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NEW ROUTE FOR CANAL
t THROUGH THE ANDES
Mandigo Route Is Offered
With No Cost to
the United
States,
XBW TORS. Jan. U.-Plans for a
tiaw ship enr.al will be presented next
Thursday to the senate committee on ca
nals Uy General Edward W. Serrcl. for
tue American Isthmian Canal company,
and the Isthmus company, both corpora
tions of Now Jersey.
Tb-a route for the canal proposed Is from
the nM of San Blas to the Pacific ocean
behind the Pearl islands, and is called the
Mandigo rout*. It will be proposed that
tlie company build the work under the su
pervision and protection of the govern
ment without any cost to the United
States, which will be asked to guarantee
the bonds of the company.
The company will propose that the gov
ernment have the use of the canal free of
charge for ail government vessels and if
at any time the company does not do as
agreed the government shall take posses
sion of the canal. The comiany asserts
. .that It "he* secured a right of way.
The newly suggested route is less than
K miles long and therefore is shorter than
any other so far as proposed. No engin
eering difficulties are encountered, its sup
porters say. until a spur of the Andes
are reached. This mountain chain must be
pierced by a tunnel seven miles long and
the plans state that It will be 200 feet
high. 180 fCet wide and deep enough for
the largest ship which would go through
the canal. The rock through which the
tunnel would be cut is said to be solid
granite. In the tunnel a trolley appliance
would tow the ships.
General Serrel. who is at the head of
the project, was engineer of the Panama
railroad and has acted as engineer for the
government. The late R. P. Rowell, who
at one time was editor of The Mining
Journal, thought the scheme entirely feas
ible and was heartily in sympathy with it
at the time of his death.
CHARLESTON GETS
$90,000 FOR FAIR
MASSACHUSETTS MEMBER INTRO
DUCED MEASURE IN THE
HOUSE YESTERDAY.
WASHINGTON. Jan. lA—Mr. Moody, of
Massachusetts, reported a joint resolution
appropriating fM,<KO in connection with
the government exhibit at the Charleston
exposition.
Ms. Jfturaa, at New* Terte. opposed the
measure. Mr. Moody said that with this
resolution the government’s expense In
connection with the Charleston exposition
would cease. The resolution was passed.
Mr. Payne called up the bill to allow
the redemption of war revenue stamps
within two years and it was passed.
A resolution was passed authorizing the
secretary of the treasury to return bank
checks »nd drafts with war revenue
stamps after such stamps were cancelled.
The house then went into committee of
the whole to consider the pension appro
priation bin.
HOUSE RESUMES
BILL ON PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Before the
houag resumed the debate on the pension
appropriation bill yesterday speaker an
nounced the appointment of Mr. Stewart,
of New York, and Mr. Livingston, of
Georgia, as directors of the Columbia' hos
plta for women, and Mr. Russell, of Con
necticut, and Mr. Lanham, of Texas, as
directors of the Columbian institution for
the instruction of deaf and dumb. Both
institutions are in the District of Colum
bia. The house then went into commit
tee of the whole and resumed the consid
eration of the peaaion appropriation bill.
D. G. PURSE, OF SAVANNAH,
URGES DEEPER WATERWAY
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.-Benate com
mittee on commerce yesterday heard re
ports of the national rivers and harbors
congress, which met in convention in Bal
timore last autumn.
Mr. George E. Bartel, of Philadelphia,
who is the permanent chairman of the
congress, said the congresses had repre
sented all the business interests concern
ed about lower freight rates, and it had
collected reports of twenty-two states.
Mr. D. G. Purse, of Savannah. Ga.,
■poke on the effect of the Improvement of
the Savannah river as indication of the
benefit to be derived from river improve
ment. He said that since 1883 the depth
of the Viver bad been increased from four
teen teet to twenty-six feet, and the ag
gregate tonnage from one million to three
million pounds. There had been a cor
responding Increase in the draft and num
ber of vessels, yet. notwithstanding this
increase in depth there still was demand
for more, and the failure of the last river
and harbor bill had been felt very severe
ly. He argued that the improvement of
rivers and harbors had an appreciable
effect on freight rates.
FOR HALL OF RECORDS
PLEA IS NOW MADE
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.-When senate
met yesterday a concurrent resolution was
passed appointing a joint committee of
congress to consider the question of a site
for a hall of records to be erected in
Washington.
