0 warn murder mo mum. LARGE PAY ROLL SECURED. Highwaymen Explode Dynamite Mine Under Roadway, Killing a Con. tractor, Wounding Bookkeeper. Dynamite placed beneath a dram across a roadway between the village of Wem Mlddlctown, Pa., and tiie Wabash construction camp, a mile, and a halt north, wa vet off electric ally, by robbers and killed Samuel T. Ferguson, a contractor, of Pittsburg. Hli bookkeeper, Charles T. Martin aged 86, of Cincinnati, was ro badly injured that he may die. iwo luu. horses and the rig in which Ferguson and Martin were driving were blown to piece, and the robbers, supposed to bo two In number, secured $3.6iH). Two men are under arrest for the crime and a third Is believed to be In an abandoned coal mine, which Is being guarded. The money secured was in a satchel and wa to pay the laborers at the construction camp. No ona saw the crime committed, but Lewis Liggett, a farmer, was In a field about 200 yards away and was the first to re&ih the bodies. Dwight Johnson was also quickly on the scene. Ferguson was killed Instant ly. The battery and wire used to fire the dynamite were re-covered, and also a shotgun, which was beside the bat tery, evidently for the purpose of Wil ing the two men If they should be able to make any resistance after the explosion or if the "mine" failed to go off under them. The explosion, which is believed to have been dyna mite, was placed In the. center of the road In a deep ravJno, tho banks of which go up from the Patterson mills road at an angle of 45 degrer. The wire was concealed by tne cuTvort. which crosses thj road at this point. From it went about 90 yarda of fine Insulated wire, of the kind used for exploding fuses. This was connected with a battery up the side of the bank under a big tree. By pressing a j ni ton the robber and murderer was able to set it off Just at the moment h;s victims wore directly over It. Al though several rigs passed the spot Just before Ferguson's did, they were not molested. Turkey Buying Powdor, The TurkiBh War Ministry has or dered 170,000,000 pounds of smoke less powder at the Rottwell Works, Germany. Turkey has several agents permanently resident In Germany, who buy supplies for the army and navy. One of these, Ahmed Bey. who spends his time between Essen and Kiel, la especially active In placing or ders for field transport and saddlery. Turkey, seemingly, 4b able to get a suf flotency of cash to pay for the sup plies, as the German firms require money or Its equivalent on delivery. Deputy Jailer's Head Spilt A daring Jaill delivery was accom plished at Frankfort, Ky. Squire Hlb ler, Clayton Day and Frank Chenault, negroes, all awaiting sentence for mur der and robbery, made good their es cape. To accomplish It Chenault split the head of Deputy Jailer Merrltt Wil liams with a bottle, seriously Injuring him and opened the doors for the oth wrs. The negro Hlbler was wearing the garb of the State prison, from Which he had been removed to the jail to stand trial for the murder of a fel low convict, and before leaving the Jail he stole the citizens' suit of a fel low Inmate and left hlB stripes behind. Big Mill Shut Down. Coincident with the terrific on slaught on the shares of the United States Steel Corporation comes the announcement that the Pemcoyd Iron worka at Poncoyd, Pa., will close the entire plant. This action will throw fully 8,000 men out of employment. The Pencoyd iron work Is controlled tiy the American Bridge Company, which constitutes one of the strongest pokes in the wheel of the United States Steel Corporation. Will Wed Confeoerate's Son. The engagement Is announced Infor mally Jn Washington of Miss Koso Mary Sartorls. youngest daughter of. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartorls, to Lieut. John Wright, United States army, a son of the late General Marcus Wright of Washington, D. C. Mias Sortorls Is the granddaughter of the lata Gen eral U. 8. Grant Lieutenant Wright's father had a splendid record as a Confederate. Took Contents of Safe. Four masked men held up west bound Burlington & Missouri river train, No. 41, Ave miles north of St. Joseph, Mo. The safe In the express car was dynamited and the car wrecked. Everything in the safe was taken and the men escaped In the darkness with horses. A posse was or ganized to pursue the bandits. Mill Girl Goes on the Stump. Miss Mary r-ertattr. a mill girl, em ployed in Lowell, Mass., started out stumping the State for A. C. Dowse, who la contesting with Senator Jones lor election to the Massachusetts Sen ate. This Is the first Instance in the State of a mill girl going out to make political speeches. The Blander suit brought at Beaver, Pa., agalnat