GERMAN LEAD SINKS WAR VESSEL
BLACKS BROKE FAITH.
Haitien Gunboat Sunk for Alleged
Piracy After Being Fired by Her
Own Sailors.
The gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot, which
was in the service of the Firminist
party, of Haiti, was sunk at the en-
trance of the harbor of Gonaives by
the German gunboat Panther. The
erew of the Crete-a-Pierrot left her
before she went down. The German
gunboat Panther arrived at Port Au-
Prince, Haiti, Friday and received in-
structions from the German govern-
ment to capture the Firminist gunboat
Crete-a-Pierrot. She left immediately
for Gonaives, the seat of the Firminist
government. The Panther found the
Crete-a-Pierrot in the harbor of Gon-
aives, and the commander of the Ger-
man gunboat informed Admiral Kil-
lick, on the Crete-a-Pierrot, that he
must remove his crew and surrender
his vessel in five minutes. Admiral
Killick asked that this time be extend-
ed to 15 minutes. This request was
granted on the condition that the arms
and ammunition on board the Crete-a’
Pierrot should be abandoned when her
crew left her. The crew of the Crete-
a-Pierrot left that vessel amid great
disorder. At the end of 15 minutes
the Panther sent a small boat carry-
ing an officer and 20 sailors who were
to take possession of the Firminist
gunboat. When these men had ar-
rived at a point about 30 yards from
the Crete-a-Pierrot flames were seen
to break out on board of her@ She
had been fired by her crew before they
left her. The Panther then fired upon
the Crete-a-Pierrot until she was com-
pletely immersed. Thirty shots, all
told, were fired. It was announced
from Cape Haitien September 3 that
the German steamer Markomannia,
Captain Nansen, belonging to the Ham-
burg-American Packet Company, hav-
ing on board arms and ammunition,
had been stopped by the gunboat
Crete-a-Pierrot at the entrance to the
harbor of Cape Haitien and that an
armed force sent on board the steam-
er from the gunboat took possession
of the war munitions in spite of the
protestations of Captain Nansen and
the German consul. The seizure of
the Markomannia has been character-
ized as an act of piracy; and the sink-
ing of the Crete-a-Pierrot was the re-
sult of this view of its action.
Lion Scared Four Thousand.
Nero, a large lion belonging to
Frank C. Bostock’s menagerie, es-
caped from its cage on the county
fair grounds at Dunkirk, N. Y., and
as a result the 4,000 people present
were panic-stricken.
Major Smylie Killed.
Major Charles A. Smylie million-
aire president of the National Licorice
Company, was accidentally shot and
killed near Blue Mountain lake, in
the Adirondacks, while on a hunting
expedition.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Lieutenant Winchell’s report of the
oil experiments on the gunboat Mari-
posa shows that the trial was a grati-
fying success,
Lieutenant General Miles intends to
make an inspection of the artillery
defense along the Pacific coast before
embarking for the Philippines.
Emperor William of Germany, mes-
sage to the President, dated Posen,
said: “With all Americans, I praise
Providence that saved your life from
the terrible accident.”
A cable to the navy department
shows that Commander McCrea and
the U, S. S. Machias vigorously pro-
tected the commerce of the world
against Haitien belligerents.
Bids were opened at the office of
the supervising architect of the treas-
ury for a site for the marine hospital
that is to be built at Pittsburg, Seven-
teen tenders, an unusually large num-
ber, were made, ranging from $2,800
to $70,000.
Minister Bowen has forwarded from
Caracas, Venezuela, the plea of Rev.
T. S. Pond, senior American mission-
ary there, for help for the people im-
poverished by the civil war. Mr.
Pond proposes to distribute cooked
provisions only.
Trafic on the Monongahela river, as
reported by the engineers in charge
during July amounted to 5,471,069 tons.
The tonnage movement at the Davis
Island dam for July was 1,123,991 tons.
The President has accepted the res-
ignation of First Lieutenant Grant T.
Trent, of the Eighth Infantry, in order
to permit that officer to continue to
serve as Assistant Attorney General
at Manila.
George E. Cooke, of the First Dis-
trict of Columbia regiment, won the
President’s match for the military
championship of the United States in
the shooting tournament at Sea Girt,
N. J. He scored a total of 189 out of
a possible 210.
