iNO STRIKEJF MINERS
Vote in FaTor of Accepting the Wage
Scale
ILL THE STATES AGAINST STRIKE
IlBaolt tad Ions the Only Two Where the Mi
Jorlty wit Two to One Against the Scale and
for a Sir ke President Mitchell Much Pleas
edAnother Conference Between Operators
aad Mine Workers to Restore Agreement.
Indianapolis, Ind., (Special). At the
national headquarter? of the United
Mincworkcrs of America estimates on
the vote of the miners had been com
puted by the national officers. They
are positive the scale has been ac
cepted and there will be no strike.
Of the 190,000 miners in the states
oring it is estimated that 135,000
voted, and of these 8",50o voted for
the scale and 46,500 voted against it
and in favor of a strike.
Maryland did not vote, not being
ure it was entitled to vote. West
Virginia reports are meager, and no
estimate is made. Indiana cast 10,000
votes a majority of two to one for
The scale. Illinois cast 30,000 votes,
vith a majority of two to one against
the scale and in favor of a strike.
Pennsylvania cast 50.000 votes, with a
majority of two to one for the scale.
Kentucky had a small vote, with three
to one for the scale. Iowa cast 10,
000 votes, with a majority for a strike.
Michigan cast a small vote for the
cale. Ohio cast 35,000 votes, with
four to one for the scale.
President Mitchell said he was
pleased with the reports that have
come in. lie expressed confidence
that the proposition of the ooerator
would be accepted. He said that in
case it were accepted a meeting of the
toint scale committee would probably
ie called for Monday of next week to
Ign the contract for the central com
petitive field.
When the committee meets it is
Understood that it will appoint a lime
for the next conference between the
operator of the central competitive
field and the mineworkers. and in this
manner restore the interstate agree
ment svstem to its former position.
The greatest opposition to an ac
ceptance of the operators' proposition
vas expected from Illinois and Iowa,
representing about 15,000 of the total
of 190,000 votes.
EXPLOSION OF LIQUID AIR.
Oae Mao Killed, Another Injured and the
Vicinity Shaken.
New York, (Special). The explo
sion of a tank of liquid air in the
laboratory of the American Liquid
Air Company killed one man, caused
panic among the employes in the
place, and shook the entire neighbor
hood like an earthquake. Edward
Corliss, of Bangor, Me., was working
t compressed-air machine, when
the tank, which was only a few feet
away from him, burst with a terrific
report. One of his legs was torn from
Ita socket and the other was muti
lated. Only four men were in the labora
tory at the time. They were all badly
tort.
Soon as one of them, Edward Rus
tl, regained his faculties he went to
the superintendent of the place and
resigned.
"If I had known I was taking such
desperate chances with my life I never
would have worked near liquid air,"
said as he put on his hit and coat
ad departed.
"LIKE A CITY OF DEATH."
Tart Arthur Seemed to Be 00 Fire From a
Boat
London, (By Cable). In a dispatch
jlrom Cheefoo, dated on March 12, a
correspondent of the Daily Mail de
scribes nn inspection of Port Arthur
made from a boat. The new city
seemed to be on fire; three columns of
moke were ascending from it. The
(Bread Hill fort appeared to have suf
fered terribly; the defenses were shat
tered and the earthworks torn up. No
runs were visible. The line of forts
on the Tiger's Tail also appeared to
Jjare suffered damage. At sunrise no
algn ot life could be seen anywhere,
pnd Port Arthur looked like a city of
death. The torpedo-boat destroyers
lataide did not appear to have steam
P-
Charted Wtib Peonage.
Savannah, Ga., (Special). In the
United Statei District Court, before
Judge Speer, argument was submitted
pn the constitutionality of the acts of
Congresa against peonage. The par
ties indicted are Sheriff McClellan, of
Vare county, and Attorney Crawley,
nf the Way Cross bar, charged with
elling negroes to be held in peonage,
'odge Newman, of the northern dis
rlct of Georgia, has held the law to
invalid. An argument against the
w by William Toomer upheld the
ifht of the state court to take any
seeded action.
Ticket Office Robbed.
Harrisburg, Fa., (Special). Point
bf revolvers into the face of Night
Operator and Ticket Agent C. U. Cai
tel. in the Hammelstown Station of
(be Philadelphia and Reading Railway
U 10:30 P. M., two men, wearing false
aastaches, demanding all the money
d tht office. Cassel. who had been
tltting with his back to the door, was
tken by surprise and compelled to
pen the cash drawer, which contained
l$ in small change. The men took
Ihe money and escaped, going toward
Harrisburg.
Russlaa Treasoa Case.
Vienna, (By Cable). A telegram
from Lemberg lays that Captain
Lcontleff of the Russian General Staff
frta recently arrested at Warsaw for
paving sold to a foreign Power a list
f the secret agent maintained by the
kassian General Staff in the frontier
tistricts of Russia's western neighbor.
The discovery was made through
ft delivety of a money order to an
other person of the same name.
