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REEF DRAWING NEAR MAFEKING.
WAR’ S EN END NEAR.
Free Staters Surrendering—Lord Roberls’
Forces Receiving Rifles Faster Than a
Factory Could Turn Them Out.
The news from South Africa Monday
is entirely satisfactorily to the British
public. The relief of Mafeking is not
ret announced, but it is extremely prob-
able that this is already accomplished
by Col. Plumer's advance. The actual
relief movements have not been public-
y developed in detail. but it seems that
org Methuen only started very
recently and is rather engaged in dis-
versing the Boers oi the district than
aiming at actual relief. The officer
commanding at Belmont reports that
some deserters have come in with a
Maxim. a ninc-pounder and another
gun. Another nine-pounder has been
brought into Colesberg. The cavalry
Srigade has gone to Thaba Nchu in or-
der to reassure the inhabitants of that
district and to distribute copies of the
proclamation to the people of the Free
State. These proclamations are being
:agerly sought after.
We are getting rifles surrendered
faster than a factory could turn them
out. It is quite certain that if a British
official can reach the northern laagers
with Lord Roberts’ proclamation the
whole Boer population will declare for
peace. el
Events have occurred which induce
some to predict that the war will last
only so long as it takes to march to
Pretoria. The educated Boers, even
the Transvaalers are ready to accept
the inevitable. J
It is reported that a corps of 2,000
women have been formed at Pretoria.
[t is called the Amazon corps. All the
members are uniformed in kilts and are
armed. .
Lord Roberts probably ascertained
from Mr. Fraser, the new mayor ot
Bloemfontein, before dispatching Gen.
Pole-Carew southward that, in all like
ihood, the railway was clear. The next
move will be to collect at Bloemfontein,
by railway, sufficient stores for the im-
mense army Lord Roberts will have
when the Orange river forces have
oined him. This will probably occupy
from two to three weeks. Therefore
the next important operations may be
expected in Natal.
The cavalry brigade which Lord Rob-
erts has sent to Thaba Nchu, 35 miles
east of Bloemfontein, is destined to cut
off some 2,000 Boers who are escaping
from the southward.
According to reports there are 14,000
Boers with 20 guns in the Biggarsberg
range. They will have to be caught
The British troops are
and the feeling is gen-
will be per-
sooner or later.
anxious to try,
eral that before long they
mitted to do so. o
A dispatch from Ladysmith, dated
Sunday, says: Our advanced camp is
on Sundays river, two miles north of
Elandslaagte. The Boers hold two po-
sitions on the Biggarsberg range, about
10 miles north. The strongest is on the
New Castle road. where several guns
have already been mounted and where
they are digging extensive trenches
The second position, which is on the
Dundee road is not so strong.
A dispatch from President Kruger
says: “The burghers will only cease
fighting with death. Our forces are re-
turning in good order to our lines of de-
fense ou our own soil. The Natal
campaign was longer in our favor than
we expected. The British will never
reach Pretoria. The burghers, Steyn,
Joubert and myself, as well as all the
others, are united. There are no dif-
ferences. God help us.”
STARVATION IN PUERTO RICO.
Suffering Inhabitants Ready to Agree to Any
Legislation That Affords Speedy Relief.
Governor General Davis has received
petitions for work and food from 6o
county women who marched from Nar-
anjito to find relief from starvation.
The women presented a most pitiable
sight. They were barefooted and rag-
ged, half nake dust-covered and
weary from their ‘journey. Some of
them were lame: all were discouraged.
The petition which they presented to
the governor general tells the story of
the depressing times; no work, and the
price of rice, beans and bread beyond
reach, fruits destroyed and the relief
supply discontinued, bringing them and
others where ther came from almost
to starvation.
Gen. Davis promised relief to the
party and requested the mayor to pro-
vide transportation. His reply was that
there was not a peso in the treasury and
that the police were yet unpaid for their
last two month's work. The party of
women dispersed quietly, some retracing
their steps afoot, others begging casier
conveyances to Naranjito, which is 20
miles from San Juan, a portion of the
road being almost impassable. Similar
parties are expected from other towns.
The feeling of uncertainty regarding
the tariff holds business practically at
a standstill, the merchants being afraid
to order goods or to adv ance funds on
the ras accounts.
‘he merchants here will be satisfied
to accept any deécision of Congress,
either free trade, the 25 or 15 per cent.
ta¥®f, but they ask for a seftlement of
the question, so that business activity
may be resumed
EXPANSION IN WEST INDIES.
Our Government Will Buy the Danish Islands
for a Reasonable Price.
The purpose of the government to ac-
quire the island of St. Thomas for a
reasonable consideration from Den-
mark, has not been abandoned, notwith-
standing the statements attributed to
the Danish ministers not to part with
the island. It is believed that the last
announcement is only evidence of a pur-
pose on the part of the Danish authori-
ties to secure a higher price for the
island than the United States had re-
garded as proper. It is probable that
no active effort will be made by our
government to hasten the negotiations,
but having learned that the finances of
the island showed a deficit last year of
$75,000, in spite of the most rigid econ-
omy in the administration, a sum charg-
ed up against the home government, it
is believed that our terms will ultimate-
ly be accepted. if reduced to a con-
crete proposition to pay $3,000,000 for
St. Thomas and St. Cruz.
FOUGHT WITH YAQUIS.
Americans Wer2 Killed by Mexicans During
a Battle.
