TRAIN BLOCKED NEWS ROAD SEVEN PERISH. Victims ol Chicago Tenement Disaster Sur roundod by Flanes Too Quickly to Escape Several Badly Injured. Seven persons wore burned Id death, throe fatally Injured mill several other slightly Imrni'il nnl otherwise Injured Pi a tire tluil destroyed n three-story iipnrtment building til Month Chlcngo, HI., early Sunday. While tin- occupants of tlif burning bnllilliiK wore struggling with tin" smoke nnd tin turn In hope of forcing their wny to safety, the firemen who were responding to t ln a In rm wore vainly wnlilng for it freight train which blocked the way of the lire en gines to move nwny from tln crossing ami give nn open road to the tiro, but hy the time the firemen reached tho hurnlng building the structure had been destroyed. Scattered among the mbers were foiinil tin charred re mains of the victims. The 2-yoiir-oM daughter of Christ iansen, who lived on the third floor, wan terribly burned, her left nrm nnd her face being ronstcd. Her father, n follower of Hr. Dovvle. refused to nllow the little one to hnve inedii'til attention, nnd fought desperately when Nhe was tnken from him. lie clung to the burned nrm of the child, ifild pnrt of the flesh wns torn from the tlber. When tlnnty the police forced 111 in to (rive up the child he . pursed them nnd prnyed Hint they might Ih punished for subjecting hit child to the worldly Hclence of modi fine. The father wan knocked down by some pemon In the crowd nnd barely escaped lynchliiK. Me wan or ated. LARGEST COLO RESERVE. Treasurer Roberta Statei That II li Now Half a Billion. There In now held lu the T'nited States treasury the largest Bold re serve possessed by nuy nation on earth. The otllcinls of the department Hre feeling very comfortable over this magnificent showing, nnd Culled States Trensurer Huberts iimkes nn Interesting Mtntement In which he nys: ''The (told fund In the treasury now amounts to $.ol,4iItl.4iiN. This Is made "Mi ns follows: Itesorve fund. I.'st. 000.(HHl: hold against (fold pprlltlcates. 'JS3.441.liNll, nnd the general fund. $iW,0'.t7,470. This total includes both coin, and bulliou. nnd the average fund held during the past month has been the highest in the history of the Government. "The highest figure ever pstlmnted by the fund was renoheti on April 24. .. of this year, when the total reached the $502.17:1.110 mark. The diminu tion since then has been a little less than a million of dollars, and, of course, thero Is virtually no signitl ;nnee In tho drop. When It is con sidered that six or seven years ago thin fund amounted to a sum less tiuin fliK),iHM),(HK) the exact amount now held ran be better appreciated. When the fund was ebbing at that time It was found necessary by the national administration to issue bonds to stay the inroads which were being iniide upon It, due to demands for gold from the money centers, and It was not without Involving the Govern ment In considerable debt that the fund was maintained at the lowest figure permissible. NE JERSEY COPPER DEPOSIT. A Lode 30 Feel Wide and Nearly a Mile Long Discovered. A deposit of copper 3(1 feet wide at the polut of development, and nearly one mile long has lieeu found on the farm of O. It. (J ray. near rennlugtou. A. J. As n result of the valuable ti ml th.u.,0. B. Crny Copper Company has lieeuviyJcor ira ted uuder the laws of New JersYjT. with nil authorized capi tal oT j.-.o.(joa. Engineers hnve locnted one end of tin lode, uild figUt assays of the ''ore allow the poorest taken from the top curries 2.70 per cent f copper, while the richest assayed by I'rof. J. H. Woodward, of Harvard, bears .r4.."S per ceut. Another analysis by the Baltimore finicking and Itolllnj Com pany shows 11.51 per cent of capper, 8.IK1 ounces of silver per ton and ,.09 per cent per ton of gold. A perpendicular shaft 40 feet deep lias been sunk, cross-cutting several veins. There Is evidence that mining was done at the furm iu a crude wny probably centuries ago. To Exile Panic Stricken Officer. The Ku'tau of Turkey litis decided to exile the officers who became panic stricken during the recent earthquake and broke the wludows of the Dolmu Ttug'che Palace In their fright. FUtED TllK SCHOOL BRITISH REPORT VICTORY. Lord Kltchner Tells ol Capture ol Men and , Ammunition. Lord Kitchener reports from Pre toria: "Mator Geueral Kitchener's scouts, under (ircufcll's command, cuptured Va Itccshurg's lunger at Kllp- uuui. seven liners were killed anil Hi prisoners, 8,ooo poumfs of uuiuiu nitlon and all the eiieiuy's wugnus wore captured. Our loss was only one wounded. "Other British columns report three Boers killed, uh prisoners taken, fi7 mureinlorcd ami one quick-tiring gpu capture-" Kll. Tf Is In tho Nortbem Trims vuiil t?c miles north of the lute