, EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE RAVAGE JAN FRANCISCO Hundreds of People Killed and Thous ands Injured in Great Catastro phe on Pacific Coast. LOSS AS HIGH AS $500,000,000 o Collapse of Structure Started Flames Tons of Food Arriving, But Limi ted Means of Cooking It. IX REFUGE CAMPS AND RUINS. The fire lias nearly burned itself out ami contractors b.no orders to begin work on rebuilding as soon as tbe rums cool. Two hundred bodies were cremated at tlie Six-Mile limine by order of tlie coroner. The latest estimate of the number of dead is 500, It is estimated by competenc insurance authorities that the total loss will uggrc gatc $300,000,000 and on this vast amount of property the insurance companies car ried approximately $175,000,000 insurance. N'o serious disease lias as yet developed but more bedding and blankets are need ed for the refugees. Strange scenes attended Sunday reli gious services. The v;:ler mains are being repaired and plenty of water is assured within a f w days, the present daily supply being uclhicnt for drinking purposes. Chief I). J. Sullivan, of tbe fire de partment, died from injuries received in the earthquake. Ids skull was fractured and he never knew of the burning of the city. The famous Cliff House was not swept into the sea, as firs', reported, and the damage to it and the Sutro baths is not serious. FCOD AND DRINK FOR EVERYBODY. Relief of (he Needy la Sao Francisco Red Cross la Charge. San Francisco (Special). The com mittee having in charge the relict of the hungry reports that every homeless man, woman and child in San Francisco is being cared for and that there is no suf fering on the score of either food or clrirk within the city. Within a few hours an ample supply ( t milk will he assured. The committee is establishing new re lief stations wherever needed. In ad dition at many points on the outskirts individual or independent organizations are working itt connection with the com mittee. The relief of the needy is being acc-impli.'hed magnificently. Cars and s'eamers laden to their ca pacity with food and medical supplies tire pouring into the city from every point along the coast and throughout the state, and as their supply has been as sured as a pertnancy there is not the .slightest fear of anv lack of food or drink. The Pacific mail Mcamr-r China, with r. cargo including a iarge quantity of foodstuffs, arrived from the Orient and was docked at Oak'and in order that the supplies be di-tributed. The slipping of San Francisco is at a standstill, and such will b.t tlie stmc of affairs while the city is in the least endangered. The United States cruisers Chicago and Marb'ehead are stationed off Meiggs Wharf, and prevent everv vessel, wheth er foreign or domestic, from sailing out of the harbor. The vessels are being held here for any emergency that may arise. The federal authorities removed ail the customs restrictions from a cargo of the steamer China as soon as possible, anil the rice, tea and other foodstuffs from the Orient were taken off the ves sel and ent to the. aid of the stricken Chinese. Third Day sod Nljbt of Terror. A furious wind storm set in at night after it was thought the fire was under control and t inned the I'nion Ferry I e pot, along the water front, into renewed fury, thr atcning the Jerries. Escape from the city by water is in danger ot being cut off. About one-quarter of the c ity king w.'st of Franklin Street, known as the we-'cru addition and containing many line residence-, is saved. In oth-T s c t:o:is the ruins are burning ficr. '-. 'I here are 2x;,ooo homcies, peopi,. in Golden Ga'e l'ark, and even cemeteries rr" filled with rein,.,., ,. The herding of (hi''e and til! 'lasses without proper ' aid'ation arou-es the fear of an epi r' "o: c. of an outbreak of tin bubonic til' e-e. which has exi-t-d from time to t:ipe a'"',!'g the Chil'i.e All the bank and safe deposit vaults .'ul tlie records in Tie San Francisco ITa'l of Record, are decland to be safe. Fourteen men were shot and killed at'enintim; to rob the San Francisco Mint and other looter-, met a similar f."'c. A policeman was bavonetted and bille 1 ),v a National Guardsman in a f!iMe ru-er anthori'v, Tni-''ond nfvr trainlad of food nn arr speeding toward the stricken city. Hlj Fir Near Manila. Majiila, (My CMile) Fire has swept tlie town of Mariiiiint. in Riz'I Pro vince. Man' thousands of persons are bom'e'i and starving. Two thousand rlwe'tiru s are in ruins. The Government i- rushing assistance to the sufferers. !'"' f'so d Proved IVil, near the town of Ci lei. Two hundred dwellings were hitrrc I ami many persons, are homeless. Mar'ha. London's pet gorilla, is in o health. Medical rxprrts are in at '"I.Ticc, and bulletins as to her cou itlon Ere regularly is-.ned. A I. gtuhouie Destroyed. Avo.-h. Ore, ( Spe -i.il ). St' amer Al .oice. whir', iitI'c.I from Fureka. re bnt the I' ant A'cti'i ear'.hMuake, l.iidul: Mlsc VC- "1 lies' r ye I bv Tl '. w! i'e off F.nrcki Wedir day morn i"". w.r, severely sink"'). The raptain tho'-fht the ves.,e h id s'ruck bott im. let fhir maki'i:' soun l'uf, found that she wi in 12 fathoTis of water. Th cnplain r!i:ut;cd his enur e to westward. S many of London's motor lnn.cn hreik down that a servic- of "tugi" (if l e. 1 organized for the towing home . tlir- Arrirtn President Jordan, of Leland Stanford, Jr., University reports that the losses to buildings aggregate $.