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IFIRE HORROR IN NEW YORK CITY Many Persons Killed and Prop[ erly, Worth Millions, ^ Destroyed. Pgkiikbeabthquaee rw ? Fire Started in a Drug House and Explosions of Chemicals Wrecked an Acre of Buildings. I The Fire Said to Ilave Started in the Laboratory of Tarrant & Co.'8 Drug House From an Electric Wire ? The Business Section of the Metropolis i Shook by a Series of Explosions?Hundreds "Were Injured, Most of Them by Flying Debris?Property Loss Estimated at 61,300,000. New York City (Special).?A tcrrifio explosion of chemicals in the wholesale drug store of Tarrant & Co., on the northwest corner of Warren and Greenwich streets, totally wrecked about twenty buildings and damaged three score others more or less; made more than thirty firms homeless, entailed a property loss of about $1,500,V.' 000, injured over 200 persons, some of them seriously, and killed over a score of others. The loss of life may be finally determined when the ruins have been searched. Flames were seen breaking from the third lloor of the drug manufacturing fx house of Tarrant & Co. some minutes I ' before the crash came. At ten minutes I after 12 o'clock a terrific explosion I. in the Tarrant building threw the cn ~^tare front of the structure into the H^AHBbOne fire coyiyny had just arrived the scene Yrnen the awful explosion ^B^^m^Hmirred: It threw the whole engine down the stairway. iiovnnn'pv. of the comDanVi le bilildjing the second n, more and the i Greenengines :rm had re busy ounding !y taken s escape persons ;apes of xt door, >n WarSed rhe saw a loot 300 r>f tliP BBMMflaBaMHwHMMBafcem as* in the nnHHgmnnto BBHffiBHHHHRRHHfiSf brick failing the ^^MnHHnHHH the jHBHHBHH^HHnHBKiting them to RHQnBBSn|?fl^MMS|?Wls. from like MHHnHH^^H?jKQ|^^^ke broke ranHHrn^ \ demolished the structure Just below ! the building. Immense masses of masonry, pieces of cornice, great beams, window casings and an indescribable mass of wreckage of every descriptiou tumbled suddenly into the street in front of | the building all at once. The wreckage was thrown across the windows of the building in which the Irving National Bank is on the northeast corner of the streets. The offices of the Irving Bank anil of Mecklem Brothers, bankers and brokers, were nearly wrecked. Captain McClusky. of the Dctective Bureau, was appealed to to protect the fnnds of the bank, he being told iTIat they were in the vault, the door of which was supposed to be unlocked. When the Captain and his men went in however, they found about $10,000 j scattered in confusion over counters i and floors. This was hastily thrown j into the vault and the duor locked. Down in Mecklem Brothers' offices, in the basement, when the fire broke out. ?90,000 in money lay upon the ' counters. A boy named Ileckonberry was stationed at the door while this was gathered together for putting in the vault. The first explosion filled the place with sulphurous smoke that nearly asphyxiated everybody. The second I explosion blew in the windows and i ' '" - -? "--'-i n'ho I CUt lue two luecmeuis bchuuoij. jlaiv boy Heckenberry found the two girl j clerks lying in a heap, fainted away. I He carried them out to a place of ! safety. A barber shop in the same building was demolished, the barbers and two customers that were being shaved were driven to the street. The other tenants of the building, a number of lawyers and brokers, all escaped injury. The explosion completely demolished windows along Greenwich street on both sides for three blocks iu both directions. The street was covered with tine bits of glass. The explosion was supposedly caused by naphtha. In the sreat confusion that existed it was impossible to find any person who could give the slightest detail regarding the work that was being done at the time the calamity occurred and -the possible cause other than the escape of naphtha gas. The whole lower part of the city felt the shock and streets for blocks lead""Ati a timttfl cf rATT*n tt- If h iu IUV OICUC HCIC DUVMU " glass from windows and doors, whose empty frames told of the force of the quakes, " . 