Youngstown News, 1903-01-02

              THE YOUNGSTOWN NEWS. VOL. XXII. YOUNGSTOWN, N. Y., FRIDAY. JANUARY 2. 1903. NO. 48. MANY KILLED I A WRECK Flying: Passenger I rain Crashed Into a Freight Train in Ontario. CAUSED BY OPERATOR'S MISTAKE Sisty-three Persons Wer<s Killed or Tn- I jured — The Latter Suffered Terribly From Exposure—Horrible Scenes Wit nessed hy Those Who Extricated the Hurt From the Telescoped Cars. London, Ont.—The most frightful railroad accident known to the Canadian railroad annals of the last decade happened one-half mile from a little station named Wanstead, on the Sarnia branch of the Grand Trunk Railway. The trains in the crash were the Pacific Express and a flight. The express was running nearly two hours late and was making fast time. The freight was endeavoring to make a siding to get clear of the express, but failed by a minute. There was an awful crash, the locomotives reared up aud fell in the ditch, the baggage car of the express telescoped the smoker and the shrieks aud cries of the wounded and dying filled the air. The loss of life is twentyeight. The injured will number considerably more. These latter include many who may die from their injuries. They sustained all manner of hurts, and when they reached the hospital at London were so covered with blood that they could not be recognized. Their appearance simply beggared description.Many of the dead were frightfully mangled. Heads wer£ cut off, legs were wrenched from the bodies and the stretch of snow-covered level highway became crimson with the blood of the victims. The responsibility for the accident has not been definitely fixed, but it is believed to have been due to an operator's error. The operator at one of the stations where the two trains stopped gave an order for the freight to pass No. 5, the Pacific Express, at Wanstead. In the system of the Grand Trunk this order should have been duplicated, a copy being given to the engineer and conductor of the express. Instead of this the conductor of the express received a clearance order, telling him to run right through. The freight train had meantime stopped at Wanstead to side track and was telescoped by the express. The blinding storm made objects invisible at the distance of a few feet. The operator at Wanstead is not usually on duty at night, but this evening he happened to be in the office for a short time. He was just going out of the door when he heard the telegraph instrument click and immediately call repeatedly the message, "Stop No. s.'' "Stop No. 5." Seizing a lantern the operator dashed for the door, and as he closed it behind him he heard the awful crash of the collision half a mile up the track. There was not a house to be seen anywhere through the storm, and it proved, when daylight came, that there was none near enough to carry the maimed. Most fortunately the two Pullman cars on the train did not sustain any damage. They were warm and comfortable, and what were a few moments before palatial sleeping compartments for scores of Aveary travelers became a temporary hospital. The injured were placed in the berths and everything possible to assuage the sufferings of the victims was done. This was, however, very little. There was scarcely any water to be had, and snow was melted in the endeavor to quench the thirst of the sufferers. The latest estimate of fatalities is twenty-eight killed and thirty-five or more injured. The following is the list of the killed: Alexander and Mrs. Alexander Stew,- art, of Petrolia, Ont.; A. Ricketts, Sarnia Tunnel; J. Gillies. Sarnia Tunnel; Mrs. Trotter. Petrolia; 11. B. Lawrence. Watford, Ont.; F. S. Freemen. Oil Springs or Hensall; Nicholas Jeffrey, London; Glen Roaley, Port Huron, Mich.; Guy De Penter, La Crosse. Wash.; Dr. Pennwarden and wife. Oil Springs, Mich.: Clem Bodley, Port Huron. Mich.; J. H. Brock, Brucefield. O.; B. Burwell. Port Huron, Mich.; Wilson Morton,- Chicago, 111.; Miss Nellie Geddes, Sarnia, Ont.; Alexander B. Cameron, Petrolia, Ont.; Edward Boyce; Smith, trainman; Miss Lottie Lynch, Port Huron; Ed De Beaus, Prescott, Ont.; Mrs. J. B. Barnes, Woodstock, Ont.; Archie Douglass. Alvinston, Ont.; Mrs. Bodley. Port Huron, Mich.; George Burkliolder, Sarnia, Ont.; William John Lucas. Strathroy. Ont.; Violet Brock, child, Chicago. Three Dead in Hallway Crash. Louisville, Ky. — A fast passenger train on the Illinois Central, bound j or Cincinnati from New Orleans, crashed into a work train at Caneyville, eightyfour miles from Louisville. Three men were instantly killed and two injured. One of the engines was demolished and the other engine and three cars were derailed. The killed were: Robeit Smith, engineer; Thomas Bell, fireman, and W. O. Roberts, fireman of passenger train. Fatal Wreck in Kansas. Paola. Kan.