r 7 5 GERMAN LEAD SINKS WAR VESSEL BLACKS BROKE FAITH. Haitian Gunboat Sunk for Alleged Piracy After Being Fired by Her Own Sailors. The gunbont CrctenPlctr.it. which wan In the servleo of the Flrmlnlst party, of Haiti, wan sunk nt thn en trance of the harbor of tlonnlves ty the Oormnn gunboat Panther. Tlie crrw of the Crete-a -Pierrot left her tiefnrc she wont down. The Herman gunbeat Panther arrived at Port Ail Prince. Haiti, Friday anil received In struction from the Germnn govern ment to capture the Flrmlnlst gunboat Crete-a-Plerrot. She left Immediately for (lonalves, the seat of the Flrinlnlst government. The Panther found the Creie-a-1'lorrot In the harbor of (lon alves, and the commander of the Her man gunboat Informed Admiral K II ilck. on the Crete-a -Pierrot, that he must remove his crew and surrender his vessel In five minutes. Admiral Kllllek asked that this time be extend ed to 15 minutes. This request was granted on the condition that the arms and ammunition on board the Crete-a Pierrot should be abandoned when her crew left her. The crew of the Crete a Pierrot left that vessel amid great disorder. At the end of 15 minutes the Panther sent a small boat carry ing an officer and 20 sailors who were to take possession of the Flrmlnlst gunboat. When these men had ar rived at a point about 30 yards from the Crote-a-Plerrot flames were seen to break out on board of her. She had been fired by her crew before they left her. The Panther then fired upon the Crete-a-Plerrot until she was com pletely Immersed. Thirty shots, all told, were fired. It was announced from Cape llaitien September 3 that the Herman steamer Markomannln, Captain Nansen, belonging to the Hamburg-American Packet Company, hav ing on board arms and ammunition, had been stopped by the gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot at the entrance to the harbor' of Cape Haltlen and that an armed force sent on board the steam er from the gunboat took possession of the war munitions In spite of the protestations of Captain Nansen and the German consul. The seizure of the Markomannla has been character ized as an act of piracy; and the sink ing of the Crete-a-Plerrot was the re sult of this view of its action. Lion Scared Four Thousand. Nero, a large Hon belonging to Frank C. Bostock's menagerie, es caped from its cage on the county lair grounds at Dunkirk, N. Y and as a result the 4,000 people present were panic-stricken. Major Smylie Killed. Major Charles A. Smylie million aire president of the National Licorice Company, was accidentally shot and ; killed near Dine Mountain lake, in the Adirondacks, while on a hunting expedition. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Lieutenant Winchell's report of the oil experiments on the gunboat Mari posa shows that the trial was a grati fying EUCCeES. Lieutenant General Miles intends to make an inspection or the artillery i derense along the Pacific coast before embarking for the Philippines. I.- - Tt-I 1 1 ! rt I iiipc-i imam in vierumiiy. mes sage to the President, dated Posen. said: "With all Americans, I praise Providence that saved your life from the terrible accident." A cable to the navy department shows that Commander McCrea and the IT. S. .8. Machlas vigorously pro tected the commerce of the world against Haltlen belligerents. , Bids were opened at the office of the supervising architect of the treas ury for a site for the marine hospital that is to be bollt at Pittsburg. Seven teen tenders, an unusually large num ber, were made, ranging from $2,800 to 170,000. Minister Bowen has forwarded from Caracas, Venezuela, the plea of Rev. T. 8. Pond, senior American mission ary there, for help for the people Im poverished by the civil war. Mr. Poud proposes to distribute cooked provisions only. Traffic on the Monongahela river, as reported by the engineers in charge during July amounted to 5,471,009 tons. The tonnage movement at the Davis Island dam for July was 1,123,991 tons. The President has accepted the res ignation of First Lieutenant Grant T. Trent, of the Eighth Infantry, In order to permit that officer to continue to serve as Assistant Attorney General at Manila. George E. Cooke, of tho First Dis trict of Columbia regiment, won the President's match "for tho military championship of the United States in the shooting tournament at Sea Girt, N. J. He scored a total or 189 out of a possible 210. Report by cable sayg Generals Cor bin, Young and Wood were presented to Emperor William at the Marken dorf parade field, near Frankfort, Ger many, after the parade was finished on Saturday. The Emperor save them a hearty welcome. Funeral services for William Craig, the