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AFTER
THE
STAMPEDE
HOLIDAYS.
Meeting to Consider the Corbett Ca.e
Post polled.
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FAIRLY
ON.
Fear-Mail Men Kush From I>»w.ou anil
F»>i> n*.
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MRS.
M'KINLEY
DEAD.
The President »nd Other Member« at
the Family at the Deathbed.
Canton, O., Dec. 14. — Mrs. Nancy
Victoria, Dec. 15.—By the steamer
Washington, Dec. 16.—The meeting
of the senate committee on privileges Convention to Consider Pri­ Topeka, from Dyea, news is received Is Supposed to Have Been Allison McKinley passed from this life
at a few minutes past 2 this morning,
that more than 1,000 ill-provisioned
and elections, which was called for to­
Set by Incendiaries.
mary Election Reforms.
with all her children and other imme­
men stampeded from Dawson during
day to consider the application of lion.
diate relatives at her bedside. She did
the latter part of October, and impelled
H. W. Corbett, to be seated as senator
not suffer any in her last hours, but
by the haunting fear of famine are now
from Oregon, was postponed to a future
PROMINENT MEN SIGN THE CALL madly forcing their way over tRe moun­ INVESTIGATION MILL BE MADE gradually passed from the deep, palsied
date upon the call of the chairman.
sleep, in which she had rested almost
tains.
Senator Chandler, who is chairman
constantly for the past 10 days, into
Auk, the Indian mailcarrier who
of the committee, announced the sub­
JntereMting Collection of Current Eventr stitution of Senator Turley for Senator Conference W ill Be Held in New York brings this report, left the Yukon cap­ Ten Millions of Railroad Ticket* Were the sleep of death.
No word could be secured from the
Thought to Have Burned—One
In Condensed Form From
ital fully 10 days after the Dalton
Faulkner, as a member of the commit­
in the .Middle of January—Ef­
house for some hours liefore dissolu­
party. He says the vanguard of the
tee, as the reason for the postponement.
of Them Turn* l'p.
Both Continent*.
fect on State Legielature*.
tion. At 2:35 an undertaker was sum­
terror-stricken army is following less
He said it was probable that no meet­
An effort is on foot to reduce the ing would be held until after the holi­
New York, Dec. 13 —Facts have moned ami the first publicity was given
New York, Dec. 14.—The following than a week behind him. Auk de­
production of cotton.
days, as Mr. Turley is unfamiliar with call was given out tonight by Ralph M. clares that fully 25 per cent of the come to light that suggest the possi­ of the death.
Easley, secretary of the Civic Federa­ stampeding army will never live to re­ bility that the mysterious fire that de­
Gold has been discovered at Skagway the facts in the case.
The end was almost beautiful in its
tion of Chicago, who has been acting cite the terrors of their flight from the stroyed the great immigrant buildings peacefulness. She seemed to sleep so
which goes fl to the pan.
on Ellis island a few months ago, was soundly that it was difficult to tell
The house today, after a session ol for a committee on reforms of quasi North.
Mormons have secured 3,000,000
about two hours, adjourned out of sym­ (silitical organizations for the past
Dyea parties headed by George F. started by thieves, who had carefully whether she had yet breathed her last.
acres of land in Mexico for a colony.
three weeks:
Ulmer hope to go to the relief of the planned a $10,000,000 robbery, says This condition continued for half an
John Cross, of Cove, Or., was arrest­ pathy for the president, whose mother
“The object of this conference is to hungry men at Dawson. They will the Journal and Advertiser today. Ten hour. The president and all of the
ed for having counterfeit money in his was buried at Canton this afternoon.
The time of the session was devoted to bring together men With practical ideas make the United States government an of the trunk lines leading to the West, family were by her side.
possession.
There was no recognition, however.
consideration of the legislative, execu­ from all the iarge cities, ami especially offer to deliver 50,000 pounds of pro­ including the New York Central, the
Bates Soper, who murdered his wife
tive and judicial appropriation bill. I; from states in which substantial pro­ visions within 50 days after starting Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Delaware, Her last consciousness was hours before
and two children at Aschie, Mo., in
The for Dawson for the sum of $75,000. Lackawanna <S Western and the New her final taking away.
was decided to postpone consideration gress has been made in reform.
