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JOB PRINTING.
The Job department of the PRKSRlßcomplete
and iff rd i facilities for cluing tta" best class of
w rii PARI ICI'LAK iT IIN I tliN PAIDTU I.AW
No 'pifper will be discontinued until arrear-
Pg.-s nr. paid, except at the option of the pub-
Isher.
Papers sent out of the county must tie paid
Cor ... advance.
Among the other unusual occupa
tions that a world's fair brings into be
.... .... , ing is that of sam
ftlilplllK U tlll'llllll
pling the wine ex-
Halini: Clii'i'nc, , .. .. , , , • .
hibits, of which
there are likely to be 30,000 or lit,ooo.
It is not customary in this operatlonto
- ermit the wine tester to sip from
each bottle and pronounce his judg
ment until his mind begins to wander
and h'i tongue thicken, then be laid
away .n. ? C3trf "p!{tC6"t6 await" next
Inornitg'B resurrection, lie does not
swallow the wine at all. This an
nouncement is made at once to stem
the possible tide of applicants. It is
tasted, but never swallowed. After
five or six samples have been examined
the jurors will rest a few minutes,
then eat a bit of cheese and biscuit,
after which they rinse their mouths
with mineral water and proceed as be
fore. This is kept up from nine in the
morning until noon. Persons who can
thus refrain from real indulgence in
the wine cup presented in this tanta
lizing manner are examples of absti
nence which ought to inspire admira
tion for tho race. It is not everyone,
observes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
who can thus tread near the danger
and step back from the brink. With a
man's nose in the cup that inebrates
he is generally a goner. It is as good
as settled when he gets so far as to
lay his hands upon the wicker door.
The exhilarating effect of suffering a
stream of some 50 or 100 different
kinds of wine to pass between one's
lips, even if refused admittance at the
inner portal, must be considerable;
and a layer of cheese, a layer of bus
pUit, and a layer of mineral water con
tinijed for three hours, it would seeia
would be a distressing ordeal. Aftei
the'"bouquet" of the cheese, what be
comes of the "bouquet" of the wine?
There are cheeses that make one quite
oblivious of every other thing set on
the- table before one. We should have
no confidence at all in the judgment of
a jury after the sixteenth round of
thsese. On the whole, our respect for
these wine jurors will reach about the
same plane that some other jurors
have been held in cases where they
have decided guilt or innocence bj
shaking dice.
The family was examining with great
appreciation Tom's first attempts at
The Art of Cor. Photography. The
exhibit comprised
root Pot'tiMiue. .. ,
the usual assort
ment of amateur's blunders, including
an especially large display of varied ef
fects in the line art of focusing. Finally,
relates the Youth's Companion, one ol
his, cousins picked up a print which ap
parently represented a stretch of stony
field upon which a heavy fog was shut
ting down. "What in the world is this,
Tom?" she demanded. "That?" Tom
retorted with dignity. "I should think
anybody could recognize that! It's the
beech avenue—at an eight-foot focus!
Those rocks in the extremely interest
ing foreground are merely pebbles to
the common eye. As for the beeches,
like air beauty, they demand imagina
tion in the beholder before tliey will re
veal themselves." The cousin looked
up saucily. "Tom," she said, solemnly,
"it's the very finest photograph of Mrs
Ephraim I'emberton's view of life that
I ever saw!" Who does nrit, at the
phrase, recognize Mrs. Ephraim I'em
befton? Sometimes she is nervous anc
worried; sometimes she is voluble ant?
Important; sometimes she is wholly self
lsh, sometimes she is instinctively gen
erous, but always, whatever her tem
perament, the small dirties, interests,
perplexities of her daily life an so mag
nifivd that they fill all her field of vision,
and shut out the whole world of beauty
and Inspiration, <;.* sorrow and tit niggle
anil happiness, that lies beyond them.
