DREE MEN KILLED i BY AN EXPLOSION Accident at Old Furnace In Town of Snarpsvllle. WEIE BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION Slack Felt Fourteen Miles Dlstaat A Passen ger Train Which Piurd About a Quarter I MM From the Scene ol the Explosion at the Time of the Accident Waa Swayed By the Force ol the Exploiloa. Sharpsville, Pa. (Special.) An explo sion at the old Sharpsville furnace wrecked the furnace plant and killed three men. Another workman was prob aLly fatally injured. The men were working at the top of the furnace when the explosion occurred, and Clay, Dickson and Bartlett were burned to death. Their bodies were recovered at 9 o'clock. Donnelly was injured by jumping. The cause of the explosion is not known. No estimate has been made as yet of the loss. Scranton, Pa. (Special.) An explo sion in the barrel mill of the Moosic Powder Company at its Jermyn works wrecked the mill and several adjoining buildings and broke windows for miles around. The shock was plainly felt in this city, a distance ot 14 miles. Jacob Hiller, who was in the engine room of an adjoining building, was burned beyond recognition and cannot survive. John Gibbs. George Gebhardt and George Forkel, who were entering the mill yard, were caught by Hying de bris and seriously injured. Glass blown from a window in Albert Carey's house struck his dauehter and cut a dcen sash in her neck. It is feared she is fatally injured. A Delaware and Hudson passenger train which passed about a quarter of a mile from the scene of the explosion at the time of the accident was swayed by the force of the explosion, and the pas sengers screamed with terror as the train Have a sudden lurch. The cause of the explosion is unknown. NO COMMERCE IN SENTIMENT. The McKinley Association Warns Atainit "Monnment" Schemes. Cleveland, Ohio (Special). Judge William R. Day, ex-Secretary of State and president of the McKinley National Memorial Association, issued this state ment : "The public is especially cautioned against any enterprise attempting to make capital out of the sentiments of affection which inspired the desire to rear at the grave of our late President a memorial which shall fittingly honor his memory. It is the desire of the trus tees that all contributions shall be the free-will offering of the people, and they respectfully request the public to discour age all propositions which may seem to have as their object the obtaining of money by giving all or part of the pro ceeds to the memorial fund. "The public is hereby notified that the McKinley National Memorial Associa tion has no connection with or relation to any other association, or to any entcr priseof a commercial nature." CARNEGIE AND COLUMBIA. SaJ4 to Contemplate Giving the University Over $1,000,000. New York (Special). Andrew Carne gie, according to a well-defined report circulated here, has consented to provide suDstantiai tuna tor loiumma mivcr- more than $1,000,000. it was said, details were made nublic. .hinted tha Mr. Carnegie had e nffinfcy fit the establishment inn fnr thi intrnrtinn artA msitit.. of poor but deserving young men nitfnt desire 10 enter lie university. jf. Nicholas Murray Butler, the -nf arfinor hf:irl n Pnlnmhta wnuM KILLED DI faKAPIC PKUkimi Chlcato Workmen Dead and Three Seriously Injured. (Special). Three men were breaking of the huge crane at of ihe American Bridge Com- of the crane at the time of the ac- Swan, l raver and Rock were each man was crushed so badly as was guaranteed to hold 30 tons, but was carrying only 20 tons at the time of its collapse. The cause of the accident may have been a (law in one of the chains supporting the crane. Wild Run to Death. Allentown, Pa., (Special). Six per sons were killed and a number injured by reason of an electric car jumping the track at a sharp curve at the foot of the Lehigh Mountain, between here and Coopersburg. The accident was due to the wet rails and snow. Motorman Stocker tried hard to stop the car when it slipped on the steep grade, but the car flew around the curve and swung against a guy pole, which tore off one side of the car and the roof. Those killed sat along the broken side of the car and were crtshed by the post. Bankruptcy Law Reforms. Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special.) The executive committee of the National As- of Bankruptcy I ruatees has re- its investigation made to sentftneit ol all sections ot the the national bankruptcy law. arizes ine responses in a siaie- . .i. I ... - 1 ! . L .III; ItDlill K I J llllllcl Lldl st unanimously favor a 11111- national bankruptcy law, but is a general opinion that ev- tant amendments are needed. HUtSV rcuiv kiiicv panic Colombia (by Cable). News ',-ivru ncic mat v.icntrai martin, .uiuiuuiuii 1 c Miuiumm y leaner, ai- 1 t .: 1...: 1 . . . I'ttm Miltlfi:i till rtl !lttt7fi;il.n:i rum ecember 9. with 1,200 men. J lie garri--n, consisting of 4,!0 men, fought from A. M. until JI.JO If. M. At a f. M. garrison received reinforcements Vtriiig 200 men. The battle started v t,Lntof the city and ended at s irom Honda. Hay- were used. The ere victorious. Four V killed during the SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic German warships