WAS LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE
Two Mea Killed and Sixteen Severely
Injured.
OVER HUNDRED PERSON'S SHOCKED.
MiftilM el Dynamite tod Blasting Powder
In Giles County, Va., Blowo L'p Ths
Mtnted Bodies of Two Laborers Found
Near the Wrecked Building The Earth
Shakes tor Miles Around.
Roanoke, Va., (Special). By the ex
plosion of a large quantity of dynamite
nd blasting powder stored in a maga
zine in Giles county, two men were
Itilled outright, 16 were more or less in
jured and about loo others severely
hocked. Westbound , passenger train
Jfo. I on the main line of the Norfolk
smd Western Railroad was going at full
speed past the magazine, which was lo
cated 200 yards 'from the tracks, when
the explosion occurred. The windows of
the train were broken and the coaches
in other ways damaged, and not a single
person on the train escaped injury or
shock. The earth was shaken for miles
around and people at a distance thought
n earthquake had occurred.
The two men killed were laborers and
their- mangled bodies were found near
the wrecked magazine.
A special train with surgeons on
txard conveyed the wounded to Bluc
lield, where they were placed in a hospi
tal. It is not known what caused the ex
plosion. SLEEP THAT ENDS IN DEATH.
Pope Leo Lying In Coma on Brink of
Eternity.
Rome (By Cable"). The Tope lies
in a state of coma, and there are grave
sioubts in the minds of his doctors
whether he will ever completely emerge.
His immediate dissolution seems to be
only averted by the reliability of the
action of his heart. His pulse, though
weak, continues steady. Shortly after
midnight Dr. Lapponi said:
"The Tope at the present moment is
in a state of conia, which may be called
a condition preceding the last agony,
the duration of which it is impossible
to forecast, although everything leads
to the belief that this condition cannot
last. To be more exact, he is still in a
state of torpor and stupor from which,
however, he rouses occasionally when
lie hears sharp sounds as, for instance,
the insistent voice of one of his famil
iars calling loudlv for him. Left alone
. r-fenc. ;m i:,..i - i: !
01 torpor. .-t intervals nc mur-
murs in his sleep, continuing to have
forebodings that he is being abandoned
by his valet, Centra, and myself. These
re the symptoms of incipent cerebral
anemia and general exhaustion.
"He can no longer turn in his bed
'without assistance, and is being kept
slive by artificial stimulants. During
the last 23 hours he has had two injec
tions of camphorated oil. three of caf
feine and two hypodermics of salt wa
ter, besides drinking stimulants."
Injured By Djnamite.
Trenton, N. J. (Special). An unu
sually peculiar accident made neces
sary the killing of a horse belonging to
Jas. H. Romaine, the proprietor of the
hotel in this city, while Mr. Romaine and
the other occupants of the carriage to
which the horse was attached had a nar
row escape from personal injurv. The
horse, which wasone of a team that was
being driven along the road near Ew
ingvillr, stepped on a stick of dvnatnitc
The dynamite exploded and blew off
rme of the horse's hoofs. The vehicle
was partly shattered by the explosion,
but the occupants were not hurt.
Palma Pleased With Treaty.
Havana (Special). President Palma
has sent a letter to President Roose
velt expressing his personal gratifica
tion for the consideration shown by
the United States throughout the ne
gotiation of the treaties with Cuba and
also his pleasure over the satisfactory
conclusion regarding naval stations and
the Isle of Pines. The Cuban Adminis
tration is greatly pleased over the ac
tion of the Senate on the treaties
which, it believes, relieves what might
have developed into an embarrassing
situation both for the United States and
Cuba.
Hawaii to Kill Mosquitoes.
Honolulu (Special). The Board of
Health, having become convinced that
the germ of the dengue, a disease now
epidemic in the islands, is spread by
rnosquitoes, has planned a war on those
insects. Other interests will aid the
board and it is honed eventually to
exterminate the mosquito in the islands.
n uas ui-cn announced mat tne tni
nese here will hold a mass-meeting to
make an emphatic protest against their
exclusion from the United States.
Murder and Eiploslon.
Salinas, Cala. (Special). Charles
Craven, the son of a local rancher, kill
ed Sadie Block, a young woman, and
committed suicide. 'I heir bodies were
found with their throats cut. It is said
the girl was the daughter of the presi
dent of the Block Manufacturing Com
pany of Virgina.
Four Killed By Train.
Cincinnati, O. (Special). Four per
sons were killed near the Avondulc Su
burban Station, on the Cincinnati, Leb
anon and Northern division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, while walking?
on the tracks. They were Louis and
William Murr, mcucnger bovs, aged
IJ and II years, and two unidentified
young men. While walking- through a
deep cut on a curve they got out of
tne way 01 an outgoing excursion train
and were struck on the other track by
an incoming passenger train.
Calalp Cicllcs Wild Aaiasls.
New York (Special). The tigers,
IioparJs, panthers and hyenas in the
Qen Island Zoo suddenly became
Stratly excited Sunday. They sprang
ta the tops of their cages and dashed
gainst the heavy iron bars. Their
conduct mystified the keepers until the
superintendent entered the leopards'
cam and detected the odor of catnip.
