MORE TROOPS IN THE CUBAN CAPITAL Three Battalions Are Now In Camp at Havana. PACIFICATION PROGRESSING RAPIDLY General Funston Takes Up His Head quarter! at Mananao and Actual Military Occupation of Cuba Has Began The American Authorities Still Having Trouble. i ARMY OF OCCUPATION'. Five hundred men of the Fifth United States Infantry and 350 men of the Second Battalion of Engineers landed ! In Havana and are In camp. General Funston tins estab- lished his headquarters ut Mar- I laneo. I Two squadrons of the Fif- I teonth Cavalry nnd one battal- I Ion of the Twenty-eighth In- I fantry Balled from Newport News for Cuba on the trans port Panama. Two more trans ports with troops sail today. The Disarmament Commis- Blon reports that threatened ; trouble with the rebels may be avoided with the exception of those In Sauta Clara Province, j where troops will have to be i Fent. j I I Havana (Special). The first land ing of American soldiers In the pres ent occupation of Cuba was accom plished Sunday with marvelous promptness, and at night nun men of the Fifth United States Infantry and 330 men of the S.-cond Butnllon of Engineers are settled under can vas In Camp Columbia. The cruiser Brooklyn arrived here with 100 men on board. Gen. Frederick Funston established his headquarters at Mnrlanao. 'con venient to his command. Col. L. W. T. Waller, commender of the marines, has been ordered -o report to General Funston. n:;d the entire force of regulars nnd nui.itus will be under Funston's com: mud until the arrival here Tin. -1 . y of G-ui. .1 Franklin lull, who will :i'-t.,.r distribution of the forcori throu.-h-out the Island. Within an hour from the Mm that the transport Sumner came along side the railroad wharf the disem barking had been completed, and th--850 men had been transported or, street cars direct to the camp. Their equipage and supplies were taken on freight cars by another route. The movement was so skillfully handled that the men prepared their midday meal from their own rations. The men are in good condition and are pleased with their cnr.ip and its pleasant surroundings. Trouble In Santa Clara. The diarming of former Insurgents went on much better Sunday. He ports from members of the disarma ment commission In various prov inces indicate that the trouble which was threatened Saturday may be avoided, although ex-rebels and -volunteers in a few towns in Santa Clara province are still disinclined to be the first to disarm, and it is feared that American soldiers will have to be sent to back up the demands of the disarmament commission. Ha vana. Santiago. Pinnr del Rio, Ma tanzas and Puerto Principe provinces are practically clear of the rebels and show no signs of trouble. Governor Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and General Funston are gratified at the situation and be lieve that, the difficulties In Santa Clara Province will be overcome in a few days. So confident are they that Governor Taft and .Mr. Bacon say they believe they will be able to start for home next Saturday. Gov ernor Taft will spend the time after Tuesday in familiarizing his succes sor, Charles 10. Magoon, with the sit uation. Mr. Magoo.i Is expected here on that day. It Is believed that after the arrival In Havana of the wives Of Governor Taft and Mr. Paeon the provisional governor will give a pub lic reception at the palace to Intro duce Mr. Magoon to the people. Shot Daughter' Escort. Minneapolis, Minn. (Special). William A. Powell, a prominent lo cal newspaper man, was shot and killed by John Quirk, because of at tentions to his stepdaughter, Miss Bessie Squires. The shooting oc curred at the Qiiii-K residence just as Dowell ami the young woman were en'e'it.g the bouse, cine bullet was fired which took effect la the man's brain. Quirk awaited the ar rival fif the oilicers and was taken Into custody. Dowel! was taken to the City Hospital, where he died in a few minutes. Wrecked II Lighthouses. New Orleans (Special). Forty four lighthouses either swept Into the sea and lost or th't structures so bad ly damaged that no lights can be shown, and four lighthouse keepers drowned during last week's hurricane, Is the summary of the report made by United States Llcht house Inspector Sears, of New Orleans. These lights were located on the coast arid adja cent islands between the mouth of the Mississippi River nnd Mobile. Mr. Sears did not Investigate the lighthouse losses between Mobile and Pensacola. He has not yet made public an estimate of the money loss Involved. Axle On Engine lirenks. Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special), In a wrc-if on the Western and At lantic KaHroad at noon, two miles north of Inilton, the north-bound pnssenger train was hurled from the track by a broken axle on the engine. Fireman Will A. Hughes, of Atlanta, was instantly killed and Engineer K. A. Bennett, of Atlanta, was badly injured. Five mall clerks were Slightl bruised. The passengers were shaken up, but none of them hurt. Every tar but the sleepers left the track. Alleged Hotel Thieves. New York (Spec ial I. Frank F. Fanning, a carpenter employed at the Hotel Ansonia, and Kuta Galla gher were arrested in connection with thefts at the hotel, which the police say have aggregated $20,000 or more during the past year. Fanning Is al leged to have confessed and to have Implicated other. The woman was churged with receiving stolen goods, and a search of her apartments Is al leged by the police to have resulted In the recovery of much property be loiifiiig to gu(i! nt the hotel. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, in addressing the Republican Conven tion of Massachusetts, characterized the coming elections in New York and Massachusetts as the Austerlltz of Amerlrnn politics. President Tuttle. of the Boston and Maine Railroad, declares the wreck at Lanslngburgh to have been duo to the engineer's Inability to control his locomotive. Fifteen hundred foreign women, believing health department physi cians were cutting the throats of their children, mobbed a public school in New York. William .1. Lee, who twice escaped from the New Jersey Hospital for the Insane, has written a letter In which he threatens to kill Judge Vroom. Isadora Nelson, an aged specula tor, died suddenly In New York be side the ticket that told him ho had lost. The Pennsylvania Railroad has made still further reduction in pass enger rates west of Pittsburg. The United States Steel Corpora tion has acquired the Hill Iron ore properties in the Northwest. Three hundred horses were burn ed in a livery stable llwe In West Third Street, New York. Governor Pennypacker, of Penn sylvania, received an Infernal ma chine In his mail. Three tornadoes swept In nnd around New Orleans. John B. Moran, of Boston, was nominated for governor by acclama tion, as was also E. Gerry Brown, of Brockton, for lieutennnt governor of Massachusetts by the Democratic State Convention. In an interview in Cleveland John D. Rockefeller argues against federal regulation of Individual Industries as a check against our development to the advantage of foreign competitors. Burglars battered down the door of the postodlce at Hackettstown, N. J., blew the safe to pieces and got away with $10 In money and a hundred dollar's worth of stamps. The new Pennsylvania Capitol at Harrlsburir was dedicated in the presence of a great throng. Ad dresses were made by President Roosevelt and Governor Pennypacker. A dangerous fire in the leather dis trict in New York caused a panic, anions.' the patients of Dr. Gregory's Hospital. President Rosevolt served notice on the Governors of Arizona nnd New Mexico that there must be a fair count of the votes on the state 'loo.l question. The Supreme Court of Illinois Is sued orders disbarring George S. 'Inker and Herbert B. AVIrkersham, formerly prominent Chicago law yers. Paul Paris, nine years old, of Warner. Pa., shot and seroiusly In jured his sister, Alta, while playing with a shotgun. Nine persons were injured, two probably fatally, when two Monon passenger trains collided headon at Broad Ripple, Ind. Tne Operative Plasterer's Inter national Association, in session in Toronto, adjourned to meet in New Orleans next year. The Central New York Methodist Conference dismissed the heresy charge against Prof. Ilinklev D. Mit chell. Georun Clarke, one of the original members of Aueustln Daly's coni panv. died In South Norwalk, Ct. Fetcher 1). Proctor was inaugu rated as governor of Vermont. The Democratic S'ate Convention of Rhode Island has made bossism the Issue for the coming cuhe"nntorlal campaign nnd chosen Mayor Higgins, of Pawtucket, as its candidate. Richardson Harle and Mason, ac cused of murdering men for Insur ance money, have been condemned by the Supreme Court, of Mexico to be shot. Two robbers entered a Jannnese Bank in San FrnncNco. killed Act ing Paying Teller S. Urakato and made off with $ri,0O0 In gold. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., appeared In court at Boston and pleaded not Eiiilty to the assault on a policeman on Boston Common. Frederick Pabst, of Milwaukee, gave his children a million dollars each before he died to see what they would do with it. Foreign. A Turkish patrol attempted to cross the Bulgarian frontier near Phillnopolis has been repulsed by the Bulgarian outposts. A Turkish officer was killed In the fighting. The ..Inrocco authorities refuse to take measures against the tribesmen who recently attacked and severely wounded a Frenchman named Las Sains, an agent of the Compagiile Marocainc. Prince win Hohenlolie's memoirs, just published, contain the story of the differences between the Emperor and Bismarck which caused the breach between flu m. Agitation by the workmen of St. Peteiliing has begun again as a result fit the trial of 7,1 members of the council of work men's delegates, a revolutionary organization. The few survivors of the wreck of the