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THE SITUATION DESPERATE / Both Taylor and Beckham Have Armed Forces and Complications Reach Critical Stage. POWERS AND DAVIS ESCAPE They Arc Intercepted, However, At Lexington By Sheriff and Police and Jailed. Almost without warning the storm center of excitement in tho Kentucky gubernatorial struggle shifted to Lex ington Saturday night. Secretary of State Caleb Powers and Captain Davis, for whom warrants were issued charging complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel, after spendiug the day iu the statehouse at Frankfort, to which the civil officers bearing the warrants were refused ad mittance by the soldiers on duty, left town in disguise. Powers and Davis were slipped aboard a Ohesapeak and Ohio train at 8 o’clock Saturday uight and speeded toward Lexington. A squad of soldiers, coming from the governor’s mansiou at double quick, caught the train just before it pulled out. The plan of escape was ao neatly laid and executed that it took the police and big force of deputy sheriffs appointed to guard the entrance to the capitol grounds and prevent their escape, off their feet when they real ized what had occurred. It was sev eral minutes before the truth of tho escape of the men was definitely known. Chief of Police Williams immedi ately sent telegrams to Lexington, Midway and all stations along the road, notifying officers of tho escape and ordering them to be on the look out. On the arrival of the train in Lex idgton at 8:40 Secretary of State Pow ers and Capitol Policeman Davis and Lieutenant Peak were arrested by the Lexiugtou police aud the sheriff and deputies. There was a large force of officers awaiting thefugitives. Powers and Davis still wore the uniforms of soldiers and Davis had on false whisk ers. There was a wild scene when the officers broke into the car and revol vers woro drawn by all, but the small squad of soldiers were greatly out numbered by the police force of Lex ington nnd'the largo force of deputies with the sheriff, and tho arrest was ef fected without difficulty. A local attorney recognized Powers and also pointed out Davis. They wore seized and hurried to the jail. As the procession s-/ept toward the jail some people started tho report that there was to be a lynching, aud soon tho streets were packed with people, an enormous crowd gathering about the jail. Davis, Powers aud Peake were hurried to the upper cells, but Peake was later released on bond on a common wan a t charge of resisting arrest. Davis hail $125 in money on his person and a revolver. There was found on Powers $1,300. In the inside pocket of each man was found a pardon from Governor W. S. Taylor, duly signed and sealed. Pow ers made the statement to an* Asso ciated Press representative that he was not fleeing from arrest. He was sim ply getting away from Frankfort to avoid Ding in jail as Whitaker had been forced to do; that he had nothing to fear from arrest, as ho was not guilty of the charge. Sheriff Bos worth applied at once to the armory for a special detail of sol diers under Captain Longmire and they responded, arriving at the jail a few moments later, prepared to resist the rumored prospective attack. The sheriff then designated a posse to sup plement a squad of soldiers provided trouble might come and declared that any attempt to take either of the prisoners from the jail would bo re sisted to a finish. The Sabbath day brought a hopeful and encouraging culm to the storm. Judge George Denny, a prominent Re publican attorney, called on the pris oners during the day aud was closeted with them several hours. He will rep resent them in whatever legal steps are taken. ALABAMIANS ASSIGNED. Speaker Homleroon, of the House, Makes Several Committee Chunges. Several important committee chauges affecting Alabama were announced by Speaker Henderson in the house Tues day afternoon. Because of his recent appointment to the always coveted place ou the ways and meaus commit tee, Mr. (Jnderwood resigned from the place he has held on the judiciary committee and Mr. Olaytou was ap pointed to this committee in his place. Mr. Clayton in turn rosigned from the committee on insular affairs and Mr. Brewer was giveu this important as signment. BOTH SIDES ARE FIRM. Report Is Given Out That Taylor Would Attempt to Arrest Beckham. Sunday morning the Democrats and the Republicans in Kentucky were for the first time since the present politi cal complications assumed acute form, divided into two armed and organized factions. Surrounding the capitol and tho state executive