THE BOILERS WERE BAD tcported Letting Just Before the Yes scl Was Blowa I p. SAN DIEGO HOSPITALS ARE FILLED. Tte Ceod (Uvea Military Bnrlal Sundsy Afteraoo ti Paint Look The Docloti ad Manes Worked til Nlgbl at Hoc Hals Fllteea Bodies Believed la Be la Mm HoU al the Vessel KEIS IN SBOBT ORDEP. Ttie lataal Dappealais Coadeased far Sapid Reaflif. San Diego, Cal. (Special). That the Viilirs of the United Statu gunboat lV-iinitigton, which was Mown up Friday utre known to be wrak was Mated by surviving members of the crew. The followng is the gunboat Bciining Vs'i casualty summary. Total known dead, 60. Unities recovered, 49. Bodies in ship compartment, 7. Missing (may !e drowned), IS- Severely injured, JO. Pre d.vdr.y lu'.ally injured, 6, Probable ultimate total nnniber of tr.id, Kt. A nunituT of men are still missing. Some vi these may lie dead, ami nruS 'Mr x dozen of the injured will die of tbt-ir wnuuiN. Fim-.um K. G. Ilotm made the first ib fiiutt M.-ttetm "t regarding the cause of the acctilrnt. A short time before the flivon, he say, one of the boiler was found to be leaking badly, and the boil ermafcer was sent for to rpair the dam ipc. Kcforc the latter came the esp.u ton occurred. Ilopp saw nun all about rum killed outright, and he himself was sj.tin.md for a moment. A Honolulu dispatch relate that the Rcuninvton's boilers were leaking when he left that harbeir. Repairs were made to others par.s of the machinery at Hon olulu, but the boilers were nut repaired. The men who were injured say it has liten the talk of the ship for six months that the killers were defective, and many if them had feaied for a long time that just such an accident would happen, fin of the men said that a year ajji last February, while the ship was at Magelalcna bay. the engineer if the r.i'-er N'ew York was sent for to in spect the boilers, and he reported that they were in i'oo.I condition. While the itssel was i:i Snu Francisco ia-t year the- talk of defective boilers again arose, tut no steps were taken to remedy them. That the naval officers knew the 1) 'ti ers were not stremg is indicated by the fact that before the gtinb :at departed n tne trip to Honolulu the boilers were specially inspected, and the inspector dc iVd that the lioiitrs were strong enough to enable the vessel to make the voyage Hawaii and return to the Mare Island i.7iy Yard. Tin: tipper eleek amidship presents a mas of wreckage. The smoke stacks lave been blown out of place and the superstructure is bent and twisted hi all jorts of shapes. The plates on the side art- bulging out and leaks in a number tif places are Ictti-ig in the water. John Turr'iii, colored, who was on Ki.'inl the Maine when she was blown up in Havana, w is on b i.trd the l'.en nuifitori and ae.-ii:i escaped injury, lie rendered valuable aid ill rescuing the drael and wounded. Every effort aboard the Bennington was bent toward reaching the dead rsidies beneath the steel bulkheads in the closed and flooded compartments. A re engine from the local tire depart ment was utilized to pump out the water which during the night and morning periods of hi-Tli tide rose high engine and Ii'.iler rooms. Out of the confusion that followed the disaster and the work of rescue come thrilling stories of heroism and self sacrifice. The bravery of the crew was fdietionieri.il. Men who were badly in jured and scalded worked to re-cue Those who were worse off than them selves. The self -sacrificing efforts oil the part of the physicians and score- of nurses also won high priise. Even one who could be made useful at the hos pitals was put to work. the I ; Domestic' Veteran". Sons of Veterans, members of Woman's Relief Corps and other pa triotic societies attended the funeral m Huston of General Ulackmar, command er-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Three laborers drank a can nf heer and laid down on the P.urlington tracks. at Omaha. One was killed, another fa tally injured, and the thir l was injured and not awakened by his shaking up. A collection of $25,000 was taken up at the closing session of the Missionary and Christian Alliance of the Eastern District of the United States at Lancas ter. Pa. A N'ew York woman who is the moth er of six children has passed the ex amination for admission to the N'ew Yctk bar. Site was at the head of 1,000 canelielatcs. Anthracite coal operators are reported to be storing immense quantities of coal with a view to resisting tjie demands of the miners when again made. Delamore I'lace, the hi-toric home of the Bayard family, in Wilmington, will sold in the settlement of the estate of the late Thomas F Bayard. Six passengers on the steamer Finance arrived in New York from Panama, hav ing anamloncii their positions on tne canal. The N'ew York Legislation Commit tee will not be hampered by restrictions in its investigation of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. A Polish merchant of Pittston. Pa., is dead as the result of fright because of receipt of several "Black Hand" let ters. Miss Florence Everett, of South Am bov, had a thrilling experience by being lost in a coal mine at Wilke-harre, Pa. Mis Frances Schroedcr, daughter of a former mayor of Brooklyn, New York, will wed Alfred J. Boiilton. a mechanic. William