Havana's Health. Washington, Dec. 24. The division of insular affairs of the war department has prepared a summary of vital statistics of Havana for November. The sanitary condition of the city is excellent, each month a steady improvement over the corresponding month last year.
During the past 11 years the average number of deaths for Nov. was 902. tn November this year there were 443. The death rate, 19.58, compares favorably with cities of the same size in the leading civiliz ed countries. There were no nor deaths from yellow fever, which can be said of no other November since 1762.
During the last seven years the average number of deaths from this disease in November was 48. Cljc piquet Berth all VOLUME XIX. FIQUA, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1901. NUMBER 59 11 ROI OF STOCKINGS Were Hung Up at the White House For Santa Claus to Fill. itOOSEVELTS ESCHEW THE FIR TREE.
President Distributes Gobblers Among the Employes of the Executive Residence Christinas Dinner Will Be a Family Feast. Washington, Dee. 24. Express wagons, mail carriers and messengers bore numerous packages to the White House Tuesday, presents to the Roosevelt family from friends and admirers throughout the country. Many of the packages were for the children, who will receive them Wednesday.
The program at the White House Wednesday will fallow the customs of the family in former years. There will be no Christmas tree as a tree never has been a part of the celebration of Christmas in the Roosevelt family. The children, however, all hang tip their stockings and they will arise early to ascertain what Santa Claus brought for them. Later in the morning the children will assemble in the library to' receive gifts from their father and mother. In the afternoon the Roosevelt children will go to the home of their uncle and aunt, Captain and Mrs.
Cowles to see a Christmas tree and receive other presents. Tuesday 87 turkeys were distributed to the White House policemen, messengers, ushers, servants, gardeners and stable men with the compliments of the president, the largest distribution ever made at the White House. President McKinley always gave turkeys to the married employes, but the list of recipients was never so large. The Christmas dinner at the White House will be served at 7:30 and only the family will be present. Thursday, if the weather permits, it is probable the Roosevelt family, including the president, will go down the Potomac river on a cruise.
Theodore Roosevelt, is going on a hunting trip with Dr. Rixey and Is very anxious that his father should accompany The president is inclined to. do so, if public business wil permit. Even if the president cannot go it is the present intention of Mrs. Roosevelt and some of the other children to accompany the hunting party.
Cabinet Meeting. Washington, Dec. 24. The cabinet was in session a little over an hour i Tuesday. Practically no business was transacted, the whole time being occu pied in felicitations of the season.
The president did not mention the fact that he had tendered the treasury portfolio to Governor Shaw at the meeting, but privately talked with Secretary Wilson about the matter, the latter expressing the opinion that Governor Shaw would accept. If Governor Shaw accepts, whenever he is readv to assume the duties of the po sition Secretary Gage will turn over the treasury to him. Secretary Gage 1 has not yet announced what his plans for the future. If Governor Shaw goes into the cabinet the question has been raised as to whether Secretary Wilson, who also comes from Iowa, will remain. On this point a cabinet officer "is quoted as saying the president is particularly desirous that Secretary Wilson continue in the cabinet.
Prospects of Peace. Washington, Dec. 24. Encouraging news has reached the state department from Buenos Ayres and the officials have renewed confidence that there will be peaceable settlement of the dispute between Chile and Argentine. Mr.
Lord, United States minister at Buenos Ayres has reported by cable that the Argentine government has concluded not to press the demands upon Chile which threatened to lea'd to hostilities, but instead has decided to allow the issue to go before the boundary commission which for Beveral years has been engaged in the delimitation of that boundary. Mr. Lord reports that while the Argentine minister to Chile has arrived in Bue nos Ayres, the Argentine legation at Santiago de Chile has not been closed and consequently diplomatic relations between the two countries have not been interrupted, as was supposed from the report from the United States minister in Chile. SOON TO BE SETTLED. Strike by Machinists Has Cost Chicago Firms a Pretty Penny.
