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I SCORES KILLED ?? Baltimore and Ohio Train in Frighl fill Crash. DUQUESNE LIMITED IN RUIN! Ban Into Timbers Left by a Freict Train ? Steam From th? Locomoti* Gaihei Into the Smoker, Scalding: A1 ! the P???ensers In a Terrible KannerEvery Occupant Killed. i Connellsville. Pa.?One of the wors Wrecks in the history of the Ballimor and Ohio Railroad occurred at Laur* Kun. eight miles west of Connellsvilh f on the Pittsburg Division of the Balti more and Ohio. The "Duquesne Lim I ited," the fastest train on the road was wrecked, killing sixty, fatally in juring eighteen and slightly injurinj more than fifty. The wreck was caused by the break ing of the casings on a carload o bridge timber on a freight train tha passed Laurel Run not more thai fifteen minutes before the arrival o the Duquesne Limited. The freigh proceeded without noticing the acci dent, and the express train, running a n speed of more than sixty miles ai hour, crashed into the timbers befori the engineer even had time to applj the emergency brakes. Tha ym{r<rn;rp p.ir was thrown ovei the embankment into the Youghiogheni River, and the smoker, which con tained more than forty passengers, wai thrown over the engine. The stean uomo of the engine was broken, an( ' the escaping steam and water filled th< car, scalding the passengers. Every occupant of the car was dea( before the rescuers reached the seen* of the wreck. The train contained si: cars, one baggage, one smoker, on* sleeper and a dining car. all of whicl were badly wrecked. Engineer Will lam Thornley and Fireman Cook wer< caught under the wrecked engine The tracks are completely torn up. anc traffic over the road cannot be entire!] resumed for at least a day. Nearly all the passengers in the smo ker were bound for Philadelphia. Manj of them were to take passage on ar ocean liner for the old country. No: one of these escaped alive. The known dead are: Engineer Will iam Thornley, of Hazelwood, Pa.; Di vision Engineer S. G. Heater, of Hazel wood; Fireman Thomas Cook, of Ha aelwood; Herbert Holmes, of Emmel ton, Pa.; Jesse Hines, of Tarborough N. Charles Lindford. of Confluence Pa.; Edwards. Pittsburg; J. W Martin. Hancock,. Md.; Richard Duck ett Baltimore; Edison Goldsmith, Con nellsville. * The other dead are mostly foreigner; and negroes who were riding in th( smoking car. The smoker was packet to 5ts utmost oanaoitv and all the nas sengers were cooked alive. For more than 500 feet both the eas! and west bound tracks are torn up The engine was completely demolished V and the big 7000-gallon tank on th< l tender was thrown 100 feet ahead ol t the other wreckage. The baggage cai wm was thrown into the river, but wa: ronly slightly wrecked. * All the cars were derailed, and tb< trucks of all except the diner wen - -s torn completely from underneath th< yf cars. Few people were badly hurt ir the Pullman cars, and the diners, al though few escaped without at leasi tome injury. As soon as the wreck was reported ir f Connellsville all the available physi cians were summoned, including Balti k more and Ohio Railroad physicians. So terrific was the force of the wrecl that nearly every passenger suffered s moment's unconsciousness, and manj nf the men unhurt wprp nimble to as *ist in helping the injured from tht wreck on acconnt of having fainted. .. BANK'S MONEY-IN SPECULATION J ' rt ; ; 1 * Vl* V Charges Cause a Receiver to Be Ap ? pointed. Hartford, Conn.?Upon the applica r lion of Mrs. Ella S. Russell, of Killing ly. wife of the late Congressmai Charles A. Russell, Judge Gager, ol the Superior Court, appointed a tempo rary receiver for the Windham County ; National Bank, of Danielson. All par ties in interest consented to the ap pointment, but tbe officers of the banl deny the allegations of speculatinj with the funds of the bank, as charget in the complaint. f Tr? f^A />Annrkl?iinf ia />V?a frrnrl +ho iu iuc ii. ao tuaij,cu lua - Comfort B. 3urlingame, president o the bank; Charles P. Backus, cashier and James Perkins. John A. Paine an< Alberjt Putnam, directors, formed 2 syndicate in 3S00 to speculate in stock: upon -borrowed money, and that the; used money of the bank to a consider able extent. Later, it is said, othe partnerships or syndicates wer< formed, all of which borrowed an< used money of the bank. CANNOT GET YOSEMITE WATER j/ San Francisco $30,000,000 Plan Vetoei * . by Interior Department. Washington, D. C.?The Secretary o the Interior refused the application o the city of San Francisco for permis pIan fn i Im nftrtAoeorif />Ancfrn f\ pivii iv ut?iu lui uctcooai,? wuou u\tion toward obtaining a water suppl; from the Yosemite National Park. Th city proposed to expend about $39,000, 000 on the water works, k The action of the department is basei on the fact that the organic act creat ing the park requires the Governmen to keep it In its natural condition. Stole Two Cent Stamps. Ellsworth P. DeFrance was release from the Sioux Falls (S. Dak.) Peniter tiary after having