The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 07, 1904, Image 6
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m Be Pass
Bfl| By Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish.
m m HE social question is
any
^__ | The point that I
W | | I most strongly about
W ? 1 of eligibility to the s
I 1*1 ture> brains and pe
' jL M rather than upon th(
# unique in this opinio
society think exactly
The trouble is that in America sor
rated as members of the best societ
claim to such distinction. Am I not
The dollar sign snoma not oe me
There are many persons in the sodecided
acquisitions to the best societ
^ ti?em. In England or on the Contine
ft the most cultured or?which is the s
people. That is why European soei
People who are interesting iu thei
have done, should receive the right 1
k ocial life.
Let' the women take more interesl
In time our social centre, I think,
pot for the combination of politics,
can make society interesting.
As to the so-called "Four Hundr
sow has lost any meaning which it m:
Don't you think that the day is r
millionaires constitutes the roll call
their way through the money-loving
suetude which they deserve.
r
The Presidents
' By Senator H. C Lodge.
VICE-PRESIDENT w
I I ident in case of the
I I and in the event of t!
1 dent and Vlce-Presid<
M I the succession by law
- -1 ^1 P?ssil)le oue? of the d
' JL or of both the Preside
journment of the ele
|f; - provision whatever w
continuance of the Executive subseqi
matter was left by the trainers in tlj
Amendment, adopted in 1S04, and re?
dent by the House in the case of a fai
5-?" If the House does not elect before >!
President, as in the case of the deatt
President" Thus this amendment b:
tha dpnth of the President-elect, bu
dent and Vice-President-elect remains i
L wholly uncovered. Should this continj
night, some way out of the grave si
v found, but It would have to be extra-c
U ?f power by Congress. In the essential
government without lapse or break this
There is no *uch oversight, no such in
stitutlonal arrangements guaranteeing
!?f the Senate.?From "The Senate," ir
How to Train
By T. P. O'Connor.
w m RAINING the memor:
' seems to be a topic
other sign that the
t at. any rate turning
f I | of the gigantic terr
I w 1 t-ion, and of the 1mm
? JJ tion in the "vanguar
some effort made, so
i? notoriously unreliabl
Filing progress, memories ought to b<
Every system of memory training
based upon the well-known and anci<
ideas." A certain person has no difl
facts because they happen to be as?o
facts. Thus you may hear a man say
battle of Waterloo, because I was bor
gests another; and the great object ol
does not suggest another, artificially
A'flrst-class system of memory tra
It will be carefully planned and work
end by the smallest possible means,
srill be adaptable, elastic and compri
the-principle of the association of ide;
, capable of transforming ajwaln of le
win depend upon the energetic thoro
into practice, ^
a
I . ..... n
| kett-Minaea v
A. By Dr. Wlthrow.
B OTH sides of the brain t
^ giving commands to the
j ^ side, either from the rij
I I speech centre lies gets i
B 1^# B forming its duty, then 1
a it requires some time b<
Supposing a man m
5 % kind which damages th<
dumb for the time beinj
to give orders, and the
i after some years, but in many cases 1
\ .Orders from the brain are transmits
^ right.
You hare often experienced, I suj
done something or met sbme one at i
have not done so at all.
I Supposing the left side of your br
ing to tie your bootlace, and that the :
a second behindhand in grasping the
side did grasp it, would be that you t
your beotlace.
B fast-Tab!
[ary A. Liverr&ore.
HAVE sometimes th
from the list of fan
nalc of the househo
quently does it beeo
care be taken the br
where each one unlo
"not slept a wink.'
dream, a third "neai
is dismal because of
g details be added a d<
>val of the weather, th<
pall on the taste and
he matter of cooking
joyous and in abouudii
dr food with laughter
o let them wait until a
i
i Should Not
port to Society
one which must interest any person of
or experience in travel,
want to make most clear and that I feci
is that I think our American standards
oeially elect should depend upon the culrsonal
attractiveness of the individual
; size of his bankbook. I am uot at all
>n. All those who deserve any place iu
<ic T r?r? nnon this sublect.
ae people, 011 account of their money, are
y when they have no possible personal
right?
passport to American culture,
called professional classes who would be
y. Society is the loser for not admitting
nt they would receive a welcome among
ame thing?among the most fashionable
ety is more interesting than ourt', is it
mselves, for what they are or what they
land of fellowship from the best of our
t in politics and questions of the day.
