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A TERRIBLE WRECK Pftsidvx Samuel Spencer In stantly Killed SEVEN DEAD; FIFTEEN KILLED In a Wrcci Which Octurrcd 11 Miles ? South of Lynchburj Thursday Morning, Train ITo. 37 H-a Into Rear of No. 33. Washington, D. C.f Specia l.1 --Pres ident Samuel Spencar, of the South ern Railway, was killed Thursday morning in a wreck which occurred at Lawyer, 11 miles south of Lynch burg. At the general offices of the South ern Railway the following statement has been issued : ?'Southern Railway passe nge: train, No. 33, left Washington Wed nesday night late, by reason of the congested holiday tratBc. About 0:30 at Lawyer, Va., on a **ortion of the road protected by the block system, the train was stopped for slight re pairs to the couplings. Passenger train 37, following 33, and being giv en a clear block, ran into the rear of .33 ( resulting in a serious wreck. "Our present advices indicate the collision was probably due to the negligence of the operator in allow ing 37 to pass the block. "President Spencer and party of friends were in the officer's car at the rear of 33 and the reports are (that President Spencer was killed and several of the party seriously in jured." Watt Davis, special train dispatch er for the Southern, is among the killed. President Samuel Spencer of the Southern Railway system, was en route to the South on a hunting trip. The private car in which he was rid ing was struck and split open by the colliding locomotive. It immediately caught fire and the body of President Spencer was burned almost beyond recognition. In the car with him were Philip Schuyler of New York; Spencer's pri vate secretary. Murrill and Private Dispatcher D. W. Davis of Alexai^ dra. Operator Davis was crushed and died in 15 minutes. Schuyler was instantly killed, but his body was not badly burned before it was res cued by passengers. Engineer C. Terry who was on the rear train was killed. There is an other man among the killed whose name cannot be learned. Private Secretary Murrill was wounded but the nature of his in juries have not been learned. Twelve of fifteen passengers, most or them negroes, were wounded, only on? of whom is thought fatally. The heavy engine of the train plow ed into the private car of President S|>encer. in which he and his guests were supposed to be sleeping, imme diately the private car caught tire. Wreckage was piled around the en gine as though placed there by hu man hands to consume it. Every por tion of the wood work on the cngino was burned and the monster machine stands there torn and twisted and will have to be turned down the em bankement as it is useless. President Spencer was born in Co lumbus, CJa., in the year 1847, and was educated at the universities of (ieorgia and Virginia. In 1872 lie married Louisa Vivian Penning, at Columbus, Ga. Work of Fiends. One of the worst phases of the ac cident was the heartless manner in which a few passengers and some of the attaches, especially some of the porters of the Atlanta traiu, ransack ed the wrecked cars for plunder. F. M. Curtis, of Jamestown, N. V., who was a passenger on the Atlanta train, saw one negro porter go through a lady's grip. He saw him throw away such tilings as were oi no value to him, and appropriate those things that he wanted. Curtii declared that lie would have killed the porter if be bad hud anything to do ii with. Not a few passengers outraged in this goldish hu*iuc?:j, and a large number of valuables and i?;;e!i money which was scatteied about the wreck ed trains was taken. Curtis, who was on his way to High Point, was the hero of the hour, ll was claimed by some of his follow passengers ih:it to his work au gener alship belongs the credit of the rescuo oj a dozen persons who would have perished but for his efforts. I he ronihi.iat :on coach, second I rom the engine, was crushed. It was here that tight negroes among tho wounded wie hurl, Lacretta Allen, colored, ot Danville, died on the op erating table. Other inj'.tivd arc: W illis .1, V\ inslofi, New York, lee badly 1; r? !