MINERS H 10 ID THE STRIKE
ACCEPT ADVANCE.
Will Return lo Work II Operator Agree lo
Abolish Sliding Bcalo Arbitration Fav
ored Tho Owners Mint Decide.
I
' In order to nettle tlie great strike in
the anthracite region the operators will
have tn vield another point. The roll-
trillion of the United Mine Worker
of America closed Saturday afternoon,
after passing a resolution agreeing t
accept the 10 per cent, raise in wages
that had hi en offereil. providing that
the companies auric to maintain the
new rate for a specified period and abol
ish the sliding scale of wages prevail
ing in the Lehigh and Schuylkill dis
tricts. If these proposition prove tin
ncceptahte. the mine workers are willing
to submit tlie question at issue to a
board of arbitration. They unanimously
agreed that work should not lie resumed
in anv colliery until all operators have
accepted the proposition. The resolu
tions were adopted after a long and
heated discussion.
A canvass of the operators of the
YVyoininir val'ey shows that there is
consider;. hie opposition to granting th:
miners anv more concessions than those
outlined in the original offer, namely,
to per cn't. increase without any condi
tions. The individual operator? espe
cially are opposed to tying thcnwlvvs
up to any agreement. One operator
said the only way the strike call he set-
tied is for the strikers to accept tlie 10
per cent, without anv provisions.
The terms of the Scrantoti convention
are not acceptable to operators and rep
resentatives of coal-carrying companies
t Shantokui and Mt. I armel. I In
Heading officials do not think the slid
ing scale will he aholished by the com
pany. while operatots are averse to sicn-
ing a rontr-ict binning tlnni to pay tlie
10 tier cent, increase until A pril.
Despite the views of the operators,
the impression is that the strike will he
cniled tins week.
DE WET STILL F.GHTING.
Tho Boer Commnr.dor Compe's Burghers to
Enter the Ranks.
The Boers are very active in the
Kroonstad district, den. He Wet has
proclaimed that burglars who refuse to
tight wi'.l be made prisoners of war.
Uritish mounted infantry, scouting from
Eindley, had Capt. Wiltshire killed,
through mistaking a party of 40 Boers
in khaki for friends. Iloers commandoes
continually harrasscd the British column
while marching from Eindley to Kroon
stad. The Boers raptured a detachment
of the Chehire regiment which was es
corting an empty wagon mar Frankfort.
They released the driver, but kept the
vagon.
The Loudon war office has received
the following from Eord Roberts, dated
Pretoria. Friday: "A satisfactory li't'e
affair occurred near Frankfort when Col.
Grove, with the West Rents, surprised
u Itocr laager at dawn, killed seven,
wounded nine and captured 18."
WILL HUNT FOR THE POLE.
A New Yoiker Proposes lo Equip Two Ships
tor an Arctic Expedition.
William Ziegler, a wealthy citizen of
New York city, has announced that he
would purchase two vessels, fully equip
nnd man tllem and send them in quest
of the north pole during the sum
mer of 1001. The expedition is to be
in charge of Evelyn B. Baldwin.who was
a companion of Lieut. Fcary in his at
tempts to reach the pole in 189.1 and
iHo.4. and also a member of Valtcr
Wellman's expedition. It is Mr. Zieg
lcr's intention to have one vessel remain
in the Arctic regions while the other
returns for supplies.
V The expedition, it is said, 'will not
be dispatched for the north earlier than
the summer of 1001. nnd all the time be
tween this date and that will be neces
sary for the preparation and outfit.
Yellow Fover in Havana.
One hundred nnd thirteen new cases
of yellow fever have officially been re
ported in Havana since October t. The
disease has attacked Major Fcterson,
chief commissary, and Mr. Frank Naycs,
general manager of the Havana branch
of the North American Trust Company.
Four hundred and twenty-eight Span
ish immigrants are in quarantine there
owing to the existence ot smallpox .n
the vessel on which they arrived.
T Bank Doposll Increase.