are Batlierinz off the coaist of V enezuela, and the North Atlantic Squadron of the United States Navy is in Porto Rican waters, only a short sailing distance from Venezuela. The Germans will likely blockade Ven ezuelan ports to compel payment of in demnity owed to German subjects. in a hand-to-hand fight between IB men. Comnanv E. Ninth Infantrv. and bolomen near Dapado, Samar, Philip pine islands, Capt. b. II. Schoetlel was wounded and seven men killed and a number wounded. An Ontario and Western train of 50 coal cars ran away on a down-grade near Scranton, Pa., and left the track at a curve at a speed of go miles an hour. Every car was completely wreck ed and four men were killed. The Erie Telegraph and Telephone Company is to be reorganized, with a capital of $3.2,000.000, and to be con trolled by the American Telegraph and Telephone Company. The Unalde Asphalt Company of San Antonio, Texas, has been awarded the contract for sewers and pavements in Havana, Cuba, at $12,000,000. Antonio Segnio was frustrated as he was about to kill the false friend on whose account he had mortgaged all his property. One person was killed and a number injured by an explosion in a powder mill of the Moosic Company, at Jennys, Pennsylvania. Joseph Place, who was accused in Martinsburg. W. Va., of murdering his wife, was set free by Justice Snyder. Robert Henson, colored, was hanged in Trenton, N. J., for murdering Mrs. Mary Van Lien, colored, and her child. Capt. Richard Leary, the brilliant naval commander, recently governor of Guam, died in Chelsea, Mass. Winfield S. Arter, a stockbroker of Pittsburg, who had become despondent, committed suicide. Steve Broderick killed one man and wounded two others in New York be fore he was captured. The one hundred and twenty-fifth an niversary of the battle of Trenton was celebrated with a sham representation of the historic battle, a meeting at the op era house, with Prof. Wood row Wilson as the orator, and a fireworks display at night. Company F, Twenty-first Infantry, had a desperate fight with Filipino in surgents in a gorge near an Jose, in which 22 of the insurgents were killed and two Americans wounded. The Spanish squatters on the Island of La Costa, a government reservation off the Florida coast, who are suspected of being smugglers, have been ordered to quit. Frances Ross, who is supposed to have escaped from a Portland (Ore.) convent was decided in Chicago to be suffering from religious melancholia. In a fight between whites and negroes at Childersburg. Ala., a white man and his sot) were killed and a white boy and a negro wounded. Failure to obey orders caused a collis ion between a freight engine and a pas senger train on the Canadian Pacific near Saulte Ste Marie. Three men were killed and three ser iously injured by the breaking of a crane at the American Bridge Compa ny's works, Chicago. Odus Reeder, second lieutenant Phil ippine scouts, committed suicide by shooting himself on board the trans port Lawton. Ex-President Cleveland consented to serve on the commission appointed by the Civic Federation to promote indus trial peace. In defending her sister Florence Dob son, of Somerville, Mass., shot and ser iously wounded her drink-crazed father. Foreign. France has notified the Venezuelan government that the rights of a French citizen have been infringed by the seiz ure of property of Manuel Matos, the leader of the new revolution, who had leased the property. General Marin, the Colombian revolu tionary leader, attacked Honda, on the Magdalena river, with a force of I.200 men. The battle lasted 17 hours and the government forces were victorious. Four hundred men were killed. The civil ceremony of the marriage of Senator Depew and Miss May Palmer took place in the United States consulate at Nice. The bride being a Catholic, there will be two religious ceremonies. The German Government will attach agricultural experts to the consulates in the United States, with a view to the probable adoption of the American sys tem of farming in Germany. G. M. VVesseb, Boer delegate, will visit the United States next month bear ing a letter from Mr. Kruger to Presi dent Roosevelt. The British losses in the ambuscade near Beginderyn, Orange River Colony, December 21, were 10 men killed and IS wounded. An anti-sale demonstration took place at Christiansted, on the Island of St. Croix, one of the Danish West Indies. Max Nnrdau, the author and physi cian, delivered an important address be fore the Zion Congress, at Basle, Switz erland. Emperor Francis Joseph expelled from Austria the principals in the Vienna bac carat scandal. VV. Curtis Wakefield, of New York, leased Ditton Park, near Windsor, for the coronation year. Emperor William, in his address at the celebration of the tercentenary of Ernest the Pious at Gotha, said that the great aim of his life had been the union of the Evangelical Church in Germany. American capitalists have offered the Russian government 36,000,000 roubles for a 50-year lease of a large strip of land in the Kirghiz Steppes, Siberia, which is rich in copper, coal and silver. Signor Marconi arrived at North Sydney. N. S., and was cordially receiv ed by the government officials. He