r
1 1
GEN. GUEBRA REJECTS
OFFER DF MSTICE
The Rebels Dynamite English Railroad
Bridges.
CLOSING IN 1)N P1NAR DEL RIO.
Ban Joan do Martinez in the Hands
of the Insurgents Liberal Lead
era Decline to Consider Further
Negotiation for Trace Crisis
Increasing.
NO PEACE FOR PALM A.
The government has declared
for a 10-dny urmlstle, but Pino
Guerra, commander of the rebel
forces, will not accept It.
"The Insurgents have dynamit
ed two Western Railway bridged
between Plnar del Klo and San
Luis, blocking the advance ot
the government troops.
Guerra is also reported to
have taken Han Juan do Mar
tinez. Rapid-lire guns and troops
have been hurried forward to
protect workmen sent to restore
rail communication.
Liberal leaders decline to con
sider further negotiations for
pence.
Managers of largo foreign
business interests in Havana ex
press the belief that the Pal
ma government cannot subdue
the rebels.
Government troops are desert
ing to the insurgents at Cienfuc
gos. Fighting continues in Santa
Clara Province, but the casual
ties are not heavy.
Havana (Speclul) All peace over
tures are blocked by the refusal of
Pino Guerra, the insurgent leader In
Pinar del Rio Province, to enter Into
any arrangement for an armistice.
Guerra's answer to the government's
announcement of its readiness to
grant a 10-day armistice is the blow
ing up of two bridges on the Western
Hallway, the cutting of railway com
munication beyond Plnar del Rio
City and an attack on ban Juan tie
Martinez.
It is believed here that Sen Juan
de Martinez is in the hands of the
Insurgents and that the gairison,
consisting of 100 government re
cruits and a small force of mounted
rural guards, has been defeated or
captured. Guerra is closing in upon
Plnar del Rio City.
The fact that other leaders of the
Insurrection are willing to agree to
an armistice can have little effect, so
long as Guerra Is determined to
prosecute the w ar, and there is slight
doubt in any quarter that Guerra
can control the situation in his re
gion. Ills force is reported by all those
who have visited him recently as
ranging from 3,000 to 4,000 men, all
of them well mounted and some of
them well and others indifferently
armed. The government forces op
posed to him, which is under com
mand of Colonel Avnlos, comprises
about 1,000 men. It was reinforced
by Lieutenant Colonel Clews with
150 men and three machine guns
from Havana. Colonel Avalos' force,
with the exception of small detach
ments left at San Juan de Martinez
and San Luis, is at Pinar del Rio
City, but Is without means of trans
portation to go to the relief of San
Jnan do Martinez. Not more than
400 of them are mounted.
General Menocal said t'lat Guerra
evidently had not been informed that
the government had actually, al
though Informally, granted an armis
tice, adding that a second committee
had been s4nt to him. The fact is,
however, that Guerra refuses point
blank to accept nn armistice except !
on condition that the last presidential
and congressional elections shall be
annulled. That the government
should consent to this is out of the
Question, and exery prospect points
to the continuance of the war.
Cut Oir Their Heads.
Columbus Grove, O., (Special).
Mrs. Henry Knippen, wife of a larm
tr living near Cloverdalc, Putnam
County, decapitated her two chil
dren a boy, aged three, nnd a girl,
aged one and a half years old. .Mrs.
'Knippen then went to the homo of
a neighbor ind told what she had
done. She asked the neighbor to
go and see the children. The boy's
head was completely cut off. The
girl's head was completely severed
and was found in ar the body. A
carving knife was ii.-;cd. The woman
was discharged recently from the
Toledo State Hospital for Insane.
Al low I or Insurgents.
Havana (Special). It is reported
that a filibustering expedition form
New York recently landed on the
coast of Havana Province, bringing
1,200 rifles and 2o0,0u) cartridges,
which were delivered to the insur
gents. A secret envoy from the
Province of Santiago camo to the
city nnd reported that the war in the
eastern provinces is increasing. Gen
eral Menocal is still hopeful.
Earthquake In The West.
Princeton, nd., f Special). A dis
tinct earth shock was felt at 10.3a
o'clock A. M. Houses rocked and
dishes rattled on shelves. The shock
lasted for two or three seconds, and
was felt In towns and cities within
CO miles of Princeton. The shock
was preceded by a loud rumbling
noise.
Louses Due To Theft.
Now York. Max Jacobs was ar
raigned in Police Court charged with
receiving stolen good3. Ho was
held in $2,000 ball for further ex
amination. T)etectlves who arraign
ed tin: man stated in court in con
nection with the case, that the
wharves of tho Pennsylvania Rail
road Company at Desbrosses Street,
North River, had been frequently
robbed and that a prominent official
told them the losses in the past few
months aggregated between $110,000
and $10,000.
Puiboiicd In Hot Wnter.
