LABOR WILL FIGHT
THE STEEL TRUST.
A (treat Strike Order Sy President
James Shatter. ,
MANY THOUSAND MEN AFFECTED.
Pallart of the Official of the Conpaalei aad
h Officers at the Amalgamated Aiiaclatloa
ta Reach aa Aireemeat Alter Maay Confer
eacee-Sereatylive Thousand Mea Directly
aad Thousands Mare Indirectly Affected.
rittsburg, Ta. (Special). After a
three-days' session the conference be
tween representatives of the American
Sheet Steel, American Steel Company
and American Tinplate Companies, sub
sidiary companies of the United States
Steel Corporation, and the general ex
ecutive board of the Amalgamated As
aociation of Iron, Steel and Tinwoikcrs.
adjourned without reaching an agree
ment. In less than an hour later Presi
dent Shaffer of the Amalgamated Asso
cialion had wired a strike order to all
the amalgamated lodges in the tinplate,
ateel hoop and sheet steel mills.
For the present Secretary Shaffer says
1hat only the three companies will be
affected, but later all the union men in
the Federal Steel Company. Nat if.n.il
Steel Company and the National Tube
Company may be called out, ii it shall
be found necessary to resort to extreme
measures to win the fight. At the st.vt
it is claimed 45.000 skilled workmen,
30,000 unskilled men, and, ind'rectlv,
many thousands more will he affected.
After the adjournment of th? confer
ence the following statement was given
out by the officials of the three com
panies interested:
"The conference between the Amal
gamated Association and the sheet,
hoop and tinplate companies failed to
come to an agreement because the
Amalgamated Association did not re
cede from its original position, which
was that the three companies interested
should sign for all the mills without re
gard as to whether these mills had in
the past belonged to the Amalgamated
Association or not.
"The manufacturers did not re:use
their rights to organize, but, having
many men in the mills not in the
Amalgamated Association who did not
wish to become association men, claim
ed they must respect these men in their
wishes as well as lii.ise who are mem
bers of the association."
FIRE PANIC I.N HOTEL
The Guesti Escape In Their Nlghtrobes--Some
of Them Sustala Injuries.
Butte, Mont. (Special). At 2.40 a. m.
a still alarm was turned in from the
Butte Hotel, a four-story structure on
Broadway. When the firemen reached
the scene the building was enveloped in
amcke, which appeared to pour from
every open window. The firemen were
unable to locate the blaze for some thir
ty minutes and the greatest confusion
prevailed. A number of guests on the
lower floors succeeded in groping their
way down stairs in the smoke and es
caping with nothing but their night
clothes. Scores of others were rescued
from the upper windows, where the
panic-stricken guests shrieked for suc
cor and threatened to jump to the side
walk below.
At 4 o'clock the fire was completely
under control and the hotel management
state that to the best of their knowl
edge all the guests and help have been
accounted for.
The interior of the hotel, which for
many years has been the leading hostel
ry of Butte, is completely gutted, and
Hugh L. Wilson, the lessee of the build
ing, estimates his loss at $00,000.
The hotei guests lost a quantity of
personal effects.
KILLED BY A MANIAC
Traveler Meets t Tragic Fate While a
Passenger en a Trao.
Rawlings, Wyo. (Special). A man
named Rogers was shot to death by Ned
Hadley Copeland, on the Union Pacific
train No. 6. Copeland was traveling from
Stockton, Cal., to Council Bluffs, la.
When at a point three miles east of
Wamsutter he walked into the car where
Rogers was sitting and at once began
ahooting at him, saying: "There, take
that." He shot three times, the bullets
entering Rogers breast and he died in
stantly. Copeland was arrested and is
now in jail here.
When asked what caused him to kill
Rogers, he said: "He had me hypnotized
and I had to do it."
Copeland is undoubtedly out of his
mind. As the killing took place in Sweet
Water county, Copeland will be taken to
Green River and turned over to the au
thorities there.
Knights of Pythias Face a Scandal.
Chicago, 111. (Special). As the result
of the report just made by the officers
and six members of the Board of Con
trol of the Endowment Rank of the
Knights of Pythias, the indications are
that a former president, will be deprived
of his membership and that criminal
proceedings will be begun against three
former members of the board. The re
port bristles with charges of miman
agement and improper use of funds,
and it is estimated that the fund is at
least $500,000 to the bad as a result.
Wants 115,000 Damages.
Yorkville, S. C. (Special). The
Woodmen of the World has a thriving
lodge at Hickory Grove, in York coun
ty, and it is said that new members when
being initiated are required to climb a
greased pole, ride the goat and perform
other feats for the amusement of those
who already have passed that ordeal.
March 22 last S. W. Mitchell, a well
known resident of the town, was initiat
ed, end he has entered suit against the
order for $15 ,000 damages for injuries
alleged to have been sustained by hin
at that time.
Boers Capture a Gun.
Ixndon (By Cable). A dispatch
from Lord Kitchener, dated at Pretoria,
nays the Boers attacked a constabulary
capturing a 7-pound gun. He also savvied with belonainor to secret oolit'ical so
at Jiouiwop. in ine 1 ransvaal, July 11
me ooers were eventually driven off.
The British loss is given as three men
killed and seven wounded. A noisy
scene in the House of Commons arose
from a question as to whether the Brit
ish wounded were left in the hands of
the Boers at Vlakfontein. Lord Stan
ley, financial secretary of the war office,
(declared the war office had no informa
tion on the subject.
