i
NEITHER SIDE WEAKENS
Believed That End of Coal Miners' Strike
Is Still Far Off.
IT IS NOW IN ITS NINETEENTH WEEK.
Or. Oobln, (a Charge of the State Troops De
ales That H Is Preparing to Remove the
Troops at An Early Date or That He Ex
pects An Order From the Governor to With
draw tbe Troopt.
Shenandoah, Pa. (Special). Monday
began the nineteenth week of the coal
strike. The date on which Senator
Piatt predicted that the strike would
end has passed, and the hope w hich was
'nstilled into the people in this locality
because of that prediction has been
succeeded by a feeling that the end is
still far off.
The reiteration of the coal presidents
during the week that no concessions
ould be made and the resolutions
passed by nearly all the local unions
pf the United Mine Workers renewing
their allegiance to their officers and
pledging themselves to continue the
Strike until concessions ar granted,
show that neither side to the contro
versy is weakening.
General Gobin, in charge of the state
!roops encamped in this county, denies
that he is preparing to r.emove the
troops at an early date or that he ex
pects an order from the Governor to
withdraw the troops. He says he does
not anticipate an order of "that kind
until there is a settlement of the strike.
At $25 Per Too,
Chicago, 111. (Special). Anthracite
:oa sold in Chicago at the highest
figure quoted in years. The Weaver
Coal Company sold several orders of
i high grade at $25 a ton and some at
$20. These prices, while not general,
are in the face of a hard coal famine in
the city, and they indicate what may
be expected unless a supply of anthra
cite soon reaches town.
Dealers declare that an average price
on anthracite cannot possibly be quoted
because of the existing emergency,
where those who must have coal at
ny price are practically bidding to se-
.uic wnar iney can ot tne scant supply
M the Chicago yards. Soft coal has
gone up in price 8 to to per cent, with
in a few days, and coke, the best sub
stitute for hard coal, was quoted at $12
to $13 a ton, double the price asked
September 1. While citizens are
alarmed at the gravity of the situation,
dealers are also worried, as they have
not been in a long time over the out
look. A speedy settlement of the
Strike would adjust matters in time and
prices would drop to a reasonable
figure, but the uncertainty of the fu
ture is causing fright among citizens
and dealers alike.
TOWNS DESTROYED BV FIRE.
Every County In the Western Part of Wash
ington Said to Be In Flames.
Tacoma, WasX (Special). The for
tst fires are now burning in every county
9f Western Washington from British
Columbia to the Columbia River. . The
onflagrations are the most extensive in
Mason, Thurston, Chehalis and Lewis
trounties, to the southwest of Tacoma.
The towns ot Elma and Folsom, in Che
halis county, have been partly destroyed.
Each was the center of large logging,
'.umber and shingle mill industries.
Other towns which are in great danger
re Shelton, Mattock, Black Hills. Bu
toda, Ranier and Castle Rock, in South
western Washington. Enumclaw and
Buckley, in the Cascade Mountains arc
threatened. The latest reports from Mason county
are that every portion of that county is
in flames, with the execntion of Shelton.
WILCOX DECLINED TO ESCAPE.
Alleged Murderer of El'o Cropsey Had a Chance
to Get Out of Jail.
Elizabeth Cit", X. C. ( Special). Dur
ing the niM a negro youth escaped
from the county jail, and left his means
of exit subject to the disposal of James
Wilcox, the famous alleged murderer of
Ella Cropsey. In the morning when the
sheriff and others visited the jail to dis
cover the ne-ro s means of escape, Wil
cox told them that he cot-Id have escaped
in the same inner. To prove his as
sertion he went through the process ot
making his escape in the presence of the
few who were there.
When water works were installed in
the jail a bar was removed to make
room for a -ipe. The negro removed
this pipe, thus leaving an exit for every
prisoner in the jail. Wilcox said :
"If I had wished to get out, the way
was clear."
Infants Shocking D-'atn. j
San Francisco (Special). The horri-
ble death of a child was reported to the j
police by the matron of a foundling '
home, and a well-dressed man deposited 1
the child in the front yard. The man j
hurried back to the carriage, which also
contained a woman, and the coachmtn j
lashed his horses furiously. The baby
had been choked in a shocking manner,
and its body was swathed in cloth sat-
orated with gin and carbolic acid. The I
little one lived but a short time. j
Haitian Insurgent General Killed. !
Port au Prince, Haiti (Bv Cable). !
General Chicoye, of the Firminist forces,
who was defeated at Petit Goave on i
August 3, and set fire to that town be- :
fore evacuating it, and who was subse
quently arrested near Jacmel, was exe- :
cuted at Jacmel, Wednesday. September :
10. after having been tried by a military
tribunal. '
Prodi ma Matos Traitor. j
Caracas, Venezuela (By Cable). The '
Government has published a decree de
claring Gen. Manual Matos. leader of
the present revcliuic.i.arv movement in
Venezuela, to be a traitor and ordering
him to be tried on the charge of piracy
and for having offered control of the
finances of the Government of Venezuela,
in case of the success of his movement,
to outside capitalists on the same ba-is
as prevails in Egypt. The facts of this
alleged offer were reported by the Ven- 1
ezuelan Consul at Liver-ool.
