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w.iy /.Ci-t.ft f. Vfi'X(^ICAGO, Dec. 4.—Fourteen persons were smothered to death, in their beds,in a fire which started on the third ,i,floor of the Lincoln hotel 176 Madison .^street early this morning. j^iost of the dead were taken from

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The origin of the fire is a mystery. There were 125 persons in the hotel. Most of them are said to have been strangers here for the Stock Show. ^Stores of the guests had thrilling escapes. Many jumped from the fourth story. ritvf The dead:

ED TONE!?. Milwaukee. WARD LOWE. Sechler&ville, Wis., railway mail clerk.

C. P. COWAN, St. Louis, .collector on the Wabash. TWO UNIDENTIFIED MEN.

Ten injured guests of the hotel are at .the hospitals suffering from hurts received by jumping from windows of the burning building to the roofs of adjoining structures.

The injured: R. C. Hamilton, a stock raiser from ""Lebanon, lnd. y-.. ... W. J. Thomas, a mail clerk employed on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway.

A. £. Hains, Fairmont, Ind. 4'- Mayer, Burlington, Iowa.

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Mrs.'J. Sheppard and 7-year-old son.

William Hargraves, Davenport, Iowa. Edward Weber, clerk of the hotel, who ^as on duty at the time the fire began, and is being detained by the po- $ lice pending an investigation.

Norie of the injured persons is seriously hurt. Mrs. Sheppard jumped from $! the third story of the hotel to the roof of a restaurant in an adjoining building, with her child in her arms. She Is thought to be injured internally. All those avIio met death were sufliocated.

The flames had not extended to their roams, but clouds of smoke poured into to sleeping apartments and those within thein either died before becoming fully conscious or were unable to find their way to doors in time to escape the effects6f the smoke. Most of the bodies were found in bed, indicating that consciousness of their appalling situation never came to them. -V

When the bodies wcic" removed to the Bsd^vvolk by firemen anil policemen they wen? examined for purposes of identification, but the victims were stranger sand the hotel clerks could not recognize tliera. The fhe originated between the-second and third floors from an unknown cause. The building was heated bv steam a,nd stoves. Electricity

and gas were used for illumination. It is supposed tnat a guest left a gas jet opeh and the escaping gas ignited. The fire'burned for some time before it was discovered. The hotel was patronized by farmers and visitors from the country. ttfist night 120 guests were registered,^ The rooms were filled'and cots were placed in extra rooms and hailwayS'^o furnish sleeping accommodations.

The ,ftj?tel occupies the second, third and fourth floors above Joseph Brown nrd tympany's jewelry store. When the guijefcts were aroused by cries of fire they ifjignpeded to the narrow hallway th \t afforded the only means of exit. Tlie'^a^sage. .was blocked by straggling

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Frightful Holocaust In the Lincoln Hotel In Chicago Early This Morning as Result ot Leaking

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SOME JUMPED FROM THE WINDOWS

httFIC ENSUED WHEN THE SLEEPERS WERE AROUSED FROM THEIR BEDS TO' FIND THEMSELVES TRAPPED BY THE FLAMES AND MEN BATTLED LIKE MAD TO REACH

THE EXITS—MAJORITY OF THE VICTIMS WERE STRANGERS IN CHICAGO TO ATTEND THE STOCK SHOW.

,tli,e fourth floor. It is probable that othjOrs are dead. jir One man jumped from the roof into alley and was fatally injured.

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«jrt»a.rs old. vrfvj ^ji. k, WOOD, Lebanon, Ind., 43 yeais ^61 d.

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A. B. COON, lawyer, Marengo, 111. T. Y. SLOCUM, salesman of agricultural implements, Waeonda, 111.

F. W. COREY, Bucyrus, O., railway mail clerk. B. F. BOSWELTJ, paper box maker, Chicago.

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men who fought each other with desperation. No headway was made by the flames and the panic stricken crowd quieted down, leaving the biulding in scanty attire. Barefooted and half-clad guests of the hotel were cared for at restaurants and stores until sufficient clothing could be obtained.

Hotel Caller Missing.

A man known to the hotel manager as "Mack" was sent to the third floor where the fire began at 5:30 to call a guest for an early train. He failed to awaken the guest and has not been seen since the fire. The police are searching for him convinced that he knows the origin of the flames if they were not caused by his carelessness. Identification of the bodies is difficult because of their disrobed condition.