Chicago, Dec. 24. It is stated that the machinists' strike in Chicago, which involved 400 union workmen since it started seven mouths ago, is about to be te.t ed. Conferences are being held between leaders on both sides and it is expected that an agree ment will be reached and ratified ithin the next few days. It is said the AUis Chalmers com pany agreed to return to the nine hour day, which letve the question of wag es, the strikers to be taken back Eftid the dispostion of the men who took places of striKers to be decided.
The union men have dismissed the conspiracy charge recently entered against J. Chalmers. It is claimed the strike so far has cost the AUis Chalmers company $300,000 and. the union 530,000 to carry on the fight, to say nothing of the heavy loss in wages. The stnKe, while a local affair, has been regarded, as a test of strength between the International Association of Machinists and the National Metal Trades association.
Names Were Similar. Chicago, Dec. 24. An alleged fraud ulent transfer of a Kansas farm valued at 15,000 is charged against Mrs. Minnie McCoy and her daughter, Lulu McCoy, of Chicago, who appeared before a magistrate here.
The two women were arrested here on complaint of Charles McCoy, who claims his sister, named Lulu M. McCoy, is the rightful owner of the land, and that the Lulu M.cCoy named as defendant made use of the similarity of names to transfer land in Avhich she had no rightful in terest. Joseph McCoy of Phillips coun ty, original owner of the land, in 18S9 and left the land to his daughter, Lulu M. McCoy. Up to two years ago she had no doubt but that the land was still in her possession, although managed by another.
In 1889, however, a "personal" stating that "if Miss Lulu Mcuoy will correspond with James Coffey of Woodruff, Iowa, she will learn something to her advantage" appeared in a Chicago paper. Charles McCoy alleges that this letter was answered by Mrs. Minnie McCoy, and that as a result a transfer of the land to Mr. Coffey was signed by Mrs. McCoy's daughter, Lulu.
Mrs. McCoy told the police, it is said, that Mr. Coffey paid her daughter for the deed. Through Coffee, it Is said, the land was sold to O. S.
Wing of Hamburg, la. Mrs. Minnie McCoy is credited with asserting that she had no reason to believe the land might not have been willed to her daughter, as she had relatives in Kansas.Mrs.McCoy and her daughter declared their will ingness to transfer to Mr Wing 160 acres of land in Michigan to reinibur; him if it is found that the ivansa farm should be transferred back to the other Lulu McCoy. Sentenced to the Guillotine. Chartres, France, Dec.
24. After a weed's trial, which has attracted the attention of the whole of France, Briere, the farmer of this vicinity who April 21 murdered four of his daughters, aged respectively 14, 11, 5 and 4, and his son, 7, stabbing and beating them to death while they were in bed, was found guilty and condemned to be decapitated by the guillotine. Briere persisted in declaring himself innocent, but the circ*mstantial evidence against him was overwhelming. A pathetic Incident of the trial occurred when Briere's surviving little daughter (who the police declare only escaped the fate of the other children by not responding to Briere's invitation to go to see him,) went on the witness stand, sobbingly protesting her father was innocent and begging the court to release him. Breeze in WTe Rockies.
Denver, Dec. 24. A terrific gale, approaching in places the severity of a tornado, visited the foothills along the Rocky mountains from Cheyenne to Pike's Peak. At Golden, where the storm was most severe, the old city hall building was blown down and a residence next door was crushed beneath it. Occupants barely escaped with their lives, in the Boulder district several oil derricks were destroyed, many buildings were blct.vn down and scores of chim over.
Zion Must Wait. Chicago, Dec. 24. Judge Tule; nounced that his decision in the suit for the appointment of a receiver for the Zion lace industries would not be handed down from his holiday vacation. British Profits In African Mines.
Cape Town, Dec. 24. At the annual meeting of the De Boers Mining company at Kimberly, the chairman announced that the profits of the vear INCLINE CUR'S CAPER Dashed Down the Steep Grade and Completely Demolished. PASSENGER KILLED, SEVERAL HURT. tunaway Car Bumped Into Anothei Waiting to Be Hauled Up and Ended Its Career at Telegraph Pole Fire In a Tunnel.
