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Wfite to APflflA FORFEIT if w?cannot forth wit dilflftlll &boT* testlmooUla, whioh will prgri Berlin's Wealtti. The income tax statistics for 1903 show that the highest Berlin income returned by a single individual amounted to over $740,000. The next highest was over $653,750. The taxes paid on these amounted, respectively, to $29,100 and $26,150. In Berlin the municiDal taxes, which throughout Prus sia are assessed in accordance with local necessities on income, amounted to exactly 100 per cent, of the income tax. The two incomes mentioned are the only ones quoted at over $500,000 a year, but there are thirteen who pay taxes on incomes between '$250, 000 and $500,000. There were thirtythree incomes of between $125,000 and ?250,000, and 021 between $25,000 and ?125.000. The number of those taxed . a ^^rto ona [>n incomes ui auuve <puv ?>aa <ji>,o.7ir, while there were 378,484 who paid taxes on incomes below $730. Humor in Boston Charity. 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IMMEDIATELY ASSUMES CHARGE N>w Head of War Department Sworn and Presented to the General Staff? Extraordinary Military Honors Shown Retirlna: Socretary ? Done at Preal dent's Direction. Washington, D. C.?William H. Taft took the oath of office as Secretary of War. and at once assumed his new duties. The ceremony took place in the large :eception room attached to the Secretary's office in the War Department, and the transfer of authority from Elihu Root, the retiring Secretary, to Mr. Taft, while simple, was more impressive than any similar affair in many years. Before the tappointed hour, Mr. Taft went to the department from his hotel with a little parry; 01 persuum uieuu^ an? members of his family. These included Charles P. Taft and Miss Wilby. of Cincinnati, and H. \V. Taft, of New i'ork; L. R. Wilfley, Attorney General for the Philippines, and J. D. Sehraidlapp, of Cincinnati, a personal friend. They went to Secretary Root's office, where the retiring Secretary, in a few well chosen words and with a good deal of feeling, surrendered his portfolio to Mr. Taft. The party then proceeded to the reception room, where General Chaffee, Chief of Staff, in full uniform, took charge. The room was cleared of all except those who took part in the ceremony, the party of Mr. raft's friends, and the members of the General Staff. Mr. Taft and Secretary Root took their places at the long table, where John Randolph, a notary, administered the oath of office to the incoming Secretary. Then congratulations were showered on Secretary Taft and farewells were said to former Secretary Root. Every army officer on duty in Washington was aligned at the ioorway, and the brilliantly uniformed column passed before the retiring and incoming secretaries. Secretary Taft was in the best of spirits, and he had a smile and good word for every one. while Mr. Root showed the relief he felt in laying down the cares of his sjreat office. After the military men had passed through the room the heads r?f bureaus and most of the employes of the department were admitted, and each of them received a pleasant greeting. After the reception Secretary Taft, with his personal friends and family, went to luncheon. President Roosevelt walked from the White House to the home of Mr. Root, [n Jackson Square, to say goodby personally to the retiring Secretary and Mrs. Root. As the President came up Executive avenue Troop F. of the Fifteenth Cavalry, was lined up in front )f Mr. Root's house, ready to escort him to the station. The President ivent at once to the former Secretary's study, where he was soon followed by General Chaffee and his assistants, Major Generals Gillespie and Bliss.' Secretary Taft came a few minutes later. After ten minutes spent in con ImnOA pcrsauou uie pai icn mc uvuou* The extraordinary military honors shown the retiring Secretary were done at the direction of the President. Hanging in his office as the new Secretary was inducted into the duties >f his post was the picture of his father, Alphonso Taft, who was Presilent Grant's Secretary of War in 18TG. Thus father and son have held the same portfolio, this being the second Instance in the history of the War Department, the first being presented In the incumbency of