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THE INDIANAPOLIS- JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1900. 2 Mr. Mather is another shrewd business man. He Is an engineer. Mr. Gibb Is a capable raliway organizer. The only doubtful member is Sir Charles Welby, who has Ions been connected with the War Office, having been private secretary to the late Mr. Stanhope while the latter wan-secretary of state for war, as well as ta Lrd Un.(!ownp later, and who is re-panK-'l as an upholder of the existing Approval of the composition of the com mittee, however, does not Imply approval of Mr. Lrodt-rick's action. The Dally Newa and the Daily Chronicle and even some Conservative papers complain that the ex pedient of appointing a committee really means shelving urgent reforms. CRITICAL TIMES AT HAND. African Wnr Situation Is Verr Dis quieting to England. LONDON. Dec 17, 4 a. m. Lord Salis bury and his colleagues must to-day feel greatly relieved , that Parliament was pro rogued Saturday. A grim irony now at taches to Lord Roberts's description of the war is "over." Yesterday the War Of fice, for the first time In many months, re mained open throughout Sunday in re sponse to the demand of public anxiety to learn the latest news. Lord Kitchener Is reported to have sent a fresh and urgent request to the govern ment to send out every available mounted man. With General De Wet again escaped through the British cordon in the neigh borhood of Thaba N'Chu, the serious af fairs at Vryheld and Zastron, and the Magaliesberg disaster confronting the British people, they may well begin to ask, as they do, why Lord Roberts Is allowed to come home. The Colonial Office announces its decision to enlist 5,0 men Instead of 1,000 previously asked. to be recruited in Great Britain for General Baden-Powell's constabulary, which shows that recruiting ii South Africa la less active than had been anticipated. Dispatches from Lourenzo Marques assert that all the Boer forces are plentifully supplied with ammunition, but terribly in want of food and clothing. Mr. Krugcr, at The Hague, received Mr. William T. Stead yesterday. Mr. Stead urged him to continue his tour of Europe and to go to America. The Boer states man listened attentively, but declined to commit himself by any definite statement. It Is reported that he is about to remove from his hotel to a private residence, as though contemplating a prolonged stay at Lord Roberts, now returning to England on board the Canada, did not go ashore at St. Helena, though the steamer touched there. Ninety troopers, members of the Seven teenth Lancers, stationed at Ballincollig, were arrested yesterday for insubordina tion. They were about to start for South Africa, and were annoyed at not being al lowed license to carouse. ' , English Prisoner Released. LONDON, Dec. 15. The following . dls- pach has been received by the War Office from Lord Kitchener, at Pretoria, under date of Dec. 15: "Five officers and 316 men, Magallesberg prisoners, have been released and have reached Rustenburg. The Boers surrounded and captured 120 of Brabant's Horse In a deüie In the Zastron district. "Colonel Bomfield, moving on Vryheld, defeated the Boers with heavy loss, driving them from Scheper's nek and capturing a quantity of arms. The Schper's-nek move ment occurred Dec. 13. "The Boers, who attacked Vryheld Dec. 10, lost 100 killed and wounded before they retired. The fighting lasted all day, the enemy drawing off at 7:30 p. m. The Brit ish loss was six killed, nineteen wounded and thirty missing. Our casualties Include two officers who died of their wounds." Docra to Settle in German Africa. BERLIN, Dec 16. According to the Lokal Anzeiger fifty Cape Colony Boers, now in Amsterdam with their families, have been granted permission to settle in German Southwest Africa, the German government have Just assented to the purchase of lands by them In Damaraland and Great Nama quln Land. The Boers will leave Amster dam Jan. 5. Roers Take More Prisoners. ALIWAL NORTH. Cape Colony, Dec. 13. A party of Brabant's horse, consisting mainly of raw recruits, engaged a superior force of Boers Dec. 13 near Zastron, Orange River Colony, losing four killed, sixteen w&unded and 120 taken prisoners. SCORES OP LIVES LOST. German Frigate Founders Off the Coast of Spain Ship and Crew. MADRID, Dec 16. The German training frigate Gneisenau has foundered off Malaga, sixty-five miles northeast of Gibraltar. Private dispatches say that for ty persons were drowned. Later dispatches say the Gneisnau foun dered at the entrance to the port of Malaga, where she was about to take refuge from the terrible storm prevailing. At the pres ent time only the masts of the vessel are visible. A large number of cadets can be seen from the shore clinging to the rigging. They are shouting and signaling for help. The captain and many of the cadets have been drowned. It is believed that forty who left in one of the ship's boats, and have not been seen since, are also lost. The total loss Is now thought to be no less than 100. WEATHER FORECAST. Cloudy To-Day, with Rain or Snow Flurries and Easterly Winds. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Forecast for Monday and Tuesday: For Ohio Fair on Monday; warmer In northern and eastern portions; rain or enow at night on Tuesday In western por tion, fair In eastern; fresh southerly winds. For Lower Michigan Partly cloudy on Monday and Tuesday; warmer on Monday, except on the west shore; fresh east to south winds. For Indiana and Illinois Cloudy on Mon day; probably ialn or snow flurries. Tues day fair; fresh southerly winds. Local ObnerTatiooN on Sunday. Bar. Th. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a.m. .30.53 24 71 East. Cloudy. 0.00 7 p. m..3a.S5 Z2 W S'east. Clear. , 3.00 Maximum temperature, 36; minimum tem perature, 24. Following Is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipita tion for Sunday, Dec 15: Temp. Pre. Normal 23 0.10 Mean CO 0.00 ix-parture 3 0.10 Departure since Dec. 1 41 1.14 Departure since Jan. 1 13'.) 