GREAT CHESS
EXPERT DEAD
D. Nelson Pilisburj Succumbs to Stroke
of Apoplexy.
LONG ILLNESS ENDS IN BIS DEATH.
PHIsbnry'a Careor at Alaoat Uabrokta Triumph
and till Wooderful Feaia al BllndUld
Ctwaa A Massachuiettu Bar Wat
Master tl Chen Whea Only Slxlaca
Year 0 4.
Philadelphia (Special) Harry Nelson
Pillsbury, the chess master, died here
of apoplexy after an illness of many
months. Pillsbury was born December
5, 1872, at Somcrvillc, Mass., where the
body will be taken.
Pillsbury learned the rudiments of
chess when he was 10 years old, at the
Deschapelies Ches Club, in Boston. Hi
first notable victory was a score of 5 to
4 in a match with John F. Harry, of
Boston, in iStn. In iSg.i he won the
New York City tournament, with a score
of seven, out of a possible nine, and in
1S95 won first prize at the Hastings
tournament against many of the strong
est plavers of the world. This victory
logically made him one of the quartet of
the most famous players named to com
pete at St. Petersburg Lasker, Steimtz.
Tchigorin and Pillsbury. His score with
the world champion lasker was to
In 1H07 Pillsbury won from Showalter
the American chess championship, which
he confirmed by a second match with
Showalter in
In all Pillsbury played in !4 interna
tional chess tournaments, and was a
prize-winner in all. except at Cambridge
Springs, Pa., in 1004. when be was ill.
Pillsbury showed his chess genius not
alone by match and tournament play.
At blindfold chess, it is said, his record
lias never been equalled. At Moscow
he played 22 grimes without sight of the
boards, and at Philadelphia 20 games,
which feat he repeated at Vienna.
AUTOS COLLIDE AT H1QH SPEED.
Twa
Daughters of David Belasco
Injured.
Asbury Park., N. J. (Special). In an
automobile accident here Harry Isaac
son, aged 18, chauffeur for Percy Fog
garty, of 302 West Sixty-eighth Street,
New York, received injuries from which
he afterwards died, and Mis.-cs Rcna
and Gussie Belasco, daughters of David
Belasco, the theatrical manager, were
slightly hurt.
The accident occurred at the junction
of Sixth and Grand Avenues, a danger
ous spot. A big machine, it which were
Isaac T. Strauss, of Newark; the Misses
Belasco and the chauffeur was traveling,
it is said, at a speed of 30 miles an hour,
when is crashed into the runabout of
Mr. Foggarty. occupied by Mr. Foggar
ty and his chauffeur. The runabout was
knocked into a telegraph pole and smash
ed, the chauffeur being hurled to the
sidewalk, landing on his head. His skull
was fractured.
The Misses Belasco jumped when the
automobiles came together. One of them
had two front teeth knocked out. Ml.
Foggarty was caught between the steer
ing wheel and seat, but was not badly
hurt. Both machines were wrecked.
Isaacson was hurried to the Long
Branch Hospital, where he died late in
the afternoon. Mr. Strauss and Mr.
Foggarty were each held under $2,000
ban to answer for Isaacson s death.
William Herring, of this city, who w;is
run over bv a machine owned bv J. K.
Newman, a New York banker, at Bel-
mar, died at Spring Lake Hospital. Hi
skull was fractured. Newman's chauf
feur is held under $2,000 bail on the
manslaughter charge.
NINE FOOT QIANT.
Ale Seventeen Oranges For Breakfast Eighty
Cigarettes Dally.
New York (Special). The Russian
giant, Maclinosv, who is nine feet two
inches tali in his stockings, i.s a! Ellis
Island, and the prospects are that he will
not be admitted to the L'nited States un
conditionaliv. Machnow, with his wife and the agent
of Oscar Hammerstein, arrived here on
Jhe steamship Pretoria, and though the
giant was traveling as a first-cabin pus
senger, he was held up becau-e the inmii
praglion authorities had received a letter
saying that he shouid not be allowed t
land.
The doctors g t h"!d r,f hi:n and at'ir
several hours' examination came to the
conclusion that the giant was stil'terui,:
from kidney disease. A b.arl of in
quiry will look juto the case.
Big as the giant is, his appetite is
not large. He did devour I" oranges
for bis breakfast ; but, then, he likes or
anges. Of other food he eats about
what an ordinary man woiil 1 vat.
His capacity for cigarettes, however,
is abnormal. Each day he smokes some
80 small Russian "colli n nails."
Coal Lands Sold.
Pittsburg (Special). Records have
lnien filed in the Washington County
courts showing the Pittsburg - Buffalo
Company has iusf completed a deal for
the purchase of 052 acres of c king coal
lands in Washington County. Property
in this same neighbor!), od recent'y sold
at $.Soo an acre, and this is considered
the figure for this purchase. The new
property is near the town of Zollarsv'llc,
where contractors are now sinking two
of the largest coal-mining shafts in the
world.
Firemen Injured al Fire.
St. Paul (Special). The six-story
Ryan annex building was gutted by fire.
