TROUBLE IN SAN DOMINGD
Government | eaders Begin At-
tack upon Revolutionists.
ARE USING GUERRILLA TACTICS
United States Battleships Will Stay
in Dominican Water for Some
Time to Come.
War
mingo. All
in Santo Do-
the United
States to prevent the pending con-
flict have been unavaiding, and de-
spite the fact there are a number of
American fighting ships in the har-
bor of Monte Christi, the revolutios
ists have boldly given battle to the
broken out
efforts of
has
government forces sent to disperse
them.
The news of the beginning of the
fighting was given out by the state
department when it was announced
the increase of the naval forces in
those waters is fully justified. The
information regarding the war came
from Commander W. :H., H. South-
erland at Monte Christi, who in a
cablegram to the navy department
says:
“The government leaders have at- |:
tacked the revolutionists here, but
were met with guerrilla tactics and
the prospects are if these are con-
tinued the government forces will be
worn out. The fers of the old!
revolutionary are now en-
deavoring to return to this coun-|
{ry.”’
There is
diplomatic
istration finds in
an intimation in certain
quarters that the admijn-
this present revolu-
tionary outbreak, small as it is, a
seeming justification for its policy
of a financial protectorate over the
republic.
Officials of the department are un-
alle to say when this protectorate
will end or whether it will ever end,
or in what manner it is possible to
end it. Meanwhile it is said it is
absolutely necessary to enforce
enough of peace and quiet in the is-
land to insure the continuance of the
collection of the revenues.
SWINDLER X SENT "ENCED
Ubero Plantations Man Must Serve
Bstween 12 and 15 Years.
Ferdinand E. Borges, formerly of
Indiana and one of the promoters of
the Ubero Plantation Company, was
sentenced to serve from 12 to 15
years in Massachusetts State prison
for larceny and conspiracy.
Borges was convicted on 17 counts
of larceny and one of conspiracy in
connection with the affairs of the
Ubero Company. He was indicted
with former Congressman William D.
Owen of Indiana, who has not yet
been arrested.
Before anncuncing the sent
Judge White declared that the
dence showed that Borges was no
than “a common and notorious
The testimony at the trial i
ed that the defendant by false state-
mens as to he character of the Ubera
property had induced many pecple to
invest in Ubero stock, and that they
had been defrauded out of large
sums of money.
GUILTY OF REBATING
Government Wins Victory Against
the Chicago and Alton.
The government has won a great
victory in the Federal Court befors
Judge Landis in the Chicago and Al-
ton rebate case. Judge Landis ruled,
upon motion of the attorneys for the
railroad, that the defendants be
clared not guilty of granting rebates
to Schwarzchild & Sulzberger, pack-
ers, that the payment of a trackage
fee of $1 a car for cars taken from the
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger tracks
was a rebate in violation of the EI-
kins law. The court held that the
payment of this fee was in every par-
ticular a violation of the law, and up-
held every contention of the govern-
ment's attorneys.
Eight counts in the indictment
found against the Chicago and Alton
and its agents, John N. Faithorn and
Fred A. Wann, were upheld in this
ruling.
WABAS'{ TO SPEND MILLIONS
Places Orders for $5,800,000 Worth of
New Equipment.
The management of the Wabash
railroad has placed orders for the pur-
chase of new equipment to cost an
aggregate of about $6,800,000. Pro-
vision for the payment for this new
equipment has been made by the is-
guance of equipment trust bonds
which are now being financed.
The orders for equipment include
2,000 40-foot box cars, each forty
tons capacity;
coal cars, each of 50 tons capacity:
60 freight engines of the heaviest
type. and 20 switch engines of the
heaviest type.
Russian Aamiral Assumes Blame.
Admiral Rejestvensky and the offi-
cers of the torpedo boat on which
he was captured are being tried by
court martial. The admiral entered
a. plea taking the entire responsibility
for the surrender. He was, however,
at the time seriously wounded and
had been transferred to the torpedo |
boat from his own ship. Japanese
officers and surgeons are to testify in
his behalf as to his condition.
Four Drowned in Upset.
Four men were drowned in St.
