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. # Chilean Seaport Estimvo Thousand. LIT AT $250,000,000 > All the suburbs of Valparaiso are 1 in ruins. For many miles also up and Hmvn tho mast whole towns and vil VALPARAISO t jNiimber of Dead in ated at Tv PROPERTY LOSS Pi fVjnamitc Vscd With CJood Effect tc Check the Fires That Folltnvei the Destructive Shocks?Ruir More Complete Than at Sai Francisco, Captain Says?Cable Companies Estimate That 700( IVrsons Were Killed in Chile ?100,000 Homeless?Fugitives Huddle on Icy Hills?Wintrj Mains Drench Hundred Thou sand Refugees From Ruins. Valparaiso, Chile.?At 7.52 o'clock last Thursday evening Valparaiso experienced an earthquake of great severity. That night eighty-two shocks were felt. The shocks continue, bul are steadily diminishing in force. Most of the buildings of the city were either ruined or damaged. The loss will be enormous, prob ably reacnmg ?2ou,uuu,uuv. ^ ^ Two thousand persons killed is considered to be a fair estimate oi the casualties. The captain of a steamship which has arrived from San Francisco says that the situation here is worse thas that following the disaster aj I5ac Francisco. It is generally considered that the destruction here is more complete than that which bsfell San Francisco. Vina del Mar (three miles from Valparaiso and having a population -of over 10,000). Quirihue (225 miles to the southward, with a population of 2r 0 0): Salto, Limache (fifteen miles to the northwest, with a population of 6500); Quillota (twentyfive miles to the northwest, with a population of 10,000), and villages all around were destroyed. All the towns in the Aconcague Valley have sunereu lerriutj. Most of the damage was due tc fire, which started immediately after the first shock. The whole population is sleeping on the hills, the parks or the streets. Some articles of food are very scarce. Milk costs two Chilean dollars a liter, and it is almost impossible to obtain meat, even at high prices. It is not, however, believed that a famine will occur, as thouBanas of tons of flour, wheat and rice are in stores and on the ships. The authorities have taken charge of the distribution of food. The railroads are all destroyed. Rain, which began to fall immediately after the first shock, stopped an hour afterward. The nights are very cold and windy, and the people sleeping in the open are suffering greatly. Couriers havs been disnatched both north and south for troops. Martial law has ruled in Valparaiso since the first day of the shocks. The conformation of the whole city area has been greatly changed The sea now washes over most of the low lying district, which was given over almost exclusively to business Most of the wharves have disappeared, and only the roofs of some ol the warehouses now show above the waters of the bay. The southern end of tue encircling chain of hills seems to have dropped many feet, while di rectly back of the city there are great fissures in the hillsides. Much damage was done by the quakes sending rocks down the hills on the city. One of these rocks fell into one of the big public elevators and killed six per sons. The elevators were used foi reaching the residence quarters or the high terraces, but all of then now are out of commission. The fires that started after the first destructive shock defied all the efforts of the firemen. The watei mains were broken, and the onl\ source of supply was from the bay But the peculiar formation of the city saved it from being swept cicar by the conflagration. While some i terraces left trails of ashes, others both above and below, were not ever scorched. But in the lowlands the flames rolled almost without hindrances', and tens of millions in prop erty were consumed. Many ghouls have been shot, bu' public order on the whole has beei remarkably good. One of the wors trials is the lack of light. The ga; and electric light plants were botl destroyed, and not a street -e ar is i: operation. The railroads, too. ar< blocked, and ;he only open means o communication is by the sea. The overland telegraph wires are down and the city keeps in touch with th< > '-outside v.-or Id lry two lines of cables one running south, and the othe: north. A repair gang started on in the afternoon to attempt to oper communication by land with Santia go. It is expected there wiil be littb difficulty in repairing the wires, a it is reported (here was not mud damage done between here and thi capital. Railway Wages i-taiscd. A scarcity of railroad trainmen ii Pittsburg led the management of th< roads entering that city to rais wages and cut down the age limit. Veteran Drops Dead in Station. At Chicago. Joseph Colyer, of New ark, X. J., dropped dead from hear diseaSfe in the Grand Central Station flolv^r. who was a veteran of th Civil War. had been attending the re I'.nion of the Grand Army of the Re ' - public in Minner oiis. f Feminine News Notes, i Hetty Green must sive way to Mr* Sage