Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 24, 1900, Page 2

——_— The Herald--Beview. -E..C, Kiley T J. Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Publishers. MINNESOTA, G RANI » RAPIDS, - ——_—_—_————— It's really surprising how much hap- piness or misery lies in the circle of @ wedding ring. Following in the footsteps of an in- dolent man is about the most expen- sive traveling imaginable. Too many men in this country vote as they pray—and they never pray un- Jess it is to ask a personal favor, The man who built the city hall at Denver is now selling cigars and to- bacco at a stand in the corridor of the building. Count Boni de Castellane refers to rich Americans as “pig merchants, whose highest ambition should be to supply French aristocrats witb money.” The cotton crop of this country amounted to only 5,000,000 pounds in 1793, last year it was about 5,500,000,- 000 pounds, representing three-fourths of the e e crop of the world and val- ued at $350,000,000. It filled 9,500,000 and the loss by waste incidental proc of taking samples was not less than $7,000,000. Devotees of golf are fond of refer- ring to it as “the ancient and royal gar It is probably more royal and certainly far more ancient than most ot ™m > any idea of. At all events a tured tablet was recently unearthed at Carchemish, the old capi- tal of the Hittites, whereon are depict- ed men and women engaged in a pas- time, which, if not exactly golf as played at present, is something extra- ordinarily like it. Distinguished Greek consuls from our western cities, as well as hundreds of Greeks in eastern seaports, have gathered the past two weeks to do honor to the Navarchos Miaulis, the first Greek warship to visit American waters. Not only “when Greek meets Greek” has the occasion been nota- ble, but because Greece has taken this opportunity to express to the world her appreciation of the long and un- broken friendliness of the United States. A terrible scene was witnessed in a menagerie at a village near Privas, France. A butcher made a wager that he w d enter a cage in which three lions were enclosed, drink a bottle of ch ne, d play a game of cards with the tame All went well until the butcher was about to leave, when he foo thrust a glass of cham- > under a lion’s nose. The beast ed furie at the man and man- gled him t y before he could be released. In the le quarter of Paris a m. d Valles recently died whose career was unique. He was a proprie- tor of lodging houses, but made it an invariable rale never to press a tenant or sell one up for rent. He has been known to give a tenant who was un- able to pay his rent money to cover the expe’ of removal, and in his will he ordered that every tenant was to be allowed a rebate of a term’s rent. His tenants contributed towards a huge wreath for his grave, So accustomed have Americans be- come to think of the United States as a new country that the statement of Mr. Albion W. Tourgee that “we are one of the oldest of existing civilized nations,” seems to require an explana- tion. Since the foundation of the gov- ernment, almost 112 years ago, there has been no break in our Presidental successon. During that period, accord- ing to Judge Tourgee, the form of gov- ernment in France has changed ten times. “Germany,” he adds, “is but thirty years old. Austria, as a nation, is the outcome of the Hungarian re- bellion, Italy is a still later product of popular evolutjon.” A capacity for taking pains in busi- ness plans and products is more and more a condition of success. Aus- tralian butter-packing may serve ‘as an example. Shipments are secured against deterioration by placing the butter in boxes made of plates of window glass, the edges being closed by applying gummed paper. The boxes are covered with Tayers of plaster of Paris, and then wrapped in specially prepared waterproof packing paper. Such methods help to raise the aver- age of attention to details. The re- luctance of human beings to eat un- appetizing things increases. It pays to make food offered for sale attractive in form as well as substance. The high standard is money in the pocket vot the dealer and health for the con- sumer. The converse is true. This country has lost a once-promising trade in exporting cheese. Those who ruined the trade know how they did it, but they should be too much ashamed of themselves to tell the world how it was done. Japan 1s to have a new