FAST EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED Two Trainmen Killed and 15 Passen gers Killed. THE ENGINE RAN INTO LANDSLIDE. Wreck ! tba Pacific Exprcsa ta the New Vork Ceatral tiJ Hudson Rlvtr Railroad Not Far Fram Poughkcepale One al Ibt Fastest Traloa aa lb Lioa Jumpe tba Track al Cbtlita. Fishkill Landing (Special). Pacific express train No. 37, of the New York Central ami Hudson Kicr Railroad, which left the Grand Central Station, in New York, at Q.,y o'clock P. M. was wrecked shortly before midnight a short distance above Chelsea and 1 1 miles below Pongh kcepsie by miming into a landslide, which had been swept down from a high em bankment by a terrific rainstorm. The engine of the flyer was thrown from file rails and plunged into the river. Fireman Mills was killed outright, and Engineer Edward Wells, whose home is In the Bronx, N. Y., was so badly injured that he will die. Fifteen passengers were seriously in jured and a score of others received minor hurts. The injured were taken to Highland Hospital, at Matteawan. All the doctors at Ponghkcepsie and this place were called lo the scene. I hiring the afternoon and night heavy rains undermined the embankment on the east side of the track and shortly before the arrival of train 3, tons of earth and rock slid out on the roadbed, covering the northbound track. The express train was going swiftly when the engine plunged into the mass of earth and stone. The loc:notive turned turtle and rolled over into the river. The heavy trucks of the baggage car and the first coach sank into the pile of earth and brought the remainder of the train to a sudden -top. The passengers were thrown violently about the cars. The wrecked train was made up of four Pullman cars, six day coaches, one baggage car. one mail car and one combination baggage and mail car. Four of the day coaches were wrecked. Superintendent McCoy, of the Harlem Division, wis in charge of the relief train that came from New York. On the train were 50 or more trained nurses and a number of physicians. LIOHTNINQ STRIKES CAMPERS TENT. Oaa Man Killed and Two Otbcra Severely Shocked. Conneaut Lake, Pa., (Special). Light ning struck the tent of a camping party during an electric storm here Sunday, killing Edward Kinsey and severely shocked Robert Martin and A. V. Rup precht, members of an outing club from Vilmerding. Pa. The men were holding the tent pole in an effort to prevent the tent being blown away, when a bolt shattered it in their hands. The men were prostrated, but Martin and Rupprecht were soon revived. Kinsey, however, was found to be badly burned along the entire left side of the body and his heart seemed to be affected. He was rushed to a hospital at Meadvi'le on a special train, but died before reach ing there. The two others received burns, from which they will recover. FISMINQ YACHTS CAPSIZE. Eight Pcrioaa Drowned Olf New Jersey Coast. Anglesea, N, J. (Special) Two yachts coming 'in from the fi-hing banks cap sized on Hi re ford Inlet liar off here Sunday, and so far as can be ascertained eight persons lost their lives. There were 32 persons on one yacht, of whom were lost, and t2 on the other, all of whom but I were saved. That not more fell victims to the rough sea was due to the heroism of Capt. Henry S. Ludlow, of the Hereft.nl Inlet Life-saving Sta tion, and a crew of five men. It was at first thought tht from 14 to 28 per sons had been hist, but after an investi gation the coroner stated that he be lieved only eight were lost. Girls Drowned, Men Saved. Soir.erviile. N. J. ( Special) Miss May Klemines, (f Brooklyn: Miss Bertha Smith, of Fast New York, and Miss Georgie Lapp, of Williamsburg, wen- drowned or. Lake Hopavong by the cap- j sizing of a nw-bnat. The girls were in I the boat with three young men, when a storm arose and the bat was capsied. j The three men were rescued. They say ; they made every effort to sae the girl-, j Rockefeller May Invest la Frisco. ! San Francisco. (Special). Percy Rockefeller, son of William Rockefeller, Is in Sari Francisco investigating the . field for investment. Young Rocke feller is being advised as to the usury laws of California, and if they be deemed satisfactory the Rockefeller interests are likely to invest millions in San Fran-ci.-co in tile near future. Burial ol a Heavyweight. Anderson, lnd., t Special I. Five thou sand people were attracted to Anderson Cemetery by the burial of Joseph Kodreap, a farmer and the heaviest man in Mad ison County. Mr. Kodreap weighed 400 pounds. His coffin was 3 feet wide, jH inches deep and 7 feet long. No hearse would admit it because of its size and a casket wagon was n-ed as a funeral car. Ten men were required to carry the coffin and to men to lower it into the grave. Tartara and Armenians. Tifb.s (By Cable). Advices received here from the Armenian town of Shuha, 180 miles to the southeast, announced a renewal of hostilities between Armen ians and Tartars there. Shusha was bombarded for three days with 21 guns, and finally set afire. Sunday the viceroy received a telegram stating that the hus-tilitt-- bad ceased and that five repre ieii'.i 1' . of each race' had been