as the richest woman in Air.cr ica. It is estimated that 5,000,00 women are earning wages in th British Isles. Before a Norwegian girl can niarr she must present a certificate tha she can cook. Mercedes Lopez, a Mexican worn an, is said to possess the longest hni of any person in the world. He height is five feet, and when sh stands erect her hair trails on th ground four feet eight inches b lagcs have been wiped out. Vina del 1 Mar, lying on the hills, three miles ? directly behind the city, was leveled > to a building, and the 10,000 inhabi( tants are camping in the ruins. Salto and Limarch, two villages fifteen 5 miles to the northwest, with a com' bined population of 6500, are deso. late, aud Quillota, with 10,000 persons, twenty-five miles to the northwest also has been blotted out. From . every town and village from which news has been received the destruction has been complete. Santiago, Chile. ? Tremendous j damage has been done by the earthquakes all over the middle portion of Chile. In this city the property loss is estimated at $3,000,000. The shocks continued for about fourteen hours, and the great quake early on . Friday jnorning was followed by several disastrous fires. The firemen eventually succeeded, however, in > averting a general conflagration. ; The panic was <60 terrible during the vibrations that several persons, crazed with fright, flung themselves 1 from the balconies of their homes ? and were dashed to death in the l streets below. Nearly all the churches were destroyed. The Congress buildings, the municipal build1 ings, the normal school, the courts, ! the Peruvian Legation, the residence of President Riesce, the Central Market. the Prefecture of Police and the 1 National Telegraph office all were se; riously damaged. The wires of the 1 tramway system and the electric light plant were short-circuited and the city is still without car service or light. The scenes in the hospitals were \ distressing in the extreme. Some of 1 the patients left their beds and ! fought desperately with the nurses 1 and attendants. One woman, who had just undergone an operation for J appendicitis, jumped from a fourthstory window and was killed on the pavement. There were also shocking happenings in the prisons. All the prisoners, filled with terror, made frantic efforts to escape and some of them were shot down by the guards. The worst damage was done in the f poorer districts, where hundreds of 1 houses collapsed. Eight bodies were ' taken out of the ruins, nvnking a to! tal of thirty-#ght since the working 1 parties were impressed by the police. ! All lines of railway to the north and the line to Talca are interrupted. It is reported that in several places the ' tracks are covered by landslides. ^ A majority of the sufferers from the disaster were residents of the 1 poorer sections of the city, where f many small houses were thrown to ' the ground. While the fires which followed the ; earthquake lasted they greatly aug mented the terror of the people. But they were promptly put out. ' The lines of the electric street car system and the clectric light wires : were short-circuited, interrupting 1 street car travel and plunging the city into darkness. Many slept in street cars, in car: riages and in the open air in the pub lie squares and streets. 1 There have been several return 5 shocks of slight intensity which have kept the people in alarm. The astro t nomical observatory, however, has given out a statement that it does not >' appear to be possble that there will - be a repetition of the severe shocks. 5 The Government has taken steps to restore quiet. An inspection of all ' houses left standing has been ordered > and directions have been issued for i the distribution of relief supplied to those in need. J A traveler who came here bv ex press train says that when the train was near Las Vegas, about half way r between Valparaiso and Santiago, the cars were shaken violently and the i engine nearly left the track. A stop i was made and the terrified passeni gers alighted. Later they proceeded . to Llaillai, which they found in ali most total ruin. i As all telegraph and telephone lines were damaged, the exact situa tion throughout the country is not clear, but advices have been received t that the towns of Virlage and Casa. 1.1 o*wl i uiuiilrt vv tri t; euuicij ucauu?vu a.iu, L that San Felipe, I'ancagua, Millipilla s and Llaillai were severely damaged. i At Concepcion the shock was sei vere and a number of persons were ? killed or injured. f The towns of Rengo, San Fernan: do, Quillotta and San Antonio and , many villages are iu ruins. 3 All railway service in the Central , Zone is either stopped or greatly der layed and trade is practically at a t. standstill. 