Quakes on Alaska's Coast.
Seattle, Wash. (Special). Passrn rers
on the steamer Humboldt report that '
earthquake shocks occurred on August 1
17 along' the coast between Mtiir and
YaVutat, in Alaska. At Bundas the shak
ing lasted several seconds. The shock
broke windows, caused the collapse of
an unfinished building at a salmon can
nery and badly frightened a number of
Chinese fishermen. Tailor Bay was
filled with ice jarred from Brady glacier.
Ton of ice fell into the water choking
it almost to the point of preventing navigation.
SUMMARY OP THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
Policeman Isaac Shevc. of Camden,
X. J., was shot and seriously wounded
while attempting to capture Dan Dan
iels, a negro, one of the assailants o(
Mrs. Osier, a few days ago. The ne
gro narrowly escaped mob violence.
The breaking away of freight cars on
a steep grade on the Santa Fc near
Colorado Springs, Col., resulted in a
collision with a passenger train, in
which three trainmen were killed and
another seriously injured.
The grand jury is still probing into
the St. Louis bribery scandal. Circuit
Attorney Folk has laid information of
bribery against the men under arrest
to keep them from being released on
habeas corpus.
C. F. W. Nccly sued in Xew York
for the return of the $0,000 taken from
him at the time of his arrest in Cuba,
now in the possession of the War De
partment. Striking miners were evicted from
their company homes at the Crescent
Mines, on the Kanawha River.
Mrs. Hohart, widow of Yicc-Prci-dent
Hohart, visited Mrs. McKinlcy in
Canton. O.
A committee of the Pennsylvania
State Legislative Board of Railroad
Employes had a conference with Pres
ident Mitchell, of the United Mine
workers, who says the railroad men as
sured the miners of their support and
co-operation.
Gottlieb Niegcnfind. at Pierce. Neb.,
shot and killed his former wife and her
father and wounded the latter's wife,
after which he attempted to assault a
sister ot his former wife.
Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, who is
engaged to marry Bishop Potter, of
New York, will give her new palatial
residence, on the Riverside Drive, that
citv, to charity.
Mrs. Hannah Nelson, mother. of the
late Mrs. Charles Fair, received $1.
000.000 from the Fair estate, and each
of Mrs. Fair's brothers received $350,
000. Luther W. Shear, district agent of
the Northwestern Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, wanted in Muskegon,
Mich., for forgery, surrendered.
Mrs. William M. Stewart, wife of
United States Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada, was killed in an automobile acci
dent at Alameda, Cal.
A big blaze started by sparks from
a locomotive has been raping in the
oilfields of Texas and has done a great
deal of damage.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has given
an order to the Baldwin Locomotive
Works for 250 high-class freight loco
motives. Fierce forest fires are destroying val
uable timber lands and threatening
cities in Oregon.
Earthquake shocks occurred in
Alaska along the coast between Muir
and Yakutat.
Mrs. Dauphin, widow of the presi
dent of the Louisiana Lottery, who
died , in 1891, has been indicted by the
grand jury of New Orleans. It is claim
ed that she came into possession of
over $200,000 of her husband's wealth
which was not inventoried.
Mr. Charles S. Hamlin, assistant sec-
rptnrv nf th Trnasnpv trncr tha eur-
1 f tj :.i- -1 1 I
unu irrm 01 rcsiuuiu icveianu, was
defeated in the primaries in Massachu
setts for the Democratic nomination
for governor.
Idaho Populists nominated a full
state ticket.
The price of coke in Chicago is $12
and $13 per ton.
Foreign.
In reply to a query of the United
States government the German For
eign Office has stated that either Char
lemagne Tower. Bellamy Storer or Dr.
David J. Hill would be acceptable as
United States ambassador.
According to la-t year's census, the
population of the administrative county
o! London was 4.536.541. while Greater
London showed an additional popula
tion of 6.500.000. The city's outstand
ing debt was $231,344,355.
During the recent German Army
r-.aneuvers a system of wireless teleg
raphy was used, to the secrets of which
visitors were not admitted. j
An anti-Semitic outbreak is report- i
ed to have occurred at Czenstochowa.
in Poland, in which 14 Jews and l gen- ,
Uarme were killed. j
Sir Thomas Lipton has decided in
favor ot carli;.- races for the America's j
Cup. and will name August in the hope
for steadier winds.
Emperor William, in saying pood-' 1
to Generals Corbin, Young and Wood
in Berlin, said he was specially interest
ed in three Americans President '
Roosevelt. Mayor Seth Low. of New
York, and Andrew D. White, the
United States Ambassador, now Icav- I
ing his court.
It is again reported that the Portu
guese government, in need of funds,
has pawned the crown jewels, includ
ing the diamond-encrusted scepter of
Don Juan IV., valued at $5,000,000.
The railway authorities of India, de
spite test trials showing the superiority
of British locomotives, have given an
other order for 20 locomotives to Ger
man manufacturers.
