BLUEJACKETS IN CHARGE Escorting tbe Colombian Soldiers to the Isthmus. ADDITIONAL MARINES TO BE SENT. Secretary ol the Navy Sends Instructions to Commander McLean Any Transportation el Troops Contravenlnf the Provisions ot the Treaty With Columbia Must Not Be Sanctioned. Colon, Columbia (By Cable) Two trains, flying American flag, one closely following the other, started for Panama in the afternoon. In the first train was an armored car carrying a quick-fire Colt gun and 25 bluejackets, who arc acting as an escort to a thou sand Colombian soldiers. The second train carried a similar number of blue jackets, escorting soldiers' wives and guarding a quantity of Colombian war material, guns, ammunition, etc. No answer has yet been received to Com mandcr McLean's communication to General Herrara. The British war ship Retribution has just arrived at Colon. AN EMERGENCY FORCE. Sli Hundred Marines Will Be (lathered at Norfolk, Va. Washington (Special). Secretary Moody has finally decided to augment the United States naval forces on the isthmus by the addition of boo marines, if Commander McLean's advices indi cate that these are needed. He has given orders to Commander Pilsbury, of the United States steamer Prairie, now art Boston, to proceed with his ship to Norfolk. At that point 600 marines will be gathered, ready to take ship when Secretary Moody's advices indicate the necessity for their pres ence on the Isthmus. Norfolk is the most available point for the congrega tion of a marine force, as, in addition to its Southern location it has excel lent camping grounds for marines. The Panther should arrive at Colon within a day or two with 380 marines aboard, so that, with the Prairie's men and the marines on the Cincinnati, who are already ashore at Colon, the United States will have what is regarded as an ample force to carry out its treaty ob ligation of maintaining free traffic across the Isthmus. Orders were also sent forward to the San Francisco, now at Norfolk, to coal and provision and proceed to San Juan. Porto Rico, there to await any emergency which may arise. There is only one United States war ship now in Venezuelan waters the little gunboat Marietta and the Mont gomery is due to arrive shortly at Cape Haytien. The object of the de partment in sending down the San Francisco, it is stated, is to have a ves sel ready to meet a call for reinforce ment either in Venezuela. Hayti or the Isthmus. The duty assigned to the San Francisco should not be confused with that given the gunboat Bancroft. That vessel will probably not be able to go in, commission until October I, and will then also proceed to San J'.'.an, to be station ship. FIRE NE; R PRESIDENT. The Bands Played, and Cool Heads Averted Disastrous Panic. Cincinnati (Special). Roosevelt Day at the Cincinnati fall festival and the un usually successful ceremor.ies attending the President's visit here came near be ing marred by a panic that wouid have caused great loss of life. Over 8000 persons were packed into the Auditorium when the President began speaking. At the same time the adjoining exposition halls were crowded with hundreds of people viewing the exhibits, as they were unable to gain admittance in the Music Hall. After the President had betn speaking about 15 minutes there was a great com motion in Mechanical Hall, which ad joins Music Hall on the north. Sparks jrom an electric wire had set a curtain on fire and the fire department had been called to the scene. The police and attendants of the expo sition soon put out the fire, but they had much more trouble in controlling the alarmed crowd. It was with great dif ficulty that Capt. J. B. Foraker. son of the Senator, and one of the officers of the day, headed off the firemen from rushing into the building where the President was delivering his address. Happily one of the bands struck up and those who left the auditorium were supposed to be going out to stnp the band rather than to head off a panic. Very few in the auditorium, where the President was speaking, knew anything about the incident, and Mr. Roosevelt suffered only a slight interruption with out knowing at the time what caused it. Will Restore Manchuria. Pekin (By Cable). The Russian Minister here, Paul Lessar, announced tliat Russia was determined to restore Southern Manchuria to the Liau river and the New-Chwang-Shan-Hai-Kwan railroad to the Chinese Government on October 8. He explained that an earlier date was impossible on account of the destruction of a bridge, which , had prevented the withdrawal of the troops. Henderson's Successor. Marshalkown, Iowa (Special). Af ter the conference of leaders, C. C. Al brook, an attorney of Eldorado, was announced as a candidate to succeed Speaker David B. Henderson. Broke Jail to See Dying Mother. Wheeling, W. Va. (Special). Ed ward K. Williams, convicted of the murder of a companion in a lower state mining camp, broke out of jail, visited his dying mother and then surrendered himself to the authorities. The pris oner, whose exploit is a most remark able one, was ordered sent to the State prison for twenty years and had been sent to the Hinton jail to await the convenience of officers who were to take him to Moundsville. Shot Sweetheart; Killed Himself. Johnstown, Pa. (Special). David M. Goughner, a well-known young man, shot and seriously wounded Miss Leorena Winncbrenntfr, aged 17 