military dec- roration of the nature of the Victoria -eross of the British army, for personal valor on the field of battle, which may }be conferred immediately, without red tape. As a companion to this intelli- yence comes the praise of the nurses jof the Japan Red Cross on the hospi- jtal ship Hakuai at Taku. They bear feene poetical names: O-Tak-San, meaning the graceful bamboo; Ume- ‘Washington Notes. Congress .will probably reduce the war taxes before the holiday recess. The opinion is expressed in Washing- ton that the Filipino rebellion will soon end. The censorship on dispatches from Manila to the United States has been removed. Chicago officially tenders its big drainage canal to the United States government. It is intended to place the United States on an equal war footing with other powers. The military department of Porto Rico is to be discontinued and added to the department of the Hast. In the estimates now being made at the treasury department, additional appropriations will be asked for the public buildings at Fergus Falls, Minn., and Aberdeen, S. D. President McKinley has accepted an invitation to attend the annual dinner of the Union League club of Philadel- phia, Nov. 24, in honor of Founders’ day, on the condition that official busi- ness permitted. Capt. Folger of the battleship Kear- sarge has been appointed chief of staff to Admiral Farquhar, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, to succeed Capt. Snow of the New York, who is detached from the squadron. The president in his annual message will, it is expected, strongly recom- mend the ratification of the Hay- Pauncefote treaty, and a determined effort will be made to obtain immedi- ate action upon this instrument. It is announced the North Atlantic squadron will winter in Atlantic wat- ers and that Pensacola, Fla., has been designated as their coaling station. Large quantities of coal are now being received at the Pensacola navy yard. The fleet is expected there early next month, Sins and Sinners. John Porter, aged six years, confessed to murdering a playmate at Denver. Miller and Hardy were acquitted of the murder of the Wise family at Anoka. Max J. Lasan was fined $500 and jailed for six months at Buffalo for smuggling diamonds. Antonio Quinones was arrested at San Juan, Porto Rico, for fatally as- saulting a letter carrier. Thomas Connell committed suicide at Esquimalt, B. C. as an officer was about to arrest him for murder. Charles A. Sterling of La Crosse has been threatened with assassination for refusing to let a Filipino eat in his res- taurant. Jerome Hoot was convicted at Water- loo, Iowa, of having attempted to kill his wife by means of an infernal ma- chine. ' Hampton Jackson, a colored deputy sheriff who was shot in the election riot in Denver, is dead. This is the third death resulting from the riot. John Porter, the sixteen-year-old negro who was arrested. charged with the murder of eleven-year-old Louise Frost near Limon, Col., has confessed every detail of the hideous crime. She was first assaulted. W. N. Daniels and Ross Johnson were yesterday convicted of murder at Lake Charles, La., and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The case marks the first instance in the state where would-be lynchers have been convicted, The state department has issued a warrant for the return to the United States of George d’Essauer, who is charged, with the forgery of ninety- six bonds of the Northwestern Coke and Electric Lighting Company at Chicago, who is now held in jail in London, Eng. Capt. John D. Hart of Cuban fili- bustering fame died at Philadelphia RESUME “he NEWS | | } | Peuple Talked About. Two barges were sunk and six men drowned near Providence, R. I. Two children of Mrs. Myra Gaines were burned to death in a house at Wintershaven, Fla. Elizabeth and John Gunn, mother and son, aged eighty-six and fifty-two, re- spectively, were found dead at their home in Indianapolis. The house was filled with natural gas which was es- caping from the kitchen stove. Thirteen persons were killed and nineteen others injured seriously in a fire-damp explosion in the Pluto coal mine at Wiosa, near Brux, Germany. A forest fire has destroyed Brooking’s mill in Fredalbra Park and burned over 10,000,000 feet of lumber. The damage is estimated at $400,000. Eight persons were killed and fifteen wounded in a collision between a su- burban train and an express at Choisey