CLOSE TO KROONSTAD.
RellM ol Ma'cklng Probable Next Week Bom
Resist each Movement but are Con
tinually Beaten Back.
Gen. Roberts had on Thursday night
,fushcd his advance to within 20 milt
of Kroonstad, hut the most gratitying
Hews that come from the front Satur
day morning is that lien. Hunter's lead
ing column is racing toward Mafcking
and reached Yryhurg. 100 miles from
the beleaguered town on Thursday.
Fifty miles south of Yryhurg. at Taungs,
is (ien. Hunter's main liody. moving
slowly and contending with considerable
forces. The pick of his mounted men
arc the .1.000 who are going without
wheeled transport and at a rate that may
possibly bring them to Mafcking on
Monday or Tuesday.
President Steyn and a conned of the
leaders of several thousand l''rec Stat
ers in the I.adybrand and Fickshnrg dis
trict determined to submit to the men
the question of continuing the war or
not at a great open air meeting. The
fghting men decided to fight on.
Steyn, who appears to be in active com
mand, began to advance toward the
Ilritish and came into contact on Thurs
day with Campbell's brigade, and Bra
bant's horse, JO miles northeast of
Thaba N'Chii. A smart engagement
ensued, with no positive success on eith
er side.
Tuesday Gen. Hutton attempted to
seize a Boer convoy tliat was leaving
the Zand river. He advanced toward
the river with mounted infantry, includ
ing the Canadians. A long line of wag
ons was plainly visible.
On becoming aware of Gen. llutton's
object, the Boers stopped their retreat
and opened fire with ten guns. They
seemed in great force, and threatened
llutton's flank.
Presently mounted Boers were seen
crossing the dry bed of the river. They
circled to the right and began to enfil
ade the Australians, while many of the
British were hit by Boer shells.
The position became serious. The
Boers sent up reinforcements, placing
the .Australians in danger of being cut
off. Thereupon Gen. Hutton ordered a
retirement to Welgelegen, where he had
left his own convoy. A portion of the
forces advanced and engaged the Boers
to cover this retirement, which was suc
cessfully accomplished.
The Boers continued to shell the re
tiring troops, hut showed no desire to
press the attack further. Meanwhile the
Boer trains streamed away northward,
blowing up the culverts as they went.
ANTI-TAX RIOTS IN SPAIN.
The People Fought the Gendarmes and Many
Were Wounded.
Anti-tax riots have occurred in Val
encia, Barcelona and Seville. In Val
encia, barricades were erected in the
streets, from behind which the mob
stoned the gendarmes. Cn the latter
endeavoring to dislodge the rioters, they
were received with rille shots and two
policemen were injured. The gen
darmes replied with a fusillade, before
which the mob fled.
The rioting was particularly severe in
Barcelona, where a crowd threw up
barricades and exchanged musketry fire
with gendarmes. Shots were also fired
from the verandas and balconies of a
number of houses. Several gendarmes
were hit. A number of rioters were ar
rested. At Seville a mob threw stones at the
building of the military club, shattering
the windows and tlie gas lamps. The
gendarmes only succeeded in dispers
ing the rioters after a hard fight, dur
ing which several citizens, two gen
darmes, a police inspector and two mem
bers of the municipal guard were
wounded. A force of infantry and cav
alry cleared and occupied the streets.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
the provinces of Barcelona and Valen
cia. At Seville, where the shops are
still closed, the excitement continues.
There has been further resistence to the
gendarmes at Valencia.
Great Doal In Mexico.
The Hacienda de Japala de Rosales
lias been sold to Don Es Moss and Bos
ton associates for $1,000,000. A quar
ter of a million dollars will be expended
on the property in building factories for
the manufacture of a new substitute for
India rubber. The estate has ample
water and power, and is situated in the
State of Mexico, an hour's ride front
the City of Mexico.
ROBBERS WRECK A SAFE. '
Burglarize Ihe Dunbar, Pa., Pos'offics and
Make The'r Esoape.
