Uriel Mr. was il ttrdE SAM HAS HALF " BILLION OF GOLD Keep Right on Hoardiug the Yellow Metal Up. BAROMETER OF BUSINESS CONDITIONS. The Find New Held li Slid to Be the Second Largest ol the Kind Ever Contained la Any Government's Treasury it One Time The Ooverainent ol Russia Holds the Record ot Having Hid The Largest. Washington, D. C. (Special). Of ficiant of the Treasury Department lay great stress upon the importance of the fact that the gold fund in the Govern ment coffers is of gigantic proportions. United States Treasurer Ellis H. Rob erta says that it indicates a wonderful degree of prosperity throughout the land, and this assertion is repeated on all sides. Department officials say that the gold fund is a barometer of the 'business conditions : that when it is low business is bad and when high business is good. Therefore they assert that the general condition of the country was never better than now. The gold fund at the close of busi ness Saturday amounted to $563,142, 523. It has been hovering about this figure foe months, and on July 20 it reached the highest point in the history of the Government, when it was $566. 00,000. The fund, as made up in cludes $150,000,000 of gold reserve, $357,488,080 of gold certificates, $44. 327,800 of which are covered into the Treasury, and $55,054,434 gold coin and bullion. The fund held on July 29 is said to be the second largest of the kind ever contained in any Government's treasury mt one time. The Government of Rus sia holds the record c7f having had the largest gold reserve fund. About three years ago, when that nation returned x the gold-standard system of finance, ahe had in her national purse the sum of $508,000,000 as a gold reserve fund. .This is the largest in the history of na tions. At the present time, however, ahe does not hold any such sum. The latest figures available from foreign na tions concerning their gold reserve funds were obtained last June. It appears that France at that date held the largest amount. The figures in round numbers of the four principal nations are: France $514,000,000 Russia 36j.755.00o Germany 276,434.000 England 188,884.880 TEXAS GUESSING AT LOSSES. Total Damage From Floods Expected to Reach $1,000,000. Dallas, Texas (Special). The only rays of hope which penetrate the gloom of the flood situation come from the Weather reports, which predict fair skies, the iact that the Brazos river at Waco is again falling. Railways are tied up worse than ever before in the history of the State. The only railroad which has so far estimat ed its damage is the International and Great Northern. General Passenger Agent Trice, of that road, says the ac tual damage to the International road bed will reach $100,000. and that the road is now a worse sufferer. An accurate estimate of the Josses, in cluding the damage to railroads, the drowning of live stock, the washtr" away of bridges, residences and busi ness houses, in addition to the damage to cotton and other crops, is impossible at present, but it is safe to say that $1, 000,000 is conservative. PREPARING FOR CORONATION. Decorators at Work in London and Seats Be. in j Sold. London (By 'Cable). Optimism re garding the coronation is slowly reviv ing under the stimulative effects of the surgeons' bulletins and the confident forecasts of the medical journals. Whether the King's will is imperious, r his medical advisers consider it nec essary to humor him, there is a deter mined effort to subject the patient, who is nearly able to make one or two turns on the deck of the yacht, to the fatigue and excitement of the coronation cere monial. Motives of state prevail, al though there is general agreement among medical men that an ordinary patient would not be fit for so hazard ous an experiment a few weeks after a most serious operation. The business of selling seats is look ing up now that the programmes of the recession and the rituai are reappear ing, and the decorators here and there are touching up the faded glories of the June preparation. ADMITTED TAKING $120,030. Cot Used Money of one Concern to Operate Another. Boston (Special.) Henry F. Coe, ex treasurer of the Bowker Fertilizer Com pany and the Dudley Hosiery Mills, of Newton, who was arrested for the al leged embezzlement of $120,000, was held for the grand jury in $10,000 bail, which was furnished. Specifically he was accused of the lar eny of a note for $35,000 payable on de mand from the Bowker Company on June 3. Mr. Coe waived examination. Id, a statement issued by the Bowker Qompany the history of the affair is given, together with a confession sign ed by Mr. Coe, in which he said that he had used the notes of the Bowker Com- Ey in carrying on the business of the lley Hosiery Mills, at New London, 10 years, and that he had used $i20r poo. Experts, it is said, have found the amount stated to be exactly correct. Alabama Is Badly Parched. Montgomery, Ala. (Special). Re ports received here indicate a serious condition of drouth in Alabama. Less rain has fallen in the State during the laat three months than in any similar t, period sine 1839. Crops in many tec boos have been almost destroyed. In the middle western counties, which are large producers of cotton, the ground has not been thoroughly wet since ApriL Corn has been damaged beyond recovery, and