Boer cupltui, I'letersburg, which whs re cently tukeu by the British. Won't Take Bodies South. Secretary Boot bus given orders to the Quiirtenimster Oeneruls' Depart uieut for the executlou of the act of Congress rwiiulrlng the reburiul lu Ar llugtou cs'atloniil ( euietery of the Con federate: dead now there, numbering 12(1, BUdWlth theui the reuiuius of the lVMJ CorVederates burled at the Na tional t ldlers' Home, Washington. l'rot'-jts have been received by the tte!re ,y from the Women of . Vir gin!'' who wish the reuiuius liiki-n l8o A, but the order '.emuiiis tiu- eL mud. 7 - " LATEST NEWS NOTES. .lenloitsy among the leglslntlve bodies lis effectually killed home rule for Hawaii. Xotm Herman soldiers at Tien Tsln II re.l on ii llrltlsh tug, wounding two of the crew. Forty thousand Immigrants n-e booked to leave Italy for the l llltel Mates dining May. Minister Conger says China Is anxious for an early settlement of the pending ipicNtlons. Armour S: Co.'s. beef house, at th. Chicago stock yards, was damaged to I lie extent of jttim.oon by lire. John F. Iteynolils was shot"dend nt Worcester, Mass., by John P. Ctnii mlngs, ns the result of u quarrel. F.mperor William's announcement of Cabinet changes caused some won der lu ottlcial circles In tiermany. Hovernor Odell. of New York, has signed the bill appropriating 4no,tHNI for the purchase of the Palisades. The wage advance of the Illinois Cemriil affected !.i" men nud In creased the pay roll ?:tiHi,uts) annually. Mrs. Carrie Nation returned to the Jail at Wichita, Kan., after ntteiidlng the funeral of her brother, at Louis- I burg. The transport Kgliert has arrived nt San Francisco from Tnku with a large number of bodies of American sol (hers. Sir liinshnw Manockjee Petit, the well-known millionaire and Parsee philanthropist. Is dead nt Bombay, India. Albert T. Patrick pleaded not guilty to tin Indictment for the murder of tie' late Texas millionaire, William Marsh Hire. The Prussian (iovernnieiit has bought the coal mines nt the "Minis ter Aclieubach" nnd the "Alt rop" for 2.".ihh),ism murks. F.mperor William brought the ses slon of the Prussian Piet to an ab rupt close, because It has failed to pass his canal bills. There has not been a single appli cation for the position of steamboat Inxpcctor at Manila, the salary of! which Is $2.2.o n year. The management of the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College has .-- cideii to admit female students on nn equal footing with men. Ann Maria Unlhbiin wns convicted at New Haven. Conn., of poisoning her husband, nud was sentenced to the Mnitentinry for life. Allien C. Cusp, for ninny years credit manager of the Carnegie Htoel Com pany, has been elected President of the Amerenn Cotton Company. Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan of New York lias made the I'nlted Mtntes Naval Training Station at Newport the gift of (UN) volumes for Its library. A convention of the grand lodge of the Sous of Ben.lamln. held In New York, voted to ullow the wives of members to become members. The des)sltory of the Southern Itock Island Plow Company nt Uallas. Tex., was destroyed by lightning and the loss is estimated at '-'.- mi. A farm hand iu New York shot the wife of his employer because she re fuseil to elope with 111 in. nud he wns shot by the woman's husband. At I.iifkln. Tex., lire swept nway 21 business houses ami their contents, entailing a loss of about $ii.i,MH), on which there Is little Insurance. Midway concessionaires nt Pau Ainericaii F.xposlliou threaten to make trouble If the show is open on Sunday and they ace compelled to close. The transport fleet nt Manila, which Is to be used lu transporting (ieiieral Chaffee's army from China to the 1'lilllpplnos has left Manila for Tnku. Turkey has asked foreign represen tatives to Intervene against the Jews. A tornado lu Nebraska picked up a barn and carried it more than UN) ya rds. Persons of high position are report ed to be Involved lu the numerous ar rests of suspected revolutionists that have been made In Utissla during the last few days. Admiral Iteiucy has arrived lit Mel bourne nud will represent the I'nlted States liovertiineiit at the opening of the first sessioii of the Australian Par liament. A gang of gypsies, lu revenge for their previous capture by gendarmes, poisoned the wells iu the village of Kapolya, Hungary, with the result that 15 persons hiH'e died of poisoning. The corpse of one of the Itoscntielil boys wus found lu the Mississippi river near Mi mien polls, Minn., where William Itoscntielil Is supposed to have drowned himself nud his four chll drou. , Fry and F.verett were committed for trial lu London on charges of de frauding bunkers by forged documents purporting to show shipments of gold that never existed. The evidence showed that they had obtained $."