STORM SWEEPS THE COAST
Gale Causes Many Deaths and
Great Property Loss.
MUCH SHIPPING DESTROYED.
Fruit Cropi Wert Ruined In Several
States Rainfall Recorda Were
Broken.
Live-., wore lost, property damaged
and shija wrecked In (ho storm which
wept up the entire Allnnlic roast on
(hn 15th.
It waa one of the Hereout September
storms on record thunder a.ul light
nine; adding terrors to a howling nlo
which swept drenching sheets of rnln
over urn ami Innd.
The greatest Ions of life nenr
Wilmington. Del. The tug Israel W,
Durham, with a crew of six men a.ul
four oher m n. "mployes of the
Aniet'lrnn DicdKing Company, was
swamped in the Delaware river.
Eight of the ten persons on Inn little
cmft were drowned. Krom farther
down the coast Jacksonville cornea
the report that eight men were
drowned off CharloHlon.
Hnlllnx, Nova Seotia. la mourning a
$."iim.iictl flre. While thlH Are w not
directly due to the storm the llatnea
were fanned and driven forward 'by
the hlRh wind which prevailed.
New York Hiiffercd comparatively
little. The wind anil rnln anil thunder
and lightning; were terrific, hut little
actual damage was done. Nineteen
coal barijes went adrift in the bay and
to-night, their wreckage strew the
ahoro frotii the Battery to the Nar
row hut no liven were lost, one
fatality wits reported In 1 h 1st city,
when a piece of cast Iron fire escape
waa blown from a building and at ruck
Carl llerlzner, killing him instantly.
A fishing steamboat, the Joseph
Church of (Ireenporl, N. Y at ruck on
Peakea Hill bar and wan unlimited to
piece. The caplnln and crew ol 21
men were aaved.
From Wilmington, Del., cornea the
new that great deal ruction waa
caused by the atorm. Tnva were up
rooted, bouses flooded and crops ruin
d. In Chesapeake bay the atorm waa
particularly fierce." Incoming steam
era arriving at Ualtlmore rcnort that
never In their experience, ha anon
a furious gale awept down on them at
this time of the year. One man wna
teen adrift. In a amnll rowboat In
Chesapeake bay, but it waa Impossible
to rescue him. The atorm waa accom
, nanlcd by a cold wave.
Report from down the Chesapeake
bay Indicate that last night's atorm
was unprecedented In Its fury and
long continuance. For nearly 10
hours the bay was awept by a rain
and wind atorm tha' for a tlmo raged
more fiercely thin any other storm in
the memory of the oldest Chesapeako
mariners.
100,000 WOMEN TO VOTE.
Thla May Decide Result In Four
Western States.
Fully 1O0.000 women entitled to vote
at the coming Presidential election
have been registered In the States of
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho
thla year, and It Is admitted by poli
ticians that they practically hold the
balance of power in those States.
Both parties fully appreciate the Im
portance of the women's vote at the
coming election, and no efforts are
pared to win the good will and sup
port, of the feminine voters.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, president of
the Woman's National Republican As
. aoclatton, haa been sent West by the
national committee to conduct tho
' I campaign among the women of tho
four States. It la expected that the
' : Mormon question will be tho principal
) feature of the campaign In Utah, Ida
" ho and Wyoming, whllo the labor
question will be tho moa'. Important
issue in Colorado.
Negress to Practice Law.
For the first, time In tho history of
Kentucky a negro women has been
admitted as a member of the bar and
licensed to practice law in this coun
try. She was examined before the
Circuit Court, at Lexington and pass
ed. Her name Is 8. J. S. White and
she Uvea In Louisville. She la mar
ried. BURNING BRIDGE COLLAPSED.
Twenty Persone Thrown Into Lake,
and Two Killed.
The bridge across Lake St. Croix,
at Stillwater, Minn., which is a half
mile long, extending to the Wisconsin
aide, caught Are. The fire weakened
one of the spans of the structure, and
when the Are apparatus and a crowd
attempted to cross It, It foil Into the
water, 2(t feet below. About 20 per
sons were precipitated with the wreck
ace Into the water. Adolph Boo. aged
22, and George MeQratb, aged 16,
were killed, and five others were
aertously injured.
Baloon Causes Death.
During military ballooning exer
claea at St. Hulwelssenburg, Austria,
a sudden puff of wind lifted a bal
loon with a number of soldiers hang
ing to the ropes. Eight of the sol
diers were hurled against a rock and
two of them were killed outright and
six were fatally injured. The bal
loon disappeared.
