EIGHTY LIVES LOST
IN SHIPWRECK,
The Steamer Islander Struck an Iceberg
Cff Douglas Island.
BOILERS BURST AS STEAMER SANK.
Wife ol the Governor of Yukon Territory
ad Her Child Amonl I be Victims
I the Disaster - Many Other Passengers
a ad Soma ol the Crew Oo Down With the
111 fated Steamer.
Victoria, B. C. (Special). The steam
er Islander, the crack passenger steamer
cf the Alaskan route, operated by the
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
of this city, struck an iceberg off Doug
las Island at 2 o'clock Thursday last and
went to the bottom, carrying down 05
to 80 souls, including passengers and
members of the crew. Some of the sur
vivors arrived here by the steamer
Queen. They report that as the vessel
went down the Ixiilcrs exploded, causing
the death of many who might have es
caped. Captain Foote was on the bridge
when the vessel struck and stayed there
and went down with his steamer.
Among the passengers lot on the Isl
ander were: Mrs. Ros, wife of the gov
ernor of the Yukon Territory, her child
and niece: Pr. John Duncan, of this
city : W. G. Preston and bride. Seattle;
F. 'Mills. Victoria; Mrs. J. C. Hender
son, Victoria: V. H. Keating and two
sons, Los Angeles. Cal.; J. V. Douglas,
Vancouver; Mrs. Philiips and child. Se
attle; Mr. Tall. Victoria; Mrs. Nichol
son, wife of Captain Nicholson.
The members of the crew lost arc:
Captain Foote. George Allan, third en
gineer. Horace Smith, second steward;
S. J. Pitts, cook: two Chinamen: Buck
hoodcr and Burke, oilers ; two firemen :
Night Saloon Watchman Kendall: Joe
Bard, second pantrvman: Iw.i waiters:
G. Miller, barber: N. Uw. M. P. Jock,
Porter and Moran. coal passers.
ROBBED BY EMPLOYE.
Secretary ol the New York Branch of Swift
& Co. Short In Accounts.
New York (Special). It has just be
ccme known that the New York office
of Swiit & Co. the Ch.cago packers
Jiad been robbed of a considerable sum
of money by its secretary and treasurer.
The local office is incorporated as a
New York corporation. Its secretary
and treasurer was John Hayden, 35
years old.
Following his usual custom. John
Chapman, an auditor in the Chicago
offices ol the company, came to this
city to make an inspection of the ac
counts. Hayden met Mr. Chaplin and
(turned over the books to him. Tues
day Hayden was at the office for a
short time, but the next day could not
be found. Mr. Chaplin continued in
his work and at present the loss is
variously estimated at from $10,000 to
$50,000.
BRITISH SYMPATHY WITH STRIKERS.
Congressman Qrosvenor Says Englishmen
Want Our Industries to be Crippled.
London (By Cable). Prior to his
departure for New York on the Ameri
can Line steamer St. Paul, Congress
man Grosvenor. of Ohio, ref.-rred to
the wide-spread interest taken in Great
Britain in the American steel ..trike.
"The sympathy of the British pub
lic." said the Congressman, "is strongly
with the strikers, not for any good
feeling for the men. but thev hope our
industrial systems may be as damaged
and crippled as theirs have been. They
hope the closing of our mills will force
ti9 to buy from theirs and permanently
defeat our prosperity."
EXPECTS BOTHA'S Sl'RkENDER.
Rather Incredulous Story Published in a Lon
don Paper Concerning the War
London (By Cable). The Sun says
it hears that the concentration of General
Botha's forces a: Hondweni, on the bor
ders of Zululand. announced in a dis
patch from Durban, does not foreshadow
a fight with Botha, but his surrender, in
pursuance with an understanding reach
ed between General Botha and Lord
Kitchener. The Sun adds that the gov
ernment is satisfied that the war is vir
tually over, and that Lord Milner. now
on his way back to South Africa, has in
his pocket the draft of a complete con
stitution and plans for the future govern
ment of the annexed territories.
Fought In Two Wart.
Harrisbnrg (Special). Gen. Joseph
F. Knipe. who saw service in two wars,
died at his home in this city, after a
lingering illness. He fought through
he Mexican War with General Scott
and in the Civil War he took part in
ell the battles in which the Twelfth
Corps figured, from Chattanooga to
Atlanta. He afterward served as chief
oi cavalry in the Army of the Tennes
see. He was retired "in 1865, at his
own request, as a bragadier-gencral, af
ter having declined a colonelcy in the
regular service. He was postmaster of
Harrisburg duptig President Johnson's
administration, and at the time of his
death was connected with the Pennsyl
vania State Department.
5,000 Men on His Trail
Sherman. Texas (Special). The
search (or Muses Wilier, the half
breed negro Indian who is said to
have murdered Mrs. Caldwell near
South Mayd, continues. Posses arc
covering all the territory from South
Mayd. in Grayson county, to Wood
ville, I. T., a distance of 100 miles.
Several arrests have been made, but
(he suspects were soon released.
Should the negro be run down his fate
is not a matter of conjecture. The offi
cers, however, are taking steps against
mob violence. Sheriff Shrewsbury says
there are scuo men on the trail.
Ooc Farmer Kil t Aaother.
Sparta. Ga. (Special). Chaunoev
Boyer, a farmer living about to miles
from town, was shot and instantly killed
hy C. A. Brookin, a neighbor, near the
liome of the latter. Some matters in liti
gation led up to the trouble. Brookin
is in jail. Boyer leaves a widow and
child.