San Francisco, Dec. 24. Mrs. Mary rneian, a domestic, was killed and erai others injured in a peculiar acci dent on the Fillmore street electric car line. Mrs.
Phelan was immediately re moved to Railroad hospital, where she died of fracture of skull. Of the jured passengers, all of whom will re 1 cover, four were women and three were men. The conductor and motor man were also' somewhat hurt. For four blocks south of Union street the grade Is so steep that cars have to be pulled up the hill by special machinery. As a ear containing 15 people had nearly reached the top of the hill it broke loose in some man ner and rushed down grade with frightful speed.
It kept the track until Union street was reached, where stood an empty car waiting to be hauled' to the summit. This obstruction was crashed Into and wrecked. The runaway car then jumped the track and was brought to a standstill by a telegraph pole which it struck with terrific force, completely demolishing the car and scattering the occupants in all directions. Help was at hand and the injured passengers were giv en immediate attention. Burning Train in a Tunnel, Liverpool, Dec.
24. A burnins train on the electric overhead railway, ran into a tunnel stored with stacks of crcosoted railroad ties, and started fire that converted the tunnel into a blazing furnace. The train caught fire from explosion of a fuse box. Corpses of six men killed were carried from the tunnel. The train was packed but the majority of passengers had alighted at the previous statist Owing to the dense volumes of smoke issuing from the tunnel' it was some hours before an entrance to the tunnel could be effected.
Many passengers jumped from the burning train and rushed out of the tunnel, while others were dragged out by their fellow travelers in a haif suffocated condition. Interurban Railway Horror. Allentown, Dec. 24. Six people were killed by an interurban car jumping the track at a sharp curve.
They are Rev. Tobias Kessler, 60, of tne Kerormed church; Frank Wesley and Albert Yeager, 40, of Allentown; Mrs. Jacob Fitzer, 35, of Coopersburg; Irwin Renner, 55, of Zion Hill, a farmer; Ambrose Reinhard, Freedensville. Motorman Stocker tried hard to stop the car, when it slipped on the steep grade, but the car flew around the curve and swung against a guy pole, which tore off one side of the car and the roof. Those killed sat along the broken side of the car and were crush ed by the post.
The new Coopersburg jme, on wnicn tne accident occurred opened only last Wednesday. Farmer's Frenzied Deed. Peoria, Dec. 24. At Yates City, Aurist icetiurg, b9, a prosperous farm er at Farmington, shot his wife through the abdomen and then shot his 14 year old stepson, who interfered.
After walking 17 miles to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Davis, near Farmington, he shot himself through the head and died in three hours. His wife Is dying, but the boy will recover. His wife left him because he deeded property to his son and he shot her because she refused to return to him, oi let him get a divorce. British Troubles In Baluchistan.
Calcutta, Dec. 24. A British puni tive expedition razed Nodiz fort, in South Baluchistan, which was long the stronghold of a fierce band of out laws. The latter held out until tb fort was demolished by guns. About a dozen men were buried in t'aa ruins, five others were killed, 14 were wound 's toppled ed were captured.
The British wounded. Massacres In Macedonia Constantinople, Dec. 24 tion and pillaging of villages and outraging of inhabitants have so increas il after his return ed recently in Macedonia that the suls have appealed to the embassies were 2,750,000, the production being in the Seventh district by the Demo 4,500,000. Explosion at Glass Factory. Kokomo, Dec.
24. By a gas explosion at the plate glass factory Zach ariah Chapman was killed and several other workmen wei house was wrecked. to put a stop to such crimes. The foreign ministers have made urgent representations to the port of the danger of permitting continuance of such acts. Opposed to Belmont.
New York, Dee. 24. Joseph F. O'Grady was nominated for congress crats, who refused to participate the convention last week which nominated Perry Belmont. Weather Forecast.
For Ohio Increasing cloudiness, niured Tho nnt light to fresh south winds. PROM SIOK ROOMS. Progress Blade by Noted Invalids. (jeuerul Seamans Better. Washington.
