STRAW RIDE HAS AJATAL ENDING. Car Crashes Into Parly of Merry makers at College Point. TWO KILLED, FIVE BADLY INJURED. The Driver Saw the Car and Thought lie Could Clcir the Track. But the Car Hit the Rear Wheel of the Wagon. Demolishing the Vehicle and Hurling the Occupant ol the Rear Seati High In the Air. New York (Special). Of 26 young people who started from College Point, I- I., on what is locally known as a "starlight" riele, two were carried home dead, five are in a hospital, four were al lowed to leave the hospital after having icvi iu icavr nit: iiiisuiiai aner ii.hhik their wounds dressed, .and everv one of the remainder was more or less bruised. A collision with a trolley car caused the acrirlent. The merrymakers were on their way to a hotel to miles away, where they were to have a dance. They were all in one wagon the bottom of which had been tiiied with straw. It was almost midnight when they reached Distler's Hotel, on the edge of Jamaica. When in front of the house the driver saw a trolley car approaching, lie thought he could cross the tracks in time to avokl a collision, but made a miscalcu lation. He applied the lash to the horses, but to no purpose. Pickcl and Sehmer were the ones oc cupying the end seats at the rear of the wagon. The car hit the wagon at the rear wheels back of the hubs. The ve hicle was demolished, the rear end be ing; broken to pieces. I'ickel was hurled into the air and fell .10 feet away. As he descended his head struck a tire hy drant and his skull was crushed in. He was carried into Distler's Hotel, but died as he was being placed upon a couch in the parlor. Schnier was also thrown into the air. He landed head first On the macadam pavement. He was unconscious, and was carried into the hotel. A few minutes later an ambu lance from the Jamaica Hospital arrived and started with him. as the most seri ously injured, for that institution. He died before the hospital was reached. Miss Mattic Debevois. sustained a se vere contusion of the chest and hips, and was the worst hurt among the in jured. The car. after breaking the re:'.r c".d of the wagon, pushed it to one side and then stopped. The car itself was badly wrecked. LOREE TO SUCCEED MR. COHEN. It Is Affirmed That Penny's Fourth V ice-President Will Become the Head of B. & 0. Philadelphia. Pa. (Special). I.. E. Loree, fourth vice-president oi the Pennsylvania Company and general manager of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, is to be named within the next few days as president of the Balti more and Ohio Railroad Company. J. C. Stuart, general superintendent of the middle' and northwestern division of the Baltimore and Ohio, is to be made gen eral superintendent oi the entire Balti more and Ohio lines. Such an arrange ment will place the Baltimore and Ohio under the entire control of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. The latter is already represented in the directorate of the Baltimore and Ohio by four of its own people, and with Mr. Lone as the presi dent its interests would be all the more strongly cemented. TRAGEDY'S STRVNGE SEQUEL. , 1 Supposed Insanity of Mother and Daughter Attributed to a Murder. New York (Special). Brooding over the murder of Do'.lv Reynolds, ior which I Dr. Kennedy is on trial tor the third time, is said to have made Mrs. Edrth Catherin Hcathmere and her daughter Lilian insane. Mrs. Hcathmere is a widow, 34 years old, and the daughter is 16. Both were committed by Magis trate Brann to the insane pavilion at Bellevue Hospital, to be examined as to their sanity. At the time oi the murder of Dolly Reynolds in the Grand Hotel Mrs. Hcathmere and her daughter were liv ing there. "Pacifying" the Boers. London (By Cable). Lord Kitchener reports to the War Office, under date of Pretoria, May 10," as follows: "Si'n-e May 5 28 Boers have been killed. 6 wounded and 130 taken prisoners mil J3 Have surrendered. Nine liiousaih rounds of ammunition, 230 wagons. 1.503 ' horses and large quantities of grain and i stock have been captured. . Hurt by a Falling Cage. Latrobe. Pa. ( Special ). Eight men were tiadly injured liy a tailing etigo at the Millwood Coal and Coke Works here. Six foreigners. I lungarian and Italian ministers, severely bruised about the bodies, and numerous scalp wounds and small bones broken. The accident is attributed to the carelessness of the en gineer, who became confused and placed the machinery in the wrong position. Won $5,000,000 in Stocks. Scranton, Pa. (Special). During the recent Hurry in stocks several fortunes were made by residents of this citv. The largest winner was T. H. Watkin.;, -irtd recently president of the Temple Iron Company. He is said to have cleared up $5,000, 000, of which $1,000 00 was made Thursday in Northern Pacific. Killed lb: Wronj Man. Birmingham, Ala. (Special.) An un known negro, supposed at the time to be James Brown, who was charged with as saulting a woman at Springville, was shot and killed by a crowd of white men near Leeds. 