Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 31 January 1902 — Page 2

Wceklu Courier.

C. ! M I iihlulit-r. : IN HI AN A. j.i'i:i;. The United States battleships loxtra and Wisconsin received ordern. n the tM " Kate Valparaiso. Chili, lor the A Una lit station. InprnncntntlM Dick, of ohi, on the 2. id. introduced in congress the 1111 gini'il upon by the militia officers .f the sev r.ii states, t bwtrwaea 'he tVi :i nc v p the unlit in. I aaaThe cabinet meeting, on the SM WH devoted largely to dim nssion '1 pending appointment.- in the se. ml slepartments end the coming risil cf Prince Henry of Prussia. Mrs. Frederic I-er, who. as Camilla Irs... wa- famous for 50 yearn In America and Furope as a violinist died iti New York n t ho -Olli. Sh Va lrn in Nantc-, June V.l. IS34. Orders have been issued by the war depart im-nt ns-igninpr. t he Fourth regiment of infantr,, which recently arrived at San Francisco from th Philippine, to the laeparttucnt ol The state board of regents of th ITnlvcreitj "f Minnesota, on the 2:td elected Prof. L. Washburn, of th Oregon state university, to nennen the 1st OttO Lugger, as Mute entouioh 'pis' cprenentnthw Wiley. nf Ahv banin. on the -1st. bat rod need a MB designed to prevent the holding up of irain- for purposes of robbery. It provides n penalty of death or lift imprisonment for tka guilty parties Ernest Gutschow. manager of the American Toliacco To. 's works at San Francisco; Judge Bernard 'Phillips ami BufttS Patterson, are in St. Petersburg Investigating the tobnOCO industry for the American Tobacco Co. The steamship Pin Sucy, which mailed from lacoiua. Wash., on the List, for the orient, carried a cargo valued at T07,937. This is greater in value than any other cargo previously aent from I'ugct Sound to tht orient. The syndicate of Neu York bank rrs who have been floating the new German three -per-oent. loan, amounting to 800,000,000 marks, have received nubacfi ptiotM from the I'nited States nearly covering the entire amount of the iaaue. The first blizzard in Seal tie. Wash, for several years occurred, on the 84th. and completely tied up all street car traffic and generally interfered) with business. :-now. the tirst thia year, fell heavily. No snow fell in Seattle l.ist winter. Gov. (Jeer of Oregon issued a prof laination. on the -al. urging that .lanuary .". le ohserred in the schools am McKinley day" by special exercises, and that the school children be (fiven an opport unity to coittrilute to t lw men., rial 1 "d. Honorary ic Admiral N an EiBcndechcr. the Prussian minister at t'nrlsruhc. P.aden, formerly an attache of the (iertnan embassy at Washington, has been ad. Iel by Emperor William to th suite of Prince Henry for the lattcrV viit to the United States The National Kill. ling Trades Council closed its fifth annual convention at Worcester. Mass.. on the 2 1st. Resolutions vvere adopted condemning the notion of the Central Trades and falhtTI union of St. IjOUll for issuing a boycott agnhsst the L.aiiaiuna Purchase exposition. A dispatch from Constantinople asserts that an American syndicate has subinittcd an offer to the porte In bnlM the Bagdad railroaal. The syndicate ihx-M not ask for a railesJre guarantee, tmt desires that the surplus tHhee from the districts t be traversed by the railroad he applied to the work of construction. At Cheyenne, Wyo., on the HHk, Peter Bergerson, a tnemlaer of the Cheyenne Rifle dub. brolH the world's reconi for 100 consecutive shots, off hand, ju() yards range, standard American target. Ik'rgerSon's average was SO' ,. That f the previous champion. Kelly, of the Walnut Hill club, of Massachuset is. was 8fc 'HI. Luther II. atenh, the w.11 known Spiritualist, preached two sernioui at ( hrist I ni Verna Ii -t ehiireh in Middletown, N. V., on the Ittfc, ssj "Jesus, the ChfisL" He sfflrmed his belief in the divinity of ( hrist, ,-md afeclsred that modern spiritualism had its birth in ( hrist's announecnn nt of His identity to many after the resurrection. Sketches of the new Philippine coins, as pro pose, 1 by the Philippine Coniini----ii.li, were shown to the members of the house insular committee, on the Mtk, iy Director of the Mint Roberts, I b.