The sensational trial of the man Voi-
sin m Fans, once convicted of mur-.!
dering an innkeeper, transported, then !
proven innocent and set free, has ended
in an acquittal. '
General Firmin urges his followers 1
in Hayti to fight to the end against the ,
provisional government. The "-vo'it-tionists
are greatly excited and very
bitter against the General.
1 he Austrian Prince Francis Joseph
of Bragansea was exonerated in Lon
don of the charge of misconduct under
the criminal law amendmnt.
The corporation o Dublin adooted a
resolution protesting againstthe Crimes I
Act as "an outrage and insult offered '
the citizens of Dublin." !
Professor Heilprin tells of the te-ri- !
ble destruction on the Island of Mar
tinique in the last eruption of Mom 1
Pelee. !
Financial.
Consolidated Lake Superior is weaker.
I'e'insyivania hauled last wee. tn:v
295 tons of anthracite.
A big melon for New York Central '
stockholders is ripening.
A Stock Exchange seat sold in New ,
York on Wednesday for $81,000.
Money to tier cent, in New York and 1
6 per cent, in Philadelphia.
The Sub Treasury has taken from New
York banks this week $4,723,500.
Swilt & Co. directors have declared
a quarterly dividend of 1 3-4 per cent.
The approaching death of the ptrik -helped
Lehigh Valley and other hard
coalers.
A quarterly dividend of t 1-4 per cent,
has been declared on American Iron
& Steel preferred.
St. Paul dropped more than a point
on the announcement of an increase
in the dividend.
The Virginia-Carolina Chemical
Comoany has declared a. quarterly div
idend of 2 per cent, on the preferred
stock.
Charles C. Gates denies that John
W. Gates has sold all his holdings in
Colorado Fuel to George Gould or any
body else.
CONTROL OFJRT WORLD
American Millionaires Are Buying L'p
Europe's Treasures.
ENTIRE COLLECTIONS ARE SECURED.
Prices That Excluded Europe's Bidders
Morgan's Purchase ol the Famous Mann
helm's Collection American Buying Causes
An Enormous Advance In Prices Lamenta
tions of a Swiss Museum Director.
Berlin (By Cable). Director Angst,
of the Swiss National Museum, will dis
cuss in his forthcoming annual report
recent American influences upon the
European market for antique objects of
art, pointing out th.-.t while American
collectors formerly bought single objects
like ' their European rival., the latter
American generation of millionaires
buvs entire collections at once at prices
utterly excluding European bidders.
Such buying, the Director will say, gives
the purchaser a guarantee of the genu
ineness of the objects since they were
gathered by paii. staking connoisseurs.
Director Angst attributes this inno
vation to the rapid creation of American
millionaires through the recent great
trusts, and refers to J. P. Morgan's pur
chase for $rjo,ooo of Mannheim's
famous collection o majolicas, fayences,
bronzes, etc., in Paris. Such purchases,
the Director asserts, arc an irreparable
loss lor r.urope. tie admits that- Air.
Morgan, Mr. Carnegie and others will
either open their collections to the public
or give them outright to museums, add
ing :
"The liberality with which rich Amer
icans treat the museums of their couiv
tries throws into lhe shade everything
hitherto seen in Europe."
Director Angst aso refers to the enor
mous advance in prices through Amer
ican buying!, pa.ticularly mentioning
crtu z.uncn porcelains.
MEAT PACKERS' COMBINE.
The Merger to Oo Into Effect This Month
Greater than Steel Trust
Chicago, 111, (Special). At a meet
ing in the First National Bank Build
ing of all the interests connected with
the proposed packers' combine, it was
decided that the merger should go into
effect September 27. This statement
was made by one" of the men attending
the conference, which was brief and
businesslike, and is confirmed by others
in a position to know.
Early in the day prominent banking
interests let it be known that obstacles
in the way of the combine were being
removed and that the deal would speed
ily go through. On the strength of this
information, coming from such a high
source, there was a sharp advance in
Swift Company stock here and in Bos
ton. It is said the only thing in the way of
the combine was the price demanded
by Swift & Co. and Schwarzchild &
Sulzburger for surrendering their
shares. At the meeting both made
concessions satisfactory to the pro
moters. Those in a position to know
say the promoters never gave any con
sideration to the threat that Congress
would abolish the duty on Canadian
cattle if the combine was formed. In
that event branch houses would have
been established across the border, so
this had no bearing on the deal. The
sole question was one of price, and
that was settled at the meeting.
By the side of the great meat com
bine, dealing as it will in the necessaries
of life, the United States Steel Cor
poration will be an affair of but second
ary magnitude.
LARGEST ORCHARD IN THE WORLD.
Fruit Trees to Be Planted on 5600 Acres In
Missouri.
Kansas City Mo. (Special.) The
largest apple orchard in the world is soon
to be planted ..1 Laclede county, Missouri,
a short distance from the main line of
the 'Frisco railroad.
The land has already been purchased
by a syndicate capitalized at $1,000,000,
and promoted by residents of Des
Moines, Iowa, and assisted by the
'Frisco railroad.
One of the directors in the new enter
prise is a Kansas City man, William C.