12 miles from Birmingham. The coroner expressed the opinion that the wrong man was killed. Bodies Blown 430 Yards. Huntington, Pa. (Special). The boil er of a freight engine on the Hunting ton and Broad Tp Railroad at Mount Dallas, the southern terminus of the Broad Top Railroad, exploded, in stantly killing four members of the local freight crew. The bodies of Conductor Hollingshead and Engineer Berkstirs ser were blown 400 yards across the river. The cause of the explosion is not known, but it is believed to have oc curred while the boiler was being filled with water. Fire Dltaslers In Montreal.' Montreal (Special). Brunelle's Ho tel, a small hfcstelry in Maissoneuve. a.i eastern suburb of the city, was burned, and three inmates. Mrs. Bitinelic. wife of the proprietor; Octave Leussier, a fanner, and Miss Leussier, perished in the flames. The factory of the A'aska Feather and Down Company was also burned. Loss, $65,000; insurance, $40,000. MckTulTy Will NatltaeiValCragcr. London (By Cable). The Geneva correspondent of the Daily Mail asserts that President McKinley has imo me 1 Mr. Kruger that he cannot receive him alter officially or unofficially. SUMMARY OH THE NEWS. Domestic. Reported that the Deitcrich syndicate and the American Window tilass Com pany hac formed a pool to ahsorb all the natural pas companies in Indiana. Owing to the rush of people to Jack sonville to secure free rations without work, and fearing trouble from them, it has been decided to continue the city under marshal law indefinitely. The Peary Arctic Club has chartered tltc steamer Krik to sad in July for the North, to learn what has occurred dur ing the two vcars since the explorer has hcen heard from. The jury in the case of Charles H. Eastman, the Harvard instructor, who was accused of murdering his brother-in-law. brought in a verdict of acquittal. Plans are being arranged for the cele bration in Richmond of the three hun dredth anniversary of the English set- ,t t i . - j tc" cnt of J '"'"" V' The mammoth new drvdock of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company was put in use for the first time, three strainers being put in it. I Four new steamers for the Atlantic Transport Line were started at the New ; York Shipbuilding Company's yards at Gloucester. N. J. ' The American Federation of Musi- I cians decided that local unions have no j right to bar women from membership. j Immigration Otlicer Miller captured 18 contraband Chinamen who had cross- I ed the border at Powell Town, Me. I Lightning set lire to the Second Bap- ! tist Church in Delaware. O.. and several I persons were made unconscious. Mail Carrier Walter Willis was ar rested in North Can liua for robbing the mails. Capt. Henry Matthews and his sister-in-law were arraigned in the Isle of Wight county court on the charge of poisoning his wife. Arutro Hernasco. who tried to assassi- i nate Chief of Police Brown, of llarrc. Yt.. was sentenced to prison for 21 t years. Miss MoIIic Wark, who for so years j taught in the public schools of Cham- bcrsburg, Pa., died there, aged 84 I years. I he Association of Surgeons of the j Southern Railway met in Mobile, Ala., 1 and elected oltieers. Henry Johnson, colored, was lynched in Yaldosla. Ga., for .-hoo'ing tit a white mim. Mrs. Cora Lucas smashed a speak-ea-v effectively with an axe at Glcitdulc, W. Ya R. Wcsthronk M eyes, 'a real estate broker in New York, committed sit i- eid cido. Peter Shaefter, So ye::rs old, com- ; j mined suicide near Dillshurg, Pa. ; The rumor was confirmed by Vice- ; President Gross, oi the Brooks Loco- motive works, in Dunkirk. N. Y.. that : a locomotive trust has been formed ! j that takes in all the plants except Bald- ; win, oi Philadelphia, and the Potter ' ! Company, of Pitt-burg. , Five thousand dollars damages was 1 ! awarded in Norfolk. Ya., to Roco Cor- I j letti, whose hand was crushed by one oi j I the cars of the Norfolk Company. ; I The annual session of the Internation- ; : al Textile Workers' Union, in session I 1 at Holyoke. Mass.. adjourned to meet j ' next year in Washington. j The Elizabeth City county grand jury indicted Mrs. Jennie Wood, of Hamp- 1 ! ton, for attempting to burn her resi- I j deuce. j ' Capt. Alfred P. Capron, who served ! in the Civil War, died at his home in j I W'iunetka. a suburb of Chicago. 1 I R. N. Pollock, the Cleveland Savings j Bank president, who committed sut- I cide, carried insurance for $05,000. 1 President McKinlev reviewed the ; norai parade at l.os Angeles, Lai., and was showered with rose leaves. Three men were burned to death in a ,fire ,in fJ"awa. Out., that destroyed a .?" eral boarding nouses. Wallace Etheridge was committed to jail in Norfolk, Ya., on the charge of killing his friend, Carlyle Shipp. j Private Cuniberlidge, a sentinel at j Port Sheridan, was killed by Smith i Wheeler, a prisoner. Four railway companies are fighting in Norfolk, Ya., for rights of way. Foreign. I The Duke and Duchess oi Marlbor- i ough took an active part m the Prim- rose League meeting in London, as if to ' show there was no truth in the stories j of a disagreement between them. ' The South African News states that i it has teen decided to reconstruct the ! Cape Colony ministry wi.h Cecil Rhoujs j as premier, but Sir John Sprigg denies i repon. 1 lie representatives of the powers at : Constantinople returned to the Porte j t,lc -Sultan's third note demanding the I immediate suppression 01 me loreign j jotomVes. i A dispatch f rom Constantinop'e states ithat a number of revolutionary Macedo nians, including women, nave hcen snot. ' Eugene Zimmerman has offered the i creditors oi the Duke oi Manchester, ' his son-in-law. to shilling, on the pound. 