The damage to the building and stacks
of occupants is $450,000. A series of
gas explosions prevented the firemen
from getting at the llauie- and caused
the blaze to spread throughout ihe struc
ture. Several firemen were cut by living
glass and 37 were over; r.r,v by heat and
smoke. Ten of these were taken to a
hospital anil the rest to their homes.
All of them will recover with the possi
ble exception of Lieut. W. A. Edwards.
Kcsllog pines of Henna's Body.
Cleveland (Special). On a high kno'l
directly in the shadow of Garfield's tomb,
and where the tall Rockefeller monolith
can throw its dim outline across the en
trance, is beiu erected the handsome
maiis( leiiui in which will rc.-t ihe bdy
of Senator Marcus A. II anna. The lotnl.
will be of granite and ir.jrble, and will
cost, when completed, nearly $50,0:0.
"he mausoleum 1 bung limit by ihe
family of the de:d Fini.t r, but a chsir
')! the V slerit Reserve I 'diversity will
br cttahlif bed as a mciivc rial to the mak
er of pr sidi lit: , the Umi being raised
bv rwmi-.l.-ir fci:b v'u' ion
LAIESTNEWS INSHORTORDEB
rKWMTIC
A pretty, dark Hindustan girl, orna
mented with gold and silver jewelry, and
barefooted, was taken from Ellis Is
land. New York, by woman who
called herself the Countess de Lesdain.
The New York police believe that
Mrs. Alice Rinnan was murdered on her
porch in repelling a man suspected of
seeking to gain the property of her
mother through marriage.
The Black Diamond express on tlw
Lehigh Valley Railroad ran into a
freight train west of Wilkes-Barre. the
locomotive of the flyer being demolished.
A conimitee of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives recommends
the expulsion of Frank G. Gethro, of
Boston, on charges of attempted bribery.
One hundred defectives are unable to
find missing Frederick Muth, of Phila
delphia, or his abductor.
John Alexander Dowie described in
a Chicago court how he once saw his
own corpse.
District Attorney Jerome declares that
the laws are ample to convkt the rich
criminal, but that the difficulty of prose
cution lies in getting evidence.
A committee of the National Manu
facturers' Association visited the Chicago
stockyards and report tlrat the attacks on
the beef packers are gross exaggerations.
Thirty-two insurance companies are
standing out against the proposition of
60 others to pay only 75 per cent. 0: their
tsan Francisco fire losses.
First Lieutenant Edward C. Bolton.
S. A., governor of the Province of
Davao, Island of Mindanao, was mur
dered by Filipinos.
fbc bodv of Sclbert Dam, an aged
basketmakcr of New Canaan, Ct., was
found in a well. His house had been
robbed.
Sarah Bernhardt sailed for France, af
ter having earned 3.000.000 francs during
227 performances in the L nited States.
Rolert B. Roosevelt, uncle of President
Roosevelt and a lifelong Democrat, died
at his home on Long island.
I heodore P. Shonrs delivered tlie prin
cipal address at the silver anniversary
services of Drake University.
I he new liattleship iK-org-.a broke the
speed record of her class.
Baron Speck von Sternlierg, in ad
dressing the University of Illinois stu
dents, declared that many of the maxims
of President Roosevelt were used years
ago by a Chinese emperor.
Feudist Lurt-.s Jett, of kentuckv, has
confessed to the alleged details of the
assassinations ot James Cocknil, Jumes
H. .Marcum and Dr. B. D. Cox.
It was testified before the Interstate
Commerce Commission that the Pennsyl
vania Railroad bought and sold private
cars to mine operators.
Col. Henry Wattcrson delivered an
address on "Kentucky and Its Homes"
in honor of "home-coming week" in the
Bluegrass State.
Chauncey M. Depcw is taking health
restorer exercises at the sanitarium of
William Muldoon, the former wrestler.
John Alexander Dowie stated in court
that he will return to earth after he
is dead to complete his work.
JOHEIGN
Thousands of ca-es of spoiled canned
meats from America dumped into the
sea during the South African war, ac
cording to the testimony at the inquiry
into the British war stores scandal, tloat
ed ashore and was picked up and eaten
by Kaffirs, many of whom died of
ptomaine poisoning.
Walter Wellman and other metuVrs
of his Arctic expedition left Paris for
Tromsoe, Norway. His mammoth air
ship and its appliances, weighing 50
tons, occupied a special freight train.
Foreign Secretary Santiago de La
guardia, of Panama, has resigned. It
is reported that he will now devote his
time to pushing his candidacy for the
first vice presidency.
The English Salvation Army, to re
lieve the congested districts in the East
End of London, plans to .set up a set
tlement of 10.000 persons in South.
America.
The Moor cobbler Mesfewi, who mur
dered 36 women after being tlogged
daily for some time,
alive in Tangier. Hi
was walled up
died in a few
days.
Former British Colonial Secretary
Lyttlcton and Sir Frederick Banbury
have been elected to the House of
Commons.
The rebel chief Bambaata was killed
in the fighting in Natal and the revolt
is now expected to die out.
In a battle between the Southern Ni
gerian Regiment and the rebels in the
Asaba Hinterland, West Africa, uianv of
the rebels were killed, and the British
casualties were 2 I killed ami 27 wounded
hen .Military procurator 1 avlolt an
nounced m :he Lower house of the Rus
sian Parliament that death sentences
Would not be ali .li-hed then- were crie
of "A-sa-inl" "Murderer'.''
