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i&J 'J $ ' * PATERSON LAID WASTE BY FIRE ; _ . Dnnlrn PhnHA^flO HAtfllo Mil DClUAdi UllUIUilOO, uytuio, uiuDicipal Buildings and DwellI' ings in Roias, MARTIAL LAWTROGLAIMED mBf'' S?.;' Governor Murphy Called Out Troaps to Prevent Looting and Sup 1 floe Fcf!_ press LUaUIUGl 1-woo kJumated at $10,000,000, / Paterson, N. J.?A fire, which was fcaused by an overheated stove in a trolley car barn, has destroyed the chief business section of the city, laying in ruins nearly 700 buildings induded in twenty city blocks. Many of the finest structures in the city were burned, including the new City Hall, the Public Library, and large and costly buildings devoted to civic, educational, religious and commercial uses. A portion of the best residence locality of the city was devastated by thefiames. No lossof lifeaccompanied the disaster and only a few persons were Injured. The damage to property was stlmated at $10,000,000. Thousands of persons were thrown out of employment, although the" great manu facturing plants of the city escaped destruction. The fire started soon after mfdnicht. and was spread rapidly in the early morning hours by the high wind. Every city and town within reach o? Paterson sent firemen and anparatus, but it was not until late in the afternoon that the fire was under control. The police of Paterson were utterly unable to deal with the situation, and Governor Franklin Murphy called out , Beveral companies of the National Guard to guard the devastated districts. Mayor Hineheliffe announced that although many people were maae homeless, they were not poor people, and would be able to care for them selves. No aid would be asked of other places. The fire, the like of which has never been seen in this State, broke out in the car sheds of the trolley company. In lower Broadway. The high wind fanned the flames into a fierce blaze . In a few seconds, and before the firemen reached the scene the fire was beyond their control. In twelve hours it traversed a mile, cutting a wide swath \ through the business section of the <%. city. ' The flames swept through the old car sheds to Van Houten street, taking Continental Hall, and bursting out in Main street, the business street of the city. Quackenbush's big dry goods store was the first important structure to go. At the same time the flames ' v leaped to the other side of the street. and took the Boston Store, the largest department store 1n the city. In these two nearly $1,000,000 was lost. In its course with the wind the fire swept down the First Baptist Church, the High School, the old City Hall, the First National Bank, the Young Men's Christian Association Building, the News building, the fine new City Hall, which cost over $500,000; the Romaine Building, an office building; the Paterson National Bank, and on through Market and Ellison streets, taking hundreds of the finest structures in the city. Twenty blocks of business buildings are practically level with the ground. A thousand families have been driven from their homes, many of them losing all they had. i The firemen were powerless to cone with such a conflagration. They did their best to prevent the spread of the fire to individual buildings. Mayor Hinchcliffe took charge of the work, and every effort was made to meot the awful destruction. Calls for aid were ,, sent out to the fire departments in Jersey City, Newark, Passaic, RutliArfnrrl TMrlfrr?Trnr>fl Unlinl-on Afrinf. ? 1 clair and surrounding places. These responded promptly, but their efforts seemed to be lost in the holocaust. At first the flames went in leaps, starting fires in many separate places. The high wind carried great volumes of sparks for blocks aud caused fires to start in the roofs. Fires were raging In so many places at once that the firemen could not distribute themselves, and these places were simply allowed to burn down. Soon the] spaces between these fires closed up. In the heart of the city, and the great mass of seething flames swept on in on awful march of devastation. The wind was from the northwest, , and the direction of the fire followed the course of the wind. It cut a swath &ver two blocks wide and traveled for folly a mile, jumping at intervals in a strange manner before it burned itself out. From the ear shed, in Broadway, it traveled east across Main street, taking the blocks bounded by Broadway and Market street. It crossed in Its path Washington, Church and Paterson streets, the Erie track. Victim of Samar Adventure. Another of the marines with Waller during bis terrible march across the (aland of Samar, P. I., is dead. Private M. McKenzie died at Tacloban from liver complications, contracted on ri?:t? march. Waterspout Kills Many. A waterspout has wrecked a station on the Jeronimo Mezzuita Central Railway, in Brazil, causing many deaths and great damage on plar. / #inns ? >. Labor WorScl. Union carpc-nters of Boston and vicinity have decided upon a minimum pay of $3 a day. The Lynn, Mass., Central Labor Union is about to start a co-operative Laundry Association. Fall River, Mass., weavers insist upon a scale of wages corresponding to the schedule of 1900. Maryland lal>or