FRENCH NAVAL VESSEL BURNED Three' Men Perish On a Blazing Schoolship. TORPEDOES EXPLODE IN FIRE. The Excellent Discipline Maintained on the Burning Ship and Prompt Work of the Rescue Crews Saves Nearly 500 Men-Intense Excitement At the Naval Station. Toulon, Fiance (By Cable). The torpedo schoolship Algeclras, sta tioned In this harbor, was totally destroyed by fire at a late hour Sun day evening. The burning of the ship created the greatest alarm throughout the city. News of the fire was first con veyed at about 1 1 o'cloc k by the fir ing of cannon In the harbor. The people hurriedly left the cafes and theatres and rushed to the docks, whence they could see the Algeclras, a mass of flames In the harbor. The burning vessel stood out brilliantly In the encircling darkness, and the glare of the Hamcs lit up the other shipping and the coast and wharves. There was terrible anxiety concern ing the fate of the 500 men on board until the authorities announced that everybody had been taken off In coats and saved, with the exception of three. Those men did not answer the roll-call, nnd It is presumed they were burned to death. As Boon as the men had been taken off the flaming vessel, the efforts of the authorities were directed to safe guarding the other ships anchored In the vicinity of the Algeclras, Includ ing the new battleship Patrle and the torpedo gunboat La Hire. These two warships were towed to places of safety. The authorities came rapidly to the conclusion that tho Algeclras was doomed, aud she was left to burn her self out. The discipline maintained on board the Algeciras was excellent. A ma jority of the men were cool and col lected. The small boats of the Alge clras were launched, tilled with men and rowed away, while those who could not leave in this manner await ed the arrival of their rescuers. A few of the men, however, were forced by the flames to jump overboard and swim away. Six torpedoes on board the schoolship exploded while the men were leaving the vessel. There was much fear during the height of the fire that a torpedo mag azine on shore would become Ignited, but this was prevented by deluging the mazagine with heavy streams of water from powerful tireboats. It is not known whether the fire originated from an explosion of powder or broke out among the stores on board. The Algeclras for 12 years had been employed as a torpedo training ship. She was of 5.047 tons dis placement and was built In 1853. GIRL SAVKS II KK FAT II Kit. Charge Of Murder ('banged From Him To His Brother. Marlon, O. (Special). Lena Guif fritta obtained the freedom of her father, John Gutffrltta, who was ac cused of murdering his wealthy brother. She also caused her father's brother, Joseph, to be charged with the murder. Theodore Grasse, aged 22, the girl's pweetheart. claims that Joseph Guiffrltta had told him that he had murdered his brother, and threatened Grasse witli. death if he divulged the secret. Lena Guiffrltta pleaded with Grasso to tell what he knew. For love of her he finally consented. The gun with which the murder was commit ted was found In a box in the base ment of Guiffrltta' store. Sergeant Victor Churches, an Ital ian Interpreter, was locked up a'.l night in a cell between the prisoners Saturday night. Churches said that there was no doubt of Joseph Guif frltta being the murderer, though no confession had as yet been secured from him. To Be .Merged Willi Harvard. Boston (Special). The trustees of the Andover Theological Seminary and President Eliot, of Harvard, have prepared a plan for the merging, ed ucationally, of that Institution with Its $1,000,000 fund with Harvard University, which will bo carried out II accepted by the alumni of the seminary. The plan Includes the re moval of the seminary to Cambridge and the erection of a $100,0ou build ing. Curzon's Share Of Wife's Estate. Chicago (Special). As a result of a conference between Lord Cur son and representatives of the Letter estate It developed that the foreign nobleman who married Miss Mary Letter In Washington will receive only the Income from one-third of $1,750,000, and upon his death his share will go to his children. Drove Scissors Into Heart. Adrian, Mich. (Special). Miss Ola Kelley was murdered at her home in Holloway, Mich., by Joseph Ehllchs. a rejected suitor, who cut her throat with a pair of scissors and drove the scissors into her heart. "Congress Ciin Investigate." Washington ( Special ) . Secretary Taft Bald that he had not considered any action by Congress in relation to the discharge of the negro troops who "shot up" Brownvllle, Texas, sad were ordered dismissed from the service In consequence of their acts. "But there Is one thing I have learn ed that Congress can do," ho said, laughingly; "It can investigate. I know that from experience, for Con gress has Investigated everything I ever had anything to do with." Woman As (Sheriff. Nashua, N. II. (Special). Mrs. M. Jennie Kendall, of this city, has been commissioned the first deputy sheriff ever appointed In New Hampshire by Sheriff Nathaniel Doane. The ap pointment received the Indorsement of several leadiug lawyers and many buulue-is men. Mrs. Kendall bus been the active agent of the Woman 'u Humane Society, organized to protect dumb animals, and It was to further the efficiency of her work In the so ciety that the appointment was secured. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic The National Grange Convention adopted resolutions condemning free seed distribution by the government as being of no benefit, opposing a national fertilizer law and favoring amendment of the oleomargarine law by striking out the work "knowing ly," to the end that convict Ions may be procured for violation of tho law. A committee of the locomotive engineers of the Heading system had a conference with the general super intendent on the question of In crease of wages, but no decision was reached. Ferdinand L. Barnett, colored, as sistant state's attorney, who, accord ing to tho police returns, was elected judge of the new municipal court In Chicago, has been counted out. A fine of $18,000 was assessed against the New York Central Hall road by Judge Holt In tne New York federal Court for granting rebates to the Sugar Trust. Mrs. Horace Hayes, of Mount Leb anon, was held up In Pittsburg, Pa., by a rough-looking highwayman in the heart of the business section of the city. Eight boys lassoed an uged Hus slan in New York, but were scared off before they robbed him. Francis S. Coxe, of ' Asheville. N. C, son of the late Frank Coxe, died suddenly In Philadelphia. Delos Highland killed his bride and himself at their home near Cas novia, Mich. A Southern freight train ran away down a mountainside In North Caro lina at a speed of "0 miles an hour, finally jumping the track and turn ing over and over. Mrs. William L. Lawson, wife of the millionaire Jute manufacturer. Bays 10 witnesses perjured them selves in testifying in the three di vorce suits Instituted by her husband. Mrs. Amanthls Jungbluth, wife of Carl Jungbluth, secretary of the Con tinental Tobacco Company, has brought suit for divorce asking for $200,000 alimony. Dr. D. C. Gllman was re-elected president of the National Civil Ser vice Heform League at the meeting In New Haverf. A number of ad dresses were delivered. Dr. Edward T. Divine, who had charge of the Red Cross relief work at San Francisco, denies grafters got any of the contributions. The American Sugar Refining Com pany was found guilty of accepting rebates from the New York Central Railroad. Negroes of Chicago have protested against Senator Tillman being per mitted to speak In that city. Thomas F. Ryan gave notice that he had resigned from a large num ber of directorates of railroads and other corporations on account of In ability to give proper attention to them. The annual meeting of the Nation al Civil Service Reform Association was begun in New Haven Addresses were made by President Daniel C. Gilman and Secretary Bonaparte. It Is declared that Mrs. Hannah Graham will appear In court against Signor Caruso, tho tenor, who is charged with annoying her, tomor row. Mme. Anastasie Louise de Masay fired three shots at Gustave Simon, a New York merchant, in the latter's office. The schooner Luis G. Habel foun dered In four fathoms of water near Charleston, S. C. The crew escaped. Hev. Dr. Algernon Crapsey, charg ed with heresy, has been suspended by the Protestant Episcopal Church. The condition of Bishop John J. Tlgert, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is slightly worse. The annual Horse Show began in Madison Square Garden with an un usually fine list of entries. Over 4 0 lives were lost in a col lision of the steamers Dlx and Jeanlo on the Pacific Coast. The Alabama State Agricultural School at Athens was blown down by Sunday's storm. Andrew Carnegie has promised to a million dollars to promote Inter national peace. Alienists have declared that Harry K. Thaw was insane when he shot Stanford White. Patrolman Luke Fitzpatrick, of Chicago, was killed in a duel with a burglar. Foreign. Announcement of the proposed Jewish reforms in Russia has aroused the opposition of the reactionary ele ments. It is the intention of the ministry to leave the main Jewish question to Parliament for settle ment. The United States government has made friendly representations to the government of Great Britain regard ing tho action of the Newfoundland officials against colonial fishermen enlisting on Board American vessels. The British House of Lords struck out the elauBe In the Education Bill empowering the establishment of a central education council for Wales because it contained the spirit of home rule. Herr Von Arlm, president of the German Agricultural Society, has been appointed German minister of agriculture