TEXAS OUSTS THE OIL TRUST And Fines It Over a Million and a Half Dollars. five statesarT after trust. Jury in Tex m Fines Corporation $1,623. 000 for Violation of Anti-trait Laws and Cancels Permit of Waters-Plerce Company to Do Business in That State. Washington (Special). The de claion of a Texas Jury Saturday, find In; the Waters-Pierre OH Company orer a million and a half dollars for Its violations of the anti-trust law and cancelling Its permit to do bus iness In the state, is considered here to be a body blow to Standard Oil, The action is one of deep signi ficance. II comes at a time when the Supreme Court of Missouri has before It the report of its special commissioner, which finds thnt the same Waters - Pierce Oil Company has been violating the anti-trust law of that stnto. and recommends that its permit to do business be can celled. Although there has been very lit tle doubt as to what action the MIs aonri Supreme Court will take, It is believed that the Texas decision will prompt quicker action. The OH Trust Is treading a perfect labyrinth of legal prosecutions. Ohio. Texas and Missouri have attacked It under state anti-trust laws. The federal government is prosecuting It under the Elklns Rebate Law In Illi nois, Tennessee. Missouri and New York. It boa been found guilty in Chicago and the government Is awaiting the infliction of sentence by Judge Landts. 1'nder the law the minimum fines must reach $1,500, 000. If the limit were Imposed the Standard would have to pay $29, 000.000. The circuit judges of the Eighth circuit have Just heard arguments on the demurrer of the Standard Oil to the government's bill, asking for a dissolution. An early decision is expected. The court will then ap point a commissioner to take testi mony. The Department of Justice will use Its best endeavor to bring the case to a speedy conclusion. In Ohio the state authorities are pushing the Oil Trust In civil and criminal proceedings. The Circuit Court has just given a black eye to the trust by holding that the Probate Court of Hancock County, which fined the Standard $5,000, had Jur isdiction. The question will be fought out in the Supreme Court on error. The Standard will soon be forced to trial in the Common Pleas Court in Findlay, O., on 1,200 indictments. The protracted and sensational lights which Missouri and Texas have been waging against the Oil Trust, and the astounding charges emodied In the government's action for dissolution, combined with the disclosures of plpe line discrimina tions of more recent date made by the Bureau of Corporations, have heen the means of greatly inflaming an already aroused public opinion throughout the country. Austin. Tex. (Special). In the ouster suit of the state against the Waters-Pierce Oil Company a Jury Saturday rendered a verdict for the state of $1,623,900 penalties and granted the prayer of the state that the company's permit to do business In Texas be canceled. An appeal will be asked for at once by the defense. OOIjDEST ON RECORD. April And May .Wording To The Wentlifr P.ureau. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Weather Bureau has been looking orer Its record for April and May since the creation of the bureau, and finds that the months of April and May of this year, taken together, make the coldest spring of which there is any record, and, further more, the officials find few indica tions of a warm June. The last cold spring was in 1mS2. and the present spell of weather Is very simi lar to that of that record year. June. 1882, was warmer, in compar ison, but the temperature was not above the average, and at present there are no indications of approach ing warm weather for the coming month. The coldest April on record was 1875. and. like 18S2. the spring and early summer made record for unseasonable weather. Annihilated By Pretender. Oran, Algeria (By Cable). Ad vices received here from Morocco ay that the troops of the pretender to the throne surrounded and anni hilated the Sultan's forces at Mar chica, that Muley Hon Beklr, the Sul tans' uncle, and two kiiids were kill ed, and that 300 women wi re rap tured. Work On Korts Stop. Portland, Maine (Special). One hundred and forty laborers employed by the Government on the construc tion of fortifications at Cushlngs, Cow and Diamond Islands, in the Portland artillery district, struck for increased wages. They demand $2 u day and free transportation to and from the Islands ami assert this amount Is allowed In other districts. Killed His Daughter. Unlontown. Pa. (Special). Alex ander Boyd, of Coo! springs, sear