Carroll. "The largest orchard in the
world is in the Ozark mountains," said
Mr. Carroll. "It has 2300 acres planted
in fruit trees, My company has pur
chased 5000 acres near Lebanon, Mo.
We will plant every acre of it with fruit
trees. hen the apple trees are all
bearing, which will be about six years
from now. we will have the largest or
chard in the world."
Woman Cuts Down Murderer's Body.
Nashville, Ga. (Special). Boisy Bry
ant was hanged here for the murder of
Town Marshal Hynds. Mrs. Etta Hynds I
Parker, daughter of the murdered officer, I
watched the execution from the scaffold :
trap. As soon as Bryant was pronounced
dead Mrs. Parker, with her father's 1
knife, cut the body of the murderer J
down. The crime for which Bryant was 1
hanged was committed in Adel, Ga., a !
near-by village, last May. The negro j
was wanted in the town on a misde- j
meanor charge and Town Marshal
Hynds attempted to arrest him. As the 1
marshal approached Bryant, the negro I
drew a pistol and fired on the officer, I
mortally wounding him. j
Cholera on a Train; 0 t.
Manila (By Cable). There were four j
cases of cholera and three deaths from
that disease on the United States trans-1
prrt Sherman, which has arrived at Nag-1
asaki, 'apan. on her way to San Fran- '
cisco from Manila. The transnort has i
been quarantined at Nagasaki. The !
quarter-master is unable to give the
names of those who died.
Killed in An "Auto" Crash.
San Francisco (Special). Mrs. Wil
liam M. Stewart, wiie of the senior
United States Senator from Nevada,
was killed at Alameda, Cal. She was
riding in an automobile with Henry
Foote and a young man named Taylor.
Through an accident the machine ran
into a telegraph pole. Mrs. Stewart
war. thrown against the pole with great
force, and was so severely injured that
death soon followed Her home was
at Washington, D. C.
Terrible Crime In Nebraska.
Beatrice, Neb. (Special). Mrs. Kate
Fournell, living with her parents, near
iyteinhauer, was feloniously assaulted by
tramps, who then killed her and drag
ged her body into the yard, where they
et fire to the clothing. The woman
had been left in charge of the home by
her mother and brother, who discovered
her dead body when they returned.
The men evidently had broken open
the house, which they looted after com
mitting the crime, The community is
excited and if the perpetrators shall be
captured they will probably be lynched.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Wilson Pleased With Crops.
Secretary Wilson has returned from a
trip through the West, and summa-
ized the agricultural conditions in the
States he visited.
These States included Nebraska,
Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. He said crrps were generally
abundant 111 that region. "There will
be a corn crop," he said. "Corn now
is substantially out of the way of the
trost.
"The corn croo in narts of Kansas.
Ncbaska and Indiana probably is the
finest on record. There have been
more hundreds of millions of dollars
depending on the ripening of this crsp
this year than the ordinary person ever
lias realized. Wliilc the crop is a lit
tle bit late, any danger of its failure
can now be considered over. The crop
may not be a record breaker, but its
quality is splendid, and. with the ex
ception of the Southern States, the
yield per acre is very heavy. In the
South the drouth has somewhat affect
ed the corn crop.
"The wheat crop of the West this
year is also very fine, and what may be
considered as really the most import
ant crop of all the grass crop is ex
ceedingly good. The census tells us
that there has been a great increase
during the last 10 years in the number
of cattle in the (Jnited States. This
information, taken together with the
fine crop of grass, insures lower prices
(f meat. I do not believe that the price
of meat, however, will ever be as low
as it has been inJ;c past, for the sim
ple reason that tne American people
are more prosperous than ever before
and arc eating more meat than ever
before. However, the exceedingly high
prices of meat will be a thing of the
past as soon as the present 'feeders' get
fattened up to a beef condition. An
other thing that will tend to keep the
price of meat a little above the former
low price is the demand of England
for our meats."
Frowns Upon Big Cuban Loan.
The positive statement has been
made that the President and his offi
cial advisers do not view with favor the
proposed Cuban loan of $35,000,000.
Administration officials have grave
doubts as to whether Cuba can repay
the money it intends to borrow. The
obtaining of money and failure to pay
either interest or principal would cause
serious complications.
Those officials who have recently dis
cussed the Cuban loan believe that un
der the Piatt amendment the United
States reserved the right to supervise
Cuban finances so as to prevent such
mortgages to foreign creditors as
would eventually bring the island under
domination of some European Power.
There is an impression here that the
Administration will seek to persuade
President Palma to veto the loan bill.
Story of a 41-Cent Shirt
The President has granted pardons
to Jose Martinez, Herminia Pachcco,
Agucdo Rodriguez and Antonio Torres,
prisoners confined at Mayaguez, Porto
Rico, charged with larceny of property
of the United States and held to await
the December term of court in default
of $500 bail. The property alleged to
have been stolen was a shirt, valued at
41 cents.
The acting attorney-general recom
mended pardon, on the grounds that
it was an unusual hardship to compel
the prisoners to remain in jail in de
fault of bond for so trifling an offense
until next December, and on the fur
ther grounds that the imprisonment
they had suffered already is sufficient
punishment, even conceding them to be
guilty.
