MAFEKING HAS BEEN RELIEVED.
BOERS RETIRE.
rest wows ores. Tory SERA TWENTY MILES
An official census of Venezuela shows
a population of 2.223.527.
Lady Georgiana Curzon's
relief fund exceeds $50.000.
Robert Hutchison. of Wellsville, O.,
Mafeking
Pretoria Hes Cfficiatiy Announced the Failure | .ciohrated his 100th birthday Thursday
of General Snyman and His Army fo
Recuc2 the Towr.
rpedo boat exploded
hursday, killing six
The boiler of a t
at St. Petersbur
persons.
The reliei of Mafeking is reported '1
by the following dispatches from Pre-
toria, dated Friday:
“It was officially announced
when the laagers and forts
Mafeking had been severely bombard- |
Seventy-nine deaths and 235 cases of
ubonic plague have occurred at Sidney,
Australia.
An open switch wrecked a Cleveland
that ! & Pittsburg train Saturday, causing $3,-
around | 509 damage.
The cornerstone for the Kings
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ed the siege was abandoned, a British Daughters” hospital at Steubenville, O.,
force from the south taking possession i. laid
of the place .
Another telegram says: “New peace
proposals will probably be put for
ward by the Boer governments.
recent reverses are causing despond-
ency.
The | ®
Thursday
The borough council of Canonsburg,
a.. has authorized the construction of
50,000 water works.
The Mansion House fund for the re-
U
E
There was a prolonged meeting | lief of the victims of the Ottawa fire
of the Transvaal executive at Pretoria j has reached £350,000
Thursday.” :
Kruger and the other high officials
purpose leaving Pretoria almost 1m-
mediately for Lydenburg. The British
prisoners will be conveyed there, and
the foreign consuls at Pretoria are leav-
ing for Lydenburg. In Kroonstad it is
said that President Kruger will sur-
render when Roberts crosses the Trans-
vaal frontier. Roberts is accumulating |
immense quantities of supplies and the
preparations for another movement arc
well advanced. The next stop will be
Johannesburg.
London has scarcely sobered down
from its exhilaration over the relief of
Mafeking when it is reported that the
Pretoria government has decided to ap:
ply for terms of peace. The “Express
Monday morning makes the following
announcement in its most conspicuous
type: : :
“We have the best reason for stating
that in the last 24 hours a telegram has
been reccived at the foreign gffice. ad-
dressed personally to the prime minis-
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The French steamship Gascogne
Thursday carried $3.200,000 in gold from
New York for Havre.
Canton, Ohio. Republicans intend to
send a big delegation of boomers to the
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Philadelphia convention.
Green goods men, reputed to be from
Pittsburg, are to be operating
said
, { around Huntington, W. Va.
Elks of Parkersburg, W. Va. have
purchased a homestead which they will
transform into a clubhouse.
All railroads have agreed to the rate
of one fare for the round trip to the
Republican National convention.
The Grand Army of the Republic of
New Jersey clected E. V. Richards, of
Trenton, department commander.
John Kenna, a St. Louis saloon-
keeper, was fatally wounded by a police
officer whom he attempted to shoot.
The coffee trade in New Orleans is
destroyed for the present season, for fear
of the plague being carried from Brazil.
ter, from President Kruger, proposing Charles St. John, of Pittsburg, has
terms of peace. The exact terms of the | been nominated for secretary of the
message cannot be stated; but we be- | American Unitarian Association for
it is couched in an exceedingly
humble strain. It is inconceivable, of
course, that Lord Salisbury can have
sent any reply except the one that
stands ready on the lip of every Jriton
— unconditional surrender.”
Gen. Roberts telegraphed
Kroonstad at 3 o'clock Sunday
noon: .
“No official intimation has yet been
received, but Renter states that the re-
lief of Mafeking has been effected.
Rundle reports having occupied Bres-
lers Flat, Trommel and Clocolan, the
enemy falling back on Senekal and
Ficksburg. Fifty rifles and 3.000 rounds
were surrendered hy the Free Staters
to a battalion of veomanry working
along the telegraph line from Boshof
to Bloemiontein. field cornet and
&6 burghers surrendered at Boshof yes-
terday. While at Hoopstad Methuen
sceured 230 rifles and between 400,000
and 500,000 rounds.”
lieve
from
after-
WHAT CUBA COSTS.
A Statement of Island Financs for Las! Year.
Receipls Dcubls Exp ndi ures.
he war department sent to the Sen-
ate, in answer to a resolution, an item-
ized statement of the receipts and ex-
penditures in uba since the United
States assumed control. :
The actual cost of the Triscornia
railway, six miles long, connecting the
harbor of Havana with the interior
railroad system, was $342,611.
The receipts from all sources for
1800 were $16,136,500, and expenditures,
$7.421,719. Of the receipts, $15,012,100
was from customs receipts, $230,025
postal receipts, $760,880 internal reve-
nue, and $203,584 miscellancous. Of
the expenditures, $211,202 went to the
department of finance, $876,640 to jus-
tice and public. instruction,
$255,421, to agricultural and
public works, $640,975 to State
and government, $448,079 to extraor-
dinary expenses and $12,200 to postof-
fice. The sum of $1,688,442 was spent
on sanitation in the half year from July
1 to December 21, 1899. In the same
time the rural guard cost $506,152; bar-
racks and quarters, $617,755; the cus-
toms service, $343,085. and public
works, $268,036. Charities got $262,092,
civil government is set down for $164,-
281, and municipalities $123,113. The
census cost $211,401.
A NOVEL SCHEME.
Chicago Underfakers Will Hold Funerals on
the instaliment Plan,
Corporation papers have been grant-
ed the Chicago Burial Association. The
incorporators are three undertakers.
e company has a capital backing of
$5,000. To give funerals on the install-
ment plan is the purpose of the com-
1000.
Frank S. Monnett, formerly attorney
general of Ohio, predicted that the
State will go Democratic in the coming
election.
President McKinley has acce
invitation to be in Canton, O.,
July 4,
when a Spanish trophy cannon is to be
mounted.
The bubonic plague is spreading in
San Francisco, and the Chinese are put-
ting every obstacle in the way of the
health officers.
Mrs.
Creek. Pa,
fifth of the family to die in 24
from
Francis Wilkinson, of Turtle
died of smallpox, being the
days
varios causes
Extra polic e being added to the
force at Dayton, O.. on account of the
strike of the People’s Street Railway
Company's employes
Mrs. Sophronia Allen, a New Bright-
on (Pa) widow, aged about 8o years,
was killed by the “flyer” westbound on
the Ft. Wayne road.
The annual convention of the Nation-
al Conference of Charities and Correc-
tions began Friday in Topeka, with
more than 300 delegates.