llolroyd, a machincst, 23 years old, killed his - year-old wife ill Phil adelphia and then committed suicide. It is reported that the grave of the mother of Abraham Lincoln, near Lin coln City, LI., is neglected. A: a praycr-tneettng in a Cleveland Baptist Church John I.). Rockefeller said he never tasted rum. A serious riot occurred at the cclebra tion of a Polish vyedding near Latrobe, Pa. I Charles M. Schwab denies that he pave ! Jjj.ooo for a copy of "Fads and fan cies." but admits that he paid $1,500 for a subscription. In order to avert a disaster like that of the General Slociiin. the steamer Siriu-. with 1,000 Sunday School excursionists on board, was run ashore after she had struck a rock, which knocked a hole in the bottom. A Lockport ( N. Y.) women left $5,000 to her oniy child and $40,000 for a home for houseless dogs and cats. Mary I. NcKon, who sued Frederick Gebhardt for $05,000, got judgment by default. The rate war between N'ew York and Chicago may lead to a reduction of the fare to $1. J 11. Patterson gave a dinner to 10, (K0 persons iu Ohio. The City National Bank of Kansas City, which held some of tile Devlin pa per, besides considerable other bad pa- I per, was closed by order of the Comp troller of the Currency. .!. II. Gregory, an escaped convict and expert counterfeiter, was arrested in Los Angeles, Cal. He has an unexpired term ot seven years to serve 111 )i-troit. Governor Higgins sent a message to the Niw York legislature recommending a legislative investigation of the iusur- ROCK EASILY LEVELED Forty-Five Tons of Dynamite in One Charge. TREMENDOUS IPHEAVEL OF WATER. A Menace to Nevljallon la the Plscataqiii River, New Hampshire, Removed Rara Sight Wltaeseed by a Crowd ol 30,040 Persona The larcsl Charia ol Dynamite Ever Exploded. Portsmouth, N. H. ( Special). Thou sands of visitors came here to witness, with the pee'pic of this city and vicinity, the culmination of an engine-ering pref ect which has been under way for the last three years and which has attracted the attention of expert", beith in this country anil abroail. It was the re moval ef Henderson's Point a ledge three acres in extent from the Piscata pia River heel by exploding simultane ously about 400 charges eif dynamite, ag gregating at least 45 tons, in the rock he-math the water. The switch by which the immense blast was discharged was operated by Miss Kthel Foster, the young daughter of the superintendent of the contract ing firm, at a signal given by Rcar-.d-miral W. W. Mead, commandant of the Portsmouth Navy Yanl. Governor Mo- Lane, ef New Hampshire, and otmr prominent men witnessed the explosion as guests of honor, while en the shore of the river and on islands in the harbor about .10.000 persons saw it. 1 he event was the climax of three years' weirk, which involved the expenditure eif nearly $;o,ooo, and as a result of it the new Government dryeleick at the navy yard here is given an approach of sufficient width and depth to permit the safe pas- sate of the largest vessel afloat. The only element of danger was the great rush of water toward the New castle shore, which was some 1,500 or 2.000 feet away. One great wave swept across with tremendous force and others resembling the surf in a storm followed. They caused no damage, however. Some of the pieces of timber fell on Pierce's Island, where there was a thremg of spec tators, but these were easily avoidcel. After the explosion Rear-Admiral En- e icoit declared that the work wa complete succe-s." This e.piniein also was given by Lieutenant Gregory, who had charge of the work for the Geiveni ment. and by Superintendent Foster, of the tontracting firm. The explo-ioii has removed the point clean with the eelge of Scavey s Island as was Manned. By its destruction the channel is -widened some 350 feet, and the contract for the work cabs fer uniform elenth of .is fee-t at mean low water, and this werk will be complete before winter. At 4.10 Rear-Admiral Mead gave the signal lor wnicti .Miss rosier was wan ing. She moved the switch. There was a fraction of a second interval. Then came a trcmendeins upheaval eif waeer, rocks, clay and lumber, accompanied by a sound like the boom of a distant can non. From the center of the commotion a great mass of water was thrown up to a great height anil a huge wr.ve rolled over toward the Newcastle shore. JAPS ADVANCE ON VLADIVOSTOK. Larfe Relnfercemealt From the Mala Army Raeslani Captured. Russian Headquarters at the Front (By Cable). The Japanese advance from Korea is taking on a more ener getic character, and is being pushed to ward Motisan, Nangan and Hasagawa. The Japanese seem to have received heavy reinforcements from Field Mar shal Uyama s main army m iront 01 General Lincvitch. A landinn of Japanese near Vladivos tok would not lie surprising, and their operations appear to be concentrating 111 that direction. The Japanese advance in the Island f Sakhalin has reached Vladimiroyska. The Japanese artillery includes 40 r chine guns. Teikio (Ry Cable). Admiral Dcwa reports that a Russian lieutenant and I.) marines, formerly belonging to the bat tleship Knia Soiivaroff, flagship of Vice Admiral Rojestvcnsky. recently landed fri'm a boat ut Eiulunia Point on the Island of Sakhalin, and were taken pris