SHIPS BOMBARD CIUDAD BOLIVAR
HAITIEN VILLAGE DESTROYED.
Revolutionists Hold City Against Gov-
ernment Force—British Sub-
jects Ask Protection.
Ciudad Bolivar, capital of the state
of Bolivar, in Venezuela, was bom-
barded by a Venezuelan government
warship and many persons were killed
or wounded. The place has a large
British population, and the British
subjects have requested that a war-
ghip of Great Britain be sent for their
protection. It is alleged that atroci-
ties have been committed at Ciudad
Bolivar by both government troops
and revolutionists. Ciudad Bolivar is
held by the revolutionists. The town
was fired upon dav and night by the
gunboats Bolivar and Restaurador,
which attempted to land forces to re-
occupy the place. The Restaurador
left for I.a Guayra for supplies, after
which the bombardment will be re-
sumed. There are no foreign war-
ships in the Orinoco river to protect
the interests of the powers.
The Dutch government at Willem-
stad, Island of : Curacoa, refuses to
recognize the blockade of Venezuelan
ports, declaring it non-effective. The
village of Limbe, 82 miles north of
Port au Prince, Cape Haitien, has
been attacked and recaptured by
troops of the provisional government.
Limbe was in the possession of Firmi-
nite soldiers from the Artibonite dis-
trict. The fighting was severe and
lasted from midnight to midday, Many
men on both sides were killed. The
town was burned. The defenders of
Limbe were reinforced by marines
landed from the gunboat Crete-a- Peir-
rot, which is in the Fiminite service.
A battle also took place at Marme-
lade, but details are lacking. The
United States cruiser Cincinnati ar-
rived at Cape Haitien from La Guayra,
Venezuela,
KLONDIKE PETERS OUT.
Gold Production Falling Off—Ten
Men Are After Every Job.
The golden star of the Klondike is
on the wane, according to George H.
Hees, who was sent to Dawson by the
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
to examine into the business of the
Yukon territory. Mr. Hees says the
total yield of the Klondike last year
was $24,000,000, and that the produc-
tion of the coming year will not ex-
ceed $14,000,000. No new discover-
ies have been made for over a year.
At Dawson there are 10 applicants
for every job, yet hundreds of men
continue to arrive.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
President Roosevelt has accepted
an invitation to review the parade of
the Grand Army of the Republic dur-
ing the National encampment in Oc-
tober.
The navy department has been noti-
fied that the United States gunboat
Marietta. has left I.a Guiara for Wil-
lemstad, island of Curacoa, where she
will coal, A
The navy department has been noti-
fied that the Newport News shipbuild-
ing works will turn the monitor Ar-
kansas over to the government Sep-
tember 6.
If the had coal strike does not come
to an end very soon the opening of
the public. schools in Washington will
be delayed. They are due to resume
in about 10 days.
The state department has decided
to begin the distribution of the first
installment of the Chinese indem-
nity funds, amounting to about $480,-
000, among the missionary societies
and individuals who suffered from the
Boxer uprising.
The officials at Bogota have inform-
ed the Colombian minister that spe-
cial instructions to govern the reply
which Colombia will make to the modi-
fications in the treaty proposed by
Secretary Hay, will reach Washing-
ton by September 15.
The last instailment of $50,000 of
the money donated by Andrew Car-
negie for the Washington public lib-
rary has been received by the district
commissioners. This payment com-
pletes the sum of $350,000 pledged by
Mr. Carnegie for the building.
General Chaffee has cabled to the
war department that another regi-
ment of cavalry can be spared from
duty in the Philippine islands. Orders
have been forwarded to him to send
home one regiment, and the head-
cavalry will be relieved from duty.
Major General Corbin and Major
General Young, of the United States
army, who, with Brigadier General
‘Wood, are to attend the army man-
euvers when they arrived at Berlin,
Germany, to-day and found Enfperor
William’s invitations to attend the
gala opera performance,
Acting President Faulke, of the civil
service commission, has sent a com-
munication to the executive depart-
ments calling attention to the rule
that men in the classified service
must not be active in politics or man-
age campaigns, while officials outside
of it can, but must not use their of-
fices to control politics or coerce em-
ployes.