( i,. 000 oil ore worth .'15,000. 1 1) to March !11, 1001, the war reve nue act of June 13, IS'.in, produced jsn.5( 14.447. Mrs. Charles White was arrested at Bra ut ford. Out., on a charge of poison ing her husband. The fulled States Steamship com pany, of Copenhagen, lieuuiark. has ordered six ucw steamers of 12,000 tons each for the American trade. Since December. lH'.lil, the losses to property from the larger tires alone lu Plitsburg, Pa., arc estlmuled nt over $:i,rsHl,(Hl0. Nine liremeu were killed and two dozen Injured. Lafayette College will lose $4,000, Franklin anil Marshall $2,ooo ami the I trace Uefonued Church ol College Hill $ti,ooo by reason of the death of Uov. lr. Thomas C. Porter within HO days lifter making his will. An epidemic of typhoid fever has broken out 111 several of the forts and villages lu the neighborhood of Metx, lieriuiiuy. The Fight h Bavarian ltegl meut has alone lost JO meu from the disease nud has 21 meu sick. A plan to build a $100,000 temple nt Chicago to the memory of Uobert (. lugersoll. In which his teachings shull be perpetuated, resulted lu the Incor poration of the lugersoll Memorial Association at Sprlugtleld, III, Ouu woman, a boy In his teens, and twi. Jen. took their own Uvea In Chi cago Suuduv- fifii wm iu wmn LOSS BY FIRE, Jacksonville. Florida Visited by a Disastrous Cor.flajrallon Tho Total loss Esti mated al Fully $15,000,000. Fifteen million property has gom dollars worth of up In smoke and 1 5.1 N 10 people are homeless In Jackson ville. Ha. .The entire business section oi the city Is lu nshes and numerous lives are reported to have been lost. One hundred and thirty blocks. Includ ing 1,:too houses, are lu ruins. The lire burned furiously, defying tin as saults of water, dynamite oud the su preme effort of the entire population, aided by the tire departments of nu merous sister cities. Such is the story of destruction caused by the displacement of n bit of Innocent looking wire which ncel dentally got Into the shredding ma chine of the American Filler Company factory at Davis and I'nlon streets. The tire started between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock p. tn. Friday, and owing to this fact loss of life will be comparatively small. The factory was a wooden shell full of Intliimimible ma terial nnd in a few moments wns a mass of flames. The wind, already blowing strong from the southwest, seemed to be possessed with sudden fury, and soon wns carrying destruc tive embers all through the doomed city, the fairest portion of which lay right lu tlie wake of the wind. The territory burned over Is two miles long by hnlf n mile wide. The loss Is estimated nt M5.0OO.IKIO, Among the buildings destroyed were four hotels, the county court house, criminal court, city Jail. Cntholh church and orphanage, Catholic con vent, nn Fpiscopal church, a score of business houses nud hundreds of dwellings. It Is believed six lives were lost. TO BE KINO OF CANADA. Announcement Favorably Received Binding Dominion lo Brilian. A dispatch from Toronto states the proposPion that King Fdward shall add the title of 'King of Canada to that of King of the fulled Kingdom, Is favorably received In the Do minion. The addition will be made at the time of the coronation, and It Is hoped that It will add, at least to the sent! mental tie binding Canada to Oreut Britain. King Kdward, It is said, at taches milch weight tto these methods of bringing home to British subjects abroad the fact of their relationship to the British crowu. He proposes to have royal residences In Ireland and a plentiful array of kulghts, and perhaps even higher dignitaries. In Canada and Australia. It may lie that these gracious con cessions will hnve the effect he de sires, but It is worth recalling that the Kings of Kngland were styled nlso Kings of France nnd lords of Ire hind generations ago, but neither Ire land nor France seemed to love them l ne more for It. And the attempt In colonial times to Introduce a titled nrlstocrncy iu America was a comical failure. REVENGE OF THREE GIRLS. Conspired to Kill Superintendent and Ma tron ol Industrial School In Kansas. After making things lively at the State Industrial school at Beloit, Kan., for a few days, Mary Hlx. white girl, and Amanda Whaitield and Corlnne Oloy, colored, are locked up lu solitary conllncnieiit, and will prob ably be prosecuted on serious Stnte charges. They robbed the tills of the schools, set lire to the buildings, nud. escaping, gave the posse a merry chase before they were captured. They have each made a separate confession to the effect Hint they had pin lined to kill Mrs. Hanhiick, the su perintendent, nnd Baker, matron, but this part of their