RUSSIANS JOLD STROKE The Searching of Neutral "Ships on Red Sea. DAVE NO FEAR OF COMPLICATIONS. Diplomats la St Petersburg Anxious to Learn the Views ol Their Government on the Pas sage of Russian SbJpt Through the Darda aelles as Merchantmen and Their Conversion Into Warships Both Armies in Touch. St. Petersburg, (P,y Cable). The news that the Russian Volunteer steamships Smolensk and St. reters borg, now cruising in the Red Sea, re stopping ships of neutral nations and searching the for cantrabands cf war is causing the liveliest interest in all circles. Russia has evidently weighed the question, believes her self to be within her rights, and neither fears nor anticipates international complications. Indeed, some of the powers may have been sounded by Russia on the subject. Nevertheless, foreign opinion is awaited eagerly, and more or less criticism is expected. Members of the- diplomatic corps re keenly anxious to ascertain the views their government.) will take of the passage through the Darda nelles of these vessels of the volunteer fleets as merchantmen and their sub sequent conversion into ships of war. The general view in diplomatic cir tls, even where sentiment is not par ticularly friendly to Russia, is that while the passage of the Dardcnellcs might be considered a piece of sharp practice on the part ot Russia, it is an accomplished fact, and the powers will not regard it as a violation of the Treaty of Paris, but will guard against its repetition. The diplomats think that some of the powers might insist that henceforth all volunteer vessels shall be considered as warships within the meaning of the treaty. One of the most interesting ques tions in this connection, the diplomats believe, will arise out of Russia's declaration that coal is contraband of war. With prize crews on board the captured ships could be sent to Rus sian Baltic ports, but if short of coal they could not put in at neutral ports to replenish their bunkers. This same question may embarrass Rus sia when the Baltic squadron sails for the Far East. In view of the protest made by Ger many in the case of the stoppage of the steamer Bundesrath (seized in Delagoa Bay December 29, 1899) dur ing the South African war, as the re sult of which Great Britain had to pay damages, much curiosity exists as to what Germany will do in the case of confiscation by the Smolensk of the mail sacks on board the North German Lloyd steamer Prince Hein rich, especially as large portions of the mail seized was undoubtedly of a commercial character. Some British Protests. London, (By Cable). Almost with out exception the newspapers, in edi torials or otherwise, comment upon the Russian volunteer fleet steamers passing the Dardanelles, and the gov ernment is urged to take action, es pecially for the protection of British commerce in the Red Sta and neigh boring waters. The Daily Telegraph, concluding an Outspoken protest written with traces of government inspiration, says: "There is a limit to complaisance when neutral commerce under the British flag is molested it a way to which we have been for a century and a half unused." Special dispatches from Berlin echo the feeling of irritation that exists in London. The Standard's Tokio correspond ent, cabling under date of July 17, ays the Jiji Shimpo, in an editorial, expresses the hope that Great Britain will see that Turkey lends Russia no assistance by allowing steamers of the volunteer Meet to pass the Darda nelles. The Jiji Shimpo declares that Great Britain is bound under the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to pre vent such assistance being given. Hurled to the Ground. Cleveland, O., (Special). Two hun dred persons were hurled to the ground by the collapse of a stand at Brighton Park, a suburb of this city. A ball game between amateur clubs was in progress and the stand was crowded when, without warning, the entire crowd was thrown to the ground in a heap. Other spectators and the ballplayers set to work extri cating the people from the wreckage, while calls were sent out for ambu lances. When all were finally extri cated it was found that ten persons had sustained broken arms or legs, while a number of nthers were other wise bruised and cut. Half Million Attended. St. Louis, ilo., (Special). Despite the rain of the earlier part cf last week and the excessive warm weatheV that followed it the attendance at the world's fair for the last seven days was more than half a million persons. There was not a single special day to bring the attendance up and the re sult is quite satisfactory to the world's fair management. Following are the recorded admissions for the week: Monday, 74.54.V. Tuesday, 87.470; Wednesday, 87, '751 Thursday, 870,4; Friday, 76,859; Saturday, 91,522; total, S00.3S9. Mel Death la Lake Oeorge. Glens Falls. N. Y., (Special). Miss Josephine Friedler, 20 years old, of Orange, N. J., was drowned while