organizations will try'to abolish child labor in sweatshops through State legislation. Striking dyers at the Hartford Carpet Mills, Thompsonville, C-onu., have , Toted to remaiD nut ju/lpfi ostein. R''. Straight, Madison, Bcech, Tine and c Carroll streets, almost reaching to the < armory id Ltrauam tiieum*. The car sheds in which the fire started are a group of old wooden barns. Part of them formed the old wigwam, a place for the great political gatherings of many years ago. There were eleven trolley cars in the sheds, and they filled up the space so that they impeded the work of the firemen. The families living in the adjoining houses had to flee for their lives. They appeared on the streets in their night clothes. They were taken out of the bitter night bv neighbors who were out of the range of the fire. The sky was filled with large sparks which were carried for half a dozen blocks by the high wind. One of these g lodged in the belfry of the First Bap- g tist Church. The open lattice work a allowed the wind to fan the sparK into t a blaze, and soon the tall spire was a e shaft of flame. This was a new ceu- s tre for the distribution of sparks, two * blocks away from the car sheds. ? The old City Hall, in Washington e street, was the next building to catch f fire. It burned slowly, and probably t the blaze would have died out but for t the great fire that swept up to It two j I hours later from the car sheds. A great crowd gathered around the s First Baptist Church to see the won- " derful pillar of fire. Within half an g hour after it took fire the steeple fell. \ Part of it struck the High School as t it fell and set that building on fire, li The school was soon enveloped in a flames, and some of the firs apparatus b was drawn from the fire further dqwn * the street to try to save the church " and the school. ? A call was sent to Newark and Pas- ^ saic for aid as soon as it was realized T that with the gale that was then pre- fi vailing it would not be long before the entire centre section of the city ^ would be ablaze. Chief Baker, of Passaic, when he learned that more * apparatuses were needed in this city e immediately dispatched McLean Engine No. 3. which was posted in Wash- ? ington street, so as to throw a stream e at the blaze in the building occupied t - - -1??? s Dy A. J. Kogcrs, mi! yiuiuuui, uc^i iu the Guardian office, which was gain- ? ing great headway, having crossed t over from the First Baptist Church. It did not take long for the flames to a force their way through the rear wall a of Continental Hall, in Van Houten p street, in the rear of the car sheds, and s soon that old building waB a mass of flames from street to roof. The hall T has for several years been used as a t ten-cent lodging house, and that night i was crowded with lodgers. They had, / however, long ago made their escape, a carrying out their few belongings. 3 While the firemen were still working t hard in an effort to confine the fire to the top of the building the hall of the floor suddenly gave way and pre- 1 cipitated a mass of brick and blazing ^ timber into the fancy goods store of ^ Bishop & Irwin and the tailor store T of I. Horwitz next door. Here was e new food for the flames, and in a short t: time there was nothing left of these two stores and their contents. c While the flames were playing havoc with Main street, north side of Van Houten streer, tne otuer sme uuu ueeu approached from the rear, all of Van Houten street on that side being a roar- c ing furnace, and the Ten Cent Store was the first to show the effect It was not long alone, however, for a 0 few minutes later Norwood's paint store. Hendrickson's millinery store 0 and Rhodes' crockery store were a mass of flames, and burned with amazing b rapidity. The firemen were forced to abandon them entirely, for they could s get nowhere near them, the flames $! leaping clear hcross the street, and lapping the fronts of the buildings on c< the other side. In less than half an hour after the $1 first flames had made their appearance in this block of buildings they were a mass of ruins, even the walls having caved in. What made this section of the fire more fierce than perhaps anywhere else was a scries of explosions that were probably caused by some of the inflammable oils and paints carried in stock by Norwood & Co. Not satisfied with the west side of Main street, the fire fiend had crosscd the street and secured a good start in the Odd Fellows' Hall building, occupied by Kinsella's drug store and the Mecca Club. This was soon a mass of flames, and so in a short time were the stores on both sides of It Every E building in the block was burned to the ground. It was a long time before the big ,, building of the Meyer Brothers gave way to the flames, but when it did, it went quickly. The flames swept through the big establishment from end 2 to end, and in a few minutes were t< bursting out in Washington street, o While they went through the Boston n Store with a rush, they were not any d slower in tb$ other sections of the h block, and in a few minutes flames could be seen shooting out of every store of that block on the Washington street side. They were all swept away s