GEN. GUERRA REJECTS
OFFER OF ARMISTICE
The Rebels Dynamite English Railroad
Bridges.
CLOSING IN ON PINAR DEL RIO.
San Juan de Martinez in the Hands
of the Insurgents—Liberal Lead-
ers Decline to Consider Further
Negotiations for Peace Crisis
Increasing.
NO PEACE FOR PALMA
The government has declared
for a 16-day armistic, but Phe
Guerra, commander of the rebel
forces, will not accept it.
Phe insurgents have dynamit-
ed twe Western Railway bridges
bétween Pinar del Rio and San
Lae, blocking the advance of
the government troops.
Guerra is also reported to
hate taken San Juan de Mar-
tinez.
Rapid-fire guns and troops
have been hurried forward te
protect workmen sent to réstere
rail communication,
Eiberal leaders decline to con-
sider further negotiations for
PERCE.
Managers of large [foreign
business interests in Havana ex-
press the belief that the Pal-
ma government cannot subdue
thre rebels
Government are desert-
ing to the insurgents at Clenfue-
gos,
Fighting
Clara Province, but
ties not he
Ltroons
continue in Santa
asual
are avy
Havana (Special)
ard l ]
Guery
del
tures
Pino
Pina:
any arrang
Guer:
announcement
grant a 1 i
ing
Railway
munication
City and an
Martinez
It is
de Martinez
insurgents
consisting of
cruits
up of
belie
and
r iral guar
captured
Pinar del }
The fact
insurrection ar
an armistice cai
long as
prosecute
S114
i
)
»
it
Guerr: ined
slight
Guerra
the
doubt in
can control
gion
his re-
Lhose
as
x1}
ail
about 00
by Lie
1)
from
with
ments lef
and San
City, but
utenant
men and
Havana
th
portation
de
of
Juan
400
aid
evidently had not been informed that
the government had actually, al-
though informally, granted an armis
tice, adding that a second committee
had been to | I'he fact is,
however, Guerra refuses point-
blank to an armistice except
on condition that the last presidential
and congressional elections shall be
annulled That h government
should consent to t of the
question, and exery points
to the continuance
General Menocal s
gr
»
sent
that
accept
im
is out
prospect
of the war
Cut Off Their Heads,
Columbus 0.,
Mre. Henry
er living
Grove, ({ Special)
Knippen, wife of
near Cloverdale,
County, decapitated her two
dren—-a boy, aged three, and a
aged one and a half vears old
Knippen then went the home
& neighbor and told what she
done She asked the neighbor
g0 and see the children The
head was completely cut off
girl's head was t
and found nea:
carving knife was used The woman
was discharged from the
Toledo State Hospital for Insane
chil-
Mrs
of
ad
to
boy's
The
comvpletely
Was
recently
Arms For Insurgents,
Havana it is
that a filibustering expedition
New York recently landed
coast of Havana Province
1,200 rifles and 200,000
which were deliverad
gents A secret envoy from the
Province of Santiago came to the
city and reported that the war in the
eastern provinces is increasing. Gen-
eral Menocal is still hopeful.
{ Special) reported
form
on
bringing
cartridges,
to the insur-
Earthquake In The West,
Primceton, Ind., (Special) A dis-
tinct earth shock was felt at 10.33
oclook A. M. Houses rocked and
dishes rattled on shelves. The shock
lasted for two or three seconds, and
was felt in towns and cities within
50 miles of Princeton. The shock
was preceded by a loud rumbling
noise,
Losses Due To Theft.
New York.—Max Jacobs was ar
raigned in Police Court charged with
recefying stolen goods, He was
held In $2,000 bail for further ox-
amination. Detectives who arraign-
ed the man stated In court in con-
pnectiom with the case that the
wharves of the Pennsylvania Rail-
roafl Company at Desbrosses Street,
North River, had been frequently
robbed and that a prominent official
told them the losses in the past few
months regated between $30,000
and $40,000,
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Domestic,
On embezzle
ment
sworn
warrants
and
oul
charging
making i returns
by a deg itor of the
wrecked Real Estate Trust Company,
Adolph Segal, promoter; William F
North, treasurer, and M. 8. Calling
wood, assistant treasurer of the
wrecked Institution, were arrested
and arraigned before Magistrate Koc
harsperger at Central Police
"hey were released on bond
friends of Herman
richs sald after the funeral that
entire estate, amounting to
than $2,600,000, would revert to his
15-year-old son Hermann, who would
come into full possession of the pro
perty upon attaining his majority
(Court
el
his
more
Former
The value of Adolph Segal’s bonds
and stocks was shown in Philadelphia
when “$25,006 worth" Pennsylva-
nia Bugar Refining Company first
mortgage 5 per cent. gold coupons,
due In 1931, brought $2,600 at aue-
tion
of
Mise Anne Morgan, aged 37 vears,
died suddenly of heart trouble, the
attack following a dream that a col
ored man entered her room.
