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f Lipton's Challenge Accepted by the,
I v.4; New York Yacht Club.
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MATCH WILL OCCUR IN AUGUST.!
J The Name of fclr Thomas'* >"ef ^achf
Will lie .Shamrock II ? Condition* ol j
[' Kace* Same as Prevailed 'n l<H?t Con- I
tfnt?Speculation an to Who Will I)e- |
fend Trophy Again** the Challenger.
/ New York City (Special;.?Sir Thom- I
as Lipton's challenge for the Anieri- j
ca's Cup was formally laid before the j
I members of the New York Yacht Club !
at a special jueetin.tr hold for that purpose.
Without a dissenting voice the
challenge was voted a hearty acceptance
by the hundred or more members
that thronged the famous model room,
where the meeting was held.
L Speculation was not wrong when it '
I decided that the new challenge would I
I not differ in its terms from the former !
? a cont hv sir Thomas. In the dates |
| VUV u* V .v
suggested for the races alone is there !
variation. The challenge, which comes I
through the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, !
names, according to the requirements j
of tne deed of gift, Sir Thomas Ijipton
as owner of the challenging vessel; j
Shamrock II., a cutter-rigged yacht
measuring S1J.5 feet on the Joad water J
line as the challenger; August 20, 22 ;
and 24 of next year as the date for the i
races, and requests. that the starts, \
t' ' courses and other details be left sub- !
f ject to the same conuftions as governed I
} the races between (Columbia and the !
first Shamrock last year.
A committee was appointed, with j
power to accept the/ challenge for the j
club, and to arrange the terms of the |
match. This committee will later in i
the year meet a similar committee !
from the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, |
~ and full details of the sailing: of the
races will then !>e agreed upon.
After the meeting the question of a
new defender was discussed. Various
suggestion of more or less plausibility"
as to the defensive campaign went the
rounds. By some it was said, with no
quotation uf authority, that at least
^ two defenders would be built, and that
a local designer would furnish the
B"" l>oards for oue of the new yachts. The
m owners of the latter yacht were hinted '
W at as a syndicate composed of three i
or four yachtsmen who have been I
prominent in racing off Newport.
As to the owners of the first yacht,
.. all those who didn't know repeated
the gossip that has been current since
the news, of Sir Thomas Lipton's intention
to challenge became known.
Harry Payne Whitney and Herman
jf E. Duryea, it waa?aid, would be the
I owners, and Captan; "Nat" Herrcshoff
fck "'* 1>he designer.
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EIGHT LIVES LOST AT A nut.
A Ramshackle Tenement in' New York |
Ctty a DeathtrapNew
York City (Special).?Eight per>>
Bona were burned to death by un early
, morning Are In a three-story frame/'
house'in Hester street, which was en-'
tlrely extinguished within a half hour.
\ Almost an entire family living on the
third floor was blotted out of exist?^.1
ence. One woman was roasted to.
death on the landing of a fire-escape
scarcely fifteen feet from the street,
\ while scores of spectators looked on
< f helplessly. The other victims were
killed by blasts of flame almost before
they left their beds, or they fell in a
0 brief, struggle through a labyrinth of
antiquated ' passages and hallways.
The dead are: Mendel Strauss, eighty
years old; Samuel Strauss, a son,
twenty-two years old; Mrs. Sarah
l| Fass, thirty-six years old; Samuel
K Fass, thirteen years old; Lena Fass.
nine years old; Morris Fass, two
Hr VPflTR old? Ml'S T mrlc ci
ft years old and Mrs.* Horowitz, forty
six years old.
V The police are working on the theory
that the building was tired by incenV
diaries.
The building is a ramshackle, Uim
ble-down affair, and as inviting a Qro
9 trap in the opinion of the police an<J
B firemen as could be found in all New
f ' York City.
The entire loss is placed at $0000.
L y PRAISE FOR THE APACHES.
General Merrinm Reports They Erifjage
'' Successfully in Agriculture.
|B Washington, D. C. (Special).?There
were no Indian troubles In the Deaf
pnrtment of the Colorado last year, acE
cording to General Merriam, and the
r .only difficulties between white men
K; and Indians were individual, arising
pf from cards and whisky. The white
f men, says the General, were the agi-j
gressors.
The General speaks with commendation
of the... excellent progress being
i made toward civilization by the
I Apaches, under the management of
[ Captain Nicholson, Seventh Cavalry.
I He says: "I found them largely and
successfully engaged in agriculture,
and saw large numbers of men, as
well as women, at work in the fields,
which is most unusual for'Indians. In
: .. . view of these facts, aud of the assurance
by Captain Nicholson of the absolute
loyalty and efficiency of his Indian
police, I recommended the withdrawal
of all the troops from San
(Carlos Agency, instead of repairing
that post.''
