'strike of coal miners
Trouble la
Colorado Fusl
Company.
and Iroo
(DOUBTFUL IF THE MINES CAN OPEN.
Mm Quit Work it All Mints and Flock to
Town With Th:lr Piy Checks Hundreds
t the Striken Jota Ihi Union, but the
Italian! Reims to Join, ai Tbey Say They
Mate Been Sold Out by the I'nlon.
Trinidad, Col. (Special). It is now
evident that the strike ol the coal min
ora in the first district of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company is no small
affair. In (act, it is a strike out of all
proportions to that even hoped for by
he officers of the United Mineworkcrs
tof America, and ten times what was
looked for by the coal operators.
At a meeting of superintendents and
Jit bosses held in the Colorado Fuel
and Iron offices, at Trinidad, reports
were made that in no camp would
enough men go out to cause a shut
down. It is doubtful if enough men
can be found in the whole district to
work the mines at Primcro. At Gray
Creek every miner but one has quit,
and the camp is surrounded by armed
guards. At Bowcn the men are quit
ling rapidly. At Tcrcio the men quit
tarly. At Starkvillc alone ol the
tamps reported as being wholly com
pany men nearly every man quit. At
Peadmont, the new Rocky Mountain
Fuel Company men took their tools
borne.
All day the chiefs anil miners have
been swarming into Trinidad, nearly
ill of them having their pay checks,
running from S1S7 down. The checks
acre for such amounts that business
men could not cash them, and, hence,
tost thousands of dollars in trade. All
iay long the miners have been joining
flic United Mineworkcrs. The police,
who were stationed near the office of
that organization to prevent any pos
f.bility of a clash between the union
and nonunion men, estimated that at
least & joined and came out show
Big their union cards. Commercial
Itreet for two blocks was at one time
thoked with the new union men.
The Italians have quit almost to a
man. They have not joined the union to
any extent, giving as their reason that
they were sold out by the labor organiza
tion on two or three occasions and they
prefer to go out on their own responsi
bility on this occasion. They will stay
out, their officers say, until the last one
goes back to work.
Denver, Col. (Special). A general
strike in the Northern Colorado coalfield
was declared. In all about 1,275 men in
the Northern field arc idle.
The action of the miners in the North
ern field was a surprise to the operators.
After the conferences held in this city,
in which practically every demand excrpt
3ie eight-hour day was granted to the
tnen, they determined to strike.
CHILD SHOOTS TWO OTHER CHILDREN.
Thirtcea-Year-Old Boy Kills One Companion
and Wouods Another.
Monongahela, Pa. (Special). En
raged over a name applied to him, Earl
Flory, a 13-year-old boy, shot and in
itantly killed James Murphy, aged 12
years, and severely wounded John John
ion, aged 11 years. The tragedy oc
curred late in the evening at Scenery
Hill, where the three boys reside. Flory
la in jail and Johnson was brought here
to the Memorial 1 Iospital.
The three boys for sometime have been
boon companions and were out hunting.
The only gun in the party was owned
by Flory, who allowed the others to share
in the shooting from time to time. A
dispute arose as to whose turn it was to
use the gun, and Flory settled the ques
tion by taking it. himself, whereupon
Murphy said :
"Your old gun is no good. It's like
jroo, you dirty pup."
The words were scarcely out of Mur
phy's mouth when Flory fired at him
Roir.t-blank. The charge took effect in
lurphs abdomen, almost disembowel
ing him. Johnson was severely wounded
about the lower part of the body by part
of the charge which went by Murphy.
Flory (led. leaving the wounded John
son to hobble to the nearest habitation
for aid. When arrested Flory said to the
officers: "Yes, he called me names and
I shot him." Later, he said Johnson told
him the gun was empty and he only
wanted to scare Murphy.
CLARK WINS GREAT SUIT.
Roataaa Senator Awarded Timber Land
Worth $2,000,000.
Butte, Mont. (Special). The great
timber suit brought by the United
States against Senator William A.
Clark, involving timber land in the
Bitter Creek Valley, Western Mon
tana, to the value of $2,000,000, was
settled by Judge Knowles, of the Unit
ed States District Court, in favor of
Senator Dark.
Judge Knowles finds that Mr. Clark
was guiltless of irregular purchase of
lands and innocent of illegal registra
tion of the same if such irregularities
existed. Judge Knowles criticises the
testimony of Witness Griswold for the
Government, whose reputation, the de
cision alleges, is none of the best anil
who many other witnesses testified had
approached them in behalf of the Gov
ernment The case is the most famous
timber land action ever tried in the
West
Marconi's Latest Scheme.
Rome (By Cable). The government
lias ordered the beginning of the work
of construction of the extraordinarily
powerful wireless telegraph station for
the establishment of communication be
tween Italy and Argentina. The station
will be erected on the royal estate of San
Roasore, on which King Victor Emman
uel has his hunting lode. The site was
chosen by Marconi as the best adapted
lor the purpose.
Baby Baraet to Death.
New York (Special). Edward G.
