A JAP CRUISER CRIPPLED . i Russians Succeed in Using Tor- | pedo with Effect. | PLAN OF YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER. Machine Gun Mounted on Naptha Launch Steals Out of Port Ar- thur and Makes Attack. { The Russian fleet scored its first distinct naval success of the war on May 10 by the torpedoing and crippl- ing, though not the sinking, of an arm- ored Japanese cruiser in Talienwan bay. | The Russian attack was carefully planned on May 10 while the Japanese squadron was ccncentrating outside Dalny, devoting its whole attention to « Talfenwan bay, and was carried out the same night. The attacking force was not a regular torpedo boat, but was only a small naptha launch, in command of a young naval officer who had with him three jackies. The launch mounied a small machine gun and carried three torpedoes. When darkness fell the launch crept out of Port Arthur, hugging the shore with no lights and no. glow from the engineg to betray her presence. It was late when she gained the cuter line of the Japapese squadron. Slipping through the torpedo boat pickets, and selecting the nearest warship, a big armored cruiser, she stole toward her and succeeded in exploding against side a single torpedo. A deafening roar followed the. explosion, which echoed far ashore. Immediately flames enveloped the cruiser, which «vidently was badly crippled. The crew of the cruiser was seen to be fighting the fire, which they at last succeeded in extinguishing. A sister ship took the damaged vessel in tow and disappeared in the southeast. The launch escaped the hot fire direct- ed against her py the Japanese ships, but Lefore she could return to Port Arthur or get ‘into Dalny she was beached. Only a few of the higher officers were aware of the plan, the success of which depended upon secrecy. . The achievement raised the spirits of the Russians, and the young officer who was the hero of the exploit was feted and reccmmended for the cross of St. George. Two thousand Japanese have reoc- cunied the road to Sanchilipu, again cutting off Port Arthur. A strong fcree is advancing against Polandien. CHINESE MIXING IN. Russian Mining Station Attacked by | Native Soldiers. ! Chinese soldiers attacked the rail-| way coal mines occupied by the Rus- sian administrative force near Port Adams, and drove out the officials who were working therein, many of them escaping only partly clad. The Chi-| nese looted the works and retired. Chinese bandits are becoming bold- | er and are causing considerable trou-! ble to the Russian outposis. A swarm of the bandits on May 3 at-| tacked the coal miners on the branch line east of Yantai station, 10 miles north of Liao-Yang. | The mines, which supply the whole railroad, were guarded by 200 riflemen and 100 Cossacks. In a fierce fight the Russians repelled the bandits and then disarmed them, the bandits fleeing to the hills and to three neighboring vil- lages: The troops surrounded the vil- lages and then demanded the sur- render of the bandits. The surrender was at first refused, but, fearing that the Russians would destroy their homes, the villagers finally revealed the hiding places of the fugitives. The bandits fought with the des- peration of entrapped rats, and 50 of them were speared and killed. The Russians suffered no loss. Among 17 prisoners taken by the troops were two Japanese officers who had escaped from the Russians. One of the bandits taken a prisoner con- fensed that the bandits had been hired by the Japanese, whom they were supplying with information. PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS. Swarms Have Almst Destroyed the Crops in Egypt This Year. Great swarms of locusts have most destroyed all the young cotton and other crops in Egypt. this year, and the situation is so serious that the governmnt has called out the Corvee to organize for the destruction of the pest, if necessary by forced labor. The locusts are descending upon the country in solid masses, two or three fect deep and several miles long, and they do not leave a green leaf wher- ever they have gone. Thousands of people all over the country are busy di 1g trenches, which are filled with straw and put afire at the first sign of the approach- ing insects. In the neighborhood of Cairo the fields for miles around are covered with the bodi of the destroyed lo- custs, and