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VOL XVII. v 1)1 Kl) RXtKTllKR. A Shocking Tragedy and a Revelation in Omalio, Neb. A PREACHER AND A MISSIONARY. l-'numl in Diu li OiIioin Arms Colli in l>entti in llir I'riMiclior'H Sludi in Ileal* of the Chitrcli. A most shocking tragedy was enact- i edinOraaho. Nebraska, on Tuesday night of last week. Clasped in each other's arms, hing on the lloor of the pastor's study in the Herman baptist Church early Wednesday. Oscar llerndes, janitor of the church, discovered the dead bodies of the itev. vV. < >. italic, pastor, and Augusta Ihiseh, a missionary and assistant to the pas- ft tor. Death had been caused by asphyxiation. The room was tilled with gas, a jet and a burner of a small . stove being partly turned on. The todies were lying on the lloor, the wo- j man's head being pillowed on some | cushions. They evident ly had lain in that position for several hours. There j seems to be little doubt that death was accidental. It is believed that the pair had fallen asleep, the stove tlatnc blew out and the gas escaped. > The bodies were rigid and death evidently occurred during the early hours of the previous evening. Miss Itusch roomed at the home of .lanitor Deludes and Mr. Italic at the home of Harry Dirkscn. Miss Ituseh went to the Dirkscn home yesterday morning and remained there until about h o'clock in the evening, engaged in sewing. She left for her home alone and it is thought probable that Oltn M .... ? ? diic un.:v> i?ii. i\(iuc mi niM" way aou that the two went to his study in t he rear of the church, where the t raged y occurred. They had been good friends, but no stronger feeling was apparent to those who knew them. Mrs. licrndes supposed the dead woman was in her room until Miss Kchalker, housekeeper for Mr. Italic, repor- j ted that lie had not been at homc| during the night. Then it was (lis covered that Miss Ilusch had not occupied her room and a search was made for them this morning. The janitor went to the pastor's study and found the door locked and the key on tiie inside and lie detected the escaping gas. Quickly lie summoned a police otlieer and the door was broken open. In the centre of the very small study tiie bodies lay, the heads a few feet from the doors. The woman's face was covered with froth and had begun to turn purple. One gas Jet above the pastor's table was partly turned oil' and from a stove gas was slowly escaping. It was thoughtat lirst that the two had committed suicide, for on the table was an open letter, a neatly arranged bouquet. Mr. Kabc's watch and glasses and his hat, Miss Itusch's gloves and handkerchief and folded upun i>ne ?&?.'k m ;i hirair was ncr jacnet. The letter was written in German and when translated was found to he an answer to another letter which Mr. Kabe had received. There was nothing in it to indicate that the two had intended taking their lives. Mr. Kahe was 51 years of age and came to Omaha from liutl'alo, N. Y., j when he was chosen pastor of the Gcr- | man Ha ptist Church. In that State: lie left a wife who is attending a mis-! sionary school, and one son. lie was held in high esteem by his congregation. Miss lUisch was :tl years of age and had been a missionary in Omaha bathe last live years. She came here from Chicago, sent by the Church Missionary School. She, too, was held in high esteem and was very popular. )oy in an Anderson Home. A dispatch from Anderson to The State says the happiest man in Anderson county at the present writing is Mr. W. W. Moore, a prominent citizen of the Piedmont section. Mr. Moore was married in 1 s7<? just 2<> years ago. He and his wife have lived happily together ever since, but no children had ever come to bless his home. Mr. Moore is on the shady side of the half century mark and his wife is in her 50th year, lie r.ad about made up his mind that the fates had been unkind to him, and that he would remain childless, hut it is a long lane that has no turning, and last Thursday night, Ids wife presented him with twins a boy and a girl. WUst list ^ l? * 1~ 1 ? a iiu iiiuuiu'i <11111 iillii; uiit'ft uru hclliilk along nicely, and Mr. Moore himself is in good shape. These facts arc given by people of that community, and Mr. Moore himself was in the clty5 He is naturally overjoyed on account of his great good fortune. "The people of the city of Anderson are building cotton mills and trolley lines," he said, "but the piedmont side of the county is not to be sneezed at. I