HAD ENOUGH OF THE X RAY Vizard Edison Will Slop Experimenting With It. ASSISTANT PRACTICALLY HELPLESS. KetaM of Self-sacrificing Work In Studying the Possibilities of the Mysterious Power, 4 tbe Noted Wfiird Himself Had His Eye Pat Out of Focus Is Dangerous la Many Ways. New York, (Special). That loss of light, cancerous disease and even death may come to him who is continually exposed to or inexperienced in the use of roentgen rays has been dem onstrated by an awful experiment in the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison. Clarence Dally, an assistant to the "Wizard of Mcnlo Tark " has contrib uted an arm and a hand to this dem onstration, while Mr. Edison himself suffers from the disturbed focus of one of his eyes through cxneriments with the mysterious light in an endeavor to find for it some commercial utility. The chief sufferer, Dally, is left to depend entirely upon the generosity of Mr. Edison, in whose interest, sup plemented by an enthusiastic desire to delve deeper in that mysterious force which brings to view objects conceal ed in solid matter, he has been inca pacitated from taking up the life bur dens and duties that usually fall to a man. The story of Dally is told by Dr. viraves, one ot tne leading surgeon of New Jersey. "Dally came to me nearly seven Tears ago, said Ur. Graves, "and I wun 10 say mat l regard linn a mar tyr to science. He is so regarded by the medical profession generally, for not one cent has ever been charged him for either surgical or medical ser vices. He presents to science a pitia ble object-lesson of the dangers of in experienced or continuous experiments with X rays, and his sufferings have done more to bring to professional no tice a correct knowledge of things to be avoided than anything else in the history of scientific research upon this suuject. lie had been following his liobby enthusiastically and had been testing tubes in the Edison laboratory, exposing himself to the forcible light with an utter disregard of self. "In the beginning his hair began to fall out and his face began to wrinkle. The trouble in his left hand finally de veloped into a skin cancer, and the whole arm, away up above the elbow and well into the biceps, was affected. 7"here was a consultation of physicians and it was agreed that he must be op erated upon at once or the poisonous cancer would place his life in jeopardy. Two years ago his arm was ampu tated. "I then turned my attention to the right arm with a view to saving it, tut it began to manifest the same dis position as the amputated arm, and a short time ago I took off four of Daily's fingers, so that now he has but one thumb on one hand with which to earn his livelihood." Another sufferer from X rays. Mr. Edison himself, was seen at his home, in Llewellyn Park, Orange, and asked to tell the story of the experiment which disabled Dally and came near making him sightless. "Don't talk to me about X rays," he aid, "I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them when I came rear losing my eyesight, and Dally, my assistant, practically lost the use of both of his arms. I am afraid of radium and polonium, too, and I don't want to monkey with them. "Up to two years ago I was deeply interested in X rays. I was looking for an improved crystal and there were daily results that fascinated me and kept my eye glued to the fluroscope virtually all the time. "I used my left eye, and one day when I came out of the dark room and closed my right eye for a moment everything looked double. I hastened to an oculist, who said that my eye was something over a foot out of fo cus. It is still imperfect, and I do not think that it ever will be entirely well." FIGHT SHERIFF'S POSSE. Desperate Battle In Which Three Officers Are Said to Have Been Killed. Flacerville, Cal. (Special). Special messengers report that a fight took place between the sheriff's posse, aided by the Placerville militia and the es caped convicts. Two militiamen are re ported wounded and two convicts either wounded or captured. The cene of the fight was near Grand Vic tory Mine, three miles from here. Sacramento, Cal. (Special). The dhief clerk of Folsom prison has tele phoned that three of the sheriff's posse were killed and that two convicts are thought to have been wounded. It is stated that preparations are being made to set fire to the Grand Victory Mine, in which the convicts have taken refuge. The Evaasvllle Slot Evansville, Ind. (Special). Coroner IValling returned his verdict in the cases of the 10 persons who were killed in the recent riot. He found that they came to their death from ride balls fir ed by some unknown persons. His re port said: "I find the deceased came to their deaths by reason of gunshot wounds inflicted by rifles in the hands of unknown persons. I further find that the said wounds were inflicted during a riotous attack on the county jail and militia defending the same on the 6th day of July, 1003. After taking the depositions of 66 persons who were present at the time of the riot, I am unable to say who the person was who fcred tbe shots." Lynchers Alter Him. Kenton, O. (Special). Harry Minard, 60 years old, was found dead with a bullet bole in his breast at his home, three mile from Kenton. William "Nickolson, mulatto, is suspected of the crime. According