in succession to General Von Podblelski, who recently re signed. Among the bills ugalnst Count de Castellane presented to the court by creditors was one for $37,400 4 for Gobelin tapestries and another 'for $24,000 for Jewels. ViceAdmiral von Elckstedt, direc tor of the construction bureau of the German Navy, announced that the German Navy intended to use turbine engines. Tho military and police guards In Rome have been reinforced to as sure the protection of King George of Greece. The French custom authorities are barring American canned pork and bacon because of the elimination of the mlroscopic examination of the meat from the new American Inspec tion regulations. Senator Gaud In de Vi iaine made a vicious attack In the French Senate upon the foreign and interior policy of the government. The Senate voted confidence of the government. The Inventories of church proper ties In France were continued. Sol diers battered down the doors of a church at Vllleongue de la Salongue, but wrre driven back by the fumer of sulphur. The Westminster Gazette, of Lon don, says that Great Britain's for mer Influence and prestige at Wash ington have been usurped by th'i Carman Embassy. ; CRASH OF SHIPS IN THE NIGHT Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse and the Orinico. MANY ARE KILLED AND INJURED. Intense Excitement on the Two Vessels After Collision The nig German Steamer Sustains Most Damage An Unusual Number of Collisions and Other Marine Disasters. MANY MARINE DISASTERS. Three men and a woman were killed, six women and a man were Injured and five persons were knocked overboard and drowned from the steamer Orinoco and four persons were killed and eight Injured on the Kaiser Wil helm red Grosse. Both ships were badly damaged. The North German Lloyd steamer Main, coming Into New York from Bremen, collided with a four-masted schooner, the bow sprit of which tore a hole 10 feet In diameter in the steamer amld shlp. No lives were lost . The river steamer Lurllno was sunk In collision with a towboat off Ranier, Ore. The passengers made narrow escapes. In storms on the Great Lakes three boats were wrecked, a num ber of vessels crippled or blown ashore and 29 men drowned. I The Anchor Line Steamer Cone j mnugh is ashore on Point Pelee, In Lake Erie. Cherbourg (By Cable). In the collision in a dense fog between the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the British Royal Mail steamer Orinoco four steerage passengers were killed and seven persons Injured. On the Ori noco three men and a woman were killed, six women and a man were injured and five persons were knock er overboard and drowned. The four steerage pasengers killed out right on the German steamer were Geo. Muhlbeler and Samuel Croissant, of Worms; Michael Zlm belman, of Forbach, and Anna Kouce llk of Cecelowiz, Bohemia. A girl named Stevler was disemboweled and died In a hospital. When the collision occurred tho Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was steaming at the rate of 17 knots nn hour from Cherbourg, after having touched here on her voyage out. The Orinoco was bound for this port when the accident happened. The commander of the Orinoco claims that he signalled that he was going to starboard of the North German Lloyd vessel, but that the latter held her course across the Orinoco's bows and only went to port of the Ori noco when It was too late. Breach Twelve Feet Wide. The engines of the Orinoco, It Is added, were reversed so Boon as It appeared likely that an accident would occur, but she crashed Into the starboard bow of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, making a breach 12 feet wide. The stem of the Orinoco above the water line was carried away as the vessels cleared after the col lision. The shock threw all the pas sengers on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off their feet nnd the greatest excitement prevailed, especially In the steerage of the, German vessel. The captain of the Orinoco ordered boats to be cleared away, but the panic on board of that ship was gen eral. Some of the crew Jumped Into and launched two of her boats and several frenzied women attempted to get Into them as they were being lowered over the bide. One boat was swamped when It struck tho water. Rescued From The Water. So soon as the accident occurred a number of small boats from Cher bourg put out to the scene of the collision and succeeded In rescuing some of the sailors and passengers, who were struggling in the waves, but five of the crew of the Orinoco are believed to have been drowned. Tho German ship sustained tho most damage, the loss being esti mated at $200,000. The damage to the Orinoco was confined to her bows. Both vessels remain in tho road stead here. