lEiEGRAPRERS THREATEN
A GREAT TIE UP
Railway Mei Promise Th9ir Full
Support.
MR. ROOSEVELT MAY INTERVENE.
National Secretary Russell, of the Com
mercial Telegraphers' Union Says No
Man Will Re Allowed to Work With
a Nonnnion Man. anda (General Walk
out Will Thus He Forced.
THE SITUATION.
Over 4,000 Western Union and
Postal operators have quit.
The Railway Telegraphers have
placed a fund of $1,000,000 In
their treasury at the disposal o
the strikers.
The national officers have not
sanctioned a strike, but will back
up the strikers.
Labor Commissioner Nelll, at
the request of the President, is
hastening to Chicago to attempt
a settlement of the trouble.
The officials of the telegraph
companies say they have as many
men as they need, and that their
wires are all clear.
Chicago (Special). The strike of
union commercial telegraph opera
tors will be universal throughout
the United States and Canada within
24 hours, according to National Sec
retary Russell, of the Comnierici
Telegraphers' I'nlon of America.
This statement was made by Mr.
Russell Sunday night after he had
been informed of the art ion taken
, by New York union telegrni.hers.
who at a meeting Sunday decided to
hold a walkout in abeyance until the
latter part of the week.
"This strike movement,'' said Rus
ell, "has come to the point where
there can be no backing down. The
telegraphers have been trodden on
long enough by the companies, and
How that we have the opportunity
we are going to use all our strength
to enforce our demands. For sever
al weeks President Small and myself
have been holding the telegraphers
back and have been advising con
ciliation; but they have taken affairs
In their own hnnds and we are going
to stand by them.
"No union men will be allowed to
work with anyone not belonging to
our organization, and this means
that Monday morning, when the bus
iness of the week begins, the strike
will become universal We can't go
half way In this matter now. The
strike has been precipitated by the
men themselves without the previous
sanction of the national officers, but
we are now all working in unison,
and anything that the olliclals of the
various unions throughout the coun
try have done in calling strikes
meets with our hearty co-operation."
This announcement was part of
Mr. Russell's speech at a mass-meeting
of 1,500 striking telegraphers
held in Brand's Hall Sunday after
noon. The Order of Railway Telegraph
ers was represented at the meeting
by National Secretary Quick, who in
formed the strikers that his organi
sation was at their disposal both
morally and financially. "We have
11,000,000 in our treasury," said he,
"and It is at your disposal. Your
fight is ours, and we will stand with
you until the end."
Before the mass meeting 320 union
telegraphers employed by companies
using leased wlre3 held a meeting. At
this gathering operators for brokers,
news agencies and commercial or
ganizations, including the stock
yards packing houses, were repre
sented. A resolution was adopted declar
ing that this class of labor was un
derpaid, and that the various firms
would be asked asked to sign a wage
scale and also to employ none but
union telegraphers, it was decided
to let the private wire men prepare
and present their own schedules to
their employes. The broker opera
tors will present their schedules at
10 o'clock Monday morning, asking
for a minimum wage of $30 a week.
The men employed hy the press
associations presented their requests
t 7,:',0 o'clock .Sunday, giving em
ployers 24 hours to comply with the
roqile.it.
The schedule calls for $:;:. a week,
for six nights a week, and 70 cents
an hour overtime for night opera
tors, eight hours to constitute a
night's work, with half an hour for
lunch.
Operators employed by news asso
ciations and newspapers for day
work ask for J.'IO a week and 00
cents an hour overtime, eight hours
to constitute a day's work, and the
regular lunch hour.
If at the end of 24 hours the re
quests have not met with a favor
able response, the men will report
to the union officials, and they say
a strike will be ordered to enforce
the demands.
Slipped On Leaf, Broke Neck.
Jersey City, N. J. (Special).
James Black, 35 years old, of this
city, stepped on a leaf on a sidewalk
here, slipped and broke his q m k
He was taken to a hospital, where
he died an hour later.
For Two New ISutt leslupy.
Washington (Special ). The final
papers in the contracts for the con
struction of two battleships of 20,
000 jlons each of the Delaware class,
wraith were awarded by the Navy
Department about a month ago,
bave been signed by Acting Secre
tary Newberry, representing the
government, and President Orcutt, of
the Newport News Shipbuilding Co.,
and a representative of the Fore
River Shipbuilding Company, each
of which concerns obtained a con
tract for building one vessel.
