MINERS ENTOMBED
Over 30 Men Reported to Be Imprisoned
In the Shait,
McCune, Superintendent of the District, is
Among
Could Give No Cause for the Explosion.
Port Roval, Pa. (Special).
Pittsburg Coal and Coke
Shaft No. 2 at this place 1s again
fire, after steady running f seven
years, and over 30 men are in the mines,
many of whom, it is feared, will never
be heard from again.
About 6 o'clock smoke was seen to
be issuing from Shaft No. 2, which is on
the line of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Railroad. It is thought the fire start
ed from an explosion, and that six
men were in at this time, the men being
Jack Peoples, Tony Stickles, Frank
Davenport, — Daly, Lawrence Set-
ler and John Stakes. Stakes and Set-
ler were not near the place which
the explosion occurred, and upon
arrival of a rescue party they
quickly brought
being nearly overcome b
give
Had caused
cuing party
men were entomoed
About 7 .
general super
Der We
Mich Roy,
mines, and
Company's
On
jor
to the surface
y qamp
no ir ation as Uu
'
t
he explosion
report
could itorm
slo
rey,
been in the
sions were heard
around the epenin
creased, inclu
and sisters of ¢
All sorts ©
ed to rescue the men
turning the river mto the
many are opposed to this idea, for
of drowning miners. All
would be necessary let the deluge of
water loose in the i
pull a plug which was placed
mines after the explosion of seven
ago and the water would rush
mines at a rapid rate
A CABLE 5834 MILES LONG.
British Pacific Line to Be Greafest Yet
Constructed.
Washington (Specia
States Consul at Victoria, B
that a surveying party has |
landing site of the British
which is connect the
Canada with the Australian
had
ntombed
f plans been
SOIC
have
mines
the
to
ir
ines would
i
i). =
to
he entrance to
d something over
from Victoria
The locat is
ably adapted for
harbor and 12 fathoms
to the shore, so that
tons can find safe anchorage
bor is landlocked and has a't
ooze, which, it is said, will furn
it
yroteciion for th
seven miles from
clay sound, an
miles fr
described
on
as
the purpose—a
i water cl
vessels if 10.000
Ww tr ha al sie } + ”
Work has already begun in
on the cable. It is to 5814.5
the longest yet constructed, and wi
by 451
transported
he
and laid in one
is now being specially built for the
pose.
Farmer Shoots His Sweetheart.
North Vernon, Ind
Neely, a prosperous we
ing south of this place, shot |
his sweetheart's doorstep because she
refused marry him as early as he
wished. He had called on his afhanced
bride and asked her to marry him July
4. She declined, saying the wedding
should be in the fall. He left the house,
but soon returned and shot himself on
her doorstep. Miss Brinton heard the
shot, and when she found it was her
lover dying she attempted to shoot her-
sell,
(Speci
armer liv-
mseil on
10
Cars and Houses Torn to Pieces
Binghamton, N. Y. (Special).—~Five
men were killed and seven injured by
the explosion of a great quantity of dyna-
mite in a car, caused by one freight train
running into another, at Vestal, ten
miles from here. Aside from the de-
struction to railroad property, much
minor damage is reported. Nearly every
house in the villages of Vestal and Un-
jon, which is across the Susquehanna
from the wreck. lost more or less of its
window glass while farmers’ houses and
barns near the scene were shattered and
wrecked. None of the inmates, how-
ever, were injured.
Fire Sweeps Through Small Town.
Wilson, N. Y. (Special).—This village
was visited by a disastrous fire. A large
portion of the business section of the
mated at $40,000. The fire started from
an unknown origin in the harness shop
of Edward Barton.
ly spread to adjoining buildings. Bur-
postoffice and general store in which it
store, were destroyed, and Sutherland's
Hotel, the principal one in the village,
was damaged.
Killed by lacandescent Lamp.
Lakewood, R. 1. (Special). —Edmund
Walsh, 45 vears of age, was instantly
killed here by grasping an ordinary in-
candescent light globe, Walsh attempt
fobe, the glass meited in his hand and
e received the full strength of the cur-
rent. He leaves a widow and three chil-
dren in Providence.
————
Girl Scalped in 8 Factory.
New Brunswick, N. J. (Special). —A
distressing accident occurred in the
handkerchief factor of Herrmann
Aukam & Co., which threw 200 girls
in a panic. Miss Annie Loch, aged #6
years, while stitching handkerchiefs,
stooped down to pick up a bobbin up-
der the machine, Her hair caught in
the shafting and in an instant her scalp
was jerked off. The 200 girls in the
room were thrown in a panic at once,
Many fainted. The superintendent or-
dered them to stop work and all left
for their homes, Miss Loch will die.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.
