1
TENT LIFE SUITS
FRISCO PEOPLE
Thousands Are Sti I in the Refggte
Camps.
TOE CLIMATE IS IN ITS FAVOB.
Tm Hit Ba Pal li deed Shape, a
Tketf Sanitary CasdltUst Art Ik Bt
Ckssfj Tbil Hv Tikea Plc Use ibt
ftr People Art Accustomed I LItIo
TM Wty sad Ey It
San Prancisco, Cat (Special). Were
On familiar with conditions in San
Francisco, to drop down in the city at
9m present time he would undoubtedly
bngine that there had been a return to
We earl mitring days, (or the refugee
ttmpa, Katie red all over the city where
ktt there may be a vacant lot, gfve the
ppeannca of the Western boom towns
4t In hsuuu growth with which Amer
icans krre become to familiar. When
aocyoco of the residents of San Francisco
era rendered homeless by the great fire
(be changed conditions of living brought
to great hardships, for San Franciscans
ar aoetntonicd to the outdoor life, made
ao Inviting by California'! climatic con
dition, and when the fire came a large
pamber of them were in the midst of
ndr annual preparations for a summer's
Anting under tents in the woods, on the
Mountains or by the seashore. It is a
fact worthy of mention that hundreds
of those driven from their homes by the
flre carried with them their own tents,
, which were pitched with the skill of a
! jaleran, either on some vacant lot or
amid the shades of some park. The re
i ault of this was that these camps, wheth
)r under governmental supervision or
' npdrr individual care, operated under
i (deal conditions impossible of realtza
t Sort anywhere else than in California.
Daring those three memorable days
while the fire was raging In rhe heart
. of the city there was no order in the
migration of the people. The idea was
to get to a place of safety, consequently
every open place was pre-empted by
"squatters," regardless of uniformity or
' regadarvry in laying out the various
camps. Fully 25,000 refugees fled to
Oolden Gate Park, and 12,000 more to
' tfc government reservation at the Presi
, Ao. The others were scattered over the
hills about the city and in the various
amajl park9 in the western and southern
, aection. According to the computa
tion! of the California Promotion Com
1 msttee, 173,000 people slept outside of
houses on the second night of the fire,
While 25,000 were housed with friends
who were not in the danger line.
It was a most heterogeneous conglom
( esation of people thus thrown together,
, and the disaster obliterated all social
Mne and sent the people back to first
J pooclples. Rich and poor, high and
Jew were on a level in this common mis
I fbrttme, and Die color line was so ef
: festively obliterated that it was no un
tommon occurrence to see Caucasians,
1 Mongolians and negjpes in fraternal dis
cussion of the events of the day, and
' tharing with each other the provender
upplied by the commissary department.
The camp within the gates of the Pre
Mio was the first to adopt systematic
roles and come under regulations. Tents
jVere issued to all who applied, and at
4rst they were permitted to place them
' as they pleased. The restriction against
flres within the reservation was raised,
and people were permitted to cook on
the streets in front of the tents. The
anitary regulations of this camp were
perfect from the beginning, and when
the Red Cross assumed charge 10 days
later rot a case of illness had been re
ported. Bejore the end of the second
week the tents were all repitched by the
loldiers, and everyone made as com
fortable as circumstances would permit,
with commissary supplies given out with
liberal hand.
The process of elimination has been
at work among these tent dwellers so
Successfully that but 40,000 remain.
Gradually the authorities are concentrat
ing these into two large camps in order
to facilitate the distribution of supplies,
and now it is becoming a problem to
Induce these people to return to homes
in the city or to enter the barracks which
are being erected for them at conven
ient locations.
FINOS HER MOTHER STRANGLED.
flerrlble Crime la a California Village Two
Arretted on Suspicion.
San Francisco (Special). Mr?. Eliza
beth Erandrup, 42 years old, in the little
village of Baden, San Mateo County, was
murdered Friday afternoon. Her body,
with marks of the assassin's fingers 011
the throat, was discovered by her 15-years-old
daughter, I.i;-zie, in an unused
portion of the Linden Hotel, where the
crime was committed. The storeroom is
apart from the rest of the house. Its
;door Is not opened once in six months.
Friday evening 15-year-old Lizzie Mc
Donnell was impelled to enter it. While
ihe stood debating with herself whether
to go in or net, she heard, or, rather,
thought she heard, her mother calling
her from the room. She immediately
opened the door. There lying on the
floor, her face covered with a white
doth, her neck and head bearing traces
of a strangler's hands, lay the dead body
of her mother. George C. Jones, a half
breed Kanaka, and Harry H. Cocland
have been arrested, charged with the
murder, the motive for which has no:
yet been discovered.
Two Drowned I Potomac.
Everett, Ca., (Special). J. M. Stew
art, section foreman of the Seaboard Air
Line at Bladen, Ca., was shot and in
stantly killed by Oscar Knight, his ap
prentice. Knight shot him twice in the
back and when he fell fired seven shot
Into his body. The body was found in
front of Stewart's home. Jealousy of
his wife and Stewart is the cause given
by Knight, who was committed to
Brunswick jail charged with murder lv
the coroner's jury.
