MUM CF STEAMERS 111 fOG. ON LONG ISLAND SOUND Freighter' Bow Crashes Through Hull of Passenger Steamer 8lx Vic time cf Disaster. Traveling at moderate speed through bong Inland sound the pas senger steamer Plymouth of the Kail River line, bound for Fall River from New York, and the freight steamer City of Taunton, of the same line, came Into col He Ion in the fog Just east of rium Island, the bow of the freight steamer raking the starboard aide of the Plymouth and causing the death of six of those on board the Plymouth, and serious Injury to a number of others. The dead are: John P. McCarthy, unidentified pas senger, John Coleman, Julius Dawson, John H. Williams. John Briscoe. Three of the Injured are at the hospital here. They are J. K. Creger, a traveling salesman from Philadelphia, who Is suffering with a sprained back; David Samuelson, negro, of New Bedford, leg wrenched, and Patrick Daly, a freight trimmer, whose right arm was crushed from his body. The responsi bility for the accident has not been determined and will be the subject of an Investigation. The bow of the the City of Taunton penetrated 10 feet Into the hull of the passenger boat. As the vessels pulled apart the bow of the freight steamer raked the upper works of the Plymouth, tearing out the second cabin and ripping out state rooms like cardboard. Seven cabins In all were swept from the starboard bow of the passenger boat. State room No. 203 was occupied by a man who signed himself upon the passen ger register as G. H. Nosten or Mars ten. He has not been accounted for. Those In other staterooms wrecked were but slightly Injured. The num ber of passengers was larger than usual nt this season, about 550. A de tachment of United States marlneB, under the command of Capt. Low, were passengers on the Plymouth. Awakened from a sound sleep the sol diers rushed from the lower cabin, where they were quartered without outer clothing or shoes. They were largely Instrumental in averting a panic among the other passengers, and while engaged in this laudable work, their clothing was lost. The soldiers made outer coverings of blank ets, and even cut the blankets Into Ft rips and wound them around their feet, to replace their shoes. In this condition the marine boarded a spe cial train for Boston. 8ankey la Totally Blind. At the home of Ira D. Sankey, In Brooklyn, N. Y.. It was given out that lie had lost the sight of both eyes. It Is expected, however, that with care and attention the sight of the right eye may be restored. Elevator Falls Five Stories. An elevator In the court house at Louisville, Ky., fell five stories. Of the 14 passer gcrs eight were injured se riously. Mrs. Agnes Wilson, back broken; Mrs. Edward Simon, head crushed and hurt Internally. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. As evidence of the regard In which Minister Bowen is held by the people of Venezuela, the minister has rocelv ed a handsome Bllver loving cup. A dispatch from Havana says: The Cuban republic will not give the Span ish government the contract to re move the wreck of the old Maine from the harbor of Havana. James S. Harlan, attorney general of Porto Rico, arrived in New York on his way to Washington to see the President and offer his resignation, to take effect the latter part of April. Colonel L. D. Bumpus, of Greenville, Mercer county, Pa., has been appoint ed captain of the watch In the new De partment of Commerce. Colonel Bum pua has been In Washington for nearly SO years, having been first appointed to the capltol police force by Senator J. D. Cameron. The senate confirmed all the nomin ation sent in Thursday save that of an assistant surgeon in the marine hospital service Among the nomina tions made at this session that failed of confirmation are: William M. Byrne, district attorney of Delaware; William D. Crum, collector of customs, asslHtant appraiser of merchandise, New York. Postmasters: Moses A. Foltz, Chambersburg, Pa.; John Bloss, Titusvlllo. Pa. Brig. Con. Leonard Wood placed In the hands of the Secretary of War a voluntary aiatement regarding the charges filed against him by MaJ. E. J. Rathbone, exdlrector general of Cu ban posts. No official notice of Maj. Rathboue's charges bad been taken by the Secretary, but Gen. Wood on reading them asked and received a statement sotting forth his side of the The president tent to the senate the following nominations: Consuls Albert W. Stvalm, now consul at Montevldio, at Southampton, Eng land; John E. Hopley, now consul at