The trial of Harry K. Thaw for
of Stanford White will
New York
the
not
until after
the election.
The striking street car men of San
have agreed to
the condition
arbitrated
A junta is
funds and supplies
return (o
upon that differ-
be
New
Central
sald to
in
in the Amer
In the Ir y Congres
i made
upon t
and solicitor
Company itt
Brook Real Est:
timore, f wl
O01
public print
wrote that
advocated
Board
conts
After
hounds f«
had
Sander
wande
ago
As d+ he Department of
Commerce says { was king,
according f
the past fiscal
in fight
Punxsutawne:
two officers
other
In a
Taylor
other
cotion
export record o
Year
with
Pa.,
fatally
three
Louisville
suffocated
Overcoms
a state police
Italiane kill
wounded
mors
I
i
i
od
an
and shot
fire at
Was
Henrys
three
prog
Ky
and
persons The
loss is 35
Mrs
woman
home, in
polsoning
aon
Austin
heiress.”” is
McKeesport,
the
dying
Pa.,
Jane washer
at he
of blow wl
Foreign.
Paul O. Stengland, president of the
wrecked Chicago bank, who waa ar-
rested in Tangler, will be returned
to the United States without
tion from the Moroccan
King Haakon
tory message
gen, who
Passage
Opposi
anthorities
sent
to Capt
a congratula
Roland Amund
the
discovered
*
An official communication was pab-
in St. Petersburg, which
the whole government
em.
bodies "Ho
gram
Dominican revolutionists are re
ported to have been defeated by gov-
forces near Monte Cristi
Trades Union Congress
adopted a resolution
favor of an eight-hour day.
The trial of 200 Russian mutineers
was begun behind closed doors in
Cronstadt
Two earthquake shocks are report
ed to have occurred at the Island of
Hilo
Albert Tissandier, the famous
French aeronaut, died in Paris
The Dowager Empress Marie of
Russia, accompanied by Grand Duke
Michael, brother of the Czar, sailed
for Denmark. The Czar and the
Czarina accompanied them for some
distance, but returned to Peterhof.
The British battleship Lord Nel-
son, sister ship of the Agamemnon
and second in size and armament to
the Dreadnought, was successfully
launched at Jarrow-on-Tyne.
The in
in
Floods in the basin of the Ganges,
in India, have swept away whole vil
lages and caused enormous destruc
tion.
Efforts to pull the United Statos
transport Sheridan off the coral reef
off Oahu leland, Hawall, have been
abandoned, and the vessel will prob-
ably be a total loss. All the pass
engers have been landed.
The retirement of General Trepoff
from the governorship of the Crar's
palace is believed to be due to the
recent outbreaks of terrorism. He
he terrorists’ marked men.
i
|
i
MA. WCABE OUSTED
BY THE COMMITTEE
The Policy Holders Unanimous In
Retiring the Bishop.
ADDRESS SENT HIM IN TIME
His Protest, the Internationals Declare,
Shows Lack of Sympathy With the
Movement and Amounts te Surren-
der of Membership Policy
Holders.
