THE GREAT STEEL
STRIKE NOW ON.
The Pol'ce Authorities Preparlnj for
Trouble in Pittsburg.
THE TRUST WOULDN'T ARBITRATE.
Tfct American Tlnplate Company Announce!
Hut CcrUid Plaatt ol the Company
Crippled by the Strike Would Be Removed
to Mooessea-Speculation at to Mow Far
the Federation Will Help.
Pittsburg, Ta. (Special). The great
nteel strike is on. The order to strike
was generally obeyed wherever the
workers were organized and enrolled
in the lodges of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation. The policy of the American Federa
tion of Labor has not yet been fully
disclosed and thai fact contributes an
other element of uncertainty to the sit
uation. The action of the executive
board of the Mineworkers at Indian
apolis, in resolving to support the
strike, cheered the Amalgamated men
nd they are corfident that the Federa
tion will aid then to the fullest extent.
The closing hours of labor and the
opening hours of the strike lacked
spectacular action. This city, which is
the strike centre, was calm and undis
turbed. There was no excitement or
violence and the pulse of the commun
ity was normal.
The police officials issued an order
auspending for the time being the va
cation system. They do not anticipate
trouble, but want to have every man
here and ready for duty in case it
should come. They say that President
Shaffer has counseled peaceful methods
and that they hope the strikers and
their sympathizers will heed his advice.
The strikers held a series of demonstrations-
in the outlying towns, and
President Shaffer spoke a final word of
encouragement to his industrial troops.
Great throngs of workers turned out
to greet and cheer the leader and ex
change pledges to maintain the contest
upon which they have entered.
BOERS CAPTURED BLOCKHOUSE.
British Driven Off After a Flght-A Planned
Attack on Cape Town.
London (By Cable). A dispatch
from Lord Kitchener, dated from Pre
toria, says:
"A blockhouse near Brandfort, Or
ange River Colony, was rushed and
captured by the Boers after severe
fighting on the night of August 7.
"Elliott has captured 70 prisoners and
large quantities of stock and wagons,
which he is sending in. No details hae
been received."
Wail dispatches from Lord Kitchen
er, issued in a parliamentary paper, say
his constant endeavor has been to im
prove the fortifications along the lines
of communication, thus releasing men
from active service. The garrison oflf
the railways have mostly been with
drawn. A spirited narrative of the ejectment
of General de Wet from Cape Colony
concludes with the statement that the
raiders undoubtedly received a number
of recruits from the colonial Dutch, nn
ample supply of food and timely infor
mation. Lord Kitchener received certain in
formation that De Wet intended to a
tack Cape Town while General Botha,
as soon as he heard that the concentra
tion in Cape Colony was effected, was
to enter Natal with 5000 picked hors
men and make for Durban.
BUSINESS DONE WITH THE CUBANS.
Reports of Receipt! From the Various Custom
houses In the Island.
Washington (Special). The division
of insular affairs of the War Department
has prepared a statement of receipts
from all sources at the several custom
houses. In the Island of Cuba for the six
months ended June 30, 1001, as com
pared with the same period of iHc) and
1900. The statement shows that the total
receipts from customs sources during the
six months ended June 30, igoi, were
$ 7,947,05 : for the six months ended
une 30, 1809, $6,916,801, and for the six
months ended June 30, 1000, $8,oox,52J.
The collections at the port of Havana
cover the greater portion of the receipts
and for the period named were in loot.
$5,601.(01; in 1900, $6.1.25.444. Cienfuc
f?os comes next with $685,248, followed
by Santiago with $55o,28), for the six
months ending June 30, 1001. For the
other years the amounts are somewhat
smaller at both these ports.
Killed His Wife and Himself.
Scranton, Pa. (Special). Edwin
Davis, a young carpenter, shot his wife
and himself after a succession of quar
rels. They had a quarrel a week ago,
and he left her, taking his residence w ith
his father. Sunday evening he went to
his former home, and retiring to a room
on the second lloor, sent his little daugh
ter to his w ife with the request she bring
him a glass of water. She" left her sister
and went upstairs with the water. She
was gone less than a moment when her
sister heard four shots. When the neigh
lors went upstair they found the wife
dead on the floor and three bullet holes
in her head, while the husband was lying
across the bed with a bullet hole in his
forehead and a revolver in his grasp.
Gold Found In Georgia.
Atlanta. Ga. (Special). Samples of
ore and gold, accompanied by regularly
attested affidavits, have been received in
At'anta showing a remarkably rich strike
of gold in Wilkes county, near Washing
ton, Ga. The affidavits show that out of
.J407 pounds of ore 17X5 pennyweights of
gold was taken by amalgamation. State
Crologi.st Veates will make an official
report on the mine in a few days.
Carnegie May Be Lord Rector.
London (Be Cable). The Exchange
Telegraph Company announces that
Andrew Carnegie has been invited to
become lord rector of Aberdeen Univer
sity, in succession to Lord Strathcoma
anrl Mount Koyal.
t Manufacturer Drops Dead.
Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special). Pat
rick Walsh, a prominent manufacturer in
the South, senior member of the firm of
Walsh & Widener, dropped dead at his
home here from apoplexy.