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Gropse carried 258 first-class passengers, In cluding Thos. Sammons, tho Ameri can consul general at Nluchwang, and Jay White, the American consul general at Bogota, Colombia, recent ly consul at Hanover. There were also on board 350 second-class and 7 00 third-class passengers. Brick Wall Blown Down. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). A brick wall 30 feet high, 100 feet long and from 18 to 24 inches thick, being built at the waterworks at the foot of Massachusetts Avenue, was blown down by a high wind, burying two men in the debris, completely cov ering one of the steam pumps, put ting out of commission several dyna mos which furnished light for the plant and smashing the mammouth steam pipes through which steam was transmitted from tho boiler rooms to the steam pumps. As a re sult of the accident Buffalo's water supply is greatly crippled. Girls Hold Into Slavery. St. Petersburg (By Cable). Re ports from the famine districts of Russia show that the distress Is steadily growing acute. The peas antry In the government of Kazan have been driven to desperation and are selling their daughters Into slav ery to tho Mohemmedans of the Cau casus. Tho ages of the girls sold range from 12 to 17, and the prices realised are $50 to $75. A form of typhus fever, known as 'hunger typhus," resulting from starvation. Is epidemic In Kazan. Big Itiil For Carnation. Lafayette, Ind. (Special). Fifteen thousand dollars Is the tempting price that has been offered to Freder ick and Theodore Dorner, of tnls city, for a. new carnation they hav produced In their greenhouses here. The new variety Is called the "Wi nona," and Is of a beautiful pearly pink color and large, finely formed leaves. Last year the Dorners sold heir carnation "Fiance" for $10,000. ')allldrlze Brothers, of Brooklyn, have offered $5,000 mors for the new variety, but the offer has not lifon accepted. DRIVER OF AUTO KILLED Ernest Heeler's Fatal Hun At Foint Ilreeze. Philadelphia (Special). Ernest D. Keeler, of New York, demonstra tor and professional driver of racing automlblles, was killed and Henry Lutton, of Colwyn, Pa., was danger ously hurt in a collision while trying out racing cars on the Point Breeze Racetrack, prepnrntory to the Qunk er City Motor Club Cup races. Running at a 1.04 clip, Keeler at tempted to pass between a machine on the rail and a repBir cart driven by a negro who was at work on the track. At the same time a machine driven by James Hamilton, who hnd with him Henry Lutton as mechani cian, attempted to pass through the opening. The car driven by Keeler caught the forward end of the car driven by Hamilton, tearing off the front wheels. Lutton was thrown from his seat Into the dirt cart and Keeler's car after rolling over several times turn ed turtle. Keeler was pinned under the car and was killed almost In stantly. His skull was fractured, one eye was gouged out, his nose was broken and his collarbone fractured. Lutton had a great hole torn In his head and was hurt Internally. Several other racing machines were on the track when the accident oc curred and the victims were picked up and taken to the clubhouse, whence they were hurried to the hos pital. Keeler was dead befor the hos pital was reached, but Lutton will probably recover. Keeler Is said to have come from Lansing, Mich., but his home Is now In New York, where he Is survived by a widow and one child. Keeler participated In the elimi nation event at the Vanderbllt Cup races, and has contested with Tom Cooper, who was killed last week In New York. He was 26 years old. The accident In which Keeler met death occurred Just at dusk, when all was In readiness for the cup races. TRYING TO STIR VI' STRIFE. Russian Newspaper On Japnuese Amerlcan Differences. St. Petersburg (Special). The Novoe Vremya, which Is continually raising the Bpectre of a war between Japan and the United States, In a leading article on tho relations be tween the I'nlted States and Japan, says: "Although the San Franslsco school trouble has been settled, the official optimism on both sides is not Justified. Tho Bituatlon is quite Biml lar to that preceding the Russo-Japanese War. The race Issue cleverly raised by the Tokio Cabinet may at the proper moment be revived and pressed to the point of rupture, giv ing Japan the prerogative of the at tacking side. This growing conflict of Interests Is most serious, because it is Inspired by a national ambition to which the United States In future must either make full submission or measure forces with militant Japan." FOUR MILLION DOLLARS LEFT. Frisco May Build A Hospital With Relief Fund. San Francisco (Special). With $4,000,000 still on hand to be de voted to the relief of the refugees, It Is stated that the relief committee has had Beveral executive meetings to determine what shall be done with the money. It Is claimed that the directors of the relief work flrtd that the need of relief has passed, except such cases as can be taken care of by the regu lar charity