iKCSSIA SENDS WARSHIPS If art t Her Black Sea Fleet to Overawe tbe Saltan. FULL REPARATION IS DEMANDED. Tie sbmlt Ambassador Hat Btca Telegraph 1 to Fran Sebastopel Notifying rjlm of lb Orders Received b? lb Navel Headquarters m Tbit lie Mejr be Prepared far Whatever May Cre. St Petersburg (By Cable). A squadron of the Russian Black Sea fleet has been ordered to sail for Turk ish waters. Notification of this move has been telegraphed from Sebastapol to M. Zinovieff, Russian Ambassador at Constantinople. The dispatch of the squadron is intended to emphasize Russia's intention of exacting complete compliance with her demands as to satisfaction for the murder, by a Turk ish gendarme, of M. Rostkovski, Con mul at Monastir. It is announced that last Tuesday Count Lamsdorff, the Foreign Minis ter, telegraphed to M. Zinovieff that the Sultan's expression of regret, the visit of condolence by Prince Ahmed, tbe Sultan's son, to the Ambassador, and the expressions of sympathy by fhe Grand Vizier and other high Turk ash dignitaries were not considered adequate satisfaction for the murder f M. Rotkovski. When M. Stched bma, the Russian Consul, was murder ed at Mitrovitza, continued Count Lamsdorff, the Czar took into account the fact that tbe murderer was an Al banian whose tribe was in rebellion against the government. The outrage at Monastir, however, was of another tharacter and called for the severest punishment. The Czar therefore or dered that no promises on the part cf the Turkish Government should be accepted, but that demands should be made as follows: Hie immediate severe punishment of the murderer; the arrest and exemplary punishment of the person who fired at L Rostkovski'e carriage; the imme diate production of positive proofs that the Vali of Monastir has been actually Vanished; the instant severe punish ment 01 ail otner civil and military ol facials responsible for the murder. In addition to these demand. Am bassador Zinovieff was instructed as a means of general pacification in the vil ayet of Monastir to make the follow' inir demands: The immediate severe punishment of au luraisn omciais regarding whose "outrageous behavior" a report was made by the director of the Russian consulate at Uskub, after a tour of the vilayet of Kossovo in company with the Austrian consul; the rein statement of Ismail Hakki, who was dismissed, but whose efficiency was in dorsed by Hilmi Pasha, inspector-general of Macedonia; the immediate re lease of the peasant on whom, ac cording to the reports of the Russian and Austrian Consuls, the Turks per petrated atrocities; the instant dismis sal and punishment of the officials of the administration of Salonica and Pris rend, "whose malpractices have been exposed to the light." and finally that the foreign officers employed in Mac edonia shall immediately enroll fresh gendarmes and police for the protec tion of the peaceful population and the antroduction of legislative order. FRESH FLOODS IN THE WEST. lusts sod Missouri Rivers Swollen By Heavy Rains. Kansas City, Mo. (Special). Traffic between the two Kansas cities is prac tically suspended, all the temporary pile bridges erected after the great flood in June having been endangered by a rise in the Kansas river. The water has been causing more or less trouble for two weeks, the result of continuous heavy rains west of this place. m At Armourdale, which was wiped out the June flood, the river is 14 feet above low water mark and 7 feet higher than the lowest mark recorded since June. It will have to go 15 feet higher, however, to reach the town proper and the only damage possible is to the bridges. The current is so swift that xowboats can hardly live in it. OOWIE REVISES BALL RULES. Statal ThlcTlnf el Bases Forbidden la Zloa City. Chicago (Special). Having revised the American flag, Dr. Dowie has now started out to change the rules of the national game, baseball. These are some cf the rules which have been introduced in the Zion City games. "No bases shall be stolen. Thievery is sinful and must be put down by the faithful. "The pitcher shall not use deceit on delivering the ball, for deceit is sinful, ihe curve must be cut out. "There shall be no umpires, for they are a race of liars and their sayings breed strife and discontent. "Brethren who meet upon the field must play the game in brotherly love and rot in contention and self-glorification, for that way lies destruction." Cashier's Arrest Follows a Fillure. Red Bank, N. J. (Special). L, Cow art, cashier of the defunct Navesink Na tional Eank, was arrested on the charge ai embezzling $40,000 of the bank's funds. Cow art surrendered to United States Marshal Garsardc here and fur nished $10,000 bail to await the action of the federal grand jury. Wee's Dcttk la day Gown. New Haven (Special). After array ing herself in evening dress for a dinner farty, to which she had been invited, Irs. Arthur E. Bradley drank carbolic acid and died in the presence of her parents and family. Mrs. Bradley was the handsome daughter of Loren H. Etannard, a wealthy manufacturer of this eitjr, and lived at his summer place, Woodmont, 00 the Sound. Mrs. Brad ley was unhappy in her married life. Aawrvtaa CUia m karta. Victoria, B. C. (Special). Mail ed ifice from Tokio are as follows: The trouble between the K -rcan authorities and the Japanese railway company, which is attributed to secret Russian ac tion at Seoul, are approaching a climax. At the same time the Seoul electric rail way, a United States concern, is having trouble. 