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The members of the Davis family, fed
to the homes of neighbors for shelter

Other deputies who had been on duty
guarding the property of the coal com
pany had been notified of the trouble
by this time and 20 of the rioters were
landed in the lookup. The mob, headed
by Paul Ellis, then planned an assault
on the Jail with the purpose of releas-
ing the prisoners. A great crowd of the
strikers, with Zills at their head, pre-,
pared to storm the Jail. The deputy
sheriffs fixed the bayonets to theil
rifles and surrounded the Jail. The
members of the fire department were
also called out to help restore order
The foreigners were urged to be order
liquor, they refused to listen, greeting
the efforts to pacify them with boots
and jeers.
At a signal the mob began to close
in on the Jail, shouting to the deputies
TO throw away their guns and give up
the prisoners. The officers first tried to
keep back the mob with bayonets, but
the effort was Intellectual and when it
became certain that the little band of
deputies and firemen could not stand
before the bowling, Infatuated mob,
they opened fire. Those of the foreign
ers who were closest to the Jail had al
ready begun using knives in the attempt
to disarm the deputies, while others
flourished revolvers. The deputies fired
but one volley and the foreigners broke
and fed in wild disorder, leaving three
OF their number, including Zills, dead
in front of the Jail Fears are enter
tanned that the strikers will make an
other effort to free the rioters now IN
Jail.
Late last night the bodies of the men
who had been shot were removed from
the streets where they had fallen to
an undertaker's establishment. Charles
Foster, the 12-yearold boy who was
wounded. died at the hospital.
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THREE SHOT DEAD
Result of Riot Among Striking
Coal Miners
BOY FATALLY WOUNDED
Easter Celebration Wound Up
With a Free-FOr-An Fight
Town In State of Terror and
Troops Are Asked For

Johnstown, Pa, April 17.-Three
men have been shot dead, boy fatally
wounded and a mining engineer, Eugene
Delaney, taken to the hospital in Sc
rious condition, as a result of a riot at
Windber among the striking coal min
ers last night. The place is in state of
terror Sheriff Begley has been sum-
moned and an appeal has been made to
Governor Pennypacker for troops.
There are several others of the rioters
who have sustained slight injuries.
The foreign element had been cele-
bra ting Easter Monday in the mining
section and much liquor had been used.
The streets were thrOnged all day with
a boisterous crowd, but no sign of
trouble appeared until night. A body
of strikers was assembled in front of
the Windber Jail discussing the mass
meeting that had been held during the
afternoon and which had been ad-
dressed by three Catholic priests. The
discussion grew into argument and
Deputies that had been sworn in when
the strike in the coal mines was first
inaugurated made their appearance and
a number of arrests were made.
All of the arrested men were union
men and their colleagues set up cry
that they were being Disseminated
against and were imposed upon. The
arrested men were marched to the lock-
up door, but there mob had formed
and an attempt was made to take the
men from the officers.
Forced back from the Jail door, the
mob, growing more violent every min
ute, threatened the deputies until the
officers fired The mob hesitated, APP
parently not expecting the deputies
would resort to firearms. When the
smoke had cleared away and the vic
tins of the shots were viewed by the
crowd, there were cries of anger, and
soon miners that were armed returned
the shots of the deputies. The firing
ceased almost as soon as it begun, how
ever and the crowd filed away from the
Jail
An eyewitness of the riot said the
trouble started at o'clock when
Deputy Sheriff McMullen went to the
mass meeting held by the striking min
ers in wood at the edge of the town.
Many of the miners had been drinking
and the sight of the deputy made them
furious. The officer was quickly sur
rounded by maddened miners, who
threatened to kill him. McMullen.
realizing that his situation was desper-
ate. fed for his life, finding refuge in
the house of Charles Davis.
Practically every man who had gone
to the mass meeting Joined in the chase
after the fleeing deputy and soon after
the latter had entered the Davis house
it was surrounded by a mob of 1000
shouting, cursing miners, who chaL
lenged McMullen to come out. When
McMullen failed to appear the mob at
tackled the house and literally wrecked |
it. The deputy sheriff was roughly |
handled, but again managed to escape. |
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Manufactures In Massachusetts

