Youngstown News, 1902-03-07

              THE YOUNGSTOWN NEWS. XXII. ¥ OUNGSTOWN, N. Y„ FRIDAY. MARCH 7. 1902. JNO. 5. STORM CONTINENT WIDE Loss of Life and Destruction ot Property in Many States, RAILROAD TRAFFIC PARALYZED Ice Gorge in Alleghany River Threatened Pittsburg—.Cyclones in ■ Virginia and Georgia—Blizzard in Minnesota and th« Dakotas—Floods Impeded Railroad Traffic In the South—Heavy Rains. New York City.—The sea border of a cyclone of almost continental diameter lashed the waters hereabouts into suds and made sailing craft claw off shore. It also played havoc with the wires, only recently prostrate under a "burden of sleet, again shutting off direct telegraphic communication with all coastwise cities to the south of us. Washington dispatches came by roundabout courses; some via Chicago and some through Pittsburg. The gale was southeast and was the heaviest blow of the winter from that point, acquiring at one time a gale in the city of sixty-eight miles. There hasn't been a storm in many years covering so large a territory, practically two-thirds of the country. It was one of the most erratic storms ■on record. It originated in the Pacific, came inshore at Oregon and went cavorting down to Texas. It danced there on the plains awhile, recurved and headed north-northeast, howling through Oklahoma and Missouri, spreading, as it whirled, almost from coast to coast. WIDE STORM AREA. Rain Fell From the Atlantic to the Pa&«. fic Oceans. Chicago.—Chicago was the centre of a general storm area which covered almost the entire country. The barometric pressure was less than any previous record, and rain fell almost from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Professor Con asserted that it was the most remarkable storm which had occurred in many years, owing to its great extent aM low barometer readings.Cumberland, Md. — One-half of the city" was under water and business was entirely suspended. The Potomac River overflowed its banks. All street car traffic was suspended and nearly all the railroads were tied up. An ice gorge at Gorman, fifty miles north, broke, and that town was under several feet of water. The people were forced to the second stories of theii homes. Every bridge on the Cumberland and Pennsylvania road between here and Piedmont, W. Va.. was swepl away, and the West Virginia Central road was completely blocked with ice and water for miles. Pittsburg, Pa.—The great ice gorges In the Allegheny River above this city broke and were swept down the swollen stream. The head of the gorge was within the limits of Pittsburg and Allegheny before noon, but passed the two cities and went down the Ohio without doing any serious damage. Reading, Pa.—Traffic on the Schuylkill division of the Pennsylvania Railroad was suspended. Trains on the iWilmington and northern division of the Reading road could not resume for a week. Rails were washed away, a dozen large dams burst, wooden bridges were destroyed and hundreds Of factories were under water between Pottsville and Manayunk. Nearly every colliery of the Reading company was flooded and many were shut down. TEE SOUTH STORM SWEPT. Death and Ruin in the Path of High Wind and Rain. Knoxville, Term— The storm caused serious damage to railroads in this section. A freight train was wrecked ngar Redford, Va.. in which a brakeman was killed. Railroad traffic was delayed. All river industries were closed. Atlanta, Ga.—The storm which swept over the southeastern Gulf States apparently passed north and out to sea. The heavy rains raised the water to flocd height in the Chattahoochee, Alabama, Ocmulgee and Savannah rivers, and much damage was reported in Georgia and Alabama. Pour lives were lost as a result of a wreck caused by the washout near Zetella, Ga. Numerous freight wrecks occurred from thf same cause. A negro woman was killed, another fatally injured and several negro men were badly hurt by a cyclone which passed over Dawson, C.—All railway traffic in the mountains was paralyzed as a result of the storm. All manufacturing plants on the banks of the French Broad River were forced to close. The river rose over a thirteenfoot wall at Marshall, N. C., and floodid the town. Jacksonville, Fla. — A very heavy thunder and lightning storm, ac sompanled by heavy rains and a gale of wind blew down many houses In the southern part of the State. All jranges left on the trees were badly Hamaeed. MARCONI'S NEW TRIUMPH He Received a Signal 2099 Miles From Corn v ail, England. Record of the Feat Well Attested by the Chief Officers of tlie Philadelphia —Secrecy is Possible. New York City.