I
A GIANT JiEAT COMBINE
Overshadows Even the Billion Dollar
Steel Trust
WILL CONTROL THE PRICE OF MEAT.
An toe Leadloz Meat Packers Are la It Will
Be Knows at the Uaited Slates Packing
Caaiaaay Amawr lit Swift at the Head
The Estimated Aaaual Profit oa dross BjsI
ess Tea Per Cent
Chicago, III. (Special). A gigantic
combination of the parking houses of
th country, to be known a? the United
States Packing Company, with a rr
table capitalization of $500,000,000, on
which an antuial business of from
750,000,000 to $ l, ot.0000,000 will be trans
acted, at a net profit of from $75,000,000
to $100,000,000.
These are some of the details coming
1o the rurface in Eastern financial circles
f f the most far-reaching of nil the trusts
jet projected.
Notwithstanding the repeated and posi
tive denials from Armour, Swift and
ether interests, the proposed combine is
accepted as a certainty. It overshadows
the United States Steel Corporation.
It is understood that the basis of pay
n'ent by the new trust, to he known a
the United States racking Company, for
the corporations and firms it is to absorb
will lie twenty-five times the earnings
for the last year. The earnings aggre
gated over seventeen millions of dollars.
The reported division of capital among
the principal interests in the $.',00,000,000
combine is as follows:
Armour & Company, $201,000 vc :
Swift & Company, $100,000,000; Nelson,
Morris & Company, $75 010.000; Oi.lahy.
$2.-ooo.ooo : Schwarzvchih & Sul.-.ber-irrr
Company, $25,000,000: others ovct
the United States. $50.01:0.000 ; miscel
laneous expenses, including cost of pro
motion, etc.. $-5. 000.000 Total, $500.
000.000. I. Ogdrn Armour is to be chairman
cf the finance committee and head the
financial drpartmcr,. ami if his Ileal ill
will permit, Gnsiavns F. Swift is to i.e
president. The full list of of'ccrs i-:
Chairman board of directors. J. Ogden
Armour; president, G. 1". Swi". treavt
"r, Edward Morris; general manrger
operating department). Kdwir.1 Ccidahy:
chairman finance committee, J. Og'hi.
Armour.
PIVE M'RSF.S DROWNED.
Rvwboai Sunk by Steamer at Battle Creek
Michigan.
Battle Crerk. Mich. ( Spccinl). Five
tnenibcrs of a boating party of six em
ployes of the Ilnttlc Creek Sanatorium
were drowned in Lake Goguac. Their
rowboat was run down by the steamer
Welcome.
Miss Carry Eyotk. the sixth occupant
of the capsized boat, was rescued.
Bennett had been rowing the young
ladies about the hike and the party was
returning to the sanatorium villa about
jo p. m.. jnst as the little steamer Wel
come was leaving her dock with an ex
cursion party. In some way the Wel
come ran the rowboat down. The small
boat was struck amidships and the hull
crushed. AH the occupants were thrown
into the water. Miss Kyock managed
to catch hold of the overturned boat
fend hung to it until she was rescued
by a person who bod witnessed the ac
cident and coine out in a boat.
All of the victims except Miss Rich
rd, were members of the new class of
nurses ax the sanatorium.
FIENDISH ACT OP INSANE WOMAN.
Attempt; to Klll.llcr Mother and Sister and
Then Commits Suicide.
Cincinnati, O. (Special) While suffer
ing from temporary insanity, Kmma
Bankhardt, a spinster, 40 years of age,
attempted to kill her mother and her
tistcr Dorothy, and then committed
suicide, at the home near Covington, Ky.
Mrs. Baukhurdt and Dorothy were asleep
in separate rwims at the time, anil each
was dealt a terrific blow on the head
with some blunt instrument, their skulls
being fractured. Both probably will die.
Having dialt these blows to her
mother and sister, she saturated their
beds with oil and applied a lighted
match. As soon as the flames began to
spread she ran to a cistern in the yard
end jumped in, drowning before assis
tance could reach her.
Hundreds of neighbors were attracted
to the liankhardt home by the fire and
succeeded in rescuing the two victims
of the insane woman before they were
harmed by the flames.
Maaeuvcrs Planacd for Pacific.
San Francisco (Special). The coast
of California, with the Golden Gate as
the center of operations, will in all pro
lability be the scene of the next strategic
maneuvers between chosen fleets of the
American Navy. Naval men arc dis
mssing the prof ..sition entertained at
Washington of holding Fall maneuvers
on the I'aciiic Coast on lines similar to
Jhore which govrrned the late contest
off the New Kngland Coast.
Sied Company's $18,893,0) Mortfaie.
New York (Special. A mortgage fi r
f 10.00:1,000, made by the Bethlehem Steel
Company of I'l nnsylvania, was tiled
with the Comity Register of Hudson
County. N. J. It is in favor of the
Colonial Trust Company, of New York,
and is to secure an issue of $10,000,000
of twenty-year 5 Jcr cent gold bonds.
Wijuts tli I'. S. Senate Abolished.
Milwaukee. Wis. (Special). The
Social Democratic party ir. the Mute con
vention, uere adopted a platform reaffirm
infl its rJligiance to the principles .if
internal iojia! socialism. The platform
i Vicnnnds. among other things, a law
prantin?; wageworkers over tio years of
igr. who have earned less than $io,r03
a year and have been citizens of the
United" States not less than 16 vears.
a pension of $12 n month for the re
mainder of life: nl.vi that the United
States Senate lie abolished.