Detroit, Mill). (Special). John
Mlelke, laborer at tho plant of tne
Hallway Steel Company, is dead af
ter having been parboiled In u pit
of hot water. Miclko's shoes had
become, greasy from walking about
the engine room, and as lie was
passing the pit, which received the
bulling water from cylinders of tho
engine, lie slipped and fell headlong
into tho scalding liquid. He was
entirely Immersed, being practically
parboiled from head to foot and for
Cre hours suffered most intense
aaony until death brought relief.
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.
On warrants charging embezzle
ment and making false returns,
sworn out by a depositor of the
wrecked Real Estate Trust. Company,
Adolph Segal, promoter; William F.
North, treasurer, and M. 8. Colllng
wood, assistant treasurer of the
wrecked Institution, were arrested
and arraigned before Magistrate Koc
hprsperger at Central Police Court.
They were released on bond,
Former friends of Herman Oel
rlchs said after the funeral that his
entire estate, amounting to more
thnn 12,000,000, would revert to his
15-year-old son Hermann, who would
com Into full possession of the pro
perty upon attaining his majority.
The value of Adolph Segal's bonds
and stocks was shown In Philadelphia
when 25,000 worth" of Pennsylva
nia Sugar Refining Company first
mortgage 5 per cent, gold coupons,
due In 1031, brought 12,500 at auc
tion. MIfb Anne Morgan, aged 37 years,
died suddenly of heart trouble, the
attack following a dream that n col
ored man entered her room.
The trial of Harry K. Thaw for the
murder of Stanford White will not
take place in New York until after
the election.
The striking street car men of San
Francisco have agreed to return to
work upon the condition that differ
ences be arbitrated.
A Junta is said to be collecting
funds and supplies in New Orleans
for a revolution in the Central Amer
ican republics.
In the Irrigation Congress at Boise,
Idaho, Senator Heyburn made an at
tack upon the Presidents forestry
policy.
The court review has sqt October
19 as the date of tho hearing of the
appeal of Rev. Dr. Crapsey, of Ro
chester, who was found guilty of
charges of heresy.
Collins Humbert and Lenardo Vil-
areal were arrested in Tucson, Ariz.,
on the charge of attempting to organ
ize a revolutionary movement against
.Mexico.
Robert Cotton, colored, who last
year murdered hjs wife, literally cut
ting her body into pieces, was exe
cuted in Vinita, I. T. He confessed.
Robbers bound and gagged Cash
ier P. W. Vanancher and leisurely
looted the State Hank of Ranier, Ore.
Miss Frances Wadsworth. of New
ark, N. J., was drowned while bath
ing at Bradley Peach.
A Mexican gunboat seized the
American fishing smack Aloha and
put her crew in prison.
Rev. Dr. Francis R. Beattlo died in
Louisville, Ky.
Joseph DeF. Junkln, a director
and solicitor of tho Real Estate Trust
Company, admitted that the Arling
Brook Real Estate Company, of Bal
timore, of which he was the head,
had borrowed 1250,000 from tho
trust company.
In a letter to Charles A. Stllllngs,
public printer, President Roosevelt
wrote that If the changes in spelling
advocated by the Simplified Spelling
Board meet popular approval they
will be made permanent.
Mrs. Anna Edelhartz was killed
and Miss Anna Robinson seriously
injured in a Btreet car panic in Chi
cago, caused by a short circuit in
the controller box.
After a two-hour search blood
hounds found John Dowd, a boy who
had wandered from his home, in
Sandersfield, New York, several days
ago.
A statement of tho Department of
Commerce says that cotton was king,
according to the export record of
the past fiscal year.
In a fight with state police at
Punxsutawney, Pa., Italians killed
two officers, fatally wounded an
other and shot three more.
In a fire at Louisville, Ky., Henry
Taylor was suffocated and three
other persons overcome. Tho prop
erty loss Is $",000.
Mrs. Jane Austin, "tho washer
woman heiress," Is dying at her
home, in McKeesport, Pa., of blood
poisoning. Foreign.
Paul O. Stensland, president of the
wrecked Chicago bank, who was ar
rested in Tangier, will be returned
to the I'nltcd Stales without opposi
tion from the Moroccan authorities."
King Haakon sent a congratula
tory message to Capt. Roland Amund
sen, who discovered the Northwest
Passage.
An official communication was pub
lished In St. Petersburg, which em
bodies tho whole government pro
gram. Dominican revolutionists are re
ported to have been defeated by gov
ernment forces near Monte Crist!.
The Trades I'nlon Congress in
Liverpool adopted a resolution in
favor of an eight-hour day.
The trial of 200 Russian mutineers
was begun behind closed doors In
Cronstadt.
Two earthquake shocks ore report
ed to have occurred at the Island of
Hllo.
Albert Tissandier, the famous
French aeronaut, died in Paris.