years, near her home in Coneniaugh, and then killed himself. Jaalousy and a desire for re venge are given as the causes for the act. Miss Wiiuicbrenner and Edwad Kaylor were walking leisurely along a street. Goughner passed them, and when a few feet ahead he suddenly turn ed and commenced firing. Ife fired three shots at the girl, two ot which took ef fect. Miss VVinnebrcnncr may recover. SUMMARY OF ..THE LATEST NEWS. ' Domestic. The L'nitcd States cruiser Dcs Moines was hunched at the Fort River Shipyards, at Quincy, Mass., Miss El sie Macombrr, of Dcs Moines, chris tening her, while Miss Clara N. Carl bo r. of Haverhill, Mass., cut the ropes which started her down the ways. Fifteen hundred factory operatives employed by the American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company who struck against the employment of re groes returned to work. The Muorhead Brothers' Company of Pittsburg received the first con signment of a large order of muck iron from Germany. L'r. Walter Curry, a brother of for mer L'nitcd States Minister Curry, died while on a visit to friends in Brandford, Conn. Mrs. A. Stapeling Shoridon leaped overboard from the steamer La Ton raine while the steams'.np was en route to New York. The murder of Mr. Annie PuliUtr, whoe nude body wai found in the Mor ris Canal, has been cleared up. and th." police of New York claim she was mur dered by a man named Hooper Young in a cheap tenement at 103 West Fifty ciirhth strict. Peter Hermia, who shot and killed Barney Kanter in 1 lackensack, N. I., hecauro the latter refused to sell him five cents' worth of dog meat, was hanged after a desperate struggle with the sheriff's deputies. The American Window-glass Com pany, the Federation of Co-operative Manufacturers and the Window-glass Workers' Assembly of Pittsburg have effected an agreement as to the wage scale. Three train crews refused to handle nonunion coal from the Heading Com pany's colliery at Shenandoah, Ta. Sub sequently, under the guard of soldiers, a train of 2.? cars was started. A collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern between a passenger and a freight train caused the death of 2 per sons, the serious injury of 2 and injuries to 40 others. Rev. John Stebbins Lee, first presi dent of St. Lawrence L'niversity, died at his home, in Canton, N. Y. Four persons were injured in a freight wreck on the Philadelphia and Reading at Sunbury, Pa. The Theological Seminary of Prince ton L'niversitv w'as formally opened in Miller Chapel. Lafayette GrufT, of Gloucester. N. I., was executed for the murder of his wife. Charles F. Murphy was elected leader of Tammany Hall by a vote of 28 to 8. The cruiser Brooklyn will be placed out of commission at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Rear Admiral Cogh lan will transj'er his flag to the Olym pia. The board oi inquiry to deter mine who is to blame for the accident is in executive session. Officers were elected in Buffalo by th L'nitcd States Railway Mail Ser vice Mutual Benefit Association and the National Association of Postal Railway Clerks. Carl Rcichard. operator on the Alle gheny Valley Road at Ford City, Pa., shot and killed Charles Andrews, who with two others, was trying to rob the station. Foreign. The provisional government of Hayti is taking vigorous steps to end the civil war. The War Minister will shortly attack the revolutionists at Piaisance. The ports at Gonaives and St. Marc have been declared block aded. President Castro, of Venezuela, has started for Tocuyito at the head of a force of 6000 men, w ith 12 guns, to at tack the revolutionary army, commanded by General Mendoza. Captain Sverdrup's explorations in the Arctic seem to show that the northern limit in which it is possible for human beings to exist in the archipelago has receded. Dr. Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Ger man embassador to China, has returned to Berlin and states that the situation in China looks more encouraging. Prince Vladimir Troubetzskoi of Rus sia, after drinking too heavily with a woman friend, attempted to commit sui cide at Algiers. The controversy in England over the introduction of the American golf ball has reached Berlin and become a diplo matic question. Eighty blue-jackets and two quick firing guns were landed at Colon ('om the United States cruiser Cincinnati. The Colombian insurgents were re ported to have appeared on the rail road line between Colon and Panama. Commander McLean, of the Cincin nati, sent instructions to insurgent General Herrtra that insurgent troops would not be permitted to stop trains over the Isthmus or board them, as American marines were maintaining the traffic from sea to sea. The Arctic steamer Fram, with the Swedish expedition, arrived at Nor way. Captain Sverdup reports that he explored the districts south and west of Ellesmcreland and hitherto un known sections of that region. Max Nordau. vice "resident of the Congress of Zionists, says Secretary Hay's circular on the Roumanian ques tion compels the European powers which signed the Berlin Treaty to do their duty. The British government in its for mal note of acknowledgment indicates approval of the contents of StYetary Hay's circular letter protesting against the inhuman treatment of Roumanian Jews. The defalcations of Edmund Jellinek, an official of the cashier's department of the Vienna Laeder-bank, have