bathing at Hague, on Lake George. She and her maid, Anna Harrington, waded out to where the water grew suddenly deep and both disappeared. A man dove and brought up the maid and she was finally restored to con sciousness. Miss Friedler's body was not recovered for several hours. Eicarsloa Cars Ditched. Rochester, N. V., (Special) A train on the Pennsylvania railroad, with 500 excursionists from Em porium, Pa., to Portage Falls, jumped the track near Porsagcville and two cars with the engines went into the ditch. There were ten cars in the tiain, but the rest kept the track. The train had almost reached its ' destination when the accident oc curred. Mrs. Hattte Coe, of Bradford, received a fracture of the skull and will die. Three other women were in-iurccL NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic, Troprfrty wifrth $400,000, em the water-front of Dulitth, Minn., was de stroyed by fire, and a cook named George Smith was drowned in his at tempt to escape from a tug as the Dames swept over it. Judge Bradford, in the United States Court, in Trenton, N. J., granted a preliminary injunction restraining the proposed distribution of stock by the Northern Securities Company, A freight train ran down a hand car near Emporia, Kan. One young man was killed and his three com panions, including two young ladies, wire seriously injured. Osceola Kyle, of Alabama, took the oath of office in Washington as a judge in the canal zone in Panama, and will sail from New York next week. William E. Sugdrn, (or 21 years president of the Hartford County Mutual Fire. Insurance Company, died in Hartford, Ct., aged X? years. The National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association has brought charges of discrimination against 31 railroads. The World's Fair has made the first payment of $500,000 on the gov ernment loan of $4,000,000. Having secured a decree of divorce. Mrs. Ella Swoboda, of Chicago, com mitted suicide. There was a large attendance at the funeral of Mayor Samuel M. Jones, in Toledo. The minority members of the Cu ban Congress refuse to meet for the purpose of passing a bill covering the proportionate distribution of the pro ceeds of the $35,000,000 loan for the payment of veterans or to authorize an additional loan because the ad judication of soldiers' claims is not likely to be completed until Novem ber, W'hen it is supposed that another session of Congress will begin. The beef packers in Chicago re jected the proposition of the union that all strikers be taken back pend ing arbitration, and proposed instead to retain all help employed since the strike began. The various packing houses in the West have resumed slaughtering. President Roosevelt will receive a committee of the United Mineworkers of Pennsylvania at Sagamore Hill re garding the Colorado labor trouble petition. George Wilson, believed to he one of the men who held up the Northern Pacific train near P.earmouth. Mont., was arrested in Spokane, Wash. An castbound passenger train on the Rock Island Railroad was wreck ed four miles west of Havana, Ark., and 21 persons injured. Xlrs. Louise Bruseke, of Washing ton, committed suicide on her hus band's grave, in Prospect Hill Ceme tery. A conspiracy among the employes of the admission department at the worm s fair is said to have been un earthed. Horace S. Ferree, the defaulting postmaster at Jennings, La., was brought back from Montreal to New Orleans. French Day at the World's Fair was observed by the unveiling of an al legorical statue of the French Re public. A block of 10-room houses at Salis bury, Pa., owned by the Merchants' Coal Company, was burned. The judgement for $75,000 awarded by a New York jury to Eleanor Anderson 111 her uit against James N. Abeel for alleged breach of promise was vacated by the Appellate Divi sion of the Supreme Court, which finds that the service of summons and complaint in the case was defective. Because of discrimination against their race by the World's Fair di rectors the National Association of Colored Women refused to hold its sessions on the World's Fair grounds. William P. Scott, candidate for president of the United States on the National Liberty ticket, was arrested in East St. Louis on account of an unpaid fine. All the union iron and steel plants in the Pittsburg district have signed the new wage scale of the Amalga mated Association. John W. Parker, aged 18 years, committed suicide in St. Louis while in a mood of melancholy. New York customs inspectors seized valuable articlos in the possession of the officers of the steamship Shimosa. The Standard Oil Company an nounces a cut in crude petroleum. Memphis, Tenn., is making a cam paign against gambling. Because he was discharged August Geber tried to exterminate the family of his employer, at San Francisco. Foreign. Sir Henry Campbell-Banncrman an nounces that he will ask Premier Bal four to set a day for debate