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CLOUGH Is MISSING.


TUCSON. A. T., Jan. 30.-George Clough,
night telegraph operator at Walls Station,
who is said to be responsible for the wreck
on Wednesday between the Sunset Limited
and the Crescent City express on the South
ern Pacific railroad. could not be found to-
day. officers have searched Tucson all
day for him with a summons TO appear be-
fore a coroner's jury to testify, but it is
now thought that he has fed to Mexico
1t is reported from Benson, A. T., that
Clough was seen yesterday on a train
bound for Sonora. Mex.
Conflict between the two coroners of
the responsibility for the wreck. Under the
laws Of Arizona. justices Of the peace act
as coroners. Tucson has two justices and
therefore two coroners. w. H. Culver and
o. L. Ritchey both claim the right to hold
jures were summoned. but the testimony
of Parker. the conductor of the westbound
train. was taken before Coroner Ritchey's
jury. although Coroner Culver's deputy was
first on the scene.
Both coroners' juries have been in ses-
sion all day. Superintendent Seroufe. of
the Tucson division OF the Southern Pacific
testified before both juries. His evidence
tended to place the responsibility for the
nondelivery OF orders to the west-bound
train upon Operator Clough.
Brakeman Lees. of the east-bound train
testified that Immediately after the COL
lsion he was ordered TO proceed to Walls
Station. four miles east, and inform the
rived at Walls he found Operator CIough
standing In the door of his Office Clough
said: lis anyone killed." evidently know
ing wreck had occurred. Lees answered
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yesterday. Secretary Root, who is op-
posed TO the amended Philippine currency
bill. is particularly urgent in seeking TO
remedy the evil financial conditions in the
Philippines. caused, in a large part, by
fiuctuating currency ratios. while Secre-
tary Hay is interested in the proposition
because 1t promises to at once alleviate the
friction now existing as a result of the Chi
nese indemnity question. The secretary is
also looking into the future toward the en-
largement of American trade I'm South and
Central America. where silver is still the
standard of value. Therefore, the PROPOSE
ton will be laid before Congress to appoint
a commission of three members, men ex-
pert in financial matters, to act as repre-
sentatives of the United States in an inter-
national money conference on the lines In
dicated by Mexico and China. or in consul
tation directly, or. in fact, in any line or
international exchange that promises sue
cess. Very little legislative action is re-
quired at this stage. and IL Is probable an
appropriation of 5000 for the expenses of
each commissioner will meet the needs OF
the State Department at this time. IL Is
made plain that the commission will have
power to commit the United States gov
ernment to any change i'm its currency sys-
tenn. Its conclusions will be all ad refer
endum, and. nothing can be made of them
unless Congress regards them with favor
The Mexican ambassador, Senor De Az
piroz, called at the State Department to-
day and extended to Secretary Hay, and
through him to the President, his warmest
thanks for the able manner in which the
communications of Mexico and China had
been presented to Congress.
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Friends Of Ancient Private Claims
Too Numerous for Republican
Guards of the Treasury.
RECESS TAKEN UNTIL TODAY
AFTER ENOUGH MEMBERS HAD
BEEN SECURED FOR A QUORUM.
Another Monetary Conference Pro-
Chinese Silver Question.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-This was the
last private claims day of this Congress in
the House and members with bills on the
calendar carried everything before them in
committee Of the whole. Forty-five bills in
all were acted on favorably despite the
efforts of Mr.. Payne, the Republican floor
to defeat some of them. Many Of the
claims were old, dating back to the civil
war, and a few originated prior to that
time. The latter were for balances due for
carrying mails in the South when the war
broke out Mr.. Payne was particularly in
sistent in his opposition to these bills. call
ing attention to the exposure of the fraud
ulent character of many similar claims in
the Forty-fifth Congress. He expressed
the opinion that all these claims had been
paid before. The members interested stood
together, however, and voted him down
every time he demanded a division.
There were several bills to reimburse
postmasters and internal revenue collectors
for stamps lost or stolen. One was to pay
the balance on contract for ice furnished
the army hospitals in the Mississippi valley
during the war. The amount claimed Is
$4,000 and is for ice at the rate of 80 cents
hundred pounds. Among the others were
bills to pay George c. Ellison, an engineer
at the Capitol in the seventies, 5000 for the
cost of defending himself against the
charge of murder; to pay 5000 to the
widow of Samuel Muhleman, one of the
victims of the old Ford Theater disaster
when the building in which were employed
government clerks collapsed, and to refund
the customers of w. NJ. Jacobs of Lan-
caster, Pa, the amount of the counterfeit
stamps purchased from him.
When the committee of the whole report
ed the bills to the House Mr.. Payne blocked
their final passage to-day by making the
point of no quorum. But the friends of the
claims refused to be balked. A motion was
made TO recess until tomorrow morning at
10 80 o'clock in order to continue the legis-
lative day of to-day, and the sergeant-af-
arms and his deputies were sent out to ar
rest and bring in absentees. IL was s
o clock at night before the requisite quorum
was secured to carry the motion and let
the session go over until 1890 tomorrow
forenoon
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been delayed and as the money comes in
large part from the Venezuelan duties
the United States has very good legal right
to protest against any conduct on the part
of the allies which will prevent its debtor
from meeting its obligations to the United
States. France, by treaty and negotia-
ton. has secured what amounts to a judg
ment against Venezuela, and she claims
that her debt must not be destroyed or
Venezuela's means of meeting her pay
ments TO France Impaired, as Will be the
case by the adoption of the preferential
treaty demanded by the allies. The con-
siderations are tending to draw France and
the United States together in a policy that
is likely to take issue with that of the al
lies.
Baron Gevers, the minister of the Neither
lands. called at the State Department to-
day and talked over the Venezuelan situa-
ton with Secretary Hay from the stand
point of the unalied claimant nations in
which the Netherlands and the United
States are included. Baron Gevers has
been assured by Minister Bowen that the
claims of the Netherlands will be duly
cared for and that as soon as the blockad-
ing. powers have withdrawn their ships he
will take up the claims of Holland.
Minister Bowen spent a good part of the
afternoon at the State Department, where
for a time he was in consultation with
Secretary Hay. The main object of his
visit was TO refresh his memory In regard
to a number of details affecting the claims
of the allies. 1t appears that before it
was decided he should go TO Washington
Minister Bowen prepared with considerable
care the entire case of Venezuela and for
warded Ii TO the State Department from
government, therefore, has file a full
statement regarding the Venezuelan dis
pute which will prove of considerable aid
in the event that the United states in
common with the other claimant powers, is
forced into negotiations at Washington in
order to protect its interests.
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SERIOUS ICE GORGE.
Mines and Other Industries Along the
Youghiogheny Suspended.