George W. Vaughn, superintendent
of a mining company at Lower Sonora,
Mex., says that just at this time the
Yaqui Indians are quiet and Mexican
soldiers are also quiet. Vaughn re-
ports that a young American prospec-
tor named Bostwick, who for months
has been a prisoner in the hands of
the Yaquis, has been released and that
he returned to Hermosilla last Tuesday.
Bostwick said the Indians have no
idea of surrendering. They are wel
armed and number not more than 2,000
Bostwick was not mistreated by the In-
dians and did not know why he was
released. He was simply led to the
outskirts of the camp and told to go.
Vaughn says Gen. Torres is friendly to
Americans, and that the only two Amer-
Mexican
icans killed by soldiers, were
fighting with the Indians and were
slain during a battle.
The s on the Academy of Music.
the leading theatre of Quebec, destroy-
ed by fire Sunday morning, was $Ro.
000. and the St. Louis hotel, adjoin
ing, was damaged to the extent oi
$30,000.
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LATEST NEWS NOTES.
On the Jack's Wade creek, Klondike,
some dirt has assayed $3 to $5 of gold
per bucket.
A colony of 400 Missouri farmers is
to be established in the Coucho River
Valley, Mexico.
Sunday the Port Gibson (Miss.) com-
press. in which was stored 2,000 bales
of cotton, was burned.
Governor General Leary, of the island
of Guam, has issued a proclamation do-
ing away with slavery.
Secretary Root leit Havana Saturday
for Charleston, where he will inspect
the new fortifications.
The unveiling of the Vance statue at
Raleigh, N. C., has been postponed
from May 20 to July 4.
A strike by union machinists of Cleve-
land is imminent. Employers refuse to
consider a nine-hour day.
The Armstrong Steel Works, at
Flint. Mich., were burned Wednesday,
the loss being $150.000.
3razil will close her ports to Argen-
tine vessels on account of reported bu-
bonic plague in Argentina.
The National Steel Company's steel
and bar mills at New Castle, Pa, re-
sumed operations Thursday.
King Menelik, of Abyssinia, is threat-
ening to seize Italian provinces in Af-
rica and a war is imminent.
The total number of deaths at Kim-
berley during the seige was 1,076, of
which 600 were caused by disease.
The Joliet (Ill.) Limestone Company
has gone into the hands of a receiver.
The liabilities are estimated at $400,000.
The Oil Well Supply Company's
plant on Second avenue, Pittsburg,
was damaged by fire to the extent of
$60,000.
The Senate commerce committee has
reported favorably a bill to change the
name of the steamer Paris to the Phila-
delphia.
Webster Davis, assistant secretary of
the Interior, arrived at Naples on his
return from South Africa and sailed for
New York.
The Illinois Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion has begun a movement, by resolu-
tion and petition, for the repeal of the
war revenue law.
Kansas will have a big exposition in
1904, in celebration of the fiftieth anni-
versary of the organization of the ter-
ritory of Kansas.
The Prince of Wales is growing more
like his mother and is now looked
upon by Englishmen as promising to
make a good king.
M. IL. Harbeson,
late William Goebel,
Kenton county, Ky.,
in the State Senate.
Applications for the exchange of old
bonds for the new two were made Sat-
urday to the treasury department to the
aggregate of $27,000,000.
Lady Roberts and her two daughters
left England to join Lord Roberts in
South Africa and were given a popular
demonstration in London.
Mexico's grand canal, part of the val-
law partner of the
has been elected in
to succeed Goebel
ley of Mexico drainage system, was in-
augurated Saturday with grand cere-
monies in the City of Mexico.
The pope sent a message to Irish
Catholics in America with his benedic-
tion and expressing the hope that the
Irish race may live in peace.
The will of Isaac Gordon, the no-
torious money lender of London, has
not been found. Scathing obituaries of
him are published by the papers.
At a meeting in Dublin the lord may-
or presiding, a committee was appoint-
ed to fittingly receive the queen and
€1,400 was subscribed for decorations.
The war department is preparing ad-
vertisements for bids for five addition-
al buildings to be at once erected at
Egmont Key, commanding Tampa
bay.
Mrs. Ida M. Law, wife of F. W.
Law. of Pittsburg, Pa., strangled her
baby while temporarily insane. Four
years ago she cut the throat of another
baby.
J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York,
has announced the closing of the Brit-
ish war loan. The amount of applica-
tions received here was about $30,000,
000.
Secret service officers have arrested
in New York four Englishmen accus-
it coins and seiz-
quantity of bad
ed of making counterie
ed their plant and a
money.
Thomas Pooley, a saloonkeeper of
Jutte, Mont., shot and killed his son-
in-law, Thomas L ittlejohn, and the lat-
te wife, Lyda, during a difficulty on
the street.
John R.
Haines, a Topeka ticket
broker, has been sentenced to 50 years
in the penitentiary for murdering
Charles Watson, formerly a rich Ohio
lumber merchant.
Senator Cullom Friday presented in
the Senate a memorial from Illinois for
the construction of a ship canal. 24 feet
deep and 300 feet wide, from Lake
Michigan, through the drainage canal
and the Illinois river, to the Mississippi.
The attorney general of Nebraska
has brought suits against the Union
Pacific railroad for $310,000; the Mis-
souri Pacific for $210,000, and the Rock
Island for $150.000, for alleged viola-
tion of the maximum rate law.
Prince Anandsing Ajectsing Advasi
of Bombay, India, has been sentenced
to three months in jail and fined $30
for fraudulently obtaining board and
lodging in New Haven.
