SCORES KILLED WRECK
Frightlully Fatal Collision on Tb ;
Southern Forway
ORDERS WERE DISOBEYED.
MANY WERE FATALLY
One Engineer Fails to Take the
.. Siding Assigned to His Train
Regularly.
Sixty-two people are dead and over
100 injured, some of them fatally, as
the result of a head-on collision be-
tween two passenger trains
Southern railroad near
Tenn., last Saturday. Disobeying of
orders caused the disaster.
The collision was between east:
bound passenger train No. 12 and
westbound passenger train No. 15
from Bristol. No. 12 was a heavy
train, carrying two Pullmans, two
day coaches and a mail and baggage
car. No. 15 was a light local train.
The greatdst loss of life occurred in
the eastbound train, while in the
westbound train only the engine crew
were killed.
Relief trains were
Knoxville within an hour. |
This appalling loss of life resulted |
apparently from the disregarding of
orders given to the two trains to
meet at a station which has for a
long time been their regular meet-
ing point. The claim of failure to
see either the station or signals can-
not he set up by the engineer of the
westbound train were he alive to
enter a plea of defense, as the acci-|
dent happened in broad daylight, and
according to the best information ob-
tainable, he had order in a little
frame in front of him as his engine
rushed by the station. A mile
a half further on ‘it came full
an eastbound passenger train mak-
ing for Hodges, in compliance with
instructions to meet the westhound |
train, which carried the sleepers
from the east of Knoxville, Chat
tanooga and other southern cities.
The possibility exists that the ill
fated engineer may have been asleep,
but nothing is known save that the
orders Were not obeyed. The trains
were on time, and were not making |
over 35 miles an hour, yet the im-
pact as they rounded a curve and |
came suddenly upon each other was
frightful. |
Both engines and the major por-
tions of both trains were demol-
ished. The engineers of the two]
trains were crushed, their bodies re-
maining for hours under the wreck-
age of the locomotives,
“Both engines and
coaches of No. 15 were literally
molished, the smoker and
car completely so. The sleepers re-
mained on the track undamaged.
3oth engines lay to the north of the
on the
Hodges,
dispatched from |
the
and
upon |
the
de-
baggage
all of
track, jammed together into one
mass of indescribable ruins. The
cars which were demolished were
piled on the wrecked engines.”
JUDGE PARKER'S LETTER.
Democratic Candidate Issues Formal
Acceptance.
Judge Alton B. Parker’s formal let-
ter of acceptance of the Democratic
nomination [or the Presidency was
given out for publication. In stat-
ing his position upon the issues for-
mulated in the platform of his party
the nominee definitely accdpts the
challenge of President Roosevelt in
relation to executive pension order
No. 178. Judge Parker declares if
he shall be elected he will revoke
that order and endeavor to com-
pass the end desired through legis-
lation by congress.
Touching upon imperialism at
some lengzth the letter declares the
power of the President is almost as
great as that of some European
monarchs, and makes an appeal for
the return to that constitutionalism
that existed in the time of our fath-
ers.
Tariff reform is demanded by the
people and is imperative.
He declares he favors further leg-
$slation lcoking to the curbing of the
trusts.
He favors reciprocity, which would
benefit both manufacturer and con-
sumer, and cites President McKin-
ley’s last public speech as showing
that he appreciated the value of re-
SR The Philippines should}
be independent, he says, as soon as
their people are reason 1b y prepared
for freedom, in justice to them, and
to preserve our own rights.
NEW RUS N ARMY.
New Commander and
Reorganization.
Czar Chooses
pone
The Czar anno
tion of a Roan
to consist
and to b=
comma
penberz, who will take eque al
with Gen. Kuro rin, of the firs!
Manchurian. The Czar’s rescript,
while praising the valor and energy
of the Japanese, makes it plain that
Russia intends to spare neither
money nor men in bringing victory
to her arms as speedily as possible.