To Be Open Every Sunday.
Beginning Sunday the Library of
Congress, which has heretolore been
closed on that day of the week, will
be opened to the public every Sunday
from 2 m the afternoon until 10 o clock
at night.
The main reading room in the ro
tunda and the periodical room will be
open to the public, as will all the other
divisions of the building just as on
week-days. The innovation, it is
thought, ' meet with considerable
favor and is due largely to the manner
in which the librarian, Mr. Herbert
Putnam, urged Sunday opening and
secured the necessary appropriation of
$10,000 at the last session of Congress.
Problem In New Cuban Tax.
Owing to the peculiar phraseology
of the decree of President Palma rela
tive to taxes on spirituous liquors and
wines, as the same was received in
Washington from Minister Squiers,
grave doubt exists as to whether the
heavy increase and new taxes propos
ed are import taxes or purely internal
revenue taxes. The difference is vital
to American exporters in this line of
trade, and in answer to numerous in
quiries, steps have been taken to clear
up the ambiguity.
Wireless Telegraphy Tests Failed.
The wireless telegraph experiments
recently conducted by the Navy De
partment between Washington and An
napolis have not met with a great meas
ure of success. Interference in the
shape of intersecting trolley lines and
other obstacles to communication was
encountered. The officials have hopes
of greater success in communications
between the shore stations at Annapolis
and the warship Prairie in Chesapeake
bay. The Prairie is being fitted out
now for that purpose.
Another Postofflce Robbec.
The PostotTice Department has "been
notified that the postoffice at Clemson
College, S. C, was broken into and
the safe blown open and robbed.
Exports Are Falling Off.
The total exports of the United
States for the eight months ended Au
gust 31 were $821,685,198. against $939,
329.34! for the same period last year.
The imports were $614,165,387, against
$57y,f'5.756 last year. For this period
the exports of brcadstuffs from the
United States amounted to $108,604,576.
For the same period of 1901 the total
was $192,860,604. The total exports of
provisions were $109,841,036, against
$124,977,173 for the same period 01 the
year before.
Newsy Items of Interest
The naval board which investigated
the damage to the cruiser Brooklyn
reported that she would be laid up for
three months and it would cost $42,
500 to repair her.
A. R. Shepherd, who was at one time
territorial governor ol the District of
Columbia and directed the extensive
improvements in Washington, died at
Batopilas. Mex.
The Navy Department ordered
Lieuts. Frank B. Littell and William
S. Eichelbergcr, professors of mathe
matics, now stationed at the Naval Ob
servatory, to the Naval Academy.
MR. SHAW WILL AID BANKS
Steps Taken to Relieve the Financial
Situation.
TO PREPAY OCTOBER INTEREST.
Has Decided to Anticipate the October Interest
on Bonds Amounting to $1,200,000 Arrang
ments Have Also Been Made by th; Treas
ury Department to Release $1,000,090 of the
Treasury Holdings.
Washington (Special). Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw has decided to an
ticipate the October interest on Gov
ernment bonds, amounting to about
$4,200,000, and has directed the various
subtrcasttrics to cash such coupons as
may be presented for payment. The
Treasurer of the United States has also
been directed to mail checks for inter
est on the regular bonds. This action
has been taken in view of the high
call-money rates in New York and the
possibility of a further advance.
Arrangements have also been made
by the Treasury Department to release
$4,000,000 of the Treasury holdings. A
list has been prepared of those national
banks which held free or unpledged
bonds at the date of their last report.
Notice has been given such banks that
if they will send these bonds to the
L'nited States Treasurer in sums of
$50,000 or more they will be designated
as temporary depositories, and the face
value of the bonds will be deposited
with them to the credit of the Treas
urer of the United States.
This course has been pursued in pref
erence to designating depositories in
the ordinary way and compelling them
to purchase bonds in the market at
a larger premium, thus paying more
for the bonds than they secure from
the Government.
For the past two months the customs
receipts of the Government have been
unusually heavy, and there is a fair
prospect that they will continue to be
large for several months. The cash
balance in the Treasury has been grad
ually increasing, while the receipts have
exceeded the expenditures even with
the war taxes abolished
No annrehension is felt lw Wrnt.nrv
Shnvu 3r,. f .1,.. i,:i. ..
rate in New York. Attention is di
rected to the fact that there cannot
possibly be a money famine elsewhere
than in New York, and even in that
city the rate is not considered high
for commercial paper. Thus far Secre
tary Shaw has made requests only of
such banks as hold large deposits and
have a very limited circulation. He
is not asking these to increase to the
maximum nor to increase at all for the
present.
It is the Secretary's desire to make
the best possible use of the free bonds
now held by the banks, and incidentally
to encourage banks to hold free bonds
during the dull months. He believes
it is much better to hold bonds that
will vield I 1-2 per cent, than to make
call loans at 2 ner cent. He is tlipr.
fore, giving the banks that hold these
tree bonds an opportunity to use them
to the best advantage.
M0R0S ATTACK AT NIGHT.
Americans in Mindanao Drive them Off With
out Loss.