Youghiogheny Suspended.
PITTSBURG, Jan. 30.-Hemmed in by an
ice gorge packed solidly for five miles, the
water of the Youghiogheny river has
backed up into the small streams of the
Youghiogheny valley and caused the sus-
pension of mines and other industries along
the river and the obstruction of the Pitts
burg, Mckeesport & Cornellsville traction
line From McKeesport to West Newton
the ice is banked into a barrier, which
reaches height of fifty feet in some places.
All the bridges between these points are
being strengthened as precaution against
serious damage when the gorge begins to
move.
result of the heavy rains and thaws at
Pittsburg and at headwater points. but
river men do not expect more than p feet
at Pittsburg. The flood stage is "a feet.
but at the midnight reading 1875 feet. the
the Allegheny side of the river are under
water and trains are handled over the
Junction road. Outside OF this no real real
of cellars in the lower portions OF Allie
gheny Because of the blockaded ice in
the Ohio river to-day, no coal was started
SOutn, Dut IL Is eAptClcu lldl ny tO-HOllOW
the waters will be clear enough to allow
the boats TO start. 1t is expected that at
least 1900, 900 bushels of coal will be shipped
on this rise.
MEANWHILE, Pa, Jan. 30.-French creek
has been blocked by an immense ice gorge
for the past twenty-four hours, and the
lower part of the city has been under water
as a result The Phoenix iron works, the
Meadville malleable iron works and the
keystone View Company were obliged to
suspend operations. The Erie Railroad
Company has been dynamiting the ice.
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CANNOT ACCEPT PASSES.


