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.