PRESIDENT UNDER KNIFE
Undergoes a Second Operation on tbe
Abscess of His Left Leg.
THE BONE SLIGHTLY. AFFECTED.
Or. Ncwloo N. Shaffer, of New York, Wat
Called la Consultation and lb Operatloa
Was Performed By Dr. Rlxey, Audited By
Drs. Lunf, O'Reilly, Urle aod Stilt. It was
Foaad That the Bona Wai Effected.
Washington, D. C. Special). An
other operation was performed Sun
day on the abscess of the left leg of
the President.
In the former operation a simple
needle was used to relieve the trouble,
but this time the surgeons with a knife
made an incision into the small cavity,
exposing the bone, which was found
to be slightly affected.
The President's case has been pro
gressing satisfactorily, but it is believ
ed by the physicians that the further
operation made will hasten his com
plete recovery. While none of the doc
tors is willing to be quoted, they give
the most positive assurances that there
is not the least cause for alarm, and
say that on the contrary there is every
indication of a speedy recovery ; that
the area of bone affected is very slight,
nd will not result in any impairment
of the President's limb, and that there
is no evidence whatever of any matter
that would produce blood poisoning.
They confidently expect that the Presi
dent will be on his feet within a rea
sonable time, and with his robust con
stitution to assist recovery, soon will
be himself again.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
Dr. Newton M. Shaffer, of New
York, who long has been acquainted
with the Roosevelt family and has at
tended the President's children at vari
ous times, and who also is a well
known bone specialist, joined the
President's physicians in their morning
consultation at 10 o'clock.
It was noticed that there had been a
alight rise in the President's temoers
ture and an increase in local sympto'.ns,
and the conclusion was reached that
the patient's recovery would be hasten
ed by making an incision of the wound
lor the purpose of relieving the slight
tension or swelling which was present
nd also to drain the wound.
The operation was performed be
tween 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
An application of cocaine was used to
ullay the pain. The President stood
the operation very well and subse
quently expressed his satisfaction at
the successful result. Dr. Rixey, the
surgeon general of the navy, performed
the operation, assisted by Dr. Lung,
the President's regular physician.
Dr. O'Reilley. who also was pres
ent with the other physicians, is the
surgeon general of the army, and here
tofore has been consulted regarding
the case. Dr. Edward R. Stitt, another
of those present, is in charge of the
Naval Museum cf Hygiene and Medi
cal School.
The physicians took a roseate view
of the President's prospects for get
ting out again. He has become some
what restive because of his close confine
ment and the physicians are consid
ering the advisability of permitting him
to take a ride in a few days. The phy
sicians say the question now is simply
one of the healing of the wound and
reiterate that this will be battened by
(he operation performej.
At the White House at 10 o'clock it
was stated that the President was do
ing very well and that no additional
statement would be issued. Late in
the evening Dr. Shaffer, while he de
clined to discuss generally the Presi
dent's case, authorized in the most pos
itive manner the statement that there
need not be the least cause for anxiety
or alarm regarding his condition, but
aaid, on the contrary, he coud give
every assurance of the belief that the
President will soon recover.
Justice Brewer Burned.
Burlington, Vt. (Speciall. Justice
David J. Brewer, of the United States
Supreme Court, was quite badly burned
about the face and hands at his sum
mer home, at Thompson's Point, Lake
Champlain. Judge Brewer has remain
ed longer at the Point than have the
other cottngers and was cleaning up
tome brush about his cottage, Liberty
Hall. He used a small amount of gas
oline to make the bru'-h burn and was
in the act of lighting the pile when the
accident occurred. His burns were
promptly attended to. and with good
nursing he hopes to be out in a few
days without scars.
Bank President's Suicide.
Atchison, Kan. (Special). Norman
Barrett, president of the defunct Atch
ison National Bank, committed suicide
in his room at the Byram Hotel here,
cutting his throat with a razor. Worry
over the failure of his bank and the
financial troubles that followed prob
ably are the cause.
Five Sailors Lost In Hurricane.
San Francisco, Ca1a. (Special). The
British ship Claverdon, which arrived
from Hamburg, reports having passed
through a hurricane, with the loss of
five of her crew. The storm was en
countered August 27. Heavy seas
swept over the ship and washed every
thing movable overboard. All the sails,
with the exception of the lower main
sail, were carried away. Five of the
crew were drowned and nine others in
jured. To lower boats and rescue tho
drowning tailors was impossible.
William (jodeaii Assassinated.
Mobile, Ala. (Special). William
Godeau, a cotton handler, living at
.Cottage Hill, ten miles west of Mobile,
was shot and ki'led by some person
unknown. Godeau, becoming aware
of a disturbance in his yard, went out
of his house to investigate, taking a
shotgun with him. Directly afterward
two report of a gun were heard and
neifthbors who rushed to the scene
found Godeau dead, with two bullet
holes in bis head. Suspicion points
toward Thomas Williams, a negro, be
tween whom and Godeau there re
cently bad Jbe.en trgjuldc,.
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SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEW S. 1
Domestic.
