VICTORY OF JAPS AT LIAOYANG Kuropatkm in Full Retreat and His first Siberian Army Cut Off.--25.000 Russians in Dan ger of Capture. Liaoyang (By Cable). The seven days' gigantic conflict around Liao yang between General Kuropatkin's Manchurian armies and the Mikado's three armies under Marshal Oyama, in which the combined fighting strength was nearly half a million men and fcvcral thousand guns, has cul minated in a decisive victory or the Japanese. General Kuropatkin is in full re treat northward, after sustaining enor mous losses, including more than 35, 000 men killed and wounded, the First Siberian Army, numbering 25,000 men, commanded by General Stakelbcrg. surrounded and cut off, and his strong ly fortified position with valuable stores and gtir.s abandoned. Before evacuating Liaoyang the Russians blew up the magazines and set fire to the buildings containing the army stores and provisions. Later the Jap anesc entered the city. The Russian armies are now about 20 miles north of Liaoyang, but it is doubtful whether Kuropatkin will make another stand until reinforced He will probably continue on to Muk den. General Kuropatkin blame? the dis aster to the First Siberian Corps un der General Stakclbcrg for failing to obey his orders and cross the Taitse River when the commander-in-chief decided the whole army should retire to the northern side. The Japanese losses in the battles about Liaoyang are estimated at 30, 000 men killed and wounded. The retreat of Kuropatkin will be disheartening to the Port Arthur gar rison, which can no longer hope for relief from his forces. Meanwhile the Japanese continue their attacks upon the fortress and a number of the Rus sian outer forts are now in their pos session. Liaoyang (By Cable). General Sta kelberg and his Siberian Corps of 25, 000 men are reported by General Ku ropatkin to have extricated themselves from the perilous position in which they were Saturday, and to have suc cessfully crossed the Taitse River and joined in the general retreat. General Kttroki, however, is reported by Marshal Oyama to be executing a turning movement encompassing a large force of the retreating Russians. Stakclberg's escape, it is said at St. Petersburg, also enabled General Or loff's demoralized force to get to gether in a safe retreat. Unless the Czar forgives Stakclberg he wilt have to stand court-martial for disobeying Kuropatkin's order Friday to join in the general retreat. Field Marshal Oyama reports that, sfter severe engagements Saturday night and Sunday morning, the Japan ese finally occupied Liaoyang. The reports Friday and Saturday that the Japanese had taken this Russian posi tion were premature, and the Japan ese official reports show that the Czar's forces did not give it up with out a desperate struggle. According to General Kuropatkin's report of Saturday evening, the great er part of his army, including Stakcl berg's corps, is moving in the direc tion of Mukden. The troops left at Liaoyang to cover the retreat, crossed the river Saturday and occupied the right bank. Kuropatkin !at night had reached Tiehling north of Yentai and eighteen miles south of Mukden. lie has asked the Czar to despatch the Sixth Army Co-ps to the front. General Orloff' detachment, which was guarding the Russian left flank at Yentai, suffered enormous losses, nne regiment losing 1,500 men. In the bat tle last Thursday before Liaoyang 3,200 Russians fell. TOTAL LOSSES GIVEN AS 55,000. Jipi Eillnnte Tbelr Share it 2S.000 - F.ere Battle Continues. Tokio (By Cable). A few addi tional details of the progress of the battle of Liaoyang reached Tokio at late hour Saturday. General Kuroki's right is continuing to press the attack at lleiyingtai, 12 miles northeast f f Liaoyang, seeking ground whence their guns will domi nate the railroad. The troops under General Kuroki are jaded and weary. They have been marching and fighting since August 23, but in spite of this they attacked with spirit. The Japanese are confident that they have already swept back the strong Russian force with which they have been engaged, and it is probable that when the. details are known it will be found that a great tragedy was en acted along the Taitse river. The Taitse is flooded and cannot be lorded. General Oku, in command of the Japanese left army, has directed bit energies to forcing the Russians to the river, and it is probable that many were drowned there. FINANCIAL. Low priced railroad stocks are still the favorites for bull purposes. United States Steel preferred was tipped yesterday for a good advance and it had it. New York banks have lost this week by the principal movements of mon ey $4,872,000. Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash ington bonds that were put out by Sailer & btevenion at 104 are now laA bid. Marshall Field, of Chicago, pays taxes on real estate asseued at $30, 000,000,' and personal, property valued t $10,000,000. There is talk of If. C. Frick for a director of Reading to succeed John Lowber Welsh. He is said to have bought a great deal of stock recently. Since July I the wheat exports have been only 10,634,000 bushels, compared with 25,078.000 (or the same period in 1003. Corn exports during the same time this year have been the trilling irount of 4,563,000 bushels. Atchison's net earnings in July fell $606,600, which brings the surplus for that month close to the deficit mark. A private dispatch received here re ports that great fires are raging at Liaoyang. This statement is not con firmed officially. Tiie fires arc believed to result from the Japanese shelling or from, the ef forts of the Russians to destroy their stores preparatory to the evacuation of Liaoyang. with the additional hope of injuring the city as a future Japan ese base. Unofficial estimates place the Rus sian forces in the vicinity of Liao yang at 15 divisions of 15.000 men each, or 225.OC0 men. These arc prob ably excessive, but it is evident that numerically the Russians exceed the Japanese. The opinion that the Russian casual ties in the recent fighting will reach 30,000 is confidently expressed in high quarters here. Neither Field Marshal Oyama nor the Japanese army com manders have yet estimated the Rus sian losses. It seems that the Japanese avoided a direct assault upon Liaoyang itself, but devoted their energies to the troops outside the city and an effort to cut off the Russian retreat. Liao. yang is strongly fortified, and it is probable that the Japanese will not attack the city directly until they have succeeded in isolating it. Should the Russians abandon Liao yang the Japanese will, of course, en ter. The fate of the great bulk of the re treating Russian army hinges upon the bravery and fortitude of its left Hank. Liaoyang and Its Fortifications. In abandoning Liaoyang General Kuropatkin has certainly given up a formidable position, so far as fortifi cations arc concerned. The works around the city were said to be mar vels of engineering skill, with gal leries for the protection of the gun ners connected by telephone and de fended by wire entanglements and mines. In his hasty retreat from Liaoyang General Kuropatkin must certainly have been forced to abandon valuable stores and also the emplaced guns. To abandon such a position appears, notwithstanding the explanations of the Russian War Office, to have been a desperate move upon the part of the Russian commander-in-chief, and only made as a last resort, in the horn- of preventing his army of 170.000 men 1 hrinty siirronn itA sin, I ft, riff Ua I three Japanese armies. Indiana Miners and Operators. Terrc Haute, Ind. (Special). The joint meeting of the state executive boards of the Indiana miners and op erators adjourned, after failing to agree on thp nurstions nf ct.if.1 t,occc being members of the union and the eignt-nour clause applying, to night firemen. The first will be referred to President Mitchell arrntn Via hft,!n,r formerly ruled that bosses should be long to the union. The second ques tion goes over to, another meeting. A Bad Man Hanged. Clearfield, Pa. (Special). Ilenrv C. Fitch, colored, was hanged here for the murder of John Williamson on Seotemher 20 irmi T'if,-h fi,tmr.A,l to rob Williamson, who resisted, and was shot to death. Recently Fitch mriHe .1 ronft-wtioM in ,.,iV l.A ..film...! - ... ti.ii.-I1 ,n; VIUI1I1CVJ to have killed a negro at Red Star, W. Va.; shot a man at East Liverpool. O., and murderously assaulted another at V-oraopoiis, fa. New Mint Opened. Denver. Col. (Special). The new United States mint in this city was opened with a presidential salute of 21 guns and raising of the American ling over the building by George E. Roberts, director of the mint. The mint will not begin coinage until July i, 10.05, as no appropriation has been made by Congress as yet to cover the cost of coinage. Child Accuses Stepfather. Mahony City, Pa. (Special"). After a coroner's jury had decided that An thony Gerlaitis had been killed by a Philadelphia and Reading railway pas senger train, 11-year-old Katie Miller came forward with a statement that he was murdered and his body placed alongside of the railroad track. She implicates her stepfather, Joseph Zu klcwicz, and John Acepawich. Both) men have been placed under arrest. Bank Officer Gone Wronj. Watertown, Mass. (Special). Na than A. Frye. for eight yean treas urer of the Watertown Savings Rank, was arrested here charged with era blczzling $2,ooo from the institution. According to the bank officials, Frye has made a written confession admit ting the larceny. Eiploslon In Powder H'srks. runxsutawney, Pa. (Special). Eight hundred kegs of powder ex ploded in the pressroom of the; Laflin & Rand Powder Works, two miles east of here, instantly killing one man, seriously injuring three others and causing costly destruction of prop, erty. First Alstksa Cablegram. Dallas, Tex. (Special). Col. W. G Horslay, of