HG "liSl COTTOIi i Annct ncoir.ent cf Failure Brintj3 Rush of Ceiling Orders. EXTENT O" LOCSEO NOT KNOWN. Cci'.oil Decline.! C13 a Bale and Prices of All Securities Fell In 8yitl,;nthy. Daniel J. Fully, tin- niltim operator, whi has ' r !.. monta bcu Hid blg- p. t f!,.i:: in tli ci). inn markets of the wci ..I iiivl wl'i) has "bulled" cotton ti.n seven ((lit j a pound to ovrr 17,; iinnuinccd l):i Inability to tnnko Rood . Ills rugngcnirr.ta on the Now York Cotton f.v lmri;.- FrMny. Within n few Months rii'tim tell nearly $13 n bale from tho hlyli"l figures of the day. All previous r ords of slock piinlrs ire eclipsed by the mini frenzy lollnw-, lllg the tldiims of the failure. Ill till) memory of mi'iiy brokers coiners in upot nnd future? hnvp lieen smashed, lint tlo scene bin ever 'been witnessed I 1n tho history id Hie 'chnnge lllio tin.1 lv.pd turmoil uccumpnnylnr; tlio col-topi-c of Datile .1. stully & Co. I-or n lew second tiller superintend (Tt Kit's teal the u;iii::iinceii!i nt . vi:,i. wps at 2:05 o clock, there was ii-.i (ii'il:ion nub t. Brokers stood ns If minted by the news that the kin;; had Ir.ilni. Th ! r.s If by n Blngle 1m a Tislnhtv Hlioiit went up from tile bc::is. Tiny had fought Sully and his I) i : ! clique for months, nnd tin; tidings of surrender after he hnd shov ed cotton l.-om seven cents a pound In over 1" cent j frenzied every man of thnn, each ol wholil lit one time or another had been under the inlnlit y lever. Hats filled the nlr, to fall whore tiny would and bo trampled to a ihi'peleiip e'llp. in the mail MamrV'dn frn.n the pit. fonts were torn from broke: a l:i t!i"!r mad effort to unload tin Ir holdings r.n l r '.intra were dashed Into tho circle, to emphasize porno wild broker's lTi r to sell. Soon tho news reached Hie stock, produce and colt-e exchange, tnid declines followed In neatly all e cm-it ! s. In the 30 minutes of panic follow ing tho nnnonni r v.cit of tiio failure It U estimated that 7.V.'i"i bales of cot to were traded In. or this, upward of Ciiii.DOO bales repres .'Mod forcen liipil datlen, or the Rel'ii.i; nut of a mall whose marr.'nn were wiped out. Tho lor-r falling u;.on this cleniin. In the slump of nr. ) points alone amounts to over i).' PENSIONS FOR MAIL CLERKS. Pcurcoe'c Cill Alms to Protect Those Employed on Railroads. A plan foi- pertloning railway mall clerks hns been advised by Senator l'eniosi; ar.:l Is embodied In a bill presented In the Senate. A fund will lie accumulated by deducting 1 per cent a month from the salary of tho clerks and from flues Imposed on them by tho department for neglect of their duUes, Inlrai tlons of discipline or for other reasons. This fund will be con trolled by the postmaster general and will be disbursed under his direction. Tho bill provides that clerks who have Berved 20 years In the railway mall service and ha,ve been Incapaci tated by reason of suelv service, be cause of .Ill-health or 'by accident, or who have attained the as;c of (!5 years, shall bo eligible to retirement at full pay, No clerk so reared shall re ceive rwve then $1,imio a year, all aalary pnyable to him 'in excess of that amount being turned into the pen sion fund. One per cent of all pen sions e hall also be deducted for the benefit of the general fund. It Is undci'stotd this bill has tho approval of the postofftce department and was In part prepared by tho de partment. COURT HOUSE DYNAMITED. Attempt to Cemollah Building Failed to Have Much Effect. An attempt was mado to wreck the Court House at St. Marys, W. Va., by dynamite. The last prisoner had been released and Jailor D. L. Stlue moved Into a dwelling several squares away. The dynamiters forced open the north door. In the southeast corner of the Jail near the celling they placed a stick of dynamite and attached a fuse which led to the corridor. The ex plosion occurred about 11 o'clock at night, and although Policeman Rlggs was on the spot within five minutes he found no trace of the perpetrators. Windows were shattered, the ceiling torn loose and the floor of the court room raised In that corner a foot. Some think It was dono by someone who had. once been confined In the jail. Others suggest that the deed was committed by parties who are In favor of a new Court House. Two ycc-i ago the County Commissioners cairr' to ha recorded In their minute boo). .'.1- fict ti'.at the bulldlr.g w3 un safe ..id i Wo patted an order pro vider lor erection ol a new bulld int. ip'ng to frr &s to pay abeut $2, ti'ii .:- an arci-..tect's plaas, but have tiLt d ('.one nr'.