THE SIMPER. Death Invades the I Tome of a Cabinet Minister. MRS. LYMAN ,T. GAGE, AVifo of (lie Secretary of Ul3 Treasury, Passes Away. AT HER WASHINGTON IIOME Wan jS Yearn of Ace ami Hail Ilct*:i Slurried l<> .Tlr. (Jugi' lor I I \ car* - Will lii> Itinlcil In liu»c Hill Cviuo lerj, Near < iiii'ajt«> Washington, May IS.— Mrs. Lyman ■I. Gage, wife of tin- secretary of the treasury, died ar her residence here at Si:liO o'clock last night, after an illness of nine weens' duration. With lier when the end came were her hus band, her married daughter. Mrs. K. I'. Pierce, of Evanston, 111., and Dr. Johnston, the attending' physician. For a time before her death Mrs. Cage suffered considerable pain, but •.he maintained her cheerful demean or and was conscious to the last. Heart trouble, the result of grip complications, was the immediate cause of death. Mrs. Cage was ex posed to the inclement weather for about an hour on inauguration day, but at the time her health did not seem to have been affected. On March 11 she left here for Evanston to visit her daughter. While there she experienced a chill and took to ier bed, but soon recovered sufficient ly to return to Washington, where she had been confined to lier room ever since. Mrs. Cage was a native of Albany, N. Y., and."> 8 years of age. She was married to Secretary Gage in Denver, Co!., in 1887. There were no children from their union. Mrs. Pierce being a -hilet by a former husband. The remains will be interred in Hose Hill cemetery, near Chicago. It is probable that religious services will be held at her former residence in this city, 011 Sunday morning, after which the body will be taken to Chi cago. Mrs. Cage was an Episcopa lian in her religious belief, but dur ing' their residence here she and the secretary have had a pew in the Me tropolitan M. K. church, where the president attends. During their residence in Washing ton Secretary and Mrs. Cage took quite an active part in social life at the capital. Mrs. Cage was a woman of charming personality and with her husband delighted in extending the hospitality of their elegant home. Mrs. (iage was probably closer to Mrs. McKinley than any of the other ladies of the cabinet. Tried to Shoo! Two llrterllvr*. Milwaukee, May 18.- Detectives Wallerman and Peek narrowly es caped death last night at the hands of a man giving the name of W. 11. Harris, of Cleveland. Harris had at tempted to pass a check, the genuine ness of which was questioned, on a local merchant. When the officers rounded him up, Harris drew a revol ver and fired two shots. The officers were 100 quick for him and in the melee Harris received two flesh wounds He had in his possession cer tified checks aggregating SS()7 and iiie bank book of Capr. It. (). Squires, made out on the American Exchange bank of Cleveland. Liable for Negligence. St. Paul, Minn., May 18. —The su preme court yesterday filed a street railway decision, said to be the first of its kind by any state supreme court in the United States. The question whether street car com panies are guilty of negligence when they attempt to operate their cars in time of strikes was injected by Ihe district judge at Diiluth in his charge to the jury, and upon that question the decision of the appeal case turned. The supreme court hole's that the company is not liable for negligence in attempting to operate cars during a strike. A Ilia Lockout. Xcw York. May 18. —lief ween l.">, 000 and 20,000 bricklayers ,in the employ (it contractors who arc members of the Mason Huilflers' association were' locked out Friday. The original con troversy arose over llie employment of non-union men on a certain job, and on this the arbitrators decided against the contractor. The brick layers next demanded pay for the time they had been out on strike and the contractor offered to compromise by giving them each two days' pay, but the men refused to settle and the ..lockout is the result. TUo lUagnati'N Lunei Philadelphia, May 18.—The injunc tion proceedings begun by the Phila delphia National league baseball club to enjoin Second Baseman Lajoie and Pitcher I'ernhart and Praser from playing baseball with the local Amer ican league club and to enjoin the managers of that club from engag ing the players, were dismissed by the judges of the common pleas court yesterday. The judges say .(■hat the contract lacks mutuality. Tlirrc Itleii Killed. St. John, X.!