The postoffice at Dunbar, Pa., was
burglarized early Thursday morning.
The safe was shattered by a strong
charge of nitro-glycerine or dynamite,
and stamps to the value of $110, two
valuable registered letters and several
dollars in small change taken. The
robbery was one of the most daring and
successful ever perpetrated in Fayctto
county. There is not the least doubt
in the minds of those wdio have viewed
the wrecked safe and the method used
by the burglars in blowing it open, that
they, the cracksmen, are professionals
and quite likely arc the same thieves
who looted the East Brady bank.
The postoffice building is situated in
the very heart of the town along the
side of Postmaster Georpe H. Swear
ingen's residence, and still no person
, was awakened by the force of the ex
plosion. All the drawers in the safe
were rifled. Several report books con
taining the business of the office were
also taken. These are of no value to
the robbers, and will no doubt be
thrown away in some out of the way
. place.
&T THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
The United State! Senate lias au
thorized the erection of a itatue of
Longfellow in Washington.
The Senate confirmed the nomina
tions of Sanford B. Dole to be gov
ernor, and Henry . Cooper to be sec
retary of Hawaii.
Representative King, of Utah, has In
troduced in the House a bill to pay
Brigham H. Roberts $2,000 for mileage
and expense while defending his right
to a seat in the House.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
In the copper region of Upper Michi
gan 2.500 miners arc out.
Striking miners at Scranton, Ta., will
ne given work on city sewer construe
tion.
More than 5.000 seals have already
been killed in the Alaskan waters this
spring.
The situation at the Buttonwood
mine, near Wilkcsbarrc, Fa., has be
come quiet.
An Englishman has issued a new
Bible, in which the New Testament pre
cedes the Old.
Catskill.' N. Y.. renorts a loss of $100,-
000 to berries and fruit by the frost of
frulay morning.
Work of the Chicago city directory
enumerators show the population is not
less than 2.001,000.
II. H. Norie, manager of the Union
Bank of Scotland, committed suicide at
his home in Edinbitrg.
Two steamers Friday left New Or
leans carrying .1,000 mules to the British
army in South Airica.
The big glucose plant of the United
States Sugar Refining Company at
Waukegan, 111., will be closed down.
Over 50.000 delegates arc expected at
the international convention of Chris
tian Ffldcavorcrs in London July 13 t:
18.
Coal is demanding famine prices in
F.nirland and exports of American
black diamonds to that country will be
gin.
An immense vein of fire clav has been
found at Industry, Pa. Steps have been
taken for the building of a fire-brick
plant.
Orders have reached Tcrre Haute,
Ind.. that one of tlie bin steel trust
mills should be closed indefinitely after
June I.
Governor Tavlor. of Kentucky, has
returned to Washington, where he will
remain until the supreme court decides
his case.
Saturday. Mav 10. has been fixed for
tlie reception by the United States Sen
ate of the statues of Benton and Blair
from Missouri.
The steamer Quito sailed Thursday
from New York lor Bombay, carrying
joo.oco bushels of corn for trie famine
districts in India.
A lartre number of tlie Japanese im
migrants at Victoria. B. C. arc weav
ers coming under contract to work in
New England mills.
Six men were killed Saturday by an
explosion in the coal mine of the ir-
gima Iron. Coal and Coke company,
at Toms Creek, Va.
The number of cases of the bubonic
plague at Sydney. N. S. W., officially
reported to this date, is 216. Of these
7.1 have proved fatal.
Curiosity cost Miss Mary Kurtz her
riirlif arm nt the Wavncsboro (Fa.)
laundry. She reached forward with her
'hand to sec if the rolls were warm.
The Prcsbvterv of Philadelphia has
declared itself as overwhelmingly op
posed to any revision of the fundamental
doctrines of the Presbyterian cnurcn.
The American section of the electri
cal department of the Paris exposition
has been seriously damaged by a storm,
the water pouring through the leaky
roof.
The President Friday evening gave a
dinner at t'he White House in honor of
Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt. Mem
bers of the cabinet and their wives were
present.
