INDIGNATION IN GUAM ISLAND. Eommaoder Schrocder Has Stirred Up a Tempest. MEN RESENT REMARKABLE ORDER, lad Them Lined Up and Publicly Censured Ctuflncd to Barraiks-Tht Trouble Arose Proa Taefl ot WhIsktyTht Enlisted Mea Say There U No Justict la Punishing ISO Meo lor the Slot ol Few. San Francisco (Special). There ems to be something about the ch elate of Guam which makes men auto ratic. Captain Leary was recalled (or riaying ciar and now Commander tchroeder, the present governor, has ttirred up a tempest in this far-away land by a remarkable order that is itterly reented by the ijo sailors and tiarines. It seems that the last barrel I whisky in the hospital stores was dolen recently. Governor Schrocder made great cf orts to discover the thieves, but failed. ie decided that as the men would not ell of the thieves all should suffer, ence he had them lined up on the llaza. publicly censured them in a Ipeech and punished them by confining tiem to the barracks and forbidding all iberty after "taps." He also declared that there had been .lumerc-us thefts from sailors and ma nnes of money and clothing, and hint td by expressing the hope that the ogues might be exposed, so that the command cease to be a source of shame o its officers and a disgrace to its coun iry and uniform. The enlisted men arc greatly wrought p over this order, as they say there is 10 justice in punishing 150 men for the tins of a few. They also object to the additional or ler which bars out liquor, brer and any ther beverages containing alcohol, without a permit from the governor. The officers can get the permits, but ihey are denied to the common sailors. The indignant sailors posted a protest n the walls of the barracks, declaring he order high-handed. and one which 10 governor of a State at home would lare to publish. They declare also that the governor's rbitrarv rule is lesented hv the people .( : r, ..1,.. i,....i, .1 Jie corrupt administration oi the Span- th ADELBERT HAY KILLED. Soo of Secretary of State Falls From a Window-Dead When Found. New Haven. Conn. (Special.) Adel pert Stone Hay. former Consul of the United Slates at Pretoria, South Africa, nd eldest son of Secretary of State Tohn Hay, fell from a window in the third story of the New Haven House in this city shortly before 2.30 o'clock Sun day morning and was instantly killed. His death occurred on the eve of the Vale commencement, and in which, by virtue of his class office, the young man ould have been one of the leaders. The tragedy has cast a gloom over the whole city, and will undoubtedly be ielt throughout the day, which has heretofore been so brilliant and full of aappincss for Vale and her sons. The full details of the accident may never be known. Hon John Hay. Secretary of Slate, irrived here from Washington at q.j p. m. Mr. Hay was unaccompanied and j gave signs of great gnet. 11c entered t carriage and was driven immediately !o the residence oi Seth Mostly. Worn Dut with the long trip and once within the walls of the house that sheltered the remains of his son, the Secretary col lapsed. His prostration was so com plete that Dr. Gilbert was summoned. WILL NEED AMERICAN GRAIN. Harvest la Germany Will Show the .Most Disastrous Deficit In Many Years. Washington (Special). It is now re cognized as inevitable that the cereal harvest of 1901 in Prussia will show the largest and most disastrous deficit that has been recorded in recent years, ;.nd the requirements of the German Em pire in respect to foreign grown food stuffs will far exceed those oi any recent year. These statements are included in a long report upon the deficit in German breadstuffs received at the State De partment from Consul-General Frank Mason, at Berlin. In view of the seri- ous state of affairs, a memorial has been sodressed to Count von Buelow, minis ter president of Prussia, calling atten tion to the threatened calamity which overhangs the agricultural population and urging that the government con form to certain prescribed measures oi relief. Thousands Are Destitute. Kansas City. Mo. ( Special). Thou sands of people men. women and chil dren camping on the border of the Kiowa-Conianihe-Apachc reservations in Oklahoma awaiting the opening of that land to settlement are in detinue cir cumstances, according to Dr. J. J. Me Kcnna, who has just returned from th.e scene. Dr. McKenna said: "Twenty thousand men. women and children arc massed on the border, and half of them are utterly destitute. At least 5.000 of them have been there a year and a halt. Danish West Indies. London (By Cable). The Copenha gen correspondent of the Dailv Mail cables his paper saying that the United States has sent another note to Den mark in the matter of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the effect that if Denmark is not willing to sell the islands the United States must demand that Denmark fortify and garrison the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, which would command the Nicaragua" canal. Bank President Commits Suicide. Melbourne, Fla. (Special). J. H. Phillips, president of the Melbourne State Bank of this city, committed sui cide at the Riverside House, wnere lie boarded with his family, by cutting his throat with a razor. He was in unusu ally good spirits when he returned from the bank. His wife left him reading in his room to go to a nearby store to do tonic shopping. When she returned he was not in his room, and later he wis found in