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% WHITE spaw HCmi Rear-Admiral Sumner Captures May j aguez, Porto Bico. 2 MINES HARBOR IN TIME LIMIT It to Mated Tlat tk? Httd of limit* la IcMttai aad a Qraatar Navy la Da* sMrattd ? Four Slav fcblp* Saat Oat Act XJka Seaata aad Lead tba Blaa riaat Aatray. Mayagues. P. R.?The combined Booth Atlantic and European squadrons, under command of Bear-Admirals Snmner and Crown Innhleld, together known as the White 8quadront have captured Port Mayagues. The main ship channel was completely mined j bj the Illinois withis thirty-five min- j ? !*? ahlna ontttMwf tha lmrlior I The scoots of the Bltfe, or defending qoadron, and the lighter vessel* of that squadron appeared later off the entrance to the harbor, bnt not In ?ufHelent force to. hinder the operation* of the White Squadron. The mining of the harbor was so expeditiously performed that, under the rules of the Search problem, the enemy cannot now take the port with any force be can bring to bear. The ships .of the White Sqoadron left Trinidad on Thursday. December 4. When out of sight of land a division under command of Captain Walker. v consisting of the San Francisco, the Atlanta, the Nashville and the Eagle? these vessels being the slowest of the sanAdron?waa detached, and. after reaching the carve qt position from which the problem started, went through the Windward Island passage, between 8t Lucia and St Vincent, to make a feint on the southern coast of Porto Rico. The main force. Including the Iowa, the Illinois, the Chicago and the Albany, after reaching the curve of position, made a detour to the eastward and north of the Windward Island and Porto IIIco. The squadron cruised at high speed 200 miles off shore, and by brilliant navigation passed Inside Desecbeo at night. The ships skirted along the coast of Porto Rico, completely eluding the scouts of the defending squadron, of which none was seen until the attacking force was at the mouth of the harbor. In the meantime the detached division had made a feint south of Ponce. It was discovered there In the evening by scouts of the Blue squadron. The ships immediately withdrew to the southward, in order to draw the Blue forces in that direction. Then the Nashville, commanded by Captain Niles, and the Eagle proceeded Immediately to Mayagues. which they reached soon after the main body. 11 A .l.m tiw w?u wurktu uui |wui VI, aiuiv>, the splendid navigation of Rear-Admiral Sumner's flagship, Captain Perry ' commanding, the high speed of the vessels of Rear-Admiral Crownlnshield's European squadron, and the smcrt mining work of the Illinois, under command of Captain Converse, wen controlling .features of this successful coup. The Hist, the only vessel of the Blue force Inside Maysgues harbor, escaped. The problem Is held to be a further demonstration of the need of exercise ' In scouting snd of a greater Nary. In I fkt fSMvoif IpflKllltv a# < Aoet 1 Vanbuskirk quietly stole upstairs and Jumped from a window. Grether was found by David Smoke, a young bootblack, and four friends j near Spraguevllle. They discovered him In a barn and pulled him oat of the haymow. He was brought back to tbe Stroudsburg jaiL DENVER'S MAYOR TO JAIL Ktotu Aldermea Also Sentenced For Contempt of Court. Denver, Col.?Mayor R. P. Wright, Jr., and eleven Aldermvn were sentenced by Judge Mulllns, of tbe District Court, to serve four months In Jail for contempt of court In disregarding tbe injunction lssned by Judge Mulling to rectrain the enactment In the equal to that commanded by Rear-Admiral Sampaon In the Spanish-American War to prevent the seizure of one of Are porta within an area of 1T0 miles. REED'S MEMORY HONORED. ll?Mrtskl? Irltau Md kythtlMM mC BipwmWIwi. Washington, D. C.?The House paid a remarkable tribute to the memory of former Speaker Thomas B. Reed. Hla death had created a deep impression, and there was a universal desire / among the membera that the House show a signal mark of respect to his memory. For the House to take action on the death of a former member had only three precedents In its biatory? the deatha of Benton, Blaine and Alexander H. Stephens, when it adopted resolutions trad adjourned out of re? sped to .their memories. The House followed these precedents in the case of Mr. Reed. The chaplain at the opening of the session made a feeling reference to the death of the former Speaker. No buatness was transacted I except the formal reading of two mes- I sages from the President and an ar- ! rangement to postpone tbe special or- j der for the day until tbe following day. ! Then tbe resolutions, which enumerated the qualities and achievements of Mr. Reed and expressed deep sorrow for his death, were Introduced and adopted, and the House adjourned. LENIENCY FOR BANK OFFICIAL Pi Mldaat CnaitM RraUnn of Olilcoo W. Marsh. Coavlctrd la Philadelphia. Washington. D. C. ? The President has commuted to a term of Imprisonment to expire December 24 next the sentence of Gideon W. Marsh, who was conrlctcd In Philadelphia of violation of the