>.. May 18. -The chim ney of Jewett's sawmill collated yes terday and three men were killed and others were injured. The dead are: Win. J. Price, John Met'luskey and Charles Wilson. The chimney va . 11)7 feet in height and was un 'ergoing repairs. Price, the con racting mason, and Met'luskey, were working 100 feet up the inside of r 1,,» ■structure, while others were working below. The chimney gave way at the bottom and collapsed. Me- Cluskey was instantly killed. Price irifl Wilson were taken alive from the vuins, but died soon after. WILL GIRDLE THE GLOBE. OToasrs. and Hill Will Soon Control Transportation I.lnes I'lx tending Across tint World. St. Paul, Minn., May 17.—The Pio neer Press says: Plans for a trans portation system completely encircl ing the globe are credited to Presi dent James .1. Hill, of the Great .Northern, and J. Pierpont Morgan, of >'e\v York. It is stated that but a link to the chain is lacking and be fore Mr. Morgan's return from abroad, within a week or two, it will be supplied. The great factors in flic new sys tem are the Great. Xorthern, the Great Xorthern Steamship Co., Mr. Hill's trans-Pacific line, soon to be in operation, and the Leylatid lines recently purchased by Mr. Mor gan. The acquisition of these lines and the one missing link, a line be tween Alexandria, Egypt, and Hong Kong, is said to have been Mr. Mor gan'* purpose in visiting Europe. The system will be of vast benefit to Minnesota and the entire territory traversed by the" Great Xorthern. since it will throw the most of the Asiatic shipments to the I'nited States and Kurope through Dulutli and St. Paul gateways. "This, mind you, does not mean the organization of a single company to manage an all-around-tlie-globe line," said the person mentioned. "As I un derstand it the relations between Mr. Hill and Mr. Morgan will result in a mutual understanding, traffic agree ments, and all the other parapherna lia of common interests, effecting the same thing as if all were under a single ownership. Starting from Buffalo, the Great Xorthern Steamship Co., the Great Xorthern railway and Mr. Hill's trans-Pacific steamers will give al most an air line to Yokohama, Shang hai and Hong Kong. A link to be supplied will continue the line to Alexandria, via Singapore and Bom bay, and from Alexandria Morgan lines will connect with Mediterranean ports. Liverpool and London. The Leyland lines give direct connection with London and Philadelphia, and Liverpool and Xevv York, and roads controlled by the Morgan-llill inter ests complete the last division, with connections into Buffalo. A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY. iVlinisitcr fonuer Say* Our Manufact urers Slioulil (let Out and Hustle lor Oriental Trade. Xcw York, May 17. -Edwin H. Con ger. minister to China, was the guest of honor last night at the third an nual banquet of the American Asiatic association, given at Delmouico's. There were 125 guests present. Minister Conger spoke of the pro gress made in the commercialism of this country in the Orient. Recent developments in the Philippines, he said, had given courage to the mer chant and the missionary alike, both looking for increased results, espe cially ill China. ".Notwithstanding the barbarism of last summer," said the speaker." the present situation has still most al luring prospects for commercial and philanthropic work in the Orient. Great trade possibilities are still ex istent in the muddle kingdom and if properly taken advantage of. both by government and individual, ' great profits are in store. "It is to be regretted that some sort of measure in aid of American shipping did not pass the last con gress. In my judgment this is not a political, but a patriotic measure and is demanded in order to fairly meet the competition of shipping sub sidized by other governments. "One great trouble with our for eign trade is that our merchants and manufacturers have never taken hold of it as a serious and permanent basis. Whenever they have found themselves with a surplus of pro ducts, and only then, they havt» gone abroad to sell them, if possible, re gardless of future transactions and then abandoned the field until an ac cumulation of another surplus has driven them forth again. I heir European competitors, in the mean time, have been on the ground, studying the wants of the people, familiarizing themselves with the conditions of trade and establishing agencies. Americans, if they hope for success, must go and do likewise." DICIPLES OF CALVIN. Presbyterian general Assembly Retflns Its Sessions—A California!! Is t liosi'U moderator. Philadelphia. May 17.