R. Bannister Mitchell, a young man
of Stony Creek, Vs., eloped with Miss
Mabel Lee, of the same place, osten
sibly to be married. When about 25
miles from her home, Mitchell shot
his sweetheart to death and then kill
ed himself with the same weapon.
Their bodies were found lying together
on a buggy robe.
Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, has ar
rived in New York after a careful in
spection of the strike conditions in
the anthracite region, and he expresses
the opinion that the solution of such
labor problems lies in the establish
ment of state courts of labor.
A negro shot and wounded J. H.
Babcr, a motnrman, in Richmond. Va.,
and when a lot of carmen started to
lynch the negro a crowd of his friends
came to his rescue and a riot fol
lowed. A number of men were hurt
and a policeman injured.
President Williams, of the Seaboard,
intimated that if the absorption of the
Louisville anil Nashville by the At
lantic Coast Line resulted in a dis
turbance of the reciprocal relations
with the Seaboard there would be war.
President J. J. Hill, of the North
ern Securities Company, in an address
at a county fair at Elbow Lake, Minn.,
attacked President Roosevelt's plan of
giving Congress move power over
trusts.
Harry Rose, a theatrical stage man
ager, shot and killed his wife, whom
he iound unfaithful in New York. He
went to a police station, told of the
crime and was placed under arrest.
District miners' president, Nicholls,
at Scramon, Pa., accused an ex-mine
foreman of heading a movement start
ed by the coal companies to bribe
members of the Miners' Union to vote
to return to work. The ex-foreman
and the representatives of the com
panies say the story is not true.
The grand jury in St. Louis has dis
covered that the bribery checks were
given by James C. Campbell, a broker,
who had disappeared when the deputy
sheriffs with a subpena tried to find
him.
Samuel Grccnnge, who killed Con
stable Harry Brcks in Greenwich
Township, N. J., committed suicide.
Dr. Willard Humphreys, professor of
German at Princeton University, died
from the effects of an overdose of
chloral hydrate.
An arrangement has been made by
which Columbia University will ex
change fellows with the .French univer
sities. Arthur Comer shot and killed his
wife at L'patoia. Ga., and was soon af
terward killed by her father.
The largest back tax suit ever filed
in Kentucky was filed at Paducah by
the auditor's agent. Frank I ucas, against
the Illinois Central for back taxes for
nine years, beginning 180,3. The total
involved is nearly $1,000,000.
Students of the L'nivcrsity of Cali
fornia took possession of a train at
Berkley and committed acts of vandal
ism which resulted in one of tneir num
ber bcinf arreted.
The W. C. T. V. in New York passed
resolutions protesting against the use of
the photographs of s"li prominent men
as Schley, Low, Hill, Depew and
Jerome.
Foreign.
Commander William II. Bcehler. the
retiring United States naval attache in
Berlin, visited Admiral Prince Henry
of Prussia, and the Prince told him
that he was anxious to visit the United
States again and enjoy the sport of
hunting in the Far West.
An American woman who has a son
a student at Oxford University, has
s:irred up a lively discussion in Lon
don by a letter to the London Times
complaining of the filth and discom
fort 01 his college rooms.
The director of Mount Etna Ob
servatory says there has been no
earthquake in Sicily, but it is probable
there has been a submarine eruption
between Stromboli and Sicily.
Advices from Salonica state that the
revolutionists arc marching against the
Turkish villages and more troops have
been sent to suppress the uprising.
John W. Young, the father of Wil
liam Hooper Y'oung, charged with the
murder of Anna Neilsen Pulitzer, in
New York, interviewed in Paris,
says he believes his son is innocent;
that he is not insane, but his mental
strength has been undermined by vi
cious habits.
A cyclone has done great damage on
mhe eat coast of Sicily. The town of
.uodica was inundated, several houses
collapsed and a number of families per
ished. Mount Etna shows further
signs of activity.
President Koch, of the Rcichsbank,
Berlin, in a statement to the bank com
mittee, said that the monetary situa
tion in New York had not affected the
German or other European markets.
In an engagement between Bulgarian
revolutionists and Turkish troops in
the vilayet of Salonica both sides suf
fered severe losses. Troops are being
dispatched into the interior of Salonica"
The Russian Foreign Office has not
yet acted on the United States note on
the subject of the Roumanian Jews,
and d ;ts not anticipate practical re
sults from it.
Queen Wilhclmina discussed the sub
ject of arbitration in general with U.
S. Minister Newel, the .Mexican minis
ter and other diplomats.
In suppressing a revolt of the peas
ants in Badeny. Hungary, four persons
were killed and others wounded by the
troops.
Further reports of the earthquakes
in Eastern Tttrkf'tan show that 607
persons were killed and 1.000 injured.
Pietro Mascagni, the composer and
director, arrived in Paris on his way
to the United States.
The National Congress of French
Miners adopted a resolution in favor
of an eight-hour day.
The Russians have begun the evacu
ation oi Manchuria.
Financial.
A dull market for some weeks seems
likely.
