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I IMBED FOR IOHE7.= a nit... t i ? a -<t vriiy iietrsuiei diiu a leiegiapii o \ Operator Killed in Pennsylvania. I ONE ASSASSIN A MERE YOUTH, S a si / f< Jolin Blerent, City Treasurer of New. \ castle, Fenn., Mysteriously Killed in s< | ' . T) Hi* Office at Night?H. H. Wurnter, a ^ 4 Balirosd Man, Murdered by a Boy For ^ Ills Money?He Confesses. ? ' Nswcastle, Penn. (Special).?The body ol John Biivons. City Treasurer, was found 8< cn Saturday at midnight in his office in the g( City Hall. He had been brutally murdered, ci Mr. Blivens had come down to his son's mea'3 furnishing store in order'to try on C aa overcoat, which he had received as n Christinas present from the city firemen f and which had been left at his son's store cj be altered. The coat not being finished, i lie stepped across the street to his office, ?' .which is on the floor above the oity lockup. , \ At 11.30 o'clock Saturday night Lizzie, jj ** ^ daughter of the Treasurer, called her g, * brother and asked him if it was not strange ^ that their father should be out so late. .. Her brother went down the street to the " office. Lying across the floor in a pool of "J blood lay Mr. Blivens just breathing his r; Jast. The murderers had us,ed some blunt Instrument. From the appearance of the ^ office it Is certain that Mr. Bliven had made a hard fight for his life. P; t The prisoners in the city jail say they heard a scuffle in the room above them Jabout 9.S0 o'clock, but thought little of it. ti ^ The purpose was evidently robbery, as Ji ?. , the safe was found broken open and Mr. (Blivens's pockets were turned inside out. q IWhen found Mr. Blivens's head was partly tj. lying under the desk of his office. Mr. Blivens was seventv vears old and had been City Treasurer for fifteen years. .. r R I A RAILROAD AGENT KILLED. [D ; te The Night Operator at Blngen, Penn., ^ Murdered by a Youth. 1 Easton, Penn. (Special).?Night operator 91 * H. H. Wuoter ot Biagea, a small station on the North Penn branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad seven miles below Bethlehem, was murdered at his post about 12.45 Saturday morning. M The discovery of the murder was U made about 8 o'clock. Llewellyn Stout, a h< yonth of seventeen, living near by, killed si Wurst'Jr. He 19 in jail here, and has confessed. Wurster was twenty-four years b) old, and leaves a widow and child. He jn was the night station agent, and had 5C chaVsre of the money drawer, ticket office p] and express company's oHiee. The office was rifled. , p I' Stout whs brought to jail here by Detec- , ' -lives Johnson and Doran. Johnson worked " ;with Stout for two hours before he broke |v down. Then he told how he had gone to the'station and ha,d killed Wurster in order "to get the money he knew the latter had. He had hunted,for a club, but not finding J' any, he had taken a railroad coupling pin " ana StruCK wursier over iue ueuu wuu u. ?v Then he struck him three more times, and ei that, made him a murderer. He said he re ransacked all the drawers in the office, but ct I ^returned all but the money. This amount- is V -a*1 to $15.11, and it was all he got. Stout . | is bat seventeen years of age. Hi? father si I Is dead.. His mother married her brother- el I in-law, Eli Stout. at f j W ' ACUINALDO IS DEFIANT. ol zl * Essaea a Proclamation Telllne His Fol* gi ( lower* to Work For Independence. di ; Manila. Philippine Islands (By Cable).? Within a few hours of the proclamation is- jjj . aued by General Otis, in behalf of Presl- <3 <ioat McKinley, the agents of Aguinaldo S1 billed Manila with a manifesto which at- c' traoted considerable attention. The revotionary President protested against Gen- D eral Otis signing himself Military Govern- Si or of the Philippine Islands. ai ( Agninaldo in this manifesto declared he te hai never agreed, at Singapore,Hong Kong, H jor elsewhere, to recognize the sovereignty C< lot the Americans here, and insisted that he tt (returned to the Philippines on an Ameri- tt trrowKIn oaIoIw fft MnniiAr fho SnanlarHa *nd win Independence. fa | Aguinaldo also declared that he had jj; natives and foreigners as witnesses that ^ (the American forces recognized not only C( by acts that the Filipinos were belligerents iD jbat by publicly saluting the Filipino flag ei |"as it triumphantly sailed these seas be- y tore the eyes of all nations." ^ I Aguinaldo then solemnly protested, in khe name of the Deity who empowered _ (him to direct his brethren in the difficult " task of regeneration, against the Intrusion ^ wf the American Government. ! The revolutionary leader then called J1 ppon all his followers to work together J? (with force, assuring them he is convinced that they will obtain absolute independence, urging them never to return "from r< l' * jthe glorious road" on which they have "al- A' r ready so far advanced." General Otis at- 8] taches no importance to the manifesto. w ii n THE M'CULLOCH AT HOME. C Bevenue Cotter Reached San (Francisco After Her Lone Voyage. p Sah Fbancisco Cal. (Special).?The revenue cutter MoCulloch arrived here Tuej- ol day from Honolulu, having completed the P< longest voyage on reoord of any American ^ revenne cutter. One year ago, lacking two tl: days, the MoCulloch left the Norfolk Navy Tard for 8an Francisco by way of the Suez Canal. * After passing through the canal she was p ordered to Singapore and then dispatched . to join Admiral Dewey's fle*t. She sailed with the fleet to Manila and was In the harbor during the battle, though she took w no active part in it. The McCulloch saw conatapt service after the battle and was sent home by Admiral Dewey by way of Chinese and Japanese ports to display the ^ American