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>; FILlPlUfl WODLD BETR4Y. Pio Del Pilar Offers to Surrender Aguinaldo and the Army. WANTS $500,000 FOR THE ACT. g General Otis Decline* tlie Proposition? Insurants Kill Spaniards Who Would Tarn Orer Artlllerr?Talk of an An* Uacioa* Plan to Invade Manila and Capture Our Commander. Manila (By Cabla).?General Otis has received messages purporting to come from lh? Insurgent General IMo del Pilar offering to sell out his army and to deliver Agulnaldo Into the hands of the Americans. Although he is not satisfied that this offer is authentic, it Is not intrinsically improbable. The policy of General Otis is firmly set agxlnst buying any sursj-' renders. i I VW! \ I GENERAL PIO DEL PILAU. (He would sell out the Filipino Army and * deliver Agulnaldo to the Americans.) Pio del Pilar offers for the sum of $50,000 to refrain from attacking Manila with his army; for the sum of $250,000 he offers to surrender his nrmy after a sham battle, fir both sides firing Into the air, and for the mm of $500,000 he says he will procure the overthrow of the Insurrection and the capture of Agulnaldo, Paterno and the other leaders. In the course cf the communication he refers to Aguinal io in contemptuous terms, Indicatiug that s:raiued relations exist between them. Reports are being received from districts occupied by the enemy that the Filipinos believe that Pio del Pilar has an audacious plan to break through the Amerioan lines into Manila and to seize General Otis and the Archbishop. Possibly these rumors wer* started with an idea of helping him to make a deal with the ;V j; Americans. It Is unnecessary to say that the Americans would welcome an attack of that sort. There has been much speculation of late regarding the whereabouts of Pio del Pilar. The recent attack i?t La Loma 1? credited to bis men. It is believed that he Is now in the vicinity of 8au Mateo Valley, with a force of from 1800 to 8000 men. Ten former Spanish soldiers, who were captured by V-a Filipinos and for a time acted ns officers ana membors of a Filipino artillery regiment locaiod In tbe vicinity of Santa Rosa, In tbe Lnguna do Bay j district, determined to surrender the artillery to tbe Americans, Tbe plot was discovered by the Filipinos, who killed seven of the conspirators, the three others making their escape to Manila. It appears that when the surrender was determined upon the Spaniards delegated one of their number to proceed to Manila and to propose to General Otis to surrender, after a prearranged mock battle, about twelve pieces, including nxupp and Nordenfeldt rapid-Are guns, well supplied with ammunition from the Lip* powder factory, in exchange for certain sums to be paid the Spaniards, who were to be pardoned for carrying arms against the Americans and to b? transported to Spain. The delegate left Santa Rosa, and, accompanied by thr?e Filipinos, e'.tered the American lines at Galamba. The Filipinos did not proceed far, deciding to await his return at a given * time. As the delegate was detained In Manila longer than they had expected, they grew suspicious and returned to Santa Bosa. The plot was then revealed and the remaining Spaniards were attacked. The gunboat Napiudan, coasting neat Santa Rosa, perceived two men on the beach, hurriedly embarking in a canoe and poshing out toward them. She took them ? on board, and they reported that the Filipinos, on discovering the plot to surrender the artillery, had cut tl?-throats of seven of their Spanish oompanions, and that they themselves had barely escaped with theli lives. The three Spaniards are now hiding ic Manila, fearing Filipino vengeance. Gen* eral Otis had declined their offer through the delegate to surrender the artillery foi money, but he promises to send the three to Snaln. FILIPINO OFFICERS KILLED. Bataon's Macabebe Scouts Defeat the Enemy at San Mateo. f v* Manila (By Cable).?Batson's Macabebe joouts encountered the enemy at Sac Mateo, near Arityat, and attacked them on the front and flunk, driving tbem out of the trenches and dispersing them completely. Several Filipinos, Including a captain and a lieutenant, were killed. A quantity ot arms was captured. The Macabebes had one man killed. A body of twenty-flve Filipinos attacked ? rallroud patrol of eight men, members of lue bevenieencu uegimem, at uuikuiuw, north of BulacaD, wounding two. The Americans reinforced the patrol and drove off the enemy, capturing a quantity of ammunition. General Lee on a Leave of Absence. General Fltzhugh Lee, Military Governor ol the Province of Havana, will visit friends In the United States on a thirty days' leave of absenoe. Three Firemen Are Killed. Fire caused the loss of three lives and property worth $100,000 at Knightstown, Ind., a few days Hgo. The dead are Truman Rhodes, Charles Scbutter and Fon Davey, members of the volunteer Are department. They were fighting the Are when the front wall of a three-story building fell outward. They were caught by the falling bricks and crushed to death. The Plague Keaches Brazil, The statement that the bubonic plague Is raging at Santos, Brazil, Is officially confirmed. Neimy Gleanings. The new registration law In 8outh Da kota goes into eueci iu? jcui. An international exhibition ot automobiles has just peon held In Berlin, Germany. Through the efforts of enterprising Americans the city of Mexico is to have a public automobile service. Prussian manufacturers have donated oyer $250,000 for the benefit of the Technological Institute In Berlin. i The Oovernmont has planned a notable exhibition of colonial products for the jP?n-American Exposition at Buffalo. