VOL. XXIV.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., FEBRUARY il, 1902.
NO. 6.
MILLIONS LOST
JIN A BIG FIRE
One of (he Greatest Conflagrations in
History of Country,
26 BLOCKS IN PATERSON, N. J.
Heart of the City, Including Its Finest Build?
ings, Eaten Out by the Terrible Destroyer?
Northeast Gale Baffles for Hours Efforts to
Check It?Scores Injured, But Loss of Life
L'n:crtain?SOO Dwellings Destroyed.
New York, (Special).?Paterson, N.
J., was scourged Sunday by one of the
greatest tires in the history of thc coun?
try
Thc heart of thc proud "Silk City' is
a mass of ruins. It was eaten out in
less than 24 hours hy a Maze which, for
fierce destructiveness, has not been par?
alleled since that which desolated Jack?
sonville, Fla.
Major John Hinchliffe estimates thc
aggregate loss at not less than $10,000,
000.
Scores of persons were burned or
Otherwise injured, but thc loss of 1-fe
is not believed to be great. Many per?
sons are supposed to lie missing, but in
the excitement ard fright most of these
are probably separated from their fam?
ilies and friends. Until order is brought
OUt of the situation little that is definite
on this point can be known.
Reuben Isleib. while serving coffee to
exhausted firemen, was hit on the head
bv a falling beam, and it is doubtful
if he will recover.
George Fitzmaurice, a fireman, is dy?
ing. He was driving an engine from
Passaic when the horses bolted, and be?
fore Fitzmaurice could get them under
control they brought the apparatus
against an electric pole. Fitzmaurice.
who had not waited to strap himself
in, was-hurled out upon his head.
Mrs. Brown, who it was said was over
80 years old, was removed from her
home. m8 Broadway, just two doors
from where the fire started. She was
taken to the house of a friend near by
and died about an hour later. Her
death was hastened hy the excitement.
A number of Bremen were overcome.
An estimate made from a general in?
spection of thc ruins puts the number
of dwellings and apartment houses de?
stroyed at 500 and thc number of fami?
lies left without shelter at 1.000.
The fire began nt midnight and was
checked only after a desperate fight that
lasted until late Sunday morning. Every
city and town within reach of Paterson
sent firemen and apparatus, and i> took
their united efforts to win the battle.
A northeast gale gave tlie conflagra?
tion a great impetus and carried burn?
ing brands to kindle the blaze afresh.
Thc firemen made stand after stand be?
fore thc wall of fire, hut were repeated?
ly driven back. When victory finally
came to them they were exhausted.
BURIED BENEATH TONS OF ROCK.
Premature Bbs! Kills a id Injures Several
Perse:!:-.
Greensville, Pa., (Special).?A fatal
blasting accident occurred on thc new
cut-off of the Bessemer and Lake Erie
Railroad near Osgood, two miles east
of here. One man is missing and pr"b
ably dead; four are fatally injured and
seven arc suffering from fractured
limbs, ribs and internal injuries. Su?
perintendent Thomas McC mville, of
Scranton. P.a.. buj
skull and a. double fracture of tlie le.fi
leg. All the other muir-.d are Italians,
and their name- could not be learned,
as they are known to thc contracting
firm only by numbers.
The scene of the accident was a 25
foot cut about 1.000 feet from the new
sleel viaduct which is being construct?
ed by the American Bridge Company.
The men had entered the cut with Su?
perintendent McConville and were pre?
pared to make a blast The charge had
inst been connected np, when some one
tampered with the battery and set the
blast off without a moment's warning.
Thc men were buried beneath tons of
earth and rock.
ACTIVE SERVICE OVER.
Admirals Sampson and Cromwell Put on the
Retired List.
Washington, (Special).?The names
of Rear Admirals William T. Sampson
and Bartlett Cromwell were placed on
the retired list Sunday on account of
their having reached the age of 62 years.
Rear Admiral Sampson is lying ill at
In's home in tin's city. Rear Admiral
Cromwell is in command of the Euro?
pean Station and his flp.gship, the Chi?
cago, is now in the Mediterranean. Capt.
