mm HAS — re — RR RRR oes ¢ DEUASTATION BY STORMS Steamer Goes to Bottom off the | Florida Coast. HAVANA PROVINCE SUFFERS | i conspiracy | of the Many Killed in Much Cuban Capital Property Destroyed on and | I £ . . ry tric « lar > +3 | for a new trial, and declare they will the Island. Bh : EN : carry the case to the highest court The most destructive storm in years So ae el pans verdict stands Is Se soa a . y _ | Standard Oi ompany will owe the struck Miami, Fla., at 3 o'clock State of Ohio popany of $153.000, if Thursday morning, October 19. The | the highest penalty possible under damage wrought throughout the city | the Valentine act is assessed. The will amount to many thousand dol-| Statute provides a _penalty of $5,000 liars for a violation of the law. In addi- hie tion it provides a penalty of $50 a The steamer St. Lucie, Captain | day after an accused company has Brave commanding, sunk off the |been notified to discontinue doing Florida coast. One of the extension business as a trust. Two of the : . “rs | Standard’s auxiliaries were served steamers arrived in port bringing 60 | ptice three months ago and the $50 wounded, which were taken to the hospital, and it is said there are 28 dead bodies which will be brought up. It is believed now that a portion of the Florida Fish and Produce Com- pany’s fleet was destroyed. Manager Adams sent out one of their boats to jook for the men and boats and on their return they reported no signs of the fleet. The fishing nets were found slrewn on the shore. The cyclone which began at Ha- vana Wednesday afternoon reached its full fury on Thursday morning. | The greatest damage occurred on the harbor along the docks. | The cycione was the most destruc- | tive to life and property that Cuba | has 'éver known. : To sum jit up briefly, 20 persons are known to be dead, scores more are injured, and property worth hundreds of thousands | of dollars has been destroyed. ight persons were killed and four were injured by the collapse of a tenement house on Inquisidor The other fatalities resulted falling signs and cornices, with lives wires .in the drowning in the harbor. The water front is strewn with wrecked barges and small vessels, while many buildings were unroofed or blown down. | It is estimated that the damage in Havana province will reach fully $2,- ©00,000, One hundred and forty to- bacco barns in the Alauizar district have been destroyed. Enormous damage is reported from the Guira | section, the center of the banana and | plaintain growing district. These crops are said to have been practi- cally totally destroyed. The storm caused great confusion sireet, | from contact | city or by, among the American battleships and other craft in Havana harbor. The Brooklyn drifted further than any other warship and finally brought up | off La Regala with her stern in the | mud. She got off this under her own steam and has sustained no injury. The cruiser Denver, the cruiser Min- neapolis, the battleship Texas, the auxiliary cruiser Prairie and the sup- plyship Celtic averted collisions. Belated reports of the tidal wave which swept the coast of Florida con- tinue to come in. The exact casualty list will not be known for several days, but it is believed between 500 and 600 persons have perished at El- | liotts Key and neighboring points. In addition to the wreck of the steamer St. Lucie, which had 100 per- sons on board, 35 of whom were lost, the steamer Peerless was caught by the wave and 25 of those on board | were swept into the sea. The | launch IElmora capsized and is a to- tal loss. The launch Manny was bad- | iy damaged. Work barges Nos. 6 and | 7 and dredge No. 4 of the East Coast | road broke away and drifted to sea, but are now safe on the other side of | Biscayne bay. Whether any seamen | were carried away not known. Standard Wants New Trial. Attorney J. O. Troup for the Stan- dard Oil Company filed a motion for a new trial with Judge Banker in the case of the state of Ohio against the Standard Oil Company, in which the corporation was found guilty at Find- lay, O., of violating the anti-trust | laws. The move was a formal one and will not be contested. The case will be carried up immediately. TIDAL WAVE IN HONDURAS Incalculable Damage Done by Hurricane October 11 and 12. The Norwegian steamer Harol al from Mesla