in a short time, nothing but the ruins C being left. c The flames had gained almost the j speed of a prairie fire by this time, and q they spread with terrible swiftness. ^ They jumped across Ellison utreet, and, ate up the Roinaine Building, a big, brick office structure. The hint from n this building, and from the First Na- E tional Bank, which is diagonally oppo- N site, in Ellison street, set the beautiful g new City.Hall on fire. The City Hall, composed of limestone, with hardly any woodwork, was in flames in fifteen minutes. Paterson's "White Square," formed k Kills Two Burglars at Work. At Mayklng, Ky., George Moore and James Eastep entered the residence v of Andrew Huff, aged seventy-eight, c beat him and tried to rob him. Just 0 then William Huff, the old man's sou, t< shot Moore dead and fatally wounded ? j Eastep. It was believed the old man*. - wouia die. Kaiser Twenty-five Tears a Soldier. i Kaiser celebrated twenty-fifth anni- 1 versary of entrance into active servicri * in First Regiment. 1 Bobbers Get S3000 in Gold. Safe-blowers forced the vaults of the Lemon Banking Company, at Acworth, 1 Ga.. obtaining $5000 in gold, a $">000 i Georgia State bond and a large amount of stock certificates. Between $4">0() '< and $3000 in notes, stock certificates ( and bonds were hopelessly mutilated by the explosion, and much currency , and small bills were destroyed. De Wet in Action. De Wet. the Boer leader, broke through the line Kitchener drew ' around him, but is reported to have lost ; 283 men. ' . . . "... s , . ^''v' _ K-v V- - l- j,''. / i if fine bank buildings surrounding the Dity Hall, was one roaring furnace. it the same time a great shaft of flame ^as seen to shoot up in the air from ?ark avenue and Straight street, a listance of almost half a mile, and .! > tho nfhor siilo nf flip Erie track. The iparks had carried to that point and started a new conflagration, almost as arge as the one down-town, although imong buildings which were not so )retentious. The section above the Erie tracks s a residential section, and here fancies suffered more than down-town. ?cores of families did not have time to nove their goods and chattels. They sought shelter with friends whose lomes seemed to be outside the range if the conflagration. The Are made a ilean sweep of the block bounded by i'ark avenue. Straight street, and Sixeenth avenue, almost up to Carroll treet. It crossed Park avenue and ;wept through the block to the south ind cleared away all the houses hrough to Market street. It travled up Market street, on both ides to Carroll street, and atacked St. Joseph's Church, which is in the northeast corner of Market and Carroll streets. This "was the extreme astern limit of the fire, about a mile rom the place where it started. It raveled in a somewhat zigzag course o the east, with a width of two blocks, tut the lines were not clear cut. Had it not been for the men at the ilk mills of Doherty & Wadsworth nd the William Strange Company it ? likely that the fire would have prcad to the Sandy Hill section. Villiam Squier, a foreman in one of he mills, got the force pump at Doerty & Wadsworth's mill working, nd they extinguished roof fires in oth of these mills and in several cf he surrounding houses. They could ot save the silk finishing mill of Aired Crew, a short distance from the )oherty & Wadsworth mill, but they :ept the flames from spreading. This ras really the only volunteer effort to ight the flames. By 4 o'clock in the afternoon the ire was under control. Most of the [welling houses to the east of the Srie Railroad vsiiich -were destroyed re re valued at from $3000 to $0000 ach. According to the general theory the Ire originated in the car barn from 1aaU.!A ~ C 1UUU1L" UIU IUUjL UL be barn. The feed wires, it was said, eemed to carry the fire into all parts f the building at once, causing it to ilaze as if oil had been thrown upon he wooden building. The rents of stores in Main street nd adjoining streets went up at an larming rate during the day. when eople who were burned out tried to ecure temporary quarters. Bankers, iwyers. business men and others rere hurriedly trying to find places 0 continue operations as usual, lut they found it a difficult task. 1 number of the business men re practically ruined by the fire. ?hey had little, if any, insurance, and hey have lost their all. A number of the churches, includDg the Market Street Methodist, the 'aterson General Hospital and many louses were opened to receive the lomeless. All the people in the city rho suffered no loss are showing in very possible way their sympathy for hose in distress. Estimates of the losses on the prinIpal buildings are as follows: First National Bank. $200,000. Pfltprenn Snvin<r5 Rnnt 5S3T5 OflO Second National Bank. $20,000. Paterson Safe Deposit and Trust !ompany, $140,000. First Baptist Chureb. $100,000. Second Presbyterian Church. $60,00. Park Avenue Baptist Church, $40,00. St. Joseph's Catholic Church and uildlngs belonging to it. $300,000. Quackenbush & Co.'s department tore, building, $140,000; contents, 200,000. Boston Store, building. $175,000; an tents, $300,000. Woolworth & Co.'s new building, 25,000. Old City