in the House of Commons on a vote of cen sure of the government in view of the prominent part taken by leading mem bers of the Cabinet 111 proceedings of the Liberal-Unionist Council, during which a resolution was passed approv ing the fiscal policy of Joseph Cham berlain. George A. Church, of Rhode Is land, astonished the French claimants to the estate of M. Poulet, valued at $260,000, by fully establishing his identity as the heir named by Poulet in his will. The White Star Line steamer Ger manic will be transferred to the Do minion Line, renamed the Ottawa and be placed on the Montreal-Liverpool service. President Loubet, of France, will confer the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor upon Secretary Hay. Mohammed El Torres, foreign min ister, released the Anghcra '1 ribees jnen who have been held prisoners at Tangier and Tetuan. The Anghera tribe is pleased with his action, which minimizes the danger of the kid napping of Europeans. Count de la Vaulx, aeronaut, while attempting a flight in his dirigible balloon over the Mediterranean, fell into the sea, but was rescued. The engagement was announced of Pauline Astor, daughter of William Waldorf Astor, to Capt. H. H. Spender-Clay, formerly of the Life Guards. British War Secretary Arnold Forster made a statement in the House of commons as to his proposed reforms in the army establishment. M. Routkowsky. the Russian finan cial attache at London, denies-the rumor that his government is nego tiating another loan. The Cunard Line steamer Carmonia was launched at Clyde Bank, Mrs. Choate, the wife of the American Am bador. being the sponsor. The failure, of the crops in South ern Russia will necessitate relief measures for the peasants in those piovtpces. . IERR1RLE TRAGEDY Grain Man Kills V ife, Daughter and Himself. TEMPORARY FIT OF INSANITY. Business Troubles Relieved to Have Altected His Mind, Though His Partner Says, That So Far as He Knows, There Was No Serious Embarrassment Had Spent the Evtnlnf at a Neighbor's. Buffalo, N. Y., (Special)). One of the most shocking tragedies that ever occurred in this city came to light when the dead bodies of Edgar T. Washburn, a member of the grain firm of Hcathficld & Washburn, on the board of trade, Washburn's wife and his young ' daughter Gladys, 15 years old, were found in a bedroom of their home at 83 Tinman street, this city. Mr. Washburn had shot and killed his wife and daughter and then turned the weapon upon his own head and killed himself. It is believed that the deed was committed while Mr. Washburn was suffering from a temporary fit of in sanity. He had written a letter to relatives recently saying he was hav ing trouble in business. As far ns is known the members of the family had not had any trouble among them selves. A letter written by Washburn to J. G. Heathfield, his business part ner was received at the latter's house during the day. In this letter, which was very long, one could read the in tent to commit suicide, but no refer ence was made to his wife or daugh ter. The letter made numerous refer ences to things going wrong in dif ferent business affairs, but Mr. Heath field said he had been unable as yet to look into the matters referred to. That while some of their business dea4s had not been successful, yet on the whole their business had been profitable.. The tragedy was discovered by a relative who called at the Washburn house shortly before noon. When the police arrived they found Mrs. Wash burn and her daughter lying dead, side by side, in bed, and Washburn was dead on the floor at the foot of the bed. Evidently Washburn shot the girl first as she lay in bed. When Mrs. Washburn, aroused by the shot, partly raised herself in the bed Wash burn fired a second shot, the bullet entering the woman's left temple and causing instant death. Washburn then picked up the mirror and taking aim shot himself in the right temple. TO PRISON FOR FORTY-NINE YEARS. Mrs. Blddle's Assailants Oet Full Sentence a Each Charge. Mount Holly, N. J., (Special). Aaron Timbers, Jonas Sims and Will iam Austin, the three colored men who confessed to assaulting and rob bing Mrs. Elsie Biddle, of Burlington, were sentenced to forty-nine years each in the state prison by Judge Gaskill. The three men arrived here at I.l 5 P. M. under guard of Company A, New Jersey National Guard, which met them at Camden. The prisoners were handcuffed to three deputy sheriffs and were marched to the courthouse, followed by several hun dred persons. Only a few were ad mitted to the courtroom. Judge Gas kill was in waiting, and after the in dictments had been read the three men pleaded guilty. The Judge then pro nounced sentence of forty-nine years each, the extreme penalty for the crimes. The sentence was divided as fol lows: Assault, 15 years; robbery, 15 years; assaulting officers, 12 years; breaking and entering a dwelling, 7 years. The men were immediately