(.000,000. A supply of between 10,000,000 and 12, 000.000 gallons of water a dav lias been secured. Rear Admiral McCalla reports that the three warships under construction at the I'nion Iron Works arc uninjured. While tbe earthquakes wrecked busi ness and residential sections alike on tbe lulls, the land did not sink as it did in the lower made ground sections. The property losses in Santa Cruz are $20,000, but no one was killed. In a landslide rniKo.l I,,- !, U 1 ion I.oma Triesta Mountain several men were killed. The relief funds in all parts of the country are swelling into the millions. The Hawaiian Islands shook Thursdnv in apnarent sympathy with the seismic disturbance, in California. The vibra tions caused a panic in Honolulu. Sau Francisco (Special). Plunged in to darkness at 10 o'clock San Francisco had not .seen the conclusion of the devas tating Work ot- llc conflagration that lolloucd. the earthquake of Wednesday morning. The fire that started at Nob Hill worxed its way to the North Uracil, sweeping that quarter clean of buildings, later veered around before a fierce wind and made its way southerly to the im mense seawall .sheds and grain ware houses. The flames were heading directly for the immense ferry building, the terminal point by ferryboat of all overland and local trains of the Southern Pacific Road. General Caster has ordered out .1 squadron of men to endeavor to keep back the flames, which threaten the Un ion Ferry Depot, the only means of egress from the city. The. water front emergency hospital is endangered, and the officials' in charge are prepared to move from their quar ters. The wind is of such velocity that brick and granite -walls, weakened by the earthquake and the. subsequent fire, ire falling into the streets. Market Street, the principal avenue of escape from the city to the ferry buildings, may be blocked, thus shutting oil the only ready mtans of escape to the firrics. The Postal Telegraph Com pany has abandoned its temporary of fice. The w ind, which at times amounted to a gale, and darkness added fresh terrors to the situation. The authorities con sidered conditions so grave that it was decided to swear in immediately 1,000 special policemen armed with rifles fnr-ni-bed by the federal government. In addition to this force, companies of the National Guard arrived from many in terior points. It was reported at night that 35 white men had been shot and killed while at tempting to work their way into the ruins of the United States Subtrcasury on Commercial stret. Two Chinese were 'hot and killed on Market Street for refusing to obey orders of the sol diery. Fourteen men were killed by soldiers guarding the mint, and Policeman Jos eph Myers was bavonetted and killed by a national guardsman over a dispute as to authority. The men at the mint were killed for attempting robbery. Admiral Goodrich's fleet is here. lie anchored off the Presidio and landed at the Presidio wharves all the marines on his fleet and all ihe bluejackets not needed to guard ship. There are now ,,000 sol, Hers of all arm,, marines and bluejackets at work. The fresh men arc needed, ami the arrival of troops from Monterey and down the coast will be welcome. Reports of babe, born in the refugee camps were frequently received. Five Inbies were born in Golden Gate Park. Friday night the main remaining fire was confine, I tr, .,. east of Van Ness Awnne and north of Union Street,, but wi's burning its way 10 the shore. I.ati in the afternoon the police broke open everv saloon and corner grocery in the saved districts and poured all malt and spirituous liquors into the gutters. At 7 o'clock a fire was raging over 50 -rres nf the water front lying between I'.av Strcft and the end of Meigge and Fisherman's Wharf. To the eastward it extended down to the sea wall, but had not rear heel the piers, which lie a quarter of a mile toward the east. The cannery and warehouses of the Central California Canneries Company, A Woman's Narrow Eecape. York, Pa. ( Special). While engaged in boiling soap in the kitchen of her home, on South Queen Street, Littles town, Mrs. T. O. Feeser narrowly escap ed being biirue I to death. The fire from the hearth over which the kettel was suspended ignited her skirts and she was instantly enveloped in flames. Her pierc ing rncs brought to her assistance Curtis Harnir anil Geary Blair, who succeeded in extinguishing the (lames by tearing the burning clothing from Mrs. Fcescr's b dy. Ainrrlcto Women Abroad. Loudon ( Hy Cable) Prominent Amer ican women residing in England arc or ganizing a committee to promote some object in order to express their sympathy with the sufferers by the California earth quake. The form which their effort will take has not yet been decided, but it i suggested that they build a hospital. Mines. Adair, Joseph Chainli-Tlain, Crai uie and Arthur Paget and Lady Craven already have joined in the movement. Mis. Whitclaw Reid will be unable to join the committee owjrig to the official position of her husband, but hc has sen! a larze donation. together with 20.000 cases of canned fruit were destroyed, as