Hall. $35,000. Romaine Building, $80,000. United States Hotel. $30,000. Hamilton Club. $30,000. Young Men's Christian Association, 50,000. DotniK'nn \~MTTC- C1 APl AAA jl aiv;i nun ju>ruiu? a^cttc, <|'ivvtwvi Odd Fellows' Hall. $50,000. Scheurer & Co.'s wholesale grocery nd ice plant, $200,000. Franklin House. $25,000. Ball Building, Main street, $100,000. Garden Theatre, $7?T000. High School, $150,000. A FATAL ST. LOUIS FIRE. mplre Hotel Destroyed, and Eleven Persons Lost Their Lives. St. Louis, Mo.?Eleven persons lost lelr lives in an early morning fire, 'hich destroyed the Empire Hotel, a iree-story men's lodging house, at 700 Olive street. The victims were ?n men and one woman, and eight thers were dangerously hurt. Ten or lore who had narrow escapes from eath were more or less injured by oin<? frnst-hit-ton. It" is thought that 20,000 will cover the damages. Among the dead are Morriss Yall. enlor member of the firm of Yall, lark & Cowen, manufacturers of fine ut glass, formerly of Chicago, and ohn C. Lueders, father of Deputy 'ity Marshal Leo Lueders. The inured include Harry ciine. medical tudcnt, of Marion, 111.; (Jeorge Lane, ledical student, of Rich Hill, Mo.; farry Thompson, medical student, of 'ashville, 111., and J. J. Lally, rnanaer of the hotel. Fatal Natural Gai Explosion. A natural gas explosion at Lafayette ad., has wrecked John Dorsen's home, illed him and injured his wife. Doctor 108 Tears Old Dead. Dr. Henry Corson, aged 108 years, ras buried a few days since at Forst City, Penn. He was probably the Idest nracticinc physician in the Uni ed States, having been In active pracIce until the day of his death. Cuba's Export* Increasing* Official figures published at Washngton show that the imports of Cuba ire decreasing, while the exports are ncreaslng. Prominent People. Great Britain is said to be free from lydrophobia, owing to the stringent ules on muzzling dogs. The freedom of the city of Dundee, Scotland, has been conferred on AnIrew Carnegie. Prince Henry's gift to Miss Roosevelt is a gold jewel box, with hand-1 some ornamentation. i In a magazine article Lewis Nixon, the new Chieftain of Tammany Hail,, ieclares the Uuited States will become, the greatest ship-building and ship-1 owning country. WJ*S . ; I T - ' . . ... ... ; THE NEW DUAL ALLIANCE" Great Britain and Japan Join Forcas .i _ r _ in tne cas:, TO PROTECT CHINA AND COREA If Either Signatory is Flchtinc: Two Powers Over the Far Eastern Qaes- I tion?, tbe Otlier Must Assist It?Will i Maintain the Open Door Trade Pollcj ?A Cheek to Russia in Manchuria. London.?Great Britain has concluded a defensive alliance with Japan in reference to a common policy by both nations in the Far East. This important announcement was launched in the form of a Parliamentary paper, giving the text of the agreement. The agreement was coneludcd in London between Lord Lansdowne, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Baron Hayaslii, the Japanese Minister, and was forwarded by the former to Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister at Tokio. Following is the text of the agreement: "The Governments of Great Britain and Japan, actuated solely by a desire to maintain the status quo and the general peace in the extreme East, and being, moreover, especially interested in maintaining the independence and territorial integrity of the Empire of China and the Empire of Corea, and in securing equal opportunities in those countries "for the commerce and industry of all nations, hereby agree as follows: '!* %*? "Article I.?The high contracting parties having mutually recognized the independence of China and Corea declare themselves uninfluenced by any aggressive tendencies in either country, having in view, however, their special interests, of which those of Great Brltain relate principally to China, while japan, in UUUUllIll IU mc luiucom Ofvpossesses in China, is interested in a peculiar degree, politically as well as commercially, in Corea. "The high contracting parties recognize that it will be admissible for either of them to take such measures as may be indispensable in order to safeguard those interests if threatened either by the aggressive action of any other Power or by disturbance arising in China or Corea and necessitating the Intervention of either of the high contracting parties for the protection of the lives or property of its subjects. "Article II.?If either Great Britain or Japan in defense of their respective interests as above described should become involved in war with another Power the other high contracting party will maintain strict neutrality and use its efforts to prevent other Powers from I joining In hostilities against Its ally. "Article III.?If in the above event any other Power or Powers should Join In hostilities against that ally the other high contracting party will come to its assistance and conduct the war in common and make peace in mutual agreement with it. "Article IV.?The high contracting parties agree that neither of them will without consulting the other enter into separate arrangements with another Power to the prejudice of the interests above described. "Article V.?Whenever in the opinion of either Great Britain or