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RAILWAY CLERKS RETIRED
Dismissed for Taking Commis-
sions on the Side. .
TELLS WHY REBATES CEASED
Vice President McCrea Admits That
Practice Was Abolished by Com-
munity of Interest.
Before the Interstate
commission at
Boyer, chief clerk to Chief of Motive
Power Gibbs at Altoona, admitted he
had received $46,000 in the past three
years in a tonnage rakeoff on coal
purchased from five producing con-
cerns. He said other producers wish-
ed to do business with him but that
“he had enough and did not like to
deal with strangers.”
Besides this income, to supplement
his $2,500 salary, he had coal stocks
presented to him on which he received
between $100 and $225 a month and
extra checks frequently.
Following his frank acknowledg-
ment on the witness stand, Joseph
B. Boyer, chief motive power clerk in
the office of General Superintendent
A. W. Gibbs of the Pennsylvania rail-
road at Altoona, was dismissed from
the service by President A. J. Cas-
satt.
Joseph K. Aiken, who has been
chief in the office of the Mononga-
hela division of the Pennsylvania
ailroad,
evidence as that of Boyer's. He
testified that on a salary varying from
$30 to $126 a month he had purchas-
ed stock in different coal companies
amounting to nearly $75,000. He ad-
mitted having received gifts of cash
from coal operators on the Pennsyl-
vania lines and had also received $50
commerce
a month for several mdaths from al
company store.
James McCrea, first vice president | ms
| CHARGES AGAINST JEROME.
of the . Pennsylvania -lines west, a
witness before the commission.
. Mr. McCrea talked of rebates under
a line of questions put by Commis-
sioner Clements. Mr.
on record as saying the obliteration
of the rebate system was due to the
community of interests inh the Penn-
sylvania railroad and its allied com-
panies, includicg the Baltimore &
Ohio, of which Mr. McCrea is a di-
rector; the -Norfolk & Western and
the Chesapeake & Ohio. The con-
demnation of rebating as a misde-
meanor in the interstate commerce
act of 1887 was greeted with joy by
railroad men, the witness said, be-
cause rebates are disliked by them.
They tried to enforce the law, he
said, but some inmates industries
could not have survived without the
rebates, and they were continued.
When asked if it was not a fact
that the community of ownership had
increased rates as well as removed
rebates, Mr. McCrea said such had
been the case, because the rates dur-
ing and following the depression of
1893-97 had been ruinous.
Mr. Glasgow asked the witness if
it was not a fact rebates had been
discontinued only because rebates
were no longer necessary to compet-
ing rooads to obtain the business. Af-
ter considerable questioning Mr. Mec-
Crea conceded that inasmuch as re-
bates had. originally been given part-
ly because the roads were so anxious
for business, the community of in-
terest had in a way killed rebates
by removing the incentive. He ex-
pressed the .opinion that the situa-
tion at present was practically ideal
now, both in the Pennsylvania terri-
tory and with railroads the country
over.
Joseph K. Aikins, for 27 years chief
clerk to the superintendent of the
Monongahela division of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, who, when a witness
before the interstate commerce com-
mission at Philadelphia, admitted
that he owned coal stock which is
probably worth $100,000, was
missed from the service of the com-
pany.
Three more deaths are reported
from last night's tornado, which rag-
ed over a considerable section of
southern Minnescta and western Wis- |
consin. The damage done by the
storm is.estimated to be $200,000.
ZULUS KILLED IN BATTLE
British Forces Defeat Rebels, Killing |
Three Hundred and Fifty.
The first decisive victory over the
rebellious Zulus yet gained followed
a day of fighting on the borders of
Zululand. Col. Barker and Maj. Mac-
kenzie’s forces being engaged contin-
ually for hours,
ing only with the coming of darkness.
Chief Mehlokazulu and 350 of his men
were killed and many others wounded | when the new
while the British losses were insig- |
nificant.
The Zulus fought desparately,
their aim was bad. Col. Barker is
expected to follow up his advantage |
at daylight and another battle is
likely to result.
Indiana Endorses Bryan.
