( MANY LIVES LOST. Fishing Vessels Pounded to Pieces on tlte Rock Sailors Go Down to Watery Graves. Itcpurts from tilie Atlantic Coawt toll of great dprtrnctlon to shipping and Iimr of llfo. The steamer Mexi can') foundered during the gale on SoptomlifT lfi and of a crew of 23 only e.Mvn luvo been saved. Bctwoen Hell Oate and Norton Point the police boat Patrol counted 100 wreck d craft. Twelve boats were ponndnd ti pieces on the Staton Is land Khwa. Fifteen yachte were beached ait City Island, where the suc ce..lul cup defender Reliance was llly damaged and narrowly escaped wiiftHng, and the Columbia was saved only by sinking the yacht Hlldegarde, which was being swept down upon hor. In Jamaica bay 150 Milling vessels woro overturned, beached or pounded to pieces. From Bayonne tomes word of 50 wrecks of all descriptions be tween Conmiunlpaw and Perth Ani by. In Gravesnnd Hay 34 vessels wn wrecked. One of the craft wr.kd In Gravenscml bay was a Ilierehoff boat, the Sand Piper, given iy August Belmont to Arthur Iledfern, tho J'ckey. The damage along th? bay shnro Is estimated at $20.noo. (tut of 40 craft owned by the Brooklyn Yacht Club only five survived the fesinn. Ml tern men lost their lives In the violent, gals which raged off the coast of Milne. The Gloucester mackerel wining schooner, George P. Edmunds, struck on the eastern side of Pema qwd point and was smashed to pieces. Fourteen of th crew of 10 men perlsh cvl in the breakers. Th. sifct::nor fc'adle and I.llllnn struck n tho western side of Pema quid print an I had h;r bottom knockod out on the rock, ('apt. HuMy was drownej but bis crew of two men wwj rescued. A message from Atlantic City says: Tha tropical storm which struck the New Jersey coast early Wednesday morning was ono of the severest ex perienced for a long time. The wind blew with hurricane force, and while It lasted kept up a speed of 70 mJles an hour. The storm was terrifying to a degree, but the damage was not as Kvat as was nt first believed. A con servative estimate places the entire los. of $25,000 or $:0.0i)0. Tho tele graph nnil telephone linos leading out of the city were all down, and the faot that the city was cut off from connection with the outside world started wiid rumors that tho groat resort had been entirely swept away. B.'vcral pines at Rockaway Heach W'T-.t destroyed, half a dozen build ings being damaged at Coney Island nn. I the Happy Home Hotel, at South H"ach. S. I., wrecked by the wind and washed away by a tidal wave. Ship ping wis greatly menaced and a tug attached to a schooner was overturned in Hell Gate, whlla tho pilot boat .lames Gordon Bennett was dashed to pieces off Staplcton, S. I., as Its" crew had swan ashore. The most serious ac cident reported on the Delaware was that which befell the schooner Hattle A. Marsh, whoso captain J. B. Mehaf fcy. ond four members of the crew wore drowned. The Mrirsh was caught ' in the terrific windstorm outside the n.w atono breakwater. Confederate Sons Organize. For tho first time in the history of tin North military organization, form ed entirely of Southerners' sons and gran.loiMis cf the Confederate soldiers, h-aa lieein formed In Pittsburg. It will he known as the Robert E. bee camp, United Sons cf Confederate Veterans. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Secretary Shaw of the treasury, has docidad to withdraw government de posits from all banks, reducing; their circulation, to tako advantage of the high price of United States bonds, when such banks are already designat ed as United States depositories. The state department has been ad vised of tbe death of Samuel A. Mc Allister,, United States consul at Bar badoes,' West Indies. Ho was born in Pennsylvania and was appointed from Delaware in 1897. Charles Joseph Bonaparte has ac cepted the Invitation of Secretary Hitchcock to take charge of the in vestigation of cortaln Indian territory affJira end officials under the Juris diction of the department of the in terior. Socretary Cortelyou has prepared a till appropriating $7,000,000 for a building for tha department of com merce and labor. If the appropria tion is granted Washington will have a public building that will eclipse all omers. Tim Navy Department has Issued an order declaring "The Star-Spanglr d Banner" the national anthem and di recting that whenever that composi tion is played all officers ' and men fcball Bland at attention unless they ue engaged In duty that will not per nit them to do so. Twenty-five different types of scout ihlps to be fitted with steam turbines ure being experimented with In the mreuu of