The Dowager Empress Marie of
Russia, accompanied by Grand Duke
Michael, brother of tho Czar, sailed
for Denmark. Tho Czar and the
Czarina accompanied them for some
distance, but returned to Peterhof.
The British battleship Lord Nel
son, sister ship of the Agamemnon
and second in size and armament to
the Dreadnought, was successfully
launched at Jarrcw-on-Tyne.
Floods in the basin of the Ganges,
in Jndla, huve swept away whole vil
lages and caused enormous destruc
tion. Efforts to pull the United States
transport Sheridan off tho coral reef
off Oahu Island, Hawaii, have been
abandoned, and the vessel will prob
ably be a total loss. All the pass
engers have been landed.
Tho retirement of General Trepoff
from the governorship of the Czar's
palaco Is believed to ba due to tho
recent outbreaks of terrorism. He
Is one of the terrorists' marked men.
Dernburg, tho new director of tho
German Colonial Olllce, is described
us being more American than Ger
man in his financial methods.
Tho murderess of tho Russian gen
eral, Min, has been Identified as the
daughter of a noncommissioned oitl
cer in the army.
Tho new law providing for a week
ly day of rest in France went Into
effect, hut tho storeB and cafes in
Paris were open Sunday, as usual.
The Hamburg-American Steamship
Company announced a plan to Issue
$5,000,000 new capital, making a to
tal of $30,000,000. .
MR. M'CABE OUSTED
BY THE COMMITTEE
The Policy Holders Unanimous In
Retiring the Bishop.
ADDRESS SENT HIM IN TIME.
His Protest, the Internationals Declare,
Shows Lack of Sympathy .With the
Movement and Amounts to Surren
der of Membership -Warns Policy
Holders.
New York, (Special). Tho Inter
national policy holders' committee, at
a meeting nt tho Waldorf-Astoria
ousted Bishop Charles C. McCabe, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
from membership on the committee.
This was tho committe's answer to
the Irishop's letter, made public
through the management of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, as
serting that he had not authorled the
use of his name In a committee ad
dress, and urging that tho Interna
tional organization indorse the ad
ministration ticket of the two mutual
companies.
ICightecn of twenty-two members
of the committee were present nt tne
meeting, and the vote to dispense
with the bishop's services was unan
imous. Bishop McCabe's attitude,
the eommlttee held, was so complete
ly out of sympathy with the announc
ed purpose of the organization that
it amounted In effect to a surrender
of his membership. The bishop wns
not present nt the metelng.
The resolutions adopted stated that
copies of the proposed address were
furnished to Bishop McCabe before
the meeting nt which the address, as
adopted, was mailed at least three
weeks before the address was dis
tributed, and no objection or criti
cism was made by him as to the form
of the address for four weeks after
its distribution, nor until the letter
of August 27.
The chairman is nuthorlzoj to pro
pare an answer to the bishop's let
ter. The International committee at tho
meeting also selected the men whom
It will present on the policy holders'
tickets for trustees of the Mutual
and New York Life. In selecting
the former ticket the international or
ganization cooperated with the Mut
ual Life Policy Holders' Association.
The tickets will not be made public
until September 18, the date on which
they must be filed in Albany.
A subject discussed was the action
of the Mutual Life Insuranco Com
pany in nominating Judge George
Gray, Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, Col.
Alfred M. Shook, and Harlow N.
Iligginbotham, members of tho In
ternational policy holders' committee,
as trustees, against their wishes." The
following resolution was passed:
Resolved, That the placing of tho
names of the four members of this
committee on tho administration
ticket of the Mutual Lifo Insurance
Company, without the consent nnd
against the protest of those whose
names were thus UBed, tends to de
ceive the policy holders who are
called upon to vote, and deserves
the reprobation of fair-minded men
KISSES WERE HIS FEE.
Client Was Pretty Woman, And Law
yer Whs Satisfied.
Catsklll, N. Y., (Special). Kisses
as legal tender for a lawyer's fee,
where the client is young and pretty
and the barrister unmarried, have
been pronounced a success. Win
ning a case for a pretty Swedish girl,
A. T. Powers, a young lawyer, was
smothered with kisses by his fair
client when the Jury brought In a
verdict of not guilty on the charge
of assaulting her landlady.
Miss Stockholm, the interesting
client, said she had no money, but
Powers said he was quite satisfied
to accept the payment tendered.
Counsel for tho Plaintiff said he
wished he had the other side when
he saw Mis3 Stockholm Imprint sev
eral resounding smacks on .Power'
lips.
Iowa's ltifj Corn Crop.
Des Moines, Iowa. (Special).
