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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-08
GOOD CHEER.

Have you had a kindness shownf
Pass II on.
Twas not given for you alone
Pass II on.
Let Il travel down the years.
LII It wipe another's tears.
TIL in heaven the deed appears
Pass II on.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
TRAIN WRECKED AT A BRIDGE
FIVE MILK CARS DROP INTO A CREEK
NARROW ESCAPE FOR CREW AND
PASSENGER TRAIN.

The crew on the Chatham milk train the
Harlem Railroad. which due to arrive at
Mount Vernon at midnight on Monday, had a re-
markable escape from death, and passenger train
which followed the milk train narrowly escaped
destruction through the collapsing of Tanners
bridge over a creek, midway between Dover Plains
and Wassaic.
The milk train. consisting of seven cars loaded
with milk for Mount Vernon and this city, was
passing over the bridge. The locomotive had
reached the solid roadbed the north. while the
caboose containing the crew, was on the edge Of
the southern abutment of the bridge. Suddenly
the centre of the structure dropped. An abutment
had given way. The entire train with the excep-
ton of the engine and the cahoose. plunged into
the creek. thirty feet below. The cars were
smashed into kindng wood. No one was injured.
The passenger train tagged just in time to
prevent it from running into the bridge.
The milk train had changed crews at Dover
Plains and the brakemen had not gone from the
caboose to take their places the train. The con-
ductor was John Ensign and the engineer Augustus
Acker
Spilled milk dyed the creek white as snow.
Three wreckng trains sent to repair the
bridge. AS the result OF the wreck. there was
West Mount Vernon. The Bronx Borough and
Yonkers.
The collapse of the bridge is accounted for by on
the suppostion that one of the abutments had been
undermined. The scene of the accident is seventy
seven miles from this city
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
MEXTCANS AMBUSHED BY YAOUIS.
FIVE OFFICERS AND A NUMBER OF MEN
KILLED LAST WEEK

FIVE OFFICERS AND A NUMBER OF MEN
KILLED LAST WEEK
Ell Paso. Tex, Dec. 25 CspeciaD.-Another fear
full slaughter Of Mexican troops at the hands
Of the Yaqui Indians has occurred in Sonora,
Mexico. A week ago to-day while Colonel Fran
cisco Peinado and small body of men were
crossing the country near La Misa, they were
suddenly attacked by the Indians from ambush
and five officers and number of men and Ind
ians were killed outright and Colonel Peinado
himself seriously wounded. The soldiers had no
knowledge that the Indians were in the imne-
date vicinity, and the attack was such a sur
prise they had little time to prepare for it.
Nothing is known about the attack but that
the Indians fed to the mountains after firing a
few volleys
This news brought here to-day by c. V.
Light, of Guaymas. who says he saw the report
given to General Torres. The wounded are still
at La Misa, where the dead were buried Mr.
Light says that the press censorship is so severe
in Sonora that it is practically impossible for
any news of the to get out except from
persons living there. The scene of the fight last
Tuesday was about fifty miles from General
Torres's headquarters where Indians have
been for over a year.
Colonel Peinado is of the most popular
officers in the Mexican army. He has been in
the field against the Yaquis since the war began
two years ago, and has often distinguished him
self for bravery. He is second in command to
General Torres in Sonora, and is next in line
for promotion to the rank of general. The latest
report is that he may not recover, as he was
shot through the bowels. General Torres has
sent a brigade Of cavalry TO follow the Indians,
and news Of a fight is expected daily, as the
Indians further from their base Of supplies
than they have been for year before.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
ALARNIIST REPORTS FROM THE CAPE
THE WHOLE COLONY MAY RISE IN RE-
BELLIoN. ACCORDING TO THEM.
cBy The Associated Press.D