also was the Simpson and other lumber companies yards. San Francisco (Special). Earthquake and fire Wednesday have caused the greatest calamity California has ever known. In San Francisco alone, it is estimated that at least 500 persons have perished, while over 1,000 are suffering from injuries. The entire business nor tion of the city is in ruins, and the flames which, owing to the lack of water, can not be checked except bv the blowing up with dynamite of buildings in -their path, are still sweeping through the city The property loss in San Francisco alone is estimated at $No.ooo,ooo to $100, 000,000. The losses in other California cities will aggregate $5,000,000 to $lo, 000.000 additional. A hundred thousand people nre home less, and many are huddled in tnc parks and public square beside the household goods they were able to save. The city is under martial law, and all the downtown streets are patrolcd by cavalry and infantry. Details of troops are also guarding the hanks. Most of the principal buildings have already been destroyed and others are in imminent danger. Over all the scene of desolation hangs a dense pall of smoke. Comnnication with outside towns is almost entirely cut off, but the report comes from Palo Alto that a number of the buildings of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University have been wrecked, and that the splendid memorial church, one of the finest structures of its kind in the world, is a mass of ruins. One student is known to have lost his life. In Oak land five persons were killed. San Jose and Sacramento, Berkeley, Alameda and other places heard from suffered severe ly, but report no loss of life. The dreadful earthquake shock came without warning at precisely 5.13 o'clock W ednesday morning, its motion, appar ently, being from cast to west. At first the upheave! of the earth was gradual, but in a few seconds it increased in in tensity. Chimneys began to fall and buildings to crack, tottering on their foundations. The people became panic-stricken and rushed into the streets, most of them in their night attire. They were met by showers of falling bricks, cornices and walls. Many were instantly crushed to death, while others were dreadfully mangled. Those who remained indoors generally escaped with their lives, though scores were hit by detached plaster, pictures and articles thrown to the floor by the shock. It is believed that more Or less loss was sustained by nearly every fam ily in the city. The tall steel-framed structures stood the strain better than brick buildings, few of them being badly damaged. The big 1 1 -story Monadnock office building, in course of construction, adjoining the Palace Hotel, was an exception, how ever, its rear wall collapsing and many cracks being across its front. Some of the docks and freight sheds along the water front slid into the bay. Deep fissures opened in the filjed-in ground near the shore and the Union Ferry de pot was injured. Its high tower still stands, but will have to be torn down. A portion of the new city hall, which cost over $7,000,000, collapsed, the roof sliding into the courtyard and smaller towers tumbling down. The great dome was moved, but did not fall. The new postoffice, one of the finest in the United States, was badly shat tered. The Valencia Hotel, a four-story wood en building, sank into the basement, a pile of splintered timbers, under which were pinned many dead and dying occu pants of the house. The basement was full of water, and some of the helpless victims were drowned. Scarcely bad the earth ccaed to shake when fires broke out simultaneously in many places. The fire department' promptly responded to the first calls for aid, but it was found that the water mains had been rendered useless by the underground movement. Fanned by a light breeze, the flames quickly spread, and soon many blocks were seen to be doomed. Then dynamite was resorted to, and the sound of frequent explosions added to the terror of the people. All efforts to stay the progress of the fire, however, proved lutilc. The south side of Market Street, from Ninth Street on the bay, was soon ablaze, the fire covering a belt two blocks wide. On this, the main thoroughfare of the city, arc located many of the finest edi fices in the city, including the Grant, Parrott, Flood, Call, Examiner and Monadnock Buildings, the Palace and Grand Hotels and numerous wholesale houses. At the same time the commercial es tablishments and banks north of Market Street were burning. The burning dis trict in this section of the city extended from Sausome Street to the water front, and from Market Street to Broadway. Fires also broke out in the Mission, and the entire city seemed to be in flames. The flames, fanned by the rising breeze, swept down the main streets un lit within a few hundred feet of the ferry depot, the high tower of which stood at a dangerous angle. The big wholesale grocery establishment of Weel inan, Peck & Co. was on fire from cel lar to roof, and the hi at was so op pressive that passengers from tbe ferry boats were obliged to keep close to the water's edge in order to get past the burning structure. It was impossible to reach the center of the city from the bay without skirt ing the shore for a long distance, so as to get entirely around the burning dis trict. At 8 o'clock the Southern Pa cific officials refused to allow any more passengers from transbay points to land, and sent back those already on the boats. The ferry and train service of the Key Route was entirely abandoned owing to the damage done to the powerhouse by the earthquake at Emeryville. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. It is claimed by railroads in Ohio that their revenue has decreaked considerably since the passenger fares were reduced hy law to 2 cents a mile. It was reporled that an order for steel ties, said to be 50,000 tons, has just been placed in Germany by the Truss Steel Tie Coniiny, of Pittsburg. Urexels have recently been large sell ers of Reading general 4 per cent, bonds which has occasioned considerable won der among bond dealers. Tennessee Coal & Iron has advanced the price of steel rails to $20 a ton. The St. Ixjuis & San Francisco Rail road has bought the Colorado Southern New Orleans ft Pacific, giving the 'Frisco and the Rock Island a line from Hous ton to New Orleans. Philadelphia Rapid Transit earnings arc rising at the rale of about $125,010 a month. Charles Uenby, formerly a legatiouer at Peking, intimated before the House committee that former Minister Wu is probably responsible for the Chinese boycott. A thousand men from the Presidio were hurried down town to patrol the city streets. The Thirteenth Infantry, t.000 strong, arrived from Angel Island a little Inter, and went on patrol duty. The soldiers have been ordered to shoot down thieves caught in the act of rob bing the dead, and to guard with their lives the millions of dollars' worth of property which has been placet in the streets that it might escape the ravagis of the flames. The F'irst California Artillery, 200 strong, two companies, have been detailed to patrol duty on Ellis Street. Two more companies arc patrolling liroadway in the Italian section. Mayor Schmitz, who has established his office at police headquarters, has named a committee of safety, comprising many prominent citizens. Mayor Schmitz sent out word to the bakeries and milk stations throughout the city that their food supplies must be har bored for the homeless. Tents have been placed in every park in the city, and those who have lost their homes will be given food and shelter. All efforts to prevent the fire from reaching the Palace and Grand Hotels were unsuccessful, and brith were com pletely destroyed, together with all their contents. San Francisco (Midnight). It looks now as if the entire city would be burned. The newspaper men are trying to get matter to Oakland by boat, but they are very uncertain. The govern ment is furnishing tugs, but the con fusion is so great that they cannot be relied upon. F'rom the Cliff House comes word that the great pleasure resort and show piace of the city, which stood upon a founda tion of solid rock has been now swept into the sea. Not a thing stands to tell where the monster stone building once stood. It has been leveled to the foun dation and only the rock lining the sea coast remains intact. The Cliff House stood on a rocky bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It was probably 50 or 60 feet above the water and was a favorite resort for thousands on bright days, both winter and summer. It was a favorite pastime of visitors to sit on the west veranda of the hotel and watch the hundreds of sea lions and .seals which congregate on large rocks about 200 yards from the main land. In stormy weather the waves frequently swept over the top ot the building. One hundred yards of the Cliff House are situated the famous Sutro Baths. which were built into the rocky bluff. The baths are constructed of steel and glass and are said to he among the finest in the world. They were built at a cost of about half a million dollars by the late Alolph Sutro. who before his death gave them to the city of San Francisco. Night added to the horror, and as darkness fell the sky was illuminated in all directions. As the flames spread into the residence districts people left their homes and fled to the parks and squares. A series of rather severe earth shocks fur ther increased the terror, and many left homes that were not in danger. Lot Angeles la Shaken. Los Angeles, Cal., Special. At 12.3.1 o'clock P. M Los Angeles experienced a distinct earthquake sbok of short dura- lion. No damage was done, but thous ands of persons were freightened. Occupants of office buildings, especially of tall structures, ran out into the street hatless. Many stores were deserted in like manne by customers and clerks. The shock passed soon, and most of those who bad fled returned to the buildings. The San Francisco horror has strung the populace here to a high tension, and a spell of sultry weather serves to increase the general nervous ness. Washington, (Special) The War De partment has received the following Western Union bulletin from San Fran cisco : "Los Angeles savs building rocking like a boat. Just lost connection with Los Angeles immediately after this re port. Men probably left building." Ten Killed it San Joae. San Tose. Cab. iSneci.ill Th lat est report shows that 10 persons were killed by the earthquake in San Jose. inc nan 01 