DEATH AND RUIN
' IN FLOODED AREA
Worth Topcka, Kansas, Scene of Terrible
Destruction.
XOO PEOPLE DEAD AND 200 MISSINO.
Niabera ot People Drowned or Unaccounted
For la Other Parts of Flooded Districts in
Three States Manr Fatalities Feared From
the Sallerlof and Exposure Endured by
Hundreds ol Women and Children The
Property Lorses la Topeka Estimated at
$4,000,000 Public Buildings Turned Into
Skelters lor the Homeless.
More than 200 lives lost, 20,000 people
homeless, property valued at $6,000,000
to $8,000,000 destroyed, crops damaged
to the extent of several million dollars,
thousands of sheep and other livestock
drowned, great industries like the
Armour, Swift and Cudahy packing
plants temporarily stopped and railroad
traffic interrupted make up the terrible
record of the flood and fire disasters in
Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska.
Hundreds of mile of country and
numbers of small towns are flooded, but
lhe indications are that the waters have
done their worst, and the Kansas River
and other streams are slowly receding;.
North Topcka, Kan., the center of the
navoc ot the combined destroying ele
ments, presents a deplorable spectacle.
The conditions at that point arc these:
Dead by drowning, 170 to 200.
Homeless, 8,000.
Feople missing, 200.
Property losses, $4,000,000.
Houses burned, 200.
At Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City,
Kan. :
Dead by drowning, 15.
People homeless, 10.000.
Property losses, $2,000,000 to $4,000,
soo. The death list is increased by fatalities
In other sections of the flooded districts
in the several states, and the estimated
property losses may be largely increased.
IVompt measures of relief have been
taken. The Convention Hall at Kansas
City and other large public buildings
have been turned into shelters for the
homeless. It is feared that much sick
ness and many deaths will result from
the suffering and exposure endured dur
ing the past 48 hours by thousands of
women and children.
Scores ol People Perish at Topcka.
Topeka, Kans. (Special). There is
ground for hope that the worst has
passed. The Kansas Kivcr is so slowly
receding as to be hardly perceptible, but
the five-mile-wide stream is gradually
fettling back into its rightful channel.
Up and down the official gauge has flut
tered all day. At .night City Engineer
McCalie issued a bulletin giving out the
cheering intelligence that the waters had
subsided to the extent of exactly seven
and a half inches. It may be some hour?
before another drop may be noticed.
With 175 or 2C0 lives lost; millions of
dollars of property destroyed ; with hun
dreds of pistols-shots as signals of dis
tress, blended with the agonizina eric-
of unwilling inhabitants of treetops and
toofs of houses, and the waters creeping
upward, and then slowly subsiding, and
alternately changing hope to dispair, the
city has passed the most memorable
Sunday of its existence. Through all
lhis discomforting condition of affairs
was added the presence of a cold, dismal
rain.
The work of the heroic rescuers was
rot abated in the le.vt by the conditions
which confronted them. For long, dreary
hours knee-deep in water, and some
times in water up to their necks, they
worked with might and main.
Short of Food and Fuel.
Des Moines, la. (Special). The relief
authorit ies announced that they were
confronted with a food and fuel famine.
Meat markets all over the city declare
they have but two or three days' stock
Crn hand. There is no trail) entering the
city and no prosect of getting a ship
ment of freight into Des Moines. Bak
eries are overtaxed by reason of the de
mand of the six thousand flood refugee?
through the relief association.
The temperature of the past three
days has been such as to cause great
suffering and to threaten great loss 01
life through exposure. Now it tran
spires that there is but a meager coal
supply, and that the light and powc
plant and the waterworks have an in
sufficient supply. Roads are impassa
ble for team-liaulir.g and no coal can
be shipped in.
At the water com nny's office it was
stated that the situation was alarming
Notice was sent to every resident in the
city to draw an extra 'iilp'v of water
1o provide against the closing of the
ylant. Owing to the breaking of an
other levee, the commons, on which
Co tents were placed for flood refugee.,
was flooded, completely submerging the
tents. The occupants escaped.
Hope has been inspired in the breast?
nf the Gooo flood refugees by the report
that the river has begun to slowly de
cline. The condition of the sufferer 4
lias been slightly alleviated by the bet
ter organization of the relief forces.
Udlctments lor Peonage.
Montgomery, Ala. (Special ). The
United States Grand Jury returned 36
indictments against white residents of
Coosa and Tallapoosa counties, charging
peonage, or holding negroes in servitude
Haadrcds Ol ol Plague.
Hongkong (By Cable). Consul Gen
eral McWade, of the United States,
writes that the famine situation in
Xwangsi is appalling. Hundreds are
dying. The people are uttering many
anti-foreign threats and much alarm is
felt in the district. Plague has occurred
at Yokohama. A stoker of a Bombay
learner was quarantined with the dis
ease on May 4 and two fatalities oc
curred. The area in which the plague
-victims lived has been quarantined.
Prayed as Fir Rated.
London (By Cable). A telegram
Jrom Grimsby says the Huddersfiehj
carried 29 emigrants and five other
steerage passengers. All except 21
were taken ashore with the crew of flic
Jluddcrsfield.
