CUESTS FLEE FOR LIVES
THE PHOENIX HOTEL IN CHAR
LOTTE, MICH., BURNS.
Sevral Narrow Escapes from Death
are Reported, but No Loss of Life
Occurs Two Women Taken from
Third Story on Ladder Episcopal
School for Boys Near Denver in
Ashes.
The Phoenix hotel, the largest in
Charlotte, Mich., was burned Monday
night, and several guests had nar
row escapes. Mrs. Bearsley of St.
oseph, Mich., and Mrs. James Metcalf, of
Syracuse, New York, were carried out
of the third story on a ladder. A. W.
Brokins of Ionia, was taken out uncon
scious, but may recover. The loss is
$10,000, partly insured.
Military Academy Burns.
The Jarvis Hall Military academy at
Mont Clair, eight miles from Denver,
a school for boys, maintained by the
episcopal church of Colorado, burn
ed Monday night. The loss is $75,
000, and the insurance $40,000. The
library of Canon Rogers, rector of the
academy, one of the finest in the West,
was partially destroyed.
Big Blaze in Louisiana.
Fire destroyed five blocks of the main
business part of Jennings. La.. The
loss is estimated at $500,000, with
insurance about half. The heaviest In
dividual loser is a I). McForland, $70,
000. There was no loss of life.
Another Estimate.
A special from Jennings. La., says
the loss by the fire is $160,000; insur
ance $60,000.
" ' Grain Elevators Burn.
Fire at Port Huron, Mich., destroyed
two grain elevators owned by the
Botsford Elevator company, entail
ing a loss of $;!00,000. There
were 171,000 bushels of wheat, 90,000
bushels of coru and 14,000 busliels of
oats destroyed. The loss on buildings
was $125,000 with $02,000 insurant", and
the loss on grain is $175,000, which is
fully insured.
During the progress of the fire the
roof of one of the buildings fe.ll and
Chief Charles Thorne of the fire depart
ment, was caught underneath, receiving
probably fatal injuries.
DETAILS OF SCHLEY INQUIRY.
Sigsbee Takes Stand to Deuy That
He Ga3 Schley Misleading
Information.
Captain Sigsbee was the first
witness in the Schley court of In
quiry Monday. He said he had not
communicated with the press., boat
Premier while off Santiago, the fact
the Spanish fleet was not in Santiago.
He said he would have been justified
in saying so if he had thought it pro
per under the circumstances-of war.
When Sigsbee was excused Lemly
announced he had no more witnesses.
Schley then took the stand for the
purpose of correcting his testimony.
The admiral is suffering from a cold
and his voice was quite hoarse. He
began his corrections at the very first
of his testimony. Most of these cor
rections were of typographical errors
or the chauging of words. to make the
sentences read more smoothly. '
When Schley was excused Lemly of
fered a largo number of documents as
evidence.
At 2:20 Hanna began his argument
for the government. He began his
presentation of the case by saying in
what he should say in the proposed
nummary he would like to accomplish
two objects. The first of these was to
make his address brief, and terse, and
in the second to present a careful and
exhaustive citation of the evidence ad
duced. He would, he said, take up
the clauses of the precept, and pre
sent the testimony bearing on the or
der in which they appeared in the pre
cept. READS LIKE FICTION.
Troy Girl Thinks She is Chicago
Banker's Daughter.
Miss Minnie Gardiner, a waitress In t
restaurant at Troy, N. V., says Charles
W. Gardiner, whom she supposed was
her father, says she was stolen from her
parents in Chicago when a baby, and
that her father is a banker named Loeb
in that city.
Denial in Chicago.
The story from Troy told by Miss
Gardiner is denied - by Banker Loeb,
who says no child was ever stolen from
his family or relatives.
MUST FACE MURDER CHARGE
Kansas Doctor Accused of Causing
Wife's Death.