Leroi, France. A fire at South Bend, Ind., completely destroyed the gymnasium at the Uni- versity of Notre Dame. The building was of steel and brick and was one of the large‘t college gymnasiums in the world. The Meeker sugar refinery at Meeker, La., was destroyed by fire. Loss $200,- ,000; insurance $140,000. Two express trains came into colli- sion between Offenbach, Hesse and Frankfort on the Main. A gas rescr- voir exploded. setting fire to the wreck- age, and seven persons were burned to death and four injured. One man was killed, five others prob- ably fatally injured and twenty others more or less seriously injured in an explosion of gas at the Buck inountain colliery at Mahonoy City, Pa. The dead man was James Griffith. Those who will probably die are Joseph Storkenas, Edward Gallagher, Charles Jones, Henry O’Bright and John McGlynn. Casualitits. William Lane was killed by the fall of rock in a mine at Calumet, Mich. An earthquake in Colombia destroyed 15,000 buildings. : Rey. Father John EB. Barry of Con-, cord, N. H., was killed by a New York street car. Twelve persons were killed and 200 injured by the collapse of a stand dur- ing a bull fight organized by female toreadores at Pedreguer, Spain. Four persons were killed, one is miss- ing, two were fatally injured and sev- eral were severely hurt in a fire which destroyed the Gifford house at Poplar Bluff, Mo. After forty hours at the bottom of a well, buried under a heap of sand, Thomas McPheters of Sullivan, Ind., was rescued little the worse for his long imprisonment. Virginia college at Roanoke was burned. No lives were lost, but the young lady students saved practically none of their property. The loss is about $75,000, partly insured. Otherwise. Chicago packers increase the price of all kinds of meat 1 cent per pound. The presbytery of Philadelphia voted against revision of the Westminster faith. Census enumerators report great destitution _among the Indians of Alaska. The schools at Nora Springs, Iowa, have been closed because of the diph- theria epidemic. It is said that there were eighteen deaths from the plague in San Fran- cisco the past summer. Minnesota and Iowa football teams may meet to settle the question of the Western collegiate championship. About one hundred members of the Army of the Tennessee assembled at Detroit recently for their thirty-second reunion. Jchn D. Rockefeller has given $10,- of apoplexy. Capt. Hart was con- victed in December, 1896, of partici- pating in a filibustering expedition and was sentenced to two years’ impris- onment. He was pardoned later by president McKinley. Fortign Notes. “The Prince and Princess of Wales in- tend to visit Belfast next April. Earl Cadogan has consented to con- tinue in office as lord lieutenant of Ire- land. Records found in Pekin show that Chinese missionaries landed in America A. D. 499, The reports that Lady Curzon of Kedelston, wife of the viceroy of India, is ill, are groundless. Miss Roberts, a daughter of Lord Roberts, who is ill at Pretoria of en- teric fever, is progressing favorably. An imperiol edict is said to have been issued announcing that the em- peror and empress dowager of China will return to Pekin. Fifty new cases of bubonic plague have occurred on the island of Mauri- tius, and thirty-four deaths have re- sulted from the disease. Gen. Baden Powell, according to the Cape Town correspondent of the Lon- don Daily Mail, has contracted enteric fever, but his condition is not serious. The German foreign office emphat- ically denies a statement cabled from London that negotiations for an exten- sion of the Anglo-German agreement are in progress. It is asserted that the empress dow- ager of China has appointed Sir Robert Hart, director of Chinese imperial mar- atime customs, to arrange the indem- nity question with the powers. Spanish troops have captured a band of fifty Carlists near Villa Fraca del -Pinnades, twenty-seven miles west of Barcelona. They also captured a quan- tity of arms and ammunition. Lord Strathcona, Canadian high com- missioner, who has arrived at Ottawa-| from Montreal, will sail in a few days jean, the plum blossom; O-Hagi-san,| for England, to resume his duties. The ‘the modest meadow sweet; O-Yasu- report that he has decided to resign the high commissionership is untrue, 000 to the building fund of the college of physicians and surgeons in Cleve- land, Ohio. It is developed that a Wisconsin