SURRENDERS IN THE PHILIPPINES Ittufxent Leaden and Their Commands in Hands ol Americans. TAKEN PRISONERS BY GEN. (WANT. Caataia L W. V. Kenaoa, ! Ibc Sixth In Hmtrf, Report! Proa lb Island of Negros lb Surrender at tb Ladroae Leader Rufo, With ISS OHIcert aid Men a! Hit Cora and, Tofctber With 12 Quia. Manila, (By Cable). Gen. Frederick I). Grant's exepdition in the gunboats Bbmo and Florida, several steam launch es and lighters, has ascended the Gan lara river, in the Island of Samar, and has brought the Filipino General, Guc varra, and his entire command as pris oners down to the coast. Guevarra's immediate command con sists of Rafael Sebastian, 39 other offi cers, l8q men and 161 rifles. Three hundred natives, with iji rifles, are expected daily to arrive at Catbalo gan, Samar, to surrender. At Sulat, Samar, ,1.000 bolomcn. 28 of them armed with rifles, surrendered. Guevarra succeeded General Lukban in command of the Filipino forces in Sa mar when the latter was captured last February. Capt. L. W. V. Kcnnon, of the Sixth Infantry, reports from the Island of Ne gros the surrender of the native leader Kufo, with 158 officers and men of his command. together with 12 rifles. 140 llos, 7 spears and a few pistols anil dan gers. This surrender means the opening of the whole southern coast of Negros. Next to Papa lio, Kufo was the most important native chief on the island. He promises to force Papa Isio to surrender. At a farewell banquet here to the offi cers of the Ninth Infantry, acting Civil Governor Luke E. Wright paid a glowing tribute to the military forces, lie said the army under circumstances of sur prising difficulty had paved the way for the work of the civil authorities, and that ony a few cases of friction between the two branches of government had oc curred. General Chaffee, whose opinion might at times have differed from those of the civil authorities, had been, Gov ernor Wright said, a loyal supporter of civil rule. GEN. CASTILLO DEAD. Disastrous Termination of a Venezuelan Gov ernment Expedition. Fort of Spain, (By Cable). Venezu elan government troops, numbering 2. 200 men, under Gen. Ramon Castillo, attacked the revolutionists between San Antonio and Guantaguana, distant about thirty leagues from Cvmana, and situ ated in a mountainous district, well known to the revolutionists. General Castillo personally led the advance gov ernment guard, composed of veteran troops. One hour after the opening of the ac tion General Castillo was wounded. Im mediately after this all the recently re cruited Venezuelan soldiers disbanded, deserting in all directions, and eventu ally reaching San Antonio. The govern ment officers tried to rally their troops, but their efforts were in vain, and ended in a complete retreat of the Venezuelan soldiers. The whereabouts of General Escalante who was second in command of the gov ernment army, was unknown when this dispatch was forwarded. General Castillo died later from the wounds received in the engagement. Not Implicated In Goebel Murder. Frankfort, Ky. (Special.) The jury in the case of Berry Howard, on trial as the alleged principal in the Goebel assas sination, brought in a verdict of not guilty. The jury stood t?n to two for acquittal on the first ballot and was unanimous on the second. Berry How ard is the second to be acquitted in the long list of those charged with complic ity in the murder of William Goebel. The other one acquitted was Capt. Gar nett D. Ripley, of Henry county, who was tried last year. Those convicted and serving life sentences arc ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers and James How ard, each tried twice, and Henrv Yout- sey, who accepted life sentence on his ! first conviction. j Head Almost Torn Olt 1 Newark, N. J. (Special.) Henry Schaub, who killed his wife, Mary, and infant child on June II last, was hanged in the Essex County Jail here. The drop fell at 10 minutes after 10 o'clock, and death is believed to have been instan taneous. Constable Beirne adjusted the noose. Just before Under Sheriff Ben edict pulled the lever Schaub said : "May God have mercy on me." As the lever was pulled the body shot through the trap. The force of the fall was so great that the licaii was almost jerked from the iiodv and those standing near him under the gallows were drenched with his blood. Chinese Rebel Chief Taken. Hongkong, (By Cable). Advices re ceived here fro.n Wu-Chou, under date of April 22, announce that a bloody battle was fought between a force of Impe rial troops on their way to N'an-N'ing and a large force of rebels. The Impe rial army attacked the rebels' camp in the Wu-Chang hills, brought up two Maxim guns and two 12-pounders. and finally scattered the rebels, capturing their leader. Hung-Yung-Seng, who was wounded. Subsequently, the rebels cap tured two villages on the outskirts of JJan-Ning and established headquarters there. Agree Not to at Meat. Bloomington, III., (Special). An agreement has been entered into among the 2,000 employes of the Chicago and Alton shops in this city which provides that none of their number will eat meat during the next .10 days. The action has been taken with the hope of its being extensively imitated in order to bring the Beef Trust to terms. The men ar gue that if their example is followed hy the laboring men of the entire coun try the reign of high prices of meat will apeedily end and that this article of food will resume in normal cost again. Wile Murderer Commit! Suicide. Cleveland, O., (Special) Martin Lynch, who was arrested a few days ago, charged with the murder of his wife at the home of the couple, 603 Tod atrect, committed suicide in his cell at the county jail by hanging himself from a doorknob. The knoh was net more than three feet from the floor. Lvnoh bid carefully tied a sheet to the knob and then the other end about his necV la order to accomplish his purpose it was necessary for him to sit down on the floor of Itia cell and slowly strangle himself to death. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Doaieitlc A deal lias been arranged bv which the Heinrc copper properties in Montana have been taken over by the United Cop per Company. The stock is capitalized at $50,000,000. Claiborne Widener, 16 years uld, who frightfully assaulted the five-year-old daughter of Rice Ford, at Damascus, Va., was captured and jailed at Abingdon. Virginia. Mrs. Kate Edwards and Samuel Grca son, convicted of the murder of the wo man's husband near Stouchsburg, Ta., were sentenced to death. Storms throughout the West did much damage. Telegraph and telephone wires were prostrated. Several persons were injured at Cleveland. The board of church extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church South loan ed $25,000 to assist missions in Cuba. Colonel Woodruff, counsel for Gen. Jacob H. Smith, in the opening of the lattcr's trial hy court-martial a Manila, said he would admit that General Smith instructed Major Waller to kill and burn and make Samar a howling wil derness. Major Waller and Lieutenant Day. who were tried on the charge of executing natives without trial, have been acquitted. Stockholders of the United States Steel Corporation received a circular giv ing the scheme of the company to take up the 7 per cent, preferred stock, and issue instead 5 per cent, bonds. Gov. C. B. Aycock, of North Carolina, made the feature address at the South ern Educational Conference in Athens. Ga. Robert C. Ogdcn was re-elected president. Montgomery Fresbytcry re-instated Rev. James Arthur, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Roanoke. Va., who had been suspended for drunken ness. Two thousand structural ironworkers of the Pittsburg district will strike May t unless their demands for an advance of 10 cents an hour are granted. Joseph Altolio, a youth of seven years, sustained fatal burns while saving his father from being burned to death in New York. The annual meeting of the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Epis copal Church South was held in Louis ville, Ky. Henry Schaub, who was convicted of murdering bis wife and child, was hanged in Newark, N. J. T he cholera record of Manila to date shows 505 cases and ,to8 deaths. The Moro chiefs on the island of Min danao arc said to be submitting, and Lieut. -Col. Baldwin, who has received orders to suspend operations, states that the capture of Sultan Piralo's fort has had a salutary effect. Two thousand employees of the Chi cago and Alton Railroad shops have agreed to eat no meat for 30 days as an example to other workmen through out the country to adopt this means of fighting the Beef Trust. The detectives arrested a negro preacher on suspicion of having mur dered Mrs. Collins, near Laurel, Del., but released him when it was found that he had never been in the State. Brigadier-General Funston dictated a statement declaring that in his speech about the Philippines he had no purpose of making any reflections upon Senator Hoar. Ameer Ben Ali ("Frenchy"). who was pardoned by the Governor of New York on condition that he leave the country, sailed from New York for France. The boilers on the tugboat John Anson blew up while the tug lay in Newtown Creek. Long Island. One man was killed and three were hadly hurt Foreign. The uprisings in Russia arc becoming more .serious. In a fight between strikers and troops in Moscow it is reported that 50 persons were killed or wounded. The situation in the southern part of Russia is critical. Chairman Ismay. of the White Star Line, denied reports that the White Star Line had been sold and that the Ameri can Shipping Trust held any shares in that company. As a result of the new Anglo-Japanese agreement the Japanese government has issued orders to all its naval stations to afford supplies and facilities to British warships. ljrd Crauborne stated in Parliament that there had been no official complaint about Capt. Lewis Bayley, the naval at tache of Great Britain at Washington, who was alleged to have committed ir regularities in investigating Florida har bors. Ambassador Horace Porter was ad vised of the personnel of the French mission that will attend the dedication of the Rochambeau monument. General Brugerc, commander-in-chief of the army, will head it. The first naval squadron of Germany, under command of Admiral Prince Henry, sailed from Kiel on a training cruise, hut the battle ship Kaiser Wil helm dcr Grosse was damaged at the start. A battle was fought between the Chi nese imperial troops and the rebels near Nan Ning. The leader of the rebels was captured after being wounded. It is reported in Edinburgh that J. Pierpont Morgan is interested in a move ment to combine Scottish coal compa nies, with a capital of $15,000,000. Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Bcres ford was elected without opposition to a seat in tnc Mouse ot Common. l ifty persons were injured in a wreck on the Great ICastcrn Railway near Lon don. The Secretary of the British Admi ralty announced in the House of Com mons that the whole question of ship subsidies was being considered, w ith the view of defining the ripjjts of the admi ralty in the matter of the shipping com bine. An arrangement has been made with the White Star Line preventing any of its steamers being transferred to a foreign Hag during the existence of the present admiralty agreements. Financial. Articles of incorporation have been filed at Phoenix of the Western Iron Steel Company, with a capital stock of $15,000,000. ' It is said that a bid considerably atwve the present market price has been made for a controlling interest in the American Cotton Oil Company. The Pressed Steel Car Company has declared the regular quarterly dividends of ifci per cent, on its preferred stock and 1 per cent, on its common stock. 1 he preferred dividend is payable May The regular quarterly dividend of i per cent, on the capital stock of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Rail road has been declared, payable May 15. 'J he Westinghnuse directors have de dared a dividend of Ya per cent, on as senting stock. It is the regular quar terly dividend, payable Mav 15. Mexican national officials state that the formation of the Mexican Securi ties Company Us nothing to do with ':vt reoraaniatiou of Mexican National. The New York Transportation Com pany has tigned a contract with the Long Inland Railroad for an electric rah service tt til its New Yor!-: tcrnii-' tit Is. WIND CAUSES A RAILROAD WRECK A Car Roof Blown In Front of a Passenger Train. LOCOMOTIVE THROWN FROM TRACK. The Fireman Caught Under tht Wreck and Scalded to Death None at tbe Passen tera Wert Hart A Man Crnihed to Death by an Oil Derrick Being Blows Over os Him. rittsburg, Pa., (Special). The wind storm of almost cyclonic proportions which prevailed in this section was fol lowed by much destruction of property and was the cause of the loss of at least two lives. As the Cumberland accommo dation on the Baltimore and Ohio was approaching the city the engine was thrown from the track and overturned at Port Perry by the roof of a freight ear standing on a siding being blown in front of it. Edward G. Sperow, the fire man, was caught under the wreck and so badly scalded that he died shortly af terward. None of the passengers were hurt. At McDonald an Italian,-whose name cannot be learned, was crushed to death by an oil derrick being blown ovrr on him. Another death, the result of the storm, is reported from Rochester, Pa., but not confirmed as yet. The wind played havoc with telegraph and telephone wire generally, a condi tion which has contributed to make the strike of the linemen a serious matter to the several companies. The strike lead ers claim the elements arc materially crippling the companies and say that much of the trouble caused by the storm on the last of March and augmented by the storms of the present month has not been repaired and 110 new work can be started. The officials of the companies admit they arc somewhat handicapped, but say new men arc being put to work every day and police protection has been asked for them. They expect to be iu good shape soon. FIVE KILLED IN POWDER MILL, All tbe Bodlei Torn Into Bits Excepting One Buildings Wrecked. Shenandoah, Pa., (Special). By the explosion of the tipper powder mill of the Shenandoah Powder Co., at Krcbs Station, about four miles from here, five employes were instantly killed and all the buildings of the plant were blown to pieces. It will probably never be known what caused the explosion, as all the men em ployed about the magazine were killed. Not a trace of any of the bodies has been found, with the exception of that of Wolf, whose remains were picked up some distance from the scene of the ex plosion terribly mangled. Tt was at first thought .that Ruppcrt had escaped, but it was learned later that he, too, had been killed. Oliver Mummey, who was employed in the charcoal house, said the first ex plosion, which was slight, cccurrcd in that building and emmunicated to the magazine. Oom Paul May Visit Us. The Hague, (By Cable). The report published in Paris that President Stcyn, of the Orange Free State, is coming to Europe to consult with Mr. Crugcr, is entirely without foundation. On the other hand, it is true that the Boer agents in America are renewing their entreaties that Mr. Cruger visit the United States next June, lie will prob ably comply with these requests if suf ficient pressure is exercised, although he has often personally expressed his dislike of this plan. Town Destroyed by Fire. Findlay, O., (Special). Castar, an oil town of 500 inhabitants, 20 miles north of here, was totally destroyed by fire, the origin of which cannot be learn ed owing to the fact that telephone and telegraph wires are broken and all com munication to the town is shut off. A high wind was blowing, which prevented any possible chance of saving the town. Aid was sent from surrounding towns, but to no avail. The loss, which will exceed $(x.ooo. includes nine stores and scores of dwellings. Fatal Revolver Duel. El Paso, Tex., (Special). "Sheency" Harris was shot through the heart here by Clarence Wolvcrton, a special police man, in a revolver duel in a gambling hall. Wolvcrton was wounded in the hand. Five years ago. when Wolvcrton was chief of police of