It is reported that Grand Duke Nich-
olas will probably be made com-
mander-in-chief of the two Manchur-
jan armies
Engineer Burn
A passenger tr
and Western rcad was
Lockburn by
engine, tender
derailed, but
mained on the
ed to
ain on
Death.
the Norfolk
wrecked at
spreading rails. The
and baggage car were
the passenger cars re-
track. None of the
passengers was injured. Engineer |
william D. Simonton of this city, |
was burned to death under his ngine |
Fireman Frederi W. Kyle, o
umbus, was,fatally alded.
Col- |
INJURED. |
| mines of
ACTURES
Farm Products Fail
Manufactures,
MANUF IN LEAD.
Exports of Be-
tow
rease in exports of
aud
mana-
exports of
decrease in
products are
ted to reach the correspondents. Ap-
is not great several days are
ed to elapse before there ensues a
battle with the forces under
eral Kuropatkin. Improvement in
the weather conditions is regarded
as advantageous to the Japanese.
| There is no news from the direction
of Port Arthur, though it seems
probable that fighting is in progress
there. There is no confirmation of
the report that the Russian cruiser
Gromocboi has left Vlodivostok in
pursuit of a Japanese transport.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Thomas H. Tibbles, Vice-Presiden-
tial candidate of the People’s party,
has issued his letter of acceptance.
he buildings of the Canada Hard-
ware Company, in Montreal, were
burned. The loss is $530,000, msur-
ance, $383,000.
President Walmsley, of the Manu-
facturers’ Asscciation, declared in a
speech that New England would hold
her cotton-mill industry.
Fire in the sixth fioor of the Chri
tian Peper Tobacco Company's fac
tory, in St. Louis,
struction of practically all the stock
The loss is $90,000.
Fire at the plant of the J. A. Fay
and Egan Company,
of wood working machinery, situated
at Front and Jolin streets, Cincinna-
ti, caused a loss of $200,000.
Four Killed by Train.
While retureing from the christen-
ing of a baby at the Sacred Heart
Polish Roman Catholic Church on
Talbot avenue, Braddock, Pa., four
perscns, two men and a woman and
the baby that had just been chris-
tened, were killed, by being struck
by a fast train on the Pennsylvania
railroad.
RAN INTO SLEEPERS.
One Killed and Twenty-six Hurt in
Railroad Wreck.
he Wester: express from New
York to Chicago on the New York
Iroad was wrecked at l.ock
Y. Mrs. Newman Erb
1 and 26 others injured. The
of the , while running at
d, struck a broken
sleeping cars
The engine
ned on the
stopped the
tracks Nos.
\ av) rain. from
the west, h rate of
speed, sw curve and
yefor r en could get a flag
he of freight struck the
yg and cut off about one-
car for the
16 entire length.
it plunged into the
rear sleep-
the front steps with a burning fuse
attached. he bottle contained
dvnamite enough to wreck the build-
ing.
told the police that he saw a white
man run away from the step. A
strike of union miners is on at the
the company.
discussed
parently four Japanese armies are
converging upon Mukden, but al-
i though the distance to be covered!
expect-|
Gen- |
PUPILS PLUNGE TO DEATH,
Floor of Vauit Gives Way and
Many Fall Into Excavation.
onsiderable length in a report of Fr——
the chief of the Bureau of Statistics NINE BODIES TAKEN OUT.
f the Department of Commergz and a
Lat For the first time in the his-
t the export ' trade of the Accident Happens During Recess—
United States manufactures exceeded Parents Charge School Officials
3450,000,900, and agricultural pro- | With ! in Affair.
! for the first time fell below
30 per cent. of the total domestic ex-| -
port The to:al exports of domestic seven ~ mil
| ms actures were $452,445,629 vossibly 10,
ft 3407.526.169 in 1903, and : Ye
$433,851,756 in 1900, the highest rec- school gir were suffacated In a
ord mm earlier years. The total valws| vault during the forenoo: recess,
of agricultural products exported and a score of ¢cthers narrowly es-
was 53.685.367, against $873,322.-| caped the same horribl e death.