IHE liEWS Of THE WEEK.
Domestic
Frank Rockefeller, of Cleveland,
O., In an interview in the New York
World, utters bitter words against
his brother. John D. Rockefeller,
hend of the Stnndard Oil Company.
He said their father is alive and is
kept in hiding.
In an address at the New York
Chautangua Prof. Smaller Mathews,
dean of the University of Chicago
Divinity School, claimed that capital
Is In control of the church nnd Is
being used against labor.
William Ashton. a young huslness
man. and Miss Lena Buss, pianist at
a moving picture show In Easton,
Pa., are simultaneously missing.
In New York the claim Is made
thnt Mr. August Belmont is building
the terminal under East River un
der an expired franchise.
Ambassador Bryce will deliver the
principal address at the meeting of
the American Bar Association.
Mrs. Isabella J. Martin, of New
York, says the wife of the violinist
Rlgo, now at Atlantic City, whom
Mrs. Martin has sued for $250,(100
for slander, Is the Princess de
Chi may.
Maurice C. Mengls has recovered
$15,000 In a suit over lands, the ac
tion being an outgrowth of the
famous Western Maryland litigation,
In which Mengls won $300,000.
Prof. Charles Zueblin. of the Uni
versity of Chicago, delivered an ad
dress charging John I). Rockefeller
with breeding socialism.
Masked men bound and gagged
the agent and robbed the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad station at New
castle, Pa.
John Sharp Williams defeated
Governor Vardaman. of Mississippi,
for the 1'nited States Senate by 64S
votes.
Ludwig Sezegeil, said to be an
unattached Polish priest, shot and
killed a hotel proprietor of Pitts
burg. Thomas Morrison, who said he
peddled wood with U. S. Grant, died
in St. Louis, Mo.
Policeman Stevenson, of Philadel
phia, shot and killed a burglar who
refused to halt.
The population of Chicago, ac
cording to the city's newest direc
torv. is 2.367,000.
Fifty-six manufacturers of spices
have formed a trade organization.
Clarence S. Darrow. leading coun
sel for William D. Haywood in the
trial at Boise, has been dismissed
from the services of the Western
Federation of Miners. He will not
appear In behalf of Pettibone, whose
trial is set. for October 1, nor will
he act for Mover, in the event the
latter Is brought to trial. E. F.
Richardson will succeed Darrow.
Cursing his guards, the coroner,
his Maker and everyone who tried
to question him and denying the
existence of a God. Frank H. War
ner, who shot and killed Miss Esther
Norling and John C. Wilson in New
York, was arraigned before Coroner
Acritelll. He was remanded to the
Tombs without ball, awaiting action
by the grand Jury.
Mike McDonald, the aged "king"
of Chicago gamblers, millionaire and
former Democratic boss, is dying.
McDonald's condition is due to a
broken heart, his young and beauti
ful wife being held on a charge of
shooting to death Webster Guer
rin, a young artist.
Seven prominent Japanese railway
engineers and managers are in San
Francisco to study railway methods
and improvements in the United
States. They have come under the
auspices of the Japanese government.
August von Fahrlg, leader of. a
gang of automobile burglars, who
terrorized, robbed and drugged
wealthy residents of Long Island for
several months, was sentenced to
Sing Sing prison for 40 years.
Former Alderman Joseph Kusch
bert was killed and three others
probably fatally injured when an
automobile containing the four was
ditched at Brookfleld Corners, Mil
waukee. Wis.
The Georgia House of Representa
tives passed the Hall bill prohibit
ing state, county and city officials
from riding on railroad passes. Can
didates for office are similarly barred.
Robert Murdock, formerly a po
liceman of Charlotte. N. C, shot and
killed Mrs. Laura Ray and then com
mitted euiclde. Murdock had been
drinking heavily.
George W. Delamater. who wreck
ed a bank In his effort to become
governor of Pennsylvania in 1890,
committed suicide In Pittsburg.
The Golden Cycle Mill at Colorado
Springs, the largest cyanide plant in
the world, was destroyed by fire.
Loss. $750,000.
Mrs. Robert E. Peary,-wife of the
Arctic explorer, is to live on a bleak
island four miles at sea for a year.