4 BOLD DASH FOR LIBERTY. Escaping Prisoners Kill s- Keeper,, But One Falls to His Death. I New York City (Special).?Two negroes locked in the West Sidfe Court prison, on West Fifjy-third street; sawed through the bars of their cells and killed Keeper Hugh McGovern by crashing his head with the sawed off piece of the bar. They then knocked down and seriously injured George Wilson, a prisoner known as a "trusty," who had rushed to the keeper's aid, and then made a desperate attempt to escape by sliding down a rope forty feet long made out of blankets and bed ticking to a dead wall tweuty feet high, and then jumping to the ground. vOne of the prisoners, Arthur Flanagan, nineteen years old, escaped. The Other, Frank Emerson, alias William B. Johnson, who was far less sturdy than his confederate, apparently missed the wall, and fell headlong, for his body was found cn a pile of iron rails,. with his face and head crushed. The pol.ce say the escape was the most daring one accomplished in many years. They were at first unable'to ac: count for the saw with which the men cut their way out of ti^elr cs'l. Later they decided that a young woman, a sweetheart of Flanagan, had sent him the saw conc^alcd in a sweet potato pie. It was a hack-saw used for cutting iron. The woman's name is Deborah Whiting. When arrested at. her' home, the police say, they: secured a letter from Flanagan to her whjcU^onfir ned their suspicion. ~r fjj Arthur Flanagan and Frank Etrterson had been locked up ia default of bail to await trial on a charge ol burglary. ' V ^ ALL CONE, SAYS ALVORPl ^Ban Who Stole 8700,000 From a New York Bank Caught in Boston. Bjn^n^the absconding note teller of HMmBKational Bank in New York HHBfl^H^^harged with stealing HBBHI^nkc bank, was arrested BMB^EKS^^ttpctor William B. Hwjj|H^gHH^^^^^Detectlve Arm&nHMNBHBD^BBkty, in an ordicorner HBHhBUgfflSHH^^Burlington HHSBaWwiHiMBHi^Me headNMOnBBHHBBfil^Sl^wvere he |A '' . "1 ' * ' 1 7 ijif pp | iiB M IDESEBTEB Fagirr, Once an American Soldier Fisrhtine: With Filipinos. HE HOLDS THE RANK OF GENERAL Fagin Sends Messages to His Former Comrade; Threatening Them With Violence if Captured?He 1a Very Active In the Field?Prisoners Are Ill-Treated?Scouting Parties Attacked by Natives. Manila (By Cable).?A private launch towing a barge loaded with merchandise near Arayat was attacked by a force of 150 insurgents under David Fagin. a deserter from the Tventyfourtlj Iufantry. The American troops on hearing the firing, turned out in fo ?e before the boat could be looted and recaptured it. Fagin, who holes the rank of Genoral among the insurgents, bis Fwr.rn special enmity townra ms ioivhit tympany. Of the twenty men hp captircd a month ago seven have returited. One was killed in a fight his body being mutilated. Fagin sends messages to his former comrades threatening them with violence if they become his prisoners. It was Fagin's men who captured Lieutenant Frederick W. Alstaetter. who is still a prisoner. While scouting near Looc a detachment, of the Twentieth and Twentyeighth Regiments, under Captain Beigier, was attacked by 400 insurgents, armed with rifles, under the command of a white man, whose nat'.inallty is not known to the Americans. The Insurgents for the most part were intrenched. After a heroic fight Captain Beigier drove off the enemy, killing -nore than seventy-five. The fight..lasted for two hours. Captain B<?&1et and three1 privates were slightly'Wounded and two of the Americans were killed. Reports from-General -Young's district show a daily increase of insurgents'there owing to the fact th->.t recruits are going thither from the towns. While a detail pf the Thirty-tlird Volunteer Infantry was. returrfing from Bangued on rafts it was fbed upon by insurgents; Sergeant Bcrdstal-' lcr being killed and two privates wounded. ' J A REPORT IN THE .RICE CASE. Ih? Millionaire, Chemical Expert Says, Died of Mercurial Poisoning. New York City. (Special).?Professor R. A. Witthaus reported to Coroner Hart the result of the chemical analysis of organs taken from the body of the late William Marsh t Rice,' whose attorney, Patrick, and. secretary. Jonfes, are in the Tombs 'on charges of forging