Leaders of Irish Party in Com-
mons Vote for Autonomy.
URGED TO BOYCOTT ENGLAND
Redmond Anticipates Great Ponular
Agitaticn With Home Rule as the
Sole Piank of Platform.
tives of ° the
of the
a meeting
of the
June
Sixty-four representa
districts -of 17
of Commons
the national
Irish League at
the
organ
members’
d
directory
Dul
meeting
attends
United
lin,
object of
steps to
against {he
government
It wa
papular
Ireland
the nation:
short
isfy
Peace. ant
for
of
the
entment,
impress
states
§
some
cn
men
accep:
question
The
the
to
the
sid
planks
lution
pressing
\and a
the
bv a
the
from
strong
mass
influent
cabinet
North Mona
No
ers in the
strike
result
advance in
shect
because ¢f. 1h
f the conf
burg. Facing the alt
shutdown ani
work under tl
resentatives of
latter." The
representatives
Association of
Workers and » American
Tinplate Co.
The
July: 1,
lockout, ontinue
18 present scale the rep-
chose the
settled hy
Amalgamated
Steel and Tin
Sheet and
on
convention
decided
present terminates
and at the annual
in Tolodo last month it
to ask for a general aflvance in both
departments after that date. An in-
crease of from 6 per cent to the roller
to 16 per cent for the heater and
catcher were demanded the tin
scale. In the department it
was proposed to place all hands on a
tonnage basis and abolish all per diem
wages. This meant a slight advance
for some of the me:
last vear’s scale will again obtain.
This decision affects all the sheet and
tin workers in the eountry, about 15,-
000 men, as the other manufacturers
accept whatever settlement made
at this conference.
HARK FROM THE TOMB
Ventriloquist Creates Panic at Fun-
All Flee.
ment at a
Md.,
ventrilo-
was
il
sheet
1S
eral and
excit negro
Danton,
There was
funeral near when
Samuel
“threw:
the casket was being
*L.et me down
mourners thought it we
who and fled. The
o frightened they
Johnson, a
his voice into the grave
lowered,
easy.”
quist,
and
The
corpse
as
said.
1s the
pallbearers
dropped
INnnke
SPOKE
the
explained
and
derly con-
He says
give a perform-
and Johnson was eld
in 1
duct
he A
ance
and mali
111 never 1
in a cemetery.
No Grievance Against America.
The five
commerce of Japan
lutions expressing
the San Francisco affair was due to
defective local control, from which the
Japanese were not the sole sufferers.
Therefore it is urged that there is
no ground for iting the matter: as
an international question,
Put the Blame con Arahitect,
In the Per vania Capitol inves-
tigation at PY former Gov-
erngr Samuel W. Pennvpacker and
ex-Auditor General FE. B. Harden:
bergh testificd before the capitol
probers, saying they trusted all de-
tails to Architeet Huston, in whom
they had implicit confidence.
Gov. Hughes
ini:
pak chambers of
have passed reso-
the opinion that
princi
tro:
honored a requisition
from Pennsvlval for Louis A. Fuhr,
alias lL. William Albert, who was ar-
rested in New York on a charge of
bigamy.
House
£1
1
CONTRACTS FOR WARSHIPS
and Fore River Com-
Build Monsters.
News
News, Va
Shipbuild
panies Will
The
1-Co. of
Fore
i Quincey,
{ bidders
the two monster
battleships. popularly
{ naughts. The Fore River
ceive $4,480,000 for
builds, and he Newport
| will get $3,987,000 for the one
i structs.
| Armor
will be
Steel Co
| armor
|
|
| Newport News
i
Newport
Newport
River
Mass.,
for
Shipbuilding
and the
Co. of
were the successful
contract to constr
American 20,000-ton
called 1
Co.
wars
the
wend
the
News
it con-
for these two hig battleships
furnished by the Midvale
at $410 per ton if Class A
to be used. The hids of the
and Tethlehem Steel” Com-
amoupting to 7,956
per
the
Car-
10h
is
I Carnegie
| panies for armour
{tons for the battleships were $110
ton. For the armor required for
| turre ts, known Class: B. the
soje and Bethlehem companies. e:
an 1 i
Hid was $
as
per. ton,
110 per
tons
and
$400
tons
For 392
Carnegie
h hid
For 1.078
12 itehen company
Midvale 3410 and the C
ates no bid.
officials of ti
were gratifled
lowness of
ditions”
nointed out
News -Co.
