V r1 i il M ( 1 : ' "WOMAN KIDNAPPED ANDJHEN ROBBED. Pbsadcr Amounting to Thousand of Cellars Recovered. "WAS HLLD CAPTiVE TOUR DAYS. Ike Story Told fly the Victim Seemed S Unlikely That th: Police Did Not Brieve It to Be True Several News ftpcr Men, Slcnojjrarlicr and Darbcr Comprised the fiang. Philadelphia. Pa. ( .Special). Charged with kidnapping a woman and holding lirr a prisoner fur four days, robbing her if jewels worth more than $jono and compelling her to sign hank check for large sums of money, is the story which the police unfolded here when they an .mmnced 'he arrest of two newspaper men, a stenographer in another news pancr office and a harher, all of whom arc charged with complicity in the crime. The men now locked tip at the Cen tral Police Station arc Howard K. Sloan, an unemployed reporter; Henry Wallace, society editor of one of the morning newspapers; J. Knight Fmdlay, of Wayne, near here, stenographer in the business oilier of another morning Vaper, and Oscar S. Dunlap, a harher employed in one of thrt most prominent shops in the city. The victim is Mrs. Mahel Goodrich, 1hc proprietress of an cstahlishmctit on North Tenth street. Last Monday Mrs. Goodrich went to police headquarters ami told a story of kidnapping ami robbery so daring that the police at first doubted its truth. She said that for some time past a young man, who represented himself as a resi dent of Germantown. had been a frequent visitor at her establishment. He was well dressed and spent money freely. Last Wednesday week, she said, he pro--poscd a drive through Fairniount Park. He asked her to dress in her best clothes and for her to wear all her diamonds and other jewelry, because when they return ed from the drive he intended to take licr to the finest dining room and wanted lx-r to "shine" with the other women in the place. She accepted, and the next day she went out with him in a carriage with a pair of richly caparisoned horses and with a coachman on the box wearing stylish livery. At a lonely place in Fairniount Park the carriage was s'.oppcd by a man whom she said represented himself as 1). Clarence Gibbony, the secretary and attorney of the Law and Order Society of this city. This man, she went on to say, told her that he had a warrant for her arrest on the charge of keeping a disorderly house, but that the matter could be fixed up. He was invited into the carriage, and the next moment she was gauged and blindfolded. She was driven somewhere she did not know, but she noticed from one corner of the hand kerchief over her eyes that the men paid toll at two toll gates, and that they took Tier into a building where a fire engine and a hook and ladder truck were stand ing. She was kept a prisoner from Tues day until Friday night without anything to eat or drink, and was then taken on another long drive, blindfolded, to a house where she was kept from Friday until Monday. BURNED IN A WRECKAGE. Four Men Killed la a Rear End freight Train Collision. Loganspcrt. Ind. (Special). Fcu Tanhandle Railroad trainmen met death near Onward, 14 miles southeast of here, in a rear-end collision of freight ttrains. The bodies of three of the dead were taken out badly mutilated, Init the fourth was almost entirely con sumed by flames which broke out so in after the wreck before the wrecking rew could subdue the fire sufficiently to permit work in that portion of the debris. During the nij-ht Conductor Weaver, 3n charge oi the second section oi a train consisting of an engine and two cabooses, left Hartford City for Logans port. In the rear caboose were Ga! lireath, Brosius and Greeley, who ha I bren working on the gravel train a: Hartford City, and who were en rou e to this city. All were asleep when the train stopped near Onward to make up steam. The flagman was sent out to watch for the third section, and no dan ger was thought of until the train loom ed up too close for any of the men to escape, except Weaver, who jumped and got off uninjured. The wreck was most disastrous. Six cars were burned from the third sec tion, which, with the two cabooses and the ruined engine, make the loss a large uie. KAISER'S DEMAND HEEDED BY CHINA. Troops Ordered Against Rebels Who Destroyed a German Mission. Berlin (By Cable). It i announced n a dispatch received here from Can'on diat, according to communications fr .m tbe Governor Gencr;.l, troops have been ordered to proceed against the rebels io recently burned a German mis-ion. The local authorities have been order ed to protect the missionaries and regu lars and militia have already relieved the local capital, which was besieged by Telxls. General satisfaction is expressed a', the reports that i'rincv Ching has given as surances that the Dowager F.morcss and tiic Emperor arce as to the necessity ior a change in the Chinese .svstcm of government and that rcf ,rin edicts will lie enforced upon the return of the rot-rt. The Vorwaerv," exclaims that China intends to leave in Germany the illegally acquired Peking astronomical in-tru-im-nts, as continual remembrance of how Ccrmany respects international law, and ays that the honor of Germany demands -tfiat the instruments be