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WALKER HERDS THE COMMISSION.
WORK TO BEGIN SOON.
All but Three of Former Panama Ca-
nal Board Re-Appointed By
President Roosevelt.
The men who will supervise the
completion ot the Panama Canal have
been selected and their names will be
announced as soon as the President
is ready to outline the course he will
pursue with regard to the work. The
head of the commission will be Rear
Admiral sohn G. Walker, the Chair-
man of the commission which examin-
ed the routes. He will have associat-
ed with him all the present members
of that commission except Professor
Haupt, of Philaueiphia, who has sig-
nified a desire to be relieved; former
Senator Pasco of Florida and Emory
‘R. Johnson, The retirement of these
three men wiil leave one vacancy to be
filled. It is altogether probable that
Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas,
will be chosen to fill the place, The
salary of the commissioners will be
$5,000. The other commissioners are:
Alfred Noble, George S. Morrison, Col-
onel Peter C. Hains of wie army, Wil-
liam H. Burr and Lieutenant Colonel
Oswald 8S. Ernest of the army. The
President is determined that there
shall be no delay in beginning the
construction when the question as to
the validity of the title has been set-
tled. The selection of so many mem-
bers of the present board is intended
as a recognition of the great work
they did in studying the routes. Their
investigation was so thorough that
they know every detail of the elabor-
ate working drawings of the canal.
The President feels that it would be a
waste of time to take up an entirely
new board. He took the advice of
Senators Hanna and Spooner on the
subject of a Chairman of the Commis-
sion, and they both said that he could
not possibly do better than to appoint
the Rear Admiral, who not only made
a good report on the Nicaragua route,
but made it so good that the Panama
people were compelled to come down
on the price of their property so as
to make it worth while for the United
States to negotiate with them. The
President hopes to be able to begin
actual work of digging the canal soon
after the first of the new year. He
has no doubt that Attorney General
Knox will be able to extract a valid
title from the French company and
the French Government.
Tennessee Miners Want Increase.
The district committee of the Mine
Workers of America, at Knoxville,
Tenn., has made its demand for a
wage scale for the year beginning
October 1. They want a 20 per cent.
average increase in all wages to be
paid for an eight-hour day instead of
nine hours, as at present, and for two
pay days per month.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Commander Nickels cables that
Porte Cabello has fallen into hands of
revolutionists.
The State Department announces
that it cannot recognize Oant. A. A.
Rosehill’s claim to Marcus Island, in
the Pacific Ocean.
The War Department is about to
take steps to stop the indiscriminate
employment of foreigners as workmen
on defenses.
An extra session of the senate is
likely to be called immediately after
the election to take up Cuban recip-
rocity treaty.
Father McKinnon suggests that 400
native Filipino priests be sent to
America for year's training in Cath-
olic seminaries,
President Roosevelt has received a
pleasant autograph letter from the
pope with a mosaic picture from the
vatican workshop.
The Navy Department has obtained
a rate of $28.75 for the transportation
of sailors and marines from Eastern
peints to San Francisco.
The United States consul at Odes-
sa, Russia, informs the State depart-
ment that the plague has been official
ly proclaimed at Odessa.
The cruiser Philadelphia having
gone out of commission at San Fran-
cisco, the officers attached to her
have been transferred to the Boston.
The cruizer Luzon and the tankship
Arethusa, attached to the Asiatic sta-
tion, have been ordered home, The
Luzon, is one of the ships captured
from Spain.
Justice Gray’s retirement from the
supreme court calls out a story that it
was not Justice Shiras, but Justice
Gray, who changed his mind on the
income tax law.
The Navy department has been in-
formed that at the trial of the torpedo
boat Chauncey off the Barren island
course she made 286 knots, her con-
tract speed being 27 knots.
General Ell Torrance, commander
in-chief of the G. A, R, and members
of his staff, spent Sunday on the Get-
tysburg battlefielg and conducted
simple religious services appropriate
to the scene.
Surgeon General Forwood says that
he was informed that the cholera sit-
uation in the Philippines was well
under control and that there will be a
general diminution in the number of
cases from now on.
President Roosevelt and family at-
attended Christs’ Episcopal church
Sunday at Oyster Bay. Dr. P. M.