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have forbidden the sale of giant Axtcrackers and dynamite torpodo??u ? Pp.' . THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WMlilncton 7tarn*. Th? Sphley Testimonial Committee o: lie RoynJ Aroanum has presented a band lome loving cup to Mrs. Schley, the wlf< )f Rear-Admiral Schley. President McKinley telegraphed the Sec retary of War an order promoting to th( ?rnde of Brigadier-General the following officers: Colonel A. C. M. Pennington Second Artillery; Colonel Royal T. Frank First Artillery; Colonel Louis H; Carpen ;er, Fifth Cavalry; Colonel Samuel Oven >hine, Tweuty-third Infantry; Colone Daniel W. Burke, Seventeenth Infantry. The war in South Africa will remit Ii the cutting oft of our mail service with th< Transvaal and the Orange Free State, sai< an official of the Post Office Department All mail matter from this country for Soutl Africa enters by <vay of Cape Town. CJominannnr xnussi^, ui iuo ihiuuwihiuj lias sent a report to the Nary Departmen praisinc the work of officers and crew ii an engagement at Malabon. Many trust officials and attorneys arrive* In Washington in answer to the subpoenas o the Industrial Commission. They appar ontly fear that there may be legislation re garding the appointment of a. commissloi to control the trusts. Major Woodbull, Chief Surgeon a Manila, has cabled Surgeon Sternberg, re questing that the corps of female nurse at Manila be increased to correspond wltl the increase of troops under General Otis' command. The task of recruiting the voluntee army for the 1'hillpplnes Is praotlcall completed. It was announced at the Wa Department that all the regiments bar been filled except one of the additions colored remanents, the Forty-ninth, whlcl need? less than Ave hundred men. Dr. 8enner, former Commissioner of Im migration, told the Industrial Commisslo he was opposed to rurtner restrictions o Immigration. Australian federation is considered ai accomplished fact, according to Consul General Brav, at Melbourne. Our Adopted Islands. Mrs. Letorde. wife of Military Ooverno Ludlow's acting chief clerk, died in Ha vana from yellow fever. The Manila newspaper Patria has baei suppressed and its editor arrested, chargei with seditious utterances. The Boers showed every courtesy to Mr, Conynham Greene, tbe British Agent, oc his journey from Pretoria to Cape Town South Africa. Six of President Kruger's body guard escorted him to the Transvaal border. The burghers of the Orange Free State were equally couiteous. Tbe Mayor and Councilman of Mayaguez, sapital of the province of that name, Porto Rico, have resigned owing to political differences. The taking of the census throughout the island of Cuba has begun. The people re nlvA th? enumerators well aud cive al the desired information readily. No dltAcuity is expected in the cities. The six artillery batteries stationed at Honolulu, Hawaii, bare lost between :wenty and thirty men in the last fen 3ays by desertion. All the soldiers there ire anxious to be sent to Manila. They are trilling to stand thirty days in th< guardhouse for the chance of getting tc the seat of war. bomeatio. Captain John K. Fleet, of the United itates Shipping Company, has received at Newport News, Vn., what is said to be the first Portuguese gold modal of honor evei presented in this country, for saving the shipwrecked crew of the Portuguese bar! ilice two years ago. Attorney-General Monnett, of Ohio, has rendered a decision in which he holds thai the ground between railroad switches li roadbed and can be taxed as such. This will add a large amount to the Ohio tax re wViptiOi Miss Mary Hubbard, of Wlnterport, Me. was burned to death in her house. She was wealthy and her home was one of th( Qoest in Maine. William Leggett, of Rochester, N. Y., in the employ of GaskHl's Midway Company, was fatally injured by an elephant at KDOxrille, Tenn., because he struck the animal on tbe bead with a hammer several weeks ago at Battle Creek, Mich. Rear-Admiral Sampson, who has been detailed to the Charleston Navy Yard, arrived In Boston a few days ago and assumed command at the Yard. Rear-Admiral Norman H. Farqubar ar rived at Old Point Comfort, Va., fron Washington, and Is now in command of th? North Atln tic Squadron, succeeding Rear /Ldmiral W. T. Sampson. Under the spell of tbe preaching of tb< Rev. Dr. A. B. Simpson, the sum of Js63,30C in pledges was raised on Sunday, for the Christian and Missionary Alliance at Carr.anrlA ATnqln Rnll In NiiW York CltV. Lao Casana, seventeen years old, wh< lived with his parents In New York City was taken to JJell^vue Hospital violently Insaue from smoking cigarettes. In a boiler explosion at Brownsburg, Ind., three men were instantly killed and five others were seriously Injured. Th< .lead are Lan Wasson, engineer; Natl Cook, bead sawyer, and Milton Roberts. President McKlnley attonded the wel some home from Manila of the Thirteentl Minnesota Regiment in Minneapolis, anc made a speech broadly favoring expansioi and retention of the Philippines. J. B. Drumond, of Boston, a member ol the Massachusetts Legislature, was klllec by his guide, who mistook him for a deei ind shot him while they were hunting ii the Maine woods. "*? -I.I l?