Simon Cameron under Lincoln and James D..Cameron. Iiis son, under Grant. There is a single Dther case of the kind in Government liLcory, where GideoA Granger was Postmaster - General under Jefferson and Madison, and Francis Granger, his son, under Harrison and Tyler. TREASURY DEFICIT IN JANUARY. Expenditures Exceeded the Receipts by $G,783,183. Washington, D. C.?There was a large deficit in the United States Treas ury for the month of January, although there is still a small surplus for the fiscal year which began on July 1, 1903. The expenditures of the Government exceeded the receipts in January, by $0,783,183. There has been no January deficit in the Treasury since the early part of the last decade. The disbursements were larger in every principal department .of the Government last month than they were in the same month of last yeaV, and there was a decrease in receipts amounting to more than $4,000,000. The receipts from all sources were S41.583.370. as against $45,996,337 in January. 1903, and the aggregate expenditures were $48,372,553, as against $42,032,243. The largest increase in expenditures, as compared with January. 1903, was for civil and miscellaneous purposes, the increase being nearly 53,000,000. Confessed to Murder. Joseph Miller, alias Meunier, walked !nto Police Headquarters at Detroit, .[icb., and gave himself up, admitting hat he stabbed Mrs. James F. Seville to death. Liberia's President in Office. Advices from the Republic of Liberia say that the new President, Arthur Barclay, was inaugurated at Monrovia on January 4. Uruguayan Rebel Victory. Advices from Montevideo say it is officially admitted that 1500 Government troops operating against the insurgents have met with a disaster. The revolutionists captured the ammunition of General Muni/., the commander of the Uruguayan troops. Cotton Merchant a Suicide. Abraham M. Bank, a cotton merchant. of Now York City, embarrassed l>y tho high price of ' otton, shot himself rather than face bankruptcy. World's Fair Pointers. Largest pipe organ ever built, 145 stops: pipes five feet in diameter. The approximate cost of the entire St. Louis Exposition will be $30,000,000. A team of polo players i'rom Ham-1 burg, Germany, will take part in the World's Fair. ' For the Atlanta building in the ivionei \jjiy ai uiu tiuuisuiuu x un.uaoc Exposition $5000. The Mines and Mining building at the World's Fair will cover an area of 525 by 750 feet. ? ? STAGE FOLK STRANDED Greatest Distress Amon? Actors in thr. History of the Country. The IroqnoU Theatre Fire Has Caused a Lr>s? of Millionft to the Theatrical Wdrld. Chicago II!.?Nearly 6000 stage folic are stranded In Chicago, it is estimated by agents. With the number being increased daily through the closing of theatres and attractions in neighboring cities and States, Chicago, because of the Iroquois fire and its results, is now the centre of the greatest distress that has overtaken the amusement business in its history in this country. Showing a sereuity puzzling to the public and even to those in close touch with the theatrical profession, managers, agents, actors, actresses, chorus girls, stage mechanics, bill posters and numbers of other crafts identified with Hia mimir world are awaitinsr want. Idle groups stahd""about in hotels and besiege the agencies. Hunger shows in the faces of sbme. They spurn offers of engagements at "panic salaries." They murmur unpleasant criticism about some of the alleged "benefits planned iu the name of the profession. "It is .1 case of the survival of the fittest, and probably the starvation of the rest." said one old-time manager. Millions in amusement investments have been and are being swept away. The collapse following thn Iroquois Theatre disaster is not local in scope. There are the same discouragements in varying degrees throughout the country, and the stranded employes of attractions driven on the rocks are seeking refuge in New York and Chicago. As the ereater number of companies are disbanding throughout the Middle West, Chicago is feeling the results worse. Of the four big producing concernS in Chicago in the field of melodrama two have closed all their attractions and the others have called iD most of their shows. DOMINICANS FIGHTING. General Jimenez Gets Supply of Am munition *rom