building and camped in the grounds around Governor Tay lor’s home were nearly 200 state mili tia, well provided with ammunition, while in the corridors of the hotel in which the Democratic state executive officers aro located, and in the streets adjacent to that quilding were sixty special officers and tho men and boys of a militia company that was organ ized iu Frankfort during the day, as the nucleus of Governor Beckham’s state guard, besides scores or more of heavily armed citizens, partisans of the Democratic element. Within an hour after the democratic leaders heard a rumor that an attempt was to he made by the state militia to take Gov. Beckam into custody a pe tition had been circulated and signed by the requisite number of men neces sary to form a militia company. The men guarded the Capitol hotel all night against any possible attempt to arrest Governor Beckham. The Democratic partisans say that should the militia attempt to interfere with the session of the legislature, per sistent rumors of which had been in circulation all day, it would be next to impossible to avert bloodshed. The republican officials, however, deny that such action has been ever contemplated, and that the legislature would not be molested in any way. The formation of the state guard in Frankfort to support Governor Beck ham was undertaken by City Clerk Ben Marshall, who circulated a paper and enlisted the requisite number of men who are to compose the new com pany. The guns for this company have been provided by citizens, most of them being either needle guns or winchesters. Sunday afternoon a report gained currency that Governor Taylor had given his soldiers orders to arrest Governor Beckham and other offioers of the Democratic state government. On account of this report the men enlisted by Captain Marshall were assembled at the city hall, armed and sworn iu as special police for the pur pose of protecting the Democrrtio offi cers who are still quartered at the Capitol hotel. A large number of cit izens also volunteered and were as signed to various posts iu the vicinity of the hotel to offer a resistance in case the tulked-of arrests were at tempted. Governor Beckham Sunday after noon appointed Colonel David B. Mur ry, of Clover Point, assistant adjutant general, with the rank of colonel, and he was sworn in. The official announcement was made that this appointment is only tempor ary. This was regarded as significant, it being understood that Colonel Mur ray accepted the appointment on ac count of the gravity of the present situation, and with the understanding that ho could resign when the condi tions iu the state become more quiet. According to a statement made by Governor Taylor to a representative of the Louisville Commercial, he has granted a pardon to each of the per sons for whom warrants have boen is sued charging them with being acces sories to the assassination of Governor Goebel, including Secretary of State Caleb Powers and ex-Secretcry of State Charles Finley. In his statement Gov ernor Taylor reoites tho conditions under which he claims to have been elected, and charges the Democratic contestants for state offices with con spiracy to secure control of the gov ernment. EX-SENATOR CALL A CANDIDATE. Announce* That He Will Make the Fight For Governorship of Florida. A Jacksonville special says: Ex- Senator Call will make the race for governor of Florida. He has finally decided upon this course, aud in an interview given out Tuesday says he will make the fight for governorship. Hobson Offers War Relics. Governor Johnston of Alabama is in receipt of a letter from Richmond Pearson Hobson, at Hong Kong, in which the young hero expresses the desire to present his native state with a Spauish-American war relic, a flag and flag pole. FOURTEEN LOSE LIFE Fearful Holocaust In a Newark, N. J, Tenement House. WAS THE WORK OF AN INCENDIARY Nearly All of the Victim* Were Helpless Children —House Was a Ver itable Death Trap. Fourteen persons lost their lives, tifo persons were seriously injured and many others slightly burned in a fire in Newark, N. J., at 5 o’clock Monday morning. The firemen, after the flames had been subdued, took thirteen bodies from the ruins aud while they were thus engaged another victim of the fire died iu the city hos pital. One family was wiped out com pletely and of another only the father lives and he is in the city hospital, where it is believed he will die. The building in which the fire broke out was a veritable fire trap. It was of frame construction and extended two stories above the ground