THE ENDEAVORERS' 20TH CONVENTION. lateraational Gathering of Great Society la Cincinnati. LAKQEST ATTENDANCE ON RECORD. Tbt Feature! at Ike Opening. Day Wr tha Aaaual Address el President Clark, Wha Showed tha Twentieth Century Ml, aba at tha Movement, aid Secretary Baor'a Report Cincinnati, O. (Special). With the largest attendance on record the twen tieth international convention of the Christian Endeavor Society was held here. Cool weather favored the dele- Kates, and the business session, with which the convention began, was carried out in a pleasant atmosphere, after the aevere hot weather of the past 10 days. During the earlier hours receptions and rallies were held at different state head quarters. The delegates then marched to the Auditorium, where the opening eeision of the convention was held. Addresses of welcome were followed by the annual report of the officers and business agents. Three large auditoriums and a large hall have been arranged on the old Ex position Grounds, adjoining Washington Park, on Elm street. A large platform has also been constructed in Washington Park for over-flow open-air meetings. Music Hall has been designated as "Au ditorium Endeavor." Power Hall is called "Auditorium Williston" and Hor ticultural Hall is known as "Auditorium Ohio." The business meeting of the United Society of Christian Endeavor (the cor poration) was opened by President Francis Clark, and special devotional prayers for the late Kev. D. Maltbie Bibcock, who died recently in Italy, jn.ij for Rev. J. Wilbur Chapm.a,!, who is eriousty ill in Indiana, were 'ed by the Revs. Floyd W. Tr,7,ipkins. of Philadel phia, and W. H. McMiHan, cf Pitts burg. The Veport of Treasurer William Shaw was then submitted. The toral Jefleipts for the year, ending June I, were I It, 020, expenses $10,8(14; bahuce on hand, $156. The following were then elected as general trustees : Bishop B. W. Arnett, Wilberforce. O. ; Rev. W. J. Darby, Evansville, Ind. ; Bishop Samuel Fallows. Chicago; Kev. Rufus W. Miller, Reading. Pa.; Rev. W. H. McMillan. Allegheny, Pa.; Rev. P. S. Henson. Chicago; Bishop A. Wal ters. Jersey City; Rev. J. H. Garrison, St Louis; Prof. James L. How. Lex ington, V'a. ; Rev. H. F. Shupe, Paytm, O. J Rev. J. M. Ivowden. Providence ; Rev. Canon J. B. Richardson, London, Ont; Rev. Cleland B. McAfee, Chicago, and Hon. S. B. Capen. Boston. Treasurer Shaw tendered his resigna tion as trustee, and Hon. S. B. Capen, of Boston, was selected to succeed him. Rev. Cleland B. McAfee was elected to aucceed the late Dr. Eabcock. The fol lowing officers were then re-elected by the convention : Francis E. Clark, Bos ton, president; William Shaw, Boston, treasuter; John W. Baer, Boston, gen eral secretary, and F. H. Kidder, Bos ton, auditor. A new position of field secretary was created and Rev. Clarence E. Bemoan, of Lancaster, Pa., was elected. Among the state presidents and trus tees elected -ere: Delaware J. H. Burns. Wilmington. District of Columbia J. M. Pickens, Washington. Maryland Rev. Henry N. Hanna. Belair. Virginia W. W. Douglass. Ballston. West Virginia Rev. G. XV. Pollock, Bucki annon. ROBBERS WERE VERY LUCKY. They Secured $40,000 la National Bank Notes la the Recent Hold-up. Washington (Special). Treasury of ficials stated that their information was to the effeot that the men who robbed the Great Northern train at Wagner, Mont., last Monday, secured $40,000 in complete national bank notes, which were shipped on June 28 to the National Bank of Montana at Helena. It appears that there were 800 sheets of these unsigned notes, of four notes to a sheet, three tens and one twenty. The bank numbers run serially from 1201 to 2000, both inclusive, and the Treasury numbers were from Y-934,349 to Y-g.15.144. The bank numbers were printed in die lower left hand corner of the notes auid the treasury numbers in the upper right hand corner. The charter number was 5671, printed in bold face, brown figures across the face of each note. It was stated at the department that as oon as notes of this character are hipped to the bank they are regarded ty the law as in circulation, and are re deemable by the government as well as the bank, which has on deposit at the Treasury sufficient bonds to cover their redemption. As the express companies are under bond for the sale deliveny of all ship ments of this character, they alone are responsible, so the government and the bank are fully protected from loss. A Venerable Journalist Dead. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). Willhm Spencer Grayson, dean of Philadelphia journalism, is dead at his home here, aged 86 years. Mr. Grayson cania of the Virginia Graysons, and whs born t Bardstown, Ky in 1815. lie was educated at Central College, and carre to Philadelphia in 1835. He v.as then appointed to West Point, hut was not graduated. In 1850 Mr. Grayson be came connected with the old North American, and later wis one of the edi tors of the Evening Journal. When the Evening Telegraph was founded in 14 Mr. Grayson joined its editorial staff, and remained with the paper until he bought out the old Mercury. The Victims of Llghtninj. Fort Eric, O.it. (Special). This place waa visited by ihe most severe electri cal storm ever known in Canada. t the race track the row of stables known as "Irich Row" wa struck and a col ored jockey, William Scott, of Louis ville, Ky., was killed. William Benner, a farmer, whose stable is just outside , the track was killed and his son render ed unconscious. Mrs. Weaver, who lives on the Ridge Road, met death in the same manner. The others injured re William Nash, of Chicago, and Wil liam McCormick, of Toronto. The Fllisiaa Prisoners. Washington (Special). A report re ceived at the Navy Department from Commander Seaton Schroeder, naval commandant of tha Island of Guam, in cicates that the Filipino prisoners of war who were deported to the island are card for with unusual consideration. t Their are quartered about three miles iron Agara, where Commander Schroe JM'otmr's headquarters are located, in sub rji .iiiiul, commodious, comfortable qjar . The prisoners have a government their own and have elected General id del Pilar as their presidente. But one death has occurred since the col ony was established. 