the prospect is that the food crops will giva a light yield. Uihtntog's Strang Feat Ttoy, I1L (Special). During a se vere dactrical storm here a cross-shap-44 DMure was formed in the ground near r school building, one arm of which 49 net long and about six inches Hde and the other 80 feet long and six tacfVi wide. Where the arms of the rss converge there i a hoi two feet diameter, and a line ISO feet long jMdkrhaad with lead didnot touch the bottom. The theory is advanced that a Kt of lightning entered the ground, tbaae in the vicinity assert .that no nMU4i holt of lightning wVa noticed kiHt t storm. vv SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. The investigation into the Craven lynching has brought out the names of several men alleged to be implicated. Negroes testified freely before the cor oner's jury. J. C. McCaslin shot and killed Lottie Russell, seriously wounded F. Max Peters, and then committed suicide at the Salt Palace Grounds, at Salt Lake City. Mr. John Edwards, wife of the fore man in charge of double-tracking work on the New York Central near Wil liamsport, held a gang of mutinous Ital ians at bay. Congressman Pugslcy has gone abroad to investigate the methods of Kuropean bankers. He is a member of the Hank ing and Currency Committee of the House. Whitclaw Rcid. United States ambas sador to the coronation of King Ed ward, has returned to this country. George Gould has purchased the ma jority of the stock of the Union Rail way Company of .Memphis. Light earthquake shocks are still be ing felt in Los Alamos Valley. All the property of the Norfolk Heat, Light and Power Company, together with all franchises, power and privileges granted to that company by the Legis lature of Virginia and the Councils of Norfolk, passed into the h?nds of the Xon'Iok, Portsmouth and Newport News Company, The Imperial Tobacco Company, of Great Britain and Ireland, will enlarge their operations in Richmond. Va., and immediately begin the construction of a mammoth plant. The company has recently completed the purchase of a site upon which the factory will be built. Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, the wife of Richard Henry Stoddard, the writer and poet, died at her home, in New York, at the age of 80. Mrs. Stoddard was herself a writer of some promi nence. YVillard C. Von Dcrlip. a Boston law yer, has been arrested on the i' arge of embezzlement. lie had charue of sev eral estates. He says his shortage is about $100,000. On Wolfe Creek. W. Va., Joseph Hardesty was killed and his four sons were injured by the explosion of the boiler in his saw mill. Governor Cummins, of Iowa, will in vestigate the right of he Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway to reorgan ize in that State. A California geo'ogist says that the recent earthquakes in t'at State are not due to volcanic actily, but to local causes. Flora Lucier, 17 years old. eloped from White Valley. Mass., with Harry Moore, a Barre iarmer. Fiiteen hundred boilermakcrs and shipbuilders and their helpers in Chi cago are on a strike. At Decatur. 111., Charles Kerney, a deaf mute, killed himself because of ill health. Postoffices at Niles, Ohio, and at Bloomingsburg, N. Y., were robbed. A strike of rug weavers in Philadel phia has been settled. Charles Craven, the slayer of Wm. H. Wilson, a farmer, who lived near Hern don, Va., and who has been pursued by over 100 people and by bloodhounds, was captured on a farm near Ashburn, Va. He was asleep in a hayrick and was seized by three of his pursuers Ernest Norman, John Higgins and Henry Bryant before he had time to offer resistance. He was lynched at Leesburg. Miss Susie Costerbader. who was re cently assaulted by John Lomax in the woods near her home at Potomac Mills, Westmoreland county Va., died from burns received while kindling a fire. The New York Mail and Express is authority for the statement that a mer ger of Southern Railroads is projected. Foreign. Before a meeting of the British Med ical Association Surgeon General Bul er charged that Sir Redvers H. Buller in 1881 used Red Cross wagons for tak ing ammunition to the front. Former President Steyn, of the Or ange Free State, arrived at Southamp ton with his family. He was too ill to bear the journey to London. The story published by La Presse in Paris, to the effect that a shot had been fired at President Loubet, was found to be without foundation. The mission of the King of Italy to Berlin is to secure the Emperor's assent to his nroiect for a reduT'.ion of Euro pean armaments. Canada is to have a steamship service between one of its ports and South Af rica. J. B. Pioda, Swiss minister to the United States, was appointed minister to Italy. Dr. C. D. Bourcart, who was appointed to succeed Mr. Pioda at Washington, declined the appointment. A severe engagement was reported between the revolutionary forces under General Herrera and the government troops at Ague Dulce. Col. Arthur Lynch, the Nationalist member of the British Parliament, was committed for court on the charge of high treason. President Loubet signed the decree for closing the unauthorized religious establishments in Paris. The strong tide defeated the attempt of Holbein to swim across the English Channel. The will of Lord Pauncefote, late am bassador, was probated