-.lng. Assurances that Americans residing In Seoul are In no danger is contained In a letter Just received by the Chicago Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions, from Miss Eva H. Field, a missionary, stationed In the Korean capital. Saloonkeeper Held for Death The appellate court at Springfield, 111., holds that saloon men are liable for the death of their patrons who die while under the Influence of liquor sold them by the defendants. The case was that of Kate Algood, who was awarded $3ii00 damages against William Uotwinis, a saloon man of that city, for the deaUi of her hus band, George Algood, who had been drinking In the saloon of Botwlnls, nd who, wt'.le on his way home In an Intoxicated condition, tell from his buggy and received fatal Injuries. PR0GRES3 OF THE WAR. Repeated Attacks on Port Arthur. 8klrmioh In Korea. More nltarhs on Port Arthur are reported from Ylngkow. In telling of ono ho says occurred on Saturday tho coiivspi.ntleiu declares the Japrneso Rlilps got the exact range of the for tifications nnd poured In such a show er of shells that Son Russians were killed or wounded. He says tho folU limit o n leeblo response. Another repuit of an engagement on Smiilay g ijs a Russian cruiser was hit. Mennwhlln Tokyo Is disturbed over a report that the llusslnn rhlps have not nwny from t'oit Arthur anil have started to Je.in tli Vladivostok squad n:ti. The Japanese believe that If the KiiKsInn admiral had miule such a move Admiral Toko will rntcli him and force a decisive action at sea. There has been some skirmishing in Northern Kori a. Chinese revive the r'port that a .Japanese forco Is at Fengwangclieng In Manchuria, Ml ii'.'les north of the Yalu, and that an engagement has oeciirred there. .Iiipan Inn rernlled the newspaper corn rrondetit from Northern Korea, Indicating that some secret move. Is to bo undertaken. The Chinese Hoard of Foreign Af fairs lias received a Chinese olllclnl telegram, reporting an encountpr be tween the Itiuslnns and .Inpanese nt I'en'jhiinnsCheng, Mnnchnrlii, last Thiirsilay, resulting I" favor of the Japanese. The ftory is discredited by military experts. Fortification Bill Pasted. The Senate passed the fortification appropriation bill after a three hours discussion of the amendment author izing the purchase of an experimental torpedo boat and the provision for the purchase of sites for defense works In tlio Uawn.llnn Hands. Tho torpedo boat provision was stubbornly fought but the amendment suggested by the Committee on Appropriations was re tained. The Hawaiian provision, which had been eliminated by the committee, was restored, and the sum Increase! from $2nii.i)iio, as fixed by the House, to $r2fi.lim. Japanese Story Contradicted. From the highest olllclnl quarter tho Associated Press hns received Infor mation that there Is absolutely no foundation for the rumors persistent ly tent out from Tokyo that the Hub slans are abandoning Port Arthur. "It Is the veriest nonsense," said the official. "Nutlilng has occurred there to warrant such reports. The Japan ese tleet has not been seen for 4S hours. The motive of the government at Tokyo Jn spreading this story Is probably to Intluence public feeling In Japan for the purpose of creating enthusiasm while a war loan Is being floated." Russia Floats Big Loan. The Cologne "Gazette" publishes a dispatch from St. Petersburg stntlng Hint tho Tiiisslan government had suc ceeded In floating a war loan of $200, (iiMi.nnu. International financiers, the names of whom are kept a secret, have agiced to advance the money to Hits r.la, to be repaid when tho war ends. The loan will tak the form of con solidated stock. The money will be given to the Russian government when the present resources become ex hausted. The funds Russia has at hand will last a considerable time. Statehood Bill Completed. j The statehood problem was taken , up by the sub-committee of the house : committee on territories, recently ap-1 pointed to drart ntatehood bills for ! Arizona and New Mexico, and Okla-; homa and the Indian territory. Tho bill making a state of the flrat two 1 named was practically comrleted. Tho difficulty of adjusting the taxation and other questions with regard to the ad-p-.'sslon of Oklahoma and the Indian terr.'tory as a state are next to bo taken up. Boys Expelled From College. Twelve students at Grove City, (Pa.) college were expelled for disobedience of tho ruleB prohibiting students from forming or belonging to any fraternal order In