Youngstown News, 1900-12-07

              THE YOUNGSTOWN NEWS ■»... ■ , |.rftr.,i!l i ...m 'I iJ , , YOUNGSTOWN, N/ ¥~ PBXJEMBEII 7, 1900. 1 M i —■—- i .»»»mm<^m>wm«^mwMßßßiiW| n ■! ———■—■<■—inn—~————^—■— Noagp A TYPHOOH HITS GUAM 'J. S. Cruiser Yosemite Sunk and Five of Her Crew Lost. HUNDREDS OF HOUSES WRECKED. • YoMinlte Victim* Had left the Ship la • Lnnftuh to Seek a Safer Anchorage— ' Bemalnder of the CM* Rescued by a Collier—Many Native* Killed and Crop* Destroyed—The Belief Work. Manila (By Cable). -The United States auxiliary cruiser Yosomite was Wrecked in a typhoon which swept over the Island -of Guam. After her cables bad parted she drifted on a reef near the harbor of San "Luis d'Apra and stove In her bottom. A launch was manned by a coxswain, an engineer's apprentice, a Seaman and two firemen, and an attempt Was made to get a line ashore, but the launch was swamped and the five men were drowned. After pounding on the reet for some time the Yosemite wasJblown seaward sixty miles. Before she sank the collier Justin, which was stationed at Guam, followed and effected the rescue of nil on board. The drowned men are: 'Coxswain Swanson, Seaman George Aubel, En- Vji gineer L. H. Mabancfy and Firemen £r; J. L. Davis and Joseph Anderson, i Temporary quarters were provided »K for the Yosemlte'a crew In Agana, i> . which suffered badly from the hurr^- The typhoon was of unprecedented f«tlolence. \ Many are reported to have At Agana three Sphere In Guam, and all the crops Ifewwre destroyed. » ' Mrs. White, wit* of Major White; f.'' of the Marine Corps, the only white I 1 woman in Agana, took refuge with her husband and Commander Seat on r Scliroeder. Naval Governor of Guam, in the cellar of the Governor's mansion, which was partly filled with water. The merchants at Agana voluntarily offered, the government their entire supplies of food, and the Governor Is now distributing them to the homeless natives. The cruiser Newark will take Rear- Admiral Kempff to Guam to investigate the loss of the cruiser Yosemlte. <y>v«anoß BcaRoTDEB'g nous*, AO-iaa, quam. PHILLIPS CLOSES HIS DEAL. Vouhr Plunger on Colli Clears About •300,0:.'0_Great Drop In Price. Chlc&go (Special).—George H. Phillips, the manipulator of the corn market, cloned the comer in November delivery with a handsome profit. The closing was merely a formality. Finding themselves unable to produce I enough contract No. 2 corn to fill sales \ made for November delivery, the r shorts, including several lending elevator firms, agreed to settle their shortage with the young operator at fifty cents. The announcement came as a great surprise to those traders who had "tailed" the Phillips operation. A rush to sell followed and the price fell to forty-one cents and the market was wild. Comment on the floor characterized the squeeze as the "prettiest deal in years." Phillips's profits are estimated at about $300,000 BRITISH CARRISON SURRENDERS. General De Wet Capture* 400 Men and Two Guns After a Fight. London (By Cable).—General Roberts reports to the War Office that the British garrison of 400 men, with two guns, at DeWetsdorp, in Orange River Colony, was captured by a Boer force led by General De Wet. The capitulation was preceded by heavy fighting. The British lost fifteen men killed and forty-two wounded, including Major H. J. Anson and Captain Digby. The Boer strength was 2500. A column of 1400 British troops had been dispatched from Edenburg to relieve DeWetsdorp, but they were too late. ,Thla column wad joined  'Knox, and he arrived at  finding the town evacuated, except for seventy-five sick and .. wounded sol-dijrs.fined Because Bread Was Too Heavy. At Ottawa, Kan., a baker was lined $5 for selling a loaf of bread weighing eighteen ounces. The ordinance pro- Tides tjint all loaves of bread must weigh sixteen ounces. The court decided that the baker .violated. the ordinance. He has appealed to the higher court. Portugese Force in the Field. Eighty Portuguese iroopn wltb two THE NEWS EPITOMIZED VMHranoH rrnti, l"ne Secretary of the Interior decided to ask Congress for $250,000 for Irrigation surreys. President Brand and other members of the United States Brewers' Association urged upon President McKlnley abolition of the added war tax; 'A delegation from.the Good Roads Congress urged the President to recommend an appropriation of $150,000 for the construction of sample roads. Secretary Wilson In his annual report reviews the lest year's work of the Department of Agriculture, and tells of the plans formed for the benefit of the farmers. The State-Department announces the appointment of W. Irvln Shaw, of ;f Pennsylvn . to be United States Consul-General in Singapore, Straits Settlement.Rear-Admiral Benny reported the loss of the cruiser Yosemite In a typhoon. There was great loss of life and destruction of property in Guam. Henry W. Phillips arrived as the first Minister to the United States from the new South American republic of Acre. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Numerous insurgent bands were dispersed and consfflerable quantities of stores destroyed in the Province' of Bulacan. P. 1., by General Grant's mounted scouts. The Government is bringing back soldiers from. Porto Rico. Four natives were hung at Dagupan, Luson, P. 1., for arson and murder, the victims of the latter crime includtlng two American prisoners. DOMESTIC. One hundred slid eleven Porto Ricana were held at flew Orleans,. I*., under the contract-labor law. At toe conference In the Chamber of Commerce, in New York City, » committee of fifteen wa#* appointed to coaipel -the.authorities tt> do their duty In the matter of suppressing ttioe. The Baptist congregation ot ' Richmond;; jgg;,«0, P* Bawtnorna, pastor; ,ma I%* Jewish congregation Ttjttksglvlng by uniting ia office Inspector Enteman shows an alleged shortage of $850. Miss Mary E. Capln, eighty-seven years old, a veteran woman's seminary founder and teacher, died in Chicago. Frank Hamilton, the newspaper man now held on a charge of having murdered Leonard Day, a young millionaire, at Minneapolis, Minn., It is believed, is innocent, and is simply a scapegoat for the real culprit. Twenty-four cases of smallpox were discovered in New York City, most of the victims being children. Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, and ills bride, returned to Frankfort from their honeymoon. Burglars stole $1000 worth of Jewelry from the residence of Washington Porter, whose wife is a cousin of President McKlnley, at Chicago. Sister Snnghamitta, a Buddhist nun, arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu to proselytize her faith. The revenue cutter McCulloch arrived at Seattle from Alp ska, with news that Nome is now completely isolated by ice. Colonel W. J. Sanford. who is very HI, was sworn in as Governor of Alabama at Opelika, Fla. William Brooks, fifteen years old, of Jamestown, R. 1., was killed by a boy companion, who shot at a duck. A partial Inventory of the estate of John Nicholas Brown, nine months old, of Newport R. 1., indicates that his fortune is 57.000.000. W. J. Beckley, a defaulter for $3000 from the banking firm of N. W. Harris & Co, when; he was a clerk, died in Bcllevue Hospital, In New York City, of typhoid fever. Miss Sarah E. Combs, a young girl of Richmond, Va., was married to Sterling Sampson, a full-blooded In- i dian, forty-six years old. j G. W. Traynor, of Jacksonville, Ore., i shot and killed J. Hardenbrook, and then killed himself. Traynor had opposed the engagement of Hardenbrook and his sister. Franklin B. Ainsworth, a farmer near Bingham ton, N. Y., learned that he had fallen heir to $80,000 under the will of a man whose life be saved twenty-five years ago. FORRIGN. The Thuringlan States of the German Empire have forbidden the holding of religious services in the Polish , and Bohemian languages. Contracts for building and equipping ! C. T. Yerbes's London underground road were signed. The work will cost ! $20,000,000. One of the persons arrested at Johannesburg, South Africa, for complicity in the plot to assassinate General Roberts, bad a bomb in his possession. More than 400 Americans were at the Thanksgiving dinner of the American Society in London. The arrival of the American battleship Kentucky at Smyrna caused the Porte to desire a speedy settlement of the American demands. The French Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopted a resolution of I sympathy with former President Krn* PHLL ON MOLTEN GLASS Scores Killed and Injured by ■ Collapse o* a Roofs ? j i ' ** Li SEVERAL ROASTED td? •DEA^f » I Dln.Ur Occurred at a Football flMni la fi Sob FraaclMo—Victim* TTero KurM I on a Rod Hot Furaaee-Bodlaii Draw* I -.. From. the ltetorta With- Fokerv-Ttw j Dead aad I,jured. J Baa Francisco (Special).—By the «* ] lapse of the roof of the Pacific Glass f Works while It was crowded with men • and hoys who were watching- a foot? baU game between the Stanford and University of California teams, fifteen-h persons were killed. More than 100 i persons fell into the furnace of the! factory upon ovens and retorts con: j talnlng.mtften glass when the *oof collapsed. The Injured number eighty- j three, and of these several cannot W j The dead are: Bdgar Fairbaven, ( eleven years-old; V/t1. t&. Eckteldt, twelve years old; William Vaaelcla, eighteen years old; Thomas J. ttippon, twenty-four years old; James A. MuV roney, forty years old; Marquis Van Dura, forty-five years old; Virgil Neuby, fifteen years old; Chafes Btonahan. thirty-four years old, Talleytuod Barnwell, sixteen years old; Lunpn Girard, sixteen years old; Robert Mil-j ler, seventeen years old; Hector Mo- Nell, fifteen years old; Moses ottensteln, fifteen yeatft old; Will Rithstein, twelve years old, and E. C. Put-j The Ires In the furnaces had been started for the first time, lud the vat* were foil of liquid glass. It was upon *!Se*e that the viettmaten.  