to a statement made by Nickolson's sister, he confessed to her that he had killed Minard and took S200 in money. Nickolson later fled from town. A posse is in pursuit, and there are threats that if captured he will he lynched, Taterca'-oala (eagres. Washington, D. C (Special). Clark Bell, secretary of the Congress of Tuber culosis, ha notified the state department that the congress will meet in St. Louis daring the exposition, and ha requested that invitations to participate be ex tended formally to foreign government. New World's Record. Boston, Mass. (Special). Basil De Gnkhardl established a new , world's record for pace followers by riding 'forty-eight miles, three laps and two hundred yards in one hour in the Golden Wheel race at Charles River Park. ' THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic. The trustees of the Newport Hospital have received from Mrs. Vnndcrbilt the formal transfer of the $.250,000 ward nmcn sue nas caused to he erected as a memorial to her husband, the late Cor nelius Vandcrbilt. Judge Lochren, of the United States Circuit Court, in the case of the State of Minnesota against the Northern Securi ties Company, decided in favor of the defendants and dismissed the bill of com plaint. Ida M. Tritt, the first woman to hold an executive position in any railroad in the United States, has been elected treasurer of the New York and Queens County Street Railway. It is expected in Boston cotton-manufacturing circles that more than 2,000,000 spindles will be idle throughout the North during the month of August. Eighteen British subjects were refused a landing by the United States immigrant commissioner at San Francisco because they were contract laborers. Further evidence was given in the trial at Cynthiana, Ky., of Curtis Jett and Thomas White for killing J. B. Marciim that Jctt admitted the killing. A freight train ran into a half-open drawbridge on the Delaware and Hud son, killing the fireman and seriously in juring the engineer. The mobilization of the greatest fleet of warships in American waters has been successfully accomplished at Frenchmans Hay. Three men were found crushed to death on a gondola car, loaded with lum ber, from il hams-port, l'a., for Phila delphia. Lawrence Murphy, former treasurer ot tne journeymen fctonecutters Union, who was arrested last December, charged with embezzling $12,000 from the labor organization, and who was convicted in New York on Monday of grand larceny, was sentenced by Judge Newburger, in Part II. of General Ses sions, to five years and six months in state's prison. The French steamer Le Lion arrived in Philadelphia, having on board the crew of the Italian bark Vermont, which capsized in the Atlantic during a storm. A fisherman in the Mississippi river near Lacrosse, Wis., was pulled over board by an enormous catfish and was drowned. Ben W. Stearncs, the one-armed life prisoner who escaped from the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., was captured. Robert Lee, the negro who shot Po liceman Masscy in Evansville, Ind., died from effect of wounds inflicted by Masscy, James McCormick, of New York, well known as a broker for Jay Gould and as an art collector, is dead. Major John Wyatt Jones, of the last Confederate staff officers, died in St. Louis, aged 83 years. A murder, believed to have been the outcome of a duel, occurred at Revere, Mass., Joseph Corse being the victim and Anthony Montanino being the al leged murderer. The Doylestown (Pa.) National Bank suspended, and was placed in the hands of a comptroller. Speculation in stock by the bank's officers is charged. Hospital doctors in San Francisco re port the cure of a case of lockjaw by the use of antitoxin, which was injected into the patient's brain. Walter W. Condon, formerly of Cold Water, Mich., said to be an heir to an estate valued at $350,000, has been found in Chicago. A. B. Youngson, first assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers, died in Mcadville, Pa., his home. Edmund J. Smith, a former discount clerk in a Newark (N. J.) bank," is short $10,000 in his accounts. The Scaview House on the camp ground at Old Orchard. Me., was burn ed. Two guests arc missing. During July 130,000 immigrants nass- ed through St. Paul en route to the Northwest. The graves of five Indians, with their weapons, were uncovered in Chicago. Five sanitary inspectors of Chicago were indicted for accepting bribes. Foreign. Schcnchicn. a Pckinn: iournalist. boldly declared that he had advocated the as sassination of the Manchus. and was be headed. A bodv of Bcrahpr Moors nttni-kpd a French force of to native sharpshooters and carried off 150 camels. Two ballots were taken bv the Collecre of Cardinals, in conclave in Rome, but witnout result. King Edward, Queen Alexandra and the royal party finished their Irish tour. J he members of the Sacred College went into conclave yesterday in Rome. not to emerge until a pope has been elected. It was a trying ordeal for the cardinals and a day of excitement at the atican. A warrant was issued at Budapest, Hungary, for the arrest of former Deu- uty Dienes, who was charged in the Diet with having attempted to bribe Deputy Papp. The levying of countervails duties on imported and bountied sugar with India has been extended to March 31, 1 004. Ihe religious ceremonies at the Mon astery at Svropp, Russia, which will last for five days, promises to be very interesting. The relics of St. Seraphim will be exposed. Ten striking workmen were killed and 18 wounded by the troops at Mik- hailovo, on the 1 iflis-Uatoum Railway, by Russian troops they had attacked. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, defended the South African policy of the govern ment. Financial. The price of tin advanced 5 shillings in London. Gates is said to be carrying 40,000 shares of Atchison. An official says Atchison has $12, 000,000 cash available for the com pany's needs. Copper metal is down to 13 cents a pound, and seems to grow a shade easier. A general refunding 4 per cent bond to the amount of $250,000,000 is talked about for Rock Island. The wool business is especially brisk. Large mills throughout the country are making heavy purchases. Morgan has called for 10 per cent, more irom the Louisville & Nashville underwriting syndicate, making a total of 80 per cent. Payment of dividends on industrial stocks, in August will amount to $17, 865,528, of which United States Steel will pay $8,898.656 to its preferred stockholders. The total is the smallest for any month of the year. The total dividend'' payments of industrials for eight months aggregate $179,025,006, as compared with $175,270,780 lor the eighf months of 1 002. COLLAPSE J)FA BRIDGE Hundreds of People Struggle For Life in the Water. THREE PERSONS WERE BROWNED. The Bridge Was An Old Wooden Structure, Having Been Built Sixteen Years Ago, and Had Been Considered Unsafe for Some Time, Although It Was Not Condemned Many Fell Between the Boat Houses. Portland, Ore. (Special). A section of the bridge which span9 the Willa mette river at Morrison street collapsed, throwing more than 100 persons 40 feet into the water. Three persons are known to have been drowned, and it is feared that the list f dead will be much larger when all are accounted for. Many fell on two small boat houses moored to a pier of the bridge, imme diately under the spot where it gave way. About 25 persons were injured, cither by striking on the boat houses or by falling timbers. Many fell from the roofs of the boat houses into the water, but dozens of small boats and launches in the vicinity quickly picked them up. Thousands of persons gathered on the Morrison and Madison street bridges and along the docks to watch Clarence Lutz, an armless man, swim the river, which is about threc-cighth9 of a mile wide. As Lutz was climbing out of the water the crowd rushed to the south edge of the bridge in order to get a good view. A section of the passenger walk gave way under the heavy weight, and the crowding, strug gling mass ot people was carried down a distance of 40 feet. The river is about 15 feet deep at that point. Many fell between the boathouses, forming a pile 10 feet high of struggling men, wo men and children. Hundreds of persons at the club house of the Portland Rowing Club, men in boats and on shore immediately started the work of rescue. Dozens of boats at the scene soon picked up those struggling in the water, while the in jured, who were clinging to the boat houses, were taken into the clubhouse and medical aid summoned. Every ambulance in the city, several fire companies, and a large force of po licemen arrived within a few minutes. and victims with broken arms and legs were hurried to the hospitals. The bridge is an old wooden struc ture, having been built 16 years ago, and has been considered unsafe for some time, although it was not con demned. MINUTE HAND SIXTY FEET LONQ. Dial Will Be 120 Feet In Diameter Clock tor World's Fair. Milwaukee, Wis. (Special). The largest clock in the world, the dial of which will be 120 feet in diameter, is being built here for use at the Louisi ana Purchase Exposition next year. Only the hands and machinery are being made here, for the dial is to be a brilliant bed of flowers. The clock will be placed on the side of the hill north of the Agricultural Building. i ne minute nanu win oc 00 lect long, and the ring at the end. which will be fastened to the machinery, will be eight feet in diameter. The minute hand will move five feet every minute. Ihe numerals marking the various hours will be 15 feet in length, and made of bright-colored coleus. In a broad circle surrounding the dial will be 12 flower beds, one oppo site each hour, and each 2 feet wide and 15 feet long. At night the time piece will be illuminated with 2000 in candescent lights. Two Sisters Burned to Death. Old Orchard, Me. (Special). Mrs. Helen L. Martin and Mrs. E. A. Ste vens, sisters, wealthy residents of East Grafton, N. II., were suffocated and their bodies burned to i crisp in the fire which destroyed the Sea View House, a small summer hotel contain ing 12 guests. Their room was in the third story. Mrs. E. D. Hooper, of Paris, Me., who occupied a room on the same floor, barely escaped suffo cation after making her way to the second story, where she was found by firemen. Several other inmates escap ed in their nightclothing. The property loss was small. ' Turtle Stood the Shock. Derby, Conn. (Special), That tur tles can withstand without injury a tremendous electric force was demon strated here when more than 500 volts were sent through one of them. Ed ward Frost, a