Cunuuings, the 2-year-old son of Rich
surd Cummings, 75 Mercer street,
Bloomfield, N. J., was burned to death
while playing in the kitchen. His moth
er left the room (or a few minutes and
-when she returned his clothing had
caught fire from the stove and he was
enveloped in the flames. The clothes
were burned from the child's body be
fore the flames could be extingtrthed.
Dr. Jacob S. Wolfe was called in, but
could do nothing for the boy, who died
jm hour later.
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ;RWCR.
Domestic.
Judge Lacor.ibc, of the United States
District Court, in New York, dismissed
the petition for habeas corpus brought
in behalf of John Turner, the English
anarchist, whose deportation had been
ordered.
Mrs. Edgar E. Clark, wife of the
grand chief of the Order of Kaihvay
Conductors of America and member of
the Coal Strike Commission, died in
Cedar Kapids, la.,
President Frank Buchanan, "f the
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, or
dered a strike throughout the country
on all contracts held by the Iron
League of New York.
Mark M. Dobson, confidential clerk
for Autin M. Greer, a banker and
broker fit' New York, was arrested on
the charge of grand larceny, preferred
by his employer.
Despite the opposition of the widow
of Philo S. Bennett, Mr. William J.
Bryan was permitted by the court in
New Haven, Ct., to qualify as execu
tor of the will.
The Cuban government handed to
United States Minister Squicrs a propo
sition for the turning over of the Guan
tanamo naval .station to the United
States.
Lieutenant Colonel John Dunlop
Adair, who was a member of General
Grant's staff during the Civil War,
died at his home, in Chicago, of pneu
monia. Judge l.andis, in Lancaster, Pa., rc
inscd either to grant fir dismsis the bill
for a receiver for the Susquehanna Iron
and Steel Company.
The jury which tried State Senator
Farris, of Missouri, for bribery in con
nection with the baking-powder legis
lation disagreed.
Mrs. Christian Sorenson dropped
dead from heart disease in New York
on learning of her husband's arrest
for theft.
Miss Clara Josephine Coffin, the
daughter of Edward W. Coffin, of East
Orange, N. J., who disappeared from
her home on Tuesday night, has been
found in Omaha, Neb.
The boiler of a harvesting engine ex
ploded at the Ohio State University,
killing the engineer and assistant engi
neer and injuring a number of stij
dents. As the result of a general conference
fif window glass interests, 10,000 skill
ed workers who have been idle for six
months will return to work very soon.
At the last day of the Congress of
the Protestant "Episcopal Church in
America the proposition to change the
name of the church was discussed.
II. J. Hoover, until recently cashier
of the Licking County Bank of New
ark, O.. confessed that he was a default
er to the amount of $36,000.
Dr. S. W. Winchester, editor of the
Christian Outlook, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
was elected president of Taylor Univer
sity, at Upland, Iud.
An explosion of gas in a pit at the
repair shops of the Pennsylvania Kail
road in Pittsburg, Pa., killed two men
alomst instantly.
Magistrate Elijah Upton, of Bowling
Green, Ky., shot and killed Tom Stew
art, who had threatened to shoot him
on sight.
Sam Parks, the New York walking
delegate, was sentenced to two years
and three months in Sing Sing for the
extortion.
There was great excitement on the
cotton exchanges in New York and
New Orleans, and prices were again
forced upward.
Miss Bobb Clark Iloyt, of Bozman,
Mont., eloped with and was married to
the son of her father's Chinese cook.
The National Convention of the
American Humane Association was
held in Cincinnati.
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of Phil
adelphia, has been appointed an asso
ciate of Charles J. Bonaparte in -the
investigation of the Indian Territory
scandal.
A strike has been ordered of coal
miners of Colorado, Utah, New Mex
ico and Southern Wyoming.
The crew of the schooner John W.
I -l 11 noil . was rescued at sea and was
brought to New York.
The United States cruiser Minne
apolis left League Island Navy Yard
for Hampton Roads.
Owing to the unsettled condition of
the trade, the price of steel billets
has been reduced.
ft reign.
The United States gunboat Newport
has been ordered from Savannah to San
to Domingo. The Dominican government
has declared the northern ports of the re
public closed to maritime commerce, but
United States Minister Powell has de
clared the blockade noneffective. The
cruiser Baltimore arrived at Puerto
Plata.
The negotiations between Russia and
Japan have so far advanced that a dis
patch from Berlin states that an an
nouncement of a settlement is soon ex
pected. As the result of a conflict over the
question of vivisection between the mem
bers of the Vienna Medical Chamber and
members of the Landtag, the former
have resigned.
About 6,000 Bulgarian irregulars arc
assembled along the frontier in readiness
to enter Turkish territory and further
trouble is expected.
The German, government does not re
gard the reported massacre at Warm
bad as serious and will send no reinforce,
ments to Africa.
The report is confirmed that the Ger
man garrison at Warmbad, Demaraland,
was massacred by the Bondlzwar
tribesmen.
Solicitor General Finlay concluded his
argument in behalf of Great Britain be
fore the Venezuelan arbitration tribunal.
The new Hungarian premier, Count
Stephen Tisza, secured a hearing in the
Lower House after a stormy beginning.