his name to a check. The report says that mercury was found in small quantity and under such coniitlons that it seems to have been taken before death. The expert's inference, is that mercury In some form was administered to the old man while he lived, but; whether in sufficient quantity to cause death is not stated. Dr., Walker Curry, who attended Rice, is positive that nc medicine containing riefceury wa$ ever prescribed by him for the slckr man. Jones and Pafflck were held in F10.000 bonds each by / Magistrate Brann to await the action of the -<"2rnn/1 Turxr nn n fhnrcp nf fnrpinc? Rice's name to checks for $25,000 and 565,000. The prisoners received the news of Professor Witthnus's report, which still further lessens their chances of release, calmly and with upmoved features. PROFESSOR MAX MULLER/DEAD. Noted .Philologist Pastes Away at Oxford v at tbe Age of Seventy-seven. London (By Cable).?The Right Hon. Friedrlch Max Muller, P. C., K. M., LL.D., D. C. 1^., corpus prqfessor of comparative philology kt Oxford University, died at Oxford a few days' ago. He wps seventy-^even years old... Professor Mas (Muller was the son of Wilhplm Muller. tho German Doet. and was born at Dessau. lu 1S50 he tobk one of bis christian names as bis surname. He was educated 'n the public schools of Dessau and the Universities of Leipsic and, Berlin. He went to England in 1840 to collect material for an edition of "Rig-Veda," the sacred- hymns of the Brahmans. He settled at Oxford, and after receiving luany honors from the university and filling several, posts there he became professor of comparative philology in 1868. He published many works on religion and languages. He. received many honors from European Governments and universities. < DAMAGE TO MOUNT ST. EL1AS. |Indiana lteport the Recent Earthquake L Caused by Avalanche. ^ Port Towusend. Wash. (Special).? Hews has reached hero from Yakutat ^^at Mount Sr. Ellas was badly shaken the recent earthquake that did so ^?ch damage at Kodiak. Indian trap^fts and hunters who were in the vi ^ftty of the mountain have returned j^^nkutat, and say that the mountain B|K idly torn up. [^^^^shock was so severe that a mass Iicres in extent broke loose near p of the mountain and oame Iff down the sides, carrying ling before it. The Indians hat from where the avalanche clear to the base of thp mountInadc a track half a mile wile, no snow or Ice remained. Lvolt of the Somali Tribes. Irench steamship Salazie ar Marseilles from China. At fe? officers wera informed that konnen. olio of King Menetncipal chicfs, had been obliged ijere between the Soiuali tribes B recently rebelled. Brnla's Population, i;! 85,053. ^nlatiou of tfle State of Cali|Ht>fhcially announced fry the ^K-eau at Washington isl,4S>. st 1.20S.130 in ISO!*. This is H<e of 276,923, or 23.i> per cent ^ETlSlephant Pat to Death. HAi big circus elephant, wau itu Falls, Texas. Uol three keepers during ?-s. He attempted to ^pl became so desperftr that a volley of hftd to be lived gB^hets went into his fil Hear Dawson. Hhui City, Alaska, B|* has been made H^Beeu miles above H Creek. Tb?" Bfl|BtakPd. HELD IFOR GIRL'S MURDER A Coroner's Jury Holds the Four ? ^Accused Men Guilty. The Verdict Simply Say# That They Are Ke*pon#il>le For the Death of Jeunie Bosschieter. Paterson. N. .T. (Special).?The jurv summoned by Coroner Vroom of Ridgewood to investigate Ihe death of Jennie Bosscheiter, the murdered mill girl, mei at Alyea's icehouse, near which the girl's body was found, on tlie Bergen side of the Passaic River Coroner Vroom told the members of the jury that he had consulted the Prosecutors of both Bergen and Pas?ai? Countfec in regard to the case, and they had informed him that it would be the duty of the jury to determine where the death of Jennie Bosseheiter had actually occurred. CJiief of Police Graul, of Paterson . and fcculthorp, the cabman wlio drove the unfortunate girl and the four men ?McAllister. Kerr. Campbell, and Death?on the night of the murder, appeared before the jury and gave testimony. Chief Graul gave sufficient details * * ' * - J ATI or wnat nappeneu uu iue >... which the girl was killed to show that