—The Presby terian general assembly, which be gan its li:ith meeting here Thursday, disposed of two important matters during the afternoon session. Hev. Henry C. Minton, of fcan Anselmo, C'al.. was elected moderator and, by tin emphatic vote the assembly de cided to accept the "Peoria plan" of choosing standing committees, though an effort was made to obvi ate the system. Rev. Million's only opponent was Hev. George T. Purves, of Xcw York, and of the Oil: votes cast Dr. Minton received i>;!7 and Dr. Pur ves 270. By the "Peoria plan" the church is divided into election districts, each of which decides who of its members shall be placed on the several com missions. The commissioners select their own chairman, leaving the mod erator without authority in the mat ter. The opening session of the general assembly was called to order by Hev. Charles A. Dickey, the retiring mod erator. in Calvary Presbyterian church, where all the business meet ings <>f the assembly will be held. Blacklists are Legal. Chicago, May 17.—1n the superior court yesterday Judge Baker decided ♦ hat it is legal for employers to main lain a blacklist. The ruling was in the case of Annie Condon against several stock yards packing firms. The plaintiff was- a can painter and joined a strike last year against :■ re duction in wages. Since that time, she claims, she lias been unable to secure employment. The court ruled that firms had a right. t r > take protec tive measures against persons who had quit tbe employment <?f other firms wifl.'oiit valid reasons. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1901. RIOTS AT ALBANY. Bloodshed Attends the Strika of Stroet Railroad Mon. Attempt to ::tui ( urn on the Linen of the I lilted Traction <O. Im'lto •i»t< d by Molm— Several Per koiik Wounded iTIIIItla« iiien Are 4 a lied Out. Albany, X. V., May 13.—When dark ness foil last evening several thou* sand street ear strikers and sympa thizers went to their homes, hut they were replaced by as many more who took lip the vigil to prevent the Uni ted Traction Co. from running its electric cars with non-union men. One man lies i:i a hospital seriously wounded, one of the two ears the company attempted to run is wrecked in the gutter of a street not two blocks from the car house, and the trolley wires are cut in several places, practically crippling the road. Near the ear house were thousands of men and women and children wrought up to a pitrh of frenzy that boded ill if the doors of the car house opened to let out another car. Inside the car house, afraid even to look out of the grated windows, were about 75 non union men, whom The company ex pects to use in running the cars. Kar- Iv Tuesday morning there were about 150 of them, but by nightfall 05 had deserted and joined the strikers. During the afternoon the police ad mitted that they were powerless to take care of the large crowds on the .streets on which cars are run, and (ieneral Manager McXamara called upon Gen. Oliver, in command of the Third brigade, for protection. He said: "We intend to run out cars if it takes the entire national guard of New York state to protect us." (ion. Oliver issued an order assem bling at their armory the Tenth bat talion, of Albany, comprising four companies of the national guard of infantry and the Third signal corps, mounted. The riot yesterday was full of ex citing features. At 10 o'clock the car barn doors swung open and out darted a closed car with all the win dows opened. Immediately there was p. roar of hisses and shouts. Several men made an effort to board the ear, but they were kept from doing so by the police, one of whom was stationed on each car step. The car made rapid headway and almost before the expectant crowd realized what had happened it was well on its way over Ouail street. It continued to the Union station and returned, followed most of the way by bicyclists and peo ple in vehicles. The second car did not escape. When the doors were opened the mob surged towards it, despite the efforts of the police. The crew consisted of four men dressed in plain clothes. Before the car had started two policemen boarded it. They simply made two extra targets for the stones and bricks. The car had not gone 50 yards before one had his helmet crushed. Then began a fusil ade of bricks and stones. A great jagged stone