Mrs. Ledoux Uuilly.
Stockton, CaUSpeclal) With her hca I
high and a smile 011 hi r face, Mrs. Emma
Ledoux, charged with :!ie unrder of A.
N. McVicker, whose body was found in
a trunk at the Southern Pacific Depot,
in this city, sometime a;?o, heard the
.foreman of the jury, which tor over
three weeks has been listening to te:H:
mony. pronounce her guilty, as charged,
without recommendation of any kind.
She did not even turn pale or show the
!eat sign of excitement. The verdict
carrie with it the death penalty by
; banging.
LATESTNEWS 1NSH0RT0RDER
POMK8T10
The United State! District Court of
Kansas imposed fines aggregating $85,-
000 on the Burhnirton Kailroaa ana
Packer Swift. Cudhy, Armour and
Morrii and gave Jail sentence! to two
tretght brokers for violating tne anti
rebating clause of the Elkins law.
President Stickney, of the Chicago,
Great Western Railway, announced that
his railroad would at once discontinue
the practice of allowing grain elevator
rebates.
Richard Ivens was hanged for the
murder of Mrs. Bessie Hollister, in
Chicago. He made tio confession and
was in a state of collapse on the scaf
fold. An analysis of 4Q samples of r.ausagc
and hamburg stek in Indianapolis
proved that 3.1 of them contained chemi
cals prohibited by law.
Three small children of Charles Wucs
thorn, of Harrison, O., were burned to
death by the explosion of a gasoline
stove.
Prof. George B. Stevens, Pwight pro
fessor of systematic theology in the Yale
Divinity School, is dead.
An Italian woman testified at the coro
ner' investigation into the murder of
Mrs. Alice Kinnan, in New York, that
Mrs. Kinnan said she had been clubbed
by an attorney, with whom she had
quarreled over money matters.
The executive council of the Federa
tion of Labor named a committee to
call on Secretary Bonaparte in reference
to shipjoiners' and carpenters' wages.
J. E. Holloren, of Springfield. Mass.,
was elected president of the National
Association of Train Dispatchers, in
convention in Buffalo.
The cotton manufacturers of Fall
River, Mass., granted the operatives a
14 per cent, increase in wages. About
25.000 hands are benefited.
President Jacob Gould Schurman, ot
Cornell University, declares the nation
needs a new baptism of business honesty.
Mae C. Wood's suit in Omaha. Neb.,
against Senator Thomas C. Piatt was
dismissed.
John T. Winn, who was tired of ill
luck, threw himself from a New Y'ork
ferryboat.
A monument was unveiled on the old
Red Bank battlefield, near Woodbury,
N. J.
Mrs. Emma Kaufman, wife of a
wealthy Sioux Fall brewer, who is ac
cused of beating her maid-servant to
death, was pursued by a mob of women
crying "Lynch her!"
The Pennsylvania Railroad issues a
statement that President A. J. Cassatt
has not been asked to testify before the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Caleb H. Jackson, who said he was a
manufacturer, of Harrisburg, Pa., was
arrested in New York on a charge of
embezzling $10,000.
The police know who murdered Mrs.
C. D. Kinnan in upper New York, and
have the weapon with which the crime
was committed.
The Brooklvn Eaarle declares that Wil
liam Randolph Hearst controls a major
ity of the Democratic State Committee
of New Y'ork.
The Cleveland (0.) ice dealers charg
ed with conspiring to raise the price of
ice were found not guilty.
Eighty thousand dollars of the $100,-
000 voted by the Canadian Parliament
lor the relief of the San Francisco sut-
ferers has been forwarded to James D.
Phelan, president of the relief committee.
The Philadelphians accused of graft
in connection with the erection of the
Municipal Hospital were acquitted of
the charge of conspiracy by order of the
presiding judge.
A nephew and two nieces of he late
James A. Bailey, the circus man. will
contest the latter's will leaving millions
to his widow.
10KEIGN
The Russian Douma rejected a pro
posal to arraign the ministry for ineffi
ciency and complicity in the recent mas
sacre of Jews. An amendment offered
by the Constitutional Democrats de
manding a parliamentary ministry was
adopted.
The commission of the Russian Dau
nu that investigated the massacre at
Bialystok has reported that the police,
with the aid of military officers, were di
rectly responsible for the outbreak.
The Jews of Berlin held a meeting and
adopted resolutions expressing horror
at "the criminal barbarities of the Rus
sian authorities."
Guatemalan regular troops are re
ported to have crossed over into Salva
dor, thus committing an act of war.
The cornation of King Haakon and
Queen Maud passed off without any
trouble.
Tiie Central Association of German
Manufacturers decidtd to support the
temporary extension of the treaty duties
to the United States because German in
dustry was not at this time prepared for
a tariff war with the United Stairs.
William J. Bryan, in an interview at
Trondhicm, where he is attending the
coronation of King Haakon, declared
that trusts could not be controlled or
regulated, and should be exterminated
completely.
The Russian parliamentary comini-.-.-iuiiers
who investigated the massacre
of the Jews at Bialystok say the attacks
by the mobs could have been stopped
by energetic intervention of the police
and troops.