Wiinam J. P.ryau was present during
the agrarian debate in the Russian
nrtima and talked with the leader of
the Group of Toil, the most radical ele
no-lit in parliament.
I. any .iary Hamilton, tne richest wa-
111:111 111 1 .real I'.ntain, was married to
the Marquis of Graham, eldest .son oi
the Duke on Montro-e.
i riiK c Cariati, Italian minister to
Brazil, whose appointment as ambissa
dor to Washington had been considered
is probable, died at Rome
Nine men were kil'ed and some forty
injured by ail explosion on the British
steamer Haverforu, at Liverpool, from
Philadelphia.
Official inquiry into the death of Father
Gapon, the Russian revolutionist, has re
suited in a verdict 01 murder.
Cant. S. C. Bull and four other British
military officers were mobbed by natives
near iantah, Egypt.
l.-.mperor imam has made 1 rivy
Counselor Goldberger a member of the
expert commission to make an American
collection tor the Koyal .Museum 01
Ethnohy.
A decree of divorce without a con
troversv is expected in the Castellane
case, and an adjustment will be effected
with Count Botii's creditors.
Twenty Greeks were killed and )K
wounded in an attack made on them bv
a superior Turkish force. The Turks
lost three.
Prince HidirU-gr.fi was killed in the
street in Kiitais. Russia.
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bryan ar
rived in St. Petersburg and were enter
'.since! by Ambassador and Mrs. Meyer.
One of the chief Zulu rebels and hi
sons have been captured and brought into
the British camp.
Lieut. Col. Percy E. Hobbs, chief in
structor oi the Army Service Corps
School of Instruction at Aldershot, has
been unpointed by tne British govern
ntent to proceed to the United States
r.nd inspect all tins 01 meat intended to:
the British army.
Tiie indictments against Postmaster
Oreir.rr, of Buffalo, ch.rging bribery,
were dismissed.
MASSACRE OF
JEWS IN RUSSIA
Terrible Battle of the Sects Sages at
Bialjstok.
BOMB TBBOWN INTO PROCESSION.
Nandradaaf Vltilms Troopallaible te-Restors
Order-Be al Sloret lha City Sck-Jews
Flea le Nelihborlai Towns, Pursued by Mob
-Said at St Petersburg Tbat Iba Outbreak
Was Deliberately Plaoed.
Bialystok, Russia, (By Cable). An
anarchist, who, the authorities say, i
a Jew, thew a bomb into the Corpus
Christi procession here and killed or
wounded many peasons. In consequence,
Jie Christians attacked and massacred
the Jews and demolished their shoo.
Hundreds of persons were killed or
wounded.
The bomb was thrown from the bal
cony of a house in Alexandrov street.
A Russian clergyman maned Fedroroff
was among those killed by the explosion.
Immediately after the explosion Jews
began to fire with revolvers from the
windows of the house into the crowd.
Soldiers surrounded the house and fired
two volleys into the windows. Mean
while the enraged Christians attacked
the Jewsh stores in Alexandrov and
Suraz streets, demolishing the fixtures
and windows and throwing the goods in
to the gutters and beating and murder
ing the Jews. A crowd of Jews ficd to
the railroad station, pursued by the mob,
which killed many of thero there. Three
Jews were thrown from M-cond-story
windows of the railroad station building.
The Jews are fleeing from Bialystok
to the neighboring forest and mobs are
nursuinff them. Detachments of dra
goons have been sent out to protect the
Jews.
Jews arriving here on railway trains
have lieen dragged out of the cars and
many of them have been mitrderedl
Troops have cleared the railway station.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable). The lat
est dispatches from Bialystok, received
about midnight, report a situation of the
utmost gravity. 1 he anti-Jcwisn out
break there was still raging; fighting
as in progress in the streets; the br
ing was continuous; the best stores in
the city had been sacked and many were
dead or wounded.
The signal for the outbreak, which ap-
arently was deliberately planned, per
haps as a counter-stroke for the murder
of Chief of Police Derkatchoff on June
10. which was attributed to Jewish bund-
ists, is given as the explosion of a bomb
during a religious procession. This was
followed by revolver fusillades in several
quarters of the city. The police are said
not to have attempted to interfere 111 the
early stages of the riot.
The Jews, who number three-lourths
of the population of the xrity, offered
the best resistence possible, many of
them being armed, but were unable to
prevent the pillaging of their homes and
laces of business, Finallv the military
interfered, but without being able to re
store order. Reinforcements have been
rushed to Bialvstok from Grodno.
Several members of parliament received
messages from Jewish correspondents
at Bialvstok declaring that the police ap
parently had given over the Jewish po
pulation to slaughter and pillage. These
correspondents urged that the only hope
was 111 an appeal to the ministry ot the
interior to interfere in their behalf. A
lelegation of deputies immediately called
at the headquarters of the police depart
ment, where they were informed that all
measures possible had been taken to stop
excesses and restore order.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOR FRISCO.
Leaders of Senate and House Approve Plana
to Loan City Ten Millions.