20.000G-ton
Sa m
the Midval
Class D
hid 3
Dethl
and
of
i ar
1{
arnes
ane
The
ment
Ine
in the
grea
tween $400,000
correspending
any, hut
than the
the 16.000-t
conn
jess
building
lossy tha 1 the
ST RIKE AV ER
Companies
Make Concessions.
and
had
been decide d
which :
woul 2 h:
ed the Posto
dnd
through
Neill;
Labor,
repiesentati
1t
averted
ih
ssioner
United States
of who' went to
as ithe
Roose
| eo
an- Fr
and 28th of thi
tended at once. if
and. President Small of
cial Telegr: oie nion
who went to. Si 1 {
davs ago to manage
notified "by Deputy Pre
amp that thosstrike was
the executive committee
declared officially off within
dav or two.
Mr. Neill informed
committee that he
from President and
Clowry of the West
which he agreed to mak
cent-advance in wages, ann
have gone into effect on ar
versal, and to include the
the “waiting list,” to abolish slid-
ing scale, to make a standard of
wages for all wires, and to pledze the
company that there would be no dis-
crimination against union operators.
After a short consultation with the
members--of the executive committee
Deputy President Konenkamp agreed,
in consideration of these and other
concessions, to waive the demands
that the company furnish the type-
writers and the demand for the eight-
hour day.
h
in .S
month,
: X
not
4
the
received
Gene
ern
nouncea
men on
the
rate
TROOPS JOIN INSUR
France Excited Over Mutiny of Bat-
talion of Soldiers.
A battalion of
fantry regiment,
France, deserted with its arn
ammunition, and joined the insurg
wine-growers at Pe the
quarters of the regiment. The
tineers, who wera maostly recruit:
among the wine-grcwe num
about 400 men.
Gen. Bailloud
ter an interview
they decided to
ment. :
GENTS
In-
Aade,
an
the
ilf
gtationed at
Seventeenth
ne
STS hea
bee
arrived ther». and af-
with the
return to
mutineers
their regi-
HORRIBLE CRIME
The Body of a Kidnaped Boy Found
Minus Head.
Two. miles in the interior
swapm near New Orleans,
less body of Walter LLamana, an
ian-child between 7 and 8
who was kidnaped and held for 35.000
ransoni, two weeks found
police and vigilants had bee
strangled to death, tl
confession of one of
held by the police. The b
supposed to have been 1}
he was strangled, eausing
to become separated from
when decomposition set in.
was found a short distance
body. :
Five Italians
are under arrest,
accomplices to the
details of police and
maintaining order in the
fan quarter of the city.
of a “hig
the head-
Ital-
vears old,
ago,
H
accor
several
neck
wh
head
the body
The head
from the
oy's
jroken
the
on
women,
being
two of them
charged with
murder and extra
deputies are
excited Ital-
Watterson was the princinal
of the
was
Henry
speaker at the commencement
Indiana University. A degree
conferred upon James Whitcomb
Riley
Identified Bombs.
i Judge YL.uther Goddard on the
| ness stand, in the Haywood trial
| Boise, Idaho, identified the bomb dug
{up at his front gate last year, which
{Rarer Orchard previously testified he
had planted there for the purpose of |
killing the judge.
Hon. Augustus E.
Louisville was nominated
matipn as Republicar
governor of Kentucky at
convention.
wit-
Wilson
by
candidate
The of
for
the state
net |
PLCC.
mu- |
Ware
at |
| James DIL
accla- |
| more than $5,000.
SAFE NOT BURGLAR PROOF
Expert Testifies that He Drilled a |
Hole into Capito! Vault.
i
OVERCHARGES MONSTROUS
Bills Were Not Audited Before Pay-
ment, Although They Amount- |
ed to $4,900,000.
bore through a
the state |
with
That an
burglar
expert can
£¥ proof’ vault in
four hours,
drill, was testified before
the capitol investigation committee
by Chas. D. Montague, a metallic fur-
niture expert.: He actually had done |
the then demonstrate that Con-
sel’'s Pennsylvania com- |
hed an inferior ar-
for fabulous prices. Two
in the building
000, and their real
-alue was about $29.000. Mr. Monta-
that no chrome steel:
had been nsed in the
ordinary steel, which any
with As to
ert said:
excessive
bills which
es more than
without
treasury in a one-
eighth inch
to
Ca
state: $66,
einto ca’
the
hasement contain-
ate $1,182:
subject
floor metal-
$229,231.10, and Ww
On the entresol loo
151,688.40, and
: 65. These estimates
ste and: ird trade price
tague never heard of
sold hy the
urg.
