ECLIPSE WAS SUPERB. id I Weather In Many Place Tor Sac Inn Kun liarkened. -Aatrnnn- '' liter Made Happy. Seldom has a total eclipse of the Klin oc curred under belter conditions for observa tloD than the one which was visible Monday In parta of North America, Europe ami Africa. Clear and beautiful weather prevailed "throughout almoKt the entire belt of totali ty. Thla not only afforded the astronomer Ideal conditions for making a'lnutlflo ob servations, but heightened the effoot of the .wonderful spectacle on the millions of per son who gazed at It merely as a sublime phenomena of nature. Astronomical pcrtleswera scattered thick ly throughout the totality belt, which began In the raolllo Ocean just weat of Mexico and extended through Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Caro lina, North Carolina and Virginia, thence crossing the ocean to Portugal, Spain, Al giers and traversing Northern Africa to the Jted Hea, where it ended. The belt was 05 miles wide. The United States Government had three rtatlons for observing the eclipse in this country. These were at Tlnehurst. N. C, where the station was In charge of Trof. Aaron N. Skinner: at Ilnrnesville, (ia In charge of Prof. Milton Vpdegraff, and at Griffin, "., In charge of 1'rof. Htlmson J. ilrown. Captain C. H. Davis, superlntond. ent of the Navnl Observatory at Washing ton, was in communication with those offi cials l.y telegraph. Itemarknbly successful results were achieved. The conditions at Plnehurst were particularly favorable, though hoped-for ob servations of the periodicity ofsbndow bauds could not be taken, At Itarne8vllle the corona flashed out In double tan-like form of great beauty. Sev eral solar prominences were distinctly ob served. The United Stales Government also had station In Tripoli, Northern Africa, wbero excellent results were obtained. At Algiers a weird effect was produced. The color of the sea was changed from doep blue to gray and the trees became purple. The corona and shadow bonds were observed under rarely favorable conditions. Crowds of sightseers went to Norfolk, Ya., for the great spectacle. Among them was President McKlnley, who made the trip from Washington on the dispatch boat Dolphin. The temperature fell, and at the period of totality there was a drop of 1 degrees. The corona, with the planets Mercury and Yenun shining near, was seen to great advantage. As the sun was dnrkened a weird effect waa produoed at many places. This led to some scenes of excitement, colored people In the South being especially affected. A IKSTKl CTIVE I IKK. Wiped Out Valuable liuslness Properly In Apalaclilcola. Apnlaobloola, Flo., (Special.) A disas trous Are broke out in the residence of Mrs. Broughton. It spread to the Methodist Church and from there to the business por tion of the town. In IeB than three hours three blocks were entirely consumed. The following Is a partial report of the lossos: The Methodist church, the residences of Mrs. Broughton and Dr. Willis Hicks', offices of J. H. Lovett t Co., the store of I'utton and Hall and all intervening shops to I!. Collins' store, on the corner of Centre and Market streets. The fire crossed Market street to the build ings ocoupied by Drs. Alexander Hoffman, Moore and Willis Hicks, Massrs. Murat Hendry and Rice, Warren, A. 11. Hopp, . A. Flateur & Co., Dr. Bush Llchenfelt, A II. Gendberg, the residence of J. S. Hatch cock, the Times office, John Cook's bar and adjacent buildings. From here the fire leaped across Centre street and consumed everything from the Central Hotel to the Icehouse cn the wharf. Everything on the water front from the telegraph office to Rugge A Hons, on Water street, was con sumed. The customhouse wag consumed and a very few of the records were saved. The splendid armory, recently built at a cost of tlH.OOQ, also was destroyed. A COMMISSION CKNSLREl). It Acquitted a . Filipino Who Was Accused of Murdering a Soldier Washington, (Special.) The Beoretary of War has received the official record of the ease of Rosario F.splrltu, a Filipino who was tried by a military commission at Manila In June last on the charge of having murdered Private George A. Wagner, Company I', Fourteenth Infantry, by shooting him with a revolver and by stabbing him with a bolo. The commission, after belug In session two months, found the Filipino not guilty of the charge. The commanding general of the Depart inent of the l'uclllc disapproved the findings of the acquittal, but ordered the release of the prisoner. In bis review of the case be ays: "In this case tbo evidence was abundantly sufficient to sustain a conviction, and the failure of the commission to so find is at trlbuted to complications arising during tbo trlul, resulting from wholly Immaterial and Irrevelant objections by counsel. llllnded by the Eclipse. Lancaster, Pa., (Special.) Mrs. H. C McAllister, of Conestogo, Center, near here, baa became blind In one eye as a result of gazing too long at the oclipso of the sun. She watched It closely for a long time, 'both through smoked glass and with the naked eye. Her sight becauio dim the next duv, and grow steadily worse until she Is unable to see with that eye. OUR NEW POSSESSIONS. Collector of Customs lilies, of Havana Cuba, states that since he took charge of the department mora tbuu two hundred Cuban employes bave been discharged for fraud. The second Instalment of General Young's report of his operations In Northern Luzon waa made public. The wife of Col, C. it, flroenleaf has opened a library lu .Manila for Amurlcuu nuldlors and sat. or. The Filipinos Kent out a story to the effect that five hundred Americans bad been slain by them at Catublg. The natives of Mludoro Island, one of the