Even her joys are cheated of half their
power of bli -sing because they are the
only joys that she ever really SM .-, the
gladness of Other peojile belli merely
a part of the vague baci ;;rotmd of her
nwti momentous affnlrs. Jin the .'nut
art of life a» in the lissi r one of photog
raph}. the tsnstery of focusing lies at
the foundation of success The > it-hi
fpot focus is nevf mry at tiin<>, but to
live always at the narrow raiij-'i of
"bread and butler an.'! buttonholes," M
one housewife charnctt rlised it, i«, to
male high achievement a. 1 impossibil
ity.
CLEVELAND AND BRYAN.
Tlie OI«l Pot mill Krltle llimliirux l«e
--%I % fil lu the lli-.uoerutlv
1111 II kit.
Very little interest was taken in Mr.
Bryan when he roile through the streets
of Chicago Saturday, but some interest
attaches to his speech which he deliv
ered at the picnic of the Chicago Demo
cratic club because of the preliminary
advertising which it received. It was to
contain a highly seasoned "roast" of
Cleveland, and was to be a political pro
nunciamento of national significance,
says the Chicago Record-Herald.
The attack on Cleveland was made
according to expectations, but Mr. Bry
an lias about exhausted his rhetoric in
philippics of this sort, and we know
only what we knew before, that he will
do his utmost to prevent the Cleveland
democrats from gaining control of the
next democratic national convention.
His logic on the injury done his can
didacy in 18!h> by the record of the
Cleveland administration is curious
enough, however, to deserve some no
tice. The odium of that record, he says,
did more to defeat the democratic party
than any one plank of the Chicago plat
form. or even than all the planks that
were severely criticised. In a sense this
is true, but not at all in the sense that
Mr. Bryan means. The greatest influ
ence against the democrats was the hard
times, and in all probability it would
have defeated any democratic candidate
if there had been no silver question.
But there was a very general belief that
the hard times were due to the Wilson
HE FORESEES KiS i ; ATD.
I -
Bryan Says the Success of the Cleveland Movement Will Result in a Tragedy
tariff bill, which had the support of
Mr. Bryan in congress, and which both
Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan desired
should become a law in a more radical
form than that in which it was finally
enacted.
There was no divergence between the
two men on this point, and if the Chi
cago platform struck at Cleveland in its
approval of Altgeld's views of govern
ment by injunction and of state's rights,
Mr. Bryan's own specialty was sixteen
to one, the "paramount" issue. Here
he diverged from Cleveland very widely,
but Cleveland's ideas on the subject
were known before the election of 1892,
and they were the winning ideas in the
elections of 18% and 1900. It is hardly
clear, therefore, that the Cleveland ad
ministration was so much worse than
the Bryan convention as a vote re
peller, and Mr. Bryan ought to get his
Masoning powers into a better state of
repair.
As to bis speech aa a whole, we can
not discover that it i* a keynote or ral
lying cry. It is strongly denunciatory
of Mammon, but Mammon has no self
professed friends on the stump among
democrats or republicans.
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.
E-'The democratic party is preparing
to do a histrionic stunt. Mr. Cleveland
is a heavy tragedian anil Col. Bryan o
barnstormer. —St. Louis Globe-Denio
crat.
C Many sneers at Bryan are com
ing from men and papers once devoted
to him. That is a sure sign of his loss
of prestige and political power.—Cleve
land Leader.
every democrat whose name has
been mentioned in connection with the
presidency votes the ticket in 1004, Mr.
Roosevelt will know he has had oppo
sition. —Detioit Free Press.
t '"The Brooklyn Kasle now says
"other names pale wh< n Mr. Cleveland's
name is mentioned for the presidential
nomination." Yes. nnd some people
pale. too. —lies Moines Register and
Leader.
c Col. Bryan is described as less san
guine than he used to tie. He can hard
ly be said, though, to be less strenu
ous. Always willing to work. i ven In
the face of Mire defeat. Cincinnati l.n
qnirer 11>eiit.).
t 'Bryan thinks tl Cleveland move
ment is only a nimcily, but that It will
result in a tragedy if it succeeds. The
colon 1 in. perhaps, competent to jud e,
beinß somewhat of an actor hi itself.
