Po
EARTHQUAKES
IN CALIFORNIA
Heavy Seismic Disturbances in the
Lampe Valley.
SHOCKS REPORTED IN NEBRASKA.
Followed by Lighter Ones—A Fissure Re-
ported to Have Opened at the Harris
Station.
& _ .
Lompoc, Cal. (Special). — Lompoc
shock at 10.55 p. m. At that time a vio-
lent felt
Jo and
dishes,
shock was which lasted
seconds, Was $0
clocks, house plants and other
articles were thrown from shelves. The
with terror
some fearing to
contin-
An
n.,
largé water-tank
\ A
arth cracked at
people were stricken and
ran from their houses,
return, as other ligl
ued for
other
ster chael
HEDICT SHOCKS
aiterwara
1 3
several nours
heavy shock was
and one at 11 a. m. A
was knocked over, the
many places
Ynez was
felt at 5 a.
‘
t
lifferent
iver 1 ed
£
aces
Pp. m.,
the Western
mated from $
At Harris
fissure 18
from 1t a
and 18 feet
Omaha,
quake shocl
port ns
and South
after
WEre
the
15
ported th
plainly felt
others whict
In
cernible
a thing until
ported it.
$400,000 A Week for Miners
Mdianapolis (Special
to the mine defense fund for the
1
ne {_€
cite strike in
reached $123.000,
sessment of
assessment of
now due
000 or $20,000 a
into headquarters
cluding the assessment of
first week's contribution
neighborh« of $400.000
brings ir
viduals
with the miners
their names made
and
NOUTiNg
In
1
man
and
Real Name.
*
Minn. (Spe
Severeas His
S Paul,
Tracy, the Oregon
identified. He
ens, of G i
grapdson
respected :
Harry Tracy
reared in
career began
When in
Ore.. he
asking |
don |
cline
St.
British Killed 150
Natives
A a (By Cable .
Aden,
ish expeditiona
against the
scouted for so
mot
they learned the general
Mullah's forces ad |
mounted col 4 1
Colonel Cobbe, an 80
chase across the desert, came In conta
with the tribesmen. The British killed
350 of them and captured 4000 camels
and 12.000 shee The attacking force
had eight men killed and four wounded
Over 8 wWaleriess
ry
m
t
Fight oo a Train
Joplin, Mo., July 28.—Four
two whites {WO nNERroes—are
ported to have been shot and killed on a
Missouri, Kansas and Texas excursion
train at a point in Indian Territory last
night. The negroes are said to have
been shot down by the whites, who
were in turn shot and killed by a deputy
sheriff who was accompanying the ex-
cursion,
No names and no particulars have
been received. The excursion was run
to Joplin from Muskegee, and several
fights occurred in this city among the
passengers before the train departed for
the South.
Was Caused By Naked Lemp.
Johnstown, Pa. { Special ) ~Superin-
tendent Robinson, of the Cambria Mill
Mine, who was on the witness stand be-
fore the coroner's jury inquiring into
the disaster of July 10 positively stated
that the gas was fired b a naked lamp
"gaken in contrary to orders. It is ex-
pected that other witnesses who helped
to take out the bodies will state which
Lone of the victims, in their opinion,
E brofight on the disaster,
re
and
Volcanoes are Active.
San Jose, Costa Rica (Special).—Un-
_ meual activity has lately been shown by
Costa Rican volcanoes, The lands in
| the neighborhood of Terraba, 68 miles
southeatt of San Jose, have been con-
siderably disturbed, and the government
| has sent a commission to that locality
to study the conditions,
Six Hanged In Arkansas
Little Rock, Ark. (Special). — Six
sen were hanged here for murder, Two
the number, who paid the death pen-
y were white men.
Domestic.
Disturbances at the primary election
for congressional delegates in Came
resulted in a number of co
flicts. One man was killed and J
Goddard, the former prize-fighter, seri
ously wounded
In Seattle, Wash,
William Nixon
outlaw, and threatened her if she
formed on him. He was attacked
the police and badly beaten
The Rev. Dr. Stephen 1. Baldwin, re
cording secretary of the Missionary So-
in
by
N. Y., aged 67 years
of Lower Loudoun,
Sterling and Dranesville,
died in Brooklyn
William Wilson
between
Herndon
extradited from Mex
slphia, where he is accused
nmitted to
station at
H R Nyce,
d
railroad
+ deeds, was cot
prison for
A gambling syndicate
blish a Monte Carlo at
: the ba &
, as star attraction
Clara M. B
nitted suicide |
county
10 es
:
with
stem
Aratoga,
sivn
Andrews
an electri
cceeded in tel
yw his wireless sy
land war is bece
he discovery of
land trust organized
s for resisting the threat
bination tenants. John
and other Irish leaders say
they will not be surprised if they
rested
of
arc ar
King £dward held a meeting of the
Privy Council on board the royal yacht,
the meeting of the kind ever held
in a similar place or under such circum
stances. The King signed proclama
tions fixing the coronation for August
o
first
The closing of the unauthorized re.