General Chaffee cabled from Manila
that in a series of earthquakes on the
Island of Mindanao 20 Moros were
killed by falling walls. The upheaval
occurred in the country adjacent to
Lake Lanao in the Moro section of
the island, near Camp Vickers, head-
quarters of the American forces.
The report of Lieutenant Chandler, |
U. S. N., commanding the torpedo fic- |
tilla, says: Out of 14 torpedoes pre-
pared, but one failed to run. Out of
the 13 that did run, 12 hit between |
the turrets of the battleship target
and the other one under onc of t
turrets. Fully three-quarters of t
shot would have struck directly undex
the engine reoms.
The navy department
that Captain Colby M. Chester would
succeed Captain Charles H. Davis
superintendent of the naval observa
tory.
announced
| IN STRIKE FIELDS.
West Virginia Guards Induce Non-
Union Miners to Leave Work.
Men Held in Church.
Only one disturbance was reported
in the Panther creek valley, Tamaqua,
Pa., Sunday. While John and Albert
Kutzek, non-union men, were leaving
the St. Michael’s Hungarian church
at Lansford they were attacked by a
| number of foreigners and were com-
| pelled to return to the church for
| safety. After remaining there for
| some time they succeeded in making
| their escape. The officials of the
| Switchback railroad notified Major
| Gearhart that strikers were interfer-
ing with their passengers at Summit
Hill. Company E, of the Twelfth reg-
iment, was sent to the scene and suc-
ceeded in restoring order, Now a
large force of soldiers patrol the val-
ley and protect non-union men while
on their way to work. With guns
loaded and orders to shoot if there is
any attack the soldiers marched
through Panther Creek valley on Sat-
urday morning, escorting the non-
union workers to the No, 4 and No. 12
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com-
pany collieries. Not a shot was fired,
not a bayonet unsheathed, nor was
there occasion for even using the
butts of the guns. General Gobin’s
order of butts, bayonets and bullets
was known through the valley before
daylight, and carrying this news and
with admonition to be peaceful, the
strike leaders and the peace commit-
tee in all the mining communities
begged the strikers to remain at their
homes, keep away from the soldiers
and make no demonstration toward
the non-union workers. * Manager
Charles Sharkey, at Scranton, Pa., de’
nies that the operation of the Nation-
al washery, at Minock, will be in any
way interfered with by the damage
done the pump house by Saturday
morning's ' explosion. The pump
house was on the river bank far re-
moved from the washery and used
only to furnish an auxiliary supply of
water, The washery will work right
along as usual. The West Ridge and
Marvine collieries are preparing to
start up this week. Superintendent
Tober, of the Delaware, Lackwanna &
Western Company, said that the start”
ing up of a number of collieries could
be looked for this week, The Oxford
colliery in West Scranton has added
a powerful searchlight to its weapons
of defense. The Oxford is now turn-
ing out 400 tons of coal a day. Jacob
Smith, a coal and iron policeman in
the employ of the Kingston Coal Com-
pany, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., was held
up by two unknown men while he
was on his way to one of the collieries
to relieve another officer. His assail-
ants took his revolver away from him
and then gave him a severe beating.
An unexpected situation has resulted
from the ordering out of the West Vir-
| ginia National Guard to preserve or-
der in the coal fields. The soldiers,
whose sympathies were with the
strikers from the first, have used their
influence with the men who are at
work, and have persuaded so many cf
them to join in the .strike that the
detachment stationed at Rush Run,
W. Va., had to be recalled and sent to
another point to keep it from empty-
ing the mine,
GIRLS OUST THE BOYS.
Chicago Will Have Messenger Maids
to Deliver Telegrams.
The Western Union Telegraph Com-
pany, at Chicago, Ill, has decided that
it will employ no more boys as mes-
sengers. The boys have struck three
times within the last month. Girls
will be used to carry messages in the
business and residence districts. For
men will be kept in the daytime to
carry messages into the undesirable
parts of the city. The change will
be made at once.
OLD HOME CELEBRATION.
Grover Clevelannd and Joseph Jeffer-
son Deliver Addresses.
Sandwich, Mass., which
may be said to guard the entrance to
Cape Cod, observed old Home week
Thursday. Among the speakers at
the town dinner were Joseph Jeffer-
son and former President Cleveland,
both summer residents. Mr. Jeffer-
son told stories, while Mr. Cleveland
talked in a more serious vein,
MILES SAILS SEPTEMBER 16.