Montague
oe and
ement of the
allie ~ two
than- specified.
swinging doors
for sliding
cost 20 per
found. in many in-
metal was “or-
substituted.
ect Huston
rniture for rooms
contain any at all, and
f ielr Hutson “ecol-
if 380.000 from
were prepared
supplied the
Pennsylvania
cast+tlio st
list 01,
dizer unt
pric o to
oc
as
a] at
House
he
met
in
are cases
besened
the
“design-
aid- the
worth
bronze on the
"$245,000. The
060:
former cashier
testified regard-
sheets for the pay- |
contracts which: he
Inring the incumbeney
1 surers’ Harris and. Ma-
thues. 1fe approved settlements to
the amount’ of hut $800,000, which
were never audited. He said he never
made any effort to ascertain if the
goods delivered, or whether
they wer the specifications,
2449 g approval was purely
O
up tO
that his
ory,
Keim,
ment of
bookkeeper in the |
public grounds and |
buildings, testified that bills amount- |
ina to more than $4,900,000 had been
paid without the approval of the board
of grounds and buildings.
The 'sergeant-at-arms of the com-
ission took the stand and told of
offorts to find Architect Huston
Contractor Sanderson. Huston
was reported ill and Sanderson could
net be found. Their attorneys refus-
ed to accept the service of subpenas.
and
TEN DEAD IN SMASHUPS
Passemger Runs Into Worktrain—Four
Persons Are Killed in Roches-
ter (N. Y.) Wreck.
killed and 40
train
Six workmen were
injured when a passenger
the Highland division of the New
New Haven and Hartford rail-
crashed into the rear of a work
tliat backing into Hartford,
Conn., “from: New "Britain, ‘at the :Si-
gourney street crossing. Of the in-
jured two will probably die. Some:of
victims within reach were
dead, but were left while the rescuers
tried to extricate the living.
Four persons are known to have
nn killed, three more are thought
to be dead, and eight were badly in-
jured in a wreck about 11 o'clock at
night, at Mitchell's Farm, about a
east of Pittsfurd, on the Auburn
of the New York : Central
he train was No. 230, go-
It met a freight head-on.
seriously injured includes Roy
of Youngstown, O.
FOUR DROWNED
Rocks the Boat and Death Takes
Her and Party.
Hammer, Ola Peterson, Lydia
Olin Anna Johnson, all residents
of Muskeg AMich., were drowned in
Muskezon lake Sunday.
The quartet hired a rowboat for a
pleasure trip on the lake, and it was
capsized. The accident is said to be
due to one of the party rocking the |
heat. A party in a launch passed the
quartet shortly before the accident
and declared that one of the girls was
standing up, rocking the boat.
Expo Changes Hands.
Directors of the Jamestown Exposi-
Co. accepted the resignation of
W. E. Cottrell, practically made
Barr director general, with
full powers, and indorsed a second
bond issue for $700,000 to cover all
I the exposition company’s liabilities.
on
Yor
road
train was
the easy
mile
nch
road.
bra
west.
The
ank
aK
Girl
Gus
and
tion
Gov.
Jurglars entered the mansion of
Craig Lippincott in the fashionable
section of Philadelphia and secured
jewelry and bric-a-brac valued at
{ until
coal lands in West V
{ day,
| and
| the crime.
{ and did
| business
rand Michigan show a particularly
! Butte,
| the streets were a mass of slush:
GOULD AND’ RAMSEY SUED
Charges Misrepresentation
tion of Little Kanawha Syndicate.
Suit was filed in the Circuit Court
at St. Louis, by John F. Jones against
the Little Kanawha syndicate and
Joseph Ramsey, Jr. former preside
of the Wabash railroad;
Gould and Wm. E. Guy, principal |
defendants, and others-as nominal de- |
fendants, because they were stock-
holders in the syndicate. :
The action started to
receiver and an accounting,
junction asked in order to tie up
after the avcounting of “$3,000,
000, alleged to be on deposit in the
St. Louis Union Trust: Co. to the
credit of the syndicate.
The petition alleges
and Gould organized the
1501 for the purpose. of
irginia
lines
in Forma
George J.
as
is secure a
and an in-
is
that Ramsey
syndicate in
buying up
and Ohio
railroad.
undertook to. sell
to the extent of
and did sell
amount, of
y
for $3.1
and several short of
The organizers
stock in the ecmpany
$H.000.000 $R.000.000
stock up the latter
vhich Gould subscribed
(GO.