Report by cable says Generals Cor-
bin, Young and Wocd were presented
to Emperor William at the Marken-
dorf parade field, near Frankfort, Ger-
many, after the parade was finished
on Saturday. The Emperor gave them
a hearty welcome.
Funeral services for William Craig,
the secret service man who was killed
while accompanying President Roose.
velt on his tour, were held in Chicago
Saturday. President Roosevelt or-
dered a large floral design, and one
was sent by the members of the na-
tional secret service stationed in Chi-
cago.
President Roosevelt returned tol
Oyster Bay Thursday, but little the |
worse for his thrilling experience of |
the morning. His right cheek was
swollen, there is a black bruise under
his right eye, and his mouth is slightly
swollen. Otherwise he showed no ef-
fects of the accident,
General Chaffee cables from Manila |
that James Foley and Henry C. Carey, |
Company G, Twenty-seventh infant
were killed in the engagement at
Vicars, Island of Mindanao, on Au-|
gust 12, and that Otis Van Dorn was
seriously wounded and Peter Chris-
tensen slightly wounded. i
ADVISES NINE-HOUR DAY.
United States Labor Commissioner
Reports on the Strike at the Re-
quest of the President.
A plan for avoiding trouble between
operators and miners in the anthra-
cite region was presented in the re-
port on the strike made by Labor
Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, who
inquired into that industrial war at
the request of the President. The re-
port was made public to the Depart-
ment of Justice, Washington, D. C,,
whither the President had sent it to
obtain the opinion of the Attorney
General as to whether there was any-
thing in the facts, as reported by the
commissioner, to warrant intervention
by the President. Attorney General
Knox came to the conclusion that the
executive has no power whatever to
take action in the matter. Commis-
sioner Wright, after reviewing the de-
mands of the strikers, as submitted by
President Mitchell, recommends:
First—That the anthracite employes
should organize an anthracite coal
miners’ union, in its autonomy to be
independent of the United Mine Work-
ers of America. Second—That, con-
sidering all the facts relative to pro-
duction, cost of coal at the mines,
profits, freight traffic, etc., it would
be reasonable and just for the opera-
tors to concede at once a nine-hour
day; but this should be done for the
period of six months as an experi-
ment, in order to test the influence on
production. Third—That under a new
organization consisting of anthracite
employes there shall be organized a
joint committee on conciliation, com-
posed of representatives of the oper-
ators and the new union, to which all
grievances, as they arise, shall be re-
ferred for investigation; and that
when two-thirds of the committee
reach a decision that decision shall be
final and binding upon both parties.
Fourth—That the first duty of such
joint board of conciliation shall be to
enter upon a thorough examination
and investigation of all conditions
relative to mining anthracite coal, to
question of weighing, to discipline, to
wage scales and to all matters that
now form the burden of the com-
plaints. Fifth—That whenever prac-
ticable and where mining is paid for
by the ton, and until the joint commit-
tee referred to shall have made its re-
port, coal shall be paid for by the ton
and be weighed by two inspectors,
one representing the operators and
one representing the men, each side
to pay its own inspector. Sixth—That
there shall be no interference with
non-union men. Seventh—That when-
ever practicable collective bargains
shall be made relative to wages, time
and other conditions, under rules to be
established by the joint committee re-
ferred to.
COKE INCREASE.
Connellsville Production Makes Record
With Shicments Hampered.
Coke production in the Connellsville
region continues to beat records while
the furnaces are clamoring against
the railroads for not moving the rec-
ord-breaking tonnage out of the dis-
trict. The detailed report of the cper-
ation and output of the region for the
week ending Saturday, August 30,
shows a total of 21,515 ovens, of
which 21,895 were active and 472 were
idle. The total estimated tonnage was
254,853 tons, a gain of a little over
100 tons, compared with the produc-
tion of the previous week. This figure
also breaks all previous records of
the region by a small margin. There
were no changes reported in the ac-
tive and idle lists of ovens. The ship-
ments from the Connellsville region
last week aggregated 11,670 cars.
* STRIKE MAY END.
All West Virginia Miners May Return
to Work.
It was reported at Charleston, W.
Va..-that the Kanawha and New river
strike will be declared off, and thaty
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has
ordered all equipment rushed back
into the ccal fields. The news that
the strike in the Pocahontas region
has been declared off had a big ef-
fect in the Kanawha and New river
fields. Information that there will be
no “blacklist” it is said, will go a long
way toward weakening the strike.
