V 3110 EMIGRANTS ARE DROWNED Julian Steamer Sirio Is Wrecked Near Cape Palos. TEE CATTAIN COMMITS SUICIDE. Vend, Which Wn Bound From Genoa for Sooth America, Struck Rocky Reef and Sunk Sura First Archbishop ol Sin Pedro Among Those Loit A Number of Fisher, men A io Drowned. Cartagena. Spain (By Cable). The Italian steamship Sirio. from Genoa (or South America, with Soo passengers on board, was wrecked Saturday evening off llormiga.s Kami, which lies about two and a half miles to the eastward of (.'ape Palos. Three hundred of the emigrants., mo-it of them Italians at'. 1 Spaniards, were drowned. TV Bi-h"p -f Sao Pablo. Brazil. v:i drowned while hlc-sing the passengers of t!ie Sirio. The Archbishop of Sao Pedrowas, who s il-o on hoard, was saved. It i 'aid that a hir etc number of the fir st and second rahin rascngcr veer.. dtowned. their cabins being tlie fir.--t to go under water. The remainder r.f the patenter? and the officer and crew of the SHo pot awav in the ship's boats or were rescued by means of ropes thrown to them from the shore. A number of firlutnun who made at tempts at recnc were drowned. The raptnin of the 'team-hip. after admitting that the catostn.jhc was due to his own imprudence, committed sul fide. The Sirio was an ir."i ve--e'. of J. 14' trvs ;md c.ot-hor'cTiow i-r. Site w as built at G's-fmv i-i iSS; and was owned t)v the Navigazhw lta'iana of Genoa Tlie steamer h d 04s pi-senders on board ami her cre w urmhi red 127 men. The Sirio had 570 passenger when leav ing Oenoa. lint ailditiotta.l Spanish p:is senpr rs were Taken o-i board at Barce lona, w here the vessel touched a f w hours before the disas'er. The ili-aster occurred at ? o'clock' P. M. The Sirio was threading a difficult passnpe through the Ilortirpas pronp, where the P.ajos Hormigas reef is a eontinna1 nunnee to invitation. The vessel pecan to settle rapidly immediate ly she had struck, and a terrible scene of confusion and panic ensued on board. The fishermen alone the coast soupht In render every assistance in their pow er, and sent out boats, which brtutght many survivors a-hore. Most of the officers and rrew of the Sirio are among the saved. Passenpers confirm the fearful nature of the calamity. From the broken nam tives of the terror-stricken survivors it would appar that it was the intention of the captain of the Sirio. after leaving Barciiona. to call at Cadiz before pro- reeding to Braiil. The captain, in order ! to shorten lite route and pain time, pur posed to pass as cloce as possible to tlie dangerous rocky ledges surrounding the Hormiga T-land-. Wiihout any warn ing and while running at full -pied the Sirio era-lied upon the rock- with ter rific force. A few minutes later til1, stern of the vessel sank beneath the waves. The passengers were in a state r.f hor ror and panic. Crowds rushed forward, pushing each other and fighting for placis in t he bow of the boat. Many fell and were trampled to death. Dozens of run and women threw themselves into the sea. A young mother who was carrying her baby was advised to aban don the child and try to save herself alone. This -he refused to do. declar ing -I,,, preferred that they die togith.er. Both eventually were picked up alive from the water. In the midst of this panic the captain and officers of the Sirio cndcavi red in vain to re'tr.iin the people, re-tore a semblance of order and organize a sys tem of life-saving. This wa- not ac complished, for the 'W-sel suddenly eith er bri.kc in half or glided off the rocks and foundered in deep water. Tlie cap tain purposely sank with his hip. Tourists Swindled. Mexico City I Special;. Three Amer icans, Fred .b-ues, Jerome Turner and W. J. Wilson, have Iwen arrested and lent to Bclem prison, charged with prac ticing swindling on American touri-ts whom, it is alleged, they lured to a bed tower of a cathedral and induced to gamble and, when the latter protested, a bogus detective came upon the seem, frightening the losers into silence. Take lb Peasant's Side. Riga (By Cable). At a congress of Baltic landowners, held here, a resolu tion was passed in favor of the -ale of crown and church lands and the gradual expropriation of estates in exce-s of the established maximum. No peasant fam ily owning more thatf 50 acres may ob tain land under this -y-tem. The Baltic nobility up to the present time have been opposed to ihc expropriation of land. A Duel 10 the Dtalh Springfield, Mo. ( Special ). In th streets of Chadwkk, Mo., Charles Free man, a merchant, and Robert Keene, )8 years old, shot each other to death with revolvers. Suit recently was brought by Freeman charging Keene with assault ing Freeman' daughter. When the men met on the street both drew revolver and fired. Freeman was shot in the fore, head and in the left breast. Keene was shot three times in the heart. Both men were tkvd when the spectators reached the in. I'OMKstk: zt Sand I.ick, Knott County. Ky., the feud between the Hail and Martin factions broke out atrch, and four men were killed and two wounded in a bloody battle with a sheriff's pos-c. At Detroit, Charles