secret aervico man who was killed while accompanying President Roose velt on his tour, were held In Chicago Saturday. President Roosevelt or dered a large floral design, and one waa aent by the members of the na , tional secret service atatloned In Chi cago. President Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay Thursday, but little the worse for hip thrilling experience of the morning. His right cheek was swollen, there is a black bruise under his right eye, and bis mouth Is Bllghtly awollen. Otherwise be showed no ef fects of the accident. General Chaffee cables from Manila that James Foley and Henry C.' Carey, Company O, Twenty-seventh infantry were killed in the engagement , at Vicars, Island of Mindanao, .on' Au gust It, and that Otis Van Dorn was seriously wounded and Peter Chrls tenaea llfhtlr wounded. ADVISES NINE-HOUR DAY. United 8tate Labor Commissioner Reports on the Strike at the Re quest of the President. A plan for avoiding trouble between operators and miners In the anthra cite region was presented In the re port on the Hlrlko made by Labor Commissioner Carroll P. Wright, who Inquired Into that Industrial war at the request of the President. The re port wus mnrlo public to the Depart ment or Justice, Washington, I). L, whither the President had Bent It to obtain the opinion of the Attorney (Jeneral as to whether there was any thing In the Met a, ns reported by the commissioner, to warrant Intervention by the President. Attorney tleneral Knox came to the conclusion that the executive ha no power whatever to take action In tho matter. Commis sioner Wright, alter reviewing thn de mands or the strikers, as submitted by President Mitchell, recommends: First That, the nuthracito employes should orgnnize an anthracite coal miners' union, In Its autonomy to be Independent of the United Mine Work ers of America. Second That, con sidering all tho facts relative to pro duction, cost of coat at the mines, profits, freight traffic, etc., It would be reasonablu and Just for the opera tors to concde at once a nine-hour day; but this Bhould he done for the period of six months as an experi ment, in order to test tho inlluence on production. Third That under a new organization consisting of anthracite employes there shall be organized a joint committee on conciliation, com posed of representatives of the oper ators anil the now union, to which all grievances, as they arise, shall bo re ferred for investigation; and that when two-thirds of the committee reach a decision that decision shall be final and binding upon both parties. Fourth That the first duty of such joint board of conciliation shall be to enter u:on n thorough examination and Investigation of all conditions elatlve to mining anthracite coal, to question of weighing, to discipline, to wage scales anil to all matters that now form the burden of tho com plaints. Fifth That whenever prac ticable and where mining Is paid for by the ton. and until the Joint commit tee referred to shall have mnde Its re port, coal shall bo paid for by the ton and Im weighed by two Inspectors, one representing tho operators and one representing the men. each side to pay Its own inspector. Sixth That there shall be no interference with non-union men. Hrfvenl h That when ever - practicable collective bargains shall be made relative to wages, time nnd other conditions, under rules to be established by the Joint committee re ferred to. COKE INCREASE. Connellsville Production Makes Record With Shipments Hampered. Coke production ip the ConnellBvUle region continues to beat records while the furnaces are clamoring against the railroads for not moving the record-breaking tonnage out of the dis trict. The detailed report of the oper ation and output of the region for the week ending Saturday. August 30, shows a total of 21.515 ovens, of which 2l,8!ifi were active and 472 were Idle. The total estimated tonnogo wa.-i 254.85,1 tons, a gain or a little over loo tons, compared with the produc tion ol the previous week. This figure also breaks all previous records of the region by a small margin. There were no ehunges reported in the ac tive and Idle lists of ovens. The ship ments from the Connellsville region last week aggregated 11,670 cars.. STRIKE MAY END. All West Virginia Miners May Return to Work. It was reported at Charleston, W. Ya.. that the Kanawha and New river strike will be declared off, and that the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has ordered all equipment rushed back Into the coal fields. The news that the strike In the Pocahontas region has been declared off had a big ef fect In the Kanawha and New river fields. Information that there