832 in 1903, and $943,811, 020° in 1901,! During the of the day this
when the highest totai of agr jcultural | suburb was wild with mingled ex-
exports was recorded. citement, sorrow and indignation,
he gain in manufactures over | and those openly charging the ca-
agricultural products in the export] lamity to official negligence are mak-
trade of the country is shown in the | ing serious threats, among them be-
fact that in 1874 manufactures ex-| ing many women.
ported amounted to but about one-| The large building i3 used for a
fifth as much in value as agricultural | high school, as well as for all lower
products exported; in 1884 their val-| departments. All of the victims
ue was about one-fourth as much; in were from primary grades. On op-
1894 nearly one-third as much, and in | posite sides of the spacious ground
1904 more than one-half as much as| in the rear of the school building
that of ‘the products of agriculture, are {two outhouses. When recess
in the closing months of the | given about 30 of the smaller
r, May and June, manufactures were in the outhouse assigned
the first time in the history of to them, when suddenly the floor
commerce actually exceeded agri-| gave way, precipitating them into the
ural products in value of SenoTes. | vault below.
This decrease in the value of agri-! This vault is 12 feet deep and
ral products exported is the| walled up with stone like a well
striking when it 1s considered | There was in it 4 feet of water that
the export price of cotton] would have been over the heads of
ane higher during the year than the children falling in it singly, but
in any prior year for more than a these falling first filled up the vault
quarter of a century, and that the partially, so that a were not
value of raw cotton exported was entirely submerged.
greater than in.any preceding year, The girls fell t from the floor-
and formed nearly one-half of the jpg and the s of those who
total vaiue of agricultural products were on top kept at least nine under-
exported. { neath until they were dead. The
I frame sheds of these vaults were
REAL WAR NEWS SCARCE. about 20 feet square without win-
. — dows, and only one marrow door-
information About Japanese Move. | way, so that only one girl escaped
ments Kept Secret. | from the door. She ran into the
Secrecy veils the movements of school building and told the teach-
the Japanese armies in Manchuria, | ors swhai hod happened.
1% ot fiat 1s indicative of devel The principal and other teachers
anu ifs b 2 Jet > rushed to the rescue. The screams
opments in the situation is permit- of the girls were dimly heard within
the vault, The teachers were soon
reinforced by the entire population of
the town, the police and fire de-
partment rendering effective service. |
IRON TRADE PROSPECTS.
Reduction of Prices on Billets Has
Smali Effect on Sales.
The Iron Age says: The action of
the billet association has attracted a
good deal of attention, but
not very important, since the tonnage
of steel] billets sold in the open mar-
ket is insignificant when compared
with the days before the consolida-
tions. Then, too, the great bulk of
what crude steel is sold, is delivered
on old sliding scales based on the
price of Bessemer pig iron. There-
fore, the open reductions in prices of
billets and sheet cars does not ma-
terially change the
does not justify the
evidently indulged in by some con-
sumers, that prices in certain finish-
ed lines must be correspondingly re-
duced. Business in structural
expectations,
terial does not appear to have been
| stimulated to any extent by the re-
| cent lowering in association prices
resulted in the de- |
manufacturers |
ers, der molishing them. The freight
destruction of
C. Norman, twice State
and one of the best-known
poli in Kentucky, died from
| heart trouble.
Effort to Wreck Home.
A neighbor passing the residence |
£ J. C. Maben, president of the |
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co., at |
Birmingham, Ala. found a bottle on |
The man who found the bottle |
{| on shapes.
In fact, some sellers note
that the market is rather quieter.
In plate and shape trades, the prin-
cipal effect of the concessions has
been to bring out specifications on
old contracts, but for new business,
consumers ‘seem to cling to the con-
is really |
! na,
| and in India.
situation. It |
| quest,
ma- |
viction that the end of readjustments |
of prices has not yet come.
trade in merchant pipe is quieter,
and there are again reports of slight
shading. There is not much that is
encouraging from the sheet and tin-
plate trades. ‘
Timber Destroyed by Fire.
Timbermen who have visited
umbia county, Oregon, report that
cent forest fires in that section have
destroyed timber to the valine of
$8,000,000. Most of it was owned by
eastern capitalists.