The Philadelphia General
Air and Refining Company
Liquefied
has been
the first three months of 1899.
Green, custodian of the
building at Martinsburg. W. Va.
Johannesburg will be defended,
Vrede has been proclaimed the
capital of the Orange Free State.
committee. in session at Indianapolis,
has passed resolutions for an inquiry
into the West Virginia mining laws.
Gov. Stone has respited William H.
Simms, the Fayette county wife mur-
derer, to July 12, to allow new evidence
to be laid before the pardon board.
Seven bills of indictment for fraudu-
lent use of the mails were returned
in Boston against Francis Truth, who
advertised himself as a divine healer.
The committee of the international
peace burean, in session at erne,
Switzerland. called upon the 25 powers
signatory to The Hague convention to
intervene to put a stop to hostilities in
South Africa.
A circus aeronaut, Joseph Wilburn,
dropped 3.000 feet and was dashed into
a shapeless mass, at Pocahontas, W.
pany. A policy will cost $50, and will
secure a $75 funeral when every one
of the family so endowed requires post-
mortem offices.
e policy will be made out wish the
names of the entire family of which a
member is the purchaser, and any one
of the appointed may use the policy fu-
neral. The purchaser will be assured
a proper burial, with carriages for
mourners and a minister at the grave.
The plan of the burial association pro-
vides that the purchaser of a policy pay
1 down and $1 a month until he has
paid $50 into the association. He then
is granted a paid up policy for a
$75 funeral.
PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Six Deaths of Chinamen Occurred in as Many
Weeks.
The bubonic plague ‘has almost cer-
tainly reached San Francisco, but everv
endeavor is being made by the authori-
ties to suppress the facts, at the request
of local merchants and commercial
bodies, who fear the news might hurt
the Pacific coast trade.
Thus far the dwease is confined to
Chinatown, situated in the ‘heart of the
city. Six deaths have been reported in
as many weeks and several cases are
now being watched. All victims are
Chinamen. The district affected is in a
squalid condition and favors spread of
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The Chinese hide the sick. as they
dread quarantine, and dying Chinese are
carried over the roofs by their country-
men, to avoid the health authorities.
Ckristians Burned Alive.
The Peking correspondent of the IL.on-
Va.. because his parachute failed to
work.
The “Spectator,” an English paper,
said that the continental papers are de-
termined not to allow an American
fleet to collect the indemnity from the
sultan.
Earl White, a student, was caught in
the elevators in the Odd Fellows’ tem-
ple at Akron, O., and horribly crush-
ed. He will die. His home is at Bar-
berton, O.
The Sharon Steel Company has pur-
chased valuable ore land in Virginia,
Minn.. and will use the product in its
blast furnace, which is to be erected at
Sharon, Pa.
Philip H. Blantz is defendant in a di-
vorce suit at Canton, O. He testifies
that his wife received advice from al-
leged spirits at a Spiritualist meeting to
seek a new husband.
Mary Brannigan, a clerk in a New
York department store, was shot and
killed in the store by Edward Hall be-
cause she refused to marry him. Hall
made no attempt to escape.
3y the explosion of gas in the Rich-
mond colliery, at Scranton, Pa., Thurs-
day, Foreman James H. H. Bruce, Ed-
ward Bentch, William Patch, Frank
Karoloris and Joe Brodish were seri-
ously injured. The breaking of a safe-
ty lamp ignited the mine.
Four Italians are dead at South Fork,
Pa., as the result of drinking a large
quantity of wood alcohol. They had
been in the habit of drinking the pure
stuff. but were unable to obtain the de-
sired mtoxicant and resorted to the use
of the poisonous kind. The four died
in great agony.
don Times says: “The anti-foreign
movement headed by the “Boxers” has |
attained alarming proportions.
has been a serious anti-Christian out- |
break near Pao-Ting-Fu, province of |
Pe-Chi-Li, 73 native Christians were |
murdered, including women and chil- |
dren. Many were burned alive. !
“The Catholic missionaries report that |
the persecution is the most serious
known for years. The danger is in-
creased by the apathy or connivance ot |
the government i
Deed of a Fiend.
Frenzied by a jealous quarrel with |
his wife, Calvin Kimblern. colored, for- |
merly a corporal in Company M, Twen- |
ty-fifth United States infantry, Sunday
morning shot his e twice, once in|
the abdomen and once in
the neck, and then put a revolver to
the heads of 13-year-old Ethel Straus-
seh and 11-year-old Jessie Skaggs and |
fired, killing the latter girl instantly, |
the other girl living for some hours.
The couple were employed at the
Pries Orphans’ Home, Pueblo, Col,
of which the dead children were in-
mates.
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Two hundred and thirty-five cases of !
bubonic plague have thus far been of-
ficlally reported at Sydney. Of these 79,
have proved fatal. A second death from
the plague has occurred at Rockhamp-
ton, Queensland.
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{ dently with an iron bar.
The miners in the employ of the Beav-
er Coal and Coke Company, in Law-
rence county, Pa., demand back the 3
its a day kept out of their pay, under
the act of assembly which required that
that amount be kept out of the wages
of unnaturalized employes, and have fil-
ed a bill in equity. The act was declar-
ed unconstitutional.
Young Profcssor Murdered.
Prof. Roy Wilson White, a brilliant
young instructor in the law department
of the University of Pennsyl
Philadelphia, was brutally murdered
Saturday night. Three men. two of
them negroes, are in custody on sus-
condition y
scious and died four ‘hours
Prof. White was found in an uncon
| scios condition and died four thours
later. His skull had been crushed evi-
The only ar-
ticle missing from the body was a watch
A small sum of money was undisturb-
ed.
A Caring Ro te.
A lone highwaymen entered the cor-
ridor of the Coates hotel, Kansas City,
Mo., at 11:30 Sunday night, and forcing
the strong box of the cigar stand es-
caped. The box contained diamonds
valued at $1,200, $250 in gold, currency
and silver, and checks to the amount
of $100.
another employe of the hotel off at the
point of a revolver and escaped on a
horse that he had tied to the curbing.
$108,000, as compared with $355,000 for
Four attempts have been made with-
in two weeks to assassinate George W.
government
A new and highly poisonous brand of
baking powder was found to be respon-
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and
new
The United Mine Workers’ executive | of
He held the night clerk and | rioting
ALL IS DENIED.
Gen. Stephen H. Manning Declares He Can
No Longer Refrain From Telling the
Truth Regarding it.
“Sheridan's ride” was all “poppy-
cock,” according to Gen. Stephen 1}
Manning, who was second in command
of the Sixth army corps during Gen.