Washington, D. C. With a view to
securing readv monev wnicn may oe
borrowed on mortgages for the rebuild
ing of San Francisco, a pian has received
the approval of leaders in both the Sen
ate and House to put an amendment on
the Sundrv Civil Bill in the Senate au
thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to deposit $10,000,000 of the public funds
in San Francisco banks, creating them
government depositories.
The deposit is to be made in accord
ance with present law governing such
deposits, with the exception that the
money shall remain on deposit for a term
of vears vet to be determined. The
uggestion is that it be four, five or ten
vears.
A local improvement company is to
be organized to borrow the money from
the banks and loan it to property owners
wishing to rebuild.
walled him up alive.
A Moor Who Murdered Talrtj-SIx Women-
Bodies Burled Under Shop.
London (By Cable). A dispatch from
Tangier to a news agency here says :
'According to advices from Mara-
kesh, the Cobbler Mesfewi. who had
ieen convicted of the murder of 3(1
women, whose bodies were found buried
under his shop and in his garden, has
expiated his crime.
Instead of being crucified, as had
been intended, at the last moment it was
ordered that he be walled up alive.
Previous to the final act 111 the tragedy
Mesfewi was subjected to daily tlog-
gmgs.
While the masons were working they
were surrounded by a mob, who jeered
.Mesfewi. 1 he first two davs of his
entombment the cobbler screamed con
tinuously, but the third day the living
tomb gave forth no sound. It is pre
sumed the murderer died of exhaustion."
Dreyfus Casa Again.
Paris (By Cable). The Supreme
Court litgan consideration of the results
of the inquiry which has been going on
for the last 27 months relative to grant
ing Alfred Dreyfus another trial. The
hearings are secret, Procurator General
Beaudoin ami Maitre Mornas, respec
tiveiy, summing up the arguments
against and for a retrial. The private
sessions will last four days, after which
the public argument will be made.
decis-ion is expected at the end of the
month.
Esprisa Compioy Robbed ol $10,000.
New York (Special). Louis "Gross
man, a 19-year-old helper on a wagon
of the United States F.xpress Company
was arrested in this city charged with
having devised and operated a system
whereby he and bis brother, William
Grossman, robbed the express company
of nearly $10,000 worth of good:
Wiiliam was also arrested. The police
allege that the goods were shipped to
oungstown, O., and that W illiam
Grossman went there to receive them,
Most of them have been recovered.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
President Roosevelt signed the bil! ad
mining Oklahoma and Indian Territory
as a state, and allowing Arizona and New
Mexico to decide whether they wanted to
come in as one state.
In arguing against the bill to incor
porate the Lake Erie and Ohio. River
Ship Canal, Senator Patterson intimated
that k was a stockjobbing scheme.
Attorney General Moody has started
an investigation to find out whether
there is any illegal combination for put
ting up the price of ice.
The House passed the joint resolution
restricting the purchase of supplies and
equipment for the Panama Canal to
American bidders.
Congressman Rufus E. Lester died
from injuries received in falling through
a skylight at the Cairo Apartment house.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill
was passed. It carries a total appropria
tion of $94,587,070.
It is understood that the House will
yield to the President on the M-cat In
spection Bill.
By a decisive vote the House refused
to sanction the purchase of materials
in the markets of the world for the
Panama Canal.
It was stated on authority that the
President will veto any bill that pro
vides for a sea-level canal across the
Isthmus.
The Diplomatic and Consular Appro
priation Bill us agreed upon raises the
legislation at Brazil and Turkey to em
bassies. The House Committee agreed to the
Senate Bill making the hours for rail
way trainmen Jo hours, with a rest of
ten hours.
The provision for traveling expenses
for the Keep Commission was stricken
out of the Sundry Civil Bill by the
House.
Commander Mulligan, of the cruiser
Marblehcad. has been instructed not to
seu-e the filbustering steamer Empire.
By a vote of 110 to .16 the House de
cided that the Panama Canal should be
of a lock type.
The The conference report on the
Statehood Bill was adopted by the House,
the final passage being marked by an im
petuous reply of tlie Seaker to an in
sinuation of Delegate Smith of 'Arizona.
A bulletin of the Department of Com
merce and Labor siiows that the foreign
commerce for the fiscal vear will exceed
that of any previous year in exports and
imports.
The President announced bis opposi
tion to the House substitute for the Bev-
ridge meat inspection amendment to the
Agricultural Appropriation Bill.
An agreement was reached in the Seu-
aje to put the question of a sea-level or
lock canal at Panama to a vote.
The Senate Committee ordered a favor
able report on the bill to increase the ef
ficcincy of the Coast Artillery.
Victor H. Olmsted was appointed stat.
istician of the crop reporting board of
the Department of Agriculture.
President Roosevelt delivered the diplo-
msa and made an address to the gradu
ates of Georgetown Colegc.
Senator Alice, of Delaware, presented
the credentials of bis colleague, Senator
DuPont.
The House Committee on Agriculture
by a vote of 9 to 7, agreed on a meat
inspection amendment to the Agricul
tural Appropriation Bill, which places
the cost of inspection .on the Government
Despite the attack made by Chairman
lawney, of the Appropriations Lorn
mittee, on the Geological Survey, the
House increased the appropriation for
that bureau.