ine unerotee. St. Thoma3, D. W. I.?Advices have been received here to the effect that General Jimenez was at Monte Cristl on January 29 and preparing to resume the contest, having received a large supply of ammunition by the steamer Cherokee from New York. A gunboat appeared in the offing of Monte Cristi 0.1 January 18 and was supposed to be waiting to intercept the Cherokee. The gunboat sent a boat in toward the shore, but the insurgents prevented it from landing by artillery fire. To this the gunboat responded by bombarding Monte Cristi on the following day, but she did slight damage, and finally steamed away before the Cherokee arrived and landed her ammunition. There has been hard fighting around Monte Cristi and Santiago de los Ca balleros. Hundreds o? men nave Deeu killed and business is paralyzed. CASHIER $241,000 SHORT. But It is Said That the Franklin Bank of Cincinnati Will Not Lose a Cent. Cincinnati, Ohio.?The report of the experts who have completed their examination of the books of the Franklin Bank, of this city, shows the former cashier, Henry Burkhold, to have been $241,000 short in his accounts. Burkhold was superseded as cashier several months ago, and has been so prostrated by his financial collapse that ho is Dot expected to recover. .ionn j. Kilgour, President of the Franklin Bank, says there will be no prosecution, and that the bank and the creditors will not lose a cent. Burkhold has given Mr. Kjlgour power of attorney to sell securities and settle up his affairs, and out of the $2,000,000 of Burkhold's holdings it is thought about $30,000 will be left for his estate. WILL NOT GIVE UP ZEIGI.ER. L ov. Odell Declines to Houor the Missouri Requisition. Albany, N. Y.?Gjv. Odell lias decided to deny the. request of Gov. Dockery of Missouri for the extradition from.this State of William Zeigler, who was indicted for bribery in connection with the baking powder scandal in the Missouri Legislature. The Governor reached his decision after receiving an opinion on the case from Attorney-General Cunneen. He holds that the fact of the indictment is not alone sufficient ground for ex4 flirt 4- SV mnof UcUUUUU. 111" CUIIlCliUO Hint ??. luug I# also be proved that Mr. Zejgler is a fugitive "from Missouri. The evidence as to whether Zeigler was in Missouri at the time of the alleged offence, Mr. Cunneen holds, is in Zeigler's favor. Mabel Parker Sentenced. Mabel Parker, the forger, was convicted in New York City, and sentenced to the Reformatory for Women. Her husband will serve ten years in Sing Sing. [ Rebels Recapture Town, i A dispatch from Santo Domingo says that after a desperate fight the insurgents recapured the town of San P-jdrc de Mucoris. Official Ends Life. Public criticism caused Ira Lucas. Supervisor of the town of Clymer. X. , Y.. to commit suicide by hanging him! self. Detective Shoots Hoy. .Tames C. McKenna, an Erie Railroad detective, of Jersey City, N. J., was arrested there for shooting James Condon in the back while chasing him across the railroad yards. M. Comtesse Kills Himself. M. Comtesse, son of the President of lite Swiss Confederation, orumitted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver while riding in a c;ib at Paris. France. College and Educational Notes. The Rev. W. C. Huntington, dean of the Boston University Theological School, has been elected President of the university. Property in the residence district of New York City, owned by Columbia University and valued at $10,000,000, is to be sold. Three new schools and at least twenty-two new buildings, of which the official total estimated cost is $3,000,000 or more, will be erected at the University of Chicago within the next leu years. r-". RUSSIA SENDS ft my Urges Withdrawal of All the Exacting Claims. SHE REFUSES TO GIVE WAY Qualifying Clauses in Her Note Would Leave Heal-Control of Manchuria in Czar's Hands?Japan Mint Be Satisfled With Sphere of Influence in Southern Korea. St. Petersburg, Russia.?The report that the St. Petersburg reserves have been warned to hold themselves in readiness is quite untrue. Even the large contingent of the guard regiments here and at Tsarskoe Selo has not been notified to prepare for active service, which would be the case if the supposed large number of troops in the Eastern provinces had