8EVEN MEN SHOT IN RIOT.
EXPL03ION KILLS THREE.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
HANDLING OF FOOD.
Negligence Shown on Part of
Men Handling Curtain.
CHARGED WITH ROBBING DEAD.
Alleged to Have Taken Money From
Iroquois Victims.
Charged with rolcblng tho dead and
dying at tho Iroquois theater Are three
men liave been placed under arrant by
tho Chicago police. The first of the
alleged ghouls to be captured was
liOiim Wit!!, keeper of the Illinois
saloon, located at Denrhom and Hnn
dolph streets, a few (Ioots from the
main entrance of the theater. It 4s
alleged that Wit robbed the body of
a dying woman, Mrs. E. J. Trask, se
curing $199 which, It Is alleged, was
divided among three men, two of
whom were arresied after Wltz. The
other two arrested are Charles Con
way, said to have received $20, and
Thomas McCarthy, alleged to have
been given $27. Bit. The third man,
still at large. Is a stranger who was
given $12. It is said that Wltz con
tested that $2H) was taken from the
bc!y of Mrs. Trask when she was car.
rled dying Into the saloon.
The first definite testimony showing
negligence on the part of the men In
charge of the Iroquois stage curtains
developed Monday. John F. Dough
erty, who stated that he was em
ployed at the theater, was the witness
Irom whom the evidence was obtain
ed. 'Did you try to lower the asbestos
curtain "on the day of the fire?" he
was asked.
"Yea. a n an came running over to
m-3 from the south end of the stage
and r.ald to lower tho asbestos cur
tain lor there was a fire. I tried to
lower It. but It was too heavy and
seme one Jostled me, and my hand
was caught. Someone elRc came and
pulled down the rope and released
me and shoved me out of the way."
"Do you mean to say that you ran
from tho bnck of the stage to the
front, grabbed the ione to lower the
asbestos curtain and tried to do so
before the regular men in charge of
the curtain could reach It? queried I
Deputy Coroner Buckley.
"I guess that Is so," admitted
Dougherty. I
Witness said ho knew tho men In
charge of tire three cm tains, but did;
not know where they were when the :
fire broke out and the call came for -the
curtain. Hp did not see them any-1
where In tho flies.
r our additional churches wero
closed to-day by City Building Com
missioner Williams. A dozen halls
were also added to the list of places
under the bans for violation of the
building oidJnanec.
EVIDENCE AGAINST MOTHER.
Shocking Story Told In Bechtel
Murder Trial.
The chain of circumstantial evi
dence which the Commonwealth Is
attempting to forga around Mrs.
Caihc:rlnt Bechtel, charged with being
an noec-ory after the fact In the mur
der of her daughter Mabel, at Allen
town, Pa, was strengthened by the
witnesses calltd by the prosecution.
Alois Eckstein's story of tho rela
tions of himself and other men with
Mabel Bechtel was shocking. He wont
so far as to testify that the mother
countenanced the misconduct of her
daughter. He related his visit to tho
Bechtel home on the day that Mabel's
body Is alleged to have been hidden In
the house, and said that the actions of
the members of tho family appeared
strange to him.
Under cross-examination Eckstein
said ho loved Mabel and ho thought
she cared for him. Ha understood It
was agreed that he should marry her.
Mabel, however, always put him off
when he mentioned the subject. He
admitted having struck the girl.
"I heard that Mabel had received
attentions from a well-known mun In
town," Eckstein said, "and that hor
mother told hor to get all she could
out of him. I upbraided Mabel about
It and told her that if slro kept on
acting like that I'd never have any
thing to do with her. Then she ran
Into the kitchen and got a knife.
When she came back at mo, I struck
her to defend myself." Witness told
of other quarrels he had had with
Mabel, and of Welsenberg's appear
ance on the scene and of the manner
In which Mabel transierred hor affec
tions to him.
Dr. John Lear, a biological expert of
Muhlenberg college, testified that tho
stains on the carpet and othor articles
taken from the Bechtel house, were
human blood stains.
The wooden steps leading from tho
kitchen to the cellar were shown to
the witness, and without qualification
he said that the spots on the boards
were human blood stains. By this
tho Commonwealth will endeavor to
prove that the body of tho murdered
girl had been curled down those
steps and placed in tho alley, where
It was later found.
The court adjourned oarly to permit
Judge Trexler to attend the funoral
of his futher-ln-law.
In the senate, Mr. Tellor (Dem
Col.) contended the course of the
president toward the Panama revolt
was contrary to precedent and In con
travention of international law.