The comptroller of the currency has
completed an abstract of the condition
of national banks at the close of business
September 5. The aggregate loans and
discounts were 2,(o,75g,o.)0, ami ine
aggregate individual deposits $J,507,
24X.557. The number of banks reporting on
June 29 was 3,732. and the number re
porting on September 5 was 3,872, an
increase of 140.
The work of compiling the returns
from the mutual savings institutions has
recently been completed, which shows
that, during the year ended June 30, the
aggregate resources of thee institutions
has increased $185,741,030; the deposits
have risen from $1,060,70.), 131 on June
30, 1899, to $2,134,471,130 on June 30
of the current year. The number of de
positors in these mutual savings bank)
increased during the year from 5.070,732
to 5,370.109, and the average deposits
Irom to 397-47.
Hundreds ef House Destroyed.
A typhoon caused great damage on
the coasts of Formosa and Southern
China. A number of towns were de
stroyed. Nineteen hundred houses were
washed away or inundated at Taipch
Formosa, and many lives lost.
Kansas Miners' Victory.
The difficulty between the miners and
ooerators at Leavenworth, Kan., whi:h
has existed for the past six weeks, has
been settled by the men accepting the
decision of O. B. Taylor, who had been
chosen as arbitrator by both sides. The
terms upon which the men will go to
work are 84 cents per ton, eight hours
to rnnstiiute a day's work. This is a
victory for the miners. Only one mine
started Monday morning, the other two
not being ready. One hundred and fifty
miner) have gone to other fields, but
they win return as soon wun nam,
LATEST NEWS N0TE3.
Pinkeye is reported among horses nt
St. Vincents, Westmoreland county,
Pa.
A. T. Deer, nn aeronaut, fell from his
lnllon nt Gays Milk Wis., mid was I
killed
The tloers hnvc torn up the railway
north of llethulic and captured a British
outpost.
Alexander Howard killed his young
son Leigh at his home in Brooklyn and
committed suicide.
4. 1, 11 ,. V. .1. . t. . ...,.m., ntt.l
a baby. riding in a wagon, were killed
i iioiiirooK, rtui., iiiivt v....,...
:i n r.i lrn:i,i rrnsninir.
Elmer Rupert, a farmer, living near
New Springfield. O., was crushed to
leatll in a rider press.
American Car Foundry Company car
builders at Huntington, . a., nave
struck for higher wages.
The Eighty -fifth regiment, Pcnnsyl
vania volunteers, held a reunion at
Brownsville Wednesday.
ft is remitted that 10.000 Chinese
rebels were defeated by regular troops
111 a battle near Canton.
The tireshvterv of San ' Francisco,
Cat., has decided to stand by the csl
minster Confession of Faith.
James E. Katikin. a young mechanical
engineer ol I'ltlsinirg, was kiiich n
traction car running into his horse.
The British forces have rcoccupicd
Sniithfirtd. Kouxville. Wipener and
l)c Wctsdorp, Orange Kivcr colony,
The widowed Ouccn Margherita. of
lta'y, has given away nil her royal cos
tumes and jewels ami become a recluse.
ii- TIimuvh I inloii acknowledges that
he has pork cornered, but says he will
ng raise the price and will be easy on
the shorts
( Ine of the stone pillars of the burn
ed state capital has been unveiled as a
soldiers monument at Mcr.inaiicii. 1111
ton county. Fa.
Lancaster. Fa., is the place selected
bv 1I1.. I'l iinsvlvania Congress of Moth
crs for its first annual meeting on No
vember J and .1.
Et. Commander William II. lleeliler.
nrtviil :il t:ir In of the United States cm
bassy at Berlin, is suffering severely
(torn pneumonia.
A freight wreck on the Central rail
road of New lersev. near Boundhrook
sigin.l tower, killed the engineer aim
riled up .to cars in a heap.
Cecil Rhodes in assuming the presi
denrv of the South African League
made an address in favor of federation.
conciliation and equal rights,
The works of the Illinois Steel Com
pany at Chicago have ceased operations
or two weeks. Two thousand live hun
dred men are employed there.
The government of South Africa by
England will be strictly rolonial, hut I
non-military, after the system used in
Leyon nnd the West Indies.
