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MAIWA'S REVENGE1 MIAN OUATER MAIN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE. K'wirir By H. RIDER HAGGARD. AuCi&r of "Ske,** "King Solatium's Xinrs," Etc. cnArTEit. v. d Continued. *iy men. being directed mere to by Maiwa, had uiafct fortuuately rolled up some big bowlders which lay a bob I, and wiib these We soon man aged to block the passago through the 'overhanging ridge of rock In audi fash Ion that too soldiers below could not poealbly climb over It. Iudeod, so far as I could see they did not even trj to do so; the heart woa out of .hem, as the Zulus fay. Then, having rested a few moaseat*. we took up the loads, lucludiag the tuska of Ivory that had cost'us so dear, and In silence marched on for a couple of miles or so, till we reached a patch of dense bush. And here, being utterly exhausted, we camped for the night, taking the precaution, however, of setting a guard to watch against auy attempt, at snr prii:, CIlAPl'EK vr. riiK plan of cAiirAicrr. ' Notwithstanding all that we Lad gone through, iierhapv, indeed, on account of It? for I wns thoroughly worn out? 1 slept that night as soundly as poor Gobo, round whose v crushed body the byeuus would now be proirtiug. Rlsiu.r refreshed at dawu, we went on our way toward Nnla'i kraal, which .we reached at nightfall. It is built on open ground after the Zulu fashion, a ring feme and with bee-bi \v huts. The ealtle kraal is behind, and a lit tle to '.lie left. InieeU, both from their habits and their talk, it was easy to see that these Butiauu belong to that section of the Banu people which since T'Cltokn's time has een known as the Zulu race. We did not scu the chief Na)u that ulght. His daughter, Ma iwa went on to hia private huts as soon as vre arrived, and very shortly afterward one of his head men came to us, bringing a sheep and some mealies and milk with blm. The chief sent us greeting, he said, ?nd woUld see its on the morrow. Meanwhile he was ordered to bring qi to a place of resting, where we and our goods should be safe and undis turbed. Accordingly, he led the way to some very good huts just outside Nairn's private Inclosure, and here we slept comfortably. On the morrow, about 8 o'clock, the headman came again, and said that Nala requested that I would visit him. Accordingly. I followed him into tho private Inclosure, and watf introduced to the chief? a flue looking man of about fifty, with very delicately shaped hands aud feet, and a rather nervous mouth. The chief was seated on a tanned ox bide outside his hut. iBut his side was bis daughter Malwa, and rouud hliu, squatted on their haunches, were some twenty headmen or Indunas, whose number was cou tinually added to by fresh arrivals. These men saluted me as I entered, aud the chief rose and took my hand, ordering a stool to be brought for me to sit on. Wheu this was done, he with much eloquence aud native courtesy, thanked me for '^u'o'ecting his daughter in the painful and dangerous circumstances In which she f-ound herself placed, and also complimented me very highly up on what ho was pleased to call the bravery with which I hud defeuded the pass iu the rocks. I answered In appropriate terms, say ing 1hat it was to Maiwn herself that thanks were due, for had it not been for her warning and knowledge of the country we should not have been here to-day. whilo as to tho defense of the pass, I was fighting for my life, aud that put heavt into one. Tbeso courtesies concluded. Nala called upon his daughter Maiwa to tell her tale to the headmen, aud this she did most simply and effectively. She reminded them that she bad gone as an unwilling bride to Wamhc; that no cattle had been paid for her. because Wauibe had threatened war if ?he was not sent ns n free gift. Since she had entered the kraal of Wauibe her days had been days of heaviness, and her nights nights of ! weeping. She liiul bce*i lien ten. she had been neglected, and made to do the work of a low-born wife? she, a chief's daugh ter. She had borne a child and this was the stor.v of the child. Then, amid n dead silence r.he told them the awful tale which she bad al ready narrated to me. When she had finished, her hearers gave a loud ejaculation. , ??On!" they said? "ou! Malwa, daugh ter of Nala!'' "Ay," she went 011, with f nihil: g eyes? "ay; it Is true. "My mouth is as full of truth ns a flower or honey: and for tears, my eyes ? re like the t!cw upon the gr.t*!? at dawn. "It Is true: I saw the child i".le. "Here Is tlio proof of It. councilor*." sn.l she d'-ew forth the little dead band and held It before tb?