NEARLY 1,000 PERISH Excursion Boat Carrulno a New York Sunday. School Catches Fire and a Panic Follows with Great Loss of Lire. WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO BEACH CHARRED BODIES IN HATCHWAY. Heroic Work of Rescue Rendered by Crewe of Other Vessel In the River. OFFICERS OF S LOCUM ARRESTED. At least 800 members and friend of the St. Mark's Gorman Evangelical Lutheran church congrega.'ton and Sunday tchool of Sixth street, New York city, Irmt their lives shortly af ter 10 o'clock Wednesday morning In the swirling waters of Hell Gate or on the flro-swept decks of the Mam mom excursion steamer General Slo cum. Nearly all tho dead a:e women and children. Tho number of bodies up to Fri day evening was 560 and over 400 are still missing. Tho various officials whose position brings them Into touch with tho dlsas ter still adhero to tho belief that when all is told It will be found that be tween Dot) and l,o00 persons perished. Over 1,300 passengers comprising The distressing concentration of tho blow of tho disaster Is shown by tho fact that In one apartment house in East E'ghth street there are 35 dead, whllo In a Rlvlngton street house lti borMes await burial. Police bears and other harbor craft, still maintain their patrols of tho wa ters oi tho Hast river In tho vicinity of the accident, In the hope of recov ering bodies. At va:1ons hospitals where the In jured are it was fald their conditions was satlsfac'nry. There aro now only 63 victims of tho disaster in tho hos pitals. a picnic party from St. Mark's Gar man Lutheran church, were starting for a day's outing, when flames sud denly burnt out, started by tho over turning of a pot of grease in the kitch en. Fanned by tho brvezo, the flames spread with awful rapidity and within a few minutes nothing was left to the passengers excepr to chooae between death by Are or drowning. Wild with terror, wnnv.n and chil dren Jumped overboard Into the'' East river. They did s.ot wait for life pre servers, but In n mad rush to escape the flames shoved others against the frail railing of the decks, which gave way. They were drowned. The Are started in the forward part of tho General Slocum, which is a craft about 2r0 feet lorn?. It spread with such rapidity that the efforts of the crow were utterly .Inadequate to copo with the flames and In a few moments the flie had been' communi cated to all parts of tho boat. At tho extreme eastern end of Ran dall's Island, off Ono Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, there Is a stretch of water known as tho Sunken Mead ows. At this point, just as crowds were watching tho gaily decorated steamer from the shore, the Gen. Slocum took fire, and as fhn age of the vessel, she was built In 1891, had re sulted In tho well-Beaaonlng of tho wood, with which she was almost en tirely built, she was soon a mass of flames. The fire Is Bald to bavo broken out In a lunch room on tho foiward dock through the overturning of a pot o: grease. Tho wind was high and a!', efforts to subdue the firo wero futile. At Ono Hundred and Thirty-fourth' street there are several lumber yards TERSE TELEGRAMS. A largo delegation of Christian Scientists went from Boston to visit Mrs. Mary Elddy In Conoid, N. H. Joseph Roncak, about 30 years old, wa3 run over .by a train at Gibson ton, Pa., and killed. Eighty-seven warrants are out for miners who are accused of complicity In the explosion at the Independence station and tho rioting at Victor, Col. Joseph Darvln, an Italian, was elec trocuted by coming In contact with a live wiro In a uilno near Steuben vllle, O. William Morris, a farmer, llvlns near Mannington, W. Va., committed suicide by jumping into a well. He was about uo years old. Tufts College conferred on Julia Ward Howe and Secretary of the Navy William H. Moody the degree of doc tor of laws. It was announced that there will bo an advance In tho price of glass dur ing the summer months. The amount of.glaag on hand is less than In form er years. Members of the Pittsburg branch of the Daughters of the Revolution have offered to purchase the slto of Old Fort Necessity, near Unlontown, Pa. It is proposed to erect and main tain a monument. The Republicans of the Ninth Vir ginia district In convention at Taze well renominated Col. C. Slemp, of Wise county, for Congress by accla mation. ; Wool Market. The Interest lu the local woo! mar ket Is now centered lu the new do mestic goods, which are constantly ar riving from the West. The trading in these wools, however, hag