TARDON RECORDS. Those of Cleveland and Mc- Kinley are Compared. IN CASES OF BANKERS. The Record During Mr. Cleve land's Second Term. lIE GAVE OUT 41 RELEASES. During Mr. McKinley'* Flnt Term Ho Acted Favorably on ttO «'a*cn of Thla Nature and Mute .March I, IUOI, Ho Haa Keen Mcrcllul to Seven. "Washington, July 20.—James Smith, pardon attorney for the department of justice, has submitted a report to 4he attorney general concerning the action by the president upon applica tions for pardon of persons who have violated the national banking laws. In preparing the report he made a •comparison of the second adminis tration of Mr. Cleveland and the first administration of President McKin ley. During Cleveland's second adminis tration there were filed 44 applica tions for pardon in banking cases, of -which three were denied and 41 were favorably acted upon, as follows: Twenty-pne pardons, one restoration to citizenship, IS commutations and one commutation and restoration to ■citizenship. During McKinley's first administra tion, there were 60 cases acted upon, •of which 24 were adversely reported and denied and:» 0 were favorably act ■ed upon, as follows: Pardoned 13, restoration to citizenship 5. commut ed 12, commuted and restored to citi zenship four. Continuing the report says:"l have furthermore brought this report tlown to date, which shows that dur ing his two administrations to date, President McKinley has acted upon applications for pardons in bank cases as follows: Total number of cases acted upon, 02; total acts of clem ency 4.'!, as follows: Pardoned 21, pardoned and restored to civil rights six. commuted and restored to civil rights four, commuted 12.' BECAUSE OF DROUTH. ..Mlnnourl Stockmen I'lan to Ship Their tattle to Wisconsin, Where <>ra*s Is Not Itllrul I'|>, St. Paul, Minn., July 20.— E. 0. Arm strong, a prominent stockman of northeastern Missouri, arrived in St. Paul Friday and conferred with the general freight department of the Omaha Railway Co., with a view of arranging for the shipment of train loads of stock from his country to the grass districts of northern Wis consin. He told some pitiful tales of the conditions in his neighbor hood, where the farmers are cutting down trees in order that the stock may feed from their branches. Water is so scarce as to command high prices, antj in one instance a farmer owning 125 head of cattle paid a neighbor S4O for watering his stock •once. These stock raisers find it cheaper to ship the cattle to northern Wiscon sin, where there are thousands of acres of clover and timothy grass land and where water is abundant, in stead of sacrificing them at a small price on a summer market, their idea being- that by shipping stock to this northern country they can sell the stock in ine St. Paul or Chicago mar ket in October or November at a much greater profit. The Omaha railroad people are ar % Tanging with the owners of large tracts of wild lands along their lines in northern Wisconsin for practically free use of this land for grazing pur poses. KcleuKt'fi Iroin < uMody. Kansas City, July 20.—Joseph Bob •ertson and "Bull" Holland, the ne groes who came near being lynched a week ago by a mob of 2.000 people, on the supposition that they had as saulted Miss Grace Davis and at tacked her escort, Vernon Xewton, were released yesterday for lack of .evidence. Nejjruet to Take Striker*' I'lace*. Xew Orleans, July 20.—Two men have come here from Pittsburg to get negro labor to take the place of the •strikers in the steel mills of the Uni ted States Steel Corporation. They secured 50 men and had reports from similar agents in Anniston and lies seiner, Ala., that they had secured 4 J men. A Deadly l oinliat. Sidney, Neb., July iffl. —Greek and Austrian railroad graliers met here Friday in deadly combat. Six Greeks were wounded and one Austrian was Killed. A drunken row was the be ginning of the difficulty. Nearly 03,000 in the (iaine. El Reno, O. T., July 20.—When the registration booths closed last night 1)2,599 ihomeseekers had been given slips entitling them to a chance ill the drawing. Signed the Scale. Chicago, July 20.— The striking iron TOolders yesterday added two more firms to the list of those that have .signed the union agreement for an advance in wages to s.'i a day. This makes l.'i firms that have signed and about 300 strikers who have returned to work, leaving 800 still idle. I.l|iton*tt tailor* Strike. Glasgow, July 20.