in London. Upon her arrival in London May Yohe declared Captain Strong's state ment to the effect that she got the money raised on the pawned jewelry, to be a fabrication. Flihu Root, United States Secretary of War, was greeted upon his arrival at Havre by General Pistor as the official representative of the French Minister of War. Financial. The New York Cotton Exchange will close August 9, coronation day. Baltimore's export for the fiscal year 1 902 were $80,500,000, a decrease of $25, 850,000. Standard Oil denies that it is to be come a greater monopoly than it is at piesent. St. Paul's net earnings lor June in creased $29,161 and Union Pacific's in creased $731. Union Traction books will close on August 27 for the annual meeting of September 18. The Beef Trust has leached into New England and captured Sturtevant & Holly's market, Boston. "When the troops appear the strike ends, as a rule," say President Mitchell to the miners. People's Gas directors have declared regular quarterly dividend of 1 i-j per cent., payable August 25. A sat on the New York Stock Ex change sold lor $75,000, which is $1500 more than the last previous sale. Rapid Transit reached 13 1-8 a share. On the New York basis that is equiva lent to a quotation of 260, as enly $5 is paid. THEY WILL CONSIDER THE BOER CAUSE Significance ol the Secret Conference at the Hague. PRESIDENT STEVN IS QUITE ILL. The Leaders ol the Burghers Will Pledge Themselves to Renew the War II Great Britain Commits a Serious Breach ol the Terms ol Peace To Flood South Africa With Subsidized British Emigrants, The Hague (By Cable). As soon as Generals Botha, De Wet and Delarey reach The Hague they will assemble in secret conference all the burgher leaders, both statesmen and generals, to consider whether or not the Boer cause is defi nitely lost. The leaders, it is said, are certain to pledge themselves to renew the war as soon as the British are guilty of any serious breach of the terms of peace. It is considered here that the fact that a British transport has just left Ncw-Castlc-on-Tyne with 200 mechanics and artisans hound for Johannesburg is evidence of Englands' intention to flood South Africa with subsidized British emigrants. The men in question were provided with free transportation and ianding money. London (By Cable). Former Presi dent Steyn, of the Orange Free State, arrived at Southampton with his family on the steamship Carisbrook Castle. He was met by Messrs. Fischer, Wes sels and Des Bruyn, the former Boer delegates. He will go to The Hague, whrc former President Krttgcr will go from Utrecht to meet him. Mr. Steyn was too ill to bear the jour ney to London, although a special sa loon carriage had been attached to the regular boat train for him. His phy sician would not allow him to be inter viewed by the press, but Mr. Steyn sent word that he wished to express his thanks for the courtesies extended to him by the British authorities since the surrender and for the care given him during the voyage. The former presi dent was removed on a stretcher to the Dutch steamer Eatavier III., which was moored close to the Carisbrook Castle. I He will be landed at the Hook of Hol j land and conveyed in an ambulance to the cottage reserved for him near The I Hague. HARRY TRACEY BOBS LP AGAIN. Outlaw Continues to be Fed at the Point ol His Weapon. Ellensburg, Wash. (Special). Sam uel Evans, who lives 15 miles north of this place, reports that last Monday a man came to his cabin and said he was Tracey. He had a Winchester and two pistols and compelled Evans to furnish him with food. The stranger showed Evans a wound in the back of his head and said he was shot hy a member of a posse on the West Side. A Wenatchee special says: "Harry Tracey was an unwelcome guest at the ranch of W. A. Sanders and S. J. McEldownev. six miles down I the Columbia river. Tracey came out : of the Cascades riding one horse, pack ! ing another and leading a third in re 1 serve. He carried a Winchester and ; two revolvers. He took dinner and sup I per at the ranch, having the men well ! covered with his rifle. Toward evening : he forced McEldowney to bring him two fresh horses and turn loose his i jaded animals. He went south." ! MANEUVERS MAY COST MILLIONS. Many Ships ol the Navy to Gather In the Carribean. Washington, D. C. (Special). Prob ably more than a million dollars will i be spent by the navy for the maneuvers in the Caribbean sea next winter. This sum includes 12 new coal barges to be built at an expense of $06,000 and then towed to Culebra Island. They were recommended by Rear Admiral Brad ford, approved by Rear Admiral Taylor, Acting Secretary of the Navy, and Rear Admiral Bowles was ordered to con struct them. This is but one item. Coal and am munition in immense quantities will be consumed, and incidental expenses in the way of putting the fleet into per fect condition will run very high. A number of ships are now being repair ed in order that they may participate, and the rushing of work will neces sarily involve extraordinary expendi tures. OVER 100 PERISHED. Sixty-Seven Bodies Taken from Mine In New South Wales. Sydney, N. S. W. (By Cable). Res cuing parties are hard at work at the Mount Kembla colliery at Wollangong, where it is feared 127 miners lost their lives by an explosion of