been slight, partly on account of the ruling firm prices. There is little Interest in for eign grades. Leading quotations fol low: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above, 33034c; X. 8031c; No. 1, 82c; No. 2, 81G-32c; flue unwashed, 22 23c; M. and -blood, unwash ed, 2CS2Cc: VESSEL IN THE ROCKY STRAIT and oil tanks, and as Capt. W. H. Van Schalk, In command ot the Gen. Slooum started to turn his vessel to ward the shore there, he was warned that It would oet Are to the lumber, and oil, and so ho changed his course for North Brother Island, one of Twin Islands near the entrance to the sound, some half mllo away, where the boat partially burned, was beached. She ank near this place at 12:25 o'clock this afternoon, two hours and 23 min utes after the flro was first discover ed. In the meantime tho passengers had become ranlc.strlcken. Those who were not caught up by the flames rusnen to the rear of tho vessel and hundreds jumped overboard Into tho swiftly-running waters. Several tugboats went to the rescuo and aided in saving the lives of many and secured bodies of the unfo:tti nates. Rescue work of a courageous na ture was done by Henry Rock, cap tain of the tugboat Franklin Edson, which Is used to transfer patients to North Brother Island, and by Charles Johnson, tho mate. The tugboat was lying at the foot of East Ono Hundred and Thirty-sixth street when Capt. Rock saw tho blazing steamer pass by. Quickly throwing off the lines which held the Edson to the pier, the cap tain rang for full speed and started for tho Slocum. Running close along lde tho blazing vessel, the crew or the Kdson succeeded In rescuing 50 women and children, all moro or less burned, and also recovered tho bodies of nine women and one child. Card. AIMe Van Etten of the tug boat D. S. Arnott and his crew work ed hard In saving life and rescuing bodies while the Slocum was burn ing. Tho men who Jumped overboard from the rescuing boats had fearful experiences. Each one was seized by several women and children, and but for the help of their comrades would have been drowned. Tho heat was so terrific that none of the boats could run up alongside tho Slocum. Edward McCarrell, fireman of tho tugboat Wade, was one or tho first to go overboard. He Brail; bed a girl about 19 years old apd passed' her along to a man with a boat hook, who pulled her up on deck. Then he seized two little children and passed them to tho same man. While he was trying to rave an old woman flvo or six ethers ot tlio tinfcrlunntcj grabbed him. Ono of the women hail lvlm by tho throat, and McCa.rell was carried down. Ho managed to free himself and came to tho surface. He shoved the nearest, woman toward the man with tho boat hook and then managed to get on deck himself. He was completely ex hausted by the exertion. Mr. Barnaby, president of the Knick erbocker Sto.iniHhlp Company, owners of the Slocum, says tho lire started in a bunch of beach grass which tho excursionists had taken aboard. He declares the panic-stricken passengers Impeded the efforts of tho crew to launch the boats. Seme of the survivors de(la"ed that the life preservers wero rotten and prove:! utterly useless when the pas bengera tried to use them, Tho police have placed tho captain of the General Slccum and two other officers of the cli-nmnnat under arrest. Three distinct Investigations Into tho disaster are alrehdy In their prelimin ary Ktag03. 'i'titj have been under taken by the Federal authorities, thrcugh 8i-t'tfiry Cortnlyou; by tho coroner and by the district attoraey. United States Circuit Judge Thayer .Usurd a wilt of habeas corpus for C. H. Mayer, president of tho Weftern Federation ot Miners, returnable Jujy 3, In tho St, Louis. Governor Peabody of Colorado and General Bell, hl3 Ad Ju'ant aro summoned to appear at the samo time. UNIQUE CELEBRATION. JCcntenlal of Ohio University Cele brated by Dinner. Tho centennial of Ohio University and a unique home-coming, organized by George A. Beaton, of New York, and a native of Athens, were combined In ono colebration at Athens. Beaton j Invited all former residents of Athens j to come homo as his guests. Ho pro ; vlded dinner for moro than 3,000 and had it served In a tent on the University campus. Admission was by ticket. Each guest was served with a souvenir box with nine com partments Into which wore placed tho diffe.ent portions of the monue, Coffee was Berved also. Judge Judson Harmon, cf Cincinnati, made the first address, commenting on the home-coming and pleading for