Some mischievous person had tossed
some of the herb into the cages. The
beasts acted very much like domestic
cats about it. It seemed to intoxicate
them. . .
THE LATEST IVEWS IN SHORT ORDER,
Domestic.
Mrs. Grace Taylor had three young
men arrested in New York on the
charge of attempting to rob her of a chct
clainc bag containing $40,000 worth of
jewels. She admitted having taken a
drink with the men, and was herself
fined $,1 for intoxication, a policeman
having made that charge against her.
Dr. Thomas Berry-hill. U. S. N'., sur
geon of the cruiser Baltimore, has cured
himself of tuberculosis by camping out
and living in tents on ranches in In
dian Territory and Southwest Texas.
Counsel for George W. Beavers, form
er chief of the Division of Salaries and
Allowances of the Postoflicc Department
declared that he is not a fugitive from
justice.
The body of a stylishly dressed woman
was washed ashore at Port Stanley, Out.
A wound on the temple aroused suspi
cion of foul play.
Michael Quintan, while robbing a sa
loon in Brooklyn, was shot and killed by
Benjamin Haggcrty, his companion.
Helen Olson, of Montevideo, Minn., is
expected to die as the result of an at
tack made upon her by a negro intruder..
The Mercantile Trut Company of
New York tiled a petition in Newark,
N". J., to foreelose the $16,000,000 mort
gage of the United States Shipbuild
ing Company.
The International Retail Clerks' Con
vention in Zanesvillc, O., elected offi
cers, and decided to hold the next con
vention in Galveston, Tex.
Secretary Hay left Washington for
hjs summer home on Lake Sunapcc,
New Hampshire, where he will remain
until autumn.
The Cuban Congress passed an ap
propriation of $80,000 for expenses of
a Cuban exhibit at the St. Louis Ex
position. Mrs. Annie Mull and her child died
from poisoning in Seattle. Wash., and
E. C. Conncll was arrested on suspicion.
Secretaries Root and Moody issued ! in controversy. Bagnan, Taeniae. Bak
ordcrs lor the formation of a joint j kungaan, Lihiman, Boaam, Siboung and
army ana navy uoara.
William Patterson died in Kalama
zoo, Mich., from excessive use of to
bacco. Frank Will, a tramp, who raped the
ll-year-old daughter of John M. Bark
ley, a farmer of Indiana, Pa., was shot
by Barkley and then arrested.
Twelve Chinese miners were killed
and eight injured in an explosion due
to fire damp that occurred in a coal
mine near Nenaimo, B. C.
The Chicago City Council granted the
franchise to construct parcels tunnels
to the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph
Company.
Enrico Canapa and bis wife fought in
their apartments in New York until
the wife was killed and the husband se
verely injured.
Ten persons were injured, three ser
iously, in a wreck on the Missouri Pa-
c'ic. near Kansas city, Missouri,
' he Mountain Inn Hotel at Tine
Hill, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, the ,'
g,lcs fleeing in their night clothes,
Alired Knapp, the self-confessed
strangler, was convicted of murder in
the firt degree in Hamilton, O.
Icreign.
In consequence of the Kisheneff out
rages many Jewish families left that sec
tion and settled in other villages, con
trary to the law. The police commissa
ries have, accordingly, been notified to
expel "such Jews from localities where
thev have no ri"ht to live."
The Odct river, in Germany, has over
flowed a number of towns, causing loss
of life and of nroocrtv. The entire nor-
tion of Glogan. in the vicinity of the I
1 1 : . -..1 . ' '
tutiicurai, is suomcrgeu.
The French Chamber and Senate
have suspended their sittings on ac
count of the government's announce
ment of a ministerial crisis.
The Russian Foreign Office states
that the Manchurian question has not
yet reached a stage justifying a formal
statement.
The steamer Peter, plying on the
River Voga, was burned and 60 of
those on board were drowned.
The United States gunboat Bancroft
took under American protection at
Ciudad Bolivar, the besieged city of
Venezuela, the steamers of the American-Orinoco
Company. Upon invita
tion of the commander of the Ban
croft, all women and children of the
American and other foreign colonies
at Ciudad Bolivar took refuge on the
steamers.
The battleship Kearsarge started
from Portsmouth, England, on her
speed trip across the Atlantic to
Ercnchmans Bay, Maine. Admiral Cot
ton transferred his flag from the Kear
sarge to the Chicago and the ships sep
arated. Concerning the raising of the Amer
ican flag tin seven small islands off the
northeast coast of Borneo, it is ex
plained that the Sultan of Jolo exer
cUcs power over those islands.
Ambassador Choate communicated
to the British Foreign Office the assur
ance given by China and Russia to the
United States respecting the opening
of the ports in Manchuria.
A number of Portuguese army offi
cers have been arrested on the charge
fjf conspiring against King Charles, and
thev will be tried by court-martial.
The American and Mexican Interna
tional Silver Exchange Commissims
met the representatives of the German
government at Berlin. It is un !cr
stood that the British and French gov
ernments have refused to obligate them
selves to the purchase of a fixed amount
of silver yearly for Indian and colonial
coinage.