Dr. C. C. Calhoun was brought to Os
wego, Kau., Wednesday from Mound
Valley and lodged in jail, being
charged with the murder of his 18-year-old
wife, who died suddenly on Satur
day. The post mortem examination re
vealed that Mrs. Calhoun died from a
surgical operation." Her life was in
Biued for several thousand dollars.
Burghers Take the Guns.
It ia now known that the Boers got
away with the two guns captured from
Colonel Benson's column in the recent
engagement near Brekenlaagte, eastern
Transvaal.
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
CONDENSED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
Items of General Interest Prepared
With a View to Save Time of the
Busy Reaaer Occurrences of the
Past Few Days Put in Readable
Shape From the Daily Press Re
ports. British Admit Heavy Loss.
The Rustenburg column, under Col
onel G. Benson, has met with a serious
reverse In the southern part of the
Transvaal, in the area of Commandant
General Botha's operations.
Colonel Benson and eight officers
were killed and 13 officers wounded, be
sides 58 noncommissioned officers and
men killed and 156 wounded. The war
office has Issued two dispatches from
General Kitchener, dated Pretoria, Nov.
1, the first of which states that:
"A severe attack was made on the
rear guard of Benson's column, about 20
miles northeast of Bethel, near Braken
laagte, during a thick mist. The
strength of the enemy Is reported to
have been 1,000. They rushed two
guns with the rearguard, but it is un
certain whether they were able to re
move them. I fear our casualties were
heavy. Benson was M-ounded,"
Callahan's Nerves Give Way.
James Callahan, on trial for perjury
fn the Cudahy kidnaping case at Oma
ha, gave way to the nervous strain un
der which he has labored and had to
be removed from the courtroom and the
session adjourned. Callahan beenme
much excited when young Cudahy re
asserted his recognition of the prisoner
as one of his abductors who thrust the
pistol in his face and almost fainted.
Young Cudahy continued his narra
tive of the kidnaping, going over the
entire case. The defense tried to show
the boy was addicted to excessive
cigaret smoking and was therefore un
able to give a clear version of the kid
naping. Discussing Maso's Manifesto.
The newspapers all comment on the
manifesto issued by General Maso in
which he offers himself as a candidate
for the presidency and sets forth his
platform. The Diario de la Marina
says it is not the radical, anti-Platt
amendment document that It was
prophesied it would be, but is prudent,
measured and conservative. The only
point that needs clearing up is the mat
ter of the payn.ent of the army. Re
ferring to what the manifesto says rer
garding Cuba'r ultimate independence,
the paiiar declares thl3 Is the former
autonomist doctrine of evolution.
Competes with the Bulgarians.
A special from Great Falls, Mont
says that a 12-year-old boy named
Southwlek kidnaped the 6-year-old son
of G. W. Ryan, a prominent grocer of
that city, and sent a note to the father
demanding $1,500 ransom, threatening
to ram fine pieces of glass Into the
child's eyes and cut his hands off unless
the demand was complied with.
Mr. Ryan notified the police, who ar
rested young Southwlek shortly after
the Kyan boy had arrived nt his father's
store unharmed, having been released
by Southwlek.
'
Turks Must Settle Claim.
The decision to make a naval demon
stration against Turkey was taken at
n meeting of tho cabinet at Paris, at
which M. Delcassp, minister of foreign
affairs, explained the sultan's procras
tination regarding tho French de
mands. Admiral Gailard's squadron
consists of the armored cruisers Ad
miral Pothuaii, Chancy and La-Touche-Trevlllr;
second class cruisers Du
Chayla nnd t'assanl and third class
cruiser Galilee, and the crews ngregato
2,286 men. The vessels also carry
landing parties.
Last Condolence Arrives.