preservation of the American homo as the euro conserving element In nation al prosperity. Other speakers wero Bishop Cavld H. Moore, and Bishop Earl Cranston, of the Methodist church, both natives of AthenB, and Judge A. D. Follett, of Marietta. General Charles H. Gros venor presided. Assassin Commit Suicide, Gen. Bobrlkoff, governor general of Finland, was shot and mortally wound ed at the entrance to the Firtnluh senate at Holslngrors. The assassin a man named Schaumann, a son of Senator Schaumann, immediately com mitted suicide. Bobrlkoff was shot in the stomach and neck. The attack on Bobrlkoff Is ascribed to Finnish pa triotism. Schaumann 1b believed to be a member of what la known as the Finnish patriotic party. CROP OUTLOOK IS GOOD. Inquiry for Structural Steel Disap pointing at Compared With Last Year. Summarizing the commercial situa tion, R. O. Dun & Co. says: Industry suffers from an epedomlc of ultra con servatism, emanating apparently from the theory that a season of depression must come every 10 years, while the coincidence of a Presidential election furnishes another precedent. As a re sult stocks of merchandise have been reduced, railway traffic la lessened, preparations for future business are curtailed, and less money Is distribut ed In tho ro:m of wages; while those having capital to Invest confine their attention to the highest prices of bond or hold back for still lower security prices. All these factors have com bined to produce a reaction entirely out of proportion to tho natural read justment that was really started by abnormally high p:lcea of raw mate rials and other excessive costs of pro duction resulting In accumulation of goods that could not be sold at a profit. Retrenchment has made considerable progress, wage earners as a rule recognizing the Importance of accept ing reductions In pay. Tho lake strike has been adjusted, leaving little fric tion between employer and employe. As tho reason advances the rrnn nut- I look Improves, and there Is no funda mental weakness In tho Nation's com mercial or financial position. Evi dences of contraction In business are numerous, however, railway earnings I tnus tar available for May showing a 'loss of 7.1 per cent, as compared with 19ii3, and bank exchanges at New I York for the last week lost 25.4 per 1 cent yet at other leading cities there was a small average Increase of 3 , per cent. Conditions in the leading : manufacturing Industry are p:actlcally , unchanged. Thus far the railways have ordered llttlo rolling stock or supplies, and the Inquiry for struc tural gtcel Is disappointing dn view of i tho fact thnt building plans filed dur ing May were moro numerous than ; last year. As to values of contemplat ed work, there were notable gains In , Brooklyn, Pittsburg, Indianapolis and : Minneapolis, offset by heavy decreases In New York, Milwaukee, Cincinnati. New Orleans and Detreit. Prices of minor metals are lower and demand j small, except that exports of copper continuo liberal. Considering the la vorable official and private crop re ro:ts wheat has ruled remarkably firm, the high prices having a na.ural effect cn foreign demand. RUSSIAN GUNS ABANDONED. Japanese Won the Day But Their Loss It Reported at 1.C00 Killed and Wounded. Tho Russian hope of tellevlng the presume on Port Arthur by threaten ing the rear of Gen. Oku, the com mander of the Japanese fit: cos invest In the Russian stronghold, came to end at Tellssu. a point on the railroad 50 miles North of Kin Chou and 23 miles North of Val'angow, when the Russians were outmnneuvered, en veloped and sweeplngly defeated. They left moro than 500 dead on the field and the Japanese captuied 300 prisoners and 14 quick-firing field Kims. The Russians retreated hastily to tho northward. The Japanese charge that the Rus sians violated the Japanese flag, cer tain officers aver that during the fight ing a body of RusHlan soldiers appear ed tarrying a Japanese flag and that thi Japanese artillery, deceived by this fag, ceased fl.lng on that particu lar body of Russians. Official dis patches from the Japanese command ers made specific charges of this flag violation. x Early cr.tlvnnles of the Japanese losses at Tellssu say that. 1,000 men were v.'llel and wounded. In hi: :ntv.'rt tiro Russian command er, Go:;, stnkribcrg, dcea n't attempt to correal tlio ssrlnusness of his losses but his report and the reports from all other Hnuslan sources agree that ho reveat was In no sense a rout. The fierce character of the fluht Is made evident by