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HIGHLAND
ECORDER
VOL. xxvr.
MONTEREY; HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., JANUARY 22, 1904.
NO. 1.
EXPECT NO FOREIGN Al
Japan Declares That f-h; Will Ffcbt H
Own Battles.
WILL BE A STRUGGLE TO TIIE DEAT
"Nothing Can Avert War Between Russia ai
Japan In the Future, Even if Tere: ls Pi
cired Now," Says Baron H.iya -lr, Japane
Minister to LonJon, in a Rcmnrktb
Frank Siatenient? Issues Involved
London (By Cable).?In peculiar
(rank language, Baron Hayashi, ai'ti
?onsultation with the Foreign .Ollie
lumnied up the situation as. follows:
"1 only hope thc Czar will give i
peace, but my hopes are not ttronj
If we go to war it will bc (or issui
whereon both America and Ruglan
lave insisted diplomatically. We ha\
received no pledges from any countr
that in the event of defeat it will ste
In and save us from being absorbed t
Russia. We cannot count even in cj
trcmities on the armed support of an
nation in the world. It would bc
struggle to the death. Perhapi wc ai
not strong enough to fi?ht Ri^si
There arc two opinions about tint."
Baron Hayashi intimated that 1
thought Japan was bound to bc beale
in the end.
"If wc were beaten," the Minister r<
sumed, Russia would take Korea an
Manchuria by right of conquest, an
possibly Japan. No power on cart
COIlld then dislodge her from Centr;
China and all the Far East. I am sui
it is better to po to war when yu
know you are right, even if defeat
possible, than to see your independene
submerged under a continual aggrr
sion that is bound to absorb you even
nally. Nothing cnn avert war betwec
Russia ami Japan in (uture years, eve
if peace is procured now. so lmg i
Russia puisnes her pre-cut Far Fas
tm policy.
"The American action in enforcin
the opemng of the Manchurian pori
was a splendid example of honest d
plomacy. It was a straightforwar
f tep, which contra ts favorably wit
Rusian methods. Ko other nation, e^
cept Great Britain, when the Rriti?
Admiralty bought the t.vo Chilian wai
ships, has taken any practical step t
Jive up to its diplomatic demands upo
Russia anent in the Far East. We be
lieve we are now fighting a diploniati
battle in behalf of America and Grea
Britain; but. if only war can settle tl
we know wc shall receive assistanc
from neither. We arc prepared to figh
our own battles and take the conse
quencea."
The excessive apprehension prevailiftj
in the best-informed quarters here tba
Russia's answer will precipitate war i
based upon knowledge of the attitud
Russia has taken up during the previou
phases of the controversy rather thai
on any definite information of Russia'
intention under the present acute cir
cumstances Not even the Oar's pa.
cific utterances, however, can dispel th
fear which pervades British officials tba
Russia will not give in.
King Edward continues to use hi
persona! influence to an almost unpre
eedentcd extent to persuade the C/.a
to maintain peace, but ihe Kins's min
isters appear to have practically givei
up hope that a resort to arms can b
averted, though even the most pessi
mistic persons do not look for any cu!
mination of thc crisis within thrci
weeks. The suggested intervention ii
the shape of tendering their good office:
on the part of other powers is not uni
versally declared here to be quite int
possible.
How determined Japan is to face a'
the eventualities can bc judged fron
the fact that she is negotiating in Eng
land for the construction of four bartie
ships, not two battleships, as previous!)
reported.
RUSSIA VVIIL A ARCH TO CERTAIN P0INT5
Czar Ta;fcs Peace aa I Dowager Czarina S*yj
"Th re Will Not B* War."
St. Petersburg (By Cable).?It is al?
ready practically certain that Russia
will not accept Japan's last propositions
ns an entirety. Russia is read yto agree
to certain points, b'it on others, the
Foreign Office believe?, Russia cannot
yield. 'Ihe officials'are of the opinion
that thc way is open for continuing thc
negotiations, and there is no indica?
tion that Russia will seek to delay her
answer, which probably will bc ready
in a few day.-..
The Czar continues to talk peace, and
the Dowager Czarina, in conversation,
remarked;
"War ii ? horrible thing. There will
not be war."
Trajedy Follows Wedding.
Summit Mines, Ta. (Special).?Mary
Mehallick, 14 years o!d. of this place, was
shot in the head and instantly killed by
John lindock. The young girl, in com?
pany with Joe Mehallick and his bride.
were returning from Conncllsville, where
she acted as bridesmaid at the wedding.
The men of the party began to celebrate
by firing revolvers after leaving the eily
limits and continued all the way to the
Mehallick home. Hudock, who boards
at the Mehallick house, after firing hi*
revolver jumped in'o thc carriage and
remarking that his pistol was empty, p:'t
bis hand ovr the mnzrel and puiled the
trigger. The ball pn^ed through his Inn I
and penetrated Mary Mehallick's fore?
head, killing tier instantly.