Filipino General Captured.
Under oover of a stormy night. CapTnfnn?H,r
f UIIU rjimni, ui lih: r gniciu tmuuuji,
surprised the Filipino headquarters
near Orequieta, Island of Mindanao,
F. I., and captured without fighting
General Alvarez, with his staff and
. twenty-five soldiers.
(ittrai&n Chancellor Out.
tf Frince Hohenlohe handed his resignation
as Imperial Chancellor to Emperor
William at Berlin. The P^mperor
? accepted the resignation and designated
Count von Bulow. the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, as his successor.
?
i*ontm??ter Kill* a Burglar.
Postmaster John Hughes, of Cami
bra, Penn., in a fight with two bur>
glars, who were trying to rob the postoffice,
shot and killed one of them.
There was no clue to his Identity. The
other escaped.
[Torpedo Hoats In Collision at Newport.
The torpedo boats Dahlgren ami Craven
were in collision while going out
of Newport harbor bound for Portsmouth.
N. H. The Craven had her
bow stove in. In trying to anchor the
Dahlgren went ashore ?n the mud
flats. Lieutenant \V. G.v Miller commended
the Dahlgren an 1 Lieutenant
Ford H. Brown the Craven.
Killed by a School Facade.
The facade of the Czech High School
at Prossnitz, Moravia, toppled into the
street, killing seven persc^aud injur
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THE: NEWS EPITOMIZED.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Confirmation lias boon received of
the execution of Chang-Yen-Hooa.-]
former Chinese Minister to the United J
St.lies.
Tlu? battleship Texas has been placed
out of commission at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, where she will receive extensive
repairs.
Albert It. Green, of the General Land
Office, has been selected as chief of
(ho new division of forestry of the
Interior Department.
Baron Fava, Italian Ambassador,
presented his credentials from his
new master. King Emmanuel.
The report that Turkey is paying thy*
United States indemnity in instalments
is denied by the State Department
Sophia Holmes, one of/tVi?/first celored
women appointed^) a place under
the Governments and for many
years an employft/of the Treasury
Department, died/n Washington at the ,
age of seventy'
p'cit ADOrTEI) ISLANDS.
Tlitf insurgents surprised a porty of
American scouts at Takloban, Leyte
Island. P. I., killing three and mutilating
their bodies.
The United States Supreme Court
advanced the cases involving the extension
of the Constitution to Porto
Uico and the Philippines lo the seeoud
week in November.
Major Francis S. Dodge. Paymaster
of the Division of Cuba, is ill in Havana
with yellow fever.
A new modern post office building
for the Philippines is to be built iu
Manila at an early date.
Two Americans were wounded and
twenty insurgents killed and forty
wounded in a fight in Northern Panay,
P. I.
The west coast, of the Island of
Leyte, P. I., is In a state of turmoil.
Since October 1 ninety new cases of
yellow fever in Cuba h,.ve been reported.
Customs receipts for Cuba during
the first eight months of 1900 were
0.072,029.65, as against $9,493,0SS.4G
for the same period of 1899..
J. W. Irwin, the special agent sent
to make a thorough inspection of the
Philippine postal service and accounts,
has completed his work.
DOMESTIC.
A bill which will be presented at the
aext meeting of the California Legislature
provides for the arrest of chll-.<
iren between the ages of eight and
fourteen years, and forbids their employment,
except during certain portions
of the year, by business firms.
Jewelry worth $20,000' was^ Stolen
from the home of Mr. and Mre. . Charlee
Pfizer, near Bernardsvllle, N. J.
Vice-Chancellor Pitney, In Trenton.
N. J., in his judicial capacity, intimated
that there are no trusts.
State troops turned back 2500 strik*
?rs who had marched into the Panther
Creek Valley, Penn., to try to close the
collieries in operation there.
Bishop Fallows wrote to the Rev.
Apson Phelps Stokes, at New Haven;
CJonn., suggesting he devote part of
His inheritance to a fund for worn
out ministers of the Gospel.
The winter arrangements for the
mail service to the. Yukon and Atlin
districts in Alaska will be the same
as those prevailing during the winter
of 1899-1000.
It is reported at San Francisco tha*
the crew of the missing ship Lansing
bad mutinied, killed the captain and
settled on an island In tne south bens.
There has been a heavy fall of snow
in the Rio Grande valley in Texas.
The French Line steamer La Lorraine
arrived at New York City, having
broken down at sea and repaired
her own engine.
Edwin Fletcher, one of a family of
steeple climbers, fell seventy-two feet
from a chimney at Attleboro, Mass.,
and was killed.
Governor Pingree's bills for a popular
vote on a Constitutional amendment
to tax railroads at actual value
and for the repeal of special charters
have been passed by the Michigan
Legislature.