Manila (By Cable). News has been
received here that a party of Moros
who occupied a wooded hill fired into
Lamp Vicars, Mindanao. The Amer
icans returned the fire spiritedly and
uispcrsea tne natives, lucre were 110
losses among the Americans. I
Lapt. John J. l'ershing, of the Fif- !
tcenth Inlantry, commandincr the
American forces at Lake Lanao, Min
danao, visited the friendly natives for
mally September 10. He took with
him a troop of cavalry, two companies
of infantry and two Maxim guns. The
friendlies welcomed the Americans cor.
dially and the meeting was successful.
Brig.-Gen. Samuel S. Sumner, com
manding the Department of Mindanao,
cables that he expects to reach Camp
Vicars tomorrow.
Bandits Killed and Captured.
Manila (By Cable). The force of na
tive constabulary which has been in
pursuit of the Rios band of irreconcil
ables in Tayabas province. Luzon, has
killed 18 anil captured 25 of the bandits.
The constabulary encountered the band
upon four different occasions during
the chase, but suffered no losses what
ever. Rios. the leader of the bandits,
says he will never be captured alive.
100 Miles an Hour on th: Wabash.
Snringfield. III.. ( sneri.nll Tim K"nn-
sas City express on the Wabash road has
made the record on the system for fast j
running. J he run was made between
Wea and Riverside six miles. This
was covered in 4 minutes and 11 sec
onds. The first mile was made in 52
seconds and the sixth at the rate of 100
miles an hour.
Fifty Persons Drowned.
Madras 'By Cable). An English mail
train, 205 miles from this city, dashed
over a bridge which had been under
mined by floods. Fifty passengers, in
ducted among whom were eight Eu
ropeans and four soldiers, were drowned.
Twenty-five persons was saved from the
wreck.
Emperor's (Jill to Harvard.
Berlin (By Cable) plaster cast of
the copy in bronze of Schadow's statue
of Frederick the Great, at Stettin, erected
in 1793 is being prepared for Emperor
William's gift to Harvard. The original
statue, which was in marble, is much in
injured. Town Made in Four Weeki.
Thomas, Okla. (Special). This town,
founded only four weeks ago, is already
a thriving place of 1,200 inhabitants.
I he hrst weekly issue ot the 1 nomas
Tribune, which at first was run as a
daily, gives some interesting facts. It
records the extension of the Frisco
Line from Washita tJ the new town.
The branch is now finished. It is sur
prising how the town has grown during
the few weeks of its existence. The lo
cal bank already has deposits of $30,
000. Thomas is situated in the midst
oi a fertile, well-watered country.
Hundreds of People Homeless.
Portland, Ore. (Special). About 300
people are left homeless in Multnomah
and Clackamas counties as a result of
the forest fires that have raged for the
past week. Fires have burned over a
wide stretch of country, but the great
est damage in this state appears to
have been done in these two counties.
In the fire that destroyed the town of
Palmer, near Bridal Veil, two boys
named Hamilton were buncd to death.
There is no way of securing a correct
estimate of the loss, but it will certainly
exceed $1,000,000 in this state.
WARSHIPS TO THE ISTHMUS.
For a Permanent Occupation ol Panama Im
portant Move.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
United States is on the eve of effect
ing what may appear to Central Amer
ica as a permanent occupation of the
Isthmus of Panama. Not only were
orders issued by Secretary Moody to
the battleship Wisconsin to proceed to
Panama and the cruiser Cincinnati to
wiil at once for Colon, but Major Gen
eral Heywood, commandant of marines,
was directed to immediately organize
a ba'.'alion of marine for 'service on
the isthmus. The marines will be trans
ported to Colon by the auxiliary cruis
er Yankee, which sailid with dispatch
from Boston for Leagtre Island.
The action of the : Jministration in
preparing to send marines to Colombia
is regarded by cliplut-its informed of
it as of great significance, but the Navy
Department insists that there is no
other purpose than to adequately pro
tect American interests.
Permanent occupation is not intend
ed, it is stated: but it is admitted that
the prospect that the United States will
obtain control of the strip of territory
between Colon and Panama through
which the Isthmian Canal will run
makes it imperative that something
should be done by this government to
prevent any damage being done our
prospective property.
By the terms of the protocol negoti
ated by Secretary Hav and the Colom
bian Minister at Washington, the
United States is bound to perform cer
tain stipulated acts in consideration of
the consent of the Bogota government
to American construction of the canal.
Provided the concession of the Panama
Canal Company is valid, it must pay
the company $40,000,000, and will take
over the canal property in the isthmus.
These considerations are beyond the
obligations resting upon the United
States by virtue of the Treaty of New
Grenada to preserve free transit and
communication across the isthmus. The
insurgents as well as the government
forces understand the inadvisability of
interfering with trains passing between
Panama and Colon. While the United
States possessed an undoubted right
before the negotiations of the canal
protocol to intervene for the prcserva-
i ,,n ' transit across th isthmus, and
i exercised the right, it is in a far
stronger position now to go to even a
greater extent. The administration has
grown tired of these constant revolu
tions, and Secretary Moody proposes
that the naval commanders r-b-11 be per
mitted to play a strong hand in dealing
with the revolutionary sit.HUon.
