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WARNS AMERICANS
OF BOXER PLANS
Chinaman Says Greatest Slaughter
of Modern Times Is at
Hand.
MASSACRE OF WHITES?
IN CHINA ON FEB. 22
3
Declares the Day Is Set for theEastern
Murder of Foreigners in
China.
/ournal Special Service.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 12."Wong
Fong, former secretary of the Six Com
panies in San Francisco, who is visiting
in this city, declares the Boxer trouble
in China is about to culminate in the
greatest massacre of modern times. He
has issued the following warning to
eeveral American friends, telegraphing
it to Seattle, Los Angeles and San
Francisco:
The blow is about to fall. Cable
warnings to friends to leave China at
once. Tell ,hem to seek protection of
German}' temporarily and get out of the
country before Feb. 24."
Fong is visiting Ah Loo Wai, the
wealthiest of the local Chinese colony,
and after the messages were sent ex
plained their purport as follows:
I received word this morning that
the order has been sent out to the sub
ordinate circles of the Chinese Eeform
association to throw off all the foreign
elements in our country, starting Feb.
25. Tha association is ostensibly pa
triotic.
CONGRESS HESITATES
Boot and Taft Will Make the Chinese
Situation Clear.
Washington, Feb. 12.Secretary
Boot and Secretary Taft will appear
before the foreign relations committee
of the senate and the Philippines com
mittee of the house to explain the criti
cal situation in China and the necessi
ty for an appropriation of $100,000 for
sending troops to the Philippines for
use in China.
It has practically been decided that
congress will not authorize this expen
diture until advised of the exact situa
tion. For months alarming advices
have been received at the department
of state from China which indicate that
there has been a constant and alarming
growth of the anti-foreign sentiment
and that' in the near future there will
be an uprising against the""'"foreigners
which will be more dangerous and far
reaching than the boxer trouble, which
necessitated the sending of foreign
troops to Peking to rescue the be
leagured foreign diplomats rrho were
prisoners in the embassies and lega
tions.
Chinese Anger Aroused.
Since the Boxer uprising there has
been much agitation against the for
eigners and peaceful conditions have
never been fully restored. The rigor
ous enforcement of the Chinese exclu
sion law by the American government
has aroused the anger of Chinese mer
chants and students. This led to the
boycott of American goods and there
arose the -cry of "Asia for the Asi
atics." A strong anti-foreign senti
ment has been fomented.
The American government has miti
gated the rigor of the administrative
features of the Chinese exclusion law,
but this has not pacified the Chinese.
The latest advices to the department
of state show that the boycott is still
in progress and that it is growing in
extent.
One of the most alarming features
of the situation is that the central
government is losing its influence with
the people, that the viceroys who gov
ern the great provinces ar^ acting
independently of the emperor, in some
instances defying his decrees. Some
of them have deliberately arrayed the
people against the government. The
emperor during the boycott issued de
crees forbidding the continuance of
boycott, but in most instances the
orders of the' emperor were defied.
Other Powers Acting.
The antiforeign sentiment has grown
to such an extent that the powers have
become alarmed and the leading na
tions, becoming convinced that it is
only a question of a short time when
it will be necessary to protect the lives
and property of their subjects and citi
zens in China, have taken steps to send
an armed force to the celestial king-'
dom.
This government has already estab
lished two brigade posts in the Philip
pines and ordered three regiments there,
so as to have the troops near China
when th real trouble begins. Secretary
Taft desires to send three more regi
ments to the Philippines for use in
China, but this extensive movement of
troops is so expensive that the present
appropriations are- not sufficient, and
it became necessary to ask congress for
$100,000 additional. It will be decided
after the secretaries of state and war
have informed congress of the situation
whether or not the funds will be au
thorized.
Alarming Advices.
President Boosevelt has received
lome alarming private advices from
China. Missionaries and business men
who have been in China for years have
advised him that the situation is criti
cal and that it will be but a short time
before forcible steps must be taken to
protect American lives and property in
China. Mr. Bockhill and every Amer
ican consul in China has addressed the
department of state that the Chinese
populace is preparing for an uprising
and that all foreigners in China will
be in grave danger of losing their lives
at the hands of Chinese mobs unless
foreign troops are sent to protect them.
BRYANT PUT FOOT IN IT
is Speech in China Gave the Boycott
Fresh Start.