Rixey, surgeon general of the United
States navy, and Mrs. Rixey spent the
day at Sagamore hill,
Former Gov. Francis,
Louis exposition has informed the
president that the dedicatory cere-
monies would occur April 30 next, this
being the 100th anniversary of the
transfer of the ceded territory from
the French government to the
United States.
Commissioner Yerkes, of the inter-
nal revenue bureau, has directeq that
immediate steps be taken for the col-
lection of the tax on profit and loss
accounts, or undivided profits ge-
counts, of banks, trusts companies or
private banks under the war revenue
act of June, 1898.
of the St.
MINERS MAY RESUME,
Superintendent Luther Says Mines
May Be in Operation Within
Ten Days.
Mining is to be resumed in the an-
thracite field within 10 days if the
predictions of Superintendent Luther,
of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company, which mines 22
per cent of the output is true. In an
interview Mr. Luther said that at a
meeting between the operators and
District Presidents Nicholls and Duity
an agreement was reached by which
the miners could resume, and that
since that time the two Mine Work-
ers district presidents have been go-
ing among the men and urging them
to return to work. Preparations
Lave been made, according to Mr.
Luther, for a speedy resumption, and
the cars that have been in storage
have been taken out and sent to points
near the anthracite field, where they
can be rushed forward at a moment's
rotice. The operators greatly fear
that the advent of bituminous coal
has permanently injured the anthra-
cite market, and are anxious to begin
operations at once. They say that
they intend to open the mines by Sep-
tember 1, and if violence occurs they
will demand the aid of the troops to
protect the men placed in the mines.
The raiding of farms in the Catawissa
valley by strikers continues. The
sheriff has been appealed to by the
farmers, and as a result the brigadier
general sent the governor's troop on a
march through that region. General
Gobin, after an investigation of the
conditions in the Catawissa valley,
has decided that military protection
for the farmers is impracticable, and
at his suggestion Sheriff Beddall has
sworn in all men of the valley as dep-
uties so that they will be in a position
tc protect their farms from the for-
eigners, President Mitchell, at Wilkes-
barre, said he had received reports
from every section of the strike
region, and they showed that the
strikers were standing firm and more
confident of victory than ever. With
the signing of the scale by the Mer-
chants Coal Company of Tunnelton,
West Virginia, it is thought that the
miners’ strike in that district has
come to an end.
STORM SWEPT GEORGIA.
Wind Blew Down Buildings and the
Cotton Crop Was Ruined.
A severe electrical storm, with high
wind, passed over the southern sec-
tion of Georgia Sunday. At Stillmore
the roundhouse of the Airline railway |
was blown down and wrecked. At
Waynesboro a dwelling was blown
down and one man killed. At Bartow
the Baptist church and the Academy
buildings were struck by lightning
and narrowly escaped destruction, At
Swannsboro a building was struck by
lightning and burned. In all the sec-
tion the opening cotton wag whipped
from the bolls and ruined. The loss
from this source is heavy.
PYTHIANS ARE GROWING.
Reports of Supreme Officers Show a
Steady Gain of Members.
Supreme Chancellor Fethers, in his
annual report to the Supreme Lodge
of Knights of Pythias, at San Fran-
cisco, Cal., said that December 31,1901,
the order had 540,138 affiliated mem-
bers. To this should be added at
least 500,000 who have been suspended’
for non-payment of dues, or who have
teken withdrawal cards, making a to-
tal of more than 1,000,000. The net
gain for the year was 23,194. The re-
port of R. V. L. White, supreme keep-
er of records and seal, showed that the
total number of subordinate lodges
December 31, 1901, was 7,002, the net
gain during the year being 142 lodges.
BOUGHT THE MINT,
Philadelphia Institution Was
chased By a Realty Company.
The sale of the Philadelphia mint
property has been consamated, the
buyers being the Philac4lphia Mint
Realty company, and the arice $2,000,-
000. A quarter of a million has al
ready been deposited to bind the con-
tract. The rest of the morey is to be
raid within eighteen months.
Pur-
TOWN SWEPT BY FIRE.
Doctor Lights a Match, Explosion and
Fire Follows.
