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
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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
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agea 22
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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--<We Will Stick to the
Bitter End,” Says Secretary Williams-- Each
Side Submitied a Proposition.
ort
New York (Spe ial) —~Another ec.
the great army of steel
gant corporation which employs it has
failed, and the conflicting sides are
sharply and widely divided a
The leaders on either side
and after a day of fruitless
and discussion parted in a
shows no tinge of conciliation
side would surrender
ede a point in the
they are involved
’ :
i point to :
as
ever
met here
conference
spirit that
Neithes
101
CON
1ONs
he struggle
i
tne day was
and twelve
: p
ering
ghten the
with referent
between our ;
States Steel
following
American Steel Hoop
Company sho the
the mills own
Hoop Comp
.
last year
the !
signed |
Meadow
The
“We
tron by directin
that it is
was offered «¢
ference at
reer £2 ul
quired the
strike e
desi
the mills
United State
This mod 1H
ause the trust offic
wished to force nto the orga 4
and desire We
scale he signed
tion against their wiil
therefore asked that
for only those men
Now comes the
Amalgamated As
“We, the members of the executive
board of the Amalgamated Association.
hereby present the ioliowing proposi-
tion as a reply to that received from
the United States Steel Corporation:
“Sheet Mills—All signed for
last year, with the exception of Salts-
burg and Scottdale. and with the adds
ton of McKeesport and Wellsville.
“Hoop Mills—All mills now known
be organized, viz: Youngstown,
Girard, Greenville, Pottery Warren
Lindsay, McCutcheon, Clark, Bar Mill,
Monessen, Mingo, 12<inch, o-inch and
hoop mills of the Cleveland Rolling
Mill Company.
“Tin Mills—All
gen.
“Note-—All other matters of detail to
be left for settiement by conference.
“We furthermore wish to state that
our purpose in coming to New York
was not because we doubted our presi.
dent, T. J. Shaffer, and our secretary.
John Williams, who have our confidence
and indorsement, but in the hope of
obtaining a settlement of the strike.”
Boers Attack . Traian -
London (By Cable) —A letter from a
soldier in South Africa, dated Nyl-
stroom, Transvaal Colony, July 6, says
the Boers wrecked a train near Naboom-
spruit, July 4 One hundred and fifty
cers attacked the train guard and 28
Gordon Highlanders were killed, 18
wounded an 10 captured. The conde:
tor, engineer and firemen of the train
were ihe shot.
Kitied Mother and Child.
Sherburne, Minn. ( ial). —~Freder-
ick Yost, a prosperous farmer, shot and
fatally wounded Eliza Kunkle, formerly
his housekeeper. With a second shot he
killed the woman's 10-month-old child.
Stepping into the road, Yost then com-
mitted suicide. Yost recently had been
arrested on charges preferred by the
woman.
desired ir
tot ihe
Dropos
i
¥
Aton
veysil
Hs
to
milis except Mones-
AA AR GAHAN,
Collided in the Night.
Lockport, N. Y. (Special).~A Pan-
American special, heavily loaded, and a
regular train collided a few miles east of
this city on the New York Central
8 Hyland, an engineer, and
George Webb, trainman, were killed, and
a fireman was severely injured.
regular train was late at Medina, and re-
ceived orders to run to Middleport and
await the American special. When
the train reached Middleport they met
the Buffalo theatre train, which they
thought was the ial They were to
s8. The passengers trains were
Shrown into a panic by the shock,
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LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIZS,
New Postal Order W
Reform in the hand!
eoomnd
plated in tne reg
of
master (General
pectation ~~
p {tion :
: :
those who have been
the one a pound rate ar
submit to the
Cent
to new order
fest Reason ne 1
publisher i Of
Ne wi
dit
stich periodic
and books
as Are exclude d i
minder the recent of
to comply
pose being not to
hip by im i
the
There wa
wilh Lhe regulations
second
enter
shows
Top
firs
i
Cotton Goods Sold to Cuba
nparative statement of
Germany's
and in 1900
in 1800 and i in 1000:
$2126712 in 1809 and $1,605.745 in
973
New Ambassador for Italy.
in response to inquiry from the
Italian Government the State Depart-
ment has announced that it will receive
with pleasure as Ambassador from Italy
to the United States E. Mayor Des
Mantes, at present Italian Minister to
Servia and a diplomat of long experi
ence. Senor Malaspimi, the Italian Min-
ister to Buenos Ayres, who was original.
ly selected to succeed Baron Fava at
Washington, will go elsewhere.
Capital News in Geoeral
After a visit to the President Semator
Culiom, of 1llinois, says there will be no
radical tariff legislation by Congress at
its next session.
Major Charles A. Doyen, marine of-
ficer of the North Adantic Squadron.
has been found guilty of a breach of
discipline and sentenced to lose two
numbers,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Hack-
ett replied to Admiral Schiey's lette~.
declining to modify the paragraph in the
precept charging him with disobedience
of orders, but agreeing to submit his
letter on the subject to the court of in
quiry,
= re
“ali
Our New Possessions.
The Manila Civil Commission has
chartered a steamer for a trip among
the northern islands in the interest of
the establishment of civil government.
The journey will begin in about ten
days.
Congressman Shalroth, of Colorado.
who has been Closely investigating the
question of public lands in the Phitip.
pines, urges the commission to take
steps to establish a homestead law ale
lowing any person doing work to the
value of $100 on government land to
‘occupy a certain area of it. He also
urges a similar arrangement with refer-
ence to mining claims,
The civil administration of Manila,
under the new charter, will probably
o into effect this week, when most of
the appointments will be made.
Working on Phillips’ Books.
Chicago (Special). ~~Attorney Good-
win, who is in charge of the H.
Phillips Company, winch siiparasily
suspended business on the Board of
Trade, informed Mr. Phillips that over
night developments, in the of
disentangling the accounts, indicate that
the firm will be in shape to resume busi-
nf AL ey Dod nt loss; ac.
ording to A dwin, wil
Slightly over $5,000.
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