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STRIK ERS DE FI ANT Officers of Law In Norfolk, Va., Unable to Cope With Mob. BERAIL CARS; _ FlfiBTi FREQUENT Woman Striker Knocks Out a Ser geant of Police and Precenta a Lieutenant With Black Eye. Martial Law Probable. A mob of 5,000 strike sympathiz ers thronged the streets of Norfolk ’ Va., on which the main line of the Company runs, and the police were un able to cope with it. From noon until after dark the mob had things its own way in the city. In the county whero the car barns are the military was in control of the situation. Cars were repeatedly derailed, wag on loads of rocks were piled on the tracks and free fights between the military guards and the crowd occur red during the day at frequent Inter vals. In one of these a sergeant rf.n a bayonet into ttte arm of H. H. Har mansef, a barber. Mrs. Harmansef was standing by her husband at the time. She knocked the sergeant to the ground with both fists and discolorel the face of Lieutenant E. R. Gale, who was near her, with a well-directed blow. Several soldiers were hit by bricks and other missiles thrown through the windows of the cars. A number of arrests have been made, both by the police and military. A conference was held by Mayor Beaman, Police Chief Veltines and Colonel Higgins, commanding the Sev enty-flrst Virginia regiment, eight companies of which are in service, rei ative to placing the city under mar tlal law. The police force of 100 men is unable to meet the emergency. It is possible that the four additional companies of the regiment and a bat tery of artillery will bo called for to take charge of the city. There is no settlement uf the strike in sight, both sides adhering to thoir first positions. Martial law will be declared. Four more infantry companies from Empo ria. Suffolk, Smithfleld and Franklin, making the entire Seventy-first regi ment, have been ordered out. The strikers cut a mile of trollev wire in the city. The troops are now guarding the power plant. A detach ment of a Newport News company, un der Captain Gilkerson, is on dutv. At a meeting held Tuesday night the Centrad Labor Union boycotted the street cars. Common Councilman S. H. Kelley, also a leader of the strikers, offered a resolution during council meet ing to revoke the street railway fran chise for a lapse of two days in run ring cars. The resolution was refer red to a special committee. Tuesday night six non-union men from Knoxville were held up. The strikers overpowered them. They bore arms and were arrested for carrying concealed weapons. ROUSS WILL IS FILED. Document Shows How Dead Million aire Disposed of His Wealth. The will of Charles Broadway Rouss was filed for probate in the surrogate’s office at New York Tuesday. The will was executed March 17, 1898. It made no charitable bequests. The will left to Mrs. Charles Broadway Rouss, now dead, the house on Fifth avenue and $5,000 yearly. The building in which his business was conducted was left to his two children, Mrs. Virginia-Lee and Peter Winchester Rouss. It was stipulated that Mrs. Lee was to get the Fifth avenue house if hec mother died. She also gets Mr. Rouss’ farm In Virginia. Jefferson county. Mr. Rouss requested that his son Peter continue the business on Broadway under the old name. William W. Rouss. a brother ot the dead milionaire, is made an executor, and he and another brother receive $100,000 each, The residue of the estate is willed to Peter Winchester Rouss. PRESIDENT’S NOMINATIONS. Cist of New Postmasters In Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. The president, Thursday, sent the following postoffice nominations to the senate; Georgia—Lula M. Farmer, Thomson Alabama—S. E. York, Athens; John A. Bingham, lalladega: Robert Cloud, Tascumbia. Louisiana—B. M. Young, Morgan Oity; Elwyn Barrow, St. Francisville. Bank and Dispensary Robbed. The St. Matthews, S. C„ saving bank and the dispensary were robbed Tues day night. The burglars used nitro glycerin. The extent of the robbery is not known, as the officials could not get into the inside vault Mechanics were secured from Columbia to open it. Pool Rooms Win Victory. In an opinion handed down Wedngs ctay the Texas court of criminal ap peals deciiied that the state law 11 censes pool rooms and that municipal ities may not prevent them doing busi ness within their limits fiAYNUR green skip out. Fail to Show Up In Court and Their Bonds Are Forfeited—tfot Roast By Judge Speer. In the United States district court