struck the motorman on the head. He dropped to the nlatform, with blood streaming from the wound. He dropped in a pool of his own blood, which cov ered the platform. A few feet more and the ear ran upon an insurmountable barricade. With a sudden jerk it came to a stop and all on board were thrown for ward. one of the conductors falling amongst a pile of broken glass and receiving some ugly wounds and cuts. Three arrests were made and thus ended the first day's attempt to run the cars. The Twenty-third regiment of Brooklyn, has been ordered out to quell the riots. Albany, N. Y., May 10. —So serious is the situation here over the Trac tion company strike that Gov. Odell postponed a trip which he had under taken ami returned to the executive mansion. Two thousand armed sol diers are now within the city limits, more are coming and 2,500 are in readiness to move to Troy when Gov. Odell so orders. The streets are thronged with excited men, women and children and the otherwise quiet day terminated in bloodshed. A dra matic element was added to the day's features by the sudden death of Adjt. (ien. Hoffman. Citizens and non-union men with broken limbs and bloody faces, wo men and children trampled under foot, soldiers maimed with flying mis siles and leaders in the crowds beaten with muskets were some of the re sults yesterday. Albany, N. Y„ May 17.—Three men fatally wounded, others with cut faces and broken heads, ears running with no patrons, the city under mar tial rule, with its citizens in a frenzy of excitement and the city authorities and leaders of the strikers trying to get the railway company to come to an amicable settlement, was the situ ation when darkness put an end to the strife growing out of the street car strike last night. Those fatally wounded are: William Walsh, a merchant, and Leroy Smith, a merchant, shot by national guardsmen, and William Marshall, a non-union motorman, skull fractured. Others most seriously injured are: (ieorge Booze, citizen, cheek ripped open by bayonet. William Kooney, citizen, shot by na tional guardsmen, and Gilbert Hall, a non-union motorman, shot by mob. Five hours of conference last night with all the warring elements repre sented failed to settle the strike. In Honor of Senator (£iiay. Phi lade! pliia, May 15. —llepu blica ns of the dominant faction from every section of this state paid hotnag • lasr night to United States Senate.- Quay in honor of his re-election to the senate. Barring a state convention, last night's gathering of republicans was one of the greatest outpourings to do honor to one man ever wit nessed in this state. Gov. Stone -\as there, all the members of his cabinet, members of the legislature, the mu nicipal heads of several cities and all the prowiaenl, republicans oi thu city. GRAND CONFLAGRATION. Buruliiur of the Ilaku Oil Itelinerics In ItuMHln Said to He llliit;i'«t 111 use on lici'urd. The great tire at the oil refineries and reservoirs at Baku, Russia, which has only recently been extinguished, ranks as one of the biggest confla grations of the kind on record. Its origin was a mystery, but within an hour of the outbreak the magazines of the Caspian & Black Sea company, containing an immense quantity of petroleum, amounting to 6,000,000 poods, were involved. Ten people, un able to escape the fiery torrent, per ished, and over 140 were terribly burned. For several days it was quite THE BAKJJ CONFLAGRATION. (Grandeur c. <.ne Great Oil Fire Shown by the Camera.) impossible to cope with the flames, with the result that ten factories and five depots, with a storage capacity of 35,000,000 poods of oil —say, 562,500 tons —of an estimated value of over 6,000,000 rubles, were destroyed. Enormous quantities of petroleum are stored in the reservoirs adjacent to Baku awaiting transport via the Trans-lvavkas line to Poti and Batoum, on the Black sea, whence by a magnificent fleet of oil-tank steam ers it is distributed to all parts of the world. With such a volatile agent to handle, it is no wonder that fires are of frequent occurrence, and it is rare, indeed, that Baku is without its l laze. As a rule the reservoirs and the re fineries escape, and it is merely the "gusher" which catches fire. This, however, is bad enough, as many of the oil fountains are worth anything from $25,000 to $250,000, and once alight no human ingenuity can stay the work of destruction until the whole of flue on being belched from the earth is burned away. The accompanying illustration, taken from a photograph reproduced in the London Sphere, gives one an idea of the grandeur of the destruc tive fire. DAVID R. FRANCIS. Koted Mlstaonrl Politician Elected l'realdent of tile (.rent St. l.oiilo Exposition of 1 !