Vetarinarlaet Have a Chance.
Washington (Special). The War
Department will soon hold a competi
tive examination to fill 21 vacancies in
the veterinarian service of the army.
"Killed by'TYraia.
Stroudsburg. Pa. ( Special.) While
walking ucross a bridge on the New
York. Susquehanna and Western Rail
road Edgar Rosenthal and his sister Pau
line, of New York, were struck by a
freight train and hurled to the ground.
The former was so badly injured that he
died a few hours after the accident. Miss
Rosenthal is said to lx fatally injured.
Hotel at Kenava Burned.
Kcnova. W. Va. (Special). The Cot
t.ipe Hotel was burned to the ground at
3 1 clock a. 111. The inmates wtre all res
cuid. Loss, $8000.
f I'M MARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.
Win. E. Douglass, formerly assistant
teller of the Guarantee Trust and Sav
ings Company of Philadelphia, who was
arrested in B ston, decided to return
to Philadelphia without a requisition.
Lack of rods at the American Steel
and Wire Mills, at Jolict, 111., will force
them to shut down increasing the num
ber of workmen out at that place to
bono, many oi them involuntarily.
President Search, of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers, will call a
meeting shortly for the discussion oi
reciprocity with foreign nations.
Kev. Charles W. 1'erkins. of Boston,
will become president of Dcnisort Uni
versity, Granville, Ohio.
Twenty-nine ships chartered to carry
grain arc tied up in San Francisco har
bor because oi the strike.
John Winters, who robbed the Selby
Smelting Company, of California, oi
$200,000. pleaded guilty.
Dr. T. 1). Wood, of Stanford Uni-
- 1 1 .1 -. M ...
t versuy. 1 ,11., nas acccpicu a can iu Co
lumbia L nivcrsity.
A plan is on foot to have built a fine
bridge across the Missouri river at
Kansas City.
The removal of tobacco tariff has re
vived business in Porto Rico.
J. Spear Gilchrist was found dead in
bed at Elkins, W. Ya.
Reports received in San Francis-o
state that the ship Manchester, which
sailed nearly a year ago from New
York for Yokohama, and which has
been reported missing, was wrecked on
the desert island of Pikar, in the Pacific
Ocean.
Mr. Charles II. P. Sharrcits, mem
ber of the board of appraisers at New
York, will be the American representa
tive in China in connection with the
adjustment of the tariff of that country.
The arrest of railroad ticket brokers
in St. Louis has led. it is claimed, to
the exposure of a great scheme to coun
terfeit tickets and passes. The B. ct
O.'s tickets were among those on the
list.
A romance of the Spanish war result
ed in the marriage in Philadelphia of
Lieut. Henry Watterson, Jr., and Scn
orita Blanca Esther Casanova, a beau
tiful Cuban girl.
The United Fruit Company's steam
er Ethchvold. bound from Port Plata. !
I Jamaica, for Boston, with bananas, j
I went ashore on Baker's Island. She I
! freed herscli. '
I A number of the cotton nunufactur- ,
: ers of New England are opposed to re- 1
' ducing wages September I. lest it 1
should precipitate a general strike.
I The Chicago Board of Health is mak- ,
! ing tests to ascertain definitely it bo- !
j vine tuberculosis can be communicated
I to human beings.
j Col. John D. Elliott, an cx-Conied-;
crate officer, died at his home near
Denver. Col.
Mr. Michael Davitt, M. P.. addressed
an Irish-American gathering in Chi
cago. At Miami. Fla.. Mr. Henry M. Flag
ler, the Standard Oil millionaire, was
granted a divorce under a new State
statute giving insanity of four yiars'
standing a sufficient cause for divorce.
Mrs. Flagler has been confined in an
asylum for many years.
foreign.
It is said that the Crown Prince of
Germany will marry one of the daugh
ters of the Duke of Connaught. and
that another daughter. Princess Mar
garet, is betrothed to the Czarewitch oi
Russia.
The first Parliament of King Edward
VJI. wound up its business and ad
journed. Some oi the London news
papers were severe in their comments
0:1 the work of Parliament.
A body of Kurds has been raiding a
section of Armenia. Twelve villages
have been destroyed, the men and boys
murdered and the young women car
ried off to harems.
Owing to poor crops in certain sec
tions another famine is expected in one
third oi the provinces oi European
Russia.
Hugh C. Kelly and Ethel, daughter
of Sir Arthur Forwood, were married
in London and started for America.
Mr, Chamberlain, in replying to .1
cYiticism of Sir William ernon Ilar
court on Lord Kitchener's proclama
tion in the House oi Commons, said in
regard to the devastation policy, that it
was nothing compared with General
Sherman's campaign.
The editor and publisher of the Lon
'lon Globe has been ordered to appea
before the bar of the House of Com
mons for accusing Nationalist mem
bers i f corruption in connection with
private bill legislation.
Over 700 persons, mostly women, im
plicated in the fire at the harem oi the
Yildiz palace, have been banished t'rom
Constantinople to Arabia.
Latest advices indicate the steady ad
vance of the rebels in Panama. Both
sides are committing cruel atrocities.
Professor Schenck led an interesting
discussion in the Zoological Congress
at Berlin on the predetermining oi sex.
The House of Lords rushed through
its second reading a bill granting spe
cial powers for a transatlantic line which
is to send ships across in b ur and a
half days.
