A Racing Sensation at Co lumbus, 0. TOOK PROMPT ACTION. .Judges Suspended a Driver and llis Horse for One Year. FIXED ANOTHER DRIVER. Action Tnlien tiv Judisrn nl Hip l.riinit ■Circuit Uoi-llnu Save J ii Lot of loin lo Iniioci'iil Spi'cnlHtorm on tin- lie null of a l'ttcliix It me. Columbus, ()., Aug. 2.-—The judges at the grand races yesterday un earthed a job in the $5,000 stake for 2:20 pacers, and by prompt action saved innocent speculators who had backed the field, a large sum of money. Severe punishment was meted out to the guilty party, Driver Tom Stuard and the horse Kldcrone being suspended for one year. The 2:20 pace was the feature of a good can.'. There were si\ starters, but (ireen line and Khlerone were conceded to have the race between them, (ireeit line won the first heat with ease in 2:09%, slow time over the track, which was lightning fast. The second heat was won by Kldcrone, who paced a beautiful mile in 2:031,4, cutting his record by four seconds. The original betting had been C.reenline SIOO and the field si!o. Klderone's showing in the second heat produced the desired effect on the odds, which now switched to .*.lO on (ircenline and s.'.(l on the field. Tins third heat went to (ircenline in j.': 101/4, Stuard making no effort with Klderone. When the horses came out for the fourth heat the judges or dered Stuard out of the sulky and put Valentine, a local trainer and driver, up behind Klderone. IClderone took the fourth heat in 2:06i/j. In t'.ie fifth heat Klderone went to a break in the first turn and could not be set to pacing again. ile fin ished behind the flag with a broken hopple, which investigation showed had been cut nearly through before the heat started. The judges declared all bets off, placed Kldcrone fourth instead of distanced in the last heat, suspended Stuard and the horse Klderone for one year and fined Hud son SIOO for not trying to win the last heat with Tertimcii. Valentine was awarded S2OO for driving Kid-l - - one, the amount to be taken from the horse's share of the purse. Kldcrone is the pacer who finished second to Direct Hal in the chamber of commerce stake at Detroit and again at Cleveland, lie had great speed yesterday and should have beaten (ircenline. The 2:10 trot went to Wauliun after seven hard heats. The two short races were won by Klondike and Chase in straight heats. A NEW ARMOR PLATE. Naval Olllrcr* Claim Grrnt Tilings for tlie I'roilliet tliut In lliirdi-neil l>j u \i-%v l'rocrim, Washington, Aug. 2.—The navy peo ple hope to offset the recent develop ment in high explosives and armor piercing projectiles by the army through a considerable improvement in the resisting power of the armor plating of a battleship. Lieut. Clelaud Davis, attached to the naval ordnance bureau, has produced an armor plate which recently was tested at. the proving grounds at Bethlehem, Pa., and the results encourage the naval officials here to believe that armor plate has again overtaken the gun ia the never-ending struggle for su premacy. This plate is obtained by a novel process, carbon being driven directly into the surface of hot iron by an in tensely powerful current of electri city, the result being a face as hard as glass, and of any thickness desired, supported by a tough back. The depth of the hardening i- regulated by the length of time the current plays on the plate. It is claimed that an average plate can be completely treated electrically in five hours. Moreover, the plate is claimed to be a third lighter for the same resisting power, which mean-a great saving lu constructors. \% iikliit} Humid. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 2. -The llelle view'wa-liery of the Delaware, Lacka wanna a Western < <>. was destroyed by tire last night. It had been in operation since the second week of the strike. The origin of the tire in unknown. It started in the engine room, but how it started none of thu watchmen can explain. The only men working about the place at tin* time were a couple of machinists who were making repairs in I lie tower. The lo- is $13,000. There i- scarcely any suspicion that the lila/e was of incendiary origin, as the wa-liery is clo-ch guarded bv coal ami iron po ntine I ilnnrJ l.uln*. London, \u|/ King KilwariJ <|«d> illelca-e- hi- WllMlW e\.|cl-u, upon which Ids physicians no longer pl.ii. it iiv i. iiain I lh. i> i now ii.« doubt thai lie will be strong euoilgll to undergo he coronation ccreuti*- nie- Vugt|»l 'i. !*■ Hiiii-iiiti , Utmhiiigiou, \ng. Kx-I telega t« ( rundall, of Vriauuiti, win. al the wur i • I '!. I fell.I!. I .11 > I. I l'. l'. I I ill \.,| , Mil. ll- he wijl In I'cuitji to rill.nf tl|« . ... , .