THE STOCK MARKET WAS DEMORALIZED. Steel Stocks Go Down With a Rush | at the Opening. RAILWAYS SUFFER IN MOVEMENT. i The Violence of the Decline lavited Some | Buying From Bargain Hunters, and Insiders | Offered Support by Buying, But Huge | Blocks Had to Be Taken in Continuous Strings--Brokers Kept Busy. New York (Special).-Monday the | stock market was wild and demoralized as a result of the declaration of a strike in the mills of three of the subsidiary companies of. the United States Steel Corporation. Coming on top of this was the fact of the unrelieved drouth in the | corn belt. The opening gent and made wide openings on a descending scale in the United States Steel stocks. Twenty thousand shares of the common had to be taken sum ultaneously at the opening at 38 to 371.0. compared with 41% on Saturday, and Booc shares of the preferred carried the price down from 914 on Saturday to B74 and 8614. Owing to the vigorous support of insiders, these were the low prices on the slump, and both stocks ral- lied feverishly, the preferred several points. In the railroad list the Grangers and Pacifics were most acutely affected, as for some time past, Union Pacific lead ing with a drop of 5 points, There were lcsses between 4 and 5 points in St. Paul, Atchison common and preferred, Texas and Pacific and Missouri Pacific. In Pennsylvania, New York Central, Balti more and Ohio, Erie, Rock Island, Southern Pacific, Iowa Central prefer- red, Amalgamated Copper and Sugar there were losses of 3 or over. Lacka wana fell 614 and Colorado Fuel 45% The vi of decline invited some buving from bargain hunters, insiders offered support by buyin huge blocks had to he taken us lividual transactions ang to 5000 she Nevertl were rallies of 1 to 2 pe eral list Steel preferred. the fright toad of o i ing in spots. rush to sell was ur 1 HENCce the in continu run tririer sirngs., nt int been recovere VOLCANO DESTROYS LIFE AND PROPERTY Jver Seven Hundred Peopl: Perish During An Eruption of Klost. {apecia 1acon 1d Ices KILLED BY A MANIAC fraveler Meets a Tragic Fate While a Passenger on 2a Tra'n Rawlings, Wy samed Rogers was sh eatl Hadley Copeland, on the Unior gain No. 6. Copeland was travel stockton, Cal.. to Council Bluffs, When at a point Namsutter he walked into the Rogers was sisting and at thooting at him. saving: “There. hat.” He shot three times, the mtering Rogers breast : gantly. Copeland was iow in jail here When asked what caused Rogers, he said: “He had m md I had to do it.” Copeland is undoubtedly of nind. As the killing took place in Sweet Nater county, Copeland will be taken to areen River and turned over to the au horities there. Boers Capture a Gun. London (By Cable)—A dispatch rom Lord Kitchener, dated at Pretoria, ays the Boers attacked a constabulary t Houtkop, in the Transvaal, July 11, apturing a 7-pound gun. He also says he Boers were eventually driven off. fhe British loss 1s given as three men dalled and seven wounded. A noisy cene in the House of Commons arose fom a question as to whether the Brit- sh wounded were left in the hands of ne Boers at Viakiontein. Lord Stan~ ty, financial secretary of the war office, gclared the war office had no informa- lon on the subject. “The F rst on Record. Boston (Special) —A petition in bank- uptcy was filed by Stephen M. Mar- hall, secretary of the Tenth Congres- ional Republican District Committee of 808. The debts of the committee are hown to amount te about $800. This is he first time since the establishment of he new bankruptcy law that a campaign ommittee’s debts have found their way | sto a bankruptcy court. Porte Rican Postmaster Arrested. Washington {Special}, =A cablegram | eceived at the Postoffice Department rom San Juan announces the arrest on | { Spe ; three miies east car once ei ott his uly 10 of Ricardo Navarez Rivera, as- | istant postmaster at Mameyes, Porto | lico, for embezzling letters containing | aluable inclosures. Desperate Struggle In Courtroom. Upper Sandusky, Ohio (Special). — during the Jrogtca of the Johnson surder trial here Willis Miller, the de- sndant, attacked Guard Grundtisch, of ae county jail, who had just given tes- imony, which Miller characterized as erjury. A brother and sister of Miller sined in the attack on Grundtisch and a gsperate struggle ensued. A general ight followed and the courtroom was arned into a bedlam. A number of omen fainted and others screamed in