here, accidentally shot and killed his daughter Helen, 8 years old. while cleaning a shotgun. The charge entered the girl's aide, caus ing almost in. taut death. The fath er says he did not know the gun was landed A similar shooting occured in the Boyd homo several years ago, when. Boyd killed his grandmother. The old woman hud been out of the house, and returning late Bojd mis took herjor a burglar aud shot her. New Torpedo Destroyers. Washington (Special). The Navy Department today sent out to five shipbuilding firms, under seal of con fidence, the plans for building Ave 700-ton, 28-knot torpedo destroyers authorized by the lost Congress. Bids uro to be submitted August 1 nest. The plans contemplate recipro cating engines, hut bidders may sub mit alternative plans providing for the use of steam turbines. No ship building concerns on the Pacltllc or Gulf coasts have applied for these plans. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic. The appellate division of the Su preme Court of New York has order ed a new trial for George Burnhnm, Jr., former general counsel of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com pany, ruling that the evidence did not Justify conviction and that errors were committed In admitting evi dence. Marie Berkefeld, who traveled from Austria to New York to wed a man she had not seeu, was re pulsed because site was not as good iooklng ns her photograph. A gang of bogus messenger boys hns been making money In New York by delivering fictitious death mes sages. Seven persons were killed and eight Injured In the trolley collision at Elyrla, O. Andrew Grady, father of Eliza beth Grady, the school girl who ac companied Policeman Hess from New York to Baltimore, attacked the bluecoat and tried to strangle him during n hearing In a New York police court. Seven priests were Injured In the crash of a platform that carried down fiO persons nt the cornerstone laying of a Greek Catholic Church at Wllkea-Barre. Pa. Because they were refused the use of camp stools while on duty the em ployees of the Slianiokin and Mount Carmel Electric Railway went on strike. Citizens of Canton, O., are consid ering a plan for preserving the Mc- Klnley home intact and converting It into a memorial, like Mount Ver non. J. H. von Hegcrman Lln lencrone. the Danish minister to Germany, sailed for Europe from New York on the steamer Deutschland. Carrie Lederbrand. seven yenrs old, and her sister Cora, 17 years old. were found In Sugar Creek, near Springfield, 111. Thomas D. Jordan, former comp troller of the Equitable Life Assur ance Company, charged with forgery and perjury, pleaded not guilty and was released on $10,000 bail. A number of machinists on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad have struck for recognition of the union and a uniform wage scale. The Merchants and Miners' Line and the Baltimore an1 Ohio Railroad have woh the strike of Philadelphia stevedors. The I'nlted States Navy scoutship Birmingham, to mnke 24 knots an hour, was launched at Quincv, Mass. President W. W. Flnley, of the Southern Railway, favors govern ment regulation of the railroads. Ten stockholders have asked thnt a receiver be appointed for the New York-Chicago Air Line. A business men's committee of 75 is organizing to carry out law and order In San Francisco. President Hubbard, of the New York Cotton Exchange, issues a de nial to the charges of over-classification made against the exchange by Theodore Price and the Southern Cotton Association. OPTIMISTIC SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WILSON Foreign. . United States gunboat Helena has been ordered to Amoy, nearest port to Bcene of armed uprising against Chinese officials. In a battle be tween the Chinese provincial troops and a body of rebels the latter lost over 100 men. The peasants In several counties of Ireland are destroying the property of the holders of grazing farms on the 1 1-month-lease system and seri ous conflicts between the peasants and the police have occurred. The Supreme Court of Spain has declared Itself competent to try the suit of the heirs of Elena Sanz, the singer, against the heirs of King Al fonso XII. It Is reported that President Cas tro, of Venezuela, Is planning to visit the United States and would like a conference with President Roosevelt. Ambassador Creel, of Mexico, says there is nothing pending and no rea son to fear war between Mexico and Guatemala. Rev. Young J. Allen, of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, South, died al Shanghai, China, at the ago of 73. The Paris police