construction model tank at Ihe Washington navy yard. Rear Ad ulral Bowles will recommend In his tnnual report that Congress be asked fc authorize two scout ships at a cost )f $1,000,000 each. It has been about decided that the United States navy will adopt what fa known aa the German system of wireless telegraph, which wasi ten tatively adopted for the ships of the North Atlantlo fleet. Rear Admiral Bradford will soon make a report In dicating the position of shore stations and designating the vessels for wire less equipment. According to the annual report of J. Easby Smith, pardon attorney of the department of justice. President Roosevelt has granted fewer pardons thaa ur President in many years. DYNAMITE KILLS TWO. On Victim's Head Blown Off, Whlla Another Is Terribly Mangled. Clarence IJ. Hopper and Roy Bouch er, switchmen of the Michigan Cen tral railroad, were Instantly killed by an explosion of dynamite In a car In the yards nt West Bay City. Rob ert Roblin, engineer; William Noble, fireman, and John Cradle, conductor, were Injured, the latter so severely that he may die. All of the trainmen were residents of Hay City. Mich. The explosion occurred as a switch engine was making up a train. The engine hacked down upon several cars, the first containing a thousand pounds of dynamite, a consignment of rifles and a quantity of reduced charge shells for Indoor rifle practice. It Is said thnt the force with which It struck the explosive-laden car exploded the dynamite. Another report had It that one of the shells exploded and set oft the dynamite. Hopper's body was badly cut by flying steel and Boucher was decapitated, his body being ter ribly mangled. A big hole was torn In the ground by the explosion, and a score of freight cars, many loaded, were demolished. Nearly 300 houses In the vicinity suffered broken win dows and several were so badly wreck ed as to be uninhabitable. The shock was felt in Essexvllle, three miles from the scene. BRITISH MINISTERS RESIGN. Chamberlain, Ritchie and Hamilton Pass Up Their Portfolio. Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain. Chancellor of the Exchequer C. T. Ritchie and Secretary for India George Hamilton have re signed from the cabinet. Their resig nations have been accepted by the king. They are duo to Inability to reconcile themselves with the gov ernment's 'portion on Chamberlain's new policy of a modified form of pro tection. Mr. Chamberlain In his let tor of resignation says tfie question of rrefer?ntlftl tariffs favoring the col onies cannot lie pto.-sed now success fully. Ionl Hamilton resigns because ho Is an adherent of Chamberlain's policy. Chancellor Ritchie- resigns because, being a zealous free trader, h cannot agree with Balfour, who Is sympathetic with Chamberlain's views and purposes MARYLAND DEMOCRATS. State Ticket Nominated Race Plank In Platform. The Democrats of Maryland held their Stata convention In Baltimore on the HIlli. and nominated the following ticket: Governor, Edwin Warfleld, of Howard county; State comptroller. Dr. Gordon T. Atkinson, Somerset county; attorney general. William Shephard Bryan, Baltimore. A platform was adopted of which the following Is tho substance: The present Democratic administration of Gov. John Walter Srr.it h In Indorsed; pledges are made In behalf of a primary election law for the State to conform to the pres ent law In Baltimore city, and the building of good roads throughout the State is approved. The race Issue plank, which Is regarded as the most Important In tho platform, declares for white supremacy In state, city mid county government. A CARGO OF CORP3ES. Transport Brings Back Victims Of the Philippine War. The army transport Kllpatrlck, from Manila, has reached New York. On the boat are the bodies of 302 sol diers, including some who lost their lives in the IJalanglga massacre In Sa mar, P. I. This Is the largest num ber of bodies ever returned at one time from tho Islands. The transport came via tho suez Canal, having a pleasant voyage of 72 days. She left Manila on July 2, with 69 cabin pas sengers. 13 servants, two Chilians, 321 enlisted men and the headquarters staff and band of the FirBt and Third Battalions of the Fifth United States Infantry, Lleut.