ex-Postmaster General John Wanamaker by Former State Printer Thomas Robinson, of Butler, ended In a victory for the defendant. Plans Blocked, The directors of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company, have given up the attempt to find a plan for sav ing the properties of the company, which are in the hands of Speyer & Co., as collateral for the loan of 85, 050,000. With the announcement of this decision a!.o came a practical acknowledgement that they believed their plans for financing the company to a Bound position, had been blocked at every point by the great financial (Interests that are behind rival steul companies in the United States. , TURKS LOSE BOO. Hundred! Perish In the Flame of Burning Villages. According to fugitives who have ar rived at Kiln from SJnumala a serious engagement has occurred atPerln.near Mvlntk, 63 miles from Salonika, In whlih the Turks are said to have lost 500 men killed, including two colonels. Most of tho villages In the district of Mclnlk are In the hands of the Insur gents. Many of the villages are In flamos. A apodal dispatch from Rlla gives the following details of the fight ing at Perln: "On the 16th of Septem ber 1,000 Turkish troops surrounded the village and ntttacked the bands un der Stelnoff and Dervingoff, who had taken up a position there. The latter were reinforced by tne bands com manded by Yankoff and Zontcheff, and the combined Insurgent forces turned on the Turks and completely annihilated them. One Turkish com mander was captured. According to information received at revolutionary headqun ters from Monastlr 120 per sons perished In the flames of their burning villages near Kastorla. More than 1,200 bodies of women and chil dren and said to be lying unburied In tne fields and on the roadsides around that place. HUNDREDS SLAIN. Jews 8ald to Have Been Slaughtered without Mercy. Another horrible series of atrocities are reported from Gomel, in the Rus sian province of Mohllev, which eye witnesses declare were worse than the Kishinev massacres which aroused the horror and Indignation of the world. The persecuted Jews by hundreds are fleeing toward Koenlgsburg. Accord ing to the refugees the Jews of Gomel were holding an annual fair, similar to the great Nljnl-Novogord celebia- tlons. Thousands from other parts of the province of Mohllev came In for the Jubilee. Rioting began Septem ber 11 and was continued on the 14th. Jewish homes were pillaged, women and children truelly attacked, and the men who tried to shield their loved ones were brutually slain. The mil itary, it Ib charged, fired on the mobs without reserve, always taking good care to direct their volleys Into Jew ish ranks. The Hartungsche Zeltung, of Koen4g3burg, publishes an account rurnlahed by an eye-witness of the massacres. FARMERS CATCH CROOKS. Two Confidence Men Surrounded and Captured. Two confidence men. who relieved John Kerr, a wealthy farmer of East springneiu, O., of $3,000 on the road 10 miles west of Steubenvllle. were run to earth near Bloomfleld by a posse of farmers and captured, after being shot a number of times. One gave his name as Arthur Blake of Cin cinnati, and the other as Charles Hig glnB, of Pittsburg. HIggins accom panied Kerr to Steubenvllle while he drew the money. On the way home, after drawing $3,000 from the bank, they took the money bodily off Kerr and rode off. Kerr summoned 60 armed men by telephone and thoy gave speedy chase, while shots were exchanged. On the farm of Peleg White the bunco men seized two horses to assist them In the retreat, and when the horses gave out under the hard drive the men took refuge In a cornfield, where they surrender ed. Each had tteveral bullets in him. but whether the wounds are serious Is not known. The men were taken to Jail. ' MANY BULGARIANS KILLED. Engagement Between Turkish Troops and insurgents. A combat took place between the Turkish troops and the insurgents on Kadar heights, which are Bltuated In the Prespe district of the vilayet of Monastlr. Seventy-four Bulgarians were killed, while the troops lost only rour men. ll others being wounded. In the village of Vltoch, in the Cor- ana district of the vilayet of Cors- foreo, a body of soldiers yesterday killed 21 Insurgents and captured 18 others. Among tho dead are Capt Van gruedo and Capt, Pango, FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The vacancy on the board of general appraisers at New York has been ten dered to and accepted by Eugene G. Hay. a well-known lawyer of Minne apolis. The bond of Mr. Fulterton, who has been designated to disburse the $5.