captured n gang of coiners who has put out $20,000 in counterfeit coin lu that city. The French cruiser Chanzy. which went ashore on one of the Saddle Islands, will be a total loss. King Haakon Mid Queen Maud left Paris for London. Herr Muehlberg, tho German un der secretary, told the visiting Eng lish journalists In Berlin thnt he was surprised at the constant charges in the English papers thut Germany harbored warlike motives. Queen Maud of Norway had a narrow escape from death or serious accident at Versailles while driving in the pnrk. the horses drawing her carriage having bolted. The preliminary debate on the agrarlnn question in the lower house of Russian Parliament closed, only 13 Monarchists voting for a continuance of the discussion. Tin Congress of the Association of International Acndemles opened In Vienna. Delegates from nearly all the American academies were present. The revolutionary movement In China against the Manchu dynasty has attained Berlous proportions aud missionaries are worried. A number of survivors of the ty phoon In the Caroline Islands were rescued after having spent several nights In tho trees. King Edward's new turbine yacht Alexandria was launched at Glasgow. Negotiations are under way by Which the bandit Ruisuli may become the Sultan's military adviser. Chululongkorn I., King of Siara, arrived at liadcn-Huden, Germany, to take the waters. Ki-qlu) mass was sung In the Carmelite Church In Dublin in mem ory of Michael Davttt. The Portugeso are objecting to King Cnar'.es' reigning without a parliament, The fclnke of dock workers at San tiago was settled provisionally. The Diet of Brunswick elected Duke Johaun Albrecht of Mecklen-burg-Schwerln to be regent of Bruns whk. after having previously fixed the civil list at $275,000. Forty French fishermen are believ ed to have lost their lives off the Grand Banks. Emperor Wllliarn unveiled In the castle garden In Berlin Ave bronie statues In honor of bis ancestors. Reported In Copenhagen that the question of the acquisition of the Danish West Indian Islands by the Culled States has again been broached. t V : - r-.-rz: . I: F r ' iir i f r.a . rr.. 7 - u rt !w ii shim ri .-., Cartoon by Hcrryman, in the Vn1iinn'in SUr. RATS COST MILLIONS Damage To Cereals May Reach $100, 000,000 a Year. Washington (Special). The De partment of Agriculture will soon Issue a farmers' bulletin on the methods of destroying rats. This bulletin was prepared under the supervision of Asslstnnt Biologist D. E. Lautz, of the Biological Survey. Experts assert thnt an Infallible method of exterminating rats would be worth more to the people of the county In a single decade than the Department of Agriculture has cost since Its establishment. One rat is much like another, so far as destructlveness goes; but three kinds, all immigrants from the Old World, have made their ap pearance In this country. The black rat was the first to reach our shores, coming nearly 300 years ago. The common species, known as the brown, or Norway rat, arrived the year before the Declaration of In dependence was promulgated to the world and at once proceeded to drive out Its weaker rival until almost everywhere It has supplanted the black rat. The third species, known as the roof, or Alexandrine, rat of Egypt, Is a great mariner, Infests almost every ship and is common along the coast, especially in the South. Rats Destroy Millions. According to Uncle Sam's experts, the brown rat is the worst mnnimal- Inn pest In existence nnd In the I'nlted States destroy! more proper ty than all other noxious animals combined. A single rat will con sume about two ounces of wheat or corn a day and it destroys for more of the corn than It eats. The aver age cost to the country of feeding one rat on gain Is about 50 cents a year. If for each cow, horse, sheep and hog on the farms of the United States the farmers support only one rat on gain, the toll levied on the cereals by these rodents would rench the enormous totnl of $100, 000,000 a year. Even granting that half their food is waste material, the tax of feeding rats is still an enormous drain on the profits of agriculture. Destroy All Kinds Of Articles. But much of their food Is more expensive than grain and the actual losses duo to these nnimals are by no means confined to food. They en ter stores and warehouses and de stroy dry goods, lace curtins. car pets, woolens, silks, kid gloves and other leather goods. They gnaw through lead pipes, flooding build ings with water or filling them with gas. They injure furniture nnd the foundations and doors of buildings. They eat the insulation from electric wires, causing disastrous fires. The average fire loss in the United States duo to defective insulation Is placed at $15,000,000 annually, a consider able part of which Is believed to he caused by rats. THE GOVERNMENT MUST CONTROL Roosevelt Defines Attitude Towards Railroads-No Persecution Intended. Indianapolis (Special). President Roosevelt delivered the principal address here at the unveiling of a monument to MaJ.