THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. The coroner's jury placed the blame for the fatal wreck at Hatfield, on the Philadelphia and Reading, on the com- pany and some of the officials con- cerned in the running of the train. Coroner Lloyd, in St. Louis, held the Seckner Contracting Company respon- sible for the electrocution of two po- licemen by improperly placed wires, Wm. Bullock, colored, who had been three times tried in Freehold, N. J, for the murder of the chief of police of Red Bank, escaped from jail. Rev. Lorenzo Waugh, supposed to be the oldest Methodist preacher in the world, died suddenly in a railroad sta- tion in Williams, Cal. The cigarmakers of A. F. Hostetter, of Hanover, went on a strike he refused to adopt the shop system. Four men were powder explosion at the Sterling col- i i i PROPOSAL, OUR MERCHANT MARINE, Number of Vessels Documented. Washington (Special). ! i to Deal with Allies Memorialized the Not Been Recelved, the Throne Replies American-Rasslan Proposal Have Washington (Special). ~—It was learn- ed from an official source that Li Hung Chang has memoralized the Imperial to act with himself negotiators, A proposal by Japan for the appolnt- of Chan Chih Tung and Prince 1 Ching doubtless hand considerable It was stated by June 30, 1900, show that 1446 vessels of 393,168 gross tons were built and documented in the United States. Since 1856 this record has been exceeded only twice—~in 1864, when 415,740 gross tons were built, and In 1874, when 432,725 ETOEs tons were built, The construction may be classed ac- cording to the following types: ers, schooner barges and 109,605 gross tons; Great sels, 26, of 97.847 gross tons: canal and barges, 023, of T4860 gross ocean screw steamships, 20, of G0,363 gross tons (of which all but one, Maracaibo, 1771 tons, were wholly or trades eserved by law els); steamers, ETOSE rigget 420 ETOESR Schoon- AF sioops, 499, of Lake steam Ve boats tons; for Ves built the Fuare 2,498 roo DEATH OF SEWALL, BEYAN'S YORMER RUNNING SUCCUMNE TO APOPLEXY. The Deconsod Made His Politics in Early 70s He gate to the Democratic vention in Balt!more nated Greeley, Was a National Which jath SBewall ing Mr. Small City } Me died at § Art morn Hon 30 Wednesday (Special) Sewall died at his summer home Point, about 12 of apoplexy the sustained last Sunday miles from hav Hi "Oke en be 64 years of ag \ Mr. Sewall ad health for been 1x some time MUTINY OF TILIFINOS Desperate Outbreak in Bilibid, Washington (8pecial).—Manila news papers just received at the War partment give detalls of a desperate mutiny among the native prigoners in 3libid prison, which resulted in the the Prison at teen of them. The report states that the outbreak came without the slight est warning. The commandant and other officials of the prison were going their duties on a hot summer af rnoon, the 18th of Jul wizened Filipino unmed a crouching attitude and an Lo creep up behind cman Eiving uilerancs wil, like a wild bes on the stant the mutteris iid ans wa In an nl ciectrical oLher in and e making for the keepers hig eve The s roar VE MIOY caplain OREGON ACCIDENT, i | CAPTAIN WILDE'S REFVORT ETRANDING OF BATTLESHIP. NO LIGHTHOUSE SIGNALS. This and a Heavy ¥ og were Responsible for the Mishap Story of the Hun from Hongkong to the Gulf of Pechill and the Against Possible I) oN Extraordinary Precautions Taken sister, Washington Department hi: the official report the b ial) rece ped {Et of Captain 85 egon glances attend Hery, near Shamokin, Pa. ey | present the paper, The strike workers on | official the new East river in New York | 8Gminis was settled by a comprom linese Chief 1 an aged medicine man of the Yakima tribe, was iil He | gua mob to back the infuriated way of the | guard and es not considered to ra wher seriously his physi June, and National t the I the 1891, ETrO8s being 85,037 President neg would sion the biject of suspicion to Gres powers, If other : f the iran. lose to of the iron had rest as early as tended been advised by to HiBpers iaNN8 he at Con- of tration commis | representatives of an « stoned | | and hridee srefor to HU Re i nf last of the COnier Ee t 1098 - Demoeratic previous ph : thal HHowahe ; HOWARDEe, advice oth to death Washington State, Night Watchman Aulgur, Chi cago and Alton Railroad, was killed in Marshall, Mo., by Fire destroyed a number of adjoining houses erty, Tioga county, Pa. The National Association of Carriers, in troit, elected the old Officers had ers near Can: tured two of in Of the robbers. and Lib- Hotel in Samfrey’s » session officers. 