3.91 Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. m. Atlanta. Ga w &j r.i.i.iarck. N. D 44 22 Buffalo. N. T IS 12 Calgary. N. W. T..... 4i 2t Chicago. Ill 21 2J 12 Cairo. Ill SO 5S &2 Cheyenne, Wyo 30 &j 4i Cincinnati. O 21 21 22 Concordia. Kan 2S is a. Davenport. la 2M 'GS U6 Dos Maines. Ia 23 2S 23 Galveston. Tex 60 M Helena, Mont &0 40 Jacksonville, Fla &s 4$ Kansas City, Mo 34 4S 4 Uttle Rock. Ark 40 5$ W Yiarquette, Mich 22 22 Memphis, Tenn 33 M &4 Nashville, Tenn 20 c W New Orleans, La m 54 New York city ;o North Platte. Neb 26 M 42 Oklahoma. O. T &; u Omaha. Neb 22 4S 42 Pittsburg. I a 18 SJ 22 Qu Appelle, N. W. T S Itapid City. S. D 2-1 K 44 Salt Lake City 20 &1 42 St. Iouls, Mo 4S 43 Kt. Paul, Minn 24 S4 Hprlngfleld. Ill 2J 10 2S rpringJleld, Mo 24 4; 46 Vicksburg, Miss 1 GO 54 Washington, D. C 23 24 Some dispatches say 140. Forty of those saved are badly hurt. The. training ship had been at Malaga since Nov. 1, practicing with guns of large caliber. She had been previously at Mega dor. Morocco. At 10 o'clock this morning a review of the cadets was in order. The wind was extremely violent and Instruc tions were given to stoke up as rapidly as possible. liut already mountainous waves had fctruck the ship, snapping the anchor chains. She was driven helpless towards the jort and iank. The crew threw them selves into the sea and clung to the wreck age, but tra majority quickly disappeared. Captain Kresthmann died at his post. The Malaga lifeboat made heroic efforts and rescued fifteen, but the weight cap sized the boat and twelve were drowned. The other three were saved by means of ropes thrown to them. The port authori-tif- saved many of the sailors. The sur vivors have been received at the hospital, the Hotel de Vllle and private houses. All the theaters in Malaga abandoned their performances this evening. According to the naval book the Gneise nau, which was built at Dantzic in 1870, was an iron vessel sheathed with wood and had a displacement of 2.836 tons. She was 242 feet y inches In length and 4a feet It inches In the beam, having a mean draught of 13 feet 8 inches and a coal ca pacity of 400 tons. Her speed was thirteen knots. Her armament consisted of four teen 5.9-lnch Krupp breech loaders, two 3.4-Inch quick firers. one boat or field ffun and seven torpedo tubes. Her complement was 461 and she was used for training boys. ENGLAM) PRESSES TURKEY. Wants a. Settlement of Claims Long Overdue from the Porte. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 1C Owing to the success of the United States in pressing claims for compensation in connection with the Armenian disorders Great Britain is now urging the Ottoman government to pay similar claims put forward by British subjects. It is said that energetic means will be taken to settle the claims. No American Settlement. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Contrary to the impression which, according to the Constantinople dispatch, prevails regard ing the United States claims for indem nity against Turkey, the statement is made that no settlement respecting their payment has been reached. Ail this gov ernment has secured up to this time is a series of promises to settle' by the Otto man government. The reported action of the British government in urging its claims for compensation against the Turks because of the reported success of the United States in that, regard is not cal culated, in the minds of those best posted here, to accentuate our success In the ne gotiations now progressing between the United States and Turkey, but on the contrary to hamper and retard them. Mr. Kroger Is Noncommittal. THE HAGUE, Dec 16. In reply to a dis patch from Grand Rapids, Mich., inviting him to the United States, Mr. Kruger has wired that ho has not arrived at any de cision with regard to visiting America. Denmark's Peace Representative. COPENHAGEN, Dec, 16. Dr. Matzen, professor of law of the University of Co penhagen, has been appointed to represent Denmark in the. International Court of Ar bitration at The Hague. Diphtheria Attacks the Prince. CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 16? Prince Gustavus Adolphus, eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway, is ill with diph theria. EFFORTS AT MEDIATION. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) agents there that are sulttcient for all the purposes of the stations. Our trains aro coming in and going cut in better shape than before the strike. Ninety per cent, of our old operators would like to como back. A great many have asked to come back, but it is out of the question." Yardmaster Thomas Peters, of Newton, to-night said: "I am a member of tho Switchmen's and Trainmen's Union. This morning I received a dispatch from the switchmen's general offices stating they are not interested in the O. It. T. strike and are not considering a " sympathetic strike."! had a similar message from the general office of the Trainmen's Union. I like Dolphin personally, but 1 think he has taken about 2,000 operators out on a limb and can never get them back." Fired on the New Operator. ARDMORE, I. T., Dec 16. At Dougherty, I. T., to-night, unknown persons smashed the Santa Fe station windows with stones and fired on the new operator. Marshals who were protecting the building ex changed several shots with the assailants. No one was hurt. CHICAGO LAHOR CONFERENCE, t Employers and Representatives of Employes to 3Ieet To-Day. CHICAGO, Dec. 16. Prominent employ ers of labor and labor leaders from all over America and several from abroad ar rived in Chicago tc-day to attend the ar bitration conference, which opens at Stein way Hall to-morrow. Among those who are already here and will take a promi nent part in the deliberations are: Carroll D. Wright, United States commissioner of labor; Warren A. Reed, of Massachusetts; Hugh II. Lusk, of New Zealand; Freder ick Driscoll, representing the American newspaper publishers; Thomas P. Rixey, of Missouri; Thomas A. Smith, of Mary land; John. Tobin, of Massachusetts: David Ross, of Illinois, and John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers. Samuel Gompers, who has been attending the American