been shown to amount to $1,150,000. He is said to have committed suicide. Tullio Murri, accused of murdering his brother-in-law, Count Bon Martini, at Bologna, Italy; was arrested at the frontier town of Ala, Austrian Tyrol. Financial. Lfpwards of :oo American tin mills are idle. At San Francisco $250,000 Klondike gold has arrived. Stockholders of the Independent Glass Company, of Pittsburg, voted to go out of business. Wabash is tipped for a very substan tial rise before the year ends. The New York banks have lost to the Subtreasury this week $1,058,000. August earnings of the United States Steel are said to amount to $12,500,000, against $12,000,000 in July. The steel plate business is so brisk that even the United States Steel Com pany has advanced prices in some cases. American Type Founders' have paid a quarterly dividend of I per cent on the common and Yt on the preferred stock. The shipment of gold from Australia to the London, Pais and American" Bank at San Francisco, has been in creased $500,000. The Bank of England's discount rate remains unchanged at 3 per cent. It was expected that it might be increas ed in order to check the exportation oi gold to America. MANY BILLIONS ON DEPOSIT An Evidence of the Thrift of the Ameri can People. THE PER CAPITA AVERAQE IS $108. Deposits With Banking Institutions Hava Doubled During Ea.h ol Two Decades How the Money is Placed Figures Com piled From the Reports ol the Comptroller ol the Currency. Washington, D. C. (Special). The bank deposits of the people of the United Slates aggregate $8,500,000,000, an aver age of $108 per capita. Ten years ago they aggregated $4,232,000,000, or half the amount of to-day, and 20 years ago they were $2,600,000,000, or a little more than one-quarter of those of to-diy: These figures arc presented in a table just prepared by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics. They are compiled from the reports of the Comptroller of the Cur rency and include deposits in national banks, savings banks. State banks, loan and trust companies and private banks, and cover the official figures of the year loot. The figurcs-for the different classes of banks stand as follows: DrlxHils in 1001. National Eanks $2,037,753,233 Savings Banks 2,507,004,580 State Banks 1,610,502,246 Loan and trust companies, 1,271,081,174 Private Banks 118,621,903 Aggregate $8,535,053,136 The figures show the total deposits in the different banking organizations of the country, so far as they can be obtained, from 1875 to the present time, though it is proper to add that the figures for private banks include, since 1887, only such banks as voluntarily report to the Comptroller of the Currency. In other words, they are only about one-fourth of the total num bered private banks in the United States, while during the period from 1875 to 1882 the figures cover the deposits in practically all private banks. Taking the figures at intervals from 1878 to 1901 the total deposits, as given by all banking institutions, stands as follows: 1878 $1,878,434,270 1882 3,755.933.053 1887 3,255,773. 134 1802 4,630,490,156 1807 5.196,847.530 1001 8,535.053.136 During recent years the growth has been rapid. From 1878 to 1882 the in crease was $877,503,783; from 1882 to 1887, $409,834,081: from 1887 to 1802, $1,374,718,022; from 1892 to 1897. $566, 357,374. and from 1897 to 1901, $3.33". 205,606. FIVE DEAD IN WRECK. . Passenger Trains Crash Head-On on a Long Curve Near Pittsburg. . . Pittsburg (Special). Five trainmen were killed and two severely injured in a headon collision between Buffalo, Rochester and Fittsburg and Pittsburg and Western passenger trains at Wit mer Station, on the Pittsburg and Western railroad, about 10 o'clock in the morning. A number of passen gers were cut and bruised by flying splinters and broken glass, but none was badly hurt. The accident it is alleged, was due to the failure to flag the passenger trains. The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg and the Pittsburg and West ern railroads occupy the same tracks to Butler, Pa. About a half mile this side of Witmer Station is a long curve. A freight train became disabled on the west-bound track on the curve early in the morning, and as work is being done on a new tunnel all trains were run on the other track. By a mistake, it is said, the trains were allowed to come together, instead of holding the one until the other had passed. Ohio Has a Volcano. Bainbridge, Ohio (Special). people living in the Paint Creek Valley are alarmed over the appearance of smoke and sulphurous gases from Copperas Mountain, which can be seen from this place. Ever since the first eruption of Mount Pelee smoke has issued from the mountain at intervals, but only within the last few days have the smoke and gas become especially no ticeable, and many attribute it to the recent eruptions in Martinique. In vestigation shows that the slate in the mountain has become hot and some of i. has become a dull red from the ac tion of the heat. The smoke issues from the side and not the top of the mountain. Scientists will be asked to make a thorough investigation. Shot a Bird on a Woman's Hat. Rockford, 111. (Special). Mrs. Julia K. Barnes, author of "Annals of a Country Town," was accidentally shot at Manitowish, Wis. She was seated cn a log in the center of a chump of bushes, when a hunter approached. He could see