Commander Frederick M. Wise, who
was in command oi the old Monocacy
when she was fired on by the Chinese
.'or:s at Taku, died in a hospital at
Yokohama.
M. Sarafoff. president of the Macedo
nian Committee, and other members,
who had been on trial in Sofia, Bulga
ria, charged with murder, were released.
In manifestation of the discontent
prevailing- on the island of Malta, the
Union Jack was rn to pieces and the
statue of (Juccn Victoria disfigured.
The Czar has conferred on Count
von Wa'dtrsee the Andreas Order, with
diamonds and swords, which is the
highest Russian decoration.
Max Opitz. proprietor of a private
bank in Berlin, was arrested, charged
with forgery and defalcation.
The German papers complain that
Count von Waldersee is talking too
vaingloriously.
financial.
The Park Steel Company, of Pitts
burg, has declared the regular monthly
dividend of 1 J4 per cent, on the pre
ferred stock.
Stockholders of the Commercial Na
tional Bank of Chicago have voted to
increase the capital from $1,000,000 to
$2,000,000.
It is slated that W. K. Vanderbilt
has recently invested $8,000,000 in low
priced slocks of the Vanderbilt system,
including .'O.0000 shares of Nickef Plate
common and an equal amount oi Lake
Erie and Western.
The American Elevated Railway
Company, capital of $5,000,000. a rival
of the Manhattan "L " is seeking con
trol of an old franchise allowing tracks
on upper Broadway.
The Kansas corn supply is said to be
I 50 per cent, greater now than when the
government crop report was issued.
The corn crop has jumped within th
pat four days 30 per cent.
The New York Sub-treasury state
ment shows that the banks have lost
$106,000 this week.
The National Lead Company has de
clared the regular quarterly dividend of
1I4 per cent, oil the preferred Hock,
payable September 16.
THE FIRST FIGHT
AT ENCONTRADOS.
Battle in Which the Colombians Were
Compelled (0 Retire.
STEAMERS SEIZED AND RECAPTURED.
Four Thousand Mea From the Frontier
ol Cncoti, Led by Dr. Rangel Oar.
blras, in the Invasion-Tea Thousand Mea
Massed on the Frontier for the Defense
ol Venezuela.
Washington (Special). The Depart
ment of State has received a dispatch
from the consul at Maracaibo, report
ing that Dr. Kangel Garbias has in
vaded Venezuela with 4000 men from
the frontier of Cucuta. Everything
was done by the Venezuelan govern
ment to meet the invaders.
The first fight took place at Encon
trados and the .invaders were obliged
to retire.
The invaders took two steamers to
come to Maracaibo, but these boats
were recaptured by the Venezuelan
troops.
The Venezuelan government has is
sued the following decrees:
"General Diege Bautista Ferrer, Pro
visional President of the State of Zulia:
Considering that the peace in general
has been greatly disturbed by an in
vasion to the Venezuelan territory with
an armed force of Colombians, com
manded by the traitor Carlos Rangel
Garbias. as per declaration issued by
the provisional president of the repub
lic anil in compliance with the dispo
sitions on public order therein speci
fied, suspending the rights and guaran
tee referred to in the national constitu
tion." DESTROYERS IN WATER.
Three New Fighters Launched at Sparrows
Point, Near Baltimore.
Baltimore. Md. (Special). In the
presence of more than 2000 people,
among whom were a number of dis
tinguished visitors from New York,
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Wash
ington, the three torpedo boat destroy
ers now being constructed at Sparrows
Point by the Maryland Steel Company,
were launched with great enthusiasm.
The Whipple left the ways at 1.48. the
Truxton at 2.0. and the Worden at 2. 13.
The Whipple was christened by Miss
Elsie Pope, of St. Paul, Minn. The
Truxton was named by Miss Isabellc
Truxton. of Norfolk. Va., the grand
daughter of Commodore Truxton, of
Norfolk, Va.. and Mrs. Emilie D. N.
Worden, of New York, christening the
Worden. Alter the launching the
guests were entertained at luncheon by
the Maryland Steel Company.
AMERICANS MAKE Bid CAPTURE.
Colonel Cabrera, an Insurgent Chief, Made
Prisoner in the Philippines.
Manila (By Cable). Second Lieut.
Walter S. Grant, of the Sixth Cavalry,
while scouting with a detachment near
Taal, Batangas Province, has made
what' the military authorities consider
the most important capture since
Aguinaldo was made prisoner. Grant
captured Col. Martin Cabrera, his ad
jutant and six other insurgents. Cab
rera had been growing in power for
some time. He controlled all the in
surgents in southern Batangas and also
those westward of the city of Batangas.
Colonel Panganiban, a captain and
twenty men with twenty-six rifles and
considerable ammunition have surren
dered to Lieutenant Smith, of the
Twentieth Infantry. They formed a
portion of General Malvar's command.
After taking the oath of allegiance they
were released.
STEAMER SINKS PILOT BOAT.
James Gordon Bennett Cut Down and Four
Men Are Drowned.
New Y'ork (Special). The German
steamer Alene. now running in the
Atlas branch of tlie Hamburg-American
Line, ran down and sank the pilot boat
James Gordon Bennett No. 7 and
drowned three pilots and the cook of
the Bennett.
The accident occurred near the Scot
land lightship, while the pilot boat was
lying hove to on Sandy Hook bar,
about ten miles east of Sandy Hook.
When the Alene struck the pilot boat
the weather was clear.