SerreNary Hay presented to the pres
ident. Dr. Jorge Munoz. ns a special
minister and plenipotentiary from Gua
temala. Dr. Munoz was accompanied
by Dr. Yela, the secretary of the Guate
mala legation. The former is not to
replace Minister Arriaga, but comes in
a special capacity as the bearer of the
condolences of the Guatemalan govern
ment upon the death of the last Presi
dent McKinley. Guatemala Is the only
country which has thus honored Pres
ident McKinlcy's memory.
Few Cheers for Royalty.
The historic town of Yarmouth bus
witnessed so ninny naval reviews and
state functions that it has ceased to be
excited by displays of bui.ting and man
euvers of steel-sheathed fleets. Flags
were fluttering everywhere along the
water.front when the Oplilr entered the
harbor under the escort of the Victoria
and Albert and other yachts, and there
were swarms of spectators on Southoea
esplanade, but the town was decorated
with a meager hand and the crowds
were listless and undemonstrative.
French Squadron on Way.
The dispatch from Toulon announc
ing the return of Admiral Caillard's di
vision rf the French Mediterranean
squadron to that port proves to bo in
correct. The officials of the foreign
office sa idthe admiral has not returned.
The admiral is now on his way to
Turkish waters.
Must Have It All.
Despite the efforts of American offi
cials and' missionaries to convince the
brigands holding Miss Stone captive
that It Is impossible to raise the ran
som of $110,000, the latter have thus far
declined to reduce their demand: by a
single dollar.
FROM NEIGHBORING STATES.
General Items of News Culled From
All Parts of the United
States.
The public schools at CentralClty,
111., have been closed on account of
smallpox.
Mrs. Julia Wagstaff and her 10-months-old
babe were found dead in
their home at Sun Dance. Wyo. The
woman had committed suicide by tak
ing poison and the child starved to
death.
Mme. Wu Ting Fang, wife of the
Chinese minister to the United States,
arrived In San Francisco last week,
on the steamer Gaelic from China. She
Is accompanied by her daughter, Miss
Wu Su Ching.
Because he was refused a dance he
claimed was promised him, Henry
Manning, at Ober, Ind., shot fatally
James Lucas, the youth who had se
cured Miss Fannie Lawrence as part
ner for the waltz.
Mrs. Dillma Burchall was fatally
burned at Streator, III. She was total
ly blind and 74 years of age. She had
for years cared for the home, doing all
the cooking and other domestic work.
While near a cook stove her clothing
caught fire and burned. She lived on
ly a few hours.
The important matter at the cabinet
meeting last week was a statement
msde by Secretary of War Root to his
brother members that the forces in
the Philippines are not to be increased.
Secretary Root said the force there is
amply sufficient to quell any outbreaks
In Samar or the other islands.
Boot and shoe workers of Chicago
and the West are arranging a cam
paign to unionize al! factions now out
side the field. The fight will probably
begin in Chicago. . It will be on the
guerilla order, one employer being ap
proached at a time. If any employer
refuses to pay the union scale, then a
strike will be called.
William Gardner, aged 12, was gored
to death by a bull near Hughesville,
Penn. The lad was driving some cows
from one field to anotiicr when he was
attacked.
Mrs. Cynthia Prentice, said to be the
oldest woman in Illinois, died in her
l()5th year at Utlca. that state Tues
day night. A native of New Hamp
shire, Mrs. Prentice was born In Che
shire county, on May 8,-1797.
While rehearsing a fencing scene in
"The Fencing Musketeers" in New
York yesterday, the button on the end
of a fencing foil came off and Miss
Vera Mario, a vaudeville actress, was
seriously wounded. She was taken to
the home of Baron Erlanger, where her
condition is said to be critical.
The American Bicycle company
stockholders at the Bpeclal meeting
yesterday voted to redix-.e the author
ized capital from $80,000,000 to the list
ed amount, $9,294,000 preferred and
$17,701,500 common, a total of $26,
996,400. This action cancels the $3
003,600 treasury stock. The action is
considered as preparatory to a reor
ganization.