Dr. Leonard S. Taylor, one of the
most successful surgeons of the
West, died from blood poisoning due
to the prick of a needle during an
operation he was performing.
William P. Taggart, promoter of
a coal block manufacturing company
was arrested in Philadelphia and
charged with obtaining $1,500
through misrepresentation.
the cannon ball train on the
Texas and Pacific Railroad was
ditched near Dallas, Tex., all the
coaches but the dining car leaving
the rails.
William 3 Alley, a member of
the New York Stork Exchange, com
mitted suicide at the Larchmout
Yacht Club by Bhooting.
Joseph F. Johnston has been se
lected by the Alabama legislature to
succeed E. W. Pettus In the United
States Senate.
King Of Nittiu Extravagant.
Berlin (By Cable). Stories re
garding the extruvagauces of the
King of Slam, so far as the purchase
of jewelry is concerned, continue to
ciop out. Among his recent pur
chases, it is said, Is a gold th ruble,
covered with diamonds and other
gems, which is valued at $75,000.
In bis palace at Bangkok the King
has un enormous store of jewels
Tbe apartments of the flist and sec-
oud Queens arc -atd,to contain large
collodions, while the walls of hLs
own u part menu are also covered
with gems.
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JOHN D. TO PASS 94 MARK
Family Physician Says Rockefeller is Well
Again at Cost of $5,000,000.
Cleveland, Ohio (Special). John
D. Rockefeller will live to be more
than ninety-four, said Dr. Biggar,
his family physician. He is the
best trained athlete in the sixty-year-old
class in the world today.
"Mr. Rockefeller has been born
twice phylscally. and he 1b only
fourteen years old now. He is grow
ing up again scientifically, adding
to his muscle, to his lungs, to his
heart power with every breath of
fresh air he takes on Forest Hill
and with every drive he makes with
the golf club."
And it cost Mr. Rockefeller $5.
000,000 for this second life. These
are his own words. It happened in
this wise, according to Dr. Biggar:
Mr. Rockefeller came to Cleve
land In 189 3 In the middle of the
panic period, completely broken In
health and spirit.
"Doctor, I'm sick. I'm afraid I'm
going to die. But It is not on ac
count of the financial situation that
I'm sick; it Ib through disappoint
ment of my friends."
And he asked the doctor to help
him. After a few days of close
study, Dr. Biggar went to Mr.
Rockefeller with this prescription:
"Drop all business cares; take
regular exercise; keep in the open
air; forget everything but play, and
play as though your life depended
upon it." And his life did depend
upon It. Mr. Rockefeller carried
out the doctor's prescription and
dieted religiously. When ho went
East he was a new John D. Rocke
feller. "A few years after, we were talk
ing of his recovery," said the doc
tor. "Rockefeller said to me, 'Doc
tor, do you know how much it cost
me to get well?' I told him, of
course, I didn't. 'Well, doctor.' he
said, it cost me Just $3,000,000. I
lost that much by dropping busi
ness.' "
BATTLES IN THE AIR NEAR BEING REALIZED
The Hague Peace Congress Discusses Rules
to Govern the Use of Airships
in the Next Great War.
The Forecast Now Rea'izable.
For I dipt iDto the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world, and till the wouder that w ould be
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails.
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shoutiug. and there rained a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappliog in the central blue;
Far along the world whisper of the southwind rushing warm
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm,
Till the war drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furl'l
In the parliament of man, the Federation of the World.
(Tennyson Lockslcy's Hall.)
military airships and will restrlat
them to certain fields of action.
The commission dealing with hu
manitarian usage In warfare - met
the other day to frame regulations
for balloons and other aerial ad
juncts of warfare. Russia, Belgium
and Italy had proposals which were
formulated eventuallv by Count
Tornlelli as follows:
"Any balloons used for destruc
tive purposes In warfare should be
dirigible and be named by regular
military crews."
The vote on the proposal stood 8
to 6 In favor of It. Eleven delegates
abstained from votinn- .',.,.. ..,
of people, to be duplicated In the ; ed the objectors, maintaining that
me oest course would be to simply
aPPly the rules already existing on
bombardment and the use of mines
Germany Bhatod In this view.
A second proposal forbidding the
dropping of projectiles on undefend
ed towns and villages or the dis
charge of deleterious gases thereon,
but permitting the dropping of pro
Jectiles over regularly beleaguered
garrisons, was carried by a vote of
30 to i. There were three absten
tions Nine delegates were absent
which means that they had received
no Instructions from their governments.
