Ol'll FOREIGN LETTER Dealing with Commercial and In dustrial Conditions Abroad. I'lip Aifrariian Pnrly 111 C* c r 111 an y 'Woulil liutcbac tl»«» Duty <u» Im ported \\ henl—Fn'in'li W 00l lu ll u h try ami Other Item*. Proponed (■ermiiii Duty 011 \\ liont. The agrarian party, after having succeeded during the last session of the reichstag in enacting a law pro hibiting. in effect, the importation of American corned beef and canned meats and sausages, is now using its powerful political influence to bring about the enactment of a law that will vastly increase the import duties on all grains entering the German em pire. notablj on wheat. In this connection, it may be of in terest to note t he following table, show ing the duties imposed by various na tions on the two leading grains for breadstuffs: Duty per bushel. Wheat. Rye. Country. Cents. Cents. Portugal 58.3 4fi.6 Sweden 27 27 Argentine Republic 25.1 Italy 89.1 23 0 Spain 55 23 Germany 22.1! 22.H Hungary 19.2 19.1 Prance 'M.7 15.7 ■Greece lti.S 12.3 United States 25 10 Canada 21.4 10 Turkey 7.5 5 At present, the chief countries de pendent on others for a large part of their wheat supplies are Germany. France, England, Austria, Italy. Spain, Switzerland and Belgium. The leading wheat-exporting countries are Russia, Hungary. East Indies, Balkan States. United States, Canada, Argen tine Republic and Australia. The aim of the agrarians is to make Germany entirely independent of al! countries for its breadstuffs and food supplies. However, it is impossible to understand how a duty of. say, 44 cents on every bushel of imported wheat, as is now proposed to the reielistag, can increase the crops of wheat and other cereals in this country or decrease the appetite of its people. Farming, di versified and intensified, is done in Germany upon more improved and scientific methods than probably any where else in the world. Though the Germans use less machinery in gar nering and removing their crops than we do. they apply more chemistry in the treatment of their soil, and use al most every inch of ground available for agricultural purposes. More com mercial fertilizers are imported into Germany and manufactured there, and more attention is paid to "soil in oculation'' in order to increase fertil ity, than in any other country. And yet, with all that science and money and toil can do in raising grain, Ger many is obliged to import from other countries about one-eighth of her breadstuffs. One-eighth is a rather Email fraction and does not look at all formidable, but when it is borne in mind that in 1599 Germany had to im port 50.371.430 bushels of wheat, for which she paid $42,935,200, and 22.097.- tl~s bushels of rye. which cost her $15,- 440.200, the question at once assumes gigantic proportions. For the two items of w heat and rye, the nation paid to other nations the handsome sum of »55,381,400. and this vast sum of money the agrarians claim will be retained in Germany if a higher duty be imposed on wheat and other grains. It is proposed to add to the acreage of Germany by putting under cultiva tion all the barren, waste places now occupied by moors and heaths and swamps. It is claimed that ample pro tection will bring better prices for home-grown wheat, which will en ■courage the German farmer to grow less sugar beet and more grain. Hut even should Germany be as .success ful in increasing Iter production of wheat and rye as the most sanguine agrarians expect, it would be impos sible for any length of time to supply the home consumption. With the nat ural increase of the population of Ger many. the demand for and the con sumption of breadstuffs are contin ually growing. Each year brings to the country, on the average. 6CC.000 fresh mouths clamoring for food. So. after all, it is difficult to see how the proposed national legislation can have any other effect, in the long run. than to enhance the price of the daily bread so needful to every man, woman and child. There seems to be little doubt that the proposed law will be passed by the German reielistag. This will se riously affect the interests of the American farmer, for a large part of the importation of wheat is American grown. A duty of 40 to 50 cents on every bushel of wheat cannot fail to be well-nigh prohibitive, and theconse ■quence will be more limited markets, fiercer competition, and lower prices to the producers. French Wool IniluMtry. The supply of washed wool for the French industry was. 194,004.800 pounds in 1890. This figure has varied somewhat in the last ten years, "being 231,483,000 pounds in 189.'