1 he line has been objected to by Koreans, and consequently scarcely any passengers are traveling. The United States Minister his claimed damages at the rate of $100 a day front the Korean Government in ctiruegueiice. THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic Seven persons are now dead as the re sult of Gilbert Twigg, a maniac, firing recklessly on a crowd at a concert at Winfield, Kansas. Gen. John C. Black and many other prominent delegates to the Grand Army of the Republic convention arrived in San Francisco. Justice John Woodward, of New York, addressed the Chautauqua Assem bly on "The Mob Spirit in America." Vice-President J. IL Thompson, of the Charleston (V. Va.) Electric Com pany, has disappeared and is charged with embezzlement. John S. Wise surprised Richmond so ciety by cancelling his box at the Horse Show. Norfolk (Va.)believcs Vice-President J. M. Barr is soon to leave the Seaboard Air Line. The will of A. H. Grandy, of Norfolk, Va., leaves his $175,000 estate to his widow and children, making her ex ecutrix. In an addresi before the Lutheran Assembly at Dixon, 111., Judge Gross cup, of the United States Circuit Court, said that government control of mo nopolies is essential to the perpetua tion of American institutions. Secretaries Shaw and Hitchcock were among the President's callers. Ob jection is made to calling Congress to gether during October because en gagements of members in State cam paigns. Col. T. G. Bush, president of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company, spoke in behalf of the op erators in arbitration proceedings at Birmingham, Ala. The socialistic element in the Gar mentworkcrs National Convention, in session at Indianapolis, made a second and unsuccessful attempt to capture control. A white man named Thompson and a negro named Wrightman were lynch ed in Colquitt county, Ga., for assault ing a white woman. George R. Creighton, a New York law clerk, has been arrested on the charge of forgery, the amount involv ed being $10,000. The Acting Comptroller of the Treas ury has ordered the closing of the Navesink National Bank because of shortages. The steam yacht Wainotta was burn ed to the water's edge while going oown the Connecticut river. At the session of the International Typographical Union Mr. Frederick Driscoll. commissioner of the Publish ers' Association, made an address, in which he criticised the printers' strike in Seattle and Spokane. Mr. Gompers was among the speakers. The steamer El Dorado, which ar rived in New York from Galveston, picked up a boat containing a boy 100 miles at sea. He said he had been swept out of the harbor of Havana. Mr. D. M. Parry, president of the Manufacturers' National Association, delivered an address at the Chautauqua Conference on "Mob Spirit in Organ ied Labor." H. H. Hallowell, assistant secretary and treasurer of Pcnn Mutual Life In surance Company of Philadelphia, died suddenly in Atlantic City. The grand jury at Danville, 111., has indicted 18 men and one woman for participating in the recent lynching In that place. The Alabama miners have engaged lawyers to represent them in the hear ing to arbitrate their differences with the operators. At Abilene, Tex., ex-Governor Lub bach, of that State,- aged 87 years, and Miss Lou Scott, aged 40 years, were married. Miss Maude Espy died at St. Paul, Minn., after eating toadstools, which she had mistaken for mushrooms. tcreign. Important changes were made in the Servian Cabinet. Rev. J. J. Harty, of St. Louis, was consecrated in Rome as Archbishop of Manila. King Charles of Roumania expresses the view that an economic coalition of Europe against the United States is prac ticable. The Turkish gendarme Halim, who killed the Russian consul at Monastir, was condemned by court-martial and im mediately executed. The first International Congress of Wireless Telegraphy decided at its con cluding session in Berlin to keep its pro ceedings secret. Major W. O. Daniels is financing a scientific expedition that will leave Southampton on September I for New Guinea. Lieutenant General von Einen was ap pointed to succeed Lieutenant General von Gossler as German war minister. Cardinals Kampolla and Mocenni op ened the seals put on Leo's apartments after his death. Several millions of francs and other valuables were found there. Russia has established a new vice royalty over the Amur district and the Kwantung Province, with Vice Ad miral Akxicff as the viceroy. The people living in the district sur rounding Vesuvius are in a state of panic on account of the threatened eruption. The Chinese imperial troops have been defeated by rebels at Hwei Chou Fu, in the southern Province of Kwangtung. Vice Admiral Cervera resigned his post as chief of staff of the Spanish Navy. The British House of Commons voted yesterday to approve the government's agreement with the Cunard Steamship Company and with the International Mercantile Marine Company. FlnanclaL A Boston wager is that Copper will go to 75 belore it falls to 30. The