Secretary Shaw will anticipate June as
well as October bond interest and thus
put into the banks $20,050,000.
High money makes Russell Sage the
happiest man in New Y'ork. He is the
largest individual money lender.
Bank of England's discount rate re
mains unchanged at 3 per cent.
About 35.000 tons of Welsh coal have
been imported in the L'nited States since
the anthracite strike began.
One of the men in Philadelphia who
has subscribed to the ship ro nlmie syndi
cate says: -"It is the common belief that
no call will be made by the syndicate
managers beyond the 50 per cent already
called."
Prime's Crop Bureau, Chicago, tele
ftT'phs as follows. "Bal weather con
tinues; excessive rains in the corn licit
all day Wednesday. No signs of im
provement to-day. Spring reports in
Southern Minnesota show recent rains
have put the ground in fine condition
for fall plowing. Only a small propor
tion of the Spring wheat has been mar
keted; farmers are not satisfied with pre
eut oriret."
FUEL FAMINE IMMINENT
A Situation That is Appalling
Possibilities.
In Its
NO HARD COAL IS BLTNQ MINED.
With tbe Approach of Normally Cold Weath
er Popular Clamor for Fuel Must Sooa
Reach Proportions That Neither the Anthra
cite Coal Operators Nor the Striking Mint
Workers Can Longer Ignore.
Estimated Losses.
The estimated losses at the end of the
twentieth week of the coal strike are
figured out as follows.
Loss to operators in price of coal,
$47,500,000 ; strikers in wages. $26.300,000 ;
employes other than miners. $5,870,000;
railroads in earnings, $11,000,000; busi
ness men in region $14,800,000: business
men outside coal region $8,000,000;
maintaining coal and iron police, $1,400,
coo; maintaining non union workers.
$350,000; maintaining troops in the field,
$400,000: mines and machinery, $6,500,-
03O. Total, $12.1.220,000.
Scranton, Ta. (Special). There is
every indication that a fuel famine is im
minent a situation appalling in its possi
bilities. An exhaustive study of the situation
in the anthracite regions shows that prac
tically no hard coal is being mined. Soft
coal rates are being steadily advanced,
and it is predicted that the price will go
to $10 a ton. Cord wood has gone up.
With the approach of normally cold
weather popular clamor for fuel must
soon reach proportions that neither the
anthracite coal operators nor the striking
mine workers can longer ignore. Every
house-holder, every business man, manu
facturer and merchant must shortly de
mand coal. It must be had. somehow,
somewhere or direct caiirfophe will fol
low. Neither disputant in the hard coal
region will yield, and public patience is
bound to be exhausted ere long. A sug
gestion has been made by some of the
operators that the law preventing any
miner cutting coal in Pennsylvania un
less he holds a certificate stating that he
has worked two years in the mines be
repealed at a special session of the Legis
lature. If this were done President Fow
ler, of the New Y'ork, Ontario and West
em railroad, says the operators would
be able to put many men at work. Hard
coal mining is not so hazardous as bit
uminous mining, and men could learn all
but the most expert phases of cutting
coal and shoveling up in a month or
six weeks.
Another operator denies that this
would solve the problem of breaking the
strike.
The operators will not listen to arbi
tration ; the mine workers, while willing
to arbitrate, declare they can remain idle
indefinitely; both sides are opposed to
compulsory arbitration through legisla
tive enactment.
HOTEL BLOWN LP BY DYNAMITE.
The Lives of Thirty People Endangered Man
Commits Suicide.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Frank
McKce, a young machinist, wrecked
the Golden Eagle Hotel, a modest hos
telry at the corner of New Jersey ave.
and D streets, with dynamite and blew
out his own brains. His dead body
was found in his room in the hotel
buried in a mass of debris. The whole
affair is a mystery.
Mr. Lewis Brandt, the proprietor of
the hotel, can assign no reason for Mc
Kee's action. He is reported to have
been infatuated with Sophie Brandt, the
daughter of his landlord, but this is
vigorously denied by the girl's parents,
and in view of the fact that the girl is
but 14 years old, this explanation seems
scarcely plausible. McKce is said at
times to have been of irregular habits.
Happily his life was the only forfeit of
his crime. Mr. and Mrs. Brandt and
their family a son and the' daughter
Sophie escaped with only trilling in
juries, nor were any of the guests in
the hotel seriously hurt. The building
is badly wrecked, however, and it may
prove necessary to rebuild the struc
ture. Battle With Bulgarians.
Constantinople (By Cable). Three
hundred Bulgarian revolutionists who
were surrounded by Turkish troops in
the vilayet of Salonica succeeded in forc
ing the cordon after a sanguinary fight,
during which both sides suffered severe
losses. Reinforcements of troops have
been sent in pursuit of the Bulgarians.
The militia reserves have been called
out and troops are being dispatched into
the interior of Macedonia.
Retribution Was Swift.