—A head-end collision occurred between two freight trains on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. A brakeman was killed and three men injured. Princess May Come Here. It is stated on what is alleged to be good authority that the Crown Princess of Saxony and the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand may make their homes in the United States. PROGRESS IN GUAM ISLES Three Schools For Instruction in English Started Last Year. <3oyernor 'Wants tlie Name Hadrone, "Which is Applied to the Island:» Dropped, as It Means Bobber . Washington, D. C.—Guam is getting along very well under American rule, according to the annual report of Commander Seaton Scliroeder, U. S. N., Governor of the island. While there was a decrease in the insular cash balance during the fiscal year covered by the report, due to a decrease in import. duties and unexpected expenses of the leper colony,, the treasury at the beginning of the current fiscal year contained an unappropriated balance of $8887. The census of the islands showed a population of 0676. including six male and eight female citizens of the United States; 9630 citizens of Guam, and a few Spaniards, Italians. Japanese and Chinese. This statement does not include officers of the navy and the marine corps, their families, enlisted men or civil employes temporarily brought from the United States. Three schools for instruction in English were started during the year. This experiment has been very successful and the system is popular with the natives. The Governor wants an appropriation for the employment of more teachers. The- Governor wants the name Ladrone Islands dropped in connection with Guam, and hopes that the Postoffice Department will so announce. Ladrone means robber, and its application to Guam is not liked by the people.LYNCHED MAN AND WIFE; Jne of Them Had Murdered Their Employer, a Prominent Mason. Greenwood, S. C.—W. K. Jay. a prominent young farmer, was murdered in his own yard by a negro, Oliver Wideman, or his wife, both of them living on the place. Both of the negroes were lynched by Jay's infuriated neighbors. Mr. Jay on returning home heard Wideman abusing his own wife. He went to the cabin and ordered the negroes to be quiet. Immediately afterward Mrs.. Jay heard the report of a gun; and- saw the two negroes running away. Calling for her husband sh,e got -no answer, and on looking over the yard found him dead in a pool of his own blood. Almost his entire head had been blown off. The alarm was given and parties were soon scouring the country in pursuit of the negroes. When they were captured and- taken before the Coroner the man said the woman killed Mr. Jay and the woman accused the man. While in the custody of a constable on the way to jail they v,rere stopped at the Winter Seat bridge by a mob and both negroes were lynched at midnight, seven hours after the inquest. W. K. Jay was a prominent Mason. OSAGE INDIANS ARE RICH- Wealthiest People Per Capitn in the World —Have 58.584,498 in Treasury. Guthrie, Okla. -- The Government agent for the Osage Indians in Oklahoma has prepared his annual report pertaining to the finances of that tribe, the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The cost of maintenance of the agency and schools for the year has been $53,791; other disbursements, §397; annual income for leased pastures, §145,026; interest on Osage funds, 8415,553; interest on school and treaty funds, $9452; total receipts, including tiie interest, pasture rentals, estray money, grass tax, royalty on oil and gas, sale of ice and wheat, water and permit tax. and legislative hall rent, amount to $579,866: the total amount in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Osages is $8,584,498. There -are ISOO Osages, 847 of whom are fullbloods, and they own 1,400,000 acres of land. HAD HIS WIFE ON THE SHIP. Commander Kollev Ordered Home Fo* Violation of Naval Eegnlations. Washington, D. C.—Commander John R. Roller, formerly commander of the old gunbaot Monocaey, has reached this country from the Asiatic station, having been ordered home by Rear- Admiral Evans for persistent infraction of the rules of the navy, which prohibit the commander of a vessel from permitting his wife to make her home aboard his slip. It is charged that after offending in that particular several times Commander Roller's attention was called to the violation of regulations by the Commander-in-Chief, but with no apparent effect, for even after this implied reprimand the naval officer again entertained his wife aboard ship for several weeks in Chinese waters. Commander Roller now is on waiting orders. "NO" TO MANY PROPOSALS. Governar of Kansas Transfers Task of "Refusal to Secretary. Topoka, Kan. — Within a -week all the "Women who have written to the bachelor Governor of Kansas, proposing marriage, will receive courteous replies, but not from the pen of Governor Bailey. His private secretarywas intrusted with the task of declining with thanks the offers, saying to each that Governor Bailey is not in quest of a wife. About fifty photographs were returned to the senders. Sixty-six declinations went to New York women, and more than a hundred to New England States, Not one of the proposals came from a Kansas woman.  