only her hat and mistaking it ior a partridge discharged his shot gun in the direction of the supposed bird. The charge took effect in Mrs. Barnes' head. She was taken to a hospital, where it is said that her eye sight may be impaired. Bliad Man to Be Rich. Pittsburg (Special). John Brislin, was awarded the decision in his suit against the Carnegie Steel Company for infringement on his patent, is blind and quite poor. If the decision of the court is sustained, which now seems likely, it is said Brislin will collect $5,000,000 in penalties for the use of his patent. Moat of this will have to come from the Steel Trust. Shot His Son's Employer. Charlotte, N. C. (Special). A spe cial from Laurinburg says that Charles Lockemy, superintendent of the Rich mond Cotton Mills, was killed by Nor ris Saunders, father of a boy employed in the mill, but who had been dis charged for rebellious conduct. On arriving home he reported his dis charge to his father, who secured a pistol and proceeded to the mill. He met Superintendent Lockemy, and after a few words shot him. . Belgian Queen Dead. Spa, Belgium (By Cable). Marie Hcnriette, Quetn of the Belgians, died here suddenly. She had long suffered from heart disease and asfhma. Neither her husband, members of her family nor her doctors were present at the time of her death. She was seatud at a table eating a lignt dinner, when, she was seized with an attack of fainting. Dr. Guillaume, who in .the course of the da, had remarked upon disquiet ing symptoms in the Queen's condition, was summoned immediately, but she was dead before he arrived. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Crop Estimates Vary. The Bureau of Statistics of the Depart ment ol Agriculture, disturbed by com plaints of discrepancies between the de partment's crop reports and various com mercial estimates, has determined to make an investigation with the view of insuring absolute accuracy in future re ports. The subject has been thoroughly con sidered itf the department and Secretary Wilson has authorized Statistician John Hyde to use every available means to ascertain wherein the differences lie. It has been determined to send at once into the cotton belt 10 experts, who will visit every cotton shipping point and make the closest possible investigation, taking into account every pound of cotton and its origin, whether of this year's crop or of that of another season. Mr. Hyde has been impressed with the idea that much cotton of the com mercial estimates is wrongly placed to the credit of crops to which it does not be long. Frequently crops of a past season still on hand are included in the amount of cotton set down as of this year's crop. This will be one of the main features of the investigation. A considerable lot of cotton is said to be included in the esti mates from commercial sources which belongs to what is called the "city crop," which consists of cotton that, in market sampling from season to season in many of the large towns, accumulates in con siderable quantities. The effort of the department will be directed to insure the greatest possible accuracy in estimates as to cotton on hand, as well as to gleaning information which will tend to absolute reliability in the department's estimates of crops. The early maturing of cottonthis season, much of it getting to market during July and August and taking with it cotton of last season, will be treated in the data to be gathered by the experts assigned to make the investigation. To Build Military Road. On the urgent recommendation of Gen. A. K. Chaffee, commanding the military forces of the Philippines, Sec retary of War Root to-day authorized an expenditure of $20,000 for immedi ate use in the construction of a mili tary road in the Island of Mindanao from Illigan, the chief port on the north coast of the island, to a point. on the northern shore of Lake Lanao. This Lake is in the heart of the Moro country and its shores are thickly dotted with villages, the aggregate in habitants of which are estimated at 350,000. The Spaniards never were able to penetrate this populous strong hold of the Moros. Although the main purpose of this road is to encourage friendly dealings with the natives, it undoubtedly 'will be of great value in any military movement which may be come necessary to insure the submis sion of the people to American sover eignty. Soldiers Are In Good Health. The report of the surgeon-general of the army for the year ending June 30 last shows a gradual improvement in the condition of the health of the troops, notwithstanding many were subject to exposures of tropical service in the Phil ippines. The report states that the ad missions to sick report in iqoi constitut ed 179159 per thousand of the strength as compared with 231:181 in 1500 and with 150.247 the mean annua! rate of the previous ten years. The rate of dis charge for disability was 19.95 in 1901, as compared with 22.60 in 1900 and 16.19 for the decade, and the death rate from all causes was 19.94 Per thousand men, as compared with 22.74 and 11.91, re spectivelv. Deaths from disease consti tuted 9.58 per thousand of mean strength, as compared with 15.79 in 1900, and deaths from injury 4.36, as compared with 6195. During the year the mean strength of the army consisted of 92.491 men, of whom 81,885 were regulars and 10,606 volunteers. The death rate from all causes