1 All lines of railway to the north - and tho line to Talea are greatly 2 damaged. s A troop of cavalry has been sent i to re-establish communication with ? Valparaiso. The alarming news first received Handcuffed Negro Siioots Deputy. i E. R. Abernathy, Deputy Sheriff of ? Littleton, Ala., was shot by a negro o prisoner and died shortly afterward. The negro was handcuffed when he fired the fatal shot. L Se\*en Workmen Killed. ' Seven men were killed and seven c were seriously injured when a fast - freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad tore throush a work v/ain | near Johnstown. . Labor World. Tn the South there are nov.' six - times as many children at work as there were twenty years ago. 0 Throe hundred thousand harvesle ers work their way north from Oklahoma to Canada, and 100,000 tlires.lv ers follow them. t The California Supreme Court has rendered a decision upholding the Child Labor law passed by the Legr islature of 1903. r The Victorian Government has doe cided to buy 1400 r,.cres of land at e Maribvrnong. near Melbourne, Uj bo used for workmen's tomes. i by the Government from Valparaiso | has not been confirmed, but it is | known that numerous buildings in the vicinity of the port were destroyed and that there have been severe fires iu the Almendral quarter. The Mayor of Valparaiso sent word that lie did not know the number of killed or injured. The known number of dead does not exceed one hundred, according 1 to the best estimates. Among the dead is the wife of Admiral Montt, a distinguished naval commander. People arriving here from Valpar- j aiso say the situation there, though I distressing, has been exaggerated. Senor Grez, one of the refugees , from Valparaiso says: "The first shock was prolonged ' and threw ti e whole city into inde- j scribable panic. People crowded the j streets and the squares, crying and j lamenting. The first shock also j threw down a number of buildings. "The second shock was still more i severe and resulted in the crumbling j of most of the buildings in the Almendral quarter. "Immediately after the second ; shock the city was plunged into terrifying darkness, but this did not last long, for fires soon started. The lights from the fiames came as a welcome relief to the darkness. The people were in an extreme state of j ; terror, many believing that the end of the world had come." ( According to others the people of Valparaiso are utterly exhausted and will flea the city as soon as the railways are running again. The water pipes were broken and water poured through the streets. There is even lack of water to drink. Provisions are scarce and hunger , is beginning to make itself felt. The Government has ordered its warships stationed at Talcahuano to take to Valparaiso immediately the most nporiori ripnpssities of life. More than CO,000 persons have taken retuge in the hills surrounding Valparaiso, which were not much disturbed by the shocks. Among the buildings destroyed were the Victoria Theatre, the Bellavista Railroad station and the Club : de Setrembe. Most of the severe damage was done on the low ground ! reclaimed from the sea* The Church of the Espiritu Santo and the Church of La Marced, as well as a large part of the buildings on Victoria street, were destroyed. Avenue Erazil is almost completely , wrecked. The masses of material that were thrown into the streets made going about impossible. That portion of the city where are the customs house and the City Hall , was not seriously damaged. A large majority of the houses are not fit for habitation. The storehouses of the 1 customs house are almost totally de- [ stroyed. An employe of the telegraph company sent word from Salto, near Valparaiso, confirming the news of serious fires in the Almendral quarter, 'i his employe also sent news that the Spanish-Italian Bank Building of Valparaiso was destroyed by the earthquake. 9 TOWN DROPPED INTO SEA. Report Regarding Mincha?Estimate tt>....n.?jr? rnnn X llut ?jU1UII1UiI&u Jtiliiu vvu. New york City.?Advices received from Valparaiso by the cable com- '< panies were to the effect that the ' small towns and villages along a large part of the Chilean coast suffered terrible destruction by the '< earthquake, some of them being completely wiped out. '1 It was estimated that the loss of 1 life in Valparaiso and elsewhere in Chile would reach 7000, with a dozen important places still to be heard 1 from. Mine! a, a little town on the 1 coast, had, it was thought, been com* pletely wiped out, as couriers arriv- j ing at Coquimbo reported that Min- I '< cha had dropped into the sea. Ligua ' also suffered greatly, losing about j half its population and the majority | 1 of its finest buildings. 