LAURA BIGGAR ACQUITTED Dr. Hendrick and Justice Stanton Are Found Guilty. JURY'S REMARKABLE VERDICT It Declares That the Two Men Conspired lo Get the Fortune of Henry HI. Bennett, But That the Woman Didn't—"We Did Right by Her," Say Jurors—Convicted Men Hope For a New Trial. Freehold, N. J.—By an odd turn of New Jersey justice Laura Biggav, the actress, gained freedom and a fortune in the twinkling of an eye. Dr. C. C. Hendrick and former Justice of the Peace Samuel Stanton, who were accused with her of conspiring to fraudulently gain the entire estate of the late Henry M. Bennett, by swearing that she was married to the dead millionaire and that a posthumous child was born, were both declared guilty. Members of the jury, when asked how they came to acquit Miss Biggar and yet declare the two men guilty, shrugged their shoulders and said: "That woman's entitled to all she'll ever get from the old man's estate. We did what was right by her, that's all." Questioned further as to their process of reasoning the jurors refused to answer. They simply lifted their eyebrows, shrugged their shoulders and looked wise. "The verdict will be a popular one in New Jersey," said one of the jurors. "Any verdict that gives a woman her just dues goes in New Jersey, and that's all there is to it." Hendrick and Stanton will appeal their cases to the Supreme Court of New Jersey. They say there will be no difficulty in setting aside the verdict. Laur.. Biggar can never be tried again on the charge, and she says she will leave no stone unturned to help Hendrick and Stanton out of their trouble. By the verdict acquitting her the actress is left in this position: She is the chief legatee under the will of old man Bennett and will get. it is estimated, about $172,000. this being sixty per cent, of tiie available wealth of the old man after all debts are paid. She will receive an annuity of $1800 for five years before the estate is divided.She will receive .$lOOO from the estate immediately by a special provision of the will. Hendrick and Stanton took the verdict coolly, as did Miss Biggar. but a stir was caused by Mrs. Hendrick, wrho sobbed bitterly and fainted. She was carried to an anteroom, where she revived, and later was taken to a hotel. Before entering a carriage Mrs. Hendrick»asked permission to see her husband. and embraced him affectionately. Miss Biggar was greatly affected at the sight of the woman's grief, and did all she could to comfort her. In fact the former actress seemed more concerned at tl e fate of the other two defendants than she was pleased at her own release. "The future is absolutely black for me," said Miss Biggar. before leaving the courtroom with her counsel. "I have no plans whatever, and probably will remain indefinitely in the hotel here where I am staying. In fact. I have no other place to go and my life is broken." The jury, it is understood, was nine to three for the acquittal of the woman from the first ballot to the time it was decided to ask the court for instructions. Then, it is said, the obstinate three agreed to acquit her. providing the other two could be convicted. The Judge so ruled, and thus the verdict was returned. HEROES OF THE "POISON SQUAD. A Yale Athlete Anions: the Government's Free Boarders. Washington, D. C—The names of Dr. Wiley's "poison squad" have at last been made public. "It is a roll of honor," declared Dr. Wiley, "and future generations will rise up and declare these men blessed when the true value of their services are known." Included among the official boarders are B. J. Teasdale, once the famous 100-yard runner of Yale. The others are John D. Eldridge, known among his colleagues as the "fat man," and "Big John;" E. B. Dudley, of North Carolina, the "thin private;" Eugene R. McCarthy, of Pennsylvania: J. S. ciifford. of New York;. W. J. Jordan, J. L. Weber. F. Norton, T. E. Smith, C. Orton and Messrs. Freeman and Dubois. ROBBERS AIDED BY POLICEMAN. He is Convicted of Participating: in Full Uniform in tlie Crime. Chicago.—Policeman Patrick Mahoney was found guilty and Daniel Curran, co-defendant, not guilty of burglary by a jury. Hagermann's jewelry store was robbed of goods worth $10,- 000. James Clark and an accomplice were convicted of the crime and served terms in the penitentiary. Upon his release Clark told a story to the State's Attorney which resulted in the arrest of Curran, a saloonkeeper, and Malioney, a policeman, well known and respected among his fellows. Clark testified that Mahoney in full uniform stood guard while the jewelry store was being looted. Cattle Dying Out "West. Thousands of cattle are starving on the range in Northwestern Colorado. It is impossible to get feed to them, and equally impossible to drive them into suitable winter duarters. A KIND ACT REWARDED Girl Bookkeeper Gets $40,C0D From Stranger She Befriended. She Never Had Any Idea That the Plainly. Dressed, Elderly Man on a Train Would Send Her Mor.ey, Milwaukee, Wis.