MOFSILWS CONTROL Tit SltnalloB la Tnrilsh Empire Tends That Way. riQOROUS ACTION IS NECESSARY. lUaitJer LeUhata's Reports I th Suit D paraeat Show that Amerlcaat la Syria ad) Other Parti at lb Ottoaaa Empire Re quire Pratectloa Afforded by Warships Ravalaltaa Spreading. Washington, D. C (Special). Al ftougbj the tragic side of the situation ia Syria has now disappeared by the official news that Vice Consul Magcls itn. at Beirut, was not assassinated, but simply fired upon, the fact never theless remains that conditions in Sy ria and throughout the Ottoman Em pire are alarming, and that Americans residing there require the protection af forded by American warships cruising ia the nearest waters. It is this con sideration which caused the administra tion to determine that the error of the operator and its correction should make no change in the program, and that the orders to the European Squad son should not be recalled. Every -dispatch from Minister Lcish Tan and every communication from missionaries and other outside sources contribute to the belief that Turkey is ia a state which closely approaches that of China when a horde of howling 1-ikesmcn shut the foreigners up in their legation compounds and drove the Em press Dowager from the Sacred City. Minister Irishman's latest cables arc known to contain much confidential matter, detailing the symptoms of un rest and the actual disorder which is now spreading all through Turkey and developing into anarchy beyond the Sultan's power to control. Exactly what measures will be adopt ed to protect those persons situated at distance from the seaboard is not jrrt decided, but in this Admiral Cot ton will be given a free hand, and should the conditions warrant, he may land forces of marines. At the State Department it is said that this is an extreme measure, but warranted un der the law of nations whenever the ruling sovereign proves unable to af ford safety and protection to foreigners within his domain. The department has already received assurances, informal in their nature, from each of the powers interested in Turkish affairs that no ob stacles will be placed in the way of the United States, regardless of the mode of procedure. o change has been made in the or ders to the European squadron to sail as soon as possible for Beirut. The Xavy Department has been advised that the Machias sailed from Genoa for Beirut. The San Francisco and Brooklyn are at Genoa and will sail for Beirut immediately. Acting Secretary Darling sent a cable trram to Hear Admiral Cotton informing Jiim that Vice-Consul Magclsscn had not been killed, but had been fired upon. This was done to apprise the command ing officer of the squadron of the true situation at Beirut. The collier Alex ander was reported at Malta, on her way to Manila with coal for the Asiatic Sta tion She will next report at Port Said, nd if the exigency is then necessary she mill be held to supply the cruisers of the European squadron with coal. The State Department has instructed Minister Leishman to notify the Turkish government that it must keep the peace, and that it will be held to a strict ac countability for any lawless acts toward American citizens. Mowed Down By Artillery. Salonica (By Cable). The Bulgarian insurgents have sustained a severe re verse at Smilovo, one thousand of them Icing killed. The insurgents to the number of 3000 occupied a position on a height, which was stormed by six battalions of Turkish troops commanded by Servet Pasha. After losing many of their number the Bulgarians fled in the face of the heavy Turkish artillery fire, which mowed them down. The Turkish losses were insigni ficant. WOULD MA KB WAR NEEDLE' S. -Coarktloat" Adopted by lb Universal Peaca Cooijress, Mystic, Conn. (Special). The Uni versal Peace Union at its closing session Ziere adopted a series of resolutions or "convictions." The preamble states that with all the encouragement for the de mand for peace, "we are still confronted with the obligations resting upon peace societies and all advocates of peace to remove the causes and abolish the custom of war." The resolutions set forth that the dut eif the hour is to overcome all conditions that make war possible by teaching the principles nf peace and arbitration in schools and universities, by practicing them in everyday life, and by multiply ing courts of arbitration. The increase f the army and navy, the building of liatllcships lor Turkey nd other foreign Governments with all the improvements f American genius, the "farcical and expensive playing of naval battles on the coast of Maine,'' and the Unrestricted ale of firearms, is viewed with alarm. Lying is declared to be a monstrou: peace-breaker, and State and national legislation looking to its suppression if demanded. Kacc hatred and prejudice ia jironoanced a menace to peace. Maa tm4 If SisteHa Law. Springer, N. M. (Special). Cornelia Gonzales, on attempting to enter the bouse of Mrs. Sarah D. Solano, who wa art home with her two children, has been Idcd by the woman with an ax. Tin woman struck him over the head six time, breaking the skull in as man ylacea. Gonzales was a brother-in-law f Mrs. Solano, and is said to have pre viously insulted her. A coroner's jur exonerated llie woman. . Rabbers Kill Ritlroaj Mea. Chicago (Special). Without a word f warning, two men were killed and two vtltera wounded by holdup men at the Barns et the micago i-ity Kailway Com aany. Sixty -first and State streets. The hooting waa done by three men, whe aveaped after securing fj.ooo. 