S&ot to Dcataj hy Angry Mob
Sparta. III. (Spri-ia!). Ardec Wilson,
a negro, who was arrested here for an
basalt on c young white woman, was
riddled with bullet by an angry mob.
The mob took ban from the jail, lippd
a uftoser over his head and swung him
op to a telegraph pole, but in nf
. manner he slipord the nooe and fell
to the street. In an iistant he was on
Ins fret arnd running away. He appar
ently eicapiI in the darkness. Imt a
posse pursued him and surrounded him
several hours later within two blocks
A ih jail Uid sju.-l hint to death
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
President Roosevelt made a trium
phant journey from New Hampshire
into Vermont on a tallyho drawn by
six horses. Enormous crowds greeted
him at Cornish and at Windsor.
Robert Edwards, while masting on
his bicycle at Harpers Ferry. W. Va.,
collicd with a stubborn steer and was
thrown violently, narrowly escaping
with his life.
Governor Cummins and staff, of Des
Moines, will attend the launching of
the cruiser Des Moines at (Juincy,
Mass., September 17.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and pa-ty
left Chicago en route to the North
west on a hunting trip.
Alfred D. Jones, the first settler in
Nebraska, died a: his home, in Omaha,
aged 87 years.
Three Italian workingmrn em-ploy cd
in a sewer at Schenectady, N. Y., were
drowned.
President Roo-evelt has been invited
to visit Hirmingham, Ala.
()i the six candidates for Senator Mc
I.aurin's place v ted for in the Demo
cratic primaries in South Carolina none
received a majority. The highest two.
Congressman A-bury C. Latimer and
cx-Gov. John G. Evans, will be vot
ed for in the second primaries.
I Rev. Leona-d RadclifTc (lied at the
'Westminster Home for Invalid Cler
gymen, at Perth Atwboy. He was 00
I years old. and tit one time was promi
nent in the American Home Mi-ion-ary
Society.
i At Monroe. Mich., Walter Lcnirraiid
i slmt and killed Joseph l.aborge, whom
; he found in his house upon his return.
I Mrs. emerand says that she and l.a
borge were planning an elopement.
General Manager Lord, of the Amer
ican Iron and Steel Manutactu-ing
Company, at Lebanon, T'a., rct'used to
grant the demands oi the striker- that
I colored nonunion men be rent' 1 d.
; Attorney General Anderson. i W
; trinia. 'ays that the law -i the Stat'"
: is sufficient to block tile propo-:.! tne
' ecr of the Atlantic C"ast Lino and the
, Seabi ard Air 1 .inc.
Theodn-e Ro-.-cvclt. Ir.. has -tartei'
with 11. R. McCttll r.ijji. a vire-prc-i-dent
oi the Chicago and Norihwr -:ern
Railway, on a hunting trip in Soir.h
Dakota. '
Hitntsvtllc. Ala., has invited P-esi-ilcn:
Roo-evtlt Jo vi-it that city next
month.
A combination -of the hading malle
able irmi companies is c.rdcr consider
ation. T he crpital stock oi the lilinois t 71-
tral Railroad was increased to $05,040.
coo. j T here will be no contest over the t
; ta'es oi either Charles L. Fair r his
! wife by Mrs. Fair's relatives. Mrs.
' lia-riii I'.. Nelson, mothi.r oi Mrs.
! Fair, on behalf of herself and children,
has rchtiinihed for a sum in cash all
claim to the estates oi Fair or his wife.
, Five employes oi the I'.attle Creek
(Mich.) sanitarium nurses, probation
ers ;;nd stenographer were drowned
in Lake Gi.guac as the result of a col
lision between- tite steamer Welcome
and a rowboat containing a party of
young people.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., let New
i York, accompanied by II. R. McCul
: lough, of Chicago, vice-president oi the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway,
'lie goes West tor a three week lmiit
: ing and fishing trip as the guest oi Mr.
McCullough.
I The first clash between the striking
anthracite miners and the troops oc
' rttrred at Tamaipia. Pa.' Strikers ston
I ed the troops. A number of the strik
, ers were arrested. Captain Gearhart.
of Company F, Twelfth Regiment, was
! injured.
Foreign.
1 Fmperor William and King Victor
Emmanuel reviewed ,30.500 troops on
the Tcmpclhoi Field. The Empero
saluted the American generals, who
will be hi-: gite-ts during the army lr.a-
- neuvers.
The .pproaching e:;piration oi the
time limit tor the completion oi the
' Atlantic sliippiiig t-tist is arousing
much int' t-es; and agitation in England.
1 The lioers are negotiating wi-th the
French author-tics f,,r a concession oi
.agricultural lands on the Island i f Mad-
aya-car.
I: is proposed to ir.stidl a combined
ligl.tsliip and ocean telegraph station
too miles west of ti'.e Lizard. 0:1 the
English coast.
The prices of meats in Germanv
' con- i 11 11c to advance, and a go. id stiak
irw costs 44 cents a pound in Berlin.
The French Minister of Finance pro
poses to meet the financial deficit by
reducing the amount of untaxed a'co
h il hi;',ierto allowed producers and by
a I. dishing exemptions from the tobarco
tax.
Captain von Frankenberg and J.ieu
tenant Ntimbauer of the First Regiment
' German Field Artillery, have been dis
missed from the army on a .-count oi
; demonstrations to a pardoned dueli-t.
I The Hamburg customs authorities
; will hereafter reipiire certificates of o-i-gin
in the case oi grain shipped from
Baltimore. New York and other Amer
ican ports.