Adjutant General Baker reported to
Yovernor White from Elkhorn that
the strike is over there, and that all
collieries are hiring all the old men
who apply for work.
RECEIVERS APPOINTED.
Three Named to Care for Liabilities of |
American Bicycle Company.
Judge Kirkpatrick, sitting at New-
ark, N. J., has appointed Colonel Al-
bert A. Pope. R. Lindsey Coleman and
John A. Miller, receivers for the
American Bicycle Company. The
company has defaulted the payment
of interest on outstanding bonds
amcunting to $225,000. The company
is said to also owe $150,000 to Bar-
ing, Magoun & Co., $50,000 to the Fed-
eral Manufacturing Company and
358,000 to Smithers & Co., besides
other debts. The company, in addi-
tion owes $9,500,000 as principal on
outstanding bonds. The assets are
given as $7,751,000, a portion“of which,
however, is considered of uncertain
value.
Department Store Failure.
Edgar Veinstein & Co., proprietors
of a large department store at Har-
risburg, Pa., have made an assign-
ment. The liabilities are given at
$117,000 and -the assets $60,000. The
firm has been in business 50 years.
The creditors number 200, the largest
being in New York and Philadelphia.
Teddy Averaged Well.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,, and the
party of railway men sidetracked in
petween Arlington and
palace cars
’.| Hetland, S. D., bagged many birds in
their first day's shooting. Young
Roosevelt was less successful than
some of the others, but the number
of birds secured by him averaged weil
| SACRIFICED IN CAUSE OF SCIENCE
PERISHED IN MONT PELEE.
Prof. Angelo Heilprins Life Believed
to Have Been Lost on the Island
of Martinique.
Friends of Prof. Angelo Heilprin in
Philadelphia and other cities of the
United States are fearful that he has
perished in the eruption of Mont Pelee
August 30. He set sail for Martinique
on August 11 to complete his observa-
tions of the volcano’s crater. Since
then nothing has been heard from him.
Efforts that have been made to locate
him have met with no success. Prof.
Heilprin was exceedingly daring,
and it is not likely that he was far
from Pelee. He expected to return to
Philadelphia September 8. Castries,
Island of St. Lucia, B. W. I. Sept. 4.—
(8 p. m.)—The Royal Mail steamer
Yare arrived at Castries Island of St.
Lucia, B. W. I, from the Island of
Martinique and brings the report that
a violent volcanic eruption occurred
there Wednesday night and that about
2,000 persons have perished. Large
numbers of people are leaving the
island. The ministry for the Colonies
at Paris, France, received a cable dis-
patch from the governor of Guadel-
oupe, M. Merlin, reporting the zone of
destruction in Martinique, resulting
from the recent eruption of Mont
Pelee. It says that Morne Capote was
much damaged, and that the flames
surrounded Morne Parnasse but
stopped at the St, James house. Basse
Point Heights were burned. The
minister of the Colonies, M. Dou-
mergue, in placing $100,000 at the dis-
position of the governor of Mar-
tinique, M. Lemaire, to relieve the dis-
tress in that island, has urged the gov-
ernor not to congregate refugees at
Fort de France, but to distribute them
in the south, where their necessities
can be most easily supplied.
PRESIDENT ESCAPES DEATH.
Trolley Car Crashes Into Carriage—
Secret Service Agent Killed.
President Roosevelt escaped a tragic
death by only a few feet in a col-
lision between his carriage and an
electric street car in Pittsfield, Mass.,
Wednesday, while one of his most
trusted guards, Secret Service Agent
William Craig, was killed and David
J. Pratt, of Dalton, who was guiding
the horses, attached to the vehicle,
was seriously injured. President
Roosevelt himself was badly shaken
up, but received only a slight facial
bruise. Secretary Cortelyou, who oc-
cupied a seat directly .opposite the
chief executive in the landau, sus-
tained a minor wound in the back of
the head, and Governor Crane, of
Massachusetts, who sat beside the
President, extricated himself from the
wreck practically without a scratch.
The carriage was demolished by the
impact of the rapidly moving car, and
the wheel horse on the side nearest
the car was killed outright. The
crew and passengers of the car es-
caped injury. The President’s lip was
cut and blood flowed from the wound.
His clothing was much disarranged,
and he was severely shaken up. Sec-
retary Cortelyou had a wound in the
back of his head from which blood
flowed freely.