1891, and who was recently arrested in
of the item provi ling for the mainten­ programme will include speeches made They already have 50,000 pounds of York, Ontario & Western, unite in
The tenth day of Mrs. McKinley’s
Oregon, where he married again, was
ance of the civil service commission by men of national reputation in both provisions cached at Lake Bennett, maintaining a railroad on the island, illness was marked by a number of
sentenced in Harrisonville, Mo., to be
until after the other features of the bill political parties, as well as reports which they will take into Dawson this and at all times there are quantities of material changes such as improved the
hanged on February 4.
bad been considered
It was apparent from practical men as to the working winter. Ulmer will go south by the tickets there.
condition of the patient, and as dark­
The Spanish government, it is again from the remarks made belay that the of the various laws now governing pri­ next steamer to lay his proposition be­
General Ticket Agent Robinson, of ness approached it was felt by those
announced,is negotiating with the Arm­ subject would be exhaustively debated. mary election caucuses. Considerable fore the secretary of war by wire.
the Ontario & Western, says that on around her that she bad finished the
strongs, this time for a cruiser of There is seemingly no dis| odtion to attention will be given to the question
It is stated that material for the pro­ the night of the fire a conservative es­ last day of her life’s journey. She was
4,300 tons, said to be worth £300,000, curtail the discussion, and it probably ‘How to get voters out to the primaries, ’ posed railroad over Taku pass has been timate would place the value of tickets resting comparatively easy at that
built for Japan, but which Japan does will not lie concluded before the holi­ after fair laws are secured. Special in­ shipped from the East.
in the island office at $10,000,000.
time, but was a great deal weaker. At
not want. The vessel is said to be day recess. So absorbing is the topic terest will be taken in reports from
The tickets, with much cash, were the dawn of day it was felt that the
The steamers Bella and Weare, it
practically ready for sea.
that almost the entire time today, de­ New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, now appears, did not land more than locked in drawers in wooden cases and end was at hand, for about that time
About 100 wholesale druggists from spite the fact that the consideration of Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio, where 100 tons of provisions on their arrival desks, and the entire parcel’ was sup­ she experienced one of the sinking
the cities of the Central West held a the question hail been technically post­ legislatures will be in session. Head­ in Dawson in the early part of Octo­ posed to have been totally destroyed. spells common to the illness, and for a
conference in Chicago for the purpose poned, was consumed in the debate quarters will be opened at the Hotel ber, owing to their having been held The different roads posted notices that long time seemed so nearly inanimate
if tickets of a certain form and series that it was thought no rally was possi­
Manhattan, New York, December 27, up at Circle City.
of considering the cut rates at which upon it.
1897.
drugs and patent medicines are being
The only bright view of the present should be presented, they should be ble; but the rally came, and with it a
The senate, after a brief session, op
“Believing that our caucuses or pri­ situation is that the trails crossing the taken up and fare demanded.
sold by the department stores, as well
small amount of liquid nourishment,
A few days ago a ticket issued by the first she had taken since Monday.
as by many retail druggists, ami to take motion of Hoar, adjourned out of re­ mary election customs or laws lie at the passes above Dvea and Skagway have
spect to the president. No business very root and source of our entire elec­ lately been greatly improved and with­ the Ontario & Western from Chicago This was followed by such peaceful re­
steps to stop the practice if possible.