taken to a train under heavy escort of the guardsmen and hurried to the state prison at Trenton. The General Slocum's Victims. New York, (Special). The total dead in the destruction of the ex cursion eteamer General Slocum, on June is, is given as 958 in the final report persented to Police Commis sioner McAdoo by the inspectors in charge of the investigation by the police department. Only 897 of the dead were identified, 62 were reported missing and 61 unidentified, while 180 were injured and only 235 out of nearly 1.400 00 the steamer escaped uninjured. Assuming that the un identified dead are among the missing all but one person has been thus ac counted for. M'S. Parocll's Plight London, (By Cable). The finan cial and other difficulties of Mrs. Par nell, widow of Charles Stewart I'ar nell, have cropped up again in the Brighton Bankruptcy Court, where at a meeting of the creditors the testi mony of a doctor was given, showing that she is so seriously ill that she never again will be aide to attend court. The case, therefore, was ad journed sine die. Michigan Towa Burned. Ironwood, Mich., (Special). The village of Kimball, including the Kim ball and Clark Mill and a large stock of lumber, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated to be $75,000. Nearly every building in the village was consumed. Ran Down a Handcar. Emporia, Kan., (Special). A freight train ran down a handcar on which four young persons were returning from the country. John Owens was killed and Arthur Denham, Mae and Pearl Miller were fatally hurt. The freight train, after striking the hand car, passed on without stopping, and Owens' body and the injured were not found until two hours later. Owens and Denham were roundhouse employes. Searching tor Redeemer. Winnipeg, Man., (Special). Desti tution and death for the Doukhobori is feared again, as most of the sect have started on another march in search of the Redeemer, and refuse all assistance, including food. The Dominion Government will leave nothing undone to stop this second pilgrimage in search of the Messiah. There is no danger of starvation or suffering on the part of the pilgrims, who number about 6a. The children arc being conveyed in carts drawn by men ana women. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Expansion of Our Commerce. The foreign commerce of the United States in the fiscal year 1904 is the largest in its history; the exports of manufacturers ore larger than in any preceding year, and the exports of domestic products exceed those of any other country. This is the substance, in a single sentence, of the record of the year's commerce just announced by the De partment, of Commerce and Labor through its Bureau of Statistic. It shows, taking up the figures in detail, that the total exports during the year ended June .10. 1904, are $1.460,820.5,1.9. against $l.4JO, 14 1,679 in the fiscal year 190.?. an increase of $40,687,860; that the imports for the year are $000. 745.084, against $1,025,719,237 in 190.1, a decrease of $.14.974, '5.1. and that the excess of exports over imports is $47V84455, against $.104,422,442 in 190.1, an increase of $75,662.01.1 in the excess of exports over imports. Comparing the figures of 1904 with those of earlier years, it may be said that the total exports arc larger than in any proceding year except loot; that the imports arc greater than in any preceding year except 1903, and that the total commerce the imports and exports combined in 1004 is greater than that of any preceding year. The total commerce of the year amounts to $2,451,574.62.1. against $2. 445,860,916 in 190.1 and $2..i 10,9.17, 156 in 1901, the year in which imports and exports, respectively, made higher re cords than those of 1904. Thus, while neither imports nor exports for 1904 reach the high record of a single earlier year the total of imports and exports combined in 1904 ex-reeds the total commerce of any earlier year. Not Allowed Citizenship. Japanese and Chinese women mar rying American men do not become American citizens. Such is the dictum of Secretary Hay just made public through correspondence between the Secretary of State and United States Minister Conger, at Piking, China. According to Secretary Hay's in terpretation of the statues only white women marrying United States citi zens acquire the citizenship of their Husbands. This is of especial im portance at this time, when so many American soldiers and other citizens of the United States arc marrying native women in the Far East. All children born of such unions, how ever, acquire the citizenship of their fathers at birth. Consequently chil dren of Chinese blood, if born of American fathers, may enter the Uni ted States. Secretary Hay was called upon to interpret the statute - by cases in Han kow where American men married Japanese and Chinese wives. In re plying to questions turn Mr. Longer, Secretary Hay replied: "As we construe this act, it confers the privilege of citizenship upon wom en married to citizens of the United States if they are of the class of per sons for whose naturalization acts of Congress provide. The previous naturalization act existing at the time only required that persons applying far its benefits shall be a 'free white person.' " Want Postofflce Rostorcd. Another chapter was added to the long controversy over the Las Vegas (New Mexico) postoffice, when man damus proceedings were instituted in the District Supreme Court to Compel the Postmaster-General to re-establish the former postoffice in Las Vegas. The petitioners are Margarito Ro mero, Mayor; Jesus M. Tafoya, Re corder, and Ignace lsquibel, Martin Delgado, Felipe Delgado and Bow man M. Williams, trustees, and Elmer E. Veedcr and John D. W. Veeder, residents of the town of Las Vegas. It is alleged that in violation of the law the postoffice at the town of Las Vegas March 31, was abolished and discontinued and consolidated with the postoffice in town of East Las Vegas, now called the City of Las Vegas. Increased Postal Receipts. The gross postal receipts for the 50 largest postoffices in the United States for last months as compared with June, 1903, were $5,467,498, an increase of more than 6 per cent. The highest increase was 21 per cent, at Peoria. Decreases were reported by Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Roch ester, Columbus, Worcester and St. Joseph. New York's receipts increased almost 6 per cent.; Chicago increased over 8 per cent. The receipts at St. Louis, where the Exposition has swelled the postal business, increased 17 per cent. Slaughter la Now On. O. E. Cook, who found the Guate malan . boll-weevil-eating ants, has wired the Department of Agriculture from Texas that the new ants are de stroying cotton boll worms and are attacking similar injurious insects with even greater avidity than they do the boll weevils. Another important fact is that the ants do not injure at all the ladybird larvae, which are beneficial insects. Mr. Cook reports that the agricultural value of the ants now depends chiefly upon acclimatization and rapidity of propagation. These questions arc be ing investigated. Production of Minerals. The United States Geological Sur vey sends out the following state ment, subject to revision, of the val ue of the production of the following minerals and other substances in the calendar year 1903: Pig iron, $344,350,000; iron ores, $66,356,001; salt, $5,150,196; phosphate rock, $3,986,824; coke, $66,459,623; bituminous coal, $351,094,209; anthra cite coal, $152,036,443. Wilt Wear Native Undress. There will be no change in the cos tumes of the Igorrotes at the St. Louis Exposition. Statements concerning the pro posed change from President Francis, from Senator Carter and from Mrs. Manning, Mrs Montgomery and others of the board of lady managers, were sent to the President, while ex planations were made by Col. Ed wards, of the Insular Bureau, and, as a result it was decided that no order will be issued requiring these Philip I pine natives to wear anything more ,thn their native dress. PAIL KRUGER DEAD Career of the Great Leader of the Boers is Ended. WAS SOLDIER AND STATESMAN. The Peasant Boy Who by His Shrewdness Won His Way to Be President of the Transvaal Republic His Dcvot on to H i Country end His Service 10 It Proved a Great Stumbling b.ock to British Desigcs. Clarcns, Switzerland, (By Cable). Paul Krugcr, forr.tc President of the Transvaal Republic, died here at 3 o clock A. M. from pneumonia and supervening heart weakness. Mr. Krugcr lost consciousness Monday. His daughter and son-in-law were with him at the time of his death. He had been out only once since his arrival, at ' the beginning of last month. The post-mortem examina tion showed that Mr. Krugcr died of senile pneumonia, cauer by sclero sis of the arteries, which made ; lipid progress during the last few weeks. The x-President's state of health was kept a secret. The ex-President's body wr.5 em balmed and in the afternoon was placed in a vault pending funeral ar rangements. Application will be made to the British Government for au thority to transport the body to the Transvaal. In the meantime it will be temporarily interred here. On several occaicns Mr. Krugcr had expressid a desire to be burled beside his wife in his own country. Pathetic Figure At Men'.cne. Paris. (By Cable). The death of the ex-President of tl-e Transvaal, Paul Krugcr, at Clarcns, Switzer land, aroused wide-spread regret here, owing to French sympathy for the P.ocr cause and personal admira tion for the ex-President. When he recently left Men tore his j health was gradually faibng through old age, constitutional disorder and throat troubles, which threatened to extend to the lungs. However, his personal physician, Dr. Heymann, did r.ot apprehend a speedy crises, and Mr. Kruger himself