SIX MEET DEATH ON KEARSAH6E Tbe Powder io Big Warship's Turret Ignites. TWO OFFICERS AMONG TOE KILLED. Disaster Ocean Just Alter Ttrf et Practice on tbt Battleship Is Caribbean Res Several Bifi of Tblrtiei-locb Una Cbsrfe ol Powder Explode Wblle Being Moved Below (root tbt Forward Turret, Washington, D. C. (Special). News of a disastrous explojion upon the bat tleship Kearsargc, while at target prac tice near the Guantanatno station, cre ated consternation at the navy depart ment. Just two year? ago to the day the ex plosion of a 13-inch gun on the battle ship Missouri, while at target practice if Pcnsacola, Fla., caused the loss of five officers rtnd twenty-six seamen. The receipt oi intelligence found the secretary of the navy out of the city and President Roosevelt agisting in the laying of the cornerstone for the office building of the House of Representa tive. The news was conveyed to the bureau of navigation in the following message from Commander Wmslow : "On April 13, about 3.15 P. M., short ly after completion target practice of Kearsargc, forward turret while the pow der was going below, three sections of a thirteen-inch charge were ignited. Charge of powder in other lift just below and one section inside thirteen-inch re mained intact. Cause not yet deter mined. "Matter is being investigated. "Lieut. Joseph VV. Graeme, gun um pire, sent to the Maryland in a very critical state about 9 p. M. "The following have since died : "Lieutenant Hudgins, turret officer. "Peter Norherg, gunner's mate. "Theodore Naegley, seaman. "Anthon C. Thorson, ordinary sea man. "Julius A. Koester, turret captain, first class. "Ellis II. Aihey, seaman. "Following dangerously injured by ac cident, recovery doubtful: "W. King, ordinary seaman. "Will bury dead at Guantanamo. "Vessel uninjured." The translated copy of the cablegram from Captain Winslow was laid before the President. He directed that a mes sage of condolence be sent at once. In accordance with these instructions, Assistant Secretary Newberry sent the following to Rear Admiral Evans, in command of the fleet: "The department is deeply grieved by the unfortunate accident on board the Kearsarge which occasioned the death and injury in the performance of duty of brave officers and men in the navy, and it extends its heartfelt sympathy to the injured and wishes for a speedy re covery from their wounds. Spare no ef fort to ease the sufferings of the injured in every possible manner and show every honor to the dead. Newberry." The department recognizes Captain Winslow as a careful ofticer, but it will demand that a most exhaustive inquiry be made with a view of ascertaining the cause and providing means to prevent a repetition of explosions on American bat tleships. The department is at a loss to under stand how the powdci should have been discharged after the practice had been concluded. State Militia 00 Uuard. Springfield, Mo., (Special). State militia, reinforced by 200 deputy sher iffs, guard the streets of Springfield against possible renewed action by a mob that during Saturday night lynched three negroes in thcpublic square." There are hundreds of strangers in Springfield, and the anti-negro feeling still runs high. Although no untoward move was made during the day. many threats were heard, and Sheriff Horner, fearing a fresh out break when darkness should fall, tele graphed Governor Folk early in the day for aid. The Governor responded promptly, and within a few hours six companies of militia were on the way to Springfield from various parts of Missouri. Religious War ia Poland. London (Special). The correspondent at Warsaw of the Chronicle reports that the conflict between the Manavite sect and the Orthodox Catholics is increas ing In Intensity. A pitched battle in which .l.ooo persons participated occurred on Friday in the environs of Warsaw, resulting in two Catholics being killed and .10 wounded. Grave fears are enter tained of disturbances during the Easter fetes. Six Killed By Tornado. Dallas, Texas, (Special). It is report ed that six persons were killed and sev eral injured in the tornado which swept over Hripgs, Texas. number of build ings in the district were destroyed. At Cleburne, Texas, the norm blew down the grand stand in the bull park during the progress of a fame. Several per sons were injured. The heaviest rain in years fell in Dallas anil a general rain is reported over North Texas. Billiard In Colorado. Omaha, Neb., ( Special ). A wind, snow and sltet storm of unusual severity ia sweeping over the western part of Nebraska and extending into eastern Colorado and into the black Hills At Union Pacific headquarter the storm was reported more evrc in the vicinity of Jule'.burg. Col., where the wind reach ed a rale of 60 miles an hour, with a heavy snow falling.. Russia To Oct $150,000,000. London (By Cable) A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Paris iays that the negotiations for the new Russian loan have been concluded. The loan will be issued on April X), and will be for $450,000,000. Of this sum $i40,jo,ooo will be allotted to France, a portion to be given to Geneva and Brussels financiers; $100000,000 to St. Petersburg, and the ba'ance wiii be suli acribed in England and Austria, allied Wlib rikbfork. Staunton, Va., ( Special). William