The Venezuelan government has an-
nulled the concession to the Orinoco
I onipany, organized by capitalists ol
Minnesota and W isconsin 111 IK05. I
At Union Springs. Ala.. Henry I
Ilaugh. a negro, brutally murdered a
10-year-old negro boy. whose body was I
found in a cotton patch two days lal
Mrj. Lester, wife of Capt. Fred Les
ter, of the hirst W est trginia infantry,
at Huntington, was accidentally shot
while handling a revolver nnd will die.
At Ferth West Australia the premier,
the Right Hon. Sir John 1-orrest, in in
troducing the budget, asked to be re
lieved of the premiership early in 1901
A man and wife nnd two children
were killed and another man fatally in
iured in a grade crossing accident at I
Robinson's crossing, near New Castle
IV.,
At Koisc. Idaho, the soldiers nomc
was destroyed by tire, entailing a loss of
$40,000. There were 800 inmates, one
of whom, Thomas Hayes, was suffocat
ed
At Simla the secretary of state has
completed the purchase of f 1,000,000 of
silver for coinage into rupees, and I,-
000,000 in gold is being shipped to Lon-
ion.
An expedition of 4.000 allies has left
I'ekin and one,ol 7,000 started irom
Tien Tsin, China, for Fao Ting I'll.
where so many foreigners were massa-
cred.
President Errazurjzc. of Santiago do
Chili, who was striken with paralysis
June 10 last, is now in perfect health and
will resume charge of government af-
fairs.
President San Clcmente, of Colom-
bia. has accepted his deposal from
office bv Vice President Marroquin and
has relinquished his authority to the
The Rev. Sam P. Tones, the evangel-
1st. is broken down in health, having
been compelled to cancel all his dates
for lectures in South Carolina and Miss-
issippi.
Fire in Bineham & Co.'s paper factory
at New ork caused a loss of $25,000
and endangered the lives of a score of
girls, who were rescued with dithculty
by firemen.
Edward Goldberg and his wife, for
merly of Canton, ()., are dead in the In
dian territory from eating poisonous
mushrooms Goldberg was Indian agent
at Pawpaw.
Three persons, a father and two sons.
were burned to death in a shanty in
Roxbury. Mass. Several years ago
the man's wife was burned to death in
this same place.
The United States has renewed the
demand upon the government of Mo
rocco for $s,ooo indemnity to the lam
lv of Marcus Azzagui. a naturalized
American citizen, who was murdered
by a mob at I'ez last June.
The laying of the foundation stone
of the imperial museum to be erected
at Saalburg. Germany, on the site of the
o d Roman fortress there, occurred
Thursday, in the presence of the emper
or and empress 01 uerniany.
Bishoo B. M. Arnett. presiding over
the Afro-American Methodist Episco
pal conference, declared that he would
admit no candidate for the ministry who
was a user of tobacco.
The Hamilton Coal Mining Company
of Philadelphia has purchased the coal
mines at Cragdcil station, Pa., on the
Allegheny Valley rairoad, and will opcr
ate on an extensive scale,
The largest mortgage ever entered In
the court house of Beaver county. Pa
was out on record Saturday. It was for
a loan of $i,oco.oco on the property of thy
Consolidated Traction Company.
AN OFFICIAL REPORT.
starlllnn Mortality Renort From the Far
Northwest Rich Gold and Copper
Flndi on Tcillna River.
Census Enumerators Deck and Scx-
Itott have reached Juneau from Cooper
river, where their summer'a work rcstilt-
, . . . . 0 t.
... w.c c.ii.mera ..... , r, ....,
ami ouo wiii.es. i ne mum. is in ui.h
section have died this summer by dor.
ens. Tins mortality results from
ho
influx of miners and the destruction ff
the salmon supply by canneries at the
mouths of the rivers.
Mr. Beck reports that on July 4 gold
was found at I'cslina river. In three
weeks four men took out $.1,000 in
coarc gold. Mr. cxton thinks the
copper belt of l'rince Willian sound will
produce untold millions. He traveed
several weeks with tiovernment Geolo
gist Schrader. who expressed himself as
believing that the deposits! ot copper
there are unriiualed in the world,
A railroad will be absolutely neces
sary to develop this rich country. The
govrrnnicnt telegraph lines through the
("upper river country is so nearly rom
. It-led that it can be quickly finished ill
, , ' r
"'i spring
HOLD THE AMERICAN LOOT.