Dec. 24. The condi tion cf General William H. Seamans of California, who is seriously ill here; Is no worse. At his hotel it is said that if there has been any change at ail, it has been for the better.
Captain Cook Improving. Washington, Dec. 24. Captain Francis A. Cook, who is ill at the Unit ed States naval hospital here, is im proving slowly.
His physicians state that it will be two wec ks before he will be able to be out. Senator Sewell's Condition. Camden. N.J.,Dec. 24 United States faenator Sewell is reported to be slightly weaker, lut there has been no serious change in his condition during the past few days.
Alqer Resting Easily. Detroit. Dec. 2. It was renorreri at General Alger's house that he was resting easily.
Queen Alexandra Recoverin London, Dec. 24. Queen Alexandra is progressing satisfactorily towards covery. 8 not His Client. Birmingham, Dec.
24. a lawyer, former consul tn Hnn. duras under Cleveland, shot William L. uocid, president of the Southern Mu tual Aid association, in their room. Little had been representing Dodd.
who is on trial on the charge of usine the mails lor fraudulent purposes in connection with the birmingham Debenture Redemption company. Mr. Lit tle became deranged as the result of mental strain in conduct of the case, and entered the room, declaring he was going to die. Seeing a pistol on a table, Little graobed it and emptied every chamber at Dodd and his brother, James L. Dodd.
One bullet took effect in W. L. Dodd's shoulder. Dodd will recover. Little comes of a prominent North Carolina family.
Whole Block Ablaze. Connellsville, Dec. 24. A big fire visited the dense part of the down town district. A whale square enclosed by West Main street, Arch street an'd Orcha rd alley was ablaze.
The re started in a wareroom in the rear Wallace's furniture store and spread at once to Schmidt's ment store. The property in the square is owned oy the Wilkey heirs. Many of the buildings are frame, one is a three story brick business block. Neighboring towns sent fire departments. A brisk wind fanned the fire, Irishmen Sent to Prison.
Dublin, Dec. 24. At Bailey More, county Sligo, Jasper Tully, member of parliament for South Leiton, was sen tenced to one month imprisc John O'Donnell, member of parliament Tor South Mayo, to two months imprisonment, and other members of the Irish league for terms ranging from a month to three months. All the sentences were imposed in connection with a recent meeting called to incite Lord De Freyne's tenants not to pay their rent. Protocol Signed.
Buenos Ayres, Dec. 24. The report that the Chilian minister will renew here the negotiation between Chili and Argentina on a conciliatory basis, namely, evacuation by the forces of the two republics of the territory in dispute, appears to be confirmed. A pro tocol in this sense is said to have been signed. Bryan to Attend.
Boston, Dec. 24. At the meeting of the executive committee of the Com monwealth club of Massachusetts a letter from the Hon. William Bryan was read accepting an invitation from the club to become Its guest at a banquet to be given Jan. 9.
Wanes Raised. South Dec. 24. The Indiana Railway company of this city: which operates the electric street car lines in South Bend, Elkhart and Gosh en and 26 miles of interurban railway connecting Goshen, Dnnlap, Elkhart, Osceola and Mishawaka with South Bend, posted an order giving an increase of wages to the motormen, conductors and all power station em ployes engaged by the hour. The raise is the second within a few years and means an increase in the wag's of employes of about $10,000 per year, to take effect Jan.
1. Taps For General Ankeney. Des Moines, Dec. 24. General" Rollin V.
Ankeney, for 12 years coroner of Polk county, died of pneumonia, after a week's illness. He served in the Mexican war with an Ohio regiment and in the civil war was colonel of the One Hundred and Forty Second Illinois infantry. At his discharge he was brevetted brigadier general for conspicuous gallantry. Philadelphia Lawyer Dead, Philadelphia, Dec. 24.
David W. Sellers, a prominent lawyer, died at his home in this city. He was nresi dent of the Fairmount park commis sion and a solicitor for the Pennsyl vania railroad company. For many snow in mountain district, west winds. cryc politicp SECRET IN OLD CLOCK Motive of French King's Visit to This Country at Last CAME TO SEE HIS OWN DAUGHTER.