4 t . SUMMARY OF THE NEWS. Domestic Governor Oates, in the Alabama Con stitutional Convention, denornred the bribing of grand juries, decla-ing that if a man had money or friends e was insured against action by a grand jory if he had killed a negro. The Cleveland court Rra.it o 1 f. tem porary injunction enjoining the Mnk ing employees of the Cle.'eianl Punch and Shear Company from ua!ro!lin or picketing the work of the company. Edward Park Deacon, member of a prominent Boston family, who shot and killed Emile Abeille in Mrs. Deacon's apartments in Paris some years ago, died in Boston of brain trouble. The nominating committee decided to recommend John O. Billings, of the New York Library, for president of the American Library Association. Ex-Governor Pingrec, of Michigan, was buried in Detroit with official hon ors, a large number being present to pay their tribute. Herbert Massey was killed and sev eral others knocked unconscious by lightning near Winchester, Ya., during the storm. The cruiser Newark, with Captain McCalla on board, arrived at New York from Hongkong. All the independent iron and steel companies in Pittsurg have signed the Amalgamated scale. Peter Tidman cut his wife's throat nd killed himself at his ranch near Elsi nora, Cal. Mother Jones is now engaged in or ganizing servant girls' unions in Chi cago. President Shaffer, of the Amalgamat ed Association,. id he would not hesi tate to order a general tie-up of the I'nited States Steel Corporation plants, if necessury. but he believed the trouble would be settled without such action. In Porto Rico nnd in Cuba the Fourth was' celebrated. There was an excursion to the wrecks of the Spanish ships at Santiago, and an oration was delivered by a loyal Spaniard on the wreck of the Almirante Oquendo. The Morgan interests are said to have secured the Northern Pacific Steamship Company and the Washington and Alaska Company, which gives thcin a belt line around the world. Colonel Julian Scott, the artist, who served during the Civil War on the staff of General "Baldy" Smith, died at his home in Plainfield. N. J. John R. G. Pitkin, former postmaster of New Orleans and prominent in Loui siana politics in reconstruction days, died in New Orleans. 1 Mrs. Emma Ryley, of Newark, N. J., while seated at a window, was shot and killed by a piece of lead fired from a toy cannon. Postmaster General Smith has decided upon a stricter enforcement of the law bearing upon the sending of second-class mail matter. The body of John Edwards, a farmer, was found in a cavern on his premises, near Stouchsburg, Pa. He had been murdered. The robbers who held up the Grc.it Northern express train near Malta, Mont., secured $40,000 in cash in addi tion to securities. The delegates irom King George coun ty. Va., were instructed to cast their votes for Montague, Williard and Jef feries. Sergeant Albert Johnson killed Ser geant Thos. Spaulding at the Columbus Barracks and then committed suicide. The dressed beef storage warehouse of A. A. Jewett & Co.. in Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire ; loss $300,000. Professor John Fiske, of Cambridge, Mass.. historian and lecturer, died from the effects of the heat. The new waterworks system in Wood stock, Ya., was inaugurated and two new hotels opened. Six bags of gold, containing $30,000, have disappeared from the branch mint in San Francisco. Three persons were drowned while rowing on the river at Walbridge Park, in Toledo. Ashton XV. Graves was married in Newport News, Va., to Miss Mariette Holmes. Martin Miller was killed by lightning near Wheeling, W. Va. , Foreitn. The British cruisers Minerva and Hyacinth sailed for Gibraltar for the purpose of testing the respective merits ot the Belleville and Scotch boilers. about which there is so much controver sy in British naval circles. It is reported that President Krueer is being urged to notify the powers that unless they intervene he will issue let ters 01 marque. Mr. Kruger has here tofore declined to entertain the propo sition. The University of Pennsylvania crew was entertained by the Mayor and Cor poration at Henley and subsequently left ior Uublin, where they will race the Dublin crew. A dispatch from Liverpool says the officials of the British Salt Union are considering an arrangement with the American Salt Trus. The Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany, who has been an invalid for some time, has been suffering greatly of late. The Waldeck-Rousseau ministry of France is certain to beat the record of French cabinets in length of service. As a result of the differences between the I'nited States and the Russian gov ernment on the sugar duties an offer from American interests of $40000.000 to construct the Viatka Railroad, condi tional that a certain proportion of American materials be