Tho Silver Caplurod at Pokln Held Until
Corgrcs Decides Its Ownership.
It is understood that the final disposi
lion of the silver, some $.275,000, taken
by the American marines at the capture
of Tien Tsin, mav be determined by
Congress. In the meantime, the silver
is being treated as a trust fund, of which
the government is the custodian until
determination is reached as to its
rightful disposition.
Kear Admiral Rcmrv Friday cabled
the navy department as follows:
Marines embarked on Brooklyn. Za-
firo, and transport Indiana. Zafiro rar-
ries the cavalry. Brooklyn goes to Che
foo and Nagasaki. Indiana sails short
ly, borne sick sent to hospital at Yoko
hama, others be removed soon as Pos
sible, nnd hospital at Tien Tsin closrd.
icw Orleans remains at Taku. Mono-
caey winters 111 Fei Ho river.
SPANIARDS EMIGRATE TO CUBA.
Twclvo Thousand Expeclod by November,
Havana Bond Issue.
Three thousand Spanish immigrants
have arrived at Havana since October I
and the bureau of immigration estimates
the number will mm-t, t 000 !...(., r il.n
L,,,, ,,, lc j, , ,)(.li(.vr(1 IC
vellow ;,!...., i. ..ri..i..ii ,i
to the heavy noii-ininiunc immigration.
It is asserted upon miiiuestionablc an-
thorny that the Ihivan.i bond issue jf
$25,000,000 will not be sanctioned bv
"en. W ood unless par is obtained at
4 per cent, and not to exceed s per cent.
W ednesday being the thirty-second
anniversary of the beginning of the Ten
1 ears war, it was observed .'19 a na
tmnal holiday and the Cuban flag float-
en iver the palace by 'order of Gen,
vi oou.
A FLOOD IMMINENT.
Mississippi I Now Higher Than it Has Been
For Year.
The official records in weather ol
server's office shows that the present
stage of water in the Mississippi is high
or nr w thnti it lift a hnnn fur Bivlnnn
years at this season of the year. Th
river is rising steadily, and a Btagc of
IS feet will be marked. Island farmers
below (ialena. III., have lost all their
corn and hay, and have hundreds of
head of cattle nnd hogs drowned. At
this season of the year Mississippi river
towns repair their levees, but this work
lias been stopped by reason of ndvnnc
t" waier, which resulted in ine cicstruc
tion of thousands of dollars' worth of
progeny.
moH.ahi.1. i u).ik
wothoaisl to Watch,
Bishop Charles Galloway, president of
the general board of education of the
Methodist Episcopal Church south, has
issued a call to the 1,500,000 Methodists
in the south to assemble in their places
of worship on the night of the last day
of the year to hold nn old-fashioned
watch meeting, as a fitting climax to the
twentieth century fund movement. The
fund now amounts to $1,100,000.
" old cllm UnPid-
The auditor for the State and other
departments in his annual report to the
secretary of the treasury states that that
part of the appropriation made by Con
grcss at its last session, amounting to
1.708.870. for the payment of the judg
ment of the court 01 claims against the
United States in fayor of the New York
Indians who were parties to the treaty of
Buffalo Creek, N. V., on January 15
18 18. remains unpaid.
The reason given is that Congress in
making the appropriation did not give
proper authority for ascertaining the
bencfriaries entitled to receive payment.
Recent Orders Roscinded.
The United States naval recruiting
station at Chicago has received orders
rescinding a recent order, making the
age requirement for landsmen from 21
to 25 years, insteaa 01 10 10 25. in tu
ture'applicants between 18 and 25 years
of age will be etigioie lor enlistment.
Oil and Coal Discovered.
Coal and eas in paying quantities were
found at St. Joseph. Mo., at a depth of
a little more than 1,000 feet. The gas
will be piped to the city at once, 11 the
supply holds out. as it promises to do.
A vein of coal that may reach two feet
in thickness was found.
