ROBEfllS' Mm III S lOffLT.
EOERS RESIST.
Brillth Hava 60,000 Men In Motion Along l
Front ot 40 Miles but Find
Stubborn Enemy.
Roberts' latest ilisnatch, which is
dated Wednesday, says:
"Gin. Hamilton met with considera
ble success ami drove the enemy out of
the strong position ttiey had taken up
at Hotitnck with comparatively small
loss to us. The Boers dispersed in sev
eral directions, mainly to the east and
north. leaving .'6 prisoners in our hands
including one commandant, and !( oth
er wounded nun. Gen. Hamilton is
now in camp at Jacohsrnst. As the
men needed rest alter fighting s'ven out
of the last 10 days, I ordered them to
halt for the day. Gen. Hroadwood s
brigade of cavalrv arrived upon the
scene in time to afford valuable assist
ance l.y threatening the enemy s rear.
During the afternoon Gen. Ian Ma'"'1"
ton was joined by Gen. Bruce Hamil
ton's brigade of infantry. The enemy
admit having 12 killed and 4" wounded
yesterday. Amonx the former was
I.ictit. Gunthcr, a German officer be
longing to the Fifty-fifth regiment, and
among the latter was Maximoft, the
Russian commander of the foreign le
gion. Twenty out of 52 of the enemy s
casualties occurring among the members
of that legion. Two Frenchmen were
among the killed. ... ,- .
Gen. Rundle. with the Eighth division,
is posted on the right of the British
advance and is facing a Boer position
strongly defended by heavy guns. Gen.
Ian Hamilton is pressing northward
with his mounted infantry. The caval
ry, owing to the greater numbers of the
enemy, have been prevented from com
pleting the movement that was intended
to encircle the Boers on the march to
Brandfort and the enemy are now pre
pared to offer stubborn opposition on an
entrenched hill to the southeast of
Kroonstad. . .
Telegrams from Brandfort. dated l-ri-day.
say: The mounted infantry with
Lord Roberts, among whom are the
Canadians, have picketed their horses
on the south bank of the Vet river, lH
miles north of Brandfort. The head of
Lord Roberts' column has thus advanc
ed 32 miles from Karee Siding in two
day's, or S3 miles north of Bloemfoti
tein. .
Little powder was spent. The Brit
ish work was hard marching, the Boers
retiring out of reach of the British
shells.
The Boer flag was flving over Brand
fort as the Briti-.1i entered the town.
Several British wounded were found in
the hospital. The Boer postmaster gave
up the keys of the public business to
Capt. Ross.
A British six-inch wire gun opened
unexpectedly on the Boer laager Thurs
day, at a distance of seven and a half
miles, throwing loo-pound shells with
wonderful accuracy and causing a hasty
retreat of the burghers.
The bombardment continued Friday
at all points by howitzers and field
guns, supported by two companies of
the Munster regiment, the Boers being
driven from shelter and their guns being
put out of action.
GARCIA A CAPTIVE.
Members ol Tunston's Slat! Made the Capture.
Ranks Next Alter Agnlnaldo.
Gen. Pantclon Garcia, the highest in
surgent officer, except Aguinaldo, was
captured Sunday by Lieut. E. V. Smith,
of Gen. Funston's staff, in the town of
Jaen, three miles northeast of San Isai
dro, province of New F.cija.
Jaen is the largest ungarrisoned town
in the province. Spies reported that
Garcia was sick and had been com
pelled to hide there, and Lieut. Smith,
with Lieut. Day and 40 artillerymen,
surrounded the town. The spies led
them direc'iy to the house where Garcia
was disguised as a peasant, only a major
and two servants being with him. These
also were captured.
Garcia personally directed the guer
rilla operations, and Gen. Funston had
spent weeks trying to corner him, sev
eral companies beating the whole coun
try at night. Often the Americans
caught messengers bearing Garcia's or
ders. The people protected him and
burned signal lights wherever the
American soldiers appeared.
