IRE UNABLE TO FILL BIG ORDERS FOR COAL leading Company Declines Large Foreign Contract. HOME DEMANDS ARE TOO GREAT. The Shortage in All Grades of Coal De clared to Re Increasing Daily -Scarci. ty of Labor at the Mines One of the Principal Causes - Western Railroads Anxious. The News Philadelphia I Special). Because of Us inability to All tbo order, the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company wag compelled to de cline a contract for 100,000 tons of mnthraclte, the order for which was tendered by a representative of the A-ttstro-Hungarlan Chamber of Com merce. The proposed pnrchaser was willing to pay the regular price for facing the coal on board vc el eACber here or In New York. Another order for 200.000 tons of Mtumlous coal wanted by the Italian government is also being offered to Che largest soft-coal operators of the United Statea, with little prospect of tta being taken because of the great ttpmsH in delivering It to the Italian destination designated. Other for eign orders have been offered to American operators with lack of suc- The great demand for coal by for eign governments Is attributed to I the Increased amount of coal con- sumed by their naval vessels, the . number of which has grown rapidly j within the last two years. All native I coal being used for this purpose and the supply Is not equal to the de smmd. Added to this la the coal re paired for other government Insti tutions, as -well as for Industrial con sumption. An officer of the Reading Company explained that his company was com pelled to decline all such orders be eanse of the great demand for coal among customers In this count:;- and Because of the scarcity of labor at the collieries. The same conditions confronted every other anthracite company, as well as all bituminous operators, he -said. It was further explained that the shortage of all grade'.-, of con! i- in. r isly and many Western railroads are now much disturbed concerning their sup plies for the coming winter. Men who formerly worked In th:' mines are seeking employment In less dangerous lines of business. Many nave abandoned mining as a means Of livelihood and have turned to fanning In Western States. For eigners who formerly came to the United States to tako up mining now took employment In other fields of labor. EIGHT KURT IN AUTO CRASH Carl Hanna, Grandson of Late Senator, Was at the Wheel. New York (Special). Eight per sons were Injured when Carl H. Hanna, IS years old. and a grandson of the lato United States Senator Mark Hanna, drove an automobile carrying a party of seven and run ning 40 miles an hour Into a slow moving flsh wagon containing three men, In Ocean Avenue. Sea Bright, at 1 o'clock A. M. It ll said that the automobile carried no headlight, and the wagon, who was moving in tho same direction, was not seen un til it was within 20 feet. Cyril Car mlchael, lit years old, son ol Thomas Oarmichael. banker at 52 William Street, Her York., was hurled 25 feet In the air. Two ribs were bro ken and he was otherwise hurt. Carl Hanna was pinned under the tearing gear as'.tbe car struck a ditch on the opposite side of the road after It had described an arc and turned a somersault from the force Of the Impact. He was seriously hurt. Miss L. Sergas' arm was wrenched and her clothes were torn. Her father was more seriously in jured. Wallace Robertson, brother of George iio'.iertson, who drove a ear In the Vanderbilt cup race, sprained his arms anil one wrist and was bad ly cut and bruised. Daniel Horner, a fish dealer of Seabrtght, who was driving the wagon, wa.; hurled many feet in the air, and badly hurt. Willi.; Horner, son of Daniel. v;u- thrown 30 feet and landed in Bt Pi ;er's Churchyard The machine was demolished. Domestic A boiler 911 the coal barge Pater son, which usually plies between New York and Boston, exploded at Lang's Docks. In Hoboken, killing six men. After three weeks' rest on a farm under athletic treatment, the health of Secretary of State Root has been COO) plt 17 restored. Spreading rails raused a wreck on the Louisville and Nashville Rail road, In which 1 person was killed and 12 Injured. .lohn F. Gaynor. the contractor, convicted of complicity in the Savan nah harbor frauds, is critically ill. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad has been fined 120,000 for rebating. Evander Mclver, a wealthy con tractor, of Chicago, was found mur dered In a basement. The American ship John Currier rau on an unchartered rock In th Pacific. Two persons were killed and three Injured in a fight at a Kentucky fair. Congressman Theodore E. Burton, chairman of the Inland Waterways Commission, has announced the plans for the coming inspection of the organization. Secretary Taft declares the Solid South Is a ghost of 40 years ago, and that the South should take a part in the councils of the nation. The forty-first annual conference of the I'nlversal Peace Conference was begun at Mystic, Ct. The ministers of Coffeyvllle, Kan., have announced a union scale for conducting funerals. One man was killed and eight were Injured in a railroad wreck at Hagerstown, Ind. Much damage has been done by forest fires In the Adirondacks. Severe frosts are reported through out the Canadian Northwest. Dr. Ellphalet Wright died at Pitts field. Mass. W. L. Seddon, director of works of tho Jamestown Exposition, has re signed, to take efTect at once. The direction of works will be turned over to W. M. Dixon, assistant to Director Barr. The suit to secure an accounting of the property of Mts Mary Baker (1. Eddy, instituted by relatives of the leader of Christian Science, has been withdrawn by the plaintiffs. Ezra Meeker, who drove an ox team across the continent, has been told that he cunnot drive through the streets of New York. Street railway officials were ar rested and fined in Los Angeles for disobeying a city ordinance requir ing fenders on street cars. The condition of Secretary Taft's mother is said to be hopeful. It Is said that reports of her illness have been exaggerated. A crank who had a hundred tele grams addressed to President Roose velt or King Edward was arrested in New York. A runaway trolley car plunged through tho walls of a tenement In New Y'ork, creating a panic in the building. Burglars robbed the cottage of A. Howard Hlnkel, of Cincinnati, of $5,000 worth of Jewelry. The Portland Trust and Savings Bank of Portland, Ore., has closed Its doors. Former Justice Mcl.achlan. of Cranesville. N. Y., a recluse, was worth $100,000. The McKlnley Monument at Can ton, O., will be dedicated Septem ber 30. "WALTZ ME AROUND AGAIN, WILLIE." f5 -Week's cleverest cartoon, by Macnuley, in the New York World. Foreign. Quelch, the English delegate, or dered to leave Wurtenburg for re ferring to The Hague Peace Confer ence as a "thieves' supper," was giv en a great sendoff by the Socialistic Congress. Fearing a general mutiny in the navy ami army, tne itusstan govern ment is making a thorough inspec tion of all forts and ships. The German authorities are close ly watching Russia since receiving 'hi' news of the spread of cholera In Explosion Occurs in the House of a EOR THE COURT 0E AROITARTION Text ot the American Proposition Completed. GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN. They Are in the Agreement With the United States for Carrying Out the Plan- The Court to Consist of Seventeen Judges- Provision for a Special Tribunal. The Nation's Capilal The Hague (By Cable). The text of the American proposition for the establishment of a permanent court of arbitration has been completed, In agreement with Germany and Great Britain, and will come up for discussion this week. it consists of 26 articles. The first article records the desire of the signatory powers to organize an "international high court of justice, easily acces sible and free of charge, with judges representing the various systems of laws of the world, and capable of insuring a continuation of arbitra tion by Jurisprudence.'' The second provides that the judges must be "Jurisconsults of known competence in international law, selected bo far as possible from the members of the permanent court of arbitration." According to the third and fourth articles the judges are appointable for terms of 12 years, and will enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities while exercising their functions. Article five provides that the court shall consist of 17 judges, 9 form ing a quorum can, If necessary, try cases elsewhere than at The Hague. Article eight says thnt the presi dent of the court shall be elected every three years by a mujorlty of j the votes. Article nine deals with the pay- j ' ment of the judges. The amounts are not fixed, out the proposal con templates a fixed yearly salary, be sides special remuneration when en gaged in Cases, and traveling ex penses. Article 10 forbids Judges from