The Dingley tariff law will not be was transacted beyond the introduction tive franchise system and that the re­ in a month will be in excellent condi­ to Kansas City was received from a pas« pose as to revive the hope, which was
senger and found to be one of the tick­ realized, that she would live through
sults in our larger cities are due in a tion.
changed in any of its custom features of bills ami resolutions.
ets supposd to have been burned. The the day.
large measure to the defects in such
at the present session of congress. A
A Steamer for Alaska.
part of the ticket calling for passage
LIKELY TO BE LIBERAL.
practices and customs, it, therefore,
In the afternoon another period of
general understanding to this effect
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 15.—Already from New York to Chicago has not yet
follows that to purify this system is to
anxiety was experienced by the watch­
has been reached among the Republi­
the
rush
to
Alaska
has
set
in,
the
ers. Another sinking spell came, and
can members of the ways and means Canadian Cu*toinn Regulation* May B< take a long step in the direction of hon­ City of Seattle having left Tacoma been presented.
Modilieil.
Now the officials are asking how for a time it seemed as though it would
esty, economy and efficiency in every
committee, who feel that it is most de­
this morning for Skagway. Her pas­
Ottawa, Dec. 16.—A meeting of the branch of the public service; and fur­ sengers from the Sound will reach the many other tickets out of the $10,000,- be the last. After that, she continued
sirable to avoid what is generally
Yukon committee of the cabinet was ther believing that the enactment of iiundred mark. Several women were 000 worth are in existence. It is weak and low.
known as tariff tinkering.
Although no report laws to prevent corrupt practices and on board. She carried a full cargo of deemed not impossible that the entire
The doctor called at 5:30 o’clock and
The subcommittee of the senate com­ held last night.
lot was stolen and held until conductors reporjed that he found a material
throw the safeguards of a regular elec­
mittee on Indian affairs, appointed to has been adopted by the committee, it
fieight.
should
forget
the
warning.
tion around the caucus or primary will
change tor the worse, such as he regard­
consider the problems, presented in In­ is understood that customs regulations
Commissioner Senner, who was in ed as certain to bring about final disso­
dian territory have practically decided to foreigners entering the Klondike encourage many good citizens to take
A LIGHT DAY'S WORK.
charge of Ellis island at the time of the lution during the night. He had not
part therein, we, the undersigned, tor
to recommend amendments to the pres­ will be made as liberal as possible.
The members of the committee and the purpose of discussing and discover­ Xiotlilng of Importniic« Accoinpllsheil In fire, deems the hypothesis by no means even a faint hope that she could live
ent law, providing for the apportion­
improbable.
ing, as far as possible, the precise de­
until morning.
the House or Senate.
ment of all the lands held by the five of the cabinet recognize and appreciate
“The origin of the fire was never
fects in the various systems which now
the
handsome
way
in
which
the
United
civilized tribes among the members of
AN IMPROMPTU COURT.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Mr. Lodge, learned,’1 he said. “It began in a
obtain, and the remedies, and take
these tribes, and aslo an amendment States government met the wishes of
such action as may seem necessary in at Massachusetts, made an effort in the tower of the main building some dis-
the
Canadian
government
in
establish
­
providing that all valid leases shall be
the premises, do hereby join in calling senate today to secure an immediate tame from the offices occupied by the Trying to Fix the ReSponsibity for the
recognised by the government of the ing customs ports as Dyea and Skag­
Smith Murder*.
ii conference of persons interested in vote upon his immigration bill, which railroad people. Every one of the gov­
way,
to
the
great
convenience
of
all
United States, and the money paid on
is
substantially
the
same
measure
that
ernment
guards
were
busy
getting
the
said
questions
to
convene
in
the
city
of
Hazelhurst, Miss., Dec. 14.—In an
account of them covered into the treas­ parties going to the interior. In many
New York, on the loth day of January, was passed by the 54th congress and immigrants safely out. It is not im­ open field, without a house in sight, on
ury of the United States for the bene­ other ways the kindness of the United
vetoed
by
President
Cleveland.
Mr.
possible
that
thieves
deliberately
start
­
a high hillside, with a crowd of eager
States government is being mentioned 1898.
fit of the various tribes as such.
“We deem it desirable that the con­ Allen, of Nebraska, objected to an im­ ed the tire in the expectation, justified men waiting to avenge the terrible
in this connection as the work of tlijj
Wheat fell over 7 cents per bushel in
ference be made up from men of all mediate vote, and suggested that the by events, that the ticket office would murder that has taken place in Law­
committee is progressing.