Impersonated a Banker.
Burlington, Vt (Special).?Convicted
of obtaining money under false pretenses
by impersonating a wealthy banker and
dry goods merchant of thc same name of
Atlnntic. Ia.. Joseph II. Marshall was
sentenced tn not les* than five and one
halt nor more than six years in state
orison It developed during the trial of
Marshall that the Iowa hanker had her'-.
impersonated not less than 15 limes din?
ing 'he hst three years, and that in each
ins: .rm ihe impostor secured sums, rand?
ing trow $.200 to $600.
Tl E I ATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
Prof. Robert M. Allen, secretary of
the National Rure Food Association,
recently returned from Europe, says
60 per cent, of thc French wines and
80 per cent, of their champagnes arc
adulterations or imitations. ?
Josiah Hoopcs, a prominent botanist
and writer on horticulture, died at his
home in West Chester, Pa.
Burglars cracked a safe within one
block of the slationhousc in Xcw
York.
Thc genera! closing of Chicago the?
aters and amusement halls has thrown
5000 persons out of employment, in?
cluding 500 chorus girls and 1500 other
people connected with thc stage.
The former Boer commandant. Gen?
eral Dclarey, has arrived in Havana
from Mexico and will study Cuban con?
ditions with thc idea of forming a col?
ony of Hoers there.
Secretary Nichols, of thc Coal Con?
ciliation Board, has asked Judge Gray
to appoint an umpire to decide five
grievances in the Wyoming and Lack?
awanna districts.
The boiler of a locomotive drawing a
New York Central freight train blew
up at Syracuse, N. Y., killing the en?
gineer and brakeman and probably fa
j tally injuring the fireman.
The second grand jury summoned to
j investigate the lynching of a negro at
j Pineapple. Ala., has refused to indict
jibe fi\? men who have been held for
1 the. crime.
Mr. Cleveland has written a letter
] to the public expressing his own and
Mrs. Cleveland's appreciation of the
many kindly messages of condolence
received.
Major General John C. Bates for?
mally assumed command of the North?
ern Division of thc United Slates
Army, with headquarters in St. Louis.
Thc grand jury which is investigating
alleged corruption in Milwaukee. Wis.,
in city and comity government*, re
j turned three indictments.
The National Fxecutivc Committee
of the Prohibition party decided to hold
I the national convention at Indianapolis
instead of Kaunas City.
The Red Star liner Noordland arriv?
ed at Philadelphia five days late. The i
deby was due to an accident to the ma- j
chincry.
Made insane by illness. Edward K. 1
Landis, an expert chemist, of Phiiadcl j
phia, shot and killed his wife and him- !
self.
The New York Board of Estimates 1
authorized condemnation proceedings to |
acquire the historic Fratmces Tavern.
The car barn and about 50 cars of
the Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail
road Company, in Brooklyn, were j
burned.
I (leijn.
The efforts of the Russian expedition,
; headed by Lieutenant Kolchak, to find
the Arctic explorer Baron Toll, on New
j Siberia and Bennett Islands, in thc Arc
! tic Ocean, have been unsuccessful.
The German government has ordered j
! turbine engines for the German third- l
I class cruiser Merkur and for a torpedo j
boat.
Mutinous Turkish troops have been
. terrorizing Beirut, Syria. They now
j threaten to attack the Ottoman Bank.
Thc advance guard of the British Ti
I betan expedition has reached Tann, a j
hitherto unexplored region.
Joseph Chamberlain presided at thc
first meeting 01 his tariff commission I
in London, and in a speech drew a par?
allel from what the United States ami !
Germany had accomplished under pro- j
lection.
Coquelin, the French actor, has sug?
gested to Chicago that the Iroquois
Theater be reconstructed upon the plans
! of the incombustible theater he is build
I ing in Paris.
Emperor William and foreign princes
: and ambassadors attended an elabor
j ate ceremonial of the Knights of the
I Black Eagle at the Castle.
A by-election in Norwich for mem
, hers of Parliament resulted in the trec
; traders gaining thc scat.
The freedom of thc press was under
i discussion in thc German Reichstag.
King Christian has partly recovered
j from hi? attack of gout.
Notwithstanding the long search for
! the missing French naval collier Vi
j ernie, no trace of thc vessel has been
i discovered, and it is considered that the
! ship and her crew have been lost.
The Far East.
Diplomats in Paris express the belief
j that Japan has been increasing her dc
j mauds upon thc belief that Russia is dc
i <irous of avoiding war. and that it is I
I therefore safe for Japan to push her de- i
j mauds to thc furthest limits.
Thc American guard at thc United
I Stales Embassy at Seoul. Korea, has been
j increased. Troops now guard all thc for
I cign residences.
