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.