floor. Until three or four years ago the structure had been used as a church, but it was converted into a tenement. The lower floor, fronting on 50, 52 and 54 Four teenth avenue, was occupied by three Btores and the upper portion of the building was divided into twenty living rooms. As nearly as can be learned, the structure was occupied by ten families, all Italians. Two of the occupants, Yito Gredanza and one other family kept boarders, and though the total population of the rookery could not bo definitely ascertained during the excitement attending the firethere were said to be forty or fifty persons of both sexes and all ages iu the building when the fire started. The police are confident that the fire was of incendiary origin and they have arrested Vito Credanza on sus picion. There was a disorderly card game in one of the rooms that lasted well into tho morning. Credanza was a participant and is said to have made violent tliarats against his fellow play ers. A few minutes before 5 o’clock every one in the building was awaken ed by the flames. They found them burning at the foot of the stairs leading from the first to the second stories. The hallway and the stairs were burning fiercely, cutting off the only egress from the upper floor on which six families lived. It also cut off the escape by tho door for those who lived in the rear part of the first floor. Those who could made for the windows. From these they leaped or dropped. The whole neighborhood was aw r ake in at instant and from the burning building came agonizing screams and calls for help. From the basement and.ground floor the inmates of the building poured naked, or almost so. From the upper story men and wo men leaped to the sidewalk. By the time the firemen reached the scene the building was wrapped in flames and those who bad not escaped were dead or doomed. They must have died within a few minutes for the fire rushed through every room iu the building within ten minutes. There was fearful excitement about the burniug building. Men, women and children who escaped rushed about almost naked, looking for tlieir relatives. For a time it was thought there w r ere many more lost than the events later proved, because several naked were picked up by neighbors and carried iudoors. Thus fathers and mothers missed their children and rushed screaming about. The fire lasted only a few minutes. The search for the dead began within twenty minutes after the alarm was sounded, so quickly was the fire con quered. VAGRANT ACT READ. Would-Be Negro ".Emigrants” Forced to Disperse at Athens. A special from Athens, Ga., says: The 300 negroes who have been en camped at the Seaboard Air Line de pot since last Saturday -waiting for a train to carry them to Mississippi, were dispersed Monday morning and quiet has been restored again. The vagrant act was read to the “emigrants” Monday morning, and at noon there was not a negro to be seen at the depot. LOANS IN GOOD DEMAND. English War Loan Is Largely Oversub scribed By the People. The rush of applicants for the war loan commenced at the Bank of Eng land and the various other banks where prospectuses were obtainable, immediately after they were opened Saturday and a steady stream of peo ple continued throughout the day. All sorts and conditions of persons were present, silk hatted financiers, fine ladies, farmers, clerks, gover nesses and thrifty representatives of all classes. They appeared anxious to stuff their money into Brittania’s pockets, aud it is estimated that the loan was oversubscribed. BOBS CHECKED IN HIS ADVANCE English Meet Strong Resistance Near Bloemfontein. A STUBBORN FIGHT IS GIVEN Battle Raged All Day and Boers Were Always Ready—Britons Finally Win Out. Advices from Driefonfein, Oranga Free State, under date of March 11, state that Broadwood’s cavalry bri gade, advancing on Bloemfontein, un expectedly found the Boers in a strong position iu the Driefontein kopjes on Saturday. General Kelly-Kenny’s di vision arriving, severe fighting ensued. The Boers resisted stubbornly, but were driven from their center position, leaving a number of dead and forty prisoners. During the fighting, in which five regiments took part, xvith artillery, the Boers, though forced from their center position, clung tenaciously to the other kopjes, shelling the British fiercely with three guns and two Vick ers-Maxims. The British cavalry began to turn the Boer position, but night fell be fore the movement was completed. The Boers retired during the night. All of the day was occupied in fight ing. The Boers maintained a stub born rear