she undoubtedly died while in the cnb on the Passaic County side of the rlv<yr, and that her body bad afterward been taken across the river and deposited on the Bergen County side, where It was round. The Chief then told at length the story of the crime. Sculthorp followed the Chief and told practically the same story. The questions put to him were intended to establish the locality where the death occurred, so as to ascertain whether the case came within the jurisdiction of the Bergen County authorities or that of the Passaic County officials. As In the case of the Chief's evi dence, the cabman's story seamed to prove beyond a' doubt that he girl died in Passaic County. At the conclusion of Sculthoip's testimony the jury retired. After a conference the jury ddclded that Jennie Bosschelt^' met bei* deatfy in Passaic County. an& that the Bergen County authorities had: no jurisdiction In the case. The Passaic County authorities, therefore, have now full charge of the investigation. v ; The verdict is. In part as follows: "We, the jurors, do 'say upon our oath that Jennie Bosscheiter came to her death according \o the evidence produq^cl on the 29th day of October j In'-the County of -1 Passaic, and that Walter McAllister, George J. Kerr, | Andrew Campbell and William Deatb are responsible for the .same." After givin?: their verdict the . jurors were dlsmlsse&bj Cpronfcr yj"pomv Sculthon?. the cabman, seems to' Have been warned by the police here not to talk about the case with any one not In authority. H<> seems to be especially atraid of being seen In conversation with reporters. Sculthorp has now another cab In place of the vehicle which he drove on the night of the murder. r PLAGUE IN THE YUK&N VALLEY. Indians Dying: From a Mjiteriooi Disease? Famine Threatens. Seattle, Wash., (Special).?The Rev. Father John B. Rene, In charge oi the Roman Catholic missions on the Yukon, has arrived at Dawson with a terrible story of the sufferings of the natives in thatj valley- from ^.n spideraic of a mysterious disease re-' spmblinc a combination of" oneu monia, measles and typhoid fever. >' At Holy Cross Mission sixty out of 150 Indians died in less than two months. Famine now threatens, as the natives have not been able to lay up supplies olf fish and game for the winter. The plague has been general all along the river and along the coast of. Bering Sea, and thousands of natives have died and many more will die from the disease itself or the starvation following in its train. DOC SENT BY MAIL IN GEORGIA. Thirteen Former Postal Employes Indicted For Fraud. Atlanta, Ga. (Special).?The United States Grand Jury has returned thirteen indictments against former postmasters and carriers in Polk, Harrison and Pauldiug counties, charging conspiracy to defraud tL> Government. The postoffice authorities assert that the thirteen defendants went so far, as to give away stamps in order to cancel them and sent bulky packages through the mails. It is said that a dog was sent,In that way, and that pieces of pine bark were stamped an*1 mailed. Police Will Shoot to Kill. As a result of the rcigu of crime which has been frightening residents of Eyanston, a suburb of filii^go, for over a week, Mayor Thomas Bates wrote a letter to Chief of Police Bartram, instructing him to order the polie*! to shoot, and to shod to klil, any one seen perpetrating any robberyFinished His Speech, Fell Dead. George W. Blake. Democratic candidate for the legislature, fell dead from heart disease just as he bad finished a speech at Dana, Iil. Count Killed in Automobile Accident. Comte Cahen d'Anvers.a well-known figure in Parisian society, was killed iti an automobile accident near ii" sicres, France. Advance Made by Cuba. General Wood, Governor-General of Cuba, in his annual cirU report shows that a remarkable advance has bee*1 uaue uy lutr ^uuau& in iuu ia?i Dynamite Wrecks Two Houses. The homes ot Kenton Kins an?l Mrs. Burus, at Elwood, Ind.. were wrecked by au explosion of dynamite, .-ome one having placed a stick of the explosive near the house. The members of the families narrowly escaped death. 