gas. Thus far 67 bodies have been recovered and 149 men and boys have been taken out alive. According to the estimate of the col liery officials, there are still 100 men entombed, and, hoping almost against hope, the band of rescuers, among them many of those who were in the mine when the explosion occurred, but who were able to get out unhurt, are mak ing heroic efforts to get at those still held captive before they succumb to the mine gases. Death of Hon. John T. Lyman. Exeter, N. H. (Special). Hon. John D. Lyman, known throughout the country as a writer upon agricultural subjects, died here, aged 79 years. Mastodon Found In Iowa. Harlan. Iowa (Special). While ex cavating on the line of the Great West ern railroad at this place graders dis covered the remains of a mastodon. The ordinary bones soon crumbled, but parts of the large tusks remain in a splendid state of preservation. The largest single piece is more than 5 feet long, 20 inches in circumference and 76 pounds in weight. The bones were found 25 feet beneath the surface. Local scientists say the tusks could not have been less than 10 feet long. Hanged Him to a Tree. Camden, Ark. (Special). After twice escaping from the hands of the law, ac cording to word received here, Lee Newton, a negro, has been lynched in Columbia county. Newton was caught a month ago in the room ol two young ladies belonging to a prominent Co lumbia county family. Their screams brought assistance, but by a desperate effort the negro escaped. He was cap tured later and again escaped. Last week the police with the aid of blood hounds captured him. LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Same Treatment asJEmlgrants. Commissioner General Sargent, ol the Immigration Bureau, with the approval of Secretary Shaw, has issued a circular prohibiting the coming to the United States of residents and natives of Porto Rico and the Philippines, except after the same examination as ts enforced against other alien immigrants. The circular is as follows: "To Collectors of Customs, Immigrant Inspectors, Chinese Inspectors, and Other Officers Charged with the Ad ministration of the Immigration and Chinese Exclusion Laws: "Llndcr the provisions of the Acts of Congress approved on' April 12, 1000, and July 1, 1002, the people of the Island of Porto Rico and of the Philippine Islands have been declared to be citi zens of those islands, respectively, and as such entitled to the protection of the United States. "You are therefore advised that the provisions of the laws regulating immi gration, including those which prescribe payment of head tax. apply to the resi dents and natives of Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and moreover, that the provisions of the laws relating to the exclusion of Chinese apply to all of such persons as are of the Chinese race. The citizens and residents of the said islands, therefore, should be ad mitted to the United States upon the same conditions and subject to the same examinations as are enforced against people from countries over which the United States, claims no right of sove reignty whatever." Expenditures More than Receipts. The monthly comparative statement of the government receipts and expen ditures shows that for the month of July, IQ02, the receipts amounted to $49,305,001, and the expeditures $56, 813.567, leaving a deficit for the month of $7,507,876. The receipts from the several sources oi revenue are given as follows: Customs, $24,430,743. an increase as compared with July, toot, of $3,166,780. Internal revenue, $21,618,124, a de crease of $6,720,066. ' Miscellaneous, $3,256,823, increase, $538,637. The decrease in the receipts from internal revenue is due to the revenue reduction act, passed at the last session of Congress, which went in to operation July 1, 1902. The expenditures on account of the War Department show an increase of $1,500,000, and an increase on account of the Navy Department of $1,375,000. An unusual expenditure during July was about $3,250,000 paid to several of the States, under a ruling by the Comp troller of the Treasury, for expenses connected with raising troops during the Civil War. Outside Bidder Is Higher. The Government will probably print its own postage stamps, as the result of the bids opened at the Postoflice De partment for the contract for supplying the postage stamps for the four years beginning October I next. It had been stated that the price ask ed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was exorbitant and that the work would have to go to a private concern. The bureau's bid, however, proved the lowest. It is as follows: Five cents per 1000 of ordinary post age stamps; 7 cents per 1000 for post age due stamps; 15 cents per 1000 for special delivery stamps; $2.82 per 1000 books containing 12 stamps each; $3.45 per 1000 books containing 24 stamps each, and $4.46 per 1000 books contain ing 48 stamps each. The only other bidder was the Amer ican Bank Note and Engraving Com pany, oi New York, whose hid is esti mated to be about $15,000 higher for the four years' supply than the bureau's bid. Naval Prisoners' Probation. Judge-Advocate-General Samuel C. I.enily, of the Navy, has summed up in tabular form the results of the first complete year's record of the probation system for the treatment