Trouble is looked for between Rus-
sia and Turkey if Prince Ferdinand, of
Bulgaria, backed by Russia, carries out
his announced determination to declare
himself king of Bulgaria.
A movement has begun in Russia to
abandon the Julian calendar, which is
12 days behind that — by other na-
tions, and secure, if possible, the adop-
tion of a universal calendar.
Cardinal 1. Di Canossa,
bishop of
Verona, Italy, is dead. He was the
oldest member of the Sacred College
and was Austria's candidate in the con-
clave which elected Pope Leo.
The Duke of Veragua, who claims to
be a lineal descendant of Christopher
Columbus, was highly insulted because
certain creditc his seized his bag
gage during his visit to Paris.
Republicans are
s of
Texas endeavoring
to start a boom for Republican State
Chairman E. H. R. Green, who is a
son of Hetty Green, of New York. for
vice-president on the ticket with Mec-
Kinley.
The, Americ
charged its
York factory
an Tobacco Company dis-
300 employes at its New
and will remove the plant
to Baltimore, Cincinnati, Richmond.
Va.. and lancaster, Pa., where labor is
cheaper.
Application has been made for a char
ter for the Franklin (Pa.) Air Compres-
sor Company. Capital, $300,000. one
half of which has been taken by Frank-
lin people and the balance by J. W
Duntley, of Chicago.
The Shamrock was worn by nearly
everybody in England on St. Patrick's
day and the whole country united in
doing honor to the bravery of the Irish
soldiery in the South African war.
Some disturbances took place during
the mayor's parade in Dublin. 2
It is reported that a Kenosha, Wis,
tannery has been sold to the leather
1st for $4,000,000. Last week it was
>orted the big combine made the
mpany an offer of $3,000,000, but
s was refused and the company held
to their original demand of $4.000.0c0
Massacres of the missionaries
red in the Tien-Tsin district of China
and the American battleship
and cruiser New Orleans are
near ie scene of the expected
It is expected that part of the
in the Philippines will
to China if trouble breaks out th
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[INSURGENT JUNTA STILL RGTIVE
INCITING FILIPINOS.
Their Idea is to Force the Best Possible Terms
From Congress—Brigandage Takes the
Place of Organized Warfare.
Gen. Otis considers Manila the most
troublesome center in the situation.
The insurgent junta there, in conjunc-
tion with that in Hong Kong, is grow-
ing active. The military authorities
have been forced to put a stop to Ma-
bini’s intercourse with the public. The
press considers his recent utterances
calculated to incite the Filipinos to a
continued revolt and prejudicial to
American control.
Flores. Aguinaldo's surrendered secc-
retary of war. who has just arrived in
Manila, says he comes trusting to Amer-
ican leniency and that he would not
have dared come to Manila if Spain were
in control. He cherishes the hopes]
which actuated him when in the field
and desires to watch congressional ac-
tion upon the question of the Philip-
pines. The insurgents, he says, do not
expect to vanquish the Americans, but
are maintaining a resistance with the
idea of forcing Congress to accord
them the best A ossible terms. A num-
ber of representative insurgent leaders
from different parts of Luzon have re-
cently been in conference in Manila.
Some have been placed under arrest,
but the others thus far have not been
interfered with.
Louis Spitzel, head of the firm of
Louis Spitzel & Co., contractors to the
Chinese government, and himself a sus-
pected filibuster, came {rom Hong
Kong to Manila last week and was tem-
porarily detained in custody on suspi-
cion. Tt is asserted upon good author-
ity that three loads of arms and ammu-
nition have recently been landed on
the east cost of Luzon. Capt. Taylor, of
the Thirty-ninth regiment, recently cap-
tured 12 new mausers near Calamba.
It is also reported that the rebels are
reorganizing in the province of Zam-
bales, under Mascardo. Brigands are
committing atrocities in the province
of Nueva Eciga, where they have mur-
dered 20 natives and Chinamen. Eight
other murders have been committed
near Tarlac. The Nueva Eciga insur-
gents are heavily taxing local traders
and farmers. with the result that busi-
ness is paralyzed an! there is a general
scarcity of food. The funds for main-
taining this guerrilla warfare are col-
lected from the various towns of the
island, whether occupied by the Ameri-
cans or not, even including Manila.
Travel between the towns garrisoned
by the Americans is becoming more
dangerous. All wagon trains must be
escorted by heavy guards in order to
insure their safety. Two ambushes
were narrowly averted recently; small
traveling parties were attacked: single
travelers frequntly disappear or are
found dead.
Spaniards and Filipinos conversant
with the Tagalo character say that Agui-
naldo’s capture would terminate the
revolution. Three months have passed
since he was actively pursued
A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
An Eccentric Jersey Doctor of 123 Years Who
Beats Ponce de Leon all Hollow.
Dr. Smith, who claims to be 123
years of age, and whose marriage in At-
lantic City a few months ago to a wo-
man of forty caused something of a sen-
sation, has removed to Egg Harbor
City, where he is diligently pursuing a
plan to erect a huge sanitarium for those
afflicted with disease. His only cure
is the water of Union creck, which he
claims possesses peculiar medicinal
properties.
Dr. Smith, even during the cold
weather of the last three months, has
been regularly administering this to his
patients who could adapt themselves to
the treatment. It consists of a daily
bath in the waters of the stream at all
seasons.
The danger of contracting cold is
counteracted by taking what Dr. Smith
calls his elixir of life, which, he says.
has been the means of prolonging his
life nearly a century and a quarter. He
is very uncommunicative in regard to
his plans, and apparently wants to avoid
notoriety.