LAKE MICHIGAN PHENOMENON.
Waters Recede From the Shore and
Flock Back Again.
The lake front at Chicago has been
swept by another seiche, , The waters
receded nearly three feet and in
scores of places exposed the sand bars
and shoals far out from shore. The
disturbance was particularly noticea-
ble along the north shore in the vi-
cinity of Evanston. Members of the
live-saving crew took measurements
of the ebb and flow. The crew’s sloop
was stranded as the waters swept
eastward, and for nearly 100 feet from
the natural shore line the bed of the
lake was exposed. The recession of
the water was a repetition of the phe-
nomenon which occurred some weeks
ago. The waters would recede and
in a few minutes would return. The
average time from. the beginning of
the ebb to the flow was about 11 min-
utes.
MINE GUARDS RELEASED.
Grand Jury at Wilkesbarre
Manslaughter Charges.
At the sitting of the grand jury the
cases against F. W. Kinney, Charles
Reynolds and William Watkins, at
Wilkesbarre, were ignored. The three
men were employed as special officers
at the Warnke colliery, Duryea, and
when a riot occurred two weeks ago
they were arrested and committed to
jail in default of bail on charges of
manslaughter and inciting a riot. Sub-
sequently they were released on bail
after a habeas corpus hearing. The
action of the grand jury establishes a
precedent in that men employed to
protect iife and property about the
coal mines, and who may in the dis-
charge of their duty shoot and kill
cannot be held for the crime of mur-
der or manslaughter.
Ignores
Deference to Judge Shiras.
It is stated on the authority of the
President that he is not considering
the appointment of Attorney General
P. C. Knox to a position on the United
States supreme court bench in place
of Associate Justice George Shiras,
particularly as Judge Shiras has not
resigned.
Fire Destroys Town Hall,
Fire destroyed the town hall at
Brookfield, Mass. The fire was con-
fined to the town hall and engine
house which+adjoins it. The loss is
estimated at $70,000.
Over a Thousand Perish.
The Havas agency, Paris, France,
has received an undated dispatch
from Fort-de-l'rance, Island of Mar-
tinique. announcing that about 1,060
persons were killed and that 1,500
were injured as the result of a violent
| with the rest of the party.
eruption of Mont Pelee August 30.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
A negro known as “Hog” Wilson
was lynched at Stephens, Ark.
King of England visited Andrew
Carnegie at Skibo Castle, Scotlannd.
Anthracite coal is to be imported
from England for Philadelphia schools.
Charles F. Moore, the famous forger,
is dying at the Indiana State prison.
The Martinique commission in Paris,
France, took prompt action for relief
of volcano sufferers. :
Mrs. Annie B. Robbins was instantly
killed by a locomotive at Wayne Junc-
tion, near Philadelphia,
Two electric cars on the Ft. Snelling
line collided at St. Paul, Minn., and
10 persons were injured.
Special officers have been ordered
to guard the vicinity of the residence
of President Baer, of the Reading rail-
way.
President Roosevelt received from
all parts of the world messages of
congratulation for his escape from
death.
The coal miners’ strike in the Nor-
folk & Western railroad field of West
Virginia is ended,
Census figures seem to show that the
present generation is longer lived
than their forefathers.
A body thought to be that of Wil-
liam Bartholin, the Chicago murderer,
was found in a field near Lowther,
Pa,
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania,
authorizes General Gobin to order out
more troops to quell riots in Carbon
county,
The convention of Confederated
Hungarian societies, in session in New
York, decided to meet next year in
Cleveland.
The non-union miners at Simmons
Creek, Flat Top coal region, West
Virginia, were fired on by strikers
hidden in bushes.
A special dispatch from Naples says
large volumes of flame were issuing
from the crater of Mount Vesuvius
Saturday morning.
Anthony Seward was shot and killed
and L.emuel W. Weyath was badly
wounded in a fight at Felton, Del., be-
tween whites and negroes,
Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore is
suffering from kidney trouble and is
under a physician’s care. A surgical
operation may be necessary.
Neither gubernatorial candidate in
Vermont having the required majority
of all votes cast, the election will be
thrown into the Legislature.
The theoretical results of Tues-
day’s war game were five warships
destroyed or disabled and three coast
defense fortifications silenced.