Ihe British Foreign Secretary says
! he does not believe Russia intends to
I send a fleet through the Dardanelles as
! it would bc a breach of treaty which
j Great Britain could not permit. Ad
(vices from Berlin confirm th" report
j that Russia has asked permission from
I Turkey to send her fleet by that route.
Diplomats in Berlin express the opin
! ion that Great Britain is almost as
! deeply committed as Japan, and that
I ihe decision for war or pca.ee now rests
with tiie Czar. The skill Japan has
shown in the negotiations excites ad?
miration at the German Foreign Office.
It is reported the Russian troops are
concentrating at thc Chinese Towns of
Liaoyang. Haichang and other places,
so as to be.in a position to reoccupy
the territory between the Liao river
and th" Great Wall.
The Japanese Minister at St. Peters?
burg lin-; delivered Japan's reply to the
Russian Foreign Office and it is now
un?'er consideration.
France has taken the initiative with
the other powers in an exchange of
views as to means to prevent war be?
tween Russia and Japan.
tiranda!.
What is there between the Goulds
and Pennsylvania to be "settled?*' One
of the other must yield.
President Corey, of the United States
Steel Company, sailed for Europe for a
short visit.
New York is getting lots of gold
from Japan.
Thc capitalization of the New York
& Porchester Road has been increased
from $250,000 to $15,000,000.
An Eric director says he hardly
thinks the voting trust will be dissolv?
ed at thc next meeting of the board.
KING OF JUR EXPORT
Cottou Average of Two and a Ila
Millions Per Day.
GREATEST RECORD DURING YEAR 190
Value ol Cotton Exporttd Durinj Tbat Til
Was 378 Milli ns of Dollars and Darin
Last Monh Over ll Millions-Rap
Grow:h ol Raw Colton Experts at San
T.me Domest c Consumption Increasing
Washington. D. C. (Special).?"Kin
Cotton" inside his greatest record i
j thc export figures of thc calendar ye;
j 1903. From 1883 to 1903 cotton export
S averaged a little more than $750,000
day, in 1903 they averaged more tha
$5,000,000 per day. in thc last thn
months of 1903 they averaged moi
than $2,000,000 per day, and in the clo
ing month of thc year, nearly $2.500,oc
per day. Export! of cotton ran $72
000,000 and tims averaging $2,500,000,0c
per day. Exports of cotton in Decen
ber, 1903, show a greater value than i
any preceding month in the history 1
cotton exportation, thc total bein
over $72,000,000 and thus avcragin
$250,000,000 for every day of thc monti
The value of cotton exports froi
thc United State?, as shown by thc Di
partment of Commerce and Labc
through its Bureau of Statistics, wa
$378,000,000. These are thc preliminar
figures, but will not bc material!
changed by thc revised statement to h
i.:?ucd later in the present month. Th
total value of thc exports exceeds b
$64,000,000 that of the preceding rei:
ord year, 1900, when the value of th
cotton exported was $314,000,000. Th
value of cotton exports never reachc
the $300,000,000 line except in the year
1000, 1901 and 1003. In 1900 the ti
tal was $314,000,000 in 1901, $301,000
ooo, and in 1003, $378,000,000.
While thc total value of the year'
exports of cotton was the highest o
record, thc quantity exported did no
reach so high a figure as in 1S98, whe
the value was much below that of 190;
The total quantity exported in 1903 wa
3,620,000,000pounds which exceeded tin
of any preceding year except 189?
when the total was 4,178,000,000 pound1
The value of the cotton exports of 180?
however, was only $232,768,204, or les
than two thirds as much as that of \oo}
although the quantity in 1898 was 1
per cent, greater.
Cotton forms constantly a very larg
share of the exports, and especially of th
agricultural exports of thc United States
During the entire period from 1883 ti
1003 thc value of cotton exported ha
aggregated over $5,000,000000 and aver
aged 25 per cent, of the total exports 0
domestic products and 36 per cent. 0
the agricultural products exported. Ii
1903 cotton formed about 28 per cent. 0
the total exports and about 38 per cent
of thc total exports of agricultural prod
nets.
Thc United Kingdom was in IOO3 thi
iargest customer for our cotton. 1 hi
total value of cotton exported from tin
United States to the United Kingdom ii
thc calendar year 1903 was in roum
terms, $147,000,000. and this total <>
$147,000,000 forms 50 per cent, of o-.-.i
total cotton exports in tbat jreT. Ger?
many stood second in the hs- ol om- c it
ton customers, the total ' ; ;i!'--'v of otu
;otton exported to Germany during thc
rear being $ 111 .coo ceo. France wa'
third in the list of purchasers, cur tota
exports of cotton to that country in iooj
icing $47x00.000. To Italy, which -too:
?ext in the list, the total was $21.oro ooo ?
to Russia, nearly $9,000,000: lo Belgium
ibout $8,ooo.coo; to British North Amer?
ica, $5.00:1,000; to Japan, about $4,500,
x>o. and to Mexico, a little over $3,000,
X10. While thc United Kingdom is tin
argest purchaser of American cotton
icr increase over preceding years is niue'.!
ess than that of Germany. The tota!
raine of our cotton exports to thc United
Kingdom in the year 1903 aggregated bul
?bout $5,000,000 iii excess of thc total foi
1000. while that to Germany exceeded by
^23.000,000 thc total for 1900, thc fornici
record year.