*tu. "Out" liiev said again?' "ou! It Is the dead fraud." "Yc<," r'<o eonlJime:!. "it Is the dead hand ef my t'ead child, .tnd I I?ear l? with n?? ''??'t I msy never forget, never lor out ?hwi liour, tuat I live (bat 1 may we Wambc die. and be avenged. "Will you bear with It. my father, that your daughter and your daugh ter** child should be so treated by a Matuku? "Will ye bear it, men of my own peo ple*' "Xo" mW an old Induna, rising; nt la not to be borue. "Kuough ?*?f we suffered at the hands of these liatuku dogs and their leod-tongued chief. "Let us put It to the issue.** "It is not to be borne, indeed!** said Nala; "bpt how can we make head Against; so, great a peopled" "Aak of him^aalc of nacumaselm, the wise white man,*' said Maiwa, poluiing at me. "H<rw cawiseiovercome Wambc, Ma cumazahn the hunter?" ' How does the jackal overreach the Hon, Nala?" ^By cleverness. Maeumaxahn." "So shall you overcome Wambe. Nala." At 1 1lls mouieut an interruption oc curred. A man entered, and said that mes sengers bad arrived from Wambe. "What is their message?" asked Nala. "They come to ask that tby daugh ter Maiwa be sent back, and with her the white hunter." "How shnll I make answer to this, Macuinazalin?" said Nala, when the man had withdrawn. "Thus shalt thou answer," I said after reflection. * "Say that the woman shall be sent, and I with her, and then bid the mes sengers begone. "Stay; I will hide myself here in the hut, that the meu may not see me " And I did. Shprtly afterward, through a crack In th6 lint, I saw the mesaen^ftrs ar rive, and great trncnlent-looking fel lows they were. f There were Hour of - them, and they, had evidently traveled hard. "They entered with a swagger, and squatted down before Nala. "Your business," ssld Nala. frown In^. "We come from Wambe. bearing the orders of Wambe to Nala, his servant." answered the spokesman of the party. ? Mld NaUl* w,th a curious twitch of his nervous-looking mouth. "These are the words of Wambe: " 'Send back the woman, my wife, who has run away from my kraal, and ?end with her the white man who has dared to hunt in my country without my leave, and to slsy my soldiers.' j'Tbese are the words of Wambe." "And If I say I will not send them?" asked :\*ala. "Then on behalf of Wambe we de clare war upon you. "Wambe will eat you up, "He will wipe you out. "Your kraals shall be stamped flat so'; and with au expressive gesture he drew his hand across his mouth to show how complete would be the an nihilation of the chief who dared to defy Wambe. "These are heavy words," snld Nala. "I-et me think before I give an an swer." Then followed a little piece of act iug thnt wns really very creditable to the untutored savagn mind. rite heralds withdrew, but not out of Right. and Nala went through the hIiow of earnestly consulting his Indunas. The girl Miawa. too. flung herself at his feet and appeared to weep and im plore his protection, while he wrung his hands as though in doubt and trib ulation of mind. At length lie summoned '.lie messen gers to draw near nnd addressed them, while Mlawa sobbed very rcallsticallv at his side. ? "Wambc Is a giVit chief." paid Nala, nnd this woman is his wife, whom he has a right to claim. "She must return to him. but her feet are sore with walking; she ran not come now, "In eight days fro:n this dav she shnll be delivered at the kraal of Wambe; I will send her with a party of my men. As for the white hunter nnd his men, I have naught to do with them, and cannot answer for their misdeeds. r hey have wandered hither unnsked by me. nml I will deliver them back whence they cmne, thnt Wambe may ,luMn nco?rdiug t-> his law. ^Tltoy shall he sent with the girl. "For you, go your ways. ' Food shnll he given you without the krnal, nnd a present for Wambe In atonement for ihc Ill-doing of my daughter. I have spoken." At first the heralds seemed Inclined to Insist upon Malwa's accompanying litem then and there, hut ultimately on being ?hown the swollen condition of her feet, they gave up the point nnd departed. When they were well out of the way I emerged from the hut. and we went on to discuss the situation and make our plans. Fir?t of nil, ns I was careful to ex p.arn to Nala. I was not going to give him my experience and services for nothing. I heard that Wambe lmd a stoekndA found bis kraal made of eiepbnnt tusks. I hose tusks, iu the eveift of our sup celling j:i our enterprise, I should e.aini as jny perquisite, with the pro viso that Nala should furnish me with uicu lu carry them down to the coast To this modest rcqout lie asd the headmen cave an unqualified and hearty assent, the more hearty, per haps, because they never expected to 4nger them. The next thins I stiplated tras that if we conquered the white man. John Every, should be handed over to me. together with any goods that he might claim. Hi* cruel captivity was. I need hard ly say. the only