National banking laws, and on December 13. ISIS, received three sentences aggregating twelve years and three months' Imprlnonment ! In the Eastern Penitentiary, at Phila- > delphla. Marsh pleaded guilty to tkree indictments consolidated, expecting to ; receive one sentence. The Attorney, i ueuerai recommended lue conimuw- i tlon. as he believed that the usual pun- j tahment of Are year*' Imprisonment ; was sufficient, Ifcuorock 1? Dmiw Vtom Fir*. A Ore at Denny's shipyards. Dumbarton, Scotland, did flOO.OOC damage and came near destroying the Shamrock III.. 81r Thomas Upton's challenger. Although all the material parts of the yacht* were saved. It la thought that construction of the vessel may be retnlrded and the International races delayed. IidnitrUl Stagnation In Denmark. Intense cold and Industrial slagua- ; tlon ure cncaing great suffvris? in , Denmark. falMsmct The mints of Slain have been closeh to tbe free coinage of silver. Eighty-two acres of London were j old at auction for $2,825,000. 4 Confederate veterans in Virginia hare started a fond for a monument at Richmond. Va., to General U. S. ' Grant Government naval prisoners will | hereafter wear a uniform of plain i dark gray, with a round hat of tbe I same hue. ' Ronmanla has decreed that only clttens may hereafter practice law or 1 net aa lawyers' delta, this being aimed ftt the Jews. The cold wave general ???? Snow, Wind and Frost Sweep the Whole Country. Bllmrdi la llw Woat aari Wow Tork sttli -Cwl 8?pp!jr Short la Many CUloo Ziro Wtalbtr. New York City.?Snow. wind and frost swept the whole coantry. and from every quarter "the coldest weather of the year" wag reported. Bllx ? J Voir zarus rugeu iu uiuuj |wno vi ?v? York State, and In some places the thermometer bad dropped to zero. Two feet of snow fell in Chautauqua County, blocking street car lines and seriously delaying trains, while the country roads in every direction are impassable. At Coxsackie the Hudson River was frozen over from bank to bank, and all traffic was suspended above Kingston. v From St. Paul, Alinn.. comes the report of temperature twelve degree* below zero, and the Weather Bureau held out no Indications of relief. Five deaths from the cold occurred In Chicago. where the thermometer hovered about the zero mark all day. The northwestern part of Pennsylvania was in the grip of a bowling blizzard. A fierce wind piled the snow Into dangerous drifts in many places, und though the railroads bad kept their snow plows in operation to keep the tracks clear, trains on all the roads In the district were delayed. The heavy swirl of. snow that descended on New York City was the first bitter warning that the cold wave bad reached this city, and a special forecast was Issued by the Weather Bureau ordering the display of storm warnings here and at Sandy Hook. Similar warnings bare been issued an along the Pacific Coast from San Fran- i cisco northward. As notices foretelling tbe approach pf tbe cold ware were seat out through tbe interior there la hardly a Stnte in the Union tbat could hope to escape its taste of real winter. Even In the Southern States the temperatures bare fallen. From tbe slope region eastward they range from eight to thirty-six degrees below normal arerage of other seasons, and tbe slightly higher figures receired from the districts west of tbe Bockies arr due to a local disturbance of marked character. All Northern New York suffered severely. At Plattsburg tbe thermometer was four degrees below sero. At 8aranac Lake forty-two degrees of frost were registered, and Saratoga was caught in a sudden nip when the thermometer dropped ten degrees between noon and dark. Heavy snow bad fallen and the same conditions prevailed in I the Adlrondacks. The blixxard. which struck Rochester j with ft wind .blowing forty-five miles an boor, caused great suffering, as the city is almost destitute of coal and the poor are in tbe utmost distress. . Not more than tnree inches of snow fell in Chicago, but with tbe thermometer at sero the city was In the grip of the coldest wave of the year. Delay of traffic on the steam, street and elevated lines was genera?, many of the suburban trains being half an boor late, wniie tnrougn trams iruw the East and West were delayed aa much as four and six hours. The shortage of the coal supply was felt In earnest for the first time, and It la said to be Impossible to bay any coal at all In some of the outlying districts. | Throughout Wisconsin and the citiea j of upper Michigan the thermometer j ranged round and below tero, and there are said to be heary losses of stock i In the country districts. Throughout Kanaaa and the Terrl- : tories It waa the coldest day of the 1 year, and a further fall of temperature waa expected. Along the Pacific Coast heavy galea hare raged, with Incessant snow. The steamer Cottage I City, which reached Seattle from the i north, reported a continuous gale since December 1. and telegraphic communication between Seattle and the country north is suspended, as all the wires are down. MURDERER BREAKS