Prince Chung to Visit Washington.
Washington (Special). Upon Minis
ter Wu will fall the responsibility for the
entertainment of no less than fifty per
aons connected with the Chinese Im
perial Mission, which has just started
tor Germany to express regrets for the
lulling of Baron von Ketteler, the Ger
nmn minister in Pekin, last year. Prince
Chung, the head of the mission, will re
turn to China from Europe by way of the
United States, and while in Washington
will be the guest of the resident minister,
with a staff outnumbering by far that
which accompanied Li Hung Chang on
liis tour around the world.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic
Judge Specr, of the United States Cir
cuit Court in Georgia, has decided that
$40,000 of the $50,000 realised from the
sale of the Spanish steamer Adula
should be distributed among Captain
McCalln and the officers and men of the
Marhlchcad.
Pierre Lorillard by his will left Rnn
cocas stock farm, valued at $150,000. to
Mrs. Lillian Allien, who was his friend
for 15 years.. To his wife, from wlvm
he was estranged, he left an anniii'y nf
$50,000.
Dan R. Hanna. the Senator's son. se
cured a writ of habeas corpus against
his wife in New York for his children,
but she locked herself in her cabi.i cn
the Campania and got away without be
ing served.
The strike of the 2700 employees of
the Reading Iron Company is ended, the
company agreeing to pay the same
scale of wages as was paid in August,
1809. which was the "boom" period of
iron prices.
A resolution was introduced in thj
Virginia Constitutional Convention pro
testing against the grandfather clause in
restricting suffrage as tending to cre.uc
a voting aristocracy.
Peter Gruber, of Rochester, N. Y
was bitten and nearly killed by his pet
rattlesnake.
The attorneys for Mrs. Botkin are
preparing to take her case to the Su
preme Court.
Emigration from Germany during the
first six months of this year aggregated
112.908.
Win. J. Scott died at his home on '.he
Potomac, near Shephcrdtown. W. Ya.
The annual meeting of the Universal
Peace L'nion began in Buffalo.
The drouth in Missouri. Kansas. Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory continues,
and the cattle feeders are rush'iM their
cattle to market to prevent them irom
dying on their hands.
William Begnall. who was serving a
term for killing John McAllister in Nor
folk, Va., was pardoned by Governor
Tyler.
The program has been arranged for
the unveiling of a tablet at Point o'
Woods in memory of Margaret Fuller.
Admiral Dewey paid an unofficial call
on Rear Admiral Cotton, commanding
the Norfolk navy yard.
The police raided a policy shop near
Phoebus, Va., and arrested seven old
soldiers with policy slips.
Loren Bolen was drowned in the res
ervoir of the Taylor Coke W orks at
Morgantown, W. Va.
Cameron Smitliers accidental" shot
and killed himself i't Norfolk, Va.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has finally
secured an entrance to Detroit.
At the business meeting of the Na
tional Educational Association in De
troit a resolution was adopted declar
ing for a National University. Dr. W.
M. Bradschcar, of Iowa College, was
elected president of the association.
"Social Science in the Public Schools"
was the subject discussed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is about to construct two new bridges
across the Schuylkill river at Philadel
phia, one of which will be devoted ex
clusively to the traffic of the Philadel
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road. The striking machinists at the New
port News shipyard surendered, and
the company agreed to take them all
back. Superintendent Post's action in
beginning to employ men in other cities
caused the collapse.
Three members of the Molders'
Union in York. Pa., were adjudged
guilty of contempt of violating the in
junction restraining them from picket
ing the works of the York Manufactur
ing Company.
A run was started on the United States
Banking and Savings Company, of
Cleveland, Ohio, who, on account of a
misunderstanding, spread alarmist re
ports. County Treasurer Alfred Norling. of
Minden, Neb., who confessed having
committed embezzlement and arson,
was committed to six years' imprison
ment and a fine.
A cablegram was received in Detroit j
announcing the death in Riva, Italy, of
.Mrs. Hrown, the wife of Justice Brown,
of the United States Supreme Court.
Foreign.
M. Santos-Dum nit, th. Brazilian
aeronaut, failed to win the piize offered
by Henry Deutsch for a manageable
balloon. He navigited the airship to
the Eiffel Tower in Paris. m.ik:n ex
traordinary speed, but on the return
trip the motor did not work propvrl;"
and the balloon defended int 1 a tree.
Disagreements between Lord Milner
and Lord Kitchener and increasing pub
lic dissatisfaction in England over the
conduct of the war in South Airica. will,
it is reported, lead o Kitchener being
succeeded in the command of the Biit
ish forces in South Africa by Gen. Sir
Bondon Blood.
The trial at Posen of Polish stu.leits
charged with belonging to secret politi
cal societies at various German univer
sities is attracting attention throughout
Europe. Other students connected with
Polish political societies in West Prus
sia are to be prosecuted.
The Russians at Tientsin celebrated
the opening of the new concessions and
also unveiled a monument erected to the
memory of the Russians killed during
the relief of the legations in Pekin.
Ex-President of Venezuela Andrade
said in Porto Rico that he did not think
an occasional revolution hurt a country.
Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium
was overcome by the heat while playing
croquet at her villa at Spa.
In conflicts between the pupils of Ro
man Catholic missionaries and the na
tives on the Island of Quelpart, in the
Yellow Sea. 60 miles south of Korea,
15 of the natives and .100 of the mission
pupils are reported to have been killed.