will be no "blacklist" it is said, will go a long way toward weakening the strike. Adjutant General Baker reported to Governor White from Elkhorn that the striko Is over there, and that all collieries are hiring all the old men who apply for work. RECEIVERS APPOINTED. Three Named to Care for Liabilities of American Bicycle Company. Judge Klrkpatrlck. sitting at New ark. N. J., has appointed Colonel Al bert A. Pope. R, Llndsey Coleman and John A. .Miller, ' receivers for the American Bicycle Company. The company has defaulted the payment of interest on outstanding bonds amounting to $225,001). The company is said to also owe $150,0110 to Mur ing. Mngoun & Co.. $50.uoo to the Fed eral Manufacturing Company and 4'iK.OOO to Sm I tliers & Co., besides other debts. The company. In addi tion owes t9.5oo.o0n as principal on outstanding bonds. The assets are given as $7,751,000, a portion of which, however, Is considered of uncertain value. Department Store Failure. Edgar Velnstein & Co.. proprietors of a large department store at Har risburg, Pa., have made an assign ment The liabilities are given at $117,000 and the assets $tin,Ono. The firm has been in business CO years. The creditors number 200. tho largest being In New York and Philadelphia. Teddy Averaged Well. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and the party orrallway men sidetracked in palace cars btttwoen Arlington and Hetland. S. 1., bagged many birds In tlielrniat day's shooting. Young KooseveTfU was less successful than some of t others, but the uumber of birds sSiurod by hlra averaged well with the list of the party. SACRIFICED III CAUSE OF SCIENCE PERISHED IN MONT PELEE. Prof. Angelo Hellprln Life Believed to Have Been Lost or) the Island of Martinique. Friends of Prof. Angelo Hellprln In Philadelphia and other cities of the United States are fearful that he has perished In the eruption of Mont Pelee August 30. He set sail for Martinique on August 11 to complete his observa tions of the volcano's crater. Since then nothing has been heard from him. Efforts that have been made to locate him have met with no success. Prof. Hellprln was exceedingly daring, and it Is not likely that be was far from Pelee. He expected to return to Philadelphia September 8. Castries, Island of St. Lucia. B. W. I. 8ept. 4. 8 p. m.) The Royal Mall steamer Yare arrived at Castries Island of St. Lucia, B. W. I., from tho Island of Martinique and brings tho report thnt a violent volcanic eruption occurred there Wednesday night and that about 2 000 persons have perished. Large numbers of peoplo are leaving the Island. The ministry for the Colonies at Paris, France, received a cable dis patch from the governor of Guadel onpe. M. Merlin, reporting the zone of destruction Id Martinique, resulting from the recent eruption of Mont Pelee. It says that Morne Capote was much damaged, and that the flames surrounded Morne Parnasse but stopped at the St. James house. "Basse Point Heights were burned. The minister of the Colonies, M. Dou niergue. in placing $100,000 at the dls position of the governor of Mar tinique, M. Lemnlre, to relieve the dis tress In that Island, has urged the gov ernor not to congregate refugees at Fort de France, but to distribute them In the south, where their necessities can be most easily supplied. PRESIDENT ESCAPES DEATH. Trolley Car Crashes Into Carriage Secret Service Agent Killed. President Roosevelt escaped a tragic death by only a few feet in a col lision between his carriage and an electric street car In Plttsfleld. Ma3s., Wednesday, while one of his most t runted guards. Secret Service Agent William Craig, was killed and David J. Pratt, of Dalton, who was guiding the horses, attached to the vehicle, was seriously Injured. President Roosevelt himself, was badly shaken up. but received only a slight facial bruise. Secretary Cortelyou, who oc cupied a sent directly opposite the chief executive In the landau, sus tained a minor wound In the back of the head, and Governor Crane, of Massachusetts, who snt besldo the President, extricated hlmseir from the wreck practically without a scratch. The carriage was demolished by the Impact of the rapidly moving car, and the wheel horse on the side nearest the car was killed outright. The crew and passengers of the car es caped Injury. The President's lip was cut and blood flowed from the wound. His clothing was much disarranged, and he was severely shaken up. Sec retary Cortelyou had a wound In tho back of Ills head from which blood flowed freely. LAKE MICHIGAN PHENOMENON. Waters Recede From the Shore and Flock Back Again. The lake front at Chicago has been swept, by another seiche. The waters receded