arrived at Mobile, Ala.,! Oct. 21, bringing the first news of a terrible hurricane that visited Ruatan, Tela, Utilla, Colorado and El vemce, Honduras, doing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ damage to fruit plantations and shipping. tain Henrichsen says that the hurri- cane visited those places October 11 and 12. He reports that three large vessels were wrecked. The damage to fruit alone places above mentioned will amount to nearly a million dollars, and it will be nearly a month before any fruit can be shipped to this country. Five or six business houses were destroy- ed and hundreds of places more or less wrecked. - Any number of coast- wise vessels, both steam and sail, were wrecked and thrown high on the shore. A regular tidal wave pre- vailed. All piers and docks were swept away. Old Pole Hunter Dies. Captain George E. Tyson, who for almost half a century fished for whales in the Arctic seas and search- ed for the North Pole, died in Wash- ington, D. C. He was a member of Captain Hall's polar ex xpedition fitted out by the Government in 1871. At the cabinet meeting in Paris, Premier Sarrien officially informed his colleagues he had transmitted his resignation to President Fallieres, whereupon the ministers resigned in a body. { Ohio on trial at Fin { Iv gave notice of the filing SY a motion in the land. cases. | escaped. | | ing | his wife and Mrs. Dillon to attend a | a four-foot embankment and landed in | killed instantly. on the barges is | to Fruit { Pro- | Cap- | at the | STANDARD CONV! | Ohie Jury Finds Verdict—New Trial Will Be Asked. After hours of deliberation, the jury in the case of the state of Ohio versus the Standard Oil Company of dlay, returned a verdict of guilty on the charge of against trade in violation Valentine anti-trust law. Standard Oil attorneys immediate- CTED no a day penalty can be exacted in their INJURED BY STREET CAR Happened at Unveiling of Bronze Tablet. During the ceremonies in connec- tion with unveiling a bronze tablet on the Marietta campus at Marietta, O., by Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long- worth a street car of the Marietta & Parkersburg system crashed into a | portion of the parade, seriously in- | juring nine people. Others narrowly Accident The injured are: Chief of Police Jacob H. Dye, Dr. Warren Riley, Rich- | ard Becbe, Henry Wendelken, Peter Mosier, Wesley Mickle, William De- | vol, Thomas Young, W. Amos of] | Dayton. | The car, which was in charge of | Motorman Evans, was coming down a steep hill, and the tracks being slippery on account of rain, the | brakes refused to work. The motor | man stuck to his car and was unin-| jured. Fred Ritter, car, realized who saw the approach- the danger in time | to push several persons out of the way. Dr. Riley, Beebe and Devol are in the hospital and may not recover. | KILLED BY AUTO | Big Touring Car Leaps Over an Em.) bankment. | By the overturning of an automo- | bile at the foot of a long hill between | Wayland and Sudbury Center, Mass., | Mrs. Fred N. Dillon of Fitchburg was | killed and Mrs. George P. Grant, Jr. also of Fitchburg, sustained a frac- | ture of two ribs and other injuries. | George H. Grant, . Jr., who . was operating the machine, escaping prac- tically unharmed. Grant was taking Boston to theater. The bad road caused him to lose control of the machine through its continued swaying and it shot over down with its oec- Mrs. Dillion was a meadow upside cupants beneath it. NEW MAY GO INTO CABINET | and clothing from MEN STRUGGLE FOR LIFE Waves Crush Houseboat inwhich | Were 150 Men. | — i SOME THRILLING RESCUES Crew of Steamer Taken Off With Breeches Buoys Just Before She Goes to Pieces. Survivors from one of the house- boats of the Florida East Coast way extension along the Keys tell a harrowing tale of death and destruc- | tion caused by the storm. W. P. Dusenberry, civil engineer in charge of the work of Long Key, who | miraculously escaped death, arrived at Key West on the Russian steamer | rail- Jennie, among other survivors res- | cued. He says houseboat No. 4, on which were 150 men, was struck by | the storm at 5 o'clock = Thursday | morning and driven out into the gulf | through Hawks channel. At 6 o'clock the houseboat began to break up and as the great waves ‘hit her men, singly and ... bunches