%
HIGHT AT APIA
War For the Samoan Crown
Going on Actively.
—
WARSHIPS TAKE PART.
Signs of International Friction Not So
Numerous as They Were a Short Time
Ago— Berlin Treaty Considered a Fallure
—Lord Kelborne Refers to Recent Trou.
bles in Samos in a Speech at St. Albans,
Auckland, New Zealand, (By Cable.)
Particulars of the fighting in Samoa, con-
tained in advices received here from Apin
under date of April 15, show that in a recent
battle between the friendly natives and the
rebels at Vailels the rebels lost 100 men
killed or wounded,
On April 17 a battle was fought at Yalle-
ma. The fighting was desperate, the rebels
holding strong fortifications, which were
shelled by the American and British shipe.
A party under Lieutenant Gaunt, of the
British navy, delivered such a heavy fire
that the rebels retreated to .a second and
stronger fort about 150 yards back. Partol
the “friendlies” bolted, but Gaunt went out
to the firing line and drove them back at the
point of his pistol. They then advanced to
attack the second fort, but found the posi-
tion too strong, and lost several men killed
and wounded.
London, Eng., (By Cable.)—The Earl of
Seiborne, Under Secretary of State for the
Colonies, addressing a Conservative mass.
meeting at St, Albans, Hertford, said he
thought that if .any justifieation of Lord
Salisbury’s polley ware wequired it was
afforded by the present relations between
the United States and Great Britain,
“At a trying time,” said his lordship, “the
government preserved their seif-control and
waited for coolness, justice, and common
sense to reassert themselves, Now the dark,
miserable cloud which so long hung over
the Anglo-Saxon peoples has drifted off, It
is only a few days since British and Ameri
can officers and men fell on the same fleld
of conquest,
Shoulder to Shoulder in Samoa.
“They were not eugaged in fratricidal
strife, but were fighting shoulder to shoulder,
and, small though tbe incident was, it will
be of importance in the history of the
world.”
All must regret, continued Lord Selborne,
the lamentable eause of the incident; but the
only three natious concerned wera what be
might term the “three cousin nations of the
world.” He remarked that he bad nodoubt
America and Germany, in this matter, would
prove as amenable as Great Britain to the
@ictates of common sense,
NAVAL COURTESIES AT APIA,
German Commander Denles Some of the
Stories of Friction,
Berlin, Germany, (By Caule.)—With tbe
view of rectilylog the reports of the discord
sald to exist between the three paval com-
manders at Samoa, the Norddeutsche Zeit.
ung publishes extracts from the reports of
the commander of German warship
Falke up to March in which Capt
Schoenleider says:
“The wildest ramors are current concern-
ing the relations between tbe officers and
erew of the Falke and the Americans and
Euoglish, The reports are due to some of
our countrymen, who do not tire of ereatiog
J-feeling between the officers and men of
Whe three countries by promoting such
rumors, As a matter of fact, the relations
between the different commanders and offi-
cers are thoroughly courteous snd of an ac-
eommodating character. la spite of the
arduous nature of his guard duty, Capt.
Sturdee attended the fuseral of a (German)
sailor, Wishl, with a deputation of an officer
and sixteen men, and Admiral Kautz bolsted
his flag at ball mast. No disputes lave oe-
curred between the German and the Ameri
can or Eoglish erews,
“At u recent meeting, the military repre.
sentatives of the three powers expressed in.
digoation at the rumors and whenever the
commander and offiesrs of the Falke meet
the American snd British officers and Con-
suis social forms are strictly observed.”