Columbus, Ga. (Special). Informa
tion has reached this city of a double
murder at Upatoic, Ga., 18 miles from
here. During a quarrel Arthur Comer
instantly killed his wife, Louise, shoot
ing her with a pistol. Shortly after
ward," J. W. Murphy, Mrs. Comer's
father, hearing of his daughter's tragic
death, went to his son-in-law's resi
dence and shot him dead with the same
weapon Comer had used to kill his wife.
Avenged His Daughter.
Columbus, Ga. (Special). Informa
tion has reached here of a double mur
der at L'patoie, Ga., 18 miles from this
city. In a quarrel Arthur Comer in
stantly killed his wife, Louise, with a
pistol. Shortly afterward J. W. Mur
phy, Mrs. Comer's fr.ther, hearing of
his daughter's tragic death, went to his
son-in-law's residence and shot him
dead with the same weapon Comer had
used.
Insane Patient Started the Fire.
Lincoln, Neb. (Special). The fire
that burned the barn, horses and car
riages of the Nebraska Asylum for the
Insane and threatened the hospital
building was started by Frank Acker
son, a runaway inmate. He was found
four miles in the country and on being
returned made a full confession. His
insanity is of such a type that he was
regarded harmless, and he had been al
lowed the privileges of the grounds.
Superintendent Greene was severely
burned at the time of the fire.
Oreat Gift to Princeton.
Princeton, N. J. (Special). It was
learned here on good authority that
the bequest to Princeton of Miss Mary
J. Winthrop, of New York, which was
formerly reported to be about $500,000,
will amount to $1,400,000. A member
of the theological seminary faculty said
that the money, in all probability, will
be used for the further development of
the intellectual tide of the seminary.
It is also probable that a large gymna
sium will be erected on the south side
of the campus -within the next two
vtars. - - -
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Promotion All Along the Line.
The following important diplomat!;
appointments have been announced from
the State Departments:
Charlemagne Tower, of Pennsylvania,
now ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Russia, to be ambas
sailor extraordinary and plenipotentiary
to Germany.
1 Robert S. MoCormick, of Illinois, now
ambassador extraordinary and plenipo
tentiary to Austria-Hungary, to be am
bassador extraordinary and plenipoten
tiary to Russia.
Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, now envoy
extraordinary and mininster plenipoten
tiary to Spain, to be ambassador extra
ordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria
Hungary, Arthur S. Hardy, of New Hampshire,
now envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Switzerland, to be en
voy extraordinary and ' minister pleni
potentiary to Spain.
Charles Page Bryan, of Illinois, now
envoy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary to Brazil, to he envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
Switzerland.
David E. Thompson, of Nebraska, to
be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Brazil.
These appointments are to take effect
when Ambassador White leaves Berlin
in November.
Meets Hay's Complaint
The report that the government of
Roumania has discontinued the issuance
of passports to Jews intending to emi
grate to America, though not officially
confirmed, is regarded by the Washing
ton authorities as an immediate and
direct recognition by Roumania of the
accuracy of the statements made by
Secretary Hay in the note respecting the
evils of this Jewish immigration and the
underlying causes. The reported sus
pension of emigration would be regard
ed as removing the only direct issue be
tween the United States and Roumania,
and, while we may continue to have a
deep concern in the betterment of the
condition of the Roumanian Jews, the
Llnited States government must, for the
time, rest content with what it has done
in the issue of the identic note to the
powers.
As to the effect upon the Jews them
selves of the suspension of the right to
emigrate to America, the opinion ex
pressed here is that the order will accen
tuate the evils from which the Jews
are suffering at present, and thct fact,
in the end, by attracting the attention
of the powers and exciting the humane
sentiments of civilization, will force an
amelioration of the condition of the
Jews.
Cotton Crop Injured.
A number of special agents of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture have left Washington for the South,
for the purpose of investigating cer
tain features of the cotton movement.
Statistician Hyde's estimate of the
amount of cotton- actually grown dur
ing the year 1901-1902, and the report
of the Census Office as to thejimount
ginned during the year both differ con
siderably from the amount marketed,
according to commercial reports. The
department believes the difference is
made up largely of cotton carried over
from preceding years and of linters and
repacks. No expense will be spared,
it is said, in an investigation as to what
the commercial crop really amounted
to and what it consisted of. and a full
statement of the result will be made
public by the Statistician.
Miss Taylor's Fight.
Counsel for Miss Rebecca J. Taylor,
who was dismissed recently from the
War Department as a result of her
published criticisms of the administra
tion's policy in the Philippines, filed a
demurrer to Secretary Root's answer
to her petition for mandamus to com
pel the Secretary to restore her to a
clerkship. She alleges that her re
moval was without just cause or au
thority of law; that it jvas because of
her political opinions and that a clerk
has a vested rights to the office until
removed by the proper authorities act
ing within the range of their authority,
which she disputes in this case. Her
demurrer contends that no head of an
executive department is empowered to
remove 8 subordinate in violation of the
laws of Congress or the rules of the
President.
Crops Grown Without Irrigation.