KILLED PRISONER WHILE
ON KNEES BEGGING FOR LIFE
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—Before the
•enate committee on pension yesterday
charge against Colonel Wilder S. Met
calfe. of killing a prisoner while in ser
vice tn the Philippine Islands, was re
vived. Colonel Metcalfe Is the nominee
to the office of pension agent nt Topeka,
Ks.. and the charge is made in connec
tion with the effort to defeat his confirm
ation. Colonel Metcalfe was a major in
the Twentieth Kansas volunteers when
the bettie of Caloocnp. was fought ar.d
the charge is that during the battle he
■bet with his reolver a Filipino prisoner
w.. 0 was unarmed end ct the time on h’.s
knees pleading fur mercy. Affidavits
from soldiers in the Twentieth Kansas
have been rUa«. with the ccr.ocltice and
Captain Ed ward Bdlrwood. late, captain
of company K cf this cegirrcnt appeared
before ths ccmn.lttee in person. He
pressed for fail investigation. The com
mittee hear J Captain Boltwood and
Chairman Callingcr referred the nomlrk
tlen to Senn tors Simon. Scott and Mc-
Cualar for further investigation.
CONGRESS BEGINS
FIGHT ON SHARKS
FOB PENSIONS
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—Yesterday was
District of Columbia day in house, and
Immediately after the reading of the jour
nal Mr. Babcock, of Wisconsin, chairman
of the District of Columbia committee,
claimed the day. and the house proceeded
to the consideration of district business.
At the conclusion of the District of
Columbia business, the house took up the
pension appropriation bill. Mr. Barney, of
Wisconsin, in charge of the bill, explained
that it carried 81» 844.480. against 8145.-
245.220 appropriated for the current year.
The estimates of the payment of pen
sions decreased from 8144.000.000 to 8138,500,-
000. He was asked by Mr. Richardson, of
Tennessee, why the amount of pensions
decreased five and a half million, while
the number of pensioners was said to be
larger.
Mr. Barney explained that this was ac
counted for by the fact that the arrea
ages were decreasing and the number of
large pension (those from 850 to 875 a
month) was also decreasing. In reply to
another question, he stated that the com
missioner of pensions believed that the
hlght-tlde of pension payments had been
reached and the amount requested proba
bly wouid remain stationary for some
years.
Mr. Bell, of Colorado, denounced the
practice of the "pension sharks.” He de
clared that they were importuning sol
diers of the Spanish war and those who
had served In the Philippines to apply for
pensions. He said that in some cases
soldiers who were thoroughly examined
at the time of their discharge and found
to be perfectly sound, yielded to these im
portunities and applied tor pensions with
in a month after their discharge. He made
a strong plea for justice to the soldiers,
not only of the civil war, but of the Span
ish war. contending that to secure justice
for deserving veterans pensions to the
unworthy should be opposed.
As against the soldier in the civil war
who had not applied for a pension until
recent years, he thought the present
commissioner was not too strict, but in
the matter of ferretting out frauds he
thought Commissionr Evans had been
unexcelled by any of his predecessors.
Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, assailed the re
port of the committee of the Grand Ar
ray of last summer, which made certain
congressmen, himself among them, re
sponsible for the failure to pass the
preference bill. He said the report was
unjust, unfair and untruthful.
Commerca Department Senate.
WABTirNGTON? Jan. 14.-When sen
ate met yesterday Mr. Mason gave notice
that tomorrow he would address the sen
ate in reference to Cuban customs duties,
a bill and resolution relating to which was
Introduced by him yesterday.
A resolution by Mr. Hale, providing for
the printing of a number of copies of the
report of the Schley court of inquiry was
referred to’ the committee on printing.
On motion of Mr. Nelson the bill creat
ing a department of commerce was taken
up . ♦
Mr. Nelson made an argument In favor
of the department of commerce. It would
materially aid in increasing our foreign
markets and would tend to bring work
ingmen and employers into closer and
more harmonious relations. He believed
all llnea of industry would be advanced by
such a department.'
After some discussion by Messrs. Teller
apd Hale, the department of commerce
bill went over, both these senators saying
they desire for further time to consider
it.
At 1:45 the senate went Into executive
session.