The survivors say the German steam
er came bearing down upon their ves
sel and they were totally unable to
avoid her.
ISSUE OF TOBACCO TRUST BONDS.
Mortgage for $150,000,0(0 Filed in the Court
ol Hudson County.
New York (Special). There was filed
in the Hudson County Court in Jersey
City a mortgage for $150,000,000 made
by the Consolidated Tobacco Company
of America to the Morton Trust Com
pany to secure an issue of 4 per cent,
bonds not to exceed $ 1 50.000,000. It is
dated June 15 and bore revenue stamps
to the amount of $75,000. The papers
show that the Consolidated Tobacco
Company has absorbed the American
Tobacco and the Continental Tobacco
and subsidiary concerns.
CRAZED BY A BLUNDER.
Station Agent Causes a Collision and Then
Lotet Hit Reason.
Omaha. Neb. (Special ). Jas. Greene,
station agent at Otha. Iowa, sent out
orders which brought two freight trains
together on the same track, lie is now
lying in the baggage room a raving
maniac as a result of his blunder, re
strained by his friends from self-destruction.
He is kept under the influ
ence of chloroform. In a frenzy of
self-reproach, Greene sought to cut his
throat, but was restrained. The trains
came together on a heavy grade, but
the crews jumped and escaped injury.
Castillo's Widow It Dead.
Madrid (By Cable). The widow of
Senor Canovas del Castillo, former Pre
mier of Spain, is dead. Senor Canovas
del Castillo was shot and killed by an
Anarchist at the baths of Santa Agucdi,
at Guesalibar, August 8, 1897.
Cable Service Established.
Washington (Special). Cable com
munication has been established be
tween Calapan, on the northern coast
of idindora, and Boac near the west
coast of the island of Mannduque, in
the Philippines.
Often Lift to Aid Science.
Denver, Col. (Special). T. L. Mon
son, State Dairy Commissioner of Col
orado, an ardent believer in the theory
advanced by Prof. Koch that animal tu
berculosis is not communicable to hu
mans, either directly or by product, has
just made a remarkable offer io the
world. He professes himself ready and
willing to be inoculated with the germs
of animal tuberculosis and submit to
any test that may be imposed by a com
mittee of, surgeons and specialists, pro
vided agitable provision is made for
his family in case the experiment thjnld
have a latal termination.
BY FIRE AND WATER.
Twelve Llvet Lost at the Waterworks Crib on
Er e, at Cleveland, Ohio.
Cleveland, Ohio ( Social). Five men
were burned to death, four were drown
ed, three and possibly four were suffo
cated and several were injured as a result
of a fire which destroyed a temporary
waterworks crib two miles off the Cleve
land harbor.
Twenty-six men obeyed the order ol
Manager G. C. Van I)euen, when the
flames broke out. and took refuge in the
water on floating pieces of wreckage.
Four of them lost their holds upon their
frail floats and sank just as help reached
their comrades. The crew of the tug
J. R. Spranklc heard the fire whistle
blown from the crib and raced to the
scene from the harbor. They picked up
18 of the survivors who had drifted to
the west of the crib on their floats of
boards and wreckage.
Van Dcusen and three of his men were
hanging in the water from a two-inch
line suspended from the crib. Just as
the line was burning away above the
men's hands a yawl boat from the barge
Willulm, manned by two men, dashed
into the veil of heat and smoke that en
veloped the crib, and rescued the four
men on the rope at the risk of the boat
men's lives. The men picked up in the
water were brought to the city on the tug
Sprankle. They were naked, exhausted
and badly burned. Many of them were
cut by falling timbers.
The crib is a total loss. It was a frame
building 200 feet by 50 feet, the sides
sheathed with iron. It contained valu
able machinery. It is now a charred,
shapeless mass of wreckage. The crib
and machinery were the property of
Shailer & Schninglau. contractors. Their
loss will exceed $200,000.
Fire and harbor tugs, with rescuing
parties on board, reached the crib soon
after the flames broke out, but when they
arrived the structure was a mass of
flames and all hope of saving it was
abandoned.
GREAT GULF STORM.
The American Steamer Avelyn Goet Ashore
at Pensacola-Many Schooners Sunk.
Pens; tola. Fla. (Special). The French
steamship Cyrano, which arrived here
reports that the American steamship Ev
elyn, to days from New Y'ork for this
port, went aground at 8 o'clock about
eight miles from Pensacola Bar. -She
is listed and is fast going to pieces. 1h?
Cyrona is 12 days from Savannah, and
experiened very rough weather. She
beat up and down the beach for three
days awaiting a chance to come in. The
Cyrano sighted the British steamship
Spennymoor, but she put back to sea and
was not sighted again.
During the storm the Portuguese bi'tk
Propheta, laden with a cargo of timber
valued at $5,000 for St. Thomi. Africa,
was badly damaged. Her rigging was
carried away, masts snapped off and she
was stove in on the starboard side and
stern. The bark B. A. Brayton was also
slightly injured. The storm was one of
the wildest ever known here. The wind
reached a velocity of 70 miles an hour,
with spurts of 00 miles. There was great
damage to shipping in the bay and the
water front property. Twelve or fifteen
schooners of it. E. Saunders & Co.'s
fishing fleet were badly damaged. Four
of them sank, causing a loss aggregating
$70,000.
The schooner Tortugas, from Mobile
for Apalachicola with a cargo of cypress
lumber, which put in for anchorage, col
lided with another vessel and sank.
