NO SIGN Of STRIKE SITTLEMINI. ARMORED TRAINS. President Mitchell Denlet Rumors That Peace Is Pending Claims That the Men Are Firm. President Joint Mitchell, or Hip United Mine Workers of America, reached Chicago Friday from Indian apolis. He saw no members or the Civic Federation and Mated that the anthracite strike seemed as rar from settlement as ever. Armored trains provided with loopholes tor rifles and revolvers have been sent to different parts ot the Bchnylklll coal region for the use uf special policemen at the collieries. An official of the Phila delphia and Heading Coal and Iron Company said: vThere will be a lamp train constating of from one to lour cars at all collieries, and where the operations are Isolated there will he a train for each colliery, hut wher ever possible the ramp trulns will be made to do service for two. three or more collieries. The police as a rule will wear the regulation blue uni forms. They will he armed with re volvers, but they will have Winches ter repeating- rifles handy, and plenty ot ammunition to use In them. At a meeting; of colliery firemen, engineers and pumpmen, between Hickory Ridge and Ccntralla. at Shamokln, it was decided by a vote of 122 ts 4 to fro on strike unless the operators grant an eight hour work day at the present scale of wages. One hundred deputies were sworn In by Justices of the Peace at the request of the coal companies. The special policemen will be distributed at col lieries in that district to protect men in the fire rooms and at the pumps. An agent for a West Virginia coal company who has been In Wllkesharre the past week hiring men to go South, was assaulted by striking miners and their sympathizers at a Slavish set tlement In the northern part of tlint city. The party making the assault said the agent was trying to get the anthracite miners to go to West Vir ginia to take the places of strikers there. The company representative tried to escape by jumping on an elec tric car as it was passing, but he was pulled from the oar and severely beaten. All the coal companies at llazlcton are commissioning special- officers to guard their property. Fifty-five spec lal policemen were sworn in by CI. II. Markle & Co., and an additional CO will be enrolled. Coxe Brothers have deputized their office clerks and trusted men to guard duty. At a meeting at 801 an ton. attended hy over 100 engineers, pumpmen and firemen, employed at the eight col lieries of the New York. Ontario and Western Company, the strike order, 'ailing out the men was indorsed. ARMY CUT DOWN. Coast Contingent to Be Kept at Ita Former Figures, but Others Are Reduced. Hy direction or tho President, Bee reUry Hoot has Issued a general or der decreasing the atrength of our permanent military establishment and changing the ratio of Its make-up to carry out the army reorganization. Inder the general order of last May the total strength of the army was fixed at 77.287 men. The new order reduces till ngiire to titl.497 reduc tion of lo.7o. In tho cavnlry branch of the service the old order specified 12 troops of 85 men each to a regi ment; the new order establishes 12 troops or 75 men each. This will de crease the total strength of the IS cavalry regiments from 18.840 to 14, 040. In the artillery brunch the coast contingent will be kept at Its former strength of 124 companies of 109 en listed men each, or a total of 13,734. but the Held artillery will he reduced I rom 30 batteries of Hlo men each to 28 batteries (2r light and 3 mountain) of 120 men each. Provision is made In the new order for two siege bat teries, each with n strength or 100 men. which. In addition to the light and mountain batteries, will give the artillery corps a total enlisted strength of 17.742. as against the 18.8t2 men provldeil In the former order. The new order reduces tlie number of men to nn infantry company from 104 to 80. and our 30 regiments, of 12 com panies each, will now give n total In fantry force uf 2H.8SO. Instead of ."18. 