He seldom slept twice in the same,
town. Recently Gen Funston surpris
ed him and his stafl while dining at
Arayat at dusk. Thn Filipinos leaped
through the window and escaped, leav
ing their papers and everything except
the clothing they wore. The strain of
being hunted finally exhausted their en
' durance.
Garcia commanded all the insurgents
in central Luzon, several generals, in
cluding Fio del Pilar and Mascardo,
being under him.
WOMAN'S BODY IN BOX.
Station Agent at Cambridge Springs, Pa.,
Makes a Ghastly Discovery.
The fcody of a woman was found
Tuesday morning in a drygoods box at
Cambridge Springs. Fa. On the night
of Apr-J 24 R. R. Crowe, night operator
at the station, heard a wagon drive up
and a man came in, saying he had a
heavy box for A. Mossman, Burlington,
Vt., and said that the shipper was Frank
Proudtit. The matter was reported to
the agent in the morning and it was ex
pected that the shippers would return
to complete arrangements for sending
the box. Agent Gotterel wrote to tiur
lincton to learn if the consignee would
guarantee the charges. No reply being
Teceived he decided to examine the con
tents and told a messenger to open the
box.
In the box was a nude form of a wo
man. The cover was screwed on and
the box was bound in wire. It had ap
parently been used before for the ship
ment ol goods to A. VV. 1'elton. Con
neaut. O., from Sweetson, Pembroke
& Co.. New York. The body was that
of a dark-complexioned woman, proba
bly about 43 years old, 5 feet 34 inches
tall, weighing about 130 pounds. The
hair is plentiful and quite dark. The tip
per teeth are false. No marks of vio
lence were on the body. The surgeon's
examination showed that she had prob
ably died of pneumonia.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Gen. Otis sailed for San Francisco
Saturday on the transport Meade.
Several Massillon, O., miners arc
among the victims of the Utah mine
disaster.
The Trinity river in Texas has over
flowed its banks and destroyed much
property.
Minnesota Populists have endorsed
Bryan for President and C. A. Towne
for vice president.
Fur fear of receiving a whipping a
10 year-old bov of Philadelphia, suicid
ed by drowning.
Fire iti'strnvi'd the nlant of the Reed
Fertilizer Company at Syracuse, X. Y.,
with a loss oi $50000.
Brazil is with great pomp and cere
mony celebrating the fourth centennary
f the discovery of that land.
The lavintr of the German American
Atlantic cable was begun at the island
f Borkum, in the North sea.
A tornado did much harm at WiNon-
ville. Neb. A. Tower, his wile and
daughter were seriously injured.
Cjueen Victoria has contributed 500
ffiiiiM'.is .mil the I'rmce ot Wales 2.1U
guineas to the Ottawa fire relief fund.
Secret service nurents were in Lan
caster trying to secure information rel
ative to the new counterfeit $20, bill.
The nomination of Sanford B. Dole
to be governor of Hawaii has been sent
by President McKinlcy to the Senate.
Industries connected with the bulki
ng trades in Philadelphia are idle, ow
ing to a strike. Over 4.000 men arc
out.
Testimony has closed in the Coeur
d'Alenc mining trouble investigation at
Washington, and counsel will make ar
guments.
Ileywood Bros, and Wakefield Com
pany s cane cutting factory, at wane
field. Mass., was damaged $100,000 by
fire Friday.
The chief nortion of the mining town
of Sandon, in the silver lead district of
Fast Kootenai, B. C, was destroyed by
fire Friday.
W. C. Fndicott. secretary of war un
der President Cleveland's first admin-
stration, died at Boston, Mass., Sunday,
aged 73 years.
The resolutions adopted by New
H.minshire Reniiblieans endorse the
Chicago platform and declare emphati
cally for Bryan.
In Platte Canyon, Col., the roadbed
if the Colorado and Southern Railroad
has been damaged to the extent of
$200,000 by Hoods.
David Malafon. wife and child, set
tlers near Crivitz. Mich., are missing,
and it is feared that they perished in the
recent forest hrcs.
An unknown nesrro. charged with as
saulting a white child at Hartford, Ala.,
was taken by a mob from officers at
Geneva. Ala., and lynched.