nearly three feet and In scores of places exposed the sand bars and shoals far out from shore. The disturbance was particularly noticea ble along the north shore in the vi cinity of Kvanston. Members of the live-saving crew took measurements of the ebb and flow. The crew's sloop was stranded as the waters swept eastward, and for nearly 100 feet from the natural shore line the bed of the lake was exposed. The recession of the water was a repetition of the phe nomenon which occurred some weeks ego. The waters would recede and In a few miuuteB would return. The average time from the beginning of the ebb to the flow was about 11 min utes. MINE GUAIIDS RELEASED. Grand Jury at Wllkesbarre Ignores Manslaughter Charges. At the sitting of the grand jury the cases agnlnst F. W. Kinney, Charles Reynolds and William Watkins. ut Wllkesbarre, were Ignored. The three men were employed as special officers at the Warlike colliery, Duryea, and when a 'riot occurred two weeks ago they were arrested and committed to jail lu default or bail on charges of manslaughter and inciting a riot. Sub sequently they were released on bail alter a habeas corpus bearing. The action of the grand jury establishes a precedent in that men employed to protect lire and property about the coal mines, and who may lu the dis charge of their duty shoot and Win cannot be held lor the crime of mur der or manslaughter. Deference to Judge Shiras. It Is stated on the authority of the President that he is not considering tho appointment of Attorney General P. C. Knox to a position on the United Stales supreme court bench in place of Associate Justice George Shiras, particularly as Judge Shiras lias not resigued. Fire Destroys Town Hall. Fire destroyed the town hall at Brookfleld, Mass. The fire was con fined to the town hall and engine house which adjoins It. The Iosh is estimated at $70,000. Over a Thousand Perish. The Havas agency, Paris, France, has received an undated dispatch from Fort-de-Franci, Island of Mar tinique, announcing that about LOCO persons were killed and that 1,600 were Injured as the result of a violent eruption of Mout Peleo Ausust 80. LATEST NEWS NOTES. A negro known as "Hog" Wilson was lynched at Stephens. Ark. King of England visited Andrew Carnegie at Sklbo Castlo, Scotlnnnd. Anthracite coal Is to be Imported from England for Philadelphia schools. Charles F. Moore, the famous forger, Is dying at the Indiana State prison. The Martinique commission In Paris, France, took prompt action for relief of volcano sufferers. Mrs. Annlo B. Robblns wns Instantly killed by a locomotive at Wayne Junc tion, near Philadelphia. Two electric cars on the Ft. Snelllng lino collided nt St. Paul, Minn., and 10 persons were Injured. 8peelal officers have been ordered to guard the vicinity of the residence of President Baer, of the Reading rail way. President Roosevelt received from all parts of the world messages of congratulation for his escape from death. The coal miners' strike In the Nor folk ft Western railroad field of West Virginia Is ended. Census figures seem to show that the present generation Is longer lived than their forefathers. A body thought to be thnt of Wil liam Bartholin, the Chicago murderer, was found in a Held near Lowther, Pa. Governor 8tone, of Pennsylvania, authorizes General Gobln to order out more troops to quoll riots In Carbon county. The convention of Confederated Hungarian societies, in session In New York, decided to meet next year In Cleveland. The non-union miners at Simmons Creek. Flnt Top coal region, West Virginia, were fired on by strikers hidden In bushes. A special dispatch from Naples says large volumes of flame were Issuing from the crater of Mount Vesuvius Saturday morning. Anthony Seward was shot and killed and 1emtiel W. Weyath was budly wounded In a fight at Felton, I)et., be; tween whites and negroes. Curdlnal Gibbons at Baltimore Is Buffering from kidney trouble and Is under a physician's care. A surgical operation may be necessary. Neither gubernatorial candidate In Vermont having the required majority of all votes cost, the election will be thrown Into the Legislature. The theoretical results of Tues day's war game were five warships destroyed or disabled and three coast defense fortifications silenced. The government has withdrawn from public entry a tract of 3,400,uiut acres of land In the 'Blue mountains, in Oregon, as a forest reserve. It U accepted In financial circles that the Cassatt-Morgan-Vandcrhilt alliance has obtained a good majority or the Reading railway stocks. Policeman J. W. Morris, of Armour dale, Kan., was killed by two masked men who were attempting to rob the Metropolitan street