served a term o fifteen years for the theft of a twc cent postage stamp. DeFranefe wa convicted in the Federal Court of N< braska of holding tip a mail carriage. Building Collapse Kills Two. Two men were killed and seven hui by the collapse of the old Thirteent Regiment armory of Brooklyn, N. Y yhicu was being torn down. P Prominent People. The Czar has given $5000 to sufferer rrom xne iNeva noous. Edwin Warfield, Governor-elect ( the State of Maryland, has been ever; thing from a farmer's hired man to banker. Captain Alfred Johnson, who was tb first man to cross the ocean in a sma i>oat in 1876, is still living at Glouce ier, Mass. Pope Pins X. is suffering fropa rheumatic affection of the foot in coi (. sequence ot . a cold: contracted at Yei Ice before his election1 to the pap Chair. ft # || PROTEST OF COLOMBIA | Foreign Minister Denies American Rirrl-iie ?rt Panama. | >"5"w * ? n Declares That the United States Departed From All Precedents? Eorelyn Towers ? .. Full; Approve Our Conrse. I t?< Bogota, Colombia.?Dr. Lufs Carlo* 1 , Rico, Minister of foreign Affairs, lia? 11 cabled General Reyes, at Washington, ? under date of December 16. as follows: "If the explanation which the United States Government has given to the j ^ press is of a diplomatic character, an- { '1 cmw />ionrin<? thA fr>l!nwinsr noints* > \ "By the treaty of 1846 the United i< States did not acquire control over infer-oceanic transit, but entered intd . obligations by which, for compensatory ' favors, it guaranteed the neutrality, l* property and sovereignty of the Isth g mus, the sovereignty being indivisible. If the United States Government prevents the Government of Colombia from subduing the rebels, then it ought f to submit them to Colombian authority. i "The United States has never pro1 tected Colombia against foreign invaf sions. Whenever that Government has t interfered to prevent the interruption of traffic, it has been because of the t rights granted or at Colombia's re? 1 quest. Only in this instance has it in- . 2 terfered, on its own initiative, with r the evident object of protecting the secessionists on the Isthmus. c "If the guarantee of neutrality were I to be looked upon as a privilege it would prevent the sovereign govern3 ment from keeping order on the Isthi mus, which is against the principles of 1 all governments. : "The protocls of 1879 did not grant any new rights to the United States, I much less the right of dominating this i territory. The Hay-Herran Canal c treaty did not modify the obligations which the United States contracted i by the treaty of 1846 to guarantee the ( neutrality, sovereignty, and property i of the Isthmus. When this treaty was disapproved, no new propositions were 1 made. 1 "The orders given by the United States Government to its Navy have helped to favor the secession move7 ment, and Colombia was at peace when i this movement was begun. t "The conduct of the Washington Ex- 0 ecutlve has been and now is favorable a in every way to the rebellion, but not to the maintenance of order, which is e - contrary to the principles and ante- E cedents of the United States Govern- t ment and to the policy established by t . it during the American war of seces? Bion. RICO, Minister." r Washington, D. C?According to a C statement made by a prominent Euro- fc * pean Ambassador the refusal by the fc United States to consent to a proposi- t 1 tion from Colombia for a reference | i of the Panama question to The Hague p ' Tribunal, will be fully approved by c the European powers. a , A question between Colombia and b Panama which with all propriety t j might be referred to The Hague, and S j to which reference the United States f : will scarcely offer objection, is the E , question: of the assumption by Panama t j of a part of the Colombian debt. ' "V^E STERN UNION MUST PAY. j ; d t Texas Wire Tappers' Fraud Must Ba ? Made Good by Company. f Austin, Texas.?The Texas Supreme & j Court rendered a decision affirming s the judgment of the lower court award- c * ing the Uvalde National Bank, of t Uvalde, Texas, $1200 damages against . the Western Union Telegraph Com- & | pany for a loss sustained through wire 6 r tapping. % The money was obtained from the ? , bank by Rief and Fisher, two noted b Wire tappers, who are now serving sen- c tences in the Missouri penitentiary for 8 a similar practice committed in that . State. The Supreme Court holds that * the Western Union was guilty of undue 1 negligence in the transmission of the 0 " message over its line. f ' INSTRUCTED FOR PANAMA, c Louisiana. Legislature Unanimously Calls on Its Senators to Favor Treaty. New Orleans, La.?The Louisiana ( Legislature, meeting in extra session, i unanimously adopted a resolution call- , ing upon the two Senators from Louis- " iana, S. D. McEnery and M. J. Foster, J to vote in favor of the ratification of J the treaty with the Republic of Pana- J ma providing for the building, operat- ? ' ing and maintaining of an interoceanie ? ' ?4-Ksv Tf. + Kmnc' Af POTIQmQ V * Citllttl