Five women suffragists were arrested
in London for causing a disturbance in
front of the residence of the chancellor
of the exchequer.
Emperor William has signed a decree
appointing his brother, Prince Henry of
Prussia, commander-in-chief of the Gcr
man navy.'
The schooner Bertha collided with the
steamer American off Dover, Eng., and
-ink. Eight persons were drowned.
Marianne Konopkovo has been arre-t-1
near Cracow charged with killing
more than .100 children.
The British government continues to
refuse to interfere in the Russian trou
bles. Mrs Rcid, wife of the American am
bassador, and Mrs. Nicholas I.ongworth
were the guests of the Duchess of Al
bany at tea at Claremont, near Eslier.
Surrey.
Socialist deputies objected vigorously
in the Swiss National Council against
he proposed interdiction of American
ire-ervcd meats.
M. Lodygensky, the Liberal govcrno-
who tried to stop the Black Hundred
agitation at Vologda, Russia, lias been
removed from office.
A band of Pulajancs attacked tin
town of Bnrauen, on the Island o
' evte, and killed five policemen, losin;;
their own Itader.
The Sultan of Morocco has yielded
'o France in her demands for reparation
for the murder of a French citizen in
Morocco,
Adherents of the Sultan of Morocco
made an unsuccessful attempt to assas
sinate Bu Hamara, the pretender.
CONGRESS AND
RUSSIA'S HORROR
A Vigorous
Resolution
Mr. Gill.
Offered By
WILL DO NO MORE THAN SYMPATHIZE.
RtprMeoitlv 0111, la HI Ritolilloa Say
lot America People Wiot t Kaow
"tt'ker i Place lb Respoiilblllly lor
Thai Uatpkibl Crimea" Calta Upoa
tb Presides! For Information.
Washington, D. C. ( Special). Since
the recent massacre of the Jew! at Bialy
stok, in Russia, resolutions either ex
pressing the sympathy of the American
people with the unfortunate Jews and
the indignation aroused by their oppres
sion, or calling upon the President to
transmit to Congress what information
this government has, if any, regarding
the massacres, have been introduced in
Congress; but no resolution introduced
in either house approach in vigor the
terms of a preamble and resolution in
troduced by Representative Gill, of Bal
timore. After reciting the outrages perpetrated
upon the unfortunate Jews, Mr. Gill goes
on to ay that the people of this country
desire to know "where to pjace the re
sponsibility for these unspeakable crimes,
so that their recurrence may be rendered
unlikely in the future." He then calls
upon the President to send the House
and official information that he may have
regarding the matter.
Mr. Gill's resolutions read as follows:
"Whereas, the unofficial advices from
Bialystok concerning the massacre of the
Jews describe atrocities which outrage
human feelings, atrocities more horrify
ing that those perpetrated by the Turks
upon the Armenians, and add onother
bloody chapter to the history of the oft
repeated Russian massaccs in which
thousands of Jews have perished; and
Whereas, these advices further state
that the brutality of the Russian mobs
vented itself in savage torture, in fiend
ish mutilation of the dead and in dia
bolic rending of innocent babes limb from
imb before the eves of their frantic
mothers, and that the police and soldiers
connived at or participated in the car
nage; and
hereas, the members of this body
and the people of this country who sym
pathize with the persecuted and the op
pressed of all races, desire to know
where to place the responsibility for these
unspeakable crimes, so that their recur
rence may be rendered unlikely in the
future; therefore, be it
"Resolved by the House of Represen
tatives of the United State of America,
That the President, who rendered such
signal service to the cause of humanity
by bringing about peace between Russia
and Japan, be respectfully requested, if
he finds is compatible with public inter
ests, to transmit to this body such of
ficial information concerning the details
of the Bialystok massacre as he shall
secure in pursuance of this resolution."
In spite of the indignation of every
member of Coneress at the atrocious
crimes committed at Bialystok, an indig
nation that is shared by President Roose
velt and every member of his Cabinet,
it is regarded as very dobutful if any of
ficial action will be taken by the admin
istration. For this reason all resolutions,
either of sympathy or calling on the
President for information are being per
mitted to remain without action by the
Committee on Foreign Affairs in each
house.
STITCHES IN A HEART.
Delicate Operation 00 a Mao Who Had Been
Slabbed.
New York (Special). Three stitches
were put in the heart of Anthony Savage,
23 years old, by Dr. Blaisdell, surgeon in
charge at the Eastern District Hospital,
Krooklyn. Ihe operation, which physi
cians believe will save the life of Savage,
took one hour and 15 minutes, and dur
ing the whole of that time the left lung
and heart were exposed to the view of
the physicians, who watched the deli
cate organs perform their functions.
Savage was stabbed IS times during
a fight a week ago. Friday he collapsed,
and jJr. lilaisilell decided that he was
suffering from internal hemorrhages.
He decided an operation was the only
thing that would be of any use.
He found the pleural cavity filled with
blood and the auricle punctured. The
blood was drained and the wound in the
auriele sewed up. Savage rallied after
the operation, and it is believed that he
will recover.