Johns river near Jacksonville, Fla., |
fu attempting to cross the river in a
small rowboat. The dead are James
Robinson, Charles Richardson,
the Armour Fertilizer factory.
Gross earnings of Missouri Pacific
gor the fourth week in June increas-
ed $175,000, for the month
ed $335,000, and for the fiscal
increased $1,156,000.
year
de- |
4,000 steel uaderframe |
Adam |
Hall and Shed Greer, all employes of |
increas- |
CASUALTIES OF THE FOURTH
Over Fifty Dead, 3,500 Injured and |
Many Cases of Lockjaw.
The Chicago Tribune's round up of
casualties due to an ‘insane’
tion of Independence day
dead, 3,651 injured.
death roll is smaller
year ago, but unfortunately the
| W
than that of a
lose their lives because of
orgy of powder and noise.
‘Last year 42 persons were
ht. but when lockjaw and other
diseases induced by injuries had com-
pleted their over 400 lives had
been sacrificed.
The center of sla
was Philadelphia, where
and innocent bystands
work
ughter, as usual,
711 patriots
rs were victims.
‘hicago was the second center
two children being killed
and 157 Persons wounded mere or less
severely. In New York sanity ruled
to a certain extent,
reported with
Toledo gave
two deaths.
an example of what |
celebra- |
shows 51]
The immediate |
{
2H
list |
ill be but a smail part of those who |
the |
MANY HURT DURING PANIC
Moving Picture Machine Causes
Fire at Atlantic City.
DOORS WERE SMASHED OPEN
| Many Climbed to the Roof to Escape
killed |
and Fright Spreads to Thous-
ands Outside.
A hundred people were bruised and
| injured in a panic which followed an
|
tov pistol was unusually destruc- |
65 injuries being |
| stage
rigorous enforcement of law and edu- |
cation of the people can accomplish.
For days Mayor Whitlock preached
sanity, and the result was that only
two persons were injured, one of
them being in a runaway.
The fool with a revolver or other
| firearm was the cause of the greatest
Sage the “stray bullet” being
part larly destructive. The dead-
ly pistol followed as the instru-
ment of death, but its harvest sim
ply
the next two or
lockjaw.
three weeks from
RATE LAW INQUIRIES
Inter-State Commerce Commission |
Planning for Operating Act.
The Inter-State Commerce Commis-
sion will begin to operate under and
to administer the new railroad rate
law on August 29. The law becomes
was sown and will be reaped in |
joining
effective 60 days from date of approv- |
al by
sion
the. President. The
meanwhile is making
tions for carrying out the act. A
conference wiil be held at an early
date between representatives of the
accounting
| roads, the railway commissioners of
various States and the statisticians of
| the commission, with a view to es-
tablishing a
ing books.
commis- |
prepara- | .
knowledge that the house stands over
deep water added to the fright, and |
departments of the rail-|
uniform system of keep- |
An important feature of the law |
gives the commission power to ac-
quire books and accounts to be kept
{in a uniform manner
may be available for
connection with any
restigation. This is the first
nary step which must be taken
authority of the commission to
investigate the books of a railroad is
regarded as one of the most import-
SO
inspection
inquiry or
in
in-
mt
ine
ant conferred on it by Congress, but |}
the establishment of a uniform sys-
tem of bookkeeping will not be an
easy task.
OlL STEAMER CATCHES FIRE
~~
Druins
Near Singapore and Ship Saved.
The British oil steamer Indrani,
Captain. Williams,
Shan , with 309 drums of naptha
and 35,000 cases of oil on board,
caught fire just east of Singapore
harbor.
Flaming naptha flowed across the
deck from a bursted drum, and the
other drums caught fire almost im-
nfediately. The Chinese crew refus-
ed to assist in the work of throwing
the burning drums overboard and
clambered into lighters. The cap-
tain and officers of the Inddani heav-
that they |
pre- |
cf Naptha Thrown Overboard |
Secretary of State Elihu Root, sail-
ed from New York, July 4, on the|
United States cruiser Charleston, on |
his three months South American
tour. was accompanied by Mrs.
t Root, his son, Edward and his daugh-
from New York to |
Y % : |
ed the flaming drums into the sea and |
managed to save the ship.