Lcontleff is reported to have been
OuTa Body la MilL
Georgetown. Ohio, (Special). The
Vody of Flora Matthews, a girl
living, up to Saturday night last, with
Us family of John Beasley. eight miles
east of this place, was founj in a well
ttcar Decatur, this county. A young
farmhand, Joseph Kolch. took her
toffy riding on Saturday night
rhjcu was the last time she was seen
live. Too buggy was spattered with
Mood, and in the front-door yard of
her horn there ware many tracks.
tadUcating a struggle. The young
as not ueen louna.
WANTS NO DELAY IN EXECUTION.
Murderer Believes He Is Deserving of the
Death Penally.
Albany, N. Y. (Special). Governor
Odcll has received a most extraordi
nary letter from a man condemned
to death for murvl r, requesting the
interference of the executive to pre
vent any attempt to delay the execu
tion. The writer is Frank II. Bur
ncss, a sailor, convicted in Brooklyn,
of the murder of George B. Town
send, the captain of his vessel. He is
confined to Sing Sing Prison and was
to have been executed February 8, but
the execution was Maycd by an ap
peal to the Court of Appeals, taken by
his attorney, without the consent of
the condemned man.
The letter ays in substance that
the writer believes himself deserving
of ihe death penalty, which he wants
inflicted with all speed possible. He
declares he does not want a new trial,
as he has a violent temper which he
is untile to control.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Happenings Condensed for
Rapid Reading.
Domestic.
Lieut. G. S. Richards and F. B.
Nielson have returned from Manila
under arraignment to appear before a
military court-martial on the charge
of duplicating their pay accounts in
the Philippines.
The directors of the Corn Product
Company passed the dividend on the
company's common stock; the usual
quarterly dividend of 3i per cent,
on the preferred stock was declared.
Second Deputy Police Commis
sioner Henry F. Haegerty was re
moved by Commissioner McAdoo
after lie had refused to hand in his
resignation.
Eugene Allison, the builder of the
wrecked Hotel Darlington, in New
York, was closely questioned dur
ing the coroner's inquest.
The Citizens' Alliance of Telluride,
Col., has shipped a number of union
men and their sympathizers out of
town.
William E. Miller, a member of the
Eight Brigade which made the famous
charge at Balakluva, died at Grotan,
Ct.
President Hill nd other officials of
the Northern Securities Companies
held a conference in New York.
Two persons were killed and several
were injured in an explosion that
wrecked a toy factory in Chicago.
The miners of the central competi
tive district voted, by a large major
ity, to accept the wage scale. The
only opposition was in Illinois and
Iowa, where the majority was in favor
of a strike.
A suit has been brought bv the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road to secure a condemnation of stock
in the old New Haven and Derby
Railroad.
Frank II. Burnesv, -i condemned
murderer, has written to Governor
Odcll requesting that there be no de
lay in his execution.
The petition of Mrs. Annie Mur
phy to be declared the lawful daughter
of the late Baron von Glahn was de
nied. State Senator Jewell, of Kansas
City, was brought to trial upon the
charge of soliciting a bribe.
'I he provisional battalion of Philip
pine scouts has arrived at San Fran
cisco. Admiral Dewey has explained to the
Navy Department his failure to call
on President Morales when he was
near San Domingo. He did not deem
it wise to make an official visit during
the fighting that was then in progress.
In a fit of jealousy a negro killed
his wife and tu.en himself at Washing
ton. Pa. The tragedy took place at the
door of a chur.-h where a festival was
in progress and the negroes in attend
ance were thrown into a panic.
A letter received in New York states
that Miss Ando Toshi became the idol
of the Japanese by stealing the map
of the defenses of Port Arthur and
taking them to the Japanese Minister
in China.
Former Senator Rawlins, of Utah,
sent a telegram to Chairman Burows,
of the Senate committee on Smoot,
flatly contradicting Judge Hiles' state
ment that he was a Morman.
Just as the members of a fanatical
religious sect were about to sacrifice
the seven-year-old child of Mrs. Heal
cm Beals Island, Me., the sheriff forci
bly dispersed the congregation.
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions in New York received by
cable confirmation of the murder of
Rev. Benjamin W. I.aboree, the mis
sionary, near Khio. Persia.
Foreign.
Officials of the American Embassy
in Paris are considering points of
French law to insure protection of the
United States when payment of $40,
000,000 for Panama Canal property is
made.
The Oerman government has asked
the Reichstag to appropriate $1,675,
000 for expenses in suppressing the
Herero rebellion in German South
west Africa.
Lewis Vernon-Harcourt, eldest son
of William Vernon-Harcourt, has been
elected to the House of Commons.
It is admitted in British government
circles that Premier Balfour suffered
a personal defeat in only being able
to keep his ministry in power by a
majority of 46.
The French Court of Cassation con
tinued in the investigation of the War
Office documents in the Dreyfus cae.