The government ‘has withdrawn
from public entry a tract of 3,400,000
acres of land in the Blue mountains,
in Oregon, as a forest reserve,
It is accepted in financial circles
that the Cassatt-Morgan-Vanderbilt
alliance has obtained a good majority
of the Reading railway stocks.
Policeman J. W. Morris, of Armour-
dale, Kan., was killed by two masked
men who were attempting to rob the
Metropolitan street railway car barn.
The National Letter Carriers’ asso-
ciation, in session at Denver, re-
elected President J. C. Keller and re-
solved to meet next year at Syracuse,
N. Y.
The Hilton trophy was won in the
interstate rifle match at Sea Girt, N.
J., by the New York team, which
scored 1,137 points out of a possible
1,260,
President Roosevelt was greeted by
more than 75,000 people in Springfield,
Mass., fully a third of whom heard
him deliver an address on Court
square.
Director W. W. Campbell, of the
Lick observatory, San Jose, Cal, re-
ports that a comet was discovered Ly
Prof. Perrine in the constellation of
Persus,
Second Lieutenant Robert S. Wig-
gins, having escaped from military
prison and having been missing three
months, has been dropped from the
army rolls.
The Bank of Fremont, Ind., was
blown up and robbed by burglars, who
held off the people with guns. T=»
robbers overlooked a large amount of
currency.
Producers of raw iron and steel an-
ticipate a break in their market be-
cause they cannot fill specifications
while the foreign product is entering.
A representative of John W. Gates
has purchased nearly 5,000 acres o.
land in the heart of the Southern Illi-
nois coal belt and has options on a
large block.
The biggest tree in the world has
been discovered east of Frenso, Cal.
measuring at the base 109 feet at 4
feet above ground and 97 feet in cir-
cumference,
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
L. Fair, who were killed in an auto-
mobile accident in France on August
14, arrived at New York on the steam-
ship St. Louis.
The westbound passenger train on
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail-
road was wrecked by a defective rail
near Brownwood, Tex. Thirty per-
sons were injured.
Thomas H. Williams, Jr., president
of the California Jockey club, at San
Francisco, shot and seriously wound-
ed Frederick Mariott. Mariott’s re-
covery is doubtful.
The United States embassy in Eng-
land has issued a notice to Americans
to have nothing to do with persons
claiming to have knowledge of Eng-
lish estates or money in the Bank of
England, awaiting claimants, as such
are apt to be all fraudulent.
Fire destroyed the plant of the In-
dependent Brewing Company at Cin-
cinnati. Fireman Charles Jennings
was probably fatally injured. Loss,
$100,000, fully insured.
Russia has refused to accept the de-
clination of the sultan of Turkey to
allow four unarmed Russian torpedo
boats to pass through the Dardanelles
under a commercial flag.
Bailey Kerakas, a Lowell veterin.
ary surgeon, was arrested by officers
of Ionia county, Michigan, charged
with sending a poisoned headache
MUST CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION.
ROOSEVELT TALKS TRUSTS.
President Says Amendment Will Come
in Legislation Regarding
Corporations.
President Roosevelt took notice of
his return visit to Massachusetts by
delivering at Fitchburg a speech on
the trust question. He said in part:
“I am mot going to try to define with
technical accuracy what ought to be
meant when we speak of a trust. But
if by trusts we mean merely a big
corporation, then I ask you to ponder
the utter folly of the man who, either
in a spirit of rancor or in a spirit of
folly, says ‘destroy the trusts,’ with-
out giving you an idea of what he
means really to do. I will go with
him if he says destroy the evil in the
trusts, gladly. I will try to find out
that evil. I will seek to apply rem-
edies. But if his policy, from what-
ever motive, whether hatred, fear,
panic or just sheer ignorance, is to
destroy the trusts in a way that will
destroy all our prosperity, no. Those
men who advance wild and foolish
remedies which would be worse than
the disease, are doing all in their
power to perpetuate the evils against
which tbey nominally war, because if
we are brought face to face with the
naked issue of either keeping or total-
ly destroying a prosperity in which
the majority share, but in which some
share improperly, why, as sensible
men, we must decide that it is a great
deal better that some people prosper
too much than that no one should
prosper enough. So that the man
who advocates destroying the trusts
by measures which would paralyze
the industries of the country is at
best a quack, and at worst an enemy
to the republic. It does not do any-
body any good, and it will do most
of a great deal of harm to take steps
which will check any proper growth
in a corporation, We wish not to
penalize, but to reward a great cap-
tain of industry or the men banded
together in a corporation who have
the business forethought and energy
necessary to build up a great indus-
trial enterprise. Keep that in mind.