-y show a Philippine design with a native head and wording on one side, while tin- rrverse nile shows nn American mldem and the wording in RngRl h. Tin London grand jury, on the 1 3th, found a true bill affafoat Dr. Krause, the former g -ruf r of JohannesInn . 'I ruiisv ;. on the barge of ;niting Cornelius Rroeckamaa, the ts public prtasecntoi of .lohannesburg (Who was excelled Sc pt et.-) ,c r JHJ last) to murdet tToha i agin . , , , Sil Knglish lawyer, who wa all.-xlic.' to lord Roberta1 sin it

CUREKNT TOPICS, THE IEWI BRIEF. FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. In tiie uate. on the LVth, air I.oIk. chairman or tha Philippine cvaaatttt'-e, reported the Phllipiutu .- tariff lin. nn.t n.ivc not tee il.;it tu- w...il.l .all I :; oil the UM Mr li.iwllns. of the minority, nftersd a sMsetltMU The bill for tin w t.iiiiist.m. nt of h rtiipsrimsnl of hmi whs un.t.-r ooMMerallon saosi of the t.. eveloplna strum oppoattloa to mitnx .f Its erotrtatona. in the house, nenerul ilctente on the urgent .lc tLiency bill occupied moat of the sesnton. .01 Item In the hill f..r Ihe .i ..prtatlon or $Jtü.oüO for u iiiiit.iis i..-t ,1 M.nii. precipitating .1 psncntl debate. In the wwitf, ,.i the 211. the l'hlllp-

ptnea tariff bin w is under eeaaatttsmtmn ) for three hours. The measure was mad. . the uunalshf.l business Mr K.iwllns ! (Utah) delivered a vigorous ipeech In i support the minority report In the houae, the urent di ti. k n bill under die. nssion. the debate takln! d Wide . ranj:e The Irrigation of jrid laadl In the Weat and th. advisability ol retaining control of the Philippine "were the main : topics under ManvMtm In the senate, on the 2M. the bill pro- , vi.llnK for the establishment of a department of commerce was under discussion for nearly two hours, little progress heHM BN dt however, as. tljouxh uo obiectlon to the mam feature of the bill d.-Vi-loped. members showed a disposition to ie It car. 'ul coaidcratioti as to de'aJi- In Hie house th. Itrianl detlelency bill te!rsr under consideration, a strong nnrtttan debate developed on an amendm. nt t.. appropiiati Sae,0M for "shelter and protection" of the oftkera and enlisttvi nun of the army on iurv In the PhiltppinM. The tmte ,,u the adoption ,,r th- amendment st I; Aye-. Iff; aayi !; Mr ) ' i in tu i .... .. , y . voted ' with the republican til the Betl.U tl,, ; 1 n reso- ""'' extending th. thtiilta ot Minifreaa , to Mr Behtey "for his brave wu.l able or.! Whll la iinnn.in.l ,f ti. i.m,.,i. ua lie. 'i i,i ,,. rtCtorloUJI battle of Hill . " ' i. i. rr. .1 i.i in,- commit:., on naval affairs. Mr Tellers motion, proviiiini: f..r nter . ntion mt this govern' ment In behalf ,.f the Uo-r ...mtn.indaut. setie-p, r win postponed Indettnltely, aa DuuLtrpera na.i already be. n executed Th or mm. ni or commerce bill was un.tcconelderatlon .lurlnif th.- Krc.,t.-r 1,,,,-t ,,( wie k. ,,sio:i. i... ,!. in, . , M s 'Voe In tti. nouae, enasidemtlon ef ine ure.-nt aenclency bill was cinplet. tl but owbiK to the lat.n.ss of the hour. ! -s.u:.- ..f the bill was postponed until th.- :t:h The bin to Inoreaae th. pas of rural free delivery carriers from STxiu to jm. ;.. r annum was passed The senute was nt in session I -n the nth . . In th. bouaa tlie urgent ciency appropriiitlon bill was pi.saed. arid the remainder of be session was devoted to private pension . Islatlon The republicana forced a reeord vote on th. amendment to the urgent d. flcieni V bill to upprof.rli.te I'" ',' f,,r the protection and sh- iter of Amern an soldiers In the Philippines. ' and 1; democrats voted f..r it TJie house adjourned until the 1'Tth. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. King Victor Kmanuel lias c.of rre I the order of 94. Maurice and St. Lazarus upon William MancoaL A di-patli from Tnulon say that the Pi eiich battle-hip ha rleinagne is still fitting out at that port, and quotes the French authorities as haying that the e-c i-. U"t going to Ifsvocost Ifn, Mckinley has objected to the use of Hotel McKinley" as the name for a new hotel in ( an ton. U. It had been otbciully announced by a company oi OnMtojdsuns that a $l'0.00u structure would he so named. -lohn B. ICeserve, former tripsin, r of the stat' of Kcbraaka, ha. hen indicted by the gmnd jury in Dotbjlss 'oUTtty on the ohoryc of enile.e-tm-nt of money hclonytnf to the sLate v-hi 1 i und. The er, aj BogST 0., of Peoria. 111., has. through an old (iertnan vinegar maker. dfcseoeBTe)d a process whereby ne faHon of hydrol, a hy-pn d net in the refining of supar, can Im- made to yiM one gsJkMR of excellent iTililc spirit- and about three gallons ,,f pood vim-par. George steward, aged !'.. convicted, Sfl ih. testimony of his father, at . Leavenworth. Kns., on the Stealing $17, retaliated, up.-n 2 d, of being M-ntcneed to f0 days In jail, by denouncing his father as the murderer of Alfred Cumniings, a civil war veteraa, in his little home mar the s.ldbrs'' home. dsc. mi spawr. of Lexington, 111., on the 2l1h. Completed a century of . istea-,-. 7C years of which have been spent in McLean count v He w as horn in Penn-v Ivanin. .lanuary 14, iMg, ifninciUUS friends called to congratulate "i ncle Jakey " The nrtlst-cor respondent ef the London Craphie who has been follow inr the i-;im' of Miw Stone, the rnptive American missionary, telegraphed from Dioutnal I'.ala. Balonicsv, on tb- 21d, that the captives xxen in Bulgaria, eight hour- .IKfnnt from the frontier. . ludge Peter ft. Grosscup and Jona M. Clark haxe been appointed by Judge Tatty, at Chicago, as thai truei lees of the fund, now amount ing to eeorly $rj).oo. ami left by Joka Creemr for the erection of a statue of Abraham Lincoln. Crav Snake, bv his ehiof lieutenant, has iticd n pro. laination to nil reek eitiens, eommandtng them to meet at Hickory Grounds sepmre, on Saturday. February 1. where ami when it proposed to hold a council inder articles ,,f the ti. av of 1H32. Mrs ngelina nderson was bound and gagged, n the ::ith. in brood daylight in her room in Wichita. Kns., and robbed of 911,006 worth of dinmonds nnd $l,'.u.i in ni'inev. She vsint to Wichita a few months asm and married an 18-vein -old livery stabb boy Who wan taking care ,.f her horse and is now Sending him ho college. The womassj is nnld t.. i. from Radne, Wl The Lost ( reek con! mine m ar OsIfslOOOa, la., was the ncens Of I terrible Otajdstor, on the Mtk, which nwl im- live of iii mlnem. Eight otheea were seriottSlt injured. Al the time of the explosion more than MM loin. dred men w re in tin miner, bnl all' except those who wer- (a the entry r scaped v Rh only slight list injurn On the LMtti K. (i. Itlm A ... ,,f New York, reported: "VMInjusj for the xx'cek namhered Ä01 in th" i sited Stales, again. t .m Unit year. ai,. Bl in Canad;, sgain! W last year,"

The BjrMte wM Bot in ae'. ton on the -4th . In the house the tirgtalt delicii ticy bill was pajNMMh "1 the ret i ,i i i id i r t I lie - e - ioti was dcotcd tti private teiisiiiii legislation Ihe repeMlen nw foeoed a moannl rote net the nine mime u t to the urgent ileilcieiuy lull to gpproMiate $."0d.lH)O for the "prut r. t ion ami shelter of American soldiers in the Philippines," and Iii democrats loted for it. The house adjourned until the L'Tth. The case of Francis .1 Kieckhoefef

former diabnrsnig offleer of the state department, indicted evernl months 1 ago for sllesjed einbeule ment of for ernment funds, was heard in the court of appeals on the 24th. The decision was deferred. I in- government of Colombia ha offered to purchase a number of obsolete fuftbonts from the French iovsrnmenL The neirotiations have, thus far, had no result. Two distinct earthquake shocks were felt over a large area of the west and south, on the -Ith, at a little before 5 a. SB, LATE NEWS ITEMS. A Despatch from DJumnlatifioropeasj Turkey, on the Seth, sai d: Miss Stone the captive Amcrioan niaelohnry and her contpsiiioli, Mine. I'silka, have b-n located near ITapyak, In the vicinity