Philippines, beheaded the boatswain and bis accomplices of tbe brlgantine Navarro, who bad mutinied and killed tbe cuptaln, bis wife ana the mate. General Wood has warned tbe Cuban civil governor of Santa Clara province, Cuba, that It be attempts to corrupt the elections be will be dismissed and punished. A government teamster lu Manila died from tbe bubonlo plugue. General Wood bns ordered that every de partment In the government service in Cuba be overhauled. The soil. .tor's bureau at Havana bos been abolished. FROM WASHINGTON. After a conference with tbe Boer peace envoys. Secretary Hay gave out sUtument declaring be bad told them tbat the Presl dent had gone aa far as he could, under tbe Hague convention, to bring about peace, and ould not Interfere. Tba gift of the Daughters of the American .Revolution of a wreath of immortelles for tbe tomb of General Miranda was gratefully acknowledged by the; Venezuelan, foreign milliliter. i The Postmaster Oeneral baa acoeptej the supervising architect's design for the pub- WAR MAY BE OVER. IOHT AHOI M THK THANMAAt. . AI IT.ll. AIIAMKINK1). PRETORIA IS EVACUATED. Klillf.li Near-lug Transvaal Capital-'-peeled to .Mur.li Into Town Without Poalt!nn--t'rfslilent Kruerl Knld to Have i,,l rroiu Transvaal Territory ti ylenhur. London, Eng., (By Cable).- Pretoria Is to fall into British hands without the firing of a shot. It Is belleTed in London that Johannesburg will also yield. A dispatch from Lorenzo Mnrqucz says that Johannesburg has already surrendered, but this Is not fully credited in London. The news from tbe Transvaal capital comes In a dispatch from that place. It says that "all the forces have been dismissed from the forts around Pretoria. President Kruger Is now at Watervalbovun." British officers, according to the same dispatch, "are now at Johannesburg dictating terms of sur render." Further light on the situation is shed by the London Dally Mall, which publishes n dispatch from tbe Earl of Rosslyn, one of Its correspondents who was a prisoner at Pretorln, but who, as a civilian, appears to bave been released. The dispatch was dated at Pretoria, and said: "Pretoria will be oc cupied In about two hours, without resist ance. Everything Is quiet, but crowds are waiting expectantly In Church Square for the arrival of the British." Burgomaster de Souza, the Earl states, was authorized to receive tbe Rrltlr-h. The London War Office has made pnbllo no dispatch from Lord Roberts as to the present situation at Johannesburg or Pre toria. It Is believed in the British capital, however, tbat there will be no further oppo sition to the occupation of either city, and tbat, In the language of one dispatch, "tbe war Is over." It is rumored in Berlin tbnt Johannesburg has been blown np, but there Is no conllr mation of this. Watervalboven. to which place President Kruger has retired, Is 140 miles northeast of Pretorln on the Delagoa Bay railroad. It is near the junction or tbe Delagoa line with the road to Lydenburg, from which it Is 40 miles distant. The latest move of President Kruger therefore seems to indicato a decis ion to trnnsfer his capital to Lydenburg, as It bus been reported be would do. Lyden burg is described as In an almost inaccessi bly mountainous region and wonderfully well adapted to defense. For some time It has been rumored that tbe cannon and pro visions at Pretoria bave been In process of transfer there. Hl.iriNOS IUSH TOWN. Five Americans Killed, OIHcer and Two Men Missing. Manila, (By Cable.) On Tuesday night the Filipinos rushed San Miguel, Province of Bulacan, Luzon, garrisoned by threo com panies of tbo Tbirty-flfth Volunteer Infan try. They swept through the surprised town, shooting right and left, killing five Ameri cans and wounding seven. Capt. Charles D. Roberta and two privates are missing. No Filipino dead were discovered. San Miguel Is a few miles from Manila. While a band under the escort of troops of the Forty-sixth Infantry was moving from Hang to Sllang, within 25 miles of Manila, It was attnoked by Ladrones, three of the party being killed. Lieut. Jens E. Stedje, of Company L, Forty-seventh Volunteers, commanding a scouting party in the southern part of Albay Province, had several engagements with the natives, In which 17 Filipinos were killed and 23, Including a captain, were captured. Six explosive bombs and a number of val uable Filipino duouments also fell Into tbe bands of the Americans, The scouts burned the town of Vubl, tbe headquarters of the natives. Sergeant Brickley was killed dur ing a slight engagement near Higao, Province of Albay. Scouts of tbe Tblrty-sixth and Thirty fourth Regiments captured 32 rifles and 600 rounds of ammunition In the Pangaslnan Province. Mujor March's van of the Thirty-third Regiment has arrived at Aparri from Ben guet, after the hardest of mountain travel ing. The men were exhausted and rngged, having followed persistently on the supposed Agulnaldo trail. They had several encounters with tbe Filipinos, but found no signs of Agulnaldo. To 1'rlion for l ife. Wellund, Ont., (Special.) Tbo three con victed dynamiters Dullman, Nolln nnd Walsh were taken to Kingston, there to serve their sentence of life imprisonment. Tbe prisoners were handcuffed together and securely guarded. A grout crowd saw their departure. Dullman and Walsh were surly, the latter complaining that the handcuffs hurt him, Nolln was particularly chatty, remarking to tho sheriff that "It was a beau ful morning,'' He also told tbe ladles near bim that be wus sorry to leave them. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. lillfs Carman, the poet. Is making a study of old Fronch Ciinuillan folk songs and stories for translation Into English verse. Professor Bninder Matthews has been asked to deliver a series of lectures on tbo modern novel before au association of Lou don clubs. "Davy" Stephen. f Kingston, Ireland, bus sold nejvspupers for 54 consecutive years, uud more famous meu and women huve been among his patrons than any of bis rivals cau boast. Alfred Vanderbl It Is more of an athlete tbuu most of his family. He is a splendid horseman, a good polo pluyer, is as skillful at golf aa ho used to le ut tenuis, and is a llrst-rate band at hockey. Republicans of the First Maryland district at their convention bud n large banner In scribed with the names of tho President and their Congressional Representative. Tbe I auuer rend: "For Mchihl'-y Bud Muild." William Deuu Howiills. tlio uovo'lst, is at work upon another book of poems. Great Britain's new Minister to Denmark, Wlillam Edward Goschen, Is a brother of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and was for merly attached to the British legation ut Washington, . J. M. Barrle, as the author of "My Lady Nicotine," has appropriately purchased and sent at his own expense a large quantity ol tobacco to tbe lllghluud Brlgude, now light ing lu South Africa. There are only three members of tbe or iginal McKlnley Cabinet of three years ago still In office Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury; John D. Long, Seoretary of the Navy, and James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Lord Roberta Is tbe only man living en titled to wear two Victoria crosses. M. Edouard Bocher, who died at tbe age of DO, la Paris, the other day, was for many years the confidential adviser of the Orleans family and tbe centra of most the Orleanlst ploU during tbe pait 40 years. Archduke Otto, who It next In line tor tbe imperial and royal crowns of Austria-Hungary after Frana Ferdinand, la the latter't younger brother. This yount; man Is true Hapsburg. His reputation In auythlng but enviable, but be la fortunately married to a daughter ol Prlnoe George, of Saxony, and bat one son. The best lawyers In Europe say tbat Otto's alalia to tbs throne Is luvul- TRAINS COLLIDE. lll.t.TKl KLIGHT WIUXK AT OOVKK, 1JKU Dover. Del., (Special.) -At S.30 P. M. at Dover, Del., on tbe Philadelphia, Wilming ton and Baltimore Itnllroad, a division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, occurred the most disastrous railroad wreck that has ever happened at this place. The north-bound local freight waa slowly pulling In at Dover, preparing to take water, when the heavy north-bound Norfolk strawberry freight train came thundering at a high rate of speed In the rear, telescoping eight heavily loaded refrigerator cars. Two cars were converted Into splinters. Steel rails were broken like plpastems. Elgbt cars were piled upon one another, taking fire from tbe burled locomotive, flames leaping high in the air. The fireman was saved, but the engineer was fatally Injured. Five tramps were burled beneath the wreck, three of whom were saved after prodigious efforts of townsmen and the local fire company, though one of them afterwards died. An other had both legs and ribs broken; an other was hurt in the shoulders, while the bodies of the other two havo not yet been found. The local fire company fought the flames for three hours with only one line of hose, and the nearest fireplug half a mile away. The wrocklng train arrived from Clayton about five o'clock and proceeded to clear the tracks. Superintendent Holllday came upon tbe scene and gave It bis personal supervi sion. Tbe two trains were composed of more than one hundred heavily loaded refrigera tor cars, and the collision was terrific. The heavy cars were thrown about like rubber balls. Thousands of people visited the scene. ROrillKltg COT DROP UN sut.Dilits. Itobberjr of Mages by Tiro Masked Men In the Yonenilto Region. Raymond, Cat,, (Special). One of the boldest robberies ever committed In Cali fornia occurred when throe of the Yosemlte Stage and Turnpike Company' stages a private conveyance and two soldiers were bold up by two highwaymen. Tbo holdup occurred at a point two miles this side of Grub Gulch. Sergeant Buchanan and an other trooper of Troop F, Sixth Cavalry, en route from San Francisco to tbe Yosemlte National Park, bud gone ahead of the cavalry to make arrangements tor selecting a camp ing place. The highwaymen suddenly ap peared, masked, and getting tbe drop on the soldiers, took away their guns and held the troopers until the stages arrived. Tha rob bers banded the drivers of the stage a card, reading: "Black Kid They fooled me on the Big Oak Flat road, but you can't this time." The robber then took a hat belonging to T. H. Griffiths, of the Southern Pacific Com pany, a passenger on thestnge, and collected ISO from the passengers, after which he or dered the driver to go on. Each stage was successively held up, the robbers getting about .110. Tbe mail and express matter were not molested. "fcXHIHIT A" IN It I 1111111. Paper that Means Thousands to South Carolina Comes to Light. Washington, (Special), Senntor Tillman received from the Governor of South Caro lina an Important paper recently discovered In an old rubbish pile at the State Capitol at Columbia,. which may cost the United States Government something like (500,000. Tbe long-lost document, which mysteriously dis appeared from the files over thirty year ago, la pronounced genuine by Mr. Tillman, and it is bis Intention to proceed at once to secure an adjustment of war claims pending on the Federal Government and his State. The Important discovery is the long-lost paper known as the Black Voucher, exhibit "A," setting forth la detail the claims ol South Carolina for supplies and money ex