Proposes to Inspect Every Military
Post in the Philippines.
Lieutenant General Nelson A, Miles,
accompanied by Mrs. Miles and his
saides, Colonels Whitney and Maus,
will leave Washington for the Philip-
pines September 3. Two short stops
will be made in the journey to San
Francisce, where the party will ar-
rive in time to sail on the transport
Thomas on September 16. Mrs. Miles.
may not go farther than San Fran-
cisco, or she may conclude to cross
the Pacific. General Miles said that
there were so many things to do in
arranging his office affairs that he had
not yet outlined his trip after he
reaches Manila. “I regard the trip as
merely a visit to the army there,” he
| said. “It may be called an inspec-
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tion tour, and I shall make it a point
to visit every army camp in the
islands.” Before going he will make
his annual report to the secretary of
war. and unless a special report is
made on this inspection tour it will
| not be reported on until a year from
October.
Large Mortality Rate.
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At the session of the Fraternal Con-
| gress at Denver, Col, Dr. D. O. Mil-
lard reported a death rate at 40 years
of 13.9 per cent, starting with 100,000
lives at 20 vears.
Carry Boiled Water.
Because cf the bad condition of the
vater, the bgard of education at
Chicago, Ill,
the water supply
' schools.
city
| the night work men will be used, and |
almost !
have decided to shut eff | trea
from all the public | George BE.
DUST FROM PELEE ENVELOPS [SLES
IN DRIZZLE.
ASHES FALL
Eruption on August 26 Was Followed
by Alarming Phenomena—Accom-
panied by Loud Reports,
Mont Pelee eruption has broken out
afresh and ashes are carriedg by the
winds for miles, which fall in a steady
drizzle on the West India Islands. A
cable from Roseau, Dominica, British
West India, says: A thick mist en-
veloped Roseau and its neighborhood,
and dust fell. The thick mist was
taken as it approached for a rain-
storm. After two days the dust was
still falling, although lightly, byt dur-
ing Saturday night the quantity of
dust which fell was greater than upon
any previous occasion since the first
eruption of Mont Pelee. At nightfall
a dark, coneshaped cloud, emitting
electric flashes, rose in the south, but
it was gradually obscured by the mist
caused by the falling ashes. Rumb-
ling noises and a few detonations
were heard during the night. The
people are. quiet. No news has yet
been received from Martinique. At
St. John,: Antigua, B. W. I, .many
very loud detonations were heard, and
in Basse Terre, St. Kitts, B. W.. 1, a
series of loud reports was heard Sun-
day. At the Pointe-a-Pitre, Istand of
Guadeloupe, the entire port was cov-
ered with a cloud of fine dust and the
populace became panic-stricken. Fine
ashes were falling continually in a
slight drizzle. ‘Semi-darkness is over
the sea, and the ships in the harbor
seemed to be enveloped in a cloud of
smoke. Advices from Basse Terre,
Island of Guadeloupe, assert that the
entire island has been covered with a
cloud of dust coming from the south-
east, the direction of the Island of
Martinique. The population of Basse
Terre is greatly alarmed, A severe
eruption of Mont Pelee, Martinique,
was reported to have occurred at noon
August 21. This report was brought
to Castries, Island of St. Lucia, by of-
ficers of the French steamship Da-
home. This eruption was followed by
total darkness five miles away from
the volcano. A dispatch received
from St. Thomas, D. W. I, said that
between 10 o’clock in the morning and
3 in the afternoon of August 26 clouds
of dust were seen in the direction of
Mont Pelee from the Island .of Do-
minica, Detonations were heard and
there were light showers of wolcanie
dust on the island. The following
message was received from Dominica
Tuesday, August 26: “Since 2 p. m.
to-day (Tuesday) prolonged rumbling
noises in quick succession have been
heard from the southward. There is
every indication that Mont Pelee is
in violent eruption. A dispatch from
Paris, dated August 28, said the latest
dispatches received at the ministry
of the Colonies from Fort de France,
Island of Martinique, were dated Mon,
day, August 25. They made no men-
tion of the reported eruptions of Mont
Pelee. The Paris dispatch said also
that the cables to Martinique, both
north and south, continued to be in-
terrupted. e!