Parclmient Found at Gallipolis Telia What Is Aliened to He the "True History of Allele lc Alonquou." Child of Morganatic Marriage. Gallipolis, Dec. 24. Discovery of a manuscript in a secret drawer of an old clock revealed a secret of the French court and shows the reason for the visit to this city in 1789 of the Duke of Orleans, afterwards Louis Phillipe of France. The discovery was made by Claude M.
Wall, who wishing to contrive a device for 'his window that would attract Christmas purchas ers, went to the storage room where odds and ends were kept and found an old French clock that had been cast aside many years. Taking it apart found a secret drawer in which to his amazement he discovered an old parch ment manuscript in French wrapped with a poivion of a flannel skirt of a child, richly embroidered and bearing a monogram. A piece of fine lace was also with the manuscript. Upon translation, the manuscript purported to he a "true history of Adele de Alonquon." It was signed by Louis de Alonquon, and dated Oct. 15, 17S9.
It was addressed to Adele, ap parently to be given to her when she grew to maturity. The substance of it was that Adele was the daughter of the Duke of Orleans. The mother died at the child's birth, ignorant of the rank oE its father. The writr of the parchment was placed in charge of the girl and sent with her to Gallipolis, which was a French colony. The story ran that he became her pre ceptor and finally aftei ssued.
Following the discovery that the body was not Rathbun's came Rathbun's arrest at Louisville, where he had enlisted under another name in the United States army. The corpse' was later identified as that of Charles Goodman, a wanderer, who came to Louisville from Evansville, and met Rathbun in front of the Salvation Army headquarters here. Maciay Sees His Finish. New York, Dec. 24.
It is reported that E. S. Maciay. author of a history of the navy making attacks on Rear Admiral Schley, may resign his position as storekeeper at the navy yard after all. Maciay is quoted as saying: "If the president's order is paramount to civil service rules, this knocks out the prop on which I have been standing.
I intended it to be a test case, but there is nothing left for me but to get out as gracefully as I can." When asked when he will resign he said: "I shall look up the law and if I find that the president has power to remove I shall resign forthwith." Tennessee Triple Tragedy. Knoxville, Dec. 24. Dave Payne, who escaped from jail at Ben ton, where he was held on a murder charge, was sent for by his wife to come from his hiding place and see her as she was seriously ill. A brother took the message.
On the return the Payne brothers quarreled about a gun. William Flanagan tried to separate them and was shot in the abdomen by Dave Payne, tind is mor tally wounded. Flannagan shot and killed his murderer. When Mrs. Payne neard of the tragedy she died.
WhoirisTock WipeT Out. Dunlow, W. Dec. 24. The leading business block of this town was leveled by fire.
Among the buildings destroyed are Henry Copley's dry goods store, loss insurance William Davis, dry goods, groceries and hardware, loss 10,000, insurance Wayne Strother, dry goods, loss $10,000, insurance $4,000. The postofhee, several residences and a number of other smaller buildings were also destroyed. The fire started in the postofRce building and its origin is a mystery. Boers Captured. Pretoria.
Dec. 24. Lieutenant Col HER0I0 LITTLE GIEL. Saved Her Sister's Home and Children From Destruction. St.
Paul, Dec. 24. Eight year old Maude Paterson at the risk of her own. life, save her sister's heme from being destroyed by fire and probably saved the lives of her three little nieces aged i ana years. Maude was left at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Charles Henley, to care for the house while Mrs. Henley went to do Her Christmas shopping. laundry lines hung with clothing suspended over a lamp on the table, caught fire. The flames mounted to the ceiling. Maude, with rare presence of mind, climbed upon the table, grabbed the burning mass and ran to the door.
Fortunately the flames did not communicate to the little heroine's clothing. When the firemen arrived, the girl had extinguished the flames, and was trying to dispel the fears of the little children. Want an American Adviser. Victoria, B. Dec.