Swaney'e Body Found.
The body of Homer H. Swaney, for
merly of McKoesport, Pa., was picked
up by the tug Bahada, two miles
north of Dungenness Light, end was
brought to Port Angeles, Wash. Both
bis eyes were gone, but otherwise the
body was In a good state of preserva
tion. It was encased In a life preser
ver. Mr. Swaney was president of
the Pacific Steel Company, of Iron
dale, and the Seattle Steel and Iron
Company, or Seattle. He Iobi big life
In steamer Cla'.lard wreck. .
8trlklno Miners Ambush Officers Ex
cited Mob Had Gathered at
Trial of Women.
Deputy sheriffs, gum ding the prop
erty of the Merchants Coal Company,
and striking miners engaged In pitch
ed battla at Boswoll, Pa. A fusillade
of bullets was exchanged before the
strikers, the majority of whom were
foreigners, withdrew. Tim wounded
are: Deputy Sheriff Geotge W. Bay
lor, bullet from 38 caliber revolver
lodged above heart, reported In a dy
ing condition; Deputy Sheriff William
I-X'gley, three wounds, two In face and
one In left wrist, none serious: Weigh
master John W. Long, pistol shot in
calf of right leg; three Hungarians,
shot In breast, thought to bo fatal; un
known Polander, shot In body, not ror
tons. Tho clash occurred In front of the
office of Justice of the Peaco J. C.
Ickcs, where three Italian wome l
were being tried for trespassing on the
coal company's property and lucking
a riot Sunday afternoon. Tho women
aro alleged to have stoned a passen
ger train on tho Poswell branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, .In the
belief that men were being brought
on the train to Boswell li take the
plnce of the strikers.
An excited mob gatheroi about the
Justice's office, few of wto:n wore able
to iindet stand the pro?od.ng. w'.ilch
were conducted In EnglUi. After a
sufficient case had beja mado out
agalnfl tho defendant's to warrant
holding them for court they were com
mitted to Jail, the commitments being
handed to Deputy 8heriff Pegley. Peg
ley stepped out of the office and at
tempted to drive tho crowd away In
order to make a path for his fellow
officers and their ptlsoner3.
As he passed over the threshold an
Itnllan dealt Coal and Iron Policeman
J. S. Bant Ivy a vicious blow on tho
head, felling him to the floor. At the
same instant another Italian fired at
Deputy George W. Snylor, who was
standing not more than 10 feet away.
Soylor promptly returned the fire and
the Italian dropped to his knees.
Meanwhile a shower of bullets was
fired at Ileglcy and the officers out
side. Pegley says he saw a man raise
a shotgun and Vet drive nt h.lm, but as
a button on his overcoat was clipped
off nt tho same time he did not at
tempt to go after the man. Ixing was
wounded by tho first volley.
A majority of the assaulting party
are reported to have been secreted in
buildings adjoining Icke's office and
could fire without exposing them
selves. When the bullets began to
fly close to tho heads of Begley's posse
of 10 men he ordered several of them
to run to the hotel and get their Win
chester rifles. Bel'ote they returned
th fotelgn element had withdrawn.
TWENTY HURT IN WRECK.
Street Car Jumps Track and Plunges
Down Embankment. i
An east-bound car on the Rankin ;
and Swlssvnle branch of tha Pittsburg!
Hallways company jumped the track
at Third rtreet and Kenmawr avenue,
Hankin. It plunged over n 25-foot em-;
bnnkment. and in tho lesulting wreck j
2.1 of the 23 passengers were Injured. ;
An official statement Issued by the'
company puts the number of passcn-'
gets at not more than-19 and the
number of injured nt 13. Medical at
tention was rendered, however, to the
larger number. j
Three of the Injmed may die. All I
of these were employes of the com
pany, Samuel Callahan, a motorman;
P. C. Starkey. a conductor, and John
Frazler, a conductor.
The enr left the track at a sharp
curve. The rails were slippery from
the rain, and although a safety stop
Is always made just before cars reach
the curve tho brakes refused to work
last night. The result was that car
1057 hit the curve at a much higher
rate of speed than It had been run
ning a moment before,'
When the car left the track It leaped
to the curbstone, a distance of about
10 feet, tore down a fenet surmount
ing the stone wall along Kenmawr ave
nue, plunged over the wall and down
the 25-foot embankment.
WHITAKER WRIGHT ON TRIAL.