Southampton, at Montevldio, Uru ' guay; Clarence Rice Slocum, of New York, at Warsaw, Russia. v Ration, engraved on a plate of solid . gold, six Inches long and 814 Inches ' wide to be the guest of the Union League club, of San Francisco, on the occasion of his visit to that city on bis approaching Western trip. The plate weighed 8 lfc ounces. The president has named as the board of visitors to West Point Mill- r tary academy: The Hon. D. B. Heu' Aawani In ThU H nil llonPffn V Nov. ter. Col.; Col. Asbury Coward, presi dent of the South Carolina Military institute; Joseph Q. Darlington, Phil adelphia; William A. Pew, Jr., Bos ton; the Rev. Ernest M. fitters, D. D., New York, and J. U. Schmldlapp, Cla clnnatl. President Roosevelt entertained the members of the Anthracite Coal BtrUe Commission and Its attaches at dinner ajt the Whit House. COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. Some of the Workmen's Demands Are Granted While Other Are Re fused In the Report. The report of the commission ap pointed by the President last October to Investigate the anthracite conl strike has been made public. The re port Is dated March 18, and Is signed by the members of the commission. In brief, the commission recommends a general increase of wages amount ing In most Instances to 10 per cent; some decrease of time; the settlement of all disputes by arbitration; fixes a minimum wage and a sliding scale; provides against discrimination of per sons by either the mine owners of the miners on account of membership or non-membership in a labor union, and provides that the awards made shall continue In force until March 31, 1908. The commission discussed to tome ex tent the matter of recognition or non recognltlon of the miners' union, but declined to make any award on this matter. The report In part Is: That an Increase of 10 per cent over and above the rates paid In the month of April, 1902, be paid to all contract miners for cutting coal, yardage and other work for which standard rates or allowed. Engineers who are em ployed In hoisting water shall have an Increase of 10 per cent on their earn ings between November 1, 1902, and April 1. 1903. Hoisting engineers and other engineers and pumpmen other than those employed in holBtlng wat ter, who are employed In positions which are manned continuously, shall have an Increase of 10 per cent. That firemen shall have an Increase of 10 per cent on their earnings, and have 8-hour shifts. The present methods of payment for coal mined shall be adhered to unless changed by mutual agreement. In all cases where miners are paid by the car, the Increase awarded to the contract miners Is based upon the cars In use, the top ping required, and the rates paid per car which were In force on April 1, 1902. The following sliding scale of wages shall become effective April 1, 1903, and shall affect all miners and mine owners Included In the awards of the commission: The wages fixed In the award shall be the basis of, and the minimum under the sliding scale: For each Increase of 5 cents In the average price of white ash coal of sizes above pea coal, sold at or near New York, between Perth Amboy and EJgewater, and reported to the bureau of anthracite coal sta tistics, above $4.50 per ton f. o. b., the employes shall have an Increase of 1 per cent In this compensation, which shall continue until a change In the average of said coal works a reduction or an Increase In said additional com pensation hereunder; but the rate of compensation shall in no case be less than that fixed In the award. That Is, when the price of said coal reaches $4.55 per ton, the compensation will be Increased 1 per cent, to continue until the price falls below $4.50 per ton, when the 1 per cent Increase will cease, or until the price reaches $4.60 per ton, when an additional 1 per cent will be added, and so on. No suspen Blon of work shall take place, by lock out or strike, pending the adjudication of any matter so taken up for adjust ment. NEW 'FRISCO SCHEDULE. Vanderbllt-Harriman Plans Will Re suit in Great Cut.. . Regarding the plans of the Harrl man-Vanderbilt lines for the coming year, a Union Pacific official said at Omaha, Neb.: "We propose to cut the time from New York to San Francisco to tl-ree and ono-half days. This will be accomplished as the result of work now about to be begun. Contracts have already been let for doubling 144 miles of track. This road will have 10,000 men at work this spring on new construction work. The South