Floating drums of naptha,
furiously,
Singapore harbor and crossed the
man-of-war anchorage. Shipping and |
wharves were endangered,
turn of the tide carried the drums to
southward, where they graduauy
burned out.
This is the sccond fire which has
occurred on board the Indrani since |
she left New York April 10 for Chi-
nese ports. A dispatch dated June 7
said that the Indrani had been saved |
from destruction by fire by the throw-
ing overboard of 250 drums of nap
tha.
blazing
the
MORE TROUBLE FOR THE CZAR |
Cossack Troops Distrusted—Insurrec-
tion at Vladivostok.
Matters are assuming a
phase for the government
serious
when disaffection is reported among |
|
the Cossack troops. These soldiers
have for a long period been the chief
reliance of the autocracy and they
have been supposed to be proof
gainst popular sentiment. Now,
however, they are said in some plac-
es to be refusing to act against the
people and in others to be in actual
insurrection. From Vladivostok also
come alarming reports as to the suc-
| cess of the mob aided by some of the
| dissatisfied soldiers’ against the gar-
rison.
i hii Sa
i und and Deaf.
| About one person in every 1,200 was
blind and one in every 850 persons
was deaf in the United States i
1900, according to a special cens
year just issued by the census office.
| The inquiry was conducted under the
direction of Dr. Alexander Graham
Bell, who determined the scope of the
| investigation and wrote the
| the report on the deaf.
1
Oil Co. Sued for $2,000,000.
At Little Rock, Ark.,
drifted with the tide into |
when a |
text of |
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| own
| and-at
in Russia |") ; £
of the West have had representatives
report on the blind and deaf in that
Attorney Gen- |
eral Rogers filed suit against the
Water-Pierce Oil Company, alleging |
a conspiracy to control the output
and prices of oil and asking damages
in the sum of $2,000,000. They also
| ask that the company forfeit its right
| to do business in Arkansas. The bill
alleges the Waters-Pierce is
ated with the Standard Oil Company.
|
associ- |
{ The Church of England has an in- |
| ome of $75,000,000 a year.
| hard labor on each of 18 counts in
the Federal nenitentiary at McNeil’s |
land for conspiracy to defraud the
United States government in con-
nection with land deals in this]
State. His flnes will amount to $5,-
950 and his imprisonment to three |
years.
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explosion of a moving
2,000
ing a show in Young's Pier Theater,
Atlantic City, N. J.
hurt, the worst being
by C. D. Friend, assistant
burned about the
hands and arms. while helping to ex-
tinguish the blaze. NMost of the
others hurt were women,
knocked down in the rush for exits.
Fainting girls and women were car-
ried out into the Boardwalk drug
stores and hotels, where they recov-
ered.
The
house
booth
chine while people were watch-
a
iously injury
sustained
manager,
flan
was
enc
1es broke out while the
dark, and the
rasing the machine lighted
| up the theater with a glare that start-
ed the rush.
Cool men in the orchestra found
front doors leading to the main pier
held by locks and smashed
wood and
larger
picture ma- |
two
burning |
None was ser- |
I | to
who were |
ONE DIED IN THE AMBULANCE
Several Other Boys Taken to Hospit-
al Some of Whom Will Likely
Die of Wounds.
Impatient at t the failure of a large
pipe full of powder to explode, some
small boys at Wanamis, o mining
town five miles Wilkes-Barre,
Pa., jammed a quantity of dynamite
into the pipe and pounded it. The |
eXplotion that followed shook the en- |
tire >hborhcod. About the scene!
neighbc parents found the dead |
bodies of four boys. Another died |
while being taken to the hospital.
Two brothers named Pechunts
brothers.named Shukewicz were
killed instantiy A boy named
died in the ambulanc
The lads had
outskirts of th
them large quar
and powder. A
plugged at one
filled with powder,
make as
Several attempts
off the dangerous
From a tooiho
from
gated on
» aud had with |
of fireworks
niece of heavy pipe
end was secured and
the boys
noise
were made
be wthout
much
10
result.
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HURRAY GA LL 1 ME
Strange Fatality Overtakesa Pa rty
on Railroad Spur NearAltoona.