Dealing with the commencement of hos
tilities, March 15, and the faet that a frag-
ment of one of the Philadeipbia’s sbells en-
tered the German Consulate, the report sayr:
*“The German Consulates was not previous.
iy notified of the commencement of bostlil-
ties and was stlil inhabfted, I immedistely
dispatched an officer to Inform Admirai
Kautz that the German Consulate was pot
evacuated and that his shots bas struck the
building, and requested him to cease firing
over Apia until the Germans were in safety,
Admiral Kautz told the officer that owing to
my representations he would not continue
firing over Apia, asd the following day he
sent bis flag Lisutenant to me and expressed
regret at the oceurréner,
“Admiral Kautz, March 18, directed that
uniformed officers and men should be als
lowed to pass freely at all times, The Amer-
jeans on guard duty were always most civil,”
Commissioners Salil for Samoa,
San Francisco, Cal, (Rpecial, }-The Unie
ted States dispatebeboat Dadger, with the
Samoan Commission on board, sailed for
Apla. The steamer will probably stop at
Honolulu for coal.
the
23,
KAUTZ CAUTIONED,
Letter From the Nuvy Department Sent
to the Admiral.
Washington, D, C., (Special, j=-It has been
felt proper to admonish Admiral Kautz to
be more careful _sither "in writing such let.
ters as that published from Cinelnoadl or In
guarding bis letters from publicity, asd a
jetter of that character was addressed to
him,
Theoretically, a letter addressed under the
olreumstances attending the Kautz leiter,
may be regarded as strictly private, yet
practically the writer must secept the con-
sequences that wou'd follow the putlication,
In the cass of Chief Justices Chambefs,
whoss brother made public a letter eritiels-
ing the Germans in Samon, the effect will
certainly be injurious to the Chief Juuiice,
Though the letter nndoubtediy was a privaie
communication, yet the State Duwpatiment
was bound to take noties of the fact that
this publication bad done much to injure
thie usefulness of the CUhlef Justice and to
render his retention in the offics afier the
reconstruction of the islaad’s government
improbable, :
U, 8, 8, Ranger's Dock. 1.
San Francisco, Cal. , (Special, )—The Unit
doek trial at Mare Island, aud will soon be
ready to go foto commission, & new ship to
wil futents and purposes, he will be sent to
Manila as of her
light
THE NEWS,
President McKinley, several members of
bis cabinet and Mrs, U, 8. Grant attended
the unveiling at Philadelphia of an eques-
trian statue of Gen, U. B, Grant,
Admiral Schley and Gen, Joseph Wheeler
were the guests of honor at a banquet given
in Pittsburg by the Americus Republican
Club,
A colored man was lynched in Georgia by
his own race because of his activity in
searching out former culprits.
The case of Mrs, Anon George, charged
with the murder of Gisorge D. Baxton, Pres.
ident McKinley's brother-in-law, is now in
the bands of the jury at Canton, Ohlo,
A tull professorship of $100,000 has been
endowed by an anonymous friend of Prince-
ton University, The professorship will be
in general polities, embracing the dspart-
ments of international law, political science,
diplomacy and kindred subjects,
While a sheriff's sale was In progress on
the second floor of J, E. Snyder's implement
warehouse at Goldsboro’, Pa., the floor gave
way and about one hundred men fell to the
floor below,
Articles were filled at Trenton, N, J., of ths
United States Fiour Milling Company, with
an authorized capital of 825,000,000, of
which one-half is to be preferred stock, with
6 per cent. cumulative dividend,
The Grant Monument Association cele-
brated the anniversary of the birth of Gen-
eral Grant with a banquet at the Waldor!l-
Astoria, N. XY. Geo, Wager Swayne, presi
dent of the association, presided, and at the
tables sat Congressman J. P. Dolliver, of
Iowa; Elihu Root, Gen, Wesley Merritt, J.
A. Kasson, Gen, G. Dodge and Dellon M.
Dewey, son of Admiral Dewey,
The Fourth Virginia Regiment was mus-
tered out at Bavanoab, Ga. The soldiers
left over the Central Batiroad and the Fiori
da Central and Penlpsular. Companies A,
B and E, of Norfolk, were furnished a special
train by the people of Norfolk,
No. 8 Chesapeake and Ohio Fast-Fiylng
Vizginia train, west-bound, was wrecked at
Bt. Albans, W, Va, by rusning isto an open
switeb, Toe train was going at a rate of
filty miles an hour, and four coaches, a bag-
gage car sod the engine left the rail, one of
the coaches landing on its side, Btrange to
fay, not a traloman nor a siogle passenger
was injured. Passengers were travslerred
to a special train and traffic was delayed but
a few hours,
Charley Bear, a switchman at the Ameri.