Arid land crop conditions in Central
Montana, heretofore unknown to the
Department of Agriculture, were dis
covered in a tour of inspection which
Elwood Mead, in charge of the irri
gation work of the department, has just
completed. Mr. Mead says he found
much larger areas of arid land there
with crops in successful growth on
them than he ever had supposed were
possible. In a majority of the sea
sons, he says, crops can grow on these
tracts without any irrigation.
White House Furniture Burned.
Upwards of some 30 pieces of furni
ture, some curtains and portieres and
several heavy plate mirrors, all belong
ing to the White House, were destroy
ed by fire of unknown origin in the
upholstering establishment of E. A.
Kennedy, on Connecticut avenue.
The loss is estimated by the fire de
partment at $5,000. So far as known
none of the pieces destroyed were of
historic importance.
All the Bids Rejected.
The Navy Department has decided
to reject all proposals submitted for
the construction of the concrete and
granite drydock, to be known as ''No.
3' at the Norfolk Navy Y'ard. The
bids for this work, which were opened
at the department some days ago, were
all high and complicated, so it was de
termined to readverti.-e for the work,
after making some changes in the
specifications.
Newsy Items of Interest.
Secretary of War Root is preparing
to make an appeal to Congress to re
peal the Anticanteen Law in conse
quence of the reports of the various
department commanders saying it has
resulted disastrously to the soldiers,.
There is some talk of the transfer
to another post of Baron von Holle
ben, the German ambassador.
President Roosevelt signed the order
for the taking of a census of the Phil
ippines, declaring that peace has been
established.
A telegram was received from Com
mander Patch, of the Montgomery,
saying that the blockade of Cape Hay
tien was not effective.
A dispatch was received from Com
mander McLean saying that the United
States forces now on the Isthmus will
be sufficient.
The remains of Major John Wesley
Powell, of the United States Bureau of
Ethnology, were buried in Arlington
Cemetery.
President Roosevelt has appointed the
ambassador to Russia, Charlemagne
Tower, .to tucceed Andrew White as
ambassador to Germany. .
NEGRO DIES IN FLAMES
Young Colored Man is Lynched In Mis
slsslppl.
CONFESSES TO THE HORRIBLE CRIME.
Says Before He Dies That He Deserved His
Fate The Lynching Carried Out as Plan
ned by Prominent Cltzlcns of Corinth, and
Crowds Come From Far and Near Clark's
Wife Informed on Him.
Corinth, Miss. (Special). Writhing
in the flames of fagots piled by hun
dreds of citizens, Tom Clark, alias Will
Gibson, a young negro, was burned at
at the stake here. Clark had confess
ed to one of the most atrocious as
saults and niuiders in the history of
Mississippi, and said that lie deserved
his awful fate. On August 19 last Mrs.
Carrie Whitfield, the wife of a well
known citizen, was found dead in her
home. Investigation showed that she
had been assaulted. Her head was
practically severed from her body.
Both Whitfield and his wife were re
lated to several of the most promi
nent families in the South, and the in
dignation of the people knew no
bounds. Corinth and the surrounding
country was scoured in an effort to ap
prehend the murderer, but diligent
search failed to disclose his identity.
Two detectives from Chicago were
employed, but their efforts were fruit
less. Several suspects were arrested,
bu.t in each case an alibi was proven.
A committee of 12 citizens were named
to continue the search for the mur
derer, and these men have been very
active in their work.
On Monday last it became known
that Tom Clark, a negro living near
here, had had trouble with his wife and
that the latter threatened to disclose
the secret of a crime. Officers appre
hended the woman, and she told
enough to warrant the belief that
Clark had murdered Mrs. Whitfield.
Clark was arrested and only Satur
day was brought before the committee
of twelve in Corinth. The negro finally
confessed to the murder and also told
of other crimes that he had com
mitted. He said that several years ago he
killed two men on an excursion train
in Mississippi. He told of an outrage
perpetrated by himself on a negro
woman and also of the theft of $1,500
from a physician at French Camp,
Miss. Clark said that he never had
been suspected of having committed
any of these crimes and had covered
up his tracks in a way to deceive the
QtTicers of the law.
BOSTONIANS TRY THE LAW.
Apply In Court for Receivers For the Coal
Corporations.
Boston (Special). A committee of
Bostonians sought relief in the courts
from the present coal shortage and high
prices by asking for a receiver for the
coal companies and coal-carrying rail
roads. A bill in equity was filed in the
State Supreme Court against the follow
ing corporations:
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company.
Philadelphia and Reading Iron and
Coal Company.
Central Railroad of New Jersey.
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company.
Delaware and Hudson Company.
New Y'ork, Ontario and Western Rail
road Company.
Erie Railroad Company.
Pennsylvania Coal Company.
The petitioners ask that a receiver be
appointed for the benefit of all concerned
upon such terms, in such manner, with
such agents and servants, with such rates
of wages and other conditions of employ
ment and at such prices for goods pro
duced and sold as the court shall from
time to time adjudge proper.
Six Men In Blazing Wreck.
