CONDENSED DISPATCHES. tabic event of the Week Drledr Chonlvled. A naval conllns station Is to be es tablished at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. King Alfonso of Spain has Inherited liIJ(K),(MH under tho will of his grand father, King l'rancls. The llrltlsh government will assist relieving the men and otlleers of the antarctic steamer IMscovery. Two liipn who wore arrested In Chl 3tgo are believed to hnvo stolen thou wnds of letters from mull boxes. Employers predict the eurly end of & building strike on the ground that men are tired of the struggle. , Governor Hates of Massachusetts tts signed the requisition paper for vb extradition of Moody Morrill from New York. Joseph Becker, n Swiss socialist, wns wrested, at Walla Walla, Wash., on charge of having threatened President Roosevelt's life. Urgent domestic questions have pro. yentcd the Australian parliament from wnsideratlon of preferential trade with Great Britain. The reruvian gunboat Loreto was mnk near the Scilly Islands. The .Tew was saved by a French vessel and landed at riyniouth. The United States secret service will investigate the system of peonage In llabatna by which negroes are virtual ly reduced to slavery. Tho dealers of San Francisco have protested against the award of the eon . tract to supply sugar for the Indian ,-iervlce to a New York firm. Tnemlnj-, Mnr l!tt. '. A. famine Is causing many deaths in Kwangsl province, China. Russia Is reported to be sending large pins to Newchwang via Transsibcrian '-all way. J A striker was shot in the Bronx, New (fork, by n nonunion man who refused to be Intimidated. Mrs. Potter Palmer pronounces tlx tory of her engagement to the Prince if Monaco as absurd. , Eugene Canlield pleaded not guilty to in indictment charging liini with keep ing a gambling house ln New York city. Mrs. Gunning S. Bedford has admit ted in London that the child she iialmcd off on her husband Is not her iwn. John Ilefferan. coachman for Max F. Sand, who was shot on Sunday night near the Ardsley (X. Y.) club, has since iied. Killing'frosts prevailed ut Warrens burg and other points In the Adiron dack. Growing vegetation was seri ously damaged. By forbidding continuance of the fa tal auto racing the French and Spanish governments have won the npplause of press and public. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain says be British government is not support ng the movement of South African ailne owners to Import Chinese labor. David Barrio, Lipton's former repre sentative, has made a bet of $1,000 on Shamrock III. -against $1,500 from a Xew York Yacht club member on tho cup defender. Russian necounts say that the cvac latlon of southern Manchuria has been followed by an increasing display of In solence by disorderly tribes, who have reated a reign of terror. While Sir Thomas Upton is very eon ldent of winning the America's cup, he vants It understood that he does not egard It by any means as n certainty. The sport of the thing," said the baro net, "lies in the very uncertainty of it" The St. George society of Baltimore ledlcated its private burial grounds ln Druid Ridge cemetery. Edwin Bennett presented to the society a hnndsomo rrantto shaft, which was unveiled and dedicated to the memory of Queen Vlc iorla. Monday, Mar SS. An Anglo-American club has been founded in Vienna. Sir Thomas Lipton's fleet will leave for America next Thursday. Mr. Foxhall Keene's selection to take tart ln the automobile cup race is wek 'omed In England. Five persons were badly injured and many were shaken up in a trolley aecl lent at Paterson, N. J. Several clubs in London, according to i special cable dispatch, have put Hin ts on bridge whist playing. Members of the Brotherhood of Car lenters, out on strike, have acknowl edged defeat by applying for work as .:idiyiduals. A fire that is estimated to have .-ausod a loss of upward of $1,000,000 renrred at the Front Street Ware housing plant in Philadelphia. Garabed Kentooni, an Armenian, was nurdered and his body was mutilated y unknown assassins In his room on i-'ast Thirtieth street, New York. A thunderstorm, accompanied by a high wind, struck Pittsburg Sunday ifternoon and besides killing one man lid considerable property damage. Albert Spauldlng, the fourteen-year-eld son of Mr. J. Walter Spauldlng of 'rv York, has obtained a diploma os irofessor of the violin at Bologna. By order of Park Commissioner Will ox workmen demolished the summer .arden of Philip II. Dietrich, who was sipunttlng on New York city property. Twenty-five thousand dollars' worth nf bunting and flags were draped from 'he city hall, New York, In preparation 'or the two hundred und fiftieth aunl--ersary celebration. While passing Mays Siding, near jMo, Pa., the