BALANCE OF TRADE. The Fiscal Year 1901 Premises le Eellpte II that Have Preceded It Decrease In Import! alto Koled. Exports (mm the United States con tinue in increase, ami the fiscal year rjoi deems destined lint only lo break ail records, but perhaps touch the $t.5V ootmxxi line. l''nr the 12 months en l iiiK W'ih February, tile total is $l.4'K, UM.;S5. and (or the eight months ol the fiscal year U $1.015. IN5..174- No month's' period ill the history of our export trade shows as large a total as the e-ii.ht iiioinhs cndingvwith lchrtia.y, p)oi. The favorable balance of trade, or excess oi exports over ' imports, shows an even greater increase, being .'.'.I 'loi for the eight inoiuhs end ing with February, against $.(01,211). so7 in eight months of the fiscal year 1!)'). On the import side the figure ate also -atisfactoiy. I he total imports in the cght months ending with February were ijt o..:'(i. against $5.'.". 2'.V5" t in lite eight montlis of the preceding lineal year, and $mi.hm.U in the eight months ending with February, l!V. Thus the imports of the eight months' period show in the live years a decrease of about $20.ooo.xio, while the exports show an increase of over $ iixj.ooo.ooo. comparing the eight inonths ending with February, njni, with the eight months ending with February, if). MIKEHS MAY STRIKE. Un til Hard Coal Operator Recognize Union, Men May Quit Work. The most sen-ational feature of the mine workers' convention developed when that body adopted a resolution de claring that if the operators did lot comply with President Mitchell's re quest to meet the miners in conferc ice to fix a wane scale before April I a general strike in tile hard coal regions would be declared. The resolution was adopted with cheers. The majority ' t the (lelcuatis then departed for home. The resolution means that unless the hard coal men yield and recognize the iitiioti the strike will surely be declared, and 150.000 men will tiit work. The. resolutions are: Whereas, we have on several occa sions invited and implored the opera tors t meet with us in joint convention to mutually agree upon and establish a scale of wants on conditions of employ ment ior the term of one year, and Whereas. They have repeatedly ig nored our invitations and treated us wiih contemptuous silence, scorning all invi tations and demands alike, and. Whereas, We believe that we are en titled to inncli more consideration than we receive, and are fully entitled to inert with those, who employ us as our equals under the law and constitution of our country and with ihein are entitled to iliscn-s' ami decide matter ot mutu il interests, therefore, he it Ke-olved. That we authorize onr na tional president, national executive board and officers of di-nicls Nos. I, 7 an 1 o, to negotiate if possible for a joint confi rence of miners and opera tors between this date and the 1st oi April, tool, and in the event of their failure to secure a joint conference they may by a majority vote decide the pol icy of our movements, even if it is nec essary to resort to a suspension of work to enforce the justice due us as produc ers of wealth fully equal to that of our employers. Resolutions were then adopted cm powering the committee to declare a t-trikc if the operators refuse to confer. MARELE FIELDS FOUND. Famous Alaskan Gold Region Abounds In Other Valuable Products. Representatives of an eastern syndi cate in Alaska have made an important discovery in the location of vast fields oi marble that promise to rival to some degree the wealth of the fjoM in that section. It is said that there are thou sands of acres of undeveloped marble in the famous gold region that will serve to attract considerable attention from the speculators during the coming year. The material, it is said, is far superior to that now being quarried in other parts of the country, and already there has been a noticeable rush of fortune seekers to Alaska as a result of the new discovery. It is claimed that in the next year the gold industry will be outrivaled in value and he is also responsible for the statement that Alaska promises to be come the great marble producing center of the world. Banker Arrested tor Murdor. Albert Vogl, a millionaire banker, of Vienna, has been arrested, charged with poisoning a client of his firm, and with concealing the body, and then dis posing of the remains by cremation. Minister's Wl d Spree. Rev. John Griieniergen, pastor of Nashville, Tcnn., branch of the Reform church of the United States, after im bibing too freelv rode into a saloon caus ing a stampede among the people in the place. The minister guided his steed up to the bar and demanded a glass of beer, which was promptly furnished. He was slow about taking the drink, and the barkeeper spoke roughly to him, where lipnn an altercation ensued. Considerable