SIXIY THOUSA
OBEY STRIKE URDERS.
First Twe Calls Were Answered by
About 45,000 Mean.
tiom at the Variows Mills.
Pittsburg (Specis
for maswery between manufacturers and
men in the steel industry is now fairl
launched, and on the first show
strength the advantage 1s with the for
mer. The general strike order issued
by President Shaffer, of the m
mated Association, has far
obeyed by only 14.000 men,
to the best figures obtainab!
first two preliminary cal
swered by about 45
the total number now
neighborhood
made gains here over
last night, and thei:
ther at
and Wheeling during the
favorable
The action of
at Chicago, Joli
IR tO come «
any
group throughout
Valley and the
town an “ol
mark
dare
he
in
Of
1
alga
80 i been
"aiis
000 men,
oO
Of
60.000
accessions
WEEK arc
rect
k
a4 Spi
have st
prise t
they
negie mil
desired she
are pressing
Keesport and Wheelis
ganizers are still at
An aj
fe to or
hl
UDuCc,
their
cities
been
gen
he responses will
ALL CROPS GOOD BUT CORN.
eral p
Largest Production of Wheat and Oats for
any Years.
t Kis
Spe
frre
$s
itl
unprecede
Fron: most
ment finds that
I was 40 per «
tricken Thiel.
Sorye
ence-S
urn returned
the stolen
the Chicago priest
while in the confe
of the robbery
stolen property to
mediately notified
Sed
prop riy
a
2
and
the
fs
vi
priest, wl
Washburn
Lightaing's Queer Work.
Jersey Sh a. (Special
ng played t
¢ home of John
bolt struck the
nd, coming down
* 3. 11
rs. »Oonneil 8
v5
OD
i
we,
1
from slight
side a
fvas uninjured.
Railroad and Express Safes Dynamited.
femphis, Tenn. (Spe TT
he lllinois Cent
rican Express Com
t Bolivar, Tenn,
obbed by two
obbers had fo
operator
him
tal). safes
Rails
asked men,
rced the
a
trp se
nign
HILO
if
Murdered
ne, N. Y ial), Whil
suffering from injuries
Bing from a
aged 10 years, of Glenmore
dered’by his mother. wi
fromi ear to enr with a raz
man was temporarily insane
in the house with her son.
by His Mother.
(Spex
hor $e,
3 Cut i
Russ’ans to Mancuver In Finlone,
Copenhagen (By Cable)
jans are about to hold exten
s in Finland. Seven DD
ftarted to transport tre
from Revel, a
on the south side of
aland, 10 the scene of he
operations,
fort
New. Scalp for this Gol.
New Brunswick, N. J
The attempt to furnish a new alp to
Miss Emma Lochs, of Sayreville, near
here, by means of grafting pieces of
skin taken from her thighs, has proved
¢ aly:
EDrCiag
at work in a factory, her hair catching
in some machinery, Te skin which
us already been graited is in a healthy
3 Lae
time to time until the sides
are covered with the new
skin. It Us impossible to graft the skin
upon the grown of the head,
SUMMARY OF
Domestic.
Assistant Postmaster John G. Pole
and his family, while attempting to
Cross a mountain stream Sunday, about
six miles from Lexington, Va, were
{ swept down by the waters of a cloud-
burst, and his wife and three daughters
{aged from one to eight vears, drowned
Mr. Pole and a daughter about three
years old escaped. The bodies were re
coverad.
Policeman
sentenced
THE NEWS,
Wardman DBissert
i house.
R
bro k.
A
Miss,
bert Groin and Frederick West
rivals, had a duel near Jackson,
Westhr wok was killed. Groin
alterwards cot
A man supposed
and
ide
Wilired
Mass
hiaeld
ritted sui
3
ti De
3 1 is .
the elmsiord,
was arrested at Ric
Fereign
ur and
Con
notified the (
States
Ww alderzee was
ti 5 ¢
Hamburg
+ odd
i
t at the
| mges |
affec fist
Several
murdered
off the K¢
governmen
number
UnIvers
ON In
ALC gla nave
been of Quel
rean
has
wish
Gast
decided to limit
students in the
Moscow they
of le
Oceanic, dur.
ank the steam-
st Channel. Sev
d.
I+
i
drown
Flearcal
The Southern Railway C
declared the regular semi-annual
dend of
stock,
The United States Shipbuilding Coins
pany, the new shipbuilding trust, it is
said, is ready to be launched with $45.
