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DREYFUS GASE 15 CLOSED
His Innocence Established and
Army Rank Restored.
RIOTOUS SCENE IN CHAMBER
Rehabilitation of Dreyfus Gives Rise to
Stormy Scenes Between Govern-
ment and Opposition Defenders.
Alfred Dreyfus was completely ac-
quitted of the charges on which he
was condemned as a traitor, dismiss-
ed from the French army and im-
prisoned on evil’s island, and regard-
ing which France has been torn for
years by the most bitter political and
ARMENIANS SLAUGHTERED
and Soldiers Were
Upon by Tartars.
At ([Etchmiadin, the ecclesiastical
capital of Armenia, Tartars attacked
the monastery and residence of the
Armenian patriarch. The Tartars,
who had hidden themselves in the
Officers Fired
surrounding hills opened fire and
charged the monastery after night-
fall. They were repulsed, but form-
ed for a second a
of infantry
ttempt when a force
and Cossacks arrived on
the scene. The officers tried to per-
suade the Tartars to desist from
their attack, but the latter opened
fire on the troops, wounding several
of them. The Cossacks thereupon
charged and dispersed the Tartars,
killing one and wounding several.
In the Zangisur district 300 Tartars
racial agitation. His
two-fold, the supreme court first an-
nouncing its decision establishing the |
entire innocence of the accused man, |
and the ministry later deciding to |
present an urgent bill in parliament |
restoring Dreyfus to the army with
advanced rank, and otherwise giving
the government's most ample repara-
tion. :
The decision of the court wass a
foregone conclusion, as exhaustive
inquiries had completely demolished
the fabric of the accusation against
Dreyfus, showing that the real cul-
prit was Major Count Esterhazy. The
decision therefore annualled the con-
demnation of the Rennes court mar-
tial and ordered that the acquittal
be posted and published throughout
France.
The bill to reinstate Dreyfus was
passed by parliament 473 to 42, while |
that for the restoration of Colonel
Picquart received 477
27 negative votes.
The scene of tumultuous disorder |
which marked the enactment of the
law restoring Alfred Dreyfus to the!
army was followed by a bloody duel
in which Under Secretary of State |
Sarraut was dangerously wounded by |
the sword of M. Pugliesi-Conti. The |
duel assumed the aspect of a verit-
able combat between the Government
affirmative to |
and the opposition, as M. Sarraut’s
seconds were Ministers Clemenceau |
and Thomson, while M. Pugliesi- |
Conti’s were M. Millevoye and Gener-
al Jacquet, who were drawn from the |
elements which bitterly resist the |
Government’s rehabilitation of Drey- |
fus.
Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the ar-
tillery, a member of a wealthy He- |
brew family of Alsace, where he was |
born in 1859, was, on October 14, |
1894, arrested on the charge of com- |
municating French military secrets to |
a foreign power, |
Two months later Dreyfus was |
tried by court martial and found |
guilty and January 5 he was publicly |
degraded and deported to Devils Is- |
land, near Cayenne, French Guiana, |
there apparently to spend the re- |
mainder of his life. |
The friends and relatives of Drey-
ful, notably his wife, always believed
in his innocence and devoted all their
energies tc the work of proving that
he had been unjustly condemned.
Colonel Picquart, when he became
chief of the intelligence department
of the French army in 1895, examined
the documents in the proceedings
against Dreyfus and questioned the |
correctness of the proceedings and,
continuing his investigations, formed |
the opinion that the evidence pointed |
to Major Count Esterhazy as being
the guilty man. Picquart determined |
to see that justice was done and there
ensued a fight to preserve the honor |
of the French army.
Dreyfus, on November 15, 1897,
charged Esterhazy with writing the |
most incriminating document, but the |
latter was acquitted by a court mar-
tial in the following January.
Corporations Fined.
On the ground that their violation!
of law in granting rebates on coal
shipments was technical and not wil-
ful and that, therefore, only a mode- |
‘rate penalty should be imposed, Chief
Justice William J. Mills in the Unit-
ed States court at Las Vegas, N. M., |
imposed a fine of $3,000 on each count
of the indictments against the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company, and the Colorado Fuel & |
Iron company. A total fine of $15,-
000 and costs was imposed on each
of the defendant companies.