Ul'i'Uas luc ioiuuiuo vi. x 1 "whenever said treaty be submitted ^ to the United States Senate." s Governor Heard was instructed to Pi transmit copies of this resolution to the Senators before the meeting of c the Senate on January 4. e ' 3 ROBBED HER HUSBAND'S BANK. President's . Wife Got $2500, But i3 Caught and the Money Recovered. ^ 3 Sioux Citv Iowa.?While C. C. King, I President of the First National Bank, of Scotland, S. D., was absent in Min' neapolis, his wife called at the bank 1 and asked the cashier to go to the post- j office for her mail. Daring his absence i she took $2500 in bills from the safe J and disappeared with her four-year-old I 0 boy. Orders came from her husband for . her arrest. She was taken at Jefferson, ? S. D., and the money was found sewed | in her clothes. She was taken back to j 6 Scotland, but her husband said that he i would not prosecute her. Bank Wrecker Free. ^ Governor Bliss, of Michigan, has j signed a parole for Frank C. Andrews, ] ' former Vice-President of the wrecked | * City Savings Bank, of Detroit. An- i ^ drews had been confined in the State | "* Prison at Jackson since November lu, 1902. Historic Church Burned. ( 't The historic South Congregational ] b Church, at Salem, Mass., was de- ( stroyed by fire, the loss being dstimat- . ed at $40,000. "World's Fair Pointers. >s Denmark has officially accepted the i invitation to participate the World's >f Fair. 1 V' An imperial irade issued approves < a the participation of Turkey in the St. Louis Exposition. ( l? The dairy section of the World's Fair i 11 will occupy 30,000 square feet in the s* Palace of Agriculture. A locomotive testing laboratory i 8 will be a feature of the transportation a' building at the World's Fair. , ?j-' Owing to insufficient time to com- , plete preparations Spain'will not partir'pute ia. the St. Louis Exposition. chigago: ,strikers riot Police Disperse Mobs?To Protect Funeral Parties, RICH AND POOR SUFFER ALIKE Coroner's Physician Has to Ride on an Undertaker's -Wagon to Protect Hi* Wife'* Body on the Way to the Cemetery?Livery Driven and Relative* and Hoarsen Inanlted.. Chicago, 111.?The bodies of Judge tanas Hutchinson, of the Superior 3ourt, and Frederick R. Otis were carled to cemeteries in the plain black vagons of undertakers, position and wealth being unable to secure more IttJng conveyances, owing to the strike >f th<? livprv drivers KAlt?hhr?ra r?nmp jo the relief of the families by offerng private vehicles, for the use or the nourners. The strikers carried on their fight igainst the dead, and in several cases he police were called upon to proect funeral parties. In one case there vas an actual riot. Livery owners met and decided to lire an attorney and take steps to hold he city responsible for any damage lone by mobs. Policemen clubbed a crowd of 300 or iOO persons, many of them strike symmthizers, while a priest was saying aass over the body of Anna Vleck, who s said to have been murderd by her lusband. The police were forced to :harge the crowd to prevent it from lAmmifHnff irlAlanf occonlfo nrvnn An vuiuiibiiug Twtcuv aoouuua uj/vu au~ on Linhart, undertaker, who drove the >lain black wagon in which the body vas taken to and from the church. When the crowds had been dispersed md the mass was over the policemen icted as pallbearers. The body of the voman was placed in a wagon and Iriven rapidly to the Bohemian Naional Cemetery. The children were tot allowed to go to the cemetery to ee their mother's burial. A funeral car, Instead of a hearse, acompanied by a police guard, was utilzed by Joseph Blake, an undertaker, to ircumvent striking pickets, from fhom violence was feared, at the uneral of Elsie Keefer, the one-yearM daughter of Joseph Keefer, Presilent of a tea company. Livery stable owners and undertakes say they can hire all the men they teed to fill the place of the strikers, >Ut they dare not send out their velicles for fear of violence and riot. While strike sympathizers surounded the home of Dr. O. W. Lemke. Joroner's Physician, the doctor told lis friends that he would drive the learse that bore the body of his wife o Waldheim Cemetery. For the first time ia years a sur liced choir went from a Catholic hurch to take part in funeral services t a private residence. Owing to inalility to hire a hearse and carriages, he funeral of the father of Assistant Itates Attorney Crowe was held in the amily residence instead of church, father Gallighan took the entire choir o the house and conducted mass there. Permission to move patients from heir homes to hospitals was denied in everal instances by striking drivers, ohn McLaughlin and Prank Ku~ v nerow were summoned by emergency alls to remove Catholic clergymen to ospitals. They sought permission rom the strikers, but were denied. Mr. IcLaughlin, accompanied by a clerical ssociate of a priest, finally drove the arriage himself. Although some of he pickets threatened violence, none ras attempted. Mr. Kummerow took is patient to the hospital, accompanied y