THE NEWS. Rev. V. I). White, of Staunton. Va., disappeared from Alexandria, where he liad been In attendance on the Chesa peake Presbytery. There la no due to his whereabouts. A public reception was given to Gen eral Wheeler In Chicngo. where he ar rived to take rommand of the Depart ment of the Lakes. Lightning killed George Shlpmnn at Dublin. Ind.; Henry Hrown at West Manchester. Ohio, and Richard Winkle at Chilllcqthe. A cavein at the Columbia workings, near iHtryoa. Pa., entombed a number of miners, who were rescued with dif ficulty. Eight Lithuanians, members of a secret society, were sentenced In Potts vllle, Pa., for being Implicated In a murder. C. J. Cedar, a painter, fell from the roof of the new Presbyterian- c hurch at Newport News, Va., and killed himself. Mrs. Pauline Cony Aubrey, daughter of Chl'jf Justice Fuller, was married at Mayne-Staye to Dr. Samuel M. Moore. Colonel Noyes declared martial law at Dutch Harbor. Alaska, until he had recaptured a number of runaways. Robert Noaxs, accused of complicity In the murder of Governor Ooebel, was arrested at Hlg Stone Gap, Va. President McKinley received an en thusiastic reception upon his arrival at his home In Canton. Ohio. John (alias Piggy) Williams was ar rested In Alexandria, Va., on the charge of felonious assault. Edward Shue. of Spring Grove, Pa., drank jimson weed tea and had a nar row escape from death. Troops were ordered out In Ever green, Ala., to prevent trouble between the whites and blacks. All the window-glass and flint-glass factories closed down temporarily. The Jim Crow car bill went into ef fect In Virginia. Latest estimates of the loss of life In the Hoboken fire place the number of victims at nearly two hundred. About the same number of persons were In jured. The aggregate losses on prop erty, steamships, piers and warehouses la about $10,000,000. The losses to the North German Lloyd Company on their three steamships follow: The Main, $1,200,000 on vessel and $4,00,000 on stores and cargo; the Bremen, on ves Bel, $700,000; the Saale, on vessel, $SOO.000, cargo and stores, $300,000. Present indications are that Mr. Bryan will pull the strings controlling the convention from Nebraska. Ho sent a telegram to Senator Hill to come at once to Nebraska, and the New .Yorker promptly complied. It is now stated that Mr. Bryan will insist on a specific 16-to-l planjt. The Hill vlce presidoutial boom 1h expanding. Governor Atkinson, of West Vir ginia, appointed ex-Commlssloner of Internal Revenue Mason a judge, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Hagans. The general meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Its closing session in New York Bclectcd officers for the next year's convention in Colorado. The anti-imperialists in the Seventh Illnois District want Henry Wade Rogers, late president of the North western University, to become their candidate for Congress. A motion for a writ of extradition for Charles F. W. Neely was made le fore Judge Lacombo in the United States Circuit Court In New York. The Virginia delegation to the Kau sas City Convention expect to put Senator Daniel In the field for the Vleo Presldentlul nomination. A determined effort Is being made In Virginia to secure n conditional par don for Scurcey, one of the Aqula Creek train robbers. In the Corporation Court in Alexan dria, Va., David T. Demarestasked for a receiver for the Mount Vernon Spoke Company. Burglars dynamited the safe in the canning factory of the D. E. Wine brenner Company in Hnnover and got only $20. The Red D Line steamer Caracas, which went ashore at San Juan, was floated again. The pilot was sus pended. One fireman was killed and eight In jured in a fire In Pittsburg which de stroyed $300,000 worth of property. Samuel Whltcom and his son were struck by lightning at Spry, Pa., the ton being seriously Injured. The annual session of the Order of United Commercial Travelers was be gun in Columbus, O. Work Ib being actively expedited on a ltumber of warships in the Norfolk Navy Yard. , , John G. Woolley. of Illinois, was nominated for President and Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhode Island, was nomi nated for Vice-President by the Pro hibition National Convention in Chi cago. The convention then adjourned Bine die. The military prisoners at Fort Snell lng, Minn., made a desperate attempt to escape. All but one were recap tured. The Republicans of the Eighth Con gressional district of New Jersey con vention at Elizabeth renominated Con gressman Charles N. Fowler by ac clamation. The Knights of St. John, In conven tion In Philadelphia, re-elected by ac clamation the present Supreme Presi dent, Henry J. Fries, of Erie, Pa. The attack of the Mexican troops on Chan Santa Cruz, the stronghold of the Muya Indians, Is still delayed, ow ing to the vigorous opposition offered by the rebels against the advance of the troops. Yale won the 'Varsity race at New London after a magnificent struggle. Harvard won the four-oared and freshman races with ease. Hamilton College conferred the hon orary degree of LL.D. on Henry Smith Pritchard, of Washington, D. C. The last two companies of the St. Louis posse comltatus were