flag. ;e j to Diaz Receives Oar Ambassador. j General Clayton was received at Mexico * Hplty, Mexico, as Ambassador of the United States, with elaborate ceremonies. In re ply to tils address ^resident uiaz spoke or the high regard of his Government for the S{ United States. A i a 4. To Aid British Who Helped Vs. ' ~ K petition to Americans in London has c' teen promulgated by a British ofllcer ask- ?j ing that the Americans aid tho3e British soldiers who fought on our side In the recant war with Spain and who are now des_ s Steamship AVooler Lost at Sea. i The British steamship Loch Etire has d signalled In passing Peniche, Portugal, ? that the British steamship Wooler, from p Barry for Las Paimas, Canary Islands, has foundered at sea. The Loch Etive picked t, ap a boat with four of the Wooler's crew, Jjut the remaiuder are missing. P A Centenarian's Slelgliride. ^ "Mrs. Mary Sawyer Peter, of Henniker, C( "N. H., a few days ago reached her 100th h birthday. She celebrated the event by .. cloJch rifle with ft neich. bor, tno 'ihermometer belDg twenty de- J! gre^s below zero. Governor Kollins's Suggestion*. z, { Frank W. Rollins, Republican, tool: the t) oath of office ?nd assumed the duties of ii ^Governor at Concord, N. H. In hl9 In- ti augural address he advocated the building jot? bicycle path alonf? the entire seacoast b <>f New" Hampshire, the construction of a c State highway from the Massachusetts line to the summit of Mount Washington and j, preservation of forests. ? ? a Press Censorship In Kussla. j ThA newsDaDers of St. Petersburg, Ru?. ala, have been forbidden to make any re- t: 'ference to certain distnrbances at St. g Petersburg arising out of strikes at the spinning factories, which have been sup- a (pressed by armed force. g . - !*$*. ii> r&'j t J Lr.j ? ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZEOt -I TVulilnsrton Item*. The Senate Committee on Naval Affaii <?reed to reoort favorably the promotlo f naval officers who participated in tfc rar with Spain, over others wfco are tho eniors. The-list includes Admirals Samj on and Schley. The Navy Department 'has decided t liow the naval station at Guam a full bra< and. The Equipment Bureau has bee utborized to procure the instruments an hip them on the Yosemite when <>he start or the island. The Navy Department has decided t end three gunboats to Rear-Admire >ewey, in addition to the Castine an [elena, recently ordered to Philippin aters. The vessels assigned to this dut re the gunboats Princeton, Yorktown an ;ennington. In the Senate Tuesday Mr. Mason (Rei 11.) ma'de an address in support of his r< alution that the United States will nc jek to govern any people without thel onsent. Secretary Alger, in a communication t nn<?MAaf a<S fhof of ana Ka f o Iron f UU&ICS3, au^fjwicu luai ovwj/o bcitvou v acognize the meritorious hospital wor erformed by Margaret Livingston Chan ir and Anna Boligny in the Porto Ric impalgn. The total expenses of the Peace Commia on to the Government was not in exces t $100,000. The Senate ordered the printing of th Icaragua Canal bill, as amended and modi ed. Senator PJatt (Conn.) secured tbe adop on of a resolution calling upon the Secre iry of the Interior for information con irning the cutting of dead and fallen tim sr on the Chippewa Indian Reservation ii [inoesota. The cost of the recular army, under th rovisions of the Hull bill, was fixed a 32,053,665, an increase of $57,710,231. The House passed the bill for the crea on of an additional Judge in the Sixtl adicial Circuit. The President ha3 approved the Urgen eflciency bill covering the deficiencies ii te army and navy expenditures during le last six months. Senor Calvo, representative of Cost) ica, was presented to President M^Kinle; , the advanced rank of Minister Plenlpo intiary: Senor Correa wa3 presented a barge d'Affaires at Nicaragua. The Anglo-American Joint High Commis ton has resumed its sessions. Domestic. Miss Sophia Dallas, daughter of Georgi . Dallas, who was Vice-President of thi nited States with President Polk, died a sr home, in Philadelphia, aged seventy x years. O. H. Baker, the wife murderer, wa fnged at Eminence. Mo., a few days age the presence of 2000 persons. On th affold he cursed tbe country and the peo te until the drop fell. The gunboat Yorktown sailed from Sai rancisco Tuesday for Manila via Hono ,iu. She will go ail the way under a ful sad of steam and should make the run ii iree weeks if she is not delayed at Hono lu. Henry Mitohell, thirty years of age, an* imes Leonard, twenty-one, were killed a railroad crossing in Paterson, N. J., i iw days ago. They were riding in a cov red wagon and drove upon the rails dl sctly in front of the train. The horse es iped injury, but the wagon was demol hed. Henry Wolter, Warden of the Mlnnesoti :ate Prison, at Stillwater, has beej losen Warden of the Connecticut Prison : Hartford, to succeed Warden Jabes oodbrldge, whose son is now an inmatt 1 A1 * v! ? t ? ? Imaw inKi/tU lia AmKo7 . llltj lUSUlUUUU, uuiu nuiuu UO uutuou ed funds while ft clerk. Wolfer is forty x years olB. He will assume his nev atles March 1. Thirty citizens o! Dawson, Klondike lye been indicted for perjury in connec on with a recent stampede to Kentuck; reek, a short distance below Dawson (rearing to false statements regarding laims Is the charge against them. Among the passengers on the steame: orlc, which arrived a few days ngo a in Francisco from the Orient,was Lieuten it Calkins of the First Montana Yolun lers, who comes from the Philippines e said that Agulnaldo would send mori ommlssloners to the United State3, anc lat two of his emissaries were now 01 lelr way here. The first accident to the Union Pacific ist mail occurred a few days