Paris (By Cable) Now that
Prime Minister Clemenceau and
General Plcquart, the Minister of
War have been riding around in
the new military airship Patrle, one
realizes that the dreams of Juleb
Verne have been realized and that
the poetic prophesy of Tennyson
written many years ago of "airy
navies dropping a ghastly dew" up
on (he earth below will soon be a
matter of fact and not a mere fig
ment of a poet's imagination.
To make the thing clear to those
at home, the recent maneuvers of
the military airships demonstrating
the fact that It can carry a number
roreign.
King Chulalongkorn t. of Siam is
to be the guest of the German Em
peror and Empress.
The police found a big bomb fac
tory In the Imperial technical schools
in Moscow
Baron Karl Llndeman, who said
he baw Olga Melltor shoot her moth
er, was arrested at Mannheim. Ger
many, ti the charge of blackmail.
Miss Katheiine Eddy was married
at the United States Embassy In
Berlin to Senator Beveiidge, of In
diana. The inau and woman arrested on
the charge of murdering Emma
Levin at Monte Carlo have been
identified as Vere and Violet Goold,
an English couple.
Herr iielnrlcb Ooniied, of the Me
tropolitan Opera Company, narrowly
escaped being mobbed when his au
tomobile killed a peasant near Las
cber, Switzerland.
Panic has been caused In Urumiut,
Persia, by the Turkish invasion
Vt nezuela notified the Belgian gov
ernment she will pay the disputed
Belgian claims or $2,000,000 In con
formity with the decision of The
Hague tribunal.
United States, would mean that Sec
retary Taft and Secretary Root would
find It both safe and feasible to go
for a sail around the Washington
Monument from the grounds of
Fort Meyer, beyond Georgetown, D
C. or that things were In such a
shape In the United States that
President Rooseveit would sail from
Oyster Bay to New York on one of
the War Department's new engines
of death.
The fact Is that the day of the
airship Is so assuredly at hand that
the Peace Conference at The Hague
will pass upon the regulation of
TRAIN WRECKED BY TORNADO
Lives Lost and a Village Is Swept
Away.
Mason City, la. (Special). Three
persons were killed nnd four In
jured and thousands of dollars dam
age was done through this section
of Iowa by a tornado. Shipping at
Clear Lake and many cottages were
destroyed. A half dozen barns and
four bouses, near Rockwell, were de
molished and the roof was blown
from the Catholic Church at Rock
well. A special dispatch from Albert
Lea, Minn., half way across the
south border of the state, ays that
a tornado 1b reported to have de
stroyed the village of Jolce, la.. In
Winnebago County, about 15 miles
southwest of Albert Lea. and one
known dead reported, while many
are Injured.
From Winona a special report
says that 20 or more buildings used
for manufacturing purposes and for
warehouses were unroofed. The
town was In darkness at night ow
ing to wires being down, and no
street cars were operated until late
In the day owing to the trolley wires
being down and the tracks being
blocked by fallen trees.
The damage wns done by a
straight blow. The rain came down
in blinding sheets, many sidewalks
In the business part of the city be
ing overflowed from the water which
ran over the curbing. Winona has
had several hard blows In the past,
but never any that lasted so long
as this, or which did so much dam
age. All wire communication east and
south has been cut off entirely since
the storm. Railroad traffic east of
there Is Btispenued owing to wash
outs. Green Bay 'passenger train No 6,
which left Winona at 5 o'clock P.
M., was wrecked by the wind about
three-quarters of a mllo east of
Winona. The train had been halted
on the main track, behind a dente
wall of willows, where it was hop
ed to escape the storm's, fury. Nev
ertheless, two coaches were picked
up by the wind, carried a distance
of eight feet and toppled over an
embankment.
St. Paul, Minn. The latest es
timates of the damage done by the
storm Increases the total of $100
000. Several hundred feet of track
of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad, north of Trempeleau. along
a high dike, was washed out to a
depth of 20 feet.
WILL MOBILIZE I
DIG PACIFIC FLEET
The Orders Said To Have Been
Issued.
A LARGE ARRAY OF WARSHIPS.
DEFY THE POLK IB,
Flags Kept Flying In Spite Of City
Ordinance.