Japan the above mentioned interests are in jeopardy the two Governments will communicate with one another fully and frankly. "Article VI.?The present agreement shall come into effect immediately after the date of its signature, and shall remain in force for five years from that date. In case neither of the high contracting parties should have notified, twelve months before the expiration of the said five years, of its intention nf tArminatinfr it. it shall remain bind ing until tlie expiration of one year from the (lay on which either of the high contracting parties shall have denounced it. but if. when the date fixed for its expiration arrives, elth?r ally is actually engaged in war the alliance shall, ipso facto, continue until peace is concluded." I Alliance Not Distasteful to U?. Washington, D. C.?The alliance *>? tween Japan and Great Britain occasions no surprise at the State Department. In theory, of course, the American Government knew nothing about it until it was officially informed of it by Minister Takahira, who visited the State Department and formally notified Secretary Hay of the existence of the treaty. But. in fact, the Administration knew of the previous negotiations, and It i? understood that both Japan and Great Britain had reason to believe that such an alliance would not be distasteful to the United States. Japnn Enthufiaatic Over Treaty. Yokohoma.?The Premier (Viscount Katsura) announced in the House of Peers the signature of the AngloJapanese treaty. The Foreign Minister, M. Komura, made an identical announcement in the Lower House. The news of the signing of the treaty has been received with enthusiasm throughout Japan. The treaty is regarded as being practically an offensive and defensive alliance. Diplomats In China Surprised. Pokin, China.?The news of the signing of the Anglo-Japanose treaty became known to the diplomats here, and was an absolute surprise. The treaty 1s regarded as the most important move in Far Eastern politics In recent years. It is not doubted amoug the diplomats here that the alliance will effectually veto the signing of the Mancliurlan treaty. German Position Not Affected. Berlin.?The withdrawal of the Eritish troops from Wei Hai Wei, China, will have no effect on the understanding between Great Britain and Germany. No pourparlers on the subject have even been opened. Refuses SS000 For Her Boy. Mrs. Carlyle, a washerwoman witt? seven children, at Chicago, has refused 1 let Mrs. Peck, a wealthy woman, opt her seven-year-old son, though oii'ered S5000. aiaamnff* Now York City is talking of abolish ing the Coroners. William C. Whitney has announced his permanent retirement from active business. A Bostonian pleads that a new bridge across the Charles River be called the Longfellow Bridge. The entire street car system of Vienna, Austria, has been transformed from horse to electric traction. The artist who submits the best design for a symbol or emblem of the Louisiana Purchase Exoosition will receive $2500. . ? j r-,-t \--y* DE WET ELUDES BRITISH Boer Leader Breaks Through the Trap Sot by Kitohener. ne Bushes a Lot of Cattle Ajjainst tli? Enclrcllnjr Soldiers and in tlie Mix-Up Gets Away. London.?General Kitchener \vire9 [l'oin woivenoeu a 10^5 ueoctiynuii u?. ?* combined movement of numerous British columns to capturc General De Wet. The advance began February 5. at night, the forces moving from various directions and forming a continuous line of mounted men on the west bank of "the Liebenbergs Vlei from Frankfort as far south as Fannys Home and thence to Kaffirkop. The British moved west, and the next night entrenched with their outposts fifty yards apart. They held the line from Holland, on the HeilbronFrankfort blockhouse line, to Doornklofif, on the Kroonstadt-Lindley blockhouse line, while columns wore also working in advance of the blockhouse lines to prevent De Wet from crossing. De Wet was within the inclosure, but, realizing his position, ordered his men to disperse and seek safety during the night. De Wet himself, with some men and a number of' cattle, made for the TCrnrmstjidt-Lindlev blockhouse line. and at 1 o'clock on the morning of February 7, when it was very dark, by rushing his cattle at the fence broke his way through the line mixed up with the cattle, losing three men killed. Many attempts were made to break through the line on the night of February 7, the outposts being attacked at various places, but very few escaped. Ten dead Boers were picked up in the morniug near Heilbron. "I did not get exact details of the Boer casualties," continues General Kitchener, "but as far as I have ascertained they consist of 2S3 in killed, wounded and prisoners, as well as about 700 tired horses and many cattle. Our casualties were only ten." General Kitchener's great plan which he has been elaborating for months failed to catch De Wet, but was successful in the greatest single capture of Boers since General Kitchener arrived in South Africa. Altogether twenty-three columns were employed in an immense Irregular parallelogram formed by the lines of blockhouses and the railroads between 1 1 1- Tn..?T irwllrtrr nr/1 \\ oiveuuen, riiiu&iuii, umunj uuu Kroonstadt, In the