selected to dr.ov ut conditions to insure a lasting peace in the district. Ilusbari Held For Wife's Death. Chicago (Special). The body of Mrs. Ernestine Yoss, 45 year, old, was found burned to a crisp in the ruins cf bet home. The circumstuiu; of the case led the police to arrest her husband, John L. Voss, and he will !e held pending the result of a coroner's inquest. A post mortem examination of the corpse re vealed 15 pellets of metal in the body near the backbone. The body was found in a summer kitchen, which was the last tart of the huuse lo take fire. DOMESTIC Frank J. Constantino, under arrest in Ponghkcepsie for the murder of Mrs. Gentry in Chicago, declares that his brother, who, be says, is bis double, and not himself, should have been arrested. The body of Winzola M. Ooodell, the missing daughter of Wesley M. Goodell, was found in "I'pper Pond," Bclchertown, Mass., by her father and a cousin. The girl disappeared July 6. Charles H. Evenly, a trusted bank official and an exemplary citizen of St. Louis, is wanted by the police of that city on rl)argr of embezzling $5,000. H. C. Drookmeyer, who was a nephew of Prince Bismarck, died in St. Louis. He was a former lieutenant governor and acting governor of Missouri. The express company clerk who in vested a two-cent stamp and bid on Panama Canal bonds has sold his option at a profit of $10,000. The United States government is strengthening iis military posts on the Mexican border in anticipation of an uprising in Mexico. At Bangor, Me., a young athlete saved six women who were thrown into the water by the capsizing of their boat. At the fourteenth annual meeting of the I'nited Stales League of Local Loan and Building Associations, in Cincin nati, it was shown that these associa tions throughout the country have in hand $ri20,.M4.2.!7. Miss Anna Crane, a gray-haired mas seuse of New York, who was sent to Paris to rescue Evelyn Nesbit from Harry Thaw, declares that Thaw beat Miss Nesbit. as well as herself. A St. I.om's woman who received a threatening "Black Hand" letter refused to be frightened. She turned the letter over to the police. One arrest has been made. A Chicago man. mistaking another flat for his own, was fired upon and wounded by the rightful occupant, who mistook his neighbor for a burglar. Frank J. Constantine. who is wanted in Chicago fur the murder of Mrs. Louise H. Cetitry. last January, is tinder arrest in Poughkeepsie. N. Y. A ic:!oiis Italian, in New York, shot four times at the object of bis affections. She escaped uninjured. Three pedes trians were wounded. Five men have been arrested in New York, charged with washing and selling New York state stamps. A Kentucky judge has ordered a posse of ,100 men to bring in a party of feudists, dead or alive. Ellen Terry, the English actress, will make a farewell tour of America. W. H. Williams, of Dublin, Ga., was killed in a baseball game. Corporation Counsel Lewis, of Chica go, charges the managers of the Mar shall Field estate with moving over $2, 000.000 in stocks and bonds to New York to escape taxation. Leader Murphy says it is not impos sible for Tammany Hall to support William R. Hearst for governor of New York. Ten lives were lost and four persons are missing in the collapse of the Ams den building, in South Farmington, Mass. The Republican convention of the State of New York will indorse the ad ministration of President Roosevelt. A. Docsher. of Philadelphia, won $2,700 in pools on the daily runs of the steamship Kronprinz Wilhclm. John D. Strassburg. supposed to be the oldes. postofrice employe in the world, died in Louisville. Part of a Great Northern train plunged from a tunnel into a deep lake in Wash ington Territory. Officials of Chicago courts announce that publicity will be given to all appli cations for divorce. Cardinal Gibbons reached his seventy second birthday in unusual good health and spirits. The burning hull of an abandoned vessel was lighted 000 miles east of Sandy Hook. Dr. George W. Atherton, of the Pennsylvania Stale College, is dead. The' Philadelphia Board of Health has closed 20 slaughter-houses. 1 t'KEIKK A serious engagement near Muluya is reported lo have resulted in the defeat of the pretender by the forces of the Sultan of Morocco. Ambassador Whitclaw Reid enter tained at dinner the American delegates to the Conference of the Interparlia mentary I'nion. King Edward received the represen tatives ot the American Institute of Min ing Engineers at Buckingham Palace. The ceit-or-hip on foreign newspapers brought into the- country has been re established in Ru-sia. The total loss rc-ulting from the burn ing of the city of Syran, Russia, is $5.mo,ooo. Eight Kii-siaii government spies were killed by terrori-ts in S:. I'ctcr.