SEABOARD TRAIN IkLD UP.
Hie Robhjrs Driven OH Before They Secun
Anylhing.
McClenny, Fla. (Special).?Passeiigci
rain No. 76, eastbound, on thc Seaboard
\ir Line, was held up one mile east ol
Sanderson at 7.45 P. M. hy four white
nen. Thc door of the baggage car wai
ilnwn open with dynamite, thc robben
nistaking this car for the express ear.
Thc engine was stopped hy a volley ol
hots fired into the cab. Thc fireman
md engineer were taken off the engine
ind escorted to the second-class coach
ind thc robbers ran the train ahead about
lalf a m.le, when they blew open the
i.iggagc car. The train conductor went
orward, but ws fired on and driven
i.ick to the coaches. Conductor Reek,
rho was deadheading over thc line,
ailed for firearms and volunteers.
N. H. Harrison, claim agent of thc
oad: B. B. McCaa, traveling auditor,
nd J. C. Williamson, traveling freight
gent, responded and thc four went for
yard, opened fire and drove the robbers
({. Conductor Peek took the throttle
nd ran the train four miles down the
oad. The rohbers secured no booty and
lade no attempt to rob thc passenger^.
ut there was great excitement in Ihe
assenger coaches while the firing was
oing on. The sheriffs of Duval and
taker enmities are on the trail of thc
r>bhcrs with bloodhounds.
Congress ol Mothers.
Washington, D. C. CSpeeial).?The
xecutive board of the National Congress
f Mothers, at a meeting in this city,
rongly denounced Mormonism and
rged the diplomatic corps in Washing
Ml to advise their governments that
lormonism embodies polygamy and to
ike action to prevent emigration to
'tah. Measures to afford protection
-om alleged false representations of
Tormon missionaries were advocated
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
To Popularize Pedestrianism.
Thc House passed thc legislative, ex?
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill,
carrying an aggregate of $29,711,700.
This is thc second of thc big supply
measures t<*> pass the House.
The House, by a vote of <S8 to 172,
refused to sustain thc action of thc
Committee of the Whole, which adopt?
ed an amendment striking out the par?
agraph providing for thc salaries and
expenses of thc Civil Service Commis?
sion, thus restoring thc item to thc
hill.
An amendment to thc bill was adopt?
ed restricting thc use of Government
horses and carriages to thc President,
his secretary and Cabinet officers.
Mr. Landis said that if thc horses
and carriages now used by Govern?
ment officials were lined up on Penn
sylvnaia avenue they would reach from
thc Peace Monument to the White
House. He said that unless Congress
fixed some limitation it would become
a scandal. He added that it would bc
only a question of time until all those
on the Government pay roll, except
Senators and Representatives, would bc
riding in carriages vt thc Government's
expense.
Thc Senate joint resolution author
I izing thc erection of a monument in
i memory of thc late President Benia
min Harrison upon land owned hy thc
United States in the city of Indian?
apolis, was. on motion of Mr. Over
street (Ind.), passed; also a bill mak?
ing Chester, Pa., a sub-port of entry.
Postal Employes Ask for More Pay.
Postmaster General Payne has for?
warded thc following letter lo Chair?
man Overstrect, of thc House Com?
mittee on Postoffice and Post Roads:
"Under date of January 31, 1902, the
following executive order was issued
by the President:
"All officers and employes of the
United States of every description serv
, ing in or under any of (he executive
I departments, and whether so serving
j in or out of Washington, arc hareby
' forbidden, cither directly or indi
i rcctly, individually or through asso
j elations, to solicit an increase of pay
or to influence or attempt to influence
i in their own interest any other legis
i lation whatever, either before Congress
or it j committees, or in any way save
I through the heads of the departments
j in or under which they serve on penalty
of dismissal from thc government scr
: vice.'
"In compliance with this order the
representatives of the letter-carriers, thc
1 rural free delivery letter-carriers and
' thc postoffice clerks have filed with thc
1 department statements giving their rea
: sons, repcctivcly, why an increase in
I their compensation should be made.
"I have thc honor to transmit hcrc
j with those statements and to commend
! them to the consideration of your com?
mittee and the Congress.
"I believe it would bc proper for
your committee to grant a public hcar
| ing to thc representatives of the parties
referred to, and would request that you
designate a time when such hearing
may take place."
Will Close the Legation.