Senor Gil Robl. a Carlist, made a bit
ter speech against the United States
government in the Spanish Senate.
Flnanciat
Two banking-house failures in Colo
rado threw a chill over Western senti
ment.
There is an end now to Lake Supe
rior common's decline. There is no low
er place for it to fall.
London sold a great lot of United
States Stcrl preferred on the reports
from America of a cut In the price of
billets.
President Thomas, of Lrhioh Vallev.
says that the question of a dividend has
not yet been brought before the Board
of Directors.
About $4,000,000 gold has been en
gaged for import by American bankers.
Iak Shore, which is VanWl,iti lin
has authorized an issue of $50,000,000 of
debenture bonds to pay for its share of
Heading and I locking Valley.
Pig iron in Philadelphia one year ago
was $22. 50 a ton. Now it is $15 a ton.
Steel billets here one year ago were $27
a ton. and they are now $26 a ton.
"We all admit that the United States
Shipbuilding Company was insolvent
when it started," said an attorney in the
case. To try to sell the stock of an insol
vent corporation Is not not usually re'
garded as a high order of finance.
KILLED IN A GOLD MINE
Tunnel Timbcrj Take Fire and Fall on
Imprisoned Workmen.
FUTILE ATTEMPT AT RESCUE MADE.
Superintendent Turner, a Well-Known Mining
Alan, Among the Dead He Gave Ills Life
to Save 1 he Miners, Leading a Rescue
Party of 170 Men to Aid In the Escape of
the Entombed Men.
Butte, Mont. (Special). A Virginia
City special to the Miner says fire in
the Kearsarge mine, six miles from
Virginia City, killed nine men. The
damage to the surface buildings is
slight. Among the dead is Superinten
dent R. B. Turner, of Butte, one of
the best known mining men in the
Northwest. Four bodies have been re
covered.
All the dead miners are from Butte
and were single men. The Kearsarge
is one of the principal gold mines of
the State, and is considered very val
uable. It is operated by the Alder
Mining Company.
At about 5 o'clock fire was discov
ered issuing from the tunnel house on
tunnel No. 1. At the time the flames
were discovered the timbers in the tun
nel were ablaze. How the fire orig
inated is not known, but at the first
alarm all the miners, carpenters and
laborers, about 170 in all. hastened
across the gulch to aid in subduing the
flames.
Superintendent R. B. Turner, whose
temporary quarters are high on the hill
across the richt fork of Alder uulch
ami a short distance from the burning
tunnel house, at once went to the
scene and assumed the direction of
affairs, entered the tunnel through the
nre and smoke to give warning to the
entombed miners and to aid in their
escape.
Near the mouth of the tunnel they
stumbled over the body of John Tobin,
who evidently had made an effort to
escape, but was driven back by the
flames and smoke. They carried the
body to the surface and once more en
tered the workings to rescue their com
rades if possible.
According to the story of a miner.
Hurley by name, he. with Turner and
another man, entered the mine behind
him, but descended through the air
shaft. Hurley was the last of the three
to descend. After coiner down some
distance through the air shaft, Hurley
heard a cry and then thuds as of
bodies striking the timbers, followed
by a smothered splash in the water.
Hurley tried to go farther down the
shaft, but was compelled to retrace his
steps. ,
Mr. Turner had been connected with
the company for several years as su
perintendent of the Kennel mine.
CHOLERA VICTIMS IN PHILIPPINES.
Twenty-One Deaths Reported From tbe Cap
ital llocos.
Manlia (By Cable). Twenty cases
of Asiatic cholera occurred in Vigan,
the capital of llocos Sur, Luzon, last
week. Twenty-one deaths are report
ed. A party of ladroncs captured the
tenicnte (municipal officer) of Bucna
Vista, near Malabon, Cavite. They cut
the tendons ol his legs and left him on
the roadway. This outrage was an act
of vengeance, because the tenicnte had
given information to the authorities
regarding the movements of the la
drones. The Philippine commission has con
firmed the antislavery law passed bv
the Legislature Council of the Moro
provinces, October 5. prohibiting slave
hunting in all the Moro territory and
providing for the confiscation of all
vessels engaged in the slave traffic.
1 lie volcano Malaspina, 111 N euros, is
in a state of violent eruption. Malas
pina is the loftiest summit of the cen
tral mountain chain of the island of
Ncgros, being 8102 feet high. It has
never been entirely quiescent.
EXCITEMENT KILLED MM.
A Millionaire Whose Mill at Derby Was Dam
aged by Fire.
Derby, Conn. (Special). Excitement
over a $.50,000 fire in his big woolen
mill caused the death of Millionaire
Charles B. Ailing, of this city. Mr.
Ailing was driving on the hills when
he looked down and saw the Baugaus-
set Mills, which he had built up from
an attic-room industry to the largest
in town, burst into names. He drove
furiously into town and ran through
the extensive mill yard only to find the
dryhouse section, with its costly ma
chinery and stock, destroyed.
tears tilled Ins eyes and he was taken
home with a nervous chill. In the
morning he was found dead in bed
from cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr. Ailing, who was 70 years old.
owned one-half of the business blocks
in Derby.