The Baldwin locomotive works have
received an order from the Egyptian
government for 20 locomotives to be
used on the Egyptian railway.
Daniel Shaw, the oriuinator of the
toilet supply system for offices, despond
ent over ill health, committed suicide in
Chicago Sunday by shooting himself.
Dr. Edward Everett Vincent, who was
surgeon of Lieutenant Peary's '03 Arc
tic exploration, was run over py a
street car and instantly killed in Detroit.
Cardinal Richard dedicated the chapel
erected in Paris by the Count and
Countess Castellanc in memory ot the
victims of the fire in the charity bazar.
The Senate committee on public
buildings has reported favorably a bill
providing for a Government building
to cost $1,250,000, to be located in New
Orleans.
Judge McPhcrson. of the United
States district court in Philadelphia, has
denied the appeals of two dealers found
guilty of selling oleomargarine in old
packages.
In Chicago, Mrs. Albert Hoist invit
ed Emma Stelz to her house and shot
and killed her because, as the Hoist
woman said, Miss Stelz had broken up
her home.
A grand jury in Chicago indicted
eight men for conspiracy and perjury,
they having been interested in the at
tempt to secure the release of William
Mai or. in connection with labor trou
bles.
Preaching in the City Temple. Lon-
don.Rcv. Dr. Joseph Parker, referring to
the alleged Christ-Agnppa manuscripts.
said he undertook to say Christ had
never written 'such inconceivable non
sense." Indictments charging George P. nub
bins, Anton Home and Edward Will
iams, local labor leaders, with assault
and inciting riots, were turned into
court in Chicago, and capias issued for
their arrest.
Forest fires between Ccdarvllle and
Center Grove, N. J., Wednesday night,
drove snakes, rabbits and other wood
denizens to the highways in such num
bers that one could hardly, avoid step
ping on them.
The panel of 30 jurors drawn in Lan
sing, Mich., Thursday for the trial of the
case against Colonel Eli Sutton, charg
ed with complicity in the State military
frauds, was exhausted at noon without
a jury being secured.
Five additional bodies were brought
in Saturday out of No. 4 mine at Sco
field. Utah, the scene of the recent ex
plosion. The bodies were horribly
mutilated and burned. This brings the
total up to 250, No others are known
to be missing.
The Filipinos crew of the steamship
Escano rVcently mutinied in the chan
nel between Cebu and Leyt and killed
the captain, the mate and the owner,
Senor Escano, and his son with knives
after a desperate struggle. The muti
neers then Bcuttled the ship and escaped
to the Leyte mountains with $28,000.
Convention hall managers at Phila
delphia run no risk of being cornered
bv a strike and therefore will not have
the hall painted until after the Republi
can National convention.
A syndicate of New York men have
contracted to build a railroad from
Lopez, Sullivan county, to the extensive
deposits of fire clay, building and mon
umental stone on Forkston mountain,
Wyoming county. Pa.
The Denver Water Company's dam,
25 miles from Denver, broke Thursday,
releasing a billion gallons of water,
which, it is reported, will do much dam
age to ranchmen and railroads in the
eastern part of the State.
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FEARFUL SITUATION.
Ninety-three "" Half Millions ol People
Perishing in India Nat . Stales
Dotted With Heaps ol Dead.
The report that cholera is strength
ening its deadly hold on famine-stricken
India brinifs the pitiful condition of that
country more than ever to public view.
About 03,500,000 persons, tor tins is me
population of the districts affected, are
sweltering their squalid existences
away amid pestilence and misery that
show no signs of abating. Hundreds
of thousands of pounds in good British
gold, good German marks and Ameri
can com have been thrown into the
country, but, judging from the latest ad
vices, all this charity is merely a drop
111 the ocean.
The famine and its attendant compli
cations appear to exceed ill virulence
any two previous visitations. The
viceroy. Lord Curzotl, of Kedleston,
and the government are making cease
less exertions to meet the terrible emer
gency, but the stupendous difficulties
confronting them prevent the present
supplying of relief to more than 5,000,-
000.