Dr. Thomas Herran, charge d'affaires
of thc" Colombian Legation, definitely has
decided to avail himself of the leave of
absence granted him, and will take his
departure from thc United States sonic
time next month. Already the legation
archives have been packed and stored.
Upon Dr. Herran's leaving the legation
in this eily will bc closed and its affairs
turned over to the Colombian consul gen?
era! in New York. In speaking of his
determination to return to Colombia. Dr.
Herran said that, so far as he could see.
his usefulness at this capital was at an
end. Thc various matters which have
arisen in consequence of Panama's seces?
sion were, by virtue of thc appointment
ot" General Reyes as special envoy, taken
ont of the hands ot Dr. Herran, leaving
him little or nothing to do. Besides, Dr.
Herran states that the need of a rest and
a trip to Colombia to attend to some per?
sonal affairs add to thc factors which in?
fluence him to take his leave of absence
at an carly day.
Por Auxiliary Cru:ser3.
Representative Douglass of New
York, introduced a bill "to provide
for ocean mail ami freight service be?
tween thc United States and its posses- j
Mons and foreign countries."
The bill directs thc Postmaster Gen
erai to enter into ten to twenty year
contracts for thc carrying of mails in
ships, one-fourth of which shall bc ves?
sels built in thc United States for the
Ins*, (ive years. After that time one
half shall be United States vessels, and
after ten years all arc to bc American
vessels. Thc vessels are required to
conform (ci certain specifications in
order that they may bc used as aux?
iliary cruisers, transports or colliers in
time of war.
In th; Department!.
Senator Hanna issued the call for
the Republican National Convention to
meet at Chicago at noon June 21, 1904.
to select candidates for President and
Vice-president.
I he Senate Committee gave a hear?
ing on the protest against seating Sen?
ator Smoot. Counsel representing
both sides presented their respective
cases.
Gen. John C. Black, the newly ap
pointed member of thc Civil Service
Commission, paid his respects to the
President.
Seeretary Wildon outlined to the
House Committee the. methods an 1
work of thc Department of Agricul?
ture.
Lieutenant Commander Harry M.
Hodges has been appointed chief hy?
drographer ol' the Navy.
The Senate Committee adopted an
amendment to thc Panama (anal
1 reaty, giving the United States par?
tial jurisdiction "vcr the harbors ol'
Colon and Panama.
Senator Scott declared to bc absurd
thc insinuation that Senator Hanna is
holding back the call for delegates to
thc national convention for selfish pur?
poses.
Postmaster General Payne submit?
ted to the House Committee on Post
offices and Post Roads the request
of the postal employes for an increase
in pay.
DEED OF INSANE MAN
He Shoots and Kills. His Wife and
Then Himself.
CHEMIST WITH A WIDE EXPERIENCE
Mr. Edward K. Landis, of Phliade'pbia, h
Driven Mad by His Sufferings. Du: to
Aslhma?He Calls His Wife, and After
Killing Her He Returns to His Room and
Puts an End to His Own Life.
Philadelphia (Special).?Rendered in?
sane by illness, Edward K. Landis, a
widely known expert chemist, shot and
cillcd his wife, Emma, and then ended
his own life with thc same weapon. The
tragedy was enacted in thc Landis resi?
dence, 4025 Spruce street, West Phila?
delphia.
Mr. Landis had been a sufferer from
asthma for many years. Two montns
ago bc was compelled to give up his labo?
ratory work, and had been confined to
his bed for the past two weeks. Friday,
Mrs. Landis, with her sister, Mrs. H. W.
Petts, and Mrs. Patton, a dressmaker,
were in thc room adjoining thc apart?
ment occupied by Mr. Landis.
Thc sick man called to his wife, com?
plaining that the ringing of the doorbell
annoyed him. She entered his room, and
had barely stepped through the doorway
when Mr. Landis, raising himself in bcd
and reaching under the pillow, drew
forth a revolver. He fired upon his wife,
th'' bullet taking effect in her breast.
She screamed and fled to thc adjoining
room, her husband following. Mrs
Potts and Mrs. Patton attempted to dis?
arm the frenzied man, but he brushed
them aside. Grasping Mrs. Landis by
the hair, he pulled her forcibly backward
and shot her through the temple. The
woman died instantly. Mr. Landis has?
tened hack to his own room, where he
shot himself in thc head, ending his own
life.
Mr. Landis was 53 years of age, and
Ids wife about 45 years old. He was a
prominent member of the Engineer's
Club of this city.
He was graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania 30 years ago, after which
he traveled extensively .-Mid studied in
many of the European universities. Fif?
teen years ago he opened a laboratory
here, which was visited by chemists from
all parts of this country and Europe, who
sought the advice of Mr. Landis.
DEATH IN WHIFF OF NEW POISON.
A London Chemist Claims (0 Have Made tbs
Discovery.