Joseph E. Craig, commanding the Al?
bany, thc senior officer on the station,
will assume temporary command of the
station upon Admiral Cromwell's re?
tirement and will hold this command
until the arrival on the scene early in
April of Rear Admiral Crowninshield
end his staff,
Prizer for Artists.
Philadelphia (Special).?Tile honors
and prizes connected with the seventy
first anual exhibition of the Pennsylva?
nia Academy of tlie Fine Arts were
awarded, with the exception of the gold
medal of honor, which will probably be
awarded at the next meeting of the
board of directors. The Walter Lip
pincott prize of ?.300 was awarded to
Walter MeEwen for his picture. "An
Ancestor." The Temple gold medal
v. as awarded to Winslow Homer for his
picture. "Northeaster." The Marv
Smith prize of $100 was awarded to
Eleanor Earle for her picture entitled
"Firelight."
Salt Combiuc Incorporated.
Chicago .(Special).?The Interna?
tional Salt Company, with a capital
stock of $1,000,000, was incorporated at
Springfield. According to Mark Mor?
ton, one of the incorporators, th* new
concern will take in the National Salt
Company and the Retsof Salt Companv
of New York; Joy Morton & Co. of
Chicago, and several other companies
which Mr. Mort:: said he was not at
liberty to name. Beside Mr. Morton.
Daniel E. Gillingham and Daniel Peter
kin, of Chicago, arc named as incorpo?
rators.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
rcrr.cst;c.
Warden Soffel of Allegheny County
Jail, retained counsel to defend his wife,
hut will have nothing to do with her
Major E. H. Barclay, editor of the
Lexington (Va.) Gazette, died in Lex?
ington from a blood-clot on the brain.
H. B. Grant, who was a captain of en?
gineers on General Beauregard's staff,
died at his home, in Laurel, Miss.
Bartholome F. Clune, a New York
policeman, committed suicide in prefer?
ence to sustaining charges.
Dr. W. Murray Weidman, former
president of the Pennsylvania Medical
Society, died at Reading, Pa.
Rev. Edward A. Waldo, who disap?
peared from his home, in New York,
five years ago, and who had been given
np by his relatives as dead, has written
to them from San Francisco, and his
brother. George B. Waldo, a New York
artist, has gone to California to bring
him home.
Count de Lucenay, of Calcutta, In?
dia, held in El Paso. Texas, on the
charge of false swearing, made a num?
ber of attempts to kill himself.
The insular presideutes iii thc Philip?
pines will petition Monsignor Sbarretti
to expel the friars and friar bishop-.
Former Commissary General Fagan
is said to have been challenged to fight
a duel in Mexico.
A receiver was appointed in Newark,
N. J., for thc Automobile Company of
America.
Joseph Kearney, a well-known clown,
died in the hospital at York, Pa., of
pneumonia.
The negro soldiers in the Philippines
who deserted to the enemy were exc
I culed.
Lieut. Edwin S. Jacob, U. S. N.. re
I tired, died at Galveston, Texas.
Admiral and Mrs. Schley visited the
i University of Tennessee, in Knoxville,
and dedicated a marker on the site of the
1 first blockhouse erected by the Knoxville
pioneers. There was a banquet in thc
! evening.
It is reported that the trustees of the
Northwestern University, near Chicago.
! will ask for the resignation of Prof.
I Charles W. Pearson, who openly de?
clared his nonbelief in the infallibility of
the Bible. !
Philip Gerst, former city treasurer of j
Buffalo. N. Y.. was arrested, charged i
with misappropriating $27,000 of the j
? city's funds. Gerst was removed from :
office in December last by Mayor Diehl.
There was a head-on collision between!
two passenger trains on the Richmond. ;
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad,:
ni ar Quantico, Va., bul luckily no one
was seriously hurt.
James J. Fra.why. a Tammany leader,
and Alderman J. J. Dietz, accused, of un?
lawful conduct in the recent election.
surrendered and were held for a hearing.