Cleveland Leader.
c 'The Brooklyn Kngle sont a staff
correspondent to interview Mr Cleve
land. and reports that "Urovcr Cleve
land AILL ai ept the pre dential IIIHII!:#-
tlon If shown that this Is his duty fo
hl» country and his party " But who i*
»;OIIIK to"M OW" hiui"- -Atlanta Consti
tution (Drm ).
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1903
THE DEMOCRATIC "STIFF."
Hilly llrynn Holm I |i S«*rr ■•••!> anil
I )<M*M I lie Mini Mul 111 la
Muni.
In his speech at the Carter Harrison
picnic on Saturday Mr. Bryan held an
inquest on (he national democracy, and
returned a verdict in direct opposition
to the facts, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Mr. Bryan proved that he had learned
nothing since 1890, save to deify the
semisavage Aguinaldo, and had forgot
ten everything. His assertion that the
republican victories in IS9G and since
were won by no influence save those of
corruption of the electorate showed his
persistence in uttering malignant slan
der upon increasing majorities of the
American people.
His declaration that "the odium which
Mr. Cleveland's second administration
brought upon the party did more to de
feat it than all the planks of the Chicago
platform" was so absolute a perversion
of the truth that it could result solely
from a blindness to lacts so total as to
bo characterized only as political hys
teria.
Mr. Bryan's appearance on this par
ticular occasion was interesting be
cause it.was made under conditions
that showed him to bo not averse to
lending such influence as ho may still
possess to the promotion of the absurd
movement to make Carter Harrison a
presidential candidate.
His utterances, however, must have
brought cold comfort to Mayor Harri
son's friends, for he showed clearly
enough that he considered a demo
cratic victory in 1904 hopeless. His ex
hortations to his party to be willing
still to suffer defeat for the "princi
ples" in whose support he has twice led
it to disaster proved his hopelessness of
victory.
In his clinging to ideas repeatedly re
pudiated by the people, in his persist
ence in assigning every cause save the
true one for the unbroken series of
democratic disasters since 1894, Mr.
Bryan proved one fact beyond a shadow
of question.
That, is that the naitonal democracy
can never hope to have even the begin
ning of a chance of success until it ab
solutely eliminates Bryan and Bryan
ism—until it gets rid altogether of a
leadership which forgets everything,
learns nothing, and continually slanders
the American people.
REPUBLICANS OF KENTUCKY.
They Are I «»is I In* I'rlnclple* of
ItdONCt 1U1(I llio
I'art j.
Harmony among the republicans of
Kentucky will insure that state for
Roosevelt and state officers. Democratic
divisions arc widening on questions of
principles as well as individuals. The
present prospect is that the Cleveland
and the Bryan elements will fight each
other next year, more for supremacy
witnin the party than with an expecta
tion of BUCCCSS. Mr. Cleveland will not
be passive in 1914 nor confine himself to
voting the republican ticket, cays the
S*. Louis Globe-Democrat. He will ac
cept the democratic nomination if ten
dercd. At all expects to figtiro
prominently in making the ticket and
platform. Mr. Bryan will be equally
active and self-assertive. He will not
forgive democrats who voted against
him unless they acknowledge they were
wrong. Mr. Cleveland and hi:-: associates
propose to demonstrate by the action of
the national convention that they were
right in IS9t! and 1900.
But the probability that the democrats
of Kentucky, as well as of other states,
will be arrayed agnlnst each other next
ji ar is 1« ss significant if the republi
cans of the state also propose to fight
each other. Kentucky republicans were
dHlbrrately robbed of the :tate ofTWs
during the f!oet.rl period. On a fair vote
the slat* is close. Kentucky belongs In
the -huh geir raphleal tier as Maryland
and West Virginia. The latter has be
come vitr< ly r< publican and Maryland
1 In i n usually republican during the
In. 112 tin years. The republicans of Ken
tue' y are united Oil the prittcipU s of the
party and on Roosevelt. Minor liiffer
• ue's ought to be laid a Ide. It may be
a slimed that the clash of merely per
soual ambitions will stop It 1m a mls
trfke :i waste of valuable strength Ken
tnrky ri pi. blicans have a line opportu
i lt\ fur 190-1 The life of |t depends on
themselves
POPULIST PARTY.