Logansport, Ind. (Special) When
Corporal Murtaugh. of Indianapolis,
was placed in charge of the United
States marine recruiting station here
he hung out a United States flag
from a second story window. A city
ordinance prohibits banner? of any
description from being displayed
over streets, bo Chief of Police Gra
ham ordered Murtaugh to take down
the flag, and is alleged to have
threatened to haul it in himself.
Murtaugh, with a six-shooter, put
himself in the chief's way, telling
him to leave the flag alone or he
would be shot. Graham retired.
Civil War veterans endeavored to
gather a force to mob Graham.
An army recruiting office across
the street, In charge of Capt. Elijah
Martindalc, unfurled another flag as
a dare. Both offices remain in charge
of armed men, ready to shoot.
The police chief is a son of a O.
A. R. veteran. A report of the in
cident wbb telegraphed to the de
partment at Washington, which tele
graphed back an order to Murtaugh
to keep the flag flying. The mini
mum penalty for removing without
authority a flag hoisted in federal
Jurisdiction Is three years' Imprisonment.
OPERATED ON UNDER WRECK.
Brakeman's Leg Amputated While
Under Locomotive.
New York (Special). Pinned be
neath a locomotive, Charles Shud
ley, a brakeman on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
suffered the amputation of a leg
before he could be extricated from
under the engine, which had run
over him in the railroad yards fn
the Bronx. The operation was per
formed by an ambulance surgeon
without the use of anesthetics, and
frequently Shudley gave suggestions
to the surgeon during the operation.
When the operation was completed
and he was extricated from his peril
ous position he was taken to a hos
pital, where It is Baid he' may recover.
Dies At Age Of Hit.
Tifflln, Ohio (Special). Jefferson
Scott, the oldest man In Ohio, Is
dead at the Seneca County Infirm
ary. Certificates Issued under the
Beal of the State of North Carolina
show that S?ott was born on July
4, 1794, In Halifax County, that
State.
Earthquake Shocks.
Santiago, Chill (By Cable).
Earthquake shocks, prophesied In
ITniirnav Saturday, were felt Mon
day at Valparaiso. No damage Is
reported.
Trieste, Austro-Hungary. The in
i l . . . -r , r In the marine oh.-e rvatorv
recorded heavy earth shocks about
2.500 miles dlstuut. The beginning
of the disturbance was registered at
n Z9 9s o'clock. The maximum
shock was reported at 8.08.51. The
movement ceased at s.jd.js.
Three Dead In Wreck.
Raleigh. N. ' C, (Special). Two
bodies iu burning debris and one
body recovered from the wreck,
eleven freight ears burned, and
several passengers slightly Injured
are the results of a collision on the
Southern Railway nine miles east
of Raleigh. The wreck was caused
by a head-on collision between a
freight and a passenger train, due
to Engineer Rlppey and Conductor
Oakley, of the passenger train, over
looking their orders.
IN THfc, FINANCIAL WOKLU
The nla Iron marlioi ta a,.m
- - v m uuii i aj i
current business.
New low price record for the year
for Cambria Steel.
The shipping of copper bars to
Russia, which had been small of
late, Is being revived.
The directors of the Manhattan
Trust Security Co. have declared a
dividend of 2 per cent. This is
their seventh quarterly dividend
Blnce organization In 1906.
North Dakota will have heavy
crops, It is predieted, If frosts hold
off this fall.
The proposed visit of John Mit
chell to the anthracite section of the
State Is expected to rejuvenate tbe
Mine Workers' Union there which
had been weakened unmercifully by
the era of prosperity.
The better class of securities, both
railroads and Industrials, measured
by earning power, present and pros
pective, look choap. Measured by
vhe firmness In time money and Judi
cial and political uncertainties, the
situation U not ra cloar.
Four Trainmen Killed.
Dalton, Ga. (Special) Four train
men were killed and three seriously
Injured in a headon collision between
freight trains on the Western and
Atlantic ltailroad, one mile north of
here. Fireman Suddeth, who es
caped by Jumping, said that the col
lision was caused by the failure of
his train's crew to read tbelr order.