Orange Free State. It is estimated that De Wet's forces amounted, roughly speaking, to 2000 men. KILLED IN KENTUCKY FICHT. Two of a Sheriff** Fosse and Five Inmates of a "Blind Tiger" They Attacked. Middlesboro, Ky.?An encounter, which lasted several hours, occurred at the Quarter House, a "blind tiger," on the Kentucky and Tennessee State line, between Sheriff Howard, a posse Of thirty men and Lee A Turner, proprietor of the saloon, and its followers. As a result of this encounter, two of the Sheriff's posse were killed. Several of the posse were wounded. A message from the mines near the scene of the conflict reports that five )f the Turner followers were killed, but no names are given. The Sheriff had a warrant Tor Turner, charging him with receiving stolen property. He left this city with his men to execute the warrant and a civil process to retake the stolen propot-fir Whan tlia nffijiora npnrari tho sn. loon the Turner crowd opened fire. After an hour of fighting the Sheriff got possession of the building and ~et fire to it. A later message from the mines reports the killing of Frank Johnson, bartender, and Mike Welch, a driver. It is learned that Turner escaped unharmed. CAVALRY DESERTERS HANGED. Three Thousand Persons Saw a Military Execution in the Philippines. Manila.?Edmund A. Dubose and Lewis Russell, deserters from Company E, Ninth Cavalry (a colored regiment), who stole arms belonging to the regiment and joined the insurgents in August last, were hanged at Guinobatan, Province of Albay, in the presence of 3000 persons. The execution was orderly. It was supervised by Captain Henry H. Wright, of the Ninth Cavalry, commnnr1in? thn nnst SpvovjiI nntivo np titions were received urging clemency, but the authorities failed to see any reason to delay the execution. WAR SLOOP CONDOR LOST. Surrey Ship Egeria Finds Wrecliafie Washed From Her Deck. Victoria, B. C.?All hope for the missing sloop-of-war Condor and her crew of 120 officers and men is abandoned with the arrival of the survey ship Egeria. At Clayoquot, on the west coast of Vancouver, the Egeria found^ wreckage washed :ri>m the Condor's* deck, which shows mat she must have gone down or was smashed to pieces by the heavy seas. Her officers were: Commander. Clifton Slater: Lieutenants B. Mason, navigator, and Henry V. F. Proctor; Surgeon. T. S. Hartley; Assistant Paymaster in Charge, William H. Franklin; Artificer Engineer, George J. Dot iku; jjiijjmcer, u. a. ourus. Strength of Philippine Army. Governor Taft has told the Unitea States Senate Committee on the Philippines that the army there had been reduced to 41,000 men. Cannot Co art-Martial Volunteer*. The United States Circuit Court ot Appeals, in St. Louis, Mo., has decided that regular army officers cannot sit at court-martial upon volunteers, thereby making probable the release of 200 prisoners. Carnegie Library Gift Accepted. The City Council of Mitchell. S. has voted to accept the proposition ol Andrew Carnegie to give $10,000 foi the erection of a public library, providing $1000 annually is appropriated tor its maintenance. Rata Attack a Child In Its Crib. The yoangest child of Mrs. Ken. Feigley. a widow living in Hagers town, Md.. was attacked by rats while asleep at night. Mrs. Feigley went tc the crib and saw a number of rats (scurrying away. She found that they had bitten the child's face and had chewed the flesh on its arms. The child was helpless for paralysis. American Gift to Rome. n : At a meeting of Americans, held a> Rome. Italy, it was decided to present to the city statues of Longfellow anil Hawthorne. MB WRECKS ft MM Vice-President of a Detroit Institution Under Arrest. APPROPRIATED OVER $1,000,000 The Directors Expect to Fay the Deposit* ors With the Proceeds From Secnrlties Turned Over by the Accused Official?He Lost the Money In Speculation? Cashier of the Bank Involved' Detroit, Jlich.?Vice-President Frank C. Andrews, of the City Savings Bank, which has been in the hands of State Bank Commissioner George L. Maltz, was arrested and arraigned on the charge of "willfully, fraudulently and knowingly" obtaining money from the bank, without security and without the knowledge of the other directors, a sum exceeding $1,000,000. He was released on $10,000 ball. Henry R. Andrews, the cashier, through whom F. C. Andrews is cald to have obtained the money by means of overdrafts and certified checks, is seriously 111 in his home with nervous prostration. The cashier is no relative of F. C. Andrews. In addition to a total indebtedness to the City Savings Bank of $1,158,000, to secure which Andrews has signed over all hi3 real estate holdings and stocks, bonds and other securities, which it is estimated will aggregate about $1,000,000, fouv local banks and a tlT.st company hold his checks, certified by the cashier to the amount of $662,000. The examination showed that the record of F. C. Andrews' transaction was not kept in the regular way, but in a memorandum book. The examiners believe that the transactions between tbe two Andrewses has been going on for about six weeks. President F. G. Pingree explained the manner in which the certified checks was obtained as follows: "F. C. Andrews would draw