steamer Charter House, struck by a typhoon, suffered terribly, being exposed on a raft for 43 hours with out food or water. The King of Annum recently had seven of his wives slowly tortured to death for his amusement. The disarmament of the Cuban rebels progresses satisfactorily. Judge Magoon, the new governor, starts for Havana, Saturday. It is not likely that elections will bo held uuftl next June. King Haakon, Queen Maud and the Crown Prince paid their first of ficial visit to Copenhagen nnd were enthusiastically received. The emigrant steamer Charter house foundered off Hainan Head, China, and the captain and sixty passengers were lost. The recall of M. Bomnard, French ambassador to Russia, Is attributed to the retirement of former President Loubet. Agents of the various wireless tele graph companies are in Berlin watch ing the International WlrelesB Con ference United States Senator Clark, of Montana, who was Injured In an au tomobile accident in Italy, has re covered. The autumn salon was opened In Paris. The tone of the exhibition is grotesquely impressionistic. The governor of Simbirsk, Russia, was wounded by a bjmb thrown at him. The Shah of Persia, Muaffar Kd Dln, is reported to be seriously 111. Twenty-five men boarded the Black Sfa steamer Czarevitch George, und after terrorizing officers and passen gers got away with 16,000 from the mall and ship's treasury. THE STREET BLOWN TO HOUSETOPS Gas Explosion in Subway. Philadelphia SEVIN MEN SHOT INTO THE AIR. Kuildlngs Rocked for Squares Away and Flames Shot a Hundred Feet Upward Hole in Busy Market Street a Half Square Wide-Glass Within Blocks Shattered. HAVOC BY EXPLOSION. Buildings tottered under the shock and many wero set ablaze as tho firo darted through the supply pipes. Thousands of panes of pint's were shattered, and no build ing within a radius of a block escaped damage. Some of the dead were caught In tho excavatiou, while the Injured were blown high In tho air by tho exploding gas. The flaming gns soared near ly to the height of tho tallest buildings in the neighborhood. The loss will reach more than $300,000. A leaking gas pipe Is be lieved to have caused the upheaval. Philadelphia, Pa., (Special). Eight persons were killed outright, several others are likely to die and nt least two-score were injured by exijoding gas In the Market Street Subway at a point between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Buildings rocked under the shock, and many wero set ablaze ns the fire darted through the supply pipes. Thousands of panes of glass were shattered, and no building within a radius of a block escaped damage. The explo sion occurred about 6.4 0 o'clock, an hour when workmen fill the streets. Pedestrians were blown high In the air, and trolley cars rolled In their tracks as though they were on rock ers. Some of tho dead wore caught In the excavation, while the Injured were blown high in tho air, by tho exploding gas. The street caved In, traffic was halted nnd business was suspended. The flaming gas soared nearly to tho height of the tallest buildings in the neighbor hood, and water was of no avail to quench It. Tho loss will reach more than $500,000. Work men nro searching for bodies of sup posed victims in tho great cavity made by the explosion. Sounded Like Thunder. The time of the accident, 6.36 o'clock, is fixed by Lyttleton, a po liceman at Seventh and Market Streets, who had just looked at his watch when he heard the detonation. He says the report was dull and rumb ling, like a peal of midsummer thun der. Looking east, he saw the great, square timbers of the subway's tem porary structure going Bkyward, car rying away the trolley wires and filling the air with debris. Huge timbers, Lyttleton declares, went 30 feet in the air, tumbling about like so many match sticks. Lyttleton ran to the nearest box and sent in a call for the fire engines. Mangled Bodies. Hardly had the policemen nnd fire men arrived than they saw that the accident had been a disastrous one. On the southeast corner of Sixth nnd Market Streets, in a pool of blood, was the mangled body of a man a pedestrian killed on his way to work. Across the street, on the southwest corner was another body, that of an other workman killed almost with out warning. On the apex of a pile of broken, twisted timbers rested another body, that of a man killed while at work in the subway. At the bnse of thes timbers, laying in several feet of water, was another body. Securing a rope, Miskell, tho district engineer, working in tne heat and glare of the flaming gas, lassoed this body and pulled it to the surface. All about, several within the sub way itself, were unconscious men, members of the working gangs due to begin operations at 6.30 o'clock. Clustered In or about the great tun nel, dinner palls in hand, they had been caught unawares. Several had been crushed under falling timbers, others hnd been injured by being thrown violently to the ground. Ambulance