Attempted Postotflct Burglary.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
burglarize the postoffice at Lindsey, Pa.
Four masked men gained entrance to
the office, knocked off the handle of
tin. safe and poured a quantity of nitro
rlvrerine through the hole where the
handle had been into the lining of the
outer door. They had everything in
readiness for touching off when they
were alarmed by the cries of a man
across the street, who was watching
them. They made their escape before
officers could be summoned.
LEYTE REBELS SCATTERED.
Surrender ol Officer and Capture ol Their
Troopi Ten Kill In On Bunch.
Queor Juillco.
The west roat of the island of Erytc
Is in turmoil. The rebel ladrones arc
actively plundering and raiding in the
vicinity ol the garrisoned towns while
the Americans pursued them in the
mountains. 1 lie ofliccrs ot the re Del
general Mojica nrc surrendering and
his soldiers arc attempting to escape to
Samar in boats. They nrc rapidly being
captured and their organization broken
up.
The raptured guerrillas nnd ladrones
state that 30 Americans attacked 45
rebels, rilled their stronghold in the
Camarinc province and routed them,
killing 10. Two Americans were kill
ed nnd three wounded. Twenty men
of the Thirty-second inlantry, in nn en
gagement in Batau province, had one
man killed and four wounded.
The administration of Manila's civil
courts by Filipino magistrates, which
has long been scandalous, is now at
tracting public attention more than ev
er anil lias been brought to the la It
commission s attention with requests
or rectification. The courts nrc com
posed of four justices of the peace and
our primary courts. The magistrates
arc all Filipinos and arc utter failures
as administrators ol justice.
The members) of the Taft commission
are disgusted with the condition of the
courts and intend to substitute honest
Americans from the United States for
itive magistrates. Americans having
knowledge of Spanish nre preferred.
hut nre hardest to secure. The commis
sion will then institute drastic reforms
111 the entire judiciary.
FOUGHT WITH CUBAN POLICE.
American Cavalry In a Rumpus al Malanzas,
Three Men Shot.
At Matanzas Thursday a Cuban po
liccman interfered with two members
f the Second United States cavalry.
The quarrel culminated in a general
fight between the police nnd soldie's.
After the police had shot Trooper Tur
ey, of I) troop, one other soldier nnd
one civilian, a number of troopers tried
to break into the gunroom to get their
weapons, but the (puck action ol Capt.
rredcrick v. rolfz in forming troops
L and M in skirmish order made it im
possible for the excited cavalrymen to
iiass. Lieut. W lllard is said to have
een slightly hurt while endeavoring to
quiet the men.
The trooners ileelrtrp th:it thev will
have revenge, nnd Col. Henry E. Noyes
lias ordered all confined to barracks.
The feeling is very strong between the
Cubans and cavalrymen. The authori
ties there 'coV vr-r 'i.t 'l.tt-til as
Payday fignr, nut an investigation has
been ordered.
DRIVEN FROM TRANSVAAL,
Eight Amorlcans, Rocontly Landed In New
York, Preparing Indemnity Claims.
Driven from the Transvaal by force of
British arms', eight American citizens
who recently arrived penniless in New
York, have petitioned the United State
Government to present claims for in
lemnitv against Great Britain. 1 hey
declare that, although neutral in the re
cent conflict, they were kidnaped froi
1 heir homes, leaving wives and clnldre
behind.
As prisoners of war the men say they
were driven out of Johannesburg on
July 13, railroaded to the seacoast
cattle trucks and then sent in the steer
age of a transport to Holland. Amen
can consuls in the ports where they
stopped were powerless to rescue them
and they have made n final appeal
through attorneys in this city to the
secretary of state at Washingon.
Famine Condition Disappear.
Lord George Hamilton, secretary of
state for India, has received the follow
ing dispatch from the viceroy of India,
Lord Curzon, ol Kedlcston the gen
eral condition of the crops is excellent
and except in a part of Bombay famine
conditions are disappearing. The total
number on the relief list has fallen to
3,276,000.
Rescued From Filipino.