Dr. W, E. Terry was injured by an
explosion of gasoline at Princeton, Ky.
and died. He lighted a match in the
Terry & Frayer drug store, which
caused the explosion and originated a
fire that did $100,000 damage before
it was brought under control. Among
the heavy losers were the Cumberland
Telephone exchange and the Postal
Telegraph company. The opera house,
Terry’s drug store and two dry goods
stores were also destroyed.
Negroes Have an Exposition.
An Exposition conducted entirely by
negroes has been opened at Chicago,
and will continue for 30 days. Ex-
hibits of the various kinds of work
done by colored persons from the time
the first American slave was put to
work in rice and cotton fields to the
present day are on exhibition.
Tin Plate Mill Closed.
Two thousand employes
American Tinplate company at El-
wood, Ind., were notified that the
plant will be shut down indefinitely.
The notices posted state that the sus-
pension of operations results from a
shortage of orders.
of the
Big Concerns Combine.
The International Harvester Com-
pany, with an authorized capital of
$120,000,000, was incorporated at
Trenton, N. J. The company is auth-
orized to manufacture harvesting ma-
chines and agricultural implements of
all kinds. It is understood that among
the concerns interested is the Me-
Cormick reaper and mower concern of
Chicago.
POWERS SIGN TARIFF PROTOCOL
ADVICES IN CONFLICT.
Sharretts United States Expert At-
taches Signature to Customs
Treaty With China.
The State Department at Washing-
ton, D. C., has received a dispatch from
1. S. Sharretts the Treasury expert
who was commissioned by the State
Department to negotiate a tariff treaty
between the United States and China,
stating that the treaty was signed on
the 15th inst. It was announced about
a month ago that the British Com-
missioners had concluded a tariff
treaty with China, and it was under-
stood at that time that the British
treaty would serve as a basis for sim-
ilar treaties with the United States
and other foreign countries. The
State Department was advised at the
time that the rates on imports enter-
ing China were 121% per cent. and the
port duties 715 per cent. One of the
most important provisions of the Brit-
ish-China treaty was that abolishing
the likin tax. A dispatch from Shang-
hai to London, England, says the pro-
tocol of the tariff treaty was signed
Saturday by the British, American,
German and Japanese representatives
without reservation and by the Aus-
trian, Belgian and Dutch representa-
tives ad referendum. This action was
principally due to the American com-
missioner T. S. Sharretts, desiring to
conclude the business before returning
to the United States. The * Chinese
commissioners lacking imperial sanc-
tion, did not sign the protocol; there-
fore, if China modifies it the signa-
tures affixed will be void. The docu-
ment provides that the new tariff will
become operative November 1. At
Shanghai, Liu-Kun-Yi, Chang-Chin-
Tung and Yuan-Shai-Kai, viceroys re-
spectively of Nan-Kin, Hankow and
Governor of Pe-Chi-Li, in conferences
with T. S. Sharretts, Tariff Commis-
sioner for the United States, have con-
curred in making two significant and
unequivocal declarations. The first
is that the critical time has arrived
when China must make a supreme ef-
fort for the promotion of commerce
and friendly intercourse with America
and Europe. The second declaration
is that as an evidence of her good
faith and her appreciation of the gen-
erous policy of the United States to-
ward her, China, will make an unpre-
cedented exhibit at the St. Louis Ex-
position.
PROBING POSTAL FRAUDS.
Postmasters Are Said to Resort to
Peculiar Tactics.
The attention of the Postoffice de-
partment has been called to the prac-
tice of certain persons in Pennsyl-
vania who are trying to defraud the
government. The salary of the Presi-
dential postmaster is based upon his
receipts, while the fourth-class post-
master is paid according to his cancel-
lations. It is learned that in many
cases in Pennsylvania, where persons
live within the limits of a President-
ial office, they buy their stamps at
this office and then take them to a
fourth-class office to have them can-
celled. In this way the government
is virtually compelled to pay two sal-
aries for the same amount of postal
business. The department is going to
make a very vigorous investigation of
the cases brought to its attention, and
thosé postmasters who are found
guilty will be dismissed from the ser-
vice,
BIG BOND ISSUE.
Pennsylvania Steel Company Vote
$7,500,000 for Blast Furnaces.