BODIES FOUND ALONG TRACKS
The Car is Supposed to Have Been
Purposely Released by Some
One.
A runaway mine car, flying like the
| wind down a mine branch track that
and |
Long i
Portage, Pa.,
reaped a fright-
harvest of 11 men killed and sev-
runs from Puritan to
| just before midaight,
| ful
the ! eral injured.
The car had been standing
| Puritan when the mines closed,
near
and
| some malicious person loosened the
wishing |
2s possible. |
fire |
brakes and permitted the to
speed down the sharp incline.
The disaster happened on what is
known as Martin's branch, a stretch
car
i of track four miles long that acts as
> near one of the |a feeder
for several mines that are
| mines s dynamite was obtained. | located between Portage and Puritan.
Apparently kaowing nothing of the The car was stopped one mile west of
nature of the stuff the boys hammer- | Portage, but in the short space of
ed it down. It was during this pro- | three miles eleven men were killed.
cess that the explosion occurred. Sev-| The car crashed into a number of
| eral boys who were ten to the | cars standing on the track and was
through
glass in time to allow the |
part of the audience to escape |
with only torn clothes and bruises. In |
the galleries, however, the flare of
the fire created a panic that could not |
and men and women
jumped out on the roof of the
buildings, while children were
passed from hand to hand until they
had reached safety.
Frightened ones
that the theater
be stemmed,
was frame and the
tl taken to the roof in-
rather
to use
:@ who had
ted
a
ladders
theater
on descending
than returning to the
the stairs and exits.
The panic spread quickly to the big
pier and was only headed off by the
band, which pounded out noise to
drown the sounds of the rush.
A fire call brought out the entire
fire department and the firemen help-
ed to quell the excitement. Thous-
onds were on the Boardwalk and add-
ed to the crush around the pier, men
and women in evening clothes assist-
to stem the rush.
Trinkets, hats and valuable wraps
were left behind in the panic and
dreds of men returned to their
Lareheaded.
Root Saiis for-South America.
ino
1g
Miss Edith. He will go around |
Horn and returning will cross
Isthmus of Panama. From July
to August 6th he will represent this
- at the third Pan American
at Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
of ever had such an
sea and Mr. Root
stand unique in this regard in
ry of the United States.
Many Rebels Killed.
Natal troops have completely sur-
rounded aad defeated a rebel body in
the Umvoti district. Five hundred
and forty-seven rebels were killed and
few escaped. There were no white
casualties.
state
by
will
RAILROADS IN QUANDARY
Grain-Carrying Lines of the West
Face Bad Problem Under New
Rate Law.
The grain-carrying
of the
with a Proposition under the new rate
| law that into question the
validiry of a methods of handling
that product in the elevators they
along the limits of their roads
terminals.
great
West
The new law . prohibits
this provision having been
law to prevent combi-
nations on the part of the coal-carry-
ing roads. The big railroad interests
in Washington endeavoring to find out
st where they stan i with respect to
the new law.
The law containg® a definition of
what constitutes “transportation,”
that is exceedingly broad and compre-
hensive. It includes elevator storage,
etc. The railroads are now in a
5 ; to whether they must
elevators and oper-
es.
them
business of eleva-
nd storage of
to bring the wh
tor service, cleaning
in transit within the require-
5 of the new law, the question is
will not such roads be violat-
at section that prohibits a rail
32 The dw law will be
before this year’s
and if the usual methods of
railroad companies are in vicla- |
of the law, the
ill be subject to severe penalties.
Convicted of Land Frauds.
en Meldrum, former United
States surveyor general for the dis-
triet of Oregon, was sentenced to pay
a fine of $250 on each of 21 counts
and to serve
passed the word |
railroads |
owning or dealing in the products they |
| transport,
| inserted in the
ad- |
hospital are so badly in
likely die of their woun
WHITE'S
will
‘ed they
pep RAVITY
Anthony Comstock Says Charges
Made by Thaw are Confirmed.