was 5.29 per thousand of strength in Cuba; 600 in the L'nitcd States: 7.81 in Porto Rico and 17.96 in the Pacific Islands and China. Court-Marshal for Lieutenant Owen. The Navy Department will follow the usual course of procedure in the case of Lieut. Alfred C. Owen, who has been missing from his station, the battleship Massachusetts for nearly two months. The procedure is to institute a search for the missing man, and, unless extraordi nary circumstances have developed in connection with his "French leave," bring him before a court-martial on a charge of "absence without leave." Porto Rico Loses (he Tax. Acting on the opinion of the Attorney-General, the Treasury Department has held that under existing laws the tonnage taxes collected in Porto Rico shall be covered into the United States Treasury to the credit of the Marine Hospital service. This disposes of the question whether these taxes should not be turned into the Porto Rican treasury. Newsy Items oi Interest General Chaffee recommended that a congressional medal of honor be awarded to Lieut. Kennett P. Wil liams, First Infantry, who succored the marines on the Samar expedition. A memorial tablet to the late Com mander Jesse M. Roper has been made, to be placed in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Secretary Root approved the recom mendations of the board to continue the manufacture of certain of the disap pearing gun-carriages. The contract to furnish, stamped en velopes to the government was awarded to the Hartford Manufacturing Com pany, of Hartford, Ct. Secretary Root issued instructions to reduce the transport ' service and turn over a nmUr of vessels to the Navy Dei artment. Rear Admiral Higginson submitted an interesting general report on the re cent naval maneuvers and the lessons they taught. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion is to hear charges of discrimina tion brought against a number of rail roads by Wichita. Commander William S. Cowles, aid to President Roosevelt, was examined for promotion to the grade of captain. Capt. W. B. Johnson, aged 70 years, a clerk in the War Department and formerly of F'reMerick, Md., committed suicide. Dr. Patton's Nsw Position, Princeton, N. J. (Special). The Rev. Dr. Francis L. Patton, who re signed the presidency of Princeton Univessity last June, will . be made president of Princeton Theological Seminary, this having been decided at a special meeting of the board of di rectors. He has accepted the position, to which he will be formally elected October 14. t Dr. Patton was profesaur of theoldgy in McCormick Seminary, Chicago, tor ten years, and later pro fessor of apologetics in Princeton Sem inary, and f6r 14 years president of PrihceJ,Tniverfitw. ., 100 KILLED IN A PANIC Cry of Fire Stampeded Negro Baptist Convention. WILD RUSH I.N THE DEATH TRAP. Booker Washington Had Just Spoken, When a Fight Occurred In Choir Loll, Causing a False Alarm In the Crowded Auditorium and a Scramble for the Doors Many ol the Vic tims Suffocated to Death. Birmingham, Ala. (Special). In an awful crush of humanity caused by a stampede in the Shiloh Colored Baptist Church, at the corner of Avenue G and Eighteenth street, 78 persons were killed and as many more seriously injured. The disaster occurred at 9 o'clock, just as Booker T. Washington had con cluded his address to the National Con vention of Colored Baptists, and for three hours the scenes around the church were indescribable. Dead bodies were strewn in every direction, and the ambulance service of the city was ut terly unable to move them all until after midnight. The injured were attended to first, and in the meanwhile dozens of dead bodies were arranged in rows on the ground outside the house of worship awaiting removal to the various under taking establishments, while more than a score were laid on the benches inside. Shiloh Church is the largest house of worship for negroes in Birmingham, and the pastor says there were at least 2000 persons in the edifice when the stampede began. Instructions had been issued to allow no one else to enter after the building had been filled, but the negroes forced their way inside the church, and were standing in every aisle when the cry of "fight ! ' "fight I" was mistaken for fire, and there was 1 deadly scramble to get. out. The en trance to the church was literally pack ed, and the negroes were crushed and trampled to death in their struggle to escape. Booker T. Washington thus describes the incidents leading up to the panic: "I had just finished delivering my lec ture on 'Industry' and the singing had commenced, when some woman back of me was heard to scream. A member of the choir yelled, 'Quiet!' which the gal lery understood to le 'fire.' This was repeated, and started the stampede." "I tound on investigation that a Bir mingham man had stepped on the toes of a delegate from Baltimore named Ballon. "Ballou resented it, and made a motion as if to draw a gun. This caused the woman to scream. "There was little excitement in the center and front of the church. The rear of the church was congested,, and some of the men tried to walk out on the heads of the crowd. At the time of the alarm there were 'probably 3.000 people in the church, and fully that number without. The crowd on the sidewalk surged in, and this, in a mea sure, accounted for the large loss of life. "The majority of those