A big corporation may be doing ex-
cellent work for the whole country,
and you want, above all things, when
striving to get a plan which will pre-
vent wrpng-doing by a corporation
which desires to do wrong, not at the
same time to have a scheme which
will interfere with a corporation do-
ing well if that corporation is handling
itself honestly and squarely. I be-
lieve something can be done by Na-
tional legislation. I believe it will
be done. I think we can get laws
which’ will measurably increase the
power of the Federal government
over corporations; but, gentlemen, 1
believe firmly that in the end there
will have to be an amendment to the
constitution of the United States con-
ferring additional power upon, the
Federal government to deal with cor-
porations. To get that will be a mat-
ter of difficulty and a matter of time.”
BIG BANKING COMBINE.
Formed in New York for Business of
Latin-America.
Plans were made at a meeting of
the directors of the Mexican Trust
Company bank, New York city, for the
formation of an international banking
institute, capitalized at $10,000,000.
to operate in Latin-American coun-
tries. The scheme involves the con-
solidation of the Mexican Trust Com-
pany bank and the Corporation Trust
Company, the combination to be
known as the International Bank and
Trust of America. A majority of the
stockholders of both concerns have
signified their approval. It is planned
to establish branches at 16 leading
cities in Mexico, also in Havana,
Buenos Ayres, Rio Janeiro, Val-
paraiso and other South American
and Central American cities. The
general clearing house will be New
York city. The company’s special ef-
fort will be to facilitate exchange be-
tween all the cities off the American
hemisphere and to divert to New York
the very large amount of Latin-Amer-
ican exchange that now goes to Lon-
don, Berlin and Paris.
COUNTS DAYS OF WIDOWHOOD.
Mrs. McKinley Deposits Flowers Daily
on Husband’s Tomb.
With the precision of a bell tolling
the years of a departed life, Mrs. Mec-
Kinley daily, since the assassin’s bul-
let struck her husband at Buffalo one
year ago, has kept count of the exact
number of days. Friday she said:
“This is the three hundred and sixty-
fourth day since he was shot,” she
spoke of the anniversary. Mrs. Me-
Kinley has as house guest at Canton,
0., Miss Wilson, of Washington. Miss
Wilson accompanied Mrs. McKinley
Saturday to the vault, where the re-
mains of the President lie. Mrs." Mc-
Kinley entered the vault while the
guards of United States soldiers stood
at attention. She placed her daily of-
fering of fresh flowers on her hus-
band’s casket. Her drive later car-
ried her to the mounds that mark the
burial place of her two children. Then
she was taken home, where, on ac-
count of the rainfall, she remained
during the afternoon and evening, ex-
cept for a short walk on the veranda.
The health of Mrs. McKinley, it is
given out on authority, is fully as
good as any time in 20 years.
Will Not Return Flags.
The resolution introduced at the re-
union of members of the old Fourth
Minnesota regiment at St. Paul, Minn.,
to return flags captured from the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-ninth Missis-
sippi regiments in the civil war was
defeated after an exciting debate.
Robbed Rzv. Mr. Paxton.
Samuel Young, Jr, and William
Hubbard, young men of well-known
families of Princeton, N. J., have
pleaded guilty to robbing the home of
powder to George Merritt, of Sar-
anac. :
the Rev. Dr. William M. Paxton.
SHOCK FELT 20 MILES.
Government Fort Is Demolished, One
Man Killed and Five Injured in
Boston Harbor.
One of the government powder mag-
azines at Old Fort Winthrop, on Gov-
ernor’s island, upper Boston harbor,
blew up Sunday with a detonation that
was heard at points 20 miles away.