resisted the idea that his physical powers were failing. Mourning In Transvaal. Pretoria, (By Cable). The an nouncement of Mr. Krugcr's death called forth general expressions of regret, especially because the ex President died among foreigners. The flags on all the Government buildings are at half ma-t. Mr. Kruger will be buried beside former Presidents of the Transvaal unless his will has provided other wise. Meforial services will be held in all the Dutch churches. Memorial services will be held in all the Boers shall wear mourning until after the funeral which, it is expected, will be attended by representatives of every district of the Transvaal. Kruger's Life In Outline. Born October 10, 1825, at Coles burg, Cape Colony, of German parents. In )8,i6 was with his parents in the great "trek" northward from Capo Colony to found the new Dutch Re public. In the same year he killed his first lion. In 1838 he was fighting, with his father, against the negroes. He became a leader among the Boers early in life and at the age of 17 was made a magistrate. Taking part in the conflicts among the Boers themselves he became noted for his great strength and prowess. In i860 he headed the movement against President Schocman. In 1863 he was chosen commandant general of the republic. He put down civil strife and defeated negro tribes. As vice-president under President Burger's administration Kruger in 1877 led the protest against annexa tion to Cape Colony. In 1880 he was chosen vice-president of the reorganized republic, and was prominent in the war that fol lowed, in which the Boers won back their independence under a British suzereignty. In 1883 Kruger was elected presi dent of the Transvaal over General Joubert. being re-elected in 1888, 1893 and 1898. Kruger became practically dictator, so great was his influence over his countrymen, and stoutly opposed British Aggression. In 1895, when the Jameson raid occurred, Kruger turned over Dr. Jameson to the British for punish ment, but for four years thereafter he was busy preparing for war with Great Britain and placed the Trans vaal in a splendid condition for de fense. In 1899 war was declared against Great Britain. On June 5, 1900, Pretoria fell, and Kruger fled to Portuguese territory,' and on October 19 sailed for Europe., In 1901 took up his residence in Holland. On July 21, 1901, the second wife of Kruger died in Pretoria. In October, 1002, published a vol ume of memoirs bitterly assailing Cecil Rhodes and other Englishmen of South Africa. For several years past Kruger had lived at Mentone, France, where he went for his health. Died July 14, 1904. Shot Army Sergeant Dead. Plattsburg, N. Y., (Special). Will iam Syphcrt, a private in the Fifth Infantry, shot and killed Sergeant Samuel Philpot, also of the Fifth In fantry, stationed at Plattsburg. There had been bad feeling between the men because of the alleged attention Phil pot had been paving to Syphert's wife. Syphert's home is in Port Monroe, Va., and Philpot enlisted from a small town in Fairfax county, Vir ginia. CMy la Philippines WrecEed. Manila, (By Cable). A cloudburst over the hills northeast of Manila caused a flood which hae destroyed San Juan del Monte. Two hundred lives were lost. The low-lying dis tricts were inundated. The homes of Americans and foreigners are isolated. Transportation through the streets is carried on in boats only. Rain has fallen for twenty-seven hours, total ing 17 1-5 inches. This is unprecet dented. The damage to property is estimated at $2,000,000. WOUND HON LOOMS' HEAD. The American Must Have Met With Foul Play. London, July 17. Reports to both the Tress Associations and the Central News assert that a further ex amination of the body of F. Kent Loomis, which was found yesterday at Warrcnt Point, some 15 miles from Plymouth, has given rise to grave suspicions on the part of local officials that Mr. Loomis met with foul play. The wound behind the right ear is described as being circular, large and clean, and it is thought that it was inflicted before death. It is surmised that Mr. Loomis' body fell into the water near the Eddystone Lighthouse. Joseph G. Stephens, American con sul at Plymouth, in response to a telegram sent by the Associate Press tonight asking him if the local reports of foul play had any basis, or if he l::.d any ground for suspicion regard ing the death of Mr. Loomis, replied: "I regret 1 cannot make any state ments prior to the inquest, which will be held tomorrow. The wound on the head back of the ritht ear is the size of a half-dollar. The body is fairly preserved, especially about the top and back of the bead, considering the time it has been in the water." A GREAT STRIKE BEGINS. t ackJng-rioute tonnici 1 nreatens to invo ve 90,0)0-Famine Prices Likely. Chicago, (Special). Businees in terests aggregating $100,000,000 were practically tied up Tuesday at the L'nion Stock Yards, when