DUTCH HARBOR CMC Sllli ADVISED BY DEWEY. Admiral Bradford Say Canada'a Atti tude Maktt It Necessary to ' Prepare far Hostilities. . Admiral Dewey, at president of the general board, hat made a report to Secretary Moody recommending the Immediate establishment of a coating autlon at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and the erection there ot a coal depot with an Initial capacity of 8.000 tona. The estimated cost of the work la about 51,000. The money Is now available. Believing the establishment of a coal depot at thlt strategic point will strengthen the United 8tata on the Pad no ocean, the president has heart ily approved the plan and preliminary step in the work have been taken al ready. Dutch Harbor la located on one of the Aleutian Islands, and Is on the direct commercial route between the ports of Behrlng sea and southern Alaska and the Pacific coast of the United States. It Is also In the line of steamers passing through the Unl Disk Pass, most of which make Dutch Harbor a port rf call. Its use at a coal depot site was first recommended by Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipment. Dutch Harbor will form the fifth in the chain of coal depots along the Pacific coast which 'Will begin at San Diego and Include flan Francisco, Puget sound and Sitka. Honolulu is the sixth In the chain and Ouam possibly may be added to the list In recommending Dutch Harbor as a site for a coal depot the general board had In mind the fact that there la no coal suitable for navigable pur poses mined anywhere within aome thousands of miles. Rear Admiral Bradford, In Mr. report recommending this new coaling station, said: "At tention Is Invited to one of the great political questions of the day, vis., the settlement of the boundary line be tween the United States and Canada. There Is abunlant evidence going to show that the tplrlt ot Canada on thla matter may be considered as threaten ing. Between Alaska and the conti nental limits ot the United States is located the domain of a foreign coun try. The territory separating Alaska lias good harbors and ample anterior water. Dutch Harbor. It Is also believ ed, will prove a great aid to other in terests, as ships are frequently In need of coal when reaching this port and an arrangement will be made by which the government may sell coal to steam--.ships applying for it. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. TX m bl vision of the coast line of the United States into 13 naval defense districts has been ordered on the rec ommendation of Admiral Dewey, pres ident of the general board. Edwin W. Lawrence, of Rutland, Vt., was appointed assistant attorney In the office of the assistant attorney Gen eral for the postofflce department, to succeed Daniel V. Miller, recently re moved. , - - The last of the clalma against the Charleston, S. C, Exposition Company for labor, articles, services, etc., ren dered to the company waa paid by treasury warranta aggregating 158,743. The last congress appropriated $160, 400 for that purpose. Commissioner Richards, of the gen eral land office, has had prepared a statement giving the exact amount of the fund set apart for the reclamation of arid lands under the Irrigation act of 1902. It shows a total of $7.730.33 for the fiscal years 1901 and 1902. . Daniel V. Miller, of Terre Haute, Ind., assistant attorney in the office of tho Assistant Attorney General for the Postofflce department, waa sum xnarlly dismissed by Postmaster Gen oral Payne and arrested on a warrant charging him with accepting a bribe. The Important development in the postofflce department investigation will likely be an arrest in connection with the bureau of salaries and al lowances. The inspectors are now kard at work on chargea of trregular Itiea growing out of contracts for sup plies for postofflces. The commissioner of patents, Fred rick I. Allen, stated positively that the patent office will not under any circumstances issue patents on so called "perpetual motion" machines, and that no patents for auch machines have been issued by the patent office for the last 40 years. Because repairs on the Alabama, now at the New York yard, may not l)e finished in time for that vessel to leave New York June 5 for Kiel as the temporary flagship of the Eu ropean sauadron. Amino c..nrnn... Darling decided that the Kearsarge -uuum us euusuiuiea lor me Ala bama. Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by hor .