ALBANY, N. Y, jan 30-Attorney Gen
eral Cunneen has written opinion in
which he holds that the offering of trans
portation pass to a member of the Legis-
lature is misdemeanor. that its accept
ance by the legislator would constitute
misdemeanor and make him subject to for
feture of his Office. This statement of the
case was made public to-day by the attor-
ney general: 1.-The giving of the attorney
generals opinion arose from the fact that
the Pullman Palace Car Company sent to
Francis G.. Landon, member of the Assem-
bly, from Duchess county, an annual pass,
and Landon referred the matter TO Cum
neen. The attorney general holds that the
pass was offered in violation of the Con-
stitution of the State of New York and
that if Landon should accept il he would
be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject TO
have his office forfeited in an action by
the attorney general in the name of the
people."
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FRANK CECIL sURRENDERs.


FRANKFORT. KY, Jan. 30.-Frank Cecil
of Bell county, under indictment for being
an accessory before the fact to the murder
of William Goebel. surrendered to-day. He
was Immediately presented in court. pleaded
not guilty. and by agreement of the Com
monwealth was released on bond of 5000
Cecil came to Frankfort secretly, by
agreement with the Commemorative attor-
ney and not more than half a dozen per-
sons saw him while he was here, as he was
spirited away after he had spent several
hours In the grand Jury room. He was in
dicted In January, 1902.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Justice Ola
baugh. of the District Supreme Court, to-
day decided that Antonio M. Opisso De
Yeaza. the young Filipino. who, some
months ago, instituted mandamus proceed
ings to compel Clerk John R. Young. of the
Supreme Court, to receive his citizenship
declaration, is still an alien and entitled TO
become a citizen of the United States His
declaration, therefore, was ordered to be
received. but an appeal was taken TO the
District Court Of Appeals. The clerks
fusal to accept the declaration was on the
ground that a Filipino is not an alien and
consequently cannot renounce the alle-
glance he seeks to relinqush. The Filipino
alleged that he was born of Spanish par
ents in Manila in 1880 and lived at Manila
until several years ago. The court held
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COL. Co.
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]. D. LONGS CONDITION.
Former Secretary of the Navy Still a
Very Sick Man.

BOSTON, JAN 31.-while John ID. Long,
former secretary of the navy. who is at st.
Margaret's Hospital suffering from bladder
trouble and Influenza, held his own yester-
day. there was no material improvement in
his condition. and he continues to be criti-
cally sick.
At o'clock a. m. this bulletin was issued
''Mr Long slept quietly for an hour and a
quarter. He recognizes his friends, but
lapses into incoherent talk. Pulse S6, res
piration "a, temperature 99.S.
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that a number had been killed. Clough is
reported to have said II don't care much
about the cars being destroyed, but / am
sorry any passenger was killed." He said
Parker, conductor of the limited, did not
take all his orders, and that was the cause
of the wreck. He was excited.
Agent Mann, day operator at Walls Sta
ton, who sleeps in the station, said that
Clough called him few minutes after the
limited had pulled out iof Walls and said
that Parker did not take all his orders.
HE left this one" said he, pointing to the
one lying on the counter "That was the
order to pass the Crescent City express at
Esmond siding" said Mann.
Both juries have taken the testimony of
all the witnesses except Clough and Fire
man Gilbert of the express, whose condi-
ton will not permit of his testifying.
Undertakers agree that fourteen is the
number of recognizable bodies taken from
the wreck
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ATTITUDE OF FRANCE.