used, was turned down by the Russian government. I here were 500 guests at the banquet of the American Society in London. l-.very part of the British empire was represented. Speeches were made by Ambassador Choate, Robert Hanbury, Dr. Joseph Parker and others. The list of victims of the Leipziger Bank failure increases. A clergyman has become insane from losing all his money. The Cassel Grain Drying Company made an assignment as result of the bank's failure. At the annual banquet of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris General Porter, Chauncev Depew and J. W. Alexander, of New York, were among the speakers. The Filipino delegates handed to the Nuncio in Madrid an address to the Pope demanding that the clergy in the Philippines be selected from the native clergy. An officer and two sailors were killed and 17 men injured by the explosion of a torpedo at Cadiz, Spain. The failure of the Kliarkoff Coinmer. cial Bank caused a financial panic in aouincrn Kussia. Financial Samuel Rca, fourth vicc-orcsidrnt of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has been elected a director of the Baltir more and Ohio. 1 It is estimated that the American Lin seed, by maintaining the new price, can show earnings ol so per cent, on the common stock. The output of gold in Cripple Creek district, Colorado, for six months ending June 30, iooj, was $12,583,000. makine total since 8gi of $104,365,210. A street dispatch say that unless more rain falls soon there will be a great reduction in the corn crop except in Illinois, Nebraska and Iowa. GEN, BELARMINO HAS SURRENDERED. A Notable Achievement of Colonel Wlnt of the Sixth Cavalry. LAROE FILIPINO ARMY CAPTURED. Colonel Wlnt Came From China With Gen eral Ckalfet, and at Once Set About la Clean Up the Province el Sor toa ot Insurgent" Surrender ol the Entire Force. Manila (By Cable). The force of the insurgent leader Bellarmino, who have recently been operating around Don sol, province of Sorsogon, were driven across the mountains by the Second In fantry and finally captured by the Sixth Cavalry. Bellarmino. with 1000 men and 284 guns, surrendered to Co'onel Wint at Albay, capital of the province of that name. Later in the day !, official announce ment of the surrender of Bellarmino was made. According to this account. Bellarmino, who has been operating in the province of Sorsogon, surrendered Thursday last at Legaspi, on Aibay Bay, with 32 officers, 215 guns and 3000 rounds of ammunition. The insurgent prcsidentes of that section of the coun try and many Filipinos accompanied Bellarmino. who gave himself up to Col. Theodore J. Wint, of the Sixth Cavalry. In all since June, 1081 insur gents have surrendered in that district. Colonel Wintf's regiment came from China with General Chaffee. Before disembarking at Legaspi Colonel Wint went to General Chaffee and asked the latter if he desired him to clean up that part of the country. General Chaffee replied: "Yes. but I do not command until July 4." In three weeks Bellar mino was cornered in spite of the theo ries of many officers that cavalry could not be used in effective operations in such a country. Former Filipino officers who belong ed to Malvar's command report that 50 insurgents were killed and that many were wounded by the command of Lieu tenant Manaci (?) during a recent two days' fight in the province of Batangas. The insurgent General Cailles, who surrendered at Santa Cruz, Laguna province, June 24. and his friends have offered to negotiate with Malvar, the insurgent leader in Southern Luzon, for the latter's surrender. The Twentieth Infantry has been or dered from Northern Luzon to Batan gas. Civil Governor Taft and Military Governor Chaffee are working agree ably together. They arc holding infor mal conferences and are arriving at mu tual understanding a state of affairs hitherto almost unknown here. Admiral Rodfert' Claim. Washington (Special). Upon an ap peal taken by Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers from the action of the auditor for the Navy Department, in disallow ing his claim for the pay and 'allow ances of a major general of the Army from February 11 to March 13, 1901, as a rear admiral above the nine lowest numbers of that grade, an important de cision has been rendered by Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury L. P. Mit chell. In effect he decides that officers of the Navy advanced in number, pursuant to law, for service in the Spanish War and carried as additional numbers, are advanced contemporaneously with the officers ne-t above them. Buylnj Up Cotton Mills. Columbia. S. C. (Special). The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company is rapidly securing all the large oil mills in this State. By buying the mills at Dillon, near Marion, it obtained all but one mill in the Pee Dee country, a rich cotton-growing section. It is also an nounced that a deal has been closed in New York whereby the Virginia-Carolina Company has bought ont the South ern Cotton Oil Company, the price being $j.ooo.ooo. The Southern Company has two mills in this city. Two Brothers Drowned. Bedford, Pa. (Special). William Moses, the 15-year-oId-son of S. K. Moses, of Osterburg, Bedford county, was seized with cramp while in swim ming near his home. His brother, Ralph, went to his assistance, and before help could reach them both were drowned. WEIRD TALE OF THE SEA TOLD BY A SKIPPER, Boston (Special). Captain Joseph Priest, of St. George, N. B., who just arrived here on the schooner Centennial, tells a thrilling