NEWSPAPER BODY FACE SPECIMENS.
Cast from Superior Copper-Mixed Metal by Baruhart Bros. & Spindler, Chicago.

WATERBURY IS
SWEPT BY FIRE
Connecticut Town has All Night
Battled with Flames and Busi-
ness Center is Wiped Out.
SURROUNDING TOWNS SEND AID
Militia is Called Out to Guard Streets
and Stop the Work of Thieves Try-
ing to Loot Deserted Residences.
THE STRONG WIND AN OBSTACLE
Waterbury, Conn.. Feb. 3, 3 a. m. [Spe-
clal.]-With a gale blowing at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, the City of Waterbury spent
the night battling for life. Beginning at 7
o'clock with a general alarm, to which the local
department was slow in responding, calling for
help from its Immediate neighbors among Con-
necticut cities three hours later, and ending
with a general call upon the fire departments
of southern New England municipalities, the
city kept up an unequal and losing fight.
The total loss will be in the neighborhood of
$2,000,000, unless the fire, which Is now practi-
cally under control, starts up anew, which is
not likely, as most of the big buildings are
gone.
The State militia Is guarding the town,'and
many thieves have been arrested while trying
to rob residences temporarily deserted.
Type used above: 18,12 and 10 Point Monitor No. 5, and
6 Point Roman No. 64.

CHINESE REFORMING
EMPRESS DOWAGER PROPOSES A DARING
UNDERTAKING.
System of Tortures Which Are to-be Prohibited by
Imperial Edict is Dear to the Mongolians, Even
Though it Cripples the Women and Sometimes
Kills Them-Intense Suffering is'the Cost of the
Desired "Beauty"-Description of Process.
Footbinding is to be abolished in
China by decree of the Empress Dow-
ager, according to a late report from
the Orient. The custom which has
been followed for centuries by Chinese
women of the better classes has been
so vigorously attacked by native soci-
eties and the influence of the mission-
aries has been so powerful that the
Dowager at last is said to be awake to
the welfare of her women subjects.
There is no authoritative record
showing when footbinding became a
fashion in China. Tradition relates
that a certain Empress of China who
reigned in the early days was afflicted
with club feet and that she compelled
all the women of her court to bind
their feet in the attempt to secure
artificially the same deformity which
nature had inflicted upon her.
The custom is peculiar to the full-
blooded Chinese and to the mongrel
races of the southern coast provinces.
Type used above: 18, 8 and 6 Point Monitor No. 5, and 8
Point Roman No. 64.

WAR VESSELS SUNK
IN PANAMA HARBOR
Fierce Engagement Between the Fleets of the
Insurgents and Columbian Government.
GENERAL ALBAN IS KILLED DURING THE BATTLE.
United States Cruiser Philadelphia Is on the Scene and
Will Land a Force of Marines if Circumstances
Demand.
Colon, Jan. 20.-Dispatches from Panama tell of a fierce naval engage-
ment in,the harbor between the insurgent and government fleets, the
result of an attempt to prevent the landing of rebel forces at Savana.
The battle lasted several hours. Reports regarding the result are con-
flicting, but agree in stating that the Lautaro, a government vessel,
and the Darien, of the rebel fleet, have been sunk, and that General
Alban, the Colombian Governor of Panama, is among the killed.
Other reports say the entire rebel fleet and two government vessels
were sunk.
Six vessels took part in the engagement. The insurgent fleet con-
sisted of the steamers Padilla, Darien and Gaitan.
Type used above: 30, 18 and 14 Point Monitor No. 5, and 10 Point Roman No. 6.