\. .ins made a confession that she killed bei fourteen-year-old daughter with morphine The mother then administered the drug t< ner son and also to herself, but the polsor Mil not kill. Foreign. The London Morning Post's Madrid correspondent Bays: "The appointment ol 3eneral Weyler 113 President of the Con' sultatlve Council of War has been con.Irmed, and is severely criticised by botl: military officials and civilians." The Neuete Nachrlchten, of Berlin, any; that the colonial council has adopted ( resolution declaring it compatible witt Germau colonial Interests to abandot Samoa In return for sufficient indemnlflca tlon. nramipox una uruivou uuv m vnpo j.u<tu South Africa. among the natires fron Johannesburg. Dr. Klapper, editor of <i German papei has been sentenced to six months' impris onraent lor criticising the Emperor. The lone-standing question resardlni the payment for the 2700 tons of coal pur chased at St. Thomas, D. W. I., for th United States Government in the war ha been settled, tbe United States Govern ment paying $33,000. Crown Princess 8tephanl, widow of th Crown Prince Rudolph, will be married t< Count Ellemer Lonyay, nephew of a forme Hungarian Prime Minister, in London, 01 November 22. The Socialistic Convention In Hanover Germany, has resolved to move In th Reichstag for the abolitlou of tbe lese ma jeste paragraph of the Penal Code. Hiram Maxim Is preparing to send frot London two batteries of Maxlm-Norden feldt suns to the Philippines for tbe use c the American troops. The Queen has sent a personal contribi tiou of $2000 to the family of tbe Frenc sa-ilor recently shot by the British sunbos Leds while fishing In Eoglish waters. A Philadelphia woman named uauwei residing In Berlin,was attacked In her rosi dence by a robber, who felled lier with 111 fist, than took her money and valtrabl? and made bis escape. Formal notification that a state of ws exists between tbe South African Republl aud Great Brltlan was made to the Frenc Government by tbe secretary of the Bo< agency In The Hague. A circular has been sent to the inspe tors of the Royal Irish Constabulary aslclr for volunteers for the new South Afrlct police which It Is proposed to organize. Telegrams recolved at Vienna from Lin capital of Upper Austria, on the Danub report that the Inhabit *s of that dlstrl are In a state of terror fflng to a serl of "Jack the Ripper" murders. Five wot n have bean njurdereji. _ i'.&MkztiSt-i '.'A'- 'Vs. Vc.-fiifr*. \jC. (MM THE TIGTOB.1 1 ; She Wins the First Race by Ten Minutes and Eiffht Seconds. ? | SHAMROCK'S TOPMAST BREAKS. ' The Defender Wins the Second Race?Ac- [ j cldent to the Challenger Disable* Ber t 3 and the Colombia Sail* Over the S Conrae Alone?Sir Thomas Leads Brit- I i?h rtiAAra For His Successful Rival. ' ' New Yobk City (Special).?Fairly and t squarely the Columbia beat the Shamrock ? 3 Monday in a wind without flukes upon a which to hang oxcuse or plaint, and under o I weather conditions which were said to pe- c . culiarly favor the challenger. The Colam- ? bia won by ten minutes and eight seconds. ^ 3 From the moment the Columbia took the r lead, a few minutes after the start, the Is- J * sue was never in doubt. Every mile saw ? the advantage of the Columbia increased, t j | THE COLU 1 and had It not been that in the last Ave a : miles the Shamrock, by being tho first to si 1 catoh a suddenly freshening breeze, les- 11 ! sened some of the wide gap that separated n her from the Columbia, she would have n i been beaten even more badly than she was c t Sir Thomas was prompt with his con- s ! gratulations. Before the yachts reached tl ! the Horseshoe he gave another instance of e the true sportsmanlike spirit with which si he is trying to "lift" the cup. Hanging o the Erin alongside the Columbia, he him- 1' j self led his officers and men In giving three n lusty British cheers for the Columbia and three more for the crew. They were as tl heartily responded to by the Columbia's s men, led by Mr. Iselln. I __ v c. oliver iselin. I r i Tbe Shamrock was disabled less than i half an boar after tbe start Tuesday in tbe eaoond race wltb tbe Columbia for tbe ? '? Thfl nhn II An cnr'q tnnmaSt B | broke and her club-topsail came down si with a rush. 8he was obliged to return to g| Y her anchorage. No one was hurt. t The Columbia, meanwhile, after nscer- Is talnlng tuat no aid was needed by the n phamrock, continued on her course. This 0 was In pursuance of the understanding en- n tered Into before the races began, that, a ; each yacht should stand by her aocldents. She made good time and finished away ^ ' within the time limit, thU9 winning the fj " second race. " 1 Although the Columbia, according to the explicit provisions insisted upon by Sir t< 3 Thomas Llpton himself, went ahead and by ^ i sailing the course easily within the specified i time became legally and morally entitled ? i to the race, this additional instance of the ' fatality that has pursued the yachts from j the first day of their meeting was every ,, ( whit as bad a blow to the followers of the j Columbia as to those of the Shamrock. 8 When thetopmast of the Shamrock came toppling down, leaving her a wreck aloft, there was not a sinele word or slen of exultation from the thousands who were g ready to shout with glee ut the least ad- e % vantage the American sloop might gain. n a d Curxon to Visit. Plague District*. g The Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of g Kedleston, and his staff will shortly visit ( the plague and famine districts. 