' Evaas "RcprebeasiMf," Too?
Washington (Special). Ex-Senator
William K. Chandler has succeeded in
having a reprimand administered to
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans' for
having criticised in his "Log of a Sail
or" an official action of Chandler when
the latter was Secretary of the Navy.
Through Acting Secretary W. E.
Ilarkett the reprimand was made and
Admiral Evans has replied, but with
110 intimation of whar course he may
contemplate pursuing to establish, as
he claims, his right to comment and
criticise the conduct of any former
ueau 01 me ivavy urpartnient.
t
SIMMA&Y OF THE NEWS.
Domestic
The executive board of the United
Mineworkers. in session in Indianapo
lis, adopted a resolution recognizing the
steel strike and pledging support to the
Amalgamated Association.
Mrs. Charles Gallagher, of New
York, w as frightened by a high win I
on the York river, and became para
lyzed and died.
Josiah Johnson Hawes, of Boston,
said to he the1 oldest photographer in
the w rid. died 111 New Hampshire,
aged 04 years.
I'eter Short, of Sussex county, 1)
was seriously scalded while threshing
wheat near Laurel, Del.
It is believed in Philadelphia that
fatal defects have been found in the
"Kipper" bill for that city.
James II. Jones, of Caroline county,
Ya., was dangerously stabbed by Camp
bell Madison.
Mrs. Harriet Vinson, mother of
Colonel Capron. died in Clarke county,
Ya.. aged 84 years.
Miss Eflie Richey, aged 30 years, a
bookkeeper, killed herself at Fort
Wayne. I ml.
Frank Howell tried to kill his parents
near Linden. X. J.
General Rums Xeely died at Bolivar.
Tenn., aged 03 years.
Andrew Hamilton was drowned at
Grand View. Ya.
The steamer Norfolk, in the Roads,
was burned to the water's edge, involv
ing a loss of $50,000. She was the
handsomest steamer used as a transfer
boat between Sewells l'oint and Old
Point Comfort.
A report received at Washington
from Admiral Kempff tells of the bit
ing off of a leg of a quartermaster of
the Annapolis by a shark while bath
ing at lloib.
In New York John Seager has sued
C. C. Worthington, a millionaire pump
manufacturer, ior $100,000 lor alleged
alienation of the affections of his wife.
The bituminous coal combine has
bought a controlling interest in the
business of the Northwest by securing
two important mines in Minnesota.
Maximilian Monasse, nephew of a
former wealthy banker of Berlin, com
mitted suicide in Philadelphia because
he had been disinherited.
The United States Steel Corporation
secured control of the Shelby Tube
Works, a corporation having 15 mills
in different parts of the country.
The Xational Dental Association, in
session at Milwaukee, determined to
wage war againsf the so-called "bogus
diploma mills."
Two followers of Dowie were pelted
with decayed eggs in Chicago.
Ex-Governor Newell, of New Jersey,
is dead, aged 84 years.
Attorneys for Ellis Glenn, who re
cently achieved notoriety in her sensa
tional trial, in which attorneys and wit
nesses battled for weeks to establish
her identity and to prove her sex filed
their declaration in the United States
Court at Parkersbtirg. W. Va.. in a
$50,000 damage suit against Wm. Rich
ardson. The petition alleges that the
plaintiff was kidnapped in Illinois and
illegally and against her will brought to
West Virginia. .
The storm and flood situation in Vir
ginia is relieved and indications are that
danger and damage are past. Evidences
of the downpour arc plentitf'. but the
water has all passed away. The wind
has changed and normal conditions arc
expected to continue.
Lieutenant Commander James C.
Cresap, U. S. N., of the inspection
board at the Norfolk Navy Yard, died
at the naval hospital at Norfolk.
The San Francisco police are ascer
taining the movements oi a paroled
convict, believing that he was concerned
in the great gold bar robbery.
The marble statue of Charles Broad
way Rotiss, the New York merchant,
was unveiled in Winchester, Va.
Non-union 'longshoremen were at
tacked and stoned on going to work at
Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Foreign.
Lord Kitchener reported the capture
by the Boers of a blockhouse near
i Urandtort, on the Orange river. Mail
I dispatches from Lord Kitchener give
I details of a plan that had been arranged
; for an attack on Cape Town by General
j de W et, while Botha was to make for
1 Durban.
j There was a great unionist celebratio.i
I at Blehcim, a luncheon being given by
j the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
to 7000 persons. Speeches were made
by Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain.
United States Consul General Gudg
er has notified the Chinese on the isth
mus that they arc entitled to the protec
tion of the United States.
Field Marshal von Waldersee was
met at the railroad station in Hamburg
by Emperor William, who greeted him
most affectionately.
Several Catholic missionaries have
been murdered on the. Island of Quel
part, off the Korean coast.
Count Yon Waldersee had a demon
strative reception at Hamburg, where
he was welcomed by General von Wit
tich, representing the Emperor, who
bestowed upon him the Order of Merit.
Santos-Dumont made another at
tempt to circle Eiffel Tower, but a sud
den gust of wind brought disaster to
his balloon, which collapsed, and the
aeronaut narrowly escaped death.
