FATAL COLLISION OF
CARS IN ALBANY.
Plrt Persons Were Kilted and Over
Forty Injured.
FRIGHTFUL WRECK ON TROLLEY LINES
Cart Filled With People, Running at Milk
Ant of Speed, Collide, and One Car Tle
Mfii tb Other-Women, Children and
Wreckage Hurled Into aa Indiscriminate
Mass-On Motonnao'a Legs Cut OIL
Albany, N. Y. (Special1!. Electric
ears racing for a switch while dashing
in opposite directions at the rate of 40
iniles an hour cost five lives in a ter
rific collision, in which over 40 persons
were injured, some fatallv and all seri
ously. The lobby of the postoffice
building here was filled with dead and
wounded, hysterical women and chil
dren looking for relatives and surgeons
administering temporary relief.
The scene of the accident was about
two miles from Greenbush, on the line
ol the Albany and Hudson railway. The
place where the cars met on the single
track was at a sharp curve. So fast
were both running and so sudden was
the collision that the motormen had r.o
time to put on the brakes before the
southbound car had gone almost clean
through the northbound one and hung
on the edge of a high bluff, with a load
of shrieking, maimed humanity. One
motorman was pinioned up against the
smashed front of the southbound car
with both legs severed and was killed
instantly, the other motorman living
but a few minutes.
Fully 120 men. women and children
formed a struggling, shrieking pyramid
mixed with blood, detached portions n'
human bodies and the wreckage of the
cars. Some of the more slightly injured
men exrricated themselves first and be
gan to pull people out of the rear ends
of the two cars. Almost all on board
were taken out in this way.
The few women and children who had
escaped injury and death were hysteri
cal. They added their cries to the
ahrieks of the dying and mutilated. Men
with broken arms and bones, dislocated
joints and bloody head and faces tried
to assist others who were more helpless.
Help had been summoned from East
Grsnbuh and vicinity and in a little
time the bruised mass of humanity,
with the dead for a gruesome and silent
company, was loaded on extra cars and
brought to Albany. Here ambulances
and physicians had been summoned and
the postoffice was turned into a morgue
and hospital. As fast as the physicians
could temporarily fix up the wounded
they were taken to their homes or to
hospitals.
WIFE HANGED HERSELF.
Oar Hassand Had Held Her la Lash to Pre
vent This Very Act.
New York (Special). Suicide by a
woman with a rope that was expected to
prevent an attempt at self-murder, was
the burden of the story told to Dr.
Charles P. Wuest, who was sent to per
form an autopsy on the body of Mrs.
Albertine Filsinger, at 68 Vermont ave
nue, Brooklyn, by Coroner De Lap to
day. Mrs. Filsinger, who was the wife of
Charles Filsinger, a well-to-do insurance
man, was found hanging in front of the
mirror in her parlor. She had tried be
fore to end her life, and her husband, in
order to care for her, had tied her with a
rope to his waist when they went to
bed. While he slept she untied the rope
ao skillfully that he was not awakened,
and it was with this strand that she
hanged herself.
NEW PRESIDENT OF B. it 0.
L. F. Loree, a Vice-President of the Penn
sylvania Selected.
Cleveland. Ohk (Special). L. F. Lo
Tee, fourth vice-president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. Company, has been
selected as president of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. The selection hav
ing been made, the change becomes ef
fective June I. This choice signifies the
complete domination of Baltimore and
Ohio affairs by the Pennsylvania Com
pany. Mr. Loree is the ablest expon
ent of Pennsylvania principles that
could be found. His appointment,
therefore, not only confirms the final
supremacy of the Pennsylvania in Bal
timore and Ohio management, but indi
cates that the Pennsylvania's principles
re to be introduced into the Baltimore
and Ohio's management by one of the
Pennsylvania's ablest representatives.
OFFICERS IN DISGRACE.
la a Drunken Quarrel Lieutenant Howell Shot
Second Lieutenant Lloyd.
Manila (By Cable). It is alleged
that, as the outcome of a drui'ken quar
rel in the officers' quarters at Camp
Stotsenberg, Lieut. James F. Howell,
of the Sixth Artillery, shot Second
Lieut. Charles R. Lloyd, of the same
regiment, the bullet grazing the left
side of Lloyd's head and inflicting a
slight wound.
After retreat that evening Lieutenant
Howell, who was temporarily in com
mand, took Field Battery 12 on a wild
"hike" through the jungles and rice
fields of Mariquina Valley.
Later Howell, Lloyd and Dr. Over
ton, who dressed Lloyd's wound, were
placed under arrest. The affair it be
ing investigated.
Boers Make a Dash. -
Middleburg, Transvaal Colony (By
Cable). The commandos of Kritznger,
Van Reenan and Fouche debouched be
fore dawn and crossed the railroad.
They dashed southward, rcinvading the
more populous districts of Cape Colo
ny. Fouche's commando has been rest
ing many weeks jn the Zuurberg moun
tains. Wild Run Down a Mountain.
Altoona, Pa. (Special). Conductor
John Early, of Pitcairn, was killed and
Fireman L. E. Lingenfeltcr injured as
the rsalt of a train running away on
the mountain west of here this morn-
Ag.