of two and | three, were washed into the sea and | drowned. Some went below for pro- | tection, but when the top of the boat was carried away the waves rushed in and the boat soon went to pieces, 30 | or 40 of the men being crushed to] death in the collapse, the others | grabbing timbers to save them from | drowning. Engineer Dusenberry was in the hold, but succeeded in getting a log and floated until Friday night. | On one piece of timber 16 men were clinging and nine were hanging to an- other. The sides of the houseboat were crowded with men. If turned over three times, each time reducing the number. The Jennie sighted the wreckage and succeeded in rescuing the 49 men, who were brought here. Three other steamers with searchlights were picking up dead and alive men When the Jennie left the scene. There was another houseboat with | 150 men on board at Long Key, which Mr. Dusenberry thinks was also swept | | to sea. Long | and | There were in all 10 boats at Key, mortar mixers, dredges other boats engaged in the work. The survivors were furnished food the East Coast | railway commissary here and were | given medical attention. NEW SHIPGUN RECORD - | | Maine Sets New Mark for World's Navies to Meet. A new record for gunnery at sea has been made by the battleship | Maine, flagship of Rear Admiral] Evans, which arrived at New York | from the target grounds. Not only | has the Maine broken the American | | 1 | | | | | | record, but it is believed she has also | broken the world’s record. | The Maine and the other ships of | the North Atlantic fleet tried a new system of firing at floating targets, | | using an entire broadside while | steaming 12 knots an hour. The gun- ners of the Maine fired a port broad- | | | side of six-inch rifles at a target two | | Indianian Being Considered for Post- master Generalship. Col. Harry S. New, of Indiana, may succeed George B. Courtelyou when the latter gives up the office of Post- master General to accept the Treas- ury portfolio. The President is con- sidering New, who once refused to accept the place of first Assistant Postmaster Gengcral. New is vice chairman of the Re- | pibitean National Committee. He has | freqnently been a guest at the White House. Violated Eight-Hour Law. A verdict of guilty was returned in the Govern- H. Bilis, a} | a test case brought by | ment against William | Boston contractor, who was charged | with viclating the eight-hour law | work at the Charlestown navy yard. The defense claimed thai emergencies | The | necessary nine hours work. made n { n the case is imprisonment penalty | for six months or a fine of $1,000, or | granted counsel | | both. Judge George 20 days to file execeptions. LORD OWNED 200000 ACRES Became American Citizen and Acquir- ed a Great Fortune. William Scully, Lord Scul- | ly, of London, Eng., { tober 18. He was a peer until 1900, formerly | when he became a citizen of the Unit- | in Washington, | ed States and settled D.C estimated at about 200,000 acres of and Ne- | His fortune is | $50,060,000, including {land in Illinois, Kansas | braska. | Logan, Livingston and Sangamon | counties, Illinois, and in Kansas and Nebraska. | to Illinois in 1846 | acquire He came and continued to Colombian Minister Received. Enrique Cortes, the new Colombian the United States, was President Roosevelt. He aid toward closer minister to received by pledged Colombia's who caused short time ago by traveling over the country in his efforts to reach a leper | colony and who was. placed back in | Randolph gounty, W. Va by the | railroad, after claiming that was his original ting point, died in his Pickens, succumbing to In his last hours Ittle hut near the terribie disease. his heart failed him. on | died there Oc- | His first land was bought in | the remainder | property to the time of his | | death. He leaves two sons in Wash- ington. relations. The Pres it’s reply spoke for “especial intimacy and cordiality” betwe the two govern- | ments. SYRIAN LEPER DIES Man With Awful Scourge Passes Away in Lonely Hut. George Bashid, the Syrian leper miles away and made the marvelous | Five of the six-inch guns were used, the program being to fire the broad- side at regular intervals. target, which was 60 feet long by ¢ feet high, was knocked down by the | 39th shot, and the 40th shot was not fired. The