story of an escape from being destroyed by waterspouts off Portsmouth the other evening. One wa'erspiut, which the captain says went 300 feet in the air and seemed as big around as the top of the cabin, hissed and foamed within 50 yards of the schooner, and three other spouts, smaller in dimensions, but with the same wicked look which characterized the larger one, were seen by the crew for nearly 15 min utes. Any one of the four, Captain Priest said, would have destroyed his vessel. "Looks like a lighthouse on the weather bow, sir," shouted the mate on the lookout. "I knew it could not be a lighthouse out there," said the captain, "and a min u;e later, as the dark body moved down upon us, I realized that it was a water spout. It seemed to lie coining faster than an express train, and when it was within 50 yards of us it was at least 300 feet high, and seemed to be whirling Die ky Lightalng. McKcesport, Pa. (Special). Edward McWilliams, his wife and fuur children nnd two unknown men were sruck by lightning at Monessen. Two of the Mc Williams children were killed instantly. The father, mother and baby lived sev eral hours, and the others will recover. McWilliams and his family were spend ing the day fishing in the Monongahela river at Monessen. Suddenly a bolt of lightning split the tree from top to bot tom. The entire party was stretched unconscious at the foot of the tree. How long they lay thus no one knows. Oov. Allea Afala Coming North. San Juan, Porto Rico (Special). So soon as the Government yacht May flower returns from La Guayra, Vene zuela, Governor Allen will go to Wash ington and personally deliver the Porto Rican Assembly's free trade resolutions to President McKinley, in compliance with the terms of the resolution. Several Hundred Poisoned. Ardmore, I. T. (Special). Several hundred persona were poisoned at Ada by drinking lemonade. Three children are eported dead and many iserbusiy ill. , . . . . PIERRE LORILLARD DEAD. Waa Taken Sick la En 1 land and Arrived Home ea the Fourth of Jaly. New York (Special). Pierre Loril lard, the millionaire tobacco merchant, who became famous as a turfman, yachtsman and bon vivant, died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The members of the family present :.t the bedside when the end came were Mr Lorillard's daughters, Mrs. T. 'SufTern Tailer and Mrs. William Kent. snd their husbands and Pierre Lorillard, Jr., and wife, and also Pierre Lorillard III. Mr. Lorillard's present illness dated from June 20. He was in England, and went to his lodge at Ascot, hoping to see his horse, David Garrick, run for the Gold Cup. He had several of his stable ergaged for the events, but saw none of the running, as he was stricken with an uraemic chill, nnd was laid up at the lodge for a week. Mr. Lorillard was not at first disposed to heed suggestions that he would do well to return to America. But he was suffering acutely from kid ney and bladder trouble, and at last he consented to make the voyage. He went from Ascot to the Carlton Hotel. Lon don, and boarded the Deutschland with Dr. Kilroe and his valet. He was able to walk on board the steamship, but at once went to his cabin, and remained there during the voyage. His condition became graver daily. Dr. Kilroe finally informed him in how great danger he was. hut the patient insisted that he would live until he reached New York. Glory for Cornell. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (Special). The intercollegiate boat races over the Hud son river course were decided Tuesday. The big event, that for university eights, was as follows : Cornell first; time, 18.53 Columbia second; time, 18.58. Wisconsin third ; time. 10.06 4-5. Georgetown fourth; time, 10.21. The best previous record for varsity eight was ig.44 3-5. No time was taken for Syracuse and Pennsylvania, who were many lengths behind. In the varsity tour Cornell was first, time 11.39 3-5 ; Pennsylvania second, time 11.45 2-5; Columbia third, time Ii-Si 3-5- Barker Appeals From HI Sentence. Trenton, N. T. (Special). Counsel for Thomas Barker, who was sentenced to five years in the State prison for as saulting Rev. Dr. Keller at Arlington, took out a writ of error which will cirry the case to the Court of F'rrors and Ap peals. In the meantime. Barker will not be sent to the State prison to serve his sentence. If the Court of F!rrors grants the writ, Barker may again be released on bail. Bolt Oram Clear Sky. Louisville, Ky. (Special). A bolt of lightning from a clear sky struck among 80 inmates of the Central Kentucky Asy lum for the Insane at Lakeland, II miles from here, killing James Howard, of Stevensport, Ky., and knocking senseless Nat Mercer, an attendant, and three other patients. Great excitement follow ed among the insane persons, who had been taken into the yard for air, but rain came and drove them back to their quar ters. Preacher's Wife Handed Herself. Bristol, Va. (Special). Mrs. Pierson, wife of Rev. J. P. Pierson, of Big Cut, Scott county, Va., hanged herself on the porch of her home one night the past week. Her body was found hanging the following morning. Ill-health is said to have been the cause of her suicide. Mrs. Pierson was sixty-five years of age and a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. Carnegie Offers J75W00. San Francisco (Special). Mayor Thelan is in receipt of a letter from An drew Carnegie offering to give $750,000 to the city of San Francisco for a library buildingproviding the city will furnish a suitable site and appropriate $75,000 a year for