Iowa's corn crop tills year will total
the Kttim.twliioiiu vb.lrl it f? Q 1 n ft A nrm
bushels. This Is the startling esti
mate maue ny ueorge A. Wells, sec
retary of the Iowa drain Dealers'
Association, in his final estimate of
the neimori'tt rrnna Wullu inuluta
that his figures are conservative and
that with a satisfactory September
tho chances arc good for a yield of
over 4 00,000,000 bushels. His of
ficial estimate is an increase of 36,-
OOII 0(1(1 htmhela wr. luut i.,n-r,
' ' ' ' " " .lie,. J -(11 3
yield. This will be a yield of 38.5
nusfteis per acre.
Eighteen Injured.
Peru, Ind., (Special). A Fort
Wayne and Wabash Valley traction
car opped on a steep hill south of
ibis city to repair a broken trolley
and another car, coming down the
grade at a high speed, crashed Into
the standing car. Eighteen persons
were Injured, three of them serious
ly. Ilartlelt For Seventh Term.
Macon, Ga., (Special). The Demo
cratic convention of the Sixth Con
gressional district met in this city
and re-nominated Charles L, Bartlctt
for Congress, this bulag his seventh
term.
Will ltomurry First Wife.
Chicago, (Special). Tho remark
able case of Bigamist Charles II.
Frye, who disappeared for 31 years
and lived as Charles 11. Goddard,
the husband of another woman came
to an end, wh;-n Clara Emella Frye,
his first wife obtained a divorce from
the quondam educator and lawyer.
The decree opeiiB the way for Frye
to remarry Mrs. Clara Goddard, the
woman he took as a wife In Hurley,
S. D., over 26 years ago. The mar
riage will take place In a few days,
probably in South Dakota.
Adulteration of Seed.
Washington (Special). In accord
ance with an act of CongresB, tho
Agriculture Department has obtained
and tested seed of alfalfa from var
ious dealers throughout tho country,
and published a lint of those firms
whose produce was found to be adul
terated. In all 352 samples of alfalfa
seed were examined. Of theso 160, or
nearly oue-balf, were found to cou
taln seed of the destructive parasitic
plant dodder, nine samples adulter
ated with seed of yellow trefoil and
nine samples adultered with bur
clover.
AT THE mm CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.
Tho Navy Department has received
a dispatch from Commander Coff
rnan, of the cruiser Boston, which
is now in Bellingham Harbor, Wosh.,
after having been injured by ground
ing on Peabody Rock that tho water
in tho vessel's hold is tinder control.
Brigadier General W. 8. McCoskey,
commanding the southwestern divis
ion, says in his annual report that
long marches by Infantry are iinnec
essary hardships and will have dlsns
trous effects upon enlistments.
The director of the mint opened
bids for sliver, all, of which were
declined on account of the price be
ing too high. The lowest offer made
was 67' cents per fino ounce.
A booklet was issued by the Public
Printer giving a list of words which
are to be spelled according to the new
rule.
Restoration of the canteen is
recommended by Brigadier General
William S. McCaskey, commanding
the Southwestern Division of the
Army.
Captain Smith, of the revenue cut
ter Dallas, wns Instructed to make a
report of tho desertions from his
ship.
The Navy Department Is estab
lishing wireless telegraph stations on
tho Pacific Coast.
Lieutenant Colonel Edward T.
Comegys, U. S. A., retired, died at
Los Angeles, Cal.
Col. James Pettit, Eighth United
Statss Infantry, died of Blight's dis
ease. Secretary Bonaparte, of the Navy
Department, made public the opinion
of the court of inquiry which investi
gated the collision between the bat
tleships Illinois and Alabama at the
entrance to Newport harbor on July
31. The court recommends that
Lieut. Alfred W. Pressey, officer of
the deck on the Alabama at the
time of the accident, and Cnpt. Sam
uel P. Comly, In command of the
Alabama, be tried by court-martial
for neglect In suffering their vessel
to be exposed to injury.
Tho United States Fish Commis
sioner says the shad industry Is in
grave peril because of the lack of
supply of spawn.
Official denial Is made ot the ex
istence of anti-American feeling In
Mexico.
NEW BUILDING COLLAPSES.
Supports Were Removed Too Soon
Several Killed And Injured.
Elyrla, O., (Special). Two men
were killed and a dozen fatally in
jured and many others hurt by tho
falling ot tho second floor of the
new factory building of the Farford
Company, under construction here.
The nccldent happened while 27
men were at work removing the false
structure usvd .o hold the concrete
pillars of the new building in place.
The false work, it is said, was re
moved too soon, the concrete not yet
having hardened sufficiently to sus
tain the weight of tho structure.
Sixteen workmen on the first floor
of tho building were caught be
neath the fall of heavy tile, brick
and steel beams of the wrecked floor.
The dead and injured, so far as
is known, are Hungarians, who were
doing the heavy work about tne con
struction of the building. The In
jured were removed to a hospital
as fast as taken from the ruins. All
the ambulances and doctors In tho
city were called to the relief of the
injured.
Dynamite And Powder.
