SUMMARY OF THE NEWS. Domestic. The machinists who had oacen on strike at Wilkesbarre applied for rein. statement in the shops of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and other mills, Many were taken back, but the places of others tad been filled. The coroner's jury in Winchester, Va., volds the Winchester Gas inl Electric Light Company responsible for leath of Jacob Houck and Lewis Price, vho were electrocuted by a live wire, Mayor Hugh O'Hara, of Santa Paula, Cal, was shot down by Charles tharacters whose arrest he had ordered Herman Treetz, aged 18, and Ida Du puy, aged 16, wanted to die together, ind were taken to a hospital in New Brighton, where the girl died. The Pennsylvania Forestry Commis- tion decided to purchase Mont Alt Park, with the view of establishing a rollege Of forestry. Six persons were severely injured and it panic created by the stampede of a number horses at the gypsy camp sear Chicago. William Brooks, a negro, was lynched at Elkins, W. Va, for shooting Robert Lilly, the chief of police of that town W. Gray, alias Ellsworth Lewis. was arrested in Denver, Col, } } [ tewelry in Topeka b Robert E Craddock struck Lu Auster with } ha rock the latter died from hi Rev. A. B will became orine : 3% male Colle Oi on the Ol securing Varwi home near Be Six prospect Klondike g death near Cape a K and { town, Pa No suc amicably set York, Pa. Mrs. Leah cide in Chambers Former Gover: had an exciting di: man Knox, of vention, in which th to be expelled f: Dr. Michael indeterminate substituting a corps to swindle the K Security. Judge Troutt, of Francisco, has decided that the trust clause in the Fair will with regard to pers void Thirty of the new Point were overcome by funeral of General Butter A general strike of the ment Workers New Yor ordered, involving 30,000 m Henry Burgess, a steeplechase i was killed in New York while sche a horse over the jumps Some incendiary has been settin to property in Richmond, Va., be ing to Joseph Heppert. Charles E. Parsons was acq Richmond of the beat a Norfolk 1} The Salmon ed in Trenton, $25.000,000. senten San nal property 1s in Was with Foreign. A plan for the payment of indemnity to the powers been adopted. It cont : tire liquidation of bot} terest by 1940, China to raise $213.000.000 annual Ct 1 principal and recent officers were The House junction forbidding and beset a railroad company’s ps WIN Over non-unionists The American of the hos ship Maine presented King Edward a medal commemorative of the work of the American hospital ship. Mr. Kruger, though depressed over the death.of his wile, 1s reported to have plunged into his work with more than usual energy Salo Rawicz, a suicide in Berlin bec connection with the failure Cardinal Vaughan gave a reception in honor of Cardimai Gibbons in the chap- ter hall of the new cathedral! in London The Republican party gained 47 seats in the elections for the French Councils General. Daniel Frohman secured the Hunga- rian violinist Kubelik for an American tour, Terrific electrical and hail storms have done great damage in Germany. The Paris Figaro publishes some new facts connected with the Schaebele ai- fair, showing how a second Franco- German war was averted by Prince Munster de Derneburg. In consequence of the Boer raids into Natal the British military authorities have ordered all white men to evacuate farms on the Tugela and Sunday rivers Germans are agitated over the high duties and the minimum and maximum charges on cereals, The Vorwaerts characterizes the shedules as usurious. It is brought to light that there are many young actresses of talent who can- not make a living, as they lack the necessary influence, ! The governor of the Island of Quel- part says that the Christian converts were responsible for the uprising on that island. i The late Prof. Max Muller's libfary | was bought by Baron Iwasaki for pre- | sentation to the University of Tokio. Intense heat has been accompanied by violent storms throughout Germany. Siberian crops are reported to be nearly a total failure, It now developed that the fire in the Yildiz palace was the outgrowth of | an intrigue in the Sultan’: harem, the women wishing to be rid f the lady | treasurer, who was accused of the crime. Flaancial { The Allen Steel Company has been in- corporated in New Jersey with a capital of $1,000,000 to manufacture steel. It is said President Stickney, of the Chicane Stat Western, will exercise an | option he holds for the Winona and Western three months. A second call has been made upon the | Burlington underwriting