Year's Provision Exports.
The advance statement of the ex-
ports of provisions, issued by the
bureau of statistics of the depart-
ment of commerce and labor, shows
the total value of provisions exported.
lexclusive of live cattle, hogs and
sheep, at the principal ports of the
United States during June, 1906, was
$15,365,278, against $13,553,014 in!
June, 1905, and for the fiscal year |
1906, $191,056,535, against $152,530,~
673 in 1905.
Train Runs Down Family.
A fast train on the Monongah di-
vision of the Baltimore & Ohio rail- |
road overtook Elijah Norris and his
family at 9 o'clock at night on the
M. R bree one mile south of]
Clarksburg W. Va Norris and a
daughter 5 "years old were killed in- |
stantly. The mother, two little sons |
and a little daughter were badly in-
jurasd, and are in a critical condition.
Fire supposed to be of incendiary
origin destroyed the town of Lynn- |
ville, Ind., causing a loss of $75,000.
Twenty-two buildings were burned |
and the town was practically wiped |
out of existence. 2
Smalipox Appears at Colon. |
Several cases of smallpox have de-
veloped at Colon, but they have been
confined to the laboring class. The!
medical staff of the canal zone is
isolating and quarantining the infest- |
ed . district and hopes to stamp out
the disease quickly.
During maneuvers in the Baltic sea
a Russian torpedo boat struck a mine
sunk off Bjorko. The boat was de-
molished, but the crew were saved.
vindication is |
| to restore
| ment to flight and resumed the pil-
| ranging in
| others were drowned.
| die. All
| but all its American employes escap-
lat $5,000 Mexican money.
| schemes in
| duce dividends.
Hipches an Armenian village. A de-
achment of police arrived and tried
order but thie Tartars kill-
ed the police captain, put the detach-
lage which was continued until the
arrival of troops sent from Tiflis.
News has been received of horrible
ravages by Turkish troops across the
border in Turkish Armenia. Soldiers |
who were collecting taxes are said to
have indulged in frightful outrages.
The population of the city of Van is
represented to have been nearly de-
stroyed by the Turkish troops who
pulled down houses, attacked women
and acted generally like wild beasts.
SEVEN GIRLS DROWNED
But One of Party Escapes Terrible
Ending of Play of Children.
Seven girls of Cedar Rapids, Ia.,
age from 7 to 16 years,
were drowned while wading in Cedar
river, only three blocks from home. |
The smallest child slipped into a deep |
hole, and in trying to rescue her six
Ruth Klersey
was the only one of the party to es-
cape. The dead are:
Lacille, Hazel, Gladys and Josie
Sweeting; Ruth and Cora Coyle, and
Clara Usher.
Ruth Kiersey, the only survivor,
said they were wading when little
Lucille Sweeting slipped off a shelf |
in the bottom into deep water. Hazel |
Sweeting rushed after her, slipped |
into the hole, and the five other girls |
rushed one after the other into the |
| hole trying vainly to save each other.
Ruth Klersey then ran home and
gave the alarm
Four of the bodies were quickly re- |
covered from the water, but it was |
too late to resuscitate them. The |
other bodies were recovered later.
KILLLED BY CLOUDBURST
Companies’ Property in
Mexico Damaged.
A cloudburst and landslide on July |
10 at Ocampo (Jesus Maria) Chihua-
hua, Mex., almost completely destroy- |
ed the city and killed seven or more |
persons. Many others were injured |
and it is expected some of them will!
the killed and injured are |
Mexicans. i
The W. C. Greene Company's of-
fices and corral were swept away,
American
loss is estimated
The Wat-
terson Company, the only other con- |
cern owning extensive interests in
the camp, suffered a loss of about |
$15,000, its reduction works and of-
fices being destroyed.
Socorro, N. M., experienced an
earthquake that broke dishes. It was
followed by two lighter shocks later
in) the day. A shock was experienced
at Socorro about two weeks ago. A |
slight shock also was felt at Silver |
City, N. M,
ed. The company's
Laundrymen Indicted.
Thirty-nine laundry companies and
laundry proprietors were indicted in-
dividually by the gramd jury at Cin-
cinnati on the charge of maintaining
a combination in restraint of trade.