—For an act of kindness performed three years ago Miss Anna Marion Yonkers, bookkeeper at the White Swan Laundry, in this city, has suddenly become rich. A draft foi $40,000 came to her a few days ago from Charles W. Johnson, of Chicago, whom the girl has seen only once in her life, when she took him for a pooi -man and was kind to him. So little does Miss Yonkers know of her benefactor that she does not know his business or family connections. Sli<j believes, however, that he is a retired merchant. She has received only three letters from him since the incident which resulted in the gift. It was in July, 1900. while on a tri'i to Savannah. 111., to visit the family of Charles Jensen, that Miss Yonkers boarded a train at Lacrosse. When the train reached Stoddard. Wis., she noticed an elderly man, dressed plainly, mount the steps of the car. When lie entered the door of the coach she saw that he carried, in addition to his grip, a can, and a glance at him told her that he was not well. He appeared for a moment as though he was about to faint. Miss Yonkers, who was only a few feet distant, ran to his side and offered assistance. She helped him to the double seat where she had been sitting, and placed his grip at his side, then she went to the other end of the car and brought him a glass of water and in many ways made him comfortable. After a time the man seemed to get stronger and they talked. The stranger said he was in ill ließlth and was going to Chicago. He asked about her life and plans and took her name and address, and said he would write and tell her if he arrived In Chicago without mishap. Six months later he wrote her a letter and two or three other letters passed between them. Shortly before the receipt of the gift, however. Miss Yonkers received a postal card from him which conveyed the news that she might expert a surprise. She thought little of it. however, although wondering what it meant. When she received the draft she could hardly realize the truth of it. HOME GIVEN TO MASONS. W. X,. Ellcins >Vaires 81,000,000 Gift Tor Their Orphan Daughters. Philadelphia.—As a Christmas gift to tlie Masonic fraternity William L. Elkins announced his intention to establish a home for the orphan daughters of Masons. The gift, which is expected to amount to 51.000.000. is the largest ever made to any fraternal organization in the world, and the institution, which Mr. Elkins purposes to found and endow, will be without a "counterpart anywhere. Announcement of Mr. El kind's plan was made at the Masonic Home-of Pennsylvania, North Broad street, by General Louis Wagner, a Past Grand Master of Pennsylvania. The occasion was tiie annual dinner to the residents of tiie home. General Wagner presided at the meeting, which wa; held in the chapel. The plans provided for a Central Administration Building, three stories high, and dormitories to the north and south, connected by wings with the central building. The contractors w'ill begin work by April 1, 1903. A resolution was passed by the Board of Managers accepting Mr. Elkins's gift, and expressing a wish that he might soon recover from his illness. FOUR BURNED TO DEATH. Fire Kills Sleeping Children of Julius King at Piercefield, N. Y. Malone. N. Y.—Four persons were burned to death in the house of Julius King, at Piercefield. a prominent pulp and paner manufacturing town in the Adirondacks a few miles south of Tupper Lake. Vlie fire had gained such headway before it was discovered that Mrs. M. J. McGovern, King's eldest daughter, and her three children, who were sleeping on the lower floor, were not able to get out, and all were burned to death. One of the children, whose body wf.s found close to a window, evidently had made an effort to escape. King and his wife, with a fewr boarders on an upper floor, escaped by jumping out of the windows. It is not known how the fire started. FARMER MURDERED AT NIGHT. Stranger in His Cellar Sliot Him and FlecTf lieavinK No Cine. Lancaster, Pa.—Christian C. Rauck, aged twenty-five years, a farmer, residing with his father, Benjamin Rauck, near Paradise, this county, was murdered. As he was returning from the hennery to the house he noticed the cellar door of the house was open. He stooped to close it, and as he did so saw a man in the cellar. Without a word the stranger shot him in the abdomen with a revolver and then fled. Rauck fell, but, recovering himself, staggered into the house, where his asred mother lay dying from apoplexy. Two hours later he died. The murderer left no clue to his identity. Snow had obliterated his footprints by the time pursuit began. Gale Sweeps British Coasts. A severe gale swept the north coasts of the United Kingdom, and caused considerable damage to shipping and water-front property on the Clyde aud the Tyne. ACCEPT HAGUE TRIBUNAL President Roosevelt Not to Arbitrate the Venezuelan Controversy. WE WILL NOT GUARANTEE AWARD The Preliminary Protocol Will Baise the Blockade and Restore the Captured Vessels to Castro, and the Modus "Vivendi Will Then Be Arranged—The Cabinet Decides to Thank the Powers, ' Washington, D. C.