The cause of the explosion is not
known. One dead man and five in-
jured were brought to the city by the
police boat, and while it is believed
that this was the extent of casual-
ties, it is possible that others may be
found suffering from the force of the
concussion. The dead man’s’ name is
Albert H. Cotton, of Sommerville. The
missing are Joseph E. Wakefield, of
Malden, and James Ryan, of East Bos-
ton. The injured are James A. Crow-.
ley, 21 years old; Christian Knudson,
39 years old; Charles Flannagan, 23
years old; Dennis J. Swanson, 24, and
Paul Barry, 26, all having flesh wounds,
There are several old wooden build-
ings at the southerly end of the island,
but the fort itself, only a little of
which is visible above ground, is of
stone, some of the granite blocks be-
ing of immense size. The force of
the explosion is shown by the fact
that some of these great blocks were
hurled several hundred yards. while
one of the largest was sent into the
air and carried down through the
citadel in the center of the fort, mak-
ing a hole large enough to drive a
team of horses through. All over the
island the effects of the explosion are
visible, while in East Boston, South
Boston and in the «city proper, the
concussion was severe enough to
break windows and shake buildings to
their foundations.
Winners at the Targets.
The Fourth New Jersey regiment
team at Sea Girt, N. J., von the regi-
mental team match in the interstate
shooting tournament with a score of
545 out of a possible 600, two of its
members scoring 50 each, the highest
possible. Company A, of the Sixth
battalion of the District of Columbia
National Guard, won the company
team match with a score of 312 out
of a possible 350.
May Loosen Exclusion Law,
It is the opinion at the war depart-
ment that Governor Taft's remarks at
the hoard of trade banquet in' Manila
respecting employment of labor on
plantations will form the basis of a
suggestion to Copgress that the act
extending the Chinese exclusion law
to the Philippines be amended.
Strike Has Cost $104,000,000.
Secretary Wilson, of the United
Mine Workers, at Indianapolis, Ind.,
figures that the Pennsylvania miners’
strike, which has lasted 17 weeks, hds
cost the operators $63,750,000; that the
miners have lost $17,493,000 in wages,
and that the business men of the strike
region have lost $14,000,000,
CABLE FLASHES.
The Bulgarian government has ar-
rested General Zontcheff, president
of the Macedonian committee, on
charges of connection with the abduc-
tion of Miss Stone, and has impris-
oned him at Sofia,
At the opening session of the iron
and steel institute at Dusseldorf, Ger-
many, President Whitwell announced
that Andrew Carnegie had been elect-
ed to succeed him at the expiration
of his term in May.
The escape of President Roosevelt
in the trolley accident has universally
called out in the London dailies con-
gratulatory and eulogistic editorials
and unanimous expressions of Eng-
land’s thankfulness that the President
was spared to his country.
An irade has been issued at Con-
stantinople repeating the exceptional
measures adopted against the Armen-
ians if the Armenian patriarch would
guarantee that no outbreak would
follow. The patriarch has therefore
withdrawn his resignation.
Baron von Mumm von Schwartzen-
stein, German minister plenipotentiary
at Pekin, formerly minister and charge
d'affaires of the kaiser at Washington,
denies the stories which have been
pointed ambassador to the United
States.
A “Boxer” proclamation has been
posted at Canton, China, inciting the
slaughter of foreigners, It is ascribed
to the commencement of work on the
Canton-Hankow railroad, and to the
of the foreign indemnity.
A statue of Emperor Frederick was
unveiled at Posen, Prussian Poland,
in the presence of Emperor Frederick,
Empress Victoria, the Crown Prince
Frederick William, Field Marshal
Count von Buuelow, the Cabinet Min-
isters and many other notabilities.
The trades union congress in Eng-
land rejected by a two-thirds majority
a resolution for submitting to Parlia-
ment a bill creating a court of com-
pulsory arbitration of labor disputes.
The opposition argued that such a
system would kill trades unions, as
there would no longer be any neces
gity for them. .
The rioting which occurred at
Agram in connection with a demon-
stration on the part of the Creatian
students, during which the police
charged with drawn swords and many
persons were wounded, was renewed.
It was only quelled after the adop-
tion of severe military measures.
Houses were wrecked, shops were
plundered and over a hundred persons
were injured.
Prince Henry of Prussia has ex-
pressed his purpose to visit the United
States again after his naval service is
completed, but more privately than on
the occasion of his first visit, se as to
have a better opportunity to study the
country and people.
Captain J. J. Pershing, in eommand
of the American forces at Camp
Vicars, Island of Mindanao, reports to
seneral Chaffee that several “of the
Moro chiefs whose followers have at-
tacked American soldiers have reject-
ed all friendly overtures, and he has
been unable to reach any understand-
ing with them.
published that he is about to be ap-.
collection of funds for the payment,
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