!, 240,- 301,400 pounds in 1890, and only 227,- 705.021 pounds: in 1898. France makes a specialty of comb ing anil possesses a number of large establishments, particularly in the department of the north. She ex ports a large quantity of combed wool, and the export, is constantly in creasing. rising from 17.118,719 pounds in 1890 to 42,024,085 pounds in IS9B. Her best customers are Russia, Ger many, Belgium and Spain. The home consumption has decreased somewhat, on account of the removal to oilier countries of several spinning estab lishments, which, however, still buy their combed wool in the French mar k<rt. French mills produced 150,333,87S pounds of wool in IC9S,1 C 9S, valufd at about $90,500,000. Eleven million five hundred and eiyht thousand nine hundred and twelve pounds of this production viz., one-sixth of the amount was exported. There were imported 4.202.594 pounds oif woo'.en yarns and 1.(i5ti.519 pounds of hair yarns; also 44.092,000 pounds of shoddy and mixed yarns making about 188,934,220 pounds of yarns for the use of French weaving establishments. These est ablish inents make many and varied goods. The principal centers of clolli man ufacture are Uonbaix-Toureoing. Se dan, Elbeuf. Rlheims. Yienne. Mazamet. and ( hatearoux. Comoed wool cloth ami cheviots are principally made in the department of the north. Accord ing to the customs statistics, the cloth productions in France amounted in 1897 to ~39,758,000. Uoubaix and Toureoing manufac ture armure goods, jacquards, satin de chine, and a great quantity of nov e'jt ies. The following is a table taken from the census of 1896, stati.iig the num ber of workmen employed in the dif ferent branches of the woolen indus try. with the percentage furnished by the department, of the north: H I ? Fi" Per Description. cent. Wool combing 11,500 S7 Combed and carded wool spin ning 38,500 51 Wool opening and tearing 700 34 Wool cloth and novelties 37,000 99 Mousseline delaine, cotton or silk 3,700 14 Wool weaving, merinos, flan nels 49.000 47 Cashmeres, shawls, etc 1,100 Hi W 001, n velvets 2,600 12 Wool blankets and cotton flan nel 5,500 24 These figures will give an idea of the rank which the department of the north holds in the French woolen In dus tries. At the exposition of 1900 there were inscribed in the catalogue 132 wool ex hibitors of French origin, 32 from Al geria, 4 from Indo China,l from the Sudan, 33 from Tunis, "J from tier many, 26 from Austria, 7 from Bel gjum, 12 from Bulgaria, 1 from Corea, 10 from Ecuador. 52 from Spain, 17 from the United States, 32 from Great Britain, 9 from Greece, 13 from Hun gary, 1 from Croatia. 13 from Italy, 3 from Japan, 25 from Mexico, 1 from Nicaragua, 4 from Peru, 44 front Por tugal, 21 from Roumania. 50 from Russia, 5 from Servia, and 1 from Switzerland. 0 Mcdlenl Degree* in (tServiifiny. Hut. «t short time aj»*o a new set of rules went into effect regulating the issuing of medical degrees in Germany. The following is a trail.si ac tion of the new rules: The degree of doctor of medicine can be conferred only after a thesis has been published and a verbal ex amination undergone. A "proniotio in absentia" will not be allowed un der any circumstances. By his thesis, the candidate must prove that he is able to work independently on sci entific lines. The thesis must usual ly be written in German, though the use of another language may be al lowed by the faculty. A biography of the candidate must be appended. The verbal examination consists eith er of a simple questioning or of an "examen rigorosutn." German sub jects cannot receive the degree be fore having obtained permission from the government to practice as a phy sician within the empire. By a unanimous vote of the faculty and with the permission of the su pervising board, deviations from this rule may be granted in particular cases, in which the candidate cannot, for weighty reasons, be expected to comply with them. Foreigners who have received the government permis sion to practice medicine within the German empire are subject 1o the same regulations regarding their pro motion to tin? degree of doctor of medicine as those laid down for Ger man subjects. Foreigners who do not possess the permit for the German empire and who wish to be promoted should lay before the faculty proofs of the following facts; (1) That they have had the school ing required in their own country for passing the examination and re ceiving the degree; if in their own country fixed rules with regard to this matter do not exist, they will have to show certificates from home in which proof is given that their schooling is equal to that required for obtaining the matriculation certifi cate at a German "realgymnasittm." (2) That they have passed through (a) Studies before a