Rawlins, Wyo. (Special). Under the
debris of a bad freight wreck which
occurred here it is believed there are
at least six men. The wreck burned
fiercely for hours. A fruit and stock
special train crashed into the rear end
of another stock train. Fifteen cars
were piled on top of the engine and
almost instantaneously burst into
flames. Engineer Patnoe was thrown
under the wreck, and it is said that at
least four or five others shared a lik
fate. Rescuers succeeded in clearing
away the wreck sufficiently to talk to
Engineer Patnoe, but they were un
able to get him out and he was at last
overcome by the smoke and flames.
Head Cut Off and Burned.
New Y'ork (Special). James B.
Craft, a wealthy resident of Glen Cove,
Long Island, was brutally murdered in
the Empire Garden Cafe, 38 West
Twenty-ninth street, a resort in the
"Tenderloin," only a few doors from
Broadway, where he had been drinking
with a woman. His body was roughly
pulled out of the caie, down two
Ilights of stairs to the cellar, where
his head was hacked off and thrown
into the furnace. Most of the clothing
that he had worn was also placed in
the fire, and an effort was made to
obliterate every trace of the crime by
cremation.
Thirty Miners Killed.
London (By Cable). The Madrid
correspondent of the Morning Ledger
says 30 miners have been killed at Ma
zarron, province of Muncie, by poison
ous gas.
Statue to Kossuth In Cleveland.
Cleveland, O. (Special). A life-size
statue to the Hungarian patriot Louis
Kossuth was unveiled in this city in
the presence of 50,000 people. The
statue stands on a pedestal and is about
20 feet high. The figure of Kossuth
was the work of a Hungarian sculptor,
Andrew Toth, of Debreazin, Hungary.
The occasion was made the opportunity
for a display of the affection in which
the Hungarian patriot is held. Ad
dresses were made by Mayor Johnson,
Senator Hanna. Congressman Burton
and Governor Nash.
Favors Qovernmenl Ownership,,
Boston (Special). Rev. Edward Eve
rett Hale, of Doston, noted for his
conservatism as well as for his ability,
in response to an invitation to act as a
member of a committee to bring about
a settlement of the coal strike, has writ
ten a letter in which he says: "The
strike is bringing nearer the inevitable
solution. This is the control or prac
tical ownership of the mines by the
State of Pennsylvania or ultimately by
the nation. In a republican govern
ment it is not possible, as it is not
right, that 20 men or 50,000 shall con
trol a supply which the good God has
viven for mankind."
EARTHQUAKE ENDS MANY LIVES.
Shocks In Runlsn Turkestan Continue Nearly
Two Weeks.
Berlin (By Cable). A dispatch re
ccived here from Tashkent, capital of
Russian Turkestan, reports a terrible
earthquake on August 22, the shocks
continuing until September 3.
One hundred persons were killed at
Kashgar.-in Eastern Turkestan, 400 in
the village of Astyn, 20 at Jangi, while
the town of Aksuksitche was com
pletely destroyed.
Many Vintages Wrecked.
Allahabad,. India (By Cable). A dis
patch to the Pioneer from Kashgar,
Eastern Turkestan, says that only a
dozen people were killed there in the
earthquake, but that the disturbances
wrecked many villages in the northern
part of the province, the total of per
sons killed being 1000.
There were no premonitory signs,
says the dispatch, but a pronounced
rise in temperature followed the prin
cipal shock. The temperature contin
ued to rise during the subsequent days,
which were attended by a repetition of
slight quakes. The dispatch says no
Europeans lost their lives.
Shocks In Mexican City.
City of Mexico (Special). An earth
quake shock was felt here on Tues
day, although appearing to be a light
one and causing little alarm. It crack
ed a large number of buildings, ar.d the
police reports show that the water
pipes burst in several streets.
The earthquake was quite sharp in
Puebla, causing some alarm, and re
ports coming in show that the seismic
disturbances were felt eastward to Vera
Cruz and other cities and towns on
the Gulf of Mexico.
The Pole Is In the Ocean.
Portland, Maine (Special). Lieut.
R. E. Fcary, the Arctic explorer, ar
rived here. In an interview he said:
"On no account shall I make an effort
to return to the North. The Pole can
be reached. It is a question of money
and of the explorer's outfit. Could I
have put my ship as far North as I
intended, and as I could have done
had she been equal to the require
ments, I could have made the Pole.
I am confident it is in the ocean that
is, no land is there. Money will do
it money in, the right hands. No,
not millions, cither; $200,000 would do
it. For this amount I could keep a
party in the North 10 years and follow
my original plant of marching by stages
to the Pole."
Were Foiled By the Moros.
Washington, D. C. (Special). That
the task of reducing the Moros to
terms is proving difficult is indicated
by the following cablegram received
by the War Department from General
Chaffee:
Manila, Sept. 24, 1002.
Adiutant-Gcneral Washington:
Capt. John J. Pershing to Vicars;
unable to reach Macin forts; water and
swamps prevented.
CHAFFEE.
The dispatch means that Captain
Pershing has been compelled to re
treat to his base at Camp Vicars and
that the Moro position is much
stronger than was believed by army
officers.
Bullou and Hicks Free.