‘The Indiana State Democratic con- |
in Indianapolis, |
Se- |
James F. Cox, Co- |t
vention which met
nominated the following ticket:
cretary of State,
Iumbus; Auditor, Marion Bailey,
l.iseton; Treasurer, John Isbenbarg-
er, North Manchester; Attorney Gen-
eral, Walter J. Lotz, Muncie. The
platform strongly indorses W. J.
Bryan, for the presidency.
Lockhart Will Case Settled.
The litigation that threatened suits
in the courts over the will of the late |
Charles Lockhart, of Pittsburg, who
left an estate valued at about $125,-
000,000, and who cut off his daughter,
wife of Dr. William 8S. Flower, with |
the interest on $300,000, is all over
now. The Union Trust Company has
receipted for the money coming to
Mrs. Flower, which en
ed litigation. It is
has been given about $3,000.000 by |
the other heirs to prevent a contest | meat inspection under substitutes
of the will
revealed almost as startling |
McCrea went |
Philadelphia, J. B.|
STORM IN ONTARIO
Many Buildings in Hamilton Wrecked
and Trees Blown Down.
A terrific wind and rain storm
swept over Ontario from one end of
the southern peninsula to the other,
demolishing buildings, uprooting trees
and leaving the telegraph and _tele-
phone lines in a tangled mass of
wires. Linesmen report miles of
and “it will take several
tore anything like normal
poles down
days to res
conditions.
The storm struck Hamilton at 4:32
p. m. and for 20 minutes the wind
blew at the rate of 85 miles an hour.
Immense oak and maple trees were
cut off at the base as cleanly as
though a saw had been used. Build-
ings were demolished and electrical
wires of all kinds prostrated.. Forty
buildings in course of construction
and some that had been finished were
blown down. Plate glass windows
were shattered by the force of the
wind and by flying debris.
Reports from the rich fruit belt
in the valley east and west of Ham-
ilton say the damage to fruit trees
will reach thousands of dollars.
MARYLAND'S NEW SENATOR
Ex-Governor Whyte Appointed to Fill
Gorman'’s Seat.
Governor Warfield of Maryland ap-
pointed William Pinkney Whyte
United States senator, to serve in
place of the late Senator A. P. Gor-
man until the next legislature can
elect a successor, which will be in
1908.
Ex-Governor Whyte
was in the
| senate from 1875 to 1880, and gov-
|
ernor before that time from 1871 to
1874, beside holding many other im-
portant effices. Mr. Whyte is past
80 years of age, but possesses all the
vigor of youth.
For years the e
ator Gorman were
enemies, Gorman
man ‘who wrested
and Sen-
bitter political
having been the
control of
ex-governor
the |
State from Whyte and defeated him |
for re-election to the senate.
- Request an Investigation.
Five citizens of New York city have
filed with Gov. Higgins charges against |
Nietriet “Attornev: Jerome of
York, alleging his conduct in office
is such as to cause a public scandal
that he has been guilty of a conspir-
acy to pervert justice, and that he
accepted campaign contributions as
a reward for compounding felony.
The charges are signed by Chapman
Dwight, a retired broker; Edward P.
White, a member of the Produce ex-
change; former Congressman Rob-
ert Baker of Brooklyn; Joseph C.
Hurley, secretary of the Standard
Finance Company, and William N.
Amory, a lawyer.
HELPS FOREIGN MEAT TRADE
Chicago Scandais Aid Business in
New Zealand.
Taking advantage of the Chicagc
scandals and the opportunity afforded
for pushing the New Zealand meat
export trade, the Savill Line and the
New Zealand Shipping Co. have re-
duced freights for frozem meat and
provisions to England by 20 per cent.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
The sum of $20,000 has been given
State college at Lexington, Ky., by
Andrew Carnegie. The money will be
used for the erection of a new build-
ing.
Fireman F. H. Richards, of St.
Louis, wag killed: and 22 persons were
injured in a collision between St.
Louis-Memphis passenger trains on
the Iron Mountain railroad near Men-
go, 115 miles south of St. Louis.
Jim Davis, the negro who murdere:1
Mr. Russcll and his negro servant
dis- |
"| As a
and the fighting end- |
but |
reported that she |
at Felicia, Fla., was lynched at In-
verness by masked men.
arrived too late.
result of the
| Cananea, Mexico, in the mines of Col.
| W. C. Greene last week, American
| miners in the camp will be few in
number in the future it is believed.