a check for the amount he wanted, and have It certified by the cashier, Henry R. Andrews. He would present this certified check to the perspn he was doing business with, and ask him to hold it out for that day, as the bank was not iu funds to meet it. "Perhaps he would thus hold it out for two or three days, and eventually when there was money enough in the bank to meet the check he would go in and take it out There would be only a slip of paper in the drawer, and the withdrawal would be put down as a cash item. With this money he would in person pay the certified check and tear it up. This was done time and again." The City Savings Bank was the depository for the funds of the County Auditors, their balance there being more than $150,000, and F. C. Andrews was arrested on a complaint sworn out by Auditor Christian. The warrant was served on Andrews, who is Commissioner of Police, by two of his detectives, in the office of the Detroit Tru3t Company, where he had been in consuiration wnu omceis 01 iue banks holding his certified checks. A local paper says: "The whole trouble has been caused by the plunging of Frank C. Andrews in the stock market. Three months ago he began plunging in the stock market His phenomenal luck deserted him, and in a short time he became hopelessly entangled." SCHOOLBOY HANGS HIMSELF. Lad in Peddle Institute I'llcd Furniture Against the Door Before Doing So. Hightstown, N. J.?The Peddie Institute was cast into gloom when it became known that Claire Haunum. fifteen years old, who is a member of the school, had killed himself by hanging in his room. When the lad did not appear at the afternoon session several of his associates were sent to his room. The door could be opened only a short distance. By the strength of all the boys the door was opened enough to admit them. All the furniture in the room had been piled against the door. In one corner of the room they saw the liywlw Af TJnnn?m linnrriim frnm I'UUJ m ,vuuu^ uauuuui uuugiu^ i.fcw*** the ceiling. The body was cut down. No reason Is known for the act. Several of his intimate companions say the boy received a letter from his home recently that seemed to depress him. The boy's parents were telegraphed to. SAMPSON AND CROMWELL RETIRED. The Two Rear-Admirals Reach the Age Limit of Sixty-two Years. Washington, D. C?The names of Rear-Admirals William T. Sampson and Bartlett Cromwell have been placed on the retired list of rhe Navy, on account of their having reached the age of sixty-two years. Rear-Admiral Sampson is lying ill at his linmp in this ciiv. Rear-Admiral Cromwell is In command of the European statiou, aud his flagship, the Chicago, is now in the Mediterranean. President Turns Down Kooscvelf. President Roosevelt will not bo breveted for his services in the Cuban War. The report of the Army Board which recommended brevets included the Colonel of the Rough Riders, and recommended him for brevet rank. The report was approved by the Secretary of War, but when sent to Mr. Roosevelt he approved all with the exception of his own, and his indorsement shows that President Roosevelt disapproves of brevet for Colonel Roosevelt. Hid money Under Chicken Honse. Recently Mrs. Scrable, a Bohemian widow, who lives near Odell, Neb., sold a farm for $2700. Being distrustful of banks, she put the money into a tin can and buried It under the floor of her chicken house. A few days ago she discovered that her money had been stolen. l'oisoned by Canned Tomatoes. The two children of Harvey May, aged four and two years, at Howard City. Mich., are dead, being poisoned by eating canned tomatoes. 16,000 room In the Field. Colonel Sir Charles Vincent, memboi of Parliament for Central Sheffield, England, who has just returned from South Africa, in a speech said there were from eighty to ninety Boer commandoes, of about 200 men each, still in the field. ? n C * 1 Aft kJUHICO CUV JL CAIIO Oiiumujo, VAVU. The Legislative Investigation Com mittee has just completed examining into the expenses of the last Legislature of Texas. The most Interesting discovery that was made was that there was nearly $100 spent by the Senate for shoe polish. GERMANY OFFERS PROOF ?| Charges England Urged Interference. ? to Prevent Hostilities With Spain. German Anger at Attempt to Spoil th? Effect ot Prince Henry's Visit to the United States. Berlin. Germany.?The Imperial Ga- , zette publishes Dr. Von Holleben'i j original dispatch to Count Von Buelow, who was then Minister of Foreign Affairs, regarding Great Britain's attitude toward the Cnited States prior to the outbreak of the Spanish-Amerl- 1*! can war. It refers especially to the 111- j cident of April 14. 