Eofine Blown Up at University.
Columbus, O. (Special). While stu
dents of the Agricultural College at the
Ohio State University were witnessing
the harvesting of a field of corn for en
silage purposes, by a machine operated
by an old traction engine, the boiler blew
up and pieces of iron tore through the
crowd of students. The force of the
explosion was terrific and was felt
through all the university buildings. The
most intense excitement was caused and
the students came running in all direc
tions from classrooms and dormitories.
Ounaer Kills Himself.
Portsmouth, N. II. (Special). In one
of the cabins of the training ship Mo
nongahela, which is at the navy yard,
sailors found the body of Gunner George
P. Brady lying on the floor, with a re
volver by his side. Brady had shot him
self in the head. He had been great
sufferer from neuralgia. Brady had been
in the Navy about eighteen years and
had an excellent record. Mis widow re
sides at Newport, R. I., to which place
Brady's body will be taken.
' Charge! With Marder.
Chicago, III. (Special). Custavc
Berger, who has been arrested with his
brother and sister, charged with a num
ber of crimes, is said by the police to
have been identified as the man who last
week shot Locomotive Fireman Louis
Ernst, of the Chicago and Northwestern
Kailway. l'.rnst was fireman on the St
Paul limited and was shot while working
in tbe cab not far from Chicago. Next
morning a number of sticks of dynamite
were found along the track where the
shooting occurred. It is believed that an
attempt waa made to bold up the tram.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Senate Financiers Meet
The Senate Finance Committee held
a session at which the general work of
the session was discussed. The discus
sion showed, whaf has appeared prob
able for some time, that no legislation
looking to an increase of the volume
of money will be seriously undertaken
during the special or first regular ses
sion of this Congress'..
If anything is to be attempted in the
way of financial legislation it will be
in behalf of the Aldrich bill relative to
deposits or customs revenues in the na
tional banks. It was suggested that
the Aldrich bill might be amended so
as to eliminate some of the features
most objected to and in the amended
form be passed, but there was manifest
ed a general indisposition to go farther
than this into the question of financial
legislation.
In the opinion of members of the
committee there was nothing to be
done by them with reference to Cuban
reciprocity legislation until after the
House had acted on the subject, and
the suggestion was made that the sub
ject properly belonged to the Com
mittee on Relations with Cuba, of
which Senator O. H. Tlatt, of Connect
icut, is chairman. The discussion indi
cated that there would be no disposi
tion to contend with the House over
the question of the proper initiative of
revenue legislation, and that if in the
opinion of the House the matter should
be treated in a bill, rather than by
joint resolution, the Senate would ac
cept this decision.
Cost of Carrying the Mall.
V. S. Shallcnbcrgcr, Second Assist
ant Postmaster General, in his annual
report, states that the yearly rate o'
expenditure for all classes of mail
transportation service in this country
is SO.v504.542, and that the rate of cost
per mile traveled is $12.89.
It is estimated that the railway pos
tal clerks handled during the year 15,
999,802,630 pieces of mail matter, ex
clusive of registered matter, and 1.387,-
664 errors were reported in their distri
bution, a ratio of I error to 11,530 cor
rect distributions.
During the year there were 373 cas
ualties to mail cars, in which 18 clerks
and 4 other employes were killed and
78 clerks seriously and 398 slightly in
jured.
Statistics of the parcels-post business
with Germany showed that this country
was not profiting under the old ar
rangement, and the maximum-weight
limit therefore was reduced to 4 pounds
6 ounces. This government received
postage on 77,174 pounds sent to Ger
many, while the latter received postage
on 400.289 pounds sent here and trans
ported king distances.
The feature of delivering mail into
boxes along the lines of the star
routes will be extended to the entire
system of star service on more than
20.000 routes, aggregating over 249,000
miles in length.
Report on Education.
The report of the Commissioner of
Education for the last fiscal year places
the total number of pupils enrolled in
the common schools during the year
at 15,925,887, or over 20 per cent, of
the entire population. The average
daily attendance for 1902 was 10,999,273,
being 69 per cent, of the total number
enrolled.
The average monthly wages of teach
ers for. 1902 was $49 for mates and
about $40 for females. Less than 28
per cent, ot the teachers were males,
or 122,392 out of a total of 439,596.
The private schools are tabulated at
1, 103,301 for the elementary schools
and 168,636 for academies and other
secondary schools. lhc total enroll
ment for the year, including public and
private, elementary, secondary an 1
higher education, was 17,460,000 pupils,
and to this there should be an addition
made for evening schools, business
schools, private kindergartens, Indian
schools. Mate schools lor detectives.
orphans, etc., 620.840, making a grand
total of 18,080,840 in general and special
schools.
Cotton Cloned.
A bulletin issued by the Census Bu
reau on the cotton ginned from the
growth of the present year up to October
18 places the amount at 3.039,627 com
mercial bales, as against 5,925,872 bales
ginned up to the same date last year.