srror. When they tried to leave the pom they were trampled on by the ex- ited mob, SUMMARY OF THE NEWS, a a rs Domestic. The 4500 employees of the National Tube Company at McKeesport were given an increase in wages of 10 per The men in these mills are not It was reported in Clever rectly due to an effort of the Carnegie half non-union for this year, and then to make all the mills non-union. Philadelphia politicians are protesting against the contractor for the new filter beds employing colored labor from the vicinity of Baltimore gnd Alexandria, Va., when there are offnty of men in Philadelphia who want jobs, Workmen in the Reading Railroad shops continue on strike, their number increasing. notwithstanding the state- ment of the company's officials that they will be paid as well as the shopmen on other roads. A resolution to provide an anti-lynch- Constitutional Convention, was also a proposition to allow the to appeal in criminal cases. Mabel Strong, who ran away from Cleveland to New York with Charles Wildrick, who was sent to the peniten tiary for fraud, died in St. Luke's Hos- pital in New York Joseph H. Shepherd, the embezzling clerk in the auditor's in Ricl mond, Va., got another year on two ad ditional charges of larceny, to which he as prosecution office that Governo ned Va., and Washin COTTCS} ed in San Francisco The picker boys at in Shomakin, L831 the Senator Hanna 3 Lonstituts Ng again ¢ gran restricting suffrage as ten s 2} i: ual meeting 1 began in Foreign mbassador White or that he wil i States in Septeml t whether he will return to Germany as ambassa- dor depends upon various considera fons At a meeting of the trustees of the Carnegie Educational Fund in Edin burgh a letter was read announcing that he had signed the deed placing $10,000,~ 000 at the disposal of the trustees. It was announced in the British House of Commons that landing sites for the new Pacific cable had been se- lected at Queensland, New Zealand, Norfolk Island and Vancouver. The British captured Commandant Scheeper's laager at Camdeboo, secur- ing a quantity of ammunition and stores, but Scheeper and the majority of his men escaped. Reports from Carthagena, Colombia. tell of a mutiny among the soldiers, in which the mutineers attacked the guard and seven were killed and several wounded. The Bryant and May shareholders in special meeting in London adopted the plan of consolidation with the Diamond Match Company. The military commanders at Tientsin have directed the provisional govern. ment to destroy the Taku forts. M. Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian by Henry Deutsch for a manageable balloon. traordionary speed, but on the return and Lord Kitchener and increasing puis- it is reported, lead *o Kitchener being Bondon Blood. AA Financial. The output of gold from the Rand dis- trict in South Africa was 19.770 ounces as compared with 7478 ounces in May. England imported goods from the United States to the value of $740,000, 000 last year and is by far our best cus- tomer. The Suez Canal in May, 1901, yielded a transit revenue of $1.824.000, as com* pared with $1,582,000 in May, 1000. In ast May 343 ships passed through the canal, For the first ive months of this year the transit revenue aggregated §7,- 340,490 from a total of 1 vessels, THE BULLET HIT | THE WRONG MAN. And Germany Demands an Indemnity From Uncle Sam. AMERICAN KNOCKED OUT BY GERMAN An Episode in Pekin That las Given Rise to a Claim by the German Goverament Against the United States--Germaan Officer, Disre- the Sentry. Washington (Special).—The last mail i i | THREE HUNDRED PUPILS KILLED, es Mission on Korean Islsnd Attacked By Na: tives--Confiict Covered Tem Days Berlin (By Cable).——The Cologne Gazette publishes a dispatch from Seoul, Corea, dated July 6, saying that bloody conflicts, extending over a period of 10 days, have occurred on the Island of Quelpart between the Roman Catholic populace of the island. Fiiteen of the natives and about three hundred of the pupils are reported to have been killed The governor of Quelpart, according the trouble was Pekin which has resulted in a German claim against the United States. The account, which appears in a Japanese newspaper, states that an American sern- try had been posted at the western. ex- tremity of Legation street, close to where the new American legation is building. That portion of Legation street was be- ing newly macadamized