Central Village natural ist, tried the experiment. The turtle only quivered slightly when the cur rent was applied and then crawled off unharmed, when it was turned off. Mr. Frost says the reason why reptilia with bony body plates can resist such a shock is because the heart has two auricles and one ventricle, rendering it almost impossible to cause sudden cessation of the action of the organ. Couldo't Survive Loss of Piper. Warsaw, Ind. (Special). The loss of the paper which he had published 30 years is believed to have caused the death of Frank H. Zimmerman. Disatis fied Democrats, it is said, forced Zim merman to sell his paper, the Warsaw National Union, by threatening an op position journal. The veteran editor bowed to the inevitable, but shortly after his health gave way. Suicides Cheerful Utter. New York (Special). Miss Louisa Killian, 26, tired of life, according to a letter she wrote, killed herself by drinking carbolic acid in an open lot not far from her home, in Jersey City. This is the note found near the body: "Don't bury me. Crefnate me. Don't worry. Laugh and grow fat. Ha, ha, hat" Miss Killian's parents are dazed. They cannot account for her rash act, except on the theory that her brain had been affected by the heat. Village R Ruins. Poughkeepsie, N. Y; (Special). A considerable portion of the village of Staatsburg, 10 miles north of this city, was destroyed by fire. There were many narrow escapes, but no lives were lost. The fire started about midnight in Miles Hughes' general store, in which was the postofhee. Two theories are advanced as to the origin of the blaze. One is that it was caused by an explosion of the gasoline plant used to light the store, and the other is that burglars started the fire in attempting to blow open the post office safe. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Mors Postofflce Indictments. A series of indictments, possibly the most important yet drawn in the post office investigation, have been reported by the Federal grand jury. Five new names are implicated in transactions, which emphasize the organized system of "grafting" which permeated the free-delivery branch of the department -as head and front of the iniquitous system appears cx-Supt, A. W. Ma chen, heretofore accused of wrongdo ing under well-nigh a dozen indict ments, It is also shown anew against Mr. Machen, as in the case of the Groff patent fasteners, that he prob ably began his operations soon after he entered the free-delivery division as an official, although the specific charges are confined to a period within three years, as is made necessary by the statute of limitations. This fresh batch of scandal is in con nection with contracts for leather cases and satchels for carriers and in the un necessary painting of letter boxes. There were ingenious ramifications, and the "rake-offs" were cleverly dis tributed by a roundabout arrangement. Those indicted arc: William Gordon Crawford, of this city, vice president and resident agent of the Postal Device and Lock Com pany, of New Jersey. He was for four years deputy auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department under President Cleveland's second adminis tration. W. C. Long, formerly of Xenia, O., and friend of prominent Buckeye Re publicans, who has been much in this city. John T. Cupper, mayor of Lock Ha ven, Pa., who is accused of bribery. Leopold J. Stern, of Baltimore, en gaged in business there. Maurice Runkle, of New York, a postal contractor. A. W. Machen, ex-supcrintendent of the free-delivery division. Thomas W. McGregor, formerly a clerk in the free-delivery division, and already indicted on other charges. Maj. George E. Lorcnz and Mrs. Lo renz, of Toledo, Ohio, also under in dictment in other postal cases. Yellow Jack Is Active. Reports to the Marine Hospital Ser vice refer to the serious conditions at Tampico, Mexico, from yellow fever. During the week ended July 11 there were 60 deaths from all causes at Tam pico, and of these 30 were from yellow fever. There were 38 new cases dur ing that week, making a total of 80 cases at that time. Recent rains in creased the mosquitoes and in the week ended July 18 there were 45 deaths from yellow fever out of a total death list ot 70. rilty-nine new cases were added during that week. The situa tion was growing worse and the dis ease was spreading to other points. No Avert Act Committed. A cablegram has been received at the State Department from United States Minister Squicrs, at Havana, stating, in substance, that the reports of incipient rebellion in Santiago province based on unsatisfied demands for back pay by veterans of the war with Spain have no foundation in fact, for there has been no overt act committed and dis satisfaction has. been expressed by only a few persons. Incrcns: Nearly Fourfold. A statement prepared by the Bu reau of Insular Affairs of the War Department shows the customs rev enues in the Philippines for the first four months of 1903 to have been $2, 931,782, against $2,001,011 in the same period in K02 and $1,215,657 in 1899. A comparison of the customs reve nues under Spanish administration for the 10 years from 1W5 to ifo?, with the period from August 20, 198, to April 30, 1003, under American o;cu pation, shows the volume of business to have increased about