An explosion of sulphur in a furnace
in a convent at Mount Carmel, Pa., near?
ly suffocated nine Sisters of Charity.
A meeting of peninsula peach grow?
ers, shippers and commission men de?
clared in favor of thc five-eighths bas
, kel.
The station at Delta, on the Mary?
land and Pennsylvania Railroad, was
hoted, but the robbers did not get much,
john T. Ford, deputy tax commis?
sioner of Bronx Borough, was arrested
' on the charge of accepting a bribe.
William ll. Soliders, a prominent cit?
izen of York. Pa., died suddenly of heart
failure. ,
Lulen Whittaker, colored, accused of
murder, was lynched in Lynchburg
Temi.
Rev. Joseph Stuckey. Bishop of the
McnonitC Church, died in Danvers, Til.
foreign.
A dispatch from Dublin (0 thc I.oti
d .ii Pall Mall Gazette says the belief
is growing in Ireland that nothing short
of a revolution is meant by thc United
Irish League.
An interesting discussion took place
in the lower house of the Prussian Diet |
upon the attitude of the late President
McKinley toward bimetallism.
A medallion memorial of the late
John Ruskin was unveiled in Westmin?
ster Abbey.
General Herrera, commander of the
Columbian insurgents, in a note to the
American, French, British and German
consuls, asks that the line of the Pan?
ama-Columbia Railroad be declared a
neutral zone. The commander says
the Liberals have a strong force, and :
consider thc capture of Panama and j
Colon necessary to the development of
their military plans.
Mr. Brodrick stated in the House of |
Commons that the rotal number of
horses bought during the war in South
Africa was 446.008. of which 77,101
came from the United States.
The French admiral at St. Thomas.
D. W. I., on the flagship 'forge, ex
chanced visits wth Admiral Count von
Baudissin, on the German imperial
yacht Hohenzollern.
Thomas Sidney Cooper, the artist,
died at Vernon Holme, Harbledown,
the spot near Canterbury immortalized
by Chaucer.
Emperor William has taken steps to
check the crusade of the Faith Healers
in Germany.
Mr. and" Mrs. Charles M. Schwab
were entertained in London by the Lord
Mayor.
Commandant Marais. a Boer leader,
lias been captured near Laing-burg.
Mr. Balfour announced in the House
of Commons that copies of the corre
sp mdence between the Netherlands and
Great Britain had been forwarded to
Lord Milner, with instructions to ask
Lord Kitchener to communicate the con?
tents to the Boer leaders in the field.
A high German official explained to
the Associated Press correspondent how
the Emperor refused Spain's request
that Germany head a European move?
ment against the United States in 1898
in defense of the monarchic principle.
The Venezuelan revolutionary steam?
er, the Libertador, has not been sunk
by a government gunboat, as had been
reported. Ninety-four political prisoners
killed the commander of the fort at Car?
tagena and escaped.
Financial.
The New York Subtreasury state?
ment shows that the banks lost $4,029,
000 last week.
The Erie surplus after charges for
epiarter ending December 31 was $301,
651 as against $306,120 last year.
On four sales of Erie & Western pre?
ferred jumped from 134"\ to 138. Thc
close on the previous day was at J32.
The common capital stock of the
Northern Pacific Company has been
stricken from the list of the New York
Stock Exchange.
THE POWERS IO
THE INSURGENTS
Cannot Ecclarc Panama Railroad
Neutral Zone.
WILL INSIST UPON PROTECTION.
Thc Consuls Representing thc Un fed Stales,
Trance, Great Britain anJ Cermany, Reply
to the Note of the Insurgent General
Herrera?Castro Reports Provisions Scarce
in the Rebel Camp?.
Panama. (By Cable).?Thc foreign
consuls here have agreed to send lo thc
insurgent General Herrera the follow?
ing answer to his note addressed to thc
American, French. British and German
consuls:
"His Excellency. Acting Governor
Aristides Arjo ia. kindly delivered to
certain persons of the consular body let?
ters from you. Wc understand they
were intended for all thc consular corps,
and. therefore, through thc tiovernor,
we beg to reply that thc proposal de?
claring Panama, Colon and the railroad
linc a neutral zone is ideal, and some?
thing that we. representing foreign in?
terests, would gladly hail as an accom?
plished fa.ct. However, as we see it at
present, and in view of existing laws,
wc recognize the difficulty, if not thc
impossibility, of its accomplishment.