On account of conflicting reports
ol the intentions of the Japanese
commanders in Manchuria the Russian
corps which has arrived at Harbin will
be detained there.
Twenty-four States of the United
States have passed industrial arbitra
tion laws.
Waitresses at Rochester, N. Y., have
formed a union. A shorter workday
is desired.
The trials of the rioters and mur
derers at Kishincff were concluded.
One man was sentenced to 30 years
for the murder of a Jewish couple.
Pretest I Halted Slates.
Tien tsin. (By Cable). The haste of
the British and American gunboats to
leave New Chwang, while the inten
tions of the Japanese are unknown,
nd while consular jurisdiction and
the full treaty port rights of neutrals
are unquestioned, thus abandoning
the protection heretofore maintained,
has provoked tht indignation of resi
dents, and an official protest has been
made to the United States Government.
R. R. MERGERJS ILLEGAL
Long-Expected Decision Rendered Against
Northern Securities Company.
Sl'PREiMECOL'RTlTHOLDSGOYERNMENT
Harlan, Brown, Mikcnna, Day and Brewer
Outvote Others-Chief Justice Supported
By While, Peckham and Holmes- Sherman
Anil-Trust Law Applies to Railroad Combi
nations Holdini Company a Mere Dodge.
Washington, ). C., ( Special). The
opinion of the Supreme Court of the
United States in the case of the
Northern Securities Company vs. the
United States, involving the merger
of the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern Railroad Companies, was
handed dow n Monday, and was in fav
or of the Government. The opinion
was read by Justice Harlan.
J he decision w as by a bare majori
ty. Justice Harlan was supported by
Justices Brown, McKcnna, Day and
Brewer, the last-named concurring for
reasons different from those of the
others. Chief Justice Fuller, Justices
White, Peckham and Holmes dis
sented. The opinion of the United States
Circuit Court for the District of Minn
esota was affirmed.
The effect is to sustain the conten
tion that the Sherman anti-trust law
applies to railroad combinations of the
character in question.
Justice Harlan said that in the mer
ger of the two roads the stockholders
disappeared and reappeared in the Se
curities Company, the two thus be
coming practically consolidated in a
holding company, the principal object
being to prevent competition.
"No scheme or device could cer
tainly more effectively come within
the prohibition of the anti-trust law
and it is within the meaning of the act
a trust."
The contentions of the Securities
Company were reviewed, and Justice
Harlan said they had received full at
tention. He quoted the various opin
ions involving the trust question, sav
ing that from them it is to be gather
ed that all contracts in restraint of
trade, reasonable or unreasonable, are
prohibited by the Sherman law, and
that Congress has the power to estab
lish such regulations as are laid down
in that law. Congress had power to
enact the statute.
Replying in detail to the points
made for the Securities Company, Jus
tice Harlan said that the contention
that the law is an Interference with
the rights of the individual States by
whien the companies are incorporated
was not well founded. In such cas:s,
he said, the authority of Congress is
supreme. He also declared it to be
unnecessary to determine the right of
owners of railroad stock to sell their
property, nor was it true that the
right of the Securities Company to
own and hold railroad stock is the
only question involved. Such conten
tions arc wide of the mark mere men
of straw. All that the Government
complains of is the existence of a
a corporation to repress commerce.and
is not concerned with the other points.
Justice Harlan said that in this day
there should be no doubt of the com
plete power of Congress to control
inter-State commerce, and that all ap
propriate means might be resorted to
for that purpose. All the prior trust
cases were in support of that con
tention. Whether free nnd unre
strained competition was wise, he said,
was an economic question with which
the court need not concern itself; the
question was that of statutory law.
He asserted the power of Congress
over inter-State commerce to be as
complete as the power of a State over
domestic commerce.
Coming to the plea of the railroads
that the anti-trust law should be de
clared unconstitutional, be said that
the court could not see Its wav to that
end. "If," he went on, "the Securities
Company's contentions are sound, whv
may not all the railroads of the United
States enter into a combination, and,
by the device of a holding corporation,
control rates throughout the country
in defiance of Congress?"
PENSIONS FOR MAIL CLERKS.
Penrose's Bill Alms to Proteet Those Employed
oa Railroads.
A plan for pensioning railway mall
clerk bun been advised by Senator
Penrose and la embodied In bill
presented In the Senate. A fund will
be accumulated by deducting 1 per
cent a month from the salary of the
clerks and from fines imposed on them
by the department for neglect of their
duUes, infractions of discipline or for
other reasons. Thla fund will be con
trolled by the postmaster general and
will be disbursed under his direction.
The bill provides that clerks who
have served 20 years in the railway
mall service and have been incapaci
tated by reason of such service, be
cause of ill-health or by accident, or
who have attained the age of 65 years,
aball be eligible to retirement at full
pay. No clerk ao retired shall re
ceive more than $1,000 a year, all
alary payable to him 1n excess of
that amount being turned Into the pen
alon fund. One per cent of all pen
alona shall also be deducted for the
benefit of the general fund.