fourfold. In Ihe Departments. Secretary Root gave a hearing to the attorneys representing Congressman Lu cius Littauer, the glove manufacturer, whose gloves were furnished the War Department through Contractor E. R Lyon. Rear Admiral Bowles holds that the 13.000-ton battleships will not be defi cient in coal supply or inferior in radius of action to previously designed vessels of that type. The federal grand jury, which has been considering cases arising from the postal investigation, has agreed upon four additional indictments for conspiracy against August W. Machen. the former general superintendent of the free delivery service of the Post olficc Department, and several other indictments. Pension Commissioner Ware and Acting Chairman Cooley, of the Civi: Service Commission, agreed to refer to the Attorney General for an opinion the question as to whether the exam ining surgeon is included in the civil service list. Contracts were awarded for work at the Naval Academy. The Noel Con struction Company of Baltimore was the successful bidder for two con tracts. The government has decided to ac quire a square between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, h and r streets, as a site for the proposed hall of records for government archives. Operations under the refunding offer of Secretary Shaw, made in April, con cluded. '1 he amount turned in is $81,- 000,000. Secretary Cortclyou, of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor, has ap pointed Herbert Knox Smith deputy commissioner of corporations. The Agricultural Department will make an analysis of certain food pro ducts shipped to this country from abroad. The subject of coaling and naval sta tions was discussed at the first meet ing of the General Policy Board. King Menellk's Mint, Washington, D. C. (Special). King Menelik, of Abyssinia, is said to have his own mint, and it will be in full op eration at his capital. Addie Ababa, by the first ol the coming year, accord ing to a report from Consul Masterson, at Aden, to the Department of Com merce and Labor. Hitherto King Men elik has had a limited silver coinage, the minting being done in France. For sometime the King has been putting aside bullion for coinage purposes, and now it is understood, that he has over 110,2.10 pounds of gold bullion on hand, Hi-.ijdj large amount of ilvr. SCORE DIE IN EXPLOSION Gunpowder Magazines Are Blown Up In Lowell, Mass., Suburb. NEARLY FIFTY PEOPLE ARE INJURED. Four Boys 200 Yards From tne Magazine Killed by the Concussion 14 Frame Houses Leveled to the Ground Seven Caught Fire and Were Consumed The Explosloa Heard In Towns Fifty Miles Distant Lowell, Mass. (Special). Two small gunpowder magazines, situated in the very midst of humble residences of fifty mill operatives, exploded with a fright ful concussion, and the resultant wave of death cut off the lives of more than a score of human beings and injured nearly fifty others. Half a dozen men who were loading kegs of powder from one of the maga zines were blown to pieces, four boys 200 yards away were killed bv the force of the explosion, and fourteen frame houses within a radius of 400 yards went down as if they had been built of cards. Seven of these houses immediately caught fire, probably from the kitchen stoves, and were completely consumed. At least three persons were caught in the ruins and burned to death, while seven or eight others, who were rescued, died subsequently of their injuries. It is estimated that seventy separate pieces of property, including those al ready mentioned, were destroyed, while the force of the explosion wrecked win dows for five or six miles around, and its thunder could be heard distinctly more than fifty miles away. The magazines were the nronertv of the United States Cartridge Company of this city, but fortunately were situated more than a mile away from the factory n-t 1 '1. .... . nseu. iney were mint 01 uricK, about ten feet high, with a rounded roof of corrugated iron. They were constructed some thirty years ago, in what was then a broad, open field on the banks of the Concord river. During the last decade small wooden dwelling houses have gradually sprung up in the vicinity, crowding nearer and nearer, with fan cied security, to the two innocent look ing little buildines. until thev almost completely surrounded them, except on the river side, the nearest house being scarcely fifty feet away. One of the magazines was just within the roadside fence, while the other was about 100 feet behind it. near the hanks of the river. Both magazines ordinarilv contained two or three tons of piin- powdcr in tin kegs, each keg being about eighteen inches high and a foot in diame ter. The company has for some time been desirous of strengthening the floor 01 tne magazine nearest the street, and eight men, three of them employees of the company, three expressmen and two carpenters, were sent there with three large express teams to take out the powder and mend the floor. Two of the teams had been loaded and the other was almost full when, at six minutes past 9 o'clock, the explosion occurred. It was a long time before the actual cause of the explosion could lie ascer tained. It was thought at first that everyone within a radius of fifty feet of the magazines had been killed, but later it was found that