"It could bc done only by agreement
between the contending parties to this
unpleasant and unfortunate trouble.
We are extremely anxious to do all in
our power to lessen trouble, yet it must
be ever and positively understood that
we have been and will continue to re?
main neutral.
''As regards the advising of their re?
spective government, each consul will
exercise his individual judgment. In
case the contending forces submit to us
or to any member of our body any
matter and asks advice for its determi?
nation, we shall be ready and willing to
act, if the same is within the scope of
our duties, but any and all initial meas?
ures must be taken by the two contend?
ing parties and first agreed upon hy
them.
"Foreigners and foreign property
have a right to full and ample protec?
tion, and this wc shall under all circum?
stances insist inion. The governments
having special treaty rights will, wc
presume, see that they are not violated.
"In thc hope that there will bc an
early termination of thc civil strife
which has existed for over two years.
I beg to subscribe myself, in behalf of
the consular corns, very truly,
"H. A. GUDGER.
"Dean Consular Corps."
ADMIRAL MONTOJO DEAD.
Dewey's Opponent at Manila, Who Was De?
graded by His Government.
Madrid, (By Cable).?The death is
announced of Vice Admiral Jose Mon?
to; o.
Admiral Montojo had command of
the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay that
was . teated by Admiral Dewey. The
official report he made to his govern?
ment showed him to be a very simple
and brave officer. As that report recites,
he fired his guns until there were no
gunners left to fire them, passed, when
his ship was shot from under him. to
another: watched his little squadron go
to the bottom around him, and in the
end, when the fight was done, he re?
treated, indeed, hut as a lion does, his
face to the foe. The account is infinitely
pathetic. He was tried before the Su?
preme Court of Spain, and condemned
to retirement without the right of pro?
motion, September 22, 1899. He has
been living on his estates quietly since
then.
THREE EFFORTS TO DIE.
Tcok Strychnine and Broken Glass and
Then Tried Drowning.
El Paso, Texas, (Special).?"Count"
de Luccnay, of Calcutta, India, was
arrainged here on the charge of false
swearing and was bound over to the
grand jury. In default of $1,000 bail he
was sent to jail.
His bride, who sat by his side during
the proceedings, returned to jail to be
near lier husband. After the court had
announced its decision the "Count"
reeled and fell to the Moor, writhing in
convulsions. Physicians who were sum?
moned treated him for strychnine pois?
oning, and after an hour's work re?
stored him. He was taken to jail and a
short time baler it was reported that he
had attempted to drown himself in a
bathtub. Subsequently, it is said, the
"Count" broke up glass bottles and at?
tempted to swallow the (Vagrants.
Car Struck Funeral Party.
Chicago (Special).?Violence pursued
the Trostel family even after death, an
electric car striking thc funeral cortege
nf the nine kinsmen who perished in
Wednesday's explosion in Twenty-sec?
ond street. The collision occurred at
Sixty-sixth street and Vincennes ave?
nue, three persons being injured. An
indignant crowd of mourners assailed
the conductor and motorman. Coroner
Traeger saved the street car crew from
injury by placing the men under arrest.
Made big Haul in Georgia.
Acworth, Ga. (Special.)?Safe-blow
jrs forced thc vaults of thc Lemon
Banking Company herc, securing $5,000
n gold, a $5,000 Georgia State bond
ind a large amount of stock certificates.
Between $4,500 and $5,000 in notes,
(tocks certificates and bonds were hope
essly mutilated liv the explosion, and
mich currency and small bills de?
stroyed. A box filled with $20 gold
lieces escaped the notice of the robbers.
The burglars had to blow through four
irotcctions to reach the money.
$20,000 From Husband's Murderer.