Ryan is dead as the result of an injury received Wednesday morning in a per sonal encounter with D. M. Kyle. Ryan was struck on the head with a pitchfork, and hit skull fractured in two places. He waa not thought to be seriously in jured and went about his work (ill mid day, when he became sick, and was taken to the hospital, where an operation was. performed, and two cloti of blood re moved fremi hi.i br.in. LATESTNEWS 1N3H0RT0RDER DOMHTIO It (was testified during the legislative investigation of the N orb western Mu tual Life Insurance Company th9t Mrs. Henry L. Palmer, wife of the president of the company, got eight per cent, in terest on loans from the company. New York financiers arc discussing the formation of an institution similar to the Hank of England, with fifty mil lions capital, to control the monev mar ket. Contractors Greene and Gaynor were fined $575,640 and given four years each, charged with conspiracy to defraud the government in Savannah harbor work. While the epidemic of typhoid in Pittsburg is decreasing, towns along the Ohio River below Pittsburg, report alarming number of caes. Governor Higgins has signed the Arm strong Insurance Pills affecting rebating and the acquisition of real estate. A .six-inch gun crew on the cruiser Pennsylvania broke the world's record bv making J" bits in 00 seconds. Mrs. V. C. Jutte, widow of a Titts gurg coal millionaire, testlicd in court that Frank N. Hoffstot and James W. Friend got nearly $4,000,000 of her hus band's money for a loat of $.200,000. Governor Pennypacker announced that the State of Pennsylvania had recovered all the money it had on deposit in the Enterprise National Hank of Allegheny Doubt has been cast on the presence of Andrew C. Fields in Dobbs Ferry, as Mutual Life officials and others declare they cannot find him. Corporal Tanner, commander-in-chief of the G. A. K. and Adjutant John Truosdale visited the Georgia battle fields. Farmers in the mountains near Tama qua, Pa., are being held up and robbed by a Dick Turpin. who defies posses. The George Washington University of Washington won the annual debate with the University of Cincinnati. President Council, of the Conciliation Hoard, Mieves a strike in the anthracite mines will be averted. Miss Mary Callahan, aged 26 years, a Maryland woman, cotnmitteed suicide on the street in Philadelphia. Nathan Isaacson, who attempted sui cide by jumping from Wilhauburg Bridge, New York, and who was de scending on a ferryboat, was saved from instant death by the captain of the vessel backing his, craft so that Isaacson hit the river 10 feet from the ferrvboat. Mrs. Alice Wright, of Texas, testified that Valet Charles Jones told her he tes tified falsely agaiiLst Lawyer Albert Pat rick, under sentence to hang for the murder of Millionaire William R. Rice. The Interstate Commerce Commission heard evidence that the six soft-coal rail roads allot coal shipments among them selves and fix the rates. The New York Mutual has institut ed a second suit against Andrew C. Field, who was formerly executive agent for the company. r George J. Gould testified in the Men-gis-Fitzgerald suit that he contemplated building a rival road to the Western Maryland, but latter acquired the line to aid his friend, Attorney Pierce. Its linking with the Wabash was an after thought. John Alexander Dowic had a trium phal entry into Chicago, the police and Zion guards being powerless to keep the throng at the railroad station in order. It is suid that John D. Rockefeller is erecting a million-dollar mansion on his Pocantico Hills estate as a present to his grandson. Among the 1.500 emergency troops in Stotzenberg, Island of Luzon, 14.I arc suffering from malaria and 117 with other diseases. Secretary Root has informed the Rus sian government that any date after bep tember -KJ next will be convenient to the United States for the holding of the sec ond Hague Conference. Great liritain is vigorously pressing negotiations for an Anglo-Russian en tense, with a view to completing a triple alliaiu-e of Great Britain, France and Ru-sia against Germany. Hunger typhus is spreading among the peasants in four Russian provinces on account of the famine. Pitiful appeals are marie by the famine committee. Professor Mattucci, director of the ob servatory at Vesuvius, expresses the belief that the explosive period of the volcano is at tin end. There h:is been no change in the at titude of France toward Venezuela in consequence of General Castro's retire ment. Sir Richard Thorburn, who was pre mier of Newfoundland from 1H85 to 1811, died at St. Johns. Richard Garnett, the English author, died in London, at the age of 71. The eruption of Vesuvius is dimin ishing, but ashes contiune to fall over a wide area and obscure the sunlight. In all some 5,000 houses have been de stroyed. The Italian government heads the relief fund list with a subscription of $: 00,000. The French Chamber of Deputies voted confidence in the government on a socialistic interix llation demanding amelioration in the condition of tbe post men and a recognition of their right to organize. The Frnch Court has annulled the opposition of the mother of Count Mar tcinprey, v. ho tried to prevent her son irom marrying the divorced wife of Count de Pour.ales, an American woman. Ot the )"y members so far elected to the lower bouse fcf the Russian national parliament the Liber; Is, have an over whelming majority. Premier Witte is reported to have the best of the fight with Minister cf the lnt-.