G.0.R. VETERANS’ GRAND PARADE
~ 25,000 MEN IN LINE
President and Mrs. Roosevelt Drive
Up and Down the Blue-Coated
Pagzant—Unique Features.
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The parade of the Grand Army of
the Republic at the opening of the
encampment in Washington city was
one hour and 10 minutes passing the
reviewing stand. There were about
25,000 men in line. The posts made
a splendid showing. The President
of the United States and Mrs. Roose-
velt lent their energies to the en-
tertainment of the capital's guests.
Unable to endure the strain of review-
ing the column from a stand, the
President rose from his reclining
chair and had himself and Mrs. Roose-
velt driven up and down the line.
The unusual interest thus manifested |?
was appreciated by the old soldiers |
and the couple were everywhere re-|
ceived by them with loud applause. |
The procession was reviewed from
the stand & immediately in front of)
the White House by Commander-in-
Chief Torrance, who was assisted by
the members of the President's cabi-
net and by Adjutant General Towler, |
of the G. A. R. Sitting in the midst
of these distinguished ex-Union sol-
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diers was the ex-Confederate Lieu- |
tenant General Longstreet. He was
escorted to the front
General Sickles, and when the two
appeared side by side they were
greeted with hearty cheers. It is said |
to be the first time that an ex-Con- |
federate officer had appeared on a |
Grand Army reviewing stand. Com-
mander-in-Chief Scott and General T.
‘J. Stewart were singled out for ova-
tious, while the fine marching of the |
posts were heartily cheered all along |
the line. A score of bands appeared
at intervals, and there were many
unique and interesting features dis-
tributed through the line. Major
General Miller, commanding officer of
the National Guard of Pennsylvania,
which has just been called out by
Governcr Stone for duty in the strike
region, came over to Washington and
rode at the head of a division of the
Grand Army. Post 140 of Shamokin,
Pa. composed almost entirely of min-
ers, came in for a share of attention.
The Scis band, made up of young
boys from the Soldiers’ Orphan and
Industrial School of Scotland, Pa.,
was in the van of the Keystone State
| be kept as far apart from civilians |
together with | 2nd 2 : et
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division. Pennsylvania posts had
about 6,000 men in line. The De-
partment of Ohio had 3,000 men in|
line. The West Virginia department
was near the end of the parade, but
its 700 sturdy old volunteers were
given general recognition all along
the line. After the parade numerous
re-unions were held by regimental and
brigade organizations.
End of Maneuvers.
military maneuvers at Fort
Kan., in which United States
troops and State militia took part,
closed Tuesday. There was but one
opinion among the Regulars and Na-
tional Guard officers. All agree ex-
cellent results have been obtained,
and that much greater good could be
accomplished by maneuvers conducted
upon a more extensive scale.
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Riley,
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Naval Constructor Admiral Bowles |
says tardy delivery of steel and long | cently mailed you.
strikes have delayed building of war-
ships from eight to 40 months.
The Executive Council of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, appointed
a sub-committee to draft an address |
to the public on the coal strike situa-
tion.
Miss Alice Fisher, employed in the
government printing office, was shot
and instantly killed by William
Dougherty, an employe of the same
office.
The war department received an
order from Governor Stone of Penn-
sylvania for 10,000 pairs of shoes and
2,500 blankets to be delivered im-
mediately. '
The ~xecutive council of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor has decided
to appeal to the business men and
other sympathizers with the anthra-
cite coal miners for financial aid for
the strikers.
An elaborate pronouncement on the
subject of trusts, defining the posi-
tion of the National Administration,
is soon to be made. Attorney General
Knex is to deliver it.
George Graham Brooks, as the per-
sonal representative of President
Roosevelt, has gone to the mining re-
gion to look up certain matters per-
taining to the coal strike.
Secretary Moody left for a tour of
speech-making in the west. He wiil
deliver an address on “The Navy” be-
fore the Marquette club of Chicago,
and will speak in Madison, Wis.
Chowfa Maha Vajiravudh, crown |
prince of Siam, arrived in this coun- |
try.
Peirce, third assistant secretary of
State, and D. B. Sickles, of
York, formerly consul general at |
Bangkok, representing President
Roosevelt.
The members of Captain P. R.