-i-ju-hw, mrs. w. H. cowles, left for Groton, Mass., to visit her sons, Theodore and Kermlt vhn ing Bchool there. Miss Alice Roose velt left for Albany, where she will be - uiiuDt.mu.iu at me weaning of Miss Ruth Pruyn and David M. Goodrich, of Boston. TJntll he is latlsfleA with nnnililtnn. at Bremerton. Wash., in ih. .ir.ii. tho navy yard. Acting Secretary Dar- " uavy win direct that no more ahips be ordered there for repair or docking. The order- u h. . mm kuu 1 tj EJ U 1 L of the report that the Bremerton city tuiiuiai ui uoi'iiueq to close the sa loons and gambling houses on Frout Henry St. tieorsA TnrUi. e t lngton, Va., was elected dean of the school of law, Jurisprudence and diplo- mx-y oi me uoiumoian university, In WBBiUUglUU. Order have been given at the navy department for the preliminary! ac se'ptance of the submarine torpedo Jraata Grumpus and Pike, built by the Uiilon iron works. Arrangements pave been mad for the delivery at the Mew York navy yard ot the monitor Flor ida, built by Louis Nixon at Elisabeth' sort. N. J. COURT OF INQUIRY. Secretary of War Ordara Investiga tion Inte Chargaa of Army Offieer'a Brutality. General Miles' report on the atro cities In the Philippines has led Sec retary Root to order a court of In quiry to Investigate the allegation that two nativea were beaten to death by Major Robert L. Howse of the Sixth Cavalry. Until General Mllea made his report, which the war department did not make public for two months, thla case was officially regarded as closed anl it was said no further ac tion would be taken concerning it. Root Issued the order for the court of Inquiry, and at the same time what was said to be an accurate and com plete account ot the Howte case was given out. The correspondence cov ers almost SCO closely typewritten pages. Accomfanylng the order Is a long statement from Root, In which he briefly reviews the case and ex presses his full confidence In the In nocence of Major Howie. He says he orders the further Investigation simp ly that all of the facts may be brought out. The court la to be composed of three officers to be named by General Davis. The two natives are alleged to have been beaten to death In north ern Luzon in the spring of 1900. Two or three days later there were hints of cruelty, and Root says the bodies ot the two natives were exhumed and examined by two surgeons, who found no traces of brutality. Subsequently Major George K. Hunter of the Fif teenth Cavalry, In a private letter to Governor Taft, charged Major Howxe with having caused the natives to be beaten to death. The letter was re ferred to General MacArthur, who or dered an Investigation. Howze was acquitted, and it was urged that Major Hunter be court martlaled for filing charges against an officer with the civil authorities. This was not done. When General Mllea was in the Phil ippines he heard of the charges, and asked Major Hunter to produce the proof. He presented affidavits from natives that General Miles considered good evidence and he called attention to the case In his report. Root inti mates In his statement that Jealousy between Major Howze and Major Hun ter Is responsible for the charges. Major Howze Is the officer who res cued Lieutenant GUmore from the rebels. WILL VISIT KIEL. Roosevelt Ordara European Squadron to Germany. The European squadron of the American navy will visit Kiel during regatta week, June 25, and the entente between the United States and Ger many will be restored to working or der. The President, who has been di recting the Investigations In the post- office department, ceased bunting long enough to send an order to the navy department directing that the squad ron be sent to the German yachting event "as a compliment to the German Emperor." The European squadron consists of the cruisers Chicago (flag ship) and San Francisco and the gun boat Machlas. But when it goes to the German port it will be supple mented by the presence of the first rate battleship Alabama, one of the finest vessels in the navy. The battle ship, now at New York, will start for the European station June 6. The President's Interference waa wholly unexpected and It has therefore creat ed an immense sensation in naval cir cles. EDISON IS "IT." Wizard of Menlo Park Joins Marconi as Technical Director. Thomas A. Edison has Joined forces with Inventor Marconi In wireless tel egraphy. Mr. Edison haa been taken Into the Wireless Telegraph Company as a member of Its board of technical directors. Marconi Is the only other member of this board at present, but arrangements are being made to en gage a