Plan Said to Comtrmplate Bringing
the Entire Asiatic Squadron Across
the Pacific, So That There Will Be a
Squadron of Sixteen Fighting Ship
O.T the ( a If hi n a Coast.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
Surprising revelations were made
through the disclosure of the hith
erto well-guarded plans of the ad
ministration to begin at once the
mobilization In Pacific Coast waters
of the most powerful cruiser fleet
ever assembled. Orders hsve been
Issued for almost tbe entire cruiser
strength ot the Asiatic squadron to
he brought across the Pacific. Two
new monster cruisers, the California
and South Dakota, will shortly be
ready for service; the St. Louts Is
now making her way up the west
coast, nnd the Wanhlngtnn and Ten
nessee will start out to Join them
before the close of Augm-t.
In accordance with the plans, tho
people of California will shortly
have the opportunity of viewing 16
modern nnd capable fighting ships,
eight of the world f biggest armored
cruisers and an equal number of
formidable protected cruisers be
fore Rear Admiral Evnns sails out
from Hampton Roads with his 16
monster battleships to Join them.
Admiral Dnyton In fommnnd.
This new Pacific fleet will be un
der the command of Rear Admiral
James H. Dayton, who will leave
Manila Bhortly with four of the
heavy armoured crulFers.
The plans promise to create al
most as much of a stir throughout
the world as the original announce
ment of the decision of the govern
ment to transfer the Altantic fleet
to the Pacific.
Officers of the Navy express the
opinion that the mobilization Is for
the purpose of defending tbe Pacific
Coast, should Japan resent the move
ment of Admiral Evans' fleet of bat
tleships. If Japan should see fit to strike
a sudden blow, the Pl.IIipplnes and
other Pacific Insular possession will
be left to her mercy, so far as the
Navy Is concerned, as It Is plainly
apparent the present force In the Far
East would not be sufficient to cope
with a formidable enemy. The
transfer of the Atlantic fleet to the
Pacific, of course, would leave the
eastern coast undefended, but it is
expected that Admiral Evans will
keep in constant communication b
wireless or cable with the Wash
ington authorities. The early mobi
lization of the Dayton fleet is ex
I pected to prevent a possible enemy
I sailing across the Pacific, and at no
! time will Admiral Evans be so far
away from the Atlantic Coast that
he could not turn about and arrive
in time for defense In case a hos
tile fleet were dispatched from the
Far East through the Suez.
Vessels In The Fleet.
The composition of the new Pacl
fic fleet will bo as follows:
First Division--First squadron,
under command of Rear Admiral
James H. Dayton:
West Virginia, 18 guns, 13,680
tons.
Colorado, 18 guns, 13,680 tons.
Maryland, 18 guns, 13,680 tons.
Pennsylvania, 18 guns, 13,680
tons.
Second division:
Tennessee, 20 guns, 14.500 tons.
Washington, 20 guns, 14,500 tons.
California. 18 guns, 13,680 tonB.
aouth Dakota, 18 guns, 31,680
tons.
..ird division:
St. Louis, 14 guns, 9,700 tons.
Charleston, 14 guns, 9,700 tons.
Milwaukee, 14 guns, 9,700 tons.
Chicago, 18 guns, 5,000 tons.
Fourth division:
Cincinnati, 11 guns, 31,123 tons.
Raleigh, 11 guns. 3,123 tons.
New Orleans, 10 guns, 3,430 tons.
Albany, 10 guns, 3,430 tons.
These plans will bring together off
fYic noDt t1 Pnltfnrtitfl hv I Ik , m!
oi liecemoer iuur uinsiuu:, wi iuui
vessels each, representing an aggre
gate of 159,360 tons and an aggre
gate of 250 guns of four Inches and
over. Admiral Evans' 16 battle
ships have an aggregate of 233,436
tons and a total number ot 356
guns of four inches and over.
Admiral Evuns' Ambition.
One of the reasons ascribed by
Navy Department oflicialB for the
moblllatlon of the two big fleets In
the Pacific is that it will give oppor
tunity for Admiral Evuns to realize
a desire he has cherished for a long
time to go through buttle tactics
with the largest possible force of
modern warships. This will give
him opportunity to see what the big
armored cruisera, which are larger
than any of the older battleships,
can do against the biggest war dogs
of today. Aside from this, the flo
tilla of torpedo craft which will
probably accompany the battleships,
agd the several submarines which
wfll be shipped acrosB, with the few
gunboats now on tho Pacific, will
make possible maneuvers of two big
fleets cruisers pitted agalnat bat
tleships to display properly the
qunlitleB of each type of vessel arma
ment and turret and gun arrangement.