1 lie University ot .Melbourne conier rcd upon the Duke of Cornwall and York the degree of doctor of laws. The Marquis of Ormonde was elected commodore of the Royal Yacht Squad ron, to succeed King Edward. The police of cities in Ireland seized copies of William J. O'Brien's paper, the Irish people, for publishing attacks upon King Edvsard. Cardinal Yaughan and the address to the King. Mr. Dil lon complained in the House of Com mons that the action of the authorities was grossly illegal. Emperor William arrived at Stras burg and attended a celebration in commemoration of the anniversary of the peace of Frankfort. The people in two districts of the Island of San Domingo are in revolt against the government. General Lora has been killed. Sentences were pronounced in F.lber felil, Prussia, on doctors and others who assisted young men to evade mili tary service. A runaway train at Ludwigshafcn, Bavaria, dashed through a wall, killed a woman and injured other people. Numbers of young girls have recently been stabbed in the breast by an un known man at night in Moscow. The Americans have evacuated all the dictricts under their control in Pckin except the Forbidden City. The new census of England and Wales shows a population of 32.5j5.716, an increase over the population of 1N01 of Count Boni de Castcllauc is suffering with symptoms of appendicitis. Financial. The cost of the new Stock Exchange in New York will be $3,200,000. The Boston News Bureau figures out that here has been an appreciation of $4.iH.ooo,or:o in the shares of a few active railways recently. It is now reported that the Russian loan will be for $100,000,000, and that Paris will take two-thirds and Berlin, Amsterdam and Brussels the balance. Western Union was active and strong on the report that plans arc under con sideration for a gigantic telephone and telegraph combination in which it would be a part. MRS. M'KINLEY IS SERIOUSLY ILL. She Is Removed to San Francisco for Treatment. THE PRESIDENT MUCH WORRIED. A Rone felon that Developed on the Trip from New Orleans Has Caused Her to Be Fever ish and Aggravated Her Generally Weak Conditinn-The Felon Lanced by Her Attend ing Physician on the Train. San Francisco (Special). A special train bearing President and Mrs. Mc Kinley, Miss Barber. Dr. Rixey, Secre tary Cortclyou and Henry T. Scott ar rived here at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon from Delmonte. Cal. Mrs. McKinley was brought to San Franciro by the President in advance of the regular program that she may obtain complete rest. Upon their arrival the President and his party went to the resi dence of Henry T. Scott, which they will ixvnpy during their stay here. Mrs. McKittley's condition is said not to be alarming, but she has not been well since the long journey began, and the trip has fatigued her extremely. She did not improve under medical treatment, and both the President and Dr. Rixey considered it v.isc to bring her to San Francisco, where she could have com plete rest for a few days at Mr. Scott's residence, and where Dr. Hirschfelter. Mr. Scott's physician, could be consulted. The Cabinet members and others of the party will carry out the program as arranged, going to San Jose and arriv ing at San Francisco Tuesday. The present understanding i that the Presi dent will rejoin the party at San Jose if Mrs. McKinley's condition permits. The day after leaving New Orleans a bone felon appeared upon one of Airs. Mckinley's fingers, her hand became swollen, gave her considerable pain and produced fever that prevented her from sleeping. Dr. Rixey twice lanced the felon and gave her some relief in that way. Mrs. McKinley bore it bravely, and urged that the program at the cities and towns should not be modified in any particular on her account. dispatch from Delmonte says: "Mrs. McKinley's illness has cast a shadow on the other members of the Presidential party who remained here, and there was talk at first of abandoning the entire schedule between Delmonte and San Francisco, but Mrs. McKinley especially requested that the plans of the party should not be disarranged by her depar tu re. KILLED WHILE AT PLAY. A Thirteen-Year-old Lad Climbs Pole and Grasps Live Wire. Lancaster, Pa. (Special). Roland Ncwbold. aged 13 years, was stricken to death while playing a merry game of hide-and-seek with a number of young companions. The boy had climlred a pole to hide himself, and when about 20 feet above the ground he slipped, and, to save himself from falling, grasped a wire. It was a heavily charged feed wire of tne electric street railway comapny. Un able to let go. the boy hung in midair with over (1000 volts of electricity play ing through his body, until a man climbed the pole and carried the insen sible form to the ground. He was pro nounced dead a few minutes later. Murdered and Thrown Into Lake. Buffalo. N. Y. (Special). The bodv of a man with his throat cut from ear to car. a five-pound weight in his pocket, and a stout wire bound about the corpse, was picked up in the har bor here. The body was identified as that of Harry Hoeh. of this city, a painter, but who at times served as a marine fireman. The police have no doubt that the man was murdered. University Student a Suicide. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). A dispatch from Alfred, Alleghany county, N. ' says that Yernon W. Holmes, a member of this year's graduating class of Al fred University, committed suicide there by shooting himself through the heart. Despondency, brought on by overwork, is given as the probable cause for the deed. At the time of his death Air. Holmes was acting pastor of the Pres byterian Church at Arkport. Well of Bubonic Plague. Ann Arbor. Mich. (Special). Charles B. Hare, the student who was taken with bubonic plague April 4, was releas ed as permanently cured, and Cum tuings, the friend who nursed him through the sickness, was released with him. There has not been the slightest sign of any infection from the case. The only bad after-effect that Hare suf fered is that of a weak heart. 