—By agreement of all the parties interested the Venezuelan controversy is to be submitted to The Hague tribunal for settlement. Thus President Roosevelt has escaped the certainly thankless and possibly embarrassing task of arbitrator. While the agreement of the allied Powers and of Venezuela to have the matter go to The Hague court is practically final, it is understood that Germany, at least, demands a small preliminary payment from Venezuela, and Venezuela, on the other hand, asks that before arbitration shall begin the blockade shall be raised and the Venezuelan gunboats restored to her. If these conditions shall be insisted upon there is little doubt that they will be met, and that speedy and final arbitration will ensue. The principal difficulty that had to be overcome by this Government in inducing the allied Powers to submit the matter to The Hague court instead of to President Roosevelt was due to tiie insistent intimation by the allies that if they should accept arbitration at our request Ave ought to guarantee that the Venezuelan Government should meet her obligations according to the decision of The Hague court. This tiie United States has steadily declined to do, though it has offered to use its good offices as far as possible to induce Venezuela to meet the award. In tiie end this Government has carried its point, and it wrill have the satisfaction of seeing the matter arbitrated at The Hague without standing as bondsman or guarantor for the South American Republic. Secretary Hay received messages from Great Britain, Germany and Italy saying that they would accept the arbitration of The Hague court if an agreement could be reached with Venezuela regarding the preliminaries. There is little doubt that th-Is can be done. Venezuela will have to make" some sort of apology to Germany for the insult to the German Legation, and will have to make a small money payment, and then the captured Venezuelan ships will be restored and the blockade will be raised. This will be agreed upon in a preliminary protocol. When it shall have been carried into effect, a second protocol containing the terms and conditions of arbitration, and a modus vivendi to last until after the arbitration is over and the award settled, will be signed by representatives of all the Powers concerned. Thus, further hostilities are prevented and a peaceful settlement is assured as the result of the peacemaking efforts of this Government.The State Department takes the ground that the details of the agreement must be made public, if at all. by the Powrers concerned; that it could not publish them without discourtesy, since this Government is not concerned in the matter save as a channel of communication. But it is intimated that care has been taken to prevent the inclusion of the Monroe doctrinp in the matters to be arbitrated. This Government is unwilling to have this famous American policy judged, even incidentally, by a court largely composed of representatives of monarchical powers, and it is satisfied that in the arbitration The Hague court will have no opportunity to question or to render an opinion regarding that doctrine.In their notes, which were laid before the Cabinet meeting by Secretary Hay, the allied Powers are understood to have repeated that they wrould rather have President Roosevelt act as arbitrator, but added that they were welling to accept the arbitration of The Hague oourt if lie were disinclined to accept. Secretary Hay is preparing a note expressing the gratification of| this Government over the fact that the matter will go to The Hague. GRAVE-ROBBERS' PLOT. It is Said Tliev Intended to Steal Ge»» eral Harrison's Body. Indianapolis., Ind.—There has been a story afloat here that the grav* robbers now under arrest were in a conspiracy to steal former President Harrison's body the night after he Was buried. The object was to hold the body for a reward. General Harrison left a request that his grave be sealed beyond the possibility of desecration. He had in mind the stealing of his own father's body, which he afterward found in a Cincinnati medical college. His grave was covered with a stone slab of at least a ton weight. SAVAGES KILL ATKINSON. A British Sea Captain Sacrificed to Superstition.Victoria, B. C.