Prttkbat of Liberia,
Mexico City (Special). President
Torfirio Diaz, with reference to the
-agitation for his re-election, said it was
the duty of all citizens to serve the
country if called upon, "even at a per
. eumaJ sacrifice,"
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT CRDE2.
Domestic
Edwin Gould offered $1000 reward
for the capture of John Heffernan's
murderer, and said nine other members
of the Ardsley Club would offer a sim
ilar amount, making the total amount
$10,000.
A petition was filed in the United
States Circuit Court in San Francisco
to declare the Copper King Mining
Company, a London corporation, to be
bankrupt.
A monument was unveiled in Phila
delphia which was erected in memory
of the German soldiers who partici
pated in the Franco-Prussian war.
The miners of the Continental Coal
Company near Mcycrsdale. Pa., struck
upon receiving notice of five ccr.ts in
the pay for mining coal.
The statue in memory of General
Sherman was unveiled in New York,
Secretary of W ar Elihu Root delivering
the oration.
ICvery brick contractor in Pittsburg
has shut down on account of the squab
ble between the bricklayers and the
stonemasons.
Ten persons were injured in a colli
sion of trolley cars in Charleston,
Mass. Two of the victims are expect
ed to die.
All the grand officers of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen were re
elected at the convention in Denver,
Cot.
The Fav-Sholes Typewriter Com
pany closed down its plant because the
workmen demanded more wages.
It is now reported that in addition to
the eight trainmen who were killed in
the Southern Railway freight wreck at
Bryan, Ala., Wednesday, five tramps
(four colored and one white) were
killed and their bodies burned.
The United States Agricultural De
partment is making a map of the Unit
ed States which will cover five and one
tenth acres of ground at the St. Louis
Exposition.
Frederick Munch, of Philadelphia,
just elected grand junior warden of the
Grand Commandery of Knights Tem
plar of Pennsylvania, died of typhoid
pneumonia. Col. Johnston L. DcPcyster, who
raised the first flag over the fallen cap
itol at Richmond, 'a., died at his home
at Tivoli-on-Hudson.
Harsh epithets were applied in the
House aganst the members of the cab
inet of British Colombia and the gov
ernment was defeated.
M. Leopold Mabillcau, while lectur
ing in Chicago, rcierrcd to the Amer
ican college professor as "a hired man
in a cage."
The Presbyterian General Assembly
adopted by a unanimous vote the report
of the revision committee as a whole.
Mrs. H. A. Brown, an actress, will
seek a divorce from her husband, a
millionaire broker of Boston.
Citizen George Francis Train is very
ill from smallpox in the pesthousc near
Stamford, Conn.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia.
J. R. Wood was appointed passenger
traffic manager, which is a new office.
George W. Boyd, assistant general pas
senger agent, was promoted to the
office of general passenger agent, to
succeed .Mr. Wood. ). li. J haycr, Jr.,
was eiectcd fifth vice-president, a new
office.
'I he New York Clearinghouse Asso
ciation is considering the advisability
of making public the weekly statement
oi the trust companies which clear
through it.
Co!. Albert Brewer, a millionaire
of Tiffin, O., is dead. He was accused
of murder in a saloon row a year ago.
His trial ;.s postponed from time to
tir.e.
fcrcijn.
Herbert Gladstone, the chief Liberal
whip in English politics, warns the Lib
erals concerning Chamberlain's protec
tionist policy, stating that "the govern
ment is hopelessly discredited and it is
impossible to assume that a general
election will be long delayed.'
Seventeen men, including three titil
garian officers, killed themselves upon
realizing that further resistance was
useless i:i the recent fight between the
imperial fo-ces and insurgent bands in
the Bulgarian village of Mogil.
It is reported that fUizabeth Weiss
has been arrested at Hamburg, accus
ed of having supplied babies from a
private institution she keeps to persons
desiring to use infants for fraudulent
purposes.
Capt. Sir Edward Hulse, press censor
in the South African war at Johannes
burg, Transvaal, was found in his
room in that place dead from a pistol
shot.
Prime Minister Balfour, in replying
to Sir Charles Dilke in the House oi
Commons, urged that the time had
come when the question should be pub
iicly discussed whether the doctrine that
revenue should never be raised except
for purposes oi expenditure must not be
.abandoned.
Lady Margaret Cowcll-Stepney,
daughter of Lord de Tabley, was grant
ed in the London courts a judicial sep
aration from her husband. Sir Arthur
Cowell-Stepncy, who is now an Ameri
can citizen, residing in Idaho.
The Town of Melazgherd, in the
Vilayet of Van, Asiatic Turkey, has
been destroyed by an earthquake and
the loss of liie heavy, one report giv
ing it at 2000, but the United States
vice consul places it at 5'JO.
( )n account of the revolution Presi
dent Castro has closed a number of
Venezuelan ports, nearly all of which
are unimportant.
The British government approved the
action of the consul at Tahiti, who seiz
ed three small islands near Pitcairn re
cently. The program has been arranged for
the international concert to be given in
Berlin during the Wagner commemora
tion week.