Clarendon Goodwin, the foreman of the men who were load ing the powder on the teams, had sur vived, together with one of his assistants, Amadce Boulangcr, and the latter was seen in the hospital. He said that the men went down to the magazine nearest the street to fix the floor, and after the teams had been loaded w ith the powder which was in the magazine it was discovered that a can of nitroglycerin, which was stored in the magazine, was leaking. Mr. Goodwin picked up what he thought was a jug of water and began pouring it onto the nitroglycerin with the idea of diluting it and washing it up. As soon as the fluid from the jug struck the floor he found that it was nitric acid. The floor at once began to smoke, and when the men saw it they rushed from the build ing, but had not gone ten feet when the explosion occurred. This magazine was therefore the first to go up, followed im mediately ly the gunpowder in the three teams, and several seconds later by the second magazine. BIBLE THEIR WEAPON. Police Force of Zion Armed With Them In ' stead ol Clubs. Chicago (Special). Dr. Dowie has inaugurated a new system of armament for the police force of Zion City. In stead of the usual baton and revolver each Zion guard will carry a pockc: Bible. The innovation was made a thanksgiv ing service. Colonel Stern, who holds the office corresponding to chief of police, was called to the platform Ly Overseer Spcicher. "Draw your sword," the overseer commanded. Colonel Stern put his hand to his side in military fashion and from the scab hard at his hilt pulled a pocket Bible. This was the signal for great applause from the audience. Overseer Spcicher announced that henceforth every member of the Zion police force should carry a Bible in a scabbard at his belt. talon Shave for Corpses. 1 rcnion, i. ). (special;. wnion journeymen barbers have begun a cru sade to secure the work of shaving all corpses. They have promise of support from union undertaker helpers. The barbers also ask all union men to as sist them by giving orders before death that they must only be shaved after the union provision. Union coach drivers will not serve at any funeral where it is known that the corpse was shaved by a non-union man. Mrs. Roosevelt Wields As. Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special). Stove wood was produced about twice as fast as usual at Sagamore Hill Tuesday, for Mrs. Roosevelt shouldered an ax and made a tree-trimming expedition with the President. Mrs. Roosevelt and the President turned their ax blades on the yet uncut limbs and branches of a re cently felled tree of the Sagamore Hill lorest. As fast as the tree was stripped the cord lengths were piled up, to be later reduced to stove lengths jor the fire in the kitchen stove. Hawaiian! Want Horns Rule. Honolulu (Special). At the session of the Home Rule Convention, ex-Delegate Wilcox urged that Congress be memorialized to grant Hawaiian inde pendence. He also strongly favored the establishment of a government for the islands similar to that of Cuba. His re marks were received with much ap plause. It is probable that a petition em bodying the views expressed by Wilcox will be prepared for presentation to Con gress by Delegate Kalanianole. $ifch an appeal would doubtless receive the sig natures of many natives. INSTRUMENTS TO PREDICT WEATHER. Experiments With Monster Coelostat by (he Scientists of the Smithsonian. Washington, D. C. (Special). The scientists of the Smithsonian Institu tion are conducting a scries of exper iments with a newly completed coelo stat. By the use of this instrument it is believed more accurate weather pre dictions will be made. The present experiments deal with the'absorption of the sun's rays by the gases surrounding the sun. This ab sorption varies and thus has a great influence upon the weather conditions of the earth, and vice versa. The ob servations are based on this theory. A sufficient number of observations have not yet been made to furnish a stable basis for this theory. The new coelostat which has been erected in the rear of the Smithson ian Institution is the largest in the United States, and differs from the other instruments in that it has a sec ond mirror that gives a fixed northern ray, as well as the first mirror, which reflects a ray from the different posi tions of the sun. The telescope which is used in connection with the coelo stat has a horizontal length of 140 feet. Especial attention will be given in these observations to the so-called "sun spots," for the origin of which many theories have been advanced. TRAIN STALLED FOR TWO YEARS. Resumes Its Journey After a Long Period of Waiting. Beaumont, Tex. (Special). On Sun day morning, July 26, the only train run ning on the Gulf and Interstate Railroad pulled into the passenger station at Beaumont just 1,040 days late, starting from Galveston September 8, igoo.. It has been stalled half way between the two cities since that date. Special festi vities marked the arrival of the belated No. 1. Of the passengers who started with the train many met death. The others walked and rode in wagons, leav ing the engine more than two vears and a half behind. In the wind, rain and weather the train has stood where it was stalled so long ago, only to be finally rescued and brought to cover as a relic of other