killed instantly and others were slowly roasted to death. The few who missed -the furnaces rolled off, and «5§ getber with. -workmen in the glass ■ wftlft' was '  ! •se2o*o*sollor#o'o^fcS^fco>f»^^^^^lM*l Clarence Jeter, a furnace tender, pulled eight persona off the top of the retorts, where the heat was about 500 degrees. Some of the men and boys were terribly burned. They were drawn away from the retorts with [ long iron pokers used in testing the glass. While aiding in removing the dead and wounded, T. J. Parker, a fireman, found his own son among the injured. The manager of the glass works realized the danger before the accident occurred, and had sent for the police to compel the crowd to leave. Just as a squad of officers arrived from the Clly Hall the roof went down. It is estimated that more than 300 persons were on the ventilator when It collapsed for its entire length of 100 feet. Some were thrown to the main roof of the building and escaped unhurt, but of those who fell into the" structure almost all were either killed or seriously maimed. REAR-ADMIRAL M'NAIR DEAD. The Ofllcer Who Clave Dewey the Chance to Become Famous. Washington, D. C. (Special).—Rear- Admiral Frederick V. McNair died at his residence in this city of a stroke of apoplexy. He was the ranking Rear- Adtniral of the Navy and the officer next in line to Admiral Dewey. He is understood to have declined-in favor of Dewey the assignment to command the Asiatic station, which gave the hero of Manila his opportunity for undying fame. Admiral McNair was appointed from Pennsylvania to the Navql Academy on the 21st of September, N. 853. He served in the Civil .War and ranked as Lieutenant and Lieutenant-Commander during that period. His first command was the Kearsarge, which sank j the Alabama, servihg on her fror . 1875 to 1878. Caught In Their Own Death Trap. VdUgHI MM* M. UC» VWU wn»ll M. SC*f • State Mine Inspector .Tames W. Paul, of West Virginia, says tbe recent mine disaster at Berryvllle, in which fourteen lives were lost, was the result of a conspiracy to kill the foreman of the mine. The conspirators, after lighting the fuse, stood at the entrance of the mine, but tbe force of the explosion was greater than tbey expected, and tbey were aIBO killed. Enumeration of Domestic Animals.  The enumeration of domestic animate In barns and lnclosures of tile United States, but not on farms and i ranges, watt announced by the Census Bureau, at Washington. In the whole :j country the number of horses *s 'jXcxj 833,877; neat cattle. 1,460,070, tdM which 001,541 are dairy cows; mtUes£f| 182,115; asses. 12,870; sheep, liatfofl! ■wine, 1.592,861; and goats, 47.852. H Many Miners Killed in UNKNOWN Sixteenmos were VlUed andali^gjy UNKNOWN WITH NICARAGUA Iflp ft Wfttarwfty uhington. kt mt Xfur *• C"»- I* IMUIUM. . (Special) .<-Secree overnment of the' Jenor Correa, the for his own tkrveaty whwrebjr the concedes to the United States the privileges within e construction of sn In anticipation :tlon upon the Canal bill, and treaty. Pending » document to the must ratify tht will not be made >od, however, tliat grants to the Uni ent the exclusive id operate the caantic and Pacific tcluding the free m River, and ol art of the watei to get rid of anj that would tend lge the privileges he United States o that Nicaragua ed States full au canal. Nicaragun ensntion a certain i ities of the canal f, and although II o learn the figure y, it is believed tc )0. nent already has gement on slmilai He of Costa Rica, osta Rica has csthe right bank of which must of nc a third of the should the Nlca eted and be cou ?s which will be lker Commission, also has been ar United ol rnte. go the State Department now ns cleared the way for such actios as Congress may care to take In the {case of either of the canal route? Which have been found feasible. KITCHENER NOW IN COMMAND. Promoted to Be a Fall General For tlit South African Campaign. London (By Coble).-The War Ot flee announced tuat General Roberts handed over the command of the Brit lsh troops In South Africa to General Kitchener. It Is further announced that th< Queen approves General Kitchener'i promotion to be a Lieutenant-General, with the rank of General while In com inand In South Africa. OENERAL KITCHEKEB. 