Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1900 — Page 11

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DISASTROUS WRECK A Score of Persons Killed and Sixty Injured In Mexico. San Antonio, Dec. 3. — A terrible •wreck in which a score of persons were killed and about 60 hurt occurred on the Mexican Central railway on Thursday afternoon between Tamaclia and Symon, 50 miles south of Jumllco. The first news of the disaster reached here Sunday. Edward Rische. a citizen of San Antonio, was at the scene 20 minutes after the engines crashed together. The place where the wreck occur red is in a valley at the foot of two immense hills. At the time both trains were running 30 miles an hour. One of the trains had on lioard a construction crew numbering 150 men. The other was a freight train of 55 empty cars. Three engines and about 40 cars were piled train employes, were forced to flee to avoid being lynched. The names of the killed and injured are not obtainable. This Is said to be the most serious wreck that iias ever occurred in Mexico. Race Horses Cremated. Ills Point, Tex., Dec. 4.—J. H. ' Smith's receiving stables, four miles ’ west of here, were burned, including nearly all of his string of race horses. ' r The Le Conte pear, which revolution- : ized pear growing in southern Califor- 1 nla, was originally the Chinese sand 1 pear, grown solely for ornamental pur- 1 poses. < I 1

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hopes again rising BELIEF THU THE AMF.RK YN POSITION Win. BE FIED BY THE POWERS. excessive damages decried Administration Official, Are Sanguine Thai the Minister, of the Powers Will Soon Reach a Common Ground of AgreementThe Chinese Situation. DeC - offl< als continue sanguine that the ministers of the powers at Pekin will soon reach a common ground of agreethe t-I i th<> d ? n,ands t 0 bp '»ade upon the (lilnese imperial government in T1 i smi i f ° r the b ° Xer ° U,rttgPS ' The state department is in communication with the ministers andambassadors of the United States to the European courts and advices which have come from them from time to time lead the officials here to hope that the powers will lie brought to the position maintained by the United States In dealing with the Chinese, viz: That there should not be demands made upon the imperial government which it is not aide to fulfill. Our government has persistently held to this view in the progress of the negotiations between tlie ministers at Pekin and if the principle of this contention can be maintained in the combined note to be handed to the Chinese plenipotentiaries a decided advantage will be had at the start. The attitude of our government on this subject has been made clear to Mr. Conger. The meeting between him and the German and British ministers Saturday at Pekin presumably was in compliance with the minister’s latest instructions from Washington. Nothing has been heard from Mr. Conger by the state department for several days. KRUGER CHANGES HIS ROUTE Emperor William Politely Declines to Receive the Old Traveler. Berlin, Dec. 3. — Mr. Kruger has abandoned his proposed visit to Berlin owing to the receipt of an official intimation that Emjieror William regrets that, in consequence of previous arrangements, he will be unable to receive him. The Boer statesman will therefore proceed direct from Cologne for Holland. He telegraphed to this effect Sunday afternoon. The Cologne Gazette, in an inspired commlnique. says: "Mr. Kruger's visit is not agreeable to Germany, his aim being to obtain intervention in South Africa. It would be a grave political mistake, it would be even a great crime to allow him to entertain even a spark of hope that Germany will render him any practical support.",

