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VER S00 EMIGRANTS LOST 120
Steamer Sirio Wreked on Reef | Fire, which broke out in
off Spanish Coast.
CAPTAIN COMMITS SUICIDE
Harrowing Scenes When the Surviv-
ors Are Brought to Shore—Sev-
eral Rescuers Drown.
The Italian steamship Sirio, from
Genoa to Barcelona, Cadiz, Monte-
video and Buenos Ayres, with about |
800 persons on board, was wrecked off
Hormigas island.
Three hundred emigrants, most of
them Italians and Spaniards, were
drowned.
The captain of the steamer com-
mitted suicide.
The bishop of Sao Pedro, Brazil,
also was lost, and it is reported that |
another
ing.
The remainder Qf the
and officers and
bishop is among the miss-
crew got away in
the ship’s boats or were rescued by |
boats sent from the shore.
Those rescued from the vessel are
now at Cape Palos in pitiabe condi- |
tion, being without food or clothing.
The Sirio struck a rocky reef
known as Bajos Hormigas and sank
soon after, stern first. Hormigas is-
land lies about two and a half miles
to the eastward of Cape Palos.
Before he committed suicide the
captain declared the steamer had 645
passengers on board and that her
crew numbered 127 men. The Sirio
had 570 passengers when leaving |
Genoa, but additional Spanish pass-
engers wee taken on board at Bar- |
touched a!
celona, where the vessel
few hours before the disaster. He
attributed the accident to his own im-
prudence.
The disaster occurred at 5 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. The steamer
was threading a difficult passage
through the Hormigas group, where
the Bajos Hormigas reef is a con-
tinual menace to navigation.
The vessel began to settle rapidly
immediately she had struck, and a |
terrible scene of confusion and panic |
ensued on board.
The fishermen coast
along the
sought to render every assistance in
their power and sent out boats which
brought many survivors
Most of the officers and crew of the
Sirio are among them. \
The survivors have gone into camp
on the main square of the town at
Cape Palos. Here harrowing scenes
are enacted as the stricken families
anxiously seek beloved members
among the rescued. A mother who
lost three children went insane.
One of the boats sent out by the
fishermen brought in 24 passengers.
The condition of the survivors is
mosf deplorable. They have lost
everything and are without money,
food or clothing. The marine officials
of Carthagena have dispatched a tug
to the scene carrying relief supplies.
The latest report of the disaster to
the Italian steamer Sirio states that
there were 930 persons on bcecard at
the time of the catastrophe, and that
545 have been saved, while 285 are
still missing and are believed to have
perished.
The coast is strewn with corpses
for many miles, and fishing craft are
new engaged in taking them ashore,
where they will have Christian burial.
The accident was caused by the cap-
tain keeping his vessel going ahead
at full speed during a dense fog.
PASSENGERS IN PANIC
Emigrants Fought With Knives
While Ship Was Sinking.
The Madrid correspondent of the
J.ondon Central News wires that
when the Italian steamer Sirio was
lost scenes of horror attended the
wrecking. The steamer was going
at full speed ahead when she struck.
Her bow was crumpled up and a great |
hole was ripped in her hull forward. |
Through this hole the water rushed
in immense volume, flooding the for-
ward holds in a few seconds.
Panic seized the emigrants. The
shock was terrific and everyone on
the ship was hurled down by the im-
pact of the hull upon the rocks. Those
sleeping on the decks were scattered
about and confusion reigned from the
instant of the accident.
The passengers commnienced to rush
for the small boats, in which many
were killed and maimed. The crew
was unable to cope with the panic
and finally joined in the mad battle
for safety. The emigrants drew
knives, with which nearly all of them
were supplied, and fought like dem-
ons to obtain places in the lifeboats
as they swung in the davits.
Women and children were ignored.
some of the former fighting like men,
though the majority were hurled aside '
or trampled to death in the stampede.
Men stabbed one another in fearful
hand-to-hand conflicts about the boats
or fought barehanded with the feroci-
ty of animals.
Of the women and children a num-
ber were thrown overboard and left
to drown. Other women threw their
children into the water and leaped af-
ter them.