The Spanish government aroused the
indignation of the press and the people
by agreeing to return to Morocco a
runaway from the Sultan's harem.
Financial.
Pennsy now has five vice-presidents
or more than any other railroad.
International Paper has declared its
quarterly dividend of 1 1-2 per cent.
Paris for the first time in a long while
is paying ar.y attention to American
securities.
H. E. Huntingdon is coming East to
talk over Southern Pacific matters with
L. H. Harntnan.
Diamond Steel preferred is reputed
by some interests in the company to be
worth considerably more than it now
brings.
If Rockefeller should get $8,000,000 of
'Pennsylvania stock it would make him
one of the largest individual sharehold
ers. It is reported that the reorganizers of
Mexican Central finances will scale the
general mortgage bonds 25 per cent.,
which will effect a reduction in fixed
charges of nearly $700,000 per annum.
A leading Boston banking house has
received official information from the
Atchison management that there is no
preset- intention of issuing additional
bonds.
In the year which ended April 30
Pacific Mail's net earnings were $323,
"i $16,847, 'he previous year.
FOR PEACE OF THE WORLD
Review of the Recent Mohawk Con
ference.
BRILLIANT ARRAY OP SPEAKERS
Ex-Secretary Foster, Edward Everett Hale
Dr. Joslah Strong, Dr. Lyman Abbott,
Solictor Pcnfleld, Japanese Consul and
Others tyake Addresses Platform Declares
for Obligatory Arbitration.
Lake Mohonk (Special). A fast sig
nificant in itself of the growth of the
sentiment in favor of international arbi
tration and the grip it has secured upon
the minds of thinking men was seen in
the largely increased attendance at the
ninth annual Conference on International
Arbitration this year. The largest pre
vious attendance had been about 200.
This year it was 250. These Mohonk
gatherings have been made up of
chosen number of the leaders of Ameri
can thought and action, men and women
of large hearts and broad minds, but of
the body brought together this year this
might be said more truly than ever be
fore. It would be hardly possible, in
deed, to call together an equal number
of persons more truly representative of
the best thought, the noblest spirit and
the most progressive tendencies of the
American people than this assembly at
Mohonk. An analysis of the list of its
memliers shows that there were present
some 20 judges and prominent jurists,
.10 preachers and teachers of religion,
nearly all ot national reputation : 42
educational leaders, including five presi
dents of colleges; over 25 editors of
magazines and newspapers, and about .10
"captains of industry," financiers, manu
facturers and men of large affairs.
The conference had an ideal presiding
officer in the person of the Hon. John
W. Foster, whose long and distinguished
career as a diplomat, statesman and
peace commissioner gave him unique
qualifications for the place.
In his opening address Mr. Foster said
that the most edifying and auspicious
event to come under the observation of
believers in arbitration had come from
a quarter of the world to which Anglo
Saxons had not been inclined to look
for helpful examples in good govern
ment. He referred to Chili and Argen
tina. A controversy over a boundary
line, he said, had threatened to light the
torch of war and thrust these two pros
perous peoples into sanguinary conflict.
But better counsels prevailed, and Chili
and Argentina agreed to submit their
differences to the arbitration of the King
of England. His award was accepted by
both nations.
Referring to the Venezuelan imbroglio,
Mr. Foster sai l the event showed some
of the evil effects of transforming the
populous nations into great military
powers and also served to bring into
prominence the value of arbitration and
the utility of The Hague tribunal. "It
was a high compliment to President
Roosevelt to be solicited to act as arbi
trator of that disDiite," said the speaker,
"but it enhanced his reputation still more
to decline the offer and to refer the con
tending parties to the tribunal which his
own government had done so much to
create.
MRS. TAYLOR FOUND GUILTY.
The Condemned Woman Shows Anger When
ths Verdict Is Announced.
Monticello, X. Y. (Special). Mrs,
Kate Taylor was found guilty of mur
der in the first degree for causing the
death ft her husband. She was sen
tcr.ced to death and , her execution fixed
for the week of July 5 at Dannemorra
prison.
' Mrs. Taylor was arrested and lodged
in jail at Monticello on February 8,
charged with having killed her hus
band on Tuesday, January 27, by shoot
ing him in the back with a revolver.
According to the confession of her
lfi-ycar-old .daughter, Ida May Taylor,
the woman afterward dismembered the
body and put it in the cook stove. It
was said that afterward she threw the
charred bones into the chicken yard.
Two weeks afterward the disappear
ance of Taylor began to excite com
ment. Mrs. Taylor told neighbors that
her husband had gone over the moun
tains on business. When trying to
make a deal witn 1'etcr emits, ncr
uncle, Mrs. Taylor was forced into a
confession that she had killed her hus
band and burned the body.
The Orange Home.
Philadelphia (Special). Representa
tive Orangemen from all parts of the
country, numbering more than 2000,
were present at the dedication of the
Orange Home, an institution for or
phan children and infirm Orangemen, at
Hatboro, near here. Thirty-six or
phan b'iys, 28 girls and 42 old couples
from Maine, Ohio, New York and
New Jersey, were entered upon the
books as the first charges of the home.