wouldn't swap my fortunes for all the cotton mills and trolley lines in the country." Storm on Goltl Coast. No less than eight mt n were drowned, three vessels diiven ashore and practically every lighter on the Nome beach were wrecked in a storm that commenced Tuesday, Nov. I, and cont tlnued throughout the day. The facts are given by Purser Robinson, on the Ohio, who arrived Friday. A dozen or more people thrown into the surf were rescued by the life saving crews. The schooner Louise, the steamer Klk and the launch Fleet "Wing were among the larger craft wrecked on I ho I reach. In each instance tire crews were rescued or managed to reach the shore. The storm caused the water to back up in Snake river and Dry creek, and the Dry creek bridge was washed away. I V A TEXAS FIGHT. Three Men Killed ill a Shooting Affray at Orange. Three men are dead as a result of a shooting affray at Orange, Texas, Wednesday and meat excitement prevails In that community. The dead: Jeff Chenault. Clty Marshal Jordan, Tony Jones. Had blood Is said to have existed between ('henauit and Will Harris, a well-known voting man, for some time. Wednesday the two men met and after a war of words Harris secured a double-barrelled shut-gun and killed Chenault. Harris ran to escape the tire ot Chenault's brother, but was apprehnded by City Marshal .Jordan, who was close at hand. While the otlicer was conducting young Harris to jail lie was shot and killed and nls prisoner escaped. It is not known who killed Jordan, although there were a large number of people on the street at the time of the tragedy. Will Harris was later arrested and placed in jail. At this juncture his brother, James Harris, started for a near-by store, declaring that lie would procure a weapon and take part in the all'air. It is claimed that Tony Jones handed Harris a gun, after which the former jumped into a buggy. As he was driving away ollleers appeared on the scene and opened Pre on Jones, indicting wounds from wnicli he died a few minutes later. The town was tin own'into a state of intense ex it emeuand further trouble was fe u- d. but ShcriiT Koberts ordered that all saloons must close until he ga ve t hem permission to open, and announced that lie would rest ire law find order at any cost. 't'liIs statement had the desired elfect and although the streets are crow ded t here does not appear to be any I kelihood of further trouble. Jordan was util) recently appointed to succeed Marshall .let t, who was killed in the dis1,1.. .. w.'Hh' *" ""1,1 . a i'ior ( 'ii|m'in. 10. 11. I >eas, the Negro chairman of the Itepuhlican parly in this Slate, has at templed to stir up another sensation in the (J. (). I'.. and has preferred charges against District Attorney John (I. Capers, Internal Uevenue Collector Micah Jenkins and almost every other federal ollice holder in the State to Hie ctTect that they are guilty of pernicious political activity and have used their otllces in a way bound to olTend the president. As a result Mr. Fred 11. Wannatnaker, civil service examiner, has been sent to Charleston to investigate the charges and spent, t lie ent ire day Wednesday taking t lie testimony of Mr.Capers, boas' charges are not regarded seriously by any one and it is generally thought that lie is feeling sore because he feels the control of the party slipping from his hands, lie is not consulted in the matter of federal patronage any more, and what he says is of no weight in Washington. If is likely, therefore, that after the hearing of the charges authorities in Washington will dismiss the whole matter. Just what boas hopes to gain by this is a matter of conjecture. A Horrible Story, A special from Columbus, Neb, tells of the killing last Friday of a farmer named Gerhard I lurchers, living several miles northeast of Humphreys, by Herman, a fourteen-year-old son, who used a shotgun, which he had purchased for that purpose. When the help of two brothers, August aged id, ana .lolin, aged 8 years, Herman dragged the body of his father t<. a strawstaek and set tire to it;. This is t he story secured by Sheriff Ityrncs from the three ctiildren, who are in custody. Kacli of the children practically told the same story, the only variance being in the degree of culpability in the killing accorded to each. Herman, who is said to have tired the gun that killed his father, implicates Ids younger brother* equally with himself, while they put the blame on him. The only motive for the crime given is