.Major Hugh L. Scott, Fourteenth Cav.
alrv, has been selected to succeed Gen
eral Mills as superintendent of the Mil
itary Academy at W est Point.
Ihe Senate adopted the conference re
port on the Statehood Bill, which was
also introduced in the House and received
with favor.
The provision for pneumatic tube ser-
ivce in Baltimore is in the Postoffice
Appropriation Bill, as agreed upon by
the conferees.
Secretary Taft is urging definite ac
tion by Congress on the matter of settling
the type of the Panama Canal.
The Diplomatic and Consular Appro
priation Bill was sent to conference.
Killed 3,114 In Philippines.
Washington, (Special). An official
summary of colcra in the Phillipine is
lands during the present epidemic, from
the outbreak last August and up to
April 21 last, shows a grand total of
4,09.3 cases and 3,114 deaths. During
that period there were 3,810 cases and
2.H62 deaths from that cause in the prov
inces and 2S3 cases and 252 deaths in
Manila.
Auto Kills Wealthy Woman.
Kansas City, (Spocial). Mrs. C. H
Patterson, wife of the president of the
Bankers' Trust Company, of this citv
was instantly killed. The large automo
bile in which she was riding with her
husband, daughter and driver, L. A
Phillips, collided with two trolley cars at
Fifth and Harrison streets, causing the
gasoline tank on the machine to explode
The other occupants of the car escaped
serious injury.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.
W. L. Bull says there is still a big
short interest in Heading.
Gross earnings of the American Rail
ways' subsidiary companies for May in
creased over $12,000.
San Francisco has now returned $u.
500,000 of the $42,000,000 which it re
cently took lrom the tast.
There are rumors in bituminous coal
circles that the Pennsylvania Kailroad
will purchase all the private coal cars
on its lines.
Erie will have earned this fiscal year,
which ends June 30, about i'A per cent.
on its common stock, wjiich amounts to
$1 12.000,000.
It is proposed to float a large loan in
Wall Street for the purpose of rebuild
ing San Francisco. 1 he sum to be
raised will hardly be less than $75,000.
000. A well-known Philadelphia insur
ance man says the best estimates put
the total hre loss at vw5i00o,ooo.
Delaware & Hudson rose 11 points
and Delaware & Lackawanna 8 points.
The former is still 15 points under its
top price? of last Autumn.
New York Central's gross earnings in
Mav increased $1 12,739. Other railroads
for the same month report gains
gross earnings a follows : Lake Shore,
$"i637; Lake Erie Si Western, $14,387
Michigan Central, $229,236; Big Four,
$210,87; Peoria & Eastern, $34,769
Cincinnati Northern, $19,783; New York,
Chicago & St. Louis, $155,688; Pitts
burg & Lake Erie, $160,551..
DEADLY CRASH
ON STEAMSHIP
Mjstertoos Explosion on Vessel at
v Liverpool.
NINE KILLED AND FORTY INJURED.
Official al Compaoy Advance a Theory Thai
the Exploalaaa Was Caused bj Ijolllon al
daa From Naptba Soap Report that aa
Infernal Machin aa Aboard-Bodlea ol
tba Victims Dismembered.
Liverpoo., (By Cable). -Nine men
were instantly killed and about 40 were
wounded as the result of a terrific ex
plosion on the British steamer Haver
ford, of the International Navigation
Company. The vessel is commanded by
Captain Nielson, arrived here Wednes
day from Philadelphia, landed her pass
engers and proceeded to Huskisson
Dock in order to unload. The stevedores
were in the act of looscing the steamer's
hatches when suddenly a violent explo
sion occurred.
It blew off the hatches, rent the decks
and hurled dead and wounded men in
all directions. Several bodies were dis
membered and the deck resembled the
fioor of a charnel-house. Tha cause of
the cplosion is a mystery. Much excite
ment was caused by a report that an in
fernal machine concealed on the vessel
had exploded. Fire followed the ex
plosion. The cargo, consisting of linseed
oil cake, in hold No. 2 and hold No. 3,
was soon blazing fiercely.
Firemen and policemen hurried to tne
pot, and the injured were quickly taken
) a neighlonng hospital, while tne
ork of searching for further possible
casualties proceeded with vigor, in spite
of the fierceness of the lire, whicn soon
assumed alarming proportions, owing to
the inflammable nature of the cargo.
After two hours' hard fight, however,
the firemen obtained the mastery of the
mics.
The report that the explosion was due
to an infernal machine arose from the
finding of a wooden box a fixit square
in one of the holds. This box, which
was only partly shattered, still contained
pieces of steel machinery. It was promi
nently marked, "For Manchester, Eng.-'
The officials of the International Navi
gation Company have taken charge of
the box, but they do not attach mucli
importance to the theory of foul play,
and say that the presence of the box in
the hold was a mere accident. The of
ficials say they believe the explosion was
due a barrel of naptba and the ignition
of gas given off by naptba soap, which
formed part of the cargo.
Outwardly little harm has been done
to the ves-sel beyond the rents .in the
deck, but inside the damage is extensive,
both by the explosion and the fire.