Complete returns on production tor
1902 showed that 53 5 per cent, of the
total crop had been ginned prior to Octo
ber 18 of that year, but the percentage
of the ginnage prior to October 18 of this
year cannot be known until the final re
port for the year is made. Meantime
two other reports will be submitted on
November 18 and December 13.
The statistics for the present year were
collected by 631 local agents, who found
that 27,723 ginneries had been operated
prior to October 18, while to the corre
sponding date last year 29,314 ginneries
had been operated.
Rigid Exclusion of Chines.
As a result of the annual conference
of Immigration Commissioners, just con
cluded, Commissioner-General Sargent
predicts a much more rigid enforcement
of the Chinese Exclusion law than here
tofore. Secretary Cortelyou defined his
policy to the commissioners to the strict
enforcement of the laws, based on fair
dealing. The number of Chinese inspec
tors along the Mexican border is to be
increased.
Missionaries la the Congo State.
Representative Livingston, of Geor
gia; Hon. H. St. George Tucker, of
Virginia, and Rev. Dr. Morrison, com
prising a committee from the Presby
terian Church, represented to the Pres
ident that the treaty rights of mission
aries in the Congo Free State were be
ing violated. The President will take
the matter up with the State Depart-
men.
Says Sheriff Was at Fault.
In response to the request of the In
terior Department for a report regard
ing the recent Indian troubles in Wy
oming, General Kobbe, commanding
the Department of Dakota, forwarded
a dispatch from Major B. II. Chcever,
Sixth Cavalry, at Pine Ridge.
Major Cheever says the trouble was
mostly the Sheriff's fault and that the
Indian prisoners at Newcastle should
be released. He says it is believed that
the Sheriff's party fired the first shot.
The War Department states that the
situation does not require the service
of troops. ..
la the Departments. '
At result of the annual conference
of immigration commissioners, Com
missioner General Sargent predicts a
much more rigid enforcement of the
Chinese Exclusion Law than hereto
fore. '
At the caucus of the Democratic
members of the House of Representa
tives John I. Williams, of Mississippi,
was elected at the minority's candidate
for speaker. -
The design of Messrs. Parker &
Thomas, of Baltimore, for the new
postofiice and courthouse at Hunting
ton, W. Va., bat been accepted.
REPUBLIC IS RECOGNIZED
Special Action Taken af Important Cab
Inet Mectirj. ;4
HERRAN MAY LEAVE WASHINGTON.
President Roosevelt add Hit Cnblael Decide
to Recognize In: De Faclo Qovernment ol
the New Republic Secretary Hay Clearly
Defines Validity of Action Taken Cruiser
Dixie Reaches Colon.
Washington, D. C, . (Special). The
United States government has recog
nized the de facto government of Pan
ama. It was announced at the State De
partment after the return of Secre
tary Hay from the cabinet meeting that
instructions had been sent to United
States Minister Bcaupre, at Bogota
(assuming that he has not left the cap
ital yet), and to Mr. Ehrman, the Unit
ed States vice-consul at Pariam, and
now acting consul there, to inform
the governments of Colombia and Pan
ama, respectively, that the de facto
government is recognized.
Dr. Thomas Herran, the Odnmbian
charge here, is prepared to leave Wash
ington on short notice, with his fam
ily, for Colombia. It may be stated
that instructions withdrawing him will
cause no surprise at the Colombian le
gation, where it is believed that the
State Department's recognition of the
Republic of Panama will cause intense
feeling in Colombia.
So far Dr. Herran has had no ad
vices from his government.
The decision to recognize the de
facto government of Panama was ar
rived at after a protracted session of
the cabinet, at which every member was
present except Secretaries Root and
Wilson.
No other subject was considered. The
President emphasized the importance of
the recognition of the de facto govern
ment. With the withdrawal of the Colombian
officials, the isthmus was left entirely
without a government unless that estab
lished by the secessionists should be rcc
rgnized, and this step seemed necessary
for the transaction of the routine busi
ness of the United States on the isthmus.
When the decision was reached the
following telegram was sent by the State
Department to Mr. Ehrman, the acting
consul general of the United States, at
Panama :
"The people of Panama have, by an
apparently unanimous movement, dis
solved their political connection with the
republic of Colombia and resumed their
independence. When you arc satisfied
that a de facto government, republican
in form and without substantial opposi
tion from its own people, has been es
tablished in the State of Panama, you
will enter into relations with it as the
responsible government of the territory,
and look to it for all due action to pro
tect the persons and property of citizens
of the United States, and to keep open
the isthmian transit in accordance with
the obligations of existing treaties gov
erning the relations of the United Stales
to that territory."
Immediately afterward an instruction
was sent by telegram to Mr. Bcaupre,
the United States minister at Bogota, in
the following terms :
"The people of Panama, having by an
apparently unanimous movement, dis
solved their political connection with the
Republic of Colombia and resumed their
independence, and having adopted a gov
ernment of their own. republican in form,
with which the government of the United
States of America has entered into re
lations, the President of the United
Slates, in accordance with the tics of
friendship which have so long and so
happily existed between the respective
nations, most earnestly commends to the
governments of Colombia and Panama
the peaceful and equitable settlement of
all questions at issue between them. "He
holds that he is botimli not merely by
treaty obligations, but by the interests of
civilization to sec that the peaceful traf
fic of the world across the Isthmus of
Panama shall not longer be disturbed by
n constant succession of unnecessary and
wasteful civil wars."-
BATTLESHIP SENT TO COLON.