The government lias decided to limit
the number of Jewish students in the
Russian universities. At Moscow they
are entirely prohibited.
The White Star liner Oceanic, dur
ing a ff g. ran into and sank the steam
er Kinkora in the Irish Channel. Sev
en persons were drowned.
The funeral services over the body
of the late Dowager Empress of Ger
many at Friedrichshof were simple but
impressive.
General Vyrim. commanding the
French force's, left Tientsin, a British
guard of honor attending him to the
station.
f iaanciaL
The Southern Railway Company has
declared the regular semi-annual divi
dend of a per cent, on the preferred
slrck.
The L'nited States Shipbuilding Com
pany, the new shipbuilding trust, it is
said, is ready to he launched with $05,
ojo.ooo capital, all subscribed.
The Pittsburg Wire & Steel Company,
recently incorporated with a capital of
$.2,000,000, will establish its plant in
Louisville for the production of open
hearth products.
The grots sales of the National Bis
cuit Company in July are said to have
been fully 20 per cent, larger than those
of the same month last year.
The government weekly cotton re
port says: "There has been an improve
ment during the week over the greater
part f the cotton belt."
Stockholders of the Bangor & Aroo
stook Railroad Company have voted to
isoue $20,000,000 4 per cent 50-year
mortgage bonds to be applied as follows!
Taking up and retiring outstanding
bonds and preferred stock, $12,500,000;
for improvements upon existing prop
erty, fj.ooo.ooo, and the balance for ex
tension of the system.
TRIED TO BLOW IP
. A JRITISH SHIP.
Atfempl Made te Wreck (he Mule
Transport Mechanician.
NONE OF . f HE CREW INJURED.
While the Crew Were Asleep aa Explosion
Occurred, Due to an Afent Operating
From the Outtlde-Plntes Started and
Water Lei Into the Ship-No Explosives
0.1 Board.
New Orleans, La. (Special). What
is regarded as an attempt of a Boer
sympathizer to blow up a British trans
port occurred shortly after midnight,
when there was a terrific explosion at
the stock landing where the Harrison
steamer Mechanician is moored. The
Mechanician is to carry mules to South
Africa. The explosion shook houses,
rattled dishes and awakened people for
some distance around. Most of the
crew of the ship were asleep, but the
explosion brought them quickly from
their berths to the deck. An examina
tion showed a large dent in the star
board side of the ship. Two plates at
the water's edge had been sprung and
considerable water was let into the ship.
Pumps were immediately put to wor,
and when daylight came it was found
the vessel was in no danger of sin'.Jtng,
and that the damage done was nc: sci
ons. The crew of the vessel denied that
there was any explosives on board, ai d
there seems little doubt, according 'o
the statements of those who examined
the ship, that the explosion was from
the outside and that some sort of bomb
or torpedo had been used.
Alfred Leblanc, general agent of
the Harrison Line, visited hc Mechani
cian and a report of the dain.igc r.vic
was submitted to him. He sai l tinee
large plates on the starboard idol the
boat had been stove in Mi l 16 rwels
had been broken off or knocked orii
pletely from their places. As tilt ship
was making considerable water it was
decided to shift the ballast so as to lilt
the damaged section out of the water.
It is thought the damage can l.c repair
ed here. Agent Leblanc said the Me
chanician will be loaded with a carpo
of mules and get away for ,3o Lit ii Airica
as soon as possible.
A British officer, who was on tfic ship
said the explosion was terrific, and that
a column of water went high up in the
air and came down on deck.
Many of the muleteers, who have
from time to time left the city on the
British transports, have returned with
complaints of ill treatment, and a num
ber of suits are now pending against
British ships in the Federal courts.
TEN HURT IN RAILROAD WRECK.
Colllsloo Between Two Sections ol Excursion
Train to Atlantic City.
Pittsburg. Pa. (Special). Two sec
tions of an Atlantic City excursion
train collided near Confluence, Pai, on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 84
miles east of Pittsburg. Ten people
were seriously injured, and a number
of others slightly hurt.
The trains left here shortly after 8
o'clock. At Confluence the first sec
tion was stopped, and the second sec
tion, rounding the curve, going at the
rate of 35 miles, crashed into it. The
engine oi the second section and three
cars were wrecked and traffic was de
layed several hours.
A Farmer Badly Injured.
Charleston. W. Va. (Special). Rob
ert Cart and Van Givens, prominent
farmers of Jarretts, this county, disa
greed as to whose place a threshing ma
chine should visit first. A fight ensued
and Givens' skull was crushed by 11
stone in the hands of Cart, while the
hitter's son also struck Givens with a
stone and broke his jawbone. The doc
tors say Givens cannot live. Both the
Carts are under arrest.
Boy Suffering From Antbrai.
Oneida, N. Y. (Special). Everett,
the ycung son of Herbert Yager, of
Higginsville. is dangerously ill with an
thrax and his recovery is not expected.
The case is attracting the attention of
physicians in Central New York, as per
sons are rarely attacked with this dis
ease. Anthrax is now prevalent among
live stock in this vicintiy and many cat
tle have died.
Herbert Oladstooe to Wed.
