NEITHER SIDE WEAKENS ' Believed That End of Coal Miners' Strike Is Still Far Off. IT IS NOW IN ITS NINETEENTH WEEK. Oea. Oobln, In Charge ol the State Troops De nies That He Is Preparing to Remove the Troops at An Early Date or That He Ex pects An Order From the Governor to With draw the Troops. Shenandoah, Pa. (Special). Monday began the nineteenth week of the coal itrike. The date on which Senator Piatt predicted that the strike would end has passed, and the hope which was '.nstillcd 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 mi 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 Itrike 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.cinove the troops at an early date or that he ex pects an order from the Governor to withdraw the troops. He says he docs not anticipate an order of that kind until there is a settlement of the strike. At $25 Per Too. Chicago, 111. (Special). Anthracite :oal sold in Chicago at the highest figure quoted in years. The Weaver Coal Company fold several orders of a high grade at $25 a ton and some at Jao. 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 iny price are practically bidding to se cure what they can of the scant supply in the Chicago yards. Soft coal has gone up in price 8 to 10 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 I. 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 la the Western Part of Wash ington Said to Be In Flames. Tacoma, WasX (Special). The for ist fires are now burning in every county f Western Washington from British Columbia to the Columbia River. The ronflagrations are the most extensive in Mason, Thurston, Chchalis and Lewis rounties, to the southwest of Tacoma. The towns ot Elma and Folsom, in Chc halis county, have been partly destroyed. Each was the center of large logging, '.umber and shingle mill industries. Other towns which are in gretit danger sre Shelton, Mattock, Black Hills, Bu coda, Ranier and Castle Rock, in South western Washington. F.numclsw and Buckley, in the Cascade Mountains are threatened. The latest reports from Mason county are that every portion of that county is in flames, with the excention of Shelton. WILCOX DECLINED TO ESCAPE. Alleged Murderer ol Ella Cropsey Had s Chance to Get Out of JaiL Elizabeth Cit-, N. C. Special ). Dur ing the ni-V 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 ot Ella Cropsey. In the morning when the sheriff and others visited the jail to dis cover the neTo s means of escape, Wil cox told them that he could 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.'atrL San Francisco (Special). The horri ble death of a child was reported to the police by the matron of a foundling home, and a well-aressed man deposited the child in the front yard. The man hurried back to the carriage, which also contained a woman, and the coachmtn lashed his horses furiously. The baby had been choked in a shocking manner, and its body was swathed in cloth sat urated with gin and carbolic acid. The little one lived but a short time. Haitian Insurgent General Killed. Part au Prince, Haiti (Bv Cable). General Chicoye, of the Firminist forces, who waa defeated at Petit Goave on 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. Procia as Matos Traitor. Caracas, Venezuela (Bv Cable). The Government has published a decree de claring Gen. Manual Matos, leader of the present revcl'.'.tici.arv movement in Venezuela, to be a traitor and ordering jhim to be tried on the charge of piracy and for having offered control of ths finances of the Government of Venezuela, in case of the success of his movement, to outside capitalists on the same basis as prevails in Egypt. The facts of this alleged offer were reported by the Ven ezuelan Consul at Liverpool. Quakes on A In ski's Coast. Seattle, Wash. (Special). Pasen rcrs on the steamer Humboldt report that earthquake shocks occurred on August 17 along' the coast between Muir and Yakuta't, 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 titled with ice jarred from Brady glacier. 'Jons of ice fell into the waler choking It almost to the point of preventing nav , iiration. SUMMARY OP THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. Foliccman Isaac Shevc, of Camden, N. J., was shot and seriously wounded while attempting to capture Dan Dan iels, a negro, one ol the assailants ol Mrs. Osier, a few days ago. The ne gro narrowly escaped mob violence. The breaking away o( freight cars on a steep grade on the Santa Fe 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 rolk has laid miorination ot bril.cry against the men under arrest to keep them from being released on h:ihm riirtinu C. F. W. Ncclv surd in New York I for the return of the $o.ooo 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 i Mines, on the Kanawha River, Mrs. Ilobart, widow of Vice-President Iloliart, visited Mrs. McKinlcy in Canton. I). A committee of the Pennsylvania State Legislative Board of Railroad Employes had a conference with Pres ident Mitchell, of the L'nited Mine workers, who says the railroad men as sured the miners of their support and co-operation. Gottlieb Nicgcnfind, at Pierce, Neb., shot and killed his former wife and her father and wounded the latter' s wife. alter which he attempted to assault a 1 sister of 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 $i. ooo.ooo from the Fair estate, and each of Mrs. Fair's brothers received $350, ooo. 