Strong Naval Force to Cither ot the Isthmus
of Paoa.ua.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
Navy Department is concentrating a
large naval force at the isthmus, to be
prepared for any emergency as well as
for squadron practice movements. The
battleship Maine has been ordered to
Colon. She sailed from Martha's Vine
yard for Hampton Roads, where She
will coal and proceed to her destination.
The cruiser Atlanta has arrived at
Colon. The auxiliary cruiser Dixie
and the gunboat Nashville are there.
Rear Admiral Glass, commander of the
Pacific Squadron, is proceeding with the
Marblehead, the Concord, the Wyom
ing and the collier Nero at full speed
from Acapulco, Mexico, to Panama.
It was stated at the Navy Department
that the sudden dispatch of the Maine
to Colon is npt because there is any
particular necessity for the presence
there of the big battleship. The JfJavy,
it is stated, is deficient in squadron
movements, and the Navigation Bu
reau desires to remedy this deficiency
wherever practicable. The Maine, it
is further said, has been at the navy
yards during a good part of the past
year, and the cruise to the isthmus will
be beneficial to discipline. If the trou
ble at the isthmus is over before the
Maine arrives there she may be divert
ed to Culebra, where Admiral Bar
ker's North Atlantic Squadron will be
engaged in practice about Christmas
time.
An Operation 00 William. '
Berlin (By Cable). Emperor William
underwent an operation for the removal
of a polpus from his larynx. The oper
ation was performed by Prof. Moritz
Schmidt, and was entirely successful.
The only inconvenience suffered by the
Emperor is that he has. been enjoined not
to speak until the wound caused by the
operation has been healed. T he bulletins
announcing the result of the operation
caused much astonishment, even among
court officials, who had no suspicion that
he was suffering from any affection of
the throat. ' '
Dealb ! Millionaire. . '
Philadelphia (Special). William L.
Elkins, the multimillionaire traction
magnate and financier, died at hit sum
mer home, at Ashbourne, near here, of
a complication of diseases. He was 71
yeart of age.1 Mr. Elkins' illness, which
became alarming about three weeks
ago, really dated from last spring, when
lie barely escaped a violent death. A
heavy iron girder which, was, bring
hoisted to the top of a new oflice build
ing at Broad and Chestnut streets, of
which he was part owner, fell to the
ground, just grazing Mr. Elkins, who
was passing.
SHELL HOUSES ALSO DESTROYED.
Sit Men Were Kl led and Ten Others
,' s. i 1 Injured.
lona Island, N. Y. (Special). Six
:r.cn were killed and to slightly injured
by an explosion at the United States
Naval Arsenal, one of the largest mag
azines in the United States, which is
located here. The explosion occurred
while men were drawing the explosive
charges from a consignment of old
shells recently sent here from the bat
tleship Massachurtsctts.
Three missive shcllhouscs were com
pletely destroyed, and a rain of frag
ments of projectiles of all sizes war
scattered in every direction.
The force of the explosion, or sericr
of explosions, broke windows at reeks
kill, three miles below, on the opposite
side of the Hudson, and the detonation
was heard for many miles. Adjacent
buildings, including two storehouses
for fixed ammunition, were riddled with
the fragments, and the quarters of tin
11 marines composing the garrison
were completely demolished.
The dead, all of whom were workmen
employed by the Naval Ordnance De
partment, are Fred Ward, Stoney
Point, George Moorchead, Tompkins
Cove; Fred O. Locke, Pcckskill; Pat
rick Curran, West Haverstraw; Free"
Brown, Haverstraw; James Connolly,
Pcckskill. The bodies were frightfully
mangled, fragments being hurled foi
hundreds of feet.
The island, which lias been used a
an arsenal for a year, is in the Hudson
river, 40 miles from New York, and
shells and ammunition of all kinds were
stored there. The detonation of pari
of the charge of a shell being unloaded
in Shcllhouse No. 1 exploded all the
other shells in the house, and the frag
ments of shells driven into the adjoin
ing houses exploded their contents.
There were two main explosions
with an interval of several minutes be
tween, and a succession of minor onei
as individual shells went off. Fire fol-
I lowed, and for several hours the ma
j rines fought the flames in imminent
: danger from constantly exploding
snciis. I'liysicians and nurses Iroir
West Point, Pcckskill and Haverstraw
hurried to the island and attended tc
the injured, one of whom was seriousl)
bun.
No statements of the amount of ex
plosives on the island could be obtain
ed from Gunner Fries, U. S. N., ir
command, but it is said that a largf
consignment of shells from the Ala
bama. Kearsarge, Massachusetts and
Illinois were in the buildings destroy
ed. About 4S0 13-inch shells were or
hand, it is said. A large amount of fix
ed ammunition, stored in two build
ings from which the roofs were blown,
did not explode, and the two main
powder magazines were at the othci
end of the island out of danger.