Kccords is destroyed, as well as the Hall of Justice. All the main buildings are damaged. R. H Tucker Observatory, says : "No dam.aire waft flnn tn itht in struments or the buildings of the ob servatory by the earthquake. To Represent Government. Washington, n f CC:r.:t t.,.c: di-nt Roosevelt and members of the Cab inet devoted the greater part of their Semi-Werklv cecclnr, in a rile.. n the calamity which has befallen San Francisco. The matter ws ll.'1'ti im irti,i.lt.it after the Cabinet convened, and it was decided that Secretary Metcalf, who is a resident of Oakland. Pal honl,l nro- ceed tit once to the stricken city as a representative of the .National Govern ment. Secretary Metcalf left immediately for Ssan Km nri ten Tt si-ilt lito .ffr.rf tr consult with the Governor of California and the municipal authorities of San Francisco, and to advise the national Ad ministration what, it anything, may be done to alleviate the rlistress there. Bank Vaulta Intact. Oakland, Cal., (Special) At a meet ing of bankers Mr. Lynch, of the First National Hank, reported that a committee had examined all the bank and safe- deposit vaults in San I-rancisco and found them all intact. This makes it certain that the money and papers 011 deposit are all safe! It was also re ported that the books ami records in tbe Sau rianctsco Hall of Records also es caped serious injury. Plsnl Seed 95 Veara Old. York, Pa., (Special) James S. A. Beutzel and Edward Hubley on Easter Monday planted some gourd seeds which are 05 years old and expect to raise a fine crop of gourds. The gourd is owned by Mr. Hubley. It is curved and gives evidence of being very old. On the gourd is a faint inscription which indicates that it was presented in iHll to Conewhiiio Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men. Conewingo Tribe has since changed its name to Manitou Tribe. Lay Up 71 Veiaels. Philadelphia ( Special ). Five hundred men were laid off and 12 sea-going tug boats and 50 barges were taken out of service by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company. The boats were used in the coal flipping business of the com pany. O. L. Ilagermmi, shipping and freight 'agent, was notified to tie up all of the vessels used in the coal traffic and lo lay off all of the men who were em ployed in this connection. The pnsibili ty of a strike in the anthracite region is said to be responsible for the order tak ing the vessels out of service. DISCOVERER OF RADIUM KILLED Was Run Over in tlie Place Daup'.iine. CHARACTERISTICS (tf TBE MAN. Story ol lb lavcstlf atlooi ot Ihe French Sav ant and Hli Talented Wilt, Thai Retail In One el Ihe Moat Intereiilnf Discoveries ot Ihe Day Immeote Coat ol Ihe Flrat Iwe 0ecl(reoit They Succeded la Securing. Paris, (By Cable) Professor Curie, the discoverer of radium, was run over and killed by a wagon on the Place Hanphinc. Though generally crediteil as the dis coverer of radium, Professor Pierre Curie always associated his wife as be ing equally entitled with him to the credit of the discovery. The mineral, which became the great talk of the day, was discovered by M. nnd Mine. Curie, who, after long and complicated chemical researchts, suc ceeded in extracting from a ton of tlie pitch-blende mineral of Joaciiiiii.stal, in Bohemia, two decig.irnis of radium. The operation costing $2,000. Pierre Curie was born in Paris in iS.s'j. His father was a Paris physican. After his preparatory studies he began scientific researches on his own account when 20 years old. In his researches he was assisted by Marie Slodow Slodow ska, a Pole, born in Warsaw in 1K6S. She afterward became Mme. Curie and shared with him the prizes' that were awarded to him as the discoverer of radium. The great importance of radium was appreciated as early as 1001, when the French Academy of Science awarded the La Caza prize of to.ooo francs to M. Pierre Curie, while associating with him the name of his wife. Indeed Mine. Curie seems to have been a scientist almost equal to her husband. In Decem ber, 1003, the two received the Nobel prize for chemistry, and a few weeks later they receive-d 60.000 francs, part of the Osiris prize of France all in recognition of their great services in the discovery and application of radium. Radium was discovered in Tool. Mme. Curie, while experimenting with the salts of uranium, hit upon this new metal, the possibilities of which still seem unlimited. One minute crystal of radium will give off an intense bluish light for what seems an unlimited period of time, with no appreciable diminution of power. This light is without heat, and can impart to other .substances its own light-giving power. On human flesh the effect of radium is like that of the Roentgen rays, but six times as powerful and as dangerous. Curie himself predicted in 1903 that "with one-tenth of a gramme of radium a physican could receive un limited number of patients, and effect cure after cure in cases of lupus nnd above all, of cancerous affections." The great trouble now is the enor mous expense of production, the cost of one ounce being $30,000. About a year ngo the Curies suffered from the effects of too much radium. Their laboratory became so thoroughly impreg nated with the wonderful element that there seemed to be no