-Ool. George P. Bor den commanding. The Kllpatrlck also brings soveral hundred tons of Phil ippine exhibits for the Louisiana Pur chase Exposition. The troops will proceed to the Plattsburg (N. Y.) bar racks. Ten Millions of Klondike Gold. Klondike's output of gold will bo but little lisa than last year. At least $10,000,000 will leave Dawson for the outside, and the total may run up to $11,000,000. The shipments of Daw ecu during August aggregated $1,442, 286. Excitement prevails over the circulation of the report that pay dirt running two to fifteen conta to the I an had been struck et the head of Albc.'t street in tho heart of Daw ecn. The discovery was made by men hauling gravel from an old gravel pit. Thousands of yard of the same dirt I'-is bsen scattered along the streets in the procaes of grading. Anniversary of McKlnley's Death. Tha second anniversary of tho death of the late President McKlnlay was not observed by any formal pro gram In Canton. Flags were lowered on public buildings. There were ref. erences made In the various depart ments of the schools to the life and death of McKtnley, and carnations were worn as a silent tribute by nu merous citizens. Mrs. McTTlnley made a special trip to the McKinley vault in West Lawn cemetery and placed floral tributes on the casket. Numer ous floral pieces received from friends and strangers were also placed in the tomb. Extra Session Deferred. President Roosevelt has abandoned the suggestion that Congress be called Into extraordinary session In October. The extraordinary session which he announced many months ago would bo held this fall will be called accord ig to present plans to meet on No vember 9, which was the date tenta tively fixed some time ago. It Is not expected that tha formal call for the session will be Issued until after the president shall have returned to Washington. 1 FEW Ml MIU1S ARE NEEDED. MORGAN ASKS FOR TIME. Syndicate Asked to Extend Tim of Bond Conversion Scheme and Also Pay Assessments. J. P. Morgan ft Co. has sent out notices to members of the second Steel Corporation underwriting syndi cate requesting an extension of the life of the underwriting agreement for an additional period of nine months. An option Is also given to those mem bers of the syndicate who may be un willing to grant the extension to take up their participations and withdraw. Accompanying the notice sent out by Morgan ft Co. was a call for a cash payment based on a contingent liabil ity. The percentage of the call was not made generally clear, but those who figured the amount of cash called stated that the amount was somewhat less than $10,000,000, which a Wall street report stated was the amount that J. P. Morgan ft Co., as syndi cate managers, had actually called. The members who remain In the syn dicate and grant the extension of nine months will be called upon to pay a percentage, estimated to be less than 25 per cent of the entire cash liabil ity, while the others who are anxious to retire from the syndicate will be compelled to pay up the cash liability of their participation In full. The syn dicate was formed nearly IS months ago to guarantee the success of the big stock conversion plan and Is gen erally known as the second steel cor poration syndicate. Its lire expires In October next, and In the ordinary course of affairs would have been wound up on that date and the profits. 1f any, distributed, or If otherwise, the securities to which the underwriters were entitled returned. It will be re called, that this syndicate agreed to supply $80,000,000 of preferred stock for conversion Into 5 per cent bonds of the corporation and in addition $20, 000,000 In cash for which they were to receive the same class of bouTls. The total Issue of bonds amounted to $250,- ooo.uoo, of which $200,000,000 was to be Issued against deposits of preferred stock and the balance, $50,000,000. for cash. Of this entire amount a syndi cate, which the Morgan house formed, stood ready to supply $100,000,000, di vided, as has been stated, into $80,000, 0U0 of preferred stock and $20,000,000 in cash. The offer to the stockhold ers was not well taken, and the burden falls upon the members of the un derwriting syndicate. IRON BOOM ENDED. Consumption Still Continues at an Enormous Rate. James M. Swank, general manager of the American Iron and Steel As sociation, In the forthcoming "Bulle tin" of that association will say: "it has been . recognized for some time that the boom In the Iron trade of this country, which began with the ear ly weeks of 18!)9, has come to an end. It would be chronologically correct to say that It ended with the close of the first half of 19U3, when It bo cenie evident to all observers that the urgent demand for iron and steel in nearly all forms waB slackening and (bat some Iron and steel prices were weakening. "These Indications of the Bubsidence of a boom that was then exactly four years and a half old have since been still more noticeable. But it Is an error