200 MILES AN HOUR.
Remarkable Speed It Claimed for Cigar
Shaped Elevated Cart.
New Y'ork (Special). Within a few
days the American Elevated Railroad
Company will emerge from rather mys
terious obscurity with the announcement
of an iiilportant transportation project.
At least this was the statement of Os
born Congleton, president of the com
pany. At the last meeting the capital
stock of the company was raised from
$100,000 to $5,000,000.
The base of the project is a new form
of electrical transportation. It is a cigar-shaped
car running on a central rail
on an elevated structure. The electricity
is carried in two outer rails. It is said
to be capable of a speed of 200 miles an
hour at a cost of but one-fourth of the
present method.
MOB RETREATS BEFORE SHERIFF.
Henry Pratt Saved From Lynchert by Plucky
Alabama Official.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Special). A mob
of about fitly men entered the jail be
fore daylight determined to lynch the
negro Henry Pratt, charged with at
tempted assault of Sallie Rice, a little
white girl. The mob lorced their way
up the steps into the first part of the
jail used as a dwelling by the deputies
and where the sheriff was sleeping. The
mob demanded the keys to the part of
the jail containing the prisoner, but the
sheriff informed them that the keys
were locked up in the safe in the sher
iff's office. After some parleying the
sheriff secured a loaded shotgun. This
apparently cowed the mob, and they
left the jail and dispersed.
BIG STEEL WORKS SOLD.
Bethlehem Steel Company Likely Pastct Into
Control ol the Trust
Behleheni, Pa. (Special). The stock
holders of the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany voted almost unanimously to ac
cept the price of $7,500,000 offered by
the Bethlehem Steel Company lor the
big steel and ordnance works here, and
an hour later the directors consummat
ed the deal. The steel company, it is
said, has a purchaser for the plant, and
it it generally believed that this pur
chaser is Charles M. Schwab, president
of the United States Steel Corporation,
and it is also believed that he will buy
the property for the Vickcrs-Maxim
Company and the Cramp Shipbuilding
Company. The works employ 4000
skilled mechanics.
Phillips Will Pay In FulL
Chicago (Special). George II. Phil
lips, the deposed corn king, will pay in
full. The expert accountants who have
been working overtime in an 'effort to
reduce the tangle of accounts in the
broker's books made a detailed statement
which shows that the company is solvent
and the total liabilities of the concern
are less than $2O0,oco, well within the as
sets of the young operator and his asso
ciates. "I said the first day that every
penny would be paid as soon as our
books were straightened out," Mr, Phil
lips declared with a smile.
Serious Fire in Pennsylvania.
Chanibersburg, Pa. ( Special). The
village of Dry Kun, Pa., was almost de
stroyed by fire. The fire originated in
the Hammond Hotel stable and spread
to ths hotel, destroying it, together wuh
four stores and six residences. There is
no fire apparatus in the town. The loss
is estimated at $40,000 partially insured.
Womaa Chose Unique Suicide Method.
Clarksburg, W. Va. (Special).-Miss
Mary Corner, oi Bridgeport, aged 30
years sat down on the railroad track in
ircnt of an approaching train and was
instantly killed. She was despondent.
THE BIG STRIKE
GAINING FAST.
Workers Much Cheered by the Develop,
ments In the West.
RECRUITS NUMBER ABOUT 3,000 A DAY
Eipect to Win Over ths Chicago Men-Such
Oalns, They Declare, Would Make Them
Masters ol the Sltuatlon--The Operators, on
the Other Hand, Say the Striken Have
Reached Their Highett Po nt.
rittsbttrg (Special). The decision of
the Joilet men to strike has been a se
vere blow to the Steel Trust in its fight
with the Amalgamated Association.
Milwaukee is expected to follow. Even
the steel malingers .look for a reconsid
eration by the Chicago workmen in a few
days. They would not be surprised to
hear at any time that these had yielded
to the arguments of the Amalgamated
Association, voted to reconsider their de
cision not to strike and thrown up their
employment.
The rumors of the trust fortifying it
self by buying other properties are not
in any degree affecting the situation
The only report of this kind that could
have any effect is that about the pur
chase by the trust of the Republic Iron
and Steel Company. This is an indepen
dent company owning blast furnaces and
rolling mills which have an annual out
put of 2,000,000 tons. It has signed the
union scale, is working full nnd has giv
en employment to many of the strikers.
President Shaffer was asked whether it
would help the Steel Corporation to pur
chase the Republic company.
"All I care to say." he replied, "is that
if it does it will simply be buying a lot
of idle mills."
This is a direct threat that if the Re
public passes under the control of the
trust the union men will be called on to
quit work. No one doubts that the Am
algamated Association has the power,
and it is no exaggeration to say that the
union men in the Republic mills would
cease to work just as soon as the sus
picion that they had been transferred to
the trust became well founded.
Thus the strike leaders have accepted
in good faith the challenge of Mr.
Schwab that it is to be a war of cxtermi
ation. They have succeeded so well in
their first week following the general
strike order that even the steel manufac
turers have respect for their leadership.
GOMEZ WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT.
He Refuses to Take the Nomination. Saying
Palma Is Beit Man.
Havana (Special). General Maximo
Gomez has addressed a letter to the
local committee of the National party
in Havana, who had chosen him as a
candidate for the Presidency of Cuba,
and Senor Estrada Palma as a candidate
for the Vice-Presidency. The communi
cation runs in part as follows:
"On hearing what the committee
have done I hasten to say that I must
refuse to undertake such high office un
der the republic. So far as candidates
are concerned, I look upon Senor Es
trada Palma and Senor Maso as the
best selections that could be made for
the Presidency and Vice-Presidency.