Federation of Labor con vention at Louisville, and about fifteen other of the delegates there, are due to morrow morning. Mr. Gompers "Will . De one of the principal speakers at the open ing session. The prime purpose of the conference Is, If possible, to name a Joint national board of arbitration to settle important Industrial and trades disturbances, such board to be representative of the labor organizations and the employers of labor. Another duty of tho board would be to frame and present to the state legislatures and national Congress any subjects that might come up for permanent settlement or to recommend to those bodies any prop ositions for compulsory, voluntary or other arbitration. Another Akron Rioter Convicted. AKRON. O.. Dec 16. Walter Vlall. a prominent farmer of this county, was to day convicted of participation in the riot of Aug. 22 last. It was the hardest fought of any of the fifteen cases that have been tried up to date. Twenty-two of the riot cases have now been disposed of, seven of the rioters having pleaded guilty and con victions having been secured in each of the fifteen cases tried. Fourteen indictments remain to bo disposed of at the next term of court. Edle-Fauldlng Engagement. WASHINGTON. Dec. 16. At a dinner giver last night by Senator Depew and Miss Paulding, in honor of Governor elect Odtll. of New York, and Mrs. Odeli. the senator announced the engagement of Miss rauldinr; to Mr. John Edle. United States navy. Mi?s Paulding is the niece of Senator Depew, and has been the mis tress of his home in Washington. Mr. Edie is the son cf the late John It. EJie. of this city, and a graduate of the Naval Academy in the class of lbVO. Noted Scont Killed. In Xebrankn. CRAWFORD, Xeb.. Dec. 1G.-Ruptlste Garnier, known all over. tho "West, and es pecially among army men, as "Little Bat," the fearless Indian scout, who first came into prominence for services rendered un der General Crook and later for services in all tho big Indian wars, was shot and fatally wounded in a saloon last nipht by James D. llaijuowood. the saloon manager, dying a few hours later. The trouble be tween the two is not known. Haguewood surrendtied. Glass Man Shot Himself. MILWAUKEE, Wis . Dec. K. Frank L. Williams, gtmral agent of the Strentor Bottle and Glas3 Company, of Streator, 111., committed suicide to-day by shooting himself at the residence of his brothrr-ln-law, W. S. Pirle. Williams was well-to-do. Despondency is said to be the cause. VANDALISM AT MADISON CHURCH ENTERED AND FINE PIPE ORGAN IIA ULY BATTERED. Prosperity Is Cutting n Wide Swath nt V Fort Wayne Earl ham Entertain ments Cars Shipped to China. Special to the Inoianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Dec 16. Wrhen Mrs. Thomas Reld, organist at the First Pres byterian Church, went to her Instrument this morning she found It so badly bat tered that playing was an impossibility. It is supposed that some one entered the church during the night and perpetrated the act of vandalism, the motive being difficult to Imagine. There is no clew to the perpetrators. The organ is the larg est In the city. It cost several thousand dollars, and recently was repaired at a cost of several hundred. a PltOSPKIUTY AT FORT WAYNE. Factories Are Heins Enlarged, Trade Is Brink, Homes Are Beine Ballt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 16. As the calendar year closes with a Christmas trade equal to the best In former years and every evidence of general prosperity on hand, the outlook for next season Is al ready occupying the attention of Fort Wayne business men and Investors. The dismantling of the famous Siemen-IIalske electric plant at Chicago for removal here as a part of the Fort Wayne Electric Com pany, formerly the McDonald plant, and now owned by the General Electric Com pany, will largely Increase the pay roll of this concern next year. It already em ploys 200 more than ever before In Its his tory and is expected to reach 1,000. The demand for homes for the employes is forcibly felt. Other factories are being enlarged, and the great Pennsylvania Rail road shops are daily adding to the force employed. For lack of bench room the working day was made twelve hours a few days ago. The Wabash shops also are do ing a large business. Real estate men, builders and contrac tors report that there will be more build ing in Fort Wayne next year than ever be fore In one year. The prosperity of many here Is further Indicated in the Improve ments already ordered at Rome City in the way of cottages for summer homes. Cot tages there command a good rental and it is probable fifty will be erected In time for the season of 1901. Shipment of Cars to China. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Dec. 16. The Light Inspection Car Company, of this place, shipped a number of its raliway inspection cars to China last week, for use on the newly constructed raliway lines of that country. The agent of the company at Tien-Tsin reports the prospect for future trade exceedingly bright and predicts that the next ten years will see a great many miles of railroad built in China and a corresponding development of the country, with the adoption of modern methods and modern machinery. He advises the active effort of American manufacturers and ex porters to secure a part of the trade, which will speedily assume vast propor tions. Enrllinm College Entertainments. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 16. The . past week at Earlham College brought a num ber of events of Interest in addition to the usual routine. Thursday evening Prof. D. W. Dennis delivered a scientific lecture. Friday evening the department of music gave a recital. Saturday night Prof. T. C. Trueblood. of Ann Arbor, gave an enter tainment for the benefit of the athletic as sociation. He read "Ingomar." To-morrow evening the Ionian and Phoenix so cieties give a public entertainment. The programme will bo given by the Violin Club. x Christian Church Dedicated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Dec. 16. The handsome new Christian Church Just completed and furnished with a fine large pipe organ was dedicated to-day. More than two hundred visitors from Terre Haute and Greencastle were present. The Rev. Dr. McNeal, of Muncie, delivered the dedicatory sermon, and at the conclusion of his address $3,000 was Raised In twenty minutes to be applied on the cost of the edifice. Carnegie's Eye on Winona. RICHMOND, Ind., Dec 16. Andrew Car negie is considering the gift of a sum suffi cient to endow a school for librarians at Winona, Ind., and it is said he looks on the plan with favor. Indiana Obituary. RICHMOND, Ind., Dec 16. Mrs. Maggie Farmer, widow of the late Henry Farmer, died yesterday, aged fifty-nine. Four sons survive Frank, Robert, Wesley and Burt. Indiana Notes. The annual debate between Indiana Uni versity and the University of Illinois will be held at Champaign on Friday, Jan. 25. The Wayne County Farmers Institute will be held at Cambridge City, Dec. 21 and 22. Several well-known lecturers will bo present. Baptists at Elkhorn, Wayne county, ded icated a new church yesterday. Dr. Stadt, of Franklin College, preached the dedi catory sermon. SHORT SHRIFT. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) shape of the hands and ears. The follow ing day Joseph D. Keith a well-to-do farm er living near the Kifers, and his son Thomas were arrested and taken to Ev ansville. Tho elder Keith denied any knowledge of the crime, and said he had not heard of the finding of the body. The son was communicative, and told of a note which he had taken from his father to .the girl on the day of her disappear ance. He had read the note, In which the writer asked the girl to meet him near his barn that night. Noias father said Keith was the last ierson seen with his daugh ter. Keith had been paying considerable attention to tho girl, enough to cause Jeal ousy on the part of his wife. Keith's buggy was found, freshly painted, and stains of blood were discovered on the buggy rug. This was considered condemning evidence against Keith. After bt4ng locked up Keith confessed he had hired a peddler to take the girl out of this part of the country, but had not Intended that she should be killed. The peddler was arrested and brought before Keith, who Immediately troks down and admitted that he had lied. The prelimi nary hearing was held in Evansville June 2. On June 25 the slippers and hair of the dead girl were found at a well in Warrick county. This settled the jurisdiction, and the prisoner was removed to Boonvllle. The grand Jury of Warrick county returned an indictment charging him with murder in tho first degree. When the case was called, Oct. 3, the defense asked for a change of venue to Gibson county, which was granted. The trial was set for Dec. 17 In this city. A mob composed of Keith's neighbors started for Boonvllle on the night of July IS. but the sheriff took the prisoner to Evansville in time to prevent n lynching. Keith has been in jail here for the past six weeks. He has retained good attor neys, and will make a strong fight. He says he is not afraid of the result. Evidence of Iva linn's Presence. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT. Ind.. Dec. 18. Marvin Kuhns, the escaped convict from the Ohio penitentiary, probably is in hiding near here. At 9 o'clock to-night a highwayman held up and exchanged shots with Otto Briggs, three miles from here, one of the bullets passing through Briggs's hat. Hi3 horse taking fright saved Ills life. The homes of D. A. Hauk and W. C. Routh were entered last night, presumably by the same person. Briggs thinks the highway man had a comrade stationed farther down the road. The patrol wagon and a squad of officers, armed with Winchesters, have gone after the robbers, and none will be surprised to encounter. Kuhns. Victim Died of Ills Womad. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. Dec. 16. Milton Rutter, the glassworker whose skull was crushed Friday evening by being struck on the head with an iron ladle in the hands of Iiem Skinner, a fellow-worker In. the Diamond flint glass factory, died this morning at 4 o'clock. Skinner, who fled after the trouble, was captured-at Mat thews last night and is now in the county Jail here, charged with manslaughter. Skin ner is not considered bright, and had been constantly tormented by the other workers. The manager of the factory had warned Rutter to let the boy alone, but the admoni tion was unheeded. Fatal DlovT with a Stone. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Dec lß.-Rudolph Baer, aged fifteen, this afternoon struck Harry Faust, age sixteen, with a stone and fatally cracked his skull. The boys were quarreling and Baer says Faust had struck hira before he threw the stone. Baer is the son of a restaurant proprietor, and Faust is the son of Fred Faust, a well-known German citizen. Baer was arrested and released on $1,000 bond. MANY HOURS IN THE LAKE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS IN THE COLD WATERS OF MICHIGAN. One Man und Two Women Died from Drowning or Exposure Their Boat Capsized by a Squall. MANITOWOC, Wis., Dec. 1G.-The steam er Manhattan arrived here to-day with W. 11. Shields and William McCauly, light house keepers on Squaw Island, and the bodies of Mrs. Shields and her niece, Mrs. Mary Davis. They were picked up Sat urday afternoon in the lake where they were found lashed to an overturned yawl. They had been thus exposed since Friday, when they were capsized by asquall while sailing from the Island to the mainland. Luden Morden, of Montague, Mich., was an occupant of the boat. when It capsized, and was drowned before he could be lashed to the overturned craft. ' The two rescued men are badly frozen; and It Is thought they may have to suffer amputation of their lower limbs. They were taken to the Holy Family Hospital, where the following story of the terrible experience was told by Mr. Shields: "Upon receiving orders to close the light house for the season we prepared to leave the island, together with our helper, Lucien Morden, of Montague, Mich., Mrs. Shields and Mrs. Davis, my wife's niece. We left the island on Friday for the mainland, seven miles distant, bound for Harbor