tho Bchool. The Inlormatlon was undoubtedly furnUhed by some member of the society. The president by a ruse secured the rituals, regalias and paraphernalia of the society, but not the membership roll. The society Is called the "OpoBsum Club." Wage Reduction Accepted. Employes of the Aetna-Standard plant of tho American Sheet Steel company decided to acevjpt the re duction proposed by officials and Ova mills will resume operations. The re duction of 10 per cent In the scale of tho Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has been tho subject of frequent conferences be tween the management and a commit tee of the men. Balfour Defeated. Premier Balfour's Government was defeated In the House cf Commons by the combined Liberal end National vote. This reverse was due to the prohibition by Mr. Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, on the teaching of Gaelic In the Junior grades of tho Irish National schools. Lithographer'! Strike. Ten thousand lithographers through out ihe country will be out of work to-mrjrow as a result of the failure to agred'bn the acceptance of a plan of arbitration to be operativo for one year. Killed by Explosion. Three porsona were killed nnd eight others Injured by an explosion of toy pistol caps, which completely Jo mollahed the two-story brick manufac turing plant of the Chicago Toy Novel ty Company, Western avenue and West Eighteenth street. The known dead ore Harry Jordan, foreman, blown through second ttory window; Alex ander J. Wllskl, 16 years old. blown through window; Joseph Bendowsky, 14 years old, burned to death. Others may have perished. The cause of the explosion Is unknown. Bureau Fixes the Age Limit for Civil War Veterans. A NEW SCHEDULE 13 ORDERED. Men of 8ervlce Who Are 62 Years Old Are Cons dered One-Half Disabled. ComnilKKli'.ner of Pensions Waro, vllh tho approval of Secretary Hitch cork haa promulgated tho most Import ant pension ruling that has been ls tued In a long time. The order fol lows: OrderrJ, In the adjudication of pen sion claims under said act of June 27. 1HIIM, as amended, It sliull bn tnken and considered as an fvl.lontlal fact If the contrary toes not appear, and If nil other legal revilrcmciits ore prop erly met, that when a claimant has pHhsed the ngo of !2 yenrs ho Is dis abled one-half In ability to perform manual labor and Is entitled to bo rated nt $'l per month; lifter ," years, nt $s p-r month; alter lift years, at $10 per iimnlh; and altfr 7'l years, jl2 per month. Allowance at higher rates, not ex ceeding $12 per month, will continue to be nindo a? heretofore, where disa bilities otln r than ngo Miow n condi tion ol Inability to perform mnminl labor. This order shall take effect April 13, 1904, nnd shall not bo deemed retro active. The former rules of the of fice fixing the m I til in u in nnd maximum at r5 years and 75 years respectively are hereby moillded as above. The order Itself Is , prefaced by a preamble which, after citing tho Inws, rays tho pension bureau has establish ed with ivniionnbln certainty tho aver age nntiire nnd extent of the Infirmity of old age; thai .19 years atter tho Mexican wnr. congress. In 1887, placed on the pension roll all Mvxlean war soldiers who were over C2 yenrB old. Commissioner Ware, JiiFt before leaving for a trip south for his health, fpoke as follows regarding the order, which ho said, would pavo both tho old soldiers ami the government a great deal of money nnd time. There hns long been In tho bureau a rule fixing a maximum age limit at $12 for 75 years. This was mado dur ing Mr. Cleveland's administration by Commissioner l.oehren. GERMANS WANT SANTO DOMINGO Efforts to Secure Control of That Revolutionary Island. Advices from Santo Domingo indi cate Germany 'Is at work to gain a treponderant Influence In that repub lic au will give her a reasonable excuso to exercise a protectorate over the country If not to make it a German colony. The recent arrival there of the nephew of tho late President lleureaux whose assassination preceded the rev olutions, Is connected with Germany's designs, M. Heureaux, It la stated has been exiled and tho hint comes the cause of his exile is the suspicion that he Is really acting In the Interest of Germany. Ons of the plans attributed to Ger many Is tire purchase from Sraln, of a debt of over $21.Oi)H,fiO0. This debt was contracted after the war of in dependence In 1803 when a treaty was r.lgned In which Spain recognized tha Independence of Santo Domingo and the latter recognized the above