-Gen. Henry W. Lawton. He discussed railway problems and incidentally paid a warm tribute to Oliver Morton, the war Governor of Indlann. The President arrived at 10.48 A. M. from Canton, Ohio, accompanied by Vice President Fairbanks, and wns driven to the Fairbanks home, where luncheon was served, after which he was escorted to the Court House Square. The parade route was lined with cheering crowds. At the conclusion of the exercises the President and Vice President were driven to Crown Hill Cemetery, where the President placed a wreath on the grave of former President Benjamin Harrison. He brought the token of galanx leaves and lilies of the valley from Washington. SALIENT POINTS OF PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. One great problem that we have before us is to preserve the rights of property, and these con only be preserved if we remember that they are in less Jeopardy from the socialist nnd anarchist than from the predatory man of wealth. There must be vested In the Federal Government a full power of super vision and control over the railways doing Interstate business; a power in many respects analogous to and as complete as that the Government exer cises over the national banks. We ask for such laws as in their essence now obtain In the staid old Commonwealth of Massachusetts; such laws as now obtain in England. As a matter of course, we shall punish any criminal whom we can con vict under the law; but we have no intention of confounding the Innocent many and the guilty few by any Ill-judged and sweeping scheme of ven geance. Our aim is primarily to prevent these abuses in the future. We favor the railway manager who keeps In close touch with the peo ple along his line rather th'an In close touch with the speculative market. The evidence seems ample that, the great mass of our rallrond securities rest unoti safe and solid foundations: If they fall in nny degree to command complete public confidence. It is because isolated instances of unconsclonnble stock-watering and kindred offenses arouse suspicion, which naturally extends to all other corporate securities so long as similar practices are possible. Ample provision should be made by Congress to ennble the Interstate Commerce Commission to undertake the physical valuation of each and any road in the country, whenever and so soon as in the opinion of tho commission such a valuation of any road would be of vqlue to the com mission In Its work. The public Interest requires gunranty against Improper multiplication of securities In the future. Reasonable regulations for their Issuance should be provided. We hope as one of the chief means for betterment of conditions to se cure as complete publicity in the affairs of rnilroads as now obtains with regard to national banks. The conditions of railroad activity, the conditions of our Immense Inter state commerce, are such as to make the central Government alone com petent to exercise full supervision and control. There can be no question as to the desirability of doing away with re bates or any method of favoring one shipper at the expense of n competitor. The most effective way to lessen demands for unreasonable legislation Is for the railroads to remedy ns many ns possible of the abuses and shortcomings for which there really are remedies. Demand honesty absolute, unflinching honesty together with courage and common sense, in public, servant and In business man alike. KIO, ooo To (apt ure Kidnapper.. Trenton, N. J. (Special). Gov ernor Stokes signed the Gebhnrt Bill, which provides for the petitioning of Congress to take steps toward the adoption of a constitutional amend ment providing for the election of I'nlted Stutes senators by popular voto. The Governor ulso signed the bill extending the Child Labor Law to mercantile establishments, and the bill placing a fund of $10,000 at the disposal of the governor for the apprehension of kidnappers. Boy Killed By Rat Gun? Providence, R. . (Special). A spring gun, set to kill rats in the barn of William A. well, caused the death of Norman, his 10-year-old sen. The trap had been rigged up by Normau and his brother Clarke, aged 14, and has made away with a number of rats, when the boys in vited friends In to see It work, Clarke was testing the trap when his brother got In range of the bullet and was killed. The brother is de lirious today and under the doctor's care. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Better weather and belter crop news helped stock prices. Since the 'longshoremen's strike began the port of New York has lost over $10,000,000 of exports. Gobi to the amount of $2,000,000 was engaged for oxport, making $2. -760,0(io tbls week. Paris Is getting One big Wall Street trader bought 20,000 Union Pacific, which other traders said was to cover a short sale. The eagerness of Paris to accumu late gold, considering t hut it already baa an Immense stock of It, is not liked bj English or Amorican bank ers. The Southern Railway has pur chased 30,000 tons of rails from the Tennessee Coal ft Iron Company for delivery next year. Northern Puclilc has ordered 35.000 tons from the Lackawanna Company. Gross earnings of the Pacific Mall Company for the year ending April 30 decreased $885,063 and net pro fits (iecreimert 1281 fir. TKa a crease in net was more than 88 per cent. PREFER SUICIOETOWORSEFATE Four Wealthy Guatemalans ThemseWer. Kill Mexico City (By Cable) Full con firmation of the suicide of four prom inent Guatemalans and the Imprison ment and sentencing to death of 19 men suspected of complicity in the attempted murder of President Ca brera, early this month, wbb re ceived through ofllcinl aud private channels Tuesday. The State Department received n telegram stating that tho Guatemalan people wore so Incensed at the sen tence passed upon the 19 suspects that President Cabrera has derided that these cases be tnken to the court of second instances for revision. Pending the action of this tribunal the diplomatic corps is withholding the contemplated collective note de manding that the Imprisoned men be given n fair trial. According to a private telegram the four men who gnve up their lives because of the Incident wure Dr. Julio V. Blanco, Dr. Jeorge A. Vlln, Dr. Echeverrla and Bnltnsar Rodll, o civil engineer. All of the men were WMlthy, and belonging to the first families of the republic. They bnd not heretofore been identified in any of the policies of the country. Saved A Bishop's Life. Dr. Blanco was educated In Paris and lived for yenrs In the different cnpitals of Europe. For a number of years he enjoyed a lucrative prac tice In Madrid. His affluence. In thnt capital wns due to a peculiar Inci dent. While attending services In a cathedral, at which was present the Queen Mother of Alfonso, the bishop officiating wns suddenly stricken with an attack of syncope. Dr. Blanco snved the prelate's life, and was thenceforth shown royal favors. Dr. Echeverrla was also educated In Europe and was wealthy. HIb brother was a lawyer and a large plantation owner. Civil Engineer Rodll. who was wealthy, was a brother of the man in front of whose house was placed the mine which was exploded The story of the rapture and subsequent death of these men Is dramatic. As soon as the mine wns sprung they left Guatemala City, because, It is said, they feared that Cabrera would trump up u charge against them. They returned inter and went Into hiding. WAS ROASTED ALIKE IN A FURNACE Man Had Revealed Plot To Kill President. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts, MRS. McKINLEY AT REST. Last Wish Was That She Could Join the Martyred President. Canton, O. (Special). Tho body of Ida Saxton McKlnley rests be side that of her distinguished hus band In Westlawn Cemetery. Her Inst words, "Oh, God. why should I longer wait; let me lie beside him." hnve been answered. The funeral services, held nt tho old-fashioned McKlnley home, were extremely simple. Four songs were sung the snrae that were sung at the funeral of President McKlnley and the service wns the simple ritual of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The house on its Market and Louis Street sides was roped off to restrain the crowds which thronged neighboring thoroughfares. A broad lavender ribbon fluttered from the door to Indicate a house of mourn ing, and only n few intimate friends visited the house during tho fore noon. Aside from the ropes strung along the streets there was noth ing to ind'lcate that n ceremony of unusual Import wns about to take place. It was not until the funeral services were actually being per formed that the streets became crowded, and the crowds were held under excellent check by the