The following officers were elected:
Rev. George Worrell, Philadelphia,
President; Thomas Milligan, Boston,
vice president: Dr. J. W. Carroll, Hat
boro, resident physician; Mrs. Ida
Bowers, Philadelphia, matron. The
sum of $6,1.000 has been expended upon
the institution.
Plot Against Italy's King.
Paris (By Cable). A dispatch to the
Patrie from Marseilles says three an
archists have been arrested at Mcntone
on suspicion of being engaged in a plot
against King Victor Emmanuel on the
occasion of his approaching visit to
Paris. Five other suspects escaped. The
police found incriminating papers on the
arretted men.
A Duel With Rapiers.
Toledo, O. (Special). A duel with
rapiers has been fought near Adrian,
Mich. The combatants were a young
man of Adrian, who under the name
of "Prince Robert," is a frequent con
tributor to the magazines and F. O.
Eflis, of New York. Mr. Ellis was the
challenged party, the affair being over
an alleged insult offered to the fiancee
of "Prince Robert." At the first on
slaught Mr. Ellis was slightly wound
ed and gave up the fight.
Five Tramps Killed.
Birmingham, Ala. (Special). It is
now reported that in addition to the
eight trainmen who were killed in the
Southern Railway freight wreck at
Bryan, five tramps, four colored and
one white, were killed
Eleven Chlldrea Drowaed.
Poien, Prussia (By Cable). The
Posener Tagcblatt publishes a report
that a ferry-boat having on board forty
five children capsized on the Warthe
river, near Dembro. An investigation
of the report shows that a ferryman
and eleven children were drowned.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
August W. Machen Arrested.
August V. Machen, general superin
tendent of the free delivery system of
the Postofficc Department, and whose
summer home is at Westminster, Md.,
was arrested here charged with receiv
ing bribes in connection with a contract
held by Groff Brothers, of Washington,
D. C, for a patent fastener used on
street letter boxes.
The arrest of Mr. Machen took place
at the Postoflice Department about I
o'clock, after Mr. Machen had been in
the office of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow all morning
and under sharp cross-examination,
conducted by Mr. Bristow and Assist
ant Attorney General Robb, of the
Postofficc Department.
Diller B. Groff, one of the partners
in the fi rm of Grrff Brothers, accused
of having bribed Mr. Machen, called at
police headquarters and stated that he
had heard a warrant for his arrest was
out. He was served with the warrant
and was released on $10,000 bond.
Samuel A. Groff. the other member of
the Groff firm, was taken into custody
later and was released on receipt of
bail in the sum of $5000.
During this interview it was shown
to.Mr. Machen that the department had
sufficient, evidence, most of it docu
mentary, to cause his arrest on the
charge of receiving bribes amounting
to about $22,000 or 40 per cent, of the
amount paid during the last three years
by the government under its contract
to Groff Brothers, the owners of the
patent known as the "Groff fastener."
Mr. Machen throughout the entire pro
ceedings in Mr. Bristow's office was
remarkably cool. He admitted noth
ing, in fact, he declared his innocence
of any wrong conduct on his part, at
one time characterizing the charges
and arrest as a grandstand play on the
part of the department."
Naval Coaling Stations.
President Palma states that the naval
coaling station leases will be definitely
negotiated this week. He says the mat
ter will not be delayed on account of
the absence from Cuba of Secretary of
State Zaldo, as Secretary of the Treas
ury Monies will act in Senor Zaldo's
place.
President Palma says the govern
ment has been waiting to secure an
f.pproxlmatc idea of the cost of secur
ing from private owners the land re
quired for the stations and that such
information is now forthcoming, so the
money consideration and other details
necessary to formulate the terms of the
leases will soon be in the President's
hands.
It is the President's desire that the
Senate, when it ratifies the original
naval station agreement, shall add to
it provisions authorizing the President
to conclude the details thereof without
referring them to the Senate. This
probably will be done. The Isle of
Pines Treaty has already been drawn,
and its conclusion, it is expected, will
be quickly accomplished.
Adulterations of Hemp.
The War Department is giving at
tention to representations which have
been made in Washington and in Ma
nila, to the effect that the adulteration
of Manila hemp is threatening to de
stroy the industry of hemp-growing,
and the department communicated with
Governor Taft on the subject. The
following cable message was received:
"Ask for conference with cordage
manufacturers to learn how many, if
any, competent expert inspectors 01
hemp before baling we could secure
from the United States, and what sal
ary. Personnel of service most impor
tant, if inspection is to be made hon
est and effective.
General Wood's Discrepancy.
Regarding a statement published in
New York that there is a $3,000,000 dis
crepancy between the reports of Gen
cral Leonard Wood and his secretary of
finance of the total disbursements of
the American military government in
iUDa, it is stated on the highest author
ity that the discrepancy will be ac
counted for in the final settlement be
tween the War Department and Senor
tjuesada, Cuban Minister at Washing
ton.
Collector Cruzea Censured.
