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IkDE ON A FOUNDATION OF BRC CANNON, CAPTURED BY K A TURKS'IN THE WAR Ol NOAH'S ARK REBUILT. oUli Enctnew Belleres He Hit Prodaceri an Kxact Model of the Craft. u accompanying sketch will give - * * J A-rft?oAr_ IKnericans a 50011 iueu ui me mu?v. Inary craft which has Just been built p M. Vogt, the Danish engineer, in a attempt to produce an exact model p Noah's ark. [To assist him in his task M. Vogt had >ecial translations made by distinjished Hebrewists of passages out of le Hebrew seriptu.-as relating to the k. and got ideas, too. from a repre'ntation of Noah's cratt on a coin ited 300 B. C. which is the property ! a museum in Copenhagen. Owing to the methods employed in its instruction, doubt was expressed ocu the first as to wlietner M. Vogt's aft would float at all, let alone prove avorthy in a ''blow." Popular inedulity and ridicule, however, dis* * Al? 1 JIJ ? "* "11 onH nrsxxr jroea tiie uuuutri uui ai an, auu w. e has good cause for satisfaction, for is craft's trial trip the other day roved a complete success. Carrying s passengers its designer, several enineers, and a large party of newspaer men, the ark not only showed itself erfectly seaworthy, but moved lightly nd quickly through the water. In ict. experts have declared that in spite f her rudimentary design the strange esse! is the steadiest craft ever seen n the high seas. As nearly as M. Vogt is able to judge, vessel is one-tenth the size of the ffginal Noah's ark and is of about 120 0D8 burden. Entering by one of the Ide ports, one finds a surprising mount of cabin space despite the low, I THE NEW I ling sides. As the craft rides high the water, plenty of light conies >ugh the large portholes in the s, which can be left open for vention when the sea is smooth. Of *se, the ark is simply built and very nly furnished inside, to correspond i the one to which the survivors he first flood disaster are believed :o nave intrusted memsejves. WATER BOTTLE IMPROVED, iuxiliary Heae.* Keeps Temperature Constant. In the ordinary forms of water bags tow in use tbe water falls in tempera:ure after several hours, and It is necessary to replenish with hot water. This fall of the temperature, and the time lost in replenishing the supply, is necessarily objectionable, and somelimes in serious cases requires the con;taut attention of the nurse and a reay of bags. A recently invented bag naintains the temperature comparaively uniform as long as desired. The water reservoir is much the same as 2sual. except that it coutains a heating oil. which may be of rubber tubing. A. hot water kettle and stand is also provided, there being an inlet and outet. for "vapor, connected by rubber tubng with the coil within the water K>tt!e. The bag is first filled with hot ^acer. and then a gas jet or oil lamp Ighted under the kettle, the two deheincr nronerlv connected. As :he water boils In the kettle the vapor j CIRCULATION" OF HOT WATER. vi>ses through the coil system in the nir. thereby raising the temperature >f the water surrounding the coil. A iherruometer inserted in the circulating wves t?? linlirjta '.ba txyxmarj ' /* tVIAN CROWN. .&9<3NN%*M j >NZE TAKEN FROM AN IIISTORIO lRAGEORGE FROM THE i1 INDEPENDENCE. 1004.' ture, and a spring clip, which may be f used to shut off or obstruct the flow j of vapor in the heating coll, permits j of a comparatively close regulation of ! temperature. AUTOMOBILE IN POSTAL SERVICE. j The Italian postal authorities are er- ; perimenting With postal automobiles ' for the sections of territory adjacent j ITALIAN POSTAL AUTOMOBILE. ! ! j to large cities which are not supplied j with up-to-date postal facilities. The j vehicles are compact and speedy, ev- ' ery inch of room in the interior being ; laid out to the best advantage*"^. crew ' of two is required for each' car, the : driver also assisting in the sorting and s'OAH'S ARK. I collection of mail. The experiment j lias proven so successful up to date j that it is quite likely that the service , will be very greatly extended in the ; near future. The illustration is pro- ; f\Xrvfr*** A cro r>h?(nrtr*lnhin 1 UUV^CU LIV/Ui 1UVIVL ?