The horrible strife on the decks of
the ship lasted not more than a min-
ute, for within scarcely that period
of time the ship filled and sank. She
sank by the bow, which slipped off
the rocks into deep water.
Paper Company Quits Business.
The General Paper Company, know!
as the paper trust, has gone out of
business as the result of the decis-
ion of the United States court against
it. A meeting of the board of di-|
rectors of the company was held at
Milwaukee, when all the business was
cleared up.
Former Governor Samuel R. Van
Sant has been appointed chief mar-
shal of the Grand Army parade during
the annual encampment, to be held in
Minneapolis, Minn
passengers |
ashore. |
Attempting to Save
Treasures.
Milan,
aly, in the International CX-
position, did extensive damage, the
sections devoted to the decorative
arts of Italy and Hungary being to-
tally destroyed, as also was the pav-
ilion, in which were installed the ex-
| hibits of Italian and Hungarian
| architecture.
The damage is estimated at from
$800,000 to $3,000,000. It is now im-
possible to tell just how great the loss
among the exhibits has been.
Several firemen and carabineers
| were injured.
The fire
Hungarian section and spread rapidly
| to the art sections in an adjoining
| park. For a time the British, Swiss
| Japanese and Netherlands sections
{| were threatened, but the firemen suc-
ceeded in saving them.
The jewelry and fine arts sections
also were threatened,
force of carabineers carried the pic-
| tures, ma of them almost priceless,
| from the Gallery of Fine Arts beyond
the fire zone.
The city was thrown into a state of
great excitement and vast crowds of
i people collected about the exposition.
| The firemen, however, succeeded in|
saving all except the Italian and Hun- |
| garian sections, though dangerous |
i sparks fell on the German, Persian,
Turkish and Chinese sections.
The origin of the fire is attributed |
to an electric short circuit. The |
| scene of the conflagration was the
| center of the most active portion of
the exposition. The palace of decor- |
| ative arts, covering 15,000 square
| yards and containng 4,000 exhibits, is
a mass of ruins. The architectural |
pavilion, which was also destroyed, |
contained many exhibits of historic |
value.
KILLED BY DYNAMITE
Spark From Drill ignites 400 Sticks!
of the Explosive.
One man was instantly killed, two
others were fatally injured and three |
| were seriously hurt through the ac-
| cidental explosion of 400 sticks of dy-|
namite in railroad construction work
at Rices Landing, Pa.
| Pietro Posteraro was killed and An-
| tonio Nicastro and Pasquale Politono
were fatally injured. The seriously
injured are: Marion Rockwell, an
American; Joe Ross, construction
| boss, and Dominico Martini.
| All the men were employed by the
| Greene Contracting Company, which is
grading for additional tracks to be
laid by the Coal Lick branch of the:
! Pennsylvania railroad. |
The accident occurred just after a |
big charge of dynamite had been plac- |
ed in a hole drilled in limestone. |
Posteraro was operating a steel drill, |
with which the charge was being
tamped and the other men were near-
by The steel drill accidentally
S k the limestone, making a spark,
which set off the dynamite. Poster-
aro was blown ®o atoms.
Nicastro was employed as engi-
neer of a dinkey engine, which was
standing close to the blasting charge.
The engine was blown to bits and
Nicastro was so fearfully injured that
he cannot live.
ROUT YAQUI RAIDERS
Many Dead and Wounded
Days’ Battle.
In a desperate battle covering two
days, Lieutenant Colonel Jose M.
Corona of the Mexican army and 200
soldiers defeated 60 Yaqui raiders
who had taken up hostilities near
[Lasguasimas Sonora.
Twenty Indians and a Mexican
sergeant were killed in the first day’s
battle, after which the Yaquis with-
drew to Chiquilete, where on the se-
in Two
was discovered in the |
but a large |
| revolutionists there have
RUSSIA TORN BY REVOLT
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Mutineers Seized Cruisers, and
Slew Commanders.
PANIC AT THE PETERHOF PALACE
Proclamations Posted Calling on the
People to Rise Up and Murder
the Jews.