plot had failed, ns the two women were awnv nt the time. Nihilist Plot Revealed. An extensive nihilistic plot has been discovered In ltusslaii Poland. Six hundred arrests have been iuaih. of which number 200 were transported to the Warsaw citadel. The towns of SosiiovIcp. Sielce and Donibrown have Ih'cii occupied by Cossacks. Fell Into a Cinder Pit. Joseph Mctiiiire, a laborer employed at the Homestead (Pa.) mills of the Carnegie Company, was burned to death in a horrible manner before the eyes of his fellow workmen, who were powerless to aid ti nil. He was work ing near II cinder pit. lu which there was a great mass of cinders aud slag. Mcliulrc fell into the pit, aud his cries attracted his fellow workmen. They were unable to help him, and he slowly roasted to death. Mcliuire was 2,'l years of age, aud had bi-eu married but a short time. Leopold Looks (or Outbreak. King ,.?opold has nrdcrcu the con struction of a subterranean passage, connecting the royal palace with the barracks for the troops, In order that he may be able to summon to his aid Immediately a sufficient force of sol diers lu Hie case of n sudden Insur rection Hint would Ihreuteu his tcr- ! sonal safety. This action ou the part of King Leopold, who litis reigned over the liclglno iu ii democratic I fashion fur nearly Il'l years. Is accpt- ed as Indicating there are serious reasons, I a the King's opinion, for ex pecting n vipitlar outbreak against the Government. Ccstruclive Forest Fires. ihe u n mini forrest lires are raging In Hunt hern New Jersey. In the lower purt of Cumdeu cuuuty tires have de stroyed alwut $5,IKK) worth ol grow ing timber. At the head of Great Egg llurbor river, hundreds of acres of valuable timber ure suld to have been destroyed, vulued roughly, at $J0,U0o. In Cumberland county, the tires con sumed thousuuds of dollars' worth of woodbind. No lives have beeu lost aud no dwellluifs or valuable, building destroyed. TO ABOLISH ARSENALS. Government Seeking Economy In Military Exptntes Abandon These Institutions. Secretary of War Boot, on the re commendation of tieiieral A. H. Buf llnglon, chief of ordnance, and under auiliorliy conferred by law, has or dered that the following arsenals be abolished nnd abandoned nt the cur liest practicable date: Allegheny arse nal, Pittsburg. Pit.; Kennebec arsenal. Augusta, Me.: Fort Monroe nrsetinl. Indianapolis, Ind., arsenal ami the Co lumbia iTeliu.l iiiseiiiil. The secretary directs that the pub lic property at the arsenals niiined be disposed of by the several stuff tie ptirtments concerned without unneces sary delay. The commissioned olllcers and enlisted men now serving nt these urseimls will be assigned to duty else where. It Is slated at the war depart ment that with the Increased trans portation facillites lu the country. many arsenals are not needed. It Is found more economical and advan tageous to put the arms, ninmunlttloii and ordnance stores tit central points. where they are as available as If at ninny different arsenals. Many other arsenals have been similarly aban doned since the necvesslty for them censed. REVENUE FROM WALL STREET. Equivalent ol President's Salary Received From Each Day's Sale ol Stamps. fncle Sam Is each day getting enough out of the prosperity of Wall street to pay the salary of the Presi dent for a yeiiY. If speculating Is gambling, the I'nlted States Is lu the same position ns the mail in a regular gambling house, who pockets what "the kitty" has collected. Fvery transaction lu Wall street nnd everywhere else where stocks and bonds change hands, pays a reveuue tux. When trading is active thousands of dollars are spent for the adhesive stumps, which represent the cost of the declaration Hint the "people of Cuba are nud of right ought to be free and Independent." Bucket shops are the only ones that have not hitherto fed the Federal "kitty," but under the revenue reduc tion law passed nt the last session of ongress they must nlso contribute on every so-called sale of stock or grain which the seller never had nor ever expects to have. Forced to Fight a Dog. compelling' Abraham Lincoln a 15-year-old colored Isiy, to ito with a bulldog, John Waiigh, For (Jreeii, battle 'longshoreman, has been lined $52.50. Waugli was seeking diversion, and In vaded the negro district at Newport News. Vu.. accompanied by his blood ed bulldog, Fred Douglass. While In n saloon Abraham Llncolu (ireeu came lu. Waugli forced Jhe negro Into a cor ner, enjoined him to ugh' for his life, and then turned the dog on him. Tho snvnge sport was ended by bystanders after one of the boy's hands hud been badly chewed by the licust and his clothing lorn by tatter.:. Waugli laughed nt the sight. Sons ol American Revolution. At the twelfth annual session of the Sons of