A. R. Cruzcn, Collector of Customs
at the Port of San Juan, P. R., whose
office was recently investigated by a
special agent of the Treasury Depart
ment, and against whom charges of ir
regularities in the administration'of his
office are made, has been exonerated on
all allegations of dishonesty by Secre
tary Shaw. Collector Cruzen has been
censured by the Department, but he
will be allowed to continue in office.
Military Training on the Decline.
Incoming reports of army inspectors
of military colleges are said to show
a generally unsatisfactory state of af
fairs so far as the military training of
the students is concerned and the Inspector-General
is about to send a cir
cular letter to the heads of the colleges
demanding remedial measures.
Major Howie Exonerated.
The Secretary of War will make pub
lic his findings in the case of charges
by Maj. G. K. Hunter against Maj.
Robert L. Howze for alleged cruelties
in the Philippines. The Secretary finds
that the charges are not sustained.
In the Departments,
Decoration Day exercises were more
elaborate than usual. There were ex
ercises, with orations, at all the ceme
teries. At Arlington Charles Emory
Smith was the orator. A monument
and bust of the late Senator Cuslunan
K. Davis was unveiled.
The European squadron will go to
Kiel.
Orders have been issued for the
Kcarsarge to be gotten ready to pro
ceed as the flagship of Rear Admiral
Cotton, with the European Squadron,
to the regatta at Kiel.
The Treasury Department has de
cided that Japanese Geisha girls are en
titled to admission as artists.
The Secretary of War has decided
that the charges brought by Major
Hunter against Major Howze of cruelty
toward the Filipinos are not sustained
by the evidence.
The War Department has had 50
3-inch guns made in Dusseldorf, Ger
many. Senators Alger and Burrows and
Representative Lucking, of Mich., pre
sented to Secretary Hay the renoluiiona
adopted at a Detroit mass-meeting pro
testing against the massacre of Jews at
iusiieneu.
2000 PERSONS ARE KILLED
Earthquake Destroys Town of Melazgherd
in Turkey,
THE ENTIRE POPULATION IS DEAD.
Troops In Garrison and 703 Armenians Among
the Number Killed 409 Houses In Nearby
Villages Also Collapsed Severe Shock
Was Felt at Constantinople Stables Turn.
ed Into Sleeping Apartments by the People;
Constantinople (By Cable). Advices
vhich reached here from Asiatic Turkey
show that a terrible earthquake occurred
at Mclazgerd, on the eastern branch of
the headwaters of the Euphrates, in the
Vilayet of Bitlis, So miles southeast of
F.rzcrum, the capital of Armenia, and
not far from Lake Van.
The town of Mclazgerd was totally de
stroyed, with its entire population, nu:n
bering 2000 souls, including 700 Arnicn
ians, as well as the troops forming the
garrison of Mclazgerd.
In addition, over 400 houses in neigh
boring villages collapsed.
A somewhat severe earth shock was
felt here, but no damage was done.
London (By Cable). The Foreign
Office here received some details from
the British Consul at Erzcrum regard
ing the recent earthquake at Mclazgerd,
according to which a strong earth shock
lasting .10 seconds was felt in the morn
ing of April 29 throughout the entire dis
trict between Lake Van and the Rus
sian frontier and as far west at Kharput.
The town of Mclazgerd, consisting of
500 houses, was destroyed, and much
havoc was wrought in the surrounding
villages. Col. Khalil Bey, commanding
the garrison of Mclazgerd, with his
whole family; three other officers and
eighty soldiers perished in the ruins.
Lieutenant Colonel Tayib Bey, whose
family perished, became insane.
The telegraph operator who sent the
news of the catastrophe said he himself
was badly injured, and that his wife and
sister had been killed.
The Foreign Office has appealed for
subscriptions for the relief of the des
titute Mohammedans and Christians of
the Mclazgerd district.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Vicc
Consul Oialvo. at Erzerum, Turkey,
sends to the State Department an ac
count of an earthquake at Mclazgerd on
April 29. He says 520 people were killcl
and the city is 111 ruins. Iiarthquake
shocks have been almost continuous
since November 8. toot.
The shock was strongly felt in Erzc
rum, a journey of vs hours, and threw
the people into a panic. Many of them
turned their stables, which are built level
with the ground, into sleeping apart
ments for greater security.
RUSSIA CAN BE HELD GUILTY
For the Massacre of Jews In Klsbenef Count
Cassia! Mskes Reply.
Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). A ca
blegram was sent to Count Tolstoi, at
Moscow, asking him if the Russian
government could be held guilty of the
massacre of the Jews in Kishcncff. lie
answered by cable:
Guilty is government. First, ex
cluding Jews from common rights,
making the separate caste; secondly, in
culcating by force in Russians an idol
atrous faith instead of Christianity."
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa
dor at Washington, listened attentively
to the reading of Count Tolstoi's cable
gram and in answer said:
"I will say this much: The unfortun
ate calamity to a number of Jewish sub
jects of Russia is deeply deplored, and
measures have been taken not only to
punish the perpetrators, but to prevent
the recurrence of the misfortune. Now,
I ask, what good can result to the Jews
from the campaign waged against Rus
sia in the United States?