sensational jump of 6 per cent, in Reading in one hour almost caused a panic among ihe bears. It is getting more difficult every year for small railroads to preserve their independence. A thoroughly reliable firm of ban kers sent this dispatch to Winthrop Smith & Company: "I do not think Uould and Standard Oil people have control of New York Central yet by any means." Houseman, who represents Morgan, has been a tremendous buyer openly! If he is selling anything it is done quietly and in a roundabout way. ihe Bondholders' Protective Com mittee of the Eastern Milling & Ex port Company, which recently went into the hands of a receiver, has com pleted a plan for the reorganization of the property. Of the 44 varieties of iron, steel and metal in all shapes, the price of which is regularly quoted by the "Iron Age," 2j have declined since last month, 18 have remained the same and one has advanced. The advance is in tin, from $260 to $28.25 since July 15. HAVOC BY THE HURRICANE Pathetic Scenes of Desolation la Jama ica Islands. THOUSANDS OP PEOPLE HOMELESS. Unripe Bananas Constitute Their Sol Food, and Tbls Supply Is Likely to Fall Soon Misery ol ih Survivors Is Indescribable Oeadarmts' Barrsckt Collapse and Plan tations Are Destroyed In Martinique. Kingston, Jamaica (Special). There are heartrending scenes all over the eastern and northern portions of the Island of Jamaica. At Port Antonio thousands of homeless and starving people have sought shelter in the old prison and the few other buildings which survived the hurricane. Those who could not be accommodated are cowering in the lee of ruined walls and dismantled piazzas. The railroad sheds and waiting rooms are filled with women and children. The merchants of the place are feeding the hungry to the best of their ability, but the majority are depending upon green, unripe bananas knocked down by the storm. The bananas are boiled in kerosene tins over open fires made from the debris of destroyed buildings. This is their sole food supply, and it will be exhausted in 9 or 10 days. Similar conditions prevail at Annotta Bay, Buff Bay, Orange Bay, Port Ma ria, Manchionel, Morant Bay, Bowden and other small seaports. In the interior the distress is equally acute. Scarcely a peasant's home is stand ing. Even the dwellings of the plan ters, which are built of substantial stone, have been unroofed, with few exceptions. The misery of the peasant's families is indescribable. Their homes and be longings have been literally blown away and they are contriving rude shelters from fallen trees, palm boughs and ba nana leaves. Owing to the continued unsettled weather, with occasional tor rential rains, these shelters afford prac tically no protection. Efforts are being made at Kingston to relieve the immediate wants of some localities by subscriptions of food and clothing, but the local efforts at best are totally inadequate. Unless immedi ate shipments of foodstuffs come from America, deaths by starvation are in evitable. The local hospitals in the wind swept districts are crowded with the in jured and the death list is increasing. Some localities have not vet reported. One man was beheaded at Port Antonio by a flying sheet of galvanized roofing. Many were seriously wounded by fall ing houses, trees and walls. Several houses located on the banks of the streams were carried away by the floods. The fate of their inmates is unknown, but it is feared that there have been many deaths from this cause. The bulk of the Blue Mountain Cof fee has been ruined, and the Pimento Groves, which stood for centuries, have been obliterated. It is now estimated that the loss on the island will reach $15,000,000. THREE KILLED, TWENTY INJURED. Man Fires loto Crowd Without Provocation Believed to be losaoe. Winfield, Kan. (Special). Gilbert Twigg, aged 30 years, supposed to be insane, appeared on the principal street of this town with a double-barrel shotgun and fired both charges de liberately into a crowd of 5000 people who were listening to a band concert. -He killed three persons, fatally injured three and shot 20 others, of whom six may die. Twigg was himself killed by a policeman. The band had just finished playing a waltz, when Twigg stepped out from an alley a half block distant, and, de liberately taking aim at the bandstand, fired two shots. . R. E. Oliver, a band man, fell at the first shot, but the crowd, not realizing what had happened, rushed toward Twigg, believing that there had been an accidental shooting of some kind. As the crowd closed in the crazed man discharged two more shots at them, causing a scattering in every direction. With the crowd fleeing, the man stood firing at random in eVery direc tion. Men and women howled and shrieked and ran, but no one seemed able to stop the frightful carnage un til Policeman George Nichols confront ed Twing and fired a bullet into his head. Before life was extinct trie de mented man drew a revolver from his pocket and fired a shot into his own body. The dead and dying were by this time scattered all over the street, and the frightened people sought safety in flight. It was fully an hour before they realized what had happened and recov ered sufficiently to take care of the in jured. Gilbert Twigg was a miller by trade. He