at Savannah, Ga., Friday morning Judge Emory 8peer estreated the D . John F. Gaynor, charged with conspir acy a * aln8t the Unlted State * and bench warrants have been issued for their arrest. William T. and Ed B. Gaynor were In court and were arraigned on the new indictment recently found against them and the others. A plea of abatement was presented by their attorneys. The bonds of Greene and John F. Gaynor are for $40,000 each. Greene’s bond is signed by James D. Leary, of New York, and Gaynor’s by William B. Kirk, of Syracuse, Judge Speer took occasion to an nounce from the bench his disapproval of the manner in which the missing defendants have treated the case against them. He said they had been trifling with justice. In estreating the Greene-Gaynor bond Judge Speer said: “This is a case which calls for the prompt and unremitting exercise of the executive powers of the govern ment until these recalcitrant defend ants, D. B. Greene and John F. Gaynor are brought to the bar of this court for trial. "They have been indicted by two successive grand juries for alleged frauds upon the public treasay of the most stupendous character. If the charges in the indictment are true, their speculations amount to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dol lars. They were first indicted more than two years ago, and after successfully delaying the execution of the process a court the United States and Placing an enormous cost upon the government in the attempt to enforce authority h they were finally com pe *' ed to appear for trial at this term cour ^ The term has lasted for nearly a month. It has been almost entirely devoted to the laborious and rare f u l disposition of dilatory or pre limlnary objections interposed by their counsel, and when finally ordered to appear and plead, as they were bound to do by their bond, in apparent disre gard of authority of tee law, they are now fugitives. “ They are both - 1 learn - m€n of fine intelligence. They, as well as do their counsel here and elsewhere, fully un dersta nd their duty to be present. The government officers have been at great !abor and the government itself at great expense in Preparing for their trSal - Ind eed, the conduct of these men, unexplained with regards to their non-appearance, is an outrage upon pubI1<; justice. From the inception of their efforts to delay or defeat the f'lal upon indictment for the serious char ge Preferred against them, this court has done a11 in its po F ver to en force lts regular process to bring about the speedy and impartial trial c °ntemplated by the constitution in usua l and orderly manner estab hshed, n °t only by the statutes, but by tbe t ime honored precedents of the United States courts. “The case dragged its slow length along before the commissioner and district jury in New York and was thence carried to the supreme court of the United States and, after final judg ment of that high tribunal, the ac cused were compelled to come here for trial. Its most baneful effect is the example it offered of the paralysis of the law. “These men are presumed to be in nocent of the crime charged. My re marks exclusively relate to the man ner in which the process of this court has been held up and arrested and the unexplained contempt on the part of these persons of its orders.” EXPLOSION KILLS THREE. Saw , ..... „ Boiler ,, Bursts, Employes Meet Death and Building Burns. The boiler of Oakes’ sawmill in Fer aandina. Fla., exploded Friday morn ing killing three negro employes and slightly injuring Gordon Hall, the man ager. The mill and contents were to tally destroyed by fire. WILL MEAN REVOLUTION. Understood in London that Irish League Will Be “Proclaimed.” A London special says: It is under stood that at the cabinet council the United Irish League will be “proclaim e d.” although George Wyndham, chief secretary for Ireland, -s averse to such a strong measure. Mr. Wyndham, however, is not in the cabinet, and his opinion is likely to be overruled. The Irish leaders declare they will wel come such a move, which would re sult. they say, in a revolution in the south of Ireland. BIG MORTGAGE RECORDED. B. and O. Railroad Pledges Property For Sevanty-Five Millions. A mortgage for $75,000,000 given by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was admitted for record in the office of the county clerk at Clarksburg. W. Va, Thursday. It was in favor of the Union Trust Company, of New York, The purpose of the mortgage is to liquidate all outstanding