189S, when, Ger- 3 many alleges, the British Ambassador $ at Washington suggested a Joint note l - - J It.. In declaring tuat armea mxerveutiuu m. Cuba was unjustifiable, which action England denies. The dispatch begins: ,^H| "The British Ambassador to-day toolc^H in a very surprising -way the initiative flg| in a new collective step on the part of: the Ministers. We suppose Queen Begent Christina must have approached V Queen Victoria to this end. In compliance with the wish of the English Ambassador we are telegraphing onr t Governments as follows." Then follows the text of the note saying that the time had arrived to remove the erroneous impression which prevailed that armed Intervention on the part of the United States in Cuba commanded the support and approval of the civilized world. Dr. Von Holleben comments as follows: "I personally look rather coolly y ' ./ upon the proposal." Emperor William's marginal comment is: "I consider such a manifests- V tion ill-advised. Pourparlers therefore { would be harmful. I am against the > step." : Opinion here, especially in official \ quarters, is somewhat excited over the ? matter. Some observers believe th?t Viscount Cranborne's recent state- Y ments in the British House of Com- K raons on the subject have aroused the bitterest resentment, and It Is stated that the Emperor's sensibilities were ; painfully wounded thereby. His Majesty's surprise visit to the British Ambassador before 10 o'clock I 'J a. m., when they were closeted for a V considerable time, s generally connect' 'ed with the incident. It is rumored < that the Emperor showed himself irrt- \ tated, even indignant, it having been', ;.v represented to him that Viscount Cran-' ' home's statement was aimed at arons-' j ing anti-German feeling in the Unified . States In connection with Prince % Henry's visit. This view of Viscount Cranborne's statement is largely accepted by the I flomniin nil hi I r> nnH jvprmnta for thfl -i rancorons feeling that is growing up I around the incident. The feeling Is that Germany scored heavily in the controversy regarding ?J Lord Pauncefote's proposal of April 1898, by the publication of Dr. vooVmI Holleben's dispatch. In official circles^ it is asserted that xlii5? dispatch prove?'* every statement given out here since Lord Cranbome's original remark. The Feeling in TVanhlnjcton. H Washington, D. C.?Never since th? V famous Sackville incident has there fl been such excitement among the dip lomats as now. The sudden response of the German Government to the flat denial by the British that the sugges tion of Interference to prevent the Vni* tpH stjit-pa rtpclarincr war on Snaln In 1898 came from it, and the nature of that response have totally eclipsed the sensation made by the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The two ?jrcat -actors in the diplomatic intrigues of those days just before the war are still here. They are Lord Paunccfote and Herr von Holle- -j ben. It is the dispatch of the latter to Chancellor von Buclow, in which ,he quotes the former and cables that he) disagrees with him, that the Gern.an ' Government publishes as Its proof that the Kaiser alone prevented interference when England was urging It SHOT IN MICHIGAN STRIP. One Man Killed and Tiro Injured in Invasion of the District, Chicago.?There was a pitched battle in the "District of Lake Michigan." Thirty shots were fired, and as'a re suit one man was fatally injured, another disabled and several of the combatants were arrested. John Kirk, a watchman, was shot and fatally injured by one of the Streeter followers. The fighting was the outgrowth of a contest of a few days ago, and "followed what the Streeter men say they thought was an invasion of their territory. There are two stories as to the firing *- oUa/o CJnmnal PrAflmfl ft Ui LUC U.LOL OUVl'. k'umuvi 4. AW.U.V, . watchman with Kirk, and other wit- -H nesses, say that tiio Streeter men shot m shot first. This is denied, and two of H the Streeter men say ^hat they were H fired at by Kirk and Protime. The H Streeterites under arrest, are: Captaia fl Streeter, William McManners, Henry Hoeldtke and William Bloki, known as JAMES NOW A REFORMER. V former Outlaw Stops a Play In WhleK I the "Gang" Figures. Hj Kansas City, Mo.?Frank James, who H at one time was a member of the fa- H raous James boys' sang, secured a tem- DEj porary injunction in the Circuit Court, H restraining a theatrical company now H playing at a local theatre from present- H Ing the play, "The James Boys in Missouri," in which the members of the H James family are made to represert B train robbers, bank looters and outlaws of the worst character. jfl James says his main objection to the H play is that it glorifies outlawry and is H Injurious to the youth of the country. 'H Ac?d Bridegroom Hangs Himself. MR Squire John M. Blue, of Larue. Ohio, H was found hanging to a bedpost at his H ? ' 1 l,ln,iol f ? H QDlliCi iiii > iu^ oit au^icu uiuiovti tv death. Two weeks ago Blue, who was seventy-three years old, and Clementla Drake, aged sixty-three years, were married. No cause for the deed is known. Millions For Educational Purposes. It was learned in New York City that millions of dollars had been pledged for educational purposes, principally in the South. Minor Mention. Over 7,000,000 lobsters were caught up on the Maine coast last year. Nearly 3000 men are at work on the site of the World's Fair ground at tit. LOUIS. m Suits for $300,000 will be instituted H[ against New York City for laud taliea HS for reservoirs. British Columbia has made no return ou the British capital which has been poured into it. H| Germany has imported as much as $10,000,000 wor -h of apples in one year and 52,500.000 wonh of pears. 4 pj|