Birmingham, Ala. (Special) Four
cases of dynamite and 225 pounds
of black powder exploded as a result
of a fire in a miner's house at Re
public, Ala. Tho Dead J. It. Hell,
a miner; Mrs. Bell. Injured Ed-'
ward Bell; W. S. Botpomlee, a
miner; Moses Botpomlee, a miner;
Maud Bell, Lilly Bell. Several neigh
bors, whose names have not been
learned, were also Injured.
Paralytic Killed Ily Hats.
New York (Special). Mrs. Eliza
beth Van Hart, a paralytic, 60 years
old, was killed by rats In her home
in Elizabeth, N. J. Mrs.. Van Hart
lived alone. Her daughter-in-law call
ed early and found her dead. Rats
had attacked the helpless old wom
an as she sat In a chair, possibly
asleep, and severed an artery In one
of her feet that causer her to bleed
to death. The flesh of both feet was
much torn by the rodents.
Can't Keep President Still.
Washington, (i'pecial). Mr. E.
Caret, of this city, is making strong
efforts to obtain a plaster cast of
President Roosevelt's face. The sug
gestion was first made to Mrs. Roose
velt, who asked: "How long would it
take to mako the cast?" "About
twenty minutes," replied the friend.
"Then that settles it," returned Mrs.
Roosevelt; "no human power could
Induce my husband to remain still
twenty minutes."
Both Feudists Killed.
Tampa, Fla., (Special). A ven
detta transported from Italy to Tam
pa resulted In the Instant death of
Salvatore Cosnola and an unknown
Italian recently arrived. The men
met on a prominent corner and Im
mediately began firing. Both fell
dead within five feet of each other.
I ODDS AND ENDS.
Canada's bank deposits have more
than doubled in the last seven years.
Calais, Franco, spends $6,000,000
of laces to the United Stafes every
year.
The London Express asks the ques
tion apropos of earthquakes, etc.;
"Is the earth beomlng unsafe?"
Aluminum paper, which Is prac
tically a new article of production,
Is said to preserve the Bweetnoss of
butter lhat Is wrapped In It for a
very long time.
Hungry vultures have attacked
men and women in tho Valley of
Couchs, canton of Valalu; a bull was
so seriously Injured In a fight with
them that it had to bo killed.
According to United States Geolo
gical Survey reports, the Forty-mile
basin proper comprises more than
2,100 square miles, an area double
that of the State of Rhode Island.
Iceland and the Faroe Islands will
be connected by cable with Great
Britain early In September. Iceland
is also constructing a system of land
telegraph ilnes, to be completed by
October 1.
THE' BOMBS BO-
JMER WORK
Revolutionaries' Reply To New Rus
sian Policy.
ARE NOT AFRAID OF EXECUTIONS.
Declare the Government Can Kill
Individuals, but It Cannot Kill
Ideas Premier Stolypln's Lntcst
Progam Is Considered Only Another
Half-way Measure.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). "We
arc not afraid of executions with 24
hours, ns bombs net within 2 4 sec
onds. The government can kill Indi
viduals, but It cannot kill ideas."
This Is tho gist of the reply made
by revolutionaries to the program of
governmental reforms announced by
the premier.
Only sarcastic, comments are heard
upon the new policy, which provides
for military court-martials for poli
tical crimes, increased penalties for
revolutionary propaganda, zenistovr,
nnd greater provincial autonomy for
Poland and the Baltic provinces, the
establishment of an Income tax, ro-
forn: of tho civil police nnd tho re
moval of uaelesB restrictions upon
Jews.
Odnlon Generally regards the gov
ernment's progrnm as a wealc and
halfway measure, which will not do
the slightest good. The people ask
how tho Cznr hopes to stop ngltatlon
for reformation of the central gov
ernment by granting provincial au
tonomy which cannot be enforced, as,
owing to strikes, a slate of extraor
dinary defonso has been proclaimed
in nenrly every province. Nor will
the government bo able to collect an
income tax when it has been unable
to collect the more slmplo direct
taxes.
No reason can be seen, either, for
the reform of tho civil police when
prisoners can be tried at conri-mar-tials
by tho military police and con
demned without witnesses being
heard in their behalf, as the new
program provides.
The establishment of cxtraorulary
military courts to try political pris
oners is regarded as ending tho wav
ering reign of justice in the empire.
Three columns were devoted by
tho Official Messenger to printing a
list of political crimes committed
since the first of the year. The evi
dent purpose is to impress upon the
people the horror of such deeds.
The Premier b note checked tem
porarily tho steady decline In govern
ment securities, but a boom in tho
stock market soon subsided.