—-Fifteen of the sailors engaged by Sir Thomas Lip ton to sail Shamrock 11. have refused togo to the United States unless they get more anoney. Ir is not known whut Sir Thomas Lipton will do. EPWORTH LEAGUE. Fifth International Convention la la Seaalon ul Kan Francisco—Thousands •1" Visitor* Attend. San Francisco, July 19.—The fifth international convention of the Ep worth league was opened Thursday under the most auspicious conditions. The weather was ideal and the at tendance equalled the most sanguine expectations. The scene at Mechanics' pavilion, where the principal exercises of the day were held, was one not soon to be forgotten. Never in its history haa the spacious interior of the pavilion presented a more impressive spec tacle. Great, volumes of inus'e from hu man throats and the accompaniment of the Stanford organ inspired a feel ing of reverential admiration. In the morning communion was served in three of the largest churches in the city, which, however, were too small to accommodate the throng which sought admission. By noon the vast interior of Mechanics' pavilion,capable of seating over 15,000, was tilled with a mass of humanity, which moved slowly along the aisles, stopping at intervals to partake of California fruit, for, with lavish hos pitality, almost everything had been provided without cost for the visitors. The pavilion is ordinarily a big, barn-like structure, but for the pres ent occasion it has Iteen transformed into a spacious auditorium, lavishly decorated with flags, evergreens and flowers, and roofed with the national colors. The acousties have been greatly improved and the music of the grand organ rolls through the building without an echo. Banners of the nation, <>f Canada and of the league are everywhere in evidence. A meeting of officers of the league was held shortly after noon and con siderable time was devoted to a dis cussion of work in foreign fields. All the speakers dwelt on the importance of spreading the faith in the new possessions of the United States. While this conference was in progress i Christian Chinese, with his five chil dren. all wearing the Epworth league badge, attracted much attention. When the convention was called to order by lie v. Thomas Filben, of Pa cific Grove, not a vacant space was to be seen from the organ to the far gallery tier of chairs. After a serv ice of song General Secretary Rev. Jo seph F. Berry read a number of con gratulatory messages from promi nent men. President McKinley said: "I have much pleasure in sending to he international Epworth league con vention my hearty congratulations upon the good work the great body of Christian men and women which it represents has accomplished in the past, and my earnest wish that even greater success will crown the fu ture efforts of thi" league." Vice President Koosevelt worded his message as follows: "Heartiest greet ings and may good hick attend the Epworth league in its efforts for so cial and civic righteousness." Other communications t were from Governors McMillan, of Tennessee; Shaw, of Iowa; Durbin, of Indiana; Yates, of Illinois; Bliss, of Michigan; Dockery, of Missouri; Stanley, of Kansas, and Van Sant, of Minnesota. AT THE LAST DITCH. Mr. Hilt/ Describe* the Desperate Condition ol tlie Koer»' Army. London, July 19.-—The war office has issued a dispatch from Lord Kitchener giving the correspondence between Mr. Beitz and Mr. Stevn, that was captured with the latter's bag gage near Lindley. July 11. Mr. Beitz, under date of May 10, wrote Mr. Stein that a meeting of the Transvaal government had been held, attended by Gen. Botha, Gen. Viljoen and Mr. Sinutz, to consider the national situation. He went on to catalogue the difficulties —the nu merous surrenders of burghers, en tailing a heavy responsibility on the government; the rapidly increasing supply of ammunition, the disinte gration of the government and the ■ lack of any definite European inter vention. "In view of these facts," he said, "the council nas decided to send a message to President Kruger point ing out the terrible conditions. The time has passed for us to let matters drift. We must take a final step." Mr. Stevn in replying upbraids Mr. Beitz with weakheartedness. ItcKtitiii I'lncen lor Old Soldier*. Cleveland, July 19. —The sub-com mittee of the Grand Army committee on public works which has in charge the matter of resting places, will con tract next week for seats to accom modate from 10,000 t'o 12,000 people. These seats will be located along the line of mivrch. Old soldiers who by reason of fatigue drop out of the line of march along me way will be given precedence in the matter of occu pancy of these seats. Resting places will lie established in down town stores and other central places. Free package checking stations will also be fitted up. tP"* A Urolith h,i Jerusalem. London, July 19.