re ceiving remuneration from their own or other governments for services In connection with the high court. Article 11 says that the court shall sit at The Hague, except in cases of force majeure and the special in stances provided for by Article 7. Article 14 states that the high court Bhull sit one or twice yearly, in July and January. Article 18 provides that "each par ty shall be entitled to have Its own judge to participate In the trial of cases submitted to the court. If a special tribunal acts as a commis sion of inquiry even a person not connected with the court can par ticipate In a trial." Article 25 proposes the ratifica tion of the convention at The Hague as quickly as possible. Article 26 proposes to establish the duration of the convention, but the term Is not yet fixed. Any sig natory power is entitled to denounce the convention by notifying the Dutch government two years before the ex-1 piry of each period, but the conven- i tion remains intact for the other powers. President Nelidoff has informally j interview the presidents of tho com mittees on the advisability of post-1 Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. Members of the Congressional Ap propriations Committee will visit Panama to consult with the canal officials concerning the amount to be appropriated for next yearte work. Brigadier Genernl Allen, chief sig nal officer, in his annual report urges B considerable strengthening ot the nrm of the service In his charge. Congressman Sereno Payne, chair man of the House Ways and Means Committee, says there will be no re vision of the tariff in the next Con gress. The I'nlted States has recognized the provisional government set up In Honduras by Manuel Dovlla as presi dent of the de facto government. Cncle Sam's bill for maintaining the American army of pacification In Cuba during the last fiscal vear was $2,554,970. The American delegates to The Hague Peace Conference will Insist on their proposition regarding gen eral arbitration. I'nder the law the President is authorized to grant the request of the Isthmian Canal Commission for permission to create a deficiency of $8, 000, 000 during the current fiscal year to meet the requirements of the engineer department for an en larged scale of operations. The State Department will take a vigorous stand in the case of Dr. Hlrsch, who has been denied admit tance to the Russian Empire. It Is the belief in national politi cal circles that Congress In its next session will not enact any of the radical measures proposed by Presi dent Roosevelt because that body In a presidential election year never does anything except pass the ap propriation Kills. General Grcely In his annual re port gives Interesting information as to the attitude of large firms and corporations toward employes who are members of the state mllltln. The hid of the Maryland Dredging and Constructing Company for dredg ing the Potomac and Anacostla Riv ers near Washington has been ac cepted. President Gompers says the fed eration will bring n counter suit against the National Manufacturers' Association, charging conspiracy. Postmaster McElroy, of the Na tional House of Representatives, Is dead at the age of 75. Reduction of 1 Per Cent, on Pre- (erred Stock. PRESIDENT FINLEY EXPLAINS IT. Says Directors Considered That Under Existing Conditions of High Prices of Suppliesand I ahnr, of Increasing! ax esand Legislative Redaction of Revenue-. It Was Deemed Prudent. New Y'ork (Special). The direc tors of the Southern Railway Com pany cut the semiannual dividend on the preferred stock of the company from 2 H to 1 V4 per cent. President Finley made the follow ing announcement: "At a meeting of the board of di rectors of the Southern Railway Company the income account and re sults of operations for the fiscal year enej'ed June 30, last, were considered. A tllvicb nd of 1 Vs per cent, was de clared on the preferred stock out of COMMERCIAL COLOAM " Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reoorts. New York. R. O. Dun ft Co.'s weekly review of trndo says: Jobbing markets nrc well attended by interior buyers and country mer chants, who operate with great free dom considering the financial strin gency, which has compelled the post ponement of much contemplated structural work. Yet many Western and Southern jltles report building operations in excess of last year's, and ns the harvests progress there is more disposition to lnereass pre