escape from it, nnd they had to build a new laboratory. L1YE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS Railroad Casualties. The accident bulletin just issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the three months ended December 31, 1905, shows the total number of casual ties to passengers and employes to be 18.277 (1,109 killed and 17,1 18 injured). This is an increase of 56 in the number killed and 732 it, the number injured over those reported in the preceding three months, and an increase of 158 in the number killed and 3,091 in the number injured in the same quarter one year ago. The number of pasengers and em ployes killed in train accidents was 320, as against 272 in the preceding three months and 242 in the same quarter one year ago. The injured numbered 3.707, as against 3.455 in the preceding three months, and 3,298 in the same quarter one year ago. The total number of collisions and derailments was 3.722 (2,077 collisions and 1,645 derailments), of which 267 collisions and 133 derailments affected passenger trains. The damage to cars, enginest and roadway by these accidents amounted to $2,817,294. The number of employes killed in coupling and uncoupling cars and en gines was 85, as against 74 in the pre ceding quarter and 71 in the same quar ter one year ago. The injures to em ployes from this cause numbered 886, as avainst 817 in the preceding quarter and 832 for tbe same quarter one year ago. South Wants Fair Show. A request was made of the President by Representatives Livingston, of Geor gia, and Underwood and Richardson, of Alabama, that he instruct the mem bers of the American delegation to the Pan American Conference next July at Rio de Janeiro to present to the confer ence in a favorable light the lumber, cotton and iron interests of the South. It is likely that such instruction will be given. Representative Gill, of Maryland, of fered in the House the resolution of sympathy for San Francisco, which was adopted. Democratic Senators held a strong conference on the Railroad Rate bill, but were unable to reach an agreement. President Roosevcdt sent a special message to Congress scoring Judge Humphreys for his immunity decision in the Beef Trust cases, and calling upon Congress to prevent such an attempt to "make the law a farce." Senator Hopkins, of Illinois, and Sena tor Tillman, of South Carolina, engaged in a heated colloquy in the Senate over the Chicago bank failures and lynching in South Carolina. Senator La Folletie made a speech contending that the pending Railroad Rate bill is nor stringent enough in its provisions. The Daughters of the American Revo lution contributed aliout $40,000 to com plete their Continental Hall. The finishing of the cable which joins the United States with its possessions in the F.ast and with China was signalized by messages of good will between tin President and the Chinese Emperor. The House passed a bill creating a bureau of the reclamation service in the Interior Department to be headed by a director, with a salary of $6,000 a year. President James, of the University of Illinois, declined appointment as one of the delegates to the Pan-American Conference, LATESTOS 1NSHCHT0RDER nOMESTIU An automobile containing "Diamon Jim" Brady, of New York, and some of his friends was wrecked on the Merrick road, Long Island, and one of the party, Miss Harriet Waters, sustained proba bly fatal injuries. Charles Augustus Scton. head of the gang of forgers who nut $4,000,000 worth of torged stock certificates on tlie market, revealed a scheme to swindle financiers of this country and Europe out of $10, 000.000. The mysterious clement radium has de veloped strange properties in the labora tory of Prof. Robert Abbe, of St. Luke's Hospital, in New York. Dr. Abbe had a lucky escape from serious injury. Eulogies upon the lives of Represen tatives Castor and Patterson, of Penn sylvania, were made in the House of Representatives Sunday, and the usual resolutions were adopted. "Bishop" 1). N. Mclntitrff, the head of the People's L'nited Church, has or ganized a co-operative colony near Spo kane, Wash. Calvin Graves, who has just been par doned by the Governor of Maine, made ,ise of his time in prison to invent several valuable devices. The Reading Company has released its immense stores of coal for the pro tection of the blast furnaces and other industrial plants. Judge Charles F. McKenna, of the fed eral court of Porto Rico, resigned by cable, the Porto Rico Bar Association demanding it. Because his sweetheart, Miss Lottie Henry, would not marry him, Edward G. Mandeville committed suicide in St. Louis, Mrs. Alice F. Cooper was acquitted ol the charge of murder after a prolonged trial in Augusta, Me. John I). Missimer, aged 59, for 2 years managing editor of the Reading (Pa.) Eagle is dead. A nightgown parade by the coeds ol Wesleyan College has shocked the board of trustees. John Alexander Dowie secured a tem porary injunction preventing Voliva and his followers fom interfering with his going to Zion City and permitting him to hold services in Zion City. Prominent scientists gathered in Phila delphia to eel'brate the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth. Strikers in and around Lens, France, had combats with troops and