an unoccupied room in the third floor of the hotel lyiiifi across a bed with the bloody razor in his hand. Ohio Town Burned. Vanwert. Ohio (Special). The busi ness portion of Scott, a village eight miles north of here, was destroyed bv fire. Vanwert was a-.ki.il for assistance, but before an engine louhj be sent the lire wa under control. Carnegie Oilers 20.COO to Maio-t, Macon, Ga. (Special). Mayor Smith received a letter from Andrew Carnegie notifying the city of a gift of $2o,ocx for a free library, 011 condition that the city appropriate $.'ogo yearly for its maintenance. It is exptcted that the Council will accept the offer. SUMMARY OF THE NEWS. Domestic. The strikes in the shops of the Read ing Railroad continue to spread. A let trr Irom President Baer in reference to the strike situation was not well re ceived by the strikers. Clc eland Holster. Ira Dowain, and George Walker, sons of prominent fam ilies of Newport News, Va., were arrest ed on suspicion of having set fire to the Hampton Sah, Door and Blind Factory. Kcv, Franklin H. Kerfoot, I ).!.. cor responding secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Board, died at Atlanta, Ga. A number of resolutions bearing upon suffrage, reform of the judiciary, the use of money in elections and school funds were introduced in the Virginia Constitutional Convention. Collisions have occurred between the striking miners and the guards in the Thacker- Matewan coal fields of West Virginia, and the strike is assuming serious proportions. The controversy between the town officials of Winchester. Va.. and the county officers over a pile of bricks re sulted in the arrest of comity employes by a police officer. Senator Chaunccy M. Pepcw wrote an open letter to General Grosvener twit ting him about withdrawing from his third-terni interview and defending the third term. Miss Adeline I.. Mayo, a Richmond ( Va. ) society girl, eloped to Washing ton with l.loyd A. Turner, of San Fran cisco, and sent a telegram announcing her marriage. Sheriff Spiker and posse arretted six men mar Mount Jackson. Va., on sus picion of having set tire to the tni'.l of S. 11. I.otias and to have killed Lonas' son. An a'tmipt was made to wreck with ! dynamite the First Methodist Church j of Manhattan. Kan., whose pa-tor, re- cently elected Mayor, has waged war on j the joints. 1 A receiver was appointed in Xashvillc I at the instance of the Baltimore Trust I and Guarantee Company, for the Nash I ville Street Railway. I Mrs. l.oi'ise Thomas, of Newport ! News. Va.. became insane, her hallueina ! tion being that her property was to u I taken from her. 1 Mrs. Fmily Heck, of Allentown. Pa., : sued to recover $10,000 from Mrs. Alice I Hitching, who hot and slabbed her. i Opposition has developed among the Harvard graduates to the granting of 1 a '.'.CKm" ,' icri" Kcv. Charles I. Stcrotary of Mate Hay. Stcngle was acquitted in the Corporation Court of Norfolk, Va., of the charge of embezzlement. Jacob Johnson, the pioneer powder manufacturer of York county, Pa., died at his home in York. John Wanamaker has offered Con gressman K. II. Foerdercr $500,000 in addition to his offer to pay the city $-?.500,ooo for the street railway fran chises. Foerdercr is one of the parties to whom the franchises were granted. The Virginia Constitutional Conven tion refused to require the members to take the oath of office; committees were named and a flood of resolutions on important subjects Mtbmitted. United States deputy marshals ar rested Dr. L. L. McKinney. of the Braxton county (W. Va.) board of health, who held up a mail train that had smallpox patients aboard. Acting President Tuckers' report to the trustees of Washington and I.ce University shows that the William L. Wilson endowment fund is practically assured. The directorates of the various Van derhilt roads met in New York, and elected William H. Newman president of the Lake Shore and the Michigan Southern. An injunction was secured in Park ersburg. W. Va., to restrain the strik ers at the Matewan mine from interfer ing with the operations of the company. General Byron Latlin. who was provi sional governor of North Carolina dur ing the reconstruction period, died at his home in Hudson, N. Y. A check of $i0.coo was received from I. William Middrndnr. of Baltimore. I for the Charlotte Williams Hospital in Kicnmond, Va. Two sets of resolutions were offered in the Virginia Constitutional Conven tion to disfranchise the negroes from voting. The convention decided to con tinue in Richmond until its work was done. Foreign. Six men were lost with the British bark Falkland off the coast of France. A Kussian dispatch says ignorance 'among females in some sections of that I country is at such a premium that one who can read is jeered at as unwomanly. The total population of Paris is placed at 2.714.00X by the census just com pleted. Spain is making vigorous efforts to repair her depletion of armament. Karl Russell will be tried at the next session of the Central Criminal Court on a charge of contracting a bigamous marriage. Emperor William emphasized his opinion of Bismarck and his displeasure of Yon Buelow 's tribute to he Iron Chancellor by depositing a wreath at the foot of the statue bearing the inscrip tion of "To the Great Kinperor s Great Servant." The Briti.