Sheridan's famous raid through the
Shenandoah valley. Sheridan's com
ing had absolutely no effect on the re
sult of the battle, Manning insists
Gen. Manning, who is a resident of
Boston, gave out an amazing interview
Sunday, which, if it is accepted. will
completely upset this important inci-
dent in civil war history. He declares
that he no longer can refrain from the
temptation to tell the truth and cor-
rect the “damnable unjustice” of “the
faked” historical acts of the celebrated
battle of Cedar Creek, which was the
reason of Sheridan's ride.
Gen. Manning, in the course of his
recital, declared that he met Gen. Sher-
idan two years before his death and that
Sheridan then admitted that he had
done wrong in claiming credit for the
victory over Early at Cedar Creek.
“Sheridan claimed that it was his ar-
rival.” says Gen. Manning, “that turn-
ed the tide of battle. Some poet wrote
a gushing song about the matter, and
that settled it. Since then it has been
absolutely useless to tell the truth about
this historic in-ident. When ‘he reach-
ed us he found a lot of sutlers, camp
followers and bummers running toward
Winchester. That is always the case
in all armies when in battle. Possibly
there might have been 500 of this crowd
that Sheridan met, but they did not
constitute the army, by a long shot.
“The truth is that when Sheridan ar-
rived. onr lines had been reformed and
were rapidly marching upon E !
treating and demoralized forces.
idan’'s arrival changed nothing.
result would have been precisely
same had he not come. We could have
had Early whipped before night in any
event.
“What was the result? History now
teaches that Sheridan found the whole
army retreating. It was too good an
opportunity for Sheridan to miss, and
he was ready to gain immortality by
slandering a brave army.”
WANT TO RES!GN.
Volunteers Are Anxious to Esczpe the Philip-
p'ne Rainy Seascn.
A special to the New York Evening
World gays that over 300 United States
volunteer officers in the Philippines
have handed in their resignations to es-
cape the arduous campaigning of the
rainy season. All these applications,
says the dispatch. have been refused.
1f all the army officers, who desired to
resign, were permitted to do so there
would not be 15 officers left to a regt-
ment. There is not a brigadier general
in the field who does not want reinforce-
ments,
The dispatch further says that the
plot to rise against the Americans in
Manila upon the arrival of the new
cemmissioners was broken up by the
prompt measures of Gen MacArthur.
incorporated at Tre 1 an’ au- | . 3
Hi ved 3 Yrontor, Svib 2 YW | The natives had planned to burn al
rized Cd a MDI 20, . 1. : bd “
ok gn ap al oI» > the public buildings. Although the plot
Puerto Rican customs receipts for | was checked. the feeling in Munila is
January, February and March were
shown by the fact than an effort to or-
ganize a demonstration by the friendiy
natives in honor of the commissione
failed signally, it being impossible t
get a dozen natives to take part in it.
GREAT FINANCIERING.
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Russia’s Enormous War Debt Has Been Wiped
sible for the poisoning of the Whit- Out in Short Order.
VE tv & 3 5 a Ds . : .
meyer family at Bloom bute, Pa. An imperial ukase has been publish-
It was announced at Pretoria that|.q announcing the redemption of the
debt of the imperial treasury to the bank
for bank notes issued for the purpose
of meeting the expenses of the wars
1833-36 and 1877-87. It provides
that henceforward no bank notes shall
be issued to meet the requirements of
the treasury.
This liquidation is regarded as an in-
dication that the imperial treasury will
not need further loans to meet budget
expenditure.
In 1881 the war debt of the treasury
to the Bank of Russia aggregated 964.-
000,000 rubles. When M. de Witte,
Russian minister of finance, assumed his
portfolio in 1802, the debts still totaled
742,000,000 rubles. This entire amount
has been extinguished within less than
eight years.
Paper Dollars Cheap.
Advices from Columbia by the Royal
Mail steamer Trent, say that the
rebels are operating around Panama,
which is full of troops, some of whom
are quartered in the churches. An en-
gagement took place May 16, north of
Panama. the rebels being driven o
Carthagena is still in possession of the
government. *
The Trent was to have conveyed a
body of troops to Carthagena, but the
rebels destroyed the bridges on the
night of May 13, thus preventing the
troops arriving for embarkation. On
the same night a desperate engagement
took place outside of Carthagena, in
which the government troops were vic-
torious. As many as 500 rebels are
said to have been killed in the fighting.
ie country is in a frightful state,
and paper dollars bring only 5 cents
each.
Bomb Throwers in Honolulu.
Advices received by the steamer
Arangi from Honolulu tell of an at-
tempt to assassinate the Portuguese
consul, A. Desousa Canaverro, on the
morning of May 4. Some one threw
a bomb at the house, and it had ex-
ploded just under the bedroom window
of the consul. It shattered a portion
of the floor near the head of the con-
sul's bed, smashed all the windows in
one side of the house, tore up the
ground and scattered bits of sheet iron,
the contents of the bomb, to a consid-
erable extent around.
This is the second attempt to assas-
sinate the consul within the past two
years. Two Portuguese anarchists, who
had been heard to make threats against
the consul, were arrested.
Sermons on Trains.
The passenger departments of the
trunk lines running out of Chicago are
considering the advisability of establish-
ing religious service on Sundays on
their through trains, with a view to min-
{imize the prejudice on the part of the
church people against Sunday travel.
The plan which seems to find most
favor is that of converting the dining
cars into chapels, where services can
be held soon after the morning meal.
One diner would accommodate all the
passengers on one train who would care
to join the service.
Baby Mashed to a Pulp.
Tuesday morning a six-months-old
child was found in an iron gondola of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at the
end of the big railroad bridge, which
spans the Ohio river at Bellaire, O. It
is supposed by passengers on No. 46,
castbound train, that a woman who was
on the train with the child threw it
out of the window and that it alighted
in the place it was found. The distance
it fell was over go feet and it was mash-
ed into a flat pulp.
ltzlian Riots in Mexico.
The z00 Italians who were recently
trought to Mexico direct from Italy to
work on the corstruction of the Vera
Cruz and Pacific railroad, but refused to
work upon their arrival are being fed
bv the government, pending their de-
portation to Italy. Many of them are
and causing trouble. Another
lot of 500 Italians are on the way here
under the same contract, and further
trouble is expected.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach Sees the End of
Anglo-Boer Hoslilities
The chancellor of the exchequer, Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, speaking at Bris-
tol, England, Wednesday evening, con-
gratulated the audience on the fact that
the cloud of war was fairly lifting and
that there were streaks of light portend
ing a glorious dawn. Continuing he
said:
“We are contending with a foe whose
courage and skilled tenacity we have
learned to respect. But we are entitled
to hope that the beginning of the end
is coming.”