peasants of two Pukoschofka and Doretz, near Zhitomir, Russia, decided to | emigrate in a body to the United | States. The . men wll leave this | ! month to prepare homes and the wo- | | men and children will depart later in | the year. : NEWS NOTES. | Decide to Emigrate. | | have | Tt is reported 100 persons have been | | killed or injured as the result of a | railroad accident at Oka, on the Moscow-Kursk line. | Daughter of Bishop Henry GC. Pot: Cromwell, Conn., where she was un- | dergoing treatment for melancholia. | —— Railroad Doubles Capital. Stockholders and voting bond hold- ers o fthe railroad at the annual | thorized the issuance of $100,000,000 of stock, doubling the present capi- tal. At the same time the directors | were given power to issue certifi- cates at whatever might be necessary. Fire Sweeps Exposition Grounds. | Fire, which started late at night in the grandstand at the exhibition grounds, at Toronto, Ont, totally de- stroyed the grandstand and swept through the principal buildings. The | Joss is about $200,000. The Industrial | Exposition is a fixed feature, and | {many of the buildings are permanent structures of steel and stone. Sunken Submarine is “Located. The sunken submarine boat, Lutin, | was located near Bizerta, Tunis, by the tug Cyclops. She ton, 36 meters beneath the surface of the water. There seems no doubt of the death of her two officers and 14 men. British warships are aiding in | the efforts to raise the Lutin. Town Wrecked; Nine Lives Lost. Nine lives were lost in the hurr cane which swept the eastern coast | of Nicaragua. The casualties were | in the village of Pearl Lagoon, which so much excitement a |is reported to have been entirely de- | Boston. | stroved. The wind was followed by floods from excessive rainfall. Nine persons were killed and 20 | injured in a railroad collision at] Epernon. devartment of Eure-Et- | | Loire, France. The train was stand- | ing at the station when a locomotive : dashed into it, steamers and sailing vessels wrecked, | battered to | lighter | and | stroved, | kong | tion. | ran for | rain and strong wind, | reduced to matchwood, and the mang- | dead record of 29 hits out of a possible 39. | But the | thought he was. still running on his 30 | own time, and could reach Manzanola villages, | ter ended her life in a sanitarium at | Chicago & Northwestern | meeting au- | time added funds | is on, the bot-| 24 EUROPEANS AMONG VICTIMS Storm Broke Suddenly and Victims | Failing to Reach Safety Were Swept Into the Sea. Ten thousand lives blotted out, 17 turned over or pieces against the stone | walls of the praya; 80 per cent of the | s, launches, yachts, house boats small native craft entirely de-| and many wharves wrecked, was the result of-a typhoon at Hong- | on September 18, according to | advices brought by the steamer Em- | press of Japan, which arrived at Vie- | toria, B. C., October 16. There were 24 Europeans among | those killed; others were Chinese, mostly of the boat and junk popula- They usually ran for shelter | when the warning un was fired, but | | on the morning of the storm the sig- { nal was fired at 8:10, and at 8:30 the | typhoon was at its height. Hundreds | shelter when the warning | came, but being blinded by a driving | were soon thrown into the sea. The wind blew | | the junks around and sent them swirling and twisting to be dashed | to pieces against the praya, where | hundreds : Junks and sampans were 1,000 junks swamped, led bodies of the crew battered against | the stone walls within sight of those on shore, who were powerless to lend aid. The storm ceased as quickly as it began. The sun shone then on scenes of unparaileled destruction at | Hongkong. This typhoon exceeded all | | others experienced there in severity. The damage at Hongkong and | Kowloon and vicinity is estimated at over $20,000,000. REVOLUTION IN MEXICO , Alleged Chiefs of Movenmiant Are Ar- rested in Texas. United States marshals at Del Rio, Tex., Pedro | Dementria Castro, Crescencia Mar- | quez and T. Garcia, charged with fomenting a revolution and supplying arms for revolutionists who recently iaptured the officers of Jiminez, Mexi- co, and held the city until driven out by troops. Minutes arrested Gonzales, captured show the ers to be at the head of a plot to, | overthrow the Mexican