The American and the German mili
tary authorities at Pekin are still dis
cussing the question of who shot the
German soldier who was hit by a ball
which the Germans ciaim was fired by
an American sentry.
Funeral services over the remains of
Prince Hohenlohe were held at Schil
lingsfuerst. Bavaria, the royal family
being represented.
The trial of 13 Polish students, charg-
cieties at the German universities, was
begun at Posen.
A big meeting was held at the Guild
Hall in London in support of the gov
ernment's war policy and to offset the
recent pro-Boer gathering in Queen's
Hall.
It is reported that the wife of Acting
President Schalk-Burger has been cap
tured in the Transvaal.
Financial
The New York Subtreasury statement
shows the banks have lost $2,106,000
this week.
It is said an agent of an American
firm in Finland has discovered gold at
Lappmarten.
The Western railroad presidents have
formally agreed to restore and maintain
freight rates.
Comptroller Dawes says: "Latest re
ports from the banks indicate an un
usually high degree of prosperity. Their
resources are greater than ever 'jefore,
and their condition generally satisfactory."
THREE HUNDRED
PUPILS KILLED.
Mission on Korean Island Attacked
By Natives.
CONFLICT COVERED TEN DAYS.
Flfteta of the Natives Also Killed In the Fight-ing-The
Catholic Missionaries aad Their
Pupils Opposed by the Natlves-The Qov
eroor Declares that the Trouble Was the
Fanlt of the Pupils.
Berlin (By Cable). The Cologne
Gazette publishes a dispatch from Seoul,
Korea, dated July 6. saying that bloody
conflicts, extending over a period of 10
days, have occurred on the Island of
CJuclpart between the Roman Catholic
missionaries and their pupils and the
populace of the island. Fifteen of the
natives and about three hundred of the
pupils are reported to have been killed
during the encounters.
The governor of Quelpart, accord'ng
to the dispatch, says the trouble was
the fault of the pupils, and arose from
their support of the tax collectors in
levying illegal taxes upon the natives.
Upon hearing that two French mis
sionaries had been killed in the island
a French warship proceeded to Quel
part. L'pon finding the misionaries in
question alive the warship returned.
The Korean government has commis
sioned Htian Kian and an American
court official to investigate the matter,
and is sending a company of Korean
infantry with them to Quelpart.
Quelpart is in the Yellow Sea. 60
miles south of Korea, to which country
it is subordinate. It is a penal settle
ment. THIEVES CLEAN OL'T DELEGATES.
Epworth Leaguers Stranded In Colorado
Pickpockets Make a flood Haul
Glenwood Springs, Col. (Special).
The thoroughly organized gang of pick
pockets operating at Colorado Springs is
responsible for a party of about, twenty
Epworth Leaguers becoming stranded
here. Men and women alike have been
robbed, not only of every cent they had
with them, hut of railroad tickets as well,
and unless the railroads will issue tickets
back home on their proof of having pur
chased and paid for rides to San Fran
cisco and back, they will be compelled
to ask aid from the county authorities.
In at least ten cases thieves even se
cured their victims' trunks on stolen bag
gage checks.
Among those robbed arc Dr. J. H.
Wilson, wife and daughter, and Mrs. H.
R. Horrington, of Dover, Del. Dr. Wil
son's wallet, containing tickets for the
party, drafts on San Francisco banks
and baggage checks, being stolen in the
crush at the depot in Colorado Springs.
Major S. K. Hooper, general passen
gen agent of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad, authorized the Glenwood
Springs agent to furnish passes to Ogden
to stranded passengers who desired to
continue their journey west.
CORN CROP SITUATION.
Drought and Heat Destroying Millions of
Bushels.
Chicago (Special). Advices to Board
of Trade and grain commission housis
are that the drought yi the Southwest is
unbioken. it is sail the damage outside
of Kansas and Missouri is comparatively
slight, but that unless there is relief with
in to days the corn-crop situation wi'l
approach a calamity.
A message from Topeka, Kan , dei hir
ed the prospects arc for a crop of cnly
50.000.000 bushels of corn, although last
yeat's crop was l6j.ooo.ooo and that of
the previous year 237,000.000 bushels.
The loss on hay and potatoes is also
great second only to the loss on corn.
It is estimated that the farmers of Kan
sas and Missouri already have sustained
losses reaching $50,000,000. It was but
natural that hundreds of reports, of
which the above are fair samples, should
h;.ve been reflected in the course of
prices on the Board of Trade.
SULTAN SETTLES THE BILL
After Years of Waiting, Turkey Pays This
Country's $05,000 Indemnity Claim.
Washington (Special). The State
Department has received the amount of
the American indemnity claim against
Turkey $95.000 .hrough the American
Legation at Constantinople.
The money was paid by the Turkish
Government to Mr. Leishman, our min
ister at Constantinople, and was placed
by him in the Ottoman Imperial Bank
and drafts remitted fop the amount.
These drafts have just reached Wash
ington. As is always the case, the
claims in the aggregate considerably
exceed the amount of indemnity paid,
but our Government has expressed it
self satisfied with the payment. It as
sumes full responsibility for the distri
bution, the Turkish Government paying
down a lump sum of $95,000 and leaving
it to the State Department to distribute
this among the claimants at its discre
tion and after its own fashion.
American Banker's House Robbed.