Washington, April IA decrease
of percent in the number of manufac'
turing industries of Massachusetts, ls
shown in a preliminary summary of
statistics for that state issued by the
census bureau. The statistics show
10, 723 establishments, having a cap
Hal invested of 1865, 94S.S87, or an iii
crease of "a percent over 1900. The 10
principal industries are boots and shoes,
rubber boots and shoes. cotton goods,
foundry and machine shop products,
leather Canned curried, and finishedl,
paper and wood pulp, printing and pub
fishing. wholesale Strengthening and
meat packing, wooden goods and wor-
sted goods.
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BY ARBITRATION
How Voliva Would Settle the
Zion City Troubles
SUBMITS HIS PROPOSITION
Will ng t. Give DOwie Sole Pro-
prietOrShip of Five Percent of
Properties Said to Be Valued
at Twenty Million Dollars

Chicago, April Rehabilitation of the
dispute In the Christian Catholic
church over the control of the church
has been offered by Overseer Voliva to
John A. Dowie, who was ousted from
the leadership of the church recently
by Voiva. Dowie has not decided
whether to accept the proposal of Vo-
Iva.
Voliva's ultimatum provides for a
board of four or eight members, as Dow
lie may choose, half of the members to
be selected by Voliva and half by Dow
lie. In case of disagreement, an addi-
tional member of the board is to be Sc
lected by Voliva. The board is to decide
finally all questions in dispute. Pend
ing a decision as to who shall control
the church and its properties, said to be
worth $20,000,000, all property belong
ing to the church is to be transferred
to the board.
Attorney Wetten, representing Dowie.
said of the proposal: John Alexander
Dowie will never consent to sacrifice
the ecclesiastical power over Zion City"
Attorney Newman, representing Vo-
Iva, said: I'VE are willing to concede
that Dowie has an indisputable right
to 5 percent of the property owned by
the Christian Catholic church. but we
demand that a conference between the
Dowie faction and the followers of Vo-
Iva be held and that Dowie sign an
agreement whereby he relinquishes all
claims to the property in question in
consideration of the fact that he is
vested in the sole proprietorship of
percent thereof"
Attorney Wetten yesterday told the
postmaster at Zion City that certain
statements printed in the latest Issue
of Leaves of Healing, the church paper
of Zion, were slanderous and improper,
and Informed the postmaster that it
would be a transgression of the postal
laws to permit the paper to enter the
mails. Wetten then telegraphed to
Postmaster General Cortelyou for rul-
ing in the case. Both sides to the church
Squabble are awaiting ruling from
the postoffice department.
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CUT TO $4,000
Amount of Bay States ApprO-
priation For jamestown Show


Boston, April 17.-Negroes who have
for days packed the house galleries won
victory in their opposition to the
$4,000 appropriation under which
Massachusetts was to have been repre-
sented at the jamestown exposition.
That appropriation was reduced to $5O,-
600 by the adoption Of an amendment
offered by Mr.. Hayes of Lowell after
debate which rang with the arguments
of race prejudice.
Mr.. Forbes referred to the Missouri
lynchings of Saturday and Sunday, and
declared that Massachusetts ought to
place herself on record against them
by refusing any appropriation. Mr..
McEttrick declared that it was the duty
of Massachusetts to herself to show
that she resented any possibility OF in
suit to her negro citizens. Mr.. Hayes,
Mr.. Bennett and Mr.. Ward also spoke
for the Hayes amendment.
By rising vote of 72 to So the amend
ment was adopted. On rollcall the
same result was attained by vote OF
so to Sd. Then the jamestown resolve
for $4,000 was passed to be engrossed
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NEW CRUISER A FLYER
The Washington Averages 22.27
Knots, Heating Requirements

