LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE Tw Toot ot Dynamite Are Exploded by Lightning. HOUSES ARB ROCKED BY THE SHOCK. A Twenty-Pound Ston Filli Through House Qiirter of MMe Away None Killed, but Several loured The Llgh ning Kills Two la Ciroilois Charleston Harbor Ufh( Strack. Akron, N. Y. (Special). In a heavy thunderstorm lightning struck a dyna mite magazine just outside the town line. Two tons of dynamite belonging to the Akron Cement Company were exploded. There was a tremendous concussion, and people hurried from their houses, fearing an earthquake. Houses rocked and glass was broken for miles around. A 20-pound stone fell through the roof of the home of J. II. Trice, clerk of Erie county, a quarter of a mile from the scene of the explosion. The Catholic Church was so shaken that candles on the altar tipped over. No one was killed, but several per sons were slightly injured. Raleigh, X. C. t Special'). A distns trous rain and electric storm did great damage in Stanley county about Al bemarle. Corn in the lowland was lctrAVI. T.J-, tnn..i.lt ll..Mf.e the edge of the town were struck and ! damaged by lightning, their occupants being severely shocked. The family of Zago Smith was ter Wbly sb.cked, and his daughter Addie was killed instantly. Her body was badly scarred and disfigured. Her clothing was torn and her shoes were taken completely off her feet. Charleston, S. C. ( Special). During a violent electric storm a negro woman was killed in her house in the suburbs and the harbor light of the United States government in St. Philip's steeple was extinguished. The. bolt is supposed to have struck and demolished the pipe which furnishes the gas. llic woodwork in the be! try was ignited, but the flames soon were extinguished by the fire department. A lamp has been substituted in the steeple lor the regular light. Topeka. Kan. ( Special). Heavy rains throughout the eastern and central por tions of the state have caused all the streams to rise. The Smoky Hill, Blue and Solomon Rivers all arc high. Many persons in North Topeka are moving out of their homes, although there seems to be little danger. While lliCIC Villus IO UC lilUL .I.IIIUsl. I"S I a- ., , ,!.,.. -..r,..,;. i tionof tl,P Mav'flnod is feared. I May HIS STRANGE REQUEST. Skaaklln'a Ashes Scattered Upon the Orave of His Parents. Chicago (Special). The body of the Conrad Schroedcr, a millionaire con late John Gilbert Shanklin, of F.vansville, ! ,rac,?r .c,f prantim. pa. committed - . ' , 1 suicide by shooting himself. Ind, was cremated at Graccland Cemc- - Philadelphia. Annie E. Shapley tery, in this city, and the ashes were ! confessed that she had raised United taken back to his former home by rcla-1 States postal orders. tives. During his life Mr. Shanklin was Ft reign, deeply attached to his parents. His jcal- Attorney General Finlay, in London, us care of them when they became ordered the investigations of Promo feeble and old. and his grief at their tcr F.. T. Hoolcy in connection with death marked him as an unusual 'man According to his dying wish, impressed time and again upon his executors, his ashes will lie sprinkled over the graves of his parents. Mr. Shanklin was widely known throughout the Middle West. He prospered through real estate deals and was highly respected by all who knew bim. His parents are buried in beautiful Oak Lawn Cemetery at Evansvillc, and brief funeral services were held there ever the remains of Mr. Shanklin before the body was brought here for incinera tion. Caught Coovlcts Quickly. Columbus, Ohio (Special). Lewis Harmon, the convicted murderer of George Ceyer, near Alton; Robert Shif flett, Franklin county, charged w ith horse Stealing; Otis Kcllar, another alleged Iiorse thief, and Lewis Eyeting, an al leged forger, of Dayton, escaped from the county jail in broad daylisht Lv filing off a bar in the bathroom. The work is opposed to have been done with a potato knife filed in the shape of a saw. Har mon, Eyeting and Kellar were captured by the Marshal of Canal Winchester, in this eounty, about noon. Shifilett, the fourth convict, was with them, but es caped. Ghouls Also Did Murder. Indianapolis (Special). Rufus Can Irell, the chief of the negro ghouls, who ia serving a sentence for grave robbery, baa made a sworn confession to former Superintendent Byers, and it was for warded to the Attorney-General that the State may take action upon it. The con fession deals with several murders that bave occurred in this city, and the cor rectness of dates and circumstances shows that Cantrell had an intimate con nection with them. He admits partici pating in most of the murders and of Laving a guilty knowledge of the others. Hia Sentence 99 Years. Henderson, Texas (Special). I sham Strong, the negro surrendered by a mob which had taken him from the officers for the purpose of lynching him, was indicted and placed on trial for attempt ed criminal assault. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment for 99 years. He was taken to the peniten tiary this afternoon. Joke Will Prsve Fatal. Schenectady, X. Y.( Special. K. Reas lu, a lad emyploycd at the works of the American Locomotive Company, is dying as the result of a cruel practical joke. Stephen Boroski is under arrest, charged whb responsiblity for the act, and o'her arrests are to follow. A compressed air bote was pressed against the body of Jieaiki and a quantity tf the contents 4nmed on. The lad was taken to the tuwpital, screaming with pain, and it was found that he was internally injured. Hawkirls Again Tried. Tana (By Cable).