Ouilty of Thirty Murders.
Manila (By Cable). Captain Billo,
a leader of ladrones in Bulacan Prov
ince, Luzon, who is guilty of 30 mur
ders and who has been an outlaw for
years, was killed by the native constab
ulary last Friday. Billo was surround
ed, but refused to surrender. The con
stabulary then shot him to death.
Robbers Shoot Tennessee Farmer.
Nashville, Tenn. (Special). Thos.
H. Womack, a Gibson county farmer,
was murdered at his home, near Me
dina. Mrs. Womack found her hits
band shot through the head and saw
two men escaping from the house. The
motive was evidently robbery, as sev
eral valuable articles were missing.
New Consumption Cure.
New York (Special). Fred Ilatn
mann, a patient with hasty consumption.
'lcc,cd by tllc New York Journal at the
""""""' v-uint irnm iuu oiner cases,
ant' sent at "ie Journal's expense to Pro-
'essor jioii, tne eminent specialist at
Vienna to prove to the world that the
disease was curable, has returned home
completely cured.
A Heroine of Poems.
Lacrosse, Wis. (Special). Miss Kate
Shelley, the heroine of a number of'
poems and writings in prose, who
when a child saved a'trainload of peo
ple from death by creeping over a
trozen bridge near Moingona, Iowa, in
a raging storm and warning the engi
neer ol t tie danger, has been engaged
oy tne atate insane Hospital at Lhe
rokce, Iowa, as a nurse.
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Chaplain William F. Morrison, of
Maryland, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself at the na,val hospital at
Chelsea, Boston. Chaplain Morrison
was recently attached to the cruiser
Ulympia.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleve
land, O., says that he is not a candi-
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for re-election as mayor.
Burglars were surprised bv officers
while the outlaws were trying to crack
a safe in the Panhandle passenger of
fice at Wheeling. One of the burglars
was shot to death.
Professor Hough, of the Northwest
ern University, has come to the con
clusion that the people inhabiting Mars
are superior to us in intelligence.
Senator H. M. Teller. Democrat
Populist, and former Senator Wolcott,
will be rivals for the senatorship in
Colorado.
Ex-Judge Perry S. Minnshall killed
himself with a small rifle at Piedmont,
W. Va.
Striking grainhatidlers of Chicago
returned to work.
The cornerstone of the new Cam
panile in Venice will be laid with much
ceremony April 22, 1903.
M. Delcasse, the foreign minister,
gave a luncheon to Attorney General
Knox in Paris.
Baron de S;ael is to retire from the
Russian ambassadorship in London.
Dr. James C. Browne, at a meeting
of the English Sanitary Congress, said
there was necessity (or reform in the
sanitary organization of the British
Army, as Enteric fever during the South
African war had reduced the fighting
force nearly 80,000 men.
The Boer generals were given a
hearty welcome in Amsterdam. Gen
eral Botha declared that peace was due
10 the mediation of Dr. Kuyper, the
Dutch premier.
Since July 15 there have been 20.32)3
cases and 16,209 deaths from cholera
in Egypt.
Prof. H. E. Armstrong, at a meetinq
of the British Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, paid high tri
bute to Captain Mahan, declaring that
Great Britain needed a Mahan to dis
cuss the larger issue of national de
fense through education.
The grand jury of London returned a
true bill against Prince Francis Joseph
of Bragansea. of the Austro-Hungarian
mission to the coronation of King Ed
ward, charged with "misconduct under
the criminal law amendment."
General Chicoye, of the Firminist
forces, who was captured near Jacmel,
Hayti, was executed there.
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
Newt Happenings of Interest Gathered
From All Sources.
Tensions granted: Samuel George,
Apollo. $8; John J. Dell, McKeesp-irt
(la; Nicholas Grow, Dubois, $12;
Albert Hays, Washington. $8: Ainns
Runlev. W'esi! Fairvicw. ,S: Elliott 1.
.Hays, Titusvillc, $8 David Phillips, Pitts
burg, ?8; John W. llaltty. Keberslmrg,
$12; Panel D. Young, New Buena Vista,
$12; Sella Frame, Five Points, $12;
Charlotte Carr, Meadvillc, $12; Amanda
T. Patterson. Butler, $8: Mary C. Stew
art, Rural Valley, $8; Josephine Christo
pher, Monongahela, $8; William Craig,
Pittsburg. $6; Benjamin F. Hamilton,
Wayncsburg, $6; Forest E. Andrews,
Canton. $6; Edwin L. Sturtevant. Sil
vern. $72; William Sinuns. Cambridge
Springs.$io: Amanual Gearhart. Yeagr
town, $12; Vernon Kelley, Wavnesburi,
$10: Marv M. Nell. Mercer. $8; Sarah
Baird. Woodbury, $8.