-burg. There was a joint meeting in Loudon of the members of the British Iron and Steel Institute ami the American Insti tute of Mining Engineers. An official denial was issued in Paris of the report that Major Dreyfus' face was slapped by an unnamed army offi cer at the Circle Militaire. A fire which started in the center of the city of Leeds, England, was finally drowned out, with a total loss estimated at 250,000. Six of the elected members of the Council of the Empire, including four representatives of science, have resigned. T he Mavor of Southhampton, Eng land, inspected the cadets on the L'nited Slates schoolship Saratoga. Pirates are reported to have attacked a Spanish bark off the Riff Coast. Hands of robbers commit depredations in Russia without interference. It is stated that the general strike in Russia may be postponed until a more propitious time. The assistant to the chief of police in Warsaw has been as sassinated. Armed revolutionists and mutinous troops are reported in the Baltic pro inces. Thirty persons are missing and -i houses were swept away by a water-pout that wrecked the village of Fourneaux de Maiiriennc Madonna. Dr. Brunchorst was appointed consul general of Denmark at Havana and res ilient minister to Central America and Mexico. The members of the Russian Douma returned to St. Peter-burg. They were not molested, but a demonstration ar ranged for them was prevented. The revolutionists in Rus-ia issued proclamations condemning the CVar, General Trepoff and Procurator General Pobedonostseff to death. The extensive warehouse of the Franco-American Oil Company at Marseilles was butned. Six persons were more or less injured. A peasants' rebellion is reported to have broken out in the Kussian provinces of Orel and Vironezh. COMB DROPPED FROM L TRAIN Six I'nion numbers Are Injured in New York. A RIVAL UNION IS ACCUSED. Explosive Missiles Hurled Fran a Third Avenue Elevated Trala Into a Crowd ol Mca oa tba Street BtneaihSIx Men Were Injured, Though Not Seriously, but Nona Wera Killed. New York (Special). Two bombs were dropped from the windows of a southbound Third Avenue elevated train at X30 o'clock P. L, into a crowd of about 200 members of Associated United Plumbers, Local No. 480, in front of Teutonia 'Hall, 158 Third Avenue. Six union plumbers of Lodge -IcVj were lacer ated, though not seriously, by the ex plosion of the bombs, and after having been treated by Dr. Merrick at Bellevue I iospital w ere able to go to their homes. Alter the smoke of the explosion had cleared away and police reserves from the East Twenty-second Street Station had arrived on the scene. President Wil liam Thompson, of Local 4S0, sought out Police Captain Hussey, who was making an investigation of the bombthrowing. "1 am convinced that a member of Lo cal No. 2 of the Plumbers' I'nion did the trick," said President Thompson. Shortly after 8 o'clock the members of Local No. 4S0 began to gather in front of Teutonia Hall, on Third Avenue, near Sixth Street, in anticipa tion of an important meeting of the union, w hich was to be held there. Pres ident Thompson had met President Frank Gartland, of Local No. 2. the rival union, with whom there had been intermittent warfare for sometime, in the afternoon, and the two had come to a decision on the difference between the two union lodges. It was upon this that President Thompson was to report. The members of Local No. 4S0 were waiting for the Silverworkers of Amenta, Branch No. 1, to vacate Teutonia Hall before going into session. As a southbound elevated train passed by overhead a black object was seen to fall to the street near the curb and right in the midst of one segment of the crowd of union men. There was a flash and a heavy explosion. Out of the heavy white cloud of smoke three men groped their way to the saloon door, three others lay prone on the cobbles. Policeman Perkins, who was .standing on the opposite corner, rushed to the scene of the explosion and helped carry the injured men into the saloon. Then he immediately rang in a call for the Bellevue Hospital ambulance and sent in another for the reserves of. the East Twenty-second Street Station. Police Captain Hussey made a search of the vicinity for a possible clue to the perpetrator of the attempted wholesale assassination, but found none. Two men said thatthey had seen an arm str died out of the window of the elevated train as it was going past, and had seen the package of bombs dropped. There were two explosions, one following the other almost simultaneously. Captain Hussey picked up some burnt paper, such a.s that wrapped about giant torpedoes, but no other fragments of the bombs could be found. He said that it was his belief that corded bombs, steeped in nitroglycerin such as Italian bomb throwers favor, had been the instru ments used. SAfSd BEFORE HE DIED. Rosslter Then Had Duel With Policeman and Was Killed. Cincinnati, (Special). After singing part of the hymn, "Why Will Ye Die?" H. C. Holmes, a merchant of West Union, Ohio, engaged in a pistol duel with Policeman J. L. Rossiter and was killed in front of the Government build ing. Holmes is believed fo have become suddenly insane. He fired several times at the officer before being shot. When Policeman Rossiter stooped over him to help him, Holmes shot again, the pow der burning the officer's face. A few minutes later Holmes expired. He had come to the city to purchase goods. He left his hotel early in the day, singing and acting strangely. The policeman tried to quiet him, and the shooting followed. TO INCREASE STRENGTH OP JAPS NAVY. Changes Contemplated at Toklo-lnvestlgatlng Resources of Mancburla. Victoria, B. C, (By Cable). The steamer Shinano, which just arrived here, brought news of many contem plated changes in the Japanese Navy. The naval program has been arranged whereby the strength of the Japanese .Navy -will reach 5jo,ooo tons 111 1008, but it is not believed the strength will be permanently retained. 