proved insufficient. Equally false is the pretended knowl-., edge of the reply of Russia, which is construed as giving way to Japan's demands. Such reports are laughed at in the Foreign Office. On the contrary, it will be found that in the very friendly, almost paternally, worded reply which this country is about to make, and which it is sincerely hoped will pave the way to further negotiations, Japan will be reminded that Russia also has a minimum, and that she cannot give any binding promises to Japan, which country must be satisfied with a sphere of influence in Southern Korea, leaving the north as the sphere of influence of Russia. Russia further urges the Japanese Government to withdraw all impossible demands. All knowledge of the alleged mediation proposed by Prince Ching at Pekin is denied here, and a specific denial is given to the assertion that the Russian Minister there invited Prince Ohing to take such action. The report that 1000 Rijssian troops are to occupy Antung is also contradicted, it being Intimated that as this is one of the open ports of the United States the report might have been put out to arouse a renewal ^p IIia Cfofz-.a KIL iiuaiiif Icc^iUn lu ll": umicu oiai.?, i It has been ascertained that there was practically no division-in sentiment among the Emperor's advisers at the recent meeting. In this connection it is pointed out that much of the criticism abroad with regard to the delays incident to the formulation of the present, as well as the former Russian communications, is largely attributable to ignorance of the complicated machinery and deliberate methods of the Russian Government. Tokio, Japan.?The Government does not, it is said, possess any Russian information concerning the character of the forthcoming note, although it has received various reports, the majority of which say the reply will be satisfactory. None, however, emanate from a source which warrants their full acceptance as cori^ct. In the judgment of many the character of the i?ote does not warrant the belief that Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Foreign Minister, has given out the slightest intimation of its contents. Even that carries little assurance, for the Russian and Japanese conceptions of what constitutes a fair bargain vary materially. The presumption that Russia has made concessions does not in the least .warrant the conclusion that there will be a peaceable settlement of the existing difficulties. Her entire proposition will be carefully scrutinized, and every con tinge-:cy of the situation closely weighed. If the reply should prove to be completely unsatisfactory to Japan the outcome of the conference is manifest. Should it give partial satisfaction an exchange of notes is possible, although there, remains slight room for additional diplomacy. TEXAS BANKERS ARRESTED. Director and Cashier Charged With Embezzling $50,000 at Henrietta. Fort Worth, Texas.?E. B. Carver, one of the leading bankers and stock men in Texas, a director in the Farmers' National Bank at Henrietta, and Cashier Henry B. Patterson/ of the same institution, were placed under arrest by Deputy United States Marshal Dryden. They were taken before United States Commissioner Dodge. Carver furnished bonds for $4000 and Patteraon for $750. The charge of embezzling $50,000 of the bank's funds was preferred by National Bank Examiner Weir, the information being filed by United States District Attorney Atwell, of Dallas. Carver was once President of the Gulf and Brazos Valley Railroad, and one of the leading stock men. in Texas. He owns a large number of cattle on a New Mexico ranch. COLORADO FLIER WRECKED. One Person Killed and Thirteen Injured on the Missouri Pacifie Road. Kansas City, Mo. ? The "Colorado Flier" on the Missouri Pacific that left Denver for Kansas City was derailed near Miller, Kan., while running at the rate of forty miles an hour. The engine and a rear car, a Pullman, alone remained on the track. The baggage car. smoker and a chair car were thrown into a ditch, upset and shattered- One person?W. L. Brown, of Ransom, Kan.?was killed and thir teen injured, one seriously. At tlie time of the accident the train was two hours' lato- and mating up time. It had no orders to stop at Miller, and went by at full speed, being derailed on