oners. According to the-ir statement they were ordered to navigate the British steamer Olelhamia to Vladivostok, but encountered a dense fog and run aground on Urupp Island. They set fire to and abandonee! the Oldhanna June 17. An officer of marines with 1" men took to a boat and made for Korsakoff, but they have not since been heard of. The captureel lieutenant left the same spot Julv 5 in search of the missing party of Russians, and fell into the hands of the Japanese. Two more Rus sian officers anil 14 marines remain where the Olelhamia was burned. They had provisions for six weeks. CROP REPORTS IN NEW HANDS. CHICAGO STRIKE ENDING Nearly All of the 5,000 Have Surrend ered Completely. LIMBER DRIVERS WERE THE FIRST. Department Store and Railway Express Team aters Will Also Seek Uaceadlilooal Rein statement Lenfto al Strike 105 Days Lives Last la Riots aad Assaults, 19 la urr J la Rials and Asssultt, 462. ROOT IN HARNESS AGAIN. The Secretary af Stele Takes Charge Vcnetnelaa Allaire. Assistant Secretary Hay's Charge. la Now In TOKIO TO HONOR TAFT. Elaborate Preparations By Japs For His Reception. T( kio (By Cable). Extensive prepa ratie;ns are making for the reception of Secretary Taft and party. Besides offi cial receptions, imperial anel otherwise, the bankers' and other influential asso ciations and societies are holding meet ings and appointing reception commit tees. All Tok Cenoington'e Dead Burled. San Diugo. Cr.l. ( Special. ) Forty seven of the gunboat Bennington's de-ad were buried Sunday in a common grave in the little military cemetery em tin rest of the- promontory rf l.oma, high klove the waters of San llieo Bay. on the one sielc, ami within sound of the Kiomitig surf of tin- Pae'itic on the evher. Without the cra-li of rmn or the sound nf brass, without pomp or parade, yet with simple iiupre-s -.iveue -s, all honor .Ti paid tile nation's elead. Tiiey have hooorcel elrad to kee p them coirp iny. All ab ml the-m l-.e- tlios,- w'l j i'rd in the nations i'l more trying tiints. Grave-tones, yellow with age-, bear the! names uf men echo e'led at Motitere-y. m 'he MewiV'in War; others wdio gave up j T.'ie:r lives in tl'e ci'Mfiiest of Caiiiorma, , jrnl who folloewl Couimoilore Stockton at Old Sin I'asepial. The-e are their Neighbors eu eleath. Army and N.n , p .i I their l.'ot ir.h- no le-s smci re than the simple gr-ef ef tire- rrpre s utative s .f pe ace, who made the r.jng je.-uniey arrmnd or aero-, the bay. From Foil Kosccr ins came the One Hundred and Fifteenth CVnpany. roast heavy r rtillery: from the city f Sail Hugo, the naval reserves; from the I'mversal Brothe rhoi'd's Home, on Point I.e.nia. a coinpauy of khaki-clad re-pre-sentatives, ;.n-l from the government ship Fortune a iloen sailors. But the most jiiiiiessiec oofjy oi eiiouriii rs w ic on i S3 men freim the battered Bennington, j ISesiele-s tlie-sc there were hundreds , I civilians, who, imihiuight ful of the fa tiguing journey frei-n the city, brought their ofTctiiigs of (lowers to lay upon the grates. llon lo Visit w.liiim. San Nbastian. Snain (By Cable). It js rumored that Ivnperor William has asked Kurff Alfno l lime his v i . i to rVrlin s as to include September I, the anniversary of ibe Battle oi Seelan, u it ".lie Spanish Government has replieil that (be Kmik wotild wi-h to remain in Spain until the general elections, wll ell take phu-e September ft. The eiueslion of tlie visit was elisciissed between Gen. Montero kieis, the Premier, and Herr Vein Raeleewitz, the German Ambassadeir. Itaitiel S, Lemoet Deed. tw Yerk (Special ). Col. Daniel S. Iitnont, Secretary of War under Presi dent Clevelauel, riieel at Q.IS P. M. al his ce-Kiurrjr resieb nee, at Milbrook, Dutch es rejumy, W Y., after a brief illnes.. Nothing but the bare an:l ninceiili iit of Colonel l.aiiiont's death was made leublic by the family. It was iinelcr Mood. Iiowrrrr, that lite death wan une x refctrrf, alilviugh Colonel Larnont had fceea in feeble health for some time. In St. I'aul. Minn., Edward Goots tfiaib, under sentence of drain for doll lit murder, hanged himself in his fell. ance laws eif the state 1. T. Terry, former president of the All Tokio is inclined to give the hearti lloward County Bank, at Nashville, I et possible reception to Secretary Taft, Ark., was arrested en the charge of 1 Miss Alice Roosevelt and the otlur embezzlement. ' members ed the party, anel will make z The coroner's jury found four negro demonstration ceimmensurate with the men and one woman implicated in the j strength and appreciation of American death oi Mrs. S. J. Smith, ill Sedeelen ' friendship held by all subjects of the A. a. Mikaeeo. Fred Montgomery, of Sandwich, On tario, elied from a wotmil causee! by his living stabbed ill the breast with a hat- ):"; Captain Hobson's bride became ill while traveling through Iowa and was taken to a hospital in l'es Moines. I he Cuban (government has mane per manent the suspension of Mayor O'Far rell, of Havana. epiar.mtine i; of yelk I orelgti. M. Witte and Amba-sad sent a courier from Paris to the Czar ivith a message giving the- rc-u!t eif their interview with Premier Rouvier and ex plaining France's attitude. The Emperor left Peterhof on board '.lie imperial yacht Siamlart for Bjorko o, in -i t Eiuiieror Wlliiain at dinne r em U ;.r I the German imperial yacht 11 .lien- lit rn. Three commis-i.iiii rs are inquiring in to the attempt to bl-.