London (By Cable). The approach
ing marriage of Herbert Gladstone, son
of the late William E. Gladstone, to a
daughter of Sir Richard Horner Paget
is announced.
"JACK" WINTERS TELLS ALL
AND GIVES UP GOLDEN BOOTY.
San Francisco (Special). "Jack"
Winters, who was arrested as a suspect
in connection with the Selby Smelting
Works robbery, has confessed and o
far $141,000 worth of bullion has been
recovered from the bay, where he had
sunk it.
For three days the detc:;i.'i:s have
tried all sorts of persuasion 'o make
Winters confess, but apparently w-ithort
effect. Finally Winters a'?d to sl:e
Superintendent Ropp. of the Selby
Works, w ho, he said, w as the 011U ii if 11 J
he had.
Ropp told Winters that they had i
strong rase against him an. I tint he
would be sent to prison for thin years.
He said : "You will be an old man when
you get out and it will do you no (;ood
to hide the gold."
Winters finally told Ropp that he had
tuken the gold and would take In n to
the spot where it was hidden. .
30,000,000 la Salt.
New York (Special). The Southern
Salt Company, with a cauital of $200,000,
has been incorporated in Trenton. The
incorporators are Cecil D. Giles, George
S. Holmes and Oscar L. Gusclman. This
is a step towards the formation of the
International Salt Company, which will
soon be incorporated with a capital of
$.(0,000,000. It will include the Salt Un
ion of England, the Spanish-American
Salt Company and the salt industries in
Russia and other parts of the world.
. Chinese Tariff a Problem.
Washington (Special). It is under
stood at the State Department that the
delay in signing the protocol at Pekin
is probably due to the difficulty of ad
justing the tariff on an ad valorem in
stead of a specific basis,' and also in ar
ranging the details for the co-operations
of the military branch in the restrictions
on the importations of firearms. The
United States Government has received
representations, made by Pacific Coast
commercial organizations, that the pro
poned 5 per cent, duty on a gold basis
will work serious hardship on American
trade in flour to the Orient.
COLOMBIANS' NEW INVASION.
Large Force ol Men Lands In Panama Near
Colon-Commanded by Minister of War.
Willemstad, Island of Curacoa (By
Cable). The Venezuelan Goyernnient
announces that a new Colombian inva
sion occurred near Colon.
The invading force is commanded by
the Colombian minister of war.
Washington (Special). The State
Department has received a mail com
munication from Consul General
Gudgcr, at Panama, dated July 17, stat
ing an expedition in aid of the revo
lutionists had landed near the port of
Mutis, He said reports are various as
to the number and equipment of the
persons so landed, but it is conjectured
that the number is rather small. Per
sons in official position at Panama, who
seem to be best advised, regard this ex
pedition as a forerunner of others to
be sent out, as well as a method of
causing a more general uprising among
the liberals along the isthmus. The
consul general docs not know whether
affairs on the isthmus will become seri
ous, but is of opinion that if there
should be armed forces present, as
there were a year ago, personal and
property rights would he 111 danger.
Washington (Special). The situa
tion in Colombia and Venezuela con
tinues to occupy much of the attention
of officials here, and, while it was not
felt that affairs had reached a serious
aspect, yet it was appreciated that both
the official and unofficial advices indi
cated a condition of affairs, which might
mean war between Colombia and Ven
ezuela complicated by revolutionary
outBreaks in both countries.
STEAMER SUNK BY THE OCEANIC
White Star Liner and an Irish Coasting Vessel
Come Together.
Queenstown (By Cable). The White
Star Line steamer Oceanic. Captain
Cameron, which sailed from Liverpool
Thursday for New Y'ork via Queens
town, arrived here and reported having
been in collision in the Irish Channel
with the steamer Kinkora, of Water
ford. Ireland. The Kinkora sank.
Seven persons were drowned. The
damage sustained by the Oceanic will
not prevent her proceeding on her
journey. The collision occurred in a
fog. The bow of the Oceanic was dam
aged. The Kinkora was a coasting
vessel trading between Watcrford and
Limerick. She had a crew of 14 men.
The Oceanic brought the seven surviv
ors to this port.
Later details of the collision were
obtained, and it was learned that the
only damage sustained by the Oceanic
consisted in a few dents to her port
plates.
TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE DEMANDS.
Resolutions Alopted by National Gathering
at Buffalo, N. Y.
Buffalo, N. Y'. (Special). The na
tional temperance conference, which has
been in session here, adjourned Tuesday.
Twelve national organizations and seven
teen religious denominations from sev
enteen States and Territories were rep
resented. Resolutions were adopted calling for
the prohibition of the sale of intoxicat
ing liquors within and in the vicinity of
all State and national military reserva
tions and national and State soldiers'
homes; in favor of harmonious legisla
tion between the State. and national gov
ernments in all matters relating to the
liquor traffic and demanding the discon
tinuance of the sale of internal revenue
tax receipts in prohibitory territory.
SIQNOR CRISPI DEAD.
Italy's "Grand Old Man" Passes Away
at Naples.
Naples (By Cable). Ex-Premier
Francesco Crispi died here at 7.45 o'clock
Sunday evening from fever. He was
surrounded by the members of his fam
ily and several intimate friends.