Sir Michael added that the thanks of
the nation would be due to Lord Rob-
erts and those under him. If the gov-
ernment, he declared, was not entitled
to credit for the successes, it was not
blameable for the reverses. It had
shrunk at nothing to supply men and
means.
The chancellor denied that he was
personally responsible for any delay in
forwarding troops to South Africa, and
announced that it might be necessary to
still further increase the navy. e dis-
agreed with the suggestion that a large,
permanent increase of the army might
be necessary, but said that the country
must look to the volunteers and the
militia.
“The expenditure of the country,”
said Sir Michael, “is growing at an enor-
mous, a dangerous rate. I have always
put a strong navy as a primary neces-
sity of the country, and it may be that
assent will have to be given to a further
expenditure, in view of the hostile feel-
ing toward England in some European
countries. ut I regard the country’s
increasing expenditure as the real dan-
ger. If we go on as we are going there
may be very bad times in store for the
country, particularly for the working
classes.”
DEAD FILIPINCS EVERYWHERE.
General MacArlhunSends Thrilling Details of
the Bloody Fight at Catubig.
Officials of the war department, hav-
ing heard nothing from General Mac-
Arthur confirming the press report of
the bloody three days’ engagement at
Catubig, which resulted in the heaviest
loss of life the American army has sus-
tained in any one engagement in the
Philippines, cabled the general for in-
formation, and this answer was received
Wednesday:
“The rumored engagement in Samar
has been confirmed by reports received
from Henry T. Allen, Forty-third regi-
ment, United States volunteer infantry,
commanding Samar island. The de
tachment of 31 men stationed at Catu-
big were attacked April 15, by 600 men
with 200 rifles and one cannon. Our
men were quartered in a convent which
was fired next day by burning hemp
thrown from an adjoining church. A
detachment attempted to escape by way
of the river. The men getting into the
boat were killed. The remaining men
intrenched themselves near the river and
held out two days longer, facing most
adverse circumstances, until rescued by
Lieutenant Sweeney and 10 men. Over
200 of the attacking party reported kill-
ed and many wounded. Lieutenant
Sweeney reports streets covered with
dead insurgents. The Americans lost
19 killed and five wounded.
EXECUTIONS BY PROXY.
Chinese Murdercrs of a Missionary Allowed lo
Purchase Substitutes.
The steamer Empress of China brings
information that punishment ‘has been
meted out to the murderers of Mission-
ary Brooks. Fifteen men were tried for
the crime before the provincial judge
at Chiman Fu, and C. W. Campbell,
British consul. Tt was developed that
only three were guilty of the actual kill-
ing, and one of these dealt the final
blow. This one, being most culpable in
the Chinese criminal code, was behead-
ed in the presence of the British consul.
Another,- who was only a shade lighter
in guilt, was sentenced to strangulation
at the autumn assibes. A third was
sentenced to life imprisonment, and
four others to ten years’ imprisonment.
he North China Daily News has a
story to the effect that the condemned
men were allowed to purchase substi-
tutes, and that for $1,000 two men were
produced who agreed to pay the pen-
alty of death imposed upon those most
directly concerned in the murder. The
man who was to be beheaded paid $600
for his substitute, a dissolute onium
smoker, who wished to provide for his
amily. The murderer condemned to be
strangled had to pay only $400 for his
substitute. .
GOVERNOR'S PROTEST.
Smith, of Montana, Will Charge Fraud in ‘he
Eppointment of Clark.
Governor Smith, of Montana, has
wired a protest to the Senate against
the acceptance of the credentials of Mr.
Clark on the appointment of Lieutenant
Governor Spriggs. Governor Smith al-
leges that the resignation of Clark was
written in April, and that the date it
now bears, May 11, was the result of
erasure. He will also allege that the
resignation was in the possession of
Charles A. Clark, son of the senator, for
several weeks, and that the appoint-
ment by Spriggs was part of the plot.
In the carrying out of the plot, it will
be added, misrepresentation and other
devious methods were used to get the
governor out of the State.
Governor Smith will probably give a
senatorial commission to Martin Magin-
nis, formerly territorial delegate.
G. A. R. Ladies Home Burned.
Fire destroyed the Ladies’ G. A. R.
home, at Hawkins station, about eight
miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., on the
Pennsylvania railroad, Wednesday after-
noon. Forty widows of soldiers of the
civil war lost their permanent home.
The building was totally destroyed,
while a part of the furniture is also
total loss. The origin of the fire is un-
known. The loss is about $25,000, with
possibly one-half insured. The inmates
have been given a temporary home.
Luckily no lives were lost. This was
due to the system of keeping the in-
mates. The aged and helpless were car-
ed for on the first floor of the three-
story building. The fire started on the
third floor, which gave abundant oppor-
tunity to get the helpless ones out in
safety. There was considerable excite-
ment during the fire, and the shock
may cause the death of an aged inmate,
who is suffering with a bad attack of
rheumatism. She is Mrs. Anna Knouff,
08 years old.
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Sevenly-Hour Balile.
News has been received of a v vy bs
the Colombian government troops over
the insurgents in a battle in the Vetas
district. which began May 11 and last-
ed 70 hours. Gens. Leal and Herrera
were among the killed.
The slaughter was described as “hor-
rible butchery.” Twelve hundred insur-
gents were taken prisoners and the gov-
ernment troops captured a large quan-
tity of guns and rifles.
Battle With Rebels.
A telegram from Manila, dated Sun-
day, says: Five hundred insurgents,
half of whom were armed with rifles,
ambushed 80 scouts of the Fortieth vol-
unteer infantry in the hills near Aqua-
san, in the northern part of Mindanao.
ing 5I.
two killed and three wounded.
British War Losses.
of the war.
sent home, who number 8,001,
won cam car re: TYE 116) BD FINE WOUNDED
The Americans routed the natives, kill-
i The American casualties were
The war office has issued an abstract
of British casualties since the beginning
This shows a total of 20,-
035, exclusive of the sick in the field
and the invalids, including the wounded
MANIACS CRIME. |
Crazy Passenger on a Swedish Steamboa'
Makes a Record in Killing—Caplured
Shortly Afterward.
Telegrams from. Koping, Sweden,
dated Thursday, say: As the steamer
Koping was passing the steamer Prins
Carl, a man sprang upon the deck of the
latter vessel and shouted, “If any one
comes near I will shoot.” At the same
moment a woman was seen hanging
over the ship's side, shrieking for help.
_ The man escaped in a boat. When
the Prins Carl was boarded it was found
that 12 men on board had been shot, six
of whom, including the captain, were
dead. The rest were found locked in
their quarters. One of the wounded
died soon afterward.