The Rev. H. D. von Brackhuizen,
in New York, says
{ Boer women and children at present
| concentrated in camps established
{ the British are in a horrible conditi
Rose Brunding, of New York, ¢
at she was enticed to a va
I mer Jamaica, lL. 1,
by a man, who cong
her to work for him.
The Mabel Burt, the Sm:
College girl who stol lot }
from her classmates,
{ cover the stolen gems, to be re!
i their owners
Charles
of
{ Pretoria, now
hy
hotel at
| prisoner there
parents ol
ea §
trying
urncd
arc
Prof Sexton James died in
the
(Qe
College om Si
{ Montana
! matics at Bucknell
1877, and later president
gahela College.
Miss Nannie Langhorn, of
shia, won a thousand-dollar
1ad been made stea
nia during the v on
Derby
The
i ganized a
San Isidro
Twenty
He was prole
{oO
i on the
oyage
Philippine Commis
provincial
with Ci
the second
k from Man
in
re palirym
greeting
1dike report the
Five Finger
ck dropped dead while
Pueblo, Col
cadets
“sent
were
An American traveler who had been
robbed on a French railway, subse-
quently recognized the three thieves,
and chased them into a river, where all
were drowned.
Count von Waldersee
arrived at
proceeded to Tokio.
The only foreign troops in China not
now under orders to leave are the Jap-
anese
A duel with swords between Max
Regis, the anti-Semite mayor of Al-
giers, and M. Laberdesque, an Algerian
journalist, which was begun Friday near
Paris and continued yesterday, resulted
in the wounding of M. Regis.
May Churchill, a concert hall per-
former, was arrested in Paris on the
charge of being concerned in the rob-
bery of the Paris office of the American
Express Company.
Mrs. Louis Botha, wife of the Boer
i general, arrived in England, and will
proceed to Holland and Belgium. She
declines to state her mission.
| China will be composed of three regi-
| ments of infantry, with Major General
von Rohrscheidt in command.
i that owing to the hot weather the re-
turn of the court to Pekin has been
postponed until September 1.
The Brazilian minister at Berlin de-
| clares that the talk about German de-
| signs on Brazil is mere twaddle.
| The British House of Commons vot-
| ed over $78,000.000 for transports and
{ remounts in South Africa,
| were made against officers of buyin
| broken-down ahimals at big prices —.
i dividing with the sellers the price
| charged the government above the ac-
| tual cost,
| The stockholders of the London
| District Railway sanctioned Charles T.
i Yerkes’ plan for the introduction of
| electricity as the motive power of the
{ road
Finarcial
New Consolidated Tobacco bonds
sold on the curb in New York at 73.
English consols are very low, but it
is predicted that they will fall still
lower.
W. E. Small, of Marion, Ga., has been
elected a member of the New York
Cotton Exchange.
The report that President Miller, of
the Northern Pacific, had resigned was
denied in New York.
During the month of May 73 rail.
roads increased their gross earnings 9.83
per cent
§
| A BIG STORM.
Much Damage Cansed by
Lightning in Oklahoma,
| FARMHOUSES AND CROPS DESTROYED
A Stretch of Country Ten Mies Wide
and Thirty-Six Miles Long
An Estimated Loss of
«Heavy Rains Precede and
Windstorm.
Follow
(Special }=—T
1 torm that ever
oma prevailed in Kay county
struck Billings, Eddy and Ton
kawa, and its influence covered a stretch
o1 10 nu
long, destroying towns, farmhouses
The £1
Kan he most
ila
tornado
ce
country
i
ana
exceed
persons
fr 4
ncia: 083 wil
ddy three 15 were
reported that two persons
Billings,
s from early ut
nt The fury
a nado
tor
formed at
'
working
Lightnin
ied
YMRS. M'KINLEY'S HEART AFFECTED.
Physicians’ Statement.
of the
which } "in
SIC DORA in
pro
ubseque
to ti
She im-
brought home
Il Oss OF
ciated with a severe diarrhoea
proved, however, and i
comfort 3
comiort a
was
mel
strengt!
anxiety in her
ton has
{inna
5
i
s At 3
In Wy afin
14
be progressive
improvement in
in her general conditio
MeKinley's case at the present
presents a more hopeful aspect.’
The M«
me
statement that Mrs
case at this arsre Jane
a% as Un n0re Dope
time presents a n
| aspect is the best word
the
sick room since the arr
atient in Wa
considerably
shingten
en-
couraged
Swan's Shortage More Than $30.000.