- ? Record. MAIL-30X INDICATOR. ! i Persons who Lave found it difficult i (to decipher the heiroglyphics on ! Uncle Sam's mail boxes, which show i the hours of collection, will appreciate an automatic arrangement which an aspiring inventor is just now endearor ing to persuade the Postoffice Department to adopt for its boxes throughout tile length and breadth of the land. \ A disc revolving inside the box bears near its edge the hours of the several < daily visits of. the mail collector and j (Ww* S3 "t/ ! (Jus b^nail THE MAIL COLLECTION I.VOICATOB, an aperture at the siile of the box is | so arranged as to permit only one of thpse hours to he see!) at a time from the outside. The opening of the box | by the postman causes the disc to re- j volve, and in the little aperture ap- j pears the hour of llic next collection. | The thing is exceedingly simple, and j ~~ <;<r,iroo nn tho disc are large i as iuc iieuiv.u v>. ? ? _ there can be no difficulty in deteruiin- J in? the question "when will this letter { I am about to mail start ou its journev to its destination?" Th? present London price of an j ounce of radium would bo $400,000. according to Dr. Ilauipson in a recent j lecture at. Leeds. Martin Johnson, fbe largest sheep J owner in South Dakota, is said to have marketed a wool clip representing $10,000. rs CONTROLLING PLANT CROWTH. ! p? How the Mysterious Power of Klectrlcify | | in Here Used, Flowers that blooru to-day exceed all creations of nataire. Violets are dou- I bled and tripled iu size. A race of . "I pansies lias been raised up to measure two inches around their faces. Red j roses have been turned into purple and black, and white ones iuto all the i colors of the rainbow. Rose ,bushes | GL have been converted into trees and vines, bearing flowers in clusters, like j grapes. Chrysanthemums have, been | tfu made to bloom like sunflowers, and j lilies and tulips have been'raised in darkness and light, so that their original characteristics were almost totally obliterated. 1 In a modern plant experimental | i laboratory the electric light arc creates j ,n( transformations that astonish the j sei most hardened investigator. Night tll'( and day the bright light stimulates the j ' plants in the*r growth, while all sunshine is cut out from the building. sir The delicate violet grows rapidly, ma- 011 turing its flowers in a few weeks. on The rose flowers with most brilliant m?' colors ahead of its regular season. The ily .reds,are intensified in brightness, but ' they fade quickly. Born in a day and Sh night. tlieir period of usefulness is jt measured by the same short span of ] existence. When brought to the light inj of day they grow sickly and fade gu rapidly. rei The electric arc has produced roses aP eight inches in diameter and violets sp more than an inch across. Tulips be- j ^ came giants, and chrysanthemums re- J no semble cabbages in size. Experiments | th: with electricity show further that the j of light modified by different-colored ! wi globes produces varied results. Ked th? globes intensify the growth and increase the brilliancy of colors, but they ?? also weaken the vitality of thevplants. The flowers quickly fade away and decay, and the plants succumb to or- ^h' dinary disease or to chills. White th; giooes, wnicn cussipare tue ru.vs uuu spread tliem more uniformly. make the sp plants grow steadily and satisfactorily, gu But tite yellow globes so far linve given the best satisfaction, while blue J"1 11G ones apparently neutralize tlje whole ^ effect of the electric light. of Electricity is not life, btit it stimulates life in plants. Its adaptation th may yet revolutionize horticulture. In co our home lighted by electricity the con- bu servatory becomes an experimental garden. We modify the lights with shades suited to the needs of the dif- ^ ferent potted plants. The sick ones ^ are revived by a course in electric J j,0 therapeutics. The pots are placed.near j th the incandescent or arc lights accord- j w: ing to the amount of light and stimula- j to1 tion they need, and under their power- j pr, ful influence they revive and their i diseases are destroyed. ! a}j The disease-producing insects can- j not stand the fierce glare of the etec- j g. trie light placed -within a few feet of them. They attempt to hide beneath <ie the leaves or in the stems, but the wi light penetrates all, dislodging or de- pa stroying them. The powerful white rays are so destructive