-.v up the Saltan in Con-tanv.noiKe, ,M jar nothing ha-' been discovered. Tne French Mini :, r of Marine has elecidet! lo -i ud a squadron to visit the L ulled States. Havana has declared .'-.gainst New (Jrlean- becau liver. J v -i ii Jacques lleniur, the French painter, elie-el in Paris. The Briti.-h House of Commons ad journed until Mouelay to enable the Government to decide upon its future ce.urse. tin- Japanese are meeting with stub born resisinnce in the Island of Sak iia.in, but are gradually driving the Rus sians back. The Chinese boycott ef American goods even affects Standard Oil prod ucts. A bomb was thrown at the Sultan of Turkey, who c-caped injury, but several members of his suite were killed. Replying to King Edward's telegram ed thanks for the welcome acceirdcd to the' British sepi.nlrein at Brest, Premier Rouvier answered that the welcome given lo the British sailors elinioiistrated the reciprocal sympathy existing between Great Britain anil France. Revolutionary speeches were tiiaele at the .tiiistvo Congress in Moscow. One -pcakcr said they had appealed to the Emperor, and now they should appeal to the people. Bulgarian bands murdered ibe entire population of two villages in European Turke y. Baron Komura ami others of the Jap anese peace legation arrived at Seattle, and will cemie Ea-t in the private car of J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad. The British government was defeated in the House of Ceimnioiii by a majority of three on the meition to reduce the membership of the Irish Land Commis sion. Breael riots and other serious disturb ances have occurred in Seville and Sala manca an a result of the general dis tress among the pejorer clasc& in Spam. Killed In His Cell. New Braunsfels, Tex. (Special). A mijb battered down the doors of the county jail anil lynched Sam Green, a i6-year-old negro boy who attempted criminal assault at this place on the four-jcar-olel daughter of William Kar- ibach, a German farmer, who lives on the outskirts eif the town. The mob ' could not break into the celi where the r .Ncliitftt prisoner was kept, so the leaders thrust their guns through the opening of the steel walls and fired tl.ne shots. The negro sank to the floor elead and the mob quickly dispersed. Washington, D. C. ( Special). As sistant Secretary of Agriculture Wiliet N. Hays has taken hold of the affairs of the Bureau of Statistics, with in structiotis from Secretary Wilson, ap proved by President Roosevelt, to cleanse the bure-au oi the stigma left by the cotton leak scandal. His authority is unlimited. He has been told that he may have whatever clerical force he needs, and if there are any employes whei.e services he thinks should be dis pensed with they will be discharged. It is regareleel as extremely likely there will be a complete reorganization of the feirce employed in the statistical de partment as well as a thorough revision id the orders governing the monthly crop reports. The latter having already been outlined in a circular iued uy Secretary Wilson. In that regard Secretary Wilson said that hereafter if there are accusations against the integrity of the bureau it must be directed against himself or As sistant Secretary Hays, as he has no intention of allowing any other person access to information that might be iifcel in stock jobbing. Mr.' Hays probably will be in charge of the bureau until after Congress as sembles, as it is believed that a com petent man to take the place of Mr. Hyde, who has resigned as chief statis tician, cannot be had for the salary paid by the government $J,5O0 a year. Con cress will be askce! lo increase the sal ary, and it is the intention of Secretary Wilson to place in charge ot tne ottice man whose ability has been estaii- shed, but '.ne who has had no connec tion with statistical bureaus attached to tock brokerage offices. W hoever is ap- pointed""wi!l first be approved by the resident. A rumor has been circulated that when Cemgress assembles a movement will be started to have the crop gathering bureau transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor, in order to in sure a more complete reorganization. Senator Dolliver. of Iowa, a warm per- semal friend of Secretary Wilson, is lated for the chairmanship of the fscn- ate Committee on Agriculture. He has made a study of the methods of crop re porting, and it is known that he is op posed unalterably to any change of the character suggested. Chicago (Special). The end of the teamsters' strike, that has so greatly dis turbed business conditions in Chicago for the last three months, is apparently at hand. Most of the 5.000 strikers have made a complete surrender and will seek their former positions without an agree ment of any kind with the employers. The first break in the ranks of the strikers came when the lumber team sters voted to return to work, regard less of what action might be taken by any other union. At night the department-store drivers and the railway ex press drivers voted to call off the strike anel seek their former positiems in the morning. It is expected that about 60 per cent, of the department-store drivers