ONE GOOD INDIAN GONE.
Washakie, Chief of the Soshone Tribe, Buried
With Military Honors.
Washaki, for nearly 70 years head
chief of the Shoshone Indians, died a
few days ago at Fort Washakie, Wyo-
ming. He was buried with military
honors, Troop E, First cavalry, escort-
ing the coffin, which was draped with
an American flag, to the cemetery. The
Episcopal service was read by
clergymen of that church. one,
Sherman Coolidge, being a full- blooded
Arapahoe Indian. About 2,000 Indians
and whites were present to pay a last
tribute to a chief who had always been
a firm friend of the whites, always en-
deavoring to have his people live after
the manner of the white man, and to
set an example to them in the attain-
ing of a higher civilization.
Capt. McCalla Pardoned.
President McKinley has granted a
full and unconditional pardon to Capt.
Bowman H. McCalla, of the navy, now
serving in the Philippines. In 1890
Capt. McCalla, then a commander, was
convicted by court martial of several
offenses. including the striking of an-
other person in the navy. and was sus-
pended from rank and duty for three
vears. The pardon, which was granted
for conspicuous service in the war with
Spain, restores Capt. McCalla to his
old rank and position.
A War Inevitable.
A telegram from Matagulpa, Nica:
ragua, says that war between Nicaragna
and Costa Rica is unavoidable
Recruiting is going on in the
district of Matanzas. The heav-
test recruiting is in Leon prov-
ince in the west. President Iglesias of
Costa Rica, has suspended the constitu-
tion. He expects an invasion by the
Nicaraguans under Nora, a renegade
Costa Rican.
Yields $36, 000 a a Day.
MacAuley has returned to
Victoria, B. from the Klondike
with a story of the riches of claim No
46, on the Sulphur, sehichl is known to
be the richest mining claim in the
world. The owner whose name Mac-
Auley could not recall, is a Gen
and he will before long be the ri
man of all the Klondike
claim, he says, is now
rate of $36,000 cach gg
Norman
Hundreds Homeless.
Reports have been received that
Fox. Jllinois and Sangamon rivers
ed their banks, doing
[ Ottawa, Ill, is under w
and etadreds of families near Havana,
11., have been driven from their homes
ere is an ice gorge at the Santa Fe
bridge at Chillicothe, 18 miles above
Peoria, and the water is up to the ties
Attempts are being made to break the
gorge with dynamite. Peoria is threat-
ened with flood.
Murdered by a Maniac.
In a Paroxysm of rage Olof Pallesen.
a Norwegian, stabbed and killed his
wife Josephine, murdered Julia Henges-
bach, the three-year-old daughter of
Charles F. Hengesbach, a mail carrier.
and murderously assaulted the child's
Hengesbach, W ednesday
front of his home, Wash-
mother,
atternoen, 1
ington. D. C. Mrs. Hengesbach lies
near the Yong ge of death with seven stab
wounds in her body. Pallesen was ar
rested. It is believed he has become
demented through sickness,
{ made to United States Consul
WAR MUST GO ON.
Great Britain Peremplorily Refuses to Accept
Petition of Burghers—United States In-
tervention Not Wauted.
Offers to aid in bringing about peace
in South Africa have been respectiully
declined by Great Britain. Lord Salis-
bury has rejected the Kruger-Steyn
proposition to end the war.
The United States government, at the
request of President Kruger and Presi-
dent Steyn, offered to the British gov-
ernment its services as mediator, with
the view of bringing about peace in
South Africa.
The United States charge d'affaires,
Henry White, saw Lord Salisbury at
the foreign office Tuesday evening and
received a formal reply from the British
government, declining the good oi-
fices of the United States in regard to
peace.
The representations made to Great
Britain were so put that they assumed
nothing of a desire to intervene. but
simply transmitted the communications
Adelbert
S. Hay, at Pretoria, with the accom-
panying assurances that anything the
state department could do in the inter
ests of peace would be gladly undertak-
en. The well known aversion of the
British government to any foreign in-
tervention does not appear to have been
aroused, and while Lord Salisbury was
unable to comply with the offer, he ex-
pressed his appreciation of the United
States efforts in behalf of humanity.
The offer of mediation sprang from
Pretoria, where Mr. Hay, with the oth-
er consuls, subsequent to Presidents
Kruger and Steyn sending their peace
cablegram to Lord Salisbury, were ask-
ed to endeavor to secure the good of-
fices of their respective governments,
apparently with the view of bringing
outside influence to bear upon eo
Salisbury’s reply to the Boer over-
tures. These seem to have been fruit-
less, except in the instance of the Unit-
ed States consul, whose representations
to Secretary Hay were forwarded to
the United States embassy in London
with instructions outlined above. These
Mr. White, the charge d'affaires, per-
sonally presented to Lord Salisbury,
who received them cordially.
As the Boer overtures had already
been answered to the effect that no
propositions including the retention of
the republic’s independence could be
considered, the presentation of the
American offer was already too late,
but the premier apparently deemed it a
matter of sufficient importance to put
himself on record with a formal reply.
The government will not allow the
Kruger-Steyn appeal to influence in any
way their ‘determination not to spare
any effort to prosecute the war. There
will be no diminution of measures cal-
culated to maintain the full efficiency
of the field force, and whatever rein-
forcements were previously considered
advisable will still be sent out.