Saya He Took Money Intended for
Family to Help Company.
Whltaker Wright, the company pro
moter, on trial on tho charge of fraud
testified to-day. He told of tho foun
dation of the London"-and Globe Cor
poration, which, he declared, was
prosperous until the end of 1899, after
tho South Afilcan war had ktarted,
when matters became disastrous. The
witness added that he assisted tho
company out of his private pocket,
lending It between $2.0i'0,ooo aud $2,-
500,0011. Previous to this he had pre
pared a settlement of $1,500,000 on his
family, giving $500,000 to each of his
children, but one day In 1899 the com
pany's accountant Informed him that
he must have $1.5"0,onO or the com
pany would be obliged to suspend. The
witness said he supplied the money
and, consequently, the settlement ou
his family was never carried out.
Cannot Bar Negroes.
The United States supreme court
again reaffirmed the ruling made in
the case of Cartor vs. the State of
Texas to the effect that the exclusion
of negroes from grand Juries In cases
involving criminal charges nualnst
members of their race In violation of
the constitution and therefcro not per
missible. Gold Found In Ohio.
The samples of gold recently dis
covered Jn Allen township, Union coun
ty, have been roturned from the Unit
ed States assay office and pronounced
to be the genuine article. The Six
Eagle Mining Company of Ada. which
has charge of the leases In that sec
tion. Is preparing to sink a shaft for
the purpose of mining. Excitement
runs hityh In that neighborhood and
land h taken a wonderful jump in
prlne.
Russian Statesman Looks for It
If Trouble Begins.
IRRITATED AT UNITED 8TATE3.
Blame England, Also, for Counten
ancing Toklo Governmtnt'a At
titude In the Crisis.
A mcssags from St. Petersburg
siys: In diplomatic circles, where
Indications arc eagerly sought as to
hjw political straws are pointing,
much Interest Is aroused at a bad
quarter of an hour which the British
Ambassador recently had when calling
upon Count Lamsdorf, the latter's re
ception of Fir Charles Scott being of
the most frigid order. This fully con
firms the intense Irritation In the high
est qunrters against England. Ttve
same angry sentiment Is to-day being
extended freely to America.
It Is being declared her that Russia
has not got to do with Japan so much
as with England and that the Anglo
Japanese alliance is at the bottom of
all of the present trouble. Tho echo
Is now loudly heard of tho utterances
of those far-seeing politic-Inns who nt
the moment of the alliance announced
and proclaimed that this political
"coup" meant war against Russia as
destroying the balanrs of power In the
Far East. It !s urged by many that
the tlmo has come for Russia to re
taliate for tho "pln-prlck policy of
England" by a demonstration toward
the Indian frontier, and alBo by ag
gressive political tartlcs In Persia.
Count Lamsdorf was yesterday
handed a duplicate note of Japan's
reply by Japanese Minister Kmlnn,
whose sincerity as a friend of peace
warmly appeals to the Minister of For
eign Affairs. Count Lamsdorf, who, It
Is Interesting to know, will surely do
everything possible to avert war, which
ho, a lifelong friend of Witte, looks
upon with the utmost repugnance.
Tho Count Is firmly of the opinion
shared by every seasoned politician
and diplomat here, and whlc with
characteristic frankness he communi
cated to the Emperor, that if war
breaks out between Japan and Russia
nothing can prevent a general Inter
national conflict.
There Is a large war element,
which seems liable at any moment to
force the hands of tho peaco lovers.
Plehoo, who Is now the most power
ful man In the Cabinet, has been cred
ited with being a friend of war. If
so, ho conceals It well, for a few days
ago. In a long conversation, he ex
pressed himself strongly for peace,
saying:
"Russia can only accept war If
forced on her."
Wltte has not tho ear of the Emper
or, so he Is powerless to urge effec
tively his peace propaganda. What Is
dangerous at this critical period Is the
larre military element.
JAPAN WILL NOT YIELD.
Rusela Will Defy United States at
Manchurlan Ports.
The Pekln correspondent of the
London Times declares thnt Japan's
lit.'ot note is stronger In tone than
the preceding one and that she will
neither yield her moderate stand
point nor accept tho mediation of a
third power.
The Port Arthur correspondent of
tli 3 Mall cables that he has had an
Interview with Admiral Alexeff, who
declared that the action of the United
States in making a commercial treaty
with China without Russia's consent
was unfriendly. Russia, he snld,
would not open or allow consuls at
Mukden and Antung under the pres
ent regime.