local police. President Roosevelt arrived at 12.45 P. M. and was driven Immedi ately to the residence of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Day for luncheon. Among others at the table were Secretaries Root, Cortel you and WIlBon, Governor Harris and ex-Governor Herrick, of Ohio. Immediately after the luncheon the President and party drove to tho McKlnley home, on North Market Street. The body, in its black cas ket, rested in its flower-embowered place in the so-called "campaign of fice" in the identical spot where President McKlnley's body lay after the Buffalo tragedy. Flowers in set pieces and merely fastened together by ribbon, with the roses which Mrs. McKlnley favored predominat ing, flHed the room, while many more for which there was not room In the house were sent to Westlawn Cemetery ahead of the cortege. President Roosevelt, Vice Presi dent Fairbanks and Cabinet Mem bers Root, Wilson and Cortelyou oc cupied seats in the parlor across the hall. In this room ulso were Gover nor Harris and former Governor Her rick. Relatives and Immediate friends of the family were seated In the hall and adjoining rooms. THE VENGEANCE OF ANARCHISTS. Widow of Van Says He Startrd Out Days Aeo to Notify Police That As sassins Plotted Life of (he President, but Thst Husband Never Reached Authorities or Returned Home. Cincinnati. O. (Special). Because he overheard a band of anarchists discussing a plot to kill President Roosevelt during his participation In the unveiling of the statue of Gen eral Lnwton In Indianapolis, Frank Koss. an educated Hungarian, was thrust Into the furnace at the Ryan Soap Factory, In this city, and burn ed alive. The charred body, still twitching ns the flesh broiled and steamed, was discovered by John McDermott. englcee' and fireman of the factory, f 0.30 A. M. No arrests hnve vet been made, although the entire de tective force of the local police de partment Is nt work on the case. Not until late In the afternoon was the body Identified nnd the informa tion obtnlned that Kess' horrible death undoubtedly prevented the cnrrylng out of the plot he overheard and saved the life of the President. The plot against the life of Roo;evelt. according to the widow of the dead man, was hatched In Paterson, N. J. Anarchists' Threats. Five men, the widow says, came to Cincinnati Monday nnd secured quarters In the Hungarian colony. Wednesday night Kess stumbled up on the anarchists in a small, dark room In the rear of a saloon. In stantly he wns seized and, under threats of death, made to sweat that he would reveal nothing of what he had heard. Kess was so .excited when he reached home thnt ho was unable to tell his wife what he heurd when he met upon the anarchists, but later said he was sure that It was something about assassinating the President. The next day. when the plot was to have been carried out in Indianapolis, he went out with the avowed purpose of telling the police of his experience the night before, but he never reached the po lice station nor did he return home, and the finding of the body in the furnace was the first news his wife had of him since he left home. Found by Engineer. All doubt that the man was mur dered seeniB removed by Deputy Cor oner Coe, who, In a post-mortem ex amination of the body, found that tho man's skull had been fractured. The body was discovered in the fur nace by Engineer McDermott, who Immediately called some of the work men to his side. McDermott claims the body must hnve been put in the furnace sometime between C nnd 6.30 o'clock A. If. while he was In nnother room examining machinery Deputy Coroner Coe declares that the man wns nlive when he was put into the furnace. Cooked blood indicates this. The man probably was knocked unconscious and then thrust alive into the flery furnnce, the heat of which was 3,000 de grees. JOIN A 111 ndki:d-ye.r club. New Orleans Streets Flooded. New Orleans, La. (Special). Sev eral sections of New Orlenns are un der from one to four feet of water, owing to heavy ruins. Nearly all rainwater has to bo pumped out of the city Htreets because of the low level of tho land. Although big un derground ditches have been built and an expensive pumping plant has been established, tho rainfall is so unprecedented that tne pumps can not handle it. llaiuiiiered A Duke. Paris (By Cable). A woman named Mine. Guggenheim was fined $20 in a civil court for having com mitted an assault upon the Duke of Gallerla, husband of tho Ir.faniu Eu lalle, aunt of the present King of Spain. Mrae. Guggenheim recently awaited the Duke outside of a store