and rolled. A barricade had been put up and Major Robertson had posted a sentry on the spot to warn persons not to ride over the newly made road, pedestrians only being allowed to traverse it. A German officer came riding along. knocked down both the sentry and the barricade, and gallop- ed across the forbidden route. The sen try scrambled to his feet and sent a shot after the officer, but missed, and the hul lodged in the leg of a German sen- try standing on duty half way down the says that the 0 one month's let street. The newspaper was sentenced American id fined nth s 1 1m IC Wrong yr Brus Pekin CORN CROP SITUATION Drought and Heat Destroying Millions of Bushels. Frog Explode { SNe Pat Crowe in Africa Mo cial}. State St. Joseph, Senator A. W. Brewster received a draft for $2%0, sent to him Pat’ Crowe from Johannesburg, South Africa, to pay an attoreny fee Crowe had been owing a number of vears name has been connected by sgation with the kidnapping in Omaha of a young son of Edward Cudahy, the packer, who pad a ransom of $25.co0 in gold to recover his boy. Several years ago Crowe was under arrest in St. Joseph on the charge of train robbery. The charge was finally dismissed, as the case was not a strong one Loose Engine and Express Collide. Parkersburg. W. Va. (Special).—-Two persons were killed outright, one fatally injured, several others were less serious. ly injured in a head-on collision on the Ohio River Railroad at Padens at 6.30 p.m support of the tax collectors in levying illegal taxes upon the natives, Upon hearing that two French mis- sionaries had been killed in the island a French warship proceeded to Quel- part. Upon finding the misionaries in question alive the warship returned. The Korean government has commis- Huan Kian and an American court official to investigate the matter, and is sending a company of Korean infantry with them to Queipart. Quelpart in the Yellow Sea, 60 miles south of Korea, to which country it is subordinate. It is a penal settle ment. 18 GRAHAM AGAIN GOES DOWN THE RAPIDS. run into at full speed by a loose engine southbound, and both engines were al- most demolished. The baggage car of the Ohio Valley express wae smashed were damaged, and none of the train left the track except the engines, Mall Carrier's Record. Tamaqua, (Special). ~~jacob Hartman, aged 62 years, celebrated the 3tst anni- the Reading Company between the rail- e postoffice. During his service he has been off duty but eleven days, four days of the time being due to sickness. Mr. Hartman makes 17 trips daily, and in the 31 years has traveled 46,000 miles in the discharge of his duty. A a Explosion on as Excursion Boat. Sunbury, Pa. (Special) —An excur- tion boat anchored in the Susquehanna River at the foot of Market street, this city, blew up with terrific force, killing two boys and injuring a dozen other per- sons, two fatally, e man is missi and may have been killed also. All the boys killed and injured were fishing on a nearby wharf when the explosion occurred. The neer was absent at the time, leaving the boat in charge of the pilot. When he left there was o. nro sure of 6o pounds in the boiler, and he says he opened the fire door, the Raging Niagara Current Niagara Falls, N. Y. (Special). — About 3000 persons saw Charlie D. Gra- ham make his fifth successful through the whirlpool rapids in a bar aftern The barrel is except that it 1s about 5 feet long the , and 26 § 100 pounds VOYage ¢ § oon ol foot Ea 11 pails in an eddy and ci tronger current finally jerked foaming waters under the er THIEVES CLEAN OUT DELEGATES Epworth Leaguers Stranded in Colorado~ Pickpockets Make a Good Haul Glens { Special +d gang of pich Spring d baggage ch ish the depot in ( K. Hooper, general passen agent of the Denver and Rio Grande seized the Glenwood furnish passes to Ogden passengers who desired to at Major S gen 4 : i Railroad Springs agent t to stranded continue their j« auth Jrmey west Maskod Mas Shot and Kilied ville, Pa. (Special) ed men ¢ at Yorkville Four mask. tered the hotel of Peter Hoke near here, and encountered the proprietor and two guests, Michael Ritzel and George A. Wachter. Dunng the fight that followed one of the rob- bers was shot and killed, and Mr. Hoke was wounded in the leg. The three re. maining burglars made their escape. The dead man has not been identified. Exoncrates Admiral Mello. Rio Janeiro (By Cable).