In the meantime the native states arc
dotted with heaps of dead and dying
and the roads arc crowded with ghastly
bands seeking to escape from the
stricken territories, but who, for lack of
food and water, mostly succumb 111 the
attempt. One of the most hopeless fea
tures of the whole affair is contained
in the statement of a correspondent at
Simla, who writes:
"Ten times the total relief could be
laid out in a single district without
fully relieving its distress. All we can
hope for is a succession of good years
to put the people on their legs again."
SHEFT BY WIND.
Central Kansas Visited by Destructive Torna
doesMany Counties Devastated.
No less than a dozen tornadoes of
more or less severity are reported to
have occurred Sunday afternoon in
Saline. Ellsworth and Barton counties
in Central Kansas, which join each oth
er. At Ellinwood, Barton county,
three persons are reported killed. Other
storms are reported near Ellsworth and
Kanopolis. in Ellsworth county, and
near Brookville, in Saline county.
Near Kanopolis eight distinct funnel
shaped clouds developed within a radius
of 20 miles, four of them large ones and
two of which are known to have trav
eled over the earth for a space of 25
minutes. One of the storms tore down
all of the outbuildings, granaries and
windmills on the Waite farm, three
miles north of Kanopolis, and another
tore down the house and barn of a
farmer north of Ellsworth. Brookville
reports six tornadoes traversed the
country in as many different directions
from that town without touching it. In
no instance were details reported. The
destruction wrought has probably been
off the railroads, at inaccessible points.
Bey Kilted for Three Dollars.
John Garrabrandt. a 19-ycar-old
youth, Saturday murdered Henry Mass,
a 16-year-old boy, in the cellar of a
tenement at Jersey City. Garrabrandt
was arrested and confessed to the mur
der. The boys had been chums. Gar
rabrandt, who was out of work, says he
killed Mass to get his week's wages,
amounting to $3, so that he might take
it home to his family.
Garrabrandt led the 16-ycar-old boy
to the cellar, and, distracting his atten
tion, struck him over the head with a
piece of lead to which was attached a
leather strap. He struck him two or
three times, and when the boy had lost
consciousness, he threw a noose around
his neck and strangled him.
MANY JAPANESE COMING.
Officers of the steamship Tacoma,
which arrived at Tacoma, Wash., Sat
urday from Yokohama, speaking of the
great number of Japanese flocking to
the United States and British Columbia,
say it is current talk in Yokohama that
30,000 Japanese will leave their native
country this summer for British Colum
bia, and it is believed that the number
coming to the United States will be
enormous.
The steamer Tosu Marti is now due
on the sound with 1,600 Japanese on
board, and the Dalnyvostock, one of
the Tacoma liners, will be there in a
few days with 000 more.
Desperate Fight In Panay.
A dispatch received Thursday from
Iloilo reports that a desperate fight took
place at Leamabnao, in the center of the
island of Panay. It appears that a rc-
connoitering party of the Twenty-sixth
infantry was surrounded, and that four
of the Americans were killed and that
16 others severely wounded were left
on the field. The remainder of the sol
diers had a narrow escape.
The dispatch adds that reinforce
ments were sent from Iloilo as soon
as news of the affair was received.
whereupon the Filipinos retreated to
their mountain stronghold.
Texts Town Partially R-zed.
One-third of the houses in Garza, a
town in Denton county. Tex., were de
stroyed late Sunday alternoon by a
tornado. No one was hurt, for, warn
cd by a big black cloud, the people
sought refuge in stormhouses before
the tornado reached them.
Reports from other sections of Den
ton county show that several houses at
Little hi in were demolished and several
people injured. Wires to the north are
down.
11 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Frank Bergen, of Elizabeth. N. T.
has declined an appointment as chief
justice of Fuerto Kico.
The comptroller has authorized the
First National bank of Oakdale, Pa., to
commence business on $50,000 capital.
President McKinley has indicated
his intention of attending, if possible, the
reunion ot tne Army ot the fotomac,
at rreaencKSDurg, on May 33.