that the father, with whom the children had lived alone since the mother's death, had not treated them kindly. Neighbors of the llorohers say they know of no mistreatment on the part of the father. Amount ol t'otton (tinned. A report issued by the census bureau Wednesday places t he quantity of the present crop of cotton which hart beer ginned up to October 18 at r>,925,872 commercial bales, which is estimated to lie a little more t han 00 per ccntol the entire crop. These figures were collected by the agents of the bureau and 29,814 ginneries arc represented by the returns. The following figures represent, the amount ginned in eacli State by hales: Alabama 585,783 Arkansas .'190,800, Florida 29,779, Hcorgia 900,049, Indian Territory 201,019 Kentucky 284. Louisiana 309, 408, Mississippi 509,120, Missouri 14,903, North Carolina 303,029 Okla noma 84,(l?n, South Carolina 001,481, Tennessee 121,1 si), Texas 1,781,707, Virginia ."?,<?2. A l>cnd (tent. Mrs. Josephine Thornton of Indianapolis, Ind., secured a divorce from her husband on Friday, one of her grounds of complaint being that, though her husband was getting a good salary, they had moved 110 t imes since their marriage ten years ago finding It cheaper to move than to pay rent. <*ot Their Deserts. A well known society man of London named Itarnard Fraser has been sentenced to ten years penal servitude and with him Arthur Thorold, the son of a minister. Their offense was corrupting youth. to fl CONWAY, S. ( MUST KK INSANE. A Wealthy Young l'ostonian Accused ot Committing FIFTEEN MURDEROUS ASSAULTS Two ol' TIumii ltt'HiiI((*<l Fatally. Mo Mum Itoon Insane, Itut Wiin llcloiiscd From Asylum as <'lived. A dispatch from Huston, Mass.. says in connection with the I"? murderous assault cases which have occurred ill Cambridge, HrooUliu, and Somervillc within the last few months, two of which resulted fatally, the State police Wednesday arrested Alan (t.Mason, of Huston. a well known and wealthy business man. a member of the piano manufacturing lirm of M;c sou \ Ilamlin. a prominent club member and a Harvard graduate. The poI lice suspect, from evidence in their hands, that. Mr. Mason has been involved in nearly all the cases referred to as the circumstances of each have been very similar. Mr. Mason is a middle-aged man but he has been a victim Of mental trouble for which he >s treated at the McLean asylum at Wavcrly. About a year ago lie was permitted t * leave the institution. Since' h it time, i' is said, he litis Icon permitted to go and come tit will and the fact that he had been frequently s'MMi about i he localities in which the assaults occurred, led to > suspicion against him. The peculiar assault cases which have terrorized Cambridge and vlcinit \ as well as ot her suburban sections begun last June. During the summer there were half a dozen victims of an unknown assailant each of which was struck down and beaten with a blunt instrument. Marly in October Miss Agues Mcl'heo was assaulted in Somervillc and died from her injuries, an iron wrench was found and lived upon as tile weapon used. During the same month eight other eases followed, the last, of which occurred last Saturday night when Clara A. Morton, a laundress at the McLean asylum, was ac ousted on the grounds of that institution and I tea to 11 with a hlunt instrument. Miss Morton died Sunday. Mr. Mason was taken into custody at liis nfbthers home, on Newbury street, lie made no objection and on the way to police headquarters it is said Mr. Mason admitted to the olllcers that lie was in Somerville on the night on which Miss Mel Mice was fatally injured. The prisoner is about ltd years of age and is the son of the founder of the linn of Mason N liam' tin. organ and piano manufacturers. 1 lie was graduated from Harvard in Ihs<? and entered the linn of which his father was the head. Mental troubles developed within a few years of his graduation and he went to t he McLean asylum for t reatment. After ' a time lie showed improvement and left the institution. A second time it became necessary for him to return hut he soon improved and he was released a second time. in llihl, however, symptoms more serious than any previous ones developed and his mother and brother found it unsafe to he with him at their Newbury street home, lie hud threatened both and a petition was tiled to have him sent away on the ground of insanity and Mason was sent to Wavorly for the third time. The man himself protested against ( what lie termed an injustice ;md said 110 tV-ic nnrfnnMw ?iwl W.iltv >IV ???