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Domestic. Miners formerly employed by Markle & Co., in the Hazleton region, astonished the Strike Commission by testifying that the 10 per cent. increase in wages granted in 1900 was not a straightout increase, but instead a 2 I-2 per cent. raise and a reduction in powder price of 7 I-2 per cent. Zero weather in Chicago and other points in the West and heavy snowstorms in Western New York state, together with the general shortage of coal, are causing much distress and suffering. An order was entered in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn requiring Morris C. Mangis to furnish a bill of particulars in his million-dollar suit against Gen. Louis C. Fitzgerald. While trying to escape from a fire at the home of Max Manthey, at Golgate, Wis., Mr. Colgate and one child were billed and three others sustained serious injuries. territorial senate of Hawaii adopted the report of the committee for the dismissal of Superintendent Boyd, of the Department of Public Works. The opening of the new railroad between Santiago and Havana, Cuba, was the occasion for an enthusiastic demonstration. The thirtieth annual convention of the American Public Health Association was opened in New Orleans. Earthquake shocks in the Hawaiian Islands destroyed a church and other buildings. The Canadian Pacific fast express, which left Halifax for St. John and Montreal, was wrecked on the Intercolonial Railway near Belmont Station. Four persons were killed and seven passengers, and one brakeman injured. Swift & Armour have acquired the stock of the Union Depot, Bridge and Terminal Çompany, which owns valuable terminals and hundreds of acres of land on the Missouri River at Kansas City, Mo. The reckless running of a racing automobile is responsible for probably fatal injuries to a park policeman in Chicago and the death of two horses. The Fort Payne Bank, of Fort Payne, the oldest bank in DeKalb county, Ala., capitalized at $50,000, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. At the Delaware Breakwater the schooner Virginia Rulon was blown on the rocks and sunk. The crew of six men was taken off and landed by the d Lewes (Del.) life-savers. d Fred A. Smith, proprietor of the burned Lincoln Hotel, in Chicago, in which 14 lost their lives, and Night Clerk S Weber were arraigned on a charge of n manslaughter. Investigation has shown that the explosion on the steamer Progreso at San g Francisco, which cost 14 lives. was due to the poor quality of oil furnished. George Sherverton, a driver of an express wagon in Philadelphia, becoming confused by, the snow, drove his team into a trolley car and was killed. The schooner Wesley M. Oler went ashore at Ocracoke, N. C., during the storm and went to pieces. Her crew is believed to have been lost. Dr. Henry S. Cutler, composer and musical conductor. who introduced vested male choirs in this country, died at Swampscott, Mass. The two-master Flo F. Madder was wrecked off Gloucester, Mass., and the captain and crew were saved by the lifesaving crew. President Harriman, of the Southern Pacific Railroad, has established a system for pensioning old employes of the company. George Bear, the Indian convicted of murdering his squaw, was hanged in Sioux Falls. S. D. He behaved with great stoicism. James Sullivan and a man named DeKibbis were killed in a snowslide near Baker City, Ore. George Dickinson, the Philadelphia robber, was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. Three men robbed about 35 who were gambling at the Eagle Club, in Pocatello,