Birmingham, Ala. (Special). John
H. Ballon, of Baltimore, and Will
Hicks, the two negroes charged with
precipitating the fatal panic in Shiloh
Church by engaging in an altercation,
have been released from custody. Sev
eral negro ministers appeared before
Judge Feagin when the cases were
called and asked that they be not
prosecuted. They said that prosecu
tion of the men would cause disrup
tion in the church.
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Fatal Wreck Near Paris.
Paris (By Cable). Twenty-six per
sons have been killed and a score of peo
ple have been injured as the result of an
aeoident to an express train running from
Lille to Paris. The train left the rails
while crossing the switch at Arleux,
where it did not stop, and while going
at great speed. The locomotive and
tender were upset, and the carriages were
piled up and smashed to nieces. The
I bodies of 16 men, two women and two
girls, all 1-rendi, were taken out of the
wreck. About 50 persons were iniured,
and many of them, who arc suffering
from broken limbs and fractured skulls,
are not likely to survive.
China Oetting Her Due.
Tientsin (By Cable). Simultaneously
with the Russian transfer to China of the
Shan-Hai-Kwan and Niuchwang rail
road Sir Ernest Sjitow, the British Min
ister, handed over to China the British
portion of the Shan-Hai-Kwan railroad
station. The British are now transferr
ing their shops and other works with
the intention of making more complete
restoration of the road at the earliest pos
sible date.
Higher Pay in Glass Trade.
Pittsburg (Special). The Window
Glass Workers' Association, Local As
sembly No. 300, Knights of Labor, has
won a victory for its members by sc
su.ring a. sharp wage advance from the
manufacturers. The advance granted
by the manufacturers after a confer
ence is 12 per cent, over the wages re
cently secured by a rival organization
headed by John L. Denny.
Mrs. Waggoner's Romance.
Chehalis, Wash. (Special). Another
chapter in the episode of Merrill and
Tracy has just been written. Mrs.
Mary Waggoner, of Napavinc, the
woman who, with her eight-year-old
son, discovered the body of David
Merrill, has cloned with Ben Merrill,
a brother of Dave. They are report
ed to have bought tickets for Seattle.
ODDS AND ENDS OP THE LATEST NEWS.
Miss Laura Saunders Clark has sued
William D. Ziegler, Jr., of Philadelphia,
for $10,000 damages, charging breach of
promise of marriage.
Louis A. Disbrow was indicted and
arraigned at Rivcrhcad, L. I., on the
charge of murdering Clarence Foster
and Sarah Lawrence. '
The Earl of Dudlev, the new lord
lieutenant of Ireland, made his state en
try into Dublin and, outside of official
circles, was given a cold reception. -
Four stockmen were killed and several
injured in a collision near Maiden, 111.,
on the Burlington Road,
S. E. Robinson, editor of the Win
chester (Tcnn.j New Tournat, was
killed by a lawyer named Banks.
Four men were killed and two fatally
injured in n collision of two freight
trains near Pardee, Pa.
A raid was made in Chicago on -number
of matrimonial agencies and
turf commission offices. '
The German' government hat decided
not to become associated in a formnl
manner with the American and British
protests arainst Rotimania's treatment
of the Jews.
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
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Nawi Happeolnfs of Interest Gathered
From All Sources.
Pensions granted. Joseph Dowden,
Blythcsdale, $12; George Shreftler, Mif
llintown, $12; John A. Nagle, St. Boni
facius, $10; Joseph D. Atchinson, Berlin,
$12; Joseph Smith, Snow Shoe, $8; John
P. Vanler, Lewistown, $12; John F. Jury,
$8; Lecontus Mills, $12; Thomas Mc
Dowell, Summervtlle, $17: Thomas
Anderson, Scenery Hill, $10; Joseph
Boyer, Osceola Mills, $10; Aaron Garner,
New Brighton, $8 : Martin MacNaughin,
Frugality, $8; Seymour Smith, West
Fianklin, $17; Jesse L. Benton, Tyrone,
$14; May J. Hewitt, North Clarendon,
$8: Henrietta O. F.arll, Union City, $8;
Annie E. Winters, Braddock, $8; Wil
liam H. Kocrner, Allegheny, $6; Thomas
Ray, Glen Campbell. $10; Oliver B.
Maine, McKccsport, $8: Perry Kimmy,
Mcadvillc, $10; Henry J. Fuller, Platca,
$10; Douglass M. Paddock, Warren, S8;
Ih.rriet Potcn, McCrackcn, $8; John W.
Evans, Kittanning, $12; Isaiah Haines,
Glenhope, $24 ; Alexander McCabe,
Sc Idlers' Home. Erie, $t2; William Mul
hclcn, Bellwood, $10: Harlcnd B. Bay,
Ferry City, $8; William Woodsidc,
Fr.nicsboro, $10: John McCrackcn, Lat
ri.be, $10; William N. Heimbach, Bea
vertown, $12; Annie M. Ries, Beaver
Fflls. $8.