ago wher te train was running at a high speed ilrfy miles west of Laramie, Col. Th( >nnectlng rod of the engine broke, tear it V f Vw Ig ttWtty llltf UttU, SiripLUUg tUT7 aiuo vi im lglne and tearing up the track. Engineei ark Wright, of Laramie, was struck -bj te rod and killed instantly. Attorney-General Monnett filed in th< hlo Supreme Court a petition to oust th< ational Biscuit Company from doing busi ;ss as a trust in Ohio. The Attorney eneral claims that the Biscuit Compan] capitalized for 955(000,000, but only haj 5,000,000 in the business. An inferndf machine exploded in the rail >nd depot in New Albany, Miss., injurinf ve men fatally. It was sent from Holl? prings, Miss., to a man at New Albany ho is indicted for murder. He was open g it when the explosion occurred. Judge Smith, of the Common Plea1 ourt at Cincinnati, Ohio, has issued i imporary order restraining eighteen pot ry companies in Ohio from joining th< ottery Trust. In his Inaugural address Governor Gage ! California, made a strong plea for ex ansion. He said the Philippines must b< itained, and that no shortsighted policy l M I 1 i.L-4. louiu luae iur us muu ium uuu ucou yay jed with American blood. Zenas Anderson, colored, who shot anc iiled his wife on the 13th of last March as hanged In the oounty jail at Pittsburg enn., a few days ago. Jealousy was tlfi luse of the crime. A barn near Banks, Ala., belo/ging to i hite farmer named Green, was burned b] a incendiary, together with several hun red bushels of corn and other produce ispicion was directed toward Marshal cGregor, a negro in Green's employ. J w days ago the nesrro's lifeless body wai und hanging by the neck to a big oa) ee near where the barn had stood, Wh< is lynchers were is a mystery. Foreign. General Lord Kitchener has decided t< >nd a strong expedition against Khullfi bduliah. who is at Darfur. Soudan, witi large force of Dervishes. Senor Saga3ta, the Spanish Premier, de ares that the present Cabinet will stand lusing much excitement among pollti ians. A Socialist editor has boen sentenced al agdeburg, Germany, to forty-nim lonths' imprisonment on a charge oLleze tajesty. A boy, twelve .years of age, was fount ead of starvation on the strew"at Havana uba, a few days ago. The body was lyinj a the stones, with candles at its head laced there by strangers"hands. Viscount Cromer laid the cornerstone o le Gordon Memorial College at Imartoum George Dambmann, an American who i! rominent in Franco-American businesi Ircles at Paris, France, has been decorate< y the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Del fisse, with the Cross of the Legion o ionor. It is announced in Berlin, Germany, tha le third part of Prince Bismarck' lemoirs, dealing fully with his resignatioi f the Chancellorship, has been published The Chamber of Commerce of Bordeaux ranee, has again presented a memorial t< lie French Government, urging tne press ig necessity of opening negotiations for i reaty of commerce with the United States The Hamburg Chemical Factory at Ham urg, Germany, was destroyed by lire ausinga loss of $100,000. Sir Thomas Llpton, in London, says h as signed agreements with Captain Archie" Hocarth, formerly of the Isold* nd Robert Wrlnge to command the Amei ca's Cup challenger, Shamrock. The Chateau Tagstern, eleven mile rom Char, Switzerland, was burned to th round. Next year's naval estimates for Italy it j .sserted, will provide for eight new battle hips, two'being of the first class.. " AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN ^ . >n _ . . .. . . . l? The President Nominates Joseph H. > Choate to Succeed John Hay. 0 2 NEW ENVOY A BRILLIANT LAWYER a :s 0 President BIcKJnley Names the Well'1 Known Pleader of New York City to e Represent the United States Governy ment at the Coart of St, James?A ^ Sketch of Mr. Choate's Career. > Washington, D. C. (Special).?The Prear ident sent to the SeDate on Wednesday the ir nomination of Joseph H. Choate, of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and n Pleninotentiarv of the United States to ? Great Britain. ? Joseph Hodge3 Choate was bora on January 24,1832, at Salem, Mass., and is the son k of Dr. George Choate. He was graduated s in 1852 from Harvard Coilege, and two year? later from Harvard Law School. e- After a year's study in a Boston office, he was admitted in 1855 to the bar of Massachusetts. In the same year he entered tho office of Scudder & Cirter in New York City, but soon left and entered tho office of Butler, Evarts &' Soutffmayd. Hp afterwards formed a partnership with William 1 H. Barnes, but In 1859 became a member of the firm of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, e the firm being later changed to Evarts, ,t Choate <fc Beaman. For the last ten years Mr. Choate has been generally acknowl. edged to be one of the leaders of the bar in [j this country. Mr. Choate's political career practically began in 1856, when he took the t stump for Fremont. He was President of ; r? I ! 1 tm r _ JOSEPH HOD (President McKlnley has nominated the State Constitutional Convention which ' assembled in 1894 to revise the Constitution of the State of New York. From 1867 to > 1871 Mr. Choate was President of the New England Society, from 1874 to 1878 Preslc I dent of the Harvard Club, from 1873 to 1877 t Present of the Union League Club, and In 1888-1889 President of the Bar Assocla tlon of New York. j FAVORS THE PEACE TREATY. 