damage was done, bo'.h to the minister's person and the saloon property in getting the preacher and his horse out of the building. Later Rev. Grueniergen called at po lice headquarters seeking redress. He claimed to have lost an eye and receiv ed other injuries in the mix-up.' Convicts Attempt to Escape. Twelve of the 288 convicts in the Ne braska penitentiary who since the fire two weeks ago have been confined to gether in one large room, attempted to escape Friday night. They climbed through n ventilator to the roof of the main wall and with a rope were prepar ing to descend on the outside when they found themselves in the presence of a company of State military men be low. They remained on the roof nil night and were discovered in the morn- LATEST NEWS NOTES. The Milwaukee Ilrewing Company has gone into bankruptcy. Home rule will be granted the leper settlement on Molokai island. Venezuela may give United States Minister Loomis his passports. Nine new cases of bubonic plague were reported in Cape Town Sunday. A terrific snow-torm has paralyze I tatlway traffic in Northern Michigan. The New York Legislature has pass ed the bill taxing assurance companies. Several girls were burned to death in a tire at a, shoe factory at St. Joseph, Mo. The builders' trial of the battleship Illinois was satisfactory in every re spect. I'ire destroyed a reaper works at Doylcstown, ().. causing a loss of near ly jnxyxxv The transport Hancock arrived at San Francisco from Manila with the Thir tieth infantry. All the presidential postmasters w!l' failed of confirmation by the Senate will be reappointed. Cieorge W. Perkins has been re-elected president of the Cigarinakcrs' In t'.ru..tio:tal union. A New York woman was killed by a pit terrier, while writhing on the floor in an epileptic lit. The measure to disfranchise negroes passed the Maryland Senate by a strict ly Democratic vote. Alfred Carver failed in an attempt to murder his wife at Westlield, N. J., and then killed himself. Four actors of nn "Uncle Tom's Call in" company were cremated in a burn ing train in Montana. Andrew Carnegie offers $.10,000 for 1 library building at Mont Clair, N. J., on the usual conditions. The will of William M. Kvarls. which wis probated in New York, leaves his 1 utile estate H the family. Control of cottstiTctii.n of an ice plant at Mariln Ivs been placed in the hands ol the insular government. Sunday the remains of ex-President Harrison w ere laid to ri si in Crow n lllll ecnieteiy, Indianapolis, Ind. Charles Coleman was cremated at the Homestead (Pa.) steel works in the presence of his companions. Kalnh i. Ratcman shot and killed his sweetheart, KHa While, at Norwood, Mass., and committed suicide. The estimates sent to the house of commons showed that the cost of (Jucui Victoria's funeral was $175,000. Pennsylvania druggists urge the pa; fiRf 'il the Ncsbit bill by the assembly restricting the sale of poisons. Senators Piatt and Depew are fighting the proposed nomination of Col. Sanger to be assistant secretary of war. The transport Buford has arrived at San Francisco from Manila with the Thirty-seventh infantry on board. The National Civic federation has is sued a call for a National conference oil taxation at Buffalo, May 2,1 and -'4. Complete census returns give the pop ulation of India as 2')4,coo,ooo, an in crease in the last decade of 7,000,00a Fit-t Vice President Greene of the Pennsylvania denies that his company docs or desires to control the It. ci O. Fire destroyed the Watertown (S. I).) toller mills, the largest in the Staie. Estimated loss, $100,000; partially insur ed. A half nude corpse of a woman wv.s found in the woods near West Chester, Pa., and it is supposed she was murder ed. Two members of New York's "400" were married while supposed to be dy ing with fever, and both began to recover- Fire caused a loss of $100,000 at the works of the Fisher Glue Company, Towanda, N. Y. Henry Irish was badiy burned. Officials of the First National bank of Nilcs, Mich., charge missing Cashier Johnson with forgeries amounting to $100,000. Count Boni dc Castcllaiic fought a duel with M. DcRodays, editor of the Paris "Figaro," and the latter was bad ly wounded. Near Washington, Ind., three chil dren of Guy Williams were burned to death while the father was felling tim ber on his farm. The Japanese House of Peers has pass ed the taxation bills of the government, but the hostility felt toward the Ito cabinet shows no abatement. , Andrew Carnegie has offered $5,200, 000 in the form of 65 libraries to the city of New York, and also $1,000,000 for a great library in St. Louis. The officials of the treasury depart ment regard it as a conservative esti mate that not less than $750,000 was put in circulation by inaugural visitors. All the republics of South and Cen tral America have agreed