;hrm workers. , a . w . Dd Of tne Detroit Meeting OI RhriRtian F.niln&vnrArs. unrwian uaeayorerg. , RY 8TJCCE88FUL CONVENTION, kit onclnnco At Meeting Exceeded the ;roit linthcrlnir In Honton-MeiMMMre I From Our I'ence CommUnlou and uniidn'K Governor (Jenoral. Detroit, July 11. The eighteenth In- rnattonal convention of Christian En- eavor closed last night amid scenes if impressive solemnity attending the . iterance of the last word oy tne j resident and secretary In each of the eat tents, respectively, following uiinnses from each state and country ' ,, mounted nnil lnut eihorlnt nils , . cm Methodist episcopal msnnp 1 incent, of Kansas, and Evangelist liapnian, of New York. Telegrams ind cablegrams were read In both pnta, the reading of a cablegram from Won. Andrew I). White, president of he American peace commissioners at Tho Hague, bringing out storms of ap plause. President's Clark cablegram to President White was as follows. "Twenty-eight thousand American and Canadian Christian Endeavorers now assembled In International con ven, Detroit, represent 2,600,000 en thusiastic for peace and arbitration. Great peace meeting held. All wish you godspeed." Messages were also sent to President McKinley, (lovernor General Mlnto of Canada and Queen Victoria. President White responded as follows: "American commission to the peace conference sends sincere thanks for message and congratulates you and all friends of peace upon the great success achieved providing for a permanent tribunal of arbitration." Mayor Druinmond, private secretary to the governor general of Canadu, Bent the following: "His excelleucy, the governor gen eral, desires me to express his warm est and most sincere thanks for your very kind and cordial message of good will to himself and the Dominion of Canada." At all previous meetings the audi ences assembled quietly, but last even ing for some time before the calling to order of the two great gatherings. Tents Endeavor and Willlston were babels of sounds and scenes. The state, provincial and foreign delega tions were grouped in designated bunches divided about equally between the two tents. Each had its own par ticular rally cry, and each delegation took pleasure In making It known to the extent of Its lung power. The delegations which were not shouting were singing. Music Conductor Fos ter Anally made himself heard without the aid of a megaphone, and all the voices were turned Into the Inspiring volumes of "Holy, Holy, Lord Ood Al mighty," with much Improved effect. The following statements as to at tendance, etc., was given out by Sec retary Baer: Without doubt the attendance at this convention has very much exceed ed that of any other Christian En deavor convention ever held In the matter of those present at the various meetings. This estimate takes into ac count the great convention at Boston In 1895. That Is to say, that out of the 28,000 Endeavorers registered, which is the estimate of the reception committee, and Includes Detroit mem bers, there have been more who attended meetings than at any previous times. The estimate of attendance at meetings gives a total of 298,600. There were 28,000 Endeavorers in attendance, including Detroit delegates, and 30, 600 persons simultaneously attended strictly Christian Endeavor meetings. These figures do not Include the 66 non-evangelistic meetings, which had a total attendance of 15,000, and 100 professed conversions. During a recess each member of the '99 committee was called out. They were told that the '99 convention had never been equalled as to program, presence of good speakers and large at tendance at meetings. Secretary Huer stated that although the attendance at Detroit was 28,000, as against 66,400 at Boston, the meetings In Detroit were attended by large numbers than were those at Boston. Chairman W. H. Strong, of the local rommlttse, responded appropriately to the compliments tendered before the two mighty audiences, and attributed the successes of the convention chiefly to Individual faithfulness. The score of white capped chairmen of local com mittees, stauding together, theu suug a stausa of "If Ever 1 Loved Thee, My Jesus, 'Tin Now." Oreat Britain's leading representa tives, Messrs. Treasldder and Mursell, of London, and Pollock, of Ulasgow, stood together and sang "Britain For Christ." Theu all saug slanius of "Ood Save the Queen" and "America." Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman preached the concluding sermon In Tent Endeavor, uid the closing address in Teut Willls luu was mude by Bishop John H. Vin cent, of the Methodist church. Now York's llowoy Hooeiitlon. New York. July 11. Plans for the Dewey celebration were outlined at a meeting of the committee ou plau and cope yesterday. It has beeu decided practically that there shall be a two day celebration, with both u laud and naval purude. Admiral Dewey will pass under a large triumphal arch to be constructed either In city Hall park ur Madlsou Square park, at u cost of 110,000. There will be two large civic floats lu the naval parade, oue typify ing Victory ami the other Peace. (ier inan singing societies will be luvlted lo All Ihese lluuls with their members to slug a hymn of welcome to the ad miral In the lower hay. V llh. I in der taruaao'a Mpoedy Trip. New York, July 11 The New York office of (he North Herman Lloyd Steamship coiupauy received a cable gram yesterday announcing that tho Kaiser Wllhulm der Orosse arrived at Cherbourg at 2:45 yesterday afternoon In the recurd breaking time of Ave days, 20 hours uud 58 minutes, having fassed the Sandy Hook lightship at 2:50 p. m. ou the 4th and covered a distance of 1.190 miles. Her average time was 22.62 knots, as against her best previous record of 22.56. CAPTAIN W ATKINS1 KRRO . tdtutts Reponltitttty Pr th Pari Wreck Two Vmii1 Nu-ien1on. jsw tora, juiy 11. me repuri v. captain Watklns of the stranding or ttt American Une steanuhip Paris tnu ajade pubUc yp3ter(Iny by tne local 'nard of steamhnnt Inspectors. Cflp- lain Watktns make no attempt to evade rcsponBllilllty Tor the accident, out gays frankly that the stranding of the ship was the result of an unaccountable error on his part. The accMo.it, ho nay., was uot due to any w... t of thotiKht or anxiety aliout his vessel, hut resulted from a mistake he made In calculating the position of the sh'p. Tho locnl Inspectors of steam vessels hnvn Rtisiiended Cantnln Watklns' 11- cenH n nter 0f ocean steamers for two yenrB, clement Acton Orlscom. Jr.. vice reHfint nnd general manager of the a i u.. u.,i.i n... ,:..,,t.. ,. I 1 1' 1 1 (111 1 1 11 , , nniii. " ' ..v. ..- - 11..1 nil m-ciiih a nine Dcvcte. viimi iuuii 1 In(,t .hlri). thrnueh what wns after- 1 wards proved their own carelessness, ! and only had their master's license . suspended for six months or a year at most. Personally we feel for Captain Watklns. He has heen half a century at ea without the slightest accident heforn, and It seems very hard upon him. I am very sorry It occurred, for his ssJte." Kncnl lCTploxlon of Turpentine. New York. July 11. Abraham Kln klesteln was probably fatally burned yesterdsy through the explosion of turpentine In his painters' supply and wall paper shop In this city, and his wife nnd son were burned to death. A tan of turpentine, that Flnklesteln was , using near a gas stove expionen mm bespattered htm with flame. Ills wlte seized him by the arm and dragged him Into the hall. It Is supposed thai they became confused there with the smoke and darkness anil that he hap- j pened to run in the right direction, while the woman went back nnd fell I at the foot of the stairs, where she and the child, to which she clung, were j burned. itieii oppcr Kind in Canada. Toronto, July 11. It Is announced that copper ore of almost Incredible J extent and richness has teen found In 1 the Perry sound district, within about I seven hours railway distance from To- I ronto. The discovery was due practl- j cally to an American mining expert 1 named Forbes, who has organized two companies, one composed entirely of St. Paul capitalists and the other com posed of Canadian unrt St. Paul men, which have secured nil the claims In the nelgborhoodand have commenced operations on an extensive scale. Teacher In a Wreck. 