London, Dec. 26.-The position of Cape Colony
is hanging in the balance According TO "The
Morning Posts" Cape Town correspondent,
everything depends upon the quantity of am
munition in possession of the disloyal Dutch
residents fifteen hundred of whom have Joined
the Beers in the Philipstown district alone.
Energetic measures have been taken to stem the
invasion but there is unquestionably danger
that parties of Beers will get through into parts
of the Colony, and gradually raise the whole
Cape into rebellion. Reinforcements can arrive
none too soon.
Most of the dispatches from Cape Town. how
ever, describe the raiders doing little harm
and as being rapidly inclosed by Lord Kitchen
ers combination. Lord Kitchener is in the heart
of the disaffected districts. He has the advan-
tage of being personally acquainted with local
conditions. Last March he supervised the sup
preston of the rising which occurred then He
is bringing down thousands Of troops from the
north
THE Standards Cape Town correspondent
says the loyalists demand that martial law shall
be proclaimed throughout Cape Colony. but
adds: Such a step is now impossible, owing to
the lack of sufficient troops to enforce it" The
correspondent of THE Daily Mail" at Cape
Town says:
The pro-Boer press are singularly quiet. They
have been made uneasy by the promptness and
thoroughness of the military action but reports
from various parts Of the western province fore
shadow perilous possibilities A responsible col
onist who recently made tour of the Colony
declares that 80 per cent of the Dutch
simply waiting for the appearance of resource
full leader to rebel.
Civil railway traffic has been suspended
largely in all parts of the Colony, and the move
ments of both the Beers and the British are al
most unknown in Cape Town. 1t appears that
one Boer column attacked Steynsburg but was
repulsed and fed, intrenching itself in the
mountains Another Boer commando captured
party Of police at Venterstad. Mounted colo
nial troops surprised three hundred Beers fifteen
miles from Burghersdorp on December %, and
after brisk interchange Of volleys, retired
with a loss Of two men.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
TRAINS IN HEADON CRASH.
PASSENGERS BADLY SHAKEN UP-FIRE-
MAN AND CONDUCTOR BADLY
INJURED.

Newark N J.. Dec. 25.-Two passenger trains
on the Newark branch of the Erie Railroad had
a headon collision at Franklin station tonight
One was a westbound train from New-York.
The other was eastbound from Paterson The
fireman of the eastbound train and William
Smith the conductor of the westbound train,
were badly injured. They were attended by Dr.
Mccoy of Paterson. The passengers were badly
shaken up, but none seriously injured
They took trolley cars to Paterson and Newark.
The collision occurred directly in front OF the
station. The rule was for the westbound train
to pull onto switch west of the station to al
low the eastbound train 20 pass. The eastbOund
train was on time tonight but the westbound
train was eight minutes late. AS result the west
bound train was standing in the station when the
eastbound train ran into it, The engineer of
the eastbound train said that the sand box OF
his locomotive did not work, and that he there
fore could not stop. When the engineer of the
westbound train saw that a collision was COM
ing he reversed his engine This and the fact
that the other train slowing up for the
station lessened the force of the collision
Both trains were crowded with passengers
More than a score were cut slightly by SPIN
tered glass and wood They were hurled Vlo-
lently from their seats top OF each other ana
to the floor of the coaches.
Both engines were badly wrecked.
Traffic blocked for two hours Pony en-
gines put and the schedule between
New-York and Paterson was resumed Tne
road is single track
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
GARDENERS STAFF UNEASY
FRIEND OF THE NEW DISTRICT ATTOR-
NEY UTTERS ONINOUS WORDS
FOR SOME.