.laines Adams, of Berkeley Springs,
W. Va.. who went to the Klondike
three years ago. has amassed a fortune
which he estimates at $5,000,000.
The Grand Camp, Confederate Veterans
of Virginia, held Its thirteenth
annual session at Staunton, Va.
Alexander H. T. Howard, an insurance
agent and inventor of Brooklyn,
shot and killed his eight-year-old son,
Leigh, and then took his own life.
Major Edward Goldberg, United
States Indian atrent. died at Seneca.
Mo., from mushroom poisoning.
Disappointed in !ove, Joseph Wilson
shot his sweetheart. Annie Woods,
while she was at work at Bangor, Me.,
and then killed himself.
Charged with obtaining money .under
false pretensos, Hans Von Ketteler
Enfeldt, an alleged German count, was
arrested in Chicago. t
New York Board of Trade and
Transportation has declared against
the war stamp tax.
FOKErGX.
Representatives of * all the allied
Powers met in Pek.n, China, to begin
negotiations upon the basis of the
French proposals.
Andrew Carnegie has si yen $50,000
for a public library in the town of
Hawick, Scotland.
Mexican troops in the field against
the Mayi Indians have been ambushed
several times and suffered consider-'
able losses.
General Roberts reports to the British
War Office that the perseverenco
of the Boers is remarkable.
Completed returns of the British
elections show a ministerialist, train of
thirty-seven and an opposition gain
of thirty-five, the respective totals
being 401 and 268.
The Cape Colony Parliament has
been prorogued.
A minor officer of the Vatican at
Rome lias been arrested on the charge
of admitting thieves who stole $67,550.
With unique rites fifty persons were
baptised by John Alexander Dowie in
London. In a sensational speech he
avowed himself a Scotchman, not an
"American freak."
Much interest was aroused in Knsland
over the trial cf an artillery
lieutenant at Dover accused of tlieft.
He was acquitted.
Nova Scotia has hern swept by a terrible
gale, which did grear damage to
shipping.
In changing her tariff Russia has ordered
the collection of an excise duty
on spirits and tobacco.
Bubonic plague at (Glasgow, Scot*
land, is said by the officials to have
been checked.
Mining Engineer Bland, an American,
was murdered by twenty-flje
Korean miners at Chemulnn
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WMELlMBETBOTHf
Proclaims Her Engagement to Duke
Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
MARRIAGETAKES PLACE IN SJPrTNG
. The Fortunate Fellow is a jHalf-Brofher of
the Grand Duk^.^ MecklenbnrgSchwcrln
andjfXleutenant In the Pru* 'ao^^(?ig*Gl,avdg-.voanK
Queen BnportJ^TEngugcd
a Number of Times. f
The Hague (By Cable).?Queen Wilholmina
has proclaimed her betrothal
to Duke Henry of MecklenburgSchwerin.
The Duke Is tall, brightlooking
and German in appearance.
He is a lieutenant in the Prussian Life
Guards, and is also attached to the
Mecklenburg Fusileers. He is scarceI
ly known in Amsterdam anjd not particularly
well here. The marriage will
take place next spring.
Queen Wilhelmina was born at The
TTn miA inmiof Q1 1 QQfl fiho naciimail
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fQVSBV O^-MR NETHERLANDS.
the crown on coming of age, August
31, 1898, her mother, the. Dowager
Queen Emma, having been Queen Regent
since the death of King William
III., November 23, 1890.
The young Queen has been reported \
is likely to be engaged to a number j
of personages, including the Duke of j
Abruzzi, Prince Bernard Henry of i
Saxe-Weimar, Prince Louis Napoleon,
the Crown Prince of Germany, Prince
Frederick of Wied, Prince William of
Wied, Prince Alexander of Teck.
Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia
and several others.
Duke Henry, of Mecklenburg-Schwe-i_
A 1fi >1C7C TTa It- o
rill, was uulu npm xa, auiv. m.jlk* ?a (
half brother of the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
DEATH IN A FURIOUS pALE.
Three Hen Killed and Many Hart In a
Building Wreck.
Newark, N. J. (Special).?In a gale
:hat swept suddenly out of the northwest
a ne-.r brick building in Kearney
crashed down, killing three men and
injuring eight others. The dead are:
Joseph Baungartner, a mason; Robert
Ward, colored, a hod carrier; William
Ruhle, a mason, all of Newark.
The building that collapsed was to
be a part of the Nairn Linoleum
Works. It was 100 by 150 feet in
ground dimensions, and was built up
to a height of fifty feet. The walls
were of brick, and there. were two
brick partitions running from end to
2nd and from top to bottom.. Walls
and partitions were each sixteen
inches thick.
When the great mass, erf brick, wood
ind iron came crashing down twenty- !
