| Show AT HOME AND ABROAD washington nov 16 consul monaghan at chefitz Ch emitz in a report 0 of the state department on germanys germanas Germ anys exports to the united states says germany Is alarmed as exports to the united states are dropping off nothing so alarming has appeared in twenty years america was always the best customer in many lines of manufactures in the september quarter of 1896 seventeen consular districts sent to the united states goods amounting to in the same quarter in 1897 the same districts sent the average loss all over the empire is nearly 50 per cent in many cases this indicates much more than mere money losses to our revenues it indicates a diminution in exports from this empire due to the dingley bill the public is to put little confidence in newspaper reports even if accurate each issue urges intelligent tell igent effort to retain the united states market consul monaghan quotes from a paper which says that some of the falling oft off is due to the rush of goods to get ahead of the dingley laws but adds that germany must suffer r severe losses on account of the tariff bill some papers suggest raising import duties to retaliate and especially in the matter of sugar washington nov 16 an immense claim embracing arces of land in the northwest including the cities of minneapolis and st paul was brough before commissioner hermann of the general land office today and the assistance of the government in securing official data was called tor for the claimants are C B holloway of holland 0 and A gunn of comee 0 they are making an examination of the general land office records with a review to securing copies of certified papers which they assert will establish their title to the lands claimed by them their ancestor through whom they claim title was jonathan carver an englishman a well known explorer in the last century carver lived among the indians of the northwest mostly in what is now minnesota and wisconsin and for a time he was adopted by some of the tribes including the who made him chief and for valuable services rendered so the heirs claim presented him the vast tract they assert that this tribal act was ratified by both king george the third and the continental tin kings gunn claims he is a great grandson of carver and hollowayy Hollo ways wife Is the great granddaughter A report says the heirs had a long interview with the land commis stener today in which their contentions were explained the department will render whatever assistance to is possible in the way of securing information philadelphia nov 16 president pet flet berlof of girard colage has issued an edict against football and henceforth the students must keep off the grid tron This action was the result 0 of f a boy having his leg broken last saturday in a practice game there are nearly 1500 students in the college who express great disappointment because playing Is prohibited lamar mo nov 16 sheriff livingstone and marshall rice went to boston mo last evening with a warrant for W L simpson and william kaderly charging them with aiding and hiring the parties who assaulted mrs jacob resh last thursday evening on the way to this city the carriage was stop stopped oed about six miles south by a mob of about thirty masked and I 1 armed men the officers were disarmed and taken to a nearby corn field by apart of the mob while the others blindfolded the prisoners and put a ropo rope around their necks and strung them UW ui to a tree they were let down and in a few seconds pulled up again chiw thi was repeated until the prisoners were too weak to stand when they were called on by the mob for a statement as to the crime and the parties implicated I 1 kaderly admitted writing a letterio harry Monk star employing him to commit the crime for 25 simpson admitted paying the money officers and prisoners were then put in a car carriage riagO and ordered to drive to the county jall jail which they did the prisoners today toda deny making a confession carson nev nov 16 julian guiran the boy who shot and killed united states district attorney charles jonew recently was today exonerated by th grand jury jones who was a married man had been paying attention to young guinals Gui nans sister and upon the day of the shooting met her by appointment near her home dr GUIU o an her father interrupted the meeting i and quarreled with jones the ba boy wt who was watching from an upper dow of the house fearing that hl father would be killed by jones wh wb had a reputation as a gunfighter gun fighter fighter shot abo and killed the attorney with a rifle san francisco nov 16 the att for theodore durrant made a nw move today the condemned man HOW DOW stands convicted of the murder or of blanche lamont lament no disposition how ba been made of the additional muru aft charge based on the murder of williams 3 A document filed with the distri attorney gives notice that on fri friday next the attorneys for the accused W appear before judge bahr and demata that a date be set for the trial of ww williams case in the same manner a 8 though there had been no trial aaa conviction for the murder of fr k lamont lament district attorney barnes takes t position that the williams case centt be brought to trial w quebec nov 17 A landslide on duchesne river near st edward as maji iva ported to have killed