dismissed. .Mayor James H. Merrill, of Oshkosh, Mich., died suddenly in New York. The Methodist missionary headquar ters In New York received news that their Tlen-Tsin mission had been burned and that about 160 liveB bad been lost. It was Inferred, however, that the killed were all rioters. The Michigan Republican State Convention nominated Bliss for Gov ernor. Daniel J. Campau, of Detroit, gave out a statement In which he reiterated his denial that he Is a candidate either for the Vice-Presidential nomination or chairmanship .of the Democratic Nntlonal Committee. The bricklayers and the contractors ltave signed a peace pact that seems to make certain the collapse of the Building Trudes Council and the re sumption of the building Industry In Chicago. Justice Chester, of the Supremo Court at Albany, decided against the American Ice Company on every point. The Prohibition National Conven tion met In Chicago, HORROR AT HOBOKEN LOSS OF 1.1 MC Mr HUE t'.STI MA r.i AT I ROM HO TO 'tOW, SHIPS AND PIERS BURNED. . Flamea Marteil In tnttoii on Norlli ler lii mi l.lo.v.l oiiiiin.v' Wtiartea lour Ureal Ocean l.lneraC aught null Jlemliera of Orwauri I'axeiiKcrH I imiihI Oeath In t'laiiiei or Water. New York ( Special ). Almost $10, 000,000 worth of property was de stroyed, many lives lost, many persons were Injured and at least 1K00 lives were imperiled by a fire that startPd amonjt cotton bales stored on Pier No. 3 of the North German Lloyd Steam ship Company, In Hoboken, N. J. In less than l.r minutes the flames covered an area a quarter of a mile long, extending outward from the actual shore line to the bulkheads, from 600 to 1000 feet away, and had caught four great ocean liners and a dozen or more smaller harbor craft In Its grasp. It Is believed that about 200 lives were lost and 300 persons were Injured. The hospitals In New York. Hoboken and Jersey City were crowded with the Injured. Those who gathered along the shores of the Hudson river to witness the great conflagration saw a spectacle that they can never forget, and one that will always have a conspicuous place In the history of New York. River and bay were enveloped In a pall of black smoke, through which angry flames, bursting as from vol canoes, on the Jersey shore, and in the water Itself, leaped like red spheres In to the sky. The surface of the water was covered with floating and blazing masses of freight, thrown In haste from the doomed vessels, all unnoticed In the mad rush to rescue more pre cious human life, threatening or being sacrificed in the great ships. And through tho pall of smoke a grent crimson sun, enlarged to thrice Its size by the haze, glared like an enormous eye as it slowly sank in the West. Such was the tremendous spectacle pre sented on the surface of the Hudson river, us if it had been some holiday pageant. It was made tragic by the realization that somewhere In that smoke, somewhere beneath the turbid waters, scores of lives had been lost or were then in their last desperate strug gle against death. The greatest loss of life appears to have been on the Saale. She carried 450 people, and was to have Balled for Boston. When the police-boat captain went nboard of her with his rescue party lie saw bodies lying all about the deck. The steamship Bremen carried it crew of 300 men, the Main 250, and if as many lives were lost on the Bremen and Main as on the Saale the number of lives will be very great. Then, also, many perished on the piers, the canal boats and lighters. The burning or smoldering remains of canal-boats, lighters and barges are scattered all the way down the river and bay to States Island and Gover nor's Island. Each of these craft will add something to the list of the dead. The Iosb tc- the North German Llovd docks alone Is placed at $2,000,000. The value of the great quantities of cotton, oil and various other merchan dise on the docks has not been esti mated at this time. The loss to the North German Lloyd Steamship Com pany alone will probably come close to $10,000,000, as tho Bremen, the Main and the Saale were almost to tally destroyed. The Kaiser Wllhelm was "somewhat damaged. The five storehouses of the Campbell Company were greatly damaged, the loss on one building alone being placed at $1,500, 000. The value of the Hamburg American Line steamer Phoenicia is not known, but this will swell the amount of damage. The Thingvalla pier was burned, and the dock of the Hamburg-American Line suffered greatly. A number of small buildings In Hoboken were destroyed along tho wharves, with their contents. From what can be learned the flames started among a large pile of cotton bales on Pier 2 of the North German Lloyd Steamship Companv, and spread with such remarkable rapidity that In 15 minutes the entire property of the company, taking In over a third of a mile of water front and consisting of three great piers, was completely en veloped In a huge blaze that sent great clouds of smoke high up Into the uir. 1 ne names started so suddenly and gained such headway that the DeoDla on the piers and on the numerous ves sels docked were unable to reach the street. There were great gangs of workmen on the piers, and these, to gether