bullet dging near the spine. He was uncon cous at night and his condition is re a.rded as grave. Railroad men are oming in and much Indignation Is anfested. The negro, who was arrested imme lately after the shooting, was given a :reliminary trial by a police magistrate and is still in the custody of the city olice authirities. He is very uneasy md the authorities hurried througgh is trial in order to get the prisoner ocked up. Salisbury :ad slapped Dillon a few inutes before going to breakfast be ause the latter had taken the seat of ,n old gentleman and was slow about iving it up. In the dining room the vater said, "You dfan slapped me. nt you?" Ie th . l1ed his pistol d fired four shots, one taking effect. Six Killed in Kentucky Fight. Middlesboro, Ky., Special.-Six are lead and as many more are dying as he result of a battle between Middles oro officers and mountaineers. The yattle, one of the most desperate of its ind in the history of mountain war are. occurred between 4 and 6 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Lee Turner's loon, 3% miles from Middlesboro. Turner had some mules and other oods levied on in payment of a debt nd a few nights ago,'it is said he wfi )thers .went to' Virginia, where the roperty had been taken, secured what was formerly his and returned to his ouse. Deputy Sheriff William Thomp on summoned a posse of 10 or 15 men or the purpose of arresting Turner. ailroad transportation was refused he officers and they footed it through he mountains. Turner had heard that in attempt would be made to arrest im and he and his men. 15 in number, were prepared. The saloon is built of huge logs and Is surrounded by a 30 root fence in which loop holes were ut Turner's surrender was demanded. ~is reply was a round1 of shots. Charley . Cecil. of Middlesbaro, was riding a 3athway in plain sigl-t Some one,.~e leved to have been Mike Welch, Tur ier's bar-tender, fired through a win low killing Cecil. Instantly the mur lerer fell bacd:, pierced by a halfdozenl ullets. The offcers scattered and hid ehind trees and rocks. Tn the shooting that followed John Dryle was badly ounded. nerhans fts11ly. and Simon Bean, another ex-railroader, was shot A.torch was aupliedi to an exposed side of the building and in a few minutes the building was in flames. Several of he ountineers came to the windows nd were shot down. Lee Turner and aevera of his fr'en ds. however. escaped and are reported to ha~ at Mingo mines, eight miles from Middlesboro. Several ,f his men perished in the flames. Fight Over Mls~s Stone. Paris, Special.-Referr'ing to the ye aorted engagement between Brigands !or the possession of MIss Stone, the i~onstannol~ecorresrnondent of the cho de Paris. says: "The cantors of been attacked by another hand,o? bri ands seeking to secure the prisoners In order to get the ransom. Twenty tnen on both sides were kllied during Lhe fight but the orilina.l captors of the missionary were victorious. Miss Stone was not hurt." 300'000 Bale' De'troyed. Washington, Special.-In presenting ~.petition for congressional relief of otton-grwers from the cotton weevil n the Senate. Mr. Culberson. of Texas, sid that the boll weevil h:td! destroyed 000 bales of cotton in Texas5 alone uurIng the past year. and on account f the ravares of the pest grave appre hnsii is felt for the cultivationl of otton in central and southern Texas. A school Girl Rescued. Mocksille, N. C.. Soecial.-Iste Wednesday evening. near Beck station, Bight miles north of MocksVille, Miss Nimle Stafford. aged 14. while on her ry home f-om school, was assaulted by Luicoe Gray, a negro. but the creams of the young lady attracted he attention of near-by citizens who uuckly went to her rs~scue, the negro feing with a posse In pursu't. Gray ras arrsted a few hours later and brought to this piac'e by Deputy Sheriff rotts and lodged inl jail. The young layis the dan.!erP of T.ee Stafford, f this county, and Is of splendid fami Pric lle'ry D-sIes. Bremerhaen.-By Cable.-Prevlonls 0 aIling Prince Henry. in convernl in with a corresnondenit of the Asso ated Press. referred to the report that ee had written a letter to Admiral ew apologizing for the conduct of he erman squadron in Manila bay lurng the war with Spain. "It is all nnrue," said the prince. "I have near ...tte, to Admiral Dewey in may Ilfe."~