of the frontier, The American delegates conducting the negotiations for the release of the captives have arrived at Bsniako (about :;o miles southeast of Ujumala, and will nrob ably pay over the ransom money le day. The infant daughter of Mute. Ts ilka has been ekristened Kicnika. Sc. rttarv Long WM in conference With the president for over an hour, on the night of the Mtk, prc-utnahly in regard to the appeal of I;, ar Admiral Schley from the Klidings of the court of inquiry which was referred by the executive to the navy department for "comment." The secretary was accompanied ly .ludge dvocaictieneral l.eti.lv and Solicitor llanna. who conducted the esse before the j court. Newspapers of Athena, GrecsM, report thai the celebrated saint Paul monastery, on Mount Athon, was burned recently. The prior and nine monks perished and 20 others vvere .... . I nriotisi- in iure. i. ine occupants or the monnsterj were si eping when the lire hroke out. and the monastery itself was damaged to the extent of i.- 80.000. Ihe jurv in the case ..f Mrs. Addle L. Richardson, tried at Plattsbunr, Mo., for the killing of her hu-btind. Krank W. Richardson, at Savannah, returned a verdict of not guilty, on the BVenlng Of the 25th, after lelihc rating ;;. ninntea, The vcrdhrt was received with a mighty cheer by the spectators who crowded the court room. one of the severest bücsnvrds of the year covered the north, west nnd southwest, on tin- 06th, causing rcniral delay of Steam car and trolley tratlic.and resntling in t he deat ruction of mock Stock, It is a singular fact that in some localities where from the condition prevailing the greatest w;.s anticipated, not a single aniDial died. Pelipo Bucncamino, one of the directors of the federal party in the Philippines, Is endeavoring to inaugurate an exhibition of commi rce to he h. ld in Manila next December, He relies mainly upon exhibits from the nitcd States, China, Japan. and Üornco. In the senate, on the 17th, an animated and prolonged discussion was precipitated over the right of army officers to criticise utterances made in the senate or elsewhere on the conduct of affairs in the Philippines, The discussion was on partv lines, and at times developed much acrimony, but settled nothing In the house n resolution calling for documents relating to the old training ship Vermont, which was placed out of commission last summer, was sdopted. The hill to appropriate $10(l.(Ko for the establishment of homes for teaching of articulate speech to deaf children was defeated. The ways and means committee, on the i!7th. temporarily laid aside the subject of Cuban reciprocity and entered upon the ipiestion of reducing the war revenue taxes. During the morning the tea interests were heard on the proposition to take otT the tax of ten Cents a pound on tea. imposed bv the Spanish vv a r revenue act. The afternoon was set aside for the Ih't interests. ihe Cnite" States topreOM court, on the 27te, grant -I ihe mo'krita of the solicit or general lo wlvanc-e on 1 'he doek -t , ue five Chine -e e.i-es recently taken to tlw nonr Involving the validity of the Chinese exclusion net. The hearing in the cases was set for thi Ural Monday in March. QOV, Cummins of Iowa transmitted a message to both houses of the täte leL'islat lire, on the 17th, calling attention to the request Of the Lou- j lalnna Purchase commission of the state of town for an appropriation of . .. nun. The governor made no rceommendatlon. Hev. A. L. llab It. of i tnr i I City, oi.. t:, his report 1 that war j department on moral conditions in i I im rniiifp'uea, states tnat we moral conditions of the Islnnds has Bia teriallv improved since the American occupation. ' Advices from Japan per steamer China atinoi nee the death at Yoi,o. n ' " BWXKlke, editor of '!ie Japan H'-rrild. Itrooke xva a naii' of Boston a:.d u ni to aiorne in &&4, tvhence he drifed to Japan n oJ a r later. C.hiefolustice Fuller, on the :.'7ih. nnnounosd thai the United BtnttJ uprewe court would take a recesSa on the I'd, nutil Thursday, February 24.