'Ihree of the men who were shot were work in in That cashier's office and the other was a motonnaaj asleep in the outer office Tbe men in the office were shot before airy were aware of the robbers oresence am4 the snotorman was lulled as he was sminar Uom bench where he bad been THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER, Domestic, Signor Marconi, who returned to New York from Europe, brought four inventions which he believes overcome all important defects in the system of wireless telegraphy. A syndicate bought the entire hold ings of the Metropolitan Securities Company of New York, preparatory, it is believed, to a merger of the sur face and underground railway, electric and gas interests of the city. The "war game" off the coast of Maine ended and the umpires will de cide whether army or navy won. Attorney-General Crow began pro ceedings before the Missouri Supreme Court to annul the charters of the com panies composing the so-called terminal monopoly in St. Louis. Mgr. Mooncy, vicar-general of the Arch-diocese of New York, was ap pointed auxiliary bishop by Archbishop J. M. Farley, and the Pope approved the appointment. A sailor stabbed the mate. Peter Francis, on the British bark Calcutta, in New York harbor. Three persons were drowned near Pittsburg as the result of the vehicle in which they were riding falling over an embankment into a swollen stream. La:iglcy' airship houseboat, in the Potomac kiver, slipped her moorings and drifted two miles before her an chors caught. In the war game the enemy made important captures at Portland. Me., which were afterward disallowed by the umpires. The Southern and the Louisville and Nashville Railways engaged in a right-of-way war northwest of Knoxvillc, Tenn. Satisfactory arrangements have been made for the construction of a railroad to connect Colorado with Northern Mexico. The annual report of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad shows gross earnings nf over $50,000,000. Hczekiah Buttcrworth, of Boston, made the opening address at the Peace Conference, at Mvstic. Ct. Herbert O. Shaffer committed sui cide in Chicago by taking carbolic acid. rresident Roosevelt discussed with Acting Attorney-General I. P. McRev- nolds and C. If. Robb, attorney-general of the Postofficc Department, and Con gressman Charles H. Fowler, of New Jersey, the proposed financial legisla tion and the pending postofhee investi gation. The last official letter of General Miles to the Secretary of War, contain ing important recommendations and criticizing certain methods in the man agement and organization of the army, notably what he declares to be the use less expense for cavalry, is made public. Keliable advices trom tlue Leech Lake Reserve state that an outbreak of the Pillagers and Bear Island tribes is im minent. Because of continued disasters. 100 men have quit work in the Tredwell .Mine on Douglas Island. Alaska. The third section of the Barnum & Bailey circus train was wrecked at Wildwond. Pa. The Louisville and Nashville Rail road will establish a new line of steam ships between Pcnsacola, Fla., and the most important parts of Southern Eu rope. Judge Carroll L. Wood, who is op posing Governor Davis, of Arkansas, as candidate for a third term, knocked the latter from a speaking stand. 1 he Ohm Democratic Convention in dorsed the Kansas City platform and invited William Jennings Bryan to speak on its principles. Fucifn. Adianople. Turkey, is reported burn ing, and the Turks are alleged to be ir.assacrcing the Bulgarian population. .Morocco insurgents inflicted a severe defeat on the Sultan's troops. At least 10.000 tin workers in Wales are on strike. The split among German Socialists is growing more serious. hmperor ilham, in a speech at Cassel. said that the early training by his teachers fitted him for his life of hard work. Joseuh Chamberlain declined to sanction the proposed loan for the re lief of the Jamaica sufferers. lhe Macedonian Committee has ap pealed to Prince Ferdinand to show greater interest in the Macedonian situ ation, declaring that if Macedonia is nut soon liberated the position of Bul garia will become critical. General Zontcheff is said to be organizing a body of 5,000 Macedonians to cross the ironticr. The Liberals scored a victory in the parliamentary bye-election, the first contest on the fiscal question. J. S. Ainsworth, Liberal free-trade candi- late, was elected by a majority of 1.5S6 over Charles Stewart, Unionist and protection candidate. I he date for the first meeting of the irbitration tribunal on the Venezuelan matter, set for September I. has been postponed because of the inability of Dr. Lardy and Professor Matzen to serve. Four men and several officers of the Bavarian Army, stationed at Hommcl- burg, are suffering from typhus fever. I he BritiMi Foreign Office has in structed the British Commissioner in East Africa to facilitate in every way the work of tlie committee appointed by the Zionist Congress at Basle, Switzer land, to investigate the offer of the British government of a site for a Jew ish colony. It is reported that the leaders of the Persian Mohammedan Church have served notice on the Shah that unless he purges the country of foreign relig ious commercial influences the