>!):$. Former Gov. David It. Francis, who has just been elected president of the Louisiana Purchase exposition of 19015, was one of the earliest pro moters of that great enterprise. Mr. Francis, like so many politically-dis tinguished men of Missouri, is a Kentuckian. He has just begun his fifty-second year. At 16 he came to St. Louis, was graduated from Wash ington university in 1870, and, en tering commercial life, he became president of the Merchants' exchange in 1883. lie was a delegate to the democratic convention of 18S4, and in 1885 he was elected mayor of St. HON. DAVID P.. FRANCIS. (President of the Loui.-iana Purchase Ex position of ISOo.) Louis, defeating his republican oppo nent, who four years previously had received a majority of 14,000 votes. The new mayor became so strong politically that he was given the nomination for governor in 1888, and few candidates for that post have had a more united and enthusiastic following. In the closing days of the last Cleveland administration Mr. Francis was appointed secretary of the interior, and served in that po sition until the inauguration of Pres ident McKinley the first time. When the democratic party split, on the silver issue in 1806 he took sides with the sound money faction, and has remained that kind of a democrat, ever since. He is already mentioned as a presidential possibility for 1904. Fi)r(Hiio for Seven Hollar*. A seven-dollar investment netted Peter Greenhalgh over $4,000. He is i resident of Venango, Pa., and he there bought an old safe at auction for seven dollars. In the safe he found gold coin and paper money to the value of $4,250. A Gernuin City In fhliin. Three years ago the city of Tsing- Tan, the German Chinese port, was a poor fishing port. Tt is now a city of electric lights, telephones, water works, hotels and government hou.;es. DEATH IN A MINE. S3* Men Killed and I'lve Other* Fa tally Injured by an JKxplosloii at JKarmlngton, W. Va. Fairmont, W. Va., May 16.—Six miners lost their lives, five were fatal ly injured and three seriously burned by an explosion in the shaft of the George's Creek Coal and Iron Co., at Furiuington, seven miles west of this city, on the main line of the Haiti more & Ohio railway, yesterday. The George's Creek Co. has head quarters in Baltimore, and extensive mining interests in Maryland. This is the first mine the company has opened in this stale and fully $1,000,- 000 has been invested and the mine is one of the best equipped in the Fair mont coal region. Col. S#merville, an experienced mine superintendent, has charge of the works. The mine was only recently put into operation and about 125 men were employed. Owing- to a shortage in the car sup ply the men have only been making about half time for several days, but on Tuesday quite a number of cars were left at the mine and the man agement decided to break all records with Wednesday's output. Early yesterday morning the miners who reside in cottages on the hilltop above the mine made their way to the main opening and the car carried them 233 feet into the earth. Fifteen of them were assigned to a portion of the mine that has been worked for some time anil the re mainder were put to work on head ings quite a distance away. One of the men in the rooms, it is alleged, had smuggled a torch into the mine, as it gives much better light than the safety lamps prescribed by the company. There is an immense fan which sends 5,000 feet of fresh air into the mine at every revolution, and as the shaft was considered one of the safest in the region the miner did not heed the warnings of a fellow employe who told him of the risk he was taking. At 9:15 a miner fired a shot and the smoke, which was very dense, caught fire from the torch and spread to either the gas or dust and the explo sion resulted. Fortunately the mine did not catch fire to any extent. The explosion almost demolished the building on the surface in which the fan was located. The men on the headings did not know there had been an explosion until notified. The air was soon turned in and in a short time the headings were cleared of foul gases and the work of rescuing the unfor tunates commenced. THE NEW WAGE SCALE. Iron