At 11 o'clock the search of the building had been finished and all of the bodies, a total of 14, were recovered.

The police and building departments are making a rigid inspection of the prem ises and it is likely that prosecutions will follow. The building was practically without fire escapes and all of the hallways were so narrow that two men could not pass abrest.-•

Among those who escaped without injury were E. T. Tosrcin. Detroit: C. P. Cowen ,St. Louis: F. Seif, St. Louis: C. R. Scott, Cincinnati.

DINES WITH ROOSEVELT

Old Maine Guide and Hunting Companion of President Gets Invitation to the White House.

BANGOR, Me., Dec. 4.—When President Roosevelt was in Bangor on August 27 last, he met his old guide and hunting companion in the Maine woods. Bill Sewell of Island Falls, and entertained him at luncheon in the Bangor house. Later in the day Sewell accompanied the president and party to Ellsworth, where they were entertained at dinner by Senator Hale.

When Sewell left fhe train at Bangor on the return that night the president said: "Bill, I am going to have you and your wife come down to visit me in Washington some time."

On Tuesday Sewell received the invitation

MINERS'THOKTAGE.'

West Virginia Official Supposed to Be Over $1,200 in Debt to Organization.

PARKERSBT.TRG, W. Va„ Dec. 4.While the strictest secrecy is observed by the officials and nothing can be learned officially, it is generally reported and credited that Vice President Lewis of the United Mine Workers' National organization, who has been in the New River coal field for some time, has discovered a shortage in ''the miners' relief fund amounting to something over $1,200.

MAIL IN AUTOMOBILES®

First Route of the Kind Established Between Portland and Penn ville, This State.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 4.—The first rural automobile mail route in the Lmtea States has been successfully established between Portland and Pennville, this state, covering a distance of twelve miles. Wilbur F. Hitt, special agent, who has examined into its merits, reports that the government is much interested, and expects to see many automobile mail routes established in the near future.

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Twenty-Five Degrees Below Zero Some Places—Coldest Weather in Years.

F*T. WORTH, Tex., Dec. 4.—A cold blizzard struck all of Texas last night and today. The westiern part of. the state is covered, with light snow,, with the mercury 20 degrees below zero. in the Panhandle ancl 25. below in this part of the state. This is the ooldest weather in years.

Crowd at Dr. Parker's Funeral. LONDON, Dec. 4.—The funeral services of the late Dr. Joseph Parker, pastor of the city temple, were held*this morning. The temple was crowded*

MINISTER CONCHA DEFENDS HIMSELF

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—According to a statement from Minister Concha of Colombia, who is stopping at the Hotel Endicott in this city he is still his government's representative to this country and has not been removed.

Of the canal negotiations and charge of interrupting them, he'said: "The government of the United States proposes that article XXIII, of the memorandum of the 18th of April. 1902 which bears upon the subject of the control of the canal, and which has positively been acepted by Secretary Hay in his notes of 23d of April and 181" of July, 1902, be worded in such a fashion as not to permit Colombia to intervene for any cause in matters relating to the canal. I have not accented this change and have merely insisted upon that which was solemnly agreed upon in the first protocol. Secretary Hny has not yet answered my notes on the subject since the 22d of November, end has avoid ed the discussion of th interpretation of the treatv of 184fi. the .^clauses of_ which are closflv similar to, the new, treaty, under discussion. "I have therefore not broken or interrupted the negotiations, hut have limited myself to the statement thnt I would not sicn nnv treaty in which the sovereignty of Colombia on the Isthmus of Panama is not preserved and maintained with all force and viaror."

EMPLOYES j?EWAR0ED

Rich Transportation Man Gives His Men Valuable Shares of Stock in His Shipping Interests.

BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 4.—Bernard N. Baker, formerly president of the Atlantic Transport company, will divide nearly SSOO.OOO among 300 employes in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis. To each person who was in the employ of the Atlantic -Transport company one year or mora anrf who will remain after Janua,ry 1 he will give $1,000 of the stock of the new com pany. To tthose employes of the Atlantic company who "will lose their position on that date he will give $2,000 of the stock.

pO'iaoTiN "BEER

Wealthy New York Man Died After Drinking a Bottle and Police Are at Work.