Austin, Texas, (Special).?Mrs. Lib
iis Barnhill, of Tennessee, recovered a
fudgment in the Federal Court against
,. T. Morgan, of Fayette county, Texas,
or $20,000, equally divided between
ictual and exemplary damages. Half
he amount goes to Mrs. Barnhill and
he other half to her children. Her
msband was a former business partner
if Morgan and was killed by the lat?
er as the result, it is alleged, of a bus
ness disagreement.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFA:RS.
Law Against Anarchism.
Thc House Committee on Judiciary
submitted to the House a report tipon
the bill providing for the personal pro?
tection of thc President, vice-President
Cabinet officers and foreign ambassadors
and ministers, and for the suppression
of opposition to organized government.
Thc report argues in favor of a Fed
eral statute covering the case, and re?
gards as a reproach the inability of the
general government to prosecute the as
sassin of the late President McKinley.
The report says in.part:
This bil! is intended to serve six pur?
poses :
"First?To prevent resistance to and
protect thc President and Vice-Prcsia
dent of thc United States and those by
law in thc line of succession to that
high office.
"Second?To protect the ministers
and ambassadors of foreign govern
ments accredited to and within thc
United States.
"Third?To prevent thc opeTi and de?
liberate approval of certain crimes and
also certain unlawful teachings, which,
if permitted, are calculated and intend?
ed to breed lawlessness and crime
against and culminate in the destruction
of the government.
"Fourth?To prevent thc coming to
or naturalization in this country of
those who teach or entertain such per?
nicious doctrines.
''Fifth?To prevent conspiracies in
the United Stales to murder thc rulers
of other civilized nations.
"Sixth-To provide adequate and uni?
form punishments for these offenses
wherever committed. All are offenses
against government and intended to im?
pair or overthrow the government of
thc United States."
Southern Forest Reserve.
Senator Pritchard, from the Commit?
tee on Forest Reservations, presented a
report on the bill appropriating $5.coo,
ooo for thc creation of a national forest
reserve in the South Appalachian region.
as authorized by the committee several
days ago.
The report urges the establishment of
the reserve, for the protection of the
timber and the conservation of the
waters of the land embraced within its
proposed area, placing the damage done
j by Hoods arising in that area in 1901
I at $15,000,000.
It is said that the land necde'd can bc
j purchased for from $2 to $3 per acre,
j and that in the Southern Appalachian
' Mountains there is a greater variety of
I hardwood trees than in any other terri
! tory of like size in the Eastern States.
j It is also stated that this region has the
highest and largest mountains cast of thc
Mississippi, the heaviest rainfall on thc
continent except along the Northern Pa?
cific Coast, and that tlie washing away of
j the soils can be prevented only by kcep
j ing them covered with forests.
"The absence from this region of lakes
i and gravelly soils, such as abound in thc
j Northern States and there serve to store
; the rains and give uniformity to thc Bow
j of streams," the report continues, "ren
! ders thc perpetuation of those Southern
i forests absolutely necessary for the pro?
tection of both thc soils and thc streams."
It Is Said to Cure Leprosy.
A Venezuelan plant, for which is
claimed wonderful curative powers in
cases of leprosy, has been called to the
attention of the Secretary of Agricul?
ture and sent to Hawaii for cultivation
j and experimentation.
Secretary Wilson says some cxperi
1 ments have been made, but they have
not demonstrated its curative qualities.
Some of these shrubs were received
here some time ago, and it was claimed
for them that they would effect a cure
of that dread and supposed-to-be incur?
able disease. Some of them were sent
to Hawaii to be experimented with and
some were kept at the Department for
examination. The Secretary says the
investigation has not been abandoned,
and the experiments will continue until
the merits of thc shrub are fully tested.
Roosevelt Is Left Out.
The President has approved, with
one notable exception, all the recom?
mendations made by the Army Brevet
Board, of which General MacArthur
was president, for thc bestowal of brevet
rank on all the officers of the army who
rendered especially meritorious services
during the war with Spain and in the
subsequent campaigns in the Philippines
and China.