Qve men were at wort on various
parts of the build .ng. Itvis a marvel
that so many escaped, so sudden was
the ^collapse. Some of the Injured
svere terribly burned by lime. This
lime was on the ground floor, and they i
were forced down Into It by the great j
weight from above.
A FAMILY BLOWN TO ATOMS. j
Father, Mother and Four Children Killed f
by Dynamite.
. Hot Springs, Ark. (Special).?A
father, motler and four young children
were blown to atoms at Sells,
Montgomery County, fourteen miles
from Hot Springs. While the family
were, at supper their home was
wrecked by an explosion of dynamite.
Tbe victims were Jen ana magpie
Jones and their children, ranging in
age from six years to four months. It
Is beiieved that a dispute over a,
homestead claim prompted the outrage.
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WRECKS OFF NEWFOUNDLAND.
St. '.Pierre Schooner Drift* Ashore and
Twenty Men Drowned.
St John's, N. F. (Special).?The St.
Pierre schooner Fiona drifted ashore
in Fortune Bay during the recent gale
and her entire crew , of twenty men
were drowned. Tl?? schooner is a
total loss. .
The schooners Amelia, Rosebud and
Angler, with crews aggregating eighteen
men, were also lost. The schooner
Huntress is ashore on the Labrador
coast. Five of her crew were drowned.
Big: Coal Field Discovered.
The exploration party which wen
north on the 'steamer Corwin has returned
to Pore Townsend, Wash., and
reports the discovery of an immense
field of coal near Cape Sabine, on ilie
arctic co-tst of Alaska The grade Is
w.mt is known as semi-bituminous.
Fear Epidemic of Yellow- Fever.
It is generally admitted that yellow
fever will Increase in Havana. Cuba
when the streets are opened for the installation
of the sewers, a work which
will probably require three years.
New?y UlenningR.
There has been another outbreak ol
smallpox at-Cape Nome.
The scarcity of salmon now in the
Columbia River is pronounced abnormal.
White blackberries and green roses
have been produced in Louisiana this .
year.
The University of Chicago has decided
to give free tuition to ten Porto
U leans.
All the Swedish bonds (several millions)
offered in tke United States have !
been sold. !
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BRYAN IN NEW YORJ^ITY.
The Nebraskan^tjye f.-ral Figure ir?
a Remarkable Demonstration.
JJ^r"A(l<lrfiflses Four l4?rj?e Meeting* ami
Thousand* Hear Him Speak?Ovation
to the Candidate.
New York City (Special).-An ova?
tion in which hundreds of thousands
of men and women of Greater New
York participated was given William
Jennings Bryan when he came to the
J metropolis. Thousands met him at the
Grand Central Station; thousands
more cheered and applauded him on
hi3 way to the hotel, and at night, j
when he made three speeches, his au- I
dieuces were limited only by the walls j
of Madison Square Garden, Tammany j
Hall and Cooper Union.
Colonel Bryan arrived in this city '
at i.uo o'clock p. m. His reception j
was an emphatic ovation. As the j
train steamed into the annex of the 1
Grand Central Depot that part of the
immense building' was packed with a
waiting multitude. Colonel Bryan
was driven to the Hoffman House in j
an open carriage, in which he sat next |
to Itichard Croker and with uncov- ,
ered head, bowed and smiled to the !
thousands who cheered him.
When the doors of Madison Souare !
Garden were opened there was a tremendous
rush of people Into the building.
In less than ten minutes every
seat oh the floor was taken, .and the
crowd which had begun to pour in
from all sides, attacked the galleries.
Colonel Bryan entered the Garden at
7.15 o'clock, Richard Croker called
the meeting to c-i*aet and Introduced
Edward M. Shepard, who was a gold
Democrat in 1896, as chairman.
Mr. Shepard tried to make a long
speech but the audience permitted him
to talk for Just ten minutes, and then
shut him -off with shouts for Bryan.
Cries for Bryan drowned the voice of
the reader.', "Bryan! Bryan!" thundered
thousands of voices, and none
could say them nay.
Colonel Bryan concluded his speech
at 9 o'clock precisely, having "Spoken
one houf and fifty-one minutes. The
:rowd rose and cheered as he left the
platform, in company with Mr. Croker,
shaking hands as he left.
After the Madison Square Garden
meeting Bryan and his party drove to
^the stand at Madison Square and
Twenty-fourth street, where fully 20,000
peoflfe waited\to hear tlie Presidential
candidate. The ovation to the
candidate was deafeningly loud and
prolonged. From there the party was
driven to Tammany Hall, which was
packed, with an expectant crowd.
Aitor a short speech Bryan was driven
to Cooper Union, where the last speech
of the nipht was made.-- At. all places
Bryan was' enthusiastically received
and before, retiring expressed himself
delighted"and,encouraged by his welcome
here. ' ;" '.