The Prins Carl is a boat that plies be-
tween Koping and Stockholm. After
passing Quicksund, a man suddenly
started to shut all the doors of the cab-
ins ag saloons, and then, with a revolv-
er in either hand and with a dagger and
a knife in his belt, began firing at every
one he encountered. He stabbed the
captain in the back and a lady passen-
ger in the breast with the dagger and
hacked a boy with the knife. He also
shot the mate through the shoulder, and
of four gentlemen, who were playing |
cards in the smoking saloon, one was
shot in the temple, because he moved
when the murderer warned him not to
stir.
_ The Prins Carl was stopped off Kop-
ing, and the murderer seized the oppor-
tunity to jump into a lifeboat and row
away as fast as possible. Search of the
steamer discovered seven dead and five
wounded.
The police have tracked to Eskel-
stuna (57 miles west of Stockholm), and
arrested there the author of the Prins
Carl tragedy. He tried to fire a revolver
at the officers. When arrested, he gave
his name as Philip Noordlund. On be-
ing questioned about the murders the
prisoner replied that it was a matter
for the police themselves to unravel, but
on being further questioned he confess-
ed his crimes, and also said he had stoler
800 kroner from the captain.
WEALTHY ECCENTRIC DEAD.
Will be Buried in a $50,000 Casket, While the
Garments Cost Another $25,000.
Mrs. Dr. Frances P. Hiller, widely
known as “The Lady of the Caskets”
died at her home in Wilmington, Mass.,
Friday. Mrs. Hiller became noted
throughout the country when she began
building a marsolenm in which were
to rest the remains of herself and hus-
band, Dr. Henry Hiller. The place
cost $500,000.
For herself,
magnificent burial robe. It
Mrs. Hiller prepared a
was made
r . . |
of corded silk, decked with 500 yards |
of hand made lace. In two rows up |
and down the front of the robe are |
over 5,000 English daisies embroidered
by the most skilled artists of France.
On the sides are panels of white silk.
The robe is fastened by nearly five hun-
dred silver hooks designed by Mrs.
Hiler. The cost of the outer robe is
said to have been $20,000, and with it
went under-garments costing $3,000.
The walls of the mausoleum were
made five feet thick, and the gates mas-
sive and double locked to prevent grave
robberd from entering. The knockers
on the doors were of gold and worth a
fortune in themselves, and on the cof- |
fins were gold medallions said to be |
worth $300 cach. After Hiller died, |
Mrs. Hiller married Peter Surrette, her |
coachman, he agreeing to have his name |
changed to Hiller as a condition of
the marriage.
Rebels Await the Election.
Brig. Gen. Theodore Schwan, who
has been Gen. Otis’ chief of staff in the
Philippines for nearly a year, has arrived
at San Francisco from Manila on the
transport Thomas. He is hopeful that
it will not be many months before af-
fairs will have naturally adjusted them+
selves to the American control.
“The robber bands,” said Gen.
Schwan, “are incited by native politi-
cians who impose on the credulity of
the common herd. No people are so,
credulous as the lower class of the Fili-
pinos. These leaders have been incit-
ing the ex-soldiers to continue on the
warpath, assuring them that an Ameri-
can election is soon coming and McKin-
ley would be defeated and the Ameri-
cans withdraw from the Philippines.
Japan Means War.
Affairs in China are in a state of extra-
ordinary quiescence, while forebodings
of a coming storm are in the air. Rus-
sia has gained her points in Korea, in
the shape of a large tract of land bor-
dering upon the magnificent harbor of
Masampo.
Much chagrin is felt by the Japanese
and it is everywhere surmised that the
day of reckoning cannot be long delay-
ed.
Merrymzkers Drowned.
A terrible accident, resulting in the
death of from 30 to 40 persons, took
place Tuesday, at Roneiglione, on the
Take of Vico, Italy, during a celebra-
tion of the fete of St. Lucie, whose
chapel is on the shore of the lake.
Two boats, filled with young people,
capsized while returning from the chap-
el, within 300 yards of the landing stage.
Only 13 persons were saved.
fT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The lower House of Congress passed
a bill to grant a pension of $100 a month
to the widow of General Lawton.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of C. McNally, of Pennsyl-
vania, as consul general at Guatemala.
The comptroller of the treasury has
decided that Admiral Dewey is not en-
titled to fuel at the expense of the gov-
ernment, as lower officers of the navy
are.
In the Senate Senator Chandler de-
clared that the government is being
victimized by the armor plate manufac-
turers, and that the so-called secret pro-
cesses of making armor are all humbug.
In anticipation of the passage of the
army reorganization bill, the war depart-
ment is being flooded with applications
from persons who seek appointments to
the additional cadetship created by the
act.
The House bill relating to game birds
was favorably reported from the Sen-
ate committee on interstate commerce,
The purpose of the bill is to preserve,
distribute, introduce and restore wild
birds in the United States.
Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah, who
was excluded from the House of Repre-
sentatives for the practice of polygamy,
will receive $2,000 from the government
to defray his expenses attendant upon
the contest to retain his seat.
Under the currency act of March 14
over 1,000 banks will be supplied by the
new currency plates, but all cannot be
supplied in less than from four to six
months. About $15,000,000 in currency
is tied up because these plates are not
yet ready.
Commissioner Gen. Powderly is tak-
ing active steps to establish a system of
immigrant inspection in the Hawaiian
islands. He has detailed F. H. Larned,
chief clerk of the immigration bureau,
to proceed to Honolulu and make a
careful examination.
Promoters of the world’s fair at St.
Louis in 1903 are figuring on having the
venerable Galusha A. Grow, of Penn- ;
sylvania, take a prominent part in that |
celebration of the Louisiana purchase. |
It was that gentleman’s homestead bill |
that resulted in the speedy settlement |
of the lands of the Lowiciana puschase
OR. THLMAGES SUNDAY SERMON
A GOSPEL MESSAGE.
Subject: Laber Sirikes— A Question of
Present Import Ticated in a Way
Aimed to Bring About a Better Feeling
Between Employer and Employe.
[Copyright
WasHiNgtoN, D. C.—At a time when in
various districts labor troubles are exist-
ing or impending the efforts Dr. Talmage
makes in this diseourse to bring about a
better feeling between both sides of this
difficult question is well timed; texts, Gala-
tians, v., 15, “But if ye bite and devour ons
another, take heed that ye be not con-
sumed one of another,” and Philippians
ti., 4, “Look not overy man on Lis own
things, but every man also on the things
of others.”
About every six months there is a great
labor agitation. Theres are violent ques-
tions now in discussion between employers
and employes. The present ‘strikes’ will
go into the past. Of course the damage
done cannot immediately be repaired.