Schuyler post, G. A. R. of Philadel-
phia, presented to Theodore Roose- tiary. Pendleton, under the assumed
velt, Jr., the son of the President, a | name of Coda S. Morris, married Miss
The lamb was | Grace
the son of ‘“Bessie,” which attracted | months ago, and
lamb named “Teddy.”
much attention last year at the en-|
campment at Cleveland, where she |
followed the procession as the post's |
mascot. |
Edward S. Bragg, consul general |
at Havana, has been transferred to]
the post of United States consul gen-
eral at Hongkong, taking the place of | was convicted in 1865 of participation
been | in the assassination ef Abraham Lin-
William A. Rublee, who has
transferred to the consulate at Ha- |
vana..
Two United States revenue cutters
were successfully launched at the |
Spedden shipyards, Baltimore. One!
of them, the Mackinaw, was chris-
tenel by Miss Alice Fuller White of
Chambersburg, Pa., and the other,
the Winnisemmett christened by Mrs. |
M. P. Mabon, wife of Congressman |
Mahon of Pennsylvania.
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New | Burial
SETTLE STRIKE.
Men Asked to Return to Work Under
Protection—Reported Division
of Cecal Market.
Shenandoah was one of the most
peaceful of the citi=s of this com-
monwealth Sunday, although blue-
coated guardsmen of the National
Guard patrolled its streets with ball
cartridges in their rifles. People
gathered here and there on the
streets and watched without comment
the soldiers as they patrolled the
town. During the morning Colonel
Rutledge granted passes to about 200
niembers of his regiment who wished
to attend church in Shenandoah. In
all the churches the blue of the
guardsmen could be seen, but more
particularly in the Roman Catholic
church of the Annunciation, of which |
Father H. P. O'Reilly is pastor. He
told the miners of his congregation to
return to work, and scored President
The Erie Company posted
its collieries at Pittston |
all the striking employes
to return to work. The company as-
sured all men who returned ample
protection. This is believed to be the!
Mitchell.
notices at
requesting
{ first move on the part of ‘the coal!
| companies to break the strike under |
the protection of the troops. General]
| Wiley, since taking commahd of the
issued an order to the]
that the soldiers!
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brigade, has
command advising
striking miners as possible.
has been very much incensed at a!
story which was circulated that he
was charged with being an accessory
before the .fact in the shooting
of Durham. If such a warrant was ind
sued it was destroyed befcre serving. |
With a determination to prove their |
claim that they could open the mines |
if atforded protection the operators
at Scranton have been for the past
week making a supreme effort to se- |
cure men and have succeeded to some
extent. The Delaware and Hudson |
Company Monday started the Belle- |
vue mine. A special from Philadel-|
phia says: While the anthracite coal
strike has not yet been settled, per-
sons in authority say there is every
prospect for it at any moment. It is
said that the coal operators have di-
vided the country into districts, and
will attempt to equalize the supply
so that no one community will suffer,
and that the railroads will make spe-
cial arrangements to handle soft
coal, so as to supply all who can
make use of it in place of anthracite.
Secretary Root was in conference
for five hours Saturday with J. P.
Morgan on board Mr. Morgan’s yacht,
Corsair, but both refused to speak of |
results. One story is that there is
much dissension among the operators,
and that some of them are desirous
of resuming mining by granting some
portién cof the strikers’ demands.
NAVY NEEDS OFFICERS BADLY.
Members of Congress Requested to
Present Their Candidates:
The navy department has sent this
telegram to all senators and represen-
tatives with vacancies for midship-
men to fill. “Owing to the great need |
for naval officers the department will
hold a special examination for mid-
shipment at Washington on Novem-
ber 12, under supervision of the civil
service commission. You are au-
thorized to nominate a principal and
five alternates under regulations re-
No candidate who
| has failed to pass any midshipman ex-
amination this year can be renomi- |
nated for November 12. Vacancies
not filled at this examination must re- |
main over to be filled by members
of the Fifty-eighth Congress.
'MANIAC’'S DEED.
{ Crushes the Skulls of Mother, Four
Sisters and Brother.
Charles Cawley, 17 years old, at
Homestead, Pa., procured an ax and
while the family “tas asleep crushed
in the skulls of his mother, four sis-
ters and one brother. Another broth-
er, an infant, was slightly injured. He
attacked an elder brother also, but
was overpowered by the latter. The
mother and two daughters and one!
son are dead, and others are likely;
to die. The insane murderer is in
jail.
