- DEMOCRATS NAME HARMAN Select Candidate for State Treas- urer and Adopt Platform. RATIONAL ISSUES ARE OMITTED, The Platform Deals Exclusively With the Affairs of the Key- ‘stcne State. The Pennsylvania Demecceratic State Coavention met in Harrisburg June 27. and nominated former Represen- fative John G. Harman of Columbia eounty for State A plat- B=rm devoted wa adopted, National &yiched upon. State Treasurer man the Acthar G. Dewalt atforns. Treasurer. to state issues S issues are not Derry chair convention, was and Senator of Liahigh & summary of Fhe platform follo Convinced that Based upon strict plia Paw, we challenge the wists gimming Republican raie Fania. The dominant issues before th ple of the Commonwealth fishenesty in public office ar he continued. We congratulate the #he Siuile that, by: the Pemocratic State Treasurer ago, it was made possible is the erurimous amount of public salawiilly expended for th Baiiding. There must ft» good work beg Berry should go: forward dishonestly taken ure. returned to wealth: until wokved presecuted, Smprisoned. The conviction of the recovery of the money fhe State has been defrauded, Both likely to be defeated if mad records should Ww, ¥ots of the people, be turned over to representatives of t Republican: or- gasiration. > Krowing that two Pemocratic administration Treasury Department of this Base done more for true rei afl the specious promises within the party by so-ca Kean leaders, we again call upon mrrespective of party lines, to esase of civie righteousness ag? administration by a Demwcratic Treasurer for Commonwealth. & servile and obedient Legislature Bas made a violation of the Consti- fotion a matter of ludicrous price and prraistiment. We condemn the majority in the Yast Legislature for refusing an inves- tigation of the auditor general's de- pariment. Noting that the Republican form disclaims any responsi v he capitol graft, we claim to suwe all responsibility for -the eovery and complete disclosure hat graft. We hereby pledge the party to aa insistence on a searching in- vestigation of the auditor general's department, which has shown to Be mo. less corrupt in manage: sant than those now under the searchligit. : We emphatically insist that, had it mat been for the illegitimate use of public funds by Republican officials, there would have been no necessity for iznoring the claims of veterans of he Civil War, and for reducing apprepriations charitable institu- ious. is shall wi no be step gun Dy cmmon- | criminal in: | and | convict is the every od f-'the guilty, and of whicl ar the books | by the hal honest in of years aid the this plat- for as: dis- of to 300 Cremated in Theater. Mail advices from Hong Kong say ®P0 Chinese in a theater and 10 ac- | fors were burned to death when the | mative theater burned. The spread rapidly, and the building col- | Bapsed, blocking the - entrance with Doraing debris. The origin of the fire | was the igniting of explosives con- acaled under the floor. STATE CAN RECOVER Pennsylvania Capitol Grafters Have to Disgorge. ASSASSINS REORGANIZED Russian Bomb and Bandit Syndicate Revived. learned from Russian sources that the Social ago It has been revolutionary re- revolutionary month vived the old party a Terrorist organization, and placed Gregary Gerschunin, who | and | Sikeria last year York, and Savinkoft, from Sebastopol, the of - the party, -in escaped from reached New who cscaned host ganizers charge. The sum of $400,000 monthly was n assigned for espionage, the preparation | of bombs, and so on, from the party treasury, which recently received over £400,000 from treasury of Samarkand—a Social volutionist, who embezzled and escaped abroad. The ters of the Terrorists, located outside of Russia. Through an attempt on the life of Premier Stolypin.. while entering or ieaving the Tauride palace is believed have been feasible, the Terrorists abstained from activity while parlia- ment was in session. It. is reported that the are now contemplating attempts z Promier Stoylpin and Em- re- headquar- io Terrorists st l'committee of the ining { which . nected. | ‘Connellsville ra flames | May | The recovery of $1,200,000 from the | Pennsylvania Construction Co. on the | metal furniture deal has been made | probable by the testimony given be- fore the capitol investigating commit- | ayre. He shows there | oe by T. Larry was no order given Congressman Cas- serfs concern to furnish the goods and | gave a defiant warning | peror Nicholas, but the latter has not \{ been sentenced by the executive party. : It isi also re- that the Terrorists ‘arc plan- an important robbery, {from a large amount of booty is ex- rted TO FIGHT TWO-CENT