<en. .!. W. Shaw, N; c:!:-cr. >1. C., badly crushed an I both legs broken. (Jutland Thomas, (Irocnsboro, N. leg broken and badly bruised up. I'. R. ValiiH, , Waynesboro, Va., badly broken Up and bruised. Cora Lo'^an, Sltvlby, X. C., both legs broken. William Pollock, New York, badly scalded, leg broken, both arms brok en, hoplcss condition. Sam Cox, Washington, leg broken All these are negroes. The list of the d.'ad now appears to be eight as follows: President Samuel Sjienccr. Phillip C. Schuyler, of New York. Frank T. Redwood, of Baltimore, aid. Charles D. Fisher, of Baltimore, Md. Dispatcher 1). \V. Davis, of Alex andria, Va. Engineer Terry. liiscrctia Allen, a negro, who on the operating table. One woman, probably a negro, who was killed outright. Charles . Fisher, and Frank T. lied wood w?re later identified among the ?lead. This makes seven dead, and a i dozen to 15 injured. STATEMENT OF OPERATOR. ?# U Not Responfiiblo For Wrcck and Could Prove Claim If Given Opportunity to be Heard. L.yndiburyr. Va., Special. ? Opera #? ? i* iMol,ox- wlm i-s charged bv jfficials ?f the Southern Railway t oiupa n.v with being responsible for Thursdoy s wreek, ten miles below Lynch hurt;, when seen Sunday at his home, eight miles from here,* bv the representative of the Assorted Press, made the following stntera-nt m his own behalf: . "The statement of officials of the Southern Railway that 1 have bee., aiLssinjf since the wreck of Thursday morning and could not be found, al though detectives of the company acre scouring the country for me is without the slightest foundation. 1 have been at my boarding place prac tically all ot the time since the acci dent. This is the first statement I have been asked to make about tin matter and von (referring to the re porter) aiy the first person that I know o| that has asked for ine. "On the night prctvdimr the wreek I attended a box party in the neigh borhood with friends, the day opera tor working for me until 1 returned to the office about midnight. The ni?iu fjt'M.g chilly the operator. L. Clemmer, decided io remain at the office until .? o clock. 11c returned at 7 ami re levcd me, sugg^tiiig that 1 go home, hecaiisc it was apparent to him that had passed through in the previous ?<>nr. I did this and remained ?i home the entire day. About <> o'clock getting my usual midnight lunch I -farted lor the station to reiwtrt for night duty. Kenching the office T w a large crowd congregated out ride and from what I heard I con cluded it would be best for me not to go in the office. I learned from the (lay operator that another o|ieratoi had hen sent to relieve me and this ,s "l1 notice I have had that my services were not wanted that night. After that I returned and sl-pl the night through. "1 am not to blame for the Wreck ?nd think 1 would have no trouble lo substantiate this claim if given the opportunity to be heard. Operator leininer and a student operator wero both in the office and heard the oper fm-'v -viWn7H K'VO me a <,,<>ar track Io1 ->o. J.I (the train to which Presi dent Spencer's car was attached.) I Ins was at (i o'clock, as the block " "'.Hie office will show. If mv iycoMectn.il serves me right, No. passed Rangoon at (>:()<> and I report ti,?i ir 10 Li,wvc,t- ? ('nn,,ot ?-??*?? "'?i the operator there signed for the ijpoit, nit it was his business to be . ',? lla,,U,| ,c,1"rL 1 '<?( N'o { block because Lawyers -av me the right of way ior 'theAniin. Winn No . , (which collided will, j "??I ''lock station north of Rangoon) I begun lo call lor Lawyer's. 1 con ln,,?,,l lo 1 1 until the train was M;M,y "? s.dit of my office and fr?, lawyers ,us| ?h .17 was coming i,. Vo i- ./'.'A*' T H d<>ar block for * ' ' 1 r ni<'"iber the tim yry distinctly and the train passed I be block at (? : 1 1. As No. ;$7 was passing Rangoon I was talking to the operator at l awyers. Uo wanted to Know when No. ;? w?s by ?,e. I told ?"> Jit the time mv shed shows, but I cannot recall the minut?. "Then | asked him,. '''When l,v >ou . and he said "by." but did not r.i m.r "'??<. n.e. I did ive N /' ? block until the operntor at Li\\ vers nave me authority and I can .v'iVm I'". -'' ??M,,'ulor ^'b'nurier ,?d ?