2 ba i ttle with nville, Ohio, them Ried John deck 14 y mseil in Jealous and hi The Association was York. The Carnegie and ests have nineteen steel Brookly Spanish-American General partment volunteer The Navy home the listed men corps who were Berkeley Spri At State Republi nominated and Saratoga Conv THOT "" ¢ aimee Zelgse wi while dow i BE with 1400 mi was to have was held up sailed fi New r of the ¢ Com nittee Alvina Bollen Col., by Wn. C. Barager le an 1 uitor, who then made suicide. attempt t« the Young Endeavor | ladeiphia, | Atlantic divi People's Se Cciet y elected « German in fficers. Two policemen were killed by cross- ed on the Louis tele phone circuit and fourteen others were | fewgic wires St sylice £s i 2 injured. collided Branch, NM. seriously in- Two special at Branchfort, The jured trains Long neer, Lett, was near engl severe thunder storm in Valley. Some damage done in Shippensburg. John D. Rockefeller made a gift of $150,000 to Spellman Seminary, a negro college of Atlanta, Ga. Nineteen persons were Akron, Ohio, on the charge participated in the recent ri The will of Rev. Dr. McGlynn was filed in the Surrogate’'s Court in New- burgh, N. Y. Six mining companies in the Jellico district, Tennessee, agreed to the de- mands of the miners Five persons in Midford, Mass., a plumbers firepot. An additional case of suboulc plague was reported at Glasgow The campaign in Kentucky opened by both parties in nearly every county of the State. At Bowling Green Hon. John W. Yerkes, the Republican candidate for Governor, was the lead- ing speaker. At Henderson Gov. J. W, C. Beckham, the Democratic candidate for Governor. and ex-Gov. James B McCreary spoke. At Bowling Green the Democrats had a meeting, ad- dresged by R. F. Peake, of Shelbyville, An interesting report to Department of Agriculture gives the story of the big trees of California fast falling be- fore the axe of the lumberman. Governor Roosevelt, of New York, and William Jennings Bryan were the principal speakers at the Labor Day festivities held in Chicago. Officials of the Philadelphia’ and Reading are not yet ready to say where the responsibility rests for the fatal ace cident at Hatfield, Reports were received from General MacArthur announcing the death of Captain Bentley and Second Lieuten- ant Fernauld, There was a Cumberland was arrested in of having were severely burned by the explosion of was associated wit equipped wi le undoubte » dominated will feel tha we obtained, sive Chinamen are proper th dely can i Another by and ain proposal made Government, may it they re there ingure FOBUTY cont of the power t srs hurg mm has been mad Lae Chaffee Power of relief Honus service excellent.” also wing legram from of the Medical ing the hospital shi Banister rep« 200 at Tient received he Major Per- command- at Taku 1 front 120 sick at gin. Many il ught from Re- take all severe cases. Launch have returned Plenty doing well.’ {eos 3 REIS ' II wounded bre front 1 Ff = : jie W il boats All “up- plies TWO BOYS BURIED ALIVE. Sand Bank Caved In While They fearching for Bait. N. Y. (Special)-—While | gearching wr crickets with which to fish Myron Du and Peter Palen, aged about 1 were buried by the caving In of a sand bank and were suffocated, Several hours later a group of chil- dren who were playing in the sand discovered a shoe sticking up from the sand, but could not lift it. Further in- vestigation revealed the fact that the | g¢hoe inclosed a foot. The section gang of the Ulster and Delawa Railroad, who had been at work nearby all the afternoon, were told of the discovery and dug out the body of Du Bois: the body of Palen was also found. The boys had evidently died instant- iy, as their eyes were still open, and a smile was on their faces Were ton, § fe Kings lois 1 years, O An Aeronaut Killed, Michigan City, Ind. (Special).