1 he interchange ol courtesies be
tween King Edward and President I.ou-bt-t
arc taken as an indication that Great
Britain is seeking to maintain such re
lations with France as will prevent the
latter from supporting Kussia in the
event ol war with Japan.
Financial.
The directors of the Boston h Mon
tana have declared the regular quar
terly dividend of $j per share.
'I he weakness of Amalgamated is
due to the expectation of a cut in Lake
copper to l.i 1-4 cents this week. .
Amalgamated directors have declar
ed the regular quarterly dividend of
one-half of one per cent., 50 cents per
share.
The Galveston "News" estimates
that there is a decrease in the cotton
acreage of Texas this year of 8.54 per
cent,
Government money in national bank
depositories remains practically sta
tionary, being $151.56.;:.;, of which
$.j67,s6o is to the credit of disbursing
officers.
It is understood that the Union Pa
cific notes will be offered to the pub
lic, at 08 I-a, and that Kulin, Locb &
Company, through whom the loan is
made, have received no commission for
their services.
The Bank of England rate remains
unchanged, at 3 per cent.. Proportion
of reserve to liabilities is 51 86 ner
cent.; ust week 51.42 per cent.; last
year 5000 per cent. The bank lost ill
biilUuo juuHMia.
ISLANDS ARE UNCLE SAM'S
Secretary of State Hay Can SubstaJti
ate His Claim.
CONSIDERED OF STRATEGICAL VALUE.
The State Department Ready to Answer Lord
Lansdowne's Inquiry When It Arrives and
Justify the Raising of the American Flag
Over the Seven Islands OK the Coast ol
Borneo How They Came Into Our Possesion
No communication has yet reached the
State Deartment from the British gov
ernment aliout several islands oft the
coast of Borneo, now in possession of the
United States, which some members of
the House of Commons seem to think
belong to Great Britain.
The State Department, however, is
prepared to give a prompt and conclu
sive answer when Lord Lansdowne's
inquiry reaches here. Before leaving
Washington Secretary Hay lixkcd per
sonally into the matter and satisfied him
self that the British government had not
the shadow of a claim on the islands in
question. When the inquiry reaches
here Acting Secretary Loomis, in reply
ing, will call the attention of the Lon
don government, first, to the treaty of
bewcen Great Britain, Germany and
Spain, by which the last-named nation
was to have title over all the islands
outside a marine league's distance of the
Borneo Coast. Later, in the treaty
which this government negotiated with
the Sultan of Jolo for the purchase of
certain islands belonging to him, a
dragnet clause was inserted, claiming for
the United States all those islands which
had been ceded to Spain by the treaty of
1KS5. On file in the office of Rear Ad
miral Bradford, chief of the Bureau of
Equipment, are the charts and mans
showing the location of the seven islands
I-angkayan. The islands are clearly out-
side of the marine league of the Borneo
Coast, and, therefore, under the terms
of the two treaties, belong to the United
States.
It is said at the Navy Department that
facts, recently sent one of the Iliilin-
pine gunboats to the islands to survey
I them and mark them as American tcrri
1 tory.
j It is explained that the islands have
l strategical importance, and for this rea
son me L nited Mates under no circum
stances would part with them.
USED DESPERATE MEANS.
Tombstone Desecrated and Bible Mutilated
to Forge Evidence.
Kansas City (Special). The last of j
the suits brought by W. C. Priddy and
other heirs of Nancy Priddy to secure
possession of residence property on In-
dependence Boulevard in this city val-
tied at $1,000,000 was decided against
the complainants by Judge James Gib
son in the Circuit Court. Nancv Prid
dy died in Oregon in 1892 at the age
of 66. A tombstone placed over her
grave was put in evidence by the de
fendants, who asserted that the figures
had been changed to "60" in an effort
to prove that the woman, when she
transferred her -ronerty years ago, had
not been of ae. It was shown also that
the family Bible containing the date of
birth had been mutilated. In deciding
in favor of the defendants, who include
some of the most prominent men of
Kansas City. Judge Gibson said
l.-i: . 1- .1
1
believe the tombstone was desecrated
and the family Bible mutilated for the
.purpose of this suit."
lot Swallows $103.
New York (Special). Miss Bessie
Hardenburgh. stamp clerk in the Tar
rytown postoftice, owns a Skye terrier
worth $100 more now than formerly.
Miss Hardenburgh says: "I drew from
the bank two $56 bills. I put an clastic
band around them and tucked them
away in my dress. I went to my home
in New York, and never thought of my
money until on my way to Tarrytown.
Then I telephoned home and a search
was made for the money. In one cor
ner of my bedroom a few pieces of the
bills were found. My Skye terrier was
continually coughing, and during one
of his spells he coughed up the elastic
band that was around the money. I
wish he would cough up the hun
dred." Antitoxin for Tetanus.