after ambulance, pa trol wagon after patrol wagon blat tered away to the nearby hospitals. At the Pennsylvania Hospital, where most of the injured were taken, t was soon reported that three men had died, swelling tvc list of dead to seven. Then the firemen, finding water of no avail, tried to quench the flames with dirt, wagonload after wngon lond being dumped into tho flaming hole. It was not until the supply mains had been lapped and the flow of gas stopped, however, that the flames were gotten under control and extinguished. Many Soldier Desert. Cheyenne, Wyo. (Special). There have been many desertions from the Eleventh Infantry, at Fort D. A. Rus sell, since the order was received for the regiment to go to Cuba. One urivate, who was shot through the hip by a member of a squad of artillerymen who were rounding up the deserters, Is now In the post hos pital. The regiment left Friday for Newport News, Va. Filipinos Are Alarmed. Manila (By Cable). Seventeen provincial Governors are in this city bidding their annual convention of Governors. All the Governors mani fest the deepest Interest In the situa tion in Cuba. They fear that the failure of the Cuban Republic will in fluence Americans against the pro posed Philippine Assembly and re strict the present policy of freely ex tending autonomy to a people con fessedly generations behind the Cu bans. For German Meat Monopoly. Berlin (By Cable).- The offer of American capital to found a meat monopoly In Germany, which the sgrariuns are said to have received, appears to have been made Indirectly to the managers of the Central Cattle Selling Agency, an agrarian enter uise. designed to sell the fiumara' attle direct to the butchers. The ffer came in a roundabout way and It is not clear where it originated. The publication of the letter an nouncing the offer in the organ of the German Butchers' Association V.aj caused considerable discussion. EIGHIEENJEAOJN MINE Two Rescuing; Parties Are Overcome By Deadly Gas. Pooohontas, Va. (Special). Six teen know dead and from 30 to 40 more men entombed, and doubtless all dead, la the situation at the West Fork Miles of the Pocohontns Col lieries Company, where an explosion occurred. Tho bodies of eighteen men were recovered from the mines as the re sult of the heroic work of a bnnd of 35 men constituting a rescue party that worked Incessantly through the hours of the night nnd day. It was not until 7.30 o'clock P. M. that the rescuers reached a point near the St. paul entry, where the explosion oc curred. The work of rescue was very slow, as the conditions con fronting the party were difficult to surmount. The authorities anticipated the fearful extent of the casualties by ordering a carload of coffins and burial supplies. Superintendent William Leckle, of the mine, who entered the mine as one of the rescuing party, had a nnr row escape from death. He was overcome by the fumes and hnd to be carried out. Edward Jones, the Inside mine foreman, led the first rescue party, and when that party failed to return in n reasonable time a second rescue party, under Super intendent Leckle, followed. Odham nnd Brown were overcome by gas and died, and Lerklo barely escnped with his life. Then the third party wns formed and con- tinned the work. Meantime the first party had reached another entrace to the mine in safety and sent word over the mountain announcing that fart. The scenes around the mine were pitiful. Relatives and friends gath ered In groups at the entrances and elsewhere, awaiting tidings of the victims, and gave vent to their grief ns the bodies, one by one, were brought out. S. B. Cook, one of the victims. whose body wns found within 300 feet of the outside of the mine, was the only survivor of the big explosion In the Pocohontns mines, In 1884. The explosion piled up timbers and dirt to the height of six feet. Parties coming to work from, the Tug River, on the West Virginia side of the mines, did not know there had been any trouble in the mines until they ran into some bodies on the tracks nnd some mules dead, with a man pinned between them. XFAV SUBMARINE LAUNCHED. Government Keeping Details Of Her Construction Secret. Qulncy, Mass. (Special). The sub marine' torpedo-boat Octopus, the second of the four boats of this type being built at the yards of the Fore River Shipbuilding Company for the United States Navy, was succssfully launched at the company's works in Qulncy Thursday noon. The Cuttle fish, the first of the four, was launch ed September 1. The greatest secrecy has been maintained in the building of these boats and no ono has been allowed in the shed where they are building outside of the workmen nnd officials. No detailed description of them is given out other than that the Octopus Is 80 feet long. The launch was la the nature of a private one, only a few Invited guests being admitted to the large building In which the boats were built. Ab the Octopus started down tho ways, Miss