- 000,000 appropriation in aid of the St. Louis Exposition, has been approved and $500,000 will be placed to his crodJt. General MacArthur, commanding the Department of California, In his annual report recommends that the entire or ganized militia of all arms located within easy distance of San Francis co bo invited to participate In a course of artillery training at the Presdlo. President Roosevelt has received copies of the resolution adopted by the Central Labor Union of , Washington demanding the dismissal from the gov ernment printing office of William A. Miller, the foreman bookbinder to whom objection is made by the Book binders' Union. A formal acknowledg ment of the receipt of the resolution has been sent. James W. Waltili, Jr., Constabulary Supply O in cor, stationed at Masbate, .In the Province of VlBcayas, In the military department of Luzon, has been arrested on the charge of defrauding tire government Ho is Bald to be short 5.000 in supplies and $8,000 in his cash account. Zionists Will Invade New York. John Alexander Dowie and an army of 6,000 men and women will Invade New York city one month hence In the greatest evangelical crusade the world has known. Moving like an army in the field, with its own com missary deportment, this host will journey 1,000 miles to Invade the east ern metropolis. From Zlon City a one 3,000 will go. As many more are to go from other cities and states, and an army of 6,000, the crusaders contend, will ho encamped In and near Madison Square Garden by October 20. P(l DEMANDED HllfCE. OFFICERS ENCOURAGED RIOTS. Four Hundred House and Shops Pil laged and Their Content De molished or 8tolen, The anti-Semite riots, which occur red at Gomel, Russia, September 11, were encouraged by the police and military, who openly sldod with the plunderers and murderers who ruth lessly demolished the Jewish homes and shops ami cruelly clubbed such Jews as fell into their hands. The trou ble began In a wrangle in the fruit and fish market between peasants and Jews and ended In a free fight in which many were wounded, one peasant suc cumbing to his injuries. The peasants demnnded vengeance, and employed the following days, Sat urday and Sunday, in inflaming tne anti-Semite agitation, the leaders be ing an officer named Pensky and a rich merchant named Betrachenko. Monday the antl-8emlte railway work men began an organized attack on the Jewish houses In Zamovkaya street, sacking them and demolishing or spoil ing the bulky articles by soaking them with kerosene. Police Chief Ravsky had placed police end troops on Zam-ovl-aya street, but Jews who tried to cross the lines to rescue their co-re-liglonlsts, were brutally clubbed with tin. soldiers' guns, bayonetted or ar rested. . The plunderers proceeded from street to street, the troops and police following them and cutting off access to the devastated Jewish hof.Bf s. They then visited the Jew ish quarters called "America," and oth er districts. Altogether nearly 400 nouses and shops were wholly cr par tially wrecked, the windows smashed, und the effects destroyed or stolen. The Jews who did not take refuge with conipasslonate Christians or conceal themselves In cellars were severely beaten and In many cashes dangerously wounded. Some young Jews, exasper ated by the action of the police and troopB, armed themselves with any Available weapons and tried to force their way to the threatened houses. The police then undertook to disarm the Jews. Forty building laborers col lected In tho busiest part of Ranums- ovskaya street and stopped and beat every passing Jewu This gang was encouraged by Assistant Police Cap tain Charnollnsky and Rural Police Commander Velensky. The gang club bed Borg Kevesh to death in the pres ence of these officers. -The Jews ral lied in force at Konaya sauare at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the mil itary fired on them, killing three ana wounding others. This action and nightmll put an end to the program. sixty-rour jews were registered as wounded and probably 40 others left the city without being registered. WILL CIRCULATE $20,000,000. Secretary Shaw will Renew Refunding operations. Secretary Shaw authorizes the state ment that owing to the scarcity of 2 per vent bonds, both for circulation and as security for government depos its, i.e will- renew refunding ouera- tlor.s to the extent of $20,000,000 In ac cordance with the previous circular. Of the total Issue of $517,l0,000 of 2 per cent bonds the treasury alreaoy holds for circulation and deposits $480,(100,000. Secretary Shaw author izes tho statement that he will redeem the 5 per cent bonds maturing Feb ruary 1, 1904. paying interest to matur ity. Tho banks that have had on file with the treasurer for 30 days or