8tockton. Cal., July 11. A Burling ton speclsl train of nine coaches on the way from St. Louis to Los Angeles, loaded with teachers going to attend the National Education association convention at Los Angeles, crashed Into a freight train within 300 yards of the depot at Newman, Stanlslus county, yesterday, and two women were killed and thirteen passengers in jured. The dead are: Miss Addle Harris, St. Louis, and Mrs. Lena Ham mood, Seneca Falls, N. Y. Nearly all the injured reside In, St, Louis. ( Wanted, a Klondlker' Helm. Washington. July 11. United gtatee Consul McCook. at Dawson, under data of May 10, reports to the state depart ment the death in the hospital at Forty Mile City, Yukon Territory, about Feb. 1 last, of W. H. Sutton from over exertion and exhaustion, during a "stampede." The man's home ad dress Is supposed to be New York, and as he left a great deal of valuable property at Dawson and Forty Mile City the consul suggests that his rela tives come forward without delay. A Year Kor Crlititnnl libel. Santa Barbara. Cal.. July 11. Ada Addle Storke. the newspaper writer, was yesterday sentenced to one year in Jail for writing anonymous letters reflecting upon certain prominent peo ple. A motion for a new trial was de nied. She was rearrested later on a warrant sworn out by Attorney Jack Son, whom she tried to kill on Sun day. Judge Oster, In pronouncing sen tence, expressed himself as sorry that the law did not permit him to Impose a greater penalty. II to Aimer ('mixed II It Heath. Reading, Pa.. July 11. William M. Fulton, a contractor, aged 46 years, was out for a pleasure drive yesterday afternoon, accompanied by his wife, when he met Harvey Wltuien, aged 36. whom Fulton accused of lusultlug his wife receutly. Fulton Jumped from his carriage and began to give Witmen a beating. Wltiueu fled and Fulton pursued him for two blocks, when he (Fulton) suddenly dropped deud from heart disease. To htsMltl K-M luUtor I.e-hou. Paris, July 11.- It is rumored that as a result of the revelation of the lu 1 human cruelty practiced upon Dreyfus ! while on Devil's Islaud M. I. ebon, the ! ..iliilutur who WIM rUalKlllslhlu fol ItlO ..,.", - - orders sent to M tvuiel while lu churge of the penal settlement where Dreyfus was couflned, will be proceeded agalusl, the government uot coufiulug Its actiou to Suuday's dismissal of Deuiel. liul 1 until Jonoa Will Not Heattfu. New York, July 11. Bx-Uoveruor William H. Stone, of Missouri, who has been for some time the controlling agure lu tho Democratic national com- III I 1 I Ull uuid VKMlurilav that thel'u was ' . '.1. I.. , 1 . , I. ., flan.lnp UO IIUIU II uv IVfVlltt in. v James K. Joues, of Arkausas, lutends to reslgu the chairmanship of the com mittee aud that Seuator Martiu, of Virginia, is likely to succeed him. The Columbia Delcudci' Trial Trip. New York, July 11. Oliver 0. iselin said today that Columbia aud Defender will have their uuxt uicellug on. July 20. From that date they will race every day uutll oue of the bouts shall have wou three, lime. The course will he oft Newport. Adiuli'ul Co I-vo ni AcijuIIUhI. Madrid. July Admiral Cervera and the other comuiaudurs of the gUaUi.u lleet destroyed lu the battle ot Santiago, whose conduct has beeu ! tue BUbject of inquiry by special court I mttrttal. were yesterday uuqultted and J formally liberated. CASTELLMS TEE Is Declared to Be Bogus by tho Prince of Momco. PRINCE WILL NOT FIGHT A DUEL. Bnyx That ntellniie Is HeneHth Ilia Million, mid That the !. niter Han Axxtiiiifd the Title of Canal without Ilelnir Untitled to It. Paris, July 11 The Prince of Mo naco has declined to fight a duel with Count Hon I de Castellnne on account of the Prey f us case. In his reply to Castellane's challenge the Prince of Monaco openly gives as his reason for flie declination the fact that Castel- - - , , , liu , .,1 n iuuc 10 uruniui 111 He says that he has reason to be llevo that Castellane has assumed the title of count when he Is not entitled to It. Monaco says that under the cir cumstances the challenge from Castel lane Is an Impertinence and Is not en titled to notice. The challenge grew out of the active sympathy for Dreyfus and Mme. Drey fus on the part of tho Prince of Mo nuco, which greatly Incensed Cuatel- COVNT DE CASTELLANE