—"Drouth and fam ine threaten the Holy City," says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Standard,"on account of the scanty water supply, due to the insufficient rains of last winter. The sultan has granted permission to the municipal ity to tiring water from the pools of Solomon through iron pipes into the city, along the line of Solomon's stone aqueduct." Infernal ."Machine Kxplode*. Xew York. July 19.—An explosive machine sent through the mail to John J. Kletcka, of Brooklyn, a clerk in the office of the board of public improvements, was opened Thursday by <|£dgar Schroeder, a draughtsman in the same office. Schroeder's left hand was blown off at theSvrist and his face and breast were mottled with what appeared to be dynamite or gunpowder wounds. Kletcka was lvirned about the upper part of the body. The police arrested Benjamin Rosenblum on a charge of assault, he having, as alleged, sent the explo sive machine to Kletcka. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUI-Y 25, 1901. FIGHTING A TRUST. The Amalgamated Association Orders a Strike. Onion .lien Finployed by Three ol tbe Cvnipanie* Fill braced lit (be l ulled Milieu Mffl < «r|iora tion l>»« Work TUou- MOdi are AUVcted. Pittsburg, July 16.—President Shaf fer's strike order issued Saturday night to the Amalgamated associa tion members in the employ of the American Steel Hoop Co., the Amer ican Sheet Steel Co. and the American Tin Plate Co., has been obeyed and the great struggle is now on. Telegrams from manypoints where the rtiills of the American Tin Plate Co., the American Steel Hoop Co. and the American Sheet Steel Co. are lo cated tell of the shutting down of these plants in large numbers. In many places the plants had been shut down by the first order which affected the Sheet Steel and the Steel Hoop companies only. The last or der brought out all the union plants of the American Tin Plate Co. with the single exception of the new mill in Monessen, which is still running. <\t the Amalgamated association headquarters it was stated that the number of men idle in the mills of the three companies is 74,000, Of the 74,000 men idle 2,500 are in Pittsburg, 800 in Allegheny and 1,500 in McKeesport. President Shaffer has it in his power to close many more Pittsburg mills, but it is not thought that he will do anything of a radical nature until he is com pelled to. The American Steel Hoop Co.'s sup posedly non-union mill, known as the Painter mill, in West Carson street was closed in all its brandies. The tie-up at this mill was said to have been a surprise to the mill owners and officials in charge of it. The other plant, known as the Lindsay & McCutcheon mill, in Allegheny, was shut down completely in the puddling and bar mills. All the skilled work men refused to enter the mill and the furnaces. The finishing department of the mill was working during the day, as the men are not in the union. Generally speaking the workers seem to be looking for a settlement. In addition to the very general and in some instances rather unexpected compliance with the strike order, the Amalgamated la«t night added two more mills to its list, both of which were claimed by the companies to be beyond the reach of organization. When the William Clark Sons' mill at Thirty-fifth street, which operated all day non-union, came to shift turns last night, none of the skilled men reported for duty and the plant had to close down. Later the following was received concerning a mill considered by the manufacturers unexceptional! y loyal: Monessen, Pa., July 10.—The Mo nessen steel hoop plant is closed and lias been organized by district dele gates of the Amalgamated associa tion. The delegates arrived in town Monday morning and went to work immediately. Bv 3 o'clock in the af ternoon they had all the local men in the association and left last night for Pittsburg after advising the men to stand firm. The 4,500 employes of the Nation al Tube Co., at McKeesport, were notified Monday of an advance in wages of 10 per cent. The men are not organized, but the Amalgamated association was making offers to in ;luee them to join the union. Several months ago the men demanded a 10 per cent, advance, but were refused. New York, July 17.