more 5 per cent bonds as security for pub lic deposits will be permitted to sub stitute approve! State and municipal bonus tnerefor, which will be accepted at 73 per cent of their value. Will Fortify Newport. The officers nf Ihn war rinrtni'tmant are complipting plans which will make new port anu its approacnes one of the moat thoroughly fortified s-eacoast cities on the Atlantic coast A power ful hnttprv la haina. Ihrnwii i.n a Ww Hill on the West Side of Jamestown to assist in the defense of tho west pneiage of Narrag.msntt boy, while in th'ft Vlclnltv nt NnmrstiflMt nloi a hat- tery of six-inch breech-loading rifles is mj oe ereciea vim an elaborate sys tem of communication stations, tele graph and electric searchlight stations. Uncle 8am May Be Involved. Rich concessions granted James Lietrich, of Pittsburg, and his big $6,000,000 Central American concern, have caused a rupture between Nic aragua and Honduras governments and an invasion of the former country by Honduras troops is regarded as im minent The United States will be Involved If war ensues because the rights of American citizens are at stake, and it is said Dietrich will urge his claims before the authorities at Washington. Two More Resignations. Lord Balfour, of- Burleigh, secretary for Scotland, and Arthur Ralph Doug las Elliot, financial secretary to the treasury, have resigned and their res ignations have been accepted by the King. Mr. Elliot was not in the cab inet. These two resignations make a total of four vacant cabinet posts and one secretaryship at Balfour's disposi tion. The fluctuation of the light of Nova Gemlnorum Is often as much as half a magnitude In 24 hours, like that of Nova Persei No. 2. 8eth Low Endorsed. By a vote of 50 to 1, the executive committee of the Greater Democracy of New York, voted to stand by the action of the fusion committee in re nominating .Ve old anti-Tammany ticket, made up ol Seth Low' for may or; Edward M. Grout, for controller, and Charles V. Fornes tor president of the board of aldermen. At Minneapolis, Minn., an agree ment Imtwoeu the upholsterers' union and the employers has been signed and will become effective November 1. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Cardinal Gibbons has returned from his trip to Rome. Fltty-si. firemen were overcome by smoke during a Ore In Boston. Sir Thomaa Ltpton, who has been very ill at Chicago, Is out of danger. Ten fishermen were drowned by the capsizing of a boat In Kllllm bay, near Waterville, Ireland. Four tourists who were climbing the Scafell mountain, in Cumberland, Eng land, fell down a precipice and were killed. Rural guards, near Santiago, Cuba, stirrounded and captured Juan Lopez, the leader of the recent Insurrection, and another man. Oliver T. Sherwood, the defaulting cashier of the Southport (Conn.) Na tlonivl bank, was sentenced to the pen itenltury for 10 years. Fire in the east end of the Shoe string oil district, Beaumont. Tex., de stroyed 35 derricks, causing a total loss estimated at $125,000. At Woonsocket the paymaster ' of the American Woolen Company was stopped by three Italians, who robbed him of $3,000 and then escaped. Miss Adelaide Fairbanks, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks of In diana, was married to .Ensign John W. Tlmmons, United States navy. The Ohio Republican State cam paign was opened at chlllicothe with speeches by Senators Joseph B. Fora ker and M. A. Hanna, and Myron T. Herrick. candidate for governor. The Pittsburg ft Lake Erie has re ceived one of the last ten of an order of 80 consolidation type freight en gines, ordered a year ago of the American locomotive works. After a fast begun August 5 and lasting 45 days, during which he suf fered agony that nearlv drove him insane, Frank Richards died at Po mona, Cal. Intermarriage of negroes and whites, at least within the confines of Zlon City, is the solution of the race ques tion as proposed by John Alexander Dowie. After a trial lasting eight days the Jury in the case of Curtis Jett, charg ed with the murder of Town Marshal Thomas Cockrell. at Jackson, Ky July 21, 1902, rendered a verdict of guilty, and fixed the punishment at death. The National festivities at Santiago de Chile, on the occasion of the an niversary of the Chilean Declaration of Independence, September 18, 1810, passed off quietly President Rleeco gave a banquet to the diplomatic corps. " Tho sovereign grand lodge of the In dependent Order of Odd Fellows, In session at Baltimore, unanimously elected Gen. M. A. Raney, of Marengo, la., commanding general of the Patri archs Militant for a tearm of four years. The Pennsylvania railroad will be ready about October 1 to