ern Pacific Is now planning a tunnel through the Nevada mountains to cost $10,000,000. This will make a tre mendous difference in present sched ules. The heaviest work will be the reduction of grades and straightening of curves. Involving $10,000,000 of ex penditures. The result will make the short schedule possible," CORRUPTION IN HAWAII. Gov. Dole Charged With Attempting to Cover Embezzlement. The house committee on public ex penditures, at Honolulu, which report ed the discovery of another embezzle ment m the board of public works of $2,300, charges Charles Wilcox with having received o portion of the mon ey. The report also says that the fact that there was a shortage in the funds of the board of public works was known to Gov. IVile, Supt. Cooper and to cx-AUorney General Dole, and charges the above-named officials with having neglected to take any action in the matter. The report also says that Gov. Dole has apparently at tempted to cover the matter up. ROBBED OF $900. National Organizer of Miners Lost Money but Saved Hie Life. James W. Davis, of Springfield, 111., was held up by masked men near Thacker, W. Va., and robbed of about $900 and other valuables, and after be ing beaten almost into insensibility was thrown over a high bank Into Tug river. The water revived Davis and he kept above the surface until be floated more than half a mile, when he grasped a sunken log and succeeded In reaching shore. Davis Is a national organizer for the United Mine Work ers, and has been actively engaged la the Flat Top and Elkhoru fields. Old Sol Was King. Wednesday was the hottest March day In Chicago In nine years. At 3 p. m. the mercury reached 75 degrees above which Is the highest temperature recorded during March since March 17, 1894. At the noon hour to-day people on the streets felt the effects ol beat SENATE RATIFIED CUBAN WXl EXTRA SESSION ADJOURNS. Vote of Approval Prevailed by Good Margin Three Important Amendments Adopted. After ratifying the Cuban recipro city treaty the extra session of the United States Senate adjourned lno die Thursday. The motion to ratify was adopted by a ballot of 50 to 16, more than three-fourths, whereas only a two-thirds vote was necessary. Most of the day was spent In executive ses sion. Immediately after the doors were closed Senator Foster, of Louis iana, made a set speech In opposition to the treaty. It was an appeal for the protection of the American sugar- produring Industry. Mr. Foster also made the point that there was nothing to prevent the Introduction f Chinese coolie labor Into the island. The Committee on Foreign Relations an nounced tho acceptance of two more amendments. The first Increased the rate of reduction on flour, corn meal and corn Imported Into Cuba from the United States by 30 per cent. The other fixes a uniform reduction of 30 per rent on American cotttn goods Im ported into Cuba. The committee amendments, including that making the approval of the entire Congress necessary to render the treaty ef fective, then were adopted. Several proposed amendments by the Demo crats were voted down. The vote then was taken on the motion to ratify, which was mad by Senator Cultom, and the motion prevailed, 60 to 16. me Cuban treaty was negotiated In Havana, December 11, 1902, between Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, representing the United States, and Senors Carlos de Saldo and Jose M. Garcia Monies, representing Cuba. The United States Senate made several amendments to the document. As ratified by the Sen ate. It provided that all merchandise produced by cither country which now enters the other duty free shall con tinue free of Import duties. All other Cuban products Imported Into the United States Bhall enter at a reduc tion of 20 per cent from the rate of duty Imposed by the United States on such articles of merchandise. All Im ports Into Cuba from the United States not entitled to free entry shall be given a reduction of 20 per cent, provided they do not fall within cer tain classes, on which a greater reduc tion In duty is made. It goes Into ef fect 10 days after exchange of ratifi cations. After five years It shall con tinue In effect from year to year until the expiration cf one year from the date either country serves notice of Its Intention to terminate the treaty. GOLD BRICK IS LOST. Left on Truck and 8ome One Wins $23,500. A bar of gold valued at $23,500 mys teriously disappeared from the Union depot office of the Pacific and Domin ion Express company at