-rior Durnovr, and the downfall of the litter is imminert. Emperor Franci Joseph privately re ceived Bellamy Storer, the retiring American ambassador. The French Clir.mber of Deputies vot ed the Tvlgeciras credits and tbe Premier stated that the agreement conformed with French interests and satisfied the other powers. It is denied lht Germany instigated Russia to call the second Hague confer ence for the month of June, in order to compete with and detract from the importance of the Pan-American Con gress. A large number of invitations to social functions have readied the American Embassy in London for Congressman and Mrs. Longworth. Von Radowitz, German ambassador to Madrid, will probably be the acting chancellor of Germany during the long holiday which Von Hue low will take in the hope of regaining his health. Russian soldiers who had been take.) prisoners are arriving home from Japan, after being reported dead. The wives of a number of them, believing them dead, luve remarried. The French Miners' Congress has de cided to maintain the striker' demand for $i s8 per day. Rinnan railway employes are auain ori'iiirmg in spite of the government's Je'loits to prevent it. A SEVEN-YEAR FIGHT IN COURTS Greco and Gaynor Convicted of Conspiracy. MAY NOW GO TO HIGHER COURT Contractors Accused of Defrauding Govern ment la Savannah Harbor Work Fact Penitentiary Oullly so Thrtt Indlctraenta Law Permits Proa Two to Sevaotees Vcsrs la Prlsos. CHRONOLOGY OF GREENE GAYNOR CASE. Indictments, December 9, 18P9. Trial begins January II, g(rb. Green and Gaynor found guil ty on April 12. Time spent in courts, six years. Legal proceedings in New York, Savannah, Montreal, Que bec and London. Reported cest to Federal Gov ernment, $je.ooo. Reported cost to Greene and Gaynor, $.250,000. Hail forfeited by Greene and Gaynor, $Ho.ooo. Amount Government charged Greene and Gaynor got by fraud, $575,000. Time spent by Greene and Gaynor in Canada, four years. Chief result of battle in Can adian courts, extradition treaty with Great Britain held binding. Greene and Gaynor twice kid napped in contest for their pos session between Montreal and Quebec authorities. Case taken to highest courts of Canada and Great Britain; expected to go to United Slates Supreme Court. Promise of $.20,000 to Green and Gaynor lawyers if they win. Savannah, Ga., (Special). Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gaynor were found guilty ,in the federal court of con spiracy against the government. The defendants were found guilty, with no recommendation, upon each of the in dictments. The verdict was returned a few minutes before 2 o'clock, after the jurv had been out three hours and a half. There was silence in the courtroom as Judge Speer asked the jury if they had agreed upon a verdict. Foreman Hope Thomas answered in the affirma tive, and the three indictments were taken up and the findings read by the clerk. The jury, at the request of the counsel for the defense, was then polled, and each member stated that the verdicts rendered upon the indictments were his.. The maximum sentence that the court may impose under the law is an aggre gate term of 17 years in the peniten tiary and a fine of $575,000, the amount of the alleged embezzlement. Before adjournment Judge Speer said: "I have no disposition toward these unfortunate men except to be just as merciful as my duty under the law will permit." The minimum sentence permissible un der the law is two years in the peni tentiary and a fine of $1,000. The defence's counsel will not dis cuss the next steps to be taken in the case, nor will District Attorney Marion Erwin say what will be done regarding the indictments against OberHn M. Car ter, Michael A. Connolly, William T. and Edward F. Gaynor, who were jointly indicted with the defendants convicted. Mr. Erwin received a telegram from Attorney General Moody expressing the congratulations of the President and the Attorney General upon the outcome of the case, upon which Mr. Erwin has been engaged for seven years. AN EMPEROR'S HUMILITY. Francis Joseph Waihea tbe Feet of Twelve Aged Men, Vienna, (By Cable). Emperor Fran cis Joseph, as usual, carried out the an ccint ceremony of Maundy Thursday by washing the feet of 12 aged men, who were on this occasion all nonagenerians, their united ages being 1,096 year. The ceremony took place in the large hall of the Hofburg before a large gathering ot archdukes, diplomats and state offi cials. The American Embassy was rep resented by rrancis ii.. London, second secretary o fthe embassy, and Mrs. Lon don. Before abluting the feet of the 12 old men the Emperor, assisted by the arch dukes, personally served them with an elaborate repast ef several courses, which, however, was not eaten immed diately, but was sent to their homes. After the ceremony was concluded there was a bestowal of silk purses con taining 30 silver pieces, which the Em peror hung around the neck of each of the old men. A Plucky Preacher. Dallas, Texas, (Special). "Not on our life" was the response made by Dr. J. L. Brooks, of