will be Washington. That is the logical
literature, art and frivolity, which alone
ed"?it is a ridiculous expression which
ly originally have possessed,
apidly passing when the number of our
of society? Let such expressions sift
toadies of society to the innocuous de0
&
ll Succession
as created to take the place of the Preslatter's
death, resignation, or disability,
ha iiunth nr riisnhiiitv of both the Presi
eut, Congress was empowered to settle
But in tlie case, by no means an imeath
or disability of the President-elect,
nt and Vice-President-elect, after the adctoral
colleges and before March 4, no
as made for the succession or for the
lent to March 4. This was the way the
ie original Constitution. In the Twelfth
plating the manner of choosing a Presilure
to elect by the people, it is said that
[arch 4 the Vice-President "shall act as
) or other constitutional disability of the
7 implication provides for the possibility
t the case of the death of both the Presiis
the Constitution itself originally left it,
jency just mentioned ever occur, as it well
tuation thus created would no doubt be
onstitutional and through an assumption
duty of maintaining the existence of the
i is a serious, if not perilous, omission,
stance of neglect to be found in the con;
the perpetuity and unchanging character
i Scribner"s. . *
& JZ7
the Memory
r, like the acquisition of foreign tongues,
of interest just now; its actuality is anEnglishman,
if not indeed waking up, is
over in his sleep as he dreams uneasily
ors of German and American competiinent
peril of being ousted from his posid
of nations." Something must be done,
me fillip applied; and since memories are
e and capricious, in such a manner as to
i improved.
g that is not purely arbitrary must be
?nt principle entitled "the association of
acuity in remembering certain extrinsic
ciated in his mind with certain intrinsic
: "I always know the exact date of the
n on the 18th of June." One thing sug'
the memory trainer Is, when one thin?:
to Induce It to suggest another.
Ining will nerther be random nor clumsy,
ed out so as to gain the greatest possible
It will be full of minor ingenuities. It
fhenslve. But?it will be founded upon
as; it will not be a miraculous discovery
>ad into a brain of gold; and its success
ughness with which the learner puts it
& J&
eople
are capable of performing the duties of
limbs; but the orders only come from one
5ht or left; but the side upon which the
njured, and is rendered incapable of perJie
other side takes up the work, though
efore it can do so properly,
leets with a bad fall or accident of any
i speech centre on the left? He becomes
Then the right side slowly learns how
man gradually regains power of speech
le becomes left-handed, because now the
id more rapidly to the left than to the
ppose, the curious feeling that you have |
some time or other, when in reality you
ain conceived the idea that you were go-J
right side was, say, a thousandth part of
same idea? The result, when the right
frould imagine that you had already tied
?7
ie Talk
ought that breakfast should te stricken
aily meals and be served to the Individ*
Id in the privacy of their rooms, so treme
a joyless feast. Uuless the greatest
eakfast table becomes a veritable dump,
ads the grievances of the night. One has
" another was scared by a "horrible"
rly died" from an aching tooth, a fourth
a depressing nightmare, and so on. If to
)leful disarray of dress, tousled hair and
i news and (lie food, the most appetizing
the day v. 11 be badly begun. More inlis
it that the family gather around the
lg spirits. Good digestion waits on those
and fun. and if we have cares aud worfter
the matutinal meal-?Success,
MANY THEATERS CONDEMNED.
Chicago Officials Trying to Avol4
Future Disasters.
Chicago, Special.?Mayor Carter H.
Harrison Friday took steps to provide
as far as possible against a repetition
of Wednesday's horror at the
Iroquois Theatre. As a result of an
investigation made at his orders and
lasting but a few hours, 19 theatres
and museums were closed, some of
v _ loorl in tr and
in em Deiug uiuuug tuc iv?>..~0
most popular play-houses of the city.
The act of the mayor was based on a
single violation of the ordinances
which are intended to protect the patrons
of the theatres from just such
an occurrence as that which cost so
many lives on Wednesday. This was
that every one of these places had
omitted to supply an asbestos curtain.
The theatres ordered closed are:
Howards, Alhambra, Avenue, Bijou,
Chicago Opera House, Columbus
Stock, Thirty-first Street, Criterion,
Fiegenbaum's. Milwaukee Avenue,
Garrlck & Glickm&n's. In addition
to these the London Globe Museum
and the Clark Street Museum were
also compelled to close their doors.