Wages will not be so high as they were,
Spasmodically they may be higher, but
they will drop lower. Strikes, whether
tight or wrong, aiways injure laborers as
well as capitalists. You will see this in
the starvation of next winter. Boycotting
and violence and murder never pay. They
are different stages of anarchy. God never
blessed murder. Tho worst use you can
put a man to is to kill him.
The worst enemies of the working classes
in the United States and Ireland are their
demented coadjutors. Years ago assas-
sination—the assassination of Lord Fred-
erigk Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix
Park, Dublin, in the attempt to avenge the
wrongs of Ireland, only turned away from
that afflicted people millions of sympathiz-
ers. The attempts to blow up the house of
common, in London, had only this effect
—to tkrow out of employment tens of
thousands of innocent Irish people in
1600.1
England. In this country the torch putto
tho factories that have discharged hands
for good or bad reason, obstructions on
the rail tracks in front of midnight express
trains because tho offenders do not like
tho president of the company, strikes on
shipboard the hour they were going to
sail, or in printing offices the hour the
paper was to go to press, or in the mines
the day the coal was to be delivered, or on
house scaffoldings so the builder fails in
keeping his contract—all these are only a
hard blow on the head of American labor
and cripple its arms and lame its feet and
plerce its heart. Traps sprung suddenly
upon employers and violence never took
one knot out of the knuckles of toil or put
a farthing of wages {ato a callous palm.
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace at Potsdam, and he re-
solved to get it. It was owned by a miller.
He offered the miller three times the value
of the property. The miller would not
take it because it was the old homestead,
and he felt nbout as Naboth felt about his
vineyard when Albab wanted it. Frederick
the Great was a rough and terrible man,
and he ordered the miller into his pres-
onco, and the king, with a stick in his hand
—a stick with which he sometimes struck
the ofil:ers of state--sald to the milier,
“Now, I have offered you three times the
value of that property, and if you won't
sell it I’il take it anyhow.” The miller said,
“Your majesty, you won't.” “Yes,” said
tho king; *‘I will take it.” “Then,” said
the miller, “if your majesty does take it
I will sue you in the chancery court.” At
that threat Frederick the Great ylelded bis
infamous demand. And the most imperi-
ous outrage against the working classes
will yet cower beforetho law. Violence and
deflunce of the law will never accomplish
anything, but righteousness and submis-
sion to the law will accomplish it.
But gradually the damages dono the
laborer by the strikes will be repaired, and
some important things ought now to be
suid. The whole tondeney of our times, as
you have noticed, is to make the chasm
between employer and employe wider and
wider. In olden time the head man of the
factory, the master builder, the capitalist,
the head man of the flrm, worked side by
side with their employes, working some-
times at the same bench, dining at the
same table, and there are those here whe
can remember the time when the clerks ot
| large commercial establishments were uc. |
{| customed to board with the
head men of
the firm.
All that is changed, and the tendency is
to make the distance between employer
and employe wider and wider. The ten.
dency is to make the employe feel that he
| 1s wronged by the success of the capitalist
and to make the capitalist feel: “Now, m
laborers are only beasts of burden, I must
give so much money for so much drudgery;
just so many pieces of silver for so many
beads of sweat.” In other words, the
bridge of sympathy is broken down at both
ends.
That feeling was well described by
Thomas Carlyle when he said: “Plugson
of St. Dolly Undershot, buccaneerliks,
says to his men: ‘Noble spinners, this is
the hundredth thousand we have gained,
wherein I mean to dwell and plant my
vineyards, The bundred thousand pound
is mine; the daily wajgzo was yours. Adieu,
noble spinners! Drink my health with this
groat each, which I give you over and
above.”
Now what we want is to rebuild that
bridge of sympathy, and I put the trowel
to one of the abutments to-day, and 1
preach more especlally to employers as
such, although what I have to say will be
appropriate to both employers and em-
ployes.
The behavior of a multitude of laborers
toward their employers during the last
threo months may have induced some em-
ployers to neglect the real Christian duties
that they owo to those whom they employ.
Therefore I want to say to you whom I
confront face to face and those to whom
these words may come that all shipowners,
all capitalists, all commercial flrms, all
master builders, all housewives, aro bound
to be interested in the entire welfare of
their subordinates.
fears ago some one gave three prescrip-
tions for becoming a millionaire: “First,
spend your life in getting and keeping the
earnings of other people; secondly, have
no anxiety about the worriments, the
losses, the disappointments of others;
thirdly, do not mind tho fact that your
vast wealth implies the poverty of a great
many people.”
Now, there is nota man here who would
consent to go into life with those three
principles to earn a fortune. It is your de-
sire to do your whole duty to the men and
women in your service.
Tirst of all, then, pay as large wages as
are reasonable and as your business will
afford; not necessarily what others pay,
certainly not what your hired help say you
must pay, for that is tyranny on the
of labor unbearable.
aborer to tell his employer
what he must pay implies the right of an
employer to compel a man into a service
whether he will or not, and either of those
ideas is despicable.
When any emplover allows a laborer to
say what he must do or have his business
ruined, and the employer submits to it, he
does every business man in the United
States a wrong and yields to the principle
which, carried out, would dissolve society.
Look over your affairs and put your-
selves in imagination in your laborer’s
place and then pay him what vefore God
and your own conscience you think you
ought to pay him.
“God bless yous!” are well in thelr
lace, but they do not buy coal nor pay
10use rent nor get shoes for the children.
At the same time you, the employer, ought
to remember through what straits and
strains you got the fortune by which yon
built your store or run the factory. You
are to remember that vou take all the
risks and the employe takes none or
scarcely any. You are to remember that
there mav be reverses in fortune and that
gome new 3tyle Of machinery may make
your muchinery valueless or some new
style of tariff set your business back hope-
lessly and forever. You must take all that
into consideration and then pay what is
reasonable.
Do not be too ready to cut down wages.
As far as possible, pay all, and pay prompt.
Jy. There is a great deal of Bible teaching
on this subjeet. Malachi, “I will be a swift
witness all sorcerers and against
all adulte against those who op-
pose the hireling in his wages.” Leviticus,
“Thon shalt not keep the wages of tho hire-
Ting all it unto the morning.” Colos-
sians, sters, give unto your servants
M
that which just and equal, knowing that
ye also have a Master in heaven.” So you
seo it is not a question between you and
your employe so much as it is a question
between you and God.
Do not say to your employes, “Now, it
you don’t like this place, get another,”
when you know they eaunot get another.
As far as possikle, oace a year visit at their
homes your clerks and your workmen.
That is the only way you can become ac-
quainted with their wants,
Fou will by such process find out that
there is a blind parent or a sick sister bo-
ing supported. You will find some of your
young men in rooms without any flre in
winter and in summer sweltering in ill
ventilated apartments. You will ind much
depends on the wages you pay or with-
hold.