the first step was taken in a strike which threatens to throw 00,000 persons out of employ ment and take away the opportunity cf making a livelihood from many more who are dependent upon the operations of the big meat plants. When the noon whistles blew 20, 000 men in the local yards responded to the order of President Michael Donnelly, of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' Union, and a strike, which promises to be one of the bitterest in the country, was on. St. Joseph, Mo., Kansas City, East St. Louis, Sioux City and St. Paul, the other important meat centers of West, fell into line, and the yards in those cities were palsied. . One hundred and fifty commission houses are out of business. They have telegraphed their patrons far and wide to cease shipments. Many animals may have to be shipped back to the farms, to save them. Inquiries at packing houses reveal that the supply of dressed meats on hand is sufficient to last only a few days. After that famine and fancy prices are likely to come. Already high, through manipulation of the beef combine, prices to the consumer promises to reach a point that is prohibitive save to the few who look upon luxuries as necessities. TEXAS BRONCHOS FOR JAPS. Report That 10COM) Ponies Are to Be Bought By Japan. New Orleans, (Special). Creole ponrcs from the praries of Southwest Louisiana and bronchos from the plains of Texas may be fighting the battles of Japan within two months. It is learned that a Texas firm has been approached by Minister Taka hira, of Japan, with a view to secur ing 100,000 head of horses af the type now used by the Japanese cavalry. The Creole ponies and Texas bron chos, with wonderful staying qualities, easily fed and kept, are considered ideal mounts for the Japanese saber men, and it is understood that nego tiations have been opened with the traffic department of the Southern Pacific Railroad for a large amount of stock cars, so that everything may be in readiness to rush the ponies to San Francisco, thence by ship direct to Korea. Conducted Strike Illegally. Victoria, B. C, (Special). The jury in the case of the Center Star Mining Company, Limited, vs. the Rossland branch of the Western, Federation of Miners awarded $12,500 damages to the company on the ground that the federation had uscl illegal means in conducting the strike and had wrought detriment to the company's business to the amount granted as damages. This is the first case of the kind tried in this province. It is probable that the federation will make an ap peal. Mormons Make a Stand. Chattanooga, Tenn., (Special). President Benjamin E. Richards, of the Southern States Mission of the Mormon Church, purchased substan tial buildings in this city for the per manent establishment of headquar ters for the Mormon Church in the South. All the Southern States will be in his jurisdiction and missionaries will be sent .out from here. These headquarters are moved here from Atlanta. Bl( Robbery In Santiago. Santiago, Cuba, (Special). When Cashier Tejada went to his office here he found the Custom House safe open and $68,000 missing. The safe was uninjured. The robbery apparently was the work of an expert in safe lock combinations. FINANCIAL Rock Island's net earnings in April decreased $610,156. Western floods made wheat jump a cent a bushel over night. Later it fell again when the sun came out in Kansas. New York banks gained during the week by the chief movement of cur rency $9,859,800. Union Pacific, which only pays four per cent, dividends, now sells as high us Missouri Pacific, which pays five. Readings is at the highest point of the year. It tops Erie. According to Dun's Index, the prices of commodities on July I had fallen to 97.19 compared with 100.95 on June 1, and 99.45 one year ago. The highest average price of all commodities in forty years was near the close of the Civil war, when it was 27898. On July 1, i860, the price was only 11519. In 1878 the average had tumbled to 96.26, but four years later it had risen to 12323. In 1897 was the lowest point reached in America, the average being 8245. In 1902 it had risen again to 101.91. And now U is back again to 07.10. DISASTROUS R. R. WRECK Picnic Train Dashed Into the Rear End of a Freight Train. 