the outskirts of the town. Speech on Scaffold. Harry D. Egbert, who was hanged for murder ac Salem. Ore., made a speech from the .scaffold. "My friends," he said, '"take me as a mark. Keep your children off the street, and above all out of the saloons. Bad raising and bad company is the cause of my downfall. I have repented my sins." Negro Murderer Executed. For the murder of II. I>. Byrd, a plantation superintendent. Tom Caruthers, colored, was hanged at Abbeville, Ga. Prominer.t People. General Frederick D. Grant has relinquished command of the Department of Texas. King Peter of Servia is said to be prepared to abdicate and allow the Powers to name his successor. Henry Harland, novelist, who has been spending a few weeks in tike United States, will soon return to Eng. land. Lord LamLngtoD. tie new Governor of Bombay, has been made knifht-coinmander of the Older -* Indian Empire. ' vi :4r;':"^'v r^''rv : ' ~'V ;' <l}.' " ' "A y MRS. MAYBRICK SET FREE | American Woman Finally Released From British Prison. ( Her Life Sentence For Death of Huhband Terminates After a Serri-' tude of Sixteen fears. | London, England.?Mrs. Florence Maybrick, tlie American woman who 1 was serving a life sentence for having poisoned lior husband, was released from the Aylesbury Female Convict Prison at 6.45 o'clock on the morning of January 25, on special license. Her mother, the paper says, had vis- , ited her Saturday. January 23, and . evidently was the bearer of important 1 news, xne uovernor ot xue prison on Sunday conferred with the prison t officials with a view to arranging for j the departure of the prisoner, which was carried out very quietly. Mrs. Maybrick, accompanied by one i of the-prlson matrons, entered a closed' < carriage and drove to Aylesbury Station, where she took a train'for .Lon- j don. She drove from Euston Station j and from there went to a private home 1 not far from the metropolis^ Sire- will t remain at the home for a short period [ in order to recuperate-and to await j the completion of .certain formalities ? which will give her a freedom of move- j mcnt not allowed by persons on ordi- s nary tlcket-of-leave. Mrs. Maybrick, the paper concludcs, < during the last few months in prison, j was employed in the lightest work as a 1 reward for good conduct. ^ The release of the famous prisoner f hrinco nn flnri nnp fit thp mnst Pele brated criminal cases in the history of England. At the age of thirty-nine ( years the once noted American beauty j -leaves her cell, white-haired and blasted with the prison pallor. Since the ] death of her husband, in 1888, after a , most unhappy married life, she has ( faced a sentence to death by hanging, ( has seen a gallows erected outside her . prison window, on which she was to , die. has received a commutation of her j sentence to imprisonment for life, and j finally, has been released after serving s nearly sixteen years. The British Government was np- , pealed to again and again, the officials '{ of the Home Office being in almost , constant receipt of petitions in which , new evidence was given and new rea- ' sons for seeking a pardon presented. ! When it was officially announced that the officials of the Home Office had 1 finolltr o rrrnarl to rolonsp IVfrS. MflV brick, after her many years of im- j prisonment, there was the greatest rejoiclng among the members of the In- J ternational Association of Women, 1 who from the time that they had had , the sentence of death imposed upon her changed to life, imprisonment. 1 fought for her release. It was stated ^ then that after her release she would 1 probably go with her mother to her . home in Rouen. France, and that later . she would return to America to live in . Louisiana. STEAMERS IN COLLISION. ( Coast Liners Collide While Running ] Slowly in Clear Weather. 