15,000 iioers in the Field. The Boers have 15,000 men in the field, nearly ?.alf of wholh are in Orange River Colony. These are divided into com run ml os of some 300 each, but are capable of combination for lnr? operations. 2.100 Filipinos ISaptlzeil. Arclibisho Chapelle, who rencntHj left Manila, accompanied by several friars, for the northern districts of Luzon, was warmly welcomed on his arrival at Dagupan. As :wo years have elapsed since an opportunity for liaptism had beeu presented, more tha" ' 2300 persons have been bapt:s._<d Earthquakes in Mexico, A series of severe earthquakes have been felt in the Colinia districts and on the Pacific slope south of Guadalajara, Mexico, during the* past few days j 1 PPPOLATM, 76,295,? Official Announcement of the Census of the United States For 1900. GAINED 13,225,464 IN DECADE The Number in the Forty-rive States is "4,027,907, Representing Approximately the Population For Apportionment Purposes?Statement by the Director or the Census?He Spent SO,301,061. Washington, D. C. ('Special). ? The official announcement of the total population of the Uniteu Stn'os for 1000 is 70.20."),220, of which 74,027,907 arc contained in the forty-five States representing approximately the population to be use for apportionment purposes. There is a total of 134,158 Indians not *Qxed. The total population in 1890, with which the aggregate population of the present census should be compared, was 03,069,756. Taking the 1890 population as a bas!s, there has been a gain in population of 13,225,464 during the last ten years, /A 'v >-' V,' " T?r ? ? . - r' . NEW CEN8DS BUIL1 representing an increase of nearly j twenty-one per cent.-. Following is the official announcement by Statea: Italians, not 1900. , 1890. taxed. Alabama 1,828,697 1,313,017 .... Arkansas 1,311,564 1,128,179 .... California .... 1,485,053 1,208,130 1,549 Colorado 539,700 412,198 597 Connecticut . . 908,355 746,258 .... Delaware..*.. 184,155 168,493 .... Florida 528,542 391,422 Georgia 2,216,329 1,837,353 .... Idaho..- .. ...." 161,771 v 84,385 2,297 Illinois .. .... 4,821,550 3,820,391 Indiana 2,516,403 2,192,404 , ..... Iowa.. .... ... 2,251,829 1,911,896 .... Kansas 1,469,496 1,427,096 .... Kentucky.: ..2,147,174 1,858,635 L'ouisiana .. .. 1,381,627 1,118,587 .... Maine 694,366 < 661,086 .... Maryland .... 1,189,946 1,042,399 .... Massachusetts.. 2,805,346 2,238,943 Micmgan .. .... 2,419,782 2,093,880 .... Minnesota .. 1,751,395 1,301,828 1,768 Mississippi . .. 1,55X^72 ' 1,289,000 ? Missouri .. ... 3,107,117 2,679,184 .... > Montana .. . . 243,289 132,159 10,746 Nebraska .... .1,068,901 1,058,910 .... Nevada ... ... " 42,334 45,761 1,605 N.Hampshire.. 411,583 376.530 .... New Jersey,... 1,883,6?) 1,444,963 New York.. .. 7,268,009 5,997,853 4,711 N. Carolina ...1,891,992 1,617,947' .... North Dakota. 319,040 182,719 4,692 Ohio. 4,157,545 ' 3,672,316 .... Oregon ..i .I 413,532 313,767 ..., Pennsylvania . 6,301,385 5,*58,014 ...V Rhode Island.. 428,556 345,506 ,:i. South Carolina 1,348,312' 1,151,149 .... 3outh Dakota. 401,559 328,808 10,932 Tennessee . ..'2,022,723 1,767,518 .... Texas..\f; ^,048,828 2,235,523 .... Utah. / ... .'" is.v. -276,565 % 207,905 1,472 Vennd&t ?.-34?,641 332,422 .... Virgitfifc^-.- v>li,854,184/ 1,655,980 Washinjftciii .. 517,672 349,390 2,531 W. 'Virginia ., 958,900 762,794 .... (.Wisconsin . .. 2,068,963 1,686,880 1,657 Wyoming'..'.. 92,5^1 69,705 ' . v.Total for 45 States 74,627,907 62,116,811 44,617 Territories &c, 1 Alaska csti- > mate) 44,000 32,052 .'... Arizona.. .1 .. 122,212 59,620 24,644 District of Columbia 278.718 230,392 .... Hawaii 154,001 89,990 .... Indian Ter'ty. 391,960 180,182 56,033 New Mexico .. 193,777 153,593 2,937 Oklahoma .. .'. 393,245 ' 61,834 5,927 Persons in the sen-ice of the U. S. stationed abrpad (es- * timated) .. . -84,400 >..* >... Indians, etc.,on Indian reservations, ex- ? cept Indian Territory ... 