1 The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations* Approves of It. I ' Washington, D. C. (Special).?The SenL ate Committee on Foreign Relations on 3 Wednesday authorized Senator Davis to j report the peace treaty favorably without : 'amendment. r i- The committee was in session only an hour and a greater part of this time was consumed in waiting for a quorum, the ' Senators meantime discussing Informally the treaty provisions. Senators Cullom and Clark, who were among the absentees, sent " their proxies. Senators Morgan and Gray ' were the only Democrats in attendance, but the other Democratic members, Senators Daniels, Mills and Turpie, had full notice of the purpose of the meeting, and ? they indicated no opposition to immediate ' action. ? There was no suggestion of any amendTV nflo tit a a {nofpiiofo/l t rt UiCUL. ODUULUi X/OIIO n u J m^vvv* ?w press the treaty to as early action as pos3 slble. The committee also authorized Seni ator'Davis to report favorably upon the proposition to remove the injunction of i secrecy. FOVJR PERSONS KILLED. j Run Down by Exprean Train No. 13 Near r Larimer, Fenn. PiTTSBUBo, Penn. (Special).?Four persons were run down and instantly killed by express train No. 18, near Larimer statlon) ' on the Pennsylvania Railroad, twenty-flve i miles east of Pittsburg, on Wednesday. The list of dead is: Mary Miller, Thomas i Miller, Albert Wilson and Walter Brown. On account of a freight wreck near Larl. mer. it was necessary to switch the westbound passenger trains to the eastbound i traok. The engineer blew the whistle, but the alarm was unheeded. J ; CANC OF MURDERERS IN PARIS. Fourteen of the "Xeuilly Band" Are Con vlcted and Sentenced. Pabis, France (By Cable).?The Assize 5 Court Imposed sentences on Wednesday J upon fourteen mombors of a gang of thirty young criminals known as tho "Neuilly . Band." convicted of numberless robberies> ( "hold-ups" and attacks upon women, and ! suspected of murder. Several botyes have been found In the t Seine of late of supposed victims of the band. Tho sentences ranged from two years to life imprisonment at hard labor. The other members of the band were acquitted. ) Two Killed at'a Grade bro?slng. i Levi Lyons and his daughter Ella, nine11 teen years old, were killed a few days ago at a railroad crossing in Paterson, N. J. . Mr. Lyons and his daughter lived at Pompton. They had driven into the city itt a sleigh. Both wore heavily muffled because 3 of tbe severe cold, and it is thought that 5 tho wraps about their heads prevented 1 their hearing tho train approaching. ' New Code of Laws For Alaska. The bljl providing for "a new code of * criminal laws for Alaska was passed by the ? House of Representatives, Washington, with a high license amendment. Sifting* of the >'ews. ' The State debt of Iowa is $7$,510.40. ^ The American Bible Society received a i. $10,000 check as a New Year's gift from an anonymous donor. , The Canton Aargau in Switzerland accepted the cattle-insurance law by a vote of 19,300 against 12,052. s The Senate of Oregon passed a resolution j favoring the ratification of the treaty of > peace without amendment. South Dakota has a surplus of money in >b the State Treasury. It recently took up e $70,000 of bonds not due until 1910. The Superior Court of Washington de[8 clared void nearly $1,000,000 of Tacoma ). City warrants once paid and then rolssued. GENERAL HAWLEY RENOMINATED. Junior Senator From Connecticut to Have Another Term. Habtfobd, Conn. (Special).?General Joseph R. Hawley was nominated by the Republican caucus of the Conneotlout General Assembly as a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate. S BEJTATOP. JOSEPH E. HA'WXEY. The final battle took place Wednesday afternoon, when the Republicans oI the House of Representatives and the State Senate met in a joint caucus in the Represnntntives' Hn.ll. The vietorv of General Hawley was not secured until three full hours had been consumed, and nearly all of that time was ocoupledin balloting. The seventh and conclusive ballot resulted as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 198, neces - * m ?? GES CHOATE. . him Ambassador to Great Britain.) sary to ohoice, 100; Hawley, 117; Fessenden, 69; Bulkeley, 8; Russell, 4. VERMONT SENATOR CHOSEX. Chief Justice Robs Succeeds the Late Senator Morrill. Moxtpeliee, Vt. (Special).?Benjamin F. Fifleid, to whom Governor Smith tendered the appointment of United States Senator, to suoceed the late Justin 8. Mortal, notified the Governor on Wednesday that, owing to family relations, he was compelled to deoline the honor. The Senatorship was thereupon tendered to Jonathan Boss, of St.,Johnsbury,Chief Justice of the 8upreme , Court of Vermont, and he has accepted the appointment, resigning his office of Chief Justice. Senator Clark, of Wyoming, Renominated Cheyenne, Wyo. (Special).?The Republican members of tbe Wyoming Legislature, numbering forty-seven, held a caucus Wednesday evening, at whioh Senator Clarence D. Clark was unanimously selectj ed for re-election. No other name was presented to the caucus. 8enator Bate Ke-elected. Nashville, Tenn. (8peclal).?The Senate and House met in joint convention on Wednesday and compared the vote for United States Senator. W, B. Bate, the present Senator, was declared elected for a term of six years. DIED ON HIS WEDDING DAY. Rudolph Darnateadt, or Orange, N. J., Found Suffocated by Om. Obanoe, N. J. (Special).?Budolph Louis Darnsteadf was to have been married to Miss Elizabeth E. Range on Wednesday night. Wednesday morning he was found dead in his room at his home at Parrow and Hickory streets. Gas escaping from a gas stove caused his death, which wus purely accidental. Mr. Darnsteadt was twenty-four years old. His father, Louis Darnsteadt, was official interpreter of the Essex County Court. The young man was proprietor of a drug store, and he lived over the store. Miss Range is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Range, of Ridgehurst Road, West Orange. Tbe night before there