Reports from Russia are summed
| up as follows:
| Mutiny and rebellion continue in
{ the army and navy. Officers have
been killed. Warships manned by
mutinous crews are roaming the sed
| and the gulf of Finland, prepared to
| strike wherever they can worst hurt
the government.
Soldiers at Cronstadt mutinied and
seized Fort Constantine, but after
{ heavy fighting were repulsed, over
100, including several officers, being
killed. Over 2,000 mutineers are
barricaded in their barracks.
Martial law was proclaimed at
Cronstadt and many other regions of
the empire, including the Donetz
basin.
The Cronstadt mutiny caused a
panic in the palace at Peterhof and
the czar was reported to have fled
the country, but it subsequently prov-
ed only made arrangements to remove
to Tsarskoe-Selo.
Gen. Markgraffsky, chief of the
Warsaw gendarmerie, and his son
were shot and killed by revolution-
ists.
Military disorders have broken out
at Reval
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to blow up the Moscow police head-
quarters building with an infernal
machine.
In serious conflicts between the po-
lice and Socialist Red Guards at
Helsingfors the chief of police was
| wounded and his assistant killed.
The mutineers at
rendered.
The crew of the
Azova mutinied and took the ship
northward, after killing the com-
mander and four officers.
The czar has ordered all of the
mutineers at Ft. Constantine, Cron-
stadt and Sveaborg summarily court-
martialed. An intimation has been
conveyed to ull of the officers it will
be advisable to execute the mutineers
at once, and this is expected to be
done.
Advices from Finland are that the
issued a
proclamation to all citizens declaring
Sveaborg sur-
cruiser Pamyat
| for a Finnish republic and demanding
that all persons take up arms in its
support.
Advices from Odessa, Sevastopol
and -Nicolaiev indicate that the Black
Hundreds are inciting the troops and
populace to rise against the govern-
ment.
Proclamations were posted in near-
ly every municipality in Russia ap-
pealing to the people to rise and
murder the Jews.
Following the incipient mutinies at
the Helsingfors fortress of Sveaborg
and at Cronstadt, St. Petersburg’s
principal defense, came an order for a
general political strike in the Em-
pire; part of the crew of the cruiser
Bogatyr of Japanese war fame mu-
tinied at Helsingfors, following the
rebellion on the cruiser Pamyat
Azova; part of the troops in the sum-
mer camp near Warsaw rose and
were standing off the loyal troops at
latest reports.
Murderer Breaks Jail. -
Thomas O’Toole, of Braddock, es-
caped fom the county jail, at New
Castle, Pa., where he had been con-
fined for the murder of his brother-
in-law, Leroy Barber, last October,
cond day they were completely rout-
ed, leaving dead and wounded on the
field. The Mexican loss was six
| killed.
Dies After 40-Day Fast.
in the clerical
Michigan Central
in Detroit, Mich., died in a hospital
after having fasted 40 days for the | se.
benefit of his health. Exhaustion is
given as the cause of death.
ice Men Lose Again.
At Toledo, O., Judge Babcock in
common bdleas court handed down his
decision in the ice cases, sustaining
Judge Kinkade in every particular and
exonerating him of having made any |
promise or suggestion of leniency as |
ciaimed by the attorneys for the ice |
trust. The judge declared the con-|
tentions of the attorneys for the trust | down.
to be ridiculous and said they should |
never have been brought into court. |
Wili Meet Cut in Railroad Fares.
way Co., will reduce the fares on its
line to meet the cut in prices by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. The Balti- |
more and Ohio and the Lehigh Valley, |
|
it is believed, will follow with like re-
ductions.
Steamer a Total Wreck.
The steamer Cyril, bound from St.
John, N. B., for Swansea, which went
ashore on Cape Race July 27, is a
hopeless wreck. She crossed half a
mile of shoal water before lodging
fast and tore nearly the whole bot-
tom out.