pauper who has just died, knew for years that he was heir to a fortune in Germany. “The report is not true,” was the way W. J. Bryan disposed of a story that he was to become a Presbyterian minister. Three shares of the stock of the Chemical National Bank of New York was sold at public auction at $4,000 a share. The legal battle over the copyright to M. Rostrand’s play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” is to be revived in earnest at Chicago. The North Atlantic squadron will winter in Atlantic waters, and Pensa- cola, Fla., has been designated as its coaling station. The Pennsylvania Railroad company has ordered 2,400. additional freight cars, which makes 5,400 cars contracted for within a week. A syndicate of Danish and Swedish bankers has begun negotiations with American bankers for a $15,000,000 loan for the Copenhagen municipality. News indicating that the liberal re- bellion in Colombia will result in the overthrow of the government has been received at Guayaquil from Panama. It was learned’ at New York on un- doubted authority that no Copen- hagen lIcar will be taken in this mar- ket, at all events for several months to come. Reports from the Viborg, Finland, distriet say the exodus of Finns to the United States has ceased and that the immigration agents have left that dis- trict. Thomas A. Edison has recently per- fected a new device for the heating of compressed air, which at the same tim utilizes all the stored energy of coal and secures fully 95 per cent of it. The of Philadelphia voted against a revision of the West- minster faith and recommended to the general assembly that the whole mat- ter of revision ¢@ ‘faith be dismissed. [18 MUCH TOO MILD PUNISHMENT DECREED AGAINST GUILTY CHINAMES. Foreign Ministers Unanimously of the Opinion That the Punishment Suggested by the Imperial Edict to Be Inflicted Upon Boxer Lead- ers Is Insufficient —Sentences in Some Cases Are Positively Ridi- eulous—Many Hold That the De- eree Is Beally an Insult. Pekin, Nov. 21.—The talk since Tues- day’s meeting of the foreign ministers has been in regard to the edicts issued on that day providing for the further punishment of “the ministers of state for having participated in and pro- tected the Boxers and bandits in the recent movement.” The unanimous opinion is that the punishment pro- posed in the edicts should not be re- garded as sufficient, and many persens hold that the decree is really an insult ti the intelligence of the allies. The representatives of the powers believe that these edicts shows the empress dowager has power to further punish the guilty persons if she chooses to do so, and sentence them to be, confined within high walls, as Prince Tuan has been banished end sentenced to im- prisonment for life, and to stop all mil- itary operations. It is admitted that these punishments, if enforced, will be severe, but in considering this people should not forget the heinous offenses of Tuan and Chwang. The degreda- tion of Prince Yi and secondary Prince Tsia Ying is not regarded as sufficient because they practically directed the Chinese troops who Fired on the Legationers. The same is true in regard to Tsai Lien, who, according to one of the edicts; is ordered to be kept within closed doors. This punishment is looked upon as ridiculous. Duke Lan is ordered to be deprived of his safety, degraded in rank and transferred. The same punishment is imposed on Ying Nien, who personally led the Boxer attacks. One thing noticeable in the principal edict is that Yang Yi, who is dead, is denounced as the most vicious of all the exalted personages involved. From the tenor of this edict it is thought here that the empress dow- ager does not realize the seriousness of the situation, and this fact has made the ministers feel stronger on insisting on their demands. All of these orders and decrees were personally presented to United States Minister Conger by Li Hung Chang. Severul persons were present at this interview, during which Harl Li asked Mr. Conger to prevail on his colleagues to delay the question of punishment of the guilty parties. To this Mr. Conger replied: “It will be necessary for somebcdy to prevail on me first.” That ended the interview for the time being and left Li Hung Chang in an unhappy frame of mind. Goodnaw Hears of Persecution. London, Nov. 21. — The French con- sul here reports, says the Shanghai correspondent of the Daily News, that severe persecutions of Catholic con- verts continues in the province of Kiang Si. Mr. Goodnow, United States consul, hears that the Protestants in the province of Che Kiang are similar- ly persecuted. The governors of both | provinces are Manchus and violently anti-foreign. Three Hundred Boxers Killed. Paris, Nov. 21.