Eighteen of these were also indicted
as forming an organization in re-
straint of trade. These include all
members of the Laundry Exchange,
who are indicted on 39 individual in-
dictments. The indicted companies
and individuals appeared in court
through their attorney and arranged |
to give bond later. |
RUSSIAN GENERAL SHOT DEAD
Assassin Fired Three Shots from the
Sidewalk. |
Advices received from Peterhof are
that Gen. Kozloff was assassinated
there by a well-dressed man, believed
to be either a university student or |
professor. The general was riding |
along the street when the assassin |
suddenly drew a revolver from his |
coat pocket as he was standing on the |
sidewalk and fired three shots point |
blank at Kozloff, all of them striking |
him in the body and causing almost | 7
instant death. The assassin stood, |
calmly watching his victim, until ar- |
rested. He declined to make any |
| statement.
THREE BURNED TO DEATH
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Drunken Foreigners Upset Lamp and
Eight Houses Are Burned.
During a drunken revel among |
Slavonian laborers at mill H, of the
.ehigh Portland Cement Company at
Fogelsville, Pa., an oil lamp was up-
set, setting fire to boarding house No.
Fraudulent Mining Schemes. |
Consul General George E. Anderson, |
in a report to the bureau of manu-
facturers, from Rio Janeiro, warns the
public against fradulent mining
Brazil. While there are
a number of reputable mining and!
dredging companies operating in Bra- |
zil for gold and diamonds, he says
fraud has been practiced on an ex-
tensive Scale by promoters of com-
panies that have neither land nor |
other accessories necessary to pro-
| trades:
KANSAS’
LL
GUTEMALA LOSES IN FIGHT
Two Thous nd Killed, Wounded
and Captured.
UNCLE SAM'S PEACE PROPOSED
Both Guatemala and Salvador Agree
to United States’
Proposal for Conference.
in Principle
A message ‘from San Salvador,
dated July 15, says: Saturday night
the Salvadorean amy again attacked |
the Guatemalan forces at Platanar
and obtained a victory over them, the |
Guatemalans suffering a loss of 2,-|
000 men in killed, wounded and pris- |
oners.
The Guatemalan army, which in-
vaded by way cf Sante Fe, was re-
pulsed by the Honduran army.
Honduras is making common cause |
with Salvador. |
The fighting has been in progress
for the last two days with the ad-
vantage on the part of the attacking
force, so far at least, inasmuch as
the Guatemalan army is fighting a
rear guard action and is slowly re-
treating.
Nicaragua, it is reported, has is-
sued a warning to Guatemala that if
she does not respect Nicaraguan ter- |
ritory that nation will take a hand in |
the strife.
Both Guatemala and Salvador have
accepted the tender of the good offi-
ces of the United States Government |
looking to a settlement of their diff-
erences.
This information is
official dispatches
conveyed in
received at the
State Department, Washington frome
the American diplomatic representa-
tives in Guatemala and Salvador, an- |
nouncing that the two belligerent |
countries have availed themselves of
the tender of the good offices of the!
United States looking to their ap-
proaching each other in a conference
having in view an adjustment of their |
differences, the cessation of hostili- |
| ties and the bringing about of peace.
The advices to the State Depart-
ment, it is stated, make no reference
to the question of declaration of war, |
regarding which President Bonilla of |
Honduras announced that Honduras !
| had made no declaration of war and
| that
| without previous declaration,”
‘Guatemala invaded territory
MECHANICS
NEEDED
of Rebuilding San Francisco
Makes Labor Scarce.
San Francisco is arising from its
ashes with surprising rapidity, and
building is progressing on all sides.
The labor situation is exciting much
Work
interest and inquiry, and the Cali- |
| fornia Promotion Committee, after |
conferences with employers and em-
ployes through the Building Trades
Council ascertained that in all trades |
except the building trades the demand |
is fully supplied with the exception of |
laborers, several thousand such men
being in immediate demand for rail- |
way construction and debris removal.
In the building trades conditions are
different. Mechanics are needed in |
all departments of the building indus- |
try, principally in the following |
Plumbers, electrical workers, gas |
and electric fixture hangers, hodcar- |
riers, bricklayers, cement workers
plasterers, lathers, carpenters, sheet |
metal workers and elevator goastrus. |
tors.