1 wenty-thrce cruisers will be struck off the effective list this year. The details of the pro posed expansion of the navy are now living drawn up at Tokio. Mckinley Monument (Jovelllof. Canton, O., (Special). Justice Wil liam R. Day, of the Supreme Court, has accepted an invitation to deliver the prin cipal address on the occasion of the un veiling of the monument in honor of McKinley which is being erected by Ohio at Columbus. The ceremony will take place September 14. Polioa la Hotel Coffee. Meridian, Miss., ( Special). Anna Nolan, her daughter, Blanny Blanks, and the hitter's husband were held for the grand jury at Lauderdale Springs, charged with putting "rough-on-rats" in the coffee served to the Springs Hotel guests It was alleged the poison was put in the coffee to avenge a grievance against the proprietor of the hotel. Those who became ill from drinking the coffee are out of danger. Chemist Took Morphine. New York, (Special). Walter K. Freeman, a chemist, who was arrested at his summer home at Oscawana, N, V., and locked up at police headquarters charged by Parke, Davis & Co., of De troit, Mich., with the larceny of $2,500, was found unconscious in his cell. He had taken morphine and is ex pected to die. Freeman attracted con siderable attention in scientific circles a few years ago by the claim that he had discovered the secret of making camphor l.v a synthetic process. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Chairman Knapp. of the Interstate Commerce Commission, sent a circular letter to the railroad companies asking them to have their schedules arranged i:i compliance with the law. Information was filed in the Wash ington Police Court charging the Dis trict Construction Company and the Pcnn Construction Company with vio lating the eight-hour law. Secretary Wilson made public the reg ulations under the recent law for in spection of packing plants and meats intended for interstate commerce. A petition and argument for a re hearing was filed in the United States Supreme Court in behalf of ex-United States Senator Burton, of Kansas. President Palma has pardoned the Americans who were convicted of main taining a private telegraph line 011 the Isle of Pines. The China government has decided to adopt trial by jury and several other features of the Eastern judicial system. A commission has been constituted to select and divide the lands of the Osage Indians in Oklahoma. Brigadier General Rice, who served in three wars, was interred in Washington with scant military honors, owing to the absence of troops from the capital. Acting Secretary of War Oliver has sent instructions ' to the commanding general of the military camps of instruc tion to avoid the spread of disease. The Interstate Commerce Commission has re- pencd the Peavey-Union Pacific elevator case to hear further evidence regarding alleged rebates. American Consul Brittain, of Kahl, Germany, reports that adulterations of food in Germany is widespread. One hundred and fifty thousand regu lars and state militia will take part in the coming army maneuvers. The names of 1,000 men are eligible as meat inspectors. The War Department has issued or ders, to its officials ordering them to report all violations of the eight-hour law on the part of contractors. Jackson Smith has been named mana ger of subsistence on the Canal Zone and will be responsible hereafter for all hotels and messes. Ambassador Leishmman reported his arrival at Fcra, the diplomatic suburb of Constantinople. The Guatemalan Government has re turned to Salvador the prisoners taken in the recent war. FOUR MILES ABOVE EARTH. Record-breaking Ascension of Two PblladeK pbia Physicians. Philadelphia (Special). Science will be greatly benefited by the knowledge gained by Drs. T. Chalmers Fulton and Samuel J. Ottinger in their successful and record-breaking balloon ascension, the most successful ever attempted in this city. Many tests were made by both doctors, each using the other for a subject, and the knowledge gained by them will shortly be made known to the medical world. Other experiments were ako made and are now in the possession of the United States Weather Bureau, Drs. Ottinger and Fulton remained in the air. four miles above the earth the highest yet attained by a balloon in this country until almost over West Chester, where they descended safely and called for their assistants in this city. Other ascensions are said to be con templated by the Aero Club, of this city, along the same lines. Cstaellane Divorce Trial October 17. Paris, (By Cable). The court has definitely decided that the hearing of the suit of Countess Anna dc Castellane against her husband Count Boni, for di vorce shall be heard October 17 or Oc tober 24 if the parties are not ready on the first