JAIL Ontlwr Catches > K*ap?r Ntpplu Mid Jotnpa From ? Window. Stroudsburg. Pa.?Charles Grether, j the convicted murderer of Constable Adam Strunk, escaped for the second time from the county jail. Daniel Vanbuskirk, another prisoner, got away with him. After breakfast Grether was taken to the bathroom by Reinbart, the watchman, who then walked out of the jail corridor to the reading room, ! falling to lock the big iron doors. Grether was quick enough to notice tho tvatollman's mistake, and be and form In which It was presented of an ordinance granting a franchise to the Dearer City Tramway Company. Mayor Wright signed the ordinance. tkAM?k *HI? nnf tv<ifl onAMflonllv fnrhill. den by the court. Tlio Mayor and Aldermen will appeal from Judge Mullins'a decision on legal points Involved In the case and remain at liberty under bonds. Doth F?r Boy Burglar. Horl Whitney, aged seventeen, was found guilty at LexiuRton. Ky.. of complicity In the murder of the merchant Addison Cbinn and sentenced to death. Claude O'Brien, his companion, who actually tired the shot, will be immediately placed ca trial. O'Brien is eighteen years old. They were daring burglars. Coventor Od?H'? Plurality. The plurality of Governor Odell at the recent election in New York Sir.re was ?XJO Personal Bleatlon. The Duke of Portland Is said to be the tallest man in England. The Shah of Persia is one of the finest chess players In the world. The Rev. Hugh Priee Hughes, the celebrated Wesleyan preacher, died suddenly in London. Lord Kitchener visited the Nile dam of the Assouan reservoir the other day and expressed great admiration for the work. John 8. Sargent, the portrait painter, will noon leave London for the United States to paint a nortriit of President Roosevelt *?.- * tiiaLVsl,. ' , .. EX - SPEAKER REED DEAD ' I Famous Statesman Expires at the Arlington Hotel, Washington. 1 HE WAS SICK A FEW DAYS ONLY Hli Death Cawtd by Uraemlc j> -Sllchl Attark of Appaadlclll* Brought j, oa His ratal IllneM-TTIfa aad 3aajrh. j j| tar With Him at t?a Kad-HU Loan ! t! Sanrlea la Stata aad National Aflalrt. J j Washington. D. C.?Thomas Brackett 1 1 Reed, the former 8peaker of the House of Representative!, died here In bis 1 apartments in the Arlington Hotel, j ^ The immediate cause of bis death was j h uraemia. 4 tj With him when the end came were j E Mrs. Reed, their daughter, Miss Cath- j erlne; Doctors Gardner, MacDonald, j tl Bishop and Goodno and the nurses. i fl Mr. Reed passed away peacefully ! h and without pain. His mind was In j d such a state on the day previous to bis a death that he did not realize the seriousness of his condition. He was fi cheerful and converted with those about bis bedside. When it became apparent that be would not survive his illness, bis wife and daughter were Q Informed, and they remained constant. ; until th?? distinirulshed ! patient breathed his last Mr. Reed returned to die la the city j a where be bad made bis great reputa- j cl tloo, first as member of Congress and ; C tbe acknowledged leader of bis col- 0 leagues, later aa Speaker of tbe House, ci and tben aa candidate for bis party's nomination for tbe Presidency. Like ? that otber "man from Maine." tbls last P ambition never was realised by Mr. a1 Reed. b Growing old and without financial & competency Mr. Reed finally left tbe ; * . . b noiii a. bbso. si - n Speakership and Congress four years st ago. His Income In legal practice since 0l then. It Is estimated, had been between tc 960,000 and 1100,000 a year, equal at si least to that of a President, and he dies N tearing the competency he sought for a) his widow and the daughter, who was i his chtun. lc Mr. Reed died of uraemls, which c< means, as his physician said, that he a had a chronic case of Brlght's disease ? for many years, which bad broken down his system, and which suddenly became acute and deadly when appendicitis wss contracted recently, xi His kidneys suddenly refused to perform their functions, and the uraemic poison passed directly Into his blood. . j All efforts to save him were futile. j y I pj Thomas Brackett Reed, member of D Congress from the First District of q Maine for twenty-two years, and Speaker of the House of Represents' M tires during eight sessions: lawyer, j _ public speaker, debater and author, : JJ, and, in 1806, a prominent Republican j candidate for the Presidential nomln* ; d atlon. was born in Portland, Me., ! sixty-three years ago. He grew to I i manhood in Portland, and began bis \ j business career in that city, which j honored him with many offices of ! trust first making him Representative : i in the State Legislature, and then | j electing blm successively to the offices i | of 8tate Senator, Attorney-General of I | Maine, City Solicitor of Portland and i member of Congress. Since 1899.wb<>n 81 i Mr. Reed resigned from Congress, be j had been a resident of New York City t and a member of the law firm of Reed. B I Simpson, Thacher & Barnum. He cl leaves a wife and daughter. j h Mr. Reed probably will be remem- 't* 1 bered. more than