-The Humbcr family fared a Judge and jury to meet the charge of having perpetrated what e-Premirr Waldeck-Rousseau described as "the greatest swindle of the century." Investigating Magistrate Leydet in May decided to commit Theme Humbert, . tier husband, Frederic and ber brothers, Komain and Emile Daurignac, for trial tm the charges of forgery, the use of forged documents and swindling. He dismissed the case against Eve Humbert, Y seme's daughter, and Marie Daurig-,- r br titter. THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic. Judge de Bait, of the territorial cir cuit, refused to grant an injunction to the Hawaiian Commercial Company against the Wailuku Sugar Company. A gigantic corporation has been formed in Trenton, N. J., to acquire and operate department stores in all parts of the United States and Europe. The Missouri World's Fair Commis sion report that the collection of ex hibits representing the different re sources of the State arc progressing rapidly. One man was killed and several others were injured by being swept of their feet by the projecting ends of a hook and ladder in New Y'irk. William II. Matthews, of Brooklyn, has received a medal of honor for dis tinguished gallantry in action before Petersburg. Charles A. Gould and his wife were seriously injured by being thrown from their automobile. Harry Howard, an aged negro wait er, killed his white son-in-law in New York. A number of cotton mills in Massa chusetts have closed down for a month. A natronal immigration congress is to be hi Id in St. Louis next June. In the Caleb Powers trial at George town, Ky., the charge was made by the defense that the jurors had been sum moned by partisan agents. The judge overruled motion to discharge the entire venire. I he Cash Buyers' Co-operative So ciety was incorporated in Trenton, N. J., with an authorised capital of $5,000,000, I"';;""1'"1- department stores The shortage of Thomas V. Dcavcy, the ahsconding cashier of the Farmers and Merchants' Hank of Ncwbcrn, N. C, is now shown to be $1.25x00. In an address in Chicago Dr. Hender son, of the university of that city, said that county jails are the most disgraceful things in this country. Henry S. l.ouchheitn. of the Philadel phia banking firm of H. S.Louchhcim & Co., dud in Zurich, Switzerland. Will Hudson and Will Jones, both negroes, were hanged in Birmingham, Ala., for highway robbery. Two sisters, aged, respectively, 18 and 1.1 years, were asphyxiated by gas in Philadelphia. Mary Lowe, aged II vears. daugh ter of Henry Lowe, engineer of the L'nited States Steel Corporation, died in Los Angeles, Cab, while her father was speeding across the continent on a special train to reach her bedside before her death. Charles J. Davis, a forger, who had violated the parole under which he was released from the Illinois State Re formatory, surrendered himself to the New York police and asked to be con fined again. Miss Louise Haby, .17 years of age, effected her escape from a ranch in c T-s , 1 South Dakota, where she had been held practically a slavc, having been uiu uy iii-r muier w lien sue was a cnuu. Albert W. Dcibel. teller of the Can ton tO.) National Bank, has been ar rested. Criminal proceedings have been taken, charging him with embez zling $2.2.000. the Sapphire Corundum Mine of Can ada. The British commission reported that flies were the active agents in dis seminating enteric fever among the soldiers during the Boer war. Colonel Schiel, who was a command ant in the Boer army during the Transvaal war, died in Munich. Andrew Carnegie has offered the City of Dublin the sum of $140,000 toward the erection of a free lihrary. It was reported in Vienna that Premier Iledevary of Hungary had tendered his resignation to Emperor Francis Joseph. There was a fight between French troops and Moors who had crossed the frontier in pursuit of insurgents. Whitaker Wright was released from jail, satisfactory sureties for his $250,000 bail having been furnished. King Edward has approved the ap pointment of Lord Northcote as gover nor general of Australia. A parliamentary paper was issued in London giving the terms of the agree ment between the British Admiralty and the International Mercantile Ma rine Company. A number of Servian officers were ar rested at Belgrade on suspicion of con spiring against the War Minister. Siegfried Wagner has finished his new opera, entitled "Goblin," which will be given its premiere at Leipsic. The government was defeated in the British House of Lords on three amendments to the Irish Land Bill. An agreement has been concluded by which Russia acquires 200 acres of land at Yongampho, in Korea. In the House of Commons the Sugar Convention was passed to a third read ing. Baron d'Estournelles dc Constant has written a letter to Foreign Minister Dcl cassc giving the results of conferences between English and French statesmen with the icw of the adoption of an arbitration agreement. Premier Balfour announced in the House of Commons that the British minister at Peking had been instructed not to agree to the Chinese government's demand lor the surrendering f the Shanghai reform editor. Seven hundred persons