II. Kimmerlc, of Cassapoljs, wns nominated for governor of Michigan by the Democratic State Convention on the tir-t ballot over Stan ley I-'.. I'arihill, of Ouosso, the only other candid, i:e placed in nomination. At New Ca-tle. IV. Thoina- O'Toolc, who attempted to break jail twice to Ocapc the penalty of execution for murdering Rav Barbar, escaped from jail. Anthony Coin-lock caused a raid on the Art Student's League of New York, alleging that the catalogue of the school contained nude pictures. The rumor is again current that Sec retary Bonaparte will quit the Navy Department and will succeed Mr. Moody as at'.orncv general. At Wars.av. N. Y John W. Net! was found guilty of grand larceny in the tir-t degree - 11 a charge of robbing lire County. Brigadier Genera! William .1 Bolton died in Philadelphia. 1 le -1 rved throiig.l out the Ciil War. John D. Rockefeller will not be serv ed with a snbpcna to appear before the grand jury of Chicago. Fay Tcinplcton. the actress, was mar ried in Philadelphia, to William Patter son, of Pitt-burg. A general strike of lithographers for an eight-hour day has affected 50.000 men in various cities. All-night maneuver.- of opposing ar mies were conducted at Mount Gretna, Pa. A reduction in crude patrolcum by the Standard Oil Company was an nounced. Fred Morris Hearing, of Missouri, was appointed by President Roosevelt to be second -ecretary of the American Ligation at Havana, Cuba. Mr. Hear ing is now private secretary to Seuor (Juc-ada. minister to the United States trom Cuba. Mr-. Harry Thaw and Mrs. William Thaw, her mother-in-law. arrived at the Tombs together in an electric brougham to i-it Harry Thaw. Mr-. Harry Thaw again denied that there has been any falling out bet veil her and her mother-in-law. No additional liquor licenses will be granted in Chicago until 'he city's popu lation is nearly double what it is now. According to the new law, there can oniv be one license for every 500 inhabi tants. At Calumet. Mich., fanners attacked miners protected by sberitT and deputies at the Michigan mine s. (In man was killed, another fatally shot and many wounded. Forty men were arrested. Senator McCarrcii. the Democratic leader of Brooklyn, has been sued by a woman who claims to be hi- common law wife. Near Lawrenceville, O., one man was killed and several persons were shocked by a bolt of lightning. Henry Forth, a former alderman of Green Bay, Wis., confessed to charges of bribery. White girls have supplanted colored men as waitresses in Raleigh ( N. C.) hotels. At Sttirgis, Ky., two colored men were shot (one fatally) by two white men. A strike of the building trades in I Raleigh, N. C was inaugurated. A 24-hour bank was opened in Chi- I cago. j William Jennings Bryan has demanded j that Roger Sullivan rcMgu as national committeeman rf Illinois, alleging that Sullivan holds his office by fraud. The Pennsylvania Railroad announces 1 a reduction from j to 2 ' cents a mile on die-way tickets and 2 cents a mile on thousand-mile tickets. The Michigan Republican State Con vention named a full State ticket, ratify ing the result of the primaries in June. At Jacksonville. Fla., Paul Daniel shot and fatally wounded Bertie Toomer and then killed himself. The battleship Alabama and Illinois were in collision during a fog off Bren ton's Reef. Harry Lehr smashed a vast in a tussle with a camera man at Newport. ) op.KION The crew of the crui-er Pamyat Azo va mutinied and killed the commander and four other officer-. The battleship Slava has been ordered to find and sink the mutineer. The pea-ants in the north central part of Rus-ia are report! d to have set lire to the forest pre.-cne-. and an immense tract is said, to be ablaze. The Duke of Devon-hire made a sig-e-'tVetit statement in the Briti-h House of Lords while 'peaking in opposition to the government's educational l id. Walter Frcidlander. while descending the Briiuningu.ki-n. in Switzerland, -lipped ami was hurled oe ra precipice. An unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up flic police headquarters build ing in Mo-cow with an internal ma chine. The Finnish authorities have arrested the raiiro.nl gaudarme suspected of the murder of M. Herzentein. A submarine boat constructed by Mont Justin was launched at Krnpps Gerniania Works, at Kiel. The mutineers of the Sanur regiment at De.hlagcr are reported to have sur rendered. General MarkgrafTsky, chief of the Warsaw Gendarmie, was shot and kill Ml. General Lee. commander of the Amer ican forces in the Island of Leyte, is 10 round up the Pulajanes. . The new Dominguez ministry, in Spain, upholds the civil marriage and forbids restrictions on burials in con secrated cemeteries. The president of the British Associa tion for the Advancement of Science eulogized Americans for their part in a year of unusual advancement in the sciences. A new grand vizier of Persia promi-es political anil financial reform.