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VOL. XO, 300. IIAEEISI5XJEG, TUESDAY EYEKING DECEMBER 24, 1901. ESTABLISHED 1331. APPROACH OF MERRY CHRISTMAS Streets and Stores Filled With People Ail Day Long.

CHANCES OF WHITE CHRISTMAS Weather Man Starts Out Well Rush in Post Office, Stations and Everywhere. It may be a white Christmas after all. The snow which fell so thickly last night lingered to day and although the temperature was in a melting mood there will likely be enough snow left on the trees, house taps and highways to make the Christinas seem like a little the traditional yuletide. To day the shoppers held the field and there were hundreds "who were looking for "last things" they had to get and seemingly never finding them. Uncle Sam's employes worked overtime and nearly every one having anything to do with transportation to on the verge of nervous prostration.

There never was such a rush in the history of the city and more money has been put into circulation than even the oldest shopper can parallel. All day long hundreds tramped, ploughed, slushed along the streets, carrying, dragging, pulling packages and, in some instances, youngsters who wanted everything they laid their eyes on. The trolley cars were run fairly close to schedule and were crowded, while the railroad trains were sights to make shareholders smile wicked smiles. Delivery wagons were going into streets where they had not been in months and at the express offices there were extra forces of clerks trying to look pleasant even if their feelings were far from the Sunday School state. The men at the post office wore those forced smiles that make one hurry away after making purchases or trarsacting business.

The mercantile business was above records and as for the amount of work done by the clerks in the stores of the city it is incalculable. This evening the shoppers will have done their heist, or worst, and the city will be given over to the "bell snickles' who will not be afraid to daire pneumonia and "grip" in order to cut up a few jinks. There will be a grand farewell, rush of delivery wagons and messengers and at midnight ringing of bells, the heralding of the great holiday of the Christian world. Santa Glaus will arrive at the upper end otf the city at 2.17 A. M.

and is due at Steelton about 3.04, as he has practiced filling stockings until he is more expert and has (been furnished with a list of new houses and the residents who have changed addresses by Chief Kautz. There will be singing of carols and serenades about the city early in the (morning and at 6 o'clock in "dark of the day" there will be the glad peals from the chimes of Old Zion and the ringing of bells calling folks to early service. Meetings will be held in many of the churches of the city and gifts will be given with expressions hearty good will. It was stated at the off.be of the Harrisburg Traction Company that the travel this year would be the largest ever known in a holiday season. Every car is in service this afternoon and long cars were run on the city lines as well as on the lines.

The cars were crowded and thousands of fares will be registered before midnight. All lines will be run until a late hour. There were no figures obtainable at the post dffice, but it was stated that the money order business had increased fifty per cent, over last year and the general business over 100 per cent. Express companies reported increases of at least fifty per cent. In the Institutions.

To morrow in the State Hospital there will be Christmas decorations and trees and there will be the customary entertainment. The Home for the Friendless and Children's Industrial Home will also hold exercises as well as the missions. The prisoners In the county prison will have a feast from Warden Meetch and at the almshouse there will he a chicken dinner. Christmas at the Harrisburg Hospital to morrow will be an enjoyable event. Amid the sickness and sorrow and pain, that is inevitable in a hospital, there will creep in to morrow a little ray of sunshine that will brighten up the lives of the inmates and make the day a time of rejoicing, All day the electric gong in the wait ing room clanged and messenger boys, postmen and deliverym en unloaded parcels and packages and letters and good things from home.

At the Pnl Office. On Christmas, Wedinesdiay, December 25th, 1901, the post office will be closed aifiter 10 A. M. The general delivery and stamp windows will be open from 7 to 10 A. M.

and from 7 to 10 P. M. Registers will be received at the ger.era.1 delivery window from 7 to 10 P. M. The night stamp window will be open from 10 to 12 o'clock.

The carriers' window will be open from 7 to 8 P. M. The carriers will make their usual Telegraph's Christmas Creeling This year the carriers of the Telegraph will greet our readers Christmas morning instead of New Year's day as heretofore. They will present an original address of sixteen pages with a handsome cover. The first page of the cover, which is printed in two colors, is an original design by Mr.

Charles G. Miller, of the Telegraph staff. It shows the dawn of a greater and more prosperous Harrisburg, with the river and bridges in the foreground. The contents include Christmas carols, half tone illustrations of scenes in and about Harrisburg, sketch of the founder of the city and a fine showing of the Harrisburg of to day, with a vision of the future. It also contains a calendar of the New Year and the legal holidays.