parations for future needs. Retail stocks have been depleted by the customary bargain sales, and pre parations for fall and winter trade Indicate confidence In continued ac tivity. At most domestic points there Is no complaint regarding collections, btit reports from Canada indicate many requests for renewals. Lead ing Industrial plants are well occu pied, many mills having output sold far Into 1908. inquiry for pig iron has Improved, chiefly for small lots and prompt de- t. rt v lHh Zo ; i 1,very. Consumers of Bessemer Iron tal dividend distributed of 4 percent. . . . ,,,, ,., , ,,, for the year. Fcr this purpose there was appropriated a portion of the i lurplnl Income carried forward from i the year ended June BO, 190(1. after payment of dividends for that year. "In taking this action the dlrec- ' tors were influenced by the consider- I atloti that the income account for the year reflects such abnormal and extraordinary conditions as may not reasonably be expected to recur. At the same time the directors consid ered that under existing conditions I of high prices of supplies, material I and labor, of Increasing takes, and I legislative reduction of revenues. II Was the part of conservative pru dence to limit the distribution of the profits of the company, at least un til the permanent effects of such con ditions can be fairly measured." As a result, of the announcement Southern prelerred sold off from 5'.' to 53, where it closed on sale" of 1,000 shares. The common stock held fairly strong, declining three quarters of a point, to 15. The reduction of the dividend to this basis Is assumed to have been made on the advice ol J. P. Morgan. who got back from Europe on Wed- j uesday, The Income amount for tho year I ended June 30, 1907, gives the fol I lowing figures: Gross earnings, $50 057,994, an increase over last yea 58 ; No. 4, 56 067 being notably urgent for quick ship ment. But scarcely any can be had earlier than October. In most sec tions of the Iron and steel Industry conditions are normally more quiet nt thin time than any other month of the year, and the moderate decrease In new business of late has received more attention than the circum stances Warranted 'because of the phenomenally active period preced ing. Wholesale Markets. Baltimore. -Wheat Southern in good demand and firmer. Cargoes on grade sold at 91 'fcc. for speclul bin No. 2 red, 91 for stock No. 2 red, 86'4 for special bin steamer No 2 red, 84 V4 for stock steamer No. 2 red. Western closed lower; spot and August, 91 (& 9 1 4c.; No. 2 red Western, 93 14; September, 91 91 . Corn -Spot and August, 81440..! September, 62A; year, 6714. The. market was neglected and prices eased off, being 4c. lower at mid day, except year, which was fraction ally firmer. Sales 5.000 year, 58c. Oats We quote old crop oats: White No. 2, 8HO; tyfc 3 (heavy). 81081 til No. : (light), MttffOO; No. 4. 580 68H. Mixed No. 2, BVOfiffta.! No. 3, 58' ponlng the discussion of tho propos ed permanent court of arbitration Until the meeting of the neict con- i Anicie seven proviaes mat me ference, recommending the powers high court yearly shall appoint three I In the meanwhile st.idv the n,,oc. judges, with three substitutes, con- tion. No decision In the matter hns i suiuuug a special trnmnai, wmcn I yet been arrived at A PLOT 10 BLOW UP KING CARLOS Bomb Explosion Brings to Light a Conspiracy. THIRTY POLITICIANS ARE ARRESTED. DEATH FROM CAT'S BTTK. Mi- Rachel D. Barry leffers Prom Hydrophobia, Long Branch. N, .1 i Special). Mrs Rachel D. Barry, widow of Amos C. Parry, who was bitten By a cat seven week- ago at her Batontonn boulevard home, died a Tictini of hydrophobia. She was dy ing for eight bonis. Her spasms were so severe that she had to be strappt d In bed. Mrs. Bar ry was 46 years old and the daugh ter of the late John Cullom. of Ox ford, Pa. She leaves five childi a daughter and four sons. Pun. no i t 'unul I- unci Short. Panama (By Cable!.