Important 1
rey concerning
| blood and
An
particles
wrecked. investigation disclosed
of clothing on
| the wheels and several men were sent
| back over the track te see what had
{ started the car oa its wild trip.
| they
They
1ad gone but a short distance when
were horrified by seeing the
mangled remains of a man lying be-
Stanford White’ 18 with young | Side the frock, Going, further, an
| Women were made in o Ietter recaly. | other body was found. Several hun-
ed by Anthony Comstock, head of the | dred feet Mp the declitie two bodies,
Society for the Prevention of Vie o, | horribly mangled, were lying on the
| An important statement in the letter track. - Oa and still on the searchers
|is that young girls were brought went, and by the time they had arriv-
| regularly from the country to serve ed at Puritan 11 bodies had been
| the purposes of White and other men. | connted.
| Mr. Comstock, in speaking of the in-| _ ‘he unfortunate dead had been at
formation he had received, said: Portage laying in supplies for the
“I am receiving letters about Stan- Fourth. Beside the bodies were
ford White's alleged mode of life, | found foodstuffs, fireworks and kegs.
corroborating in every particular the ©f beer. The branch track is the only
charges brought against him by Har- | avenue by which Puritan can be
ry Thaw, The last letier, which I re- reached. In traveling from Portage
ceived is most important in the bear-! to. Puritan the railroad track is in-
| the civil
ied ‘an
|
| be competent
i | products,
NO |
| be held on July
will have on Thaw's
the event that the facts as
the writer are true. 1 shall
rigid investigation of tie inform
case in
given by
make a
tion
ing it
| variably traveled.
| over
disclosed in the letter.
MEAT INSPECTION
Secretary Wiison wil Appoint In-|
spectors and Guarantee Healthful
Profits.
Secretary Wimen will not
summer vaeati he
ized the for
effect the ne
To provide in
servi
examin:
} g y into
nspection law.
this law
announc-
do not
veterinarians
perience be
| whether me: at is
| and fit for hume
reguire
sound
food 3
supervise the pre-
' meat food
and 590
paration and
years of age ail nd 1 less than
| one year's exp ce in the work
| required to be done. The entrance?
salary is 1,000 per ar n.
AERONAUT DROPS
|
railroads |
have come face to face
If they’ cannot lease them, but must
operate them-for themselves in order |
Has a Thrilling Descent With Blazing |
Parachute.
While making an ascension with
fireworks at North
A. Franks, a Toledo aeronaut, es-
| caped death by a miracles after a fall
1
|
ment
This course is re-
garded as safe, as no cars are ever
run over the track after dark.
With one exception the men were
foreigners. It was impossible to ob-
ain a list of names,
An engine and a flat car were sent
the line and the bodies gather-
ed up and taken to a mining settle-
near Puritan. Four or five men
injured, but not seriously.
ELOPEMENT STOPPED
Hushand Shoots Man Who Was Run-
ning Away With Wife.
As the train for the east was about
were
{ to pull out of the passenger station
|
|
|
|
i in Bristol.
| who had
at Bristol, W. Va.
Jones and the pretty
John Ore, who were
husband appeared and
bearing George
young wife of
eloping, the
with deadly
oie some aim fired three bullets into the breast
must | of Jones.
There is no hope for the recovery
of Jones, while Mrs. Ore, after being
| an unwilling witness to the tragedy,
continued her journey to the east.
Ore was capturcd and is now in jail
He declares that Jones,
been paying attention to
. was responsible for the ruin
| of his home.
|
YELLOW FEVER IN CUBA
| Several Cases Reported During the
Baltimore, O., C.
Month of May, According to
J Louisiana Authorities.
Reports that yellow fever has ap-
peared in Cuba were made public in,
New Orleans, by the state board of
health. The reports come from the
| Louisiana health inspectors in Cuba,
| of over 2,000 feet.
When at the top of his flight his
balloon became ignited and like a |
flash he started to drop. Dowa he
came like a streak and when in sight
it was seen that his parachute -w
closed. It thus remained till he was
within 20 fcet of a house top. when
opened and allowed him
safety
it suddenly
to alight in
The parachute was afire and be-
fore the fire department arrived the
house on which it fell practi-
cally destroyed.
The Boston Wooi Market.