boiler on one of tho loco iiotlvi; pushing a Philadelphia and F.rlo freight train exploded, killing one nan and Injuring four others, three '.lerhaps fatally. Siiiui-ilri r, May 2:1. Cars are running on all Bridgeport trolley lines. While fanners In Schuylkill, Pu., weiu in church pruyiug for rain a ;-ioiiduurl eausou great Oauiugu lo tliuir tmds. Ilctlon In Koren with Japan Is lnld lo French Influence. Koren Insisted on the Ilusslan re ,'rossltiK the Yalu river. A tornado at Clay Center, Kan., killed :'.vo girls and Injured others. The first hanging In I'orto Rico will bo that of I'edro Plan, convicted of murder at a politlcnl riot. The Seaboard Air Lino railway shops, Dlllces and warehouse at Portsmouth, Va., were destroyed by lire. Dennis Kilbride, recently released from prison, was elected to parliament from South Klldare, Ireland. One section of Montana has been eat en up by grasshoppers, while another was tinder three feet of snow. Three students were hurt In n bicy cle race nt the New Kngland Intercol legiate games at Worcester, Mass. The Dalmatians have petitioned Km peror Francis Joseph to Intervene and prevent further bloodshed in Croatia. Samuel If. McKlroy has died stub ll,,IlI.v ln Brooklyn. Two weeks ago he received n sharp shock on a trolley car, The Chicago Jewish massacre relief committee has cabled SIO.IMH) to Klshl- nelT as the first Installment of Chlca- ! go's contribution. Ambassador MeCormlck In an Inter view In London, says that the Russian government has no desire to shut Manchuria to American trade. The permanent treaty was slgmM at the ollice of the secretary of state in Havana ny rocroinry 01 rsiine ,amo and I'nitcd States Minister Squid's. M. Santos-Duniont Is preparing at Paris a balloon which Is fifty-six meters ! In length and has a speed of eighty I kilometers (or fifty-seven miles) an hour. 1 tionoral Greene says he does not j want a dry Sunday in Greater New I York; but, the state excise commission er having called his attention to the law, he proposes to have It enforced. Thirty members of Company C of Lexington, thirty members of tho Shel- byville company anil forty members of the Louisville battery, with one Gat ling gun. were on duty In Jackson. Ky., during the investigation of the Marcuui assassination. 1'rl.lny. Mny 22. The crew deserted the burning coal laden steamer Pfohl In Lake Huron. The California fruit canneries need 8,000 more laborers than are available. It is proposed to deport Bulgarians from Macedonia to Anatolia, Asia Mi nor. The British Columbia government has given away by mistake 4 SO square miles of timber lands. Jews In Kishlneff and other parts of Bessarabia fear further outrage at the hands of the' Russian populace. The revolt In Croatia is spreading to every part of the titular kingdom and threatens to extend to Dalmatla. Philip Blagden's family discredit the report that tho missing bank clerk en listed in the New York marine corps. A big red auto touring car exploded on Third avenue, New York. About thirty of the bystanders were Injured. The Presbyterian general assembly ot Los Angeles, Cal., has been opened, with the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke as moderator. A tornado swept over Ashland, Kan., laying waste tin town and a largo por tion of the country. It is reported that two persons were fatally injured. An order from Ottawa has been re ceived by the Canadian customs ollt eta Is at Fort Erie that allows touring autolsts to enter Canada without pay ing duty on their motor ears. The new cup yacht Reliance inflicted a defeat upon the former cup defender Columbia, leading her over the finish line of a twenty-five mile course off Glen Cove by fourteen minutes and forty-three seconds, official time. The drought in Forto Rico has been broken by copious ruins, which were preceded by fierce electrical storms and slight earthshocks. The crops suffered severely and their ruin was narrowly averted. The hot spell was the most severe on record there. Secretary Hay has presented to the British government the claims of tlm heirs of the late Charles Brown, an American civil engineer, for lund grants ln South Africa valued at $!, 000,000, of which, they contend, he was wrongfully deprived by President Kru ger of the Boer republic prior to the war. Thnraday, Mar 21. The abandoned town of Montana City Mont., has been burned. Cuba's independence (the first anni versary of the Cuban republic) was celebrated at Havana. John W. Gates has been ordered by a London doctor to stop work, as an old ailment threatens him. Professor Gore of Washington has been named commissioner for Slain at the St. Louis exposition. A man was caught placing ties on tho railway track near Mansfield, Mass., and the