Let all Cubans agree upon this import
ant matter and Cuba will have a strong
and stable government, entirely fitted
to deal with the external relations in
which Cuba will have to exist as a re
public." CALIFORNIA STAGE HELD UP.
one Robber Gett Money and Valuables From
Twenty Passengers.
San Francisco (Special). One man
armed with a repeating rifle held up a
stage loaded with twenty passengers on
the Calistoga and Clear Lake road,
some eighty miles north oi here. Af
ter taking the express box, the mail
bag and watches and purses of passen
gers the bandit ordered the stage driv
er to go on. He got a few hundred
dollars, but the exact amount is not
known. The passengers were all tour
ists. The highwayman wore a hand
kerchief over his face and had cut holes
,in it for his eyes. This is the third
robbery in this section in the last three
weeks.
Two Killed by Lightning.
Greenville, S. C. (Special). A ter
rific electrical storm visited this section
doing considerable damage in the mill
village of the American Spinning Com
pany. A six-room house was struck and
Miss Victoria Levi and Miss Busbee
were almost instantly killed. Klingham
Ward was also struck but is til! living,
although his condition is serious. Four
children of the Russell family, who were
occupants of the house, were also shock
ed, remaining unconscious for several
hours.
Fought With an Eagle.
Binghamton Special). William
Ballenstadt, an I i-year -old boy, whose
1i,.im in ltmnru III Imrl n ifn .,n.l
I death struggle with an eagle which at
1 tacked him near Wavcrly, N. Y., where
j he was visiting. The lad fought with a
I stick until nearly overcome from wounds
I from the bird's talons. Then a farmer
, appeared with a gun and shot the eagle,
j which was found to measure seven feet
Hat Manufacturers' Trust.
New York (Special). Efforts arc be
ing made here to form a Hat Manufac
turers' Trust, and it is said articles of
incorporation will be riled by those in
terested in the project within a few days.
About twenty of the leading manufac
turers of the United States are expected
to enter the combine.
Private tinyard Killed.
Washington (Special). The War
Department has been advised of the
death of Private Fred Hayward. Troop
H. Ninth Cavalry, which occurred at
Matanzas, Cuba, August 2. His death
was due to gunshot wounds.
Father and Son Drowned.
Frederick. Md. (Special). James
Birch and his little 5-year-old son were
drowned at Grove's limekilns, near here.
The boy went to water a horse in the
quarry. When his father arrived he
saw his son's hat floating on the water,
directly over a portion of the pool fully
twenty feet deep. He at once jumped
into the water to rescue the boy, but was
drowned himself. It is supposed that
the boy rode the horse into the pool to
the edge of the deep water and was
thrown off.
HERE AND THERE
Commandant Pretorius, who was re
cently shot through the eyes, died from
his injury.
Minister Francis B. Loomin present
ed his credentials to King Charles of
Portugal.
A lire broke out in C. L. Renninger't
house in Delmar, Del., and but for the
providential rainstorm the town would
piobably have been burned.
Bishop Anton Kozlowski. hepd of the
Polish Catholics in Chicago, had lour
prominent members of his church ar
rested who accused him of murdering
and robbing tick parishioners.
Live NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Pcntion Roll Longer.
Commissioner II. Clay Evans has pre
pared a statement showing the operations
in principal features of the Pension Bu
reau during the last fiscal year as com
pared with former years. Most of the
data will be embodied in his annual re
port, and tint statement is prepared for
the use of the National Encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, which
will be held before the report is ready.
The statement shows that on January
30, yo, there were 997.735 pensioners
on the rolls, a gain of 4206 during the
year. The roll lor the last fiscal year is
the largest in the history of the bureau.
During the year 44.225 claims were al
lowed, and 3507 restored; while 4.1.586
names were dropped on account (if death,
remarriage and other causes. Two War
of the Revolution pensioners died during
the year. In the last four years the net
gain to the pension rolls was 4021.
The number of pensions granted to
widows in the past year under the act of
June 27, i8ox, was 16,610. or nearly 4?m
in excess of those granted the previous
year, the result of the act of May 9, iqoj
extending the provisions of the act of
June 27. 1890.
The pensioners on account of the wir
with Spain numbered 3555 invalids and
204) widows. The appropriation for the
payment of pensions during the fiscal
year 1901 was $144,000,000. of which
amount the bureau expended for pen
sions $138,531,483.84: leaving a balance
011 June 30, loot, of $5,4(18.51(1.16.
The total amount paid to pensioners
as first payments upon the allowance of
their claims during 1901 was $9.9.14
"6.1.54, or $10.238.47 more than the first
payments during the year 1000.
Agriculture In Alaska.
A report on the agricultural statistics
for Alaska just issued by the Census
Bureau shows that Alaska's farm
wealth June 1, igoo, was $15,686. of
which $2196 was invested in live stock.
$600 iu implements and machinery and
$12,800 represented the value of build
ings and other improvements.
Buildings have been erected on 9 of
the 12 farms in the territory. Prepar
ing the soil for cultivation has been the
chief item of expense in opening farms,
being in some instances $120 per acre.
The 12 farms have a total acreage oi
159 acres, and vegetables arc the prin
cipal product. Five of the (arms are
only small market gardc.is of less than
three acres.