third electrical expert, Prof. Mlchaol A. Pupln, of Columbia Univer sity, inventor of tho submarine tele phone. "In a year the new system will be In perfect working order," Is Mr. Edison's prediction. Edison formally transfers to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company several patents bearing upon the transmission ot wire less messages, and gives his services to that company as a technical direc tor. The consideration is a large block of the company's stock. W. U. 8TOPS POLE CHOPPING. A Restraining Order Against the Penn sylvania Railroad. Judge Bradford, - in the United L.ates Court at Wilmington, Del., granted the Western Union Telegraph Company a temporary order restrain ing the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany from removing the wires or poles on the Maryland and Delaware division of the railroad. ' The case will be ar gued on June 19. FOUNDS VEGETARIAN COLONY. Buys 8,000 Acres In Arkansas for Home for New Community. Edgar Wallace Conable, of ColoraJo Springs, has purchased 8,000 acres of timber and fruit land In Benton coun ty, Ark.,- where he will found a vege tarian colony. Colonists will be for bidden to use meat, alcoholic stimu lants or tobacco. The land is favora bly situated lnthe Ozark fruit belt. Killed In Powder Explosion. : : . A aeries of 25 explosions la the plant of the Indiana Powder Company at Fontanet. Ind., killed one man and fa tally Injured two others. One .other man was seriously injured. Several men are reported missing. The prop erty loss Is UO.OOO.-1- i :.. ;')'"' -f r-. t- r Irish League Incorporated'. ' Articles of Incorporation of the Irish Industrial' League of. America "were filed with the county clerk of New York, mumm mam m AD0RESS OP CHAIRMAN Public Sentiment Must Be Created Again Advertureua Scheme of the Power The Lake Mohonk, New York, con ference In International arbitration waa begun May 27. The general topic ot the first session waa "the present outlook ot arbitration." The attendance waa nearly 800 members, the largest In the history of Mohonk meetings. The following officers were elected: President, John W. Foster; Secretaries. Clinton Rogers Woodruff and H. C. Phillips; Treasurer, Alex ander C. Wood ; Chairman of Business Committee, John Crosby Brown; Chairman of Finance Committee, Jno. B. Barrett; Chairman of Publication Committee. Dr. Benjamin F. True- blood. The opening address was by John W. Foster, former Becretary of State, who spoke In part aa follows: Probably the most edifying and aus picious event has occurred In a quar ter of the world to which the Anglo Saxons have not been Inclined to look for helpful examples In good govern ment and salutary public law. In the extreme of the South American conti nent there have arisen Into promi nence during the Inst century two prosperous and aspiring republics. A controversy over a boundary line threatened to light the torch of war and thrust these two peaceful, pros perous and Industrious peoples into a sanguinary and exhausting conflict. But better counsels prevailed and Chill and Argentine agreed to submit the boundary question to the arbitra tion or the King or England. His award has been rendered and accept ed by both nations. But that la only the beginning or the narrative. The two nations have entered Into a treaty whereby they agree to aubmlt all ques tions which cannot be settled by di plomacy to arbitration, the only excep tion being those Involving principles of their Constitution. They further agreed to stop the construction of na val vessels and to sell those which were 'ordered at the time the war fever was raging ;and aa a result there are now In the naval dockyards of Europe several war vessels of the two nations aeeklng customers. They also agreed to reduce their armies to a peace footing and to so maintain them, and to partially disarm their na val vessels at home. As a result of this disarmament we are Informed by recent press newa from Buenos Ayres that the Minister of Marine has ten dered to the Minister of Agriculture two of his unoccupied men-of-war to transport grain and meat products to South America, where the government is seeking to open up a new market for their superabundant harvests. The Venezuelan event shows some of the evil eflVcts of transforming the pop ulous nations Into great military pow ers. While the vast naval armaments and standing armies ot Great Britain, Germany, Russia and other nations make them very cautious about pro voking each other to a conflict they offer a