Paris (By Cable). The residence of
John Munroe, an American banker. No.
I Rue de Longchamp, has been robbed of
jewelry valued at 60,000 francs. The
robbers entered an open window on the
ground floor during the absence of the
family, and while the servants were at
dinner. The jewels, which were taken
from Mrs. Munroe's bedroom, include a
pearl and diamond necklace.
Costly Drought la Kansas.
Topeka, Kan. (Special). The hot
weather in Kansas continues with no
immediate prospect of relief. Corn is
fast shriveling up. the oats crop is worse
than a failure, and hay is scarcer than
for years. It is estimated that Kansas
will suffer crop losses from the pro
tracted heat spell to the extent of $10,
000,000. Bobbed Safe and Fired Courthouse.
Minden, Neb. (Special). Alfred Nor
lin, county treasurer of Kearney county,
was arrested on a charge of robbing the
county treasury and setting fire to the
court house on the night of June 27.
After his arrest Norlin made a full con
fession and took the officers to a corn
field, near his home, where, in a box,
was found $6775. His total shortage is
$10,011. Norlin, at the time of the
court house fire, said he bad been as
saulted in his office, robbed, and the
building fired. He admitted that this
was purely a concoction of his own.
A Pet Frog Sxplodea,
Albany, Mo. (Special). An accident,
in which three children, a pet frog and
some dynamite figured, resulted in one
death and the serious injury of two per
sons. The three children of George Me
Ciirry. a contractor, found some dyna
mite in the cellar of their home, and
thinking it was putty, fed it to their pet
frog. A large toolchest afterward fell
on the frog end exploded the dynamite.
A chisel, driven by the explosion, pierced
the temple of the younger child and kill
ed it. Another child and Mrs. McCurry,
who was in the kitchen above, were
seriously hurt, ,
MANY KILLED IN RAILROAD COLLISION.
Passenger and Freight Train Come Together
on the Chicago aad Alton.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special). Four
teen persons are dead, two probably fa
tally injured, and a large number of
others more or less seriously hurt, as
the result of a head-on collision between
passenger and fast live-stock trains on
the Chicago and Alton Railroad, near
Norton, Mo., at 7 o'clock a. m. Six were
killed outright, four died on a train con
veying them to Kansas City, and four
died at hospitals in this city.
The passenger train was traveling in
three sections on account of the heavy
Epworth League business to San Fran
cisco. The wrecked train was the first
section, and contained no Leaguers.
Conductor M'Anna, of the freight
train eastbound, had been ordered to
meet the second section of the passenger
train at Slater, the next station east of
Norton, but apparently overlooked the
fact that the first section, which was 55
minutes late, had not passed. The head
hrakeman on the freight, who was about
four cars from the engine, says Conduc
tor M'Anna assumed the throttle him
self on leaving Marshall, and was run
ning the engine when the collision oc
curred. The trains met two miles west
of Norton on a curve surmounting a high
embankment.
The trains collided while going at a
rapid rate. Both engines were demolish
ed, and the forward cars telescoped.
Both engineers, the freight conductor
and Baggageman Racer were killed out
right, as were three passengers. Most
of the damage appears to have been
done in the combination smoker follow
ing the baggage car, these cars being
pushed into the space of one car by the
terrific impact of the collision.
The passenger train was due at Mar
shall at 6.44, but was 55 minutes late.
The freight, eastbound, left Marshall at
7.25, in an attempt to make Norton, and
met the passenger five miles cast of here.
When the crash came the smoker-diner
telescoped, turned to one side and went
by the baggage-express car and the en
gine and down an embankment. Few in
this car were injured.
In the chair car half a dozen received
scratches and bruises, but the greatest
number of the victims were those in the
tourist sleeper. This car telescoped and
fell on. top of the engine. The passengers
were scalded by escaping steam. The
chair car piled up nearby. The Pullman
and the observation car remained on the
track, their occupants escaping with a
slight shaking up. These quickly went
to work to aid the injured in the for
ward cars. The tourist sleeper and the
chair car soon caught fire and were com
pletely burned.
ORAHAM AGAIN OOES DOWN THE RAPID?.
Fifth Successful Voyage In His Barrel Through
the Raging Niagara Current.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. (Special).
About 3000 persons saw Charlie D. Gra
ham make his fifth successful voyage
through the whirlpool rapids in a bar
rel Sunday afternoon. The barrel is of
locust wood, oval shaped, except that it
has a flat head; it is about 5 feet long,
19 inches in diameter at the foot, and 26
inches at the head. With its 100 pounds
of ballast it weighs 165 pounds.
The start was made from the old Maid
of the Mist landing below the falls. The
barrel was caught in an eddy and circled
about a little above the cantilever
bridge for a quarter of an hour. The
stronger current in the middle of the
stream finally jerked it out of the eddy
into the foaming waters of the rapids.
Passing under the second bridge the
barrel had a narrow escajie from being
dashed to pieces against the stone abut
ments of the bridge. The passage
through the rapids was swift.
It took the barrel five minutes, to reach
the eddy from the starting point and 20
minutes to get out of it, but it only took
three and one-half minutes to pass
through the rapids and the whirlpool, a
distance of about a mile. At no time
during the passage through the rapids
was the barrel lost sight of. It ,vas
taken from the water after it had circled
about in the whirlpool for a few min
utes. Graham was slightly bruised
about the elbows and knees, but be was
otherwise unhurt.