1 New York City.?The Wilson line ' steamshin Colorado. Captain Cox. from Hull, while rounding the southwest Spit in the lower bay, collided with the ! outward bound Bristol City line steamer Boston City. Captain Carey, from New York for Bristol and Swansea. The Boston City had a large hole ' torn in her port side forward of the bridge and her bridge was smashed, j She began to fill rapidly and was run into shallow water to prevent her sinking. ( The Colorado, after the accident, stood by and took off some of the crew ! of the Boston City and then proceeded to her dock. The Colorado suffered ' but slight damage. One or more of ; her forward plates were started, which let some water Lnto her forepeak. Both , ships were running slowly when the accident occurred. KILLED IN A MINE SHAFT. Five Men Lose Their Lives by an Explosion While They Were Coming Up. < Mahanoy City, Pa. ? Five roekmen met death by an explosion of dynamite at the Maple Hill colliery near here. ( They were returning in a steel bui-ket to the mouth of a new shaft which , they were engaged in driving. Their bodies dropped back into the pit, a distance of more than 300 feet. , All five were employed in the night shift and had charge of the drilling and blasting. They had propped and charged six holes at the bottom of the fhirfv nmmrts of dvnamite and were being hoisted to the'surface to explode it by an electric current from the engine room. As the bucket neared the mouth a surplus quanaity of dynamite that they had taken down in a former trip to blast in some manner exploded, possibly through a jarring of the bucket. The men were hurled upward, thr>ir bodies striking the side timbers. They they fell back into the pit. Suicide in Hospital Ward. In the presence of nurses and patients in a large ward at the Pennsylvania Hospital, at Philadelphia. Michael Soloman, forty years old, ccui? in-j Htf ohnnHnf? himself ill I11IUCU ouitmb KSJ wuvw?.0 the head. Okabandja Still Besieged. A dispatch received from Swakopmund, German Southwest Africa, says that since January 21 three men have been killed in sorties from Okahatulja rgainst the besieging rebel native?. Bribery Indictments in Milwaukee. The Grand Jury of Milwaukee. Wis., wonnd up its work with eleven more indictments. Seven arrests were This completes a total of fifty iudii-trnents by the jury in its session, which have extended over the largest part of two months. Embezzler Caught. Charged with embezzling $20'Vj r.f the city funds of Nashua, N. H.. two years ago. while City Clerk. Harry A. Bailey is under arrest, at St. Louis. .Mo. Sporting Brevities. The American Association of Baseball Clubs is to adopt a schedule providing for 154 games. Benny Yanger refuses to box Aurelia Herrera at Butte, Mont., on February 25, if Tim Hurst is engaged to referee. The third test cricket match between Australia and England, held at Adelaide, Australia, was won by the former by 2L6 runs. The Board of Arbitration of the trotting turf have ruled agaiast performances made with tu? &U1 of wind shields. VIM I AM ft WHY (MR '! 1 laLI/lill U> II III I IIUI WUIW I "v > I :ormer Secretary of the United States Navy Passes Away., *' ** - V :ND CAME AFTER RELAPSE %* . Peritoaiti* and Blood Poisoning Set la After a Severe Attack of APPendl" citls? Connolidator of Traction LiaM ?A Man of Repoated Succes?e? 1? juar^o JCiUiorpriBrn. y New York City.?William Collina fVhitney, former Secretary of the Navy, l_ n President Cleveland's first Adminl?ration, street railway financier and iportsman, died at his residence, 871" [Tifth avenue. His death was due to )eritonitis and blood poisoning following an operation performed for append llcitfe. * Mr. wnitneys conuiuuu ironi iur- ^ :ime that the operation was perforated, j t was admitted by those intimate with ( :he family/ was much more serious :han indicated by the bulletins issued; rhese bulletins were not signed by the physicians in attendanceKbut were issued, it was explained, by Mr. 'Whitley's private secretary, , JThomas Began, is coming from the household, ^ y ' The comparative suddenness, of Mr. Whitney's. d,eath was a. great sTiock :o his friends, many of whom hastened to make inquiries as to his condition1 vhen the news of his illness was irst made public. It is now under' stood that his condition was so grave., hat among those familiar with. the\ ?ase no hope was entertained for hi# 'ecovery. , .. . The operation, to perform which Dra. Bull and Walker were- hastily... summoned, Dr, Bull being (tailed in .