—William Marconi, the young inventor, who in December startled the world by announcing that he had succeeded in transmitting prearranged signals by means of wireless telegraph across the Atlantic, arrived on the American liner Philadelphia. He made another statement in regard to results achieved on the way over by the wireless, system, little less remarkalv than the achievement he announced from Newfoundland in the Winter. In Newfoundland Marconi had to receive the sound of the signal "S" through a telephone receiver, but on arriving he exhibited slips of paper on which the receiving apparatus recorded the messages, which up to a distance of 1551 miles were actual messages, and after that and up to 2099 miles, the signal letter " S." Each of the pieces of tape bore the signatures of Captain A. R. Mills and Chief Officer Marsden of the Philadelphia, in whose presence the particular messages were received. At the Hoffman House Marconi was asked many questions. Of what had been done during the voyage across on the Philadelphia he said: "It merely confirms what I have previously done in Newfoundland. There is no longer any question about the ability of the wireless telegraph to transmit messages across the Atlantic. As to distance over which messages can be sent, I will say that it is a matter that depends solely on the strength of the apparatus used. "You have asked me why I did not .reply to the messages from Cornwall. That is very easily answered. The instrument on tiie Philadelphia was not constructed for long distances. As 'for the curvatures of the earth affecting the curentS, as the cable people thought it would, that has been proved untrue. That objection on their part, though, I think, was rather an imaginary, than a real one. The wish was probably father to the thought." When asked what he thought the speed of the wireless current was, Marconi replied: "I have made no calculation as to that, but assume it travels at the same speed the light does—that is, at; a rate of about 136,000 miles a second." As to secrecy in the sending of messages and the possibility of other ships and stations intercepting messages, Marconi said there were many vessels now equipped with the apparatus on the Atlantic, and that if his tuning process was unsuccessful, why had they not intercepted some of the messages that were flashed to him from Poldhu. He continued: "You haven't heard any of them report catching any of them, have you? We were in pretty close proximity to the outgoing Cunarder to-day, and she did not affect us, and if she did not. why should any of the rest do so? There are some 250 tunes, and to intercept you would have to guess which one I was using. And since I have the choice of so many, the guess would be a rather difficult one." The inventor will go to Ottawa., and after a short stay in the interest of his invention will return to New York City, sailing soon afterward for England, as he did on the voyage that has just ended, utilizing his time at sea experimenting with his apparatus. . PRINCE HENRY AT MOUNT VERNON He Lays "Wreaths on Washington's Tomb and Plants a Tree. Washington, D. C.—Prince Henry o? Prussia journeyed to Mount Vernon and placed two wreaths on the tomb of Washington. Prince Henry and his party were taken to Mount Vernon "by a special train. It was 2.30 o'clock when tiie train started, and the run to Mount Vernon occupied fifty-live minutes. Prince Henry walked to the Washington home and was driven from there over the slope of the hill to the tomb. When the iron gate of the tomb was opened he removed, his cap and entered. Two large wreaths made in Washington by his order had been sent to the tomb, and he set them in place. A group of more than 100 men standing in the approach to the grave uncovered, and that, with their silence, added to the spirit of solemnity. Fifty feet down the sward that falls away from the tomb Prince Henry planted a linden tree. The tree had been set in place before his arrival, and, taking a spade the Prince filled the earth in around its roots. The Prince was taken to the old Washington house, and there met a delegation of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. He spent a few minutes in looking at the Washington relics and then departed for Washington. Large crowds watched his arrival and departure, and his course through historic old Alexandria was lined with people, who cheered him cordially. It was 4.30 o'clock when Washington was reached on the return trip, and Prince Henry was driven at once to the German