Two Factions of It Meet in
Conference at Denver.
(*a«t l(lll«-reiiee* hi to v »<> lie
IVrum lien ily Nrlllrd - Addrrw to
lll« I'CO|JIC «it 11M I Poll I'll
triotic Citizens to Join
the Organisation.
Denver, Col., July 29.—Amalgama
tion into one party was yesterday ef
fected by the two factions of the peo
ple's party in national conference.
The following address was reported
by the committee on resolutions and
was adopted:
"The manifest unrest which every
where appears in the nation demon
strates the dissatisfaction of the
American people with the present
management of government and ar
gues the necessity of the reform
forces coming together in united ac
tion at the ballot-box to obtain prop
er legislation by which the right of
the people to self-government may
be had for themselves si rid their pos
terity.
"Therefore, we, the populists of the
United States, having this day at the
city of Denver united forces with the
distinct, understanding that all past
differences as to policy shall be and
now are permanently settled, and ex
perience having demonstrated the fu
tility of any attempt to secure the
enactment of our truths either
through the republican or democratic
parties, we lielieve the time is now at
hand when the united people's party
should declare itself eniphaticallv op
posed to any affiliation with either of
these parties and unqualifiedly in
fj,..,. ~c , ( , 11 :it political action.
"Our fundamental principles are
known to sill populists and are now
here better stated than in that im
mortal document enunciated at
Omaha July 4. 1900.
"However, for the benefit of the un
informed, we declare our unyielding
adherence to the demands for a
money, whether stamped on gold, sil
ver or paper, to be coined ami issued
exclusively by the government, and
made a full legal tender for all debts,
both public and private; a system of
transportation and the transmission
of intelligence, owned by the public
and operated by the government at
the cost of service; land for use
rather than for soeculation, and abo
lition of alien ownership of land;
American ships for American foreign
commerce, without a cent, of sub
sidy.
"And as an open door for all eco
nomic reforms we urge the rule, of
the people through the optional ref
erendum and initiative and the recall
of derelict officials.
"Confident in the justice of the
principles here set forth, firmly con
fident that their triumph in govern
ment would be for the best interest
of the people, we call upon the pa
triotic citizens of this country to join
with us in bringiiur aliout their enact
ment into law. With these princi
ples firmly established, equal justice
would prevail, special privilege:!
would be eliminated and ours would
be, as patriots everywhere desire, a
government of the people, for and by
the people."
The conference adjourned sine die
last evening. It is expected that the
two national committees which will
meet here today will ratify the action
of the conference in the adoption of
resolutions providing for amalgama
tion. The committee to nominate an
organization committee was empow
ered to add to its membership one
man from each state and territory in
the Union. This committee is to car
ry 011 the work of organization until
the next national convention, when
it is expected that formal amalgama
tion of the two populist parties will
occur.
FOUR PERSONS DROWNED.
Opciitiiu; or » Dnin in Hie Atteshcnj
letter 1* itlnrkrit by an Accident.
Pittsburg, July 29. —A bad accident
followed shortly after the opening of
dam No. 1, in the Allegheny river at
Ilerris island, last evening, in which
four young people were drowned;
Joseph Brown, aged 19.
Henry ISrown, brother of Joseph.
Frederic Bulger, jr.
Kdna Shipley, 13 years.
After the ceremonies incident to
the opening of Ihe dam three, boys
were riding below the dam in a skiff
and seeing three girl friends on the
bank, invited them to join in the ride.
When all had been seated tlie skiff
was headed for the dam and when a
short distance awav the suction from
the "bear trap" drew the boat in.
Rescuers were quickly at work, but
before they could be reached four ot
the young people were drowned.