The exception noted is the case of
Theodore Roosevelt, who was awarded
thc brevets of colonel and brigadier
general for distinguished services at San
Juan. Santiago. LTnder the law these
brevets require the confirmation of thc
Senate, and thc nominations have been
made out for transmission to that body,
but, as already stated, the list will not
contain the name of the President.
Appropriations for the Departments.
The House passed the legislative, ex?
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill,
the second of the regular supply bills.
As passed it carries $25,171,069, which is
$503,721 in excess of the current law.
Only two amendment's of importance
were adopted. One provides for a com?
mission to redistrict the legislative dis?
tricts of Oklahoma, and the other au?
thorizes the President, in his discre?
tion, to cover into the civil service the
temporary clerical force employed on
account of thc war with Spain. There
arc about 1.250 of these clerks still in
thc service. By the terms of the
amendment the President must place all
or none of them under the civil service.
The Official Reception Committee.
Assistant Secretary of State Hill, Ad?
jutant-General Corbin and Rear-Admi?
ral Evans have been officially desig?
nated as "the President's delegates for
thc reception and entertainment of H.
R. H. Prince Henry of Prussia," and
this title is the formal one used by them
in all their correspondence.
Capital New* io General.
Governor Taft told the Senate com?
mittee investigating affairs in the Phil?
ippines that the friars were thc mon?
eyed people of the islands.
E. S. Thcall, representing Stayton &
Campbell, counsel for Admiral Samp?
son, filed with the President a protest
against the claim set up in Admiral
Schley's appeal that he was in supreme
command during the battle off Santi?
ago. The paper will bc considered by
the President in connection with Ad?
miral Schley's appeal and thc Navy
Department's comment.
ELEVEN ARE DEAD
AND MANY INJURED
Burning of a Small Hotel in St. Louis
Results Fatally.
THE GUESTS LEAP I ROM WINDOWS.
Considerable Delay in Turning in an Alarm j
?When (he Fire Department Arrives thc ]
Whole Front of thc Building is in Flames
Some Escape Fire in Their Nightclothes
to Be Frostbitten on the Streets.
St. Louis, Mo., (Special).?A fire
herc, which destroyed the Empire Ho?
tel, a large three-story building at 270c
and 2702'Olive street, caused thc death
of 11 persons and dangerously injured
eight others.
Ten or more who had narrow escapes
from death in the fire were injured by
being frostbitten. Between 35 and 40
persons were in the building. It is be?
lieved that $.'0,ooo will cover thc
damage to the building and contents.
The fire started about 3.30 A. M. and
gained considerable headway before it
was discovered. There was delay in
turning in au alarm. When the engines
finally reached the scene the whole
front of thc building was in Hames and
the interior was a furnace.
By that time all who escaped death
had gotten out of the building by jump?
ing from the windows or climbing down
ropes made of bedclothes. A few es?
caped from the ground iloor through
thc front door. Some of the escapes
were narrow. Almost everybody who
got out was frostbitten,
The guests barely had time to flee
when aroused, the flames had spread so
rapidly. Some saver! their clothing.
which they carried in their hands, but
others were not SO fortunate, losing
everything.
After some delay, near-by houses
were opened to the unfortunates and
they were given shelter from the biting
cold weather. It was one of the coldest
niffhts of thc winter, the ground being
covered with ice and snow. The worst
sufferers were put in the care of physi?
cians.
LIVES LOST IN CAR WORKS FIRE.
I Burning of the Rock Island Railroad Shops -
Several Persons Injured
Horton, Kan. (Special.) ?Fire in tlie
j big car works of thc Rock Island Rail
I road caused thc death, of two persons
I and the destruction of $250,000 worth of
! property.
The fire broke out in thc cabinet de?
partment and spread so rapidly that the
employees on the second floor and in
Superintendent Studer's office hardly
escaped with their lives, many of thc
employees being slightly injured.. The
walls of the car shops fell 20 minutes
after the fire was discovered. The loss
on the building is. $50,000; machinery,
$100,000; material, $100,000. The en?
gine house was destroyed, but the new
$75,000 boiler plant was saved. McKeotl
lost his life in trying to save Davis.