—A representa tive of the highest interests in the United States Steel «"orporation last night authorized the statement that no conference concerning the steel strike had taken place during Tues day and that none is likely Ito take place until the Amal gamated assoeiatioa recedes from its present attitude. The additional statement is made that in this point there can be no compromise and that the heads of the constituent com panies will not unionize such mills as have up to this time employed nun union men. Pittsburg, July 18. —Most important of all news regarding the steel work ers' strike that reached Pittsburg yes terday was the action of the men em ployed in the Dnneansville plant of the American Steel Hoop Co. A tele gram was received by President Shaf fer from the men asking if they should strike. The message was a surprise for the Amalgamated people, as they were not looking for this news so soon. President Shaffer an swered. telling the men not to come out unless they were organized. If organized, they should strike, for they were needed. In the afternoon another telegram was received from Duneansville asking that an organizer be sent to them at once. In compli ance with this request Vice President John Pierce started for Duneansville last evening to complete the organi zation. A dispatch from Monessen says: Tn spite of all efforts to the contrary, the tin mill here is still running and as far as present appearances indi cate, it promises not to be affected itl the slightest by the strike. The SOC employes are satisfied with the volun tary advance made by the combine, and will continue to work along non union lines. The hoop mill is closed down with the exception of about 2G men who are making some repairs. (icrmaii Intlu«trl«** In Had Sliapo. g Berlin, July 15. —Last week ended with a new low record of quotations in most industrials, many showing violent falls. Complete pessisro marked the trading of the week. The news from the industrial centers con tinues unfavorable. The newspa pers generally concur in the opinion that the downward movement has not y«t been exhausted. All describe the tone of the market as hopeless. Many companies in the course of the week made discouraging reports and the air was thick with unfavorable ru mors. MINE FIREMEN STRIKE. k Serlou* Labor Trouble Confront* Operator* of Anthracite .Tllne*. Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 17. —The strike order of President Mullahy, of the stationary firemen, was promptly obeyed yesterday when nearly 900 men quit work. Some of the indi vidual coal operators agreed to the demands of their employes. A meeting of the strikers was held at noon. It showed that the strike in this (Luzerne) county was general and that the coal companies could not secure men to till the vacancies. The best they could do was to force clerks and office employes to help them. President Mullahy said last night that he had information from all over the coal regions that the men were standing firm. He thought the coal companies would be unable to resume operations. At the offices of the companies it was said that the strikers' proposition could not be en tertained. Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 13.—The close of the second day of the stationary firemen's strike finds fully 33,000 miners idle in the Wyoming dis trict of the anthracite coal region, which extends from Duryea to Nanti coke. The number of idle men was increased yesterday by the suspen sion of railroad crews on nearly all coal branches. No coal being mined, there is none to haul to the breakers. The total number of men idle now in the whole anthracite region is es timated at 65,000. There are 40,000 mine workers in the Lackawanna re gion, but they are not all out. If the strike extends to the Ilazleton, Schuylkill and Shamokin regions 130,000 men may be idle before long. A HUGE SCHEME OF FRAUD. A Stork llroker Tell* How III* Firm Flucked Ita Customer*. St. Louis, July 17.