It la understood this bill has the
approval ot the poatofflce department
and waa in part prepared by the de
partment. Suicide lo .Music.
Omaha, Neb., (Special). Maj Wil
liam H. Bean, U. S. A., committed
suicide by shooting. Ordered to the
Philpippines, he bad his trunk pack
ed and taken to the depot. Im
mediately afterwards he asked his
wife to play on the piano, and while.
the was playing he thrust an army
revolver to his right temple and fired.
The bullet lodged in his brain and he
died almost immediately.
Killed Woous who Sued HI.
Chapman, Kan., (Special). Robert
Kenney, a wealthy young farmer, shot
and killed his wife, Alice Kenney, at
their home here and then killed him
self. Two years ago Kenney was sued
for breach of promise by the woman
he killed and a judgement of $6,000
was rendered against him. The suit
was compromised by his marrying
her, but recently she sued him for
divorce, alleging cruelty.
Employes of the East Paris(France)
tramways have declared a strike
About too men are involved,
NO POISONED SWORDS.
But Japanese Had Planned to Blow Up Rus'
sian Cavalry.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable). The
taiK 01 pyroxiline (poisoned) swords
having been left behind bv the flceinj
Japanese is based on the mistransla
tion ot a Russian technical term.
Geneaml 7i1nticL-; oi,;r r. ...
Viceroy Alexicff, 'in a telegram said
mm pyroxninc nacl tiecn found 111 the
form of disc-shancd torpedoes, six
inches in diameter, which the Jap
anese intended to use in bestrewing
the road over which the Russians were
expected to pass, in order that the
explosions resulting from the impact
of the horses' hoofs might caue n
stampede. As the road between Anju
and Ping Vang is very narrow, the
hoofs of the horses of the Russian
cavalry and artillerv and the wheels
of the wgons would have been certain
to have exploded the torpedoes, there
by causing jjreat confusion.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
No American Slave Dealers in the
Philippines.
To Mandamus a Judge.
In the Supreme Court the Govern
ment, through Attorney-General Knox,
applied for a writ of mandamus to
compel Judge Francis J. Wing, of
the United States District Court of
the Northern District of Ohio,. to
take what the Department of Justice
maintains is legal action with respect
to certain Chinese expulsion cases.
This is the first time in the history of
the Supreme Court that the Govern
ment has sought a writ of mandamus
against a Federal Judge.
Attorney-General Knox maintains
that Judge Wing, in holding unconsti
tutional that part of the Chinese Ex
clusion law which provides for the
deportation of alien Chinese after a
hearing before a United States com
missioner, is proceeding contrary to
decisions of the United States Su
preme Court and is preventing the
denortation of Chinese who are un.
lawfully in the L mtcd States.
According to Mr. Knox's petition
the proceedings in Judge Wing's
Court are peculiar. Many Chinese ex
clusion cases recently have arisen in
that district. Chinese persons, said
to be in this country unlawfully, were
taken before Commissioner Simpson,
and by him were ordered deported.
Their counsel then went before Judge
Wing with proceedings in appeal, and
on the showing made the Judge re
leased them. Suh.senuentlv. it i said-
Judge Wing refused to take the neces
sary steps to have the papers filed in
the District Court, wheh would en
able the Government to anneal the
cases to the United States Supreme
ourt. tie held that the proceedings
before him on appeal from the United
States Commissioner were before him
as judge, and were not before the
District Court, and that none of the
papers, therefore, should be filed bv
the clerk of his court.
The result has been to nullify all
efforts of the Government to eet the
eases before the Supreme Court, fudge
w:..'- : . : r.- . 1 1 1 1 1
iiik r )jii!iifii ciirimaiiy oiocKing
all proceedings in the cases after he
has passed on them.
Cleveland. ludee Wine recently re
leased a number of Chinamen brought
before him upon the charge of being
in the United States unlawfully, on the
ground that they had not been proven
Chinese.
To Abolish Pension Office.
In connection with the Administra
tion's plan now before Congress for
the consolidation of the Record and
Pension and Adjutant-General's of
fices of the War Department, a ru
mor is current that this is only the
beginning of a Presidential movement
for the abolition of the Pension Of
fice and the transfer of its duties to
the War Department.
If this rumor be true and there is
good reason for the belief that it
has at least a foundation of truth
the greatest care is being taken by
those involved in the scheme to pre
vent its becoming known. According
to tne rumor the plan tor the con
solidation of the two War Department
offices, with Brig.-Gen. F. C. Ains
worth at the head of the new office,
originated with the President; that
tt is his intention, in the event of his
election, to abolish the Pension Of
fice as a branch of the Interior De
partment and place all the duties and
powers of the Commissioner of Pen
sions in the hands of General Ains
worth. It must be distinctly under
stood that this rumor cannot at pres
ent be confirmed. The greatest cir
cumspection is being shown by the
officials of the Government in re
plying to any questions appertaining
to the alleged scheme.