with a number of people who were at the docks on business and visiting the Bhlps scattered in all di rections. As all means of exit were cut off by the flames, they were forced to Jump overboard. At the dockB of the North German Lloyd were the Saale, a single-screw passenger steamship of 4965 gross tons; the Bremen, a twin-screw pas senger mid freight of 10.626 tons, and the Main, a twin-screw freight and passenger steamship of 10,200 gross tons. They all caught fire and were burned to the water's edge. The Kai ser Wllhelm der Grosse, which had Just come in, was tho only one of the four big vessels at the dock that es caped. The Iobs of the crews of these ves sels will reach 100. The fire was. first discovered by a watchmuu on the pier tit 4 o'clock. He saw a small streak of flame shoot from a bale of cot ton on Pier No. 2, at which was docked the steamer Sanle. He Im mediately sent In an alarm. In a few minutes the flames hud ex tended to the steamship and were com municated to the adjoining pier on the north. Here were docked the Kaiser Wllhelm der Grosse and the Main. Tugs were Immediately made fast to the big Kaiser Wllhelm der Grosse and she wns gotten out Into midstream with safety, although badly scorched at the bows. The steamship Main, however, was doomed, bh the flames had already become so fierce on the north side of the pier that no tug could approach the vessel. Then by a shift In the wind the flames were sent In (he direction of Pier No. 1 which was to the south end of Pier No. 2. To the north of Pier No. 1 whs the dock of the Hamburg-American Line, at which the steamship Phoenicia, a twin-screw passenger steamer of 6761 gross tons, was docked. The flames got a good hold on the Phoenicia, and she was towed out Into midstream ablaze. The fire had by this (ime become so fierce (hat the officers of the Hamburg American Line decided thnt the only way to prevent a total destruction of their great pier was (o blow up the Bide of the dock at which the Phoenlclu lay, and this was done. A number of barges docked at the pier also took Are. but In the effort to save the other property no attention was paid to them, and they were allowed to burn. It Is feared that the loss of life In the hold of the vessels was frightful, as It is said that ninny of the crews, who were asleep at the time, were imprison ed there. The Main hud just arrived and some of the passengers were still on board, and when the cry of fire was raised a number of them were seen to run to the burning decks. Most of them jump ed overboard, and. save for the few who were picked up by the tugs, not one has been heard from, although every hotel and hospital In the City of Hoboken Is crowded with Injured. Some of the passengers of the Main tried to escape to the pier, and it was almost certain that Ihey perished In the flames. There was n panic on each of the ships. Many persons jumped over board, and the water for some dis tance along the docks was lined with people. They wen' clinging to the piers and even to the rudders of tho burning vessels. Sumo were picked up; many were drowned. Peter Quinn, a justice of the peace in Hoboken, tells a story of having seen at least 30 people perish, OKIM.KKO TO 1IINA. in. Chaffee will Take Charge or Ameri can Troop In Orient. Washington (Special). The pur pose of the Government to place an adequate military force in China was made perfectly clear when orders were Issued to Brlg.-Gen. Adna R. Chaffee to take command of the forces in China and to proceed at once to as sume his new duties. More signifi cant probably than the assignment It self was the wording of the formal or ders to General Chaffee, issued by Act ing Secretary of War Melklejohn, di recting him to "take command of the troops ordered to China," and proceed to Pekin by way of San Francisco and Taku, accompanied by his aides. it had been expected that the mili tary forces would be concentrated at Chee-Foo or some other convenient military baBe, but the direction to proceed to Pekin, the capital of the Chinese Empire, indicated a firm de termination on the part of the Gov ernment authorities to have a strong military force at the seat of the Chi nese Government. A1IK MIMSTKKM SAl'K? 1.1 Hun? ChanR Ho Cnhlea Chinese Itepre aentatlvo Here. Washington (Special.) Minister Wu called at the State Department and ex hibited the following ciiblcgrojja to Secretary Huy: "Canton, June 28. The legation ministers having left Pekin are now 12 miles from Tlen-Tsin with Admiral Seymour. LI HUNG CHANG." The Minister explained that the ca blegram reached him from the Chinese Minister in London. He believes the dispatch to be accurate, but the Stale Department officials are Inclined to doubt it, as yet. FAI.il. AtClOENT. Djrtu or Moro Drowued lu m Steamboat C'oIIImIoii. Norfolk, Va. (Special). As the Mer chants and Miners' steamer Essex was leaving for Providence she ran into a barge, having on board 140 employees of the Old Dominion Steamship Com pany, sinking the barge and probably drowning a dozen or more of those on board. They were nearly all negroes. Several hours after the collision 19 of them had not been accounted for. The collision occurred off Pinner's