Noted Geographer Dead.
cfessor A. H. Thompson of the
in Washington, D. C., aged 67. He |
a noted geographer and had been
»d with the survey since 1882.
to that year he was 50-
Major Powell, his broth-
er-in-law, in the exploration of the
nd Canon of the Colorado.
e issued at the War De-
ssigning Major General A.
to the command of the
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail- | ya arrested.
division, with headquarters |
ia .
when he went to the latter’s boarding
| house and shot him down in his bed-
room. He escaped some time dur-
| ing the night, but the escape was
| not discovered until noon.
| At 11:30 a man happened to go
James T. Postelthwaite, employed | 41,501 the narrow and seldom-used
department of the |
railroad company. | p,.qa and was startled to find a hole
alley between the jail and the court
in the jail wall opposite the court
He at once notified Sheriff
| Edwin Ayres, but the latter had just
| discovered the escape himself.
SHOT WHILE HUNTING WORK
Two Negroes Were Making Their Way
| Toward Strike Belt.
| Two negro coal miners, en route to
Providence, Ky.,
Sturgis, Ky., from
were stopped in the road near Rock- |
springs by two men and were shot
One of the negroes was able
to make his way to town, though
dangerously wounded. The other was
| brought here in a dying condition.
Harvey Springer and Robert Hall,
| active members of the miners’ union,
| A farmer says that
| they stopped the negroes in the road
and inquired if the negroes were go-
ing to Sturgis to work for the West
Kentucky Coal Company. The negroes
gave an evasive reply, whereupon
| Hall and Springer are said to have
| shot them down.
Pennsylvania continues to lead the
coal mining industry of the country,
producing practically all of the an-
thracite and 30 per cent of the bitu-
minous. Its mines furnished about
| 49 per cent of the total output of
11905.
| Ship Hits War Mine.
| Steamer advices say that renewed
| attention has been called to the
danger of floating mines by the col-
| lision of the steamer Ningpo with a
| floating mine, 120 miles from ‘the
| Yangtse river. The steamer was
| considerably damaged and had a nar-
row escape from destruction.
|
|
ypointed because their parents
not permit them to marry,
Kathke, aged 19, and Ella
girl of 18, committed suicide
her by jumping into the Delaware
at Philadelphia.
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ONLY FOUR COMPANIES LOYAL
Believed Now to Have Been Begin-
ning of Plot to Seize Three
Big Forts.
A gigantic military conspiracy aim-
ing at the simultaneous
Russia's three great sea fortresses,
Cronstad, Sebastopol and Sveaborg,
arranged by the revolutionary mili-
tary league, was prematurely sprung
at Helsingfors by an attempt to ar-
rest members of a company of sap-
pers who had mutinied on account
of the death of one of their comrades,
alleged to have been due to ill-treat-
ment.
The entire garrison of the fortress
at Sveaborg flamed out instantly in
revolt. All the artillerymen and sap-
pers garrisoning the place were in-
volved. Only four companies of in-
fantrymen remained loyal.
{ The mutineers seized 40 machine
| guns and practically all the quick
| firers and light artillery in the fort-
ress, but even with this aid they were
unable to hold the main fort against
the loyal infantry. The fighting con-
tinued all night long. The heaviest
firing was heard from 10 o’clock in
| the evening until 1 in the morning.
| A detachment of civilian revolu-
| tionaries seized the marine barracks |
| on Skattudden island, hoisted the red
| flag, and were joined by all the ma-
rines. Nine cruisers, torpedo boats
and destroyers, lying in the harbor,
opened fire on the barracks.
This fire was answered from the
third story windows of the barracks,
with machine guns and rifles. The
torpedo boats and destroyers, which
were lying closer to the shore, were
subjected to such a hot fire from the
barracks that their crews were driven
below decks.
ers.. This sea. attack was in co-
operation with attacks by Cossacks
and infantry from the landside which
began at 9 o'clock in the morning and
continued through the whole day.
Finally toward evening the firing
ceased and the authorities announced
that the barracks had been captured.
At one o'clock in the afternoon the
Cossacks cleared the square in front
of the palace facing Sveaborg and
then drove the public from the entire
water front for the purpose of pre-
venting the sending of assistance
from the city to Sveaborg.
DIVIDEND RESTORED
Steel Corporation Declares One Per
Cent. for Six Months.