will be reinstated. The employers say that only "itch men will be taken back as are needed after the nonunion men have been preivielcd for, and that the question of wearing the union button must be left to the ineli vielual employer. The strike has been one of the most annoying, bitterly fought and expensive affairs of its kind that Chicago has ever known. It originated last winter over the demand of the United Garment Workers of America that the firm .of Montgomery Ward & Co. refrain from sending out any work to nonunion men, although there was no contract prohib iting such action. The 19 garment work ers employed by Montgomery Ward & Co. went e'm strike and their places were filled by nonunion men. Four months after the strike of the garment workers the Teamsters' t'nion called on Montgomery Ward & Co. to arbitrate the garment workers' strike. The refusal of the firm to do so was followed bv a strike of all the teamsters employed by them. The strike rapidly spreael to such other business houses as attempted to make deliveries to Mont gomery Ward & Co. DEATH CAUSED BV HAT PIN STAB. Two Killed By Cyclone, Racine-, Wis. ( Stiecial I . W ith a roar that was heard 5 miles, a cyclone struck the northern rim of Racine county, kill ing two men ami damaging property anel crops to the amount of $!oo,ooo. The cycle'iie came from the southwest, and its first dip struck a large barn. which was torn to pieces, the elebris, with grain and farm machinery, being: scattered -'oei feet. Trees were uprooted and fences blown away, the elamage on this farm alone amounting to $;.oex. I'l every quarter grain is ruined. For miles trees can be seen unrooted elowil. id fences Found Dead In Hotel. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special). Nicl sejn Brown, a well-known society man of Philadelphia, was found elead in bee! at a hotel here. Apoplexy is thought to have caused death. He was a mem ber of many clubs and was an expert whip. He was here attending the horse sheiw. Wealthy Man Kills Himself. Owatonna, Miss, (Special). Benja min Cook, a member of the state pub lic school board, shot and killed himself, His daughter found him sitting on a blanket, covered with blood, a revolver in his hanel :nd a bullethole through his head. No cause is known for the sui cide. Mr. Ceiek was former chairman of the State Democratic Central Com mittee, and was reputed to be the wealthiest man in Steele county. He was 7J years of age. H ,000,000 Tbcll Yearly. Cripple Creek, Col. ( Special). Six assayers of this district have bun ar rested and placed under heavy bond upon a charge of receiving high grade ore, knowing it to have been stolen From a set of ibe books examined one assaying office it is known that about $.10,000 was made by the as.ayers in the last six months. Other books lead the police to believe that upward of $1,000, 000 worth of ore has been stolen in the district every year and disposed of to V.ctlm SalJ It Was Done By Accident May Have Been Murder. Detroit, Mich. (Special). Fred Mont- . r, , .1. fi.. . gomery, a waiter 01 saneivvicn, ejiu.. who was taken to St. Mary s Hospital July 6 with a wound in his breast made by a hatpin, is dead. At the post-mortem six inches of the pin was found imbcileled in his breast, part of it actu ally in the man's heart. The piece of niti had bctrun to rust, and the physi cians marvel that Montgomery lived so lone. When taken to the hospital trom a lodging-house Montgomery said he received the wound by accident, claim ing that a woman with whom he hail been in a cafe had slipped anil pushed against him as she was pinning on her hat, causing the wound. It is now thought that perhaps the wound was received during a row at his home in Sandwich early m the even iug on which he was taken to the hos nital. Canadian officials say that Mont gomery's wife has been missing since the night eif the row anil is supposed to have gone to Indian Territory. Washington, D. C. (Special). With the thermometer up in the nineties, but iu front of an electric fan, F.hhu Root Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock took the oath of office and became secretary of state, to succeed the late John Hay. Mr. Reiot showed the effects of his re sent hard work, anel looked tired, warm anel 'vein out. He announced that he intended to leave Washington at once and not return until the President came back front his summer vacation. The ceremony of the swearing in of the new premier was simple, and took place in the office of . Assistant Secretary l.onmis, instead of in the secretary of state's own private office. The reason for this was that the desk occupied by the late Secretary Hay was draped in mourning, and the customary .10 days of mourning not having expired, Mr. Reiot decieled to take the oath in the adjoining office, and leave the Sec tary's room tinoceupictl until August 1, when the time for mourning expircn. The oath was administered by Mr. Win. McNeil, assistant librarian of the State Department, who is a notary pub lic. As the oath is prescribed by statut;, it was read by Mr. McNeir and thn hanilcd to Mr. Root, who signeel it. T!