E. A. Philbin, the new District Attorney of
New-York County, will file the papers which
certify mis- appointment to that office with the
clerk of the County Court soon as possible
this morning. He will then go at once to the
Criminal Courts Building. where the deposed Dis
trict Attorney Asa Bird Gardiner. will intro
duce him 10 the entire office staff and after that
to the Judges of all the courts in the building.
These ceremonies over, Mr.. Philbin will at once
assume the duties of his new place.
1t is expected that many persons will call on
him, seeking berths of more or less importance
which would be in his gift. Others will come to
congratulate and others again to offer advice.
If more than a few do not call to complain of
the treatment which this case and that case has
received at the hands of Mr.. Gardiner it will be
surprise.
Mr.. Philbin was seen yesterday at his home,
No. 333 West Seventy-seventh-st.. but he de-
clined to talk for publication about his plans.
the new District Attorney, having already out
lined what he will do with considerable clear
ness, is averse to saying it over again. He has
the reputation of being a of few words,
which alone will be novelty in the District
Attorneys office. Mr.. Philbin distinctly declined
to intimate what changes would be made in
the staff. but friend of his. who seen late
at the Manhattan Club, said:
IF judge Mr. PhiIbin Alright he will pursue
the same policy in forming staff in the District
Attorneys Office that he has hitherto practised In
his private business. The men who surround
him there are picked not only for their intel
lectual ability, but for the correctness of their
private lives and the desirable nature of their
associations. So in the District Attorneys office
Mr. Phbn being hampered by no pledges to
either political party, will test all who desire to
become or remain as his assistants not only by
their record in court and in office, but by their
moral worth by their social proclivities and by
the character of their chosen associates.
If Mr.. Philbin applies this rule in wedding out
Gardeners staff, some of the trusted assistants
of the deposed District Attorney who were hop
ing that their record of convictions secured and
cases disposed Of might save them from dis
missal are likely to be disappointed.
Mr. Gardiner spent Christmas at his home, in
Garden City Long Island. Speculation regard
ing the chances of his denomination by Tam
many next fall has not subsided. Those who
think Mr.. Croker will not again select Mr.
Gardiner pointed out that even if the Tammany
Boss did renominate and even re-elect Gardiner
there could be no assurance that the loquacious
descendant Of Governor Wouter Van Twiler
would not again utter language which would
Justify Governor OCell in deposing him and
al pointing in his place a man whose views COIN
eide as little with those of Mr.. Croker as do
those of Mr. Philbin.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
FIGHT IN WINGS. PLAY GOES ON.
ONE MAN POSSIBLY FRACTURES AN
OTHERS SKULL IN THE GER
MANIA THEATRE.

In the last act of the performance in the Ger
rania Theatre, at Eighth-st. and Lafayette
Place, last night a fight occurred in the wings
between James Johnson, a scene shifter. of No
81 East Third-st and Frank Michael. twenty
five years old, a fireman. OF No. 1O2 Barrow
ST. in which Michael hit on the head with
a stage brace and his skull possibly fractured.
Johnson was arrested. Michael was taken to
ST Vincent's Hospital.
The fireman is in the employ of the theatre
What the quarrel was about no one seemed to
know The men were seen to be in fight. but
before the other stage hands could rush up
Johnson, it is alleged had picked up stage
brace and beaten Michael on the head with it,
Michael fell TO the floor bleeding, and Johnson
made his way hastily out of the theatre
The play not interrupted The head usher
was ordered to call a patrOlman- He found
Patrolman Powers, who sent Michael 10 ST.
Vincent's Hospital Detectives afterward ar
rested Johnson at his home. The ambulance
surgeon said Michael's wound was serious
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
CHINESE REFoRMERs MAssAoRED
FIFTEEN HUNDRED TREACHEROUSLY
SLAIN BY IMPERIAL TROOPS-TWENTY-
SEVEN LEADERS BEHEADED.