, Mass. (Special). ~In con
Middlesex
ary for its June sitting.
:
the report of
known that the shortage of Roland D
Swan, formerly clerk of the town of
Arlington, who was arrested, charged
with the larceny $2000 from
town, has been found to be more than
$310,000. Swan was also implicated in
an attempt to burn the town hall sev-
eral weeks ago, on the night when the
town safe was robbed and records were
taken.
of
Now Accused of Marder.
Toronto, Ont. (Special). —Rutledge
and Rice, convicted of robbing the post-
office and a private bank at Aurora,
| were sentenced to 21 years in Kingston
i Penitentiary. Immediately afterwar is
| they were taken to Police Court an
| charged with the murder of Constable
| Boyd on Tuesday evening last, when
they, with Thomas Jones, attempted 10
escape from the cfhcers wails being
transferred from the court to ;aill. Bah
men pleaded not guilty, and the hearing
was postponed for a week. The three
men were brought here from Chicago
In Tuesday night's affair Jones was shot
and has since died from his injuries
| the engagement near Lipa, Province of
Bitanzas between troops under the com-
| mand of Capt. W. H. Wilhelm and the
| insurgents show that the Lieutenant Lee
| wlio was fatally wounded was not Lieu-
tenant Fitzhugh Lee, Jr, son of General
Fitzhugh Lee, but Lieutenant Lee of the
| Engineer Corps. Lieutenant Fitzhugh
| Lee was nou in the fight
The enemy enountered by Capt. Wil-
| liam H. Wilhelm of the Twenty-first In-
fantry, with 50 men of that regiment,
| were met six miles southeast of Lipa, in
Batanzas Province, and consisted of
more than 200 of Malvar's followers,
supposedly the command of Gonzales,
The insurgents were defeated but their
losses have not been revorted. Yates’
Major W. 1. Daly Kills Himself.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special ).~Major W.
H. Daly, who was a deputy to the assis-
tant surgeon general on the staff of Lieu-
tenant General Miles in Porto Rico, com-
in the right temple.
doctor was found in the ba
Miss Mary Short, the hous
in a pool of blood with a .
volver lying on the floor.
who was summoned, at cAce found the
bullet hole in the temple
that death had taken p
bud re
DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN CHICAGO.
| Hartman Supposed to Have Killed Actress
and Himsell.
Chicago (Specral ) Side hy side, cach
| with a bullet wound in the temple,
dead bodies of L. Hartman and his wife
were found in their bed at the
Hotel, The room showed no
evidences of a struggle, both lifeless
for: were composed, the covering of
ithe bed well tucked about them, but the
thie right hand
of the
the
{| Northern
i
i
clutched in
the man told the
tragedy
Hartman and his wife re
the Hotel June 6, giving as the
{ New Yorl
| and appeared to be persons of means
) Sunday night they retired to
apartn nothing sec
Monday evening,
d in bed
tion the hotel man
ing the couple was
who called at the
ionably gowned
friend of the vy
he had learned
ived in Chicago
of the hotels
revoiver
glory
gistered
their d
th
ents an Was
| of em until when
{they wore found dea
mMrma
concern
Man
fash
Was a
{i that
ov
Neo
‘he only
have
a W
angers
and
uny
she that
arr
ur
TERRIBLE FALL OF COMMANDER BULL
Dsastiod From the Dome of the Government
Buwiding at the Expedition.
N.Y. { i
uflalo Special
American
from the di of the
Building and was serious
when
Ie C
unconscious
Case
40 years old, a ¢
and a graduate of the Annapolis Naval
Academy. He served with distinction
in the Spanish-American War and sub
sequently was i servi
Petrel in Philippine waters. That was
naval assignment. He lwes
in Buffalo with has wife and four chwl
aren
i 5 -
nosylvama
de ied to
e on the
ast
NEW WAY OF MAKING STEEL
Furusce.
Redding, Mr. Geo
Larson, a
Cal Special). ~
man of Northern
fornia, has invented and appl
satents in 22 countries on a process for
ianufacturing steel, which some
poration, apparently the an
Trust, has offered to purchase for $600,
provisions that patents
are issued and that the tests m
ed for
the
now being installed fo
near Chicago §
invention really
n blowpipe, thro
sich pig iron into
as It leaves Cupoia furnace
fr. Carson has produced a plan for the
nanuiacture of i said
§ vead of process
“arson has accepted the offer and
li leave soon for Chicago to superin
tend the tests.
if
converted
of steel which to
is
the Bessemer
Three Girls Drowaoed
Philadelphia (Special). —A party of
six persons—three men and three girls—
while sailing on the Delaware River off
North Essington, a few miles below this
city, were thrown into the water by the
swamping of their skiff during a squall,
and the girls were drowned. The party
were guests of the Federal Boat Club
Other members of the club heard the
cries of the unfortunates and immediate-
ly set about rescuing them.