may select a site at Cape Breton for a per manent station for wireless telegraphy. FioaaclaL The New York Subtreasury state ment shows banks have Igst $1,281,000 during the week. The Southern Pacific Railroad's cre soting works at Houston, Tex., have been burned ; loss $100,000. The Arlington Mills directors have declared a regular semi-annual divi dend of 3 per cent., payable January 1, 1902. A New York Stock Exchange seat was sold for $80,000, a new high record, the previous sale was at $75,000. Texas- Central Company has declared semi-annual dividends of $.2.50 on both common and preferred stocks, payable January 15. The St. Paul's decrease in gross earn ings for third week of December was caused by the extreme cold weather prevailing in Northwest. It is reported that Samuel Insull, pre ident Chicago Edison Company, is Pa ing the projected line from Chicago Michigan City, Ind., to be built the C( ing summer. It is understood that the I .Metai selling company nau jh" u!ii)i!t,.i5,ooo,ooo pounds of cop curitnA'ls for 100.000,000 pound-. f ! GEN. DE WET TAKES A BRITISH CAMP Night Attack in Eastern Part of Orange River Colony, KITCHENER'S REPORT OF BATTLE Tbt Seen of the Reverse Is Wllhla Ont of the Areas of the Boer Main Resistance. Where Oeoeral DeWet Has Frequently Foiled the British Commanders Boers Used Tactics Similar to Those Employed by British, London, (By Cable). General De Wet has. taken revenge for the recent successes of ' the British on rushing laagers at night, and has captured a British camp on the eastern part of Or ange river colony by the use of tactics similar to those employed by the British. The scene of the reverse is within one of the areas of the Boer main resist ance, where General De Wet has fre quently foiled the British commanders. The following brief dispatch from Gen. Kitchener tells all that it at pres ent known of the affair : "Rundle reports that Colonel Fir man's camp, at Tweefontcin, was suc cessfully rushed on the night of Decem ber 24 by a considerable force of Boers, under De Wet. I fear the casualties were heavy. Firman's column consisted of the Thirty-fourth. Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth and Fifty-third companies of Imperial Yeomanry, one gun of Seventy-ninth Battery and one pompon. "They were guarding the head of the blockhouse line, from Harrismith to Bethlehem. The First and Second Im perial Light Horse have gone in pursuit of the Boers." 00V. SHAW HAS ACCEPTED. His Appointment Is Now Officially Announced Two Members From Iowa. Washington, D. C, (Special). Gov ernor Shaw has accepted President Roosevelt's tender of the Treasury port folio and it was accordingly officially announced at the White House that he will be the next secretary of the treas ury. There will be no change in the office of secretary of agriculture, Sec retary Wilson, also of Iowa, continuing' to retain that portfolio. The date of transfer of the Treasury Department will depend on the mutual convenience of the outgoing and incom ing secretary. Mr. Gage having sig nified an entire willingness to remain at the head of his department until such time as it may be agreeable to his successor to take hold. It is sup posed, however, that Governor Shaw will be inducted into his new office some time in January. It has been known for two or three days that Governor Shaw was slated for appointment to succeed Secretary Gage. The definite announcement of Gov ernor Shaw's selection gave the greatest gratification to the Iowans resident here. They regard him as a man well equip ped for the place and feel confident the appointment will give general satisfac tion. Secretary Wilson voiced these sentiments when asked about Governor Shaw, and he added that the Governor was better known to the people east of the Mississippi River than any man in private life west of the Mississippi on questions of finance. KILLED ON WRECKING TRAIN. Fatal Accident Occurred on the Way to An other Accident Cincinnati, (Special). Unable to see the flagman's signal on account of fog the engineer of the south-bound Chica go express on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road did not stop his train at Hartwell until it had struck a freight train, which was crossing the track, and demolished three freight cars. Four passengers and two trainmen on the ex press train were injured. The wrecking train on the way to Hartwell met with an accident, killing Patrick McCoy and fatally injuring William Nipper and Louis Tenbrink. The chain of the wrecking crane broke and it strck the three men while the train was in motion. Hall Insurers PalL Kansas City, Mo., (Special). A re ceiver has been appointed for the Farm ers' Mutual Hail Insurance Company, which was incorporated on January 21, 1001, to insure crops against damage from hail on the mutual assessment plan. While the company was incorporated in Missouri and had offices here, it oper ated only in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana and Colorado. The company did more than $2,000,000 worth of business, but heavy losses in Colorado and South Dakota, with the shortage of crops, are said to be the causes of failure. Perish on a Burning Steamer. Memphis, Tenn., (Special). The