The value of domestic animals and
poultry was $2196. Potatoes and tur
nips furnished the principal income
from vegetables. Next to vegetables
grass cut for hay and ensilage is the
most important agricultural product.
From the standpoint of income upon
capital invested poultry raising in 1899
was relatively the most profitable
branch oi Alaskan agriculture.
When Chinese Arc Merchants.
Attorney-General Knox, in an opinion
rendered at the request of the Secretary
of the Treasury, holds that a Chinaman
may engage in the manufacture of goods
for sale and still be considered a mer
chant in the sense in which that word
is used in the treaty and laws relating
to the exclusion of Chinese where the
mercantile part of the business, cither
wholly or in part, is the selling of goods
so manufactured.
New Offices In Presidential Class.
The following fourth-class postoffices
will be advanced to the Presidential
grade on October it: Sykcsville. Md.:
Marionvillc. Mo.; Penngrove, N. J.;
Cresson, Pa.: Charleston. Troy and
Walpolc. N. H.j Welch and .William
son, W. Va.
To Investigate Plant Disease.
Dr. B. M. Duggar, physiologist in
vegetable pathological investigations oi
the Department of .Agriculture, liar,
been ordered to proceed to points in
North and South Carolina, Texas. Mis
sissippi and other States to investigate
diseases of cotton and other plants.
Capital Newt In General.
The Treasury Department lias decidid
that a customs duty of five cents a pound
shall not be imposed on all coffee im
ported into Porto Rico from the United
States.
The Navy Department has announced
that it will furnish the counsel of Ad
miral Schley with the list of the govern
ment's witnesses, "as a courtesy.
Captain Perry, of the battleship Iowa,
now at San Francisco, has reported to
the Navy Department that his vessel
could not sail immediately to Panama on
account of needed repairs to boilers and
machinery.
Commissioner Evans, of the Pension
Bureau, gave out some figures showing
the operations of the bureau during thj
last fiscal year, as compared with former
years.
Secretary Hay will go to Canton to
confer with the President about the canal
across the isthmus and other matters
relating to that region.
Our New Possessions. .
Civil Governor Taft and the Philip
pine Commission were enthusiastically
received at Vigan, Province of South
1 locos. A governor for the province and
ether officials were appointed. The com missioners
are agreeably surprised at the
advancement shown in the places visited.
In Camarines Province, in the Phil
ippines, United States troops killed .e
bastean Angclcr, a brother of General
Angeles, and six privates; captured a
major, two captains and nine i,ien.
Judge Halsey, in Wilkcsbarrc, Pa.,
made final the preliminary injunction
restraining the striking machinists from
interfering with the non-unionist.
The contract providing for harbor im-
I provenients has been signed, and work
will begin immediately, I lie cost ol the
improvements will amount to $1,500,000.
Courts-martial are to be held in
! Manila on Lieut. Preston Brown and
Capt. Wancis P. Freemont, Second
Infantry. The lieutenant is accused of
killing a native who refused to recover
the body of a soldier from the river.
The charges against Captain Fremont
are not knownyct.
Thirty Pairs ol Teachera Married.
Carbondale, 111. (Special). Of the 400
American teachers who ' sailed on the
transport Thomas from San Francisco
to Manila 60 of them on reaching Hono
lulu were married. The teachers had
been chosen from the many normal uni
versities of the country, and" were strang
ers to each other. The acquaintance and
courtship extended over a period of less
than ten days. The captain of the
Thomas refused to permit their wedding
while at sea, and the 30 couples upon ihe
arrival of the transport at Honolulu
sought out a clergyman and were mar
ried. Robbers Made Mistake.
Laporte. Ind. ( Special)'. Five armed
men, at 3 o'clock in the morning, at
tempted to hold up a United Slates Ex
press wagon between the Lake Shore nnd
Erie depots in this city. In the darkness
they made a mistake, however, und held
up a baggage wagon. The express wa
gon was heavily loaded with valuable
packages. As a result of the mistake, the
robbers secured nothing.
Commandant Pretorlut Dead.
Jagersfontein, Orange River Colony
(By Cable).- Commandant Pretorius,
who was recently shot through the eyes,
it deud.
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
The Latest Happenings Gleaned From
All Over the State,
BURGLARS CUT A MAN'S THROAT.
Two Men Attacked Alexandria Kcrmichaet and
Hit Wife la Their Bedroom at Springfield
Robber Band Alarms Lebanon-Churches,
Stores and Railroad Stations flroken Into
and Looted-Place ol Worship Burned Down.
These pens:on were granted to Pcnn
sylvanians; Jacob Shoemaker, Greens
burg. $8: John There. Erie, $42.50;
Crancr Clcndennan. Tarcntum, $12;
Julia A. Lowe, New Castle. $8; Cather
ine Copley, Warriors Mark. $12; Susan
A. Winter. Somers Lane. $8: Mary E.
Dunlap. Pittsburg. $8; Sarah A. Car
ron. California. $8; Helen Condon,
Johnstown, $8; Geo. M. Vcnscl. Alle
gheny. $6: Isaac Vincent. New Era,
$10; Joseph W. Russell. Grove City.
$10; Samuel Franklin. Lloyd. $6; Mar
garet J. Tomer, New Kensington, $8,
Sarah A. Hixenbangh. Roscoe. $8
Denison B. Moses. Springboro. $6; Ab
salom W. Boyd. Bradford. $6: Law
rence' Watson. Nelson, $7; Win. A.