Boston, April 13.-The armored
cruiser Washington, a product of the
New York Shipbuilding company of
Camden, n. j., successfully completed
her official speed trial with four-hour
endurance run along the New England
coast, during which she maintained an
average speed of 22.27 knots an hour.
The contract speed of the Washington
was % knots an hour.
The start for the four hours run
was made from Owls Head, off Rock
land, Me-, at II o'clock, and after work
ing up the engines for the speed test
the real trial was begun at 1915, and
at 4:15 the ship was about off Boston
light. The weather conditions were al
most perfect. The engines worked we'll
throughout the test.
The best speed of the trip was made
during the third hour, when 22.37 knots
was achieved. At no time did she fall
below her contract speed of % knots.
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Jews Safe In Russia

Washington, April 1.-THE state de-
partment which has been in cable com
munication with Ambassador Meyer at
ST. Petersburg relative to the posi-
bility of anti-Jewish disturbances on
great scale in Russia, has received the
most positive assurance that every pos
sible precaution has been adopted by
anti-Jewish uprising and all the reports
in hand indicate that such an uprising
is no longer to be feared.
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eases among them. It is said to be, 10

eases among them. 1t is said to be. 10
per cent in New York city. If we in
clude cases of bad mentality. and
though the nervous affections alone are
said to amount to but IL per cent, we
are safe in assuming them to be much
more numerous if we include the great
class of nervous little bodies which
should be out rolling in the sand in
stead of sitting bolt upright on hard,
uncomfortable bench.
The present mania of the American
mother to educate her babies long years
before it is time is merely one of the
evil results of our system, and since il
is not possible to convince her Of the
harm done by such confinement the
problem before the school authorities
seems to be TO make the first few years
of school approximate, as nearly as
discipline will permit, the rollicking
natural life of the babies in their
charge.
After all il will remain for Americans
to show the European world that big
share of the nervousness and i'll health
of school children is due to eye strain,
truth as important as it is neglected.
American Medicine
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An Estimate of Gorky

ST. Petersburg, April IA high off.
cial here says: I'm listening to Gorky
the American people should under
stand that he is not liberal nor re-
former, but revolutionist pure and
simple. ame. Andreieva, who accom-
panies him, is not his wife. She also is
a revolutionist, and NJ. MorosOff, one of
Moscow's merchant princes, gave her
$1,5O0,000 for the revolutionary cause.
When the government secured proof of
this fact he fled to Paris, where he com
mitted suicide in chagrin."
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cavnor and Greene Sentenced

Savannah, Ga, April 14.-Benjamin
D. Greene and John f. Gaynor were
sentenced by Judge Speer in the fed
eral court to serve four years in the fed
eral prison at Atlanta and to each pay
fine of $575, 794.90, the amount they are
charged with having embezzled. The
fine need not be paid if, on completing
the sentence, the prisoners make affida-
Wit that they are not possessed of more
than 500. In lieu of paying the fine
they then may serve 30 days longer.
Counsel for prisoners announce that an
appeal will be taken.
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Hair and Rope For Smokers

Boston, April 17.-Collector Of In
ternal Revenue Gill is showing his
friends peculiarly made cigars OBJ
tanned recently in raid by his depu-
ties on an unlicensed cigar manufac-
turing plant in Somerville. The wrap
pers are made from the very finest to-
bacco, but instead of having the reg
ular tobacco filler, the cigars are filled
with pieces of straw, hair and rope. A
number of these cigars were taken and
several Of them have been sent to Wash
ington as evidence against the law
breakers
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Pittsburg, April 16.-Pumpmen in
the mines at Scranton have been
threatened by strikers. 1t was by or
ders of the unions that the pumpmen
at work as discontinuance Of
their labor would mean the flooding OF
the mines. The threats have been of
serious nature, and district consta-
bulary are protecting the men. Blood
shed is feared
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Mother and Son Indicted

New Haven, April 13.-Mrs. Ida f.
Jennings and her son, Hubert w. Tay-
lor, were indicted by the grand jury
for murder in the first degree in caus-
ing the death by shooting of Joseph E.
Jennings, husband of Mrs. Jennings, in
East Haven. Both are held without
bail. The prisoners claim that they
discovered Jennings lying beside the
road in a dying condition, with two bull
let holes in his body.
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Leaky Coal Barge Goes Down