Embassy. Made His Own Coffin. Thomas Carson died at his home in Perry.Ohio. at eighty-nine years of age. Mr. Carson was ready for death in more than one way. He was a carpenter by trade, and years ago constructed his own coffin, and also made otber funeral arrangements. MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK WASHINGTON ITEMS. All records in private pension legislation in the House were broken, 159 bills being passed in three hours. Prince Henry of Prussia visited the Naval Academy at Annapolis and dined at the German Embassy in Washington; then he left the capita) for his Western tour. President Roosevelt removed from office United States Judge Arthur E. Noyes, of the Second District of Alaska, upon the recommendation of Attorney-General Knox. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Rural estates in Cuba devastated during the war will continue to enjoy a thirty-three per cent, reduction in taxation. Protestants in Cuba agreed to maintain but one church in cities of 0000 persons, two for 15,000 and thVee for 25,000. Lieutenant Johnston, of the Fifteenth Infantry, captured the battleflag of Malvar, the insurgent chief in the Philippines, as well as his personal jewelry. The employment of Italians led to a riot by striking native trolley men at Ponce, Porto Rico. An active campaign is being made against the ladrones in Cavite Province, Luson, P. 1., by General Trias and the native constabulary. DOMESTIC. Edward Butler, St. Louis's most prominent Democratic politician, was indicted by the Grand Jury for bribery in connection with the city garbage contract. William Mulliken, a wealthy farmer of Keokuk, lowa, was killed by a bullet which came through the window of his home. There is no clue to the murderer. The New Orleans Sugar Exchange decided, after an exciting meeting, "to establish a future branch. Abraham Lincoln Brick was renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Thirteenth Indiana District. The dead-lock of the coal operators and miners of Illinois continued and there was little prospect that a scale would be agreed on. Rather than go to jail for embezzlement Ernest Wedekind, a lawyer, of Chicago, killed himself. Creeping up behind his wife Alexander Ikey, of Wells, Vt., killed her by crushing her skull with an axe. For the murder of Thomas Farmer, who was shot from ambush, John Henry Rose was hanged at Wilson, N. C. Joseph Coolski and William Pacaelikowski were smothered to death in Cleveland, Ohio, by falling earth while digging clay in a brickyard. lowa will remove the limits on fees paid by corporations filing certificates in the State. William Emerson Redmond, better known aS "Billy" Emerson, widely known as a minstrel, died in destitute circumstances at Boston. Consumption was the cause. While trying to quiet L. F. Gradwell at Hambleton, W. Va., Clark Nagle was riddled with buckshot, dying instantly. Falling into a steam vat at Suffolk, Va., Julius Cross was boiled from the armpitc down. A delegation of boomers for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1903 left St. Louis, Mo., to visit New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The twenty-fifth anniversary of Johns Hopkins University was celebrated in Baltimore, Md., with the attendance of many educators from the leading institutions of the country. FOREIGN. There was a fresh outbreak of the1 working people in Spain, including Barcelona and the mining regions. Boers captured 4G7 British, offsetting General Kitchener's success in the Harrismith district. The British Government refused to make public the identical note sent to their respective governments by the foreign ambassadors at Washington on April 10, IS9S. Notice was served by Colombia on the Panama Canal shareholders that they cculd not transfer the canal concession without the assent Of Colombia. The death is announced of the Earl of Perth. He was born in 1807. The bank of Bigwood & Morgan, of Brussels, suspended payment. Its liabilities amounted to 5150.000. It did business with the British colony irf Brussels. The Chinese Foreign Office announced that the reported rebellion in the vicinity of the city of Nan-King consisted of pillaging on the part of disbanded soldiers. An edict was issued commanding that they be severely punished. The Vienna Peace Society indorsed America's position on international arbitration.Peru issued a loan of a half-million sols because of the depreciated silveE currency. The Rev. Horace Dutton, of Boston, Mass., was robbed of 700 lire while on a bicycle tour in Italy. By a unanimous vote the City