The imperial decree authorizing
tho institution of field courts-martial
throughout tho larger part of tho
empire Is regarded with disquietude
In most circles. It Is practically tne
same measure that tho Emperor re
jected during Count Witte's admin
istration utter tho approval of the
Council of tho Empire had been se
cured, nnd while it Is renllzed that
it is a justifiable and, Indeed, a nec
essary measure in dealing with mu
tinies, armed uprisings and condi
tions of terrorism and anarchy,
such ns prevail in Poland, the Baltic
provinces and the Caucasus, it Is
claimed that arbitrary and unscru
pulous officlnls 'are likely to abuse
the powers conferred upon them. It
is pointed out that the ukase ex
cludes tho services of tho ordinary
judicial officers of the army and
nnvy, and that it covers political
crimes of any nature.
The Issuance of tho Premier's man
ifesto on tho eve of the council at
Peterhof of prominent men of all
factions In administration and court
circles, called for Sunday, when it is
expected a decision will be reached
over the question whether or not the
Premier shall have a freo hand in tho
government of tho empire is a sig
nificant feature.
RAIDED SLAVE DEALERS.
Revenge Of Filipinos Whoso Rela
tives Had lieen KidniipiK'd.
Washington (Special). Sixteen
o-ealled Christian Filipinos who
were dealing in Mandaya slaves In
Davao District, Mindanao, Philip
pine Islands, have been slain by
avenging relatives of the women and
children stolen. Details of the trag
edy have been received here. Eight
Mandayas entered the barrio of Abl-
J nd , killing the slave traffickers in
the isolated building they occupied.
Tho house and its contents were then
destroyed by tire.
Slave baiting is carried on by the
Filipinos along tho eastern coast of
Minandao, and until the practice
shall have ben broken up by the au
thorities it is expected that reprisals
of the character described will con
tinue. Cuban Trade Growing.
Washington, (Special). The De
partment of Commerce and Labor an
nounces that tho commereo of tho
United States with Curia In tho fiscal
year Just ended wns greater than in
any earlier year of tho trade rela
tions between the United Sta'tes and
that Island. This in particularly true
of exports. The Imports from tho
Island fell slightly below those of
1905, duo to the fall In tho price of
sugar, bnt the exports to Die islan Is
were 2n per cent, greater than in
1905, 75 per cent, greater than 111
1904 and about 120 per cent, greater
than in 1903. Tho exports for tho
fiscal year 1906 amounted to $47,
763, 6S8. Tho imports were $84,979,
S31. Accident In An Auto Race.
Bt. Louis, Mo., (Special). Victor
Thomas, one of the competitors in
the flve-milo automobile race at tho
Old Fair Grounds, was badly hurt
when he lost control of his 4 0-horso-power
machine in rounding a curve
at 60 miles an hour on a wet track
and plunged through the outer fence.
Albert Rynton, tho mechanic in the
car, was also injured, his face being
bruised, his chest torn aud his cloth
ing almost completely stripped from
his body.
Three Ship For President.
Washington (Special), A fleet of
three warships will take President
Roosevelt on his trip to Punnma In
November. The announcement was
made by Secretary of the Navy Bon
apurle. "Wo havo plenty of war
ships,' but only ono President,"
said Socrotnry Bonaparte, Jocularly.
Three sblpil will bo selected, so that
In the event of mishap to ono the
President may be transferred to un
otber. Two of the ships wilt be bat
tleships; the third a warship of
smaller design. The vessels will be
selected some tliue in October.
ASK SULTAN FOB STENSLAND
Authorities Planning To Get the Fugi
tive To Chicago.
Springfield, 111. (Special). Gover
nor Deneen Tuesday isnued a request
to President RooBevelt that theUnlted
Slates government make a request
upon the government of Morocco as
a matter of grace for the extradition
of Paul O. Stensland, the president of
the Milwaukee Avenue Bank of Chi
cago, and that he be delivered to
Police Inspector George M. Shlppy
and Harry Olson, of Chicago, assist
ant slate's attorney of Cook County,
or either of them.
Armed with this document and tho
copies of oiiglnnl requests upon the
government of Illinois. Assistant
State's Attorney Burnett, who pro
cured the request for the extradition,
left for Chicago, and will proceed
from there to Washington. Governor
Deneen will ask State's Attorney
Henly to rend Mr. Barnett to Wash
ington with Sergennt Shlppy, on ac
count ut Barnett's familiarity with
the case.
Chicago, 111. (Special). Assistant
State's Attorney Barbour made a de
mand on the United States govern
ment for a warship In which to bring
Paul O. Stensland. the fugitive bank
er, now tinder arrest in Tangier, back
to this country.
Tho request was sent by Mr. Bar
bour to Governor Deneen, following
a series of communications between
the Governor and Acting Secretary
of State Adee, at Washington. Mr.
Barbour urged tho Boeming peril of
bringing Stensland across foreign
countries, where the prisoner might
suddenly balk ot the prospect of re
turning to, the United States. More
over, Mr. Barbour fears that Stens
land may kill himself, and points out
the advisability of having Stensland
brought back to this country as a
federnl prisoner on board a warship.