MISSING PREACHER RETURNS.
Nurse, Who Disappeared at Same
Time, With Him as His Wife.
After an absence abroad of nearly
two years, the Rev. James I.e Barcn
Johnsen, formerly curate at Grace:
church and chaplain in the fire de-|
partment, New York city, whose dis-
appearance in December, 1901, creat-
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ed a sensation, has returned. Miss
Mary Hoffman, the pretty and wealthy
nurse who disappeared at the same]
time, returned with the clergyman as |
his wife. !
of Coffin Marked With His|
Alias Fails to Save Him.
James Pendleton, mayor of Gentry,
Mo., convicted of bigamy, was sen-
tenced to five years in the peniten:
Osley, of Emporia, a few
later, under the
name cof Cox, buried a coffin contain-
ing ice, at Orlando, Okla., and circu-
lated that Coda S. Morris had been
killed in a runaway.
Lincoln Conspirator Dead.
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Samuel Arnold, 72 years old, who
coln, is dead at his home at Mason-
ville, Anne Arundel county, Maryland.
Great Steel Slabs Rolled.
The Universal mill of the Central
Iron and Steel Company at Harrisburg
Pa., have rolled some record heats.
Several slabs, the largest weighing
7,000 pounds, were rolled into steel
plates 72 feet long, 32 inches wide and
thirteen-sixteenths of an inch thick.
SHAFFER [SSUES A SPECIAL GALL
CONVENE OCTOBER 20.
Tin Plate Workers Summoned—Presi-
dent Says Complications Exist
That Should Be Explained.
The result of the conference be-
tween the scale committee of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Iron Workers and the Amer-
ican Tin Plate Company, resulted in
an adjournment without any agree-
ment being reached. It was decided
by the Amalgamated association men
in the conference to again submit the
question of agreeing to a rebate on
certain so-called foreign work to an
authority higher than that possessed
by them, this time to a special con-
vention of tin and plate iron workers
to be held on October 20. One ob-
stacle in the way of an agreement on
this matter was the possibility of cut
wages being paid for tin plate that
would not be exported. This objec-
tion was overcome when it’ was ex-
plained that the Standard Oil Com-
pany and Armour, Swift and the other
hig packing houses would be com-
pelled to pay full price for the pro-
duction intended for foreign trade.
The American Tin Plate Company
has agreed to allow a rebate when it
is shown that the plate has been made
into cans and sent abroad. The re-
bate will amount to more than the
25 per cent reduction in wagés the
men are asked to accept, and the in-
terests of the workers as well as
those of the company are to be con-
sidered in determining what amount |
of plate is to be exported under this,
arrangement. Following, the ad- |
journment of the conference Presi-|
dent T'. J. Shaffer sent telegrams to |
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the various lodges affected, notifying
them of the outcome, and also of the
fact that a special .convention to con-|
the matter would be held in |
Pittsburg October 20. The call to]
the lodges includes instructions as to
the form of representation that is re.
quired. Each lodge is required to
send only tin plate and black plate |
workers, and only as many delegates
as the constitution entitles in con-
sideration of membership. Those
lodges having representatives in the
conference committee are instructed
to elect them as delegates, as: their
presence is necessary. The: question
to .be discussed is: “Shall the tin
plate workers arrange to obtain the
re-export trade?”
GOLD NEAR SYRACUSE.
Farmer Digging a Ditch Discovers the
Precious Metal.
Excitement has been caused at
Marathan, near Syracuse, New York,
by the discovery of gold. Every land-
owner in that section is staking off
his property and preparing to mine
the precious metal. A short time ago
Howard S. Wood, while digging a
ditch across his premises, noticed that
the dirt was filled with a yellow sub-
stance in fine particles resembling
small chips of mica. On being sub-
jected to an acid test it was. pro-
nounced by an expert to be gold. Large
quantities eof similar metal have been
found on other farms in the vicinity.
COLOMBIA 1S ANGRY.
Admiral Touches National Pride by
Refusing Transportation.
The Colombian government has
started negotiations with Charles B.
. Hart, our minister at Bogota, over the
orders of Rear Admiral Casey forbid-
ding the transportation of troops over
the Panama railroad. Colombia re-
sents the action of the American com-
mander, ard feeling is strong that ap-
prehension is expresed that it may in-
terfere with Panama canal negotia-
i tions.