were reported to have been drowned in the disastrous floods at Chefoo, China, July 27. Whitaker Wright, the promoter, was arraigned in London on the charge of issuing a false balance-sheet of the Lon don and Globe Corporation, and released on $250,00 bait. FlataclaL Three thousand letters received by a Chicago bank indicate a depreciation in the crop condition exceeding 10 per cent. Union Pacific lat fiscal year earned $51,000,000 gross, $22,000,000 net and had a surplus of $15,000,000. The last sum exceeded 100a figures by $7X9,000. William C. Whitney and other horse men have hurried away from Saratoga for Wall street, where a bigger game is going on. But John W. Gates is still watching the Saratoga races. Norfolk ti Western's earnings in the fourth week of July increased $194,450, equivalent to about 16 per cent. Mr. Schwab makes the direct state ment he is the largest holder of United States Steel shares. At one time Rocke feller was the largest New England has been forced to tell out a large 'part of its ownership in Atchison, Burlington, Union Pacific, Amalgamated Copper and American Telephone. Illinois Central will soon declare its ninety-seventh semi-annual dividend. The present rate is 6 per cent., which yields an income return of over 4'A per cent, on h itrcteot orics of the stock. CRASH AT BASEBALL PARK The Collapse of a Walk Crowded With Spectator!. FOUR KILLED, OTHERS INJURED. A Hundred ind Filly More or Less Seriously Hurt The Terrible Accident Due to the Curlosily to See a Quarrel Between Drunk en men Panic on the Stands Street Looked Like a Field of Battle. Philadelphia (Special). Four per sons are dead, at least 12 are thought to be fatally injured and fully 130 others hurt, some seriously, as the re sult of an accident which occurred at the Philadelphia National League baseball park. A boardwalk which overhung the left field bleachers fell to the street, carrying 200 spectators. Two games were scheduled between Boston and Philadelphia, and the at traction drew over 10.000 people to the ball park. The accident occurred nt 5:40 o'clock, while the Boston team was at bat and in its half of the fourth inning of the second game, and was indirectly due to a quarrel between two drunken men in the street. The Na tional League stands are built of steel and brick, the brick wall extending entirely around the grounds. At the top of the leftfield seats and extending from the grandstand to the end of the bleachers there was a walk about three feet wide, which overhung the street. It was this walk which gave way under the heavy weight. Men who were standing on the walk were attracted by a disturbance in the street. They leaned over the side of the railing to see what the trouble was, and this drew the attention of other spectators sitting on the top rows of the bleachers. Then occurred what is seen almost every day at a ball game a rush to see what the other spec tators were looking at. The walk be came overcrowded, and without a mo ment's warning 200 feet of it fell to the sidewalk 20 feet below, carrying all who were on it. There were probably .1000 persons sitting in the left-field bleachers, and the roar made by the falling timber cVcated a panic. In- I stantly the spectators rose en masse nnd made a rush down the stand into 1 the playing field. It was one great black wave of humanity. Men and boys climbed over one another in their effort to escape from the grounds. Not knowing what had occurred, the ball players and others tried to stop the mad rush, but thev were swept aside in their unsuccessful efforts and sev- j cral persons were badly hurt in the crvsh. Outside the grounds the scene was one of horror. For an entire block on 1 Fifteenth street from Huntingdon street to Lehigh avenue men and boys were lying writhing in agony. Some were buried under the wreckage, others were lying in the gutters and dozens were stretched out in Fifteenth street on the car tracks. Some lay uncon scious, others were rolling over suffer ing great pain nnd others attempted to get up and walk only to fall again. The 10,000 persons within the grounds left the place and crowded about the injured, of whom there were more than too. Indescribable confusion reigned for a time because of the great crowd. Fortunately there were at the game several city officials. As soon as they saw what had occurred they telephoned to the city hall, and a general ambu lance call was sent out. While waiting for conveyances to carry the victims to hospitals thou sands of willing hands looked after 'the injured. They were carried from the street and laid on the sidewalk, j and some were taken into nearby pri vate houses. All the houses in the vi cinity were thrown open to the vic tims. One of the largest street-car barns in this city is situated across the street from the ball park and all the wrecking cars and teams were gotten ready to transport the injured to hos pitals. One wrecking car was quickly filled with helpless men and rushed south of Fifteenth street to St. Jo seph's Hospital, more than two miles away. Others were quickly loaded in to wagons of all descriptions belonging to the street car company and rushed to the Samaritan, St. Mary's, the Jew ish or St. Luke's Hospitals. Nearly every injured person taken away was covered with blood and the street look ed like a field of carnage. Saved By a Beltpla. Asbury Park (Special). A bcltpin saved the life of Mrs. McMichael, who is staying at a local hotel with her daughter. Mrs. McMichael was one of a fishing party on the Shark river. While baiting their hooks the sharp crack of a rille was heard and Mrs, McMichael felt something strike her-in the back. A second bullet whizzed past Mrs. Beers, another of the party. Then the men with the rifle, who were on the Belmar side of the river, were warn ed by shouts to stop shooting. They did so and decamped hurriedly. In vestigation showed that the bullet had struck Mrs. McMichaiTt beltpin and had been denecteu. Soon Tired ol lbs Stage. Los Angeles (Special). The two week vaudeville career of Mabel Mc Kinlcy. which closed at the Orpheum here Sunday, was her last appearance in vaudeville, (or she has decided to quit stage life for good, owing to ob jections of her father and husband, Dr. H. L, Baer. of New York. As dauehter of Abner McKinlcy, brother of the la mented President, whose favorite niece she was, Mrs. Baer gained theatrical renown, and in reality commanded her own price. She was a clever artist, and sang with taste ana nntsnca style, but her name was her biggest drawing card. Mrs. Baer is a cripple, unable to take a step without crutches. Shot and Killed His Daughter. Xeillsville, Wis. (Special). During a family fight in the town of Seif, Gott lieb Schultz shot and killed his daugh ter, Mrs. Patrick Leyden. Leyden him self received a bullet in the chest, and is exnected to die. Schultz't skull was crushed, but he it expected to recover. Mrs. Schultz was injured also. Schultz has been awaiting trial for an alleged attempt to kill hit wife, and it believed to be mentally unbalanced. Largest Dense la tit World. St. Louis. Mo. (Special). The plant and specification! for the World't Fair Festival Hall, which it to stand at the head of the main cascade on Art hill, have been given to the contractora. The pre-eminent feature of the Hall will be a sculpture-crowned top to the im mente dome, 360 feet high. The dome, it is said, is to be larger than that of St. Peter's, in Rome, which is the larg est in the world. The auditorium in the interior of the building will be I la feet high, from the floor of the theatre to flic soffit of tbe dome. , NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. May Have Led the Country. Fostoffice Department officials believe George W. Beavers, former Superinten dent of the Division of Salaries and Al lowances, now under indictment, has left New York for parts unknown. After Beavers was indicted by the Brooklyn grand jury for conspiracy to defraund the impression prevailed that he, was where inspectors could put their hands on him at any time and that the Government did not care to make pub lic the evidence against him at a preli minary hearing before a United States commissioner. Many stories have heen printed con cerning Beavers' movements in New York, but they have all been second hand. The public has heard nothing from persons who have actually seen the mysterious Beavers. Postofficc Department officials are said to have been approached within the last 24 hours by persons who asked that August W. Machen's bond be increased, to make it certain that he will not flee from the country to escape the charges which arc pending against him. Since the return of the indictments against Machen the Department of Justice is in charge of his case and must decide whether his bond is sufficient. It has been predicted that the former Superintendent of Free Delivery will leave the country and forfeit his bail, if there be no other way of escaping trial on the charges of conspiracy brought against him in connection with the Post office Department scandals. Domestic Trade It Oood. Internal commerce conditions in the L'nited States arc reported by the De partment of Commerce and Labor, through its Bureau of Statistics, and shows that the first half of the current year compares favorably with the cor responding period of 1902 and tool. With a few exceptions, the volume of trade thus far this year equaled, if not exceeded, that of last year, though oc casionally falling below the high level of loot. There is no evidence, says the Bureau, of a general recession in com mercial activities corresponding to the extraordinary shrinkage in speculative values. Western staples for this year have gained materially over last year, receipts of live stock at five markets having amounted to 15.126)! head, compared with 14.058.345 head in the first six months of 1002. Wheat receipts at eight interior mar kets for the crop year ended June 30, IQO.1, were 230,675,660, bushels, compared with 221,766.387 bushels in 1902. The total shipments of provisions from Chicago and Chicago points for the first 26 weeks of 1903 were 621,133 tons, against 653.217 tons in the same period of 1902 and 566,029 tons in 1901. General Miles in Retirement. At noon Saturday Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles rclinguished the com mand of the Army and was placed on the retired list, in accordance with the statute requiring the retirements of offi cers of the Army at the age of 64 years. All during the morning General Miles held a reception of Army officers at his office in the headquarters of the Army, and a large number of officers in full dress came to bid him farewell and pay their last respects to the