- Lack of funds Is chocking canal work. Four thousand men have been laid off on the new Hue of the Panama itallroad, and it is stated thnt the department of municipal engineering has he-en ordered to lay off 1,080 more. A re duction In the clerical force Is also looked for The excavation for Au gust will show big Increase over July. Can Pieservo Ice. Rhlnelander, Wis. (Special). J. II. Darrow, connected with the paper that, country. King Charles of Koumaniu granted amnesty to all who were Implicated In the recent agrarian revolt. General Caffarel, who was Involv ed In the French decoration contract scandals, is dead in Paris. The bandit chief Kalsuli has de feated the large force sent against him by the Sultan of Morocco. Negotiations are in progress for an extradition treaty between the I'nited States and Spain. Frances von Bredow, daughter of Senator Nowlands, of Nevada, died in Berlin. She was the wife of Lieu tenant von Bredow, formerly an at tache of the German Embassy at Washington. A woman delegate from India caused a sensation in the Interna tional Socialist Congress at Stuttgart by a fiery speech, in which she pir- ! tured the distress in her country. j Mutiny is spreading among the Czar's Siberian troops, and in a fight between the mutineers and I nuA-un.Ann 10 . i. r ...... n i niiai n i ue i iitr iui iiici ri : killed and 35 wounded. Twenty-seven persons were killed and nearly 50 injured in an encount er between peasants and Hungarian soldiers In Herzegovlnla. A rate war has broken out be tween the Cunard and the Germoji lines involving cabin passages be tween Hamburg and New York. A British shipbuilding firm has been awarded a contract, supposedly by Russia, for several battleships, cruisers and gunboats. During the last year Russian fron tier guards made 11,600 arrests, seizing altogether $65,000 worth of smuggled goods. I MUlai tiang, wno was proclaimed mills here, says he has discovered i sultan of Morocco, Is marching upon la a waste product of the mills a I Casablanca with 15.000 tribesmen preparation which will preserve ice , Indefinitely The compound. It is said, can be manufactured at a cost of 47 cents for 1.000 gallons. House keepers, with this preparation in hand, sen buy a cake of Ice, coat it and have no need to trouble the ice men again all summer. Htolen Mail Pouches. Chicago (Special). Postofllee In spector Kimball declared, after In vestigating the recent theft of two mall pouches on a Chicago. Burling ton and Quiucy train, that the stolen poaches contained matter sent to points east of Chicago. lie said that if $250,000 had been ien it asust have been currency sent from the Denver banks to New York. The Inspector doubted that such an amount had been taken. A converted Jew who shouted for the new sultan during prayers in the grand mosque was terribly beaten. A plot to assassinate King Carlos and Premie-r Franco of Portugal was discovered by the premature explo sion of a bomb in the house of a student suspected ot being a leader of the conspiracy. Cholera has broken out among the natives In Shanghai and several Europeans have succumbed to the disease. Some 30 Oermans are reported killed and many wnuuded In a fight with the Hottentots, In which the Herman were defeated. The i'nited States Immigration CoiiiiiiisKloners found 30 per ti nt, of the population or Syria uffllcled with Egyptian eye disease. The situation In Morocco Is becom ing more serious, the entire country being aroused by the fanatical move ment for a holy war. Medical Student, Who Is Suspected of Being the Leader of the Con spiracyTwo Persons Killed and Two Fatally Injured. Lisbon, Portugal (By Cable). An extensive plot to assassinate King Carlos and Premier Franco was dis covered through the explosion of a bomb in the tenement district of the city Two persons were killed and two fatally injured by the ex plosion. The affair has caused iu teenso excitement. As a result of the police discoveries 80 Republicans have been arrested. They were taken secretly aboard the cruiser Adamastor in the Tagus River, where they ire now confined. Jose Bettencourt, a medical stu dent, is declared by the police to have been the leader of the conspiracy. It was In his room that the explos ion occurred and he was making bombs at the time. The 30 prisoners will be given a secret trial, and it is predicted all will be exiled to Timour. THE FRENCH MOW DOWN THE MOORS An Advance Turned Into a Hasty Flight GERMANY WATCHINgTtHE FRENCH. When a Heavy Fog, Under Which the Moors Were Moving; Upon Casa blanca, Suddenly Lifts the French Batteries Ashore and Afloat Pour Into Them a Deadly Fire. Purls (By Cable). Vice Admiral Phillhert, commanding the French j naval forces off Casablanca, tele- I graphs that while the Moors were advancing on the French Camp, near Casablanca, under the cover of a fog, the fog lifted and permitted the French batteries ashore and afloat to shell the Moors with deadlv effect. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon Gen eral Drude had moved forward his field guns to a ridge, situated about four miles from the camp, whence he shelled the Moors, who were then in full (light eastward. Admiral Phlllbert reported that the situation elsewhere was practi cally unchanged. The report that Mulal Hafig. brother of the Sultan, hud been pro claimed sultan Is confirmed. Associated Fraternity. Buffalo, N. Y. (Speclul). -The As sociated Fraternities ot Amerlcu elected officers, as follows: T. B. Hanley. Des Moines, president; W. E. Futch Cleveland, vice president; and 0, H. Robinson, Washington, D. C, secretary and treasurer und man ager of the publicity bureau. s t ,01111.0110 Diamond For Mug. Pretoria, Transvaal (By Cable). In accordance with the resolution in troduced by Premier Botha the Transvaal Assembly, by 42 to 19 voles, authorized the Government to purchase the Culllnan diamond, (he largest In the world, and valued ut $1,000,000. This great gem will be presented to King Edward in token of the loyalty and appreciation of the people of (he Transvaal for the bestowal of a constitution on the colony. The Htliinilz mil Out. San Francisco (Special) State Supreme Court rendered a de cision In the McKlnney salary case, sustaining the legality or the remov al of Mayor Schinltz and the appoint ment of Mayor Taylor. I .. -1 Isluiicl Found g.nu. Honolulu. The Island of Lay bun has not disappeared, as report ed recently by the captain of the schooner Olsen. The Island was visited August lb by the U. 8. tug Iroquois, en route here from Guam. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Atchison has placed orders for 23, 000 tons of steel rails. There was an advance In nearly ull foreign government bonds. "Ltttie Investors, but no big ones, are buying stock," said a leading in vestment banker. Philadelphia & West Chester Trac tion Company will begin hauling light freight and express packages next month. It Is estimated that the four big electric manufacturing compunles will in 1007 earn $197,000,000. a gain of $111.1100,000 over last yer. Of this amount General Electric la credited with $7,000,000. Morgan's home coining was not celebrated with any fireworks in the stock market, There Is much c urios ity, however, as to what he will do now after his long tbsence from the United Statea. 'Very little is heard these, daya of the formerly predicted retirement of President Corey, of Unite (I Stater. Steel. For the Hist seven monihs of this year the Pan Handle.- operating revenue increased $2,0ss,s93 and the net Income increased $4 17,21)2. The six gieat Pacific railroads Atchison, Southern, Union. Northern. Canadian and the Great Northern earned gross the last fiscal Ma.' $492,000,000. The Pennsylvania alone will have earued in Its cm -rent fiscal year about $31 o,000,00S. That gives an Idea of lis relative big-MM, NECK BROKEN BY DENTIST. Man Walks To Hospital After T00G1 Is Pulled And Dies Week Later. Chicago (Special). George Davis, thirty-eight years of age, died in the county hospital of what was diag nosed by the physicians as a broken neck. Davis came to the hospital about one week ago complaining of a pain in his neck. His right arm was par alyzed, and the day following his ar rival he was attneked with severe pains in the spinal column. He told the physicians at the hospital thnt he had gone to a dentist to have a tooth extracted. The tooth was diffi cult to extract, and Davis said that the dentist had jerked him severely It Is believed by the physicians thnt tho dentist dislocated a part of the spinal column lu the neck by his Jerk. Mnn Killed By Bear. Ogden, Utah (Special). Word reached Ogden that James Chapman, g passenger engineer on the Union Pacific Railroad, was killed by a bear near Evanston. Wyo.. his home. fhumiixn was with n ntirlv ftf ri-lno eamnitts out. He wnnciei-e,! im I from the camp. His dead body was found In a thicket. His face and neck lincl been clawed by the bear, and-death had resulted from the sev ering of an artery In the neck. Nohe I Prize For KIpllUg, Stockholm (By Cable).