Springs. WThen out only a short time a heavy wind struck the sail of our boat, capsizing it, and throwing us all Into the lake. "We succeeded, after much hard work. In reaching the boat. McCauly and myself, after much labor, lashed both the women to the boat and then ourselves. Morden had In the meantime become delirious and re fused to be lashed or attempt to save him self and soon after fell off the boat and was lost. My wife and her niece, McCauly and myself lashed and clinging to the boat, were tossed about and suffered terribly from the sold and' seas which 'washed over us. "About seven hours after the accident happened my wife succumbed, being un able to longer endure the terrible condi tions which the -exposure to winds and seas caused. Mrs. Davis, after holding up for several hours after my wife's death, also succumbed, and only McCauly and myself remained alive, with the two dead women lashed by our sides. "At one time we were within a short dis tance of the main land and would have been washed on the beach, when to our dismay the wind changed and we were gradually drifting out into the lake again. Fortunately, however, we were taken by the wind into the north passage which Is often taken by boats coming up the lake. In this manner we passed Friday night, suffering terribly from tho cold and hunger, until Saturday at 1 p. m., when we suc ceeded In attracting the attention of the lookout of the steamer Manhattan. Al though the weather was very rough the captain of the steamer, after much maneu vering, succeeded in rescuing us and also picking up the bodies of my wife and niece." i MUCH HAKD FIGHTING. Colombian Revolution Shown No Slfrns of Quenched Spirit. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec 16. Advices received from Colon, Colombia, to-day re garding the recent fighting between the government troops and the insurgents at Tumaco, the rebel stronghold, which be gan Dec 4 and lasted three days, the in surgents then evacuating the town, say that tho withdrawing Insurgent force was not dispersed. On the contrary, fears are entertained at Colon that this body of rebels will effect a junction with the force operating around Buena Ventura. Telegraphic communication with the In terior has been suspended by government order and fighting is proceeding at various points, although without important results. Both sides lost heavily in the battle at Tumaco When tho government forces de stroyed the rebel steamer Gaitan they also destroyed a large supply of ammunition. General Alban, Governor of the State of Panama, who was in command of the gov ernment troops, left for Bogota after the evacuation of Tumaco and the d?struction of the Gaitan. BLOCKE DAGAIN. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) the morning he found two loaded Winches ters, two other magazine rifles and eleven hundred rounds of ammunition. When leaving the town he was fired on, but he did not return the fire. A village five miles southeast of Ho-Si-Wu has bven fired on by Chinese twice, within half a mile from the mail station. 3InrandInK French Missionary. PEKING, Dec. 16. The British are con tinually receiving reports of dissatisfaction from the districts around Peking, under their special charge. The officer In com mand has Informed General Gaselee that armed bands of native Christians, from a village five miles southeast of Peking, are constantly moving about and levying blackmail. The marauders are Catholics, led by a French missionary wearing Chi nese clothing. A Fire In China and a Present. TACOMA. Wash., Dec. 15. Two thousand shops and houses were burned by fire at Canton Nov. 16. About forty natives per ished. ' Governor Nteh, cf Klang-Su, has rent a present of silks, satins and embroiileTies worth C,000 taels to the Empress dowager at Hslam. Roger Wolcott's Condition Serious. BOSTON. Dec. 16. Former Governor Rog er Wolcott Is reported to have passed a very bad night, but Is said to be resting more comfortably this evening than at any lime during the day. His condition is re garded as very serious. Lovelorn Stvnlu Took Strychnine. GRAND ISLAND. Neb.. Dec 15. Be cause of unrequited love L. M. Hansen, twenty-four years of age, committed sui cide this morning by taking strychnine. STATEMENT BY PLAYERS DASCDALL 3IEN DEFINE THEIR RE LATIONS WITH THE 5IAGXATES. Position Regarding: Contracts. Exist ent and Future Kiders In II I c 111 cycle Race Badly Used Up. NEW YORK, Dec. 16. The committee of the Protective Association of Professional Baseball Players, composed of Hugh Jen nings, C. C. Griffith and Charles L. Zim mer, who presented their claims to the Na tional League magnates during the week, to-day issued the following statement: "The refusal of the National League 'magnates to consider and discuss with us seriatim our requests as representatives of the Protec tive Association of Professional Baseball Players, and their tailless resolution, which probably Is intended to express in words their complete Ignoring of said requests col lectively, without any adequate reason therefor, seem to require us, as such rep resentatives, to make the following state ment to all the members of our association and to the public: "We shall continue to stand as we have always stood for' the avoidance of a 'base ball war, if that Is possible. "We recognize and shall respect the In violability of all actual contract obliga tions. "Nd member of our association who dur ing the past season played last In the American League shall at present sign a contract to play the coming season in the National League, or vice versa. "Pursuant to our by-laws, none of the members of our association snail sign a contract for the coming season which has not been approved by our association." Walcott-Choynski Flffht Is Off. CHICAGO, Dec 16. The fight between Joe Walcott and Joe Choynski, scheduled for Dec. 27, has been postponed indefinite ly. This action is a result of the unsatis factory contest . between Gans and Mc Govern on Thursday last, as it was feared by the promoters that It might be Impos sible to secure a paying attendance for an other battle so soon after