Lord Salisbury’s reply meets with un
animous approval among Conservatives
and it is the universal opinion that the
Boers, by their extravagant claims and
canting tone, meant to influence for-
eign powers, have again overreached
themselves, as they did by the ultima-
tum.
FRANCE CANNOT INTERVENE.
For Her to Offer Mediation to Britain Would
Act as Oil on Flames.
A responsible mouthpiece of the
French government says: “As far as
France is concerned, she certainly will
not take the initiative in offering Eng-
land mediation, nor will Russia, for
the dual alliance is naturally working
together in this question.
“We fecl that in the present excited
state of public feeling in England, and
especially as regards ourselves, any
step taken by the French government
would defeat its own object, and instead
of cpening a way to honorable peace
would act oil on flames and proba-
bly create fresh complications.
“We consider that overtures for me-
diation can emanate from some power
whose cordial relations with England
prevent such a suggestion being con-
strued as an unfriendly act. The em-
peror of Germany, for instance, might
take the initiative, or President McKin-
ley, without fear of creating the friction
which would follow any such action on
our part, and, after this is done, full
reliance can be placed on the unquali-
fied support of France and Russia,whose
only desire is to sce the end of the
bloodshed and who are eager to lend
their good offices in bringing about
this end.”
The Gaulois, referring to Lord Salis-
bur ’s reply to the Kruger-Steyn appeal,
s “England no longer hides her
es She confirms by her attitude
the object she evidently had in view
when opening the campaign, that of a
war of extermination and conquest.
One can consider the step taken by
Presidents Kruger and Steyn as dic-
tated by a desire to place England in a
difficult position before the civilized
world, since she has been obliged to
reveal her designs publicly.”
Negroes Must Leave.
Citizens of Parium, a fine residence
suburb of the big mining camp of Cal-
umet, Mich., have appointed a commit-
tee to rid the town of negroes. They
object to having it called a vigilance
committee, and announce that only
peaceable and legal methods will be
used, but that the negroes must go
Colored men were almost unknown
there unti! a sewer contractor brought
in several carloads from Tennessee and
Alabama 18 months ago. Several white
girls have eloped with negroes and
constant trouble has led to this action.
Taughter and Husband.
Pool
Shot ©
Thomas
Butte. Mon
his son-in- law.
by accident the latter's wife,
v. a saloonkeeper, of
nnday, shot and killed
Thomas Littlejohn, and
Lydia, the
shot being intenued for Littlejohn, dur-
ing a difficulty on the street. The trou-
ble dated from Littleiohn’s marriage
to. Pooley’s daughter without the fath
er's consent. Iittleiohn had knocked
Pooley down and v king him.
when the latter drew his revolver and
fired. Mrs. Littlejohn was carrying her
baby at the
Will Cost Thirly Millions.
The Wellman- Seaver. 5 Zygineenny
Company. of Cleveland, has closed
a contract with the eed Steel Co.,
Hane, Ont.. to design and build
what will, when completed, be the larg-
est 1d iron plant in Canada, and
one ee will have few superiors in re-
gard to size in the world. The total
capacity of the plant will be 2.400 tons
per day. In addition to the steel plant
there will also be constructed a bloom-
ing mill of the largest size. a billet
il and two plate mills. The
1 | cost nearly $30.000,000
Ferly Cocr Faclories Closed.
Forty sash and door factories in
Chicago have decided to shut down as
result of the struggle of the con-
and the building and
trades council. This throws 6,000 more
men, mostly union wood workers, out
of employment. In activity in buildnig
circles and interference by the employes
with the delivery of goods to non-union
forces caused the action.
tractors council
Trek From Missouri to Mexico.
A colony of 400 Alissouri farmers is to
be established in the valley of the Con-
cho river in Mexico. The promoters
oi the colonization scheme have pur
~hased 200.000 acres of rich valleys, an:
ew of the cole ts have already ar-
The remainder of the families
ach here in time to put in this
Connellsville,
factory.
mobile
DENTH IN A FURNACE EXPLOSION.
SHOWER OF HOT METAL,
One Man Burned Up Complefely—Another! |
Victim’s Flesh Falls from His Bones.
Three Others Badly injure
A terrific explosion heciizred in Mo- |
nongahela furnace No. 1, a department |
of the National Tube Company’ s plant, |
at McKeesport, Pa., at 5:40 o'clock Fri-'
day afternoon. One man was killed, an-
other so badly injured that he cannot’
recover, and three men very painfully
burned.
The indirect cause of the explosion
was the clogging of the furnace, which
is 60 feet high. A lot of ore, limestone
and coke had become fastened to the
side of the furnace 20 feet from the top.
This is called a “hang.” But the men
at the top, Martin and Curvan, kept
filling in more ore, coke and limestone. |
Finally the weight of the stone, coke |
and ore thrown in caused the “hang” |
to break loose. It then fell down to
the bottom of the furnace, 40 feet be-
low. At the bottom of the furnace was
a large mass of molten metal and gases.
When the ore and stone came tumbling
down, the explosion ensued.
Fire, molten metal, ore, coke and
stone were sent flying high into the air. i
Some of the pieces of ‘stone and ore
fell to the ground a block away. The |
noise made“by the explosion could be |
heard all over the cit The yard
about the furnace was strewn over with
metal, ore and stone. The top of the |
furnace was blown off, and some of the |
fixtures of the furnace destroyed. Be- |
vond this little damage was done to the |
furnace. |
The report of the explosion and the |
wierd scenes attending and following |
it were indescribable. People rushed |
to the place from all over the city, and
the greatest excitement prevailed.