invite bids for the construction of the tunnels from the meadows under the North River, New York, to the city and from New York to Long Island under East River. The work will cost $50,000,000. Edward Brady & Co. of Baltimore have been awarded a contract for fur ther increasing the capacity of the Mt. Clare shops of the Baltimore & Ohio. The cost will be about $85, 000, and nearly $100,000 worth of tools have been bought. AMERICANS GET CONTRACT. Will Equip Big Plant of Paper Com pany in Aberdeen, The British Westlnghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.Mlmlt'ed, has been awarded an Important con tract for a complete electrical equip ment to be installed in the plant of theDonBlde Paper Company, Aber deen, Scotland. This is the first con tract so far secured by American in terests for the electrical equipment of foreign paper mills. A good portion of the machinery will be manufactur ed at the East Pittsburg plant of the Westlnghouse Electric and Manufac turing Company. BUSINESS BRIEFS. Westlnghouse Electric & Manufac turing Company is said to have 20 per cent more orders now than at this time last year and to have sufficient business booked to keep the plants busy throughout 1904. A United State Steel director says that construction and building oper ations that called for an expenditure of $500,000,000 within the next year and a half have already been aband oned by the company because of the attitude and demands of labor. The fleet of the United States Steel Corporation, which has been tied up by the strike of the Masters' and Pi lots' Association, at Cleveland, will be sent into winter quarters as fast as the boats arrive at the laylng-up ports, thereby throwing out of employment 2,500 men directly, and a vast army employed in the mines and steel mills. Statlstlcan Snow says 40 per cent ct the corn, 35,000,000 acres, is out of damage of frost. Of the 55,000,000 acres between Ohio and Kansas which was susceptible 20 per cent of the corn Is late enough, be says, to be se riously affected. The International Airbrake & Steam Connection Company nag been Incor porated at Trenton, N. J., with an au thorized capital stock of $6,000,000, The company will make metal tubing for airbrakes and steamship connec tions for railway cars. The Incorpora tors are H. H. Doll, Richard B. Poln ton and James Heel, Jr., all of New ark. Under the Hammer. Sjyer & Co, of New York, have an nounced that on October 1, at noon, they will sell tho Consolidated Lake Superior Company at publlo auction at No. 161 Broadway to satisfy a claim of $.5,050,000 held by their syndicate. This Bale will dispose of a $117,000,000 eorutlnatton, whose stocks an bonds represent $28,000,000 of real money in vested. Ae there are prior liens of about $4,500,000 to be satisfied, there will have to be a bid of at least $9 560,-000. TREASURY VAULTS WELL FILLED. HARD TASK TO MANAGE. Cash Balance as Shown by Secretary 8haw's Book, Ha Reached the Sum of $308,000,000. Secretary Shaw' policy of Increas ing the deposits In the national banks is forced upon him by the operation of the revenue laws and the independ ent treasury system. The receipts are running ahead of the expenditures at an average rate of about $1,000,000 per week, and are constantly increasing the available cash balanoe, which now stands at the unprecedented figure of $239,562,879. This is the balance as stated on the books of the treasury de partment. Strictly speaking it Is much larger, for whenever any money is credited to a United State distribut ing officer It is at once charged out as a liability and is deducted from the rash balance, though it may remain in the treasury for months. There are thus charged out at the present time 142.918,803 credited to disbursing of ficers and $5,698,344 credited to the poetofllce department account to meet the current expenditure of the postal service. If these two items, which may be described as the balance set a wart for immediate needs, are added to tne available cash balance, as stated on the hooks, they bring the total to $308,079,526. If the gold reserve of t 150,000,000, which was counted in the cash balance prior to the act of March 14. 