1 < PALMA PUTS RIVALS IX JAIL. < Plot to Assassinate Cuban President . is One of Grave Charges. Havana, Cuba.?Half a dozen highly prominent leaders of the Liberal party have been taken into custody < on the charge of conspiracy against the Government and plotting to as- j sassinate President Palma. The events have shown that the ' Government was fully aroused to the i necessity of putting down not only ] the open outlawry in Western Cuba, : but also to the necessity of capturing i and confining the alleged leaders of ? this movement, who were strongly suspected of plotting the assassina- : tion of the President and overthrow- < ing the present Government by force. ? The men arrested here are General Carlos Garcia Velez and his brother 1 Fausto, ex-Cuban Consul at Bremen; 1 e c-senator iuonieaguao, t/uiuuti mau- i > nel Piedra. Chief of Police in tho ] House of Representatives, and General Enrique Lovnaz del Castillo, a former Congressman from Puerto Principc Province. The five abovementioned men are charged with conspiracy. They say they are merely i the victims of persecution. j 1 DEFEATS THE MAD MILL AH. | 1 Sultan of Mijertair. Victorious Aftci j a Fiorcc Battle. London.?According to the cor- < respondent at Aden of the Daily Mail 1 after devastating nineteen Ogaden I villages the Mad Mullah attacked the ] territory of the Sultan of Mijertain. t Both sides lost heavily in a bat- i tie. The Sultan had nine near rela ] tives and 700 warriors killed, bul i eventually repulsed the Mullah, whe ] retreated toward 111 ig and the coast j Aged Woman a Suicide. ] Mrs. Timothy Walker, sister oi Sheriff Sibley, of Eastford, Conn, drowned herself. She was seventy- , vpars old and was despondent over the critical illness of har hus- , band. Mazet a Sago Appraiser. 1 Tlobert Mazet, who once beaded a 1 legislative committee investigating New York City's government, will be appointed appraiser of Russell Sage's estate. German Editor's Charitable lJequests Edward Uhi, late president of the. Staats-Zeitnng, of New York City left S135.0U0 for benevolent purposes. Tried to Interview President. | Miss Liza Case, or Azi L. Esac, as she calls herself, made a scene in Christ's Church, Oyster Bay. by calling to the President after the service. Throngs Witnessed G. A. R. Parade. About 50,000 visitors were in Minneapolis to attend the Grand Army (.ncacvument. Hlnl H fflIM SMTHPEL Liaiilai Said to Have Disappeared ! ?Quillota Destroyed. .y TERRIBLE LOSS IN VALPARAISO fj'.iiliofn, Town of 10,000. in Tin ins? m Bread Linos Formed in Valpar- ac aiso?"Water Scarce?Official JRs- ;-0 limate of Dead and SOO 7nj??ed. j de 1 tie Valparaiso, Chile.?The earth- i ! CD quake shocks continue, some of them I being strong. There is now not a ; ^l( single structure in Valparaiso that j * has escaped damage. Most of the co residences which remain standing are so badly damaged that they are 00 uninhabitable. In the banking cen- th tre of the city a few business houses fa escaped destruction. en The troops are behaving splendid- Ei ly. Many looters are shot every day. ^ The people are still living in the m( open. The ships in the harbor are gj5 rendering great assistance in the ge work of relief. Provisions are Btl scarce and bread lines have been eslablished. The water supply is small. 3n The officials estimate that there are an 300 dead and SOO injured. qU The second shock wa3 even heavier m. Lhan the first. pi. Five minutes afterward fires start- ^ cd in every direction, and immediate- i Iv the whole town, which had been momentarily in darkness, was ilium- 20 inated with che splendor of gigantic flames. The firemen made a desIterate fight, though there was. but so little water, as most of the mains m. had b3en broken by the earth tremor. fne Victoria Theatre (opera house) jia and the Naval Club were utterly de- uc stroyed by the earthquake, and the ar, National Theatre succumbed to earthquake and fire. The Club de ()3 Setiembre, the Church of La Merced, tne Duuaings ot tne rrencn raiaevs, |jC the Navy Department Building, the City Hall, and many other buildings rQ were destroyed by the earthquake. ,'10 The destruction by fire, however, was lm infinitely larger, and probably sixty ier per cent, of the commercial houses were totally ruined. In Brazil ave- -1U nue alone nearly thirty blocks ot (a, buildings from three to five stories fa( high were destroyer'.. 3U The greatest damage from tne earthquake occurred in the Provinces ea ut' Valparaiso and Aconcagua. The cr( town of Abarca suffered severely. on Llaillai is reported to have entire- i to ly disappeared, and Limache and a Hierrb Viejo have been almost total- tj1( ly wrecked. At Viua del Mar three- ar quarters of the houses are in ruins. The losses in the country outside fe] Valparaiso are estimated at $50,000,- fjj( 000. lln blight earthquakes are continuing. The people have not yet returned to their homes, but are sleeping on the ^ sr Toundi ^ hills and in the streets : nd squares. The fires have all been St. extinguished. More than 100 men taken in the act of committing robberies have been shot. * Lima, Peru.?There was another ?rl heavy earthquake shock at Valpar- I )e aiso. I |m< According to the latest reports re- e ceived here from the scene of the | Pf earthquake, the town of Quillota j,"1 (situated about twenty-six miles from Valparaiso and having a pcpulation of 10,000) '\i3 been