Point, in the Norfolk harbor. The Essex was not damaged and proceeded to Provi dence several hours later. Vtctliua of Lightning. Cincinnati, O. (Special). StorniB have done much damage throughout Southern Indiana and Kentucky. At Brazil, Ind., Mrs. William Vespers and Miss Ida Lehman were seriously In jured by lightning, and several houses were damaged. At Dublin, Ind., Oeorge Shopman was killed by lightning and Alexander Hannau prostrated. At West Manchester, O., Henry Brown was killed, and at Chilllcothe, O., Richard Hlukle was killed by lightning. Peualona leauefl Laat Year Washington (Special). Commission er of PenslonB Evans states that dur ing the fiscal year just ended 105,567 certificates of pensions were Issued, 15,000 more than were Issued during the year 1899. Of these 40,637 were original Issues, 4352 were restorations and 60,678 were Increases of pension. The commissioner says that the adju dication of original clalmB is practi cally up to date where the evidence completing the claim has been filed. Hilled by Lightning. New Haven, Conn. (Special). At Wlnstend Lymau Beecher, aged 65 years, a farmer, whose home was on Wallens Hill, was struck by lightning during tho storm and Instantly killed. He was lying on a couch, and the bolt came through an open window. An American lluatlte Fever. City of Mexico (Special). David Kilpatrlck, au American, Is 111 with yellow fever at the American Hospital In this city, having contracted the dis ease down the coiiHt. Child' llmly r un ml. Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special). The Infant liorn to Miss Kate Foley, and whose mysterious disappearance the Biime evening caused the police much trouble and created a sensation here, wus found In the suburbs of the city, buried In a pile of sawdust. The girl's sister confessed having committed the crime. Warrants are out for all con cerned. fiehoonar Goes Down. Atlantic City, N. J. ( Special ) . A two masted schooner, supposed to bo the J. W. Fox, of Wilmington, Del., sank two miles off Sharks River Ltfe-Savlug Sijition. Th crew was saved. ( hil'lren Hii-iie-l to Death. New York (Special). Fire believed to be of incendiary origin destroyed the home of William Gllkes, adjoining the Clifton race track, near Puterson, N. J. Two children, Smile, five years old, and Etta, three years old, were burned to death. ' Sumner ntun r'rMimUcn San Francisco ( Special ) . The trans port Sumner arrived here, twenty-nine days from Manila, nineteen days from Nagasaki. There were three deaths on the voyage. The vessel was quarantined. Drowned lit Cheat Itlver. Elklns, W. Va. (Special). William L. Myers, traveling salesman for Mil ler Supply Company, Huntingdon, W. Va., while attempting to cross Cheat river, was drowned at Fishing Hawk Ford. The driver and team were rescued. Mora Marina for Manila. Washington (Special). The Navy Department will, In August, send an other detachment of marines to Ma nila, the force being composed of eight officers and 220 men, which will sail on the Grant ' OREGON ASHORE, KM'OKTD TO IIAVK UTRAXDKU HOO KIK ISLAND. ON WAY TOJOIN KEMPFF. Tlie Veanel Had lleen Ordered From Hong. Kong to Taku Commanded by Captain fienrga F. F. Wilde-In Addition to Crew, IH4 Sallora and Marine Sent from Manila Were on Hoard. Shanghai (By Cable). It Is report ed here that the United States battle ship Oregon Is ashore on the Island of Hoo-Kle, In the Mlao-Tao group, 60 miles north of Chee-Foo, and that a Bteamer of the Indo-Chlna Steam Navi gation Company has gone to her as sistance. London (By Cable). The Shanghai correspondent of the Times, telegraph ing, says: "The United States battleship Oregon went ashore in a fog off Hoo-Kle Inland, 35 miles north of Chee-Foo. Messrs. Jardlne, Matheson A Co. are Bending her assistance." NO NEWS AT WASHINGTON. Washington (Special). Up to mid night no official news had been re ceived In Washington bearing on the report that the battleship Oregon had gone ashore near Chee-Foo. Early last week Admiral Remy was directed to send this vessel from Hong Kong to Taku. Captain Wilde Ib her com mander. He left Hong-Kong last Sat urday night, two days ahead of her expected departure, and had on board, in addition to her regular crew. 164 sailors and marines, brought to Hong Kong from Manila by the Zaflro. The distance she had to travel was about 1500 miles, and the calculation of the naval officials here was that if the ves sel made record time she would be at Taku in six days, she must be in the vicinity of Chee-Foo if she main tained her reputation as a fust battle ship. A FAMOUS VESSEL. The Oregon la not only the most famous American battleship afloat, but the most famous battleship of any country. She won her first laurels at the trial trip In 1893 and then wreathed herself with more when she made her wonderful trip from San Francisco to Key West at tho outbreak of our war with Spain. The Oregon was built In San Fran cisco at the Union Iron Works. East ern shipbuilders, when this concern got the contract, said that California was better adapted to fruit growing than battleship building, and won dered what kind of a craft would be turned out. CYCLONE IN SOUTH. KHAT DAMAOK HONK