Colonial express had a narrow escape. The bridge over the Susquehanna at Binghamton, N. Y., went down with a street car. Eight people were niore or loss hurt. President Roosevelt was enthusias tically received during a short stay in Sisson, Cal. Clouds rested on the top of Mount Shasta and greatly marred tho president's view of the grand old mountain. Insanity and death came to New York with the third day of Intense heat. The thermometer showed 100 degrees at tho street level. Eight deaths and twenty prostrations from the heat were reported. A fire which broke out In the shoo factory of Cote Bros, destroyed tho I'rontenac and Ottawa hotels, half a dozen flourishing Industries and 2.10 houses, leaving nearly n quarter of tho population of St. Hyaclutho, Que., homeless. THE COLUMBIAN, TlUEVliS AND T1LUUS. They Form a Community of Their Own In New York. Mend vf Detective Itnrwiii SrTht "jet-nieh-nlek" Men Are the Moat lln.niceroaft of too lldenee Men, Seclul NVw York Letter.) W1IKN Inspector McClusky, head of the detective bureau of New York. Issued his warning to 400 thieves the other day to leave the city the question natural ly arose: "Where will they go?" The police dragnets were spread and the men were arrested and arraigned in the police courts. They were told that the only condition of their free dom was that thy were to leave the town. Kvery man arrested promised to do bo and all were released. The average citizen of New York who read this announcement in his newspaper the next morning, together with an interview with Inspector Mo- A GRIOICN GOODS MAN. Clnsky, said: "Well, that Is a pood tiling." But the average citizen thinks no further of the incident. As a matter of fact the thieves lliau leave New Yol k under such orders are comparatively few. It is likely that out of the -mo told to get out L'5 or HO will actually do so, Diit it will be only to move to some ot her large city. Tho professional thief, whether he be a pickpocket, u "s-trong-urin man," a porch climber, a forger, or one of the many ot her variet ies. can only exist in the cities, lie finds t here is nothing for him to do in the count ry or the villages. As for the thieves who apparently obeyed the orders of the chief of detectives, they were undoubt edly intending to leave town anyway, as their business if we may call it that' necessitates a rumbling life. As for the rest, one who knows this class of "gentry" may take a stroll uny pleasant afternoon down the Thieves' highway, known iuthe city directory as the Bowery, and there he w ill see near ly all the old-time faces thathave dee oruted the "rogue's gallery," desig nated in the vermicular as "the Hull of Fame" for many years. If I wanted to find any particular New York thief, for instance, I know a certain person whom 1 could locate in a Pell street saloon and he would reach my man for me in short order. Thieves are classed according to the work -they do, like tradesmen. A man who makes his living entering houses by means of porches would be as unable to get u dollar by picking pockets us lie would by silk weaving. On the other hand a pickpocket could not keep from star ving to deuth if he hod to go to sand bagging. Not only do they do their work in classes, but they live In classes. So if the thief 1 wanted to find were a "strong-arm gun" or highwayman, my man in Pell street would look for him at once in the Cherry Hill district. If he were a burglar he would live in Chrystie street, and so it would be with all the different grades. But Inspector McC'lusky's order, while it hus not had the effect of driv- GOLD BRICK NEGOTIATIONS. ing the thieves out of New York, has served to bring more prominently be fore the public the fact that this city lb IJVllI Ull nun uic v c b ij jivo ui s inir inuls in the United States, and it Is natural that they should ull flock to the metropolis. Of course, when the "front office" (as the thieves cull police headquarters) begins to agitate the question of cleaning up the city, it h policy on their part to remain quiet for u time, but they only do so for a few weeks und then the burglaries und rob : berles ure us flagrunt as ever. I Inspector Mcl'lusky, while recently : appointed to his position, is an old ;tiuie thief catcher, and knows many of ithe criminals will. In talking with 1 me he expressed the belief thut the BLOOMSBURO. PA crook" of to-day was rapidly degener ating and that the profits in a criminal career were reduced to uch small fig ures that it hardly paid men with brains to remain in the "profession." The revolution, he said, was caused by the advancement, - of modern police methods. The very individualities of specialties to which attention hua already been colled, like one man being an