regularly or ganized medical faculty for as many semesters as are required in Ger many for admittance to the regular medical examinations. (b) That at least one of those sem esters has been spent at the Ger man university at which they wish to receive their degree. This latter rule may be suspended if the candidate be well known to the faculty. The printed thesis, which must be produced before ob taining permission to appear for the degree examination, may, at the fac ulty's discretion, be' replaced by a sci entific work of the candidate which has already been printed and pub lished. tiiifst* I nlfy n Family. Among influences that mold and re fine the young persons of the house hold is the entertaining of welcome guests. Those accustomed to the presence of visitors usually have more pleasing manners, are more at their ease and are consequently more grace ful and tactful than those who have not this advantage. Entertaining vis itors unifies a family, all being pledged to the same end the gratification ot the guest.—Ladies' Llouie Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1901. A MUCH-WANTED MAN. Police ol' tinny < Mlcm Are Senrelitns; lor l*al <rowe, (lie Alleged Kidnap per ol' \ ouiis < udali). Chicago, Dec. 2s. —Disguised as a woman, Pat Crowe, who is being sought by the police all over the I nited States on the charge of kid napping r.ddie Cudahy at Omaha, has been seen in Chicago within the lasj few days and may still be hiding here, according to statements made last night by Detective James Storen, a Chicago police officer who has ar rested Crowe a number of times in the past. With a view to discovering the fugitive's hiding place a search of several houses in Sixty-third street has been made by Storen, acting on information that Crowe had been rec ognized on that street Christmas day. In pursuing his quest the sergeant stumbled upon evidence which he Kays convinced him that Crowe has been in Chicago recently and that, in the guise of a woman, clothed in a black robe and heavily veiled, the suspect went abroad in the streets of Englewood, the suburb where he once was a resident and is well known to many people. Storen claims to have traced Crowe to a room where he was masquer ailing as a young widow in mourning, but that Crowe received warning from his friends that the police were on his trail and got away before a capture could be effected. "I found ample evidence in the room that its occupant was none other than Crowe," said Sergeant Storen last night. "Whether he is now in Chicago I cannot say. In Engle wood. however, he has influential friends who in all probability have found him a hiding place." Boston, Dee. 28. —The Boston police have evidence to indicate that "I'at Crowe" and the other man who is wanted on a charge of kidnapping young Cudahy, are on the Warren liner Michigan, bound tor Liverpool, and a cable containing that informa tion has been sent to the Scotland Yard detectives, who will be on the Liverpool docks when the steamer ar rives. Just before the Michigan sailed last, Saturday two men who acted so sus piciously as to attract attention and who answered to the descriptions of Crowe and the other supposed kid napper. boarded the steamer with a large amount of baggage. A Xantasket beach watchman has reported to the police that he saw at the beach a big stranger, dressed like a western cattleman and carrying a big old carpet bag. He asked for a boatman to row him out to an out going vessel and said he would pay almost any price for the service, for he was anxious to board some vessel going to a foreign port. He ans wered the description iu every detail of I'at Crowe as it has been sent out by the Omaha police. The watchman went to notify the police and when he returned the man was gone. Omaha, Dec. 28. —A dispatch to the World-Herald from St. Joseph says that Patrolman Carson saw Pat Crowe enter a South St. Joseph sa loon yesterday. lie says he is sure of the man. as he knows him well. HE REFUSES TO STEP OUT. 'File ttiiglihli War Olllce Demand* (lie ICcHiu;iiulioii of lien. Colville, London, Dec, 28,—The war office has begun the promised reform of the army in a sensational manner. It has demanded the resignation of Maj. Gen. Sir Henry Colville, com manding an infantry brigade at Gib raltar and recently commanding the Ninth division of the South Africa j field force. Gen. Colville refuses t•> i resign, and is now on his way to Eng- I land. The news is all the more start | ling as the question of Gen. Colville's | responsibility for the yeomanry dis- I aster at Lindlay last May was inves- I tigated by the authorities when Gen. j Colville returned from South Africa ' last summer. After the inquiry Gen. | Colville was reinstated in his eotn | mand at Gibraltar in September last. The attitude of the war office in dicates that a new regime in Pall | Mall will reverse the decisions of | Lord Lansdowne and Lord WolselPy i in regard to some of the recent com manders in South Africa. Gen. Col ville. like (Sen. Methuen, has always been a great social personage in Lon don. DOZENS DROWNED. A It eport thai Between IO mid oil Children I,o*( Their Lave* \\ liilc Skating. Des Moines. Ta„ Dec. 28.