Masked Maa Shot and Killed.
Pottsville, Pa. (Special). Four mask
ed men entered the hotel of Peter Hoke
at Yorkville, near here, and encountered
the proprietor and two guests, Michael
Riuel and George A. Wachter. During
the fight that followed one of the rob
bers was shot and killed, and Mr. Hoke
was wounded in the leg. The three re
maining burglars made their escape. The
dead man has not been identified.
Exonerates Admiral Mello.
Rio Janeiro (By Cable). The Bra
zilian Chamber of Deputies received
the report of a special committee ap
pointed to consider the case of Rear
Admiral Mello, who was arrested last
April on a charge of monarchial plot
ting and who then appealed to the
Chamber. The report declares that the
accusations against the officer are with
out foundation. It is considered cer
tain that the Chamber will unanimously
confirm the committee's conclusion.
A New Boxer Movement.
Shanghai (By Cable). A new Boxer
movement is being started, acording to
Chinese news from Sinan-Fu. Pu Chun,
'i htir apparent, with other -lembers
of Prne Tuan's family, has gone t j join
, Prince Tuan on the borders of Mongolia.
There are strong indications thit Pr jite
'I uai: is preparing to inarch against the
fore:gntrs with the tacit approval it tnc
Empress Dowager.
New Device for Torpedo Boats.
Washington (Special.) Orders went
forward from the Naval Bureau of Ord
nance directing that all the torpedo boats
in the Navy, built or building, shall be
equipped with a new electrical device for
sending the torpedoes on their journey
through the water. By the new equip
ment an officer in the pilot-house can
send the tubes overboard by the touch of
a button.
Explosion aa aa Eicurslon Boat
Sunbury, Pa. (Special). An excur
sion boat anchored in the Susquehanna
River at the foot of Market street, this
city, blew up with terrific force, killing
two boys and injuring a dozen other per
sons, two fatally. One man fs missing
and may have been killed also. All of
the boys killed and injured were fishing
on a nearby wharf when the explosion
occurred. The engineer was absent at
the time, leaving the boat in charge of
the pilot. When he left there was a pres
sure of 60 pounds in the boiler, and be
says he opened the fire door.
HI Life Was a Failure.
Crawfordsville, Ind. (Special). Ex
Judge lames H. Sellars, former member
of the legislature, and once candidate In'r
the Democratic nomination for governor,
killed himself in his law office by taking
morphine. He left a letter saying his life
was a failure, and that his debts were
large.
United States Costal Dead.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). Joa Raw
iez, who has been United States consul
at Warsaw since 1875, died here Saturday.
TEN MEN KILLED
AND NINE INJURED.
Bridie and Train Fell On Crew ol
Workmen.
AFFAIR WAS WHOLLY ACCIDENTAL.
A Heavy Steel Structure Collapses Under
the Weight af Stone-ladea Cars, Falling
Into the Midst of Masona at Work oa
the Abutment BelowVictims Mostly Hal
laa Laborers. ,
Springfield, Pa. (Special). Just af
ter 10 o'clock a. m. three cars of the
East End local freight went through
the Nickel Plate bridge here. The train
left Conneaut, Ohio, only a few minutes
before the accident, in charge of Engi
neer William Griffith and Conductor
Philip A. Moore, both of Buffalo. The
latter was instantly killed. Laborers
were at work on the bridge and the ten
men killed were, with one exception,
workmen.
A fill was being made at the bridge
and about 25 workmen were about the
structure.
The accident occured just after a pas
senger train had pulled through. The
local, after the passing of the passen
ger train, pushed three cars out onto
the structure to unload stone for the
masons working beneath on the founda
tions. The work of unloading had
hardly begun when without warning
the whole structure bearing the cars and
laborers fell with a crash into the ra
vine. So sudden was the affair that
only one man, a mason named George
Smith, had a chance to leap to save
himself from injury.
The place where the accident occur
red was at Crooked creek, directly
north of East Springfield. For many
years the creek has been spanned by a
heavy structural steel bridge. May I
work of filling up the valley was begun.
In the ravine, 55 feet below, masons
were at work building a stone' abut
ment. Railroad men regard it as little short
of miraculous that the bridge withstood
the strain of a heavy passenger train
and five minutes later fell with only the
weight of three cars upon it.
NEW HOMES IN SIGHT.
Hundreds Register for Farina In Okla
homa Lands.
El Reno, O. T. (Special). Following
out the proclamation of President Mc
Kinley opening to settlement by the
whites the 1.1,000 farms in the Kiowa
Comanche country, the first registration
of homeseekers was made here and at
Law ton at 9 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing. . '
Hundreds were lined before the var
Ods registration booths when darkness
came. The drawing by lottery will begin
on July 20, and until then none cf ki
5'' ,000 applicants will know whether or
not be has been lucky enough to receive
a homestead. The lottery scheme robbel
tiie opening of the picturesque run and
the exciting times incident to the great
opening of the Cherokee strip 10 years
ago. Compared with that event the af
fair was tame in the extreme.
Although there are perhaps aD.'icn peo
p'c in town, practically no disorder fie
vai'ed. As a ruic the bor.icseekers are
well provided with money and provisions
and aside from the long wait in the sun
bef re the registration booths, no serious
i.iccnvenience has bn experienced.