Manager W illctt, of the International
-inc. after making an examination of the
holds accompanied by an analytical chem
ist, said that at present is was impossible
to state definitely the cause of the dis
aster. No explosives of any kind were
on board, so far as known. Ihe holds,
however, will be kept just as they were
left after the explosion until the arrival
of an inspector of explosives from the
home office, when a thorough expert in
vestigation will be r.iade, and it is hoped
to determine the cause of the explosion.
Several victims of the disaster are un
recognizable.
A "SURPLUS OF WOMEN.
Fourteen Females lo Thirled Males in
Waibioglon.
Washington, D. C, (Special). Old
maids who live in Washington have
been appalled by the fact that there are
11,829 more women in this city than
there are men, and that out of every
14 women in this district 13 can get
husbands if the men want them, while
the fourteenth will have to live single or
import herself a man from some other
place. These figures are the result of
the census just taken by the police. The
total population of the town is 326,435
of whom 157,303 are men and 169,132 are
women. Ihi white population is 231.
417, and the colored population is 95.018,
so that the colored people constitute
nearly one-third of the population. It is
stated that the reason why there are so
many less men in Washington than wo
men is because the government depart
menu are very inviting and attract
young women from all over the country,
while the fact that there are no business
of manufacturing establishments of anv
importance 111 tins citv drive ambitious
young men away to other towns, thus
bringing about striking disproportion be
twecn men and women in this city.
Mrs. Dowie Suea For Home.
Muskegon, Mich., (Special). Mrs.
Jane Dowie. in the Muskegon County
Circuit Court, hied a bill petitioning to
have Dowie s Jiioo.ooo lute Lake sum
mer home property, deeded some time
ago bv Deacon V ohva to Deacon uran
ger, given back to her. She alleges that
when Dowie invested Vohva with the
power of attorney it was intended to
cover only his possessions, and that the
summer home lias always been in her
name. A bitter fight is expected over
the property.
Dr. Brumbaugh Elected. .
Philadelphia (Special). Dr. Martin
G. Brumbaugh, professor of pedagogy
at the University of Pennsylvania, was
elected president of the public schooU
of Philadelphia by the Board of Educa
tion to succeed Dr. Edward Brooks, who
resigned because of ill health. The
board also increased the salary of the
superintendent lrom ?5,ooo to $7,500 a
year.
Ta Merge Coal and Iron Companies.
New York, (Special). Controlling In
terests in the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company and the Republic Iron anil
Steel Company have been meeting daily
for the last week considering plans for
the development and enlargement of their
properties. The two concerns will be
consolidated and a joint issue of securi
ties placed on the market. John A. Top
Ding, the chairman, Jonn W. dates, I.
C. Hanna and other practical steel men
are participating.
Afuloaldo a Reformer.
Manila, (By Cable).Aguinaldo has
come out in retirement to give a long
interview to a local paper- on the evils
of gambling among the people. Native
leaders of all parties are taking up the
question of gambling and are working
with the Americans to secure govern
ment prohibition of cockpits. Aguinaldo
says that the present depressed condition
of the islands is the result to a great
extent of this universal vice. He has
promised to attend a public meeting
called to secure tne suppression ot this
evil.
STEAMSHIP BURNED; T 0 LIVES LOST, j
Shipping and Other Property Destroyed
In Baltimore.
Baltimore (Special). One of the
greatest fires since the big conflagration
of 1904 occured on the water front early
Wednesday morning.
The steamer Essex and the Savannah
Wharf of the Merchants and Miners' j
1 ransportation company, as wen n
eight barges loaded with cotton and
rosin, were' totally destroyed, with a loss
which will probably be over $1,000,000.
The fire started about 1.30 o'clock,
but at 4 o'clock it was under control.
A crew of 40 men were aboard ths
Essex when the fire broke out, and they
were seen to jump into the harobr to
save themselves. Two of them were
burned to death.
On the south side of the harbor the
packing house of Moore St Brady Com
pany was considerably damaged. It
caught afire from the barges and the
Essex when they floated across the har
bor after being cut loose from their
moorings.
The fire was discovered by Charles
Nelson, one of the watchmen. William
League, a watchman for Filbert's Ce
ment Company, however, saw the flames
at the same time and he fired two shots
from his revolver. He attracted the
attention of F. A. Courtney, anothet
watchman on the pier, who was on his
rounds.
Patrolman Gamier, of the Eastern dis
trict, a few minutes after the shot was
fired located the fire and sounded ar
alarm from Box 135. As soon as tin
firemen arrived a general alarm was
sounded, and Chief Horton, who came
upon the scene shortly afterwards, took
charge of the fire.
The fire made quick headway, and be
fore manv minutes had elapsed the en
tire wharf, which is 690 feet long, was
in a solid mass of flames.
The steamer Essex, which arrived ir
port several nights ago, ;md which wai
half unloaded, was lying alongside ol
the south end of the wharf, and befon
word could be passed, she caught hr
and was towed out into the harbor, burn
ing fiercely.
Eight scows and barges tbat were alsc
ing alongside of the wharf were ig
nited at once and were soon complete);
destroyed. A number of them wen
towed out into midstream so as tr
prevent them from setting fire to adjoin
ing property.