TWELVE STUDENTS KILLED
Persian Malcontents Are Subsiding
Since thes Authorities Have Be-
come Active.
A sharp street fight occurred in
Teheran, Persia, between the troops!
and a procession of students mal-
contents, in which 12 of the students
and two soldiers were killed.
The activity of the authorities has |
tended somewhat to restore public
confidence with the result that the
shops were reopened. The mullahs,
however, are still in the great mos-
que. The opinion prevails that the
true state of affairs is hidden from
the shah.
BUMPER WHEAT CROP
Seventy-Five Million Bushels Is Lat-
est Estimate of Harvest.
Reports from points throughout the
| State indicate that the wheat crop in
Kansas is turning out much better |
than was expected up to the time of
harvest. It is too early to make a
final estimate for the State, but the |
threshing thus far shows that the |
Kansas crop will not be greatly differ-
ent from that of 1905 in quantity and
will be better in quality. The indi- |
cations are that the crop will exceed !
75,000,000 bushels.
The reports from Oklahoma indicate |
that in some sections the outturn is |
not up to early expectations, and the |
crop of the two Territories probably |
will not exceed 25,000,000 bushels, as |
| compared with 30,000,000 bushels pre-
| viously estimated.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
The Republican state convention of
{ North Dakota was dominated by the
| stalwart faction of the party.
| state ticke
| by Governor E.
| nominated for re-election.
A full
nominated, headed
Y. Sarles, who was
was
Confederate soldiers of General
John H. Morgan's command are now |
receiving pay from the Federal gov- |
ernment for horses taken from them
when they surrendered. The amount
each receives is $125.
Henry
county,
sions,
Clay Evans, of Hamilton
former commissioner of pen-
and recently American consul
! general in London, was nominated for
governor by the Tennessee Republi-
can State convention. D. C. Swab
was nominated for railroad commis
sioner.
| what the result of the
| Salva
| term will expire
| less would have
| visited the Chicago stock
| Japan,
| at Cronstadt, Ru
| ated for
| the admiral.
| Since the
| also the const
{ county,
LEADER SLAIN
Ex-President of Salvador Killed by
Guatemalan Troops.
Regalado, former president of Sal-
vador, and the leader of the Salva-
dorean troops in the present conflict
with Guatemala, has been killed in
battle. The announcement of his
death reached the state department
at Washington through a dispatch
from United States Minister Merry at
San Salvador.
The dispateh stated that Regalade
was killed ‘in the last movement of
the Salvadorean troops against the
Gautemalans, but did not indicate
battle was.
Thomas Regalado was president of
dor from 15%9 to 1903. A pro-
vision of the Salvadorean constitu-
tion prevented him from having a
second term immediately following
his first. but he was a candidate to
succeed President KEsealon, whose
ext year, and doubt-
been elected, as he
idol who had achieved
a soldier.
WILSON VISITS CHICAGO
was a popular
much fame as
Secretary of Acricuiture inspects
Stock Yards and Packing Houses.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
vards and
packing houses and expressed him-
self satisfied with what he saw.
{ When asked for an expression as
| to the result of his investigation
Secretary Wilson said: ‘When
inspeeted article of meat, Uncle Sam
will stand for its charaeter, but Uncle
Sam will not put that seal on' any
last year’s bird’s nest, ncither upon
any old. rag found I
have held my
packers and they fullly understand
the “situation. Ample time w.ll be
given the packers to arrange their
| operations for complying with the new
| law, and the new inspectors will be
| appointed when certified by the civil
service commission.”
ROJESTVENSKY FREE
Russian Commander Is Acquitted.
Four’ Officers Condemned.
Admiral Rojestvensky,
on the
enemy
began
July 4, was a
quitted after the court had deliber-
nearly 10 hours. Four
cers of the torpedo boat destroyor
Bedovi, who were placed on trial with
were found guilty of ha
ing premeditatedly surrendered
Bedovi and. all four wer
to death. On account of
offi-
the
sentence to
vice.
quested to commute their
dismissal from the
Admiral Rojestvens: vas ac-
| quited on the ground that Te was not
in his fuli senses.