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News by Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana. lire from tiubuah. Terre Haute. Ind.. Jan. tT l lic lnt car ott ihe intcrurbau line between this city and Hrazil wti attacked by a BOatber of HÜrtri in amhuah near Seeleyville, eight miles i aat of here, lad one mine:- was shot ill ihe Igfcl weich followed. H sMalUnta opened I .... fire from the darkness of the Hi Ida when the car stomsji to iwitck, and hroke a number of windows. The motorman, his assistant and the conductor returned the Sre, ami iSekotewera xchanged. Ony II iggcrman. a miner, stud in the 'high, but not dangerously vv, 'limit il. Names of tin mi m1m rs of the attacking party have been secured and arrest.- will follow The trouble .'re DUl of the strike cotidit ions. Isdseetts Vwrtmu Fort Wavne. Ind.. Jan. 27.- Dr. C. It. Steinen, of this city, saw in a paper that the grandson of the late Mrs, Charles Davenport, of Math. Me., would inherit a fortune of floo.ono. if he could be fontid. It was said that the grandsoe was adopted when n boy and lost sight of. In IM7 Dr. Steinen WWI superintendent of the Van Wert count.v (Ohio! poor farm, and remembers that a hoy named Charles Davenport, wkose parents were from Hath, was placed there end afterward adopted by a farmer. The boj Is now a grown man, and lr Stein n telegraphed him the news oi his good fortune. Prner iinni'ml. Kok. 'in... Ind.. .Ian. -'7. A dramatic Incident marked the .funeral of Alice Hot son here. During her illness -he prayed constantly that hir brother. Dawson Cantor, a soldier in the lMiilippinea, might attend her funeral. As the bodi vxa- sboul to be lowered into the trrave a soidief horseman dsahed into the cemetery. Ii was tin-brother, who completed an S,00O-mi1e journey t the npi n grave. He did no: know of his sister's illr.es. nor wa he expected home. The proceion pass,'d the taion a he got off the trail. Procuring a borne he arrixt.i at the graxe m time to see the dead face and join in the prayer. lauei nn aa Tenia, Frankfort. Ind.. .Ian. ::7. David lngi r. a miller, and Aslniry Willis, a -took dealer, old-time enemies, met in the ai-le of the ( luxer Leaf fixer while if was running at a ."ifetnile peed between Frankfort and Kokomo. Moth pulled ugly-looking revolvers and begun firing tovxard each other. Their -hots flew xvi!d and eau-ed irreat consternation among the other passengers. They emptied their revolvers end then engaged in a hi d -to-haid Bgkt that lasted until the train arrived at Ku-s iav i lie. During tha melee several women fainted. Itoiiht ilia s,,,,,,, granktla, fndn dan. 17. peter j Thacker. of Nineveh township, has been placed in jail on complaint of j hi- wife, who says he has threatened l to kill her. She recently brougbt j suit for divorce. Thacker declares 1 that a poor man has I 0 elian. e to get I ju.-ticc. and hi- conduct has led the , authorities to doubt his sanitv. Xeaa I'oaaaa. he-tcrfleld. Ind.. .Ian. 27. .'.r,acre tract of lard lying two miles west of here i- being cleared prC ; psratory to platting Into town lots, i The proponed site lies alongside and adjacent to the Imlianapolis-Muneie I electric street car line, and i- within a five-minute rid if tin public stptnre at Anderson. liiira to t liaireliea. Sullivan. Ind.. .Ian. 7. Mrr. widow of the late .lames J Snyder. Bnyder, is dead, anil under the prOVislon of; the Bnyder xxill. one-half of the e--tate of $.'.-,.oo(i ?,,es to the Christian church at Paxton; one-fourth to tin Carlisle Ckriaflati church, and the re mainder to the Ckristlnn church of 1 this city, lieaperale ,et. Ncxx Albany, Ind., Jan. 17. JohnMcF.Uain. awaiting removal to the laenne ho-pitai, attempted suicide hj heating hi.