U'orkcru Will Probably Demand that It be Bused on a $5 Kate lot Fuddling. Pittsburg, May 1G. —President Shaf fer, Secretary Williams *ind the wage committee of the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work ers, left last night for Milwaukee, where the annual convention is to be held and the wage scale arranged. The officials seem confident that a favorable wage scale can be pre pared and that there will be no fric tion with the great steel combina tion. The suggestions from the lodges of the association that are to be considered by the committee in formulating its report are for a con tinuous scale based on a rate of $5 for puddling, on a selling price of one cent for bar iron. If this scale is adopted there will be no disturbances in the iron and steel industry, so far as the Amalga mated association is concerned, for yea rs. The rate, however, is considered too high by some manufacturers and may not be adopted as promptly as the workers organization desires. The convention will be one of the most important held for a number of years, as the matter of arranging settlements with the various combi nations for each mill will be taken up. Most of the delegates have al ready declared that they will not fa vor a settlement at any one plant tin less all are included, when owned or controlled by a combination, or by the United States Steel Corporation. STOKES IS ACQUITTED. Went Virginia Legislator Wlio Killed u Preacher la Exonerated by a Jury. Williamson, W. Va., May lti.T-r-Sen ator S. 1). Stokes stood up in the court room yesterday and pleaded "not guilty" to the indictment ac cusing him of the' murder of Ilev. J. J. W-011, a Presbyterian minister here last November. The trial is the final outcome of Her. Woll's sensational sermon in which Williamson society came under the sharp lash of his in vective. The theory of the prosecu tion was that Stokes sought the min ister in his own house and demanded an apology and provoked a quarrel in which Mr. Woll was killed. But the first witness put upon the stand failed to bear out that hypothesis. Otis ltiley was within 50 yards and at the first bark of the pistols rushed toward the scene of the affray. There he found Stokes, although shot twice, still standing with smoking revolver in hand, and in reply to a question Stokes said "Woll shot me first, and 1 had to kill him." At that time ltiley said Mrs. Leneive, of Richmond, Va.,'who was the only eyewitness fo the shooting, corroborated Stokes. Riley's testimony virtually disposed of the state's case. Senator Stokes took the stand and explained how Woll was killed. There were no oth er witnesses for the defense. Last night the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and Senator Stokes is again free. ClUarmuUcrn strike. Tampa. Fla.. May 16.—A strike of 6,000 clgarmakers was inaugurated here Wednesday. For two days past a bridge connecting Tampa with the western suburbs has been broken and the men had to wait for ferry boats. This was unsatisfactory. Those employed on the west side gat together and decided to compel the manufacturers to ring influence to bear to have the bridge repaired. To this end they decided to strike. Two thousand in number they then marched to the factories and da manded that the employes come out. TOUR ABANDONED, President Will Not Visit the North western States. The Danxeroua Illness of .Urn. T]>l4 in— ley < ompeltt a < bullae in the Pro gram us Orlslnall) Outlined— Mill Helurn tu (lie ICuat at un ICarly Hate. Snn Francisco, May 13. —The sudden illness of Mrs. MeKimVy has caused an unexpected change in the itinerary of President MeKinlcy. He arrived in this city Sunday afternoon, several hours ahead of the time scheduled. The state of Mrs. McKinley's health was sucii in the morning that the president decided to leave Del Monte and bring his wife to this city imrae-. diately, to the home of Henry T. Scott, where she could have complete rest for a few days and where a specialist could be consulted if neces sary. The day after leaving New Orleans a bone felon appeared upon Mrs. McKinley's finger. Jier hand became swollen and gave her considerable pain, and produced fever that pre vented her from sleeping. San Jose, Cal„ May 14.