the American devolution, held lu Pittsburg, Pa., the following ottlcers were elected for the ensiling year at tlie closing sesslou of the congress: Walter S. Logan, of New York, wns chosen President (ielicrnl nnd the fol lowing Vice Presldeuts general: James Denton Hat -k. Franklin. Pa.; Thomas Tlpps, Detroit; Judge John Whitehead, New Jersey: Harris Davis. Call torn in: Captain Samuel P.hcrly, of Chicago; wns elected Secretary (ieii eral: (ieorge W. Bales, of Michigan. Historian licneral. nud Itev. Dr. F. B. Wnilleld, President of Lnliiyette Col lege, Chaplain (ieuenil. Whole Villages Starving. Distressing accounts nre arriving of the situation or Hie villagers through out Bessiiraliln, ltussla, especially lu the Soroki district, caused by the famine arising from (lie failure of the last harvest. The peasants are living on husks and maize boiled iu water. Half of thoin are suffering Willi lypnits lever. They are clad lu rags and hnve no furniture or other house hold necessities. Horses nud sheep nnve decreased from 50 to till per cent, owing to lack of forage. In some villages horses are sold ut a ruble each. Flse where 70 per ceut of the farmers Iiiivk lost nil their horses. Lunatics Deadly Work. While ltarouess Augusta You iMiscn wns introducing a patient named Nehrmiiiiii. Into a hospital for nervous discuses nt Uremia, Sweden, Nehr iniiuii becuiue violent, sel.ed a knife and stubbed the baroness nnd her three daughters. The patient then escaped Into the street mid attacked nud wounded live persons before being overpowered. One of the daughters of the baroness tins succumbed to her wounds. The Red Hat Conferred. Cardinal Murttiielll has received iroin Count Stanislaus Colucclchl, member of the papal guard, who hits Just arrived from Home, Hie letter ad vising liiiu of his elevuiiou to the car dluulnte filial the red xilchetto emble matic of that olllee. .The ceremony occurred ut Hie papal legation lu W ash ington. Ii. ('.. lu the presence of n num ber of cluir 'h illgullurles. CABLE FLASHES. Klght French soldiers were burned to dentil ill u lire ut tlie artillery camp ut St. .lean. Fifteen persons were killed by the collapse of the cupola of the Greek ciiiircli ut KUhsui'ii. Thlrty-tlve out of -I'J persons work ing ut a cotton press at Amreeli, India, were burned to den Hi. Curavall. n large shipowner and grain exporter at Itrullii, Itoumiiula, fulled for l.UWUMJO aud commuted suicide, l'ope I .eo has finished his encyclical ou the unil -Catholic ngltutlou In France, Spain aud l'ortugal, oud It will be published lu two weeks. vThe populutlou of the district of Vlctorlu, Australlu, uccordlug to the lust census report, Is l,ll).i,Hi4, uu In crease of Kft,4iH lu the lust ten yeur. TROOPS REMAIN. Field Marshall Von Waldsrsee lo Take Pos session ol a Concession Report ol Committee on Indemnity. It Is reported that the (Ioniums have selected n concession ut Canton, that the preliminaries have been iirrunued nud that possession will be taken soon. Field .Marshal Von Wnldersee. lu the letter which he sent, to the ministers, as the reply of the generals to the views of the ministers regarding the military questions discussed by the generals In conference, suys a garrison of (l.tMsi men should be left at Tien tsin and the adjoining districts, (ireat Britain. France, liermnny and Japan to contribute 1,400 men each, nnd Italy to contribute 400 men. To garrison Shiing llal. Kwnn, France. Ilnssln. tirent Britain and Woriniiny are to contribute :tsi men each, and Italy one company until the forts are rased. So long as any forces occupy Chinese ter ritory the foreign military command ers must exercise the full authority of n civil administration, according to the principle established nt The Hague In 1S1MI. The Chinese may reinalu In olllee, as In tlie case of Pao-Tlng-Fii and, partly, Tien tsin. Beside the 0,- ihmi men In the Tien tsin district, war ships, which must nlwnys be In the Pei-llo. will preserve communication with the Inicrilatloniil fleet at Tnku. Concerning the uuestlon of evaeun Hon. opinions were divided. The British. Japanese and tierman com tiuimlers were of the otiinioii that tin' evacuation could not commence until China had accepted the prescribed cou dlllons and paid the total Indemnities. The French commander would com menee bv withdrawing O.lloo In a fort night nnd completing the withdrawal of the ti ps iu six weeks, leaving only colonial troops there, on account of the climatic conditions. The Italian and Austrian commanders had no lu st ructions, and (Jelleral Chaffee, the American cominaniler. nhstnlned from expressing an opinion, tietieral Wo- uack. the ltusslaii eommiinder. wns not present nt the recent meetings of the generals and Russia wns uot repre seined. Telegrams