stern-wheel steamer Sun, plying be tween this port and Fulton, Tenn., burned to the water's edge at her moor ings, at the wharf on the city front. The boat arrived from Fulton about mid night with 15 passengers, all of whom were asleep on board when the fire broke out. Of these three are known to be lost O. Ranor and wife, of Old River, Tenn., and Mrs. G. M. Tims, of Richardson Landing, Ark. Their char red remains have been recovered from the wreck. The three-months-old child of Mrs. Tims is missing. Olrl Shot Her Father. Somerville, Mass., (Special). In de fending her sister from an assault by her drunk-erazed father, Florence Dob son, 32 years of age, shot her father and is now under arrest. The man has a serious wound, but it is thought he will recover. James P. Dobson, the victim of the shooting, is said to have been abusing his family at intervals during the whole day. At last he attacked his oldest daughter, when Florence procur ed a revolver and shot him. Steeple-Climber's Escape. y Chicago (Special). John Kelly, work ing on a cnurcii steeple 150 ieei a Dove the street, experienced a remarkable es cape from death here. He sliped from the top of the steeple and fell 65 feet, re the edge of the roof interfered fall m such a manner that his re thrown against a small pro- though almost unconscious, he lis hold for three minutes,Mj. Jkmen rescued hun. jr injureu iniernauv, 11111 NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, The Incident Is Closed. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has returned frstn his holiday trip to New York, He refused to say a word In regard to the reprimand administered to him last week by the President and Secretary Root for his Schley-Dewey Interview, It was known before General Miles re turned to his desk that he had decided to let the matter pass without a reply or statement from him. He regards the Incident as closed and settled, and hi friends, who have a right to speuk for him. lay that he wilt not be the one to reopen it. There is no disguising the fact that the cordial relations hitherto existing between the General and tha Secretary of War are strained by the re cent episode, and it is likely that future relations between the two officials will be confined to formal communications on. official business. Wireless System for Navy. The Navy Department has taken steps toward the adoption of wireless telegra phy as a means of signaling between warships at sea. To this end Admiral Bradford, of the Bureau of Equipment, has asked that the armored cruisers of the Pennsylva nia class have their masts and riggins so arranged that the wireless system can be introduced. This will necessitate the lengthening of the masts of the ships and the insulation of the metal rigging by the use of hempcovcring. for hal yards. It is intended to get test sets of instruments of the various wireless sys tems now being operated. These in clude the Marconi system. The British Navy already has a num ber of its ships equipped with the wire less system. Decrease In Revenues.' The monthly statement of the col lections of internal revenue show that the total collections for November, 1901, were $23,178,951, a decrease as com pared with November, 1900, of $2,165, 330. Sources of revenue are given as follows : Spirits, $12,080,812, increase $1,330, 492; tobacco, $4,264,700, decrease $640, 306; fermented liquors, $4,073,188, de crease; $474,508 ; oleomargarine, $212, 8iyyecrease $25,813. ySpecial taxes not elscwheie enumerat ed, $58,666, increase $24,916; miscella neous, $1,588,768, decrease $2,379,965. For the five months of the present fiscal year the total receipts were $120, 654,395. a decrease as compared with the corresponding period in 1900 of $10,625,392. This decrease is wholly due to the decrease in the rate of taxation under the Revenue Reduction act passed at the last session of Congress. Minister Wu May Return. It is said that, according to private advices from the Imperial Court of China, Minister Wu Tingfang's term of service here will be extended for an other period of three years. Minister Wu is a holdover, as his first term ex pired last spring, and the present term, therefore, has yet more than two years to run. There has been for some time much uncertainty as to the attitude of the Chinese court toward Minister Wu. Some say that the court has been some what concerned over his too progress ive Western ideas, and it is reported also that some ministers of the Gospel and others have been trying in tihs coun try to prevent Mr. Wit's reappointment, mainly on the ground that he has ex pressed too much regard for Confucius and exhibited a too earnest indorsement and interpretation of the great philoso pher's sayings. Volume I of the Census. Director Mcrriam, of the Census Bu reau, announced the publication of Part I of the report on population, to be known as Volume I of the Census Re ports. It contains 1,229 pages, and embraces statistics on population of the States and Territories by minor civil divisions, the center of population and its median point ; population of incorporated places, urban and rural populati ons ; the popu lation by sex, general nativity, foreign