was a ^rehearsal of tbe marriage ceremony at tbe First German Presbyterian Church, of Orange,whore it was intended to have the ceremony performed. Jail Broken Open by a Woman. The prisoners in the jail at South Pittsburg, Tenn., planned to escape recently, but it was left for Jane Amherst, a woman convicted of larceny, to teach her male associates how to get out. A few days ago she secured an iron bar and broke the lock -- ' It Ol 1 A *k?. /.nllo OU uor COU DL1C3 ^aiuou tv luo v^vjjio of the other prisoners, smashed the looks and set the Inmates at liberty. Six escaped, but the woman who set them free was caught. Four of the runaways have.been captured. Medal* For Sampaon'a Men. Senator Haie has introduced a joint resolution in the Senate, Washington, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to have bronze medals struck commemorating the naval battle of Santiago, and to distribute them among the officers and men of the ships of the North Atlantic Squadton. Rutins; Favorable to Drcyfas. It is said in Paris that the.Court of Cassation will promulgate its ruling in the Dreyfus case early la Feoruary, ana taut it will bo almost unanimously lu favor of revision. The Labor World. The wages of shoeworkers at Nashville. Tenn., have heen reducod one-third during 1398. The Central Labor Union of Terre Haute, Ind., has a library consisting of 1300 volumes. British printers have instructed their officials to invest their surplus funds in cooperative institutions. The Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada has agreed to recognize tho Brotherhood of Telegraphers and averted a strike. Bakers in Newark, N. J., are preparing to go on strike to enrorce a ten-hour wortday and compliance with Now Jersay's styujtary bakesnop law. ! ; . ' ' SILLED IN A COLLISION. Two Passenger Trains Smash Together on the Lehigh Valley Road, MANY SENT TO THEIR DEATH. The Tralni Met in a Head-on Collision Fnll Speed Near Plainfield, X. J?Sixe teen Perions Are Killed and Over Thirty Injured?The Dlaaiter Was the Result of a Blunder. Plainfiled, N. J. (Speoial).?Two Lehigh Valley trains rushing In opposite directions at a high rate of speed crashed into each other Monday afternoon just before 1 o'clock, about a mile east of Lincoln, with such tremendous force that thirteen human being3 were killed outright aud three died after being removed to Muhlenberg Hospital. The number of seriously injured was about thirty. The dead are: Jacob Heller, tailor, thirty-five years told) of Mount Carmell, Penn.; John Jarvis, fifteen years old, of Mount Carmel, Penn.; Abner 8. Kaiser, carpet cleaner, of Pottsvllle, Penn.; Martin Keenan, of Mount Carmel, Penn., about fiftylive years old; Theodore D. Kohan, thirtyfive years old, of Shamokin, Penn.; W. C. Loader, thirty years old, of Mount Carmel, Penn.; Warren H. Merkle, of 8hamokin, Penn., aged twenty-three; Frank Bybecki, about forty years old, of Mount Carmel, Perin.; R. \Yelkel, about lorty years old, of 8hamokln, Penn.; three unknown wnmAn ?nrt nnp linlrnnwn man: W. H. Hlukle, of Mount Carmel, Pena., contractor, aged forty-five; George Josephs, of Shamokln, Penn., aged twenty: Henry E. Weikel, photographer, aged twenty-eight, of Shamokln, Penn. The accident was the result of an attempt upon the part of somebody to accomplish the impossible by sending two trains over the same track in opposite directions at the same time. The eastbound track, where the collision occurred, was not in use on account of a freight wreck nearby, and trains were sent in both directions over the westbound track. The train that carried mo3t of the killed and injured was the third section of the Hazleton express, which was carrying to New York a lar^e number of people from Shamokln, Mount Carmel, Pottsville and other towns in the coal district. The we3tbo:ind train was what i3 known as train No. 71. It was a local accommodation and left New York at 10.50 a. m. The point where the wreck occurred is a quiet country spot on a long curve that runs through a heavily wooded district. The two trains approached each othel at full speed, aad each engineer was entirely ignorant of the proximity to another train until the two engines flashed around the curve almost upon each other. The crash followed almost immediately. In an instant the air was full of shoats and the uiuaua (U iuo iujuifa, uuu iuo ivyy uaius were masses ot tangled wreckage.. There was almost no help at hand, and <or a time all was confusloh. The two engines were smashed almost out of all semblance to what they had been, and the fact that bo more lives were lost Is attributable to the mercy that the wreckage did not take Are. Those who escaped uninjured at once turned their attention toward helping to extricate the less fortunate. The news of the accident was carried to Lincoln, to West Dunellen and toPlainfleld, and soon the wrecking train was on its way to the scene. The wrecking crews first turned ' their attention to the Injured. Physicians were brought to the wreck as soon as possible, and under their supervision the injured were taken on a special train to Plalnfleld, where they were placed in the, Muhlenberg Hospital. The Hazleton expfess was drawn by Engine No. 486, of which James Pandergast, of Easton, was the engineer. Pendergast was caught beneath the wreck of his engine and was pinned there by some of the heavy ironwork that rested on his legs. When the rescuers reached him he was conscious, and calmly dlreoted them how to go to work to release him. He was taken out with his feet and legs mashed to a pulp. The greatest disaster was wrought in the first car of the express trainthrough which the tender of the engine had plowed. Those who had occupied the front seats of that