church will precipitate a revolution. An express train from Budapest for Constantinople was blown up by dyna mite bombs south of Adrianople, ap parently the work 01 revolutionists. seven persons were killed and 15 in jured. Financial June floods held back business from Atchinson and that helped to swell the traffic in July. Secretary Shaw tays there is no use to worry now about possible tight money in the late autumn. , Edwin Hawley and If. E. Hunting Ion have been elected directors of To ledo, St. Louis & Western. That same old yarn about Secretary Shaw dcKjsitiuu $40,000,000 in banks o help move the, crops is now being circulated. New England manufacturers declare it is a question of smashing the cotton corner or dosing all cotton mills. Cotton Bull Brown says the world hnsn't seen another such cotton famine for thirty-five years. Dan Sully tays it isn't true that there is a famine. Rock Island officials say they do not intend to buy the Mexican Central. The street theory is that the Moorcs have now all the roads they can swing comfortably. People who are familair with the re cent vast developments n, the Mani toba region say that Canadian Pacific's fut'.irr is at bright at that of any other railroad on tha continent, ' POWERS IS FOUND GUILTY Sentenced to Be Hanged at Georgetown, Kentucky. THIRD TIME HE IS ADJUDGED GUILTY. Had Been Twice Before Convicted and Each Time Received tin Sentence of Imprison' meal for Life Brother of Murdered Gover nor Broke Down From the Strain Powers Makes Eloquent Plea. Georgetown, Ky. (Special). The third trial of cx-Sccretary of State Ca leb Powers for complicity in the mur der of Gov. William Goebel in January, 1000, closed shortly before noon, when the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, with the extreme penalty of hanging for the prisoner. Powers had been in the penitentiary for three years on life sentence. The verdict of the jury, "guilty and the punishment of death," was report ed into covrt at 1 1.20. Several hun dred people crowded the courtroom when the verdict was read. Intense si lence prevailed. The jury was polled and each man declared the verdict of guilty to be his finding. Powers sat apparently unmoved while his attorneys ased for time to make a motion for a new trial. He had nothing to say regarding the verdict except to express his surprise that such a result could be reached from the evidence presented and to an nounce that he would take an appeal and continue his case to the last re sort. Arthur Goebel, the brother of the victim and a merchant in Cincinnati, who has spent his time and fortune for over three years in the prosecution of those accused of being in a conspiracy to kill his brother, broke down from the strain upon hearing the verdict. Special Judge Robbins in the after noon formally overruled a motion ,for the granting of a new trial to Powers. He then passed the sentence of death upon him. Powers made only the dec laration: "I'm not guilty. Judge!"' The Court then fixed November 25 next as the day for the execution. The attorneys for Powers secured the granting of an appeal for the case to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and. if unsuccessful, they may try to get the United States Supreme Court to take it t'nder consideration. Powers was immediately removed to the Scott County Jail to be held there tiending the appeal of his case to the higher covrts. A telegram from Indianapolis states that ex-Gov. W. S. Taylor said: "This verdict affects me very much. I cannot say a word." Powers has been convicted twice be fore, this being the third trial in which the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against him. On his previous trials he escaped with a sentence of life impris onment, as the evidence was not con sidered sufficiently strong against him to lead the jury to inflict the extreme penalty. All three of the trials were held at Georcetown and in each of them he had the assistance of the most able lawyers who could be procured. The trial just closed was made not able by Powers addressing the jury in his own behalf. In a long review of tin case he showed himself to be a com petent ally of his counsel, while his elo quence in pleading for his life astonish ed those who had watched him care fully in the past trials of the case. Story of Goebel's Murder. The crime for which Powers was con victed was being accessory to the murder of William Goebel, who had bem the Democratic candidate for Governor of Kentucky at the preceding election, and who was making a contest before the Legislature. While on his way to the State House at Lexington. Ky., January 30, ioxx). Goebel was shot by some one located in the rooms of the Secretary of State, an office then held by Powers. NEW IDEAS BY MARCONI. tie Brings Four lovenlloos for His Wireless System. New York (Special). According to William Marconi, who arrived here on the Cunard liner Lucania, the system of sending wireless messages to any nec essary distance under any conditions has been perfected, and within three months his company will accept com mercial messages for transmission to Europe. Of most importance is his positive statement that one of four new inven tions he brings with him will make it impossible for a rival to interfere with the sending or receipt of messages. When told of the interference a rival company is said to have created in the reporting of the