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\ Operator Killed in Pennsylvania. I
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Jolin Blerent, City Treasurer of New.
\ castle, Fenn., Mysteriously Killed in s<
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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
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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.
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I A RAILROAD AGENT KILLED. [D
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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
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' ACUINALDO IS DEFIANT. ol
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* 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
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THE M'CULLOCH AT HOME.
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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
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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
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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_
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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.
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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
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZEOt
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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
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l? The President Nominates Joseph H.
> Choate to Succeed John Hay.
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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
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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.
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; 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. >
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