FINED RAILROAD $40,000
& Alton
for Rebating.
Judge Landis in the United States
District Court sentenced the Chi
& Alton railroad, which was re
| Chicago
convicted of granting illegal rebates!
| at Kdnsas City,
to pay a fine of $20,-
000 on each of two counts, or a to-
| tal of $40, 04 00.
John Faithorn and Fred A. Waan,
former officials of t
also convicted, were sentenced to;
| pay a fine of $5,000 each on two |
| counts, or a total of 319,000 each.
The specific charge
| were convicted was
on which they
that they had]
| given to the Schwarzschild & Sulz- |
| berger Company a rebate of $1 a car |
on all shipments from the Kansas City
plant of the packing company.
Another Wage
An advance of 5 per cent in wages
in cotton mills of 30 cities and towns
of southern Massachusetts and Rhodz
Island went into effect July 9. About
15,000 operatives are benefitted.
inception of the upward
movement in mill wages early in the
vear 165,000 textile operatives in thea
New England states have had thoir
pay advanced 5 to 14 per cent.
Shortage of $145,000.
Revelation of the financial embar-
rassment of Alexander & Alexander,
one of the largest firms of cotton fan-
tors in the state of G ria develop-
ed discrepancies of about $145,005.
following the disappearance of
Thomas W. Alexander, Lead of the
firm. The Geor: Railrcad bank
Advance
| loses $115,000.
Canned Refuse.
After an investigation extending
ver several weeks the Massachusetts
State Board of Health reported that
in many instances the canned meats
put up by Chicago packers and sold
in Massachusetts are made of rafuse
or are filled with boric presarvatives.
Ramsey Announces New Road.
The consolidation of the Indust
railroad and the Lorain & Ashland
| road, now being built, is announced
by Joseph Ramsey, of Pittsburg, and
ruction of a road south
to the Ohio river.
Sheriff Hammil, of Pierce
Wisconsin was killed and City
Marshal Isaacs. of Prescott, Wis,
seriously
Deputy
injured by Italian laborer
| near Prescott.
Eight Killed. i
A train of trolley cars westbound |
£70; Lockport. N. Y., on the lines of
the AN rionarc ant Railway Company
a due at Tonawanda at 9:15 p. m.,
ran into an open switch at
just east of Martinsville, and crashed
into ‘a trolley {freight
train of se ight cars which wera
lying on the siding waiting for the
passenger train to go by. Eight
passengers were killed outright, and
a score injured, some of whom may
ven f
die.
the
seal of Uncle Sam is placed upon any
in an alley. I]
last meeting with the |
whose trial |
charge of surrendering to the |
after the battle of the Sea of |
bh >fore a court-martial |
extenuating |
; circumstances the emperor will be re-
Gets Limit of Law
e road who were |
was: |
a siding |
motor and a |
THIED TO KILL AN ADMIRAL
Commander of Black Sea Fleet
Is Shot through the Lungs.
TROOPS BEING CONCENTRATED
Fear of General Uprising Shown in
Activity of Military Throughout
Empire.
Vice Admiral Cliouknin, commander
of the Black Sea fleet, who was shot
by a sailor while taking a walk in th2
garden of his villa, died the next day.
Vice Admiral Chouknin has been
blamed for his severity and it was to
his treatment of the crews of the ship
{ under his command that the mutiny
| en board the battleship Kniaz Potem-
kin in June and July last year was at-
iributed.
An attempt was made on the life of
the Admiral February 9 last. A wo-
mag appeared at his official residence
uring the afternoon of that day and
obit in her card, saying she was the
dz aughter of a Rear Admiral at Sb.
Petersburg. On entering the Admir-
| al's ofiice the woman drew a rapid-
fire pistol and fired four shots at him,
cach bullet reaching the mark.
As she turned to escape the woman
was killed by the orderly on duty at
| Chouknin’s door. The crime beyond
| doubt was political.
Some time elapsed before the po-
| lice were able to establish the identi-
ty of the woman who attempted Ad-
miralk Chouknin’s life, but it finally
| became known that she was a He-
| brew named Cecilia Shabad, 25 years
old.