killed were smothered to death, very few having bones broken. "When I saw that a stampede was imminent I started the choir singing, and part of the audience joind them. I remained until the excitement had subsided. It lasted for fully 30 min utes. J. H. Ballou, the colored lawver from Baltimore, whose dispute with Hicks, the choir leader, is said to have caused the cry of right! which was mistaken for the cry of "Fire !" and resulted in the terrible panic in Shiloh Baptist Church, was arrested and is in jail, charged with disturbing public wor ship. WILL STAY SIX WEEKS IN AIR. Claims Made for His Flying Machine By In ventor Hunt New York (Special). E. J. Hunt, nn inventor, 152 East Fortieth street, de clares he has completed the model of a flying machine that will be able to stay six weeks in the air. In his workshop Mr. Hunt has a model of his airship 20 inches long. This, he says, has flown about the room carrying a five-pound weight. The airship is to be built of aluminum and is to weigh about 68 pounds. n shape the model is like the body of a bird, and from the sides project a pair of light wings. Mr. Hunt says he does not need any balloons to keep this flying machine afloat, and uses no motors. "Take a turkey and pick off its feath ers, and you have some idea of the shape and principle of my airship," he said. "It is really a bird, and, with the wings, which have a spread of 27 feet, are so light vou could balance them on one hand." Killed By a Train. Luray, Va. (Special). William H. Price, of New Port, this county, was run oevr by a freight train. on the Nor folk and Western Railroad, in the northern suburbs of Shenandoah, tiiis county, about midnight and instantly killed. Price was on a trestle when run down. He 'had been employed in the, furnace at that town, and, it is supposed, was on his way to New Port, where he had a wife and six children. Lord Salisbury Improved. Lucerne, Switzerland (By cable). Lord Salisbury's physician says the pa tient has a slight gouty'affection, from which he is suffering, but which gives no ground for anxiety. A Trick that Did Not Work. Knoxville, Tenn. (Special). A box intended for Harvey Logan, the al leged Montana train robber, in jail here, was intercepted by the sheriff. The box contained several packages of tobacco and six cob pipes with long stems. 0jer the mouths of the pipes were seals. These were broken by the sheriff, who found a steel saw 22 inches long in each pipe. Mail advices from Minister Conger, in Pekin, indicate that another serious Boxer uprising is impending in China. Ills Body on th: Track. Danville. 111. (Special). Thomas J. Ryan, of Hoopeston. III., was found dead in the Eastern Illinois Railroad yards. He had been run over by a passenger train, it is tnuugnt mat ne was stabbed and robbed before the body was placed on the track. Fatal Explosion. Roanoke, , Va. (Special). Charles Barnett, a young white man v whose home was in Washington county, Va., was killed in a coal mine at Ecknian, W. Va., by the explosion of a quantity of blasting powder. ... A NEW BOXER RISING. Chinese Outlaws Again Killing end Burning Kingdom Disturbed. Washington, D. C. (Special). Secre tary of State Hay predicted a year or more ago what would happen in, China if the powers insisted upen the payment of excessive indemnities for outrages suffered during the Boxer uprisings of 1000 by foreigners. His prophecy seems to be substantially confirmed now in an important report received by the State Department from United States Minis ter Edwin H. Conger, in which he shows a most disturbed state of affairs throughout the kingdom. The attitude of this government dur ing the discussion of the indemnity question was that China should not be forced to pay a sum greater than she could raise within a reasonable time, and that if an attempt was made to make the demand extortionate difficulty might be experienced later in collecting the annual amounts due, and, besides, the Chinese people might attempt to overthrow the government and repudi ate the debt entirely. There have been rumors for some time of an unsettled feeling among certain classes opposed to the present Gu'nese government and which have not looked with favor upon the democratic ways of the court. Minister Conger informs the depart ment that serious anti-foreign riots have occurred in the province of Szc-Chucn, in which a large number of native Christians were massacred and the chapels destroyed. On receiving this information Mr. Conger at once de manded, in a communication to the Foreign Office, and in a personal in terview with the Viceroy, that im mediate action be taken to suppress such disorders, and impressed itpjn the government the need of a vigor ous course being taken without delay. With an expedition not typical of the Chinese officials the removal of those who hid failed to frcscrvc order and prevent the riots was secured. Dr. Can tright. an American medical missionary, who brought Mr. Conger's attention to the disorders, was then communicated with and told to demand adequate pro tection for all missionaries and native Christians from the local officials. A note was also sent to Prince Ching at the Foreign Office, in which Minister Conger pointed out that there were sev eral American missionaries and chapels in the province and that it was neces sary thr-.t immediate steps be taken to stamp out such