- The Tid ningen says It has good authority for stating that Samuel L. Clemens 1 Mark Twain I having been suggested and rejected. Rudyard Kipling has been designated as the winner of the ; Nobel literary Prize this year. Loudon. Mr. Kipling wos asked to confirm or deny the story from ! Stockholm. He replied ihat he had 1 not been notified of the award. Boat Upsets; Four Drown. Sacramento, Cal. (Special). Thrco persons were drowned here when a 1 duckboat capsized 111 the Sacramenio I River. A fourth victim was added to the list when Manuel (ireggi was pulled beneath the water by two women after he had plunged to res cue the three persons whoso boat had overturned. Three l'all 8,000 Feet. Berne, Switzerland (By Cable),--The 'fate of three German tourists, who had been missing on the Jung Frau since last Thursday, was clear ed up, when guides discovered their dead bodies on a glacier below Rotthl-Suttal. They had fallen a distance of 2,000 feet. Islands Shaken lly lOai'tliiju like. St. Thomas, D. W. 1. (Special). -A sharp earthquuke was felt on tbo Ulaudv of Guadeloupe and Dominica. Several strong shocks have been re ported from the Island of St. Lucia this week. Japanese Sketch Porta, , Atlanta, Ga. (Special). Two Jap anese were discovered, It Is said, in the rear of Fort McPherson taking views and ske' cites of the buildings snd grounds. A former enlisted man. uhu said ho observed the Jap anese, after talking with them, told the story of the occurrence to the officers of (he Department of the Oulf. Tho officers of the department say no action will bo taken unless other discoveries arc made. Make Haul At Bur Harbor. Bar Harbor, Me. (Special) Burg lars got into (he cottngo of A. How Hid Hinkle, of Cincinnati, here, while the family "us at dinner, and si cured Jewelry valued at ISOOu or $.(,01 6, Daft ; operating expense . 44,(199,282, an increase of $4,92(1, 1 4:i : nt oarnios, lt1.B58.71I, n decrease of $1,909,587; total income, $1 3.7.87,993, a decreasa of $i,fic,9. 4.18; balance applicable for dividend after payment of fixed charges. $2 -290,321, B decrease of $2. 938, 744. BIG FLEET SAILS IN DECEMBER Plans Of The Cruise To The Pacific Determined, Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special). The? Atlantic battleship fleet will start for the Pacific next December, according to an official statement issued by Sec retary Loeb at the direction of Presi dent Roosevelt. The statement wa.e made following a conference between the President and representatives of the Navy Department. It follows- "A conference between President. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry, Rear Admiral Brownson, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, and Rear Admiral Evan.; commander of the Atlantic, fleet, wa held to decide some of the details in connection with the lleets going lo the Pacific. The fleet will consist of 1G battleships und will start some time in December, going through the Straits of Magellan and up to Bin Francisco, and will probably also visit Pugent Sound. The question of the route by which It will return has not yet been decided. The de stroyer fleet will leave for the Pa cific about the same time as the bat tleship fleet, but will not accompany it." HOUSES BLOWN DOWN. Beveral Porsons Injured Around Johnstown, Pa. Johnstown, Pa. 1 Special). A storm that approached the dlmer sloni of a cyclone did great damage In Somerset. County. One woman sustained seriOttl In juries, and In the vicinity of Bbsweil. near here, n path ."00 yards wide and a mile long v.us swept by a terrific- Wind. Houses and barns we:e destroysdsond growing crops levele d. . Mrs, Dnvld Peterson vu3 probably fatally Injured when her home WM blown down. The tracks of the Pittsburg, West moreland and Somerset Railroad were wushed away In a number of places, tying UP the road. KILLED BY TRN.Wi 'K WIPE, He Fired Al Her First, Hut Her Aim Was Truer. Mount Sterling. Kj . (8peclal). Alcln Thomas, 70 years old. a farm er, was shot and killed by Mrs. Katie Brumot, the 20-year-old, wife of Abe Brumet. another fuiiner. Butte r - Separator, 2.". ft 2a ; Imitation. 20 cjt 21. Cheese Jobbing prices are: New, per lb., 144 Q 14 c. Eggs Market firm under steady demand and moderate receipts ot choice fresh-gathered stock. We quote, per dozen, loss off; Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby, firsts, 20c; Western, firsts. 20; West Virginia, firsts, 19; Southern, firsts, 17 18; guinea eggs, 9 10. New York. - Wheat Spot market easy; No. 2 red, 95 14c, elevator; No. 2 red, 9r. f. o. b., afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth, 109 Hi afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 97, f. o. bt, afloat. Corn -Spot eaB.v; No. 2, !4c. ele vatOT, and 634, f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 white. 