OIL FIELD BURNING.
75 Derricks and 20 Pumping Stations
Were Destroyed.
Another destructive fire, the second
within a month, swept over a portion
of the oil field at Beaumont, Texas,
causing one known fatality and en-
tailing a property loss roughtly esti-
mated at $100,000. 75 derricks and 20
pumping plants were destroyed. Thos.
Rowley, a worker in the field, was
caught in the path of the flames and
sustained burns from which he will
die. This is believed to be the only
fatality.
EXPELLING MILITIAMEN.
Schenectady’s Large Trades Assembly
Takes Sensational Action.
meeting of the Schenectady,
repre-
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New York, Trades. Assembly,
| senting over 12,000 members, it was
unanimously voted to recommend the |
expulsion from its respective local
unions of all members who are mem-
hers of the National Guard of the
State. This action has created a pro-
thoroughly organized in the trades |
union sense. It is estimated that:
fully 80 per cent of the members of
the local militia companies of the
Second regiment are members of the
trades unions.
Jessie Morrison Released.
Jessie Morrison was released from
the State penitentiary at Lansing,
Kan., on the approval of her $10,000
bond, pending the appeal of her case
to the supreme court. Miss Morrison
was sentenced to 10 years for killing
Mrs. Olin Castle.
Claims Half a Million.
Corporation Counsel Walker for the
city of Chicago, has brought suit
against County Treasurer Samuel B.
Raymond and bondsmen to recover
damages for interest alleged to have
been withheld from the city. He al-
leges the total damages will reach
$527,000.
Cocoanut Shells for Fuel.
East Side, New York, confectionery
manufacturers are supplying cocoa-
nut shells to tenement dwellers for
fuel.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The Crown Prince of Siam landed
in New York.
Masked robbers secure $60,000 from
a Burlington train near Lincoln, Neb.
Secretary Shaw says we must adopt
metric system of weights and meas-
ures.
Production of ccal per man em-
ployed has steadily increased for 12
years.
Building statistics show that ce-
ment is crowding on heels of steel as
building material.
Cuba is growing indifferent to Uncle
Sam, and neglects to approve the
treaty of friendship.
Trainer Dyer was rescued from a
vicious lioness in St. Louis by the
use of redhot irons.
The main object of the Prince of
Siam to this country is to complete
his political education.
General Thomas J. Stewart, of
Philadelphia, was elected commander-
in-chief of the G. A. R.
Morgan and Yerkes, rivals for un-
derground railway franchises in Lon-
don, England, may combine.
Thirty corpses, supposed to have
come from Indianapolis, were found
in cold storage in St. Louis.
Indiana undertakers are accused of
burying empty coffins and selling bod-
ies to colleges for subjects.
Captain Alfred Fuller, of the Second
United States cavalry, died of typhoid
fever at the Chicago hospital.
Four men were killed and six
wounded in Eldorado, Ark. as result
of feud growing out of a love story.
The new forest commission is tak-
ing action to preserve the historic
John Brown house at North Elba,
N.Y.
Carroll D. Wright, United States
commissioner of labor, will retire
from office when his term expires in
1804.
The transport America sailed from
Hamilton, Bermuda, for Cape Town,
Africa, with 1,025 released Boer pris-
'gners.
The National Board of Steam Navi-
gation held its thirty-first annual con-
vention in Cincinnati with 75 mem-
bers present.
According to the St. James Gazette,
London, England, a Cardiff firm has
booked a single American order for
15,000 tons of steam coal.
Miss Agnes McPhee, the young
woman who was assaulted near the
Cambridge-Somerset line, died at the
Cambridge, Mass., hospital.
Admiral Casey, at Panama, is try-
ing to arrange a meeting of General
Salazar, government commander, and
General Herrera, insurgent leader.
Fred W. McKee, a Pittsburg law-
ver, has sued the Chautauqua assem-
bly, charging mismanagement and
asking a combination of all branches.
The entire body of the Louisiana
militia has been assembled in New
Orleans in anticipation of trouble
with the striking traction car work-
ers.
John Corbett, Elliott Ashman and
Milan Morgan, boys, are supposed to
have been drowned in Traverse Bay,
Mich., as their empty boat has been
found.