General Wesley Merntt. commander
of the department of the East, departcj
for a European tour, and will soon be
succeeded in the east by General
Brooke.
William Tvron. an evangelist, has
been arrested at Ashton, W. Va., on
suspicion of havinsr murdered three
children at Provo City, Utah, in Janu
ary, 1H06.
Another month will be necessary to
bring order in the Paris exposition.
The American pavilion was formally
transferred to the French authorities
Saturday.
The Yukon territory (Canada) census
shows total population 16,500: men, it.-
000; women, 2,000; children, 500; British
subjects, 4,500; Americans, 0,000; In
dians, 350.
Elmer Bcniamin. aged 20. shot and
killed Mrs. Emma Priest, a young
widow, at Sparta, Wis., because he be
lieved she had alienated the affections
of his father.
One hundred sacks of smuggled wool
have been seized at Boston, Lawrence
and Bristol, R. I. It is alleged that $50,
000 worth of wool has been smuggled
within a year.
Western railroads have agreed to a
rate of one fare for the round trip to the
Republican National convention.
Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, par
doned John Dugan, serving a sentence
of 21 years for the murder of John C.
Colson, a brother of ex-Congressman
David G. Colson.
In a collision hetwecn two passencer
trains at Hardevillc, S. C, John Jack
son, a fireman, was killed, and three
mail clerks were injured. Not a pass
enger was injured.
The Paris Patric says Emperor Wri!l
ani's friendship for England is inspired
by a prospect of war with the United
States, in which case he wants Eng
land for a friend.
Explorations by Prof. Flinders Tetric
in Abydos, F.gypt, have resulted in find-
imr many historical tacts 01 the first
dynasty, a period of which little or noth
ing lias been known hitherto.
The Russian expedition, which has
just landed in New York, expects the
concessions of the vast Siberian tracts
to prove a rival to Cape Nome in the
richness of the gold yield.
In the Senate Senator Chandler de
clared that the government is being
victimized by the armor plate manufac
turers, and that the so-called secret pro
cesses of making armor are all humbug.
Jim Howard, one of the men accused
of the murder of Goebel, surrendered to
the authorities in rrankfort. Ky.. as
serting his confidence in his acquittal.
Damaging gales are reported from
the German coasts. Near Leba four
vessels have been lost, and all on board
drowned. From Bremen, Kiel and
Flensburg come reports of the loss of
fishing smacks with a number of lives.
R. W. Davis and J. N. Russell, of the
Etna Foundry and Machine Company,.
Warren, O., have sold the Davis cast
ing machine patent to the Wheelinsr
and Hegele Patterson Company, of
rutsDurg.
IMILLIONS 1 DIG EACH WEEK.
INDIA'S FAMINE.
Dealh't Terrible Ravages Among Starving
Hindoos Cruolties Practiced by Local
Rajahs World's Relief Pouring In.
Mail advices from India show the fam
ine raging there to be far worse than
is reported in official dispatches. There
is more distress than has been known
in any two previous famines, and the
affected area covers practically the en
tire country, except the eastern corner
watered by the Ganges.
On a map of t'he United States the dis
trict would extend from Washington to
Jacksonville, and west to Denver anil
El Paso, while the famine population is
one and a half times that of the whole
United States, Since the first of the
year more than a million people have
died, and the present death rate is
above 50.000 a week.
The only permanent relief centers in
the annual monsoon due about the mid
dle of June, which will water the coun
try. It is feared, however, that late
winter will divert the monsoon currents
and ndd immensely to the suffering.
Where the natives arc in charge of
the relief work there is an entire ab
sence of system and indifference to the
sufferings. When grain is entrusted to
the care of natives thev usually sell it
for their own use. Instances are known
of starving men being forced to give
everything they possessed for a measure
for a little grain, to make their wills in
for a ittle Brain, to make their wills in
favor of natives, who thereafter refuse
to continue the supply until the man
lies.