"The two governments are traditional
friends, the friendship is too old and
too well founded to be seriously dis
turbed. Such calamities have occurred
in other countries, and will, unfortu
nately, occur again, I need not specify
instances.'.'
Haitian Cabinet.
Port an Prince, Haiti (By Cable).
President Nord has refused toaccept the
resignation of the Hayticn cabinet. The
ministers retain their portfolios with
the understanding that the cabinet will
continue the investigation into the al
leged extensive frauds in the issuing of
Haitian government securities amount
ing to $2,000,000. It was the opposition
of the cabinet to a continuance of this
investigation which caused the ministers
to tender their resignations.
Must Serve Ills Country.
New York (Special). Three children
perished with .their mother in a fire
in the five-story apartment house at
306 West One Hundred and Thirty
fifth street. The father, a fourth child
and another tenant were seriously burn
ed. The fire, it is believed, was started
Dy an incendiary. jne police arc
searching for a man who, with his
hands covered with oil, was seen run
ning from the place.
Steamers Crash, 22 Lost.
Antwerp (By Cable). The British
steamer Huddersficld, which sailed
from this port for Grimsby, England,
collided with the Norwegian steamer
L'to. The Huddersficld foundered.
Twenty-two Austrian and Italian emi
grants were drowned. The crew was
saved. The bows of the L'to were dam
aged. Vcnezuelai Ports Closed.
Caracas, Venezuela (By Cable). The
Official Gazette published a Presidential
decree temporarily suppressing . the
Custom-houses at La Vela, Quanta,
Puerto Sucre, La Guayra, Cano, Colo
tado and Ciudad Bolivar, and allowing
steamers from the United States ij days
and sailing vessels 30 days. These al
lowances count frcm June I.
There is no clue to the identity of
the man who shot and killed John llcf
ferman near the Ardsley Clubhouse, at
Irvington, N. Y.
Wlot New Office.
Pckin (By Cable). An imperial edict
just issued appoints Wtl Ting-fang, the
former - Chinese minister at Washing
ton, to be a member of the foreign
office. His rank will be below that of
the five officers designated in the pro-l
tocoi. 1 ne appointment practical v ere
ates a new office.
Sir J. Miller's Rock Island, riden by
Maher. the American jockey, won the
classic Derby at Epsom. The King
and Queen and other distinguished per
sons were oresent.
WILL APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT.
A Permanent Restraint Front Stifling
Competition in Beef.
Chicago (Special). The beef com
bine was permanently enjoined by Judge
Peter S. Grosscup, of the United
States Circuit Court, from continuing
any agreement in restraint of trade.
Special Counsel John S. Miller, rep
resenting all the packers, gave notice of
an appeal from the decree, and the case
will be taken to the United States Su
preme Court.
The making of the temporary injunc
tion permanent might have been done
in the middle of April had not the com
bine chosen to take the full time allow
ed by law before submitting to the re
cording of the decree. There was no
delay in the final adjudication of the
case, because in no event could it have
been considered by the Supreme Court
before the October term.
Sixty days from date are allowed the
combine to perfect its appeal to the
higher court. It is believed that much
stress will be laid upon Judge Gross
cup's interpretation of the legal charac
ter of interstate commerce. This point
constituted the burden of Attorney Mil
ler's argument when the demurrer to
the Government's bill of complaint wa
made last December.
The final order of injunction does not
differ materially from the temporary
order which has been in force against
the packers since last May. The death
of Gustavus F. SwHt. which occurred
subsequent to the granting of the tem
porary injunction, was suggested to the
Court by the Government attorneys, and
his name was eliminated from the final
decree as one of the individual defend
ants, though the packing concern of
Swift & Co. is still covered by the
Court's order.
Briefly put. the decree enjoins the
packers and their representatives from
doing anything in violation of the pro
visions of the Sherman Anti-Trust act
of 1800. It covers Armour & Co., Swift
& Co., Nelson, Morris & Co., the
Schwarzchild and Sulzberger Company
and the Hammond Packing Company.
Mic last named ,is now a part of the
National Packing Company, incorpor-
atcd recently under the laws of New
Jersey.
The effect of the decree is to insist
on free competition in the meat mar
kets. Secret mcetines to acrce on uni
form prices arc prohibited. The pack
ers must not arbitrarily raise, lower or
fix prices by agreement. They are en
joined from establishing uniform rule?
ot credit to dealers and they must not
have a common blacklist of customers
who are delinquent in payment for
goods. In case of violation of any of
these provisions of the decree they are
to be brought into court and punished
lor contempt.
WILCOX APPEAL ARGUED.
Contended There Was Never Satisfactory Evi
dence Against Him.
Raleigh, N. C. (Special). The sec
ond appeal in the case of James Wil
cox, sentenced in March, 1902, to be
hanged, and who, on a new trial grant
ed by the Supreme Court, was sentenc
cd in January, 1903, to 30 years in prison
for the murder of Miss Ella Cropscy at
Elizabeth City, N. C, was heard by the
Supreme Court. The appeal was pros
ecutcd in forma pauperis.