Chicago Monday.
rence county, in case a conviction was
The committee will recommend a parts of the country and without regard final vote on the amendments and the be quickly deserted.”
bill be taken on that day, January 17,
General Ticket Agent Robinson said reached by the impromptu court, the
Senator White of California has in­ change in the size of claims, and also to party or factional »filiations.’’
troduced a bill in congress to strengthen the grouping of alternate claims.
The call is signed by prominent men at 3 P. M. This suggestion was accept­ be could scarcely believe that any such scene lighted by flaring pine-knot
ed by Mr. Lodge, and the order tor a wholesale robbery had taken place.
the eight-hour la w as applicable to gov­
from all sections of the Union.
torches held aloft in the hands of the
vote at that time was made.
“I have communicated with other waiting mob, the three negroes, Gilee
ernment work.
TO KLONDIKE VIA CAPE HORN
INDIAN
TERRITORY
QUESTION
Davis, chairman of the committee on roads, and they have had no such tick­ Berry, Will Powell and Tom Wallen,
The controller of the currency has de­
foreign relations, called up the bill pro­ ets presented as yet. I think it more were standing trial for their life last
clared a dividend of 10 per cent in favor Seventy-Five <«ol<l-Seekei'H to Sail From
Congre** Will Settle It in a General hibiting the killing of fur seals in the likely that the report of sales for the night at Bankstone Ferry.
Now York.
of depositors of the Moscow National
Bill.
North Pacific ocean, but on suggestion day preceding the fire was not correct.
bank, Moscow, Idaho.
The negroes were arrested with
New York, Dec. 16.—When the
of Pettigrew, who desired to offer Of course, though, if someone had used Lewis, who was lynched Friday, at th«
Washington,
Dec.
14.
—
The
indica
­
Judge Sanborn in the court of ap­ steamship City of Columbia sails down
amendments, it went over until tomor­ that ticket, if it was honestly disposed place of the original crime, but were
peals at St. Louis has granted a post­ the bay this morning for St. Michaels tions are that this congress will pass a
row.
of, it should have turned up sooner. released on tlieir promising to appeur
ponement of the proposed sale of the site will have on board 75 goldseekers general bill for the entire rehabilitation
The bill granting settlers the right An investigation will be made.”
next morning as witnesses. They did
Kansas Pacific for 60 days.
bound for the Klondike. Coal, provi­ of Indian territory. The measure as
to make second homestead entries of
not put in an appearance when the
One of the interesting items in the sions and clothing are being hurried on now planed is to make it embrace 160 acres was passed.
TRAIL TO KLONDIKE.
trial was ready to begin. Search was
agricultural appropriation bill is pro­ board, farewells exchanged and the last everything that has been sought to be
Butler spoke at some length on his
accomplished in the past by the Dawes
made for them by the mob, and the
vision for *10,000 for an agricultural touches added for the cruise of 19,500
postal
savings
bank
bill.
Such
a
sys
­
Indian commission,which is still nego­
Several Live* I.oat. in White Horse negroes were caught and brought baca.
miles.
experiment station in Alaska.
tem would, in his opinion, insure
Then the suspicion that they were im;
Rapid*.
The voyage to Seattle will be made tiating with the five civilized tribes,
Brigadier-General Otis, stationed at
but which will be here next week to (•renter comfort in the homes of the
plicated in the original crime arose.
in
about
70
days,
the
officers
say.
Victoria, Dec. 13.—Five or six, and
Ilenver, has received a telegram from
re|sirt the discouraging existing condi­ plain people of the land, as a great ma­
According to their own story, they
Fort Duchesne stating that all the Ute Four hundred more Klondikers will tions. The bill ooversall thequestions jority of them would certainly become perhaps seven, lives have been lost in were with Lewis the night before. The
board
the
Columbia
at
that
point.