Capt. Chadwick has delivered to Sec
retary Long a formal statement concern
ing the publications attributing to him
remarks derogatory to Admiral bcblov,
BELIEVE AGUINALDO DEAD.
Has Not Been Heard From lor Four Months.
With Few Soldiers he Fled
to the Wilderness. .
The belief is growing that Aguinaldo
was killed by the Ygorrotes. There is
no proof that he has been alive since
Major Peyton C. March, of the Thirty
third regiment, abandoned the chase
after the Filipino leader in the Bcnqnct
mountains, and an insurgent officer who
recently surrendered to Gen. Young says
that the insurgent general, Tinio, thinks
Aguinaldo is dead. Tinio held regular
communication with Aguinaldo until
Dec. 2H. since when he has heard noth
ing from him. and Tinio thinks Agui
naldo would find means to communicate
with him if alive.
Maj. March's information was that
there were only half a dozen soldiers
with Aguinaldo' when he fled beyond
the Bontoc wilderness, where the sav
ages arc hostile to all strangers.
Friends of Agttinaldo's wife asserts that
she has heard nothing from him since
they parted. She is in a delicate con
dition and nearly prostrated with worry.
Therefore, she has not been informed
of the death of her child and thinks it
is with friends at Bacoor.
(ien. Funston has discovered a rebel
warehouse near Cabanutuan, province
of New Egiia. containing all the arch
ives of the Malolos government, Agtii
naldo's correspondence up to the time
of his flight and much valuable histori
cal matter
QUARREL ENDS.
Miners' Wage Scale Settled for Pittsburg Mtn
Are Satisfied.
Remaining differences regarding the
Pittsburg district coal mining wage
scale were settled Thursday at a com
mittee meeting of representatives of the
United Mine Workers and the big coal
combines. The result is that from the
beginning of the new scale year, April
1, most of the outside day men, in fact,
all that are strictly outside day men,
get the advance of 20 per cent, demand
ed by the miners' leaders. The ad
vance goes to dumpers, trimmers,
checkmcn, slack haulers, greasers, coup
lers, car cleaners, who clear cars bot
toms for fresh loading, and car droppers-
out and car droppers-tn. ulacksnuths,
carpenters, engineers, firemen and men
of the class usually caul on a monthly
scale will be advanced according to their
ability and to bring them up to the
standard of such craftsmen employed
elsewhere by the Pittsburg Coal Com
pany, while the Monongahcla Kiver
Consolidated Coal and Coke Company
has already given these men, along with
the regular outside day men, an advance
of 25 cents a dav.
The coal companies are bringing
large numbers of new miners 111 to man
their plants, so as to get a record pro
duction of coal, called for by tremen-
lous orders that have never before been
placed for Pittsburg coal. Two hundred
foreigners were sent to the vicinity ot
Webster within the past few days and
this started a report that the men were
being brought in in anticipation of a
strike. Miners from other districts are
coming here, attracted by the higher
Pittsburg district wage.
Bank Robbers Busy.
The First National bank of East
Brady, Pa., was looted by burglars ear
ly Saturday morning, the safe being
dvnamited. 1 he loss is estimated at
$15,000. All day Saturday the country
was scoured for the robbers and word
was received Sutnlav that three men
Thomas Carter, Michael Hagan , and
Patrick Henncsey had been captured at
New Bethlehem, 21 miles away. 1 hey
will be taken to hast Brady for ulenti
fication.
The bank was entered between 1
o'clock and 3 o'clock, Saturday morn
mg. 1 he safe was used as a deposit
vault by many business men. Their
papers, all of the bank documents and
the money, even to the pennies, were
carried ott. I he robbers got more sil
ver than two men could carry.
Sympathy lor America.
The London Daily Telegraph, after
alluding editorially to the generous
sympathy and aid of Americans in con
nection with the Ottawa fire and com
menting at length upon the Scoficld
disaster, concludes as follows:
"There will be deeper sympathy with
America in this awful catastrophe than
has been evoked by any event on the
other side of the Atlantic since the loss
of the Maine.