- it. . , 112 | tlllli I lie law in the ciioe »• irn e\. pbeit miml thai nrlt'of the tury ••I *nr-nor the pre.ideu! i»n ufoui ■ • i M'liltl uf llil/llltf. A "BLACKLIST." IWliktu Who Workril Were Tlireulon* 0 coal companies operating in the New river field, the Chesapeake 1- Ohio Railway Co., W. Pureed, \V. 15. Wilson. John Mitchell, J. W. ( arroll, J. A. Itiehards and about 150 I nited Mine Workers arc made de fendants. The bill says that tlie complainant is engaged in selling eoal and has a contraet for the output of collieries which are made a party defendant, and a contraet with the railroad com pany for the shipment of the coal so purchased; that because of a strike the companies have failed to live up to the contracts for deliveries of coal; that there exists a secret organiza tion known as the Cnited Mine Work er-. of which John Mitchell i- presi dent and W. H. Wif-mi i- secretary, under the orders of which the men employed in the mine-, who are mem ber- of ibis organization have quit work and intimidate employes of the companies, thu- preventing them nig to work. The 11 ill was presented to Judge Keller and lie i- led a temporary or (lei pi. hi -111111' the ilef* lie.u* . 11. W, I'urcell, W. If. Wilson. John Mitchell, .1 W. t irroll. .1 V Itiel and all other- acting with them from intcr f'criitg with the operation of said mine-, either by menaces, threat-, i 111 i initial 101 l u >il to pre ien I the em ploye if aid mine- from tfoiiijj to or fi'oin the mine-, or frlllll ininillif. The liiirpo eof this rc»trnliiinjf order, .lili'tfe Keller aid. is to pre* fill un lawful coiis) i nicies. Wllao'l'a, I.Hi I* S|inri lit .r lUll. Hi-11l- Mum! Ol Ihe p.«l t y i .. , ..i . , ill. i \v . ... ! *ii|||t| lime been MUUlliiiril) ckccult'.l . I «•;( I l|. N i| i • , i ..... 11l .. I . ■ ottiltiillw the lie.l til I 111 - l«l£ I''l»»ure«. Snn Luis Obispo, Cal., Aug. I.— A strip of country 15 miles long by four miles wiile, rent with gaping fissures anil dotted with liifls ami knolls that sprung- 11 p during the night as if In magic, a village in ruilis and hundred* of people fleeing for their lives, are the results of Wednesday night's seismic disturbances in the valley of Los Alamos, in the northern part of Santa Harluira county. During the last four days that section of coun try has been shaken by a series of earthquakes that is without prece dent. in the history of the Pacific coast, and the continuance of the disturbances and the increasing se verity of Ihe shocks have so terror ized the inhabitants that they are leaving for other parts as rapidly as possible, and even now the village is almost entirely deserted. The disturbance began on Sunday evening with a shock, which caused much damage to property in the vil lage and the surrounding country, being more severe and more disas trous in the vicinity of the Western Oil Co.'s oil wells on the Carriga ranch. This shock was followed by a number of disturbances less severe, continuing through the remainder of Sunday night and Monday. On Tues day night there were seven shocks, all of which were light. In action these disturbances resembled the waves on a pond of water. The most , severe shock of the entire series oc j eurred at 1:30 o'clock Thursday morn ing. Hills were shaken and twisted to their foundations and the valleys trembled and rolled like the unstable surface of the ocean, tireat fissures were run deep in the earth, hills and knolls appeared in level valleys, springs of water appeared in places that had been dry, and the general topography of the valley was great ly changed in many respects. The disturbance had no general direction, but was what is known as a "twist er." When the most serious shock had passed and the rumbling sound had died away, the people gathered -n groups about the ruins of their homes and places of business and when they saw the extent of the damage many of them, fearful of a repetition of this experience, started on foot or by any conveyance that could be had, for places where the previous shocks had been less severe. With the dawn of day the stricken village had the appearance of the ruins of a city long deserted. A church had been leveled to the ground and not one brick building was left standing. Chimneys had toppled over, frame buildings had been wrenched apart and thrown from their foundations, • telegraph and telephone wires hail been broken and there was not a building in town that had not been damaged more or less. In store buildings the merchan ' disc was thrown from shelves and ' everything breakable was destroyed; ! not a pane of glass was left in any window in town, and in those frame dwelling houses that were left stand ing. stoves were overturned and I crockery and glassware were de -1 stroyed. A conservative estimate of i the loss to property in the village is £IO.OOO. The shock was felt throughout Santa Barbara and San Louis Obispo ; counties. \t* the Western Union oil I wells on the Carriga ranch two tanks were wrecked and much other dam ! age was done. AMESES WILL RESIGN. llH}'»r Hint Police tlllel' »r 'I I mica |>- oll* Decide to Kt«|i How ii and Out. Minneapolis, Aug. I.