to participate in the Congress of American republics, to be held in Mexico City next Octo ber. Andrew Carnegie has made offers of library donations, on the usual condi tions, to Yonkers. N. Y $50,000; Green ville, O., $15,000; Ottawa, Out., $100 000. Col. Charles Chailke Long snd James Decring Humphreys have been appoint ed chevaliers of the French Legion of Honor for their work at the Paris ex position. The official organ of he Russian Min istry of Finance threatens that Russia will make strict reprisals in case of any raising of duties by Germany on Rus sian products. Mr. Carnegie announces his retire ment from active business. He donates $5,000,000. four-fifths of which is to be devoted to the relief of the Carnegie workmen in sickness or death and to create a pension system. Ex-Congressman W. E. Fuller, of Iowa, has declined an appointment of United States assistant attorney general in connection with the Spanish Claims Commission. John E. Tipton, secretary and treas urer of the International Switchmen's union, was arraigned in Buffalo for grand larceny, pleaded not guilty and was held (or the grand jury. Mai. W. H. Martin, a clerk in the North Carolina State treasury, confess ed that lie had embezzled $4,000 from the prison funds and had changed the books to cs to force balances. FIENDS CAPTURED. Amateur Burglars Attempt to Loot Bank During Business Hours and Hot Eattle Ensues. Charles W. Ryan, cashier of the Hali fax (Pa.) National bank, wns shot 11 death by Henry Rowc and Weston Keipcr, of l.ykens, nt noon Thursday in an attempt nt the most daring bank lobbery in lite history of Dauphin coun ty. The robbers were cnpttirrd ,by a parly of citizens soon after the crime and were taken to the I larrisburg tail, together with F. H. Slralcy, ol l.ykens, who is suspected of being an accom plice. Rowe and Keiper drove to Halifax from Elizabeths illc ami. hitching their team oti tin- outskirts of the town, boldly entered the bank. Fach had a revolver ami they commanded the employes lo throw up their hands and turn over tbs money. One of them held in check Abraham Fortcubaugh, the president, Isaac Lyter, the teller, and cx-Rcp'e-scntativc Swartz, of Duncannon, who was in th. bank on private bushiest. The other covered Cashier Ryan, and, lllder the menace of the revolvers the cashier collected the cash in the draw ers, $j,(mk), and placed it in a satchel the robbers hail brought with them. Rowe, with the cash-stuffed satchel ii his hand, backed out toward the door, and Kiiper also moved toward the en trance to the bank. Just when it seem ed that the robbers would succeed in getting away, Cashier Ryan attempted to knock up the revolver of the man with the money. In the scuffle several shots were fired and Ryan fell to the floor, shot through the groin by Rowe. The noise of the shots attracted I. I'.. Lyter. who has a store near the bank building, and be ran out with his shot gun. Mr. Lyter pursued Keiper for a block and shot him in the hack of the hi ad. w hen the robber surrendered. Keiper and Rowe confi ssed to Dis trict Attorney Miller and gave the de tails of their arrangements lor the rob bery. Straley admitted that he knew of their plans, bill said that he was not with them nnd had nothing to do with the killing. CHAFFEE TO LEAVE CHINA. All American Troops, txctpt Legation Guard, Will Sail for Mtnllla. The war department has cabled the h Mowing order to Gen. Chaffee, at Pekin: "Secretary of war directs you to complete arrangements to sail for Manila with your command and stiff i.fliccrs by the end of April, leaving as legation guard infantry company com posed of 150 men. having at least one year to serve, or those intending to re enlist, with full complement of officers, medical officer, succinct hospital corps nun. and, if you think best, field officer especially qualified to command guard. Retain and instruct nn officer of the quartermaster's department to proceed to erect necessary buildings for guard, according to plan and estimates you ap prove. All stores and supplies not il' iiuired for legation guard to be dis posed of in your best judgment; ser y'eeable supplies needed in Philippine islands will be sent to Manila. Divisioi of the Philippines will furnish supplies for legation guard." This dears up the Chinee situation so far as the war department is con cerned, as the protection of the legation can in no sense be taken as occupation oi Chinese territory, and the guard can not be Used for any other purpose. MILITARY RULE SOON TO END. Provident and Secretary Root to Chango Conditions in Philippines. ' The secretary of war now proposes pushing as rapidly as possible the prep aration of a civil government for the Philippines. The plans of the president and secretary of war contemplate the transfer of government from military lo civil control not