—President McKinley came here Monday from San Francisco, arriving here just as the cabinet train pulled into the city from the south, lint he remained only for the formal exercises. When they were concluded he was driven back to the station and left immedi ately for San Francisco. At James square, opposite the courthouse, a handsomely decorated stand had been erected and here the formal exercises took place. In the rear of the big stand was the big- bouquet. It stood in its frame 25 feet high." The stem was a tele graph pole sunk in the ground. It was composed of cut flowers of every variety that bloom. San Francisco, May 15. —President McKinley made his official entry into this city Tuesday afternoon. After being formally welcomed by Mayor Phelan. he was escorted through the principal streets attended by a mili tary and naval turnout. He attend ed a public reception last night in the Market street ferry depot. At 2:40 o'clock he "left the Scott residence for the Valencia street sta tion. Here he met the train bring ing the members of the cabinet and the remainder of his party, who had fulfilled the program between San Jose and this city. The president, his cabinet, Mayor Phelan and the reception committee were then taken by train to the Third and Townsend street station, where the military and naval escort was waiting. From the moment the president, emerged from the depot the cheering was intense, but as the long proces sion ifof under way, its force seemed to be redoubled. Far up the line the cry was caught up. Hloek after block, ill succession, was soon faced with \i surging mass that broke forth into a vociferous proclamation of welcome. San Francisco, May 10. —Owing tr> the very serious character of Mrs. McKinley's illness, the president yes terday decided to abandon his con templated northwestern tour and to return to Washington direct, so soon aw Mrs. McKinley shall lie able to stand the journey. The gravity of Mrs. McKinley's condition has been known to members of the president's party for several days, but had been concealed, in the belief that she would rally, and with a few days of absolute rest be restored to normal condition. But her present illness has been attended with new compli cations, which have not yielded to treatment and the president conclud ed that it was time the public should be apprised of the true situation. Dr. llynry Gibbons, a celebrated physician, of San Francisco, has been called in consultation with Dr. Hirseh felder and Dr. Kixey. Dr. Gibbons has a reputation here for his skill in the treatment of bowel disorders. Kver since Mrs. McKinley arrived at the Scott residence she has been des perately ill. Her extreme weakness has been the most alarming feature of her condition. Her vitality has been at low ebb and she has spoken seldom to those about her. The president has been continually at her bedside since their arrival here Sunday night, save the few hours Monday afternoon when he left her to jjo to San Jose, and the three hours he spent Tuesday in the parade. San Francisco, May 17.—Mrs. Mc- Kinley is in the shadow of the valley of death and may pass away at any moment. Thursday morning, short ly before dawn, she sank rapidly and it was feared she would die before restoratives could be administered, but she responded to the powerful heart stimulants that were given to her and during the day improved to such an extent that the hope of her recovery, slight though it was, re vived. But her life hangs by a thread. She has taken no solid food since she reached here Sunday and the phy sicians do not think she could sur vive another sinking spell such as she experienced yesterday. She suffers little and bears up bravely. During her periods of consciousness her mind is clear. The president is constantly at her bedside. At 9 o'clock last night all was quiet around the Scott home. Secre tary Cortelyou summoned the press reporters and gave them a bulletin announcing that the physicians re ported Mrs. McKinley's condition de cidedly improved since morning, and that their patient was resting wtjll. Captured Txvo .imerlean Krl^nndM. Manila, May 15.—Defectives and the police have broken up a band of American brigands who have been operating in the province of I'arn panga, not far from Manila. George Raymond and Oscar Mosmiller have been captured and Andrew Martin, Peter Heise, George Mulin and two other.-; are si ill beinj" 1 pursued. This band committed outrages, murdered ar: raped at Baeolar and in that vicinity, and Sunday last they killed Henry Dow, an American. The band sometimes reported themselves as American ueserters 3
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