CHINA PAYS THE BILL
$600,000 For the Massacre of Six Ml:-
slooirlei.
Paris, (By Cable). The foreign office
has been advised that China signed a
treaty according complete satisfaction to
1' ranee for the masscre of six French
Jesuit missionaries at Nanchang, Kiang-
rn province, in February last.
China pays $joo,ooo indemnity to the
missions ami $400,000 indemnity to the
deceased miionaries' families, builds a
memorial hospital and punishes the ring
leaders of the rioting. In addition, post
humous honors, which the people of
Nanchang demanded, will not be strain
ed to the Chinese magistrate wdiose sui
cide was the signal for the outbreak.
Ihe French gunboats in the vicinity
of Nanchang will now be withdrawn.
Eirlliquak la the Northwest.
Red Wing. Minn., (Special). Earth
quake shocks were distinctly felt at
tne Goodhue lounty Poor harm, three
miles from this city. No damage was
done.
laiaot From Overwork.
Owatonna, Minn., (Special). Miss
Laura Kelly became violenty insane dur
ing the class day exercises at I'illsbury
Academy and died soon afterward. She
collapsed while making an address. Miss
Kelly had beea graduated with highest
honors after four years of hard study.
Rockefeller Glvei $260,000.
Chicago (Special) Dr. T. Goodspeed,
secretary of the board of trustees of the
University of Chicago, announced that
1 gift of Jio.ooo had been received from
John D. Rockefeller.
Earthqaaka la Cub.
Santiago, Cuba (By Cable). Two
nrthquake shocks half an hour apart,
the first occurring at 2 o'clock A. M.,
slightly damaged many buildings in this
ity. Several persons were slightly in
iured by falling articles. The first shocks
lasted IS seconds. The second was
shorter, though heavier.
Fire Sweeps Aa llllael Tewa.
Paducah, Ky., (Special). Fire is re
ported to have destroyed the entire busi
ness section of Golconda, III,, and to he
now beyond control. Golconda is 40
.nilcs from Paducah.
LITE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Representative! Gill and Smith, dur
ing the debate in the House on the Pure
Food Bill, attackd the proposition to
compel the placing of the weights on
canned goods ai impoible and im
practicable. Attorney General Moody announced
that the government would institute
proceedings against the Standard Oil
Company under both the Elkins Law
and the Sherman Anti-trust Law.
A tormy coloquy between Representa
tive Bourke Cocktan, of New York,
and Sullivan, of Massachusetts, enlivened
the discussion over the Pure Food Bill
in the House.
Speaker Cannon insists that all busi
nes before the House shall have been
disposed of before he entertain! a motion
to adjourn.
The proposition to increase the head
tax and the literacy test will probably
be stricken from the Immigration Bill.
The Senate passed the bill appropriat
ing $5,000 for traveling expenses for
the President.
William C. Dennis, of Indiana, has
been appointed assistant solicitor of the
Department of State, a new office
created by the last Diplomatic and Con
sular Appropriation Bill.
According to a bulletin of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor exports of
meat and meat products for the past It
months amounted to $100,000,000.
Fredcrico Velasquez, the Dominican
minister of foreign affairs, had a talk
with Secretary Root about Santo Do
mingo's financial embarrassment.
The Immunity Bill passed by the
Senate and amended by the House was
sent to conference by the House.
The House adopted the Senate amend
ment to go slowdy in building monster
battleships. i
The Senate agreed to the conference
report to the Fortifications Appropria
tions Bill.
The House passed a joint resolution
authorizing the President to appoint a
commission to examine and report upon
a route. for the construction of a Chesa
peake and Delaware Canal.
Clarence M. York, secretary to Chief
Justice Fuller, of the Supreme Court
of the United States, was killed by jump
ing or falling from a window of Gar
field Hospital.
The House voted down a proposition
to amend the Constitution so as to elect
Senators by popular vote and extend the
terms of representatives to four years.
Senators Beveridge, Proctor and Lodge
spoke in defense of the Senate Meat
Inspection Bill and claimed that the
House compromise was faulty.
President Roosevelt received Mathnow,
a Russian giant. Mathnow was accom
panied by his wife.
The House passed the bill appropriat
ing $25,000 for the traveling expenses
of the President.
The House passed a bill to compel
railroads to check through baggage on
"split tickets."
The meat inspection amendment to
the Agricultural Appropriation Bill was
adopted by the House without division,
and the bill was sent to conference.
Secretary Bonaparte approved the de
cision of the court-martial which found
Lieutenant Commander Witherspoon
guilty of negligence in connection with
the grounding of the battleship Rhode
Island. .
Dr. W. T. Harris, United States com
missioner of education, has resigned. Dr.
Elmer E. Brown, professor of education
in the University of California, was ap
pointed to succeed him.
The House committee ordered a fav
orable report on the bill authorizing an
annual appropriation of $50,000 to pay
the President's traveling expenses.
By a vote of 17 to 29 the Senate voted
down an amendment on a street car ex
tension bill providing for a franchise tax
of 12 per cent.