Spokane. Wash., Feb. 12.Samuel
Glasgow, manager of a milling company
of Spokane and Seattle, has received
Hongkong newspapers and letters from
William Burtte, Chinese representative
used bv Chinese agitators to stir up
fresh agitation against American prod
ucts.
One of the Chinese merchants-'at the
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ANTIPASS BILLS
APPEAR TOO LATE
Wisconsin Senator Would Prevent
Public Officials from Using
Free Railroad Tickets.
focal
asse
Roads Themselves Have
Shut Down Hard on Passes
West to Follow*
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, Feb. 12.Several bills
have been introduced in congress aimed
at the acceptance of railroad jpasses by
public officials and others. The latest
was introduced a few days ago by Sen
ator La Follette of Wisconsin. There
will be no legislation'of this kind at the
present session of congress: it is even
doubted if any congressional committee
will seriously consider such a bill, to
say nothing of recommending it for pas
sage, and even if it were recommended,
it is doubtful if it could reach a vote on
final passage in either house.
Back of this desire to do something
to the railroads is the fact that all
passes were shut off to members of the
two houses, beginning with the first- of
the year, over all roads east ot Chicago.
Senator La Follette has not been actu
ated by any desire for revenge, but he
is playing into the hands of those who
are so actuated.
Old Pass Lists Large.
The Pennsylvania company alone, it
is said by those in position to know, is
sued last year more than 25,000 passes
to people in New York, as many more
to people in Philadelphia, and half as
many more to people in Pittsburga
majority of them annuals. These
were given, for the most part, to
strikers of various sorts in poli
tics-ward bosses, members of city and
county committees, members of city
councils, city officers generally, promi
nent citizens in all walks of life, who
exerted influence in politics, and a
great army it finally came to be. The
passes issued on account of congress
were comparatively few, but when the
company made up its mind to shut
passes off, it obviously included con
gress with the others.
Pass Lid on Tight.
A prominent official of the .Canadian:
Pacific railway was in Washington this
week. He cameiro New York^venr
a pass on the Prainsylyania rbaa... St"
took him almost two weeks to get the
pass, by correspondence from Mon
treal, and when it came, it was found to
be numbered 37, showing that for'the
entire month of January and the first
week of February, that great company
had issued a total of only thirty-seven
passes, over all its lines. Ordinarily,
that length of time would show an issue
of thousands of passes.
West to Follow Suit.
Gentlemen recently returned from
New York, where they have talked
with railway managers, say that west
ern railways are watching this eastern
experiment with much interest, "and
will themselves adopt the no-pass idea
beginning with next January, provided
the experiment here is a success. As
one of the systems certain to adopt it,
the James J. Hill roads were mentioned
specifically. Mr. Hill, in New York
recently, announced to certain of his
friends that this was to be the last year
of passes over his properties. This
announcement will carry consternation
into the' ranks of the North Dakota
politicians, who have been accustomed
for years to travel to St. Paul every
few weeks or months for political con
ferences.
Believe Law Sufficient.
So far as the pass question is con
cerned, it is the belief of many^mem
bers of congress that the second section
of the interstate commerce act, and
the strengthening of it, which comes
thru the Elkins rebate law of several
years ago, is a full and complete reme
dy. It is said that under that section,
which prohibits all discriminations, etc.,
in the carrying of either freight or pas
sengers, the government already has
sufficient warrant for abolishing every
pass in the country, and that, if the
department .of justice were to institute
proceedings in one case, the pass ques
tion would straightway settle itself.
This is the opinion of lawyers, who
stake their legal reputations on the
soundness of their conclusion regarding
this matter.
BOM'S DEBTS TOTAL
18,000,000 FRANCS
Journal Special Service.
Paris, Feb. 12.-Conservative esti:
mates place the debts of Count Boni
de Castellane at .18,000,000 francs, of
which 8,000,000 is said to be due to
jewelers. He is also heavily indebted to
money lenders.
As showing his picturesque and
monumental extravagance and his
method of "borrowing" it is 'related
that he ordered a fur coat costing
100,000 franes. When the coat was de
livered there were 90,000 francs in a
pocket. However, this method of bor
rowing from tradespeople is practiced
by many Parisian aristocrats.
In paying bills Boni .always scorned
to accept change. His generous tips
enriched scores of lackeys in Paris.