—A tele phone message from Washington, la., | says that -"il school children were skating on the river near Foster, la., when the ice gave way and 49 were drowned. A telephone message from the \\ hat Cheer telephone operator, at midnight, to the operator in Des Moines, said that 40 school children had been drowned. Immediately thereafter it became impossible to reach What Cheer by telephone, the operator evidently having gone home. Telephone messages by way of Os kaloosa and Ottumwa say the report of the drowning of 49 school children at What Cheer is true. The children were skating on a pond near the fair ground, and the accident occurred about 9 o'clock last evening. Burlington, la., Dec. 28.—A tele phone message to the Havvkeye from Washington, la., says 49 school chil dren, while skating on the river at Foster, la., near What Cheer, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail way, were drowned. Oruanizliiu lor a Struggle. Washington, Dee. 28.—The vast in dustrial forces of Germany are or ganizing for a tremendous struggle with the agrarian and commercial in terests. according to a report to the state department from Consul Sehu : mann at Main/, lie says that the I manufacturing interests of Germany j will demand the passage of a protec tive tariff during the present session of the reielistag. The imperial gov ernment apparently is in sympathy with the movement and while the ef forts so far have failed they are not j to be abandoned. AMERICA'S CROPS. Oflielul l'"imi re* a* lo (lie Production of I'Oodstnil', iii tiilh ( ouiitry lliirin; (lie Ven r lUOU. Washington, Dee. 2*. The statis tician of the department of agricul ture estimates the I'nited States wheat crop of 1900 at 522,229,505 bushels, the area actually harvested being 42,4!1,">,385 acres and the aver age yield per acre 12.29 Ini-shels. The production of winter wheat is esti mated at 350,025,409 bushels and that of spring wheat at 172,204,096 bush els. the area actually harvested being 26,235,897 acres in the former case and 10.259,488 acres in the latter. The winter wheat acreage totally aban doned in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois is placed at 3,522,787 acres and the spring wheat acreage totally abandoned in North Dakota and South Dakota at 1,793,467 acres. The rapid rate at which the winter wheat acreage of Nebraska is gain ing upon the spring wheat acreage of that state has necessitated a spe cial investigation of the relative ex tent to which the two varieties were grown during the past year. The re sult of the investigation is that while no change is called for in the total wheat figures of the state, 590,575 acres have been added to the winter wheat column at the expense of the spring variety. The newly seeded area of winter wheat is estimated at 30,282,564 acres. While this acreage is lightly greater than that sown in the fall of 1899, as estimated at the time, it is 600,654 acres less than the area that was actually sown, the discrepancy being due to the remarkably rapid develop ment of winter wheat growing in .Ne braska, with which, as above stated, the department's reports failed to keep pace. The production of corn in 1900 is estimated at 2,105,102,516 bushels; oats 809,125,989 lnishels, barley 58,- 925,833, rye 2.3,995,987, buckwheat 9,- 566,966, potatoes 210,926,897 and hay 50,110,906 tons. The corn crop of 1900 was one of the four largest ever gathered, while the oats crop has only once been ex ceded. On the other hand the barley and rye crops are the smallest, with one exception in each case, since 1887. The buckwheat crop is the smallest since 1883 and the hay crop the smallest with one exception sine*? 