Greenville, Tex., received the first cablegram ever sent over the new Aslaska submarine cable which has been laid from Seattle, Washing ton, to Haines, Alaska. Colonel Hors. lay son Herbert, a sergeant in the United States Signal Corps, who has had charge of the construction of the cable, after sending greetings, an nounced that he would visit his Texas home in November. Ml Ony Will Accept. Wilmington, Del. (Special). Judge George Gray announced that he would consent to the request of the concilia tion board of the United Mine Work ers Association that he arbitrate the dispute about the check-weighing sys tem in the Pennsylvania anthracite field. - As will be remembered. Judge Gray was chairman' of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission appointed by President Roosevelt last year to ad just th mining troubles in Pennsylvania. NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic, President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, has refused to call a meeting of the National Execu tive Council to recommend general sympathetic action of unionists in sup port of packing-house strike. The Northern Securities Company filed in Trenton, N. J., nn answer to the suit of the Harrimans to restrain the company frcm carrying out its proposed plan of distribution of its assets. The Superior Court in Chicago de cided that operators who formed a corner in wheat, oats or other com modities cannot enforce payment against those caught in the squeeze. Judge Joseph Sheldon, of New Haven, Ct., was selected as the candi date of the People's Party for gov ernor of Connecticut by the state exec utive committee. Engineer Johnson and Conductor Ir win were held responsible by the cor oner's jury for the train wreck at Tin taluta, N. W. T. The New York Police Commission er has asked for $13328,129 for the support of the New York police force in 1005. The Johnson-Dunbar Mills Com pany, of North Adams, Mass., manu facturers of cotton goods, has made an assignment. A Wabash train ran into a street car at a crossing in St. Louis, killing 7 persons and injuring 25, several fa tally. Will Bruner and Joseph N. Trahan, farmers, were killed near Ravnc, La., by H. mer Meche, a drunken man. Charles Rothermel and his wife were frightfully slashed in Philadelphia by their maniac son Edward. Mrs. George Packer was murdered in Clarkton, N. C. Her mutilated body was found in the woods. An agreement has been reached be tween the coal-mine operators and the mine-workers in Montana. Fire in the wholesale district of Memphis, Tcnn., destroyed property to the value of $800,000. Plans have been arranged for in structing the primitive Filipinos at the World's Fair in English. Clark Caryl Haskins. the electrical inventor and writer, died in Chicago. Fire completely destroyed the ce ment plant of the Struthers Furnace Company, near Youngstown. O. The loss is placed at $120,000, with $60,000 insurance. Six persons arc dead and four dan gerously injured as the result of a dwelling-house fire, followed by an oil-tank explosion, at Yellow Creek, O. The Chicopee (Mass.) Manufactur ing Company has shut down its en tire plant until September 12 on ac count of the state of the cotton busi ness. Former Judge Lyman S. Bur, of New Britain. Ct., was arrested on the charge of embezzling $5,403 from the estate of Timothy W. Loomis. The imperial express on the Cana dian Pacific was wrecked at Sintaluta, .V W. 1 and five women passen gers in the tourist car were killed. Philip Caldwell, elevator conductor. was killed and eiiiht ocrsons were in jured by the falling of a passenger elevator in Chicago. V. t. Woodend, the bankrupt New York broker, arrested on the charge of grand larcenv. was dis charged. Twelve hundred and fiftv miners have gone on strike in the Coal Creek District of Tennessee. Canadian authorities seized the American fishing schooner Samosct off North Sydney, C. B. six Indians of the Turtle Mountain Reservation were killed bv drinking wood alcohol. The Chicago and Alton Railroad has passtd to the ownership of the Union Pacific. Edward Armes. a nonunionist. was savagely attack by union butchers in New 1 ork. Judge Parker has decided to go to the St. Louis Exposition on Septem ber 24. I he cause of the disappearance of C. B. Spahr, editor of Current Litera ture, from the Cunard Line steamer Aurania at Dover, England, is a mvs- tery to his family and friends in New ork. The State Department, at Washing ton, was officially notified of the death of the Colombian charge, Dr. Her ran, by the Colombian consul general, in New York. Rosa Stern, daughter of Rev. Lewis Stern, the Washington rabbi, made an attempt to take her life by cutting her throat and wrist with a razor. Dr. E. G. Simons, a wealthy physi cian, of Ripley, N. Y., was instantly Killed Uy a Lake Miore freight tram, 111 Glcnville, a suburb. .Marshal A. B. Hammond shot and killed Bud Tucker and seriously wounded Jim Tucker in a street duel