620. The strength of the engine branch remains us formerly, as does also the strength of the staff depart ments. It will be the plan of the War Departments hereafter to divide the army, ns provided In the order, Into thirds, having one-third of the en tire establishment In the Philippines at all tunes. TO MAKE T.VVO TRIPS WEST. DEPUTIES GUARD MINES. Operators Increasing 8peclal Force of Police at the Plants. The coal companies of the anthra cite region around Pottsvllle, are fathering an army of special police men to protect their property In the event of a conflict. The Philadelphia ind Reading Company had 12. police men sworn in to supplement Its reg ular force of 180. The St. Clair Coal Company and the Oluck Mountain Coal Company had commissions Is sued to a number of special police men. The Ivohlgh Valley Coal Com pany and the Pennsylvania Company will each have 60 policemen sworn in. President Roosevelt May Go on Bear Hunt. President Roosevelt has undertaken to make two trips through the Western country next fall. One will be In the Southwest and tho other In the North west. About the last of September the President will go to Springfield. 111., and to Detroit, Mich., stopping en route nt some other points not yet determined upon. In the latter part of October he will go as far Into the Southwest as San Antoula. Tex. He has been strongly urged to go on a bear hunt in Mississippi, as the guest of the Governor or that State, and he may avail himself of this oppor tiiuity to accept the invltatlou. JENNINGS EXCITED. AMNESTY MIT FOR THE NATIVES. SCANDAL OVER MESSAGE Cuban House of Representatives Re consider the Bill Granting Par don to Prisoners. The House ot Representatives of Cuba, has reconsidered the bill which provided amnesty for Americans un der sentence or Id' Jail In Cuba and lias added an amendment which pro vides that amnesty be granted to na tive born Americans only. In thlj form the bill was sent to the Senate. The purpose of the amendment Is to exclude from the proposed amneBty those naturalized American citizens who might be released under the bill and who might still continue to re side In Cuba. The House hns voted to fix the salary of the President of the republic at $25,000 a year and that of memheis of Congress at $3,000. President Palma'a message to Con gress was read Wednesday. Consid erable acnndnl has arisen from the fact that this message was published by a local t aper before It had been delivered to Congress. The House pnssed a resolution to the effect thnt it considered the premntore publica tion of the message a discourtesy on the part or President Palma. The President was greatly Irritated over the occurrence and has discharged one of his aids. Detectives have been put to work In an endeavor to learn how the message reached the newsnaner tlint published it. A type writer wlin wns eiunloved by the President has been taken Into rus tody. NO BEGGARS IN CUBA. General Wood Notes Special Feature of Conditions There. Leonard Wood says the people of Cuba arc a good, hard-working lot There Is less than 1 per cent, of Americans on the Island. The popu lation Is almost exclusively foreign to us. When one stops to think that to-day Cuba has no beggars one must be lmnressed with the belief that there Is some virtue lu the people of the Island themselves. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED. Marvelous Oil Well Gushes and In habitants Get Wild. A new .Tennings, I.a., gusher was spouted Wednesday in the presence of 2,ooO people. All large oil com panies in the Beaumont field had rep resentatives present. The well was pronounced the equal of the best Iteaumont gushers in every respect. A four-Inch stream of oil shot 200 feet In the air. Bells in Memory of McKinley. A chime of 10 hells was dedicated to the memory of Wlllium McKinley lu Lincoln. Neb. They are placed in the spire of the largest church in the city. St. Paul's MethodlBt. They were dedicated with Impressive serv ices. McKinley's favorite hymn, "Lead, Kindly Ught." and "Nearer, My Ctod, to Thee," were played dur ing the dedication. CABLE FLASHES. Who Will Serve Presbyterian General Assembly Durlnq Ensuing Year. Stated Clerk Roberts, of the Pres byterian General Assembly announced at New York the siiecial committee: Committee for Interdenominational conferences on the question ot di vorce and marriage Rev. C. A. Dickey. D. D.. Rev. J. W. Mcllvaln, D. D., Baltimore; Rev. S. F. Niccolls. D. D.. Rev. W. J. MacCoughan, I). D., Rev. Paul F. Sutphen, D. D. Klders John K. Parsons, New York: W. M. ban ning. Trenton, N. J.; 8. P. Harbison. Allegheny. Pa., and John W. Foster. Special committee to promote the work among the young people's socle ties Rev. V. R. Taylor. Rev. Charles Wood. Rev. John Stone, Rev. J. Ross Stevens and Elders J. Willis Baer, Louis H. Severance, Cleveland O., and . A. F. McDonald. Special committee for the raising of the debt, on the Presbyterian building was continued and reinforced. Among the new