Babies are the greatest sufferers and
literally die like the flies that swarm
over their little bodies. Many of them
are sent to tlie relief centers, each bear
ing some distinctive mark as the only
way mothers can recognize their chil
dren after the famine is over, so great
will be the change in their appearance.
Some of the native rulers are work
ing harmoniously with the British and
arc making generous subscriptions.
Others of the less enlightened class be
lieve the famine to be tlie work of God
and consider it a sacrilege to relieve
those designed by fate to perish. In
several of the interior states, hundreds
of miles away from the nearest railroad
it is risking your life to alleviate the
sufferings.
Money is pouring into India from
evcrv ouarter of the globe, but more
than money is wanted. Direct shipment
of wheat and rice, and almost as much
as these, cattle fodder is necessary.
WONDERFUL GOLD MIKES.
New Field In Siberia Said lo be Iho Most Val
uable Ever Discovered.
New gold fields rivaling in richness
the deposits of Cape Nome will be open
ed to American miners if the expecta
tions of the members of the Russian
expedition which arrived in New York
Sunday night on the Campania, on its
way to northeastern Siberia, are ful
filled. Vladimir Wonlarlarsky, a colonel of
the Russian imperial guard, obtained
the concession of the vast Siberian tract
which the expedition is to examine.
There were more than 40 applicants for
the grant, which bad been sought with
eagerness since the discovery of gold
on the American side of the Bering sea.
George Roberts, a veteran Californian,
savs that from information which he
had received the deposit of gold on the
Siberian coast promised to be the most
valuable ever discovered. No attempt
will be made to work the tundra this
year, but the party 1iopes to be able to
make some contracts with American
companies with pumps and dredges.
Riol al Turtle Creek.
A riot of ugly pronortions broke out
n the boroueh of Turtle Creek. Pa.,
alvmt 10 o'clock Sunday night. Three
mm were injured, being hit bv flying
stones and bricks. The trouble was
precipitated by an effort of the local
health board to use the old Wilkins
township school house, in the middle
of Larimer avenue, in the borough, as
a pest house, in which to place a num
ber of smallpox patients. The citizens
of the borough were opposed to this,
and gathered around the school house
to prevent, the smallpox patients from
being brought there. When the police
and special officers tried to drive the
citizens away a riot ensued.
BRYAN AND TOWNE NAMED.
Populist National Convention Hold a R.d-Hol
Session Thursday.
After a desperate fight between the
contending forces the Populist National
convention at Sioux Falls, S. D., Thurs
day night, nominated Charles A. Towne,
former congressman from Minnesota,
for the vice presidency. Mr, Towne
was a Republican nearly all his life, but
in 180a led the Silver Republicans in
their bolt from t'he St. Louis National
convention and organized the Silver
Republican party, of which he was made
National chairman.
Many of the leaders of the Populist
party opposed the making of any nom
ination for the vice presidency at this
convention, favoring the sending of a
conference committee to the Demo
cratic National convention in Kansas
Citv, where a candidate agreeable to
both parties might be chosen. The
fight for this course was made by Sen
ator W. V. Allen, of Nebraska, who
was considered a representative of the
views of Mr. Bryan; by General Weav
er, of Iowa, and former Congressman
Simpson, of Kansas, but the convention
would not have it.
Farming Exports Increase
Tlie monthly statement issued bv the
bureau of statistics, shows that during
April the exports were as follows:
Breadstuff, $18,566.18, increase, as
compared with April, 1809, $.3,450,000;
cattle and hogs. $2,081,799, decrease
$470,000: provisions, $13,147,286, in
crease $508,000: cotton, $24,684,031, in
crease $16,263,000; mineral oils, $6,035.-
13b, increase $1,730,000. for the last 10
months the total exports of these ar
ticles amounted to $618,087,304, as
against $674,443,236 for the same period
in isog.
GREAT WATER POWER.
Extensive Manufacluring Plant Building.
Nlokel Steel to be Made-Pulp
Mdl Running.
There is tinder way at Sault Stc.