these are beginning to de- cay, endangering the health of the population, but it is impossible to get them out of the way, at least until the | swarms have ceased to come. ? Cremated in Oil Fire. Fire at Batson, Tex, destroyed 18] derricks, five drilling rigs and 20 tanks containing about 15,000 barrels | of oil. Thomas Walker, of Leaven- worth, Kan. mounted a-ladder oo ut effort to cut off the flow of oil, fel] into a mass of burning oil and timbers and Ww slowly roasted to | death. The loss is $60,000. ! Dr. Robert Bartholow, an eminent physician and professor in Jefferson | Medical College and a native of Mary- land, died in Philadelphia. | nue, Pittsburg. spared. | manded. SUICIDE IN CHURCH. Left Note Indicating He Had Feared : Arrest. The dead body of -a man dangling at the end of a rope in the belfry of the | Emmanuel Baptist church, 2320 Michi gan avenue, Chicago, was the grue-| | some sight that met the eyes of the] congregation as they assembled Sunday morning's service. The police were notified at once, and the body cut down and taken away. In one of the pockets of the dead man’s coat a memorandum hook was for | | found bearing the name and address of William Johnson, 2233 Webster ave- Written on a fly-leaf of the book were the following words: “Well, I see that nothing but my death will satisfy the outraged public. Therefore I will give it, but I will be my own executioner.” JAPANESE LOSE FIRST BOAT. Blown Up While Attempting to Re- move a Mine. The Japanese torpedo boat No. 48 was destroyed while removing mines from Kerr bay, north of Tallenwan (Ft. Dalny). Seven men were killed and seven were wounded. This is the first warship Japan has lost in the war. Torpedo boats Nos. 48 and 49 dis- covered a large mechanical mine in Kerr bay. Their various attempts to blow it up failed and it suddenly ex- ploded of itself, cutting No. 48 in two. The torpedo boat sank in seven min- utes. The squadron hurried boats to the rescue and picked up the wounded. Three other mines were discovered and exploded. Stole From the Mint. Another scandal in the San Fran- cisco mint has developed. Dimmick and his theft of $30.000 has scarcely passed the public mind before it has been proved that one of the melters has been stealing since August last, when he first went into the employ of the mint. The name of the criminal is Albert Hauser and he was arrested. Hauser confessed to the theft of $400 worth of gold in the skimming pro- cess and made restitution... .There is no way of ascertaining how much Hauser has stolen during his brief em- ployment at the mint. Naval Cadet Drowned. | Midshipman Phillip Brittingham, of | Wheeling, a member of the third class | of the Annapolis naval academy, was drowned about two miles off the naval | academy. The young man left the academy dock in a sailing launch with Midshipmen Anderson, Hender- son, Towars and Stevenson, all of the third class. The boat was without center board or air tanks, and being caught by a strengz gust of wind, cap- sized and sank immediately. | Negro Was Lynched. A crowd of about 100 masked men | forcibly entered the county jail at Ap- pling, Ga., about midnight, tcok out John Cuming, a negro, who was wait- ing trial on the charge of criminal as- sault, and hanged him to a tree near the public road about half a mile from Appling. TERSE TELEGRAMS. | Queen Lilioukalani is ill at the World's Fair. The President will agpoint George F. White, of Macon, Ga., United States. Marshal. The Knowling Expedition, after ex- treme hardships, arrived at Glenwood, Newfoundland. It is announced that President Roosevelt will receive no delegations during his summer visit to Oyster Bay. Directors of the New York Central Railroad completed arrangements for issuing $30,000,000 4 per cent. bonds. It is unde:stood that $4,000,000 of the new Russian loan will be placed with Ne%w York customers of the French underwriters. The issue price of the new Russian lean will be 99. Rear Admiral Albert Sewall Ken- ney, retired, fcrmerly Paymaster Gen- eral of the Navy, has been selected as treasurer of the Panama Canal Com- mission. Frederick Schuetz, son of Henry Schuetz, a wholesale liquor dealer, of Pittsburg, shot himself twice after trying to kill and wounding Mrs. Winifred McCormack. Jealousy is sup- posed to have prompted the deed. BIG STEEL PLANT FOR CHINA. Mandarins