guard action along a run ning front of twelve miles on a very difficult ground. The British were advancing iu three columns. General Tucker, to the southward, occupied Petrusberg unopposed; General Kelly- Kenny after following the river bank moved in the direction of Abraham’s kraal. At Driefontein, about eight miles south of Abraham’s kraal, the Boers were found posted in considerable strength on the ridges connecting sev eral kopjes where they bad mounted guns. The action began at 8 in the morn ing with an artillery duel. General French’s cavalry and Major Porter’s brigade supported our guns. The Boer artillery was accurately handled and the British cavalry fouud the task harder than they had expected. Gen eral Broad wood, -with dogged perse verance, moved altogether six miles southward trying to find a means to get around, but the Boers followed behind ground and even attempted to outflank him. Meanwhile, the Sixth division of in fantry, advancing on the Boer left slowly, forced the enemy to retire. Had tho infantry been able to move faster, the Boers w-ould have been en veloDed. The last shot wits fired at 7:30 p. m. Sunday morning not a Boer was to be seen. The prisoners belonged to President Kruger’s own commando. The storming of Alexander kopje by the Welsh was a particularly fine piece of work. The mobility of the Boers in moving their guns was very remarkable. The New South Wales mouuted iufantry made a gallant but unsuccessful attempt to capture a gun. A large number of Australians were engaged - in Saturday’s fight. The First Australian Horse Bridgade, with the Scots Greys, advauced within 800 yards of the Boers under heavy fire. The New South Wales mounted in fantry joined in the pursuit of the Boers northward. IN LOUISVILLE JAIL. Whittaker and Coulton Removed From Frankfort Under Heavy Guard. Harlan Whittaker and W. H. Coul tou, who were confined in jail at Frankfort, charged with complicity in the assassination of Goebel, were re moved from the jail at an early hour Sunday morning and taken in a hack to Skelbyville, where they were placed on a train and sent to Louisville under a heavy guard. It is understood they will be kept in the Louisville jail till the April term of the circuit court, when they will be returned to Franfc fort for trial. CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE. Over Two Thousand Employes of th# Krebs liertbeim £ Schiller Cos. Quit. About 2,309 cigar makers, of which number nearly 800 are girls, employed by the firm of Krebs, Bertheim & Schifi'er at New York are on a strike. Although the.strike was declared to b the cause of au alleged shortage oi stock, the strikers have asked for an increase of wages running from 15 to 20 per cent and that the store go un der the control of the union. C’rusier to Ban Diego. The Uuited States Crusier Philadel phia lias sailed from San Francisco for San Diego. 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Do not delay tulclng (t Don’t put it off till your health tone 1 gets too low to be lifted. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Will give you a good appetite, purify and enrich your blood, overcome that tired feeling, give you mental and digestive strength and steady nerves. Be sure to ask for HOOD’S, aud be sure that you get Hood’s, the best medicine money can buy. Get a bottle TO-DAY. All druggists. Price sl. The Big “I” in English. Did it ever occur to you that it might seem very egotistical for you to write of yourself with a capital “I” instead of using the small and less ob trusive one? The English use of the capital “I” isoneof the oddest features of the language—to a foreigner. If a Frenchman writes referring to himself he makes “je” (the French equivalent of “I”) with a small “j.” Sowiththe German, who may use capitals to be gin every noun; ho always uses the small “i” in writing “ich.” The Spaniard avoids, as far as practicable, the use of the personal pronoun when writing in the first person, but he al ways whites it “yo,” taking paios, however, to begin the Spanish equiva lent of our “yon” with a capital. Iu English it is Burely big “I” and little “you,” as the old saying has it. Howitzers. Howitzers are steel breech-loading weapons, weighing twenty-five hun dredweight aud having a length of sii feet ten inches. In loading a howitzer the gun is swung horizontally on tlje carriage, but for the firing position the muzzle is pointed high in the air, thus giving to the shell a long, course. Four kinds of projectiles can be used in a howitzer. 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