Nothing whatever could be discov-
ered of Martin's remains. His hat was
found on the top of the furnace, near
the edge. The force of the explosion
seems to have been directly upward and |
downward. Martin had been working |
at the place eight years. i
MORE SUBSIDIARY COIN. =
At Least $20,000,000 to oe Minted and Put
On the Markzt Under the New
Monetary Law.
Mr. Roberts, the director of the mint,
has announced his intention of speedily
taking steps to increase the stock of
subsidiary coin under the new financial
act. As quickly as possible at least
$20,000,000 will be coined and put on
the market to meet the demand for
small money. Speaking of the matter,
Mr. Roberts said:
“The new monetary act, approved
March 14, authorizes an increase of
about $20,000,000 in the stock of sub-
sidiary silver coin. The last authority |
for the issue of subsidiary silver was |
given by a joint resolution, approved |
July 22, 1876, in preparation for the re-
sumption of specie payments. It au-
thorized the issue of an amount which,
together with the fractional paper cur-|
rency outstanding, should at no time ex- |
ceed $50.000,000. !
“July o, 1870, the act providing for |
the redemption of subsidiary silver in |
lawful money was passed, and forthwith |
our old quarters, dimes and halves,
which had been driven to the West |
Indies and South America by our paper
money, began to return. They were
presented for redemption until the treas-
ury held over $30.000,000 of them. In |
this way the $50,000,000 limit was ex- |
ceeded, for the treasury officials paid
this stock out in the regular course of
business until it was practically all ab- |
corbed. The present stock in the coun-
try thus reached about $80,000,000.
Under the new law it may be $100,000,-
000, and bullion purchased under the
Sherman act may be coined. The new |
authority was sorely needed and will
scarcely suifice for the growing needs
of the country more than five or six |
years.”
caBLE. FLASHES.
Officials of the Paris exposition say
that the exposition will be opened
April 15, advertised.
The Prussian Reichstag is discussing
a bill to purify the stage. It prohibits
the presentation of anything calculated
to produce a feeling of shame.
The Prussian Reichstag has adopted
a coinage bill providing for calling in
gold five-mark pieces and twenty-pfen-
nig pieces, issuing silver up to fifteen
marks per head of the population and
calling in provincial coins, for remint- |
ing. Dr. Arendt, free conservative, of-
fered an amendment proposing the
purchase of silver bullion for minting
the new coins, but it was rejected by
161 to 61 votes.
(T THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Representatives of the Philadelphia |
produce exchange were before the!
House agricultural committee in favor
of the Grout anti-oleomargarine bill.
Mr. Wise, the newly-seated Republi- |
can representative from Virginia, has
introduced a bill to encourage the or-
ganization of industrial schools for the
benefit of the freedmen of the south.
The State department has been advis-
ed formally of the willingness of the
French government to extend the pe-
riod of time allowed for the ratification |
of the pending French reciprocity!
treaty.
Yellow Fever in Havana.
H. J. Ormsby, of Wisconsin, who
has spent the last five months in Cuba
agent of
as a special the war depart- |
ment, says that yellow fever is now and
has been for some time past raging in
i{avana. The reports of the actual
deaths from yellow fever, he said, are
not allowed to go out
For the first n the history of
t
Central Penns ylvania a new
agreed on by arbitration be-
miners and operators at the Al-
convention.
Omaha destroyed the
Tent and Rubber
minin
scale v
tween
toona
Fire in
of the Omaha
stocks
Com-
pany, Schmoeler Mueller, pianos, and
the Nebraska Seed Company; loss
$150,000, fully insured.
The directors of the Anaconda Cop-
per Mining Company Friday at New
York declared its regular quarterly
dividend of $1.25 per share, and an ex- |
tra dividend of 75 cents.
Before the Idaho investigation com-
mittee at Washington IL. T Simpkins, |
an electrical engincer, testified concern-
ing extreme brutalities committed by
the colored soldiers at Wardner.
It is rumored tha: John Hay will re-
as secretary of State because the
sign i
Senate committee on foreign relations |
has amended the Hay-Pauncefote |
treaty regarding the Nicaraguan canal. |
The Chicago association of machinery
manufacturers is out with a signed |
statement saying that all negotiations |
with the international association of!
machinists are 3k | an end, its effort for
arbtiration having failed.
County Altornoy W. B. Barger. o
Charlton, Towa, was shot and perhaps |
fataily wounded by 1) George Pyle, |
who is under arrest. She was recently
divorced and blames Barger for her
trouble. |
A big coal deal involving 11,000 acres |
is being closed for the land in the |
neighborhood of West Alexander, Pa, |
and when the sale is completed, some- |
thing like $425,000 will pass into the
hands of the land owners in the neigh- |
HYorhood of West Alexander. The]
block lies south of the Baltimore & |
Ohio railroad and w 5 Spits last |
July for Carmichaels Coal Co.
Mrs.
| fairs
| of that rank.
oo
| Congressional Record.
| in the northwest border
{| vote was reached.
| 000,000 tons.
FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
Senate.
FIFTY-FOURTH DAY.
The Senate committee on foreign af-
reached an agreement on an
amendment to the ay-Pauncefote
isthmian canal committee intended to
meet the objections of those who op-
pose the clause forbidding the fortifica-
tion of the canal.
Discussion of Mr. Mason's resolution
expressing sympathy for the Boers was
conducted in the Senate behind locked
0ors.
Senator L odge introduced a joint
resolution giving to the senior major
general of the army, while commanding
the army, the rank of lieutenant general,
together with the emoluments and pay
FIFTY-FIFTH DAY.