Corporation of London decided to spend $75,000 on celebrations by the city for the King's coronation. General Kitchener reported the capture of 164 Boers by a force of National Scouts, former burghers who are fighting in the British ranks. FLOODS RAVAGE COUNTRY Worst Inundation in Years Reported From Many Quarters, PATERSON AT WATER'S MERCY Citizens Forced to Flee For Safety, and Bridges Swept Away—Disastrous Results of tlie Overflo'rf'ing of the Passaic River— Miles of Railroad Track Under "Water—The L,oss of Life. New York City. — Reports received from the flooded districts in the New England and Middle States indicated the destruction of many millions of dollars' worth of property and the loss of at least twenty-five lives. About 1000 persons were made homeless, 50,- 000 toilers were thrown temporarily out of work, and seven bridges were swept away. The damage done in the Passaic Valley, N. J., was estimated at $2,000,000 in Pittsburg, Alleghany, Pa., and vicinity at $1,250,000, and in the Susquehanna Valley, Pa., at 51,500,000. Throughout Pennsylvania overflowed rivers have caused losses of property and suffering. Floods in Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and in the far South and in several of the New England States also did much damage and endangered many lives. In New York, the recent thaw, aided by heavy rains, caused freshets in many districts up the State, the highest stage of water being reached at Albany and in the vicinity of that town. Parts of Albany were overflowed and flooded tracks generally hampered railway traffic. The Empire State Express, bound for New York City, was abandoned in four feet of water near Schodack. The rising flood put out the fires under the engine boiler. The passengers were rescued from their sleeping car berths in the darkness of night and at early dawn by means of rowboats were safely taken to Hudson, N. Y. Passengers on the north-bound Buffalo express from New York City had a similar experience at Castleton. Flood has followed fire in Paterson. and it is a question of the citizens of that ill-fated town as to which has worked the greater hardship, the $S,- 000,000 fire of several weeks ago or the overflowing of the Passaic River. The fire destroyed the banks, the churches, the big stores in which the people spent their money and which gave the town its air of prosperity. The flood has seriously damaged and in several instances put out of business for several weeks to come the very sources of the town's prosperity, the big mills along the river bank in which the people earned their money. No lives were lost in the fire. There were two lost in the flood. Henry Richards, a carpenter, was drowned while trying to save a family from a flooded factory. The body of another man was seen being carried down the stream, turning over and over in the current. The fire made 100 families homeless. The flood drove 600 families to charity for shelter. The railroad bridge which spanned the Passaic River at Singac went down. The bridge was of wood and rested high above the water on trestle work. The rushing of the water weakened the central piers and the whole coliapfeed. The Hillman street bridge in Paterson also went down. It was an iron and steel span with stone abutments and centre pier. One of the abutments went and the bridge collapsed.All the rivulets tributary to the Passaic River were swollen into deep and turgid streams. The rirer itself rose far beyond ths danger point. Passaic was in almost as perilous a situation as Paterson. Not within the memory of a living man has the Passaic reached so high a mark at Newark as it did on the flood tides. All the piers on the river front were submerged. In Belleville houses near the river could not be reached except in boats. Ma ay of them were deserted as the waters rose higher, and as the day wore on the most alarming reports of the weakening of the dams above Paterson were spread and added to the general terror. Bergen County was cut off from Passaic entirely. Hundreds of employes of the mills were separated from their families and were unable Ho reach their homes in Wallington, Garfield and Lodi. The Passaic, Anderson and Birch lumber yards were ruined. A dozen houses in submerged Wallington were washed away. The river, naturally about 200 feet wide at Wallington, was a mile in width. A hundred houses were flooded and the occupants were forced to flee. A dozen mills, blocks away from the river, were submerged. No work can be done for weeks, and fully 10,000 persons will be temporarily out of employment. The