> the student operator, who has been -I'i'lynur at ||,e office for the past. ; I'"1;- Nbei, No. M7 had ,nter .,| (|.e Law wis (old ?ic iIijii \*o. ;>?{ was by and when I nsk d I, in. the ??<? so I could record it. he t, ?I" key and did no| reply. No ;{7 bo. gone then. responsible f?r the .'"?cideiit and I have b. en | !!? w where the railway deleelives oi i"1 * '?>"> '''id ,u, at any ,ime I have no desire UM., v> , " Would court an investigation to dca. ti:e matter up." The London Chronicle thinks it It doubtful whether the dust of Johnson in Westminster Abbey would stir lo ?welcome to the dust of Irving. Al though lie wrote plays. Johnson nlleg ed not to be fond of players. When Hoswell suggested that wo might re spool a great actor. Johnson cried: "What, sir, a fel'ow who claps n hump on his back and a bump on hi? legs and cries, 'I am Richard Til.! Nay-, sir, a ballad singer Is a hlghei man." No doubt Roswell had (larrlch In mind when, after hearing Johnsot ?ay that he looked on players as no better than dancing doga, he tlmldlj suggestiMl, "But sir, you will allow that some players are better than oth era." "Yes, sir, ns some dogs danc< better than others." SoxxU are not eanfht In eobwebt n the brain. PRES. SPENCER'S FUNERAL Notable Tributes Paid Distinguished Railroad Magnate by Associates, Statesmen and Men Eminent in all Walks of Life ? Every Train on Southern System Stopped for Five Minutes During Ceremony. Washington, Special. ? All that is mortal of Samuel S|>eneer, law* pres ident of the Southern Railway, whom, tragic* death on his own railroad on the morning: of Thanksgiving Day shocked the people of two hemis pheres, was laid to rest Sunday af ternoon in the receiving vault at Oak Hill Cemetery, there to await Anal disposition. A notable tribute was paid to the memory of the distinguished railroad magnate by his associates, bv states men and by men eminent in all the walks of public life. The funeral obaequies, held in historic St. John's Protestant Episcopal church, were at tended by railroad officials, finan cier* and public men from all parts of the country. At 2 o'clock the services began, and at the same instant throughout the system of railroads lately presid ed over by Mr. Spencer, every train came to a dead stop, every wheel ceased to turn, every employe put aside his work. For five minutes ov er the thousands of miles of railway every employe paid silent respect t?? the dead president. TRIBUTE TO SAMUEL SPENCER. Voting Trustees and Board of Direct ors in Joint Meeting Adopt Min utes to Be Printed In Press Along Route of Southern Railway. Washington, 1). ('., S|>e?-ial ? At a joint meeting of the voting trustees ??t* the board of directors of the South ern Kail way Co., held at its office the following minute was adopted, to he entered on the records and pub lished at length in the press upon the lines of the Southern Railway : "Samuel Spencer, horn in Colum bus. (Ja.. March 2, 1S47. died Nov. 20, 100(i, near Lawyers Station. Vir ginia, upon the railroad of the South ern Railway Company, of which he was the first amf only president. Til* personal qualities of Mr. Spencer ; his integrity in heart and mind; his affectionate and genial disposition ; his loyal and courageous spirit ; his untiring devotion to duty; his pre sistcnt achievement of worthy ends; and his comradeship on the field ot battle of affairs and of manly apojt combined to establish him in the los ing regard of hosts of friends in ev ery section of his country, and no where more securely than in the af fection of his fellow- workers in the service of the Southern Railway Com pany. The im|M>rtance of his service to this company is a matter of com mon knowledge throughout the fail road world; but the character, tlic ex tent. and the consequence of thai service arc and can be appreciated at their full worth only by his associat e now gathered liete to attest- their re gard ?for him ami to record thei. high estimate of his life and work. "I *pon June lSlli, 1S04, on the completion lo the Richmond terminal, a re-organization conceived by .1. Pi erpont Morgan and conducted by his partner, Charles 11. Coster, the iirst meeting of. the Southern Railway Company was called to order at Rich mond by Samuel Spencer as presi dent. In that calendar year, the Southern Railway Company embrnc (d 4,301 miles of road, with (>!?."