Pure Food Bill Passed.
The House passed the Hepburn pure
food 1:111 on a rising vote of 201 to (58.
its opponents being unable to secure a
roll call. The amendment, inserting
tho wcrd "willful" with reference to
persons who sell adulterated or mis
branded goods and which would have
compelled the government to prove
intent to violate the law 'by the vend
ors, was stricken out. Several at
tempts were made to amend the bill,
but no material changes were made.
Old Couple Tortured.
Breaking into the home of Benja
min Yealy in Cook township, West
moreland counf.y, two masked rob
bers subjected tho aged couple, the
only occupants of tho house, to tor
ture In an attempt to loam the hiding
place of a hoard of money said to have
been Beereted. The robbers were un
successful In locating the treasure,
only securing $8. The Yealeys live
In a lonely road near the foot of Chest,
nut Tidge.
Shutdown for Six Months.
The Alliance plant of the American
Steel Foundries Company shut down
for an .Indefinite peilod. Supt. Wal
lace Bald lack of orders was the cause
of the shutdown. Up to December
the plant employed about 800 men,
but at the present time the force only
numbers about 300 men. Officials say
the plant will not resume work for six
mouths. A number of the foremen
and melters will be sent to other
plants under the same contiol.
An antl-profanlty club has been or
ganized among the students of Co
lumbia university, with a sliding scale
of fines for the members who violate
the rules.
6helby Steel Works Burned.
The United States Steel Corpora
tlun sustained an Indefinite loss by
fire at the plant of the Shelby Steel
Tube Company. The fire started in
one of the smaller stock rooms from
a defective electric wire and spread to
the larger stock looms, completely de
stroying all of them. The product of
the entire plant for the fast six
months was destroyed within an hour,
consisting of 800,010 tons, making In
all 25.000,000 feet of finished product
and valued at $3,000,000,
Steam Pipe Bursts, Wrecking Mill and
Burying Men.
Thr-e men ate dea and eight are
Injured as a tesult of the breaking of
a governor belt, allowing an immense
fly-wheel to run nway and burst In the
Cambila f-'teel Company's No. 2 rail
mill at Johnstown, Pa. Three are
dead and tight aro more or less In
jured. Most or those kill 3d and hurt are
foreigners who were employed In tho
mill.
Tho explosion btought down the
whole sedlon of roof running from the
puddling mill to the finishing shed of
the mill. The woodwork at once took
fire frcm the furnaces and it burned
fiercely.
The accident was tho result of the
engine In th mill running off, as the
result of the governor belt breaking.
Th wheel was about 30 feet In diam
eter, and exploded with terrific force,
smashing into the large steam main
thnt ran along the roof of the bulb'Jng
and causing It to burst. In a moment
the entire No. 2 mill was a scene of
confusion and devastation. Great
pieces of Iron and steel machines were
torn BBunder and twisted In all con
ceivable shapes. Gas and water mains
running through the mill were shatter
ed, and the flames burst simultaneous
ly from all sides. In the explosion the
mnsonry walls were wrecked and came
tumbling down upon tho workmen,
many of whom lay alrendy stunned and
bleeding upon tho ground, battling
with the flood of water and breathing
superheated steam.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The net earnings of Southern Rail
way for November decreased $4,318.
Germany will rush troops to tho
scene of th? revolt in German South
AfrU a.
Tho gross earnings of Wabash for
the necond week In January Increased
$43,100.
Additional United States warships
and marines will be sent to Chemulpo,
Korea.
Tho Japanese reply to Russia's last
note Is not believed to Improve the
prospects for peace.
Edward K. Landls. a noted chemist
of Philadelphia, shot and killed him
self and his wife. .
In St. Petersburg It Is expected that
other nntlons will bo drawn In If Rus-
sln and Japan fight.
The Constitutional Convention of
Panama held Its first session and took
over supremo power fiom tho junta.
Colonel John H. Bacon, Mayor of
Colorado Springs, Col., In 1800 com
mitted suicide because of 111 health.
Flro In the Chicago Milling and
Malting Company plant caused $75,
000 damages.
A crippled little girl was trampled
to death in a panic during a fire which
destroyed a Dayton (Ohio) public
school house.
Mr. Spooner, (Rep., Wis.), advanced
the argument thnt there might be
such a thing as a right of Intel national
eminent domain.
A law pi midlng compulsory com
pensation for Russian factory em
ployes and miners In case of accident
became effective.