1900. should be added to this total, It would bring the grard total of cash up to $458,079, 620. Next to the management of the finances of the country, when the re ceipts are too smal to meet the ex penditures, there is no task so diffi cult for a seuetary of the treasury as the management of such a large cash balance. The enly practicable way for tho secretary of the treasury to rut the go eminent funds Into circula tion la to distribute them among the depository national banks, RAVAGED BY YELLOW FEVER. Business at a Standstill and Town Al most Deserted. A message from Monterey, Mex., says: Dr. Doy Martin, quarantine In spector for the government, who re cently returned from Linares, de clares that the city is dead commer cially, and partly deserted on account of the prevalence of, yellow fever. Although there are less than 200 cases In Linares there are fully 2,000 peo ple sick with various ailments. lat est advices from Victoria state that but 12 cases of yellow fever now ex ist in that city. The municipal au thorities of Victoria now feel that they will shortly have stamped out the fever. Mr. W. H. Leonard, representa tive of the bridge and masonry con tractors on the Monterey division of the Mexican Central railroad, reports a most deplorable situation among the different construction camps along the Una. He says that there is scarcely a camp without yellow fever, and that there are many deaths. As these camps must be more or less, centers of Infection, it would be well to close them up until the epidemic has pass ed. Tamplco Is largely diminishing the number of cases of yellow tever, the average number oi cases weekly now being seven. THE IRON TRADE. Some Buyer Still Looking for Lower Price. Rogers Bros. & Co.'s weekly iron market review says: There are buy ers who still believe iron will be bought at prices below the present :uarket, but these are not Bo firm in their opinions as previously. One fact, however, Is indisputable, viz., that no reductions have been made during tho past week. We believe, however, that conditions are Improv ed; that price will be very little low er. If any further reduction Is made. Tho furnaces are holding to their price and have turned down several offers for round lotr. rather than make oven small concessions. These range all the way from 100 to 1.000 tons lots, which we consider rather a healthy tone. THE WORKING WORLD. The percentage of wage earners who are females is: In the United States, 14; in Germany, 25; in England, 25; In Italy, 40; in Austria, 47. An Increase in wages of from 15 to 25 cents a day has been secured by the employes in the shops of the Chi cago Great Western at Oelweln, la. Present indications lead the labor unions ot Indtunaiiolls, ind., to believe that they can begin the erection of a labor temple by January 1, 1904. Minneapolis (Minn.) building labor ers have consented to submit their strike to arbitration. They struck for 25 cents an hour and recognition of the union. They had been receiving $2 for a nine-hcur day. At Boston, Mass., the Painters' Union has 1,600 members, all of whom are working on the eight-hour day schedule, the painters getting $2 a day as a minimum and the decorators getting $3.20. At Virginia City, Ala., where a tem porary Injunction was issued restrain ing the strikers from interfering with the operation of the mines by holding public meetings, the strikers leased a church and are holding servloes un der the protection of the law against disturbance of public worship. The National Mine Worker of America now have 825,000 members. Of this number loss man 20,000 are out on strike. The miner Cave $999, 610 in their treasury. Some idea of the strength of organ ized labor in New England may be gathered from the tact thai In Boston, Mass., and It vicinity alone between 70,000 and 80,000 worklngmen and la borers are pledged to one or the other of the two great unions, the Knight of Labor and U13 American Federation of Labor. REVIEW OF TRADE. Volume of Business Continues Large. Many New Labor Dispute Som Unsatisfactory Feature. Dun' "Weekly Review of Trads" says: Notwithstanding several unsat isfactory features the volume of trade continues large, and tne distribution of merchandise taxes shipping facili ties. Announcement of a concerted effort to restrict production of pig iron Indicates that supplies have be gun to accumulate. Railway earning continue to show gains for September thus far exceeding last year's 8.7 per cent, and those of 1901 by 17.2 per cent. Traffic blockades occur to some extent, although the movement of farm products Is still unseasonably small. New labor controversies have begun, but number of serious trou bles have been averted, and on the whole the number of men idle volun tarily has diminished. Enforced Idle ness in the iron and steel Industry is more than offset by resumption of spindles at cotton mills, and there I great activity at footwear factories, alt'iough the margin of profit i nar row. Lower prices for leading agri cultural staple Indicate a general be lief in Improved trop prospect Job bing trade is still making good com parisons with previous years, and while the zenith