reason that induced me to Join in so harebrained au expedi tion. but I was careful, from motives of policy, to keep this fact In the bajgk* ground. ?Nala accepted this condition. My third stlpylatlon was that no women or children should be killed. This being agreed to we went on to consider ways and means. Wain be was, it appeared, a very, powerful petty chief; that la he could put at least 0000 fighting men into the field, and always had from 9000 to 4000 collected about hie kraal, whlcty was supposed to be impregnable. Nala. on the contrary, could not at auch short notice collect more than from 1000 to 1200 men, though, being of the Zulu stock, they were of much better stuff for fighting purposes than Wambe's Matnkus. These odds, though Marge, were not. under the circumstances, overwhelm ing. The real Obstacle to our *chance of . success was the difficulty of delivering a crushing assault against Wambe's strong placc. This was. It appeared, fortified all round with schnnses. or stone walls, and contained numerous caves and koppies in the hillside and at the foot of the mountain which uo force had ever been able to capture. It was Mid that in the time of the Zulu monarch Dlngaan, a great Impl of that king having penetrated to thii district, had delivered an assault upon the kraal, then owned by a forefather of Wainbe, and been beaten back with the loss of more than 1000 men. Having thought the question over. I closely interrogated Maiwa cc to the fortifications and the topographical pe culiarities of the 8 pot, and not without results. I discovered thai the kraal was in deed impregnable to a front attack, but that it was very slightly defended at the rear, which ran up the slope of the mountain? indeed, only by two lines of a tblft? Avails. - ' The reason of ? this was that the mountain is quite impassable, except one secret path, aupposed to be known only to the chief and hIK^coMk*> cflors, and this being so. it had not been considered necessary to fortify it. "Well," I said, when she had done, "and now as to this secret path pf thine, know est thou aught of It?" "Ay," she answered. "1 am no fool, Mucninaxahn. n "Knowledge learned Is power earned. "I won the aecret of that path." "And canst thou guide an lmpl there on, so that It shall fall upon the town from behind?" "Yes, that can 1 do. if only Wambe's people know not that the Impl comee, for if they know, then can they block the way." "Bo, then, here is my plan. "Listen, Nala, and say if it be good; or. If you have a better, show it forth. "Let messengers go out and summon all thy Impl, that it be gathered here on the third day from now. "This being done, let the Iwpl, led by Maiwa, march on the morrow of the fourth day, and crossing the moun tains, let it travel along on the other side of the mountains till it come to the place on the farther side of which is the kraal of Wnmbe; tbat shall be some three days' journey in all (about 120 miles). ' > "Then, on the night of the third day's journey let Mjalwa load the Impl In silence up the secret path, so that It comes to the crest of the mountain that is nbove the Strong Place, and here let it bide among the rocks. "Meanwhile, on the sixth day from now, let one of the Inundas of Nala bring with him two hundred men that have guns, and take me and my men as prisoners, and take also a girl from among the Bntlana people wbo by form and face is like unto Maiwa, and bind her bnnds, and pass by the road on which we came, and, through the cutting in the cliff, on to the kraal of Warn be. "But the men shall take no shields or plumes with them, only their guns and one short spear, aud when they meet the people of Wainbe they shall say tbat they come to give up the womap and. the white man and h!s party to Wainbe, and to make atonement to Warn be. "So shall tiny pas* In peace, anil traveling thus, on the evening of the seventh day w r shall come to the gate of the place of Wainbe. and nigh tho gates there is. ?o says Maiwa, a koppie very strong and full of rocks and caves, but having no soldiers thereon except in time of war. or, at the worst, but a few such as can easily be overpowered. "This being done, at the dawn of day must the Impi on the mountain behind the town light a tire, and put wet grass thereon, so that the smoke goes tip. "Then nt the sight of (he sinoke will we In the koppie begin to shoot Into the town of Wnmbe, whereon all the soldiers will run to kill us. "But we will hold our own. and while we light tho luipi shall charge down the mountain ride and climb the schanses. and put those who defend them to the assegai, and then, falling upon the town, shall surprise It, and drive the soldier* of Wnmbe as the wind blows the dead husks of corn. "This is my plan. I have spoken." "On!" said Nala; "it is good; It is very good. (To be contlnjfd.