gar must have been instantly killed, for their bodies were found mashed and bleeding beneath the wreckage of the tender. The bodies were mutilated almost beyond Identification, the heads being nearly torn from the bodies in several instances, limbs torn off and bodies cut and twisted. Several of the injured were pinned in their places by the wreckage In the fore part of the car, and had to be dug and cut out of their precarious positions. Harry Butland, the operator at the South Plainfleld station, gave the signal that permitted the local train bound from Jersey City to Bound Brook to enter a division where it met the third section of an excursion train running on the same track, because of a freight wreck which obstructed the eastbound track. Whether he did tbls under orders or whether he misinterpreted orders or whether he had no orders at all Is yet to be determined. The Lehigh Valley Railroad is not protected by the blook signal system east of Easton. West of that point an automatic system is used. One of the crew of the Lehigh wrecking train at the wreok said that this accident was the twenty-first that tho road had bad since January 1, and was the sixth that had taken place near the sair.d place in the same time. The others wore not serious, however, and did not involve loss of iife. CHILD'S PLAY ENDS IN DEATH. Colored Candy Kills Four Little Ones of a Family. Toledo, Ohio (Special)?Since Christmas the four children of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Laing, of Toledo, have died. One died a few days after Christmas, another a week later, nnd two more passed away a few days Hgo. The last one. wa3 the sole remaining child of the family. On Christmas the children were playing "doctor," and the older boy took the role of physician. He compounded a medicine for bis brother and sisters, who played ill. He dissolved colored candy into a tumbler of water and administered it to all of them, partaking of some himself. The children suffered muoh pain. More Millions For Hetty Green. Hetty Green, the richest womau in tbe TTnitod States, after peraisteut litigation, has got in control of the 85,000,000 left by. her aunt, Sylvia Ann Howland, of New Eedford, Mass. Lieutenant Wark'i Sentence Itedaced. The sentence of Lieutenant Wark of the Royal Artillery, who was condemned to death at Liverpool, England, iu Docem'oer I on the charge of murdering Miss Jane 1 Yates hy conspiring with her to procure an illegal operation on herself, which resulted fatally, and who was subsequently reprieved by the Home Secretary, has been reduced to three years' penal servitude. Bcnk Robber* Secure S1287. The safe of the Ashbumham Bank, at Asoburnham, Mass.. was blown open a few days ago and 51237 stolen from thg cush box. The thieves escaped. Cycling Notes. A cycle factory has been started in Bulgaria' r? i i ?111 U-1J UU..?1A BeiK'Um wiu uuiu iuroo suuws this winter. Two applications for patents on brakes to act on the road wera recently made in England. Free pedals, permitting coasting without removing feet from pedals, are becoming more common. The ateel ribbon to be placed between the air-tube and outer-casing of doubletube tires is being revived again. Within a year, according to the Scottish Cyclist, thirteen cycle papers in Great ?ritalo "hgve gvne to tbs majority." \ .Y- V"::V-*' ' ' .. THE NEW KING OF SAMOA. Hstuft Elected Monarch of the laland Without Hnch Omiosltion. Washisotox, D. C. (Special).?Mataafa has been elected King of Samoa, to succeed Malletoa. Official Information to this ef" feet has been received here. The election was held without trouble, though Tama ^ "' / i 7. KING HATAAFA OP SAMOA. .eese, who was Vice-King in 1881, backed by a small following, endeavored to obtain the office. Mataafa's election is highly satisfactory, not only to the Washington Government, hllf trt fVio Aorman on/) Prlfloli /lAffavn. ments, because of the certainty that he will be guided id bis action by the wishes of the Consuls In Apia of,the signatory Powers to the Berlin treaty. NEW JERSEY SENATORSHIP. ~r Ex-Congressman John Eean Receives the Caucus Nomination For Senator. Tbentojt, N. J. (Special).?The Legislature was organized Tuesday afternoon. Cbarles A. Reed, of Somerset County, was chosen President of- the Senate, Augustus S. Barber, of Gloucester, Secretary, and J. Frank Llndsley, of Morris, Reading Clerk. The other officers are the same as last year. In the House there are but a few unimportant changes In the official force. Acting Governor David 0. Watklns was reelected Speaker and Thomas H. Jones, of Essex, Clerk. Immediately after the Legislature adjourned the Republican Senators and Assemblymen went Into joint caucus on the United States Senatorship. 8enator Cross of Union presented the name of ex-Congressman John Rean o! Elizabeth, who was unanimously nominated. Senator Lodge Renominated. Boston (Special").?At the joint caucus of the Republicans of theMassachusetts House and Senate Tuesday afternoon Henry Cabot Lodge was renominated for the United States Senate. Mr.-Lodge will be elected. J For Sehator From Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind. (Special).-A. J. Beverldge was nominated for United States Senator on Tuesday on tlie eleventh ballot at the Bepublican caucus. PORTO RICO'S BUDGET. General Henry Wants to Apply Customs Receipts .to the Government .