mortgages SMALL HOPE GIVEN Representatives of the Burghers Arrive in Washington. CALL ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT They Are Told to Expect Nothing From America, as Uncle Bam Cannot Interfere In the Struggle. A Washington special says: Messrs. and Wessels, the r. Boer Wolmarans Lni representatives who came to the ted States from Europe for the purpose of conferring with the secretary of state, have accomplished their pur pose. They were received by r. ay at 11 o’clock Wednesday morning. It was distinctly understood that the Boers were to be received as private citizens and not in an official capacity. Secretary Hay talked to them freely with this understanding. The principal object of the delegates was to Induce the United States to ter minate the present bloody struggle in South Africa. The secretary of state heard them attentively and promised to consider their representations and to do whatever he could to ameliorate the conditions in South Africa. But he pointed out that the president was the prime authority in such matters and he recommended that the Boers see Mr. Roosevelt and ascertain his views. A matter of complaint by the dele gates was the shipment of horses, mules and provisions from the United States to the British forces in South Africa. Secretary Hay went over this subject very carefully with them, cit ing authorities and precedents, which he pointed out conclusively establish ed the lack of authority on the part of the general government to stop the American farmer from shipping his provisions and the stock raiser from selling his product anywhere in the world where he could get the best price. He also pointed out that the government’s attitude in this, as in other matters connected with the South African war, has been strictly neutral and that the government has done nothing to prevent shipments of commodities to the Boer forces. Later in the day Messrs. Wolmarans and Wessels, accompanied by Dr. Frederick Mueller, of the Orange Free State, called at the white house. They were received by President Roosevelt in the library and remained with him about fifteen minutes. They called as private citizens and not in their offi cial capacity as Boer representatives. Mr. Roosevelt listened attentively to what they had to say and then Inform ed them that this government cannot and will not interfere in the struggle. SUGAR IS THE WEDGE WFiieli May Split Republicans In Cu ban Tariff Concessions. A Washington special says: The republicans are apparently all at sea with regard to the action which will be taken in the caucus relative to Cu ban sugar. Individual members will tell you that everybody’s mind is made up and there is therefore very little use in further talk; but so much uncertainty hangs over this Cuban situation that it is fair to presume there is still a chance for President Roosevelt and those who think with him to bring a majority of the republicans of the house to their way of thinking. Speaker Henderson and Representa tive Cannon, of Illinois, called at the white house Wednesday and discussed with President Roosevelt the subject of Cuban reciprocity and sentiment thereon in the house. CASHIER ENDS HIS TROUBLES. Could Not Stand Shortage and Goes the “Cold Lead" Route, Another scene in the drama of the closing of the State bank of Elkhart, Ill., was enacted Wednesday afternoon, when Frank W T . Cottle, cashier, whose alleged shortage of $32,000 caused the closing of the hank a few days ago, blew out his brains at his residence. PREPARING TO EVACUATE CUBA. Secretary Root Orders Governor Wood to Report In Washington. Secretary Root has ordered Gover uor Wood at Havana to report in Washington at his earliest conve nien ce for the purpose of conferring Itlx the president and secretary of war in regard to the necessary steps to be taken for winding up the affairs of the military government in Cuba and the establishment of the Cuban republic. It is believed in Washington that the transfer of government, can be effected by May j. ROBBERS LOOT BANK. By Aid of Dynamite They Secure $10, 000 In Cash and Bonds. The First National bank of Mont gomery, Ind.. was burglarized Tuesday night, the vault blown by dynamite, and $10,000 in cash and bonds stolen. The loss is covered by insurance. Citizens heard five distinct explo sions. bat failed to attack the robbers, who had each approached under guard. The robbers escaped on a hand car. MINtRS MEET HORRIBLE FATE Twenty Venture Into Burbling Pit an.