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 raging in the oilfields of Texas and lias done a great deal oi 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 j which was not inventoried. Mr. Charles S. Hamlin, assistant sec- retary of the Treasury during the sec ond term of President Cleveland, 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 ot London was 4.536.54'. while G.eater London showed an additional popula tion of 6,500.000. The city's outstand ing debt was S-J31. 344. 355. During the recent German Army maneuvers a system of wireless teleg rap'hv was used, to the secrets of which visitors were not admitted. An anti-Semitic outbreak is report-;, ed to have occurred at Czenstochowa. in Poland, in which 14 Jews and I gen- darmc were killed. j Sir Thomas Lipton has decided in 1 favor of earlier races for the America's Cup, and will name August in the hope emperor vi in am, n saying goo,,. I to Ucnerals Lorb.n, oung and Wood,: ' j trcc.s M Cll"mnanv has pur Berlin, said he was specially interest- 'Li' T .Lr. ,, I 1 in ! ed in three Americans President Roosevelt. Mayor Seth Low. of New i York, and Andrew D. White, the I United States Ambassador, now lcav ' ing his court. It is again reported that the Portu guese government, in need of funds, 1 has pawned the crown jewels, incltid ! ing the diamond-encrusted scepter of I Don Juan IV., valued at $5,000,000. I The railway authorities of India, de j spite test trials showing the superiority 1 of British locomotives, have given an ! other order for 20 locomotives to Gcr ! man manufacturers. 1 he sensational trial of the man Voi- sin in Paris, once convicted of mu 1 dcnniz an innkeener. transnorted. then proven innocent and set free, has ended , m.ar.i,y village, last May. The negro in an acquittal. 1 wantcd in the town on a misde Gcneral I irmin urges his followers1 . t... m.,, t,i in Hayti to fight to the end against the provisional government. The fv'n- tipnists are greatly excited and very bitter against the General. The Austrian Prince Francis losetih jof Bragansea was exonerated in Lon ' don of the charge of misconduct under I the criminal law amendmnt. ! The corporation of Dublin adopted a 1 resolution protesting againstthe Crimes Act as "an outrage and insult otfered ine citizens 01 uuDlin. Professor Ueilprin tells of the terri- ; ble destruction on the Island of Mar tinique in the last eruption of Mont ' Pclee. Financial. Consolidated Lake Superior is weaker. tVinsyivania hauled last wcck ' n : y J05 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 per cent, in New York and 6 per cent, in Philadelphia. The Sub Treasury has taken from New York hanks this week $4,723,500. Swift ft Co. directors have declared a quarterly dividend of 1 3-4 per cenr. The approaching death of the strik-.' helped Lehigh Valley and other hard coalers. A quarterly dividend of I 1-4 per cent. Hum been "Vcluicd on American Iron Si Steel preferred. St. Paul droppec' more than a point on the announcement of an increase in the dividend. The Virginia-Carolina Chemical I Lompany has declared a. quarterly div idend 01 a per cent, on tha 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 OFRT WORLD American Millionaires Are Buying L'p Europe's Treasures. ENTIRE COLLECTIONS ARE SECURED. Prices That Excluded Europe's Bidders Morgan's Purchase ot the Famous Mann heim's Collection American Buying Causes An Enormous Advance In Prices Lamenta tions ol a Swiss Museum Director. Berlin (By Cable). Director Angst, of the Swiss National Museum, will dis- clISS in llis fortilcomjn8 anm)a report recent American influences upon the European market for antique objects of art, pointing out t li.-.t while American collectors formerly bought single obiects like their European rival.; the latter American generation of millionaires huvs 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 obiects 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 $oo.ooo of Mannheim's famous collection o majolicas, fayences, bronzes, etc., in Taris. Such purchases, the Director asserts, arc an irreparable oss for Europe. He admits that Mr. 