the fact that the Rus sians wero again forced to abandon their guns, thin indicating, as In pre vious encounters, tho superiority of tho Japancso artillery. Tlio war offlee declines to accept the Japanese fig ures unreservedly, although tho offici als frankly admit that they believe tho , Russlnn casualltles were severe. Tho keenest interest Is now man.iested In J the reported advance cf two Japanese , divisions from Sin Yen, with the In . tentlon of taking Gen. StakeMrerg In the tear. It a realized that If this re port should prove truo, the Russian commander may bo unable to extri cate himself, and Uat if ho should be cut of? from Gen. Ku opntkln's main army tho fato of tho detachment would bo scaled. SUNK BY TORPEDOES. Two Japanese Transport Destroyed and 1,000 Men Lost. ' All doubt as to the sinking of the , transports Hitachi and Sado by the Russians has been removed. Three hundred and ninety-seven survivors of tha Hitachi have arrived at MoJI and 153 survivors of the Sado have arrived at Kokura. Tho survivors report that the Sado and Hltchi were sunk by tor- i pedoes. I Details shows that the Hitachi and the Sado met three Russian warships 'near Ikl island at 10 o'clock Wednes day morning. The Russians fired on the Japanese ships and Btopped them and soon afterward they torpedoed and sank the helpless transports. It lg reported that the transports carried only 1,400 men. If this la true, the Iosb In lives Is probably less than 1,000. The transports, however, had many horses and large quantles of supplies on board. The captain of the Sado and several other men wero captured. More than 100 men escaped In, the boats and land ed at Kikura. A message has been received bore from Hagl saying that the survivors of the Hitachi had drifted north to Shtmonogekl and been saved. - The transport Izuml la still missing. PROGRESS OF THE MR Advices to the Russian Czar from tha Field. FIGHT PROVED TO BE 8ERIOU3. Several Russian Officers Were Killed and Others Wounded In the Engagement. A dispatch from Mukden says that a Japanese army besieging Port Ar thur is in line at Ylng Clilng Tse and Wang Fang Tien, and that there are dally skirmishes between tho outposts The correspondent gays that the ro mots of an assault on Port Arthur have not been confirmed. Emperor Nicholas has received the following telegram from Lieut. Gen. Baron Stakelberg bearing yesterday's date: . "A battle began at noon around the Russian position, four and one-half miles south of the station of Wafan hoon (Vafangow), the enemy making repeated attempts to dislodge our loft flank. Tho attack was repelled and we retained our position. "The first regiment occupying tho left flank of our position sustained se vere losses. Its commander. Col. Khavastounoff, and Adjt. Sub-Lieut. Dragoslaff Nadochnlsky were killed. Gen. Qernsrnss was wounded, a shrap nel bullet shattering the right side of his lower jaw, but h remained on the field." The general staff remained In ses sion until almost 2 o'clock In the morning to translate and give out Gen. Stakelberg's message announcing the fight. This unusually late hour In dicates that the authorities attach considerable lmpoitance to the dis patch. ' It Is thought that the Vafan gow affair may prove to have been quite a heavy fight. Tho fact that the Russians held their position In the face of heavy losses also supports this theory, and it is believed that It may turn out to be a severe check to the Japanese northern advance. RUSSIANS IN TRAP. Japanese Make False Retreat and Lead Foe Into Ambush. Information has been received through heretofore reliable chan nels that part of tho Japanese force left at Pu Lnn Tien to check mate the Russians' southward move ment to relieve Port Arthur was attacked southeast of Shungnmao yesterday. Alter slight fighting, the Japanese made a false retreat, tho Russians hotly following them, when the Japanese made a flank movement, catching the Russians in a trap. Tho Russian losses are placed at 800 men. They then fell back on Kai Chou and began to retreat along the Balmatgu Tsaichou road. About 2,000 Russian Infantry f:om Kal Chou passed through New Chwang this morning, accompanied by a largo supply and hospital train. Several cars contained bandaged men. The troops appeared to be fagged out, and showed every Indication of a long forced march. The officers refused to furnish any Information, but a non commissioned officer told a corres pondent of the Associated Press that all the troops were retreating from Tsaichou. The Russians have aband oned the ground mines eight miles south of here. News has reached Tokyo of a con siderable victory gained by Oku's rear guard below Kaiplng. A mixed body of Russians of about B.0C0 men made an attack on the Japanese but were beaten back with heavy loss. The Japancso field artillery supplied with Shlmose shells was particularly ef fective. Wants $30,000 Damage. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pullman Palace Car Tpmpany were Jointly sued for $3000 damages I In the Superior Court of Maryland for 1 the death cf Lewis J. Bennett, a Pull- j man palace-car conductor. It Is alleg ed that Mr. Bennett's death was due to tho negligence cf the defendant i companies and their agents in failing ; to properly care for Mr. Bennett and render him medical attention. Dr. Moffat Goe to Eurooe. Rev. Dr. James D. Moffat, president of Washington and Jefferson college, i and Mrs. Moffat, together with the Rov. ; John Macklln, professor of Greek in the same Institution, and Mrs. Mack- i lln left for an extended European tour ; Dr. Moffat will make-an address on June 29 before the Pan-Presbytorian alliance at Liverpool. ANCIENT CAPSTAN FOUND. Archaeologist Discover Mechanism 2,000 Year Old. I Slgnor Giacomo Bonl, the archaeol-1 ogist, who Is directing the excavations of the Forum at Rome, has found a heavy capstan with eight fixed lever of wood. The wood Is perfectly pre served while the iron fixtures have be come oxidized. . The discovery Is considered of the greatest Importance as being the first known mechanical contrivance dating back 2.000 years. The capstan, which was found almost intact, has a diam eter of over two yards. Slgnor Bonl has ordered the capstan covered with a special preparation for the purpose of preserving the wood. College President Resign. President A. E. Turner, D. D., who bas been at the bead of the Waynes burg college for the past four years, bas tendered bis resignation to the board of trustees and accepted the presidency of Trinity university, Wax ahachte, Tex. The trustees of Wayn esburg college have accepted Dr. Tur ner' resignation and will shortly ten der the presidency to a prominent man in the Cumberland Presbyterian church. WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT. Cry of Too Much Rain Comet From Several Statea. The weather bureau' weekly sum mary of crop conditions 1s at follows: In the Central and Western Gulf States favorable temperature pre vailed during the week ending June 13. but elsewhere east of the Rocky mountain and on the North Pacific coast complaints of insufficient heat are quite general, while hot, northerly winds have caused further Injury to neatly all crops In California. There baa been too much rain In portions of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and North Dakota, and also over the northern portions of the Middle At lantic State and New England while lack of moisture 1 beginning to be felt In the Ohio valley and portion of the upper Mississippi valley and upper lake region. In these last named dis tricts, however, the condition were very favorable for farm work. Throughout the central valleys and middle Atlantic Statea corn has made slow growth, and In Kansas and Ne braska much of the crop I still weedy, although It Is In an Improved state of cultivation. In Iowa, Mis souri, Illinois and Indiana, field are generally clean, but in the Middle At lantic States rains have Interferred with cultivation. In Texas a good yield of corn is now assured, and tho crop Is promising elsewhere in tho Southern States. As a whole winter wheat continues to advance favorably, a general Im provement being Indicated In the Ohio valley and Middle Atlantic States. Some Injury is reported, however, by fly from Indiana and from overflows !n Kansas, and harvest has been Inter rupted by rain in northern Texas and Oklahoma. Harvest has begun In southeastern Missouri, and southern Texas and some wheat Is ready for harvest In Southern Kansas where wet soli has prevented commencement of this work. Wheat harvest Is nearly finished In the south Atlantic and East Gulf States. On the Pacific coast winter wheat has done well except In Cali fornia, where It has suffered ftom hot winds. In the last named State, har vest has begun with generally light yields. Spring wheat continues fb make satisiactory progress and Is In very promising condition. Nearly all reports respecting oats Indicate that the outlook for this crop Is vety prom ising. Oats are now heading as far north as Kansas, Missouri and