The wool market is still in a some-
what perplexing condition with the
general interest heightened. Consid-
erable trading is in progress and more
earnest buying is expected
34-blood, 32c; Y-blood. 2 unwash-
ed delaine, 27 te 28¢;
ym dealing in those articles it |
crops
roads involved |
60 days imprisonment at |
laine, 35 to 36c.
Britons Kill 350 Natives.
Further fighting bet the rebel
natives and the British columns oc-
curred. The latter ca in contact
with ‘the 8s vanguard. illing
350 men, bi e Zuiu force,
numbering 3,000 is 11 at large.
By the chamb-
| of deputies annulled t
Count Boni de Castellane to
| chamber on the ground of corrupti
and bribery.
Taggart Charged With Gambling.
Attorney General Charles
from
a vote of 253 to 221
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{
| acting under instructions
| 1
| ernor Hanly,
ty courts revoke
Springs
action to
| charter of the French
Hote] Company, at Freach Lick,
The company is a corporati
Thomas Taggart. chairman of
Democratic National committee, is
president. It is charged that gamb-
ling is dllowed on the property .owan-
the hotel company.
an
Aek
n of which
ed by
{a report of a yellow fever
| to investigate.
on |’ :
i but these will have to be taken care
the |
shortly. |
Pulled wools have been doing better '
of late and a fair business has been
done. Foreign goods are quiet.
Leading quotations follow: Ohio and |
Pennsylvania X and above, 33 to|
9e: X, 81 io. 3%; No. 1, 37 to: 3%;
No. 2, 37 to 38c; fine unwashed, 25
to 26¢c; 14- -blocd unwashed, 32 to 33c; |
fine washed de2- |
who say cases of yellow fever were
reported June 17, 20, 26 and 27. On
June 30 the inspector at Havana had
outbreak
at Nipe on the northeastern coast of
Cuba, where several deaths were re-
ported.
This report, however, was not con-
firmed and an inspector has been sent
CHANGE IN ARMY POST
President Arvanges With Taft for
Large Garrison.
Important steps calculated to ma-
terially Soyolop the efficiency of the
army were taken by President Roose-
velt and Setriory Taft at Sagamore
Hill. In his last annual message to
congress the President said: ‘‘The
number of posts in which the army is
kept in time of peace should be ma-
terially diminished and the posts that
are left made correspoadingly larger.”
This recommendation is to be car-
ried out at once. Seven brigade posts
to be commanded by brigadier gen-
erals are to be established. Two
| others are desired, but the funds at
| Robinson,
he election of |
the |
|
Miller, |
Gov- |
filed in the Orange coun-
the dispcsal of the secretary may not
be sufficient to allow of their equip-
ment during the present fiscal year.
The posts decided as those to be en-
larged to brigade posts are those at
Fort Reilly, Kan.; Fort Leavenworth,
Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort
Neb.: Fort D. A. Russell,
Wyo.; Tort Sill, Oila., and Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga.
is desired to have one in Penn-
and one on the Pacific coast,
of
sylva
| later.
Six Drowned.
Five more bodies, bringing the list
of known dead up to six, were recov-
ered from Lake Manawa, Neb., where
over 100 persons, while watching a
{ display of fireworks, were precipitated
Ind. |
from a floating dock into 16 feet of
{ water. [Eight persons were injured.
Five are reported missing. All of the
he |
: dead were
from Omaha.
(Giross earnings of Chesapeake &
Ohio for May increased $393,862, and
net increased $184,925.
NEW PANAMA COMMISSION
Bishop Remains Secretary and Stev-
ens Will Be Engineer.
Because of the failure of the sen-
ate to confirm the isthmian canal
commission President Roosevelt has
named a new commission consisting
of Theodore P. $Shonts, chairman;
John F. Stevens, Rev. Charles E.
Magoon, Brig.-Gen., Peter C. Hains, U.
S. A. (retired): Mordecai Endicott,
civil] engineer, U. S. N., and Benja-
min M. Harrod, members.
Mr. Stevens replaces Brig. -Gen. Os-
wald H. Ernst, Joseph Bucklin Bis-
hop, secretary to the old commission
and a member of the commission,
will be secretary to the new body,
but not one of its members.
The salaries of the members will
continue the same as heretofore. Mr.
Stevens will continue as chief engi-
neer of the commission, but will not
receive any extra compensation for
his services as a member of the com-
mission.