Diplomatic Appointments.'
The Senate in executive session con
firmed the following nominations:
John Barrett, Oregon, envoy extra
ary to Panama; Arthur M. Beauprc,
Illinois, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the Argen
tine Republic; William W. Russell,
District of Columbia, envoy extraor
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to
Columbia; Henry W. Shoemaker, O.,
secretary of legation at Lisbon. For
tugal; Nelson O'Shaughnessy, New
York, secretary of legation at Copen
hagen. Denmark: Louis A. Dent. Dis
trict of Columbia, consul at Dawson
City, Yukon territory, Canada; James
tanner, register of wills for the Dis
trict of Columbia; James H. Mon
teath, agent for the Indians of the
Blackfleet Agency, .Montana.
Conf reisiooal and Departments.
Chief Judge Clabaugh sustained the
demurrer of former Commissioner of
Tensions If. Clay t vans to the amend
cd declaration of Henry D. Phillips.
Professor Burr discussed the oue
tion of sanitation of the Panama Ca
nal route before the House committee.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware has
issued an order making changes in
the age considerations in ratings.
The Dietrich Investigating Com
mittee resumed its inquiry into the
charges against Senator Dietrich.
Senator Lodge was authorized to
make a favorable report on his bill
to grade the consular service.
The President has granted par Jons
to two Filipinos who were convicted
of murder.
Marquis Ito will arrive at Seoul,
where he will act as an adviser to the
King of Korea,
Representative George Pearre sharp,
ly criticised the postoffice officials in
the House.
Tbe usual daily revolution is re
ported from San Domingo by Minis
ilnp
ter rowelL
NEW PENSION RLLINO.
Bureau Fixes the Age Limit for Civil War
Veterans.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware,
with the approval of Secretary Hitch'
cock has promulgated the most Import
ant pension ruling that has been la
med In a long time. Toe ordt-r fed
lows :
Ordered, In the adjudication of pen
sion claims under Mid ai t of June 27,
1890, as amended, It shall be taken
and considered as an evidential fart
If the contrary Joes not appear, and If
all other legal retirements are prop
erly met, that when a claimant has
pas-fed thx? nse of 62 years he Is dig
shied one-half in ability to perform
manual labor and is entitled to be
rated at Jfl per month; after 15 years,
at $8 per month; after 68 years, at $10
per month; and after 70 years, $12
per month.
Allowance at higher rates, not ex
ceeding $12 per month, will continue
to be made as heretofore, where disa
bilities other than age show a condi
tion of Inability to perform manual
labor.
This order shall tAk .nwt Anrtt in
1P04. and shall not be deemed retro
active. The former rules of the of
fice fixing the minimum and maximum
at 66 years and 75 years reepectJvely
are hereby modified as above.
The order Itself la prefaced by a
preamble which, after citing the laws,
cava the nenalon hurmn hn ettnMiah.
ed with reasonable certainty the aver
ago nature and extent of the Infirmity
of old age; that 89 year after the
Mexican war, congress, in 1887, placed
on the pension roll all Mexican war
uiuier woo w&re over oz years old.
Commlsftionnr Warn inat Ytcrnm
leaving for a trip south for bis health,
spoke aa follows regarding the order,
which he aald, would save both tbe old
eoldiers and the government a great
deal of money and time.
Thern ham lnn- hippn in iha Vmrmu
a rule fixing a maximum age limit at
12 ior 1 0 years. This was made dur
ing Mr. fTlAvelAnri'a flri-minlntrnttrtn hv
Commissioner Locbxen.
GERMANS WANT SANTO DOMINGO.
Efforts to Secure Control of that Revolutionary
Island.
Advices from Santo Domingo Indi
cate Germany Is at work to gain a
preponderant influence In that repub
lic as will give her a reasonable excuse
to exercise a protectorate over the
country if not to make It a German
colony.
The recent arrival there of the
nephew of the late President Heureaux
whose assassination preceded the rev
olutions, la connected with Germany's
designs. M. Heureaux, It ia stated has
ben exiled and tbe hint comes the
cause of his exile Is the suspicion that
he Is really acting In tbe interest of
Germany.
One of the plans attributed to Ger
many is tbe purchase from Bpain, of
a debt of over $21,000,000. This debt
was contracted after the war of in
dependence in 1863 when a treaty was
feigned In which Spain recognized the
Independence of Santo Domingo and
the latter recognized the above in
debtedness which has never been paid.
It is asserted at a much later date
Spala freed the island from this lia
bility with the condition that the debt
should be paid In the event of Its an
nexation to some foreign power.
If Spain should transfer this debt to
Germany and the latter power should
Insist on Its validity, it would make
Germany the heaviest creditor of the
Inland. Should she try to collect the
debt the only settlement possible
would be the giving to Germany of
Santo Domingo territory.
It Is helleved In Santo Domingo, ac
cording to the advices received here,
that unless the United States soon
undertakes the pacification of the re
public, Germany will step In and un
dertake the task.