the Gans-Mc-Govern affair. Female Bowler Breaks n Record. TOLEDO, O., Dec 16. Miss Rose Mur ray, champion female bowler of the world, broke her own record of 226 to-night by bowling 255. Her sister. Miss Sadie Mur ray, who was her competitor, bowled 220. ALL BADLY PSED PP. Bicycle Riders Feel the Effects of Their SIx-Dar Ride. NEW YORK, Dec 16. The six-day bi cycle racers were to-day suffering severely from the effects of their hard riding. So severe has been the test on their systems, particularly their nerves, that sleep was almost an impossibility for some of them last night after the conclusion of the race. Most of them repaired to a Turkish bath, where they remained until to-day. In com parison with the six-day race of last year the racers of the past week came out of the trial easily. McFarland is in a much worse condition than the others, owing to his fall Saturday afternoon, when he severely injured his right knee. It was giving him consider able trouble to-day, and he spent the most of the day in his hotel. Gougoltz is at the New York Hostpital, but expects to be out In a couple of days. Elkes's manager stat ed that his man was in far the best con dition of the lot, and that he had slept well all night until 11 o'clock this morn ing, when he arose and partook of a hearty breakfast. He accounted for Elkes's good condition by saying that Elkes had not been given any drugs or stimulants of any kind. Turville and Aronson, who were taken to the hospital on account of in juries received, are doing as well as could be expected and probably will be out in a few days. Nelson Defeated Lawson. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 16. Johnny Nelson this afternoon defeated Gus Law son In the fifteen-mile motor-paced race, and clipped fifteen seconds from the rec ord. Thei time made was 24:57. Lawson held the former world's record of 25:12. OBITUARY. Funeral Arrangements for the Late ..... Oswald Ottendorfer. NEW YORK, Dec. .IS. The obsequies of the late Oswald Ottendorfer, editor and publisher of the Staats Zeitung, will take place Tuesday at 11 a. m. in the hall of the German Liederkranz. The pallbearers were selected from the personnel of the Staats Zeitungy and the members of tho Isabella Home Society. At the bier Frank's orchestra and a choir of the Liederkranz and Arlon societies will give an appropriate musical programme. George Von Skal, the managing editor of the Staats Zeltung, will deliver an oration in German, extolling the late editor as a Journalist and leading German-American, while John De Witt Warner will pay a tribute to the memory of Mr. Ottendorfer as a patriot and re former. The interment will be at Greenwood Cemetery, where Otto Hubach. the city editor of the Staats Zeitung, will make a final address at the grave. Charles C. Beaman. NEW YORK, Dec. 16. Charles C. Bea man, of the law firm of Evarts. Choats & Beaman, is dead at his residence in ihis city. He died suddenly of heart disease, and had been ill for only three, days. -Mr. Beaman was born In Houlton, Me., in 1S40. When a young man-he was pri vate secretary to Charles Sumner, and in 1874 married the daughter of. William M. Evarts. Mr. Beaman was consulting at torney to many corporations, k director in some and was general counsel of the Wis consin Central Railroad.- v .' Dr. Henry Barton Fellows. CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-Dr. Henry Barton Fellows, formerly dean of the Hahnemann Medical College, and for thirty years a professor in that institution, died at his home to-day. Dr. Fellows, who was in his sixty-fourth year, 'had been ill for some time. Charles Carroll Jackson. GIBRALTAR, Dec 16. Mr. Charles Car roll Jackson, of New York, a saloon pas senger on the Hamburg-American liner Co lumbia, which arrived here to-day, died of peritonitis aboard ship. The body was brought ashore and Is being embalmed for conveyance to New York. Charles Stuart. Baron IHnntyre. LONDON, Dec. 17. Charles Stuart, Baron Blantyre, Scotch representative peer from 1S30 to 1S92, is dead. He was born in 1S18. BIG TANNERY BURNED. Sheltoyean, Wis., for a Time In Dnn icer of n Conflagration. SHEYBOrGAN, Wis., Dec. 16. The im mense plant of Zschistsche & Sons, tan ners, was destroyed by fire this morning. The cause of the fire is unknown. Loss, $1S0,000, fully covered by Insurance. . The flames, fanned by a high wind, scorched the big furniture plant of the Mattoon Manufacturing Company, adjoining, whose loss will be several thousand dol lars. Mayor Born wired the Milwaukee and Manitowoc fire departments to hold them selves in readiness, a general conflagration iti the manufacturing district being feared. The fire corps of a dozen factories lent aid, and finally controlled the fire. Nearly 200 men will be thrown out of employment and the plant may not be rebuilt. The plant was one of the largest In the State, cover ing an entire block of ground. Fire In Norfolk Xnry Yard. NORFOLK, Va.. Dec. 16,-The building occupied by tho construction department of the Norfolk navy yard was destroyed by fire this evening. Shortly before 6 o'clock a warehouse man discovered the office of Constructor Stahl to be on fire. The navy yard and Portsmouth fire departments re sponded, but found the blaze gaining head way rapidly, and in a short time the whole building was a mass of flames. The fire men then devoted their time to saving sur rounding buildings. The building destroyed contained all the Important papers, models and plans of the construction department: Over 7.00 drawings and $100.000 worth of live oak timber were destroyed. Loss to building and contents is over $200,000. The origin of the fire It unknown. CUFIC TOWED INTO PORT LOST HER PROPELLER IN A HEAVY GALE LAST MONDAY. Steamer Kansas City Had a Hard Time to Save the Derelict Cuflc's First Officer Drowned QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 16. The White Star line . steamer Cufic, Captain Caven, from Liverpool Dec 4, for New York, was towed to anchorage here at 4 o'clock this morning by the British steamer Kansas City, Capt. Lewis, which sighted the Cufic Dec. a in latitude 57:34 