The ere lost control of the engine
and 43 cars of coal just after leaving
the Gallitzen tunnel and starting down
the eastern slope. Two empty engines
in charge of Engineers John Riley and
J. F. McNulty, of this city, were stand
ing at McGarvey, near the end of the
grade. These men arranged to assist
10 stoppng the train.
Floods la North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. C. (Special). Governor
Ayrock says all the lowland crops on the
Mate penitentiary farm, known as "Cale
donia," was destroyed by the raging
Roanoke River, including aoo acres of
wheat. He says the flood damage in the
slate amounts to millions of dollars. All
streams in this section are rising.
Tat Disaster la Java.
The KaBue (By Cable). An official
rflipa!i'ii from Batavia, Java, says three
''Luropcaii and 17H natives perished as a
result of the recent eruption of the Vol
cano of Kcloct.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
, Domestic
At the General Assembly of the
United Presbyterians the committee re
ported in favor of repealing the section
in the Confession bearing, on the de
ceased wife's sister question.
The steamer Ohio, arrived at Boston,
reports collision at sea with the Norwe
gian bark Elise. The bark was sunk,
and it is reported that 14 men were lost.
Picnicers on the Cumberland moun
tains, in Virginia, found an unknown
man hanging from a tree. He is sup
posed to have been killed by moon
shiners. Senators Tillman and McLaurin have
both resigned as United States Sena
tors, effective September 15, and both
go into primary for re-election.
Moses T. Hale, city treasure', and
Charles E. Smith, city clerk, of Colo
rado Springs, were arrested on the
charge of embezzlement.
Mrs. Lillian M. Stevens, president of
the W. C. T. J., says army officers are
in conspiracy for the restoration of the
army canteen.
Chas. Lutes was arrested in Mounds
ville, W. Vs., on suspicion of having
murdered Johnscm Hammond.
The thirtieth anniversary of the
American Baptist Education Society
held in Springfield, Mass.
The National Convention at Havana
adopted resolutions in opposition to the
Piatt amendment.
Puddlers' wages were increased from
$3.25 to $V.o per ton at the York (Pa.)
Rolling Mill.
Edward N. Willcox. of Portsmouth,
Va., was drowned near Weldon, N. C.
President McKinley reviewed two
regiments of infantry, just returned
from the Philippines to be mustered
out of service. He made a speech to
the men, which was heartily cheered.
The President also turned, the sod on
the site in San Francisco where the
monument is to be erected in com
memoration of Admiral Dewey's vic
tory in Manila Bay.
Governor Allen was given a magnifi
cent reception at San Juan. Porto Rico.
In an address to $5000 people the Gov
ernor expressed a desire for co-operation
to aid the government in advanc
ing the interests of the island.
Rev. H. C. C. Atwood, pastor of an
A. M. E. church in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
was found guilty of misapplying church
funds by the Philadelphia Conference,
in session in Harristjurg.
A jury in Bellefontaine, Ohio, gave a
verdict against Logan county to two
colored men and a white woman who
were tarred and feathered and driven
out of town.
The bodies of Capt. Henry J. Reilly
and Capt. Austin R. Davis, who lost
their lives in the Chinese campaign,
were buried with military honors in Ar
lington. Two Baltimore private detectives who
testified for the Sabbath Observance
League in Richmond, Va., had a hard
time to get away from the angry saloon
keepers.
The Southern Presbyterians in Little
Rock, Ark., agreed to the consolidation
of the Northern and Southern Presby
terian Seminaries .in Kentucky.
The autopsy on the body of Mrs. L.
Judd, who died at Dowie's Zion, in
Chicago, showed that she died as the
result of neglect of medical treatment.
Mrs. Mary Schuler, a washerwoman,
of Des Moines, claims to be a sister of
the late William M. Rice, the-New York
millionaire.
A two-months-old son of J. Luther
Pierson, the Mount Vernon (N. Y.)
faith-curist, died, no physician 'having
been called in.
Former Governor John Riley Tan
ner died suddenly at the Leland Hotel,
in Springfield, HI., from rheumatism of
the heart.
Capt. Henry B. Seely. aged 61 years,
a retired naval officer, dropped dead on
the street in Philadelphia.
Henry Schiding. a Civil War pen
sioner, was found dead in his shanty, in
York, Pa.
Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, who was instru
mental in reorganizing the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, testified
before a sub-committee of the Indus
trial Commission in New York relative
to community of interests of railroad
companies.
The condition of Esther Cleveland,
daughter of former President Cleveland,
ill at Princeton with diphtheria, is re
ported as unchanged.
The Michigan Legislature passed a
bill to tax the Pullman Company 3 per
cent, on their gross earnings in that
State.
Hon. John B. Knox was elected pres
ident of the Alabama Constitutional
Convention, in sesson at Montgomery.
Five cadets were dismissed and six
were suspended from the West Point
Mlitary Academy for insubordination.
A movement was started in Wash
ington to raise funds with which to
buy a home for Admiral Schley.