0 3 I Sarnoan Ring Proclaimed. 1 A cable dispatch to the Chicago Tribune ? from Berlin says that neirs comes from ' Apia that the uatlres have proclaimed Tamasese King despite the recent agreement of the United States, Germany and a Great Britain to abolish the office, I : i| Thibetan King Deposed. t Indian and Chino3e officials on the Indo- * i ' lt Thlbdtan frontier have determined to open i< Lj Thibet. The Thibetan King at Tachlenlu objected, whereupon he was deposed and s j bis younger brother was Installed as ouzr. ? I. l! The Labor World. 12 The American Federation of Labor has increased Its membership over 250,000 this u year. Q Switzerland bas at present 328 co-opera- j c tive associatlono for buying food, with . S1 104,920 members. J A New Orleans (La.) man is said to have 0 0 Invented a sugar cane planter in the form t 'J of a wagon, that with three men and four 11 mules will do the work heretofore done by nine men and nine mules. z A general strike affecting all freight and 0 flour handlers In West Superior, Wis., bas 0 been ordered by the 'Longshoremen's 0 B1 Union. Five hundred men went out. The f Q men demand that none but union men be v hired. b i DARING TRAIN ROBBERS, fichwaymen Secure $30,000 From a Fast Mail Near Chioago. iafo in an Exprei* Car Blown Open With Dynamite? Signal Operator Gagged ?Holdup Very Dramatic. Chicago, 111. (Special).?Five masked ilghwaymen held up the fast mall train on he Chicago and Northwestern Railway at witch tower "W," between the stations of Jlburn and Maple Park, forty-seven miles vest of this city, and by dynamiting the extress car secured about $30,000 In cash. Armed deteotlves and a dozen bloodlounds were put on the robbers' track, ind the Northwestern Railway Company ind the American Express Compaoy have iffered a reward of $5000 for the capture m<l conviction of the thieves. For the arest and conviction of any one of the hlghirnrmnn nne-thlrd ot the reward will be iald. This offer is to hold good until all be mlsoreaats are behind the bars of the lllnols State Prison. The story of the holdup, as reported to he officials of the Northwestern road by the MBIA.. gent Id Elburn, is both dramatic and senutlonal. James, the operator, sitting in Ills ttle room ia tower "W," was startled near ildnight by the advent of a party of masked len, who, with drawn revolvers, ommanded him to throw the semaphore o that the fast mail would be stopped by lie danger signal. The leader of the band, vidently a railroad man, finding James low, flxed the signals himself, while the perator was bound and gagged and his istruments were destroyed with a hamler. Daniel White, the engine driver, stopped L" * ?* ~ Hon mar alana! Lie irmii upuu oooiu^ vuw va. W.0.N. et. Frank Keefe, the conductor, dropping com the first sleeping car, found three reolvers thrust in his (ace. One of the robers entered the cab and covered the enine driver and fireman, while a fifth blghrayman drew a revolver upon James lic? Iraw, a brakeman. 'JLhree men entered the American Express Jompany's car and overcame F. A. Hopson, he manager, and his assistant,who showai ;gbt at first. They ordered Hopson to unDck the safe, and when he refused two of he robbers left the car and soon returned rlth a lot of dynamite, which they placed n the safe and exploded. After they had stuffed their pockets with jwelry and currency they climbed aboard lie engine. White noticed that the leader euted himself in the oab like a trained ailroad man, and handled the machinery s if familiar with it. The engine was deached from the train, and when the hlgbraymen were aboard it started west, tbe obbers shouting back mocking messages a the trainmen. Two miles east of the lortland Station the robbers abandoned be engine and left it standing in perfect rder. Railroad officials believe the robbers lnircepted the wrong train. The one whloh allowed the fast mall half an hour later sually carries a great deal more money ban the one held up. If the robbers bad raited they could have secured $100,000 istead of $30,000. GENERAL BULLER SAILS. rlnce or waies at cne oianuu iu juiu iu? British Commander God-Speed, London (By Cable).?General Sir Redvers uller, who is going to South Africa to asame command of the British forces, has illed for Gape Colony. General Buller i accompanied by his daughter. A few llnutes before the train started the Prince f Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, torlerly Commander-in-Chief of the British rmy, drove up to the station. A huge rowd had assembled outside, and when tie Prince and Duke arrived to bid General luller God-speed, they received a tremenous ovation. ^ Southampton (By Cable). ? When the he train from London arrived here with reneral Redvers Buller aboard there was a reat demonstration. There were at least ^? rruA.. en thousand persons on me quay, iuoj an# "God 8ave tbe Queen," and "llule, Iritannia," nnd as the transport Dunottar lastle steamed out of the harbor there was rent cheering. Texas's Drought Since Jnly Broken. The first rain that could be .called eneral that has fallen In Texas since arly in July fell a few days ago. The iost severe drought experienced in a ozen years is at last broken. The grainrowing and cuttle-raising districts were reatly benefited and a threatened water amine in Dallas and other Texas cities verted. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN ENGLAND. toolbar Steamer Lands a Mild Case, ; Which is Promptly Isolated. London (By Cable).?The Penln3ular nd Oriental steamer Peninsular, from lombay, arrived a few days ago at Plylouth, England, and landed a coal rlmmer who is suffering from a mild nldmiia tha HVtnntOIBS IIUUK U1 UUUUUIU |/ui(juu< 1 rere developed toe day after the steamer aft Marseilles. He baa been Isolated. No other cases are reported. The pasengers, who landed at Plymouth, were 11 in good health. Plot to Aaiaanlnate Jimenez. A plot has been discovered Id Santo Dolingo to assassinate General Jimenez. Iany arrests have been made. Most of he prisoners taken were employes of the nrmar (invnmmsnt. who were driven out f office by the revolution and ure anxious o regain their positions. Dewey Visits Boston. Admiral George Dewey received a great vatlon In Boston, where he received the reedom of the City and was presented rlth a magnlfloent jewel studded watch y Mayor Qulnoy, on behalf of the City. . ..v & ; : : SOUND STEAMER BURNED= The Nutmeg State Raced For Lite With a Racine Fire. HEROIC WORK OF RESCUERS. The Steamer Discovered on Fire In tha Early Morning?She Wat Headed Foi 8hore at Once and Beached Near Sand* Point?Over One' Hundred Per* aona Were in Dancer. New York Citt (8peclal).?All that is left ot the steamer Nutmeg State of the Bridgeport Line, which caught Are on her way from Bridgeport to this olty is & blackened hulk on the sauds * just above Pros? nA|.i rn ml1aa kaU. x~viuby ? ouwui m mu muoo uoiuw the village of Glen; Cove. Among tb? dead are: Samuel Jayne, of Bridgeport, baggage master; Patrick Ooffey, mate of Nutmeg State; Thomas Murphy, a member of the crew; John Connors, one of the crew; an unknown woman, passenger, drowned| an unknown ohlld, passenger, drowned, and an unknown man, passenger, drownedi The catastrophe was one of peculiar hoc rorbeoause it happened so near to help, sc close to shore. The lack of trained h&ndi to handle lifeboats appears to have been one of the causes of fatalities, though, had the passengers themselves been entirely traotable all of them at least might have escaped. Captain C. M. Brooks, the commander, as soon as he saw the futility of trying to extinguish the flames, decided to run bis vessel ashore. Boats were lowered, aud all arrangements were made to save the lives of passengers and crew, numbering over one hundred persons. After all who could be seen had been provided for in the small boats Captain Brooks ordered that full stAum be turned on, and the Nutmeg State was headed for the beaoh. Sbe was sent ashore near Sands Point, the flames and smoke attracting many craft that waj for hours after tbe disaster. It Is believed that nearly all of those who (091 their lives were oaught in the burning ver.se!. So prompt and energetic was the nrork of rescue that, in the judgment of se^'eral witnesses, nearly every person who managed to escape from the doomed vessel was picked up by some one ot the rescuing boats. Several members of the crew, however, were caught in the lower part of the boat, and were unable to get to the deck. These men met death as if In a Are trap. The first two boats lowered from the burning steamboat capsized, and there was intense excitement among the passengers aboard the Nutmeg State. All had been routed from their berths at half-past five o'clock, and men und women, not waiting to dress or gather their clothes, scrambled into the cabins and on the dooks. Flames already were eating their way toward the bow and tbe stern, and great clouds of smoke were rolling up tbe stairways. Tbe crackling of tho flames added to the terror of tbe passengers) In tbe wild confusion from the time the Are was discovered,to the time the last man j came off the blazing bulk it seemed to be I a case ot selfish consideration for their own I personal welfare only with everybody on : board. Tbe crew, according to the passen! gers, used brute force In getting the first I opportunity to escape. The passengers trampled over each other In their efforts to crowd into tho life boats, and it was extremely difficult to lower the boats or to take any sane measures to save the passengers. After the two lifeboats were capsized and the passengers and crew left floundering in the water, the crews and passeugers in the other bouts refused to listen to the entrea:ies of those in the water, and dozens of the women and children and halt dressed men had to cling to the upturned craft until boats from the City of Lawrence picked j them up. The body of a woman and of a child about four years old, evidently mother and daughter, were washed ashore about half a mile above the place where the Nutmeg State was forced ashore. The woman was partially clothed and parts of her dress showed unmistakable signs of contact with I- the Are. The child wore only a cotton slip, v I evidently a night dress. The supposition Is that the mother, crazed nritn fright, seized her child and jumped into the water. Harry T. Wilt, of Philadelphia, had a thrilling and exhausting experience, which made a hero of him. He supported his aged mother and a woman ho did not kuow, Mrs. Henry T. Purcell, of this city, j In the water for an hour, and they were I ill finally rescued. Several times he feared | be would have to give up the struggle and I drown with his mother aud Mrs. Purcell. j >Yllt*s neaicu is noi rooust. J Samuel Jayne, baggage master, who lost | bis life, Is described as the hero of the tire. | He discovered the outbrealc and gave the alarm. He ran about awakening all be I oould, and the flames were