In debtedness which has never been paid. It Is asserted at a much later date Spain freed the Island from this lia bility with the condition that the debt should be paid In the event of Its an nexation to somo foreign power. If Spain should transfer this debt to Germany and the latter power should Insist on Its validity, It would make Gei ninny the heaviest creditor of the 'iilnnd. Should she try to collect the debt the only settlement possible would bo tho giving to Germany of Santo Domingo territory. It Is believed In Santo Domingo, ac cording to the advices received hero, that unices the United States soon undertakes the pacification of the re public, Germany will step In and un dertake the task. AGAIN3T THE 8TRIKE. Return Show Coal Diggers Are Fa vorable to Reduction. At ths national headquarters of the United Mlno Workers of America they are poeltive the scale has been accept ed and there will be no strike. Of the 190,000 miners in the states voting It Is estimated that 135, miO voted, and of these 88,500 voted for the scale and 46,500 voted against It and In favor of a strike. Maryland did not vote, not being suro It was en titled to vote. West Virginia reports are meager, and no estimate Is made. Indiana cast 10,000 votes, a. majority of 2 to 1 for the scale; Illinois cast 30,000 votes with a majority of 2 to 1 against tho scale and In favor of a strike. Pennsylvania cast 50,000 votes with a majority of 2 to 1 for the scale. Kentucky had a small vote, with 3 to 1 for the scalo. Iowa cast 10,000 votes, with a majority for a strike. Michigan cast a small vote for the scalo. Ohio cast 35.1)00 votes, with four to one for the scalo. Information from Port Arthur by letter puts the number of Russian soldiers in the garrison thore at 2, 500 men. Reward for Indians. A doed of heroic proportions will receive Government recognition If Senator Quay can induce the Senate to 'insert an item of $3,400 in the In dian appropriation bill. This snm he wants distributed, In equal shares, to 17 Sioux who, In 1862, rescued Mrs. Julia Wright and Mrs. Emma Deely and her six children Irom a band of White Lodge Sioux, which had made captives of - them- during the Indian outbreak. WHOLE CREW DROWNED. Lieutenant and Ten Men Lose Llvet In Collision, Tho llrltlih fiibmarlno boat Nrf. At was run down nnd sunk tiff Tho Nab llghtHhlp by a Dotinl Currlo Uner nnd 11 per.'ons were drnwncd, Including l.leut. ManHorgli, the nenlor officer en gaged In nitlimnilne work. Tho liner passed on and reported that i-he had struck a torp.:i!o. At tho time sh was s-ruck the ves sel was off the lli;bti'hlp engaged in maneuvers nnd was lying ,!n seven fathoms of wnler waiting tho approach of a bnltli slilp. The boi.t was one of th- newest of the licet of submarine vessels and was built from the latest models, but she had always b.en a bad diver. She was inspected recently by both Klna Kdwnrd and the i rlneo of Wales. INDIANS SICK AND DYING. War Department Takes Measures To Relieve Native Alaskans. Representations havo been mtido to the Wnsli.iigton authorities tbnt tho ('upper River Indians In Alaska are sick nnd dying from lack of nourish ment. Assistant Secretary Oliver, of tho War Department tokgrajhed to (Ion- nil FtliiKton, cotiitniiiiilltig tho Depart ment of the Colombia, to do anything ho can for the Indians In tho Interests of Immunity. The only military post in the C')pp: r River region Js a smnll po.-t at Copper Center used by men of the Signal Corps, who havo supplies Kiifllcleut only lor their own subsist ence. REFUSED SAFETY. Government's Offer to Remove Mlea lonarle's Families Rejected. The state department was Informed by Minister Allen at Seoul that tho missionaries In tho neighborhood of Plugynng have refused to send tholr women and children aboard the Cincin nati, where they could bo taken to plnef s of safety. The slate departm-nt has felt tnore- I fore obliged to .Impress upon the nils 1 slonnry representatives In this coun try t.lint In case of actual hosllltlcs It cannot undertake to employ tho United States army and navy In ex peditions Into the interior of the coun try which Is the scene of war. Although missionaries continue to pay no attention tn thp naming given by tho United States government they will hnve to take their ( bailees with other civilians. SAW JAP SHIPS FIRST. Rutclan Fleet Put Back to Port Arthur for 8afety. The report that the Port Arthur floet had attempted a dash for Vladivostok alter the engagement of March 11 is confirmed, but, after sighting the Jap anese fleet reeonnolterlng, on tne 13th, It returned to port. Capt. Troubrldge, Itrltlsh naval at tache at Tokyo, witnessed . the bom bardment of Port Arthur of March 10 and pr 8,1b js Japanese marksmanship. Nearly every shell hit the forts or damaged houses In the town. Tho fire of the Rnsslnns shells was short. Viceroy Alexleff reports the capture of a Jnpanc3o detachment. NEWS NOTES. Joseph Nolan, aged 23. was shot and killed by an unl.no.'