-f first person to congratulate the new Secretary was Senator Dick, of Ohio, who advanced and said : "I deire to be the first one to congratulate the new Secretary of State, and at the same time congratulate the country." A numbet of the officials of the department were present, as well as several newspaper corresnonelents. One of the latter m contrrattilatiiur Mr. Root sail! : I want to have the pleasure ot sccina you sworn in as president in lxo." Mr. Roeit did not reply, but shook his nean appreciatively. After the ceremony was over they all left the office except the Secretary ;ind Mr. Babcock. who was private sec retary of the late Secretary Hay. The two spent sometime in going over the accumulated mail, and Mr. Root wrote a number of personal letters, and after short la k with Assistant Jsecretary Adec, who will be acting secretary of state until Mr. Root returns, the new Secretary left the office, going to the New W'illard. where he will live until he goes to housekeeping: in the fall. Hp devoted oracticallv all the morning and afterneion to the consideration of the Venezuelan situation. With Solici tor Pcnlield, Minister Russell, of Vene zuela, and William J. Calhoun, who was recently designated by Fresulent Roose velt to investigate the case of the asphalt claims and concessions, the Secretary went over the documents anel papers on file in the departments with a view fd formulating definite instructions to the special commissioner. Commission er Calhoun will have to gather adeli- tional information in Washington and New York before he is fully equipped to perform the mission for which he has been selected. STANDS BV MR, BONAPARTE. Will Not Review the Secretary's Decision 00 Hall-Holiday Question. Oyster Bay, L. 1. (Special). A re quest was received by President Roose velt from a committee representing Co lumbia Lodge, No. 174, International Association of Machinists of Washing on, u. C, for an interview with him here regarding the granting of a Saiur- elay half-holiday to the machinists of the Washington Navy lard during the summer months. I he half-holiday, by direction ot the rresirieiit, was given the machinists last summer, with the understanding that the tune off should be taken by the men when it would not interfere with the regular work of the yard. This year the Secretary of the Navy decided that the condition of the work at the Washington yard was such that the half-holiday could not be grant eel. The appeal of the men to Presi dent Roosevelt was taken in the belief that he might order again that they be given the half-holiday in common with the department employes in Washing ten. In response to the request of the com mittee feir an interview the President referred the members to Secretary Bon parte, informing them that the Secre tary's lie-termination of the matter-would lie final, and that he himself must de clinc to make it a subjerct of review. LIYE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS, His Widow, Brothers and Sitter the Chlel Beneficiaries. Washington. D. C. (Special). The will of John Hay, late secretary of state, as filed for probate in the office of the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. The beneficiaries are hi wielow and his brothers and sister. His brother, Leonard Hay, and his sister, Mary Hay Woolfolk, are given all ot the property at Warsaw, III., and the sum of $25,000 ' each. His brother, Charles Edward Hay. is given 550.000, and liar wood Otis Whitney, of Kiokuk, Iowa, $2,000. All the rest of the preipcrty of all description is left to Ins widow, Clara Stone Hay. Nothing is contained in the will to indicate the value of the estate. Pavne Whitnev and James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., sons-in-law of the de ceased, are named as executors of the estate, and the request is made m the testament that no bond shall be exacted. Secretary Wilson issued a statement acknowledging that the Agricultural De partnient had largely overestimated the tobacco acreage. After cutting his threat, J. Maurice Cox jumped into Rock Creek, but was rescued and taken to a hospital. Capt. John R. King, the new head of the Grand Army ol the Republic. issued his first order, which pays tribute to the memory of the late Gen. Wilnion W. Blackmar, whom General King has succeeeled. Final interment of Paul Jones' boely in Annapolis may neit take place until fall because the chapel in that place is not ready to receive it. John C. F.ckleslon, of Philadelphia, was arrested at the White House, where he was climbing over a fence. Chief Stitistician John Hyde, of the Department of Agriculture, submitted his resignation, which was accepted by Secretary Wils.011 in a complimentary letter. The Navy Department has finally ac cepted the battleship Ohio, flagship of Rear Admiral 1 ram, commander-in- chief of the Asiatic fleet. SECRETARY HAV'S WILL. FIVE MINERS BLOWN TO PIECES. Bold Diamond Robbery. Asbury Park (Special). A fruitless" search for stolen diamonds disclosed ti bold robbery at Deal Beach. Somewhere about noon sneak thieves entered the mansion of Peter H. Moore, a New York lumber merchant, while his family were bathing in the ocean, and succeeded in carrying off $.2,000 worth of jewelry, in clueling a cfistly diamond sunburst, be longing to Mrs. .Moore. When tne lam- ly returned they found their rooms up side down. Wile Murderer Ends His Life. Keokuk, la. (Special). Lon