No more handsome or interesting souvenir has ever been placed in the hands of the carriers by a Harrisburg newspaper. It is certain to, attract much attention and as the edition is limited our readers should not miss the carriers on their rounds to morrow. ROOMSLEASED They Will Be Opened tor Improvement Move. OFFICES HAVE BEEN LEASED Committee Carries Out Preliminary Arrangements for Energetic Campaign. The committee in charge of the advancement of the movement for public improvements will have headquarters and they will be opened soon after the commencement of the new year.

An active campaign will be made as it is designed to carry the lines for public improvement into every part of the municipality. No efforts will be spared to enlighten any one having doubts about the plans. The committee met at the Board of Trade last evening and spent several hours in discussion of the reports of committees those on finance, press, co operation and other branches of the work being presented and considered. A number of plans were talked of and it was agreed that the work should be carried forward with all of the energy possible after the first of the year. The first floor offices of the Greenawalt building at Market street and River avenue, close to the Board of Trade, were secured for headquarters.

The various committees will hold a number of meetings between now and the first of the year and everything will be made ready for the opening of the campaign. STATE POLITICS. A dispatch from Washington says that "Senator Quay is preparing to write a book. This information comes from a friend of the Senator, wiho re cedved it in a letter written by Mr. Quay since he went to St.

Lucie, two weeks ago. For some time it hais bieen known to intimate friends of Senator Quay that he had a literary work in contemplation and that ftihe purpose of "burying himself so deeply as he has of late in the seclusion otf his library has been to prepare for it. Those who claim to know the Senator's inclinations and bent of mind (have not been surprised to learn of his determination. In the letter to his friend here, Senator Quay states that intends to write uhder general caiption, 'Forty Years in the Poli Beginning with the opening of hLs career Tinderr Pennsylvania's war Governor, Andrew G. Curtin, Senator Quay has been in close touch with all the kaleidoscopic changes in politics not only in Pennsylvania, but the country at large.

It is conceded that no other man in active life to day is better equipped 5n actual experience than Senator Quay to narrate political history of the last four decades." Kayler's Improtrmrnt Slow. Harry Kayler, wh'o was shot by his brother while they were shooting at masrk, shows very little improvement since his leg was amputated several days ago. His case is said to be serious by the hospital physicians and it is a question whether he will live. morning delivery and collection, and the 9 and 10 P. M.

Collections. l.oni Ills Klcyce. The registry window will be closed Clarence Toomey, a Postal Tele a.fter 10 A. M. graph messenger boy, had his bicycle No money order business will the stolen from, the front of the Coluni du.rjn tM.day.

i A GOOD CHOIC Chinese Court Knows Vvhere to Look for an Advisor. HE WILL BE AN AMERICAN There Are Sixty Cases of the Plague at New Chwang Affliction in the East. Victoria, B. Dec. 24.

The steamer Braemer, which arrived last night from the Irient, brings news that the Chinese court has decided to engage an American adviser. The name of the officiail is not given by the Oriental papers but the Chinese press states that the salary is to be $15,000 a year. Plague is increasing at New Chwang. There has been sixty caises, one a Russian, since October 30th, and fifty seven deaths. The Russian who died was a bandmaster of a military band.

In searching hisresidenoe eight dead rats were found (beneath, the floor. The Russian Government has forbidden boring for kerosene or minerals at any point within one hundred leagues from the coast from Russian possessions, beginning at Corea and extending to Saghaflien. News was received at Shanghai of the wreck of Messrs. Weebin Oom pany's steamier Amherst, 108 tons, on the bra at Kuala Dahang, on the 17Uh instant. Thirteen lives were lost owing to the capsizing of one of the steamer's boats in the heavy surf.

A RIDICULOUS TALE. Highway Commissioner Stacker lias a l.augrh at a Prediction Abont Subway. "This story about the subway being completed for another year is base less. In fact, it is absolutely funny, said Highway Commissioner Stucker this morning, when his attention was called to last night's publication of a story that the subway would not be completed for another year. "The city's share of the work is simply the eastern approach and three weeks could take care of that.