parentage, citizens and years in the United States, and an appendix giving a statement of territorial acquisition. Capital News la Oeneral. The Civil Service Commission notifi ed Maclay, the dockyard historian, in response to a query received from him, that there was violation of the Civil Service Law in his discharge. The War Department has received advices from Manila of the surrender of the insurgent chief Samson, with his of ficers and men. United States Consul Horton, at Har put, in his f.rst report states that Ameri can goods are finding a ready market in his district. The Navy Department has taken in itial steps, with a view of adopting the wireless system for signals between warships. The Census Bureau issued a state ment showing the extent of the cotton manufacturing industry in 1900. Farmer Shot to Death. Hudson, N. Y. (Special.) Peter A. Hallenbeck, a well-known farmer in Columbia county, while alone in his house was shot to death by three men. The men were afterward seen driving toward Catskill Station. Eleven shots were fired into Hallenheck's body. The farmers have lately been annoyed by poultry thieves, and it is thought the murder was done by some of them. Three men were seen later driving to ward Catskill Station, and it was sup posed Hallenbeck had been shot by rob bers. ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS. A banquet given by the Cuban veter ans to the officers of the United States warships at Havana was a splendid demonstration of gratitude on the. part of the Cubans toward the American Navy. Rear Admiral Higirinson, Cap tain McCalla and others made speeches. A coroner's jury is inquiring into the death of a six-year-old child of Pete Hall, at Kabletown, W. Va., which is believed to have died as the result of a beating inflicted by the father. All the appointments made by the car penter Mayor of Ansonia, Ct., were found to be illegal because the aldermen had confirmed them by acclamation in stead of by ballot, as the law requires. Charles A. Buddensiek, who, in 1885, was convicted in New York of erecting unsafe buildings and being responsible for an accident that caused the death of several persons, and who was sent to Sing Sing for 10 years, died at Plain field, N. J. The new protocol lietwcen Chili and Argentina has been signed, but the armies are continuing their warlike parations. cquss Henri 1-auuuier. a noted MISS CROPSEY'S ' BODY FOUND The Coroner' Jury Declares She Was Murdered. CONDITION OP GIRL'S REMAINS. The Autopsy Discloses a Mark on the Temple Which the Coroner's Jury Says Was Caused by a Blow The Jury Recommends That James Wilcox, Ihe Girl's Lover, Be Held for Further Investigation, Elizabeth City, N. C. (Special). The body of Miss Ella Maud Cropsey, who disappeared from the home of her father, Justice Cropsey, at midnight, November bo, was found in the Pasquo tank River in front of the Cropsey home, and a coroner's jury of promi nent and substantial citizens rendered a verdict that she had met her death by violence, but accused no one of the mur der pending a further investigation. The verdict is as follows : We, the coroner's jury, having been duly summoned antl sworn by Dr. I. Fearing to inquire wbr.t caused the death of Ella M. Cropsey, do hereby rc- fiort that, from the investigation made ly three physicians of Elizabeth City, and from their opinion and also from our personal observation, that said Ella M. Cropsey came to her death by being stricken by a blow on the left temple and by being drowned in the Pasquo tank River. We have not yet investi gated nor heard any testimony touching as to who inflicted the blow and did the drowning. We are informed that one James Wilcox is charged with same and is now in custody. V'e recommend that investigation as to his or any one else's probable gurlt be had by one or more magistrates in Elizabeth City township, and that said Wilcox be held to aw?it said investigation. (Signed) I. FEARING, Coroner. P. S. SHI PP. B. F. SPENCE. MAURICE WESTCOTT. ROBERT J. MITCHELL. J. B. FEREBEE. J. II. LEROY. The report made by the physicians who performed the autopsy on Miss Cropsey says: "The garments showed no sign of vio lence. The garments were removed and body fully exposed. The epidermis of face and head, together with hair of head, were peeled off. The face and head were swollen and soddened. There were no external marks of violence on head, body or face. There was a dis coloration of a pinkish tinge on the front of head and face, with a slight bluish discoloration over the back of the neck and occiput. There were no marks upon the front of her neck ex cept as made by a construction of her dress collar. An examination of the in ternal organs showed she was a pure girl. THIEVES GET $50,000 IN GOLD. Shipment of 10,000 English Sovereigns Stolen In Transit. New York, (Special). Somewhere between London, England, and Lima, Peru, are 10,000 English sovereigns, worth $50,000 in the hands of persons who don't own them. Where or when they were stolen ' in transit nobody knows. Suit has been brought in Eng land to make the carriers who accepted the gold for shipment pay up, and re cently Sullivan & Cromwell, of 49 Wall street, were retained to look after