$ Five Are Killed and Many Hurt By Sudden Explosion. A special from Monongahela, Pa., says: An explosion in the Cattsburg mine of the Monongahela River Con solidated Coal and Coke Company Thursday resulted in the death of five men and serious injury of several others, two fatally. explosion On Monday a premature and of dynamite caused gas to Ignite, since that time the mine had been burning. AH the air channels were closed and it was hoped that the flames could be smothered. Thursday morning twenty men entered the mine ^ lnvegtlgate u i# not; explained what rauged the eX pi O8 i 0 n, but it is thought ^ on Qf the air _ whlch h–d bgen ghut off fcy th# fan> caused the gag wh5ch had accumu lated to ig note A terri fl c explosion followed ^ a(ter the men entcred . A relief party made an effort and nearly fiucceeded ln reac hing the im rlsoned men but were overcome and arg reported ln a serious condition. A second relief party entered the mine another way, but a second explo gjon occurred and they were forced to retreat. A third relief party also made a futile attempt. The work of rescue will at all haz ards be carried on. A crowd of women and children were gathered about the pit. HANNA MAKES GREAT SPEECH, Tillman Attempts to “Pitchfork" Ohio Man, But Fails ito Land. A notable speech was made in the senate Thursday by Mr. Hanna, of Ohio, on the pending shipping bill, which he discussed from the stand point of an American business man. His arguments were carefully arrang ed, he was always forceful and earnest aud at times became eloquent. He commanded the undivided attention of the senate and of the galleries, and when he closed he received the con gratulations of many of his colleagues. Mr. Hanna argued for help for the merchant marine, the necessity of hav ing an auxiliary for our navy in the form of a merchant marine, and plead ed that this transportation question should be discussed above party con siderations. Mr. Tillman interrupted to ask for information in regard to the reports that the Morgan syndicate had bought two or three of the European lines of steamers. “You must ask somebody who knows,” replied Mr. Hanna. “I do not know anything about it.” “It was only reported, you know,” suggested Mr. Tillman, “and I fiiought that, the senator being in touch with that class of people, “knew something about it.” "Why does the senator say I am in touch with them?” interjected Mr. Hanna, Mr. Tillman; “The senator is a man engaged in shipping, is he not?” “On the great lakes, yes,” respond ed Mr. Hanna, “but why does the sena tor assume that I know what Mr. Mor gan has done?” “I thought the senator and Mr. Mor gan were friends,” replied Mr. Tillman, “I know nothing about the purchase of the Leyland line by J. P. Morgan – Co.,” said Mr. Hanna, “any more than the senator dves. That is simply the investment of American capital, Under the provisions of this bill not a single one cf those vessels will ever come under an American register.” FORESTALL PRESIDENT’S ACTION -- Strenuous MetFiods of Roosevelt Starts Railroads on the Run. The abolition of all pooling agree ments and the dissolution of all asso ciations organized for the purpose of carrying out pooling agreements was voted by executive officials of western lines in a general meeting in Chicago Thursday. Action upon the matter was hasten ed by the positive information that the attorney general under instructions from President Roosevelt, had pre pared a bill praying for an injunction restraining roads, centering in Chicago from violating the interstate commerce and Sherman acts. SCHOOL KIDS ON STRIKE. Rebelled Against Teachers Who Ride on Boycotted Cars. Eighty-five school children of Zee ly v M e , Ind., gathered about the school building Tuesday, marched into the rooms in a body and carried out their books. They announced that they were quitting the school because two of the teachers ride on inter-urban cars on which non-union trainmen are em ployed. About all the children belong to fam ilies of union coal miners, who are in sympathy with the Terre Haute street car strikers. BALM FOR BROKEN TROTH. Miss Roberts Awarded $13,250 in Breach of Promise Suit. At Zanesville, Ohio, Wednesday the jury in the breach of promise suit of Miss Loretta Roberts, the daughter of a wealthy farmer of the county, against James E. Starkey, county an .liter, returned a verdict for the plain tiff of $13,500. The case was on hear ing about one week and the testimony was of a sensational nature. WHIRLED TO DOOM Frightful Wreck on the