The preparations which
sian War
the Rus-
Office has been making at
all the principal cities to meet an
| armed revolutionary movement prove
to haye been very elaborate. At
Riga the garrison is divided into
three divisions of two battallons of
infantry, .half a company of Cossacks
and three machine guns each, to pre-
vent the invasion of the city from its
| three open sides, namely the canal,
| the dam and the river Duna. Similar
{ plans have been drawn up by every
commander of a garrison or city.
PURE FOOD FINES SWELL
The Western Pennsylvania Counties
Have Collected $72,000.
Pure Food Commissioner Warren
has turned over to the State Treasury
$1,290 fines collected in Allegheny
{ county from dealers who were con-
| victed of selling adulterated oleo-
margarine, codfish, olive oil and
milk.
Commissioner Warren says that
since the recent crusade against
doctored meats in this State 24 West-
ern Pennsylvania counties have paid
| $72,600 in fines for selling adulter-
ated and doctored products of the big
meat packers.
COAL STRIKE SETTLED
|
i Increases of 5.55 Per Cent Allowed in
| Central Pennsylvania Field.
Virtua}
ago |
EN settlement of the strike of
! miners in the Centra Pennsylvania
i bituminous field began last spring
! was made in Philadelphia, at a con-
ference between representatives of
| the United Mine Workers of America
{and the operators in the field.
+ The principal terms of the settle-
ment are: A 5.55 per cent increase in
es for all mine workers over the
scale which existed before the strike;
application of the check-off system to
m:ners, but not to laborers.
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Jett Takes the Blame.
At Beattyville, Ky., Curtis Jett
| testified in the trial of Hargis and |
Callahan on the charge of murdering |
Lawyer Marcum that he, Jett, killed |
Marcrum. Jett took ail the blame up- |
on himself and said he killed Mar-
cum because he was his enemy, Jett
admitted that. the
the murder was committed was given |
him by Seidon Hargis, a brother of
Judge Hargis, but that he killed Mar-
cum of his own volition.
Armor Contract Divided.
Armor plate contracts for the bat-
tleships Michigan and North Caro-
lina were equally divided by Secretary
Bonaparte between the
Carnegie companies. Armor plate for
ona ship will be furnished by the
pistol with which |
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Midvale and |
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Midvale people, while the contract for!
the other was awarded to the Car-
negie and Bethlehem companies.
Boston Wool Market.
The wool market is moderately ac-
tive, with deep interest manifested
from all classes of the trade. Natur-
ally the attention of the trade is
turned toward the new clip. Prices
‘are held firm. Traders are remem-
bering in conection with the increas-
ed demand for wool that the coming
Australian wool clip is reported as the
largest ever shown in that continent.
Territory wools are taken steadily.
Pulled wools are in constant demand.
Foreign grades are neglected. Prices
run as follows: Ohio and Pennsylvan-
ia, XX and above, 33 to 34c; X, 31
ite. 32e¢; No. '1, 37 to 38¢; No. 2, 37
to 38c; fine unwashed, 32 to 33c;
Three-eighth blood, unwashed, 32 to
{ 33c; three-eighth blood, 33c: half-
33c; unwashed delaine, 27 to
fine washed delaine, 35 to 36c.
Immigration Record.
More than 1,000,000 persons enter-
| blood,
| 28¢;
ed the United States through the El-
{ lis Island station during the fiscal
| year ending July 30 last. The exact
number was 1,062,054, an increase of
199,075 as compared with the pre-
ceding year. The largest number of
immigrants of one nationality was
222,606 from Italy. The Hebrews
were second with 125,000. A total of
more than $19,000,000 in cash was
| brought in by the immigrants.
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UNCLE SAM WILL BE CAINER
Carnegie . and Bethlehem, Companies
Wiil Have to Lower Prices ‘0
Get Federal Work.
Armor plate of the highest quality is
to be furnished for the battleships
South Carolina and Michigan by the
Midvale Company at $346 a ton, which
is below the cost of plate that is be-
ing placed on battle-ships now in
coastruction. The Midvale people will
get the contract for the plating of
both ships, and the LR and
Bethichem plants will soon have to
close unless they get orders {rom
abroad.
Each bid was a surprise to the
ordinance officers of the navy. The
Carnegie and Bethlehem companies
for the first time said they would not
ask the Government to pay royalties.