Otto
the
White
Horse
rapids,
Lewis
river,
Indians have returned to their reserva­
depositors in such banks. This would
three men testified that they slept in a
E. Stoelcker, a nephew of ex-secretary of citizenship, allotments of lands, dis­
tion.
cultivate among them thrift and econ­ during the last two months, according cottonhouse a mile and a half from the
of the Navy Herbert, is in the party. positions of tovfnsites, mineral lands,
A dispatch from Havana states that Captain Baker, who took the gunboat jurisdiction of the United States courts omy, and enable them to provide for to John Hepburn, who arrived from Smith house, where the terrible butch­
there today. A boat built for four or
Gomez is being hard pushed by a El Cid to Ki de Janeiro during the over the present reservations and other themselves in illness and old age.
ery took place, and that Lewis was
six men was found below the rapids one
Spanish column tinder command a>f Brazilian uprising, is in command.
matters bearing on the extinguishment
with them all night; at least he was
In the House.
morning, but there was no trace of the
General Pando, in the province of
there when they went to sleep and was
At St. Michaels the passengers will of tribal organization. The first steps
The blind chaplain of the house in occupants. They must all have been
Puerto Principe.
be transferred to river steamers, and in the matter have been taken by the his invocation today referred eloquent­ drowned. Other parties lost their out­ there when they awoke the next morn­
ing.
George C. Green, a carpenter of Mo­ the Columbia will return to Seattle. Indian committees of both the senate ly and feelingly to the death of the fits, but managed to save their lives.
There are about 200 men in the mob
desto. Cal., fatally shot his wife and This party expects to be the first into and house.
There is now very little open water
It is understood that in a few days president’s mother. Cannon, chairman
constituting a committee of the whole
wounded his daughter, Mrs. W. E. Dawson City in the Bpring.
of
the
committee
on
appropriations,
between
the
rapids
and
the
lakes,
most
there will be a session of the commit­
for the trial. Reliable reports today
Lied man with a revolver. He then
secured unanimous consent for the pas­ of it being frozen over.
from a messenger who was at the acene
turned the revolver upon himself, but OBJECTIONS WERE OVERCOME tees at which these matters will be
sage
of
the
urgent
deficiency
bill,which
At White Horse rapids there are say that the mob is very moderate in
gone over and steps taken in the way
only inflicted a scalp wound.
he explained carried but three items— about 30 people, and there are 35 at the
its acts, and has cooled down consider­
The agricultural department issues Kiul of a lEntli.r llomantlv Courtship hi of settling the problems by congres­ $5,000 for the construction of a build­
foot of Marsh lake. There are at least ably. Berry and Wallen, though badly
sional
enactment.
In
view
of
the
iarge
the following: A special wheat in­
Wall» Wall».
ing
at
the
naval
academy,
$30,000
for
100 more below White Horse rapids, scared, maintain their denial of any
amount of work necessary to be done,
vestigation instituted by the depart­
payment of temporary employes of the and many others have gone into the
Walla Walla, Dec. 16.—The finale
complicity in the crime.
ment of agriculture indicates a crop of of a somewhat romantic courtship was however, it is not probable that any house and senate, and $150,000 for the
Hootalinqua country to prospect during
A telephone message from Hon.Wal­
630,000,000 bushels. These figures are witnessed yesterday in Justice Huff­ bill can be passed till well toward the payment of mileage of senators and
the winter. Hepburn had heard of no ter Catchings, of Geogetown,states that
subject to slight modification in the man's court, when the magistrate end of the session.
representatives.
■trikes being made on the Hootalinqua two other negroes have been arrested
final re|a>rt.
The rest of the session was taken up or tributaries, but a man named Davis
united in marriage Mr. Thomas C.
Hail Philadelphia Fire.
on suspicion.
The legislative, executive and judi­ Stearns and Miss Minnie M. Herman,
Philadelphia, Dee. 14.—Fire broke by a personal debate between Hepburn washed $1 ,600 from the river bars last
cial appropriation bill, as reported to lioth of Eureka Flat.