Colorado City, Col., he ran Harris out of town, and Harris, it is said, threatened to kill him on sight. The coroner's jury acquitted Wolvcrton. Morgan's Costly Bible. New York (Special). The antique Bible bound in gold, the corners set with precious stones, and owned by J. Pier pont Morgan, was passed by the custom house authorities here free of duty. The book was held up at the custom-house until an investigation could be made. It was passed on the ground that it was old manuscript and the precious stones part of the bindings. Mr. Morgan set the cost of the book at $45,00x1. Boy Accidentally Killed. Parkersburg, W. Va., (Special). The little three-year-old son of Peter Hess was shot and instantly killed at Glcn viile by his brother, aged 12 years, who was trying to shoot a hawk with a shot gun. Boers Still Talking It Over. London (By Cable). Cabling from Johannesburg, under date of Friday, April 25, the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that General Delarey, with his staff, arrived at Klerksdorp, Transvaal. Special dispatches received here from Pretoria show that General Delarey had been in consultation with his commando two days previously, and that the other Boer leaders are still mov ing about consulting with the burghers, From this it is inferred that the pros pects for peace are improving. American Trult Travelers, Wilmington, N. C, (Special) One hundred representatives of the leading wholesale produce commission houses of the United Stages attended the fourth annual meeting of the American Fruit and Produce Travelers' Association, which was called to order by President A. E. Mackly. of Baltimore. These of ficers for the ensuing year were elected : President. R. W. Collins, Philadelphia; vice president. Cecil Browne, Pittsburg; se-f-ant-at-arms, G. W. Waller, Phila delphia; secretary and treasurer, J. U. Franklin. Baltimore. LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIivS. Post-Check Currency Scheme, The committee of the government of ficials appointed by the Postmaster Gen eral and the Secretary of the Treasury to consider the subject of post-check currency, gave a hearing to the advo cates of a hill to provide a system of postal currency recently introduced by Representative Gardiner, of Michigan, transmitting small sums through the Mr. C. W. Post, the originator of the plan, made a statement outlining it, and setting forth the -needs of the business world for a more convenient method of ransmitting small sums through the mails. He said that, in case of the adop tion of the idea, all rights under the pat ents would be assigned -to the govern ment free of all cost. Representative Gardiner advocated the favorable consideration of the measure and its provisions were further explained by Attorney D. E. Fox, wno drafted it. The bills provide that all $1, $2 and $5 bills, except national bank notes, shall have blank lines upon their faces so that they may be converted at once into a check payable to a named payee, to be cashed at the postofficc named, and for the issuance of similar bills of the de nominations of 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents. A two-cent stamp is affixed and canceled on the dollar denominations, and a one cent stamp on the fractional bills as a fee to the government. Filipinos Want Relief. Tariff reductions for Philippines su gar is now sought by the inhabitants of the Island of Negros. Acting Secretary of War Sanger has transmitted to Congress a message which points out that unless relief be granted the people of Negros will be hopelessly ruined and starvation and disease will stalk among them. There is no desire on the part of the Admin istration to complicate the project for Cuban relief bv urging immediate action in behalf of the Pihilippines. At the same time, the message showed the prevalence of such great distress that he deemed it desirable to lay it before Con gress. The message is from the Presi dent of the Assembly of Presidents of Negros. Disease among men and beasts, torrential rains, scarcity of labor, expen sive transportation, the low price of su gar and the high price of other articles of prime necessity, arc a few of the causes advanced for a tariff reduction on Philippines sugar. The island desires that this reduction be at least 75 per cent- Food Adulteration. Mr. McCumbcr (N. D.). chairman of the Committee on Manufactures, ad dressed the Senate on the bill "To pre vent the adulteration, misbranding and imitations of foods, beverages, candies, drugs and condiments in the District o.f Columbia and the territories. He declared that the extent of the adulteration and misbranding of food products was appalling. The laws, he said, severely punished the stamping of lead as money. That was counterfeit ing, and the man who should advocate the repeal of the law against counter feiting of money would be regarded as insane. Y'et dust or mud was stamped as Hour and glucose as honey. The one wrong was no greater than the other. The amount of deleterious food pro ducts placed upon the market each year, Mr. McCumbcr said, was valued at fully $1,170,000,000, while the total amount of adulterated food products each year was nearly $4,000,000,000. To Change Inauguration Day. Representative De Armond, of Mis souri, introduced a joint resolution pro posing an amendment to the Constitu tion making the term of the President and Vicc-Pr.ident begin on the first Thursday of