WOULD SUPPLANT DOGMA.
Prof. Haeckel Active
ers’ Congress At Rome.
Col-
in Free Think-
Prof
ssor Ernest Ha
University, who brought the greet-
ings of Germans to the Congress of
Free Thinkers Which assembled at
Rome, caused of his
y be ci
ays the £ offers a
occasion to expound the
lesi reor-
of
The |
| Indiana,
re- |
|
officers
of Jena |
! of state
adding |
that in the middle of October there
will be held Louis an inter-
national conf for the concep- |
tion of a progressist world, organized
by the Federation of American Free
Thin! having the same program
and object as the present congress at
Rome. Professor Haeckel regrets
that he is unable to gratify his de-
sire to join in the St. Louis congress,
but being requested to contribute his
views to these congresses be presents
his principles in writing.
ers,
3jornstjerne Bjernson has been ap-
pointed honorary president for
Scandinavia.
urn.
Indianapolis, Ind. ected as
the meeting place of next year’s
convention of the supreme council,
Ancient and Accepted o:tish Rite
Free Masons at the closing session
of the annual meeting at Boston.
The report of the trustees, presented
by Gen. S. C. Lawrence, showed in-
vested funds of $292,000.
The New Hampshire
nominated John McLane, of
for Governor.
Republicans
Milford,
{ and
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS
State Convention at Saratoga Nom-
inates Candidates.
The New York State Demoeratic
convention was held at Saratoga and
unanimously noniinated the follow-
ing ticket:
For Governor, D. Cady Herrick, of
Albany, at present justice of the
State Supreme Court.
For l.deutenant ‘Governor, Ir:
Burton Harrison, New York, now a
repres Sonar in Congress from the
Thirteenth district
For Secretary of State, John P
lace, Jr.. of Monroe, mber
of the Assembly.
now a me
For Attorney General, John
ebn, of Erie, the incumbent.
For Comuvptroller, George Hall, of
St. Lawrence, now Mayor of tne city
Ogdensburg.
For State
Muench, of
For Slate Engineer
Thomas H. Stryker,
da county.
For Chief
Appeals, Edgar G. Cullen, of
(Democrat), now an Associate
of that bench and the
nonunee.
For Associate Judge of
of Appeals, William E. Werner, of
Monroe (Republican), now of that
bench by designation of Governor
Odell and the Republican nominee.
BIG STEEL PLANT BOUGHT.
Foundries Company
Will Control St. Louis Works.
President Charles Miller, of the
American Steel Foundries Company,
announced that the concern had pur-
Treasurer, William
Onondaga.
of Rone,
Kings
Judge
the Court
American Steel
chased 2a controlling interest in the
plant of the Commonwealth Steel
Company, of St. Louis, which will
be devoted to the manufacture of
railway castings.
The price paid was about $2,000,-
000. The sale was practically com-
pleted several weeks ago, though no
announcement concerning it was
made until now.
Cun-
FLECTAIC CAR BLOWN UP oo
Struck Box of Dynamite which
Had Dropped from Wagon.
BODIES TERRIBLY MANGLED.
Every Window Within the Radius
of a Quarter of a Mile Was
Shattered.
An electric car per-
sons was blown Mel-
rose, Mass, by ound
box of dynaniite len off
{an express wagon. Six persons
| were killed
and Surveyor, |
Onei- |
Justice of the Court. of | ~7:
| fering
Republican |
} th
outright and ree more |
their |
Nineteen
taken to the
died of
hour.
hers on the car
two hospitals sut-
from severe injuries. At
least a score of persons in the im-
mediate vicinity of t explosion
were
| were hurt by flying glass and splint-
1 ers.
| So great was the force of the ex-
plosion that all but ten feet of the
rear portion of the car was blown
into smal] pieces, while every wine
a mile was
within a radius of a quarter of
shattered.
The immediate
dow
Sjeinity
of the acci-
dent presente 1 spectacle
when those in the neighborhood
| reached the scene. The ground was
President Miller states that a great |
railway castings,
hag 4s many or
The company is
its capacity
various con-
than a
exists for
company
can fill.
demand
the
ders as it
constantly increasing
and the output of the
cerns is 33 per cent larger
month ago.