The President and Secretary Shaw ar
ranged with a delegation of San Francis
co people to deposit $12,000,000 in the
banks of that city.
Commander Sutherland, of the Yan
kee, reported serious disturbances in the
neighborhood of Monte Christi, Santo
Domingo.
The House, 'under suspension of rules,
passed a bill giving a national status to
the naval militia.
BIBLE RESTORED AFTER 30 YEARS.
Book Tikta at Aoo Arbor In 1876, Wbea a
Hone W Locked In Cbapel.
Ann Harbor, Mich. (Special). The
feature of alumni day at the Universi
ty of Michigan, when a number of
classes were holding reunions, was the
recovery of the old chapel Bible, which
mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago.
The class of 1876 returned the book to
the university. It seems that one night
in '76 the seniors mischievously locked
a decrepit old horse in the chapel. Fear
ing that the horse might chew the pages
of the Bible, they took the book away
with them to preserve it.
The affair then aroused such a storm
in college that nobody dared to return
the book, and it has remained in posses
sion of members of the class until now.
This year's 824 graduates will receive
their diplomas tomorrow.
Million! In Klondike Qold.
Seattle. Wash.. (Special). The steam.
ers City ti Seattle and Spokane, of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company, arrived
Ut-ro hrimrmcr with llim ,t-K. . .
'"-'- ...... ....... ,,w.i,jr ,inju,-
000 in gold, besides $70,000 worth of
lurs. l lie JJoipnin, 01 tne Alaska Steam
ship Company, is scheduled to arrive
Thursday with over $1,000,000 in gold
on board.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.
Rumors that J. P. Morgan was ser
iously ill were "officially" denied.
Philadelphia & Erie directors declared
the usual semi-annual dividend of 3 per
cent.
Judge Bradford, at Wilmington, or
dered that the Diamond State Steel
Cr r pany be sold.
Persons in Philadelphia having good
Pennsylvania connections say the talk of
a large dividend on Baltimore & Ohio
is unwarranted.
New York banks have apparently
gained this week $1,250,000 cash.
The Southern Pacific Company has
announced a. reduction in passenger
rates o-.i all Western lines.
Judge Yerkes ha become a member
of the Philadelphia Company Minority
Shareholders' Committee.
"Money will be cheap for at least
another month," declares the president
t f a Philadelphia trust company.
Lake Superior has sold 32,000 tons
of steel rails to the National Transconti
nental Railway Commission at about
$.M the ton.
FINALLY DECIDE
ON LOCK CANAL
President
Rooserelt fins
in The Senate.
His Fight
A BITTER CONTEST IS NOW ENDED.
The Home Having Already Declare With the
Amerlcn, and Agaloit Ih Foreljo, Engl'
nter for the Lack Caoil, Step Are te
Be at Oice Tike far tbe VIoroa Pretece
tlon f Ih Oreat Work. .
Washington, D. C, (Special). "Cut
loose, now, and build Ihe canal. The
American people want results on the
isthmus as soon as they can be obtain
ed and I want them. Dig! Dig! Con
gress and the people are behind us in
our efforts."
Within 48 hours after the completion
of the Panama Canal legislation Presi
dent Roosevelt will issue, in effect, the
alxive order to Chairman Shouts and
Chief Engineer Stevens, of the Panama
Canal Commission.
The Senate took a portion in accord
with the President and the House of
Representatics be declaring for a lock
canal across the Isthmus of Panama.
The result was reached a few minutes
after 3 o'clock, and after a das dis
cussion that was almost devoid of inter
esting incident ouite out of keeping
with the universally acknowledged im
portance of the subject. There was on
ly one recorded vote in connection with
the disposition of the question, and that
was negative in character, coming on
a motion to lay on the table the lock
type substitute for the sea-level bill re
ported by the Committee on Intcroceanic
Canals.
This motion was made by Senator
Kittredee. the committee champion of
the sea-level plan, and was voted down
to 36. This vote was accepted as
decisive and no one asleed for a division
011 the vote on the acceptance of the
substitute.
The vote terminates what at one time
threatened to become a sharp difference
between the Senate, on the one hand,
and the President and the House on
the other, for there is no denying that
when the bill was reported from com
mittee the indications in the Senate were
all favorable to the sea-level type. There
has recently, however, been a steady
gain by the lock advocates, notwith
standing the report of the Canal Com
mittee, as well as the report of the
Board of Consulting Engineers,' were
against them. The engineers' report
has figured prominently in the discus
sion, and frequent attention has been
called to the fact that while eight out
of the 13 engineers reported favorably
to a sea-level canal, all of the five dis
senters were American engineers, while
of the other eight, five were Europeans.
Some senators avowed their preference
for the all-Amcrican report.
The President expressed his great
gratification at the action of the United
States Senate in supporting his plan for
the construction of a lock canal. He
has been convinced for several days that
the lock type of canal would be adopted
by the Senate on its final vote, notwith
standing the report of the majority of
the Intcroceanic Canal Committee in
favor of a sea-level waterway. A care
ful canvas of tlie Senate was made and
he was assured that there would be a
safe majority in favor of the lock type,
which he has advocated ever since the
report of the engineers' commission was
received.