in Florale, Ala. Judge Edgar M. Cullen, of Brook lyn, was appointed chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, to suc ceed Judge Parker. Bail for the release of Nan Tatter son, indicted in New York for the murder of Caesar Young, was fixed at $20,000. The United States army transport Thomas sailed from San Francisco, carrying 300 army recruits to the Phil ippines. Foreign. The Uruguayan War Minister, com manding the government troops, re ports having won a decisive victory over General Saraiva, the leader of the Uruguayan insurgents. The German Crown Prince Freder ick William is reported to be engaged to the Duchess Cecelia, sister of the reigning Grand Duke of Mcck'cnbifrg" Schwerin. The French census shows an in crease of 444.613 in population in 10 years, a smaller percentage than in any other European country. George T. Watson and William Fife, Jr., have decided positively that they will not design another cup challenger. Li Hing Jouci, viceroy of Foochow, and Wei Kouang Tao, viceroy of Nan king, will exchange posts. In a hot fight between Armenian In surgents and Turkish troops at Van more than a score of persons were killed. ' The commercial strength of Mar seilles is being ruined by the strikes prevailing there. . Sedan Day was observed in Berlin by a parade o the Potsdam and Ber lin garrisons, the Emperor and Em press taking part. The British bark Saragossa was wrecked at Mangala, Cook Islands. Prince George c.f Greece declares that it is impossible to longer delay the union of Greece and Crete. 14 PERISIMLN A FIRE The Victims Were Mostly Women and Children. TENEMENT HOtSE A DEATH TRAP. The Male Occupants Were on the Roof and Leaped to Neighboring Houses Women nd Children Found Their Egress Cut Olf, Repairing Being in Progress In the Lower Pirl of the House. New York (Special). Fourteen per sons were killed 'and nearly a score injured in a fire in a five-story double tenement in Attorney street at an early hour in the morning. It was one of the worst fires in the loss of human lives that has occurred on the East Side in several years, al though the properly less was slight. The dead include four women, one man and nine children, ranging-in age from 3 months to 12 years. Many of the injured were taken to hospitals, and it is thought that sev eral of these will die. Among the injured were five firemen, who were on a fourth floor balcony, when it fell with them. The small number of men among the killed and injured was due to the fact that mo.-t of the men who lived in the building, following the Attorney street custom in hot weather, were a.-leep on the roof, while but few of the women and children were there. Those on the roof were unable to es cape by descending through the burn ing building, and made their way to safety over neighboring roofs. Mean while the members of their families who had remained in their rooms found escape cut off, and panic reigned throughout the structure. The fire started about 3 o'clock in j the morning, and there was conoid-1 erable delay in sending in an alarm, although the district is one of the ' most thickly populated in the crowded East Side of New 1 ork. When the firemen reached the scene some of the tenants were jumping from the windows and from the ends of fire escapes that reached only to the second floor; others were crouch .ing in the smoke in the small room and narrow halls. Several ambulances were called, and the surgeons were kept busy caring for the injured. A number of daring rescues were made by firemen and police, and the conditions under which they worked were unusual and difficult. The loss of life was due chiefly to the fact that alterations were being made in the tenement building. The basement and the first floor, the latter about six feet above the sidewalk level, had both been cut through, the front and rear walls having been removed, and the upper floors being supported by steel beams. The exit from the upper floors was by way of a small stepladdcr. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the explosion of a lamp, that had been left to light the hall on the second floor and the sleeping tenants were rwt aroused until the hallway was ablaze and escape through the building eot off. The fire was 60on extinguished and the search for the dead began. Police reserves had been called out, and with difficulty kept back the crowd that had gathered from the densely popu lated neighborhood while the bodies were being brought down to the street. Most of the dead we're found on the two upper floors. No Mediation Now. Berlin (By Cable). The German Foreign Office, taking note of the fresh assertions that the neutral pow ers are comparing views with the ob ject of offering friendly mediation in the war between Russia and Japan, says that such an idea is absurd at this moment, as the Russian purpose to continue the war has been clearly made known. All the governments understood that Great Britain and