taken back to China. firemen Crushed By Fniiiig Walls. Vittsliuipr, Pa. (Special) Fire in the Pittsburg clay pot works, in Alleglie-iy, damaged the plant to the extent of 80,000, injured six men and enforced an idleness of several uionihs upon a iorcc ol 165 workmen. The injured men were firemen, who were on the Toof of the boiler house when the wall Sell and they were carried with it. None of them will die. The fire originated in the boiler room from an unknown cause and quickly burned its way through into the upper floors. Lienlensrf Crockett Killed. Washington (Special). The War Department received a cablegram an nouncing that Second Lieut. Allen T. Crockett was killed near Candelaria, 1-uion. Sept. 24. He had been in the army since June, 1900. Shot Dow a by Preacher. Carbondale, III. (Special). Rev. Jos. McGitrmiish, a Seventh-Day Adventist reacber, shut and killed John C. rown, who, it is alleged, attacked him with a knife. Brown is raid to have been jealous ol MrGammish's alleged attentions to Mrs. Brown SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic J. Q. Adams Si Co., of Minneapolis. Minn., one o the largest grain receiving and exporting houses in the Northwest, assigned. They were caught in the May corner. Wardman Bissert, convicted in New York if accepting a bribe from the keeper of n disorderly house, secured a stay in the I'nitcd States Circuit Coit't. Charles Broadway Rouss. the New York millionaire, sent a thousand-dollar check for the Shenandoah Yalley Agri cultural Society fair. Several rapid-lire pins 'vcrc shipped from New York for use of the Colom bian government at some of the coast towns. Three prominent Chicago attorneys and a well-known railroad detective have been arrested on the charge of aid ing in the escape of a bailiff who was in dicted for attempted jury-bribing. Henry W. Cramp, vice-president of the Cramp Ship and Engine Building Company, died at his home in Phila delnhia. the body of Prof. W H. Beard wt rth. who was drowned while cross ing Naked creek, was found near Win chester. Va. The city of Portsmouth, Va.. will seek to have the charter oi the Old Domin ion Railway Company revoked. The Virginia Long-Distance Tele phone Company, with headquarters at Staunton, Va., was s id. The large storage warehouses of A. S. Leach it Co., of Philadelphia, were destroyed by tire. The grain dealers, al their annual con vention in Ues Moines, Iowa, elected officers. President Gompers, of the American Federation . of Labor, publishes in the October number of the Fcdcrationist a vigorous reply to the charges made by President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, regarding the attitude of Gompers and President Mitchc'l. of the LTnitcd Mineworkcrs. in the recent steel strike. The Sultan of Jolo refused to receive the Congressional party. A battalion of the Llcvcmh Infantry. Colonel De Rusey. is on the track of the Filipinos who attacked the American troops at Ba'.attgiga. Island of Samar. T. F. Ward, formerly vice-president of the Lemars National Batik, of Lc mars. Iowa, was indicted on charges of embezzlement and making fraudulent entries. Five persons are reported to have been killed by a renegade band of Apaches from the San Carlos Reserva tion in the Mongolian mountains. Walter McGlennon, colored, who had been arrested in Huntingdon for an as sault on C. P. Dalton, was shot to death in the jail by a mob. The purchasers of the Virginia Long Distance Company met in Staunton, Va., and organized the new company. The Massachusetts State Republican Convention renominated Gov. W. Mur ray Crane and Lieut. -Gov. John L'. Eates. Miss Helen Long, daughter of Secre tary Long, died at Hingham. Mass. She had been ill for a long time with lung trouble. Patrick Napier was shot and fatallv wounded 1y his father-in-law, J. it. Ferguson, at Wayne. W. Va. The organization of the National As sociation of Tobacco Men was complet ed in Richmond, Va. Foreign. English police authorities say that Laura Horos, in custody in London on the charge of conspiring to defraud wo . men by fortune telling, is the tormer i wife of General Diss Debar. Ann Ode- I la Diss Debar served a term in a New 1 Vork prison for swindling Luther C. I Marsh. i Miss Helen Morton, daughter of the ' former vice-president of the United States, was married in London to Count ; Boson dc Perigord, a son of the Duke j cf Talleyrand-Perigord. 