*?? | ?V I IVyVUIJ DdllU (lllll ? V J11 11 1 . conduct himself as well as possible | while he was there. He remained six months. Since then he had been free , and has been a stock taker at the Mason & Hamlin organ factory at Cam( bridge. Mason has a mother and three brothers. Kdward 1'aimer Mason,Jlonrv Lowell Mason and Daniel (ircgory Mason. 1 le is a cousin of John Mason, t he well known actor. Mason was detained at the station house until nearly o'clock, when he I was tat en to Cambridge where be will I remain under surveilance by insanity experts for a time. Throughout the examination he absolutely denied that he knew anything about the assault cases The police assert that four or live witnesses declare positively that they saw Mason in Waverly Saturday i night. Mason's brother says Alan is in bet tor mental condition than he was some : time ago but he realizes that Alan is I an insane man. One fact considered signitieantly by the police is the ad' mission that it has been the habit of i Alan Mason to take a car ride almost I every evening before going to bed.The 1 ride was taken as usual Sunday cveni ing but Mason declares he did not go 1 in the direction of Waverly. Later developments in the case is ' very damaging to Mason. It. was i announced that the watch of Miss Clara Marton, Mason's last victim, bad been found in a Cambridge street i pawnshop where it had been pawned i ) for $4 by a jonng colored man, and I tills discovery at once led to a general I search for this man by the entire police force, hut without avail. Hut later developments were far more . sensational. When t he pawn broker's memory had lieen jogged a little and lie had had time to think over the matter, lie remembered that the ' watch had been In ought to his otllce ! on last Saturday night between the ' ! hours of 11 and 12 o'clock by a white man and olTorod in pawn. Owing to the fact that It was after business hours lie had refused to receive it and i after expressing disappointment the , man departed, taking the watch with , him. On Monday morning the same watch was brought in by a colored nvii ? TIirUSDAV, NO1 ! nmii about 21 years of age of whom the pawn broker bought ii for *1. A burly colored man, evidently a coin; panion of the other, had been waiting outside the shop while the trade was being made and as soon as it was completed, he entered ant1 took the money which the proprietor passed over. Itoth men then departed. Continuing their investigations, the olllecrs made start Pug discovery which will have an important bearing on the case, to the elTcot that the watch of M iss Agnes MclMiee of Sonierville, an other ".lack the Slugger" victim, had been pawned at the same Cambridge street shop on Oct. .'t, tinday after her murder, by a white man whose description tallied exactly with that of the man who brought the Morton watch to the pawnshop Saturday infill. i lie descri pi Ions of I hese men is Nai<I by the poller to a^ree to a striking extent with that of the suspect Mason, an<l the pawn Inoker will he given :i eluinee tomorrow to identify him, if possible, as his visitor. COLUMBIA'S GLASS FACTOHY. It Malum T<niNiir All Winds ?>l" Unities Cnch Day. hut few people realize the vast importance. or even the extent of the new glass factory that has been hut recently established in Columbia, bringing into the city manv desirable families to make Columbia their home. The industry is one of the most important that lias come to Columbia, and there is no plant here that,is destined to attract more widespread notice. Already it lias been termed by experts who have seen it the best ventilated and most thoroughly modern plant in America of its class, which is a very broad statement. It has been started by progressive young men who were assured before they spent a dollar that such a factory would be a paying investment, and since the factory has commenced operations they are more t ban ever satisfied on this point. The State retrained from giving many of the details of this new and important cini'i pi in?: u111ii itosiociu, .lonn .1. Seibels of the company got everylIdng thoroughly organized and working smoothly. This has now been accomplished. A few essential facts about the factory will therefore hoof especial Interest to Columbians and others. The company that has established this plant is capitalized at, $00,000. and $15,000 has been invested in the thoroughly