Goll Company's men have only to lay the roadway and the sidewalks and it is impossible to lay concrete in such cold weather, but when the weather moderates there will be no delay in it. The railroad company's officials expect the steel girders for the tracks to be on the ground in February and there will be little edlay then. The only way I can see that there will be any delay before the first of April will bo in case the Reading station is started before that time. We will have to provide some means to reach the station after the bridge is removed and that is practically the only dif hculty be solved. 1 he Governor's Arrival.

Governor Stone and party were scheduled to arrive in Harrisburg this afternoon on second section of Main Line Express, at 3:10, but owing to delays west of Pittsburg the train was four hours late. Governor and Mrs. Stone, with their family, will spend Christmas at the Executive Mansion. Very tattle Shop Lining Detect ivies Rout say that there has been less shoplifting this year than for many seasons and that the professional shoplifters appear to have their own monejr this year. The detectives have been at work in the large stores since the holiday rush began and have made but three arrests.

All llie cases were settled, there being no desire to prosecute on thpi cart oi Hui merchants. FOUGHT WITH WILD CAT tl iclilletowii Manilas a Lively Battle and Sella His Spoil for Less Tban the Sionnty. George Plott, a well known resident of Middletown, whose home is at the corner, of Susquehanna and Union streets, could have received two dollars bounty from the county for the ear tips of a wild cat. For the trouble and narrow escape he experienced in capturing this ferocious beast he was entitled to considerable more. While cutting wood along the river in the rear of his yard, he heard his dogs growling and went into the bushes nearby to see what it was.

He found the dogs almost overcome by a big wild cat and but for the arrival of Mr. Plott they would have been killed. The animal sought refuge on a tree and for the next ten minutes there was a lively fight between the intruder and Mr. Plott, the latter finding he was unable to do any thing with an axe, called for his gun. A load of shot ended the trouble.

The animal belonged to the catamount species and is rather large. It is thought he came down the river on a log and sought safety in the bushes. After making an affidavit before a justice of the peace, Mr. Plott sold his trophy for a dollar. WILL GIVE BELL A WELCOME.

Patriotic Societies Will Take Up the i'lnii to Greet Ihe Relic as It Passes Through the Capital City. The patriotic societies of the city will take up the plan to give a welcome to the Liberty Bell when it passes through the clity in January and there will be a demonstration at the Union Station The suggestion of the "Telegraph" hats met with favor and when the bell arrives there will be ringing of bells and blowing of whistles, while organizations will gather at the station and along the line of the Pennsylvania and Cumberland Valley railroads. There may be some arrangements made to have the pupils of the city schools dismissedin order that they may view the herald of Liberty. STORE ORDER CASES. Anditor General Hnr denbergh Says That lie Will Continue to Make Settlements as lie fore.

Auditor General Hardenbergh was seen to day concerning the recent de cisions in the store order tax cases. The Attorney General having announc ed at the time of trial that owing to different methods of doing business no one company case would be made a test case for any other, he was asked what action the Auditor General's Of fice was taking toward bringing other cases. "I will continue to make settlements as (before. The dedision in one case might not affect another case. I will continue to make settlements until the act is declared unconstitutional, when I will then cease." "In view of the decision that the act does not apply to cases already tried, have reports been required and are accounts being settled by the Auditor General agaiinst other corporations so as to test the constitutionality of the Store Order act?" he was asked.

"We are making settlements every day, and corporations are required to make "Why are not accounts settled against all corporations employing labor?" "We require all to report, and send them, all blanks." "Are corporations allowed to escape without making reports or hajving accounts for tax settled agaiinst them?" "No, we do not discriminate. We have sent out 15,000 blanks, and every corporation without regard to class or kind must report on the blanks." "The Court not having decided the act unconstitutional, some of the decisions rather pointing to its consti tutionality, will not accounts be settled against all companies "Yes. of course." "Under all the circumstances, will the mere fact that the act is alleged by attorneys for corporations to be unconstitutional be sufficient to prevent the stating of accounts against corporations generally?" "Oh, no; why it? The mere statement of an attorney would have no weight with the department. We will continue under the act unless it is declared unconstitutional." BELLSNICKLES MUST BE GOOD. Chief Kautz; Gives Orders to Arrest 'Jlummers" Who May Get Too Gay or Imbibe Too Much Uqnor.

Police Kautz will issue orders this evening to arrest all "bell snickles" who are unruly and frighten people. ILe will not prevent the boys and girls from having their but lie wonts it understood that last year's conduct of some "snickles" will not be permitted. He suggests that these fantastics keep out of saloons and places where a row follows any attempt to make sport of the costumes. For to morrow he will have the usual holiday force of patrolmen on duty but does not anticipate any trouble as he says drunkenness has been on the decrease for sometime, lie will have an extra policeman in the Eighth ward districts where rows occur if there are any. Rpinenibcrlne Trolley men.