organizations. Allan Pollock, It Is said. Is In favor of establishing a $2,000,000 hospital with a part of the fund which Her bert B. Law would turn over to the regular charity organizations. As the wishes of the donors of the relief funds may have to be consulted, no decision has as yet been arrived at. Famous Missionary Dead. Bethlehem, Pa. (Special). John Adolphus Hartman, a retired Mora vian missionary among the Delaware Indians in Ontario, Canada, for 24 years, and prior for eight years in charge of the Moravian mission at Ebenezer, In Australia, died of heart failure, aged 74 years. He was a native of South America and was educated in Germany. He leaves a widow and two children. Whipped His Entire Crew. Astoria, Ore. (Special). The big British ship Ivernla, which was giv en up for lost, is In port, after being out 116 days from Acapulco, Mex. Those aboard experienced no suffer ing. Captain Collingswood, who is six feet three inches tall and built In proportion to his height, had to deal with two mutlnites, however, but he soon broke them up by whip ping the entire crew. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. Candidates have been designated to take the examination for appoint ment as lieutenants In the Murine Corps. George Pfelfer, of the customs appraiser's office In Manila, is report ed to have been stricken with leprosy. The Joint Committee of Congress Is busily engaged in ltB work of codi fying the statutes of the United States. Secretary Metcalf has directed the Commissioner of Corporations to make an Investigation of the fire In surance companies of California. The grand Jury of the District re turned Indictments against officials of the Aetna Banking and Trust Company. The Supreme Court decided that a State charter of a Junior Order United American Mechanic Cpuncll was valid. It Is officially denied that suit Is contemplated against the American Smelting end Refining Con puny. Further discharges of the three negro companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry have been suspended pend ing the arrival of Secretary Taft In Washington and advices from Presi dent Roosevelt. Mosquitoes brought yellow fever aboard the army transport Sumner which was lying In Havana harbor. The President has signed an order abolishing the governor of the Canal Zone and making Chairman Shonts head of the government. A POISON SQUAD MEMBER IS DEAD His Mother Says Boric Acid. Tests Killed Him. WAS DR0PPEDFR0M THE SQUAD. "edical Men, However, Declare That the Food Administered Could Not Have, Under Any Circumstances, Caused the Development of Tuberculosis. Washington, D. C, (Special). Robert Vance Freeman,23 years old and a member of the first "poison squad" In tho experiments conducted by Professor Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, died at his home, In this city, from tuberculosis. Mrs. Lurea Latham, his mother, declares her son's death was caused by his service In the "poison squad," and due to effects of boric acid and adul trants placed in his food niter he volunteered his services to Dr. Wiley for his pure-food experiment. Mrs. Lntham declared that he was healthy and sturdy when her son Joined the "poison squad," and made a better average In tho physical ex amination than any of the 36 men who were examined at tho same time. She declares that they told him that the poisoned food had no effect on his constitution, but he began to fail from the first day he became a member of the class. In less than bIx months he was discharged from the class as disabled. The records of the department show thnt young Freeman was not In sound physicial condition when he became a member of the boric acid squad two years ago, and that the preliminary examinations of the young man Indicated lung troublo, and he was recommended to drop from the squad on April 23, some weeks before the squad was. dis banded. While the young man's mother In sists that food tests killed her son, medical men In the city do not hold that opinion, and declare that the food administered to the "poison squad" could not have been In any event directly responsible for Free man's development of tuberculosis. Speaking abqut her son's last Ill ness, Mrs. Lathnm said: "Ills stomach was destroyed by l tho poisons he was forced to swal low," she continued, "and for the last three years he has been a total wreck. His stomach was eaten out absolutely, and as n result ho could not retain food or medicine. "The food test conducted by Dr. Wiley was directly responsible for his death and for the serious Illness of others. When my son became a member of the poison squad I did not know It. He told me that he was eating with a friend, whose people were In the country, and It was about. Bix months after the tests hnd been going on that I found It out. "Robert was deathly ill at that time, and I called In a physician, to whom tho boy told the whole story lie