From Norfolk, Va.. comes tne state
ment that Spanish sailors are employed
on American colliers.
Mission work was discussed by the
Cumberland Presbytery, in sessign at
West Point, Miss.
Foreign.
Theodors Magers. bedroom steward
of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosee, has been arrsted at Bremer
haven charged with being the man who
took three gold bars from the specie
room of the steamer on a voyage in
April last.
Bishop Hartzell. missionary bi?hop
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Africa, expresses the opinion that a
general revolt of- the barbaric peoples
against Christianity has begun.
Emperor William, tired of the trouble
in China, is desirous of the withdrawal
of the German forces as speedily as pos
sible. President Altschensky, of the Khar
koff Chamber, of Commerce, a noted
Russian financier, committed suicid".
A bottle wtih a message stating that
the steamer Croft was sinking at sea
with all on bo.ird was picked up at
Granton and brought to London,
British weeklies make sarcastic refer
ences to Carnegie's offer to the Scottish
universities.
The eight-hour movement is spread
ing in Russia. Strikers who attacked
an armor-plate works outside St. Pe
tersburg, were fired upon by gend
armes and several killed.
Sir Alfred Hickman, in the British
House of Commons, protested against
railroad companies controlled by the
government continuing to buy Ameri
con locomotives.
Successful experiments have been
made between Berlin and Hamburg
with the late Professor Rowland's sys
tem of rapid telegraphy.
Emperor William has issued orders
to exclude reporters from all functions
where he intends to speak.
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius. first
president of the Dutch African Repub
lic, died in the Transvaal,
Many lives are reported lost by a vol
cano eruption at Ulnar, Java.
The foreign ministers had a meeting
in Pekin, which resulted unsatitfactor
ly. None of the others were willing
to accede to the American proposition
for a reduction of the indemnity to for
ty million pounds. . President McKin
ley, in San Franrsico, is in constant
communication with Washington on
the subject,
GERMANS CLASH
WITH AMERICANS.
Sentry of the American Guard Shoots
German Soldier.
AN INVESTIGATION BEINQ MADE.
The First Trouble Experienced by the United
States Legation Guard-German Officers sod
Soldiers Refuse to Comply With Regulations
-A German Officer Drsws His Sword, but
Is Quickly Brought to a Halt.
Pekin (By Cable). The new United
States Legation guard here has had its
first trouble since it was formed.
The street is being repaired near the
American Legation, and an American
sentry was stationed at the place with
orders to direct persons around by a
side street. Evervbody obeyed the re
quest except the Germans, both officers
and soldiers, who, it is declared, have
caused the American sentries much trou
ble. One of the German officers drew his
sword and charged an American soldier,
who brought his bayonet to "charge,"
and the officer then desisted. Subse
quently a German soldier charged past
the sentry, who fired, hitting another
German soldier near the German lega
tion, a quarter of a mile off. This made
only a slight flesh wound. The Ameri
can sentry has been arrested, and Major
Robertson, his commander, has insti
tuted an investigation.
The attitude of Dr. Mumm von
Schwartzenstein. German Minister, rep
resenting the civilians of that nationality,
and Count von Waldersee, representing
the military, as well as that of other high
officials, has been particularly friendly
toward the Americans, which makes all
the more pronounced the unfriendly feel
ing declared to be shown by a majority
of the German officers and men. This
unfriendliness is attributed to the Ameri
can attitude in retaining control with the
legation guard of one entrance to the
Forbidden City, which the Germans con
sider a reflection upon their national
honesty, as they control the other en
trances. Emperor Kwang Hsu has instructed
agents to prepare the palace for occu
pation by the Court as soon as the
troops depart.
KILLED BY A BEAR.
Three Small Children Reported Devoured la
West Virginia.
Grafton, W. Va. (Special). A dis
patch from Job, Randolph county, W.
Va., says: "To be crushed to death in
the embrace of a monster black bear and
their little bodies afterward mangled
and partly devoured was the frightful
fate that befell the three young children
of E. P. Porterfield, a mountaineer re
siding about 12 miles southeast of this
place. The remains were found by a
searching party, which had been out
since Sunday evening. The party 'in
cluded John Weldon, a Maryland hunt
er, who within a few minutes after the
discovery of the bodies shot and killed
the bear in a neighboring thicket.
"The children were Mary, aged 3.
Willie, aged 5, and Henry, aged 7.
Shortly after noon Sunday they left
home to gather flowers in a clearing
near their home. Nothing more is
known, but it is supposed that they
wandered into the woods and, becoming
lost, continued on their way until they
were overtaken by the bear in the dense
forest three miles from their parents'
home. The bodies of the children, which
presented a sickening sight, were car
ried home in sacks.
Woodmen of the World.
Columbus, Ohio (Special). Milwau
kee has been selected as place of hold
ing the next biennial convention of the
Woodmen of the World.
KING HUMBERT'S ASSASSIN SUICIDES.
GAKTANO BRESCI, ABSASPl or HUMBERT, AND HIg WIFB, SOPHIA BRESCI.