north, and longitude 21:24 west, the day the White Star liner lost her propeller. Owing to the terrific weather it was impossible to connect the hawsers until Dec 12. These parted in a fierce gale, and the Kansas City only succeeded in resum ing towing the following day. The hawsers broke again last night, off Klnsale, but after a short delay towing was resumed. Off Cork a local tug aided. In one of the attempts to connect with the Kansas City Mr. Crosby, chief officer of the Cufic, while trying to swim to a line attached to a buoy afloat from the Kansas City, was drowned, although a powerful swimmer. The Cufic will await the arrival of tugs here and will then proceed to Liverpool. She carries no passengers. The Kansas City's machinery was strained, and there is a heavy list to the starboard. She will re coal and may resume within a day or two her voyage to New York, whither she was bound from Bristol, after touching at Swansea Dec 6, when she sighted the dis abled Cufic. Lightship Towed Into Port. PHILADELPHIA, Dec 16. The' United States relief lightship No. 58, which broke adrift, during the recent gale, from her anchorage at Nantucket shoals, was towed into the breakwater to-day by the British steamer Luciline and is now anchored at Edgemoor, Dei., the government lighthouse station for the Delaware river and bay. After the lightship had been driven from her anchorage the fierce gale carried her two miles off shore. Her boiler sprang a leak and the captain found it impossible to b.Mtle with the rough sea and accepted the assistance of the Luciline, which towed the disabled lightship to Edgemoor. Movements of Steamers. QUEENSTOWN, Dec 16. Arrived: Sax onia, from Boston, for Liverpool, and pro ceeded; Campania, from Liverpool, for New York. NEW YORK, Dec 16. Sailed: Spaarn dam, for Rotterdam. MOST CAREFULLY PLANNED. Suicide of nn Unknown Woman in a Cincinnati Lodging House. CINCINNATI, Dec 16. A woman calling herself Gladys Esmond committed suicide in a rooming house here to-day. . The sui cide was most carefully planned. The bed on which she was found dead had been dragged from the original position In or der to -bring it in close proximity to the gas jet. Over the face of the suicide was a sort of miniature tent, made from a piece of muslin, upon which was stitched a quantitj' of cotton batting. Fitted upon the gas Jet was a paper tube, the other end of which was under the face cover ing. The gas was then turned on. Exam ination of the batting proved that it had been soaked with chloroform. On tue bed, within easy reach, was a sharp knife. The suicide was a woman of about twenty-eight years of age, and It Is believed she gave a fictitious name to the proprietor of the house when she rented the room on last Saturday. She was well dressed and appeared to be a woman of consider able refinement. In a letter addressed to the coroner, which was found In the room, the woman stated that she was an orphan and usually made her home in Chicago. The letter also stated that she had been in poor health and was tired of life. SANTIAGO SHAKEN. American Women Had Their First Earthquake Experience. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Dec. 16. A sharp earthquake shock was felt here last night about midnight. It was the most severe which had been experienced In several years, and almost created a panic at the San Carlos Club, where a grand ball was in progress. It was preceded by a dull sound like a mine explosion. Two shocks followed, the former being quite severe, and the latter scarcely perceptible. The ballroom at the club became a scene of frantic excitement. Several ladies fainted and the people rushed Into the streets, expecting another and severer shock. At Morro Castle a military ball was in progress and the American women present had their first experience of an -itirth- quake. They expressed great interest, but liUle fear. No injury was done in the city, with tht exception of the breaking of dishes though a few small buildings are said to havw been slightly damaged. ENGINEER IS BLAMED. Wreck at KittanlnB Said to Be Due to Disregard of Signals. ALTOONA, Pa.. Dec. 16. Last night's freight wreck at Kittaning Point was caused, it Is said, by Engineer Frank Bur bank, of the empty engine, running past a red block signal. The body of William Fritchard, who was roasted to death, was sent home to-day. George Shafer and James Falon are at the hospital here, badly burned about the face, hands and body. The eleven other injured men were taken to their homes at Gallltzen. They also suf fered minor burns and were cut and bruised bythe flying splinters of the wrecked cars. The men were all railroad employes. A report that one man Is missing has not been substantiated. FIVE BODIES FOUND. Making Six Victims Itecovered from the Debris at Dunkirk. DUNKIRK, N. Y.f Dec. 16.-The bodies of five more victims of the Normal School fire were recovered to-day, making six which have been taken from the ruins. Those found to-day were charred beyond recognition, as Was the one previously re covered. Workmen while removing debrl? found the five' bodies at the foot of a fire escape. They were piled across each other and burned beyond recognition. A ring on the finger of one of the bodies gives a hop that It may b ldentiaed, bat NATIONAL Tube Works Uro2ht-Ir2ii Pips for Cu, Stwn aad Wtler. Tarier TubM. CMt sn4 MsHs ttle Iron 1 uinz (b!rk u.nd r.rarUrwt). air, stos oU. Krurt&e Trimming, Meam (.in-ft. Hp Tofsri, 111 CutUM. Vbwft. sen Flatus o-I 1)1. Wrfmb elt1 1rp. Pump. Ktvh n Sink, Ilo-e. r.eltirr.fcib. btt Mttxl fMer, Whit as4 Color! Wlptn? Warn, ss4 all other hupi'lie omd ta renne tfon with Ga. Mrta tn.l Water. Nit oral Gat Ufp! a perlalrjr. M'lWi beam -Ar-par:na for Iu& lie luiiiiiuc. More-rooms. U 01 Mu. Fart orte. Lau. rtea. Lnniher Dry-HouMS. tc Cm ami Thrrad to or ter any iUe Wrought-Inn 11 p. from H lacb ta U tncbea diameter. LNIGilT & JILLSON, m to n: 8. PENNSYLVANIA pT. r'. -'',.1 m? Ji there is nothing by which the others pos sibly can be distinguished. It Is proposed that all be buried in one grave, and that It be marked by one monument, to be placed in the Fredonia Cemetery, in mem ory of the victims. District Attorney Greene and Coroner Blood will begin a riKid investigation at once, which will Inquire into all matter connected with the construction of tha building and the lire. TWO MEN ASPHYXIATED. One a Former Chlcagoan, the Other Unknown In Now York. NEW YORK, Dec. 16. Miles Novolky, thirty-three years old, believed to have been a stenographer employed in the gov ernment service, was found dead in bed this morning at his boarding house oa West Seventeenth street. It Is believed that he had accidentally opened the Ftopcock to a small heating stove and had gone to sleep without noticing that the gas was escaping. Letters found in the room bore his name, with the address "C13 Oxford building. 