Colombia will formally demand of
Nicaragua an explanation in regard to
the latter country's alleged participation
in the revolution. Actual war is not
fc.-.re,'.
William C. Whitney, of New York,
has ioi'nded in London the ieresford
T rust in memory oi Lord William Her-ii-ford
and for the benefit of indigent
t"-ii'cn.
T he Colombian government is con
centrating troops from all quarter- at
Panama and Colon to inert expected
attacks by the rebels at those ports.
1 Montagu itolbein. the English swim
mer, failed in his third attempt to swi-ti
the Engl'sh channel after being in the
j wa'er hours and 1 1 minutes.
Financial.
The great puzzle oi the fiv.rui'ial
; world; Who owns Reading?
T he Baltimore & Ohio will '.1011 give
ia contract ior 100 locomotive.
T he Intel-national Paper Comttuny has
declared the regular cuarte"ly divi
dend of I !' per cent, on the preferred
: tock.
j New York will not believe anythim
j but that Pennsylvania is buying RvaJ
j ing stock for control.
Philadelphia liankers assert there will
I be no money stringency, ulthough rates
of interest will go up.
Soti'hern Railway is not so bullish
since Illinois Central declared positively
it would not join u Southern Serurities
combine.
The coke outlook, says the "Iron
Age." is very discouraging. Railroads
cannot handle it, so great is the demand
in;.de bv furnaces.
T he Chesapeake & Ohio has leased
from a car trust twenty-five locomo
tives. 1000 steel gondolas, 400 wooden
gondolas and 810 other coke and freight
cars, lor $j,ooo.ooo.
Baltimore & Ohio at even 115 is one
of the most attractive securities in th?
general list. That road has only bespit!
its career.
TO END THE BIG STRIKE
Governor Stone May Call Extra Session
of Legislature.
CONFERENCE ON THE ARBITRATION.
Should the People ol Pennsylvania, who are
Indirectly Sulferers from the Strike, Make
a Demand, the Governor Will Issue tbi Call
He Favors Arbitration and Had a Bill
Drafted During the Last Session.
Harrisburg, Pa. (Special). Persist
ant rumors were in circulation here that
A special session of the legislature may
be called by Governor Stone in the in
terest of legislation looking to the ar
bitration of the strike in the anthracite
region. It is understood that should
I there be a popular demand for the
: calling ol the legislature together to
1 grapple with the question, a demand
I which should be imperative and unmis
takable, representing the gcat mass of
the people, who have indirectly sut
ured by the coal strike, the Governor
would be constrained to call an extra
session.
While no confirmation of these ru-
mors can be secured from an official
source, it is stated that a legislative
solution to the grave situation in the
strike region is possible. Governor
Stone's leaning toward arbitration ia
pronounced and well known to the op
erators and miners.
During the last legislature he not
only urged upon the assembly the ne
cessity fur passing an arbitration law,
but he had a draft of a bill covering
the need made and sent to the coal
operators and officials of rhc L'nited
y ineworkers. Neither the operators
nor the miners, however, approved of
the bill as it was framed, and the Gov
ernor knew that it was impossible to
secure its passage in the face of the
objections of both sids-s interested.
Conference on Arbitration.
WiikrTarrc. Pa. (Special). At the
cio-e of the sistccnth week of the an
thracite s;rike the talk of arbitration is
;:e.:i:i renew cd. De-pite the statements
i--ucd oy the presidents oi the coal
carrying railroads that they will 11 it
'.- ree to arbitration, the hope is still
strong in the strike region that the in
llcencis now being brought to bear up
on the operators will have the desired
rT-.-t.
It was reported here on good author
ity that President Mitchell will have a
crnlermce with l'nited States Senators
Quay and Penrr.se at the St. Charles
Hotel, Atlantic City.
Some weeks ago. at a meeting of the
People's Alliance oi this city, a com
mittee was appointed to wait on the
Pennsylvania senators and request
hem to use their influence to bring
the miners and operant cugether.
Denounce lien. Gobin's Order.' '
Shenandoah. Pa. (Special). General
Gobin's report from Major Gearhart
was to the effect that everything was
quiet in the Panther Creek region.
More men reported for work there, he
says, than on any previous morning
and none was molested by the strikers.
In Shenandoah and vicinity every
thing continues quiet.
Tainaqua, Pa. (Special). Strike lcad-r-s
went from doo to door in the
"I'tther Creek Valley svce-njing the
news of General Gobin's stern warning
and his instruction to the men to shoot
and shoot to kill if molested in any
maimer.
MESSENGER GIRLS POPULAR.
. Telegraph Boys to Disappear From Western
I L'nion's Chicago Olfice.
Chicago (Special). The familiar mes
senger boy, so long identified with tel
egrams, is about to disappear, so far
as the branch of the Western Union
Company here is concerned.
This has been finally decided by the
local officers of the company having
the matter in charge. The latest strike
of the boys, the third disturbance in a
month, forced the American District
Telegraph Company, which supplies
the nics-rngcrs for the Western Union,
to hire .oo girls to take the strikers'
places, and alter a trial oi nearly a week
it is declared that their services are sat
isfactory. T he girls are w orking in the business
district and the resilience portions of the
city during the day. T he night force is
made up oi young men. not boys.
j CIRCLS COMBINE THE LATEST.
! Three ARitregations in "Communltyof dntcr.
I est" Scheme.