—Sensational ad missions have been made by Samuel A. Gaylord, senior member of the firm of Gaylord, Blessing & Co., which failed recently. Gaylord, who is one of the oldest stock brokers in the city, admitted at the hearing be fore Hankruptey Keferee Coles, that the firm had bee* practically insolv ent for two years and had been doing business on other people's money— on funds secured from local custom ers. Deals wherein no stock ever changed hands, being a mere matter of bookkeeping in which the firm nev er forgot to c'«lirge up commissions, margins and interest, were admitted by Gaylord, who told, also, of the em ployment of relatives' names and the use of an insane man's name in the accounts. At the time of the failure they were short $150,000 in bonds and over 6,000 shares of stock in New York. It was admitted by the witness that the failure was due To their own specula tion, through which they had hoped to pay off their indebtedness, esti mated to have been nearly .$200,000. As to missing collateral alleged to have been left with the firm by cus tomers attached to promissory notes, Gaylord admitted that all had been hypothecated with banks as' security for loans on the firm. DEADLOCK UNBROKEN. Power* Cannot A-jree as to the iVlun ner In Which china'* liidciiuilty Shall be Fald. Pekin, July 17. —The ministers of the powers now admit that the pros pects for a conclusion of the negoti tions is growing darker. The situa tion is most serious, as the deadlock has continued for more than a month. The meeting rt-ranged for yesterday was postponed because it was appar ent that the proceedings would be fruitless. It was at the meeting of July 11 that the ministers reached something in the nature an agreement as to the indemnity. But a radical differ ence developed between Great Britain and Kussia as to the details of the plan of payment. All the ministers were in accord with the scheme early in June, subject to the approval of their governments, but Great Britain disapproved 'the arrangement on the ground that it did not adequately protect her commercial interests. The neutral ministers assert that either (ireat Britain or Kussia must make material concessions before a conclusion of the agreement is pos sible. MAJ. BOYNTC?N LOSES HIS JOB. .tlucrabee* Abollxh the Olllce Held by tlie Founder ol'Their Society. Port Huron, Mich., July 17.—The first session of the eleventh biennial session of the supreme officers of the Knights of the Maccabees and Ladies of the Maccabees was held here Tues day and was marked by the closing of a struggle wliicn litis been pending since the last session two years ago between the Markey and the Boyn ton factions. The K. O. T. M. su preme council abolished the office of supreme advisor, which was held by Ma.j. N. S. Boynton at a salary of $5,000 per year. Boynton was the founder of the order and held the of fice of supreme commander until de feated by 1). y. Markey. The offices of supreme medical and district medical examiners were abol ished and a board of medical examin ers, composed of three physicians, will be established at a salary of $5,- 000 each. Dr. R. E. Moss, of thTs city, will be chairman. The salary of the supreme commander was raised to $7,500 per year and that of the su preme record deeper to $6,000. •electrocuted. Auburn, N. Y., July 17.—Frank WennerhoTm, the Chautauqua county murderer, was put to death by elec tricity in the prison here Tuesday. When he took his seat in the chair Wennerholm appeared to be on the point of utter collapse. A million Hollar Fire. Wiohita, Kan.. July 17. —Fire yester day destroyed the packing plant of Jacob Dold & Sotis in this city. Four large buildings were burned, together with about 7,000,000 pounds of meat. The loss is SI,OOU.(MUI> ARE NOT SUBDUED. Plrct or Insurrection Hlnze I'p A(«ln In Varlou* Farm ol" tbe Fblllpplnea —Civil Vovrrnmenl Fall*. Manila, July 19.—The United States tivii commission announced yesterday that after three months' trial of a provincial form of government in the islands of Cebu and Bohol and the province of Batangas, Luzon, control of those districts, owing to their in complete pacification, has been re turned to the military authorities, it having been proved that the commu nities indicated are backward and un deserving of civil administration. The provincial and civil officials of these designated districts will con tinue their functions, but are now under the authority of ({en. Chaffee instead of that of Civil Governor Taft. (jen. Chaffee has the power arbitrar ily to remove from office any or all provincial or civil officials, and to ab rogate any section of the laws pro mulgated in these three provinces. The residents of the island of Cebu have protested, but without success against the return of the island to military control. Several towns in Cebu are still besieged by the insur gents. The insurrection on the island of liohol has been renewed and