railway car barn. The National Letter Carriers' asso ciation, In session at Denver, re elected President J. C. Keller and re solved to meet next year at Syracuse, N. Y. The Hilton trophy was won In the Interstate rllle match nt Sea Girt. N. J., by thn New York team, which scored 1.137 points out of a possible 1.200. President Roosevelt was greeted by more than 75.noo people In Springfield, Mass., fully a third of whom heard him deliver an address on Couit (quale. Director W. W. Campbell, of the Lick observatory. San Jose, Cal re ports that a comet was discovered i.y Prof. Perrlne In the constellation of Persus. Second Lieutenant Robert 8. Wig gins, having escaped from military prison and having been missing three months, has been dropped from the army rolls. The Bank of Fremont, Ind., was blown up and robbed by burglars, who held off the people with guns. Tl robbers overlooked a large amount of currency. Producers of raw Iron and steel an ticipate a break in their market be cause they cannot fill specifications while the foreign product Is entering. A representative of John W. Gutes has purchased nearly G.ouo acreg o.' land In the heart of the Southern Illi nois toal belt and has options on a large block. The biggest tree In the world has been discovered east of Frenso, Cal. measuring at the base 109 feet at 4 feet above ground and 97 feet in cir cumference. The bodies of Mr. unci Mrs. Charles L. Fair, who were killed in nn auto mobile accident lu France on August 14, arrived at New York on Uie steam ship St. Louis. The westbound passenger train on the Gull', Colorado & Santa Fe rail road was wrecked by a defective rail near Brownwood, Tex. Thirty per sons were Injured, Thomas II. Williams. Jr.. president of the California Jockey club, at San Francisco, shot and seriously wound ed Frederick Marlott. .Maiiott's re covery Is doubtful. The United States embassy lu Eng land lias issued a notice to Americans to have nothing to do with persons clulming to have knowledge of Eng. huh estates or money In the Bank of England, awaiting claimants, as such are apt to be all fraudulent. Fire destroyed the plunt of the In dependent Brewing Company at Cin cinnati. Freman ChdTlcs Jennings was probably fatally Injured. Loss, $100,0110, fully insured. Russia has refused to accept the de clination of the sultan or Turkey to allow rour unarmed Russian torpedo boats to pass through the Dardanelles under a commercial flag. Bailey Kerakaa, a 1-owell vetertn. ary surgeon, was arrested by officers or Ionia county, Michigan, "charged with sending a poisoned headache powder to George Merritt, of Bar-auao. MUST CHANGE IKE CONSTITUIION. ROOSEVELT TALKS TRUSTS. President Say Amendment Will Come In Legislation Regarding Corporations. President Roosevelt took notice of his return visit to Massachusetts by delivering at Fltchburg a speech on the trust question. Ho said In part: "I am not going to try to define with technical nccuracy what ought to be meant when we speak of a trust. But if by trusts we mean merely a big corporation, then I ask you to ponder the utter folly of the man who, either In a spirit of rancor or In a spirit of folly, says 'destroy the trusts.' with out giving you an Idea of what he means really to do. I will go with him If ho says destroy the evil In the trusts, gladly. I will try to find out that evil. I will seek to apply rem edies. But If tils policy, from what ever motive, whether hatred, fear, panic or Just sheer Ignorance, Is to destroy the trusts In a way that will destroy all our prosperity, no. ThoRe men who advance wild and foolish remedies which would be worse than the disease, are doing all In their power to perpetuate the evils against which they nominally war. because If we are brought face to face with the naked Issue or either keeping or total ly destroying a prosperity In which the majority share, but In which some share improperly, why, as sensible men, we must decide that It Is a great deal better that some people prosper too much than that no one should prosper enough. So that the man whj advocates deHtroylng the trusts by measures which would paralyze the Industries of the country Is at best a quack, aud ut worst an enemy to the republic. It does not do any body any good, and It will do most or a great deal or harm to take steps which will check any proper growth In a corporation. We wish not to penalize, but to reward a great cap tnln or Industry or the men banded together In n corporation who have the business forethought and energy necessary to build up a great Indus trlnl enterprise. Keep that in mind. A big corporation may be doing ex cellent work for the whole country, and you want, above all things, when striving to get a plan which will pre vent wrong-doing by a corporation which desires to do wrong, not at the same time to have a scheme which will Interfere with a corporation do ing well ir that corporation Is handling Itself honestly and squarely. 