{ lo comotives and 10,(504 cars. which car ried .U27.S5S passengers and (5,(573, 7">(l tons of freight and earned $1(5, (5411,208. In the Inst* fiscal year, tho Southern Railway system embraced 7,51-i miles of road with 1.420 loco motive.., and 42,110 cars, which car ried 11,(5(53,550 passengers and 27, 330,337 tons of freight, and earned $5.'!, (>41,43S. The number of em ployes had increased from 1 (5. 713, Jmie :?0th, 1S05, to 37,003 June 30tlu 100(5, and the wages paid from $(>, 712,70(5 to $21, ISO, 020. The full de tail* and impressive character of this remark a hie advent, too extended foi present recital, are exhibited in the masterly cominuiiciatioii which upon February 1. 190(5, Mr. Spencer ad dressed to Mcmti-. J. P. Morgan & Co., as the basis of the development ami general nxriira.'.e. "In this progiess every step had b v?n initial and conducted by Ml. Spencer with tiie cordial concurrence of the voting trustees and the board oi' directors, ami it is significant of t'i<' rons.'i vative an I cautioned po sition of Mr. fepd cer and his aup portcrs, and this f r* nominal enlarge ment oi the s>st?:n and its business was not made the basis of any in c reuse in iii\ '(lends beyond the amour,', conti tnp'iued and stated i?> the phlMS of ",S>?;5 w * ! ! i reference to the piopeities-- oiigi'ially re-orjjauiz ed Kvery doi|;?r that could be bor rowed under 1 loideut Spencer's management vas j..it irto the proper ty in the effort to enable it to nuvl tin- every increase in demands of th: vigorous and wonderful growth o| the South and its industries. Tin mighty fabric, which for 12 v.-ars In had been molding, must continue nn der others to develop and to improv in the service that shall render to th public, but never can it ccase to bea the impress, o?- to reveal the cm tinning impulse of the master mi*' of its first president. In thfc hciji of his usefulness and his powers In has been called away, but the inspii V # at ion of the shining example and hi> lofty standards must ever animate bis successors. "To many corporation's conduct in*: the commerce of the country as we}; as the Southern Hailway, did Mr. Spencer render invaluable .aervice and all of them will share in our sens?? ??,' loss and personal grief. As t li?*i * chosen spokesman in the tremenduou.-j agitation culminating in the co:- ro gation action *?f t!H)u. his mastery ??! his subject, his dignity of bearin. and hia integrity of < characted com mend the confidence and approval of the vast interests whose constitution- ? al rights it became his duty to as sert and to protect. To the great public ? not less tha uto the coininer- I cial interest did he reeognixe his ob ligation. How well he conceived, how admirably he performed that duty, was indicated in the last of his public addresses, his last message to his friends in the South, delivered at Montgomery, Ala., on October 2nth, 1000, an address which deserves wide .circulation and close consideration, not only in his own South that ha loved so well, but throughout the whole country which he had learned to know far better than most of iis citizens wherever born. His chosen career has clos?d but the wisdom and and the virtue that chaacterized that ?areer will abide as long as there shall he a regard for duty bravely done and for high service fial lantly rendered. 4 4 To his family wo extend our deep and most respectful sympathy and i ;u.r assurance that for them, as well as for his associates, honor and liaj> piuess will ever result from their i;* lation to Samuel Spencer, thai just ami upright man ami olVicer.** Store for Negroes Only. . New York, Special. ? The four-storv building at Forty-sixth street and Eig'itii avenue1 has just been purchas ed by the Metropolitan Mercantile | and Itealt.v Company, and will he op ened about May 1 as a department store and hank for negroes. It will be tin* livst eMerpise of the vort ev er started on :i large scale in the North, although the same company is now operating a store at lMninfield. N. .1., ?s well larger establishments in Baltimore and Savannah. (i*i. In the Fierce Blizzard. El Paso, Tex., Special.