insur gent sentiment in the province of Batangas is strong. Gen. Chaffee has ordered a battalion of the Thir tieth infantry to begin the occupa tion of the island of Mindoro. The province of Batangas will be occu pied by the entire Twentieth infantry. A MEMORABLE EVENT. Buckeye* Observed Ohio Day at tbe Fan-American Kxpoaltlon, Buffalo, July 19. —Ohio day will go down in Pan-American records as one of the biggest days at the exposition. It will be memorable in several ways; chiefly because of the many distin guished men and the multitude of citizens that Ohio sent here to cele brate for her. It is doubtful if the Buckeye state ever, on any other oc casion, received the praise showered upon her at the exercises held in the Temple of Music. At 11 o'clock Gov. Nash, with his party under escort of the Eighth Ohio regiment, arrived at the Lincoln park gate and entered the grounds on foot. President Milburn was with the governor. Senator Hanna walked beside J. X. Adam, chairman of the committee on state and foreign rep resentatives. The building was filled. Senator Foraker did not come. Director Btichanan delivered an ad dress of welcome. Gov. Xash re sponded briefly and turned over the Ohio building to the Pan-American. President Milburn responded to the remarks of Gov. Nash. Following him Hon. Charles W. Baker, a leading Cincinnati lawyer, delivered an ad dress. Madame Johnstone-Bishop sang, after which Hon. Emmett Tompkins, of Columbus, spoke. The last speaker was Senator Hanna, whose subject was "Commercial Re lations of the American Continent." KING OF MARKSMEN. A Sail I ? rancl*co Rtirber F*tabll*be* a Nciv llerord for Target Shooting. San Francisco, July 1!). —Adolph Strecker, a barber of this city, in yesterday's shooting in the third na tional Bundes festival, completed a score that, has never been equalled in the United States on the ring target, and which will doubtless give Streck er the "King" prize. Out of 200 shots he lias made the record of 395 points, breaking the highest score by 22 joints, of King Hayes, made three years ago. F. C. Boss, the first Kundes king, made 371 six years ago. Strecker is among the most noted marksmen in the country. His rec ord score is 452 on the 25-ring target. In 1574 he was crowned king of Amer ican rifle shots at Baltimore, and two years later he was one of the team of Californians that took first rank and honor in the centennial contest at Philadelphia. BOTTLE MAKERS' TRUST. A Combine with #30,000,000 Capital 11a* Keen Formed. Wheeling, XV. Va„ July 19. —The lat est combination to be formed is of flint glass bottle makers. There are about 50 manufacturers of glass bot tles in the United States and every one was brought into the combination at a meeting held in Chicago on July 11. The capitalization is $30,000,000. The fact of the combination lias been kept a profound secret and this is the first publication of it. The immediate effect of the organi zation was the stiffening of prices, which were advanced SO and 5 off in car load lots, with no freight allow ances except upon car load shipments. A certificate will be taken out under the laws either of New Jersey or West Virginia within a few days. A Ship 111 Flame*. New York. July 19.—The full-rigged ship Commodore T. I). Allen, outward bound with 8,000 cases of oil for Yokohama, was yesterday discovered to be aground and on fire just outside of Sandy Hook. Word was tele graphed to this city and a number of tugs and fire boats went to her as sistance. She was later pulled <#f, towed in arid anchored near the shore. The tugs poured tons of water into her, but the fire kept eating its way through the hold. The crew of the Allen was taken off during the evening and brought to the city. Cre*een* .Hake* a New llecord. Detroit, Mich., July 19. —Cresceus, the stallion ownijd and driven by George 11. Keteham, of Toledo, won the free-for-all trot at Grosse Pointe yesterday and incidentally trotted the fastest heat and won the fastest race record ever made. Charlie Herr, the stallion owned by David Caliill, of Lexington, Ky., was the only oppo nent in this race and he was a slow second. Crescent won the first heat by five lengths in 2:06%, breaking the racing record for this year on any track, and in the second heat he fln lahtul 1» 2; Qj. br»»kiflur {*uuvtL, A Story of Lightning's Fatal Work. THREE BADLY INJURED, All of the Victims Were Labor ers 011 Railroads. TWO CABINS WERE STRUCK* In One of tlio Honor* Two !