-. The importations of rice to the Philip pines show a decided falling off. The Brazilian Congress has passed the Coffee Valorization Bill. The American Dental Society f Eu rope hehl its thirty-third annual meet ing in Berlin. The proposed law granting a consti tutional government to the Transvaal was introduced in the British Hou.se of Commons. The Marqniz of Mnutebcllo was fined in Paris for assaulting his successful rival for the Chamber of Deputies. Rev. George Grenfell, missionary ex plorer, died at Basoko, in the Congo, of blackwater fever. Three d-.urches in the vicinity of Mos cow were robbed. RAILROADS TO BE PROSECUTED Violations Safety-Appliance Alleged. Law UNDER DIRECTION GENERAL MOODY. Action to Be Taken by United Stales Attor ney! Io Various Districts Under the Federal Statute Seventeen Suits Against Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and Thirty Against Ihe Iron Mountain. Washington, P. C., (Special). At torney General Moody in accordance with the policy heretofore determined upon has directed further prosecution of a number of railroads for violation of the federal safety appliance acts. The I'nited States attorneys for the various districts wherein the violations were committed will be directed to file anil vigorously prosecute suits for the re covery of the statutory penalty. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company will be sued for 17 penalties, anil the St. Louis, Iron Moun tain and Southern Railway Company for ,?o penalties. The roads to be made defendants and the districts wherein suits will be brought are as fnllows: Belt Railroad, of Chicago, Northern district of Illinois; Che.-apeakc and Ohio Railway Company. Hasten) district of Kentucky; Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, district of Nebraska; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail way Company, district of Nebraska; Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Rail way Company. Southern district of low a ; Hlgin. joilet ami Rastcrn Railway Company, Northern district of Illinois; Grand Trunk Western Railway Com pany, Northern district of Illinois; Kan sas City Southern Railway Company, Western district of Missouri; Minnea polis ;md St. Louis Railway Company, district of Minnesota; Missouri Paci fic Railway Company, Western district of Missouri and district of Nebraska; St. Louis and San I'rancisco Railroad Company, Western district of Tennes see; St. Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company. Western district of Tennessee; St. Louis South western Railway Company, Kastcm dis trict of Arkansas; Southern Railway Company. Western district of Tennessee; I'liion Pacific Railway Company, dis trict of Nebraska: Union Railway Com pany, of Memphis. Wc-tcrn district of Tennessee; Union Stockyards Company, of Omaha, district of Nebraska. PIO IRON STATISTICS. Production In United States and Canada For j Half a Year. I Philadelphia, ( Special) .The Ameri can Iron and Steel Association lias re ceived from the manufacturers complete statistics of the production of pig iron in the L'niled States and Canada in the first half of 1006. The production of pig iron in the United States for the period named was u.6oj,yoi gross tons, against t tons in the last half of 1005 anil 11.1fp.v175 tons in the first half of 1005. The production in the first half of k6 was the largest in any half year in the history of the trade, anil larger than that of any whole year prior to iHyo. It is not reasonably cer tain that the production of pig iron in I0() will exceed .25.000,000 tons. The production in Canada in the first half of 10,06 amounted to J82.010 ton:;, against 2,".;o7 tons in the last half ot 1005 ami 210.J06 tons in the first half of that year. The production in the first six months of 1006 was the greatest in any half year in the history of the Do minion. It was also greater than the production of any whole year prior to Woroio Rescues Drowning Woman. Chippewa Falls, Wis. (Special) Miss Bertie Schneider, of Milwaukee, rescued Miss Clara L. Crowin from drowning in the Chippewa River. Miss Corwin, who could not swim, floated by means of inflated wings to a point in the river beyond her depth, when the air in the wings big.-.n to exhaust, and she sank. Miss Schneider was coming from a mile swim and reached the drowning woman just as she was going under a second time ami tuwed her to shore. A crowd of helpless girls were on shore witnessing the thrilling rescue. Miss Corwin weighs 75 pounds more than Miss Schneider. Death Due to Chagrea Pever. New Orleans (Special). A bad out break of Charge, fever 011 board the steamer White Hal!, from Colon, was discovered when the ve-.el reached the Mississippi River quarantine station. Charges is a very fatal type of malarial fever. The White Hall hail one mem ber of her crew dead when she arrived at quarantine and nine others ill with the fever, the nature of which was final ly determined by an autopsy on the dead seaman. The steamer was detained in definitely at quarantine. There were no passenpers on the White Hall. Ai Alpine Cllmbar killed. Vienna (By Cable) .Walter Fried lander, grandson of Professor Pulitzer, the Austria!) artist, and cousin of Joseph Pulitzer, of New York, -lipped wdiile he was