1888. . A REVOLT IN JAIL. Female I'rinoiierH Attack tile Matron and the Warden. New York, Dec. 28. —Twenty female prisoners in the Raymond street jail, Brooklyn, rioted yesterday and fiercely assaulted Matron Frances Hanley and Warden Met i rath. There was no attempt to escape. The riot was the consequence of nothing but ill-feeling. Miss Hanley was trans ferring the prisoners from one cor ridor to another in the women's sec tion when she was attacked by Nellie Joseph, a powerfully built woman, who had been sentenced to 15 days for intoxication. Miss Hanley was felled. Nineteen other prisoners then assaulted her. While the blows rained thick upon her head and body she managed to reach a push but ton that rang a bell in the warden's office. Warden McGrath rushed to the wo men's department without waiting to call for assistance. As he entered the corridor he diverted the atten tion of the women and they jumped on him. The blows were fast and furious and McGrath went to the floor. Hatpins were brought into play and his face, head and neck were gouged. Miss Hanley made her way through the crowd and again rang the alarm. The sheriff, under sheriff and five deputies replied. They had much trouble in subduing the women, but finally succeeded, and two of them were placed in straight jackets. IS SAID TO BE A MORAL TOWN. t'lllcajgo'M Mayor and Police Officials don't Know (hut Vice Kxlhlnlii llial lit)'. Chicago, Dec. 28.—Mayor Harrison, Chief of Police Kipley, and other of ficials were put on the rack by the grand jury yesterday. From first to last they pleaded innocence of any knowledge of vice or crime in Chi cago. They did not know, of "their own personal knowledge, .that base ment dives and saloons have been open after midnight and frequently ail night. "I'm always in bed at mid night," was the answer of Police In spector Knlas, "and I don't know of any place open after that hour." Others entered similar pleas. They did not know of any gambling, nor did they know of no tribute money being paid by dive keepers to secure immunity from police interference. Mayor Harrison declared that there had been no prize lights in Chicago. Every fistic battle had been a "spar ring exhibit ion." To Aid (he Coal TruM. New York, Dec. 28. —The Times prints the following: The North American Co., which has been one of the conspicuous financiering compan ies of Wall street, has passed into the control of J. I'. Morgan, and is to be used by him to further the great coal deal known to the street as the "coal trust." The plan is to make the North American Co. the joint selling agent, which will take over, or to which will be consigned, the entire output of all fhe coal properties con trolled by the trust. !Wnerw Strike. Pittsburg, Dec. 28. —Six hundred miners of the Bak;yton Coal (Jo., near Barnesborough, on the Pennsyl vania road, are on strike. The strike arises from the introduction of min ing machines, and five mines of the company have been forced to suspend operations. (ioriiiany'M "Naval Progrem. Berlin, Dec. 28. —The Berliner Post, summarizing Germany's naval pro gress this year, says that seven ves sels have been launched, including I two battleships, one large cruiser i and four small cruisers. A BANK IN TROUBLE. A llaltiinorc Institution IN I'larcd in (hi; IlandM ol' Kect-ivrr». Ma It imore. Dec. 27. -Koger T. (Jill, of the law firm of Itufus <iill iV- Sons, was 011 Wednesday appointed re ceiver for the Old Town batik by .Incite Htoekbridge. The appointment was made with the consent of the president and officers of the bank. -Mr. (Jill bonded in the sum of $1,500,- "00, the assets of the institution being valued at half that amount. (ieorge Schilling. a stockholder and depositor, and Ilobert L. (Jill, a de positor, were the complainants. In their statement to the court, they say: "While the bank, until a recent per iod, has done a profitable business, it has recently incurred heavy losses by the bad faith of its cashier, Theodore F. Wilcox, in that, without authority, he wrongfully, without the knowl edge of its president or board of di rectors, permitted Isaac liobinson and the United Milk Producers' as sociation to draw from the bank large sums of money and incurred losses thereby which the bank is un able to bear. "Humors affecting the financial condition of the bank are in circula tion. in consequence of which large sums of money have been withdrawn by depositors and it is a question of but a short time when the bank will be compelled to close its doors. The bank is unable to pay its liabilities in the usual course of business and unless a receiver is appointed it will result in a struggle to keep the doors of the bank open, and depositors will suffer loss." The answer, filed by President E. (J. Shipley, is as follows: "The bank admits that, by reason of the facts stated in the bilj of com plaint. it, is 110 longer able to meet its current obligations, and believing that it ought not to further under take to continue to do business, but that its assets should be held for the mutual benefit of all persons inter ested, it consents to the appointment of a receiver or receivers, as prayed." Moth firms mentioned in the bill of complaint are in receivers' hands. ABDUCTED HER CHILD. Ciraiidxoii of ox-Attorney (irnrral tlllr lor IK Kidnapped by Ills .11 other. Indianapolis, Dec. 27. —A sensa tional kidnapping, involving the fam ily of ex-United States Attorney Gen eral William 11. 