Warns
New York, (Special) I'he inter
holders’ committee, at
Waldorf-Astoria
McCabe, of
national policy
8 meeting at the
ousted Bishop Charles C
the Methodist Episcopal Church
from membership on the committee
This was the committee's answer
the bishop's letter made public
through the management of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, as
serting that he had
his name in
10
no
use of a committee ad
dress that the interna
indorse the
the two mutual
and urging
organization
ministration ticket of
companies
Eighteen IT
of the committee were present
meeting, and the dispense
with the 1 hot BROTIvViICe unas
imous MeCabe's attituds
the committee held, wa
Is hy with the annound
ramization that
surrender
ad
Of twenty WO mibers
al tng
Vole to
WH
out of sy
ed purposs
amounted
membersi
following
'E { }
names of
$
committee
ticket of
KISSES WERE HIS FE}
Client Was Pretty Woman, And Law.
yer Was Satisfied
wai
AWN =
roung and pre ¥
and unmarried. have
been pronoun i i SU CTORS Win
ning a case f« i pretty Swedish gird
A. T ung
smothered Kisses
¢
Powers, a ¥¢ lawyer
by
ought
was
with
when the jury b
of not guilty
of assaulting her landlady
Mi i interesting
client, had money,
was quite
payment tendered
the Plaintiff said he
wished he had she other side when
he Miss Stockholm imprint
resounding Power’
ciien ii
i
i
char
a
on the
Stockholm
ahe
said he
0 accept the
{
the
said no
1
Counsel 01
saw HOW
macks
on
ps
lowa's Big Cora Crop.
Moine lows
Des { Special)
total
eld of 381.000.0000
the startling
George A. Wells,
lowe Grain Dealers’
his final
crops Wells insists
are conservative and
satisfactory September
chances are good for a vield
406,000,000 bushels His
is an increase of
bushels over last
This will be a yield of
per act
fowa’
+}
ae
corn crop this vear will
gstupenduous
this 3}
by
bushels est-
made
retary 05
Associat
mate
the
ion, in
‘ cason’s
his fig
with =a
that
ures
Over
31
Year's
2% Bh
estimate 3.
bushels ©
Eighteen Injured,
Ind., (Special) A
Wabash Valley traction
Ar ined on a steep hill south of
his city to repair a broken trolley
ind another car, coming down the
trate at a high speed, crashed into
he standing car. Bighteen persons
sore injured, three of them serious
iy
Peru,
Yayne
Fort
and
Nartlett For Seventh Term.
Macon, Ga., (Bpecial). The Demo-
cratic convention of the Sixth Con-
gressional district met in this city
ond re-nominated Charles LL. Bartlett
for Congress, this being hig seventh
term.
Will Remarry First Wife,
Chicago, (Special). The remark-
able case of DBigamist Charles H.
Frye, who disappeared for 31 years
and lived as Charles H. Goddard,
the husband of another woman came
to an end, when Clara Emelia Frye,
his first wife obtained a divores from
the quondam educator and lawyer,
The decree opena the way for Frye
to remarry Mrs, Clara Goddard, the
woman he took as a wife in Hurley,
8. D., over 26 years ago. The mar
riage will take place in a few days,
probably In Bouth Dakota,
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting
Told.
Depa
from Commande;
Boston
ham Harbor
having been injured b
: on Peabody
TN
)
Hock that
hold is unde
Brigadier General W
commanding the sout
ion ay i
in hig annual
long marche fants
hardship: 1d
effect i nis
directo: he
101
‘ a
trou
The
bid
declined
LOO
Limen
all f whi
all of which
on account the
high The
cent pet
Of price De
ing lowest offer n
was 67% fine
A booklet
Printer g
are to be
rule
ounce
wa
iving
pelled according to
issued by the Publie
list words which
the news
a“ Of
Restoration of the canteen
Brigadier
McCask
Southwe 3 iy
recommended by
# commanding
islon oi Lie
Army
Captain !
ballas,
t of
the revenue cu
BIaKs
from 1}
ructed to
ship
The Naw
lis hing
Pacific Coast
Depar
wireles tel
NEW BUILDING COLLAPSES.
Wan
Milled
Removed Too
And
Nupports be EE
several Injured.
Dynamite And Powde
Birmingham,
cases of dynamit
of black powder
of a fire in a mi
public, Ala
a miner; Mrs
Bell
Moses Botpomles
Maud Bell, Lilly Bell
names have
also Injured
Tis rr’ houge
Dead J
Bell Injured
Ss Botpomiee
miner
neigh
a
Several
not
w hose heen
Were
Paralytic
New York
Hart, a paralytic,
was killed by rats in her home
Elizabeth, N. J Mra. Van Hart
Her daughter-in-law call
found her dead
kedd the helpless old
ant in a
severed an artery
that causer
The flesh of
the
Rilled By Rats,
Mrs
60
(Special) Eliza
Years
ed early and Hat
wad atta won
an as she chair, possibly
in
bie
feet
her |
to death
much
her to
both
rodents
eet
was
torn by
Can't Keep President Still.