*lrn Were Struek by tile Name Holt and Bi>lb W ere liiKtuntly Killed Some ol Ilia Injured Will Probably Die. ! Grove City, Pa., July 20.—A fierce electrical storm here Friday resulted in four deaths and the severe injury of three other persons. The dead: Luther Campbell. t Howard Cornelius. Antonio Darenska. Michael Zaceagia. Probably fatally injured: Lin Covert. Edward Hosack. \ Oscar Covert. ' A section crew on the Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad were returning home from work when the storm came up. They left the railroad' track and hastened to a deserted, house at the Pinchalong mine for* shelter. Hardly had they reached the shelter of the place when the house was struck 'by lightning. Luth er Campbell, foreman of the crew, and Howard Cornelius, one of the sec tion men, were both struck by one bolt and instantly killed. CampbelL did not even have a mark showing 1 where the lightning 1 struck him, but Cornelius was horribly burned. I,ia ('overt, Edward Hosack and Oscar Covert were also shocked and ren dered unconscious for several hours from the same uash, and are all in a. critical condition, and doctors say they may die. During the storm a house occupied by a gang of Italians working oil tiie new railroad a few miles south: of this place was struck. There were several men crowded into the little cabin, afraid to work or even speak while the storm was raging so. This house was struck and almost totally destroyed. Darenska and Zaceagia were instantly killed and several of their companions were severely, shocked, one or two of whom may die. Much other damage was done iu this region by the storm, which is said to have been one of the worst elec trical displays ever witnessed in this county. THE FAMINE IN CHINA.. It Is Widespread and Multitudes nro SuflVrlns-Pnrenla Sell Tlielr (hll» dren to Obtain Money for Food. New York, July 20.—Chow Tse-Chi, Chinese consul in New York, has for warded to the Christian Herald the reports of the native commissioners appointed by the governor of Shan. Si to assist in the work of relieving the famine. The reports detail the* progress of the members of the relief commission through Shan Si. Near Michi City they saw refugees eating tree leaves and apparently enjoying them. Later they saw hungry birds in the woods fighting for dead bodies. In a large number of instances young girls who were being sold were purchased by the relief, commis sioners and sent to headquarters. Otn one day, May 19, 67 girls were res cued. The local authorities aboute this date caught six dealers in girls and put them to death in an iron cage, but seemed powerless to stop the traffic. The detailed reports of the native relief commissioners show that the famine is widespread and the suffering extensive. Tlie ICpworllt I«easitio Convention. San Francisco, July 20. —The sec ond day of the international Epworth. league convention was devoted strict ly to the work of the league. As the sun rose in the morning from u< cloudless sky prayer meetings were lield in three spacious religious edi fices, located in widely separated sec tions of the city. The first sessions of the convention began simultane ously at 9 o'clock in the pavilion and at tiie Alhambra theater. The for mer meeting was attended by about 6,000 persons. I'aid SIOO,OOO lor a Diamond. London, July 20.-—The Prince Ed ward of York diamond, found in South Africa in 1594 and weighing 00V4 carats, a white, perfect stone of astonishing fire, has been purchased from the diamond syndicate, its hold ers since it was discovered, by a New York firm for €20,000. It will be forwarded to the United States next Wednesday. Lynched* Crowle--. La., July 20.—-An unknown negro was lynched here Friday. An officer accosted him to learn his busi ness when he was fired upon by the negro, who then.fled. The man es caped into title woods, but was finally caught and taken back to jail, where the crowd captured him and strung him up. Illondln Confesses. Boston, July 20.—-Chief of Police Watts has received a telegram from an officer at Matane Light, Quebec, stating that lie has taken Blondin, the alleged wife murderer, into cus tody at that place. He sends word that Blondin lias confessed. l'ainoiin Surgeon Dies. Washington, July 20.- i --I)r. William H. (jobreeht died here Friday,aged ~i years. He was the author of well known surgical works. He served on Uen. Hancock's staff in the civil war and rose to a lieutenant colo nelcy. 3
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