up-to-date factory. It is what is known as a 12 shop factory, running II shops since it was put in operat ion on the night of Sept. .'to. The plant runs night and day, six shops working in the day and live at night. A shop consists of three men, two blowing bottles, while one finishes the neck, and there are live boys to each shop, each bottle passing through the hands of all before it is completed. The men work in shifts alternately each week by day and night and several of the shops of the factory are blowing 18 and 10 gross of bottles per turn of 8 hours. It Is interesting to note that one shop at the new factory only a few days ago broke all records for quart bottles ever blown in the east, blowing 20 gross and 5 dozen, which earned for the three blowers about $12.50 a day each. The factory shuts down at noon on Saturdays, making the actual work live days and nights and a half day extra each week. The half holiday is necessary in order to blow out the tunnels and keep the plant thoroughly cleaned. The plant employs 120 men and boys, of whom 35 are high-priced and skilled blowers, all carefully selected. The capacity is .'h> blowers. The factory is at present turning out from II to 12 tons of glass a day of 24 lu.niv 1. I - > in mi i n. iii 111^; Iiuiinuuil I I > ill 1U ? tn? g I'OSS of bottles according to the size of the ware, and giving a daily output work on the market about $1,2~>0. The class of goods now being manufactured consists of coca-cola, soda water, mineral water, beer and whiskey bottles. The factory's payroll amounts to about $1,000 a week. The plant consumes 10 tons of coal a day, and has been keeping a supply without difficulty. Three cars of sand a week are necessary. This jomes from Killian's in this county and is washed, screened and dried by the Killian fire brick company. The coke used in the lehrs for annealing the ware after it, is blown is obtained from the gas works here. Two carloads of soda ash per week are used; this comes from Syracuse, N. V. The glassmakers' lime comes from Toledo, ()., and the manganese, arsenic, antimony and other Ingredients come from various portions of the west. The factory runs with an improved system of gas produces, and a uniform heat of 4,000 degress (Karen licit.) The box shop has a capacity of 1,000 boxes per day, but, owing to the difficulty of installing the electrical machinery it has only been in operation for a few days, turning out half its capacity.' The box shop uses about three cars of lumber a week when running full capacity. The factory now has blown on orders, ready for delivery, at the factory, about 12,000 or 15,000 bottles, which will be delivered to the ourehasers as umn no tim wn wo , -f/v.* i%D VM\y ?/\7AVn (? I i: ready, Vjynclieri lliui. Sam Harris, a negro, entered the homo of (?eo. Meadows, a prominent planter, near Salem, Ala., on Monday and struck Mrs. Meadows and her 18year-old daughter on the head with an axe, giving the former a mortal wound and fracturing the skull of the latter. The negro was arrested, hut was taken from the oUlcers by 12f> men and his body riddled with bullets. it era 1 O VKMllFdi IB, H)02. Til K KliliCTION. There Were No Great Surprises in the Result. REPUBLICANS WIN THE HOUSE, lint (lit* I>emuerata Made lilt; (iaius in Nearly All tip* States. TJ?e Soutli Dium' More Solid. The election on Tuesday, Hit instant. resulted in no ureal surprises. Ill New YilH. till. IN.ool.llon n .......if date for governor claims his election bv a small majority, which the I >? moerats refuse to concede* The result is so close that there will probably be a contest. In almost, all- cities o! the state of New York tin* Uepuhliean party organizations went tosmash h<>lore the assault of the labor vote. The I I )e itinera Is win four congressmen in i the Stat e. Peiinypaeker has been elected governor of Pennsylvania by a plurality Of at least 105,000. This was done in the laee of the bitterest campaign that has racked the Keystone slate ill recent years of hard lighting in the race of discontent caused bv coal I strike, and of a revolt in Alleghany county, which, when the votes were 'counted, was found to have caused oniplcte party chaos. Pennsylvania will probably elect 21 Uepuhliean ! represent at-ives and eight Democratic ; representatives, t^uay has saved the I legislature and, having won this victory, is ready to retire from politics. Connecticut has cone Uepublican by probably 15,000 and it Is likely that I not Only has