to insect life ' that a course of electric therapeutics is now used instead of poisonous sprays in laboratories to cleanse the | plants. i ] In the homes where the electric light j toi cannot be used the-employment of or- j SP dinary sunlight, magnified and modi- j ?n( fied by glass and mirrors, is made pos- : ^ Bible. The amateur flower-grower will j mj lind the sunlight susceptible of con- j ov liderable change and manipulation. ] First, the exclusion of all white rays , th by covering the windows with red j a I glass or red curtains is important. The , he powerful .rays directed on the plants j a stimulate and then destroy, driving j >a away the insects?Herald. Ancient Chair.:. gc Seats more or less resembling stools ?that is, seats without backs?were in general use among nations possessing a J certain degreo of civilization in prehis- 11' toric times. What those were like in ^ the early historic period we know from f an examination of Egyptian rnonu- j m< meats, from a study of Greek vases, j Hi or from Etrurian or R^man antiquities j m( that are stored in European museums. | an The Egyptian deities are seated gen- 1 ro' erally on granite blocks, the backs of j ?ri which are raised a few inches only, i . giving a distant resemblance to a chair. ! W? That the Egyptians had seats more j comfortable for domestic use is possi- ! ble, but we have every reason to sup- j Qt pose, although they possessed a high j degree of civilization, that their idea ^ of home comforts was not tha't of mod- ! fi1( era times. I vvl The common people probably sat on Ki blocks of stone or wood or sprawled sq about on tbe ground with some sort Pe of carpet that also served for a bed. ^ei Pll The Etrurians, ancient inhabitants of Italy before the arrival of the Romans, ] appear tq have preferred the reclining j i posture, in which they are usually rep.- j de resented on the sarcophaguses in the , pa museums.?Waverley Magazine. A ?Ton-l5nforceable L,ivw." 1 We gravely doubt if it is physically P& possible to enforce the law, at least j without making Its enforcement the j l-v ro' sole business of the police, and that would entail ' intolerable conditions. ! ^ Some ardent and ill-balanced reformers j S?( have been understood to advocate just | ne such an absolute concentration of po- I Fr lice activity on a single duty, but we < sr have nevex been able to discover any ' 801 ;;ood reason for attributing peculiar j sanctity to the liquor law and leaving j life and property to take care of them- j r selves. Moreover, even if the police | Se were willing and competent to make an , Br arrest for every violation, how valu- 8Ji able would the net result be, in view | of the moral certainty that the courts J would continue to excite the District- | Attorney's indignation 'by dismissing j his complaints??N'ew York Tribune. j ' JFrnsal Minded Chinaman. I i? An amusing trait of the ChinAe I ^ character is pointed out in tlif last re- ! port of the British Consul at Foochow. | A British company started a match j factory to compete against the Japanese. It seemed to prosper, and then Bi stopped. 1 All the Consul drily remarks is: "It would be well, however, if they bore in j mind that the Chinaman not only counts the number of matches in a box, but also takes into consideration the number of those that break in striking or fail to ignite, these beln$* i * c the complaints brought against the -' matches hitherto turned out by the g' tompany."?London Daily Mail. ka RE III KEY PRISON Id Excitement at Biaze in R'ahway Reformatory. IARDS QUELL THE STAMPEDE congciou? Prisoner! Carried Out White Other# Are Placet! Under Heatily Armed Gaarda in Courtyard?Contlacration Started in Paint Shop?City Fire Department Called. hallway. Is". J.?The wildest ^xcitp>nt attended a fire in tin New Jer* .State Reformatory here early in } morning*, wueu tuu-v ]ui?uun.