New York (Special). Antitoxin
proved efficacious in the treatment of
tetanus at the Harlem Hospital in the
case of Carrie White, aged 17 years
old. She was shot in the hand with
a toy pistol on the Fourth. On Sun
day tetanus developed, her jaws lock
ing tightly. She was fed through a
tube, and every six hours 20 cubic cen
timeters of the antitoxin solution was
injected into her spinal column. Fri
day brought the first signs of recov
ery. The jaws began to lose their ri
gidity, and the patient was able to
open them with a little effort. It is
expected the cure will be thorough
within a few days.
Electrician Shocked to Death;
New York (Special). James Martin,
30 years of age, electrician in charge
of the transforming station of the Edi
son Electric Light Company, in Hud
son Park, was shocked to death while
on duty. A current estimated at 7000
volts passed through the man's body.
Martin was alone when the fatality oc
curred. It is sunnosed he was '"test
ing out," when his right hand came
in contact with one of the wires. The
hand was nearly burned off.
Five Persons Killed by Tornado.
Streator, III. (Special). A tornado
killed five persons, injured a score of
others and caused a property loss of
Ji.oco.ooo.
(Special) The Vulcain Western
Company's plant suffered heavy loss.
Purcell was killed there. The Indiana,
Illinois and Iowa bridge, costing $i,oco,
000. is nearly half gone. The hoisting
works and buildings at Soring Hill shaft
were ruined. Many buildings in Kang
ley, four miles west cf Streator, were
blown down and several persons were
injured.
Nloa Burned la Eiploslon.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Nine men
were burned, one fatally and two others
seriously, by an explosion of cinder
at open hearth furnace No. ! of the
Homestead works of the Carnegie Steel
Company. Their names are . Michael
Hurko, will die; George Thompson,
probably recover; John French, prob
ably recover. Six foreigner painfully,
but not fatally, hurt. The explosion
was due to the dumping of a lot of
molten slag cinder into a pit where
sotuo water bad collected.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Russia Agrees to Open Door.
The open door in China is assured.
After years of hard work Secretary
Hay's efforts have been crowned with
success, and what threatened for a
time to be a serious difficulty wi.h Rus
sia is straightened out in a most amica
ble manner. The State Department re
ceived official assurancesfrom the Chi
nese government that in the near future
it would open to the world's trade sev
eral new ports in Manchuria, two. and
possibly three, arc now being cons d
ercd in this connection. Not only has
the Chinese government given this noti
fication, but Russia has officially con
veyed the formal assurance to the
United States that it will not oppose
in any way the opening of these ports.
This means that the details which will
undoubtedly include the making of a
treaty arc to be arranged by the repre
sentatives of the powers at Peking, and
until this is done the particular porn
to be thrown open will not be known,
but it is understood that they will be
Mukden, the most important' internal
port of Manchuria, and Ta Tung Kno,
on the Yula River. Although in the
official communications received no
time is set for the opening of these
pons, it is understood that the promul
gation will be issued soon after the
Russian evacuation in September.
It was stated that before Count Cas
smi left Washington, and during the
call of Secretary Hay upon the Russian
Ambassador at the embassy on Tunc
28. the intimation was given by the Rus
sian Ambassador that he was author
ized by his government to state that the
pledges given by his government that
Russia would not interfere with China's
granting of the open door in Manchu
ria were then in a process of realization.
It is stated that he further assured the
Secretary of State that before he
reached his home the formal announce
ment of the open door would be made.
Later Mr. Hansen, the charge of the
Russian embassy, during his call at the
State Department, reiterated
I I'lf'Kf s and reduced them to the form
I ot w1r11,'c Promises, intimating that he
I ? " , u ue al)le witmn a tew davs to add
his undertaking.
ft" " viutiii ui nit: Kuvtni lirnr in
It now remains for Mr. Conger to de
fine the treaty which he is negotiating
with China the terms and conditions
under which the new ports are to be
opened.
Refuses to Recilve I'.
The State Department has received
a reply from Russia stating that it
neither would receive nor consider the
matter of the Jewi-h petition on the
subject of the Kisheneff outrages. This
i,,forn,;ition came in the form of a cab
gram from Mr. Riddle, the American
charge at St. Petersburg, to whom was
committed the delicate task of inquir
ing of the Russian government as to its
attidude with respect to the prescnta
tion of the petition.
It is believed that this will end the
matter and that no further steps will be
taken by this government to bring the
views of the petitioners to the atten
tion ot Kussia, although as yet no con
sideration has been
dent to the course to be pursued in the
ngni 01 Kussia s response to our in
quiry. The reply that Russia would make to
all suggestions on the subject of the
Kisheneff massacre was forecasted
some weeks ago in an authorized state
ment, when the
formed that Russia regarded the affair
as an internal matter, as to which she.
... ...t tAcrcise 01 ner own sovereignty,
...1. muse 10 receive suggestions
lrom any other government or outside
3UUI LC,
Cost $24,051 to Collect $1,000.
The feature of the annual report of
me auditor of the Trucsurv Deoart
ment is the table showing the receipts
and expenses of the several customs
.1ictrt..f ...!.:!. .
. ow.ua, m1u.11, m some cases, seem to
ue altogether disproportionate
In 28 districts, embracing the East,
West and South, the aggregate aver
age receipts per annum for the last
five years was $1006. The expense of
collecting these revenues for the year
T "'"""'lieu 10 .'4.051.