the attending physician and a priest. A. B. Perrlgo. who has an ambulance ervice, says pickets have surrounded lis place and prevented his answering alls to the relief of those needing urgical and medical attention. Stablemen in many of the barns quit rork. Few of them are unionized, but hey fear to incur the displeasure of irganlzed labor. IEINZE GUILTY OF CONTEMPT. )rdered to Pay a Fine of $2000 For Ignoring a Federal Court's Order. XfAnf Tiiil(ra Rftofftr in fho XJ U UUC, iiivub. uuugn A/vubk,T| w**w Jnlted States Court, ruled upon conempt proceedings instituted against i\ A. Heinze and other officers of the lontana Ore Purchasing Company, or ignoring the order of Judge Snowies, of the Federal Court, of dontana, in permitting the representees of the Butte and Boston Mining Jompany to inspect the Michael Davitt nine through the workings of Rarus nine, owned by Heinze, to see whetht Heinze had obeyed the injunction igainst working ore from the Michael Davitt mine. The court finds that leinze and J. H. Trerise and AI>ert Frank, two of his superintendsnts, were guilty of contempt of :ourt. He ordered that unless they com. )lied with the order of inspection 'orthwith they be finad: Heinze. !2000; Trerise, $500; Frank, $500 and 4-AMil iinfSI fll t\. f? n f\C* ci m IU1UU tuuiuillicu UUU1 IUCT uuco ate )aid. Stockholders Must Pay Up. Stockholders of the defunct Indiana National Bank, at Elkhart, Ind., will lave to put up amounts equal to their Irst Investments to pay off the obligaions. Bondholders Make Appeal. English bondholders have appealed :o President Roosevelt not to allow Panama to shirk her share of the Coombian bonds. Arraigned For Bribery. Senator Dietrich was arraigned in :he United States Court, at Omaha. Neb., to answer to the indictment of jribery and conspiracy in accepting i hriba. He Dleaded not guilty and the trial was set for January 4. Lynched In Tennessee. Joe Drake, a young negro, was taken from the Lauderdale County Jail, at Ripley, Tenn., and lynched for the murler of Chester Conner, a white man, it Ashport. Newsy Gleanings. Steel Trust economies will save $42,500,000 yearly. A plan is proposed for the reclamation of marsh lands in New Jersey and ?n Staten Island. Miss Helen Gould declined the prc-slilenc7 of the Board of Lady Managers d; the World's Fair. Russia's repiy ro japan is regarueu jz indicating a pacific settlement of the difficulties over Korea and Manchuria. The British Foreign Office denied the report that the movements of the West Indian squadron were connected with Vfeuearaela.' / i ( . .<'* -i*-y y . , ; /WT " ' 11 'CM . f> , ?\ . .1 . MURDERS WHOLE FAMILY * 1 - ? 1 TT _ macninisi runs ms vyub, uuco Children and Himself. Three Little Ones Shot to Death After a Frantic Struggle For Their Lives. Cleveland, Ohio.?After writing and mailing a letter to a friend telling him that he intended to murder his family, Roscoe W. Derby, a machinist, killed his wife and three children, and then committed suicide. The crime was one of the most deliberate ever committed in- this city. Derby, who was thirty-nine years of age, lived with his family in the Albion Terrace, on Barbara street. To all appearances the family was in comfortable circumstances. Derby had work and earned good wages. The crimes were extraordinary in their thoroughness and there was, evidently, no mishap in the enactment. The wife was killed first, while sleep ing at her husband's side in bed; two of the children were killed as they ran hither and thither through the house in the darkness of early morning endeavoring to escape their merciless parent. The third child was killed in its bed after the elder brother and sister had been killed. The dead are: Roscoe Derby; his wife, Delia; Harold, aged eight; Alice, aged seven, and Thomas, aged five. Derby had been out late one night When he got home, his wife and he talked with a neighbor who had been calling, over the approaching festival. Derby seemed pale and nervous. Shortly after his arrival at home the neighbor left and the Derby family went to bed. ' The crime is believed to have been committed about 4 o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Derby was shot to death in bed, two? bullets having been fired into her forehead, and a third, probably fired after the children had been exterminated, in the back of the neck. Mrs. Derby probably wag killed during sleep, the expression on her face showing no sign of a struggle, and it was calm and peaceful. Two of the children, however, probably had a struggle with their infuriated parent, because they had been awakened by the noise of the revolver being fired and sought to escape him, but without avail. Harold's body was found lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen, and that of Alice in the dining room with her face to the floor and a bullet in her breast. _ After the extraordinary crimes had> Deen commmeu, iue ycipeuawi ??. them went into tlie bedroom where his wife had been killed, and lying down at her side fired a bullet into his own brain, and died at his wife's side. The coolness of the murderer was In. dicated by the fact that each of his victims was shot through the head. In all he fired nine bullets into the four victims. Apparently he reloaded the five-chambered revolver twice, for it had four unexploded cartridges in it whev found lying beside his body. STARVED FOR HER CHILDREN. Husband in Jail For Non-Support, Mrs. Flaherty Dies to Save Family. St. Paul, Minn.?Mrs. Geneva Flaherty, of Duluth,'while on her way to Mauston, Wis., her brother's home, died ? ? ?