They are crossing the line into Ari-
| zona now in crowds.
Citizens Complain to Governor and |
!
|
New |
and be a menace to good government; |
EXPLOSION KILLS ELEVEN
Six Others Injured—Report Heard
2 Fifteen Miles Away.
CAUSE OF EXPLOSION UNKNOWN
F
Blown to Pieces and Not
Enough of Any One Body
Found to Identify It.
Men
Eleven men were killed
dozen seriously
and a half
injured by the ev-
plosion of a dynamite plant near
Peuquea, Pa., along the Susquehanna
river. The victims were literally
blown to pieces. The dead are: Ben-
jamin G. Ebhardt, aged 22; George
Rineer, aged 20; Benjamin Rineer
aged 21; Frederick Rice, aged 23,
married; Collins Parker, aged 18;
Phares Shoff, aged 18; William Funk,
aged 19; John Boatman, aged 17, and
three unknown men, residents of
York county.
Most of the victims lived in the im-
mediate vicinity of the dynamite
plant.
The injured are: Walter Brown,
Mattin Reener, George Cravy, Chas.
Cramer and Jacob Shoff.
The cause of the explosion is un-
known. Two of the unknown men
from York county, now dead, had just
started to leave the place with a load
of dynamite when the plant blew up
with a detonation heard 15 miles
away.
A great cloud of white smoke cov-
ered the site of the factory and the
air was filled with fragments of hum-
an bodies. Windows in houses a mile
away were shattered. Immense holes
were torn in the ground.
The plant consisted of a dozen
frame buildings. All were blown to
pieces except a more remote struc-
ture in which seven girls were work-
ing.
Not enough of any one body could
be collected to establish an indentity.
Pieces of flesh and limbs were found
clinging to the trees in the neighbor-
hood. Not a trace could be discov-
ered of the men from York county or
of their team. The remains were
| gathered up in soap boxes.’
The injured, none of whom it is
thought will die, were taken to their
homes in the immediate vicinity.
The dynamite plant was owned by
the G. R. McAbee Powder and Oil
Company of Pittsburgh and manu-
factured the explosive for use on the
Pennsylvania railroad construction
work under way in that section. It
was sitnated about midway between
Peuque and Martin Forge.
PLOT TO KILL THE POPE
Alleged Anarchists Arrested
Peters in Rome.
Never before in the history of the
vatican has a service at historic St.
Peter's in Rome been conducted
under so strict a guard as was that
of last Sunday when the pope officiat-
ed at the beatification services for
the Spanish martyrs with a guard of
400 police officers in and about the
edifice. The receipt of information
from Paris that a plot against the
life of the pontiff had been discovered
led the police of Rome to use the
strictest of. precautions and nearly
every member of the secret service
was on duty. =
It developed Sunday that, although
the plot was perfected in France, it
had its inception in America and ac-
cording to the police the plan was to
kill the pontiff as soon as he appeared
in the cathedral.
Prior to the opening of the services
in St. Peter’s many suspects were re-
moved from the church. Two men
and a woman, who answered descrip-
tion sent from Paris, were placed
under arrest. It is stated the woman
in St.
| suspect was to pretend to faint in the
| church so as to attract attention and
Soldiers |
sent from Brooksville to protect him |
strike at |
| ings, will cost
| The new mining town of Ernest on |
| the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
| railroad, five miles from Indiana, Pa.,
was the scene of a conflict between
a detail of the State constabulary and
striking coal miners, in which two
strikers were killed and five others
wounded.
Scientists Dedicate Temple.
i! One of
| ious demonstrations ever
in New occurred
witnessed
England Sunday
| Science temple,
| trict of Boston,
every state in
all parts of the
in the Back Bay dis-
was dedicated. From
the Union and from
world, came members
catory services, and it is estimated
| that more han 40,000 Christian Scien-
| tists were in attendance.
More Men for Army.