145,282 * .... Total for seven . . > territories,&c. 1,667,313 952,945 89,541 The Director of tte Census, in announcing the population of the United States, made- $ statement, which, in part, follows: "The figures of tii population are the result of a careful computation by means of the latest tabulating machines. It ha3 been the custom heretofore to maie a rough counf, using the names on the schedules as a basis, but in this decade it was determined to avoid the errors likely to arise from a preliminary count, and also the necessary expense and. delay incident to such a proceeding. The plai was adopted of verifying the count at once by the use of the electrical contrivances referred to above. "The early completion of the tabulation of the population of the States enables the Census Office to s:ibmit the ngures to congress as soon as 11 convenes in December, t'lus giving that body the information necessary to dispose of the question of the reapportionment of Representatives at the coming session. "The cost of the administration o." tbo bureau up to this date, including the expense incident to the preliminary work, as well as the tost of the enumeration and supervision, is $G.3U1,9G1, of which over $4,000,000 has lipen expended for supervision anl enumeration." KailrouiU For 1'orto Kico. The Executive Council at San Juan. Porto Kico, has granted a franchise to the Nortu American Company to build 300 miles of a system of railroads in the interior of the island and to operate the same. The work is to be completed in three years. * French Warships at Annapolis. The French man-of-war Oecille and Sucliet arrived at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Md., and received rhe usual salute from the Naval Academy c -icers Four Children Drowned. A quadruple < .-owni. g occurred near Plaster Bed, on Sandusky Iiiver. The drowned are Douglass Stark, three years old; George Stark, five years old; Alfred Stark, eight years old, and Henry Stark, thirteen years old. They were the children of William Stark. Mr. Stark and his children were out boating and the boat overturned, resulting in the four deaths. Fatal Railroad Wreck in Montana. Eight persons were killed and twenty-one injured in a wreck on the Northern Pacific near Livingston, Mont. 4 ' \ ' THANKSGIVING DAY SET, I The Annual Proclamation Issued b-y President McKinley. He Designates November 20, as a Day of Thanks to a Kind Providence For National Blessings. Washington. D. C. (Special).?The following Thanksgiving Day proclamation has been issued: "It has pleased Almighty (Tod to bring our Nation in safety and honor through another year. The "works of religion and charity have everywhere been manifest. Our country through all its extent has been blessed with abundant harvests. Labor and tbe( great industries of the people have prospered beyond all precedent. Out commerce has spread over the world. | Our power and influence in the cause of freedom and enlightenment have extended oyer distant seas and lands. The lives of our. official representatives and many of our people in China have been marvellously prese' d. We have been generally exempt from pestilence and other great calamities and even the tragic visitation which afPeowhelmed +I10 Af /Inlvoatnn mnrip pv.iflpnt I hp sentiments of sympathy and /Christian s b jr^TTir" ^^ ^ m )INQ,"WA8HINGTON. charity, by virtue, of which we are one united people. "Now; therefore, I, William \fcKinley, President of the United Statos, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, November 29, next, to be observed by all the people of the United States, at home and abroad, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Him who holds the nations in.the hollow of His hand. I recommend, that they gather in their several places of worship and devoutly give Him thanks for the prosperity wherewith He has endowed us, for seed time and harvest, for tbo valor, devotion and'humanity of our fnr. oil Trio 'tl nines' tXUU I1U.V ico? auu JUI ail benefits to us as individuals and as a Nation; and that they humbly pray for the continuance of His divine favor,'for concord and Amity with othernations, , and for righteousness and peace in all our ways. "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be* affixed. "Done at the City of Washington this 29th day of (October, in the year of our JiOrd, one thousand and uine hundred; and of the Independence of tKo TTriJto/1 Sfntofl thp ono hundred