London (By Cable). ?A chemist
named Brotherton claims to have discov?
ered in thc course of some experiments
in thc treatment of metals with a view to
finding a method of imparting to common
substances an attractive uiitarnishable
surface, a new poison of so deadly a
character that a single whiff of it would
cause death and leave no trace.
Mr. Brotherton, speaking of his dis?
covery, said:
"The possibility of manufacturing such
a poison has long been known to chem?
ists. It is a form of arsenious gas, hut
no other investigator has, so far as
known, discovered how to make it. I hit
upon it entirely hy accident and might
easily have lost my life in thc discovery.
"As it is thc only sufferer was a favor?
ite cat, who was very fond of sitting at
my bench when I was at work. She took
a single breath of thc gas and died in?
stantly."
Mr. Brothrclon has been besieged by
inquiries and some of these have been of
a character to suggest that the possession
of this deadly secret is coveted by a large
number of persons who arc apparently of
good social status.
CANNIBALISM IN CANADA.
famished Indians Murder Squaw and Est
Body.
Chicago. III. (Special).?A dispatch
to the Inter Ocean from Port Arthur,
Ont., says;
An Indian has arrived in town and
told a terrible tale of suffering among
the members of his tribe, north of Lake
Ncpigon. He told of where one fam?
ily was so destitute that they murdered
a squaw 25 years of agc and ate her.
At first his talc was not believed, but
it was corroborated hy three white
traders, who arrived later.
A. W. Patterson, a Hudson Bay*fac?
tor, also told the same tale.
A dog train was at once started for
thc scene with food, but it will take
four days at top speed to reach the
Indians.
Two constables also left to look- into
thc murder case.
Cashier Was Short.
Muscatine. Ia. (Special):?Develop
incuts here indicate that C. F. Utter
back, cashier of thc Sigourney Iowa
Savings Bank, who committed suicide
Monday night was short $47,000 in his
accounts. Thc shortage was thc re?
sult of speculations. Utterback blew
his brains out just before thc time
scheduled for him to attend a directors'
meeting and make a showing.
1,000 Wagons for thi Russians.
Sank Center, Minn. (Special).?A
local manufacturing concern has received
ail order from the Russian government I
for 1.000 wagons lo be shipped for thc :
nost part directly to Omaha, ;v.\<\ for
warded from there with consignments of
wheat and meats recently bought in that I
-itv. Five hundred of thc wagons arc
ready.
Freight Collision.
Malone. N. Y. (Special).?Chinese
Inspector Joseph Wright, of Rouse's
Point, and James Hodges, of Malone, :
vere killed in a freight collision on
he Rutland railroad, near Rouse's
Point, and Frank Mitchell was prolri
)!y fatally injured. Wright was on the '
rain watching for Chinamen crossing !
he border. Hodges and Mitchell were '
n charge of merchandise in a freight
ar. The fireman and two other men j
ilso were injured.
EIGHT WERE KILLED; TWO INJURED
Crowd Falls From Sixth Flcor lo the
Bottom.
St. Louis (Special).?A crowd of em
ploycs pressing against thc clevatoi
gate on the sixth floor of thc Browi
Shoe Company Building, at Eleventh
-treet and Washington avenue, causer
the gate to give way, and io person!
were plunged down the shaft. Six wen
taken out dead, and the other four
seriously injured, were hurried to th'
city hospital.
Two of thc injured died soon aftci
reaching the hospital and without re
gaining consciousness.
The dead:
Joseph Provaznik.
George Rothmann.
Frank Weinberger; died at hospital
Antonio Giocoma; died at hospital.
Lorenz Giocoma, son of above.
Three unidentified.
The employes had assembled at th*
close of work in thc corridors on the
different floors waiting for thc elcvatoi
to take them down. The elevator wa.'
at thc seventh floor receiving passen
gers when those on the sixth floor
eager to get near the door and be firsl
into the cage, began to push toward th*
gate. Suddenly the gate gave way just
as the elevator started to descend, and
io of the employes plunged head first
down the shaft.
James Johnson, the elevator operator,
was taken into custody by thc police
pending an investigation. Johnson said
the elevator gate did not break, but that
it had been raised by employes while
waiting for the car to descend to the
i floor, and suddenlv employes in the
rear of thc crowd began pushing, pre?
cipitating them down the shaft. Fac?
tory Superintendent Fray corroborated
Johnson's story.
CHILD'S KISS MAY MEAN O^ATrf.
Bitten By Mad Do? Ihe Little One is Suppos?
ed to Have lnocu!a:ed Three More.
Chicago, III. (Special).?The kiss of
a j-year-old child may cause the death
of three persons now at the Pasteur
Institute under treatment for rabies.
One is said to have but a slender lease
on life.
The child is dead of the malady. Al?
though the grief-stricken parents hur?
ried the little one across the prairies
of Iowa as soon as they learned the
nature of thc illness they were too late.
The victims are:
Harold Latta, .3 years old. bilton bv
mad dog at Madrid, Ia., October 28,
died today.