Wesson, Miss., Dec. 14.—The three
and
Norton,
which
ended
by
a
vote
summer. Hepburn believes that rich
out shortly before 10 o’clock tonight in
the house by the committee on appro­
A few weeks ago Sheriff Eilingsworth the six-story building at 809 and 811 sustaining Hepburn, and the house then strikes will be made on the Hootalin­ negroes arrested in the Monticello
neighborhood in connection with Char­
priations, carries a total of $21,562,425, was called out to Eureka Junction late Chestnut street, occupied by the manu­ adjourned.
qua this winter.
being $780,861 less than the former at night by the alarming news that facturing firm of John & James Dobson
ley Lewis, the negro lynched for the
Her Aim Wan Good.
At Tagish house, the weather was
bill. The numlier of salaries provided a man was trying to commit murder. as their wholesale and retail rooms.
quintuple butchery of the Smith family,
bitterly
cold,
the
thermometer
regis
­
Sacramento, Dec. 15.—At an early
for is 10,000, being 108 less than the The sheriff brought Thomas C. Stearns The tire had its start in the basement,
after a long trial were declared not
tering 42 degrees below. People were
number provided for in the current to the city, and Mr. Herman entered and the flames shooting up the elevator hour Sunday morning a burglar entered
guilty, but were given until Monday to
the residence of Sergeant of Police Mc­ mtt making their way down all along
law.
complaint against him, but upon in­ shaft destroyed the entire interior of Manus and proceeded to ransack the the route to head of Lake Bennett. leave the county.
Ilans Frohman “curled” a pair of vestigation of the facts, Prosecuting the building and contents. General parlor. Mrs. McManus heard the bur­ Among the goldseekers was a woman,
Convicted of Wife Murder.
right-pound dumb-bells 14,000 times Attorney Sharpstein ordered Stearns re­ Manager Berry, of the Dobson carpet glar at his work,but decided not to wake who was pulling her sled all alone, and
Bakersfield, Cal., Dec. 14.—David
in an hour ami 4b minutes in a New leased, as he thought it unnecessary to house, stated that the stock in the her husband. She picked up a re­ she was making fair time.
Davidson, the Randsburg wife-murder­
York gymnasium. When he had fin­ prosecute him.
building would amount to $500,000. volver from a table by the bed ami
Lake Bennett was still open 15 miles er, was today convicted of murder in
It appears that Stearns was a suitor The building was owned by the firm, awaited developments. In a few mo­
ished his 12,000 curl in one hour nnd
from the foot, on November 17, and the first degree, with the penalty of
20 minutes, it was proposed that Froh- for the hand of Miss Herman, but her and was valued ut about $60,000.
ments the burglar reached the swinging the mercury stood at 24 below.
life imprisonment. He is said to bo
inan atop, but he insisted on continu­ father objected to him, and announced
doors leading from the parlor into the
the son of a prominent St. Louis phy­
ll»ytl»ii
Ministry
Ke.Inn«.
his
determination
of
breaking
up
the
ing. and executed tiie 14,000th curl in
room adjoining the bedroom, and when
sician. The defense was insanity, and
Attempt oil the Sultan's Life,
Port Au Prince, Dec. 14.—The min­
match. It was then that Stearns, in­
the time stated.
he opened the doors, she opened fire.
London, Dec. 13.—The Athens corre­ during the trial Davidson appeared ob­
toxicated with love, swore vengeance istry has resigned. As yet, th? eom- He made his escape, but the trail of
The United States supreme court has upon the old man, and was arrested.
spondent of the Chronicle says that on vious to his surroundings, but expert«
pesition of its successor has not been
blood left showed that her aim was Monday last, two soldiers in the im­ declare«! that he was shamming.
rendered a decision in the ease of
definitely
settled,
but
several
well-
Whether or not this incident caused
Thomas Bram, under sentence of death the father to relent, is not known, but known men are mentioned who will good.
perial service at the Yildiz Kiosk, the
Education of De"f Children.
in Massachusetts for murder committed Stearns ingratiated himself into his command the confidence of Haytians
UkUh.ni. Hunk Failure.