This declaration is accompanied witli , reproaches, Mr. Kruger being charged i with “having encouraged a useless guerilla warfare and having disregarded Germany’s advice when he might have still followed It.” The press generally strikes the same note. I PAID IT UNDER COVER ; The Sultan Has Made Good the De- ' Hiunds of the United States 'J Constantinople, Dee. 3. — Hassan : Pasha. Ottoman minister of marine, . and General Williams, representing the Cramp Ship Building company of Philadelphia, have signed a contract II for the construction of the cruiser for ■ | tlie ottoman navy. The price to be I paid is $1,750,000, which includes slls,'HH> as indemity to the United States i for losses sustained by Americans duri ing the Armenian massacres. Captain , C. M. Chester of the United States battleship Kentucky, with a number of officers of the battleship is expected here today. He will probably remain , i a few days. , A Reminder For Morocco. Washington, Dee. 3.—The state 1 department lias sent instructions to 1 I nlted States Concul Gummers at Tangier, Morrocco, to proceed to the capital if that country as far as possi- f ble, on a United States man-of-war ■ to present afresh the claim of the Unit-1 ed States for indemnity on acount ofl the murder of Marcus Ezagul, a nat1 urallzed American citizen, who was 1 killed In June 1900. The warship, 1 which probably will be the Kentucky, I recalled from Smyrna for that purpose will convey the consul from Tangiers to Magazam, which is the nearest port 1 to Fez, the capital of Morocco. I Volunteers Becoming Scarce. Berlin. Dee. I.—The German losses in China from typhoid and climatic diseases generally continue large, despite semi official denials. Indeed the official dispatches themselves furnish I proof of the inroads of fever, as they I daily announce the number of deaths. Consequently volunteers for the China reserves are becoming more and more scarce. Oscar Wilde Dead. Paris, Dec. I.—Oscar Wilde is dead. He expired in an obscure house in the Latin quarter yesterday from meningitis, and was received into the Catholic church on his death-bed. Wilde had been living in a hotel on the Rue des Beaux Arts, where he had been known for several months under the name of Manmoth. The levees on both sides of the Mississippi are of sufficient extent that if they were built In a single straight line they would be about 1.300 miles long o long enough to stretch the greater pait of the distance between New Orleans and New York. I 1

‘VASTNESS OF ST. PETER’S.' Large Object* Appear Small In the Great Cath<*drnl. During a recent ceremony in St. Peter’s. Rome, one of tlie crystal chandeliers suspended from the ceiling began to creak ominously, and the people beneath it hastily scattered. In a moment the mass fell and was dashed into a thousand pieces on the floor below. In St. Peter’s a few days before when the workmen were suspending these chandeliers they were taking them out Os piles of numbered boxes, for St. Peter’s, like a theater, has many “properties’’ and is decked In a different manner for its different ceremonials. Cords run over pulleys fastened far up aloft, ami with these the chandeliers were hoisted to their places. St Peter’s Is so enormous that the eye there is continually deceived. The chubby cherubs at the holy water font look to be the size of ordinary babies, yet they are nearly seven feet tall, ind a man standing beside them looks like a dwarf. When the workmen were hoisting these chandeliers from the floor, a traveler noted with amazement that the masses of crystal were over eight feet high. Yet when hoisted to their places far up in the dim heights they looked about the size of a man's head. Workmen in St. Peter’s are called "sanpictrini.” They take their name from the basilica “San Pietro”—“sanpietrino,” plural "sanpietrini.” They have a set of lofty scaffolds mounted on rollers. These they move from place to place about the vast church. They are not unlike our fire departments’ water towers. Ladder after ladder runs up the scaffolding, and by their aid they reach places from 100 to 150 feet above the floor. Other ingenious scaffoldings are used for work on the inside of the dome. Seen up there the “si .pietrini” look like flies crawling on the ceiling. The top of the dome is al out 400 feet above the floor.—St Louis Republic. Beginning Early. “Shall I have to get married when I grow up?” asked little Flossie one day of her mother. “Just as you please, dear,” answered her mother, with a smile. “Most women do, however." "Yes; I suppose so,” continued the little girl musingly, "and I think I’d better start and look out for a husband now. They say that Aunt Jane has been at It for 20 years and hasn’t caught one yet.”—Exchange. Proof to Her. “I am quite certain that poor man | has seen better times,” said Mrs. Gaz- | «atn after giving breakfast to a tramp. ■ “No doubt.” added Mr. Gazzam dry- I ly. "They all have.” "But this poor fellow didn’t ask me for broken victuals. He said It grieved him to be obliged to apply for a collation.”—Detroit Free Press.

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