00,000 capital, all subscribed.
The Pittsburg Wire & Steel Company,
| recently incorporated with a capital of
| $a.000,000, will establish its plant in
| Louisville for the production of open
i hearth products,
2 per cent. on the preferre
GETTING SERIOUS
AT CARACAS.
The Colombian Minister Leaves the
Venezuelan Capital.
IS DEEMED AN OPEN RUPTURE.
Bewildering--The Official Advices Concern.
| as Sigaificant.
{ Willem:
| The Cold
Monday
Panama,
suggest
the conflict
| bia
Curacao (By Cable)
bian Legation left C
{By
United
Colombia Cable) ~The
the
taki
States
ith «
3
illsed great
LA
the |
n Ww olom
g side
Ke
BUSINESS DONE WITH THE CUBANS
BOERS CAPTURED BLOCKHOUSE.
British Driven OH After a Fight-A Plansed
Attack om Cape Town.
London (By Cable}. — A
from Lord Kitchener, dated from Pre-
tora, says:
“A blockhouse near Brandfort, Or.
ange River Colony, was rushed and
| captured by the Boers after
{ fighting on the night of August 7.
{ “Elliott has captured 70 prisoners and
| large quantities of stock and wagons,
which he is sending in. No details have
been received.”
A spirited narrative of the ejectnient
concludes with the statement that
| raiders
emple supply of food and timely infor
mation,
Lord Kit
formation th
ap}
tack
certain in-
intended to at
» 1
General Botha
hener received
De Wet
Flown while
m as he heard that the
ony
Cape
concentra
flected, was
-
Wa
hers
ked
STEAMER SUNK BY THE OCEANIC.
White Star Liner and an Irish Coasting Vessel
Come Together.
SIGNOR CRISPI DEAD.
Old Mag"
at Naples,
{ 5
“Grand Passes Away
be
£4
Ge
cs in the Island
FATAL EXPLOSION ON YACHT.
ghteen Persons Injured, Two
the Mooongahela.
Fatally,
i NTE
‘
$
or
TEN HURT IN RAILROAD WRECK.
Collision Between Two Sections of Excersion
rain to Atlantic City.
Killed His Wile and Himself,
the water
woment when he
When the neigh
i the
ee bullet holes
ushand was lying
hole in hi
his grasp.
foun wile
% 3 3
er head, wh f
the bed witli a Duilet
torchead and a revolver in
Works has
far $141.000 worth of hollion bh
rd from th
er
been
had
ns
recover where he
sunk it
For three days ti
tried ail sorts
Winters confes
f Finally Winters
Superintendent Rc
Works, who, he
iriend he had
Ropp told Winters that they had a
strong against him, and that he
would be sent to prison for thirty years
He
you get our and it will do you no good
to hide the gold.”
have
make
detectives
of persuasion to
asked
of the
was the
to see
wp. Selby
said,
Case
taken the gold and would take him to
| the spot where it was hidden
EE wo -
United States Consul’s Death.
Berlin (By Cable) Edmund Z. Bro-
dowski, United States consul ai Solin-
gen, died suddenly at the house of a
i friend, a surveyor named Kubicki, in
| Eberswalde, Mr. Brodowski left So-
lingen Friday night and passed through
| Berlin Saturday, in perfect health. His
| wife has arrived at Eberswalde. The
remains will be buried there, Mr. Bro-
dowski was originally appointed consul
| at Breslau, where the foreign office re-
fused to grant him an exequator, where
upon his appointment was changed to
ters
Ri
0 Crockett
in company with Sup rinten
pp and a force of dete tives went
There they waited all night
low Winters pointed out the
place at the end of the railroad wharf,
behind the coal bunicers, at the head of
the Vallejo Ferry slip. At that point
at low tide the mud is about four feet
i deep, covered by a foot of water.
Winters got into the mud and water
| up to his neck and in an hour and a half
| $110,000 worth had been recovered. This |
includes the four bars of fine gold.
Winters had put some of the bars in|
‘bags. He said one of the bags had |
| broken and some small bars had drop- |
| ped out
It is now only a question of careful |
search to find the rest of the $280,000. |
Winters says he did the job alone. He
says he nade fourteen trips from the!
vault to the wharf from which he drop-
ped the gold,
tide.