raging fiercely j when at last ho tried to escape. He was | then'on the upper deck, and In jumping 1 struck his forehead against the guardrail. Stunned, he fell into the water, and when a launch went to bis assistance ha was almost dead. He died soon after aboard a yacht. If be bad not so courageously made bis way through the smoke to alarm the passengers the loss ot life would have been much greater. The work of taking passengers off the doomed vessel was done none too soon. She carried a large cargo, Including cases of cartridges. As the fire made its way i down Into the bold tbere was a series of I explosions, which lncieasedthe fierceness I of the flames and destroyed the last chance | of saving anything from the wreck. The charge wa* made by several sur| vivors that some ot the crew acted In a | cowardly manner, pushing the women to oue side and getting into the lifeboats, regardless of the safety of others. Other passengers, however, assert that the crew acquitted themselves well. All reports I Aprsa that CaDtain Brooks, who Is a sea man of long experience, was one of the last to leave tbe burning vessel. The Nutmeg State, a wooden screw-propelled boat, which was built seven years ago and was a first-class craft of her kind, belonged to the Bridgeport Steamboat Company. Sho was 190.7 feet long, 34.2 feet wide and bad a depth of 13 feet. Her net tonnage was 732'. She was double decked. Body Picked Up by a Yacht. Stamford, Conn. (Special).?A Boston yacht on its way from New York City ran through a lot of burned wieckage, supposedly from the Nutmeg State aud near the wreckage the body of a'mnn was found. The man was apparently about sixty years old. and Had a grayish beard. Tho body was brought to this city and was taken to to the Morgue to await Identification. .Alexandria. V?? rf?? a Celebration. The founding of tbe olty of Alexandria Va., 150 years ago was celebrated a few days ago with an elaborate outdoor display. Crowds of visitors from Washington and tbe surrounding country thronged cb? streets, Bunting and the national flap adorned all the business houses and private residences. A. S. Barker Become* a Hear-Admiral. The retirement of Rear-Admiral Henry L. Howlson has resulted in the promotion f Captain A. S. Barker, commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, at Norfolk, Va., to be rear-admiral. Cycling Note*. 8unday bicycle races lack support in Chicago. The bicycle Is said to be losing some ol its popularity in Pittsburg. Ttia fron.wiisn! rlnvire will be anclied tc the chalnless in this country on next year's model. A little attention now and then will keep the wheel looking much more attractlv* than if neglected. Although it has thousands of wheelwom* en, Melbourne, Australia, does not possess one women's cycling club. The latest bicycle attachment is a sheep shearing machine made at Birmingham, England, for use in Australia. i NEW PRESIDENT AT YALE. \ Professor Arthur T. Hadley Installed as Chief of the University. Impressive Ceremonies of Day Followed at Night by a Torchlight Procas ion ot the 8tudenta. New Haven, Conn. (Special).?Arthur Twlniag Hadley, LL. D., was inaugurated thirteenth President of Yale University to succeed Timothy D wight. The ceremony took place ia Battell Chapel, the college 2hurch, in the presence of hundreds of distinguished men and women, prominent in higher educational affairs in all sections of the country. The inaugural ceremonies were simple in themselves. They were conducted in English, the traditional Latin pronouncements having been abandoned at Dr. Hadley'arequest. The new president was honored with the presence not only o! distinguished Vola olnmnl onH TTtaHarol nn^l Mfnfa nfflrtfala but by the attendance of thi presidents of Harvard, Prinoeton, Columbia, Cornell, Chicago. Browrt*, Oberlln und a host of other universities and colleges. Battell Chapel was filled to the doors. The audience room presented an animated appearance, for allot those there In official capacities as representatives of other Instltutlons wore the academic gowns and boods of their respective institution^ Dr. Hadley, himself, wore the orlmson hood of Harvard, typical of the degree of Dootor of Laws, with which Yale's older sister had honored him. After the processloual and overture the retiring president, Dr. Timothy Dwight, made tlie opening prayer. The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell, of Hartford, the senior member of the Yalo corporation, formally Inducted Dr. Hadley into office and administered to him the oath. President Hadley then delivered his innugarAl address. The singing of the commencement ode followed the address of the new presld nt, and theu Professor George P. Fisher, dean of the Yale Theological School, and senior dean of the university, on behalf of the (acuity graduates and undergraduates*, delivered ah address of welcome. The bene- ] diction was pronounced byformer President D wight, and the inaugural ceremony proper was at an eud. Throe thousand Yale undergraduates and recent graduates united at night in the demonstration in honor of the inauguration. The hit of the procession wo* the' train of cars of the "Hadl-y Transportation Company," the tableau being a surprise all along the line of march. It consisted of a locomotive and three cars, each sixteen feet long and seven feet high, lighted from within with lanterns. The r\i l?a mABuH r\n tvh aaIq n nil or a A fitted with a boiler, which emitted steam at