65, and No. 2 yellow, 06 V4, f. o. b., afloat. Option market was without transactions, closing (a C. net lower. September closed 65c; December closed 04; May clos ed 63. Oats- Spot strong; mixed, 26 32 lbs., 62c: natural white, 30 35 lbs., 66(?t67: clipped white, 36 40 lbs., 66 Ms 0 ! Butter firm, unchanged; receipts, 6,940 pkgs. Cheese firm; receipts, 2,982 boxes; state, full c renin, small, colored and white, fine, 12c; do., good, 12'4 eei 12; do., ordinary, 11 12; do., large, "colored, fine, 12; do., white, 12; do., ordinary to good,- 11K12; skims, 10rnl0. Eggs firm; re eipts. 7,383 cases; Western flrstF, lSQSOc; seconds, 1 7 Vi f 1 8 V Philadelphia. Wheal unchanged; contract grade. August, 9()(ft90,4c Corn firm; August, SOVsOOlC. Oats lc higher; No. 2 white, natural, 63 068140. Butter firm: extra Western cream ery, I6tyc.; extra nearby prints, 28. Eggs firm; Pennsylvania and oth er nearby firsts, free esses, 21c, at mark; do., current receipts, natural, returnable cases, 20, at mark. Live poultry steady; fowls, 140 1 4 Mi ; spring chickens, 15 17; ducks, 11043, Live Stock. Chicago. Cattle Common to nrlme steers. $4.2007.60; cows. $;(.20i! 4.60; heifers. $3i( 5.35; bulls, 12,60 0 6; calves, $307.60; stoekeiu and feeders. $2.50 5. Hogs -Market steudy to 5c lower; c hoice heavy shipping. $5.30 5.90; light butchers', $5.9 5 (a 6. 1 0 ; light mixed, $5.85 (i 6.05 ; choice light, 16.1006.20; packing. $5.15f( 5.76; pigs. K. 6006,16! bulk of sales, $6.60 Q 5.90. S h e e p Market steady; sheep, $3.80(ii 6.66; yearlings, $5.75 ifi 6.85; lambs, $6 7.50. Kansas City. C a 1 1 1 e -Market steady. Native steers, $541 7.10; Brumet was a tenant of Thomae g SouUlel.u Hteel.a. $3.2504.66; South ond they had a disagreement. While 1 ,ra ,.OWH, uu 8.s5; imUve cows and Hi unlet was away from home, Thon as shot nt Mrs. Brumet three times. heifers, $2. 25 lit 6; stockers and feed- 11 s t mi i.'iii . skins an- .me bullet crazing her head See rot 1 ' $4 g 50 . Westem steers'. 1 revolver and fired at Thomas five times, one bullet piercing the brain. The young woman l-i about to be come a mother nnd is in a critical condition. Thomas leaves a family. Mrs. Brumot la highly respected. .lap Prime German FuotgiiimL ' Berlin (By Cable), Prince Kl-1 utyosbl Ki.nl, of Japan, has been ad-' mltted to serve la the Second Hegl- j ment of the German Imperial Foot-1 guards. Gasoline Kills Three. Warsaw, lud. (Bpeciuli. In a I gasoline stovo explosion Charles Webster and wife und their two-year-old child wen- burned to death I at. tholr home near Warsaw. Mrs. Webster lighted the fire. then, the 1 tank exploded. The liquid wss thrown over her and the child. As ! Webster iried to rescue tnein his 1 clothes caught fire and he was over- I come. The throo charred bodies were found in the debris. Cholera Spreading In Russia. Berlin (Dy Cable). The Prussian 1 authorities aro wv.tchlng with con- I slderablo concern the news Indicat- I lug that epoloia ij spreading in Rut sia. Tho litest report Hint (lis I hus appearod on a confluent $4 5.80; Western cows. $2.50 4. Hogs Market steady to weak. Bulk of sales, $5.75 5. 90; heavy, $5.65i5.80; packers. $5.705.95; pigs and light, $5.85 ODDS AND ENDS. The date for the dedication or the Me-Km hv Monument, at Buffalo, N. Y., hat- been fixed for September 5. Germany needs 1,000,000 horses for her army on a war basis. This Is more than any oilier nation of (he world. The African possessions of tre French government amount to 3, 805.000 square miles, and those of Great Britain 2.714,000, Including Egypt. George H. Worthlngteiii, of Cleve land, O., has a stamp collection that experts estimate is worth $300,000. It Is estlmaleel that tho gfeg 0l land In Koreu which can profitably be put under'cottou Is capable of producing about 13U.000.000 po inds of ginned cotton annually. The lack of railroad transput alio! has been the main cause of koopinc Ihe btate of HinaloH from taking her ot the inula Inteiiulllos the feeliug 01 an.-.ui- nere. ;inci uie auiii n nies iu,.ltl,, ,. f i,.,ii have oicle -d a ,tr., t snnl aiy Inspec- I largest slates of Mexico. ,1 l aving tlgnj Of al vessels and rafts nterl 35.000 square miles ut splendid Prmu-la.i ; end wry by lheVlutula, 1 farming land and thousands of ri-h S.u.ed boars' evidently made hst ""developed mines, rally of n ioin - (--- -
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