An order just issued by the Secre- |
tary of War will add 965 men to the
army. It provides for the organiza-
tion of a machine gun detachment for
ry. Each detachment will consist of
| one sergeant, two
| privates.
| To Open Black Feet Lands.
| Under the suspension of the rules
| the house passed the bill to survey
fond allot the lands embraced within
the limits of the Blackfeet
reservation in the state of Montana,
and to open the surplus to settlement.
| The lands to be surveyed and opened
to settlement comprise about a mil-
ds the propos- lion and a half acres.
{
Government must pay the
| Bev eridge amendment.
give the accomplices an opportunity to |
attack the pontiff.
Will Cost $1,000,000.
The improvements at
stock yards, to be ordered by
Chicago city authorities as the result |
of recent examination of the build-
the
000, according to estimates made by |
Building Commissioner Bartzen.
LABOR RIOT IN BELGIUM
Serious Trouble at One Place,
Attacking Jail.
Serious strike
throughout all
riots are reported
Belgium,
RAILROADS UNDER FIRE
"Vice President of New York Central
Says Road Received Present of
Coal Stocks.
The Inter-State Commerce Commis-
sion. at Philadelphia resumed its in-
vestigation of the _alleged connection
of railroads with the soft coal and
oil interests.
The New York Central, the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg and the Balti-
more & Ohio railroads were under in-
vestigation, the hearings being con-
ducted by Commissioners Clements
and Cockrell.
The examination of the officials of
the New York Central occupied all of
the morning session and a part of the
afternoon session. It developed that
no employes or officials of the com-
pany held stock in coal mining or oil
companies. Vice President E. V. W.
Rossiter testified, however, that the
Beech Creek Coal & Coke Company
had presented the railroad with 5,000
shares of stock, par value $100, for
trafic reasons.” Later when the
Beech Creek Company was merged
into the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke
Company this stock was surrendered,
the railroad receiving $1,500,000 worth
of stock in the latter company.
RELICS OF LINCOLN BURN
Fire Destroys the Almost
Collection.
The almost priceless collection of
Lincoln relies, including the martyr
president’s own library and several
Priceless
| hundred manuscripts written by him,
belonging to Maj. William H. Lam-
bert of 33 Woast Johnson street,
Germantown, Pa., was destroyed by
fire.
The Lincoln museum was a large
room containing 1,000 volumes of
Lincoln’s own library, his private
desk and three chairs once belonging
to him, more than 500 books treat-
ing of Lincoln’s career and a collec-
tion of original manuscripts by
Thackeray. There were also a num-
ber of pictures, oil paintings, etch-
ings, etc., all valuable and of great
historic interest. The origin of the
fire is a mystery.
INSURANCE DIRECTORS WIN
Supreme Court Decides in Favor of
Mutualization Plan.
On the application of the directors
of the Equitable Life Assurance so-
ciety, the appelate division of the su-
preme court of New York ordered the
director’s plan of mutualization to be
carried out.
The petition of the society for the
modification of the injunction order
obtained by Franklin B. Lord, a mi-
nority stockholder, preventing the
adoption of the mutualization plan as
projected a year ago, was granted.
This leaves the stockholders free
to adopt the medified charter at the
meeting called for June 18, and for
the directors to take final action
thereto at the adjourned meeting
called for June 20.
OREGON ELECTION
Republican Receives 5,000 Majority
for United States Senator.
George BE. Chamberlain, Democrat,
has been re-elected ‘Governor of Ore-
gon by a majority of not less than
1,000 and perhaps as much as 2,500
over Dr. James Withyecomb, Repub-
lican.
John Bourne, Jr., Republican, has
received the popular nomination for
United States Senator by probably
5,000 majority. W. R. Ellis, Repub-
lican, has been chosen Congressman
in the Second district by a large ma-
jority over J. H. Graham, Democrat,
and W. C. Hawley, Republican, has
a safe lead over C. V. Galloway in
the First district.
Woman suffrage was defeated by a
large majority.
Big Loss in Tobacco. .