syndicate, this | ime for 12 1-2 per cent. of the original | subscriptic. is makes 22 1-2 called | to date, the first call of 10 per cent. hay- ing been made May 15. of perty to y s ladies pital wilh banker, committed ause of his losses in Leipziger Bank purchase of the allway within A NEW MOVE Probable Intervention in the Big Steel Strike. PULLING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. Major Farquhar, of the lodustrial Commission, (oes to New York in Compliance With a Request to Confer With the Members of the Ohio Board of Arbitration, to Try to Find a Way of Bringing About an Agreement purpose lity of bringing about ng been presid Iypographi ago York the Board of are anxie wh nist od by which the t to an honorable Industrial Con an hardly ¢ said Mr $810M eX ber and we need for the preparation of ’ P purpose of end. St res $1 rt * 4 SDC 107 18 J In bringing the h interventio beyond our powers was created for gating t! recomsn ment on mediation it empowered as al trate n opinion ye attempted in as Pres Sha the question. | ut of sible for this re hwab is try plants Steel S800: 5 to ‘Carnegize’ all the cone- led by the United States poration. He is going to try to success of 18g2, when he the Carnegie plants into a non-t f ganization. His testimony before Industrial Commission indicated ‘ purpose very clearly. 1 have also heard the same story from President Shafler But he not succeed Shaffer has the power to the Steel Cor- poration a harder than has heen delivered. He has the Amalgamated Association at his back to a man. The American Federation is also supporting him Shaffer's purpose is to unionize all the plants by having the Steel Corporation or the constituent companies sign the Amalgamated scale for all the shops. “Here are these men working on op- posing lines. That is why arbitration is impossible, “Shaffer cannot succeed in full either, and that is why mediation is the only course leit open. Mediators may induce each to modify his purposes somewhat {ries repeat his will give blow poration to sign the scale for all the mills. But I do think he will succesl ter for the corporation to quit trying to make the mills non-union. 1 think he will also persuade him to agree to unionize mills in which an overwhelm- ing majority of the men are members of the association.” : To Study American Methods. Washington (Special). Some of the rincipal foreign establishments raion have received instructions full details of the manner in which the United States extends its foreign com- merce by means of foreign agencies, commercial travelers, etc, The large increase of American ex- ports has drawn the attention of foreign governments to the methods employed on this side of th: water to develop trade abroad. These methods have been the subject of a number of government pub lications, which are now being collect- ed for transmission to foreign capitals, ww A Will Not Release the Americans. Washington (Special. )—In response to the representations to the State De- partment, the British Government has declined to release any of the Americans who were captured while serving in the Boer army. The only exceptions will be in the case of prisoners whose health is such as to make their confinement dang- erous. Some Americans are among ie military prisoners in Ceylon, and the State Department had Special reference to their case in addressing the British Government in this matter. : versity of Wisconsin ~ultural Implements United States SECRETARY LONG CONDEMNS BOOK. | Maclay's History Cannot Be Used in Its Pres ent Form~Time for Action Says Schley. 1% 1 < i } , ang { Special he DN o 4 i fo FAITHFUL WIFE OF “00M PAUL” DEAD Victim of Poeumonia After an lllpes Secret fost] a hs chapter that of the fleets, which of the order i Navy, had fn } the and he return fication Was satisfactory Maclay with an He says he ‘ . me aroused ter the identity Stanton Maclay he sto Navy Yard Lilepariment in Brooklyn atter wi story “No Time for Talking.” wk Th r talking ; was Rear answer to { Special ) .~ t 1s a time for action Admiral Winfield S. a request for ; his intent k made upon in regard the third M Maclay accusations imputed to hin just been issued from re Beyond the deci that for acon had arr Admiral Schicy would say nothing of his plans as shafts which have at him That it is the Admiral’s intention to sum Mr. Maclay and possibly also his publishers to answer the courts for his version of the course pursued by Ad miral Schley during the operations which culminated in the battle of Santiago, there is believed to be no doubt Admiral Schley was reluctant to say a the tine a {to beens a imied mon 44 de. tiuction of Admiral Cervera's squad- ron. He has refrained. hitherto, from taking any part in the bitter contest which has raged both is and out of Con- gress ever since the battle of Santiago. MORRO CASTLE AS A NAVAL STATION, Protests and Approval by Cuban Newspapers of the Reported American Plan. Havana (Special).