NEWS IN SHORT ORDER, The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid BLOODY FIGHT IN THEORY| UV WASWNGTON FeAl. [RELIEF COLUMN ROUTED Wireless Telegraphy for Weather Bureau, | The Secreta { Agriculto has | TERRIBLE FATE OF EXCURSION PARTY Bodies found. .... Unidentified dead List of Missing New York, (Special) aver Flames that excursion the East river, near its junction with Long Is- A. M the pa suddenly swept the steamer General Slocum in land Sound, at 10 drove hundreds of sSengers leap overboard, while hundreds more who remained aboard were to It that at persons, mostly women and children, met death. The of likely to reach many Four hundred and 1 had and divers were at the 1 of death. seems certain least number Boo is as as at a late work been recovered 1 taking more hold of the steamer from officers and mer remained at ther less to avert ing them, the doomed boat but they were catastrophe, Shere Reached At Last. £0 Pe IWCT Slocum got within feet there It stopped mn the wus just before point of North Bre the hurricane de which had burne.l load of ihe the parts northwest that supports of fell witl dren, adding to of beached its women « panic those on afterward third | decks also cs before this happened the t 1 ' ug va into the river have not vet been found alf-mile Van which Ca k, of the boat beach her on Ni He the fire rapidly that had coll flames had des them tc th Boat’'s Officers tain ain 1 succeeded 3 meanwn i asped, vater Arrested. been death in the The criticised Caf for ore when With five asl covered arrested Sor the hf proved sCngers I About an excursion Evangel Sixth hattan, street were The sel grease it What lowed A cl into the air Death In Frightful Panic. Inctantlv the women became t strc pow erless ker rushed t the fla raile wae way. F most 3: the ies blazing hold Few Could Be Saved. The steamer’s whistle was for i nearby craf fore any burning ste women and jump overb strong and th in the channel abo } pereon were struggling 1 As the fire gain poi became frightf dren crowded unt! it pushed there who water By the Slocum of ris fig ists assisia 3 # & § agamst gave w i ff of tention siderable and other small the assistance of the burning steamer Rows Of Heads In Water. These small boats rescued all in the water whom but n any is sank before anv | them In the wake she hurried little black and bodies to escape ship by board. they ¢ pers upstream w Spots mark of those the roaring furn: throwing themselves boats had on life-preservers, At ne time during the progress of the fire was there any good opportunity either to lower the lifeboats or get the life. preservers out from underneath the seats. This gives an ides of the rapidity with which the flames swept the decks, It was an experience harrowing and terrible, and that any escaped alive seems wonderful, Through all the panic during that FINANCIAL, In New York this week $1,1338000 of dry goods was marketed and in the same week last year $1,777,000, For five months of 1904 bank elear- ings in Pitisburg have decreased $259, 000,000 compared with the same time mn 1003. J. 8. McCord & Co. had a private despatch saying; "W. K. Vanderbilt yt expected home on July 10. The Fennsylvania Railroad will then offer 0 buy half the Ontario & Western Railroad Company's stock if the New York Central wiil take the other half” * steamer and been lashed to ber 1 Many of the passengers were taken off 3 ho maimed alongside the steamer until the tu The took hre the K's pilot house place whe re was just off the = ward on North Brother 1s] ad porches and lawns ach f burning i 1 8) ardered indoor Phiveic who | been watct pre 161; 3 :. Arrieta away HN after she was beached 1 wed Pastor's Tale Of Horror. One of y § ‘ dro the b Quickest Fire He Ever Saw. van > » NOt her 1 i started frech blowing. back and of the Whe the the as all ablaze It was quickest fire | ever saw The fire mn the woodwork under the forward boilers on the port side, as 1 made it ont in the excitement “Wind Was Too Strong.” : “I held for North Brothers’ Island. expecting to beach the Slocum side ways. | had sent zome of the crew below to fight the fire, and thought they could hold it, but the wind Was | too strong. Then they began to jump | overboard The rail of one of the | decks gave way and a lot of people | fell into the water, ot iooked saw that port side at Ww was To Avenge Finland. Petersburg, (By Cable) --Gen- Jobrikoff, Governor-General of Finland, shot and mortally wounded at 11 o'clock A. M., at the entrance to the Finnish Senate at Helsingfors. The assassin, a lawyer named Schaumann, a con of Senator Schaumann, immediately committed suicide. Bobrikoff was shot in the stomach and neck. The attack is ase eribed to Finnish patriotism St eral was Reading, Domestic, Two robbers entered Barba } demned to from (sovernor before the tn Mise Mary At ¢ the Wor Bryn Te defended that ai sMrengin 2 ¥ the Tam en irom 3 won taxes ther y ders them unfit for natrimo off, governor general was shot by a Finn General Bobrik of Finland, whe at Helsingfors, of and the Governor General of saw was stricken with paralysis when informed of Bobrikoff's death Philip James Stanhope (liberal), the youngest son of Earl Stanhope, was elected to the House of mons from the Harborough of Leicestershire, defeating C on, the Conservative candidate died his of 12,500,000 to Morocco, secured by Moroceo's customs receipts, The Sultan of Morocco has sent word to Raisuli, the bandit chief, that all the latter's demands for the release of the captives have been come plied with. Four hundred Moorish troops of the worst type were landed at Tan- gier, sent by the Sultan for the pro- tection of Europeans, These troops will endanger the chances for the re. lease of Perdicaris and Varley, wha are held by the bandit Rajsuli, Seid, who murdered Rev. Ben jamin Labaree, of the American mis. sion, in North Persia, was brought to Tabriz for trial, out Ballets, Never Before in the Pesce History of the Held as Those Now Being Planed fare Fightin Perfect Harmony, ¢ art § . ry Grant To Be There 1 A A Lee And Pw at } f Cnt as « £3 Work At Manassas. {% 4 eet re rey ; . STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING. Boys Stood Under 8 Tree to Avoid Shower and Were Killed. 15 years, colored, of Chester About a dozen bove went from Fel About a dozen boy it from Fe ton to pick cherriex on the Smith who was about to go to school, to order away the boys that he might sce at the cherry trees Sunday Davis and Clark. As they approached Felton ran away A storm was coming up, and the four other boys went under one of the trees. They had heen there only a Smith, Fullerton and Davis were killed instantly. The colored boy was s0 badly injured that he died on the way to a hospital Pacific Liner Wrecked, Melbourne, (Special).