Cant. Devereaux Shields, who, with
51 men of Company r. iwenty-nin
regiment, was captured by the insur
gents last month in the island of Marin
duqiie, was recovered Saturday by the
American rescue force with all the mem
her td his party.
Military Prisoner Escapos.
Telegrams from San Francisco say
Jesse W. Adams, a military prisoner
confined at Alcatraz, has gained his lib
ert-v. He chose a novel means of es
cape, leaving Alcatraz as merchandise
inclosed in a wooden box. A box
marked "handle with care" arrived from
Alcatraz an the government boat Mc
Dowell on its last trip to the Presidio.
It was addressed to the general hospital,
and landed at the wharf, preparatory
to being transferred to the hospital
later. The wharfmaster found, when he
rame to open it, that the box had been
broken open and was empty. Inquiry
at Alratraz showed that one of the ten
year term prisoners was missing. Last
weeK nve long-term men escapca irom
the Presidio and none lias been recap
tured. South German Expoib.
The exports from the South German
consulates for the last quarter aggregate
$10,510,280. a decrease of $2s8,88j from
the corresponding quarter of last year.
From all (jcrmany except Uresden th
exports for the same period amounted to
923,508,134, an increase ot $1,225, 77s, as
compared with the returns for the same
time last year.
TERSE TELEGRAMS.
The Canadian parliament has been dis
solved and the election is to be held on
November 1.
Maj. Edward Goldberg, United States
Indian agent, died at Seneca, Mo., from
mushroom poisoning, and Mrs. Gold
bery is very ill from the same cause.
William Schreiber, a missing clerk of
the Elizabethport, N. J., Banking Com
pany, is a defaulter to the extent of $50,-
000, but the directors have made good
the shortage.
WORK HAS BEGUN.
Chlot Engineer Abbott Says tho Company
Will Go Ahead With the Enterprise.
Two-filth ot Ihs Work Done.
Mr. Hittin, director general of the
Panama Canal Company, nnd Gen. Ab
bott, chief engineer of (he company,
were nniong the passengers nrriving in
New York on the steamer La Lorraine
from Havre Sunday.
Ibe l'atintna Canal t,ompnny, said
ieti, Abbott, "is waiting for the recom
mendation of the Walker commission
Congress, and for the action of that
lody. I believe the decision will be in
favor of the Panama canal as being more
feasible, economical and giving belter
suits. If the decision is against the
anama canal, the company will, nevrr
theles. go on building it. 1 believe
that if both the Panama nnd Nicaragua
canals nrc built, nine-tenths of the ves-
Is will choose the Panama canal ns
being the better. What the Walker
commission heard when in Paris was a
revelation to them. Already between
three nnd four million cubic yards have
icen taken out down there nnd two
fifths of the work has been done."
UNCLE SAM'S CROP REPORT.
Tho Report Scmcwhst Bullish lor Corn, Oals,
Buckwheat and Potatoes.
The monthly report of the statistician
of the department of agriculture shows
the average condition of corn on Octo
ber t to have been 78.2, as compared
with Ho.fi last month, 02.7 on October
1N99, K2 at the corresponding date in
180H and 81. the mean of the October
averages of the last lo years. While the
decline during hi-ptember was not se
nous, it extended to almost every 1111
portant corn-growing State.
1 he preliminary estimate ot the yield
per acre of oats is 20.6 bushels, as com
pared with 30.7 bushels last year; 27.K
nishels in iNtiN. and a 10-ycar average
of y,2 bushels.
The average condition ol buckwheat
n October I was 72.8. as compared
with 80.5 last month; 70.2 on October I,
inio: 70.2 at the corresponding date in
l8iK, and 82.2 the mean of the October
averages for the last 10 years.
I he average condition of potatoes on
October I was 74.4, as compared with
Ho last month; K1.7 on October I. W:
72.5 at the corresponding date in ltvjn,
and a 10-vear average of 74 t.
there has been a general decline in
the condition of apples, but in many of
the principal apple-growing States the
condition is still considerably above the
10-vear average.
No further report on wheat will be
issued pending the recruit of the an
nual returns of individual producers and
the final reports of the department
special agents.
WILL OBEY COURT ORDER.