Chief of Police Donahue of Omaha
has received assurance from Daniel
Earle, handwriting expert at the Pink
erton detective agency headquarters,
Chicago, that the two letters purport
ing to come from Pat Crowe about ten
days ago are genuine. Chief Donahue
Is inclined to look upon the letters as
a ruse to secure comparative immuni
ty through the withdrawal of the re
wards. Rev. Father C. Kozlowskl, a vener
able priest in charge of the Polish
Catholic church at Lemont, 111., was
the first to give religious instruction
to Loon Czolgosz, the president's as
sassin. Czolgosz when a boy of 10
lived in Alpena. Mich., and attended
the church over which Father Koz
lowskl presided. The priest says
Czolgosz was bright and had no char
acteristics different from those of the
ordinary boy.
Advices by steamer from Nome
show that 500 men are penniless at the
camp and that a winter of disorder is
expected.
The suits filed by Attorney General
Bell against the corporations accused
of violating the Texas anti-trust law
call for penalties approximating $85,
000,000. W. H. Ward of Pluma, S. D.. was
convicted at Dcadwood, S. D., of the
murder of two boys of Pluma, Lee and
Klik Shepard, and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Officials of the Republic Iron and
Steel company say the net earnings
for August and September were more
than sufficient to pay the dividend for
the quarter.
Wasburn college, Kansas, has re
ceived a gift of $50,000 ii om a Boston
man who gave the money on condition
that his name be absolutely withheld.
Education Commissioner Brum
baugh of San Juan. Porto Rico, has
Bent a letter to Andrew Carnegie, ac
cepting his offer, made under certain
conditions, of $100,000 to build a free
public library for San Juan.
Frank Rockefeller of Cleveland, 0
has sued the National Bank of Com
merce of Kansas City for the return
of $20,000. which he alleges he over
paid the bank on bis' guarantee of pa
per of the Siegel-Sanders Live Stock
Commission company.
A blue diamond weighing 22 car
ats, and worth $70,000, foreign value,
was recently passed through the cus
tom house In New York City, in the or
dinary course "of business. The .duty
is 10 per cent ad valorem. The ap
praisers say mat but one other blue
dlamoud of this size is known to be In
existence and that it Is in some Euro
pean collection.
There will be no strike for more
wages in the print cloth mills at Fall
River, Mass., and for the present the
wage question there is settled.
Advices received from Cathnln;
island of Samar, say that n deta: l:in ;
of 12 members of Company (, .. .
infantry, under' command of Her roan
Wlllford. who had besn sent here fr.
Basey to San Antonia to investigate a i
report into the number of bolomt;i 1 :
the vicinity, were viciously attacked :
140 Insurgents, who rushed upon tiicr;
with great violence, killing two ko.
diers and wounding two others. Four
insurgents were killed.
Orange county, Cal., has 300 acres In
peanuts; the output thin season Is inti
mated at 400,000 pounds, worth $20,003
A number of Hague bankers and oth
er wealthy men of Holland arc making
arrangements to establish a colony of
Boers and Holland Dutch in Wyoming.
In the Schley court of Inquiry a num
ber of witnesses were introduced by
Judge Advocate Lemly to testify In re
buttal of the evidence given In Admiral
Schley's behalf. The court decided
early in the day that no witnesses
could be introduced at this stage of the
proceedings to give testimony on im
material points.
The dynamite gun was tested for tho
first time and both the government and
constructors of the piece express satis
faction of ultimate success.
A ton of base silver bullion, worth
over $1,000, has mysteriously disap
peared from the criminal court room
at Omaha, Neb.
The decision of a New York court
makes every dentist in the country lia
ble for royalties for bridge work.
Thomas Meehan, for 30 years editor
of the Gardener's. Monthly, and a bot
anist of note, is seriously ill with heart
disease at his home in Germantown,
near Philadelphia. He is the author of
many valuable books and papers relat
ing to agriculture and botany, and is
a member of nearly all the important
botanical and horticultural societies in
America, and of many in Europe. '
NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS.