AA AT A SRA HAA,
Senator THiman Sued for Slander.
Columbia, 8S. C. (Special). A suit
for $10,000 damages for slander has
been begun against Senator Tillman in
Edgefield by J. Young Jones. Tillman
in a speech, it is alleged, said Jones was
a crazy thing, just owt of an asylum.
Jones several years ago was in bad
health,
Killed by Falling From a Trestle.
Clarksburg, W. Va. (Special). Chas.
Newell, of Mannington, fell from a Bal.
timore and Ohio trestle last night and
Solingen.
was found dead this morning. .
TRIED TO BLOW UP
A BRITISH SHIP.
| Attempt Made to Wreck the Mule
Trauspert Mechaniciag,
[NONE OF THE CREW INJURED.
| While the Crew Were Asleep sa Explosion
Occurred, Due to an Agent Operating
From the Outside--Plates Started asd
Water Let late the Ship-Ne Explosives
on Board.
New Orleans, La
15 regarded as an of a Boer
| sympathizer to blow up a British trans
port occurred shortly after midnight,
when there was ¢
| the stock landing
steamer Mechan:
Mechanic t
Af
A f+
(Special).—~What
ate ey ryt
atiempt
a
} C4
ica
EXPRESS IN WRECK.
Observation snd Parlor Car Plasge Down
sn Embankment.
A Postoffice Clerk Pardoned.
O. {(Special).—Pr
stroying a !
restored to citizenshi
have expired in Septem!
Bomb Exploded in a Church
Paris (By A bomb was ex.
ploded near the altar of the Church of
St. Nizier, at Troyes, doing considerable
domage to the thirteenth century win-
dows, but not injuring any of the hun-
dreds of children who, together with a
priest, were in the sacred edifice at the
time. A Spaniard has been arrested on
suspicion of being the anthor of the out
rage.
Cable) ~
Death of Tilly Hay nes.
Boston (Special). Tilly Haines, one
the East, died here, aged 73 years. He
was the propriejor of 1
Poi the Broadway Cen-
tral Hotel, New York cit;. Death was
system from advanced age
Manufacturer Drops De
Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special). Pat.
rick Walsh, a prominent manufacturer in
the South, senior member of the firm of
home here from apoplexy. v
Why Britain Objects
Washington (Special ).—~The State
Department makes public the following:
“A cablegram received from Commis
between the powers and China is dw
to objections raised by Great Britair
against the International Commission for
the revision of the tariff. The nature o)
the British objections is not stated. It
also appears that the British Governmeni
asks reconsideration of sone classes
as to which no agreement had been here.
tofore reached owing
10 the opposition
of several powers.”
a A A A SR
Hawaiians Ask Protection
The Interior Depariment has received
| # resolution passed by the Hawaiian Leg.
slature praying that Congres: a
duty on all coffee imported from other
“and in this way protect that
pdufiry in Hawaii and other parts of
he United States.”
J T he will be to
on at the opening of next session,
121 the coffee Hawaii
and
IMPOSE
y ’
resol fovinedad
i olution orwarded
i Oroue
EB
£ BAYS
industry in
EE Now in a depressed cond 1
ndone a
of
Lreatened to be
of low prices
uty on
aii
ned
Sampson May Be Relieved
Checks Casnot Be Returned
nd other
¢ {
Historians to Meet
Capital News in Goeeral
1
Russell, th
by the Navy
work at Pekin
The August repos
Agricultural Departmen )
lowing: Average dition
80.3; corn, 54.0; oats, 716: 1
Average condition corn deci i 2
The report of the board i survey on
at New
wil not
unt
eq
ned
York, is to the effect that she
in condition to receive mien
cleaned and fumigated
The Navy Department has o-dered
the barntleship Wi.sconsin, row at the
Puget Sound Naval Station. to San
Francisco, to be in readiness there to
sroceed to Panama in case the State
Department aske for a war vessel on
the Pacific side of the isthmus,
Ain ts
Our New Possessions.
Civil Governor Talt in the immediate
future will reduce the police force of
Manila by one-half. At present there
are 1300 policemen for the &ity, whose
population only numbers 250.000 souls.
he Governor considers it unncessary
to have over 600 policemen, as they are
not required for military purposes,
Commissary General Weston asserts
that the original repaste of the frauds
in the commissary department were
much cxaggerated and that the total
money loss to government turns
out to be only $750.