E. F. Aydlett, of Elizabeth City, and
W. M. .bond, ot fc.denton, appeared fo
Wilcox, and Attorney-General Gilmer
tor the state, lhe petition for a new
trial was based on the ground that there
never has been evidence enough against
Wilcox for the case to go to the jury
and mat me Judge should nave so di
rectcd. Other contentions were that
there was enough evidence tending to
show suicide to leave the matter in
doubt as to murder having been com
mitted.
The Supreme Court has the matter
under advisement and it will be some
days, perhaps weeks, before an opinion
is rendered.
Threatened the President
Walla Walla, Wash. (Special). Jos-.
cph Becker, a radical Socialist, is in jail
here on suspicion of having intended to
kill President Roosevelt. The episode
was kept quiet until r-.ftcr the President's
departure. Becker is accused of having
remarked at Pendleton, Ore., last week
that he had one bullet for President
Roosevelt and another for Emperor
William, of Germany. He left for Wal
la Walla with a ritle, and his Pendleton
partner, Patrick Kine, followed him
here, notifying the police. Becker war
found working in a butcher shop. He
was arrested, and on being questioned
disclosed the location of his ritle, which
was hidden in a farmer's barn on the
line of march. Becker is a Swiss.
Big Fire la New Hampshire City.
Laconia, N. II. (Special). This city
is in darkness, nearly 100 buildings have
been burned, 350 persons made home
less and a loss of between $350,000 and
$400,000 inflicted as the result of a fire
in the Lakcport section, the area burn
ed being about 150 acres, The city fire
department was helpless to stay the pro
gress of the flames and the destruction
went on until the fire actually burned it
self out for want of material.
Love and Poisoi.
Watcrbury, Ct. (Special). Because
his sweetheart failed to return his affec
tion David Fitzpatrick, a 17-year-old boy,
swallowed half an ounce of carbolic acic
at his home here. The pain made hirr
rush from his room shrieking for aid
Two physicians avcd his life.
Laborer Inherits 20,000.
York, Pa. (Special). Intelligence
that he is the sole heir to his father'r
estate of $20,000 at Stuttgart, Germany,
reached Charles Geiger, who since 1882
has been a day laborer. Geiger left his
home in Germany when a youth and
his father lost track "of him. Geiger re
cently wrote to Stuttgart to inquire ol
his father's fate and the letter fell inte
the hands of attorneys, who have beet
trying for several years to locate the
heir to the Geiger money.
Four Killed by Gas.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). An exploa
ion of gas in the Charticrs Cool and Coke
Company mine at Federal, Pa., killed
four men instantly, badly burned sevee
and slightly injured a number of others
Several more are missing and are be
lieved to be still in the mine. As the
mine is on fire it is feared they will be
burned to death or suffocated by the
smoke. The injured are foreigners and
their names are not known. Five are be
lieved to be fatally hurt. About 75 nico
were at work when the explosion oc-
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest Ne ol Pennsylvania Told B
Short Order.
Patents granted: Henry Aiken,
Pittsburg, tongs operating mechanism!
J. M. Anderson, Pittsburg, unitini)
metals: Biddle Arthurs, Pittsburg, bur.
glar alarm; John W. Bayr.e and C.C.
Durborrow, Altoona, liquid and gase
ous fuel burner; Malcolm H. Baker,
East Liberty, alternating current arc
lamp; Charles O. Bcatley, McKeci
Rocks, cigarct former: Arthur B. Bel
lows, Pittsburg, steel gondola cars;
Resin B. Benford, Sharpshurg, eruppjr
blinds Milton H. Bolsingcr, Windhcr
envelope fastener; Charles W. Bray!
Pittsburg, apparatus for rolling piatci
or sheets; Arthur J. Briggs, Allegheny,'
telephone receiver holder; Charles F.
Buente, Allegheny, fireproof floor con
struction; Edgar H. Beyer, Waynes
boro, vise; Cyrus M. Carnahan, Allc
gheny, brake beam; Charles S. Clark,
Altoona. skimming regular for ice ma
chines; William E. Coy an. Homestead,
making steel castings; George M. Er
vin, Johnstown, railway track structure;
Reginald A. Fecccndon, Pittsburg, re
ceiver for electro-magnetic waves; Ar
thur L. George, Johnstown, railway
track structure.
Pensions granted: Samuel F. Dick
son, Tyrone, $10; Jerome Bowman,
Johnstown, $55; Etta C. Farrcllv,
rownville, $8: Martha E. Hcnch, Mc
Allistcrville, $8; Margaret Keller, Allc
gheny, $12.
Ohio Christian Gille, Zancsvillc,
J12; John Weaver. Beaver Dam, $40;
Lyman M. Cole, Geneva. $40; George
E. Farmer, Salem, $46; Josiah Gamble,
Martins F'crry, $40; Nathan B. Smith,
Dennison, $55; David B. Long, Bel
laire, $.; Elisha P. Wise, Warren,
F55 ; William Cunningham. Bridgeport,
40; Horace M. Cook, Conneaut, $40;
(esse Frasier, Middleport, $55; John
Heston, Cambridge, $46; Sarah E. Fay,
Jefferson, $8; Ella Potts, Cadiz, $u;
ocorge W. Cypher, Saxton, $15; Fran
:is R. Bausman, Pittsburg, $12; Elijah
A.. Leech, Allegheny, $55; Jonathan
Davis, Washington, $12; Charles M
Brown, Dunkard. $12; John J. Pritts,
Garrett. $10; John B. Clark, Beaver
24; minor of Henry A. Wise, Butler)
10; Caroline Peters, Brookville, $8;
sarah Quest, Green Castle, $8; Emma
Hill, Altoona, $8.