General. Promptly at noon General Miles, ac companied by Colonel Reber, his chief of staff, left his office at Army head quarters, walked through the corridors of the War Department and left that building just as the clock was striking 13, walking across Pennsylvania avenue to Seventeenth street and then proceeded to his home, on N street. Sternberg Received. Sagamore Hill, President Roosevelt's country home, was the scene of an inter esting ceremony. Baron Speck von Sternburg, who has been Minister Pleni potentiary of Germany to the United States since Ambassador von Holleben returned to Europe and who recently, on the retirement of 'Mr. von Holleben was elevated to the rank of Ambassador, pre sented to the President his credentials as Ambassador and was received formally in his new diplomatic rank by President Roosevelt. to tbe Departments. , Major Edwin C. Carter, Bishop Brent and Dr. Albert have been ap pointed as an opium commission to visit countries where the drug is used. Rear Admiral George W. Melville, who was retired for age 'last January, relinquished his duties as chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. The Navy Department authorized a denial of the report that the Euro pean Squadron it destined for Chinese and Japanese waters. Lieutenant General Young issued an order assuming the command of the army of the United States. Gen. Nelson A. Miles retired from the command of the Amy, having reached the age limit. John F. Carncll, 63 years old, a vet eran clerk of the office of the auditor for the Postoftice Department, for merly of Iowa, was arrested by post office inspectors on the charge of op ening letters addressed to the auditor and appropriating the contents. Matter sent in decoy letters was found on him. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion ordered a temporary extension un til October 15th of the time within which railroads must complete their safety equipment. The President has designated Lieu tenant General Young to command the Army from August 8, the date of the retirement ol General Miles, until Au gust 15. when the General Staff Law goes into effect. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion gave a hearing to railroad com panies which ask for time in which to equip their rolling stock with safety appliances. Because of hit lack of Civil War service ol at least one year Col. Henry Lippincott, of the Medical Department, will not be retired. The Postoftice Department establish ed 34SS rural free-delivery routes dur ing July, Secretary Root hat given notice to the Merchants' Bridge Company of St. Louis asking them to show cause why the United States should not take possession of the bridge. Public Printer Palmer hat not yet determined when he will consider the charges that have been f.lcd against Assistant Foreman Miller, Major General Corbin will relinquish his duties at adjutant peneral of the Army when the General Staff Law goes into effect. CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED TwenlyThrce People Were Killed la the Collision. ENGINEER LAVS IT ON THE BRAKES. Two Sections of the Train Came Together With a Fearful Crash The Vlctlmt Suffer ed Torture B.-fore Death Rillcved Them Pitiful Condilion of the Wounded at Tb:y Were Taken to the Hospital. Durand, Mich. (Special). An air brake on the second section of Wallace Brothers' circus train refused to work in the Grand Trunk railway yards here, causing a collision between the two sections, in which 23 people were kill ed and about 30 injured. An official statement issued by the Grand Trunk road says that the air brakes were not applied by the engineer of the second section, as he had claim ed. The circus travels in two trains of about thirty-five cars each. After the night's exhibition at Charlotte the two trains left for Lapeer, over the Grand Trunk road, the second section leaving a half hour after the first. It was 3.45 o'clock when the. first section pulled into the west end of the Grand Trunk yards here. A red light was hung on the rear car to stop the second sec tion Engineer Tropst of Battle Creek, who was running the engine of the rear train, says he saw this light, and applied the airbrake. To his horror, it refused to work. He reversed his engine, but the momentum of the heavy train be hind was too great, and, with a crash that aroused all of the town near the yards, the second section crashed into the first. Three cars of the stationary first sec tion were telescoped, and the engine and five cars of the moving train were demolished. Engineer Propsf, Fireman Colter and Head Brakemnn Benedict, who was also on the engine of the second section, all agree that if the brakes had worked there would have been no accident. The escaping steam nnd screams and cries of those pinned in the wreck made a horrifying spectacle in the gray of the early morning, when the trainmen in the yards and the aroused townspeo ple first reached the scene. Many fear ed at first that some of the menagerie had escaped, as some of the animals could be heard crying. A fire whistle was sounded and the whole town was aroused. The rescuers could sec un fortunates in. the tangled wreckage and went furiously to work without waiting for tools to extricate them. A wreck ing crew is kept in the yards here and it was on the scene in a few minutes, bringing tools and equipment in plenty. All the