For Study of Americas Methods.
London (By Cable).—Elder, Demp-
ster & Co. offer to pay the traveling
expenses of the official delegates of any
British trades unions willing to go to
the United States to study American
trade methods.
them,
During the e went Lieutenant
Anton Springer, the Twenty-first In-
fantry, was shot in the head and killed.
Lieutenant Lee, of the engineers, was
shot in the head and bowels and soon
A
Captain Wilhelm was wounded in the
shoulder.
Lieutenant Charles R. Ramsey, of the
Twenty-first Infantry, was shot in the
left side.
Both of these officers are seriously
wounded. In addition, two sergeants
and one private were wounded.
The American officers were planni
to attack a force of the insurgents whic
was ahead of them, when they were
fired on from one sida
Accused of Many Murders.
Middleshoro, Ky. (Special). Louis
Myers, alias Williams, a notorious
moonshiner and desperado, has been cap-
tured here, He is charged with the mur.
der of two women in Virginia, three men
in North Carolina, including a United
States marshal: one in South Carolina,
and the sheriff of inicot county, Li
ewards aggregatin ave
offered for his prs Bh The vernors
of these states have been notified of his
capture, He has several times been cap-
tured, but has alwave mavaeed to escape,
§
TERRIBLE CRIME OF
| WEALTHY WOMAN.
Startling Discovery Made by the French
Police Officials.
MOTHER DIES OF HEART DISEASE,
For Twenty-five Years Madame Monnier, a
Miserly Landowner, imprisons Her Daughter
in a Room In Her House Because the Girl
Was in Love With a Poor Lawyer--The Once
Beautiful Woman Nearly Reduced to Skeletos
(I
week
Paris (By
i the has
ame Monnier
Cable) ation ol
Mad
landown
Poitiers
sub-prefect
Vienne and a leader
the charge of
The
the
Lens
heen arrest of
a h, miserl
er of the neighborhood of
her son, { of the
Department
Poitiers’ soci on
carcerating
daughter of
years in a room
house
The
'
t
Vr i
Madame
{ at
01 3
' 5 3
paice who were mous)
woman s Getenti
a1
anony
no
tered the
fied of the n,
use and found
he
lowed been arrested
y AL. a}
order from Washington ant
getention at aoc yg
i a
the mail
w said Su landed %
off
Was
credited of the Chinese
Dire
pt
waders
asserts hat : y& %
Emperor
when, in a
3 ry
to rep)
Kwang Su on the throne
Off on His Daring Vovage.
Mass
the Great
Gl
as-foot
ucester Special
Kept
Howard Blackburn, of this v,
sea@nd Asiantic
his present destination being
Portugal, which he expects to
45 His
was to London
Saye The start
over
Of
glo
y t+ he
on nis ans
Ame Brevis
Gays previous
whic took 61
amid the
Sh yrds
y
was
10050
the
pe
alte o clock reat
coried by 3 large fleet of
es
a sail
salutes
un
nd
She received a succession of
“ x "a -
til she was nearly oft 1 hatcher
I
Is]
when i
the last of the escorts leit he
Will Take Up Moody's Work.
By Cable The White
1c wil
gregational
the United States
to take up the work
of the kate Dwight L
Major Rockefelier's Fate.
Syracuse, N. Y. (Special).—A lettes
from Paul J]. Spillane, of the Ninth In
fantry, stationed in the Philippines, and
received by a friend in Watertown
states that while Spillane was a prisonet
of the Filipinos at Tarlac he learned
from insurgent officers the fate
Major Rockefeller, whose mysterious
disappearance early in the war has puz
zled the American army. Major Rocke
feller, according to the Filipinos was
taken prisoner and went mad while
captivity. Shortly afterward he died.
oO!
ir
if
Tralos Met on & Curve.
Vicksburg Miss. (Sqecial).~Ten per
sons were injured, three seriously, in a
head-end collision between two Missis
sippt Valley passenger trains north of
Vicksburg "he trains met on a sharp
curve, and but for the prompt action of
Engineer Jones in reversing his engine
| the wreck wonld have been more dis
astrous. At Clarksdale five hours ear
| lier the southbound train crashed into
i a caboose and Engineer Dana received
| injuries which may prove fatal,
Gift of Library to University.