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 coun tries throws into the shade everything hitherto seen in Europe." Director Angst aso refers to the enor mous advance in prices through Amer ican buyings, pa.ticularly mentioning old Zurich porcelains. MEAT PACKERS' COMBINE. The Merger to Go Into Effect This Month Greater than Steel Trust Chicago, III. (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 ontf 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 intormation, 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 tw C;,...,. Rr Cn finH rliwnrrhilH & Sulzburger for surrendering their sbnrps. At the meeting both made concessions satisfactory to the pro moters. 1 hose 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 oi 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 I.N 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. snort liftance fm thc m'ain line of the t-risco raurcaa. The lamI llas already been purchased l,V ,a syndicate capitalized at $1,000000, ; and. promoted by residents of Des .lncs' ?Pwa- and assled t"e Frisco railroad One of the directors in the new enter R ,,' prise is a Kansas City man, William C. 1 he largest orchard in the world is in the Ozark mountains," said , - . ... . . , 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 Parker, daughter of the murdered officer, watched the execution from the scaffold trap. As soon as Bryant was pronounced dead Mrs. Parker, with her father's knife, cut the body of the murderer down. The crime for which Bryant was 1 ,. ,.,. ,,,...! a,ii n Hvnds 8ttemptcd to arrest him. As the marihai approached Bryant, the negro drew a ,)istol and nrcd on the offict.r ' mrI;,ii wnundinc him. Cholera oa a Transfo t. Manila (By Cable). There were four cases of cholera and three deaths from that disease on the L'nited States trans- 1 port Sherman, which has arrived at Nag- asaki, 'apan. on ncr way to San Iran- cisco from Manila. The transnort has been quarantined at Nagasaki. The quarter-master is unable to give the names of those who died. Killed in An "Auto" Crash. f- 1- : c. . r-- m:i I san 1 raneisej 1 ojvi-iui;. ,u 1 3. 11- Ham M. Stewart, wiie of the senior I l'nited States Senator from Nevada, 1 was killed at Alameda, Cal. She was 1 riding in an automobile with Henry i Foote and a young man named Taylor. 1 Through an accident the machine ran into a telegraph pole. Mrs. Stewart was 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 teinhauer, was feloniously assaulted by tramps, who then killed her and drag ged her body into the yard, where they set 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 stuiv.ia ized the agricultural conditions in the States he visited. These States included Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. He said crops were generally abundant in that region. "There will be a com crop," he said. "Corn now is substantially out of the way of the frost. " The corn crop in parts of Kansas, Nebaska and Indiana probably is the finest on record. There have been more hundreds of millions of dollars depcndii.g on the ripening of this ensp this year than the ordinary person ever has realized. While 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 United States. This information, taken together with the fine crop of grass, insures lower prices of meat. I do not believe that the price of meat, however, will ever be as low as it has been inje past, for the sim ple reason that tne American people are more prosperous than ever before and are 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 cither 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 ol a 41-Cent Shirt The President has granted pardons to Jose Martinez, Herminia Pachcco, Aguedo 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 heretofore been closed on that day of the week, will 1 be opened to the public every Sunday , from 2 in the afternoon until 10 o'clock ! at night. S The main reading room in the ro 1 ttmda and the periodical room will be I open to the public, as will all the other 1 divisions of the building just as on j week-days. The innovation, it is i thought, l.ll meet with considerable I favor and is due largely to the manner 1 in which the librarian, Mr. Herbert ' Putnam, urged Sunday opening and ; secured the necessary appropriation of $10,000 at the last session ol Congress. Problem In New Cuban Tsx. 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 arc import taxes or purely jnternal revenue taxes. The difference is vital tr. Amnrtcnn V nnrtPTO in tblS line Of j trade, and in answer to numerous in- quiries, steps have been taken to clear I up the ambiguity. j Wireless Telegraphy Tests Failed. ! The wireless telegraph experiments i recently conducted by the Navy De i partment between Washington and An 1 napolis have not met with a great meas I 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 Postolflce Robbed. The PostotTice Department has been notified that the postoftice at Clems'on College, S. C, was broken into and the sale blown open and robbed. Exports Are Falling Off. The total exports af the United States for the eight months ended Au gust 31 were $21,685,193. against $030, 3.19. 