~The Bra- zilian Chamber of Deputies received the report of a special committee ap- pointed to consider the case of Rear- Admiral Mello, who was arrested last April on a charge of monarchial plot. ting and who then appealed to the Chamber. The report declares that the accusations against the officer are with- out foundation. It is considered cer- tain that the Chamber will unanimously confirm the committez’s conclusion. New Device for Torpedo Boats Washington ( Special )==Orders went forward from the Naval Bureau of Ord- nance directing that all the torpedo boats in the Navy, built or building, shall be sending the torpedoes on their journey through the water. By the new equip- ment an officer in the pilot-house can send the tubes overboard by the touch of a button Twe Men Blown to Pleces Denver, Col. (Special). A dynamite magazine near the Grant smelter ex- osed. Two Italians were killed and several hurt. Fragments of the victims were strewn over the prairie for hun dreds of yards. Windows in the Union Stock Yards Bank, a quarter of a mile away, were shattered. The damage is estimated at $5000. His Lite Was a Fallure Crawfordsville, Ind. (Special) «Ex. Inge es H. Sellars, former member of the legislature, and once candidat» Ing the Democratic nomination for governor, killed Jima! to his law office by taking morphine. left a letter Saying his life ya a failure, and that his $s were arge. Usited States Consal Dead. St. Petersburg (By Cable) —Jos Raw. jez. who has been United States consul a Warsaw since 1875, died here Satur. LABOR WILL FIGHT THE STEEL TRUST. Association Have Matters Well in Hand and Strike Now in Full Swing. MANY THOUSAND MEN AFFECTED, Failure of the Officials of the Companies and the Officers of the Amalgamated Association to Reach an Agreement After Many Confer. ences--Seveaty-five Thousand Men Directly snd Thousands More Indirectly Affected. Pittsburg (Special). — By idle two of the largest non-union steel hoop plants in the country, the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and trial strike for union recognition. In obedience to the call of T. ). Shaffer every Amalgamated Asso ciation man employed by the Americar Sheet Steel, Hoop and Tinplate Com panies refused to go to work. Over 30, 000 union men struck. Their actior threw idle about as many others employ ed in the mills and who were dependen on the Amalgamated men, skillec hands, being work Secretary John Williams, of the Amal gamated said the numbes of men 70,000, This esti mate, it is 1s too high.” The number of men striking and thrown die estimated at 60.000 attered over Western Penn y Mary Ohio, Indiana, 1 or ot ai Association idle 18 Over declared CONsery are atively vatively 84 . and, 5 wil FIRE PANIC IN HOTEL The Guests Escape in Their Nightrobes-- Some of Them Sustains Injuries Butte. Mont Special a sull al Butte Hot » 4 nn i JAGWay cene ti . K€ e tol y munutes prevailed lower # way d caping Were res ! where m the windows, upper shrieked for = ug de jump to the s = k the fire was completely and the hotel management state that to the best their knowl- cdge all the guests and help have been accounted for The interior the hotel, which § many years has been the leading hostel ry of Butte, is completely gutted, ane Hugh L. Wilson, the lessee of the build- ing. estimates his loss at $00.000 The hotel guests quantity personal effects Six Bathers Drowned. Savannah, Ga. (Special). ~The He- brew Gamahl Hasad held its annual pic- nic at Daufuskie Beach and 4 o'clock in the afternoon a number of the picnickers went into the ocean for a surf bath. A strong southeast wind was blowing and the tide was at flood. Fifty yards off shore is a shoal and between the shoal and shore is a sluice. The party was bathing on the shoal, but finding the tide getting rather high the bathers concluded to go nearer shore. Almost at once they found them- selves in the sluice over their heads with mountainous waves and a sweeping current running. Out of 17 who started across 6 were drowned. Boiled Out the Bullets. San Jose, Cal. (Special) .