One of a number of homing pigeons
sent up from Nantes, France, board
ed a snip 1,000 miles at sea.
To Purify City Water.
Experiments on a large scale with
the use of copper sulphates, to supple
ment laboratory Investigations which
have been In progress, are about to
be made by the department of public
health and charities, and the bureau
of health of Philadelphia. The Ex
periments are designed to demons
trate whether the successful results se
cured in the bacteriological labora
'tory with volumes of two and three
gallons, can be duplicated In a mass
at 10,000 to 10.000 gallons.
STEEL AND IRON IMPROVE.
Several Large Order Hav lean
Placed for Foundry and
Forge Pig Iron.
R. 0. Dun A Co'a. "Weekly Review
of Trade." Industrial and commer
cial progress la alow, hnt nono the
lr.ia definite. l,ow temperature and
aonie Injury to rr.a proved the only
adverse Influence of the week, and
thla haa little effect upon ninnufnc-tni-fra
and traders, who have started
to prepare lor increased business.
Htiyera of dry goods, clothing and
millinery are notably active In plac
ing orders, and other staple lines
also lee) the effect of gradually ex
panding confidence. Many mills and
furnaces have resinned been use of
nev ordeta or adjus incut of wage
scales, and prices are steadier In
most rases, wlih a general advance
In footwear.
Freight trnflle blockade are not as
frequent as they were at this time in
llliCI, yet there Is occasional com
plaint, and earnings In September
were' 6.0 per cent, larger than a year
ago. It Is not yet possible to re
port any material expenslon In the
demand for atcel product us n result
of new price lists. Disappointment
hn been experienced by those who
f looked for an Inimrdiato rush of or
ders, yet tho business Is undoubted
ly coming forward, severnl depart
ments preparing for act.'vlly In n
manner that denotes great confi
dence In the future. Several large
orders for foundry and forge pig Iron
have bent placed, whllo oher con
trnela are still pending.
Hvldenco that buyers are becoming
apprehensive regarding the scarcity
of cotton goods tends to encourage
the feeling that the mills will soon
bo called upon for liberal shipment.
Yet the present condition of thl In
dustry I no stronger. In the
woolen division there waa decided
Improvement In dress goods, and fair
diipllente order were received In
other lines. Footwrar manufactur
ers are still receiving supplementary
orders for Into lall shipments, and
plants are in full operation. Leather
Is selling more freely, all lines show
ing Improvement except glazed kid,
of which the output I br.'.ng curtailed.
.Failures this week amounted to
.224 In the United S atea. against 2I'.
Inst year, and 21 In Canada, compared
with 11) a year ago.
WILL DISARM THE LENA.
Russian Transport Will Be Ditman
tied at San Francisco.
President Roosevelt tastted an order
through acting Secretnry of Stato
Adee, directing thnt the Ruslnn arm
ed I ram pi ut Lena, now at San Fran
cisco, bo taken la custody by tho naval
authorities of the United Stntea and
disarmed.
The conditions prescribed are thnt
the Lena be taken to tho Mare Is
land navy yard and thete dismantled
by removal of amall guns, breech
blocks of lane guns, small arms,
ammunition and ordnance stores;
that the captain givo a written guar
antee thnt the 1 ena shall not lravo
San Francisco until p-ace shall have
been concluded; that the officers and
crew shall bo paroled, not to leave
San Francisco until some other un
derstanding a tn their disposal may
bo reached between tho Unl'ed Stntea
government and both the belllgerenta;
that alter disarmament the vessel
j mav be removed to a private dock for
such reasonable repa'ra aa wiil make
I her seaworthy and preserve her In
' good condition during h?r detention,
or mav bo so reprired at tho navy
! yard If'the Russlnn commander should
j ao elect; that while at a private dock
the rommanrt.mt of the navy yarn at
Maro Island shall havo custody of the
shin; 'hat the repairs shall he over
seen by an engineer officer to be de
tailed by the commandant, and that,
when so repaired. If peace shall not
then have hern concluded the vc-sol
shall be taken bnek to tho Mam Is'and
navy yard, and he Micro held until
the end of he war.
Capt. Borllnshv. of the Russian chip
Lena was Informed of the president's
decision to permit the Lena to r
main here on condition that she would
send her gun ashore. Ho, In turn,
eomrnnnlcrted to Admiral Goodrich
his rnvontton" willingness to com
ply with the conditions.