MAJOR JOHN THOMAS
SUDDENLY STRICKEN
Nashville Feb. 12.Major John
Thomas, president of the Nashville,
Chattanooga &. St. Louis railroad, died
a
i home
herfailurs
thi
re
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morningeaged
deat
7
Hear was th direc6
hi
h. He leayes a wife
jor Thomas entered the railroad service
in November, 1858, as agent of the road
at Murph^sboro. Tennv and September
1883. became general manager. He
has* been presideat of the road site*
PUT RENTERS IN IN AGOSY^FROM
CELLS, SAYS LODGE
Senator from Massachusetts Says
Rate Legislation Is Source
of Worry.
HENRY CABOT LODGE,
Who Addressed the Senate Today on the
Bate Bill.
s:
Washington, Feb. 12.Mr. Lodge ad
dressed the senate today on the rail
road-rate question. He spoke to Mr.
Clay's resolution on that subject and
was listened to by an audience that
filled the galleries.'
Mr. Lodge announced his support of
legislation for the control of railroad
rates along the lines of the Esch-Town
send bill of last session and said that he
believed the practice of giving rebates
to Oe the most serious of all the evils
complained of. He expressed the con
viction that only by legislation along
the lines suggested could ^government
owaership be prevented. He said that
before entering upon the investigation
of the question he had disposed of his
railroad interests in order that his in
quiry might be free from bias.
The grievances against the roads he
divided into three classes a3 follows:
Eebates, or discrimination between per
sons excessive rates discrimination
between localities.
He quoted statistics in an effort to
show that freight rates are lower in the
United States than in any other Coun
try and concluded that if no other
grievance were had, there would be no
cause for .legislation,. and. that in the
matter of discrimination between local
ities it is very difficult to interfere in
behalf of one place without doing in
justice to-$hers but that the only way
-W 8*cbmp^h anythingTfappr'"the gov
ernment to assume supervision of rate
making.
He confessed the difficulty in dealing
with the problems and said the fixing or
rates by the government would not cure
the evil and concluded by saying that
it could only be affected by a provision
for the punishment of those who Violate
the law by giving rebates.
As to Eebates.
Regarding rebates he said:
"The rebates have been a wrong and
injustice to the people and a serious in
jury to the railroads themselves. I
don't think that it wouldbe possible to
pass legislation too drastic for the pur
pose of stopping these discriminations
between persons. We have a law upon
upon the statute books which, so far as
prohibition can go, ought to be suffi
cient. It undoubtedly has largely
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BURNS DOCTOR
Zion City Girl Fatally Injured,
but Dowieites Deny Her aV1
Physician. s:
Journal Special'. )5ervice.
Chicago. Feb. 12.Estelle Smith,
principal of the Twenty-sixth street
school in Zion City, was refused medical
attention by her parents and the dea
cons of the church Sunday, after1
Shysicians,e
she
had been so seriously burned by the
explosion of a lamp that her death is
considered a question of but a few
hours.
Prayer services -were offered for the
recovery of the young woman in the
tabernacle in-lieu of the treatment of
and the elders prayed at
er bedsid tbruovjt the day and night.
The burning of .Miss Smith was al
most identicalwith that of Miss Esther
Bowie, daughter df the. "First Apos-
tle," who died in:'"Ohicago three years
ago without medical attention after
twelve hours of the most excruciating
torture.
Miss Smith was, also crimping her
hair for church services when the kero
sene lamp used exploded. With her
head and. shoulders vin flames, she ran
into the ,robm where her parents were
seated and fell at. her father's feet.
He extinguished the fire with si Curtain
jerked from a window, and the young
woman was carried to her bed.
She begged pkeously for relief from
the pain, and the elders of the church
were summoned to the bedside. There
they knelt and prayed all day long,
their supplications being punctuated by
the moans and shrinks" of the girl.
Even the father and mother joined
in the prayers, turning, a deaf ear to
every appeal of the girl for medical
relief.
Miss Smith is 25 years of age, pretty
and accomplished.
PE RM I FLAMES
Four Die in Fire That Destroys
Missouri Valley
Home.
Special to The Journal.
MaTshalltown, Iowa, Feb. 12.-*-A
woman and her three children perished
in a fire that destroyed: her home at
Missouri Valley ^ast Inight.