The Chicago Opera House and the
Olympic Theatre are vaudeville
houses of the highest class and probably
do as much as business In point
of numbers as any one of the theatres
in the city at single performances.
They give, however, a matinee every
day in the week, and it is seldom that
seats can be obtained for any performance
after the time of opening.
In addition to this they have been
accustomed to selling large numbers
of tickets for standing room, and as a
general thing more people are within
these places of amusement at an average
performance than can be found
at any other playhouse in the city.
The Garrlck Theatre, which was ordered
closed, is a small playhouse on
the northwest side of the city and
Bhould not be confounded with the
larger theatre of the same name situated
on Randolph street, one block
west of the Iroquois.
The inspection ordered by the mayor
was carried out by Building Commissioner
Williams and Chief of Police
O'Neill. The scope of the investigation
included no other feature
than asbestos curtains. The mayor
instructed Commissioner Williams to
report to him promptly at the conclusion
of his investigation, declaring
that it was his intention that no theatre
should be allowed to open its
doors in Chicago hereafter unless it
was provided with an asbestos curtain
of standard quality that would
work at all times and under all conditions.
"It may not be possible," said Mayor
Harrision, "to prevent loss of life
when audiences rush fdr the doorways,
but I have determined to see
that every precaution is taken to prevent
such occurrences as will alarm
the people and siart ioem uu a. x uou
for the exits. It Is all very well to
say that the loss of life in the Iroquois
was due to the fact that the
people lost their heads and crowded
into the doorways and aisles, like
maniacs, but the fact remains, and
it cannot be denied, that there would
have been no panic if the apparatus
in this theatre, which, judged by all
ordinary standards, was the best
equipped playhouse in the city, had
been in proper working condition.
There is no getting beyond that fact.
From all the evidence now in hand
it is clear that if the asbestos curtain
in this theatre had been in the
condition it should have been there
would have been no loss of life, comparatively
speaking."
The report of Building Commissioner
Williams showed that the Academy
of Music, with a seating capacity of
2,000, had a curtain of burlap; the Alhambra,
with a seating capacity of
2,300, the Avenue 600, tne Bijou 1,300,
Clark Street Museum 270, Criterion
1,400, Fiegenbaum's 400, Howard's
900, Marlowe 1,300, New American 1,400,
all had curtains of linen. The
curtain in the Chicago Opera House
*as of burlap covered with fire proof
nalnt. In the Columbus Stock Thea
tre, and In Sam T. Jack's it was of
canvas. The Dlympic, with a seating
capacity of 1,600, has a curtain of
canvas.
"There were other glaring defects,''
said Commissioner Williams, "yrhich
were noticed in some of the houses,
but we were not paying particular
attention to them, although I noted
thfcui and the theatrical managers will
be compelled to remedy them as soon
as possible."
Meeting of Histod^al Society.
. New Orleans, Special.?Prof. Dunning,
of Columbia University, presided
Wednesday over the meeting of
the American Historical Society in
Tulane University. He announced
that the object of the session was to
show the college professors of the
North the conditions in the South
with respect to all important questions
of teaching history. Prof. W.
E. Good, of Randolph-Macon College,
of Virginia; Prof. Fortier, of the
Louisiana Historical Society, and
| Prof. Lillian W. Johnson, of the Uni
verslty of Tennessee, spoke.
Panama Company.
Paris, By Cable.?Owing to recent
events at Panama the annual meeting
of the Panama Company, which began
Wednesday afternoon, developed
unusual interest and excitement.
Prior to opening efforts were made to
seat proxies to overrule the existing
management of the companv, wb'^h
were favorable to the sale of the
company's properties to the Unued
States.
J^m's'ow Fx os'?'oti.
Newport News, Va? Special.?At Friday
night's meetings in the interest of
the Jamestown Exposition movement,
held in Newport News. Norfolk. Hampton
Portsmouth, and Berkley the success
of the movement was assured.
Sufcsrrpifions made at these meetings
to the capital stock ran the total of
stock taken to ft. 100.000. To save the
chatter obtained by the company it
was necessary to show subscriptions
amounting to {1,000,000 at midnight.
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CHICAGO HAS
550 Victims Dead and Many Others
Seriously Injured
MEN OVERCOME BY AWFUL SIGUT
Dead Found in Great Piles?Terrific
Explosion Precedes the Fire?The
J Iroquois Theatre Was the Scene
of Destruction.