Rome (By Cable). Bresci, the as
sassin of the late King Humbert, has
committed suicide at the penitentiary of
Santo Stefano. Bresci recently had
been suffering from extreme excitement,
declared to be from remorse. Tuesday
night he made a rope from his blankets
and strangled himself.
On the wall of Bresci's cell the word
"Vengeance" was scratched with his
bloody thumb-nail.
Bresci's violence last week culminated
in bis attacking a jailer, in consequence
of which he was placed in a strait jacket.
Later the prisoner feigned docility in or
der to secure an opportunity to commit
suicide, which he accomplished by hang
ing himself with an improvised rope at
tached to the ceiling. In the earlier days
of his imprisonment Bresci resented or
ders to keep silent, and threatened to kill
himself.
What Mrs. Bresci Says.
New York (Special). Mrs. Bresci,
who is now living in Hudson Heights,
Fire In New York CapltsL
Albany, N. Y. (Special). Volumes
of black smoke pouring through he
corridors of the Capitol caused great
excitement among the hundreds of em
ployees within the building. State of
ficials, clerks and others hurried from
the various departments to ascertain
the extent of the fire, which was burn
ing in the waste paper dump in the cel
lar at the wall of the Assembly stair
case. A bucket brigade attempted to
extinguish the flames, but were unsuc
cessful and the fire department was
called. The flames were extinguished
with trifling damage.
North Carolina's Prison ScaadaL
Raleigh, N. C. (Special). The new
management of the penitentiary is
greatly concerned at the condition in
which the lately retired management
has left that institution. One of the new
directors says: ''Matters grow beauti
fully worse the more they are looked
into. W were told that last year's
peanut crop was 60,000 bushcs, and
that it would yield 148,000. I think we
will not get over $25,000 for it. The
late management spent $404,000 in two
years. With high cotton, heavy crops,
and no freshets in the Roanoke river,
where our great farms are.
AWFUL DEED OF REJECTED LOVER.
He Kills His Spinster Neighbor and Then
Hlmself-Bllghted Love,
East Tawas, Mich. (Special). The
wooden steamer Baltimore foundered
in Lake Huron near Au Sable and 12
of her crew of 14 were drowned. The
men were tossed about in the lake for
several hours, lashed to a piece of
wreckage, and were finally picked up
by the tug Columbia and brought here.
George McGinnis, a deckhand, one f
the rescued, became insane from his
experience. The other survivor. Thos.
Murphy, of Milwaukee, second engi
neer, was able to tell the story of the
disaster.
It was some time after the Columbia
had brought the shipwrecked men into
port before Murphy was revived suffi
ciently to tell his story. The Baltimore
foundered about 6 o'clock and he was
in the water until late in the afternoon,
exposed to the buffeting of a furious
northeast sea.
"We were bound from Lorain to
Sault Ste. Marie," he said, "and had in
tow a large steam drill and scow.
When off Thunder Bay last night Cap
tain Place saw that the steamer was
making bad weather, for the waves had
smashed in the engineer's quarters and
the wash rooms and the water was run
ning into the hold.
"Captain Flace decided to turn cbout
and run for Tawas for shelter. Every
thing went all right until we were off
Au Sable, when the steamer struck
heavily on the bottom. The seas broke
over her at the same time and carried
away the deckhouse, then the after cab
in, and finally the smokestack fell.
Both rails forward broke in two just
aft of the forward deckhouse and we
knew that it was only a few minutes be
fore the steamer would go to pieces,"
continued Murphy.
" 'It -is every man for himself,' now
shouted Captain Place," continued the
engineer. "The look of despair on Mrs.
Place's face was something I never
shall forget. We took the Captain's
advice and every man started to save
himself as best he could. Some of the
boys took to the rigging, but McGin
nis and I lashed ourselves to a ring
bolt in a piece of the after cabin, and
were washed overboard shortly after
ward." Cubans Reect Minority Report,
Havana (Special). The minority re
port of the Committee on Relations was
defeated in the Cuban Constitutional
Convention by a vote of 19 to 9. The
majority report will be read and dis
cussed. The Conservatives believe the
final vote on the latter report will be
taken soon, but they do not expect to
hold the full strength shown Friday.
Senor Zayas, in a. speech, said the minor
ity report was too conservative, and he
could not accept it. It is b-lieved that
Senor Zayas may possibly carry two
other delegates who voted with the Con
servatives. Morgio May Plaa Largs Bank.
New York (Special). Rumors to the
effect that J. Pierpont Morgan is at
work on plans for a large national
bank, to be to this country what the
Bank of England is to Great Britain,
are without confirmation, but they will
not down. According to the latest ru
mor, the National Bank of Commerce,
of which Mr. Morgan is vice-presid;nt,
would be made the basis of consolida
tion. Mr. Morgan, as the practical head
of the National Bank of Commerce. with
its gross deposits of over $100,000. oco,
is in a position to organize a bank that
would be recognized as a power in in
ternational finance.
Village Destroyed and Many Lives Lost.
Milan (By Cable). The village of
Aurenza has been partially destroyed
by an avajanche. The number of fa
talities is not yet known, but already
15 corpses have. been recovered.