April, instead of March 4, and fixing the second Thursday of Janu ary as tlic time for the assembling of Congress, beginning with the Sixtieth Congress. More Oklahoma Lands to Open. The Mouse Committe on Indian Af fairs reported a hill opening to settle ment 400,000 acres of the Kiowa, Co manche and Apache lands in Oklahoma. The opening is to occur within three months after the law goes Into effect, and tbe lands are to be aken under the general provision of the homestead laws. Chinese Exclusion BIIL The conferees on the Chinese Exclu sion bill decided to report a disagree ment to each house. The point of dif ference is the date as to when the law shall extend, the House contending for an indefinite period and the Senatebeing equally firm in insisting that the law shall not last beyond the life of the treaty. West Point's Centennial. West Point Military Academy will cel ebrate its centennial during commence ment week in June. President Roosevelt will speak and Gen. Horace Porter, Am bassador to France, will be the orator of the day. It is expected that numerous veterans of several wars will be present. The academy opened in March, 1802, with 5 officers and 10 cadets. At present the full authorized attendance is 51 1. Mr. McComas' Race Inquiry. Senator McComas, of Maryland, has introduced in the Senate a bill similar to the House measure providing for the creation of a freedinan's inquiry com mission to investigate the condition of the colored population of the country and 'promote harmony between the two races." For a Hall of Records. The Senate passed a bill providing for th purchase of a site, and the erection thereon of a building in the city of Washington, to be used for,, a hall of records, and indicating an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the purpose. Capital News in General, In the Senate Mr. Carmack continued his fierce attack on the policy in the Phil ippines, the result of which, be said, was to give a few rapscallions and carpetbag gers unlimited license to thieve and plun der. The cabinet discussed Ihc propositions of the Colombian, Nicaraguan and Costa Rican governments with reference to the proposed canals. The Senate Committee on Cuba de cided to investigate the charge that the greater part of hhe Cuban sugar crop is held by the Sugar Trust. The House sent the Oleomargarine bill to the conference committee defeating the amendment to place resurrected but ter on the same basis with oleomarga rine. . Attorney-General Knox gave out a statement declaring that as a result of his investigations, be has decided that thera is abundant evidence to justify his ordering proceedings against the Beef Trust. In a dispute over car fare on a Capital Traction car. near the Capitol, Senator Money, of Mississippi, cut Conductor O. H. Sliamr in the right hand, while the Senator nc: ivi d two blows from the cor.r'.'.-.c'.or. DEATH CLAIMS J. STERLING MORTON Was (he Secretary of Agriculture Un der Cleveland. EXPIRED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON. A Nebraska Newspaper Man Who Achieved Succert rn Politics For Many Years an Editorial Writer an the Chicago Times The Fonnder of Arbor Day His Opposi tion to Imperialism. Chicago ( Special ) J. Sterling 'Mor ton, former Secretary of Agriculture, died at Lake Forest, at the home of his son, Mark Morton. For several weeks Mr. Morton had been gradually failing, lie had suffered with a disease of the bronchial arteries, which was aggravated a week ago Vf an attack of apoplexy. He was brought from his home, at Ne braska City, Neb., to Lake Forest for medical attendance. The change brought no improvement, and he failed gradually until death caiftc. Lincoln, Neb. (Special.) News of the death of Hon. J. Sterling Morton, at Lake Forest, came as a shock to his friends in Lincoln. Since the death of his youngest son, Carl, a year ago last January, Mr. Morton had been a changed man, and his intimate friends say the grief he then experienced indi rectly hastened his breaking down. Mr Morton had the greatest pride in his State, and particularly his home. Arbor Lodge. Since his retirement from Pres ident Cleveland's Cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Morton had lived quietly at Nebraska City. On his return from Washington he founded and edited the Conservative, a weekly publication. At the time of his death he was presi dent of the historical society and a mem ber of the Nebraska Board of Commis sioners of the Louisiana Purchase Expo sition. Mr. Morton was the projector of many public enterprises at Nebraska City. He leaves a valuable estate. PLOT TO BLOW UP TUNNEL Llvet ol Many Endangered by Dynamite at Niagara. Buffalo, N. '. (Special.) A special to the Daily News from Niagara Falls says : "By the merest accident the lives of about 30 men and the tunnel work of the Canadian Niagara Power Company were saved from destruction. As the night shift went on the discovery was made of a dastardly attempt to wreck the tunnel and kill the men working 100 feet below the surface of the earth. "The shaft leading down to the tunnel is 160 feet deep. From the bottom of the shaft the tunnel runs north and south and men work at both headings. The blasts are discharged by means of bat teries which are operated at the foot of the shaft, the wires extending to the headings. "When the night shift went to work one of the 'nipper' boys discovered that at a point 100 feet from the bottom of