Moreover, it is your duty as employer, a3
far as possible, to mold the welfare of the
employe. You ought to advise him about
investments, about life insurance,
part™
about
| heaven yourself, O employer!
5 : -
tunity you cannot afiord to pass. You
its construc.101 1S UNNSCESSAry.
we can offer most liberal terms.
CE ————S———
WHITE SEWING MAC
er ——
savings banks, You ought to give him the
benefit of your experience. 1
There are hundreds and thousands of |
employers, I am {glad ‘to say, who are sot-
tling in the very best possi vay the des-
tiny of their employes. Such men as Mar-
shall of Leeds, Lister of Bradford, Akroy
of Halifax and men so near at home it
might offend their modesty if I'fnentioned
thelr names—these men have built rending
rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded
croquet lawns, cricket grounds, gymna- i
sums, choral societies for their employes
and they have not merely paid tho ww
on Saturday night, hut through the
tentment and the thrift and the ge
morals of their employes they are paying |
wages from generation to geuoration for-
ever.
Again, I counsel all employers to inok
well after the physical health of their sub-
ordinates. Do not put on them anv un-
necessary fatigue. 1 never could under-
stand why the drivers on our cily cars
must stand all day whon they might just
as well sit down and drive.
It seems to me most unrighteous that so
many of the female clerks in our stores
should be compelled to stand all day and
through those hours when there are but
few or no customers. These people have
aches and annoyances and weariness
snough without putting upon them addi-
tional fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must go up and down on the business of
the store, let them sit down.
But above all I charge you, O employers,
that you look after tho moral and spiritual
welfare of your employes. First, know
where they spend their evenings. That
decides everything. You do not want
around your money drawer a young man
who went last night to seo “Jack Shep
pard!” A man that comes into the stor
in the morning ghastly with midnight -
elry is not the man for your store. The
young man who spends us evening in the
society of reflned women or in musical or
artistic circles or in literary improvement
is the young man for your store.
Do not say of these young men, “If |
they do their work in the business hours, |
that is all I have to ask.” God bas made |
you that man’s guardian. I want you to
understand that many of these young men
are orphans or worse than orphans, flung
out into society to struzgle for
selves.
~ Employers, urge upon your empiqyos,
above all, a religious life. So far from
that, how is it, young ?
being chezred on t
of you are carieat
thing for youto keep your Cl
rity in that store or fac
are so many hostile to re
a grave general under
Groat, was a Christis
Great was a skeptic
them
3
y duty that
to be excu from te
he might tho holy sacrament.
Ho was excused. A few after |
Ziethen was dining with tho 8 1
with many notables of Prussia,
Frederick the Great
sald, **Well, Ziethen,
ment of last y dig
ble okd warrior arose
majesty I havo risked |
on the battlefield, aud for your majest
would be willing any timo to die; but
do wrong when you insult the Chri
religion. You will forgive me if I
ola military servant, cannot bear it
any insult to my Lord and mj
Frederick the Great leaped tol
he put cut his hand, and he said:
Ziethen! Forgive me, forgive me!”
Oh, thera are many being scoffed at for
their religion, and 1 thank God there are
many men us brave as Ziethen! Go to |
Take all
your people with you. Soon you will be
through buying and selling, and through
na joeosa
yi did that saera-
t?’ The venera-
3 “For your
c
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8
Happy |
with manufacturing and buildivg, and |
God will ask you: ‘“Where are all those |
people over whom you had go great in
fluence? Are they here? Will they be
here?’ O shipowners, into what harbor
will your crew sail? Oh, you merchant
grocers, are those young mea that
under your care are providing food for
the bodies and families of men to go
starved ‘forever? Oh, you manufac-
turers, with so many wheels flying and
80 many hands pulling and so many new
patterns turned out and so many goods
shipped, aro the spinners, are the carmen,
are the draymen, are the salesmen, are the
watchers of your establishments working
out everything but their own salvation?
Can it be that, having those people under
your care five, ton, twenty years, you have
made ro everlasting impression for good on
their immortal souls? God turn us all back
from such selfishness and teach us to live
for others and not for ourselves. Christ
sets us the example ot sacrifles, and so do
many of His disciples.
One summer in California a gentleman
who had just removed from the Sandwich
Islands told me this incident: You know
that one of the Sandwich Islands is devoted
to lepers. People zetting cick of the lep-
rosy on the other islands are sent to the
isle of lepers. They never come off. They
are in different stages of disease, but all
who die on that island die of leprosy.
On ono of the islands there was a phy-
gicinn wno always wore his hand gloved,
aud it was often discussed why he always
nad a glove on that hand under all eireum-
stances. One day he came to the authori-
ties, and he withdrew his glove, and he
said to the officers of the law: “You see on
that hand a spot of the leprosy gnd that I
am doomed to die. I might bide this for a
little while and keep away from the isle of
lepers, but I am a physician, and I can
go on that island and administer tp
the sufferings of those who are
further gone in tho disease, and I should
like to go now. It would be selfish in me
to stay amid these luxurious surroundings
when I might be ot go much help to the |
wretched. Send me to the isle of the |
lepers.” They, seeing the spot of leprosy, |
of course took the mun inte custody. He |
bade farewell to his family and his friends. |
It was an agonizing farewell, Ho |
gould never sce them again, Ho v |
taken to the isle of the lepers and thero |
wrought among the sick until prostrated |
by his own death, which at lust came. Oh, |
that was magnificent selt denial, magnifi- |
cent sacrifice, only surpassed by that of |
Him who exilel Himselt from tho health |
of heaven to this leprous island of a world i
that He might physician onr wounds and |
weep our griefs and dis our deaths, tarn- |
ing the isle of a leprous world into a great
blooming, glorious garden. Whether « n-
plover or employe. let us cate that spirit.
Farming EXpOrIs increas.
The monthly statement issued by the
oureau of statistics, shows that during
April the exports were as follows:
Breadstuffs, $18.566.718, increase, as
:ompared with April, 1800, $3,450,000; |
-attle and hogs 081,700, decrease |
$470,000; Provisions,
$13.147.286, in- |
‘rease $508,000: cotton, $24,684,031, in- |
-rease $16.263.000; mineral oils, $6,033,-
i136, increase $1,738,000. For the last 10
nonths the total exports of these ar-
icles amounted y $618.087,304, as
igainst $674,443, for the same period
in 1800.
Dying by Thovs:pds,
A special dispatch from Hyderabad,
aoting the rapid spread of cholera, says:
“In one division no fewer than 45 fam-
ine camps have been attacked by the
sestilence. The most virulent type is
it Gujerat, where many thousands have
serished. In the Godhra camp alone
‘here have been thousands of victims.