The Senate passed the diplomatic and
| consular appropriation bill after laying
i on the table an amendment to give ex-
Queen Liluiokalani $20,000 now and an
annuity of $10,000.
Representative Mahon, of Pe nnsyl-
vania, has introduced a bill for the re-
| lief of the estate of the late Maj. Gen.
Lawton from a charge of $656 for camp
y troops of his command in Decem-
er, 1898.
The administration is showing special
anxiety to get the French reciprocity
treaty through the Senate this season.
IFTY-SIXTH DAY.
The Senate chamber and committee
rooms were the scene of a conflict of
opinion which found no place in the
The basis of
the disagreement was Senator Foraker’s
bill providing a form of government
for Puerto Rico and only Republican
senators participated in it.
Representative Sulzer, of New York,
has introduced a resolution of inquiry
concerning fortifications Great Britain
is said to be goastruciing along our
sorthes boundar,
FTY "SEVENTH DAY.
The oy legislative step in the enmact-
ment of the financial bill was taken by |
| the House of Representatives, when the |
conference report on the bill was adopt-
ed by a vote of yeas 166, nays 120, pres-
ent and not voting 10. The Senate had
already adopted the conference report,
so that it remains only for President
| McKinley to affix his signature to the
measure to make it a law.
he Republican senators caucused
for two or three hours on the
Puerto Rican tariff question, and with-
out jeaciing a conclusion, adjourned.
FIFTY-EIGHTH DAY.
The Republican senators in caucus
reached a partial agreement on Puerto
Rican legislation. The House bill, ap-
propriating $2,000,000, is to be taken
up and passed immediately. The bill
for a civil government of the island is
to be taken up and disposed of as soon
as possible, and the tariff bill is to be
delayed for the present.
In the House committee on military
affairs Mr. Sulzer, of New York, called
up his resolution directing the secre-
tary of war to inform the House what
fortifications Great Britain is erecting
along the northern frontier of the Unit-
ed States, especially at Puget sound and
country. An
amendment was made striking out the
reference to Great Britain and making
it refer to “any foreign power.”
FIFTY-NINTH DAY.
The Senate spent the entire day in
débating Puerto Rican relief, and al-
{ though all the speakers favored the bill
to return the revenues to the island, no
Representative Ray
introduced a constitutional amendment
| for National regulation of trusts. The
bill,
The
District of Columbia appropriation
carrying $6,603,378, was passed.
| House commerce committee submitted
four reports on the bill for the construc-
tion of a Pacific cable. Government or
private ownership the question now be-
ing considerec
SIXTIETH DAY.
The Senate passed the bill for the re-
funding of revenue received on impor-
tations by the United States, amount-
I ing to $2,005,455.
Senator McMillan, in the Senate, and
Representative Lentz, in the House,
have introduced bills providing for
| post check notes in small amounts.
MINES AND MINERS.
The Mines of Sinai—Evidenca That Copper Was
Taken From There 7,000 Years Ago.
The World's Coal Ouiput.
Egyptians had mined the rugged sides
of Mount Sinai for copper and tur-
quoi thousands of years before
loses climbed the mountain to re-
ceive the tables of the law, and the
gyptians waged war for the possession
of these mines. DM. de Morgan with a
party of French engineers recently vis-
ited these abandoned NO which
are situated convenient to the Gulf of
Suez, and explored two of the ancient
deposits. He found the mineral de-
posits in the sandstone region and not
in the porphyries, which constitute the
great mass of the mountain.
These deposits consist of copper and
iron-bearing minerals, especially hema-
tite, and some gypsum. Among the
cupriferous minerals the most valuable
were the turquoise, many valuable speci-
mens of which have been discovered
from time to time in the tomb and
treasures of the Egyptians, says the
tional Druggist. M. de Mor
back to France a collection of mine
most of which were turned over
i Berthelot, who made a most intc §
report on the minerals, in which he
stated that the copper-bearing speci-
mens were poor in metal and not plen-
tiful.
Mining such ores must have been
tedious and severe labor. The Egyp-
tians were still using arms of wood
and chipped or ground stones and cop-
per was a rare and precious metal, the
possession of which was thought to re-
pay the most severe labor. Later on
wood and stone implements ve place
to bronze, which was ma possible
by the importation of tin {rom remote
regions.
abandond
These mines have been
, for at least 3.000 years, probably on ac
count of a constantly growi scarcity
of the material and the po y of the
residue in metal. The min
ably worked from 3.3500 to
It is thought that the work
mines began nearly 7,000 y
The world's output of coal
was 620.000,000 tons,
470,000,000 in 18go. The
is now the large st C Prous
Un
218,-
with
produced
produced
and
215,000,000
rmany
100,000,000 tons; >
30,000,000,
Fra
Belgium 23,000,000 tons. It is remark-
able that in 1870 the United States’ out-
put was only 17 per cent. of the whole
| while now it is 23 per cent. From
1871 to 1895 the output in Great
ain increased 45 per cent., while
many’s increase in the sz
| 115 per cent. The Unit
age output has increased 103 per
The cause of the present sc ~arcity
{| appear to be due to the
dustrial and maritime
late far exceeded the
coal output. More is want
in England, at present
| put on the market.
Coal is found in Cape lony in
a dozen places; i
in Zululand,
Bay; in the C
Kronstadt and Vi
ransvaal, at Klerksdorp a
gung, and at Boksh
desia on both banks of
The approximate ou tput
fields in 1808 was nea
Tennessee has
phosphate producer of
248 valuable mines in the
over 21,000 men are employe
business. New mines are bein;
daily.