the shaft the wires from one of the hnj tcries had been cut and a cartridge cap connected and placed in a stick of dyna mite. The stick of dynamite had been placed between two boxes of dynamite, containing 75 pounds of the material. It is customary for the day shift to ar range the blasts and the night shift sets them off when it oomcs on. "Had the 'nipper' boys failed to dis cover the plot the damage and death list would have been fearful. The men at the headings would have been killed and imprisoned and work which has cost many thousands of dollars ruined." MILLIONS FOR COTTON MEN. $75,000,000 increase on Crop Since Last September, New Y'ork (Special). It is estimated that $75,000,000 has been added to the value of cotton grown in the United States since September last as a result of the steady advance in prices, covering a period of five months. The total value of the crop this year is estimated at $405. 000,000, on the basis of production of 10.000.000 bales. By leaps and bounds the price of cot ton, has risen 2!4 cents a pound in the Southern markets since last October, when estimates of the growing crops were first put forth. This means a sheer increase of $10.25 a bale. The growers, of cour'sc, will not receive the full bene fit of this advance, but advices from the South indicate that cotton has been closely held, and it is believed that for each bale sold the planters will receive an averaae of $7.50 in excess of the prices which prevailed last fall, or $75. 000.000 more for the crop of 10,000,000 bales than had been anticipated. Confessed Terrible Murder. Corpus Christ!, Texas (Special). An dez Olivercs has confessed that he mur dered Mrs. J. Hatch, and the special ses sion of the grand jury has declared a true bill, which will be followed by a speedy trial. Mrs. Hatch was a young married woman am' was killed iti her home near here. Her head had been crushed in with the heavy end of a hatchet and then snlit in twain, and her throat was cut. Oliveres said that he had no reason for the crime. Another Trust Formed. Detroit (Special) The manufactur ers of car and locomotive brake beams have formed a trust. The promoters arc Berrv Brothers, of Detroit, owners of the Monarch Brake Beam Company. It is understood that the capital of the company is to be $5,000,000, and that the trust will he incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. The headquarter of the company will be in New York. Rumored Riots at A'oicow. Vienna (By Cable). A dispatch to the Allgemeine Zeitung from St. Peters burg states that serious riots of strikers have taken place at Moscow, and that the military dispersed the rioters with much bloodshed. One report says that 50 persons were killed or wounded. Re volts of peasantry in the provinces of Southern Russia, the dispatch adds, are causing a more critical situation, partic ularly at KicfT and Poltava, where troops were required to suppress the outbreaks. Women Sentenced lo Death. Reading, Pa. (Special.) Mrs. Kate Edwards, aged 35 years, and Samuel Greason, aged 40, convicted of the mur der of the woman's husband, John Ed wards, near Stouchsburg, and George Gantz. aged 20, convicted of the murder of Annie Etter, aged IJ, were brought into court here and sentenced to death. nilbclmina'a Condition. The Hague, (By Cable). Bulletins issued at Castle Loo declare the condi tion of Queen Vic!mina continues satisfactory. WINDSTORM KILLS AND WRECKS. Two Dead and Fly Will Dl at Joplin, M Hoasea Blows Away. Joplin, Mo. (Special.) Joplin was visited by the most destructive storm in its history, during which at least three persons were killed outright, six fatally injured or more seriously hurt and $300, 000 worth of property was destroyed. The fury of the storm broke at 4.35 o'clock in the afternoon. No warning was given of its terrible violence. There was an utter absence of the usual funnel shaped cloud, and tbe clouds looked no more threatening than those which pro duce the ordinary thunder-showers. The wind was a straight gale, but it was of terrible velocity, whipping down scores of houses in the southern part of the city and reducing to kindling wood $100,000 worth of the finest mining plants in thi district. The worst havoc in Joplin City was in a territory four blocks wide, commencing at the west limits of the city at Seventeenth street and ending at Seventh street on the east. Most of the houses are not completely razed, but there is scarcely a building which is not damaged. No one was killed there, but sonic persons had miraculous escapes. The home of Mrs. Nellie Sullivan was destroyed and the entire family injured by falling timber. Mrs. Sullivan was badly hurt about the head and face, and her two-year-old bahv blown fif" yards into a pond and saved from jr" " ing hy the heroic efforts of her seven-year-old brother, who had also received injuries from the storm. One room of the residence of S- D. Brower. on Ivy street, was blown away and his young son was carried three blocks, receiving only slight injuries. Passing east from the main portion of the city, the storm spent its fury on the suburban districts known as Moonshine Hill and Villa Heights. Three persons were killed at Moonshine Hill. The hill is now a tangled mtss of debris, and not a house is left standing. Of the little home of Ridwcll Hunter not a timber is left standing, and its three inmates arc dying, all having had their skulls fractured. Omaha, Neb. (Special.) Ail