Washington, D. C, when invited by a highwayman to hold up his hands. Suiting the action to the words, Dr. Brooks knocked down the man, and then turned to the man's com panion, who was unarmed. The latter ran away. The man with the pistol snap ped it twice at Dr. Brooks, and then ran off, too. Dr. Brooks chased them four or five blocks, and then notified the po lice. Dr. Broeiks is a Methodist min ister, and is attending the Methodist Ed ucational Convention of Texas. War on Mosquitoes, Tampa, Fla., (Special). At a meeting of the authorities of Tampa, West Tam pa, Fort Brooke, Port Tampa , City and the county of Hillsborough at the beard of trade rooms, steps were taken towartl eirganizing a municipal sanitary league of Florida, one of the main objects of which is to wage war on mosquitoes. Dr. I,. W. Weedon, of this city, was elected temporary president. A call will be is sued to the authorities of fther cities to meet nere at an cany en.tc and lorm a permanent organization. Qet-rlcu-qalck Mas Coovlclec-. Minneapolis, Minn., (Special;. Ed ward A. Vaughan, an alleged "get-rich-quick" grain broker, convicted of using the mails to defraud, was sentenced in the Federal Court to 15 months in the Minnesota Reformatory, and to pay a fine of $500. Vaughan advertised by circu lars, offering big returns on money which had to be intrusted to him im plicitly. The federal government issued a fraud order, holding up Vaughan'i mail before he was arretted, and accord ing to his own estimate this action saved prospective victims at least $1,000,000. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Elect Senators By Popular Vols. A resolution providing for the elec tion of senators by direct vote of the people has been favorably acted upon by the House Committee on Election erf President, Vice President and Represen tatives in Congress. The resolution, which was introduced by Mr. Norris, of Nebraska, makes the term of members of the House four years instead of two. Both propositions are to be accomplished by amendments to the Constitution. Reasons why the term of members should be four years are stated to be because no party can inauguarate its policy in two years. "The people are tired," the report says, "of this continuous drama and as a re sult are inclined to give no attention to the primaries and the conventions the very foundation of our political system the forum wherein the country's inter ests can best be guarded and protected. "With an election every two years the political grafter who thrives on partisan strife and on the nervous uncertainty controlling candidates for 'office is able to live from one election to another by the boodle secured at his unholy busi ness. The adoption of the proposed amendment would render it less possible for this creature to ply his trade." Regarding the election of senators by direct vote the report says : "The proposition to provide for the election of senators by the direct vote of th; people has been before the House of Representatives and has received fa vorable consideration upon several dif ferent occasions. A proposition to amend the Constitution having this object in view ha.s passed the House of Rcpresen at four different times, and each time by a practically unanimous vote." ent 4:mcs, and each time by a practically unanimous vote." President May do West. It was stated at the White House that President Roosevelt has taken up the question of a trip through the West during the spring or summer of 1907, although as yet he has not maele any pos itive engagement, and, in fact, has not reached any positive conclusions. The intimation is that he is very likely to make such a trip. He has received a number of invitations from institutions and cities throughout the West to visit them, to all of which he has replied that he will take them under consideration. He expects to reach a conclusion before a great while. The President has tentatively agreed to attend the commencement exercises of the Missouri Agricutural College at Columbus, M6., on the 5th of June, 1907, and he was invited to be present at the ceremonies incident-to the semicenten nial celebration of the founding of the Michigan Agricultural College at Lan sing. The celebration will be held just before or just after the commencement of the Missouri College, to suit the con venience of the President. The invi tation was extended by Governor War ner, Representative Sam W. Smith and Deputy Food Commissioner Colon Lillic, of Michigan. The President could not say definitely whether he would accept the invitation or not, but he held out the hope to his callers that he might. Tbe Ciar Is Wlllln. Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador, called upon Secretary Root at the State Department and advised him that the Russian government was entirely willing to have the meeting of the second Hague conference postponed. It was stated that the Russian government in naming July as a suitable time for the conference had only in mind what it conceived to be tbe convenience of the Netherlands govern ment and of all concerned. However, upon learning that the date would be in convenient to the United States and other countries and aftT consultation with the government of the Netherlands and learning that that government could ac commodate the conferene-e at another date, it was deemed be.st to accede to the general wish of the powers and allow the postponement of the conference to a date to be selected in the future by agreement. Trouble With Ibe lodlans. At the instance of the Department of the Interior the War Department has taken steps to send whatever military force may be necessary to protect the Indian agent, Major O. C. Edwards, on the Umatilla agency in Oregon, from the Indians, who have threatened to do him bodily harm. Orders were sent to Bri gadier General Constant Williams in command at Vancouver Barracks, to .send a reliable officer to Pendleton to in vestigate conditions at the agency, and, if need be, to send one or two troops of cavalry from the agency at Fort Walla Walla. A Blf Hall For Washington. Senalors Dillingham and Long, as n subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia, heard prominent citizens in favor of the application of the Washington Auditorium Company for charter, exemption from taxation and certain other favors under the District of Columbia code. This company purposes to use the ironwork of the government building at the World's Fair at St. Louis and construct an immense amphitheater in which to hold inaugural ceremonies and similar great gatherings of a na tional character. Senator Tillman made charges against Assistant Secretary of the President Benjamin F". Barnes, accusing him of brutal and inhuman treatment in eject ing Mrs. Minor Morris from the White House. It was 'estified before the House Com mittee on Merchinl Marine and Fisher ies that unless the Ship Subsidy Bill is passed American lines to Japan and Australia will have to be withdrawn. President Rejosevelt and Secretary Bonaparte will entertain the officers of the French warships, to visit Annapoli at luncheons in Washington. Congressman Tliomas A. Smith, of the First District, advocated in .the House the granting of a Charter to the National Educational Association. A bill providing feir the erection of a statue of Gen. Nathaniel Green on the battlefield of Guilford Courthouse, N. J was passed by the senate. Representative Burton introduced a bill in the House having in view the preservation of Niagara Falls. The President made an address to a delegation of about 50 German officers and soldiers who were presented to hint by Ambassador Sternburg. The House Committee on Labor took faveirable action on the Hunt bill pro hibiting interstate commerce in prison made goods, A bulletin of the Department of Com merce and Labor shows a considerable increase in the export trade in agricul tural products. Testimony favorable to the Ship Sub sidy Bill was taken by the House Com mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. A WOMAN'S LONG TRIP IN BALLOON l'p Two Pours; Lost in Clods Crossing Mountains. SHE BAD THE TIME OF HER LIFE. Wlft of Dr. Julian P. Thomas, Wllb Husband sod Pilot, Soils From Massachusetts Into Connecticut-Kissed Child Oood-by sod Toss, cd Flowers to Crowd Snapped Comers ss Balloon Sbol Skyward. Pittsfield, Mass., (Special). At 3.25 o'clock T. M., the big French balloon Orient, with Dr. and Mrs. Julian P. Thomas, of New York, as voyagers and Charles Levee, the French aeronaut, as pilot, went up from the balloon field in this city followed bv the cheers of the thousand onlookers. It was a perfect start. 1 he elay was damp and chilly, and the skies were overcast with low-banning clouds. The fact that Mrs. Thomas was to undertake the voyage had attracted the widest interest. She was on the balloon field early, notwithstanding that the party which came to Pittsfield lor the flight did not arrive until 2 o clock be cause of delays en route. Her costume was that of a woman out for a shopping trip, a street dress of light check, with a natty spring hat of blue-gray with wings. Mie wore a rich cream lace waist, and white suede gloves. Over all she wore a long automobile coat, with hood. Cheers that echoed throughout the locality greeted the daring woman as she nodded in response to Levee's announce ment that he was ready. She kissed her hand to her brother, Walter-Eberhart, of New York, and Dr. and Mrs. W. R. C. I.atson, of Brooklyn, who had come up to Pittsfield to witness the start. Her seven-year-old son Ollin, who came to witness his parents take their initial flicht in a balloon, was held tin to the car. Mrs. Thomas held the little fellow for a moment tin to her, kissed him twice and handed him down to his gov erness. There was not a tremor of fear, not a semblance of nervousness in her demeanor. She took up a great box containing hundreds of violets and began to toss them to the crowd which had thronged about the basket. The crush of the spectators for the souvenirs startled Le vee, and he signalled to the police to disperse the men who were scrambling danccrouslv near the baloon for the flowers. Ten strapping workmen, grasp ing the wicker basket, carried the car and the balloon a distance from tbe works, then, at a word of command from Levee, all hands let go and the balloon shot upwards. Mrs. Thomas waved her handkerchief, then she took up a small camera anel began taking snapshots at the multitude below. Dr. Thomas took out his American flag, with which he had saved the Orient from a mob at