yacht races Tuesday, so that his instruments were powerless to receive bulletins on the races, Sig nor Maconi laughed and said that with the new inventions all that would be impossible. He had so perfected his system that any number of instruments could be flashing messages through the same space-find they would not in any way interfere with his own. If this proves true the greatest ob jection which scientists and commercial houses have found with the system has been obviated. Vacancies Not Filled. St. Petersburg (By Cable). In conv enience of the refusal of Dr. Lardy, the Swiss Minister at Paris, and Profcsor Matzen of the Copenhagen University to serve as arbitrators at The Hague in the claims of the allied Powert for prefer ential treatment in the settlement with Venezuela, the Foreign Office has re quested the postponement of the date of the first meeting of the tribunal until other arbitrator! are secured. Eaflncers Killed. Toledo, Ohio (Special). A freight wreck occurred in the yards of the Nickel Plate Railway at Bcllevue, O., in which Engineers James Rodeubcrg, of Bellevue, and J. G. Bartholomue, of Conneaut, O., were killed. Engineer Kodenberg had charge of a switch engine and was at work in the yards when the third section of No. 37, west bound, in charge of Bartholomue, pulled into the yards at full speed and crashed into the twitch engine. Kodenberg was caught between the tender and cab and iqucezed to death. Two Trains Crash. Rome (By Cable). A disastrous rail way accident hat cut thort the festivities and demembration! in honor of the King and Queen at Udine, the chief town on the Eastern frontier, tixty miles from Venice, where the sovereigns had gone to view the grand army maneuvers. At 10 o'clock, near Udine, a train overflow ing with soldiers collided with a freight train. The force of the collision was terrific. Those on board were thrown in all directions and the coaches were broken up. Twenty persons were killed and eighty injured, including six officers. The colonel in command of Um wldicrt ww tiKMH thu injured. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Not Government Money. Commissioner Richards, of the Gen eral Land Office, made a statement in reply to a publication that some of the officials of the Treasury Depart ment are criticising the action of the Secretary of the Interior respecting the deposit of the funds received from the sale of the town sites in the Kiowa and Comanche reservations, which was made under Mr. Richards' direction in 1901. He says the expenses of the transac tion were paid from the receipts of the respective sales and properly accounted for to the Secretary of , the Interior, and the balance of the receipts, amounting to S730.J01, deposited in the Sub-Treasury at St. Louis, against which is to be charged $5,284 expenses incurred in the surveying of the town sites, leaving a balance of $724,917. 'Hie Commissioner adds: "No portion of this balance belongs to the Government. By the act under which these town sites were sold it is to be disposed of tinder the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in the manner provided in the act. The Secretary is the trustee of this fund, charged with the duty of seeing that it is expended in the manner provided by the act. The money was deposited in the Sul-Treasury at St. Louis. There was no direction in the law that it should be so deposited. It might have been deposited elsewhere, in the discretion of the Secretary." Its Odor Drives 7hem Off. The Department of Agriculture is in vestigating the virtues of the ocimumvi rides. a plant from Northern Nigeria, and experts say that if all that is claimed be proved ocimumvirides will soon be all the rage as decorations for entertain ments and dinners during the summer social season. It is conceded it is not as beautiful as Bride roses or orchids, but it will re move mosquitoes, and in this fact its popularity is expected to lie. Place a pot of ocimumvirides on the dining-room table or the veranda of a summer cot tage and the mosquitoes will leave and not return so long as the plant is around. Mosquitoes object to the odor the plant exudes. This resembles thymian and eucalyptus. The department, before giv ing its unqualified indorsement to the ornamental mosquito exterminator, is first going to find out if the insects will cultivate a liking for it. No One-Sided Alaska Exhibit., Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock issued instructions to the commission having in charge the Alaskan exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, di recting that the exhibit shall not be in the interest of any particular business or enterprise, or of one section of the Ter ritory against another, or of one class of people as against another, but must be arranged along broad lines, illustrating the products, resources and industries of all sections and all people. No Pay During Absence. Comptroller Traccwcll in a decision given Public Printer Palmer rules that W. A. Miller, the assistant foreman in the bookhindery department of the Gov ernment Printing Office, whose case has attracted so much attention, is not en titled to pay for the time of his absence from the printing office. Miller was absent 63 days, anil if the claim had been valid there would be due him $352. The Comptroller holds that Miller is not an official of the Govern ment, but an employe, and