- head tgainat tka bnraof hiscell in the county jail, and xx ill die. His skull was fractured, fter cut t ing his scalp against the hars. he tore a strip of the sea'.p from the -kit'! xxith his hands. l-nrinea-s- Telephone saoteati. st Inestdlle, Ind.. tm tf, l-armcra in the eastern part of this town-hip are erecting a free telephone system from (Jo-port to Rllettsrille, BfooaV ingtOB and other points. It wit run throuirh the Bean Blossoni ralley, touching Mount Tabor, that has been shut off from the world for over .',0 ,v cars. I' rar in era I ooiplnili. Fort land. Ind.. .Ian. ft, Fartnerthronghoat tka eonntjf are making fomplainis a- to the condition of Wkont, I'h. v tnj thnt tka alternate freeze- ami thaxvs have worked serious injury, und that the lack of snow bai ai-o been detrimental. ttttletles, Notre Dame. Ind.. .Ian. ?7. - IIa ebail and track athletic- have begttn at the Cniver-ity of Notre Dame, and until the cold weather hreaks up a .1 permits the men to continue the xxork outdoor- the large new gym, aasfnm will ic used for practice. Retfl irr M or Its Hammond, Ind., .1 in. ,'7. Torbel am! Frederick . Alfred P. Beekhsm, . -. have nuiehitu ry i out factor-, pnrchssed tract of land it. tli on which they will erect n hi. cMv di it ror the manufacture of Trlgbl cars. engines tu ()

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Eight Persons Killed and a Hundred Others Injured In New York City. LAR6E BUILDIN6S BADLY DAMAGED J. Hudrrirk llobfrta. of rUnn, H. t".. Killed In Hla Hiiubi at a llolel l.MBip I'wala KnoekrU lio, n and Maar IVdnlrlaua 4 al b) Kl)lia Ulaaa. New York, Jun. M. The peeer Supply of hi'.'li explosives stored at the l'ark Avenue shaft f the Rapid Transit tunnel, now in Coarse f construction, blew up shortly after noon yesti rday. The giant blast kill -.1 eight persons, injured a hundred others und seriously daio'iged all th.: property reached by the tlx ing debris und the vibration of the shock. The irregular square foritted bv the Murray Hill hotel on the vcm. the Manhatl in I've and lar h.silal. and the (iraiid l uion hotel ou tht cast, and the (irand Central station on the north, xvus the scene of the explosion. The buildings named s:.la laVad the greatest damage, but the urea affected extended f..r several blocks in the four directions from I be center. .1. Koderick Robertson, of Nelson, B. ('.. xxas killed by debris hurle 1 with ihe force of artillery into bin room at the Murray Hill hotel. He was general manager in Canada f.r the British Colombia Gold Fields Cn limited, ami a prominent citien in the community where be lived. 11c was a Scotchman and h aves a vxidow und four children. The sunken approach to the street railway tunnel used by the Madison Avenue lines cuts through l'ark aveline, und the shaft for the rapid transit sub-way was run down beside it at the intcrseeiion of Kast Forty-first street. The street railxay approach xvas housed over xxith a suje-rstnic-ture used for the Operating plant of the rapid transit contractors. Temporary buildings for storage purpdses were thrown up against the 1 superstructure at the mouth of the shaft, ami there the explosion occurred. It tore n great gorge in the street, demolished the temporary buildings, and part of the superstructure, and sent a mass of earth, splintered timler und txxisted iron high in the air. Much of it xvent battering SgSahast the front of tin- Murray Hill hotel, and although the walls and main structure of thut building siood the shock, nearly every room in the front of the hoOSO x.as wrecked. The Manhattan Kve and Knr