In the Rue de la i'aix and when ho came out she belabored him with her parasol, much to the edification of the passersby. Gen- Chemist Wiley Suys Present oration Will Live I on-. Clevelnnd. O. (Special). Chief Chemist Wiley, of the United States Department of Agriculture, in the course of an address delivered be fore the graduating class of Case School of Applied Science said: "I belong to a hundred-year club, any member of which who shall die before he's a hundred years old will be Immediately expelled In disgrace "The present generation is going to live much longer thnn the one which came before, because it knows more about the laws of diet, hygiene nnd surgery. "It's n rank disgrace for any man to die except from old aee. "In view of longevity, If nothing more, a man should not think that lie is taking too much time in prepa ration for his llfework If he should spend a srore or more years in just schooling." What In Succotash? Washington (Special). "What Is succotash?" is the momentous ques tion over which the Board of Food and Drug Inspection of the Agricul tural Department haa been wrestling. So far. It has only been able to de cide what it is not. An official state ment was promulgated today to the effect that succotash Is not soaked beans or soak corn mixed together, and manufacturers are told to gov ern themselves accordingly if they desire to comply with the Pure Food Law. Refused Millions For Her Child. Detroit, Mich. (Special) The sen rational divorce case of Merrill B Mills, millionaire stove manufac turer, will go no further In the courts. It Is announced that a set tlement has been reached by which Mills agrees to his wife taking a bill of divorce and ends tho proceedings. Mrs. Mills gets the custody of Cyn thia, the little girl who was the principal cause of the contention, and a fnlr slice of Mills' money, It is said. Mrs. Mills wns once offered $1,000,000 outright if she would sur render the child, but declined. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL :-ome Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. A medal of honor has been award ed to Mlns Mary Guinan, Mlddletowu, N. Y., by President Roosevelt for distinguished daring In risking her own life to savo thnt of John C. Runyon, nn aged man, who was in imminent danger of being run down by an Erie Railroad, train. Secretary Root and Ambassador Jusserand had a consultation respect ing the framing of nn agreement be tween the United States and Franco regulating tariff duties. According to statistics, there has been a phenomenal growth in the volume of manufactured products of the I'nlted States ulnco 1S50. Protests are being reeolved at tho War Department against tho. propos ed abandonment of military garri sons in the West. The Treasury Department purehas ed 100,000 ounces of silver for coin age purposes. William W. Skinner, aged 70 years, a veteran of the Thirty-seventh Confederate Virginia Regiment, committed suicide at bis homo by Inhaling illuminating gas Tlu- State Department i Inform ed that the Santo Domingo Con gress has approved the $-0,000,000 loan contract with Kuhu, Loeb l.o., or wow org. Surgeon General Rlxey wants the hospital ship Relief placed In com mission and atatlumd at Norfolk. The President's proclamation ol the now commercial agreement with (iernuMlv Ws issued. John J. Miller, of Sellnsgrove, pre sented to Trinity Lutheran Church a handsome gold embossed pulpit Bible as a memorial to his deceased wife, Mrs. Mary C. Miller. Judge Marr, In Schuvlkill County Court, non-sulted William Matz, a Wayne Township farmer, who asked i 'or $5,000 damages ngalnst the Pottsville Union Traction Company, Mntz drove In front of the car and was badly Injured, but testified that ho signal l the motormnn to stop. Miss Harriet Hastings, of Belle fonte, niece of former Governor Hast ings, and Miss Isabel Lyday, of Chambersburg, composed tho first clnas of trained nurses graduated from the Altoona Hospital. The order to reduce the number of crews on the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad has baen I rescinded because of the Increase In the volume of freight, which Is saia to ue Heavier than usual at this time of the year. Rev. Robert C. Williamson has re signed the pnstorato of the Presby terian Chtirch at Kennett Square, to take effect the middle of June. Ill health Is tho rouse and ho wIM prob ably return to his native State Mis souri. Several months ago Walter Blddi son bought the hotel at Oxford for $65,000 and he has now sold It to Ira McLaughlin, of Newark, Del., for $75,000. In the past twenty