N. J., was very much affected at the
news of the suicide of her husband. She
said, however, that he was better dead
than imprisoned in an Italian peniten
tiary. Speaking of her husband's act in
killing the King of Italy, Mrs. Bresci
said :
"H did not plan it with others. Now
that he is gone there is no reason to con
ceal anything, and I can say absolutely
that there never was a plot It was said
my husband was a leader and the agent
of a band of anarchists in killing the
King. That is not true. His act was
entirely an individual act. He conceived
it himself.
Patersoo Anarchists Excited.
Paterson, N. J. (Special). The news
that Gastano Bresci, the assassin of King
Humbert, had committed suicide in the
penitentiary of Santo Stefano caused
great excitement among the Anarchist
group in this city. That the assassin ac
tuully took his life the Anarchists will
not for a moment admit. They say that
Bresci was murdered at the instigation
of the Italian officials.
Captain Hall Vindicated.
Washington ( Special ) .The record
of the court martial in the case of Capt
Newt Hall, United States Marine Corps
who was charged by Minister Conger
with cowardice in connection with the
defense of the legations at Pekin. has
just reached Washington. Admiral
Remey lias promulgated the finding in a
special order, which completely exoner
ates Captain Hall from the charge and
finds that the only matter of substance
sustained in the charges is an error of
judgment in connection with the with
drawal of his troops at a critical moment
from the Tartar wall.
Death Caused by Sweating Blood.
Peekskill, N. Y. (Special). Francis
Lynch, in his 38th year, was buried here.
The cause of his death was purpura
haemorrhagica, which is considered quite
a rare disease. Young Lynch for some
weeks has been actually sweating blood
through the pores of hit body. Noted
specialists from New York saw the case,
among them Dr. Woolsey, and pro
nounced the disease an unusual one and
the case well developed. Lynch held a
responsible position as stenographer and
typewriter with the Mutual Life Benefit
Company, of 137 Broadwav. New York.
THE PRESIDENT AND
PARTY RETURNING.
Mrs. McKinley Strong- Enough to Endure
Transcontinental Journey.
JOURNEY WILL BE MADE SLOWLY.
Mrs. McKinley Happy at the Prospect el Soon
Being Back at the Whits House, Which Has
Been Renovated During Her Absence
Crowds ol People In Saa Francisco Quietly
Bid Farewell to the President
San Francisco, Cal (Special). Presi
dent McKinley and party, after a so
journ of nearly two weeks in this citv,
have left for Washington. Physicians
in attendance on Mrs. McKinley, whose
illness curtailed the trip, held a consul
tation and announced that Mrs. McKin
ley was strong enough to endure the
transcontinental journey. Mrs. Mc
Kinley seemed elated at the prospect of
soon being at home. She was conveyed
from the Scott residence to the Oak
land ferry in a closed carriage by a cir
cuitous route, chosen so the invalid
might pass over only smoothly paved
streets. She was accompanied by the
President, Dr. Ritey and a trained
nurse. The rest of the party proceeded
directly to the starting ooint.
An immense crowd had assembled at
the ferry depot of the Southern Pacific
Railway. The large open space at Mar
ket and East streets was a solid mass of
humanity, through which the police kept
open a passageway for the President
and his party.
Heads were uncovered as the carriage
bearing Mrs. McKinley approached and
there was a visible effort to restrain an
outburst of applause as . the carriage
passed slowly through the throng. All
respected the frail condition of the suf
ferer, and the enthusiasm was sup
pressed. There were no formal ceremonies at
the depot. Good-byes were exchanged
by the President. Cabinet members and
others of the party with the friends who
had come to wish them Godspeed, and
the travelers boarded the ferry for Oak
land. As the steamer drew out of the
slip hats and handkerchiefs were waved,
and as it swung clear into the stream
the shipping in the harbor dipped their
colors in salute. Tumults of cheers
then broke forth on shore and ' were
borne out across the waters San Fran
cisco's farewell.
At the Oakland mole, where the t'am
was in readiness, the enclosure was
roped off. Mrs. McKinley was tenderly
helped out of the carriage by the Presi
dent. When she had been made com
fortable in her car he appeared upon
the platform and waved adieu 'o the
throngs beyond the ropes.
The following is the eastward route of
President McKinleys' train: Central Pa
cific to Ogden. Union Pacific to Oma
ha. Chicago and Northwestern to Chi
cago, Pennsylvania Railroad to Wash
ington. The journey will be made slowly on
account of the condition of Mrs. Mc
Kinley. The large cities on the louts
of travel will be passed through without
stopping.
LIFE SAVER'S FABULOUS REWARD.
Soldiers' Home Veteran Left $2,500,009 by
the Woman He Rescued.
Dayton, Ohio (Special). A copy of
the will of Josephine Kelat, nee Fair
fax, an English woman, who recently
died in France, has just been received
here, which bequeths to Hamlet Henry
Hawthorne, a veteran of the Soldiers'
Home, a fortune of Sj. 500,000, this be
ing his reward for saving the woman
from drowning.