—The rept that the United States intends to hold Morro adverse comment here. The public gen- erally expectsd that Morro Castle and | the Cannpe fortress would be taken tor {a naval station, { The Discussion protests aga nst ih's | action, saying it is “an imposition of a strong power upon a weak one, yet Cuba | can do nothing but accept.” La Lucha strongly approves the step. It says: “Cuba could not do anything with the two historic fortresses of Havana and Santiago, while the flag of the formi- dable blic of the United States will cornmand the respect of strangers, and other nations would see behind the flag not the little State of Cuba but one of the greatest powers of the globe. The two poings © strategic i on the Cuban coast the United States shn:'d take and strongly fortify." Use of “Masut.” Washingon (Special) ~The imperial German navy and some German manu- facturers are using large quantities of an oily product of German brown coal tar, called “masut.” for heating and steam Producing purposes. The coast defense vessels of the German navy are fitted for the use of this oil. The advantages of “masut” over coal are said to be a one- fourth greater heat producing quality, a greater ease in handling, very iittle smoke and the ity to produce full power steam inTess time than with coal, HER PLA AND HOMELY LIFE Was the Mother of Sixteras Children, ant Who Helped the President of the Sout) African Republic Save and Keep Millions o Gold--Proud of Her Husband, and Devote to Him and His Interests. Kruger famil; she passed awa President Weeps and Pray 3y Cable) telegraph London Sunday ‘ {isp AVS a disp Hily rmeaq ers A Typical Boer Woman. he capture of Pretoria 3 TO00 ve captial present : had remas she | made her home so ned In ver hy i. iecided tha uncertain danger the ole safe But. al and her husha » tine before an ements were sitenn to be in {0 remain ome, wi would be could await better times better times‘have n of the wife who had been 3 panion to him hali another heavy load the sorrow which is upon the rugged lead of the Boers Mrs. Kruger, manners and in her speech the wile of life was better for her i ere she to burden ol appearance, in hes Was as un { assuming any Dutel { farmer. | frugal as «Elizabeth City Shaken Up. Elizabeth City, N. C. (Special }.-De fective amimonia boilers at the ice fac tory of the Crystal Ice and Coal Com i | the plant, One fireman was killed and anothes seriously injured, both colored. Super intendent Dunston and Foreman Brow: had a narrow escape. tank passed through the office, com pletely destroying it, while the superin tendent was at his desk. The shock was severe and shatterec window panes three blocks away. It wa: felt all over the city, There is fear o an ice famine. The fish industry will suffer. The company will rebuild imme diately ; loss $10,000. Church Destroyed by Wind. Columbus, Miss. (Special). During s windstorm there the Second Baptis Church was totally destroyed. Rev. W W. Whitfield was holding services at the time and a large congregation was pres ent. Several peopie were cut and bruised. Mrs. Graat’s Gift to Mra. McKinley. Rochester, N. Y. (Special).—A box marked “Mrs. McKinley, Canton, 0." was brought into Charlotte Harbor on the North King from Coburg, Ont. I contained a knit woolen shoulder cape for Mrs. McKinley. The cape was knii by Mrs. U. 8S. Grant, widow of Gen. U S. Grant, now at Coburg, A RN 0. Clemency for Boer Prisoners. Cape Town (Special). —Lord Kitch: ener has cominuted the sentence of death passed oR Boer prisoners to penal servitdda tae life at Bermuda, Ji LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Great Building for Department of Justice. An effort will be made to get the au- thority of Congress to purchase an entire larger building than formerly contemp lated for the Department of Justice. Attorney-General Knox entertains the ambition to leave as a permanent record of his connection with the Department ing which will be capable of housing that predecessor, Mr. Griggs, once he was de tined to erect such a structure in his administration, but he was disap pointed. Mr. Knox, however, goes fur ther than Mr. Griggs. Where the