Mr. Hoar, tn the senate today, intro
duced a resolution providing for the ap
pointment of a committee of seven to
examine into the conduct of the war in
the Philippines, the administration of gov
ernment there, and the condition and
character of inhabitants, said committee
to have power to send for persons and pa
pers. to administer and sit during the
sessions of the senate. (
UNIQUE DAMAGE SUIT
FILED IN BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM Ala., Jan. 15.—A unique
suit has been filed In the circuit court
here against the Cooper Furniture com
pany. The plaintiff. Elizabeth E. Smith,
is but two years aid. and she sues by her
nezt friend. Mrs. Mattle C. Smith. It is
alleged that the plaintiff nought a bed
from the defendant company which prov
ed to be defective and when she was laid
in it it gave way. causing her to fall and
sustain painful injuries.
FOODSTUFFS CONTINUE HIGH;
PRICES ADVANCING SLOWLY
Food prices continue high. During the
past week meal has held Its own with no
change in price. Flpur has advanced
slightly and is quoted today about 10 cents
a barrel higher thap a week ago. Whole
sale prices in flour today are 84.85 to |5.00.
The price l» gradually climbing and is
likely to continue oil the upward move.
Eggs are selling today at 28 cents whole
sale. Hay has gone up slightly In the past
30 days. Wholesale prices for hay range
from 817.50 to ?18.50 a ton for No. 2 hay,
while No. 1 hay brings from 818 to 820.
The high prices have also Invaded tho
canned goods, and ranned stuff of almost
every deacriptiot: has taken an upward
shoot.
Tomatoes.* which are usually thi cheap-
“TO OPEN VETS’ HOMES
WOULD RENEW THE WAR”
Govarr.er Candler and other atatehouoe
officials ar* op»»o8«ri to the- effort which is
oeir.g made by Congressman Rixoy. of
Virginia, to have th* doors of soldiers’
homes ;n lire uortk provided by tho Uni
ted Staten government opened to ConfcJ
orute soldiers.
"I do not bailcve that there is a con-
veteran r.t.o vorild ffo In one cf
tho hemes," ea.d Governor Candler tiii-t
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1902.
WON ARMY 15
OESEBTED FOR
BOWIE’S RANKS.
GENERAL BOOTH’S SON-IN-LAW
AND DAUGHTER JOINED ELIJAH
DOWIE IN HIS
WORK.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Copies of "Leaves
of Healing,” Dowie’s publication, has
reached here with a letter which throws
additional light upon the resignation from
the Salvation Army of General Booth’s
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Booth-Clibborne. The letter is dated No
vember 30, 1901, and was written from
Zion’s Hill, Castle Lieburg, Lake Con
stance, Switzerland. In this letter Mr.
Booth Cllbborn writes:
"I have decided to offqr myself to you,
dear doctor for Zion, and do so firmly be
lieving it to be the will of God. I had
thoughts of starting a separate mission
till I got light upon the Elijah matter, as
that was a great obstacle. To me it came
as a gigantic truth and filled with un
speakable solemnity, even though Elijah
was a man with passions like ourselves.
"I take it that you come In the spirit
and powers of Elijah and as the herald of
the second coming, the Baptist of the mll
lenlal dawn."
Booth Tucker Will Vizit Chattanooga.
CHATTANOOGA, Jan. 15.—Commander
Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation Army,
commander In chief of the forces In the
United States, will be In this city on Jan
uary 22. Services will be held at the au
ditorium and already several thousand
tickets have been sold by the local mem
bers of the army. With the commander
will be Consul Emma Booth Tucker and
Col. R. E. Holz, in charge of the Ohio
and southern provinces.
senatoFforaker
GETS BIG OVATION
GREAT APPLAUSE FREQUENTLY
INTERRUPTED HIS SPEECH
YESTERDAY.
COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 15.—The Ohio
house. and senate in joint session today
confirmed the ballot taken yesterday by
the. two houses in separate session, re
electing Joseph B. Foraker to the United
States senate.
Senator Foraker had practically no op
position, the division being purely parti
san, the Democratic members supporting
Hon. Charles W. Baker, of Cincinnati.
Every Republican present passed his vote
for Senator Foraker.
There we»e no addresses, except that of’
the senate, and no demonstration, except
the spontaneous applause which greeted
the senator when he was Introduced to
the general assembly.
PINK MORTON IS
REGARDED AS WINNER
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.—Pink Morton,
the negro postmaster at Athens, will un
doubtedly be re-appointed by the presi
dent, say those who are posted on Georgia
plufo-givlng.
Indeed, it is given out from inside cir
cles that the president had Morton's name
in the list of appointments sent to the
senate last Monday, b«t for some reason
he held it back for a day or so. |
Morton’s friends here feel assured that
It will go in this week.