troubles; WRECKED BANK WITH DYNAMITE. And Blew Himself Into Eternity at the Same Time. Seattle, Wash. (Special). A special to the Times from Skagway, Alaska, says : About 3 o'clock in the afternoon an unknown man walked into the Canadian Bank of Commerce, a revol ver in one hand and a dynamite bomb in the other, and demanded $20,000. threatening to blow all into eternity. Cashier Poolcy and Teller Wallace were the only two men in the bank. Wallace ducked to get his gun and ran quickly to the back of the room, calling for Pooley to do the same. "No you don't," yelled the man and dropped the bomb. The clerks had just gotten out of the window. The bank was wrecked. The robber's head was mashed and one arm was torn off. People living above the bank were blown into the air. J. G. Price, formerly prosecuting at torney, who was entering the bank at the time, was hurt, but not seriously. The dynamiter died without regaining con sciousness. The bank lost about $1000, chiefly in gold dust, which was lying on the counter. ODDS AND ENDS OP THE LATEST NEWS. Senator McComas called at Repu blican national headquarters in New York and secured the promise of a number of prominent campaign speak ers for Maryland. The remains of Banker Nicholas Fish, banker and diplomat, who died from injuries received during a fight in New York, were buried at Garri-son-on-the-Huds'on. . Reports indicate that the forest fires are becoming more serious in the tim ber sections of the Rocky Mountains from the Wyoming line to Central Colorado. The ,1'rinccton Theological Semin ary began its ninety-first session yester day. Rev. Dr. Donald Guthrie is one of three new directors appointed. Circuit Attorney Folk, of St. Louis, filed .information charging former dele gates Hannigan, Denny, Albright and Bersch with perjury. The Woman's Confederate Memor ial Association in New Orleans de nounced Gen. Ell Torrance's plan for aiding Confederate veterans. Alonzo Tucker, a negro, who assault ed Mrs. Dennis near Libby, Ore, was lynched bv a mob of coalminers. Grand Duke Boris of Russia sailed from New York in the French liner La Lorraine for France. The three masted schooner Dora Matthews went ashore on Logwood Hill Bar. off Chatham, Mass. A conference of the managers of the German and British steamship lines plying between Europe and South America is being held at Ostend for the purpose of establishing uniform freight rates in tlie South American trade. The German Foreign Office received a note from the British government in viting some action by the signatory pow ers of the treaty of Berlin regarding Roumania's treatment of the Jews. The submarine telegraph cable which is to be laid between aan Francisco and Honolulu has been placed on the cable steamer Silvcrtown, which will sail Sep tember 20 from London. Prince Victor Dulecp Singh attribu'ed his bankruptcy to the insufficiency of his allowance from the Indian government.1 The Russian minister at Pekin an nounces that Southern Manchuria to the Liau River will be restored to the Chi nese. 1 Count Apponyi, president of the Hun garian Reichstag, in a speech sounded a note of warning against the revival of Pan-Germanic agitation in Hungary. M. James, the French writer, declares hat the action in the case of Col. de Saint Rcmy proclaims the army inde pendent of the civil power. The schooner Southern. Cross, be longing to the London Missionary So ciety, was wrecked on the Island of Tahiti, All the passengers were saved. William Fitzhugh Whitehouse, of Newport, R. I., and Lord Hindhp re turned to London after an interesting trip of exploration along the Upper Nil.' The Dutch foreign minister stated in the States General that there was no foundation for the rumors of an, alli ance between Holland and Germany. The Peary Arctic Club steamer Windward arrived at Sydnev, N. S., from which place Lieutenant Peary sent a report of his summer work. Edmund Jellinek, an official in the cashier's department of the Lendcrbank, Vienna, has defrauded the bank of $315, 000 by falsifying checks, . THE KEYSTONE STATE. Newi Happenings ot Interest Gathered From All Sources. Fatents granted: Frank E. Abbott, Pittsburg, combination door bell and burglar alarm, also miter box ; Walter B. Lhaliant, Hasncll, centrifugal churn; Hugh W. Denison, Glade, automatic check lock ; Harry W. Eichcr, Myers, dale, lock ; Robert T. Gillespie, Roches ter, reservoir pen; Martin H. Halloran, Pittsburg, lubricator for elevator ropes; John W. K. Hodge, Blair Station, ro tary steam engine; William B. Langan, Hawley. bottle filling and corking machine; Constant Laval, Pittsburg, trough for silvering glass; Willian Maxwell, Pittsburg, toy biograph; F'rank A. Merrick, Johnstown, trolley, also circuit breaker; John W. Morgan, Jr., McKeesport, manufacture of car wheels; William A. Neylor, Allegheny, and J. Gouldsbarry, McKecs Rocks, boring bar; Philo B. Sheldon, Erie, body brace. Pensions granted N. II. Kough, Mt. Pleasant, $6; Jacob Young, Lewistown,1 $10: Englebcrt Bender, Pattons, $12; Jonathan Boyd, Kittanning, $8; Cal vin F. Walker. Huntingdon, $12; Mar-j garet Steel. Ellwell. $12; Ellen E. Alii-1 son, Mifllintown, $8; Elizabeth J. Park; Three Springs, $8; John T. Hobson,) Allegheny, $10; John C. Alder, Alle-j gheny, $0; Thomas Jones, Pittsburg,! $6; William Fulton, 1 urtlc Creek, $0;: John M. Hawthorne, Ogdensburg, $io; Hugh Boon, Washington, $15: William Morrow, Plumville, $12; Julia Wing, Cambridge Springs, $8. I Governor Stone appointed the fol lowing delegates from Pennsylvania to, the Farmers' National Congress to be. held at Macon. Ga., during the week of October 7: Levi Morrison, Green ville; W. K. Laird, Livemore: W. B. Powell, Shadeland; S. T. Hcilman,! Heilmansdale; A. L. Martin, tuon Valley; C. W. Oster, Osterburg; S. Barber, Harrisburg; A. F. Kimmel, Orwigsburg; Stephen D. Yost, Hunt indon; Wm. Knodcrer, Allegheny; S. McCrcary, Neshannock Falls; W. H. Stout, Pine Grove; W. C. Patterson, State College; W. A. Gardner, Andres Settlement: R. J. Weld. Sugar Grove; H. N. Clark,' Claridge; Hiram Peoples, New Providence; T. E. Orr, Pitts burg; W. W. Britton, Upper Stras burg; S. B. Buckalew, Fairmount Springs: Bruce Lamed, Huntingdon; ills; M. W. Learde, Indiana; U. M. Patterson, Wiiliamsburg; Nelson H. Thompson, Elora; R. H. Thomas, Mechanicsburg; J. P. Taylor, Rceds- ville: J. S. Burns. Ulir.ton; Levi Wells, Spring Hill: John Hamilton State College: M. E. Conrad. West Grove; Gabriel Hiestcr, Harrisburg; V. F. Hill, West Ford; L. W. Lighty, Last Berlin: William Pcnn Lloyd, Me chanicsburg; Edwin Londalc, Wynd moor; T. O. Millikcn, Huntingdon; Thomas J. Phillips, Atglen; O. W, Stoughton. Prospect; D. W. Copper.i Sunburv; W. H. Dodson, York; S. H. Rutherford, Paxtang; Julius Lemoyne,! Washington; Irwin Chapin, Town Hill: Oliver D. Shock, Hamburg; W. H. Brosius, Lancaster; John D. Sor der, Harrisburg; George G. Hutchin son, Warrior's Mark, chairman. A joint meeting of the legislative committees of the Delaware County Road Drivers' Ass'n and the various granges of the county, who have join ed forces in the interest of good roads was held at Media, with Senator W. C. Sproul presiding. These organiza tions, now very strong in the county,' will present a bill before the next Leg islature and preliminary arrangements .were perfected. The bill will be draft ed in Media in a short time by sub committees of 'the road drivers and grangers, together with a committee representing the Road Drivers' Asso ciation of Philadelphia and other sim ilar organizations. It was suggested that the State make a plan to provide revenue which would permit of ex pending $.10,000,000 on the roads with in the next ten years. Under the pres ent conditions of the State finance, it is said, this would not necessitate much of an increase in taxation. The Shamokin Cemetery Company notified strikers that fhey would be prosecuted" unless they stop mining coal from a hill on top of which the cemetery is situated. The company fears that unless the men quit digging coal the graves would be undermined and swallowed up by cave-ins. The strikers said they would not drive gangways under the graves. WilliamE. Headlcy, a business man of Chester, was found guilty in court at Media of assault and battery on Charles Prosser, a young drug clerk, Headley's daughter alleged Prosser in sulted her, and Mr. Headley horse whipped the young man. Mr. Headley was sentenced to pay the costs. A corn-cutting contest for the cham pionship of Tinicum Township took place at Essington. There -were five contestants and after a spirited contest Abner Waddington, of Salem, N. J., won the prize of $10. The city home, at Lancaster, of Su preme Court Justice J, Hay Browrt was enteredby burglars, who ransack ed the houTe. Mrs. Brown is at At lantic City and until she returns the amount of the booty secured cannot be learned. Jacob Girard, aged 78 years, and Mrs. Sarah E. Hilkirt, of Turbotville, aged 62 years, were married. This is Mr. Girard's fifth matrimonial venture: Prohibition State Chairman Jones called at the State Department, Harris burg and presented the certificate of nomination of Alfred D. Calvert and L. F. Bechtel, Prohibition nominees for Assembly from the Twenty-fourth Phil adelphia District. Secretary Greist re fused to receive them on the ground that two years ago in this district the Prohibition candidates for Assembly did not poll enough votes in the Pro hibition column to entitle to nominate by certificate, and they must get on the ballot this year by nomination papers. Another riot took place in Duryea and two men were wounded. Guiscppe Dominck was shot in the abdomen and John Digana received a fractured rib and several wounds on the head. The two men were on their wav home from work in the Old Forge Colliery when they were set upon by about seventy Sve Italians. Several bricklayers on their way to work were also assaulted. E.'M. Fuller and family and Wallace Paterson and wife, of Eleven Mile, while on a long drive partook of bo logna sausage as a lunch and were made seriously ill. A doctor at An dover saved their lives. Judge Johnson appointed William II. Miller, of Media, a member of the Prison Board to fill a" vacancy caused by the death of Jared Darlington. Therewere over fifty applicants for the pitce but Mr. Miller was not an ap plicant. The Schuylkill Canal is now full of water from Port Clinton to Philadel phia, for the first time this season, and all is ready for navigation, but the run ning ed boats depends entirely on the early settlement of the strike., Royal J. Rook, an usher at Hie Union Station, Pittsburg, either foiiv milted suicide or was poisoned, flying in great auony at his boarding how, 1119 Liberty avenue, . . ' '
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