The bids submitted by them were net
prices.
"he three companies made big
cuts under the bids made by them a
little more than a year ago. The Mid-
vale people dropped 52 a ton on pres-
ent prices, Carnegie $97 and Bethle-
hem $62. These figures are on class
A armor, which includes the heaviest
plates. On class B armor Midvale
dropped $48, Carnegie $73 and Bethle-
hem $62. On class C Midvale made
a reduction of 344, Carnegie $41 and
Bethiehem $30.
The blds were as follows: Carnegie
Steel Compan, 7,328 tons, aggregate
bid, $2,733,560, which was upon a
basis of ih a ton for the bulk of the
armor.
Bethlehem Steel Company, 7,328
tons, aggregate bid, $2,813,568, upon
a basis of $381 a ton or all the armor
except a small amount used for bolts
and nuts.
Midvale Steel Company, 7,328 tons,
aggregate bid, $2,555,470, based upon
$345 a ton for the bulk of the armor
except bolts and nuts.
The bid of the Midvale Company is
thus $178,090 less than the bid of the
Carnegie Company, its nearest com-
petitor.
CROPS ABOVE THE AVERAGE
Government Report Shows Increase
In Acreage and Marked Improve- -
ment in Condition.
The crop reporting board of the
bureau of statistics of the department
of agriculture finds, from the reports
of the correspondents and agents, of
the bureau, as follows.
Preliminary returns show the acre-
age of corn planted to be about 95,-
535,000 acres, an increase of about
1,524,000 acres, or 1.6 per cent. as
compared with the estimate of the
acreage planted last year. The av-
erage condition of the growing crop on
July 1 was 87.5, as compared with
87.3 on July 1, 1905, 86.4 at the cor-
responding date in 1904, and a 10
year average of 86.4.
The average condition of wheat on
July 1 shows an improvement over
the condition June 1.
The acreage of potatoes, excluding
sweet potatoes, is less than that of
last year by about 36,000 acres, or 1.3
per cent. The average condition on
July 1 was 91.5, as compared with
91.2 on: July 1, 1905.
Can Make Their Mail Boxes.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
issued an order to go into. effect
August 1, rescinding the regulation
under which patrons of rural mail
routes are compelled to purchase
boxes from one of the 200 listed man-
ufacturers. Patrons of rural routes
will be permitted to construct their
own boxes, provided they conform to
requirements.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Drydock Dewey has reached Philip-
pines after a perilous voyage.
Harry Thaw issued a statement in
which he denies he is insane.
It is expected that Japan will open
Dalny to international trade the be-
| ginning of September.
Evasion of law by corporations was
| shown at the Cleveland hearing in oil
prosecution.
A message from Rio Janeiro, says:
The revolutionists in the state of Mat-
to Grosso have occupied the capital of
the state, Guyaba, murdered the presi-
{ dent of the state and seized the
government.
Russian Cashier Robbed.
Ten armed men attacked the cash-
ier of the Vistula railway, who was
proceeding to the State bank to de-
posit the day’s receipts. He was ac-
companied by an attendant and two
soldiers. The assailants stopped the
carriage, shot the soldiers dead and
got off with $50,000. The cashier es-
caped, saving $400,000.
Georgia Negro Lynched.
About 100 heavily armed men took
Edward Pearson, a negro, from
Deputy Sheriff Fields at Swainsboro,
Ga., carried him to the Canoodhen
swamp and lynched him. The night
before Pearson was found by Miss
Maude and Ida Durnen hiding under
their bed.
Brazil Reduces Tariff.
Secretary Root’s proposed visit to
South America has begun to bear
fruit. Brazil has just announced a
new tariff, which reduces the duty
on flour and many other American ex-
ports 20 per cent, and is designed to
promote the development of commer-
cial interchange between this coun-
try and Brazil.
Small Nations Clash.
Hostilities between Salvador and
Guatemala have broken out anew on
the border between these countries,
where peace was supposed to have
been established pending a settlement
of the trouble between the two coun-
tries. Leslie M. Combs, the Ameri-
can minister to Guatemala, who was
on his way to the United States to
assist in settling the difficulties be-
tween Salvador and Guatemala, has
been ordered back to Guatemala City.
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