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DENIES AGREEMENT TO CLAUSE WHICH TOOK COLUMBIA'S RIGHT TO INTERVENE.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Another poison mystery is occupying the attention of the police. George F. Leyh, a well-to-do truss manufacturer of Williamsburg', died Tuesday after drinking part of a bottle of beer. The coroner's investigation there shows there is a white sediment in tha beer remaining in the botfle and a peculiar look about the glass from which the beer was drunk.

Mr. Leyh kept his beer in the cellar of his house. No one had access except himself and family.

Vv, SQUARES A CIRCLE j$k

Claim of an Old German MathematicJan and He Wants Money .F^or .His Secret.

NEWPORT NEWS,- Va., Dec. 4.—According to Professor William Bertsch, a mathematician formerly of Geyssen university, and now an inmate of the soldiers' home at Hampton, he has succeeded in squaring a circle.

Professor Bertsch is ready to give his secret to. the world, but asks as compensation for his thirty years of brain labor an annuity to be paid by some American university.

STOP COCK FIGHTING

The Philippine Commission Issues an Edict Which Will Elimina'e the National Sport.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The war department makes public the test of the bill enacted by the Philippines commission recently to prohibit cock fighting. This bill meets with the unqualified approval of the authorities at the war department, and by direction of the president will be strictly enforced.

CASHIER A SUICIDE

Official of the Cassatt Bank in Philadelphia Found Dead in His Office Today.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4.—With a bullet hole in his head, Howard T. Goodwin, treasurer of Cassatt & Co., bankers and brokers, was found this morning lying-on a couch In his office in. the Arcade building. He had committed suicide. No motive Jfpr the deed has been ^ascertained. ..

MANY LIVES ARE JiOSTsIN HOTEL'FIRE IN CHICAGO TODAY FOURTEEN PERISH IN AFIRE

OPERATORS BALK AND CLOSE BOOKS

INDEPENDENTS REFUSE TO SHOW FIGURES TO THE COMMISSION.''^5*

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PROVOKING DELAYS ENSUE

ARBITRATORS NOT ^PLEASED WITH THE INACTIVITY OF, .* "BOTH SIDZS IN V-\SE. ,,V -ft

SAYS HAY ACTED PREMATURELY I BREAKER BOYS CALLED TODAY

Grist of Evidence Yesterday Shows Miners Average $350 a'Year After Operators Have Docked Them

For Various Causes.

SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 4.—Impatience is being shqwn by the members of the anthracite coal strike commission in the delay of the presentation of evidence in the coal controversy and further efforts to an amicable agreement on some of the points at issue outside of the hearing. At the present rate of progress, the hearing will not be concluded for many days. Whatever agreement may be reached out of court, the commission, however, is determined that the full facts which led up to the" {yjreement shall be made known to the public.

The independent operators are kicking vigorously at the prospect of being asked to present their profit an$ loss books and some go so far as to say they will not submit them. It is the intention of the miners' counsel to present further the testimony of miners and mine workers. today.

A Hungarian said he had been working in Coxe Bros' mines four years and that he earned about $250 last year. iHe .also jcompl^ine^of the docking, and said! that he had been docked about eight cars in two weeks. He submitted his wage statements for the first year or more which sliows that the largest amount of money he--received for any two weeks was a little more than $18. One statement showed that he made less than $3 for two weeks, but he could not tell whether he worked full time during that particular two weeks

W. H. Deterrv, president of a local union employed as a miner by Coxe Bros. & Co.. Grafton, said the company men are paid an average of $7.20 a week and that a blacklist exists at the Coxe mines He further said that-he was .on the blacklist for nine months because he refused to work a breast which netted him only $3 a week. He also complained of the docking system. "Have you ever had a vacation?" asked Darrow. "Oh. yes. some times went to church on a Sunday." replied Strenix, who added! with gusto that he. had once been to Allentown and it cost him a dollar each way for the fare. Strenix. asked if he had any money now. renlied that he had forty cents in his

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 4.—A Washington dispiatch says an Indiana delegation headted by Congressman Crum packer called on President Roosevelt today "in the interest of A. B. Anderson of Crawfordsville, for federal judge and, came aAvay persuaded through the president's conversation, that Anderson is to be appointed. No announcement was made by the president.

REED RESTS EASIER

Operation on the Ex-Speaker May Not Be Necessary—Wife and Daughter at Ris Bedside.