FARE O. Enters Suit to Have Law De- ciared Nuil and Void. In an effort to have the two-cent 2. & in. Pennsylvania declared un- & Ohio ing the Pittsburg road, has filed Uniontown, Pa.. be declared void and defendant, the county . of perpetually enjoined from fare law constitutional the Baltimore railroad, operat in acl suit the equity that the ing that [favette, be demanding inz any snit against them for the re- covery of any penalty imposed by the act in case the plaintiffs shall not ° OF comply with the act. Officers and counsel for .the Balti- more & Ohio. believe they have bet- for a suit in. Fayette ter grounds county: than any other county in Penn- | under | charter & Connellsville svlvania, because the which the Pittsburg railroad is operated the present state was adopted. fore CAN GROW HER OWN TEA Any Housewife May Write to Secre- tary of Agriculture and Get Full Directions. Any housewife who would like to orow her own tea in her kitchen gar- den instead: of ‘going to the corner orocery for it, will he shown how to dn it by the agricultural department, which is about to publish a pamphlet on the subject. The pamphlet will not only give the necessary directions | for raising the tea plants, but will tell how to dry and cure the leaves, and the best way to make tea of them af- terward. : Copies of the pamphlet can. be had without charge by applying to | thes secretary of agriculture, Washington, | DC a FASTED A MONTH Lost 28 Pounds in Weight—Testing Health Theory. After fasting since May 30, during which time he tasted nothing but water, Dr. I. J. Eales of Belleville, I11., broke his abstinence by partak- ing of a small quantity of malted milk. His fast was instituted to test his theory that total absinence from food for a period is heneficial to health. = After taking the malted milk he said he would fast 24 hours longer. to ascertain what nourishment would have upon his sys- tem. : Beginning his fast at 192 pounds, Kales has lost 28 pounds. His chest measurement has been reduced from 43 to 40 inches, his waist from 44 to 24 inches. He lifted a man weighing 225 pounds to demonstrate that . his strength has not been diminished. ENGLAND DEFIED Redmond Says Irishmen Will Give Up the Fight. John E. Redmond. delivered an ad- Never dress at Exford at the unveiling of a | memorial to Wexfordians who fell at the battle of New Ross in 1798. He to British statesmen, saying: “We tell England that we hate her rule bitterly as did our forefathers | when they shed their blood on this he lawyers are satisfied the state can | eompel the return of all of the money | paid for the furniture above the mar- | ket price. As about $320,000 and Cassel $1,500,000, the state will 2 recover $1,200,000. mission on the overpayment was $58,000, and this can be recovered. collected enter suit The Wabash railroad has demanded | he return of $901,000 paid to the city of Buffalo for the large tract of land, | | the collapse of a #he Hamburg canal strip, alleging the eity has not delivered a clear title to We property, has refused to approve | | of the pans for altering existing viaducts and that the New York Central main- tains two tracks across the property. Biast Costs Eleven Lives. By the premature explosion of a ®iast at Lola cut on the Tidewater Reilway, in Virginia, Cornelius Sulli- wan. a brother-in-law of the general myanazer of the McDermott Construc- fiom Co. of Chicago, who has charge of #he work, Edward Clark Charlotte aounty, Va. and six Italians ‘were Eilled. of _mwmication to-the- United States Bassy removing the final ob: the way of United States’ adhe 0 the market price was | spot. We tell her that we are as much rebels to her rule to-day as our forefathers were in '98. We tell her that she can change that hatred only | by granting freedom, and so long as Huston’s com- | she withholds freedom it will remain merely a question of expediency how iand by what means we will strike at | children and 26 the power that holds our country in bondage.” : Seven persons, six of them members of one Italian family, were killed in ramshackle tene- ment in the downtown Italian quarter of New York. Three other members same family, including father and mother, are in a hospital painfully injured, but will recover. WAS WELL FOR 104 YEARS tury of Good Health. Mrs. Rosa Harrison died at Tren- ton, N. 1. at the age of 104. Mrs. Harrison was of Russian-Jewish traction and lived in her birthplace, Vacestone, Russia, until 14 vears ago, when she came Trenton. Until Sunday her 104 life without illness. In addition t to years voi her four children, irvived by 15 grand- sreat-grandchildren. 