11. Miller, occurred Wednesday and led to a hot chase across the state to overtake the wife of Samuel D. Miller, son of W. 11. 11. Miller, who was supposed to he fly ing to New York with her stolen son. Samuel I). Miller and wife have lived in New York for years and last summer he came west togo into his father's office. His wife stayed in New York. Last Friday she came here to demand possession of her 7- year-old son, whom the father had brought west with him and who was living with him at the grandfather's house. The husband and wife had a consultation at the wife's apartments in the Denison and she agreed that if the boy was allowed to be sent to her daily with, the nurse she would not attempt to kidnap him. \\i( nesclay afternoon the boy and nurst called on Mrs. Miller at the Denison. She sent the nurse out to get a check cashed and while the governess was gone ordered a car riage and made arrangements to leave. When the governess returned Mrs. Miller announced they were going for a drive. ■ They started in a closed carriage toward the depot. The governess, suspecting foul play, jumped out of the carriage while it was on a run, ran to a telephone and notified the father and grandfather. Mrs. Miller immediately ordered the carriage driven to Hrightwood and when the two Millers arrived the Union station there was no trace of the woman and boy. Indianapolis, Dec. 28. —Sidney Mil ler, the son oi Samuel D. Miller and grandson of ex-Attorney General W. 11. 11. Miller, who was kidnapped by his mother Wednesday evening, was recovered yesterdyy by his father. Mrs. Miller and the child were found at Lawrence, six miles eest of this city, asleep in the home of a man named Marshall, where they had ob tained lodging for the night. HAS A FIRM GRIP. J<epro»y*N Victim* in the Philippines Number :>o,uoo. Washington, Dec. 27. —An appended report to Gen. MacArthnr's review of the civil affairs of the Philippines for the past fiscal year gives some start ling facts regarding the introduction and prevalence ot' leprosy in the is lands. According to the estimates of the Franciscan fat Tiers, says Major Guy L. Etlie, the writer of the report, there are 30,000 lepers in the archi pelago, the major portion of these being in the Viscayas. Leprosy was introduced in 1633, when the emperor of Japan sent a ship with 150 lepers on board to the Philippines as a pres ent to be cared for by the Catholic priests. Thus the seed was planted, and as no practical methods ever were adopted to eradicate the dis ease, or prevent its spread, it has taken firm root. A house to house inspection begun last .January found more than 100 lepers concealed in dwellings. These were sent to San Lazaro hospital in Manila, but many others escaped into the surrounding country. A commit tee will select a suitable island or islands for the purpose of isolating all the lepers in tlie archipelago. Decided Against Kipling, New York, Dec. 27. —Judge La combe in the circuit court yesterday denied the motion made by Iliulyard Kipling's atorneys to restrain K. F. Freno from publishing and selling editions of his works on which an elephant's head was used. Judge La coinbe said that Mr. Kipling had not established a common law trademark. Price* to be Advanced. Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 27.—The independent glass combine, recently ergani/.ed, will on January 1 advance the. price on all window glass 15 per cent. AN EFFECTIVE TIE-UP. tilrlhf of Street lliilliiar (employe* at Scran ton, I»a., I'araijzen the lloail't IS'.ihiiifxs Superintendent !•> \»»»iilt cd. Scran ton, Pa., Dec. 24. —Every one of the :!()() car and barn employes of tlie Scranton Railway Co. obeyed the .strike order whieh went into effect .it 5 o'clock Sunday morning' and a~ a consequence only two ears were run in all of the Lackawanna valley yes terday. These two cars were manned by Superintendent Patterson and dis patchers, foremen and clerks. No at tempt was made to molest them, and although rain fell a greater part of the day the two cars seldom had a passenger. The tied-up region extends from Pittston to Forest City, a distance of 30 miles, and includes G5 miles of tracks, on which are run ordinarily HO ears. The men of the Wyoming* Valley fraction Co., operating all tlu? lines south of Pittston as far as Nan tieoke, threaten togo on strike Thursday. With both companies tied up there