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.