Frances Webster, the 12-year-pld daughter of Edwin S. Webs ter, of Boston, broke a bottle of wine over her bows and pronounced her name. Aided King's Assailant? Madrid (By Cable). The Attor ney General in presenting In court the case of Senor Ferrer, director of the Modern School of Barcelona, who Is charged wtih being connected with the attempt upon the life of King Alfonso May 31 Inst, submitted evi dence to prove that the prisoner un der the name of the "Modern School" conducted an establishment for teaching- Anarchy to youthB. It Is charged he was privy to Manuel Morales' plot to assassinate King Alfonso, aided Morales with money and assisted In concealing aud disguising the would be assassin's accomplice after the bomb explosion of May 31. AT TKE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. The President has appointed As sistant Attorney General Charles H, Robb, of Vermont, a Judge of the district of Columbia Court of Ap- -peals. Tho British Foreign Office and the State Department have reached a modus vivendi In the Newfoundland fisheries dispute. An earthquake shock In the Indian Ocean was felt In Washington. The United States Geological Sur vey has issued a history of coal min ing in Maryland. , The President has decided to ap point Charles II. Robb, of Vermont, to fill tho vacancy in the District Court of Appeals. The War Department was advised that tho transport Sheridan, ashore near Honolulu, may be saved. The Department of Justice has taken meusures to enforce the eight hour law. President Roosevelt announced the appointment of Eugene 'i. Lewis, of Cincinnati, to bo United States 'mar shal for the Southern district of Ohio. A tentative agreement has been reached by Chairman Sluinrn that the Panuma Canal bo built by contract. Gen. Franglln Bell wus ordered to Cuba, where he will succeed Gen eral Funston in command of the forces. The Postofnce Department has barred the Royal Hungarian Lottery and its agents from the use of the malls. The President has decided upon the appointment of Judge Magoon as provincial governor of Cuba. Fraud orders were issued by the Postollico Department against the Jerome Company of Philadelphia and the Cooperative Knitting Company of Detroit. The President received Severn offi cers of the Italian Navy now with the I cruiser Felramoca, which has been at Washington several days. CZAR'S -TERRIBLE MENTAL STRAIN Cannot Sleep and at Times is Afraid To Eat. HE MAY HAVE TO ABDICATE. The Governor of Simbirsk Has a Nar row Escape A Bomb Hurled at Him Wounds Him in the Hand and LeK-Dirc Straits of the Russian Treasury Exposed. London (By Cable). The health of the Cznr is causing the greatest concern of the authorities In Russia who know of his real condition. This is the statement mado by the Post, which says that persons in close touch with British court circles have heard ominous reports In regard to the Russian monarch's physical and mental condition. Recent events have mado the Cznr suspicious of everyone, ns ho no longer knows upon whom he can de pend to protect him from the revo lutionists, who tire seeking his life. Under the mental strain to 'which he has been subjects his health has suffered. , Often Nicholas refuses the food prepared for him, fearing poison may have been administered In It. He cannot sleep at night, and has re sorted to opiates and drugs of even more drastic character to Induce sleep, but they have proved Ineffec tive. Owing to the discouraging reports as to the Czar's condition, more cre dence is being given in British court circles to reports that ho may soon abdicate his throne, and no action on his part would cause much sur prise. What is regarded as the gravest event in months, causing widespread fear in bureaucratic ranks, as well as among all students In the empire, was the recent discovery of 10 bombs In the instituto for engineers in St. Petersburg. The finding of these bombs is considered undoubtedly confirmation of the fear which had been enter tained for a long time that the ma jority of students are supporters of the revolution, nnd even the high schools are nurseries of terrorism. How difficult it will bo to guard against assassination at the hands of students Is thoroughly appreciated by the authorities. St. Petersburg (By Cable). The Emperor and the members of the Im perial family, who have been cruis ing in Finnish waters on board the yacht Standart, returned and will mnfca at once to the winter palace at, Tsarskoe-Selo. St. Petersburg (By Cable). Gen eral Starynkewitsch, governor of Simbirsk, had a narrow escape from assassination. A bomb waB thrown at tho Governor, wounding him in the hand and log. His injuries nre not fatal. Captain Dzalukow sky, who was shot and killed in Mos cow, wns assassinated In pursuance of a sentence of the revolutionists. He was commander of a company of the Pernova Regiment, which Au gust 16 killed two political prisoners during an outbreak among the politi cal offenders