later than June I. and probably as early as the 1st or 15th of May. The first step in placing the islands under a civil government will be the ap pointment of Judge Taft as governor. It is the opi lion of high war depart ment officials that Judge Taft will re tain the other members of the commis sion as an executive council. It has been decided by Secretary Root that General MacArthur shall remain in control at Manila until the civil gov ernment is inaugurated. Lynchers In a Court House. At Tiptonville, Lake county, Tcnn., a mob hanged Isaac Fitzgerald to a tree near the court house. The negro was charged with assault, and the jury had just reported that they could not agree and had been discharged. A dif ferent verdict had been expected, and a mob seized the prisoner before the sheriff could hurry him from the court 100111, and hanged him to the first tree. Praise For Amorican Soldiers. During the debate on the army esti mates in the English house of commons Lieut. Col. Arthur Hamilton Lee. Con servative, who was British military at tache with the United States army dur ing the Spanish-American war and sub sequently was military attache with the British embassy in Wash ington, said the American re cruits, in physique nnd intelligence, were superior to any other troops in the world. A fos'ly Pittsburg Fire. One life was lost, five persons were seriously injured, many others suffered minor injuries and $.225,000 worth of property was destroyed, including the main auditorium of the Pittsburg ex position building, as a result of a fire Sunday mornng. Ehow Signs ot Collapse. The following cable dispatch has just been received from Gen. MacArthur at Manila: "Gen. Marian De Dios, four oificers and 57 men, uniformed and arm ed, surrendered at Naic. This is regard ed as very important and indicating the collapse of the insurrection. The terri tory was hcrtofore obstinately defended. Conditions throughout the entire archi pelago are very encouraging. Captures and surrenders of arms continue. Three thousand. one hundred and sixty-eight arms have been surrendered and cap tured since January 1." MOB'S SWIFT VENGEANCE. Criminal Confessed to Brutally Killing a Farmer's Mdo and Cil ieni Cremate Him on Court House Square. John Henderson, the negro who as saulted and murdered Mrs. Conway Younger, was burned nt the stake by a mob in the court house yard at Cord 1 ana, Texas, Wednesday in the presence of 4,000 persons. Henderson was taken from officers who were taking him to Fort Worth, nnil, when he learned that he wns to be executed by a mob, made a full confes sion. He told how Mrs. Younger had bravely resisted the assault and how 111 his frenzy he had butchered her before the ryes of her little girl. A railroad rail was sunk in the ground in the middle of the court house yard, and the shiviring wretch, heavily chain ed, was brought forward, followed by a clamorous crowd of 4.0m people. The negro was securely chained to the iron Hake and heajs of wood were piled idiotit him. Then qtiantilies of kerosene were poured on his clothing. After 10 minute in the roaring Haines Hender son's head dropped forward, his strug gles ceasrd nnd he was to all appearances dead. He made no outcry save an oc casional groan. Justice H. (i. Roberts held an inquest over the remains of Henderson and gave the following verdict: "I find that the deceased came to his just death at the hands of the incensed mid outraged feelings of the best peo ple in the United Stales the citizens of Navarro and adjoining counties. The evidence, as well as the confession of guilt by deceased, shows that his pun ishment was fully mcrflcd and commend able" The body nf Sherman Harris, colored, was found Wednesday swinging from a tree six miles from Spellman, Ga. He was accused Of killing Sidney King, a merchant. FUSSIA'S CRAB GAME. China Strenuously Injects lo Ihe Onerous Terms ol tho Ctar. China has strenuously objected to the limitations of ihe Manchurian conven tion respecting the importation uf arms, the reorganization of the army a.id the practical control by Russia over Chi nese officials. It is feared that China will be coerced into yielding to Russia's terms unless the other powers act together to save the integrity of the empire. In view of this impending crisis the officials here would regard ns of secondary importance the negotiations at Pekin respecting in demnities nnd punishments, were it not for a belief that there is grave danger that by insistence by the ministers at Pekin upon impossible indemnities, and the continuance of punitive measures, the United Slates government will he obliged to maintain an attitude of exact neutrality and withhold any assistance in checking the consummation of an agreement which is almost certain P result in the partition of China. THOUSANDS HOMELESS. Firo Caused by Broken