Hiiol Itelttru to Work.
New York, July 29. —Another im
portant move was made in the labor
situation Tuesday when the Iron
league, employers of iron workers,
sent formal notice to the House
smiths' and I'ridgenien's union that
unless their men return to work by
next Monday their places will be fill
ed bv any men who are willing to
work under the joint arbitration
agreement, in takitv this step the
iron employers received the support
of the newly organized board of
building trades, which comprises -i
majority of the skilled unions which
have signed the arbitration plan and
who e members, nbout 1.">,U00, nre now
at work.
I'llK'll Cotlfc»*e*.
Mount Vernon, N. Y., July U'.i.—
Coroner Wei enilanirer yesterday an
nounced that Martin Elicit, whose
wife's body was found in a sewer
pipe on Sundii> with a shoe loco tight
l\ wound around the throat, had con
fcHPed to him and to ( liief of Police
K' Icy that lie hull murdered th<
woman. It i ai that Illicit hm
complained to Ids -ter that his wif,
wan i.instantly applying to him foi
money, lie told liln sister that hi
Wa tired of these repealed ttppiicit
tion* and that his wife tvu® a vontin
uul aim orange to hint
TROUBLE IN CU3A.
■{evolution I* Proclaimed by a Small
Kami of Armed licit In Santiago
Province.
Havana, July 31. —In spite of the
I assertion made by Scnor Yero, sec
retary of the interior, that the kill-
Sing of three men and the capture of
a fourth man, their leader, who had
J attempted to cause an uprising in
the vicinity of llayaino, province of
j Santiago, effectually ended the only
semblance of an uprising in Cuba, the
rumors of uprisings in eastern Cuba
| were fully confirmed Thursday in the
government's reports received from
the governor and other official:-! of
Santiago province.
These are to the effect that since
Sunday last GO armed and mounted
men have appeared outside villages
in the Cauto river district, proclaim
ing a revolution and demanding the
payment of the former members of
the revolutionary army. Xo acts of
violence have been reported, but the
inhabitants of the Cauto region are
excited. The leader of the revolu
tionary party is named Pttpo. He is
a brother of one of the bandits killed
by the rural guard on Tuesday.
On. Rodriguez, commander-in-chief
of the rural guard, has ordered the
mobilization of all the rural guards
in eastern Cuba and the governor of
Santiago province has been instructed
to enlist as many volunteers as may
be deemed necessary.
PAYMENT SUSPENDED.
\ National tfaiili at Doyle*toivil. I'a.,
CiocN to llie Wall.
DoyJostown, I'a,, July 31.—The fol
lowing notice was posted on the door
of the Doylestown national bank yes
terday:"This bank closed and in the
hands of the comptroller of the cur
rency.-' The posting of the notice
caused considerable excitement in the
town, as the deposits of the institu
tion are large.
"The losses," said jJeputy Comp
troller Kane, "will absorb the entire
surplus and capital stock of the bank.
In other words, the total loss will
amount to $215,000 and it devolves
upon the directors and stockholders
to make up this deficiency."
Francis L. Worthington, a director,
said:
"The president and cashier ran
things to suit themselves. They had
no right to do so. They ought to
have consulted the board of directors
and this trouble would have been
avoided. Xo one suspected anything
wrong. Our stock has been increas
ing in value, advancing from s:s."> a
share to sl.Vt. I understand there was
some > peculation—Consolidated Lake
Superior, 1 believe, and in that stock
most of the money may have been
sunk."
Tito War llonrit Hold't a Session.
Washington, July .'!!.■ The first
meeting of the general policy board
was held Thursday. There were pres
ent Admiral Dewey, Hear Admiral
Taylor, ('apt. I'illsbury, Commander
Burnett, Maj. Gen. Corbin, Hrig. (ion.
Randolph and lirig. Gen. I.liss. Ad
miral Dewey was elected president.