Flashes From the Wires Portraying;
Occurrences in All Part3 of
the World.
Repairs to walls, towers and palnee
have been almost completed at Pekin
in order to conceal from the emperor
the evidence of foreign Invasion.
The bubonic plague has reappeared at
Glasgow.
Sir Thomas Llpton. who was inter
viewed aboard the White Star liner
Celtic, denied emphatically that Sham
rock II is for sale.
Emperor William has telegraphed
the German Protestant community at
Shanghai that he will give an altar and
windows to the new church there in
memory of Baron von Ketteler, the
murdered German minister to China. ,
British neonle are quarreling among
themselves over the retirement or Uen
eral Buller and the church Is involved
in a bitter discussion of affairs in South
Africa.
Miss Stone and her companion in cap
tivity are reported to be in a Turkish
border village in the house of a Mussul
man bey, an accomplice of the brigands,
who will negotiate the ransom.
European ports will disinfect vessels
from Liverpool, where bubonic plague
is reported.
The Portuguese minister at Washing
ton Is recalled for prematurely an
nouncing the death of President Mc
Kinley. Louise de Gardens Classe, formerly
a countess of France, has been grant
ed citizenship papers at Salt Lake,
Utah. Mme. de Classe is related to
the royal Bourbon family of France.
Anarchists in Rome held a meeting
at which Loon F. Czolgosz was eulo
gized while his electrocution was oc
curring. The government endeavor
ed to suppress the meeting, but it was
nevertheless held secretly.
Referring to the plans of the Duke
d'Abruzzl to visit American waters,
the Italie says he will assume com-;
mand of ore of the fastest Italian,
cruisers next January for a voyage of
14 months along the coast of America.
Joseph Herrings, a naturalized
American, who was war correspondent,
for the Staats Zeitung of Berlin inj
1898, and who also acted in China last:
year for American journals, has re-'
ceived notice of his expulsion from1
Prussia.
Sir Robert Hart, the imperial com-,
mlssioner of maritime customs, says
the increase in the exports from New
Chwang is greatly in excess of the.
shipping facilities. He also praises'
the protection afforded by Russia of1
the trade with Manchuria, which is be
ing rapidly recovered.
An earthquake was felt in many Ital
ian cities, including Spezzia, Genoa,;
Bologna, Brescia and Milan yesterday.'
There were two Bevcre shocks at Gal
larate, where a number of houses were
damaged. ;
A new development of the Gothen-j
burg system has made its appearance
in several Swedish towns. There mil-1
nicipal public house companies have op
ened temperance hotels offering meals
at cost price. It is called the Vexlo
system.
- Emma Defryes. daughter of a Hawai
ian missionary, and descendant of the
kings or Maul and Hawaii, has become
a claimant to the crown lands In Ha
waii. This is the third claimant, tho
ethers being Lilloukalanl and Mrs.
Wilcox.
Fearing the loss oi commerce. Eng
lish merchants are planning a con
ference upon methods of retaliation on
Germany.
Dr. Hope, medical officer of the port
of Liverpool, has conferred with the
American and other consuls regarding
bubonic plague precautions and has ar
ranged to supplement the board of
trade examination of outgoing vessels
so as to meet the desires of the ronre
sentatlves of foreign countries.
MISSISSIPPI NEGRO
BURNED AT THE STAKE .
FOR A BESTIAL CRIME.
He Assaults the Wife of a Prominent
Citizen, Confesses After Being
Identified iivnd the Band of Aven
gers Fires His Pyre.
A negi-o, whoiU name has not yet been
learned, was burned at the stake in
Perry county, Mississippi, on Saturday
night. ,
Usual Crime.
The crime for Which the negro suffer
ed was commuted early in the morning.
and Mrs. Fortenberrt was the rietinu
She Is the wife of one of the most prom
inent men of that section. After recov
ering consciousness she told the story
of the crime, and described the negro.