was in bed for about two weeks and promised me that he would not go back to the food-test table, but ho did. "Within a month ho was forced to resign his position on account of ill health, and the physician who at tended him Bald that he would have to go out West. 1 parked him up and sent him away, but our means would not permit his staying, so ho had to come home. Ho had been critically ill for many months, and we have been expecting his death at any time. "Dr. Wiley was In to see tho boy a week ago Sunday, and he said at. that tlmo that he could not get well. "I do not Intend to prosecute the government of Dr. Wiley," Mrs. Lathan concluded, "but I do think the whole matter should be given an airing for the protection of other voung men who go through the same thing. Favors The Income Tnx. Columbus, O. (Special) Governor Harris stated he would recommend In lils first message to the legislature the levying of a tn on lnc mes by the Stute of Ohio if a way can be found to enact a law that will stand the constitutional test. The Gover nor also favors a re-enactment of the Inheritance tax law repealed by the legislature. James F. Delaney Shot. Chicago (Special). James V. De laney, vice-president of the American Shipping Company, was shot and kill ed by his wife, who immedaitely af terward committed suicide. Dr. Dickinson's Career Ended. Richmond, Va. (Special). Rev. Dr. A. E. Dickinson, ono of the most widely known ministers In the South ern Baptist Church and for many years editor of the Religious Herald, died at 1 o'clock Tuesday, aged 76 years. He had been iu feeble health for some years. He was a graduate of Richmond College and of te Uni versity of Virginia. Ho wns married three times. Defaulting Teller Is Sane. Birmingham, Ala. (Special). A Jury In the Federal Court declared Alexander C, Chlsholm, former pay ing teller of tho First National Bank, who defaulted for $100,000, to be mine and sufficiently In possession of his faculties to be tried for the de falcation. Crapsey Will Not Iterant. Rochester, N. Y. (Special). Tho probability that Dr. Algernon S. Crapsey, who was suspended from the Protestant Eplucopul Church oil the ground that he Is a heretic, will .recant any of tho opinions which led to his ecclesiastical condemnation or that he will in any way recede from the position he has taken Is so very slight as not to bo worih considera tion. Later, after he has luid time to consult with his counsel, he' win Issue a full Hlatemcnt. Gold Hidden Under Carpet. Detroit, Mich. (Special). It be came known that during the auction sale of the household effects of the late John Mullln, at his former home, 235 Wlnewood Avonuo, $15,000 In gold was found hidden away under a dusty old carpet which the auc tioneer had jtif-t co'.d as it lay on the floor. When the purchaser ripped It up the money was found. Mr. "ullln was at one time prominent lr the Iron industry at Pittsburg. CHURCH BURNS SULPHUR " i Suffocating Fumes Drives The Soldiers Back. Paris (By Cable). The net results of the Inventory operations conducted throughout the country Tuesday show that a total of over 1,600 Inventories were made. In only a few canes were there serious collisions between those who refuted the Intrusion of the government commissioners and the troops. The reports show that altogether four gendarmes and sev eral peasants were wounded, and that about one dozen domonstrants were arrested. They were at once tried and sentenced to short terms In Jail. In several Instances the people are still holding out, and will re main in the churches throughout the night. The work of Inventorying has been completed In 63 out of the total of 86 departments. There ptlll remnln 2,000 Inventories' to be taken In the other 23 departments, nnd In some places stout resistance Is anticipated. Premier Clemenceau said in the Chamber of Deputies that the troops had been ordered to exercise patience, but that If they were fired on they would reply. Taken by Surprise. When the soldiers battered down tho doors of the church at Vlllalon-gue-de-lH-Salungue they were driven out by sulphur fumes, and the prefect was compelled to postpone taking the Inventory. In most cases the parish priests and bishops, after protesting, yielded to n show of force, but some of the priests defended the chruches until the doors were broken down. In hundreds of cases the priests were taken by surprise, the authorities and soldiers arriving before daylight nnd completing their work before an alarm could be given. At Armentlerles, department du Nord, after the doors of the church had been broken In, the authorities found the vestry fortified with a breastwork of chairs bound together with barbed wire. The congregation filled the church and Bang "The Carmagnole" while the taking of the Inventory was proceeding. A Bishop Kjcctod. When tho authorities arrived at the seminary of Alencon, capital of the