temptation to occupy these forces In expeditions and adventurea against the weaker nations. Hence, In the Interest of the weaker na tions, and of 'the world's peace. it is of the utmost importance that a public sentiment be cre ated among the enlightened na tions which will restrain the great military powers from entering upon schemes of adventure or oppression and which will support the smaller In dependent nations in their appeal to the arbitration ot their dlffenraoea with the more powerful. Benjamin F. Trueblood also addressed the meeting on "Another Year's Progress in Arbl- tratloa." GERMAN WOULDN'T PAY. Dispute Over Head Tax at Mexican Border Delays Train. Owing to the Interruption put by local Immigration officials upon the alien head tax clause of the immigra tion law consul. Max Weber, represent ing the German empire at Juarez, Just across the border from El Paso, Tex., succeeded In holding the Mexican Cen tral train for several hours. Weber boarded the train on the Mexican side and started across the rlvor. When he reached the Texas side he was asked to pay his head tax and refused. The inspectors told him that he must pay or return to the Mexican aide. Weber responed that ho would see the United States further before ho would give up a cent. Finally one of the passengers paid the tax and the train was allowed to proceed. IN POORHOUSE, HIRES MAIO. Woman Inherits $10,000 and Furnishes Luxurious Room. Ann Amelia Miller, now 38 years an inmate of the Utlca (N. Y.) poor house, has fallen heir to 110,000. Some years ago, when she was a prepossess' Ing young woman with $2,000 In the bank, an itinerant scissors grinder married ber and disappeared with her 12,000. Subsequently she was com' mltted to the Oneida county poorhouse. Now that she has Inherited (10,000 she has reimbursed Oneida county for her keep at the poorhouse and has ar ranged to continue to live at the In stltutlon. She has fitted up a room In luxurious style and engaged an' other Inmate as her maid. Officials Quitting Manila. Justice Fletcher Ladd, of the Su preme Court of the Philippine Is lands, has resigned on account of the Illness ot his wife and has left Ma' nlla for home. He belongs to Lan caster, N. H. Commissioner Worces ter leaves for borne in July, Took Five Shocks.' Antonio Trlola was put to death in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison New York. Five shocks were neces sary to cause death. LATEST NEWS NOTE I. Fifteen were killed and many Injured by tornadoes In Nebraska. Thousands were driven from their homes by flood at Dea Moines, la. An express train on the Lake Shore railroad ran 807 mllea in 292 minutes. Presbyterian general assembly has selected Buffalo as next place of meet ing. King Alfonso of Bpaln has Inherited 17,500,000 under the will of his grand father, King Francla. The consolidation of the Southern and Mobile and Ohio roads Is expected to take place on July 1. The American Sugar Refining Com pany closed Its refineries for nearly a week for a general cleaning up. A fire In Laconla, N. H., destroyed 100 buildings and rendered 850 home less. The loss will reach 1500,000. The American Ice Company's 1200, 000 plant at Philadelphia, burned. Ammonia tank exploded In the fire. An armory Is to be erected at Sha ron, Pa., by the Buhl Independent Rifles. The building will cost $20,000. One man was killed and another se riously Injured by the collapse of a building under construction In Chi cago. Ten persons, Including J. H. John ston, of Lima, O., were Injured In a street car collision In New Baltimore, Mich. A tornado which swept across Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska caused several deaths and damaged property and crops. West Virginia man kills his wife on the strength of the declaration ot a fortune teller that she was unfaithful to him. President Schwab of Steel Corpora tion arrived at New York and Issued reassuring statement on the condition of trade. At White Plains, N. Y.. holders of preferred stock of the Salt trust sued directors to recover $1,605,487, alleg ing fraud. Ten persons were Injured In a col lision at New Baltimore, Mich., be tween an electric car and a steam freight train. A certlflcato of Incorporation was filed at Dover, Del., by the Toledo Stove Company, of Toledo, O. Cap ital $500,000. Former superintendent ot free de livery ot the postofflce department, Machen, was arrested on charge of accepting bribes. President Aamsey of the Wabash saya the line will enter New York city over Its own rails. Big