France, at some time agreed upon, would offer to mediate when both beligerents desired it. When that time arrived naturally there was nothing to preclude other neutral governments from participating. Six Perish In a Fire. Yellow Creek, Ohio (Special). Six person' were burned to death and sev eral terribly injured by a fire and gas explosion at this place. The house of Henry S. Fling was ignited by a street lamp and the intense heat set fire to the rig of a gas well near the house. The flames destroyed the der rick and communicated to a tank, which was full of oil. Befpre the occupants of the house realized their danger a terrific explosion occurred. The blazing oil wa- thrown all over the house apd their escape was cut off. The bodies were recovered after the fire was subdued. Blown L'p By Mine. Tokio (By Cable). Admiral Hoso ya, commanding the third Japanese squadron, reports that last Wednes day morning a number of vessels weighed from Port Arthur and en gaged in clearing away mines. The Japanese watched their operations sea ward. At 2:25 P. M. a steamer struck a mine and was blown up. The disas ter occurred one mile below Cheng tungshan, and it was plainly visible. The number of lives lost is unknown Five Dead and Many Injured. Findlay, O. (Special). Five are dead and an equal number seriously injured as the result of a premature explosion of a quantity of nitroglycer in near Upper Sandusky. The acci dent occurred while McKay, an oil well shooter, was engaged in lowering the notroglycerin. At the time his assistants, the Lookabaughs and Fox, together with the others, were grouped about the well. The cause of the ex plosion is unknown. A Bird It Kill Weevils. Dallas, Texas. (Special). Col. Isaac W. Brown, of Rochester, Ind., reached Dallas to study the Texas boll-weevil situation and try to find a remedy in the bird creation. Colonel Brown, who is n ornithologist, believes that for every insect dangerous to vegeta ble life a bird has been created to ex terminate it. After meeting and lis tening to him at Roxbury, Miss Helen Miller Gould requested Colonel Brown to try to diieover the bird that natu rally should feed upon the destroy the boll-weevil, r WEATHER RETARDS CROPS. Heavy Ralas In the South Conditions In the Corn Belt Washington, D. C. (Special). The weather Bureau's weekly summary of crop conditions is as follows: Although cool weather has pre vented rapid development of corn in the Ohio valley ana Lake region, the crops, as a whole, has experienced de cided improvements. Much of that prostrated by winds in the previous week in Indiana and Illinois is straightening. In the Missouri val ley the temperature has been more favorable, and the advancement of the crop toward maturity has been much more rapid than in the Cen tral Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Ecrly corn has already matured in Southern Missouri, and is ripening rapidly in Nebraska and South Da kota, cutting being in process in the first-name 1 State and in Kansas. The reports indicate that from three to four weeks of favorable weather will be required to mature the late crop. The week was practically rainless in the spring-wheat region of Minne sota and the Dakotas, affording fa vorable weather for harvesting and thrashing. Some earfy wVeat in the northern portion of North Dakota is yet unripe, and rust is still damaging late wheat in that State, and much of the crop will not be cut. Disap pointing yields arc generally reported from Idaho, Washington and Oregon. In Northern Alabama and in the southern portions of Mississippi and Louisiana cotton has improved, and the crop is in good condition in Ok lahoma and Indian Territories, but elsewhere the reports generally indi cate unfavorable progress. Deteriora tion from rust and shedding is re ported from nearly all districts. Heavy rains have proved injurious in portions of Florida and Georgia, while over a large part of Texas the crop has suf fered decidedly from drought. In the last-mentioned State boil worms con tinue destructive, and boil weevils are puncturing nearly all squares in south western, central, eastern and coast di visions, and arc causing much dam age as far north as Dallas, Kauf man and Hunt counties. Picking Is in full progress m Texas, and is gen eral in the southern portions of the central and Eastern districts. A general improvement in tobacco is indicated. Cutting is well advanced in the Middle Atlantic States and New England and is in progress in the Ohio valley. In Wisconsin the crop is doing well, although maturing slowly. The outlook for apples continues promising in New England, New York and the upper Lake region, but un favorable reports continue from the States of the central valleys. Leopold to Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. '. (Special). Infor mation was received at the executive offices here of the arrival in New York of G. Francotte, a delegate to the peace conference which is