in America to Investigate What to Buy. Vv. K. Lee, Tsu King Yuan and Tse Shao Yung, commissioners of the Chinese Government, have arriv- ed from Peking. They are mandarins of the first class and have been sent out to investigate the steel plants of America and England. «China intends constructing a plant of her own for manufacture of armor plate and steel rails,” said Mr. Lee. “She already possesses a steel plant near Shanghai, but it is of an old pattern and not at all up-to-date.! w plant will be located in the vhere—exactly where it d. But we want machinery, the to turn out three the Lee would not say how large a “hina is prepared to put into the s nment of the plant, but he in- timated that the amount would be enormous and that no rains would be Instruct for Roosevelt. | The Republican State convention of | Washington adjourned after nominat- ing William E. Humphrey, Wesley L. Jones and Franc W. Cushman for] Congress and nominating fqr governor Albert E. Mead, of Whatcom. The platform instructs the delegates to vote for Roosevelt; advocates a protec- tive tariff; favors reciprocity in non- competitive products, and opposes the repeal of the duty on coal. More lib-| eral appropriations for the improve- ment of rivers and harbors are de- Se JiPS PRESSING FORWARD Their Forces Advance Close to Liao-Yana. RUSSIAN RETREAT CONTINUES Port Arthur Again Cut Off—Cossacks Driven Back—Enemy’s Mine De- stroys Mikado’s Boat. The Japanese activity in Southern Manchuria continues and from Laio Yang, General Kouropatkin’s head quarters, the information that the enemy has advanced close to the Russian position, and that he is throwing up defenses on the Liao Yang road. General Kuroki’'s bold ness indicates that "he believes the Russians dre much weaker than has been represented. The latest move places Kouropatkin in a critical po sition. : General Kouropatkin, reporting on the ernemy’s operations, states that a Japanese detachment forced a num comes ber of Cossacks from a fortified po sition. It is impossible to identify many -of the Russian-Chinese names given in the Russian accounts of the operations. The Russians retreat from South: ern Manchuria continues, the army burning bridges and everything not transportable. Newchwang reiterates the belief that it will extend as far north as Harbin. Only two regiments of Russian scldiers remain at New- chwang. . The Japanese have again occupied Polandien on the Liao-Tung peninsula, with the result that communications with Port Arthur, both by railroad and telegraph, have been interrupted again. What is said to be the first Jap- anese naval loss since the beginning of the war occurred Thursday, when a torpedo boat was blown up by a Rus sian mine while on a scouting trip. DALNY BLOWN UP. Russians Destroy Docks and Piers Be: fore Evacuation. Dalny has been evacuated by the Russians and the great docks and piers constructed by the czar’s engin eers at enormous cost have been blown up and destroyed. This fact was tel egraphed to the emperor by Viceroy Alexieff. At one stroke the Russians have destroyed the improvements on the finest deepwater harbor on the Pacific, which was opened to: com- me: ce in December, 1901. The reason semi-officially advanced for shattering the docks and piers was | that such an action would impede the landing of a Japanese force at Dahy, but when the news of the complete de- struction of the city was received it was regarded ominously as indicating a desperate situation, and still gloom- ier news is now feared. Port Dalny, on Talienwan Bay, on | the east coast of Liao-Tung peninsula, was intended by Russia to be the chief commercial emporium of its eastern dominions, and was called the “Magic City.” An edict providing for its con- struction was issued by the Russian Emperor July 30, 1899, and Port Dalny, fully equipped with all modern improvements, docks, warehouses and railroad facilities, was opened to com- merce in December, 1901. Over $6,000,000 had been expended on the harbor system before the end of 1902 and it was estimated that the cost of completing the works would be nearly $20,000, but this does not in any way represent the total cost, of the erection of this great commercial port, which, with Port Arthur distant about 20 miles, was leased by the Chinese Government to Russia in 1898. Entire Block Burned. A special