I Kansas City. Mo. (Special). Accord-
, ing to Peter Sells, one of the proprie
tors of the Forcpaiigh & Sells Broth-
i ers' Circus, that circus has perfected
b "community of interest" with the
Buffalo Bill Wild West aggregation and
the Barnuin & Bailey shows. Mr. Sells
said tin y are to be managed by the
; Barmim and Bailey Company ll.imit-
I ed 1 of London. I-Jigland.
; "Kach company." said Mr. Sells, "re-
' tains its individuality and will stand on
its own legs. The idea is to have one
of the big shows in the United States
each year, and one in Great Britain and
, one on the Cuii incnt. T he Barnuni
and Bailey Couq any (Limited) of Lon
don intends to control the circus busi-
, ncss oi the Continent and Great Bri.ain.
J Fifteen Injured.
I Yomigstown, O. (Special) Two cars
i on the Yuungstnwn and Sharon I'.lec
i trie Railway collided at 5 15 o'clock a.
m. two miles south of Sharon. Seven
t(n persons were injured, two ierioudy.
Contested Murder in Court.
j Holly Springs, MUs (Special). At
I the trial of "Whit" Owens for the mur
der of the two Montgomery-), l'nited
States officers, Orlando Lester, who is
j under sentence of death in the same
: case, swore that he himself did the kill
ing. On previous occasions he 'hid
1 sworn that William Mathis did it. Ma
j ths was hanged rive weeks ago. Les
ter's execution was deferred in order
j that he might testify at the present
trial.
Would Combine Church and SUe.
I guidon (By Cable). The Rev. Forbes
Phillips, vicar of Gorlestoii, near Yar
mouth, who aroused widespread com
ment by permitting Mrs. Brown Potter
to recite from his pulpit, in June, lool,
is agitating a freth and more startling
scheme for a close union of the church
and stage in the cause of religion. He
proposes that each parish maintain a
theatre under the management of the
church, In an outspoken interview the
clergyman says: "Clergymen overdo the
religions side of life, thereby ruining
the spiritual liver, like that of overfed
Strusburg geese."
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Growth ol the Nation.
A moving picture of conditions in the
United States at decennial intervals from
1800 to 1S50 and annually from 1850
to too is presented in .1 monograph
just issued by the Treasury Bureau of
Statistics.
The area has grown from 8J7.844
square miles in 1800 to ,1.05100 square
miles in 1002. exclusive of Alaska and
the islands belonging to the United
States. 'The population per square mile
which was 3.6 in 1810. was ih.i in 1002.
The total wealth has grown from
$7,000,000,000 in 1850 to an estimated
$94.o,ooo.ooo in 1000 and the per
capita wealth from $.K7 in 1850 to
$12.15 1000.
In 1800 ihe public debt was $15 per
capita; in 1840 it had fallen to 21 "cents
per capita: in 1852 it was $2.67 per
capita; in i8or. before the beginning
of the war. $2.74. and then mounted
rapidly until it became $76.08 per capi.a
in 1806, gradually falling again after
the war. It is $w.o7 in 1002. The
money in circulation amounted to
85 per capita in 8io. and in 1002 $28.40
per capita, tlw highest point that it
has ever reached.
Deposits in savings banks amounted
to $1.1,18.576 in 1820 and $2.5(17,004.580
in loot. T he individual deposits in na
tional banks have grown from $500,910,
87.1 in 1865 to $.1,111,600,196 in 1902.
The number of farms increased from
1.449.07.1 in 1850 to 5.7.10.657 in 1900:
the value of farms and farm property
from $4,000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000,
and the value of their product, which
was not measured until 1870. grew from
$1,958,000,000 in that year to $.1,764,000.
000 in 1000. The value of farm animals
increased from $544.0x0.000 in 1850 to
$2,081,000,000 in looo.
The value of the product of the man
ufacturing industries grew- from $1,000.
000,000 in i(";o to $1.1.000.000.000 in
1900: (V number of people employed
therein grew from less than 1,000.000
to 6.750,000.
Civil Service Report.
The annual report of the Civil Ser
vice Commission has been made public.
It opens with the statement that 47,075
persons were examined during the year,
of whom 21.028 were examined for the
department service. The service does
no. include merely the departments at
Washington, but. all the federal classified
services outside of Washington, with
the exception of the Postal. Customs.
Internal Revenue and Government
Printing services. Thus, the railway
and Indian services are divisions of the
departmental services. Nearly 2t.ooo
persons were examined for the Post
oftice Service, or a little over a thou
sand less than the number examined
fur the departmental service. About
60 per cent., or .1.1.7.19. of those taking
examinations pas-ed. and 14.959 failed.
Compared with the year previous, this
represented an increase of 2.1 12 in the
number of persons examined, a decrease
of 1.208 in the number who passed and
an increase of ,1.140 in the number who
failed.
The total number of persons receiv
ing appointment, excluding the Philip
pine service and the municipal service
of the District of Columbia, neither of
which is subject to the provisions of the
civil service act, was 9.870.
In the entire executive service of the
government there arc. in round num
bers. 2.15.000 places, of which number
about 121.000 arc classified. Of the
114.000 remaining unclassified. 72.498
arc those of fourth-class postmasters.
The annual expenditure for salaries for
the entire executive service is stated
to he about $1.10.000,000. and of this.
$85,000,000, or nearly two-thirds, goes
to salaries for positions subject to the
civil service rules.
Ruling I'pon Civil Service Law.
President Roosevelt has made a rul
ing upon the civil service law which
apparently disposes of the case of Miss
Rebecca J. Taylor, who is testing in
court the right of the Secretary of Wa.r
1o discharge her.