to be held in September at the St. Louis expo sition. He is said to be the bearer of credentials from the King of Bel gium to President Roosevelt request ing the latter' to use his good offices in the restoration or peace between Russia and' Japan. Blew Up His Own Mill Meridian, Miss. (Special). Moses Graham, owner of the Highwood lum ber mill, in Jones county, deliberately dynamited and wrecked the machinery of his mill rather than accede to the demands of about too employes for higher wages. The mill had been shut down for two months on account of the strike. The strikers lived on Graham's land, and when ordered off camped in tents on his border await ing the opening of the season. Another Boxer Ourbrcak. Shanghai (By Cable). A revival of Boxerism is reported from Taniingfu. in the southwestern part of Pechili piovince, 215 miles from Tien-ts'in. Over 20 American missionaries, in cluding women 'and children, have been obliged to evacuate Tamgfu, ow ing to an intended massacre on the part of the Boxers, who call them selves "Tsaiyun." NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. American ordnance officers would like an opportunity to see the damaged Russian warships to compare the effi ciency of the Carnegie and Bethlehem armor-plates. Minister Bowen reported to the State Department that Venezuela is paying off judgments more speedily than she was expected to do. Brigadier General Carr reported a marked improvement in the discipline of the troops of the Department of Dakota. Quartermaster General Humphrey has reprimanded Col. John Clem, chief quartermaster of the Philippine Di vision. Plans are being arranged at the Navy Department for a reorganization of the battleship squadron. Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright will resign at the end of the year. United States Minister Barrett has made a special report warning in tended comers that there is no boom in business on the Ithinus of Panama. In his annual report General Mac Arthur complains that soldiers return ing from the Philippines arc robbed end beaten up in San Francisco. Officials of the Agriculture Depart ment denied that there was a leak iii the promulgation of the government cotton report. The report to the Board' of Visitors to the Naval Academy recommends the restoration of the four-year course. Brigadier Generals Carter, of the Philippine Army, and Lee, of the De partment of Texas, say that the anti canteen law has been a failure. Several changes in the faculty of the Georgetown University are an nounced. Further legal action against Thomas E. Waggaman, treasurer of the Catholic University, against whom bankruptcy proceedings recently were instituted to prevent his making the university a preferred creditor, was taken when a number of citizens of Maryland filed suit in equity asking for the ap pointment of a receiver for certain of his prooertv. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has received complaint from the Media Coal Company, with offices at Fairmont, W. Va., that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is dis criminating in handling of freight, to the coal company's disadvantage. NINE PEOPLE KILLED A Head-On Collision on the Grand Trunk Railroad. CONDUCTOR OF TRAIN DISAPPEARS. Disobedience of Orders Causes a Frightful Catastrophe In Canada In Addition to the Nine Dead, Twenty-three Sustained Severe Injuries-One of the Trains Contained a Thouiand Excursionists. Montreal (Special). Nine people were killed and 23 others injured in a head-on collision on the Grand Trunk Railway, near Richmond, Que. The trains involved were a special excursion from Montreal bound for Sherbrooke and passenger train No. 5, running between Island Pond, Vt., and Montreal. The collision, it is claimed, was due to neglect of orders on the part of the train crew of the excursion train, which left Richmond without await- ; 11. g the arrival of the passenger train, j The excursion train was running as ; the first section of the regular Grand ; Trunk Portland Express, which usti j ally crosses the Island Pond train at Richmond, and was running on Its time. This makes it all the more : inexplicable why Conductor Atkinson, : 111 charge of the excursion train, did not wait to make the usual crossing. Atkinson disappeared shortly after the wreck occurred. The excursion train, made up of ; to coaches and a baggage car, car ! ried about 1,000 persons bound fot ; the exhibition at Sherbrooke The i Island Pond train was composed ol five coaches and a baggage car and I had only a small number of passen- gers. I The excursion train had barel I Cleared the UicbmnnA .rj '"""""i! a curve, it met the Island Pond train, running at a high rate of speed. Both engineers reversed, and, with their firemen, jumped, es caping with minor injuries. The shock of the collision was plainly heard in Richmond, more than a mile away. Both engines were locked firmly together. The baggage car of thr