- AI A<? in n n < 4- TTTO a on a normem racmu umu, ao jl na* entering the city. The Coroner's verdict was that death was due to starvation and exposure. Mrs. Flaherty was accompanied by four children, whose ages ranged from fifteen months to ten years. Her husband is in the Duluth jail on a charge of non-support, and it was while struggling against ill health and poverty to provide foor for her offspring that she starved herself to such an extent that death followed. CUBA'S NEW TARIFF. Increase of Over $2,000,000 Expected In Revenue. Havana, Cuba.?President Palma Is-, sued a proclamation declaring that the reciprocity treaty with the United States would be in force after December 27. . A member of the Senate Committee on Tariffs says the report of the committee will provide an entirely new system of revenue. If it is carried, it is expected that it will provide an increase of over $2,000,000 in revenues above the loss due to the reciprocity treaty with the United States. DISCHARGED ITS MINERS. Four Thousand Bituminous Men Re* fuse to Work at the Old Scale. Altoona, Pa.?The Somerset Coal and Coke Company, whose miners are on strike, paid off 4000 of the men and discharged them, because they refused to obey the order of the company to go back to work on the old conditions. All the men discharged had obeyed the order of the United Mine Workers to go on strike. Only four of the mines nf nAmnonir orn nrnrlrlnor onH fhov I VTA. IUU ULV> TT WMVft w?*. J are small ones. Frederic R. Coudert Dead. Frederic R. Coudert, the distin guished New York lawyer, died at his residence, at Washington, D. C.,. of heart disease, in hi3 seventy-second year. Murderer Mutilated Body. Sarah Martin, of Cherry Hill, was murdered and her body mutilated in a sailors' lodging house, at Water street and James Slip. Her slayer escaped. Oil Man Murdered. Ernest Morgan, a well known oil man, of Jacobsburg, W. Va., was murdered in the streets of Pine Grove, five miles from his home. His body was' frozen stiff, and his head and facp were covered with wounds. Alexander Haff a Suicide. Alexander Haff, former superintend ent of foreign mails in the New York Postofflce, who was arrested fom months ago on the charge of stealing I from letters, shot and killed himself. News of the Toilers. Labor unions at Niagara Falls, N. Y., are working hard to erect a labor temple. The International Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators has now about 75,000 members. Freight handlers employed by the Southern Pacific at San Francisco, Cal., have formed a union and will be chartered by the A. F. of L. Hatters of Boston, Mass., will work henceforth a fifty-hour week, instead of fifty-five, as formerly, and will receive $20 a week, which means an increase of $2. i , ' - >1 r - WM&m -$; t L NINE KILLED IN WRECK r j Accident on St. Louis and San Francisco Railway. SWITCH HAD BEEN LEFT OPEN the "H6teor," Going at Fall' Speed, is Thrown From Track Through Negligence of Freight Crew ? Derailed Train Plunges Down an Embankment?Wreckage Takes Fire. Kansas City, Mo.?The Meteor, the fast train on the St. Louh> and San Francisco Railway, was wrecked at ijroairey, otieeo miies souua ut run Scott, Kansas. The train ran into a switch, and all except the sleeper was derailed and turned over. Nine persons were killed and thirtyone injured. The dead and Injured were taken to Fort Scott. The dead are all Western men. One man. whose body has not been identified, was thrown sixty feet into a neighboring cornfield. Two men, one from Oklahoma and the other from Arkansas, were fatally injured. Six- | teen persons, including Henry M. McDonnell, of Lodi, Ohio, were seriously hurt, and fifteen others were slightly injured. Most of the injured were badly burned, as well as being maimed. fPh a fwnin mnn mn/lA 11? A ^ xuc VY i CLRCU uaiu uuo uiauc up vi two baggage and one mail car, a smoker, two chair cars and a sleeper. When the train reached Godfrey it was running at full speed to make up time. The crew of a freight train that had preceded the Meteor left the switch open and the passenger tffcin jumped the track and rolled down a slight embankment. The sleeper turned over, and so fast was the train running that the engine and the forward baggage car landed neatly sixty feet off the roadbed before the train stopped. The sleeper remained upright and none oL the passengers , of this car was injnred. The baggage cars were wrecked and the smoker was badly damaged. Five of those