National Flnancos.
The monthly statement of the public
delft shows that at the close of business
April 30, 1 000, the, dent, less cash 111 tne
treasury, amounted to $1,124,802.0X5,
which is an increase of $12,545,727. This
increase is due to the decrease in the
cash on hand made necessary by the
heavy payments on account of present
worth of bonds now being extended at
2 per cent, interest.
The monthly comparative statement
of the government receipts and expendi
tures show that during April the re
ceipts aggregated $45,030,326 and the ex
penditures $40,903,027, leaving a surplus
for the month of $4,136,000.
The receipts during the month show
an increase of $3,500,000 as compared
with April, iRqq. and the expenditures
a decrease of $25,000,000.
Indian Vengoanoi.
During a row at a dance near the
Ponca Indian agency, Nebraska, Peter
Birdhead. an Indian, was shot nnd kill
ed by a half-bred named I.aurier. The
murderer gave himself up. The relatives
of the murdered man held a consulta
tion and decided to kill Latirier. The
report is that his body was horribly
mutilated with an ax. Birdhead's rela
tives have fled.
Chio Bank Robbery.
At sioon Sunday the finding of a lot
of pennies in an alley led to the dis
covery that the bank of the Stebbins
Banking Company at Creston, Wayne
county, Ohio, had been robbed. En
trance was gained b;' forcing an iron
door at the rear windows. The door to
the vault was blown from its fastenings,
but the strong bo which, it is. said,
holds $14,000, withstood the efforts of
powder and drills. About $100 in cash,
a lot of jewelry Jnud valuable papers
were taken fronirVhe safety deposit
uoxei.
nns lis 11 fin.
FILIPINOS SURRENDER.
Gen. Otis Says Thty Lest 1,721 Curing April,
Bosldcs Artillery, fiiflos, Ammunition and
Stores American Losses Small.
Gen. Otis Friday cabled from Manila
as follows:
April captures from rnemy 30 pieces
artillery, 1,200, rifles, considerable ammu
nition and large stores property. Dur
ing early portion of the month the ene
my was active in extreme northern and
southern Luzon and some Viscayan isl
ands. Our reported losses for the
month arc 13 enlisted men killed, three
officers and 24 enlisted men wounded.
Kttmorcd recent loss in hatnar ol I'J
killed and number wounded not yet re
ported. This is'duc to small detach
ments scouting in mountains in the in
terior of the island. The enemy losses
officially reported were 1,721 killed,
wounded and captured. Leading Fili
pinos express confidence in the early
pacification of the islands. They say the
war has terminated. Leading insurgents
arc surrendering.
Mai. lien. Otis sailed Saturday for
San Francisco on the transport Meade.
Maj. Gen. MacArthur will succeed him
in command of the PhVtppincs. and
Gen. Whcaton will succeed MacArthur
as commander of the department of
Southern Luzon.
1 he insurcent nrchives discovered bv
Gen. Funston include papers implicating
prominent foreign firms at Manila 111
unlawful dealines. It is reported that
evidence has been obtained that some of
them furnished munitions of war to the
rebels, and that the American authori
ties arc in possession of a plan for at
tacking the American forces, written
by Aguinaldo, in the Tagalog language,
January 9. ikoo, and translated into
Spanish bv Buencamino. No corre
spondence from the so-called anti-imperialist
party of the United States was
lound.
USED NITRO-GLYCERINE.
A SI. Louis Street Car Blown from Ihs Tracks.
Passengers Terrified.
A car on the St. Louis and Suburban
railway was blown from the track and
twisted sideways by an explosion of
nitro-glycerinc late Saturday night.
Sevrn of the passengers were slightly
injured by the flying glass, and broken
timbers, which came ui) from below.
Four were taken back to the city for
treatment.
There is a strike on the road. The
explosive was nitro-glycerine, which
had been spread on the track for some
distance, the car was filled with per
sons returning from the Dewey celebra
tion. It was raining hard at the time.
and lightning flashed continuously
across the car.