descending the Brauningzinken, and was sent flying over a precipice. He was killed by the fall. His companion, Asele Schreither, an authoress, wa seriously injured by a fall. The Alpine casualties this week have been heavy. For Contempt ol Court. Havana (By Cable). Mr. Keyes. translator at the United States Lega tion, is to be prosecuted for contempt of court, lie having snatched a paper from a judge in which he made a declaration regarding a civil suit against him. It is understood that in the paper Keyes claimed that as an employe of the lega tion he was immune from a summons from a Cuban court. He has been dis charged from his position at the lega tion. The matter is regarded as of no importance by the officials. Former Mayor la Scat lo Jill Paterson, N. J. (Special). William II. Belcher, former mayor of Paterson, who returned here lat week to stand trial for his embezzlement of tru6t funds, was arraigned before Justice Francis Scott, in the Court of Special Sessions. Belcher entered a plea of non vult, and Justice Scott at once imposed sen tence of two years in the Trenton Peni tentiary on each of the six indictments, providing that the terms are not to run concurrently. This means that Belcher must serve M years for his crimes. He is now 54 years old. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Gen. Albert I.. Mills was ordered to the Philippines to assume command of Port Wiliiam McKinley. Minister Collins, at Madrid, announc ed the arrangement of a customs con vention with Spain. Alfred II. Brown, Thirteenth Cavalry, died in the Philippines of cholera. The principal training .station of the United State? Marine Corps will be moved from Annapolis to New London, Ct., owing to animosity between the marines and the naval cadets. A committee or sjx railroad officials will be named to assist the Interstate Commerce (.loinnii-sinii in enforcing the rate law. Judge Charles R. Magoon, United States Minister to Panama is to become governor general of the Philippines. The internal revenue tax from licpiors and tobacco during the last fiscal year was nearly $50,000,000. Seven million dollars worth of Panama Canal bonds were delivered to pur chasers. According to a decision by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Reynolds, Isle of Pines is foreign territory, merchan dise from that country being subject to the same duties as that from China. The prediction is made that Congress as its next session will pass a law com pelling railroads to sell tickets at the rate of two cents a mile. Chief Hngineer Stevens, of the Pana ma Canal, announces the appointment of Joseph Ripley as principal assistant engineer. Minister Combs reported that the Guatamalan army had been disbanded, in accordance with the Marblehead Treaty. Rear Admiral Evans reported to the Navy Department that the collier Nero had gone ashore at Block Island. OVER $100,000 TAKEN. Clifford S. Hixton, la Said Is Have Made Conicssion. ritfsbnrg ( Special) Clifford S. Hix ton, the bookkeeper ot the Union Trust Company of this city, who is under ar rest and is said to have confessed to peculations amounting to $125,000. is still locked up in jail, having thus far failed to secure the Jjo.ooo bail fixed in the case. There has liecn no arrest here yet of a fellow-employe said to have been im plicated in llixton's confession, and it is reported the fellow-employe has left the city. Tl;c bank officials refuse to discuss the case in any phase, and are bending every effort to keep the matter quiet. 1 and local papers have apparently ignored the rase from the beginning. It was learned from n reliable source tonight that tiie case of the fellow-employe of Ilixton has been placed in the hands of a well-known detective force of New York City, who have turned it over to a local agency acting as its oper atives. The name of the missing man will not be disclosed. WANT DOWIE'S PLACE. Vsllva and Alfred E. Bills Are Rival Candidal. Chicago (Special). Two candidates filed their certificates of nomination for the office of general overseer of the Chistian Apostolic Catholic Clur.ch in Zion in the United States District Court here. The candidates are Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who took charge of the church and Zion City after John Alexander Dowie had been suspended, and Alfred R. Bills, formerly an adherent of Bow ie's. Dowie disclaims any connection with Bills.. Bills is said to be a large property owner in 7.ion City and has lived in that city for five years. Dowie for the second time announced t h;it he would not be a candidate. Trainmen Killed Id Wreck. Michigan City, Ind., (Special). Con ductor Myron L. Bradley, of Michigan City, was killed find four other train men were injured at Hartsdale in a wreck on the Michigan Central Rail way. Bradley's train crashed into a cut of coal cars, which had moved by their own weight from a siding onto the main track. Engineer Tramor and Pircman Warner were buried under the engine for several hours, but were not seriously injured. From Finland to Oregon Alone. Boson, Mass., (Special). Rach. of them wearing a tag marked "Portland, Ore., U. S. A.," three little girls, the eldest not more than 12 years old, ar rived here unaccompanied on the Cun ard Line steamer Ivernia from Heling fors, Finland, the present seat of serious revolutionary distrubances. The girls were given over to the railroad officers for their journey across the continent. They go to their father, Peter Westgard, of Portland. Ore. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. It is said the Erie may build into Pittsburg. The price of coke has been advanced 10 cents a ton. Wheat exports continue to be well above those of a year ago. There was an advance of one point in Russian 4 per cent bonds. Harriman's plain statement that Union Tacific does not intend to buy St. Paul affected adversely the price of both stocks. In four years New York city has in creased its debt by $170,000,000, so that it is little wonder it must sell 4 per cent, bonds at virtually par. It. is said in tlie street that Ifarriman has failed, up to the present time, to get control of Illinois .Central, and that his attempt to do so has solidified control in the hands of the opposition interests. It is not iiarriman but the Rockefeller party who will decide when, if ever, the Union Pacific will get control of St. Paul The Rockefellers certainly have the full say in St. Paul, and they share with Hatrinian an equal voice in Union Pacific. Chrysanthemum smoking is the latest thing in England. Cigarettes made of chrysanthemum leaves and cascarilla bark have been found to give relief in cases of epilepsy, and one doctor recom mends them a substitute for tobacco. Having supported himself as a peddler fr 75 years, James O'Dwyer, of Kil mihil, Ireland, who is now ioj years old, has, for the first time in his life, been compelled to esk for relief from the Kil rush Board of Guardians. Many a loner eventually make goo by making blurt tit winning. REVOLT RAMPANT THROUGH RUSSIA Crn:sers Fljinj Red Flags Caus.d Dismay. NO MERCY FOR THE ' MUTINEERS. Again Officially Reported Thai the Muddies al Sveahorg and Cronntadttlave Been Suppress, ed -Qrand fluke Nicholas McholalcvitchUives Short Shrill to All Suspected of Being Con cerned In the Revolt. St. Petersburg (By Cable). Though reports were received confirming those previously received stating that the up risings at Sveahorg and Cronstadt had been crushed, the prospect is still dark and gloomy. The mutiny at Cronstadt caused a panic at the imperial palace at Petethof. as the palace lies under the guns of the fortress. All preparations had been made in advance to Ike to Tsarskoe-Selo, tin im perial yacht Polar Star being near at hand, with steam constantly kept up. It was reported that the Czar and his family actually had fled in the middle of the night, hut this was denied later at the chancellory of the imperial house hold. It is explained, however, that, on account of "dampness" at Pcterhof, ar rangments had been made for the re turn of the imperial family to Tsarskoe Selo. Perhaps the most sensational incident of the day was the successful mutiny 011 the armored crui-er Patnyat Azova. the mutineers arc reported to have killed the captain and four other officers of the warship while off the Rsthoniati Coast. Ambassador Meyer litis received a dispatch from the American consul at Rcval, saying that the Pamyat Azova entered that port with the red Hag at her masthead. Later reports, however, showed that when the cruiser reached the roadstead at Rcval she was in possession of the loyal portion of her crew.s. One hun dred and fifty of the mutineers have been sent ashore and imprisoned. The loyal men gained the upper havid of the mutineers at sea. When the ship came in here they asked for a de tachment of troops to aid them in hand ing over the mutineers to the authori ties. Three officers whom the mutineers had placed in irons arc aboard the ves sel The remainder of the crew has been disarmed. An agitator has been arrested. The crew of the Russian cruiser Asia, which was sent to Abo, has hoisted the red ring. The vessel has left in the di rection of Sveahorg. Although the admiralty asserts that the squadron off Sveahorg did not wa ver in its allegiance there is something mysterious about the reports of the ac tions of the ships which warrants the sus picion that all is not right aboad. Only two ships fired on the mutineers, the others remaining 011 the horizon as if the admiral were not sure that they could be depended upon. The mutiny on the Pamyat Azova may possibly raise international com plications, as in the eye of the law this cruiser, like the Kniaz Potemkiiic in the Black Sea in the summer of 1015 is a pirate. There is reason to believe that the German fleet has orders cover ing just such a contingency as this, and that it would not hesitate to put an end to the renegade cruiser as a danger to commerce. At the same time it was reported that a military insurrection bail broken out at Rcval, which is the capital of the government of Esthonia and is situated on an arm of the Gulf of Finland, 200 miles .southwest of