pended In the Revolutionary War, tbe wars of 1812 and lN.ltt and the Mexican War. ' The claims mentioned will be used to off set the claim on the State of South Carolina by the United States Government for the payment of i24N,17 for bonds and (340.00C for ordnance stores seized in the arsenal at Charleston at the outbreak of tbe Civil War. CLOl Dill ItST IN THK SOI.'TU. Nearly Three Inches of Water Fell in Three Ouartc-rs of an Hour. Merldon, Mips., (Special). A cloudbursl over this oily resulted In much damage tc municipal and private property. Tbe down pour lasted forty-eight minutes and regis tered 2.78 Inches at the signal station. Thle Is believed to be the greatest precipitation for tbe length of time on record. Ten min utes after tbe rain begun the streets were flooded, and twenty-minutes after hundredi of stores were a foot deep in water. A large portion of the store of Three Fool Brothers gave wny beneath the weight ol water and flooded the Moors below. Hal Fire at Tampa. Tampa. Fla., (Special). A disastrous fire that will involve a loss of at least (200,001 broke out In tho building on Franklin street occupied by the dry goods house of Conn, Friedman & Co., and at ono o'clock tbe block and tbe Jackson block, adjoining were In ruins. The lutter block was occu pied by Vatterlin A Co., dealers In shoes, and Mason & Co., dry goods, whose stock are practically ruined. Cohn, Friedman A Co.'s stock Is valued at (125,01)0. To Cover Necly'a fuse. Washington, (Special ). After an extended debate tbe Senate to-day passed tho bill providing for tha extradition of persone who huve committed certain crimes in Cuba frojn the L'ulted Slates to the Island. A amended, the bill provides that the alleged criminal shall bo punished under tho luws of Cuba as administered by Cuban courts. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. William Peel, Unionist, was elected to thr English Purllumeut In pluce of tho Marquis of Lome. The election of two war candi dates by large majorities the past week will probably determine the government to force a general election ' before the war fever, abates. A schoolboy named Brener, nine year old, committed suicide lu Berlin, The French Mlulster ut War announced In the Senate tbat the officer wbogavethe poli ticians the letters of Detective Tompg on the Dreyfus affair bad beau cashiered. Representative at Peklu of ihe foreign powers bave notllled the Chinese foreign office that if the Chinese, secret society, known as the "13 txers," is not Immediately suppressed the powers will land troops In China. , Cecil Rhodes and other South African mil lionaire are about to develop a big mining eiiUrprise in Gemma West Africa. A loving cup wus presented to sir Tbomas Llpton, owner of tbo yacht Shamrock, by his American admirers. Tbe proposed marriage of the Austrian heir presumptive. Archduke Fruncls Ferdi nand, and the Countess Chotek, worries the Emperor Francis Joseph, and he has tried to prevent it because the children of such a union could not succeed to tbe throne under tbe Hapsburg bouse law. The maroon squatters were evicted from tbe crown lands Id Kingston, Jamaica. Tbe Freuab Parliament reassembled. The government wa Interpellated a to It policy and the effect of the reoent Nationalist vic tory In the muuiolpal lection. Tbe ques tion of Dreyfus agitation wa also discussed. Tbe Chamber of Deputies, by three successive votes, declared oouttdence la the govern,-n-eiit. MERRYWAR. AKMHI) rol l! K CAPTlltl: THK. 1'OHT OK CHICAGO MJU ATTK.lt. NOVEL FIGHT OVER LAND. Captain Streeter, Who Claims Owner ship, Defied the Authorities with a Ml tie Army of Seventy Men and Two tint ling Unns- Park Police I li ed I poll by His Plckats. Chicago, (Special.) Three hundred police officers of tbe city of Chicago, headed by Chief Klpley, and every man bearing a re peating rifle, marobed from the East Chicago Avenue Station, on the North Side, to the foot of Superior street, where Captain George Streeter bad fortified himself on a strip of land created by the washing up of soil from the bed of Lake Michigan, and which Street er olalms as bis property by right of discov ery. In the entrenchments were about sev enty men, armed with rifles and two flatting guns. Earlier In the day a purty of Lincoln Park officials had been II red upon by pickets around tbe Improvised fort, and a boy, four teen years old, bad been wounded severely In the right leg. A horse driven by tbe park officials bad been killed. At S.30 o'clock "Brigadier General" Nllcs and four of his men, perceiving the over whelming force of police approaching, climbed over tbe emplacements of their Im provised fort and offered to surrender to tho park police, providing they were protected. Tbe surrender was accepted, and the park policemen started on foot toward the pollen station, followed by an Immense crowd. Tbose In tbe crowd pushed and jostled Nllcs roughly, and he suddenly whirled around and tried to bayonet one of his persecutors. A rough-and-tumble fight ensued, in which Nlles' rifle waa wrenched from his hands and clubs were freely used on the erstwhile "brigadier general's" head. He was knocked down and was about to draw a revolver when he was manacled and dragged off by tbe officers. Tbe four men with him wero also roughly handled ra tbe melee. Th remainder of Streeter's force, seeing the fate of their leaders, deserted tbclr guns and escaped In tbe throne. The pollen at once took charge of the fort, with its entire store of arms and ammunition. Captain Streeter was not found lu the fort. The shooting resulted in a call upon tho city officials for the arrest of the occupants of Streeter' Fort, but tbe city authorities declined to take tbe