The United States Steel Corporation
directors declared two dividends of
1 of 1 per cent each on the common
stock, payable on October 1 next, be-
sides the, regular quarterly dividend
of 13; per cent on the preferred, pay-
able August 30 next.
The common dividends are the first
to be declared by the corporation
since December, 1903, when 1; of 1
per cent was paid. From September
1, 1901, to September 1, 1903, inclus-
ive, it had paid quarterly dividends of
1 per cent on the common. It has
paid 134 quarterly on the preferred
stock since August, 1901.
The common dividends declared
are for the quarters ended March 31
and June 20 and will be paid out of
the earnings for those quarters.
PASSENGER RATE CUT
Pennsylvania Railrcad Reduces Fare
to 2!/, Cents a Mile.
Important changes in passenger
rates were announced by Fourth Vice
President John B. Thayer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, fol-
lowing a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of that corporation. The
company has decided to reduce the
maximum one way fares from 31% and
3 cents to 21; cents a mile. This
action wiil involve a readjustment of
all through fares from the South and,
tailed Dy reason of the change, the
new rate of fare will not become oper-
ative for some time, probably Novem-
ber 1
An innovation in banking methods
of Chicago was inaugurated, when a
24-hour bank opened for business.
With the exception of Sundays and
holidays the bank will be open at all
times during the day and night.
Recommended Hanging.
The present Cook county grand
jury, in its report to Judge Dupuy of
Chicago recommended that men who
commit assaults upon women and
children should be hanged. It also
declares it believes the present
statute faulty, and recommends that
the next legislature make several
changes. The jurors recommend
that future grand juries consist only
of 12 men.
Insurance Company Hit Hard.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
total losses of the company in the
San Francisco disaster at $4,365,000.
2,500,000, and it would therefore be
necessary for the stockholders to pay
50 per cent on the capital.
Thirty Drowned.
A ferryboat on the Vistula river
sank near Wilnaowo. Thirty persons
were drowned.
After Frisco Insurance Men.
conspiracy, which a grand jury is try-
{ing to fix on insurance brokers who
| have compelled policyholders in San
Francisco to accept less than was due
them, a subpena was called directing
Prof. A. W. Whitney, the insurance
expert of the University of California,
to produce evidence of settlements
made.
M. Herzens
n, a leader of liberal
assassinated at his
home in
capture of |
They finally steamed out and joined |
in the bombardment with the ecruis- |
owing to the vast amount of work en- |
the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance |
Company, the directors reported the |
The reserves on hand amounted to |
To support the charge of criminal |
CHINESE REBELS ACTIVE
Take Large Walled City and De-
stroy Christian Churches.
| ee
| six CONVERTS WERE MURDERED
|
| Large Bodies of Disbanded Soldiers
| Are Affiliated With the Rebels.
|
| Advices were received at Victoria,
| B. C., by the steamer Empress of
| Japan that the rising in Kiangai and
| Chekiang provinces is becoming a
| grave movement and many believe it
will assume similar proportions to the
Taiping rebellion.
Hain-Cheng-Hsien, Chekaing, a large
walled city, was captured by the
rebels and looted. A garrison of 5,-
000 was left to prepare the city to
withstand a siege by imperial troops.
Several corps of imperial troops have
been dispatched.
The Roman Catholic and the
Protestant churches were destroyed
| and although the native pastors es-
caped six converts were murdered.
Large bodies of disbandled soldiers are
affiliated with the rebels.
Magistrate Shem of Hsin Cheng
was put to death by torture in revenge
for having summarily beheaded a reb-
el leader. It was this act which caus-
| ed the rebels to gather at Sungchien
{ to attack the city.
Heavy loss of life is reported from
hanghai because of severe typhoons
with lightuing and heavy downpours
of rain. Several Chinese were drown-
ed or killed by the collapse of houses,
and several natives in the French con-
cession were killed by lightning.
| Capt. Train, son of: Admiral Train,
United States navy, was one of the
heroes of the storm. With a boat’s
crew he went out to the rescue of an
overturned houseboat, and rescued
| Rev. D. McGillivray, a missionary,
Robert Law, manager of the Shanghai
Wharf Company, who accompanied
McGillivray and several natives, was
| drowned. Several junks turned turtle,
and their crews were drowned. Two
| collisions occurred, the Russian war-
ship Mandjur being damaged in one.