Detroit, Mich., while In transit from Salt Lako City to the East. The missing ingot was one of four weighing about 80 pounds each. The four bars arrived from the west on Wabash train No. 4 at 8 o'clock. Shortly before the east bound train was due to leave they were loaded on a truck to be wheeled out to the express car. The train was an hour and a half late, and the gold meanwhile lay on the truck In the office. When the train was ready there were only throe Ingots on the truck. The train was held for a time, but finally the thieo Ingots wero dis patched en their way and Foreman Miller notified the police of the disap pearance. HAMILTON FISH APPOINTED. Made Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York. President Roosevelt withdrew the nomination of William Pllmley for as sistant treasurer of the United States at New York and sent to the Senate the nomination of Hamilton Fish to the office, and it was confirmed prompt ly by the Senate. Mr. Fish la a son of former Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. He Is a prominent lawyer of New York, one time speaker of the General Assembly of New York and a personal friend of President Roosevelt 1'hu appointment met the cordial ap proval not only of Senators Piatt and Depew, of New York, but also of many other senators. CARNEGIE'S LATEST OFFER. Will Be Very Grateful If Allowed to Buy Filtering Plant. President Schurman, of Cornell uni versity, at Ithaca, N. Y received the following letter from Andrew Carnegie, offering to pay for the projected Cor nell filtering plant. "I have followed with anxious Interest your sad plight regarding pure water. To-day, I read with relief that Cornell has contracted for a filtering plant of its own. It the trustees would permit me to pay for It, I Bhall be very gratful Indeed." The trustees undoubtedly will accept Mr. Carnegie's offer. One Million Behind. Comptroller McGann at Chicago will have to borrow $1,000,000 to meet the city's payroll this month. Instead of the $2,000,000 that was on hand a year ago the city treasury has received only $225,000 from the county collector, The city payroll aggregates $650,000 a month. Engine Plant Burned. The entire plant of the Jennlson Iron and Engine Company was burned at Jennlson, Mich. The loss Is $50,000, fully insured. Capltol Was Damaged. The seismic shock at Helena Mont did serious damage to Montana's new State House. Three great pillars lit the rotunda ol the capital were wrecked. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Federal grand Jury Indicted ovet 230 alleged rioters In West Virginia. The pope at Rome, Italy, served a dinner to a thousand poor nt the Vat ican. ' Argument was closed In the Wa bash Injunction case and decision re served. The Marietta and Barnesvllle Rail way Company was Incorporated at Do ver, Del. International syndicate proposed to lend $50,000,000 to Venezuela to pay her debts. Missouri supreme court fined five big beef packers $5,000 each for en tering combine. Senator Money. In the V. 8. Senate, assailed the President for making ne gro appointments. D. T. Watson spoke In behalf of government In Northern Securities case in St. Louis. Miss Clara Barton Is to retire as the active head of the American National Red Cross Society. U. 8. secret service has made elab orate preparations to protect the Pres ident oi. Ins western trip. Government Is In readiness to be gin work on Isthmian canal as soon as Colombia ratifies the treaty. Government asks same application ol Injunction law In merger case as rail roads use against employes. W, 8. Devery, known as the "lBg Chief," likely to be Independent can didate for mayor of New York. Baron von Sternberg, German min ister to the United 8tatea. was harsh ly criticised In the German relchstag. The navigation season on Lak Michigan has been opened by tht steamers Boo City and Alice Stafford Jingo, the largest elephant In cap tivity, died on board the steamship Georgia while en route to New York, Crank with club was arrested In cor ridors of capltol at Washington whlU seeking Interview with the President Charles J. Bonaparte, the Baltimore lawyer, has been honored with the Lnetare medal by Notre Dame univer sity. The letter In which Pennell Is said to have threatened to kill Burdlok was found In Bur dick's home at Buffalo. N. Y. Secretary Shaw In an address urged upon New Orleans board of trade need of American ships to carry American goods. Comptroller tracewell approved Andrews for expenses for passage of state- claim of