ruled that a prerequisite of his pay is that he should be present and actually perform the labor required of him. Loomls to Lecture at Newport Francis B. Loomis, First Assistant Secretary of State, will leave Washing ton this week to be absent for about a month on vacation. He will first deliver a series of lectures before the Naval War College at Newport, R. I., upon features of diplomacy and their relations to the navy which have come under his obser vation while serving as a foreign Min ister of the United States. Will Cost 42,000 to Repair. A report has been received at the Navy Department' from the command ant of the navy yard at New York, say ing that an examination of the Massa chusetts since she had been in drydock shows that it will cost $42,000 to repair the damages which she recently sustained near Bar Harbor. In the Departments. Secretary Hay has begun an inquiry into the origin of the false report that Vice-Consul Magelsson, at Beirut, Sy ria, had been assassinated. Experiments with a flying machine of the aeroplane pattern invented by Emile Berliner are said to have been successful. It is authoritatively stated that for the present the isthmian canal project is in abeyance. No new question has been raised by the proposition of Secretary Shaw to segregate government receipts from internal revenue sources. It is stated that English stockholders in the Suez Canal are the most power ful opponents of the Panama Canal Treaty. The State Department was informed of the murder of Ira C. Bradley near Holguin, Cuba. The action of the Ohio Democratic Convention in renewing allegiance to William J. Bryan has created discussion in Washington political circles. Assistant Secretary Robert B. Arm strong, of the Treasury, left for a month's trip to the Pacific coast. The investigation of the irregularities will be made by some one outside of the Interior Department. The official conduct of United States Attorney P. L. Soper, his assisant (Mr. Huckleberry) and United States Marshal Colbert, of Indian Territory, are being investigated. Representative Overstrect, of Indi ana, in an interview, declares that finan cial legislation is not necessary for the continuance of prosperity. The While House it being overhaul ed preparatory to the return of Presi dent Roosevelt and family. Postmaster General Payne asserts that no influence has been brought to bear to curtail the investigation in his department. President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Secretary Root upon condition that he continue at the head of his department until January t, when he will be succeeded by Judge Taft. The Weather Bureau's report of crop conditions shows an improvement in general condition!. The Postmaster General ittued a for mal order authorizing the delivery of unpouched newspaper mail by baggage-masters. WIND FAILS THE BOATS The Fourth Race In Yacht Contest De clared Off. RELIANCE WAS FAR IN THE LEAD. Challenger Outsailed, Outpointed, and Out looted by Yankee Yacht It Was a Pro cession trom Start to Finish The Sham rock Atrociously Handled Wrinf Out maneuvered In Struggle for Position. New York (Special). With Reli ance less than a third of a mile from the finish and Shamrock III. hull down on the horizon, fully two miles astern of the gallant defender, the fourth race of the present series for the America's cup Thursday was declared off because of the expiration of the time limit of five and one-half hours, as happened on Thursday last. Although, officially, it was no race, the defeat administered to the challen ger was so ignominious that whatever lingering hope remained in the breasts of the friends of Sir Thomas' boat vanished into thin air. Reliance's vic tory was in every way more decisive than that of last Saturday. Outsailed, outpointed and outfooted. it was a pro cession from start to finish. The Herreshoff wonder beat the Shamrock hopelessly in the fiftcrn miles of windward work, rounding the outer mark 12 minutes and 30 seconds ahead of her, a gain in actual time of 11 minutes and 29 seconds, and down the wind she steadily increased her lead. The real race of the day was not against Shamrock III., but it was seen in the exciting struggle of Reliance in the last half hour to reach the finish line before the regatta committee fired the gun which should announce the ex piration of the time limit. Had the wind freshened twenty min utes earlier than it did the cup scries would have ended with three straight wins for the defender, and Fife's fa mous light-weather boat would have sailed back to Albion shores one of the most disastrously worsted challengers in the history of the America's cup contests. Third Race. New York (Special). In a glorious wholesail breeze, over A triangular course, ten miles to a leg, the fleet footed cup defender Reliance again showed her heels to Sir Thomas Lip ton's challenger, taking the second race of the cup scries of 1903 by the nar row margin of one minute and nine teen seconds. It was as pretty and as hard a fought contest as has ever been sailed off Sandy Hook, and had the wind not fallen during the last ten minutes the record for the course three hours twelve minutes and fifteen seconds made by Columbia two years ago in her memorable race against Shamrock II., would have been broken. As it was, Reliance sailed the thirty miles within two minutes and thirty nine .seconds of the record, which