1 be lieve something can be done by Na tional legislation. I believe It will be done. I think we ran get laws which will measurably increase the power of the Tederal government over corporations; but. gentlemen, I believe firmly that In the end there will have to be an amendment to the constitution of the United States con ferring additional power upon the Federal government to ileal with cor porations. To get that will be a mat ter of difficulty and a matter of time." BIO BANKING COMBINE. Formed In New York for Business of Latin-America. Plans were made at a meet lug of the directors of the Mexican Trust Company bank, New York city, for the formation of an International banking Institute, capitalized at $l(l,Outi,no(i. to operate In l.atln-Amerlcaii coun tries. The scheme Involves the con fxilldation of the Mexican Trust Com pany bank and the Corporation Trust Company, the combination to be known as the International Bunk and Trust of America. A majority of the stockholders of both concerns have signified their approval. It Is planned to establish branches at 1U leading cities In Mexico, also In Havana. Buenos Ay res Rio Janeiro, Val paraiso and other South American and Central American cities. The general clearing house will be New York city. The company's special ef fort will be to facilitate exchange be tween all the cities of the American hemisphere and to divert to New York the very large amount of I.atin-Amer-lean exchange that now goes to Lon don, Berlin and Paris. COUNTS DAY8 OF WIDOWHOOD. Mrs. McKinley Deposits Flowers Daily on Husband's Tomb. With the precision or a bell tolling the years or a departed life, Mrs. Mc Klnley daily, since the assassin's bul let struck her husband at Buffalo one year ago, has kept count of tho exact number or days. Friday she said: "This is ihe three hundred and sixty fourth tiny tlnre be wns shot," she spoke of the anniversary. Mis. Mc Kinley has us house gueht nt Canton. O., Miss Wilson, of Wuliinglon. Miss Wilson uceompunlcd Mrs. McKinley Saturday to the vault, where the re mains or the Ptesident lie. Mrs. Mc Kinley entered the vault while the guards ot' United Slates soldiers stood at attention. She placed her dally of fering or fresh flowers on her hus band's ensket. Her drive luter car ried her to the mounds thnt mark the burial pluco of her two children. Then she ' was taken home, where, on ac count ot ihe rainfall, she remained during the afternoon and evening, ex cept for n short walk on the verandn. The health of Mrs. McKinley, It Is given out on authority, is fully as good as any time In 20 years. Will Not Return Flags. The resolution Introduced at the re union of members of the old Fourth Minnesota regiment at St. Paul, Minn., to return flugs captured from the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-ninth .Missis sippi regiments In the civil war was defeated after au exciting debate. Robbed Rev. Mr. Paxton. Samuel Young. Jr., and William Hubbard, young men of well-known families of Princeton, N. J., have pleaded guilty to robbing the home of the Rev, pr, William M. Paxtnu SHOCK FELT 20 MILES. Government Fort It Demolished, One Man Killed and Five Injured In Botton Harbor. One of the government powder mag azines at Old Fort Wlnthrop. on Gov ernor's Island, upper floston harbor, blew up Sunday with a detonation that was heard at points 20 miles away. The cause or the explosion Is not known. Ono dend mun and five In jured were brought to the city by the pollen boat, and while It Is believed that this was tho extent of casual ties. It Is possible that others may be found suffering from the force of the concussion. The dead man's' name Is Albert H. Cotton, of Sommervllle. The missing are Joseph E. Wakefield, of Maiden, and James Ryan, of East Bos ton. Tho Injured are James A. Crow ley, 21 years old; Christian Knudson, 39 years old; Charles Flannagan, 23 years old; Dennis J. Swanson, 24, and Paul Barry, 20, all having flesh wounds. There are several old wooden build ings at the southerly end of the Island, but the fort itself, only a little of which Is visible above ground, Is of stone, some of the granite blocks be ing of Immense also. The force of the explosion Is shown by the fact that some of these great blocks were hurled several hundred yards, while one of the largest was sent Into the air and carried down through tho citadel In the center of the fort, mak ing a hole large