Department of Orne, they found the Bishop barring tho door in person mid the 8olders were compelled to eject him. At St. GInolph, on the Swiss fron tier, troops occupied all the ap proaches to the church In order to keep back the enraged populace. Resistance was general through out the Department of Herault. Vio lent resistance occurred at PIgnan, where the church was filled with the fumes of burning sulphur, which was shoveled into the building from tho vestry and the roof, and again and again forced out the soldiers, while a crqwd of men and women outside shouted maledictions on the troops and hurled stones and flower-pots at them. The church was finally cleared by a charge of infantry In order to per mit the firemen to flood the church, but It was then discovered that the wnter mains had been plugged. WEDDED IX A WA(iO.. Kentucky Couple Made One After An Exciting Adventure. Paducah, Ky. (Special). Standing with garments drenched after a bat tle with a swollen stream In a two horse wagon, Ben Benscoler and Dora Fo::, aged 21 and IS, were married. The couple started from their home near Creal SprlngH, 111., in the wagon. Tho rains had swollen creeks over the banks and a bridge over which the couplo expected to cross was washed away. The team plunged into the rushing stream, tho girl clinging to the bed of the wagon Hud Benscoler Hung himself at the horses. By desperate efforts he man aged to guldo them down stream until a bend threw them ashore. A Political Move. Antwerp, Belgium (By Cable). A royal decrco Issued grants to an American company, for rubber and other exploitation, about 2,500,000 acres for 60 years. Tho concession Includes a strip oi! over' 13 mllea on the left bunk of tho Congo to the Yumbi Blvor, a strip south of Kauai to tho confluence of the Congo and Kasai Rivers and R 10-year option on 1,250,000 acres. Tho press generally regards ' the concession ns being, a clever move on tho part of the Con go Government to involve tho United States In any future international complication. VIS.W Ah '.VOUUj. Bank of England's discount rate was continued for unother week at 6 per cent. Norfolk & Western directors are discussing plans for Issuing new con vertible bonds. Union Pacific's annual report Is expected to show over 20 per cent, earned on the common dock. , W, L. Bull says tho report is not belived that Delaware & Hudson is to be put ou a 10 per cent, basis. A larger dividend on Smokeless Powder Is tho Information given out by brokers who are usually pretty well Informed. Stockholders of the Tennessee Coal & Iron may subscribe for the new stock, equal to 15 per cents, of their present holdings respectfully, at the price of $100 per fchnre. Street rumors uuy J. J.' 11111 has scooped In the Missouri, Kaimas & Texas to offset Hiurlmuu's absorp tion of Illinois Central, on tho theory, nrobably, that half a- loaf is better than none. Ohio's now Governor says he fav ors un Income tax. At last the American Cement rise :s explained. Six leading companies, Including the American, hnvo formed tho North Amorlcun Portland Ce ment Company. This latter concern will manage the affalrj of ail and will act us the pureut or holding, company. The Pcnnoylvanlu'i coal and coke tonnage on Eastern lines uo far this year haye amounted to 43,381,000 tons, compared with 40,234,000 in tho same period last, year, "A Broad Stroct subway would cost much loss per mllj than the Market Btroot Subway, " says an en gineer who la familiar with the lat ter operation. Ho says much of tho Broad Street line couid be very vhcnjjly bulU, Now Yoik's subway ,m about $2,000,000 a i.illo. STATE OF PENNSKLVANIA, Latest flews Gleaned From Various Parts. , Anthony McAnduw, aged 23 yeai, was caught under a fall of coal at the Mldvalley Colliery, near Mt. Car mel and was Instantly killed. Mr. McAndrews was a member of the Conyngham Township School Board and was one of the most popular men that ever participated in politics In that township. A trolley car of the Chester Trac tion Company's Media division was derailed opposite Chester Park Thurs day morning. Six passengers were on the car and they were all thrown with considerable force against the i.ldes of the car. One Of the passen gers Mrs. Jpmima Gallagher, of Tod niorden, was seriously Injured. 