W. H. while working hood bill. President Ramsey said Wabash In- Junction Prevented strike that would Yin A Wa n t K a salt a mi Ma In Ilia have put the anthracite trouble In the background. Grand Jury report on battle between posse and mob at Stanaford, W. Va., In which five men were killed, exon erated the officers. United States Commissioner Alex ander refused ball for Whttaker Wright, the English promoter, pend ing his examination. The empress dowager has ordered an appropriation of 500,000 taels to be made for the Chinese representation at the St. Louis exposition. Attorneys for defense In merger rase at St. Louis, Mo., declared evi dence showed that combination help ed rather than retard trade. There were no deaths from tho plague and no new cases March 23 at Mazallan, Mexico. The plague has also been checked at Villa Union. Raymond Croceroft, Ralph Oaks, Charles Oaks, Peter Terry and Luther Berry, 5 to 7 years old, at Chant, I. T were drowned by a raft capsizing. Gen. Schuyler, Hamilton, a classmate of Gen. Grant at West Point and s distinguished veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, died at New York in his 83d year. Panhandle coal operators refuse to accept the scale adopted at the Wheeling (W. Va.) Bub-dlstrlct con ference and state that they will op pose It to the last. Four men are missing, 78 horses were suffocated and $500,000 property loss resulted from an explosion fol lowed by fire In Dominion No. 1 col liery at Glace Bay, C. B. The Rev. Joseph Hunter, late chap lain of the Tenth Pennsylvania volun teers, who has been stationed at San Francisco for a year, received orders to report at Manila June 1. Former Mayor A, A, Ames, at Min neapolis, Minn., pleaded not guilty to all seven indictments against him, charging bribery, conspiracy and ex tortion. Ball was fixed at $18,000. After a long debate the Philadel phia Methodist Episcopal conference sustained the management of the Tract Society of the church against charges of unbusinesslike methods. Official announcement was made ol the organization of the National As soclatlon of Manufacturers and Erec tors of Structural Steel and Iros Work, with headquarters In New York A fire in the big shoe factory of M. C. Griffin, at East Pepperell, Mass.. destroyed the factory and a score of other buildings, including stores and dwelling bouses, entailing a loss es tlmated at $300,000. Llzardo Garcia, manager of the Commercial and Agricultural bank of Guayaquil, Ecuador, has left for Eu rope. Senor Garcla's mission Is to settle matters connected with the ex ternal debt of Ecuador and to con tract for the drainage of Guayaquil. Copenhagen advices say Henrlk Ib sen, the Norwegian poet and dramatist is a physical wreck, and that there fore festivities incident to the eel, bratton of his seventy-fifth blrthdaj have been abandoned. The American Type Founders com pany at New York decided to Increase the capital stock of the company $1, 000,000, to be Issued in preferred stock at par. A $2,000,000 issue was authorized in January, 1902. Jewels valued at about $10,000, em. belllshlnc a palming above tho high altar of the St. Stephen cathedral at Vleuoa, Austria, were stolen. SULTAN SLOW TO ACT. U. S. Warships May Reinforce mands of Our Ministers at Constantinople. De- A correspondent at Constantinople, In a dispatch dated March 14, states that United States Minister Lelshman Is Btlll vainly waiting for an audience of the Sultan to deliver President Roosevelt's autograph letter on the American claims regarding the mis sionary schools In Armenia, and other matters. In response to Minister Irish man's pressing demand Tewflk Tasha, the Foreign Minister, promised that the Sultan would receive the Minis ter at the celebration of Ualrman, but the festival passed and Mr. Lelshman is becoming exasperated. It would not be surprising, adds the correspondent, should the Sultan continue the delay, If American warships were ordered to Turkish waters. A dispatch from Washington on March 6 said that Min ister Lelshman. under Instructions from the State dapartment. was active ly pressing upon the Turkish govern ment the necessity of paying certain claims which he had presented on be half of American citizens. Mr. Lelsh man had Insisted on having an audi ence and It wiu his belief that It would take place about last Friday. Dispatch from Constantinople March 9 announced that the American Legation had finally obtained final recognition of the examinations at the American Medical College at