There ar" 130 tynbnld fever natlenta
In the Winnipeg (Manitoba hon'ttl,
end manv have been refused admit
tance because of lack of room,
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Suits amounting to ovfr $15,000
were filed In Washington, Pa., courts
agnlns; the borough on account of re
paving and graulng the streets.
Harry 8. Batchelder, Yale's famous
giant foot ball guard,, has been sen
tenced to six months In Jail and to
pay a line of $100 for keeping a gamb
ling house at Reading, Pa.
Lawrence C. Phlpps, the Pittsburg
millionaire, was granted a d4vorce
from his wife, Genevieve Chandler
Phlpps, on the ground of desertion,
by the District Court of Denver, Cut.
At Springfield four students wero
seriously Injured In a class rush at
Wlttenburg College. They are,
Adnlfb Shlelman, Grand Rapids,
Mich., head snd face cut; John Sny
der, Springfield, O., kicked In stom
ach: Ralph White. Kent,' O., face
bruised; John Finfrock, M.'.ncrva, O.,
side crushed.
Two men, believed to be members
of the gang of train bandits who held
up the Rock Island express, were ar
retted between Brighton and Way
land, Iowa. They will be held for
Identification.
British Ship Stopped.
The British steamship Marglt
Groedel, with a cargo of coal from
Cardiff for Sullna, reports that she
was stopped by tho Russian cruiser
Terek Sopte-nber 6 off Cape St. Vin
cent. The Terek fired three blank
shot to bring the steamer about.
Two Russian officers and two armed
men boarded the boat andoverhauled
her papers. On of the officers In
formed the captain there were nine
other Russian cruisers Id the vicinity.
BLUNDER GAVE VICTORY
Kuropatkin Lays Blame of Defeat
on General Orloff.
HALF OF ONE REGIMENT KILLED
Artillery Sticks Fast In Mud and
Whole Company Fall to Move
On Oun.
O.mcial Kuropatkin' official re
port come as a considerable relief
a setting at rest alarmists stories of
the loss of guns, the tutting off of
divisions and (he death of or rap
tine of prominent commanders. The
report enters at considerable detail
into tho various phases of the battle
of l.liio Yang, and entirely bears out
the declaration of the Associated
Press at the time that General Or
ion's failure to hold the vital posi
tion at the Yentnl mines was respon
sible for tho breaking down of the
whole of (lenernl Kuropatkln'a plan
or battle.
The report dwells upon tho terrible
difficulties encountered during the re
treat at l.liio Yang from position
on tho southern front, when 24 horse
and a whole company of Infantry
harnessed to n single gun were not
able to remove tho gun from a quag
mire. It Is shown flint tho retirement
from Lino Yang to tho north bank
of tho Tail so river wa carried out
.In good order, and with celerity un
der cover of night on August 31,
where It had become evident that
General Kurokl was making a de
termined drive at the Russian com
mttnlcnllotiH north of Lino Yang.
General Kuropatkin pay tribute to
the courage and devotion of every
arm of the aervleo under It la com
mnnd, nnd especially to the bravery
of the troops to whom waa set tho
task or recapturing tho Syhwanlun
hills, on the north bank of tho Ta.lt su
river.
Tho engagement of tho night, of
September 2 wna productive of some
of the most severe fighting of tho
whole battle. It .was practically a
company commander's fight, com
mands becoming aeparated In the
darkness and Independent units act
ing upon their own Initiative with
the one object of carrying out the
rommander's orders to retake the
heights.
The necesr.lty of retaking tho Sky
wnnlun heights formed the first
break In General Kuropatkln'a plan,
nnd lost him a whole day. Sept em
ber 2, and thus delayed launching
the blow against Kurokl, and when
the Russians had Just regained a foot
hold on the coveted position, Orloff 'a
failure to hold tho Japanese advance
aralnst the Yental mines threatened
the envelopment of Kuropatkin on
tho north, crippled the whpln Rus
alnn scheme and forced tho now his
toric retreat to Mukden.
ALARMED ABOUT CHINA.
Fear That Chinese Will Attempt to
Occuny Conquered Ground.
Reports that the Chinese are mak
ing preparations to occupy conquered
territory ure creaking some uneasiness,
for China has been all along an un
certain quantity from which any de
velopment or complication might bo
expected.