IN SUCTIONS OF A LA HAM A. Birmingham. Ala. (Special.) A cy clone, which originated near Bloss burg, Jefferson county, swept the coun try for 15 miles westward Into Walker county. Its path was a quarter-mile wide, and the greatest damage resulted around Democrat, where a score of houses were Wrecked and a number of persons Injured, but none seriously. Oops were 'ruined and hundreds of trees uprooted. The heavy rains throughout the State continue to work havoc. The Black Warrior River has overflowed Its banks in Walker county, and hundreds of acres of cotton and corn lands are In undated. Many cattle have been drowned and great damage wrounht. Near.Deinopolls both the Warrior and Tomblgbee have left their banks, and people are moving out of the lowlands. Two Southern Heroine. Birmingham, Ala. (Speciol.) Two daughters of Isaac Ledeuderff, of Fay ette county, prevented a wreck In that county on Sunday. An excursion train from Columbus, Miss., bound fur Birm ingham, was due In u short time. The rain was coming down in lorrent. The young women, who resided neur n culvert, saw that the waters had Isen above It and were rapidly under mining it. Knowing that the train would be nlong soon they left the house in the drenching downpour, without umbrel las, and run down the track a mile to the nearest station and informed the track men of tho condition of the culvert. A danger signal was put out, the train stopped, and after severul hours of hard work repairing the damage, tho train proceeded to Birmingham, delivering Its 600 passengers sever-' hours lute. lo.lilliurat at Mobile. Mobile, Ala. (Special.) A cloudburst occurred In this city. All streets were submerged, in some places to a depth of five feet. A heavy rain continued falling throughout the morning. No fatalities have so far been reported. Business in the city is practically sus pended. The rainfall from 5 a. m, to noon was 12.7 inches. The rain seems to be confined to the Gulf Coast. Many houses on Wilkinson street are partly under water. It Is reported that three negro children were drowned. Several families have been removed from their houses by the police. Storm Delay turmera. Columbus, Ga. (Special.) The con tinued heavy ruins In this section are putting the farmers behind with their crops, and the grass Is getting a fresh start on l hem. The wet weather Is hard on the fruit crop, especially the peaches. The Chattaboolee has over flown its banks and the Indications point to a flood like the one In Febru ary lat. Already the water Ib too high for the mills to work. Information comes from down the river that many plantations are inundated and much cotton ruined. Little t.lrl l'uluatil, Point Pleasant, W. Va. (Special). Mrs. Louis Rice, of Sassafras Post office, this county, to kill flies, dissolved a box of rough on rats in sweetened water. She placed a quantity of thl in a saucer and placed it on a window sill. Her three-year-old child Lolt drunk the stuff and died In an hour, Itacn War In Alabama. Mobile, Ala. (Special). Governor Johnson ordered out the Conecuh Guards, of Evergreen, to prevent trou ble between the white people and ne groes of tho vicinity of Evergreen. llullroad Accident. Harper's Ferry, W. Va. (Special.) Herbert Staubs, 18 years of age, son ol Aaron Staubs, living at Pipertown, was run over by a car running back on tin switch at Millvlllo and had his leg mangled at the thigh, which will huvq to be amputated. He was working at the quarry of Baker Bros., and at the time was sitting on tho truck. WOOLLEY NAMED. I linlre of the I'rnhlliltlonlit for I'reil ilent. Made on Flrnft Ratiot. Chicago, 111. (Special.) The Prohl iltlon National Convention adjourned lne die after having placed In nomi nation for President John G. Woolley, :f Illinois, and for Vice-President Henry U. Metcalf, of Rhode Island. The nominations In each Instance were made on the first ballot. Only two candidates for the Presidential nomination were balloted for Mr. Woolley and Rev. Silas C. Swallow, of Pennsylvania Hale Johnson, of Illi nois, withdrawing his name at the last moment and throwing his strength :o Mr. Woolley. This undoubtedly had a great ef 'ect on the result, as the convention farller in the day had been nearly ttampeded for Swallow by an eloquent peech of Homer L. Castle, of Pit.ts 'burg, and had the friends of the Pennsylvania parson forced a ballot at that time the result might have oeen different. For Vice-President :hree candidates were balloted for H. B. Metcalf Thomas R. Caskardon, t West Virginia, and Rev. E. L. Ea ;on, of Iowa, Mr. Metcalf receiving an overwhelming majority of the votes :'ast. Immediately after the announce ment of the result of the ballot for :he Presidential nomination Rev. Mr. Swallow was proposed as the Vice Presidential nominee. The convention went wild over the suggestion, but Dr. Swallow, after a flurried conference with the Pennsyl vania delegation, refused to accept the nomination. During the session Chairman Stew trt, of the national committee, called (or contributions for the campaign, ind over $7000 wus realized in u few minutes. Nor TO divioi: CHINA. Nliot Cauaed Death. Atlanta, Ga. (Special). Dr. W. 8. Airth, who was