They are busy watching the white house
door, as it were, to see it issue forth, so
confident are they that the appointment
will be made.
Morton is highly commended by some of
the best people of Athens for the service
he has given-* in his past term of office.
BROOKLYN OFFICER COMMITS
FIENDISH DOUBLE TRAGEDY
NEW YORK. January 1.-William P.
Ennis, a Brooklyn policeman, shot and
killed his wife and her mother, Mrs, Ma
gee, at Mrs. Magee's home early today.
Ennis escaped.
The policeman had separated from his
wlfeNand had refused to support her, and
she had him arrested recently.
He went to the house today, and
admittance was refused him he drew his
revolver and putting his shoulder to the.
door burst it in.
He ran upstairs to his wife’s bedroom
and fired one shot at her, which pierced
her heart.
Her mother, who had heard the uproar,
ran to Mrs. Ennis’ room.
Ennis fired one shot at her and mortally
wounded her.
He then left the house declaring that he
would kill himself.
est canned goods that can be bought, are
selling for 82.a ease wholesale. Last year
this, time they brought from 81.15 to 81.25
a case. The tomato crop was far below
the normal, and this has sent the price of
this article of food up the scale. Canned
peaches are up 50 cepts a case. Dried ap
ples, which last year brought S to 3 1-2
cents a pound, bring G to 6 1-2 cents now.
The rise in the prices of food stuffs has
been general, and few things have escap
ed. The short corn crop is perhaps at the
bottom of the high prices, as this has
made a demand for other foods.
Among cthcc, high-priced articles may
be mentioned starch ar.d soap. Starch,
lump, sold at 2 3-4 to 3 cents last year. It
now brings 4 1-2 and 5 cents. Soap is up
20 per cent.’
morning. "The idea is no; a good one. and
t hope the southern members of con
gress will oppose it.”
Other capitol officials took tho same
view of tho mutter as did Governor Can
dler, and one of them went so far as to
any that if the veterans in gray and the
veterans in blue should meet tn a home to
gether the war would bo renewed again
and there would lw constant fighting.
Mr. Lnzr.b, of Virginia, a colleague of
Mr. Rixoy. is fighting tho movement.
NATION TO PAY
TRIBUTE TO
M’KINLEY
RESOLUTION INTRODUCED IN THE
HOUSE YESTERDAY FIXED THE
MEMORIAL ON FEBRU-
ARY 27TH. z
WASHINGTON, «Jan. 15.-When the
house met today 3|r. Montague Lessler,
who was recently ejected to succeed Mr.
Nicolas Muller, of sJew York, was sworn
in.
Mr. Grosvenoh oft Ohio, then presented
the resolution for Bolding the McKinley
memorial exercises in the hall of the
house February 37, and it was unani
mously adopted.
The resolution was as follows:
"Whereas, The melancholy event of the
violent and tragic death of William Mc-
Kinley. late president of the United
States, having occurred during the recess
of congress, and the, two houses sharing
in the general grief and desiring to mani
fest their sensibility upon the occasion
. of the public bereavement; therefore,
"Resolved, by the kojjse of representa
tives (the senate concurring), That the
two houses of congress will assemble in
the hall of the house of representatives
on a day and hour fixed and announced
by the joint committee, to-wit: Thursday,
February 27, 1902, and that in the pres
ence of the two hopses there assembled,
an address upon He life and character
of William McKinley, late president of
the United States, be pronounced by the
Hon. John Hay, and ♦hat the speaker of
the house be requested to invite the
presldeht and ex-presidents of the United
States, ex-vice presidents, the heads of
the several departments, the judges of
the supreme court, the representatives of
foreign governments, .the governors of the
several states, the lieutenant general of
the army and the rfimlral of the navy and
such officers of the'ab’my and navy as have
received the thanks of congress, who may
be suggested by thd> executive committee.
And be it further.. ?’
"Resolved, That the president of the
United States be refahested to transmit a
copy of these resolptions to Mrs. Ida S.