The logical belief lias always been
thnt China would endeavor to tho ut
most to refrain from taking sldo In
the present conflict, in order that she
might ho in a position to niako the
boat terms pcsslhlo with the ultimate
victor, but it la realized that a con
tinued Japanese advance Into the
heart of Manchuria might exert a
powerlui Influence upon both tho Chi
nese peasantry and tho near
by Ill-controlled regular troops,
which tho weak central government
at Peking might find It difficult to
curb, thereby prcclpating serious
complications upon the tcono ol act
ual hostilities.
J. P. Fenton, a Philadelphia trav
eling salesman committed suicide at
Boone, la., by leaping Irom a second
story window.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Married Man Shoots Girl and Kills
Himself.
Two miles east of Centervllle,
Washington County, Pa., Miss Dora
Waterall, aged 21 years, of Westbury,
Long Island, was shot twice through
the right lung by Edward Tombaugh,
aged 27 years, and so seriously in
jured that the physicians say she
cannot live. Tombaugh, alter shoot
ing the girl, turned the weapon on
himself and ended hla life.
The tragedy occurred In the front
parlor of the home of Anderson Jef
freys. Mrs. Jeffreys and Mrs. Henry
Hanan, a neighbor, were eyewit
nesses. Jealousy prompted the deed.
Tombaugh was married and leaves
a wife and two children.
Miss Waterall says the tragedy
waa the result of her refusal to run
away with him. They were once
sweethearts.
Prisoners In the Baltimore city Jail,
headed by Roland B. Rigor, the al
leged street car bandit, attempted to
escapo by assaulting Guard H. A.
Lecron.
Connecticut Republican Ticket.
The Republican state ticket placed
In nomination by the Connecticut
state convention was as follows:
Governor, Henry Roberta of Hart
ford; lieutenant governor, iFollIn 8.
Woodruff, Now Haven; secretary of
state Theodore Bodenwe'in, . New
London; state treasurer, Jamea F.
Walsh, Greenwich; comptroller,
Ashel W. Mitchell, Woodbury; con-gressman-at-large,
George L. UHey,
Waterbury.
JAPS HOLD RIVER CROSSINGS.
They Art Bald to Ready to Move
on the Enemy Boon the
Weather Permits.
From Iindon comes tho report that
lieutenant-General. ZasmiHtch, com
manding the Russian rear guard
south or the Hun river, ha been se
verely wounded, and cap. tired by the
Japanese, with 3,(100 of his men; also
that Generals XarouhnlctT, Kondrato
vlich and underling have succeeded
In cheeking General Kurokl's advance.
General Linevllch, with an army of
60,000 men from Vladivostok, Is re
ported to have Invaded northeastern
Korea and to have cut. Kurokl's com
munication with Feng Wang-Cheng.
In the Immediate vicinity of Muk
den military activity is stopped en
tirely by the rains. F'leld Marshal
Oyama aends a report to Tokyo Riv
ing the disposition of tho Russian
force around Mukden and Yen-Tal.
In St. Petersburg rumors are current
that. Viceroy AlexlefT has resigned and
that General Kuropatkin Is to ho dis
placed by General l.lnevlteh aa com
inundor ln chief.
, The main body of the Japanese are
concentrated about Yen-Tal, and all
three columns nre In touch. The ex
t renin right nnd left of the Japanese
la on the north bank of the Hun, and
both Kurokl nnd Oku hold crossings
of the river. The Japanese are In
position for a general advance In
force, and such a move la expected a
soon aa the weather makes It prac
ticable. A3K POWERS TO END WAR.
Interparliamentary Union Want to
End Trouble In Far East.
A plan for terminating tho Russo
Japanese war and for preventing the
outbreak of other war ha
been formulated at tho Interparlia
mentary union at St. Louis. It .was
introduced In the session of the Inter
parliamentary union, and unanim
ously adopted. It consists of a reso
lution requesting the powers who
signed tho treaty at The llagiio to
approach 'both Russia and Japan with
a view of terminating at once the
war In the east.
A moro Important event than this
Is a practical plan for pncvenllng
tho outbrenk of other wars which
also was unanimously adopted. In
the executive council of the Inter
parliamentary union, Hon. Richard
liar. holdt, assisted by other mem
ber of the United States congress,
had carried a resolution Indorsed
that requests the president of the
United States to invite all the nations
of tho world to assemble In a con
ference for the purpose of considering
the execution of arbitration treaties
which will give Tho Hnguo court
Jurisdiction over such questions as It
.Is mutually agreed Bhall he referred
to arbitration; also the advisability of
creating a congress of nations to
convene periodically for the discus
sion of International questions.