The President's ruling, which has
been pomulgatcd by the Civil Service
Commission as one oi its own rules, is:
For the purpose of preventing all
misunderstandings and improper con
struction of said section, it is hereby
declared that the term "iust cause," as
used in Section 8. Civil Service Rule 2.
is intended to mean any cause, other
than one merely political or religious,
which will promote the efficiency of
the service, and nothing contained in
said rule shall be construed to require
the examination of witnesses or any
trial or hearing except in the discre
tion of the officer making the removal.
Since the President U the fountain
head of the civil service rules this dec
laration has the force of a new law,
and is of equal force and effect with all
other rules.
Disappearance of a Disease.
The disappearance oi one of the most
fatal diseases to the American soldiers
in the Philippines dysentery is caus
ing great satisfaction to the medical
branch of the Army. Surgeon General
Forwood has received recent advices
that this disease, which heretofore has
caused more sickness and deaths than
any other disease among the troops in
the Philippines, has practically disap
peared. Against Bullet-proof Cloth.
The United S:ates Army ordnance
officers, after an exhaustive lest, have
reported against the adoption of bullet-proof
cloth shields. T he test show
ed that, weight ior weight, the shields
were not as resistant as steel plate,
while lluy were of double weight when
wet.
Newsy Hems of Interest.
If Secretary Wilson would accept the
place he would be ilected president of
the Iowa Agricultural College.
Acting President iroulkc. of flic Civil
Service Commission, has addressed a
communication to all the executive de
partments in regard to the part office
holders may take in politics.
In conformity with a wish express'
ed by Secretary Shaw the national
banks arc increasing their circulation
ol banknotes. The object is to give
greater elasticity to the currency.
1,100 Lives In Peril.
New York (Special) In broad day
light and bright sunshine, a collision
which might have resulted in a dread
ful calamity occurred in New York har
bor between an incoming passenger liner
and an outbound freight steamer. The
steamship I.iguria, of the Italian Royal
Mail Steamship Crtmpany, with over
1,100 persons on board, was run down
in the Narrows by the British steamer
Peconic. of the Mediterranean and New
York Steamship Company, bound out
for f.crtn in the Mediterranean,
BUST COVERS ISLANDS
The People of Guadeloupe Are Panic
Stricken.
ASHES ARE HURLED OUT TO SEA.
Detonations Heard from the Direction ol
Martinique Heavier Showers ol Dust Fall
Upon Dominica Than at Any Time Since the
First Eruption of Pelee. A Dark Cone
Shaped Cloud Emitting Flashes.
Pointc a Titre (By Cable). This en
tire port is covered with n cloud of fine
dust, and the populace is panic-stricken.
Fine ashes arc hilling continually
in a slight drizzle. Scmidarkncss is
over the sea and the ships in the harbor
seem to be enveloped in a cloud of
smoke.
Advices from Basse Terrc. Island oi
Gaudeloup?. assert that since daybreak
the entire island has been covered with
a cloud of dust coming from the south
east, the direction of tic Island of Mar
tinique. The population of Basse Tcrrc is
greatly alarmed.
St. John, Antigua. Many loud de
tonations were heard here from 9
o'clock to midnight.
Basse Terrc. St, Kitts, B. W. I. A
series of loud reports were heard litre
from 7 until 9 o'clock.
Roseau, Dominica, B. W. I. A thick
mist which enveloped Roseau Saturday
was taken, as it approached, for a rain
storm. The dust is still falling, al
though lightly, but during the night the
quantity of dust which fell here was
greater than upon any previous occa
sion since the first eruption of Mont
i Pelee.
j A sevce eruption of Mont Pelee,
I Martinique, was reported to have oc
curred at noon August 21. T his repo-t
1 was brought to Castries. Island oi St.
I Lucia, by officers oi the French steam
i ship Dahome. T his eruption was lol
1 lowed by total darkness five miles away
, from t he volcano.
! A dispatch received from St. Thomas,
1 D. W. I., said that be. ween in o'clock
in the morning and ,1 in the afternoon
i of August 25 clouds oi dust w ere seen
' in the direction of Mont Pelee from
1 the Island of Dominica. Detonations
were heard, and there were light show
ers oi volcanic dust on the island.
' A dispatch from Paris dated August
28 said the latest dispatches received
at the ministry of the colonics from
'Fort do France. Island of Martinique.
; were dated Monday. August 25. They
j made no mention of the reported crnp
I tions of Mont Pelee. The Patis dis-
patch said also that the cables to Mar
i unique, both north and south, cotititi
j mil to be interrupted.
I F.lTorts made to communicate by ca-
hie direct w ith the Island of Martinique
j have proved unsuccessful. Telegraphic
: communication v.iih that island from
: New York is still interrupted.
REVOLUTIONISTS REPULSED.
J Aladc Stuhhom Attack Upon The Town Oi
i Caripnuo, Venezuela.
Kingston, Jamaica (By Cable). The
German steamer Polaria, which arrived
: here from Venezuela:; ports, reports thai
j while at Carupano, Venezuela. 700 rebels
j attacked that place stubbornly and got
I inside the tow n, where they were met
j by ioto Government troops under Gen
eral Velutini. Severe fighting, lasting
the whole day, followed and cnd.d in
the disorderly retreat of the rebels,
several of the latter being killed or
wounded.
