A FRIGHTFUL Philadelphia. to Death, While Others Are Luckily the Burning Debris. Philadelphia (Special).—A terrific ex- plosion in a block of six buildings on Locust street, west of Tenth, wrecked five of the structures and caused death of thrce persons and the fatal in jury of perhaps eight more. The dead are an unknown colored woman, ored child and a colored man. Over two score of others were more or less severely injured. It 1s -st'mated col- buildings when the explosion and the exact number of dead will gro ably not be known for sone “n= The explosion occurred o'clock. What exploded ani happened are not known at this time, but it is believed to have been a barrel in one of the thre With the exception { the buildings street, while the ois shot upward and then fell ground. Almost in a radius of had window otherwise » 331 app } how 12 of gasoline cery stores. of 1008 the front blown and the r« straight to the walls of n were into the th floors two blocks about Ih 1 panes si : 3 damaged 14: Street was A terrible site side but none up from the ruins a moment explosion Men, women and children, occupants of wrecked houses, could be seen from the debris, while the cries of others were heard in the aged, crawhng 1117 1117 age jured people, many of street unc 0 ror thed scaught fire and in less than five 1 ' the great pile was burning i end. A general fire apparatus I me of rescue was begun by those whom add to the 5 hor- buile § the mean the neighborhood who were not in jured. Here and there a person was dragged fron ¢ ruins before the fire could her, ] | being 3 § prom the firemen arrived the fla great headway and were | Ings the street. ever, n under control, een 3 ’ sCalil (521 jad across was The wot SO away 1 earnest was then edge of ris several ¢ were taken out and pitals. While the firemen men were hauling away heavy timbe from wre cries were heard c lar of Mountain's grocery. F with rope and tackle, were immediately at that and pulled yofing and fl ng which to a massed heap tom of the pile, a man and a wi be ou IRRING 17 sent kage, the cel ifty men, several sections of the ming from ont pont Ori doubled "vi T™ nan. ine woman ¢ #1 AiMos to : sho 1 these places AHEAD IN IRON AND STEEL tries in Production. weg ( Special ).—The logi cal survey has issued a report iron and steel at the close of the nineteenth century, prepared by James M. Swank, general manager of the American Iron and Steel Association. It shows that this country leads all other countries in the production of these articles. It puts the total world's production of pig iron in 1900 at about 40,000,000 long tons, of which the United States made 13.780,242 tons, or fully 34 per cent. The world’s production of steel for 1000 was about 26 8735000 tons, of which the Uni- ted States made 10,187,322 tons, or nearly 38 per cent duction in 1900 was 7.043.452 tons. The maximum production of bessemer steel rails by the producers of bessemer steel ingots was reached in 1900, when total was 2,361,921 long tons. The total production of all kinds of rails in this country probably was nearly 2,400,000 tons hearth steel in the United 3.402.552 long fons; iron and rods 846.201 long tons, and steel nails 7.233.979 kegs of 100 pounds. The year 1900, says the report, was, taken as a whole, one of marked pros. perity for our irom and steel manufac. turers. - ge mn States was American Professor Arrested. Professor Riddje, of the San Juan Nor mal School, who has been sojourning in South America in the interest of the rived here from Venezuela. story of imprisonment. While ascend. phalt official, his launch was held up by eral ‘Hernandez made prisoners, tody at Citudad Bolivar for six days, and were then released. Killed His Wile and Himselt. Charleston, S. C, (Special). — Private Louis Haggerty, Tenth United States out his own brains in his goarters at the government barracks on Sullivan's Island. Jealousy was the cavse of the tragedy. liaggerty enlisted from West Virginia. a Bad Vicinity for Steam ps St. Johns, N. F. (By Cable). —An- other vessel was wrecked near Cape Race in a dense fog. The Norwegian steamship Vera, bound from Liverpool for Louisburg, struck in Blackhead Cove, near Renews, a few yards from where the Delmar was wrecked last month. The ship grounded stem first, and is fixed between rocks in an upright osition and well above water. She is eaking considerably, her boiler floors being submerged. The ship's com- pany escaped without casualty and made their way to land. It is though that the vessel can be floated again, SUMMARY OF THE NEWS, Domestic. i Mr. C. P. Adams, telegraph of the Jersey | road, and formerly of Baltimore, was] arrested in New YorK because of his refusal to permit the police to inspect | superintendent © Central Rail swindlers. assistant At States, erations of green goods Marion Erwin, special torney-General of the United secured attachments against and securities in Savannah Oberlin M. Carter, former ca engineers, U. S, A. They an nany thousands of dollars. i Patrick Grimes, a fireman on the] American Line steamship Belgenland, which