1 he auditor reronimi.iwlo r.,..l. t :
lation as will remove existing comnli-
nvwt ...... 1. 1 .'I. , 1
,i,iuiimi ior eacn nort
UW..I.IC compensation commensurate
"mi us volume ot business.
Preference to Old Veterans.
Acting Commissioner Williams, of
the Internal Revenue Bureau, bv di
rection of Secretary Shaw, has issued a
circular letter to collectors of internal
revenue calling attention to President
Roosevelt's order of January 17, 1002
directing that preference shall be given
alike 111 appointments and. retention in
the public service to honorably dis
charged soldiers of the Civil War. Col
lectors are instructed to carefully ob-
cnr.-A .1.:.. I . ... J
.j. mis oiucr in maxing assignments
to the work of gauging and recom
mending assignments to the work of
store-Keeper and storekeeper gauger.
In Ibe Departments.
Col. Thomas II. Barry, adjutant gen
eral s department, has been selected for
brigadier general in the Permanent serv
ice to fill the vacancy caused by the pro
motion of Gen. Leonard Wood.
Treasury experts fix the shortage of
jamcs n. w aison, tne defaulting clerk in
the auditor's office, at $7.1,.v7.
The President has directed that commissions-be
made out for Gen. Young
as lieutenant general, and for Briga
dier Generals Sumner and Wood as
major gencfals, and for a number of
colonels to be retired as 'brigadiers.
The University of North America was
incorporated in Washington.
George W. Beavers, formerly chief
of the salary and allowance division
of the Postoflicc Department, was in
dicted by the federal grand .jury in
Brooklyn. A bench warrant has been
issued for his arrest.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
upon Ins return from the West, said the
abnormally cool weather and the rsiii
had retarded the corn crop,
The conference between Secretary
Hay and Theodore Hansen regarding
the Manchurian situation was most sat
isfactory. v
Secretary Hay has cabled to Mr. Rid
dle, American charge d'aflfairs at St.
Petersburg, respecting the means of
bringing to the attention of the Czar the
Jewish petition relative to the massacre
at Kisheneff.
According to a ruling by the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, ciga
rettes, tobacco and snuff must not be
taken from the stamped packages for
the purpose of exhibition.
Although the White House has been
turned over by the architect and cop
tractors, there are still a number of
change to be made in the President
residence.
REFUGE ON AMERICAN SHIP
Many Foreigners at Ciudad Bolivar
Given Protection.
NO ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN FORCES,
Many Women and Chlldred Board American
Steamers of the Orinoco Company, Which,
I'oder Escort ol U. S. Ounhoat Bancroft,
Sail Away From th; Brsleged Vtneiuelan
City.
Soledad, Venezuela (By Cable) Not
withstanding that the armistice termi
nated at midnight, ho engagement be
twetn the government forces and the
rebels had taken place up to 0 o'clock
a. 111. General Gomez has completed
the investment of Ciudad Bolivar, and
none can now leave the city.
Lieutenant Commander Culver, com
mantling the L'nitcd States gunboat Ban
croft, after a long conference with the
commanding officer of the Venezuelan
squadron, decided to take under his pro
tection all the river steamers belonging
to the American Orinoco Steamship
Company, which were recently seized
by the revolutionists at Ciudad Bolivar.
He also requested the women and
children of the American and other
foreign colonies at Ciudad Bolivar to
take refuge on the steamers in order to
escape the dangers of the scige. the shell
ing of the town and a possible battle.
In accordance with Lieutenant Com
mander Culver's invitation many women
and children, a number of whom were
of German nationality, embarked early
today on the American steamers, which
flying the American flag and escorted by
the Bancroft, left in the direction of
San Felix, probably on the way to the
Island of Trindad.
Meat, Milk and other provisions arc
already scarce in the besieged town. The
British Counsul paid $150 for a cow.
The swift current running in the Orin
oco River, as the result of heavy rains,
prevents direct communication between
Soledad and Ciudad Bolivar. The re
volutionists have also destroyed the
means of transport between the two
towns.
Chief Arthnr Drops Deal.
Winnipeg, Man. (Special1). P. M.
Arthur, grand chief engineer of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
dropped dead : ividuiuht while sneak
ing nt the bancittct closing the annua
union convention of the Brotherhood o:
Locomotive Eiurineers, which has been
111 session lor the nast few davs. Mr
Arthur had iust ari-en to respond to a
toast and repeated the words: "It mav
lie inv parting words to many of von
when he fell backward and expired a
few minutes afterward.
Four Burned to Death.
Bonner Springs, Kan., (Special).
Four persons lost their lives in a fire
which destroyed Bonner Springs Sani
tarium at Bonner Springs, Kan., seven
teen miles west of Kansas City. Dr.
Rogers, steward, lost his life in an at
tempt to save a woman patient. There
were thirty inmates in the building, but
all escaped except four. Loss, $20,030.
To Test Submarine Boats.