AGITATING HOLY WAR.
Spreading Discontent Among Follow-
ers of Budda in Asia.
With the success of the British ex
pedition to Thibet and the protest
of Russia against the British-Thibet-
an treaty some of the Russian papers
For more tha three hours there
| was the greatest confusion, and it
was difficult to obtain the names of
any of the dead or injured or to as-
certain the cause of t accider
Thousands of people rushed about
trying to find relatives and friends,
{and the hospitals were besieged.
|. The- ear rantained mostly men on
the way to their homes in this city,
the accident taking place only a
quarter of a mile from Meirose Cen-
ter, but among the dead was a woman
{and her
have hecome disturbed over the im-!
portance of
to Mouran in
According to information
Mongolia the agitation for
war noted at the time of the pil
grimage to Ourga, in July last, con-
tinues. Wandering Ilamas are
spreading the agitation mot only
among the Buddhists in Mongolia,
but among the followers of Buddha
in the Altai regions of Central Chi-
among the Russian
beyond the Siberian
February.
from
even borders
\
Boston Wool Market.
While all grades have been in re-
there has been an especially
good movement in scoured Wools,
speculation tendency having ca
them to change hands frecly.
market for pulled wools is ' ri,
moderate offerings.
demand for territory grades. For-
eign wools are steady. Leading
quotations follow: Ohio and Penn-
sylvania double extra and above, 34
@35c; extra, 30@3lc; No. 1, 33@
34c; No. 2, 33@34c; fine unwashed
delaine, 26@27c; fine washed de-
laine, 36@36l%c; Michigan, extra and
above, 26@27c; No. 1, 30@3lc; No.
9, 29@30c¢; fine unwashed, 21@22¢c
1, 3% and 13 blood, unwashed, 97@
29¢: unwashed delaine, 25@26¢
washed delaine, 32@33c; Kentucky,
etc.,, 3% and 14 blood, 29@
The
with
2914.
Many Officers Killed.
Official returns i the casualties
among the Russia officers at the
the Buddhist pilgrimage |
Buriate and |
There is a good |
legs, arms and other
the bodies of those who
while shrieks and
-omt the writhing
strewn with
portions of
had been killed,
groans came
forms of the i
The express wagon
the dynamite fell was d Roy
Fenton, who 3 Seay that the box
had dropped off and back to
find it, but hore “he hin 100
vards of the t struck it
and was blown up. Fer ar-
rested.
from which
en by
vd rushed
got
box the car
1ton was
babe.
CLAIM TIBET WAS COERCED.
Official Organ Says England Has
No Right to Assume Protector
ate Over Country.
Russia officially maintains that
Great Britain has broken faith in the
matter of the Thibetan treaty and
Ambassador Benkendorff has
at the British foreign office. Ac-
cording to the Russian view, Great
Britain's pledges to Russia only con-
templated the regulation of trade be-
| tween Indian and Tibet and she dis-
claimed any purpose to meddle with
the internal or political affairs pf |
the country. Instead of so doing,
Russia claims that a treaty was
forced upon the Tibetans which |
created a virtual protectorate over
the country. Moreover it is con-
tended the treaty is a restriction |
upon the sovereignty of China, com-
elling Tibet to consult Great Bri-
tain in its dealing with other pow-
fine |
4
| that
| States
ers. This is considered to be aimed
dirzctly at Russia. The protest
lodged in London doubtless wiil be
followed up by one at Pekin, against |
the ratification of the treaty. Little
hope is entertained in official circles
that the Russian protests will be
heeded either by Great Britain or
China, as Russia is not in a position
to make an issue, but may be in the
future. The Russian press is bit-
ter in its comments.
The British foreign office reiterates
the assurances given the United
that there will be no perma-
| nent occupation of any portion of Ti-
battle of Ss show them to be |
wounded, including six
39 field officers.
killed, 372 were wound-
are missing.
MORMONS EXPELLED.