has been passed in fall dry goods it Is still a satisfactory Season. At many Important point the weather has been more propitious for roiall trade, and collections are fairly prompt, considering the tightness of the money market. Demand for fin ished iron and steel is restricted by uncertainty regarding quotations, and until a more settled conditions exist there will fce no incentive to place contracts liberally, although 1t Is krown that much business Is under consideration. Owing to the demoral ized condition of the manufacture the supply of pig iron ha accumulated, and it Is now generally agreed among reading producers that a curtailment of blast furnace output js necessary. Encouraging reports are heard as to few branches of the Industry, nota bly wire and some structural shapes. As to woolens the beat business is noted in dress goods', while men's wear fabrics are still very qr.let Fail ures this week numbered 232 in the United States, against 207 last year and 19 in Canada, compared with 32 a year go. GOING TO ABYSSINIA. United States Consul Will Penetrate Menellk's Domain. With a warship to carry him to the shores of Abyssinia and a guard ot 16 marines to escort him through the jungle. United States Consul Robert P. Skinner, will soon see King Menellk and persuade him to enter into a com mercial treaty with the United States. The United States has greater com mercial Interests in AbysBlnia than nearly all the European powers com bined. American cotton goods have served, according to a French govern ment official, as a standard of mone tary value in King Menelik's domain. Preferential treatment through a com mercfal treaty will be a great boon to those American manufacturers who now export their product to Abyssinia. The king, who Is desirous of improv ing the condition of his people, know he has nothing to fear In a political sense from the United States. Con sul Skinner expects to be able to ne gotiate a highly satisfactory treaty. The gunboat Machlas, which is now at Port Said, will be placed at the dis posal of Consular Skinner and will land him. It Is planned, at Jibuti, which Is the French port in Africa opposite Aden. CABLE NOTE8. The German Imperial budget for 1904, now in preparation, allots $37, 500 for combatting typhus, which ia specially virulent In Bavaria. Prussia and Alsace-Lorraine. The contamina tion of the river appears to be fre quently the cause of the fever. One hundred and eighty-seven out of 591 caballerias of land (a caballerla is about 33 1-3 acres) at Guantanamo naval station have been acquired by the Cuban government. The price paid was $33,577. being the original estimate made by the government commission. M. Muravieff, the Russian Minister of Justice and President of the Vene zuelan arbitration tribunal, will ar rive at The Hague Soptenvber 30. If the Indisposition of the Portuguese arbitrator continues the Czar will ap point a third arbitrator from one of the Balkan States. The United States government has just completed the purchase ot the Hotel De Oriente, on the Plaza de Calderon de la Darca, Manila. The building, one ot the best kind In Ma nila, will not be adapted to the re quirements of the Federal authorities, with suites of rooms arranged and of fices for the various departments. The price paid for the property Is said to be $313,000. Thousands Watch Bull Fight The new $50,000 bull ring at Juarez, on the Mexican border, was formally opened here Sunday in the presence of 10,000 people, chiefly Americans. Six bulls were tortured and put to death and several horses were slain by the bulls. Cererva, the famous Spanish bull fighter, is at the head of the troupe. For the first time In the history of Columbia University a woman baa bben directly appointed to a professor ship by the board of trustees. The new professor Is Mis Margaret E. Maltby, who will be installed at the beginning ot the coming year as ad junct professor of physics. One baudlt was killed, another wounded and captured and Engineer Oliver Barrett shot in an attempt to bold up the Atlantlo Express on the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com pany's line at Corbett, 20 mite from Portland, Ore. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. F. It. Glow write to Nature: "If ft lube containing radium 'bromide . 