100 SOLDIERS BLOWN UP Y'ictoria, B. C. (Special.) News was brought by the steamer Glenogle, which just arrived here, that a severe earth quake occurred at Yokohama on April 24, lasting fully two minutes. No damage was reported. The Asiatic reports that on April 22 ico French and 30 Germans were killed and wounded by the explo sion of mines buried on the frontiers of Shan Si and Chili Li. The China Times reports the capture of Brigand Headquarters, where Chi nese were pillaging the neighborhood un der the leadership of 10 foreign soldiers. The Germans killed 20 Chinese and cap tured a junk on which a cannon was mounted. Heat From the Stars. Williams Bay, Wis. (Special). Pro fessor V.. F. Nichols, of Dartmouth Col lege, says that experiments at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chi cago have for the first time proved be yond a doubt that the planets and some of the fixed stars send an appreciable quantity of heat to the earth. The quantity, however, is minute. The in strument which can record such an in finitely small amount of heat is called a radiometer. Saa Domingo Revolution. San Domingo (Special). The dis tricts of Moca and La Vega are in arms against the government. Congress has decreed the suspension of constitutional guarantees in the revolting districts. Several arrests have been made, and the government is taking active measures. The vice-president of Santo Domingo, Horatio Vasquez, is at the head of the government troops operating against the rebels. General Lora has been killed and General Bobea has been tak en prisoner. The city of San- Domingo is timet. WIND CARRIED THE FIRE. Over $J00,000 Worth of Property Destroyed Near Detroit. Detroit (Special). Fanned by a 35-mile-an-honr wind, fire swept the west bank of tlx- Rouge river in Delray. a suburb of Detroit, for three-quarters of a mile and destroyed over $800,000 worth of property. The fire broke out shortly nftrr t o'clock in the roof of the Salliotte St Furgason lumber mills, which had not been running for several months. The building was soon in ashes and the fire swept across a nearby dock. Great em bers were picked up by the wind and dropped on the roof of Brownlee & Co.'s mill and salt block and both these buildings were destroyed. Delray has a small fire department and a call was sent to Detroit, which re sponded with three engines and the fire boat Battle. F'rom the Brownlee prop erty the fire spread to the Western Union yard, where over 100,000 poles were stored, and they were soon ablaze. The plant of the Maltby Lumber Com pany was the last one on the river bank and it was soon destroyed, together with a large stock of cedar poles. Speculation I' roving Fata'. Chicago (Special). In a report issued the local health department attributes an increase in the death rate to the craze for speculating in stocks. The excite ment -occasioned cither by losses or quickly gained riches, the report says, has proved dangerous chiefly to persons over to years of age. Of 566 deaths here last week 124 were persons 60 years old or older. This is an increase of 25 per cent, over the previous week, and of 24 per cent, over the corresponding week of 1500. Sultan Kills Ills Physician. London (By Cable). "It is rumor ed," says the Constantinople corre spondent of the Daily Express, "that the Sultan shot dead a physician who. while attending him for ear comp'aint. and massaging him, unwittingly cau-cd his majesty intense pain. The cham berlain rushed into the room, and the sultan, who supposed there was an at tempt upon his life, fired again, wound ing the chamberlain." Fatal Distillery Explosion. Morgantown. W. Ya. (Special.) An explosion at the old Czar Hart Distil lery, near the West Virginia line, in Pennsylvania, killed Ezra Thomas, the owner of the distillery, and Frank Fear, an employee, and seriously injured Frank Thomas and William Dennis, and wrecked the distillery. Fear's body was blown into fragments. Thomas died of the effects of bruises and burns. The cause of the explosion was a de fective boiler. Storm Damage In Texas. Houston, Texas (Special). A high wind, accompanied by heavy rains and hail, did considerable damage to houses and crops in Milam Falls and Limestone counties. Bailcyville, a town of 175 people, in Milam county, is reported as having been wrecked and a number oi people reported injured. At McClana han, Flass county, the Baptist church was wrecked and J. C. Owens, colored, killed, and a dozen white people injured. The cotton and grain crops over a wid section was laid waste. Mock Hanging's Fatal End. Davenport, Iowa (Special). Emil Mohr and Charles Reis were killed while pretending to hang August Blunck on a pulley rope outside the In dependent Malting Company's building. Mohr and Reis, with Gus Siems, were teasing Blunck and wound up by tying the rope about his waist with the avow ed intention of hanging him. The strain on the rope caused the fastenings sixty feet above, to give way. An iron pulley struck Reis on the head, crush ing it. A falling scantling brained Mohr. Blunck was slightly injured. Assassinated While Plowing. Fairmont. W. Va. (Special). Charles Smith, aged twenty-three, while plow ing on his father's farm near Sincerity, Wetzel County, was