dispatch from Coudersport, Pa., states that fire destroyed an entire block of the town. A high wind blew sparks from a bonfire into one of the buildings, and the Farmers hotel, three grocery stores, a feed store, a music store, a tea store, Knights of Labor hall, a dwelling and four barns were destroyed. Help was sent from Port Allegany. The loss is estimated at $50,000. DECISION AGAINST B. & O. Inter-State Commerce Commission Finds It Discriminated. The Inter-State Commerce Commis sion announced its decision, which is adverse to the railroad, in the case of the Glade Coal Company, of Mey2rs dale, Pa., against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad! company. The commis sion holds that the defendants’ refusal to furnish cars to complainants at Meversdale and Keystone Junction while furnishing them to complainant's competitors at other points was un due and unlawful discrimination for which complainants are entitled tc reparation. It also holds the road guilty of violating the law in making certain charges for the transporta tion of coal when it is loaded by tipple and exacting a higher charge when it is loaded in some other way. Thirty-One Herercs Killed. A dispatch received from the gover: nor of German Southwest Africa, Col Leutwein, announcing that Lieut. Volk mann with 22 men engaged a detach ment of Hereros, at Okanka windi April 28, killing 31 of the natives and losing one man killed. Hunter Killed by Accident. Luther Hudson, aged 30, was shot and almost instantly killed by the ac cidental firing of a rifle in the hands of John Bronson. The two men were back of Stockdale, Pa. hunting for groundhogs. Hudson had crawled through a and while Bronson was following, the gun in his hand was fired. The charge enterec FHudson’s left side near the heart. He died while being carried to his home on the hill fence in Stockdale. OPERATOR HELD UP. Masked Men Make Successful Raid on Railway Station. Three masked burglars committed a daring robbery at the Mosgrove sta- tion of the Allegheny Valley railroad. five miles north of Kittanning, Pa. The night operator, A. L. Blackburn, had occasion to leave the telegraph office and pass to another part of the building. He was suddenly startled by hearing a noise at the door leading into the waiting room. A few minutes later he heard a rough command at his back to throw up his hands, and turn- ing quickly he .was surprised to see three masked men standing before him with drawn revolvers. . They seized the operator and, going through his pockets, secured about $6. They then blindfolded him and tied his hands. Escorting him to another room, one of the robbers was left to guard him, while the other two pro- ceeded to the telegraph and ticket of- fice, where they began to work on the safe. The knob was knocked off and an explosive used to blow off the door. The shot was heavy and damaged the safe badly as well as breaking all the glass in the office windows. While awaiting for the explosion the bur- glars withdrew to the freight house. RUSSIANS AGAIN DEFEATED Czars Forces Overtaken After a Twenty Mile Chase. DROP SHELLS IN PORT ARTHUR. Admiral Togo’s Fleet Renews Attack on Beleaguered Fortress, Shoot- ing at High Angle. The Paris "Matin’s” St. Petersburg correspondent says it is persistently rumored that there has becn a big fight near Mao-Tien-Ling pass between the Russians and General Kuroki’s army. The Russians, he says, lost heavily, Lieutenant General Zassalitch being among the killed. The first and second Japanese armies under the command of General Kurcki, met a large Russian force near Waifungtien and a terrible bat- tle ensued. It resulted in a complete victory tor the Japanese, the Russians fleeing in disorder. Their loss was great. The Japanese are said to have After the shot the robbers visited | the office and secured about $65. Their | job completed the thieves warned | Blackburn not to stir for 10 minutes | and then left. The operator after a | few moments succeeded in freeing | himself, and running out gave the | alarm to the residents of Mosgrove, | and then reported the incident to the | train dispatcher in Pittsburg. | The only clue that the burglars may | have left behind is that three men | stole a horse and buggy belonging to | Joseph Heilman, who lives several] miles from Mosgrove. Russians Burn Korean Towns. Four