reorganiza tion mapped out. Rev. S. H. Yager, of Walkerton, Ind., believes his son, who was thought to have committed suicide in Wheel ing, was murdered. The Secret 8ervlce at Washington Is investigating a charge that negroes are held In servitude near Montgom ery, Ala., to pay debts. Lady Henry Somerset has retired from the presidency of the National British Woman's Temperance Associa tion on account of her health. Emperor William has presented the New York Yacht Club with a cup, to be known as the Emperor's cup, to be competed for the first time next fall. Moderator J. C. Wilson opened the first session of the general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, at Tarklo, Mo., with an eloquent ser mon. Heroic work by firemen and police men saved the lives ot a score of wo men and children who were caught In a burning apartment bouse in New York. A movement has been started In Ohio to raise $30,000 to provide for the battleship Ohio a silver service. No amount larger than $25 will be ac cepted. Twelve freight cars were wrecked near Glen Allen, Va., by the washing out of tracks, caused by dams burst ing. Engineman C. M. Keelon being Injured. Daniel V. Miller, attorney In the postofflce department at Washington, was dismissed and arrested on charge of accepting bribe from turf Invest ment company. Oliver T. Sherwood, the missing cashier ot the Southport National bank, was Indicted In Hartford, Conn., on the charge ot embezzling $10,000 of the bank's funds. In a fire at Iinrre. Vt., which de stroyed two dwellings and two barns Peter Martin, 73 years old, and Miss Odlna Morlsotte, 14, lost life, and An nie Nicholson was hurt. A slip In the new blast furnace at Riverside plant at Wheeling, W. Va, caused an explosion and the shower of cinders fatally burned a young girl and Injured several workmen. Application was made to the Rapid Transit commission of New York by the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company for permission to build a tunnel under the North river. H. Klpp Hewitt, 16, of the Hacken sack (N. J.) High School, waa de clared the winner of the Annapolis cadetship, the examination for which took place at Peterson, N. J. Judge Grosscup, In the Federal Court at Chicago, entered the final or der In the so-called beef trust case, restraining the packera from combln Ing to regulate the trade. In Holland the new anti-strike law prohibits strikes on government rail roads under penalty of four years' Imprisonment. Government servants are forbidden to take collective action, on the ground that they are state em ployes. About two-thirds ot the rail ways are owned by the Netherlands. ' Resolutions were adopted by the JewlBh Publication Society of America deploring the Klshlneff massacre, re questing President Roosevelt to use his good offices in preventing its re currence. The railway committee at Ottawa, Canada, passed a bill to Incorporate the Pere Marquette International Bridge Company to build a bridge across the Detroit rived near Am berstburg. One life' was lost and considerable damage done to property by a terrtflo storm. In Pittsburg. SUIE DUD BOCK CRUSH ViCTlMS. HORROR IN COAL MINE. Pocket of Oat Ignited by Blasting, elleved to Have Set Off Dynamite Reserve. In an explosion In the mine of the Chartiers Coal Company at Federal, Allegheny county, Pa., Tuesday morn ing four men met Instant death and three others were badly, but not se riously, burned. The desd are: Wil liam Nlelson, 60 years old, pit boss; married; James Nlelson, Jr., 30 years oil, married; Jacob Sailor, SO years old, married; Joseph Snuck, 22 years old, single. The Injured are: Charles Ott, burned about the head and body; John Pulk, burned on the face, neck and body; Stanislaus Pullska, burned on the head, neck and body. All the Injured were able to walk to their homes after their wounds had received attention at the mouth ot the mine. The dead and Injured were all of Fed eral. The explosion occured about 10 o'clock In the morning. The mine la situated almost In the heart of the lit tle town of Federal, which nestles among the hills of the Chartiers valley, about four miles back from Bridge ville. At the time of the disaster about 75 men were at work In the mine and why more were not killed no one la able to explain. The scene of the accident was about 1.500 feet back from the pit mouth and was apparently a local explosion. None of the sur vivors knows how the explosion oc curred, and the only ones who could have told the story of the accident were carried