The barges and scows were loadec
with cotton and rosin, and the flame;
made a beautiful sight, blazing fiercely
and the heat from them being intense.
They were towed with extreme dif
ficulty out into stream, and the tugs that
endeavored to take them away fron
the wharf were slightly singed. Tin
tugs that did the work volunteered, anil
the crews were placed in imminent dan
ger of losing their lives.
The residents of four houses on the
north side of Block Street, facing the
wharf, were panic-stricken, and for
awhile it looked as though their homes
were doomed and that the fire would
sweep on toward the north and destroy
the many lumber yards and warehouses
in that section.
The police of the Central and East
ern districts, however, did noble work
and assisted the people to places of safe-
I wo old women, .Mrs. O ,eil! and
Mrs. Wells, residing at 1 130 Block
Street, locked themselves in and Ser
geants BrufT and Forrest bad lo break
into the house and carry them out.
They were carried on sictcbers to the
Central district ambulance and taken to
the Citv Hospital, Mrs. Wells being
cxtremelv sick.
The other occupants of the houses got
to places of safely along the Falls.
W reckers Alter "Penosy."
Marietta, Ohio, (Special). A south
bound passenger train on the Pennsyl
vania railroad jumped the track at Llba
while going 40 miles an hour. The loco
motive, baggage car and tender went "
over an embankment, and the rest of the
train run to the edge of the bank. En
gineer Vaughan was severely scalded,
and Fireman Shackles was internally in
jured and may die. J. J. Maroncy, of
Marietta, was cut by glass. 1 he smok
ing car, containing 60 passengers, was
overturned, but no one was seriously in
jured. The day couch also left tic
track, but no one was hurt.
Wile Saw Him Killed.
Bridgeport, Cl. (Special). Charles E.
Weidlicb, a manufacturer, of this city.
was killed instantly and four othir per
sons were seriously Injured by the over
turning of a trolley car in r airfield,
which is just west of Bridgeport. The
car was rounding a curve under full
power, und it jumped the track and ran
along the roadway, for 75 feet and turned
over on its side, pinning four passengers
under it. Mr, Wcidlich's skull nvas frac
tured, several ribs were broken, and he
was actually crushed to dealh in the
presence of his wife and three children.
Patrick Octa Slay.
Canton, Ohio (Special). Justice Day,
of the United States Supreme Court,
granted a stav writ of appeal and conse
quently a stav of execution to Ailor-
, . t 1 .if . t .,sn ,i ,
ney iinasay in neuan 01 ninerr 1. t ai
rick. of New York. It will be heard by
the Supreme Court in October. The
action was brought before Justice Dav
because Chief Justice Fuller and other
members of the fuiprcmd Court arc
widely scattered on their vacation trips.
Alabama Miners' Wages.
Birmingham, Ala., (Special). The
district convention of the United Mine
Workers accepted the scale for the en
suing year presented by the committee
on scale. The only change from last
year is in differentials.
Must Improva Meat Plants.
Chicago, (Special). The City Health
Department sent its first official written
notices to the packing companies at ti:
Unidn Stock Yards to improve the sani
tary conditions of their . plants. The
packers were instructed that they must
within three days discard the filthy
tables and benches, provide cleaner rooms
and tools and correct some of the pres
ent unsanitary conditions. - Structural
changes in the buildings, including new
toilet romms and more ventilation and
light, must be made within 30 days.
Roumaalaaa Blown Up.
Roanoke, Va. (Special) While work
men were trying to, remove the tamping
from a hole in a rock where dynamite
had been placed for a blast an explo
sion occurred at the Bear Wallace con
struction camp, on the Tidewalcr rail
road, 15 miles west of Roanoke, blowing
up II Roumanians. Two men were
killed outright and two more died after
reaching the hospital at Radford. Two
others are in a precarious condition, one
suffering with a badly fractured skull
and the other with ruptured intestine;, ,
TtlE KEYSTONE STATE
Tba Latest Peansylvaola News Tald la Ssm
Ordar. -
As he was being taken to Jail
stealing $25 from the saloon of Joh
Dilker, 13-year-old Anthony Caspar ot
Shenandoah, confessed to Constibli
Busch that he was persuaded to cum.
mit the theft by a tramp, who gave hini
a watch as a reward. The youthful tkit
was captured by Dilkcr's daughter aftu
an exciting chase.
W. W. Seaman.'dicd at his home run
Nauvoo. He was a successful number
man and speculator in coal lands. He
located 33,000 acres of bituminous cm'
land in Clearfield County for the Vm.
dcrbilt interests, also large tracts f0
the Pennsylvania Railway Company.
His age was 58 years.
Major John Wcldman Mish, treasury
of the Lebanon Gas Company for fift)
years, and a retired lawyer, died tt hi,
home in tint city, aged 84 years. Thotigl
a strong Democrat, he was the first 1
trict Attorney of the country, havint
won on personal popularity, He alsr,
held other political offices and was ex
tensively interested in industrial and
banking enterprises in the city. He wai
prominent in Masonic and Odd Fellow
circles. He was a noted pedestrian and
headed many excursions of the Fooi
Gander Club to the Blue Mountain
every hill of which he knew, and when
he maintained a well provisioned cot
tage for many years.
