II RIGHTS HAVE GUN SECURED TREATY SIGNED. Nicaragua, Cosla Rica and Colombia Clear the Way (or Isthmian Canal Measure. Details Await the Senate. Secretary liny for the government .f tlic United Stales nnl Scnor Corrca, tin; Nicaragua!! minister, for his own govcrnim lit, liavc sinned a treaty where by the lallrr government concedes to the government of the United States the necessary rights ami privileges with in Iter bestowal for the construction i f the Nicaraguan canal. Pending the submission of the treaty to the Senate which body must rati'y the agreement, it h terms will not be made public. It is understood, how ever, that generally Nicaraguan giant to the I'nited Stales government ihc exclusive right to construct and oper ate the canal between the Atlantic an I 1'acitic across Nicaragua, including the free use of the San Jnan river and of Lake Managua as part of the water course. Nicaragua is also to free her self of any outstanding treaties that would tend in any way to abridge the privileges to be nciptiicd by the I'nil-d Stitis. It is understood that Nica ragua concedes to the I'nited States full autlioiiiy to police the canal. Nica ragua i to tcceive in compensation a certain nun "lit of the securities of the canal ccMi-tnicti.ni company and ;.l tlioiivh il is not possible now to leai 0 the l'u:"re set c'own in the treaty, it is believed to appiovimatc $5,000,1100. GERMAN TRADE NOT FALLING. Amarxan txpcrls and Imports Show an Increaso for tho Year. A good deal of anxiety seems to have been w i-tcd with reference to the trade relations between the I'nited Stales and (iermany. l iar was expressed some tiiontlis ago that trade restrictions pro posed to (iermany might seriously in terrupt the commercial relations be tween that cotmtrv and the I'nited States, and especially decrease our ex ports in agricultural products. Figures just issued by the Treasury show that our expo'ts to (iermany in the to months ending with October. tijoo, were $-7,rx:o,ooo greater than those in the corresponding months of last year. n increase of about 20 per cent., and that our imports from (iermany show an increase of $X.ooo.ooo, a gain of over 10 per cent. Of the 40 (treat articUs which compose the bulk of our exports to (Iermany more than two-thirds show an increase in 1000 as compared with 1H00. Cupper shows an increase of more tlnn $3,000,000, mineral oils $..oor,ono, tobacco and agricultural implements nearly $1.00.000 each, and manufactured cotton over $-'S.ooo,ooo, while in the de crease there arc but two cases in which the falling off is as much as $1.000,0110 corn showing a reduction of a little more than $1,000,000, and wheat a lit tle more than $2,000,000. CAPE DUTCH VERY ACTIVE. Farmort Throughout the Colony Buying Arms and Ammunition In Large Quantities. Reports from all the Dutch districts throughout Cape Colony arc to the ef fect that the farmers are securing arms anil ammunition, the latter in unusual quantities. In Cape Town the dealers have almost exhausted their supplies and are ordering more. No reason is given for these purchases except that name is plenty and that the farmers arc afraid of a rising of the blacks, who have lately been much bolder aiuTcvcn in solent, especially toward the Dutch. The authorities have not succeeded in tracing any connection between the Boers of the Transvaal, now in arms, and the Dutch agitators in Cape Colony, but no doubt is entertained that such a connection exists, and that the former are encouraged to resistance by hope that the latter will rise against English rule. Advices from Pl-MiSi-ifi ct-ir,.,. It,..! Il, Boers arc more active than for a long lime past. 1 nc tintish forces exercise no authority beyond their own lines, and any small force apart from -.he main armies is at once attacked. The destruction Of forme nnnt nn p. - v.., "11, u.i 1 y seems to excite the enemy to greater activity. There is no sign of relief for the British troops and a rebellion in Cape Colony would call for double the present number, or about half a million men. AGAINST THE EMPEROR. Prince Tuan, With a Large Force, Reported to be in Rebellion. Telegrams from Shanghai say: A mis sionary in the Province of Kansu re ports that 10,000 of the troops of Gen eral Tung-Fu-Hsiang entered that prov ince and joined .Prince Tuan'a rebellion r.gainst the emperor. General Tung has been obtaining supplies from the viceroy of Sze-Chuen. The governor of Shansi has wired a request to the Wu-Chang vicero- to end him, without delay, eight quick-firing guns, and the viceroy has ordered the guns to be sent. It is reported that Hsu-Tung, guardian of the heir appar ent, is still alive and in hiding near Peking. Bo'onten Surrender. Twelve hundred bolo-men entered Wigan, island of Luzon, Saturday