for anything else, d j for the revolution he wrought in par- s< liamentary procedure while Speaker j ti ; of the House of Representatives. The b , rigorous manner in which be carried j i out the rules of which he was the au- si tbor cause blm to be widely spoken of si by his political opponents and others j It as "Czar" Reed. i b< \tr Roori wnn not In svmnathv with ' the acquisition of the Philippines, or i with the expansion policy of the ad* ! ministration of President McKlnley. ' ci Personally he was most loved by i those who knew him best. He was > bubbling orer with good htimor and 1 , | good fellowship; be had ready wit and i keen sarcasm. In ordinary conversatlon. no less than in public addresses. , *~j ; he showed a remarkable fund of In fori mation, broad reading, a strong, pene- * trating mind and a keen power of logl- * cal analysis and analytical reasoning. I, Bcwl'i Native Town Mocrm. Portland. Me.?The news of the death of Thomas B. Reed was received here r' with general sorrow. Mr. Reed was 0 born here, and was personally known j * to mnnv iM>r<ion? In the city. I " Child's Life Lost la Ktorm. Blinded by the driving snow. Bessie , 1 Hickson. nged fourteen years, of | Kingston. N. Y., walked into Rondout j Creek nnd wag drowned. The child > was returning home with her little . H brother from a grocery store with sup- ( * plies for the family dinner. : ? H; Carrie Nation In Jnil Aiala. Carrie Nntion is in Jail at Topeka. k Kan., on a charge of disturbing the t pea<-e. She was forcibly ejected from 1 several drug stores and oue of the most prominent hotels of the city. j * I ... - ..? i Minor Mention. Cotton has boon found to grow weft ! on the west const of Africa. A lire African lion has been installed . as n model at the Munich Academy of , ? Arts. I t South Carolina has paid $200,227 this i t : year in Confederate pensions to 7750 J i persons. ! f The coronation rejoicings in London ' j have been followed by a wave of j crime In that city. Museums are mucb in favor in Rus? j, sia. Even In 8iberia nearly every towii ( ' of 10.000 Inhabitants has one. 8 * )EATH ON THE BIG LAKES lie Season's List of 140 Sailors Drowned the Largest on Record. ak? Krle Leads With the Lmi of Fifty 1m llfn-iittmut la FatelltlM u the Remit of CollUlons. Chicago.?The denth harvest on the rent lakes during the season of 1002 as been thr? greatest recorded. 340 ives having been lost. The figures for be last sevim years are as follows: 896, 66 deaths; 1807, 88; 1808. 95:1899, 00; 1900, 110; 1901, 132; 1902, 140. Lake Erie, which last year had only 1 deaths charged up against it now >ads with 59. Lake Superior was the ratery grave of 40. Lake Michigan ad 14. Lake Huron 22. and Lake Onnrio 5. Ten sailors were lost in the Detroit and St. Clair Iilvers. Notwithstanding the year's large toll. six more sailors went down with heir ships In 1901 than In 1902. the gures being 59 and 53. On the other and. 47 men fell overl>onrd and were rowned during the season Just closed, , big increase over 1901. Loss of life in collisions increased rom 5 In 1901 to 15 in 1902. WRAPPED CHILD IN PETTICOAT. uka Society Womau Took Pi ty on Half* Frosea Infi nt la a Street Car. Omaha. Neb.?Bj reason of a little et of kindness to a shivering, poorly lad child on a street car Mrs. Harry 1 artan, a wealthy society woman of >maha, is the talk of the city, and the omments are all highly eulogistic. A few days ago Mrs. Cartan got on street car to go to her husband's lace of buslnes* to join him in a Metrical party. She saw on the car a laorlng man with a young baby in his rms; the child was poorly clad, nnd feme.i to be half frozen, the weather ping bitterly cold. Mrs. Cartan arose from her seat nnd ilmly removed her silk petticoat, then, 'alklng down the aisle, she asked the tan's p< mission to wrap the garment round 'he infant. He made no obaction, and she tenderly took the oung baby in her arms and wrapped it? wurm, nun inrmruiti umuuu n9 ion laid It bark In the father's arms, hen <?he quietly took her cent again. ie admiring, approving gaze of every erson In the car resting on her. Mrs. Cartan was Miss Sadie Nash, ie daughter of the Secretary and teasurer of the 8melter Trust * BIG FIRE IN ATLANTA. illMH Block Is Georgia City Enraed? IMS Nearly 500.000. \ Atlanta, Ga.?Fire wiped out almost block of business houses in the heart F the city, causing a loss estimated at etween $400,000 and $500,000. The re originated in the furniture store f Snook k Austin, on the Whitehall treet viaduct It spread with great ipldity to the Norcross building, six torles high, taken op largely with the Bices of physicians, dentists and atirneya. Both buildings were defrayed. The building adjoining the orcrosa building, on Marietta street, Iso was gutted. The Williams House, a small hotel >cated on the upper floor of the Ja>bs Pharmacy Building, contained boat sixty-live lodgers, all or wbom leaped. INDIANS SAW OFF MAN'S FEET. ku Goad Hint to Walk m Itaapi Until He DIm. Blssbee, Aria.?Colonel Kosterllstski is received from tbe Mayor of Rio aqul, Mexico, a letter giving nn no>unt of tbe tragic deatb of "Californin an" Rjan. chief of scouts under eneral Luis Torres. Ryan and George W. Wilson were >nt out on a scout. Tbey were surrlsed and taken prisoners by the Yaois, tried by a council of war. and California Dan" whh condemned to ?ath, Wilson beins acquitted. In the presence of Wilson the Yanls with dull snws cut off the feet f "California Dan" Just above the nicies. Then they unbound him. and r goading him they compelled him to alk until he fell dead in the brush. SUSPICIOUS ST. LOUIS DEATHS. z Person*, Relative*. X?