hospital, on the cast side of the avenue, fared nearly as bad and had to lae abandoned by the management . The (irand Union hotel lost all of it xxindows ami glass partitions, and practically every front window in thGrand Central station xvas shattered. The great clocks on it- frmt towers were Idovvn from their cases. Thousands of wtndown, SOSBe f them seven blocks from the tunnel shaft, fell in fragments. It was the show, r of broken glass and falling debris that Injured the greatest aumkir Fortunately. the explosion occurred at the noon hour. Not more that n hundred person- were in h main waiting room of the (irand ( entral station. Some of these were slightly injured by bits of glass. Four ticket sellers xera- cut nlauu: their heads and arms with the ''.ving debris. The clerical force in 1he execi tix ofl'ues of the New York. New Haven & Hartford railroad, which occupies the lb. or above the first, in the .. ern Wing of the depot, xxen- thrown about ly the shock. hief Hi patchcr (!. H. WUeon, and hl fo r assistants, who xvere directinir the trains of the New Haven line, having several hundred trains to loo,, . .,t for, xvere scrntthed xxith ''ving L'lass, but did not leave their chair-, even when they could not sec 'l.e.r instruments because of the stnok". One man, FoKter. who xvas xxat hiiif a single track strip in Connetticui. did not even get up to look at th ruins after the smoke cleared away. The station last night present"! oane what the appearsana of a iimantled castle, with the hig windows only ragged Indes. General alarms brought firemen, police reserves and every available ambulance to the district. A majority of Ihe injured xxere treated on lipspot, and the white-coated ambulance surgeons WOCkod for an hour in th I debris-strewn street. Police lilies xxere throxxn ecroSH either end of Park avenue. and across the intersecting streets. The cause of the cpo-ion. and the quantity of explosives that blew ,p ! are not iietinu.-lx- known X.I.I..I ) (he llorilnr 1.1. San PrnnchaCO, .Ian. 28 Sexeral Vessel- vvere lidded to the overd list al tka Merchant-' iimkssjge terdav. The French bark ''ivir dCkioun, N days taut from Cayenne, boumi for Sen Francisco, i1- ajnoted lit t n aei Cent.J UM French bark Ia" Adelphes, from sfartagaofni for T,ortland, Ore., mi days out. i- li d .11 n per cent.: c afrenck hnrh Cr nest I.egouic. II'. davs out from Maui,-, aa, for Oregon, is nl-o ejnoted at per cent, rcinsurniice. The Alite le lioitali has I.e. ii raided tu W per n it

4N AUDACIOUS ROBhERY. Kapa-e. a ar (la a Soalbrra Kallr. . ,

Kulalnsl rar Itraaa. !,,, . ulk 4 arullaa. Itraiichxille, S C. .Ian. H fully pl umed an I autlacln la ri robU-ry tuok place about o'claack last exening an the S. ui a railroad, when the aasengt-r trm fro an Charleston reached nmrlx ., exact site of the aucceaful rehherj of two eara ajro, five mile fr..,n Branchrille. Seven .r a ihr .... r. acre riding on the platform between the engine ami luggage car e. n-ceala-d by the darkuess. ..ne wore, musks. At the latmdle lH..,r.l tvv.j men crawled oxer the tender ami . . .-. . ered the enciiia-er. .lohn lavaU. - - - - v - - -. with Winchesters. I'h.-v t"r,-d i I shuts, one ball asssing throuii . 