St. Petersburg. It is naval station of the second class. There was also a report that serious conilicts had occtired tit I lelsingfors be tween the comniunial police and the so cialists Red Guards. The regular police, as well as the communal guards, were Cilleil out dur ing the afternoon. Among the casualties were the chief of police, who was wounded, anil his assistant, who .was killed. Although the mutinies at Sveahorg have been ended and the one at Cron stad has been practically put down, the out look is still black. The revolution ists, whose hands were suddenly forced by the premature rising at Sveahorg, ap parently are undaunted at these initial reverses and intend to persist in their program of calling a general strike. One of the leaders of the revolution ists boasted that the word had gone forth and that the fire of revolt would spread to the corners of the empire. His closing words were: "Now watch Rcval, Riga and l.ibau." In the Sveahorg mutiny seven com panies of artillery were concerned, and of tha fortress steamers the Vietrelli, Puskar, Rabotschi, lmgcmicr and Mars were in the hands of the mutineers, while the Bomba, Opit and Sveahorg remain ed loyal. The Opit was furiuusly bom barded by the mutineers, and they threatened to sink the Bomba at the first opportunity, even if she hoisted the red flag. During the Skatudden Island mutiny only one, the Finn, of six vessels sta tioned in the North harbor fired on tho marine barracks occupied by mutineers. The others remained passive. Drowned la Mill Race. Flint, Mich., ( Special). William II. Davis, aged 20 years, a member of one of the best-known families in Flint, was drowned in a mill race here and the police believe that he was pushed into the water ami murdered. Davis was seen drinking with a local man early in the evening, and it is said that about midnight the two men. went to the bank of the race to sleep. Night Car Inspec tor Silver, of the Grand Trunk Rail road, says he heard vries about .1 o'clock from the spot where Davis went into the water ami saw a man tunning away. Tha Caatellana Divorce. Paris, (By Cable). A private ag.-e. iiient has been reached between Count Boni de Castellane and his wife, Coun tess Anna, who is suing him for divorce, in regard to the custody of their chil dren. It is stipulated by this agree ment that at least one of the children shall remain with the mother at all times. The two sons will go immediate ly to spend two or three weeks with their father, while the daughter remains with her mother. On the return of the boys their sinter will depart for a visit with her father. RAILROAD UNDER BEIIRIN6 STRAIT. Czar Grants Permit For Siberian Alaska Line. Paris (Ky Cable)' In accordance with .In order issued by the Emperor of Rus sia, the American syndicate, represented by Baron t.oieq dc Lobcl, is authorized to begin work on the Trans-Siberian-Alaska Railroad project. I he question of building the Ala-kan-Siberian Railroad was discussed in both Ibis country and Ruropc back in the 'No's. In facf, what may be said to be the first step for such a transcontinental svsti'in was takm in iS,. whet) J. W. Powell, director of the United Slates Geological Survey, was asked by the United States Senate to make a report as to the possibility of communication between Alaska and Siberia by rail. In making this investigation Mr. Powell found that no greater difficulties would be involved in the building of such a road than were encountered in the con struction of other transcontinental roads now existing. It wa. proposed that the road should '''Mn nf a proper point of the Northern Pacific in Montana, and continue through the head water of the Peace River to the head waters of the Yukon. It was to proceed thence to some point on the shore of Bering Sea. The total distance was estimated at 2.715 miles. A branch road would be built from the head waters of the Peace River to tlie mouth of the Stikine River, in order to es tablish connection with Sitka. Because of the construction nf the Si berian Railroad the war between Japan j and China and the Boxer uprising noth ing was done in connection with the proposed transcontinental road until tooi when M. I.oicq de I.obel became inter ested in the work. He made a survey of a railroad line through Alaska from Circle City to Bering Strait, remaining in the Polar regions for 18 months Notwithstanding the extremely low temperature and the darkn-ss of the long Arctic night, he contiited his work until it was completed. M. lie I.obel found that the hardest problem. Recording to the first plans decided upon, was by the Bering Strait, yet it was contended that this could he solved, because of t lie- many islands in the strait, which could be' spanned by a massiyc bridge. The plans were later modified, by which it was sug gested that a tunnel should take the place of a bridge. Once across the strait, the new road would have to pass through a great stretch of frozen desert until it reached the line of the Siberian Road. American capital will play an essen tial part in the planning and construc tion of this, the