American Missionaries
Leave Hungary.
Tisza, the Hungarian minis
the interior, has
prohibiting Mormon propa-
Hungary upon the
such a movement is un-
from the standpoints
policy and religion. The
immediate occasion of the decision
was the expulsion of two Mormon
missionaries, Franklin Pingree and
William Wetzel, who came from Salt
Lake City to Temesvar 18 months
465 killed or
Generals and
were
ed, and 13
Two Must
Count
ter of
decision
ganda within
ground that
desirable both
ago, and attempted to organize a
Mormon community among Hungar-
iangs who had formerly resided in
Utah.
The two missionaries were prompt-
ly expelled, whereupon their Hungar-
ian friends appealed to the minister
of the interior, Se result being the
present decision.
Eighty |
rendered a |
| the
| left the
| They secured all
| the
Former State Senator Edward C.
Stokes was unanimously nominated
for Governor by the Republican |
State Convention of New Jersey in
session at Trenton.
Two Trainmen Killed.
Fast freight No. 94 on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad struck a
wagon loaded with 750 pounds of dy-
{ant forts on either side of Sueis
namite at the crossing, at North
Branch, W. Va., four miles from
Cumberland, Md. Two persons |
were killed and eight were injured,
three of them seriously. The dead
are: C. Walter Whitehair,
brakeman, runswick; Nelson Pike,
Martinsburg, veteran engineer,
scalded all over and internally; lived
two hours.
front |
betan territory, will be observed.
The State of Tennessee is suing
the Standard Oil Company for alleg-
ed violation cf the Anti-Trust law.
BANDITS KILL Two.
Overpower Gang of
Men,
Two
tion house at
south of
pied by
The Italians
up what money
of complying the Italians
and tried to
them. In the fight that
two of the Italians were
another was severely
Seeing
worse
pants
Italian Section
Rob Them and Escape.
broke into the
Riverside, 15
go, which was
Italian railroad
ordered
robbers
several men.
to give
Instead
were
they had.
robbers
overpower
injured.
of the fight, the other
the section house fled
rcbhbers in full possession.
the money which
men had secreted about
place and escaped.
occu-
and
Q
= © 09
Japs Take Two Forts,
The general attack on Port
which began on the 19th
which the Japanese fleet
ating, was resumed next
The Japanese captured two
Arthur,
and in
is coc-oper-
morning.
import-
ey-
north of Port Arthur
Cuba’s Imports Show Increase.
ing,
The State Department has received |
from Minister Squires,
table showing Cuba’s
for the first quarter of 1904 and for
the same quarter of 1903. These
figures are of special interest in that
they cover the first quarter after De-
cember 26, 1903, when the reciproc-
ity treaty took effect There was
an increase of $2,038,200 in the im-
ports of Cuba for the first quarter of
1904, over those for the same period
of 1903.
at Havana, a
import trade
been |!
. |
instructed to lodge a general protest |
|
sec- !
|
miles |
OCCu- |
rushed on |
followed |
killed and |
the |
GROWTH ; OF CORN RETARDED.
ather Favorable in Some Dis-
tricts, but Too Cool at Night.
The bureau's weekly sum-
mary Of conditions is as fol
weather
crop
lows:
While
the week
weather conditions of
S$ a. m., Septem-
were generally favorable for
crops in neariy all dis.
night temperatures in the
portions have delay-
the
ending at
ber 19,
gathering
icte, low
noriherly
more
od the maturity of late crops and
some trering from drought is re-
trom the Ohio and lower Mis-
por
.ourl valleys and portions Of the
Southern States. Frosts occurred
4s iar south as Oklahoma and Ten-
nescee, but little or no damage re-
sulted except to tender vegetation in
the central valleys and to unmatured
crops in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the
Dakotas and Montana. An unusu-
ally severe rain and windstorm
caused considerable damage on the
14th and 15th in portions of New
England and the Middle Atlantic
States. The conditions were gener-
| ally favorable in California, but
drought was injurious in Oregon and
no rain fell in Washington.