Hundreds of people slept in the streets
to retain their places in lines which be
gan forming at the six registration
booths at El Reno. Many had waited
on the border of the new country for
two years or more, and the last night
of their long vigil was the most trying
they had experienced. The line was made
up of the halt, the lame and the brawny
frontiersman sprawled out in the dust.
The crowd before each booth elected a
captain and each man and woman in line
was given a number, which each pinned
conspicuously on his or her clothing. A
company member was permitted oeci
sioally to absent himself from the line
for a short breathing spell and invariab:y
his place was protected by his fellow
watchers. Six Bathers Drowned.
Savannah, Ga. (Special). The He
brew Gamahl Hasad held its annual pic
nic at Daufuskie Beach. Between 3
and 4 o'clock in the afternoon a number
of the picnickers went into the ocean
for a surf bath. A strong southeast
wind was blowing and the tide was at
flood. Fifty yards off shore is a shoal
and between' the shoal and shore is a
sluice. The party was bathiny on the
shoal, but finding the tide getting rather
high the bathers concluded to go nearer
shore. Almost at once they found them
selves in the sluice over their heads with
mountainous waves pounding.' and a
sweeping current running. Out of 12
who started across 6 were drowned.
All Kinds of Birds' Eggs.
New York( Special). Ex-Senator John
Lewis Childs. of Floral Park, L. I., pur
chased of Miss Jean Bell, of Philadel
phia, a collection of North American
bird eggs and nests said to contain at
least one specimen of every kind of esjfg
known. Miss Bell has spent 28 years in
gathering this collection. In size they
range from that of the great auk, which
is valued at $1800, to that of the small
est humming bird. The collection cost
over $25,000 in actual cash outlay for
eggs. Mr. Childs will add the collec
tion to his own, which is very large.
Boiled Out the Bullets.
San Jose, Cal. (Special). Boiling of
the remains of Lee Wing, a murdered
Clrnrse. to ascertain if a bullet from I ce
Look's pistol had entered his body, ba.s
been completed after twenty-four hours.
Fourteen large buckshot and one 44
calibre bullet were found when the mass
was strained. This bullet is said to fit
Look's revolver.
A Preacher'a Two Wives.
Huntington, W. Va. (Special ). Rev.
J. W. Workman was placed in jail here
charged with bigamy. Mr. Workman is
a native of Lawrence county, Ohio, and
ten years ago went to Salt Lick, Ky.,
where he wooed and married Estella
Burtt. Two years ago the couple was
divorced, but nine months ago they met,
became reconciled and were remarried.
Two weeks ago they parted, and Mrs.
Workman went to her mother and
Wforkman went to Harvrytown for a va
cation. He there met Mamie Spangler,
19, and they were married in four days.
Postal Receipts Increase.
Washington (Special). The monthly
statement of gross postal receipts for
June at 50 of the largest postoffices
shows a net increase of $209,786, or 5.6
per cent, for the 50 offices over June of
last year.
The largest increase was 30 per cent,
at Buffalo. New York city increased
j.s per cent, and Chicago 3.3 per cent.
Nine postoffices that showed decreases
during the month were Baltimore,
Washington, Louisville, Omaha, Tole
do, Hartford, Dayton, Ohio, Grand
Rapids and Troy, N. Y. The largest
darreasc was 2.S 5 Per cc.nt. at Davtoo.
LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS,
Experts Rua late Billions.
All former records are surpassed by
the statistics of the foreign commerce of
the United States for the fiscal year
w hich enme to a close on June 30.
A preliminary statement prepared by
the Bureau of Statistics in the Treas
ury Department shows that the combined
value of imports and exports for the
fiscal year amounted to $1,310,413,077,
against $2,244,424,206 for the year end
ing June 30, 1000, the largest previous
record. The imports for the year
amounted to $822,756,533, a decrease of
$27,184,651 in comparison with the im
port for the previous year. The ex
ports amounted to $1,487,656,544, an in
crease of $93,173,462 in comparison with
the previous year, making the balance of
trade for the year in favor of the United
States $664,900,011, or an increase of
$120,358,113 over the balance of trade
for the previous year. In addition to this
there was an excess of $17,901,139 in the
value of silver bullion exported over the
value of that metal imported.
Notwithstanding this large balance of
trade in favor of the United States the
figures show that the imports of gold
during the year exceeded the exports of
that metal by but $11,342,332. This
means that the immense balance of trade
between this country and the rest of the
world was largely settled by other
means. A certain amount of gold is car
ried abroad by American tourists and
returning Europeans, but as most of
these carry letters of credit this amount
is relatively small. A large part of the
balance goes to pay freight bills on
American exports carried in foreign
steamers, and some of it to pay interest
and dividends on American securities
held abroad.. The small imports of gold
in the face of a large balance of trado
during the past year, however, is princi
pally due to the fact that the American
capitalists are now allowing much of
their money to remain in Europe for in
vestment, and the sales of bonds by for
eign governments ill the United States
have gone far toward settling the balance
of trade.
Defers Action on Cables.
Arguments were made before Secre
tary Root Friday by counsel of the cable
and telegraph companies interested in
cable communication between the United
States and Cuba.
The arguments lasted over two hours,
and at their conclusion Secretary Root
announced that no action would be taken
on the questions involved for two weeks.
Meanwhile the counsel for the compa
nies might submit additional arguments
in writing. He also announced that the
question of whether franchises had been
fraudulently obtained could not be con
sidered, as these points had already been
passed upon by the Attorney-General.