to assume that Uie end of the boom means an end of prosper ity for tho iron trade. Consumption still continues at an enormous rate, few works have been closed even tem porarily by a lessened demand for their ptoducts, and prices are simply being adjusted to more normal condi tions. Thla 1b the whole story up to the present time." Declined Carnegie's Offer, Glenvllle, a suburb of Cleveland, has declined an offer of a library from Andrew Carnegie. Some months ago, It Is said, Carnegie promised to give the city $42,000 for a building on the usual conditions. The council passed the necessary tax levy to maintain the Institution. Now It appears that there was some misunderstanding, for all that Carnegie will give Is $15,000. This has offended the citizens and the committee has written that the city will not accept the library under any conditions. Five Men Drowned. Five men, all of East Jordan, Mich., were drowned In Pine lake In a colli sion between the steam yacht Pilgrim and a naptha launch. The dead are: R. X. Tine, ball player; M. C. Calmon. ball player; Fred Winers, school teacher; Kit Carson, ball player; Wil liam Ronard, saloonist. Tbo occupants of the small boat were thrown Into the water, and although the yacht laid to and began a Bearch for the drowning men, only eight of the 13 were saved. Two Records Broken. At Cleveland, O., Lou Dillon, 2:00, driven by Millard Sanders, broke the trotting record to high sulky of 2:08, established by Maud S. in 1885, nego tiating the distance In 2:05. me frac tional time was : 32 Vi. 1:04, 1:35, 2:05. The Monk and Equity also broke the world's wagon record, going the mile in 2:09. The Washington State convention of Women's Christian Temperance Union in session at Whatcom, adopt ed resolutions promulgated by the Na tional Council favoring expulsion of Rued Smoot, of Utah, from the United States Senate. Must 8top Evil Habits. At-olute prohibition of gambling in any form, particularly betting on the races,, and also of drinking, cigarette smoking and dissipation, has been an nounced by the management of the Western Electric Company, of Chi cago, to its employes. They are the largest employers of young men In Chicago, more than 1,500 being on the rolls. The Illinois Central railroad, the Chicago, Burlington ft Qulncy, Marshal Field ft Co., and Farwell ft Co., have within 10 days posted no tices of a similar character. LATEST NEWS N0TE3. Btrlklng miners at Thurber, Tex., are leaving by the hundreds for other parts. Carl Beers aged 24, of Scranton, Pa., was drowned near Syracuse, .N. Y., while bathing. A New York grand Jury has returned five Indictments sgalnst Sam Parks, the walking delegate. Frank Allison and Marshall Mc Ghee, young men of Tammany parish, La., fought a duel about a girl and both are dead. Clarence Egnor of Buffalo was put to death In the electric chair for the murder of Archibald Benedict, a keep er In Auburn prison. A gang of eight heavily armed des peradoes entered the town of Valley Springs, N. D.( and after terrorizing the Inhabitants robbed the bank and escaped with their booty. Reports of damage to the grain and hay crops are coming In from all sec tions of Eastern Washington, except In the Big Bend. Few districts have not materially suffered from rains. T. P. Driver, of Melrose, Mass., and F. II. Peabody, of Boston, made the first ascent of Mount Washington In a four-horse-power gasoline runabout. The actual running time was 3 hours and 29 minutes. The United States Steel Corporation has re-entered the export trade. Or ders have been sent to Col. Millard Huiislker In London, the corporation's foreign representative, to accept or ders for the corporation's product. Frank Day, formerly of California, but of late living In Detroit, was killed In an automobile accident at the state fair grounds at Milwaukee, while driv ing Barney Oldfleld's record-breaking machine In a five-mile race against time. In the cases of the big claims against Venezuela presented to the Mixed Tri bunals, the Dutch and Belgian arbi trators and the Venezuelan umpire de livered Judgment condemning Vene suela to pay the Belgian company owning the Caracas water works $2,- 000,000. Tom King Yung, a high official In court circles at Pekln, military at tache of the Chinese legation at Wash ington, and secretary to Jung Bow He, the acting consul general at San Fran cisco, has committed suicide by as phyxiation at the Chinese consulate In San Francisco. As a result of a number of confer ences of the Democratic National com mittee In Chicago, It is stated that Thomas Taggart, 'of Indiana, will suc ceed ex-Senator