TROOPS CHARGED. STRIKERS.
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Clash With State Militia Occurs at
Colliery Near Tamaqua.
The first clash between the striking
anthracite miners and the National
Guardsmen occurred at No. 4 colliery
of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company near Tamaqua Thursday,
and as a result five prisoners are in
the guardhouse at the Twelfth regi-
ment camp, and Captain J. Beaver
Gearhart, of Company F. Twelfth reg-
iment, is suffering from a wound on
his shoulder, caused by a stone“thrown
by a striker. The colliery is at the
west end of the Panther Creek valley,
and the Governor's troop was ordered
to. that point. Companies F and K, of
the Twelfth regiment, were placed
on trolley cars and run through the
valley. When the cars reached Sum-
mit hill they were surrounded by-a
mob cof strikers, who hurled rocks at
soldiers and called them hard
Captain Gearhart was struck
| by a stone. Several soldiers jumped
from the car in pursuit of the stone-
thrower and captured Joseph McCann,
ia young miner. The cars proceeded
{ again, when another crowd was en-
countered and the soldiers were again
taunted and stoned. Half a dozen sol-
diers jumped off and captured three
men, who were urging the crowd to
attack the troops. The men gave
their names as John King, Timothy
King and John Kelly. They were
taken to camp at Manila park, where,
together with McCann and Marteen,
they were placed under a heavy guard.
the
| hames.
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CHOLERA KILLS THOUSANDS.
The Dreaded Scourge Sweeps Asia
From Java to Japan.
The cholera epidemic in Asia ex-
tends from Java to Japan, and is af-
fecting whites as well as natives. In
Hong Kong, from the first of the out-
break to August 6, there had been 525
cases, six of the patients being Euro-
peans, and 511 deaths, of whom four
were Europeans. In Tien Tsin the
last report placed the number of cases
for the year at 1,049, and 754 deaths
within the city walls, and 1,015 cases
and 583 deaths outside the city walls.
In other places in China the propor-
tion of cases and deaths is just as
great. A writer from Kuelin, Kwansi
province, says: “People are dying by
hundreds daily. Outside the city over
1,000 have died.” In Japan the dis-
ease is working fearful havoc, and
hundreds have died in Java,
Boating Days Recalled.
The Old Canal Boatmen’s Associa-
tion held its seventeenth annual re-
union, at Livermore, Pa. and after a
j business meeting was given a dinner
{ served by the women of the village.
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The officers elected for the ensuing
year were: President, Blair McCor-
{ mick; vice president, Robert Bartley;
surer, M, E. Brown; secretary,
Rutlege. Johnstown was
| selected as the next nlace of meeting.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The strike of the goldbeaters has
been declared off.
Ohio pensioners lead all states in
money received last year.
The first rain for three years has
fallen in Lower California.
Trading in Wall street indicates a
considerable rival of confidence.
Nineteen persons were injured in a
trolley car collision near Sharon, Pa.
Grand Duke Boris, of Russia, and
party visited Niagara Fails Thursday.
Army tests develop that the “bullet
proof” cloth shields will not stand
fire,
It is expected that the child of Queen
Helena of Italy will be born in De-
cember,
All the stock exchanges in the
United States closed Saturday and
Monday.
King Victor Emmanuel started from
Rome on his visit to Emperor Wil-
liam at Berlin.
Four men seeking work in anthra-
cite field are turned back from port of
Baltimore, Md.
President Roosevelt spent Sunday
at the home of Dr, W. Seward Webb,
‘near Burlington, Vt.
Yellow scarfs of American generals
cause Berliners to wonder where they
got the “black eagle.”
A passenger train was blown from
the track by a tornado, near Waseca,
Minn., and two persons were killed.
President Roosevelt is expected to
visit Wheeling, W. Va., on September
8, while on his way to Chattanooga.
‘Mrs, Eva Arendt was killed by leap-
ing from a four-story window during
a fire in a New York apartment house.
Glass manufacturers will meet in
Pittsburg within 30 days to make fur-
ther effort to reach a trade agree-
ment.
The report of the civil service com-
mission claims that veterans are
given a preference in the examina-
tions,
President Burt, of the Union Pacific
railroad, is under arrest, charged with
unwarranted imprisonment of em-
ployes.