maintenance. It may be, should the offer be accepted, that a number of branch libraries will be constructed in addition to a main building. Victims ol Gas Explosion. Cincinnati (Special). Four men were fatally hurt and three others seriously injured by a gas explosion in pit No. I of the scries of shafts of the new water works at Torrence road. The explosion is supposed to have been due to a small vein of gas that waa struck in the exca vation. All of the Injured are badly burned, and several were frightfully crushed. around like a flywheel. "We had all the light canvas off the ship and were skimming along under reefed lower sails when we saw the other three, and it seemed that they were hurling themselves upon us even faster than the one that had already got so near. "The men worked quicker than they ever had before, and inside of two min utes we were under bare poles and wait ing for the spouts to do their worst. "I have been in many storms and have often douhled the dreaded Cape of Good Hope, but such rolling as our schooner did for the minutes those waterspouts did business about us I have never seen. We were tossed about the surface of the ocean like a cork, and for at least five minutes we could sec nothing but a dense mass of furious water. "Then there was a ray of light through the darkness, the sea became calmer and soon we could not have told from the ap pearance of the sea that anything had happened. "My men told me afterward that there were half a dozen or more of the spouts all about us, but I did not see more than four, and they were enough to turn an ordinary man's hair gray. Four Negroes Hanged at Once. Chipley, Fla. (Special). -At Vernon, 16 miles from here, four negroes Bel ton Hamilton, John Simmons, Jim Har rison and Will Williams were hanged for murder. Williams, Harrison and Hamilton had been convicted of murder ing a helpless negro and almost killing his wife. John Simmons had killed an other neg-o. The town of Vernon is without railroad connection, and long rides of 16 miles were made by all classes of people. At least 2,500 persons were present Evacuatlag Shanghai. Berlin (By Cable). Referring to the Chinese attempts to secure the evacua tion of Shanghai by the foreign troops after the evacuation of Pekin, the "Lo kal Anzeiger" says the evacuation of Shanghai is not to be thought of, since the garrisons art absolutely necessary for the safety of the foreigners there. De Wilt to Visit Manchuria. St. Petersburg (By Cable). It is as serted that M. de Witte. the Finance Minister, will leave for Manchuria dur ing July. DAWES TO STEP OUT OF OFFICE. Comptroller of Currency la Candidate for U. S. Senator. HIS MANY INNOVATIONS IN OFFICE. The Present Chief of the Financial System of the Country Wanti to Represent the People ol Illinois la the United Statei Senate, and He Hat Written President McKinley a Let. ter Tendering Hit Resignation. Charles G. Dawes, Comptroller ol the Currency, has tendered his resignation to the President, to take effect October 1 next. In answer to an inquiry Mr. Dawes said: "I have resigned because of my inten tion to be a candidate before the people of Illinois for the United States Senate. It would not be possible for me during the next year to make a canvass for the Senate and at the same time administer to my own satisfaction the important and responsible office I now hold. I am influenced solely in this action by what seems to me to be the plain pro prieties of the situation." Mr. Dawes' term of office would not have expired until January I, 1903. His letter to the President is as follows: Washington, D. C, July 3, loot. William McKinley, Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C. Sir In view of the fact that I will be a candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, I hereby tender my resig nation as Comptroller of the Currency, to take effect on October I next. Respectfully, CHARLES G. DAWES. Mr. Dawes entered the office of Comptroller of the Currency January I, 1898, succeeding Jaine3 H. Eckles, and was immediately confronted by a situa tion in the Chestnut Street National Bank of Philadelphia which was one of the most complicated ever confronting a comptroller. He found it necessary in the interest of creditors of the, bank to oppose the general plan of a reor ganization committee formed of promi nent citizens of Philadelphia, and for a time he was severely criticized therefor. His plan was followed, however, and it is now recognized as having saved to the creditors of the bank a lien upon other property which was not contem plated by the reorganization committee, from which the probably will realize over a million dollars. He frequently expressed himself as in favor of prompt action when convinced that the public interests required action at all. and act ed on this principle, notably in the re cent case of the Seventh National Bank of New York. One of his first orders after entering ollice stopped the prac tice of the employment of national bank examiners for the private examination 1 ot banks. BURNED TO DEATH. Two Lose Their Lives and Several Injured in Butte, Montana. Butte, Mont. (Special). Two dead, two severely, if not fatally, injured, and a score more or less hurt is the result of a fire which broke out in the Pullman Lodging House, 114 West Mercury street, at 2 o'clock a. m. The dead are: Sam Mix, waiter, Missoula, Mont. ; Ole Berge, carpenter, Butte. Severely in jured: Billy Ryan, better known as "Australian Ryan," a pugilist well known throughout the Northwest, jump ed