complete- o0 ly destroyed. Santiago, Chile.?Valparaiso is de- 19 manding that cattle be sent in to nvoid the famine which the people { "] arc menaced. The population of Santiago was "li thrown into a condition of extreme ori alarm in the night as a result of the tvc circulation of false news that the ob- co' servatory nad announced that a sec- !'r )nd horriLle catastrophe was immi- ie? nent. People wov.ld not sleep in- Iie floors. n?.d large numbers spent the night on the streets and in squares. SP, kil pit CARS CUT OFF A BABY'S FOOT. p0 rhiM u'hiirt is Caught Fast Under Passing Train. Milwaukee, Wis.?Mr3. John H. Ln Balir dragged her baby daughter, Elsie, to the side of a railroad track and held the child firmly to the gn ground while a ponderous engine jnapped off the child's foot. When rescuers arrived both mother and op hild had fainted, 0110 from horror gjj mil the other from pain. qc Mrs. ^Bahr and her throe children ... tvere crossing the maze of St. Paul tracks when Elsie's foot caught be- j|1( Lween the rail and crossing in such manner it could not be extricated or q [lulled from the shoe. A fast freight train was upon them. Brushing the , 3ther two children to one side, the mother caught Eisie and dragged her ,, jody to one side, throwing herself . ' upon the child to hold her down. It tvas all over in a minute. Then they [? ;ook Elsie to a hospital. Her life sad been saved. TX-, A n.,v?,v 1,? i if) ui niuvii ? v .IUK i Henry \\\ Ferry, of Dan'iary, Conn., lost five cows from hydropiio- ?* liia last week, anil Sevan belonging ^ 1' Lo Henry Otis, ot' Bennett's Bridge, j ^ have died with rabies within the last i ns .liree days. In Derby and many other ?n Connecticut cities and towns all dogs :.in liave been ordered muzzled for per- j0^ iods of from sixty to ninety aavs. **e Hydrophobia among cattle is becom- f? ing a menace in Connecticut. [l\ ta Hoy "Burglar" Kills- Baby Brother. At Philadelphia, Dial ing burglar riir.li a loaded revolver Claude Ban- cj( ciano. eight years old. shot, and ?,i, killed his babv brother. Edmund, wj aged three. Claude also shot 1-im- an self through the hand. The child l;a procured the pistol from a bureau drawer, a. ' runnine to the room nc cupied by lvs brothers, Claude and Victor, shot at them, crying that he was a !>itrglar. He then dropped the ch pistol and it was again discharged, w< I he ball striking him in the hand. st< ah Horse Kills a ("!?,ry,yn:an. The Rev. Thomas Wood, senior pastor of the Great Falls Circuit of the; Methodist Episcopal Church, of in Baltimore County, Aid., was killed of by his horse while he was trying to take a stone from the animal's hoof. Mr. Wood was found on the road and taken to a house near by, where he died after telling how the accident occurred. , \ __ w] . t 1 Drowned From the Sirio. n(! The number of persons lost in the wreck of the steamship Sirio is now officially stated at Geneva. Italy, to f a one hundred aud aff.v-one. hl m J USINESSBEYONDALLBELIEF I dustrial Concerns Ciamcr For Machinery and Materials. jilting in History of Railroading to fn'imarc With Prosniit. Trnnc. portation Demands. r E Chicago, 111.?There is no way of casuring the volume of business I >w coming to the Western railads. Traffic officials say that prec^tnt does not offer a parallel condi)n with which to compare the prest situation. The roads are prac- u :ally swamped with tonnage, and h me officials state that a lull in the j, ovement of freight would be welmed. General business in all directions a ntinues to expand as a result of t e bountiful crops. Tho corn crop < omises to be a bumper one, and rmers are practically assured of " ormous returns for their grain, a lough is known to create a belief at the country will not realize the t tent of it3 prooperity for many Dnths. Railroad people are empha- v :ing their optimism with rather P nsational orders for cars, rall3 and ructural material. Industrial concsrns, great and f: lall, are clamoring for machinery }: j v. 4 ^ t ,u malarial wuu wuiui IU mah j _ t their plans of expansion, and inufacturers are pleading for ship- ? ag facilities with which to market eir products. 2 l*hc production of pig iron has ^ creased and is at the rate of 25,- * 5,000 tons a year, but stocks are ~l v at the furnace3 and consumption heavy. Northern furnaces have .. !d their outputs for this year and ide liberal sales for delivery in the . st quarter of 1907. The steel mills ,J ve in most instance sold their prod- . t for this year, and most of them e well sold up for the first quarter ~ next year. The movement of lum- F r has grown considerably larger, ? d local and contiguous consumpin is large. Low prices for Western bituminous ~ al have reduced production in Illiis and Indiana, but the demand is . proving and the trade has a health- ^ look. Cheap excursion rates from M e Soulhrest and far West brought . a large number of buyers to the ge distributing centres. A satisitory* valume of- business