killed were in the forward end of the smoker and four of them were killed instantlyr A news agent, who waa badly mangled, died on the relief train that carried the dead and injured to Fort Scott. Engineer B. A. Dewees, of Fort Scott; Conductor Roy. of Topeka, and Fireman Bishard, of Fort Scott, were, killed outright, and Express Messenger John Bell, of Kansas City, was serinnnlT ininrorl ntherci nf the prow And almost every passenger on the train, except those in the sleeper, who escaped with a severe shake up, were Injured, some of them seriously. It was some time before tbbse of the crew escaping injury were able with the help of the passengers who were unhurt to aid the injured. A wrecking crew carrying physicians did not leave Fort Scott'intil several hours after the wreck "occurred. The responsibility for the wreck is' laid at the door of a- brakeman of the freight crew who failed to flag the passenger train. The engine on the freight had become "dead," and the crew was ordered to remain on the main track, and to turn the switch, for the passenger train, then about due. The brakeman was ordered to flag the Meteor, but is alleged to have neglected to do so.' in tne crasu tne naggage car Telescoped the engine and landed in a cornfield, while the smoker and the two chair cars were piled in a mass on top of the engine. Most of the injured were in the chair cars, which took fire soon after the wreck occurred. PANIC AT NEW YORK ilRE. Battalion Chief Loses Life and Dam* age is $250,000. ;; New York City?The famous "two nines" fire alarm, summoning more fire apparatus than any other alarm provided for by New York's Firo Department, was sounded for a terrific fire, which destroyed the six-story factory building of the Herrmann Furniture and Plumbing Cabinet Works, in tytott street, and the four-story varnish factory of the firm, run under the name of the H. Herrmann Lumber Company. A quarter of a million dollars' damtttoc? /InriA Poffolfrtn Phiof \fQrfin Coleman perished in the fall of two great v&lls of the factory. There was a frightful pani,c among the Italtan inmates of the swarming front and rear tenements opposite and in the rear of the burning buildings. The fire started on the third floor, and when the firemen arrived the first, second and third floors were in a blaze. The third, fourth and fifth alarms were sent In rapid succession, and about an honr after the fire started the "two nines" alarm was sounded. MURDERERS CONVICTED. Sentences Range From Six Months to Seven Years in Prison. Klsliineff, : Bessarabin.?Two ! Russians, Goetschin and Marosjeik, who have been on trial for murder as the authors of the massacre of Jews here last spring, were sentenced to seven on/1 vpnrs' npnal servitude resnec tively. Twenty-two other persons involved In the massacre were sentenced to terras, ranging from one to two years each. One person was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and twelve were acquitted. Forty-eighL civil ac-' tions brought against the prisoners were dismissed. The costs of the prosecution must be paid by the convicted persons. Negro Confesses Crime. Jim Lucas, one of the three negroes under arrest for entering St. John's Orphanage, at Wheeling. W. Va., and brutally attacking Sister Alma, confessed and implicated Flam Haruk^r and Tom Eaoton. Negroes to Be Disfranchised. The Attorney-General of Maryland has prepared a bill to be introduced Ill me Jjeg:suuurr Ml ciiu omie yi uviding for the disfranchisement of about 30,000 negroes. Sporting Brevities. Syracuse horsemen are planning tc have a special snow path this winter for speeding. P. J. Donovan has announced his retirement as manager of the St. Louis National League team. Organization of New York schoolboy!for the promotion of athletics is to be the largest body of its kind in the world. The Saratoga Ice Trotting Association announces January 2G, 27 and 2S n?xt as the dates for its annual meeting on Saratoga Lake. There will be two races each day. > . '*1. v*i"5 . .0;. JAPAN REPLIES TO RUSSIA Czar's Foreign Office Looks For a o (v Feaceful Solution. Negotiations Resumed at Toklo?Oorernrnent Ready For Hostilities ? War Insurance Rates Increased. Tokio, Japan.?Japan's reply to Russia was banded to Baron-de Rosen at a conference between the Russian Miniater and Foreign Minister Komura, in the Russian Legation. jayaub reyjy is iu uu way : i)ie uatnre of an ultimatum, but she asks Russia to reconsider certain essential points in her reply to Japan. Baron de Rosen is now sufficiently recovered to resume the negotiations. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Officials of the Foreign Office do not share the pessimistic feeling regarding the situation in the Far East which now seems to be general. They say there is no reason to despair of a peaceful settlement of the difficulties over which Russia and Japan are at variance. London, England.?A special dispatch from Tokio was the first intimation the Japanese Legation here received, that Japan's reply had. actually been communicated to Baron de Rosen. The Legation later communicated the ueimis ui uie reyij iu tut? jpliuou rwieign Office, but refused to divulge the details. The Legation admitted that In general terms the dispatch from Tokio covered the situation, which a Legation official characterized as being "quite grave," but one from which no decisive developments couW be expected immediately. Lord Rothschild, while declining to venture an opinion assto the outcome of the Japanese-Russian crisis, said: "One of the most important-factors ts whether America will seize the opportunity to press her claims fbr- open ports in Manchuria. If she does so it would certainly help a peaceful solution. I have heard of no suggested loans, either Japanese or. Russian. What they would have to do in case of war is a hypothesis I do not care to discuss." Tn ?>/? ? 'Diioalfln M Kialra ?Japaiiccc-ivu^aiau nai a. ioao at Lloyds' have risen to thirty-five guineas per cent, to the end of January, and forty-five to the end of February. Cargo insurance jumped from five to twenty shillings. The owners of two cargoes already half way to Japan found difficulty in effecting insurance, even at the latter rate. RISKED LIFE FOR FOREMAN. Son of a Wealthy Man Plays Role of /a Hero. Colorado Springs, Col.?Donald Ford, son of one of the wealthiest mine owners of this city, risked his life by entering a precipitation tank in the Teiluride reduction mill to drag out the body of Howard Morely, the foreman, under whom he worked. > Rnth rxrora nanhwln+Ari wff-h ohlnrlno i gas and Ford was unconscious eight hours. Had he remained in the vat a half minute longer he would have been killed. iioth men were rescued by other employes, who' chopped a hola in the bottom of the vat. Ford, who if nineteen years old, is studying to be a mining engineer, anfi, determined to master all branches, secured employment In the mill. ATTACKED CONGRESSMAN. Man Who Used a Pistol Gets Five Years In Prison. Tallahassee, Fla.?Walter L. Taylor, after being acquitted on four indictments, charging him with assault on Congressman Lamar, was eonVicted on the fifth of assault with intent to murder. Judge Malone sentenced him to five years in the'State prison. Soon after Lamar, then I ttorneyGeneral, was nominated for Congress, Taylor accused him of having said that h& stuffed a ballot box in a primary ana presented ljamar n piaiui, uemanding a written retraction. Lamar took the pistol from him and gave it to. Taylor's uncle, who returned it to him, whereupon Taylor again drew it on Lamar and compelled him to sign the retraction. ARMY REORGANIZATION ORDER. Some of the General Officers Object to Their Assignments. Washington, D. C.?As a result of objections made by some of the general officers assigned to divisional and departmental commands under the geographical reorganization made last week, there will probably be some reassignments. The officers who lrave raised the objections say that they were not consulted with reference to changing their bea^quarters, and they feel that they are entitled to some consideration in this respect The changes to be made will be merely to meet the personal wish of these officers, and will i.it affect the geographical lines of divisions and denoWmonta ocf-nhiishpri in the reorcranl zation order. Saven Years For Teller Edge. James M. Edge, absconding note teller of the First National Bank, of Paterson, N. J., was sentenced by Judge Kirkpatrick, in the United States Court, at Trenton, to seven years, without hard labor, in the Essex County Penitentiary. Murder Jury Disagrees. The jury disagreed iu the case ni Mrs. Cora Weeks, on trial at Bedford. Ind., charged with killing Mrs. Susanna Ireland, her aged mother. Joseph Weeks, husband of Mrs. Weeks, is awaiting trial for complicity. Kills Wife in* Church. L. W. Horn, a farmer, shot and fa tally wounded his wife in church, at Centreville, la. Jealousy Is the supposed cause. Horn fled, pursued by a snpriff and bloodhounds. His body was r'onml at Sedan later with ii bu!!et hole in the head. Power House Boilers Explode. The boilers in the power house of the. transit company, at St. Louis, Mo., exploded, killing one man, injftrinsr a dozen more and wrecking the buiiiiiiiL'. Minor Mention. Jacob Riis pronounces Washington's slums worse than those of New York. Steps have been taken for the organIzation of a national war on the mosquito. Heavy lighting lasting two days between Dominican forces was reported irom Sautiago. Joseph Keppler was chosen new Chief of the Six Nations at the bier of tne late Mrs; Converse. Russia continued the movement of troops eastward, and a strong squadron left the Mediterranean fax Chinese waters. r ^aammm ' "-?m 1 rm . 11 An Ambitions Woman. "My grandmother was an awfully.nmhltlnns woman." said n nntlv<? Of a well-known island off the coast of ' Maine, "and when she was dying and .?j the doctor had told her she had only ! about an hour to live she asked her : daughter to bring her some green ap- , pies. She sat up in bed and pared two paofuls of them, and then lay back with a satisfied sigh. "Well," she said, "I'm51 determined that the folks that come-to my fnneral shall have enough appie-'sass for once in their lives."