About 1854 her boat upset in the surf
off Kent. England, and Hawthorne
swam to her aid. He refused all offers
of reward at that time, came to Ameri
ca, enlisted in the army and fought
through the Civil War. The will in
structs him to marry some good .woman
to aid in carrying out the provisions of
the will.
Hawthorne is to establish in New
York city a poor man's church, and is
instructed to devote much time to chari
table giving, especially to homes for
widows and orphans. At death, it is
expressly provided that he is to be
buried in the vault beside his benefac
tor, clothed in a uniform such as he
wore during the Civil War. Haw
thorne will carry out all the provisions
of the will.
Dynamite Explosion.
Dover, N. J. (Special). Eight hun
dred pounds of nitro-glycerine blew up
at the Atlantic Dynamite Works at Ken
yil, six miles from Dover. No one was
injured. The building was a frame struc
ture. 20 feet by 36. A hole in the ground
marks the place where it stood. The
nitro-glycerine that exploded was in the
freezing house, where it was to undergo
a second separation from the spent acid
by a process of refrigeration. The ex
plosion was caused by aceidcntal over
heating of the nitro-glycerine.
Russian Loan Goes East
Paris (By Cable). It is estimated
that the new Russian loan of $84,000,
000 will be subscribed for at least seven
times. When the lists were closed
crowds were still waiting their turn out
side the Rothschild and other banks
where subscriptions were received. The
stock was quoted in the iftfrnoon at a
premium of 4 1-2. The Rothschilds
made unusual and special efforts to in
sure the success of the loan by arrang
ing with the leading batiks of Paris to
accept subscriptions.
Scores of Miners Lost
London (By Cable). An explosion
occurred at the L'niversal Colliery, at
Senghenydd, in the Rhondda Valley.
About a hundred men were in the pit at
the time of the disaster. A number of
bodies have been taken out and 70 men
are still entombed.
Houses Washed Away,
Charlotte, N. C. (Special). Reports
from remote counties in the mountain
districts show great destruction by the
storm. In Bakersville 16 residences and
the Baptist Church were washed away.
Quinter Moore and his son were drown
ed. Every house in Magnetic City, a
village in Mitchell county, was destroy
ed. At Roan Mountain Station 20 resi
dences were swept away. Six large
stores on Big Rock Creek were carried
away and one man, John McKinney
drowned, while' an unknown man was
killed by a landslide.
Tbs Battleship Wisconsin.
San Francisco, Cal. (Special). A
commission from the State of Wisconsin
has arrived here with a $10,000 silver
banquet service, which is to be presented
to the battleship Wisconsin by the state,
after which she is named. In addition
to the silver service there is also a bronze
badger four feet long cast from Spanish,
cannon captured during the reccirv war.
Chile's President Again Vry Low.
Santiago de Chile (By Cable). Presi
dent Errazuriz hu had another severe
attack of paralysis. His case is consid
ered to be very serious.
LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
How th Army Was Robbed.
Mail from Manila brings the report
'of General McArthur upon the investi
gation made as to the alleged connection
of Colonel Woodruff and other regular
commissary officers with the frauds in
the Commissary Department. This re
port exonerates Colonel Woodruff, but
blames others.
- It appears from the official reports
that Colonel Woodruff had set on foot
an investigation of the irregularities and
especially those relating to the sales of
commissary supplies, before the arrival
of Major West. The latter began an in
dependent investigation.
When Major West became depot com
missary he found a lax state of affairs.
There were several large warehouses,
mostly in charge of commissary ser
geants, and there was no way of holding
these non-commissioned officers respon
sible for the property under their charge.
Major West decided to take an inventory
before proceeding with other business,
but found this almost impossible, be
cause individual stock books for etch
warehouse had not been kept under the
former management.
As large quantities of goods were be
ing sent out from each warehouse daily,
the opportunities for Irregularities in
duced the commissary sergeants, civilian
employes and teamsters to engage in the
business of selling commissary supplies.
The method by which this was accomp
lished was as follows.
Orders would be given by a commis
sary sergeant in charge of a warehouse
for delivery to a civilian teamster of cer
tain goods. This teamster would deliver
the goods to persons to whom they had
previously been sold by some other in
dividual in the conspiracy and the money
would be divided pro rata among the
men engaged in the scheme. Laxity of
methods by Major Davis, the former de
pot commissary, and Captain Read, it is
charged, allowed the system to go on.
Major West in reporting the general
conditions recommended that a commis
sioned officer be placed in charge of each
warehouse and held responsible for the
property.
It is stated that the men who en
gaged in irregularities expected to covet
the losses by boards of survey, which
would report certain losses of stores, but
fix no responsibility;
Waldersce's Withdrawal.
The State Department has been ad
vised that the German Government re
gards the present time as opportune for
the withdrawal of Field Marshal von
Waldersee, commander of the interna
tional forces in China. Nothing is stat
ed as to the exact date for the return of
the field marshal, nor as to the number
of German troops that will be left in
China, but it is hoped at the State De
partment that the German Government
will follow our own example and with
draw all but a legation guard. The
United States forces will remain in com
mand of a major, and he will not be per
mitted to assume the command of the
international forces, even if so invited.
This subject was discussed for an hour
by Secretary of War Root and Acting
Secretary of State Hill.