Jones
cash on a b
most of the-ether
ing ‘oveY 50 per cent
Jones alleges
the part of Rami
] that ]
subse ibe yr
to
to
s to 70.000
claim have paid =$
su ription of $100,000,
subscribers not pay-
cash.
smanagement
~Gould and
se
on
Guy
to Slates Tid
prospective
erties
ultimately
railroad.
In 1¢
ac
a
sold to - the \Wabas
be
Wah:
money ox-
103, however, after
had spent lax sums of
tend its «road into Pittsburg.
managers. of the syndicate
avers, did not wish to turn
properties to tha Wabash and gave
the work of developing and ali
the railroads and coal lands
An instance of the
the Zanesville, M:
bureg-railroad:-after’t
$800,000 is cited.
the buildi of this
because the syndiea
it. would not be to t
other enterprises in
entangled.
ash
the
Jones
the
up
over
WINS
abandonmen
a: &
16 expend
Park
ita:
claims
was stopped
te managers found
advantage
they: were
ers
1 » of
Joiies that
road
he Ol
which
FATHER KILLS FIVE
Domestic Troubles End
Father,
in. Deaths of
Mother and Th
Children.
W. Barton, a ct
almost instantly
children aud be
home at Jasper. Fla... One vietim,
child. 5 : years. . eld. survived
enough tell that Parton
killing.
The shots
o'clock at night,
paid to the matter
when neighbors
body lying on
that -of his wife
The children
the pistol
held close. to the mouth
stance, and the faces
marked. Domestic troubles: are Dbe-
lieved to have been responsible for
Barton left home Tuesday
not return until late Wednes-
when he found the doors nailed
him. He: battered - them
ce
ce
three at
to
heard about
no attention
were
but
until early the
discovered
the front
on the
were found
having
in = each
were
ton's po
back
in a
been
in-
powder
perch.
bed room.
day,
against
| down.
Beston Wool Wiarket.
Yecent large sales in imported fine
wools have increased the volume of
in the local market, although
along domestic lines con-
tinues quiet. There have been some
arrivals of spring Te stock, but
the Arizona new wool is about all
taken. Recent heavy sales in quar-
ter-blocd fleeces have exhausted the
stock of fleece wools and dealers are
awaiting the arrival of the new clip
for quotations. Advices from Ohio
ac-
are pay-
trading
Xas
and buyers there
as 26c for Michigan. and
28 to 20¢ for mediums, while in Ohio
they have exceeded 30c¢ for medium
wool in several instances. The lead-
ing domestic quotatiens range as fol-
lows: Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces
—XX, to. 34c: 2X. 31 to 32c¢c;:: No.
1 washed, 3S to 89c; No. 2 washed,
37 to usc: fine unwashed, 25. to 26¢
fine unmerchantable, 27 to 2Se¢; half-
blood clothing, 27 to 28c¢: half-blood
combing, 32 33
tive market
ing as high
00
D0
to 33c¢: three-eights blood
combing, 32. to .-33¢,
PEACE PROBLEMS
ier?
America Reserves Right to Propose
Limit of Armaments.
The surprise of the
of the peace conference at
was the formal reservation Gen.
Horace Porter, on behalf the
United States, of the right to present
the question of limitation of arma-
ments. He also reserved ht to
session
Hague
ond
The
by
of
Sec
the right
introduce the subject of the collection
of contractional debts by force.
Sir Edward Fry also served notice
that Great Britain reserves the right
to introduce subjects outside the pro-
gram.
Trying to Remove Trouble.
While the French
using the troops to
on the part of the wine growers, it
at the same time is enacting legisla-
tion intended to cure the evils caused
by the adulteration of wine and other
practices complained of by the strik-
government is
repress disorder
ers.
Fourteen inches of snow
Mont., Sunday, but by
fell in
nightfall
Five Dead in Automobile Wreck.
A most appalling automobile acci-
dent ocurred at Caianello, about 100
miles from Naples, five men being
killed. The motor car, which was go- |
ing at high speed, ran into a rock
and was demolished. Among the
killed was Prince Pescasa, a member |
of the Italian nobility and related to
the Spanish royal house.
The Michigan Legislature adjourn- |
ed at noon June 19, after having been |
in session since Jan. 1, and having |
appropriated $9,100,000. :
negie
| should be withheld.