The troleymen of the city welre remembered as usual to day, although in many cases many passengers failed to give the extra coin or so for the fund of the hard working car service men. Holiday nt llonuital. The 'same rule that was followed on Thanksgiving will (be enforced at the Hairrisbnrg 'Hospital to morrow; also, nothing but accident and severe medical oases will ibe, attended, tos HAVE NO TRE But the Roosevelt Children Will Hang Up Stockings. EIGHTY SEVEN BIG TURKEYS Were Given Away to the Policemen, Messengers and Servants at the White House. Washington, Dec.

24. Eighty seven big turkeys were distributed to the White House policemen, messengers, ushers, servants, gardeners and stablemen to day with the compliments of the President. Each turkey had on it a card bearing the season's compliments. The distribution was the largest tever made at the White House. President McKinley always gave turkeys to the married employes, but the list of recipients was never so large as that of to day.

The turkeys were distributed by Henry Pinckney, the White House steward. Express wagons, mail carriers and messengers bore numerous packages to the White House to day presents to the Roosevelt family from friends and admirers throughout the country. Many of the packages were for the children, who will not be allowed, however, to have them until to morrow. The programme at the White House to morrow will follow the custom of the family in former years. There will be no Christmas tree, as a tree never has be'en a part of the celebration of Christmas in the Roosevelt family.

The children, however, all hang up their stockings, and they will arise early to morrow to visit them and ascertain what Santa Claus has left for them. Later in the morning the children will assemble in the library, there to receive gifts from their father and mother. In the afternoon the Roosevelt juveniles will go to the home of their uncle and aunt, Captain and Mrs. Cowles, to see a Christmas tree and receive other presents. The Christmas dinner will be served at 7.30 and only the family will be present.

MR. HARMS CHOSEN. Beltilehem Lnlhnrnn Tabernacle Con. tcregatlon Select the Eloquent Yotingr Newport Minister. The congregation of the Bethlehem Lutheran Tabernacle last evening tendered a unanimous call to the Rev.

Henry Harms pastor of the, Lutheran, Church at Newport. The meeting was a largely attended one and the name of Mr. Harms was the only one considered. The call will be formally extended to Mr. Harms in a few days and it is understood that be will accept the pastorate, which was made vacant by the resignation of the Rev.

Marion J. Kline. Mr. Harms is a native of Savannah, and took the full classical course at Newberry College, Newberry, S. graduating from there in 1893.

He entered the theological seminary at Gettysburg in the fall of 1894, graduating in 1897. He had been elected pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Chambersburg, five months before graduation, and on Sunday after leaving the seminary took full charge of that work. He left Chambersburg July 1, 1900, to accept a call to St. Paul's Lutheran Church, of Newport. Mr.

Harms is twenty six years of age. BOARD OF PARDONS. The JJIext Meeting Will be Held on the Last Day of the Year. The regular meeting of the Board of Pardons, postponed from the 18th will be held on next Tuesday, December 31st, at 10 o'clock. There are ten new cases on the list, a singularly small number ofr the December meeting.

It is a fact that mauy apply for pardons at the December meeting in the hope that the charity that pervades will soften the hearts of the members and move them to leniency and a recommendation for executive clemency. Among the cases are two cf murder in the first degree, those of Alfred Smith, Philadelphia, and William Fairfax, Fayette. There arc also four applications for rehearing. In the case of Frank Helms, Philadelphia, sentenced in Axigust, 1S93, to fifteen years in the penitentiary for assault and battery and five other charges, who has been applying fcr a pardon for over a year, there has been a protest entered. Protests have also been filed in the cases of William Shultz, Philadelphia, keeping bawdy house, and John Giant, Lancaster, re ceiving stolen goods.

NO NEW CASES, South Harrlslinre nr Under Ntrict (luarnnlinc nnt Will be Watched by the Officers, There were no new cases of small pox reported from South Harrisburg to day, although yesterday three persons were removed to the city's sani tary hospital. The houses will be kept under a strict quarantine and there, will be daily visits by officers to see that no new cases appear. The residents of the quarantined houses on Ninth and Tenth streets will be given some Christmas cheer by In'' city which will furnish provisions. The houses in the neighborhood have been inspected and the water pumped from the cellars. May Run II ulchlon.