Chicago, Special.?About 550 people
were killed in about 10 minutes
in the Iroquois Theatre, the newest
aad, as far as human power could
make it, the safest theatre n Chicago.
Estimates of the dead and injured
vary. The police account of the dead
is 536. The estimate of the newspapers
is 562. Besides this there are 55
people missing at midnight, the majority
of whom are very probably
among the dead in the morgue and
the various undertaking establishments.
Eighty-six of the dead have
been positively identified and 92 others
are known to be injured.
A few of the unfortunates were
burned to death by fire, many were
suffocated by gaa, and scores were
trampled to death in the panic that
follewed the mad plunge of the
frightened audience for the exits,
it will be many hours before the number
of dead is accurately known and
many days before all of them will be
Identified. There are bodies lying by
the dozens in the undertaking rooms
in the police stations, and in the hosnt+aie
frwm irhirh nearly everything
that could reveal their Identity to
those who knew them best is gone.
Their clothing is torn to rags or burned
to cinders and their faces have
been crushed into an unrecognizable
pulp by the heels of the crowd that
trampled them down as they fled for
safety.
The fire broke out during the second
act of "Mr Blue Beard, Jr." which
was the first dramatic production presented
in the theatre since its erection.
The company, which was very
large, escaped to the streets in safety,
nearly all of them, however, being
compelled to flee into the snowy
streets with no clothing but their
stage costumes. A few members of
the company sustained minor injuries
but none were seriously hurt.
The accounts of the origin of the
Are are conflicting, and none of them
axe certain, but the best reason given
Is that an electric wire near the lower
part of a piece of drop scenery suddenly
broke and was grounded. The
fire spread rapidly toward the front
of the stage, causing the members
of the chorus, who were then engaged
in the performance, to flee to the
wings with screams of terror. The
fire in Itself up to this time was not
eerious, and possibly could have been
checked, had not the asbestos curtain
failed to work. As soon as the Are was
discovered, Eddie Foy, the chief comedian
of the company shouted to lower
the curtain, and this was immediately
done. It descended about half way.
and then stuck. The fire thus was
given practically a flue through which
a strong draft was setting in. With a
raor and a bound the flames shot
through the opening, over the heads
of the people oil the first floor and,
reaching those in the first balcony,
caught them and burned them to
death where they sat. Immeditely following
this rush of flames, there
came an explosion, which lifted the
entire roof of the theatre from its
walls, sattering the great skylight into
fragments.
As soon as the flames first appeared
beyond the curtain, a man In the rear
shouted "Fire! Fire!" and the entire
iudience rose as one person and made
for the doors. It is believed the explosion
wa3 caused by the flames coming
in contact with the gas reservoir
of the theatre, cousing them to burst.
Will J Cavis, manager of the theatre,
1- - 19
sal a, arter me caiasirupuc, mat it uit
people had remained In their seata and
had not been excited by the cry of
fire, not a single life would have been
lost. This is, however, contradicted by
the statements of the firemen, who
found numbers of people sitting in
their seats, their faces directed toward
the stage as if the performance were
still going on. It was the opinion of
the firemen that these people had been
suffocated at once by the flow of gas
which came from behind the asbestos
curtain.
I As near as can be estimated at the
present time, about 1.300 people were
in the theatre. Three hundred of these
were on the first floor, the balance beChang-S
I s P.ans.
Hot Springs. Ark., Special.?It is
reported here that the promoters of
the Hot Springs Jockey Club have "decided
to abandon plans already extensively
advertised for a midwinter
race meeting and instsad offer induce1
ments for an ante-spring meeting to
' begin Februarv 12 and last 20 davs.
The new schedule will be presented
< to the nsxt meeting cf the Western
' Jockey Club for approval.
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AWFUL FIRE
ing in the two upper balconies and in
the hallways back of them. The theatre
is modeled after the Opera Coniique,
in Paris, and from the rear of
each balcony there are three doon
loading out to passage ways toward
the front of the theatre. Two of these
doors are at the end of the balcony
and one In the centre. The audience in
Its rush for the outer air seems to
have, for the greater part, chosen to
nee lu iue icii euirauce, auu iu attempt
to make Its way down the eastern
stairway leading into the lobby
of the theatre.
Outside of the people burned aad
suffocated by gas. It was in these two
doorways on the flrat and second balconies
that the greatest loss of life occurred.