COL'RT HOUSE DYNAMITED.
Attempt to Demolish Building Failed to Mavt
Much Effect.
An attempt waa made to wreck the
Court House at St. Marya, W. a.,
by dynamite. The last prisoner had
been released and Jailer D. U Sttne
moved Into a dwelling several squares
away.
Tbo dynamiters forced open the
north door. In the southeast comer of
the Jail near the ceiling they placed a
stick of dynamite and attached a fuse
which led to the corridor. The ex
plosion occurred about 11 o'clock at
night, and although Policeman Rlgga
was on the spot within five minutes
bo found no trace of the perpetrators.
Windows were shattered, the celling
torn loose and tbe floor of the court
room raised In that corner foot.
Some think it was done by someone
who bad. once been confined In the
Jail. Others suggest that tbe deed
was comm'itted by parties who are
in favor of a new Court House. Two
years ago the County Commissioners
caused to be recorded In tbelr minute
book the fact tnat tbe building was un
safe, and also passed an order pro
viding for the erection of a new build
ing, going so far as to pay about $2,
000 for an architect's plana, but have
ince done nothing.
All Three Shot Dead.
New Orleans, (Special). Dr. W.
W. Jones, a physician of Philadel
phia, Miss., and Roy Esche, a planV;,
became engaged in a shooting affray
on Sunday, due to Dr. Jones circu
lating damaging reports concerning
Esche's sister. Both men were killed,
as was Frank Burnett, a brother of
Esche. who tried to restore peace
between the two men.
Saloonkeepers Held for Death.
Tbe appellate court at Springfield,
111., holds that saloon men are liable
for the death of their patrons who
die while under tbe influence of liquor
sold them by tbe defendants. Tbe
ease was that of 'Kate A 1 good, who
was awarded $3000 damages against
William Botwlnis, a saloon man of
that city, for tbe death of her bus
band, George Algood, who had been
drinking in tbe saloon of Botwlnis,
and who. wblle on his way home In an
intoxicated condition, fell from bis
buggy and received fatal lnjurioa.
Spring Elections Abolished la Ohio.
Governor Derrick signed tbe Chap
man bill abolishing spring elections.
Tbe terms of all elective municipal
officers, which would have expired In
April, have been extended until after
the elections next November. A con
stitutional amendment providing tbat
all State and county offlcsrs shall bo
elected in tbe even years, and all
municipal election In tbe odd years,
will be submitted to tbe vote of th
jieoDl la 1805. w
1NIVERSITIES MAY MERGE
Plan to Volte Three Big Institutions at
Washington.
Washington, D. C, (Special). A
plan has been suggested to unite Col
umbian, American and National Uni
versities of the District of Columbia
to form the nucleus of a great nation
al university at the Capital City.
The trustees of the American Uni
versity, with its endowment of over
$2,000,000 and its wide tract of ground
in the northwestern suburbs, have dis
cussed the project. Bishop McCabc,
the head of the University, has spoken
favorably of the idea.
President Necdham of Columbian
University and a number of the other
officers of that institution have ex
pressed a willingness to meet the
American University people and con
sider the project. The National Uni
versity officers are favorable. It is
entirely probable that within the next
few months such a mcetnig of the
different interests will be had.
WILD PANIC IN COTTON.
Announcement ol Failure Brings Rush foi
Selling Orders.
Dank-l J. Sully, the cotton operator,
who has for IS months been the big
geHt figure In the cotton markets of
t he world and who bas "bulled" cotton
from seven cents a pound to over 17,
announced his inability to make good
his engagements on the New York
Cotton exchange Friday. Within a few
months cotton fell nearly $13 a bale
from the highest figures of the day.
All previous records of stock panics
ore eclipsed by the mad frenzy lollow
Ing tbe tidings of the failure. In the
memory of many brokers corners In
spot and futures have been smashed,
but no scene bas ever 'been witnessed
in the history of the 'change like the
mad turmoil accompanying tho col
lapse of Daniel J. Sully & Co.
For a few seconds after Superintend
ent King read the announcement,
which was at 2:05 o'clock, there was
an ominous quiet. Brokers stood as If
stunned by the news that the king bad
fallen. Then as if by a single Im
pulse, a mighty shout went up from
the bears. They had fought Sully
and his bull clique for months, and the
tidings of surrender after he had shov
ed cotton from seven cents a pound
to over 17 cents frenzied every man of
tbem, each of whom at one time or
another had been under the mighty
lever.
Hats filled tbe air. to fall where
they would and be trampled to a
shapeless pulp. In the mad ttampede
from tbe pit. Coats were torn from
brokers In their mad effort to unload
their holdings and chairs were dashed
Into the circle, to emphasize some
wild broker's offer to sell. Soon the
news reached the stock, produce and
coffee exchange, and declines followed
In nearly all securities.