members are John Wanamaker and , Robert C. Ogilen. FIFTY CENTS PER FOOT. Enormous 8um Must Be Paid for Tunnel Rights. The terms terms the Pennsylvania Railroad will have to pay for the prlv liege of tunneling beneath the city have been given out. The railroad 1 company has agreed to pay for the first 10 years 60 cents a year for every track foot, that Is, for every foot of track laid, and not for the length ot the tunnel. For the subse quent 15 years the company will pay $1 a year for every track foot. These prices must be paid not only for the trunk lines, but also for sidings and turnouts. The sum the city will realize annually has not been est! mated, but It will be enormous. Sholes Detests Titus. The thirty-sixth annual regatta of the Harlem Regatta Association was held on the Speedway course, Harlem liver,, Thursday. The races were one mile straight away. In the senior single sholes the Canadian defeated Titus by one and a nan lengtn. Earthquake In Connecticut Residents of the southern part of Rast Hampton. Conn., felt what they believed were earthquake shocks Charles Gasslot, of London, England, has bequeathed his art collection, worth $350,000, to the city of London. The German men-of-war withdrawn from the coast of Venezuela will re turn there as soon as the weather per mits. Germany is determined to press her claims without resort to abltra-tion. The United States cruiser San Fran- Cisco la now on her way to the United States from 'England, after making exhaustive surveys and conducting semi-dlplomutlc negotiations regard- ng a United States coaling station 11 the West African Republic ot Li-eria. Richard Westacott, In charge of the United States consulate - general in London. England, received a letter offering 250 guineas for an American wife with money. President Pulma had the wreck ot the Maine in the harbor at Havana. Cuba, decorated with Cuban flags and garlands ot roses in memory of the 200 Americans who lost tiielr lives there. The Rome correspondent Bays that at the consistory to be held June 9, the Pope will nominate Archbishop Keane, of Dubuque, la., to succeed the late Archibishop Corrlgan, of New 1 ork. The resignation of the Premier M Wuldeck-Rousseau, was formally com municated at the mooting of the French Cabinet Wednesday. The en tire Cabinet resigns with M. Waldeck- Rousseau. It is announced that Michael Henry Herbert, who Is nominally secretary to the British embassy at Paris, will be the next British ambassador to the United States In succession to the lute Lord Pauncefote. The British steamer Atrato, Captain Stranger, arrived at Kingston, J a mica from Colon. Colombia. She reports that there was heavy fighting at Bocas del Toro last week. The revolution ists are said to have mined the town ot Bocas. The annual spring parade of the garrisons ot the Berlin, Germany milt tary district, was held on the Tern pelhot field. Thirty thousand troops, twice the usual number, took part in H for he edification of the Shan of Persia. The United States Commission In the Philippines has passed an act ot civil government by which the adjoin ing provinces ot Lepanto and Boutoc are divided Into three sub-provinces under one Qovernor and two Lieu- tenant Governors. CONGRESSIONAL NOTES. Bar Out Anarchists. In the Senate Tuesday Mr. Patter son a puke several hours on the Phil ippine question. A fruitless effort was made to secure an agreement on a time to vote on the bill. A com mittee was named to confer with a House committee on the army appro priation bill. The House Tuesday passed the Shattuck Immigration bill. The feat ure of the day waa a lively debate on the question of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors at Immigrant sta tions which was adopted by a vote uf hi to 18. Among the more Import ant changes are those Increasing the head tax on aliens coming Into the United States by land transportation from $1 to $1.50; adding to the ex cluded classes anarchists or persons who advocate the overthrow of gov ernment by force. Broadening the word "contract" In the contract labor law to Include "offer, solicitation or promise" thnt Immigrants over 15 years of age sh ule be able to read in some language. The Bullion Debate. An agiepinent was reached in the Senate Wednesday by which a final vole on the pendlug Philippine gov ernment bill and all amendments will be taken up June 3. A bill was passed providing for the occupancy by the O. A. It. of the new public printing during the National encamp