the American interests involved in the case. The Bank of Mexico, of London, shipped the money in five sealed boxes, each containing 5.000 sovereigns, or $25,000, in gold. Their destination was the Bank of Lima. Three lines were used in shipment the Royal Mail to New York, the Panama Railway Com pany and the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. All the boxes arrived in Lima in due season. When they opened the treasure the bank officials found two of the loxes filled with lead shot, and' not gold. The seals were still in tact. "The shipment was expected," avers the bank's complaint, "and some person or persons had prepared boxes identical with those containing the gold, and sub stituted them en route." Suspicion soon pointed to two em ployes of one o'f the companies. They resigned soon after the shipment pass ed through their hands. One of them was tracid to Central America, where he has bought a big plantation. Both were finally arrested. . Held Up On the Street Fairmont, W. Va. (Special.) Louis Ring was held up on Park avenue shortly before 10 o'clock and robbed of $475. He had intended to leave for New York city and had just purchased a ticket for that place. While he was returning to his home he was assaulted by two men, who choked him until he was insensible and robbed him. Killed by Incandescent Lamp. Akron, O.. ( Special ). D. p. Wheeler, cashier of the Citizen's National Bank, was found dead in front of the vault in the hank. He had been killed by an electric shock through handling a sock et of 11 n incandescent- lamp and opening the vault door at the same time, thus forming a fatal curent. Grain Elevator Destroyed. Chicago, (Special). Fire destroyed the grain elevator of A. F. Mueller, at Fifteenth street and the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad tracks. The loss on machinery and grain is $jo,ooo. A number of families living in nearby cottages were driven from their homes by the flames. Blown Up by Natural Oas. Muncie, Ind. (Special.) Two proba bly fatal natural gas explosions occurred in this city within an liour. The first, at the Dickey spool factory, terribly in jured Lewis Staggs, aged 31 years. He was hurled some distance by the force of the explosion. Almost at the same time a stove burning natural gas in the grocery of W. K. White, in the western part of the city, exploded. White and a clerk, Claude Dunn, aged 21 years, were caught, and both were horribly burned about their face, arms and necks. Win. I Sewell Dead. Camden, N. J., (Special). United States Senator William J. Sewvll die at his home here at 9.30 o'clock Fri' morning. He suffered from a con tion of stomach and heart trouble. ator bewell g illness had exlendci a period of two years, but hi: 11011 was not considered set about a year ago. The Zionist Congress ope le, Switzerland, wn;i i, representing every importa the woiej. ur. Ihroriore Y 1 My v 1 1 r 1 T ooy 1 COMMLRCIAL REVIEW. General Trade Conditions. "Retail trade," says Bradstreet's, 'has easily held the center of the stage he past week, stimulated as it has been ty the dual influences of exceptionally :old weather throughout . the country ind a rather more prohounccd holiday demand, which was of record breaking character, not only as to volume, but as to quality and grade of goods purchas td. While jobbers in many lines, nota tly shoes, clothing and rubber goods, re port a good reorder business growing aut of the above conditions, wholesale ;rade as a rule has been seasonbly quiet, exceptions to this being noted in woolen goods, raw wool, lumber, leather, coal ind last but by no means least, iron antf Iteel in a myriad of forms. The spec tacular feature of the week in prices has Veen the continued marking down of wpper and sympathetically therewith the drop in tin and lead. "Wheat, including flour, exports for the week aggregate 4.332,832 bushels, as igainst 3.879,809 bushels last week and (,123,350 bushels in this week last year. Wheat exports, July I, to date (25 weeks), aggregate 140,636,547 bushels, ts against 89,084,070 last season. Corn exports aggregate 330.941 bushels as igainst 28,307 last week and 5,465.578 last year. July 1 to date corn exports are 20,126,179 bushels against 89,167,239 last season. "In the textile industries new lines of woolen goods opened satisfactorily, lome being almost immediately with drawn, owing to the volume of business lecured. Advices arc paid for certain lines of worsteds. In cotton goods there Is much business offered, but sellers are unwilling to accept large contracts for future delivery while the raw material market remains unsettled. Print cloths ire unchanged for regulars, with nar row odds form and cotton yarns gener illy higher. Last week's gains in these lines are fully maintained. "Failures for the week numbered 265 in the United States, against 293 last year and 37 in Canada, against 18 last year." LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour. Best Patent. $4.00; High Grade Extra, $440; Minnesota Bakers, f3.ooa3.50. Wheat. New York No. a, 85c; Baltimore No. 2, 8oK'C Corn New York No. 2. 6q54c; Phil adelphia No. 2, 65j4a66c ; Baltimore No. a, 67c. Oats. New York, No. 2, 54c; Phila delphia No. 2, 54c; Baltimore No. a, 54c Hay. No. I timothy, large bales, $15. 