electric light and gas plants were submerged, and the entire city was In darkness, with fifty blocks of streets under water. Never, it is said, has the country been visited by such a general flood. Nearly the whole country was flood bound. From Maine to the South and from New York to Wisconsin reports came of high water, freshets and breakingice gorges that did untold damage.. Trains were delayed, and in some! places the tracks were under watei4 for miles. Rivers that had overflowed, their banks filled the engine rooms off electric power houses, stopping the running of electric cars and putting whole cities in darkness. TROOPS ORDERED HOME The Military Force in the Philippines to Be Reduced to 32,000 Men. Lucban, the 'Notorious Insurgent L,eadei in the Province of Samar, Falls = Into the Hands of Americans. Washington, D. C.—Secretary Root, in conformity with assurances recently made- to various committees of Congress, has arranged for a gradual reduction of the military force in the Philippines to about 32,000 men. Orders have been sent to Geireral Chaffee, commanding the Division of the Philippines, that he arrange to send Home all the regiments under his command that were sent to the Philippines in 1899. About 13,000 troops are affected by these orders. The movement will be made very slowly, a a regiment at a time, in the in which they arrived in the Philippines, and in. each case only when the regiment c§n be spared without embarrassment and without impairing the military control of the situation. All the troops sent out in 1898 have already been recalled to the United States with the exception of those who re-enlisted for service in the archipelago.When all the fresh troops in the United States under orders to go to the Philippines have arrived there, it is estimated that General Chaffee will have i.n effective fighting force of nearly 32,000 men, exclusive of the regiments of 1899, which are to be brought home at his earliest convenience. It is not believed that it will be possible for the first of these troops to leave the Philippines for at least three months. Manila.—General Smith, in command of the United States troops on the Island of Samar, cables that Lieutenant Strebler's scouts have captured General Lucban, the notorious leader of the Samar insurgents, and taken him to Laguan, capital of a small island of that name, north of and adjoining Samar.The officials of the War Department regard the capture of Lucban as the most important military event since Aguinaldo's capture. He was run down on the Island of Samar. Lucban is one of the most energetic and ferocious of the insurgents. He is a half-breed, a mixture of Chinese and Filipino stock, and has been an irreconcilale from' the first. He had various fastnesses in the mountains of Samar, from which he would descend upon the coast towns, and his reign of terror was so complete that the entire population of the island paid tribute to him as the price of freedom from attack.DOES NOT, POSSESS JURISDICTION. United States Supreme Court So Decides in the Railway Merger Suit. Washington, D.C.—The United States Supreme Court has delivered its opinion in the case of Minnesota versus the Northern Securities Company in the application of the State to file a bill of Complaint in that court. The opinion was read by Justice Shiras. and the motion for leave to file the bill was denied on the ground that this court is without jurisdiction. This is the case in which the State of Minnesota made an effort to secure the intervention of the Supreme Court to prevent the merging of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern companies by injunction. The decision does not affect the proposed action of Attorney-General Knox to test the legality of the merger under the Sherman Anti-Trust law. MOB SHOOTS A MAN IN BED. dills a Ulan Acquitted of Murder as Soon as He Returns Home. Jacksonville, 111.—Woodford Hughes was riddied with bullets by a mob and the top of his head ""as blown off as he ay in his bed in a hou- e at Nortonville. Suspected and acquitted of having shot a neiglibcr, he had been warned never to return to the village, and for the first time went back to the home of his enemies. During the night the mob was organized and surrounded ue house in which he was staying. At least a dozen shots were* fired through the window of his rocm, and the shooting continued after the victim was dead. Roosevelt, Jr., Improves Rapidly. Washington, D. C.