Marie, Mich., the eastern end of Lake
Superior, the greatest water power ca
nal system in the world. There is
building a canal two miles long, carry
ing a stream of water 22 feet deep, and
more than 200 feet wide, to supply force
to turbines and dynamos capable of
Kern-rating 40,0110 norse power.
Already there has been put into use
15.000 II. P. on the Canadian side of
the river by the same company. This
is the Lake Superior Power Company,
associated with other corporations that
are developing forests and mines, build
ing railways, buying ships, ami experi
menting with the use of electricity for
the reduction of ores into steel and fin
ished forms. The combined companies
have spent $5,000,000 in their works so
far, and have plans for the expenditure
of about $15,000,000 more.
The Lake Superior Power Company
has a wood pulp mill on the Canadian
side of the Sault river that is making
150 tons of wood pulp daily. Manager
Clergue claims there Is a saving of
$1,000 daily over the ontnut of any sim
ilar mill in the world. By combination
of iron from Michipicotcn and nickel
from Sudbury the company claims it
is able to make a nickel steel at lower
prices than any other firm, and it also
claims to have solved the problem of
reducing ores by electricity. Mr. Cler
gue states that he has made contracts
with the firm of Krupp, Germany, un
der which he will supply nickel steel for
armor and projectiles, made by an
electric process. The works for this
branch of the business are now under
construction.
The power works, now tinder way on
the American side of the Sault river,
consist of a canal two miles long, now
half done, debouching into a wide fore
bay and passing through a stone power
house 1,368 feet long, set crossways of
the stream. In this house are to be set
320 turbines and 80 Westinghouse dyna
mos, one for each set of four turbines.
These dynamos are of 500 horse-power
each.
LYNCHED AND RIDDLED.
West Virginia Mob Hangs a Negro lo a Tree,
Then Shoot Him.
Friday night about 11:30 o'clock a
masked mob of 100 men took William
Lee, colored, from the jail at Hinton,
W. Va., and hanged him to a tree near
by. After the hanging his body was
riddled with bullets, fully 100 shots be
ing fired.
The crime with which Lee was charg
ed was an attempt to assault Mrs. H.
IT. Dicfcnbach, a Chesapeake and Ohio
telegraph operator at Sandstone, seven
miles west of that city. The mob gath
ered in the suburbs of the city and
marched quietly to the county jail. They
were met by the sheriff and several cit
izens, who tried to persuade them to de
sist. Judge McWhortcr came forward
and tried by argument to get the crowd
to refrain from violence and let the law
take its course. The crowd listened re
spectfully to the judge's remarks, but
when he was through renewed their de
mand for the keys to the negro's cell.
Seeing that further parleying was
useless the jailer was compelled to ac
cede to their demands. Lee was about
20 years of age. and claimed his home
was in North Carolina. He had been
for several months at work on the
Chesapeake and Ohio construction
force. He bore a bad reputation.
Child Kills His Father.
Peter Mclntyrc, the agent of the
Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Com
pany at Toronto, Out., was shot and
instantly killed Thursday by his 13-year-old
son. Tlie boy wanted to go to a
neighboring town, but his father refused
him permission. The lad then drew
a revolver and fired and the bullet went
straight through his father's heart.
The boy was arrested. He says he
only wanted to frighten his father, but
that the revolver went off accidentally.
The Sharon Steel Company has secur
ed a lease on 12,000 acres of land be
tween I.cesburg, Mercer county, and
Harrisvillc, Butler county, Pa., which is
underlaid with rich deposits of coal and
limestone. The company will open
mines and a quarry and use the product
in their works now under course of
construction. A 25-mile railroad will
be built to the mines.
A, Warning lo Ihe Pops.
Mrs. Marion James, wife of a negro
farmer near Eutaw, Ala., attended the
meetings of a traveling evangelist, who
taught the holiness doctrine. She had
a dream that God commanded her to
make known to the Pope he has but
three months to live. Her husband
drew his money from the bank to pay
her expenses, and with a female com
panion she is en route to Rome with
her message.