W. V. Latta, the boy's father who
kissed the child while ill and was bitten
j on the hands.
Matilda Latta, the mother whose lips
were infected from kissing the boy.
Forest Birdsall, 12 years old, Madrid,
Ia., who kissed thc child and was bitten;
will probably die.
For u*c By Express
Bloomington, Iii. (Special).?A spe?
cial from Pontiac, III., states that Mrs.
James A. Carothers, of that place, re?
ceived by express a legacy of S.^o.ooo,
being her share of the estate of E. O.
Matthiesen, an uncle who died in Paris
about three years ago, leaving a widow,
to whom was left his vast estate of be?
tween $8,000,000 or $9,000,000, which on
her death was to be divided equally be?
tween il heirs, of which Mrs. Carothers
was one. Mr. Matthiesen was one <>:
four brothers two of whom amassed
great fortunes in manufacturing glu?
cose and corn products.
Powder Pian! Blown Vp.
Peoria, 111. (Special).?-A message
just received from Edwards Station an?
nounces thc blowing up of one of the
buildings of thc plant of the Buckeye
Powder, completely wrecking one of the
buildings. William Justis and Leonard
dialler were instantly killed. The
shocK was plainly felt herc, a distance of
16 miles, while all windows within a
radius of taro miles were broken.
Senator danna Re-Cleclcd.
Columbus, O. (Special).? The House
and Senate voted separately for Unitec1
States Senator to succeed Scnatoi
Hanna, tito House casting 86 for Hanna
21 for John H. Clark (Dem.) of Cleve
land, two Republicans and one Demo?
crat being absent. In the Senate Hanni
received 20. and Clark 4 votes.
Oil Discovered in tuba.
Havana (Special).?Discoveries of )i!
by American engineers in the vicinitj
of Cardenas has caused some exc'tcment
among American tourist--, settlers am.'
investors.
SrARKS I ROM THE WIRES.
Private Blake, of thc Seventeenth
United States Artillery, committed sui?
cide near Santiago, Cuba.
I"he remains of Gen. John 13. Gordon
were buried in Oakland Cemetery after
memorial services in the House of Rep?
resentative? in thc State Capitol at At?
lanta and a procession of Confederate
veterans.
'Ihe steamer Belita, which arrived ;*t
Xew Yor!.: from Ceiba, Honduras,
brought seven of the crew of the steam?
er Snyg, which went ashore near Rna
tan January 3 in thick weather.
As a result of drinking ginger ale
flavored with lemon extract three men
are dead from poisoning at Alexander
and two more ave no', expected to live.
Ten people were injured, v.cns fa?
tally, by .->. collision ol traction cars
on thc Pittsburg. MoKee-port ard Con
nellsville Railway, near ScottdV.c .Itmc
tion.
Thc town ia:! at Pratt City. Ala,
was set on lire by several of the inmates,
and three of tiie convicts were cremated
and iwo seriously burned.
Swift & Co., fi Chicago, certified to
the Secretary of State 01 Illinois thc
increase in capital stock from 3;5,ooc\
000 to $35,000,000.
Mrs. J. C. Pope, of Minneapolis,
drowned herself in tiie lake.
The strike of the livery drivers was
resumed in Chicago.
Wu Ting-fang, tiie former Chinese
minister at Washington, his been ap?
pointed junior vice-president of the
Chinese Foreign Olf.cc,
IHt OLD DOMINION.
LltCSl News Gleaned Fron All Over
the State.
Thc Staunton City Treasurer has fil?
ed his list, showing 836 citizens to have
paid poll tax and are entitled to vote
Of these onlv 56 are colored.
Judge C. M. White has been elected
president of the Fauquier National
Hank of Warrenton, vice E. B. White.
of Lccsburg. resigned.
Frcdericksburg is to make an effort
to secure the new State Normal School
A L. Buncc was acquitted in Caroline
County Court on thc charge of malic?
iously shooting Wirt Thomas.
Mr. G. M. Henderson, of King
George, at his sawmill, secured 75 rail?
road tics from one tree
At a meeting of the board of directors
01 thc Norfolk and Western Railway
Company, held in Philadelphia. N. D
Maher, at present general superintcu
dent, was appointed general manager,
and J. W. Coxe, at present general au?
ditor, was made comptroller, to succeed
thc late M. C. Jameson. W. II. Wil?
son is made auditor of disbursement*.
W. I. Griffith. 1 Norfolk county
trucker, was in court at Norfolk ac?
quitted of the charge of ii.tent to com
mit murder. Robert McCarthy, whoir
Griffith shot six weeks ago, exonerated
thc defendant by testifying that Grit
lith was justified in thc shooting, he
having been beaten by McCarthy. Mc
Carthy was dangerously wounded ir
the groin and has been a patient in thc
hospital for several weeks.