from third-story window, seriously injured about head and legs ; W. A. Camp, jumped from third-story window, internally injured and cut about head; Miss Crystal, proprietress of lodging house, was burned about body and injur ed from inhaling smoke. A number of men were experimenting with a gasoline lamp in a saloon on the lower floor of the lodging-house when the lamp exploded, scattering flames in all directions. The building was wooden, and before the fire department arrived the flames had eaten through the lower floor and were spreading to the upper stories. The lodging-house contained about a hundred guests, none of whom were able to save anything except what they wore. Five Sank With a Tug. Eagle River, Mich. (Special). The tug Fern, of Algonac, Mich., founded off here. She carried a crew of five men, all of whom were lost. Three were from Algonac and the other two were Frank Johnson, of this place, and William An derson, of Eagle Harbor. The bodies arc supposed to be in the boat, which lies in 30 feet of water. A wreck of the yacht Marguerite, of Hancock, was also discovered between here and Eagle Har bor. Two men are supposed to have been lost on her. Hanged to a Bridge. Richmond, Va. (Special).- Joe Wal ton, a negro, arrested several days ago for attempting criminal assault upon Miss Kate Clarke, daughter of J. 11, Clarke, residing near Triplette, in Bruns wick County, was taken out of the jail at Lawrcnceville and hanged to the county bridge, about four miles from town. There were fifty or seventy-five men in the party, and the lynching was carefully planned and carried out in an orderly manner. Like Rats In a Trap. Pittsburg (Special). Ten boys were caught like rats in a' trap in a lunncl leading to the Old Keeling Mine owned by the Pittsburg Coal Co. Two were killed and eight were overcome by the foul fumes of the place. Anthony 11 il ler, aged 15, was killed instantly and Patrick Gallagher, aged 14, died at the hospital within an hour. The boys who were overcome by fumes range' in age between 11 and 18 years. They will all recover. The boys had been helping the men load a train and all boarded the train to go to the tipple Burgesi L'ttls Surrender. Birmingham, Ala. (Special). Burgess Little, formerly cashier of the Shelby county bank at Montevalle, Ala., came to Birmingham and surrendered himself to Sheriff Hurgin, and tater was released 011 a $1000 bond by Judge Coleman of the Circuit Court. The Shelby county bank recently closed its doors, and it was al leged that Mr. Little had embezzled $10, 000 of the bank's funds. Mr. Little de clined to make any statement other than to say that he came of his own volition and surrendered to the authorities. The Shelby county bank suspended May 7. Ta Abolish Fast Freight Chicago (Special). Employees of the great railroad combination, which has now made its grasp on the principal lines of the West and Northwest secure, will soon feel the effect of the "community of interests." At a result, thousands of men who have earned good salaries by reason of their skill in obtaining business in competition with other roads will be dismissed. The fast freight lilies ari doomed. They are looked upon by the owners of the railroads at breeders of competition ar.v. manipulation. A ma jority of freight soliciting agents are at tached to the fast freight lines. LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Porta Rico's Free Trade. Washington (Special). The Porto Ricans are to receive their final install ment of American citizenship on July 25. After that the Supreme Court decision with reference to their rights and priv ileges will stand merely as a record, to be a precedent or not, as changes of com plexion in the court may put it in or out of favor in application to future cases. Free trade between Porto Rico and the mainland of the-United States will, on the above date, be established by procla mation of the President, in accordance with the provisions of the Foraker act. A side issue associated with the Porto Rican trade is actually receiving more consideration from the managers of legislative and executive policy under this Administration, than is the main question. The influence upon Cuba of free trade with Porto Rico is regarded as a matter of much consequence vl-irh must be taken into consideration in look ing to the future of the two islands. Ai, element of Cuban annexationist? not no.v much in evidence, but realy to act when opportunity is afforded, 'ipccis the Cubans, after securing independence, to look with envy upon the advantage dirntd by Porto R:co from having free trute with the mainland, and to tecomc clamorous for annexation by ineniH of which to obtain like privileges. Will Now Take Older Men, A change in the civil service rules re garding clerks and carriers in the postal service was decided on at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting. The age limits within which applicants could apply for positions as carriers heretofore has been 21 years as the min imum and 40 as the maximum. The minimum for clerks has been 18 years, with no maximum. The Civil Service Commisson proposed a uniform mini mum of 18 and a maximum of 40 years. It was the opinion of the Postmaster General and the rest of the Cabinet, however, that this maximum was too low and it was decided to fix 45 years as the maximum for both classes of em ployees. New Postmaster Appointed. Joseph Kely was to-day appointed by the President postmaster at Havre de Grace, Md and Wm. B. Mclllienny was appointed postmaster at Gettys