Mr. Lilly. Uepublican candidate for represent at ive at large, been elected, in spite of his connction j with the beef trust hut that all the four dist ricts have been carried by the ' Ucpuhlicans. In Ohio the Tom. Johnson ticket has been snowed under by the combined etforts of Senators llanna and Poraker. Manna's home city went Democratic. The Ucpuhlicans carry Ohio by a greatly reduced majority. In Wisconsin the Ucpuhlicans have won in spite of themselves. The bitter quarrel between (Jovernnr Lsii'oL lette ?tnd Senator Spooner was carried directly to the polls. The surprising result Is that Lafollctto has been elected governor and the legislature is Republican insuring Spooncr's return to the senate and ten of the eleven congressional districts have been carried hy the Republicans. There was a light vote in Illinois, hut the Republicans apparently held their own. I ndications arc that the Republicans will have the legislature, insuring the election of Representative Hopkins to the senate as the successors of Will lain K. Mason. Indiana remains Republican. The legislature will be controlled by Republicans and Senator Fairbanks will succeed himself. There have been heavy Democratic gains in Massachusetts, but the Republican state ticket has been elected by a fair majority. It is probable that three or four members of congress have been elected, but the Democrats of Maryland which now has six Republican representatives have elected four reprcsentati vs. Deleware has probably been carried by the Democrats and Houston has been elected to congress. The legislature is close, but is believed the Democrats will control and elect two 11 id ted States senat ors. In the far west the Republicans have made gains. Colorado is believed to be safely in their column. Nevada has probably elected a liepublican to congress. The Pacific coast states arc generally llepublican and the Republicans in California have elected their state ticket and six of the eight representatives. liliode island lias elected a Democratic governor and two Democrtlc members of congress. This is a surprising result and is due to the uprising of labor in the cities of Providence and Paw tucket. " ;0 South is once more solid. The Republicans carried very few congressional districts in this section. An Unexpected Victory. The <Columbia State says the I >emocratic victory in Rhode island was almost entirely unexpected. If the Democratic campaign managers made, any claims of carrying that State they were generally deemed too unimportant for attention. Yet it seems that the governor, the lieutenant governor and the congressman are Democrats while the lower house of the general assembly is evenly divided between l he two parties, the senate iieing still strongly Republican. Rhode island wjfs once considered a Democratic Slate but of late years lias been abandoned to the Republicans. It may In; that this little victory is an entering wedge for the Democratic party in New Kngland, where it has much to regain. It III<*<l on tho Kail. Herman A. Meyer, a Charleston boy 19 years old, fell under the cars at Kingville while stealing a ride from Columbia to Charleston on Sunday and had both legs cut off. He died before reaching his widowed mother in Charleston. liil'e Ih Cheap. Herbert Marble was convicted of manslaughter at New Haven, Conn., on Thursday for killing a man by running over him with his automobile and was sentenced to one year In jail. SHOT FROM THE REAR. The VhniimhIii llud ITiiloultiedly l.nin 0 in AihIiiimIi for \ 'Ictliii. N(? flew to the murderer (?f (iutfie IU)iir<|ulu iitid Fieri Taylor, the old ne^ro who w is killed with the planter Wednesday near Savannah, as told of in the newspapers, has heen discov, erod. ( i\ vlvi t oil 1 I n> vi>.ni.i . .1' ii,.. i 111 ' "Mil" Iny al>out six miles from Savannah. 