shot in the back by an unknown assassin and instantly killed. He was holding the plow while his father drove the team, and neither knew that any one was about until the shot was fired. There were mtmerous bushes at the edge of the field, and the father did not see any One. The ball entered the back and came out in front. The Fellow Servants' Law Operates. Wheeling. W. ra. (Special). In the case of Leonard Sellers against L. G.' Hallock, contractor, asking $10,000 be cause of injuries received in his em ploy, Judge Harvey ordered the jury to bring in a verdict for the defendant under the law which holds an employer not responsible for carelessness of a fellow-servant. BY CHINESE MINES, The new 7,000-ton liner Sobranion was wrecked on the Chinese coast, near Lung Ling, prior to the sailing of the Glenogle. The passengers and mails were saved. The vessel is a total wreck. A mixed battalion of English, Japa nese and French had a sharp engage ment with 500 Boxers near Shan Back Wan. The fight lasted all day, and a number of Chinese were killed.- The British lost two men wounded, the French one and the Japanese two. There were no cases of plague', 104 deaths, 65 cases of smallpox and 43 deaths at Hong Kong from January 12 to April 15. Congressmen to Visit Coast. San Francisco, Cal. (Special). A number of Eastern Congressmen, most of them members of the rivers and har bors committee, will soon vis?it Califor nia, and during their stay of three weeks will thoroughly inspect the rivers and harbors of the State. Congressman Burton, of Ohio, will head the party, which will inclit'le B. B. Dovener, of West Virginia: E. F. Acheson. of Penn sylvania; R. P. Bishop, of Michigan; I). S. Alexander, of New York, and G. P. Lawrence, of Massachusetts. Postoftlce Robbed."" Dushore, Pa. (Special). A daring robbery was enacted at New Albany, six miles from here, when the safe in the postofiice was blown ooen and about $125 in cash and stamps stolen. Frank Lewis and L. F. Marcy, whose homes are near the Dostomce. awakened by the explosion and hurried to the scene, where they were confronted by three masked men. One of the lat ter fired a pistol atIarcy, the ball nar rowly missing him' The robbers then commanded the eitipiw tr riir-ji ,.... - ,, escaped. i MOB RUNS RIOT THROUGH DETROIT. Seventeen People figured in a Fight With Ihe Police. OFFICERS BADLY CUT BY BRICKS. tunning Fight ol Three Hours Between a Crowd of Ten Thousand Men and Royt and the PollceThe Trouble Arose Over the Question of Free Speech-The Mayor Takes th: People's Part. Detroit, Mich. (Special). Fully io.coo men and boys ran riot in the main streets of this city for more than three hours, and a continual running fight with police, both mounted and on foot, made an exciting night in the heart of the city. The net result so far as known is twelve citizens and five po licemen injured. The names of but two of the citizens are known at present. They arc Mike Waldin and Louis Cap lin. Both men had their heads crushed by being trampled on by horses ridden by the mounted police in a charge on the crowd. The beginning of the riot was when Director of Police Frank T. Andrews, who recently superseded the old police board through the passage of the Rip per bill by tlie Legislture, issued an or der to the police to allow no one to stand about the wagon of one Tom Bawden, a local single-tax cxhorter. who had incurred the ill-will of the police director by the extraordinary na ture of his remarks on so-called wealthy "tax dodgers." When Bawden began his exhortation a crowd quickly gathered. Director Andrews supervised the work of the police in keeping the people moving. The crowd good-naturedly hooted at the police and no violence was done. Friday night, however, the temper of the crowd changed when it was an nounced that Director Andrews bad called on reserve officers to assist in keeping the Campus Martins clear. The single-tax exhorter came with his wagon and found the campus jammed with people. The police refused to allow him to locate at any particular point and he drove from one street to anoth er, the crowd following. It was but a moment before stone began to fly through the air anil a en era! mixup followed, in which ihe foot police used thejr clubs and the mounted men charged. The officers tired their guns in the air and the mob returned th-.- fusilade with bricks and cobble stones. At one time when the mob had gathered about the Central Police Sta tion, at Fort and Randolph streets, bricks were thrown through the win dows. WILL OF 0E0. Q. CANNON. Provides for Ills ThirtyThree Children and His Four Wlvos. Salt Lake, Utah (Special). The will of George Q. Cannon was filed for pro bate here. The will disposes of an es tate approximating $1,000,000. All of the 33 children are given an acre of land on the Cannon farm and $2000 in cash on attaining majority or at marriage, the balance of $200,000 to be divided among the children when the youngest child becomes of age. While polygamy was recognized by the Mormon Church Mr. Cannon had four wives. To these are willed their homes, provision also being made for their maintenance during life. The remainder of the estate, valued at $800,000, and consisting of 33,000 acres of farm land, interest in flour mills, irri gation companies and stocks in banks, etc., passes into the possession of the George Q. Cannon Association, of which President Cannon's children and his nephew, John M. Cannon, arc stock holders, to be held in trust until