>, ked in their cells, wer* overcome by loke and had to b? carried to the ter air. while the rest ot' the inmates, the verge of a stampede, were irched out of danger between heavarmed guards. The fire started in a well-Ailed paint op. and was well under way when was discovered by a guard. ie sent in an alarm, promptly arousr the Warden and the entire force of ards. While they were making idy to fight the bluze with the prison paratus, dense and sickening smoke read throughout the reformatory, netratlng to the cells on every tier. le institution was overcrowded. Tne ise aroused the prisoners. When rough the smoke they became aware what had happened they were seized th fear and began hammering at sir cell doors. Do you want to roast us. like rats'" me of them yelled. Some werevpraysome were singing hymns, others ?re shouting ^pr a priest, while othi again were cursing, and sbouted: at they would break down the doors at held them imprisoned. SVhen it was found that the fire was reading,' despite the efforts of the :ards, the cell doors were at last un?ked, and the prisoners marched out to the Reformatory yard under a avy guard of keepers, armed with les. It was then found that thirty the inmates had been overcome by e smoke that had poured through e corridors. In their unconscious ndition tney were carriea rrom me lilding by their keepers. They were suscitated by Prison Physician augh and outside practitioners who d arrived in response to hurry calls, [t is said that the fire apparatus 'in e prison was-defective, r.nd that the se was rotten and. burst. Whether is is true or not, it is certain that it is only the prompt arrival of the tvn fire department that saved the ison from destruction. The origin of the tire was a mystery, :hough there seemed to be a dispoion to attribute it to spontaneous mbustion. The damage was $10,000. jsides this, the Bertillion records, pt in the annex building, were renred worthless by being soaked with iter. The fire hardly got beyond the int shop. AUTO MILE IN 37 SECONDS. wden, of Boston. Clips Two Seconds Off Vandelbilt's World's Record. Daytona, Fla.?H. L. Bowden. of Bo$n. iu.an unofficial trial against time, eeded his ninety-horse power autoo mill* nvor th<? T),ivtonii Beach thirty-seven seconds flat, clipping a 11 two seconds off the world's record ide by Killiara K. Vanderbilt, Jr., er the same course just a year ago. Mr. Bowden drove liis car. and after e trial said lie expected to make further reduction in the figures. The < ach was in splendid condition, and I strong wind was blowing with the r. CREW OF ELEVEN SAVED. hooner Cordelia E. Hayes is Wrecked Off Cape Hatteras. S'orfoik, Va.?Captain Brown and his ?w oC ten men. of the four-masted hooner Cordelia E. I-Iayes, were resed by life savers of Cape Hatteras. rhe Hayes was seen ashore on Dia>nd Shoals, four miles southeast of itteras, at half past 5 o'clock in the irning. and crews from Creeds Hill d Cape Hatteras started out in a jgh sea to the rescue. They had sat difficulty in approaching the vesI. owing to the high sea and thick father. t INSANE PRINCE DEAD. lestion of Succession in Lippe-Detmold is in Dispute. Berlin, 'Germany.?Karl Alexander, e? reigning Prince of Lippe-Detmold, 10 "was insane, died at Bayreuth. s death renders more acute the uabble which arose over the rency. in which Emperor William in vened last October, with the differce that now. the fight will be over ? succession. ' President of Long Island Railroad. iVilliam F. P<Jlter was elected PresInt of the Lobg Island Railroad Comny. Corners the Coke Market. By the purchase of the Orossland int of tlie'.Atlas Coke Company of tt&burg, Pit. the H. C. Friok Coke >mpany is believed to have secured a mplete corner in the coke market.has been manifest for some time it the underlying concern of the ?el trust was trying to effect a corr in the market. As a result of the ick interests obtaining a dominating ip 011 the coke busiuess. prices have tred skyward. JKngmnci to speaic mrsr. L'he code of procedure of the North a Commission provided that the itisli side of the Dogger Rank case nil be heard first; that all testimony ill be taken in public, while dc-liberons are held in secret. Revolt in Russia. Six thousand workingmen in the issian oil region alout Baku were open revolt. In t'iree days forty snacks were killed. 100 wounded and Minns in property looted and burned. Sporting Brevities. The Boston Americjns have signed tcher O'Brien. William Spring won the Ci'oss coun7 run of the Pastime- A. C. \utoraobile men arrived from Paris r the show to be held in New York ty. rhe .Georgie and the Hazel L. were nners in ice yacht races on the >rth and Shrewsbury rivers. Pennsylvania loses the services of N. Cartmell, a crack sprinter. George ooke has been appointed head footII coach. J ent family wiped out W, T. Mason, His Wife, T\v) Children and Servant SuIfacatsdL I Son ol Prominent Yorker Visited hf Early Morning Conflagration ? N'i? Lad* <1er to Their Roof Prevented Iiacape. New York Cit*.