1 Certain German newspapers demand 1 that the Chinese astronomical instru ; tru-nts taken by rhe German troops from I Pckin be returned, as they were taken unlawfully. ' The English jury in the inquest over i the remains of the 70 victims of the tur , bine torpedo boat destroyer Cobra, which ' foundered in the North Sea. gave a ver ' diet that the disaster was caused by the I unexplained buckling of the bout, and that it was too lightly built, j Americans in Constantinople have se ! cured evidence of tbe complicity of mcm- bcrs of the Macedonian committee at I Sofia in the kidnapping of the American j missionary. Miss Helen Stone. I Emperor William footed all the bills I covering the expenses of Prince Chun j and the other members of the Chinese expiatory mission during their stay in 1 Germany, ! I'nitcd States Minister Bowen, at Car ! acas. Venezuela, persuaded the parties j to the asphalt controversy to accept ar I bitration. I The leading Briti h tobacco manufac i Hirers have formed a combination to j meet American competition, j Copenhagen newspapers again print j rumors that King Edward has cancer of the tongue. ' Should Vtnci-.f.ela fail to retrieve her ! fallen fortunes, it is believed the Co ' lombian government forces and the ! Venezuelan revolutionists opposed to I President Castro will inarch on Mara ; eaibo. ! An order issued by President Cas ! tro for the imprisonment of all Nation ! ai-ts in Venezuela is easing uprisings in various parts 01 tin; country. Kin;; Edward is now said t be suffer ing with lumbago, but rumors of cancer are still circulated in th.' London clubs. President Kruger' s strength, mentally I ami pnysiiaoy, is saiu 10 o.i growing weaker daily. I Keporjcd thai the I.ein.ler Reginvnt I. a; been ordered to proceed to South Af rica. fimnciul. Snow's report gives corn condition 59.8 per cent. Total yield cf wheat, 77.,oco,ooo bushels. The New York Subtreasury state ment shows that the b:.nks have gained $4.cii2,coo this week. The Calumet & Ikvla Companies have declared a dividend of $15. pay able October 31 to stock of record October 5. The Comptroller of the Currency has issued a call for the condition of banks at the close of busiiusi Monday, Sep tember .to. The IL B. Claflin Company has de clared a regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, on the common stock, payable October 15. The London "Daily News" says it may be necessary at any moment to sum mon Parliament to provide more money for the war. Speyer & Co. report that $10,000 worth of Northern Pacific bonds have been stolen iu Berlin from a German custo mer of their house. The Electric Vehicle Company has been sued by Richard Siegman, who al leges that the directors have paid divi dends illc-jally end a-!.s for an accounting. AMERICA'S CUP The Last Race Was the Closest In the History of In ternational Contests Jockeying for the Start. New York (Special). The America's Cup is safe for another year, at least. In the closest race in yachting history, Columbia won the third and deciding contest of the scries from the challenging boat. While Shamrock led nearly all the way and actually crossed the finishing line two seconds ahead of Barr's white winged wonder the official measurements compelled her to give the American boat 43 seconds time, and as a result Colum bia won by 41 seconds. The sea was smooth and the sun bright, while the air had a keen nip that made the spectators button their coats when the excursion fleet went down to Sandy Hook. Soon both boats were standing out to sea in tow of their re spective lugs. Before the starting gun, kith went through the usual tactics of jocking about the line. Barr was more watchful than ever. Sycamore, grim and silent, swung the brass machine first on one tack and then another, while the minutes slipped by. The wind held at twelve knots. The excursionists crowded up to see the battle, and silence ell upon the breezy ocean. Shamrock held on to windward and did not set her staysail. Columbia had staysail and jih set and balloon in stops, and as Sycamore show ed a decided intention of not going over first on the leeward run, Barr came to the conclusion that he would try it es pecially as the gun had fired. It was a little different from the usual trial to get the weather berth. This run off before the wind made the windward beat last and in a position to wind her antagonist. They were both standing for the line when the handicap gun tired, the Colum INDIANS AMBUSHED FLEETING ARMY. Vanguard of the Routed Venezuelans Annihilated Lost 600 Killed in Recent Battle. Willemstad, Curacoa (By Cable). News received un to Seotcmber 20 in- J dicatcs that General Davila's first fight I at Curogoa was an absolute rout. Five i Venezuelan battalions of 400 juen each were engaged and the Colombians are estimated at the same number. It is now known that General Echcverria was killed on the battlefield, and not shot by the Colombians. The battalion called the "Sacred Battalion," composed of gentlemen volunteers mounted, was the first to break and retreat before the Colombians. After General Echevcrria was killed, General Davila, Clodomiro Castillo and Ermilo Castro, a brother of President Castro, fled the field. About 600 were killed on the Venezue lan side, including 30 minor officers. The Indians ambushed General Da vila's retreating vanguard, composed of 2co men, and annihilated it. Clodomiro Castillo, who is a Colom vian, now commands the Venezuelan forces at the front on Guajira Penin sula, and Ermilo Castro now commands the "Sacred Battalion." THE DISASTER IN SAMAR. The Bolomen Surprised the Americans In Front and Rear and a Slaughter Ensued. Washington (Special). The War De partment has received the following dis patch from General Chaffee, at Manila, giving further details of the disastrous attack on Company C, Ninth Infantry, at Balangiga: "From those who escaped I have the following: September .10, while at break fast at 6.45 o'clock in the morning, Company C was attacked at the signal of ringing the convent bells by about 4;o iHilomen, 200 irom tbe rear of the quarters and 250 from the front simulta neously. The company was completely surprised. The force attacking in front gained possession of the arms. A fight ensued for them, in which most of the men oi Company C met deaih in the mess room in the rear. The enemy was beaten off temporarily by about 25 men who gained their arms. Sergeant Be tron assumed command and endeavored to collect his men so as to leave in boats, but was attacked by the enemy. "The strength of the company was 3 officers and 72 men. The killed were 3 fticcrs and 40 enlisted men; missing, 6: wounded, 13; present. 