Initiative, owing to tho fact that the Supreme Court of tbe United States once declared tbe land to bo a part of the territory of Illinois. It was finally decided to mobilize 300 pollen officers, under tbe leudersblp of Chief Klp ley, and to march against the squatters Mud demand their surrender. Sheriff Magerstadt went with tho chief of police, and it was planned that In case of re fusal to surrender that the sheriff should Immediately swear In tbe 300 police officers ns deputy sheriffs, again demand tbe surren der of Streeter' force on the ground of riot and disorderly conduct, nnd proceed to ar rest the occupants of the fort, regardless of cost. A flrcboat, with a Gatliog gun aboard, was dispatched up Lake Michigan to make a demonstration from tbat side, and to cut off tbe escape of Streeter's men by means of their yacht. It had been determined early in the day, at a conference between the acting mayor and corporation counsel, tbnt in view of the decision of tbe Supreme Court of the United States that tbe land claimed by Streeter is territory of the State of Illinois, the city police force could not legally precipitate a battle with Streeter' force. Counsel ex pressed tbe opinion tbat tbo matter could only be settled by tbe State authorities who control the park police, a large number of whom are stationed In Lincoln Park. Captain Streeter claims to own the land, which, were the title clear, would be worth between thirty and fifty millions of dollars. In 1885 Captain Streeter and bis wife were stranded on a little sandbar a few yards from tbe shore at the foot of Superior street. The spot was not down on tbe maps, and the doughty navigator laid claim to the land and declared bis right, bolng tbe whole population, to elect himself to all tbe offices, which be, In framing a constitution, deemed the territory In need of. As the year passed by tbe dumping of all sorts of refuse and earth washed up by tbe lnke formed u large tract, now 180 acres la extent, nnd Captain Streeter became a man of importance. With bia importance and the increased value of tbe luuds his troubles began. The tract became connected with the shore, and owners of adjoining property resented tbe presence of Captain Streeter and the re tainers be had gathered about him. They carried the matter Into court. Tho Supremo Court of tbe United States decided that tho land was within the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois. Streeter thereupon, offered the district to the federal government. A year ago he organized, under tbe name "District of Lake Michigan," a territorial government, and ducted himself chief jus tics und to other offices of importance. The police, however, descended on him nnd h s army of fifty men, and since then up to tho present time the captain Lad lived in uuother part of tbe town. The preparations to rntaUo possession were made with great secrecy, ami It was not until dawn t hut the police were aware of the invasion. Patrolman O'Mallcy saw a small schooner anchored off tbe shorn when daylight broke. From Ihe bout Cuptaln Streeter Innd-d bis men, who bud bolt-ted tbo United Slate flag. The patrolman tele phoned Inspector Heldulbcimer of the oc currence. The luspector resolved to tual;ti no move io the matter until after a confer ence with the law department of tbo city, uud in consequence tbo Invaders, or right ful owuers, as they claim to be, wero left unmolested, while tho police figured out u campaign. l'atnl hxplosion of a Mine. C ifton, V. Vn., (Speclul.) An explosion of firedamp lu the Camden-Spllmun mluu killed Churleg Vuriun uud several others. Tbo tipple und several mine cura at the mouth of the mine wero blown away and demolished, und several persona narrowly escaped from flying dcbils. A Hush of pow der Ignited the gas. . DOtl MANGl.KH A ItOV. lllg St. Iternard Miuket laurustcr 1-ud Into Insensibility. Lancaster. Tu.. ( Slioclull. While Peter Klrsnb, a twelve-year-old boy, was watching - tha decoration of the soldiers' graves in the cemetery connected with St. Joseph's Cath ollo Church be was attacked by a large St. Bernard dog belonging to Father Christ, the rector. Tbe animal first seized both of the boy' band und threw bim to tbe ground. The dog grabbed the boy by tbe thigh and shook hliu l.ko a rut. Sentenced to He Hanged. Wheeling, W. Va., (fipeclal).-In the Clr cuit Court, Judge Hughe (enteuoed John Mooney and Frank Friday to be banged at the State penitentiary, at Moundiville, on July 13. Mooney and Friday, on March 1 lust, while attempting to rob the borne of James Uervey, shot and killed bim. They were convicted on circumstantial evidence, Illg Gold Producer Hold. Phoenix, Ariz., (Special.) The Congress gold mine, sixty mile north of Phoenix, hni been told for 111,500,000 to a New York syn dicate, reported to Include Warner Miller J and John Uaokay. It bos beo regarded tbe ( lyrluclpal gold producer of Arizona. THE NEWS. The fornml completion of the new Sea board Air Lino wns colebrated at Richmond with elaborate ceremonies, marking th end of a week of festivities tendered by the directors to a parly whom they conveyed over the line In two special trains. A golden spike wag driven by an Infant son of tbe president, the party wns welcomed by Mayor Taylor and Governor Tyler, and an elabor ate banquet was given at bight by tho Sea board officials. A bold stage robbery occurred in Grut Gulch, California. Two marked men held up two troopers and went through the pas sengers on tbe stages following them. Mail and express matter were not touched. A disastrous freight wreck occurred on tbe P. W. and B. nt Dover, Del. The wrecked cars took fire. Five tramps were buried under the ruins, three of whom were rescued, although