84 Halle street. Chicago." He had been in New York for about a year and is believed, previous to that time, to have practiced law In Chicago. The physician who was summoned in the case noticed that there were some large cracks in a wooden partition which separated Novolky's room from the next one. He advised that the occupant of this room be summoned to inquire whether he had no ticed the escaping of pas. The door, how ever, was found locked and on being broken in, the occupant of the room, Henry II. GlbboTf sixty-three years of ape, was found Trying in the fumes. All efforts to revive him proved unavailing. Gibbons had only been in the house for a week, and his antecedents are unknown. GOOD FINANCIAL REPORT MEXICO IX GOOD CONDITION, "WITH A SMALL EXCCSS IIGVKXIC. Money Stringency Dae to Exports ol Dollars Has Sot Affected the Sta blllty of Her Industries MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1C Minister Llman tour's report of the financial condition of the country, made to Congress on the pre sentation of the annual budget. Is a nota ble documont. He estimates, for the en suing fiscal year, a revenue amounting to JC1.C34.000 and expenditures of CLC77,?W, and shows why he does not anticipate a large surplus for the coming year. Ho takes up the present financial situation, which Is characterized by monetary strin gency, and remarks: "It Is Impossible to disregard certain economical phenomena and certain symptoms of the present busi ness situation which reveal a condition of uneasiness caused by the partial paralyza tlon of transactions, and which, to continue for a long time, would probably occasion a formal crisis in the commerce and in dustry of a large portion of the republic." The finance minister estimates that in addition to $50,000,000 in cash deposited In banks that the holdings of the general public in cash do not amount to more than $40,000,000, so that the total circula tion of silver money may be estimated in the neighborhood of $10.000,000. Mr. LI mantour continues: "It is not, therefore, strange that when suddenly the country's supply of cash was curtailed from 10 to 12 per cent, by tho exportation of silver dol lars business should have experienced some degree of paralyzatlon. There has been an unusual demand for Mexican dollar, and this demand has sensibly diminished the supply of metallic cash here." The report shows that the formation of new stock companies for manufacturing and other purposes was a revelation to many business men of prodigious efficacy, of which instruments of credit are sus ceptible, and that a certain amount of speculation began, resulting la overpro duction in manufacturing, from which, in some lines, a natural reaction is .'xjeri enced. The report fays the facility with which credit was secured at banks on th strength of fortunes already amatsed or by hypothecating the shares of long and favorably known companies as collateral, led many firms and capitalists to enter on new enterprises without waiting as long a time as would, perchance, have been desir able, eo as to allow previous en terprises to mature and their shares end bonds to have become well disseminated among the people. It Is not, therefore, strange that as soon as the scarcity of cash bejan to be felt transactions should be somewhat checked and that as busi ness concerns v-ere unable any longer to have recourse to banks, having made full use of their credit in those establishments, a large volume of the slock isued by thj corporations in question should have been thrown on the market, producing, as wa3 natural, a general depreciation In secur ities. LJut, fortunately for the country, an Im mense majority of the enterprises rested on accurate calculations ami a founda tion of complete security. The report ht produced an excellent impression. A World-WelKht. New York Tress. We regarded Atlas pityingly. "Poor fel low!" we sighed. "How crushing the wtipht of a world uion your Shoulders!" Atlas, however, responded with hoarse loujrhter. "You'll notice," he observed, "that I haven't got J3.C5 cents left and a list of nineteen people to buy Christmas presents fpr!" We sighed ngain. our attention being drawn to the deadly struggle at a nearby bargain counter. rioKUs Dollars Were Still Warm. OIL CITY, Pa.. Dec. 16 United States marshals arrived here to-nipht having In custody Samuel 11. Latshaw and George K. Coast, who are charped with counterfeiting. Fifty spurious dollars, which were still warm, and a counterfeiting plant, were captured with the prl?oners at Coast's home at Lisbon. The prisoners are supposed to belong to an organized gang of whom secret service men have captured eleven sine Octobor last. Clothtnc Failure at Chlrniro. CHICAGO, Dec. 16,-Sol Wolfe, retail clother. has filed a petition In bankruptcy. Liabilities. assets. f!30.tj0. Henry L. Wilson, an attorney, has been appointed receiver. The largest creditors are Chi cago, Philadelphia and New York men. Progressive Japanese Cashier. TACOMA. Wash.. Dec? 15. The San-Sh! B:nk of Yokohama has f illed, owing W.fW) yen, in consequence of the defalcation of the cashier of the Tokio branch, lie lost TO.tiM) yen speeulntinjr and then absconded, taking as much more. To Care a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druKSlsts refund the money if It falls to cur 12. W. Grove s signature is on taca tcz.