shot at Live Oak, Fla., by E. M. Davis, and who was brought to Atlanta, (or an operation, 18 dead. : ii Kl I nli Cnlilnet O Ulcer Make an Import ant Declaration. London (By Cable). Sir Michael 'licks-Beach, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, made an Important an louncement in London about the Chi nese crisis. In a Bpeech he said the British Government was opposed to regarding China as a "plum cake" to be divided among the powers. "At ;he present time," he added, "I believe this view to be held by all the powers." Coming from a member of the Cab inet, thiB is regarded as equivalent to a declaration that the powers will not ilvlde China at present. It Is believed in London that Admi ral Seymour's international force of 2300 marines, which has been hard pressed about 10 miles from Tien Tsin, has probably been rescued, though ileilnite news to that effect has not been received. Tho relief force of ibout 2000 left Tien Tsin early Monday morning to aid Seymour. He sent a ieliograph message to Tien Tsin on Sunday stating that he could hold out )nly two days. It Is reported at Sltang aal that he has rust 63 killed and over iUO wounded. The foreign ministers, about whose safety grave fears had been felt, have left Pekin end are believed to be with Seymour's force. An official message to London intimates that the Chinese 'jovernment asked them to leave. To send ministers away in this manner usually means a declaration of war, but special circumstances at Pekin may deprive It of this character. Japan has appropriated 50,000,000 yen (about $25,000,000) for military and navul operations In China. FATAL WltKCK. L'olllnton on Virginia Keiuli Hoail -Kn-Itli.o'a Oiterr rrank. Norfolk, Va. (Special.) One man vns killed and two injured and several hundred passengers severely . shaken jp In a collision on the Virginia Beuch Branch of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad, about five miles from Nor !olk. Fireman Sawyer, of the freight train, ft'as killed and the injured are Engi neer Purcell, of the passenger, und En gineer Quillen, of the freight. By almost a miracle the lives of sev ?ral hundred passengers of a third '.rain were saved. The accident was l remarkable one, since after the !reight engine hud crashed into the passenger train the former run wild nto the depot at the rate of 40 miles nn amir and smashed an empty coach itandlng on the main line. The freight mglne was bound down the road after tome cars and the passenger .was ap proaching from the Beuch. Tho en gines collided heud on. The passen ?er engine was knocked into a thou sand pieces, the forward cur wrecked i ml the passengers thrown In a heap, though none was seriously hurt, ""ircmun Sawyer, of the freight, was crushed to death; the engineers Jump 'd and were Injured. The freight en gine by the Impact was reversed and lashed Into the depot, five milcB away, wrecking nn empty coach. On a sld ng stood a passenger truln, awaiting :o pull out. Had the wild engine taken he siding the loss of life would have )ecn large. FIELD OF LABOR. Cattle Is currency in Kafferlu. Scotland has 110,000 unionists. !Rdon lias two electrical subways. Uncle Sam has 4900 cheese factories. No strike in North Carolina in u year. Indiana bus one uou-iiiiinn glass fac tory. Guthrie, Oklii., Is to have u cotton mill. Pittsburg fire bosses demand $2.60 a day. Louisville has 1100 union tobacco workers. Washington, Ind., section men get $1.20 a day. Boston will utilize sea water to ex tinguish fires. Indianapolis barbers will prosecute Sunday shavers. New York electrical workers wojit $4 for eight hours. Seven hundred New York clerks re cently Joined tho K. of L. The Garment Workers' International Union has 30,000 members. South Bend, Ind., plumbers earn $3 for nine hours; juniors, $1,75. Indiana hoisting engineers get $75 (first) and $65 (second) per mouth. Only unionist are now employed on the Pan-American Exposition buildings at Buffalo. Somo New York machinists were conceded the nine-hour day last week. New York City Is said to be deluged with men lu search of employment. Many sections of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina have been ilevoa lated by floods. London bartenders, who work 102 hours per week, will tlemund the twelve-hour day. Portland, Me., grunlte cutters were conceded the eight-hour day and 35 cents per hour. Indianapolis union printers get J16.50 per week and work nine hours per duy; non-union, ten hours, $10 to $12 per week. Louisville plasterers' wuges have been Increased 60 cents per Painters', 25jcents. HFQI KST HF.FUSF.D. Chine. Mlnl.ler Aaked That Ilia Pre.ent Military Activity lie Hnanended. Washington (Special). The Chinese Minister, acting tinder Instructions from his Government, asked President McKinley to stop sending troops to Chlnn. Minister Wn not only received a prompt and emphatic denial of his pro position, but could not help observing that both War and Navy Departments were making as extensive military preparations as though war had actual ly been declared between the United States and China. The Chinese proposition came In the nature of a request for an armistice In the operation of American troops