af ternoon and surrendered to Captain Green, of the Thirty-third infantry. This is the largest number of men who have yet surrendered in Luzon at one time. General Tinio has been keeping a swarm of bolomcn alongMhe moun tains, and they have impoverished the food supply. Newest Proposed State. The first step toward organizing Ok lahoma and Indian Territory into one government will be taken on December 10 at a convention composed of .too delegates from each Territory. It is be lieved that all the delegates will favor single Statehood. The promoters of the convention have no well-defined clans, but hone that means will be found by which repre sentative citizens can convince Con gress at its next session that the Terri tories should have Statehood. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Ifrngu.iy, threatens to sever friend'y relations with Brazil. Twenty buiness houses were destroyed by fire Saturday at Fulton, Ky. One man dead and two wounded is the result of a family fend in Georgia. Caleb Baldwin, of Newaik, N. J., celebrated his 101st birthday Thursday.! Thanksgiving day was celebrated by American colonies in London and Ber lin. Fix-Congressman James Mosgrove, the Kiltauning (Pa.) millionaire, is dead. Fifty students of Wnynesburg (Pa.) college have formed a military cadet corps. Samuel Merrill, third secretary of the United States embassy nt Berlin, is very ill. Agninalilo's agent is in this country endeavoring to enlist sympathy for the Filipinos. The French chamber of deputies, pass ed a resolution of sympathy for Presi dent Krutfcr. A vigorous effort will be made to or ganize all the coal miners employed in West Virginia. J. M. llenaker was crushed to death at llittton, W. Va., by a pile of lumber falling on him. llerr Spinot.t, Pi ivy Councilor an 1 Director of the Charity Hospital at Berlin, is dead. Prof. Ti bo Momni'cn, brother of the Gcrmon Historian Momni.cn, is dead. 1 le was born in K'). Accounts of a Cincinnati board of education official, who died lecently, are shoi t at least $100,000. I-.icheV hosiery mills an'd Ramsey's shoe factory at Mn'tlin, Pa., burned, causing a loss ,-f $i;.ooo. )car 1.. Booz, of ltii-lot, Pa., is lying as a result of a hazing received while a West Point cadet. The American transport Kilpatrick, carrying Nno rccp'ils to the Philippines, arrived Friday with all well. As a result of a boiler explosion at Davenport, la., two men were killed an 1 live others seriously injured. Cholera has broken out among the hogs on the Beaver county (Pa.) Poor farm and a number have died. F'.mpcror William's traveling arrange ments will prevent his receiving Mr. Kriiger at Berlin or elsewhere. l'Ycnch ami German vandals arc loot ing the famous Peking observatory and sending the instruments to lCurope. Telegrams say the schooner Czar has been wrecked off the Mexican coast unci her entire crew of nine men drowned. The tannery at Parsons. V. Va., is being improved by the addition of new machinery, which will double the out put. The deaths resulting from the collapse of a roof tilled with spectators of a foot ball game at San F'rancisco now num bers IS. Latrobe (Pa.) miners decided to strike and the Westmoreland sheriff is trying with slim success to raise a small army of deputies. C. II. Struble, of Warren, ()., has been granted a franchise to erect water works, gas and electric light plants at Strut hers, O. Mary F'.llen Lease, the Kansas female politician, is about to atiply for a di vorce. She pleads incompatibility and failure to provide. At Grand Rapids, Mich., by the blow ing up of a steam tank in a pulp mill, one man was killed and several others were badly injured. The Wheeling Steel and Iron Com pany, of Wheeling, will build a plant at Benwood, W. Va., to cost $500,000 and employ 1,000 men. Wesley Beatty, slayer of his brother-in-law, David Nine, at Kingwood, W. Va., was compelled by flood and storm to surrender to officers. By the upsetting of a raft on the Spo kane river. Wash., twenty men were thrown into the water, three, and possi bly more, being drowned. A granite monument, to cost $10,000, is to be erected in Woodlawn cemetery, Titusville, Pa., to the memory of Col, Drake, the pioneer' oil operator. Recent rains caused heavy slips on the new C. & I. R. R. at Elkins, W. Va. The tunnel has fallen in and will take all winter to remove the debris. Winston Spencer Churchill, who has just sailed for America, said before leaving that England would at once send 20.000 additional troops into South Africa. Advices from Australia state that the volcano on Beach island in the New Britain group has again become active. A score of natives have been killed. Beer drinkers in England are in a panic over the death of 60 persons and illness of 1,000 in