2,000,000 t¢
become the
America
State
are
short time,
class
we can offer most liberal terms.
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it can be run by hand or power, never
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INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Muricipal Ownership of Elsclric Ligh! Plant
Saves Money for the Town.
Other Labor Items.
ownership
n, which they
ile valleys
1, will |
The town of North Highiands, N. J,
of its own lighting plant.
it adopted munic
the lowest bid at w
street lights was $
power lamp a year.
town issued
2,000
years ago the
0 per
Four
bonds and erected its own
plant, and it now uses si:
lights at a ¢
y-eight street
of $26
of the lighting plant is
about $3.500 on
‘farmers in
Philadelphia 120,
cor
fert
1
, which is tc
street
lights alo
¢ purchased in
o bushels of seed
propose to plant in the
ong the river
en from
the British steamship
is i by expert agricuiturists
t Nile valleys, which have
n uncultivated for centuries, will
the East.
lders, of
an agr
ndications
ance of
ns.
show
rth Caroli
some m
"lothe is
been brok
five years
hour: day
June.
at $2.25 per day.
he cents an hour.
gle which began 13 years ago.
oO
ye
was that the
them to give
amounts from
amounting to fifty
I'he statement was made by
union organizer in South Carolina: “Tt
the
Spain; which belong to an English
The men
wages and a reduction in the hours of
satisfy
cotton
1.
li
e
as good corn as anywhere in the
re passed through the
Marie canals
2 wheat,
copper and lumber of
great Northwest,
factures and miscellaneous merchandise
This
amounting to nearly one-half of the z
nual freightage of all the railroads in
the Lake Superior region, is increasing
annually by leaps and bounds—doubling,
in fact, every
The boss carpent
Cincinnati,
ement with the Carpenters’
union to es
5,810 tons
oats, flour.
the
ms He
corn,
and the coal,
enGrnnous tr.
contractors and
)., have come
tablish an eight-
at $2.40 on the first of next
The present rule is nine hours
This is an increase of
This ends a strug-
for
f Sustained prices
cotton goods abroad are found in the
from
in the vages of their operators granted
by the spinners in and around Bolton,
The raise affects 20,000 oper-
five to ten per cent.
cover all classes of fine
The German Waiters’ Congress, held
in Berlin,
of the main complaints of the delegates
:d hard conditions. One
employers compelled
up regular monthly
their “tips,” often
per cent.
a textile
be but a few weeks before every
led laborer in the cotton mills of
State and the whole South is a
mber of the Textile Workers’ Un-
A recent fire in the trainmaste of-
of the Pistshure and Lake Erie
a among the em-
ved the records for
s of the trainmen, with
s for dereliction.
broken out among the
tramways at Barce-
asK a rais e in
England, Scotland
g 430.201 miners, have
tely days in each
the ororcionied de-
and
mills are going up in
The cotton industry
ons of tropical people
ly to have a boom.
strike of iron workers at Boston
n,
contractors
continuing work
the bridge
finding no diffi
as usual.
i Struc-
culty in
eporters and newspaper writers in
I "., have formed a union sub-
to the International Typo-
sal Union. :
montis ago there were but
gara Falls, N. Y¥
anized bodie
ut of
d in
Union made
men.
Jutton wor
secured
uphols
have gone
kers in
boasts of twenty-two
1,100,000 in Massachusetts en-
gainful
are employed on ays.
: onis now has a Tobacco Wor
occupations only 37,-
Sunda
up entirely of co
Roc
substantial
rers to the number of
on strike for a living
ownership
ch it could get arc
candle
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REWSY GLEANINGS.
The population of London increases
3y 70,000 a year.
rmany’s net import of gold duns
the whole of 1899 is estimated at $:
750,000.
The Transvaal was an unknown land,
so far as Furopean knowledge or in«
fluence went, prior to the year 1830.
_ During the profe
2,000,000 pounds of
en caught
he Illinois river between Depu
pasty
200 distinct muscles in
»f which the best of
prime condition by
over
the hum body,
us keep about 10
proper usc.
Pickied Pw in sardines, not having
a place on the . are held to be
dutiable as Retin ed or salted,
at half a cent a p
vare kawanna and
it will put in a
en Hoboken
and Hacketts fon nt
The Philippine "nz
vy grown until there
and of those
on the station,
have off
dred of the sma
ersiof C
areed to i
rest from 1 to May 1, with
a half « rsday from May
1 to
A “The Flood,”
1
Aetlet in 1876 for
ic sale in Bor-
was sold once
1 38.600.
n. of Tennessee,
1e in a cemetery
bears t epitaph:
> children, others none; here
twenty-one.”
>hiladelphia
be expend-
will be add-
> island plant, giving fa-
out of war.
1S on and Darling-
ships
fies to turn
es of the ol
in the 46 years
0,000 miles on
0,000 a year in
1t Iritain,
The United
three-sevenths of the
and leads with an edu-
Fe
uc
U tar
france and
States s 1
whole amc
cational per capi
Francis
Helen M. and 8
Sts, has Stroud,
2 veled from
it escort other
than the trainmen to whose care she had
yeen committed.
For fancy dress ies in Engla
young women are adopting as novel-
ties, in honor of soldiers at the front,
what are known as 2 and “XIn-
fon Jack” costumes, h are said to
be picturesque, if not graceful,
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