forty pere persons ra place to Is forty five miles south southwest of quebec j only one person has reached the th d with any news and he is so excited excite can hardly talk it is reported by that more than forty persons are following are some of them r hormidas labadi wife and 1 1 children eadres la claire mother wife one child a the Castogna way family of eleb el nine persons H wright father mother m brother the alezot family san francisco nov 17 the 0 ste e city of rio de janeiro which today from yokohama and hong hone via honolulu brought the foil tol advices advises ad vices the report that the black M broken out in shanghai proves unfounded the rumor e evidently vi dentlY IV from the fact that in ord or prevent the introduction of bf TI the authorities at Naga siki car lowe inspected all steamers carrying some over officious persons persona sent gram to yokohama to the effert eff 1 all steamers from shanghai were wei inspected on account of the t he plague having broken out th there I here this statement was apparently firmed by another telegram 8 wa ward rd to the effect that the had died and that panic ensued among the residents of shanghai to a certain extent this latter statement was true for the death of the tatoi jatoi created a panic among the depositors in several chinese banks because the patois money was called in after his death some two months ago the shanghai papers published a sensational story to the effect that a 11 year old boy had been arestad at for having accidentally caused the death of his mother it was reported that the child had bad been most inhumanly treated by the yamen runners sent to arrest him and that he would have to suffer the consequences of his lamentable accident by being sliced to death with the pingchi ling chi or ox eared knife the foreign residents of shanghai indignantly dign antly protested against this manifest injustice but were assured by the bland officials to whom they appealed that there was absolutely nothing in the reports the matter was dropped but now it appears from an undeniable source that the wretched boy is con tined fined in prison in awaiting the final orders for the carrying out of this barbaric punishment dispatches recently received at announce that a formidable insurrection occurred outside the great wall at Sant sonta 1200 miles east of teho general provincial comy mande inch of the chihli district was dispatched to the scene with a force of cavalry and infantry try and a battery of artillery to quell the ret bellion the insurgents are said to be e f tor for the most part mounted soldiers the manchurian Manc hurlan troops defeated the late war with japan who were dispersed over the country f the home office has decided to allow the e construction of electric railways in boklo 4 cleveland 0 nov 17 A passenger train on the cleveland canton and aad southern railway was derailed this morning at the approach to a bridge the pettibone brook two aser L ager coaches rolled over the embank nent anent into the ditch sixty persons were a on board but only three were injured amiss alss grace Chap chapman mau mrs baxter and p f john roe of chagrin falls sustained injuries Uj uries the train jumped the rails on a curve though adough at much slackened rate from ahe the regular speed had it gone a few feet further it would have crashed reato futo the abutment of the bri bridge dge and r fallen into the brook the instant I 1 0 of f the locomotive prevented serious calamity st louis mo nov 17 W H Y Clena Cler ens a contractor and builder and i csuy riley E alace wallace a carpenter were fa tally injured today in the sheds of the i ST k st SS louis cotton compress company I 1 ahe I 1 he building was wrecked by the tory A nado casado ot of may 1896 and to Is being rebuilt r bernens emens who had the contract and ballace Zal S lace ace were on a rotten crossbeam cross beam 1 rl feet st from the ground when it broke fj cincinnati 0 nov 17 A panic pant was ewas y caused sed in st gt andrews school today by 2 upsetting of a stove some of the af bened te ned children jumped from the T endows while others were thrown jivka by the maddened efforts of the ones to escape the fire and 4 1 he police departments responded to VIM fire was quickly subdued and rt 1 seriously injured pupils were f borne they are charles mulli fl sha S M lester eat donovan joseph peach vw 1460 jesse T ae fe san rl francisco francsco ranc nov 17 early arly this his 41 orning thlu iak patrick ferretiz Perre Ferre tir proprietor t we he grand hotel in youth san F nets ya 10 was aroused by the growl grow 1 of his watch dog upon going to the hall to investigate a reviver K ahr th into his tace face and lie he was to throw up his hands in stead he grappled with the intruder and got hold of the pistol the noise of the struggle brought out some of the guests with a light when a second burglar opened fire shooting dick connolly through the right leg and wounding C B andrews in the abdomen probably fatally after the shooting both burglars fled ano no was a tall and the other a short man inan with whiskers the taller of the two left his pistol and hat the shorter was arrested at holy cross cemetery by lieutenant burke and brought here wichita Wl chita kas nov 17 george M hughes of anadarko Ana darko I 1 T has arrived in wichita on a trip to