-h Cabinet is preparing in structions to lie given to Lord Paunce fote for a new Isthmian Canal Treaty. They will iiisi-t upon the recognition of liie Clayton Rulwer Treaty as a sine qua noii. Karl Russell had another hearing in London on the charge of bigamy, the prosecutor claiming that his Nevada di vorce was irregular and invalid. He was remanded on .2.000 bail. The British lost 14 men killed ami wounded in an engagement with Boers at Waterkloof June 20, and y men of the Cape Mounted Killes were captured. The Mad Mullah was attacked by the main British force, and, with the Sultan of ur, narrowly escaped capture. Prince Henry of Prussia christened the new Grrman cruiser Prince Adal bert, launched at Kiel. Financial. Mr. A. R. Flower has been elected president of the Amalgamated Copper Company. The Big Four has declared a quar terly dividend of one and one-quarter per cent on the prelerred stock payable July jo. Wells, Fargo & Co. has delcared a regular semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent., payable July 15. It is said Sinadard Oil interests have sold the Shady Side Glucose plant to the Glue ose Sugar Refining Coinapny. Private advices from San Francisco say the decrease of 80 per cent, in the net earnings ol Pacific Mail last year was the result of competition. The rumor that the American Railways-Fleet ric Company of America dial was off is said to have no founda tion. One of those prominent in the combination says that the Klectric Company of America minority stock holders who object to the plan have not yet, in his opinion, established any points of objection. The examination of the plants f the two companies pre liminary to the final arrangement of the official circular announcing the deal is ktill uoing on. MANY LIVES LrjSTJN A CLOUDBURST, Several Towns Swept Away By Floods at Night In the Pocahontas Valley and Elk Horn Mining Region In West Virginia. PROPERTY LOSS WILL REACH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Widespread Destruction in the Valleys ol the Mouatain State-Cloudbursts Cause a Mighty Rush of Waters-A Traia Caught in the Ptood and the Passengers Rescued by Ropes-Many Miles of Track Torn lp. Bluefield, W. Va. (Special). This en tire section has just been visited by a flood the extent of which in all proba bility will eipial or exceed that of Johns town in iMfg so far as the loss of prop erly is concerned. F.arly Sunday morning, shortly after midnight, a heavy .downpour of rain be gan, accompanied by a severe electric storm, and steadily increased in vio lence until 10 a. in., then ceasing for several hours and beginning again w;th renewed violence. This continued throughout the day and night. Many miles of the Norfolk and West ern railroad track, bridges and telegraph lines are entirely destroyed and com munication is entirely cut off west of F.lkhorn so that it is impossible to learn the full extent of the loss of life and property, but officials of the coal opera tions located in the stricken district have sent out messengers to F.lkhorn, the terminus of both telegraphic and railroad communication, and have re ceived a report that a conservative esti mate as to the loss of life will reach joo. Some of the drowned are among the most prominent people of the coal fields. The Pocahontas coal field is located in a basin, with high mountain ranges on either side, Klkhorn creek flowing through the center of the basin, which ranges from one-fourth to one mile in width. From Funis, W. Va., to Vivian Vard (Tidewater Postoliice), W. Va., a distance of 10 miles, miners' cabins, coal company commissaries and coke plants line this basin. Klkhorn creek, being fed by numer ous small streams coming from the mountain sides, rises very rapidly, and the cloudburst came so suddenly that the entire basin between the two mountain ranges was flooded, and before the terror-stricken people realized what was upon them they were carried" down by flie flood, which swept everything in its path. The little town of Keystone, with a population of about 2000, seems the greatest sufferer, practically the entire town being washed away. This town is the principal one in the Pocahontas coal field, and is located near its centre. It was to a great extent headquarters from which the mining population purchased supplies, and was also the only place in the field where whisky could be pur chased. At this place there were some 12 to 15 saloons, all of which were washed away except one. The report comes that the mining population are now occupying the banks of the streams below catching the merchandise and barrels of whisky and beer as they float down. A great number of the coal and coke plants throughout the Pocahontas field are reported practical ly destroyed and in some instances en tirely washed away. On account of the very high water which has flooded the region and pre vented communication anything like a correct estimate of the loss of properly is impossible, but from the best infor mation obtainable the loss will easily reach $.'