Manchester, traced to the presence of arsenic in cheap beers. National Good Government league opened its fourth annual convention in Allegheny, Pa., Thursday but ends it the first day, on account of small at tendance. November was a record-breaking month upon the Fittsburg, Pa., stock exchange. Over 200.000 shares of stock, and $674,000 worth of bonds changed hands. A dispatch from Naples says that the steamer St. Mare, running between Na ples and Marseilles, has been wrecked with the loss of 45 passengers and sev eral of the crew. The Canadian railway employes havi complained to the government against the importation of United States labor while they are debarred from entering tne united states. Armor, Swift and 'other Chicago packers and dealers have cornered the egg market. They have already made about half a million dollars and their profits have only begun. A start has been made at Natrona Pa., for $400,000 bar and sheet mills, and Chicago capitalists plan to erect big tin piate plant, nearly an to operate in dependent of tne combines. In the Pan-American beauty contest the awards were made to Maud Cole man Wood, of Charlottesville. Va., blonde, and Maxine Elliott-Goodwin, the actress, who is a brunctto. 1 tie iter county, w., corntnissionera have granted a franchise torhomas L. Childs to build an elect rG line from Canton to Akron. Theroad ia to be t tn operation by (Jctobejr 1, 1901. FORCED BRITISH tO 'SHUl! DEWETSDORP TAKEN. Four Hundred of Europe's Pride Gave Up Alter a Long and Bltler Battle. Croat Britain Alarmod. Lord Roberts cables from Johannes burg, under date of Wednesday: "The Dewetsdorp garrison, of two guns of the Sixty-eighth field battery, with de tachments of the Gloucestershire regi ment, thr Highland Light infantry and Irish Killcs, 400 in nil, have surrender ed to the lloers. Our losses weie IJ men killed and 43 wounded, including Maj. Johnson' and Capt. Digby. The enemy is said to be J,s.oo strong. Four teen hundred were dispatched trom FM eiiburg to relieve Dewetsdorp, but did not succeed in reaching there in time. Knox joined his force and found D't welsdorp evacuated. Seventy-live sick and wounded had been left there. Knox pursued and is reported to have suc cessfully engaged Steyn and Dewet near Vaalbank. They retired west ami south west. Knox's tncssciver failed to get through, so I have no details." The disaster at Dewetsdorp has sent a thrill of alarm through (ileal Britain. Independent accounts of the subsequent recapture of Dewetsdorp give ample de ans, not omit ting to announce the cap ture of two Itoer wagons and a quantity of loot; but there is not the slightest mention of the surrender of 400 British roups and two guns, which were not veil disabled, as the lloers were able to Use them ngnin-d the British relief forces. The ubiquitous Dewet seems cgaiii to have gotten awav, and there is no news that the captured British have been liberated. Taking into consideration the iiht- mntical military situation north of the (range river, tbe smoldering rebellion in Cape Colony, the rumors that FratKc has promised Krugcr to press arbitra tion on England if he is able to obtain the support of Gennany, and that Gen. Kitchener is not to be given the cni" command in South Africa,, the British government will meet the new parlia ment next week at nn exceedingly op- ortime moment. No attempt is made to conceal the extreme irritation caused by the adoption of a resolution of sym pathy with Krttger by the F'rench cham ber of deputies. The London morning papers are unanimous in declaring that no intervention of anv kind will be nl- owed to change the British policy. LARGE SUM OF GOLD. U. 8. Treasury Hotdi Nearly Five Hundred Million! In Yellow Metal. The largest stock of gold coin ami bullion ever held in the United States is now accumulated in the treasury and its branches. The total has been ris ing steadily during the whole of the presiut year, and is now $474,108,330, or about $?o,cx,ooo greater than at the close of iHi)0. 1 his gold is not all the direct property of the United States, but is held against outstanding gold certificate. The amount of these, less the amount In the treasury and its branches, was $230.- 755.H00 Wednesday. All the remaining gold, ninounting to about $243,000,000, belongs to the treasury as a part of the reserve fund of $150,000,000. 1 he gold supply of the country on the last clay of iSii was estimated nt $602,- 047,212. The estimated amount Novem ber I, 1000, was Si,oHo,027,4C)7, and it ts probable that the report for December 1 will show nt least Si.too.ooo.ooo. 1 ho treasury officials arc confident that the round sum ot ? 