At a special meeting of the stock-
holders of the Pennsylvania Steel Co.,
at Philadelphia, an issue of $7,500.000
5 per cent. 30-year bonds was author-
ized. These bonds, which were all
subscribed are to provide funds to
pay for the Cornwall iron ore banks
blast furnaces at L.ebanon and a con-
trolling interest in the Cornwall & Le-
banon railrcad. They will be secured
by a first mortgage on these properties
which were bought at the time the
Pennsylvania Steel Company was re-
organized by the new company in May,
1901.
STRUCTURAL STRIKE OFF
American Bridge Company Concedes
Demands of Philadelphia Men.
The general strike of the structural
iron workers throughout the country
demands of the Philadelphia strikers.
The President of the International
Structural Iron Workers’ Association
announced that the American Bridge
Company has granted the demands of
its employes for an eight-hour working
day at 50 cents an hour. Mr. Buchan-
an further stated that the general sym-
pathetic strike ordered by the execu-
tive board has been declared off.
LODGE SUSPENDED HINSEY.
Knights of Pythias Officer Accused of
Misusing Funds.
A compromise was reached at the ses-
sion of the Supreme lodge of Knights
of Pythias at San Francisco that John
A. Hinsey, former president of the
board of controll of the endowment
rank, accused of misusing $500,000,
“shall be suspended until the grand
tribunal acts on his case.”
Steps To Be Altered.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany has authorized a change in the
steps of all its passenger coaches.
As each car is returned to the shop
the alteration will be made. At pres-
ent the coaches are equipped with
three steps, but the new cars are to
have four.
Roosevelt Will Visit Indiana.
President Roosevelt will be in In-
diana September 23. He will devote
the entire day to the State. From Ft,
Wayne the party will go direct to
Chicago.
has been declared off, the American |
Bridge Company having granted the!
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
New York’s Chinatown gave a fare
well banquet to Minister Wu.
At Mendon, Mo., the business por
tion of the town was destroyed by
fire, . »
Bandmaster John S. Duss has se
cured a New York theater on a 10-
year lease.
The woman’s franchise bill passed
both ‘houses of the New South Wales
legislature,
The will of the late John W. Mac:
kay was filed for probate by attorneys
in Virginia, Nev.
Alleged plot to kill ex-Gov. Fattison
with an infernal machine is reported
from Philadelphia.
Henry Watterson, states emphatical-
ly that he is not a candidate for Gov-
ernor of Kentucky.
Luther R. Marsh, famous lawyer
and spiritualist, died in Middletown,N
Y., in his 91st year.
At San Francisco the transport
Crook arrived from Manila with 564
men of the Twenty-fifth infantry.
German electrical manufacturers
claim to see their only salvation for
trade is in the American trust plan.
King Edward reviewed the fleet at
Portsmouth, England, and all ships
were brilliantly illuminated at night.
A telegram to El Paso announced
that James Parrish the Mexican Cen-
tral train robber, has been captured,
The agent of the American Express
Company, at Fordsville, Ky., was
robbed of a package containing $28,
000.
Barbed wire was used by French
beasants to build barricades against
gendarmes sent to close proscribed
schools.
The United States war department
has ordered new light field artillery
from Erhardt, the Dusseldorf gun:
maker.
Boom in Gould stocks is believed to
foreshadow long-expected consolida-
tion in the “Great Missouri Pacific
system.”
Duncan & Porter ask United States
court to permit them to join in a suit
against government contractors as
plaintiffs.
At Springfield, Mass., H. H. Ander:
son, of Pittsburg, was appointed Ii-
brarian of the American Philatelic
asscciation.
The will of the late Archbishop
Feehan, of Chicago, I1l., was filed for
probate. The total value of the estate
is $125,000.
It is strenously denied that Charles
M. Schwab, president of the U. S.
Steel Corporation will retire from the
presidency.
Charles J, Allen, at Tampa, Florida,
was killed and his wife was fatally
wounded by Marmel Chavez, a
wealthy young Cuban.
The eighth annual session of the
National Bible conference opened at
Winona, Ind. Sunday with over 1,
500 ministers present.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do-
nate $150,000 for the establishment
of free libraries in the Borough of
Marylebone, England,
John W. Gates explains the ideas
which he will work out in a novel in-
dustrial school for boys to be built
near St, Charles, Ill.