Ga Pipe Dcs roys Much Kinlucky Properly. Fully 1,000 persons, half the popula-i tiou of Cloverport. Ky., are homeless. They are sheltered under tents or ;n railway cars and are eating bread taken them by special train from Louisville. Half the town was wiped out by tiro Thursday morning. Every business house, with stock, was destroyed, and had it not been for the people of Louis ville nnd Henderson rushing special trains loaded with bread, tents and cloth ing, there would have been indeed much suffering from hunger and cold. Hundreds of women and children stood about crying until the trains came in. The bursting of a natural gas pipe in the kitchen of a private house caus ed the fire. A number of persons were rlightly injured in fighting the fire. The loss will reach $500,000. WOMAN FOR MAYOR. rrohibitionlsts of Donver Will try to Elect Candidate at the Polls. If the Prohibition ticket is elected wo men will rule the city of Denver, Col., for the next two years. At a convention of Prohibitionists held last night a full municipal ticket composed entirely of women was placed in the field. That platform says that the party oi cold water views with alarm the control of the Democratic and Republican or ganizations by the saloon and gamhli-ii element. No home rule is wanted un less it provides for the election of the fire and police board by direct vote of the people. Municipal ownership of public utili ties is advocated, and an anti-canteen law is urged. The candidate for mayor is Mrs, Antoinette A. Hawley, State president of the W. C. T. U. Blizzard In the Northwest. Special dispatches report a bad bliz zard raging throughout a portion of the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. In Northwestern Wisconsin a heavy sno'V is falling, .which is drifting badly and blocking roads. The temperature has fallen 50 degrees. Twelve inches of snow has fallen at Rice Lake, Minn. Child Causes Gas Explosion. At Bluffton Ind., Mary Huffman, aged 4, while playing with her 3-year-old sister in the kitchen of their home, pull ed the gas connection from the stove. The gas filled the room and an explo sion followed. Both children were kill ed and their mother was fatally burned while trying to rescue them from the flames. The house was wrecked by the explo sion, the ruins taking fire and burning so fiercely that the body of the elder child was. not recovered. Only a por tion of her skull was found in the ashci. To Improve Farm Conditions. The Seaboard Air Line has hit upon a scheme for the benefit of the chicken and cattle raisers along the line of the railroad which, in turn, will redound to the benefit of the road. The railroad has acquired numerous fine breeds of bulls and roosters which will be lent free to farmers along the line, The fanners will be allowed to keep the animals c.o days. The railroad is now scattering circular letters telling of the scheme snd showing the breed of bulls and roosters on hand. Any farmer can secure a bull er rooster for the asking. GEN. HARRISON DEAD. The Ex-President, Soldier and Statesman Passes Away Altor a Brlet Illness at His Indianapolis Heme. Gen. Benjamin Harrison dird at 4 4.) o'clock Wednesday afternoon nt hi home in Indianapolis, Ltd., without re gaining consciousness. 1 1 is death was quiet nnd painless, there being a grad ual sinking until the end came, which was marked by a single gasp for breath as life departed from the body of th'f great statesman. The relatives, with a few exceptions, nnd several of his old and tried Iriend. were at the former president's bedside when he passed ::way. 'I he doctors describe bis death to no immediate cause other than to the rav nges of the disease, pneumonia, which pradually closed bis lungs. It was found impossible to stop the congestion which followed the first attack less than a week ago. . Benjamin Harrison was born nt Nortli Bend. ()., August m. iH.U. Early m childhood Benjamin was placed nn'l'r private instruction at home. In l47 "e and his elder brother were sent to a school on what was known as College Hill, a few miles from Cincinnati. I w.i year later he entered Miami university, in Oxford, ().. where he graduated in 1K53. He was married October 20, iHst, to Caroline Scott, daughter of Ur. John W. Scott, who was then president of Oxford Female seminary. . After studying law in Cincinnati l.e was admitted to the bar in 1H54 anil tie gan practice nt Indianapolis, Ind., wlncli has since been his home. When the civil war opened he assis. i d in raising the Seventieth Indiana reg iment of volunteer and became a e i.nd lieutenant. Later he became colonel. When he returned to Indianapolis Rfter the war he became a member of a new riw film and gradually worked his way o the head of the Indiana bar Benjamin Harrison had ! bnl'u'nt mil iary record. He distinguished lumsell in