There was a general discussion of the
subject of coaling and naval stations
in Cuba, with a view to determining
whether they should be garrisoned
by the army or by marines. .Secre
tary Root has taken steps to place
troops at Guantanumo and Baliia
Honda and some naval officers are
not pleased at his action.
1« jtIO.OOO Short In Him Account*.
Newark, X. J., July 31.—Joseph M.
Riker, president of the Merchants'
national bank, gave out a statement
Thursday to the effect that Edmund
J. Smith, former discount clerk of the
bank, was short in his accounts at
least SIO,OOO. Smith was discharged
from the bank two weeks ago. Ef
forts will be made to place Smith un
der arrest. Smith was under SIO,OOO
bonds. Smith had been employed by
the bank for 2S years.
Iti-at 111* Wile and Suicided.
Little Valley, X. Y„ July 31. —Jacob
Fedic yesterday sought out his wife
at the home of her father, Chaunecy
Fields. He found her alone and
pounded her on the head with a club
and then cut his throat. The woman
will probably die. They separated
several months ago. It is thought
Fedic sought a reconciliation, and,
angered by the woman's refusal to
return to him, assaulted her and kill
ed himself.
Went Crazy and Snlcltled.
London, (Int., July 31. —J. W.
Browne, a marine engineer of Clioy
boygan, Mich., on Thursday went ap
parently crazy anil the police found
him on the roof of a shed in the rear
of his hotel. When told to come
down IK- flourished a knife and saitl
lie was going to commit suicide.
While jumping about lie plunged head
first to the ground and crushed his
skull. He died soon after.
« liief i llie*.
Meadville, I'a., July 31.—A. B.
Youngfcon, grand chief engineer of
tiie Mrotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers. who has been ill with l.right's
disease since June 20, died Thursday.
Previous to his death he named M. 11.
Shay, of Youngstown, ()., as his suc
cessor. ( liief Engineer Youngson was
born in Pittsburg March 80, 1849.
Quarry men Killed liy Idelilnintr.
Masontown, I'a., July 31. Vincenso
Parrnzo, aged |/i, and Felice Fttra
rnndo, aged 17, quarry men, were in
t-tnntly killed yesterday by a bolt of
lightning which struck the tree under
which the\ hail sought shelter during
nil electrieal storm.
II lllrnx I- Convicted ot 'lurder,
Chicago. July 31. The jury in the
•ase id' John slid Elizabeth Wiltrnx,
who were on trial for the murder of
Paul I'i sokowski, returned :t verdict
of •rniltv again « John Wiltr; while
his wife Elizabeth was a .-i I.
Twenty live years' iniprisiinue .1 was
tiie • enteiiee pa/; eel upon Willrux. \
motion for :i new trial wa- at once
entered. The trial attracted much
111 en I ion from the fact thai the ll
v ear old son of the defendants
the most damaging testimony again t
them and afterwards took lite stand
for the defense and denied all his for
mer testimony.
AWITL KXI'LOSION
Nineteen People Are Killed at
Lowell, .Mass.
A Cartridge Company'* naja/liiti
Hloivn to by l))iianiil«
I'llly I'itkuiik 111 iii r<«l Hull)
ltiiil<ltni:n Itemvlliilied
lunar olfllc Accident.
Lowell, Mass., July 30. —Two small
gunpowder magazines, situated in the
very midst of the residences of 50
mill operatives, exploded yesterday
with a frightful concussion and the
resultant wave of death cut off the
lives of 19 human beings and injured
nearly 50 others:.
Half a dozen men who were loading
kegs of powder from one of the maga
zines were blown to pieees, four boys
-Oil yards away were killed by The
force of the explosion and 14 fraiir;
houses within a radius of 400 yards
went down as if they had been built
of cards. Seven of these houses im
mediately caught fire, probably from
the kitchen stoves, and were com
pletely consumed. At least three
persons were caught in the ruins and
burned to death, while seven or eight
others, who were rescued, died sub
sequently of their injuries.
It is estimated that 70 separate
pieces of property, including those
already mentioned, were destroyed,
while the force of fie explosion
wrecked windows for five or six miles
around, and its thunder could be
heard distinctly more than 50 miles
away.