> Tli? trouble with niuch preachinf fa tbat It la adT?rtl?lng truffles rrben t^t peopla need potatoes. AN EFFICIENT ALARM. Tears ago, when electric burglar alarms were new, Mark Twain had one placed in his house. In his auto biography, in the North American Review, he tells how it worked. As * B?*er?l thing it was out of order. Then he would shut it off and send to New York for an electrician. It never showed its real possibilities ex cept on one occasion. Jus. that one tlmc,?* lie says, "it performed Us whole duly ? gravely, seriously, admirably, it lei fly about 2 o clock one black and dreary March morning, and 1 turned oui promptly. becau3c 1 knew iiv :c.r, no. fooling this time. I stepped iuio the bathroom, turned up the gas, looked at the an nunciator, aud turned off too alarm, so far as the door- 'indicated was con cerned. This stopped the racket. Then 1 wont back to bcJ and Mrs. Clyncns opened (he debate. " What it is?' " '1 was the cellar ucor.' * Was it a burglar, do you thini;?* M 'Yes.' said I, 'of course it was. Did you ifiink it was a Sanday-school superintendent?' No. What do you suppose he warns"." " '1 suppose he wants jewelry, but he is not acquainted with the house, and he thinks it is in the cellar. Still, it may be that he is acquainted with the place, and that what be really wants is coal and vegetables.' '" 'Are you going down to see?' Are vou going down to see?' " 'No; let him select for himself.' " "But suppose he comes up to the ground floor'" " We shali know it the minute he opens a door. it will set off the alarm.' "Jftst tiieu the buzzing broke out again. I went into the bathroom and saw I was right, shut off the dining room and came back to bed. " What do you suppose he is af ter now?' said my wife. " 'I think he has got all the vege tables he wants, and ia coming up for napkin rings and odds and ends for the wife and children. They all have families, burglars have, and they are always thoughtful for them.' 1 " 'Arc you going down to see what he wants now?' "No: 1 think he is after ceramics and such things, if he knows the house he knows that is all he can And on that floor.' "She said, with a strong interest perceptible in her lone, 'Suppose he comes up here!' " 'All right,' I said. 'He will give us notice.' " 'What shall we do then?* 44 'Climb out of the window.' Well, what is the use of a bur glar alarm for us?' Hhc asked, res tively. 'You nave seen, dear heart, that It has been useful up to the present moment, and I have explained how It will be continuously useful after he gets up here.' ' That was the ond of it. He didn't ring any more alarms. l. said I thought he was disappointed and had gone off with the vegetables and the bric-a-b)ac. "We went to sleep, and at 7.45 in the morning 1 was out and hurrying, for 1 was U) take the 8.29 train for New York. I found the gas burning brightly all over the flrst floor. My new overcoai was gone; my old um brella was gone; my new patent leather shoes which I had never worn were gone. The large window at the rear of the house was open. I passed out through it and tracked the bur lar down the hill; tracked him with ease, because he had blazed his way with imitation silver napkin rings, and my umbrella, and various other things which he disapproved of. and ) went back in triumph and proved to my wife thai he was a disappointed burglar. "I had suspected he would be from the start, and from his not coming to | our floor io get human beings. *' MAN HUNT IN THE ALPS. A brigand who has for a year ter rorized the region afloat Lake Mag giore, in the north of Italy, has just been captured after a hard hunt and a desperate fighi. He is Giuseppe Crealini, and he has been living in a hut which he built for himself at an elevation of 6680 feet, near the sum mit of Monte Zeda, one of the moun tains of the Leponiine Alps. From this vantage point he made frequent descents upon all the sur rounding valley#, and always got away safely with IiIh plunder through his knowledge of the forests and rocky fastnesses of the mountainside, lie held the local authorities in abso lute con L em p- . Often when tbey were toiling through the wilds in the belief that they were on hid trail he would be down in tho lowlands making love to Home farmer's daughter, thus gain ing access to her father'* house, sir ing up its contents and forming his plans to loot it. At last the local police called for governmental help, and twelve men were selected to make a systematic hunt for Crealini. Dressed as guides, but armed with rifles and revolvers, they started in pairs to beat the for est. Thej aooa fo.ind traces ot the brl land, and on? day actually caught sight of him, but by his