enn Car and Foundry Company, was run
over by a yard engine and killed. He was a
fireman on the Oblo River Raliroad for
mauy years, and formerly lived at Ravens.
wood,
The Queen City Cotton Company, Burling-
ton, Vi, has been exempted from taxation
for ten years on condition that & new mili to
be Lulit by the corporation shall cost, with
its equipment, pot less than £300,000, and
shall give employment to not less than 150
additional hands, Work on the pew factory
will be begun at onee,
Dr. E. A. de Schweinitz, of the bia-
chemie division of the Department of Agri-
culture, and dean of the Medical Sehool of
Columbian University, has been appointed
Ly the Secretary of State a delegate to the
congress on tuberculosis which will meet ia
Berlin, Germany, May 24-27.
In the Rhode Island House of Represents-
tives a resolution forwarded by the Summer
Association of Newport condemning outs
rages in the South was defeated alter long
debate,
The President has jssued a proclamation
snsounciog the ratifleation of the new ex-
tradition treaty between the United States
and Mexico, and the convention is now in
foree,
A tornado swept the farming country 20
miles east of Anawa, In. Three persons are
reported to have been killed and great dam-
age done to property.
3
chief
A MERCHANT ROBBED,
Chioroformed By Barglars, Whe Got
S168 And Other Valoablea
Parkersburg, W, Va., (Special, )--Georgs
I. Creel, an eccentric old merchant of Da-
visvilie, W. Va,, awoke to find bis room ins
dilapidated condition and muoeh steff of
value stolen, Burglar had effected an ep-
tranee, and, chloroforming Creel, beslped
themselves, From an old wooden bureau in
whieh Creel kept his valuables $168 in gold
was stolen, the burglars overlooking a cigar
box containing over $500, Two flae gold
watches, valuable notes and aring were also
stolen, Creel would not risk the banks, and
in an old tin ean, which he kept iu the
kiteben sale, be bad placed all the goid
pieces coming into his possession in 20
years. This ean, which contained nearly
£3,000, was also overlooked, Officers with
bloodmounds are searching for the burglars,
and parties io town are under surveiliaoee,
THE HEAVIEST B. & OO. TRAIN,
New Engine Hauls Fifty Cars of Fifty
Tons Capacity Each,
When the Heoelvers of the Baltimore &
Ohblo Baliroad began the now famous series
of improvements of the physical econdtiion
of the entire system their object was to ioe
crease both the train load and the number
of revenue tons per mile and at the same
time reduce the cost of transportation. Much
has been done, and by the lowerlag of
grades, siimination of curves, laying of new
steel! ralis and the pdrchase of heavy motive
power they have very materinily added to
the number of cars per tralo. Bat It was
rot nati! the 17th of Mareh inst thar a dem.
oustration was made of what might be ex-
pected of the new Baltimore & Ohio Rail.
round, Esough new 0-ton capacity steel
enrs bad been delivered to give the operat-
ing department & ebanecs to experiment
Pity steel ears, each welghiog 34000
pounds were loaded with an average of 08
000 pounds of coal, To them was coupled a
pew 20x28-inech Consolidation loeomotive
weighing 168,700 pounds and baviag Hd-lach
driving wheels, The start was made from
Camberiand, Md, and the designation was
Brunswick, Md., on the Second Division, In
bis report General Superintendent Fitz.
gerald says the train was palied with com
parative ease sad that the class of engines
used will be able to handle 50 cars of 3 tons
eapacity each on that division without
trouble, Hithesto the train load on that di
vision has been 325 units of 6); tons each
or about 2,900 tons, a 40 per cent Inorease
uvefthat of five years ago, The B0-car train
was computed as containing 487 units, or
[casa 200 pounds gross. The net weight of
7 Jo the train was 4,758,100 pounds,
LAS AE
THAIN WRECKED,
Four Persons Injured ina Emashup on
Tie Norfolk and Western,
Potersburg, Va., (Special, )-A westbound
passenger train, No. 33, on the Norfolk snd
Western Rallroad, dus bers about 10 o'clock
p. m., wes wrecked about four miles esst of
the city. The locomotive was overturned
on the malin teack and literally wrecked, as
ontv, the patasvger ocualiat and slespar ran
ROUTED BY M ARTHUR.