- ? A special to the Times from Alnmogbrdo, X. M., says that the goal and sheep rais er* of the Sacramento Mountain*, . in New Mexico, lost from (30 to 80 per cent of their herds during the recent | T>Tttxafd, which is said to bo the heav- ?] icst loss ever experienced by the in dustry in the west. ? VPalter Wellman says he ieols eon- | fide'nt of being able to reach t ho Xortli I'ole by balloon. ? ?" Florida Peonage Cases Resumed. Pensacola, Fla., Special. ? The trial of the alleged peonage cases was re sumed in the United States Court here Tuesday and the case charging conspiracy to commit peonage against Manager \V. S. Harlan, of the .lack Son Lumber Company, C. \V. Lamata, Robert Gallagher, Oscar Sanders, K. Newlander, Archie Belinger, llarry Ilalversen and W. E. Grace was .called. Harlan has already been con victed on a charge of peonage. Tak ing of testimony begins Wednesday. SPORTING BREVITIES. , Brown Is negotiating with the In dians and Princeton for games next year. Mlko Lynch, the Pittsburg pitcher, is attending the Harvard law school at Cambridge. Dillon, Carlisle's big guard, says that Kersberg Is the best man he over played against. It Is now stated positively that there will be no race for the Ameri ca's cup In 1907. Paul J. Dashiell has resigned from the American Intercollegiate Foot ball Rules Committee. The late "Buck" Ewing left an es tate valued at $20,000, according to the will which has Just been pro bated. Old Ell's sons won the football championship. They beat Harvard, P. to 0. in the greatest gridiron hattla of the year. Judge W. H. Moore, of Chicago, won the Waldorf-Astoria Cup for the third time at the Horse Show and now retains it. The University of. Pennsylvania athletic committee announced that all athletic relations with Harvard had been severed. Pitchers .Toss, Rhoades and Hoss each received a bonus of $500 from the Cleveland club for winning 'wen ty games or more last season. "Lefty" Davis will break back Into the National dengue next spring as a member of the Cincinnati team* -lo was drafted from he Columbus club. Peals C. Wright and Wylle C. Grant, have b?*on declared bona tide amateurs by thr> Fycutlv Commit tee of the National Lawn Tennis As sociation. "Hurry Up" Yost, It Is rumored, will coach no more after this fall, and devote all hi- tlmo to his coal Interests, hut Yost has tried several ttmo8 to get rid of the football fever. SHAKE8 HIS FAITH. "Do you believe In signs?" "No; I've had my faith In 'em shak. en.' "How?" "A certnln man has owrd me money for a long time. Whenever I go after It I find a sign on his door that reads 'Bo hack In five minutes.'" ? Cleve land Plain Dealer. A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION A Roburit Gactory Blown From th# Face of the Earth und 300 Re ported Killed. Dortmund, (Jcrmnnv, Special. ? A roburit factory, situated close to the town of An ncn. seven miles south west of here. blew up Wednesday ev ening and was vvi|M*d from tlie face of the earth, ll i> estimated that oOO persons were killed or wounded, hut the exact number has not been ae certained. Kight dead bodies have been removed, and eighty of the se verely wounded persons were couvey ed to hospitals. The work of rescue now going on is attended with the greatest danger from th-.' possibility of a renewal of the explosion. The accident <wcurred at about halfpust 8 o'clock. There were two tremens dons detonations, b:>ard throughout the entire surounding industrial re gion. which is thickly settled. The inhabitants of the neighborhood fled in panic, fearing further explosions. The town of Anen is nothing more than a h^ap of ruins. Ilousen were shattered right and left and no house escaped injury. Kohurit is an explosive of high power, composed of salt pet re, am ount. sulphur and other ingredients. It is not easily exploded by a blow, and it can he burned