Scranton, Lander, $17; Mary Ann Up
ton, Sheffield. $8; Sarah J. James. Kit
tanning. $8; Emma L. Leffard, Matta
wana, $8.
The following postoffices will be
raised to the Presidential class on Oc
tober I : Cresson, salary $1 too. The
name of the postofhec at Cooksvillc,
Westmoreland county, has been chang
ed to Pricedale, with Laura A. Wilson
as postmaster. Postoltices discontin
ued: Ferdinand, Eric county, mail to
Union City; Itlcy. Juva. Sibley ville and
West Greene. Eric county, mail to
Waterford. The following Pennsyl
vania postmasters were appointed:
Brownfield. Fayette county, W. H.
Walker; Clarksville, Greene county. J.
W. Virgin; Delphcn, Greene county,
C. R. Hughes; Rockton, Clearfield
county, S. H. Beer.
It is believed that an organized band
of robbers and incendiaries is operating
in Lebanoii county. Eight crimes in
four days have caused widespread
alarm. Zion Church, in East Hanover
Township, was robbed and burned
down. The same night $500 worth of
trousers were stolen irom a factory at
Jonestown. At the same place John C.
Hetrick's farm was robbed of a wagon
load of provisions and Priscilla Wertz's
shoe store was ransacked, but no'hing
stolen. The robbers raided the Phila
delphia and Reading station at Rich
land. Trunks, satchels and boxes were
pried open and the contents scattered
over the floor. The safe was drilled,
but not wrecked. The station slot ma
chines were also shattered and rifled.
Two burglars entered the bedroom of
Alexander Kermichael at Springfield,
and in their endeavor to rob his home,
cut his throat so badly that Tie is not ex
pected to recover. Mrs. Kermichael
managed to get out of the bedroom to
call for assistance, and in her absence the
burglars beat her husband into uncon
sciousness and then fled without secur
ing any valuables. Joseph Gieske and
Albert Kochinsky were imprisoned on
suspicion of being the would-lic assas
sins. They were captured in the Corbin
coal mine by Constables Swift and Dau
bert, who had a lively struggle with the
men.
When pretty Anna Tcnerelli, one of
the Italian girls of Pittston, refused to
name an early date for her marriage to
Vincent Satelli. her sweetheart, he drew
a revolver, it is alleged, and attempted
to put an end to their courtship by
shooting her. They had been engaged
for some time, and Satelli wanted an
early marriage, while his sweetheart
did not care to give up her liberty for
a time. Satelli called on her and asked
her once again to name an early day.
Angered at her refusal, she says, he
drew a revolver and attempted to force
her consent at the muzzle of the gun.
She still refused, and he fired, but
missed her.
There is trouble brewing in the ranks
of the Coattsville Eire Department. The
Fire Committee 01 Council, all of whom
are members of the Washington Fire
Company, have refused the Brandywine
Fire Company permission to take its
chemical engine to the parade of the
State Firemen's Associaton, in Philadel
phia, on October 3. Samuel Tueston,
president of the latter company, says that
unless permission is granted to take the
chemical ciiRine the company will not
march in the line of parade with the
Coatesville department.
Four trainmen were injured by the
collision of two Reading Railway en
gines at the south mouth of the Maha
,ioy tunnel. The injured are: Baggage
master Harry Kleinhart. Brakeman
Howard Etlinger. Engineer Harry E.
Smith and Brakeman Fred Shugart.
The men live at Tamaqua. Both en
gines were derailed, but only slightly
damaged.
Mrs. David C. link, of Harrisburg,
wife of the State organizer of the Or
der of Woodmen, tried to kill herself.
She secured his revolver and shot her
self in the right temple. She was un
conscious when found. Should Mrs.
Zink survive she will be totally blind.
Nervous trouble is the cause assigned
for her deed.
William II. Good had his arm man
gled and narrowly escaped death at the
American Iron and Steel Works, Le
banon. His coat caught in the cog
wheels of a machine and in order to
Kivr his life Good kept his body from
the cog? with his arm. The flesh was
ripped off the arm to the shoulder.
Williant Carney died at Norristown
of a fractured skull sustained by being
struck by a train and hurled from a high
bridge over Stony Creek.
A dividend of about 16 per cent., it
is announced, will be paid to depositors
of the defunct Chester County Guaran
tee Trust & Safe Deposit Company.
The regular quarterly meeting of
Pennsylvania Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry, of Chester and Delaware coun
ties, was held at Lincoln University
The corrupt politics of the State was
condemned and farm crops discussed.
John Kitihruw, of Avoca, was run
down and killed by a passenger trair
on ti e Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
He had just drawn his pay at the But
ler mines and it ius through the cash
envelope that he was identified.
The a-ycnr-old child of Lewis Perry,
living near Bredensburg, fell into a pail
of boilinc water and was scalded to
death.
George Lynn, a brakeman on the Phil
adelphia. & Reading Railroad, was seri
ously injured by being knocked from
the top rf a box car in the CoatesvilL'
Rolling Mill.
Thieves took $500 worth of hardware
from the store of Van Buskirk & Bro
ther at Pottstown.
The planing mill of A. J. Maxwell, at
Cogan House, va6 destroyed by fire.
Losi $2000. (
By falling from the second story of
his barn at Willianuport, ex-Representa
tive A. J. Kahlor,vas severely injured.
Rurtdara rol.hcdt the store of Levi il.
Gochenaur .lit Petersburg of $200 worth
ti coous.