Aguinaldo’'s Picked Troops
Driven Out of Apalit,
AMERICAN LOSS SLIGHT.
One Man Kitted and Nine Wounded, In-
cluding Three Officers, All Belonging to
the Montann Volunteers—Gen. Lawton's
Division Remches Normmguray Grestly
Exhausted by Their Forced March.
Mantis, Philippine Islands, (By Cable.)
Gen. MacArthur's division crossed the
Rio Grande and advanced on Apaiit, com~
where two trains were awaiting them,
left hurriedly, presumably for Ban
nando,
The towps of San Vincente and
by the natives,
tured, including a Spaniard,
The American troops also captured a brass
cannon and nn quantity of arms apd ammu-
a Maxim gun on the raliroad, The fighting
lasted from noon until 4 o'clock,
The Amerloan loss is one man of the Moc
tana regiment killed and threo cfficors sod
six men wounded,
The enemy were very strongly intronehed
op the river bank, near beth sides of
raliroad bridge. Gon, Wheaton sent Col,
Funston across, with two companies of the
Twentieth Kansas, Begiment, a couple of
privates swimming the swift stream with a
rope, under a galling fire, for the purpose
of guiding the raft. The men crossed In
squads of twenty, snd attacked ithe left
flunk of the rebels, who scuttied like rabbits
into covered ways and trenches,
The rest of the regiment was compelied
io eross the bridge in siogle
stringers, All the woodwork snd
the rouwork had bess removed,
Montana Regiment followed the
across the bridge,
The First Nebraska Regiment, acting as a
reserve, attacked the relels In three lines of
trenches, driving them out, silling sixieen
and wounding many.
In ih= meantime a large body of Filipinos,
estimated at no fewer than 8,000 jed Ly
Gen, Aotonio Luna on & black charger,
that was evidently coming 10 reenlor ce the
rebels, who were vagaged with the Ned
Krne, appeared in field about
miles to the left,
Emerging from the
formed an open skirmish Hoe nearly two
miles in leagth, with very thick reserve bee
bind, The men advanced doable quick
until they wore about 2,000 yards from the
mericas line, when Gen, Woenton ordered
Lis troops to fire,
I'he rebels, who were evideotiy unaware
that the Americans had crossed the river,
brok= and ran la the direction of Macabele,
the
file nloug the
much of
The First
Rausnps
fag»
the open two
s3 AD ov Let y
the jangle, enemy
noon was terrifle, but a dresching thunder
storm, which came (ater, greatly refreshed
the Americans,
The ambulances, wilh a sirong escort, are
bringing Geo. Lawion's wounded sand a fow
of those who have been prostrated by the
heat across the country to the raliroad,
A report hes gained wide currency among
the voiunteers that the goverament intesds
to akk that there be no fightiog alter Calum
pit is eaptured, and that it is the intention
10 replace them at the front with regulars
which are
transports,
The committees of Filipinos organized to
aldo fears to approach the rebels after the
refusal of the latter 10 receive the Spanish
commissioners who were bearing a white
fing. The committee, aller consulting with
the American commissiotiers, propose $0 teil
conditional surrender could be offered after
the lengths to which the war has been oar
traditions of leniency to the conquered, and
that there would be Bo pucishments or con
fiseations of property if they laid down their
arms,
The leaders of the committeo told United
States Consul General Williams that they
would go if he would accompany them, bes
Heviog the re trusted Me. Williams, The
intter, however, refused, having po author.
ity in the matter. He said:
“I do not believe the Filipinos would
harm me, but they might deiala me for
months,”
The American commission is bampered in
them, that the “antl-expansionista’ may ob
tain control of the American government,
and cause the withdrawal of the American
they cisim, leaving the natives who have
assisted the Americans to the mercy of
Aguinaldo’s followers, Under those elr.
cumstances, ten of property are reluctant
to risk the results
with the Amerioan regime,
CYCLONE KILLS MANY,
Have Heobn Lost ins Windstorm,
“X gathering storm that bad besa threat.