The advance sheets of the f irthoin
ing annual report of James M. Clark,
Chief of the State Bureau of Industrial
Statistics, for the year loot show that
Prnnsvlvania "rodurcd 1 ir6.5'
tons of steel rails durinst that period. The
production of plate and sheets was l.5tx,
502 gross tons, including black platt and
other sheets made bv the tin wirker.
which is practically the same volume ot
production as in 1000. The productmn
of cut nails and cut snikes for toot wa
37..149 gross tons. Other rolled product!
for toot, including structural shapes, bat
and rods, billets etc., amounted to 5,633,
954 gross tons. T here is an increase ovet
loco of 1.0(15.943 gross tons of iron anil
steel rolled into finished form and 109
per cent, over 1896. The value of the err
tire production of loot of the 8.668,337
Rross tons of rolled iron and steel, not
including the production of tinplatt
works, was $208,284,250. The number ol
workmen employed was 86,086 and they
were paid wages aggregating $?t 33-1.787.
The average yearly earnings, skilled and
unskilled, was $'119.55, ard the average
daily wage was $2.21. Allegheny county
leads in production with 5,095,608 tons,
that county producing nearly 59 per c;nt.
of the entire production of the State.
Mrs. James Prontv. of Avstin. wis
awakened aliont 4 o'clock the other morn,
ing by her little daughter choking and
crying. She found the room filled with
smoke and when the family attempted to
leave the building they found escape hj
the stairway shut off by the flames. Mr.
Protity carried his wife and child down
a ladder, the flames almost enveloping
them. An investigation revealed thai
the building had been fired in thref
places, the incendiary using kerosene.
Israel Dougherty, colored a formei
slave, in court at Pittsburg, produced
notched sticks as his account bocks. Hf
sued Roliert Riter, a farmer for $86,
which he claimed as wages. Dorghert)
explained his inability to read or write
by having been a slave for many yean
and from a pocketbook produced his ac
counts. They were kept on two flat
pieces of wood six inches square. One
was notched for dollars, the other fot
half-dollars and quarters. Dougherty put
a hole through the wood for every dol
lar paid him. The jury puzzled over the
case and awarded him $35. '
Two young women employed by the
Armstrong Cork Company Lancaster,
were passing under a net work of wire!
on Marshall street, when a heavy arc
wire broke. John P. Colin, a lineman,
was near at hand and realized the danget
of the women. One end of the wire fell
just on them and Collin grasped the
other end. He was stunned and hurled
several feet, still clinging to the wire,
which was slowlv burning into his flesh.
The wire was finally knocked from his
hands and he was picked tin unconscious.
At the Pennsylvania railroad station,
Altoopa, two Italians, emoloyed in re
paving and laying track, found a quan
tity of American silver coin dated 60 ot
70 years ago. There is a tradition that
a man who went to the Mexican war
and died in Mexico, buried the money
in this vicinity before he left.
Reuben Teel, alderman of the Third
ward, Easton, who was arrested for for
gery and Tonfesscd, was sent to prison
for one year and ten months by Judge
Scott.
A new hall of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America has been completed
at Chester Springs.
The. Middle. States Furniture Manu
facturers' Association met in Williams
port and discussed matters relative to
the trade.
The Monroe County Ministerial
Union, at a recent meeting, adopted
resolutions condemning church fairs
and festivals.
A dozen cases of smallpox were dis
covered in the village of Rock Run, in
Valley Township.
On account of the scarcity of coal,
the Pottsville Steam Heat Company
raised its rates 50 per cent. An ad
vance of 25 per cent, was made earlier
in the season.
Policeman H. John Kintzcr was
found guilty at Reading of involuntary
manslaughter for shooting George Tip
ton in a scuftle while Tipton was re
sisting arrest for stealing anples.
Because the borough council of Jones
town refused to appropriate sufficient
lunds for the health department and fail
d to approve a new set of sanitary rules
the entire health board resigned.
Mrs. Mary Curry, of Lancaster, it u
illeged, recently took her child from the
Children's Aid Society's Home without
jermission. A representative of the
Home had the woman arrested for the
'arceny of the clothing worn by the child
Sensational charges of Grand Jury
embracery were made at Pottsville.
County conventions were held by the
Republicans of Montgomery and Lu
terne. It was rumored in Hazleton that tin
:oal operators willposknotices offering
the men an increase of ten per cent.
Six locals met and reaffirmed their de
termination not to yield unless the
'union is recognized.
An aged woman, who started a month
ago to walk through the Black Forest,
near Williamsport, has not been seen
since.
Rioting and much disorder occurred
around the American steel works at
Lebanon, where a strike is on.
Two men, accused of attempting a
$70,000 jewelry swindle, were placed on
trial at Carlisle, and one of them turns
State's evidence.
Comet' stone was laid for the new
Montgomery County Court House.
The enrollment of the York public
chools is now 5007. Of this number
2541 are boys and 2466 girls.
General Charles Miller withdrew bis
divorce suit. ,;
The Cjurt of Chester County handed
down a decree granting a change of
venue in the new trial of William H.
Pratt., who is charized with murdering
his wife. The trial will take place in
Berks county.
The Alumni Association of Albright
College, Myerstown, and Central Penn
sylvania College. New Berlin, were
merged into trie Albright Association
at a meeting held in Harrisburg for the
reason that New Berlin College will be
abandoned and "its faculty and students
transferred to the Myerstown school.
Tbt naw organization.