Policy of the Allies Would He an In
centive for Fresh Wars.
PARIS, Jan. 3o.-The Foreign Office here
to-day received lengthy official advices CIV
ing details of the rejection by the allies OF
the proposal that France and other coun-
tries receive equal treatment in the Vene-
zuelan settlement. The French officials had
not doubted that equal treatment would be
recognized and this unexpected turn OF
events has caused much surprise and con-
Germ. For the present il does not appear to
be the purpose of the French authorities to
assume an imperative position. but rather
set forth what they regard as the manifest
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Other Fires.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 30.-Dr. Nor
rill Wyman, A M, LII. D., ninety years
old, died at his home to-day. DR.. Wyman
was graduated from Harvard College in
1888 and from the Harvard medical school
four years later. He was a member of
many professional bodies and his writings
on medical subjects were of wide range.
DEWITT, Mo, Jan. 30.-Five business
houses were destroyed by fire here early
to-day, causing an aggregate loss of $50. 600,
distributed among the following firms:
Weltner Bros, dry goods; Knappenberger,
druggist Barrett; groceries; the postoffice
and a barber shop.
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, Jan. 30.-The
Drummond Tobacco Company's box factory
burned last night. Loss, 100000.
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Possible Victim of the Wreck.

WASHINGTON, JAM. 3O.-Some anxiety is
felt here for the safety of Capt. w. S.
Overton, of the artillery corps, who left
Washington for San Francisco the first
part of the week. Nothing has been heard
from him since his departure, and it is
thought possible he was on the west bound
train which was wrecked in the collision on
the Southern Pacific road near Tucson,
A. L. He had transportation over that line.
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HALF OF A HOUSE SINKS.
Is Swallowed by a Cave-In and Two
Boys Are Killed.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Jan. 30.-The
sudden sinking OF the ground on one of the
slopes OF the old Telegraph mine at Bing-
ham to-day split the house of James John
son. miner. and instantly killed two of
Johnsons sons. One-half of the house, in
which the two children who were killed had
been playing. was swallowed. Johnson. his
wife and three other children were In the
other half of the house at the time of the
accident and escaped without injury.
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HAVANA. Jan. 30.-The interest dis
played in the claims presented by the Span
ish minister at Washington, Senor De
Ojeda to Secretary Root for payment for
the Spanish guns left in the Cuban fort
resses is only lukewarm, and even IL il
should appear that the ownership of the
guns is invested in Spain, it is not probable
the Cuban government will consent 10 paw
for them The guns In question number
forty, but all save four eleven and lweIye-
inch Krupp guns are considered of too old
type to be worth purchasing.
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MAROONED ON A ROCK.
Life Savers Unable to Rescue Fifteen
Shipwrecked Persons

schooner Crescent City ran on Fish rock,
off the Mendicino coast, to-day during a
gale. The passengers and crew, numbering
twenty-five, took refuge on the rock. The
steamer Scotia was signaled, and after
beating about for several hours launched a
boat, which carried eleven persons to the
Scotia. The life-saving crew from Point
Arena could not launch a boat. and owing
to the wind lines could not be shot over the
rocks from shore. Fifteen persons are still
on the rocks and are in no danger except
from exposure. Tugs from San Francisco
will make an attempt to rescue the ma
rooned persons. The Crescent City is break
ing up.
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 3O-The Senate de-
voted the day to eulogizing the late Senator
James Mcmillan, of Michigan. Addresses
were delivered by Messrs. Burrows, Allison,
Cockrell Morgan, Plat, Hale Foster
Aldrich, Warren, Gallinger. Lodge, Per-
kins Tilman, Bacon, Fairbanks, Depew
and Alger. 1t was the first speech In the
Senate by Mr.. Alger. At o'clock as a
further mark of respect, the Senate ad-
iourpad
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TWO INDIANIANS IN LIST.
Names of Some of the Middfes Who
VIII Graduate on Feb. 2.