|rl<r All lnaured. Paw Awmy In Eleven Month*. St. Louis, Mo. ? Deputy Coroner oogher. in an ofHclal statement flelared that the result of tbe Inquest pld over the lwxly of Mrs. Karl Smith, hose death was tbe sixth occurring urlng the last eleven monthM of |>er>ns nearly related, revealed the fact lat all of the dead, except a baby, ad been insured. Nearly all of the six persons died addculy. The fact that they were inu-n/l niul Hint Hipv nil oichlhited sinil ir symptoms, caused the Inquest to e held. R ABANDONS A TOWN. IU Coarse, Saddvnl/ Catting OB \T*Ur Snttply. Nebraska City, Neb.?Nebraska Clt\ without water, due to the Missouri iver channel chancing. The water Ipe which extended Into the river :ick# out of dry sand. and there Is not drop of water to come through it. his condition of aftairs has been rought In twelve hours, nnd the town now two miles from the river. An atlre new channel has l>een made by le sudden Jump the river has taken ir to the eastward of the city. The Ity is without Are protection, and liould a blaze occur, tin? entire town 'ould be burned up. NEW NO MAN'S LAND. trip Sixty Mile* Wide Alans the Colo ratio-New Mexico Boundary. Washington, D. C. ? The fact has ceil discovered that one statute cashew the northern boundary of New lexico Alone the thirty-eighth degree f latitude, wiiiie another places the j out hern boundary of Colo ratio at the birty-seventh. No one here seems to now which line is recognized, and hat fact Is to be used in urging that he Territory is so sparsely settled lint it should not be admitted as a i itaie. flportlne Brevities. Tobln bronze will he used in the cor:t met Ion of tbe new cup yacht by the i ierreshuffs. E. E. Fnrnsworth has been elected aptain of tile West Point football cam. and C. C. Sonic. Jr.. captaiu of he Anuapoll* eleven. Cincinnati has eleven pitchers signed or 1903? Hahn, Wiggs. Phillips. Poole la r per, Thiclmnn, Vickers. Allemang, Swing, Hooker and SutthofT. The Westchester Racing Association las acquired 040 acres of ground at )ueuns, Long Island, and will con*; truet an extensive race course. VENEZUELAN KM SEIZED I British and German Naval Forces' Capture Four Warships* I CASTRO ARRESTS FOREIGNERS All British aid German Snbjre?a In Car* : icm Apprehended?Th# O(Tended Got. j aramentt Present Ultimatums to the ' South American Republic?Their Ministers Leave the Capital. London.?A dispntcn rrom unracas. Venezuela, says that the combined British and German fleets bare seized the Venezuelan fleet composed of four warships in the harbor of La Guayra. Caracas, Venezuela.?All German and British subjects in Caracas bare been arrested. President Castro received a newspaper correspondent, and In reply to questions said: "Tbe Venezuelan Government has not received any ultimatum, properly peaking, but rather simultaneous re quests irum ureac omisiu mm unmany. The claims Great Britain asks this Government to settle are small, and up to the present time we have not been aware of them. Never having been presented, Venezuela hag consequently never refused to settle them. Great Britain's action is therefore without justification. "The Venezuelan Government cannot decide on foreign claims before the revolution has been entirely crushed. At present the only aim of the Government Is the re-establixhment of public order, and other questions must necessarily l>e subservient to this object. Nevertheless, to prove Venezuela's desire to settle all pending claims in a conformable manner, the Government Issued a decree during the last session of Congress, dated November 28, creating a committee to which all pending claims should bp referred. No claims have been presented to this committee, and no claims have been rejected. There has been no denial of Justice. Why. therefore, should foreign Chancellories Intervene, thereby ignoring our laws and endeavoring to violate our National sovereignty? We cannot understand this action." The correspondent then said to President Castro: "What do you intend to do in view of the present attitude of the powers?" President Castro replied: "Enforce our rights and explain to the world that Venezuela has laws: prove that we have never denied our engagements." The President was then asked what reply the Venezuelan Government would make to the requests handed to It by the British and German envoys. To this question President Castro replied: "After reflection, the Venezuelan Government is astonished that after the notes which were