-from >ut of town, disclosed the fact that the ' ilsease had attacked Mr. Whitney in a. particularly virulent form. When the lppendix was laiji bare, it is under* stood, it was found to be in a highly n flamed condition, and pus was flowing freely from the sat. The sick man was nearly sixty-three rears old, and although an excellent L'onstitution helped him to rally slightly lfter the operation his age militated' lgainst him, and great physical depression rendered him still less able to withstand the progress of tbe disease. The case was complicated by peritonitis, which set in after the, opera* tion. aijd was fully developed two days. Inter, although according to reports sent out he had passed a favorable'' night with less fever and inflammation, those who knew had faint hopes of hip recovery, and these quickly dlsap peared before tne ravages or toe oiooa poisoning. Mr. Whitney had been unconscioiia For an hour when the end eame. Witlt him at the last, his dyinjJ hands clrisped in theirs, were his son and daughter, Harry Payne and Dorothy Whitney; Two honrs before death the condition t)f Mr. Whitney seemed to show improvement over that of the precedingilay. Dr. Walter B. .Tames, the family physician, who had remained beside the patient throughout the night, and Diorning, felt hopeful for the first time since the o^ration was performed. It seemed then as if science had, stayed* the, hand of death and that Payne Whitney, the younget son. and Adelaide Randolph, the step-dafghter, who were hurrying homeward on special trains from the South, would fintf a convalescent father to greet them. Mr. Whitney underwent a sudden re-1 lapse and passed from acute pain into mercirui unconsciousness. .mm William Collins Whitney was bom r on way, Franklin County. Ma$s.< on^B Tuly 14, 1841. He catao from the bPsfl^B rnritan stock of New England, being descendant in tbe eighth generation otl^B John Whitney, an English Puritan,^# who settled in Massachusetts in 1635. On his mother's side he was descended^K from William Bradford, Governor of^B Plymouth Colony. ag| After preparing for college at thefj^B Williston. Seminary, at Easthampton.HB Mass., young Whitney entered Tale inH| TWO and was graduated with honorsu^H Ho enme here nnd entered the law^H office of Abraham It. Lawrence. 8H But while he practiced law ii<> rildH not abate at all his interest in pplitics,^H unci in the Blaine-Cleveland campaiga^H of 1884 worked bard with his charac-^H toristic skill in organization for the^H election of Mr. Cleveland. The dayH| nfter Cleveland's inauguration Mr*E Whitney was appointed Secretary ofl the Navy. He afterwards devoted hlm^H self to securing control of the surfac?B railroads of Manhattan, and succeede^H in building up the great rorporation^H known as the Metropolitan Street Rail-H| way Company. | BIG FIRE IN KXOXVILLE. H Business Section of the Tennessee CitjBH Burned Over. jffig Kaoxville. Tenn.?Fire in the heart ofH the wholesale district here caused loss of nearly $400,000 and cost th^H lives of two men. ]KH The dead are William A. Maxey, CapHfl tain of Hose Wagon Company No. and John J. Dunn, a former fireman^H who was assisting the regular tiremeo^^B The tire started in the six-story PhofBB ni.x Building:, on Gay street, betweeiMH Wall and Union avenues, and th^^H wholesale hat and millinery house oKE Murphy & Robinson. jSffl At the height of the tire Chattanoog^H was called on for aid. but was later ncHH tified that help was not needed. Five Hurt in Elevator. BW Five men were seriously injured b^BH the falling of an elevator in the Arthi^BS l -iM: U Va?. V\x-1- r'Jtr. flBld ouiuuu^, in i^c?' M.kjk tx viij . More Trouble in Macedonia. HgB A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, saj^M th<* chiefs of the Macedonian revoI^EH tionary organization .in the interir^^H have sent circulars to the members the organization ordering a renew^BB of the insurrection. HH Bunk Cashier Cone With $21,000. EH Lee DeFord, cashier of the Bank SB Alraaiont, Mo., is a fugitive from juM9 : ice, chars#*! with embezzling of ;lio bank's funds. The bank is the hands ot a receiver.1 5&H Relieved. by Martial Law. (tovernor Pen body. of Colorado. revoked his order of December 5, p^hH claiming martial law in Teller Coui\^^H Military Commander Verdeckbergj^^H sued a proclamation announcing peaco ;i:ui soon oruec are lUiir hh stored." .Mississippi Town Wip?d Out by fSRHB The town of Hoiiandale. Miss., line of the Yazoo and Mississippi \bHH ley Railroad, was destroyed by only two bouses escaping. The los^^M estimated at $200,000. HH