McKinley, and to abpure her of the pro
found sympathy of *the houses of con
gress for her perssaal affliction and of
their sincere condolence for the late na
tional
HONOR WM. M’KINLEY,
SAYS GOVERNOR CANDLER
Governor Candler hM indorsed the plan •sug
gested bv Governor Narh. of Ohio, to set Jan
uary 29th, McKinley’s birthday, as a memorial
day in honor ot the l»te president and to re
quest contributions o» that day for the Mc-
Kinley memorial He haa Issued th* following
statement to the presl
"In oompitanre witHUM PrwMspt
Day, the attention 6t churches and schools In
this state is called to thfct patriotic movement
to do honor to the memory of the late President
McKlnlev. and 1 suggest that in Georgia, as in
Ohio, on the Sunday preceding the 29th day of
January, collections be made in the churches
and Bunday schools of the state and an oppor
tunity be given to all, and especially to the
children, to contribute each his mite to the
fund now being raised to perpetuate the mem
ory of the martyred president, who was loved
by the people of his country regardless of
party .race or section.
"All contributions should be sent to Colonel
Robert J. Lowry, president of the Lowry Na
tional bank and vice president of the Mc-
Kinley Memorial Association, Atlanta. Ga.
"All newspapers favorable to this patriotic
mbVemcnt are requested to publish.
"A. D. CANDLER, Governor.”
invited! Igro bi
ft MME ftNO
■RFNIGGED. *
(COLORED CITY MARSHAL, OF HOB
SOfi, ALA., ACCEPTS INVITATION
TO ATTEND POLICE CHIEFS’
CONVENTION IN VAIN.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Jan. 15.-The chiefs
of police and marshals of Alabama are In
session in Birmingham .the purpose being
to organize an association along the lines
of the National Association of Chiefs of
Police. The meeting was called to order
this morning in Seals Hall, the attend
ance being large. Chairman J. H. Mc-
Cary. of the board of police commission
ers, of Birmingham, delivered the open
ing address, after which the address of
welcome was delivered by Mayor W. M.
Drennen. Following this various commit
tees were appointed. The visitors will be
tendered a banquet tonight.
City* Marshal Fisher, of Hobson, one
of the two all-negro towns in the state,
received an invitation by mistake. He
accepted but was notified by wire that he
could not be entertained, hence he is not
in the convention.
NATIONAL GAME PRESERVE
IS PROPOSED IN ALASKA
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—At the sixth an
nual meeting of the New York Zoological
society just held, director William T.
Hornaday gave a report, illustrated with
stcreoptkon views of the Alaskan expedi
tion, undertaken in March of last year,
for collecting specimens of the white
mountain sheep. After the report on the
expedition Mr. Hornaday introduced a
resolution proposing the establishment of
a national game preserve in southern
Alaska, to include the Alaskan peninsu
la, the Kena peninsula and the mainland
around Mount St. Elias, and the head of
Yakutat Lay. including Kadiak Island. He
displayed illustrations of animals, and
maps showing their distribution. It is pro
posed that congress shall regulate the
hunting in this district, which now, with
the rest of Alaska, haa destruction of no
kind. , ,
The announcement was made of the gift
of $3,000 by Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes,
as the nucleus of a fund io be placed for
the protection of bird life In America. Mr.
Hotnady was much pleased by the foun
dation of this fund.
CAPTAIN C.T. FURLOW ILL
WITH ATTACK OF GRIP
Capt. C. T. Furlow, aselstant state treas
urer, is confined to his home from a se
vere attack of the gr'P. He was taken
111 In the office of the state treasurer last
.Tuesday and has not been at work since
’that time. Sunday Captain Furlow had
a high fever, but yesterday he wds re
ported to be improving. ;
TEACHEBS TO GET
MOOT MONEY
BOON
Another payment of 8300,000 will probably
be made to the school teachers of Georgia
within the next few days. As soon as the
payment of the 'pensioners in Fulton
county is completed, the treasurer will
have time to make out the checks for the
teachers. .
The warrants for the payment will be
prepared as soon as the treasurer an
nounces that he is ready to make the pay
ments to the pedagogues. If the payment
is made in the next few days, the state
will then owe the teachers only 8300,000
for last year’s work and it is very likely
that the balance can be paid by March,
and then payments for this year’s work
can begin.
The teachers are very anxious for their
money, and the state school'commissioner.
Governor Candler and Treasurer Park are
constantly receiving inquiries as to when
the next payment will be made.
Governor- Candler said today that he
could not name the exact date of the nekt
payment?
COUNT~FROM ITALY COMES
TO WED AN AMERICAN
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Count Glanober
to Guillnelli, of Italy, has just arrived
from Europe. He comes to marry, on
January 20, Miss Blanche J. Schweizer,
daughter of Joseph Schweizer, manager
of the Ansonia Clock company, bt this
city. With her mother, Miss Schweizer
went abroad last season.