Shortly before- midnight, Mrs. Ed
ward Lett was aroused from sleep-by
the heat of flanw^iha! were then burn
ing thei wallfi.^:hn:'etSom#.
^h made
a desperate att|Wttui^cn^+he:Rhfe
dren, the eldest ^of, whom, was onLy 4
years ~oi '%ge, b%t was overcome -by the
"smoke and neat a#d fell unconscious
with-'the* little ones by her side.
The charred remains were found in
the ashes of the. home. The origin
the fire is not known..
-of
Big Fire at Mason Oity.
Special to The Journal.
Mason -City, Iowa, Feb. .12.Fire to
day destroyed the Bell drugstore and
caused damage to adjoining buildings
to the extent of $5,000. The total loss
is estimated at $17,000, half of which
is covered by insurance. The fire
started in the living apartments on the
second floor of the drugstore. The
origin of the fire is not known.
The losses are as follows:.Bell's store
$12,000, partially insured Dr. Marston,
$1,000, insurance $800 Patton Brothers,
clothiers, $2,000, fully insured C. E.
Mann &Co., $1,000 J. W. Irons, tea
store, $1,000, fully insured Mitchell
Brothers, clothiers, $500.
SAMSON AND DELILAH.
The Football SamsonGee, what a haircut!
MRS: ZEISLER, I lC
HAS DISAPPEARED
World-Famous Pianist, Suffering
from Melancholia, Is Miss
ing in Chicago.
F*^\T'TVVTT:f'f'f'fV'e:x!r'rji!:
UBS. FANNIE BLOOMFIELD-ZEISLEB,
Famous Pianist Who Has Disappeared
from her Home.
Chicago, Feb. 12. Mrs. Fannie
Bloomfield-Zeisler, the world-famous
pianist, has disappeared from her home
and the police have been asked by her
husband to search for her.
Mrs. Zeisler has for some time been
suffering with melancholia, and*1
She has made.repeated tout,:
the
members of her family are apprehensive
tlmt some harm has befallen her.
"Mr. Zeisler appeared at the# Hyde
Park police station today and said that
Mrs. Zeisler had left the house early
in the morning and that altho he and
his friends had made every effort to
find her, they had been unsuccessful
and desired the aid of the police. Mr.
Zeisler told the police that his wife
had for Some time been suffering with
spells of melancholia and that just prior
to her disappearance she had been men
tally depressed for almost a month. He
had no idea of where his wife might
have gone or what might have hap
pened to her.
Police Inspector Hunt, in charge of
the Hyde Park district at once ordered
policemen to assist in the search for
Mrs. Zeisler, a number of automobiles
being secured by the friends of Mrs.
Zeisler and a most systematic search
in the vicinity of the Zeisleir residence
was begun. Up to 1 o'clock the search
had been fruitless.
Mrs. Zeisler is one of the most noted
of pianists. She is a native of Silesia
^and came to this country when but 2
yeiars obi Her early musical education
country and of Europe, being always
received with enthusiasm by the public
and musical critics. She is a member of
many leading women's clubs and promi
nent socially. Her husband, Sigmund
Zeisler^ is a wealthy and prominent at
torney.
MISS ALICE DRIVES
OUT ffHH FIANCE
Washington, Feb. 12.Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth had so far re
covered from his recent attack of ton
silitis as to be. able to take a short
drive today.
Representative Longworth was pres
ent in the house, later in the day, and
was warmly congratulated.
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Congress Sees Wanton Waste in
the Disposal of Condemned
Articles.
Millions Expended for Goods
Afterwards Sold at Enor
mous Loss.
Chicago, Feb. 12.A Washington
special to the Chicago Tribune says:
Chairman Hull ot the house commit
tee on military affairs is seeking means
to arrest the extravagance and wanton
waste of public money by the army
thru the sale of condemned supplies.
/The fact has come to light that since
1898 there have been condemned more
than 200,000,000 articles, which cost
$36,667,604. Subsequent and independ
ent inspection has been responsible for
the retention in service of articles, the
original value of which was almost
$7,000,000.
These figures are so astounding that
members of the two military commit
tees of congress find difficulty in under
standing the facile explanations offered
by army officers. Some excuse exists
in the fact that the United States was
at war with Spain, participated in a
military expedition in China and sup
pressed an insurrection in
theitPhilip-
pines, and war has waste aB
of/this
1898
1899..