physicians and trained nurses in Durand were sent for and those in nearby places were rushed to the scene on handcars. The Hotel Richelieu was converted into a temporary hospital, and the injured persons were taken there as fast as the rescuers could extricate them. The dead, many of them so ter ribly mangled that identification seemed well nigh impossible, were carefully laid on the green sward a short distance from the scene. By 6 o'clock a corps of 12 physicians was operating on the injured and dress ing their wounds in the temporary bos- tital. Four of the injured died at the lospital before 8.30 o'clock and a fifth at noon. When the wrecking-train crews had finished pulling to pieces the tangled and broken cars 17 dead men were lying on the grass awaiting removal to the morgue. A minority of them were killed while asleep. Wallace Brothers say that their loss was very heavy, but have given no esti mate of it as yet. This is the second wreck that the Wallace shows have suffered within a month. BLOOD TO FLOW IN MACEDONIA. Struggle Likely to Be a Bitter One Kurds Being Armed. Salonica (By Cable). A special mes senger from Monastir reports that the Bulgarian insurgents have dynamited the Konak (governor's palace) in the Town of Krushcvox, 23 miles north of Monastir. Fifty Turks were killed. A detachment of Ottoman troops has burned the village of Dihovo, near Monastir. Eight Turkish battalions have heen dispatched to Monastir and three bat talions to Salonica from Kossovo. Telegraphic communication with Monastir is still interrupted. Constantinople (By Cable). Consu lar advices which were received here from Monastir indicated thaf the sit uation in Macedonia was constantly growing worse. At a meeting of the ministers it has been decided, therefore, to adopt mea sures of extreme severity in order to suppress the revolution. It is reported that Albanian troops will be employed, in which event massacres arc almost in evitable. The Bulgarian exarch was summoned to the Yilditz Palace Wednesday, and urged to make a final appeal to his flock to deliver up their arms and thereby avoid bloodshed. The menacing attitude of the Kurds in Armenia is causing increasing alarm at Erzcroum, Bitlis and Kh.irput. It is asserted in some quarters that the authorities are secretly arming the Kurds, while endeavoring to convict the Armenians of revolutionary inten tions. Sofia, Bulgaria (By Cable). The newspapers announce that Prince Fer dinand it returning. SPARKS FROM TIIK WIRES. Announcement was made at the Building Trades Employers' Association rooms, in New York, that a general arbitration board had been organized to take care of all differences between cinplocs and the unions which have signed the plan of arbitration. Hurlbutt, Hats-h & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange, have failed. Th-; firm was composed of John H. Hurlbutt, E. S. Hatch (a board member) and J. F. Smith. The co partnership was formed Sotcmbcr 12, 1800. 1 The Trust Company of North Amer ica and the North America Trust Com pany have agreed to merge the two companies under the name of the Trust Company of America. Simon Booker and hit wife were mur dered near Winchester, Ky., and their cabin burned. They are supposed to have furnished information leading to the raid of a distillery. John Alexander Dowie, general over seer of the Christian Church, renounced hit allegiance to Great Britai.t and be came a citizen of the United States. Governor Dockcry, the Secretary of State and the Slate Treasurer were be fore the grand jury at Jefferson City, which is invcttig-tting the boodling rases. STRIKES WORLDS FAIR. Storm Kills One Man and Injures Eight Others. ' St. Louis (Special). One of the heav iest storms of the year, though of brief duration, swept over St. Louis. The furious wind tore through the World's Fair Grounds, killing or.e man, probably fatally injuring another nnd seriously in juring seven others, besides causing damage to World's Fair buildings and other property generally throughout the city to the extent of $10,000. The dead: Theodore Richtcr, of Kirkwood, florist. The injured : A. R. Clark, carpenter j taken to hos pital in dying condition , William Koch, carpenter. Henry Fahrnkopf, carpenter. Ray Mannvillc, lalvorcr. John W. Wheclhousc, Staffworker. Adricn Smith, painter. 1'hyncas L. Going, carpenter. Charles Covington, laborer. The day had been extremely warm the temperature registering 94 degrees Suddenly the sky began to grow dark, and soon after the storm broke with the force of a gale. In the city pedestrians hurried to shelter nnd the wind swept through the streets, causing little dam ape outside rf broken windows here and there, the falling of a few street signs and leveling of shade trees. At the World's Fair grounds the agri. cultural building was struck by the gale, and six laborers working on scaffolding were hurled to the ground. Theodore Richtcr, a florist from Kirk wood. a suburb, was on the ground run ning to shelter when a flying plank struck him. The World's Fair department turned out and hastily dug the injured from the debris and hurried them to the hospital. A. R. Clark was so badly injured that if is believed he will die. Destruction By Ugnfnln?. Louisville, Ky. (Special). Fire caused by lightning destroyed the Bourhor Stockyards and two buildings adjoining ! rour niincreu ami litly