Beirut and also the settlement of the long-pending ques tion regarding the right of the wives and children of Armenians who had be come naturalized Americans to leave the empire and Join their husbands and fathers In the United States. The council of Ministers had also agreed to recognize the American educational, charitable and religious establish ments. MAYOR RELIES ON RUMOR. New York's Executive Demands That Saloonkeepers Disprove Story. Mayor Low at New York refused to see a committee representing 8.000 liquor dealers, who wanted to know whether or not the mayor Is opposed to the bill to raise the liquor tax from $S0O to $1,200 a year mnxlmum. The mayor Informed them by letter that he had already notified them by letter that he would not receive them until they should convince him that they were Innocent of raising each year a $3,000,000 blackmail fund. The letter ali'. In part: "There have been per ; ,,Up , , , , , , . . Dralers' association through Its sub ordinate groups said to be 65 in nunv bcr has been In the habit of asses' lug the proprietors of every saloon $3 per week (or $5 per Sunday), thus creating a fund, from the 12.000 sa loons In the city which amounts to more than $3,000,000 per annum. With out asserting the correctness of such rumors, I still think that It Is Incum bent upon you, as a preliminary to any alscueslon of this subject to submit to me proof that these rumors as to the ;ollectlon of such assessments nre without foundation. A reply to the mayor's letter was sent declaring the Insinuation about a corruption fund to be false. PEACH CROP IS INJURED. Drop In Temperature Has Done Dam' age In Western Michigan. Reports of damage to the peach and fruit crops, as a result of drop In temperature after the unusually warm weather of three days, are coining In from Western Mlchlgnn. A Bpeclal from Grand Rapids says that Presi dent Charles W. Garfield, of tho Mich' lean forestry commission, has re reived reports from Grcenvlllo and Raines, township that few live buds have been found on the peach trees, At St. Joseph, much dnmago was dono peaches and small fruit. Quotations by Automobile. Automobiles for wlreiess telegraph service are to be used In Chicago to send market quotations from curb brokers to their offlce3. Other kinds of information can be conveyed by the same means, thus Inaugurating a com plete telegraph rervlee from any place on the street to any place In the city. The Innovation has been Installed in New York city and is an important feature In Wall street. Lobsters Are Cheaper. One of the most remarkable drops In price In the history of the fresh lob ster business has been announced at Portland, Me, Up to a few days ago lobsters wero selling at wholesale lor 25 cents a pound and without any no tice the price went down to 13 cents, l'he unusually warm weather Is said ;o be responsible. Famous Bell Cracked. The celebrated bell of the First !hurch at Morristown, N. J.. Is narked. It la 150 years old. It fell In 1863 and waa then recast. Since then it has sounded like a cathedral gong, until ruined. It became cracked and New Head for Chautauqua. Dr. W. H. Hickman, chancellor of the Do Pauw university, will sever his connection with that institution In June, to assume the presidency oof the board or trustees of Chautauqua In stitution. Robbers Destroy Vault and Money. Robbers tried to open the vaults In the Deposit bank in Bardwell, near Paducah, Ky., and secured In the neighborhood of $5,000. The vault Is a total , wreck. The charge was so strong that some of the currency, of which there was 12,500, was burned. The robbers escaped. To Make Firearms. Flans are In pi ogress for the Incor poration of a company, at Cleveland, with 93,000,000 cupltal to manufacture the McClean patents on firearms. ' ' . GOVERNMENT AID. Six Hundred Tents Sent to Homeless Flood Sufferers Along the Mississippi. Secretary Root received telegrams from the governors of Tennessee and Arkansas In response to his telegraph ic Inquiry ror Information as to the needs of the people of those states in the matter of tents, etc., In con sequence of the river floods. Govern or Fraaler of Tennessee telegraphed from Nashville: "Please send at once 500 tents to Memphis, consigned to Mayor J. J. Williams. City of Mem phis will pay for transportation and see that they are returned after use." Governor Davis of Arkansas telegraph ed from Little Rook: "The flood con dition along the Mississippi river In our state is distressing. We have no tents In