The magazines were the property
of the I'nited States Cartridge Co.,
of this city, but fortunately were sit
uated more than a mile away from
the factory ilself. They were built
of brick, about ten feet high, with a
rounded roof of corrugated iron.
They were constructed .'id years ago
in what was then a broad open field
on the banks of the Concord river.
The company has for some time
been desirous of strengthening the
floor of the magazine nearest the
street and yesterday morning eight
men, three of them employes of the
company, three expressmen and two
carpenters were sent there with three
large express teams to take out the
powder and.mend the floor. Two of
the teams had been loaded and the
other was almost full when the ex
plosion occurred.
It was a long 1 time before the actual
cause of the explosion could be as
certained. It was thought at first,
that every one within a radius of 50
feet of the magazines had been killed,
but later it was found that Clarendon
(ioodwin, the foreman of the men
who were loading the powder, had
survived, together with one of bis as
sistants, Amadee Houlanger.
Boulanger said that the men went
down to the magazine nearest the
street to fix the floor and after the
teams had been loaded with the pow
der which was in the magazine it was
discovered that a can of nitro-glycer
ine which was stored in the magazine
was leaking. Mr. (ioodwin picked up
what he thought was a jug of water
and began pouring it onto the nitro
glycerine with the idea of diluting it
arid washing it up. As soon as the
fluid from the jug struck the floor h»
found that it was nitric acid. flu
floor at once began to smoke, and
when the men saw it they rushed
front the building, but had not jone
ten feet when the explosion oc
curred.
This magazine was therefore the
first togo up. followed immediately
bv the gunpowder in t the three wag
ons, and several seconds later by the
second magazine.
To those who heard the crash it
seemed as if there were two distinct
explosions, with a continuous roar
between them. There are, however,
five holes in the ground, which seems
to clearly indicate five explosions.
Lowell", Mass., July 31.—A long line
of hearses, moving slowly through
the streets yesterday morning was a
pathetic reminder of Wednesday's
terrible catastrophe at Wigginsville,
when an explosion of tons of nitro
glycerine, dynamite and gunpowder
snuffed out nearly a score of lives,
painfully injured more than double
that number of persons and scattered
half a hundred buildings over a space
of several acres. The. number of dead
stamis at til. but it may be increased
to 21 at any moment by the death of
two of the ten victims now at St.
John's hospital.
Tnsurani e adjusters slate that the
loss to their companies will be com
paratively light, as ojilv the loss re
sulting from fire will fall upon them.
This Mill mean that many of the
householders, nearly all of iheni
laboring men of small means, will
lose everything they had in the world.
The selectmen have taken steps
to help those who are suffering hard
ships. Army tents will provide tem
porary shelter.
A relief fund started by the local
papers has reached the $.'.000 mark.
A liCUiil Victory lor Striker*.
Chicago, July 30. —Judge Kavanaglj
in a decision handed down yesterday
In the habeas corpus case of four
strikers for violation of an injunction
granted to the Illinois malleable iron
works, decided that labor unions nine
the right to place pickets about a
plant where a strike is in progress
and In l also declared that workmen
have the right to persuade workmen
to quit. The jurist furthermore held
that sending men to jail upon allida
vlt* that the\ have violated an in
junction is illegal.
Kulelde of an Arlrcn.
Chicago, July 30.- -Miss \nna Pon
ton, a'i actress, 21 years old. shot and
killed herself yesterday iu her room
at the Inter Ocean hotel. Mi-Sally
Price, her roommate, stated that \li.-s
I'ostoli had been grieving over snne
tlnng for the past two weeks and had
made frequent references to suicide,
asking what would become of her soul
if she destroyed herself. Miss I'riee
replied that such an aet would mtull
11- eternal ptnibliincnt. Mi I'oston
then linked. "What have I done that
my .oiil shall be tormented on thi»
earth and go condemnc I iuti the
next ?*'