0 | Mrs. Harrison is the cashier of the sub- | $480,000 | as usual, are | the plaintiffs or brinz- | was granted. be- | constitution | effect the | the | Mrs. Harrison Dies After Over Cen- | ex- i were | TROOPS SLAY MANY PEOPLE | Over 100 Killed and 600 Injured | in Portuguese Towns. MILITARY FIRE ON MOBS Members of Artillery Who Mutiny | and Demand Establishment of Republic Arrested. Fired on by troops, hunted down through the narrow streets and finai- ly pursued by cavalry ~ which rode | down men, women and children indis: criminately, over 100 persons are dead {and fully 600 wounded as the outcome of violent street demonstrations gainst the government in the three {northern towns of Draga, Villa. Real {and Vianua Do Castello. Further trouble is expected. The mobs paraded the streets shout- ing: “Down with absolutism,” and decrying King Carlos for his attempt to rule the country without parlia- ment. Soldiers sent to disperse the rioters .were attacked with bricks and other missiles. They re- plied with volleys, whi stretched scores of rioters in the streets. stones, | | a This did not quell the mobs entire- | continued with - stones, houses troops Ivy Persons in | bombard = the to | | while hot water was poured on them. "Angered beyond -all control, the -sol- | diers began firing again, shooting { down persons as they fled. Cavalry | you aboard the Gresham to await rode down every person who could be | found. The exact casualties will be mever known as the soldiers im- mediately removed the hodies of the dead and they were buried secretly. A mutiny ocurred at Oporto to add [to the seriousness of the condition in Portugal. Members of the Fifth and | Sixth artillery refused to obey orders probably | | torboat “the latter could YALE WINS BOAT RACE Harriman Violates Orders and Is Taken Into Custody. Jofore the largest crowd that witnessed a race on the Thames river, the Yale crew, at New London, Conn., rowing on an average of four strokes to. the minute less than Har- vard, held the big Cambridge eight even until the last half mile, when the blue let out their speed and won a magnificent contest by a length. Yale's time for the four miles was 21 minutes and 10 seconds; Har- vard’'s 21 minutes and 13 seconds. The race was accompanied by one: disagreeable incident. This was the arrest of E. H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, by Lieut. Billard, President Roosevelt's naval aide. Lieut. Bil- lard, who was in charge of the reve- nue cutters, had warned avery boat owner not to follow the race. The big. varsity = struggle had: scarcely been started when Mr. Harriman, in a powerful motor boat, started to fol low the race. Lieut. Billard and Chairman Schweppe, who was aboard the regatta committee boat, the Ar- row, repeatedly warned Mr. Mr. ftyer not only but took of ‘the re Harriman to: them, alongside it. signalled for a the revenue: cut- finally caused around. the course. Mr. paid nc attention position right feree’s boat and held vard Lieut. Billard launch and .tooted ter's wawhistle, ~which Mr. Harriman to Jook “You are under arrest, sir,” ed: Ljcut, Billard. ‘You wil yeurself up to this man, who will take shout- orders.” Then it “was discovered that nan in the powerful and speedy was Mr. Harriman. Chair- man. _Schweppe, of the regatta the which The at terms ke. forefinger in nm his Harriman not leveled ed to Mr. millionaire | Chairman Schweppe and yelled back: 1-1 J and demanded the deposition of King | Carlos and the establishment of a re- public. The mutineers were ar- rested. Every day th | more dangerous. Possible bankruptey i faces the country. ‘Treasury receipts indicate a deficit of $10,000,000, and the gould reserve is only $6,500,000. There is little likelihood that a loan can be made unless ruinous interest is naid, and it is impossiblé to crease taxes, as they have been put as high as the people can stand. ? The financial troubles of the govern- | ment form the most serious lof the situation, and Premier Franco acknowledges his inability to | remedial measures. London, England, advices bon say that the students from Lis- are now | laugh. e situation is becoming | | ham and released in- | already element | devise | “Young man, I wil later.” Schweppe's friends aboard the Ar- row gave Mr. Harriman a see you the race, but was detained as any ordinary prisoner aboard the Gresham until after the race -was oyer, when Lieut. Billard went aboard the Gres- Mr. ‘Harriman, -but ordered his boat tied up at the mavy vard. ; RAILROADS TO BE SUED. Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Are Among the Defendants. Jy direction of Attorney Bonaparte, United States will instiute at the attorneys | able dates suits against a large num- ber of railroad companies to recover | penalties for violations of the safety | Jeading the revolutionary agitation in | Portuguese capital. rendarmes dispersed a meeting at which the “Marseillaise” was, sung and many persons received saber wounds. : the BOMB CAUSES SLAUGHTER Thrown by Robbers, Who Loot Trea- sury Wagon of $125,000. A bomb was thrown into Erivan square, Tiflis, Trans-Caucasia, Rus- sia, which was thronged with people. | The missile exploded with terrific | forces Nwhy persons were killed or Linfuted; And windows and doors were shattered over a large area. The outrage was connected with an attack upon the Treasury. A wagon | containing $123.000, escorted by Cos- ‘sacks, had reached KErivan square, when a bomb was thrown and an ex- plosion followed. Two employes of the Imperial Bank were killed. The | | been ascertained. The bags contain- ing the money disappeared. $250,000 FIRE LOSS Pine Beach Hotel and Amusement Resorts Wiped Out. Fire early at Pine each, a resort ment just outside the Jamestown Ex- position grounds, destroyed structures covering a large area {land avenues and 102 D and 103 D streets, includinz Exposition avenue. The loss is placed at between $200,000 and $250,000, with about 20 per cent { insurance. The Arcade, Royal Pine, Hampton Roads, Washington House, Outside Inn, Powhattan, Carolina and Berkley Hotels were among the largest build- rings destroyed. | SNAPSHOT ARTISTS RESTRICTED German Law Penalizes Photography Without Permission. The snapshot photographer in Ger- | many is threatened with extinction later July 1, owing to the risk he will run of being heavily fined under the act which goes into force on that date. The right of all persons to the exclusive reproduction of their longings is made absolute. photograph or that of his landscape or his cattle or horses. danger ahead of the person who snap- shots someone or something without previously arming himself with the | necessary authorization. Prosecu- tipn and punishment may follow. Standard Men Summoned. Judge Landis of the Federal Court lin Chicago, in which the Standard Oil | Co. was recently found guilty of vio- | lating the Sherman anti-trust law, | ordered that the chief officials of the i company be summoned before him to { give information as to the financial | standing of the company. Fines-ag- ating nearly $30,000,000 may be sed against the company, but, | presumably before doing so the judge wishes to learn whether the penalty { might not be too heavy. Y oreo | gre ASS appliance law. The railroads to be made defendants in the suits and the number: of violations charged against number of other victims has not yet | | ciation of St. each are as follows: Alabama & Southern 1, & Ohio 10, Chicago & Eastern: Illinois 4, Chicazo Great Western 12, Chicago, | Cleveland, > Rock Island & Pacific 21, Cincinnati. Chicago & St. Louis 3, Chesapeake & Ohio 4, Covington & Cincinnati Elevated Railroad & Trans- fer & Dridge Co. and Chesapeake & Ohio 1, El Paso & Southwestern rail- | Galveston, | Harrisburg & San Antonio railroad 1, | 9 “y road Erie railroad 19, 9 (Georgia railroad 2, Great Northern §, Kansas City Southern 13, Louisville & Jeffersonville Bridge Co. 2, Louis- ville & Nashville 3, Nashville, Chatta- nooga & St. Louis 1, Pacifific Coast Railway Co. 25, Pennsylvania railroad 2, Philadelphia & Reading 1, Mobile & Ohio 1, New York, New Haven & Hartford 2, Northern Pacific 5, St. Louis & San Francisco 3, Southern Railway 4, Terminal Railroad Asso- Louis 4, Texas & Fa- | cific 1, Texarkana & Fort Smith rail- | way and Kansas City & Southern 5, | Wabash railroad 3, Washington & Co- | lnmbia River railroad 3, Yazoo & Mis- | sissippi Valley railroad 1. 7 filled with hotels of varying sizes, res- | taurants, stores and places of amuse- | frame | of | territory between Virginia and Mary- | | They | June | Gary, | ness | present. | reports Plot to Steal $50.000 000. A plat to steal 350,000,000 from the Russian government office at Tschita, where the money was kept for enter- prises in Siberia, has been discov- ered and 30 Russians were arrested. had made a tunnel 120 yards long from a hotel to the safe, and, when the plot was ripe, it was dis- closed, almost all the plotters being captured. Better Rails Wanted. Over a score of railroad officials and rail makers met in New York 27, chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation, to consider recent complaints of light- of steel rails as made at There that steel the present | rail is not calculated to withstand the ling some usage to which the increased traffic | | of the country has subjected it, and | the meeting was with a view of reach- definite conclusion