.000,000. At Landgraf the beautiful home of General Manager Ord is reported gone, but his family is said to be safe. Passenger train No. 4 of the Norfolk DEATH IN THE STORM'S TRACK. At Least Nine People Killed or Fatally Hurt at Naper. REPORTS INDICATE GREAT DAMAGE. Was One of the Most Destructive Tornadoes to Human Life Thai Ever Occurred in Nebraska All Communication With the Outside World Cut Oft and It Is Impossible to Learn What Damage the Storm Did Aloof the River. Omaha, Neh. (Special). Special dis patches from Naper, Neb., coming via Stuart, Neb., because of interrupted communication, tell of the frightful work of a tornado which visited that vicinity. The following dispatches have so far been received : One of the most destructive tornadoes to human life that ever occurred in Ne braska crossed down the Keya Paha river at 6 o'clock Thursday evening One family of seven are killed or fatally 'in jured and out of another family of six two are killed and the rest, except the Big Coal Combine Chartered. Charleston, W. Va. (Special). The Fairmont Coal Company, of Fairmont, W. Va.,was incorporated here with a capital of $12,000,000, to operate in Ma rion, Harrison, and Monongahela counties, in this Slate. The principal office is at Fairmont, and the incorpora tors are Arthur M. Taylor. Warren B. Matheson, of New York; K E. Hartley, N. C. ; Ashcorn, of Fairmont, and W. A. Chley, of Charleston. This is the arg est charter ever taken out in this State. This company is the one which just bought in all the Watson holdings. . Husband la a Lottery. Wichita, Kansas (Special). Ernest Still, of Great Glencoe, Oklahoma, has offered for sale .1000 tickets on himself as husband. He is .selling thetickets at $5 each, and has already disposed of about 500 tickets. The tickets are being purchased by young women in the vi cinity cf Glencoe, who deem 'the chance one we'l worth paying for. Still is a young clerk of Glencoe, and he says in explanation of his plan: "By selling 3000 chances at $5 each it will bring to nie $15,000 which is a sufficient sum of money to attract any voting woman de- .,; ., ..r 1 riiuiij vi iii.iiiynig. and Western Railway reached Vivian about 8 , to a', m., met the flood and was unable to proceed farther. The waters reached such a depth that the coaches had to be abandoned. Between Klkhorn and Vivian Vard. a distance of 10 miles, ico cars are said to be washed from the tracks and many of them were carried down the streams, A rough estimate places ihc number of bridges washed away between Bluefield and Vivian yard a distance of 28 miles, at from 15 to 20, am' from present indications it will be impossible to get trains through to V'v inn and points west of there in less than a week or ten days. This will render it impossible to get relief into the strick en district, and with those who escaped with their lives, homeless and without food indescribable suffering is inevita ble. On the Clinch Valley branch of the Norfolk and Western railway, between this city and Norton, Va., communica tion is entirely severed west of Taze well, Va. Reports come? from that point of great loss of life and property throughout that entire section. In Sha kcrag, a negro settlement on the out skirts of Tazewell, the water stands to a depth of six or eight feet in the street and houses, all of the occupants having been removed to points of safety bv means of a boat. Three miles west of Tazewell, on the Higginbotham farm, the home of Paris Vandyke, a farm hand, was swept away, carrying .with it Mrs. Vandyke and four children, two of the Vandyke children John, aged 17, and Onirics, aged 5 being drowned. Mrs. Vandyke, with the two remaining children Kdg.tr and Laura were found at o o'clock a. m. in a dying condition one mile from where the home stood by Mr. Vandyke, who was absent from home at the time of the cloudburst. While the rescuing party was search ing for the Vandyke family they found the body of a white woman, well clad, floating dow n Plum creek. No one thus far has been able to identify her and it is supposed the body had washed down from some distance. A report comes from Witten's Mill, a small station between Bluefield and Tazewell, that three children (Christian names unknown) belonging to Raleigh Brush, were drowned. There is no tele graph station at Witten's Mill and it is impossible to ascertain particulars. The railroad and telegraph companies are working between 1. 000 and 1,500 men day and night. Officials are on the ground pushing the work of construct ing the telegraph lines and rebuilding the road and hope to be able to com municate with both the stormswept dis tricts. Nothing whatever has been heard from the section of country between Vivian and Williamson other than that the Tug river is reported as being en tirely over its banks and higher than ever known by the oldest inhabitant. The town of Welch, county seat of McDowell county, necessarily must have suffered seriously, and a number of the larg"? lumber plants situated along the banks of Tug river no doubt are entirely destroyed. At Keystone the water began to rise at o o'clock and by 1 1 o'clock the flood had spent its fury and at least two thirds of the little city had been washed away or demolished. It is known that 16 residents of the north side of the stream lost their lives and at least 50 of those who lived on the south or town side were drowned. At Burke, a suburb of Keystone, a number are missing and eight are reoort- ed dead. It is now almost certain that the total list of the dead from one end of Elk horn Valley to the other will reach 200. A full list of the names of the victims cannot be ascertained at this time. Hun dreds are missing, having taken refuge in me mountains to escape the fury of the flood. ' father, are seriously or fatally injured. Out of the Anderson family of six two children Ida and Clara, aged, re spectively, 7 and 8 were killed, and the mother and her daughter Bertha and son Iheodore, aged, respectively, 10 and 