days. The same locomotive that started so long ago pulled the same weather-beaten and dilapidated coaches through to the destination that should have been reached four hours after the start was made. When it pulled into the station two years nine months and 26 days behind it was greeted by salutes from all the engines in the Beaumont yards. In the cars rode the officials of the road. The event was made the occasion for a gen eral celebration in the city. Died Trying to Save Another. New Orleans, (Special). In the n deavor to save the life of John K. V'oel kcl, Sr., a well-known resident of New Orleans, Walter E. Bcrtcl. paying teller of the Whitney National Bank, was drowned at Grand Isle. Voelkel also was drowned. Mrs. Voelkel and her daughter, who went to the assistance of the men, were rescued with difficulty. Three Persons Drowned. Detroit, Mich. (Specir.1). A special to the Free Press from Ithaca, Mich., says: "Three persons were drowned in Crystal lake, near here. One was the daughter of Commissioner Pike, a girl of 8 years of age. The other two were friends visiting at the commissioner's cottage. Killed His Mother's Assailant New Orleans, La. (Special). Defend ing himself and his mother from death at the hands of an infuriated boarder, Charles Henry Baker shot and lulled Calvin Strodo at Manchc, La. Strode attempted to fire, but his rifle became entangled in a cast net. and Baker fired before Strodo could release his weapon. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. Lying on the bare ground wrapped in blankets. President Roosevelt and his sons and nephews passed Tuesday night on the sandy shores' of Hunt ington' Bay. The President makes an annual custom of camping out with his boys. Three hundred machinists employed by the Westinghouse Company, of Pittsburg, are on a strike because of refusal of the company to sign wage scale. Whitaker Wright, the London capi talist, accused of swindling, left the Ludlow Street Jail and boarded the steamer Oceanic for Liverpool. Judge Kavanaugh, of Chicago, has decided that labor unions have right to picket men about a place where a strike is in progress. William Smith, a millionaire nur seryman, of Geneva, N. Y., will endow a college for women in the suburbs of Geneva. The International Federation of Com mercial Travelers, in convention at Mac kinac Island, Mich., elected officers. , The sheriff and posse had a brush with the fugitive convicts on Greenwood Creek, Cal. No one was hurt. Brazil's exports in 1002 were $182.- 227,000 against $203,110,000 in 1901. The decrease is due to the fact that coffee and rubbes exports had reached record totals in 1901, the value of 1001 ship ments of coffee being $119,807,000, against $101,674,800 last year, and of rubber $43.tj6-5o, against $36,467,500. The Czar, Czarina and their suites joined the great orthodox pilgrimage to sarott. Province of lanibort, where the canonization of the hermit Prokhor Moshnin is to be celebrated. Rear Admiral Cotton and the officers of the United States European squadron were inspected by the King and Queen of Portugal, who arc expected to visit the American warships. The Countess of Mallespaile having failed to accomplish the murder of hn rival, tried to butt out her brains against the walls of her cell, in Paris. Senhor Mannel Cardia. a Portuguese journalist, killed himself because a young opera dinger with whom he was in love rejected him. The French Minister of Marine will marry a school teacher. King Edward and Queen Alexandra were accorded a hearty reception in Londonderry, Ireland. Deputy Papp exhibited In the lower house of the Hungarian Diet 10,000 krones which had been given to him to desert the obstructionists. An Uttenint wilhnnt iiiivmi wna mndn iy the British to relieve the expedition exploring the. course of the Blue Nile and headed by V. N. MacMillan, of St Louis. An elaborate program for the ma neuvers of the combined North Atlan tic fleet off the coast of New England has been prepared by the Navy Department. THE KEYSlUflii . MATE Latest Netvs of Pennsylvania To: J 0 Shorl Order. State Treasurer Harris has vrittn to nil banks holding State money that in the next four months he may h, ll . .1 . t I . ' i,ivc to call on them for funds to pay bin bills that will come in. In hi, Ktt he says: "During the next three ot tour months the treasury Depart:nni will be called upon to pay out over $7,000,000. This extraordinary de mand is made necessary by the building of the new Capitol, appropriations to the public schools and many other lib. cral appropriations made by the l.cgis. laturc of 1003. To meet these calls on the department it may be necessary to draw upon you for a very large pnr. tion and possibly all of your State de posit. This letter is simply to give you notice of our purpose." The first oil found in Potter count, in paying quantities has been struck on the Lewis Lyman farm, near Sweden Valley, six miles cast of Coudcrsport, at a depth of 1600 feet. The driller struck the third sand and soon found about two barrels of oil in the hole, The boating on the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's canal was never known to be better than at present and those captains who were fortunate to save their boats from being de stroyed by dry rot owing to their not being any water in the