armory for distribution. Please forward first express 100 tents to Judge Derrick, Marianne, Ark., for use of flood sufferers. I pledge the honor of the state that same will be carefully cared for, and when no long er needed will be sent free of charge to Jeffersonvllle, Ind. Please rush tents, ss demand Is pressing." No time was lost In complying with these requests for assistance. Col. Patten, acting for the quartermaster general. Immediately telegraphed Instructions to the quartermaster in charge of the depots at St. Louis and Jeffersonvllle, Ind., to send with the utmost dispatch 480 common tents and 20 hospital tents to Memphis, and 90 common tents and 10 hospital tents to Marian na, Ark. On March 21 the river was falling at Memphis, and It was be lieved the worst of the flood situation was over. The railroads west of Memphis were still under water. The Iron Mountain was opened for frame Monday, and resumed operations oyer the Iron Mountain tracks. POISONED BY ICE CREAM. Five May Die. They Became 8ick at a Church Festival. Twenty-five people were poisoned by eating Ice cream at a church festival at Walborn Run. two miles from Brorkwayvllle, Pa. The greater num ber of the victims became seriously 111 as a result of the Insane idea of a man who put arsenic Into a freezer of Ice cream, and It Is stnted that several of the unfortunate will die. The Free Methodist congregation was giving on Ice cream social for the benefit of the church. Shortly after the affair was In progress several of the guests were taken violently ill and In a short time 25 men, women and children who had been enjoying the festivities were finally overcome. One doctor says five of thp victims would die. Those most seriously affected were the families' of Mrs. Starr, John Anderson and Mrs. Mary Miller. Suspicion rests on a man who left the fold of the congregation through personal grlev ances. It Is said that in a spirit of revenue he put arsenic or some other deadly poison In the ice cream. CABLE FLASHES. The failure at London. England was announced of Booty & Bayllffe, solid tors. Their llabHlties are over $1,000,000. Hentsch's bonded warehouse at 8yd' ney, N. S. W., containing lO.ooo tons of merchandise was burned. The loss Is estlmnted at $2,500,000. Ambassador Meyer has obtained per mission from the Italian government for the American squadron to make a long stay at Naples, Italy. Ktosowskl, alias Chapman, the Southwark saloonkeeper, was found guilty at the Old Bailey, London, Eng., by poison and was sentenced to death. C. W. Kohlsaat, the St. Louis Expo sition Commissioner, had a private au dience with King Oscar at Stockholm, The king was mur'li Interested In tho plans for tho exhibition, Emperor William visited the royal sculptural works at Berlin. Germany, for the purpose of Inspecting the oasts, the last of which have Just been finish ed, which he Is giving to Harvard Unl verslty. Dissensions In the cabinet over the budget In Spain still threaten to cause a ministerial crisis. Tho war minister demands an Increase of $3,00O,ono in tho next budget, of which $1,600,000 Is for the army. King Edward, of England, has sent Colonel Cody ("Buffalo Bill") a hand come scorfpln with the royal cipher In diamonds, surmounted by the crown, as a souvenir of hia visit last Saturday to the Wild West show. Josn Jnvlre, tha allesed head of the new Katipiman (secret society), of tho Philippine Islands, who h.nl been tried for treason and sedition, was convicted and sentenced to five yeara' imprisonment and fined $3,000. At the semi-arir.ual meeting of tho Dank of England, the net profits for six months wero announced to be $3, 639,('T5. making the amount of tho re serve $1S.750,83 ). The usual semi annual dividend of 5 per cent, was declared. War Secretary Brodrlck In the house ! of commons, England, said Instructions werj given Maivh 13 to issue war lned' Bis lor presentation to the live Amer ican women nurses who s.'rved on tho hospital ship Maine in South Africa and Chinese waters. The departure from Cuba for Washington of Lieutenant Command er Edward J. Dorn ends the naval rep resentation of the United States at Havana. Lieutenant Dorn was in charge of navy properties and effects, all of which have been disposed of. With six )ears to serve President Castro of Venezuela tendered his res ignation. The Venezuelan congress, by a unanimous vote, declined to ac cept the resignation, and passed a res olution requesting him to reconsider his decision. It Is believed that Pres ident Castro will yield to this ex pressed desire of congress and remain In power. The anniversary of the death of Louis Kossuth was marked at Buda pest by the usual student demonstra tion aud collisions with the police. PITTSBURG. 