Two days ago the President figured
a majority of five in favor of the lock
type of canal, and that is precisely the
majority is received on the test vote.
It was pointed out at the White House
that practically the same senators who
voted against the lock-canal project also
were opposed to the Panama treaty and
so recorded their votes.
The President regards the vote of the
House and the Senate on the lock type
of canal as a vote of confidence. Orders
will be issued in a few days to press the
work as rapidly as posiblc, and it is
announced that before the summer is
far advanced as many men and as much
machinery as profitably can be employed
will be engaged in m:.l;ing the dirt fly
on the canal route.
FIRE IN INSANE ASYLUM.
Panic Caused Amoag tbe lamatei A By
iliader Killed.
Middlctown, Conn., (Special). Fire
in the music hall connected with the
State Hospital for the Insane caused
one death and nearly created a panic
among the inmates of the asylum, who
were removed from a dormitory nearby
to another building during the height
of the fire.
The dead man was F. L. Lichtenstein,
general manager of the Merchants' Silk
Company. Part of a falling wall struck
him, throwing him against a fire es
cape with such force that his body was
cut nearly in two. Mr. Lichtcnstien
was aliout 32 years old, and came here
a short time ago from York, Pa. The
loss on the- burned building and contents
is estimated at $35,000.
Jobn Hty Memorial Library.
Providence, R. I., (Special). A re
cent conditional offer of $150,000 to
Brown University by Andrew Carnegie
for a John Hay memorial library, pro
vided that an equal sum be raised by
the university, has been more than ful
filled. It is announced that a total of
$312,000, including the Carnegie gift, is
in possession of the university.
Town In Cub Destroyed.
New Orleans, (Special). Cablegrams
reporting the destruction of Sagna la
Grande, a town of about 13,000 inhabi
tants, in Santa Clara Province, Cuba,
were received here by Stauffer, Eshel
man & Co. Two missages were received,
the first announcing that the town had
been flooded, and the econd saying
that it had been entirely destroyed by
fire. The messages came from the firm's
representative at Havana.
Died la Steel Trip In TuoacL
New York, (Special). Two men died
a hard death 50 feet down in the slime
and and of the East River' bed at a
few minutes after 6 o'clock A. M. A
"blowout" under the shield of the tun
nel D, being constructed for the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, at the end
of East Thirty-second Street, caught 20
employes of the contracting company, S.
Pearon & Son, of London, in the nar
row teel trap of the boring 'ield. All
escaped except Jake Krass, a Pole, ami
Jim William, a negro, who must hvc
been caught by the water as it rot
TWO SAVED IN EXHAUSTED CONDITION.
Drowning Accident Breaks Up a Picas
nre Party.
Philadelphia (Special). The careless
ness of one man in stepping on the side
of a launch in which there was a party
of six and tipping it until capsized, re
sulted in the drowning of four men in
the Delaware River off the extreme
northern part of the city. The other
two occupants of the little craft had a
narrow escape from death. The drowned
men arc:
John Zwald.
John S. McCann.
John Ilannigan.
Charles K. Keenan.
The accident broke up a day's pleas
ure, in which more than a dozen men
participated. They h"J gathered f-arly
in the day at the Hobo Boat Club, war
the scene of the accident, and parties
of six took turns in going nut in the
launch to the middle of the river to fish.
The four men above named, with T.-.trirk
Dunn and Lewis Jones, went out late in
the afternoon. They had no sooner
anchored than Keenan stepped on the
side of the launch, capsizing it.
One of the men in the hoathouse.
whose place had been taken in the launch
by Ilannigan, and who was looking at
the party through Rlasscs, saw the craft
turn over and quickly gave the alarm.
Two men in skiffs at once set out to
the rescue, bul it took them sometime
to reach the capsized boat, as the river
at that point is quite wide. Four of the
men had already sank, but Dunn was
picked up while clinping to the keel of
the launch and Jones was taken from the
water in an exhausted condition as he
was swimming ashore.
The two skiffs remained in the vicinity
for sometime in the hope of finding the
bodies of the four unfortunate men.
but they did not come to the surface.
HARVEST HANDS NEEDED.
Gov. fioch Sy Kanss Must Have Eight
Thousand at Once.
Chicago, III. (Special). Eight thous
and harvest hands are needed in Katies
at once, according to Governor Hoch in
an appeal telegraphed to W. J. Black.
traffic manager of the Santa Fc Rail
road, and to E. E. Mcl.cod, chairman of
the Western Pascngcr Association, as
follows:
"Kansas must have 8,000 harvest hands
within a week or much grain will he
lost. We need cheap rates. I appeal
for help."'
It is contended bv Chicaeo railroad
officials that practically nothing can be
done here. Reduced fares west of the
Missouri River already have been oiven
to praties of five or more, and inasmuch
as labor is extremely scarce in Chicago
and is emplojed by the railroads as fast
as it can be obtained, the outlook for
local asistaucc is gloomy.
Killed Through Jealousy.
Washington, (Special). Edward R.