WASHINGTON, Dec. .4.—Ex-Speaker Reed, who is sufferirfg from an attack of catarrhal appendicitis at the Arlington hotiel, passed a very comfortable night. Dra. Gardner and MacDonald, the attending physicians, are hopeful that an operation Will not be necessary.

Turn For the Worse.

Later—The condition of ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed, who was taken ill yesterday, is regarded by. his physicians as most critical, owing to the complication of ailments, from which he is suffering.1 It is understood that for some time Mr. Reed has been afflicted with Bright's disease.

President Tyler's Grandson Dead. RICHMOND, Va», Dec, 4.—James R. Tyler, grandson of the late President Tyler of the United States, died yesterday at the Confederate Soldiers' home. He .was. 64 years old.,

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Supposed to Be the Man Who Enineered the Alliance Which is of Vast Importance to the

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CLEVELAND, O., Dec.' 4—fheEverettMoore syndicate of tins city has sold its trolley line between Detroit and Toledo to the Grand Trunk and Clover Leaf roads. It will be used as the link to connect the two systems. The trolley property brought $1,500,000 the payment being made in bond, signed by both companies.

The Grand Trunk will now run its trains through to Toledo and connect over the Clover Leaf to St. Louis, while the Clover Leaf will run its trains through to Detroit and connect with the Grand1 Trunk to the East,

In the same connection it can be stated that President Yoakum, of the 'Frisco road, has been elected a director of the Toledo belt railway, that Connects the Clover Leaf and the newly purchased trolley line. The understanding is that the Grand Trunk and 'Frisco have acquired large holdings of Clover.Leaf stock and that a union of interests has been arranged between the Grand Trunk. Clover Leaf and 'Frisco systems, furnishing li"e from Portland. Me., and Quebec to Texas points with traffic arrangements to the city of Mexico. This new system woulrl touch three countries and he the only tri-naiional system.

SOUGHT RELIEF IN DEATH

Woman Married Isenbarger But Her Love Was With Gonyer and She Ended Her Life.

FINDLAY, O., Dec. 4.—Mrs. David IsWbarger, 19, "feommitted suicide last night by swallowing two ounces of carbolic acid. Pir.ned to the bosom of her dress wag a letter addressed to-Mike Gonyer, a Say laborer, with whom slie had been in love ever since a few weeks after her marriage to Isenbarger, two years ago The letter was full of terms of endearment for her lover.

Light and Wster War.

CUMBERLAND, Mi., Dec. 4 —Hyndman, Pa., Is without lights or fire protection. The electric light company turned off the light becausevthe town council refused to sign a contract for an increase in price and the water company refused to*sign a new contract because the coun-.

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GRAND TRUNK, CLOVER LEAF AND FRISCO ACQUIRE ONLY .TRI-NATIONAL SYSTEM.

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CAUSES SAD WRECK

PANHANDLE FREIGHT TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER AT ^CO'SHOCTON, 0.

ENGINEER INSTANTLY KILLED

BUT ONE MAN OF EACH CREW ESCAPED WITHOUT BEIINIG^ SEftlOUSLY HURT.

TRAFFIC BLOCKED FOR HOURS

Trains Were Going at Utmost Speed ijlliand the Damage to the Locojjj motives and Rolling Stock -Mi Was Nearly Total

COSHOCTON, Ohio., Dec. 4.—Through the confessed mistake of George Shaw, tower operator, two. freight trains came together in a head-on collision on the Panhandle this morning at 2 o'clock. Besides the wrecking of both locomotives and a dozen cars, Tony Veo, of Toledo, an engineer, was instantly killed James McCormiek, a fireman had his nose broken and was nearly drowned by being thrown into the Tuscarawas river. Frank Armstrong of Columbus, conductor on the Panhandle has a dleep cut on his head and body and both feet were crushed. His condition is critical. John Black of Dennison, a brakeman legs brpken and scalded. Condition is serious. J. C. Lyons, brakeman, head cut. Charles Bainhill, brakeman. cuts from splintered cars. Engineer George Nicholas and Fireman Marshall escaped serious injury. Both trains were running at full speed. Traffic was blocked for five hours.

LADY HART0PP SCORES

Never Dined Alone With the Earl Cowley as Husband Alleged in His Suit For Divorcce.