wounded many, only dispersing when the riot act was read. The formal answer of the anthracite operators' committee of seven to the last proposition of the committee of an thracite mineowncrs was drawn tin and signed by the operators' committee in New York. It embodied an unqualified refusal of all the propositions of the miners and goes into a revciw of the pro positions on both sides. The trial of Rev. Agernon S. Crapsey, accused of heresy, has been postponed for seven days because his counsel claim ed he has not had time to prepare his case. In Kansas City Judge Humphrey, of the United States District Court, denied the plea of immunity filed by the rail ways in rebate cases. George W. Perkins, partner of J. P. Morgan, was arrested in New York for violating driving regulations. He was released. Both the anthracite miners and the operators are now generally confident that there will be a strike, and each side is busy preparing for a long scige. A movement has been started in New York to erect a memorial to Edwin . Booth. lie has been dead thirteen years. Robert J. Wright, a lawyer, was killed and five persons were hurt in an auto mobile accident near Millville, N. J. A wireless message was recorded in New York which had traveled 2,080 miles. Seattle will build a city hall from pro ceeds of sales of land handed over to the city years ago by bondsmen of a de faulting public official. The defalcation was $200,000. The land is now valued at over $1,000,000. A statement issued by President Paul Morton, of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, '.shows that the small holders were the principal losers by lapses as the result of the recent agitation. The Sultan refused to allow several distinguished persons who had been pre sented by their ambassadors to witness the Selamik. ceremony. Later he sent his regrets to the ambassadors. John Andrews, a negro, proprietor of a livery stable at Bessemer, Ala., shot and killed Taylor Johnson, a white man, and seriously wounded Will Millstcnd, another white man. Michael de Lauro, who killed Frank Rozzo last summer through jealousy, is said to have made his escape to Italy, being conveyed on board a steamer in a bi er barrel. KiHKIGN Twenty-five Russian authors passed resolutions denouncing Americans for their treatment of Gorky, A railroad bridge was burned by Ihe striking coal miners at Lievin, France. Father Capon, the labor leader, is missing from St. Petersburg, and it is thought he has been kidnapped. Abramoff, the Cossack officer who maltreated Maria Spiridonovo, a girl re volutionist, in prison, has been assas sinated. ' Tbe seismograph at Laibach, Austria, more tlian 7,000 miles from San Fran cisco, recorded the first shock. The Natal authorities ace taking more vigorous military steps to suppress the rebellious Zuzu tribes. Baron d'EstournclIes dc Constant has secured and will forward to President Roosevelt a collection of the autographs of many public men in France who united in sending to Mr. Roosevelt Sully's Me moirs. The strike situation at Dcnam, France, has caused a state of siege to bp de clared. The Governor of the province of Kiangsi was dismissed for falsely at tributing to priests the death of the Tablai Bang. King Alfonso of Spain arrived at CowcS on his visit to his bride elect, Princess I.na, of Battenberg. Secretary Root has informed the Rus sian government that any date after Sep tember 20 next will be convenient to the, United States for the holding of the sec-, ond Hague Conference. Crcat Britain is vigorously pressing negotiations for an Anglo-Russian en tente, with a view to completing a triple alliance of Great Britain, France and Kussia against Germany, Hunger typhus is spreading among the. peasants In four Russian provinces on account of the famine, Pitiful appeals, are made by the famine committee. Sir Richard Thorburn, who was pre mier' of Newfoundland from 1885 to. 1890. died at St. Johns. Professor Mattuccl, director of the ob servatory at Vesuvius, expresses this belief that the explosive period of tliej volcano is at an end, , THE KEYSTONE STATE The Latest Peaniylranli News Told In sn Order. Mrs. Henry Noldy, aged 65, who wai totally blind for many years, fell down stairs at her residence in North Scran- wit, aim uiokc ncr necje Miss Florence Towusend, of Kimber. ton, and Miss Sophia Stcesc, of Mount fcprmgs, students at the State NornnI School at West Chester, were badly burned in the laboratory by an explosion of nitric acid, but neither is seriously injured. The young women were expert, nicnting with the acid, when the retort they were using suddenly exploded and the rcid was thrown into their faces, It is fcf.red both will be badly scarred. One of Miss Townsmd's eyes is injured. Rev. A. W, Brownmiller, pastor ol the First United Evangelical Church, Lebanon, broke ground lor the erection of a $20,000 church and parsonage, Member. of the Women's Sewing So. cicty filled the first cart with ground taken from the excavations and the work was continued lor three hours by 1 score of male members of the congrega tion. The young men will work nightly on the excavations until the work it completed. Each evening refreshments will be served to the workers by the women of the congregation. As be entered the