superior agil ity he got sonic lead on iheni, and j then by setting fire to the dry under- ] brush he managed to cover all traces of his flight. An extensive siretch of '? woodland was burned over before tho i ft re could be checked. New elforlR were made and f.nn'lv parties of eo!diers were sent up the 1 mountain from all sides so as to hem him in. As they approached within 600 feet of his hut he spied them and opeued Are. The bullets went ovc: their head?, but an they drew nearer they sav/ that hie hut was pierced with loop holes and gave every indication of being prepared for a siege. The sol diers found cover behind rocks and began shooting in return, hoping that a lucky shot would hit their man. It was late in the afternoon when the siege began, and the soldiers re alized that if th'ey remained until dark they would have to slay all nigh;, and staying all night practi cally amounted to freezing to death. Indeed, not being accustomed to the exposure their aim poon became un steady as they shivered in the keen mountain blast?. They were at their wii.s" ends when suddenly, after a specially, heavy voile:-, the brigand's Are ceased. The .roldierr suspected a 3?.rategem aud wailed. As nothing happened they plucked up cotlraffr for a dash to storm the house. They came on unhindered. They smashed i:\ the door and rushed into the single loom. The terrible robber lay on the "floor un conscious. A bullet had struck him on the head and knocked him insen sible, but glancing oft the bone had inflicted nothing wor3o than a scalp wound. When he came to Crealini found himself lied hand and foot and altogether at the mercy of his cap tors. On searching i.he hui the storming party found a considerable sum of money and a great hoard of valu ables, besides provisions, including delicacies sufficient for many weeks' subsistence for the brigand. They also found a great bundle of- love let ters written by some fifteen or twen ty of the prettiest women and girls in the surrounding valleys. As Crealini recovered conscious ness his only remark was: "Well, gentlemen, I think I've giv en you' gbod sport hflhting over this mountain, and wasn't thai a pretty fight?" Crealini is a i all-powerful man, about forty. He is now !tf prison in Milan awaiting trial. ? New York Sun. THE COUNTERSIGN OF PEACE. Allied with its prototype, the British fighting army, a little con tingent of twelve Salvation Army workers, under the guidance of Miss Mary Murray, who war. the statf cap tain and who is the daughter of Gen eral Sir John Murray, K. C. B., land ed at Cape Town harbor to work at the front in the late Boer War. No time of year could have been chosen which would have been more disagreeable for the workers. It was November. The rain and dew on the veldt arc appaling at that sea son, and the conditions in which tho twelve worked are disclosed in an incident, found in The Prophet o! the Poor, which is best repeated in Miss Murray's Own words. "It was raining in torrents that night and pitch-dark. The steady downpour increased the doltbtR in our minds as to whether we should take some food to the weary pickets or not. But having prepared some cocoa in a monster jug, Ensign Alice Hurley and I lighted our lantern and sallied forth for our walk across country. "We had splashed over the veldt, and were on the banks of a horrid swollen stream, when, with a sickly flutter, our lantern went out. Our, situation then was aytlting but pleas-' ant. It had been bad before, it was worse now. A picket somewhere in the dark before us with a loaded rifle, a swollen stream at our feet, and a huge Jar of cocea to guard ? that was the situation. Forgetting all mnrtial law, 1 shouted, 'Picket! Picket ! ' " 'Of course he won't answer!' shouted my practical companion, through the siorm, and seizing the cocoa, she forced me through sheer shnme to follow her noble example In crossing the stream. On the other side 1 nearly lost my footing, whyn there came a shout from the dark ness: " 'Halt! Who goes there?" *' 'It's all right,' returned Ensign Hurley, gaily. Hot cocoa!' "In a few minutes we were filling the canteens of the gratefnl soldiers as quickly as we could, an officer as sisting us, and subsequently insist ing on seeing us .home." ? Youth's Companion. BOY SLAYS MOUNTAIN LION. William H. Weir, twelve-year-old Ron of R. I). Weir, h Colorado Springs merchant, nhot through the heari a mountain lion while hunting with his father and other* at Debequ??, Col. Tho animal measures six Tret and weighs three hundred pounds. The shot wan offhand a! two hun dred yards. The animal was at bay, surrounded by the hounds. The shot war remarkablo under the circum stances, but was in keeping with the boy's record aB a crack shot. A HEAR 3TOUY. A Pittsburg man, oul hunting, shot a bear In the Hank. The ttnimnl rushed upon hint, the hunter emptied his revolver in the bear's body, then threw away his gun, took out a hunt ing knife and in a lively tnekle Willi the bear sucereded in stabbing II to death. ? Ohio Slate Journal. OVER 60-F00T PRECIPICE Escapo of Occupants of Fcjuous 18 Hour New York- Chicago Train i \V recked. at, Minora! Fcini Little Shcrt oi Miraculous. John?town. Pa., Sprnial. ? The Pennsylvania sjiecial, t !?