ening all the afternoon broke upon Kirke
ville nt 6.20 o'clock P. M. in all the fury of a
eyoclone., A path a quarter of a mii wide
and as clean nas the prairie was swept
through the eastern portion of the eity, and
about 400 bulidings-—~homes and mercantile
~were leveled to the groued in seattered
ruins,
“In the heavy rain that followed the pec.
ple who had escaped turned oul to rescue
the injured. For two hours not much was
accomplished, as all was confusion, but by 8
o'clock 98 dead bodies had been taken from
the ruins,
“It is consdentiy expected that the list of
dead bodies will reach between 50 and 60, if
it does not vxeeed that,
“About a thoveand people was moro or
ines injured, Each biansbed face reports a
new eslamity,”
ar Dh
Well Rhooters Blown te Atoms,
Bradlord, Pa., (Bpecial.)~Two well shoot
ere, Joseph Bmaliey and Daniel Lane, wore
blown to fragments, and George B, Gibbons
and John Knox were
sion of a torpedo near the Kingua viad
sixteen miles south of Bradlord,
Chinese Tragedy at Baltimore.
Ges Oh Yung, Chinese track
I rd
Frightful Explosion of Benzol
in Philadelphia,
—
TWO CHEMISTS KILLED.
Were Making Symthetic Extract of Vaniia
~ Over a Score Injured-Hurt by Fiying
Debris From the Fleer Chewing Gum
Factory, Where the Disaster Occurred —
Walls Cracked.
Philadelphia, Pa., (Specin!.)—By the ex-
plosion of 76 gallons of benzol in the lab-
oratory of Frank H, Fleer & Co, manufac
turers of chewing gum at 2343 and 2345 Cal-
lowhill street, two men were killed, three
persons seriously injured, and over a score
of others were mors or less injured by fiylug
| debrle,
Of those injured, Harry Randall, an em-
ploye, and Ars, Givison and ber l-year-oid
child are the most seriously burt, but they
{ will recover,
i The explosion was a terrific ope, and for
{ atime caused the wildest excitement, No
| loss than 100 buildings In the vicinity, most
of them very small dwellings, Were
| damaged,
The laboratory building was a two-story
structure, At the time of the explosion
thers were only four men working in ihe
bullding, who were preparing a mixture for
the making of vaniliine (methyl ether of
protoeatechule aldehyde).
The doors to the room in which they were
workipg were closed, but the fumes from
the benzol in some manner reached the fur-
nace in the next room and the explosion in-
stantly followed, Walter Manwaring was
instantly killed, and Charles McKinley was
80 badly hurt that he died several bours
later in a hospital,
Randall's escaps was remarkable,
blown through the roof sud lasded
sdjoining buliding.
At first it was thought he was dead, but
alter treatment In the hospital be regained
consciousness, Although badly burt, be
recover, George Conner, the fourth
employe iu the room, escaped with a few
severe bruises,
As Mrs, Givison, with her child on her
He was
00 AL
’
i
id
arm, was hurriedly leaving ber home, whieh
was directly opposite the laboratory, ber
dress caught fire from a fiylog ember and
she and the child were badly burned, Their
recovery Is doubtful,
The explosion was so terrific that the
buildings sdjoinicg each side of the labors
tory were completely demolished, Os both
sides of the street for & whole square the ex-
plosion wrought destruction,
were broken, fixtures were smashed, and
walls were eracked, Fire added to the de-
struction in & number of the places, but the
they did any considerable damage,
Tue score of persons injored were all ten-
ants of the many dwellings, and were in no
way connected with the lsboratory, Bome
wore severely cut by glass, while many of
them were struck by the fying debris,
The money loss la estimated to be consid-
srable over $100,000,
MURDER AND SUICIDE,
Wife and Child,
Camden, N. J., (Bpecinl,
wald, sn instrumentmaker,
Edward Os
aged
o'd daughter, Gussie, at their home, No, 962
Jefferson avenue, Centreville, a suburb of
this city. He then cut bis throat, asd was
| taken to the Cooper Hospital, where be is
not expected to live,
The souple came here lo
| husband was employed. Apparently iheir
{| domestie relations were happy. tout
o'clock In the morning & pext-door neighbor
beard Mrs, Oswald seream,
ing ball-way out of a window with blood
{ flowing from a wound in her bresst, Bbe
sald ber husband bad attacked her and ber
| two children with & bread knife, but that
ove of the istter bad ecseaped. The door
was broken open, and Mrs, Oswald ran out
witli ber dead child in ber arms aod fell
dead on the sidewalk,
Oswald was found under the bed with a
gnpiog wound in bis throat. He resisted
| arrest, acd was beaten into sobmission and
removed to the hospital, It is believed be
became suddenly insane during the night.