—Official advices from Gen. Vointron, commander of the French troops in China, announce that the international columns are occupying the tombs east and south- west of Pekin. He reports a small en- gagement with the boxers in which they lost 300 killed, the foreign troops sustaining no casualties. Captured by Allies. London, Nov. 21—A Chinese official reports, says the Shanghai corres- pondent of the Standard, that the allies have captured two passes leading from Chili into Shansi. REGENT FOR RUSSIA. Proposition to Name Grand Duke Viadimir. Paris, Noy. 21.—The Div-Neuvieme Siecle prints a specia! from St. Peters- burg that the physicians having an- nounced that the illness of the czar will contirue for some time, a regency is under consideration to act until the ezar’s complete recovery. The grand duke, Vladimir, uncle of the czar, is mentioned as regent. The crisis in. the czar’s condition is now near. His weakened condition and the accompanying danger of com- plications give the gravest cause for fear, and several of the most eminent physicians in St. Petersburg and Mos- cow have been summoned by wire to assist the regular attending doctors. A strange circumstance in the case is the fact that the czar’s illness has not made any specially deep impression upon the masses, and even many peo- ple in polite society do not even know that the ruler is ailing. The unhealthy condition of the palace at Livadia, worry over the Chinese affairs, and his naturally frail constitution are the causes now generally accepted as hav- ing brought his sickness. The ezar’s present residence is exceedingly beau- tiful, but it is situated in most un- healthy surroundings, and infectious diseases have been rife all autumn in Yalta. \ -0- Moscow, Nov. 21.—The holy synod of St. Petersburg has ordered prayers throughout the country for the czar’s recovery. EDITOR DISCHARGED. So His Sister Refused to Be Sponser for Astor. London, Nov. 21.—William Waldorf Astor has discharged Lord Frederick Hamilton from the editorship of the Pall Mall Gazette, his place being taken by a professional literary man. Lord Frederick may be said to owe the loss of the $10,000-a-year editorship to the action of his sister, the duchess of Buccleugh, in declining to remain any longer the social sponsor of the ex-American multi-millionaire. STIR UP THE SULTAN. Battleship Kentucky Ordered to Turkish Waters. Washington, Nov. 21.—Orders of a significant character have been issued as part of the attempts of the United States to secure payment from Turkey for the destruction of property during the Armenian massacres. A telegram sent to Naples, to be de- livered to Capt. C. M. Chester of the battleship Kentucky on his arrival there, directing that the Kentucky touch at Smyrna, Turkey. The Ken- tucky left New York on Oct. 19 for Manila where she will take the place of the Oregon. Her commander’s in- structions were to proceed with dis- patch to the Philippines. Last week she stopped at Algiers for coal and left there Saturday for, Naples. From Naples she will proceed to Smyrna. It was learned that her orders contem- plate a stay of several days at the Turkish port. The Kentucky and her sister ship, the Kearsarge, are the only vessels of the navy that have the superimposed or double deck turrets, and with the Alabama, are the most powerful ves- sels of the American navy in active service. With an Oriental mosque as a target an excellent opportunity of test~ ing in a practical way the effectiveness of the concentrated fire of the big guns in the Kentucky's superimposed turrets will be afforded, but no official is willing to admit that such a test will be the outcome of the visit of the big armor-clad to Smyrna. BANK IS OUT $191,500. Experts Estimate the Amount of Brown's Shortage. Cincinnati, Nov. 21. — The experts who have been working with Receiver Tucker on the books of the German Nationa! bank at Newport, Ky., esti- mate the alleged shortage of Frank M. Brown, the missing assistant cash- ier and individual bookkeeper, at $191,- 500. According to reports from per- sons who were with Brown when he left