Jones as National chairman. Mr. Taggart says that he will accept. A fast freight on tho Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling railroad ran Into an open switch near Falrpolnt, com pletely wrecking the train. Engineer Harry Stockel, of Bridgeport, was killed; the fireman and a brakeman were Injured. Rev. William Brand, paBtor of the Knoxvllle (Tenn.) Lutheran congrega tion, who was called to tho pastorate of St. Paul's Church, Prldo street, Pittsburg, of which his brother, Rev. Frederick Brand. D. D., is pastor, has accepted the call In an attempt to steal a quantity of alcohol from the cruiser Olympla. In drydock at the Norfolk navy yard, one barrel of the fluid exploded. Two men were killed outright, a master-at-arms Is missing and two sailors were seriously burned. Corporal Yeager of the marine guard was one of tbe killed. BUSINESS BRIEF3. Another huge union of the Coenr d'Alene mines Is being effected to off set the combination recently arranged by the Rockefeller-Gould-Sweeny In terests. Pittsburg. Ft. Wayne ft Chicago di rectors have declared the regular quarterly guaranteed dividend of 1 per cent and a special dividend of 1 per cent. Eighty-two railroads for July show an average net increase of 26.18 per cent; 31 roads first week of Septem ber show average gross Increase of 9.43 jer cent. While there has been a falling off In the booking of new business by the General Electric Co., leading officials of that company look upon the depres sion as but temporary. Hog parking In the West the last week aggregated 300,000 head, com pared with 245,000 a year ago. Since March 1 there has been an Increase this year over last of 805.000 head. The people of the United States con sume the equivalent of 95 per cent of all we produce, and upon this fact Sec retary Shaw declares that "not while these conditions continue will pros perity cease." The New York Commercial says that prices of window glass In Indiana have dropped 25 per cent and that all win dow glass combinations will dissolve within tbe next 15 days, that the re cent wage scale will be repudiated and that the workmen will be asked to ac cept a reduction of from 25 to 60 per cent. Rogers, Brown ft Co.'s weekly Iron market review says: An Increasing number of blast furnaces are calling the turn on the market and refusing to follow further the downward course of prices. They will work out present contracts, which in some cases will require two or three months to fill; then will blow out, if there Is no Im provement. New Coal and Coke Company, The Phillips Coal and Coke Com pany, with a capital of $500,000, has been Incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, and will de velop a large coal acreage In Ohio as soon as the plans of tbe men Inter ested can be completed. The company Is a Pittsburg concern, and the coal lands are located on the Ohio river below Wheeling. The property is within reach of several railroads and has a water frontage also. WILL ACT IF THEY DO NOT. Mobilization of Turkish Troops Under Pretext of Suppressing Revolu tion Gives Alarm. Following are some of the points In the note which Bulgaria has Just pre sented to the powers: "What the Bulgarian government had foreseen, as expressed In Its note of June 29, of the development of affairs In Tur key has become amply verified. The Turkish government Is systematically annihilating the Bulgaria people. The mobilization and concentration of such great forces In European Turkey, un der the pretext of suppressing the rev olution, gives Bulgaria reason to sup pose that at an opportune moment she will be attacked by Turkey. The Bul garian government can no longer re main Indifferent to the presence of such a situation, which Is of a nature calculated to bring about a hostile col lision between Turkey and Bulgaria. If the great powers do not take meas ures to give the sublime porte coun sels of wisdom and moderation the Bulgarian government will be obliged to take the necessary steps to be ready for every eventuality and to not be taken by surprise." It now appears more likely than ever that Servla will be drawn Into the fight. Emissaries have gone secretly to King Peter urg ing him to Join Bulgaria In a war against Turkey, pointing out that this Is a way for him to overcome the dif ficulties which are at present 'besetting him. No Important step Is likely to be taken at the present critical Juncture, pending the return to the capital of Prince Ferdinand and a reply from the powers or some intimation from them In response to Bulgaria's note. TURKS BURN VILLAGES. Many Bulgarians Beheaded In Pres ence