lane. After Monaco had written Mme Dreyfus and Invited her husband to visit his palace the Royalist husband of Anna Gould sent an Insulting open letter to the prince. This being snub bed he sent a challenge, with the above result. The Siecle. one of the leading Drey fus organs, has taken the matter up and Is conducting a severe personal campaign against the count, whom it accuses of being a bogus count. It has announced its Intention of soon pub lishing a biography of Jay Gould, father of the countess. The Gazette de Franse publishes the report which the prefect of police pre- American student of Trinity Hall, tented to the government March 29 on Cambridge. the Orleanlst party. It says the League Thomas Ashworth, an ex-saloon of Patriots and the Anti-Semite Leagu . keeper of Philadelphia, was kicked to were In close relations with the Duke of 1 death and robbed by four young hood Orleans, who sent 5.000 francs to M turns, who were arrested. , . a 1 1. w . . 1 uerouieae ami large Bums 10 a. Altogether the Royalists are said to have expended 300 0M franc. In get - ting up the NeulUy barracks flssco. According to the same authority Count de Castellane also subsidized the move-1 t Professor Syveton. treasurer of the Leaeue of the French Fatherland, has been suspended from his duties at the College of Rhelms for attempts to In cite an anti-Dreyfus agitation at Ken nee. DEATH OF GRAND DUKE QEORQE. The ItiiMtan Royalist Who Might Have lie. . one Caar. St. Petersburg. July 11. Grand Duke .....,...,. 1 puil'u. , 1 f i. mmm r . 1 1 ... I u f the vicviiBir. .i.. v. Imperial palace in the Caucasus, where he had been residing on account of Us feeble health. He had beeu ill of coo- sumption ' . 1 many y In IMS lis. nil i ' 1 ee sor Leyiie j r UOUllitt. .. . tnalal i ii He wk ' '- ' ' tlUU i ' evil Wtteh, '' ' after r .. his title I . t . vor of hi '10 t h e r slh haul, who Is ao.v heir apparent. QKA3P Dl'KK OSOKUJC tl . wi be come czar unless a sou and heir should be born to the Emperor Nicholas. In the pine forests of the southern Cau casus Crand Duke George was visited and treated by noted specialists, but they could only relieve him temporari ly, and uever entertained a hope of his cure. Oeorge Alexaudrovitx was the sec ond son of the late Emperor Alexander 111. and was boru April 21. 1871. He was of delicate physique from the first. but he weut through the regular naval aud milltaiy training of Russian prlnces, and seemed to have acquired an average degree of health and .iMiwih when in accident developed a weakness of the chest. Auothor Auttlo-Krouch Suurl. St. John's, N. K , July 11 The co lonial authorities are understood to have been Informed that the report ol the royal commission of Inquiry into the Kreuch shore complications is wun- hold for tho present by the British colonial olUceis, because it so strongly endorses the case of New Koundlaud Q publication woulid provoke au- other Kaahoda difJiculty. Joseph Chamberlain, the Imperial secretary of state for the colonies, Is, nowever, ue lei mi ucd to force the French to abau dou their arrogaut pretensions on tho coast before auother seasou opens." ileum or V recked. All Hand HUVtMl. Halifax, N. 9., July 11. The steamer Portia, from New York for Halifax, eas wrecked during a deuse fog last evening ou Kllnu's Islaud, off Sambro, a point about 15 miles to the eastward of Halifax The pasaeugers and crew. 115 all told lauded ou the islaud lu v.,.,v, ,' .,1 u,u all comfort- ably housed there. No loss of life la reported. The steamer Is already full of water and a total wreck. The pas sengers, of whom there are 75, are muirlv all tourists. The steamer had a largo cargo for this port and 8t. John's. N. F. K WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Wednesday. .Inly fl. Queen Kiplotnnl, widow of King Kni ik.'iiinn. died in 1'onoiulu. aged 65. Cr.p;::l Horatio O Wright, a hero ni the elYll war, died In Washington, aged 79. The nrdtptlnn In Belgium agalnnt the electoral reform bill lias forced th KOYorur.icnt to withdraw the measure. The Fourth was loyally celebrated In our now poaMsalona, In Manila "merlc:" Wag sung by children of; BpMlfrda, Filipinos and