of naval pris oners. The results are gratifying to the offi cials of the department, for they indi cate that almost one man out of two sentenced by a court-martial for naval offenses will reform if given a chance under this system. Thus it is shown that there were 20 men on probation July t, 1901. During the year following 32 sailors were so placed on probation. Of the total 17 meit were unconditional ly restored to good standing in the ser vice. Only four deserted, while five failed of reform and were required to serve out their sentences. One was given an honorable discharge, and three were discharged as undesirable, leaving 20 men on probation at the beginning of the present fiscal year. No Confirmation of Friars Removal. The War Department has received no information to confirm the report from Rome that the Spanish friars in Manila are to be removed, but it is stated that such a course would be in furtherance of the plan of Secretary Root, which was presented to the Vatican by Governor Taft. It is also stated that if such ac tion was taken it would greatly simpli fy the negotiations which will be re newed at Manila between the Church authorities and the Philippine Govern ment. Kaiser Will Supply Horse-.. The German Government has notified the State Department that it will not be necessary for the United States Arm officers who visit the fall meneuvers to bring their horses, as the Emperor will supply fully equipped mounts. Notes ol Interest. The Acting Postmaster General' awarded to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing the contract for printing postage stamps and stamp books. The funeral of John W. Ross, one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for some years president of that board, was held at the Church of the Covenant. The Rev. Albert Par ker Fitch officiated. The service was brief and the remains subsequently laid in state at the church for several hours. The Great Northern Railroad Com pany has placed at the disposal of the Agricultural Department a railroad train for the purpose of transporting representatives of the department and road machinery to be used in practical ootecHessons in read building. The War Department will detail in structors for outside schools as soon as the new War College shall have been completed. Germany's exports to the United States during the last fiscal year in creased $2,750,000. , The Navy Department issued an order for the trial by court-martial of Assistant Paymaster Penrose, who is charged with having rendered false and fraudu lent returns. A comparative statement of the gov ernment receipts and expenditures for the month of July shows a deficit lor the month of $7,507,876. SOLDIERS STONED AT SHENANDOAH Three Different Attacks are Made Upon the Sentries. SEVERE MEASURES WILL BE USED. Entire Camp Aroused One Prisoner, was Taken, the Others ol the Attacking Party Escaping to the Underbrush The Ouards are now Fully Supplied With Ball Cart ridges. Shenandoah, Ta. (Special). The en tire Eighth Regiment was called to arms Saturday night as a result of three attacks made by a band of men in am bush, who threw stones at the troops now in camp on the plateau outside the town. These attacks are becoming so fre quent that Brig.-Gcn. J. P. S. Gobin has decided to adopt stern measures to end them. Now a double guard, sup plied with ball cartridges, surrounds the camp, and the sentries have been in structed that if the stone-throwing is repeated they must shoot to kill and in vestigate afterward. One of the at tacking party, a Lithuanian named Wil liam Stopinitz, is under arrest and is confined in the guard tent. It is not known how many were in the crowd, but the officers of the Eighth believe the number to have been more than a dozen. The first attack, according to Col. Theodore F. Hoffman, was made at 10.45 o'clock. Private Payne, of Com pany I, on sentry duty, saw a party of men on the Mahanoy City road, which separates the camp of we Eighth Regi ment from that of the Twelfth. Me commanded the men to halt and called the corporal of the guard, but before the latter could respond a shower of stones and rocks were thrown at the sentry. One rock struck him on the chest, knocking him down and causing his gun to fall from his hands. He immediately arose and fired several shots in the air. As he did so the men ran down the road and were pursued by several strangers. The outpost which had been stationed some distance from the camp heard the shot and one of the pickets captured Stopinitz as he came running down the road. The others escaped. The shooting aroused the whole camp, and the Eighth Regiment was put under arms and Companies B, E and K were immediately thrown out in skirmish lines. They beat the underbrush and laurel, which is five or six feet high all around the camp, but they culd find no one. The regiment was then called to quarters, and 15 minutes later an other shower of stones was thrown at the stable guard, which is located south of the Eighth Regiment. The guard turned out and three men were seen running along the road in the opposite direction from where the outpost was stationed. CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. Conductor and Engineer Blamed for a Fatal Wreck. Rochester, N. Y. (Special). Con ductor Frank De La Vergne