ex cursion train was picked up and drop ped on top of the car following it a smoker, and it was in these two cars that the greater number of fatalities occurred. The most graphic account of what followed the collision is given by J. A. Denault, a Montreal banker, who was seated in the smoker of the ex cursion train, I "When the shock came," be said, "I was hit on the head and momen tarily stunned. When I came to my senses I appeared to be lying un derneath a pile of kingling wood, from which I could not release myself. The cries of the wounded were pitiable. I felt something wet saturating one leg of my trousers and for a mo. ment thought that I had been badly wounded. Looking down I saw that the body of a man was lying acroN" my feet. He was groaning, and, in a minute or two, said he was dying. Then he was still. When relief came he was dead. I was lucky enough to escape with only a few contusions." Other passengers told similar stor ies of their escape, but the trainmen had nothing to. say, pending the in quest. TO EXTEND THE STRIKE. Important Move By the Chicago Meat Workers Donnelly's Plans. Chicago, (Special). Famine in meat is declared by the strikers to be the result of their new move in the strike against the packers. Orders have been issued for a gen eral strike of all butcher workmen throughout the country. 15,000 Men Will Go Out. The order will affect in all about 2000 men in' Chicago, including the independent plants. The order, if ob served, will also affect independent plants in large capacity in the fol-. lowing cities: East St. Louis, Omaha, St. Louis, Kansas City, Sioux City, New York, Milwaukee, Syracuse, Stickney, Illi nois and hundreds of small plants throughout the country, which employ from ten to twenty men. Altogether, union officials assert, 15,000 men will go out, and the meat supply will be seriously crippled, leaving as the only supply the output of the big packers by their non-union help. Wednesday the pickets surround ing the stockyards were largely in creased, the yards being watched for several blocks away. Strike-breakers were warned not to leave the yards. Bitter feeling ex ists against them. The 600 stock handlers in the stockyards quit work. They were greeted by cheers by the union pickets. Hope to Create Meat Famine. The manager of the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company said that, in anticipation of a strike of the stock handlers, men had been in training to take the places of deserting weighers, and that 50 of such men are available at once. He said that no further trouble was expected in handling the stock. The packers say it is Donnelly's aim to create a meat famine, which he thinks would iirous the public to such a pitch of indignation that a set tlement would be forced. Cod of Career of Dr. Herran. New York (Special). Dr. Thomaj Herran, who represented Colombia st Washington for several years, up to the time of the Panama incident, died at Liberty, N. Y. He had been ill for sometime, and went to Liberty in the hope that a sojourn there would aid in the restoration of his health. Dr. Herran was educated in the United States and devoted his life largely to his country's foreign serv ice. Empress Vetoed Emperor. Berlin (By Cable). The architect who designed the restoration of the Protestant church at Spires, capital of Rhenish' Bavaria, which was dedi cated Wednesday, selected the por traits of the seven imperial children in their fourth year for the heads of seven angels In the windows nr.nmd the (chancel. The Emperor objected,' laying: "My children are no angels. "1 The Empress, however, thought the. Idea charming, and it was accordingly, executed. I THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Pennsylvania Told in Short Order. Eight carpenters and masons from Pittsburg, who had been employed at Boswell, Somerset County, were held tip anfl robbed at 9 o'clock the othei night while on their way to Johns town to board a train for Pittsburg, They were in a four-seated wagon and when about a mile from Boswell in the darkness they took the wrong road. They were soon startled by a volley of shots fired in the air, while a crowd of ten or a dozen men swarmed around them. Some of the robbers held the horses, others searched the passengers and several covered the party with guns to pre vent any escaping. One man was re lieved of $65 and each one was com pelled to give up all he had. William Brillhart, a young man of York, charged with assault and bat tery on his father, was fined I cent in Judge Bittinger's court. Brillhart plead guilty to administering a thrash ing to his father, and told the Court that he was defending his mother, as the father was beating her at the lime. After the Judge had repri manded both sire and son for fighting, he commended the younger man for defending his mother, and fined the prisoner I cent and told him he was , released. The Judge remarked that if he were thirty years