Southern Pacific Near Maxon, Texas. FIFTEEN DEAD; SCORE INJURED Cars Piled In a Heap Take Fire and Many of the Victims Were Cre mated—Resulted From Broken Rail. A broken rail caused a frightful wreck on the Southern Pacific railroad near May on, Texas, 25 miles west of Sanderson, at 3 o’clock Friday morn ing. From the latest accounts receiv ed at San Antonio fifteen people were kl u ed outright and twenty-eight were more Qr less injurcd . The dead are: Three children of Mart Riddle, of Chetopa, Kans.; Esta von Contras, Del Rio, Texas; Andrew C. Spelly, wife and child, Loirer, Tex as; child of D. E. Housens, Racine, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. White Manitowoc, Wis; Engineer A1 Mast, El Paso, Tex as; L A. Boone, news agent, Doyline, j a ; Chris Keel, contractor, San nio> Texas; W. ’ W. Price, ’ engineer, gaa Antoni * o, Makina 1 3 Ud p Lost Time ' train left San Antonio . The Ill-fated at noon Thursday, two and a half hours late, and at the time of the acci dent was running at a high rate of speed in order to make up time. The road at the P° int wbe ^ the wreck oc curred is in a rough country, the curves being sharp and the grades heavy. It was- when rounding a curve that the train left the track, it is said, on a ccount of a broken rail. The hour was 3 a. m., fifteen hours a ft er the train left San Antonio, show ; n g that it was still behind time. All the passengers were asleep and the s aock that followed was the first inti nation they had of the danger, The train was going at such a rate 0 f speed that the tender and engine laiidec 1 75 feet from where it left the ra ii s _ The cars behind piled up against the engine, caught fire and all were consumed except the sleepers. A private car owned by Mr. Thomas Ryan, of New York city, with his fam ily aboard, was attached to the rear 0 j= (.jj e train, but it was pulled away be f ore £ be ^ re reached it and no one in it was injured. Many Were Cremated. All the injured in the coaches just behind the express and baggage car were cremated. The people in the sleepers were saved with the assist ar.ee of the uninjured passengers, The wrecked train was a Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio west bound passenger, No. 9, and consisted of an engine, mail car, baggage car, ore coach, one chair car, three tour ist sleepers, one Pullman sleeper and one private car. The mail car, bag £ a So car and coaches were piled to gether against the engine and were ablaze in a few seconds. It was im possible to move any of the coaches or tb <? tourist cars, as they were all off the rails and they were soon consumed by flames, Just as soon as it was possible to get in communication with the divi s I° n headquarters, relief trains, with surgeons and physicians were started from El Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson, picking up along the line all the sur geons that could be found. All of the injured who were in a condition to be nuved were sent to El Paso, where they are receiving careful '.tention. WAR ON RAILROADS BEGINS. - District Attorney at Chicago Gets Or ders From Washington. United States District Attorney Beatha, at Chicago, has received in structions from the department of jus tice at Washington to begin legal pro ceedings against railroads centering in Chicago whose officials testified be fore the inter-state commerce com mission to infractions of the law. It has not been decided definitely what form the proceedings, will take, It is understood that suits will also be instituted in other cities. PRINCE HENRY IN BOSTON. Harvard Gives Him Honorary Degree oi Doctor of Laws. Prince Henry of Prussia was the guest of Boston, Mass., Thursday, and his welcome to the city was. a cordial one. Governor Winthrop, Murray Crane and Mayor Collins, acting for the state and city, extended the official courtesies to him, and when the prince had ceremoniously returned their calls he went to Cambridge to deliver the gifts of his brother, the kaiser, to the Germanic museum and to receive from Harvard the honorary degree of doctor of laws. “I’LL DO THE TALKING." Is New Order of President Regarding "Stuff” For Newspaper Men. a cabinet meeting Friday Presi dent Roosevelt requested the mem bers not to talk to newspaper corre spondents about matters under discus sioa at semi-weekly meetings. It wa * thought best for the president himself to make public such matters as be deemed proper to be given out. Hereafter the president will do this. W0RK IS ««««_•»» HOPE. 60 