5oai6.oo; do, small bales, a 16.00; No. 2 timothy, $14.508 1 5.. 00; No. 3 timothy, $ia.ooai3.50. GREEN FRUITS AND VEGETA BLES. Apples. Western Maryland and Pennsylvania, packed, per brl. $3.00 "375; do, New York, assorted, per brl., $3.5034.50; do, No. 2s, per brl., $2. 50a 3.00 ; do, Eastern, per brl., fancy, $4.ooa 4.50; do, Fancy Kings, per brl., $4-25a 4 50; do, New York Fancy Gills, per brl, f 450a5O0 1 do, No I, Baldwins, per. brl., $4.0034.25 ; do. Western Ben Davis, per brl., $3.7584.25. Cabbage New York State, per ton $9.ooaio.oo; do, Danish, per. ton $ia.ooai3.oo. Carrots Native, per busheb box, 4oasoc ; do, per bunch, lai4. Cauliflower Long Island, per crate or barrel, $2.ooa3.oo. Celery New York State, per dozen stalks, 25340c ; do, native, per bunch, 35a4C Cranberries Cape Cod, per brl., $0.5037.50; do, Jer seys, per brl., $6.ooa7.so; do, Cape Cod and Jerseys, per box, $1.7532.25. Cu cumbers Florida, per crate, $2.ooa2.50. Grapes New York, per 8-lb. basket, Concords, iaaic; do, per 5-lb. basket, Niagaras, I4ai6; do, Catawba, 12312!. Kale Native, per bushel box, 20325c. Lettuce Native, per bushel box, 35340c ; do, North Carolina, per half-barrel bas ket, $ 1. 00a 1. 25; do. New Orleans, per brl., $4.0034.50; do, Florida, 'per half barrel basket, $1.2531.50. Onions Maryland and Pennsylvania, yellow, per bu., $1.1531.25; do, Western, yellow, per bu., $1.1531.25; do, Western, white, per bu., $1.40111.50; do, red, per bu., $i.isa I.20. Orsnges Florida, per box, as to size, $2.2532.75. Oysterplants Native, per bunch, 334c. Spinach Native, per bushel box, 6oa6sc. Turnips Native, per bushel box, 26325c.' Potatoes. White Maryland and Pennsylvania, per bu, No. I Ssaooc; do, seconds, 6oa75c ; New York, per bu, best stock, 85a9oc; do, common, 6oa75c; Western, per bu, prime, 85390c. Sweets Eastern Shore, Virginia, per truck brl, 51.25a1.75; do, per flour brl, $i.75a 1.85; do, per brl, frost 75c.a$l.oo; na tive, per brl, No. 1, $2.0032.25; North Carolina, per brl, No. 1, $2.0012.25. Yams Virginia, per brl, smooth, a$l. Provisions and Hog Products. Bulk clear rib iides, 9c; bulk clear sides, g'Ac; bulk shoulders, 9c; bulk clear plates, 9!4c; bulk fat backs, 14 lbs and under, 9c; sugar-cured shoulders, narrow, 954c. ; sugar-cured shoulders, extra oroad, io'Ac; hams, canvased or un csnvased, 12 lbs and over, I2'4c; refined lard, tierces, brls and 50-lb cans, gross. Eggs. Western Maryland and Penn sylvania, per dozen 327c. ; Eastern Shore (Maryland and Virginia), per doen 27c. ; Virginia, per dozen, 26a a7c. ; West Virginia, per dozen, 25a26c; Western, per dozen, 26327c; Southern, 3a2Sc. ; Butter, Creamery. Separstor, 26327; gathered cream, I2a23; imitation, 101120; Md., Va. and Pa. Dairy prints, 31322; small creamery blocks, (a-lb.), 25a 26c; choice rolls, 18,119c. Cheese. New cheese, large 60 lbs., iofi to lie; do, flats, 37 lbs., 11 to ii'Ac; picnics, 23 lbs., njaiic. Live Poultry. Turkeys Old, 8aoxi young, fat, Wic; do, small and poor, a8c. Chickens. Hens; iytc; do old roosters, each 25330c; do, young good to choice, 8a84c: do, rough and poor, a7c. Ducks. Fancy, large, 9 ! do, small, a8c; do. museovy and mongrels, 8a9c. Geese, Western, each 503650. Live Stock. Chicago, Cattle. Good to prime, $6.oc a7.8o; poor to medium, $4.0035.90; stockers and feeders, $2.ooa4.oo; cowi, S1.ooa4.50; heifers, $1,5035.30; canners, ir.00a2.25; bulls, $10034.50; calves, 2.5035.25; Texas fed steers. $4.5035.50 East Liberty. Cattle Choice, $5,904 6.10; prime, $5.6035.80; good, $50035.50 Hogs slow and lower; prime heavies, $6.3036.40; heavy mediums. $6.ioa6.2o light do, $5.g5a6.oo ; heavy Yorkers, $5.8; S590; light do, $5.6035.70; pigs, as fe: weight and quality, $5.3035.40. LABOR AND INDUSTRY recent convention at Clmttannn f the National Association of Let- irriers decided to submit to a rcf im vote of the local branchei hout the United Statei a proposi lat alter next years meeting 11 , tne national convention shall bi ery two years instead of annual any labor organizations hav the biennial plan as an im aving in expenses with jui results. The Granite Cutter more conventions, trmis.irtiw business!, through a ii.iti if le 1 v 1 1 1 PENNSYLVANIA. ' ' BRIEFLY TOLD. Special Condensed Dispatches From Many Points. PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED, Removal Follows Dynamite Plots Bogus Priest Qllt May Cost WU Lite-Bullets Fired Cars Made Gifts and Tbca Died men Drowned. Patents granted Pennsyl Rudolph Berg, Fittsburg, air ing and cooling apparatus; son, McDonald, packing and sei ; Lucien Castin, foint Marion, nie tallic railway tie, also car fender; fame; Jl. Curry. Wilkinsburg, combined hand and stand mirror; Richard J. Douthet, Sharpesburg, animal trap; Glen D. Gibbs, Pittsburg, hose reel ; Gustav A. Hassel, McKeesport, cutout for cranes; Constant Laval, Allegheny, tpparatus for silvering glass; Patrick Mcehan, New Castle, annealing box; William Swindell, Allegheny, gas producer; Peter Theobald, Carrick, auger holders; Martin J. Triece, Blairsville, curtain poles. These pensions were granted : James Fairlcy, Allegheny, $6; Ssmuel M. Bai ley, DuKois, $8; Ephraitn