J#- Bryan in his speeches dealt with
the questions of trusts, militarism and
Imperialism. Mr. Bryan was liberally
applauded, and comments made by hls^
hearers during his pauses showed that7
his audiences were with him. A feature
of all the meeting^ was the absence
of any interruption from persons
who did not agree with his views.
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?POLITICAL /yOTZ3^
wmoMimit&il
The polling places in Chicago this
year number 1127. yjr
Adlai E. Stevenson spoke to large
gatherings of voters in New Jersey. '
Senator Hanna made over a score of
Speeches on his four days' trip through
tha Northwest.
Fusionlsts and Republicans engaged
In a bitter struggle, over the next Legislature
in Nebraska.
Governor Pingree, of Michigan, announced
that he vfould retire from politics
at the end of bis term.
The President emphasized his former
announcement not to make any
speeches during the campaign. ; '.
i Olney Is the only member of the
Cleveland Cabinet Who publicly snn-, '
nounced his intention to support Bryan.
Secretary Long planned to make
several speeches on liis Western trip.
He also visited his daughter in Colorado.
.
Leonard Woolsey Bacon, of Norwich,
accepted a nomination for single
Presidential elector on the Third Party
ticket in Connecticut.
William J. Bryan completed his tour
of Ohio, speaking to 40,000 persons in
Youngstown and to great meetings in
Cleveland. He also spoke in Canton.
Tammany Hall, in New York City, determined
to challenge the votes of
ail students in college? and universities,
on the ground that they are not
residents.
The report of the Citizens' Committee
that ran the Republican Convention
in Philadelphia shows that the
sura of ?112,885.57, less $2o.05, was
expended.
The Commissioner of Internal ltev
enue decided that certificates of nominations
for public office, such as are
required by some of the States, and nil
papers or Instruments relating to the
excrcise of the elective franchise, are
exempt from stamp tax.
daughter Saw Him Die.
Vbomas F. Lane, son-in law of l/ni
ted Slates Senator-elect Blackburn, ol'
Kentucky, committed suicide at his
home In Wasliiugtou by shooting. Ill .<
health is assigned as rhe cruse of the ?
act. Mr. Lane's Utile daughter was :
in the room with him at the time. i
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Saya Dreyfus Caw Will Be Reopened. I
Professor Paul Stapfer, dean of the
faculty of letters at Bordeaux University.
lias written to M. Yves (Juyot. at
Paris, stating that the Dreyfus c.-ise \
will shortly be reopened. ]
Georgia >'?j;ro Lynched. ]
Frank Hiirdemann, a negro tramp,
was lynched at Wellston. <>a., for assaulting
Mrs. B. H. Pierson. the wife
of a Baptist preacher. The woman
and three small children were 111 1 lie
room at the tune and raised an alarm. ,
The negro buried himself in a cotton ]
patch, but was found and lynched.
Gold Discovered In Vir<;laJa.
Large deposits of gold hi\c been j
discovered in Louisa Cotfnty, Virginia,
on property owned J>y \v. F. ,
jProtfltt. Surface outcropotog yields ?
$30 a t j. j ^
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heading and Lehieh Compwiies Grar
the Demands of the Miners.
A ILL ARBITRATE GRIEVANCES.
"he Decision Arrived at After a Two
Day*' Conference of Operatois in Phil"
ndelphla ? The Financial X>om Caused
by the Strike 810,000,000 ? Number of
Men Who Went Otit About 140,000.
Philadelphia (Special). ? The great
strike of the anthracite mine workers
of Pennsylvania practically ended
Weduesday, when the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal & Iron Company and
the ^Lehigh Valley Coal 'Company
agreed to abolish the sliding scale In
their respective regions and to grant
an advance in wages of ten per cent,
net, the advance to remain in operation
until April 1, 1901, or thereafter.
This action meets the demands of
the Scranton Miners' Convention.
The decision was arrived at after
a two days' conference between rep
resentatives of the individual coai
operators and the large coal carrying
companies.
It is conceded that the result of the
conference is a complete victory for
the nlen. All the demands of their
Convention are acceded to, and as one
of the individual operators put it after
the conference, the operators go a
little further in agreeing to maintain
the wage advance after April 1.
The Reading Compauy's notice
reads:
"The Philadelphia & Reading Coal
& Iron Company hereby withdraws
the notice posted October 3, 1900, and,
to bring about practical uniformity ia
the advance of wages in the several
coal regions, gives notice that it will
suspend the operation of the sliding
scale, will pay ten per cent, advance
on September wages till April 1, 1901,
and thereafter until further notice;
and will take up with its mine employes
any grievances which they may
have."
The strike begun on September 17.