last Tuesday night he had less than $500 with him. Brown’s salary was only ,$1,509 a year. His bond for $10,000 is good. United States District Attorney Hill will take charge of the case. Jt is expected he will cause sev- eral arrests. During the run on the bank last Saturday $200,000 was ob- tained in Cincinnati to bridge over the trouble. This was returned and Re- ceiver Tucker had other moneys and papers also transferred from Cincin- nati. X-RAYS FOR BALD HEADS. They Make the Hair Grow, so Dr. Kienbock of Vienna Claims. Vienna, Nov. 21. — Dr. Kienbock claims to have discovered that lost hair can be restored by the use of x-rays. He introduced to the society of Vienna a man aged eighty-six, part of whose head had been bald for years. He appiied the rays on it occasionally for two months, with the result that hair has grown thickly on the parts treated, the rest of his head remaining bald. The members were not con- vinced Gr. Kienbock’s claim was well founded and urged him to continue his experiments. TO WED A PRINCE. Pretty Daughter of the Insane Ed- ward Parker Beacon. Boston, Nov. 21.—While her father, Edward Parker Deacon of this city, now hopelessly insane, drags out his weary days in an asylum at Waverly, beautiful Gladys Deacon, eighteen years old, has become betrothed to Prince Lichtenstein, a relative of Em- peror William of Germany. For the first time in years, so a letter from there states, are talking of the Parker Deacons without any more or less plainly expressed apologies. The ter- rible tragedy of Mr. Deacon's killing of Abeille, whom he had accused of at- tentions to his wife, is forgotten in the intensity of the American colony's integest in the romance. § * MARRY THE SQUAWS. White Men Are Rushing for Wives and Fortunes. Wichita, Kan., Nov. 21.—Thousands of white men have moved into the In- dian Territory within three months in search of Indian wives who have the large fortunes told about in the Eastern newspapers. Reports from the marriage license clerks in the Indian nations state that within three months over 3,000 marriage licenses have been issued, and that all of them are be- tween white men and Indian women. All of the women are anxious to marry white men, BRITISH SHIP SEIZED. Colombia Needs It to Fight the Rev- olutionists. Kingston, Jam., Nov. 21.—The steam- ship Atrato, from Colon reports that the Colombian government has forci- bly seized and converted into a gun- poat to fight the revolutionists the British steamer Taboga, belonging to the Pacific Navigation line. The Brit- ish community is incensed, and Lord Salisbury’s intervention will be de- manded. CHANNEL GALES. 4 Story Seas Off the Coast of Eng- land. London, Nov. 21—Heavy gales con- tinue to sweep over the channel. The continental mail boats report having encountered terrific seas, and there have been a number of minor mishaps. The small Bremen steamer Duisburg, which was disabled off Folkestone, has been eowed into the Thames. Robber Breaks Jail. Jackson, Miss., Nov. 21. — Brooks Story, the celebrated express robber, escaped from the Mississippi peniten- tiary. This is his fourth escape, DEED OF INHUMAN BRUTES. London, Nov. 21.—The Daily Express publishes the following from Odessa: A party wishing to leave Russia se- ecretly sailed at dead of night from Tschuruksu to cross the Black sea. A storm arose and the boat filled. First the baggage was thrown overboard. ‘Then the children, and finally the wo- men were committed to the sea; but this.did not prevent the vessel from | foundering, and all perished save a poy who clung to the mast and was washed fay hued I OE IS SHORT $200,000 BANK IS CLOSED BY A UNITED STATES EXAMINER. Individual Bookkeeper Is Missing * and It Is Said That His Accounts Show a Shortage of Over $200,000 —Exposure of the Alleged Short- age Causes a Panic—Missing Man Said to,Have Led a Fast Life With Wine, Women and Gambling in His Repertoire. Cincinnati, Nov. 20. — United States Bank Examiner Tucker yesterday took possession of the German National Bank of Newport, Ky., and posted a notice that the bank would remain closed pending an examination. Ex- aminer Tucker also announced that Frank Brown, the individual book- keeper and cashier, was missing, and that a partial investigation showed that Brown was short about $201,000. Brown had been with the bank eigh- teen years, was one of the most trusted men ever connected with this old bank, and it is stated