OVER 200 INCHES OF SKIN GRAFTED.
A Chicago Boy's Father mid Mother Give Up
Cuticle to Pstch Kim Up.
Chicago (Special).After five month;
of wonderful surgery and skin grafting
Marion Weaver, the five-year-old son
of a Chicago preacher, has emerged
from thc hospital with a new 'coat ol
skin. More than 219 square inches have
been grafted upon his abdomen, back
and sides. His father and four bro?
thers gave up long strips of cuticle to
save thc lad, who was frightfully
burned while playing with matches.
Surgeons say this is the most wonder?
ful case of skin grafting on record. The
greatest difficulty was experienced in
getting the new skin to grow upon the
moving diaphragm, aud more than roc
square inches were wasted in the
effort.
STALLIONS FIGHT A DUEL
Two Blooded Horses Fight on 0 Railroad
Train?One Dead.
Cheyenne. Wyo. (Special.)?Two
pcrchcron stallions, imported from Eng?
land, fought a duel to the death on a
fast stock train on the Union Pacific.
One was killed, the car was smashed
into splinters, and Edgar Boise, the
owner of the animals, lost $1,500, the
value of his horses.
The two keepers of the animals had
to climb outside to escape thc hoofs and
teeth of the infuriated animals. When
they succeeded in apprising the train?
men of thc battle, a side track was
reached and every effort was made to
separate the animals, but finally one sev?
ered the jugular of its rival, which bled
to death.
A Battle With Burglars.
Gap, Pa., (Special).?A half-dozen
cracksmen attempted to rob the Gap
National Bank at this place, and but
for the bravery of Special Officer David
Stamix they would doubtless have suc?
ceeded. A fusilade of shots were ex?
changed between Stamix and the burg?
lars, and one of the latter, who com?
manded the night watchman to "hold
up his hands." was shot in the jaw. He
fell like a log, but was finally taken
away by his companions.
Big Fire in North Carolina.
Washington, N. C., (Special).?Thc
Atlantic Coast Linc freight depot, five
stores, two offices and two barrooms
were destroyed by fire. The loss is
$50,000 on buildings and $20,000 on
goods. A falling wall killed Ed. Peed,
a negro fireman. A number of kegs of
powder blew up, but no one was in?
jured.
Chinese Dismiss Foreigners.
Pekin, (By Cable).?Thc Chinese
Government dismissed all thc European
professors from thc Imperial Univer?
sity. The President, Mr. Martin, has
been offered a subordinate position. The
term "university" has been largely a
misnomer. The instruction was chiefly
In languages and the elementary
branches. The Chinese directors say
that elementary schools are more
needed.
M*>vS*r*jSJH V''H readilv ovr-rroni<? Loss of Hair,
/7?*">sv 1 laseased Hoofisand Scratches in hor
lUtlStaflfi: Liniment ares millee and cattle, Farmers try it.
a harrow
puffers no morn than tho faithful horse
that is tortured with Spavins, Swinney, Harness
Sores, Sprains, etc. Most horse owners knovrthi.3
and apply the kimi of sympathy that Leaks, known
far ami wide as
Mexican
Mustang
Liniment.'.
Never fails?no: even bi tho most a?<:rrivatoil eases.
Cures caked udder iii co<,vs quicker than any known
remedy. Hardly a disease |>ecuHar to muscle, skin
or joints that cannot bo cured by it.
JVieXiCan tatbolxrrt remedy on tho market for
? . . IV hart Gulls, Sprains and Skin Lumps.
Mustang Lmsrnent itkcc-wb .i-raciidmuiesmwnditioii.
RAPES?,
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
News of 1801 Makes !*trnngo BeSadlalg
When Reprinted.
The London Times reprints from its
issue of November 23, 1801, the follow?
ing curious items:
"A milliner advertises that she will
i ot be visited on foot, and assures her
customers that her father kept his own
coach. This is very true?No. 305, and
drove it also.