A telegram to Governor Dlneen
from the State Department at Wash
ington stated that no "homing" war
ship will be duo in the Mediterranean
for 40 or .10 days. The message was
forwarded to Assistant State's At
torney Barbour here. This complica
tion, according to Mr. Barbour, will
necessitate the sending of a man to
Tangier from the state's attorney's
ofllce.
Will Get Stensland.
Chicago, 111., (Special). Assistant
State's Attorney Barbour received
tho following telegram from Charles
L. Binns, who is representing tho
State's Attorney's office in the Stens
land matter at Washington:
"Wnnnnt being prepared for tho
President's signature. Instructions
will be cabled to deliver Stensland
Into custody of Olson and Keely."
"An soon as the warrant is signed
by the President," said Assistant
State's Attorney Barbour, "it will bo
sent to Tangier, and then the start
for "this country can be made at
once."
Mr. Daiimur received a message
from Assistant State's Attorney Ol
son at Tangier requesting that the
authorities at Washington permit
Stensland to return without waiting
for the arrival of legal documents.
Tho prisoner was said to lie willing
and anxious to return to Chicago at
once.
Receiver Fetzer, of the Milwaukee
Avenue State Bank, which was
wrecked by Stensland, receiving the
following dispatch from Secretary
of tho Treasury Shawj in Washing
ton: "Assistant Secretary of State con
sulted the Solicitor for tho State De
partment concerning the $12,000 de
posited by Stensland in tho French
Bank at Tangier. Tho Solicitor sees
no course open but for you to attnch
tho fund acording to law and ac
cording to the proceedure controlling
judicial questions affecting tho
French Bank at. Tangier."
" ..ii.ieliiig Of Meat Product.
Washington, (Special). Secretary
of Agriculture James Wilson and the
representatives of the beef packers
have reached a compromise on tho
question of labeling' meat products,
about which several conferences were
held here last week. Under the pure
food law enacted at the last session
of Congress each food product must
contain the name of percentage of
the component parts of the product.
The basis of the compromise reach
ed is that the name of tho constitu
ents of the meat food product will
ho placed on tho label of the can,
but that the percentage will not bo
required. ..
FINANCIAL WORLD.
One big trader sold 25,000 shares
of Rending.
Reading bulls say it will cross
Pennsylvania this week.
West Jersey & Seashore directors
declared the regular semi-annual
three per cent, dividend.
A foreign dispatch said that Ger
man capitalists had offered to buy
the Bank of Russia for $300,000,000.
Missouri Pacific's gross earnings
in the fiscal year 1906 were $44',
566,000, a gain of $1,401,000, -while
net profits were $14,284,000, an In
crease of $1,249,000.
A director of the Republic Iron &
Steel Co. snys the net earnings of the
corporation for the current calendar
year will be between $1,000,000 and
$5,000,000.
Atchison directors met, but took
no action on the dividend, but It Is
predicted that the rate will be In
creased next month.
The illness of P. A. B. Wldenor
caused a good deal of Philadelphia
Rapid Transit selling. Mr. Wldeuor
is reputed' to own more than a third
of all the liOO.OOO shares of stock.
The market value of 200,000 shares
would be $5,600,000.
In the year which ended April 30
tho American Smelting & Rotlnlug
Company earned net $10,101,000, nn
Increase of $1,262,000. The amount
available for the dividend on tho
$50,000,000 of common stock was
$5,274,000, or a little mora than
10 VI per cent.
It was reported that tho big Rocke
feller bank had sold to the United
States Treasury $32,000,000 worth
of Government bonds which will ma
ture next year. There are $11 1, 000,
000 of this class of bonds outstand
ing, and it bus been supposed thnt
tho Government will pay off at least
$75,000,000 of them and llkoly ro
tund the balance, if a sule such as
reported were to be made It would
bo a big help to the money market
There was no confirmation, however,
and the rumor was set down as a
"bull" carnard.
7
STATE Of PENNSYLVANIA.
Latest News Gleaned From Various
Parts.
A mile under ground at bhamo
kin, Simon Bnrcavnge, an Insane
man, engaged In a fierce fight with
a number of miners and fractured
the skull of Richard Fetter, fire bosj.
He will likely dlo. A crowd of rnn
ers. rushed at tho maniac, and after
a desperate struggle tied him to g
plank, and conveying him to the
suriace, turned him over to the po
lice. Because of the typhoid epidemic
prevalent In Hamburg the opening
of the public schools wns postpone!
to September 10, as a precautionary
measure Against the spread of tho
disease by the public schools' puplb.
The authorities are now -nearly posi
tive as to the cause or source of
the disease, subsequent to the flood
in the North Ward. In this ward 5ft
per cent, of the cases reported gnt
their water at a certain well, which
since has been found to be conta
minated. Ricardo Forte was hanged at West
Chester for the murder of two small
Itnllan children in Howellsvllle,
eighteen months ngo. There was
nothing sensational in the execution.