Tennes see. DYNAMITE UNDER ALTAR. Was Discovered When Church Wa Crowded. The unexplained Inability of tho lay brothers to light one of tho candles on tho nltar of the Church of St. Anthony, a Franciscan Institute in South St. Louis, led to the discovery of dynamite under the nltar sufficient to blow the church Into atoms. When the explosive w-as discovered the lay brother had lighted all of the candles but one. Ho made several unsuccessful attempts to Ignite the wick. He removed both candle and holder and then discovered a fuse tautened to the rear of the candlestick which wrs attached to dynamite un der the altar. The fuse was so aranged that when the candle had burned for a certain time It would have Ignited and caused an explosion which, because of the crowded condition of the church at the time, would have caused a great Iofs of llfo. Tho lay brother removed the fuse and explosive and then In formed his superiors. The police are at work upon the case. RUSSIANS FLED. Leave 1,000 Dead on Field and Re. treat In Disorder. A dispatch to the London Dally Ex press from Tokyo, dated Juno 15, says news has been received there, but has not yet been officially published, of a great Japanese victory near Fu Chou, on the railway, 70 miles north of Port Arthur. The Russians, It Is added, were overwhelmed, Jost 1,000 men, left all their guns on the field and retreated In disorder. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at. Tokyo cables the samo news, add ing that the Russians to ti'O number or 7,000 men are now In full flight to ward Tashi-Chau and Kal-Chau. Revives Whipping Post. Police Judse John J. Rllby, of Lex Inston, Ky., revived tho old whipping poBt regime when he sentenced Simon Scearce, a 15-year-old negro lad, to be whipped in tho public square. Scearce had struck a small white boy. The i Court decreed that tho boy's mother. take tho negro to the public square and give him 20 lashes with a buggy whip, which she did In presence of a large crowd. Lightning Kill Army Officer. At Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., Second Lieutenant Nathaniel PI. Bower of the engineer corp3 was on the firing line of the rifle range with his men watch ing the targets when ho was killed by lightning. The bolt came from an al most clear sky. Lieutenant Bower was a Pennsylvanlan and was graduated from West Point in 1901. He was en gaged to bo man led soon to a Miss Nlckerson. Dowie Leave England. Disgusted with the Inhospitable re ceptlon he tecelved in London, John Alexander Dowie suddenly determined to leave England and started for Bo logne, France, with his wife and son. Illinois for Hearst. The State Deniooratlc convention nominated Lawrence U. Stringer, of Lincoln, for Governor, and instructed the delegates to the St. Louis conven tion to vote as a unit for William R. Hearst for the Presidential nomina tion. NEW8 NOTES. Fire at Spooner, Wis., destroyed a block and a half of business houses. Los $00,000. BIQ CROP DESTRUCTION. Plant Disease Wrought More Havoo In 1903 Than Insect. The destruction wrought on crop by countless plant enemies through out the country in revealed by a re port issued by the Department of Agriculture on "Plant Disease In 1903." It shows that the coffee leaf blight ha accidentally been Intro duced Into Puerto Rico and measure are being taken to stamp It out. Co coa In Puerto Rico 1 affected by a blaek podrot canker and root disease. The tomato blight ha practically ruined the tomato crop of Puerto Rico. A potato root rot baa caused the loss of nearly the entire potato crop. The no'ato blight and rot caused widespread destruction, being espe cially enormous In New York, Penn sylvania, Northeastern Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Tho damage is es timated at 110.000.000 for the season In New York alone. The cherry shot hole fungus was Injurious in New York and Pennsylvania. Apple scab was much less injurious In Now England, New York. Pennsyl vania and Michigan than last year, but it seems to have been more de structive In the West, especially in Wisconsin, Eastern Nebraska and Missouri. Apple canker, or brown-rot, wa prevalent In Connecticut, Ohio, New York and Michigan, causing much damage, especially In neglected orchards. Pear blight was more than usually prevalent this year in tho East. Twig blight, duo to the same organism, was serious on apples In Connecticut, New York, Ohio and West Virginia. Cucumber downy mildew caused large losses In Florida and the truck ing section near" Charleston, 