with safety in the open air. Ites power is second to that of dynamite. FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. Approriatioua Amounting to $350, 000 Made From the Rockefeller Foundation. New York. Special. ? Announce ment was nuule Wednesday that at a meeting on Tuesday of the general education y.oard, which lias ehaigj of the John 1>. Rockefeller founda lion for higher education, lite fol lowing appropriations were made: Lawrence University. Appleton, Wis.. $">0,000 ; Durry College, Spring tietild. Mo., $50,000; Hiehmoud Col lege. Richmond, Vu., $lf>0.000; Wash ington & Lee I'niversity. Lexington. Va., $.">.000; Iowa < *o liege, Grinnel, Iowa, $100,000. This maUes a total of $007,500 con tributed from the income of the Rockefeller fondation since the gift was reeeiwd in October. .1005. These gifts are made coiult ionally and when the conditional amounts are raised the total contribution for the endowment of colleges will be $2, 670.000 ?J Simplified Spelling. Washington. Special. ? The house committee on the legislature, execu tive and judicial appropriation bill took advantage of the appearance be fore it of Public Printer Stillir.gs tc discuss the question ol' simplified spelling in congressional documents. Xlie bill came before the committee in both the old and the new styles of orthography, the estimates of the treasury being in the new ami the re productions of current law in the old. Attention was called to the fact that the Supreme Court of the Tint ed States had refused t ? ? recognize the executive order for a change ??f spelling, and t he <|iicstion was raised whether by legislative enaetmenl that tribunal could be compelled to adopt the mod, in system. The same ijuestion arose with ref erence to the executive departments, the question there being whether con gress could control those department.# to return to the orthodox spelling b\ legislative enact incut . There were sn many noints at i<>ue that there was n<? attempt made to reach a conclusion today. The public printer agreed with some memlwrs of the commit tec that an effort to maintain different sys tems for the executive and legislative branches would involve considerable nxtra expense. Packers Obeying tho Law. Washington, Special. ? AI011/.0 1). Mclvih, <*li it* I" of (lie Bureau of Ani mal Industry, under whose olliee flu; administration of the meat inspcc tion law enucted at (he last session of Congress, is carred out, has re turned from a western tour of inser tion which included a visit to pack ing houses in Chicago, Milwaukee, llenver and Kansas City, lie say.-* everything there is apparent the beneficial effects ? ? t the execution of the law and a manifest desire on tlic part of the packers to comply ?itii its provisions. In some places new structures have replaced old on? s and in other extensive improvements to the plants already established have been made so as to bring th(*m up t.> the standard required by the meat in spection act for the health ami com fort of the packing house employes. Dr. Melvin says there were some eases in which packers have proceed ed rather grudijiiujly in making the necessary improvement* dut to t h ? outlay of money required. Sugar Trust Fined $18,000. New York. Special.' ? A Hue of .+ 1^. 1)00 was imposed upon the America <i Sugar HcHning Company by .ludve Holt in the l'nited States Circuit Court Tuesday for accepting rebates from the New York Central Kail way Company. The railroad was on ly allowed 00 days to prepare an ap peal of the case. The rebates amount ed to $20,000. LONE TRAIN ROBBER Man Operated in Several Coaches B?