When the firemen entered, the
dead were found stretched In a pile
reaching from the head of the stairway
at least eight feet from the door
back to a point about five feet in the
rear of the door. This mass of dead
bodies In the centre of the doorway
reached to within two feet of the top
passage way. All of the corpses at this
point were women and children.
The fight for life which must have
taken place at these two points is
something that is simply beyond human
power adequately to describe.
Only a faint idea of its horror could
be derived from the bodies as thy lay.
Women on top of these masses of dead
had been overtaken by death as they
were crawling on hands and knees over
the bodies of those who had died before.
Others lay with arms outstretched
in the direction toward which lay
life and safety, holding in their hands
the fragments of garments not their
own. They were evidently torn from
others whom they had endeavored to
pull down and trample under foot as
they madly fought for their own
lives.
As the police and firemen removed
layer after layer of dead in these doorways.
the sight became too much even
for them, hardened as they are to such
harrowing scenes, to endure. The bodies
were in such an inextricable mass
and so tightly were they jammed between
the sides of the door and the
walls that it was impossible to lift
them, one by one, and carry them out
The only possible thing to do was to
seize a limb or some other portion of
the body and pull with main strength.
Men worked at the task with tears
running down their cheeks, and the
sobs of the rescuers could be heard
even in the hall below where this awful
scene was being enacted. A number
of the men were compelled to
abandon their task and give it over to
others whose nerves had not, as yet,
been shaken by the awful experience.
As one by one the bodies were dragged
out of the water, soaked black\\ed
mass of corpses, the spectacle became
more and more heartrending.
There were women whose clothing
- - - - -i 11^
was torn completely rrom tneir uvum
above the waist, whose bosoms had
been trampled into a pulp and whose
face were marred beyond all power of
identification. Bodies lay In the first
and second balconies in great numbers.
In some places they were piled up in
the aisles three and four deep, where
one had fallen and others tripped over
the prostrate forms, and all had died
where they lay evidently sufTocated by
the gas. Others were bent over backs
of seats, where they had been thrown
by the rush of people for the doors
and killed with hardly a chance to rise
from their seats. One man was found
with his back bent nearly double, his
spinal column having been fractured as
he was thrown backward. A woman
was found cut nearly in half by the
back of the seat, she having fallen over
face down.
"The fire began In the middle of the
second act," said Mr. Foy. "An electric
wire broke, was grounded and the
flames were started in the rear of the
stage. The stage is unusually wide
and there is so great a draft the flames
spread rapidly. They soon had attacked
all the scenery in the rear of the
house. I never believed it poesible for
Are to spread so quickly. When it
first started I went to the root-ugnis,
and to prevent alarming the audience
said that there was a slight blaze and
that it would be better for all to leave
quietly. Then I stepped back and called
for the asbestos curtain to be lowered.
This when about half way down
refused to go further, and thus an additional
draft was created. This swept
and I knew that the theatre was doomed.
I hurried back to the stage and
aided in getting the women members
of the company into the alley. Some
of them were in their dressing rooms
and were almost overcome by smoke
before they could get down to the stage
and to the doors. The simple fact that
the curtain did not descend entirely
was what saved the lives of the company.
although it cost such a horrible
catastrophe in the front of the house.
The curtain had refused to descend,
there came the explosion of the gas
tanks, and with the curtain down all
the fire and gas would have been confined
between the rear wall of the theatre
and the fire-proof curtain In front.
Under these circumstances it would
not have been poissible for a single
member of the company to escape alive
| unless he or she had been standing
Immediately In front of the door lc-adI
into tho niiev. As it was the
draft carried the flames out from the
curtain and the company was saved although
their salvation was the death
of so many poor people in front"
All Chicago was deeply stirred by
I the terrible disaster and awful loss of
life. The work of rescue was vigorously
prosecuted. The morgue and
c'tv hospitals were filled with the
dead and dying.
No N-igro I roops
| Augusta, Special.?At a meeting of
the executive committee of the Military
Officers Association of Georgia.
[ in Savannah, a bill was framed for
presentation to the State advisory
hoard for the disbandment of all negro
! trocps in the State, nearly every
white officer in the State i3 said to
be behind the movement. A resolution
will be adopted opposing any attempt
at the formation of a national
| reserve.