His wife and daughter did not leave
the bedside for 50 hours, and their
friends were compelled to use loving
violence to induce them to quit the cham
ber. When all was over, the daugh
ter. Princess Linguaglossa, fainted and
had to be carried out by her husband.
The news was f.legraphed to King
Victor Emmanuel and Queen IL-b'na.
It is rumored that Signor Cnspi's will
authorizes a prominent Italian politician
to examine his papers and publish his
memoirs.
Russians to Maneuver la Finland.
Copenhagen (By Cable). The Rus
sians are about to hold extensive maneu
vers in Finland. Seven Danish vessels
have started to transport troops and ma
terial from Revel, a fortified town of
Russia on the south side of the Gulf of
Finland, to the scene of the military
operations.
Winters, in company with Sup;r'iiit'n
dent Ropp and a force of detectives went
to Crockett. There they waited all night
for low tide. Winters pointed out the
place at the end of the railroad wharf,
behind the coal bunkers, at the head of
the Vallejo Ferry slip. At that point
at low tide the mud is about four feet
deep, covered by a foot of water.
Winters got into the mud and water
up to his neck and in an hour and a half
$1 10,000 worth had been recovered. This
includes the four bars of fine gold.
Winters had put some of the bars in
bags. He said one of the bags had
broken and some small bars had drop
ped out.
It is now only a question of cart.'ul
search to find the rest of the $j8o,ooo.
Winters says he did the job alone. He
sa'ys he made fourteen trips from the
vault to the wharf from which he drop
ped the gold.
Senator Tillman Sued for Slander.
Columbia, S. C. (Special). A s.uit
for $10,000 damages for slander has
been begun against Senator Tillman in
Edgefield by J. Young Jones. Tillman
in a speech, it is alleged, -tuid Jojies was
a crazy thing, just out of 'in asylum.
Jones several years ago was in bad
health.
Killed by Falling From a Trestle.
Clarksburg, W. Va. (Special). Chas.
Newell, of Mannington, fell from a Bal
timore and Ohio trestle last night and
was found dead this morning.
Mr. Nation Sues for Divorce.
Medicine Lodge, Kansas (Special).
David Nation, through his attorney,
brought suit for a divorce from his wife,
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Temperance cru
sader. The petitioner, who is now visit
ing in Iberia, Ohio, alleges that his wife
held him up to public ridicule, neglected
her family duties and abandoned his
home.
Incorporated al Dover.
Dover. Del. (Special). The El Caps
tan Mining Company of Marquette,
Mich., was incorporated here with a cap
ital of $16,000.
BUCK DIAMOND
' EXPRESS IN WRECK.
Observation and Parlor Cars Plunge
Down an Embankment.
NONE OF THE PASSENGERS KILLED.
Some Received Bruises aod Cuts Abont the
Head and Body-One Car Remained on the
Track-Cause of the Accident a Mystery
Tbe Train Was Running at Between 65
and 66 Miles an Hour.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). The two
rear cars, a Pullman observation coach
and a parlor car on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company's "Black Diamond
Express," which left this city at noon
for New York and Philadelphia, jump
ed the track and broke loose from the
remainder of the train at North Leroy,
10 miles east of Batavia, shortly after
noon. The train was running over 50
miles an hour at the time.
The parlor car remained on the ties,
and no person in it was injured, hut the
observation car plunged down the em
bankment and dropped over on its side
in the ditch. It was badly demolished,
but only a few of its occupants, includ
ing Pullman conductor and porter,
were injured, and they not seriously.
Tbe cause of the accident is a mys
tery. Where the observation car went
down the embankment the rails seem
ed to have spread toward the edge. At
the office of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company in this city it was stated
that the train was on time, but was
running at the rate of between 55 and
60 miles an hour. The accident oc
curred at precisely 12.40 o'clock, and
two hours later the passengers, includ
ing the injured, continued on their way.
. LI B RA R Y FOR ToRTtTklCO.
Andrew Carnegie Expected to Make a Gift
to That Island.
San Juan. Porto Rico (Special). Ne
gotiations are under way between An
drew Carnegie and Education Commis
sioner Martin G. Brumbaugh, represent
ing the people of Porto Rico, which will
give San Juan one of the famous Carne
gie libraries. The San Juan Council
decided to appropriate Ifiooo yearly as
a maintenante fund.
Mr. Carnegie's private secrmry, Jas.
Bertram, wrote that it was the million
aire's custom to give ten times the
amount of the maintenance fund. How
ever. Mr. Brumbaugh hopes Mr. Car
negie may be induced to give $150,000.
The idea is to combine with public
library at San Juan a distributing library
for other portions of the island.
BALLOON TEST A FAILURE.
Accident Mars Brazilian Aeronaut's Effort to
Capture French Prize.
Paris (By Cable). M. Santos-Du-mont,
the Brazilian aeronaut, made an
other unsuccessful attempt to win the
priee, 100,000 francs, offered by M.
Deutsch, of the Aero Club, for a dirigi
ble balloon. He 'started from the
grounds of the Aero Club, the Pare
d'Aerostation, at Saint Cloud, and
headed for the Eiffel Tower.