WHOLE PARTY DEAD,
Poisoned Meat Sapposed to Have De
strayed Several Feopile
Astoria, Ore,, (Special, )—That the entire
party which jolt Seaside, April 7, on a tim-
ber cruise are dead Is an accepted fnct, as
the bodies of three have already been found,
aud search is still in progress for the fourth,
| who wes the oidest and weakest member of
the party. As soon as H. Doty's body was
found, ou Saturday, Louis Chance, known
as “Indian Loule,” aud John Burke were
engaged to start out in search of the re.
| mainder of the party, which consisted of P,
| £. Helkman, oivil engineer, of this city; W.
| T. Rader, a timber locator, of Portland, and
A. J. Ciostrie, of Seaside, who accompanied
| the party as a goide. “Indian Loule™ bas
returned, and states that they found the
desd bodies of Heikman and Rader at the
| toot of Sagar Loatl Mountain, some distance
apart aod about three miles from where
Doty's body wes fourd, Itils generally supe
posed that denth was the result of eating
poisoned canned mest or vegetables,
| MUST CONQUER FILIPINOS,
Every Man Neecessnry Wil He Used for
the Parpose,
Washington, I, C., {(Bpeecial.)~A Cabinet
ofMeer said that the Cabinet bad st no time
discussed the subject of the future disposi-
tion of the Phllippiones,
“It is the present that wa are thinking
about,” said be, “and there Is not the slight.
ost lntention of deviating from the present
program, 1 belive in the unasimous feel.
{ae of the Cabinet that nothing shall be des
elded as to the future status of the islands
until we have piased them satisfactorily un-
der the control of the United States.”
He sald that every dolinr asd évery man
necessary 10 | ring the sands under the de
a“
HON, SAMUEL T, BAIKD DEAD,
Was a Member of the House From Louls,
funs In the Lest Congress.
Washington, D, C,, (Special, )—HRepresen-
tative Samuel T. Bajrd, of Louisians, died
fu Washington from a complication of dis
vasee, The remaius were taken to Bastrop,
La., for interment,
Iu addition to the family the following
named Senators and Representatives aseom-
panled the remains: Becators Caffrey, of
Louisiane, and Bacon, of Georgia; Repre-
sebtutives Meyor and Davey, of
Cleary, of Mionesots; Mareh, of llincis;
Glison aud Brownlow, of Tennessee; Cum-
mings, of New York, sad Ciayton, Under
wood sud Bankhead, of Alabama, who will
act as honorary paill-bonrers,
Bamuel T. Baird was well-known fn norih-
eru Louisiana, where for seventeen years he
bas been 8 promioeat factor at the bar, on
the benob aud fn polities, He was a native
of that State sud was thirty-eight years old,
Born st Osk Ridge on May 5, 1861, his prim-
ary lostructious were begun very early sad
at Vincenues, Ind, In 1879 be sommenced
ndmitted to the bar. lu 1884 be was elected
district attorney of the sixth judicial efreuit,
then vacated it to become district judge lor
the sumie distriet,
for lour years and then relinquished It to
resume his private practices. Io April, 1806,
tie was elected to the Btate Benste, He was
& delegate to the national Democratie cou-
vention lo Chicago in 1806, Mr. Baird had
just finished his first term in the House of
the Alty-sixth Congress,
SPANISH-AMERICAN ISLANDS,
A Maanlia dispateb states that there is hope
that Lieutenant Glimore and his party from
the cruiser Yorkiwwwa may bave best res
ported,
General Otis cables to Washington that
the “betier class” of Flilpluos sre tired of
war,
The European junta of the Filipluos says
General Gom~z has docided to declare in
favor of Americas proteciorate until Cuba is
Porto RK cans are sironsly opposed to the
reported isn of the lusuiar commissioners
to put Americans at once iuto ail the princi
ple offices of tue island,