from Paris say: The For elgn Ottlce has received a dispatch from Peking announcing that M. Plchon. the French Minister, present ed the report of the Committee ou In demnity. The amount China is to pay mis been tlxed nt 1,:tt5,ooo,ooo francs. How It Is prossed that tlie Indemnity lie distributed among the Powers Is not set forth, but ns the dispatch does not mention The Hague It Is thought the Ministers are hopeful of being able to settle the proportion to be received by each Power by discussion ut Peking. SUCCESS PRODUCED INSANITY. Prominent Lawyer Sees Others Reap Benefits ol His Project. Through seeing Ills great discovery slip from his control ; nil enriching others, K. D. Mathews, a well-known lawyer of f Hen, N. Y., has become In sane. He found n few years ago that enough power could easily i.o devel oped nt Trenton Falls to luru every wheel In the Mohawk valley. Mat thews plunged Into real estate specu lation and sought to Interest capitalists in his water power scheme. Severn! times It seemed ns though his plans would be curried out, but the result was always failure. Matthews be came tiiiaucliilly embarrassed and lost everything. Then n I t lea company tisik up the water power scheme nnd Bartholomew county, In Southern In the electric light and street railway dlaiia. companies of Hint city began to draw It Is lu latitude degrees, II niln their supply of electricity from Troll-1 lltes, ,'itl seconds, nnd longitude 8."i de ton I'a lis. The loss of the bona n.. I I grecs, -IS minutes. !V1 seconds, lu lu unbalanced .Matthews' mind, and on ! years Hie center of population has the night Hint power from the fulls I moved "west ward 14 miles ami south first Illuminated Hie city he wandered I ward two ami one-half miles. This Is aimlessly about the street! Insane, lie has been committed to the I'tlca state hospital. REBL LION IS ENDING. Aguinaldo's Supposed Successor Surrenders. Capt. McDonald Wounded in a Skirmish. General Tluio, the riilllpplno lender iu the Abrn province, has surrendered, lie wus looked upon as. the possible successor of Aguiuiildo. I'a die Agll pay, the ex-coininnnlcatcil riilllpplno priest who preached Ihe doctrine of a holy war against the I'nlted States, has also surrendered. Captain John It. McDonald, with '.M men, attacked insurgent lillcnien iu the mountains of A bra province. The Insurgents were defeated. Captain Mc Donald was wounded In the lungs ami n private was killed. Apache Kid Shot In Mexico. The lender of n band of Ynipil In dians, who was captured a short time ago nt Guest u Alia, Mex has been shot lit Autejiita, by order of General Lo renzo Torres. lie was Identitied as Apache Kid by Alexander McDonald, mi American scout, who is lu the ser vice of the Government troops. .Me Donald says he knew Apache Kid well lu Arizona and that the Yiupil leader wus that person. Shot Three Negroes Dead, Three negroes were found dead near the culiln lu which Deputy Sheriff F.d wards wus killed, ten miles south of Solum, Ala. F.dwnnl Dawson, a nephew of Henry Dawson, In whose house F.dwarils was killed, was found dead 111 the public road. Tlie other two were sliol lu Ihe cabiii. They are supposed to have beeu Implicated lu Hie murder of F.dwarils. The negroes nre terrorized and ure lleelng lo the city. First Vessel Frsm Hawaii. The Urst American steamship to collie direct from the Hawaiian Islands to the Culled Stales with a cargo of sugar was tlie Ciilli'orniiin, which ar rived ill I'hlliidelphhi Wednesday from Honolulu and 11 Ho with T.lO) Ions of raw sugar grown lu the new American possession. The Ciillforiilau's run was over 15, (mmi miles, having beeu via the Straits of Magellan. She left llnwuil lu Feb ruary lust aud stopped ut Chili, St, Lucia aud Norfolk to supply her bunk era with coal. OFFICIALS ALARMED. Great Russian Squadron lo be Sent lo the Orient al Once Ciar'a Purpose Remains a Secret. From an authentic source lu K'urope the American tloverinneiit has learned Hint Ittissln has at lust made ready to show her liund 111 the Fur Fast. The fleet of war vessels lu the Asiatic waters Is to be Increased to 01 vessels, which will dominate the ion? of Hie oilier Powers lu Chinese waters. There can be no doubt but that Ilns sln contemplates some aggressive move, but at present no one In Wash ington otllclnl circles seems able lo tut I tot ii Hie exact policy iliat Is to be pursued. The liiloriiiullou received came direct from a naval olllcer attached to the staff of nil American diplomat stationed at one of the big Liiropeaii capitals. Ills messngp stated that Itiissin mid decided to Increase ner Far Knsterii licet to (It vessels. The best warships from the Baltic, the llliick sea mid the volunteer squadrons are to be scut lo Chinese waters, but Tor what purpose