"A great change is announced in the
sporting world. Powder is utterly out
of fashion, and a gentleman would
scorn to knock down a partridge with
anything but an air gun, always ex?
cepting the long bow, with which so
many of our best shots kill their game.
"Among the lay sportsmen the con?
test lies, who shall kill the most head
of game, but your sporting parsons
think notning of one another till they
have had a shot at the squire.
"An odd circumstance occurred the
otho/ day in-church, in Leicesi
tershire. The lord of the manor has
brought an action against the parson
for shooting upon his lands and im?
agining himself to be addressed from
the desk in the words, '0 Lord, forgive
us our trespasses,' the squire rose in
a fury and swore he would see him
d?d first.
"On Friday a coal porter exhibited
his wife in Smithfield, with a halter
round her neck, for sale. He demanded
a guinea for her, but she hung on hand
for some time, until a man of good
appearance made the purchase, and,
packing her, halter and all, into a
hackney coach, drove for Blackfriars
bridge amidst the huzzas of the mob."
FoiUnjj thc Common Enemy,
The widow of an English army offi?
cer was visiting me with her son, a
HOW A LOCOMOTIVE BLOWS UP.
Old Knglneer Describes tho Ilurstlnar of
a Huge Machine.
"I am one of the very few persons
who ever saw a locomotive blow up,"
remarked an old railroad man to a
reporter of the Baltimore Sun the other
day. "Generally the men who witness
the explosion of a steam engine are
so dead when the smoke has cleared
away that they are never able to give
an account of the disaster.
"Like many other accidents, the one
I saw was the result of carelessness
low water in the boiler, for the engine
had just come from the shops and was
in complete repair. It was on the Bal?
timore and Ohio railroad in West Vir?
ginia a number of years ago. I was
on a locomotive some distance behind
the one which exploded, and was look?
ing ahead out of the cab window, so
that the ill-fated engine trw i.*ame
charming little fellow about 5 years
old. The mother told me with pride
how honorable he was, how high
minded, and that she had never for
an instant seen in him indications of
any traits that were low or base.
Thc child was put to bed every
night at 6. We dined at 7. I was sit?
ting in the drawing-room one evening
before dinner. The room was dark, the
doors open, and my seat commanded a
view of both the stairway and the din?
ing-room. The table was set, and in
the center was a dish of tempting
peaches.
Presently there came to my ears tho
patter of little bare feet, and a child?
ish figure, clad in a night gown, stole
:lov/n the stairs, through the hall, into
thc dining-room, up to the table.
?5mall fingers seized the topmost peach
from the dish and the little fellow
turned and trotted away upstairs
again.
As I sat in the dark, in an agony of
ipprehension, there came again thc
patter, patter ef little feet, and a
,vhite-clad figure stole down thc stairs,
;hiough the hall, into the dining-room,
ip to the table. Small fingers replaced
ho stolen peach just where lt had
leen, and a stubborn little voice mut
ered, "Done again, old devil!"?Har
jer's Magazine.
To IJoom Alcohol Trade.
In order to favor the consumption oi
ilcohol?by automobiles?M. Jean Du
my, the French minister of agricul?
ture, intends, so it ls said, to inau
;urate an international race in May
text. Alcohol only will be used in all
ho cars. Vassar also intends estab
ishing a Paris-Bordeaux and return
ecord in an automobile driven by al
ohoL
iately before my eyes. Suddenly I
aw the machine rise in the air; it
eemed to me to be about as high aa
lie telegraph poles In the city. Thea
ame a cloud of dense black smoke and
ust, which hid the engine from view,
nd almost simultaneously I heard
tie roar of tho explosion.
"Both tho engineer and the fireman
'ere killed and the locomotive was flt
ir nothing much but the scrap heap
'hen it fell to the ground. The crown
tieet over the fire box had blown out.
he strange thing about the explosion
as that no white steam was seen,
ou know that perfectly dry steam is
ivisible, being like the air, and beforo
: had time to condense it was prob
bly smothered by the cloud of smoko
nd dust raised by the bursting of tho
oiler."_
The man who boasts of being a cynic
i not very dangerous.