Dominlck Di Lucca, futher of the
murdered children, witnessed the ex
ecution. The Wllllamsport Board of Trails
has just sent out Hn artistic booklet
devoted to an exposition of the com
mercial advantages, the beauties and
healthfulness of that city. It is a
convincing piece of advertising and
another evidence of the hustling pro
pensities of the Board of Trade and
the citizens in general.
Amicable suits against ex-Mayor
Vnnce C. McCormlck and Mayor Ed
ward Segross will be filed this week
with Prothonotnry Royal by Countj
Solicitor William II. MIddleton in
an attempt to get the Courts to turn
over to the county treasurer nearly
$10,000 now in the hands of the
Harrisburg treasurer. Is is claimed
by the county commissioners that
under the act of Assembly of 18SH,
Mayors. Aldermen, Justices of tho
Peace and any other magistrates are
required to turn over all fines and
forfeits collected from disorderly con
duct cases to the city, but this act
was amended In 1895 nnd made to
read that all of theso fines nnd for
feits collected by the Mayors, etc.,
should be turned over to the county.
Bernard Dnrrah, recently appoint
ed steward of the Conyngham Poor
District, must give up the position
because he has not married. It Is
an unwritten rule that the steward
of tho district must be a married
man so that his wife may net as
matron of tho institution, a position
made necessary by the presence of
a number of women inmates. When
Darrah took tho ofllce It wns with
the expectation that he would soon
be wedded, but tho time in which
he was expected to take a wife has
now elapsed and he is to turn tho
placo over to a married man.
Fearing that his Illness was In
curable, Morgan Ott, of Schoeners
ville, committed suicide by almost
severing his head with a razor. The
act was committed In Bight of his
sister. Ott was thirty-three years
old.
Chief of Police Gideon S. Lever
has suggested a punishment for
vagrnnts taken Into custody in Ab
ington township which, if approved
by the commissioners, will bo far
more affective In ridding tho town
ship of tramps than the present
method of arresting them and send
ing them to jail for short terms, as
is now being done. Chief Lever sug
gests that while such extensive road
Improvements are being conductd,
to compel the vagrants to break
stone on tho roads for several das
In lieu of sending them to Jail for
ten days. JTic suggestion Is being
warmly approved by residents of thu
township. In tho last few weeks
nenrly a score of vagrants hnve been
arrested and sent, to Norrlstown to
Bervo ten day terms. By arresting
the vagrants tho authorities bolievu
they can reduce petty thievery to
a minimum In this section.
Roscoo V. Madden, a conductor,
accused of having caused the death
of an unknown man, by throwing him
from his street car, was acquitted at
Pittsburg of voluntary manslaughter.
When the verdict was rendered Mad
den clapped his hands, wept and kisa
od his counsel and parents. "Order,"
yelled tho tipstaves, and Madden s,
father, who was seated behind the
young man, roso- and precipitately
threw himself on his son, to stop the
noise. "Arrest that man," said
Judge Frazen, but no ono stirred,
Muddcn's father having by this time,
suppressed tho excitement. It was
several minutes before Madden could
bo quieted and removed from the
court room.
Struck by a trolley car as he
was engaged in a game of ball, John
Cchlechler, aged 9 years, of Allen
town, was so badly injured that he
died shortly after being taken to his
homo. He caught sight of his mother
and called. "Don't cry, mamma, I'm
not hurt much," and then lapsed Into
unconsciousness.
Miles Gray, the oldest Pennsylva
nia Railroad employee at tho weigh
scales, Shamokin, had his foot caught
In a rail frog and was unable to
release himself to escape nn ap
proaching train. To save himself
from being cut "In kalf he threw
his body clear of the railroad. His
feet were so badly crushed they will
have to bo amputated.
Dr. C. C. Boyer scored athletics
and high school societies in an ad
dress at the Reading teachers' instl
tuto on tho ground that they rule
the schools. "In America," he said,
"Individuality in children has be
come rebellion run riot. Obedience
to authority Isllscarded by the girl
and boy. . In Emnpe obodlence I
more Important than development
of the Individual. "In America the
air Is full of the spirit of Independ
ence; children determine their ow'u
destinies; schools must Introduce
fads nnd fancies of ail sorts to Induce
scholars to remulu a whilo longer."
Closely following their acquisition
of the, P. M. & 8. Electric Railway,
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany has purchased a portion of the
Buttonwood llotol property In Darby
from Councilman Andrew J. Mc
Clure and It Is understood will begin
to demolish the building at once for
a new building of their own.
Dr. Thomas F. Nell, of Philadel
phia, has been appointed 'superin
tendent of the Blair County Hospital
for' the Insune. This hospital was
erected by Blair County at an ex-
pense of $260,000 and is now read
for occupancy.