-?Unable to escape from fheir rich initio. So. IS! We-1 130tli street, because they had neglected to comply with lire regulations that call for a ladder leading from the top floor of their house to the roof, the family of William T. Mason, a lawyer and one of the best known men iti Harlem, was wiped out of existence ~ t?AHn;*i?v Ut? o n'hipli trill"I%V HI liltr I11U1 llllliji uj ?c uuiut. if miv.. broke out in the basement of tlubuilding. Had such a ladder been hi position, the firemen suid. the family could have escaped without much difficulty. Mason, who was a son of former Police Commissionpr. .Joel W. Mason, lived with his familyMn a handsome four-story brownstone building. Five persons, all asleep when the fire started, were awakened by smoke that poured in dense volumes through the house. Tbe father tried to gather his family and lead them to safety, hut his. efforts were too late. The position of the bodies.wheu discovered after Vae flames had been put out told the story of the futile attempt. * The Mason family consisted of the father, the mother, who formerly was Miss Claire Higgons; Ellen, four years old, and Marion, six months old. One servant, too. lost her life. Another, a colored maid, escaped through being cut for the evening. She returned while the firemen were putting out the blaze, and surprised the police. who had reported her dead, by appearing in the West 125th street,station. Frank C. Waldron. of No. 100 West 130th street, was on his way home lhat morning -when he heard cries coming from the Mason house. At the f ame time he saw smoke issuing from 1he basement window and he van to turn in an alarm. On his way to the lire box he met Patrolman Mangan, of the West 125th street station, and after ringing for the engines they returned to the house. They could hear a man shouting for help, and they tried to enter the house by way of the basement. The policeman smashed the windows with his nightstick, but a mass of flame and smoke prevented him from entering. Next the upstairs door was tried. The policeman tried to break down the thick oaken panels, but they resisted his assaults, aad he could not; get in. He then climbed to the window ledge and broke the panes of glass on the parlor floor. But agnin he was prevented from entering by the dense clouds of smoke. When the fire apparatus arrived the firemen tried to enter the house to rescue the inmates, but such headway had the flames made that it was impossible to venture within. Ladders were raised to the adjoining houses, and the fiemen tried to get into the blazing building by way of the roof. They lifted the scuttle but agaiu tbey were driven back by tue flames. After half an hour of'hard work the flames were ' subdued sufficiently to permit the firemen to enter the building, aud they then found the bodies of the victims. They found aUo that the five, which had started in the basement, had made it way upward withremarkable swift-' ness, destroying the stairs, but not entering the rooms on the two upper floors. On entering one of the rear rooms on the third . floor the firemen found the bodies of Mason and his youngest child. The father was apparently about to lift his child from the cradle when a gust of smoke overcame him and be fell to the floor and was suffocated. Headed by Battalion Chief Short the firemen made their way to the little room where the ladder to the roof-scuttle was supposed to be. They found the door of the worn open, but the ladder was not there. Under the debris of the room the firemen found the body, of litrle Ellen. Just outside the room werfe the bodies of Mrs. Mason and Nellie Doyle, the .servant. It ?4-twit J *v? e? hn/1 Wcia iiyputtriiL Luat iuc >n.uuio tried to escape by way of the roof, l>ut the ladder not being where the fire regulations require it to be, they were unable to get out. Escape by way of the stairs had been cut off by the flames, and before the family could decide what to do they were overcome by the smoke. Sues For Over $4,000,000. In the State District Court, at Houston. -jL'exas, John