1 wrapped in black paper and brought within three or four Inches of the eye) In a dark room, a curious sensation of general Illumination of the eye Is ex perienced; this occur whether the) eyelid 1 closed or not It 1 difficult accurately to describe the sensation produced; the eye seem filled with light. Probably the effect 1 .due- to general fluorescence ot every part of the eye." ( J For many year past it ha been the practice of the Iron and Steel Insti tute to republish from time to .time rare and Interesting papers relating to the history and manufacture of iron and steel. With tho permission of the Council ot the British Association, the Institute baa now added to the scrle the report presented by Busln and Playfntr to the British association at Cambridge, In 1845, on "The Oasee) Evolved from Iron Furnaces, with Ref erence to the Theory of the Smelting of Iron." This research baa long been looked upon as a model of the applica tion of the method of scientific inves tigation to the elucidation of Industrial problem. The poison of the Hydrophldao, or tea snakes, which occur In large num ber on the coasts of India, Is ex tromely deadly. Actort'Ing to Dr. L. Roger, who recently described hi tudy of. their venoms to the Royal society, the poison of the Euhydrlna, one of the most dangerous species, 1 from five to twenty time as power ful a cobra poison, and to flshea la fifty time as poisonon as the most -deadly cobra venom. It produces the same symptoms as the latter drowsi ness, muscular weakness, progressive paralysis, failure of breathing, and, finally convulsion. Dr. Calmette' an twenine was found to have no value a an antidote to the Euhydrlna venom. The Cairo survey department ha re cently published a prellmnary descrip tion , by Messrs. Andrew and Bead nell, of the remains of a gjant land tortoise (Testudo aramon), from the Eocerne of the Fayum district The especial Interest of this form 1 Us antiquity, which far exceeds that ot all other known members of uhe group. Dr. Andrews think it probable that Testudo aramon I the ancestral form of the giant tortoises met with in , several European Tertiary horizons and that the existing African Testudo pardalis may be a small survivor of the group, to which the Indian Slallk Testudo atlas and Testudo cautleyl, and the existing Testudo sumeirl (the ' well known giant tortoise of Port Louis) may also pertain. The recent Incorporation of the firm of Krupp, of Essen, as a company with, a share capital of $40,000,000, is es- pany only comprises five shareholders, who also form the legal number of signatures or founders of the com pany. Mis Krupp, the eldest daugh ter of tho late Horr Krupp, holds 150, 99S of the total of 160,000 shares. Tbe enormous share capital ot the com pany lm German money 160,000,000 marks Is only equalled by one Insti tution lit Oermany, namely, the Ger man bank. The company takes over the famous steel works at Essen, to gether with the Incidental coal and Iron mines, stone-quarrlos, clay pits, blast furnaces and steamer, the Gru on work at MaJgeburg; the Annen Steel Work, the Oermanla Shipbulld- Ing Works, at Kiel; the Rhelnhaueen Steel Works, a shipping enterprise at Rotterdam, and the firm' interest In 8panlsh and other foreign Iron ore mines. The total number of bands employed In the various departments and works of the company Is 46,290. The administration consists of twelve active directors, Including a former minister of state, a German admiral and ft Prussian general. Houseboat on the Mississippi. There Is an especial charm about life on a houseboat on the Mississippi. Unlike houseboats on most bodies of water, thev can land whenxvAP their will and enjoy any chance pleasure by tne way. cities are in easy reach, and even a theatre nartv can h inHntrai In at abort notice. Between St. Paul and St Louis seven magnificent river can be reached bv boats through more than that number ot b Laces. From La Crosse to St Louis house boats meet the eye every few mo ment. At every town alnnor th h VA1 one sees boats lying on the shore. They are usually moored in llttln hiui ,ith their launches alongside and shaded by the overhanging branches of trees. When a steamer passe the nrcn mint appear at the doors and windows, and sometimes go to the upper deck to wave their greetings. Th vn is very high at present and the boats fit in so perfectly that the lovely green foliage seems to have grown In antici pation of the coming of each particular boat Many of the river lulands aro submerged and the trees seem to shoot up from the water. Numerous houseboats of construction along the rivers. Many are to be used by their owners tn viit the St Louis exposition next year. Minneapolis journal. Death Plant of Java. The death nlant nr t. i... . which continually give off a perfume o powerful a to overcome, If Inhaled for any lenatb. of man, and which kill air forms of in- vw 111 man come under It Influence. Fortune's wheel turns best for the wno put bis shoulder to It
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