Engineer Carey and Fireman Lee
were killed by the wreck of a” Chicago
& Eastern Illinois passenger train at
Cayuga, Ind.
Savable, sired by Salvator, and own"
ed by John A. Drake, a Western mil-
lionaire, won the rich futurity at
Sheepshead Ray. .
Wood's Opera House at Bay City,
Mich., was destroyed by fire - and
Bugene <Caremba was crushed to
death under the walls,
Asbury Dixon was hanged at Snow-
hill, Md., for the murder of his wife,
after he had been baptised by immer-
sion in a jail bathtub. ;
Supreme Court Justice George
Shiras, Jr., favors arbitration of labor
difficuities, but points out incorpora-
tion of unions ag first step.
Mrs. Reese Wagoner, of North Lit
tle Rock, Ark., and her two children,
5 and 6 years old, were found dead in
bed with their throats cut.
Governor Stone hesitates about
calling an extra session of the Leg-
islature until he is sure that it will
pass a labor arbitration bill.
“Anse” Hatfield and Perry McCoy,
members of West Virginia feud fam-
ilies, have become fast friends and
both joined Uncle Sam’s navy.
West Virginia National Guard is on
duty in the New river district. A
non-union blacksmith was killed by
the strikers in Mercer county.
A trolley car in Kansas City, Mo,
ran down a buggy containing Gus
Thiele, 33 years old, and George Shul-
ver, 35 years old, killing both.
President Roosevelt traveled from
Boston to Augusta, Me., Tuesday,
made eight speeches and was the
guest over night of Governor Hill.
Joseph A, Langfitt, of Pittsburg,
past supreme regent of the Royal
Arcanum, was elected president of
the National Fraternal Congress.
Consul Mason reports from Berlin
that German iron and steel manufac-
turers have formed an association to
pay bounty on trade secured abroad.
The Pittsburg Plate Glass Com-
pany has planned to become the
greatest paint manufacturer in the
country, and will branch into other
lines.
George Hoadly, former governor of
Ohio and a member of the law firm of
Hoadly, Lauterbach & Johnson, of
New York, died Tuesday at Watkins,
N. V.
The United States Steel Corporation
has filed, in the New Jersey court, its
answer to the Hodge suit to prevent
conversion of preferred stock into
bonds.
Fire Commissioner Sturgis at New
York refused to honor the writ issued
by Justice Hall in the supreme court
ordering him to reinstate Fire Chief
Croker.
At a meeting of the council of the
South Wales Miners’ federation of
England it decided to forward $5,000
to aid the striking miners-of the Unit-
ed States.
Theodore J, Shaffer, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, and prominent
generally in labor circles, is lying
seriously sick.
Carlisle D. Graham swam from the
whirlpool below Niagara Falls
through the lower rapids to Lewiston.
He wore a life preserver about his
waist and a neck float.
Monsignor Guidi has been appoint-
ed apostolic delegate in the Philip-
pines. He is expected to hasten lus
departure from Rome for Manila in
consequence of the organization of a
schismatic Catholic church in the
Philippines.
Captain C. M. Phillips, commander
of the steamship Advance, disappear-
ed from the vessel during the voyage
from Colon to New York and is sup-
posed to have fallen overboard,
Job Murray Williams, colored, was
arrested at Bridgeton, N. J, on sus-
picion of having some connection
with the death of Farmer John 8.
Holmes and his housekeeper, Kather-
ine Shute;
WHITE SQUADRON SHIPS 100 SLOW
PILLSBURY’S GOOD SHOWING
Kept Blues on Anxious Seat for Four
Days—Wireless Telegraphy on.
All Vessels of Navy.