one afterwards died. Smith Alford, whose brutality Is supposed to have caused his wife's death, was tarred feathered and painted near South Bridge ton, New Jersey, The cruiser Varlng, built by the Crainpf for tba Russian government, bad a success ful trial trip off the Delaware capes. Colonel KM R. Sirtton, of Detroit, Mich., accused of complicity in the slate mllitarj scandal, was acquitted. Rlancbard H. Maul, twenty-one year old a student at prlnceton University, commit ted suicide. The Naval War College at 'Newport, R. I. wns formally epened for instruction. Irene Van Horn was killed by lightning li: (' -ntre Vnlloy, Pa. The United Confederate Veterans elrsed their reunion at Louisville, ami will mod next year in Memphis. A resolution reelp rocntlng tho kind word of Uenernl Slcklei toward tbo men of tho Confederacy wa adopted after a lively dlsc'u.'slou. Referee Nusbnum, lu henriug the cns( against the Ice Trust In New York, orderci? the production of the books. Evidence wui given by Independent denlers to show how the trust raised the price. Tbe Southern Railway stockholders met in Richmond, Va., and authorized the issur of a fourth supplement to thecompnny't first consolidated mortgage deed. Tho three negroes Stirling, Ivory aid Perry- were held by the coroner's jury hi 1'lillndolphiii for the murder of Prof. Ilov White. Blscoe Hludman, of Louisville, was elected commander-ln-chlof of the United Sons ol Veterans. Tho Philadelphia grand jury hold Tower man William A. Lantell responsible for thr freight wreck In the tunnel. An epidemic of black canker rash up peured at West Derby, Vt. Threo deathf were reported. Delia Mny Fox, the actress and sotibrette, wus committed to the Insane asylum ut As toria, L. I. Five persons were killed nnd three injured by the explosion of nitro-glyccriue in Mari etta, O. About twelve hundred worker.-t In gas fix ture factories In New York are on a strike. Frank Preston, who was arrested on tbe charge of being one of the men who robbed tha bunk at Williamsburg. Va., was dis charged, there being no evidence against him. Gcorgo Huggins and J. Roney Cunning ham, while driving borne at night from Sum mit Bridge, Del., went through nn open draw and both were killed. The annual meeting of tho William Cram) A Sous' Shipbuilding Company was held In Philadelphia, and a quarterly dividend ol l.Y per cent, declared. William Ingram, colored, was convict, d in Norfolk, Va., of the killing of I.lllle Ful ler, and sentenced to one year lu tho city jail. Judge Cantrlll, of Frankfort, Ky., issued a bench warrant for the arrest of former Governor Taylor, who is In Indiana. Captain W. T. White, Kssistant superin tendent of tbe Virginia state penitentiary, died at bis homo in Richmond. Constnble Hurricane Branch had his man hunt in Nunsemond county, Va., without interference. The great golnr eclipse was observed with unusual success in vurlous parts of Hit South. The government bnd expeditions nt Barnosville, (la., and Plnehurst, N. C; Ihe Johns Hopkins University bad observers at tbe latter place, and other universities bnd expeditious nt various places, all of whom secured good photographs and valuable 'scieutlllc data. Judge Morrow, of tho United States Court. San Francisco, grunted an Injunction to pre vent health authorities lrom discrlmiuailnM against the Chluesn lu precautious agaln.-t the plague. Bishop Moore, of the Roman Catholic Dio cese of St. Augustine, Fla., wus stricken wbllo preaching u sermon In Allegheny, Pa. A cargo of purple oro wus brought to Phii tidelphln that hud been dug from tbo site ol the ancient city of Telmessus. Vim broko out in the Hccla bruncli mine lu II. nighlm, Mich, One of tbo ii.eu wa ft verco me. Henry K. List, president of tbo City Haul; of Wheeling, V. Va., died ut thu ngc of i-v-etity-iiine. Sheriff Tyler, of Grunt county, Utah, and ,1 uit Jenkins, a cultln owner, were kiib d I y outlaws, ' Tbe mills of the York Haven Paper Con:, puriv, at York Haven, I'll., were destroyed by lire. Mrs. Frank Wilson, the lurgost woman in 1 enr ylvuuiii, died ut her homo In Euston. John C. Casi wus sentenced to lweuly years' Imprisonment lu Lynn. Mass., for robbery. An elephant from Rostock's circus fell from thn train wlulu cu route to Newark. New Jersey. Judge G. W. Juffers, judge of tho Munici pal Court lu Wheeling, W. Va and formerly mayor, was found dead in his luw o.'llce. He liuil been missed for mow than a week, und a si-arcli revealed his decomposed reniuiuii lu a room lu tho rear of hts office. Timothy 11. Blackstone, formerly presi dent of tho Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, died lu Chicago. At the nunlversnry meeting of the Amori enn Unitarian Association in Boston, a move ment was started and a committee named for tho organization of an international council of religion. A largo force of police raided and captured the fort set up by Captain Streeter, tha Chi cago squatter, ou a strip of land wushed up by Lake Michigan lu front of Chicago. The General Assembly of the Southeru Presbyterians ndjouraed after the appoint ment of a oomiiilttoe to raise a twentieth century million-dollar fund. A flro of incundliiry origin destroyed 13 buildings in York. Tbe Methodl.