J. Hampton, Orbisonia, $10. A bogus priest who has been defraud ing business men of Pittsburg by passing bad checks is suspected of being Frank lin Williams, the Trenton cigarmaker, who is charged with a murder commit ted there last month. One of the men whom the bogus priest tried to defraud called on the police and discovered that the would-be impostor resembled the man who is described by picture and otherwise in the circular of the Trenton police on the murder rase. The local police sent for some of the victims ol the counterfeit priest, and they were shown the picture of the Trenton man, who was recently captured in Syracuse. They promptly identified it as the pic ture of the man who defrauded them. The supposed priest has represented himself as the rector of some church, and paid for goods with bogus checks in excess of the purchase price, pocketing the difference. Harvey Hain, aged 14 years, of Read ing, with his brother and several com panions went out for a walk, each taking with him a rifle received as a Christmas present. They intended to shoot small birds. In climbing a hill near the Hes sian camp the rifle carried by the elder brother was accidentally discharged, the bullet entering Harvey's abdomen. When the boy was taken to the Reading Hos pital it wss found that his wound was similar to that which caused the death of President McKinley. An operation lo cated the bullet embedded in the walls of the back, under the liver. It had penetrated the abdomen, passing through the stomach. Franklin Robling, Jr., superintendent of the Scranton bureau of police, was removed from office by Director of Pub lic Safety Wormser, by request of Re corder W. L. Connell. Mr. Wormser refuses to make any statement concern ing the reasons for the removal, further than to say it is for the good of the police department. It is understood that the removal is due to the failure of the police department to put an end to the dynamite outrages that have occurred in that city since the beginning of the street car strike, or to catch any of the perpe trators. James MacGregor, acting for the State Dairy Commissioner, has begun a civil action to collect $100 penalty and costs for violation of the oleomargarine law against O. H. Shoemaker, who owns stoics in Uniontown and Connellsville. If this test case is successful, other suits of a similar character will be insti tuted, instead of criminal proceedings. While patrolling his beat, John Gor ham, a watchmsn at Roach's ship yard, Chester, attempted to cross over a sluice way by means of a plank, when he slip ped and fell into the water. When Gor h3m failed to appear at the ship-yard search was made and his lifeless body was found in the sluiceway. He had been connected with the yard for twenty six years. Anthony Sockaloski was held up in Williamsport by four men, who beat him into insensibility and robbed him. The same highwaymen attacked William Bar anewsky on the road from Middleporr to Lewistown and slashed him with knife and then robbed him. Edwajd Emerick was held up and robbed in the southern suburbs of Pottsvillc. J. R. Cincerny, a discharged Pennsyl vania Railroad brakeman, who caused the arrest of a large number of brakemen for working on Sunday, says he will have additional arrests made to stop Sunday work in the Pennsylvania yards .at Newcastle. The men already arrested have been discharged. Charles Britton, of Girardville, was shot while riding en a Schuylkill traction car at Connor's patch. The bullet pene trated the car window and lodged in the man's back, inflicting a severe wound ' Another car was fired upon earlier in the evening, but no one was injured. George Noll, of Pottsville, while play ing Santa Clans, died suddenly. H. had just distributed gifts among family and sat down to have a chat when he fell from his chair dead. Mr Noll was 57 years old. He was a vet eran of the Civil War. Fire of supposed incendiary origin destroyed the barn on the" property of Charles Reikert, near Cambridge, Sal isbury Township. Ten cows, -two horse, farming implements and grain were burned, entailing a loss of about $2,000. Boys found a bundle near Lamokirv Run which contained the dead body of an infant. At "the home of John A. Ellis, near Woodhill, the members of the family of the late George B. and Amy Atkin son Ellis, of Buckinanville, held a re union for the first time in thirty-eight years. Harry L. Frederick - was shot in a quarrel over a woman in a house at Scranton. Frederick is at the Scranton private hospital, and hrs rerovery is, verv doubtful. Mrs. W. C. Alexander died at her home in Landenherg from burns re ceived by accidentally knocking down a, hanging lamp at her home. J Louis Bonnach was shot in the neck jnear the Brishin, Scranton, hut although 'his condition is critical, no arrests have, I been made." ...' Hard on tta Ann lo-fttanlneo. The new Prince of Wales la ont Ilka ly to eDjoy the title- as long as bis father befora him, and It Is doubtful If bo la ever to bo an popular with the cbapplen thU aids th water. Ha Is f-' I be negligent In tie matter r That sottles Lis hash ta quarters. Philadelphia, In- - fr . ' l .. . r f
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