Jackson, who shot Bnd killed his 15-year-olil wife at his home, near Downing, Mo., anel then disappeared in the woods, has com mitted suicide-. He returned home and hanged himself to a tree in the back vard after shooting himself in the head. The pistol shot aroused watchers over the wife s body, who found Jackson lifeless. Roth husband and wife were buried in the same grave. Fatal Result ol Explosion of Twenty-Five Pounds ol Dynamite. Des Moines ( Special ). Five miners were blown to pieces by the explosion of 25 pounds of dynamite in a storage powdcrhonse at the West Riverside Coal Mine, two miles west of the city. The dead arc Charles Brown, Luke Mil ler, Harry Belknap, Dell Vance and George Arrowooel. Heads, arms and legs were scattered around for a distance of 500 feet. No one knew of the explosion until the day shift came to work. The nun killed were engaged in sinking a new shaft, anel during the early 'morning hour a severe rainstorm came up which com pelled them to stop work.0 They sought shelter from the storm in the powder house. While they were in the henise lightning struck a tree near the build ing and glanced off to the house itself, igniting the dynamite, as well as two kegs of powder. Not a piece ot wood larger man a foot long remains of the building. Independent Tinplate Men. Pittsburg, Pa. ( Special ). Plans are under consideration by the Independent Sheet and Tin Flate Manufacturers of this country for the formation of an organization, which, it is said, will in clude practically every iimcpenticni manufacturer outside the American Sheet anel Tin Plate Company in the United States. I. J. Shaffer, whose term as president of the Amalgamated . ' - t C...I 1 t:.. Associalon Ol eieill, , leei eiiii i iu Workers, expires next Octolier, has been tendered the position, of secretary of ihe new concern. New Anesthetic Discovered. Berlin (By Lable) . 1 wo German scientists announce ill the IJentsche .Meel iciuische Weicheiischrifl the discovery of a new anesthetic having all the virtues of cocaine without the latter's secondary ill effects. The new substance is called allvnine." It deadens pain by local application anel does not contain poison FINANCIAL Two Siege Qua Ruined. New York (Special). Fire, starting in a hay shed on the Fort Hamilton preservation on the Long Island side ol the Narrows, spread quickly to a gun shed, under which there were six siege guns, and to stables, in which were nearly 200 horses and mules. The sol diers of the garrison fought the flames until the arrival of engines from Brook lyn, when the fire was gotten under con troi after the main barracks had been threatened. Terrors al Death Valley. Goldfield, Nev. (Special). John Mul lin, E. M. Titus and Earl Weller, of Telluride, Col., left Rhyolile on June 20 on a prospecting trip into Death Val ley. Thursday Mullin was brought to Rhyolite, half crazed from the terrible suffering he had undergone. He told how Titus and Weller wandered over the desert and in 15 days failed to re turn. It is believed that they perished. Two horses and 19 burros belonging to the party also met their death from thirst. OUR NEW YORIV LETTER Naw Yokk Citt. N. Y. Admitting that for revenge she killed her lej-month-old child, stabbed her hus band and then tried to kil) herself while insanely jealous of her sister, Helen llanley, Mrs. Annie Gabes is in a crit ical condition at the Eastern District Hospital, and under arret. George Gabes and his wife came here from Denver, and lived at 41 Driggs avenue, Williamsburg. When Miss Han- ley joined thenij a few weeks ago, Mrs. Gabes became jealous, anil while nurs ing her baby boy yesterday plunged a knife through his heart. Then she at tempted to kill her husband, and ended by slashing her own arms and wrists jnd stabbing herself in Ihe abdomen. She surrendered to the police cheer fully and without an expression of re gret. ? & An odd will has been filed for pro bate by executors of the estate of Deane Miller, who lived at 12 West Forty fourth street. Half of the residuary es tate is to be helel in trust, the interest' to be paiel to the testator's bt other, Clark A. Miller, of New Rochelle, and at the end eif three years part of all of the principal to be paiel over to him on condition that during that time he has abstained from the use of liquor in every form. Dr. Charles C. Miller, an other brother, inherits the other half of the estate and some personal be longings, and is one of the executors, with full power to determine what por tion of the conelitiemal bequest shall be paid over. M Samuel Brooks, a bather at Audubon Reach, thought it would be smart to upset three girls who were rowing in a boat nearby, and he anil a companion, securing opposite ends of the boat, rocked it in spite of the girls' protests, until it upset and all three were in the water. Then the toughs left the girls to help themselves. Swimmers reached them just in time to save them from drowning, lirooks was more unfortunate than his companion, who escapcel. He reach ed shore to find a mob awaiting him, and was beaten with unbrellas, sticks and n-ts until the police found it a eliffi cut matter to rescue him. He would probably have been killed but for that intervention. r or or Abraham Licbermann is one of the little tenement babies of Williamsburg to whom hot weather means .suffering, maybe de-atli. So his parents have been taking him to the roof of their tene ment, at 47 Meirrell street, to catch what he might of the stray breezes. Last evening Abraham crawled out to the cornices on an exploring expedition and fell five stories to the street below. In his fall he overturned a baby carriage, struck head first and was killed. The in- ant in the carrage was not hurt. JZr & M "Justice can be dispensed in shirt leeves as well as in heavy coats," an nounced Recorder Lazarus to his jury in the P.ayonne Police Court. lie suited action to the word, remov ing his coat and inviting the jurymen to do likewise. 