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Butter I'reeinerjr. extra ... 60 fckSe fenneflTeuU uraia la NEW YORK. riour-rtent $4 V) 4 W Wb.et-Nu. Ind 60 lorn-No. t 6V , Ute Jo, S Willie...- " butter Creamer .. - M StaleanU i'eun.Tlvaula. i'H 1 LIVE STOCK. Central Stock Yarde, East Liberty, Pa. Cattle. Prime Beevr, IfCOto 1C00 lb.......$ 6 SO rilme. 1MI iu Kuo H) 6 0 Medium, UUU t lsuu lbs 4Sk tetbellen 4 6 butcher, WW to 1000 lb . 4 W Luuinion to lair tlO 6SA 1 1 ton 4SO 46V 400 4 Hi 400 D6 0J ail DO teu, lomtiion to fat . It 50 Loin in on logond let bulla nJ cow. t ,'J pi ui-u cuwe, eai-n ojj ixuainllcbtowe, each ID J I Hogs. Frlme bear? bos ITT0 t'rliiie medium welglite T 70 beat heavy oikets ami medium.. 7 64 Good to cbolce K'kera TOO Uood plaeaud light rorkera TOO rlira. ciiuiiiuni icj uihmI 7 55 in nn no rot 7tW 760 71 ' 600 o7 I'oiiimuu tu lair 6O0 lieu aba 6 70 Biave 4 00 Sheep. f'tra, medium wetuers t 6 00 l-owl ti choice 6 60 Hedluii ... 6 01 Louiuion to (air 0J Lambs. iamb. clipped 7 50 Lmiile, good to choice. rll.pel . 6 l.nmlia, common to fair, oitiiued.. M Birins Lamb I Calves. Veal,eitra C() J rai.gooil to cboloe bOO Jeal, common heavy tvj Veal, common to fair..... 8JJ REVIEW OF TRADE. its & 6 V) 460 76 7 00 5 71 6 0J too Sfi 600 560 Only One Cloud In the Business Horl. xon Fear of Labor Trouble Disturbs Outlook. H. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of trade says: Only one distinctly unfa vorable factor la reported In the busi ness situation, and It exists more In the fear of what may happen than through anything that has actually oc curred. Several strikes are In progress, but none that seriously hamper indus tries, although many controversies are threatened and may interrupt trade un less agreements are speedily reached. Progress has been made in relieving traffic blockades and deliveries are more prompt, yet railway facilities need much extension if they are to keep pace with the national growth. Job. bing trade is very large and the ad vancing season stimulates retail sales In many lines. Reports from the West are especially satisfactory, agricultur alists making extensive improvements, notably In the purchase of the most modern machinery; buying of spring and summer merchandise is heavy for the Interior and mills are resuming that have long been Idle because coke could not be secured. A careful can vass of building operations at the lead ing cities makcd a fair comparison with last year, outside of Chicago, vhere special conditions caused ex ceptional activity In 1903, Returns are unanimous In disclosing a decrease compared with 1901, however, which was the banner year in this respect. High cost of material and wages of labor are undoubtedly retarding Influ ences at the present time.. Prospects In the Iron and steel Industry are still conspicuously encouraging. Only two drawbacks of serious importance are seen railway congestion and labor disputes. The former has greatly di minished with settled weather and coke Is moved freely to blast furnaces, while pig Iron and other products reach their destination with less Interrup tion. Quotations are fully ' held at Pittsburg and a large purchase of Bes semer Iron for delivery In the laBt half of the year Is still under consid eration. Textile markets are only fair ly active, the buying at first hands for home account being on a moderate scale and forward business indiffer ent, except In the case of a few spe cialties. Unquestionably the under tone of the cotton goods market to strong. Demand for heavy-weight woolens has decreased, most new or ders being for the cheaper grades. More cancellations of early orders are reported. Much better conditions pre vail In the dress goods market, both as to staples and fancies. New Eng land shoes shops report Increased sales, Western Jobbers placlug orders for August and September delivery. Leather is more active and tan ners are not carrying surplus stocks. The market is In a healthy condition. Another general reduction is reported In domestic hides, but for eign dry hides average higher, de spite larger receipts. Failures this week numbered 220 tn the United States, against 209 last year, and i In Canada, agalust Sl a year ago.
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