1 and marie every effort to yain a trace | (it t lie imirrlerer. but wit,liout success. Ituckshnt holes In the back of (lie buyyy iii which Ikiurqiira body was found, and In the bo ly Itself, showed that lie had been shot from the rear, ' probably by some who bad lain in ambush. The ucyro had Jumped from the huyyv and run on the track of the Seaboard Air Lin \ Ile was shot down also, from the rear, and sometime afterwards a train passed over Ids Ixxly. ' The conductor thought his train had killed the man. and so reported. (tuillemain Itourquin, one of the sons of the murdered man, said of the killing: "My father had a yrcat. deal of trouble with pot hunters and ties-1 passers on his place, and I have no doubt that some white man slew him. 1 do not believe It was the work of j negroes. I have a clew that I will j work on, and it may help me In solv- ! iny t Ids mystery." Mr. Hounpiin was connected with the oldest families of the state; In fact , belny a descendant of some of the original set tiers, lie was horn in Savannah in IH.'tT. and had resided , there evor since. lie \>as connected with I he Central railroad before the war as cashier. After the war, with the linn of (Jilliland Itourquin, he! conducted a yrocerv and produce business. The last twenty-live years of his life had been spent as a rice planter ami in lookiny after Ills extensive holdings. Mr. Itourquin leaves three sons; one in Savannah,( uillemaln Itourquin,one in Little Kock, Ark., and another whose whereabouts is unknown, lie | also leaves a sister, Miss Alice V. Itourquin, a teacher in the public i schools. Mr. Itourquin was often in trouble wuii nunters who trespassed on his legal r?tangleinents was when he was tried lor the murder of W. 1<\ Darrell on I >eccmber .'10. ist)2. lie surrendered himself to the authorities and gave bond in the sum or $.">00 for shooting and killing Furred, whom lie found trespassing on his lands in the southwestern section of the eountv. The grand jury Indicted him on January 12, 181)2, and on June 22, of that year he was tried and the grand jury found him not guilty. FAMINE IN PHILIPPINES. Heroic Measures arc llcing Taken ?o Kcllcve Situation in Archipelago. A dispatch from Manila says the Philippine commission has been forced to take heroic measures to relieve the famine conditions prevailing in the aichipclugo. It has appropriated $2,000,000, Mexican, to purchase rice and to charter vessels to carry the supplies to the different islands. It Is proposed to sell the rice for cash and to distribute it through the elvll officials. It will be sold at not less than actual cost, including duty, transportation, shrinkage and storage, thus not prejudicing legitimate competition; but this will result in the sulfercrs being able to purchase at from one-third to one-half less than the present cost, owing to the exorbitant. coast wise rates that shippers are obliged to pay. The lirst rice steamer sailed for the provinces of the Camarines Wednesday morning. The hulk of the rice to be disposed of in this manner will be purchased in Slam. Reports from various places in the archipelago show ;i general condition of poverty and famine, resulting from the insurrection, cholera and rinderpest. The authorities of the Zainbales provinces have appealed for aid in introducing American agricultural machinery and in importing carihaos (water buffaloes) the rinderpest having killed 2<i,(l00 of these animals tliis year. The sliippers have objected to the government importing rice, and have olTered (iovernor Taft a lengthy explanation in justification of tlie prohlhitive prices prevailing for rice. Tliey say in elfect that the Philippine crop is always Insuiliclent for the home demand, and that the present crop in Indo-China is a failure,the strain there selling <r?0 percent, higher tlian it did last year. The Asiatic growers have issued a notice tiiat, no rice will 1m; available between December and February. i tic prices of Hemp caused the Filipinos to neglect their scanty rice cultivation. The shippers deny that there is a pool to control prices, and declare that the high freight rates are the natural result of the fluctuating currency. The price is enhanced by the long quarantine, increased wages and the high duty. They assert that the local tonnage is sulllcient to handle the business. (fohloii Streets. For some time past the authorities of Altinnn In tlie Crlpple Creek district, which enjoys the distinction of being the highest Incorporated town in the world have l>een paving the streets with rock taken from the waste dump of the Pharmacist mine. Some of it looked so well that samples were taken at random and assayed, and the returns showed an average value of $20 In gold a ton. As a re' suit men tiegan hauling away the street surface until stopped by the police. The Pharmacist company has i ceased giving away the dump, and is hauling it to the reduction mills. AN K\PLOSION Causes a Frightful Disaster in the Heart of a Crowd. ELEVEN MEN KILLED OUTRIOHT Ami I'lUy I iij ii!