— Boiling of the remains of Lee Wing, a murdered Chinese. to ascertain if a bullet from lee Look’s pistol had entered his body, lus been completed after twenty-four hours, Fourteen large buckshot and one 44- calibre bullet were found when the mass was strained. This bullet is said to fit Look’s revolver. Washington's Law Books. Morgantown, W. Va. (Special) —A set of Blackstone's commentaries, each volume of which Samim Gearge Ras ington’s autograph, is own enry tt port Jr., of Clay Court House. The books were undoubtedly in the lis brary of the first President. All Kinds of Birds’ Ege. New York( Special) —~Ex-Senztor John ~ Ids, 4 Floral Park, L. 1, pur be i of ei i of 3 i08t a $F = Lewis Chi hd of Miss Jean Bell, of Philadel hia, a collection of North American Pird eggs and ness said to Sohtain at least one speci of every known, Miss Bell has spent 28 years in Gathering this ColecHion cs ak wh rom t ec auk, whic To alued at $1800, to that of the small. est humming e collection cost over na cash outlay for ¢ tr. Childs will add the collec. LIVE NATIONAL APPAIRS, Ss simm—— Exports Rus lato Billions. All former records are surpassed by the statistics of the foreign commerce of the United States for the fiscal year which came to a close on June 30, A preliminary statement prepared by the Bureau of Statistics in the Treas- ury Department shows that the combined value of imports and exports for the fiscal year amounted to $2,310.413,077, | against $2,244.424,200 for the year end- ing June 30, 1900, the largest previous record. The imports for the year amounted to $822,756,533, a decrease of $27,184,651 in comparison with the 1m ports for the previous year The ex- ports amounted to $1.487.656,544. an in | crease of $03,173.462 in comparison with the previous year, making the balance of | trade for the year in favor of the United States $664.000011, or ol $120,358. 113 over the trade for the previous year there was an excess of nerease of n addition to this 17,001,130 in the value of silver bullion exported value of that metal Notwithstanding trade in favor of th the figures show that gold during the year exceeded the exports of that 1 by but $11,342,332 This means that the immense balance of trade between this country and the rest of the world largely by othet means. A certain amount of gold is car ried by abroad and returning Europeans, but as most of these carry letters of credit oun! is relatively small } balance goes to American exports steamers i HP ana over the balance of States the imy zs of meta Was settled "i 4 ¢ Ameri tourists and SONIC of i dividends held abroad in the face . . fir pe a during the ps pally due to the S18 are now their money to rem capita vestment, and eign have gone far of tra thn ie uments were ma Our Trade With Belgium. r eign { | Bel Ba os go 45 0 ’ = 0.000 W 300.000 Un States ¢ 300 worth and re JOO,» the ited O00, ~ 1.000 000 worth of the exports 27,839 Homeseckers Registered. Telegrams he | Department Richar { Office, who received by the from Assistant ( ds. of the General at El Reno | the arrangements for opening ti report that everything is prox ‘orderly and expeditions { The total registrations Saturday, cially seported, were 27 Rig {| Reno and Fort Sill. No | people were at El Reno Satu desiring registration Minnesota's Glory Departing. Secretary Long directed that the old frigate Minnesota be dropped from the | navy hist and sold at a price not less than | $15,000. The Mmnesota is probably des | tined sto engage in the Atlantic Coast The Minnesota was one of | the few Union vessels that escaped de struction from the terrible onslaught {| made by the Confederate monitor Vir- sioner eeumg an the Federal Hampton Roads, attick squadron iyiag mm The Carnegic and the Beilhilchem Steel Companies have notified the gov ernment that they will increase the ca- pacity of their plants to meet the de- mands of the government. Secretary Root directed the War De- partment to accept the resignation of Capt. Putnam Bradlee Strong, who way in an escapade in San Francisco + Mail advices from Pekin show that the American representatives saved many innocent Chinamen who were suspected of complicity in Boxer outrages. The retary of the Treasury has or” dered twelve new rotary Hoe presses for printing the seal on government money. Third Assistant Secretary of State Crudler is reported to be ill. The ent made a number of navy appointments. A statement by the Treasury Bureau of Statinties shows a large increase tn the excess exports over imports du the fiseal year that closed June 1. The State Department is advised that the bubonic prevailing at the dif- ferent towns of Egypt is a virulent type. : , Captain Putram B. Strong. of $ rtment, U. S.
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