was commonly referred to as "Crazy" Twigg, but no one thought him dangerous. Iiidla's Financial Condition. London (By Cable). Lord George Hamilton, secretary of state for India, in presenting the annual statement of the Indian budget in the House of Commons, told an encouraging story of the progress and stability of India's finances. He pointed out that there had been substantial surpluses in the last three years, amounting this year to $15,250,000. This financial situation will enable the government to reduce the salt tax by 25 per cent, and make considerable remissions in the income tax. Lord George Hamilton said the fears regarding a scarcity of food in India this year might be dismissed. Took lbs Children, Too. Chicago, III. (Special). John Malan der, a foreman in the Illinois Central shops, boarded with Mrs. Minnie Teede man at 9741 Escanaba avenue for four months. Friday he left, taking with him Mrs, Minnie Teedeman, five little Teede mans, ranging in age from nine years to eight months; one load of assorted fur niture from the Teedeman home, and one well-stocked larder from the Teede man residence. Teedeman arrived home late in the day. He found the empty home locked. Engineer a Here. Charlotte, N. C. (Special). A special dispatch from Tyron City says that through freight train No. 62, third sec tion, from Asheville to Spartanburg, ran away on Saluda mountain. The en gine and' thirteen cars were wrecked near Melrose and are a total wreck. Engineer J. R. Averill, Jr., of Ashe ville, and Fireman Hair, of Asheville, were killed and are under the wreckage and cannot be found until the wreck Is cleared. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Sliver for Philippines. Director of the Mint Roberts received a report on the purchase of silver for the new Philippine coinage, covering every thing up to August 1, which shows that the seigniorage will yield a substantial contribution to the redemption fund in the new Philippine currency system. "We have bought 9,711,506.96 ounces of bullion, for which we have paid $5. M5762.53," said Mr. Roberts. "The Philippine peso contains three and a half more grains than our silver dollar, or an amount of bullion worth slightly less than 42 cents. Its currency value on the new 32 to I basis will be 50 cents, leaving a margin of profit in the shape of seign iorage which will go far toward solving the redemption fund problem which for so long troubled the Senate financiers." Bids for $3,000,000 worth of certifi cates of indebtedness of the Philippines have been invited by the Bureau of In sular Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of War. These certificates will be issued in cou pon form in the denomination of $i,ooo. They will be dated September I, 1903, will bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent, yearly, payable quarterly, and will be redeemable in one year after date of issue by the Guaranty Trust Company. Proposals will be opened August 25. These certificates will be issued to create a gold reserve. Three million dollars' worth of similar certificates have already been issued to buy bullion, and Congress has authorized the issuance of $10,000, 000 worth of the certificates In all. The Philippine certificates are exempt from the payment of taxes or duties either in the United States or the Philip pines. Secretary Shaw has authorized the statement that these certificates will be accepted by the Treasury Department as security for deposits of the public money of the United States in national banks. They may be substituted at any time for United States bonds now held as security for deposit, on condition that the bonds released be used for additional banknote circulation. Professor M'Oee Resigns. Prof. W. J. McGee, ethnologist in charge of the United States Bureau o( American Ethnology, has resigned to devote himself more actively to the work of supervising the ethnological section of the Louisiana Purchase Ex position. It is understood that one of the rea sons for Professor McGee leaving the bureau were differences which had ex isted between him and Prof. W. H Holmes ever since the latter became the chief of the bureau. Major J. W. Powell, the former chief of the bureau, died last Icar. Professor McGee was then thought by many of tne scientists ot Washington to be the logical successor of Maior Powell, as Professor McGee had been in close touch with the anthropological and eth nological work of the bureau and at tached to many of its expeditions into the far Southwest for a number of years. It is stated that Professor Mc Gee has been at odds with the new chief ever since he assumed charge of the bureau. Professor McGee is one of the best known scientists of this city and has been connected with the bureau since 1893. Professor McGee's wife is Dr. Anita Ncwcomb McGee. who has the dis tinction of being the only woman who has held a commission as surgeon in the United States Army. This was dur ing the Spanish-American War. She is the daughter of Prof. Simon Newcomb, the noted astronomer of this city. Lawlessness at a Navy Yard. The commandant of the Clwrleston (S. C.) Navy Yard has asked the De partment for an additional force of ma rines to protect life and property there, it being alleged that a condition of law lessness exists. In the Departments. The State Department holds that am- mendment by Colombia will kill the ranama canal treaty. Lieut.