H. Ivirby, of Houston, entered a suit against Patrick Calhoun, of Atlanta, Ga? doing business in New York City, for stock in the Houston Oil Company of the value of $4,189,300. Kirby alleges that this stock belongs to him and that Calhoun is illegally withholding it. Garnishments against | the receivers of tne Houston Oil Company and the Kirby Lumber Company have been served to recover property held by them and sums owing to them by Calhoun. A bond of ?425,000 was given to cover the garnishments. The suit involves the operations which terminated in receiverships for t.ue ttvc corporations. ^ Congo Natives Rise. Advices received in Vienna from missionaries declared that all .the whites on the upper reaches of the Congo had been murdered in a rising of natives. Three Killed In Riot. Three men are dead and thirty badly wounded from a fight at Cartier. Out., between gan^s of Italian and Finnish laborers working on a railway. General Passenger Agent Killed. While making an inspection tour on the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas Cily Railroad General Passenger Agent I,. B. Sullivan was instantly killed near Reaumont. Miss., by the train being ditched at a washout. Deadlock in Delaware. T?Air o ml A rl J .Mr e m^n forcen and succeeded in blocking the possibility of an attempt to get a vote for United States Senator and end. the Delaware legislative deadlock. , Labor World. Union carpenters in Connecticut number 17,300. There is practically a labor Government in New Zealand. Window glass jobbers held a recent conference in Chicago, 111. Chicago (111.) .shoe manufacturers are feeling the loss of the union stamp. The Massachusetts Cotton Mills, at Lowerl, have reduced Ibe wages of 300 employes. Pottstown bricklayers adopted a forty-cent per hour and n?no hourr a day srale for this vear / ' ' IINOR EVENT80FTHE1VEEK WASHINGTON. The President appointed Robert Watehorn to succeed William Williams as Commissioner of Immigration at .New York. President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress recommending that the Panama Canal Commission be reduced from seven to fire or preferably three members. The Legislative Appropriation bill J was taken up by the Senate, and the liill of the Merchant Marine Commission was reported. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Lieutenant-General Chaffee. Chipf of Staff, received a cable message from Major-General Corbin. commanding the Philippines division at Manila, saying he had received the following dispatch from Brigadier-General Carter, commanding the Department of the Visayas: "Lieutenant Avery, one Philippine scout and two natives were wounded in action at Dolores River. Private Austin, hospital corps, was wounded and nine constauuuiry were killed in action near Maslog. Samar. Litutenant Avery and Private Austin arrived liere. The officer referred to is First Lieutenant Morton L. Avery, of the Philippine scouts." A Delegate of the Union party, of Porto Rico, which has a majority In the House of Delegates, presented a bill providing for the independence of Porto Rico under the protection of the United States. The Republican minority in the House, with the support of Unionists who did not approv? the measure, killed the bill. DOMESTIC. Iu a fire which partially destroyed the Hotel Waltham, at Waltham. Mass., Mrs. J. Lovell was burned to death. '. The Atlantic ?oast Line Florida Spo? cial was wrecked at Hardeville" S. C., aim a nagman was iatany nun. In a letter to Fire Commissioner Hayes Chief Croker, of New York City, asked that fireworks other than firecrackers be prohibited next Fourth ol July.The Chicago (III.) Press Club celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. Albert Flake and Robert E. Dowling, of New York City, organized a $3,000,000 real estate company. Relatives of former President Zachnry Taylor inspected his grave, at St. Mathews. Ky., with a view to making its condition more presentable. FOREIGN. Maurice F. Holalian, President of the Board of- Public Improvements, in New York City, under Mayor Van Wyck, died. After seven days of bitter struggle with gales the American liner New York arrived in New York Harbor from Southampton. Gessler Rosseau confessed that he sent dynamite to tne ?. s. umona ana that he tried to blow up the statue