When over Longchamp the guide
rope caught in a tree. M. Santos-Dumont
got clear, but, finding he could not
cover the course within the time limit,
he returned to Saint Cloud, eight and
one-half minutes after the start, having
covered about one-half the distance to
the Eiffel Tower.
Does tbe Work of Nine Bank Clerks.
Chicago (Special). A plan for re
cording checks wth a photographic ap
paratus controlled by electricity has been
successfully put into operation here 111
the National Bank of the Republic. The
machine will take pictures of 10.000
clucks in an hour. The pictures can be j
rolled on reels and stored. It is claimed
for the instrument that it will perform
what it would take nine clerks to do. and
that there is no opportunity for mistake.
Fire in Illinois Town.
Champaign, 111. (Special). The busi
ness portion of Rantoul, a town of .1,000
people, was destroyed by fire. Telegraph
coinniuniiation was cut off almost at the
beginning of the fire, and details are
lacking. The fire started in a grain ele
vator. The Illinois Central depot burn
ed next, and the flames spread to the
business section.
A Postoffice Clerk Pardoned. '
Columbus, O. (Special). President
McKinley has granted a pardon to ohn
B. Bulley. serving a three years' sentence
in the Ohio Penitentiary. Bulley was a
clerk in the Toledo Postoffice and was
convicted of stealing, opening and de
stroying a U rge number of letters. He is
restored to citizenship. His term would
have expired in September
Bomb Exploded In a Church.
Paris (By Cable). A bomb was ex
ploded near the altar of the Church of
St. Nizier, ul Troyes, doing considerable
domage to the thirteenth century win
dows, hut not injuring any of the hun
dreds of children who, together with a
priest, were in the sacred edifice at the
time. A Spaniard has been arrested on
suspicion of being the author of the out
rage. Death of Tilly Haynes.
Boston (Special). Tilly Haines, one
of the best-known hotel proprietors in
the East, died here, aged 73 years. He
was the proprietor of the United States
Hotel here, and of the Broadway Cen
tral Hotel, New York city, Death was
due to a general breaking up of the
system from advanced age.
Railroad and Eipress Safes Dynamited.
Memphis, Tenn, (Special). The safes
of the Illinois Central Railroad and
American Express Company in the de
pot at Bolivar. Tenn., were blown open
and robbed by two masked men, after
the robbers had forced the night tele
graph operator into a box car and
locked him in. Ouly a small booty was
secured.
States' Boundary Flicd.
Washington (Special). Governors
Benton McMillin, of Tennessee, and
Tyler, of Virginia, at a conference here
determined that each State sln'l bear
half the expense of the delimitation of
the boundary line between Ten.iessee
and Virginia, now being made by a
commission appointed for that purpose,
A peculiar feature of the case is I. is: at
Bristol the State line passes thro'igh the
city, but both States by legislation bue
agreed upon the middle of M ini .tret,
as the dividing line between the two
Commonwealths.
' Murdered by His Mother.
Rome, N. Y. (Special). While lying
in bed suffering from injuries received
by falling from a horse, Alvin Seaton,
aged 10 years, of Glenmpre, was mur
dered by his mother, who cut his throat
from ear to ear with a razor. The wo
man was temporarily insane and alone
in the house with her son.
France Deal Flimly With Turkey.
Paris (By Cable). The Franco-Turk
ith dispute growing out of the claims of
the Quay Company and other French
claims at Constantinople is likely to be
uromotlv solved.
LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Neely May Be Acquitted.
Considerable apprehension .1. ems to be
felt at the Department of Justice over
the Neely case in view of the refusal of
the most important Government wit
nesses to attend the trial and present
testimony upon which it was believed
the alleged Cuban frauds would lead 10
the prompt conviction of Neely and h'S
sentence to a long term of imprisonment.
Without these witnesses the Govern-t-.nnt's
case is weakened to an extent
which may result in the prosecution be
in;i so light as to render a verdict of
g:iilty doubtful. War Department offi
'nls are said to be alarmed over the
situation, and while Neely is in no sense
a prisoner of the army the fact that the
alleged frauds were committed while the
island was under military control gives
to the offense a peculiar military impor
tance. Neither the War Department nor
the Department of Justice has any special
authority now over the case, for with the
surrender of Neely to the Cuban judicial
authorities and his extradition, under a
special act of Congress he passed to the
Crhan judiciary' for a trial by a court, of
which the judges, as well as the prose
cuting attorney, are Cubans.
Hawaiian! Ask Protection.
The Interior Department has received
a resolution passed by the Hawaiian Leg
islature praying that Congress impose a
duty on all coffee imported from other
countries "and in this way protect that
industry in Hawaii and other parts of
tbe United States."
The resolution will he forwarded to
Congress at the opening of next session.
It says that the coffee industry in Hawaii
is now' in a depressed condition and is
tl.reatcned to be abandoned on account
of low prices and removal of protective
duty on all coffee imported into the re
public of Hawaii lieforc the annexation
ami the large amounts imported intt the
United States from Brazil. Mexico. Cen
Irnl America and other countries free
of duly. The resolution ref.vs to the
large coffee area, the amount ot Ameri
can capital invested there and inability
to compete with the low prices where
cheap labor is employed, as in the coun
tries mentioned.