TERSE TELEGRAMS.
Beaver Falls, Pa., will erect its own
lighting plant.
Worms are ruining apple trees in the
Ligonier valley, Pa.
President McKinley has signed the
Grand Army pension bill.
The London fund for the relief of the
victims of the Ottawa fire has reached
$215,000.
Between $2.or.o,ooo and $3000.0:0 was
shipped abroad from New York
Wednesday.
Fifty women employes of the York
(Pa.) knitting mill arc on strike for
higher wages.
The Newark Presbytery, of New
Jersey, voted in favor of a revision of
the Presbyterian creed.
The Christian Church of Parkersburg,
W. Va., will build a new house of wor
ship with a roof garden attached.
The bubonic plague is decreasing in
India. There have been 27 cases and
nine deaths in the Egyptian ports.
Mrs. W. M. Ligett. of Becks Mills,
Washington county, Pa., will return to
the Klondike to rejoin her husband.
Rev. Father John McMahon, pastor
of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Sa
linesville, O., has been peremptorily or
dered to Rome to explain church troubles.
JAPAN EXPECTING WAR VERY 800H.
BIG PREPARATIONS.
Ageiiot the Mikado Buying War Equlptnen
In America Half a Million Soldiers
for Ihe Field.
Chokuro Kadono, of Toklo, Japan, an
agent of the Japanese government, is in
Massachusetts, buying nrms and equip
ment for an army of 500,000 men, to be
placed in the field by the Japanese gov
ernment at once. He is in Worcester
now buying tools for arsenals and
studying American methods of manu
facturing implements of warfare. He
iurnished some startling facts as to the
scale on which Japan is carrying on her
preparations for the coming conflict.
The Mikado is preparing quietly to
put an army of 500,000 well armed and
well drilled soldiers in the field, and
within two years the Japanese army will
be one of the most formidable in point
of numbers and equipment of any arm
ed force in the world. The Japanese
emperor considers that the American
make of offensive and defensive arms is
the best in the world, and he has depu
tized a force oi the brightest educated
young men in the empire to go to for
eign parts and study them.
Heavy artillery to back up the forces
of infantry, which the Mikado will put
in the field before 11x53, will be neces
sary, and the finest and most powerful
make of guns will be purchased. From
this country Kadono will sail for
France. His principal destination will
be the gun works of Krupp, in Essen,
Germany.
Kadono says that Japan is going to
he in the front rank when the war cloud
bursts over the eastern coast of Asia.
Japan does not intend to be wiped off
the face of the earth, to be divided up
among Christian nations, as China may
be some day. When war comes. Ka
dono believes that the United States
will have to hurry to catch up with the
end of the procession. More ships and
a half million of well armed men is
what Japan will rely on to repel the
greedy European nations.
PIERCES THE BEST ARMOR.
A Marvelous Shell Tested by Officers ol Ihe
Navy Dcpar'menL
With one of the soft, metal capped
shells of American manufacture, devel
oped by the naval ordinance bureau, a
six-inch naval rifle Tuesday, plugged a
clean hole through a plate of Harvey
ized armor 14 inches thick. This mar
velous achievement was witnessed by
Assistant Secretary Hackett, for whom
the trial was made at Indian Head. The
gun was charged with smokeless powder
enough to give the shell a velocity of
2.580 feet per second, or 25 per cent,
above ordinary proof velocity.
Some facts almost startling in their
importance were laid before the Senate
in secret legislative session at the con
clusion of the regular open session.
They related to the invention of a shell
by a prominent officer of the United
States navy, superior in every essential
quality to any now in use by this or any
other government. The quality of pen
etration possessed uy the shell is said
to be so great that no armor now man
ufactured in the United States or abroad
has sufficient resistance to withstand it.
The facts, which were in possession of
a few senators, were deemed so im
portant that the Senate decided to con
sider them in secret session.
Vesuvius Rained Rock.