12, were seriously injured. August Ander son, the father, was away from home at the time. The families of Jacob Berg and Metz. were injured somewhat when their houses were demolished, but not serious ly. All communication with the oulside world is cut off i.nd it is impossible to learn what damage the storm did along the river west of where the Greening and Anderson families were found. Six hours before the storm the sun was shining. The storm cloud appeared about 5 o'clock and traveled down the Keya Paha river. It seemed to rise up and .skiri some houses and then swoop down and demolish everything. The tornado was preceded by a severe hail storm. Several horses and cattle are rc IKirted killed by lightning. Kverything in the track of the storm was destroyed. Trees were blown down, and the smaller ones were stripped of leaves. Th furniture that was' in the homes of the Andersons and Greenings cannot be found. A trunk and piccei of the table were picked up a half-mile away. Wreck oa Atlantic Coast Line, Spartanburg, S. C. (Special). The north-bound train on the Atlantic Coast Line from Augusta jumped the track below Roebuck, Spartanburg county. The engine, tender and all the cars were derailed. Engineer Zeigler was severely injured in the head and chest. His recovery is doubtful. Baggagemaster Wallace was hurt internally. Three other employees were badly bruised and otherwise in jured. 'I he train was two hours late having broken down at Troy. ' Big Crucible Steel Plant Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Contracts have been awarded by the Colonial Steel yompany lor tne puildings and a por tion of the big crucible steel jilant to be erected by James W. Brown. George A Howe and other former stockholders of the Crucible Steel Company of Ameri ca, at Colonia, a new town on the Ohio river adjoining Monaca. The plant is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $1,000,000, make the finest kinds of strictly crucible steel and employ 700 men. It is expected that the plant will be finished ready for nri;,. ! six or eight months. LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS. New Regime la Philippines. Following the order making Judge Taft civil governor of the Philippines, an order has been issued naming Gen eral Chaffee as military governor of the archipelago. The military has 'been or dered to vacate the Ayuntamiento. the large pubic building which was erected out of the municipal funds of Manila for government purposes. This will be oc cupied by the civil -officers in the Phil ippines. The palace of Malacayan. here tofore occupied as headquarters for Generals Otis and MacArthur. also has been ordered vacated by the military authorities, and will be occupied by Governor Taft. Malacayan was the headquarters of the Spanish Captain General when "in command in the Phil ippines, and the natives have come to regard it as the headquarters or seat of government. The F.stada Mayo, an other large public building, is to be the milifary headquarters, and will be occu pied by General Chaffee when he as sumes command. All of these orders have been cabled to Manila. Germany Not to laterfcre. Germany has announced her recogni tion of the Monroe Doctrine to South American diplomats in Berlin, accord ing to their colleagues in Washington. The attitude of Germany with respect to an isthmian canal has caused specu lation among Central and South Ameri can states. According to South Ameri can envoys here who discussed the mat ter their representatives in Berlin deemed it advisable to obtain a state ment in regard to the policy the Ger man Government proposes to observe. In the conversations which occurred between Count von Buelow, the Ger man Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the South American diplomats, the for mer is said to have stated that Germany recognized the existence and understood the extent of the application of the Monroe Doctrine and that she has no in tention of hindering the construction of the canal by the United States. Tariff Controversy With Russia. The State Department has addressed to the Russian Government, as repre sented by Count Cassini, its ambassa dor, such representations respecting ihe sugar and petroleum tariff controversy as are deemed necessary to meet the Russian action. The purpose of the let ter is to smooth away, if possible, the friction that has been engendered be tween the two governments in the handling" of these two subjects, and iu particular to divest the exchanges of any personal character. The "American Red Book." The American Red Book for 1808, comprising the foreign relations during the eventful period of the Spanish American War, has just made its ap pearance. It contains an exhaustive summary of official correspondence. It appears that just before the war with Spain broke out Minister Wood ford, at Madrid, sent word that the Queen Regent, yielding to the request of the Pope, was about to decree a termina tion of the war in Cuba for a period of six months. Mr. Woodford was hopeful this would avert a crisis in the trouble between Spain and the United States, but this hope was not realized, as Congress soon after adopted the resolutions of in tervention. The foreign relations' with other coun tries during 1808 also are treated. Mr. Sherman, then Secretary of State, had a spirited exchange with the Austrian Min ister at Washington. Mr. Henglemuller. The latter had said that his Government would hold the United States Govern ment responsible for the rioting at Lat timer. Pa. Mr. Sherman took sharp is sue with the "remarkable language" used by the Minister and registered an absolute dissent from some of his views. Germany's Sonth American Trade. The State Department has been fur nished by Vice-Consul Murphy, at Frankfort, statistics showing the extent of Germany's trade with the nrincinal South Anirican republics during the past two years. Germany's' imports from Argentina. Brazil, Chile. Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela last year totalled $111,' 000,000 and her exports to these coun tries amounted to more than $40,000,000. Recently augmented shipping facilities between Germany and South American ports, says Mr. Murphy, will increase the trade materially during 1901. Capital News la Oeasral. Frank A. Vanderlip of the Treasury Department, who has returned from studying the financial situation in Eu rope, says the United States has secured a firm grasp on foreign commerce, and that New York will soon be the financial center of the world. Paymaster John R. Martin, of tb Navy, was sentenced to be reprimanded for advancing pay to himself. An official order was is-sued making General Chaffee military Governor of the Philippines. Governor Allen has issued a call for a meeting of the Assembly July 4, when the question of free trade will be taken up. The official order was issued estab lishing civil government in the Philip pines and proclaiming Judge Taft as the tirst civil governor. The President signed a number of commissions of federal civil and mili tary officials. The President appointed 68 enlisted men to be second lieutenants in the Army. The new military plans contemplate keeping the number of troops in the United States down to 25.000, the bal ance to be distributed in the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico. Civil government will be established in the Philippine Islands on July 4. Judge William II. Tatt will be desig nated as civil governor. Gloucester Naval Command, No. 17, composed chiefly of those who took part in the naval battle of Santiago, elected Rear Admiral Schley an honor ary member. Our New Psssesilt.il. Provost General Davis has submitted a plan for the municipal government of Manila. ,The United States Philippine Commission is modifying it. Charges of theft and tale of public property are made against a number of the witnesses in the Manila commissary cases. Civil government will be established iu the Philippine Islands on July 4. Judge William 1L Taft will be designat ed as civil governor. He will remain at the head of the Philippine commis sion, which is to be continued. It is estimated that forty insurgent were killed or wounded during the re cent engagements which have occurred in Alba and Sorsogon provinces, Lu zon. Many insurgents are returning to th!ir homes. ' Washington has been asked for'an rp propriation of $10,000 to defray the ex penses of fifty Filipino teachers, who are to study for a year in normal schools of America, these schools having offered them free tuition. Secretary Root flrsionatrl ti ...... nnrt IniHllti m earrv rh , rr nr . ., : . 1 e - - - j .v..Biu.niulld party and army officers to Manila I 1 1 . 1.1:. . . . 1 wo iiuiiiiiru Soulier prisoners lett Manila fur the United States FOURTEEN DEAD AFTER EXPLOSION. Flames Spread and Cremated Inmates of a Tenement. HOUSE WAS TOTALLY WRECKED. A Woman Wllh Her Clotalai A bunt Leaps Fran a Window and Falls Llftfesa la a Yard-She Had Braved tht Flames la a Vaia Effort to Save Her Crippled Husband-A Number ol Persona Mltslaf. Paterson. N. J. (Special). Fourteen people are believed to have been killed and a number injured as the result ot a fire following an explosion among a quantity of fireworks in the store ol Abraham M. Rittenburg. The store was on tht ground floor of a tenement building. The cause . of the explosion is not known and the property loss will not exceed $35,000. The explosion occurred' shortly after noon and many of the occupants of tha building were out at dinner. The build ing iu which the fire took place was a frame tenement, four stories high, with stores on the ground floor. The middle store was occupied by Rittenburg. Ten families occupied flats in the building. So great was the force of the explo sion that a hoy playing in the street hall a block away was lifted from his feet and hurled against an iron fence. A trolley car was directly in front of the building. The hurst of flame blown out into the street scorched the sides of the car and singed the hair of the passengers. A number of those who were on the tipper floors of the building were either stunned and then burned to death ot found escape cut off and were suffo cated. After Ihe first explosion there were a series of smaller ones and then came a second big explosion, which was muffled and deadened and probably oc curred in the cellar. Every window seemed to emit flame within a minute after the first explosion A woman, her clothing on fire, leaped out of one of ihe windows and fell to the yard below. Her dead body was dragged out of reach of the flames, but the flesh was roasted and dropping from the bones. While the rescues were beinar made the firemen were fighting the flames in an effort to keep them from the upper floors, where it was said many were pinned in. The men had hardly taken their positions and begun 011 the side walk to throw