has reIted. J Traffic officials say that it will ha ' f! ah 4 /\ rrt\? f r\ mnifA n 5ps with than to, secure cars and * gines with which'to haul the grain . market. They are predicting also year of large earnings, and with a farmer prosperous, indications e all in favor of a good general d siness. The dry goods trade has . t the effects oi the improved con- d ;lons probably more than any other ,e. tj n 7SSIAN CRIMES GROW APACE f< n , Petersburg Statistics Show More b Murders Than in 1005. P o St. Petersburg, Russia. ? Official g itistiC3 show that the increase ol h me in St. Petersburg since the ^ ginning of the revolutionary move- a }nt has been enormous. The nura- o r of deliberate murders was 400 n r cent, more than in the year 1904, r, d 200 p;r cent, more than the rate c; p the first seven months in 1903. Vt >mlcides during quarrels increased ]j 0 per cent, compared with 1904, p d 1200 pe. cent, compared with n 05. g According to tlie returns issuea uy 3 police department here the revo- o :ionists throughout Russia during tl s last week alone killed 1^2 gov- f< anient officials and seriously ti lunded 42. The police also dis- e vered 120 bombs, 12 illegal secret r< inting plants and 17 depots of cop- G ; of suppressed editions of various ic wspapers. The revolutionists fur- ci er pillaged thirteen government e: Irit depots, and in these operations p lied and wounded twenty-two em- tl jyes. There were 276 arrests for P litical offences during the week. n: ei HOKE SMITH NOMINATED. ir w ndslidc Ends Fire-Cornered Fight ^ in Georgia. 6I Atlanta, Ga.?A landslide for Hoke tl lith hit Georgia. The former mem- P r of Cleveland's Cabinet swept P rough the State, leaving his four a: ponents far in the rear. Hoke lith is acknowledged to be the next ivernor of Georgia, and the only sstion is as to the size of his uiariry over the combined four oppos- 'I I men?Ciartc Howeu, ot "me astitution;" J. H. Estill, of "The vannah News;" James Smith, a lalthy planter, and Richard Russell, n Georgia judge. t1 Smith conducted his campaign on e lines of opposition to present ^ >ight rates, favoring disfranchise- t: ?nt of negroes and opposition 10 J1' e ring rule. J1' k: 0 Xot a Man in Kansas Idle. Kansas has not an unemployed la- y< rer, as far as T. 3. Gerow, director tl the Froe Employment Bureau, w insas City, has been able to cscorln. Mr. Gerow has application for h< arly 200 men who are wanted at ce in various parts of the Slate, hi d he has not had one application P' r work. Somo of the demands for lp are exceedingly pressing. In Is i-eral counties men are wanted for si resiling machine crews in order io hi ke care of the wheat crops. R Watched Himself Dti? After taking carbolic acid with cuilal intent. Otto Radeck of St. Lo::Ii, p a., stood in front of a mirror, his t'.e and two childron by his side, w d watched his face grow paler and tc ler until he dropped dead. 1" ai glitning Kills Three of a Family. ^ Mrs. Elisabeth Prince, of Fairance, Pa., and her two daughters re killed by lightning during a ,n Drm and two of her sous badly ocked. Prominent People. Richard Harding Davis is support- f, g Winston Churchill for Governor New Hampshire. Arthur J. Balfour has an expert ^ towledge of music. Bach and Han:1 are his favorite composers. s! Representative Charles Curtis, of Finsas, is the only man in Congress h iao has Indian blood in his veins. A ie of his remote ancsstors was a >ble red man. c: Colonel W. W. Lumpkin, of South ^ irolina. has gained renown through s brief opposition to Senator Tillan. _ s wi ass beg! j by rebels iii com 'alma's Party Uneasy at Affairs j m in Plnar de! Rie. j p; | ca SAKDERAS WHIPPED AT HAVANf j | ur j an lura! Gnardq Raw ami II.:rdly Able" 1 to Cope With the Rotkig Iusur- gI ?;ents?Unrest Ju Government? wi Americans Not Molested. M: th Havana, Cuba.?The rural guard? nder command of General Acosts di ad an engagement with a force cJ tisurgents under the negro veteran | ^ reneral Banderas, near Koyo Color- jn do, twenty miles from Havana. Af ' ad er some fighting the rebels shouted j d?i With machetes!" thesignal for close r ghting. The guards tben charged ^ nd the rebels fled. co Eleven carloads of troops were do- mi rained at scattered point3 in Ha- re: ana, Santa Clara and Matanzas rovinces. The fear was expressed ci( hat at no point was the force of ru- ca al guards large enough to cope with eri strong band of insurgents. Fur- P? hermore, it was asserted, most of he guards never had been under fire, lowever, a detachment in Havana rovince routed a part of Banderas' Hi and, killing one insurgent. On the ut ther hand insurgents occupied vvi riiines, the centre of the American f0 ruck farming region, without oppoition. They did not molest the m) Lmericans. Friends of the Government said J,a hey believed the insurrection in p"j Western Cuba was as big as it would c e. They volunteered the view that he insurgents lacked courage to atack posts of importance, no matter j Df ow weak the rural guards might be. !