ment In October. After passing sev eral outline bills the Senate went Into executive session. The House spent Wednesday de bating the bill to Increase the sub sidy coinage by coining the silver million In the Treasury, and to re- coin standard silver dollars as the public necessities may require. Mr, Newlands. Nevada, offered an amend ment to make subsidiary silver a legal tender and this nmeudmetit was pending when the House adjourned. BOERS SIGN TERMS OF SURRENDER KITCHENER CABLES NEWS. Peace Brings the Furling of the Bat tle Flsgs on the South African Fields. Washington authorities are alarmed over tho prevalence of cholera In the Philippines The President has nominated to be Brigadier Generals, Colonels Samuel M. Whiteside and Sumner II. Lincoln Representative Payne. New York, Thursday introduced a resolution to rescind all leaves of absence hereto fore granted members. Senator Mcl.aurln, of South Caroli na, prolmbly will lie nominated Judge of the Court of Claims to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Judge John Davis. The Navy Department has ordered the training ship Dixie, which has been pur f 01 mlng relief work In the voicanic-Btricken districts, to return to New York. The Senate Committee on Naval Af fairs Tuesday agreed to report favor ably the bill providing for the retire ment of Naval Constructor Rico mond P. Hohson. The government of France has be stowed upon Assistant Secretary Pierce, Colonel Bingham and Cem manduu Hodgers, the decoration of tho Legion of Honor. Bueucanlno, one of the principal figures of the so-called Agulnaldu government In the Philippines, hold ing the oflice of Secrctury of State, has arrived in Washington. Oeneral Whiteside, formerly mili tary general at Suntlago, Cuba, pre sented to the President a large Cuban battleflag, from the officers of the Fourth Gnaiitananio Regiment. The Navy Department has ordered the gunboat Ranger, now at San Francisco, to proceed to Panama and relieve the cruiser Philadelphia, the latter coming north for repairs. The IIouso Committee on Library has directed a favorable report on the bill for a statue to General Count Caslmlr Pulaski, the Polish patriot ot the Revolutionary War, to cost $50,000. A beautiful floral tribute was sent by the Department of the Potomac, O. A. R., to be placed on tho tomb con taining tho remains of the late Presi dent McKinley, at Canton, on Deco ration Day. Attorney General P. C. Knox was confined to his bed Wednesday with a heavy cold. After tho Paunce fote funeral services President Roose velt drove over to his residence and called upon him. -The bill of Representative Over- street abolishing the one-eighth keg of beer was favorably acted upon by the Ways and Means Committee. The measure is desired by the beer trade iu order to do away with the small kegs. The Mercer omnibus public build ing bill was agreed on In conference The bill carried $15,800,000 when it left the House. The Senate added $3,200,000. In conference the Sun- ate amendments were reduced about $1,200,000. Mr. Ralkes, in charge ot the Brit ish embassy, called upon Secretary Hay and formally expressed the high sense of appreciation of the British government at the unuaual honors done tho memory ot the late Lord Pauncefote, It Is said at the War Department that the departure of the Hancock and Sherman from Manila with the Ninth and Nineteenth Regiments ot Infantry reduces the army in the Philippines to less than 28,000 men. The report that Gaynor and Greene In Quebec, had notified the Attorney Oeneral that they are willing to re turn to the United States and stand trial, Is denied on the authority of Attorney Qeueral Knox. Postmaster General Payne baa called for bids, to be opened on July Subsidy Increase Favored. .The debate on the Philippine bill was continued in the Heiiute Thurs day. Messrs. .Morgan, Alabama, aud Spooner, Wisconsin, speaking. The House Thursday passed the bill to increase the subsidiary silver coinage, so much of any act as fixes a limit to the aggregate of subsidiary coin outstanding aud bo much of any act as directs the coinage of any por tion of the bullion purchased under the act or July 14. 