the youngest child is 40 years of age. THE PREACHER SPECULATED. He Lost Money Entrusted to Him by Parish ioners, Who Expected Different Results. Chicago (Special). Rev. S. A. Har ris, for several years until recently pas tor of the Congregational Church at Milburn, 111., has been suspended from the minstry for six months pending an investigation of, charges which are made by his former parishioners, who declare they arc out over $100,000 which they had entrusted to the minister for specu lations that arc said to have turned out unfortunately. Mr. Harris was at one time a lawyer of Chicago and a member of the Board of Trade. Mr. Harris and his friends assert that no blame can be attached to him: that the funds were put into his hands that he might do the best he could to in crease them, and that the going wrong of the various enterprises in which the money was sunk was no fault of his. " PLANS OF THE STEEL COMBINE. Purposes of Ihe Corporation Recently Formed Centralize Operations. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). The United States Steel Corporation has adopted the policy of centralizing operations, of abandoning its smaller plants, those dis advantageous located, and those that cannot be run economically. The work heretofore done at these plants will be transferred to those that can be oper ated to the advantage of the comnanu The above is the statement of Joshua Rhodes, of Pittsburg, retire! as chair man of the board of directors of the National Tube Company, now a con stituent of the United States Steel Cor poration, in reply to an inquiry as to whether the new Morgan combine has adopted such a policy. Adoption of this policy of centraliz ing operations by the Uinted States Steel Corporation will mean to the Pittsburg district, if carried into effect, without delay, the bringing here within a year about 50,000 mill men from plants of the company that will be abandoned. More Rioting in Russia. St. Petersburg (By Cable). The Kawkas report disturbances at Tiflis on May 5. Workmen and others displayed a red flag, the symbol of anarchy. The police attacked the crowd and fought for a quarter of an hour before they cleared the square in which the assemb lage was. Many were wounded on both sides. Troops had to be called out be fore quiet was finally restored. Forty one arrests were made, including one man and three women students, who had been recently expelled from St. Petersburg. Millionaire In Beer Vat. Trov, N. Y. (Special). Samuel Bol ton, Jr., the well-known millionaire brewer of this city, met a hor'ible death by being .boiled to death in a vat of beer. Mr. Bolton went to the brew ing department and stopped to look in to a monster vat of boiling beer. The vat is about 15 or 20 feet high. The top is a few feet above the second floor so that a man could easily look info it! Mr. Bolton saw something that needed fixing and told James Wager, a work man, to go after the carpenter. When Wager returned he could not find the brewer. Mr. Bolton's hat and watch were lying on the floor. LIVE NATIONAL AFFA'.RS. To Sell Oovernmcnt Secrets. An attempt to sell the confidential communications between the Attorney-. General and the Secretary of War in4liv( Neely case was unearthed by Chief Wil kie, of the Secret Service. Information had been obtained from Judge John D. Lindsay, counsel for Nccly, in Neiv York, who had received a letter signed John II. Dickenson, offering him copies of the correspondence. Judge Lindsay turned the matter over to th" Attorney-General. The latter called in Chief YVilkie and placed the maid-: in his hands. An officer was sent to the I general delivery wircdow of the post : office, and when a man presented him self and asked for mail for John B. Dickenson he was followed. He went direct to the insular divrsion of the War Department. Shortly afterward a con ference between the Secretary of War, Solicitor General Richards, of the De partment of Justice, Colonel Edwards, chief of the insular bureau, and Chief Wilkie was held, and it was discovered that the man representing himself as John B. Dickenson was William Davis Williams, the stenographer of Colonel Edwards, a position which he has held for a year past. Williams volunteered to turn the correspondence that he had endeavored to sell to Judge Lindsay over to the authorities here. As the ! sale had not been completed no charge j was made against Williams, but he was j summarily dismissed by the Secretary of : War. I It Was a False Alarm. I The National Conference of Charities and Corrections decided to hold the next j convention in Milwaukee, at a date to hi I selected later, probably in June, 1002. ! The public session was devoted to a I discussion of ,1 project advocated by the j committee on legislation for a national ) bureau of charities and correction, with I educational and statistical functions j analogous to those of the Bureau of Ed ! ttcntion. Dr. V. II. Wines, assistant di i rector of the census ; Edward T. De I vine, of New York, and Prof. F. A. Fct I ter, of Palo Alto, Cal., made addresses ! favoring the project, and a committee of I three was appointed to press action. 