*? ret unofficial reports of fighting in Y< 'inar del Rio poured into the capital. as 'he Government would not or could ot confirm them. Neither would it ffirm or deny that General Demetrio fo lastillo's nephew, Rafael Dtiany, was i Cc rganizing an insurgent movement 00 a Santiago Province. General Cas mo aiiu oenur j. vj. uumc/., %>uu i ^i ere arrested i2i that city, were I ar rouglit here and clapped into jail. pu Incidents in the capital and elsewhere betrayed an emphatic spirit of ^ nrest on the part of the administra- |ai ion in respeqt of the insurrectionary lovements. Conflicting statements rere made about Justice O'Farrell, rho not only is Secretary of State, ut of late has been Acting Secretary ^ f the Interior. It was announced : fficially that he had resigned from ' Co tie Cabinet in a pet because Presi" ent Palma rebuked him for no? pr nowing what was going on in th6 iai isaffected parts of the island. Co O'Farrell said only three insurrec- I an ionary movements were afoot, inti lating that was a negligible quantity iT0 3r Cuba. He added the Govern j j lent's prospects of permanence were thi right. Nevertheless, it was learned 50] ositively from Yagu?jay, Provinci 3f f Santa Clara, that General Jose Miuel Gomez had left that point at the an ead of a band of insurgents. Gomez ^ ras a candidate for the Presidency, i " nd his influence is feared by Palma uj' Tders were rushed to the Govern- | ^ j lent of Sania Clara Province to ar- | h? est him without delay. Juan Men- "* ia, the General's secretary, was arssted in Guanabacoa, where the po- ?01 ce had been watching him since *< ebruary last on account of the conection lie had with a camp of insurents captured by the rural guards. Despite O'Farrell's expression of :u ptimism, too, it was noticeable that du ae Government was busy recruiting , Qs 3r the rural guards. Urgent invitaons were issued to young men to je nlist in that command, and it was sported that in several instances the un overnment had not confined its po!- ^ :y to invitations. O'Farrell's alleged jn Dnfidence was not to be reconciled asily with the manifest anciety of radically all the other members of y le Cabinet. It was said President alma was resolved to arrest states- . ten and soldiers right and left rath- .. r than run the smallest risk of havig hisGovernthentoverturned. There as no question that dozens of ar- ir< asts would be made, and it was ru- 3P] lored the President had sent in- M auctions to police chiefs throughout le island to gather all suspected Mi ersons in a dragnet. Praise of Ch resident Palma's prompt policy was pproved by conservatives. wi BOYS TURN BANDITS. ln< gn "risco Youths Confess to Various fia Holdup, and a Murder. ca' Co San Francisco, Cal.?With a cooless and a nonchalance that amazed le police, Fred Peterson, William .eares, Waller Westwood and Frank icAuliffe, four youths still iu their . . ens, confessed that they were iae I?1 jartet that committed the series ol !*r. nld-ups which culminated in the I illing of Fred Mullineaux on the ',ri cean Boulevard. Peterson, who is but seventeen ?ars of age. admitted that lie fired f?< le shot which killed Mullineaux 101 hen the latter resisted robbery. Peterson told in detail of the rob qu ;ry of four persons a:i hour before his le murder of Mullineaux, and a pri Dld-up on the boulevard the nigh! ravious. th; Westwood, the acknowledged jn, ader of the youthful gang, is but xtcen years of age, and resided with , is mother and stepfather, Patrick -vau- ist Persian Parliament Ruildlng. I A dispatch received from Teheran, ersia, says the building intended ?r the now Parliament was opened ith solemn ceremony. The function ^.ei >ok place in the presence of the r!? iescs who have returned from exile tl0 id who are being entertained for iree days by the Shah. ra at Police Chief Killed by Uonib. stc M. Golcew, Chief of Poiice of Sie- esl ice. Russia, h?.s been killed by a im!j. ba gu Stub Ends of News. Trains leaving St. Petersburg are be, lied with for?igners. ow The Pan-American Railroad has een completed as far as Pijijiapan. Br The literary and dramatic censorlip in France is now officially dead. ^ A voJcani" island 1000 feet high as been thrown up off the coast of laska. ' Pi" Syracuse (S. Y.) University is th< :ecting buildings that will cost 1.000,000. Ye The bucket shop law passed by the, of r o<?i?intiirf? is the most strin-' an Wla,u - ? ' I Of. ent ever enacted. I a I1 , >.-l JITS I NEWS 1 WASHINGTON. :glj Brigadier-General Peter C. Hains, ember of the Isthmian Canal Comission, who has just returned from mama, said that the builders of the nal are awaiting a visit of Presi:nt Roosevelt. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte ged the death penalty for every larchist who has sought, directly or directly, to take life. Secretary Taft, accompanied by igadier-General Bell, chief of staff, ill make a tour of inspection in the iddle West early in the autumn for e purpose of studyingbrlgaaeposts. Official tests have been made by 1 rection of the Postmaster-General the adaptability of automobiles to e rural delivery service. Rural utes within easy reach of the Washgton office presented many of the verse conditions of rocky and "cor- " roy" roadbeds. The Secretary of the Treasury has warded life saving medals to Emile Wagner and Harry H. Kittell,. xswains on the battleships Alabai and Kearsarge, respectively, for scuing shipmates. Acting Attorney-General Robb deled that common railroad laborers nnot be classed as "skilled labors," and therefore cannot l)e imrted under contract. 'A . OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Crop conditions in the islands of lwaii are good, but comparatively tie trouble is being experienced th pests and weather conditions, r this season, are favorable. Major-General Wood has summed a commission to the Philipnes to investigate the conduct of rtain army officers on duty in the lilippines. The inquiry will be seet. Scott Truxtun, Government Agent Porto Rico, charged that low grade ffee has been shipped from New )rk to Porto Rico and reimported coffee grown in that island. George Cabot Ward, the Auditor- , _ t jneral, sailed from San Juan, P. R.r r New York on the steamship lamo to negotiate a loan of $1,000,0 for pu' improvements. In the Philippine Islands 800 r j e* ft aa 4 n erica u ituu ouuu r myiuu icatucio e busy educating nearly 500,000 pils of all ages. VJa All the American teachers and 200 the Filipinos are paid by the Insu Government. The others are paid the municipalities. DOMESTIC. President Roosevelt appointeu Jas. Harlan, of Chicago, Interstate immerce Commissioner. A Federal charge of peonage was eferred against officials of the At- . ,'v ita and Birmingham Construction mpany, contractors for the Atlanta d Birmingham Railroad. Secretary Goodwin, of the New irk Civil Service Association, wrote >rotest to Governor Higgins against ? "vindication" of Fiscal Supervir Bender, urging a reconsideration the case. Browne, the convicted customs exliner, who was put into Sing Sing, Y., in alleged violation of the exidition treaty with Canada, won } point and will be set free to be ed on the charge on which he was ought back from Canada. Hattie Forsythe told District Atrney Jerome's detective, of New irk City, that she believed Evelyn iaw had goaded her husband to kill mford White. . +K(W The President ordered the revenue . tter McCultoch to resume patrol ty in guarding the Alaskan seal heries. Resolutions "accepting" William nnings Bryan as a probable candlte for the Presidency in 1908 were animously adopted by the Maaaausetts Democratic State Comihittee ' Boston. The Mutual Life Insurance Comnv, of New York City, sued three rmer trustees, Olyphant, Holdenj d Miller, to compel an accounting! r millions illegally disbursed bjr 3m. Norfolk and Western stockholders 3 asked to authorize a 134,000,000 mmon stock Increase and a converge bond issue in the same amount. Henry W. Hering, cashier of the lwaukee Avenue State Bank, of licago, was arrested. United States Senators Cullom and jrgan and Judge Simeon E. Baldn, of Connecticut, defend the kllll of Japanese seal poachers on the ound of international law. Pauline Coska, after chasing her ncee ainiost around the world, light and married him in Merlden, nn. ______ - yi FOREIGN'. Cardinal Gibbons has written to 3 Archbishop of Paris urging ench Catholics to profess their :th in the political arena and exessing confidence in ultimate vie y. Russian peasantry at Penza deif.ed Cossacks sant to arrest agita s and forced them to flee. Secretary Root after a final banet in Buenos Ayres sailed for Bai Blanco to inspect Argentina's ncipal military base. Dispatches from Russia indicate it the popular agitation is spreadBomb outrages continued. Germany has put into effect an iborate system of taxes on automoes which applies specially to torjs. The bubonic plague broke out in > azil. The Pope's encyclical to the French shops ordered firm refusal to ac>t the form of cultural associans provided in the law for separan of Church and State. A fire which destroyed property lued at 2,000,000 francs occurred Milan. Italy. It originated in a >re of petroleum and drugs on the ~^rninnt .ctlt; ui JTiigaiiim > ixiain. Many receptions, a dinner and a 11 were given at Montevideo, Uruay, in honor of Secretary Root. Russia for the first time in history gan to import grain from Germany ing to agrarian disorders. No deposits are wanted by the itish Government from foreign life mrance companies, according to a lect committee of the House ofi rds. Advices from Bombay say that ince Ranjitsinhji may succeed to s throne of Navanager. At Cologne. Germany, John W. irkes, United States Commissioner Internal Revenue; I. R. Hitt, Jr., d C. A. Cramptou, of the United ates Internal Revenue Department? e inspecting artificial silk works.