ligious schools in Paris is not causing
as much trouble as in other parts of the
country. At Manvaux the expulsion of
the sisters led to a riot. A police com
missary and 10 rioters were injured
The Canadiant Pacific's tender to sup-
ply a fast transatlantic line, to be subs
dized by the British and Canadian Gov
ernments, made a favorable impression
in London.
Gen. Lucas Meyer, former comman
der of the Orange Free State, arrived
in England. and will go to Dresden,
where his wife and daughter are,
Paderewski, the pianist, is a large
subscriber to the Bank of Ziemski, or-
ganized at Posen to counteract the Ger.
Financial
When prices of all securities move up-
ward steadily it proves that the coun-
try still has confidence in itself and its
immediate business future.
Gould is said to be the purchaser of
the Old Dominion Railway system of
Susquehanna Steel & Iron is $5 a
share par and cells for around $2.75. It
pays 6 per cent. dividend and the fac-
that is opposing President Por-
ter's policy declares it might earn 12 per
PRESIDENT CASTRO
BACKS OUT OF FIGHT
Qetreats From Barcelona Without
Firing a Shot.
Would Fight One Agalust Ten, but Quickly
Changed His Mind Whea He Found the
Revolutionists Intreached and waiting for
Him Retreat Disastrous to Governmeal
Willemstad (By Cable), — President
Venezuela has
Barcelona,
for him
men to
returned to
Owing
his
Castro, of
4
to the
of
from
Hility
impossibility
Caracas
1.000
Foreign W
TRAIN ROBBERS GET $50,000.
Daring Hold-Up of 8 Mexican Central Trale
By Americans.
a
% 3 & ¢
eXa ~ pe
Homeopathic |}
it wounds self infls
utopsy of the bewdy
remarkable fact that
«d about eighteen
scious, with
the heart and
back between the
in the muscles of the
A Hermit for Thirty Years.
Port Jervis, N. Y
John F. Lord died suddenly at the age
f 8s years at Rio, N. Y
west of this place
t}
f
©
{ Special) .~
, about 10 miles
For 30 years he lived
life of a hermit, until one
years ago his cabin was burned
when he sought shelter in the cottage
of John Dougherty, the Rio postmaster
Years ago Lord was a power in the poli-
tics of Pennsylvania. He was an uncle
oi President Harrison's second wile
About the close of the Civil War he be-
gan to lose influence and prestige and
became a wanderer. Alter years of liv-
ing by odd jobs in Sullivan county lum
ber mills and tanneries he became a re-
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Saved Man; But Lost Voice.
Pittsburg (Special). —A singular acc
deit occurred to E. W. Boots, as-
eistant engineer of maintenance
way on the McKeesport and Belle Ver.
non Railroad. He lost his voice in sav-
ing a man irom sudden death,
caw a man standing on the track with
and cried a warning at the top of his
voice. The man jumped from the track
at the warning, but Boots lost his voice.
Experts say an operation will be neces.
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Cotton Forges Ahead.
A bulletin just issued by the Depart
“The Future Demand for
of clothing worn by the world.
The consumption of cotton,
ing to this bulletin, bas increased
greatly within the last quarter of a cen-
accord
£0
is estimated that of the world's popu
regularly wear clothes
000 are partly clad and 250,000,000 hal
tually go naked !
to clothe the
world it would require th
42,000,000 bales of
It therefore
the
cotton
1 all the i
or almost so,
entire popuiatic
of £00
seems more
department
r will continue t«
habitants of the eart}
products of
regarded as
the
An UNTECASOT
when 1t is considered
st material for cl
an
Printing Done by Outsiders.
De tf
toffice
'
artment
fer Bsrinitsr the
Wr printing n
the Lon
They Surpass Americans
{ the (
¢
Rr1.67%
the last
$41
aring
ffecting the
y have
been
as a factor in
it is restricted no
ly to domestic consumpti
as a domestic fuel it has not
t pace with the increased use of bitu
ninous coal
manua-
Spanish War Historian.
John B. M. Taylor, the
in
f
Capt J
h Infantry, now on duty in the
Division of Insular Affairs of the War
Department, has been designated for
i of writing a history of the
American War. His work will
litary history of the United
ring the last six years, includ.