every stop, and continuously rang a dangerous bell as -a warning of Its approach. With the cars were twenty* seniors, carrying regulation railroad lanterns, and dressed in the garb ot brakemen. The procession was reviewed at theClty Hall by the Mayor and the Court of Oommon Council. The celebration terminated with a huge bonfire near the campus on the old gym lot. BOY DIES OF A WHIPPINC. School Teacher Held Responsible For the Death of a Pupil. Hammond, Ind. (Special).?W. H. Belchers is Principal of the Bobertsdale School, a division of the Hammond City Schools, and among bis pupils was an unruly one named Arthur Whitney. After vain efforts to control him by other means, Professor Belchers gave him such a whipping as he thought the bov merited. Shortly thereafter the boy became ill and died. A postmortem examination disclosed injuries to the spinal cord, which the physicians assert were the cause of death, and which are claimed to be due to the whipping. Some days ago Reichers was arrested upon a charge ot assault, and held under $500 bonds, which were furulshed by Superintendent Belman of the city schools, <vbo approves the teacher's method and actions. The Board of Education has decided to stand by him In the defense, and will attempt to prove that he did no bodily injury to the child. Belchers was held on the charge of manslaughter. INSANE FARMER KILLS FIVE. . Babcock Shoots Wire and Three Sou*, Then Slavs Himself. Bedwood Falls, Minn. (8peclal).?Frank 1? DoKnnnl. a fnrmnr HvlniZ near thli city. iJt jjavuvvn) m ....?H murdered his wife and three sons on his farm and then committed suicide. The murder, it Is supposed, was committed la a fit of Insanity. Babcock loaded his gun and went to where his two little boys were playing near the house and shot both of them dead. His wife saw tbe deed and ran to the barn for safety. He found his wife In i the barn and'shot her through the head. Sbe fell dead. From the barn he walked to where his oldest son was at work, and at close range fired a shot tbat killed blm Instantly. Reloading, he placed the muzzle of the weapon in his mouth and fired one barrel, kill- I Ing himself Instantly. He fell over on the gun, which still had one barrel cocked. j $30,000 VERDICT FOR A BOY. ____________ / Chicago Jury Saji the City I* Responsible For Terrible InJuriei. Chxcioo (Special).?Paralyzed from his* waist down, his bearing Impaired, his tongue injured to such an extent as to rob bim of bis power of speech, and suffering from ft broken spine, Henry Walters, nine years old, has obtaiued the largest verdlot for personal injuries ever returned against the city of Chicago?$30,000. In January, 1898, when walking along the Thirty-fifth Street Viaduct, tbe boy fell through a bole in tbe planking, which bad been obscured by smoke from a passing engine. FAITH CURE BELIEVER ACQUITTED. An Indiana Judge Hold* That a Parent Need Not Call a Doctor for Hla Child. La Fobte, Ind. (Special).?Tbe trial of James Cbenowith, a believer in faitb cure, who was indicted by the grand jury oi Clinton County for murder, being held re? sponsible for the death of ah infant cblld, because be failed to summon a physiciau, bus been acquitted. Tbe case whs taken from the jury by Judge nenc, woo uem that there Is no law requiring a parent to provide medical attention for his children. The 8tate will carry the case on appeHl to the Supreme Court. The decision of Judge Kent Is regarded a? a great victory by believers in faith cure. Itnprltoned Miners Iteicaed, An explosion of gas occurred at the Shenandoah City Colliery, at Shenandoah,Penn., and Are immediately broke out in the mine, hemming In twenty-two men who were at work. Those attracted to the surface of the mine by the explosion at once began vigorous efforts to rescue the Imprisoned men, and in tills they were successful, all the men being taken out alive in a comparatively short time. Three ol the number, Adam Sobolinskl, William Skavlnski, and Joseph Caspavage, wer? severely burned, and their injuries maj prove ratal, several omara susuiuou severe injuries. General Shatter Formally Hellred. General William R. Shatter, who bus belt' the positions of Brigadier-General in thi regular army and Major-General in the volunteer army, has been placed on the retired list of the regular army. He will, however, remuin in command of the De- i partment of the Pacific until relieved bj order of the President, or Until he is mustered out on July 1, 1901, on which date the enlistment of all Spanish war volunleers will expire as provided iu the Wai act of Congress. The Kaiser to Visit England. The Cologne Gazette of Berlin announce: officially that Emperor William will star for England on November 11. ... FIRMS ITBfiBOEDEM Boers and British Clash at Mafekjng Jf and Other Points. ARMORED 'TRAINS ATTACKED/.^ Repeated Assaults by Boer* Repalssd -j With a Reported Lots of Three Hiu> 3 dred Killed?A SkH-inlsh Nctr Spytl- .>$j fonteln?Coast Tuwoi Crowded With '" * Refugees? Cecil Rhodes at Klmbsrley, j .'/|j Cam Towit, 8oath Africa CBy Cable).