Cereal Crops In Hungary.
The statistician of the Department of
Agriculture has received from the chief
of the statistical office of the Hungarian
ministry of agriculture a telegram giving
the condition of the principal cereal
crops of Hungary, that of wheat, barley
and oats being reported as medium and
that of rye as poor. The official figures
on the areas under these for crops and
under maize give, when reduced to acres,
the following results: Wheat. 8,357,406
acres ; rye, 2,630,439 acres ; barley, 2,546,
847 acres; oats, 2,471,692 acres; maize,
5. 530,736 acres.
Cancellation ol Statnri.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Ycrkes has instructed internal revenue
officers that on and after July I, 1901, all
stamps used for denoting the tax upon
fermented liquors shall be canceled by
perforations to be made in the form of
the name of the person, firm or corpora
tion by whnm such liquors were made
or some suitable abbreviation thereof,
and the date when canceled.
Guardians Government Agents. .
Assistant Seretary of the Interior F. L.
Campbell has ruled that the word "Guar
dian" as used in Section 4766, Revised
Statutes providing that pensions of
persons laboring under legal disabilities
may be paid to their guardians is merely
the designation of the person to whom
the money grant may be paid for the use
and benefit of the pensioner and that
such guardian holds such fund as the
agent of the Government.
General Corbia to Sa l for Manila.
Maj.-Gcn. Henry C. Corbin, adjmtant
peneral of the army, will sail far the
Philippines on the transport Hancock,
which will leave San Francisco June 23.
Ha intends to make a general inspection
of the military conditions in the i.-.iands
Cuba's Customs Receipts.
A statement just made public bv the
division of insular affairs of tlic War
Department shows Cuba's customs re
ceipts during the first quarter of the
present ycur were $3,985,946, a decrease
of $I53.3.. .
Capital News la Oea:rj).
Chief Geologist Robert T. Hill, of the
United States Coast Survey, submitted
a report of his investigations in the oil
neius 01 lexas.
The coloncr's jury held Mrs. Bonin.
for the grand jury 011 the charge of be
ing concerned in the death of Cenlu:
Clerk Ayres.
Quite a long list of army and navy
appointments was announced at rhe
White House.
The Navy Department has received
the report of the executive officer ol
the Petrel on the fire on the cruiser and
the death of Lieutenant Commander
Roper.
The War Department received a vast
amount-of mail from Manila, including
the report of the Taft Commission.
The Naval Board of Awards is un
derstood to have reached tentative
decision upon the design for a medal
of horor for those who tnok part in the
naval battle of Santigo biy. It is raid
that the board has followed the prece
dent of the Manila medal in showing
the head of the commnJcr-in-chief and
that the Santiago nicd.il will bear the
head of Admiral Sampson. , .
Gen. George B. Davis formally as
sumed charge of tits duties of Judgs-Advocatc-General
of the Army and will
hold that office for the ensiling four
years.
Anne Arundel farmers have begun
planting tobacco.
Our New Possession.
Capt. Michael Spcllman, Lieut Del
bert R. Jones and Surgeon Dudley W.
Welch, of Company i. Forty-third In
fantry stationed at Maasiu, Souther r
Leyte, Luzon, have been urrrstcd on the
charge of trading in permits to ship
hemp from closed ports. They will bt
tried by court-martial.
Provost General Davis, who has re
viewed the testimony in the Carman
case, said, while Carman could be con
victed of trading with the insurgents, i
would be unjust to punish him when
nearly every trader in Manila is guilty
of similar practices.
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
Tbe Latest Happenings Gleaned From
All Over the State,
DOUBLE WRECK AT LEAMAN PLACE.
Passenger Train Running Fifty Miles aa Hont
Cat a Caboose la Two.. Scene of Wild Excitement-Several
Passengers Hurt-Towaodi
Swept by a Storm-Three Creeks in tbe
Borough Burst Tbelr Bounds.
One of the most disastrous wrecks in
years on this division of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad occurred at Leaman
Place.. A rear-end freight collision oc
curred first between two west-bound
trains, in which the colliding engine
and three cars and the cabin of the for
ward train were badly wrecked. The
cabin was thrown over the cast track.
The second section of the Western Ex
press, due at 10.45, running at the rate
of fifty miles an hour, dashed into the
cabin, cutting it in twain. Half of the
cabin was thrown against an embank
ment and projecting timbers broke ev
ery window in the two baggage cars,
one day coach and three Pullman sleep
ers of the express train. The engineer
of the express, who had been signaled
too late, brought his train to a sudden
stop. Many passengers were thrown
from their berths and the wildest excite
ment prevailed. The engine and every
car of the express were badly damaged.
The railroad officials are investigating
the affair and the failure to stop the ex
press at a safe distance.
Exceptions 'were filed in court at
Pittsburg to the proposed sale of St.
Paul's Roman Catholic Cathedral to H.