of Frederick the Great, in Washington. r Secretary McCord. of the Hecla Iron Works, charged that he wds asked for a bribe of $75,000 by a New York City employe in connection with the building of the Public Library. President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, told of losses, caused by coal strikes, but was hopeful regarding future contracts. "Ike" Vail, "king of bunco men," died, aged seventy. The engagement of Signor Marconi to the Princess Giacinta Ruspoli, daughter of an hereditary Vatican dignitary. was reported in the Patria, of Rome. Snow fell in Rome, Italy, for the first UL11C 1U IC1I JCUIO. Owing to the mistake of her chauffeur. the Duchess of Marlborough's automobile was upset in a ditch near Rugby. England, but she escaped uninjured. By a great .fall of chalk cliff, near Dover, England, says a special- cable dispatch, the South Foreland Lighthouse has been plaoetfuii danger. Fierce winter stones were reported, causing much loss of life on the British Coast and destruction on tbo Riviera. The North German liner Hohenzollern. from Marseilles, grounded at Alexandria Harbor, says a special cabte dispatch, but was refloated without serious damage. .T. Pierpont Morgan, according to a special cable dispatch, is building hit! Ifouse at Prince's Gate. London, England. especially for his collection ol art treasures. . It is the interests of King Leopold fa t;he Canton-Hankow Railway wljueb have been acquired by J. Pierpont ican. and it Is said the line may now extended to Pekin. ' A copy of Shakespeare's "Titus An dronicus,"' published in 1j94, nas just been discovered in Sweden. Advices from Costa Rica were that Lord Fitzwilliam's treasure bunting expedition to Cocos Island met another expedition there under 'Mr. Harned Gray, and a fight ensued for possession. in which the Gray forces wert victorious. Ambassador Choate spoke at the unveiling of the statue of Lord Russell, of Killowen, at London. Mr. Balfour warned the people of Great Britain that development of the empire in all quarters of the globe is the great problem of the day for the. nation." * At the request of the Grand Chancellor President Loubet has erased from the roll of the Legion of Honor the name of M. Begincourt. one of M. Combes' informers. Mr. Balfour, at a dinner in his honor, declared that the duty of all Britons was to work for a stronger union with the colonies. The date for the convening of Parliament has been set for February 14, .mil :i short session is exneeted. It \yas reported in Tangier that an army recently mobilized by the Sultan of Morocco had deserted, and that he now had less than a regiment undoi arms. A new Danish Ministry was formed, containing a number of the members of the former Cabinet. More coal miners have gone on strike in the Ruhr region. It was estimated that ninety-one colleries were involved and that the men on strike numbered 110,000. Troops were sent to reinforce the local gendarmerie in the disturbed districts. The American Chamber of Com merce in Berlin sent a petition tc President Roosevelt urging a reciprocity treaty with Germany. M. Combes and his French Ministry decided to resign, in order to allow the uniting under a new Cabinet ol those elements which are hostile tfi the Premier personally. It was expected that M. Rouvier will form thf new Cabinet. * / ; ' ' BIG GERMAN COAL STRIKE1 i Two Hundred Thousand Miner?' Leave Their Work. r CoTcrnment SfiniDK Coimni#sioner? i* Conference With Operators and the Labor Representatives. i' ' ' . "M Essen, Germany.?According to reports received at the official Mine Office nearly 200,000 men from 203 coal mines went out on strike. The Government Miniug Commissioners were in conference for fotir Lours witli representatives of the poeraiives at Dortmund, hearing the miners' complaints. They were scheduled to meet the Mine Owners' Association to hear their side, and it was expected that the Commissioners would bring about a conference between representative, .of the mine owners and the workman. t Herr Von Velsen, the head of the commission, has instructions from Chancellor Von Buelow to do everything to restore peace. The news from all parts of the mining district indicated that order has i>een preserved., oniy luaigiiiuiaui uaaco of violence beiug reported. Coaf consumers iu this region Ordered supplies from Belgium and from other German districts. The Government railways, in anticipation of the strike, accumulated supplies for sir weeks. } ? The speech of Herr Moeller, Prussian Minister of Commerce and Industry, makes an unpleasant impression among the miners, who think it will delay a i settlement of the strike. The speech of the Imperial Chancellor, Count von Buelow, in the Prussian Diet, affirming that the Government's two duties toward the strike were to preserve ?