A child born to Laura Biggar, in
New York, which lived only 15 days.
seems likely to complicate the Henry
M. Bennett will case.
Lieutenant Ralph E. McDowell, of
the Twelfth United States cavalry.
was drowned in Pinto creek, near
Fort Clark, Texas.
The annual report of the postmast-
er general, of England, shows that
$3,375,000 was found in letters unde-
livered during the year.
Frank C. Andrews, late vice presi
dent of the wrecked City Savings
bank, of Detroit, Mich.,, was found
guilty cof misapplying funds,
Dr. Wilson, in a letter to an Ohio
cousin, declares that he was never ar-
rested in Nicaragra and sentenced to
death, but has been in Colombia.
Relatives of Mrs. Charles S. Fair
at San Francisco, and elsewhere are
preparing to battle in the courts for
a big share of the Fair millions.
Edward Lenehan, a burglar, died at
Fmergency hospital, Detroit, Mich.
from hemorrhage caused by a bullet
from Officer F. J. Lemond’s revolver.
J. H. Bootner, who says his father
sent him to buy mineral lands, creat-
ed a sensation at Owensboro, Ky., by
carrying around $28,000 in currency.
The Grand Lodge of Elks at Salt
I.ake City, Utah, selected Baltimore
as the place of meeting for the annual
reunion of the grand lodge in 1903.
J. H. Sims, a wealthy farmer at
Otytumwa, Ia., was shot and killed
by his son, Joohn while endeavoring
to murder his mother with a butcher
knife. ,
Grand Duke Boris, cousin of the
Emperor of Russia, and his party, left
San Francisco for Chicago. The Duke
will visit President Roosevelt, at
Oyster Bay.
The Western Maryland Railroad
company has purchased 125 acres of
land in South Baltimore for terminal
purposes, and it is said work will be
begun immediately. .
Application has been made to the
stock exchange in New York to list
2,310,000,000 rubles 4 per cent certi-
ficates of rente of the imperial Rus-
sian government.
Sunday was the hottest day of the
year in Nebraska, the temperature
ranging from 96 to 102. At Fairbury
for six hours, it was above 100, and
hot winds blowing,
The Independent window glass
manufacturers, including the Inde
pendent Glass company, after three
days conference at Atlantic City failed
to reach an agreement.
President Schwab has sold the
Bethlehem Steel plant, for which he
paid $7,500,000, to the United States
Shipbuilding Company, for $26,000,000
in securities of the company.
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Fair, who were killed in an automo.
bile accident, were embalmed ang
shipped rom Evreux, France, en-
route to San Francisco, Cal.
‘badly injured, a Lithuanian
SURPRISE OUTPOST KILL GUARDS.
MOROS EXHIBIT SAVAGERY.
American Sentries Slain by Treacher-
ous Natives Who Crept Upon
Them Unawares.
A small party of Moros surprised an
outpost of the Twenty-seventh Infan-
try at Camp Vicars, Philippine Is-
lands. Sergeant Foley and Private
Carey were killed and Private Van
Dorn severelly wounded. The Moros
who numbered only a dozen, were
armed with spears and swords. The
morning was dark and foggy. The at-
tacking party crawled to within a few
feet of the sentinels and then sprang
upon them suddenly. The entire out-
post rushed to the relief of the sen-
unels, but they were too late and the
Moros escaped, although possibly a
few of them were wounded. The
American sentinels were terribly cut
by the swords and spears, ‘Ine at-
tacking Moros were all from Bacolod,
and the occurrence probably will re-
sult in a move against that town,
which has a strong fort and other de-
fences. Constabulary Inspector Wil-
liam Schermerhorn, whose home was
in Seattle, Wash, was mortally
wounded in a recent fight with la-
drones at Iligan, Mindanao. The of-
ficials at Washington say a clash be-
tween the American soldiers and
Moros has been expected by army of-
ficers for a month or more, Every ef-
fort has been made by the Americans
to prevent an outbreak among the fol-
lowers of the hosule Dattcs, but the
forbearance of the troops has nearly
been exhausted. The importance of
tne situation in Mindanao is shown by
the fact that General Chattee has gone
there to personally direct the opera-
tions of American troops, In the opin-
ion of officers at the War Department,
it will now be necessary to begin an
active campaign against the Moros
to punish them for their treachery.