At a ball in Rome the count was first
presented to Miss Schweizer. , Three
months later, when the mother and daugh
ter left Italy, the engagement was an
nounced. There will be two ceremonies,
at least, to make the marriage binding,
according to the Italian law. A justice of
the supreme court will perform one of
them. *
HARD _ PUSHEOEWEr
TREKS TO THE NORTH
LORD KITCHENER REPORTS NUM-
BER BOERS KILLED, WOUNDED
AND CAPTURED FOR WEEK.
/
LONDON, Jan. 14.—Perhaps the most
important point in Lord Kitchener’s
weekly report, dated Johannesburg, Mon
day, January 13, is the omission of all
mention of General Dewet, from which it
Is deduced that the British commander in
chief is more than usually hopeful of ef
fective results from his .present effort to
surround D*wet. 1
MMnee the di raster it fcreftmteln. st.-tffig
British cofiimns hLve been persistently
dogging Dewet’s force, while armored
trains have prevented him from crossing
the railroad line, and have forced him
northward.
Lord Kitchener is supplying Dewet’s
pursuers with relays and remounts.
Lord Kitchener, reports that since Jan
uary 6, twenty Boers have been killed,
nine wounded and 23 captured, and that
95 have surrendered.
Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from Jo
hannesburg dated Monday, January 13, re
ports the narrow escape of General Botha
from capture by General Bruce-Hamilton.
Hearing of a concentration of Boers at
Kr.apdar, Bruce Hamilton went to the
spot, but only to find the Boers had beefi
given the alarm and that 400 of tiem were
treking, three miles distant, with General
Botha, in a cane cart, leading. Bruce
Hamilton chased the Boers for seven
miles, until his horses gave in, and cap
tured 32 Boers and quantities ot ammu
nition and stock.
BRUNSWfCK PORT
SUBJECT OF BILLS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Congressman
Brantley introduced in the house today
several bills lor the improvement of Geor
gia rivers and harbors, tho most important
of which is a bill carrying appropriation
of 8260,000 tor constructing a dredge and
improving the outer bar of Brunswick
harbor.
The other bills provide for appropriation
of 848,(00 for continuing the improvement
of the Ocohce river and 830,000 for im
provement of the Altamaha river.
Another of the bills requests that tho
secretary of war be asked to furnish esti
mates of costs of statement as to feasi
bility/of plan to provide an inside water
route from Altamaha into the port of
Brunswick by connecting and excavating
Club and Plantation creeks.
ROOSEVELT’S NEPHEW
UNDERGOES THE KNIFE
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Theodore Doug
lass Robinson, a nephew of President
Roosevelt, and a son of Douglass Robin
son. of this city, has been successfully
operated upon for appendicitis by Dr.
William T. Bull. Young Robinson, Who
is a sophomore at Harvard university,
and an athlete of fine physical condition,
has rallied from the effects, of the anas
thetics and the shock of the operation
and his mother, the sister of President
Roosevelt, is permitted to vizit him. t
JUMPED FROM ENGINE
TO FRIGHTFUL DEATH
AT GHOST OF DANGER
PERI, Ind., Jan. 15.—As the result of a strange haliuchiation, J. E.
Bible, an old and trusted engineer of the Wabash railroad, was fatally In
jured last night.
Sible was at the throttle of the big locomotive of the limited, which was
thundering along at the rate of forty miles an' hour. When the lights of
the town of Attica appeared, tho old engineer gave a start and shouted
tO'Burt Frick, his fireman:
‘•Jump for your life, Burt. The switch is turned!”
Tl»e sentence was not finished, for in an instant Sible had applied the
safety brake, reversed the lever and had jumped to escape the spectre bls
harassed nerves had conjured up.
The fireman followed, but was nbt injured.
The train came to a. stop and Frick went back to find his engineer. The
latter lay on the roadbed, horribly injured.
His skull had been crushed, an arm and log broken, his ribs fractured
and his spine injured. He was carried aboard the train. Meanwhile an
investigation showed that there had been no danger to the train. The sig
nal lights of the switch showed an unobstructed path.
Sible was brought to a hospital here, where he managed to gasp out his
story. According to Fireman Frick. Sible has been more or less nervous
since he was in a wreck at Lafayetto some time ago.
The passengers were shaken up by the sudden stopping of the trsiln,
but none of them injured.
BIG SHIP, MULE LADEN,
WRECKED IN THE GULF
SEVEN LIVES LOST
INBUFFALO,N.Y„
BYM
BY EXPLODING LAMP FEARFUL
TRAGEDY RESULTED IN TWO
FAMILY TENEMENTS YES
TERDAY MORNING.