expert pickpocket, another a hunci bagger, another n housebreaker, and o on, leads to the detection of crime. The inspector explains it in this wise: "If a clever piece of forgery has been done we know a pickpocket didn't do it ; so the first thing we inquire is: 'Who are the expert forgers out of the peni tentiaries?' There are only n few of them in the country, und we easily lo cate those that were near the scene of the crime at the time it was com mil ted. Then we fit in the clues. So it Is with other kinds of crime. You see police methods have become u science und we are now in such close touch with the police forces of other cities thut all the rogues ore known, and it is pretty hard for t hem to escape. For instance, every counterfeiter lias his own peculiar style of execution, just as on artist has, ond the moment a bogus notegets into circulation the experts know who made it. "If you will look over the criminal records you will find not only every crook's picture, but you will see a full report of his specialty and his methods of w ork. We know t hem all like books, anil generally cnji put our hands on them when we want them. So, you see, under the circumstances it does not pay for good men 1o remain in the busi ness. The kinds of crooks, however, who have not degenerated, are the wire tappers that is, t lie men w ho tap the wires and get race information, so as to beat the poolrooms und the steerer' to the 'brace' faro games. This crook is of a higher t pe than the edd style confidence man. lie must dress well and hangubout the hotels so as to create the impression that he is a gentleman of leisure in order to en snare the real gentlemen into a little 'private game.' But even he finds it necessary to keep on the move, for every large hotel keeps its own detec tive who soon knows till about the al leged gentleman. "I will tell you of one class of sw in dler, though, that is on the increase and who is very dillienlt to dislodge, and that is the 'gol-rich-quick' man. lie es tablishes himself in tine oflices in the business part of the city, either on lower Broadway or Wall street, and does a lund-olliee business.. lis nicth- AT HOME WITH SAFE CRACKER. ods ure so apparently business-like that the police are practically power less. This class of criminals is more to be feared than the burglar or pick pocket because of his security." One of the oldest crooks in New 1 ork (he is an "ex-gun" now that is a re tired thief) was reached by me through the niun in Pell street. This man for merly earned his living as a "strong- arm" (highwayman or hold-up man) and did not agree with Inspector Mc Clusky that thecriruinul types were de generating. "Of course, the business is chunging," said he, "Take the green-goods niun (one who pretends to deal in coun terfeit money and gives sawdust in ex change for the real money to the dupe who deals with him) as an example. That is a type that has almost entirely disappeared, lie has developed iirto the man who pretends-to have the inside on Wull street, und gets money from out of town. The bunk burglar in the cit ies has disappeared altogether for the reason that it Is useless to fight against the sufes they make nowadays; but the gold-brick man 1s simply the old type of the present 'get-rlch-quiek' in dividual who sells Ivgiis mining stock and worthless securities to the confid ing and greedy. "They say there is no 'grufl' among the policemen of New York ut present. 1 urn not in the business now und know nothing about it, but In the old days I know it was not an unusual thing to see the safe-blower und the policeman taking a social glass together at the safe blower's expense. When 1 wns in the business there was no system of police graft. It was a euse of in dividual police hold-up. Later on, am told, if the pickpockets wanted to w,ork n certain line of street cars, they had It fixed by their friend, the politician. If there was too strong a protest, which was bound to hap pen at times, word would be passed to them, and then there would slid denly be u lot of pickpockets who were not working under the friend ship of a wise guy (politician). But I don't know how it is w.orked now. I am out of tho business." In the. meant line. Inspector Mo Clusky's order hns given u's un oppor tunity to look a little into that in teresting sociological study, the Or der Of Thieves. FREDERICK BO ID STEVENSON, "with thj Soldier in the Philippine. The position of an Anierienn sol. dier, when campaigning in the Philip pines, is a trying one. In jungle fighting in the tropics the nervous strain and mental tension tell more on him than the phys'cal sulTering. The men have to contend with a wily, savage and fanatical foe in a torrid and enervating