confined In the central prison of Moscow. Several members of drum-head courts-martial also have been sentenced to death by the revolutionists. AX AUTOMOBILE WEDDING. "May The Tire Of Your Husband's Love Never Explode." New York (Special). "May the tire of your husband's love never ex plode. May your married life bo like a board, level, mecadamized road, along which you will chug-chug in perfect happiness." With those words did Justice of tho Peace James Ludlow end a pretty little marriage ceremony In Jersey City. Cupid was in an automobile and wore gogglea for the occasion, so the big-hearted magistrate rose to the occasion and gave his final admonition to the happy pair in the auto language. The brid was Miss Anna Ryun, of Hackensack, N. J., and tho groom was James Chichester, of New York. They were out driving when they de cided that the ceremony couldn't bfe over too soon, so they pulled up at the Jersey City Police Station and asked Sergeant Riordcn where the nearest magistrate coulJ bo found. Magistrate Ludlow came beaming out of the station nnd paid: "Get ready; the automobile will do." The mar riage license was made out und sign ed on the Sergeant's desk. HASH POISONED STUDENTS. Chicken At Vale Believed Responsi ble For Illness Of .'100. New Haven, Conn. (Sieci::l). Chicken hash served at the Yale com mons Is accused of having poisoned students who lunched there Monday nt noon. Three hundred undergraduates were ill, and when they got together to tell their stories it wns learned that they had all partaken of the chicken hash at the commons, and all asserted that It was the hash that was responsible for disordered stom achs and tho general Indisposition. Last year there was a similar case on record, when a large number of diners nt the dub suffered from what was believed to have been ptomaine poisoning caused by bad veal. To Get Throne For Son. London I By Cable). In a dis patch from Constantinople the cor respondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the Suitan, unsolicited, has granted concessions to the Minister of Justice und other prominent poli ticians for lucrative railroad and electric-llghtltu; undertakings, sup posedly for the purpose of winning their support to bis plan of altering the order of succession to the throne in favor of bis son, Prince Bnrhaned dln. To Aid Storm Sufferers. Washington (Special) Tin? Amer ican Nutlonal Red Cross decided to receive contributions for the relief of the storm sufferers in the Gulf States, and Bent instructions to the presi dents of all the State brunches of tho organization asking them to make announcement that they will reeolvo money for the purpose Indicated. Persons living in States which have no Red Cross branches may send fhelr contributions to the national treasurer, Charles Hallnm Keep, As sistant Secretary of the United States Treasury. CRAZED BY THE HURRICANE Fire Soldiers Chained in the Army Hospital. Pensacola, Fla. (Special). No move has been made by the Army to rehabilitate the deserted forts across the bay. Fort McRea has been swept almost off the earth, with its new modern batteries and disappearing guns, and it was here that five men wore drowned and five others under went Buch a harrowing experience that they are now chained in the army hospital raving maniacs. Fort Pickens has been greatly damaged, but not to the extent of Fort McRae, and, although many of the buildings there have been wreck ed, the Army has found sufficient room for men to man the butteries. Captain Brondbeit, in command of the life-saving station, of which thero Is not even a board left, has received advices to care for the llfe-snvlng crew In the city until Superintendent Hufehins can reach here, when tem porary quarters will probably be ar ranged on Santa RoBa Island for the men. Probably at no time since the hur ricane have the people been given txic.li n fright as when the official news came from Washington of the ap pearance of another weather disturb ance off Cuba. Several weather bul letins were posted advising vessels not. venture out In the Gulf, but there were none to leave except n few steamers In the harbor which are loading. The list of dead has. not grown, but there Is n mile or more or debrl3 along the waterfront lust west of the city. Along that route the water front was the most thickly populated and the fishermen's cottages were within a short distance of the water. The houses were cleared away ns if by one stroke by the storm, and it Is believed that In the piles of debris will he found many bodies. Rear Admiral Cnpps, chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs, who came from Washington. Is at the Navy Yard supervising the work of raising the wrecks nnd ranking tem porary repairs. Many of the fine new buildings, some of which have not been completed, have been dam aged to great extent. In fact, out side of the city, the Navy Yard nnd Warrintrton, Its resident section, have suffered more than any