1200 FILIPINOS SURRENDER. Solomon Starch Into Vlgan and Give Us Their Arms. Manila (By Cable).—Twelve hundred bolomen entered Vlgan. Island of Lu son, and surrendered to Captain Green, of the Thirty-third Infantry, This Is the largest number of men who have yet surrendered in Luzon at one time. General Tlnlo has been keeping a swarm of bolomen along the mountains, and they have Impoverished the jbod £upply and cat off the leaders ifri_» 'tagaloge, but a considerable umber of the Uocunos, who had be ome lukewarm, believed tjat the surender would hasten the collapse of ieneral Tlnio's power. TURKEY ORDERS A CRUISER.  #*!«• Of •1,780,000 Said to Incln.le *\lGs L 000 Indemnity to the United States. _ Minister of Marine, ■MlDhia, have signed a contract construction of a cruiser for SENATOR C. K. DAVIS DEAD Expb|4 at His Homo in St. Pant, Ms> After Two Month*1 Moot* MEMBER SENATE iNCE 1887 *. ~' & *• Wae Cfcaliaaaej JF Mm Senate Com tnlMae eja l>l»Wii Relatione — Served Throng;* the -Civil War—Member ol the (teMpltMlon Which Negotiated the TreJrF&f Peace With Spain. St. Paul, Minn. — United States Senator Cushuian Kellogg Davis, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, died at his home In this city after an Illness of two months, Senator Davis was born in Henderson. N. Y., June 16, 1888. After a year's law course at Ann Arbor he entered the office of former Postmaster-General Randall at Waukesha, Wis. He was second lieutenant of tho Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry from 1862 to 1864. Later he established a large law practice at St Puu!, Minn. In 1807 he was elected to the Legislature and next year was appointed United States District-Attorney. In 1878 be was elected Qovernor ot Minnesota. He declined renominatloo, bbt continued as n polltlcal^advUer^ -dent McKlnJey appointed him a member of the Commission which met in Paris September, 189S, to arrange terms of peace between the United States and Spain. He was widely acquainted with the foreign affairs ot this country. tENATOr. CIMBMI* E. UATIf." Provident Hears of Davis' Death. Washington, D. C. (Special).-News of the death of Senator Davis, of Minnesota, was received by President Mc- Kinley by telegraph from Senator Davis's home. The President was shocked to hear of the end. The death of Senator Davis leaves the Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations vacant, and there will be much interest In the selection of a successor. The direction ot the Foreign delations Committee is of the greatest Importance to the Administration at this time, owing to the pending Hay-Pauncefote treaty and the various complications In the international field. NITRO-GLYCERINE KILLS BOYS. They Throw an Old Can on a Bonflre and It Explode*. Wheeling, West Va. (Special).—At Leaservllle, West Va., twenty miles above Wheeling, on the Ohio River, « crowd of twenty boys had built a fire on the river bank from driftwood, and were watching the rising waters. One of the boys threw on the fire a can partly tilled with nltro-glycerine. Immediately there was a terrific explosion, and three boys were killed and fourteen wounded, of whom three will die. As ii result of the explosion an infant child of Mrs. Durig died a fsm minutes afterward. We Keep the Isle of Pines. The United States will retain possession of the Isle of Pines, whatever be the final disposition of Cuba. It will be fortified, and a strong garrison will be kept there. Lying immediately south of the western end of Cuba, the Isle of Pines commands the western or Yucatan entrance to the Gull', and forms an Important outpost for the deV fence of the Nicaragua Canal. Kalser's Mute Appeal For a Navy. Emperor William has sent to the Reichstag charts, maps and statistics showing the growth of the Russian, British, French and United States navies, and also their strength In Fai Eastern waters. In view of this, the members of the Reichstag fear thai another bill to Increase the strength of the German navy Is coming. Weather and Farm Produce. The recent warm weather bad more or less effect on the sale of poultry, game and farm products In New York City. It caused a good deal of perishable stock to go to commission men In a more or less bad condition. This resulted In a sharp decline in prices foi the poor stock, but on the other hand It made a scarcity of really fancy stock. Florida Orange Grower a Sucide. Edwin T. Pepper, one of the wealthiest orange growers In Florida, committed suicide at his suburban home, Snnnykle, two aiSsw eaat of Leetv Msff£ tt-t I—VV ■♦ fKBtB «*M STATE NEW A cm* of robbery and murder aftei torture wu kt«iM by the investlfatten of « cue supposed to have been accidental death. Auntln Hamilton. * farmer, eighty-one yean old, living alone at