341 for the same period last year. The imports were $614,165,37, against $5",j5756 last year. For this period the exports of breadstuffs from the United States amounted to $108,604,576. For the same period of ixl the total was $102,860,604. The total exports of provisions were $100,841,036, against $124,077,173 for the same period oi the year before. Newsy Items ol 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 of 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. Eichelberger, 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 Arrant 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 subtreasuries to cash such coupons ns 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 rcport. Notice has been given such banks that if they will send these bonds to the United 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 apprehension is felt by Secretary Shaw on account of the high money 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 yield I 1-2 per cent, than to make call loans at a per cent. He is, there fore, giving the banks that hold these free 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 Camp Vicars, Mindanao. The Amer icans returned the fire spiritedly and dispersed the natives. There were no losses among the Americans. Capt. John J. Pershing, of the Fif teenth Infantry, commanding 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 and 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. 109 Miles an Hour on th: Wabash. Springfield. 111., (special). The Kan sas City express on the Wabash road has made the record on the system for fast running. The run was made between Wea and Riverside six miles. This was covered in 4 minutes and II sec onds. The first mile was made in 52 seconds and the sixth at the rate of 100 miles an hour. Fifty Persous 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 cluded among whom were eight Eu ropeans and four soldiers, were drowned. Twenty-five persons was saved from the wreck. Emperor's Gift to Harvard. Berlin (By Cable) A 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 Wceki. Thomas, Okla. (Special). This town, founded only four weeks ago, is already a thriving place of 1,200 inhabitants. The first weekly issue of the Thomas Tribune, which at first was run as a daily, gives tome interesting facts. It records the extension of the Frisco Line from WaMiita to 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 ol a fertile, well-watered country. Hundreds ol 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 buned to death. T here 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 of Panama lm. portanl 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 sail nt once for Colon, but Major Gen eral HeyAvood, commandant of marines, was directed to immediately organize a ba'.'alion of marines 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 Leagfc Island. The action of the ; Jministration in preparing to send marines to Colombia is regarded by diplor.tits 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 Hay 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 preserva tion o' transit across th isthmus, and 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 Moo.lv proposes that the naval commanders .-h"ll be per mitted to play a strong hand in dealing with the revolutionary siUn'.ton. Guilty of Thirty Murders. Manila (By Cable). Captain Billo, a leader of ladroncs in Bulacan Prov ince, Luzon, who is guilty of 30 mur ders and who Ins 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, Tcnn. (Special). Thos. H. Womack, a Gibson county farmer, was murdered at his home, near Me dina. Mrs. Womack found her hus 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 Ham mann, a patient with hasty consumption, selected by the New York Journal at the Vandcrbilt Clinic from 100 other cases, and sent at the Journal's expense to Pro- ! fessor HofT, the eminent specialist at lenna to prove to the world that the disease was curable, has returned home completely cured. A Heroine ol 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 frozen bridge near Moingona, Iowa, in a raging storm and warning the engi neer of the danger, has been engaged by the State Insane Hospital at Che rokee, 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 naval hospital at Chelsea, Boston. Chaplain Morrison was recently attached to "the cruiser Olympia. Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleve land. O., says that he is not a candi date for governor of Ohio or for pres ident. He says he is only a candidate for re-election as mayor. Burglars were surprised by 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 grainhandlers of Chicago returned to work. The cornerstone of the new Cam panile in Venice will be laid with much ceremony April 22, 1003, 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, nt n meeting of the English Sanitary Congress, said there was necessity for 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 to the mediation ot Dr. Kuyp'er, the Dutch premier, . " Since July 15 there have been 20.32H cases and 16,209 deaths from ..cholera in Egypt. Prof. II, E. Armstrong, at a meetinn. of the British Association for the Ad vancement of Science, paid high tri bute to Captain Malum, declaring that Great Britain needed a Mahau 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 ol 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. Pensions granted: Samuel George,' Apollo. $8; John J. Dell, McKecport, fia; Nicholas Grow, ' Dubois, $12; Altcrt Hays, Washington. $8; Amns Ruplcv. Wert Fairview. $S: Ellion J. Hays.'Titusville, $8 David Phillips, Pitts burg. $8: John W. Haffly. Reb.-rsburg, $12; Panel D. Young. New Buena Vista, $12; Sella Frame, Five Points, $12; Charlotte Carr, Meadville, $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, VVaynesburg. $6; Forest E. Andrews, Canton. $6; Edwin L. Sturtcvant. Sib vara. $72: William Simms, Cambridge Springs.$io: Amanita! Gearhart, Yeagr tmvn, $12; Vernon Kellcy, Wavneshur?, $10; Marv M. Nell. Mercer. $8; Sarah Baird, Woodbury. $8. The advance sheets of the fovthom ing annual report of James M. Clark. Chief of the State Bureau of Industrial Statistics, for the year 1901 show that I 'ennsvlvania nro'lured ' jr6.'J "ss tons of steel rails during that period. The production of plate and sheets was I.59V 502 gross tons, including black platt and other sheets made bv the tin workers, which is practically the same volume ol production as in 1000. The production of cut nails and cut snikes for toot was 37.340 gross tons. Other rolled products for tool, including structural shapes, hat and rods, hillcts etc., amounted to 5.63.V 054 gross tons. There is an increase over loco of 1.0(15.043 gross tons of iron anil steel rolled into finished form and 109 per cent, over 1806. The value of the err tire production of 1001 of the 8.668,337 gross tons of rolled iron and steel, nnt including the production of tinplate works, was $208,284,259. The number ol workmen employed was 86,086 and they were paid wages aggregating $?t 33.4.787. The average yearly earnings, skilled and unskilled, was $"'np.5S, and the average daily wage was $2.21. Allegheny county leads in production with 5,095,608 tons, that county producing nearly 59 p-r c;nt of the entire production of the State. Mrs. James ,Proutv. of Ai'stin. wis awakened about 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 by the stairway shut off by the flames. Mr. Prouty carried his wife and child down a ladder, the flames almost enveloping them. An investigation revealed that the building had been fired in thref places, the incendiary using kerosene. Israel Dougherty, colored a formei slave, in court nt Pittsburg, produced notched sticks as his account boc ks. Ht sued Roliert Riter, a farmer for $86. which he claimed as wages. Dovghert) explained his inability to read or write by having been a slave for many years 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- 1 Two young women employed by the Armstrong Cork Company Lancaster, were passing under a net work of wires on Marshall street, when a heavy arc wire broke. JcJin 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 un unconscious. At the Pennsylvania railroad station, Altoopa. two Italians, entuloyed 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 confessed, was sent to prison lor one year ajd ten mouths 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 lound guilty at Reading of involuntary manslaughter for shooting George Tip ton in a scuffle while Tipton was re listing arrest for stealing anples. Because the borough council of Jones town refused to apnropriate sufficient tunds for the health department and fail id to approve a new set of sanitary rules the entire health board resigned. Mrs. Mary Curry, of Lancaster, it h illcged, recently took her child from the Children's Aid Society's Home without permission. A representative of the jiome had the woman arrested for the 'arceny of tile 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 the coal operators will post notices ottering 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 ope of. them turns State's eyidence. Corner stone was laid .'or the new Montgomery County Court House. The enrollment of the York public schools is now 5007. Of this number 2541 arc boys and 2466 girls. General Charles Miller withdrew his divorce suit. i The Court of Chester County handed down a decree granting a change of venue in the new trial of William H. Pratt,, who is charged 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 the 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 Myerttown school. Tht nrwu organization.
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