—-Mayor A. A. Ames, now at West Kaden, Jnd., has decided to resign his office, the resig nation to take effect September 6. The mayor postpones his nominal re tirement to save the city the ex pense of a special election, which would have to be livid if the resigna tion took effect earlier. The mayor has also agreed to secure the resigna tion of his brother, Col. Fred W. ; Ames, superintendent of police, lie was brought to these terms by the I visit to West linden of Police Cap tain Charles 15. Hill, who will lie act ing superintendent, and .John Fitch ette. lie does not have the power while out of the city to perform the functions of mayor, but he wired ' \eting Mayor Fred M. Powers to se cure the removal of the chief and wired thi' chief himself advising resigna t ion. Tills is the climax of the police cor ruption scandals, which have agi tated this community and occupied tin- grand jury and the courts for two months. I'uulnt* Jumped ilir Track. Mtoonn. I'll., July it. Knglneer John W. Ketnmerling was iu-tiintly killed and his Hrciiian, 11. \l. Nicely, fittalU injured ■ti a wreck at I'ack Saddle, fid miles we t of Mtoonu yes* terduy. Ilolh men resided In Mtoonn. Their train, the fast mail, was trvintf to 111: iUc up time and covered part of llie run hi the rule of 7u miles all hour. \t Pack Saddle there are two nil ie cur*' ilid the locomotive l< f| tin* track a soon a-, it reached the curve, ami ploiiccd over a Mi-foul cue haul,ne it i tie < '•Mciua uyh river. **t«uxi * lord" i. .ml ii \u i "l.u/* Oxford" i» tl,. title of .n 111-tide ill the Liberal lievievv i*hi.*i Hill-acts coiisidePMblr attention to the iihortciillllliu <>f lll.lt | »' "I. wrhj-r .) K j iiieham. draw •» u ••alltinir eoiti|i.irU.»i Hi: I ■ tide ii* i ■ - of the i Helen! fouudit tlon" .lint "llie yip .(• and efficiency' o| till! ri MN nine. liM vvloch ll« ) riou i> Ihreal(latent "4.,111.11 il-.il " *.n \|| tethering | hum " i.out a rich us four of il>« rl , in,ill •„ 1111 l l .tfcth. i I: "r A FAIRY TALE OF INDUSTRY. Intercut lux Fact* About the tirenl Transformation Scene to Sault Ste. Marie. Few people have any notion of the stupendous operations going 011 Sault. Ste. Marie, the little Canadian village on the shores of Lake Supe rior, where an industrial center of enormous magnitude is now being created by the energies of one man. "Harnessing Lake Superior" is the title of an article hi Pearson's, which gives this', remarkable story: "Five years ago the sleepy little Canadian towji of gault Ste. Marie numbered 2,500 inhabitants. Past its doors the surplus waters of Lake Superior, mightiest of inland oceans, emptied into Lake Huron. Untold millions of horse power energy lay latent in their idly flowing eddies, but only the slow-turning wheels of a few old flour mills stood to mark their com mercial usefulness, while but an oc casional steamer or a paddle pro pelled canoe disturbed the tranquil surface. Almost as in a night a metamorphosis has taken place. "Where once was a scattered group of village dwellings, great stone buildings, with towers and shafts and connecting passageways, now stand, and at their base deep-dug HON. CHARLES E. LITTLEFIELD. Congressman Llttlefleld, who has been requested by President Roosevelt to draft an anti-trust bill for consideration by the next congress, represents the Second Maine district ar.d was elected to till the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman iJirgh y. II !.s a native of Lebanon, Me., and l.s 51 years old. He has been a member ot the Maine legislature and served as attorney general of the state from IS>>9 to ISD.I lie l.sin every way well equipped for the work he now has In hand. Mr. Little- Held is regarded as the ablest political economist now in the congressional service. canals wind in and out, spanned by bridges of massive stone. Nine thou sand workmen now. earn tlicir liv ings in the shops at Sault Ste. Marie, beside the site where live years ago the total population was but a quar ter of that number. It