In the 80 minutes of panic follow
ing the announcement of the failure It
la estimated that 750,000 bales of cot
to were traded In. Of this, upward of
600,000 bales represented forced liqui
dation, or the selling out of a man
whose margins were wiped out. The
lose falling upon this element in the
slump of 250 points alone amounts to
over $1,000,000.
Dewey Feared Bullets. '
Admiral Dewey has cabled the
Navy Department the reasons why
he did not pay a visit to President
Morales, the head of the provisional
government of Santo Domingo.
The Admiral on his flagship, the
Mayflower, cruised in Dominican
waters last week. On the day the
Mayflower reached Santo Domingo
there was fighting in progress be
tweeivthe federal and insurgent troops.
One army was on one side of the
river which led to the city and the
enemy was on the opposite side.
Transit of the river was accordingly
supject to considerable danger. It was
deemed inadvisable to run the May
flower into this wild fire.
Reward for Indians.
A deeJ of heroic proportions will
receive Government recognition if
Senator Quay can induce tbe Senate
to Insert an Item of $3,400 in the In
vUan appropriation bill. This sum be
wants distributed, In equal shares, to
17 Sioux who, In 1S62, rescued Mra.
Julia Wright and Mrs. Emma Deely
and her six children from a band of
White Lodge Sioux, which had made
captives of tbem during the Indian
outbreak.
Box ol Poisoned Csady.
Des Moines. Ia., (Special). By
means of a powerful magnifying glass
it was discovered that the box of poi
soned candy sent to Miss Kena Ncj
son, at Pierre, S. D., does not bear th
Boone (Iowa) postmark. The discov
ery will have the tendency to prove
the innocence of Mrs. Sherman Dye,
who has been accused of sending the
fatal package.
WORLD'3 FAIR TOPICS.
There nre 147.2.1H pnnes of glnss,
eighteen by twenty-three liu-liex. in the
Itiilnee of Agriculture lit tho Worlds
Fnlr.
Seven thnnxnnd llnenl feet, or nearly
a inilo iiml n linlf of plutforui four
feet high, nre bcln.s Inillt for the nn
loiiiliug of pxhihits nt ilie World's Knlv. -
Twelve thousand onrloailH of exhib
it nro expected liy t ho director of ex
hibits of the Wnrhl's Fnlr. At the
Cnlumlilnti KxpoRition, nt Chicago,,
WXlll carloads were received,
NUht hits been turned Into day In nil
nf the lnvge exhibit pnlncea at the
World's Fair. . Numerous electric ure
light bnve been put lu phice cud
scores of workmen are buny night 11s
well us day In distillling the exhibits.
Two hundred of L'uele Hum's tun
rlni'M, who have be?n on duty at Pnn
uinit, ure going to the World's Fnlr to
give exhibition drills. The poruliuity
nf tliU brunch of the service Is increas
ing with young men who want to be
CUKIIHipulitUUS.
The Hclfe'lnn Building nt the World's
Fnlr. one of the lurgett uiul handxoui
cut hi the fon-igu section. Is reinnrku
hie In tui'.t Ilia wullx nre not brokeu by
u slnglo window. The lurge structure
U well lighted by Immense skylights
seventy-five feet above tho floor. ,
A puck train of twenty-five horses,
with nil of their accoutrements, will b
one of the novelties at the World's
Fulr. The unusual spectacle will bo
Ki'iit by citizens uf Wyoming to mark
Wyoming Day. The 1' arses will all be
vlu:piLd us if ready to stmt ou tbs
trail.
A San Diego (Cl.) woman will ex
hibit at the World's Fnlr butter made
lu 1858. Tbe butter was placed lu tho
sprlug house In that yeur ami It dis
appeared lu tbe quicksand. It was re
ceutly recovered and was fou to be
lu a remarkably good state of preser
vation. I
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Latest News of Pennsylvania Told in
Short Order.
During the past few weeks some
one has poisoned about twenty dogs
in Upland. James Hamilton, of tfth
Street, and James Cluclow, of Up
land Avenue, have lost fine hunters,
while D. C. I., l.ashclle lost a valu
able mastiff. The poison given the
'tiimals causes them to act as though
they have been seized with rabies,
and during the past, twenty-four hours
several persons and animals have been
attacked by the poisoned dogs. At
an examination made on one of the
animals it was foitrd that it had died
from the effect of ground glass.
The bakers of Lansdalc, at a meet
ing recently agreed to advance the
price from four to five cents a loaf.
The new price held good for only a
day or two, when one of the dealers
returned to the former price. As .1
result of this another bakery has put
the price down to three cents.
The Lodge of Klks of AHoona has
decided to erect a building.
William Struthers shot a groundhog
which came out of its hole in the cen
ter of Wilkcs-Barre.
After a long idleness the Oak Hill
Colliery, near Pottsvillc, will resume
work under a new corporation. Em
ployment will be given to 600 hands.
At the annual meeting of the con
tributors to the Pottsvillc Hospital
President Guy K. Farquhar advocated
the erection of a building for the treat
ment of consumptives by the open-air
method.