BUFFALO. N. Y.. Jan. 13—Seven lives
were lost in a fire on Broadway at an early
hour yesterday morning.
The Pearlsteins and another family lived
in rooms above a shoe store and were
asleep when the fire started. The watch
man told the police today that he acci
dentally dropped a lamp.
A few minutes after the fire began there
was a loud explosion that blew out the
front of the store and hurled some of the
contents of the window out into the mid
dle of the street.
Plate glass windows on the opposite side
of < Broadway were shattered and the
solind of the explqsion was heard two
blocks away. The flames enveloped the
building in a short time. The family liv
ing in the rear flat barely escaped with
their lives.
The Pearlsteins were awakened, but
before they could reach the only stairway
leading from their rooms the fire had
undermined the floors in the hallway and
it collapsed, carrying them down Into a
mass of flames.
Their bodies were found at 8 o'clock,
four hours after the firemen had extin
guished the flames.
The body of the mother and baby were
found together, the little one tightly clasp
ed in its mother’s ,arms. Pearlstein’s body
was found close to that of his wife. He
also held one of the children in his arms.
The bodies of the other three children
were found huddled close together near
the father’s body.
MANY CADETS FAIL IN
EXAMINATIONS AT WEST POINT
WEST POINT, Jan. 15.—Among the ca
dets found deficient and dropped from the
United States Military academy, thus cre
ating vacancies from their respective dis
tricts, are the following:
Third class—John C. French, Kansas;
Boyd A. Hill, Illinois; George W. Nest,
Tennessee; Terry B. Maghee, Wyoming.
Fourth class—Leonard S. Arnold, Ar
kansas; Edward S. Curtis. Missouri;
George F. Fox, Pennsylvania; Lloyd. R.
. Frcndall, Wyoming; Rexford R. Gardiner,
Mtchtgnn; Herbert I. Hollister, Pennsyl
vania; Wlliatn A. Howard, Michigan;
William C. Kelly, Kentucky; St. Clair
Newburn, North Carolina; Thomas A.
Smith, Nebraska; Hewitt .L. Wells, Mich
igan. »
RECOWH GOFF
TALKS ANARCHY
WHO ARE THE ANARCHISTS, ASKS
NEW YORK’S CITY JU- ,
DICIAL.
NEW YORK. Jan. 15.—Recorder Goff
has delivered an address before the Nine
teenth Century club on “Anarchy,” which
is attracting considerable attention here.
In part recorder said.
"For lift who are gathered here in this
well-appointed and beautiful chamber,
under the glare of these electric lights,
it is perfectly proper to agree that an
archy is abominable. We should be false
to our surroundings ,ls we d-- not. We are
well dressed and pretty well to do finan
cially) and it is only natural for us to
take the position of the party in posess
slon.
“I think we assume a little too much
if we make th* mistake of congratulating
ourselves on the present state of our so*
ciety or our position In It. The aristoc
racy and nobility of France took the
same position before the revolution in
regard to what they called their rights.
But was it not their lives which caused
the revolution? The nobles amused them
selves in luxury and wealth while the poor
starved. Who were the anarchists? The
people or they?"
Recorder Goff said that tn our efforts
to devise legislation for repressing an
archy there was grave danger that we
might go to the other extreme.
' "You cannot extirpate ideas by legisla
tion,” he said. "Laws never made men
and women virtuous. Do not endeavorjt°
repress ah Idea. If the idea is right *it
will triumph and the repressive methods
will prove only so much fuel to feed the
flames. When wrong. Ideas die of them
selves. In dealing with anarchy let us
remember that if our government is
founded on righteousness, laen anarchy
is a craze and this craze will pass as
other orates have in the world’s history.”
NO. 36.
British Transport, With
Cargo To Fight
Boers, Goes to
Bottom.
NEW ORiLEANS, Jan. 15.—1 t is believefi
in shipping circles here that a British
transport laden with American mules
bound for South Africa, has been either
intercepted and blown up by a Boer spy
In the Gulf of Mexico, or has foundered.
A schooner arriving on the lower coast
reports hundreds of dead mules floating
for a distance of thirty miles.
The more const rvatlve elements attri
bute the floating carcasses to a disaster
to one pf the British vessels during the
storms that have been raging near the
coast this week.