The case heard by the Secretary was
the result of complaint made by the
Western Union Company that its exclu
sive franchise for the lines between Cuba
and this country was being violated by
the use of the United States and Haiti
cable line working in connection with the
Postal system, through which means the
Postal was able to invade the Cuban field
of the Western Union. The United
States and Haiti company asked that the
case be continued until next September,
in order that additional time might be
afforded in which to present testimony.
Iras not probable that the request will lie
granted, in view of the statcpient by Mr.
Rcot that action would be taken 111 two
weeks.
. Mr. Root held that while the meiits
of the questions involved could be prop
erly, considered, he could not go behind
the opinion of the Attorney-General.
Mall Boxes for Farmers.
The announcement was made from
the office of Second Assistant Postmaster-General
Shallcnberger that accord
ing to contracts, which went into effect
July 1, a box delivery for the star route
has been introduced in Maryland, Vir
ginia," West Virginia, Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Dela
ware. The announcement provides that any
person living on or near the route, and
not within the corporate limits of any
town, or within eighty rods of any post
office, who desires his mail deposited in
a box on the line of the route by the
carrier, may provide and erect a suit
able box on the roadside, located in
such a manner as to be reached as con
veniently as practicable by the carrier,
and such person shall file with the post
master, at the postoffice to which his
mail is addressed, a request in writing
for the delivery of his mail to the car
rier on the route, for deposit in the
mail box, at the risk of the addressee.
Mlnncsota't Glory Departing.
Secretary Long directed that '.he old
frigate Minnesota be dropped from the
navy list and sold at a price not less than
$15,000. The Minnesota is probably des
tined to engage in the Atlantic Coast
cdhI Hade. The Minnesota was one of
the few Union vessels that escaped de
struction from the terrible onslaught
made by the Confederate monitor Vir
ginia when she sailed out of Norfolk t.j
atttck the Federal squadron ijJ.13 in
Hampton Roads.
Capital News in General.
A statement by the Treasury Bureau
of Statistics shows a large increase in trie
excess of exports over imports during
the fiscal year that closed June I.
The State Department is advised that
the bubonic plague prevailing at the dif
ferent towns of Egypt is of a virulent
type.
Captain Putnam B. Strong, of the
Quartermaster's Department, U. S. A.,
resigned, it is said, tor personal reasons.
Comptroller Dawes received the pre
liminary report of the receiver of the
Seventh National Bank of New York,
which estimates that the depositors will
receive 80 cents on the dollar.
The report was confirmed that in an
uprising on the Island of Quclpaert, off
the Korean coast, several hundred
Christian converts were murdered.
Captain Barry has been aligned to
command the cruiser Dixie.
The grand jury returned an indictment
against Mrs. Ida Bonine, charging her
with the murder of James S. Ay res.
The Secretary of the Navy ordered the
famous old Minnesota to be stricken
from the naval register.
Orders have been issued (hat a brass
plate, bearing the names of officers and
men of the cruiser Newark who were
killed and wounded in the' Pekin relief
expedition, be made a permanent fit
ting on the cruiser.
Reports O the War Department show
that all bufone of the ten aew regiments
have been recruited up to "their full
strength,
Oar New Posstssleat.
Colonel Sautos, with 40 men and 30
rifles, has surrendered at Ligao, in A I bay
province. The insurrection in North
Carnarines province is practically ended.
A report reached Manila from an un
official source that the Filipino crew of
the steamship Belgika mutinied recently.
They killed the captain and the engineer
and then abandoned the vessel, which
was picked up by a gunboat and towed to
Zamboanga.
Arthur Ferguson, formerly secretary
of the United States Philippine Commis
sion, has been appointed .secretary to
Civil Governor Taft.- '
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
The Latest Happenings Oleaned From
All Over the State.
SHOT HIS WIFE; KILLED HIMSELF.
Insane From Jealousy, Solomon Haas, of Wit
barton, Committed a Doable Crlme-Ma
hsnoy City Olrl Fell Out of Bed, Fracture
Her Sknll aad Dled-Husband Saved Hia Wile
-Woman Halted an Officer-Other News. '
Pennsylvanians received the follow
ing pensions during the week: Woot
Durkin, McKees Rocks, $8: James F,
Westlake, Independence, $6; Daniel
Byers, Turtle Creek, $6; Henry P.
Moore, Allegheny, $6; Franklin Ford,
Pittsburg, $to; George Yocum, Lewis
town, $8; Perry Berndt, Siprcsville,
$to; Daniel L. Colman, Dayton, $10;
Patterson Brubaker, Mercersburg, $8;
Evaline D. Brubaker, Mifllinburg, $8;
Sarah A. May, Sheridanville, $8; A.
Murray, Washington, $8; John Eusben
er, Irvona, $12; Ira A. Easton, Coji
dersport, $24; VVm. Anderson, Erie, $6;
John Cowland. Philipsburg, $6; Benja
min K. Taylor, Altoona, $8; David
H. Stevenson. Smethport, $6; Jacob
Mill, Manorville, $6; Samuel J. Ream,
Johnstown, $14; Andrew R. Mark,
Pittsburg, $10; John Sample, West
View, $17; Alexander Davenport, Mt.