^Expenses. San Juan, Porto Rico (Special).?The budget for the year 1S99 has just been approved by General Henry. ^ This covers the expenses of what is called the "Insular Government." The following sums, which would have been included In the budget of the Spanish Government for thi? year, have beenstrlcken out: General obligations. $498,601.80; clergy, $197,945; war, $1,252,377.76; marine, $222,669.20. The caloulated budget for 1899 is formed of the folio wing items: General obligations, $19,580; State obligations, $804,995; D epartment of Justice, $201,452.22; Finance Department, $169,6)0; Department of the Interior, $766,639. The customs for the com-. ing year were estimated to be $3,182,900. General Henry has asked of Washington the right to apply the customs receipts to the expenses of government. It this should be permitted all Government expenses could be paid and many Improvements carried on. (SuAY MUST STAND TRIAL Supreme Court Denies the Senator's Plea For Change of .Venae. Philadelphia, Penn. (Special). ? The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition of United States Senator Quay, Richard B. Quay and former State.Treasurer Haywood for a writ of certiorari in the case charging the petitioners with conspiracy to misuse State funds. The CRse will now go back to the Coutt of Quarter Sessions for trial in , the regular course of procedure. The opinion was handed down by Chief Justice Sterrett as soon as the seven Justices of the court entered the court room Tuesday morning. The opinion states that the Supreme Court is satisfied that the petitioners cau and will have a fair and Impartial trUl befor a competent and unprejudiced Judge and? fair and impartial jury in this county. The court holds that It has no authority to review the action of the lower court on the Quay demurrers, there being no appeal in such event until after conviction and sentence. NtW ""AMBA55ADUK IO KU5SIA. Minister Tourer Transferred From Vienna ?An Indiana Man, Succeeds Hiin. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Charlemagne Tower,*of ^Pennsylvanla, now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to AustriaHungary, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia, vice Ethan A. Hitchcock, appointed.Secretary of the Interior. Addison J C. Harris, of Indiana, was named to succeed Mr. Tower, at Vienna. Mr. Harris is j a prominent attorney of Indianapolis, of which citv be has been a resident for many , years. Although he has taken an active | interest in politics, he has held no public < office except that of State Senator. He j has been associated with Senator Fair- , banks in political matters. Mr. Harris is < married, but has no children. j Dreyfus Makos His Defense. Ex-Captain Drey'us has made his reply to the charged against him, and in his tes- , timony for the Court of Cassation, which ^ considering his case at Paris, France, he ISiys he has never confessed his guilt, and e protests again his innocence. i A Mothor Superior Killed. 1 . Sister Margaret Newman, Mother Su- 1 oerlor of the Ursullne Convent, at St. Louis, ' Mo., was killed a few days ago by fallins f from a third story window to the stone t pavement. Her skull was fractured. The deceased woman was thirty-live years old. * Prominent People. General Merritt wears a seal ring which j has been worn by the eldest 9on of tho ? family for flvo generations. Seth Low will deliver the oration at the , celebration of Washington's Birthday at : the University cf Pennsylvania. ? General Bartle, who has been in the t lunnrfmmt for filtv-four vears. the * record for long service, has known inti- j mutely all the Presidents since Polk, who f appointed him. The only American general in the Gorman army is Lieutenant-General George Evl. a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia. A. j few days ago he celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his entrance into thejmperlal J German service. . _ " * UTAH MURDERER FOUND OUT. f lira. Wright, of Gour?rn?tir, AeeuM Her* '' > 11 Hosbamd of Tripple Crime. i\ OomrxBvxuB, N. T. (Special).?Sheriff \>'f$ George A. Btorrs, of Utah County, Utah< left here a.few days ago, accompanied by Mrs. Jennle Wright. They are en route to Utah in an endeavor to clear up a murder Yi|| mystory and, If possible, to freeamanfrom a life sentence. At the Pelican Point Banoh, Utah, Is <3 1895, three young men were Boot down 000 nlghtdn their ranch house. Thesteofathtr '>11 or one of the boys, a man named" Haynw, '-.sm. had had trouble with ..the men, and was ' $& charged with the crime. The bodies were - :*Jlg found sank In Utahliake and the premise* rjjaH they had occupied wert ; looted. Haynes - 'fyi was convicted on olrcumstafttial evidence and was sentenced to be hanged, but be* fore the date of execution a stay was secured and the sentence was commuted to v 3 life imprisonment. short time after the crime a man of' V'f the name of George W. Wright, the bttt-- , band of Mrs. Jennie Wright, left that lo- . cality and visited varloa.s parti of the West, finally drifting to Freshwater, Oal.. 7 He was a graduate of Kalamazoo Law Col-, ':*% lege, and a skilled surveyor. One-morning a man with whom Wright was at odd* was found shot to pieces In bis cabin. /?-: Wright assisted at the Coroner's inquest, : > and wrote out the verdict of "murder by a fierson unknown." Later Wright became nvolved in a questionable sheep deal, and, / ''{fm after being .arrested, jumped bis ball ana fled. He.visited his wife at her parents* home here end then disappeared. After he left the West evidence of & positive character relating to the murder at, Freshwater WM.found against Wright, and after working on the case for over a year ??3 the authorities elicited a. confession from Mrs. Wright to the effect that her husband' mB had goods which figured In the Pelican . V| Point murders. Mrs. Wright Is now will- Jri lng to testify against her husband for the X;3j? triple crime, providing he can be caught. "\'^i She says her lips have previously btaa,. ^ sealed through fear of him. . SENATOR HOAR ON EXPANSION. ^ / 4 B* IuatorttM the Fltht Against Hum , ^ , Policy in the Senate. Washington-, D. 0. (3pecial).?Senator:*^? George P. Hoar, of Massachusetts, leader ^ > of the anti-expansion la ts, Inaugurated the fight against the peace treaty la his speech - : before the Senate on Moo day. Speaking on the Test resolution, which -,'y) declares that no power is given the Federal'. ;'?f|g Government to acquire territory to be heM / V-hH and governed permanently as colonlee, the . Senator from Massachusetts made an elab orate argument agruast sxpauaiun, fi52jj acquiring the Philippines, and iudJractfjr.