In ten days 140,000 men and boys were
out. Soon afterward practically every
mine in the anthracite region was
closed. The coal basins extended over
an area of 4*0 sqilare miles.
The cause of the strike was the rePliant
nf tho nnprntnra tr?
mines' union, abolish company stores
and advance wages at'least ted per
cent. Later lit a convention In Scranton
the strikers modified their demands.
.
* The militia was sent to th v Shenandoah
district after a Sheriff's poese
ha? fired on marchers there. The militia
was also sent to the Panther
Creek Valley to disperse marchers.
The tjotal financial loss is estimated
ar, $10,000,000, as follows: Loss.. In
wages, $4,000,000; loss to operators,
$4,000,000; loss in railroad earnings,
$2,000,000.
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WILLIAM L. 'WILSON DEAD.
Former Poitmaater-Gflneral and Author
of Wllaon Tariff Bill.
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Lexington, Va. (Special). ? William
L. Wilson, President lot Washington
and Lee University ai^d former Ppst- -
masier-uenerai, aiea suoaemy 01 congestion
of the itfngs. He had been
failing ever sincfe his return from Arizona.
He was conscious until the last
William Lyne Wilson was born in
1843, near CharlestoWn, W. Va. When
studying in the University of Virginia,
18G1, the Civil War broke out, and he
enlisted as a private in the Confederate
army. At the close of the war he
studied law, and later accepted a position
of assistant professor of Latin
and Greek, which he held till 1871.
WILLIAM L. WILSON.
In 1880 he was elected a delegate to
the Democratic National Convention
and elector-at-large for Hancock and j
English. After two years of law and i
politics he accepted the presidency of
the University of West Virginia, but
in a few months ran as a candidate
for the Forty-eighth Congress. He was
elected, and took his seat in 1883.
Mr. Wilson succeeded Mr. Springer
as Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, and carried through the
measure known as the Wilson Tariff
bill. In the parliamentary struggles
nvnr fliis ivill Mr Wllnnn'a ho.alf-h
broke down.
Presiuent Cleveland caued him to
the Cabinet as Postmaster-General.
At the expiration of Mr. Cleveland's'
second term as President Mr. Wilson
returned to college life, accepting the
presidency of Washington and Lee
University. Since then he has led the
scholar's life.
Kear-Admlral Wataon'i Assignment.
Kear-Admirai .Joan <j. vvatson, who
succeeded Admiral Dewey in command
of the Asiatic naval station, and who
recently returned to this country, has 1
assumed the duties of President of the
Naval Examining Board in Washington.
Indemnity For Italian*.
President McKinley will recommend 1
to Congress the payment of an indem- 1
nity to the families of the four Italians 1
who were victims of a mob at Talla- 1
lull, La., about two years ago.
Labor World.
The miners of the Yukon District, J
Vlaska, it is said, employ 5280 men, (
tvlio receive an average wage of $1 an J
liour.
A strike of miners at Baskett, Ky., 1
'or recognition of the union, involvng
lower wages, has been won by
:he men.
During the second quarter of this
rear the percentage of unemployed f
n New York was 20.7, just double I
he number out of work for the same c
period last year.
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H|P v' V ' I
700 MILES IN A SMALL BOAT
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Part of Crew of Steamer Disabled
at Sea Reaches Earbadoes.
Vessel Helpless In Mldoocan?Volnnteei
Crew Take a Thirteen Day Voyage
and Summon A1<1.
Barbadoes (By Cable).?Seven hundred
miles In an open boat to get asslstance
for their vessel is the record
made by the first officer and a portion
of the crew of the British steamer
HostillU8. The men arrived here after
having rowed for the better part of
thirteen days.
The Hostllius is a new steamer and
plies between New Orleans and South
Africa. She la commanded by Captain
Lewis. On September 27 the ship
left East London, and on October 2,
while In latitude 19 ndrth and longitude
49. west, her propeller 8baft was
broken. Because of the route she had
taken the Hostilius was a little out of
the usual path of steamers in the
. South African trade.
A call was made for volunteers to
take one of the boats and row to Barbadoes.
A crew of eight was selected
from those who answered the summons,
and, commanded by the firsi
officer, the boat was put over the side.
T)m mon innl.- tviMi thnm nmnlo
visions for thirty days In the shape of
biscuit, canned meats and an abundance
of water. It was calculated that
with the oars aud a small sail which
they rigged they would be able to
make between forty and fifty miles a
day. ?
Because of. their cramped position
in the boat the men were unable to
get proper rest In spite of thjii, however,
regular watches were maintained
all of the thirteen days, and the' boat
was kept under way either by sail or
with oars each night. On days'when
the wind was favorable the men obtained
plenty'of rest. Whan the wind
died away u they went at the oars.
Twice they fell in with sailing craft
who thought they were the crew of
some' wrecked ship. They received
offers of assistance, but were forced
to decline, as the vessels were not
bound for this port.