date mentioned. The hearing of the suits of the Count's creditors, in which they arc seeking to hold the Coun tess liable for the obligations incurred by the Count, was fixed for the same days. Saved Cook Lost HIa Leg. Detroit, (Special). The tug William B. Castle was sunk in the Detroit River near the head of Belle Isle by colliding wiih the lumber boat Robert Holland, which was somewhat damaged. The woman cook aboard the Castle became freightened and leaped overboard. The engineer, who had a wooden leg, jumped over after her and succecsed in rescuing her, but lost his wooden leg. Dropped Cblsel la Dynamite. La Grange, Ga., (Special). While William Stewart, a young employe of the King Hardware Company, was show inir a customer a chisel he dronncd it in a case of dynamite, causing an explo sion. Stewart was Killed instantly antl several other men in the store were seriously injured. The building and the stock of goods, the latter valued at $25,- 000, were badly damaged. Quake Made a Lake. Chicago, (Special). A dispatch to the Tribune from Sheboygan, Wis., says: "Thirty-seven acres of cultivated land on the border of Long Lake, in Fond du Lac County, savik and now is covered with deep water. The sinkage is sup posed to be due to a slight earthquake shock. Farmers in the neighborhood are alarmed and afraid to go near to investigate." FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. The Lehigh Valley has ordered 30, 000 -tons more of steel rails. "Stocks are a buy fromiow until Sep tember 15," says John W. Sparks. An advance in sugar prices tent up the quotation for American Sugar shares. Wheat exports continue large, 5,233, 000 bushels having been shipped abroad this month. Owing principally to the Russian crisis London was a heavy teller of American stocks. Since its organization Amalgamated Copper has paid in dividends $40,725,. 000, the capital stock amounting to $155, 000,000. In financial circles it is generally be lieved that Henry C. Lippiucott, mana ger of agencies of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, will be elected presi dent to succeed the late Harry JF. West. Calumet & Hecla, the greatest copper mine in the world, earned net in fiscal year ending April 30, $8,485,000, and paid $5,000,000 in dividends. The prev ious year the company earned $5,061,150 and paid $4,500,000 in dividends. NEW PREMIER. DEFINES HIS PLAN Calls the Constitutional Democra's "Cadets." SAYS THEY ARE THE AGITATORS. Ho Saya Nothing la Further From the Cur's Mind Tbaa a Policy of Keactloo, but Declerca Thai tha Revolutionists Must Ba Crushed Before a Definite Constructive Policy Can Be Put Into Action. ' St. Petersburg;, (By Cable). "Strong handed reform" is laid down by M. Stolypin as the keynote of his adminis tration, in an interview, in which the new Premier expressed his confidence that this policy, with the aid of the "in nate patriotism of the masses" and the army, which, "in spite of all reports, is still loyal and reliable," will tide the country over until the convocation of the next parliament. He emphasized, a did Controller of the Kmpire Sc!i wane back, on Sunday, the belief that the out lawed parliament was neither represen tative nor capable of constructive work. He spoke with special scorn of the lead ers of the Constitutional Democrats, not attempting to conceal his impression that the qtiasi-respectability of the party was hut a onvcr for insincerity and truckling with the worst elements of the revolu tion. They did not honestly believe in either a general expropriation of land or in complete amnesty. Their advocacy of the- features was merely a campaign cry. The Premier stated that the mem bers of parliament were not arrested for signing the Viborg manifesto, because that merely would have conferred a mild and much desired martyrdom on them, but they would be promptly held respon sible for the slightest attempt to preach to their constituents seditious doctrines, such as refusal to pay taxes or furnish recruits to the army. Premier Stolypin said, speaking feel ingly : "There has been no coup d'etat, and nothing has been done which was not in accordance with the prescribed con stitutional methods. The Kmperor was empowered by the fundamental law to dissolve the Douma, and them was no other course open to His Majesty. The Douma as a whole was a dying body, and the most merciful treatment was its prompt dispatch, terminating its unprofi table existence." Continuing, M. Stolypin said the Fm peror's recent words had shown that parliament's agrarian manifesto was the last straw which caused ' the "cadets" (Constitutional Democrats) bubble to burst ; but the whole proceedings of parliament during the last few weeks had rendered its closing inevitable if the Finperor's authority was still to be recognized in Russia. In reply to a question as to the role of the "cadets" M. Stolypin answered that the party included many diletantc and doctrinaires, without policy or po litical substance. He differentiated be tween the really serious, patriotic mem bers of the party and those whose sole aim was to oust the government and the F'mpcror, and whose inherent weak ness was so