—Prof. Fotergili was probably fatally injured during a ballon ascension and para- chute jump. While making the as! cension he caught on one of the guy ropes, which tore the parachute, to which he was hanging, away from the balloon. He fell 200 feet, struck a brick building, and was picked up un- conscious. His home is at Cromwell, | Indiana. A Child Barned to Death, : i Shippensburg, Pa. (Special). -<Edith | Pearl Green, the nine-year-old daugh- | ter of William Green, of this place. was | burned to death by kerosene. She was pouring ofl in the stove to make fire, : when it ignited, and the can, contain- | ing about two quarts, exploded, and she was immediately a mass of flames, | She ran from the house, screaming for | help, and her sister and brother rushed i to her ald and tore the burning cloth- | ing from her body, but she was already | terribly burned. The bones in her hands were exposed and her body biis- | muhips of 42 - steamships of Howed by 4 15.642 gross tons; tons gleam ag of Detroit, 4 £ the past decade the steel ts i steamship if the States were ‘or com ACT LIKE VIEXDS, Hapine, Looting and Slaughter in Chinese Towns an u for ip to a few d tention trod pe M kin, send firmed de Gilers, 8 to St been tiations, fo that Russia had promis from Pekin, regardless «¢ of other powers At Shanghat hears little of recent developments, his statement ved English of ficials there rying to divide the powers Wm. W. Rockhill, special commis- sioner of the United States to China, also at Shanghal. In an inter gays that if the concert the powers is broken all the foreigners in China may as well pack up and leave, to withdraw f the action which is not say is i he of Legal Hanging In Georgia. Marietta, Ga. (Special). 8am Robin- son, a negro, who assaulted Mrs, Georgie Inzer three weeks ago, was hanged here. Robinson had been in the Atlanta jail for safe keeping since his trial and was brought here on a freight train to avold erowds at the depot. Sheriff Bishop, with ten depu- ties and fifty guards, escorted the ne- gro from the train to the scaffold. The was surrounded by a crowd of several thousand people, but there was no ine terference, Mr. and Mrs. Inzer wit- nessed the execution. Just before the drop fell a portion of the high fence surrounding the enclosure gave way by FiELD OF LABOR, Kansas has a girl coroner, Havana's chief fuel is charcoal. Georgia is to have a sugar refinery, New York has a Hebrew union, erators. Cincinnati is to have an industrial exposition. Indiana bricklayers have organized He effects from the journey appear ave however Was passi thi quietly Small seized which until Arthur ar SoOvember summer when the fatal The uncon the ng Point him. followed death came. Sewall CloOUusnes , wall sewall, for y 8 was prominent as hipbuild and the son fitted i Tr th fw i $4 x 10r the Erode Dy ing the onuin KILLED THEIR SISTER'S BEAL. Shot Mis Sunk with Bicyele. and Pods His Was and Cot brother-<in the ox both shot a gearcl him arrested af] meet After for a whole story, and ; relatives ahs id the Vere arr sted TWEIVENEAR.OLD ANARCHIST. in Chicage for Distributing Circulars Supporting Delief Chicago Thomas Klein- man, 12 vears old, who began to read Anarchist literature when he was § wns arrested by Park Policeman Jeffars while passing copies of an Anarchist publication the crowds in Lincoln ark. Young Kleinman is employed a8 a compositor by a Jewish news- paper. “A time will come.” he said in police court, “when we will have no govern- ment. There will be no money, either Sach man will work about two hours a day and will live comfortably. That fg all any of us can ask.” Justice Mahoney sketched tory of the Haymarket riot for prisoner and warned him to let the Government alone. Kleinman retort. od that outsiders had about anarchy. He was bound for trial for violating the city ordi nance against distributing printed mat- ter on the streets, Arrested (Special) to the his- Three Persons Polesoned, Chicago, Ill. (8pecial).—Three per- gons were poisoned by eating ice cream soda. The victimes were Clarence Smith, & years, condition critical; Mrs. Killed by Lightning. Kiatesville, Ga. (Special).