FOUR WORKMEN KILLED
St. Michael's Church at Hamburg,
Destroyed by a Fierce Blaze.
St. Michael’s Church, one Of the
most imposing buildings in Hamburg,
was totally destroyed by fire. The
fire broke out in the steeple, where
workmen were repairing the clock.
The conflagration spread rapidly and
the steeple, which was 426 feet high,
fell in less than 40 minutes from the
time the fire started.
The fire watchman, who lived in
the steeple, sounded the electric
alarm, but his retreat was cut off.
Three workmen who were repairing
the clock also perished and 30 fire-
men were wounded, two of them dan-
gerously.
The flames communicated with ad-
joining buildings, and in all 12 hous-
es were destroyed, while more than
20 roofs or upper Stories were burn-
ed.
BECOMES JUDGE IN CHINA
Philippine Attorney General to Head
New United States Court.
Attorney General Lebbeus R. Wil-
fley of the Philippine Islands has been
appointed to the new Judgeship of
the United States Court in China,
which is to replace in a large meas-
ure the present Consular Court.
Judge Wilfley is a native of St. Louis,
Mo., and in 1901 was appointed Judge
of the Court of First Instance of the
Philippines. A few months later he
was advanced to the Attorney Gener-
alship of the islands. The yearly
compensation is $10,000, with a lib-
eral allowance for traveling expenses.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
A grandson was' born to Kaiser
Milhelm which caused rejoicing in
Prussia. 2
Count Tolstoy declared
parliament is of no benefit
Russian people.
the new
to the
i
iross earnings of Norfolk & West-
ern for May increased $334,204 and
net increased $138,173.
Gross earnings of Louisville &
Nashville for June increased $402,692
and for the fiscal year increased $3,-
974,105.
The widow of Stanford White was
paid by the Equitable Life Assurance
Society $149,000, which was the val-
ue of a single policy’ Mr. White car-
ried on his life for a number of
years.
Seaman O'Carroll, Schron, Schpan
and Pimes, members of the first di-
vision of the Illinois Naval Reserves
were drowned while rowing in Lake
Michigan. Their beat was over-
turned. :
In the course of an address before
the Naval Committee of the French
Chamber of Deputies M. Thomsonn,
Minister of Marine, announced that
the construction of six ironclad war-
ships would be begun this year.
Commercial failures in the United
States, according to statistics com-
piled from reports of the branch
offices of R. G. Dun & Co., numbered
5,612 during the first half of 1906,
against 6,210 defaults in the corre-
sponding month of the previous year,
while defaulted liabilities aggregat-
ed $62,665,074, against $55,904,585 in
1905.
A runaway balloon, with an ama-
teur aeronaut for its occupant, furn-
ished great excitement during the
celebration at Schenley Park, Pitts-
burg. The balloon and aeronaut, who
was an unknown negro, landed at
Nine Mile Run.
Members of the eastern district of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers went out on
strike at midnight , in accordance
with the instructions of the recent
annual convention in Cincinnati.
About 4,000 men are affected.
FOUR MEN KILLED
Runaway Cars Strike Shovel in Mine
and Bury Crew.
Four men were killed and one was
probably fatally injured in a wreck in
Fayal No. 3 extension pit at Evelieth,
Minn. Five runaway steel cars load-
ed with iron ore dashed down the
grade into the pit, striking a shovel
in the stripping "and burying the
shovel crew in ore and debris.
The dead are: Jimmie Sullivan,
William Chappel, L.oye May, a boy,
and John Rinda. The bodies were
recovered.
Jacob Rinda, father of John Rinda,
is in a hospital and is not expected
to recover.
LAWYERS SENTENCED.
In their sensational effort to free
their clients from the county jail and
to prevent them going to the work-
house, the chief counsel in the de-
fense of the Toledo, O., ice men were
caught in the dragnet of the law.
Following his suggestion that he
might take further action on the mo-
tions filed by these attorneys for the
release of their clients, charging the
court with misconduct, Judge Kin-
kade sentenced Thomas H. Tracy and
Clarence Brown to 10 days in jail
each, and fined Alexander Smith $250.
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