The navy department has made
public at Washington Rear Admiral
Higginson’s report on the ‘search
problem” which was conducted by the
blue fleet, under his own command,
and the white squadron, under Com-
mander Pillsbury, off the New Eng-
land coast. The admiral’s report
says: “I have the honor to report
that at 5:40 a. m. of the 24th inst., off
Magnolia, Mass., the blue fleet under
my command captured the white fleet
under the command of Commander
John E. Pillsbury, U. S. N., after four
days of anxious watching. Comman-
der Pillsbury’s fleet was deficient in
speed. His evasion of the outside
scouts and arrival on the coast un-
deterred was, I think, very credita-
ble to him. The line of coast over
which TI had charge was divided into
five districts, each in charge of an
officer provided with scouting vessels
and a number of observers at shore
stations. These districts all reported
by telephone or telegraph, or by what-
ever means of communication they
could establish, with the central dis-
trict of Rockport, where Ensign Berry,
U. S. N., was in charge of the central
office, and transmitted to me by
means of steam launches, torpedo
boats and signals from shore, what-
ever infbrmation was received. I can
only say that the operations have been
very beneficial in training the young
men in scouting and as observers. I
have already written to the depart-
ment about the valuable service ren-
dered by the torpedo flotilla under
command of Lieutenant Chandler. I
take the occasion, however, to urge
upon the department the establish-
ment on all vessels of the navy a wire-
less telegraphy outfit. In my opinion,
it is of incalculable value and no ex-
pense should be spared to hasten its
adoption. The squadron has with-
drawn to Menemsha Light prepara-
tory to the combined army and navy
maneuvers.”
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READY FOR GAME OF WAR.
Defenders of the Forts Prepared to
Fight the Ships.
The warming up exercise of the
army of the defense in the vicinity of
Newport, R. I, began Tuesday, fol
lowed by with almost continmous tar-
get practice, and a general alarm over
an imaginary foe in the evening.
Every gun in Forts Greble and Wether-
ill, as well as all the mortars, was
used. Shortly before 8 o'clock p. m.
came the roll of the drum. and the
scurry of troops to the parapets. A
dozen searchlights began a critical
inspection of the channel, while signal
lights were used in addition to the
telephone communication between the
two forts. As only a few belated
fishermen were discovered running in
from sea, the game did not seem worth
the candle and the troops were re-
called.
TRIP TO THE SOUTH.
President Will Go to Tennessee and
North Carolina in October.
President Roosevelt almost im-
mediately after his return to Oyster
Bay on September 3, will make a trip
to Tennessee and North Carolina. He
will leave on October 5 for Chatta-
nooga, where he will attend the confer-
ence of the locomotive firemen. Sun-
day, the seventh, will be spent in look-
ing over the battlefield of Chicka-
mauga. On the return trip Ashville
and perhaps one other place in North
Carolina will be visited.
HOLBEIN NEARLY SUCCEEDED.
Swam Acress English Channel to
Within a Mile of Dover.
Montague Holbein, who started from
Cape Gris Nez, France, at 3:30 Wed-
nesday afternoon on his third attempt
to swim across the English channel,
came very near success, but was taken
from the water Wednesday afternoon
when he was within a mile of Dover.
He was in the water 22 hours and 21
minutes before he was too exhausted
to struggle longer against the tide.
PROPOSAL OF SETTLEMENT,
Favor Plan That Raises Cost of Coal
to Consumer,
It is reported in New York that the
anthracite coal @ompany presidents
have in their possession a document
signed by Senator M. A, Hanna and
President John Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers, proposing to end the
strike by permanently raising the
price of coal to consumers 50 cents
per ton.
Minister Wu to Remain?
Vessels brought the news to Vie-
toria, B. C., that an order to Wu Ting
Fang to remain at Washington was
issued at the suggestion of Viceroy
Yuan Shih Kai, who memorialized the
throne, saying that since the appoint-
ment of Wu Ting Fang to the minis-
try, he had done things to the great
benefit of China, that in his opinion
no other ofiicial was better qualified
strongly recommended
given ancther term of ministry,
Repel Strikers,
In an encounter between troops and
strikers at Lansford, Pa., Captain W.
H, Heim, of Company K, Twelfth
regiment, was slightly injured. A
half dozen strikers were bayoneted
by the soldiers.
Miners’ Scale Settled.
After a conference lasting 75 days
at Pittsburg, Kan., the union miners
and union operators of District No.
14 have reached a settlement.
for the post, and that, therefore, he!
that Wu be]
MEET MONEY STRINGENCY.
Secretary Shaw Has Asked National
Banks to Increase Their Circula-
- tion for Use in Emergency.