Late corn is maturing rapidly in
the Western portion of the belt, but
the crop is ripening slowly in the
Rastern and central sections and
needs 10 to 20 days of favorable con-
ditions to be safe from frost. While
damaging frosts occurred in por-
tions of the upper Mississippi valley,
and a considerable portion of the
crop was damaged in Wisconsin and
some on lowlands in parts of Minne-
sota and Iowa, the aggregate frost
damage in the last named State was
not serious. Cutting is now general
in all sections.
Spring wheat harvest is practically
completed except in the northern
portion of North Dakota, and
threshing is well advanced in Minne-
sota and South Dakota, half done in
Washington and nearing completion
in Nebraska, but delayed by rain in
stern North Dakota.
| NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ghouls robbed a grave
tury old in Wilmington,
The plant of the Pacific Starch
Company at Jackson City, Mich., was
destroyed by fire. l.oss about $75,
VOU.
Henry H.
is reported
half a cen-
Del.
Rodgers, of New York,
quite ill. It is announced
that Mr. Rodger’'s illness is not ser-
ious.
| Five hundred delegates of the
| United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners met in biennial conven-
| tion in Milwaukee.
| Seven persons were severely hurt
lin a street car accident in St. Jo-
| seph, Mo. Mrs. J. E. Pierpont, of
| Skidmore, may die.
| The United States South Atlantic
| squadron, Rdgar Admiral ‘Chadwick
| commanding, sailed from St. Helena
| for Santos, ‘Brazil.
The earnings of the Hocking Val-
ley for the second week of Septem-
ber were $120,825.09, against $131,-
284.12 the same week last year, a
decrease of $10,459.03.
The first break in the ocean steam-
| ship rate war occurred in London
{ when the North German Lloyd Com-
pany raised its steerage rate to New
York to $15. The Hamburg-Ameri
| can line, it was announced later, has
| also raised its steerage rates to $15.
| Two hundred miners struck at Gin-
ther, O., because the Pittsburg Block
Coal Company did not pay and be-
cause a checkweighman was dis-
charged.
Ex-Mayor J. Samuel McCue, at
Charloitesville, Va., was indicted by
the grand jury on a charge of killing
his wife on September 4.
| The earnings of the Toledo and
Ohio Central division of the Ohio
Central lines for the second week in
September were $86,196, an increase
of $508 compared with the same week
last year. The earnings for the
two weeks were $154,337, a decrease
of $6,564.
Sir William McDonald,
philanthropist of Montreal, and
| James W. Robertson, of Ottawa,
| Canada, commissioner of agriculture,
| are making a tour of the Northern
| States with a view to adding im-
| provements to the system of rural
| educa ition in the Canadian prov-
inces.
Three miners were crushed to
| death at the old Apdover iron mills
at Hibernia, N. J., another was so
badly ‘injured that he will probably
die, and two others were seriously
hurt.
The wage committee of the Amalg-
amated Glass Manufacturers’ Asso-
ciation reached an agreement as to
the wage scale for the coming year,
| after a three-days’ session in Erie,
{ Pa,
educational
Wabash Has Ocean Outlet.
| The Western Maryland
| tldewater extension from the main
line at Walbrook to the terminal at
that they were getting the:| Port Covington was opened to freight
| traffic on the 20th. This line gives
| an ocean outlet to the Wabash sys-
| tem, of which the Western Mary-
| land Railroad is now a part.
|
Peace Arranged
in Uruguay.
| The peace terms arranged between
| the government of Uruguay and the
| Uruguayan revolutionary forces are
that the revolutionists shall surren-
der their arms and that the govern-
ment shall agree not to interfere
| with the property of the revolution-
| ists and that complete electoral free-
| dom be granted.
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New Russian Cruiser Completed.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg
says the Russian cruiser Izumrud,
sister ship to the famous Novik, has
completed successfully her trials at
Cronstadt, and will join the second
Pacific squadron at Reval.
letter of United States Sena-
Charles W. Fairbanks, accepting
The
tor
| the Republican nomination for the
| Vice Presidency, was made public on
{the 21st.
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