speaks wonders for her speed in the wind that was blowing. Reliance's victory, narrow as it was. would have been even smaller had not Captain Wringe, the skipper of the British ship, bungled the start, sending his craft over the line nineteen seconds after the last gun and handicapping her to that extent. At every point of sailing the defend er's superiority was demonstrated. She gained one minute and fifty-one sec onds in windwark work, forty seconds on the run to the second mark and forty-five seconds on the close reach for home. Based upon the magnificent showing she has made in the two races already sailed, it is the belief of many experts that the cup is safe and that it will take something better than Fife's latest cre ation to even budge it. Just before the finish the wind die! down, but Reliance went across in ample time to win, having covered the ten miles in 57 minuu-s 40 seconds. There followed the usual- riot of whis ties, mingled with the wail of sirens, the clamor of bells, the exultant shouts of patriots) and the booming of can non. ; The official time: Start. Flnlsli. Time. T me. Reliance U.OU.M i'.IV:J 8.14.M 8.11.1,4 Shamrock III 11 O.'.OU U 18.10 ii.lo.lU LIVES LOST IN FLOOD. Two Mea Peritb While Attempting to Rescue Others. Council Bluffs, Iowa (Special). The Missouri River Valley, from Missouri Valley 20 miles north to Pacific Junc tion, 15 miles south of here, is almost a lake for the entire distance, and of the five trunk lines running east trom here, one the Illinois Central is able to get a train in or out of the city. Two persons H. H. Larue, of Corning, and A. R. Fash, a Clinton (Iowa) horseman lost their lives while attempting to rescue a number ol persons irom the lair grounds, which were suddenly flooded. Larue was electrocuted while pushing a boat nndcr an electric light wire, and Fash was drowned. Three others are nhss ing and are thought to have lost their lives on the flooded fair grounds. The flood was caused by a sudden rise in the Nodaway River, which sub merged the grounds before those hav ing charge of exhibits knew of their danger, part of them being asleep. The water reached a depth of 21 feet on the grounds and washed away a number of buildings. The railroads are the heaviest suf ferers from the flood. Three Voung Women Drowsed. Pittsburg. Pa. ( Special). While a party of young people were driving home from a social gathering near Evergreen borough, north of Allegheny, their vehicle was precipitated over a nigh em bankment into Girtys run, and three were drowned. Two others narrowly escaped a similar fate. The party was returning from a dance, and were almost home, when the horse slipped and, in falling, dragged the vehicle over the em bankment into the run. The stream was badly swollen, and three of the occu pants were swept away. ' Big Coal Dei I. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). The Pitts burg Coal Company has. just closed a deal for the purchase of all the coal land holdings of Henry W. Olirer except those in the Blaine Coal Company, Shal lenbergcr Coal Company and the second Pool Coal Company for a sum approxi mating $i,ooo,coo. The tract comprises about 4500 acres and the purchase gives the combine practically all of the Pitts burg coal in the first pool outside of that held by the Pittsburg Terminal Railroad and Coal Company. The tract lies near Finlryville, on the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio. n,s MANV B00K AND m W0RKS- Charge Against Manager Miller, ol Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). That Howard T. Goodwin, who In December of last year committed suicide in the Arcade Building, had, during a period of years misappropriated cash, stock and bonds to the extent of $1,000,000 or more, was declared in a bill of equity filed by Cassatt & Co., bankers and brok ers. Goodwin was the manager of the firm at the time he committed suicide. Suit was begun in Common Pleas Court No. S, on behalf of the brokers, by John G. Johnson. , It was directed against Lizzie K. Good win, executrix of the estate of Howard T. Goodwin, and asked that she be di rected to render an accounting of all property left by her late husband, in cluding real estate, art treasures, rare books and shares of stock, It was al leged in the bill that Goodwin, during his career as the trusted manager of the concern, had made away with large sums said to amount to $1,000,000, and that his property had been purchased with money which rightfully belonged to others. Only in the extent of the amount was the news of the alleged shortage a surprise. It was shown at the time of Goodwin's death that he had been plunging in the stock market, and he was supposed tc have been interested In Consolidated Lake Superior. It was also said that he was involved in several promoting schemes that had been financial failures. His death was a tragic one and occur red tinder circumstances that gave at first promise of a suspicion of foul play, a shadow that was soon dissipated. Experts were put to work on the books of his concern, and after some time Cas satt & Co. admitted that thejr trusted employee was indebted to them. Nc statement of the amount further than that it in no way affected the stability of j tne nrm was given out. j , A few days ago the affairs of Good- w in came before the public when his col j lection of rare books wat advertised fot ' sale at