he could Hot say. Itusslu's strength In these waters Is already great, and even If the vessels sent arrive as good as second rate cruisers the tonnage will exceed ItoO, ooo. Her Chinese squadron, ns now constituted, consists of about ito ves sels of about loo.ooo tons. There arc a iiiiiiiIht of nrinorehiils lu the station, but It Is understood Hint among the new craft sent there will be several tlrsl-class battleships. When the situation Is tnken Into consideration the news of tills forinl liable squadron seems to forecast a crisis In Hip Fur Fast. With such an nrmv of vessels. In conjunction with tin1 great laud force, ltussla will be prepared to dictate the pulley of China, In which she has been so long deterred by tlie Powers. From the Inside It Is learned that an enormous Indemnity may be demanded, and that the presentation of this claim will be enforced by the show of naval strength upon the coast of the empire. America. ( Ireat Britain and Japau are co-operating to keep the Indemnity dowu to $200,1 HKt.OOO. DID MUCH HARM. Evil Result ol Gtimai's March to the Chi r.eo Wall. The fiermnn expedition to the Great Willi Is returning, leaving the country I lrrentlv disaffected, iiwlnir-to the hard- ships Indicted upon the population. Chinese gossip Is Hint the Uermuna were drlveu buck with heavy losses, mid this Is Implicitly believed by the people. The liermuus were cuught In a trap neur Kn Kuan pass. A de tachment of 80 had 4"i casualties, while the Chinese losses arc said to have been iioYiiitiul. The generals of the powers have de cided to Inform the foreign ministers that when the ministers ure able to announce the lump sum demanded aa Indemnity nud the Chinese hnve agreed to the p'-ltielple of payment, nr. raugeiiielits will be possible for with drawal, ltegnrdliig the Government of l'eklu, It wus also decided tto as sume more control until the civil gov ernment wns entirely lu their hands, i he military only exercising super vision. CENTER OF POPULATION Has Moved Westward Only Fourteen Miles In Ten Years. The census bureau announces that the center of population of the I'nlted Htalcs, excluding Alaska and recent territorial accessions, ou June 1. I Is Hi, was six miles southeast of Columbus. the smallest movement ever noted by the census bureau. It shows the pop liliilliiii of t lie Western Stales has not Increased ns rapidly as iu former de cades. Coxoy Army Threatened. An anthracite member of the Venn sylvaiiia Legislature Is authority for tlie statement Hint unless the pend ing mine bills, now iu committee in the Senate, ure reported, lll.iKNl miners will form a commonweal army, a In Cuxey, mid march upon Hie capllol for ihe purpose of demanding their passage. Kidnapers Frightened. Kdward A. Ciidahy. of Omaha. Neb., has received a letter from Klglii, III., offering to return nil but 4.(KSI of the j.-,ihmi ransom paid for his sou, on condition Hint Ihe search for the kid napers shall ne called on and the re ward for their arrest withdrawn. The mime of the writer Is uot liiude known, but he said that the chief kidnaper is getting uneasy, us the detectives were getting close. Mr. Ciidahy re fused to consider the proposition. Woman Robbed by Masked Men. Two masked men entered the resi dence of Mrs. Until Ayers. at Sprlug villi', Mich., where she lived nloiie, bound and gagged her and ransacked the house. They obtained about JM, (HMI iu gold mid currency, rihe wns as sessed nt HUMID, ami It was kuowu that she always kept u large amount of money about the house. Fierce Battle Is Reported. A dispatch from l'eklu says that a bloody battle hits occurred between the Russians and Chinese near Muk den. The Itussians lost (in In killed mid wounded. Four ltusslaii ottlcers were killed and among the wounded was General .erpllzkl. Spanish Miners Strike. A thousand men are out ou strike nt thu Agiiilus mines, Spain, Tho company has refused the men's pro posals and there has been serious dis turbances. Some of the miners fired uu (he police guarding the property nud Hie gendarmes charged the crowd, killing one man uud wounding several ol hers, J. P. Morgan, having secured control of the Ley la ml ,1111c, Is head of the greatest steuuishllp combination lu tho worm. TUG MABHETB. riTTStiUKO. Grain, Hoar and FmiL Wsit-No. 8 red $ 72i ?S live No. S 59 60,' I okx- rso. i yellow, ear 04 Nn. S vi-llew. shelled 01 Mixed ear OatsNo. i white 32 8S V 9Vi 81 No. a whits Fi.ocs Winter imtent 8 7 8 1 Fitnev Htrnluht Winters 8 70 w IUy No. 1 timothy 15 60 1 8 79 Clover No. 1 19 00 1:1 m Frrn-No. 1 white mid. ton.... 1H BO 111 80 llrown nililillliigs 17 00 17 so limn, bulk 18 00 18 50 Btbaw Wluint ' M Out ao w llslry rr.MluoU. Bcrrra Elgin erenmery. ...... ii unto creamery i"4 ' Knnev country roll 13 14 CiiKiss-Ohlii. new 