INY KILLEDBY EXPLOSION
None Left to Tell the Story of a |
Wrecked Powder Mill.
SEVEN KILLED IN COAL MINE
Mine Gas Lets Go in a Pennsylvania
Colliery With Fatal Results.
“Five men were killed and the plant
demolished by an explosion in the
mixing room of the Sinnemahoning
Powder Company's plant. near Sinne-
mahoning; Pa. The mixing room was
blown to atoms. The dead:
Edward Nelson of Empori
man of the plant.
Edward Cole, marr
eral small children.
Cole, brother
um, fore-
ried, leaves sev-
£
of - above,
Summers married, leaves
man, Sinnemahoning,
The the victims were hor:
it. was with
that sufficient of the remains
could be found for identification. The
“explosion wi felt f.
around.
ive men
mixing room
the
of
ribly nzled, and
vr Ta
cuits
1S
wor
the
exph S
men 3 killed
injnred in two exnlos
3.in: the. Johnson. No.
burg, Pa. The first ex
the carelessness
leaving
cihers
mine
Prix
at
he
in the
ignition
seeond
dea
ed of
Whi :
plosion.
CARNEGIE GIVES MORSE
WAKATSUKI IS OPTIMISTIC
Vice Minister of Finance ‘Says His
People Feel They Have Ameri-
can's Good Will.
Reiziro Wakatsuki, Japanese
minister of finance, who is in New
York, on his way to London and
| Paris, talked about the Japanese
{ troubles ii San Francisco.
“Americans,” said Mr. Wakatsuki,
“should remember three things: That
no citizen of Japan can forget that
it was America which opened up Ja-
pan to the world, and western civi-
lization; that there are in both Ja-
pan and America sensation mongers,
and that in Japan, as well as in Am-.
erica, there: are politicians out of
power, who seize upon anything, how-
ever inconsequential, which may help
to discredit their political oppon-
ents.)
{ Vice Minister Waka
appointed special
sioner by the a
to visit: ‘Europe and
America, for "nNOS e
their financi iness conditions
and as much as
possible wit] same conditions in
Japan.
"AS ag
itmogt
“vice
suki has been
nancial commis-
government
incidentally
of studying
panese have
American
the
‘nited
nation
confidenc the
people. hey ha
yf the 1
Ve
siders
as
small
cael:
and
Stop.
ids of
al of
con
00n
worked up at I er
thex>may do a gréat. d
0 both i >
DEATH
Dropped .in Wal
Will Pay Cost of Branch Libraries 17
New. York. -~ +
anounced ‘that Andrew Car
has notified the trustees of the
York, Hbrary : that they
incre number of branch
erected under __his
by and that h
It was
public
ase the
buildings
Lolo 000, 22
he: billy Cita >
will bring the total of*t
city to 6.750.000, and
> the pumber hraneh
‘ovided: for under the terms
from 75,10 1060
of libra:
of
bu 1d
iginal
0}
OVA TION To KNOX
Senator Attends Retrion of Alumni
at. Mit. Unicon Coliege.
Pp
ovation
given. a
) of his
nion College. An-
Mr. Knox, who was
class of ‘72, wanld
largest: crowd
the commence-
the college for
Senator
great
alma
nouncemetit
a member
be present,
which has
ment exercises
years.
He was
dential
Mt.
that
the
mater,
of
drew
attended
at
the
to as our ‘“presi-
by Judge: J. A.
who in-
indi-
in
Wil-
referred
candidate’
Martin of Columbiana county,
troduced him, and the audience
cated that it would support him
preference to Ohio's favorite son,
mH. Taft. :
Senator Knox
ped the honor thus
ing forth into a non:
He ‘eulngized the war
speaking of the latter's efforts in be-
half of universal peace and of his
great work in the Priinpines.
DENCE OF FouL PLAY
Police Discover Negro Burying His
Wife's Body.
A Philadelphia policeman detected
tohert: Maloved, a negro, digging in
his back yard, and-.in answer to ques-
tions, was informed by the negro that
he was burying his wife. The police-
man entered the house, and in an
upper room found the corpse of
Mrs. Maloyed, which had been dead
apparently about three days. The
body showed evidences of foul play,
and the negro was arrested and
to await the action of the coroner.