auction. The sa'.e was ordered 1 by Hampton L. Carson, presumably an ! attorney for some interest in connection wun me settlement 01 tne estate. The catalogue of the Goodwin books revealed the fact that tho-.isaads and tens of thousands of dollars had been expended in gathering together a rare literary collection. It included, among other things, three volumes f a spe cial edition of Dickens, contracted fot at a cost of $130,000. There were tc have been twenty-five volumes in the collection, and $10,000 had been paid down at the time of delivery, The text was printed on pure vellum, on one side of the page only. Each page was illumined by hand in water colors. The volumes were bound in ful' crushed levant morocco, gilt and tool ed with an inside doublure of contrast ing leather. Each book is laid in a sa tin-lined box.' Thousands of other vol umes of special editions or rare firs! editions, some of them costing thou sands of dollars, were in the library of the man's home at Ridley Park. His art treasures are alse said to have been extensive, but of much less value than his books. He was possess ed, his friends say, of a veritable ma nia for book collecting. Simple in his tastes in other directions, it is said hif speculations were in the hopes of reap ing profits to add to the treasures 0:1 his shelves. Two Centenarians Deal La Porte, Ind. (Special). Mrs. U. L. Turczynca, residing near Terre Coupee, is dead at the age of 107 years. She was born in Poland and for more than half a century had lived in La Pwrte and St. Joseph counties. Family records sub stantiate her age. Bloomington, 111. (Special), Francis Anthony, the oldest man in Illinois, died of heart failure. He was born in May, t8co, in Ireland. ' Quarrel Ends Fatally. Marysville, Ky. (Special). The rig of David Daily, of Maysville, and William Malone, of Manchester, O., collided at 3 a. m., with one occupied by Clarence Thomas and William Jackson, colored. The colored men demanded $10 damages. Daily insisted on waiting until daylight for settlement. During the quarrel Daily was shot and killed by Thomas. Both colored me4i are in jail. Gold Dust Stolen. Chicago, III. (Special). A dispatch to the Record-Herald from Vancouver, B. C, says: "Four masked men held up the watchman ,of the Featherstonhaugli mines, in Atlin, Alaska, and ttole near! $20,000 worth of gold dust, which had been collected in the sluices during the day. Twenty workmen had just gone tc supper, leaving the watchman in clisrgc He was caught from behind, pinioned and gagged, and in twenty minutes the big clean-up was in canvas sacks, whicfc the robbers brought. They fled in the tarkness." Sale Dynamited. I Franklin, Pa. ( Special). Robbers dynamited the safe in the postofhee al Sandy Lake, fifteen miles west of this riv, and secured nearly $1000. Mrs. Abraham Wilson, living near the post' otnee. saw the three cracksmen at work, but was too frightened to give the alarm. Three suspicious looking men were ar rested, but none of the stolen property was found on them. Rat Bile Causes Death. Cambria, Wis. (Special). David G. Williams, aged 63 years, who was bit ten by a rat two weeks ago, died of blood poisoning, which resulted from the bite. Mr. Williams was a member of the Lower House of the last Legis lature. He served in the civil war. SPARKS FROM THU WIRE1 A small boy was shanghaied on the French bark Marechal dc Gontaut, which sad for Yokohama from New York. Mayor Falkenstcin will hnld the Amalgamated Association for the fu ture conduct of the McKeesport strikert. Three persons were killed in an ex plosion at the workt of the Indeocn dent Powder Company, Carthage, Mis souri, , T. Nicholson & Sons Company, Chi cago contractors, have been forced in to receivers' hands by strikes. Sam Parks, the walking delegate, was sentenced to not lets than two years and six months in Sing Sing. Charles R, Flint announced that he it organizing a new combination of board-box industries. The body of G. Wallace Rlddick was found in the North river near Eliza beth City, N. C. The subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Territories arrived at Victoria, B. C. , I The annual convention of the Arner ican Bar Association began at Hot Springs, Va, ' THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Pennsylvania Told Is Short Order. The Governor has appointed these Iclegates to the Farmers' National Congress, to be held at Niagara Falls, September 22: Hon. Levi Morrison, 3reenville; M. K. Laird, Livermore; vYilliam B. Powell, Shadcland; S. P, Heilmer, Hcilmerdale; A. L. Martin, Eron Valley; S. F. Barber, Harris, burg: Stephen D. Yost, Conyngham; M, N. Clark, Claridge: Hiram Peoples, New Providence; T. E. Orr, Pitts, burg; R. H. Thomas, Mechanicsburg; Hon. John Hamilton, State College; M. E. Conrad, West Grove; Gabriel Heister, Harrisburg; W. F. Hill, West, ford; T. C. Milliken, Cornprohts; Mills; David W. Cooper, Sunbury) Thomas T. Phillips, At glen; S. Harvey Rutherford, Paxtang; Julius La Mnyne, Washington; W. W. Britton, Upper Stroudsburg: Hon. V. H. Brush's, Lancaster; Hon. Nelson H. Th-mp' son, Flora; T. A. Moorehcad, Mo-ire. headville: John Sharplcss, London Grove; Col. J. M. Woodward, S;aie College; R. J. Weld. Sugar Grove; Hon. William P. Coryell. Kennel worth: Hon. W. T. Creasy. Catawissa; Hon. Thomas V. Cooper, Media: lion. Thomas W. Montgomery, Hunting don; Hon. Thomas K. Beaver, Acad