Bullets repeatedly struck the steamer,
and the lives of her crew being in
danger, Captain lloff, her commander,
communicated w ith General chain; ami
, asked for protection. T he Genera! re-
plied that the Polaria must clear out.
las she had no right to be there. Her
captain refused to leave the port and
I telegraphed to the German cruiser
I Gazelle, Canti-iu Gra 010 la, at J.a
'Guaira, asking for ininieoiiie pi.nect on.
The Gazelle arrived at Carupano Sun
day morning and protected the Polaria
while the hitter proceeded to take in
cargo. T his work was completed Mon
day night, and the Polaria sailed under
the protection of the German cruiser,
which also left Carupano.
When the Polaria left Carupano the
Venezuelan Government officials were in
fear of another and more serious attack
on the place. J rade was completely
crippled and many atrocities were re-
! ported.
A dispatch from Willemsi.id. Island of
Curacao, announces that details had been
received there of the reoccupatioii of
the port of Carupano. Venezuela, hy lb;
Venezuelan Government forces, it
would therefore appear that the fight
ing referred to by the Polaria followed
! an attempt on the part of the insurgents
to recapture (.aitipano.
Due to Action ot Ancrkan Trust.
London (By Cable). "Dear meat is
due more to the action of certain Ameri
can trusts than to the closing of the
ports against cattle " is what the presi
dent of the Board of Agricul'nre. R.
W. Il.'lllbllrv told :i mi-pli'tiir .,(
! which he addressed at Shi w sburv.
when defending the action of the Board
of Agriculture in pn hibiting the impor
tation of stock. The Cabinet Minister
also expressed his approval of the recent
widening bases of taxation, and sa'd he
would not have, been sorry if a further
duty had been placed on dour, explain
ing that, while it would raise the price
of the food of the people half a cent,
it would revive the milling industry of
the country.
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE LATEST NEWS.
t ' -
President Roosevelt spent a busy and
eventful day in New Hampshire, clos
ing with a visit to the siimmir home
oi Secretary Hay, on the shores of Lake
Sunnapee. H e made si vera! important
addresses during the day.
The Southern Railway has increased
the wages 01 us machinists, black
smiths and boilermakers.
Mrs. Kate Wagner killed her two
children and herself in her home, in
i-iine KiicK, Ark.
A Chicago and Pastern Illinois pas
senger train was wrecked near Cayuga,
Ind. The engineer and fireman were
probably fatally injured. The passen
gers escaped with slight injuries.
Becam-e she feared that she. would
become insane, Mrs. John McCurdy,
of Chicago, a bride ol three months,
killed herself by inhaling gas.
Former Secretary ol the Treasury
Hon. John G. Cat lisle made the an
nual address before the American Bar
Association at Saratoga.
Sir Thomtis Lipton hai promised the
Chic3i;o representatives his influence
with (he Briii'h in the interest ol the
Olympian games.
MINDANO IS SHAKEN UP.
Twenty Morot Killed hy Earthquake In the
Philippines.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
War Department received a cablegram
from General Chaffee, at Manila, re
porting the occurrence of a reries ol
cathqnakes on the Island of Mindanao.
Twenty persons were killed by falling
walls, the victims all beitur Moros. T he
Americans in the vicinity escaped, and
the dispatch says there were no re
ports thtst any of the soldiers occupy
ing that portion of the island affected
sustained any injuries.
T he upheaval occurred in the coun
try adjacent to the Lake of I.anao. in
the1 Moro section of the island, neat
Camp Vickers, which is now the head
quarters of the American forces sta
tioned in Mindanao. General Chaf
fee's cablegram says the mountains anr'
rivers and other streams were consid
erably disturbed, and much damage
was done. T he extent of the damage
however, was not reported.
It is presumed here that the seismic
shocks occurred about five dys ago.
though the date is not mentioned in the
dispatch. This is the first scriou?
earthquake reported from that country
during American occupation of the
Philippines. The most important pre
viics seismic disturbance in Mindanac
was the one thai' partly destroyed Pa
laic. Kota-Batu and the village on the
banks of the River Mindanao in tK"2
T his phenomenon closely followed the
eruption of the volcano o' Makatnnn.
General Chaffee also cabled that th?
military situation in that section re
mains quiet and unchanged. No at
tacks have been made on the American
forces at Camp Vickers since the last
report, which was cabled eight days
ago.
TEXAS WHEAT YIELDS FOR 1W2.
Crop Estimated at .0?0,OM Bush:!s Satnc
Quantity of Outs.
Austin. Texas (Special). The follow
ing estimate of the grain yield of Texas
this year has been is-ucd by 11. B. Hor
sey, secretary of the Texas Grain Deal
ers' Association. There are about
S.coc.noo bmhels of wheat in Texas this
year and about '.he .-ante quantity of
oats. , .
As to corn, there is no way by w.nch
a reasonably accurate estimate can he
made. However, the crop this year is
lighter than it was last year. No oats
were cxpor.cd except for seed purposes,
shipments being made to the South
east. Something like 2.000.000 lut-heN
of Texas oa's were shipped last year
at-.il the same amount this year.
Will f.iakj Muncy for Chines:.
Washington. D. C. ( Special) The
state department recently received ti com
munication from the Chinese Govern
ment stating in effect that it -vas pro
posed to start up tne uo criuiicm emu-
age
mint at 1 icntsin. and al.uig
al.uig tnat
art assayer and a maclimist trom one 01
the mints of the L'nited States he re
commended for employment therein
The matter was referred to Mr. Roberts,
the director of the mint, with the result
that Leonard McGruder. assistant as
saver, and Mr. I.. C. F.mory, superin
tendent of machinery, both from New
Orleans' mint have been engaged fot
this service and arc expected to sail fot
China within a short time.