8he was removed to the Crozer Hospital. Spreaded rails caused the car to leave tho tracks. The will of Mary K. Wood, widow of the lnte William Wood, of Consho hocken, was probated In Norrlstown Thursday. The estate is estlmnted at -$100,000 and over. She gives ho mansion In Conshohocken to her daughter. Mrs. Annie W. Perot. Ol tho residuary Bho gives one-half ab toltitely to her daughter, and the other half in trust of her grand children of a deceased daughter, Han nah J. Jones. Lansford is threatened with a typhoid fever epidemic. Eight cases havo been reported. The Lansford town Council empowered the Board oJ Health to employ nurses and do every thing possible to stop the dis ease from spreading. It is reported la Harrlsburg that the various State hospitals are seri ously hampered by lack of funds for maintenance, caused by high prices of food and materials. It is claimed that the per diem allowance for each Indigent patient Is entirely too small under present conditions and that there Is a scarcity of people to act as attendants, the wages paid In other fields of labor being moro attractive at present. Under the present sys tem the Insane asylums maintained by the Commonwealth receive a maxi mum of $2 a week from the State and $1.75 from the county for the care and treatment of each Indigent patient. Out of this fund the patients are fed, clothed and furnished treat ment and the salaries of the super intendent and attaches and the ordi nary expenses of the institution are paid. At the present rate of living It Is no longer posslblo to do this on $3.75 a week, and the next Legisla ture will bo asked to lncreaso the appropriation for the care and treat ment of the Indigent Insane so as to bring the allowance up to At least $4.25 a week. H. C. Shcedy, of Scranton, attempt ed suicide after being r.rrested ' f ot drunkenness by swallowing a quarter, following It by a fifty-cent piece as a chaser. Ho still lives to regret his ex travagance. Poor Director Jacob Ilollenbach made a formal demand on the County Commissioners nnd Controller Llv ingood for $1875 salary, nt the rate of $1500 a year, for the last five months of 1905 and the first ten months of 1906. This Is thought to bo a preliminary to- a test Bult. to be instituted in behalf of the three directors, whole salaries have been held up for over a yeaf by the Coun ty Controller on tho ground that they are not $1500 a year, but $120. Charles Henner, aged 63 years, a scion of German nobility, died at the Blair County poorhouse In poverty. He had lived in Altoona twenty-five years Hnd never to his closest friends did he reveal his past. Ho was cul tured, refined, scholarly and polished and earned n living teaching music until excesses reduced him to strait , ened circumstances. His closest friends believed that It was a love affair whMi drovo him from hla native country. However, they were never able to penetrato the mask which he kept continually over his past rife. Povert? could not obscure the gentle breeding. After he was -moved to the county homo three years ago ho was made a clerk to the steward. Friends saved the body from burial In Potter's Field and It was Interred In Fairview Cemetery, Altoona. Crazed by financial troubles, Dan iel Becker, a Bern Township farmer, who hnd been missing for ssvoral days, came homo and drove out his wlfo at pistol's point. Then he amused hemself by shooting up the house, blowing out all the window panes. The shots set ono of the room afire. When found by officers. Becker was taking a walk in a mill dam, lie was committed to Jail. Work on tho construction of the trolley line between Altoona and Bed ford has been started by tho Altoona, Hollldaysburg & Bedford Springe Electric Uallwny Company. Presi dent Frnnk G. Patterson Btated that the contractor for furnishing poles is distributing them along the line, and that tho erection of the poles has commenced. Tho FederaJ Construc tion Company, of FlttshtVg, has the contract for grading and track laying. A strange disease has broken out timoug a stalilo of twenty-five head of. horses belonging to a Darby liv eryman, and In the two weeks' time nlnco the disease made Its appear ance, seven or the Afflicted animals havo died. Tho remaining eighteen head of horses are suffering from tho disease. '1 ne disease centers It self in tho horse's throats, and so rapid Is its malignancy that they choke and die within a few days after being stricken. Finishing his night's work at the Wharton Switch ' Works, at Jenkln town, oarly Wednesday morning, Francis E. Harbison, of Wyncote, stopped to talk with a fellow-em-ployeo for a few minutes before go ing homo. Suddenly he sank slowly to the floor and within five minutes wag dead, from an attack of heart disease. . Several cases of diphtheria have broken out In various parts of Darby. Tho matter has been reported to the Board of Health, who have taken stringent measures to stump it out. Thorp aro 118 prisoners In the Northampton County Jail, the larg est number In the history of the In stitution. George Groff, of West .Easton, fell down the steps at his house, fractur ed his skull and died a few hours after being taken to the Easton Hob- ' pltal. He was 54 years of age. Another patient has been brought to the Easton Hospital, a victim of the explosion of powdered coal In a cement plant. These accidents are growning frequent. The patient is Frank Kartner, an employee at the Nazareth Cement plant. He is terri bly burned.
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