Government. | The Junta had branches at El Paso, | Laredo and Brownsville and had tak- en up the work of the Junta recently driven out of St. lL.ouis. The men are charged with conspiracy to set on foot, provide and prepare a military expedition into Mexico. Other raids on border looked for. prison- cities are | ENGINEER'S WATCH STOPS | Car = | Wreck Follows, Causing Death to] Three Persons and Injury to a Score. Three persons were killed and 21 | injured in a headon collision east of | Rocky Ford, Col., between the east- bound Kansas City-Denver flyer and the Denver and L.a Junta local. The | are: Baggageman Murdock and | two unknown negroes. The wreck was caused by Engineer William McMurray of the Denver lo- cal, whose watch stopped at 1:50. He before the flyer got there. McMurray was fatally injured. i we | DOMINICAN REBELS LOSE Government Wine i in Engagement | Fought on Soil of Haiti. | As a result of the refusal of the | insurg ents to lay down their arms, | the Dominican government sent out a | detachment of troops from Monte | Christi to attack them. The insur- | gents were defeated and took refuge in the mountains. Gen. Vavaro, insurgent, has crossed | i the frontier on the way to Sue Haitien, whence he will embark for a point outside the country. _— | Guellito, insurgent, at the head of a | smail body of men, is still holding out, but has lost much of his popu- | larity. Several bands of insurgents | | have surrendered. TRAIN KILLS THREE MEN Accommodation Dashes Into Wagon at a Grade Crossing. injured when the Camden accommo- dation of the Atlantic City railroad crashed into a farmer's wagon dt a grade crossing on the outskirts of | Camden, N. J. | According to passengers the train {was running at a high rate of speed | i | | | and struck the wagon with terrific force. The dead are: Anton Nowak, 72. Joseph Potlaski, 7, and Frances | Nowak, 12 years of age. John Pot- | 1aski, aged 10 years, is in a serious | condition. Suspected of Robbery. Three men and a woman believed to comprise a band of postoffice rob- bers, who have been operating in | Southern New Jersey, were arrested | Frank Sherman and James Ryan of | Philadelphia were taken into custody in Camden, N. J., and Sherman’s | wite was arrested in Philadelphia. Recently the postoffices at Dennis- | ville, Dorothy, Milway and Ocean | View, N. J., were robbed. Mrs. Ingersoll Loses. A judgment for $138,000 in favor of Mrs. Eva Ingersoll, widow of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, given by a lower court, was set aside by the United States circuit court of appeals, at Mrs. Ingersoll’s suit was to | recover an amount alleged to be due | for legal services by her husband in the settlement of the estate of Andrew | 3. Davis, of Butte, Mont. All the miners who were entombed i as the result of an explosion in the Wingate colliery, near Durham, Eng- land, have been rescued. | 1 | | tire middle section of the town. | window in the town and the shock was | in the confusion their names were not | and the printery seemed to split open. Three persons were killed and one | EXPLOSION WRECKS TOWN Four are Killled and Many others Hurt at Fort Recovery, O. FIRE DESTROYED 12 BUILDINGS A Few Moments Before Accident a Long Procession Had Passed Scene—Two Persons’Missing. A dynamite explosion in the Minard- ing Hardware Company's store at Fort Recovery, O., wrecked the en- Four persons were killed, two are missing and at least 100 persons were injur- ed. Physicians had to be summoned | from outside points to aid the injured. | The property damage will reach $700,- 000. Buildings in the neighborhood of the hardware store were wrecked and | the hardware store itself was demol- ished. Fire followed the earthquake- like shock, and for a time it seemed as if the entire city was doomed. Fire apparatus and firemen were sent from Celina and other towns, however, and were successful in checking the blaze before the town had been completely destroyed. As the explosion occurred in the business section at a busy time of the day there were many people in the streets, most of whom were injured. The force of the explosion broke every felt in some of the surrounding towns. The dead are: Miss Cleo Weis, aged 23, bookkeeper; Henry Lammers, aged 25; Joe Rosener, aged 45; Charles Wagner, aged 40; A customer and traveling