The Miners’ Federation, in confer-
ence at Southport, England, adopted
a resolution urging the nationalization
of land, mines, minerals and rail-
roads.
President Mitchell positively de-
clined President Roosevelt’s recom-
mendation that the miners return to
work pending an investigation of their
grievances.
Governor Nash, of Ohio, pardoned
Mrs. F. L. Taylor and daughter, ai-
leged kidnapers of the Taylor child
rescued in Italy. His reason is doubt
of their guilt.
The Sultan of Bacolod, Mindanao,
Philippine Islands, has rejected
friendly American overtures with the
curt note: “Cease sending letters;
what we want is war.”
Canada’s minister of militia stated
in Boston that Canada and Great
Britain have agreed to subsidize a
new line eof fast steamers between
Halifax and Liverpool.
At the renewed strike conference in
New York Governor Odell demanded
that the operators recognize the min-
ers’ unicn and advance wages. The
operators bluntly refused, and the
conferences are at an end.
A janitor’s unsuccessful attempt to
remove a large Confederate flag from
the stage of Carnegie hall, Newark,
Ky., almost caused a riot with the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
The convention of the colored Odd
Fellows, in session in New Haven,
Conn., elected J. McHenry Jones. of
Wheeling, grand master and decided
to meet in Columbus, O., in 1904.
Secretasy Wilson, of the Uniteq
Mine Workers, says that the bitumin-
ous miners throughout the country
would not be called on strike in sym-
pathy with the anthracite miners.
William J. Reid, alias L. O. Hoff-
man, pleaded guilty to larceny from
Cooley’s hotel and the Massachusetts
house, at Springfield, Mass., was fined
$1,200 and sentenced to jail for four
years.
The committee appointed by Secre-
tary Shaw to pass upon the character
and sufficiency of State and municipal
bonds for public deposits have re-
ceived about $4,000,000 of these
bonds..
The thirty-six¥th annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
began Monday, continuing until Sat-
urday. + Preparations for the gather-
ing were complete. The local .com-
mittees employed every precaution
for protection of life and limb and
the housing of those who were un-
able to find hotel accommodations.
President Roosevelt had two con-
ferences with Commissioner of Labor
Wright over the coal strike situation.
The question of a presidential com-
mission of investgation was discussed
at length.
The Executive Council of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor found that
certain charges preferred by the Flint
Glass Workers’ union against Presi-
dent D. A. Hayes, of the Blass Bot-
tle Blowers’ Association, were not
anotainad
GARGO OF JRCKIES FROM ORIENT.
CLEAR OF CHCLERA.
U. 8S. Steamship Buffalo Arrived at
New York From a World Cruise
Visiting Naval Stations.
The United States steamship Buf-
falo arrived at New York from Manila
and ports on the Asiatic station with
12 officers and 568 men. The Buffalo
left New York June 5 last with 30
midshipmen of the class of 1902, 750
men and 800 tons of stores for the
Asiatic fleet. At Gibraltar, ten mid-
shipmen were transferred to vessels
of the European station. The vessel
arrived at Manila August 2, where
she found Rear Admiral Rodgers with
his flagship, the New York, also the
Rainbow, the flagship of Rear Admiral
Wilder, and several vessels of the
Southern squadron. The Buffalo
transferred about 450 men to these
vessels and received 280 who had
served the required two years in the
Philippines. Bad weather interfered
with the handling of the men and
stores at Manila, and as cholera ex-
isted there, comparatively little com-
munication was permitted with shore.
Thirteen midshipmen were trans-
ferred to vessels at Cavite, and the
Buffalo sailed on August 9 for Naga-
saki, Japan, where the agship of
Rear Admiral Evans, the Kentucky,
New Orleans, Helena and Vicksburg,
were found. The Buffalo made ex-
changes of men and supplied stores.
She also transferred five midshipmen
and received a number of officers,
who had been ordered home. As |
much cholera existed at Nagasaki |
the steamer remained at the water an-
chorage under voluntary quarantine. !