Chinese lu a (iriot.'s mixture of dialects. Tuttpadayt .!uiv i. Blsifeop John P, Ntwm.tn, of the; Methodist church, died lu iew Yorl:, . H'aeii 73. The execution of Catlett L'pton, a , mardtrer, wes witnessed by his wife dd five ( bildrra at Chattanooga, Tenn. The American deviates at The Habile have succeeded In securing 1 vote which will create a special con farssM to consider private property at I sea In time of war. A cjelone neur Alnsworth, Neb., de stroyed several farm houses Mrs. , lK kmllle, who had escaped to her cel lar, went out ti save h r ton and was kilied. The son escaped. Friday, July 7. General Joe Wheeler has heen or- : drred for war duty in tho Philippines. ' Kohert Ilonner. the well known pub- 1 Usher of the New York Ledger, died In that city, aged 75. Mrs. May Wright Sewall wr.s chosen president of the International Women's Congress, succeeding the Countes of Aberdeen. In a triangular racp of V) miles sailed off Sandy Hook between the yachts Co lumbia and Defender, Columbia won by 3 mm 53 sec. An alleged plot of General Gomez to Invade Sun Domingo, kill Pres. dent. Heureaux and have himself proclaimed dictator is published in Havana. Ex-King Milan, while driving in Hel grade, was siiot and slighMy wounded in the back by an anarchist named Knezevic, who was captured. t ii rilu.v. duly s. The miners of the Blairsvllle, Pa., coal region have gone on strike. The Portuguese house of peera yes terday adopted the commercial con vention with the United States. Erall Smith has confessed that he ! and Slgmund Presche murdered Mar tin Meier, the wealthy Chicago recluse. ' Secretary Alger declares he has formed no alliance with Plngree and j has no intention of leaving the cabinet Head on collision between trolley cars near Akron. O., resulted In oni) dead, two fatally and five seriously ! hurt. In the Henley regatta the diamond sculls were won by B H. Howell, the ! Mnadav .Iiil 10. , tfMZTlZ Lake Erie' nr ! ,T7L " , " . . . , eleI1 ftn- of Trenton. I years I old, was bit by a kissing bug. Blood I P"lnlng ensued and the child died. I William Relnhard. his wife and live A snirutsnHva ,.it I a K aaMk. children went driving near Columbus O. All were killed by a truln except 14-year-old Clarence. By the explosion of a boiler on the Moran oil trsct, near Oil City. Pa.. James McCray was killed and John Turk seriously Injured. Major Edward M. Hayes, of the Fourth cavalry, succeeds Colonel Henry Wagner, retired. In command of that ,..,. .1 ! fm n cineo '- ' ,,,, A carriage containing William M. Diem and Miss Lizzie Preouesel was I sirucu vj a umu luai mini i uuuuiv. uwu I were instantly killed. Tsjeeslstf . July It. Charles Mall, for the past 3t) years Belgiau consul In New York, died In that city yesterduy Cuban bundlts kidnapped Oulterrez Cells, a rich spunlsh merchant of Sun Cristobal, aud are holding him for a ransom. A Pretoria iTransvaul) dispatch says live artillerymen were killed yesterday by the explosion of a powder maga zine lu Magatoland. The I'nlted States government has declined to arbitrate the Austria-Hungarian claim for duuiages for the deaths resulting In tho Lattlmer (Pu.) riots. Ueuerul Otis cables thui he has about 1,000 veteran volunteers for re-eullst-meut. They will form the uucleus for the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh I'nlted States volunteer Infantry. THK PRODUCE MARKETS AH uoflut.t4Hl bv UvmIInkh in Phllndol lililuuiid Itulttmoro- Philadelphia, July 10, Flour low; win- bar superfine. 163.21; Pennsylvania roller, tlear, .t'iu.26; elty mills, extra, tt.'ibm"). ijre Hour quiet and unchanged at S2.963 1 ior barrel for choice Pennsylvania, Wheat uulvt: No. 3 red, spot, in eleva tor, 7lfe744e. Corn steady. No. 2 nnx.-d, spot, III elevutor, MOWtc; No. 3 yellow, fur local trade, lie. Oats eulet; No. 2 white, 3U4c. , No. t while, 1 lipped, 31c. Bay III 111, choice timothy. $17 for large ; bales. Heef mm, family. &.."oulo.50; beef riaros, Kit.WtiM. Fork arm; mess, Wnis.L'n family. 111.13. Lard Steady; western steamed, ti.50. flutter quiet and steady, western creamery, UQWsO.; da factory. l.'