*???I. Many ??f tlieui l-'atally. I'anlc and Stumpedu I OIIHWIMI. r?0() I'ollCCIIiett Culled Out. 11v ii series of explosions of pyrotechnic homhs and other IIreworks Tuesday night, amon^ tlx* vast multitude gathered in Madison Square In New York city In witness tlx' ascension of an airship and the display of the election returns, eleven persons were killed outright, many being blown almost to pieces and at least Mfty injured, many of (hem fatally. It is estimated that at least it0,000 persons thronged the Square at the time of t he explosions which were succeeded by a frightful panic In which hundreds were thrown down and trampled under foot. Five hundred policemen and all the ambulances In the city were instantly summoned and the dying and those most seriously injured were removed to t he hospitals. In addition to these many of the wounded wore taken away by friends. Nine men in charge of the llreworks display were placed under arrest immediately after the explosion. The list of the dead is: Policeman Dennis Shea. Win. (i. Finley (Jeorge Kit/.. Tharold liobley. Five unknown men. unknown colored man. Unknown colored l>oy. The densest portion of the throng t hat packed the square was gathered along Madison avenue close to the place reserved for the discharge of lireworks. Along the border of the s<|uarc facing the avenue were arranged three groups of the castiron mortars, 20 in each group and loaded with heavy bombs. A few minutes after 10 o'clock the llrst row of mortars was touched olT, but before the discharge took place one of them fell over on Its side and the next Instant * i stant the bomb was shot into the thickest of the crowd, whore it exploded and hurled the people Into heaps. The fall of tho mortar and the concussion of the explosion knocked down the rest of the row of mortars and a thundering volley of huge projectiles ploughed through the crowd. Almost Instantly tlie second group of 20 mortars alxmt 100 feet further up the avenue discharged their contents into the crowd and a moment later the third group, evidently ignited by the showers of falling sparks, exploded In the same manner. In tlie panic that ensued thousands ran blindly across the square, tripping over the seats and benches and falling were trampled upon. The police on duty were carried along by the rush and for half an hour tiie wildest confusion reigned. After the smoke of the exclusion had cleared away 10 persons were found lying on Madison avenue between 2.'Jrd and 25th streets. Scores of injured were scattered about the avenue and the square. Among the dead was a policeman who was standing close to the mortar and whoso body was frightfully mangled. A force of 500 policemen was soon on the spot and upwards of 100 physicians and 200 nurses were summoned from the hospitals. The True Cause. The Columbia Record says Massachusetts papers are trying to explain why Hooker Washington's daughter was forced to leave Wellesley college. One paper attempts to explain it by the fact that the Southern girls in the college absolutely refused to asso- , ? elate with her, and adds that some of the Northern girls "took up" with her. There is no disputing about tastes generally, so the Northern girls are welcome to theirs in this matter; but the truth of it is that the generality of Northern girls are not much dilTerent from their Southern sisters in tills respect. The faculty of the college is acting very follishly in trying to make it appear that anything else than race prejudice, if you please to call it that, caused her rejection as a student after the experiment had i>cen tried for one term. Takes Her Own A special dispatch from Lancaster to The State says Miss Ida Craig, a young lady about 20 years of age, living about eight miles in the county, put an end to her life by drinking carbolic acid Tuesday morning about .'1 o'clock. She had l?een using the acid for tootchache, and the supposition fsi t.ililt pot irlnn tg\- th? ?. *. V. .u w..%?? wv/k iuvu II1(S &UI tlll> m^UU she drank the contents of the Ixittle, which was a small one with only a small quantity of the acid diluted therein. The young lady had been complaining during the day and It Is probable ner mind had become unbalanced from 111 health. In n HIk Hurry. The State says Hon. G. Duncan Bellinger, attorney general, has received a letter from a nominee for office, asking if he cannot Immediately take charge of the ottlee to which he has been elected. Mr. Bellinger says that no result has yet been declared, 4 and the nominee has not been elected until the result is declared by the board of canvassers.