Glendale, Long Island, and waved it vigorously. Levee doffed his cap again and again to the cheering mass. Bon voyage! Good luck! Bra vo!" were sent after the balloon by friends of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas. "Good by, good-by!" Mrs. Thomas kept re peating as long as her voice could be heard. So long as the. eye could fol low the flight sie was standing erect, waving her handkerchief. The balloon did not immediately take a high altitude. It seemed to rise and dntt slowly, and for miles its altitude was not more than .100 meters. As it passed up the ridge pole of the Iloosac Mountains, which shut out the eastern horizon, the alti tude did not appear to be great, and at 4 o'clock the balloon was lost in the clouds. The balloon came down on the Con necticut farm of B. F. Kinney at 6..?o P. M. The landing was made easily m meadow land. The party cf three made their way to the farmhouse, and later in the evening were driven to Somers by M. Kinney, where they took the trolley for Springfield on their way back 10 Pittsfield. Typhoid In Pltlfhurj. Mount Vernon, N. Y. (Special). Jas. A. Bailey,' the showman, proprietor of Barnum & Bailey's circus, died at his home, the Knolls, Cocciran Manor, Mount Vernon, at 5.20 o'clock Wednes day afternoon from erysipelas. Mr. Bai ley was taken ill last Thursday night af ter returning from Madison Square Gar den and suffered such intense pain that his brother-in-law. Dr. W. F. Harper, of New York City, who has been the family physician for years, was sent for at once and was in constant attend ance to the end. More Carnegie Blast Furnaces. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Fifty-eight cases of typhoid fever were reported to the Bur eau .of Health Wednesday. Theie are new cases that have develop ed within the past 2.4 hours. A new bih! more serious pha.se has eotne over the situation in the reports from the various schools about the city. At present there nre about 1,000 pupils absent from school because of illness, and a great many of them are suffering from typhoid fever. The city superintendent of schools, Sam uel Andrews, attributed these cases to the unfiltrred city water supplied to the schools. Showman X A. Bailey Dead. Pittsburg, Pa., (Special). Contracts have been awarded by the Car.-.cjic f.tcel Company for the construction of two large blast furnaces at Rankin, Pa., at a cost of $2,000,000. The furnaces will be loo feet high and 2.1 feet in diameter at the bosh, and will hive a rated capa city of 500 or 600 tons a day, Effor's will be made o have them ready for blast by January t next year. Pcnsioos Per Professors' Widows. New York, (Special). Announcement that the widows of college professors many be pensiemcd under the terms of the $10,000,000 gift of Andrew Carnegie to the Carnegie Foundation was made by the trustees of the foundation. A pen sion not to exceed one-half the pension ,-f a professor, may be paid to his widow, but it will be required that- she must have been the wife of a professor during 10 years of his active service. The pen sion is to cease on her remarriage. CoL Robert Cbrltly Desd. Washington (Special). Col. Robert Christy, formerly a member of the Ohio legislature, but a resident of this city for many years, died l'cre, aged 75 years, from paralysis following a cerebral hem orrhage. Col. Christy came lo Wash ington from Cincinnati about 30 years ago and practiced law. He also devoted considerable time in literary pursuits and was the author of two volumes, en tilled "Proverbs, Mauti and Phrases of All Ages." Colonel Christy had prac ticed law in Ohio, of which he was a native, and had figured in politics there. GIVE IP HOPE OF SETTLEMENT. Tbs Miocrs Ars Settling Dowa For Lodi Strife, Philadelphia, Pa., ( Special). There was but little hope for industrial peace ill the anthracite region Friday among the men most interested in the coal sit uation. One and all seemed convinced that nothing short of an unexpected in tcrvcntieni of sonic sort can now prevent a coal 5trike, or rather can prevent the declaration o;i the part of the coming mincworkcrs' convention that a strike exists. It is regarded ns settled according tc the general belief in the region thai the mine operators have gone, as far as they will go. Tam;ifua, Pa., ( Special). The South ern anthracite . region is settling down for a long, bitterly contested strike, all hope of peace having been abandoned. President Dettcry, of the Seventh Dis trict; Viec President Matti and National Organizer Gildot, all members of the scale e'nnimittec, returned home. They all express the belief that the die has hern 1"' -l and that there will be a strike. At all the collieries of the Philadel phia and Reading preparations are being niadcto accommodate a large force of nonunion men. These men will be used chiefly as guards. It is understood that the plan of the operators will be to con centrate all the practical men possible fire bosses, foremen, engineers, drafts men and other men who have a practi cal idn of mining and of operating on a breaker at certain plants and working them. It is contended by the operators that if they do this they will be able lo ship considerable coal to market suffi cknt, they assert, to meet the normal summer (Imand. Miners Angry With