Condemned to Stake.
A posse caught him, and, after being
identified, he confessed. An informal
WUI I, nuo 1 p tl II 1 4.. v, , tuc LI IU1 ICBUIIIU
in the decision to burn the negro. He
was taken from the house to the scene
of the crime nnd there burned.
MOVE BY FRENCH DEPUTY.
Wants to Know If French Govern
ment Propones to Take Action
for Relief.
Prior to the debate on 1 the
Turkish incident. in the .Frnchi
chamber of deputies. M. Berry aiked
leave to interpellate the government 1
garding the measure he proposed to U
in accord with the other governing
to call upon, the Brlfish government1
remove the women :lnd children of
South African concentration camps
healthful districts. V
M. Deschanel, the president, remark !
that it would be difficult to interpellal
the French government for acts of til
British government.
After a brief discussion, during whic
M. Milleboye was called to order
speaking of Joseph Cuamberlafa, the
British colonial secretary, as a ooward
and assassin, the chamber decided to
debate M. Berry's Interpellation at a
later date.
Squadron Reported at Smyrna.
The Paris correspondent of the
Mall Bays he understands that dis
patches have been received an
nouncing that Admiral Caillard's
division of the French Mediter
ranean squadron had arrived at Smyrna
and seized the customs.
CHOSEN BY THE BISHOPS.
American Representatives to Metho
dist Conferences Selected,
In Cincinnati the Monday after
noon session, ' the Methodist bishops'
board elected Bishop Vincent and Rev.
W. A. Quayle of Kansas City to repre
sent the board at the Wesley and Irish
conferences next year.
Y. W. C. A. Financial Statement.
At Monday's session of the inter
national board of the Young Women's
Christian association in Cleveland,
it was shown that the association re
ceived ouring the last fiscal year $825.
024, and expended $831,000. The value
of property owned by the association is
$4,250,000.
Missionary Society Officers.
At Monday's session of the general
executive committee of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary society in Philadel
phia, these officers were re-elected:
Mrs. Cyrus D. Fobs, Philadel
phia, president; Mrs. J. O.' Graoey,
Rochester, secretary, and Mrs. W. B.
Skiamore, New York, treasurer.
i-ONG CHASE OF ELOPING PAIR.
Father's Pursuit from California to
St. Joseph Is Unsuccessful.
After a ruce across the country in
pursuit of an eloping couple, Henry
Johnson of Oakland, Cal., an orange
planter, arrived at St. Joseph, Mich.,
Sunday. He is in search of his daugh
ter, Clara Belle Johnson, a belle of Oak
land, who left her home several days
ago in company with Walter A. Samp
son, with the avowed intention of being
married here. The marriage was very
objectionable to Johnson on account of
the fact that the prospective bridegroom
was poor.
The couple were traced by the father
to Denver and thence to Chicago. At
the latter place they took a Michigan
Central train. The father was only a
few hours behind. He reached there at
3 o'clock iln the morning and went to
the home of County Clerk Church,
where he demanded adraitance. Mr.
Church dressed and went to the court
house with Johnson. The marriage
records were scaned but the two
names sought were not. found. The
couple had not p-nved in that city.
Turk Prepares for Fight.
llTkn ... - - .1 I i 1
i Diutau una uiuficu iud cum-
letion with all speed of the defence at
Salonika, Smyrna and the en-
rance to the Dardinelles," says
the Constantinople correspondent of the
Echo De Paris. "Submarine mines will
be placed and troops mobilized at points
where disembarkation is likely.
"A violent anti-French feeling pre
vails, and fears are felt for the safety
of the French residents In Turkish
cities, Constantinople excepted."
American Cigar Company. -The
American Cigar company, organ
ized under the laws of New Jersey, was
qualified by the secretary of state to
do business In Ohio. It has a capital of
$10,000,000, and will have Us Ohio head
quarters in Cincinnati.