Head ot sheep 1 were burned. The loss is about j2SO.ooo. with insvrancc one-half. Captain Eher hart Dillman and Pipeman Richard Moore were injured by falling timbers. Knocked Senseless by Lightning. Mishawaka. Ind. (Special). A storm nt noon did great damage here. Fi-1 persons were knocked senseless bv light- I ning. Several buildings were burned i and chimneys, trees and fences were leveled. One of the injured men may die. Killed by c Bol'. Hillside. Mich. (Special). Herbert Cox, nged n years, was killed by light ning while standing in the door of a large barn owned by Jonas Brown, five miles southwest of this city. Mr. Brown was struck and seriously injured, but will recover. The barn was totally de stroyed. USED AX ON WIFE AND KNIFE ON SELF. Jersey City Man Attempts to Kill Hit Spouse and Cutt His Own Throat New York (Special). Edward Wood. 53 years old, tried ( to kill his wife and himself nt their home on the second (loot at No. 153 Morgan street, Jersey City He struck his wife three times on the head with an axe nnd then cut his throat with a tabltknifc, which had been ground down to p razor edge. Wood and his wife arc in the city hospital. The woman has a chance of recovery, but jt is thought Wood will die. Wood has had trouble with his wife on various occasions and the police say he served a term of 18 months' im prisonment for beating her. They have two Sons. Edward, 26 years old, and Arthur, 23 years old. The sons on Monday last put their father out oi their apartments, but allowed him to sleep in a hall bedroom. Wood had been drinking heavily, it is said, and had made himself a nuisance to the rest of the family. After the older son had gone out, Wood knocked on the door of his wife's room and asked her for a drink of water. She opened the door and went to the kitchen to get the water. Wood followed her, anil on reaching the kitchen picked up an ax and struck his wife three times on the head with it. She fell to the floor unconscious. Wood then turned to a table, and picking up a knife drew it across his throat. Earthquake In California. San Francisco (Special). Reports received from different portions of Cal ifornia say but little damage was done by the seismic disturbance, although it was quite severe. The tremor war centered at San Jose, where numerous windows and much crockery was broken. Mrs. P. M. Lusson, a sufferer from heart disease, died during the shock. Lick Observatory reports the shock the heaviest in the history of the place. The indicator of the seis mograph was dislodged, and no record obtained. In San Jose, the shock last ed from twent to thirty seconds, and was from cast to west. Farmer Murdered By Employe. Rcnnsclaer, Ind. (Special). Charles Medworlh, a farmer living near Mount Ayr, eight miles west of here, was mur dered by his farm employe, known only as John. The murderer set fire to the house and the bodies of both were found in the rums. The man had work ed for Medworth for three years, nnd always refused to give hit name. They had quarreled over a settlement. Fatally Injured In Wreck. Portsmouth. Ohio (Special). South bound Norfolk and Western passenger train No. 8 was wrecked at East Ports mouth by spreading rails. The engine lift the track and turned over, and En gineer William Simonton. of Colum bus. Ohio, was caught under the wreck and fatally injured. Fireman S. N. McDonald, of Portsmouth, was also probably fatally injured. Twenty-five were more or lest injured, but none fatally. Talk of lynching. Lewiston, Idaho (Special) William Ilaiuilton, aged 34 years, confessed to the murder and mutilation of Mabel Richards, an II -year-old girl, whose btidy was found near Anatone. The child wat waylaid by Hamilton while cn route to Sunday school. Hamilton is in jail at Asotin. In all probability he will bo lynched, nt hundreds of people are now reported to be assem bling in the town. The dead g'rl wat a daughter of Sheriff Richards, of Assy tin comity. THE KtYSlONE STATE .atest Nes of Pennsylvania Told Is Short Order. At a public meeting in the Court louse at Bcllcfonte, Judge John G. Love, representing the citizens of Cen :er county, publicly presented to State Fish Commissioner W. E. Median, representing the Commonwealth, the deeds for the lands donated as a site ior a State fish hatchery. The event as one of great importance to Center county and the citizens showed their interest by crowding the Court house. The speech of presentation by Judge Love was responded to by Com missioner Median. The secretary ol the commission then read the follow ing resolutions which had been adopt ed at a previous meeting: To the gen erous citizens of Center county. Pal At a meeting of the Fisheries Commis sion of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania, held nt Bcllefontc, this 6th day of August. 