—~The resi- dence of Rev. T. J. Cobb, of this place, was struck by lightning, literally tear- ing off one end of the house and in- and four children were in the hous but escaped without even a shock. Gold from the Kiondike San Francisco (Special) ~The steam- arrived from the North, bringing about $1,500,000 in treasure from the Klondike and Doug- jase Island and a few nuggets from Rogers small portic into men the volley hree $ already Was the rifles spoke like rats in a first Buteway prou; the Lhe and trap one Very powered thelr escape ers themselve helped to captur more voiieyvs f guers i thelr MARHOGUIN'S COL. Colomblan Vice. Prosldent of Government. OUR FORCES IN THY. PHILIPPINES Not Enough Negulars to Replace Volunteers Iglands General Otis sral MacArthur, is with Ho preceqged is the city, and President Mec- ot on the sub- who conference Kinley and fect JEL Secretary if regul every Manil than 20.000 be fixed * more limit General RENSATIONAL STORY DENIED, in Perfect Accord With the President, Washington (Special) ~Mr of State, Adee, the does not put afloat to the effect that there has China, involving possible changes in are absolutely lacking in foundation. He feels able to enter the broadest de- { the statements and almost hourly communication with the Secretary of State by mall ard wire at the respecting pending issues. Therefore, hand, the President has given his un- qualified approval to every step in the negotiations which were directed by Mr. Hay. The “Haman Arrow" Dead. St. Louis, Mo. (Special) A man who died Wednesday at the 8 hag been identified Ly friends who knew him years sgo as Charles Rus. a famous acrobat and clown, at traction. Russell was known as Rattle With Safe Hlowers Athens, Ohio (Special).—~lLoecal offi- cers, accompanied by Pomeroy police, had a pitched battle with alleged safe blowers near Cananville this morning. James Watkine and Henry Williams were captured after 2 shots had been exchanged, Watkins was seriously wounded. Jealousy Canses Double Tragedy. New York (Special).~-John Riedeck, a veteran of the Civil War, killed his wife and himself at their home In — Brooklyn. He was €9 years old and his 34 ¥ I i8 reported to way the i. Nothing the Em- ley Fs wy ad 0 hines« 2 is known o peror The ST Government ths kin that Princ pointed regent, but to the YOrs The rived at drawal ments of g Russ repor to his rumored in Pe. £ been ap- id to return inlese { foreign en- ie A capital guarantee h American Amoy of the ace has situation me gunboat Castine ar- The voluntary with. Japanese troops from relieved the interna- The battieship Ore- be sent to Shanghai in China along the traveled by the international forces are the scenes of looting, siaugh- and destruction. Many villages have been ransacked, women ravished gon will probably The districts Lice. Great Britain and Germany still hes. tate about answering the notes of the States and Russia as to the of ministers and troops Lord Salisbury, however, tween Great Britain, the United States and Japan. The American camp in Tientzin lies in the German concession, and the Germans have demanded the buildings and grounds, explaining that they will be needed for the large German forces The new camp for the United States troops will be lo- cated outside the city. Mr. Rockhill, apecial commissioner of the United States to investigate the conditions in China, says that it the Chinese Government is able to break the concert of nations and to bring about a disagreement on the part of any government in such a way as to secure any relaxation of the joint de. mands, all the foreigners in China may as well pack up and leave, Japan's proposal that the Chinese Government appoint two other vice. roys to act with Li Hung Chang as commissioners to confer with the come miseloners of the powers is favorably | Nome. The passengers from Nome all tered and charred, | tell winaries of hard luck, wife was 20 years younger. Jealousy | was the cause of the double tragedy. a State union. regarded by the United States autgori- i ties.
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