MARINES LANDED ON ISTHMUS.
Nashville's Bluejackets Were Later Returned
' to Their Vessel.
Colon, Colombia (By Cable). The
lives of the American residents hcr
were threatened. American and for
eign families flocked for shelter to the
railroad buildings.
There was great commotion and the
United States gunboat Nashville land
ed fifty bluejackets and a quantity ol
ammunition.
During the excitement the bluejack
ets from the Nashville quickly placed
bales of cotton on the tops of freight
cars, forming excellent barricades.
Many of the citizens were armed with
rifles and revolvers.
Several Americans and other foreign;
crs took refuge on board the German
steamer Markomannia.
Quiet was restored later and at 7.30
o'clock the bluejackets returned to the
Nashville..
The flag of the new republic has al
ready made its appearance in Colon.
General Cuadros, the prefect of
Colon, and the senior officer com
manding the troops which arrived on
the gunboat Cartagena from Savanilla,
are maintaining their position of refus
ing to acknowledge the authority of
the provisional government of Pana
ma. The presence of the Unied States
gunboat Nashville at Colon is believ
ed to have resulted in the avoidance of
serious trouble.
It is believed that peaceful results
will follow a guarantee given by Col
onel Torres that if the American ma
rines would return to the Nashville he
would maintain order.
The British consul has suggested that
if requested a contingent of troops will
be sent to Colon from the British
cruiser Amphion, now at Panama.
. Bolb Burned to Death.
Wheeling, W. Va, (Special). At
Mount Pleasant, O., Edward Moore, t
coal miner, and wife, were burned tc
death by the explosion of a powder can
which the husband was filling. A spark
from the grate Ignited the explosive, and
both were to badly burned that they died
soon afterward.
. Kit Pulled Four-Toa Boat,
London (By Cable). After several
failures S. F. Cody succeeded in cross
ing the English Channel in his boal
drawn by a kite. : He left Calais at II
o'clock P. M. and reached Dover IJ
hours later. He encountered much ship
ping and had tome narrow escapes.
- SPARKS FROM THH WIRES.
The eighth celebration of the found
ing of Carnegie Institute was observ
ed at Pittsburg. .
It is probable that three more mer
lost their lives in the lona Island ex
plosion, i .
District Attorney Jerome, of New
York, says the Tammanyites are mis
taken if they. believe they are going
to have a wide-open town. He says he
proposes to go after the gamblers and
divekeepers. -i
, Two men were killed in s freight
train collision at Reed's' Run, O.
"Funeral services ' over the body of
Lieut. Albert M. Bcecher were held on
board the battleship Maine, and tbe
body was taken to Fort Dodge, Kan
sas, for, interment, I ' ' 1 V
Vahtan Krikorian, the Armenian sus
pect, whose deportation ,from Boston
was orderedt has apealed to the Wash
ington authorities., .. -.'
, A number ol Poles and Italians be
came riotous in their demands for work
at the- llliiiiot Steel Company plant in
Chicago. . ,'
Tbe decision of the commissioner in
the San Francisco street railway arbi
tration bat becu banded down.
TIIE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest Newt ol Pennsylvania Told la
Short Order.
The patents were granted rennylva
nians: Edwin M Arnold, Pittsburg, and
A. T. Kalsey, Wilkinsburg, gas engine;
Koncrt L Marniiari. tnaricroi, roiary en
gine: Frank T. Becker, Pittsburg, damn
ing device for papers; Grant C. Blasdcll,
lowanda, rotary explosive engine; John
H. Bruce, Pittsburg, brake operating
mechanism tor railway car; mircw J,
Cnghc, Pittsburg, burner; John A.
Driver," Allegheny, metallic cars; Wil
liam B. Fitzpatrick, pittsburg, compound
for the removal and prevention o in.
crustation in steam boilers; William M,
Gruner and W. C. Fink, Springdale,
afcty trolley alarm ; Reinhold Herman
cralton, iramc worK ior supporting sig
nal mechanism, also printing apparatus;
Annas Hummed, Huntingdon,, artificial
tree; Alexander r. Humphrey, Allc
gheny, mine or submarine boat destroy
;r: John Kauftnann, Lcetsdalc, rail
joint ; Joseph E. Kevcrlinc, Coal Hill,
combined lock and latch, also lock fui
double doors; Milton J. Lawrence. Beav
er, mail box; Adinah I. Loop, North
:ast, strainer attachment for spray ap
paratus; Hi rani P. Maxim, Pittsburg,
charging system for secondary batteries;
Peter J. McGuire, Blairsvillc, burial cas
ct : William H. McKcnna, Pittsburg,
syphon filler; William C. Miller, Pitts
jurg, tack puller; Joseph F. Nagle, My.
rsdale. safety envelope: Thomas H. Pat
mall, Wiikiushurg, stall and leer lock.