1 nold's ca. Fireman I abb . y by jumping off. Cnd i, tor B who run out, was caivered and onh-red . a a. a,.. .. a ' . . , i ' i k i irua-r oi iiie-e m nrakemau uncoupled the expr. mail nnd baggage cars, which were taken to the station, having the rest of the aars on the main 1 several shots were fired into th- ea : press car and one man climbed in, covered Kpr,ss Me-s, ngar !..!! . Winchester, and comp Hi i bin oH'll tha- door. The Illa'U then Btl - the car and tripil the local Afta-r threata-ning Hull with death if ho did not op-n th,- unsafe, and tin. ling he kio-w nothing I the combination, the safe was rotted out an the plat form. Th, - gineer xxaa ordered ta retnrn with vha- three a-ars tu the train, and be nlaeyed, bringing the train without further incident t. Bl .' t hing was saeti .f t!.. . r . safi on passing S3. There xxas nly a small amount of lM.otx in I safe, and ijo one ha re know tents of the throutrh safe. N or laatrgaire wns touched and n--sengers xx era- molested. The : i totale their pistols from the only employes who were armed and reI sistance wns taut of ihe questi- n. Na mea-ures have laa-en taken - ' ! to faalloxx the robbers. The leat,-r is , supposed to be Arton Warren. Wirren was arre-ted. chart', d xvi?h . ing. single handed, raakbed the S.u:ern Kxpress car just laclow Itranckville in the fall of UNIX The case resulted in a mistrial. Rail xxa- f rnished. A few days before the r.. xt session of the court, fixe mmi' he killed Thomas Watson, hi- f ruier friend, but one of the prin. .pal xa.il-nes-. - atraili-t him. W arren has laa-a-n at large sfa I ad some say that he hail laeen n in Brnnrhi ilb at night several . since, thongh $i reward ha been offered for his capture. ROBBED AND BURNED. Terrible rime niiolln Traisa ear t.irard. o. X ripple I heir ictlia. Warren. O.. Jan. M, Michael vrea?ney. a cripjile. employed ss a telegraph operator in a sxxitch I re near tiirard. xvas assaulted, r-ie-d. tied to a chair and burned to death by tramps. The attention of a train's crew was attracted by screams coming ft the tower, which they discovered in fl;.mcs. Frantic efforts were ms h to gain in entrance, but when tha door was broken oen the r '.crs were driven back by the fire, xahicb was burning fiercely inside the . wer An engineer and fireman, who caught a glimpse of the cripples body, attempted to rush into the building, but were beaten hsk by the flame and badlx burned. When the fire hnd been subdued the men entered the taaxver. What remained of Sween-xs Irndy wa f.-:nd in erails of xire which had held hint captive to the chair. Sxxcney received his pay on s-.it'ir-dsy. and robbery was undoubtedly the motixe for the crime. Tramps had a camp nepr by. and the pogea lielieve thex are resanible for Sweeney's death. ( irenmstan. to show thut they surprise,! in the i.iHiT. INTO THh ARMS OF FIREMEN. Mrs. J. V. Illalr. Wife- Her al.aiatlaa aaa Fire. Sakra m Ira for I. He. IVs Moines, la.. Jan. In a ?r in a flat on woesfland day night. Mrs. M. :ia-nue. . Iliglev taineti Wknt is la-l:exa-,l witl pro fatal injuries. The lniil1;iig xa euoied bv exeral families. : II whom managt tl ta rra,f WilhoOt injary with the exception of Mr-. H ley. It was in l.er apartments tl ' the fire originate,!, and her eb.tli - was almost entirely homed from or hoatjl Im fore she colli I reach ihe w:ndox, where she juiiiM-d intti the art.i of firemen. She now lies in a . r il condition at the Methttli-t hoe Itnl .1. Siegel, a fireman t.f the central detail, was severely froren, and a eral t.thers siifTeretl from the cold. Married His lather Dlv.areeal Wlf La porte. Ind.. Jan. IVcleriek Randers. middle aged, a few snonki ago married the yttang tlÄtsrhter f neiglilnir. Bandi i s hatl a ban I yownif -on named William. A n srnra strtanger than that usually fell for a st. other foiled Itwltrment in ,n" .i ,ir . ihe yoiint? Mrs. BnW " pfonsgtly Rafl as bve with her Steg son. Ihe husband and father I rnaal the secret of the young peoplt proanred a alieoeee. lie eeeomi 1 his son and former wife t th UB ty clerk's ni ce snd gOTc consent to o their msrriage.