It was said to day that a movement! had been started to run Lieutenant Colonel Hutchison for the Democratic nomination for Mayor. Under a law pas.sed two years ago, the Hungarian Government may subsidize almost anv kind of manufactory. HAVANA IS HEALTHY. In November There Were No Deaths from Yellow Fever Each Month Shows Improvement, Washington, Dec. 24.

The division of insular affairs of the W7ar Department has prepared for publication a summary of the vital statistics for the city of Havana for the month of November, 1901. The sanitary condition of the city is excellent, each month showing a steady improve ment over the corresponding month of the preceding jrear. During the past elewen years the average number of deaths for November has been 902 j.ni iovemDer tnis year tnere were 443. The death rate was 19.58, which compares favorably with cities of the same size in the leading civilized countries of the world. uurmg JNovember tnere were no cases and no deaths from yellow lever, this can be said of no preced mg November since 1872.

During the last eleven years the average number of deaths from this disease in Novem ber has been 48. THE DISTINGUISHED SICK. Detroit, Dec. 24. It was reported at General Alger's house this morning that he had passed a very comfortable night and was resting easily.

Camden, N. Dec. 24. United States Senator Sewell was reported by his physician this morning to be sligfhtly weaker, but there has been no serious change in his condition during the past few days. He rested wlel laslt night.

Washington, Dec. 24. Captain Francis A. Cook, who is ill at the United States naval iuospi'tal here, is improving slowly. His physician states that it will be two weeks before he will be able to be out.

Washington Dec. 24. The condition of General William H. Seamans, of California, wiho is seriously ill here, has not grown worse. At his hotel it is said that if there has been any change at all it is for the better.

London, Dec. 24. Queen Alexandra is progressing satisfactorily toward recovery. A SPLIT 1ST THE BICYCLE TRUST Separate Organization to Manufacture Wheels nnd Automobiles. Hagerstown, Dec.

24. The American Cycle Manufacturing Company, of New York, recently incorporated in New Jersey, with $8,000,000 capital, has acquired the Crawford branch in this city of the American Bicycle Company. This deal means that the interests of the American Uicycle Company, known as the Bicycle Trust, are being divided and that one part of the capital will be devoted to the exclusive manufacture of bicycles and the other part entirely to the manufacture of automobiles. All factories at present engaged exclusively in the manufacture of bicycles will be acquired by the American Cycle Manufacturing Company, while those factories where automobiles are now made will be acquired by the automobile interests. ANOTHER TREASURY PLACE TO FILL General Snitulding Expected to Re tire Ilecanse of 111 Health.

Washington, D. Dec. 24. There is a strong probability that General O. L.

Spaulding, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, may be compelled to resign because of ill health. For manjr weeks he has been in a hospital undergoing treatment for a complication of nervous trouble and stomach disease. He is the best posted man on matters pertaining to the customs service in the United States. INGHAM A3XI HEWITT FREE Their Term in the Penitentiary Expires at Philadelphia, Dec. 24.

The terms of Ellery P. Ingham and Harvey Newitt, who Jiave een serving time in the Eastern Penitentiary for being implicated in the famous counterfeiting conspiracy cases, expire today, and it is expected that both will leave the prison at an early hour. The fines and costs with which they are charged, amounting to $1,800, have been paid, though by whom not known. Ingham, it is said, will go to Cuba, where a position has been secured for him on the railroad system being developed there, and Newitt, it is believed, will also leave the city. Hun Over by His nr.

Special to the "Telegraph." Lykens, Dec. 24. While at work in one of the mines at this place Andrew Schmich, a mine driver, lost control of his car amd fell under it and was instantly killed. Mr. Sehmich wtas unmarried.

Frig fitful Tunnel Accident. Liverpool, Dec. 24. Seven persons are known to have perished in the tunnel accident at Dingle Station yesterday. The bodies of the station foreman and the signal boy were taken from the debris late last night and this brought the total number of deaths up to seven.

It is not believed that any of the passengers were killed, but it is possible that other bodies may be recovered later. The station building was badly damaged by fire. Wanted A Farmer. Berkeley, Dec. 24.