Admiral Dewey has heard nothing to de
termine the fale of Lisutepaut Glimore and
Late advices(from Mindana state that war
is ilkely to break out there ns soon as the
A spili bas occurred lu the European justia
Six Americans were killed and forty-three
Toe Fulpinos were
routed, © Hwiseuberg was among the
i,
Two Spanish comaissioners who atiempt-
order tc confer
Spaniards lo Cuba are uneasy, asd a num-
ber of them say they will leave the island
when the American troops are willidraws,
€ onepiracy Romance Dented,
*
Washingion, D. C., (Special. }—A cabinet
alieged conspiracy in
peace negotiations sdberenis of
Bot at the [root of Ireguent
Banner Year of Our Foreign Trade,
Washisgton, D, C.,
year 1808 was the banner year of the foreign
trade of the United Bate,
record-breaking fl:urrs of ithe precedisg
year Uy $174,284 310, ©. the other haod,
whe Imports during 18885 were the smallest
sinee 1888, their values being $616,049,664, »
decline of $148,680.758 from te figures of
1897. The exports of agricultural produce
wege 70.08 por cont. of the total, or $858 507,
#42, u gains of neariy 25 per cent, over 1887
ViELD OF LABU A
Cramps’ shipyard employs 5,000 men.
A Brazil coffees plantation has 500,000
trees,
Chicago musicians’ unions have amaiga-
mated.
8t. Paul Globe (vewspaper) has been un-
ionized,
Missourl is to have a State printisg trades
council,
Boston borseshoers want time and hall.
time for overtime,
A Western newspaper man who eaught
Prof. A. Graham Bell on the wing last week
represents the latter ns saying that be did
not regard telephony without wires as an
fmpossitdity, but he was not prepared io go
into detalles,
in Germany forty-one ol the fifty-four
cities of over 50.0.0 Inhabitants have their
own gas works, There are 208 municipal
gas plants In Great Britain and Ireland,
The system of public ownership has made
its way Into Holland, Usiglum, Austria, Nor-
way, Sweden, Switgeriand, France Italy,
Greece, Mexico,
that own their own gas works,
California than elsewhere in the country,
and the experimenters iu this line of Indus.
try are meeting with a fair degree of suo-
cons, The Angora goal yields on an avers
age of four pounds of mohair at a shearing,
the product selfing for from 32 10 37 conta n
pound, CG FP. Bailey, of San Jose, sold last
wear a trifle more toan $80.0 woria of mc.
tale from his flock,
Herbert Lang, writing for the Englneoriog
and Mining Journal, says that the great
Iron Mountalu mine of California contains
about 129,000 short tous of metalile copper,
8,500,000 ounces of silver, and gold to the
THE KEYSTONE STATE
News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
IL atest
ibn.
THE KISSER LAID LOW.
His Operations Cut Short bys Plucky
Malden Armed With a Club-She Fun
i=iiod Him Until He Begged for Mercy
Actor Accidentally Wounded While
Fencing, Dies at Pittsburg.
A youug man who seems io have a mania
for kissing and hugging young women whom
he meets ou the street bas been doing au ac-
tive beuiness at Conldals for some time. It
remained for Miss Honore Jonshick to stop
turning to ber home, She noticed a figure
sibead of Lier, and thought of the “Jack 1he
ilugger.” But this did not disconeert Ler,
20 years old, pretty and
Bhs had prepared for the kisser by
a club, In the
strong.
menn~
As she approsched tis
shadow and
aitempted to grasp Miss Jopsbick., Bhe did
pot run or scream, but with a wellsdire ected
blow of her club knocked ber sssuiinnt
down, Following up her advantage, she
one hand, while
Electricity on the Farm,
The Westinghouse Company, of Pittsburg,
is about to make a vuigue electrical fnstaiia-
ton, comprising a complete plant for light-
of C. I. Beardsiee, near 8t. Johnsville N.Y.