In the report of James M. Clark, chief
of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics
of the Department of Internal Affairs,
for 1901, figures are given as to the
production of Portland cement in
Pennsylvania. The report shows that
some 13,000,000 barrels of Portland ce
ment were consumed in the United
States in 1901, and that 12.711,225 bar
rels of this consumption were Ameri
can production, and that of this pro
duction Pennsylvania made 6,873,203
barrels. The importance of this large
production of Portland cement in
Pennsylvania will be appreciated when
it is taken into consideration that ce
ment is the main ingredient in the con
struction of the heaviest masonry of
the world. In the early seventies Da
vid O. Saylor, of Copley, Lehigh
county, made the first successful effort
to manufacture Portland cement in the
United States, and about the same time
a plant was built at Wampum, Law
rence county, by William P. Shinn.
The entire production of Portland ce
ment in the United States in 1882 was
only 85,000 barrels. The production in
Pennsylvania for 1901 had a market
value .it the works Of $7,334,891. There
was paid out in wages $2,212,457 to
5080 workmen, men and boys, showing
an average yearly earning of $435.52.
S. R. Longnccker, master, sold the
property of the Pennsylvania Midland
Railroad at auction to John M. Rey
nolds, of Bedford, for $50,000. The
construction of the road was begun
about 1893 by the late Hon. John
Cessna and extends from Cessna to
Brooks Mills, connecting at both ends
with the Pennsylvania. About fifteen
miles of track are laid.
C. M. Schwab, while in Europe, is
emulating H. C. Friek, J. P. Morgan
and Charles T. Ycrkes 111 his patron
age of art. Within the past few days
two fine examples of old English mas
ters, Romney and Hoppner, have been
received at Mr. Schwab's Pittsburg res
idence and hung. A Rembrandt is on
the way and will arrive in a few days.
The formal opening of the Moravian
College and Theological Seminary at
Bethlehem took place Friday. Presi
dent Augustus Schaltz made an ad
dress. Prof. Albert P. Haupert, of
Waterbury, Wis., is a new member of
the faculty. In the evening Rev. J.
Taylor Hamilton gave a reception to
the freshman class.
At the Free Methodist Conference at
Wilkcs-Barre, Rev. A. G. Miller was
re-elected District Elder of the Wilkes
barre and Windsor districts, and Rev.
George Eakins. of the New York and
Philadelphia districts.
A fast of thirty-seven days has ap-
Jiarently cured all the ills of Attorney
i Slocum, of Erie. The heroic treat
ment was taken in the hope of finding
relief from catarrh of the stomach and
a troublesome kidney complaint. Mr.
Slocum says both have disappeared.
Mr. Slocum says he was reduced in
weight to ninety pounds by the water
diet, but he is now regaining his nor
mal weight. "I have bePn regenerat
ed," he declares. "I have not an ill
or an ache. One remarkable circum
stance is that my eyes, which have trou
bled me greatly, are now entirely cur
ed. I do my work without glasses."
The house of Henry Gotschall and
family, at Gilberton, was damaged with
dynamite at 1.30 o'clock the other
morning. A heavy charge of the ex
plosive was placed under the one cor
ner of the building and the house was
partially wrecked. Gotschall and his
family, however, escaped unhurt,
though they were thrown from their
beds.
"Mrs. Anna Swentzcl Livingston,
wife of Hon. John H. Livingston,
President Judge of the Lancaster
County Courts, died at Lancaster, hav
ing been stricken with paralysis. She
was 69 years of age. In a few month?
she and her husband would have cele
brated their fiftieth wedding anniver
sary. Strikers are keeping close watch over
the movements of non-union men at
Shamokin, few of whom venture away
from the mine from one end of the
week to the other. The feeling grows
more bitter daily.
P. J. Donahue was ousted from the
position of Select Councilman from the
Fourth Ward, Pittsburg, to which he
was elected on the Citizens' party
ticket, the jury deciding that he was
a non-resident during the term requir
ed by law. The jury decided that he
had lost residence here by living part
of the time at Franklin, where he owns
a newspaper.
Judge Yerkes. at the opening of
criminal court, Doylcstown, congratu
lated the county on the fact that ap
parently crime was on the decrasi; in
this community. In charging the
Grand Jury the Court severely ar
raigned reckless drivers of automo
biles. Mabel Van Horn, 9gcd 15 years, ol
Frctland, who was missing over night,
returned to her home and reported that
she had been kidnapped.
Ground was broken at South Beth
lehem for the new biological labora
tory to be erected on the Lehigh Uni
versity campus.
Samuel Byerly, a carpenter of Brad
enville, is working on what he sayi
may be a successful flying machine. He
sayt it cmbodtes ideas not hitherto
adapted' to such, attempts. . The body
of the machine, for the sake of light
ness, will be of aluminum, and the mo
tor is to be of oblong shape with wing
like projections on the sides and end
of the machine. Mr. Byerly is confi
dent that he has introduced novel fea
tures which will help the machine to fly,
. Cxy Council, are seriously con.
tidering the matter of having
Reading's Free Public Library open on
Sunday, and a number of clergymen
are already ud in arum about it.