secure colonists for the wichita country who are to settle in and about the wichita mountains before the first of january and by sheer persistency and force of numbers compel congress to open the country to settlement hughes bisone isone is one of twenty men who are now making a systematic canvass in oklahoma kansas and arkansas for boomers to locate in the new country the plan is to inaugurate a promiscuous immigration into the indian country at once and begin to hunt hung for gold demanding of congress at the same time the opening of the wichita reservation the movement promises to surpass the famous colony expedition into oklahoma by capt payne aspen colo nov 17 the fire in the smuggler mine is still burning but manager hallett says satisfactory progress is being made in the effort to quench the flames the volumes of gas issuing from the smuggler shaft is not so great as yesterday but the smoke has increased this is regarded as indicating that the fire has reached the water soaked timbers and is shouldering ing fifteen men were overcome by gas ln in the mollie gibson and dallas mines last night but all were resuscitated the attempt to bulkhead the connection between the burning mine and the delia S has not been successful the smuggler mill shut down this morning having no more ore munich nov 17 the vault of maximillian collapsed today burying eleven people seven have been extricated but the others are probably dead fresno cal nov 17 mrs A M dorn a young married woman of selma met death in a strange manner last she was laughing so heartily that a paroxysm of coughing was caused which ruptured a blood vessel and caused instant death st petersburg nov 17 it is estimated that about 1700 persons were rendered homeless by the rising of the water in the enva the flooding of the canals the suburban islands and the outlying portion of the city through the fierce wind from the sea which drove the water up the stream sweeping away several bridges when the flood 1100 d assumed grave proportions cannons at fortress were fired at frequent intervals in order to warn the inhabitants of their danger the police are providing lodging and food for the homeless A number of ships in the neva were driven from their moorings by the force of the wind only the abatement of the gale last night averted a most terrible batas catas trophy kansas city mo nov 18 train no 2 on the kansas city fort scott memphis which left birminham birmin ham last evening tor for kansas city was de rallied just west of williford Wll liford ark at 3 this morning the combination i coach chair car and sleeper went over the bank the combination car going into spring river the chair i car and sleeper were both consumed one passenger was fatally injured and twenty two others more or less seriously hurt no 2 is a fast through train from the south between williford Will lford and hardy the memphis tracks parral lel spring river a little stream running ont of mammoth springs the train was composed of engine mall mail and express car baggage car combination coach chair car and sleeper the combination car has a partition inthe middle one end being used as a smoker and the other end tor for colored passengers when near williford winiford the engineer felt the train leap forward and found that it had parted between the two day coaches the last three cars bumped over the ties the chair car and sleeper turning over on their side and the combination car finally going into the river the most intense confusion prevailed the engineer backed up the front part of the train and the work of rescue was begun the terror of the passengers who had gone down the stream with the combination car was wan heightened by cries of alarm from the chair car and sleeper both of which soon took tire fire the intense darkness added to the confusion and it was some time before an organized effort of rescue was put into the effect of the train crew and those of the passengers who had been able to extricate themselves without injury the passengers in the burning car were lucail rescued before the fire had reached its height and but few were injured it soon became apparent that the chair car and sleeper could not be saved and all efforts were put forth to help the unfortunate passengers of the combination car in the stream screams anc and cries for help were heard on all sides and because of the darkness leseye rescue was difficult As the flames from trie the two burning car became brighter the rescuers were enabled to work to better advantage washington nov 19 the president has appointed tle the following post ni miters mi Aers utah logan orson smith washington davenport lawrence A inkster Irk ster pair fair havn R S muel P tapping Tal paig north yakima L 13 sperry prague wm IS purly pu ru london nov 19 the most disastrous fire in years is raging here in several streets adjacent to the general postoffice post office huge blocks of buildings are blazing fiercely many houses have collapsed and fifteen warehouses already have been destroyed buildings axe are ablaze on the side streets thus preventing the firemen from reaching the burning buildings wall street is involved from end to end x the flames which had worked their way from cewin street into a cross street where an entire block of 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