-it General Conference adopt ed the minority report, which leaves the In junction of card-playing, dancing, etc., in the Book of Discipline. , William J. ailmore, manager nt d owner of the Auilitorlflai in Philadelphia, sold tut hi pluoa and announced bis retirement. Louis Ruger, sevouty-three years old. wok arrested in Tuscurora township, Pa., while oolnlug counterfeit money. Brother Andrew, of St. Mary' College, nt Belmont, N. C, wns killed by a circular saw while tawing wood. Jame Fltzharri and Joseph Mullott, the Irish Invincible who arrived in New York after being released from au Irish prison, were ordered to bo deported, RUSSIA JLOGKED. A M Kit If A N AM) OH! Kit 1 OIK K.H NOW IN I'KKIN. SITUATION HAS IMPROVED. Mii-nv Diplomats Believe Hint. Itie Prompt Action or Ihe United Mates Minister nnl lli Other Knrelgn Representatives II n lin ked, for the Time Helng, Itfissla' Ielgn. Shanghai, (By Cable.) Tho detachment of over throe hundred international blue jackets baa arrived at Pekin. Twenty-threo warships aro now at Taku nine Russian, three British, -three German three French, two American, two Japanese and one Italian, In addition to their crews, tbe RiishIiuh have on board their warships 11,000 troop? from Port Arthur, with Hold equipment Fourteen thousand Russian troops aro held lu readiness at Port Arthur. London. (By Cable.) The Vienna corres pondent of the Dally Telegraph says: "An active exchango of dispatches Is go Ing forward among the great powers relative to China. Tho colossal superiority of Rus sia's representation nt Taku 1 regarded af significant. The Triple. Alliance advocate? united action by Europe to protect common Interests."' Washington, (Special.) Minister Conger, at Pitkin, reports to the State Department tbnt the arrival of 350 guards for the lega tions of Itussln, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and thu United States has had the effect of Improving thu altuntlon. Ho sayt that Pekin Is much quieter, but that the Box ers are still active in the surrounding coun try. It Is hinted in diplomatic circles hero that the sudden iucreuso of activity on tba purl of tbo Boxers is nothing more than pnrt ol a wall-conceived plan by ono of the grenl European powers to secure a permanent lodgment in Pekin, and to seize u positlot giving it full control of the greut Pei-Hc River, tho approach lo the Chinese capital. It Is further Intimated that thu plan hai proved abortive, owing to tho alcrtneps o; the other Europeuu powers represented In Chinese waters, but particularly to the read iness of tho United States Minister, Mr. Con ger, and the American Rear Admiral on board the Ncwurk, which ut oneo gavo the movement an iiudeslrvd International aspect, and so tended to prevent the particular na tion concerned from aggrandizing itself at thu expense of th Interests of the other na tions. Therefore, it is assumed that tho ex citement will rapidly abate, uud the Boxors will disperse, temporarily, at lonst. The nation referred to in the Washington dispatch Is Russia, whose designs upon China havo been mnuifost for some time. It has been reported that Russia is preparing tc send over one hundred thousand troops Into Northern China by tho Trans Siberian Rail way, and tbo fnct, ns reported In the Shnng bal dispatches, that there are 11,000 troops on nine Russian warships in Taku harbor, clearly shows tho Czar's Intentions to en croach upon China. K1I.I.K1) HIS STK.PMOTIIKK. Man Murdered Her In ( old Wood Iti-CHilw lie Didn't Like Food. New York, (Special). Charles A. Sanity. 21 years of age, murdered his stepmother, Mary Naulty, in cold blood while tho family of three wus sitting down to their evening meal at their home, in Newark, X. J. Mrs. Naulty was thirty years of age. She and young Naulty bad never bean able to got aloug harmoniously slnoo her marriage.. He often found fault with the moals. He objected to the coffee; Mrs. Naulty chided him, and he left the house after the quarrel. When young Naulty returned In the evening he had with bim a revolver, which he had purchased during the day. He went into the dining-room, where his father and step mother were sitting at the lable. He found fault with the food again, and left the room. Returning to the doorway, be pulled out the revolver and pressed tbo muzzle to Mrs. Naulty' temple, firing before sho could move or before the astonished lather could do anything to attract tho young man's at tention. As Mrs. Naulty' bead dropped back young Naulty Bred a second, which pafsed through her eye Into the bruin. She was killed instnntly. Wife Killed. Husband Drunk. ' Sbomokln, Pa., (Special). Patrick Flan nery. sixty-four yours old, was arrested on suspicion of bavlng choked ami kicked his wife, ned sixty-six years, to death at their borne here. Tho couple had been drinking heavily, and neighbors say they saw Flan uery ussnult ber sovernl times. Mary Cav annugh, a daughter, called at the homo lute in the day and discovered her father rock ing lilmsnif near tho corpse of his wife lu tho kitchen. Ho wa drunk, and tbo police bnd no trouble in arresting him. Aimed ut Postofllfe l'iniloye. Y.'ashliiBton. (Special). Senator Chnnd ler Introduced bill prohibiting employes of ti c Government, undnr tho civil service, from r.rgunlzlug associations which are used lor thu promotion of legislation. Tho bill is aimed at the postal clerks, whoso organiza tions arc Interested In bills before Congress. Din Honors M'Klliley. ( hle;r.r, HI., (Speclul.) -A special dis patch lrom the City of Mexico says : "President Dlnz has designated 100 picked rurnlcs to intend tho Pan-American Exposi tion at Buhalo as a complimentary body guard to thn President of the United Stales. Deficit In I'm lo Itico. Washington, (Special.) Tho total roci Ipts ol the I'orto Ilicari Treasuror for tho mouth of April. l'JOO, worn 103, 8(19,18. 