-Gcn. Samuel B. M. Young as sumed his new duties as chief of the General Staff of the Army. The commandant reports a serious condition of lawlessness existing at the Charleston (S. C.) Navy Yard. William Nelson Cromwell, counsel for the Panama Canal Company, called at the State Department with favorable in formation regarding status of the pend ing treaty in the Colombian Congress. V. J. Spilman will succeed A. W. Machen as superintendent of the Rural Free-delivery Department. He is now appointing clerk of the Postoffke De partment. Recommendations of far-reaching im portance to the Naval Academy are con tained in the annual report of the Board of Visitors of the Academy. Prof. W. J. McGee, ethnologist in charge of Bureau of American Ethno logy in Smithsonian Institute, has re signed. Secretary Root has issued an order defining the duties of the general staff of the army. Gov. John Walter Smith, of Mary land, has been called upon to name a young lady of that State to christen the cruiser Maryland about the middle of September. A disrespectful letter written by Col onel Meade, of the Marine Corps, to the Navy Department has caused his retirement in his present grade by the President. A cablegram from Minister Beaupre at Bogota says that no final action has been taken on the Panama Canal treaty by Colombian Senate. It is stated that an effort will be made when the Senate assembles to prevent the confirmation of General Wood as major general. The Weather Bureau has come into conflict with the Anti-Smoke law. Postmaster General Payne has pre pared a statement showing the status of rural free delivery. The Secretary of the Treasury re ceived a contribution of $100 for the conscience fund. In a report to the State Department Richard Guenther, consul general at Frankfort. Germany, says that German newspapers are authority for the predic tion that the mule will be replaced dur ing the present century with a more effi cient annual, being a cross between horse and donkey. An No Bar to Marriage.' Abilene, Tex. (Special). Ex-Governor Lubboch, aged 87. and Misj Lou Scott, aged 40, were married here at the residence of Major L. C. Wise, Rev. Mr. Keeble, of the Episcopal Church, officiating. The newly married couple left immediately after the ceremony For Austin, where they will reside. Vice Admiral Cervera Resigns, Madrid (By Cable). Vice Admiral Cervera, who surrendered to the Amer ican fleet off Santiago de Cuba, has re signed the post of chief of staff of the Navy, to which he was appointed in December, 1902. IN DREAD OF A MASSACRE Danger Threatening- the Christians In Macedonia. THE POWERS MAKE REPRESENTATION. The Dally (Inhering of tbe Mussulmins In tbe Mosques Taken lo Presage a General Uprising Rjumsnians and Greeks In a Number of Village Said lo Have Joined Ihe Insurgents. Sofia, Bulgaria (By Cable). The Bulgarian Foreign Office has receiv ed very disquieting news from its agent at Uskub. The Mussulman) are daily gathering in the mosques, and it is feared that a massacre of the Chris tians is impending. Officials here express the belief that the intervention of the powers alone can prvent a disaster. The Bulgarian government takes a decidedly pessimistic view of the situ ation and the officials openly express their fears that a general massacre of the Christians in Macedonia is inevit able possibly within four days and al most certanly within a fortnight. . The reports from Bulgarian official agents in Macedonia show that affairs are rapidly growing worse. The fact that the Mussulman population is be coming excited and congregating in the mosques is regarded as a bad fea ture, indicating the possibility that a massacre may occur within a very short time. It is feared that such a massa cre would cover a wide area and in clude both the large towns and the villages, and that the Turkish soldiers would prove incapable of restraining the fanatical Mussulmans evn it t ' desired to do so, which is by no means certain. Monastir now contains only four battalions of Turkish troops, two consisting of raw recruits, who will be quite unreliable in the event of serious troubles. Representatives of the Macedonian committee say that the Roumanian and Greek inhabitants of a number of vil lages have joined the insurgents and that the Mohammedans are taking ref uge in tne cities and towns. Vienna (By Cable). Notwithstand ing the increasing number of reports of outbreaks in the Balkans, official circles begin to manifest a more confi dent attitude. Serious representations will again be made to Turkey and Bul garia, which it is hoped will prove effi cacious. Nevertheless, it is admitted that some untoward incident may easily precipitate disaster. AL'TOMOBILIST RIDES TO DEATH. Drowned In tbe Erie Canal Into Which His Machine Had Plunged. Fort Plain, N. Y. (Special). Henry F. Spaulding, aged about 45 years, an expert enthusiastic automobilist from West Orange, N. J., rode to his death four miles east of this village. He was on the towpath of the Erie canal. Owing to the muddy- condition of the path, and while turning out from a linesman's rig, his automobile swerved more than he