ht* residence In the village of Oxford, waa found lying at the foot of his cellar stairs by several neighbors, who, missing htm from his accustomed hdunts, went in search of him. It waa supposed that, taken suddenly ill, he had fallen down stairs. Though alive when found, he died soon after. When the authorities Investigated. however, they found that the old man's band had been burned to a crisp, and that his finger nails of one hand ha . been burned off. The wounds on his head were made with a hammer, the weapon being found in the cellar of the house. In the pantry waa a bloody rope used to bind Hamilton, while in and around the kitchen stove were a quantity of half-burned sticks that while biasing had been held under the roan's band. The bureau drawers and other places where money might be kept had been ransacked. It waa the general belief that Hamilton kept a large amount of money bn ! the premises. The robbers, who were evidently masked, a mask being found near the premises, gained admission to the house; and after torturing the old man, hit him on the head with the hammer, then threw him down stairs. They had removed bis clothing lij - . search of his pockotbook, and .tSiere was a pool of blood In th 6 kitchen. Hamilton had separated from his \v<fe and family and bad lived alone for thirteen years. Fortune Came to a Milliner. Fifty thousand dollars Is the nnex pected good fortune which has come to Miss J. E. Murphy, a milliner, of Fulton. Miss Murphy was engaged In trimming a hat for an exacting customer when the news came In the form of a letter. It bewildered the little mutineer at first, and she was brought to her senses by the banging of the shop door. It was the Indignant customer taking her departure. "Now, I . suppose I've lost the sale," meditated Miss Murphy, ruefully, watching the hack of her lost purchaser disappearing In the rival . llat establishment across the way. But when she looked again at the letter announcing that she was the beneficiary of the will of a woman friend In California, and that $50,000 was her share. Miss Murphy decided that she didn't cnre a mit» passed his seventy-fourth birthday and the bride is said to be upward of six- y ty-flre years old. She was a recent resident of Buffalo. Mr. Gashman la a widower and is reputed to be a millionaire. Mr. and Mrs. Cushman have been friends since childhood. When they were young they were engaged. A quarrel separated them and each married. About three months ago they met and, being free to marry, their old engagement was renewed. Child Killed by Hating Mien. i Edith Uussell, aged four, of Corning. toddled up to the stove and watched I the fire which glowed through a row of tiny holes. Edith tried to get at the j hot coals by poaklng her finger ' through, but the holes were covered I with nice, shiny stuff like glass, only • It didn't cut when you broke It. Instead It was smooth and thin and looked good to eat. Edith ate some, and when her mamma eaine to find her the child had eaten enough of the deadly mica to cause her death. Died After Fall Into a Vat. Peter Lenahan, a tanner, employed by the Howell-Hlnch'man Company, of ftliddletown, died of pneumonia. Lenahan's death is believed to have been the result of falling into a tanning vat while at work. The vat which contained the liquor in which hides are tanned, was six fee.t deep. Lenahan was completely submerged In the liquor and swallowed some of It. He was fifty-four years old, and had been i employed at the tannery for many [ years. Old Baseball Player Marries. Daniel Ulchardson, a member of the : dry goods firm of Sheehan, Dean & ! Co., and Anna Ceraldine Horgan ; were married in Sts. Peter and Paul'* j Church, at Elmira. Mr. Ulchardson j was formerly New York's most famous i second baseman. Miss Horgan was a I saleslady In his store. The wedding | was one of the most elaborate events of the year. Must Pay $1700 For His Eye. Justice Davy handed down it declilon holding tbnt George T. Spauldiug, of Avoca, 1* entitled to $1700, the face value of an accident policy for the lou of an eye. Spaulding got a silver in his eye, which destroyed the sight. The insurance company maintained that a surgical operation would restore the sight. Spnulding declined to undergo the operation. Appointments in the State Museum. Frederick C. Paulmier, of Columbia University, has been appointed assistant In zoology and Herbert P. Whitlock, of New York City, assistant In mineralogy in the State Museum, which Is under the care ..of the State Board of Regents. The salaries are j $1200 and $900 a year, respectively. Prisonner Fled in Night Clothes. Benjamin F. Wells, who was arrested for barbCT ; -A-*-". ' '.*.•*■ .i ' ■ .* <bi . iif _ ».'/'^T-Jit'7j Jnr^l