is a truly wonderful story, this story of the growth of the little frontier town into a great industrial centre; and its story is the history of the career of one man —Francis H. Clergue." Mien Veil for AutonioblliNtm, The only successful substitute for the ugly g ggles worn by automobil ists are said to be a veil of mica in vented by ii Parisian milliner. It is in tended tor the use of ladies who object to the disfiguring effect of goggles. A sheet of mica in the form of a vizor, set close to the face, is attached to the cap. It is a great improvement over the ordinary devices for protecting the eyes. MnniAchunettN* Smnllent Town. (iosnold, the smallest town in Massa chusetts, comprises those little specks of iatid which, beginning at Woods Holl, at the shoulder of old Cape Cod's right arm, extend seaward till they terminate in that fatal reef of the Sow ami pigs. The Telephone in CornlCß. Ajaceio, in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, has a new telephone service. At present fts subscribers are three in number. GROTTO OF LOURDES AT NOTRE DAME, IND. Alum* h> »hr.n>» to « *••••« lit- • u > m ■ • Unit i .ti <1 10..1 I, il.i N .»»« i»• ■ li !.• •«*t il. • .tl i l l*i,. ..b .i 11 • |. • -I V« > »« I r tail 10 ■ 111 I • 11 11 In 4 I'M* I . . if il V.lk I lli • NMlbi » Villi I UIU i>. i IV« ul » <" • - ,»>¥■• •• I. V > 'I II U. • -k-Ht iLi o '-i it . ,i., . ,i iu*«, i . i il>i'!•*> PLUCK OF KING EDWARD. Una llrnvely Kmlnrcil Much I'hynlcnl Suft'rriiiK in Order to I'leuse Ilia People. "Of all the soldiers the king has decorated within the last three years of the war for bravery 111 the face of the enemy none deserves the Cross for Valor more than himself, who grimly and silently faced dis ease and death, unarmed and without a comrade," says ltichard Harding Davis, in Collier's Weekly. "For now that the whole dramatic, pitiful story is out, England learns —now that it is too late —of the days of gnawing pain when her king forced himself to smile and bow at court, to watch a horse race, to re view a regiment, to drive through London with an assured and cheerful countenance. Jt is not pleasant to think of the torture of those days, of the mental anxiety as well as the bodily torment, when the king kept 011 his feet against the protests of his physicians, when his endurance was tested by hours of unceasing jiain—pain so great that it is not de cent to disclose it. Nor is it pleas ant to remember that last drive through the park to Buckingham pal ace, when the people for some reason failed to cheer him heartily, while nil the time he sat erect, pale and with ret teeth, holding himself up right only by his will, and that they might be gratified." DOOMS AN ADOBE THEORY. Flrlil Mimnun Authority ritiih Thnt 110 111 I nil inn Chi 111 re it I'uzzled the ExpertM. T)r. George Dorsey, of the Field Columbian museum, has made a dis covery in his investigations among the llopi Indians that overturns many of the old theories of anthro pologists in regard to supposed in scriptions on the adobe houses of the tribe, lie made the announce ment. of his discoveries in a lecture to the students of the University of Chicago the other afternoon on "Civ ilization Among the Hopi Indians." "These inscriptions that the an thropologists bitwe been trying to de cipher and read for years," said Dr. Dorsey, "have been found to be nothing more than the scratches made by mischievous Hopi children in the mud of the adobe houses after they have been freshly built. They are not mysterious inscriptions at all. They are only the results of childish pranks. Of course this dis covery makes the anthropologists feel rather vexed, but the markings have much resemblance to some kind of picture writing, and may well be taken for some kind of inscriptions." "OBEITMS." President Mitchell Gives Ail vice to Strikers. AT A BIG MASS MEETING. Seven Thousand Miners Assem bled Near Seranton. ALL WERE ENTHUSIASTIC. Sonifl of Hit* .Tien !Mnrctied Four *il|. n to the l'liicc of Itleettii*: and .ill Mood ullli IK< OVv I'aeilie railroad to a piuck\ effort, anil when in sight ol hr- goal, to abandon the attempt. lli>l lit*ilt was in the water about It hours. I'tllille lli'lit lilt-r»«»f a. \\ i»liiugtmi. \ut-' Tin* monthly statement of the national debt slums that ut the close of Itusliifs* .Inly .1, lite debt, |eo„ eaoll in the treaourj, amounted to -UT !*|n. ,ti7, which io .at increase ■> - compared with .Jit I \ i, of >t.C 1,1 -Mi. till' |i.tl,ll l» *l. iii7,oon. v\ :t -1.. t»i^-1 •• 11 vuy I 1 1.. woallily liionlll of.l Itl> the receipt* aunututetl i i,MTi a U« lictl of ♦i.J'J?,- 3