climate. These conditions which the Hoops faced in the Philippines caused Z. C. Collins, one of the International Young Men's Christian Association secretaries, lo I plan to visit southern Mindanao with his outfit of travleing libraries, writ ing materials, magazine and papers which are supplied in quanities from Ihis country by the Young Men's Christain Association to bring cheer and comfort to the men. The army transports carry the secretaries when ever possible, but when Mr. Collins applied lo the quartermaster at Manila lor transportation, he was informed fiat the boat was crowded. Mr. Col lins said, '"I always carry my state room with me and roush it with the men on sea or land. This opened the way and with his libraries and supplies he was taken aboard. While en route the ship's company were given concerts in the evening and the use ct his magazines and books. At Iloilo, where the cholera had been raging and killing a hundred natives a day and men were quarantined on board, he "made things lively" with music and songs. At Tucuran, a small, lonely, one company post, perched on the top of a hill, overlook ing the sea and surrounding country, the only recreation for the men had been wild boar and deer hunting. Here he gave concerts and left a traveling Young Men's Christian As sociation library, a case of some sixty books, one for one hundred and fifty, furnished by the Woman's Auxiliary of the International Committee for the army and navy. Here lie joined the train of fifteen wagons, each .lrawn j by six mules and accompanied by an escort of thirty men, en route for the I interior. At Mataling Falls he found three companies. The men had no diversion from guard duty and road ! building for weeks. Collins was cal led a god-send with his popular eve ning concerts and quantities of popu lar literature. From here he continu ed up the trail, accompanied by an escort and a pack train, and found at Camp Vicars fifteen hundred men under canvas, where they had been for months without entertainment. Here he gave hour after hour of song and music. The men had been at this camp for months, enduring months of heavy rain, doing guard and out post duty; with every little while on post and following this a scene of fright ful earthquakes. Cool, level-headed army officers said it was the most trying experience through which they had ever passed and the constant ex citement and lack of helpful diversion, was seriously affecting the men. The coming of the secretary was appreciat ed by the army surgeons even more than the men as a help to them in maintaining the health of the garrison. Pack mules were sent back from here by General Sumner to bring in the traveling libraries. Sunday morning Chaplain Rice and Secretary Collins joined forces in the hospital and on the mil-side. At Camp Jossman over lour hundred men and all the officers of the battalion, listened to a sacred zonophone concert, followed by a service. Secretary Collins spent several davs in this camp visiting among the men with whom he had suffered hardships on the tramp, "hiking" hundreds of miles each year with the troops, visit ing the hospitals, holding services, entertaining thesoldiere in camp dur ing the long evenings, and furnishing literature and writing materials. Ia the thirty-eiL'ht days of his first visit at Vicars and Jossman, twenty-one con certs were given to nearly 8,ooo men. At Cottabato, on the banks of the Rio Grande, gospel services were held under the palm trees, with the entire garrison of three companies present. When mention was made of the donor of the music and talking machines cheer after cheer was given for the lady, who is regarded the world over as a friend of the soldiers and sailors, as well as railroad men. General Sumner,' noting the service ot the army secretary, wrote "Prob ably nothing can be made to appeal to the average soldier in the field quite so forcibly as this sort of enter tainment, and undoubtedly it keeps him from amusing himself in other and less healthful ways. This quiet, non-sectarian work of the Young Men's Christian Association in the army is accomplishing lasting good. It has a business like, independent way of accomplishing things." Tlio StrcituoiiH Life. livery day die system needs h ctrlain quantity of mitrious maiter to supply the deficiencies of the day before. The liii ihn; up process must bejjin at the breakfast table. It"i l"u "uw cereal, la-tev uoud and fur nishes thnt material. A breakfast of his the entire body for the strenuous trials of tae ilay. "f " is nuule of the best selected wheat. uJtn has a taste to it. One disli makes you want another. Von can cat "Jf nt nay meal. At tjiucers ever) where, a la ly Btufftid Full With Good Reading- The June McClure'i