{ Special) Mr. E
Garet, of this city,
efforts to
President
Washington,
¢
cast of
The sug
obtain a plaster
Roosevelt's face
velt, who asked: "How long would it
take to make the cast?” “About
twenty minutes,” replied the friend
Then that settles it,” returned Mrz
loosevelt; ‘no human power could
induce my husband to remain still
twenty minutes,”
Both Feudists Killed.
Tampa, Fla., (8Special).-—A ven-
detta transported from Italy to Tam-
pa resulted in the Instant death of
Salvatore Cosnola and an unknown
italian recently arrived. The men
met on a prominent corner and im-
mediately began firing. Both fell
dend within five feet of each other
opps AND ENDS.
Canada's bank deposits have more
than doubled in the last seven vears
‘alate, France, spends $6,000,000
of laces to the United States every
year,
The London Express asks the ques.
tion apropos of earthquakes, ete:
“Ia the earth becoming unsafe?’
Aluminum paper, which is prac.
tically a new article of production,
is sald to preserve the sweetness of
butter that is wrapped in it for a
véry long time.
THE BOMBS DO
sian Polic
the Can
Individuals,
Government
but it
Premier Stolypin’s
Cannot
Ideas
5K SULTAN FOR STENSLAND
Authorities Planning To Get the Fugi-
tive To Chicago.
Half-way Measure.
can kill
kill
idea
rmmental
premier
RAIDED SLAVE DEALERS
Whose Rela. |
Kidnapped.
vf
Had
Filipinos
Been
Tevenge
fives
Sixtem
Yak ¥ Pe
DARITIO OF
traffickers
they occupd
Cnte wer
stroyed by
Slave bait
ipinos i
practice
have the
it ig expected that reprisal
described will
Minandao
’ '
hall ben b fn by au-
horities
the
tinue
ctel CE -
Cuban Trade Growing.
Fhe
and Labor
Washington, (Special)
De
rtment of Commeree an-
that the commerce
United States with Cuoa in the
vear just ended was greater than in
any earlier year of the trade rela
tions between the United States and
that Island. This is particularly {rae
of exports The imports from the
island fell slightly below those of
1805, due to the fall in the price of
sugar, but the exports to the islanis
were 256 per cent. greater than in
1906, 76 per cent. greater than in
1904 and about 120 per cent, greater
than in 1903 The exports for the
fiscal year 1906 amounted to $47.
763.688. The imports were $84 6479,
S31.
.t mgd % os
ounces bf
fiscal |
of
Accident In An Auto Race,
8t. Louis, Mo., (Special). Victor
fhomas, one of the competitors in
ie fiveemile automobile race at the
O14 Fair Grounds, was badly hurt
when he lost control of his 40-horse-
power machine in rounding a curve
at 650 miles an hour on a wet track
and plunged through the outer fence
Albert Rynton, the mechanic in the
sar, was also injured, his face being
bruised, his chest torn and his cloth
ing almost completely stripped from
fils body.
eneen
Products
of Reading
Reading
West Jersey
the
per «
A foreign dispatch
man
Bank of
said that Ge
offered to bu
$300,000.00
Missouri Pacific gross earning
the fiscal year 1906 were §
566,000, a gain of $1,401,000, w
profits were $14.2584,000. an
capitalist
Ra
A director of the Republic Iro:
Steel Co. says the net earnings of the
corporation for the current calendar
vear will be between $4,000,000 and
£5.000 000
Atchison directors met, hat
no action on the dividend, but
predicted that the rate will be
creased next month
The illness of PP. A.
caused a good deal of Philadelphia
Rapid Transit selling. Mr. Widener
ig reputed to own more than a third
of all the 600,000 shares of stock.
The market value of 200,000 shares
would be $5,600,000
1O0k
it as
in-
BR Willer
in the year which ended Anril 30
the American Smelting & Refining
Company earned net $10,161,000, aa
increase of $1,262,000. The amount
available for the dividend on the
£50.,000,000 of common stock was
$6,274,000, or a little more ‘han
10 % per cent.