other vicinity. IUHXF.D TO DEATH IX BOOM. A Mytory About The Terrible Fate Of An Aged Woman. Philadelphia, Pa.. (Special). Un der circumstances which the corner believes to be a suspicious. Mary Hill, a woman of 80 years, was burn ed to doath In her home, at 109 Ellsworth Street. The womnn, who was reported to be wealthy, had apnrtmcnts ttnon the third floor of the house, nnd It was In one of those: rooms that her chnrred body was dis covered after the firemen had sub dued the blaze which was discovered In the house about 3 o'clock A. M. Several skirts, with the pockets turned Inside out which were found, the fact that the aged woman's pocket book was mlsslne, and that the room showed evidence of n struggle having taken place all make tho coroner think that some one may have visited her In her room. If robbery was the motive of this In truder, he failed, for In n trunk In the room the polio found $1,000. The trunk was battered p.bout the lock, nnd the police think that If rob berv was attempted the man wns frightened by the fire before he could open the trunk. The daughter of the dead woman 13 firm In her belief that her mother med with foul play. Prices Of C'lfcar Hos Raised. Chicago (Special). The first ef fect of the trouble In Cuba on com mercial Interests was disclosed when every Independent eif'p.r manufac turer In the city received a circular notifying him that the price of cedar cigar boxes bed been raised Jl a hun dred. The reason given Is the scar city of lumber, snd especially of ce dar, the great bulk of which is im ported from Cuba. Wireless To Houolul.n. Vallejo. Cal. (Special) Chief Elec trician George IIan:com, of the Maro Island Navy Yard, has returned from the Farrulones with his force of men, where a wireless plant 16 times more powerful than the old one has been Installed. Great hopes are'entertnln ed of getting connection with Hono lulu. Four men arc left in charge, and tests soon to be mdde nro await ed with Interest. Speed Of The Cincinnati. Washington, (Special). The Navy Department baB received a report of u trial trip of the cruiser Cincinnati i while on her vay front Shanghai to memo, tier average spoeu was tu. i kiioU an hour, but sho reached a maximum speed of 19.02 knots. Her average speed would havo been great er but for three minor accidents nnJ. the fact that she used only seven of her eight boilers. FINANCIAL WOULD. United States Steel is spending $2,000,000 this year on the Home stead blast furnaces. President Roo:;evclt's Harrlsburg speech was highly commended in financial circles in Philadelphia. President. Ripley, of tho Atchison, says his company does not need nny extra capital at this time. Bethlehem Stcl preferred uhnres have been weak owing to tho expec tation that the dividend is to bo re duced. The Pennsylvania's Eantern lines ro fnr this year havo Increased their coal aud coku tralilc almost 3,000, 000 Ions, or 9 per cent. One street rumor was thut H. H. Rogers, owing to his dislike for .1. J. Hill, has been blocking tho United States Stgel ore deal. There was a dlsuosltlou to sell Atchison nt around 104 aud buy Southern Pacific under !)",, ru both pay n 5 per cent, dividend. A 10 per cept. dividend for North ern Central in talked of. It now pays R per cent. There is also a possibility of a stock ullolment. Various lco company steaks Tiave been very strong recently. Ofllc.ials say tho profltn this year hnvo been good as a result of the Increase in tho price of Ice. In eight yenrs tho Pullman Com pany distributed among Its share holders $87,600,000 In tho shape of dividends or stock nllotmenta, an equivalent of 213 per cent. The unfilled business of 7,000,000 tons on tho books of the United States Steel Corporation Is tho larg est reported since tho organization! of the company with I ho exception! of December 31, 11)05, when the tonnago was Riven us 7.605,086. STATE .Of PENNSYLVANIA. Latest News Gleaned From Various Parti While tip in a chestnut tree knocking off burrs Clyde Aumnn, the 12-year-old Bon of Joseph Auman, of Penn Township, was shot and fatally wounded by some person who escaped without being detected. Whether the boy was mistaken for a wild animal by some hunter and shot or wrether he- was shot for taking, the chestnuts Is not known. John Rider was driving along the public road nnd saw the boy Ivlng under the tree. He went to "see what was wrong and found his body riddled with Hhols, and cuts and bruises sustained in falling from tho tree. Ho was unconscious and died at 6 o'clock without regaining con sciousness. The tree was along tho public road and not far from tho boy's home and although there aro houses every half mile no one heard the shot or saw any man with n gun in that vicinity. It la tho belief that tho boy was mistaken for a wild animal and shot by a reckless hunter who, when he saw what he had done, feared tho consequences nnd ran away before he was seen. The authorities are making an inves tigation. According