.in assassin in a St. Ixiuls saloon. Three fast torpedo boat destroyers and tho cruiser Kagul are nearlng com pletion at the dockyard In Nlekolalev. Minister Powell cables the State de partment from San Domingo that Samana has again fallen Into tho hands of the Insurgents. The President sent to the Senate tho nomination of Henry W. Shoemaker, of Ohio, to be Secretary of the United States legation at Lisbon, Portugal. The Westinghouse interests have se cured the moit Important contract ever let for the "eiectricatlon" of British docks. The work will Involve an expenditure of $350,000. . At Menominee, Mich., William War ren caused the death of George Stalk en by striking him with his fist, caus ing concussion of the brain. Warren was arrested on a charge of murder. Judge Llttlejohn, at Amerlcus, Ga ordered soldiers to PreBton, Ga., to protect Henry Morgan and Sidney Har rell, both whites, from lynching. They are under arrest on a charge of at tempting to burn the town. The statistical abstract of the Unit ed States for 1903, Issued by the De partment of Commerce and Labor, shows that the exports of domestic products from this country exceed those of any ether country in tho world. The car barn of the Chicago Union Traction Co. at Blue Island avenue and Leavltt street was destroyed by fire. About 600 summer cars stored In tho building were burned. The loss is es timated at $150,000. Crossed electric wires caused the blaze. An effort will be mado to secure an appropriation from Congress for tho improvement of the Kaneas river, so as to guard against a recurrence of tho floods that hava caused such great damage at Kansas City. At a meeting of the congregation and trustees of the Third Presbyte rlun Church, of Washington, Pa., it was unanimously decided to build a new church edifice at a cost of about $20,000, They also Increased the sal ary of their pastor, the Uov. E. C. Little, $200. Although discharged only four montli3 from tho Western penitentiary after serving a sentence for arson at Valley Camp, William Forsytho of Ar nold, Pa., was put In jail, charged by Mrs. William Gllby with having stolen thickens. Mies Ilcstio David, aged 18 years, died at Walker, Ohio, of Injuries re ceived Sunday evening while walking on the railroad track on the way to church. She was (truck by a train and bad both legs broken. Her broth er, aged 16 years, who was Injured at the tame time, may not recover. DECISION IN MERGER GASE Supreme Court Decides Northern Securities Comoany Illegal. OPPOSED TO ANTITRUST LAWS. Decree of the Minnesota Circuit Court la Upheld In Every Par ticularCourt Divldod, Tho United States Supremo court, In an ( Inlon delivered in the merger caso of the Northern Securities com pany vs. tho United States, favored the government's contention that the merger was Illegal. The opinion of the court was hnnded down by Jus tice Hnrlnn, and it upheld the decree of the Circuit Court for tho District of Minnesota In every particular. Four of the Justices dissented from tho five constituting the majority. The division In the court was duo to a dlfferenco of opinion as to tho right of Federal control of State corpora tions. The majority opinion proceed ed on the theory that Congress has n right under the Constitution to control Interstate commerce, no milter by whom conducted, while tho minority or dissenting opinion was based on the theory tbnt in tho present ease the elfort Is to regulutc tlio ownership of railroad stocks by Slate corpora tions nnd that such ownership Is not Interstate traffic. Four of the nluo Justices dissented outright. These were Chief Justice Fuller and Justices White, peckbam and Holmes. The opinions of Justices Hnrlnn and White wero long, whllo thoso of Justices Brewer and Holmes wero comparatively brief. Tho case was brought by the Unit ed States against the Northern Securi ties Co., a corporation ol New Jer sey; tho Great Northern Rnllwny compnny, a corporation of Minnesota; the Northern Pacific Railway company, a corporation of Wisconsin; James J. Hill, a citizen of Minnesota, and Wil liam