Genernl John C. Black, Commander-
in-Chief of tho Grand Army of the Re
public, has been Bworn In as civil serv
ice commissioner.
In tho boodle trials at Grand Rapids,
Mich., former City Attorney I.nnt K.
Snlsbtiry said he hnd assumed tho bur
den for tho crimes of himself and
others.
Hon. William J. Bryan, In a speecn
at Lincoln, Nob., declared for the
Kansas City platform, with tho addi
tion of new Issues which have arisen
since.
The Socialist party will hold its na
tional convention in Chicago May 1.
The July option In cotton on the
New York pit sold for 14.28 cents, n
new high record.
The French government sent an ul
timatum to the Vatican threatening
to dismiss the Papal Nuncio at Paris
unless tho Pope approves the appoint
ment of five bishops.
By a promise to dlssolvo the so-
called candy trust and after entering
pleas of guilty officers of that concern
wero released In New York under sus
pension of sentence.
The Cramp Company of Philadel
phia, being the lowest bidder, prob
ably will secure the contract to build
both of the new 13.000-ton battleships
Idaho and Mississippi.
The senate foreign relations commit
tee adopted an amendment to the Pan
ama canal treaty, giving the United
StateB partial Jurisdiction over Colon
and Panama harbors.
Vienna reports say that Empsror
Francis Joseph will, If his health per-l-ilts.
pay a visit to King Edward dur
ing tho coming summer.
The Westlnghouse Brake Company,
Limited (of London) declared a divi
dend of 10 per cent for the six months
ended December 31 last, and a bonus
of E per cent for the year.
In the trial of A. W. Machen, the
Groff brothers and Doctor and Mrs.
Loienz, the court ruled tho govern
ment must prove the existence of a
conspiracy to defraud the government.
A six-foot channel in the Mississippi
river at low water from St. Paul aud
Minneapolis to Cairo, a distance, of
1,000 miles, to be completed by the
time the Panama canal Is put Into op
eration. Is tho project advocated be
fore the House Committee on Rivers
aud Harbors,
A passenger train on the Seaboard
air Una was held up by robbers near
Sanderson, Fla. The door of the bag
gage car was blown open by dynamite,
but the train crew fired several shots,
and drove the robbers away before
they secured any booty.
The United States supreme court
rendered an opinion to the effect that
the share holders and not the direc
tors of a bank shall decide whether
an assessment on stook shall be mado
when the comptroller of the currency
gives notice that the capital stock Is
impaired.
Moundsvilla, Alabama, Suddenly
Removed from the Map.
PATH HALF A MILE WIDE SWEPT.
Many Homes, Hotels and Warehouses
Demolished by tho Wind's
Velocity.
A disastrous tornado swept over
Moundvllle, a town of 30? Inhabitants,
15 miles south of Tuscaloosa. Ala., and
as a result 37 persons were killed, and
mote than loo Injuied. Every busi
ness house, with the exception of a
small drugstore, was completr'y de
stroyed. The tornado struck the town from
t.e southwest, and mowed a path a
qi arter of a mile wide through the
tewn.
All but five of those killed were ne
groes. Surgeons were rushed to Moundvlllo
from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and
a,l possible was done to allevlnte the
sufferings of the Injured. By the
force of tho storm persons were blown
hundreds of feet from their beds in
the blackness of tho night.
Through terror, a father, mother and
thiee children fled from their home
to seek lefuge, and In their excite
ment left a B-yenr-old boy In bed. He
was pulled from beneath some timber
and thug far It Is Impossible to find
any other member of tho family.
Bedding, carpets and wearing ap
parel wero scattered for a distance of
10 miles through what was a fotest,
but which Is now ns clear as though
cut by the woodman's axo. Freight
cms were torn to splinters, the trucks
fiom them being hurled hundreds of
reet from tho track.
The depot, tho hotel, warehouses,
p.ns, 30 homes and many stores, to
fitther with their stocks, were com
pletely destroyed. It is Impossible to
find even tho pillars upon which these
structures rested. Bales of cotton
stored In warehouses wore torn to at
oms, the fragments of lint lodging In
trees, mnklng It appear as though that
section had been visited by a snow
storm. A young clerk employed by W. P.
Phifur, hearing the teniblo roaring of
the storm, let himself Into a well In
the center of the store. He no Booncr
found his plnce of safety when the
stoie was completely demolished. He
was drawn out uninjured.
WAR AND BLOODSHED.
Anarchy Reigns Supreme In Ssrto
Domingo.