A total loss of $100,000 was caused
by a fire following the explosion of a
| boiler in Kennedy & IElgin’s tobacco
the Union |
the |
dence and several
packers $1,000,- |
|
|
Mob |
|
|
disturbed |
| conditions prevailing in nearly every |
the most remarkable relig- |
2,000,000 Christian | it:
$ “" | striking for a shorter
of that faith to be present at the dedi-
ture.
each regiment of infantry and caval- |
|
corporals and 18 | c
trade.
at Verviers, on the Vesdre, where the
yarn spinners, machinists, brewery
employes and other tradesmen are |
work day and
increased pay.
They planned a mammoth demon- |
stration on Sunday, but the authori-
ties prohibited it, and when the strik-
ers attempted to parade the leaders
were arrested. There was a fierce
fight in which many were injured on
both sides.
A mob numbering nearly 5,000 peo-
| ple than attacked the police station
in which the leaders were confined,
hurling voileys of stones at it and
shattering every window in the struc-
The gendarmes charged with
drawn swords and finally disperced
the mob, but only after many other
asualities had resulted. Many ar-
rests were made.
Naval Bill Passes Senate.
The Senate passed the naval appro-
| priation bill, which carries over $103,-
| 000,000.
Indian |
Debate on the naval bill de-
veloped objection to the proposed con-
| struction of a huge battleship of the
| sel
Dreadnaught type, now being built for
England. Senator Hale moved an
amendment, which was accepted, re-
quiring the Secretary of the Navy to |
report to Congress giving the dimen- |
sions, displacement, etc., of the ves-
before issuing proposals for its
| construction.
The center of the activity is |
factory at Hopkinsville, Ky. The
warehouse, the plant of the Consum-
ers Ice and Coal Company, one resi-
small buildings
with 200 hogsheads of
3,000 pounds of loose
were burned,
tobacco and
tobacco.
REBELS REPULSED
Guatemalan Government Forces Suc-
cessful ‘Against Revolutionary
Troops.
advices received by the
state ‘department at Washington,
from Guatemala say that the rebels
have been repulsed at every point
Further
| where they have attempted to engage
the government forces. It is now ap-
| parent that. the revolutionists made
simultaneous attempts to enter Guate-
mala from Hondurus, Mexico and Sal-
vador, but their forces were invaria-
bly met and repulszd by the Govern-
ment troops.
American Minister Combs, at
| Guatemala City, says forces of
revolutionists are still threatening the
Guatemalan borders.
large
TWENTY STRIKERS KILLED
Fight Beiween Persians and a Mob
in Russia.
In a fight at Tsaritsin, Russia, be-
tween Persians whom local contrac-
tors had secured to take the places
of striking longshoremen and a mob
of strikers a score of the latter were
killed.
Protection for Italians.
If the representatives of the Italian
Government in this country can pre-
vent it, no immigrant from Italy to
the United States “will henceforth fall
into the hands of padrones or bosses
of bad character. Every effort will
be made to see that these immigrants
will be met upon arrival and directed
| to those sections of the country hold-
ing out inducements to the home-
seeker and in other ways substantial
assistance will be rendered to
them a proper start.
.guards about the granting
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET
Convention at Harrisburg Nomi-
nates Candidates. -
PRESIDENTS POLICY ENDORSED
dt ie
Two-Cent Rate on Railroads and
Abolition of Deposit on Mileage
Books Favored.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention - nominated the following
ticket:
Governor—Edwin 8. “Stuart, of
Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Governor—Robert S.
Murphy of Cambria.
Auditor General—Robert K. Young
of Tioga.
Secretary of Internal Affairs—Hen-
ry Houck of Lebanon.
The contest for governor was
among six men. The nomination was
made on the first ballot, the candi-
dates receiving the following votes:
Edwin 8S. Stuart 271, J. V. Thomp-
son 55, Col. Watres 48, C. W. Stone
32, Thomas H. Murray 17, William
M. Brown 3. Stuart had 57 votes
over the necessary 214. The combin-
ed opposition polled 155 votes. There
were 426 delegates in the convention,
one man from Philadelphia failing to
attend or to send a substitute. The
113 votes from Philadelphia were cast
for Stuart.