patent even to themselves that they daily made greater concessions to the revolutionists both inside and out side of parliament. He considered that the tendencies displayed by the "cadets" as a body were highly dangerous, to use no stronger word. Asked as to the extent the counterac tion was likely to go, M. Stolypin re plied : "At the present moment three policies are open to the F'mperor and his ad visers : "I. Reaction. "2. Impassivity towards the threaten ed revolution. "3- A policy of strong-handed reform. "It is the last mentioned upon which the Emperor has resolved, and upon which we have entered. A policy of re action is the furtherest removed from His Majesty's wishes, but the revolution ists must be thwarted before there can be any possibility of deciding on a defi nite basis for a stable future. SOLVING MYSTERY OP CANCER, English Experimenters Have Rendered Mice Immune. London, (By Cable). As the result of experiments with mice, the superin tendent of the Imperial Cancer Search Fund laboratory announced at a meet ing of the subscribers to the fund that the prospects of discovering the origin of cancer are more hopeful than ever. Experts, he said, are now able to repro duce in mice all the features of spontane ous cancer and to protect healthy mice lroni the consequences liy inoculation. Out of 100 mice inoculated to produce the disease 90 developed tumors, but in the protected uniini'ls no tumors oc curred.. It had also been found that the body fluids of protected mice in jected into mice with experimental can cer retarded the growth of well-estah-lishcd tumors. The superintendent said that the experiments must be carried further before it can be ascertained whether they will have a bearing on the treatment of the disease in mankind. Lightning Melted Bells. Chambcry, France, (By Cable). A cloudburst, accompanied by lightning, destroyed the church of I.es Chavannes, about 35 miles from here The lightning melted the church bells into a solid mass. A number of persons were injured. The storm caused an enormous amount of damage along the Franco-Italian border. Old Malde and Bachelor. Des Moines, la., (Special), To marry or not to marry was the question which dominated the convention of the Bache lors and Old Maids at Forest City. The convention closed with the question un decided. Race suicide entered largely into its discussion, and the prevailing sentiment seemed tp be that it were bet ter to have fewer marriages in the face of the records of the divorce courts. President Roosevelt was not indorsed because of his position on race suicide. Blown Against Celling;. Shelby, O, (Special I. A terrific ex plosion, followed by fire, wrecked the big Schwab &. Clark grocery, and one mem ber of the firm ami two children were saved from death after heroic efforts of the firemen. A quantity of refuse in a furnace in the basement exploded spontaneously. Albert Clark, who was sitting directly over the furnace, was blown fo the ceiling and his life is de spaired of. The two children were in the apartments above the store and their cries brought the firemen to their rescue. MR. SAGE BL'RIED IN SIEEL VAULT Robbery of l!is Grave By Ghouls Mad: Impossible. New York (Special). The body of Russell Sage was taken to Troy and buried in Oakwood Cemetery in a steel compartment specially constructed to re sist any attack that might be made upon it and to prevent the possibility of another robbery by ghouls like that of A. T. Stewart's remains. It was Mrs. Sage's idea to take every precaution to prevent the despoilation of her husband's last resting place. The steel vault cost $22,000 and was cast in Albany. It is 7 feet II inches long, 42 inches wide anrf 32 inches in depth, and is said to be absolutely burg lar proof. On each side of the vault there are four self-locking clasps. On each end are two clasps of the same type. It is said that once locked they cannot he opened. Rttwccn the clasps are heavy rivets. It weighs three tons and i said to be f such fine-tempered metal as to be strong enough to withstand any number of charges of dynamite. As n matter of precaution, however, it is equipped with electrical appliances that will give an alarm in the event of the vault being tampered with. It is said that for the first year a guard will be stationed near the vault at night to further insure it iisainsf burglars. The bidy of Mr. Sage was laken from his Fifth Avenue home and put 011 a special car attached to the Montreal ex press from the Grand Central Station at o.a.5 o'clock A. M. Mrs. Sage. Col. J. 1. Slocum. Mrs. Munn, the wife of' Dr. lohn P. Mniin; Mr and Mrs. Charles K. Chapin and the Rev. Mr. H.igenian. assistant rector of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, went with the body to Troy. When the train arrived at the Troy station about 4.000 persons were waiting. The funeral car was detached atvt run over to the Oakwood Cemetery. There was another crowd at the ceme tery; but a tent had been raised over the grave, which prevnted those on the outside from seeing the burial services. Dr. Hngeman read a short burial ser vice. Mrs. Sage wept while the prayer was being read. The services