on the | question. por- | traits or those of their houses or be- | The law | permits the granting of permission by | anvone to a photographer to take his | - | the repressive measures now being But there is | | ined in the fortress. | | Queen Appeals Against King. The Portuguese Queen has appealed | to two foreign courts, not named, to intercede with King Carlos to abolish enforced by Premier Franco. Some 250 political prisoners have been con- The editor of a Republican newspaper that was sup- print his journal in Spain and smug- gle it into Portugal. Mrs. Sage Gives $300,000. Mrs. Russell Sage has delivered to the Sage foundation securities of a market value of $300,000, the income of which is to be applied to an insti- | tute of pathology to be carried on in connection with the New York Hospital and the City Home on Black- well’'s Island: The securities will produce a yearly income of $12,000 tc $14.000. Mrs. Sage has contributed $25,000 toward the fund for the preservation of the Abraham Lincoln farm and log cabin in Hodgenville, Ky. scant boat | Harri- | of Philad i : man. to stop his engine and get out of | 1iladelphia, which | treatment | damages to the amount of $36,401.12. Off the navy | : © | Bigler, | of the Cambria and Clearfield. railway | system. | the output capacity of its oval 995 tons a dav, but it is : | market this quantity of coal; my | coni- | | given an c t ca gentle | an output e Mr. Harriman saw no more of | unjust and ‘an undue and unwarranted preference ahd advantage to €oncerns owning in- dividual cars and receiving in addi- “tion. their prosrata share of the com- | pany-cars, which concerns, it is charg ed. supply: coal 10 the railroad comn- General |- eartiest:, pract foal ply of “ears pwneda France's Arbitration Proposal. At the peace conference at The Hague, France presented two proposi- tions for the peaceful regulation of international conflicts. The first says that in disputes of ‘an international character not engaging their honor or essential interests the Powers may decide to appoint an in- ternational commission of inquiry. Its decision shall be governed by the ma- | jority of its members. i INSURGENTS France Excited Over Mutiny of Bat- talion of Soldiers. A battalion of the Seventeenth In- fantry regiment, stationed at Agde, France, deserted with its arms and ammunition, and joined the insurgent wine-growers at Beziers, the head- The mu- recruited . number TROOPS JOIN tineers, who were mostly among the wine-growers, about 400 men. (Gen. Bailloud arrived there, and af- ter an interview with the mutineers, they decided to return to their regi- | ment. All the secret orders to which the late President McKinley belonged are to be invited to participate in the Mec- Kinley memorial services ‘to be held at Canton, Sept. 30. Chautauqua season opened with religious services and on Bishop Vincent, The 27 shores of the lake. the president of the society, was pres- ent at the initial exercises. | Balloonists Are Dead. All doubt as to the fate of Lieuts. Caulfield and Leake of the Royal En- gineers, who made a balloon ascen- sion from Aldershot Camp, Eng., May 28. has been removed. The body of Lieut. Caulfield was picked up at sea near Weymouth. | Steel Corporation for the quarter end- {ing July 1 promises to be the largest in its hstory. They will run up to al- most $44,000,000, transportation | came unfair | Hroad is.chargs | 3 } Q bh iO) “OMAN VY FL mittee was very angry, and he shout- 1 by “the: coal compuny with improve- | ments and in the purchase of stocks | | 0 - ST rg i Of ~y ry 1 . L3altimore | f other railroad corporations. 100, the | signatory the | STEAMER WRECKED Tried to Make Run to Goes Beneath Waves Instead. The Pacific Steam Navigation Com- yany's steamer Santiago was wreck ed. H0 miles north of © Corral, Chile, June 24, during a furious torm, and of her crew of ST men and four passeng- but two are known to have ar- rived safely on shore. It believed that the remaining §9 perished when the ship went down. The Santiago left Corral with her engines out of order, from the buf- feting she had during a storm before reaching that port. Instead of going to Ancud, her nearest port, when the | latest storm broke, she turned to | make the run to Valparaise, a much { longer distance. Her crippled engines | are supposed to have broken down | and left her helpless, during which | time she sank. Only a single officer and a pas- | senger are known to have reached the shore. Valparalso, ers, is POWER OF LORDS CURTAILED Bill to, Give Commons the Final Right of Decisicn. to Premier on ol Campbell-BDannerman mov- resolution curtailing the power House of. Lords before the full-