Officials. Scranton, Pa. (Special) District Pres ident Nicholls anel Secretary Dempsey came from New Vork and reopened headquarters in ScrHton. Mr. Nicholls would not say that there was any hopo of a peaceful solution of the difficulty. J le had no idea when the convention of the anthracite workers would be called, but declared that he understood that both Scranton and Wilkes-Barrc wanted it. It is expected that the first duty of Mr. Nicholls will be to quiet the criti cism of a number of the miners who are greatly incensed because the holding of the convention has been put off for an other week or two, during which they must remain idle and not make a dollar. Already many of the mincworkcrs arc feeling themselves pinched, having miss ed one payday. In the meantime there is a show of partial resumption at different mines of the local companies. The Delaware, Lackawanna and W'cstcrn Company of ficials say they have men at work in the Bellevue. Cayr.fia, Brisbin, Diamond, Storrs. Hampton and Trttcsdale collier ies. They also say that their washerics are running almost to their full capacity. The Erie Company is operating the Bar num, at Pittsburg, and No. 5, at Dun more, again. There is no change in the situation so far as the Delaware and Hudson, Temple Iron and Scranton Coal Companies arc concerned. One operator said this after noon that in his opinion a strike is cer tain now. CARNCOIfS GOLD IS TAINTED. Cincinnati's Ma;-or Drclloci to Tbenk Mil llooalre. Cincinnati, O., (Special). There has been some comment on the fact that Mayor Dempsey does not mejition the name of Andrew Carnegie in his speech accepting; the new Walnut Hills branch library last week, for the building of which Carnegie contributed liberally. "1 purposely refrained from any rcf e.ence to Carnegie, because I desired to be perfectly honest in the matter," said Mayor Dempsey. "I have no deep admiration for a man who has made his mil'ior out of the sweat and blood of the toiling classes, but who attempts to alone for the oppression by giving away buildings and thrs advertising him self as a philanthropist. The place his beneficence shpuld have begun was i 1 li s workshop and the workingmen should have had the first benefit. "In fact, I am inclined to regret that the great city of Cincinnati did not build and pay for the branch libraries instead of receiving them as charity from a man who could have 110 real sympathy with a city of which he knew nothing, and in which he had no interests. The fact that I did not praise Carnegie was quite deliberate. He is a creation of the sys tem of special privileges that has en riched Ibe few at the expense of the many, wdiich is undemocratic and de structive. "1 am not at all in accord with his manner of making money, and scarc-eiv more so with his method of spending it." Mloeowner Ends His Life. Birmingham, Ala., (Special). Pat.l J. Still), president of '.he Slilh Coal and Iron Compary, committed suicide. He had just returned trcm a visit to his company's mines in Walker Courty. He elrovc to his home on Seventh Avenue and entering his bedroom shot himself through the hear'. His family was not -ware of H return until the shot was heard. Stith was formerly an officii of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS, One biR firm of bankers was credited with loaning $10,000,000 at 25 per cent. William A. Dick, of Philadelphia, paid $3,o:x) for a New York Stock Exchange sear. Great Northern's gross earnings in March increased $646,766, and the gain for nine months wca $5,705,455, or about 16 per cent. The PhilaelelpHia News Bureau has is sued and will continue to issue a icrjular supplement each month containing raii ro.ul earnings. Call money in New York r.:i to 30 per cent, last week. One large bank, however, kept loaning blocks of $50,000 at 6 per cent. The ban't's representative who appeared at the exchange to make the offers was nearly mobbed by largci borrowers. "I giiers if New York and Philadel phia tquared all their accounts with each other it world he found that New York owes Philadelphia at least $50100.000" was the statement of one of the most conspicuous hankers in Philadelphia. M will req.tre, jo,ooo barrel) of ce ment lo build the sixty-four mile of rail road fror.1 Florida to Key West, which extends wer the Florida Keys. Henry M. Klapler, the Standard Oil magnate, is building the road. At the deepest the water separating the islands ia twenty three feet, nd the roadbed is. thirty 'e;t above the mean surface f the sea. TBE EETSTONE STATE Too Latest Pesnsytvsoti News Told fas Short Order. Since January 14. when at a congrega tional meeting of the Church of the Im maculate Conception, the project of a pa rochial school for the parish was first advanced, nearly $jo,ooo has been raised in fubscriptions by the members of the church. Of this amount $10,100 was rais ed within two hours of the time of stat ing the purpose of the meeting. It is thought that the building' for the school will cost about $20,000 and the convent about $8000. The subscriptions received vary in amount from $to to $1000. John A. Sheaf er, wife and child were injured in a collision in Pottsville, when Mr. Sheafcr tried to drive his team across the tracks in front of an approach ing trolley car. These fourth-class postmasters