salesman, whose identi- ty have not been learned, are report- ed missing. The injured: John McMullen, leg almost torn from body; cannot live; Mrs. John McMullen, leg cut and side gashed; D. Kidder, Risher, leg broken: Henry Claugh- man, internal injuries; Mrs. George Record, body badly bruised. Many others were injured, but all were able to go to their homes, and leg broken; . Al obtained. Just a few minutes before the ter- rific crash occurred a parade had pass- ed through Main street on which the hardware store and printery front. The street was crowded with people watching the parade. Suddenly there was a terrible roar and the earth seemed to rock. The hardware store There was another big explosion and | people were knocked from their feet. A ROYAL MONSTER King of Annam Adds Cannibalism to His Atrocity. Advices from Indo-China brought another and more revolting story of the doings of King Thanh-Thai of Annam, showing that he went to the extent of cannibalism. After killing one of his wives he | caused the body to be cooked and | served up for dinner, forcing his en- | tourage to eat it under pain of death. Some of the King's wives were bound and burned with boiling oil and sub- jected to other cruelty, while naked women were thrown into the cages of wila beasts, where they were de- voured before the eyes of the King. Finally the French authorities step- ped in and made a prisoner of Thanh- | | Thai, staff. FLAMES DESTROY TOWN Charged to Negroes Alleged to Be Seeking Revenge. As a result of race troubles Sene- | jea, S. C., is in ashes. The work is | | aimed to be that of incendiary ne- | eroes seeking revenge for the dyna- | | miting of the negro college at At- | lanta. | suming the entire business section, which has a population of about 2,-| 000. No fire fighting apparatus was available and gitizens were powerless | ENGINE TURNS FLIP-FLAP | Comes Down on Two Members of | Crew After an Explosion. | A large freight engine while com- ing east-bound on the Reading rail- road in the vicinity of Eleventh street Lebanon, Pa., at the rate of 15 miles | an hour exploded. The engine was in charge of Frank Brown and Harry Hallabaugh, firemen. The explosion shook the buildings in the vicinity and caused the fire de- partment to be called out. The loco- motive was hurled into the air and turned a somersault, with the engi- neer and fireman underneath. The former is seriously injured. Messenger and Cash Gone. The Jersey City police are search- ing for John W. Gunther, aged 32, employed as a messenger by the La- fayette Trust Company of New York, who disappeared with checks and $500 in gold. While un- able to explain Gunther's disappear- | ance the bank officials express full confidence in his honesty, and say that before he went out the last time he had delivered $10,000 in cash to various banks. German ls Sentenced for Treason. A man named Schever, who tried to tell to the French government the secret of the manufacture of German nickle-ccated cartridges has been sentenced by the imperial supreme court to four years in the penitent- ary. Midshipman R. P. Guiler, Jr., of Calais, O., was given 200 demerits at Annapolis, Md., for hazing Godfrey de Chevalier. Guiler’'s offense was in going to Chevalier’s room and apply- ing a nickname to him. The fire burned rapidly, con- | $11,000 in | DEATH OF MRS. DAVIS Widow of Confederate President Passes Away in New York. Mrs. Jefferson Davis died of pneu- monia in New York. Thé disease de- veloped from a severe cold she con- tracted several days ago. Mrs. Davis was 80 years on May 7 last. It has probably passed from the minds of many persons that Mrs. Davis was of Northern stock. Her grandfather was Richard Howell, who commanded the New Jersey troops in putting down the first rebellion against the American Government. Mrs. Davis was born in Natchez, Miss., the daughter of William Burr and Margaret Howell. She was edu- cated at a boarding school in Phila- delphia and by private teachers at home. Her marriage to Jefferson Davis, then a resident of Warren county, Miss., took place February 25, 1845. : ; SAM JONES PASSES AWAY Celebrated Georgia Evangelist Dies Suddenly on His Way Home. Rev. Sam P. Jones, the well-known evangelist, died of heart failure in a sleeping car of the Rock Island rail- road near Perry, Ark. Mr. Jones had