The platform indorses President
Roosevelt's policies and the meas-
ures taken by congress to make them
effective, the provisions for super-
vision and regulation of the great
corporations, the' convention declar-
ed for the enactment by the next leg-
islature of laws to secure a two-cent
rate of ‘railroad transportation and
the abolition of extra deposits or
other restrictions in mileage books;
to give trolley companies the right of
eminent domain and the right to
carry freight and to make effective
constitutional provisions against the
ownership of coal mines , and the
mining of coal by railways or other
transportation companies. The plat-
form further pledges the Republi-
can party to take measures for the
recovery of the abandoned canals of
the ‘state to place extraordinary safe-
of fran-
chises on public utilities and the use
of the public highways, to compel an
investigation of the abandonment of
competitive railroads and to secure
the creation of a state commission
exercising with relation to transpor-
tation within the commonwealth pow-
ers similar to those exercised by the
interstate commerce commission for
the regulation of interstate transpor-
tation.
There is a vigorous declaration of
loyalty to the Republican doctrine of
a protection to American industries.
Drunkenness a Crime.
The National Liquor Dealers’ as-
sociation, which opened its annual
convention at Louisville, Ky., issued
an address to the people of the United
States in which the belief of its mem-
bers in temperance is expressed;
obedience to the law is indorsed; the
work of the various temperance so-
cieties commended, and the state-
ment made that intoxication should be
considered a crime.
Tornado Wrecks Village.
A tornado struck Gossel, a German
Mennonite settlement southwest of
Hillsbore, Kan., almost destroying
town. About 80 persons were injur-
ed. Thé tornado laid waste to a
strip 200 yards wide. Every resi-
dence in the town was damaged. The
large Mennonite hospital - was only
slightly damaged. The injured were
taken there.
CAPITAL NEWS NOTES.
The President sent to the Senate the
following nominations: Postmasters—
Ohio: J. H. Fluhart, Continental; C.
W. Searles, Madison, Pennsylvania—
J. A. Wallace, Chester.
The Senate without debate or divis-
ion voted to indeflnitely postpone a
joint resolution providing for an
amendment to the Constitution which
would permit Congress to enact uni-
form laws for marriage and divorce.
The House passed a resolution call-
ing upon the Secretary of the Navy
to report to the House all information
in his possession relating to the cost |
of armor plate and an armor plant.
Boston Wool Market.
Trading is quiet in the wool mar-
ket. The lack of stock is said to be
the prime cause of the indifference of
manufacturers with the unsatisfac- |
tory conditions of goods marketed,
also an important factor. There is
little doing in foreign wools here, |
either in South American or Austral- |
ian grades. Territory wools are
steady, at 72 to T3c for fine and 63
to 70c for fine medium. Pulled wools |
are dull, with A supers moving at}
60 to 64c. Leading quotations follow:
Ohio and Pennsylvania, XX and abovz,
34 to 34sec; X, 31 to 32¢; No. 1,
37 to 38¢; No. 2, 37 to 38c; fine un-
washed, 25 to 26c; quarter bloods, un-
washed, 311% to 32c; three-eighth
blood, 32 to 33c¢; half-blood, 32 to 33c;
unwashed delaine, 28 to 29c.
Secretary of State Root is making
preparations to start for Brazil, where
he wil attend the Pan-American con-
gress. After its sessions are ended
he will probably visit some other
South American countries.
Carnegie Gives $50,000 to College.
Announcement was made by the
Rev. John F. Goucher, president of
the Woman's college at Baltimore,
that Andrew Carnegie had given $50,-
000 needed to make up the fund of
$500,000 which will enable the trus-
tees to pay off the indebtedness of
the institution.
give |
|
Mark Slater, supervisor of State
| printing refused to surrender the
| office to J. W. Johnson, who was ap-
pointed his successor by Governor
| Pattison last week.
SLAUGHTER HOUSE CONDITIONS
Representative of Packers Testifles
Before Committee.
The House Committee on Agricul-
ture decided to comply with the re-
guest of the Chicago packers to be
heard on the Neill-Reynolds report re-
garding conditions in the Chicago
packing houses. ' The request was
made by Thomas E. Wilson, Man-
ager for the Nelson Norris Company,
but in this instance authorized to
speak for all the Chicago packers.