Santo Domingo Is at present In a
state of nnnrchy. War and bloodshed
ride over the country. Tho torch of
desoUtlou 1ms been kindled. Homo
steads are being wrecked, plantations
ruined, and nilseiy, starvation and
death sweep over the republic.
Three distinct revolutions are In
full swing. Gen. Jlmlncz nnd his fol
lowers opposed to Gen. Morales nnd
his, while- the followers of former
President Alejandro Wos y Gil are
seeking to gain a firm footing. All
threa parties lark the necessary funds
to push their respective? interests and
designs with vigor, hence Gen. Mora
les holds his own in the city of SnntJ
Domingo, Jlmlncz Is supreme In Can
tiago do los Cabnlleros, while tho fol
lowers of Wos y Gil are seeking to
gain ground In Puerto Plata under the
guise of being nllles of Jlmlncz.
There is no money in the country.
The native cunency Is nickel, the dol
lar having a value of only 20 cents
American money in tho republic, and
is valueless outside the ccuntry. Lo
cal loans can no longer be raised, for
eign loans cannot be negotiated, as
there U no foreign concern that
would loan tho Republic five cents In
its present' condition.
BANK WRECKED.
Defalcation of More Than the Capital
and Surplus.
The Produce Exchange Banking
Company, Broadway and Central ave
nue, Cleveland, closed Its doors. The
Insolvency court has appointed the
Cleveland Trust Company receiver.
The assets and liabilities of the bank
are placed each at $1,500,000.
Attorney Andrew Squire, on behalf
of the bauk, made the following state
ment this afternoon.
"There Is a defalcation of $170,000,
which Is more thnn the paid-in capital
and surplus combined. The original
capital was $200,000. but only $5o per
Bluue Was paid in. The depositors will
be protected fully. The stockholders
will have to pay in $100,000 more on
their capital stock and $200,000 In
stockholders' liability.
Mrs. Arthur Oswald, driven Insane.
It was thought, by loneliness, killed
and beheaded her 6-year-old son at
Oakland, near Peterson, N. J.
Sixty Persona Were Drowned.
It is now estimated that 60 pertons
weie drowned ns a result of tho burst
ing of a reservoir at Bloemfunteln,
Orange River colony, which also de
stroyed 17C houses and three hotels.
There was a public funeral and inter
ment of 23 of the bodies already re
covered. The ceremonies weie at
tended by all the local officials, and
2,000 of the inhabitants. The shops
wero closed and the town is In mourn
ing. Sharon Has Forty Fever Cases.
Tha rapid development of typhoid
fever In Sharon, Pa., has stirred -up tho
health board to action and a strong ef
fort is being made to discover the ex
tent of the disease. Health Officer
Yahress made a partial canvass of tho
physicians and finds that there are
now 40 cases in the city, besides sev
eral in South Sharon. One death has
occurred In Sharon and 0110 in South
Sharon. The beard has asked tho
Sharon W'uter Works Company to
make an ?a!yi.li of the city water.
New Business Keeps Mills Running.
Hope That Easy Money Mar
ket Will Help Trade.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Review
of Trade" soys: Weather conditions
have furnlfdied the chief Influences
In the general trade Bltnatlon. To
some extent traffic has bcn hindered,
especially nt tho East, but tho latest
returns of railway earnings for Jan
uary show an Incseaso of 3.9 per cent
over 19o3. Consumption of fuel was
Inci.'as.id and retell trado In coal
sieatly expanded, but no gains at first
hand Is reported, owing to the large
supplies held by dealers. Retail dis
tribution of footwear and heavy wear
ing apparel felt tha stimulus and an
nual cleat once sales removed accumu
lations of dry goods, millinery, etc.
Iron and steel plants that resumed at
tho turn of the year have obtained
sufficient business to continue operat
ing and thus far the adjustment of
wages has not produced the threat
ened strikes, workmen generally ac
cepting the changed conditions. As
to quotations, there Is nominally no
alteration. In so far as this new busi
ness keeps mills active, tho situation
has Improved. Scrap Iron and steal
continue firm and old rails aro the
strongest feature. The Industry Is
naturally Jn a most unsettled condi
tion, owing to the numerous and un
equal reductions In quotations, but
there Is a feeling that with the easier
money mntket will come a better de
mand and more settled conditions. Or
scarcely less Interest than the abnor
mal price of raw cotton Is tha situa
tion as to the size of stocks of manu
factured goods. Much depends on tho
revival of pun basing, thus far, a very
limited amount of new business being
offored. Increased activity and
strength ate reported In the domestic
hld- market. Failures this week num
bered 358 In the United States, against
2i'.5 last year, and 33 In Cnnnda, com
peted with 27 a year ago.