would be a total cessation of street ear traffic in a busy stretch of country. SO miles north, including the cities of Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Pitts ton and Carbondale. The men demand 20 cents an hfii<* for old employes and from 13 to lT'/s cents for new men. At present the new men receive an average of 15 8-10 cents an hour and after four years' service this is raised tc 17 :! / t cents. They also demand a ten-hour day instead of 12 as at present. The company in its answer to the grievance committee's demands says it is not in a position to givj r.n ad vance at present. Scranton, Pa., Dee. 2S. —The first blow struck in the street car men's strike was received last evening by William Patterson, the new superin tendent of the Scranton Railway Co. Teamsters blocked the car he was running and breaker boys and street urchins assaulted it with potatoes, stolen from an adjacent freight ear. When the trolley car reached strike headquarters the strikers boarded it and attempted to take off the crew. Some one pulled Patterson from the car and he was dealt a blow on the head, with a fist or club, that knocked off his hat and caused him to reel. Two strikers, Edward and Joseph Pentley, brothers, rushed the super intendent into a saloon, protecting him from the crowd with great diffi culty and then barring the entrance to give the superintendent time to escape by the rear door. The other strikers helped throe police officers disperse the crowd and also helped the company's officials take the stalled ear to the barn. Eleven cars were moved Thursday, but not more than six at one time. As far as is known not a single pas senger was carried. Some strangers who boarded a car at' Lackawanna avenue were induced to get off and accepted a free ride in one of the busses which the strikers maintain for just such a purpose. Provisions for the imported men have arrived from Philadelphia. The local business men refuse to sell the company any supplies. The letter carriers have hired busses at their own expense and will not ride on the cars hereafter. SHOT TO DEATH. Frank 11. .llorrl*, Auditor of the Uar Department, 1» .11 ordered. Washington, Dec. 24.—Frank If. Morris, of Cleveland, auditor of tin war department, was shot and in stantly killed Saturday afternoon by Samuel Mac Donald, also of Ohio, re cently a disbursing clerk of the treas ur, in the former's office at the Win der building. Auditor Morris was closeted with Mac Donald when the shooting oc curred and in trying to make his es cape, he also assaulted the watchman, Thomas Cusiek, with the butt of his revolver. He was arrested while leaving the building. Before being taken into custody, however, he shot himself in the stomach and also made an ugly gash in his throat with a small knife. Frank 11. Morris was 40 years of age and leaves a widow and two sons. He entered the government service at the beginning of the present adminis tration as auditor for the navy de partment. During the first two years he made an exceptionally good rec ord for efficiency, bringing the de layed work up to date and putting the office in a better shape than ever before. A year and more ago Morris was made auditor for the war de partment. Mac Donald is unmarried, 38 years of age, and has been in the govern ment service since soon after the civil war. Mac Donald was in a precarious con dition at the Emergency hospital last night and his death is expected mo mentarily. Mac Donald has been en tirely conscious since his removal to the hospital. He has constantly reit erated the hope that he would die. Dan A. Grosvenor, deputy auditor for the war department and the next in line of rank to the late Mr. Morris, was discharged on Saturday. Mr. Grosvenor received his discharge papers half an hour after the killing of Mr. Morris. They were conveyed to him from the office of Secretary Gage, the discharge taking effect at once. W. W. Brown, auditor for the navy department and the predecessor of Sir. Morris, lias been reinstated in his old position as auditor for the war department. A Stubborn lire Checked. Tainaqua, Pa., Dee. 24. —The offi cials of the Lehigh Coal and .Naviga tion Co. are jubilant over the fact that the tire in the burning mine at Summit Hill, which started 42 years ago, is now under control, and it is said that the next two years will se lls extinguishment. The tire con sumed about ■ acres of the finest coal land in the anthracite coal re gion. Two immense drilling ma chines have honeycombed the earth west of the burning portion. Culm Is being poured into these holes and a solid mass will confront the lire. 3
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