In view of rumors as to Secretary
Shaw’s plans for relieving the money
market in the event of possible string-
ency, the secretary authorized Assis-
tant Secretary Ailes, at Washington,
D. C., to make the following state-
ment: “The secretary recently in-
in the principal cities to order ad-
ditional amounts of circulating notes
to be printed. National banks are en-
titled to issue circulation to the’ full
amount of their capital. The aggre-
gate capital of National banks is
$700,000,000, but the banks have out-
standing only $358,000,000 of circula-
tion. The secretary has hoped to in-
troduce an element of elasticity into
cities that they make preparation for
very favorable response. It is not his
intention that they should issue this
additional circulation at all events,
but only in case of actual necessity
and emergency. He does not propose
to inflate the currency in any sense,
but to be prepared to meet the actual
eurrency demand should one arise.
With this in view those banks which
have made arrangements to deposit
United States bonds as security for
such additional circulation have sent
in their orders, and the secretary has
had all branches of the treasury ser-
vice busily engaged in expediting the
preparation of the notes pending a
possible emergency. All this work of
preparation does not indicate that the
secretary will expect the banks to is-
sue additional notes except in re-
sponse to real necessity. The move-
ment is purely prudential and pre-
cautionary, and intended to relieve
any possible currency famine. It
does not conflict at all with any of
the various other methods which have
heretofore been employed by the de-
partment in relieving the money mar-
ket.” °
WANT TO IMPEACH PALMA.
Turning Against Their President Be-
cause He Granted Concessions.
President Palma is without the sup-
port of a single newspaper controlled
by Cubans. The editorials are re-
markable for their bitterness .and
cutspoken opposition of the chief ex-
ecutive. One of the principal causes
of the opposition to Palma is that he
granted the Castanenda commission
for the establishment of an electric
light plant at Havana, This conces-
sion has heen a subject of bitter dis-
cussion in the House of Representa-
tives, and some members are demand-
ing Palma’s impeachment unless the
concession is rescinded. Both houses
of tongress have become badly dis-
organized over this question, and has
resulted in a strong anti-Palma feel-
ing.
Plucky Woman Held Prisoners.
Nineteen
jail at Covington, Tenn., made an at-
tempt to break out in the absence of
the jailer. They bored through the
top of the cage and were about to
break through the roof, when the wife
of Jailer Smith, armed a negro
“trusty,” and taking her husband’s
shotgun, covered the prisoners and
kept them still until her husband’s
return. :
CABLE FLASHES. .
A shunting engine at Bloemfontein,
Orange River Colony, Kast Africa,
crashed into a train conveying re-
fugees to Johannesburg and a number
of women and children were killed.
Letters of incorporation have been
granted to the Federal Sugar Refining
Company, with headquarters in Men-
treal, Canada, and a capital of $6,060,
000. Among the applicants is Claus
A. Spreckles,
The betrothal ceremony of Prince
Nicholas of Greece and the Grand
the great palace at Tsarsko Seilt, St.
Petersburg, Thursday. The mariage
service was held afterward in the pal-
ace church, the metropolitan of St.
Petersburg officiating. ]
Henry White, secretary of the
United States embassy at London, and
Mrs. White, are passengers on the
Kajser Wilhelm der Grosse, which
sailed for New York from Southamp-
ton Wednesday.
Prof. Virchow, the famous scien-
tist, appears to be near his end. The
German Medical Weekly of Berlin re-
grets to announce that his strength
is unmistakably failing. The profes-
sor is at Harzbrug, in the Hartz moun-
tains.
Captain von Frankenberg and First
Lieutenant Numbauer, of the First
regiment of field artillery, have been
dismissed from the German army on
account of the ovation given some
time ago at Gumbinnen, East Prussia,
to Lieutenant Hildebrand, the par-
doned duelist.
The Shanghai correspondent cables
that, besides heavily taxing‘the peo-
ple, the provincial governors of China
are utilizing the indemnity to be paid
the foreign powers as a pretext for
raising loans and are corruptly " ap-
propriating large sums of money to
their own purposes.
The international congress of com-
merce and industry has opened under
the presidency of Count Charles
D’Ursel, the governor of Western
Flanders. The United States and
Mexico are represented, as well as all
the governments of Europe. The ses-
sions of the congress wil] last five
days.
An important conference of the to-
bacco interests has been called to
take place in london, England, Sep-
tember 17 in an effort to curb the
fierce rate war which followed the for-
mation of the rival combines. . The
meeting will include representatives
of the American combine the Imperial
Tobacco Company, Manufacturers,
Importers and Wholesalers.
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