20 ARE KILLED AND 25 BADLY HURT. The People In the Rear Coaches Were Hurled From Their Seats and Many of Them Were Bruised, But all of the Serious Casualties Occurred In the First Car Was the Outing of the Doremas Church. Chicago, 111., (Special). Twenty persons were killed and about twenty five injured in a collision on the Chica go and Eastern Illinois railroad at Glcnwood, 111., twenty-three miles south of Chicago. The collision occurred between a picnic train from Chicago, which was returning from Momence, 111., and a freight train, into the rear end of which tlic excursion train dashed at high speed. The picnic train was coming north and the freight was on the southbound track.' A misplaced switch threw the picnic train over on the southbound track, and before the engineer could apply the brakes it ran at forty miles an hour into the rear of the freight. The locomotive, the baggage cat and the first coach of the picnic trait were demolished and all of the killec" and injured were on the locomotive and in the two cars. The picnic was the annual outing of the members of Doremus church After spending the day on the picnic ground., at Momence the trainloac siarlid on the return trip, running it' a second section of the regular pas senger tram which is due in Chicago at 8.25 P. M. ' When the picnic train reached Chicago lh.fc,;.;s, four miles beyond Glcnwood, wi.tre the accident took place, it was sw.tchcd to the rcgulat southboui.d ttack, and although it was coming north it was given a cleat track jy tie operator at Chicago Heights 111,11, it should reach Glen wood, jorr ini;es away. The tru.n after leaving Chicago Heights gradually increased its speed, and vil.e:i half the distance between the two stations had been covered it was plunging along at the rate of forty times an hour. Just half way between Liocago Heights and Glcn wood thete is a sharp curve. As the picnic train tore around this on the southbound track a freight train was backing from the southbound to the northbound track, ft was partly on both tracks and no train could have passed it in either direction. The bend is so sharp that then en gineer of the picnic train did not see the freight, until he was about on it. It was too ia:e to do anything but set the hraVcs, but before they could take effte; t; e passenger train smash ed into the freight at full speed. The locomotive and baggage car of the passenger train went through the freight "and were piled up in a heap of wreckage on the farther side of the switch track. The first coach of the picnic train plunged into the wreck age and buried itself in a mass of kindling wood. Nearly all of the passengers in tin first coach were caught beneath th j mass of debris and it was here that the loss of life occurred. The people in the rear coaches were hurled from their seats and many of them were bruised, but all of the serious casualties occurred in the first car. The uninjured passengers and trainmen at ?nce hastened to the relief of those. who were pinned under the wreckage. 'The wreck was two miles from nnywhere, and much delay ensued before some of the injured, who were held down by heavy tim bers, could be extricated. Thirl) -Eight Injured. St. Louis, Mo., (Special). While running at full speed the tender of an engine drawing cn eastbound excur sion train on the Missouri Pacific road jumped a switch near La Badie, forty-five miles west of here, derail ing four coaches, which were thrown down the embankment. Thirty-eight passengers were injured. It is con sidered remarkable that none was killed and only three were seriously injured.. The excursion train was on the return trip when wrecked. The engine left the rails but did not fall from the embankment. Six of the ten coaches remained on the track. House Blown Up By Dynamite. Ironwood, Mich., (Special). The residence of Earl Walton, superin tendent of the Brotherton and Sun day Lake mines at Wakefield, on the east end of the Gogebic range, was destroyed by dynamite. Not less than 20 pounds of dynamite were used. Sections of the house and veranda were blown 200 feet, but the family, asleep upstairs, escaped serious in jury. Superintendent Walton has 110 idea as to the identity of the perpe trators or their motives. Ants Destroyed Weevils. ' Washington, D. C, (Special). The effectiveness of the Guatemalan ants in checking the ravages of the boll weevils in the cotton fields has been' tested, and Mr. Cook, the expert of the Department of Agriculture, in a telegram to Secretary WiUon, an nounces that the ants promptly de stroyed the weevils and the Texas red ants as well. Fird in Covington, Ga. Covington, Ga., (Special). Fire in Covington resulted in the destruction; of property valued at $125,000, with $60,000 insurance. The fire started in the Star Building. The heaviest losers are J. W. Anderson, $1 4,000 j Heard & White, on building $12,000 and on stock $15,000; Brooks & Smith, building $3,000, and on drugs $6,000; Fowler Bros, $18,000; Stepiianson St Calloway, $15,000; C. C. Robinson, $14,000. ' Raisuli os a Bald. ' ' 1 Tangier, (By Cable). According to news from the interior, the bandif Raisuli and his tribe made a raid on Ghard, and after two days' fighting Raisuli was victorious. The tribe looted .many cattle. Owing to threats sent by Raisuli and the neigh, boring tribes' to Mohammed El Tor. res the Foreign Minister, work on the ,new customhouse in course oil erection, here has been discontinued The tribe said they would raid Tan stier ahould the work continue.
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