1 he lawyers m the case also peeleel off. There is no use hiding behind one s dignity ill such weather as this," said the Court. jf? 4 j& Declaring that he must go on with his work, or his lions will think him a coward, Capt. "Jack" Uonavita of the Bostock show, who was lacerated by the lion Emperor in the arena 011 Satur day night, is appearing at pertornianccs as usual, nut lie is in great danger 01 blood-poisoning, and the greatest care is being taken. 1 he wound has been re opened anil cauterized. at & v To what base uses do L'niled States Ship-building shares of stock return I At the usmil auction 500 shares each of common and preferred stock in the company were sold for $25, or 2J4 cents a share. The purchaser wanted them to decorate a room. ' or T To have a ghost walk in and demand his clothes was a novel experience of the k force at the West Ssixty-eighlh Street Police Station. Harry Willis, 255 West Thirty-eighth street, was the eho.t. ' r "Go on I" gasped the Sergeant. " ou ain't got anv clothes ; you're dead ! You , ' a XT Ol 'P 1.... were urowneu in iseniu jsivei a uesutijr night." Was I? said Willis. "Well, 0011 1 you think it. I was in swimming, and fell asleep afterward iu a freight car. When 1 woke up I found that the car had moved out and 1 was in Spuyten Duvvil. I borrowed a pair of trousers and telephoned my mother, who brought me clothes. In the meantime you bad found mine and reported met elead. But please, sir, giiiinie my clothes! And he got them. Robert Glendinning says there is an unusually good demand for bonds. Steel plants generally have orde-.rs on hand to keep llietii busy ihe uaiancc ol the year. Louisville and Nashville 111 the year ending June .V, earned a surplus over dividends of $3,510,000. 'This looks like a genuine demand for Southern Pacific," said K. B. Smith when the price moved up a point. Allegheny Valley's net earnings in May increased $50,515. t"or live months of this year the net gain was $337,819. President Corey, ot United btates Steel, is home from Europe, and is rep resented as being optimistic on the out look for business. Bankers say most of the $45,000,000 which Japan received from the United States for its last bond issue will be sent to that country, and not spent for supplies in America. Eastern trunk lines have redue-ed the freight rate on sugar to meet the cut made by the ijiill railroads. Last Win ter the Gulf roads upset grain rates. Reading recovered more than half its dividend. Railroad people think the Pennsylva-nia-Vanderbilt combination has signally outgeneraled Gould in getting an option on the Little rsanawna ivauroaei. "I gave an oreler to buy 500 shares ol Eric in Wall Street and 500 in Phila delphia at the same incment," taid Penu Square broker. "I got the nock in Philadelphia for one-eighth less than in New York, That shows we have a pretty good market here for this spc cialty." Some practical joker, maybe some misguided enthusiast, possibly tried to scare or blow Edward Wasserman of the Stock Exchange out of a railroad hull movement bv sending him a ciirar box loaded with black gunpowder, matches and strings to pull. If you pulled 'em, they'd scratch and start things. The package came by mail, and on the box inside was the name of Thos. W. Lawson, indicating that whoever sent it had gone daft over the frenzied-finance agitation and theiught he was doing level finances a goeid tura The Postoflice De partment is looking the mailer up. Six Cremated In Hotel. Wabash, Minn. (Special). Six per ioiis were burned lo death in a fire which destroyed the Depot Hotel here. The dead are Mrs. A. H. Hoffman and baby; Robert Johnson, expressman ; Gertrude Sientsher, Rebecca Herman and James Hunt. There may be other bodies in the ruins. A search for other victims of the' (ire is being made. The fire was caused by the explosion of a gas lank used for an illuminating plant with which the liotil was equipped. Want Jones Monument. Washington, D. C, (Special). On the part of some naval officers whose heart -is in the preservation of tradi tions at the Naval Academy at Annapo lis, there is a feeling that it would be more appropriate eventually to inter the boely of Jeihn Paul Jones somewhere in the Academy grounds, rather than in the crypt of the new chapel. It is pointed out that a suitable monument placed where ihe midshipman would; see it every, day would be more of an in-, spiration than the mere knowledge that the bones of the great captain reposed in the crypt, ' .may oft-mi.
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