younger he would have administered a whipping to the elder Brillhart himself for beat ing a woman. At a meeting of the Board of Trus tees of the West Chester State Nor mal School, Bird T. Baldwin, a grad uate of Swarthmore College and of Harvard University, and at present an instructor at Harvard, was elected professor of pedagogy as successor to Prof. J. George Beclit, who was re cently elected principal of the Clarion Normal School. The trustees also received twenty paintings, which have been placed in the art gallery of the new library building by a number of Philadelphia friends of the school. William Wayne, of Paoli, a mem ber of the State Legislature, will in troduce and labor for the passage ol a bill in the next session of the Legis lature appropriating $5000 for the pur chase of a tract of laud and the creo tion of a monument on the Brandy wine battlefield, near West Chester, to the memory of General Anthony Wayne. Representative Wayne is a lineal descendant of the general and lives in the house that was the home of his noted ancestor. The tliree banks and three, trust companies in Norristown organized a clearing house association by elect ing F. G. Hobson, of the Norristown Trust Company, president, and Wil liam H. Slingluffs, of the Montgom ery Bank, secretary. Heretofore each institution made its exchanges with each of the other financial institu tions, entailing considerable time' and trouble. Policeman William McKcown, of Ridley Park, noticed a light burning in the second story of the residence of William Simpson, and, knowing the family were away, he began an investi gation. He found a cellar window open, but could not enter, as he weighs more than 200 pounds. While he was away securing the services of a thin ner man to go through the window the burglar escaped. ' The Upland Board of Health noti fied the Chester health authorities that tramps have been sleeping in the hos pital for contagious disease for sev eral nights. There are no patients in the hospital, but all the bedding and other furniture is in the building. If the tramps who slept there run at large through the city, it is feared there may be another epidemic of smallpox. Isaac Clements, aged 18 years, of Pinegrove Township, committed sui cide by hanging himself with a strap to an apple tree in his orchard. Clem ents was engaged to marry an 18-year-old girl) and he became despondent when he learned that her parents dis approved of the match. George E. Dawson, a gray-haired man 63 years of age, employed for the past eight years as a watchman in Phoenixville, was on trial in court at West Chester, charged with assault on three girls not more than 13 years of age. The jury convicted' Dawson of indecent assault. Judge Butler sen tenced him to three years' imprison ment in the Eastern Penitentiary. A sorrel horse stolen three years ago from George W. Willauer, .1 Pottstown liveryman, was purchased on Tuesday by Howard Van Bus kirk, of Pottstown, at a Philadelphia horse stable. When the horse arrived he was identified by Willauer and sev eral stablemen. Judgments were entered at Holli daysburg against John A. 1-awver, the missing Altoona newspaper publisher. One judgment for $675 is in favor of Lawver himself as executor of the Samuel Barins estate. His recorded liabilities aggregate $12,000. At the coroner's inquest into the cause of the explosion which killed four rockmen at the Pine Hill Col liery, Pottsville, some witnesses testi fied that the men were killed by ex ploding dynamite, and others testified they were killed by an explosion of gas. A verdict that the cause of death is unknown was rendered. Because of the lurch of a trolley car while rounding a curve on the Coal Castle Division John Motley, of Grecnbury, fell from his seat and his neck was broken. His body fell be neath the wheels and was mangled. After being out nineteen hours, the jury at Bcllefonte returned a verdict . of guilty of murder in the first degree against Ira Green, aged 22, and Wil liam Dillon, aged 19. The two men, ilong with three others, escaped from prison recently after beating the turn key, Jerry Condo, so severely that he died. The fugitives were caught after 1 chase of several days and Green and Dillon were accused of murder. One of the prisoners who did not escape gave the principal evidence againtt the two accused men. Seven horses have been stolen in Montgomery County within the past week. The latest victim is formei Poor Director Henderson Supplee, of Gulf Mills, who lost horse and wagon, valued at $300. One of Mr Supplee'i employees disappeared at the same lime. John A. Lauver, aged 54 yeirs, prominent Mason and Knight Temp lar, and one of the publishers of the Altoona "Times," has disappeared at Newport, Perry County. Reports from there encourage the belief that he is alive, although, at first it was thought he had been murdered or drowned while bathing.
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