Declares Booker Washington to u Eastern Friends—Dishop s Says Some Potter Things. Bishop Potter was chairman, and Booker T. Washington the Principal speaker , at a meeting held night at Carnegie hall, Wednesday dj New York ' in the Interest of the Hampton Tuskegee Institutes. and The meeting was held under the auspices of the Arm strong Association. Robert C. Ogden, president of the Armstrong Association, Introduced Bishop Potter, who said in part: “We must deal with the black i- v -an as a problem, not in fragments, bu t as a. whole. In doing this, w e must be prepared not to meet with a great deal of sympathy from certain quarters “I must confess that the first man who entered my mind as I entered this hall was the senior senator from South Carolina. Some time ago, in Boston he delivered himself of the strange ut terances that what these institutions at Hampton and Tuskegee were doing was but to educate the negro, so as to enable him to enter the trades and crowd out the white people. This is a peculiar discrimination to make just as we have begun to elevate the col ored men and women. We ought to realize that the main thing that di vides the negro from the white is the lack ° f culture - and that by giving him this culture we will ennoble him and ra i se him to a level of intelligence an d creative citizenship.” H. B. Frissell, president of the Hampton institute, followed with a few words about the work of the in stitute. Booker Washington was introduced by Bishop Potter, who said that after the president had entertained Booker T. Washington as his guest he tele graphed him as follows: “I congratulate you upon your guest. He was a guest at my table last winter and I never entertained a worthier one.” “Somehow or other/’ continued the bishop, “my message became public, and since that time I have received numerous letters from people south of the Mason and Dixon line entreating me not to show myself in their neigh borhood, as their citizens had no de sire to entertain me.” In his address Booker Washington said in “If W'e would discus-s what is known as the race question with any degree of benefit, we must reach the point where we can so far rid ourselves of sectional and racial prejudice that we can in a large degree place ourselves in the position of the southern white man and at the same time put our selves in the place of the negro. “For 250 years the negro has work ed. What he wants to learn now is to work. There is a vast difference be tween working and being worked. For one to learn that work is honora ble and to be idle is dishonorable is at the foundation of civilization. “It is not the negro who has been properly trained in hand, head and heart who commits crime. It is the ignorant, shiftless negro who has no regular occupation, who has not learn ed to love labor and who does not own a home who is usually the criminal. When a man becomes the owner of a piece of land and a decent house and has a bank account he becomes, I no tice, at once a conservative, law-abid ing citizen and one who can he ed to vote intelligently for the best in terests of the community in which he lives.” SOLDIERS GUARD CARS. Strong Measures Taken to Break the Strike at Norfolk. Street cars, guarded by troops, were running at long intervals in Norfolk, Va., Wednesday, but no passengers were carried. Mayor Beamon stated that there was no necessity yet for declaring martial law. Four additional companies of the Seventy-first infantry were ordered out, and this put the entire command in the field, the two battalions already being in service. The strikers were busy Tuesday night barricading the tracks, but Wed nesday morning the obstructions were removed by the troops. PATERSON’S BITTER WOES. Whelmed By Fire and Flood She Now Has Big Strike on Hand. All the union plumbers, tinsmiths and sheet metal workers are on strike at Paterson, N. J., because their em ployers refused to grant their demand for an increase of 50 cents per day o! eight hours. The carpenters also have asked for an increase. The painters have served notice on their employeis that they want an ad vance of 50 cents a day of eight hours on April 1st. PENNY CAUSED BIG FIRE. Looking For a Cent, Girl Clerk Starts a $100,000 Blaze In Store. Fire which was started by a youas woman c i er k, who, in searching Cue b basemcnt t f for a t p DenDV - nD - ’ ignited g some cotton rolls, destroyed the Chk aon dry goods store at Sedaha. M Frida - V . and damaged several buildings. The total loss was * baa $100,000.