Many women were among the passen
gers, and they screamed wildly. Every
person was hurled from the seats, and
fell pell-mell into the nisle. At first it
was thought that a holt of lightning had
struck, but when the tnoformnn and
conductor, after an examination, an
nounccd that the car had been blown
up by strikers, there was more confu
sion, and the men prepared for an at
tack. This was the signal for more
screams, and many of the passengers
got off the ear and braved the terrible
downpour. Nonttack was made.
Senatorial Candida's Killed.
Oliver L. Stewart, the Huntingdon
county Republican candidate for Stale
senator in the Huntingdon nnd Frank
lin district, and secretary of the Laird
Malleable Iron Works, of Huntingdon,
Pa., was instantly killed in the com
pany's works Thursday afternoon by the
bursting f nn emery wheel, a piece of
which penetrated his heart. He was the
Huntingdon county Republican choice
for State senator, the conference for the
selection of which candidates is to meet
at lfamsburg on the 2th instant.
A Groat Oil Combine.
One of the largest oil combines in
the West filed articles of incorporation
at Cheyenne, Wyo., Tuesday, under the
name of the Superior Oil Company,,
capital stock $10,500,000. It is a con
solidation of several companies operat
ing in Central Wyoming, in the vicin
ity of Douglas and Casper, the stock
holders and trustees arc oil men and fi
nanciers from Pittsburg, Philadelphia
and JSirimngham, IN. 1.
Largo Sale ot Coal Lands.
Six hundred acres of the rittsburg
scam of Youghiogheny river coal, held
for nearly a year past by S. E. Frock
and Cyrus F.chard, of Conncllsville,
have just been sold to James Cochran's
Sons, of Dawson. The company is
composed of Henry T. Cochran. W. H.
Cochran and A. J. Cochran. The price
paid was a little over $04,000. The coal
lies in one tract on Cedar creek in Ros
travcr township. Westmoreland countv.
It is on the Pittsburg. McKessport &
Youghiogheny railroad, but a branch
of three miles will be built up Cedar
creek to facilitate development and ship
ment of coal.
1 " """"
Army at a Stands'UL
General A. W. Greely, chief of the
signal service of the army, spoke of the
United States army as a military or
ganization at the annual banquet of the
Worcester, Mass.. board of trade
Wednesday. He declared that the army
was a political organization, and that it
had not advanced during a period of 50
years. If the system, which is now im
perfect, is to be improved in future
years it would be at the cost of tens of
thousands of lives and millions in treas
ure. Kill Jd by a Minister.
Rev. W. E. Johnson, pastor of the
Baptist Church at Bamberg, S. C, Fri
day shot and killed W. T. Bellinger,
stenographer of this judicial district.
The trouble arose over the painting of
a line fence between the premises of
John R. Bellinger, father of the deceas
ed, and the Baptist parsonage. Belling
er drew a pistol and fired twice at the
parson, whereupon the latter shot Bell
inger dead. Johnson surrendered to the
sheriff.
GOOD FINANCIAL SHOWING.
The Government Hat Saved 16,664,438 By
Refunding Bonds National Bank Cir
culation Increasing.
Representative Brosius, of Pennsyl
vania, chairman of the House committee
on banking and currency made a state
ment that the refunding provisions of
the new financial law are working out
nn achievement unparalleled in the his
tory of the world. He showed the fol-
owmg figures of refunding from March
14. when the law went into operation, to
May t: Amount refunded, $260,020,7 50:
saving in interest, $32,600,225: premium
paid, ,$26,034,771; net saving. $6,664,454.
The operation of legal tender redemp
tion exhibits n highly satisfactory con
dition of public confidence in our gov
ernment paper, and is a happy omen for
the success of that branch of our mone
tary system in the future. The amount
of United States notes redeemed in
gold out of the reserve fund since the
new law went into operation is $5,133,
289. Applications have been approved for
214 new National banks, with a capital of
$8,380,000. The total of applications on
tile for authority to organize National
banks is 508 and the total of applications
for the conversion of old banks into Na
tional hanks 82. Mr. Brosius estimates
$121,788,858 as the amount of currency
the National banks may issue in the near
tuture.