—Captain Henry Asmos Atkinson, of the British recruiting; schooner Lily, was killed by natives of; Mallicolo Island, in the New Hebrides. The schooner was taking home natives. who had been employed in New Caledonia by French planters. One.1 bound to Mallicolo died when near, there, and Captain Atkinson decided, to bury the body ashore. When he landed he was killed, and two of his crew were wounded. The superstitious natives believed they must kill the whites to prevent further deaths. NEWS OF THE WEEK WASHINGTON ITEMS. Internal revenue collections for November were $19,285,357. a decrease from the previous year of $3,393,593. The Government accepted the thirtyknot torpedo boat Wilkes built in New York City. President Roosevelt received the delegates attending the biennial convention <T? the Sigma Alnha Epsilon Fraternity, in session at Washington. It was announced at thp War Pe> partment that General Chaffee will become Lieutenant-General of the Army when General Young retires. The funeral of Mrs. U. S. Grant took place in Washington, attended by the President and a large numbir ol oflh .cials. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The reception of Admiral Dewey on his arrival at San Juan, P. R.. was n tremendous sneeess. The narade which lie led with the naval officers was an imposing spectacle. There was an immense crowd of spectators. The Governor gave a ball in honor of the Ad' miral. It is stated that the provinces of Ca< vite. Batangas and Tayabas in the Philippines wiil be placed under military control because of the difficulties of the Civil Government with the ladrones.Natives of the Island of Panay. P. L, have raised funds to send to Boston to aid in the prosecution of the case of Father Augustin, killed by the water cure. DOMESTIC. The toroedo boat destroyer Worden, now at Norfolk Navy Yard, was ordered in commission. Robbers relieved the State Bank at Webber, Kan., of $1500 cash and escaped.General Greene, tlie new Police Commissioner of New York City, has retained the present deputies. While seeking food or shelter Joseph Harlton. an aged prospector, perished in the storm near Isle, Col. While playing Santa Claus, Forest Gale, a fifteen-year-old boy. was latally burned in the Salvation Army barracks at Hamilton. O. Having forced Ed Gay, of Mathews. Ga.. to force open his safe an unknown man killed him and took $1200 in cash with which he escaped, leaving no c-lue. Daniel C. Moynihan, former captain of police, was acquitted at New York City by a jury of a charge of accepting bribes. While Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Williams were dining at the Westminster Hotel. Los Angeles, Cal.. thieves took $3000 worth of jewelry from their room. James Kildee, aged 102 years, and supposed to have been the oldest resident of Illinois, died at Danville, 111. Two hundred passengers, an entire trainload, were injured in a wreck in Illinois. None were killed. Nate Salsbury. controlling partner in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, died at Long Branch, N. J. Changed with embezzling $10,100 as receiver of the Lion Model Laundry Company. C. L. Shaw was arrested at Cleveland, Ohio. Fire Chief Croker was officially declared out of the New York Fire Department and Charles D. Purroy installed in the office. The body of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant was laid in a sarcophagus beside that of her husband in the tomb at Riverside Park, New York City. Four masked men who attempted to dynamite the safe in the bank at White River, Ind.. were scared away before accomplishing their purpose. The Congressional scat held by J. .T. Butler. Twelfth Missouri District, will be contested by George D. Reynolds. At a dinner of bankers in Chicago Secretary Shaw made a speech advocating a credit currency, protected by a tax on the circulation issued by banks. FOREIGN. The Red Cross Society at St. Petersburg is sending relief to the earthquake sufferers at Audijan. Minister Bowen, at Caracas. Venezuela, was snubbed by the grand dames of the Von Pilgrim-Baltazzi set. The Red D Line steamer Caracas entered the port of La Guayra, Venezuela, after slight opposition. Frank Kimborough, an American artist, died in London from pneumonia. The earthquake shocks at Andijan, Turkestan, continue. Railway traffic was interrupted and damage estimated at millions done. A boat race between crews of the Massachusetts and the Alabama, at Port of Spain, Trinidad, for a purse of $1000, resulted in a tie. Christmas in England was marked by a return of the spirit of festivity and hospitality which had been lacking during the Boer war. Secretary and Mrs. Chamberlain arrived at Durban, South Africa, and were received with enthusiasm. Mr. Chamberlain's speeches were notable for their strong tone of conciliation. Premier Balfour was confined to big bed at his Scotch home with an attack of influenza. The Taris police seized the papers of Jean de La Marre, the explorer and manager of a Klondike mining company, which is capitalized at about $8,- 000,b00. De La Marre is suspected of Irregular proceedings. It is reported that Hadda Mullah, who frequently made trouble for England in Afghanistan, died and was buried. 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