-' Colonel Baden-Powell, woo commands tne small British force holding Mafeklng, is ; ^ making a successful reslstanoe to the attempta of the Boers to take that plaoe. ''X Advices have been received to the effeat --vj that he had made a sortie against the enemy : ''4> and lnflloted severe loss qpontjjem. There*. port says that 303 Boers and eighteen Brit* " J ish were killed. The town will be relieved /. as soon as reinforcements can be forward- /( ed to it. It is feared, however,.by tho?e ^ ?3! having friends and relatives there that the :'/ ? Boer force will be strengthened and the 3 British defenders overcome by mere weight " '5a oi numDers oeiore aia can reacn laetn. a There Is a strong force of Botffch Blders, -i] beaded by Cecil Rhodes, at Kimberler. The ' > Boers are extremely anxious to capture -|jJ Ur. Bhodes, they believing that with aim a prisoner t!xey would hold a/>trongcard to ' raj play against the British. An armored trala reconnoitred Spyta- ( M Zonteln from Klmberley aad engaged the OZKEliL JOtTBKBT. (Commander or tae Transvaai iorcea.? -J Boers at that point. Five Boers were lulled ^ and seven wounded. The British suffered' v ^ no loss. Dispatohes confirm the capture by the Boers of Newcastle and a number of minor points on the Natal border^ The coast towns are crowded with refa* gees from the Band. The authorities am '*' ] making every effort to relieve the distress ' that Is prevalent among them. Some of these refugees were compelled to leave the . fri Transvaal with nothing bat the clothesv, J they wore. s ? ' :-M A resident of Johannesburg, who left that city a few days ago lias arrived here. He says that four thousand British subjects remain In Johannesburg, The Boer Government has made excellent arrangements for safeguarding property there. A strong -41 force of special police, chiefly Germans .JJ and Frenchmen, armed with revolver*, m*i patrol the streets. The Boers seized the telephone at Hod* ;? der River and attempted to speak with Elm* berley, hoping to learn the disposition <M . the British forces. The manoeavre was discovered and frustrated. According to advices received here the British have blown up the Hopetown bridge .. 2 over the Orange River, with a view of cheoklng the Boer advance southward. ; ? Later advices say that the bridge whlob ''..-j has been blown up by the British Is not the railway structure, Out one twelve mllps - 3 west of the railway, over which the old '"j coaohtng road passes. PARLIAMENT FOR WAR. English Parties Units In Pluna for Trans* Vaal Campaign. London fBy Cable).?For the third time during the Queen's relgu Parliament meets In the autumn for the definite purpose of . providing supplies for a military earn* patgn. The emergency was quietly described Tuesday in the Queen's Bpeeon ' as a plain requirement of luw that Par- 3 llament should be summoned when the *5 reserves were called oat for servloe In Africa. Botb houses were in a ' serious mood and settled down to buslnasa Jm with less formality tliaq usual. Lord Bulls* ' 'i bury lost no time In providing the cue that the object of the Government had been to make British Interests paramount and to civilize and improve the conditions of all > j the races in South Africa. The Earl of Klmberley and Sir Henry Campbell Bannermann both described Kruger's ultimatum as an act of deflnance and unreason wbioh rendered war Inevitable, and ' , ^ -i-j ? j ?i- nt Mm rmnnqltfon tat pitju^eu uo ou|;puiw ?>*v ? any financial measures. The Prince of Wale9, accompanied by the ,:-i Grand Dulce Michael of Bussla, made a special inspection of the Soots Guards, prior to their departure for South Africa. He cordially congratulated the commanding officer, Colonel Arthur Paget, on hiring so fine a battalion and briefly addressed the men. Afterward be conversed at length with Colonel Paget and his American wife. The calling out of the Cape Colony volunteers Is supplemented by a decision to raise 2000 more volunteers in Cape Colony and 1000 In Natal. Thm the total strength of the volunteer forces In both '* i ? 1ft CftA mA., places win amoaai tu u,<iuu won. Dr. Leyds, the Minister of the South African Republic to European Governments, la said to be going to Berlin shortly to confer with political personages. Frlce of Wheat Goes Up. Londox (By Cable).?The outbreak of war hus sent up the price of English wheat, and on various couutry markets the farm* era have refused to sell wheat under thirty ' shillings per quarter, in some cases even holding out for a still higher price. Keatralltv Proclamation* Iiaaed. Ppetobia, South African Republic (By Cable).?The French, German and Italian Consuls have Issued proclamations calling upon their respective countrymen to ro? main neutral. .. - J Continent in Sympathy With Boer*. Losdoh (By Cable).?Continental opininn no far as it can be ascertained, remains largely anti-British. Kg Gomez Oiler* to Ileturn Horses. General Gomez, iu a letter published to the papers of Havana, Cuba, says he has three horses which he acquired during the war, and whloli therefore do not belong to him. Now that the war Is over, and, though he has a great lova ror cue aorsaa, uo ???? not (eel justified in retaining them in his possession. If any one can prove owner* ship, the horses will be returned. Insurgents Drlvon From Forac. Major Bell's regiment, moving from a position northwest of Bacolor, a few days ago, drove the enemy out of Porac. Ona American was killed and one wounded. The Filipinos lost a number of killed and wounded. The Americans captured two bullock carts of ammunition. Soldiers "Stranded" In San Francisco. Word has been received in Olovolund, Ohio, that the 200 Cleveland soldiers in the Fourteenth Regiment, just returned from th? Philippines, are "stranded" In San Francisco, their pay, whloh was given them la Manila, having been spent* filoney has been raised to bring tbom Uqme. . : * %|g