IS 109 YEARS OL0.
Mrs, Susan McKeever ol Mercer County, Pa,,
Celebrates the Anniversary of her Birth.
At Sharon, Fa., Mrs. Susan McKeev
er, better known as Grandma McKeev
er, cefchratcd her 109th birthday anni
versary Wednesday. She is the oldest
woman in Mercer county and is believ
ed to be the oldest woman m the State.
Time has plowed many wrinkles in her
face and her hair is snow-white. Her
brain is alert nnd active, her form erect,
and her rather deep-set brown eyes can
flash with determination or twinkle with
fun.
Mrs. McKeever has the distinction
of having lived during the administra
tion of every President of the United
States,- and if she lives to celebrate an
other birthday, and the prospects are
fair for her seeing many more of them,
she will have lived in three centuries.
Mrs. McKeever was born in County
Derry. Ireland. April 23. !7lo. Her
father was a farmer and he died at the
age of 9a years. She married at 30 and
came to America with her son James.
After a short residence in New York
and Philadelphia thev crossed the moun
tains on mules and settled in Mercer
county. Her husband died at the age
of 87 years. ,
A UNITED EMPIRE.
Roteberry Forecasted the Future Imperial
Parliaments ol Great Britain.
Earl Carrington presided at a banquet
given to the Australian Federation del
egation at the National Liberal Club.
London, Lord Kimberlcy, Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman and most of the
other Liberal leaders were present and
spone.
The Earl of Rosebery spoke on "Tho--Parlianients
of the Empire." In the
course of his speech he said:
1 anticipate, as a possibility of the
mission of the delegates, such an in
crease of the imperial spirit throughout
the empire as will lead to amalgamation
of the House of Lords and the privy
council as an imperial tribunal, leading
ultimately to the constitution of an im
perial Senate.
"The young countries of the empire
have come to the assistance of the old
in rescuing a new country in South
Africa from an intolerable domination,
menacing its future peace nnd prosper
ity. I decline to believe that the spirit
displayed during this crisis of the em
pire will remain fruitless. I believe the
present chapter in British history will,
not conclude without a result worthy
the sacrifices which all parts of the em
pire have made."
Sibley Is Ousted.
Democrats of the Twenty-seventh
Congressional district have dumped
Hon. Joseph C. Sibley. His alleged
un-Deinocratic actions during the last
session of Congress and his alleged sup
port of M. S. Qvmy during the Inttcr's
attempts to succeed hims-lf as United...
Stales senator are given as the causal
Turkey in no Haste to Pay.
A dispatch from Constantinople, Tur
key, says: The porte has not replied
to the American note regarding the in
demnity claims. The ambassadors met
yesterday and decid I to reply to the
portc's note of April 20 regarding the
increase of duties, as follows:
"The embassies note the porte's decla
ration that it does not intend to intro
duce any unilateral measures and will
hasten to inform their governments of
this. The ambassadors have decided to
make their consent to an increase, con
ditional on the removal of the abuses
in the matter of chemical analysis, the
suppression of warehouse duties and
the abolition of the stipulation whereby
articles not specified in the tariffs may
he interdicted, confiscated or destroyed.
The ambassadors have decided to make
the payment of indemnities to foreign
ers a separate question, nnd to deal
therewith at a later date."
Kansas Corn for Indie.
The Kansas India relief committee has
instructed Secretary Anderson to order
the purchase of 20,000 bushels of corn
in New York, to be loaded in a relief
ship which sails next weeek for Bom
bay. Treasurer Coburn's receipts to
date are $10,272.
CABLE FLASHES.
The London lord mayor's fund for the
Canada fire sufferers now amounts to
7,200.
In the House of Commons. London,
Tuesday. Mr, Harbury, financial secre
tary of the treasury, said the cost of the
war up to March 31, was 23.250,000.
The German emperor has cabled an
expression of sympathy and good wish-'
cs to President Camnos Salles. of Brazil.
which country is celebrating the 400th
anniversary of its discovery by Dc Ca
Ural.
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