*? famous 1S hour 'New York -Chicago train oi' the lYnnsyhania Railroad, was at Mineral Point seven miles o.t<t of here Saturday about midnight. None of the passengers were killed, and but one, John P. Kline, of Joliet, Hi., probably fatally injured. The train erew also escaped serious injury, Practically all the 54 passenger* on the train were more or less hurt Ten of the injured were taken to the Altoona Hospital, and the others were able to continue their journey. The escape of the occupants of the train from death was little short of miraculous. The train was running at the high speed of more than .~>U miles an hour when the last three cars of the train, Pullman sleepers, suddenly left the rails. Thoy turned down twice, then slid down tho tiO foot cmbaftkhW'nt into the Conemamrh river# The ears went through the heavy iee, but there was little water in the river so that there wu? no danger of drowning. The wreck it is thought, was ??link ed by the dropping of the brake i i-^ ging on the jirst sleeper following the locomotive and combination car. The rigging lodged under a ti?*. de railing the following cars. Th?* lo comotive and combination car re mained on the track. Artist Killed in Office. Chicago, Special ? ? Webster II. Gnerku, alias Louis Fisher, proprietor of the Harrison Art Company, was shot ami killed in his oflice at Lu Salle and Van Buren streets by Mrs. Flora McDonald, wife of Michael < McDonald, a millionaire, who wa< :*??r many years the Democratic political "boss" of Chicago. The motive of the killing is not exactly known. Mrs. McDonald became hysterical, and was unable to make a connected stale, ment. From what 'she said, howeve.', it is believed tbat for some time Onerin had obtained money from her by the threat of making certain dis closures to her husband. Tha Lyric Theatre Bnrned. . Altoona, Pa., Special.? The Lyrie Threatre conducted at Keith's vaude ville house was destroyed by tire Sunday. The fire is supposed to have been caused by crossed electric wires on the stage. The house was oj>ened last November. The loss is about $00,000. Ex-Congressman J. D. Hicks and D. J. Neff, whose law offices were in the building, lost $10,000 in their oflflce^furniture and law library. Scl eral other oeeupants of the building lost heavily. The insurance is only '? partial. While running to the tire. Wm. W. Bedding, of Dixon, III., a visitor to the city, was stricken with paralysis, and is in a serious condi tion at the Altoona Hospital. Longshoremen ' s Strike Renewed. Norfolk, Va., Special. ? The strike of the longshoremen employed on (lie foreign shipping which arrives here, was renewed when some 200 men londing and unloading the British steamship llestia and the fieruian steamship Wollgunde, quit work. The longshoremen insist upon an increase in wages of five cents per hour, mak ing a total general pay of aboul 2f> cents per hour. If the strike continu es the vessels may he taken to New pout News to complete their cargoes. A Fatal Shooting Affray. Millen, da., Special. ? Robert H. Humphreys shot, and instantly killed ?lames B. Daniel, son of Elias Daniel, Sunday morning at 0 o'clock. They had been at outs for some time and this morning they met in the noad and each began tiring. Humphrey was the quicker and Daniel was shot in the face with a load of buckshot. Humphrey telephoned the authori ties here of what he bad done, and immediately coming to the town sur rendered to Sheriff Eddenlield ami is now in jail. Both parties are of prominent families. Machinists Aak For More P*y. Norfolk. Ya., Special ? Machinist* employed at the Norfolk Navy Yard will send a committee to Washington in an effort to secure an increase of pay, according (o the recommenda tion of the general wage board which was roje<ied by the War De partment. Forty or .r>0 machinists will be dropped from the rolls at the navv yard on account of lack of work. Many Injured in Firo Scare. Chicago, Special. ? More than a dozen women and (Children were in jured, several of them seriously, in a fire scare in an Italian church Sun day. Two hundred pers< ?w Ihjc lino frightened by escaping v:;;.??r from a radiator and rushed fron the hui' i ing. Most of their in jut*' ? re tram pled on or cut by glas-< f "n a win dow, which was demolished.