Sampson May Be Relieved.
Application at an early date by Rcar
Adiniral W. T. Sampson for retirement
as commandant of the Boston Navy
Yard is expected here, and it is said offi
cially that the Navy Department offi
cials have selected an officer for an as
signment to that duty.
Admiral Sampson has been in delicate
health for some ,time and it would not
surprise the officials here should he seek
an early relief from duty. Thus far the
Admiral has made no request for relief.
It is regarded as practically settled that
he will not be continued on active duty
until the date of retirement under the age
provision next February.
Dispatches from Boston stated that
Admiral Sampson would be relieved on
September I by Rcar-Adtniral Johnson,
but this could not be officially confirmed.
Historians to Meet.
The State Department has received a
note from the secretary of the Italian
Embassy, Mr. Carignani, in regard to the
International Congress of Historical
Scicdices to be held in Rome in the spring
of 1902.
The promoting committee asks that the
Government of the United States send
delegates to the congress and invites the
participation of American scientists, art
ists and men of letters. The congress
will include all subjects of a historical
character.
The program of exercises has not yet
been definitely decided. Suggestions for
themes will be received until January,
1902.
To Protect Passengers.
Charles Page Bryan., United States
Minister to Brazil, has transmitted to the
Slate Department a translation of the
regulations recently adopted in regard
to the arrest of passengers leaving Bra
zilian ports on outgoing foreign steam
ers. The order provides that the Chief of
Police shall notify in writing the consu
lar agents of the country to which the
steamer in question belongs, or in cases
of urgency, the captain of the steamer,
of his intention to detain one of its pas
sengers. United States Acts.
An order was issued by the Acting
Secretary of the Navy for the gunboat
Machias. now at the Boston Navy Yard,
to proceed without delay to Hampton
Roads, and there to prepare for depar
ture to Colon, near the eastern terminus
of the Panama railroad.
At the Navy Department it is explain
ed that this movement has been ordered
with a ricw to having the iMachias take
observations in the vicinity of the isth
mus. In announcing the action of the
Department it was officially stated that
"it is deemed needful that a United
States war vessel be in that vicinity at
tlrs time."
Capital News In General.
The August report on crops from the
Agricultural Department shows the fol
lowing: Average condition of wheat,
80.3; corn, 54.0; oats, 73.6; barley, 86,g.
Average condition corn declined 27.
The report of the board of rurvev oil
the cruiser Columbia, now- ut 'e
Ycrk. is to the effect that she will not
be in condition to receive men until
thoroughly cleaned and fumigated.
The Navy Depurtment has o-dered
the battleship V. i.icon-oti, row at the
Pugrt Sound Naval Station, to San
Francisco, to be in readiness there to
prqeeed to Panama in case the Slate
Department asks for a war vessel on
the Pacific side of the isthmus.
Our New Possessions.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn,
flying the flag of Rear Admiral Remey,
has urriveil at Manila from Atittrui;,,
where the vessel took part in the cele- I
brations attending the opening of the
first Australian 1 arliament.
Secretary Root's order cutting off the
use of commissary supplies by civilian
employees is causing consternation
among the minor clerks, whoso expen
ses are thus. doubled. - Unlets the 'Va
ries of the junior employees are raised
many resignations are likely to be ten
dered. Courts-martial ' are to be held in
Manila on Lieut. Preston Brown and
Capt. Francis P. Freemont, Second
Infantry. The lieutenant is accused ol
killing a native who refused to recover
the body of a soldier from the river.
The charges against Captain Fremont
are not known yet.
The President has commuted to life
imprisonment the sentence of death
? renounced by a court martial upon
ames W. Allen, private, Company F,
wenty-fcurth Infantry. Allen was con
victed of Taoe at Humingan, Luzon. -Judge
Halsey, in Wilk.esbarre, Pa.,
made final the preliminary injunction
restraining the striking machinists from
interfering with the non-unionists.
The garrison at Kashminkar was sur
prised by Mashuds, who killed seven
men, wounded five others trr.d carried
off all the rifles, ammunition and sup-
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
The Latest Happenings Cleaned From
All Over the State.
BIO FARM CROPS IN THE STATE.
Tbe Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Fays
That Every Product Is Bringing a Good Prce
-Gored to Death by a Mad Bull-Blrdsbere
Rooster Catches Mice-Woman Drinks Wash
ing Fluid and Ink to End Her Life.,
: Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Mar
tin is arranging lor farmers' institutes
all over the State and for getting in
crop reports. Mr. Martin has secured
five crop reporters in each county and
expects to have full and complete in
formation in a few weeks. From what
he has already gathered it can be said
that the wheat flfop is better this year
than last. Apples are not so good a
crop, but the peacli crop is immense.
The potato crop is light, but the prices
are very good, so that the farmer is
not complaining. - Neither is the hay
crop as big as last year, but prices are
higher. Uats are very light, the hot
weather and warm showers causing a
nist that has done considerable injury.