MINNEAPOLIS. Dec pa dispatch to THE
Times from Vancouver, B. c., says that
of a terrible massacre of the Reform forces in
China and the beheading of twenty-seven of
the leaders was received here to-day in a cable
dispatch by w A Cumrow, secretary of the
Chinese Reform Association in America The
engagement took place in a populous section Of
the Yangtse Valley, in Central China. 1t re-
suited in the killing Of fifteen hundred men and
the complete decentralization of the Reform
forces.
The battle into which the Reformers was
brought by treachery occurred on December 1S
and the work Of the movement has as a con-
sequence been dropped in all that part of the
country The Chinese here are loud in their ex-
pressions of dsapproval of the conduct of the
campaign by their leaders. It appears from the
few details given in the dispatch received to-
day that Long Tom, the Reform leader, at the
head of badly armed force of twelve thousand
paid a visit to Chung Hi Tung. Governor of the
district who. though Imperial officer, was
believed to be in sympathy with the Reform
movement Long invited to the Governors
palace and with his twelve thousand men
marched into the city They left all their arms
outside the gates, taking the precaution only to
carry their loaded revolvers
There We're FIVE thousand Imperial troops in
the town. but nothing was feared from them.
delay of day took place in order that other
Reform leaders might be sent for. and when the
audience with the Governor was finally ar
ranged twenty seven of the leading followers of
Kang Yu Wei were admitted Then disagree
ment arose The Governor had the leaders
seized and taken into the courtyard, where they
were beheaded. In the mean time secret order
had been sent to the Imperial troops to descend
on a poorly armed rabble of the Reformers. The
FIVE thousand well drilled soldiers took the coun-
try people completely by surprise. but, never
49, laff
through and escaped. They carried away their
own wounded, but left afteen hundred dead on
the field and scattered in the streets Of the city
The dispatch says that the scene of the butchery
was frightful
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
RACE RIOT IN INDIANA TOWN.
NEGROES GET DRUNK AND INTIMIDATE
WHITE REsIDENTs-oNE NEGRO SHOT.


Jeffersonville Ind, Dec. ga race is in
progress at Cementville, small station on the
Panhandle road five miles north of this city,
and serious trouble is expected. The negroes
are armed, and the whites keeping within
doors to avoid them.
The outbreak began yesterday afternoon,
when Lee Ranger and John Redmond. negroes,
became intoxicated and started in TO intirnidate
whites When their insults were resented other
negroes Joined Ranger and Redmond. and capt
ured Samuel Kendalrs saloon. Nearly twenty
shots fired but no one was hurt.
An appeal by telephone made to Sheriff
Rave for help and he drove to Cementville and
to some extent quieted the negroes while he
was present. After his departure another out
break took place and message after message
came to the local police to send men to the
town.
Ranger was shot by Kendall. but how badly
is not known, he was carried away and
secreted by his companions. Kendalfs life was
threatened and about midnight ne managed 10
escape from his store and came direct to this
city, awakening Prosecutor Montgomery ana
begging him to issue warrants and have deputy
sheriffs sworn in to serve them.
1t was almost daylight when the community
became quiet, the negroes having everything
their own way. So far to-day no outbreak has
taken place. The whites are intimidated 10
such an extent that they are using every pos
sible precaution to prevent a collision.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
ysUL-GENER4L SHAW A SUICIDE
KILLED HIMSELF IN PHILADELPHIA-RE
GENTLY APPOINTED TO SINGAPORE.

KILLED HIMSELF IN PHILADELPHIA-RE-
GENTLY APPOINTED TO SINGAPORE.
Philadelphia Dec 25.-W irwin Shaw, who
had been filling the position of United States
Consul at Barranqulla Colombia, and who was
recently appointed Consul-General to Singapore
committed suicide hotel here to-day. He
opened femoral artery and slashed his throat
and wrists with knife. III health is supposed
TO have affected his mind.
For three years he had attended to his duties
as Consul at Barranquilla while revolutions
shook the southern republic. Heat, fevers and
the arduous duties undermined his health. and
he asked for and obtained leave of absence
early last August.
His dislike for the old post increased, and he
sought another appointment and a month ago
was named Consul-General at Singapore. After
receiving the appointment he decided that 1t
would be necessary to return to Barranquilla to
settle his affairs. He left the home Of his sister
in Germantown near here, where he had been
staying two weeks ago. and sailed from New
York on the steamer AItai That was the last
heard of him until he was found dead to-day.
Mr. Shaw was thirty y-eight years old and
native of Clearfeld County, Penn A widow and
two sons survive him.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
CHINA GETS JOINT NOTE.
Ii HUNG CHANG BEING ILL, IT IS
HANDED TO PRINCE CHING.
FORWARDED AT ONCE TO THE EMPEROR
MINISTER'S EXPECT ACCEPTANCE
WITHIN ONE MONTH.