Cuban msurrection of 1806. Al
has begun to collect data jor
will occupy many
Fourteen
which
Germans, Too, Will Hurrah.
The United States Consul at Aix-la
Chapelle, Germany, informs the State
Department that American Indepen-
placed on the official list of days which
are to be celebrated in that city. The
celebration consists in hoisting the
Capital News in Geseral
Hannis Taylor, former United States
ed gpecial counsel of the Department of
The report of the board of visitors
Naval Academy. at Annapolis,
some recommendations looking
improvement of that institution,
fife of Dr. Russell Wilson, of
makes
The
Department.
ENGINEER CAMP
ATTACKED BY MOROS
Thought Americans Had Neglected to
Post Their Sentries.
| THEY WERE LED BY THE SULTAN.
| One of the Army Transports will be Sent fo
Mapila by Way of Guam, and all the
Prisoners who Take the Oath of Allegiance
fo the United States will be Returned to
the Philippine Islands
Manila (By (
neers, come
Brown, enca:
day
logs
wer
that ;
attacl
ithou
the
5 5
Wd Ww
villages were
£ v
ol were kille
Captain Wild's Reprimand
24031 ty,
EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED
Four Killed and Many lnigred in a Collision
on the Pennsylvanian
Spe
Death
Nellie
her 3
Chidr:n Burned to
piphia (Special Me
Tague, aged § years, and year
of Martin Mc
ther
fied In
Giea ou
the
The mu
brother William, children
burned at
they
badly
city that
hospital a few hours
heard cries coming the childre
room and going thither, found the t
little ones writhing in agony on a bla
ing bed. They were taken from the
room and the flames extinguished but
not before the boy and girl were fatally
injured. It is supposed they were play-
ing with matches while in bed
Tague, were 80
home in this
later
from
:
v
wo
Strikers Burn Exteasive Stores.
London (By Cable). A special dis:
patch from Vienna asserts that over
ton,000 agricultural laborers in East Gal
10a, most of them Russians, arc now on
strike, and a full-fledged rising against
the landed proprietors is progressing
Near Lemberg extensive stores were
burned down, while excesses are report
ed to have been committed in other lp:
calities. The landlords appealed to the
government for troops to maintain or-
der. but the authorities recommended
‘that an attempt at conciliation be made
by increasing the wages of the laborers
AAA ASSIS
Killed by Lightning.
Canandaigua, N. Y. (Special) —An-
other terrific storm visited this section,
doing great damage to crops and prop-
erty that had not already suffered. Ed-
| ward Chamberlain was struck by light.
ning and instantly killed. Canandaigua
Lake has risen still higher. The
damage on hundreds of farms ie simply
irreparable, From every part of the
tountry come reports that wheat is
sprouting in the shock and that a seri.
ous blight has befallen th2 apple trees
MAY TRY T0 IMPEACH JUDGE
Miners Talk of Appeslin; to President
Rooseveit.
Ind
Mineworkers
The
c 5
{ SPECIAL ) ~
n
ov 4
may try to obla
i Judge Jackson,
Ti x
West ned them
YY Virginia, who stra
BLOODHOUNDS IN PURSUIT.
Fugitive Supposed to be the Real Assnssio of
Chie! of Police WilmoiL
pedestrian pa
Go :
i he West
Abbey were also dismantied
cles stands
veh
sleet
Conditions Same as Martinique.
San Jose, Costa Rica {By Cable) —
The official report of the commission ap
pointed to inquire into the recent erup
of the Costa Rican volcano and
Miravallis and Rincind de la Vieja. So
and 60 miles southeast Lake Nica
ragua, is alarm Professor Pittier
save: "We are in same conditions
tand of Martinique.” No alarm,
tion
of
the
as the 1s]
however, is yet felt
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS
One man was killed and three wound.
ed in a shooting affray at Greenville,
Miss
Six men were hanged in Arkansas for
murder Two the number were
white,
Judge Jackson, at Parkersburg, W
Va. in a decision on the “Mother
Jones contempt cases, declared that ail
of the defendants had violated the in-
junction. President Mitchell, of the
United Mineworkers, says a protest
against the Judge's decision will be laid
before President Roosevelt,
It is reported in a London review that
the Marquis Luigi Solari, of Italy, and
not Marconi, was the real inventor of
the wircless telegraph system.
An announcement {rom Montreal that
the Canadian Pacific Railroad had of
fered to establish a weekly steamshie
gertice between Uhnada and Liverpool
has caueed a stir in England, the action
being regarded as an offset to Morgan's
combine.
In the British House of Commons a
motion offered by John Clancy that the
overtaxation of Ireland constitutes a
pressing Jiticvanee was defeated by »
vote of 108 to 1%
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