1900.. 1901
1,706,000
SI BURN TO DEATH IN
^PORTLAND, SORE. FIRE
S
SCANDAL IN SALE
OF ARMY SUPPLIES
nat
ural companion.
But since the Philippine insurrection
was crushed the condemnation of sup
plies has continued to an astonishing
degree.
1 "Futility of Hearings.
It has been suggested that hearings
be held in order to develop the facts,
but as a high officer of the inspection
corps said today:
''A quartermaster would not be like
ly to criticize his own corps or to give
information showing that he or one of
his brother officers had purchased cloth
ing which had to be sold at a small
fraction of its cost before issued to
the troops.
"What congress should not is to pass
a law such as the naval committee of
the house contemplates, organizing an
expert commission to examine the army
accounts and the character of the pur
chases made. Facts would be devel
oped which would create a sensation
even in the midst of the insurance and
other financial scandals with which we
ha,ve b^en. nauseated.''
Extravagance' Kidwikpw^:
|to^^^a^Wo^o^he
which is known, to exist, and which they
find themselves almost powerless to ar
mrest, in the purchase of articles of sub
sistence and wearing apparel, etc.
For instance, the army serving in the
Philippines is supplied, among other
stores, with various mineral waters, in
cluding Apollinaris, ginger ale, Shasta
and Teplitz. During 1903, 177,485 bot
tles of these waters were condemned,
and during 1904 a total of 113,787 bot
tles were round defective.
Reports of auction sales show that a
bottle of Apollinaris which cost the
government 11 cents was sold for 2
cents, and the ginger ale, which cost 7
cents a bottle, was sold for 1 cent. How
Apollinaris, ginger ale, etc., can spoil
after a few months, even in the Philip
pines, is more than congress can un
derstand.
Practically the same situation exists
in thirty-three other articles.
The Condemnations.
The following table has been pre
pared showing the total condemnations
sinot* 1898:
1902 1903 1904
1905
.$2,733,686
8,689,350
6.372,291
5,078,079
3.408,351
5,023,511
8,066,385
Because of information they have re
ceived showing the extravagance in
army expenditures, members of congress
are scrutinizing with jealous care every
bill regarding the service.
The senate passed last week a bill
in the interest of the medical corps
and for the reorganization of a dental
corps. Senator Hale was not in the
senate at: the time this action was
taken, and next day requested that the
bills be reconsidered. His request was
granted. It appears that the senator
from Maine had been informed, that a
movement was under way to increase
the peace footing of the army from 60,-
000 to 100,000 men, and that the,bills
with regard to the medical and dental
corps were, steps in that direction.
MINNESOTANS WORK
FOR RETIREMENT LAW
By' W. W. Jermane.
Washington,, Feb. 12.General L. A.
Grant of Minneapolis has been in
Washington several weeks working for
the passage of a bill that will make a
special reserved list of all civil war
officers above the grade of. colonel, and
place them upon the retired roll of the
army at three-quarters pay. In addi
tion to General Grant, sevral Minne
sota men are interested in this proposed
legislation, among them General C. C.
Andrews and General L. P. Hubbard..
The bill will be considered by the mili
tary committee of each house, but there
isn't the slightest possibility of its
passage.
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2-CENI FARE LAI?J.S,r
SODGHT IN INDIANAJournal
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HERO GIVES LIFE
TO SAYE HORSES
Cut Off by Flames, He Shouts
Farewell to Crowd and
Vanishes.
Fire Sweeps Busy Commercial Dis
trict in the Western
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Portland, Ore., Feb. 12.At least
six persons lost their lives in a fire
that swept a busy commercial district
at the east end of the Morrison street
bridge spanning the Willamette river
early today. Ten or more persons were zA
seriously injured and were removed to
hospitals or the near-by residences, .-ff-ij
The fire started in the Mount Hood
saloon and consumed that place and the
lodging house above it, in which a ma
jonty of those killed and injured were,
sleeping. Twenty-two horses, property
of the East Side Transfer company, per- i
ished.
Sioux City Police Say Litchfield
Man, Reported Drowned, Is
Alive and Hiding.
ty
The Dead: iT'ti
NATHANIEL P. YOUNG, watch
man.
HENDRICK, photographer. S|
Two unidentified women. '-"'M
Two unidentified men.