8. C, where the estimated loss was $100, (W0. It was also unusually destructive in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan. The department In a report on the principal Injurious Inseets of 1903 says tho year showed smaller losses than In many years. THREE DROWNED. Two Had Got Into Deep Water and Drowned Rescuer. Locked In each others embrace, tho dead bodies of three young men wero thken from the dam at tho Mutual No. 4 plant of tho H. C. Frlek Coke Com pany, Mt. Pleasant township. The dead are Newton Stuchel, of Indiana, 24 years old and married; Charles Hoburn of Kecksburg, 18 years old and single; Oscar New-burg, of Oreensbuig, 17 years old and single. All were employed by Jacob Stuchel In the operation of his steam saw mill near Unity. Hoburn and Newbtirg got beyond their depth, while wading in a tributary of the Big Sewlckley, which supplies the water for tho dam. Both sank In 13 feet or water and In their efforts to return to the bank they got farther out Into deep water. Fianlc Stuchel, a 10-year-old son of the pro prietor of the saw mill, gave tho alarm. When Newton Stuchel reached the dam the drowning boys had gono down for the second time. Ho plunged In and grasping Hoburn by the leg, was making progress toward the bank, when Newburn- caught him about tho neck. Hoburn then grabbed him. Ho fought to get loose, but the boys ie fused to relax their hold upon him anJ all three sank to the bottom of the dam. GREAT LAKE STRIKE OVER. It Involved More Than 100,000 Men Indirectly. After six weeks of tie-up on the Great lakes that has practically In volved only 2,000 men, but Indirectly more than 100,000, who have been Idle because of Its existence, a cessation was brought to tho strike by tho sur render of the masters, who, with the pilots, have been holding out for a more uniform scale of wages this sea son than was offered by the Lake Car riers' Association, whose boats were most affected by the difficulty be tween the vessel owners and their em ployes. The strike wn3 declared off by Paul Howell, district captain of the Masters' and Pilots' association. The strike hns been one of the most costly In wages and time lost and stagnation to business that has oc curred In recent years. TURKS KILL ARMENIANS. Put 2,000 to Death and Make Whole sale Destruction, Armenian patriarchs have reci.yed Information that an lrado Ira1 been issued by the sultan, which tag requir ed in wholesale Massacres and the de struction of Armenian prope-ly. The lrade prohibits the settle, ,'ont of Ar menians In the villages dtotriryed. According to the official order they must settle in place j indicated by Ihe sultan In the pirns. The object of the operations of Turklsn troops In the past has been to clear Armenians out of their mountain homes, where they were more secure than in the plains. According to the information received two days were devoted to massacres. May 10 and June 3, On these two days 13 villages wore de stroyed In tho district oi Chettss, and 22 In tho district of HIen. Of a popu lation aggregating 5.000 persons, 2,000 were massacred. Women of the vil lages who disappeared during the mas sacres have been recovered by their husbands, but most of the girls who disappeared have not been seen since. Revolution Ripening. News has been received from Porto Cortes, Honduras, of the assassination of General Venegas, commandant at Yoro, a small interior town, during a pollti riot. The killing or tho com mandant has had the effoct of hasten ing the revolution that has beeu threatening for some months. Eleven stores, practically the entire business section of Crowcll, a village on Green river, in Ohio county, Ky have been destroyed by fire. Loss $30,000. KEYSTONE STATE CULL1NGS KILLS WOMAN AND SELF. Clandestine Correspondence Said to Have Caused Double Tragedy at Lewlston. W. A. Sheaffer, 34 years old, a form r saloonkeeper of Singsvllle, O., shot and killed Mis Flora Wagner, former ly of Harrlsburg, and then blew out hi own brain at Lewlston. Three bul let from a 38-callbre revolver entered the woman's face and neck. Oertrude) Snyder and Dcssle Hannaa, who wit nessed the shooting, say that Sheaf- fer had repeatedly threatened the woman's life If she did not cease a clandestine correspondence with a man at Thtee Springs, Pa. Coming In to tho house Sheaffer caught her with a letter. He pulled a revolver and began shooting. Michael Kissinger, aged 65, a welt- to-do coal operator of Catfish station. a few mile north of East Brady, wan committed to Clarion county