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, CORBET! A WINNER
Young Pugilist An Easy Victor Over
His Adversary
HE DEFEATS HANION IN UTH
But Fora flerclful Referee Hanlon'a
Punishment Would Have Been a
Great Deal More Severe. '
San Francisco, Special.?A merclfifl
referee probably saved Eddie Hanloa
from being killed by "Young Corbetf
Tuesday night when he stopped their
contest in the middle of the sixteenth
round. For two rounds previous
Referee Graney had begged Hanlon's
seconds to take their men out of the
ring, but they kept the game young'
ster at it and Anally Graney, fearing
j that a fatality might result,' ordered
^he fight stopped. No man ever received
such terrific punishment in a
San Francisco ring, and probably
"Young Corbett" is the only man in
the country who could administer
such a beating to Hanlon. When
the San Francisco boy was carried to
his corner still conscious, but unable
to walk, his seconds worked vigorously
to revive him. The terriblybeaten
lad, however, commenced to
vomit blood, and th.ngs looked very \
serious lor mm ror a snort ume.
was finally revived and was carried
from the ring by one of his seconds.
Before he left "Young Corbett" paid
a high tribute to his skill and gameness,
and saluted his brother prizefighter
with an affectionate kiss. ^
! The fight demonstrated that Corbett
is any man's superior at his
weight. At no time during the contest
was he in any apparent danger,
and when it ended there was not a
j mark upon him. Hanlon's most peculiar
and very effective defense was
i all that saved him from a knockout
I early in the game. Even when he
became tired and could not prevent
himself Corbett could not land a
i kpnckout blow.
In the thirteenth and fourteenth
' rounds Corbett began to show what
he could do. The men were allowed
to fight in the clinches, and Corbett,
leaning his head against Hanlon's
shoulder and with his arms free,
would punch Hanlon in the stomach
with his right and swing fierce short
lefts on his jaw. That was the beginning
of the end.
In the fifteenth Corbett backed Hanlon
into a corner, and when the San
Francisco boy swung freely, Corbett
! swung two lightning lefts and Hanlon
went down. He took the count
of eight, but struggled to his feet
?n<l otroln rorolvflrf the fprrifir nnn
lshment that Corbett was dealing out
to him. It was then that Graney
wanted the fight stopped.
Our Tremendous Commerce.
Washington, D. C., Special.?It ha#
required the entire force and other
; workers of Unele Sam's Bureau of 9attistlcs
the whole of the past month to
compile the figures showing the'corn*
merce carried on between this country
and foreign nations during the eleven
months ending Nov. 30. According to
these figures, agricultural products, as
a whole, show an increaaae of $74,000,000;
products of the forests, $10,000^^
000; manufactures, $,' ,000,000; and
cellaneous articles, $2,000,000. In thw
single group, fisheries is shown a
' slight decrease of a little more than
| $1,000,000. ? Ld .
To Save Boat.
NaBbville, Tenn., Special.?A cablegram
says the steamer Lapsley, la
moored bottom side up in the Congo
river and that efforts to save her are
being made. The boat founded eight
weeks ago, and carried down with her
23 of the native crew and two American
missionaries. She is the missioni
ary boat of the Southern Presbyterian
Church in the Congo Free State.
Mob Threatens Negro.
Council Bluffs, Iowa., Special.?A
1 crowd is around the county jail
threatening to seize and to lynch two
negro prisoners who are Incarcerated
for an alleged assault on two women
Friday night Most of the Council
Bluffs policemen have failed to die
perse tne crowa. Mayor nui^ou 10 ??.i
tempting to induce the mob to leavethe
jail. The mob is dispersing, having
failed to secure its prisoner.
Telegraphic Briefs.
Renewed activity is reported along
the Colombian frontier, where consid'
erable bodies of troops are seen.
Warlike preparations by China are
repaided in St Petersburg as indicating
that she may be drawn into the
Oriental war.
The Roman Catholic Catherdral of
Westminster, in London, will be con1
secrated tomorrow.
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell arrived
In Genoa, Italy, to convey to Washington
the body of James Smithson,
founder of the Smithsonian Institution.
The Mad Mullah, in Somaliland,
professes willingness to treat with
Great Britain through the Italians.
Captain Levy, of the French army,
was wounded by nenry De Melroy, a i
ncted anti-Semite, in a duel in Paris,
resulting from the Dreyfus case.
In Washington the report from New
York that Patrick H. McCarren may
be selected as Democratic National
Chairman is regarded as premature.
The War Department is ab~ut to
prepare plans to deepen the cuannel
? from Hampton Roads to Norfolk
[ Navy yard.
Chicago was reported to be suffer'
lng from a wave of crime.
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