intended and man and machine plunged into the water. Two linemen rushed to aid Spaulding, but in their excitement let go entirely of a rope, one end of which they had thrown to the drowning man. One of them then hastened to Sprakcr, a ham let nearby, for assistance, but by the time help arrived Spaulding had gone down for the last time. The body was recovered badly entangled in the rope which had been thrown to him. The machine, uninjured and with the brakes set, was also recovered. Mr. Spaulding was en route to Chi cago and met an accident one week ago that kept him in Amsterdam for repairs until Tuesday. Meantime his traveling companions, his wife and her mother, had gone on to Syracuse, where they were waiting in order to continue the journey with him. Spaulding was a veteran automobilist and at Amsterdam was advised by Dr. J. H. Jackson, of this village, that owing to the dangerous condition of the roads he should at least ship his auto to Syra cuse. Mr. Spaulding replied that he considered himself equal to the difficul ties before him and continued his jour ney. PTOMAINES IN THE SANDWICHES. Hurry Call for Doctors lo Attend a Company at Senator Stewart's Farm. Washington, D. C. (Special). A re markable case of ptomaine poisoning is reported from Ashburne, Va., some 20 miles outside Washington. A lare number of persons had gathered to at tend the sale of the dairy farm ownej by Senator Stewart, of Nevada. The Senator served the prospective buyers a light luncheon, consisting of 'coffee, ham and beef sandwiches. Shortly afterwards at least 50 persons were taken violently ill, sutfering from pto maine poisoning. One after another, they fell to the ground, writhing in agony. Horsemen were dispatched in all directions for doctors, and a num ber responded and took prompt meas ures to relieve the sufferers. In a statement issued at it o'clock p. m. doctors report their patients out of danger, although many still arc quite ill. An investigation developed the fact that the beef, which had been pur chased in Washington and kept in cold storage on the farm for several days, was the cause of the trouble. Masked Men Kill Two. Glendive, Mont (Special). Three masked men attempted to hold up, in a Northern Pacific freight car, six labor ers en route to the wheat fields of the Dakotas. The laborers resisted the de mands of the robbers, and a general fight ensued, resulting in the killing of Thomas McGowan. of Philadelphia, who was shot through the right lung, and an unknown man, whose body was found in the car later in the day. The robbers escaped uninjured, but two of them were arrested. Mouol Etna Cenlcr ol Shock. Rome (By Cable). An earthquake, having the region of Mount Aetna as a center, was felt throughout Sicily and Southern Italy, and to a smaller degree in Central Italy. Little damage was done although iu the zone of greatest inten sity the movement lasted two minutes. The Fiume Caldo, a stream near Mount Aetna, became turbid, and the tempera ture ot the water rose to 72 degrees, Mount Vesuvius is again in eruption, its present activity being considered to be connected wan the earthquake shock. SCHOOL OP JOURNALISAl. Joseph Pulitzer Olvcs $1.0)0,1)01 lo Establish It at Cohimbla University. New York (Special). Joseph Pulit zer, proprietor of the New York World, has provided an immediate gift of $1,000,000 to establish a school of journalism at Columbia University, this city, and will add $1,000,000 more if the school is in successful operation in three years. A new building will be erected on Morningside Hciglits at a cost of $500,000 for the school. It will hold toward the university a relation sim ilar to that of the other professional schools, such as those of law, medicine and mines, and like them will be na tional in scope. An important feature of the school's organization will be an advisory, board, to be nominated bv the donor. This board will aid in devising a plan and course of instruction to meet every requirement of the scholastic as well as the more strictly practical side. Seven members have already been des ignated by the donor, and, with others to be selected hereafter, will be nom inated to the trustees of Columbia University at their meeting in Octo ber. They arc Nicholas Murray But ler, president of Columbia University ex officio; Whitclaw Rcid. John Hay, Secretary of State; St. Clair McKel way, Andrew D. White, Victor F. Law son, of Chicago: Chas. H. Taylor, Sr., of Boston, and Charles W. Eliot, pres ident of the Harvard University. President Eliot's duties in connec tion with his own university will pre vent him from serving permanently on the advisory board, but he has cordially approved the plan, has given counsel to the founder and will give to indi vidual members of the advisory bo&rd the benefits of his experience and knowledge. All the others named have signified their willingness to serve. Qovernmsnt Clerk Commits Suicide. Washington, D. C. (Special). Ste phen E. Hall, of Aurora, 111., a pro tege of Senator Albert J. Hopkins, killed himself in his room here. Hall, shortly before ending his life, had suf fered great pain, due to some stomach trouble, and had applied at a nearby durg store for a certain medicine which me aruggist was unable to supply. He was a clerk in the