Camp Vicars is a newly established
post a few miles from Malabang,
Mindanao, where Lieutenant Vicars
and a number of American soldiers
were massacred a year ago. It was
named in honor of the murdered of-
ficer, Orders have recently been is-
sued increasing the force at the gar-
rison points throughout Mindanao,
and it is possible that still further in-
creases will now be ordered.
MUST BURN COAL.
Indianapolis Must Depend on Coal and
Wood—Gas Company Quits.
The discomforts of a fireless winter
threaten over 25,000 resident prop-
erty owners of Indianapolis. On Oec-
tober 1 the natural gas companies of
that city will withdraw from the gas
field and cease supplying the fuel en-
tirely. The fact has created a panic
among the property owners, for be-
tween now and October 1 15,000 new
chimneys must be constructed and
30,000 flues must be rebuilt. At the
same time 18,000 fireplaces or grates
must also be reconstructed. Contrac-
tors declare that there are not enough
workmen by half in” Indianapolis, and
not enough available at present
throughout the Middle West to en-
able the reconstruction and the new
building necessary before the date set
for the cutting off of the gas supply.
Property owners are besieging the
offices of the contractors in an effort
to secure immediate repairs.
RIOTERS REPULSED.
Hail of Bullets At Duryea Washery,
Near Pittston, Penna.,
A riot took place at the Warnke
washery at Duryea Thursday, follow-
ing the attempt of the Warnke Com-
pany to commence operations at this
plant. A coal and iron policeman was
struck on the head with a stone and
striker
was shot through the leg and a specta-
tor suffered severe injures about the
head. The trouble was precipitated by
the throwing of stones at the police on
guard. One of the guards fired into
the crowd with a blank cartridge, and
a volley of stones was returned. Then
the guard substituted ball cartridges
for blanks and fired. Fourteen guards
vere arrested and placed in jail.
WANT FRANKLIN'S FUND.
$400,000 Is the Sum the Bequest Will
Amount To.
Claimants for money presented by
Benjamin Franklin a few years before
his death to the’cities of Philadelphia’
and Boston for the benefit of printers
and artisans of the printers’ craft
1ave appeared in Jersey City. They
are Benjamin Franklin Bache, a
druggist of that city; his brother,
Walter, and their sisters, Mrs. Boose
and Mrs. Fine, The claimants say
they are descendants of Franklin, and
that the money left to the two cities
has never been used for the purpose
it was intended
HOLY WATER IS FREE.
Has Been Levied On, But Will Not
Be in the Future.
The board of classification of the
United States general appraisers at
New York announced a decision to
what is officially described as “so-
called holy water, taken from the
spring at Lourdes, France,” which is
contained in bottles holding more than
one quart. The water has been as-
sessed 24 cents a gallon, but future |’
shipments will come in free, as the
board holds that natural water is
crude material.
Building Trust in Hash.
Hotels and boarding houses on
Brooklyn Heights N. Y. are to be
placed in control of a $10,000,000 trust,
which will attempt to stifle competi-
tion after the manner of combinations.
Louis J. Horowitz of the New Brooklyn
Heights Improvement Company is the
promoter. All the hotels and boarding
houses in the district are to be ac-
quired.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Corn Has Had Another Favorable
Week, but Wheat Harvesting Is
Disappointing.
The Weather Bureau's weekly sums
mary of crop conditions says: Por-
tions of Virginia, the Caronnas, Geor-
gla, Tennessee, Northern Alabama,
Southeastern Missouri and the lower
and drought conditions have develop-
ed to some extent in portions of Ne-
braska, South Dakota and Northern
Wisconsin. The principal agricultur-
al districts elsewhere east of the
Rocky Mountains have experienced
very favorable conditions with respect
to moisture, with the exception of
portions of the lake region, Middle At-
lantic States and New England, where
too much rain fell. The corn crop has
experienced another very favorable
week, and the general outlook in the
principle corn States continues very
promising. In portions of Southeast-
ern Missouri and Southern lllinois the
crop, however, is suffering severely
from drought, and rain would prove
beneficial in South Dakota and in a
few southern counties in Nebraska.
Late corn in Oklahoma and Kansas
sustained some injury from excessive
heat in the early part of the week.