.... ... 1
, Twa Killed ia Auto Accident.
! Long Branch, N. J. (Special) To
' were killed and three injured in an
automobile accident .tt'the Park Avenue
i Bridge, over the New York and Long
; Branch R. R. tracks. In trying to avoid
running down a man Frank J. Matthews,
president of Realty Trust Company, of
Je.-sy City, lost control oi his machine.
;in:l it plunged agaitv t 'he railing, broke
I through and dropped to the rails .15
feel below. Mr. Matthews wa- instantly
; killed, the heavy machine falling upon
! him. Mrs. J. H Cobb, of Richmond.
! Va., one of his guests, died later at
the Monmouth memorial Hospital, and
: Mr. Louis Pizini. her sister-in-law, it
is lelio ed. will die.
! Killed Wle and then lllinseli.
Ca-roTton. III. (Special). Dr. A. O.
Miller shot and killed his wife and ;-.t-tempted
to kill his little daughter, but
succeeded in indicting only a slight
wound. lie then swallowed a dose of
laudanum, which caused his death in
jail after he had been arrested. He
I had been drinking heavily of late and
this, combined with jealousv, caused the
: trouble.
j Assaulted anil Murdered.
i Corinth, Miss. (Special). Mrs, (t.:ry
Whitfield, a young woman ,livin .- near
. iii-rc, was assaulted and murdered by
! some unknow n person. T he body was
I discovered by her husband upon hiss
' return from work. The sheriff, with a
j posse and bloodhounds, are in pursuit
! of the criminals.
! Blown Over Like Feathers.
I Owantonna. Minn. (Special). The
wreck on the Northwestern Road, five
miles west of here, was probably the
worst that ever happened in this sec
tion of the state. Three persons are
jd'. ad. four are fatally injured aTnl 14
j others injured, some oi them seriously.
I Murder and Pillage.
j Gainesville. Fla. I Special). T he
bodies of Mr. and Mrs P.iilMn Lewis,
residing live miles south oi Bronson.
' were found on the floor of their home
j by neighbors. The bouse had been
pillaged and l ewis and hir. wife mur
dced. There it no clue to 1 lie mur
derers. M. Cambon (iocs lo Spain.
Paris (By Cable A decree making
a nuniiie,- of diplonatic appointments
w as signed by President l.-.mhct. hut it
will not be officially pub'ished for a day
or two. T h- new appointment.! include
those of M. Jcsserand. the retiring
French MinisP. r at Copcnha,;'!!. as
FiliicI: Ambus ador to Washington: M.
Cainb. - i whom M. Jesserand will replace
in the United States, as French Ambassa
dor lo Spain, and M. Hompard n Frcn h
Anihassador to Russii in suecess-oi, to
the Marquis De Mon.chcllo.
Across Continent In a Balloon.
Denver (Special). "Big Glory" e
ol the largest balloons ever constructed,
was successfully started from this ci y
on a trip, the purpose of which is to
break the world's Ions; distance record,
as well as all previous records for fa-t
balloon sailing. It is expected ulti
mately to reach New York. The bal
loon contains 140,000 ci bic feet of hy
drogen gas and was built especially for
this trip. The occupants oi the bal
loon are Capls T. S. Baldwin and Percy
Hudson, aeronauts, and C. S.' Sherman,
membei of tlie Half of the Denver
Post.
1H KEYSTONE STATE.
Newt Happenings ol Interest Gathered
Front All Source.
Patents granted, Pennsylvanians.
I'homas Alhcc. Halstcad, "check-hook
keeper; August Buerkle, Allegheny,
valve mechanism for water heaters;
Gustavc Dahlhrrg, McDonald, gas and
strain convertible engine; Henry L,
Dixon. Pittsburg, plate glass annealing
apparatus; Hugh B. Duff. Chewick,
hide-securing apparatus; Davis Fergu
son, rit.sburg, coke drawer: William
Coldic, Wilkiiisburg, car heating sys
tem; Frank S. Jones, F.xport. stilch op
erating device: William R. McPhcrson,
'and If. Kurieh, Tarcntiini, wtishboard;
George VV. Paul. Pittsburg, parcr and
sheer; Howard Hope. Hollidaysburg,
esics trough hanger; Henry N. Potter,
Pi:tsbtirg. mercury vapor lamp; Charles
r. Smith. Pittsburg, furnace; Samuel
B. Woodford, Imperial, attachment for
wash Ir lih-s.
Pennsylvania pensions. William P.
McCleery. Troy. $8; Fdward Acklev,
Bradiord, $12: Bvron N. Crandall. Ha
zelhurst. $24: Robert L. Harrison.
Glasspori. S12: Allen Hall. Trough
Creek, $12: Waller Baker. Donnan
town, $12: John Ford. Bradford. $10:
Peter Mundanial. Harbour Creek, ?17;
George II. Galhraith. Natrona. $8;
George W. Kcpplc. Kavlor, $8; Augus
tus ShcHei'liainmcr. IIogeHtown. $8;
Jcrusha . Kckert. Woolwich, $8; I.ucv
A. Crayton, Athens. $S; Kliza G.
Vance. Allegheny. $8: Marv Sullivan.
Curry. $12: Sheldon M. Moore. Krie.
$ti: Ames Snyder, Henderson. $8: Oli
ver 11. Scott. Kent, $10: Isaiah Roos,
Allegheny. s': Samuel C. Dougherty.