NEW MEDICINAL CLAY.
Dlocoverer Saya by Its Aid He Ex
pects to Live 3C0 Yeara.
H. H. Bourne, of Pueblo, Col., the
discoverer of a new medicinal clay, sayB
he expects to live to bo 300 years old.
An analysis of the material has been
made and It Bhows a small per cent of
silicate of aluminum. This, Mr.
Bourne says, Is what gives its curative
properties. It Is claimed that no min
eral known to scientists Is purer thnu
this. It Is nine times finer than the
finest stnrch. It Is said to be the
purest mineral -to bp found with tho
exception of diamonds.
J. Iierpont Morgan has a piece of
the silicate of aluminum about the size
of the end of a small finger, which Is
worth more than $20,01.10. according to
statements made by chemists. Mr.
Bourne, states that he can drink four
gallons of wnter now without any ills
comfort alter using the nem mntetial
as a medicine, and that his weight has
increased as well ns his strength, nnd
though he Is till yenrs old he feels bet
ter thnn when he wns 40. He claims
that he enn euro with this clay any
case of typhoid fever or dlBase of
thnt kind within an hour.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN DIES.
Excer.tric Man Who Took Part In
Great Enterprises.
George Francis Train died from
heart disease at Mills Hotel, No. 1,
Now York, wheto he has lived for
some years.
George Francis Tralu was born In
Boston, March 24, 1829. He organized
th? firm of Train & Co., shipping
a.;ents, with offices here and in Aus
tralia, and started the first clipper
Ehlps to California In 1849. He mude
an Independent lace for president In
1S72.
Ho promoted the building of the At
lantic and Great Western, and tho Un
ion Pacific railroads, and Introduced
the first street railways In Europe,
Asia and Australia. He made four
trips around tho world, one of them in
00 days, holding the record. In 1870
he organized the French commune at
Marseilles, and two years later was
tried for Insanity, to avoid trial for
obscenity.
Says He Accepted a Bribe.
Ex-Alderman James O. McCool, of
Grand Raplda, Mich., pleaded guilty
to the charge of accepting a bribe
from Lant K. Salsbury for aiding the
water deal. Ex-City Clerk Isaac F.
LeMoreaux also changed his plea of
not guilty to guilty. Ho was charged
with conspiracy In tho water deal, olso
having acknowledged the receipt of
money from Salsbury.
Stole Safe and All.
Train robbers stolo the Iron safe
from the express enr of the Sunset
limited northbound on the Southern
Pacific railway near San Luis Obispo,
and It is understood the robbers so-
j cured a large amount of treasure from
the stolen strong box, the sum being
placed as high as $80,000. This, how
evor. is denied at the office of Wells,
Fargo & Co.
Three Brakemen Killed.
C. W. Ayres and Wade Manford,
Baltimore and Ohio 'brakemen, each
about 27 years of age, were crushed
to death within a few moments of each
other in the big Brunswick yard. A
short time before Brakemun Claude
SprlggB, aged 19, of Plane No. 4, was
killed by a train.
Wrajsk Hurts Three Men.
There was a bad wreck on the Ty
rone division of the Pennsylvania mil
road in which three men were hurt
and 25 cars piled up. The Injured are:
Conductor E. P. Moore, Engineer A.
Moelian, A. U. Woumor. The accident
occurred oue mile south of Osceola
and was caused by a freight train of
(10 empty cars running Into the work
tralu. Traffic was blocked nearly all
day. All three men were hurt In
Jumping from their train. None of
the work Jraln crew was in lured.
Car Should Be Taken In Putting Gro
ceries Away Properly.
It matters Iltllo how much care la
exercised In tho selection of food of
the sum expendefl In It) purchase If It
Is not properly cared for after It
reaches the houne. Through careless
ness nnd Ignorance tho loss Is often
great, proving tirnt there Is more tuaa
u grain of truth In the old adngo, "A'
woman can throw out on a teaspoon
whet a man brlnja In on a shovel."
Salads ani vegetables Liat arrive
In good condition aro dumped In a hot
kitchen to wilt and wither until the
cook gets "good and ready" to put
thorn away. Meat Is left In Its paper
to absorb tho taste and get glued fast
to It. Fruit Is bruised In emptying
It out, butter left uncovered to grow
rancid, nnd milk standing to sour.