Paris. Dec. 25-A dispatch to the Havas
Agency from Peking says
The Ministers assembled at the residence Of
Sehor b J. de Cologan, the Spanish Minister
and the doyen Of the Diplomatic Corps. and re-
ceived Prince Ching, to whom the Spanish Minis
ter handed the joint note of the Powers. Ii
Hung Chang, who is still i'll. asked to be eX-
cused. Prince Ching said:
Il have the honor to accept the note con-
cerning the establishment of good relations
and will transmit it Immediately to the Emperor
and communicate to you his reply as soon as
received"
London, Dec. 26.-According to a news agency
dispatch from Peking, dated December a, the
foreign Ministers there are unanimously of the
opinion that China will accept the conditions
imposed by the joint note of the Powers within
a month. The note was started its way to
the Empress Dowager and the Emperor i'm
mediately after it's presentation. the dispatch
says but wire communication is slow, and it
probably will not reach them until Decem-
Der 27.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

lansing Mich Dec Ex-Governor Pingree has
issued a requisition on the Governor OF Cuba for
Charles Jenner Thompson, who IS wanted in Detroit
for forgery This is to be the first requisition on
Cuba ever Issued
Seattle, Wash, Dec. 2S.-The collier Willamette:
Captain Hanson, has arrived here bringing word of
the sighting OF capsized vessel about seventy-hve
miles off Cane Flattery. The boat was about fifty
tons burden, with red bottom. She is thought 10
have been fishing craft
Detroit Dec. 25.-A dispatch TO The Free Press
from Cheyboygan Mich. says that John Hawes,
William Campbell and Ernest Marquette. employees
at McCarty's lumber camp, while crossing the Ice
on Mullet Lake late Sunday afternoon. twelve miles
from here. broke through the ice and we're
drowned
Geneva N Y. Dec 2S.-A fatal rear end collision
occurred on the Central Hudson Pennsylvania
division. here tonight: The southbound passenger
train due at 730 o'clock. crashed into freight
engine standing a short distance north OF the sta
ton Louis Peters, fireman OF the freight engine,
was instantly killed.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
LUMBERMEN FIGHT IN MAINE WOODS.
RELIGIOUS DISPUTE CARRIED ON WITH AXES
AND CLUBS.

Bangor, Me. Dec. 25 (speciaD.-News
ceived here tonight of bloody contest in lum-
ber camp on the upper Kennebec River last even
ing in which one was probably fatally in
jured and others so badly beaten that they may
die The fight started with a quarrel between
William alias Wild Hennessey and a French
man named Philip Ouiielte over religious matters
The quarrel was taken up by the other men, at
first with fists then with axes, clubs and limbs of
trees. In all thirty men were engaged, ABOUT
evenly divided
A teamster named Wilson attempted 70 stop the
fight and knocked down with hand spike
Another teamster named Taylor seized hand
spike and attacked the combatants 1t is thought
that Taylor is responsible for the fractured skull
of Thomas Landry. French Canadian, who Is be-
lieVed be fatally injured.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
PRINCE TUAN ARRESTED.
CHINESE GOVERNMENT BELIEVED TO BE
PREPARING TO PUNISH INSTIGA-
TORS OF TROUBLE.