Washington, D. C, (Special). Sec
retary Moody intends that exhaustive
experiments shall be made with ull the
submarine boats that the government
has on its hands as soon as the summer
maneuvers are over. If not found 'at
isfactory he will recommend to Con
gress that no more money be appro
priated for this type of craft.
Kills Girl; and Then Himself.
Baker City. Ore.. (Special).- T0
avoid arrest on the charge of eloping
with a 15-year-old girl known as "Bloh-
hom," A. A. Ear, of Coldwell. Idalio.
shot and killed the girl and then him
self. Earl was .is years old and left a
wife and two children.
SPARKS FROM TlfU WIRES.
A number of Rhode Island cotton
mills shut down on account of the con
dition of the market.
Four persons-lost their lives i-i a
fire at the Bonner Spring Sanitarium,
near Kansas City.
Benedict Ilimmel, a farmer living
near Erie. Pa., shot and killcJ his
wife and himself.
Dr. Bamett, the acting chief of the
sanitary department, announces that
only three cases of yellow fever have
entered Havana harbor this year.
Five workmen were injured by the
parting of the cable of an elevator in the
new Hotel Stratford, in Philadelphia.
The sale of the Clarton Steel Com
pany to the United States Steel Corpora
tion has been consummated.
Hudson Samson, a well-known philan
thropist in Methodic Episcopal Church
circles, died in Pittsburg.
The strike of the employes, of the
Connecticut Railway and Lighting Com
pany lias been declared off.
William Thacker. white man, wjs
lynched at Flemingsbiirg, Ky.
The steamer Nadieka. nlvinz on the
Volga, has been destroyed by fire near
Nizhniy-Novgorod. Twelve pcr.-ons
were uurncu to tieatn.
According to a decision of tht ft all
Supreme Court, a man is under moral,
but not legal, obligations to support his
plural wives.
War Secretary Brodrick announced
in the British jfouc of Commons that
it had been decided to keep a force of
25.000 men permanently 111 South Africa.
V. E. Ashton. callinir himself nn
American author, was committed for
trial in London, charged with ( ,r,r,r.
checks for $2.6uo in the name of Laird
bcholes & Co., of Philadelphia.
The British Foreign Office ln
information of the reported seizure i
some 20 islands off the coast of B-.rne
by American warships, and not much
imnortance is attached to the report.
The United States lute
change Commission was received in Ber
lin uy ur. von Muenlucrg, the undersec
retary tor loreign attairs.
Several persons were killed and 20 or
.10 injured in the wreck of the South
port express near Liverpool.
n young woman, trenzied bv religious
mama, attempted to burn herself to
death 011 the beach of the Gulf of Fin
land, near the Sergievo Monastery.
The Conference of th nromtnen T?i...
sian officials at Port Arthur Warn nn-
eluded. Orders were given for strength
ening the Russian position at Port
Arthur.
Information has been recrivr.l Can
Francisco from the Orient that the
united Mate sunboat Ca Ian i in hot
pursuit o a band of pirates which cap
lured a Chinese member of the crew.
It is Stated on what is believed to be
good authority that New York Central
will spend only $11,500,000 betwttcit
now and next February 1. and that the
company had $10,000,000 on hand June
jo. WJk I
, STUNNCD W1T" R0CK EN hanged.
Kentucky Mob Was
Tired ol The
Law's Delay. '
Maysvillc. Ky. (Special). Enraged
at the tardiness of the courts, a mob
broke into the Flemingsburg Jail and
hanged William Thacker, a white man,
who had been given a life sentence for
the murder of John Gordon two years
ago.
Thacker in a qutrrcl with Gordon at
Foxport shot and killed him and then
sat on the body with a Winchester rifle
in hand, while he smoked his pipe and
dared anyone to nttcmpt to arrest him.
At the time Thacker escaped, but was
later arrested and lodged in jail at
Flcmingsbur. He was given two
trials and finally got a life sentence.
Gordon was a pood citizen and an
inoffensive man. After being sentenced
T hacker appealed to the Court of Ap
peals, and was waiting for another trial.
Thacker had some money and was able
to command the support of some influ
ential men, ami it was feared that he
micht escape punishment altogether.
The mob collected at Mount Carmcl,
where Gordon once lived, and came in
to Flemingsburg by twos and threes
in order not to arouse suspicion. They
advanced upon the jail shortlv after
midnight. The jailer refused to sur
render the keys. He was overpowered
and the keys taken from him. Thacker
was hurried to a tree near the jail and
was given time in which to say his
prayers, which he refused to do, but
begged for his life.
To hush his cries, he was hit on the
head with a rock and his unconscious
body strung up until life had become
extinct.
WENT DOWN THREE HUNDRED FEET.
Mrs. A. E. Johns, of New York, Plunges
Into Crevasse in Yosemite Valley.
Yoscmitc Valley, Cala. (Special).
Mrs. A. E. Johns, of New York city,
who has been staying in the valley for
a few days, was found Tuesday morning
in a steep crevasse back of the Sentinel
Dome. Monday Mrs. Johns started
from Glacier Point Hotel to walk to the
fissures, located some two miles from
the hotel, and did not return at night.