-.i I l.c. . Imitation creamery, U9MC. . New York dairy, 13H17c. . do. creamery. lity lSVfcc. : Pennsylvania prints ut 31w34c. do wholesale. He, Hgss irregular. New York and PeniiH.vlvanla, KeaGc. . wet orn. frush. USdil&Stc. Baltimore, July 10,-Flour quiet; west ern superllne, I3.2&U2. U; do. extra, U to(t 1.90, do. family, i..uJ. o. winter wheal, patent) t3.76nt3.90; spring wheat, patent, $3,9044.); spring wheat, straight, lA'SH 3.60. Wheat firm; spot and July. 74y MMo.1 August, Hfc0741ec.: September. ;' 76c. : steumer No. 3 red, 704c.; south ern, by sample. iWa7V. . no. on graue. 71.11 75c. Corn firmer, spot and July. u 3inc.; August, 3sit38Vke. : September, 384 (uMVic; steamer mixed. 3Vl3iic. ; south- urn. white. 41j4Hkc; do. vollow. IJ04M4C. Ut uulet: No. 2 white, :t3w324hc. : No. 1 mixed, 3030Vic. Rye firm. No. 3 nearby, KM.; No. 3 western, ttc. Hay dull. No. 1 timothy. US- Oruln freights very mm, transaction fair; steam to Liverpool per bushel. 3d. August; Cork, for ordors, pat quarter. 3s. 3U.t3s. cd. July. t. iu.u3s. 01 i A'tgusL Eggs dull ut U&Uu. .1 6nfforings of Our Soldiers in the Philippine Islands. TERRORS OF THE RAINY SEASON. In Muny Qsjses)tbO Men Are Mccptna With Three Feet oT Vntcr llciieiith Their Kuril. Anticipated surrender of Fill pi no Leader Full to. Muter lulls Manila, July 10. It has been raining nnd storming almost eoiidtiuitly for two days, and the country along the American, south and bay lines is lit erally flooded. The soldiers are suf fering great discomfort. The Thirteenth Infantry regiment, at Pasay. Is In the worst position, being practically sur rounded by water. The bridges that were used for getting BUpllSS have been washed away, and some of the com panies are now separated by sin-inn slz feet deep. In many cases th" men are sleeping with three feet of water beneath their bunks, Which are ele vated on cracker boxes. The com pany cooks, when preparing the meals, stand knee deep in water. Some of the roads leading to Pasay are simply Impassable, and the rice fields on all sides are one gre ;i lake A high wind blow over ....ral tents of the Second Reserve hospital. Manila bay Is Impossible of naviga tion by either launches or canoes, and no vessels are leaving the harbor The I'nlted Stale.', transport Centen nial Is ready to sail for San Francisco with discharged soldiers, but the lat ter have to sit around the water front all day. dreni tied to the skin, waiting for a launch lo take them to th j steamer. The River Pasig and all other streams are swollen, and the city streets at low points are covered with water. Friendly Filipinos In Manila have heen the medium of comrtunimtloni between the American authorities and the military leaders of the Insurrection in Csvite province, wh'ch for some time promised to result In I, rinsing over a prominent general and several hundred of his followers, .'!i their arms. If the negotiations h 1 lucceed ed the outcome would have had a great moral effect, for other defections doubtless would have followed Were the general's name given It might lead In his case to a fate similar to that which has befallen other Filipino suspected of friendliness toward the Americans. He had foreseen the fail ure of the Insurrection and advise 1 Agulnaido to make terms, hut It is understood that he has sent word to the Americans that, having aworn to support the insurrection, he must re main loyal to the end. Similar negotiations .ire said, on good authority, to have been conduct ed wtth a member of the cabinet of the so-called Filipino government, who himself took the initiative. Some form of money consideration figured in the discussions with his friends. 0ENERAL WOOD ON DUTY. Will Make VlfXfiroiiH Ftiitit ASStfSSM sunttnito'H Yellow Fcvir; Santiago de Cuba, July 11. -General Leonard Wood, the military governor, returned yesterday from the United States and immediately began vigor ous action to stamp out the yellow fever He finds the situation more serious than lie had anticipated. To day headquarters were moved to Son go. 20 miles north on the railroad. 