Morgantown, W. Va. (Special).—The
heirs of Waitman T. Willey, formerly
United States Senator from West Vir
ginia, who died recently, made a formal
donation to the West Virgima Univer.
sity of the private library of Mr. Willey.
The library contains 18000 volumes, ex.
| elusive of government reports and man-
| uscripte, and is invaluable because oi
| its completeness respecting the forma
tion and early history of the State of
West Virginia,
Government Prisoners Escape.
New York (Special).~Two United
States Army prisoners serving senten-
ces on Governor's Island for desertion
escaped on a raft. The prisoners were
| Harry McGuire, who was serving a
term of 18 months for desertion, and
John Winship, who was serving a term
of two vears for the same offense,
Beveridge Wii Get Concessions Easy.
London (By Cable).—United States
Senator Beveridge, according to the
St. Petersburg correspondedent of the
Daily Mail, will not find much difficulty
in securing from the Russian govern.
ment a concession for a steamship line
from the United States to Viadivosiok
or Port Arthur.
Louls Stern Tokes Mis wife.
Bamberg, Bavaria (By Cable) «Louis
Stern. the former United States com.
mercial agent here, shot himself in the
public gardens near the town,
“LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS,
Judge Taft Wiil Control
hil~
Although military control in the Ph
Pi will pass to civilian authority on
{uly 1, the titie of the senior army offi-
rer will still be that of Military Gover-
nor.
This has hee
nes
Naval
R:classification.
junior grade)
boat, tug or tender;
rere
torpedo
use
rumor
Cortelye
revives
present
of the Ca
is suggested by the report t
™ 2
O. lL. Pruden, assistant secretary
President, who was appo
i
And paymaster, will go 1
make way for the advancem
Clerk Rudo ph Forster
expressed that t
ior
withstanamn COnIra
™ on
ihe ops
be an ope
Mr. Cortelyou in a short time
Here will fing
Not
the re-
Postmasier-
Cabinet officer
Mr. Cortel-
T
ce
:
d Ol
ClLiOns
port, Oinis to
the
most
vou FF
i
¢
Maxwell w 31iG
his discharge of the
United States Makes an Appesl
ed States Government has
appealed ® the powers 1 svshoerist
Pekin over the in-
present 1s: ;
arbitrat'on of
sy
EO
Secretary cabled him authority
It i= believed that the ministers
n have become involved bevond extri-
present and this pro-
¢ be the only way out.
18ers
Reprimand for Captain Hascock
The findings in the case of Capt. Wm,
. Sixth Artillery, who was
ed by court-martial at Man-
ges of “conduct to the preju-
{i good order i miltrary d'sci-
pline,” and failing appear for duty
on two occasions, have Leen rece.ved
at the War Deparment. The specifi-
cations zlleged intoxication. Caplan
Hancock was found guilty and wn-
tenced to be reprimanded.
neock
1
tal
10
Capital News ia Geasral
Lieutenant Colonel Reber was ap-
wointed military secretary to General
Miles, to succeed the late Colonel
Michler, and Col. M. P. Maus was ap-
pointed aide de camp.
The government has formally com-
municated to the foreign powers the
mpossibility of joining in a joint guar-
antee for the payment of the Chinese
ndemmity
The President appointed officers for
he provisional Porto Rican regiment.
Chief Moore, of the Weather Bureau,
punctures the illusion that orchards can
be protected from hailstorms by firing
cannon,
William Morey, Jr, and Mrs Clara
A. Riedell, clerks in the War Depart:
nent, disappeared at the same time
Secretary Long has decided 10 have
he battleship Oregon on the reverse of
the Santisen medal.
The Secretary of the Navy approved
the recommendations of the board for
she distribution of medals of honor and
ietters of commendation for gailaniry
n the Chinese campaign.
Attorney General Knox bought the
salatial home of Mrs. George W.
Childs, in the capital.
The Itawz claim for $220,000, with in-
terest, was taken up Ly the Chilean
aims Commission.
Major G. W. Ruthers, chief commis
sary of the Department of Northern
Luzon, mz2d: an interesting report
showing how the army stations in the
Philipptazs are served.
Our New Possassinas
The conditons offered to General
calles, the insurgent leader in Lugana
Province, are not changed. They are
miform with those offered to other in
wrgents accused of murder.
In a battle with the insurgents at
Lipa, province of Paiangas, Lieutenant
Anton Springer, of the Twenty-first In-
‘antry, was killed and Capt. Wm. H.
Wilhelm, of the same regiment, Lieut
t, and five enlisted
Teenty fir Piva x.
wenty-first Infantry
wounded, : a
nen were woun
Ramsay, of the
vas also