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MINE GAS KILLS TWO
Settling of Ground Causes
Escape Into Houses.
Owing to the settling of the ground
at Warriors Run, near Wilkes Barre,
Pa., a terrific explosion occurred in
the mine of the Warrior Run Coal
Company and resulted in the death
of one miner, John Shumalker.
Through crevices formed on the
surface the gas escaped from the
workings below into the homes situat-
ed over the mine. Coming into con-
| tact with a lighted lamp in the home
of John Williams it caused another
explosion, knocking down his daugh-
Gas to
resulted before aid could reach her.
The settling of the earth also af-
fected the water mains of the village,
and as a result, nothing could be
| done to save the home of Williams
and a neighboring house, both of
which were destroyed.
RECOVERING RAPIDLY
Favorable Reports from the Earth-
quake Stricken City.
the California promotion committee
says: :
“Wonderful activity has been shown
in all lines in San Francisco during
the month of July, and reconstruction
work has been pushed with vigor.
| “There was a loss of 335,000 of the
| city’s population during the first
month after the fire, and it is esti-
mated that more than 200,000 have
returned, while 50,000 are waiting in
learby cities for accommodations, in
order that they may return. The
| present population is estimated at
| 365,000.
| from 225,000 during the first week,
| to less than 17,000. There is a great
| demand for ordinary laborers, and for
Vs
| ing trades.”
PERSIA NEEDS A LOAN
Grand Vizier Mushir Ed Dowleh Will
Inaugurate Reforms.
Mushir Ed Dowleh has been appoint-
ter Margaret, 16 years old, who was |
burned to a crisp in the fire, which |
In its monthly bulletin of progress, |
| “The number of people receiving |
relief in the city has been reduced |
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workmen in all departments of build- | order affects several
IRON AND STEEL MARKET
Pig Iron Feature of Week; Unusual
Midsummer Activity in Fin-
* ished Material.
The ‘Iron Age’ says: Simultane-
ously with reports of a further access
of strength in all the pig iron mar-
kets of the country, comes the state-
ment of the United States Steel Cor-
poration, showing the largest quart-
ers’s earnings in its history. Lead-
ers in the trade now speak with less
reserve concerning early 1907, after
having for some time limited their
predictions of good times to 1906. The
volume of orders on the steel cor-
poration’s books on June 30, 6,809,539
tons, is the largest mid-year total it
has been able to report.
“Finished material markets show
unusual midsummer activity, distrib-
uted all along the line. At Chicago,
railroads have entered large orders
for track supplies. ' Rail buying for the
week has been light, but some export
business was done with Mexico and
Porto Rico. Car buying goes on stead-
ily.
“A large order for 12-inch pipe line
for Western Pennsylvania adds to the
already phenominal tonnage of pipe
and tube mills.”
The Iron Trade Review’ says:
“The very heavy specifying by near-
ly all users of iron and steel products
is a leading feature of present strong
conditions. Much heavier contracting
has characterized some other periods
but the tendency not to specify on
contracts when business declines is
well understood in the trade. When,
however, specifications are received
in the great volume in which they are
now coming in, there can be no
doubt of genuine prosperity.” *
MUCH MAIL GOES WRONG
Carelessness Causes Big Lass to Let-
ter Writers.
Over 11,000,000 pieces of undeliv-
ered mail were handled by the dead
letter division last year, and the
average number received each day is
now between 30,000 and 35,000. As-
sistant Postmaster General DeGraw
believes this number could be great-
ly reduced by the use of ordinary care
by patrons of the postal service.
Not only are the writers and ad-
dressees put to great inconvenience
and trouble by the non-delivery of
their mail, but the pecuniary loss is
considerable, as during the present
month alone over $2,000, for whicu
no owners could be found, was turn-
ed into the Federal treasury.
The Public Debt.