largest railroad in the world. It is not yet safe to prophesy how soon we may be able to travel in the same Pullman car from New York to Paris. Two Men Injured. Newport, R. I., (Special). Two men were injured, instead of one. as first rc Itortcd, in the collision between the battleships Alabama and Illinois Monday night, the fact becoming known Wed nesday, when Ordinary Seaman Ilanley, of Syracuse, N. Y., was brought to tlie hospital with the bones of the left hand fractured. Ht. was struck by a falling boat when the collision occurred. Ordi nary Seaman Corbett, of Frankfort, Ky., previously reported injured, also was brought to the hospital today. He lost one leg by amputation as the result of the accident, and it was found today that his left arm was fractured. Child Kldrlappcd. Atlantic City., N. J. (Special). It is alleged by the police here that two-year-old Laura Newman, daughter of William Newman, of Philadelphia, has been stol en from the home of her aunt, Mrs. I.ydia .Bingham, at Ahsccon. The aunt accuses Katherinc Bruscher, of 1751) N., Wamick Street, Philadelphia, with ab ducting the child. The Bruscher woman and her two children took board at Bingham's Saturday. She took her own and the Newman youngster for a walk Tuesday and has not heen seen since: The Philadelphia police have been asked to look for her. Nil Hard Hv Frlaco Fire. Hamburg (By Cable). At an extra meeting of the stockholders of the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company, held here, the directors informed the stockholders that the total losses of the company as a result of the San Francsco disaster amounted to $4,305,000 The reserves on hand amounted to $2,500,000, and it would therefore be necessary for the stockholders to pay jo per cent, on the capital. Holy War la Feared. St. Peter-burg (By Cable) The fierce war raging in the Caucasus between the Armenians, Tartars and Russians, espec ially near the Persian frontier, is assum ing threatening dimensions. There is considerable apprehension that it may cause the outbreak, of a holy war, for which a serious agitation has been in progress, both among the Shiite and Sunnite Tartars, for a long time. No Uprising la Mexico. Washington (Special). The State Department made public a telegram which was received late during the after noon from Mr. Thompson, the Ameri can Ambassador to Mexico, in which he states that reports of a threatened up rising of Mexicans against foreigners in Mfxico is without foundation so far as is discoverable there. Kooaevtll Not a Candidate. Peoria, 111., (Special). Another posi tive announcement from President Roose velt that he will not be a candidate for re-election has been made in a letter re ceived by Mrs. L. A. Kinney, 'of Peoria, from Secretary William Loeb, writing for President Roosevelt. The letter, dated July 26, concludes: "I would say that the President has nothing to add to the statement issued on the night of the election in K14. His decision as announced at that time is irrevocable" To Round Up Its Pulsjauei. Manila (By Cable). General Lee, commander of the American forces on the Island of Leyte, has telegraphed to General Wood that he has 500 regular troops, betides a number of scouts and constabulary, ready to begin a movement to "round up" the rebellious Pulajanes. The municipal presidents charge that the recent outbreak was caused by the action of Governor Deveyra in disarm ing the municipal police of many towns, thus leaving the homes of this people practically unguarded. THE KEYSTONE STATE Tha Litest Pennsylvania Newa Told In Short Order. Constatilc Johnson and Patrolman Rodenbcrger, of the Allentown police force, returned to thai place from Le banon, where they arrested Mrs. Annie Milletts, who eloped with J"-iph Kal ler, a star boarded at Mrs. Milletts' Austrian hoarding house. Bequeathing her entire estate, valued at six thousand dollars, to her daughter, Jennie, Mrs. Margaret McFetridge, whose will was admitted to probate in Allentown, cut off three other daughters with one dollar each. A contest is ex pected. Five cases of smallpox have developed in the vicinity of Moutitvillc and Colum bia, Lancaster County, through a care lesness of sufferers in attending a funer. al of a smallpox victim. The latter was a daughter of David Neff, of Washing ton Bi rough, and the case was at first believed to be chickenpox. Jacob Signian, of Safe Harbor, has brought suit to recover $8000 damages ft run the G. R. McAbee Powder Com pany, of Pittsburg. By the explosion of the company's dynamite factory at IV. qua, in which twelve lives were lost, Signian alleges his house was wrecked and h;s wile fcriously injured Fill' 1 11-year-old Joseph Naehilsk:. was cut in two after finishing his day's labor at St. Nicholas colliery, Mahonoy City. He wanted to beat his companions home and tried to board a Reading coal train, but fell under. The Board of Managers of Carlisle's Young Men's Christian Association has decided to build the handsome new struc ture, for which they were lately success ful in raising funds, on the site occupied by their