hundred Russians and 3,000 Manchurians have burned two towns | 30 miles northeast of Anju. Several detachments of mounted Japanese troops are operating from the town between Anju and Wiju, it being thought the Russians may attempt a flank movement in that part of the] sountry. The disturbances caused by | the Tonghaks in the southern districts | of Korea have caused the Japanese to send reinforcements to the troops guarding the men employed in build- ng the Fusan-Seoul railway. The ‘roops sent for this purpose were part »f the garrison here. CURRENT EVENTS. Figures show that over 135,000 visi- :ors attended the World's Fair during its first week. The United States has resolved to sreate an Asiatic department to deal with business in the Far East. The international convention of the | Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butch- sr Workmen considered the annual re- port of the secretary and reports of | committees. Congressman Charles E. Townsend, sf Jackson, Mich., was renominated by icclamation at the Second district Republican convention. The ‘ions endorsed President Roosevelt. Of the $40,000,000 received by J. P. Morgan © & Co. in payment of the Panama Canal properties $15,000,000 has been withdrawn from the Treasury, and the balance will be col- lected panks. dcates. After various attempts to hold to- zether the Italian settlement at New Palermo, 36 miles north of Mobile, Ala., has gone to pieces. The Rev. Gustave Poensgen, the Jerman Lutheran clergymen at Ellers- ie, N. Y., was shot accidentally while juck shooting with the Rev. Mr. Hen- son, also of Ellerslie. the hands of Mr. Henson. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has been se- sured by President Turner to deliv- or the commencement address before the graduating class of Waynesburg scllege on June 16. An east-bound freight train struck a rock that had fallen in a cut near Fairmont, W. Va. The engine and ‘our cars loaded with merchandise were destroyed. The trainmen es- :aped injury. TURKISH OUTRAGES. Ambassadors Attempt to Limit De- struction and Bloodshed. An official dispatch from Constanti- nople confirms the reports that Turk- ish troops have burned villages throughout the Sassoun district of Ar-’ menia, killing the inhabitants. The French ambassador, M. Constans, has joined with the Russian and British ambassadors in sending consuls to Er- zeroum in the hope of limiting the de- struction and bloodshed. However, the official advices, although brief, in- dicate that the work of exterminating the Armenians occupying the moun- tainous district of Sassoun is practic- ally accomplished. The French authorities were advis- ed some time ago that Turkey was taking advantage of Russia’s preoccu- pation in the far east and intended to adopt a decisive course toward the re- bellious Armenians. gin the work of suppressing on about April 15. In order to prevent this the powers made an energetic protest. This delayed Turkey’s action, which, | however, has now been executed with the same severity as at first contem- plated. Soldiers Must Stick by Wives. Before leaving Puerto Rico for the United States, those enlisted men of the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-ninth com- panies of Coast Artillery who had mar- | ried native women ‘were notified by their commanding officers, by direction of the War Department, that they would be held responsible by the mil- itary authorities if they deserted their wives and children. Some of the men married Puerto Ricans when the com- panies went to the islands, four years azo. resolu- | sub- | through the Clearing House | The $15,000,000 in cash was! ‘aken in $5,000 and $10,000 gold certi- | The gun was in The information | then showed that the Turks would be-| suffered big losses also. Instead of pursuing the Russians, General Ku- roki advanced toward the Russian po- sition at Haicheng, which is seriously menaced. An engagement is expect- ed within a few days. The Japanese are in superior force, and unless the Russians hold an extraordinarily pow- erful position, indications are that General Kuroki will gain another im- portant victory. The Tokyo correspondent of the London “Moining Post,” cabling under date of May 10, says that a high- angle bembardment of Port Arthur is proceeding. Russia announces that the railway from Port Arthur to Newchwang is