transmitted to It by the diplomatic representatives of Germany and Great Britain, these en? voys should leave Caracas without awaiting the reply of the Venezuelan Government." The correspondent then asked President Castro what course he Intended to pursue should the powers declare a blockade. The President excused himself from answering tula question. London.?Great Britain and Germany have presented ultimatums to Venezuela, which will he followed up by a seizure of the customs, unless a satisfactory settlement is forthcoming within a brief period. The ultimatums have a time limit, but the exact date cannot he ascertained here. The Foreign Office says, with regard to the time limit: "It Is a reasonable time In which Venezuela can satisfy the injured Gov. ernments. Both notes are practically identical, although the amounts of the claims difTer. The notes merely reiterate the continued disregard of the Venezuelan Government of nil our representations. specify our claims and demand Immediate action on the part of President Castro's Government in connection therewith." Caracas. Venezuela. ? The British Minister, W. II. D. Haggard, and the German Charge d'Affaircs. Von Pilgrim-Baltazzi, left Caracas for La Guayra. where Minister Haggard Went j on beard the British cruiser Retribution and Herr von Pilgrim-Baltnzzl boarded the German cruiser Vineta. Both the British and German legations have been closed. Washington. D. C.?The following telegram was received at the State Department from H. W. Bowen, United 8tntes Minister at Cararas: "The President of Venezuela has published a letter in the newspapers stating that foreign creditors must await the re-establishment of peace: then all i promises will be fulfilled." DICKINSON CETS FIFTEEN YEARS rb* Philadelphia Bunlnesa-Man-l(ur;rlar Convicted of Crime. Philadelphia, Pa.?George Dickinson, alias Wescott, who was arrpsted about ten days ago a/ter a desperate Ujrht with a policeman, and who was discovered by the detectives to bp a burglar j by night and a business niau by day. ! was tried and convicted and sentenced ; to tlfteen years in the penitentiary, j The police accused Dickinson of i nenrly sixty robberies, bur could ob- ' tain legail evidence In only twenty- I five casPs. It Is said loot to the value : of nrarly $10,000 was recovered by tlie J police. Leniency For Convicted Borr*. The report of the Royal Commission which was sent to South Africa to re- j ( vise the sentences pronounced under martial law shows that the commission has dealt very leniently with these cases. Out of 704 cases tlio com- | missiou ordered the liberation of II!) prisoners and made large r.'dii'-iioiia in the original sentences uf others. . } Burglar* Kurapnl on a Hand Car. Bur^hns look S'JOOM from tii<> snrin::* leink at Whitrville. 'i'enu.. and os cupcd o:j a ha ml car. To Try Major Glenn A{?ln. Orders have been received at Manila j from Washington direct iu:x iliiU Major Kdward F. (?'h nn. of tlie* Fifth Infatt-( try. shall be put on trial a second time , for alleged cruelty commit teil during < the Kumar campaign. Major <?lenn in commanding a post at Itayainhaug, district of raiigatrinan. Luzon. The New Hpt?nl?h MinUtry. A new Spanish Ministry has been ( formed, with Seuor Silvcla as Premier and General Linares, who was wound-1 ed at the battle of Santiago, as Mini* j ter of War. ' 1 PIRACY NEAR MANILA BAY Desperadoes Led by an American < Rob Passengers of $17,000. fhejr Threatened to Kill All Hand* oa the Uric If They I)M Not K#ep Qoiet? Escaped. Victoria. B. C.?The ateamer Slinrr- j mut. from Manila. bring* news of pir- j aey in the Philippine*. th<? desppradoes beinir led by an American. The brls J Marieia. from .Catanuan. Tayaban Province, for Manila, had beaten up the coast and was becalmed off Cavite Bay. She had as passengers Ave Chinese merchant*, who were on their way to Manila to purchase good*. In the night a sloop came alongside and J six men climbed over the rail and im- | mediately overpowered the Chinese j crew, binding all hands with ropes. ! One of the pirates was an American j dressed as an inspector of constubu- I lary. Two of his followers also wore I constabulary uniforms and carried revolver*. as did the American. The re- ! maining three Filipinos' were armed I with bolo*. On the nlrate* reaehig the deck of | the Marlcia. the lender said that lie was n board of health Inspector, and intended ro search the vesel for arm* and Ammunition. When the crew was overpowered the Chinese were brought forth, and at the points of revolvor* were made to give up their money, about $17,000. The pirate* embarked in their lwat again, and beading toward ' Cavite, threatened to kill all hand* on the brig if they did not keep quiet, i When the Mnrlcla arrived at Manila I the customs officers were informed, hut no clew was found to the robbers. PORTO RICO MAKING PROGRESS. Governor Hani'* Report Show* Steady Advancement. Washington. D. C.?The report of Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico, dated July 10. 