Westerly, r, L., April 16.-Barge
Bouquet, the last of a string of five
loaded coal barges in tow of tug Ho-
kendaqua. sprang aleak off Quono-
centaug and sank. The two men on
board launched their dofy and man
aged to land on the beach. The wealth
er was too boisterous to permit the
Hokendaqua turning back to the as
Sistance of the sinking barge.
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Peter Nav Be pethroned

Vienna. April 13.-Belgrade tele-
grams give official denial to the state
ment that King Peter intends to abdl-
cate. The denial, however, does not
counteract the general belief that a Sc.
rious Servian crisis is brewing. April
% is named as the day on which the
king will be dethroned and expelled I'M
less he abdicates beforehand.
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Got All the Law Allowed

Dedham, Mass, April 12.-William
A. Fowler, aged 40, who was indicted
on charges of breaking and entering
and being an habitual criminal, was
sentenced on the first charge to 20 years
in the state prison. Fowler has a rec
ord of confinements in various institu-
tons dating back to 1886. and the SEN
tence imposed was the maximum.
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Great Banking Scheme

New York, April IA plan is under
discussion among certain bankers in
this city to establish bank with cap
ital of $5o,0O0.O0 for the purpose of
regulating money rates and preventing
periods of money stringency and ac-
companying high rates of interest. The
movement was given some impetus by
the recent stringency in the money mar
Ent
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Heavy Lapse of Policies

New York. April 16.-A statement
given out by the Equitable Life Assur
ance society says: investigation
shows that the fears engendereG by the
developments of the year resulted in
the lapsing of 1885 policies for $1,000
or under, while only one policy for $685.
600 was allowed to lapse. OF the entire
volume of lapsed policies in the Equit-
able, 81 percent were for $4,000 or less"
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Woman Burned to Death

Boston, April 17.-Miss Annie Aid
rich. 80 years old, died last night from
the effects of severe burns received at
her home on Billerica street. A kero-
sene stove exploded and the woman's
clothes caught fire. Although the
flames were quickly extinguished, she
was terribly burned and died in few
hours
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Death at Supper Table

Attleboro, Mass, April 16.-David
L. Hodges of this town, well known
figure In Masonic circles and also q
veteran soldier, choked to death while
visiting in the house of Lucian NJ. West
OF Scituate. The accident occurred at
the table during the supper hour
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Nurse CHARGED With Murder

Montpelier, VT, April 14.-An indict-
ment charging Raymond Mullin Of
Barre with the murder of Fred Batchel-
der of the same city was returned by
the special grand jury which has been
the case, 1t is alleged that
Mullin, who has been a professional
nurse, gave Batchelder poisoned food,
which resulted in the latter's death.
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Portion of Hartford Flooded

Hartford, April 17.-Several streets
in the East Side are submerged in wa
ter, and travel, except in boats, will be
impossible if the Connecticut river con-
tlnueS to rise. Sundays rain brought
the river up to the 17-feet inches
mark and it is still rising. The tenants
moving their household furnishings to
upper stories.
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MAYA, Militia to Have Gunboat

Boston, April Ex-Governor Guild
last night sent formal request to the
navy department for the use of the con-
verted gunboat Gloucester in the state
naval militia. The boat, which is now
out of commission at the navy yard in
Pensacola, Fla. played an important
part in the destruction of the Spanish
fleet at Santiago. 1t is known that the
navy department is willing to grant the
request of Guild.
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Weary OF Prison Life

Thomaston. Me-, April 17.-After
having been confined for more than 20
years in the state prison here, where he
had been sentenced to life imprison-
ment for setting fire to a building, A.
Newcomb made an attempt to end his
life in the prison workshop by slashing
at his throat and stabbing himself in
the thigh in an effort to cut an artery.
Both strokes of the knife made severe
wounds, but neither will prove fatal.
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College 0ebase Won by sostonIans

Boston. April 17.-Boston university
debaters who affirmed that congress
should prescribe interstate railway
rates to be regulated either directly or
indirectly by a commission" defeated
Georgetown university speakers, who
supported the negative side of that
question in a debate last night.
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Temple Of Artemls Found