Insurgonl Junior Mechsnic ol Subordinate
Lodges lo Pay Por Capita Tax.
The committee appointed by the in
surgent faction of the Junior Order
United American Mechanics nt the
State council in Philadelphia on Sep
tember 29, held a conference at Harris
burg. Pa.. Tuesday with their attorneys
and decided to instruct all the subordi
nate lodges throughout the State to
abide by the decision of the supreme
court and pay the 15 cents per capita
tax.
The tax is to be paid, however, to S.
B. Mench. of Philadelphia, who was
elected secretary at the Philadelphia
meeting when the regular secretary.
Dccmer. refused to act. and the National
council therefore must collect from
Mench the tax paid bv the insurgents.
This is regarded as tin indication that
the factional feeling still exists and ad
ditional trouble is not unexpected.
Now a Raving Maniac.
Pretty Ella Williams, of Scanton Pa.,
is a raving maniac through a man's ef
forts to win her affections. After ex-
han-iting all honorable methods to make
the victim his wife, IJavid .Morgan re
sorted to drugs, nnd as a result the once
pretty, light-hearted girl is now a wild
eyed, raving maniac.
Six days ago the girl was taken sick
and lay unconscious until Sunday.
When she awoke she was a maniac, re
quiring several persons to hold her,
Morgan left the town and has not yet
been arrested
Many Live Lost In Storm.
Arrording to reports from St. Pierre
17 fishing vessels that were opera:hg
on the Grand Banks during the ga'e r.i
September 12, arc still missing, with
crews aggregating over 200 men
A number of other vessels that have
arrived at St. John's N. F.. within the
last few days have reported a loss of
one to seven men each. The fatality list
probably exceeds 300. Serious disaster
has visited a number of New Foundland
fishing harbors. Burin, on the west side
of Placentia bay, alone losing 35 men.
A Great New Battleship.
The new battleship Wisconsin, built
at the Union.Iron works. San Francis
co, has made a most successful trial trip.
Her highest speed was 18.54 knots an
hour, and her average throughout the
four hours run was 1735 knots. This
beats the Alabama's maximum record of
18.03 knots
New Countorlelt Bill.
The treasury department gives notice
of the discovery of a new counterfeit
$10 silver certificate, series of 189.1, with
portrait ol Hendricks, the counterfeit
is a photographic print, without the silk
fiber and 01 interior workmanship.
Largo Contract lor Japan.
The American Bridge Company, of
Pittsburg, Pa., has closed a contract to
furnish all of the structural steel to be
used in the erection of a big arsenal
at Kure, Japan. The money value of
the contract is between $250,000 and
$300,000. It will require six months to
furnish the material, and it must be de
livered at Kure within a year.
Kure is one of Japan's finest port3,
where large government docks and oth
er military and naval works are main
tained. It was there that the Oregon
received her temporary repairs.
BRITISH TROOPS ALERT.
Boxen Now Preparing lo Carry the War
Into Southorn China American
Troop to Sill lor Cavlle.
Telegrams from Hong Kong, dated
Wednesday, sny; It is said that the au
thorities have rc-cived Information that
general uprising has been fixed in the
southern provinces for November. Ten
thousand more troops from India have
been requisitioned for Hong Kong. The
Nxtccnth Bengal Lancers ana tne
Hong Kong regiment have been recall
ed from the north to Hong Kong. In
dications nre that there will be a Boxer
rising similar to that which occurred
in North China. The whereabouts of
the rebels in the Hinterland is not
known, but is believed to be 10 mile
north of the British borders. A dc
achment of 1,000 Chinese troops took
up a position at San Chung yesterday
and 1,000 arrived there to-day.
1 he 1 nans have met nnd repeatedly
defeated the imperial Chinese troop
near Kowloon. They are daily gaining
fresh adherents.
I he American marines from Pckin
lave arrived nt Taku. where they will
be joined by the Tien Tsin battalion and
sail on the Indiana for Cavitc. in"
American soldiers nrc glad to go '
.lunula. r.
The expedition to Pno Ting Fu has
been hxed for I-riday next. The col
umn will consist of 7,000 British, Ger
man, French and Italian troops.