The monthly statement of the pub-
lic debt issued August 1 shows that
at the close of business July 31, 1906,
the debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to $973,856,801, which is
an increase for the month of $9,421,-
114. This increase is largely account-
ed for by the decrease in the amount
of cash on hand. The recent issue
of Pan-American bonds does not ap-
pear in the July statement. Interest-
bearing debt, $895,159,090.
Big Fortune for Americans.
When Sir Thomas Henley died in
London over 30 years ago he left a
fortune of several million dollars and
not an heir in England to claim it.
Now four American families will cut
up about $20,000,00 among themselves.
The heirs are Mrs. Charlotte L.
-Childs, 1427 Grand avenue, Mil¥%au-
kee; Mrs. Florence A. Case, Denver,
and the Whittaker families of Cin-
cinnati and Pittsburg.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Albert B. Cummins has been re-
nominated for governor of Iowa.
Four men were killed in a fight be-
tween the Martin and Hall feud fac-
tions in Knott County; Ky. They
have been at war for some time.
In accordance with an order issued
by the Emperor of Russia the Ameri-
can syndicate represented by Baron
Loicq de Lobel is authorized to begin
work on the trans-Siberian Alaska
railroad project.
About 500 employes of the litho-
graphic establishments of New York
city struck to enforce a demand for a
reduction in their working hours from
53 to 48 hours per week. The strike
thousand men
throughout the country.
On behalf of the Association of
Police of Japan, K. Ouraku, its presi-
dent, has forwarded to the chief of
police of San Francisco 500 yen in
| aid of the police sufferers from the
, earthquake and fire in that city.
| ed grand vizier of Persia, and retains |
the portfolio of foreign affairs, which |
he held under Ain Ed Dowleh, the re-
tiring grand vizier. An important
functionary has been sent to Kum,
| the government’s actions, to endeavor
| to persuade the mullahs to return
| Teheran. The bazaars have been clos-
ed and there has been a complete stag- |
The state department received a
dispatch from Mr. Combs, the Ameri-
can minister to Guatemala, stating
that President Cabrera, of Guatemala
has announced the complete disband-
3 . | ment of the Guatemalan army.
| where the mullahs recently establish- |
led themselves, as a protest against!
nation of business since their depart- |
ure.
| of the British legation now number
nearly 13,000. They continue to in-
sist on their demands for reform. It
is believed the new grand vizier in-
| tends to initiate political and financial
| reforms, including the negotiation of
|a loan, which is necessary to restore
[normal conditions in the country. It
is thought the loan will be negotiated
in Great Britain, probably with the
| approval of Russia.
| a.
| Root Speaks in Conference.
Secretary of State Root addressed
| the special session of the Pan-Ameri-
can conference, at Rio De Janeiro,
| making a most eloquent speech, which
created tremendous enthusiasm
among delegates who showered con-
Many of the
copies of the
speech sent to their homes, where
they believe its publication will have
a beneficial eft n destroying sus-
picion of the intentions of the United
| States.
gratulations upon him.
delegates are having
General Lee, commander of the
American forces on the island of
IL.eyte, has tclegraphed to General
Wood that he has 500 regular troops,
besides a number of scouts and con-
stabulary, ready to begin a movement
to ‘round up’ the rebellious Pulu-
e s janes,
The refugees under the protection id
Later returns from the primary
election in Illinois show that the ad-
visory vote for U. S. senator will give
Senator Shelby M. Cullom a plurality
of about 35,000 over former Gov.
Richard Yates.
Under the direction of Captain
George S. Gibbs, who is in charge of
the signal werk at the maneuver
camp at Mount Gretna, Pa., a portable
wireless telegraph outfit for field use
wil be thoroughly tested.
Floyd Carmichael, the negro who
committed an assault on Annie Poole,
at Lakewood, a suburb of Atlanta,
Ga., was captured, identified by his
victim and shot to death.
The plant of the Montgomery Bros.
& Co.'s planing mill and box factory
on Court street, Buffalo, N. Y., was
partially destroved by fire, causing a
loss of $170,000.
The entire garrison in the Russian
military post at Desplager has mutin-
ied, killing the commandant and eight
other officers. The soldiers invaded
the town. They posted pickets to in-
sure the nreservation of order.
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