Three men committed suicide in one
day in Cambria County. Thev -were
August Kautz. aged 54; John Kubity.
aged 62, lately of Shenandoah, and
George Shaffer, of Gallitzin, aged 22.
A large audience witnessed the in
stallation of Rev. H. I. Stewart, oi
Atglc::, Pa., t pastor of the First
Baptist Church, of I.ansdale. A ser
mon was preached !y Rev. J. J. Wick
er, of Kenton. Is, j ;..;d tl.e neighbor
ing pastors participated.
Recause the operrtnr of Gorman' t
individual colliery, at Tuscarora m-tle
a reduction nf 7 per con', in wages the
employees went on strike. No expla
nation of tiiC reduction was offerc.'
A tie vote in the recc-it election i"t
school directors in Williams Ttvvv
ship has been decided by the ,-ort-testants.
J. P. Hnhn and Forrest K"'.l),
drawing lots. Mr. Halm, who is the
present secretary of the board won.
During the funeral of Mrs. Eliza
beth Bouvier, at Glenoldcn, a fenn'c
relative of the dead woman w as .-.inch-en
with parah sis.
Henry G. Xorthamer, the ol.'.ct
freight conductor on the Middle Di
vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
died suddenly. He was 60 years old
nnd had been a conductor forty years.
A special session of the Grand Coin I
mandery, Knights of Malta, was helc'
at Lancaster, to confer the p?.st mis
ter's degree upon thirty-one candi
dates. Grand Commander Frederick
Arnold, Lancaster, and grand Record
er John Hoffman, Harrisburg, offi
ciated. The County Commisioners have
granted the application of a yearly
appropriation of $200. In the inter
est of the application Ellwood Rob
erts. .'. D. Krat, John A. Wentz, J.
P. Knipe, N. D. Tyson and J. B. Lar
zelcre uppeared before the commis
sioners and told of the needs of the
society.
Philndelphia, York and Lancaster
capitalists have purchased at private
sale from the estate of B. Yeckcr, de
ceased, the Fulton Opera House, Lan
caster's only playhouse. They wilt in
corporate under the name of the Ful
ton Opera Company, with C. A. Yeck
tr, Warren li. Broome, Lancaster, and
B. C. Pentz, of York, as the Board oi
Directors.
Donegal Chapter, D. A. R., held an
heirloom and antique exhibit at the
Iris Club, Lancaster. Among the ex
hibits were: Sword, worn by Gener
al Jrihn Steele, who was an officer of
the day when Lord Cornwallis sur
rendered at Yorktown; field toilet and
shaving set, owned by Marshal Ney,
of France; minature of George Wash
ington, painted by Peale in 1799, for
which a Masonic lodge has offered a
fabulous figure; numerous autographs
of Washington and Penn.
Fred Ausel, aged 26, and William
Frawley, aged 21, were killed in a
ivreck in the yards of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, Oil City. The men,
ith six others, were engaged in plac
ing freight cars on the rails, when
number of cars on a siding got into
motion and ran into them. Frawley
had been employed only three hours
when he was killed.
While David Fineberg, a Brad
dock jeweler, was going over his
books in his store at a o'clock the
other morning, thieves entered, beat
him unconscious, gagged and bound
him and carried him out behind the
building. Then they looted the store
of about $2,000 in jewelry and money,
after which they set fire to the store.
The firemen extinguished the flames,
first having considerable diffculty in
rescuing Fineberg's wife and children,
who were sleeping above the store.
One thousand men were put to work
by the Sunbury division officials in an
effort to cut a course through the ice
lodged on the tracks between Sunburv
and Wilkes-Barre. In many places the
ice is packed to a height of thirty feet
James Russ, the Harrisburg hote.
keeper, who furnished food and drink
to the legislative junketers of irV7.
who went to New York to the dedi
ration of the Grant Tomb, has receiver"
$575 from thirty-seven legislators am1
he despairs of hearing from any of the
others. His bill was $591
The condition of the county insane
asvlum was denounced by the Potts
ville Grand Jury. The report siy
"No words can convey our sense of
the deplorable condition of these af
flicted ones. Their accommodation'
are wholly inadequate as to space -'id
absolutely unfit as to character. The
dining rooms, wash rooms and roor.v
of common resort are a disgrace
civilization. The horrors of !)"-'
'fnferno' are here vividly suggested
No isolation or suitable treatment nt
epileptic or violent nnd danBrou
classes is possible under the cU'cnm
stances." ' f
. In Myerstown and the surroun.1-1;'
country, in Lebanon County, over fifty
cases of smallpox have made their ap
pearance within the past week. As
preesution the authorities of Albright
College, situnted in the town, have
dismissed the students, and tht
school will1 remain closed for som
time. All the churches and halls have
been closed.'
. The Commisioners of Cheltenhuin
township have reduced the tax rate
from 7 to 6 mills. The increase in the
assessed valuation of property is one
if the reasons for the reduction.