>rder and assist in a settlement sp as to save German industry from 'a great calamity gives the min ers hope or ootaming concessions. The Executive Committee of the Socialist party has issued a general appeal to German workmen to stand by the strikers, '"as they are striking not only for daily bread, but for therightw of all men." ' AVALANCHE KILLS MANY. Causes Inundation in Norway?Fifty- / nine Persons Perish. t Christiania.?Fifty-nine persons perished as the result of an avalanche of rocks ^t.Naesdal, North of Bergen. A mass of rock was precipitated into Loenvapd Lake from the neighboring hilte, causing an immense wave twenty feet high to sweep the neighboring shores. / , | Houses, people and cattle were swept \ ' J away by the rush of water, and it is known that fifty-nine persons porlshed. \ A great storm later stopped the, relief work, the surrounding district'being unable to send help. EARTHQUAKE KILLS HUNDREDS. Another Disaster In Caucasia?People Buried in Ruins. London, England.?A dispatch from St. Petersburg to a news agency reports that aq earthquake at Shemakha (seventy-six jniles northwest of Bakue) buried hundreds of people in the ruins of buildings in the lower part of the town, which was densely populated despite the decision after the earthquake of three years ago that no more houses should be built there. u BOMBS THROWN IN RUSSIA. ' Houses Damaged, But No One Killed by the Explosives. London. England.?A dispatch to the Telegraph from St. Petersburg says that a bomb was thrown into the central police office at Poshokhon, Government of Yaroslav. Nobody wa? hurt. Much damage ha3 been done to the residence of the povernor of Smolensk by a bomb, but none of the occupauts was injured. j ?- I STATES ELECT SENATORS, KJ-. New Jersey, Montana aud Nevada Choose Congressmen. Senator Kean was unanimously ilom'inated by a joint Republican caucus of the jersey Legislature to succeed himself. Thomas H. Carter was elected United States Senator by the Legislature of Montana. George F.1 Nixon was selected -for.'Senator by the Republican caucus of the Nevada Legislature. ELECT DEPEW. Democrats in State Legislature Voted For Smith M. Weed. Albany. N. Y.?In each house of th<y State Legislature Senator Chauncejr M. Depew was declared the choice of the Republican members as United . ....... , States Senator to succeed himself. The* Democrats cast their votes for Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg. In joint session the next day Senator De' pew was declared elected. Bank Robbers Get $40,000. Information reached Macon. Ga.? from Lafayette, Ala., that a bank in fbat town was dynamited and $40,000 laken. Citizens began scouring the country for the burglars. Fewer Forest Fires. The report of the New York State Superintendent of Forests, made public at Albany, showed a remarkable falling off in forest Ures last year. Big Suit For New York. Corporation Counsel Delany brought suit in New York City's behalf to recover from the Empire City Subway Company $5,000,000 due. and to force s . i.1%,%4. A/M.nrtw.^fiAn 4-rv oili*l?nnrtftr nOQ5P.il, iuai vui|iuianwii i.v ou?4v??vfc sion of the underground electrical conduits now held by the Telephone and Light trusts into the absolute control of the municipality. Niedringliaus Elected. T!inm:is Iv. Niedrinsbaus was clecteJ United States Senator from Missouri. Prominent People. Paul Kruger left a fortune of nearly^ $4,000,000. Edrnond Duval, who for nearly half a century has managed the Monte De Piete in Paris, is about to retiie fron his position. Governor Lanham, of Texas, issued twenty-seven pardons as Christinas presents to the convicts in the various prisons of the State. Queen Alexandra exhibited eight bantams at a poultry show the otuer day and received tefi prizes for them, from the flattered Indtres