175,000,000 in treasury gold holdings will soon be attained, and that even $500,000,000 is not beyond rca sonablc expectation. BAD RAILROAD WRECK. A Score ol Peoplo Killed In Mexican Disaster, Americana Flee. A terrible wreck in which a score of persons were killed and about 60 hurt, occurred on the Mexican Central rail way between Tamanacha and Symon, 50 miles south of lunulico, in the valley at the foot of two immense hills. At the time both trains were running 30 miles an hour. One of the tram had on board a construction crew number ing 150 men. The other was a freight train of 55 empty car. Three engines and about 40 cars were piled up 30 feet high. Two American train employees were forced to flee to avoid being lynched. THRASHED BY WOMEN. Mormon Elders Roughly Treated In South Hungary by Irale Gltltcns. Advices received from Tcmcsvar, South Hungary, record the rough treat ment received there by two Mormon elders, emissaries from Salt Lake City, Utah, lite two elders had hardly com menced to enunciate their views on po lygamy when the audience stormed the fdatform and ejected the men from the tall. One of them was compelled to run a gauntlet, being prodded with sticks and beaten with straps or -knot ted cords. He was afterward stripped to the waist and thrashed by half a dozen matrons of TcmcsVar. The sec ond Mormon was ducked in a horse pond. The minister of the interior has or.- hibited further Mormon attempts to proselyte as being a danger to the well being of the state. Fifteen Hundred Lives Lost. A dispatch from Hongkong reports a typhoon at Tonrane lasting 48 hour: destroying the villages, rice fields and buildings and laying the harbor bare, It is estimated that 1,500 to 1,600 per sons perished, and the remaining popu lation of 4,650 are without provisions. Poital Department Statislics. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow shows in his report that the total number of annointments of post masters for the fiscal year ended June 30. icjoo, was 15.142. ana .I, two new ol fices were established. A vigorous r.l tort has been made to suppress private postoffices. In June 30, 1900, there were 76.(s Dostolhces. divided as follows First-class, 104; second-class, R52; third class, 3,187; fourth-class, 72,455. The gross revenues of the department for the year amounted to ?ioj,354.S79. SAN FRANCISCO CALAMITY. Spectators at a Foot Ball Game Dumped Into Fiery Furnaces Twenty-On Dead, On Hundred Injured. Twenty-one people arc known to have been killed by the collapse of the to if of the Pacific glass work Thursday afternoon while the roof was crowded with men and boys watching the game lelween the foot ball teams of the Uni versity of California nnd I. eland Stan ford university nt San Francisco. two hundred men nnd boy Had gath ered on the sheet iron roof of the gl.is works to obtain a free view of the foot ball game. About 20 minute after til game had commenced there was A crash, nnd n portion of the crowd on the root went down. The fire in the furnace hail been started for the first time Thursday, and Ihc vats were full of liquid glass. It wa upon these that the victim fell. Some were killed instantly and others were slowly roasted to death. The few who lnised the furnace rolled off, and igether with the workmen in. the glass works, saved the lives of many by pull ing them nway from their horrible rest ing place. r.ighty-two persons, more or less in jured, were taken to the various hospi- als or removed to their homes. Most of those killed or injured were boys letween o nnd 10 year old. Nearly all id the victims hail their skulls fractured or limbs broken, and sustained serious internal injuries. Only a few were actually burned 'o leath, the majority being killed by the fall. Several of those injured are in a I'l'ccaiious condition, and the list of dead may be increased to a score within a day or two. TUNNEL UNDLR THE EEA. French Engineer Proposes to Connect Spain and Africa A Costly Scheme. The State Dcpaimcnt at Washington has received a report conveying blither information as to the proposed tunnel from Fairope to Africa under the Strait of Gihraltcr from (jeorge 1 1.., Murphy, consular clerk at Magdeburg, Gennany. M. Berber, the French engineer, who ha submitted the proposal of this pro tect to the (.lovernmeiit ol Spam and Morocco, 1 said to have perfect con fidence in the feasibility of the plan. 1 lie proposed length of the tunnel is 25 miles, 20 mile ol tin under the sea. Kailway connection in r.urope 1 planned by means of a line following the Spanish coast and passing through Tarifa and Algeciras into F'rancc. In Morocco n line would be constructed from Tangier, connecting with the rail way system nt Tienicen. The cost of the tunnel is approximated at over $21, 000,000, and of the entire connecting line between Spain and Algiers at about $.iV5ix),cxx. LIQUOR LAWS IN MANILA. American