As soon a6 their story was told the
British cruiser Indefatigable, attached
to the West Indian sqaadron, which
was in the hafbor, received orders to
sail at once in search of the steamer.
It is thought she will be found within
100 mllpfl nf tho nnrfnf- whwo alia n-n a
disabled, about 700 miles from here.
The Indefatigable will tow her to
some port where repairs caji be made.
?ROM THE ISLAND OF GUAM.
Commander* Sehroeder, the New Governor,
Sends His First Keport.
Washington, D. C. (Special). ? The
first reports from Commander Seaton
Sehroeder, U. S. N., since his assumption
of the duties of Governor of the
Isle of Gluam, have been received at
the Navy Department/
COMMANDER 8EAJON SCHBOEDEB.
(New Governor of Guam.)
The hospitals in the islands have
been opened by the Government for
the reception of all patients without
charges, ana persons suffering from
disease are invited and urged to go to
them for free treatment. 1
The health of the American contingent
was fairly good at the date of the
reports. There were no typhoid cases',
only one of fever and a few of intestinal
troubles.
AMERICANS AND JEWS BARRED.
Englishman's Will Designed to Prevent
Daughters from Marrying: Them.
London (By Cable).?The will of J.
B. Clayton, the son of the late Member
of Parliament of that name, has just
been probated.
By It he leaves between his two
daughters a fortune of $720,000 witb |
the curious provision that the moni'y ]
is only to be payable to either if she .
attains the age of thirty-five years ''
without marrying either a citizen of
the United States or a Jew.
The reason for the proviso is not 1
stated. f
A HUNTER'S FATAL ERROR.
Mistook a Woman'H Hat on Aran's Head '
For a ltabblt.
Denver, Col. (Special). ? Arthur W.
Green was killed instantly near Den* .
ver by C. W. Johnson, a rabbit hunter. .
Green and his sweetheart, Miss Kate j
Mocurldge, were in the foothills on a t
photographing trip. He had donned
the woman's hat, a gray felt, and she
was in the act of taking the comic
picture when Johnson came over the h
hill. He mistook the moving gray oh- a
ject for a jack-rabbit and sent a l?ul- c
let tnrough Green's head. t
The Holland Sent to Anuapolitt.
The submarine boat Holland has
been placed in commission and sent to j
the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., f
so that the cadets may become thor- f
oughly familiar with vthis modern t
weapon of warfare. t<
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Shot to Death by a Policeman.
Policeman Edward O'Neill shot
Owen Stowell, a miner, through the
lieart in front of the Queen City IIo- v
tei, at Cumberland, Md., while trying r
to effect his arrest for lighting. ?
D'Neill says he shot in self-defense. 0
Mosquito Fleet Goes to Cuba.
The mosquito fleet of five small gunboats
belonging to the United States
Vavy left Cramps' shipyard, at Phila- g
lelphia, for Cuba, with Felix H. Iiulicke,
Chief of the Revenue Cuttec r
Service, in command. The boats are ?
nanned by crews of seven men. They
vill do patrol duty along the Cuban
?ast- i,
Death Due to Football.
Injuries received in a scrimmage in a ?r
ootball game resulted in the death of
irnest H. Townsend, nineteen years
>ld, of Saco, Me. His spine was hurt, b
1 ti
1 m iiifl
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THE BOALIINERS'TEBMS "
&VJ.
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Resolution Adopted at a Convention
Held in Scranton, Penn,
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ACCEPT TEN PER CENT. ADVANCE. %
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The Stri <er? Ketinircd the Operators to
Continue the Increase In Wa*e? Till
Next April?"Wanted Sliding Scale Abol- ^
Is he* Favored Arbitration If Terma
Were Not Satisfactory. '
" S?ranton. Penn. (Special).?At the
convention <fl fhe United Mine Workers,
which was held in this city and
lasted two days, It was decided toac^Mypfe
ten per cent, net increase in
?QhieNd by the mine owners,
would continue the pay^
the advance uutil next
would abolieh the sliding
the operators considered
the jMHMklon unacceptable the
tninevfr^jHfcg willing to arbitrate the
quMtlg*35j issue. They
the opqi|tors agree tp^^tie convenconvention,
after h^ffKen drafted
by a committee Is as fot
resorptions wy^B^HaKtSa; ?]
ators have posted noti6e$ offerl^an
advance ojgten per cent! over *Vpj?'.
formerly tftdd. and have signlfled thett
w ilUDgn^p 'jfa adj u31 other grievances
with tjyflnMjtemployes; anafjgku
"WfWeaffijSPfiey have fatftifto spei"
citf the lenjjfth of time this advance
would remain in frrce, and have also ,/
failed t^&bolish tl^,,tlfding scale
ra^hod of^iprniining wages; we
vdm>t^yBfcper cijB^roviding the
operawn will conffipie Jts payment
until April 1. lflflT^and will abolish
^h^^ljflinjf scale in'^the-L?>igh and
ii> tiKTw*.- last-named d/stricW to re-, <
maln-^dtetloatry at ten per cent. abov?
ttyfTq^iit Basin price,. %hd ;th*t the
"Should thl? proposition^^unacceptable
to tKg ftpcrrftors, ire'recommend
thAt thcJfcaj'entloii propofce that all
questiona-nanae be snaualtted to
a fait and impartial boafrdofarbltra- v>
tion. >v. , < ; ?.