arrived at Philadelphia vesterday, | committed suicide at crazed | from the heat of the stokchole, Near Charlottesville, Va, C. S Moore killed Emmet Branzell and wounded W, Boston Craddock, the lat. ters’ uncle. Moore accused Branzell of stealing corn from his field Warden Hayes, of the Asylum for the Insane, is tigated on the charge of poor i 1 food all loans held by | ptain of | 1ount to | SCA while New Jersey being inves providing a and msufhcient supply for Albert Martin stole a I and furnity ym the contagious house in Glouce set to sentence fiantin 5 i Ons led his Haggerty, wife and IVAnS Island, S neral Manderson Schley's not able to A « 4 new Lae been COtnse;, serve been Berkeley ompany has hotel at a I y pry | Parry Golden W. Va, wa Half a million at Seatt more pot Rain sections in Iowa and Wm. H. Pratt Is aCCus€eqg Of Ki ge of fraud It is reported tha France and Tur ed that the French tween strain may ask for his passports Difficulty in reversing th wheels 1s said to have been sponsible for the wrecking of the British torpedo boat Viper, Commandant Froneman was killed near Winburg., The British are report ed to have captured a Boer convoy near Boshoff. The results of the British naval ma- neiivers are said have justified th criticisms directed against th: Admiral ty. No attempt is to be made to pas bill in the British Pacliament to « the form of the King's declaration The first elections were held in Serva under the new constitution, a novel method of balloting being employed The grasshopper plague has become serious in the country about Naples Governor Tuan, of the Shantung “0 to low the missionaries to exert any influ. ence in the decision of cases. The National Miners’ Federation of country unless its demands are com- Owing to the illness of his mother | William has changed his plans and will not attend certain fes- Hvities, Arctic fishermen brought to Vardoe, Norway, eight survivors of the explor- The British transport Manila landed 0 Boer prisoners on Tuckers Island, | me of the Bermuda Islands, Commandant Hermanus Steyn, a cousin of President Steyn, was killed | while fighting at Ficksburg, M. Cambon, the French ambassador 10 the United States, in an interview in Paris, eulogized President McKinley ind praised American institutions, The governor of Shantung, China, is | making smokeless powder and arms. t A Boer commando, with two guns, has sntered Portuguese territory, encamp- ng at Guanetz, !inasc'sl Utica, N. Y., has sold at auction $16s,- 00 4 per cent, city bonds at 100%, It is said negotiations are again on for he purchase of the Evanston Line, The New York Subtreasury statement shows that the banks lost $1,241,000 last week. The Brooklyn Union Gas Company hax declared a 2 per cent. quarterly divi- fend, payable September 3. The Southern Cotton Oil Company will increase its capital stock from $a,- £00,000 10 $11,000,000, in order to extend its business, OF GERMANY DEAD. Kaiser William's Mother Passes Away at Cronberg. ELDEST DAUGHTER OF VICTORIA. Been Dropsy Following Cancer, the Dropsy Having Gradually Reached the Heart--Her Majesty Was Conscious to the End, Which Was Calm and Painless. Cronberg (By Cable).—Victoria Ade- laide Maria l.ouisa, the Dowager Em- day evening at 6.15. The death of the Dowager Empress was | somewhat sudden. At 4 o'clock her phy sicians reported no change in her condi- tion Emperor William and Her Majesty's | other children were in the sick room most of the day. Her royal and Imperial Highness, Empress Frederick, mperor Frederick William of mother of the reigning She was the eldest {f England, 1840, aide the was the Dowager : 1 widow of | Will is Victoria « n November Victoria months and Albert Edward, now of Fr Her and sisters are Hols on ie ned 12 days older gland I agony both mental and nres remained by iE f1 3 10 AilevViate Nn 3 became the Homeseckers Destitute, 9 J 1 { Special) srried to a successful WOMAN'S WIT FEAR FRESH OUTBREAK. Foreigners Subject to Insult on the Streets oi Pekin. Pekin (By Cable).—~American and European residents assert that the de meanor ol the Pekin populace is con- stantly becoming more unfriendly and that as the allied troops depart the Chinese resume their old habits of jos tling and cursing foreigners in the streets The legation defenses approaching completion. 3 speaking, they consist of brick walls from fifteen twenty feet high and from three feet thick, loop holed for rifles. The ministers of the powers ignored the plan for a uniform system of de- submitted by the generals, and the governments are working independently It is the policy of the ministers t« of defense, lest provok hostilities are now Generally to to tour fense avoid conspicuous work these should prove an irritant ing instead of preventing of the engineers have recom stronger defenses than ster wii sanction. Maj. Edgar B Ninth Infantry, tie Robertson, who Legation » i. 1 Rock 11 Calls commands guard, Mrs protest hat he mn of our legation,” sed Rockhill to “the defenseless: representing attack on four replied toy has tain ; tion ai in iy ¥ and to find tes rary camps