Authorities Reducing the Number ol Saloons by High License. Regarding the liquor traffic in Ma nila the war department publishes a statement that the American authori ties have increased the license fee from $1 for each saloon to $6xj for saloon of the first class, $250 for those of the second class, $100 for the third class, and $50 for the last clnss, selling only beer and light wine and located outside of the business district. The sale of the native drink "vino" has been forbidden to soldiers. There were only ! li censes outstanding on June 30 last, a decrease of 6cj since the American li censes began. The bar rooms arc more orderly and keepers more careful in sale to drunken persons. No discharg ed American soldier holds a license. Spaniard hold (6 licenses: Americans 23: F'ilipinos 2d: negroes two: Chinese eight: Japanese three, nnd persons of unknown nationality 27. Rats Three Feet Lonq. The expedition sent to Cuba by (he Smithsonian Institution to collect strange animals nnd plants has returned loaded clown with specimen and with tales of adventure more strange than the freaks they brought with them. Kats of an edible species some 3 lect long, including the tail, and weigh ing 18 pounds were captured, but none were brought back to tin country alive. All were eaten by the hungry adventurer. These rats and the snakes on the island, none of which i venomous have nearly all been eaten by the famished Cubans and are very scarce. Mexicans and Jndians Battle. News of a fierce battle between Mexi can regulars and Yaqui Indians is told by two American miners, who were prospecting about 40 miles from Coy- apa. Mexico, when the Indians made them prisoners and ransacked their camp, troops were dispatched tn pur suit ot the Indians as soon as it became known that the Americans had been car ried off. The Indians entrapped the Mexicans in a narrow defile of the mountains, and when the Mexicans fin ally withdrew they left 20 dead. The battle then continued at long rang. While it wa in progress the Americans escaped to El Paso, Tex. Six Indian were killed or wouncW,. Kentucky Murderer Captured. William Gibson, who is charged with burning his two-year-old step-daughter to death with a poker, is undoubtedly captured, and the officers have given up the chase. A message from Kush Kv.. savs he has been captured there and is being held for a reward. "His cantors are miners and have him s creted in the mines. Governor Beck ham will offer a reward of $500. but his captors will not turn him over unless the reward is raised to $1,000. Ambushed by Ladronos. A detachment of the Third United States infantry was ambushed on Sat urday near Malolos. Two privates were killed and three were wounded. 1 he m surgents escaped into a swamp. Gen cral Dates reports the capture of 33 in surgents, six of whom murdered seven persons last spring. While returning by steamer a detachment of Americans landed at San Vincente and attacked a body of rebels, killing seven. A branch arty attacked a band Deyona raiestlna, bve and capturing to. SECRETARY ROOT S ARMY SCHEME FOR REORGANIZATION. Would Have No Officer Ahov the Grade ol Lieutenant Genorul -To Abnllih Staff Corp Enlist 12,000 Filiplnns. The bill prepared by .'secretary Boot or the reorganization of the iinny pro vide for n lieutenant geneial, six major generals and 1 5 brigadier general. I'he number of captains, fust lieutenant mil second lieutenants of the cavalry and infantry are increased from 12 I K for each regiment. Provision for the discontinuance of the present artillery arm is made by organising 1111 artillery orp as coast artillery and held artil- ery. I lie coins will have a duel ol ,ir- lillery detailed from t lie colonels, and while serving in this rapacity he will have the rink nnd pay of a brigadier general. '1 here will be 13 colonels, 13 lieutenant colonels, 31) majors, 1H2 cap tains, ic)H first lieutenants and 10,2 sec ond lieutenants. The increases in the artillery shall be 20 per cent, each ye ir for five years, until the maximum cf IX.Ojo nu n is reached. An important provision i that offi cers below the grade of lieutenant colonel, when detailed for duly in the Washington bure aus of the army, sh ill serve a year in the line, but shall not ose their places III the staff corps. I his n 111 1 mi 11 1 si ,) the abolition of the staff corp as a permanent institution in winch officers seive throughout tlnir niilitary career. Th" full effect of it will not be worked out for several years, is it i not proposed to make the provi sion, if it should be enacted into la.v, npplicahlc to present members of the ilaff corps above the rank of lieiitena it coiol'el. I he President is auihoried to c nli t natives of the Philippine1 islands in or ganizations similar to