department of com merce and labor, having been trans ferred recently from the census bureau, where he had been employed during the last two years. Firearms In Cuba. Havana (Special). The secretary ol the interior ordered dealers in firearms to report to the police the 6ale of every rifle and to take a receipt therefor Senor Zaldo, secretary of state, hai directed Senor Zayas, the Cuban min ister at New York, to look after 'Jos eph Vegas, the Cuban lad who was picked up at sea, and to send him tc Havana when he has sufficiently re covered. Vegas' mother is anxious that that the boy should secure em ployment in the United States. Fatal Shooting Affray. Springfield, Mo. (Special). Jim Mc Coy shot and killed John Hancock, fiv miles south of Ozark, the result of a family feud of years' standing. McCoy who is a son of the late Capt. John McCoy, a noted ante-bellum politician of Missouri, was arrested. Captain McCoy was president of the Arkansas constitutional convention that abolish ed slavery in that state at the close ol the civil war. Hurricane In Yucatan. Merida, Yucatan (Special). The tropical hurricane here and in Progreso did much damage, and, coming in the night, created a panic. The wind ore up great trees by the roots, blew roofs away and destroyed houses and planta tions. Heavy damage was done in a short time. Efforts were made to save small vessels; but about 20 of those in the port of Progreso were cast upon the shore. The hurricane destroyed hundred: of bales of cotton at Progreso ready for shipment. Saved From Lynchers. Albany, Ga. (Special). Officials here deny the reported lynching of King Wightman, a negro, and a white man named Thompson at Hartsfield yester day for assaulting Mrs. Mathis, a white woman. The two men, who were recog nized by Mrs. Mathis as her assailants, have been placed safely in jail at Moul trie, Ga., by officers after eluding a mob which had been in pursuit of the negro. Falling Meteor Creaks a Bridge. Mcndon, Mich. (Special). A large meteor which fell here destroyed part of the bridge over the St. Joe river. It buried itself in the earth and made a hole nearly 20 feet deep. The meteor gave forth a screcchinst sound as it passed through the sky, and struck the ground with a report that was heard for a long distance. SPARKS FROM TH2 WIRES. A nine;year-old boy was found in a box car in Chicago nearly dead from hunger. He said he was a son of wealthy parents of Fort Wayne, Ind., and had been kidnapped by tramps. The American fishing boat Silver Spray was chased and fired upon on Lake Erie by the Canadian cruiser Petrel for alleged poaching on Canadian waters. Rev. Dr. Deon Richmond Babbitt, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Brooklyn, answered John Temple Graves at Chautauqua on lynching and mobs. The stomach of a goat in Memphis. Tcnn., will be analyzed to determine if the goat ate revenue stamps oft whisky barrclsras claimed by a saloonkeeper. Messrs. Talbot J. Taylor & Co., New York stockbrokers, are trying to arrange a settlement with their creditors in order to resume business. During a fog in the New York harbor the Hamburg-American liner Nubia had a narrow escape from collision with the Kronprinz Wilhelm. In St. Paul, Minn., James J. Hill's personal property assessment has been increased from $138,000 to $200,000. The Bulgarian government fears that the Mussulmans in Macedonia will mas sacre the Christians. The powers will again, make serious representations to Turkey and Bulgaria. At the Humbert trial in Paris the Daurignac brothers were identified as the persons who had posed as the Craw fords, the alleged American millionaires, Three hundred Artiinese were killed in a recent battle with the Dutch troops at the village of Pocloetcngah, in the middle of the Island of Sumatra. King Edward sailed incognito from Loudon for Maricnbad, Austria, where he will take the baths. . - . THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest Ncwa ol Pennsylvania Told to Short Order. After having extracted several teeth of Mrs. Emma Cunliffe, of 1902 Isc mingcr street, Philadelphia, who was under the influence of chloroform, Dr, Bauman, of Telford, in whose office the operation took place, was unable to restore her to consciousness and he immediately summoned another physi cian. The woman failed to rally, how ever, and expired in about half an hour after the drug was administered. For two months Mrs. Cunliff had been em ployed as a servant by Miss Ebcrt, of Highland- Park, Telford. For several days Mrs. Cunliffe had suffered with neuralgia and decided to have a num ber of teeth extracted. Miss Eberl accompanied her to Dr. Bauman's of. fice, where the patient expressed a de sire that chloroform be used. Coroner Kane, after making an investigation, decided that an inquest was not neces sary, as there were two physicians pres ent when the woman died. Willian Brennan, an artist of Mus catine, la., and son of wealthy parents, has been engaged for some time paint ing views along the Susquehanna, Thursday night as there was no regu lar train from Columbia to Harrisburg, he boarded a freight train, getting into a car where there were two negroes. Nearing Steelton the negroes robbed Brennan of his money, and when he tried to jump from the car, Rhot him in the back and he fell to the track, where a track walker found him. He is in the hospital. - Walter Alexander, aged 16 years, ol Cogan Station, was arrested by Penn sylvania Railroad detectives on a charge of attempted train wrecking, A few nights ago several planks weight ed down with heavy stones were placed on the Northern Central track near Cogan Station, at a point where the road makes a sharp curve. On one side of the road is a steep embankment. Fortunately the obstruction was dis covered by the engineer of a freight train in time to stop his train. When arraigned before Alderman Batzle Alexander pleaded guilty and was held in $3000 bail for court. James Smith. 