find twenty-fifth. "William Mckinley. "JOHN HAY. Secretary of State **. FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. An Employe's Slight Error Results in Death and Destruction. Wilkesbarre, Peon. (Special).?A tremendous explosion of gas occurred in No. 1 shaft of the Kingston Coal Company in Edwardsville .in which five men were killed and six others were badly burned. The dead are Peter Nsovige, Michael Galabaus, Adam Waynoles and Frank Maca lonski. miners, and David Evans, a driver boy, When the injured men were brought to the surface by the rescuers the skin hung in shreds from their bodies. The work of rescue was dangerous, as "after damp" had accumulated. The first rescuing party that went down the mine was driven back and two in the party had to be carried out. The accident was due to an employe who diverted the air course un^ wittingly. BANDITS RAID A VILLAGE. . Blow Open a Safe at Roundhead, Ohio, and Fire on Citizens., Bellefontaine, Ohio (Special).?A pang of mounted robbers raided the village of Roundhead, fourteen miles from here and got away with considerable booty. A terrific explosion aroused the residents and citizens, who appeared on the street and were shot at by the robbers, who finally rqde away toward Lima, firing as they went. The heaviest loss was at Mertz & May's store, where the safe was blown open and $400 secured. Six hundred dollars in bank notes was scattered out of their reach by the explosion. CREAT FIRE SWEEPS AMOY. Many doCKM in ^nint'de toiut vnj Wiped Out. ' . London (By Cable).?A great fire has destroyed 150 houses In Aiuoy; China. The destroyed Loyses were oil Ju ihe business section, near the American and British settlement. British, Russian and Japanese marines were landed with engines and fought the flames heroically. General Lee Ordered From Cuba. The army divisfon of Cuba was discontinued and the Department of Cuba established by an order of Presidenl McKinley. (Jeueral Leonard Wood k placed In command of the new depart ment. General Fitzhugh Lee is ord ered lo command the Department ot the Missouri, with headquarters al Omaha. < A Mother Murders Her Sou. Clifford Cawthon, sixteen years old was found dead in his bed. at tbi home of his widowed mother, in Chat * l1""" tr?o JidoH ho/1 Iuwmi I UtllUU^il, JLCUU. JLJLIO utuu ? hacked to pieces with a liatcliet. Mrs Cawthon, according to the police, confessed later tlmt she killed her son "be cause he was bad and smoked cigar ettes." Russian Ambassador in Wunhlnfilon. Couut Cassini, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, has returned to Washington. Germans Putting Boxers to Death. The Germans in China are treating suspected Boxers who are captured by them severely. They are tried by drumhead court-martial, and when convicted are shot in short order. Recently they killed fourteen Boxers in one day. British Take South Sea Islands. The Earl of Banfurly. Governor and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand, has hoisted the British flag over Maugaia Island, one of the Cook group; Aitutaki, oue of ihe Ilervey group, and Savage Island, half way between th? Samoan and Tomra islands. Tcheci on castellame || French Court Appoints George Gould TdB Trustee For the Countess. 'fjB THE COUNT OWES $4,500,000 J| . /: Mr. Gould, Brother of the Countess, Brought the Suit Because the Young ^3 Nobleman Had Impaired Hi* Wife'i u Vast Fortune?The Lutter's Debts ?nd y^m Expenditures?Action of Gould Family y -.Jjjj] Paris (B^ Cable).?The Civil Tribu- * JS ,,?^k:^as..4pp)wtod George J. Gould . |1 luaittiw for^(b< fCountcss P.onl de Cas- f the result . || of a suit herself *ecognlz-jd that^ilfil .expend!ture had.been too lavish, anflthat it >jH was awessary for some ofa',of experienc* and authority to ma?age her affairs. He went on to say1 that, al- \;5ll| though the Countess was a consen- ' -<3fl tial party to the trusteeship, It was deslrable that he should furnish precise A^H COUNT AMD COUNTESS DE CABTKLLAKS. The Income of the Countess, he went on to set forth, was- 3,000,000 franca ($579,000). Since the ni/*ristee $15;- M 000,000 francs ($2,805,000) .had been ex- S^Bj pended an$ the debts ncfw' amounted to fully 23,000,000 fraju.cs ($4,439,000). ~||5H The Gould family had met iQ consultation and unanimously' decided to au* tnorize ueorge licuui to inane me prus- ent application. Tiie debts, Maitre Bonnet said, were. the following: ;j\ 3,702.000 francs ($714,4SG) in comux^wjgMai tion with the Charity Bazar building ' ^jfl| and the hotel in the rue Malakoft; 0,585,200 francs (?1,270,955) on tnort- ; gages payable from 1900 to 1909. 