1002. just made public, is (he second one presented since the inauguration of elvll government. It advises the President of healthy progress and steady ndvr.ncement throughout the inlands in all substantial respects. It states that there has been progress in Comprehension of the institutions of the United States; that administration in municipal affairs has improved: that education Is spreading Its good influ* ? -1 ? I. encw; inar more iniiu uuh uiruu iumrated, exports anrl imports have Increased. new roads have been built, the telegraph system has l>een extended. the health of the people id better and the death rate has decreased. Sugar is regarded as the principal crop of the Island. and It is stated that the crop of 1002 is thp largest save one ever produced. In commerce and manufactures a remarkable increase appears. The value of Imports from the United States for the last fiscal year aggregated *10.710,044. Imports from foreign countries amounted to $2.420.-1 000: the exports from Porto Rico to the United States In the name period 1 amounted to $8,207,420. and to foreign ! countries $4,592,503. j GREAT NILE RESERVOIR OPENED. Sbedlr* Tains Key and DaehtH of CodLav* Last Stone. Assouan. Egypt?The great Nile reservoir and dam were opened In the presence of the Khedive, the Duke nud Duchess of Connaugbt. Lord Cromer, the Brtlsh agent Consul fleneral in Egypt, and Lady Cromer, tho Ministers and many other distinguished persons. The ceremony took place Id the afternoon. when the Khedive turned a key | which put the electric machinery In i motion, whereupon the sluice-gates ] were opened and a great body of water rushed through them. The Duchcss of Connaugbt then laid the last stone of the dam. the found::ton stone of which was laid by the Duke of Connaugbt on February 12, ISiK). WHALE STUCK IN PROW. 4 StaamnUlp Ran Into the Leviathan. KrMklag Its Back. San Franclhco. Oal.?The steamship Sierra, which has arrived from Austra-! Ha. reports that while steaming at the j rate of sixteen knots the vmwI struck a whale, breaking Its back and cutting it so deeply that the huge foody stuck j firmly on 1 ho vessel's stem. Th- steamer wa? Immediately slowed down, hut tii!? whale's carcass remained fast to the stem, and it was ! only upon coming to a full stop and going some lltle distance astern that the whale wan thrown off. The vessel waa not damaged. j Town Springs Up in a >'lcht. Englo CItr. Oklahoma. .1 forr dar* | ago. was corn fields and raw prairie*. On the following morning it wan a I to v.-u of 2fKX) hdiahititnts. with a corn- j plete municipal organization. a banic i In operation, a dailv newspaper e?!ab- J lished. a fairly good hotel, four reslau- j rants, heron saloons, at least a wore I of mercantile cstaldislimoiiis. and no j end of samhlin; houses. It looks now j as if Easle Oit.v will have 40(K> r? *!- j di nts soon. It Is to iio a division point 1 on the San Francisco line. Mrvlco to Pay I*lon? Fund Award. I Secretary of the Treasury L!a:a?v j four has asked I he Mexican Cnnsrw j fo authorize I lie payment of SI .4 20, 1 IIS2.?!7 In Mexican currency to the Fnifed States <!oyernment. together with $13,030.!)!) as interest thereon, in acconLance with tho awanl in the matter j of the Pious Fuui. The former pay- j ment is to be made within oltjht | months from October 14. ami the l:ir- ; ter February 2. 100.1. IXo More a Flthllns Ship. The cruiser Philadelphia, once one of , file i rack ships of the N'av.v. is to 1*' j converted into a training ship ai Mte ' Pi?2i't Sound tWash. Navy Yard. She J will take the plaee of the training shin ! Nipsie, which i* of a type now <)!? > j left*. i I.orenz Knrountfr* Hi* W?r?t Cn*r. I I?r. [.iirciK operale*I ?>n two pali<!i<* j l:t I'a!timurc. Md. was smves-.'::! | With one. but tiie other case, he dc- i 'i. was til-- wurs, in. hail cucuun* ! i?i the FliPed Suit. s. Xfwi of th?? Toiler*. AH flip carriase a nil wagou shops In Albany. X. Y.. now employ union n:e?. A n?*\v union of steel and Ironworkers has been forneil in Southiufton. Conn. I'nion moulders in Connecticut have asked for a ten per cent, increase in wages. All the machine shops in Denver. r*ol.. arc unionized with .1 nine-hour Servant girls at Wheeling. \Y. Ya.. propose forming a union to regulate tiours and wag^s. Siiiili WMKltQTOM IT**8, Having faded of promotion, Naral Paymaster John C*. Sullivan was or* deretl before a retiring board. Postmaster-General Payne will Investigate the anonymous attack* by mysterious letter writer on wealthy families In Chicago. Colonel H. C. Hasbrouck. Artillery Corps, commanding at Fort Ada ma. B. I., was promoted to be Brigadier-Gen* j eral, preliminary to retirement. Charles H. Butler, of New York .City, was Appointed reporter of the decision# of the United 8tates Snpreme Court OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Governor Taft established concentration zones in Biznl Province. Luzon, P. I., as the first step In an aggressive campaign against Indrones. Fifteen organization of troops in th? United States were ordered to ex* change places with an equal