Pleasant, $10; Michael Kline, Lcetonia,
$8; Joint W. Means. Towanda. $10;
Wm. Gardner, Bellwood, $12; Lewis
W. Powell, Mt. l'nion, $8; James M.
Wiley, Blacklick Station, $12; Cecilia
Krieg, Johnsonburg. $8; Sophia Bond,
Allegheny, $8; Elizabeth Staudc, Pitts
burg, $8; Ann Morley, Coshocton, 8;
Mary T. Garrison. West Alexander, $8;
Elizabeth Wriscnberger. Pittsburg, $8;
Frances E. Matthews, Erie, $8.
While the young wife of Solomon
Haas was bending over a wash tub in
her home at Wilburton, a mining ham
let near Shamokin, her husband, insane
from jeauousy and drink, crept up be
hind her and without saying a word
jammed a revolver against her back
and fired. The bullet crashed through
her spinal column and lodged in her
stomach, causing a fatal wound. She
screamed for help and he immediately
shot himself near the heart. Haas told
his wife he would retire to his room
and die. With difficulty he reached his
sleeping apartment, but hearing Mrs.
Haas keeping tip a constant cry for aid
he suspected he had not shot her fa
tally. He revisited her and was about
to bow out her brains when neighbors
appeared. Haas pointed his weapon at
them and retreated to his room, where
before any one could reach him he sent
two bullets through his heart and fell
to the floor a corpse. Doctors soon
arrived and said there was no hope for
Mrs. Haas' recovery.
Agent J. N. Kidney, of the Humane
Society, vadedwaist deep into the waters
of the Allegheny river near Aspinwall
pointing a revolver at Harrv Tarr, who
was fleeing before him. At the same
time Tarr's aunt from the deck of a
joboat pointed a revolver at Agent Kid
ney and dared him to shoot at her
swimming nephew. Kidney turned back
and the fugitive disappeared in a clump
of bushes on shore. Tarr was wanted
for abandoning a decrepit horse.
Charters were issued by the State
Department to these corporations: Ha
alcwood Bank, Pittsburg; capital, $50,
000. Oakland Bank, Pittsburg; capital,
$50,000. Roscngarten & Sons, incor
porated for the manufacture of chemi
cals, Philadelphia; capital, $27,500. The
Connellsvillc Improvement Company,
Conncllsville; capital, $40,000. Citizens
Title and Trust Company, Uniontown;
capital, $15,000.
Lightning struck the homo of Henry
Schwalm. at Hometown, and burned it
to the ground, together with its con
tents. The bolt rendered Mr. Schwahn
and his wife unconscious, but the for
mer regained his senses just in the nick
of time. He carried his wife's uncon
scious form into the yard just a few
minutes before the building collapsed.
Mr. Schwalm's loss is $2500.
Landis M. Kendifr, the ic-yeru -old
"son of Benjamin Kendig. of Manor
Township, djed at St. Joseph's Hospital
from lockjaw. The boy was setting off"
fireworks from a tree on the Fourth,
when he fell to the ground, cutting him
self badly and breaking an arm. Pow
der got into his wounds and tetanus de
veloped. General Superintendent J. M. Wallis
announced that the request of the
freight engineers of the Pittsburg di
vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad for
increased wages has been granted. The
raise applies only to engineers on the
large locomotives. The wages are rais
ed from $3.50 to $3.70 for a low rate day
and from $4.10 to $4.35 for a high rate
day.
Farmers in Jersey Shoie are com
plaining of a peculiar black worm
which lias made its appearance in great
numbers and which is almost entirely
destroying the potato crop. Paris
green and various exterminators fail to
have the slightest effect on the worms.
Agnes O'Conner, aged 17, is dead at
her home in Mahanoy City, as a result
of falling out of bed. .The girl ate a con
siderable quantity of ice cream, which
brought on an attack of vertigo. During
the spell she fell out of bed and fractured
her skull. Death followed.
A southbound passenger train on the
New York Central Railroad collided
with the caboose of a freight train at
Ramsey's on the Fall Brook district.
Passengers were hurled from their scats,
but escaped serious injury. The engine
and caboose were wrecked.
Two unsuccessful attempts were made
to burn the Maloncy Hotel at Westport.
Prompt discovery of the flames saved the
building from destruction.
The Duncannon Iron Company has
notified the pudilk'rs' tliat commencing
this week the price of puddle bar would
be advanced from $3.50 to .$3.75 per ton.
, The Pottsville Board of Health recr
ganized for the ensuing year. William
Cooper was elected, vice C. H. Woltjen,
whose term expired. , These officers were
elected: President, A. H. Haldcrstadt;
secretary, Frank Little; health ofiicer,
Abram McNealc.
While blasting on the site of a new
siding for the 1'ennsylvania Railroad at
Mt. Carbon Richard Davidson had both
legs and his body badly cut by flying
rocks.
The public scboiJ board of West Ches
ter is1 said to be the author pf the new
anti-cigarette law.
It costs boys who jump the fence to
see the baseball games on Wayne Field
in West Chester the sum of $7.83 for
each and every jump, this fine being fixed
by a magistrate in a hearing in which
Nathan Spriggs was the defendant.
While playing in the boiler house of
the dyeing establishment of her grand
father, in Allentown, a 4-year-old daugh
ter of Fred Kaeppel turned on a valve
at the boiler and was terribly scalded
about the body and legs.
Philip, the) 14-year-old son of Prof.
Shed, of Stair College, accidentally shot
'himself in the arm while playing with
an old army musket. His arm had to be
amputated at the elbow.