canal all of last season arc reaping the benefit. A boat men's union is being organized. Russel, the 3-year-old son of Ed ward Hill, of Hollidaysburg, fell into a well containing fourteen feet of wa ter. The mother told the child to hold to the stones and dropped a rope to him as he was nbout t(j let go. After dragging the lad out the mother faint ed. During a heavy hailstorm at Carlisle, A. B. Myers, of Mcchanicshurg. was in stantly killed by the blowing over of a steam well drill under which he had taken shelter from the storm. The un fortunate man was 24 years of age. Sido Simlas was killed by a trip of runaway cars at the Harry E colliery, Wilkes-Barre, and Con Musta was fi tally injured by a fall of coal at the Exeter colliery and died soon after ward. C. E. McGough, a telegraph liuennn of Oxford, Chester county, died at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lancaster, from in luries sustained in a fall of thirty feet from a pole. He was 35 years old. While attempting to drive a nude into a stall, John Griffith, aged 55, a farmer living near Adamstown, was so' badly kicked by the animal that he died. Dr. John Henry Helffrich, Allen town's oldest practicing physician, died of Bright's disease, aged about 8? years. John Roney, a prominent Mason and a veteran of the Civil War. died at Shircinanstown, aged 79 years. During a severe thunderstorm a bot of lightning went down the chimney at the house of Lewis D. Lcidy, in Lynn Township. It penetrated the ceiling ol the kitchen, setting in on fire. It then darted across the room and down the barrel of a shotgun, which was stand ing in a corner. The weapon explod ed. The members of the family es caped serious injury. The fire was soor extinguished. Four miners had a miraculous escape from death at the Franklin colliery, Wilkcs-Barrc. They were being haul ed up a steep slope to the surface when the'r car broke away and they sped backward toward the bottom. The cai jumped the track and was smashed into kindling wood, but the men escaped with severe bruises. Companies B and C, Sixth Regiment National Guard, have appealed to th: public for aid in maintaining tln-ir armory in Chester. The Edgcwood trolley line will 1; extended through Coal Township to Zerbc Township and Trevorton, ami then on into Lower Augusta, and to Suuburv. connecting with the line there. While a passenger on a Bethlehem Allcntown trolley car, Mrs. A. Nagel, of Allcntown, stepped on a match which ignited her dress and before the blaze was extinguished she was badiy burned. Application was made for a charter for a new bank at Middleburg. with a capital of $25,000. John R. Krccger if to be the cashier. This makes the fourth bank in Snyder county and the second at this place. Three persons, comprising an entire family, were killed on the Port Bowk ley crossing of the Lehigh Valley Rail road near Wilkcs-Barrc. Joshua A Butler, a truck farmer residing acrosf the rives from Wilkcs-Barrc, started out for a drive, accompanied by hit wife and cighteen-months-old child. f they reached the Port Bowkley cross ing the fast express train from New York, bound for Buffalo, dashed aroun;' a sharp curve. . Owing to the curve. Mr. Butler could not sec the train, and the horse had just passed over the crossing when the locomotive struck the carriage. The horse escaped with out a scratch. Mrs. Butler was thrown fully fifty-fect, and when Ihe train crew came back and picked her up she was dead. The little child was thrown high, and landed on the front of the engine, where she remained until the train stopped. The engineer, who grasped the little one, heard her lips lisp "Main ma." Then she sank into unconscious ness. The father was found lyinff against an embankment. He was con scious, but suffering much pain. An examination showed that he was badly mangled. " As quickly as possible the father and child were taken to the hos pital, but they died as soon as they reached there. Butler was forty years of age. The wife was twenty years Ins junior. William Keller, a boy of Pottsvillr. went out upon one of the mountains in c-irM. rt htfrLlj-hnrrt, nil Friday, 'since which time no trace of him ha' been found. Under the pretense that he was an electrician sent to make repairs, a thief obtained entrance to the residence o Herman Astrich, at. Harrisburg. and from an upstairs room stole diamond rings and studs, a gold watch and sev eral chains. Thomas Dillon and J. W. Tyson were repairing' timber in the Bear Valley shaft, Shamokin, when a plank on which they stood broke. Dillon It" forty feet and, lunding on the cage, war saved from being dashed to death on the bottom of the shaft. Tyson grab bed hold of a projecting, timber and escaped injury. 7, The United Telephone in4 Telegraph Company, of Chester, which' started business in opposition to the Bell sys tem several years ago, has decided to put its wires underground, Samuel Harmen, aged 60 years, colored veteran of the Civil War, was struck by a trolley car ley and Newton line and killed. H was known throughout Bucks county as fiddler at parties. Mrs. Frank Sewyko was carrying het 2-ycar-old daughter across a mgr bridge at Brady when a trolley c.u knocked them from the track. Land ing on a mound of grass, the child es caped unhurt.
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