is one cf the best rounded out and uniformly at tractive numbers of this magazine ever issued. There is an unusually long table of contents, and not a pjge of dead matter. The number opens with a masterly appreciation by John La Farge of the three great Flench artist?, Delacroix, Decamps, and Diaz, the kind ot art criticism it is a delight to read, and illustrated with some exquisite reproductions in tint. Henry Harland's new serial, "My Friend Prospero," cannot fail to be a drawing catd. The first installment shows the author at his most charm ing best. Tht story opens in Italy, and promises lo excel in every par ticular in which one looks for excel lence from this splendid romancer. Two first class artlicles are "At Ocean Grave-yard," by P. T. Mc Grath, and "The Swimming Hole," by Eugene Wood j the fust a stirring account of some of the famous wrecks and tescues of the Newfoundland coast, the second a paper that no man who has ever been a boy will read without emotion. Miss Tar bell's Standard Oil chapter "The Great Consummation," which one is tempted to pronounce the best yet, relates the final discomfiture of the independents in their efforts to bring Mr. Rockefeller and his colleagues to trial for conspiracy, and the upbuild ing of the mammoth trust." Comedy of the Catechized," a symposium of answers given by civil setvice appli cants furnishes two pages of excellent fun, while Ray Stannard Baker's article on Peter Cooper Hewitt's three great inventions provides a much needed and excellent popular account of what Lord Kelvin consid ered the most important work in electrical science being done in America to-day. Three short stories are of the very best : "A Little Mat ter of Real Estate," by Myra Kelly is another inimitable picture of East Side school life in New York; "The Looking Glass," by Alice Brown, is a beautiful love story, simple and true; and "49 Message," by Charles B. DeCamp, a rattling good telegraph yarn. Artnur sianwoou rier s "inc Triumph, goes out literally in a blaze of glory, the episode of a bnrn ing gas well, that makes a good story by itself. Florence Wilkinson has three little poems of chilJ-lil'e, one cf which, "A Botanical Adventure, is a masterpiece. In fact, the number simply bulges out with good things. Supreme Court Decision' The supreme court of Pennsylvania has decided that a sc'wot board, after a hearing, may expel a pupil found guilty of the charge made against him. The opinion was rendered by Justice Potter in the case of William Miller against the directors ot one of the sec tions of Philadelphia. Miller's son had been expelled from school and the father applied to common pleas court No. 3 for a writ of mandamus to com pel his son's reinstatement. This ap plication was refused. Then the case was carried higher and justice Potter, reviewing the facts and stating the law on the case, ssys: "Under the act of May S, 1854, power is given to the board of directors, on full examination and hearing, to suspend or expel from the school all pupils found guilty ot refractory or incorrigibly bad conduct. The requirement is that the examin ation and hearing be full, but this does not necessarily mean that it should be by the full board. We see no reason why the investigation of charges and the conduct of a hearing may not be delegated to a committee of the board, when the action of the committee is afterward reported to and is reviewed and considered and sustained by the full board." Thus it will be seen that not only has the board power to expel, but a committee of the body delegated by the board to hear and decide cases has equal power. Whisky-Soaked Corn Sends Grows Reeling uver t arms- As a result of the protracted drought drunken crows are reeling around the fields in the Swatara, Deep Creek and Pine Valleys. The birds have been intoxicated by corn, which farmers soaked ia bad whiskey before planting. When the seeding season opened in the valleys great flocks of crows swept down on the fields. They were al most starved, but nevertheless as cun ning as fable paints them. Scare crows had no terrors for the birds and gunners could not approach feeding tlocks because keen-eyed sentinels were always on the lookout. The first planting of corn was quickly un covered. The farmers soaked their next plant ing in whisky. Never was there such a celebration in crowdom. Birds of bad disposition fought and those of ar genial turn of mind gave each othej the crov laugh. The wassail ende in a slaughter. Bloomsburg is getting its share of shows this season. The advertising matter for Bard Bros, one ring circus has arrived, and we hear that another is headed this way. The more, the merrier. w
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