POWDER EXPLODED ALL RIGHT
graciously
paid him,
yolitieal
secretary in
launch-
EVIC
Miners Settle An Argument at
Heavy Cost.
coal mine on
Wheeling, ‘three
upset some powder in a pool
and this started a discussion
vet powder would explode.
ttle the argument one of the
fire to the powder. The ex-
communicated to a. nearby
and the result was
the house and the
serious injury of one of the men, who
was removed to the Martins Ferry
hospital, while his wife and a board-
received minor Injuries
Florence the
opposite
At t
Ohio
miners
of water,
whether
To se
trio
plosion
keg of dry powder
the wrecking of
he
side,
SOL
er
Says Yellow Races Will Rule.
Gen. Wm. Booth, head of the Sal-
vation Army, has returned to London,
after his trip to the Orient, greatly
impressed with the possibilities of the
vellow races. In an interview he de-
clared that the Chinese and Japanese
will completely capture eastern trade
and commerce. ‘There are features
about the Chinese and Japanese,” he
said, “that are bound to make them
the conquerors of the world, but they
will do it by peaceful means.”
Supplements Carnegie Gift.
A gift of $45,000 to Buchtel College
at Akron, O., was announced at the
comniencement, the condition of the
gift being that the donor's name
The money will
be added to a fund of $50,000, half of
which has been given to the college
| by Andrew Carnegie.
The Porte has addressed a com-
munication to the United States Em-
bassy removing the final obstacles in
the way of United States’ adhesion to
the three per cent customs increase
side-step- |
speech. |
held
for Africa.
Pastenr Insti-
Louisiana
ards’ will
I.ouis-
Al-
The
Cam-
will
with
~“Louisiana Wasps
request of ti
ance,
t Commission to
exterminate horseflies.
were gath in
Pe S
to
which
parish, near
> fn refrigerate askets,
pupae of the
wasps,
eron leans.
he sent
the
le
insect.
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS. |
killed and one was
ailment of a North-
iin near Detroit,
were
the dr
WORK Ire
len
injured by
Pacific
AM nn
J st
ern
of the
Eleventh
in. ithe Civil
by 1stroke at
at nworth,
Stewart
Infantry
killed
Home
Wm,
ate
War, “has ‘been
the Soldiers’
| Kan.
The dry season ha
prolonged and the general rains
been late in the
ma canal zone vear, . prod
conditions unusually favorable
breeding of mosquitoes.
\t annual alumni
Van University. “at Nashville,
Tenn.,. Chancellor J. HH. Kirkland: an-
| nounced a eontribution of $100,000
from Win. K. Vanderbilt, grandson of
the founder
Official
s heen unusnally
have
Pana-
wing
to the
comparatively
this
the dinner . at
rhilt
niocratie
June 8
of the Di
primaries, held in Oklahoma,
show that C. N. Haskell was nominat-
ed for governor and T. I’. Gore and
Robt. Owen were named for United
States Senators. :
figures
Mayor sc hmitz “Ousted.
Mayor formally
| moved from he the board of
supervisors, first move on the
part - of graft-hunters to establish
good governmnient ii San ‘rancisco.
The mayor was oni the
gronnd that becius his imprison-
ment in the county jail, which follow-
ed his conviction for extortion, he is
no longer able to perform the duties
of his office. Supervisor James Gal
lagher, chairman of the finance com-
mittee, who occupied the mayor's
chair while Sehmitz took a vacation
in Kurope, was chosen 2s. acting
mayor.
Schmitz re-
A
the
as
as
noved
BUILDING NEW RAILROAD
Western Allegheny. to Have New York"
Central C-anection.
At a cost of $1,540,000
Allegheny Railroad will
mile extension, running
Brady. in Butler county,
burg, in Mercer county, Many en-
gineering difficulties are to be over-
come and several long bridges will be
making the cost of con-
struction $50,000 a mile. The West-
ern Allegheny road will then connect
with the New York Central, which is
constructing a line that will touch the
Western Allegheny between New Cas-
tle and Franklin.
the Western
build a 30-
from East
Pa., to Lees-
necessary,
Mrs. Sage Aids Lincoln Memorial.
Mrs. Russell Sage has sent to the
Lincoln Farm Association a contribu-
tion cf 325,000 for the preservation of
the Abraham Lincoln farm and log
cabin, and for a memorial building on
the farm. She has intimated her will-
inzness to give more if necessary.
Pavard Wyman of 3Jlichigan has
heen selected to fill the office of super-
intendent of postmasters’ appoint-
ments, a place created by Congress at
the last session and paying a salary
{of $3,000 a year.