At the regular meeting of the Borougli
Council held at West Chester a resolu
tion was passed for the borrowing 0)
$250,000 for a new sewer and dispose
plant and to make a new sewer systetr
and agreed on July 31 as a day for th
people to vote on the proposition.
Six Italian merchants charged witl
selling cottonseed and other oils for pun
olive oil, were arraigned before Alder
man Brown at Wilkes-Barre at the in
stance of R." M. Simmers, agent of tha
Pure Food Department. Each gave
$300 bail for trial.
Daniel Muninger, aged 55 years, ol
Mountain Grove, is dying from starva
tion. His jaws are locked and he i!
unable to partake of solid foods. Thi?
condition has existed for some time and
his death is expected hourly.
Brooding over imaginary family trou
bles, Henry Uhrich, a North Londonrrrj
Township farmer, aged 45, hanged him
self to a rafter in his barn by his hitch
ing strap. He was found by his wife.
Trudging his way wearily toward the
countv almshouse at Schiivlkill Haven,
John Howell, of Mabanoy City, dropptd
upon the highway at St. Clair with a
broken heart, the humiliation being too
much for him. From a well-to-do con
dition he was reduced to abject poverty
in a -few years... JJe was picked up and
removed in a conveyance to Schuylkill
Haven, but died at the very portals of
the institution he had set out to reach.
According to Andrew Serania's idea
of marriage a husband should have the
right to beat his wife without interfer
ence. He delivered himself of this opin
ion when arrested at Malunoy City for
presenting his wife with a pair of dis
colored eyes. The justice didn't share
the prisoner's views and committed him
to the country Jail.
Mrs. Mary F. Myers, of York, widow
of J. C. Myers, one of the men killed in
the dynamite disaster, near Pequea entered
suit against thi G. P. McAbee Powder &
Oil Company, of Httsburg, the operators
of the plant which was blown up. The
widow claims $15,000 damages and al
leges negligence on the part of the com
pany. It is said numerous other suits
will follow.
Mrs. William H. Boweu. of Morton,
was opening a bottle of grape juk-e and
the bottle exploded. A piece of broken
glass struck hc.r in the eye, cutting the
eyeball in two. She was taken to a
Philadephia hospital, where the eye was
taken out.
The Standard Scheen Works, Limited,
at Glen Rock, has passed into the hands
of receivers. The liabilities of the com
pany are $17,277, and the asets $10,500.
The Young Men's Democratic Society,
of York, has elected the following offi
cers: President, T. B. G. Hiestand first
vice-president, Isaac S. Marks; second
vice-president, Michael Stambaugh; sec
retary, W. V. Van Banian; assistant
secretary, Samuel Kauffman; treasurer,
Elmer S. Frey, and trustee, Edwin G.
Dempwolf.
Rev. J. B. Baker, pastor, of St. Peter's
Lutheran Church, New York, has re
signed to accept a call to the Lutheran
Church at Newport.
Highland Lodge, No. 19, ' Knights oi
Pythias, was instituted at Somerset by
Virgil R. Saylor, of Somerset, district
deputy grand chancellor, with a member
ship of 23.
During a storm at Treverton, lightning
tore the residence of Jacob Holzappcl
almost apart." His w'ifc was flung lrom
her bed by the house being wrecked,
Sl."e was shocked by the electric bolt so
badly that for two hours she remained
unconscious. One of her children nar
rowly escaped being crushed by a chim
ney collapsing.
While nearly Aa thousand people stood
on the bank, Joseph Lameski, aged 20.
and his cousin, Sophia Laneski, aged I
were drowned in the Little Lake, i
Westview Park, on the edge of Alle
gheny City. ' The congregation of the
Immaculate Heart Church was holding
a picnic, Joseph and Sophia and another
couple went boat riding. After a time
the men tried to change places, but up
set the skiff, and all four went into the
water. Lake Keeper Farrell saved one
couple, but the other two did not re
appear on the surface. The water was
but five feet deep, but the victims were
held fast by the mud. A hundred men,
members of the congregation, plunged i"
to the rescue, but it was an hour later
before the bodies were recovered.
John Mahoney died at his home at St
Clair, aged 105 years. He was the old
est man in Pennsylvania. Mr. Mahoney
wait also the oldest miner in the State,
having worked most of his life beneath
the ground in the chambers of mine op
erations. . He was a native of Ireland,
but had Jived in this country for oyer
eighty years. He retained his faculties
to the last and never wore glasses. He
is survived by numerous descendants.
His age waswell authenticated by local
and family records,
Edward L. Boyd has been appointed
post master at Doe Run.
Stephen Boccia, an Italian, was con
victed of murder in the first degree nt
Easton. He shot and killed his wife who
was only 14 years old. Boccia had prac
tically no defense. He admitted the
crime and said he shot his wife because,
she spat in his face whea he asked her
to live with him.
Scared by a train, Raymond Cook's
team ran away near Shamokin. Cook in
trying to jump to the ground became en
tangled In the reins. He was dragged
300 yard and badly injured. During the
wild journey be wa almost struck by H
locomotive as fc horses tora over rail
road.