'i W New York, new ; Poultry, ffte. Hr.s-tMr lb 10' 11 Chickpss drewd It 11 toiiB I'a. soil Ohio, fresh lil.'f It Frtilte ami Vrgetstilei. IIrass Nnvy, per tni'linl 1 809 81 Potatoes lnuc y while, 'ft bu.. 4J 41 ('AnsAos pr tmrrol 1 ili S SO Osioks per bmiliel 1 10 1 M BALT1MUKR, Fi.ocs- Winter I'nteut 8 80$ i 01) Wbsat No. 1 red. 7 it Cons mixed Oats F.aos UliTTts Ohio creamery. l-HILAUtLCMIA. Fi orn Winter pitunt , Wmi at No. il red (ens No. 1 mixed Oats No. S white Itl'TTirs Creamery, extra. . Kuos Pennsylvania tlrsU. . NKW VUKK. Flora Patent 3 639 4 01 "heat No. i rml Cobs No. 1 Oats No. 8 White Dijttkb Creamery . . . Eoos Htiite aud I'enna L1TR STOCK. Central Slock Tsrilt, Est Liberty, Pt. CATTI.S, rrlme heavy, 1500 to 1600 lbs. Prime, 1800 to 1400 his Medium, 1000 to 1200 lbs. Flit heifers Butcher. MM) to 1000 lbs. Common to fulr 4 00 Oxen, common to (nt 8 00 Common to good (at bull A oowe 3 60 ttilch cow, each 20 Oil Extra milcb sow, each. 87 50 BOOS. Prime medium weights Best heavy yorker and medium Good to choice packers. Hood pig and light yorker.... 1'lgs, common to good Prime heavy hogs Common to (air Hough btag eatar. Extra, medium weight wethers. I 4 50i 4 CO Good to ebolos. 4 0) Iledlum 8 50 Common to fair 2 00 LAMBS. Lsmbs, good to choice, spring... 4 7i Lamb, common to talr.sprlug.. 3 50 Spring Lamb 7 00 4 40 4 00 8 00 5 00 4 00 11 0J CALVES. Veal, extra I 5 00 $ 5 JJ Veal, good to choice. 4 60 5 0.1 Veal, common to fulr 8 60 4 OU Veal, common heavy 75 S 00 GENERAL TRADE ACTIVE. Outlook Continues Bright In all Directions. Good Crop Prospects and Failures Away Below the Average. H. O. Dim & Co.'s. "Weekly Ilevlew of Trade" says: The most activity ever seen lu Wull street diverts at tention lu a measure from progress !u distributing and iiiiiuiifnctiirlug opera tions. But while stock market. Inter ests ure counseling caution nnd at tempting , to prove that prices are really more than the couditiou of soinu of our railroads warrants, the fact remains that without a brilliant crop outlook and n great activity o( general trade, Wall street could hold no such carnival. Labor dltllciilties nre fewer uud less threatening than for several years before lu the Urst week of May, and prices of merchan dise hold well. Stability of prices and vigorous prosecution of work ut mills Indicate the wholesome condition of tlie Iron ami steel market. Through out the entire range of products of this Industry the current demand for Immediate delivery exceeds all pre vious records, yet makers maintain a conservative position and prices are not pusiieil up to tlie danger polut, It Is nt the liiiisliiug steel plants that there Is the greatest urgency for ship ments nnd full capacity is assured for the uext three months. After July there Is a prospect of respite, judging by the light engagements of pig Iron. There Is u rush to get lu orders for steel mils before the higher price be came effective, nud the erectlou of new office buildings provides a great 7 'I - - 6JV WlS 14 ilO a m 4 '. 21) . 13 14 lb 82 15 ir 13 14 "if. Pfc I 5 509 5 (M 6 83 5 50 4 03 0 00 4 VI 4 50 4 50 4 70 4 a I 4 00 4 00 f 85 00 50 0) 5 M 5 Hi) lit) 5 y.i 0 85 5 li 6 75 0 11 8 20 5 50 , 0 IW 5 5 o to o n 8 75 5 21 8 00 4 60 demand for structural material, which i Is also iu 'considerable request on for-) elgu contracts. Traders have forced! the next crop options iu corn to what seems an unreasonable level, since there Is evidence of a largo yield, de spite delayed planting through ex cessive moisture. Wheat also uttulueed a high poiut, advancing lu sympathy with com. According to correspond ents, there is reason to expect a heavy , sprlug wheat crop this yeur. In the prlueipnl States u full acreage hui beeu pluuted nud the weather Is most favorable for germination. Ou the l'acltlc coast, uud lu outer domestic spring wheat socHous, as well as lu .Manitoba, u larger urea than usual Is devoted to raising wheat this year. The tnai'velously livnlthy condltlou of business Is best appreciated when It is discovered that the defaults lust mouth were the smallest In HI mouths, with the exception of May to August, ISiHi. Inclusive. Iu manufacturing Hue there were but 1(11 failures, with a total Indebtedness of $l.OP7.H04. against 17S lust year for l.5W.iHi;t. As 1N!HJ rcSirted the smallest liabili ties of nuy full yeur lu two decudes, lust mouth's good showing U made manifest by default lu niauufuctur lug couceru 8777.1M13 smaller thau two years ago. Trading failures were K: for $a.liiM,823, and baukiug defaults were oL'o,ix)0. The deutli rate was only throe-uflietus of 1 per cent of all nrm )u busluess, aud losses averaged 14.70; uot aerloua etubtUrassweut to general trad. J.
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