> fore Finally Disarmed and Bound ? Gave Name as Trneheart, Admit ted Having Robbed a Rock Island Train at Same Place a Month Ago and Berated the Passengers for Cowardice. Kansas City. Special. ? After hav ing robbed a score of passengers in three ears of an castbouml express train, a lone robber was disarmed by the conductor and made to disgorge, and handed over to the authorities at the next stopping place. The robbery occurred on the Chicago & Alton road between Slater and Armstrong* Mo.r about 100 miles east of here. The train reached Slater Monday mid night and when it started out of that place live minutes later, a masked man boarded the smoking ear. Level ing a revolver at two passengers in the seat nearest the door, he ordered them to pass over their money and valuables and do it quickly. The men ; complied, and the robber placed tha stuff beneath his belt. When the rob ber had systematically robbed the passengers in the smoker of their be longings he passed to the door, keep iing them covered. It was a 25-minuta 'run from Slater to Glasgow and he awaited the arrival at the latter place. As the train slopped at Glas gow, he swung off and boarded the chair car as it rushed by a moment later. Through the chair car the rob ber's tactics in the smoker were re peated. Next, lie entered a sleeper and again commanded the luckless passengers to surrender their valu ables. Conductor lley wood appeared oil the scene here, and tin* robber, whose name is Trneheart. snapped the only volver at him and probably the only tiling that saved the conductor's life was that the hammer descended on his thumb. Leaving the revolver in the grasp of the conductor the robber made .% break for liberty. Hey ward fired ons shot and grabbed him by the coat collar as the robber was trying to jump from the car. The robber slipped from his coat ami swinging to the side rail of the car with one hand Hey wood fought him into submission on the steps of the swiftly moving car. After he had l?een dragged int?> the vestibule agnin the robber contin ued to flght desperately and Hey wood says that he was compelled to pound him over the |??ad with tho captured revolver until he was benseloss. When Armstrong was reached a marshal boarded the train and the robber was bound hand and foot and taken into the station. He refused to talk, except to berate the passen gers for cowardice and to declare that lley wood was the only nervy one among them. The money and jewel ry was taken from him and after more delay and confusion among tho excited passengers the train continu ed. Conductor Hey wood said that tho man admitted to him that he had robbed a lioek Island passenger traiu at almost the same place about a month ago. The robber said his naiuo was Trneheart. STANDS PAT ON FIRST ORDER. But President Roosevelt Will Rein state Negroes Who Have Clean Bills. Washington, Special. ? TIip Presi dent announced that he will "stand pal" in the neirro troop matter, hut lie spent a ^oodlv portion of his lirst day at home since his return in hear* ing protests from prominent negroes. The private secretary of Hooker Washington, sent specially hy his chief, was amtinj; tlfle^p. The president held up a cabinet meeting half an hour to talk with tins one ur.d another. In the after noon he received a whole hunch of newspaper men and to!il them all ab.'nt it. lie says that with all the protests he has not been given any "tacts" which contradict those upon which he acted and he wants it dis tinctly understool that mere "state ments" will not go. lint he is will ing to reinstate any of those who sail prove that hey had no knowledge of the "shooting up of the town." Mexico in the Right. Washington, Special. A delega tion of oHicials of the 4 ? u 1 1* Fisheries Company received little consolation Tuesday when it called at the State Ik'partmcnt to enforce its protest ? against the action of the Mexican government in .'.sizing several of the company's hoots on charges of fish ing within the three-mile limit pro hibited hy that government. The case against the fishing smack Lizzie Adams was decided in favor of Hi government in tli" Mexican lower court and it is said tiiat unless a fur ther plot st is made hy the Cnilcd States the higher courts are likely to sustain the decision Vo J'.U'h Barrcw 2.500 Mlloa. Wilmington, J)e|., Special.? A man known as oMuntain Joe, who is push ing a wheelbarrow from New York to I*'.l Paso, Texas, reached here Wednes day. The globe troter left New York on November lb on an alleged wager. lb; earns his living on tho way by giving lectures. He caries tent and paraphernalia for his show in the wheel barrow.