emia; Hon. W. E. Champaign, Wells boro; L. C. Baker, Columbus; Hnn. John D. Brcnnan, Pleasant Mountain; Hon. Charles Quail, 'Auburn; Hon. B, B. Mitchell, Troy; Hon. N. D. Critch ficld, Critchficld: Homer C. Crawford, Coopcrstown; Hon. James McAnles, Wampum; Hon. George Tiffany, Gib son; Hon. Jeremiah Roth, Allcntown; Hon. J. C. Sibley, Franklin: Maurice Joyce, Pottsville: James W. Hurst, Camptown; G. G. Hutchinson. War. riors Mark; L. S. Gundy, Lcwisburg: W. P. Reynolds, Oxford. The Governor has appointed James Z. Stoughton Register and Recorder of Clinton County, vice William A. Cald well, deceased. The Pennsylvania Commission to the St. Louis Exposition has made appli cation to the Department of Fisheries for an exhibit at the big show, and Commissioner Mcehan will prepnre something that the State can be prom! )f. He particularly desires to make a good showing of stuffed specimens of tery large fish caught in Pennsylvania waters, and any person in the State possessing fipe specimens, and willing .0 have them placed on exhibition ma issist by notifying Commissioner Mce tan and all express charges will be oaid, with the other expenses. The weight of specimens submitted must be it least as follows: Black bass, 4' pounds; lake trout, 15 pounds; shad, pounds; salmon or wall-eyed pike, 5 pounds; large-mouthed bass, 7 pounds: pickerel, 6 pounds; muskallonge of pike, 20 pounds. A large display of live 5sh will be taken from the hatcheries tnd arranged in aquariums at the Ex position, and there will also be an ex libit of devices for taking fish. The third section of the Barnum & Bailey circus train, composed almost .ntircly of sleeping cars for the per 'ormers, was wrecked at Wildwood, on :he Pittsburg & Western R. R., and serious accident was narrowly averted As this section of the train was pass ing on the northbound track a freight :rain on the southbound track got be Kond control of the crew and cam dashing down the grade. Just as tlx !ast of the sleepers was almost cleai :he runaway train jumped the track tnd one car crashed into the rear sleep :r, sideswitching it and damaging thf :ar badly. The car had about forty per ions on board and they were ruddy iwakencd from their sleep. Both '.racks were blocked for hours and tlit rircus train went through, leaving the jne car behind. The performers who ere in the injured car were furnished a-ith another train and were taken ov o join the rest of the circus. Stuart H. Simpson, a prominent oi.' nan of Oil City, brought suit againsl :he Pennsylvania Railroad Company :or $100,000, on account of injuries sustained in a wreck in the yards, on March 10 last. Simpson states in hit :laim that as a result of injuries to his iack, and impaired vision, he is unable :o attend to his business. Edward J Quiglcy, inspector for the Pure Oil Company, of Philadelphia, who was also a passenger on the same train, recently filed a claim for $100,000 dam- iges in the llutlcr County courts. John W. Schoficld, who has been the acting receiver of the National Bank at Doylcstown since it closed its doors, made a formal transfer of the accounts of the institution .to Robert Lyons, who has been named by the depart ment as permanent receiver. It is ex pected that a report of the bank's con dition will be made to the stockholders in a few davs. Typhoid fever is epidemic at I.nns dale. At present there are about a dozen cases of a more or less serious nature. The disease broke out about two weeks ago and has been on the increase. The authorities arc at a lost to know its origin. It is thought b; some that the milk supply may be con taminated. In the search for persons who catch bass smaller than the law permits, fish wardens have stopped many fishermen in Birdsboro and vicinity to measure the bass that were caught. A Birds boro fisherman who was annoyed in this manner now cuts off the tails of all bass as soon as he catches them, mak ina it impossible afterward to ascertain the length of the fish. James E. McElwce, of Williamsport, a brakeman on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, was struck on the head with a lump of soft coal, thrown by some one from a car. near Dan ville. Jfis skull was fractured and hf died thortly after being taken to ths hospital. Forty persons arc ill as the result of eating provisions purchased 11 Rochester. Five members of Mis' Lillie Renos Sunday school class were made sick after eating cake at a picnic. All but three members of another das' became ill. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ma ton and three sons and Mr. and Mrs. J. Dowell and their daughter, whe went to a picnic, carrying a lunch front Rochester, were also taken sick after rating. Boarders at three restaurants re also ill. The exact cjiusc is nut known. j , All records for heavy hauls have been broken on the Reading main line by the big engine No. 1005. recently re ceived from Baldwins. This giant loco motive started from the Walnut street rardi, Readinsr, with seventy-nine stee :ars loaded with bituminous coal. m train and contents weighed 537- on' and the run to Abrams, near Norris town, was made in three hours, it " understood that the officials are satis fied with the retult and no further ai tempts will be made to increase size o trains for the present at least. Twenty-two Sunday schools held pa nics in Berks county Saturday.
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