present building in the center of Carlisle. Plans will be immediately drawn, and work begun next February. Grocers, clothiers and barbers of Ma hatioy City have agreed to inaugurate the Thursday half-holiday with a fine for every dealer who violates the agree ment. Fifty workmen at the Philadelphia and Rinding Coal and Iron Company's Nor'h Frimklin colliery, had been dis charged tin, to noon Tuesday, because they would not fill the places of driver boys who went 011 strike last week. Un derbosses continue taking the places of the strikers. Untied Mine Workers' of ficials are trying to end the trouble. Laura Pritchard, of Scran'on, aged 13 years, was struck and killed by a Jersey Central flyer while walking along the track in company with three other girls, near the Langcliff crossing. Laura and three companions, Laura and Lottie Keeler and Nellie Owens, were going to an evangelistic camp meeting, and were walking along the Jersey Central tracks. When about loo yards north of Lang cliff crossing, on York Street, they no ticed a southbound freight and crossed over to the other tracks. Her compan ions noticed the northbound flyer and ran off Ihc tracks, shouting a warn ing to Laura at the same, but she did not hear them until it was too late, and she was struck by the train and hurled into the air. The train was stop ped and she was picked up dead. The Eastern Pennsylvania Railways Company has filed a notice at the State Department of an increase of indebted ness to $6,000,000 from $2,250,000. The company was originally incorporated in 1891 as the Tamaqua & I.ansford Street Railway Company, with a trolly line from Tamaqua to I.ansford. five miles, and ,1 capital of $30,000. Subsequently the lines was extended to other places, and then ihe Lehigh Coal & Navigation ob tained possession. The increase to $6. 000.000 is said to be for the purpose of making further extensions. Arrested as a vagrant by Special Offi cer Ix-ver, William May, giving bis place of residence as Philadelphia, told so many conflicting stories as to why he had left Philadelphia that be was sent to the Norristown jail to serve thirty days. In the meantime the Philadelphia authorities will be asked to investigate some of the stories and the antecedents of the suspect. The dead game sports who during the past twenty years have infested the coun ty fairi with their games of chance will find no encouragement in the announce ment made by Deputy Secretary of Ag riculture Martin. All kinds of gambling, the secretary says, Will be eliminated, and the department will see that the anti-gambling laws arc enforced. Gamb ling, he says, will be done away with. No more will we see the sweat biards and the roulette wheels and the hun dreds of other gambling devices against which 110 living man can win, and which were the cause of so much robbery of people who attended the fairs for pleas ure. "1 think the worst exhibition of gambling I ever saw, and the most, shanless robbery that ever took place, was in this county at the MTddletown Fair. Men were held up and robbed in broad (lay light right in front of the judges' stand on the race track, and nobody made a protest except the vic tims, and no attention was paid to them. I attended that fair two years ago, and went .away sick because of the flagrant swindling right in the open." Miss Elizabeth C. Sheahan, of Her risburg, has been appointed stenograph er in the Executive Department, to suc ceed Mrs. William I'.. Seel, resigned. Joseph Watwowski, aged 14, is dying at the West Penn Hospital. While playing on Brenton Avenue he found three stiTks of dynamite, which he con cluded would be good for an explo sion. Returning to bis home, he de scended into the cellar and. obtaining a heavy piece of iron, struck the dyna mite. Immediately there was an explos ion. The house wa- wrecked and the boy terribly wounded. Going back to flag his train at Nantv glo, on the Cresson and Clearfield di vision of the Pennsylvania railroad, George Kingston, aged 21, a hrakeman set down on the rail and fell asleep. An engine ran him down, cutting off his left arm and terribly lacerating his back and left leg. He cannot recover. The clothes of a 111:111 who had evi dently committed suicide were found upon the river bank at Wilkes-Urrre, and ihe police are trying to have them identified. It iS believed that they be long to a Georgetown man who has been missing since Tuesday. The Johnstown, Ebensburg & North ern Railroad Co., capitalized at $250,000, was chartered by the State Department lo build twenty-five miles of road in Cambria County, George E. Daniels, of Johnstown, is president of the company. Contrary to the instruction of Dis trict Attorney Weiss Alderman Caveny has decided to settle all cases brought by the Dairy and Food Commission in which the defendents plead guilty and request lo pay the fine. By this action Alderman Caveny will save 'the defend ants in adulterated food cases at least $50 each, as they will then be freed from having to pay the county that amount in utsts.
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