Saalbach, 45 years old, a clerk in the
War Department, and his wife were
drowned in the Potomac River about two
miles above this city through the capsiz
ing of their canoe. Saalbach was a
member of the Washington Canoe Club.
The river was especially high ajul the
current very strong on account of the
recent rains. Saalbach was an expert
wnnmer. but f, is thought in his efforts
to save his wife he became exhausted
and sank.
Slaughter of tbe Innocents.
Vienna (U Cable) Marianne Konon-
kovo has bee-.i arrested at Wciliozka.
urar Cracow, 011 the charge of killimr
over ,'oo children. Some of the babies
were murdered by battering in their
skulls, others by burying. Most of the
children were ilWitimaien ulii.-l, 1,-,l
been intrusted to her care. When the
woman was arrested a crowd gathered
una fiea to ivncn licr.
Frisco Insursnco Test Case.
San Francisco, (Special). Two test
cases brought by two women of San
Francisco against the Palatine Insurance
Company, of London, England, to re
cover $600 insurance moneys were de
cided at Oakland in favor of the plain
tiffs. Notice of appeal was given" in
each case, and the matter will eventually
be thrashed ut in the Supreme Court.
The defendent company, through its
counsel, announced its intention to rest
its defense on the legality of the "earth
quake clause" in the policies issued to
the plaintiffs.
Secret Paper la Dreyfus Case.
Paris (By Cable). Maitre Moras in
the Supreme Court resumed his presen
tation of the Dreyfus case. He argued
that many officials and subordinates of
the ministry of war had the same ac
cess to the secret papers as Dreyfus.
whereas the latter Had no knowledge of
the mobilization phins which had been
communicated to foreign governments
Maitre Moras went over critically the
secret documents, most of which, he de
clared, had been recognized as forger
ies, while the remainder contained no
proofs of the accused officer's guilt.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
Thtovf-n nr hminrl to tlielr nrnfi-w-
Klim hy hooks of Htttvl.
A prayer t!ml Is lung-drawn-out Is
npt to bt) ratner nurrow.
A koocI irany youiinr nxm will hunt?
tl.ln Hummer on front ttiitcg.
A woman Ik-kIhk to show her og6
only when nli tries to hide. It.
AflrT nil, thoro iro mora prlzeH than
lihuikB In l lit- matrimonial lottery.
Quito oftmi tho niHii who la nwlfc
anil 11 cood KiuxBer dlHtiincca the vow
but Hiire chap.
Few men bellovo In an rvorlnstlni.-
tlro nnd brlmMone lunlBlunnt except
(or thutr iiutKlibors.
Homo girlH lllrt with handkerchief
nnd Homo wlih fnn, but tho majority
prefer to flirt with mon.
When a wnmiin yot-ii- nwuy for a
Bhort vlutt hIiu !nvr!nbly borrows
nomithlnpr f-om 0110 of iior nelirhbor
to tnke with her.
When In doulit. llxten to your wlfu.
WIvck tif he.iii'uekiKi men Hre no
rlntr clileki'iiii.
When opportunity kliooVl u JoKn't
iitio u hummer.
MriBt of us do thtiiirn merely bucuUHO
olli r Peoplo do them
Ocrusluuul.v a man rises from noth
ing to HomuliilnK wot He.
I'rndlKiilH huve. ulwaa excoedi;d tho
supply of ftiltud eftlvt-H,
Many ti loser nvcntiiuliy makes Kood
by making; a bluff ut winning.
A woimin'e ldin .f a Ht'iiKy Demon
In onn who can kwp n seerut.
ICvery rmtn ih c.-ipublo of doing; hi
bent nnd It Is uti to him to do It
Sluike tho haiidn vt s itno pooplo and
lvo Home other people, inn ahike.
Many u muu who tukta hl-rmulf tierl
muly iu looked upon oh a Joke by
CitlH'lU.
If a woman's credit Is good at a dry
poods iitoro siui nuvur arum uuout in,
prior.
MrtHt of a nmn'i hro worship Is
whImI nn hlmuolf. , ,
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Tb Latest Peansylvanla New Toid la Set
Order.
The handsome new Stale Capitnl j1Bt
being completed, large as it is, is too
small to accommodate all of the depart,
incnls of Slate comfortably, and already
Architect Huston has perfected plans 0f
the enlargement of the building. These
plans have been seen by a minhcr ol
persons interested and contemplate the
enlargement of the eastern side of the
Capitol by an addition that will extend
ti Fourth Street, and will be in con.
fortuity with the style, of the present
structure. Just when it will be done j
not known, but it is probable that the
next Legislature will be so impressed
with the necessity for more room thai
it will make an appropriation to covei
the cost. Since Ihe plans for the nen
building were made, six new department!
have been created the Health, High
way, Constabulary, Water Supply an
Mines Departments, all of which havi
to be accommodated in the new Capitol
along with the departments that were ak
ready in existence. Superintendent ot
Public Grounds and Buildings Shumakel
tits hern husv irmtfllltnir drnartmentt tnr.