The Uni versity of California has been asked to recommend to the Philippine Commission several men qualified by ex perience and scientific training to take charge of agricultural experiment stations in the Philippines. At It Again. Pretoria, Dec. 24. Lieutenant Cole bra ruler's force surprised a Boor laager in, the Pietersburg district December 22d and captured sixty RODETO DEATH Trolley Car at Allentown Jumped the Track.

SIX KILLED AND ELEVEN INJURED It is Thought Mrs. Yeager, One ot the Injured Passengers, Will Die. Allentown, Dec. 24. A trolley.

car on ithe recently opened Coopersburg1 branch of the Lehigh Valley Traction Company's line ran away on a steep, grade on the south side of the Lehigh Mountain, three miles below Allentown last evening, and, jumping tihe track at a short curve, it was wrecked. Six persons were killed and ten or twelve seriously injured. The lend. The Rev. Tobias Kessler, bookkeper for Johnston Swartz, this city, aged 53 years.

Mrs. Dr. Jacob Fetzer, aged 40 years, of Coopersburg. Frank WTesley, Allentown, aged 25 years, an employe of the traction! company. Ambrose Rein hard, of Centre Valley, aged 48 years.

Albert Yeager, 40 years old, of Allentown, son of one of this city's; wealthiest citizens. Irwin Brenner, of Zion Hill, an employe of the traction company. The Injured. Mrs. Albert J.

Yeager, whose husband was killed, is believed to be fatally injured. She is at the Allentown Hospital and has been unconscious ever since. Edwin Snyder, aged 19, of Colesville, is also at the hospital. His condition is critical. He has not recovered con.

sciousness. The other injured are doing nicely. John D. Wilt, of Centre Valley, scalp wounds and. hurt internally.

Mrs. John D. Wilt, arm broken, hurt internally. Edwin Summers, Lanark, employe of the wire mill, hurt all over body. Harry J.

Reiohard, aged 30 years, of Coopersburg, back hurt and hole in the head; was thrown throug the roof. William. J. Pf eiffer, nood officer, hurt internally and hole in the head. Mrs.

C. F. Newcomer, Coopersburg, head crushed. The Rev. Mr.

HutteL of Passer, Bucka county, bruised badly. Conductor A. L. Leidiah, left leg; crushed. Motornxan Charles Stockier, badly bruised.

Mrs. Albert Yeager, wife of one of the killed, hurt internally. Unknown Italian boy, badly bruised. Quick Journey to Vealh, The car had just started down thQ mountain when it ran away. The track was covered with snow and ica and the brakes refused to take hold.

Road Officer Pf eiffer and Motororam Stocker tried bravely to check thei speed of the car, but every moment. it went faster and faster, speeding! fifty miles an hour for over half ai mile, and as it reached the curve itj was thrown ito one side and struck ai pole. The latter tore the car in twain and was then thrown on its side on the road. The dead and injured were removed to neighboring houses after (much delay and late last night those who were hurt were broughlt to the hospital in this city. It is not expected that any more of the injured will die.

Those who were killed were all prominent people. OPfKIKG WHITE HOUSE UIFTS All of To day to be Devoted to the ii iiNunl ly Ureal 1 k. Washington, D. Dec. 24.

Rarely bef ore has there been so many Christmas boxes, bales and barrels sent from far and near to the White House. By Mrs. Roosevelt's ordersi not one has been opened, but to day will be devoted to that task. The tilings will be arranged upon tables in the library and grouped about the apartment to delight the children's! eyes on Christmas morning. The President's gifts for the ushers and other White House employes will be made to day after luncheon, the precedent of other Chief Magistrates being followed.

The gifts will be gloves, cravats and a $5 bill for each one, with a turkey for every; married man. Miss Alice Roosevelt will receive from her parents her first gift of diamonds, a resplendent corsage ornament, which she will wear at her debut. Terrific Oalein the West. Denver, iDec. 24.

A terrific1 gale, approaching in places the severity of a tornado, visited the foot hills lalonff 'tihe 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 resfdence next door crushed beneath it. The occupants barely escaped with their lives Turk! on the War Path. Constantinople, Dec. 24.

'Assassination and pillaging of villages and outraging of the inhabitants have so (increased recently in Macedonia that the consuls have appealed to the embassies to put a stop to such crimes. The foreign ministers have made urgent representations to the Porte of tihe danger of permitting the continuance of such acts. WK.vrnKK Wa'shington, D. Dec. 24.

Fore east for Eastern Pennsylvania: Part ly cloudy to night and Wednesday moderate temperature; light to ires west winds,.