by the experts that his operations extended back as far as ten years. The capital stock of the bank is only $100,000. Brown’s alleged shortage is double that amount and more than the reserve and all the as- sets, including their real estate. For two weeks there have been rumors that Brown was short and some de- positors withdrew their accounts. Three weeks ago the bank examiners made a good statement for the bank and the officers and directors alla suspicion by referring to the report of this examination and to their last statement. Last Wednesday Brown left and it was announced that he had gone hunting on a vacation. He dia get a ticket for Odin, Ill, but it is learned now that he did not go there, and it is generally believed that he Is Out of This Country with plenty of money in his possession. It is learned that Brown was suspend- ed last Tuesday pending an investiga- tion, and that experts have been at work all the past week while the of- ficers and directors have been making announcements that everything was all right. Last Friday the officers and directors, over their own names pub- lished in the papers of this city a statement that the bank had been found to be all right and that the rumors about Brown were false. They continued making these statements to the press as late as Saturday mid- night, but the statements were not ac- cepted by the Commercial-Tribune, which exposed the alleged shortage and caused a panic in Newport yes- terday so that the bank had to be taken in charge by the examiner. The wildest scenes were witnessed in New- port yesterday and serious trouble is feared to-day. Brown, it is alleged, was living a fast life, with wine, women and gam- bling in his repertoire. His career was not cut short by any discovery at the bank until a jealous woman gave him away. Brown. is a widower with a son aged ten years who lives with Brown's father, Paris C. Brown, ex- mayor of Newport, and one of the leading business, men of Cincinnati. Brown, it is said, wrote to a woman in Cincinnati that he was bound for South America, but the Enquirer says that it has good authority for saying that Brcewn sailed from New York on Saturday and that his destination is China, ) MEET AWFUL DEATH. Four Lives Lost in a Burning Building. Oswayo, Pa., Noy. 20. — Four men were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the McGonigal house, a three-story frame building, the hotel barn and the opera house. The three buildings were burned to the ground in half an hour from the time the fire started. The town has no fire department, the only protection being a pump at the tannery. The fire originated in the McGonigal house from an over- pressure of natural gas. There were thirty pecple in the hotel, which was a flimsey structure. Two men were seriously injured. There were many narrow escapes, most of the occupants jumping from windows. The flames licked up the hotel building as if it were built of tinder. Nothing remains of the four unfortunate men but a few charred bones. The tannery employes connected a line of hose to the burn- ing buildings, but on account of some trouble with the pump there was con- siderable delay in getting a stream on the fire and the flames had got beyond contral. The property loss is estimated at $5,000. Soci ana GALVESTON’S HORROR. Over a Hundred Bodies Are Found in a Swamp. Galveston, Tex., Nov. 20—The United States surveying corps found more than 100 bodies in a swamp just west of the city, on the island, where they had been deposited by the storm of Sept. & The unburied dead were in an out-of-the-way place near the county road and had not been discovered by the burying parties sent out after the storm. f PORTUGAL ACTS. r South African Republics Not Recog- nized as Independent States. Lorenzo Marques, Nov. 20. — The Portugvese authorities have ordered Mr. Pott, the consul general here of the Transvall, not to fiy the flags of the Orange Free State or the Trans- vaal republic over his residence be- cause the government of Portugal no longer recogizes their existence as sep- arate states. Sentenced to Death. Philadelphia, Nov. 20.—Judge Arnold sentenced Henry Ivory and Charles Perry, negroes, to death, they having been convicted of murder in connection with the killing of Prof. Roy Wilson White, May 27. Engineer Was Killed. : Zanesville, Ohio, Nov. 20.—A passen- ger train on the Wheeling & Erie railway ran into an £3 ape ——9 —_s | —