years, from 1S87 to 1007, there were 344 di vorces granted In Clinton County. During the same period 4,819 mar riages were Issued. Truman Clair Shents, a 12-year-old son of C. W. Sheats, of Lock Haven, died In the hospital of tetanus as the result of stepping on n nail a week ago. Rev. William Horn, son of Rev. Dr. E. T. Horn, of Reading, will probably bo elected pastor of tho Lutheran Church of the Advent, one of the most Important churches In New York York City, succeeding the late Rev. Dr. Krotcl, whose assistant he was. William L. Kito, of Darby, who was elected a Justice of the peace on the Republican ticket, but had not qualified on nccount of Illness, died Wednesday, aged 4 2 years. He Is survived by a widow. A petition is being signed by citizens of the borough asking Governor Stuart to appoint George G. Patchel, formerly Register of Wills, to fill the vacancy. With men lining (he sidewalks and not one making a move to stop It, Miss Florence Strnub, a junior at the Bloomsburg State Normal School, put them all to shame by running out into the street and capturing a runaway horse and then leading it to its owner. William Geary and Melvln Gaga han and H. Troxell, of Windber, were before 'Squire Chorponnlng nt Clear Held for having killed a deer one day previous the opening last Decem ber. Tho $10u fines were paid. Alleging false arrest, Jacob Young, of Reading, brought suit for $2,000 damages against William A. Boyd, a member of troop C, of the State Constabulary. He says that the trooper arrested him for laughing at him. Arrangements were made by the State Forestry Commission for the transfer of 500 acres of the Mont Alto Reservation to the State De partment of Health for the establish ment of one of tho camps for com batting tuberculosis. Commissioner Dixon Inspected the place and ar ranged for the first work to be done this summer. The camp will be located near White Pine, a place of many natural advantages, and as the State has allowed $600,000 for es tablishment of such camps the Mont Alto ramp will be made a model for the State. The women of Lewlsburg have or ganized a civic society to Improve and beautify the town. They expect to have the support of tho new Coun cil recently Installed, which has thus far proved to be a very enterprising body. The officers of tho new so ciety are: President, Mrs. Emma J. Matlock; vice presidents, Mrs: Alfred Hayes and Mrs. H. G. Drolsbach; recording secretary. Miss Mary lioffa; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Harry S. Bourne; treasurer, Miss Annie Dale. The head of Abraham Kensey, an aged resident, of Wllkes-Barre sev ered by a Lehigh Valley locomotive, rolled Into the hands. of his son who had been knocked down by tho same locomotive. They were returning from a visit to a sick relative when struck by the locomotive. The fath er was Instantly killed and the son had a narrow escapo, bolng knocked down. As ho picked himself up his father's head, cleanly severed by the wheels, rolled into his hands. The remains of the noted Indian lighter and Revolutionary Wor vetcr nn, Thomas Coleman, wns exhumed nt Colliusvllle, where they have rest ed since 1837 and buried at tho Coleman farm which he owned. He spent much time killing Indians in revenge for boiling to death his brother In a boiler of mnplo sugar. Henry Free, of York, is dead from idood poisoning. The malady came I f.'om tho bite of a small Insect upon the little finger of his right band. The member swelled and the deadly ', virus inoculated his whole body. ! Free was a veteran of the Civil War. Engineer J. B. Nightingale and i four assistant engineers of the State ; Health Department, who were pre paring the data for a map of tho AlKgheny watershed In Pennsyl vania, have urrlyed ot Dubois and will devote some time surveying and Inspecting the wutervays of the vicinity. Charles H. Cohrl was elected presl leut of the Alleutown Firemen's Union for the fourth consecutive year. John W. Scpp Is vice presi dent; Walter F. Readlnger, secretary, and Albert Gessner, treasurer. At the Coopersburg High School diplomas were given to Misses Pearl Frederick, Frances Achey, Miriam Clewell, Edna Hiinsberger aud Auna Stelnlnger and Bret Frey. Luther Kllgore, 18 years, was crushed beneath the wheels of a car at the lmmonso dam at McCall's Ferry. Kllgore was u brakoman,' slipped and fell beneath one of the cars. Tho wheels passed over his body. Mrs. F. L. Saunders, of Reading, was found dead In the cellar of her home by her husband when he re turned from work.
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