many occasions in the campaign un der Gen. Sherman and won the com mendations of bis superior officers for his bravery. At the close nf the war he received a commission ns breve t brigadier general, signed by Abraham Lincoln. , In 1K6N and IR7-J he took part in the presidential campaigns, supporting Gen. Grant. In l7f) he was a candidate for governor of hi State, but was beaten. He was offered a position in President Garfield's cabinet, but refused, prefer ring the United States senntorship of In diana. it which be had j it -t been elect ed. He was delegalc-at-large to the Republican national convention in I June 10, ifKK. he wa unanimously nom inated a candidate of the Republican party for president. In November he was elerted. receiving 2.1.1 votes in the electoral college to iM for Grover Cleveland. He was duly inaugurate I March 4, 1KX0. When he began his ad ministration he va confronted by many problems of grave importance, one of the results of which was the fa mous Pan-American congress of iWo 90. During the first two years of his administration six new Slates formed constitutions and were admitted to the Union. President Harrison wfis renominated at Minneapolis in liieu and was defeated by former President Cleveland. He re turned to Indianapolis after the inaugu ration. of bis successor and devoted him self to literary and legal work. His most important work since leaving the presidency was on the Venezuelan arbi tration case, in which he represented Venezuela at Paris. Gen. Harrison has been marked twice. His first wife died shortly be fore the election of 1K0J. Four years later he married Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick. Are Ready for War. The British nnd Russians are disput ing over the limits of railway properly in the Russian concession; and the guards ef the two nations arc in close proximity to each other. The British have been strongly reinforced and tnn ble is imminent unless the Russians re tire. Another telegram says: "The Russians arc now entrenching in the disputed territory. A company of the Hong kong regiment, with fixed bayonets, is in front, while two companies of the Madras pioneers, under the command ; e-f Mai. Johnson, are held in reserv. i Both the Russian and the British arc j awaiting instructions from their gov-1 crnmcnts. Capt. Schwenk Dismissed. The President has approved the sen tence of the court-martial in the case of Capt. Samuel KSehwenck. U. S. A., retired, and he has 'been dismissed from the military service on the charge of duplicating his pay account. He was a veteran of the Civil war and was re tired in lS7fi. He was appointed from Pennsylvania. f FOUND MORE GOLD. Rich Cla:ms Have Been Staked Out A'oig th Alasktn Seacoast. ews irom cape .01ne states tn.it 1 during December a rich bar was staked j which is beneath Bering sea and paral-' lels the coast for about 100 miles nn ! from Snake river. Those who located the claims had to cut through five feet cf ice to reach the sand and gravel, which was very rich. In summer the claims will te totally submerged. J. Densmore has returned to Nome from Kuskokwim and reports that hi party had a hard trip, having run short of provisions and had eaten three dogs, their moccasins and deer skins. They found no gold, although they prospected the country thoroughly. Stampedes have occurred from Nome lo American Creek in Kougrock nnd Norton sound, where rich strikes have been made. Rebel Officials Csptured. Maj. Elmore F. Taggart, of the Twenty-eighth infantry, captured about 25 miles south of Cagaygan the following members of the revolutionary cabin t: Auselino Abeiechuca. military chief in.l Gusto Jackian. Ramon Nerz, Santiago Costello,' Ramon Chaves and Jausto Piedo. More than 20.000 Ilocabs took the oath of allegiance to the United Mates last week. SLAUGHTERED BY TURKS. 81s Hundred Peop'e In Macedonia Killed by 1 Sullan'i Troops. Awful atrocities are charged against the Turkish troops in Macedonia. Fugi tive from the disturbed regions wh. have arrived at Snlonica, state that the, Turkish soldiers massacred the inhabi- ( taut of Bajalci nnd several other vil iagr In Macedonia, and put the people lo death by fire and sword. A prii(l named MnryotT say that over Coo perish ed by being burnt alive or cut to pieces by '1 nikish soldiers, who deliberately set fire to houses, consuming the inmates, men, women and childrert, in flames. The Turk have formed a cordon around the area of massacre nnd devas tation, and prevent all ouHde efforts to ascertain the fact in regard to th.dr horrible cruelty and oppression. The Christian are flying from the regions which the Turks have occupied. The Bulgarian imprisoned nt Salon tea for connection with the Macedon ian trouble, will be tried by a military court -martial under the presidency n Gen, Turkham Pasha, specially sent