were brief am! then Mrs. Sage, with those vho ac companied her. returned to the special car which had brought them to Troy. They had to wait nearly three hours in the car before they started back again for New York, which- they reached at 0 o'clock P. M. A monument will be raised over flic gave and on it will be this epitaph:' "I have done the best I could by the light of day." Americana In Cuhnn Jail. Havana (Special). Senor O'Farrill, secretary of justice, was surprised to hear that Miss Brown, one of the three Americans arrested at Nncva Gcrona. Isle of Tines, for building a private telc cranb line, is still in i:iil tlipro II,. Kagain ordered that she be removed to inc nouse 01 tne moyor. Jt is claimed that the judge who disposed of the case acted beyond his power in fining the three Americans $100 between them, as the minimum fine provided for is $100. Frisco Public Schools Reopen. San Francisco (Special). The public schools of San Francisco opened Monday for the first time since the fire and were well attended. As nearly 30 school build ings were destroyed, the .schools in some of the districts were badly over-crowded and will be ordered on the half-day plan until more facilities are provided.' The conditions, however, were more favorable than had been expected by the educational authorities. School Director Oliver estimated that the registration is about 60 per cent, of the children regis tered before April 18. ODDS AND ENDS. George G. lladley, who says he is a copartner with Stephen P.. F.lkins and Henry G. Davis in 20,000 acres of West Virginia coal lands, filed an application in bankruptcy in Chicago. P. L. Godwin, after an all-night ses sion, was nominated on the three hun dred and fifty-fourth ballot as the Demo cratic congressional coudidate from the Sixth Georgia district. George P. Brock, former cashier ol the Doylcstown ( Pa.j National Bank was sentenced 10 five years in prison al hard labor for misapplying funds. Except for a new small bequests tc relatives, the fortune of Russell Sage is left to his w idow. There is no clriritable bequest in the will. The Boston Consolidated Gas Coin pany has set aside $50,000 for profit sharing among employes. Thirty-seven acres of a Wisconsin farm has floated olT into Long Lake. At a joint conference of the Russia revolutionary committee held across tho Finnish frontier it was resolved not tc declare a general strike at present. Orders have been issued to comman ders of Russian warships in foreign ports to return to Cronstadt on account of serious conditions there. Rose Densely, 18 years old, convicted of infanticide, was given one year in the penitentiary at Staunton. A force of about 100 American regu lars and native constabulary routed 500 Pulajanes in the Philippines, the United States having one man wounded, while the Pulajanes lost 150 killed and wounded. The joint meeting of the American and British Civil Engineers was begun in London. , Hanged Wimelf la Hotel. New York ( Special). David W. Webber, 40 years old, employed ss mil linery buyer for a local department store, committed suicide by hanging himself in the closet of his room at a hotel in this citv where he lived. A letter from Lillian Webber, of 1527 Praiiie. Avenue, Chicago, a sister of the dead man, was found in Webber's room. His reason for the suicide is said to- have been ill health. He came here from Chicago about four years ago. Free Eutry For Paraffin. New York (Special). The United States Board of General Appraisers an nounced a decision that paraffin produced from Russian petroleum and manufac tured in Great Britain cr Belgium may ibe imported without payment of duly. Paraffin imported from Russia, Germany, India and other countries which impose a tariff on the products of petroleum must pay a duty equal to that imposed on similar importations' in the respective countries. THE KEYSTONE STATE Tba Latest Pennsylvania New Told la Short Order. Dr. Stoddard P. Gray, of Chester, who is associated with Dr. S. R. Grothers, Mayor of Chester, in the practice o! medicine, and Miss Fnima G. Buckman, of Montgomery County, were married at the home of the bride's mother, in Ply. mouth Meeting, by the ceremony of the Society of Friends. Announcement was made that a trol ley line will soon be built from York to Gettysburg, via Hanover. Patrick J. Mcllalc, of Locust Gap, was appointed Justice of the Peace of Mt. Carmel Township, succeeding Dan iel F, Gallagher, resigned. Silas Carey, one of the oldest resi dents of Newton, Bucks County, died, aged 91 years. He was largely interested in the borough's business interests. Mrs. Thomas Manion, of Pottsville, widow of the Philadelphia & Reading conductor who was killed in the wreck near Harrisburg on September 21. due to the inaccuracy of the train dispatcher's watch, was awarded the full amount ol her claim for damages. She brought suit against the Pennsylvania Casualty Company, of Sranton, for $1000, the amount of the face of her husband's poli cy in that company. The latter would not pay the money because the first and only premium was not paid by the in sured himself. The Smith Coal Company, of Wil liamsport, which some