London Dec. 26-The Shanghai correspondent
of THE Standard" teegraphing on December
"a says:
The Government has arrested Prince Tuan and
Prince Chaung on the borders of the Shan-Se
and Shen-Se provinces. Yu Hslen mas been
ordered TO return to Sian-Fu forthwith, to be
executed il is supposed.
1t is inferred from these reports that the I'M
perial authorities are preparing to concede the
demands of the joint note for the punishment
OF the instigators of the trouble in China.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
CROSS COUNTRY RIDER KILLED.
HENRY L. WILBUR MEETS A FATAL ACCI-
DENT ON A ]. CAssATT'S FARM.

HENRY l. WILBUR MEETS A FATAL ACCI-
DENT ON A ]. CASSATT'S FARM.
Philadelphia, Dec. 25.-While riding cross
country to join the Chester Valley hunt to-day
Henry L. Wilbur forty-two years old. son of H
O. Wilbur the well know cocoa and chocolate
manufacturer of this city was thrown from lis
horse and killed on the farm of A. j. Cassatt,
president OF the Pennsylvania Railroad. near
Valley Forge Mr. Wilbur, who lived at Bryn
Mawr, started out on a fine horse accompanied
by T. N. Mccartney, another huntsman. They
were too late for the start at Stafford, suburb
OF this city where the thirty four hounds were
released.
The two men caught sight Of the foremost
fox hunters on the Cassatt farm. and galloped
at great speed to catch up with them. on the
further side of the property there is a three
foot rail fence and beyond this ditch. Mr..
WiIburs horse took the obstruction easily, but
in landing beyond the ditch one OF the horses
forward feet sank into a small hole Mr.. Wilbur
was pitched forward and thrown headlong TO
the ground where he lay unconscious. He
hurried toward Devon, but his condition grew
worse and he died in a farmhouse The exact
cause of his death is not known but il is be-
Iieved to have resulted from broken neck. A
widow survives him
The Chester Valley hunt is one Of the select
affairs Of the fox hunting season. and is par
ticipated in by members of of the wealth.
lest families of this city and vicinity.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
LATEST LONDON COMMENT.
CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND ONE OF THE
GREENEsT ON RECORD
LORD KITcHENER's RIGHT TO BE
CALLED UBIQUITOUS.

IoorYright. 1900 By The New-York Tribune.l
my CABLE THE TR1RuxEl
London, Dec 26. a. m.-EngIand has had
one Of the greenest Christmases on record for
the weather has been mild that pnimroses and
cornfowers are abloom as far north as Liverpool
and Yorkshire. while Devonshire revels in a SUBJ
tropical climate and the Isle of Wight is a
garden Of roses in midwinter. Never have
flowers been more abundant in the London mar
ket at Christmas time. has mistletoe ever
been cheaper As England is supplied with
Christmas toys from Germany, so also it receives
immense shipments of mistletoe from Brittany
and Normandy. and there is a French touch in
the holiday rejoicing The London sky has been
heavily cloudedf and the air filed with mist,
while the weather has been Gnseasonably warm.
The deans of St. PauIs and Westminster
preached at the midday service Canon Anger
was among the lawyers at the Temple, and Dr.
Parker. Unwearied by his weeks experience in
daily journalism, filed the pulpit at the City
Temple. Handel and Gounod, as usual, were
the favorite composers in the Christmas music
az the churches, with Stanford Hopkins and
Sullivan alternates. There We're fewer Christ
mas concerts than are ordinarily known, but
there were more football matches for holiday
sport There was marked revival Of fox hunt
ing in the country, with hard riding and several
serious accidents.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
sr pErERSRrRG,S PFOPLE'S P4L4CE.

81 Petersburg Dec 25.-The Prince OF Olden-
boprg nresident of the Government Temperance
Committee at noon to-day declared the Peoples
Palace open TO the public. After the inaugural
ceremonies the Prince and twenty OF the higher
army officers including the commanding generals.
along with high officials nObemen and ladies', dined
side by side with peasants and the families or
workingmen.