been conducting a most success- ful revival at Oklahoma City, I. T., and left there for his home in Georgia. : Mr. Jones arose from his berth in! the sleeper about 5 o'clock in the morning and complained of nausea. He drank a glass of hot water and immediately afterward breathed his last. The body was embalmed and sent to Cartersville. Deceased was 59 years old. ~ Troops Will Rout Indians. Governor Brooks telegraphed the in- terior department for Federal troops to arrest and remove the band of Ute Indians in the vicinity of Willetts, Wyo. Within the past few days, the Indians, who have been drinking liquor, have defied the local authori- ties. It is expected that troops will be sent from Fort Robinson, Neb., to round up the Indians, about 200 in number. Cuba's Books Balance. Maj. Ladd reported to Gov. Magoon that he had finished counting the funds in the Cuban treasury and found the total a little more thon $12,- 000,000, mostly in. American gold. The books balanced exactly. CURRENT NEWS ITEMS The Shuberts have closed a deal for the erection of a $150,000 theater in Sioux City, Ia. Secretary Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and Gen. Funston ar- rived in Washington from Cuba. “Uncle” Robert Hawkins Sprague, a negro, of Northampton, Prince George county, Virginia, died at the age of 114 years. The legislative assembly by a vote of 19 to 8 adopted a motion that the State of Western , Australia secede from the rest of the Commonwealth. A caravan consisting of 40 camels, conveying German goods to Morocco City has been pillaged, and Dr. Rosen, the German minister, has entered an energetic protest with the Moroccan government. The Reading railway has decided to increase the wages of its engineers, firemen, conductors, brakmen, yard- men and other employes of that class on all divisions from 5 to 10 per cent, who has been adjudged insane to take effect November 1. by Dr. Dumas, of the French eptonnl | | The Pressed Steel Car Company has been awarded an initial contract for steel cars for the Pennsylvania rall- road tunnels being built between Jersey City and New York city under | the North river. Brig.-Gen. William H. Bell, U. S. | A., retired, died at-his home at Arva- | da, near Denver of pneumonia. Gen. | Bell was born at West Chester, Pa., in 1834. He graduated from West | Point in 1858 and served through the | civil war. | Tire destroyed the Take Shore Electric Railway Company's repair shops, at Fremont, O., with much | valuable machinery, motors and roll- ing stock. Loss, $100,000; fully cov- ered by insurance. | The Red D. line steamer Phila- i delphia, from La Guayra, Venezula, | for New York, arrived at San Juan, | Porto Rico, 48 hours late. Her cap- | tain reports that a Dutch steamer was | lost in the cyclone between Curacao | and La Guayra. | President Roosevelt has accepted and invitation to become a member | of the Associate Society of Farns- worth post G. A. R., of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The initiation will take place at the White House in Washington on October 24, General Horace Porter be- ing the installing officer. Boston Wool Market. The wool market is in a satisfactory condition, with prices steady and trade active in spots. Territories are in demand. Both large and small consumers seek fine and fine-medium, as well as three-eighth and half blood. Leading domestic quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsylvania—XX and above, 33% to 34c; X, 51 to 52¢; No. 1, 40 to fle: No. 2, 30 to 39c; fine unwashed, 25 to 26c; quarter blood, unwashed, 33 to 34c; 34-blood, un- washed, 34 to 35c; quarter blood, un- washed, 32 to 33c; delaine, washed, 26 to 37c; delaine, unwashed, 28 to 29c. Big Deal in Coal Land. Deeds of transfer are to be filed soon at Washington, Pa., for coal proper- ties, aggregating nearly five thousand acres, adjoining the present holdings of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Com- pany. The Jones & Laughlin com- pany, the purchaser, has paid at the rate of $1,000 an acre for the proper- ties, making the transaction run close to $5,000,000, the Pittsburg & Buffa- lo Company being the seller. As the deal is closed the activity of coke- oven building is to be incredsed in the new territory. Mi i i i e. 1
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