to Information gather ed by County Detective Johnson, James Fisher, the supposed tramp who died In tho Easton Hospital on Labor Day, was not stabbed by ne groes, as he said In an ante-mortem statement, but by two chums with whom he had been traveling. Fish er's real name was James Carney nnd his home wns originally In cither Rhode Island or Massachusetts. Ho was an old-time safe cracker. In 1893 or 1894 he did time in the New Jersey State penitentiary for burglnry in Union County. At the time he was brought to the Easton Hospital he wore a pnir of costly Bleeve buttons. Tramps do not, as a rule, wear that kind of jewelry and Detective Johnson decided to learn where they came from. Ho found that they had been stolen from a safe nt Rnhwny. The men with whom Carney is supposed to have been traveling were "Amboy Red" and "Elizabeth Whitney," safe blow ers. It is believed that Carney had a fight with them and that one of them "struck" him. Mrs. Mary B. Shaffer, the oldest womnn In Somerset County, nnd one of the oldest in Pennsylvania, died at her home after a week's illness. Her age was 95 years and 3 months. She lived nil her life in Somerset and witnessed the development of the county from tho Indian habitation to the present time. Coal companies all through the an thracite field aro complaining about the scarcity of men, especially those qualified to work in breasts having a high pitch or in "robbing" pillnrs. This kind of work is generally per formed by English-speaking miners. John A. Miller, of Washington Township, a school director doing time in the county prison for embez lement nnd graft, wns permitted by Court to attend the funeral -of his mother-in-law, Mrs.CathcrlneSehneck. Tho latter died at the ago of 78 years. Miller was accompanied by Prison Warden P. J. Mulholland. The Delawaro Water Gap Council granted the right of way through tho streets of Water Gap to tho Stroudj burg and Water Gap Trolley, Com pany. Work will now bo pushed. The road will prove a great conven ience to Summer boarders. The Mount Holly Paper Company, located at Mount. Holly Springs, went Into tho ' hands of receivers. Tho Court appointed Charles H. Mulllu and James A. Stsee receivers under bonds of $300,000. Inability to realize on tho large stock on hand, it is said, caused tho suspension. , Tho company operates two immense mills and is one of the largest Industries lu this State. The company was in corporate in 18C7. After an illness of several weeks Councilman John C. Lockman died In tho Chester Hospital following an operation, llo was an engineer by trade. Martin Fahy, 52 years old, for thirty years an engine man In the employ of tho Lehigh Valley Rail road and known to everybody along the line, dropped dead at the station la Mauch Chunk. He had Just step ped off his engine to oil up when heart failure ended his life. One big black bear was killed and another badly crippled in Clinton County on tho opening day of the season. Andrew Wilson, of Lock Haven, shot and killed a 4 00-pound bear, on Rattlcsnuko Run, in the upper end of the county, which will furnish steaks for many of hi? friends for some time to come. Bruin was caught unaware foraging along the stream nnd was killed be fore he had n chance to put up a fight. Charles Allabach, of Far rnndsvllle, tho champion bear hunter of the county, started out Monday loaded for kear. Ho selected Ferney Run as his battle ground. Ho espied an old bear nnd two cul3 ut a dis tance and endeuvored to sneak up to thein. The old bear saw him coming and he was forced to fire at long range. The charge took effect und tho bear was badly wounded Judging from tho loss of blood, but she got away, The cubs also es caped. While William Hoffa, a boy, waa riding on an elevator In a Shamokln livery stable he was caught by a piece of timber ami crashed to death. John Bergor, of Shnmokln, did not move when his mother called him to jo to work Wednesday morning. She went to his bedBldo to awaken him nnd found him dead, probably from heart discaso. While about to eay grace at his supper table Hillary Epiight, a wealthy farmer who resided near Brownbnck's Church, Chester Coun ty, fell dead. Ho sat at tho table with his head In bis hands after his usual custom boforo saying grace and his long silence -caused hla wife to glanco at him, Judgo Ermcnlrout at Reading ro fuued to grant an injunction to the Boyertown & Pottstown Railway Company to prevent tho Philadelphia & Reading Railway Compuuy from Interfering with tho construction of tho fornjer's trolley tracks across tho Colebrookdalo Branch of the railroad at Boyertown. The Court states In Its opinion that It is State, legisla tive aud Judicial policy to do away with grade crossings In the future unless they are absolutely necessary. The trolley company will now cither have to construct n subway under the railroad trucks or build a bridgo In order to got into Boyertown.
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