13. "The party which attacked the offi MlKINLEV MONUMENT TRUSTEES. Appointments Y.sde by President Roosevelt Meeting In Cleveland. Washington (Special). At the re quest of Mrs. McKinley, the members of the family of the late President, and many of his personal friends. President Koosevelt has selected trustees for the McKinley National Monument Associa tion. They are as follows: William R. Day, Canton, O, ; William A. Lynch, Canton, O. ; M. A. Hanna, Cleveland, O.; Cornelius N. Bliss, New York; John N. Milburn, Buffalo; Thomas Dolan, Philadelphia; W. Mur Gas Wrecks House. Franklin, Pa. (Special). A terrific gas explosion occurred at the home of John Morrissey. Mr. Morrissey had arisen .to light the fire in a stove and the match ignited the escaping gas. Morrissey was thrown violently against the ceiling of the room and he was badly burned about the face, hands and feet. His daughter and her son were blown out ol bed and Miss Marwood, a visitor, had a thrilling escape from death. Every house in the vicinity was rfiaken and people were lbown from their feet. The huuse is a tiul wreck. WILL STAY HERE. bia a little in the lead and Shamrock on port quarter. Shamrock broke out her balloon and Barr held on a few minutes to be able, if necessary, to haul his wind if Sycamore forced him to spring his luff. Then, seeing that the Englishman was making a straight race, he broke out his balloon and went across. Time, Columbia, 1 1.03; Shamrock, M.02. This is official, and not actual, as Co lumbia went over at least to seconds ahead. Shamrock broke out her spin naker, going over and Columbia follow ed. The Britsh boat seemed to have a handicap in not getting over in time, but she pulled up rapidly and soon closed the gap. Heading for the mark Shamrock turn ed at 12.48.46 and stood away on star board tack to keep the weather berth. Columbia swung around much quicker 4g seconds later and threw about on port tack. The Columbia now began to show her old form in wind-jamming. She stood well up to it and held along for several minutes and then came about on the starboard tack, with the Shamrock to lee ward but well ahead. They stood along for some minutes and then came about to port tack, the Shamrock first and Co lumbia following, having stood well over to windward first. Then happened the greatest sailing in the history of racing. Columbia flattened in her sheets and jammed her nose right with the failing breeze, which had fallen to less than six knots. Shamrock could not point up as high and Sycamore held along blanketing the Columbia, feeling sure now of an easy victory. But the Columbia is a faithful and reliable ship. She poked her nose into the last puff, and luffed almost through Shamrock's lee, with that brass boat close enough to jump aboard. The line was only a few fathoms dis tant and with failing headway and shak ing headsails, both yachts luffed over the line, the Columbia a boom's length behind. Such a race never was sailed before and it was a fitting climax to the series. An unconfirmed rumor reports that General Uribe Uribe, the Colombian Liberal revolutionist, has been killed. When the Venezuelans first entered the peninsula they robbed the Guajirn Indians of their cattle and generally maltreated them. The Indians are now retaliating, cruelly mutilating and mur dering many of the fugitives who have been straggling since the defeat over the waterless, burning flat peninsula in an effort to reach their lines or the coast. Venezuela seems determined, if pos sible, to retrieve her fallen fortunes at Guajira. If she fails in this present en deavor it is believed, even among army officers, that the Colombian government forces, allied Guajira Indians and Vene zuelan revolutionists opposed to Presi dent Castro will unite and march on Maracaibo, with good chances of cap turing the place. Such action would probably also mean the capture of San Carlos Fort and the liberation of the Venezuelan political prisoners. cers' quarters entered through the church, a large number being led by the presidente. Probably lot rifles were with the company, 26 saved, and 25,000 rounds of ammunition lost. Ninety-five prisoners outside the Cuartel joined in the attack at the signal. A boatload of missing men capsized. Captain Book miller may pick up men." The preceding dispatch, transmitted by General Chaffee, is signed by Lieut. James Drouillard, of the Ninth Infantry. Captain