1S!0, Into standard Bllver dollars, ts repealed by the bill. Peace lias beeu declared after nearly two years and eight mouths of a war which tried the British empire to Its uttermost and wiped the Boers from the list uf nations. The war hns come to an end with Lord Kitch ener's Hunouncnmeiit from Pretoria, South Africa, that he. Lord Mllner and the Boer delegates had signed "terms of surrender." Its receipt Sunday afternoon took all England by surprise, as everybody had be lieved that the House of Commons would hear the first news. The War Office received the following dispatch from Kitchener, dated Pretoria Satur day, May 21. II: in p. m. "A docu ment containing terms of surrender was signed here this evening at 10:30 o'clock by all the Boer representatives, as well as by Lord Mllner, British High Commissioner in South Africa, and myseir." King Bilwurd Issued a proclamation at midnight Sunday, say ing: "The King has received the wel come news of the eessalltm of hostil ities In South Africa with Infinite sat Islactlon, and his majesty trusts that peace muy speedily be followed by the restoration or prosperity in his tww dominions, and that the feelings necessarily engendered by war will give place lo earnest co-operation on the part of his majesty s South Arlcan subjects in promoting the welfare of their common country." Loudon Sim la y night was a scene of Jubilation over the news. Thousands or me populace marching through the streets ngliig national anthems. The war began lu October. 1899, and the total ghtlng force ot the Boers at that me Is estimated at 50,000. The rltlsh have had 600,000 men In the eld, the largest number at any one me being 28O.01111 .Up to April 1, 102, olllclul statistics show that the Itlsh losses were 1.020 officers and 20.031 men dead; 384 officers and 8,1X1 men missing and prisoners; 2.937 of ficers and 09,311 men invalidated ome. It Is impossible to say how many Boers were killed or wounded, but 37,000 were taken prisoners. Prolonged 8esslon. Mr. Spooner, Wisconsin, finished in the Senate Saturday his speech In support of the Philippine government hill. Mr, Carmnck followed and con tinued until 10:20 p. m., at which hour the Senate adjourned. s QUARANTINE AGAINST STATE. Kentucky Afraid Smallpox Will Be Brought Across the Border. The Kentucky Board ot Health has declared a quarantine against the State of Imllann on account ot small pox. The quarantine Is to go Into effect at noon on Sunday, June 1 After thnt time no person can come Into Kentucky from Indiana who can not show a certificate signed by a duly authorized health officer showing that the bearer has been successfully vaccinated within five years. Troupe Quarantined In a Gravel Pit In Connecticut. On account of smallpox 3G members of "Hi" Henry's Minstrel Company are quarantined on a railroad siding In a gravel pit. two miles from will lmatic, Conn. They occupy three railroad cars, and are permitted to wander about as they see fit, provided they do not cross a Hue drawn by the local authorities. Although they have plenty of money they cannot spend It, and they are paupers iu the eyes of the law and are being - supported at the public expense. They have half an acre on which they can circulate. None has yet attempted to escape, as they all understand that If they pass the police lines they are liable under the Connecticut law to pay a fine of joo and go to jail tor six months. TRAIN LEFT THE TRACK. Four Cars Engine Overturned and Demolished. A Norton; and Western paseuger train left the roll on a sharp curve near Bijffalo station, West Virginia, Wednesday. The engine, tender anil baggage car were turned over and four passenger coaches demolished. Charles Watts, a merchant of Wayne, was looking from a window at the time tnd the window fell with such force that his neck was almost broken. He will likely recover. Volcano in Alaska. Mount Redoubt, one of the great peaks ot the Southwestern Aluska coast. Is lu active volcanic erptlon. Flames have burst from the summit and lava has poured down Into vhe valleys below. Ashes have been scat tered over the native villages within a radius of 100 miles. Settlements within 20 miles of the mountain, have been abandoned by both natives and whites. Debris from St. Pierre. A quantity of pumnice like material believed to be from the volcanoes In the West Indies Is drifting on the shores of the Islands lu the vicinity of Charleston, S. C. Fishermen have also brought In pieces of It from the sea. It Is dark In color and brittle with varied colored streaks, very light in weight and floats on the surface of the water. It Is supposed the Gulf stream brought It to that region, Strike Cost Fifteen Millions. The losses for the three weeks work ot the strike In the anthracite region based on figures furnished by the oper ators uud minerB are: i.osa to min ers in wages. $3,890,000; operators' loss in price of coal. $7,800,000. loss of employes (other than miners) $904,500; loss to business men, $ 250,000. Total, $14,850,500. Offered Ten Thousand a Year. Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews, of the State University, of Nebras ka, has received a call to become bead of the Wisconsin State Unlvers ity, at a salary ot $10,000 a year. Turkey Has New Dispute. A dispatch from Constantinople says a dispute has arisen between th United States and Turkey as a re sult of the wrongful arrest ot two Armenians, who are Amerlcau cltl- sens, at Smyrna and Beirut. Railroad Kings Want a Bank, It Is reported iu St. LouIb, Mo., that the Hill-Morgan railroad interests have arranged tor the purchase of a majority of the stock of the Third National Bank and bad already more 500 PEOPLE HOMELESS, Fountain River In Colorado Flooded Pueblo 8treet Cars Tied Up. Railroads Damaged. The severest flood that has visited that section for years, occurred at pueiiio. Col., Monday. The damage done in thnt city by the sudden rise or the Fountain river Is estimated al $.100,000. The railroads were the principal sufferers.. No through trains were running, owing to wash outs and destruction of bridges. So far as known there has been no loss ol life, but a number of persons are re ported to be missing. A heavy rain was falling Tuesday all along the east ern slope of the mountains and was re talnlng the work of repairing railroad tracks and telegraph lines. Fount ain river was still beyond the banks, but no further damage Is apprehend ed. Five hundred persons are home Uss. Street car traffic In East Pueblo was shut off and cannot be resumed for many days. The Arkansas river was not out of ita banks, but was rU lug rapidly. Schley Delivered an Address. Rtar Admiral Schley delivered tho Memorial Day address nt Bangor. Me. The address, though brief, was a graceful tribute to the defenders of the nation In the Civil and Spanish American Wars. THE MAHXETB, PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. Wheat-No. rwl t M lt;e-N,. 67 Corn No. yellow, ear 71 rio. 1 71-1 low, ananed in m Mixed ear Oate-No. f white ,i ho. 9 white Flour Winter tiatent ., ram-y mignt winter " -i Hay No. I Minolta? 14 IO Clover No. 1 10 CO Feed-No. I white 11, I.I. ton ?-! 0(1 Hrowii'mlddlUiK .-. 00 rr 84 W M M 4UU 40M 4H 4U SM 4 IX) Bran, hula. Straw-Wheat uu , 75 7 00 70 14 OT 10 W 7ft si 00 si so 7 IW 7 SI Dairy Products. Butter tlgtn creamery Ohio ur.-nmery Kalicr rountry roll Cheese Ohio, new New York, nvw Poultry, Eto. tlene-per lb I blukens (treenail ... , Egg4 1'a. and Ohio, freeh Fruits and Vsrjetables. 4 v 11 11 LATEST NEWS NOTES. Oreeo Rrane per bo... Potntoee "ant-j white ierbus... lahtiage per criite Oaluue per barrel BALTIMORE. Flour-Winter Patent Wheat-No. i red turn iiuxoit Ilkm butter, Ohio creamery ..$1 711 SO . 7 . 75 1M 67 17 IN IS "It IS IS IS 17 too 1 w S IW 4 IS '4 PHILADELPHIA. MINSTRELS AS PRISONERS. ALL RECORDS BROKEN. 90,000 Immigrants Have Arrived Dur ing May. There are 23,000 immigrants on the Atlantic due to arrive at New York City, Friday, and they will bring the utnl for May up to 85,000 or tfo.OOO. Tills will break all records for any months In the last 20 years. The number of deportations Is increasing, 750 persons having been ordered de ported dining the first 2U days of May. The majority of the new ar rivals are from Austria, Hungary, Italy and Hussla. COULD NOT AGREE. Strike of Teamsters In Chicago the Worst Ever Experienced There. Conferences between several of tho firms aud representatives of the Teamsters' , Union at Chicago were held Wednesday to adjust the trou ble, but the packers refused to con cede any of the demands of the strlk ers. Orders went out from the teamsters' headquarters that no coal should be delivered to the concerns making Ice to refrigerate meat for unfair butcher shops or packing houses. The development promises the most complete tie-up of teaming deliveries ever experienced in Chi cugo. DISCUSSED THE COAL 8TRIKE. Gov. Stone and Attorney General Con ferred With Mine Officials. The situation lu the anthracite coal region was discussed at a conference at Harrisburg. Pa., Tuesday, between Governor W. A. Stone, Attorney Gen eral John P. Elkln and Thomas Duffy, T. D. Nicholls and John Faby. District Presidents of the United Mine Work ers. The mine workers came uy in vitatlon of the Governor to explain the exact situation In