enough to drive a team of horses through. All over the Island the effects of the explosion are vlwlblo. while In East Boston, South Boston and In the city proper, the concussion was severe enough to break windows and sliuke buildings to their foundations. Winners at the Targets. The Fourth New Jersey regiment team at Sea Olrt, N. J., won the regi mental team match In thu Interstate shooting tournament with a score of 045 out or a possible liuil, two of Its members scoring 5n ench. the highest possible. Company A. of tho Sixtii battalion of thn District of Columbia National (luard. won the company team match with a score of 312 out of a possible 35u. May Loosen Exclusion Law. It is the opinion at the war depart ment that (lovernor Taft's remarks at the board of trade baiuiuet In Manila respecting employment of labor on plantations will form the basis of a suggestion to Congress that the art extending the Chinese exclusion law to the Philippine)) be amended. Strike Has Cost $104,000,000. Secretary Wilson, of the United Mine Workers, at Indianapolis, Ind., figures that the Pennsylvania miners' strike, which has lasted 17 we"ls, lias cost the operators $t;:t.7."n.nni; that the miners have lost $l7.4!t:i.ono in wages, and that the business men of the strike region have lost $H.oi.ii.i.uuj. CABLE FLASHES. The Bulgarian government has ar rested General SCnutciieff. president ot the .Macedonian committee, on ilmiges or connection with the abduc tion of .l It-s Si one. and has Impris oned hi in nt Sofia. At 'lie opening session of the iron nnd steel Institute at Dusseltlurf. tier tunny. President Whit well announced I hat Andrew Carnegie had been elect ed to succeed hlin at the expiration ' of bis term In May. The escape of President Roosevelt In the trolley accident has universally called out In the London dallies con gratulatory and eulogistic editorials and unanimous expressions of Eng land's thankfulness that the President was spared to his country. An trade has been Issued at Con stantinople repeating the exceptional measures adopted against the Armen ians ir the Armenian patriarch would giuu ante that no outbreak would follow. The patriarch has therefore withdrawn his resignation. Ilnron von Munim von Schwartzen st t in, (icrman minister plenipotentiary at Pekin. formerly minister and charge d'affaires of the kaiser at Washington, denies the stories wlil.li have been published that be is about to be ap pointed ambassador to the United Stutes. A "Boxer" proclamation has been posted at Canton. China, Inciting the slaughter of foreigners. It Is ascribed to the commencement of work on the Canton-Hankow railroad, and to the collection of funds for the payment of the foreign Indemnity. A statue of Emperor Frederick was unveiled at Posen. Prussian Poland, In the presence of Emperor Frederick, KiupresM Victoria, the Crown Prince Frederick William, Field Marshal Count von Buuelow! the Cabinet Min isters and many other notabilities. The trades union congress In Eng land rejected by it two-thirds majority a resolution for submitting to Parlia ment a bill creating a court of com pulsory arbitration of labor disputes. 'Iht- opposition argued that such a Kybtem would kill trades unions, as there would no longer be any neces sity for them. The rioting which occurred at Aginm In connection with a demon ftiutioii on the part of the Creatlan students, during which the police charged with drawn sworJs and many persons were wounded, was renewed. It was only nnelled alter the adop tion of severe military measures. Houses were wrecked, shops were plundered and over a hundred persons were injureit. Prince Henry of Prussia has ex pressed his purpose to visit the United States again after his naval service Is completed, but more privately than on the occasion of his fust visit, so as to have a better opportunity to study the country and people. Captain J. J. Pershing, In command of tho American forces at Camp Vicars, Island of Mindanao, reports to (ieneral Chaffee that several of the Mnro cliiers whose followers have at tacked American soldiers have reject ed ull friendly overtures, and be has been unable to reach auy understand ing with thcu. THE MAHktETS. PITTSBURG- Grain. Flour and Feed. Waaat-No. tred.... . .......$ MUt (4U . Kye-lVi. t .. M Corn-No. yellow, tar 71 73 No. ayellow, ehelled M Mixed ear 07 S Oan-No. twhlte 87 SS no. i mitts in m Flour Winter patent .... 4 on 4 10 Fancy atralghl winters to 4 00 No. I timothy 13 00 IS 00 Clover No. 1 11 M) M 00 Fo!-No twhlte mid. ton WW oo Brown middling! ID BO 19 00 I Hlmn, bull, IS 50 18 OK 8uraw-Wbet 7 8D B 00 7 90 S W Dairy Products. Itultr--.lln creamery S SI ft Ohio craamery If) VI t uner i ountry roll 17 IS I bre.o-Olilo, now It HV how York, new 11 li Poultry, Etc Bena-per tb 11 14 Uhl.ikena drunwcl .... 