At I he Caroline County Court last wce'<
a silver loving cup was presented Judge
I:'.. C. Moncure, who has presided ovci
Iiic court for 18 years. For 20 year-'
he was Commonwealth's Attorney
making a record of 42 years in thc ser>
vice of the county and he is now rcpre
senting Caroline in the Legislature.
Fire broke out in the largest build?
ing of the Riverside Cotton Mills. Ro?
anoke. It is supposed to have beer
produced by spontaneous combustion
The fire apparatus in the mill was int
mediately put to work and the Karnet
were under control by the time the city
tire department reached the scene. Thc
loss by fire is small, much more dam
ape being done by water.
As a result of proceedings by John
C. Blair, attorney for New York ami
Virginia creditors of thc New Rivet
Mineral Company, located " in Wythe
county, representing claims aggregat?
ing nearly $300,000 for money loaned
and supplies sold the company. United
States District Judge McDowell has ap?
pointed F. M. Masters temporary re?
ceiver of thc concern. The company
owns iron furnaces at Ivanhoe. The
plant has been closed and will be sold.
Milton L. Odell, a Cincinnati trav?
eling man. was attacked by a burglar
while asleep in his room in a hotel at
Piney Flats, near Bristol, at 2 o'clock
the other morning, and he narrowly es?
caped benin brained. The burglar
hurled a smoothing-iron at Odell's
head, but it missed thc mark and shat?
tered thc top of thc bedstead. The
noise arounsed him and while he was
reaching for a weapon of defense the
burglar escaped. A few years ago Rob?
ert WOlfe, depot agent at Piney Flats,
was confronted in his office by masked
men. Seizing a revolver Wolfe fired
and hilled one of ihe robbers.
C. L. Lake, of Greensboro, while
washing his hands in a bowl at Hotel
Carrol. Lynchburg, let a $300 diamond
ring slip from his finger. It disappear?
ed in thc. pipe leading to thc sewer.
The pipe was removed, but no ring was
there. A plumber was called in and the
sewer pipe running to the cellar and
then through tlie cellar to thc street
was opened and searched, but still the
ring was missing. Finally the sewer
leading under the street was dug up.
and at last thc ring was found in the
main city sewer, where it had caught
in ihe joint of a pipe.
William Daniel Branch died yester?
day at thc home of his daughter, Mrs
I). G. Miller, in Campbell county,
aged 84 years. Mr. Branch was for i.S
years Mayor of Lynchburg, and head?
ed a committee that surrendered
Lynchburg to General Curtis at the
close of the Civil War. The Federal
officer in charge removed* him from of?
fice because he refused to take thc oath.
Mr. Branch is survived by two sons?
S. Clem Branch, of Texas, and William
B. Branch, of West Virginia?and four
Laughters?Mrs. W. H. Whitlow, ol
Bedford. Mrs. D. M. Miller and Mrs.
Cheatwood. of Campbell, and Mrs.
Maurie Dinwiddie, of Richmond.
James Motley, colored, shot and
killed George Nunnally. colored, at thc
latter's home, a mile north of Danville.
Nunnally was at work in his garden
when the shot was fired. It is under
?tood that Motley was in search of
N'unnally's son. whom bc charged with
die alleged mistreatment of his daugh?
ter. It is thought that he mistook thc
father for thc son. when he fired on
Nunnally. Motley disappeared and has
lot yet been arrested.
Miss Ethel Taylor, daughter of Mr.
John Taylor, of Westmoreland county,
broke through thc ice on Monroe bay
ivhile skating, and narrowly escaped be
ng drowned. She was finally throwr
I rope by two colored boys, who aid
?1 in rescuing her after she had been
II the water for ten minutes.
The Central Hotel, at Fredericks
luirg. has been sold by Mr. L. L. Lay
Urn to Mr. Michael Long.
Ptomaine poisoning caused thc seri
his sickness recently of Miss Anice
Howard and several other ladies o:
Richmond At a reception they ate salad
with mayonnaise dressing and soot;
afterward became sick. An investiga
tion showed that .the mixture, in wilier
there was considerable lemon juice, had
been allowed to stand a day in a tin
bucket, and enough poison was gener?
ated, according to a physician, to kit'
40 men The portion calen, fortunate
ly, did not come from the bottom o'
The bucket.
Six dry kilns and contents belong
ing to thc Camp Manufacturing Com
pany were burned at Arringdale. The
blaze is supposed to have originated
from a spark. The planing mills were
emly saved by hard work. Loss, $iR.
coo* to $20,000; insurance, $13,000. The
same company in December had 5
? 100,000 loss at Franklin.
Harry D Snook, a minor, is suing
the Washington, Alexandria and Mourn
Vernon Railway for $5000 damages. Ir
i cir september 7 last he was injured r
i fight between a party of drunken me ?
md other passengers, thc sight of on ?
S/e being permanently impaired.