On August 15 the Buffalo sailed for
Wu-Sung, China, where she found the
Monterey, Wilmington and the col-!
lier Saturn. There she continued the
exchange of men, transferred the last |
two of the midshipmen, delivered!
stores, coaled ship and received ofii- |
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cers for home. She left Wu-Sung
August 19 for Hongkong, found there
the Monadnock, completed the trans-
fer of men and stores, and left for
home August 25, stopping at Singa-
pore, Colombo, and Port Said. At
Messina, Sicily, the Buffalo fell in|
with the Albany and received five oi-
ficers and 47 men sent home from |
various vessels of the European sta-|
tion on account of the expiration of |
their terms of sea duty. The Buffalo |
crossed the Atlantic in about 34
days and had fine weather. On board !
are 12 men for hospital from the
Eurcpean and Asiatic stations. The
United States supply steamer Are- |
thusa has also arrived from Cavite:
via the Suez canal after an absence
of 26 months in Asiatic waters,|
where she has been in service attend- |
ing the fleet staticned in the Far!
East. |
GIRL ASLEEP FOR EIGHT DAYS.
Dora Meek, of Centralia, Ill, Afflicted
by Peculiar Ailment.
Miss Dora Meek, of Centralia, 111.,
has been sleeping for eight days. On
the eighth day her father mowed her
several squares through the city in an
open wagon to his rooms without
arousing her. Several physicians
have examined the girl, and some pro-
nounced her a victim of nervous pros-
tration and others of hysteria. Dur-
ing the last three days her mother
aroused her once a day long enough
to give her two spoonfuls of water or
soup at a time, but never more. She
had a similar attack once before. She
is 17 years old and was not complain-
ing when she went to sleep.
BUYS NEW MINE.
U. S. Steel Corporation Secures Ore
Property and Two Steamers.
The Donora Mining Company, the
ore company of the United States
Steel Corporation, has bought from
the Eddy Bros. & Co. of Bay City,
Mich., the fee of the Penobscot iron
mine, comprising 40 acres, near Hib-
bing, on the Mesaba range, and two
lake steamers, the Howard L. Shaw
and Simon J. Murphy. The consider-
ation is supposed to have been not
less than $2,000,000. The Penobscot
mine at present is producing about
250,000 gross tons of ore annually.
WARRANT FOR THE COLONEL.
Commander in Eighteenth Regiment
to Be Arrested.
Justice of the Peace Kelly, at Shen-
andoah, Pa., has issued -a warrant for
the arrest of Colonel Rutledge, of the
Eighteenth regiment, as an accessory
before the fact in the shooting eof
Walter Durham, an alleged dyna-
miter, by Private Walter Wadsworth,
of Company A. The constable was re-
fused admission to the camp when he
attempted to enter for the purpose of
serving the warrant.
Bible in Schools Prohibited.
In an opinion handed down at Lin-
coln, Neb., the supreme court declares
that the reading of the Bible, suppli-
cation to the deity and singing of
sacred songs in the public schools of
the state are prohibited by the con-
stitution. All the justices concurred.
Memorial to McKinley Unveiled.
A bronze tablet bearing the ad-
dress delivered by President MeXKin-
ley to the colored people of Chicago
was unveiled in Quinn chapel during
McKinley memorial service. United
States Senator William E. Mason de-
livered the oration. A star has been
placed in the floor on the spot where
the President stood.
Soldier of Tenth Shot.
Ira Veiock, sergeant in C mpany B,
Tenth regiment, was standing in the
kitchen mess tent at Shamokin, Pa.
when a bullet from a revolver pierced
the tent and lodged in his right shoul.
der. Four men, one holding a re-
volver, were seen to rush from. the top
of a culm bank close by and disap-
t strike is
pear on the mountain.
ARE NOT CITIZENS.
Judge Lacombe Decides, Unless Porto
Ricans Are Regularly Naturaliz-
ed They Remain Aliens.
A decision was handed down in the
United States circuit court at New
York by Judge Lacombe, holding that
a citizen of Porto Rico is not a citizen
of the United States, and as such en-
titled to land in the United States
without interference from the immi-
gration authorities, but is, the in-
sular decisions notwithstanding, an
alien within the meaning of the law.