When green vegetables come they
should be put at once In the cellar or
Into the icebox. Salads may bo
wrapped in a damp cloth, then In
newspaper, and put in the air.
Cereals should bo emptied In their
proper receptacles of tin or glass and
closely covered to prevent Insects get
ting In. Coffee should go Immediately
Into an airtight canister In order to
keep its aroma. Olive oil should be
put Into a cool, dark place, and salt,
soap and cheese Into dry places.
Dried fruit shottld be kept In air
tight glass cans: nuts in a cool, dry
place to prevent their growing ran
cid, and cdocolate, cocoa and cocoa
shells In cold storage. Molasses and
syrups sjcod to be whero it Is cool.
Eggs should be handled carefully,
so as not to break the membrane sep
arating tho yolk nnd white, and kept
in a dry, cool place.
Flour belongs In a bin or barrel
raised a few Inches from the floor.
AVhllo wheat flour may be obtained
In quantity, cornmeal or graham flour
should only be purchased in small
quantities and kept In tin or glass.
Onions should not be left cut, as
they aro great absorbers. Neltlier
onions, bananas nor muskmelon
should be put In an Icebox with other
food.
Winter vegetables should be fully
matured when gathered, dried thor
oughly and then stored In a cool, dry
placo. Carrots, beets and celery keep
better if packed In oanJ.
Small and soft fruits should be scat
tered on platters, not left In baskets
as purchased, ns their own weight
crushes them and r.ioy decay. Poaches
and fine pears should be removed to
a shelf and not be allowed to touch
one another. Tomatoes may be rlponed
by exposure to the sun.
Milk and cream should b9 kept sep
arata from tho other foods, as tlioy ab
sorb odors.
Butter, If purchased In quantity,
should haro a cloth spread over the
top and on top of that a thick layer
of salt.
When necessary to take out butter.
lift the cloth from the Bide, cut out
a square, even plf ce, and re-cover with
cloth nnd salt. If only a few pounds
aro purchased at a time, koep In a tin
or agate pall, cover with a cloth wrung
out of salt water and the lid.
Lnrd should bo kept in tin and In
a ccol place.
Fresh flnh should never be permitted
to sonk In water. Put in a cool place
directly on artificial Ice.
Moat should not bo laid on the Ice,
as that draws out the Juices. If fresh
killed, allow It to get chilled before
putting In cold storage, otherwise,
the animal heat Is driven inside and
causes fermentntlon, which Is poison
ous. Do not let chops nnd steaks rest
against 011a another, much less ham
nnd steak.
All meats and poultry require a cool.
dry atmosphere. If necossary to hang
thorn, suspend with the choicest and
tender parts down. Hang lamb and
mutton by the shank, and poultry by
the feet. Boston Journal.
An Omlette Every Day.
Mr. O. W. Zook essayed to sell off
all his poultry stock, and thought he
had done so, but afterward one pullet
that had escaped the poultryman's
axe turned up. Somothlng over two
weeks ago Mr. Zook found two eggs,
one white and one brown. In the soli
tary nest In the tmrn, and every day
thereafter for ten days he did the
same. He had seen but one chicken
about the place, and it suddenly
dawned upon blm that bis pullet was
doing double duty In showing the su
periority of the Missouri hen. So he
set about watching hor. For three
weeks he noted her visits to the nest
and found one white and one brown
egg. He knew there were no eggB In
the nest before the hen's visit, and
thorefore concluded to a certainty that N
for two weeks the hon bad laid two
eggs a day. Maltiand (Mo.) Herald.
Dyed His Hair W.'th Ink.
Becauso she discovered that her oc
togenarian husband had dyed bis hair
with Ink and so altered his appearance
when courting her as to deceive hor as
to bis age, Martha Dlckhoph sued for,
divorce and $10u0 alimony at Nevada,
la
A few months ago Martha was a
care-Troe girl In Germany. A letter
came to her sister trom a relative Inl
America, advising her that Peter Dick-f
hoph, a rich farmer, 44 years old, de-
sired a wife, and suggested that she
would fill the bill. But the sister
was already betrothed, and she turned
the bargain ovor to Martha,
Martha thought well of It, came here
and was Introduced to Petor. Al
though she wasn't much Impressed
with his appearance, she consented to
marry him, and she became bis bride
The government of Alsace-Lorraine
has decided to grant small pensions
tor lite to those French soldiers who,
fought In 1870-71 againm Germany, but
have since boonno German subject.