Names of Some OF the Mfddfes Who
VIII Graduate on Feb. 2.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Jan. 30.-The academic
board of the Naval Academy to-day an
nounced the final standing of the members
of the 1903 class, which will be graduated
on Feb. 2. There are six star men, each of
whom earned better than S5 per cent. in all
examinations. Donald r. Battles, lof West
Mill Creek, Pa, and Alexander E. Van
Kuren. of Howell. Mich. are the honor men
of the class The standing of some of the
midshipmen follows:
L. Donald Raymond Battles. West Mill
Creek, Pa.
2 Alexander Hamilton Van Kuren. How
ell, Mich.
3. William Woods Smyth. Marion, la.
T. Paul Henry Fritz, Grand Forks, N. d.
5. Stephen Clegg. Rowan, d. c.
s. Walter Stratton Anderson. Carlin-
Vile, Ill.
"a Sam Colby Loomis. Sycamore Ill.
32 James David Wilson, Fort Wayne,
Ind.
33 John s. Arwine, Columbus. Ind.
so. Richard Iglesais, Costa Rica.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The steamer FL
mar, from Galveston, which arrived to-day,
was in collision with an unknown schooner
off Long Branch early this morning. The
schooner struck the steamer on the port
side, crushing and carrying away the rail
and stanchions for about fifty feet. The
n1essroom also stove in. The steamer
hove to for about an hour, but was unable
to identify the schooner owing to a dense
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,rhe Redemption of MinneapoIi..

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Jan. 9o-Judee
Harrison, speaking for the entire district
bench in open court this morning, directed
County Attorney F. III. Boardman To COM
mence suit to collect the forfeited bonds of
former Mayor Ames and to make every
that indicted official The bondsmen are
Thomas Lowry. Fred Shiek. w. T. Boutell
and W. II. Johnson. They are liable for
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PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 30-The C1vde
line steamship Gulf Stream. from New
York for Philadelphia, with general cargo.
is ashore eleven miles north of Cape May.
and stranded during the night. The crew
of the vessel was removed in safety by the
life-saving crew. The steamer carried no
passengers. -------
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GRADE-CRossING ACCIDENT.
Street Car Struck by a Train and
Eleven Persons Hurt.

SPRINGFIELD, o., Jan. 3O-A Big Four
passenger train. south-bound, struck a
street car tonight at the Yellow
Springs-street crossing, injuring eleven per-
sons. The car, which was filled with pas
sengers, was struck in the middle and
knocked fifty feet beyond the crossing.
Mrs. Addie Wheeler and Anna Bailey and
Motorman A. T. Wilkinson may die 1t is
thought that the motorman was unable to
stop the car owing to defective brakes.
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Twenty-Three Victims.

PLAINFIELD, n. j., Jan. 30.-J. Everett
Religion and William NJ Clark died in the
Muhlenberg Hospital here to-day. making
twenty-three victims of the railroad wreck
on the Jersey Central last Tuesday night
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DETECTIVES ABUSED.


NEW YORK, JAM 30.-Owing to numerous
recent robberies in houses of millionaires
in Fifth avenue and in side streets between
Forty-third and Fifty-ninth streets, for
which the police have been severely crit
icised, Captain Lantry to-day sent seven
detectives to fifty-six houses of wealthy
persons to see if they were guarded. The
detectives entered every one of them, and in
many instances got to the second floor be-
fore they discovered. On meeting
some one in the house the detectives an
nounced their errand. and IN every instance
they say they were abused by the servants
the mistress of the house.
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MONETARY CONFERENCE.
Congress to BE Asked to Provide q
COmmission of Financial Experts.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3o.-The executive
branch of the government is not disposed
to cease its efforts to bring about an ad-
iustment of the ratio Of gold and silver cur
fency in the Orient and in other silver-usihg
countries with the mere presentation to
Congress Of the Mexican and Chinese notes
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WRONGDOING AT SAN JUAN.
Mayor Removed from ONCE and
Charged with Criminal Negligence

Charged with Criminal Negligence.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Jan. SO-Gov-
ernor Hunt in issuing an executive order
yesterday removing the mayor of San Juan,
Manuel Egozcue. from Office. said he was
i'm possession of further proofs of the
mayors negligence and wrong-doing. Grim
inal action against the mayor is still pend
ing. In the meanwhile there is excitement
and CONSERVATION in certain circles at the
firm stand taken by the Governor and At
torney General Harlan. The latter's letter
TO the Governor, containing thorough,
mastery indictment covering Egozcues en-
tire career has been commended by the
Federal press. The attorney general in his
letter shows that the city lost $95. .157 in one
item of expenditure and says he found that
the fraud and gross incapacity in every
department of the city government was so
extraordinary that il is difficult to find a
similar instance i'm the history of municipal
mismana cement