Philadelphia at Reading station at Girardvillc the other night, Alichacl Klatch, a track walkef of Mahanoy Plane, was floored by a vicious elog, which leaped upon him. Be fore the animal could be driven 08 Klatch lost his nose and a goodly por tion of the upper lip, which were torn off. The San Francisco disaster has a direct bearing on the interests of al least one town in Northampton County, Dr. Irwin Bachman, president of the Standard Cement Company, with offices in the Crocker Building, San Francisco, arrived in Easton with a number of Cali. fornia capitalists Wednesday to begin work on a $1,000,000 cement mill to b erected at Friedensthal, a stone's throw trom Belfast Junction, along the slate belt trolley line. The output of this mill was lo be about .sixty carloads of cement a day, surpassing the combined output of all the mills in the Nazareth district. News of the! earthquake has halted the Californians from perfecting arrangements for building the plant at this time. Dr. Bachman owns mills at Napa, Cal., and quite a colony of Eas ton and Northampton County people is out there operating them. A telegram to Dr. Bachman said all were safe and the mills running. Seven 'nen were injured, two fatally, by an explosion of powder in the Hazel e-oal mine of the Pittsburg, Buffalo Co. On their trip into the mine, one of the men ct-.rried a quantity of blasting pow der wrapped in a paper. The tlamc of his Imp came in contact with the now dcr and an explosion resulted. The injured were all foreigners. The general officers of the National Guard of Pennsylvania have decided to hold the division encampment at Gettys burg on July 21-28 next. Captain Hiram Meyers, a Civil War Veteran, who fought in all the famous battles in Virginia and whose company led in the first charge at Petersburg, is dead at Bangor, aged 71 years. He was one of the founders of the Grand Army of the Republic, was a member of . Sedwick Post, No. 1, New York, and when U. S. Grant's body lay in state in City I fall. New York, was one of the guards surrounding it. A gang of safe-c-ackers entered the post office at New Holland the other morning, cracked the safe, stole consid earble money and stamps and got away with their booty. Wlen Postmaster John Roland entered the post office he found the. place in a topsy-turvy condition and the safe looking like a lot of junk. The cracks at the safe door were sealed with wax and nitroglycerin was used as an explosive. The plunder secured is valued at $150. The robbers were evi dently not adequately provided with tools for the shop of Lloyd Eberly, plumber, was entered and a number of implements stolen. The bran store of Mr. Gunzen hauser, in the borough, was also forced open and a bale of hay taken, presuma bly for horse feed. Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, mother of E. P. Peters, owner of the Peters House, at Bushkill, is dead at the age of 87 years. Mrs. Peters and her husband, who died some years ago, first developed the village as a Summer resort, over fifty years ago. Civil Engineer Began, running a line at Dornsife, eleven miles west of Shamo kin, in an agricultural district. They would not state for whom they were workjng. It is believed they are em ployees of the Wabash Railroad, and that the line will pass through the Ma hanoy Valley from Pittsburg to New York. Recently, John Reklaitis, of Shamokin, missed $35 in greenbacks from his bed tick, where be kept it, prior to placing it in a hank. He kept a strict watch, and finally was rewarded by seeing a rat emerge from a hole in the room and make its way to tbe tick, from which it excrae-ted some straw and carried it to the hole. Rcklatis soon found his missing money in the rat's nest. At the annual meeting of the Allen town fire police, retiring captain Irvin J. Bachman was presented with a hand some gold badge. These officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, A. R. Ross; vice president, H. J. Stuber; secretary, E. A. Adams; treasurer, Ed ward Bartholomew ; captain, S. O. Reich ard; lieutenants, James McFaddenj Harry Bowman and Charles Stonebaclc Ground has been broken for the nev synagogue -of Kenesctli Israel Congre gation, to be erected in Allentown. Howe Breckenbridge of McKinney, was committed to jail at Carlicle od charges brought against him by hii mother, who alleged that he took a horse and buggy from her and sold it to the proprietor of a Shippenslmrg hotel. The; young man was also accused by a Ship pensburg liveryman of having stolen robes, -blankets and other driving equip ments. Mrs. Mary Simpson, aged 86 years, ' v?as found dead in bed at her home, Chester Pike and Oak Lane, Glenoldea Coroner Gilmour is investigating. Assisting in the Spring liousecleaning, Bernard Salvage, Burgess of Middle port, in lifting a heavy stove, bursted n blood vessel, his death resulting short ly after from hemorrages. Salvage was 4" years of age and is survived by his widow and seven children. ' , When the 600 Japanese man-of-wurs-incn 011 their visit to London saw the tomb of Nelson, in St. Paul's Cathedral, they stood around it in -silent awe that is said to have been very impressive, the in-i rluenee of their ancestor worship showi ing strongly.
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