"We would further recomnend that
udder, qo clrcumgthnces whatever ,
should there be a reaomption oTAork
at any of the collieries until tbebfrerators
signify their acceptance to*-this
proposition, and yon are notified offl- . 7;
cialiy that thfe,atrlki. is ended and aH
return to worfcjin a bMf w toe same
1?^ -r '
A MAYOR TRIES SUICIDE.
Fired Two Shot* at Himself Bat MUMd?
His Wife Saves Him. ' % \
Pearson, iia. (Special).?Mayor Henry .
Corbett attempted suicide under sensa* / ,
flrtnol nlrr?itmof^onnno Ulo nrl#i> oIaAa ^
was the cause of his failure. He isolated
himself in a distant part of the r &
house and tired two shots ac himself.
So nervous was he that his hand
swerved and both bullets missed him.
His wife rushed fit and after k Weft$<^8
struggle succeeded in wresting the.pigtol
from his grasp. MentaJ depression "
from ill-health caused thev rash at-'
tempt
CAPTAIN S'IELDS'S_ PARTY SAFE., '|
He and the Men Caprurcil by Filipino* la i
Marinduquo Recovered.
'ri . -..3
Manila (By Cable).?Captain Dever- *
eaux Shields, who, with fifty-one men
of Company I<\ Twenty-ninth Regi-'
ment. United States Volunteer Infantry,
was captured by the insurgents
recently in the Islaiid.of Marinduque, s
was recover 1 by the '\merlean re&cuei. 'ri
force, with all t*"? members of .hia -'?rj
party.
"Wisconsin, Fastest Battleship.
The battleship Wisdonsiu gained mw
laurels for uer builders, the Unka ,.
Iron Works, of San Francisco, Cal.,
on her trial trip iu Santa Barbara ; v?,
Channel by exceeding her contract.^?
speed of sixteen knots and making the'-*^
best record up to date in her class.
It is announced that the Wisconsin 1,
made 17.23 knots, exceeding the best
previous record of 17.1 knots made1 by '
her sister ship, the Alabama. , .
Destractive Typhoon in China Sea.
A typhoon caused great damage on 1
the coasts of Formosa and Southern
China. A number of towns were destroyed.
Nineteen hundred houses
were' washed away or inundated at /
Taipeh, Foiinosa. and many live*
ost. J ,-fpX
Princess of Wales Gets Danes Free.
The intercession of the Trincess of
{Vales has secured the liberation of
iome Danes who wece compelled by
he Boers to fight against the Britsh
and had been imprisoned
SImonstown, Cape Colony. ' *
JfiWM
Scharn Murdor Mystery Unsolved.
Fred Seharn was acquitted by a
Coroner's ju^.' of the murder of Kate yj.,
scliarn, his sister, lu New York City. 7*
3e was sent back to prison to awaft
he actiou of the Grand Jury.
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Spaniards Arriving in Cubs.
Three thousand Spanish immigrant*
lave arrived in Cuba since October 1,
ind the Bureau c?! Immigration e'stinatef>
the number will reach 12,000
>efore the end of the month.
Michigan Woman Kills Her Child.
Mrs. J.ouis Mills, of Essexville,
lich.. administered laudanum to her
our-yearoKt daughter with fatal efcct.
and thou took a dose of the drug
ier.seif. Mrs. Mills, who is supposed
0 have been temporarily insane, will
ive.
MUliou Devoted to Find the Pole.
V^nr v.xi.lr
vriuiuiiJ , vi iiun xuin kji%,jf
.'ill equip an expedition to the Arctic
pgiou, in command of Evelyn B.
Jaldwin, and says lie will spend ?1,?
00,000 to rend the North Pole.
The Xatlonn! Game.
Keister is keeping up his strong
a me for St. Louis.
The New York Club has suspended
'iu-her Seymour for balance of seaon.
Hamilton, of Boston, was the third
layer lo reach the oeutury mark in
nus.
rit'.slMirg is the first club to win as
inny games as fifteen in a series from
os'.on.
Nick Young says there likely, will
e a return to the double umpire sys;u>
next year.