The thrashing of winter wheat is
much belated in the lake region and
the northern portion of the Middle At-
lantic States. Harvesting continues
in the North Pacific coast region with
disappointing yields in portions of
Oregon. Spring wheat harvest is
nearing completion in the southern
portion of the spring wheat region,
and is advancing rapidly in the central
and northern portions. A considerable
part of the crop in the Red River val-
ley is still very green and is ripening
unevenly. Oats harvest is now prac-
tically finished, except over limited
' and, while
areas in extreme Northern districts,
a generally heavy crop
has been secured, the quality in many
sections has been impaired after be-
inz in shock as a result of injury by
rains. The general outlook for apples
continues favorable except in Oklaho-
ma, Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan and
New England, and, while reports from
New York vary, a large crop is gen-
erally indicated. Plowing for fall
seeding has commenced in the Ohio
valley and Middie Atlantic States.
CABLE FLASHES.
German officials at Berlin deny that
any attempt was made on the life of
the Kaiser at Reval, Russia.
The Earl of Dudley was sworn in at
Dublin as lord lieutenant of Ireland,
in succession to Ear] Cadogan, re-
signed, in the council chamber of the
castle, ;
Polish m1apers report that Prince
Obolensky, governor of Kharkow, Rus-
sia, who was shot and wounded, wears
a waistcoat of chain armor, which
saved his life.
Japanese naval officers on their own
responsibility have landed guns, con-
structed a battery and posted guards
on the island of Kothnesan and
Korean who were sent to investigate
were driven away.
The Moro situation in
Philippine Islands, is considered ecrit-
ical. American troops will soon move
against Bacolod, where the recent
murder of two men’ of the Twenty-
seventh infantry was plotted,
The Italian steamer Citta Di Milano
from New York, which arrived at Ge-
noa August 9, reports that an anarch-
ist named Saganza, from New York,
committed suicide, by jumping over-
board while the vessel was off Gib-
raltar,
An investigation made by the con-
stabulary at Manila, Philippine Is-
lands, to clear up the facts in the
killing of Cebu coaching party of four
school teachers on July 10, shows
that the pary was ambushed 12 miles
from Cebu.
The British bark Highfields, Cap-
tain Dunham, from Cardiff June 15
for Cape Town, East Africa, and the
British bark Brutus, Captain Dal-
lachie, from London June 3 for Table
Ray, have been lost in a storm. Twen-
ty-three of the Highfield’s crew were
drowned.
Earl Cadogan, the retiring lord lieu-
tenant of Ireland, formally said fare-
well to Ireland. A large guard of
honor under command of the duke of
Cennaught, lined the route to the rail-
way station. The Earl of Dudley will
assume office with-ut delay.
Considerable excitement has been
created at Johannesburg, East Africa,
by the discovery of a new gold creek,
which is said to traverse a large ex-
ent of territory. Local geologists think
the strike is a continuation of the
Wiltwaters Rand main series.
A dispatch from St. Sebastian, Spain
says that several anarchists of Madrid
have been arrested on the charge of
hatching a plot to assassinate M. Del-
casse, the French minister of foreign
affairs, during his recent stay at Foix,
or the French side of the Pyrenees.
Major Generals H, C. Corbin and
Samuel B. M. Young and Brigadier
General Leonard Wood, of the United
States Army, who are to be Emperor
William's guests at Berlin, Germany,
at the autumn maneuvers, will be quar-
tered with the Emperor's other guests.
General Jean Jumeau, in command
of the Firminist troops in the depart-
ment of Artibonite, Cape Haitien, at-
tacked St. Michael on Thursday.
After two days’ fighting he routed the
troops of General Alexis Nord, com-
manding the army of the provisional
government, who, before retreating,
entirely burned the town.
Mindanao,
A Russian student named Kalajeft,
recently released from a Silesian pris-
on has been surrendered to the Rus.
sian police, at Berlin, Germany, it be.
ing suspected that he was an accom.
plice in the murder of M. Sipiaguine,
the Russian minister of the interior.
It will be 1904 before any of the
scholars ‘who receive appointments un-
der the terms of the will of Cecil
Rhodes will arive at Oxford univer
sity, England. The executors of the
will find so many intricate details that
there is little hope of getting the sys.
tem working earlier.
Ohio valley continue to need rain, .
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