burg. Pa. John E. Keller has been commissioned postmaster at Breatheds villc, Md. Among the Presidential appointments to-day were Jack Grayson at Prescott, Ark., Jefferson F. Richardson at Grceneville. S. C and Frederick Gar diner at BufTalp, N. Y. Capital News In G;a;ri'. The Navy Department issued formal orders for the re-establishment of the European station, with Rear Admiral J. B. Cromwell in command. , Director of the Mint Roberts is men tioned as the probable successor of Mr. Dawes as comptroller of the currency. A force of 30 clerks left for Oklahoma to conduct the opening of the Indian lands to homesteaders. Attorney-General Knox has bought a home in Washington. ' The Cabinet decided upon 18 years as tjie minimum and 45 years as maxi mum age for civil service applicants. The Postmaster-General has desig nated the Western National Bank ot New York as the depository for postal funds in New York, to replace the Sev enth National Bank. ; Our New Possession. The Porto Rican Assembly unani mously passed the free trade resolution. The Navy Department received a message from Commander Schroeder at Guam stating that the Filipino prisoners there have a government of their own, with General Pilar as president. Judge Taft took the 'oath and was formally installed as governor of the Philippine Islands. Governor General Wood, of Cuba, re ported that he is ill with typhoid of a mild type. Gen. Chaffee is preparing to push Mal var, the insurgent chief, in Southern Lu zon. He has ordered the transfer of the Fifth Infantry from Northern Luzon to Batangas province: Gen. Chaffee has not formulated plans for the occupation of the Island of Min doto. Gen. Hughes, at his request, will be permitted to continue in command of the Visayas Islands until the Samar cam paign is completed. . Consequently, Gen. Davit will continue, temporarily, to be provost marshal at Manila. A detachment of the Fourth Infantry, scouting on a volcano island in Lake Taal, has captured Gonzalez, an insur gent leader, his adjutant, and several others. , Bills have been passed cstal1.:,hing a board of health for the Philippines, and providing for laboratories in connection therewith. Gen. Chaffee's staff anp; inlcs are as follows: Adjutant general. Col. William P. Hall ; quartermaster general. Bri Gen. Charles F. Humphrey: inspector generr.l, l.tcut.-Col. Joseph P. Sanger, and military secretary, Capt. Grote llutcheson, Sixth Cavalry. Four American prisoners who escaped from Cal a pan , Mindoro, June 25 in a sailboat, have been recaptured. Several insurgent officers and 350 bolo men have voluntarily taken the oath of allegiance at Cuino, piovince of Btaan. Capt. Adams, with ten men, scouting in Albay province, has killed ten insurgents and captured a Filipino captain and ten men. Jessie Morrison' Sentence Eldorado, Kan. (Special). Jessie Morrison, convicted of manslaughter in the second degree for the murder of Mrs. Clara Wiley Castle on June 22, 1900, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary in close confinement at hard labor. Miss Morrison took the sentence calmly. Judge Asknmi over ruled successively motions for a ne.c trial, for postponement of sentence and for arrest ol judgment. Married by a Girl. , Sharon, Pa. (Special). Miss Millie G'ier, the young daughter of J. L. Grier, clerk of courts, has the distinc tion of being the only woman in Mer cer county who has performed a mar riage ceremony. She is the .assistant clerk of court. On Saturday Eli Bart lett and Camelia Gunsley, of Sharps ville, walked into the County Clerk's office and procured a license. They asked that they be married at once, and as the clerk of court was sbsent Mist Grier obligingly performed th; cerc inonv andjreceived the regular fee. ' Will Rush for Th7 Land. Denison, Texas (Special). A com pany of Texas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma men has been formed to make a rush for the lands of the Kiowa and Comanche country when it is opened to settlement, and these meq will make a run for homes. They have employed counsel and if necessary will fight theit case in the courts. They have been given legal opinion that the Kiowa und Co Vnauche country hat been purchased by the United States Government, that it it public domain and open for settlement by the citizens of the United State, and , tnai 11 can uiuy oe imiject to the iiome strad law of the United States. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS, The Latest Happenings Gleaned Fran All Over the State. STATE ASYLUM TO BE E NLA ROOD. Patents tad Peaslons Granted During the Week Man Leaped From a Train and wa Ground to pieces-Spent Bullet Struck a Lancaster Womia la the Neck-Two Men Quarrel Over the Wife of One of Them at Exc.lslor. Pcnnsylvanians received the following pensions during the week : Joel Powell. New Brighton, $6; Joseph Wilson, Johnstown, $8; James C. McDonald, New Brighton, $6; Frank Thomas, Pitts burg. $6; Milton S. Shone, Clarksville, $6; Ira A. Goodrich, Bradford, $6; Morgan Divrly, Claysburg. $8; Henry Kiefer, Brownsville, $6; Howard Had field, Allegheny, $12; Richmond L. Hagcrinan, Pittsburg, $; Henry A. Herrick, Washington, $10; William H. Crouch, Fredericktown, $12; Daniel Laughcry, Trade City, $10; William W. Wright, Anita, $10; James McMillcn, Reynoldsvillc, $24: John T. Ploycr. Bio serville, $8; Abraham Herbst, Blairs ville, $12; Joseph Coleman, Carnot, $10; Warren J. Rice, Fie, $24; Isaac Steven, Lewistown, $8: Sabina C. Madden, Mercer. $12: Sarah E. Dean, Pittsburg, $8; Rachel Marker, New