the strike re gion and the prospects of an early ad jiistment of the trouble between the coal operators and the striking miners. Hello'd Too Often. Police Justice Marshall, at Port Chester. N. J., sentenced Alice Myers a young woman to tio days lu the county Jail for attempting to alienate the affections of W. S. Wetmora from his wife by telephone. France Wants Peace in Kwang-SI. The Chinese newspapers assert that France has notified China that the Insurrection in Kwang-SI province Is Interfering with her Tonquln trade and that unless It is suppressed be fore July Frauce will take steps to protect her Interests. Pythlans Change Meeting Date. The Grand Lodge of Ohio, Knights of Pythias, has changed the date of the annual meeting from the last m.....ln, Ik VI..U . K . . M . , . I',,.,,, ll. II I A ueiua; iu ma w iuo met u?i Fire at Fayette, Miss., Friday dW $50.0oo damage. Small independent railroads are be lug absorbed rapidly hy the larger sys tems. Major Ilerthelot, a member of the Rochumbeaii mission, broke his leg in lloston. The Catholic Knights and Ladles ol America held their annual convention at Detroit. Mayor lx)w. uf New York, gave a banquet Wednesday to the Kocbaai beau mission. , Four lives were lost In the burning of nine Irame hotel buildings at Kock away Meach. Suit was brought In New York to enjoin the United States Steel Corpor ation bond issue. James A. Patton, Mayor of Evans ton. 111., made $1,000,000 out of a cor tier In May oats. One man was killed and six injured by an accident during an automobile ace in New York. Kngland has fallen rapidly behind n the race for supremacy in the Iron and steel Industry. Another terrific eruption Monday ol Mont Pelee destroyed life and bom barded Fort de France. The Federal Court has began an In- estigatlon at Memphis, Tenn., into the alleged cotton pool. Chief Knglneer Purdy, of the Chica go, Uurllngton and Qulncy Railroad, who was Injured in a wreck died. The striking stock yards teamsters enllster 125 recruits and practically tied up the delivery of meat in Chi cago. Norwegians to the number of 14,000 came to the United States last year. This year 30,000 are expected to emigrate. burglars blew open the safe of the reasurer of Hardin county, Tex., and secured a considerable amount o money. Fellp Huencamlno stated before the House Committee that the Filipinos want Information as to their real lasslflcatlon. "Tops." a female elephant of the Forepaugh & Sells circus, killed Jo seph Illount at the show ground in Brooklyn, N. Y. The University of Cambridge, Eng land, has conferred the honoary de gree of doctor In letters on Prof. It. V. Parker, of Yale. The grand Jury at Clinton, Tenn., has beeu Instructed to inquire into the Fratervllle mine accident by which 216 lives were lost. Harvard defeated Yale In the con test for championship honors at the inter-collegiate athletic meet by score of 34 points to 30. Edward C. Prltchett, a real estate dealer, of Baltimore, filed a petition In bankruptcy. Liabilities sched uled at $:ioi.7:l4, assets $:86. A temporary sidewalk crowded with spectators of the Rochambeau parade in New York collapsed two persons were killed and many Injured. Herbert H. Matteson, who embezzled $19i'l00 from the First National Bank, ot Great Falls, Mont., was given a 10- year sentence to the penitentiary Charles M. Schwab has selected hl brother Joseph for the presidency ol the American Steel Foundries Com pany, with a salary of $50,000 a year Rev. Dr. Guy Potter Benton, presi dent of the Upper Iowa University, a Foyette. Ia., has accepted the presi dency ot Miami University, Oxford O. The Great Northern flyer was wrecked near Oajata, N. D-. while run nlng at full speed. Several pas sengers were cut and bruised, uon seriously. The French government has ordered the transport Isere to take on board 300.000 rations for the Martinique suf ferers and to sail for that island a soon as possible. Charles D. Thompson, ex-Supreme Finance Keeper ot the Supreme Tent Knights ot the Maccabees, at Porl Huron, Mich., pleaded not guilty to the charge ot embezzling $j7,O0O. The largest shareholder of the New York. New Haven & Hartford Kail road have been asked by representa tives ot the Pennsylvania if they would favor a long-time lease ot thai road. The National Ketorm Assotcatlon Conference of the General Synod ol the Reformed Presbyterian Church, convened In Syracuse, N. Y., Wed nesday, Rev. J. L. MacCartney pre siding. Captain Charles E. Russell, of the Eighth infantry is dead at Manila. Hs was the first officer to die from caul Flour-Winter 1'atent 93 SO W teat-No, 2 red '4 Corn-No. U mlxeit Uale No, -i wlilie HH butter Creamery, ettra T'Mi t-tt reniiajirania male - 17 NEW YORK. Flour- Patenta $3 Wheat-No. arixt M lorn No. a 7-1 Oel So, W hue 44 Butter-Creamery bga Stateauu i'tiutieylvaata 17 400 so (! M VI 17W 4 K is LIVE STOCK. Central 8tock Yards, East Liberty, Pa. Cattle. Prima heavy. KOOto 1GU0 Irn $ 7 V Prime. 