again open, but makes no explanation of the apparent abandonment of the siege of that place .by the Japanese army that landed on the peninsula a few days ago. New Jersey Republicans. At the Republican State convention the delegates-at-large elected to the Chicago convention were Governor Franklin Murphy, United States Sena- tors Kean and Dryden. and State As-| sessor David Baird, of Camden. The alternates-at-large are Secre- tary of State S. D. Dickinson of Hud- son; Senator Wood McKee, of saic; Clarence Breckenridge, of Ber- | gen, and Grifiith Lewis, of Burlington. | The platform indirectly favored the nomination of President Roosevelt to | succeed himself, although, in keeping | with the policy that has always pre- vailed in this State, the delegates were | not instructed. C. & P. to Sell More Stock. A second circular has been sent out | by the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Company urging the stockholders to consent to the proposed issue of $10,- 000,000 7 per cent additional stock. A similar circular was sent out a short | time ago, but it met with very little response. Of the seven per cent four per cent is to be guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The purpcse of the new stock issue is to reimburse the Pennsylvania for money advanced. Convicted in Hungary. Gabriel Hossza, the Hungarian bank- | er who was indicted in Mercer county, ! Pa., on a charge of embezzlement, has been sentenced to‘three years in pris- on. His trial has just been concluded | in Hungary, where he was captured after his sensational escape from an Erie train near Binghamton, N. Y. The papers were sent from Mercer county. Some of th persons he swindled were not naturalized. Plague Epidemic in Formosa. A. C. Lambert, Vice-Consul-General at Daitotei, which is a new name for Tamsui, the old capital of Formosa, reports to the State Department that during March there were 558 cases of bubonic plague on the island, with 369 deaths. The Consul shows that the plague has been epidemic for the last five years in the southern part of | the island. MINISTERS TRY PISTOLS. fray on Train There was a sensational shceoting affray on the east-bound Texas & Pa- | cific train coming into Texarkana be- tween the Rev. J. B. Cranfill and the Rev. S. L.. Hayden. Cranfill fired two shots from a magazine pistol at Hay- den while the latter was struggling for possession of the weapon. Neither shot took effect. | The encounter cccurred in the lava- tory of the sleeper on which both men were enroute to the Southern Baptist | convention at Nashville, Tenn., Cran- | fill was arrested on his arrival at Tex- arkana, and arranged on a charge of assault with intent to murder. The encounter, it is alleged, grew out of past differences between the two men. Will Receive Wireless Messages. cided to make arrangements for the receipt at naval ccast signal stations of wireless messages from the ships of foreign governments and of the merchant marine, when necessary for | transmission by commercial] lines to their destination. | | ATTACK ON BRITISH MISSION. | — | Butchery of Eight Servants by Tib- ! etans Reported. The London “Times” publishes a | dispatch from Gyantse, Thibet, which | reports the butchery of eight servants | of the British mission by Tibetans. The dispatch says that the Tibetans are constantly getting better arms and | ammuntiion, are manufactured at Lhassa, and that it is clear the Tibetans contemplate a combined ef- fort to overwhelm the mission. Pas- | Clergymen in Sensational Shooting Af-| The U. S. navy department has de- | |A CAR OF POWDER EXPLODES. | ——— | six Men Killed and Many Injured by Accident in a Mine in Illinois. | Six men were killed and a number | burned by an explosion of powder im | the Big Muddy Coal and Iron Company | mine -at Herrin, II. About 325 men were at work in the mine. A car containing 50 kegs of powder explod- The cause of the %explosion is I Eighty injured men and | the fc lowing dead have been removed | from the mine: Thomas Green, Fred- aricik Seiberg, John Miller, — Crain, “illiams Brothers. The mine was badly wrecked mak- ing the rescue work difficult. It is not known how many men were , working in the vicinity of the ex- | plosion. It is believed that several are dead and covered with wreckage. The explosion .was caused by the ig- | niticn of fire damp