Lexington, $8; Sarah J. Gruber. New Maysvilte, $8; Mary A. Carr, North Fork, $12; Susana Turk, Harrisville. $8; Harriet Hcalon, Fleming, $12; Henrietta Fisher. Adams burg, $8; Mary D. Scott. Pittsburg, ?8. These patents were granted: Andrew A. Banker and A. F. Hcfferman. Pitts burg, switch throwing device: Arthur M. Bowman, Belicvue, metallic lie; Horse Chrisman, Wilkinsburg, fluid meter; Isaac Dekaiser, Pittsburg, and C. Q. Hadlicld, Braddock, mica split ting machine; William II. Forker, Meadville, wheeled earth scraper; Louis Frederick. Baldwin township, tongs; William Giles, Jr.. St. Mary's box lid holder; Mary E. Grove. Pittsburg, skirt supporter: Rcinhold Herman. Crafton, relay; John E. James. Worth ington. heating stove; Joseph Johnson. Jr., Pittsburg, stock line recorder for blast furnaces; Christian E. Loetzer. Sayre hydrant; Newton W. McCourt, Bradford, hinge; Charles Messcr, Cora opolis, hot air furnace; Wm. P. Mur phy, McKcesport, folding crate; George E. Riblct, Erie, heater; Henry M. Schwer, Verona, rail joint; Thomas Echotrcll, Pittsburg, nut lock; Peter J. Stone, Alliens, train door; James A. Swearer and C. E. Tiinbee, Parnassus, n'aking wire filass plans: Wm. Thomas, Pittsburg, refrigerator; John S. Vright enotir, Oil City, refrigerator. The trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane held an important meeting at Norristown, when they arranged for the expenditure of the S128.000 recently ap propriated by the Legislature for im provements to the institution. The lead ing item in the appropriation is one of $100,000 for the erection of nurses' homes. These will entirely change the present method of conducting the hos pital. Now the 300 nurses, of whom about half arc women, share quarters with the patient?, as well as dine with them. Under the new plan the nurses will live in buildings entirely separate from the hospital. Jesse, the 1 1-year-old son of William Planner, of Hollidaysliurg. met with an accident which will probably result fatal ly. He was picking cherries when the limb broke, and he fell twenty feet on a picket fence, the pickets penetrating his left side and iungs. He was impaled for about fifteen minutes before found. The boy is barely living and his death may ensue any moment. Isaac Hoffman, aged about 40 years, died at the Schuylkill County Alms house, having deliberately starved him self to death. Two month itgo he was a prisoner in the county jail, when he started his fatal fast, He labored under the hallucination that his keepers were trying to poison him. Later he was le niovcd to the almshouse, stili obstinately refusing food. At death he was reduced to a mere skeleton. Mrs. John Bttcher, 01 Lebanon, while sitting at a picnic dinner nt Valley Glen Park, was struck in the neck by a soent bullet from a revolver. The ball enter ed the side of her nec.T; and lodged under the chin. The party who fired the sliot has not yet been apprehended. Theobald Shilling, aged 65 years, Iried to jump from nr. excursion train at Hub bard while it was running twenty-five miles an hour. Trainmen prevented him. At Sharon he slipped away from them, leaped from the train, rolled under the wheels, and was ground to pieces. John Ford lies in the Lackawanna Hospital, Scranton, suffering from a dangerous wound in the abdomen caused by a pistol shot alleged to hnve been fired by Joseph Ritter in Jessup.. Ritter, who gave himself up. denies that lie shot lord. The shooting took place during a quarrel between a number of men. Harry Howard, while painting over a target in a shooting gallery at McKces port, was fatally shot by William Lanp. The ball entered his face below the right eye and ,'ic died an hour later at the hos pital. Long was placed in jail. He says the shooting of Howard wa accidental. While unloading hay at his farm at Broad Ax Emanuel Weiss slipped and was impaled at the throat upon the point of a wagon standard. His wife and his brother rescued bin: with difficulty, us the wood had gotten wedged inside his law and almost reached the brain. He it in a critical condition. While Frank Rohrcr and Miss Mary Rohrer, of Strasburg, were driving to Lancaster their horse ran off and both were badly injured. Miss Rohicr will be permanently crippled. Twenty-two years aft G--l K. Barney lost a sapphire ring which he prizcj highly as a iouvenir ol a dead sitter. F'riday while plowing on his farm .it ChaUds Ford he turned it up uninjured. The census made by the county com missioners of citizens of Df.uphin coun ty subject to military duty show 9737 in Harrisburg and 9021 in the co-inty, a total of 19,658, a gain over the last en rollment of 251. Cecilia WoodrinV. of Altoona, who assumed the .name ot Helen F'orsey, swallowed a fatal dote of laudanum and died at the F.osjiital. She had quarreled with her lover. The union ta:ler at Wilkes-Barre are going to stop shaving till who pat ronize the two non-union shops in that city, and hope by this means to close . them. Albert Wickham, of Melrose, and , John Rourkt, cf Lanesboro, were struck by the Delaware and Hudson express . train, north bound, at fjtorrncca and in stantly killed. Wickin.iii was a veteran of the Civil Wer. A young ton of J. B. McGuire, ol Lancaster, was running with a sharp pointed stick in hi mouth, when he fell. The stick penetrated the tongue and right cheek. ' 1 John Howey, ol North Scranton, end ed his life by a .1 (.- ft! laudanum, but whether it wus uke.i n ru dicinc or for the purpose 01 commitiing suitide it not l:non.
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