unusual ly heavy windstorm which struck this city killed one person and injured a number of others, unroofed a number of buildings and broke many skylights. There was a heavy downpour of rain. Dog's Skull on a Human Head. Saginaw, Mich. (Special.) Physicians of the College Hospital have performed a remarkable operation that of grafting a piece of a dog's skull upon a human head. The patient is John Olberg. of Kenton, Houghton county. He is now recovered from an old affliction. Ol berg s skull was fractured four years ago. Over the hole, which was an inch and a half in diameter, there formed a foreign growth. This pressed on the brain and caused convulsions. When it was decided to operate on Olberg the doctors chloroformed a dog. removed a piece of its skull and implanted it in the opening in Olberg's head. She Let Cattle Lick Him. English, Ind. (Special.) Cruel and inhuman treatment will be the plea of Thomas Foley for a divorce. His wife admits that she tide his hands and feet while he was drunk, and applied salt to Ins hands, face and clothing in order that the cattle in the fields where he lav helpless might lick him to death, as a revenge for a beating she received from him during an alleged drunken orgy. Foley s skin was raw in many places and his clothing was torn to shreds. Giant Weds a Midget Flora, Ind.. ( Special). Only 17 years old, but 6 feet 7 'a inches in height, Har ry A. Allen has just married Miss Maude Homer, 15 years old, who is only 4 feet inches in height. The bridegroom believes he is tne tallest boy in 4hc United States for his age. The couple presented an amusing spectacle as- they stood before a, large number of their friends and relatives while the nuptial knot was being tied. Wood Makes Statement. Havana, Cuba, (Special). Governor General Y'ood has issued a declaration to the effect that all statements. Fiich -is those made a few days ago in Washing ton, that ex-Director of Posts R.nhhoim j had not had a fair trial and that the I court had been influenced by General I Wood, or that the latter had tried to in lluencc it, are absolutely and unqualified ly iaise in every particular, by whomso ever they may have been made. Dog Mangles Two Girls. Newport News, Va. (Special). Flos sie and Idessa Carter, two negro girls, aged 11 and 3 years, respectively, were literally chewed up at the home of their I parents, in Hampton, by a dog belonging 10 Konen 1 towaru. J lie older has 1 1 ugly wounds and the younger 6. The attending physicions entertain little hope for their recovery. A sister of these j girls was burned to death scv?ral weeks ago. A Battle In Colombia. Washington, (Special ). The State Department has been informed by cable from Bogota that fierce fighting is going on near Guatavita, 45 miles from Bogo ta. It is reported that 15.000 men are engaged. According to government ad vices the army of Gen. Uribe Uribc. the revolutionist, lias been twice defeated and is retreating. The government forces continue to advance. Shot the Joker Dead. Chicago (Special). A practical joke terminated fatally for Edward L. Miller, when a man he having laughingly or dered to "throw up his hands" drew a revolver and shot the supposed thief dead. Joseph P. Brown, who fired the shot, was a friend of the victim, both men having lived in the same house for several months. ODDS AND ENDS OP THH NEWS. Rev. Nathaniel S- Thomas, who was elected bishop of Salina, Kan., by the Board (A Bishops of the Episcojsl Church, declined that honor. Dr. Edward Hix Magill, former pres ident of Swarthtnorc College, was, at the age of 71 yearst married to Mrs. Sarah E. Gardner. The King of Belgium has signed a concession by which an Anglo-Belgian Company secures tltc right to construct the Cape Town to Cairo railroad planned by Cecil Rhodes. The forcible detention in South Africa of Albert Cartwright was the subject of a hot debate in the House of Commons, in which the opposition bitterly arraigned the government. John Morley's motion for adjournment, practically amounting to- a vote of censure on the government in general, and Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener in particular, was defeated, J5Q to 182. The board of trustees of the Hamp ton Normal Institute selected a site for the $100,000 library given by Mrs. C. P. Huntington. Governor Montague and the Richmond Educational Asso ciation attended the exercises of the graduating class. PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFLY TOLD. Special Dispatches Boiled Down for Qnlck Reading. PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED. Rope-Jumping Feat Kills a Olrl Fat Coasts, ble's Dilemma Snlclda Hired a Band Missing Maa Found Drowned lnured It at Automobile Accident Womaa and Child Buroed Escaped Lunatic Drowned. Pennsylvania patents: Samuel A. Bonnatfon, Eric, envelope; Herman H, Bringer, Pittsburg, spike machine ; Ed. B. Clark, Pittsburg, lifting jack for cars; John B. ' D. Nommergiic, Pittsburg, frame for doors and windows; Leonard D. Davis, Erie, piercing and shaping mctalic ingots; William Ferguson, Pittsburg, whiffle tree clip; Wilder D. Forsythe and E. T. Bell. Pittsburg, boil er tube cleaner; David Hegglc, Mc Keesport, coupling welding rolls ; Wm. G. Henderson, Pittsburg, shears; Ralph V. Sage, Johnstown, sill and bolster connection for steel cars; Persifer F. Smith, Pittsburg, bottom for sheet heat ing furnaces; Charles Steele. Duquesne, apparatus for