1 point about 1,000 feet above sea level, as well as all the administrative de part sieiits. except the sanitary and a few immune clerks in the quartermas ter's and the commissary stairs. The paymaster has been ordered lo suspend all payments to t!ie Cuban troops intil the fever has been stamped out, tho special object of the order being to prevent tho toldlers from drinking lunag the epidemic. rerrlble Kxplimlou of Uaaollne. Washington. July 8, Mrs. Marguerite Dicktns, wife of Captain K w Dickins, assistant chief of the bureau of navi gation, met with a horrible death at her residence at 1434 Nineteenth street yesterduy. Mrs. Dicklns was sprink ling rugs with gasoline, preparatory l putting them away for the summer, when Joseph Vaughan, a plumber, and his assistant entered the room from the roof, where they hud beeu inuking repairs. The lighted metal pot they carried, coming in contact with 'he fumes of the gasoline, caused 1 ter rible explosion. Vaughan and Ins helper were badly burned In B futile attempt to savu Mrs. Dickina. Daui ige to the house amounts to &,l)0U. American Vtcior.v at The lluauo. The Hague. July 8.- The third com inlttee, sitting at the Huis Ten Bosch, discussed the scheme for the mediation and arbitration convention drawn up by the eouiite d'examen. Many of tho delegates huve only beeu acquainted with the proposals since Thursday, ami they ha-ve not had time to consult their governments. Consequently it was de cided that when the committee ad journed yesterduy it will be until July 17, lu order to allow the delegates a week lu which to consult their gov ernments and receive final instruc tions. The committee's report, which carries tho arbitration points presum ed by the American delegates, was uuauiuiously sustained. l.tliia'H slii.voi'H Acquitted. Manila, July 8. The trial at Ca banatuau of the slayers of General Luna, the Filipino loader, who was as sassinated by the guard of Agulnaldo s residence, is ended. The accused were acqulttud on tho ground of self defeuse. The testlmouy showed thoru was a con spiracy on tho part of Luna aud other officers to kill Aguinaldo and make Luua dictator. Luna's death seems to have strengthened Aguiualdos leadership for the time. Luua s sup portore are now outwardly loyal lo Agulnaido. President I'IuuI'm Sucruiir. New York, July 11. At a meeting of the board of directors of the South ern SxptudS 'ompauy held yesterday M 1 tVHrlnn was elected nroriiilunt to aiic.ee, I i he lute Httni'v H. Plant. Mr. O'Brien was formerly vice president and geuuial uiauaeor of tho comyaujr. ITEMS OF STATE NEWS. Wllkesbsrre. July II Michael Mallsr .nd his sons William and Michael were iruahed by s fall of rosl in No. 6 col liery of the Pennsylvania Coal com pany at Plttaton last night. The younger Mirhaei was killed and the father and other son seriously Injured. Harrisburg. July 11. Ralph Bing ham, aged 14 years, died last evening of lockjaw at his home In this city. While playing with some companions last Tuesday a firecracker exploded in Bingham's hand and burned It silent ly. Lockjaw set In Sunday, and lout evening the boy died. Harrisburg, July 11. --Albert Smith, colored, was banged here today for poisoning his Wife, There were no relig ious services on the scaffold, this be ing Smith's desire. His paramour. An nie Wlns'on, who poisoned her hus band, is serving 20 years In the ieni tentlary. Altoona, Pa.. July IV -Five ; u wer injured, two fatally, by an explo sion of gas In the Loughman mines, at Ehrenfeld, yesterday. They are H-irv Hoyer, .lames Hoyer, David Wa. Joseph Wallace and friaries KcCl SO Henry Hoyer and his son James, aged 18, died at the hospital. The ex plosion was due to a defective iuiuy. carried by Henry Hoyer. Philadelphia. July S. A special meeting of the Atlantic Base Ball League was held at the Hotel Han over here yesterday The situation that confronted the league through the disbandment of the Peterson dub was discussed, and the Scranton franchise was declared forfeited and the PatST SOn club dropped, the circuit thus being reduced to six clubs. The Richmond club was awarded the championship. A new schedule was prepared for , seoiiid series aud a new championship, the season to begin July lu and 1 lose Sept. 10. AUentown. Pa., July 10. Charles X. Knauss. aged IS, shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Edwin