Bitten Ily Child With Rabies.
Chicago (Special) While nursing
her dying son George, who was Buf
fering from rabies, the result ot a
dog bite, Mrs. Charles T. Davis, of
Danville, 111., was bitten in the chin
by the child a week ago, and Vance
D:'is, a brother, was bitten and
scratched about the face and hands.
They are now undergoing treatment
In Chicago. ' The child died In great
agony a few hours after Mrs. Davis
was bitten.
Nine Men Drowned
Koulgaberg. Prussia, (By Cable).
A boat accident on the River
1'iegel resulted in tho drowniug of
nine meu, all members of tho engi
neer corps of the army. The boat,
with 17 engineers on board, was be
ing towed by a steamer, when ft
turned over. Eight succeeded in
reaching tho shore. The men who
lost their lives ware all good swim
mers, but the current waa too strong
for thou.
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.
James Clscle, who was doorkeep
er at the White House for 30 years,
Is dead.
The first meeting of the new
Philippine Assembly will be held
October 16.
Mrs. Nancy Miller wbb released
from Columbus Penitentiary, whore
she was serving a 10-year sentence
for murder.
Honduras has decided to return
to a constitutional form of govern
ment after September 15 next.
The general strike lu the build-I--
ir-des In Washington has been
ordered.
.tiinibter Russell has been directed
to again urge President Castro to
agree to refer the disputed Ameri
can claims to The Hague tribunal.
First Lieutenant Georgo A. P.
Trumbo, Twelfth Cavalry, was sen
tenced by court martial to be repri
manded on the chariie of conduct to
tho prejudice of good order and mil
itary discipline.
COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review of Trade and Latest
Market Reoorti
R. G. Dun A Co's Weekly Review
of Trade Bays:
Jobbing trade In fall and winter
goods Is active at the leading cities,
country merchants being In large at
tendance and operating freely as a
rule. Retail sales of seasonable
merchandise arc liberal, although at
some points customary midsummer
quiet Is noted. While payments are
somewhat Irregular, mercantile col
lections show distinct Improvement
on the whole. A few labor disputes
ore pending, but there Is little In-1
terruptlon lu tho leading industries,
most manufacturing plants working
full time and holding orders that
promise continued activity. Com
modity prices are lower, especially
In rases where speculative Inflation
existed. New business In the Iron
and steel Industry Is light and some
quotations of pig Iron are lower,
but wire and wire products have be
come firmer, and many steel mills
are sold well Into next year.
Textile mills are well occupied, ex
cept where the strike has Interrupt
ed the silk Industry in Pennsylvania.
The cotton goods situation Is feature
less, as might be expected after the
extensive purchases of the past few
months and the process of assimila
tion Is In order.
Wholesale Markets.
Baltimore. Wheat Southern
was He. lower early on grnde lots,
but later recovered the 4c Prime
Southern In good demand. Sales of
several cargoes on grade at 88c. for
special bin No. 2 red, 874 for stock
No. 2 red. 81 for special bin
steamer No. 2 red, 80 4 for stock
steamer No. 2 red, 75 Vs for special
bin rejected, 72 for stock reject
ed and 68 ty for rejected to go
through the drier. Small bag lots
sold at 60 to S3c. per bn by sam
ple, brought. 60. 66, 70. 74, 75, 76,
77. 78. 80, 82 and 83c. as to qua
lity and condition.
The market for Wesforn opened
steadier. Spot and August, 87 Vic;
No. 2 red Western, 90 Vi; September,
88.
Corn Western opened dull; spot
and August. 59;c; September, 61.
There was some iittle inquiry for
spot, and offerings were backward,
but the demand wrs easily satisfied.
Sales 3 cars yellow (domeBtlc), in
levator, 64c; car spot, 69: 4,500
bu. do., 594; 5,000 No. 2 white
spot, 59; 20,000 No. 2 white spot,
60; car mixed spot (Hess dried),
59 ; car Bt earner mixed, spot, 55 Vi.
Oats We quote: White No. 2.
68c. snlee; No. 3, 577i57Vi; No.
4, 54 (3 55. Mixed No. 2, 55
65 Vic; No. 3, 54g54Vi; No. 4, 53
63Vi.