The cable car service up Mount Ve
suvius has been suspended in conse
quence of the eruption. Four English
men attempted to ascend the mountain
on foot and eluding the vigilance of the
carbineers, who form a cordon at a
height beyond which the ascent is con
sidered unsafe, they approached the
summit. Suddenly the volcano belched
forth a stream of lava and large stones,
which descended upon the foolhardy
tourists, who were rescued in a terribly
bruised and battered condition and re
moved to the hospital.
The activity of Vesuvius Is becoming
more formidable and the observatory of
ficials announce that the seismic instru
ments are extremely aiiitated. A thick
column of smoke is rising from the cra
ter, and the earth shocks arc violent.
The Democratic members of the
House have started a boom for Repre
sentative Green, of Reading, for vice
president.
Maniao Mother's Doed.
A desperate attempt to kill herself
and two children was made by Mrs.
Marv Weathers, ot scranton. Pa..
Wednesday. Using a sharp table knife,
she cut the throat of her s-ycar-old
daughter, then gashed her own throat
time and again, and followed up by
pounding herself on the head with a
hatchet. She had the hatchet raised
over her 10-month-oJd child, who was
lying on the bed, when she fell exhaust
ed to the tloor. tier blood fairly
drenched the clothing of the infant on
the bed.
Neighbors brought in a physician.
and after the blood had been checked,
the mother and daughter were removed
to the Lackawanna hospital. The
auuhter. it is thought, wil recover.
but only slight hopes are entertained
for the mother. Mrs. Weathers is 15
years of age. A week ago she had her
husband sent to tail for beating her.
and since then she has been drinking
heavily.
A $500,000 0 I Deal.
The Blossburg Oil Company, which
recently struck a big producer in the
Gaines field. Pa., has accepted $500,000
from the Standard Oil Company for its
leases, wells, and appliances. The well
has been earning for the . Blossburg
stockholders nearly $200 per day since
oil was struck.
A Rebel DeleaL
Telegrams from Manila, dated Thurs
day, say: The insurgents have suffered
a heavy loss at Tahako, near Legaspi,
province of Albay. Luzon. Two hun
dred nhemcn and 000 uoiomen were
ureoaring to attack the town and Can-
tain Lester H. Simons, with a company
of the Forty -eventh volunteer, regi
ment, advanced to meet them and killed
many.
I he insurgent leader, a native or est.
was wounded and captured after his
horse had l-en shot under him.
AGUINALDO STILL ALIVE.
Two Hundred and Eighty Filipinos Killed In
Two Battle In (he Visayan Islands No
Amnion Casualties.
Telegrams from Gen. Young report
that Aguinaldo has rejoined the rebel
general, Tino, in the north, and that
they have reassembled a considerable
force in the mountains. Gen. Young
desires to strike them before the rains
and asks for reinforcements. The tenor
of the dispatches indicates that Gen.
oiing is confident that Aguinaldo ts
with Tino and it is presumed they are
planning to resume fighting during the
rams.
Two rebel attacks on the American
garrison in the Visayan islands recently
have resulted in the killing of 280 of the
enemy and the wounding of two Ameri
cans. At daybreak on May t 400 rebels,
too armed with rilles, attacked Catar
man, in northern Saniar, in the vicinity
of Catubig. Company F, ol the Forty
third regiment, was garrisoning the
place. 1 he enemy built trenches on the
outskirts of tli ir,.n ,.-:.... ii,
and fired volleys persistently into it un
til A. !
.... mncricans, cnargmg ine
trenches, scattered the Filipinos and
killed 155 f ,nem Two Americans
were wounded. This attack was precip
itated by the enemy's recent successful
light at Cntuliitr ti,. ,,..;. ( r.
tarman has been removed to the seaport
i-Kuan.