latter contented himself with asking a total ap propriation of $1,900.000 for the erection and furnishing of a building on ter of a block, the present Attorney eral contemplates block in the construction acquiring an entire center of the and of a building which will be great Government v thie city i - ¥ $id 4 . « Coal toa Teachers for Philippines. government from ted Sport i nomas 5 1 week achers s sr Poses Seere ce Ed of { the War goon, law Manufacturing ia Territories. (1s fac rufing Cen SyoR10g The Hundred-Millionth Dollar. Duress of Eneras os od pra VIng ang er and the ¢ if the bureau n engaged with the least possible delay Aes at extra hours to do Capital New; ia Geared Knox declined to pon the question Treas be re- Porto the yaa from ort cation and it te ? H 1191 hive t the gunboat Alaska withopt ore Knox became no place to ange give him The Sec i { the Interior an nounced the committee (0 supervive the drawing of lots on the Indian lands opened to homesteaders The President made a number of An official communication from the Italian Government denies that a boun- ty is paid on sugar exports, declaring indeed that no sugar is exported from that country, The Navy the Department bought for $183,000 Our New Possreiain H. Phelps Whitmarsh, civil governor of Benguet Province. lL.uzon. has been exonerated by the civil commission of Advices from Manila state that con- ferences between Adiatant General Core result in economical and administrative reforms in the army of occupation, The cost of maintaining the Amer.can army be reduced by 60 per cent. in the islands of Cebu and Bohol and in CAPSIZES, FIVE LIVES LOST. Arthur C, Colburn and His Two Daughe ters Drowned. BLAMED FOR ACCIDENT. YACHT CAPTAIN One Daughter and the Steward Saved After 8 Disagreeable Experience - The Captain's Fallure te Take the Owner's Advice Re sponkible for the Catastrophe, the Boat Capsizing in the Squall That Came On. r Haver : per ne of those The FAMILY PERISH IN TENEMENT FIRE Mother and Three Children Killed in Pitts. burg Husband Escapes. Spe i he had deeded to Church of that city Now the hei=s operty do= y have been illegal, prap- ¥ treatment Christian Science property are irymg 1o claring the tran The Christ erty was given in to Mrs. Davis Teacher Lost L fe in Fire Syracuse, N. Y. (Special) ter for Homeless Gir 1s City, was destroyed by fire. Forty-one inmates escaped in their night clothes by the fire escapes. Miss Phoebe Miller. of Lansingville, N. Y.. a teacher a: the Shelter, was burned to death. Her body was recovered. It is though: that a lamp exploded m Miss Miller's room and that the burning oi set fire to ber worth $6 ts JO00 ver this ier t SCIeniets Say the payment for vy 4 «1 he Shel- is, [84] in Morgan Taiks of Strike. New York (Special). —J. P. Morgan gave positive denial to the rumor of ing to their incomplete pacification, and the civil commission has turned them bagk to the military authorities. The been renewed. Colonel Sautos, with rifles, has surrendered at Ligao, in Albu rovince, The insu "an North amarines province is practically ended. AC A SL SENG Tried to Poison for Revenge. of an attempt at wholesale poisoning at the Touro-Shakespeare almshouse seven persons, all officers of the institution, were made sericusly ill, and one, Mrs. Blanchard, the matron of the institution, may die. The pon used was arsenic acid, and only the prompt arrival of the doctor and the quick administration of antidotes saved the lives of the intended i Bay og haite clue has yet been ou t the indications point to a wegro inmate of the almshouse, been settied. He made this statement: “There is not a word of treth in ia, There has been no settlement, and there can be no compromise on such a ques tion. The wsosition of the operati companies is perfectly simple and w understood, and, so far as am con- cerned, has my unqualified approval” Durban, Natal (By Cable).——In con sequence of the Boer raids 'nte Natal rt given the raiders by i i ordered all white men, with stock. foodstuffs and clothieg, 10 evacuate all farms between the Tu ties have maining in this section of the country ater July 31 will be subject to martial aw, fy Ne Spanish Inquiry. Madrid (By Cable).~The Spanish Senate rejected a motion to determine inquiry who was responsible for the disasters to Spiia in the war with the United States. The motion Yd been 0 mier Sagasta. "Count Tolstol Convalescent. Tula, Eurgptan Russia (By Canle)— Count Ho olstol, whe has pean erties. ow ] ult wow aut of danues and tony,
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