Bookmiller, of the Ninth In fantry, adds the following: "Have returned from Balangiga. Drouillard explains conditions correct ly. Inhabitants deserted the town, fir ing one shot. We buried 3 officers and 29 men. A number of the bodies were burned. The quarters buildings were fired as we entered. We secured or de stroyed most of the rations. All the ordnance is gone. The insurgents se cured 57 serviceable rifles and .'3,oco cartridges." General Chaffee adds: . "Derussey has bent a strong company to chastise the savages if found. Names of the killed to be determined by elimi nation of survivors as soon as possible." ray Crane, Boston ; David R. Francis, St. Louis; Alexander S. Kcvcll, Chicago; Robert J. Lowry, Atlanta ; Charles W, Fairbanks, Indianapolis; Henry C. Payne, Milwaukee; General Henry M. Dufticld, Detroit; George B. Cortelyou, Washington ; Henry T. Scott, San Fran cisco; Franklin Murphy, Newark; Gen eral Eli Torrance, St. Paul, Minn. This monument is to be erected at Canton, the home of the late President. Already considerable money has been offered for the monument, and it is ex pected the trustees will be ready to take the preliminary steps looking to its erec tion soon after the meeting this week. Sulcld Carried Dlamoads, Chicago (Special). With' $15,000 worth of diamonds in his poasessiou, D. W. Dickie, a jeweler, who lived at the Kimball Hotel, committed suicide near the Grant Monument in Lincoln Park. A park policeman heard a pistol shot in the direction of the monument and after searching 20 minutes in the darkness came upon the body of Dickie lying on a bench just south of the statue. Dickie wan about 55 years old. It ia thought he had not been long in Chicago. The directory only states that he is a jeweler, but does not tell his place of business. FOUR KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK. Engineer, Conductor. Fireman Drakeman Meet Death. and TRAIN RAN INTO AN 0PCN SWITCH. Coroner's Jury Decided That Orders to Slop Were Not Obeyed Oodles Recovered and Seat Home The Wrecked Train Was the Fast Freight Which Runs Between Pulls delpbla and Harrlsburf. Reading, Fa. (Special). Four persons were instantly killed in a freight wreck on the Lehanon Valley division of the Reading Railway, near Hummclstown, Ta. The killed are: Thomas T. Dolan, engineer, Philadel phia. William II. McComsby, fireman, Philadelphia. Conductor Patrick Kane, Philadelphia. Hrakcman Charles E. Mays, Phila delphia. The middle man, Charles Dennis, and the rear brakeman, John Ryan, escaped. A derail switch was open, and the train, which was running at the rale of about 25 miles an hour, plunged into an embankment. Tbe moment tlic locomo tive left the rails the cars in the rear were piled up about the engine, and both tracks were blocked. During the morning all of the passen gers were transferred, a special train having been sent out from Reading. The wrecked train was the fast freight which runs between Philadelphia and Ilarrisburg. Several days ago the Read ing Company posted notices to tbe ef fect that trains would be run on a single track over Swatara bridge and directing all trains in both directions to conic to a stop before crossing the bridge. An op erator had been placed at the east end, and all trains were regulated by signals. Whether the crew had been advised of tbe change is not known, but it is assert ed that the signals were against the train. KRUGER SAID TO BE FAILIM1 Mentally and Physically, It Is Declared, He Is Weaker. London (By Cable). A dispatch from The Hague says: "A. D. W. Wolmraans, one of the Boer envoys, who has been visiting President Kruger at Hilversum, Hol land, found the mental condition of the Transvaal President by no means satis factory. Mr. Kruger is slowly growing weaker, physically and mentally. His slowness in reaching a decision on im portant questions is found to be a seri ous hindrance to those working in Eu rope in behalf of the Boer cause. At the slightest question regarding his health Mr. Kruger exhibits intense irri tation and vehemently denies that any thing i wrong. The approach of win ter causes anxiety, as he refuses to leave Holland." Brussels (By Cable). Le Petit Elctt states that Mr. Kruger has sent to President Roosevelt a protest against the exportation of horses and mules to South Africa. It also declares that he never contemplated sending a mission to the United States Government to so- licit mediation. MISS HELEN LONG DEAD. Daughter of Secretary of the Navy Succumbs to Consumption. Hingham, Mass. (Special). Miss Helen Long, youngest daughter of Sec retary of the Navy John D. Long, died at her home, in Cottage street, Hingham, of consumption. Miss Long had been suffering with a pulmonary trouble since the winter of t8(S. During her father's first year as Secretary of the Navy Miss Long was obliged to enter somewhat into the so cial functions of the capital, owing to the delicate health of Mrs. I.ong, and het own health became impaired. In November, 1H9S. eminent physicians advised her to seek the climate of Colo rado, which she did. She remained there for three years, and her health improved so much that Secretary Long erected a