'J ho total I ayinents for tho month were $180,510.77, which shows a dullclt for the mouth ol it80.611.6U. bl Mouths for Holland. Washington, (Speclul). Jay O. Holland, who several days ago pleaded guilty to the charge of libeling United State Senator Taliaferro, of Florida, was sentonoed to six mouths In jail. iOO.OOO lor 1 II Inn Heuilnnry. Richmond, (Special.) Tho trustees of the Union Tbeologieul Seminary hero raised 3200,000 fur additional buildings. Deuth of Sniutiul y- Wheatlny. Washington, (Bpouial). Samuel E. Wheat ley. fx-Conimlsslouer of tho District of Co lumbia, died from tho effect of a stroke ol paralysis. He leaves a widow and suveii children. Killed by l.lulltlllng. Allontowu, Pa., (Specll). IrnneVun Horn aged thirty years, duughtur of Jacob Vai Horn, a farmer near Centra Vulley, w in struck by lightning and Instantly killed. Morinon Settle In Wyoming. ' la a oaravan Including 170 wagon and a largo herd of cattlo, the first Mormon col ony from Utah baa attlvad at It destina tion in the Big Horn Valley, Wyo. The pllgrima started from their former home about lis weak ago. House Will Nat Telle Up the Army Bill, Chairman null of tbe House Commit toe on Military Affair, ut Washington stated definitely tbat owing to tha late ness of tha session It would be Impossible to consider th bilt a Increase tie tfll Slenoy ol tUi (tray. - KEYSTONE SI T.ATK.STMIWS til KANu.f,, I'AltT,, REWARD IN MORRlso ClifpHlrr ritiiit f'n . . """Mlf)M for ('aptum nf tli-i.... Areimvcl of Miir.lrruii, " ' ",",n" -'iiMlHt """" comity. sht In order to encntirn..n .i ., Off, Investigation, and in hm , mysterv which for i... " inalnHubjeotofdlseuwloninii-Jl ... uu,u t onimnnioncTs h.j ivv, lor iniormith,,. to the arrest and eonvleti,,,,, ou.uWrl , meiia Morrlm, return home of District Kitm. -".. .u irum a inp West, thr.fc muruorer will 1m r,, , . ough and systematic main,,, J ....v ue win imnppr,),. Is a firm feeling on th, , have been working ,, of the witnesses woo hail i about the scenn of the traited,,,, d iy, have not told all t;y k,;o, word may produce n clunwbw, an arrest. -Wash" Mnrr,0B , of tho dead girl, has returncl . Sharnless fnrm. "1i,.,i.i.. ,. found the dead body ,,,, i rum a tuning uip, j , ,.,,, 8 aill ,.t will, (, John Pcrklskl. of lttftn In bolng charged that ilurlim,,',,.,,', wife he buttered her t-kull mh physicians say rim cannot ri-eo-that Perklskl desired to end of drou ou an errand, who the wir. A (iinrrel arose, uud I'erklskU ragod that ho ran out ol the h -up an ax tbat was lying M rushing back into tho bou. ,tH leged, dealt his wife a blow n t head. A terrlblo gash wm ItJh the woman lay on the floor iniir condition blood tin-,.,i .. .i... , wound. Perklskl evidently thoj um mm, lornemadf to strike her ti second blow. aim ax to the floor. Miet in IJiiarM, Samuel It. Shape, of Kvanshur twice through Hie oliilomen. Rl. his only son, It is sul.1, ,)UrM father over an article that was -i tho house. Mr. slnipe. it ii-.i eject his sou. The shootlnc fnlii Wounds ore of a iliiiigcroun ot.I mini results are tcnrei. 'i ne r years of age, disappeared ail ing. Mr. Shupe, tho victim, li tho late war, a member of Zoot G. A. 11., of Norrlstown, anil 1 auctioneer in Montgonierv t'ot forty years. He Is about 6.5 j J has a wife and four c-tiildrou. time Mr. Shupe has been In 111 although usually of a jovial in Irritability due to his Ilium ir, 'esponsible for tho iinfortiin!( i l.'oit, Hut Happy. A 9-year-old bov. after leadinc of Scranton u merry hunt to i'A remains lost nnd happy, li along the railroad h Muy 25, police he lived la STiintun.but 1 bim in tho place. Thru lie M police he lived lu Droderlcks, ni. was tbe same, Sent back to Hi confided to the ofllcers tbat b ) boathouso ou the river, but tt' bonthouse. His last uttiW-' grandmother will I'omti for him.; big name us Joo .Mlilili'vlU'b. Litigation trSaaitwyi A bill In equity was dltil at tti tnry'g office, Hnrrlsbiirg, byW. for Edwnrd I'utton. John W Hockor, Charles Wiotniaker i Thomas against the city ol llarrl Controller Couch and City Tre.il to restrain tho latter from payiul ent sanitary olllrcrs lur wum 1809, at which time tticmsyori other meu as sanitary oflH'irs, meuts being rejected by Miner's t ;ib liierei The returns as inmlo by tli the Schuylkill Coal Ex'-bHUgi l.. ,.,,1.1 miners fu mn nuB" , - r,t Aim, nn.l the llrst biilt of .lure nt 1 rier eailt. bt'loW tbo 4150 hi 1 per cent, better tbuu the 6 l.... tl. r,r..M,ur four vnuks. IUH tuu n are also promised botteMtorkn Cut In Twain In Culll On the Scottdulc Connecting I dinky engines collided, dw Urnkemnu Henry Dayton, of 1 caught under the wheelmmu leg cut off. MlkojurdoskU i Br, who was riding on the I'"" engines was cut in twain, dyin. Sevantecn-y ar l.ormti The cicada pest, commonly k' "seventeen-year locust," bin number of points along J few miles from l'ltubuW. A' 1 Avulon.the resldenlsbuvebi'lt'' off at night with lanterns HJ c Clilld Uruw 1 '"('" Helen, the 5-year-oM '; Titus Walter, of IMlib'bcm. with companions, wus drcwate Canal ut Frecmuiisliurg. MIstriT( uiii'l '"' f ... ..I. i til year.' ore roaster nt the i.iu- . ing bis neck and cjAi " Treasurer Harnett'""1 The llrst monthly rortol urer Harnett snows at tbe beginning of tbe school appr"i" - fiscal year became due. DEWEY AND VlCj " .. .Hull Admiral Would - ' Nomina ' R" Wasiiixoto, P. l- prospect that mora M n... nl.r of ttelntrsK" ' , llm.vellttoll Will 1 . n Dryuu. Admlra Vr, HJ all leading polltlo as." ' j nation of tha .Nclirusl."" I lUHviiuuiu. .b. It el'" The Admiral mk' " with whom he talks ' ,,! ono oaug of regret or A l ' mime is not P" ,Miiil Convention. Iudw 1, ,1 , . ..1 Ilrf till U 1UM7i 1U- lie did not believ b he beoarnn Preside, it. II thn Kansas i;'" , C by acclamation 1' 'MB. oWM .in, air Urvuu, 1" l"u : Tho United Biat - , resolution lor . rt i Committee on Cubaa rl,J postal and other lrr ,, t J fag the commit'" , A ury. io pur""" HdU1' I of the ebmmlttoa r J J Oonu.), Clr""',ai.n, cH Cullom,D,M'Kwf9 4 Taller. ilOU'Jt I Tr
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