until LI Hung Chang should reach Pekin and bring about a cessation of the disorder. The proposition Is rather a novel one. and Is based upon the representations of the viceroys of the Important provinces of the Yang tse Klang Valley that they can main tain order without the aid of foreign troops, ond that the presence of the foreigners would net merely as an In centive to disorder. Minister Wu brought these representations to the attention of Secretary Hay, who con sulted the President. The hitter's de cision, as subsequently conveyed to the Minister, was that, while tho assur ances of the viceroys for continued quiet was fully appreciated, the United States could not bind itself not to send Its forces to points where disorders actually existed, and where the safety of our officials and citizens was endan gered. Technically speaking, in the absence of a stnte of war. this was not a proposition of armistice, but high Government officials said it amounted practically to an offer of armistice and a refusal on the part of the United States to make the arrangement. NOCTll VISITFD I1V FLOOD. Vat. Territory Inundated and n C.reat Amount of Damage Done. Atlunta, On. (Special), Reports re ceived here from many points In Geor gia and portions of Alabama and South Carolina show that the recent heavy rains have Inundated a vast ter ritory and caused enormous damage to bridges and farming property. Crops, including cotton, corn and es pecially fruit, which was nearlng ma turity when the wet season began, have been greatly Injured and caused u loss of a vast amount to the farmers of the Southern States. The rainfall has been unprecedented. All the Btreams are out of their banks, and carrying away bridges and ferries lu large numbers. The substructure of the handsome new bridge over tho Ocmulgee River at Macon was carried away. Reports say the Savannah River at Augusta, On., was twenty-five feet at noon, and r.s Ing two Inches per hour. The mills there are closed down on account of back water In the canal. At Rome, Ga., the river Is eighteen feet aliovo low water mnrk, and rising one Inch per hour. At Westpolut, Ga., the Chattahoochee River reached twenty feet above the low wnter. A tornado was reported near Hunts vllle, Ala., sweeping the country, but no loss of life Is known. The lowlands have been devastated and only the higher farming lands are untouched. KII.I.F.D MY FIOHTIMi 1UVAI.S. Mia .lennle Humcll Fatally Shot by Albert Koliert. Bedford. Ind. (Special). Albert Rob erts and Oscar Jeans have been rival suitors of Miss Jennie Russell. While Roberts and Miss Russell were out driving they met Jeans, und a pistol duel between the wn men followed. Miss RusbcU leaped from the buggy and rushed between them, but t-hey continued shooting, and the girl wus fatally wounded, it Is nlleged, from one of Roberts' shots. RobertB grabbed the girl in one arm us she feil and con tinued firing with the other. Miss Rus sell died In a few hours at her home, Roberts remaining at her bedside even after death. He Is now almost Insane. Jeans escaped, and warrants are out for his arrest. All the persons con cerned are prominently connected. l.ICT Til Kilt CHILD 111:. FarentH Charged With M urde r for lteftia llig to Provide Medicine. Wheeling, W. Va. ( Special). Ed ward Gregg and wife were arrested ut Moundsvllle by the Hitmqne So ciety for Children, on the charge of murder. It Is one without precedent In West Virginia, the allegation being that tho pair were ordered to provide medicine for their sick child, which they did not do, and the child died. Tho developments will be awaited with Interest. iu:i:i:i:itr A. davis in tuoi iti.fc. Indicted by the irand Jury For Attempt ing to I'olaon a Well. Wurrenton, Va. (Special). Herbert A. Davis, merchant and furmer, post miiHter at Meetzo, was arrested for at tempting to poison the well of Thomas Stewart, who lives near Meetze, on December 11, 1899. Important wit nesses for the Commonwealth were absent and the case was continued by Magistrates Green. Weedon and Tim lierluke. The cuso was sent to tho grand Jury and a true bill was found. Davis" trial will take place the second day of the July term of the County Court. He gave $1000 bail for his up pearanc.e at that time. Killed While Loading Ice. York, Pa. (Special). George Neu man, son of R. L. Neuman, was occi dentally killed while loading Ice. The pulley broke and hurled him against o block of Ice, crushing his head. H was 23 years of age. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. The charities of the late Mrs. Glud Btone were many and notable. Tho Pickett Buchanan Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, has erected a monument In the cemetery at Norfolk, Va., to the memory of Father A bra m. J. Ryan, who was known as the poet-priest of tho Con federacy. Hx-Gov. Francis M. Drake, of Des Moines, Iowa, lias announced that he has made Drake University, of that city, a Joint heir with his five children to his entire estate. Charles S. Wilbur, the New York Supervisor of tho Census, was the first to send In his complied returns to Washington. Ira D. Bankoy, who Is likoly to visit England in September, has been asked by Rev. Thomas Spurgeon to take part in the reopcts'ui ,nj the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Ull, .,,.,., In the gr ,., ,.,. (,n ihrary Castle tne late uukiui Mummy or j unit an extern commence- on I it . snviuck l". m. pA,n oeing 1 1 he 'i 'iicmIm.v ni!rtS47 and tiny ni June in "M fr Glad- mi ay li'J Lord Hive plantatli tinguished v the Queen, v 1876 entertJ Btone, the gnsdowno i iri I hr tirst, Vi KEYSTONE sfl I.ATW.T MWHitHv,, ' " I'ARTt. II HURT IN PITTSBURG Itteaatla.. a.. . . ItiV A nil (.. i. 11,11 ,h. Dehr,., O,,. I n., to rroiierl, .,,, " Mlnera I'm Djriiainii, i , In one of the florcost irpt hss ever seen one nremn' and eleven otuei-H , ., property to the Hii,nm was destroyed. The flames were ,. ,,, I Company. The 01Kn . mystery. It whs dlwoveJ serby and before n. could be awakened the nun luiniii siunes or tho fai, a mass of (lame., h,,,.-, were wafted high In ,),,, " surrounding Imiliiines th, one of Pittsburg's mo-i , manufacturing ceritics ,VP.,, of being destroyed. ' ' ! In an incredibly Mi,rt m entire structure n .... "III' s escape ran from the street , mm iiikiu inis n sinie f 'ni-il men. sin streams of water '. Into the seething m!IKR ..r flit Vi me uysianiiers uttered a nig. I no wall wax m.en u an instant it f,. m rifomnii U'llll .... .. . , iiiuiniH was cm i , . . "a ""-v """HKli the fi ohm n was round thm y uwiors who u-ni-ft taken to the West p., - tin jjiji: the surgeons in charge m win recover. Because of the men were unable to get near and their efforts wore rtmlta H10- thu unwi.,, i:.. luiiiMiiuK propeiti 1.U100 nours bard work tl plant hud been eniiioi.. ditlon to the loss to the tn, -.iiiipany lost a great inimhe, uie patterns. r flat a crj I n to ij 'iiryinj '" '-ii .in I'picieiTh'l. robberies throughout Mi, vnship during the ,lM J tly by nn organized gang f s have become tired o( llj Tiir ui resen I nson. afj After Thli'tlng I. mi,. I nere lias been an enidem way robberies throughout M i ow dcntl zens ..I .!.!.. . 1... r. ..... uifiiill.V IIH'IIH wiiu n Or mined to stop them, in- tlon before Judge Johnson a largo number, asking 111,4 m-iniiy t-oiiBuioies lie appoint us policemen, to endeavor to 1 IeuHt some of the rogues, granted their pi-aver. There have been three h the vicinity or Elwyn Stat past three months, in path n tlm being relieved of all hi and valuables. Hen roosts completely relieved of every one case a live pig was token! pen, and in another several harness were taken. The citi their suspicious and 11 whoh is looked for. To lllnu l'i a Mm His enemies conspired to H lull miner named John Kmt ployed In Laurel Hill Mine, plot was frustrated. Some Is alleged, are jealous o( Kc-oJ cess at his work, and In onle venge placed dry sticks of d a keg of powder which he wi The dynamite was arranged way that when Koftock won an Iron rod placed in the 1; tire charue would explode, was suspected and the nowih f without being exploded, it conspirutors also placet! iluj under the rallnncl bed n Kostock worked. A iiiiinlier will be mude. Tmvn'a Money Mimi A rocking ihuir 11111I 1 young woman saved the money from falling Into lie 0 burglar at ltcnovo. A huift tl,. u Ilnviil iiuiuilKU I Iftifiuri "'"l" K house through 11 spcoiidstoryf wane ipioeniK win.-"' " pied by Miss Theresa l!u of Mrs. Russell, the burglar 11 rocking chair. This awnk Burke, who gave the oh burglar Jumped from the i ,,,.,,1.. 1, lu u,.,.i,n There mi amount of the borough's cajj nouse. I limine Over a Hull. A dispute over a bull Ims Ganteur to tho Insane asyluti vllle. The ownership of tii duestlon bus for .several yea bone of contention between and Frank lnciill. each ilecw self to be the rightful '" Gantear lias long been quit strutlve in his declarations Khln nf the bull, llllil it nppea been the absorbing topic ofl ltoi'ontlv his friends n't'Og his mental condition was bent paired. Meanwhile the own the bull Is still unsettled. Violent Wind Sturm A tierce windstorm, almost t., i,i,inw,a niiMHcd over ... it....... hww mid fete I'UUIILJ'. mini.' i- -" L i.i .i,.,. .. nrwl ncvei'al pelf a narrow escape from serlo i . r.... I....I a close V JUCUU WUIJA in' - ..., n..-.i ...,.,i,i off the W1IIU llllt-u u vui'w" "- a, whirled It within an In'H f head. The fuct that "'"Vt fell in the weHt end " saved the stundlng l'roJ).!'I water linp, nnu i nearby, many trees were I"T . . iu I'.il.nni V4 lioie rwini'j - p Ralph, the threcyenr-old f ,i m,.u win. Shawley, or I -i..i.inuiu caused oieii oi. ii ii-iiio'., . i. uit. ..nmiiia four ir a .it t sisters and two .u" are just recover...- (, soon afterward were oe tow treme puins and seveie tors were called and a" cept the three-year old boy. mOHl VIOieilllJ' ,i,el' i.vi,1pv mnrnlllK. The 0tlie. sick, but will recover. itiiil Turl'1' l-liwiw Rev. S. II. Will'" .KH Chalfont Union J"cl"":j Church, Yardlcy. hns a w J ..... !..l.o..i nf Ills flOCK 'I His plan is not to dollver a f leB8 at '?.l.l":,H'.tende present. i " ,.i ..,, ' I... ...o ,Hullllll0lntPU.U,t service wcic ..-,.-- . twenty-two persons were in aud hence no sermon was it iniarrr The ten-year-old daughter Oodschalk. of Pen Argji. tjuurry and was killed- r
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