permanent residence for her at Colorado Snrings about a year ago. Three weeks ago she desired to visit the Secretary, with her sister, Margaret, and her grandmother, Mrs. Glover. The physicians at Colorado said the change of climate might be of benefit to her. She arrived at Hingham last week suffer ing with nervousness, and rapidly went into decline. FOUR MINE ACCIDENTS. One Man Killed and Tbreo Others Injured Near Mahaaoy City. Mahanoy City. Pa. (Special). Four accidents one of them fatal occurred in and about the mines in this district. John Counihan, of Frackvillc. was in stantly killed by a fall of oal at the Draper Colliery while he and a com panion named Hay were taking measure ments. Joseph Molinofski hail his back and both arms broken by a fall of coal in the same mine. Martin Kirby attempted to make a short cut to the Lawrence Colliery by crawling under a trip of railroad cars at Mahanoy Plane and was caught and crushed. The hospital surgeons say he cannot recover. Frank Kopopage is also dying at the Miners' Hospital, sightless, and with his skull fracluted, the result of a fall of coal at Gilber.on Colliery. Many Lost In Storms. Tacoma, Wash. (Special). Syamor advices arc that the coast of Kazuzi, Northern Japan, has been visited by heavy gales, wrecking 400 fishing b. ats; 12 boats with total crews of 74 men arc missing. Heavy rains caused an over flow oi the rivers of Hokaido. washing away 600 houses and submerging many villages. Proposes to Suppress Anarchy, Washington (Special). Representa tive W. B. Shattuc, of Ohio, chairman of the immigration committee of the House, saw the President in regard to a bill which he will introduce on the reassembling of Congress having for its object the suppression of anarchistic lit erature and speeches in this country. Mr. Shattuc said that the proposed measure would be made as drastic as possible, and a strong effort would be made to secure (or it the support of all parties. Perished ia Bonlir. Hammonton, Pa, (Special). Tony Placito, 3 years old, was burned to death in n bonfire built by his mother to keep the children warm while the picked cran berries. The accident happened while the mother was absent and was watched by several companions, who went half a mile to tell the mother. Help Arrived Too Late. Atlanta, Ga. (Special). John Wyatt Turner, of Rock Mill, Ala, assistant in structor in the carding and spinning branches of the textile department of the Georgia School of Technology, committed suicide by taking morphine. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIR 3, Natloa'i Vast Postal Business. Washington (Special). Auditor Hen ry A. Castle, for the Postoflice Depart ment, closed the books of the postal service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, something over three months be ing required to balance the ledger ac counts with the 77,000 postmasters and make all the other settlements required with the numerous branches n the sys tem. The result of the year's business was as follows: Receipts, $1 1 1,631.10.1 : expenditures, $115,554,920; net deficit (including loss by fire, etc.), S3.0St.52o. The deficit for the fiscal year was less than $4,000,000. and about $1,500,000 smaller than for the preceding year. Owing to the extension of the rural free delivery and other improvements in every department the expenses of the service were $8,200,000 greater than for the preceding year, but the continued prosperity of the nation increased the receipts more than $0,250,000. There has been a steady decrease in the postal deficits during the last few years. In round figures there were $11,500,000 in 1807, $q.(xk,ooo in 1808, $6,500,000 in iPo,q, $5,500,000 in 1900 and $."000,000 in loot. If this percent age ol shrinkage in the deficit should continue it would be entirely wiped out within three years. It is a significant measure of the in creased business activity of the coun try that while, owing to the enormous extensions of the postal service, its expenditures have increased $21,500,000. or 22 per cent., in five years, its reve nues have increased $.;9.ooo.oco. equiva lent to 35 per cent., during the same period. The auditor's report also shows the transactions of the postal monev ordc business for the same period. The ag gregate amount of money orders issued during the fiscal year was $294618. t'So.90. The amount paid out was $281 554.711.72. The difference between these two amounts represents principal ly money orders issued in this country and paid in foreign countries. The sum total of the monetary trans actions of the Post Office Department, including postal receipts and revenues and money orders issued and pid. foots up for the fiscal year toot $803. .159.56. This total was less than $71'. 