1300 to 14WI lha 6 75 Med Ml in, I'AJO to KUJO M 0 Cat ballere ri But. Iit, vuo to 1000 li.a - 4 m Common to fair 4 7ft Oien, common to fat SiA) I oininon toKiMid lat bulla ana cows a w Mll-a cows, ei;h u Intra mllcb towa, ea.-h 4uuv Hogs. Prime heavy horn 7 Prime medium wel(hta 7 01) Meet heavy jorkera and medium... S SO t.ood to cholre nnt-ker-i 7 1-1 tiood ilae and light yorkers o Pisa, common togood . S 7o Common to lair rj1' Kotisha 0 iw laga sou 8heep. Fxtra. medium wetbera. 1 ft-V (iooil to i-bolca 4 l leillllin 4) ommun to fair !tu Lambs. lamhe clipped 6tt .Hinr.a, goou tooholoe, cill'pea. ew 1-amtia. common to falr.olluuf.il... SO.) spring Lauiba &00 Calves. Veal, eitra 700 eai, gmxl to choice 4 uo Veal, common beary SAil Veal, coin mon lo fair tt& 7S 7 00 7 Bin 0U0 soa SM i to 85 00 oa 00 7 7 (ft eoo 7 CSIt ;& s;o so 660 600 4 7 ft sao a 7ft eoo S 00 750 600 560 400 PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT. Agricultural Sections Are Prosperous and Other Industries Must Share in the Good Things. R. O. Dun ft Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Ease In the money market, favorable crop prospects and confidence abroad are the encourag- ng factors which outweigh the dis- turblng elements of labor conflicts and unseasonable weather for retail trade at many points. Infects of the depressing influences are less keenly felt because they are believed to be only temporary and confidence Is ex pressed that with the resumption of work and normal temperature there win ue a, leiuiii lu iuu iiukihi cibiiiuu- tlon of merchandise. Despite the short corn crop last year the large yield of wheat and high prices tor both resulted in the greatest value for the two crops ever recorded, which means that the agricultural sections are prosperous and both Industries must share the good fortune by In creased sales ot products. Efforts to place contracts for 100,000 tons of pig Iron, deliverable in the second Itiarter of 1903, Indicate the confidence ot leading consumers as to the future of this Industry. There is no cessa tion of activity at the mills and fin ished products are forwarded to Im portune consumers as rapidly as pos sible. No improvement Is reported at New England boot and shoe cent ers, where tho ahops are still running only about half time. There is little more activity In the grades that de clined last week, but no indications ot recovery In prices and other varle. ties tend downward. Recent ad vances in leather are maintained, with belting butts freely purchased. Imported hides are scare and strong, but domestic packer hides are not ac cumulating, although the markets are extremely quiet. Domestic Jobbing trade is fairly satisfactory, but ex ports of cotton goods are Bmall. Print cloths are dull and unchanged, with the situation unsettled as to new prints for the fall. Clothing manu facturers are purchasing woolen goods In moredatiou only and larger deliver ies by the leading company increases the disposition toward conservatism. Failures fur the week numbered 194 lu the United States against 148 last year and 20 In Canada against 27 a year ao. "Bradsireet's says: "The week's developments have been largely fa vorable. Crop conditions, particu larly those of the spring-sown cereals and cotton, have shown further im provement. The labor situation, par ticularly that In the coal trade, has likewise measurably inproved, ad vices toward the end of the week pointing to the anthracite strike end ing before the position as to supplies becomes critical. Among the indus tries general activity still rules, with Iron and steel, hardware, lumber, the building trades and bituminous cool displaying exceptional activity. The leading Interest baa bought con siderable Southern pig iron, delivered at Pittsburg, close to $19 a ton. In quiry for pig Iron for next year la noted. Outside steel works are re ported being liberal buyers ot foreign. Iron. Thursday. ra. ( - - II. tbaa $.000 shares. Ita June.
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