24. The steamer Braemer from the Orient brings news that the Chinese court has decided to engage an American adviser. The name of the official is not given by the Oriental papers, but the Chinese press states that the salary is to be $15,000 a year. The Japan Mail un uiis says it is a wise step for China to take for, although ner statesmen need no counsel in their uumcaiii: ijuiujj, Liiey are umea.rnea regard to dealings with foreign nnwers Wants to Enfoy Christmas. iew ark, Dec, 24.
Rear Admiral ocniey ana nis wire arrived in this city rrom Washington. They wilt snfiTld thp linlirinvc with r.K ter, Mrs. k. m. Swortley.
Admiral 'cluocu lu Ldiii. auuuc tne re primand or. uenerai Miles and the dls ment. i am Here to enjoy Christmas witn my iamuy," he said, "and I have necteci witn my duties or with the 0j army or navy or the president." the Duke of Orleans to Gallipolis, It Rumor Denied at Rome. uuiuc, i i.
iueie is no trutn ID OLUUU1 iU Aicic a i me report puDiisned the United mother not. heiriEr of rovnl bmnrl. Hoioc it j. ..0.. Ld.iunui, arcnuisnop ol jfiaeenza.
i. nao ociil me jjaycia lu luc recently visited tne United States uumc UL iJeJB. sums, ceeci mgr. JYiartmem, as papal dele no mtro au imcac uac uui uceu gate in tne united states, and that he iuc naa Deg gea tne pope to excuse him Rathbun's Punishment. lrum sucu promotion.
Tne Vatican a long struggle the jury finally agreed! Cirlm t0 the Washington post. upon a verdict. of manslaughter against Looked For Leak With a Light. imuuu, Luiuieiiy a. Benton, Dec.
24. As the result UIU' nilu a6Ulsulc umiLKu lu oi an explosion ot gas in the store of the murder of Charles Goodman killed and several other persons in in this citif Goodman's body i jured. The explosion was caused by a was, shipped to Little Rock, plumber looking for a gas leak with a wnere rtatnDuns wire lives, as: lighted candle. The building was par that of Rathhun, on whose life an in tially wrecked and the front windows surance policy for had been! of several adjacent stores were de molished. Loss will be quite heavy.
Accident and Suicide. Middleshoro, Dec. 24. Because Jessie Marion, who was sleighridins with Charles Prescon on Powell river, was thrown into the river and drowned by the ice giving way, Preston after a vain effort to save. the girl, went and informed her mother and suicided.
Oil Tank Exploded. Richmond, Dec. 24. An oil tank in a car caught fire and exploded killing a machinist named Wakefield and injuring several others. The trestle on which the car was standing and several shanties were destroyed.
Estimated loss 520,000. Gerst's Resignation Accepted. Buffalo, Dec. 24. The board of aldermen accepted the resignation of City Treasurer Philip Gerst, whose accounts are undergoing an Investigation.
Gerst publicly admitted there was recently a hortage in his accounts of over $50,000, bst claims it has been GLEANED AT A GLAN05. Made So Brief the Hasty Reader May Read as He Runs. Mrs. Frank Leslie seriously ill. Bison, O.
postoflice was robbed. Hendricks Webb, dry goods firm at Chicago, failed. Wiliam Ellery Channing, 83, author, died at Concord, Mass. Postoffice and contents at Ridgway, were destroyed by fire. George Harris and wife of Lowry City, killed at railroad crossing In Osceola, Mo.
William Fay, over 100, died at Osage City, Kan. Was an English soldier in the Crimean war. Eight prisoners overpowered jailer at Walla Walla, but wife cf Sheriff Kees with a revolver prevented their escape. Two masked men held up clerks in office of Abernethy Furniture company, Leavenworth, and got the company's payroll. H.
H. Tilley, collector in Indiana towns for Libby. McNeil Llbby of Chicago, arrested at South Ind, for alleged embezzlement of $665. Solomon Johnson, colored, killed Jim Bell, colored, by whom he was laager in the Pietersburg district Dec. baly unded JnTa Pisto1 white at 22 and took GO prisoners.
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