1 Medals for Naval Heroes. ! The awarding of medals for bravery i -in the Santiago bay naval operations i was taken up by the Navah Board of I Awards. A large number of designs for I the medals of honor have been submit ted. Before considering these, how ever, the board passed upon many spe cial cases of gallantry in the Philippine : and China campaigns. The awards a' to China and the Philippines are prac tically completed, although the list will be extended to include meritorious I cases which may have been overlooked in the firs; instance. j Conscience Above Greed. ; That the inner monitor of the Ameri- i can heart can still assert itself above avarice is proved by the fact that the 1 "conscience fund" of the Treasury Dc ; partment has reached the tidy total oi j $311,003 57. The first contribution was received in 181 1 and amounted for the ycac, to $250. The smallest sum ever received in one vear was SVi anrl tin. largest was $29,155.11. The money thus received is turned into the general fund of the Government as miscellaneous re ceipts. . Blame Spain for the Maine. I A rlaitn vvna ftA .t.tili fl, C..r,;.l. Claims Commission in behalf of Ha-ry McCaun. a seaman on the ill-fated Maine when she was blown up in Ha vana harbor, asking $io,coo for injuries sustained by him in consequence of the explosion. A claim of $20,000 was filed in behali of Catherine Bums, whose son, a cor poral of marines, was killed by the same explosion. Butler and Harwood. of New York city, who filed the claims, base thi'in rn th nrv,i.t il.n. cn:.. .1: I is"m,m ma, vjpuill Ul- i rectly or by reason of negligence was j responsible for the explosion. j Nearly All the Money Placed. I Nearly all of the $3,500,000 allowed by the Postofiice Department for the rurai ! free delivery system during the next fis ; cal year has been allotted. There are j still on file a sufficient number of appli cations to require another $i,ooo.oco. The number of rural routes now in op I eration is approximately 3000. Lack of uiius pruuaury win now Halt extension. Conference of Charlticr. The following statement is furnished for publication: "The Department ot State, has ground for the belief that the German government dees not contem plate the acquisition of any island on the cnezuclan coast, nor a harbor or coal ing station in that vicinity." Capital News la General. Mr. Charles M. Schwab, president ol the United States Steel Corporation. Cavp his vi,vv lw.f-a ,K I ...I....... 1 1 v.w,v 111 iiiuusiriai Commission 111 Washington. ! The Tormvln Rnr, nr,..,1 A - - -, utuiu uetiueu, with a view to locating sites for .torpedo boat stations, to vjsit Charleston, Sa vannah, Port Royal, Pensacola and other points. Later a trip will be made along the Northern coast. The enrollment in the regular Indian schools during the past quarter was the largest for the past ten years. A number of transfers were made in naval commanders. Rear Admiral Schley, who arrived Monday at Southampton on his way home from the South Atlantic Station, has cabled the Navy Department a re- . .i.. 1. n , ... iiicsi uiai lie uc anowcu 10 stop ten nays in England, and this request has been granted. Director of the Census Mcrriam an nounced the results of the official inves tigation of the alleged census irregulari ties in St. Mary's. Charles and Anne Arundel counties, in Maryland. Secretary Hay officially denies that the State Department has delivered n new isthmian canal treaty to the British Ambassador. Our New Possession 1. Native priests in the Philippine:; have sent a protest to the Pope against the rulurn of Archbishop Chapelle as ad ministrator, mid favoring the return of Archbishop Nozaleda, who, although in Rome, is still Archbishop of Manila. The department of Southern Luzon is sending various expeditions in pursuit of the remaining Filipino bands. It is expected that the Island of Mindoro will be occupied in Ihe near .future Many fugitive Tagalos and a quantity of arms are renorted rrniw-l..,t :.. , - 1 - vmLti 1 1 1 min doro. The trial of Captain Frederick I. Bar rows, of til Thirli!, 7.l..n.u.. Y..f-.... ' - vmiiuvci lllldlll- ry, quartermaster of the department of ooLuneui i.uzon, on cnarges connected with the commissary scandals, was fin ished.' Tile verdict has not vet h. nounccd The United Slates Pliilin,,!,,. r, .... . . . - mission Ift overrun with a ,.,! ...1 . civil positions and the officers of the new jiuviiLc urc suumitting many questions to the commission. A nnrtu in mtir irj.nl t. the bridge near I.ucban, Tayabas Prov ince, iu.ou, uhi were unvcn nack with out loss on either side. Cailles, the insurgent leader in Lagu na province, is closely pursued. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. The Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR TRAINMEN. Locomotive Boiler Burst at Mt Dallas, on the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad-Doctor Attacked by Highwaymen-Live Stock Killed In .Westmoreland to Check jabies-Dlcklnsoa May Lose Reed. - Bishop Richard Phelan, of the Fitts burg diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, went intnt court and asked for an order to sell St. Paul's Cathedral, at Grant street and Fifth avenue, to H. C. Frick (pr $t,oco,ooo. The proposition to sell the property recently met with some opposition. The object, in going into court is to give alt who may op pose the sale an opportunity to be heard and to avoid any possible illegality by reason of the fact that many former members of St. Paul's congregation have removed from the diocese. The Cathedral is opposite the site where Mr. Frick's mammoth skyscraper is being erected. A large batch of contract! were let to-day. .including one for a quarter of a million dollars' worth of Italian statuary marble for decorative, purposes. The building will be the finest structure of its kind in the world. The