palace of the sultan, made an attempt
Washington, Dec. 14.—The house
at sea. He was accused of murdering good graces, and yesterday Mr. Her­ and foreigners alike. This morning,
El Reno, O. T., Dee. 15.—The Stock on the sultan’s life. This was frus­ committee on education has reported
the captain, mate ami captain's wife man accom|>anied Stearns to the city while attending mass at Notre Dame, Exchange bank dosed its doors this trated by the attendants of the sultan.
favorably the bill to aid the educator»
of a vessel bound for South America.
and gave his written consent to Auditor President Sam made a circuit of the morning, and J. M. Cannon has l>een The sultan bad the men tortured in the in the states an«l territories in teaching
The opinion reversed the decision of McGuire for the issuance of a license city on horseback escorted by his staff
appointed receiver. The liabilities are hope of extracting the names of the articulate speech and vocal language to
the court la-low on the ground that for the marriage of his daughter, who officers, but without sjiecial military stated to be $50,000, ami the assets are instigators, but both succumbed with­
deaf children before the are of school
Brain's testimony should not hate been is but 17 years of age, to Mr. Stearns. display.
out revealing anything.
claimed to be worth $70,000.
age.
admitted.
China Forced to Yield.
A Mexican Execution.
A Birmingham. Ala., dis|mtch says:
C hina Gives Tn.
Cut Will He Itrnernl,
Peking, Dec. 14.—The German-Chi­
St. Petersburg, Dec. 15.—The No-
The Tennessee Coal «V Iron Railroad
Matamoras,
Mex., Dec. 14.—Panta­
Fall River, Mass., Dee. 16.—It is nese difficulty is practically settled. rosti says that in the absence of pro­
London, Dec. 13.—A dispatch from
Company and the Sloss Iron
Steel
The Germans refuse to discontinue the tests from the other powers, Germany's Pekin says that today the tsung-li- eon and Vic tori ano Guillen were shot
learned
that
the
committee
of
manufac
­
Company have ship|M>d 6,000 tons of
occupancy of Kiao-Chou bay. The gov­ evident determination to remain at ramen telegraphed the viceroy of the in the jailyard this morning for the
Alalmma pig iron to Pensacola, from turers which has charge of the details
ernor of Shan Tung province has hvn Kiao-Chou indicates that the partition province of Pe-chi-li, north of the prov­ murder of Dr. Manuel Carpio. Five
whence it will be forwarded to Kobe of the (tending arbitration of the ques­
removed from office, but will not be of China has actually begun, ami will ince of Shan Tung, that China, having policemen were in the firing platoon,
tion
of
wages
of
mill
operatives
will
and Yokohama, Japan. A trial ship­
any further degraded. No monopoly proceed quickly. Another newspaper complied with her demands, Germany and neither man was killed by the firet
recommend
that
the
salaries
of
treas
­
ment of Alabama iron made to Japan
of mines and railroads is conceited Ger­ expresses the belief that the United undertakes to evacuate Kiao Chou at a discharge.
several months ago gave such satisfac­ urers be reduced in the same proportion
many, but that country is given a pref­ States, among other powers, may ob­ date to be fixed hereafter, and will re­
Antigo, Wia, Dec. 14.—L. E. Buck­
tion that extensive orders are result­ as the wages of the other employes.
erence. Finally, the area immediately ject to the permanent occupation of ceive instead as a coaling station the man, cashier of the defunct Antigo
ing, thia shipment being the first of a The committee also decided that all
surrounding Kiao-Chou bay is set Kiao-Chou by Germany.
Russian Sam-Suh inlet, in the province of Foo bank, was arrested today on a charge
series. Japan heretofore was supplied overseers and others not usually in­
apart exclusively for Germany. Chins officials, however, appear indifferent to Kien, over against the island of For- > of embezzlement. His shortage will
cluded
in
cut-downs
should
ooms
under
by European furnaces, but Alabama
yields on all other point»
the order.
the step taken by Germany.
inosa.
reach $13,000.
has superseded these.