—Theodore Pioose- velt, Jr., is progressing steadily toward comolete restoration to health. STATE DEPARTMENT TO ACT Will Try to Secure the Punishment of Miss Stone's Captors. PLEDGE MAY FRUSTRATE EFFORT Tlie Captive Missionaries, It i« Said, Were Sworn to Secrecy by tlie Brigands— Praise For American Diplomatic Officials Who Conducted the Negotiations For the Release—An Affecting Meeting Washington, D. O.—A dispatch received at the State Department from Minister Leishman, at Constantinople, announced that Miss Stone was free. Now that the captive is free the State Department does not hesitate to announce its full approval of all that has been done to effect the release by Mr. Leishman, Spencer Eddy (the Secretary of Legation), and Consul-General Dickinson. The question of burning interest in connection with the State case, now that anxiety for Miss Stone's safety has been dissipated, is in repard t©> what steps can be taken towards securing reparation. The State Department is still in the dark on this subject, and no definite line of policy has been determined upon. Two demands which will certainly be made if possible ai'e for indemnity and for the capture and punishment of the brigands. but until more is learned about • the circumstances of the case the State Department cannot positively decide upon, the steps to be taken. It goes withoi t saying that the outrage cannot go unpunished. MISS STONE AT SALONIKA. The Brigands Swore Her and Dime. Tsilka to Secrecy. Salonika.—Miss '"tone and Mme. Tsilka and her baby arrived here, well and cheerful. They received the members of the Anglo-American community in the railway carriage. At the request of M. Gargiulo, the Turkish Governor at Strumitsa returned to the women the cloaks and garments with which the brigands sup* plied them, and which the Governor took possession of on Sunday. The missionaries intend to keep these garments as memen'os of their adventure.As the party from Strumitsa reached the top of the Chipelli Pass, the travelers were surprised by the sudden appearance of M. Tsilka, and tin re was an affecting meeting between husban and wife. Miss Stone says the brigands swor both of their captives to absolute secrecy regarding any information cal culated to establish of th< bandits, the location -*f the piaces where the captives were concealed, and other facts likely o comprom'se the captors. GREETINGS TO MISS STONE. American anil Woman's Boards Cable En* couragement to the Missionary. Boston, Mass.—The American Board has sent its greetings to Miss Stone, the missionary released from bandits, by cabling "Psalm 124." The Woman's Board cables: "Love; welcome home." The Psalm referred to by the American Board contains these verses: "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken and Ave are escaped. "Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and the earth." There is great rejoicing at the headquarters of the American Board over the liberation of the missionary, and there are hopes that she will be able to start for home at once. Her furlough , will be indefinite in duration. MJiss Stone's two brothers, Perley A.  of Haverhill, and Charles A. Stone, of Chelsea, received the news of her release with some excitement, but the missionary's mother, who is ninety years of age, chowed remarkable selfpossession.Were Secreted in the Mountains. Samakoff, Bulgaria.—The brigands held Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka secreted in the Koja Mountains, near Priljp, Macedonia, whence they conducted the captives through the mountains of Strumitza. RENOUNCED MONASTIC VOWS. Brother Eugene Leaves the Trappists Aftel Twenty-three Years' Service. Dubuque. lowa.—An event unprecedented in the history of the Trappist Monastery in this country is made public. Brother Eugene, for twentythree years an inmate, has deliberately renounced his vows taken nearly a quarter of a century ago. He has left the monastery and is now looking for some means to earn a living. His name is Joseph Graham, and he came from Illinois when twenty-three years old. The Trappist rules are the most rigid of any monastic order. CONVICTED OF BRIBERY. Henry A. Taylor, of Connecticut, Found Cuilty by Grand Rapids Jury. Grand Rapids, Mich.—The jury in the case of Henry A. Taylor, charged with conspiracy to bribe in connection with the water scandal, returned a verdict cf guilty as charged. Taylor furnished the money with which it was proposed to saddle upon the city a water supply contract of several million dollars. His home is in Milford, Conn. This is the second conviction as the result of the recent Graad Jury investigation. 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