the cavalry and infantry, to the number of I.'kki, the officers to be selected from the regular army. The highest officers in comma. id of tin1 natives shall be majors. Wh-n natives show fitness for command thd President is authorized to make pro visional inipoinlmclits in the grade 1 f second and first lieutenants. A regiment of Puerto Bieans also is authorized. COMMISSIONER WILSON DEAD. Th Head ot Ihe Internal Revenue Bureau Passes Away. George W. Wilson, commissioner c f internal revenue, died Tuesday forenoon in Washington, D. C, of llrights dis ease, complicated with asthma. He had been dangerously ill for several days past. There were with him at the time id his death Mrs. Wilson, hi daughter, Mrs. Pardoimer, and several of his as sociate of the treasury department. Gcorue Washington Wilson was ?7 years of age, and a native of Ohio, lie entered the Union army when iH years edd as a private in the Fifty-fourth Ohio infantry, and served throughout the war, coming out a first lieutenant. In 1H06 be took up tne practice of law, nnd in 1 Wkj entered the internal revenue service, lie served ill various capaci ties, rising from one position to another until he became the he ad of the bureau. Commissioner Wilson wa regarded as the most thoroughly informed man 011 internal revenue subjects in the govern ment service, and was consulted on all measures affecting the revenues that have been before Congress for many years. PLOT AGAINST ROBERTS. Conspirators Proposed to Blow Up Church. Fear ol an Uprising. Telegrams from London announce that a plot to kill Lord Roberts by blowing up a church has been discov ered and that many of the alleged con spirators, all foreigners, arc under arrest at Johannesburg. This .startling news lias been continued py the war ouice. The best information now obtainable is that the plot was discovered on Sat urday and on Sunday the conspirators were taken red-handed. The nnti-Itritish fcclincr m Cane Colony )s assuming dangerous propor tions, owing to false stories of UritUh barbarity in Orange River colony and the Transvaal. Loyalists fear that the Dutch congress next week will be the signal for a rising, and they demand that martial law be proclaimed through out the colony. The situation is declar ed to be graver than at any previous period during the war. Turkey Sign the Contract. Telegrams from Constantinople, Turkey, say: Hassam Pasha, Otto man minister of marine, and Uen. v il liams. representing the Cramp Ship building Company, of Philadelphia, have signed a cont'act for the construc tion of a cruiser for the Ottoman navy. The price to be paid is 350.000, wiped includes 23,000 as indemnity to the United States for losses sustained by Americans during the Armenian massa cres. Live Stock Exposition. Ten thousand animals including hog, sheep, cattle and horses, arc on exhibi tion at the International Live Stock F.x position at Chicago, and the show promises to be one of the most notable of the kind ever held in this country. Six hundred exhibitors, representing 35 state of the Union, and including 45 exhibitors from Canada and four from England and Scotland, are there with their choice stock. Tired ol Ihe Postal Service. After serving as postmaster and n sistaut postmaster continually for years. John Pynn. of St. George. Utah, has resigned. He is 85 years old. and only a few postmasters have outrank. -.1 him in point of service. Public Shew of a Corpse. Spencer Williams, a negro gambler, was shot to pieces near Lake City, F'la., hy a mob. Williams, who recently ar rived from Tensacola, shot and danger ously wounded City Marshal Strange and William Strictland. a business man of that city. The marshal was at tempting to arrest the negro. Soon as the news of- the shooting became known citizens formed a posse and overtook Williams in , a swamp. Fully 200 bullet holes were found tn his body, which was brought into town and placed in front of the court bouse EXCITING SCENES. , The Flood Cause tn Emhansmtnt to Gl Way Precipitating th Cleveland Flyer Inlo th viator. Tho Cleveland night express on the Cleveland nnd Pittsburg railroad, leav ing Pittsburg at It o'clock, wa derail ed and wrecked nt 1 2 : 1 3 o'clock Wednesday morning about n mile be yond lleaver, Pa. At this point Ihe track runs along the bank of the Olil'j river, nnd the locomotive and train plunged into the water. , ( ne man was drowned nnd four per sons were seriously injured, nil being trainmen. None of th; passenger were badly hurt, but a number sustained mill-1 or injuries. 'Ihe wrei ked train, which i known as the ( level.-unl flyer, makes few stops be tween Pittsburg and Cleveland. It wa running at lop speed when the ac cident occurred, and it i remarkable that more people were not killed. The train was composed principally of sleeping cars, which were well filled with passengers. 