4,293,155 francs' (?S28,578) on bills,- 'JH money borrowed. ,( 9,100,000 francs ($1,756,300) owing "jj to curio dealers. Maitre Bonnet -tvent on to assert the creditors distrained -on the et Oise property and that the family "' [m had to intervene to prevent the sale. With regard to the fitness of George ^9 Gould to be trustee Maitre Bonflfit pointed out that his fortune was larg- er than that of the Countess, that.. authority based on affection would be/-^ great, and that nobody/Was bettep ;;* qualified, as ir was George Gould who ' :JH was appointed executor of his father's.. imM will. Another consideration was that ^ the clearing away of the debts would take a number of years, and thajt ' J therefore it would be wise to economy .7./ /,j| ize and not to go to the expense or paid trustee. The tribunal, taking this view, de- ^ olared the plaintiff "possessed, betfer %^WS than any other, of the necessary pooltion and authority to assist the deThe Boni de Castellanes are now ;|jara staying in the country together. JH EARTHQUAKE IN FLORIDA. /. Eight Distinct Shocks Hake Window' 'jJHll Fanes Kattle in Jacksonville. * Jacksonville, Flu. '.(Special).?Eight' ' S8 distinct earthquake shocks were telt. In Jacksonville. The first shock was"' at 11.10 o'clock a. m? and shook some. of the large buildings in the city. - At 11.25 o'clock another shock equally, as severe was felt, and other shocks cottinued at fifteen-minute intervals untill 12.30 o'clock. JW At 4.04 o'clock p. in. the seventh ' shock was felt, aud was fftlj^wfid foof, minutes later by a i*po/t anTTsEo^V^^j^H the severest of the db&.' The last dla-^ -V^^W turbance made the window panes rattie in several sectionsy2 the city. The vibrations passed frojfr south to north,'' S<X-YEAR?OLD MURDERER. * /.JjgjJH Boy Strikes a Plnym^te a Fatal Blow With a Toy ?Jiovol. Chicago, (Special?Because htf kicked over a little 'aM&Jhouse, Ernest . Didier, nine years as 'killed with -^38 a toy shovel in therbatiffjs of six-year- '?H old George Waterutan. In childish > rage, the smaller boj- struck the other/ -: ' oHj on the back of the head, fracturing his The boy who struck the fatal blow is too young.to be amenable to the ^ The Strength of the Army. In his annual report for the year ending June 30. 1000. Adjutant-Gen- jflfl oral Corbin, at Washington, showtf .^^ 1 that the regular army consists of 2525 officers anil Oo.SUl enlisted men, and the volunteer army of 1348 officers and 31,070 enlisted men, a grand total of VaKfl I no rir\ v 3 Earthquake* Destroy a Whole Town. The earthquake ib Venezuela de* stroyed the town of Guarenas, result- N' ing in the loss of twenty-live lives. i.j&H KilU'il Husband For Insurance. William linger, a young carpenter. V*&BS of Itoopole, 111., was shot and killed by his wife. She has confessed. Hll- . ger carried $3000 life insurance in the -1SB Woodmen. The desire for the mouey is the supposed motive. Abruzzl ou a Iteacue Mission. ' The Duke of Abruzzi, the Arctic ex- _J31 I plorer and cousin of the King of itnlv. has chartered the Gothenburg '&H | whi. er Capella to proceed to Franz -1 I Josef Land in ser-rch of three missing Arctic exploration expeditions. 1 Florida Quarantine Prolonged. 3 The summer quarantine in Florida generally terminates at midnight on ifl October 31, but, according to an order issued by the Florida State Board of 3 Health, has been continued until furtb- M or orders, by reasou of the continued -a prevalence of yellow fever at Havana fl and the tardy approach of cold weath- jH The I'lctiuc Postcard Craze Abroad. 3 The picture postcard craze is In full lj swing in the Baltic provinces and Po- 1 land. A postcard exposition is to'be held in Warsaw during the coming ?