Telegrams from Shanghai. dated
Thursday, sav; Sheng, the Taotai. has
received a telegram from Gen. reporting
that a serious rebellion has broken out
in the southwestern part of Kwang-Si
province, that his 30,000 troops are in
adequate nnd that he needs at least 100,
000 to cope with the danger, which is
directed against the Manchus ilnd
threatens to become worse than the Tat-
Ping rebellion.
It is reported that the Yamr-Tse vice
roys have sent 20,000 troops to Tao-Ting-Fu
to suppress the rebellion.
1 he rebellion in the province of
Kwang Tung is becoming anti-foreign
and five missions have been destroyed
at llan King Lliau.
CUBA INVITES SETTLERS.
Gen. Wood Say That the Island Odors Good
Opportunities to American.
Gov. Gen. Wood says that Cuba now
offers great opportunities to American
to go there and settle. Land is cheap
or can be rented on a small royalty of
productions. Returns would be quick,
lie recommends the cultivation by im
migrants of tobacco and fruit and the
raising of cattle. At the palace in Ha
vana Tuesday representatives of every
mercantile guild, in Havana joined in
presenting to Gov. Wood an address
expressing gratitude for what he ha
done in the way of reforming the mer
cantile registeries. The address was ac
companied with a pen mounted with
diamonds and rubies.
Trial by jury has been inaugurated in
Cuba, and the writ of habeas corpus es
tablished. Commissioners representing
the church and the state have been ap
pointed to determine the property
rights of the former. '
LEVEE GIVES WAY.
Water ol (he Wisconsin River Oveiflow
tho Town ol Portago.
The government levee at Portage,
Wis., gave way Tuesday afternoon. A
tremendous rush of water from the
Wisconsin river spread over the lower
part of the city. Streets and basement
were Hooded in a lew minutes and the
inhabitants hurried to higher ground
with household goods and other valua
bles. The damage will amount to thou
sands of dollars.
Three hundred men worked hard al!
morning in an effort to brace up the
levee, which was discovered to be ex
tremely weak and threatening to give
way under the high stage of the river.
Their efforts were unavailing, however.
It is feared the flood will spread over
at least one-fifth of the city. It is not
thought nny lives were lost, as the flood
had been expected.
CABLE FLASHES.
John Alexander Dowie, the Zionist,
has secured 20 converts in London.
At Rome a minor official of the Vatican
has been arrested on the charge of giv
ing the thieves access to the room from
which the sum of about 350,000 lire was
recently stolen.
A startling decrease in the birth rate
h.f.s occurred in Berlin, it being but 29
per r.ooo.
Five persons were killed and 75 in
, jurcd in a railway collision at Karlsthon,
; Germany.
1 London politicians sny the recent elec-
j tio? hi" ten. a carnival "f bad manner
and evil passions.
Emperor William has conferred high
decorations upon all the leading officers
c( the Paris exposition.
In Dusselilorf. Germany, a deaf mute
was sentenced to four months', impris
onment for ridiculing the emperor.
At Berlin it is announced that the
Rcichbank on October 18 will offer new
shares of the face value of 30,000,000
marks at 135.
Typhus fever is raging in the Sixty
eighth infantry at Coblcntz, Germany,
and also in the garrisons at Brunswick
and Staarbruecken.
A-syndicate headed by the Commcra
Disconto bank has taken over the new
Hamburg state 4 per cent, loan of 40,
000.000 marks, the price being 08.28.
By a series of collisions between ves
sels in the Mersey river at Liverpool,
England, one steamer was completely
wrecked and sunk, and many others in-
IV. red.
The British steamer Highland Princ
has arrived at Montevideo with t
piague auonru. r.vc ucains. incwu
, 1 I V?: .1 L . d .A if
the captain and first olhcer, occurr
during the voyage.
The British war office has issued ol
'crs that the uuiK ot tne militia regl
ments called out for service during th
South African war are to be disbande l
This will ettect about 50,000 men.
Mnximilian Harden, editor of
Berlin "Gukunft." has been sentenced
a second term of six month imuris
ment for ridiculing tmperor Wily
whom he once compared to a
prince.