The matter came before Judge La-
combe on the application for a writ of
habeas corpus, sworn out on behalf
of Isabella Gonzales, a native Porto
Rican woman, who arrived in New
York August 24. She was detained
by the immigration authorities on the
ground that, being an unmarried wom-
an, ber condition was such that she
was an undesirable alien. She was
ordered deported, but a well-to-do
aunt and uncle living on Station
Island secured attorneys to get her
released through habeas corpus. “The
only auestion for discussion,”. reads
the opinion, “is whether petitioner is
an alien. The fourteenth amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States provides that all persons horn
or naturalized in the United States
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof
are citizens of the United States. Peti-
tioner was by birth an alien; unless
she Las since, in some appropriate
way, been naturalized, she is still an
alien. There is no suggestion that
she was ever naturalized under the
general laws regulating the admission
of alien citizens. The treaty of Paris,
unlike earlier treaties, which dealt
with Louisiana, Florida, California
and Alaska, did not undertake to make
native-born citizens of Porto Rico citi-
zens of the United States. It express-
Iv provides that the civil rights and
political status of the native inhabi-
tants of the territories ceded to the
United States should be determined
by Congress.”
E£liis Island Shakeup.
A shakeup is said will follow a
searching investigation into the con-
ition of affairs in Ellis island. Be-
| fore the end of another 10 days five
inspectors of immigration will be dis-
missed. With them will go many
other officials and important changes
will be made in the civil employes
on the island.
Bribery Is Charged.
Alonzo V. Miller, president of the
hoard of education of South Omaha,
Nebh., was arrested charged with soli-
citing and accepting ‘bribes. Similar
charges were filed against J. L. Ku-
bat and Theodore Scaroeder, both
members of the same zody.
CABLE FLASHES.
I'ive blue-jackekts were killed and
others were injured by the accidental
explosion of a shell in the naval ar-
senal at Spezia, Italy.
Serious election riots occurred at
Saint Poelten, 35 miles from Vienna,
Austria, after a meeting of the sup-
porters cof tne Christian Socialist
candidate for election to the provin-
cial Diet.
Manchester, England, will be one of
the terminal ports of the International
Marine Company, and a service
thence to Boston will be inaugurated
in January by steamers with a cargo
capacity of 8,000 tons.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain,
speaking to a meeting of Liberal
Unionists at Birmingham, England,
said that the education bill would not
be withdrawn, and that if it was de-
feated the ministry would resign.
The mail steamer Virginia Lake has
returned to St. Johns, N. F., from Lab-
rador, and brings reports that the
whole coast of Labrador has been
swept by a fearful gale. Eighteen
vessels were driven ashore and are
total losses.
Information from the coal mining
regions of France indicates that the
spreading rapidly. The
strikers in the Pas de Calais district
number 47,600 men. The lack of coal
has already caused a number of iron
works to close.
At a cabinet meeting in Paris,
France, Foreign Minister Delcasse
announced that a Franco-Siamese con-
vention had been signed. By the
terms of the convention France gets
the ancient Cambodian province of
Malaiproy and Laos, in the pravince
of Bassack.
An imperial edict issued at Pekin,
China, makes the late Liu-Kun-Yi,
the famous viceroy of Nanking, an
carl of the first rank, praises his ser-
vices in maintaining peace in the
Yang-Tse valley in 1900 and ordains
that a tablet to his memory be placed
in the Peking temple.
In the Landsthing at Copenhagen,
Foreign Minister Deuntzer submitted
a bill ratifying the cession of the
Danish West Indies to the United
States and urged a speedy settlement
of the matter. The first reading of
the bill was fixed for October 15, the
second reading will occur October 22.
The Scotch Coal Masters at London,
England, are in receipt of numerous
urgent inquiries for the prompt ship-
ment of coal to New York and Phila-
delphia, and they are arranging
treightage for 40,000 tons. The most
urgent demand is for anthracite, for
which American buyers now have ta
pay $4.12 per ton.
Emperor William has bestowed the
decoration of the Prussian Royal Or-
der of the Crown of the first class
upon Captain Sverdrup the Arctic ex-
plorer. King Oscar of Norway be-
stowed the Grand Cross of St. Olaf
on Captain Sverdrup last week.
The Bcer generals arrived at Ut-
recht, Holland, to greet Mr. Kruger on
the occasion of his 77th birthday.
Mr. Kruger in an address said the
generals had only ceased hostilities
in order to prevent the extinction of
their race and that their assumption
of the role of beggars showed their
desire to save their people.
Counterfeit American silever dol-
lars are being made in Ching and
circulated in the Philippine Islands
extensively.
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