The power for the machinery wii
nisbhed by two steep falls of a creek which
courses through the farm, a power bouse
having already been erected near one of
them, Motors to operates bay cutters, a saw
thi and other lar machinery will Le
pinced in operation, The farmbouss wiil
be i rillisatly lighted, cooking will be done
with ewctiricty, siectrical flat irons will do
the work lu tue lsundey and electric churns
aud separators will take Gp the white wom-
au's burden In the farm dairy, Farmer
Bszrdaiee will have a surpius of power and
Las already contracted supply two
J
be {at~
to
vhoevilie manulsciurers,
Si.
Death Follows Sham Duel,
Jobst Gardoer, of Pittsburg, as actor, died
ui the West Peon Hospital from a wound ac
gidenily received while fencing on
with
the plage
another actor, ‘he accident occurred
at Brownsville, Gangreae set io and Gard
ner rapidly grew worse, His wile, who
oaliy 17 years old, and lives io Butier county,
sat Ly bis bedside lor alisost an hour thiuk-
ing Lim asieep, and not wanting to wake
bite. Then she called 10 an passing nurses
aud expressed the fear that he might
dead. The purses feit his puls~,
right,” she replied, “he is dead.
is
be
“lou sre
New Steel Company.
An application has been made at the Siate
Department for & charter to the Tidewat-s
steel Company of Phlladeipbla with a capi-
tal of $1000, divided into 100 shares of #10
each. Tue Ineorporators are George 8
Grabam, Isase N, Bolle, RE. Robissop,
Goorge McCall and E. F. Giens, all of Phil
adeiplia, aod each boidiag twenty shares,
it is understood that the charter will bs is
sued this week and that the capitel is 10 be
increased to $15,000,
00,
Dire End to Arbutaos Hunt,
Cassie Zeigler, the 15-year-old daughter
of Mr. spd Mre, Charice Zeigler, was slimost
instantly killed io a peculiar matoer al
SBerantes. With 8 number of members ol
the South Scranton Young Women's Curis
tian Association, she was returningin a
wagon from an arbutus party st No, b Lake,
% bes in some manner Lot clearly explained
The rear wheel
passed over her bead and she was almost in-
Sulelde by Shooting.
Jobn Geliz, of Mount Troy, committed
suicide by sending a bullet through bie
He is thought to have been tempor.
The bouse in which Geltz died
i
fis brother-dp-law, Andrew Lutz, shot hime
self there, five years ago, snd his wife, Cath-
inst year, Geltz was & veteran of the Civil
War and 58 years old,
Horses Dying from Splas] Meningitia
An epidemic of spinal meniagitis is preva
jent amoung the horses near Gretersiond.
The disease ia generaliy fatal, Among the
boaviest losers Is Hisser Detwiler, He bas
Jost five horses within the last three days
and the sixth borse is expected to die at any
time,
Big Government Order,
Ine Norristown Woolen Mills has received
a Government order for 50000 yards of
cloth, This order in addition 10 the several
orasrs on which the frm is now working,
will keep the mill runciog at its full capacity
for many months,
——
Nowe in Brief
Jacob Peterson, a 10-year-old boy, of Yard.
ley, bad his feos Lorribly mangled by a
vicious dog,
W. H. Bowen, late one of the proprietors
of the Chester “Evening News," bas bought
out the “Borough Advoeate,” a weekly pa-
per published In tue iuterest of Prospect
Park and Ridley Park.
All Maneh Chonk members of the Brother
Brod of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
New York, eslied for the purpose of discuss
ine grievances against the Central Raflroad
of New Jersey,
? en .———————
Queer Legal Tangle .
The will of Henry Yocum, who own
ed the yacht Paul Jones, and was on
it when it was lost in the Gulf of
Mexico, left all bis estate to hiz dangh-
ter, anu should she have died before
he did the estate would have gone
3