Early Tuesday morning searching
parties started out. and one of them
made a discovery that filled the specta
tors with horror. Far down the Sen
tinel fissure, whose crevasses drop in
some places fcr thousands of feet, svs
pended on a ledge that jutted out from
the steep side, the almost lifeless form
of Mrs. Johns was found by Mr. Pat
ter, a hotel clerk. She was too weak to
speak, but was able by feeble signs to
make Mr. Potter know that she still
lived.
After trying in vain to work his way.
down the mountain side to her, Mr.
Potter was forced to go to the hotel
for help. Provided with plenty of ropes
and carrying a stretcher, a party of
eight made its way back to the crevasse,
where the work as commenced of try
ing to extricate Mrs. Johns from her
dangerous situation.
Airs. Johns is suffering much from
nervous shock, but as no bones were
fractured she will recover.
MRS. JAMES a BLAINE DEAD.
Widow ol the Famous Leader Passes Away
From Old Age.
Augusta, Maine (Special). Mrs. Jas.
G. Blaine, widow of the noted states
man, who was the Republican candi
date for President in 1884, died at the
Blaine homestead here.
Mrs. Blaine was 76 years of age.
From Washington, a short time ago,
she came to the old family residence,
on State street. She was in an enfee
bled condition and had been under al
most constant medical attention since.
During the past week she failed rap
idly. Her condition was due to a gen
eral breakdown of the system.
Mrs. Blaine's maiden name was Har
riet Stanwood. daughter of a leadins
citizen of the State of Maine. She met
her husband while both of them were
teachers in a school in Kentucky. They
were married at Pittsburg, and later
came to Au.gu.sta. where Mr. Blaine be
came editor of the Kennebec Journal.
She left one son, lames G. Blaine,
and two daughters, Mrs. Harriet Bcale
and Mrs. Walter Damrosh of New
York.
Lehmano Convicted.
St. Louis (Special). The jury in
the case of Julius Lchmann, former
member of the House of Delegates.
charged with bribery in connection with
the passage of the City Lighting Bill,
returned a verdict finding the defendant
guilty. His punishment was fixed at
seven years in the penitentiary the
longest term yet inflicted in any of the
boodle cases. The sentence is also the
maximum punishment under the law
for the crime of which he was convict
ed. It took the jury just seven minutes
to reach its verdict.
Declared Insane.
Washington (Special). General Cor
bin has approved the recommendation
of General Bates in the case of Lieut.
William K. McCue, First Infantry, and
the ofticer is now on his way to St.
Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane, in
this city.
The papers in the case have been re
ceived at the War Department, nd
show that surgeons who have examin
ed McCue pronounce him insane.
Among the papers is one tendering his
resignation ai an officer while in the
Philippines,
Novel Cause for Divorce.
Dublin, Ind. (Special). In the case
of Mrs. Kendall against her husband,
Alfred Kendall, a wealthy farmer, the
complaint sets forth a unique ground
for divorce. Mrs. Kendall is 45, while
her husband is 65. Mrs. Kendall al
leges that it was a frequent occurrence
for-Kendall ta come to bed with his
boots on, and that she has been dam
aged to the extent of $5000, which she
demands in her suit.
A Fstal Error.
New London, Conn. (Special).
Capt Solomon E Sparrow, U. S. A.,
retired, is dead in this city at the reull
of a dose of carbolic acid taken by mis
take for medicine. He was retired for
disability in line of duty in 1900.
World's Record Claimed.. I
London (By Cable). The Great
Western Railway Company claims to
have made a world's record for Us
train. The train ran front London to
Plymouth, a distance of 246 mile, in
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest Nes ot Pennsylvania Told in,
Short Order.
Patents granted: Chester J. Alhree.
Allegheny, bolster: Rudolph G. Baker,
Pittsburg, typesetting machine: Thomas
Charlton. Pittsburg, air and gas mixer
for explosive engines: Edward M. Erd
mon, Pottsville, straightway valve : johi
H. Lavacek. Cliff Mine, tap hole closer
Marks E Hunter, Allegheny, hand saw
handle: Louis R. Jennings. Homestead
mechanical vender: Ezra Liken. Berks."
villc. friction clutch: Patrick E. Mack,
Bradford, coupling; Clayton A. McKin
ney, Altoona. mail bag closure: William
Maxwell. Pittsburg, automatic wcigh
ngn ,cooV; George A. Mcntel and J.
B. Paul, Pittsburg, automatic valve for
water heaters; John B. Ncerham, Mo
nongahcla. forming sand molds: Allen
C. Trice, Renfrew, pumn rod adjuster
for oil wells; George S. Ramav. St
Marys, coke oven: George W. Shade
and I. S. Knapp, Pittsburg, cu-pidor;
Lucy E. T rax, Uniontown, curtaiir
hanger; Albert E. Vickcr, McKees
port. combination right angle square
and level; Robert R. and J. H. Vogan
Allegheny, rotary engine; Clark White!
Dunbar, steam valve.