Butter Creamery separator, 24
25Vic.; Imitation, 2021.
Cheese The market was steady.
Jobbing prices were: New, per lb.,
14 15c
Eggs Maryland. Pennsylvania
and nearby firsts. IS Vic; Western
firsts, 18'Vi; West Virginia firsts,
18; Southern firsts, 10 to 17.
Guinea eggs, 8 (ft 9c.
Live Poultry Chickens Old
hens, heavy, per lb., 14c; do., small,
14; old roosters, each, 25 30;
spring chickens, large, per lb.. 17;
do., small, 17. Ducks. Puddle, large,
per lb., lie; do., small, 10; mus
covey and mongrel, 10; muscovey
drakes, each. 30 40; white Peklngs,
per lb., 11; spring, 3 lbs. and over,
per lb., 12.
New York. Wheat Spot steady;
No. 2 red, 93 c elevator; No. 2
red. 95' f. o. b afloat; No. 1
Northern Duluth, $1.06V f. o. b.,
afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 96.
Corn Receipts, 32,250 bu.; ex
ports, ,120,836; sales, 16,000 spot.
Spot firm; No. 2, 60c elevator and
60c. f. o. b., aflont; No. 2 white.
61 Vi: No. 2 yellow, C0 t. o. b.,
afloat.
, OatB RecelptB 61,500 bu.; spot
firm; mWcd. 2 6 ? ?. 2 lbs., 55c; na
tural white. 30&33 lba., 66 58:
clipped white, 36(40 lbs., 57 67.
Butter Creamery, common to
specials, 22S26Vic; process, com
mon to extra. 18(f) 22. Eggs firm;
State, Pennsylvania and nearby se
lected white, 27(8 28c; do., good to
choice, 24 26.
Philadelphia. Wheat firmer and
c higher; contract grade. Aug
ust, S7C'88V4c Corn firmer and
Vic higher; August, 59 & 59 Vic
Oats firm and In fair demand; No.
2 white, natural, 5858Vic.
Butter unchanged; extra Western
ciu-'amery, 25Vi(fj2Cc; extra nearby
prints, 28.
Eggs firm and In good demand;
Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts,
free cases, 20c at market; Pennsyl
vania and other nearby current re
ceipts in returnable cuses, 19 at
market: Western, free cases, choice,
JO at market; do., fair to good, 18
19 at market.
Live Stock.
Chicago. Cattle Market weak;
common to prime steers, $4.50
7.60; cows, $35; heifers, $3
5.50; bulls. $35; calves, 37.26;
stockers and feeders, $2.50B
Hogs Market for light hogs
steady; others 5 10c. lower; good
to prime heavy, $5.90 6; medium
to good heavy, 15.80 5.90; butch
erwelghts, $5.90 6.10; good to
prime mixed. $5.805.85; light
mixed, $61i6.10; packing, $5.40
C.76; pigs, $5.606.26; selected,
$6.20 6.25; bulk ot sales, $5.80
6.
Sheep Market strong; sheep,
$3.80 6.25; yearlings. $5.60 5.60;
lambs. $6.507.75.
Pittsburg, Pa. - Cattle Market
steady; choice, $(i.606.85; prime,
$6.30 6.50.
Hogs Market slow; prime heav
ies, $6.20(ii 0.25; medium. $6.4(i.'(i
6.45; heavy Yorkers. fO.i.0: light
Yorkers, $6.50 i 6.56; pigs, $6.55
6.60; roughs, $4.504.76.
Sheep Market slow; prime weth
ers, $5.505.60; culls and common,
$l'.o03.00; lambs, $5.007.50;
veal calves, $8.00.
KunBas City, Mo - Cattle Mar-
1 KtU HlCUUy IW ."u'lfii tllUIVU U1HUL
I and dressed beef steers, $6.25
I nr.. . I . . a mr i n r . nr.
. Iltll l" HOOU, Q ' I'" I . .
Western steers, $4.25 C. 10; stock
ers and feeders, $3.26 6.25.
Hogs Market upeuud 5c. lower;
closed strong; top $6.10; bulk of
sale's, $5.856.06; heavy, $5.76
b.5, puckers', $6.90 6.05; pigs
and lights, $5.906.10.
Working women lu tho fruit fields
Of California will henceforth work
only eight hours a day instead f
working from sunrise to sunso1, as
they have hitherto dune'.