Dispatches from Quintan, Texas, which
is only a short distance south of Port
Eads, says that the schooner Olga has put
in Matagoria Bay to shelter from the
fierce gale that is blowing on the gulf
and that Captain George Peters reports
having seen long rows of cattle and mules
floating in the water. He describes the
range of the dead stock as covering at
least thirty miles.
Matthew Warring, of the Elder Demp
ster Steamer company, which furnishes
many of the British transports, states
that all their transports have been ac
counted for except one sailing from here
thrte days ago. They bad heard nothing
from her.
The recent attempt to blow up the Brit
ish transport Mechanlcan at this port is
recalled by those persons who incline to
the opinion that a British transport has
been blown up. The attempt to destroy
the Mechanlcan was charged to Boer
agents.
MANrWHFFKMAY
LOSE THEIR VOTES
ALABAMA SUPREME COURT HAS A
HIGHLY IMPORTANT QUES-
TION TO DECIDE.
’ BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 15.—The case
in which It was held by Judge
A. A. Coleman, of the circuit
court, that all poll tax must be
paid into the county treasury, was yes
terday afternoon taken to Montgomery for
presentation to the supreme court. The
final decision is awaited with great inter
est, as the question involved is one ,in
which every taxpayer in every municipal
ity In Alabama is interested, where it has
been the custom for the municipal tax col
lector to receive this money. An effort
will be made to have the case advanced
on the docket so that it may be heard im- #
mediately. The time for paying the tax w
expires February Ist and all who have not
paid their poll tax at that time will be
disfranchised, under the provisions of the
new constitution.
As has been heretofore stated some fif
teen hundred persons in Birmingham have
paid their poll tax for 1901 into the city
treasury and if the supreme court upholds
the lower court each one of these will have
to pay their tax over again. Whether or
not they will be able to recover from the
city is an open question. What is true
of Birmingham is true of other cities and
towns where this tax has been paid into
the municipal treasury.
It is feared that the muddle which has
arisen by reason of the poll tax contro
versy will lead to the disfranchisement of
many white voters.
BUILDINGS, LIKE TOYS,
ROCKED BY EXPLOSION
MARION. Ind., Jan. 15.—Fifteen hun
dred quarts of nitro-glycerine stored in
two magazines owned by the St. Mary's
Torpedo' company and the Empire Nitro-
Glycerine company in a ravine, two miles
and one-half southeast of this city, ex
ploded this morning about 1:30 o’clock,
shaking the entire northeastern part of
the state.
Business blocks and dwelling houses
shook and swayed as if rocked by an
earthquake and. the entire city was
aroused.
A yawning hole in the bottom of the
ravine was all that was left to tell the
story.
So far as known, no one was injured
in the explosion.
Telephone inquiries received here indi
cate that houses were shaken fifty miles
away. „ ’
HOTEL THIEVES NAB
FORTUNE IN GEMS
NEW ORLEANS. Jan 15,-Two smart
hotel thieves who got away from the St.
Charles hotel last night with a trunk
containing 82,500 worth of jewelry belong
ing to F. E. Manners, a Chicago drummer,
were caught today above Gretna, on the
opposite side of the river, while trying to
make their escape with their booty; much
of which was recovered.
Manners had a room in the hotel, which
he shared with T. K. Looney, of Lexing
ton. While he was absent at the theater
last night and Looney was also away,
one of the swindlers rushed into the hotel,
represented himself as Looney, paid tho
latter’s bill and had the baggage ordered
to a cab which was hurriedly driven to
catch the 19:25 Mississippi Valley train.
The swindlers missed the train and get
ting a new hack driver at the depot, were
driven to a bearding house in the city.
There they iocked themselves in a room,
broke open the trunk, put the jewelry in
their grips and slipped away.
TWO PERSONS PErlseT
IN FIRE IN ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 15.—John and Henry
Kander, aged respectively four and two
years, sons of Stephen Kander, of East
St. Louis, perished today as the result of
a fire that destroyed their home.
The parents had left the children alone
in the house and when they returned they
found John, who was stricken with scar
let fever several days ago, in bed suffo
cated. The other child was burned to
death.
The bodies of both children were rescued
from the flames by a fireman, who was
almost suffocated.
Th firemen succeeded in keeping ths
fire from spreading to the adjoining build
ings, occupied by the Corticelli Silk com
pany. although a nominal damage result
ed to the stock of the silk company from
water.
That company, it is said, had just un
packed 8150000 worth of new goods, on
which there was no insurance.