and Engi neer Connolly, whose alleged negli gence is said to have resulted in the dis astrous wreck on the Lehigh Valley Railroad on Sunday, July 20. have been arrested on warrants issued by Coroner Kleindinst, charging them with man slaughter. Both men have been released on $2000 bail. Conductor De La Vcrgnc lies at his home in a serious condition. He has been suffering with mental collapse ever since the wreck, and the physician in at tendance fears serious consequences for i his patient because of the verdict in the 1 case charging him with being responsi- j ble for the wreck. Hurricane Carried Away the Grata. St. Paul, Minn. (Speival). A Lisbon, N. D., dispatch says: "Lisbon was the centre of a fearful hurrcane ana de structive hailstorm. Crops within an area extending 10 or more miles north west to many miles south are totally de stroyed. In many places even the grass is swept off. Barns and outhouses in all directions were wrecked and dwelling houses damaged. All windows on the north side of buildings were shattered by hail and the bouses flooded hy the torrent of rain wliich fell. In Lisbon hardly a building escaped some dam age. Stock is scattered and thousands of chickens and birds were killed. Feasted on Rattlesnakes. Hot Springs '(Special). Capt. A. L. Debney, a civil engineer, gave a ban quet to his friends recently, at which the principal delicacy was rattlesnake. Captain Dabney a few days before the banquet caught a monster rattlesnake, and he fattened it for the feast. The snake measured nearly 8 feet in length, was 20 inches in circumference and had 27 rattles. It made a desperate fight when captured, so Captain Dabney dub bed it "Joe Bailey." His snakeship was fed on rabbits, chickens and birds, and was in prime condition when killed. He was served up fried, broiled and stewed, and was pronounced delicious, the flavor being particularly delicate, and the meat white and of fine grain. Child Prophesies Orent War. Washington, D. C. (Special). Ac cording to a letter received by S. Ber lin, a merchant of this city, a 3-month-old child in Warsaw, Russia, has re cently made a startling prophecy. The prophecy is to the effect that in one year's time there will be a great war be tween the world powers, and in three years the milleniuni. Finances of Cuba. Havana (Special). At a meeting 'of the Cuban cabinet Garcia Monies, Sec retary of Finance, prescn'ed the finan cial statement for the month cf July. This shows that during the month the customs receipts of the island amounted to $1,208,648; postal receipts. $30,316; money orders, $53,000; internal revenue, $72,865; sundries, $17,375; repayments. $170,431; total, $1,552,635. The balance from the month of June amounted to $745,371- Payments for the month of July amounted to $1,236,850, ana the balance is $1,061,156. Two Years Beyond Century. Easton, Conn. (Special). Mrs. De borah Silliman, the oldest woman in Coniiicticut, celebrated the completion of the first half of her one hundred and third year of her life. She was assisted in the observance by 30 children, grand children and great-grandchildren, who gathered at the home of her son, Malett Silliman. She is a native ol Easton and is the widow of Marcus Silliman. She is in excellent health and has only one physical weakness, That rests in the vocal chords and sometimes it j rlif; rul' for her to sueak TWO HUNDRED FALL IN BATTLE. Hot Fight With Insurgents at Agui Dulce Troops from Panama. Panama, Colombia (By Cable). A severe engagement was fought between the revolutionary forces under General Herrera and government troops at Agua Dulce. Two hundred of the revolutionists are said to have been killed or wounded Wednesday. The Government had then suffered 10 casualties. Ammunition is being sent from here to the fighting government troops. The peace commissioners who left here July 31) in the British steamer Cana to visit the revolutionary General Herrera, near Agua Duice, ri urntd to Panama, stating, that (hey wi re unable to fulfill their mission becau; ol the battle. At 5 a. m. Thursday the best battal ions of the revolutionary forces attacked the government intrenchments with fierce courage. The slaughter of the revolutionists is said to have been ex cessive and barbarous. That same after noon the white flag was raised in their camp and they asked for an armistice during which they could bury their dead. This was granted. The losses of the rebels up to Wednesday. July 30. were reported at over 200. while the government forces, according to their statement, had 8 men killed and 11 wounded. General Moreno, one of the peace commissioners, says the intrenchmentj at Agua Dulce are masterpieces of mili tary art. General Salazar, Governor of Pana ma, has received a letter from the gov ernment General Morales Berti saying he is very enthusiastic as to the outcome and that he hoped to win a battle which will decide the fate of the isthmus. Gen eral Salazar. in his turn, is doing every thing in his power to help General Berti. EARTHQUAKE CAUSES PANIC. The Village of Los Alamos, Cat., Completely Ruined. San Luis Obispo, Cal. (Special). A strip of country 15 miles long by 4 miles wide, rent with gaping fissures and dotted-with hills and knolls that sprang up during the night as if by magic, a village in ruins and hundreds