were. appointed in Pennsylvania: C. H. Sheets, Bradelock; J. H. Martin, Greenville; J. H. Porter, New Wilmington; B. F. Mag nin, Darby; A. J. Sutton, Smithficld; Martin E. Strawn, Star Junction. A mad dog bit la-year-old Carrie Rizinski, of Mount Carmel, on the leg. The dog escaped before it could be killed, The girl's wound was quickly cauterized, but the wound will be closely watched for fear rabies may result. Jacob Himbaugh, a bachelor hermit, died in his hut in Venango borough, where he had lived in apparent poverty for years. A search of the premises to day disclosed $11.10 in bills in the wood shed, and $1560 gold hidden in a wood pile outside. Willis Denney, a well-known Mason and Odd Fellow, and an officer in the Second Presbyterian Church, of West Chester dropped dead while on his way home. He has been a messenger for the builders of the new Capitol at Harris burg. . Considerable commotion was occa sonicd in court at Allcntown, when, af ter an adverse ruling had been pronounc ed, Mrs. Anna Swoyer became hysteri cal and fainted. The woman had pre ferred a charge of surely of the peace against her husband, Joseph Swoyer, and when this was dismissed and the hus band granted the custody of one child she became hysterical, and the ambulance was required to remove her to her home A shop building 800 feet long and 120 feet wide has been planned by the Penn sylvania Railroael for Altoona. It will be the largest building of its kind in the United States. Brick and atcel will be used in its construction, and there will fonr stories. The building will b occupied by the wheel, lathe, tin and boiler departments of the company. The shop will be erected in sections, and as1 fast as it is completed it will be occu pied. This will probably be the last ol the Pennsy's shop buildines insielc the citv limits, as all available shoproom will then be taken up. Jonathan Bergstrcsser, of Emails, 50 years old, died at the Allcntown Hospi tal after continually hiccoughing six days. At the meeting of the Central Traeles and Labor Council, of Allentown, F'rcd. C. Fatzinger tendered his resignation as president, to take effect at once. Mr, Fatzinger has been the acknowledged labor leader there for three years, and his resignation was accepted with re grets. Fred. Datin. of Mansfield, and Frank Van Ordcn, of Stokesdalc, were arrested in Wcllsboro, and Railroad Detective Lebo is searching in the vincinity of Blosbburg for another man, the three being iccused of breaking into and rob bing the New York Central Station at Lawrenceville-. William Winn, aged Sj, a carpenter and patternmaker, who built the second house in Altoona, died of old ag;. For fifty years he was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. He never used tobacco and was never sick a day until stric.een whh bis fatal illness. Sylvester Miller, a farmer, of Lower Milford, was arrested and held under bail in Allcntown, charged with cruelty to animals.. The Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals investi gated the charge. Miiler is accused of neglecting bis horses and cattle and with feeding the lajucr straw. The Game ot Snaps. When we were children we used to find great fun In playing "snap." We made the cards for the game our selves, by cutting them from paste board or cardboard. The cards were 2 Inches by Z Inches, and were colored on one side in red and blue. We colored them with our water colors. Thqre were thlrty-twocards In all, sixteen in red and sixteen In blue. On one side of each, tbe side that waB not colored, we placed a large figure, cor responding In color to that used on tbe back of tbe card. As there were sixteen cards, the fig ures were 1, 2, 3 up to 16. The red cards then bore figures corresponding exactly to the blue ones; that Is, there was an 8 among the red cards, and an 8 among the blue cards. This was the game: One person took all of the blue cards, and another took all of the red. Tbe cards were then shuffled, care being taken not to let any one see wbut card came out on top. Now, with the band carefully con cealing the number of the card to be laid, at exactly tbe same Instant each player places a card on the table, with the number up. If one should lay a 5 and tbe other a 4, or any numberii that do not corre spond, each player again deposits a card. But if two corresponding cards are laid, two 7s, for Instance, the player who notices this first must cry out "snap!" and be who first cries "snap" takes all of tbe cards that have been played. 4 The gama continues until all cards are on the table, the winner being the one who has the greatest number of cards at tbe end of the game. Tbls game is very interesting, as it la - necessary for botb players to be very alert. Each is anxious, of course, to be the first to see and to call out "snap" when two corresponding cards have been laid. Fremont's Flag Presorvod. Locked up, In a bank yault at Red ding, Calif., is the flag which Fremont unfurled on tbe summit of the Rockies In 1841. Tbe banner was made with Mrs. Fremont's own hands previous to her husband's start on his explor ing tour in the far west. The flag differs from tbe. standard U. 8. flag 'la field only, where a large American eagle, surrounded by twenty-six stars, is skillfully wrought to hand embroidery.