? ( A.. W. Spencer, in Llppincott's. > j 100 Roward. 0100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dls- : ease that science has been able to cure In all Itsstages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh . Cure is the only positive core now kaofoto . * ' the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitntionai disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's CatarrhCarelstake&lnlpcy Vy;. nally, aotlng directly upon the blood an?ani- >,/, cousaorfaoesof the syatain, thereby destroy- t ing the foundation of the disease, und giving ai-MAnrafk Kar KnlM(n? nn fhA 5 WiD pdblCUb WJ MUUUIMft U|/ ?ww www- : y stltuHon and assisting nature la doing Its work. The proprietors have so much falthln its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars lor any case t ha 111 falls to ears, bend for list of testimonials.' Addrtsa P. J. Ohsset & Co., Toledo, 0. < Bold by Druggists, 75c. Hail's Family Pills are the b?3t. Australia has, as the result of last year's drought; bought since January 7,000,000 bushels of wheat, or its equivalent in flour, from the Pacific Coast, ^ anil 1,000,000 from New York. Orar 41 nOfLAOO notorial DOfitcardA were delivered by the Swedish portoffice In 1902. tA - ? ' , Bronchitis - . ..nil . -' " I have kept Ayer'a Cheny Pectoral in my house for a.greit<pany years. It is the best medfclne in , ^ the world for coughs and colds." ;:? J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y. ^ All serious lung troubles begin with a * 4 ? tr 1 i ? In tha fhfnot lIWIVllli? 1U IUV tUIWAK M You can stop this at first 1 in a single night with 1 Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I Use it also for bronchitis, I hard colds, consumption. I TlnMli*: 25c* Hc.UM. 9 Consult yonr doctor. If he Bays take it, then do as be says. If b? tells yob not to fl , take it, tbep don't teks it. Heknowa. You should promptly correct any 9 constipation or biliousness with I Ayer's Pills, small, laxative doses. J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, M&ss. fl . mirnmtm ill K The Kaiser at a Patient* H Fortunately, there bare not be?n jj many times In the Emperor's life when /fl be baa been entirely under medical sway; but the German court doctors H were long since convinced, that His I Majesty, in the capacity of patient, H was no more conventional than he is H accustomed to be in any of the other K roles he plays from day to day. At ther H outset of his indisposition be la in- H clined to give doctors endless trouble by his resistance to advice and bis con- H etantly expressed desire to put his own M views as to treatment into practfc&flj When,.however, he sees that the mat-fll ter is very serious, he surrenders with^B a sigh and begins to petition for per-H mission to do rather more work during^! kis confinement than the doctors are^J disposed to allow him. He has a hor-M ror of the prescription of l,absolute^B rest" He is fond of cross-examining^ his doctors on every detail of. his affec*H| tlon, and they have no sooner left him^| than be is-in the ftabit\>f sending fori a text book'upon the subject and read-H ing it np thoroughly. Then he has new^J theories to present to the physicianaHH at their next attendance, and thejfln know from experience that it is risknH to attempt to show their compleuBB superiority by plunging into detail.-|^B Men and Women. The vineyards of Central Asia ar^H all from American stock. Ohio has large and regular export trade in cutHS tings with all the wine-growing counBH tries, owing fargely to the fact thaHJ the American vine is free from com^B mon parasites, notably phylaxerla.. AM Eufll Haule, o! Edgerton, Wis., tellHH how she was cured of irregulariHffl ties and uterine trouble, terribl|H ?" ?"? nnA harlrnrhp hv fhe n$|B |/OIU9 CUIU iwvnwvu*) ?/j of Lydia E. Pinkham's VegetabJJ Compound. WH ' Dear Mrs. FlHUAx:?A whiB M ago mj health began to fcil because flj H female troubles. The doctor did cS|H help me. I remembered that my mothHSH had used Lydia E. Pinkhan^E8| Vegetable Compound on many caaions for irregularities and uterl^HHB troubles, and I felt sure that it cou^HK not harm me at any rate to give it^^Hj trial. ??H " I was certainly glad to find within a week I felt much better, t^Rflj naino in the back and si^BHE were beginning to cease, and a*1 time of menstruation I did not nearly as serious a time as here.t oflBBE so I continued its use for two mout^^HH and at the end of that time I was li^H^H a new woman. I really have ne^^^H felt better in my life, have not ha<HBH sick headache since, and weigh I H pounds more than I ever did, 8b I ifl B hesitatingly recommend your mel I cine."? Mrs, Mat Haumb, Edgert^kh "ri - Konnomlcs Cl^HfiSI YY IB. , r ICO. ? ? ? $5000 forftlt If original of abvM t*tt*r linutnansss :aapot 69 wtuQrt* jQflMflg * ^HS| s ^HHRH