of Their Families.. A cablegram to the navy depart ment from Admiral Cotton, command ing the American warships In Turkish waters, announced that matters were quiet In Beirut, and added that the governor general of that place, who had ben deposed as a result of the re cent disturbances, had started for Constantinople. The Albanian and Turkish troops collected In the vila yet of Adrianople appear to be pur suing their usual tactics of burning and plundering the villages and kill ing the peasants. The Turks have burned the villages of Almaglk and Ertkler. In the district of Losengrad. They beheaded 22 Bulgarians at Al maglk In the presence of their fam ilies. The population everywhere Is fleeing to the forests and mountains. All the Turkish population in the dis trict of Losengrad has received arms, even the boys having revolvers. The Albanian soldiers proceeding from Od rln to Losengrad plundered the vil lages en route, robbed the churches and burned the village of KorakeJ. Another body of Albanians going to Vaslllko, on the Black sea. was at tacked by a band and Is reported to have suffered a loss of 100 men. A band led by tho Insurgent chief At r.mesoff, was surrounded by Turkish troops at Kokushko. After six hours' fighting the insurgents cut their way through the soldiers by throwing bombs. The TurkB lost 20. With the arrival of new reports of wholesale massacres It in estimated that 60.000 Bulgarians have been slaughtered In tne dlstrlbt of Okdida and Leren. FISHERMAN'S GOOD LUCK. Bought a Sunken Treasure for 21 Shillings and Recovered $17,000. A message from Dlgby. N. 8., says by the aid of a diver, Thomas Burns, a fisherman, has recovered $17,000 In gold from the bull of a wrecked ves sel for which he paid 21 shillings, and he expects to find more treasure. The wreck was that of a brig lost below Contrevllle 70 years ago. It waB said her commander and his son bad for the owners $f0,000 In gold, the profits of the trip. Burns bought the hull for the copper nails and fastenings years ago. Knowing that a diver was ex ploring other wrecks, Burns engaged him to look Into this one. Most of the gold is Spanish coin. One piece bears the date 1822 and Is stamped "Republlca del Colombia." Others are dated 1817. Burns is now one of the village's richest men. HARD COAL RECORD. Operators Say There Has Been No Overproduction. Anthracite to the amount of 5.160. 400 tons was produced in AuguBt, which is about the same as In the pre vious month, but as compared with August, 1902, when the coal strike was In progress, It Is an Increase of 4.8.iS. 626 tons. For the eight months of the calendar year the shipments have been 42.431,849 tons, an Increase over the same period last year of 13,046,000 tons. This Increase far exceeds any heretofore made In the anthracite trade. According to officials of the cjal companies no material reduction In output will 'be made the present month. Prof. Langley Disgusted. Disgusted with the repeated fail ures of bis airship, Prof. E. P. Lang ley has forsaken Wldewater, the scene of tbe experiments, and has engaged passage for a trip abroad. Jett Trial Must Proceed. After hearing 15 witnesses for the defense and commonwealth In the trial of Curtis Jett for the killing or James Cockrell la Jackson, on the motion for a change of venue to another county. Judge Osbourne overruled the motion. He decided that the case should be tried in Cynthlana at once. Heavy Frosts In Far West Heavy frosts occurred from Huron, S. D.. to North Platte, Neb. Killing frosts at Huron, S. D-. Sioux City, la.. North Platte, Neb., and Bismarck. N. rt. ara rsnnrtad. REVIEW OF TRADE. Sufficient Labor Cannot' Be Secured to Handle Freight Better Tone In the Iron Market. R. O. Dun ft Co.'s "Weekly Review of Trade says: Business hai made) moderate progress during the past week, despite unusual opposition from the elements. When other Industries are, to a considerable degree, depend ent upon agricultural conditions, re ports of serious injury to crops by cold ami wet weather are not calculated to stimulate eonfl lonce. Subsequent ly correction Indicated that the amount of damage had been exagger ated, as usual, and pror.rts bright ened. The car shortage Is beginning to be felt, especially In the Pittsburg ti.slrlct, where sufficient labor cannot b? secured for handling freight. Man ufacturing plants ore well occupied, as a rule, even the textile mills re porting Idle machinery, and at Chicago there Is notable pressure for Implements and hardware. Lumber la In better demand as structural activ ity revives. Payments are seasonably prompt except where late crops delay settlements, and tho outlook for fall ami winter buslnecs contains much that Is encouraging. Railway earn ings thus far reported for September show an average gain of 10.