30 year, of Lewistown, was seriously burned about the hands and arms in a heroic attempt to save the body of his dead child from crema tion. A fire originated in a small clos et located in the death chamber, and quickly spread over the room. Mr. Smith ran into the midst of the flames, grasped the coffin and carried it to the house of a neighbor opposite, but not until the varnish on the side of the coffin had been blistered by the intense heat. He quickly returned and after a hard fight succeded in getting the flames under control before the fire en gines arrived. John Schoolcy, a painter, fell head long fifty feet to the ground while painting the spire of the Great Island Presbyterian Church, on Water street, Lock Haven, but he may recover to tell just how it happened. It the de scent he made several revolutions and alighted on his feet on the lawn that surrounds the edifice. Schoolcy lies at his home in a semi-conscious condi tion, with his left leg broken at the ankle, a concussion at the base of the brain and his body badly cut and bruis ed. Thc voters of Conshohocken at the November election will pass on a prop osition to borrow $100,000 for perma nent improvements. An ordinance passed by the Council providing fot a loan to that amount was approved by the Burgess. A similar ordinance pass ed several months ago met his dis approval because it was not specified how the money was to be expended. A dog suffering with rabies sprang upon and bit a child of Galen Fritz, a butcher, at Quarryville. The brute, aitcr badly lacerating the child, sprang upon another, when Mr. Fritz, who was summoned by the children's screams, came to their assistance. Before he succeeded in overpowcring-the 'frenzied brute Mr. Fritz was also severely bit ten. Joseph Ruffing, arrested at Potts villc for desertion from the United States Army to get married, will plead in -his defense that he was only follow ing the advice of President Roosevelt in his famous "race suicide" address. Ruffing was taken to Cleveland, O., for trial. Fully 200 men quit work at Ridge way at the ringing of the courthouse bell and volunteered to search the woods and country roads for a man who assaulted Miss Singer, aged about 20 years. The young woman was pick ing berries near Ridgeway. A sister, who accompanied her, missed her for a few minutes, and, receiving no reply to her calls, started in search, finding her sister bound and gagged, and hci body terribly bruised. Large numbers of men armed with guns and revolver J are looking for the assailant. Tobias Treunipcrt, of the South Side, Pittsburg) was surprised when he ap plied for a divorce to learn that the woman from whom he wanted to be divorced had procured a divorce from him ten years ago. The former Mrs. rreumpcrt told the officer that she had procured a divorce in 1892 in West moreland county. Treumbert then ac :epted service and attended the hear ings, but said he did not understand that there had been a legal separation After being Inst in the winding gang ways of the No. 3 colliery of the Le high Valley Coal Compjiny, John Farr, 1 miner, of Hazlctou. climbed up an abandoned air shaft which had an out let in the yard surrounding the resi dence of S. Y. Frederick, in the heart af the city. The airway had not been in use for many years and a heavy door, bolted on the outside, shut off exit Farr yelled at the top of his voice and finally his cries were heard, whercuoon the door was broken open and Fart was released. The huckleberry season In Monrot tounty, which has just closed, nettef" bout $25,000 to men, women and chil dren who were engaged in picking thr berries during the past six week About 500 berry pickers were employ :d and they usually received 5 cents I quart. A child picks about thirtj quarts a dy and adults about doubl' that number One man, Ira Keiper. Sicked ninety-four quarts in sever ours. James K. Title, of McMich el's, claims to hold the recorj fo licking huckleberries, he having pick id about twenty quarts in fifty rnin ites. . i j While two boys, named Hunsbergei were bathing in the Lehigh river a Hoketidauqua they found the badly do composed body of a man. The roar was well dressed. The Thanksgiving season in Lan raster county will suffer materially ow ing to the failure of the turkey "crop. The yield last year was very light anc consequently fewer turkeys were kept over winter, than usuaL On account of heavy rains last year was a bare one on the ,young birds and few sur- -viyed. . ' The borough of Strasburg will be lighted by electricity.
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