LONDON, Dec. 4.—The case of Hartopp vs. Hartopp, in 'which one of England's first family is airing choice scandal in the divorce court, continues a magnet for society.

Lady Hartopp scored today when the •cross-examination of the servants of Earl Cowley, the alleged co-responds ..t, was resumed. The servants denied emphatically that the lady dined alone with the earl at his residence, and their testimony on this important point could not be shaken."

WANTED, A POSTMASTER

The.Fellovv at Vale, Maryland, Has Quit and no One Wants the Job.

CUMBERLAND, Md., Dec. 4.—An afternoon paper here contained a novel advertisement in its want columns. The postmaster, Yale, of Summit, has refused longer to serve in that capacity on account of the alleged inefficiency of the mail service, and no one. else seems to nt the position,

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APPOINTMENT OF WEST AS COMMISSIONER OF DISTRICT Or COLUMBIA APPROVED,

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PENSION APPROPRIATIONS MADE

House Finishes Work on This Measure—Several Consulate Appointments Recommended By President During the Day.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.—Immediately upon assembhnir todav the senate agreed that if the adjournment was taken today it be until Monday. Mr. Bever- .« idge, chairman of the senate committee on territories, sent to the d*»sk and had read a lengthy telegram from the nonpartisan single state-hood convention held in Oklahoma City yesterday embody •, ing a resolution adont.ed by the conven- a ion favoring the creation of a state from Oklahoma and Indian Territory and opposing the passage of the omnibus statehood bill.

In the executive session of the senate today the nomination of Oliver Wendell Holmes of Massachusetts to be associate uistlce of the supreme ^ourt. wa,s,un^niraously confirmed.

Favorable action was also taken in the case of H. L. West to be commissioner of the District of Columbia.

The house committee on appropriations today finished work on the bill making! npproori:lions fox^tka..payment of invalid and other pensions for the fiscal year. 1904. which will carry a total of $139,847.600.

The appropriation for 1903 was $139, 842.230.

Rathbo'rie Reaches Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Major Estea G. Rathbone, forfnerly director of posts in Cuba, has arrived here to push his claims for vindication.

BREWERY LOCK OUT

Cincinnati Union Gets Nine Hour Day, More Pay and Agree® to Lift

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CINCINNATI, O., Diea 4.-^The big brewery workers' lockout struggle is ended. Last evening the articles of agreement and settlement that restored peaca were signed by the brewers exchange and the chosen representatives of the fighting unions. This closes the fierce contest that has been attracting the attention of the conutry and agitating all the' local labor organizations throughout a period of nine months. i?Vi

yv SCENE IN REICHSTAG

Singer, a Socialist, Denounced the ^Speaker and the Session Ended in the Excitement.

BERLIN, Dec. 4.—Herr Singer, a Socialist deputy, created a scene in the reichstag today which ended in an abrupt termination of the session.

Singer, who had the floor and was delivering a speech filled with his political belief, took umbrage at a Temark of thj presiding officer, Vice President Co. Stolberg. He approached the speake": platform and began a violent harangue.

MINISTER BUCK DEAD

United States Representative at Tokio, Japan, Dropped Dead While on a Hunting Expedition.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.—Japanese Minister Takahira called at the state department this afternoon and informed Secretary. Hay that he had received a dispatch announcing the death .of Alfred E. "Buck, United States minister at TOkio. The dispatch stated that the minister had surdenly fallen dead while out shooting ducks from a boat.

APPOINTMENTS MADE

Baraeii For Consul in Bavaria George W. Ellis For Place in Diplomatic Service.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—To be secretary of the legation of the United States at Monrovia. Liberia, George W. Ellis of Kansas.

To be consul of the United States at Bamberg, Bavaria, William Bardell of New -York.

THREE THOUSAND DEAD

Latest Returns of the Extent of the Disaster Which Followed Eruption of Volcano Santa Maria.

SAN FRANCISCO, CaL, Dec. 4.—Latest advices say that not more than threes thousand people were killed by the volcanic outbreak of Santa Maria, in Guate«.. fmala:/

Duncan Has Si* Wives.

CHICAGO, Dec. 5.—George F. Duncan, alias George E. Davis, said, by the police to be the husband of at least six wives, is under arrest at Toledo, O. Duncan iSj under Indictment for wife abandonment In: Chicago

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