$ per cent over lat year, in the iron and steel Industry quotations have been declin ing for some months, and a large tonnage may be offered. Uneasiness over the labor situation aggravates the difficulty, although latest devel opments in the building trades are tnest encouraging In this respect. Prices have held fairly steady dur ing the past week, although there weie numerous rumors regarding pros pective reductions. Sales of plg Iron are small, but It Is somewhat signifi cant that purchasers are urgent for quick delivery. Agricultural and structural steel shapes are moving freely, with several new contracts about to be placed. Failures this week were 219 In the United States, against 199 last year, and 19 In Canada, com pared with 25 a year ago. Bradstreet'B says: The outonk for average crops Is still a good one, nothing In the na ture of actual shortages, such as oc curred In 1901, Is indicted, and while the opinion possibly Inclines to the view that the boom Is over In sev eral Industries, none the less the be lief is maintained that a good aver age fall and winter trade is in pros pect. New buying of pig iron has been of fair volume, most prices have foiled to harden. Pittsburg reports a better tone in Iron, with orders for Prlshed products coming In more free ly. Steel billets have not been cut In price. Coke shippers complain of a scarcity of cars. Tin plate mills are crowded with orders. The ending of strikes Is helping structural material. CROP REPORT. Weekly Summary of Conditions from Export Reports. The weather bureau's weekly sum mary of crop conditions follows: The week was excessively wet In the Mis souri and upper Mississippi valleys and upper lake region, while drought conditions over the greater part of the southern stntes and Ohio valley have become more serious. The tem perature conditions In the central val leys and Atlnntlc coast districts were highly favorable, but abnormally cool weather prevailed In the central and northern Rocky mountain districts and upper Missouri valley, where ther mometer readings ranging from two to six degrees below freezing were recorded on the 13th and 14th, with frosts, more or less damaging. Dam aging frosts also occurred In the north ern portions of New York and New England. In California conditions were very favorable but cool. Except In Iowa, Northern Missouri and East ern Nebraska, where excessive mois ture has prevented rapid ripening, the corn crop has made satisfactory pro gress, the bulk of the early planted the northern portion of the corn belt being practically safe from frost. Bank Swindled. The announcement was made by E. H. Gay ft Co., bankers and brokers of Boston, that they had been swindled out of bonds valued at $15,000. Tbe firm says that a person representing himself to be an agent In Lynn for Norman H. Poor & Co., bankers of this city, gave to Gay's messenger at Lynn a worthless check, apparently certified In payment for a quantity of bonds delivered. CABLE FLASHES. The Rev. Robert Benson, son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in 1896, has been received into tho Roman Catholic Church. A force of Russians have captured a band of 42 Armenians near Batoum. The Armenians had 'with them 13 quick-firing guns, eight bombs and a quantity of dynamite. The Berlin "Ixikal Anzetgcr" pub lished a dispatch from Sofia, Bulga ria, saying that Prince Ferdinand has not returned to the capital, and that he is In seclusion at the castle of Eux- inograd with several favorites, all the approaches to the castle being strong ly guarded by soldiers. Professor Cardarellt, the eminent physician, who is a member of the Senate at Rome, Italy, publishes in the Dlvlsta d'ltalla a long article to demonstrate that Pope Leo XIII. died of tuberculous cancer of the right bydrothorax. Turkish cavalry detachments, which have taken their station along the Bul garian frontier, are ruthlessly cutting down all refugees who are attempting to escape from the disturbed district Into Bulgaria. Orders have been received to watch carefully over the security of the American missionaries in Salonlca, because it is said that the Bulgarians, with a view to provoking eaergetlo Intervention on the part of the United States, are meditating an attack on them. A riot occurred during the night over the municipal election In Athens. Four teen were killed and Injured. ESTIFIO Tbe curious habit of carrying a live sea anemone