rolling ear axles; Hardy Washburn. Osceola Mills, combined poker and lifter. Pensions granted : William White, Elkland, $10; Elivcr P. Barns, New Castle, $14; James Anderson, Indiana, $17; John Hickhan, Plurnixvillc, $10; George W. Lane, Plcasantville, $12; Jo seph Fosnangh, Wampum, $17; Amoi Garbrick, Bellefontc, $8; Minerva Back us, Wattsburg. $H; Rebecca li. Morgan, Bridgevillc. $8; Mary J. Scchrict. Lib erty, $12; Elizabeth J. Ward, Butler, $8. Barbara G. Hodges, 10-year-old daughter of S. II. Hodges, of Greens burg, engaged in a rope-jumping con test with a number of her companions to decide who could register the great est number of jumps. The Hodges girl beat all the others, making no. Im mediately she complained of feeling d:z zy. She was taken home and lapsed in unconsciousness. A physician was sum moned and he found that a blood vessel In her head had been ruptured. The child never regained consciousness and died next morning. The National Farm School, Doylcs town, celebrated Arbor Day by planting two trees, one to the memory of Wm. McKinlcy and the other for Baroness Clara dc Hirsch. About one hundred friends of the school attended from Philadelphia. Rev. William McElway, of Philadelphia; Mrs. William VV. Mil ler, president of the Council of Jewish Women; Rev. Dr. Krauskopf, president of the schol, and George D. Ochs. of Philadelphia, made addresses. Constable Rhoads arrested Michael Grossup at his home at Stowe on a charge of assault. Grossup went up stairs ostensibly to change his clothing, but instead sprang through a two-foot window and ran away. The ofiicer, who weighs 200 pounds, attempted to follow his prisoner through the window and became wedged fast. . It was necessary for a carpenter to cut the frame away to release Rhoads. Samuel E. Light, president and man ager of the Lebanon Rolling Mill Com pany, executed a deed transferring the plant to the Lebanon Iron and Steel Company. The incorporators of the new comnany arc Paul IT. Denniston, Harry M. Kurtz. William S. Stokes. William H. 1'riol. J. Walter White, all of Philadelphia. Samuel E. Light will continue as superintendent. It is ru mored that the sale is a method of in creasing capital and that additional mills will be erected. George W. M'ssemcr, of Stcclton, left there for San Francisco, preparatory to going to Manila, where he has accep ' a position under the United States go' crnmcnt to instruct natives in the print ing trade. After arranging for his funeral with an undertaker and hiring a band to play a dirge at the obsequies, Martin Moski, aged 72 years, of Hazleton, went home and killed himself by firing a shot through his brain. He was despondent through ill-health. Moski brought the first lut of foreign miners to this coun try thirty-two years ago. Charters were issued at the State De partment as follows: Sharon Supply Co., Sharon, capital $io,o:x; Dintenfass Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, capital $10,000: Northeastern Warehouse Co., Philadelphia, capital $250,000; Common wealth Real Estate and Trust Co., Pitts burg, capital $1,000. The body of Denis A. Clark, who es caped from the State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown, was found in the river. Clark was a promoter of amateur sports and boxing bouts. He was pop ularly known in '.he Schuylkill Valley as "Tossie." Six months ago he was committed to the hospital. While burning waste paper near her home, in Bridgeport, the clothing of Mrs. Sallie Hayes became ignited and she was badly burned. While Dr. A. V. Ellcrshow was relieving her distress he received a call to another part of the town, where he found that Mary, a three-year-old daughter of John Culik, had been burned at a bonfire. Frank Ashton. of Easton, and his son-in-law, Dr. E. W. Hubbs, of Philadel phia, were in an automobile which col lided with a farmer's wagon near Ric gelsville. The machine was upset and both men were thrown out. Mr. Ash ton's right wrist vas fractured and his head injured, and Dr. Hubbs' right thumb was broken. A three-story stone ham and tank house on the Soapstonc Farm, near Me rion Square, owned by Clement A. Gris eom, president of the International Nav igation Co., was destroyed by fire, entail ing a loss of probably $10,000. The committee preparing suggestions for the Carnegie Polytechnic School in Pittsburg has arranged for special night courses for workingmen. While Sallic Wilhclm, of York, was engaged in house-cleaning, her two-year-;ld son got hold of a quantity of- wood alcohol, which it swallowed. The child died aliout half an hour later. The child's father was killed on the railroad a few months ago. A Shepherd dog save the life of little six-year-ojd Elsie Sabler on her father's farm, in Little Mahoncy Valley. The child was attacked by a mad bull, which was chased away by the dog. 1 Joseph Bluejay, aged 16, was killed at Colbert colliery by becoming entangle! machinery. mi, nnn nrn nun nnri,ni! n iun ....... .-...I l.nm I, I a ,nn , i.m ui..t. 1 ' 1 tt ' . n .: : c..t u.:n t.i r, , iiuauiiy m me kjiiiiijrin,ij, uciuw Read ing'. W. K. Lord, of Mount Carmel, has registered as a candidate for congress man, to fill the vacancy caused by Con gressman Polk's death. Christopher Bysick, a Hungarian, miner, tried to board a coal train at the Wyoming Station, Wilkesbarre, and fell between tbe wheels. He was so badly mangled that he died.
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