I ing the last few weeks, and ffnds thai
on acotint of the space demanded td
make all of them comfortable, it will
be necessary to lake rooms that had been
set aside for other purposes. For in
stance, instead of letting the rooms scl
aside for the Appropriations Committed
of the Senate and House, both of which
arc large and roomy, remain idle between
sessions of the Legislature, it will be
necessary to utilize them for department
accommodations, and the Appropriation!
Committees will have to use the Scnatt
and House caucus room, which hav
been designed for meeting purposes ex
clusively. This furnish considerable ad
ditional room, all of which is needed
j Within a short time Superintendent Sim
I maker has installed the following de
1 partinents in the new building, and they
arc all now comfortably housed, with
every convenience, a great contrast, bj
the way, to what they have been accus
tomed to in the past few years since the
Capitol was commenced : Department ol
Public Instruction, entresol, south wing
Department of State Constabularly,, first
floor, center wing; Health Department,
entresol floor, center wing; Resident
clerk and House Library, first floor, cen
ter; Senate librarian and library, first
floor, center; Mining Department, entre
sol, north wing; Agriculture, third floor,
north wing; Game Commission, third
floor, north wing; Fish Commission,
fourth floor, north wing; Highway Com
mission, fourth floor, north wing; Fac
tory In'pector, fourth floor, north wing;
Public Buildings and Grunds, first floor,
center; Economic Zoologist, third floor,
north wing; Dairy and Food Commis
sioner, third floor, north wing. The de
partments of the Adjutant General and
Secretary of Internal Affairs have not
been moved to the new Capitol, but ar
rangements are being made to install
them within the next month. On account
of the valuable documents it was consid
ered best to wait until the last to remove
them, but all will be in place in due lime.
Mrs. Howard L. Boas, wife of the
Montello brick magnate, who left her
new home, one of the finest in Reading,
to bring divorce proceedings a few
months ago, gave testimony before the
commissioner. Mrs. Boas alleges cruel
and barbarous treatment. She makes no
mention of Mrs. Ltira Fair Stcinginger,
whom she recently sued for alienation
of her husband's affections. The Boascs
were married twenty years ago by Boas'
brother-in-law, Bishop S. C. Breyfogel,
of the Evangelical Association. Mrs.
Boas says her husband took the manage
.meiit of all household affairs out of her
hands and gave them to the servants
with instructions not to take orders from
her. He frequently remained out till
early in the morning and did not eat
breakfast till noon, she says, and in the
meantime no breakfast was served to licr
by his orders. When her friends vis
ited her in her palatial home her hus
band insulted them, she alleges. He
once assaitHcd her, she goes on, ami
told persons he was bent on driving her
away. Had she remained with him his
conduct would have killed her, she testi
fied. Mrs. Boas Is living at the man
sion of her ' father, Nathan Harhstcr,
president of the Reading Hardware Com.
pany.
David J. Davis, adjutant of the Thir
teenth Regiment, of Scranton, was ap
pointed a judge advocate of the Third
Brigade by General C. B. Doughem.
He has for some years served in the
Thirteenth and is not only a well-trained
soldier, but also a prominent lawyer of
Scranton. .
Rosa Pasika, a girl 9 years old, was
beheaded while picking coal" near the
Jersey Central yards, Scranton. She
was sent out to pick coal just before
dusk, and wandered too near a switch.
She stooped to gather some coal in front
of a locomotive and did not see it mov
ing until she was struck. 1 ler head was
severed from her body, and lay at some
distance from the track when found.
A novel event designed to encourage
men hi church work took place at Read
ing in the shape of a church smoker, at
which Bishop Talbot, of the Central
Pennsylvania Diocese, presided. The af
fair was held in St. Mary's Episcopal
Church. Cigars and pipes were passed
round and plans for church work and
improvement were discussed. The bish
op is a lover of the weed, nnd smoked
up in great style during the meeting.
Dr. Charles M. Ebert, 84 years old,
said to be the oldest practicing physi
cian in the State fell down the stairs
at his home in Mauch Chunk and his
neck was broken He. was dead wl'.m
members of the family, roused by the
noise made by the fall, reached his side.
Gustav A. Endlich, of Reading, wa!
elected president of the Board of Trus
tees of Muhlenberg College, to succeed
the late S. A. Repass, judge Endlich
also succeeds Dr. Repass on the various
committees. Dr. George T. Ettinget
was elected dean of the faculty of the
institution. Rev. W. D. C. Keiter, '
Bethlehem, and Rev. C. J. Cooper, Al
lentown, are secretary and treasurer re
spectively of the board.
William B. Sfoope, was sentenced to
seven years' imprisonment in the West
ern Penitentiary by the Blair County
Court for attempting to set fire to build
ings in the commercial centre of Altoona.
Inflation of the internal organs of his
abdomen by compressed air, administered
as a joke by a fellow-workman on June
3, is thought to have caused the death
of Steven Borean a steel worker in the,
Carnegie Mill, at Homestead. He diid
the same day and the case was not re
ported to the Coroner' office. The
record did not atisfy Coroner Ann
strong, and he had the body exhumed in,
St Mary'- Cemetery, back of Homc-j
atead. A post-mortem examination will!
be" held to determine tne true cause ofj
death.
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