000.000 for the preceding year, showing an increase of nearly $a.ooo.ooo. The Post Office Department is thus shown to be easily the leading financial branch of the Government, as it is the most exten sive business institution in the world. President Interested In Miss Slone Case. All the machinery of the Department of State is now at work to save from death or prolonged captivity Miss Ellen Stone, the missionary, who was kid naped in Turkey. The President him self has become actively interested in the matter. Dr. Samuel IL Capcn. president of the American Board of Missions, and Dr. Judson Smith, the foreign secretary of that board, arrived in Washington from Boston and went directly to the State Department. After an hour's conference with Act ing Secretary Adee and Solicitor Ren field they were escorted to the White House. President Roosevilt gave close attention to their statement. Although the Department of State had already taken up the matter, President Roose velt laid fresh injunctions upon Mr. Adee to spare no effort to accomplish the purpose he had in view of releasing Miss Stone. The clergymen were highly gratified at the earnestness exhibited by the President and the State Department offi cials, and left for their homes in Boston satisfied that the United States Govern ment was doing everything possible in Miss Stone's behalf. The Beet Sugar Industry. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, af ter careful consideration of the repo-ts and estimates of kwdir.g beet sugar pro duccrs, estimated the beet sugar produi? duction for toot at -198.500 tons. The cane sugar production is estimated as follows: Southern States, 300,000 tons; Porto Rico, 100,000 tons; Hawaii, 300,- 000 tons; total, 700,000 ton3. Capital News in ucneril. Bulgarian authorities deny that the abductors o( Miss Helen Stone and her companion, Madame Tsilka. are in that country. President Roosevelt and A.t ing Secretary Adee, of the State De partment, assured Dr. Samuel Ctpen. president of the American Board of Missions, that no effort would be spared to secure the release of Miss Stone. Chairman Shattuc, of the committee of immigration, informed President Roosevelt that he would introduce in Congress a drastic bill for the suppres sion of anarchisticiiterature. President Gompers and Secretary Far ley, of the Federation cf Labor, suggest ed legislation of interest to labor men to President Roosevelt. .President Roosevelt has declared him self opposed to plans to improve or en large the White House. 'lhe Secretary of War net apart Jtoo -coo for preparing barracks at Yashing ton for army ofticcrs. Mrs. Roosevelt will occupy the Preri dent's pew in St. John's 'Protestant Episcopal Church. General Chaffee, in a detailed report to the War Department in the disastrous attack upon Co. C, Ninth Regiment, on September 29. slates that a large number of the attacking force was led by the presidente. and that the ringing 01 the convent bells was the signal for the attack. The officers' quartcs were in the convent, the Filipinos entering through the church. The bodies of some of tile soldiers were burned. The other dead were buried by Captain Bookmillct e.n.l his men, of the Ninth," who abo burned the town. In the Schley naval court of inquiry Mr. Kayncr, chief counsel for Admiral Schley, asked Judge Advocate Lemlr.v to summon Admiral Sampson as a wit nets in the case. The request grew out of a difference in the construction of a sentence in Admiral Sampson's '"Dear Schley" letter.. A Mall Once u Vcar. Washington (Special). Postoflice In spector John P. Clum has returned from 1 trip of inspection through Alaska'. He has reported to lhe de partment that the service generally is in excellent condition, more particularly in the Yukon Valley, where the various towns have a mail service of onca a week in each direction. Mr. Clun estab lished the northernmost postoflice in the United States and what prpbably is the northernmost postoitice - ia rhe world. May Ctasolldata Cotioa Mills. Raleigh, N. C. (Special). A special dispatch from Charlotte, which is the centre of the cotton mill industry in North and South Carolina, ssya there is a strong movement to consolidate the cotton mills of that section, includ ing mills in both North and South Carolina into a single corporation, the consolidation to be after the manner of the Steel Trust. The feasibility of the scheme i being seriously considered by many well-known mill men. It is officially denied that a pool of the rail manufacturers is to b formed. LATEST HAPPENINGS ALL OYER THE STATE. lew Oil Wells Create Excitement' Fayette County, ENSIONS TOR PENNSYLVANIANS. mdrew Carnegie Pays $3,001 for Silver Image ol the Santa Maria Jacob Rehtn, Dis graced Veteran, Lived Id Lancaster Miles' tUtnult fey Inhaling Illuminating Oot Chlld Burned to Death ot Hailcton. Pensions granted to Pennsylvania: Vlichael Motor, Pittsburg. $6; Mania Campbell. Lilly, $6; Witi. Parker, Alle rheny, $8; John Sloan Olyta, $6; Joj. tacobs, Enni-tville, $6; Wm. D. Collins, Dnionlown, $6; Wm. N. Henry, Peru Mills, $t2; James E. Norris, Collitr, fia; Winfield Scott Hamilton, Coal mont, $8; J. R. Rollins, Canton, $10; Horace Parker, Erie, $8; John Simp ion, Jackson Summit, $10; Wm. E.' tludson, F.llisburg, $14; Carolina Rob' trtson, Altoona, $8: Margaret Scnning, ritusville. $8; Sarah E. Dowdcn, Flat noods. $8; Frank B. Fuller, Grccns )urg, $8; John T. Twigs. Philipsburg, 112; Joseph Cupp, Tyrone, $10; Lewis Hubcr, Derry Station, $10; Spencer Urainard. West Warren, $10; John ntchficld, Fossilvdle, $10; George