'I he rains of Ihe past few day had undermined the road bed and the bal last hail been washed out. When the train reached the point where Ihe di nsler occurred thr engine and the whole train of cars were thrown into the riv er. The wrecked cars luckily did not g much beyond the river bank, the iin pact of the train lodging them in the soit mud. The ears, however, were on the edge id the swift current of the river, and were cpiiikly half filled with water. OUR FAfiMINO INTEIIES1S. Report ol Ihn Department of Agriculture In crease ol Exportation. Secretary of Agriculture James Wil son, in His annual rrpo't, declares his aims to be to bring the department sci entists In the help of the producer, io ascertain what we import that they m produce, with a view lo encouraging its growth and to seek out new market for our surplus products. lie says the department's appropria tion should be regarded as on Invest ment, fur the reason that it makes di rect rrturns therefor by lidding to the wealth of the country, thus adding year ly largely to the profit of the farmers and others a the result of its investiga tions. The study of market abroad wi'li special reference lo extending, the de mands therein for the agricultural prod ucts of Ihe United States has been prosecuted with real and intelligence. During the fiscal year 1R07-1000 our total sale of domestic farm products to foreign countrie aggregated the enor mous stun of $3,iKo,ooo.ooo, an excess of $Koo,oixx,oon over the preceding four-year period. The agricultural ex ports of the United Stales for the past fiscal year amounted lo $44,000,000. The rapid growth of our export trade to the Orient in recent years i most striking, l-'ivc years ago our total ship ments of domestic merchandise to Asia and Occ anica were valued at $43,000,000, of which only $.700,000 were agricul tural. There has been a steady increase in each succeeding year, until in 1900 our export trade with the Orient amounted to $107,000x1, of which $30. 000.000 worth was farm produce. Of this great increase in the growth of our agricultural export to the cpiartcr of the globe, amounting to something over $20,000,000, $11,500,000 ronsisted of cot ton, and $3.41x1,000 of wheat flour. Dur ing the past fiscal year Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Hawaiian islands and the Philippines furnished a market for $45, 000.000 worth of our domestic products. Five years ago these islands took but $i3.ooo.orx) worth. During the fiscal year nxio we sold to these islands $20, 000.000 worth of farm produce, an in crease of $13,700,000 over 1R0J. FACTORY INSPECTOR'S REPORT. The Conditions of Child labor Are Improving. Figures for the Year. The annual report of Jame A. Camp bell, Pennsylvania State factory inspec tor, for the year just ended will soon be submitted to Gov. Stone. The report for 1000 shows the total number of employes to be 773.44.3 35. 440 between 13 and 16 years cf age, or les than 5 per cent, of the total num ber of employes being children. Many establishments will not employ children between 13 and 16 year of age, on ac count of the law requiring age certifi cates and record books to be kept on file. Two hundred and seventy-four illit erate children, who were unable to eith er read or write, were dismissed. Most of them were provided with certificate 'worn to before aldermen or notaries. These official should be prohibited from i'suing permits ii children who are un rdile to read and write. There were 2,557 accidents. Moct of them were due to carelessness. One hundred and thirteen were fatal, 470 serious and I.c15 less serious. Explosion Killed Four. At Lazearvillc. W. Va., 20 miles above Wheeling, on the Ohio rivr, a crowd of 20 boys had built a fire on the river bank from driftwood and wefe watching the rising waters. In a lot of driftwood one of the boys threw on the fire was a can partially filled with nitro glycerin. Immediately there was a ter rific explosion, and four boys were kill ed and sixteen wounded. An infant also died as a result of the accident. Standard Oil Co. In Roumania. The Standard Oil Company, for a con sideration of $2,000,000, has obtained concessions for mining and erectL pipe lines on all the government t ns well as almost a mononolv at I ing wells in Koumama. Three-Cornered Duel. At Parkdale, Ark., twol brothers, merchants of that pj ing had a lulling out with Stau t 'lumps about railroad busij to the station, smashed eve then went in search of IJ was at his boarding house. him out, and after exchauV words with him, all drew the three men were dead J s'.antly. Diphtheria is epidemic Westmoreland countv. A V
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