water into the upper floors when, without any warning, the w hole upper part of the "building above them sagged outward and fell. Captain Allen and two of his men were buried under the blazing debris. One of Ihe men is badly hurt. The building in which the explosion occurred was en tirely destroyed. TWO DROWNED IN LOST RIVER. Caught by a Rush of Waters During. Recent Storm-Buggy Broke. Winchester. Va. (Special). News reached Winchester from Wardensville. oW. Va., of a double drowning accident wmcn occurred at t-apon iron Works, in the waters of Lost river, four miles from Wardensville. at dusk. The vic tims were Mrs. Maliuda Keller and her 12-year-old nephew. John McKeever. A man whose name could not be learn ed escaped after a desperate struggle in the waters. The drowning was remarkable in that it was caused by a huge wave, which swept down the river suddenly and en veloped the party. Mrs. Keller, her nephew and the man were driving in a buggy, and when they drove in Lost river the water was only two feet deep. Something became broken about the buggy and the man got out in the water' to repair the break. It had been rain ing hard, but the stream was not swol len. While the man was repairing the buggy the party noticed that the stream had begun to rise rapidly, and becom ing alarmed, the man unhitched the horse, with the intention of carrying Mrs. Keller and her nephew out of danger on tho animal's back. Suddenly a gigantic wave, six feet in height, swept down the stream. The man, woman, child and horse were swept away like chips. The man succeeded in reaching shore and told of the drown ing of Mrs. Keller and young McKee ver. THREE WILLED IN WRECK. Railroad Engine Jumps 0(1 a Bridge With Terrible Results. Hendricks, V. Va. (Special). A work tra il went through the Laurel Fork Bridge at Stover 011 the Drv Fork connection of the WestVirginia Central and Pittsburg Railway 14 miles south of this place. The arcid. nt was caused I y a flange on the pony truck, breaking ihe bridge being on a sha'p curve, causing the engine to jump the track, pulling sev eral cars and j portion of the bridge wiih it and burying the men under the debris in the rock bed of the Dry Fork river. Superintendent Booker was rid ing on the engine and it look several hours to remove his body from under the mass. The fall was 2J feet. All the dead men leave families. Peach Crop Nearly Ruined. Atlanta, Ga. (Special). According to State Entomologist Scott, peaches in South and Middle Georgia arc rotting very fast as a result of excessive rain for the past three weeks. Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture Wright said: "We have received reports from every county in the State and the peach crop is said to be nearly ruined. Not only is the peach crop in poor condition bn cotton, melons and canteloupes are also in bad shape. Lice had infested the cotton and the heavy rains have caused it to turn yellow. The outlook now is the worst seen in Georgia in a number of years. Great Labor Combination, Pittsburg, Pa. (Special K-'President L. R. Thomas, of the Patternmaker' Association, who is acting secretary of the Allied Metal Trades Council, is sending out notices to all the prominent labor leaders of the country to be pres ent at the convention which is to be held in Chicago on July 8 It is thought that the convention will be the greatest ever held in this coun try, the objects of which are to amalga mate all the trade unions in this coun try under one head. It is expected to have represented at least 2,000,000 workiugiiien. Falbcr-lu-l.aw's Present $100,100. Butte, Mont. (Special), W. A. Clark, Jr., youngest son of United States Sena tor W. A. Clark, and Miss Mabel Foster were married here at the home of the bride's parents, Rev. S. C. Blackiston, of St. John's Episcopal Church, officiating. The Foster home was elaborately decor ated. The wvdding guests were limited to 50 relatives and friends. Mr. Foster gave his daughter away. There were no bridesmaids or groomsmen. Senator Clark's present to the bride was a check for $100,000.' The grooin'a present was a necklace of diamonds and nran. said to be valued at $00,000. I PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. The Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. GOVERNOR SIGNS MANY BILLS. Pensions Orantcd During Ihe Week-Supplement to the Plltsburr "Ripper" Act Approved IMlc ol the Mcrrimac-Carnefie Offers Pipe (Irian to Two Churches-Insurance Collector Misslnr-Other Live News. These pensions were granted during Ihe week. John W. Lewis, Washing ton $6; George H. Nieman. Fleming, $to; William Id. Haydcn, Greensburg, $8; Joseph A. Bennett, Germany, $14; John A. Portcrfield, Sharpsville, $12; Frederick Swcarinan. Keystone Junc tion, $to; James T. Herrington, Osce ola Mills. $24: John Eastman, Myrtle, $12; David Thompson, Huntingdon, $17; Peter Albright Myersdalc, $17; Thomas O. Cloyd Orbisonia, $12; Jos eph Haiti, Johnstown, $12; Orcla Siet son, Harrison Valley, $S; Elizabeth Lozier, North Scwickley, $S; Harry F. Dayen. Allegheny, $12: George S. Buchanan. Brush Valley. $3; Robert H. Nichols, Torpedo, $0; Samuel B Gam ble, New Kensington, $6; Bczallc Cam cson. Franklin. $12; Samuel Sharp, Newville, $N; Abraham McKinney, Washington. 