P. Clough, D. Will's James, John S. Kennedy, j. Piorpnnt Morgan, Rob ert Uncoil, George F. Raker nnd Daniel Lomotil, citizens of New York. Its general object was to enforce, ns against tho defendants, the provisions of tho statute of July 2. ISIIH, common ly known ns tho anti trust act and en titled "An act to protect trade and commerce agnltiBt unlawful restraint and monopolies." The effect Is to sustain tho conten tion that tho Sherman anti trust law npplles to railroad combinations of the character In question. Justice Harlan said that In tho merger of the two roads tho stockhold ers disappeared and reappeared in tho Securities Co.. the two thus becoming practically consofidnted in a holding company, tho principal object being to prevent competition. "No scheme or device." tho rourt says, "could certainly moro effective ly come within the prohibition of the anti-trust law and It Is within the meaning of the act of a trust." The contentions of the Securities Co. were reviewed, and Justice Harlan said they had full attention. He quoted the various opinions involving the trust question, saying that from them R Is to be gathered that all con tracts In restraint of trade,, reasona ble or unreasonable, are prohibited by the Sherman law, and that Congress has the power to establish such regu lations as are laid down In that law. Congress had power to enact the statute. Japanese Cruiser Damaged. Two Russian f.assengerB of the steamer Argun, captured by tho Jap anese off the coast of Korea, Feb ruary 7 and taken to Saseho, have re turned to Port Arthur. They say that while at Sasebo, February 17, they saw the Japanese cruiser Asuma be ing towed Into that port without smokestacks, masts or bildge and her decks had- been ploughed up by pro jectiles. The Gprman steamer Stol berg, which brought from Vladivostok the survlvers of the Japanese steamer Nakonoura, sunk by the Russians, waj still at Nagasaki. Jones & Laughlin Reopen Mine. Numerous mines throughout the Lake Superior region that had been Idle through tho winter are resum ing and the situation on the ranges Is far better than was expected at this time. Jones & Laughlin of Pittsburg have reopened their Lincoln mine range, which was closed since Decem ber 1. They will mine probably about tho lame as last year 300,000 tons. Weds a Chambermaid. State Senator Daniel Tewey, a well known politician of Butte, Mont., was married to Mary Pendergast, a chamb ermaid, employed at his hotel, anj an hour later he was named as defendant In a breach of promise damage suit for $75,000 brought by Mr3. Elizaboth Utley, a woman of some means and good social connections. Boston Wool Market, The feature of the wool market the past week has been the strong demand for medium and low wools. Prices on all grades, with the exception of me dium, are noticeably firm. Current quotations are as follows: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above, 31c anj 31c; No. 1, 33c; No. 2. 3233c; flno unwashed, 23 rfr 24c; one-half blood, un washed, 25'2Gc; three-olghths blood, unwashed, 25H26c; one fourth blood, unwashed. 25V42iic; fine washed delaine, 3536c. Michi gan X nnd above nominal; No. 1, 23 fi;3Uc; No. 2, 285i2!)c; fine unwashed, 215j 22c; one-fourth blood, unwached. 25&2oV&c. Coining Gold For Japan. The San Francisco mint la making United States coin for the Japanese government, gold being sent here lor celnage into money which Will be used In the purchase of food and other supplies for the army and navy. The last two steamers from the Orient have each brought $2,000,000 worth of gold bullion from Japan. STEEL TRADE IMPROVING. Manufacturer of Agricultural Imple ments Buty Miners Action Had Good Effoct Improvement In trado and Industry continues, favorable reports largely outnumbering adverse influences. Tho most Important event (;t the week was tne vote by bituminous cr.al miners to accept tho proposed reduction In wages This will probably prevent a serious striigglo that would paralyze inanu liieiuiliig Just when It Is beginning to revive. Traffic delays nro s'lll causing com plaint and the movement of exhibits to the St. Ioitls exposition provides a temporary feature of linrortanco. Railway earningn thus far available for March show a decrease of only 8 per cent, as compared with last year's figures. Another week has brought no check to the progrtss In tho Iron and iteel supply, nor Is there any Inclina tion to advance prices 'by bounds, as In the boom four years at-. This con servatism will bring beneficial results