The Injured. 3
Mrs. Brown, badly burned about the
body. _-g
Miss Brown, face, hands and body '&
burned.
Babcock, back badly injured. -JJ
Mrs. Taylor, badly injured in jump
ing from a window.
Baby Taylor, 6 years, burned.
L. T. Daley, burned about the face
and arms.
A number of persons are reported' ..j
missing.
Started in Saloon.
7
Watchman Tbung met death in a
heroic attempt to save the horses. He?" i
made several trips to the transfer com-,./*
pany's stables and finally was cut ofi!v
Sy the flames.
Looking from an upper window he
waved his hands to the crowd below-"
and cried, "Goodbye, boys I can't get
out this time,'' and fell back into the
flames. The is $50,000. v:'
SUSPECloss PLOT FOR
INSURANCE MONET
Bpeoial to The Journal.
Sioux City. Iowa, Feb. 12.That
Theodore Scnoemperlen of Litchfield,
Minn., supposed to have been drowned
in the Flovd river last summer, is not
dead, but has conceived or is engaged
in a plot to defraud life insurance com
panies of Minneapolis out of $9,000,
is the startling declaration made publio
by the police today.
The evidence in support of this
statement is circumstantial, but con
vincing. Last September the police
found the man's clothes on the bank of
the Floyd, with a note asking that his
father, G. H. Schoemperlin, a restau
rant keeper of Litchfield, Minn., be no
tified of the finding of the clothes. It
vas stated as a reason for the suicide
that Schoemperlen was engaged to a
irl at Litchfield, and that he preferred
eath to marriage. The police, of
course, thought it was a case of suicide,
tho the body was never found.
A brother-in-law applied to the State
Mutual and the Woodmen's casualty,
thru state officials at Minneapolis, for
payment of the insurance money. Then
ft was found that the policies contained
a suicide clause. On Jan. 3, Chief Di
neen received a letter signed "F. J.
saying Schoemperlen was murdered and
did not commit suicide. The letter
says that "F. J.," "G. S." and "H
M." met Schoemperlen at the New
Grand saloon the night of Aug. 13,
1905, and took him down toward the
stockyards. After a/quarrel, H. M."
told Schoemperlen to hold up his hand*
and drew a gun on him. He started to
go thru Schoemperlen's clothes when
Schoemperlen hit him. Then "H Mr"
beat him over the head with a revolver
till he was dead. The letter says the
body was buried where the police will
never find it. The clothes were taken
from the body, cleaned, and a month
later put on the river bank with the
note found on them to divert suspicion.
The name "Schoemperlen" in thil
last letter of confession is in exactly
the same writing as that of the note)
found on the clothes, and is identical
with a signature by Schoemperlen se
cured by Chief Dineen from Minneapo
lis. It is considered by the police a*
certain that Schoemperlen is alive and
wrote the second letter when it was
found the suicide clause would prevent
him from getting the insurance money.
Journa Speslal' wrviee.
Indianapolis, Feb. 12.Governor Han
ly is said to have definitely decided to
call a special session of the legislature
to impeach Secretary of State Storms,
pass a 2-cent railroad fare bill and pre
pare for the-state-to receive the inter
est on all funds in the hands of all..there,
state, countv-and township officers. The\ students at Vassar, which is two mile!
governor realizes that many members fro town, will miss the cars more
-e 1
RUBBErtOOTfFORli
EYERY YASSAR GIRL
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Special 8crrice.
Poughkeepsie, N.. Y:, Feb. 12.All
Vassar, in common with the residents of
this city and the strangers within her
gates," went afoot today. The entir*
plant of the electric street railways
powerhouse, carbarn and every trolley
ear in the city excepting onewas de
stroyed Saturday night by fire. It may
be weeks before cars are running again,
as is no reserve powerhouse.^ The
tha
not in accord with
him jin respect to the impeachment of
Storms, ana', he is said to nave decided
to, call the legislature together just
before the republicanEstate convention .,R_
meets in Anjil and go before that body I girls at V:
(riapd demandjUaftt it indorse hie policjej,3)ber boots.
anybody. Yesterdav, to reafch the
churches, they waded thi
churches, they waded thr snow and
slush.
Shoe, dealers are preparing for a
great rush of trade when the thousand
girls at Vassar are expected to buy rub-