from here for the purpose. Seventeen of the prisoner, including a doctor and n priest, are specially indicted for plot ting, against the integrity of the em pire, with the object of sreuring the an nexation to Bulgaria of the province) of Salouica, Monastir and Uskub, or of converting them into an autonomous province. The penal code provides sen tence of death or imprisonment for life . for these offences. AN ANTI-TRUST CLUB. Secret Society Will be Organized te Combat Various Combinations. Incorporation pnpers have been filed in Springfield, III., by Isidor Latzer, Adolph Reinnch and John J. Adam, all of Chicago, for a secret organization tj be known ns "The Consumers, Mer chants & Manufacturers' Secret Anti Trust society." Mr. Lntzer, who is at the head of the organization, is a manu facturer, and his colleagues are two of hi clerks. These clerk, he says, rep resent two well-known manufacturer in the eat. Mr. Latzer said: "The object of the association is to educate the public to the danger of tin trust evil. Its member nre to include idl classes. "The work to be done will follow tli lines eirdinarily pursued by secret or ganizations. Lodges will be formed all over the United States. As soon as we obtain our license we shall send out or ganizers to every city in the country. "An anti-trust club in Masachusetts has signified its desire to join hands with our society. There are to be no dues, o no one will be nble to charge th.'t the scheme is a fraud." The headquarters of the society will oe in Chicago. FORCED TO SUSPEND. License ol Order d Select Friends Revoked snd Receiver Appointed. Announcement ha been made by the supreme officers of the Order of Select Friends in Fort Scott. Kan., that .he lodge had been forced to suspend by the i.etion of the Kansas insurance commis sioner in revoking it license because if was considered by him to be insolvent. The lodge has a total membership of i.to in Kansas. Missouri and Colorado anl was carrying $6.000000 insurance. The annual report of the Order of Se'ect Friends shows that the order is deficient $!5,rwo in the payment of it obligations, nnd W. V. Church, State superintendent of insurance, ha refused to renew its license to do business in Kansas. This amounts to a suspension of the order's authority to operate in the State. Following the revocation of the li cense a friendly suit wa brought by the head officers of the society, which .has resulted in the appointment of a receiv er. C. C. Dutton. of Frie. No official statement of the lodge's financial condi tion lias been trade. Another Vast Ct-mb ns. Rumors are current of the consoliiln-" tion of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company, the Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron Company and the Repub lic Steel and Iron Company, which own 28 pig iron furnaces, one steel mill anj two rolling mills in Alabama and Ten nessee and make the bulk of the iron in these States. The capital and bonded debt of the three companies is $0.1.000. 000. divided as follows: Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. $2,1.000.000; Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron Company. $20,000,000; Republic Steel and Iron Company, $50,000,000. Crl ens Invade Russia. The Gammell Company, of Sheffield, England, is about to establish largj works at Odessa. Russia, o manufac ture files and edge tools. Other British firms are expected to follow this exam ple with a view to supplanting foreign imported tools. CABLE FLASHES. One person was killed and many oth ers wounded at a riot in Ripoli, Spain. The British house of common has passed the chief items of the army ap propriation bill. The British house of commons defeat ed the bill for the compulsory sale e-f l::nd in Ireland to tenants. The 80th birthday of Prince Luitpold, regent of Bavaria- was celebrated at Munich on a magnificent scale. Albert Holtz, a Brealau, Germany, banker and a director in a number of im portant industrial companies, hai failed. Bogoliepoff. Russian minister of pub lic instruction, who was shot on Febru ary 27 by Karpovich, is in a dangerous condition. The London Daily Mail reports an enormous increase in the number of de sertions at Aldershot, especially from the cavalry. In a railroad collision near Hassfiirt, Bavaria, a passenger train was badly wrecked and eight persons were serious ly injured. AM the mills at Barcelona, Spain, em ploying l8.oco people, have been closed because the operatives opposed new spinning machinery. The striken set fire to houses and assaulted the null owners. The cabinet ol Korea has resigned because of the arrest of the acting min ister of finance, under suspicion ol hiv ing plotted to murder a number of wo men eif the imperial houser"!. includ ing the emperor's favorite.
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