Athens. April 17.-Dr. BosGnquet, di.
rector of the British school of archie
ology at Athens, has discovered on the
bank of the river Eurotas nearest to the
site of the ancient city of Sparta the
famous temple Of Artemis with pro-
fusion of statuettes. gold. silver and
ivory ornaments and other interesting
relics
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RaIImav Workers, Ylctnrv

st, Adams, VT, April 16.-An agree
ment whereby about 600 train employees
of the Central Vermont Railroad com
pany gain slightly higher wages, short.
er working days and improved working
conditions, has been signed. The exact
terms of the agreement are not made
public.
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Third Trial For Swift

Boston. April 14-Judge Dodge has
granted the petition of United States
Attorney French for special venire of
jurors, to report April "A, for a third
trial of the case against Timothy j.
Swift, former assistant custodian of the
federal building. 1t is not known
whether French will appear personally
and prosecute the case.
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PostoffIee Safe Cleaned Out

Chaplin, Conn, April 14.-Burglars
demolished the safe in the postoftice
and general store Of A. NJ. Litchfield
and secured 5000 in money and stamps
as booty. OF the cash taken $500 be-
longed to the town. Litchfield being the
treasurer
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wlfa Murderer ssntanoad

New Haven, April 13.-John Nc
Mahon, who was charged with having
home in Mount Carmel, rather than face
a jury trial for murder in the first de-
gree entered a plea of guilty Of muir.
der in the second degree and was i'm
medately sentenced to state prison for
life
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IMMIGRANT Swarm Continues

New York, April 17.-Seven Euro
pean steamships yesterday brought H.
745 immigrants to this port and nine
ships are expected in today with prob
ably $1,000 more. Yesterdays total.
added to the 1889 brought into New
York during Sunday, makes the record
breaking figures for two consecutive
DAYS % 5S4
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Boston Excise Law Signed

Boston. April 16-GOvernor Guild
has signed the so-called excise bill. The
bill provides for a single head for the
Metropolitan police force of Boston in
stead of three and for an excise COM
mission of three men, who will have
the apportionment Of the licenses for
the sale of liquor.
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Suicide While MAKING Call

Hartford, April 16.-George W.
Squires, 80 years old, shot and instant
ly killed himself here last night in the
home of Miss Agnes Broughel, where
he had been making social call. No
motive for the act is definitely known.
At the Broughel home it was said that
the young man had been acting strange
ly and that he might have been tempo.
rarily insane.
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Castro Went AWAY Alone

Willemstad Curacao, April 17.-Pas7
sengers from Venezuela say that the ac-
ton of General Castro in retiring from
the presidency in favor of Vice Presi-
dent Gomez is not clearly understood
in Venezuela Castro has gone one
way. as a private citizen, unattended,
his wife has gone another way, and
Castro's sister arrived here yesterday.
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London. April 1.-THE Morning
Posts correspondent at Shanghai tele-
graphs that an imperial decree has
been issued dismisslng Hu-Tlng- Kao.
governor Of Kisngsi. for his connection
with the recent murder Of French mis-
sIonarlea.
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A coursaeous American Woman

Tangier, April 17.-Mrs. Laura Fitz-
gerald, an American. with an organized
expedition, has left Mogador to explore
the great Atlas mountains in the region
of the Gundafy highlands, the scene
of Cunningham Graham's capture by
Moorish brigandS years ago.
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RlcxeIs Railway Voted Down

Boston. April 13.-The bill of E. NJ.
Boynton to provide for a bicycle rail-
way between Boston and Fall River.
which measure has been repeatedly be-
fore the state legislatures. was again
defeated in the senate yesterday.
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Resigns Long Rectorship

Newton. Mass, April 13.-Rev.
George w. Shinn, d. D., rector of Grace
Episcopal church in this city, has ten
dered his resignation to the vestry on
account of ill-health. Rev. DR.. Shinn
has been rector Of the parish for 81
wears
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Army Relieved OF ReaIcide

London. April 1.-THE Belgrade
correspondent of The Chronicle states
that General Tanatzkovich. formerly
minister of war in the Servian cabinet
and the reputed leader of the regicides.
has retired from the army.