1903,' it was unanimously resolved that the sinccrcst thanks of the Department of Fisheries be ten dered to the public-spirited citizens who so generously .donated the ground to the Commonwealth for the use ol :he Fisheries Commission, for the ercc tion of a fish hatchery. Conrad Schroeder, one of the best known and wealthiest contractors in Scranton. accidentally killed himself al his home in Green Ridge, while hand ling a revolver. He had taken the re volver out of his trousers pocket and was about to place it in a bureau drawer, where he usually kept it, when the weapon was discharged. The bub jet entered his head and he died almost instantly. Mr. Schroedcr built most oi the important buildings in Scrantor nnd was a man ni the highest integrity. He was president of the South Side bank and was interested in many o the city's industrial establishments Howard Flood and Lswrence Leber man were badly burned while working insi-le one of the large stoves at the Warwick furnace, Pottstown. Both men entered the lower bell for the pur pose of making repairs while the fur nace was in blast ami while nt work employees lowered the upper bell. The gas from the charge beneath rushed upon tbe men and they were probablj latally bttrnd. They managed tc crawl down a spiral stairway on th outside of the furnace and fell in 1 faint at the bottom. Jcsfc Beer, aged 9. and Roy Rohr aped 3, of Bath, climbed a tree to get a hosnct's r.cst. The hornets were in bad humor and resented the intrusion. '1 here were several big spikes in the tree, and the lads, in their eagerness to get away, fell and caught on thest spikes. Rohr had a four-inch gash cul in his face and his companion has a gash extending from half way from hif mouth to one of his cars. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Stewart, ol Oklahoma, arc visiting relatives and old friends at Brockawayviile. The; drove the entire distance from Okla homa to their old home in a lighl spring wagon, drawn by a pair of hard Western horses. The trip was nnde in forty-five days and the expenses cr route were but $30. The remains of James A. Harkins, ol Philadelphia, were found nt the tipple of the Keystone Coal and Coke Com pany, east of Grecnsburg, near the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and taker to the Grccnsbutg local morgue. From papers found on his person hit identification was established. Produce Dealer Beverly Hatch's dog went mad and bit Orlando Blackburr severely on the thigh at Altoona. Whili Patrolman Lloyd Vaugh was trying tc shoot the animal it sprang at him anc lacerated his arm with its teeth ai'tc it had been shot once in the held. By sawing off a bar in a window Thomas Donahue and Robert Black burn escaped from jail nt Washington The space they went through was by 13 inches and blanket ropes lowerei them to the ground. Sheriff Carothert has offered a reward of $500 for the capture of the jailbrcakers. Webster, the 14-year-oM son of Jas G. Fox, a member of Legislature, wai instantly killed near Gallagherville, bj being struck by an express train of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bo; was conveying water to railroad work ers when the accident occurred. Governor Pennypacker appointee" William H. Lambert. Philadelphia; B L. McFceters, Wilkinsburg, and Ed ward Overton, of Towanda, a commit tee to co-operate with committees from the Forty-fifth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first. Onf Hundredth Regiments and Battery D Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the erec tion of memorial tablets at Vicksburg The 33 and 38-inch mills in the Car negie Steel Works at Homestead were closed down, throwing 500 men out 0 employment. Whether the shnt-dowr is for repairs or due to lack of ra material is not announced. The Shamokin School Board decid ed that blows shall not be inilictcd upor. the head or hands of a pupil, and in nc case shall a child be shaken violently The Pennsylvania Railroad Companj is building six dining cars and foul buffet cars at the Altoona shops. Thes are the first cars of the kind to be con structed at Altoona. While assisting a butcher at Reading, 12-year-old Wilbur B. Erb't arm '' ground to piecet in a sausage machine There was not a tingle death during the month of July in Bangor, which hai a population of over 4000. Joseph Bontempee, an Italian of Ess ton, shot his wife in the breast, alleging that she had been untrue to him. H' was later arrested in Philipsburg. While swimming in the river at Nor ristown in front of the High Schoo boathouse, Leo Holmes, 10 yeart old wat seized with cramps and wa drowned. Dr. Thomas Lloyd, his wife and nr? mother, Mrs. Thomas Lloyd, of Shamo kin, were driving home when the horses ran away. The trio were hurled froir the carriage and badly injured. John Knier, Jr., aged 30 years, ol Manhrim, accidentally shot and killer himself while in search of ground hogs Knier endeavored to crawl under fence, dragging his gun, when the wet pon exploded. By the will of Catharine Baer, late ol Lancaster, $joo is bequeathed to Zior Reformed Church, Millcrsvillc. The dead body of John Dmmorsk was found lying in a street in Shcnan doah. One of hit wristt wat alniot1 levered and he had two stab wound! over the heart. It it supposed he wa killed in a quarrel. While attempting to crest the traclct of the railroad at Port Kennedy Jonf Baughman wat ttruck by an expre train and killed. He wat 70 yean W and for more than fifty yeart be wat tm blacksmith of that village. - An organization of the veterant d the Spanish-American and the Philip nine wart 1 wat effected at Potttville Major' John Owens presided. I The Reformed Ministers' Assoc! !ion of Naomi Pinet has been organ ized with Rev. J. W. Santee, of Phila delphia, at prt-idcnt. The object o! the organization it the building an nainteuance of a house for aged liiinit' ter nl ! Wr-. rl.ri
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