number of organisations in the Philippines. Vlce-GoTernor Wright, of the Philip; pines, sajs that an era of great indus| trial development is just beginning la the islands. I Captain Steven*, of the American i schooner John I. Snow, who shot and | killed Frank 8toddard, at Fajardo, P. I It., was acquitted, the evidence showI Incr Mint tha ?hnnt n? *m in<!ripnfil. | The wholesale purchase of rioe by the I Manila Government and its dlstrlbn! tlon among natlres has broken the combination that was holding prices op. Midahipman Richard Walnwright, Jr., son of Commander Walnwright; was stricken with fever as the result at beading a cnnal digging party at Culebra Island, P. L DOMESTIC. Barry Johnston, nn actor, who killed Mrs. Kate Haosctt. an actress, in Philadelphia. confessed on bis death bed that the two had discussed doable solclde. and that during an endeavor to force her to carry It out she shot him and he then killed her. Julia* A. Meyer, a New York dentist. was found d*ad in the Harlem River. Murder is suspected. Dr. Lucius C. A<!amson. a noted expert on religious mania and other forms of Insanity, was sent to the in <ina nnvlllnn nf Flpltpvtlp Hnxnital. hi New York City, having suffered a men* ' tal breakdown from overstudy. The body of Thomas B. Reed was ! taken to Portland, Me., the dead statesman's home, where the funeral was held. M. Jules Cambon. retiring Ambassador from France to the United States, sailed from New York City, and expressed his sorrow at having to leave America. Struck by a street car James B. Hill, a retired capitalist, of 8t Louis, Mo? was instantly killed. Having failed In business, Frank Mummenhoff, a commission merchant, of Indianapolis. Ind., killed himself by cutting bis throat. After six years of work, costing $L* 250.000. the water works tunnel undej. Lake Erie for Cleveland, Ohio. Wfta practically completedi The schooner Aloha, given up for JOHl OD L>Rte Jliirnignu, was pmcu ay with the crew on board and towed to Garganfna. George Bear, the Indian convicted of murdering bin squaw, was hanged at Sioux Fall*, 8. D. He behaved with great stoicism. Mrs. Ella Gallaugher, who was re* ! cently acquitted at Iowa City, Iowa, of the murder of her husband, was in* I dieted for perjury. She is alleged to ; have sworn falsely in her own de> ! fense. At St. Lonls, Mo., the jury in the ' case of Charles A. Denny, on trial for perjury in connection with the 8ubur* ban Railway boodle deal, returned a verdict of guilty and imposed a sentence of two years in the penitentiary. The statistician of Dun's Review says the cost of living is one per cent ! In*. ?1,an Si roar A skiff containing diaries Lore, aged thirty-two years, and John Rock, aged | sixteen, both of Rice's Landing, Pa., went over dam No. ?1. on the Monoagahela River, and both were drowned. , A bis windstorm swept over Northern Mississippi and Houthern Tenncssee. doing eo *idt>rable damage. | The total vote of Tennessee at th? last election wn* liiO.149. a falling ofif of forty per cent, from 1000. FOREIGN. 8econds of M. Syveton and the French Minister of Justice favor arbitration instead of a duel. The Cuba Railway opened through traffic, the Urst train leaving Santiago for Havana. Ecuador, appointed Alfredo Bacquerie Moreno. its Secretary of Foreign Affairs, to be Mluiiiter to the Unfted States. n The Pari* Journal Francala stated that Joan do Rydzewskl will be proaecuted on n ebarge of homicide through Imprudence for causing the death of Mr*. Ellen Gore. The British aliip Tartar Prince waa totally burned a: >ea ou a voyage from New York City to Port Natal, but all on board were saved. Secretary of Legation Bailey at Guatemala and another man wrote that Godfrey Hunter. Jr., killed William A. Fitzgerald In self-defense. Colonel Lamb, a member of the British rille team which visited Canada, shot and killed himself on the Cunarder Etrnrla as the vessel was enterics the Mersey. There was buying of thoroughbred rattle on a large scale in the United Kingdom for Americans. It ti expected that Premier Balfour ?.r?i i * ? .? iMk'iiniikicInn nnnninK III UU I l* (I I il| ? ??t,i liito.^a'u u|'j/uiu% oil to study flip question of municipal trailing iu t?riat Britain. The Italian Government received renewed appeals for prelection from Mascasni. tin- composer. I>ut decided to ignore them. The French Government suspended the salaries of several Unman Catholic prelates because of ri:;-ir aetivlty in oppnsin;: the law of ;:. -? Virions. The llouse of Lords ;::*.>scd the sec* on<l leading of the Kdu.atiou l?ill bj 147 votes to 'JT. The Frcncli Chamber of Deputies ratified a convention between France. Italy. Belgium Switzerland, authorlsius each muntry to bsr.e Additional silver coins i<> the value of K),UK). Prince Henry of I'lcs* is the Kaiser's choiee for German 'Ambassador at Wil.sliiu^loll 10 SlKcwU !?r. Vull UulH'-^H I .Mrs. Ellen Orl*v?on. wldoxv of JobnH Harris, formerly I'ultrd State* ConsulH at Venice, anil a distinguished CouiVd-H eralc uurse, died at Kloreuec Italy. Sb?H was eighty-six years of age. Hj