of persons fleeing for their lives, are the results of the seismic disturbance in the Valley of Los Alamos, in the northern part of Santa Barbara county. During the last four days that section of the country has been shaken by a scries of earthquakes that is said to be without precedent in the history cf the Pacific Coast, and the continuance of the disturbances and the increasing se verity of the shocks have so terrorized the inhabitants that they are leaving for other parts as. rapidly as possible, and even now the village is almost en tirely deserted. The most severe shock of the entire series occurred at 1 1.30 o'clock a. m. Hills were shaken and twisted to their foundations, the valleys trem bled aifd rolled almost like the surface of the ocean. Great fissures were run deep in the earth, hills and knolls ap peared in level valleys, springs of water appeared in places that had been dry, and the general topography of the val ley was greatly changed in many re spects. The disturbance had no gen eral direction, but was what is known as a "twister." It was preceded by a rumbling like that of distant thunder, which increased until the earth began to rise and twist and the hills began to tremble. With the first warning sound of the approaching shakes the terror-stricken people rushed into the streets and sought places of safety in vacant lots and roads, tvhile many fled toward the neighboring hills. The first vibrations were similar to the preceding disturb ance in direction and effect, but they were immediately followed by the most terrific shock ever experienced in this section of the State. Miss Hay to Wed In Autumn. Washington. D. C. (Special). Miss Alice Hay will be wedded to James W. Wads worth, Jr.. son of Representative Wadsworth of New York, on Septem ber 30, at the Falls. Newbury, N. H., the country home of Secretary and Mrs. Hay. Only immediate relatives and friends will he present. After a short wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Wadsworth will go to Genesseo, N. Y., for the rest of the autumn. Woman Shoots Two .Mod. Salinas, Cal. (Special) Warren Johnson and Joseph S. Bordeges. prom inent young men of Salinas, were shot and fatally wounded here by a woman. The woman then attempted to commit suicide, but was prevented and placed under arrest. Johnson received two bullets in the abdomen and Bordeges was shot in the back, the ball piercing the right lung. The shooting is be lieved to have followed a quarrel. Gravediggcrs on a Strlk;. Chicago (Special). The 25 gravedig diggers employed at the Concordia Cemetery art on strike for higher wages, and have succeeded in prevent ing other laborers from taking their places. Three funeral processions which arrived at the cemetery gates during the day were turned back because of the strike. It is stated that similar strikes; will be inaugurated at two other ceme teries. Want the President as Judge. Denver, Col. (Special). The Denver Horse Show Association has sent Presi dent Roosevelt an invitation to attend its annual exhibition and to act as a judge of the rough riding contest, which will lake place on the opening day, Sep tember 1. Found Dead of Poisoning. Des Moines, Iowa (Special). Albert Potter, of Waverly, a member of the Iowa Legislature, died at Mercy Hospi tal from the effects of poison. It is not known . whether he administered the dose himself or was murdered. He was found in his room in the Kirkwood Ho tel and was taken to the hospital. For years he was at the head of a mutual in surance organization, and for some time it is alleged there has been a dispute over the accounts which Potter had in charge, Steel Compsny Buys Coalfields. New Wilmington, Pa. (Special). The Sharon Coal and Limestone Company, an allied interest of the Sharon Steel Company, has closed the purchase of the mineral rights under 51 (arms around Leesburg, Mercer county, and Plain Grove, Lawrence county. One million dollars is involved in the deal. Several' thousand acres arc embraced in the deal, fart of it by lease and part by purchase., t is expected they will furnish the steel company with fuel for many years to. m KEYSTONE STATE. News Happenings of Interest Gathered From All Sources.' ' Patents granted: James A. Arnold, Allegheny, apparatus for forming glass articles; George T. Ashton and J. F. Painter, Pittsburg, adjustable window shade and curtain pole holder; Robert L. Harnhart, Charleroy, motor; Richard Utters. Johnstown, ice cream can; Ear nest Baumgartncr, Fairvicw, device lor promoting and controlling combustion; Thomas G. Bladen. Vandergriit, tack puller; John F. Geary, lloytdale, me tallic tie and rail joint; William Drcnd witz. Pit:bnrg. heating stove; Charles R. Kdwa-cR Pitts bv.rg. rail joint; Jacob C. Fair. West Monterey, railway rail joint; David Ferguson, Pittsburg, lock ing device for bolls; William Floss, Meadow Lands, rail joint; Wm. F. For aker, Meadvillc. oval cutting machine; Joh? B. Frederick, New Kensington, match box; Reinhold Herman. Crafton, signal mechanism; Edwin M. Herr, Pittsburg, brake shoe adjuster: Paul S. Knapp and J. Steinberg, McKccsport, vat-It cover. Pensions granted: John Cain. Home stead. $6; James Knapton, McKccsport. $10; Wm. Davis, Mercersburg, $12; Wm. Morris, Hughesville, $12: Wm. Line, Bedford, $8; Robert Coleman, Johnstown, $17; Charles