that had formed in | a pocket and was touched off by a miner’s lamp. Fully 50 men were at work in the tunnel in which the ex- plosion occurred, and all of them were thrown to the floor or hurled against the walls of the cut by the blast. Mangled and mutilated bodies of those instantly killed were piled upon those who were so badly injured that they were unable to move after the deadly gas and flame had swept over them. SEVENTEEN LIVES WERE LOST. not k § BH Twc American Officers and Fifteen Men Killed and Five Men Wounded by Moros. Lieut. Winfield Harper and 39 men of F company, of the Seventeenth United States infantry, were caught on May 8 in an ambush by several hundred Moros. Two American offi- cers and 15 men were killed and five men were wounded. The ambush oc- curred at Simpatem, on the east shore of Lake Liguasen, island of Mindanao. The officers killed in the ambush were First Lieut. Harry A. Woodruff and Second Lieut. Joseph H. Hall, both of the Seventeenth ‘infantry. | Lieut. Woodruff was born in Indiana, and entered the service in the State of New York. Lieut Hall was born in Alabama and was promoted to his RURIK SUNK. | Report That Japanese Destroyed An- other Russian Ship. Rumors are current in Nagaski that | Admiral Kamamura, in command of | the squadron which is looking after Vladivostok, has made an attack on the Russian squadron within the harbor and succeeded in sinking the big Rus- | sian armored cruiser Rurik. | According to the story, as told here, | several Japanese torpedo boats were | sent into the harbor during a heavy fog. They crept up through the chan- nel north of Kezakavitchka island and succeeded in getting within torpedo distance of the Russian squadron, which was at anchor, before they were discovered.” Two torpedoes are said to have struck the Rurik and report has it that she was so badly damaged that she sunk. The naval authorities profess to have received no news of the reported attack, but we report is very general- ly credited. Boston Wool Market. Unusual quietness prevails in the wool market. Some dealers say that | the situation is not only unseasonable { but that from the manufacturers’ | standpoint it has not been so bad for years. Not only have the mills not had the usual volume of orders but much dissatisfaction is reported with the quality of the goods delivered and the possibility of cancellation, Terri- | tory wools are dull and weak. Pulled wocls are steady with medium grades scarce. There is a firm tone to for- eign wools. Leading quotations are: hic and Pennsylvania—XX and above, 32@33c; X, 29@30c; No. 1, 31 @32c: No. 2, 21@32c; fine unwashed, 22@23c. South Trimble was renominated for Congress on the 290th ballot by the Democrats of the Seventh (Ky.) dis- trict with a single vote to spare. | Iron Imports Fall Off. The imports of foreign pig iron, gerap iron, old iron rails, structural iron, steel billets, steel blooms, steel wire rods, scrap steel and old steel rails, which during some months with- in the past two years have aggregated | close to 100,000 tons, fell to 3,585 tons last month: Practically all was ship- ped to Pittsburg and vicinity on con- | tracts made when the demand was at | the highest level. The pig iron im- | ported in April represented a total of { but 1,614 tons. The iron and chrome | ores imported in April represented in | all 35,775 toms. Verdict Over Wentz. “He came to his death by the acci- dental discharge of his own pistol,” is the verdict of the coroner’s jury in- vestigating the circumstances and con- ditions surrounding the death of Ed- ward I. Wentz, the young millionaire, whose body was discovered decayed and unburied on a spur of Black raountain, Tenn. last Sunday after- noon. Fire destroyed 25 houses in the su- burbs of St. Henry, Canada, rendering 20 families homeless. Most of the resi- | dents were poor. The loss is $75,000. | Gem Hickenlooper is Dead. Gen. Andrew Hickenlooper, aged. 67, died in Cincinnati on the 12th. He rose from captain to a brigadier general in the civil war, and was a famous com- mander of artillery in the Union army. After the war he was civil engineer of Cincinnati, and for the past 30 years president of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company. He was lieuten- ant governor of Ohio from 1880 to 1382.
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