'S; James McCa'tncv, B-aver Falls. $8; Daniel A. Barnhiil, Newville, Sarah A. Brown, Dysart, $8; Mary H. Wright. Caloton, $8; Sa loma Cavanaugh Garrett, $12; Muitie Carter, Nansen. $8; Mary A. Brcen, Al toona, $8; Amelia Allen. Maricnvillc, $8; George McClcllan, New Brighton, $; Mary J. Slricker, Salem Ch'irch, $12; James Hindley Pittsburg. $0; Wil liam H llolliugshead, Bushman. $10; William' F. Hanes, Hope Church, $0; Thomas Pryor, Pittsburg, $6; John L. Camblin, Newcastle. $8; John T. Butler Covington, $12; John W. King, Ne vr castle, $17; Elizabeth Thompson. Wash ington, $8; Charlotte Motion, New Sa lem, $8. . Governor Stone lias approved liie fol lowing bills: Providing for the imme diate printing and distribution of ad vance sheets of lawn of this Common wealth as they are enacted from time to time. To prevent the importation and sale of dressed carcasses of lamb and sheep w ith the hoofs on. Relating tn the collection of city, school and poor taxes in the cities of third class, and providing that the City Treasurers of such cities shall be the collectors of these taxes. To provide 'for the registration of labels, iradc-niarks, trade names, stamps, de signs, devices, shop marks, terms, brands, designations, descriptions or forms of advertisement and to protect and secure the rights, property and inter est therein of the persons, co-p.trlner-ships or corporations adopting and filing the same. The supplemental hill to the act governing cities of the second class, known as the Pittsburg "ripper." John Korn, one of the carpenters who returned to work in Drifton shops, Hazleton, was kidnapped by strikers and held a prisoner for twent-four hours, when he promised to give up work and was released. The abduction was a bold one. Several men entered the house and took Korn from his bed and placed him in a wagon and drove off. The kidnaped man was under the special protection of two armed officers, but the guards fell asleep and the man was spirited away without the men discovering the fact. The National Fire-proofing Company, composed chiefly of local - capital, is te absorb most of the independent manu facturers east of Pittsburg. Its capital will be increased to $5,oco,ooo and it? capacity will be doubled. Among the plants to be absorbed will Ik- those of tht International Fire Clay Company, at Perth Amboy. N. J.. the New York 8 New Jersey Fircbroofmg Co., and the Rarilan Hollow, Company. The commencement and class day ex crcises of the Cheltenham High School at Ashbourne, were held in Ashbourne Presbyterian Church. Addresses were made by Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, rectoi of Holy Trinity Protestant F.niscopal Church, Philadelphia; Rev. J. Thomp son Cole.ector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopol Church, of Cheltenham, at Ogontz, and Rev. Richard Montgomery, pastor of- Ashbourne Presbyterian Church. The Junior response was made by Mary F. Coonahan. The Carnegie Museum. Tittsburg, re ceived from Mrs. Jennie E. Joy, of Phil adelphia, a cane made from the wood of the Confederate ram Merrimac. The cane is surmounted by a silver handle representing a cannon, and a silver strap, giving an account of 'the stick, is wound alnntt its upper end. The annual class day and commence ment exercises of the Jenkintown High School were held in Masonic Hall. Rev. William Scott Ncvins, pastor-of Abing ton Presbyterian Church, delivered the iddress, and the diplomps were presented by the president of the school hoard. E. Bower, an insurance collector, of Catasauqua. has mysteriously disap peared, and it is feared that he has met with foul play. His accounts with the company are straight. Bower is 27 years of age and has been prominent in church and temperance work. Last fall he was Ihe Prohibition candidate for Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions. Andrew. Carnegie has sent word to two more churches in Greensburg county that they can have pipe organs at his ex pense, the cost to be in keeping with the architecture of the buildings. These churches are the Methodist Episcopal, of Scottdale, and the Reformed Church at Greensburg. Guido Prescolt. employed as water car rier for the men building the Marysville end of the Rockville bridge, was almost torn to pieces by dynamite. The lad was in front of a blast th.14 was about to ex plode, not having been warned of his danger. One arm and u leg were blown off. Hon. Michael M. Glroy died in Arch bald. He was a lifelong Republican and in 1P84 was elected to the State Legisla ture from the fourth district of this . county. Charles S. Richmond, of Girardville, aged 70 years, is dead. He was at one time district superintendent for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company. ' Oliver Jackson, aged over 75 years, of West Chester, w3s rescued from drown ing at an old quarry hole near there. He was almost dead when discovered, but it is thought he will . recover. How Jackson got into the water is not known. Fifty-five acres of the original camp ground at Valley Forge has been sold by J. W? Bean to E. J. Matthews and (.Km' eral D, F. Fisher, who own adjoining lands. The land sold lies on the north side of Valley Creek, and the redoubts of the soldiers of the Revolution are still to be seen. Mrs. George R Sfohn, of Reading, was instantly killed, and Alexander Pfciffer was seriously injured while out diiving. The horse became frightened and ran away. Mrs. Spohn died before she reached hotne. The grand jury ol Pottsville recom mended the merger of the bonmiih of ScliiivH ill Haven will' Norlh Manlieiro
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