I .Natrona. tsS; Martha A. T'runck. F.lliott,
: .Margaret Sinetlzer. Kdinon, $8;
I'.liza Ann Davis. Gl n Hope. $8.
Charles T. Schoen left Pittsburg for
his home in Philadelphia, after having
pivchased a site at Butler for iiis pro
tected steel car wheel manufacturing
plant. He proposes to make car wheels
by a new process and said 1 lite the in
itial cost of the ulant would br ?50o.
rno. As ( ie Kir.ix affair a- Allan' ie
City, when the .-nhiect was broached.
Mr. Schoen sa d: "Please don't mention
that. The incidi nt is closed. Il really
amounted to r rhinj mnr" than that."
and he indicated by nlacing his hand
011 a bystander's shoulder aiH shoving
him slightly. "I was so annoyed ih.-.t
I immediately went 'to Sa-anac Pake
and didn't look at a iicivmti,- for six
days. There is nothing between Mr.
Knox and myself. I have not heard
from him since the incident.
When Mr. and Mrs. Fred ll.-eler rr-li-rned
home after witnessing the cen
tennial fireworks displav at Blooms
burg, they found Miss I'.dith Bancroft,
a nurse in their employ, lyimr bound
and gauged upon the lloor. IVon br
ing reha-.v hc ated that she was
met in the hallway by a man and wom
an w ho overpow ered hi r before she
could make an ou'ery. She knew noth
ing 'more until shortly befo't-e she ws
released. The intruders ransacked the
ho'-.sj and secured S20 fro-u a bureau
drawer. They also had a lot of silver
ware and ornaments bundled up ready
to carry away, but were evidently dis
turbed, leaving th-? bootv. This is the
econd time Mr. Ikeler's house has been
robbed within the past six months.
Over a mile a minute was the record
made hy the Readinir "flyer" helwee"
Lebanon and Harrisburg. beating all
records on the Lebanon Valley Divi
sion. The "liver's" actual lime was
iwenty-six miles in twenty-one niituttei
between Harrisburg and Lebanon and
faster time could have been made had
not the engineer been forced to slow
to eight miles an hour wh le passing
through the local yants. a distance of
eight miles. Between Palmyra and
I fitmmctstown the rate was cightv miles
in hour, the greatest ever made by any
passenger engine on that strc ch.
The removal of Richard Barret with
his family from Wilkiiisburg lo Swiss
rale 'reduced the population of the for
iiier borough by twenty-four. Barret
is 45 years old. He married at t'he age
f sixteen, his wife tlua b-'ing fourteen.
I'hey have twenty-two children, most of
ivhotu arrived a triplets. Ba'-rct is a
'ainter and paperhangcr. His oldest
on is .'8 years old. and married.
T he repo-t of the l.ehig'.i Valley Rail
road Company for July shows a de
crease oi $727.1(0.144 in earnings and
in-.-o're and a decrease in expenses of
f 10.20.1. and a decrease in net earnings
f $717.71x1. While there was a decrease
iti earnings of the Lehigh Valley Coal
fYinpanv the expenses were also cut
down. The deficit, however, showed
m increase of $58,270.
The last day's session of the .17'h
Minual convention of the .PatriotK
Irder Sons of America at Wi!liamport,
.vas occupied by the addresses of the
-ewly clr.Med officers, the na ional of
ficers and the installation ol the new
slate officers. In the afternoon the vis
aing c-anrs marched in a parade com
voscd of 2000 members and twenty-four
'jaii'ls. The following prizes were an
lounccd: Comniatiderics, for the larg
est number of. men in line. Lebanon
v'iillcv, No. 5. Prize. $75. For hrst
"archhn, Reading: No. 2. Prize $50.
For the longest distance traveled. Allen
town. No. 6. Prize $50. Camps, lor
the larirest nilnibr of men in line. I eb
inon. No. 245j Prize, $75. For the best
uniformed, Lebanon, No. j8i. Prize,
.sn. For coming tic longrit distance
with over 'thirty men, S rituhsburg.
Priz" S50. For best marching. Leban
on, No. 254. Trizc, $25.
The private engine f General Su
perintendent W. A. Garrett, of the
Philadelphia anil Reading Railway,
juinned the track iw tin; cut just south
of Morlonville Station ' and plunging
into the rocks she was completely
wrecked. Mr. Garrelt received a se
vere bruise on the head and had one
of his ears badly cut.
John Rolen, an Austrian, 'if Harris
burg. who was recently forced to quit
work because ol illness, attended a pic
nic on the hank of the Swatara Creek.
During ihe dancing, Rolen waded out
into the stream" and held up a glass ol
beer and shouted: "Here goes my last
drink." T hen he plunged into the
water of the creek. He was dragged
to shore, but liie was extinct.
A petition lo President Roosevelt
asking him to call a special session ol
Congress for (he purpose of taking
action looking to the settlement of the
coal strike, has been started in Williams- .
port.
The School Board of Mahanoy Town
diip removed six ol the oldest teachers
in the township. The reason given was
that members of the families ol these
teachers were non-union mine em
ployees. The Chester Grand, Jury found a true
hill in the criminal . libel case of T.
Larry F'yre against Thomas O' Connell,
but the rase was continued to the next
term because ol the illness of the de
fendant's counsel. It is alleged that
(('Conned published a statement that
Eyre had used the words "d n the
people" in an argument relative to
trolle.v interests in Chester County,.