C. Frick for $i.3i5,ox). E. C. Kernan
and James Kcliy make the objections,
claiming they arc old members of the
congregation, but were debarred"- from
participating in the congregational
meeting on the matter. They also al
lege that the Cathedral was built with
contributions from all parts of the Pitts
burg diocese, extending eastward as far
as Altoona, and that two hundred con
gregations in the diocese have an inter
est in the property. The objections
were taken by the court, although the
time fixed for objections has expired.
Growing crops, fruit trees and build
ings were heavily damaged by a tre
mendous hail storm which passed over
Butler county. At Chicora the hail was
so heavy that citizens swept up a huge
pile of it in the muin street, hoisted a
flag above it and photographed the dis
play. Plate glass windows in the Chi
cora hotels were smashed. Oil derricks
were blown down, and at Echo two
acres of heavy standing titr.ber were
leveled with the ground. A number of
oil well rigs were splintered into kindl
ing wood. About a ocore of rigs were
destroyed in all.
Telephone communication was cut off
in most directions and landslides along
the Lehigh Valley Railroad stalled all
trains for several hour3. At Bolan's
Hotel the water stood three ieet on the
lower floors and left a deposit of slimy
mud six inches deep. The Arcade
Block end six houses built over Mix's
Run were flooded, as war. the Sta'.e Line
nnd Sullivan Railroad co& yards. The
borough will suffer great loss on all the
hill streets where hundreds of feet of
guttering and stone walks were washed
awa .
The total loss from the fire at the
Reading Iron Works, located in Dan
ville, will be between $100,000 and
$125,000. The fire originated in one of
the furnaces, the frame work igniting
from the red-hot cinders. The bar and
skelp mills, the roil shops and the
irreatsr part of the puddle mil! are al
most, completely wiped out. The loss
is ; f.ri'.y covered bv insMrance.
A growl from a dog and a scuffle
a.-jused Miss Margaret Esrr;'. daugh
ter 0; V. H. Er.ro;', of Chester, early
the o:h:r morning a.-.d. looking out of
her brdroom window, r-he s.v the ani
mil teaping at a colorec. burir'ar. Mr
Ezvy vr3 alro awakened and. seizing
a g'.:n. fired at the burglar as he hro'e
f-m the dog and fled acre- the lawn
Tre man threw tip an arm, as if in
pair., and disappmred, fol'cw-d by the
dog.
Ch.-.rtcrs were issued ty the State De
partment to the following corporations.
Buffalo and Susquehanna Coal and
Coke C-mpany, Ga'.eton. Pot'.tr county
capitr!, $10,000: Pittsburg Stam Coal
Company. Pittsburg, capital, $1,000;
Connc!l..vi!!e Manur.-.cturing and Mine
Supply C'.r..pa:iy. New Haven, Fayetie
county, capita'., $8c,ooo.
The commencement exercises ol
Martin Academy, the Friends' School
wire held in the meeting house at Ken
neth Square. The Kiaduates were
H. nvard P. Thomar. Philip M. Hicks
I. idir I. Taylor, Ruth K. Richards
Helen M. Phillips and M. Elizabeth
Pyle. Dr. Jesss Holmes, of the George
School, deliverti the address to the
graduates.
The Central Labor Union of Potts
ville adopte.l resolutions praying the
Board of Pardons to release the nine
men convicted and who are now serv
ing terms in the county prison for riot
ing at Oneida colliery during the
miners' strike last fall.
A terrific electric disturbance, accom
panied by a deluge of rain and a hail
storm of great severity, passed over To
wauda, lasting forty-five minutes. Mrs
James Brautigan, an aged woman, war
caught by the rush of water while at
work in the basement of her house.
She was rescued with difiiculiy, as the
water stood six feet deep on the !oor.
The Wilkes-Barre police rescued a
I7-yea--old tftrl from Hinghnmion who
had brru enticed to WilUcs-Barre and
drugged. She salj that ,ibe had brvn
promised work. When f.iund or. the
Htrect she was in the company of a
man, who ran and escaped arret.
JiHin Luporr bad his back broken by
a fail of coal at No. 4 colliery, Tama
qua, John Mattie, a driver for a brewing
company, was instantly killed in a run
away accident at Yatcsville, n subuib
of Shenandoah. Ilia team took fright
at a passing Le'.rKh Valley Railroad
freight traip. The wagon wheels
ci utlied his skull.
While f,o'''K from M'ssiiper to York
Haven, Ralph Shelly v?is knocked down
with sandbag by tramps and robbed of
Shelly was left unconscioua by his
a.r.aiiants.
The Duncannon Iron Company have
notified the puddlers in its employ that
on June 3 tne piioe per ton would be
advanced from $3 25 'i $3 SO.
Alexander Ewing, of Elmira, a trav
eling salesman for n Rochester tobacco
house nud a man very well known
tl.roiifcitwut northern Pennsylvania,
j.-opped dead while entering the I t-i-.igh
Valley Railroad statiou at To
wuiid. The cxp'osion ol a lantern caused a
f.re which destroyed Sa.nuel Alexan
der's stable, tobacco barn and other out
buildings at Mt. Nebo. 'ihe loss is
?3,CKX).
Carpenters working o:i Armour &
Co's building, Altoona, struck upon be
inc rciut'd an atvance in wages,