decoration will be the most mag nificent in any modern structure, and no money will be spared to make them complete. Four men were instantly killed at Mt. Dallas by the explosion of a boiler of a locomotive on the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad. The cause of the explosion could not be learned. The explosion came with terrific force, throwing the bodies of the men a great distance. Edwards, wlio was sitting in the cab of the engine, eating his break fast, was found more than' (our hundred yards from the scene of the accident, while the bodies of the other men. who were standing besi.'c the engine, ranged from 100 to 200 yardr. tiway. All .verc horribly mangled and scalded and parts of the bodies could not be found. Ed wards' watch was found in the townsh'p road, 500 yards away. John Jones, the flagman of the first section of the freight train, whose caboose was standing di rectly in front of the wrecked engin-.". escaped injury. The engine was stand ing still at the time and only jumped from the rails when boiler exploded. While Dr. S. B. Suavely, of Potts town, was returning from visiting a pa tient at 2 o'clock in the morning, he was attacked by two strangers who de manded his pocketbook. The physi cian, who is a powerful man, knocked one of the men down. The other high wayman fired three shots at the doctor and one bullet grazed his check. Both men then closed in on him and a hard struggle followed. The pistol shots had awakened some of the nearby citizens, who ran from their houses to Dr. Snavely's assistance, when the assail ants broke loose and fled. Annie Green, a small colored girl, told a strange tale at the mayor's office in Harrisburg. where she applied for relief. She said she joined a band of gypsies in Washington, D. C. some time ago with her mother's consent The band camped near the State Arsenal. The gypsies sent the girl for water and while she was gone they deserted her and she wandered about all night. She will be sent home. Edward Bloss, the 1 1 -year-old son of John.K. Bloss, of Bald Mountain, has been kidnaped, and his father solicited the aid of the police to recover him. Bloss is a wealthy farmer. He says the boy was taken away on Wednesday on his way from school and that he was last seen walking along the road with a stranne man. A search for the boy has been continually kept up. It was given out from the headquar ters of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at Pottsville that $40,000 more will be paid out by the corporation this month for miners' and laborers' wages than was paid out in May for period of 15 years. This increase is due to the fact that the min ers are now geting a permanent .in crease of 16 per cent, on the old wages, whereas under the sliding scale former ly in vogue the rate at this time of the year was very low. Dr. Waldron, deputized by the State Board of Health to investigate the re ports of rabies in the southwestern part of Westmoreland county, finds the con dition alarming. Dozens of head of cattle, horses, sheep and hogs' have been slaughtered by order of Dr. Wal dron. Cats stricken with rabies are the terror of the people, as they are running about the country biting and clawing every living thing in their way. The vested choirs of the Lutheran churches of Phoenixville, Norristown, Spring City and Pottstown will give four choral services in those towns dur ing the year, in the Church of the Transfiguration. Pottstown, June 6, and in St. John's Lutheran Church, Phoenixville, June 12. The services in Spring City and Norristown will be given in the fall. At an early hour the other morning Mr. Jacob Mast, awakened by the sound of broken glass, saw two men running from the jewelry store of E. P. Zane. He gave the alarm and an investigation was made, showing that no. plunder had been secured. Upon rcturnincr to his own establishment Mast found one of the windows of his own store smashed and clothing valued at about $150 miss ing. There may soon be a vacancy for Governor Stone to fill in the State Library. It was said in Harrisburg that Dr. George E. Reed. State Li brarian and president oi Dickinson Col lege, is being considered for the presi dency of the Northwestern University at Chicago, and that his selection is regarded very favorably. Two more smallpox cases were dis covered at Larksville, making fourteen in all. A scare was caused by a man running through the streets pursued by a couple of men. The -report spread that he had escaped from the house for tlie detention of smallpox cases, and for a time there was much excitement. It proved, however, that he was a pugilist in training for a fight. John Mannick,a grocer, of Hazleton, committed suicide by shooting himself. Mannick told a friend that he would kill himself. When the friend went to sleep Mannick stole out into the back yard and shot himself through the heart. When the clerks at J. S. Henry's dry goods' establishment at Sharon opened the store for business they discovered that silks to the amount of nearly $tooo had been stolen, Other merchandise was also missing. The robbery was evidently committed by an organized gang whfch recently robbed a Niles (Ohio) store of silks valued at $1000. The board of trustees of the Madi son Street M. E. Church, Chester, have decided to erect a new Sunday School with a seating capacity of 1400. Pro vision will be made for the Epworth League and the normal and primary de-Pigments.
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