Dtefenderfer, 26- ye i j id, Saturday midnight, thenshot nd instantly killed himself in KnauasV father's paint shop, to winch KnaoM hrd called Mrs. Dtefenderfer. They hi ii been Intimate for two years. Mrs. I lefetiderfer .vas trying t;i bre:!i, up Knauss1 infat tatlon and refused to eli.te with him. which made him ! perate. Knauss was single Mrs. Dieftfnderfer haj a husband and two luldren. one of whom is sick with scarlet fever. Philadelphia. July S. Thomas Ash w irth, 411 years, a former saloonkeeper, and lately a I'nlted Has Improvement eoi pany employe, was picked up dead from the pavement In front of MM V.. i, using avenue shortly before Th irsd ty midnight. Ashworth was at tacked by four drunken young men and kick"'1 into insensfhility. Their names are Elmer Wilson. John Kennedy. Al bert Kelly and John Daly. They are under arrest, and Ashworth's watch was found in Kelly's possession. It in asserted that the gang went through Ashworths pockets as he lay pros trate. Shamokln. Pa., July 11. A special policeman of the Philadelphia and, Reading railway yesterday arrested Arthur and Henry Heumnger, Richard Weikel. George Grter. Raymond Brtghtblll and Phrom Troutmau fur ' tampering with the wires of a signal switch at the Herndon branch of the Philadelphia and Reading company, two miles west of this place. The ageu 1 of the prisoners range from 14 to IT 1 years. Several of the boys confessed that they wanted to wreck a passenger tnun. A lirakemau observed them U their dastardly work, anu a wreck 'vas thus averted. Wllkesharre. Pa.. July 8. It now 1 looks as though 'he strike of I. Too em ployes of 'he Lehigh Valley Coal com ! pany would be short lived. A commit ' tee of the striking Tiiners waited on General Superintendent Lathrop v- terdsy to ascertain if some compromise- could not lie agreed upon, superin tendent Ltthrop said the company would Insist on 'he use of safety lumps, and 'hat there could he DO OOmpromlSO ou thut point. The committee report- ' ed the remilt ot their visit to a ineet 1 Ing of the strikers, and many of tun I latter signified their mention of re turning to work. Pottsvllle, Pa., July 11. An attempt was made last night to wreck 1 Phil udeiplnu and Rending passenger rain neur here, loaded with jiasseugers 'rom this place. Kuskle McKuskiS, ug"d S. William AUOHUI and Robert Kvuns, 7 years old, of Gilberton, were arrested chained with the crime. They wsrs arraigned !efor- Alderman McCooi and pluced under heavy bail. It is churned that they placed 1 heavy brake slum and heel, weighing about 150 pounds, ou the track it a place where thu rail road embankment was very high, but the front wheels of thu locomotivti pushed the ibetTUCtlOO away. Philadelphia, July 8.--A prominent olttcittl close to i'residoul . J. Caasalt, of thu Pennsylvania railroad, denied the published statement that the Penn sylvania and the New York Ceultal railroads had entered a compact by which the two systems had practically become uue. To a reporter he said: "Thu story is too absurd to receive auy consideration. There has never been any thought of consolidating the two systems. The statement is simply a re hash of a story published some time ago. The New York Central Is prac tically a family railroad owued by ih VuudurbiltB, while there are JU.'Wd stockholder iu the Pennsylvania rail road. ' Pittsburg, July 10. Clenwood, suburb of this city, was throwu teti big excitement last night by the threatened lynching of a uegro name Uaniul Scott. Scott, with three com panlous. went to mill worker's HsSt near Hay's Station, w!Kre a game of "craps" was soon suited with several of tbu mill uieu. Scott lost hU all on a throw, grabbed the uiouey and ran with the crowd at his heels. Patrick Murto caught up to him and demand ed the money Scott pulled his revol ver and fired at M irto. the ball grailux bis shoulder and knocking him to th ground without real Injury. Scott wasv captured, aud Murto s compaulo-i . thinking he had been murdered, want ed to lyuch the uegro. Before the po- lla arrived Scott had been used fnr looioail oy me crowu. anu woo u au. Wokiug object. 1 1 IF 1 wmwmimiim'ttm
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