Captain Schaadt, attorney for John and
Tharles Bcchtel, brothers of Mabel Been
el, the mill girl who was murdered at
Mientown, and who arc in prison
jharged with being accessories after the
act, failed to apply for a writ of ha
cas corpus, having abandoned the idea,
.'he case will not be heard probably again
intil the January term of Crimina
Tourt. The police are annoyed by the
nany groundless rumors concerning the
:asc. All the cranks in the country are
ipparcntly trying to solve jlie mystery.
Dozens of anonymous letters advancing
die wildest theories are being received
:ach day. A strange woman visited Al
cntown, saying she is a government de
crtive. She says the murder was the
ivork of Anarchists.
The First National Bank of Allegheny
md the Federal Bank of Pittsburg,, both
Df which suspended during the recent
lurry in the stock market, are expected
0 resume shortly. Word was received
'rom Washington that unofficial advice
received by Acting Comptroller of tilt
Currency Ijlane leads him to expect thai
die directors and stockholders of th
banks will meet soon and order a re
sumption of business.
The strike of 150 Reading Railroad
trackmen on the Shamokin Division was
made complete in the district bctwecr
Ashland and Herndon by the few re
maining men stopping work. The 40?
trackmen between Shamokin and Wil
liamsport have notified the company they
ivill quit work unless their wages re
main as they were before the order for
'.he reduction was issued.
The Bucks County Bible Society
held its eighty-fifth annual meeting at
Newtown. These officers were elected
'fir the ensuing year: President, Rev.
R .S. Eastman, of Lower Dublin: vice
presidents, Rev. T. J. Elms and Rev,
tVilliam. J. Mills, of Newtown, and
Zev. J. Thompson Carpenter, ol
2uakertown; secretary. Rev. Robert
M. Larahee. of Doylestown; treasurer,
cv. J. B. Kncwson, of Forest Grove.
Edward Packard, 13 vcars old. shot
md killed, near Hancyville, the largest
Dear that has been seen in that county
his year. Packard was alone when
ie came across the big animal, which
le killed at the first shot. The beat
vcighed 350 pounds.
In yawning Mrs. Jacob Sanders, 70
cars old, of Lancaster, dislocated her
'aw and it remained out of place for
several hours before a dentist's services
A'cre secured. Chloroform was admin
istered and it was replaced.
William Romanosk. 22 years old
vas killed, and John Benctic, seriously
njured by falling coal at Primrose col
icry, Mahanoy city.
Misses Virginia Witmcr, of Laucas
:er county, and Sarah Heim, of Potts
:own, graduated as nurses from the
Pottstown Hospital.
Wiikes-Barre (Special). The annual
eport of Factory Inspector Jonathan
Davis shows that in the past year there
have been only four accidents in the
iactories in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity,
1 remarkable record.
A constable, school director and five
ither citizens of Hepburn Township'
ivere arrested, charged with violating
:he compulsory school law by keeping
.heir children out of school.
The Bucks County Medical Society
sleeted Dr. E. S. Coburn, of Plum
steadville, president; Dr. W. S. Erd
man. of Buckingham, and Dr. L. S.
Wallace, of Jcnkintown, vice-presidents,
and Dr. A. F. Myers, of Blooming-Glen,
secretary and treasurer.
Joseph Strouse and his wife, of My
:rstown, were arrested in that city. A
stock of plunder alleged to have been
taken in freight car robberies during
the summer and from country storel
where robberies recently occurred wa
discovered in their possession.
Patrick Michael, a wealthy farmer,
aged 80 years, of Towanda, was burned
'o death while fighting a forest fire
done on his farm. He sent his grand
daughter to the neighbors for help and
these men found his charred and naked
body lying in the path of the fire.
Charged with assault on Amos Ken
nard, a conductor of the Darby branch
of the Chester Traction Company, Jo
seph Master was fined $10 and costs at
Chester. He was riding on Kennard'l
car, and because he was requested to
stop drinking from a whisky bottle, it
is alleged, he attempted to cut Ken
nard with a knife.
The Poor Directors have decided
that, in view of the decision of Judge
Landis, of Lancaster, that the law al- ,
lowing $1500 a year salary to Poor Di
rectors in counties with a population
jf 150,000 is unconstitutional, 110 more
warrants will be drawn in Berks county
ior that salary until the Supreme Court
passes on the Lancaster case.
Irvin II. Rhoads, of Sanatoga, was
out gunning; with John Shuler, of
Pottstown. in the Pruss hills, when
Shuler fired at a rabbit and the charge
of shot struck Rhoad s face. He may
lose his eye. i
Mrs. Mary E. Schenley, for many
rears Pittsburg's benefactress, and who
owned $50,000,000 worth of property in
Allegheny county, is dead.
The Harrisburg express, west, at 5 3"
p. m ran into a shifting engine at
:he northern limits of Lancaster, de
molishing the shifting engine, smash
ing ip the front of the passenger engms
nd scraping two cars. Engineer Jamet
LeFevre, of the shifter, jumped and
a bacjly cut. J. M. Brooks, the thlft,
lug brakeman, who was on the tender;
it the time of the accident, was thrown,
off and also cut. The passengers wer-.
shaken up, but no one was hurt I