James Kerr, of Clearfield savs that
plans have been made to extend the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad to every coal-bearing district
11 Pennsylvania.
John V. Thompson, of New Castle,
eft there with his son Carl, aged 10. 011
l journey, overland, to California. They
ill travel in a wagon and will be ah
em at least three years.
Leo Aranzo, one oi the three Italians
vho were wounded in a shooting affray
it Freedom on Sunday evening, died
rom the effects of his' wounds at the
Beaver County General Hospital at
Rochester. ,
James Gilmarton was bound over for
:ourt at Sharon on a charge of aggra
vated assault and battery. It is alleged
:hat he beat Joseph Nometh, a for
tigner, on the head with a piece of iron.
Samuel Leaston. the colored sexton
if the First Baptist Church of Altoona,
ircd two shots at Harry Norman, aged
j6. also colored, both oi which took cf
.'ect, inflicting perhaps fatal injuries,
calousy was the cause of the shooting.
Three new cases of smallpox havo
leen reported at Butler.
Fire broke out in the hotel at Bear
Lake and destroyed all the buildings
nn the cast side of Main street. Loss,,
VJ5.000. The insurance is small.
During a storm the Samuel Linn
louse, near Canonsburg, was struck Dy
ightning and badly damaged.
The value of an education t the av
rrage boy is $1800 a year, according ti
:hc arguments presented by cx-Stipcrin-.endent
of Schools Lamb, of Braddock,
in. an address before the public school
teachers of New Castle.
Thomas Sitricz, a self-confessed mur
derer, is now in Clearfield jail awaiting
trial. Some weeks ago. according to
the story of the prisoner, he hit a fel
low workman at Smoke Run with a
shovel during a quarrel. The blow was
such a heavy one that the victim died.
Sitricz escaped and made his way to
Chicago, where he secured employment.
The thoughts of his crime preyed on his
mind , to such an extent tnat he could
not rest, and after receiving his wages,
he boarded a train and upon his arrival
in Clearfield gave himself up to Sheriff
McCullotlgh. Sitricz came from Hun
gary about n years ago and can talk
English fluently. He is unmarried and
rather good looking and aged about 25.
Pietro Diana, wanted as one of the
ringleaders of the riot at Hillsville
lir.tcstone quarries last winter, was cap
tured at Braddock and placed in jail
at New Castle by Sheriff Brown. It i
claimed that Diana carried a shotgun
with which he fired at the officers.
Burglars blew o;.cii the safe in the
Herminic postotfice and secured about
$400 in stamps and $75.
A lamp exploded at the residence of
Robert Morris, in New Castle. The
family had a narrow escape.
Charters were issued by the State
Department to the following corpora
tions: Shenango Valley Flour and
Produce Company, Sharon; capital,
$25,000; Standard Iron Mining and
Furnace Company, Philadelphia, capi
tal, $10,000; Intcr-Statc Conduit and
Brick Company. Scranton: capita)
$150,000; Rodgcrs & Hill, Incorporat
ed, Conshohocker. ; capital, $50,000;
Brighton F'ire Brick Comnanv. New
Brighton, capital. $.10,000: Scott Coal
and Coke Company, Somerset ; capital.
$ioo,oco; Stoncy Mount Land Com
pany. Phihdelphia; . capital, $50,000;
Mt. Penn Water Company, Mt. Pcnn;
capital, $10,000; Confluence Yrater
Company, Confluence; capital, $20,000;
Fishing Creek Manufacturing Com
pany, Carbondale; capital $7500; Frank
P. Held & Company, Philadelphia;
apital, $50,000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will close three of its four large green
houses at Altoona. The railroad com
pany is gradually abandoning the
Growth of flowers.
While on his way to work Frederick
Stevenson, fire boss at No. to cc-lliery,
was attacked by two men on the out
skirts of Lansford, and brutally beaten.
He was knocked down with a stone
from ambush, which cut a hole in his
head and rendered him unconscious.
He was then trampled upon and left
for dead. Stevenson worked during
the mine strike, and is supposed to be
the victim of enemies made then.
A thief walked into the jewelry store
ff Mrs. M. Arnheim at Pittsburg and
without the least hesitancy walked to
the window, lilted some silverware that
was in his way and, picking up a tray
containing 29, rings, walked out of the
store and disappeared. Mrs. Arnheim,
who was alone in the store, rushed to
the door and called for help, but tho
thief had escaped., His plunder was
valued at about $joo.
Scrautcn is troubled with horse
thieves. Four steeds have been taken
within the last, two nights. Joseph
Jcrinjn, a millionaire coal operator,
lost a pacer valued ot $500, and his sta
LI: boss' horso is also none.
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