If continued. All divisions of the pig Iron market are more active, and tho level of prlcej tends grndually upward. Tho leading Interest Is cloving; Us option by taking tiio Iron, and will probably accept the May delivery when tho option expires, next month. Sev eral large undertakings nro progress ing satisfactorily, providing a good mark' t for tied and much contemplat ed work Is becoming more tangible as the season advawv-H. While no mate rial Increase Is reported in sales of steel for railroad or structural pur poses, tho tone of the market Is better nnd' there Is moro confidence In tno future. Pipe Is one of the strongest features of tho Industry. The fuel sit uation Is attracting attenlon, coke shippers being unable to secure cars. Failures this week numbered 229 In the United Stales, com pared with 220 Inst year, and 21 In Canada agalu&t 22 a year aijo. Briidstreet's saya: The backward mss of' spring trade, generally attribut ed to almost Interruptedly bad weath er, tinges most reports from distribu tive centers, but several developments of the week havo been notably favor r.l", chief among those being the con f.'nir;i Improvement In tho Iron and tted trade and tho decision of the bi tuminous miners not to strike against proposed reduction of wage. The im provement, noted In Iron and steel has progressed favorably. Tlio largo buying by leading Interests some vveeifs apo has Indiiied freerer pur chasing by smaller Interests. Agricul tural Implement manufacturers are doing the best buMncts In years. Tho railroads are reported still backward In taking tiiippl'ics. but late re-forts point to some leading systems coming Into the market for t.teel rails. West ern car works are reported actively employed and shop siipp'les and tools are reported to be In moic active re quest. RUS3IAN3 MEED SIG ARMY, i Reports That They Vill Fall Eack Until Well Reinforced. Tho best Russian Information ob tainable admits tlio government's in tention to fall back indefinitely until It can complete the mobi:.zatlon of 300,i'('0 troops f-;r the purpose of as saulting and opposing tho Japanese and probably 2"0.(i(i0 to oppose the Chinese. The sams opinion asserts that Vice Admiral Makaroff will fight hard. He is determined to weaken the enemy at any cost nnd make tho oper- I atnn of the Ualtic sea fleet in the Far ! Hart feasible, though It mny be neces ! fa.-y to fight without the Pallada, j Czarevitch and Retvizan. which, It is admitted, cannot be fully repaired vit.Mn Fix months. KUBELIK MOBBED. I Crocert Broken Up By a Race Riot In Austria. The ferocity of the race hatred be tween Germany and the Czt-chs wa manifested at LInz, v.'hcn an infuriat ed mob of Germans In revenge for the Ill-treatment of Teutons In Prague stormed the hall where Kubellk was playing and compelled the violinist to seek safety In flight. His manager was warned to cancel tho concert, but refused. A mob of thousands gathered outside the hall and jeered the auditors entering. Fin ally the mob broke the police cordon, stormed the hall, smashed the decora tions and threw missiles at Kubellk, who plucklly continued playing until his manager called for him to stop. The mayor's efforts to restore orJer failed and Kubellk escaped to his ho tel. WARSHIP BADLY DAMAGED. Serious Nature of Accident to Illinois Not Divulged at First. But for the watertight compart ment of the battleship Illinois it would be resting at the bottom of the sea off Culebra. Tho Illlonois, which is now ready to go into dry dock in the brooklyn navy yard, was run Into by the United Stat?s steamship Missouri two weeks ago. but her serious condi tion was kept secret. Capt. Bradford, the commander of tho mine's, says that one of her pro pellers was disabled and there is an Immense hole In her side below the water line. The collision occurred whllo tho vessels were maneuvering eft Cu'.ibra nnd tho blame Is said to rest on tho Missouri. Cartaln Ivkov, of tho Manrhurlan Commissariat Service, has been sum marily court-martialed and shot for acting as a spy In tho pay of the Japanese, Robb Will Assist Knox. Charles H Robh. of Vermont, attor ney In the Postoffice department, has been chosen assistant attorney general to succeed H. M. Hoyt, appointed so licitor general of the department of Justice. Mr. Robb was active in the prosecution of the postal cases, which led to the arrest of Beavers, Machen and other high officials In tho Post office department An explosion of nitroglycerin, at Oakland, Cal killed two laborers anj crippled a