MOTHER AND CHILDREN HANGED. Betsie McCray and Her Son snd Daughter Lyn:bed by a Mob. Miss { Special) Tahaterro cul- the lvnching of Betsie Belfield Mf ray ‘5 + wea ay, all cole d of about Carroll in oraer, MN POSE LF 1 Jai he unfortunate the neck and Duke, pr to the where they public TOana with } the ear F. Stephens and Hon stood on the steps of the resisted yest appeals ALS " followed wor with their arms pleading course, but with cYen » jeaders Chinese Making Arms. The governor Kai is rovince for Cable) Yuan Shi that sin (By y O1- 1s and smokeless INR experts who d in the arse; also ammunition arc mani at ¥ urg agea 22 ' % 44 Was Ki ad anda t ut off iRepoOr TITS thio CRs were { wife on Wednesda; had nicely arranged a burial plot formed his for her | that he and their son and daughter, and thought it best to forthwith kill all three of them and bury them all on the same | day, side by sicle | Only the quick wit and bravery of | Mrs. Ryder averted a terrible tragedy, as the madman had a sharp ax and a rifle} i all in readiness to carry out awful purpose The Ryders live on the shore of Sweets Pond, in Orrington, and have al- was been well-to-do and respected. Cap- tain Ryder was a fine, bright man until the Civil War, when he suffered a ter. rible fogging. being tied in the rigging 1s tails to force from him some information concerning the movements of vessels, He came home a wreck, physically and mentally, but seemed to have recovered, when a few years ago he spddenly be- came violently sane and attempted to kill his son. The boy, then about 16 go to live with neighbors, as the very sight of him goaded the father to mad- Two months ago the town authorities took action for the removal of Captain man pleaded so hard to be allowed to stay at home, where he expected soon to die, that it was thought best to give him another chance, He calmed down greatly and asked his son to return home, promising never For a time everything went smoothly in the family, and Captain Ryder seemed to have regained his mental balance, treat- ing his wife and children with marked kindness, but two weeks ago it was ob. cerved that he was y iv Again acting strange- Captain Ryder began to pay frequent visits to the little family bunal plot near going out early in the morn- ing with spade and pick and working diligently all day. He made a plot a foot higher than the rest of the inclos- ure and sodded it neatly. When he had finished on Wednesday he went to his wife and made the start hing announcement: > “Well, Mary, I have got a nice lot all ready for you. 1 have stood it as long I can. Day after to-morrow 1 shall shall kill the girl. Then, after you and I have made them fit for burial, I will kill you, and I'll have three funerals all in one day.” Had Mrs, Ryder made the slightest objection to this calmly laid plan for wholesale murder she would doubtiess have been killed then and there, but she 1s a woman of quick wit and strong nerve, so she immediately agreed with her lunatic husband that his plan was a good one, and promised to help him to carry it out. All that day Ryder raved around the house, sharpened the axe and handled the rifle with which he intended to kill his family. Thursday he repeated his awful announcement oi death, and Mrs. Ryder said: “Very well let us go to Bangor and pick out the coffins. You go and hitch up the horse, and I will go along with you, “That's right,” said the madman, pleased with her ready acquiescence “We ought to do this thing well.” And to Bangor they came. At Bangor Mrs. Ryder managed to get her husband into doctor's office, and there a number of physicians exam. ined him as to his mefal condition, with the resuii that he was quickly laced in a cell at the new Bastern aine Hospital for the Insane, Must Pay Castellane’s Debts. New York (Special). In the United States Circuit Court, Judge Lacombe has handed down an order directing George J. and Helen M. Gould, as re- ceivers of the surplus income of Anna Gould, Countess de Castellane, to pay the instalments of the principal and in. terest past due upon three mortgages on roperty of the Castellanes in France, he property in Question is the resi dence of the Castellanes on the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, in Paris, and their chateau, which was formerly the prop. erty of the Duchess des Noailles, Bloodhounds on {lis Trail Shelby, N. C. (Special). Chief of Po- lice Jones was shot and instantly killed by Jim Lowery, a negro employed at the South Carolina and Georgia Jones, with a warrant charging Lowery with selling whiskey without a license, went to serve it. Low ran, firing at Jones, the bullet taking effect in the lung, Jones followed and caught him as he struck a lamppost. In the scuffle Lo fired again, the bullet goi throosh Jones’ heart. Four bloodhounds and over asthousand are on the negro's trail, ] STEEL, TRUST'S TERMS REJECTED. President Shaffer and His Colleagues Meet Morgan and Schwab, PART WITHOUT MAKING AGREEMENT. (ireat Battle Begins--Amalgamated Associa- tion's Concessions Fail to Alter the Purpose of the Corporation--