An ,appalling loss of life seems inevita-
ble”?
The American machinery building in
he Vincennes annex of the Parix expo-
ition was formally opened Tuesday.
By a margin of two votes the Massa-
thusetts House decided against abolish-
ng the death penalty in that State.
A fire in Greenwich, Conn.., destroyed
he postoffice, a Catho church and
mlf a dozen other buildings, causing a
oes of $175,000.
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PENSIONS GRANTED.
Struck Ano'her Gusher in Tioga County—His«
toric Land Sold for Coking
Purposes.
Pensions granted last week: John
Redlingshafer, Monongahela, $6; David
T. Wier. Johnstown, $14; Charles Loer-
ber, Monongahela, $8; William J. Har-
ris, California, $10; Anthony Jaquette,
Scottdale, $10; Joseph Tlawke, Leech-
burg, $10: Frederick Davis, California,
$6; Joseph Roae, Meadville, $8; James
C. Merriman, Ingram, $12; Edward
Thomas. West Elizabeth, $8; Edward
H. Sheets, Finleyville, $10; Reymer
Bush, Turtle Creek, $6: William A.
Taylor, Kittanning. $3; Lavinia F. Rail,
Greensburg, $8; Matthew J. Welsh,
Dunbar. $3; Anthony Lawman, Coal-
n g William Ewing.
$24; Brice Ramsey, Mt.
George W. Wright, Mercer, $10; James
P. Cline, Murraysville, $12; John Hix-
enbaugh, Fayette City, $6; William C.
Ramsey, Washington, $10; William R.
Wallis, Worthington, $12; Jeremiah B.
White, Fayetteville, $8; Nancy M. Jack,
Apollo, $3; Agnes Watts, Brookville,
$8: Zerilda Armstrong, New Castle,
The Blossburg Oil Company has an-
other gusher on the McNeil farm, at
Gaines, Tioga county. The sand was
tapped Friday and the well at once re-
sponded with a flow that filled a so-
barrel tank in an hour. The tools were
run into the hole and the production
increased by agitation to 110 barrels an
hour. The well has been agitated sev-
eral times since and is still spouting
oil at the rate of so barrels an hour.
Tt is located about 1,000 feet cast of the
first gusher drilled in by the Blossburg
Company.
The railroad that is to be built from
McConnellsburg to connect with the
Baltimore & Ohio at Cherry Run, east
of Cumberland, Md., and which will
give Fulton county its first railroad fa-
cilities, will open up a rich and fertile
ection. Tt is estimated that in Fulton
county. there are 160,000 acres of timber
land.” There i
is on an average 50 tons
of bark to the acre, and at least 50 rail-
road ties could be cut. This would
male 8,000.0c0 tons of bark and the same
number of ties. The quantity of iron
ore is beyond estimation.
Joseph Laughrey has purchased from
John Rankin 160 acres of fine coking
coal on Washington Run, Franklin
township. Fayette county, for $65,000.
The tract is the original Washington
tract taken up by George Washington
t before he went into the revolution-
ary war. On the land, which was known
2s “The Meadow.” Washington erected
a fine grist mill which Lawrence Wash-
ington and various hired men operated.
This stands to-day. On the new tract
Laughrey will erect 100 coke ovens and
build a mining village.
Harry FH. Campbell, of Freedom, bet-
ter known as “Shorty” Campbell, has
started on his second trip to the Alas.
kan gold fields. He was accompanied
by two other Freedom residents, Will-
iam A. Korn and Samuel Spangler.
They expect to locate at Cape Nome.
Mr. Campbell has had considerable ex-
perience in the gold fields. being among
the first to try their luck in the land of
ice and snow. He returned home about
a year ago, having made a good stake.
While on her way to the United
Brethren Church Sunday morning, Mrs.
John Ferguson, a widow of Hawkeye,
about 635 vears of age, was assaulted in
a lane near Scottdale by an Italian
about 30 years old, who threatened her
with a razor. A large posse captured
the fellow at Overton, a mile from town.
Had it not been for protection afforded
by officers her son William would have
wreaked vengeance upon the Italian on
the streets.
On the side of the Laurel ridge, near
Conemaugh furnace, there is now in
rapid course of construction the neces-
sary mechanical appliances for what, it
is said, will be one of the largest and
best equipped stone quarries in the
United States. The company that is to
operate the quarry is the Conemaugh
Stone Company and is composed of the
well-known railroad contractors, Drake
& Stratton, and H. S. Kerbaugh.
Sixteen thoroughbred Guernsey cat-
tle, the noted herd of Mr. P. G. Walker,
of Cecil, Washington county, were
slaughtered Tuesday at the Herrs Island
fertilizing works on account of tubercu-
losis. The herd was under suspicion,
and by order of the State Live Stock
Sanitary Board, Dr. James A. Waugh,
of Pittsburg, visited Mr. Walker's farm
and inspected the animals. His exam-
ination resulted in the 16 animals being
condemned. .
There is wild excitement in Connells-
ville and Bullskin townships, Fayette
county, because of the report that Con-
tractor George A. Rowe had discovered
oil in the test well being drilled. Op-
erations have ceased and everybody is
reticent. If the strike is even indicat-
ive of oil, the Connellsville Oil and
Gas Company will immediately sink oth-
er wells.
Zara Buckins, the seven-year-old
daughter of John Buckins, of Monon-
gahela, who was struck by a train on
April 12, and who remained in a semi-
conscious state for three weeks after
the accident, is now in a fair way to re-
cover.
The Indian Creek Coal and Railroad
Co. has purchased 7.0co acres of coal and
lumber land in Springfield township,
Favette county, the land lying on In-
dian Creek, and it is feared the mine
water will pollute the domestic supply
of Uniontown, when the mines are
opened.
Miss Gretta Estes, of Green township,
Crawford county, was severely bitten by
him to the ground until help arrived
a large shepherd dog. but succeeded in
throwing down the brite and holdin
and-the dog was killed. Hydrophobia
1s feared.
At the close of services at St. Michaels
Catholic Church at Greenville, Rev. J.
G. Kearns, the pastor, made a scathing
attack on sec
't societies, particularly
Knights of Pythias and d
Fellows. Any member of his congrega-
tion joint either of these, he said, will
be denied sacraments of the church and
will be deprived of a Christian burial
near Latrobe. struck Thursday evening.
The New Castle shovel works. which
was recently sold to the trust, is being
dismantled and the machinery shipped
to Beaver Falls. Tt will be replaced by
machinery for the manufacture of hoops,
and the plant will employ as many men
as formerly.
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at work i. Georgia, and the converts
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