In each of Its two claws is ascribed to tbe Mella, a genus of small crabs of the Mnldlve Archipel ago. M. Borradalle states thnt the crab's claws nre too frnll for use In de fense, nnd It Is not clear whether the anemones lire held nn a means of pro tection or as a trap for food. , Work nn the Trans-Andes railway It being carried on nt a high speed. When the great tunnel piercing tbe Andes will be completed direct railroad connection will be established between Valparaiso and Buenos Ay res. At tbe present time goods can bo transported by means of mule caravans from the Argentine terminus to the Chilean ter minus In about twenty hours. An Interesting and rnre case of Infec tion of tbe mouth nnd subcutaneous tissues by n parasite nematode worm Is recorded by Mr. Whittles In the' Lancet. The patient lind never been out of Enclnnd, nnd tbe source of In fection was surmised to be a pet Pom eranlnn dog. In a tropical disease affecting the skin, known as "craw craw," a nematode has been described as tbe cause of the growths. Some time ngo B. Walter showed that an electric spark feels Its way from tbe positive pole to the negative In a rapid succession of preliminary sparks of Increasing length. By some excellent photographs with a moving camera, lie lins now proved that light ning similarly establishes a conduct ing path through the nlr by a series of minor flashes, nnd thnt, as a rule, the lightning passes from the cloud to the earth as a series of continuous discharges. ' An interesting and exhaustive report lias been Issued by the Worcestershire (England) County Council npon the bneterlnl treatment of sewage by different methods, the analytical de tail being supplied by the county analyst, Cecil Puncnn. The conclusion arrived nt Is thnt the best method for tho treatment of domestic sewage la a closed septic tnnk with bneterlnl beds filled with coke, which was found to be better thnn coal, brick or stone, two bacterlnl beds belns prov'dod to be used, alternately to avoid ponding. If the remarkable specimen of Aus tralian opal, which has been brought to light, turns out as well In the cut ting as Is hoped, the result will be n solid mass of beautiful stone fully eight Inches long by five Inches wide, nnd will probnbly be the largest piece of opnl known In the world. At pre sent tho biggest gem Is thnt In posses sion of the King of the Belgians, and Is included In the crown Jewels. It 1 valued nt something over 2.-iO,000 and weighs close upon sixteen ounces. The new specimen from tbe White Cliff fields has been christened "Big Ben." It Is said that the purchaser of the specimen bought It for a trifling sum. Ctnlrclla Ksviied. With some petulance Cinderella no tices that the pumpkin has been trans ferred Into a golden carriage. "Does it not delight you?" asks the fairy godmother. "Oh, of course, It Is very pretty and all that," concedes Cinderella; "but surely, you do not expect me to go to tbe ball in such- plebeian style?" "Plebeian?" nsks tbe fairy godmoth er. "Why, that's the finest trans forming act I ever did in all my ca reer." "Yes; but the automobile Is the thing; now." "All right," grumbles the fairy god mother. She gives her wand another sweep, and the golden carriage be comes a huge tonneau, puffing and panting and ready for the spin. "How sweet!" chirps Cinderella. "But are you not going along?" she exclaims as the fairy godmother be gins to vanish. "Xot much!" declares the fairy god mother. "No automobiles for me. Even a fairy has to adopt some meas ures of self-protection." Judge. The Vernacular. This was the conversation between the girl with the gum In her mouth and the other girl with the gum In nor mouth: "Aincha hungry?" "Yeh." "So my Less go neet." ' "Where?" "Slcev go one places nuther." "So dy. Ika neet mo stennyware. Canchoo?" "Yeh. Gotcher money?" "Yeh." "So vy. Gotcher nptlte?" "Yeh. Gotehoors?" "Yeh. Howabout place crosstreet?" "Notbln' teet there. Lessgurround corner." "Thattledooswellzennyware. Mighta thoughts 'tflrst. Getcher hot" "Ima gettlnlt. Gotcher money?" "Yeh. Dldn'cheer me say I bad It? All-ready r "Yeh." "K'mon'-Chlcago Tribune. Wattle Bark. Wattle bark, a most valuable tan ning medium, Is now largely export ed from South Africa and Australia. Last year Natal alone exported over fJoO.OOO worth of this fibre. South Australia's export of wattle baric was valued last year at over $350,000, and that of Victoria at nearly $100,000. These trees will now be systematically cultivated on a large scale in South Africa, as well as in several points of Australasia.
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