from the pit mouth dead. The dead were engaged In cutting an entry under the direction of William Nlelson, the pit boss, who had gone back Into the mine to see how the work was progressing. Jacob Sailor was a driver, and he and his mule were found side by side dead. James Nlelson waa the farthest In the mlno and was the one who waa nearest the point of the explosion. Where the men were working there Is a dip in the vein, which then rises sharply to a level. The men were blasting away the rock roof and were using both dynamite and blasting powder In their work. It Is supposed that a charge had been Improperly tamped and that when it was shot It exploded the rest of the blasting material In the entry. The injured men had been working In the rooms that led off from the entry. Alarmed by the noise of the explosion they had rushed from their rooms Into the entry to make tor the open air. The concussion threw them to the ground and to this they prob ably owe their lives. Their burns were painful, but not enough to result se riously. The mine Is a new one and Is operated by Improved electrical mining machinery run by a plant at the mouth of the slope. ELIGIBLE TO WEST POINT. . Applicants Must Now Pass Physical Examination, Pennsylvania. Ohio and West Vir ginia candidates qualifying for admis sion to the Military academy at West Point on June 15 next are: Pennsyl vaniaGeorge F. Fox. John M. Camp bell, James H. Laubach, Harold C. Lanalnger, Stanley L. James, James O. Taylor, Alexander W. MaUh. Ohio Thomas 8. Stewart. Robert L. Louns- bury. Barton K. Yont, Ray C. Hill. Wiley Dawson, Ewers P. Aldredge, Charles L. Wyman. West Virginia Harry C. Cowl, Charles H. Van Keu ren. John W. Wilde, of Pennsylvania, will be admitted to the institution on June 15 if his certificate of gradua tion, to be submitted to the academic board on or before June 10, Is satis factory. George D. Herwlg and Boss H. Corbett, the latter of Carnegie, Pa., both found mentally qualified for ad mission, are ordered to West Point for physical examination June 12. AUTHORIZES NEW TELEGRAPH. $300,000 to Replace Destroyed Western Union Property, Directors of the Pennsylvania Rail road Company appropriated $300,000 to build new telegraph lines along the company's right of way In the place of those or the Western Union Tele graph Company destroyed by the order or President Cassatt. Tho Pennsylva nia will virtually Install a new tele graph plant on all Its lines east of Pittsburg and Erie. FLORIDA'8 ORANGE CROP. Will Exceed Last Year's by About a Million Boxea. Advices from Florida are to the ef fect that the results of .the big freeze of a fow years ago, In which a very large proportion of tho orange trees of the state wore killed, are rapidly pass ing away, and that Florida will shortly be prepared to furnish even a greater number of oranges than before tho dis aster. It Is said this year's crop will exceed the crop ot last year by about 1.000,000 boxes. Give Fish to President. President Roosevelt doubled back Into Washington from the Couer d'Alene mining camps of Idaho. At the new Masonic temple at Spokane the Presldont threw the first sapdeful of earth for the new building. No speech was made. At Couer d'Alene park the President was met by thous ands ot children, singing. An incident at Harrison, Idaho, was the presenta tion of five strings of speckled trout. Receiver for Bay 8tata Gas. Judge Dallas, of the United States Circuit court at Philadelphia announc ed the appointment of George W. Pep per, a member of the Philadelphia bar, as receiver for the Bay State Gas Company, of Delaware. Millions for Indians. Advertisements for the sale of the timber on 108,000 acres of the lands owned by the Chippewa Indiana In Minnesota have been prepared by the commissioner of the general land of fice at Washington. REORGANIZATION PLAN. Voting Trust Created In Shipbuilding Company to Secure Continuity, of Management, The plana for the reorganisation of the Unltad States Shipbuilding Com pany entered Into at New York pro vides for the organization of a com pany with the title of the Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuilding Company, The properties to be taken over are: Union Iron Works, San Francisco; Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me.; Hyde Windlass Company, Bath, Me.; Creacent Ship yard Company, Ellzabethport, N. J.; Canda Manufacturing Company, Car- taret. N. J.; Samuel L. Moore ft Sons Company, Ellzabsthport, N. J.; East em Shipbuilding Company, New Lon don. Conn.; Harlan & Holllngsworth Company, Wilmington, Del.; also all of the capital atock (except directors' qualification shares) of the Bethle hem Steel Company, owning the Beth lehem Steel Works and property In the borough of South Bethlaham and Northampton Heights. The total cap italization of the new company will be $43,000,000 and Its fixed charges will be $517,650 for Interest on the unjar lying bonds of the Bethlehem Iron and Bethlehem Steel Company and $600,- 000 on the first mortgage bonds of the new compnny, a total of $1,117,550. To this should be added after the first Ave yeara $250,000 per annum for the slnl'.lng fund to retire tho new first mortgage bonds. To secure continu ity In the management of the new cor poration It Is proposed to create a voting (rust for a period of sevea years. The Initial voting trustees will be Messrs. Charles M. Schwab, George R. Sheldon, Max Ram. Charles W. Wet mure and James H. Reed, ot Pitts burg. TEST OF WEAPONS. McLoan Gun Can Fire Eight Hundred 8hots a Minute. Tests were made at the Sandy Hook proving grounds. New York, of two pieces of ordnance which have been under consideration by United States army and navy boards for some time.. The weapons tested were the McLean automatic one-pound gun. and the Lu ge r automatic pistol. The McLean gun can fire 800 shots a minute, each pull of the trigger discharging 25 one pound projectiles. After dark a test vas made of big guns which discharg ed what appeared to be huge balls of fire. The army officers at Sandy Hook refused to furnish Information regard ing the night tests, but it Is under stood that experiments were being made with an Illuminated shell Intend ed for night use. Assistant to Mr, Shaw. The appointment of Charles Hallam Keep, assistant secretary of the treas ury, to succeed Milton E. Alles, who recently resigned to accept the vice presidency of tho Rlggs National bank, was announced at the treasury depart ment. Mr. Keep Is a resident of Buf falo, N. Y and was graduated by Har vard university In the collegiate and law courses. He Is 40 years old. CABLE FLASHES. Advices received from Liberia, an nounce that Arthur Barclay waa re cently elected president ot that re public. A report from Ceuta says the Sultan of Morocco's brother, Mulla Moham med, Is dead He waa poisoned, ac cording to the dispatch. Secretary Chamberlain announced In the House of Commons that the British government was not support ing and had not sanctioned the move ment of the mineowners to Import Asiatic labor Into the Transvaal. A dispatch received at Yokohoma from Seoul says the government of Corea has ordered the officials at WIJu to arrest the Coreans who were con cerned In the rale of land and build ings to Russians or Chinese. The North German Lloyd steamer Kron Prlnz Wllhelm, which sailed from Bremen May Lb for New York, had among her passengera Mrs. Charle magne Tower, wife of the United States ambassador, and her daughter. Lieut. Javier, commanding a force of constabulary and volunteers. In the Philippines, has defeated 200 fanat ical insurgents in the Island of Cebu, killing G8 and capturing 29. The fight occurred In the mountains near Ta bogrn. Marcel Renault, the maker of auto mobiles, who was Injured by the over turning of his machine during the first stage of the Paris-Madrid race, died nt Poitiers, France. Renault never re covered full consciousness from the tlme he was found stretched out be side the roadway. The congregation of the propaganda at Rome, Italy, decided to recommend the division of the arch-dlocege of Ore gon, and the appointment of tho Rev. Charles J. O'Roilly, of Portland. Oro., to bo bishop of the new diocese. The whole matter Is subjoct to the appro bation of the pope. Tho Hmhlersfiold, a British steamer, which sailed from Antwerp for Grims by, England, collided with the Nor wegian steamer Uto and foundered. Tha British vessel carried 29 Austrian and Italian emigrants and five other steerage passengers. Twenty-two of the emigrants are reported drowned. Apparently the United States and Great Britain are alone willing to make the payment ot the debt easier to China, tho other governments consult ed having disapproved ot the. Indemni ty scheme' proposed by Great Britain. Chang Chi Tung, viceroy of Wu Chang, t.as been In Peking for several days, conferring with the dowager empress regarding the indemnity and Man churia. Mrs. Gunning S. Bedford, who wai arrested at Queenstown May IS on the arrival there from New York ol me steamer Umbrla, charged with making a false declaration of a child's birth, was brought up on remand at ine Bow street police court here ant! pleaded guilty. She admitted that tb cbuu was not her own, and said she had adopted it. Mrs. Bedford wai fined $50. TUB HARRKTS, PITT81URQ., j '" Grain. Flour and Pes 4. Wbi-Jfa t red n rt 0M Hre-NO, s M Corn No. I .How, r....,.. M M 04 61 M M 67 - po. s renew, shelled..... MUd ............ Osu-fo. 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NEW YORK. floor Patents. Wheel .u. 3 mo. ....4 0" L sj w t tit lorn Jio. 1 Oete-No, W hue W WH butter C'reemery ' agge btateand ruuusrlvanl.... ir ls LIVE STOCK. Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa. Cattle. frlmebeary, UOOto 1M0 ltM-....tl !' rrlme. Immui ibt.... 14 SleU'um, 1M1 tu 1UM lbe... 0i ? 1? lalbeliere J Kutubur, UU0 to 1UU0 lbs 4 40 4 8S t'omtuou to fair 17) SO 0en, common to fat VOJ Common to good lai bulla and flow w J 15 Id Hob com., each JI " Ktra milch vows, each leJJ W Hogs. f rime hear hose -I I J prim medium welf lite HI J'J brat hoary rorkere and medlaia-. elk 4 00 Uood to Kboloe peckers ovi IOJ Wood le and llshtrorkers 100 J PISA common to good 471 522 Common w lair too J .5 Mougne tM IT huge 4 00 4 4 Sheep. litre, medium wethers 8 00 MS ood to cholue 4 J 40 Medium 401 4J Common to lair " lu Lamba. fambe clipped - 8 87S Lambe, good lochoter. clipped . 4 olM Lambe, common to fair, olipped 8 00 4 no prlng Lambs TT..M W TOO Calvea. Veal,itra 4M 850 V eai, good to eholoe ) eel, common henvr 4 0J 600 Veal, common to fair - I" 400 REVIEW OF TRADE. Plants Well Occupied Dry Weather and Unrest Among Worker Adverse Factor. R. O. Dun A Co.'a "Weekly Review of Trade" says: Weather condition and the larbor situation are the dom inant Influence In the business world. Unseasonable high temperature at many points, especially in the East, stimulated retail trade in wearing ap parel, but bad a most unsatisfactory effect upon vegetation, which was promptly reflected In diminished or der for supplies, and In some case there were cancellations. On the whole there are few wage earner voluntarily Idle, yet the spirit of unrest ha caused the abandonment of some new. enterprise and postponement of oth ers, which means less demand for structural materials and labor. Pay ments are also less prompt, time often being asked where formerly cash transactlona for a slight discount were the rule. Aside from these two ad verse factors the trade situation 1 favorable, and with average weather and industrial peace there Is every prospect of continued prosperity throughout the country. Manufactur ing plants are generally well occupied, especially In footwear, Iron and steel. Traffic on the railways Is heavy, earn ings thus far reported for May ex ceeding last year's by 13.6 per cent., and surpassing 1901 by 25.7 per cent. Readjustment - In prices of iron and steel continues, the market gradually resuming normal conditions. There Is no evidence of diminished activity aa yet and In many cases prompt deliv eries are urged, but as the Increased capacity brings plants nearer their or ders, buyers aro naturally less eager to place contracts. The fact that some concessions have been made In quo tations tends to postpono business, prospective buyers waiting for still more favorable terms. Advances of about 5 per cent In wide sheetings Indicate that the cotton goods market Is beginning to respond to the higher raw material. Warm weather stim ulates activity in wash goods for quick dolivery. There Is no stgn of reaction In the footwear industry. Leather Is steady at recent advances. Late salted packer' bides are active and higher, the general range of quotations at Chicago being materially higher. Foreign dry hides are steady, arrivals meeting with prompt absorption. Fall urea this week are 191 In the United States, against 192 last year, and 14 In Canada, compared with 12 a' year ago. Bradstreet' sys: While underly ing conditions have improved as a whole, there is still room for better ment In weather, crop and labor mat ters, Iron la drooping, largely be cause buyer are holding off on future purchases. Stocks do not accumulate, however, and consumers are Insistent for deliveries on old orders. Much im portance is attached to the possible action by the leading interest as re gards It supply of Iron for the sec ond halt of the year. Steel Is firm at the West, but resale of foreign steel at Eastern markets lead to an easier feeling tn the market for billet.
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