Jail, charged with the murder of his wife. Lavtna, aged 60. The dead woman wag KlBSlngcr'g third wife an' had been married twice before her marri age to Kissinger. The had ?par ated. Mrs. Kissinger and a 15-year-old son lived at Catfish. Tuesday evening Kissinger visited his wife to get her to sign a deed for 100 acroa i of coal land, for which he had beea,' offered $7,500. It Is said Mrs. Kissing er refused to sign unless he would give her part of the proceeds. It 'la alleged Kissinger struck her. Inflict ing a wound an Inch long on the back of her head. Tho son, who was In an other room, heard his mother fall and ran to her assistance. She wag dead when he picked her up. He ran to East Brady and notified the constable, who arrested Klsslngor. A post-mor tern examination showed that death, was caused by a blood clot at the base of the brain. A regular cloudburst fell over the country west of Reading Thursday. It was accompanied by hail, which did great damage. Tho breasts of two dams along which several Industries aro located gave way. The total damage by the storm Is estlmated'at $10,000. During tho storm the steeple of wood and stone on St. John's Luth eran Church, nearly 200 feet high, was struck by lightning and consumed; loss $(1.5oo. The church was saved by hard work. Robbers forced an entrance into the home of John Marshall, a farmer, re siding nr-ar Wampum, while the fam ily was at church. They blew open the sale and secured $"o In money and other articles. The house was wreck ed by tho exnlo.-lon. -Valuable papers wero found late;- In a wheat fieiru. Numerous oth'r robberies have t'ken place In that locality recently. A crusade Is being made at New CaHtle, by Dr. B. H. Warren, of the Pennsylvania pure food department, against keepers of restaurants, drug stores and others. They are alleged to have been gelling soda water In which adulterated fruit extracts were served. It Is said that the extracts contained poisonous dyes. William Payne, colored, was hangod at Beaver for the murder of Alfred Austin, May 19, 1902. The trap was sprung at 10 o'clock and he was pro nounced dead in 12 minutes. The execution was witnessed by about 100 persons. , Henry L. Hessley, a boy 15 years of ago from near Klttannlng, is confined In jail at Indiana, charged with steal ing a liorso and buggy that belong to his former employer, George Kunklo man, of Conemaugh township, Indiana county. John D. Brown, of Pittsburg, acting for a number of capitalists, bought the property of the Bradys Bend FI:e Brick company at sheriff's sale for $5, 800. The new company proposes to finish the plant and begin operations without delay. Leslie G. Wilson, 29 years old, form erly assistant foreman at the galvan izing plant at Vandergvlft. shot him self In the temple at his home and died almost Instantly. Despondency over failure to secure work is supposed to have prompted the shooting. Mrs. Mary Boyd, colored, swooned during tho excitement of a revival In a Unlontown church. She was car ried to a neighbor's house and died without regaining consciousness, pit. The contract has been let to William Miller, of Unlontown, for the repairing of the Fayette county home. The Im provements will cost $12,130. Gov. Pennypacker has fixed August 11 as the date of execution of Frank Davis, convicted of first degree mur der In Cambria county. John Keenan, of Washington, 19 years old, died at Wheeling, W. Va.. from Injuries received from a fall off a moving passenger train. August Slegfiled, 23 years old, was killed In the Dorothy coal mine at West Latrobe. by being run over with, a mine car. The trustees of the FlrBt Presby terian congregation of Monassen, have left the contract for a new parsonage, to cost $4,000. Records for the fiscal year show that the number of births at New Castle was 532. The number of deaths was 254. The body of a malo child, about four months old, was found on the Monon gahela river bank at Charb roi. A Cleveland and Pittsburg express train sldeswlped a frnlmht train at Rochester. No ono wa3 hint, but the passongor train locomotlvo was badly damaged. Symptoms of hydrophobia developed in the 11-year-old daughter of Eivan Jones, of New Castle, who wag bitten by a dog recently. Willis N. Dyer, of Curwonsvllle, af ter remarking that he never felt bettor in bis life, fell to the floor of his son's office and died In about 10 minutes. The Sanitary Milk company, of New Castle, capitalised at $40,000, has sus pended business.
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