E. Pettis, Gar land. $40; David E. Graftins, Martins-b-.trg. S17: Gate E. Davidson, Sinville, $;: Elizabeth Baker. McKces G.n. $8; John Davis, Duncanville, $12; Henry Lamp, Mill Creek. $12: David Scott, W est Middleton. $10; J. Miltcn Rav. Allegheny, $8; Jacob McCall. Osceola Mills. $12; James L. Dunn, Titusillc, '12: Mary A. Herbstri:t. St. Marys. $8; Nancy D. French, Wcstfield, 12; Du Bois Corton, Ridgcway, $10. A charter has been received for the newly projected electric railway from Souderton to the Trooper. This will pass through Harlcysville, Skippack, Center Point and Fairvicw. a distance of about 17 miles, and will connect the Lehigh Valley and the Schuylkill Valley system. The report of State Treasurer Harris fcr the month oi July shows a balance in the general fund of the State Treas ury of $12,264,409.69. This money is carried on deposit in 84 banks and trust companies and the State receives 2 per cent, on daily balances. Beginning Sep tember 1. 50 per cent, of the State de posits will be withdrawn from these in stitutions to pay the school districts, the appropriation for which became due lime I. Jacob Schlosser, 23 years of age. c f Ho. kendauqua, shot himself through the lung. His fiancee, -who lives in New York, recently came to Hokcndauqua on a visit. Schlosser pressed his suit, but the girl insisted on the wedding being postponed until spring. When she left for the railway station Schlos ser shot himself. His recovery is doubt ful. During a storm at Pittston lightning strr.ck No. 2 slope of the Erie Com pany. The bo't entered the mine and exploded a large quantity of gas which had formed at the entrance. The explo sion wrecked the entrance and hurled bricks right and left. One brick struck Eugene Hodgdon on the head, fractur ing his skull, and he died later. Select Council, of Easton, adopted the ordinance to issue bonds to purchase the property of the late Chief Justice Henry Green for a municipal building and public park. The ordinance will be signed by Mayor I.ehr, and one of the finest properties in Easton will pass into the city's hands. A serious accident and possible loss of life were averted at the Tidewater Steej Company. Chester, by the timely discovery of a large loaded shell which was .-.bout to be thrown into one of the furnaces at the works. Troubles follow Harry B. Biddle, of Pittsburg, whose two brothers, after es caping from jail, were killed by a posse. His ti-ycar-old son was killed by a rail road train. The body was taken to the same under;aking establishment from which the Biddies were buried, William James, William Nolan and Walter Campbell, fish wardens, arrested several men who were fishing illegally near Pittston, when two women attack ed the officers witlt baseball bats and the men were severely beaten before they managed to make their escape. Dr. J. II. Gardner, of Stoyestown, vaccinated 310 men employed ' in the completion of the Quemahoning Branch Railroad. He had one assistant. About 12 hours were spent in the work. Chester Council of Barbers has decid ed to oust all members who tolerate Sunday shaving. For the second time in two years the Reading Iron Works, of Danville, were partially destroyed by fire. The revenue receipts of the Ninth Dis trict for July were $269,930.27. This is a decrease of $71,549.21 as compared with july, 1901V the shortage on cigars afone being $28,948.51. Altoor.a capitalists will incorporate a company to purchase 45,000 acres of oak and black walnut timber lands in Lou isiana. T. D. Hughes is president and Dr. William M. Findley treasurer of the company. , To avoid being killed by either of two trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Frederick Hahn, of Lancaster, jumped frcm a bridge over the New Holland turnpike, a distance of 40 feet. His jaw was broken and he sustained internal injuries. The 5-year old daughter of Frank Niles, of Coudersport, was in a tree try ing to cut off a branch, and wanting her father's knife she waited until he drove under the tree with hrs mewing ma chine, Then she jumped in front of the knives, and before the horses could be stopped one of her feet was cut off. Andrew Mclchan, of Penn Haven, ar rived in Freeland to attend the wedding of his brother. He exhibited signs of mental derangement and suddenly mada a mad dash for the woods followed by a large crowd. Excessive joy at his brother's wedding. is said to be the cans for the affliction. ' Six firemen injured, two S-story build ings almost completely destroyed, a number of others slightly damaged and a property loss estimated at $318,500 is the result of a fire in Pittsburg which raged fiercely for seven hours. The authorities of Chester have the smallpox epidemic under control. Forty cases, have been removed to the hospital, in an isolated place, and not more than four or five are outside of the institution, Joseph J. Allibaugh committed suicide at Uniontown by sending a bullet through his brain, and died instantly. Hehas been a sufferer for, years, ami recently threatened to take his life. Al libaugh was the pioneer in natural gas development in Fayette county, and was largely interested in this line. He was deputy sheriff for twelve years an A wifMy known in many business lines. 1
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