10 ttU Bait mad Ohio, lirnli SO I Fruits and Venetablee. Urwn Bfo-itl)i.... ... (W I OH rotaiixt t uner nulla r uui M R.'i t-'bbg j,or bbls SO 75 Onlou per barrel IN 119 BALTIMORE. Flour-Winter Patent WlMei-No. a red l.oi-u inlxeU K butter -Ohio creamery t;i im . 70 TUV , OT "d . 1 SI . is l; PHILADELPHIA. Flo'ir - Winter Tatonr Wteat-Nii. II red M loru- .No. 12 mixed. Oatn -Nik i white butter -Creamery, extra M Bsst-1'euhelvahla llreia 3IW 400 71 71 Bt 6 HIU 40 m St SO . Si NEW YORK. Flour-Tatanta IJ r. i 00 VYneat-ru. it nd . WH 77 Corn Na 2 twu 70 Oatii No, X Willie VJil Uiitter-Creamerr W 17 "(ie-SUteaodfenuvivaula t '-' LIVE STOCK. Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Cattle. frtme bfavy, l.'OOto 1CO0 lbs 1 7) r rime, luw to Moo lb 7 00 Medium, UUU to IDUO lbs t 10 fatnellon 8 Oil biitebor, Ituo to 1000 li t awl Common to fair Jlijo Oieu, eoinnion to fat , 7.' Common lotioo'l lat bulla and oowa SOI MHvU cow a, eaeh iooi LiUa uillcn owe, each 1S0J Hone. Prime heary horn 7 Hi) Frtuie medium welfhte I 7 W beet heavy yotkera and medium.- 7 t.'i tlood tochoire pneker 7 40 tiowl plge and Uvbtyorkers 7 or) HiS", eciionun to good 600 Common to lair 7 10 KoUKha (oo fctaga 0 SO Sheep. xtra, medium wetuera, f ST" Oood l ehulce 10 Wodluii t.W Common to fair 1 Hi Lambs. Jamba cllnpad nl Lauilia, good to cholci-. rllppd .. 4 to Lamlia, common to fair, oi,iipt.d. SO) eprlug Lauba J Calves. Pa. 7 40 eTo 3 00 5 00 57!1 4 Ml 4 SO as oo woo 7 7 711 7eo J 44 7.V 70 760 7- ir, tut o I 10 6 0) 4tr al, eitra 60) yeai, good to eh o lee 4M Veal, common heavy 86J Veal, Common to lair SOJ 77i &V0 HEALTHY TONE MAINTAINED. Distribution of Merchandise Is Heavy, With Firm Prices Better Coke Deliveries. R. O. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Steady progress Is re ported in trade and industry. Dis tribution of merchandise Is heavy and a healthy tone Is evident. Prices are well maintained by liberal con sumption which more than neutralizes the effect of enlarged facilities for production. Domestic conditions con tinue much better than those existing abroad and some trade receives more attention than foreign commerce. Farm products have appreciated in value owing to less favorable weather and producers will be fully compen sated for any decrease In quantity by the higher quotations. Earnings of railways during August were 3.6 per cent larger than a year ago, and 18.9 per cent in excess of 1900. Bet ter deliveries of coke and liberal re ceipts of foreign material have less ened the pressure in the Iron and steel Industries. Domestic demands are not decreasing, much new business having been placed, and home con sumption will continue to call for im ports on a large scale. Each week brings out new records of coke out put, the upper and lower Connells ville regions together having sur passed 300,000 tons and the holidays gave the railways an opportunity to relieve the congestion. New planta are being added to the productive ca pacity as rapidly as possible, but in railway equipment (especially steel rails) orders are already placed for much of next year's output. Quota tions ot footwear are fully maintained nt the recent advance. It Is note worthy that buying has been heaviest In the finer grades. Leather sells freely at the recent advance in quota tions, but hides appear to have risen above the views of tanners, resulting In a quiet market. Advancing raw material aroused much anxiety among purchasers of cotton goods, and there were numerous inquiries for forward contracts. Wheat is coming forward freely, though receipts do not equal the abnormally heavy movement a year ago. Corn developed strength because of fears that injury would be done by frost, and the movement is very slow compared with last year's figures. Bradstreet's says: Wheat, includ ing flour, exports for the week end ing September 4, aggregate 6.276.2Kst bushels, against 5,436,530 bushels last week and 4,406.064 bushels In the same week last year. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 41,657,596 bush els, against 61,692.662 bushels last season and 30.317,51 bushels In 1900. Corn exports aggregate 21,196 bushels, against 115,150 bushels last week, 560,876 bushels last year and 3.162.271 bushels in VMM. For the fiscal year exports are 839.S39 bushels, against 10,743.815 bushels last season and 35.254,250 bushels In 1900. Business failures for the week ending Septem ber 4 number 133. as against 140 last week, and 169 In this week lust year.
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