time ago leased the abandoned Evans colliery, at Beaver Meadow, began the work of installing a steam plant. Resumption of work at this colliery means employment for at h'.'ist 500 men and boys. Ibanon Tolicc arc mystified over the finding of a dead man in a wheat field just outside of the southern limits of 1 lie city. One hand clutched a loaded revolver and a four-ounce bottle which had contained carbolic acid was lying near. The man had carried emblems of the Patriotic Sous of America, Loyal Americans and the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen. His watch and finger riiic contained the initials "T. H. F." Hereafter prisoners in the North hampton County Jail w ill not be allowed to smoke cigarettes. Warden Collins has isucd an edict to that effect, ami no cigarettes, cigarrcttc papers or tobacco for using the same will be given the prisoners. There! are five boys in jail at present who were habitual cigarette smokers. Although the warden tried to prevent them from getting the weed they always managed to have a supply. It was found upon investigation that older prisoners had been selling them tobacco and papers. When the warden found that he could not regulate the cigarette smoking he ordered it be cut out altogether, prohibiting their use by the older as well as the juvenile prison ers. Most of the smokers have taken to pipes. Residents of Oak Street. Lunmore, were roused early the other morning by the falling of chimneys. It was found to be a settling of the earth from min ing operations conducted by the Erie While the cave-in is slight, much alarm is felt for fear further settling of the surface will follow. Coroner A. L. Gillars, of Schuylkill County, was held tip by a robber on a lonely highway just beyond Pottsvillc's western suburb. The highwayman seized the horse by the bridle and, drawing a revolver, demanded the Coroner's valu ables. The plucky doctor, pretending to comply, reached for his whip and dealt the robber a blow on the head which felled him. and drove away. The police are working on the case. Lieutenant Wjiliam M. Swarm and First Sergeant Harry C. Dimon, of the State Constabulary, Troop B, stationed at Wyoming, resigned. Their resigna tions were accepted by Captain Page and forwarded to Supt. Groomc. They have been members of the troop since it was organized. While suffering from temporary men tal aberiation, brought about by illness and worrimcnt over the death of her sister last week, Mr.;. Elizabeth Short, wife of John Short, of Lancaster, made an 'unsuccessful"' attempt to end her life by cutting -her throat. The woman went to the kitchen, where she procured a knife, and, going to her bedroom, gash ed her throat. Her groans attracted the attention of other members of the family, who found her covered with blood. She may recover. Llcputy Secretary of Agriculture Mar tin made the prediction that this would be a banner year for crops of all sorts in Pennsylvania. Mr. Martin has spent the past three weeks in a tour of the agricultural districts of the. State. State" Zoologist Zerfass is about to send to each countv 111 Pennsylvania for the use of its public schools a collection of snakes found . in this State with a chart showing the food of these reptiles, the ramifications of the snake family, and the geographical distribution of the various species. , The snakes will be used for educational purposes so that the teaclurs and pupils may be able to recognize the varieties from their appear ance whether they arc poisonous or not. A swarm of hornets held up J. R. Mal lery, proprietor of the Mallery Hotel, Junita, on his way to his farm, in Sinking Valley. Their nest had been disturbed and they were out looking for the vandals, when Mallery drove up. Settling on the horse and driver, ihey instantly got busy, with serious results. Stung in numerous places, the horse ran away, throwing the driver out. Mallery was also plentifully stung, and the pain almost drove hint crazy. A movement 1s onjoot among the banks of Stewartstown. New Freedom and Shrewsbury, in York County, to close Saturdays at noon. G. E. Potteroff, contractor at North York, has been awarded the contract to erect the Iasonic Temple at Havre de Grace, Md. A petition will be presented to the York County court requesting the public opening of-l.ceder's Lane, near Paradise. This, lane has been used for over 100 years, but was never declared a public highway. James R. Marray, one of the oldest residents of northern Chester County, died at his home in Nantmeal Village, aged 71 years. For fifty years he was in the undertaking business Three brother?, Anthony, Thomas and John Marchiditis, were severely burned !iy an explosion of gas in the Notting ham Colliery, of the Lehigh & Wilkes llarre Coal Company, at Plymouth. They were vnrking together and it i believed that their nuked light ignited a body of gas. While apparently in the best of health, John R, Shellenberger, o Duncaimon, aged 52 years, was engaged in removing a tree from along the sidewalk within a few feet of his home, when he was stricken with apoplexy and died in a few minutes.
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