-.A-r&l against the ratification of the treaty of P The principal points on which Senator . | Hoar based his speech were: 1. That there was no constitutional, power to acquire colonies. 2. That the Requirement o! territory the eastern hemisphere would mean the' JS shattering o( the Monroe Doctrine, be- -isg cause It would force us to concede to all- /tfigs powers the right to acquire territory in this hemisphere. 3. That every lesson of experience vu kr-XwHS warning against attempting to adminlstar laws in a tropical colony. , " ;4$K 4. Acquisition would mean diminished >??? wages for the workman and an increase in the burden of taxation. 5. It woutd'be against the coda of inoraU lty adopted by the United States, whlflh - ; opposes acquiring imperial powers or im- ' FIRE ON A DUCK FARM. ' ;Jg Over t Thousand Breeding Ports aad Over a Thousand Chickens Destroyed. j?JQH Tbestox, N. J. (Special).?Fire destroyed the Incubator and engine bouses on Pat- ' V,jJ rick MncAvoy's duck farm, three' miles .,Jj| from ' Trenton, in Ewlng Township, a -.^ggg few days ago. Over a thousand - - .Im white Pelt In ducks, whloh MacAvoy was saving for breeding purposes, wer? \-'|? burned. Nearly a thousand ehlokenswere destroyed, besides twelve cowv.v^gl several calves, eighteen large Incubators, and a large quantity of turnips and potntoes. The loss will reaoh about- i'&jj (25,000. MacAvoy raises ducks for the New - 8? York marke^. His season closed with the holidays, and he had few besides breeding : .7; ducks on band. Before engaging in the duck business MacAvoy kept a dulry farm. His large barns and nearly all bis cows were de siroyea dv nre adoui nine years ago. xu# .. ^ origin of this fire is a mystery, as there had been no fire In the incabator home wher* -vSa the flames were discovered. AN ELECTRICAL EXECUTION. ' Bailer Decker Pot'to Death at Sin* Slif . For Wife-Harder. Sing Srsi, f N. Y. (Special). ? Bailer Deck?r, a negro, was executed in the electrio ohair here Monday morning. Then ^ were two shocks. At 11.22 o'clock 178? volts were turiled on. This voltage wa* . kept up for ten seconds and then reduced to 300 volts,.which was kept-up for fifty seconds. At 11.25, after Dr. Irvine had ex- . amlnedDecker, it was decided toadmlnU- '< ter a second shook. This was kept on at . 1780 volts for two minutes, and at 11M .//?r Deoker was pronounced dead. ; Decker killed his wife, who was a whit* . woman, near TottenvUle, Staten Island, on the morning of May 25, 1893. He attempted ?5*3 to commit suicide, shooting himself in the abdomen, but he recovered. He waa sen- .'*$ tenoed to be killed during the early part of : . November, but his execution was stayed bf ? an appeal. Snlclde of a Naval Apprentice. V- ' Archie E. Wall, formerly an apprentice ' /*| A?I fKA VafffAotitn-Tavaa ifurnoH ftvA Mfl * \JUL IUO waniwmj; J. VAUJ, %~ &w jets In the parlor of his boarding house in ' .%$j Philadelphia, Penn., a few nights ago, and ^ wpntto sleep with-the keyhole staffed with . -J paper. When found the next morning h* was dead. He left notes addressed to his mother and a sweetheart, who spurned* hit .. love. He said he forgave her and loved " . her to the last. The girl's name Is Maria Bkillman. She works in a box factory. She / * had told Archie she did not want to see ''MM him again. Archie was twenty-one years i old. His mother lives at Hummelstown, . f Penn. <. Shocking Condition of Spanish Soldiers. ^ The steamship Notre Dame de Salut ar- '--y rived at Barcelona, Spain, on Monday wltk' 1100 soldiera from Havana. The men were In o shocking condition. The steamship was not large enough to furnidh accommo-' elation for the number of troops pat iboard cl her. . Thirty-nine of them died on the passage, 360 were taken In an atnba*. lance to the hospitals after they landed, md 1000 were taken to sanitariums. The jthers could hardly stand. All were feat[ullv emaciated. : Killed at a Hotel Fir*. A Are which broke out in the Hotel Richelieu at Pittsburg, Penn., Sunday noraing, resulted in a property loss of )nly about $15,000, but three lives wers .' lacrlflced and Ave people were badly hurt, rhe dead are: Mrs. Katherine Boyle/ Pittsburg, Penn.; Amos S. Landis, Grapertlle, Penn.; George A. Walters, Camden, U. J. The fire orlgluateil on the second loor from an explosion of gas, and within i few moments the building was a mass of lames and blinding smoke. The noise o! he explosion awakened most of the quests, about twenty in number, who reaped with the above fatalities. Now Fly the American FlatFrederick G. Salter, general agent of the northern Pacific Rail ?ay Company in New fork City, announces that the steamships fictorla.Tacomaand Olympia o: theNortflirn Paclflo Steamship Company's Ta:oma Line, and the steamship Columbia ot he Portland Line, have been placed under be American flag. The other steamers :onnected with these iines fly the British lag. * > Abolishing Arsenal* la Brsill. A decree has been issued by the Brazil* an Government abolishing two ot the laval and three of the military arsenals ot ' he country. This step has bean taken with l view ol retrenching exoendltures. > . i Vr .4