Corn,, which was planted late, is going
:o be a good crop, fully up to the aver
ige. Cattle bring good prices at the
farm, and the price of hogs has been'
very good for the breeder. There is
not a farm product, according to Mr.
Martin's report, that is not bringing a
good price, and there are no complaints
(or the farmers, for, as a matter of fact,
Mr. Martin says, "Pennsylvania has
the best home market for her farm pro
duct of any State in the Union."
Andrew J. Beckett, aged C8 years,
walked into a store at Uniontown, ask
ed to see a revolver and had a cartridge
put in it. He then placed the weapon
to his head and blew his brains out.
F'rang Bugdell, of Hazleton, was ar
rested in Philadelphia by Detective De
angclo, charged with attempting to kill
Nellie Decrease, his affianced, ty sin ot
ing her on July 4 after a quarrel. The
girl kept the shooting secret, and it was
only through a visit to her b-o;her that
it became known. She refused at first
to prosecuteugdell.
After several desperate n'.'empts it
suicide. -Mrs. Joseph Shvum', of Ger
mania, is dead. Three moiulis ago Mrs
Slocuni saw her brother. Herman
Bratz, taken to the insane asylum at
Warren and her mind began giving
way. A few days ago she took a large
number of matches, soaked the head--in
vinegar until they had dissolved, and
then drank the concoction. This failed
to have the desired effect; then she
drank a half pint of washing fluid and
quickly thereafter swallowed the con
tents of a bottle of ink. These liquids
caused her death.
Another man with jewelry found
sewn on his breast has been found. He
was Paul Shirvell, recently killed in the
mines . at Wilkesbarre. The jewelry
consisted of chains, lockets and little
silver dumbbells. A few weeks ago ex
actly similar decorations were found on
the body of a man who committed sui
cide at White Haven. It is said that
both belonged to some famous society
in Russia. Russians say they are a
dangerous branch of the Nihilists.
John McMackin, aged 47 years, a
well-known farmer of Volant,- was
killed by a vicious bull. He was cross
ing a field when the animal ran him
down. McMackin attempted jo climb
a small tree, but the bull was too quick
for him. It struck him in the abd.mien
with i:s horns, and trampled him under
its feet until unconscious. McMackiu't
son came to his rescue and drove the
bull away. McMackin lived only a
short time.
"At the meeting -of the Delaware
County Medical Society at Chester a
paper was read by Dr. McMasters, ol
Ridley Park, on "Pure Dairy Pro
ducts." He asserted that many chil
dren take sick and e in infancy from
milk which is either from unhealthy
cows, impure milk or from the poiron
dus methods used by some dairymen -o
keep the millc. sweet .in hot weather.
The Bradford County Tobacco Grow
ers' Association has decided to pur
chase a property and refit it for the
first of the sorting "and packing ware
houses, to be lecated and operated by
the Towanda growers. It will be used
in .storing the crop soon to be har
vested. Henry Fauber. of Birdsboro, has a
rooster which is becoming quite an ex
pert at catching mice. The fowl is of
the common variety and upon several
occasions was seen with small mice in
its bill. Mrs. Benjamin McCallicher
saw the rooster catch a live mouse and
hold it until it died.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany opened its new office at West Chrs-te-
which practically gives the town two
offices of that name. The old one i be
ing continued by the heirs of U. H.
Painter, but it will bring no riicxsiijis
to town, all of its business being 10
points outside.
Two locomotives and sev.ni ireicht
cars were wrecked in a crash of trains
at Monument, on the Pennsylvania Di
vision of the New York Central Fail
road. The recently incorporated !ioroui;!i of
Chalfont, Bucks County, has a real ea
tate valuation of $10x1,182, and property
taxable for county purposes valued at
$ioy.482.
Thirty-seven laborers employed by
Contractor . C. Farley on Fain lipid's
new pipe line went on strike bec.iuse they
were refused a wage of $1.50 a lay.
Rev. Xi. A. M. Dycss has resignftl the
pastorate of the F'allsingion Episcopal
Church and will shortly oiit:T upon his
new duties at Braddock.
The Junior Order of United Amcrlnm
Mechanics will present a handsome Hag
to' the Chester school board for the
school district.
Thirteen men jumped from a hand cur
nt Chester in time to save their lives.
The car was smashed by a Baltimore &
Ohio express train.
While cutting wood Abiah Osbinrn.
aged 83 years, dropped dead it the home
of his son, .William Osbourti, in Thorn
dale. Scarlet fever is spreading in Bird i
boro, a half dozen new cases have been
reported within several days. A number
of deaths have occurred.
John Ober. Sr., was appointed post
master at Alberton.
Found Hanging by Her Fnet
Ithaca, N Y. (Special). Miss Allegra
Eggleston Seelye was found dead in the
edge of Fall Creek Gorge, and the the
ory is that she was killed by lightning.
Her body was hanging by her feet,
which were entangled 111 a bunch of
roots. Miss Seelye was the grand
laughter of Edward S. Eggleston, his
torian and novelist. She was graduat
ed from Cornell in 1000 and was noted
tor proficiency, in philosophical studies.
She had been entertaining a house par
ty here and afterward went for a walk.