W. I'routncr, East Brady, $10; minor of ilerbert B. Beighley, Zelinople, :o. Great oil excitement prevails in the' lottthern end of Fayette county over a -veil brought in by the Greensboro Nat iral Gas Company, which yields at t';e rate of 25 barrels a day. This is the iccond oil well the company has drilled, ind both were immediately closed down ;o prevent the extent of the pool from ieing known. Leasing is going on tverywhere. James Ruddy, of Palo Alto, was in stantly killed in Pottsvillc by being itruck by a Pennsylvania Railroad shift ng engine. With a companion he was :rossing the tracks when struck. Rud Ky's body was hurled fifty feet over a sank. Jacob Rchm. one of the five men re :ently dishonorably discharged from :bc Dayton Soldiers' Home for speak ing insultingly about President McKin ley after the shooting, and who com mitted suicide by hanging at Dayton, was a native ol Lancaster county. A man believed to be Lucien Auman, Df 787 Franklin avenue, Deckcrton, N. I was found de.id in bed at the Hotel wilkcs-Barre. He had committed sui cide. The gas was turned on and the man had wound a sheet around his head to make certain of suffocation. A model constructed of pure silver of the Santa Maria, the vessel in which Columbus discovered America, was re ceived at the Carnegie Institute. The model was purchased at the Glasgow Exposition by Andrew Carnegie for $3000 and sent by him to the museum. While riding on a freight train near Newton Hamilton, Charles E. Barr, of Virginia, fell between the cars and was instantly killed. The accident was caused by the train breaking where he had been sitting. The Newton New Century Club hat elected Mrs. Joanna B. Crewitt and Mrs. Fredda H. Bryan as delegates to the State Federation soon to meet at Reading. Mrs. Sarah B. Knowlcs and Mrs. Alice Afllcrbach are the alternates. The following fourth-class postmas ters for Pennsylvania were appointed: East Riverside, Finley Hagcrty; Hade, Luther H. Leiter; Moniteau, Wm. J. Graham; Sunset, C. L. Baker. William Thew's roadhouse, between Shamokin and Trcvorton, was destroyed by fire. Loss $4000, partly covered by insurance. Four children were rescued with difficulty. s Thomas Collins was severely burned at the Harry K. Colliery by an explo sion of gas and Thomas Nolan, a driver at the Woodward, Kingston, was badly squeezed between a car and the rib. Mamie, a child of John Scanlan, cf Weatherly, pulled a lighted lamp from a table and was burned to death. TJie child's mother was also seriously burn ed. A new publication, "Gospel Truths," is being edited at Allensville by Oliver H. Zook. Th publisher is C. K. Smoker, of Belleville. Only a portion of Lloyd McGinnijj's body could be found after 18 cars had run over him on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was a brakeman. The Ltuierne Hospital for smallpox patients was burned to the ground. The building was vacant when it burned. The Perry county soldiers' reunion will be held at Blain on Saturday, Octo ber 12. The September report of State Treas urer Barnett shows a balance of $7,853, 156.05 in the general fund at the close of the month. The total receipts for the month were $2,476,511.03. In the same month last year the receipts were $1,751,046.92. For the ten months end ing Sept. 30 the Treasury receipts have been $15.639.949 04. Those for the same period last year were $15,472,639.23. Andrew Hohovics, a miner employed at the Mount Lookout Colliery, Wilkes Barre, was killed by falling down the shaft. It was dark when he went te work and he evidently thought the car riage was at the head of the shaft, as he stepped into the opening and fell 60s feet. While playing with matches in a toom in his home at Reading 5-year-oM Joseph Thomas set fire to the furniture and before the firemen extiguished the flames he was suffocated and the house was badly damaged. By an explosion of gas at Indian Ridge Colliery, Shenandoah, Patriek Foley, a repairman, and George An kolopsky, a door boy, were badly burn ed. Daniel Souders, an aged violin maker and a veteran of the Civil War, commit ted suicide by hanging himself in his small shop in the rear of his home at Lititz. He lived alone in a large stone house. John Schillo, of Mahanoy City, was leaning against the muzzle of his gun when in some unaccountable manner it was discharged, the contents entering his side. ' ' . Daniel Thurston, of Jersey Shore, brakeman on the New York Central Railroad, was killed at Forks. He was climbing the ladder on a freight car when his head struck a water column. Shocked by a telegram announcing the serious illness of his wife at their home in Shenandoah, Frmklin F. Shap pel.'aged 70 years, dropped dead 'wi ti the message in his hand at the home oi his daughter, Mrs. James A. Brown, ol Reading, Frank Holland, an employee of the Lukens Iron and Steel Coinjiany, fell from a high trestle work at Coatesville and was seriously injured. John Kola, a plumber, of Pittstoa, was badly burned by the explosion of a gasoline lamp he was using, Charles Wilson, Sr., of Marpte Town ship, fell from his wagon iu Media and badly iniured himself '
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