Before hearing Mr. Wilson, the com-
mittee notified the Department of
Agriculture and Mr. Neill. Secretary
Wilson, Dr. A. D. Melvin of the De-
partment, and Mr. Neill at once came
to the Capitol and the hearing began.
" Mr. ‘Wilson made a gneral denial.
of the evidence of conditions in the
packing houses as set forth in the
Neill-Reynolds report.
He began by inviting the committee
to come to Chicago and spend a week
in personal investigation ‘ of condi-
tions. That, he said, would be the
only way for members to gain a
proper idea of what the conditions
really were. Some of the sugges-
tions made in the report, he said, had
already been complied with by the
packers, such as additional sanitary
facilities .
As to the charge that canned
meats were boiled in water to
“freshen them up,” Mr. Wilson said
there was absolutely nothing in this.
He denied absolutely that there were
any diseased cattle, or hogs butcher-
ed for food.
TWO KILLED
Work Train Collides With Handcar
In Cut.
A work train in charge of Engineer
Love and Conductor Bert Nez, ran
into a handecar in the Hutchinson cut .
south of Uniontown, Pa., killing two
men and injuring five. All are Ital-
ians.
and had the right of way. It came on”
the Italians before they -eould jump.
They were only a few hundred feet
from their shanties.
Latazza and Gentil died.on the way |
to the hospital. Three others are at
the hospital, two with very serious
injuries :
Prelates Favor New Laws.
A large majority of the French bis-
hops have voted to advise the vati-
can to accept the condition of affairs
brought about by the enactment of
the laws separating church and
state. The recent great success of
the French government at the parlia-
mentary elections has convinced
three-fourths of the French prelates
that the large majority of the people
are favorable to the new church and
state legislation.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
The Senate passed a bill permitting
the Attorney General to conduct
cases in any United States Court.
The boiler in the saw mill of the
Lyons Company near Frenchburg,
Ky., blew up killing three men and
perhaps fatally injuring three others.
The money loss will be heavy.
Reports from the Oregon election
indicate that the constitutional
amendment granting suffrage to the
women of the State was defeated by
a large majority.
One man was fatally injured and
five others severely hurt by a torna-
do which swept the village of Stod-
dard, Wis. Ten, buildings were de-
molished and much other damage
done. .
General Toledo, in command of the
revolutionist troops in Southern
Guatemala, has won two en-
gagements. The government forces
have been driven back and General
Toledo is receiving heavy reinforce-
ments of well-armed men.
A reception in which Democrats
from all over the country will be in-
vited to take spart will be tendered
to William J. Bryan in Madison
Square Garden on his return from a
trip around the world.
Members of the commission appotnt-
ad by the governors of seven South-
ern States f= the purpose of divert-
ing the tide of immigrants to that sec-
tion are now in New York making an
investigation.
Recent developments in diplomatic
circles lend credence to rumors that
an understanding between Russia and
Great Britain, approaching an alli-
ance in time, may be expected.
Henry H. Powers, once a success-
! £11 member of the New York Stock Ex-
i shunge
entertain any
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but who, during the last few
had lost most of his fortune,
home in
ears,
ms suicid® at his
Brooklyn by shooting.
President Roosevelt has declined to
proposition looking to
further investigation into the methods
| of the
proceedings recently instituted at In-
dianapolis by the Attorney General
are pushed:
The bill for the control and regula-
tion ,of the Niagara river and the
preservation of Niagara Falls was
passed by the House under suspension
of the rules, as was the bill creating
a collecting district at Port Arthur,
Texas. :
D. E. Grindell and his wife, mem-
bers of a theatrical troupe, were
found dead in their rooms at a hotel
at Eldon, Iowa with bullet holes in
their heads. It is believed that Grin-
dell, who was also known as Davis,
shot his wife and then- killed him-
self.
Settle on 1903 Wage Scale.
An agreement which will end the
coal strike which has been on in the
Eleventh district since April 1 was
reached by the scale committee of
the Indiana miners and operators at
a session held at Terre Haute, Ind.
It is understood the men get the 1903
scale, which they demanded when
they went out.
The new Cunard line steamer Lusi-
tania, the world’s largest liner, was
successfully launched at the Clyde
bank.
The work train was backing south
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