Trof. Lemuel R. Eckels, principal of
the Sandy Lake High School, was
elected superintendent of the Wavncs
burg public schools. Prof. Eckels is
a graduate of the State college and of
Edmboro State Normal, and was
county superintendent of Mercer county
for six years.
Deputy Coroner T. O. Hazen. of
Sharpsville. has returned a verdict that
the child found in the Shcnango river
recently was murdered by unknown
parties.
.P'wi'jiek Cerena was blown up and
killed. John Stcphan, in testing pow
der, poured some in a trail and set
the f-pen powder keg down at the end
pf the trail. He lighted it, and the
keg blew up as Ccrcna was passing.
The explosion of a boiler at Hoi
istcr & Bowman's colliery at Avoc?
killed Malnchi Cavanatigh and wreck
ed the building.
The Cenfr-1 Trades and Ijbor coun
cil, at Dubois, has indorsed th" strike
of the men at the Harbison-Walker
Refractories Company and asked locaJ
unions to help them.
Margaret Barklev. arred 11 yenrs
daughter of John M. B-irkley. a far
mer, was assaulted by Frank Will, a
tramp, while she was returning front
the postoftice. The child crawled tcr
her parents' home and her father, ac
companied by many neighbors, started
in pursuit of the man. He was found
secreted in a house nearby and in at
tempting to escape was nrobably fa
tally shot by Barkley. The wounded
man was conveyed to Craft Postoftice,
where a posse of deputies guarded hinr
all night to prevent lynching bv in
Hignant farmers who came in 'front
the surrounding country for mile
around.
The body which was found floating
in the Susquehanna near Safe Harbor
was identified as that of John McCoy,
so years oiu. ot t-olumbia. McCoj
left home last Saturday to visit hiV
son at Peach Bottom, but never reach
ed that place. He was the father o!
Clarence McCoy, one of the two yoiing
men who were convicted of the mur
der of Jacob Bostic, a track walker, at
Bainbridge. and this preyed heavily oir
his mind, leading to the belief that h
committed suicide by jumping into the
river.
The will of Charles F. Yifngling
which was admitted to probate in cour"
at Pottsville. showed large bequests tc
public institutions. The I'ottsvillr
Hospital, the Pottsville Children'?
Home and the Lutheran and Re
formed Churches were given large
stuns of money.
Prof. Will iam McComb. of a mid
way show nt Shamokin. leaped from a
platform 100 feet high, intending te
alight in three feet of water. The winr?
carried him out of his course and his
head struck the side of the canvas
water tank, causing serious injuries.
Benedict Himmel, a well-to-do far
mer near Erie, killed his wife and then
turning the, revolver on himself sent a
bullet through his heart. Himmel had
been drinking heavily for several day?
and frequently quarreled with his wife.
He was 65 years old and his wife was
a year his senior.
Prosper Warg, aged 6 years, was fa
tally burned while fmitating a hipl
diver who was in Hazleton recently
with a carnival company. Warg satu
rated his clothing with kerosene, as
his exemplar of the street carnival had
done, and lighting the oil proceeded to
dive from the rear porch of his home
in a blaze. He screamed in terror and
Jennie Bredbenncr, a 15-year-old girl,
after sustaining severe burns herself,
smothered the flames.
Mr. and Mrs. John Koon and the lat
ter' nine-year-old sister, Mamie Ryan,
of Pottsville, are believed to be dying
from poisoning, the result of eating
soused mackerel. The fish was given
to the family by a friend, who had
also partaken of the same can, but,
strange to say, was not affected.
Christian Rindcrnecht, who for sev
eral years had charge of the County
nome, Carlisle, died, aged 78 years.
Frank Roth, a farmer near Quaker
town, was thrown from a binding ma
chine and sustai.icd injuries that may
prove fatal.
Fire destroyed a frame barn and its
contents owned by A. S. Cadwalladel
at Yardley. The loss is partially cov
ered by insurance.
The Socialists of I Northumberland1
county held a convention at Johnson"
City and nominated A. E. Kramer,
'.his place, for register and recorder
:f deeds, and John L. Shanahan, Mt
Carmcl, for jury commissioner.
R. A. Marshall, of Shamokin, was
flung to the ground after being drag
ged a square by a runaway horse and
lost $i-o in addition to being seriouslj
injured. The carriage was smashed
and the horse hurt so badly that it hat)
to be khot.
Worriment over imaginary trouble
as the result of ill-health led Frank
Brckley, for twenty years the Phila
delphia & Reading Railway Company
station agent at Prescott, to cut his
throat while mentally dcratyrod. He
was found dying in a field tame dis
tance from his home. j I
Washington Camp, No. igi, P. b. S
of A., Spring City, celebrated its thir-
tieth anniversary in Mechanics' Hall,
which was crowded with members and
friends. Rev. Charles E. Wehler, ol
Phoeiiixvillc, was the speaker of the
evening. A banquet followed the en
tertainment. Mrs; CharUy Scherff of Philadet
phia. fell over a stump in the sidewalk
on Main street, in Darby, and the ar
bitrators awarded her $700 for her in
juries and her husband $joo for the
I ios ol her society. The borough ap
pealed the cmc, and It will now te tner
by a jury. "
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