third. KEYSTONETATE CULLINGS KILLED FOR A DOLLAR. Dlcpute Among Negro Miners Ends In Murder Two Men Killed by Falling From Scaffold. Phillips Johnson, colored, 25 years old and rlnglc, was shot In a shanty at Ellsworth by NclBon Phetor, also colored, who mado his escapo. Tiie men wero employed by W. F. PM'cr son, who Is sinking a new air ehsft for the Ellsworth mines. Johnson nr.J Leroy Phefer are Mid to have had a dispute about a dollar which Johnson alleged Phefer owed him, when Nelson Pbefer, a brother of Leroy, Interferon and shot Johnson threo times, twice la the breast and once In tho left arm. Johnson ran to the farm house nearby, where hn was cared for during the night The only physician In ?;irs worth was unablo to render medical attention because of his own illness and Johnson died this morning with out receiving medical attention. Two men were killed by falling from a scaffold from the Duquesne steel works yesterday afternoon. Oustav . Lux, aged 23, of pearl street, McKces port, wan crushed to death instantly; Joseph Katie, aged 22, of McKoesport. died at tho McKeesport horpltal two hours later. The men were boiler makers and were working about a stack, some 20 feet from the ground. The Dauphin county court handed down an opinion signed by Judge Velss In the caso stated of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania vs K. Hampton Mooro, treasurer of Phila delphia, to determine tho disposal of $9,418. f,3 of license taxes collected in th9 city of Philadelphia during 1901, Ifi02 and 1003. The opinion holds in favor of the Commonwealth and City Treasurer Moore Is directed to pay tho taxes to the State with Interest from Juno 30, 19U3, at 2 per cent Louis Hippo, Oeorgo Farmlngton, c-iarlcs Denny and Clarence Skelly, of Altoona, whoso ages rango from 15 to 18 years, confessed to having banj ed themselves together to commit sys tematic robberies and to loot lofts and coops of chickens and pigeons. Offi cers found valuablo plunder In the homes of the accused. As a result of the discovery that $82,000 worth of Washington .bor ough bonds have been declared Inval id, It Is probable that the big demon stration plannod for noxt Fourth of July In connection with the dedica tion of the new city park will hare to bo called off. Sherman Flanlgan, 28 years old, d'icd at tho Altoona hospital. Ho was found recently wandering around with both feot frozen. To save his life they were amputated, but he was un ablo to stand the shock. He Is said to be a member of a wealthy Virginia family. Carp by the thousand wero ground to death In the breaking up of th big Ice gorgo on the Susquehanna riv er, and since the receding of the wa ters the dead fish are strewn in tho mud and Ice which has been loft up on the shores. Rev. J. W. Plannette, of Linesvllle. has been appointed a clerk In the lie partment of Internal Affairs at Harrls burg. Mr. Plannotto was chsplain of the Two Hundred and Eleventh Penn sylvania regiment in the Civil war. He Is a retired Baptist clergyman. Fo,ur unidentified men were burn ed to death In a box car containing gasoline at Harrisburg. Two others. George K linger, of Harrisburg and William C. Lyter, of LewlBtown, bare ly escaped with their lives. Rev. R. P. Daubenspeck, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Apollo, an nounced to his congregation that he has decided not to accept the call of tha First Presbyterian Church of Steubenville, O. Joseph 8. Martin. 28 years old, was drowned In a lake in a Colorado game preserve. He was a son of Contractor Thomas F. Martin, of Altoona, and graduated from St. Vincent's college in 1892. An explosion of a large 'charge of dynamite and gunpowder at tho Penn sylvania railroad Improvements, near Millersburg. Instantly killed James Kerns, a foreman and a laborer named Mazlgottl. The Spearman furnace, of the She nango Furnace company, at Sharps vine, was started after a long Idleness. Judge S. H. Miller lighted the fires In the big stack. Mrs. John P. .Elkln, who has been 111 tn a Philadelphia hospital for some time, has recovered sufficiently to bo taken to Palm Beach, Florida. The family accompanied her. - The pay of the Pennsylvania rail road shopmen at Altoona for February, amounts to $502,985. the largest amount for the shortest month In the company's history. The chain works at Carlisle, belong ing to the Standard Chain company, of Pittsburg, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $10,000. Over 100 men are thrown Idle. 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