A forr nf t?;i;:. .:..... J A
number 200 men armed with bolos and
"in-Taunff lour muzzle-loading cannon,
attacker! Tarn T I.l.i A :i .
which was garrisoned by 25 men of
Company B, of the Forty-third regi-
...j mi., j-ii-m. r.stes commanding, kstes
left It film trt nrr,. tl.. 4 - I
I I 'i-vi iiic iwwtl, tfMU
with the remaining to men he advanced
pn the enemy in two squads, sheltered
iy the ridges south of the town, whence
they stood off the Filipinos for three
; "en zo armeu members ot the
local nohre nA t U.l 17..
Americans. The latter, with the police,1
V'-'k me enemy, and together they
dispersed tho Fit;.,:. .1 -t... .l!
fight was over buried 125 of them. There
were no American casualties.
MINERS' BLOODY RIOT.
Revolvers Fired and Threo Men, Including Iho
Iho Superintendent Aro lrured.
The Buttonwood mine, of the Parish
Coal Company, where 400 men went on
strike, was the scene of a riot. The
strikers, to the number of several hun
dred, gathered early to prevent any one
from working. The first attacked was
Morgan Thomas, a pipeman. Two re
volvers were placed nt his head and ha
was knocked off his bicycle. Three oth
er workmen came to his rescue and a
free fight ensued. The strikers got the
worst 01 it and had to call for reinforce
ments. A short distance away another battle
was in progress. The strikers attacked
a half dozen men. who carried dinner
pails, and drove them off. About 30
ihots were fired. Two men were wound
ed, but not seriously. Gen. Supt.
nmytne arrived upon the ground and
the mob hissed and hooted him. Mr.
Smythe tried to reason with the men,
but the latter would not listen to him.
Then some one in the crowd threw a
club, striking the superintendent
head. A severe cash was in flirted
which the blood flowed freely. A num
her of workmen came to the sunerin
tendent's assistance and he was dragged
away from the mob. The injured man
was taken to Wilkesbarre, where a phy
sician dressed the wounds.
The whole trouble was caused by the
discharge of a miner. 1
PEACE SOCIETY REJECTS CARNEGIE.
Proposal lo Elect Him Vlo?.Pres!denl Mel Op
position al Boston.
An attempt to secure the election of
Andrew Carnegie to a vice presidency
of the American Peace Society devel
oped a bitter contest at the annua! meet
ing of the society, which has held at
Boston, Mass., Wednesday. Mr. Car
negie was denounced by members of the
society as a man who had attained his
prominence through the agency of
wealth. So strong was the opposition
to his candidacy that Mr. Carnegie;
name was withdrawn.
Several members Of the society an-
nounced their intention to resign their
membership if Mr. Carnegie were elect
ed a vice president.
HIS SUIT FAILED.
Ardent Lover Who Turned Out lo Be a Tramp
Had lo Be Restrained by Law.
A too ardent lover had to be restrain
ed by the city authorities at Chambers-
burg, Pa., Tuesday. A woolen mill
hand aged 19, Rose Dunkle, advertised
in a Western matrimonial paper and go
into correspondence with William C
Miller, of Fvansville, Ind., florist and
engineer. His letters became warm
and urgent of marriage and despite her
retusal to wed he started east to carry
out his desire for marriage. His let
ters came from points in West Virginia,
Kentucky, Illinois, Maryland and this
State, and finally he arrived soon after
Easter. He went to the woolen mill
and introduced himself by sending the
girl a bundle of clothing. When sho
saw him, love fled. He was a disrepu
table, dirty, ragged tramp. He would
not be repulsed and, after leaving town
twice, he came back yesterday and fol
lowed the girl about so persistently that
she became hysterical and sought the
police. Miller was arrested and after
examination was made to understand
the hopelessness of his suit. He re
turned the letters of the foolish girl,
got back his photograph and left town,
promising never to return.
CABLE FLASHES.
Plague has broken out at Hons
Kong.
Rumors of a plot to assassinate Lord
Roberts cannot be confirmed at the Lon
don war office. .
The health of the demented kinir. Ot
to, of Bavaria, is completely broken
and death is expected soon.
1 ne rrencn cauinet nas . issued a
statement that the municipal elections
have strengthened the government.
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