KUROPATKIN HAS CHARGE.
Force Under Alexleff Transferred to
the Great Retreater.
Admiral Alexleff has surrendered
command of the forcos at Vladivostok,
Harbin and Tiding to General Ku
ropatkin. Thus the hero of tho re
treat from Llao-Yang become su
preme commander of all the czar's
troops In the far east. This meas
ure has presumably been taken to
finable Kuropatkin to marshal with
out restriction the fresh forces mov
ing from the north to co-operate with
tho rotreatlng army.
It is believed at headquarters that
the Russian army may find it possi
ble to take the offensive against the
overwearied .Iiipaneso much sooner
than appeared posslblo even a few
days ngo. However, the weightiest
counsel continues to fnvor the con
tinuation of the Russian retirement
until the army can practically be re
constituted out of reach of annoyance
at the hands of Oku and Kurokl's
flankers.
The third anniversary of the death
of President McKlnloy, wa noted
with deep sorrow In hla home city.
Wreaths of flowers from Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson and others
were laid on the casket. Mrs, Mo
Klnley placed fresh flowers on the
casket.
TRAIN R0BBER8 ESCAPE.
Bandita Who Hold Up Express Es
cape en an Engine.
Five bandita perpetrated a suc
cessful hold-up of a passenger train
on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific Railway near Letts, la. The
Btatements of express men are that
the robbers secured no money, though
the safe waa blown open and the con
tents taken. The officers assert that
the safe contained merchandise of
some value, company papers In tran
sit, etc., but no money,
. The engineer as tho train rounded
the curve, saw a red lantern on the
track and stopped the train. Im
mediately the engine, express car
and 'baggage car were boarded by the
robbers. The messenger of the ex
press car was compelled to open the
door. The safe wa dynamited and
the contenta taken, after which the
engine was then cut off and the
robbers ran it through Letts and to
within two mile W Columbus Junc
tion, where It was left standing. The
bandit disappeared and no traco of
them has been found.
DEATH IN TENEMENT FIRE.
Seven Los Their Live and - Five
Other Are Injured.
In a tenement house fire at 68 and
70 First Btreet at New York City,
six members ojf one family lost their
lives and Ave others were seriously
injured. There were more than
acore of families asleep In the ten
ement when the Are broke out, and
the member of the New York police
and fire department added fresh lau
rels to their record through many
act of heroism.
MASSING FOR AN ATTACK
Japanese Said to be Preparing
for Fight at Mukden.
RUSSIANS READY TO MEET THEM
Reinforcements of Troop and Artil
lery Hive Been Brought to
Them Rapidly.
It Is reported that tho Japanese
are gradually closing In on Mukden,
and no movement will be made
agrlnst Tie pas until the fain of
Mukden hn been decided. Strong
parties of Japanese have been report
ed to the northeast of Mukden.
Their object I supposed to he the
(lulling of the Russian flank.
The Russian are manifesting great
activity, nnd nre strengthening the
defenses at both Mukden nnd Tie
pas. Reinforcements are continu
ally arriving from the north, to
gether with new guns anil supplies of
food ami ammunition and heavy
clothing for the troops, a If the cam
paign wa expected to continue well
Into the colli sia'ion.
The .Inpanere center Is still at Yen
Tal, although a strong force I lo
cated nl Pal Ta I'll, a short distance
south of Mukden. Another body of
Jnpntiese .la reported near Hhaho Sze.
Thla Is thought to be a part of Oku'a
command, and I believed to Indicate
that a general movement to surround
In already under way.
Friday morning 21 wounded men be
longing to Major General Mlafchc nko's
Cossack division were brought Into
Mukden. Particulars of the skir
mish are not available. II I report
ed here that the Japanese nre ad
vancing on Mukden from the cast. A
strong force of Russians I ready to
meet them.
IteconnalsHnnce have established
the fact that, the Japanese are mass
ing near Yen-Tal and Ronllnptitr.o.
Unities of Japanese nro also moving
in the Llao river valley.
According to Information from Chi
nese source tho Jnpaneso are leav
ing a garrlaon at Lino-Yang and the
whole Chitu'so population la working
on tho Jnpnnese defenses there.
MAINE ELECTION.
Republicans Carry 8tate by a Major
ity of About 30,000.
Tho Republicans curried tho Htute
In (he biennial election to-day, re
turns up to mid night indicating a
plurality ol about 81,000 for William
Cobb, tho Republican candidate for
Governor, over Cyrus W. Dnvls, Dem
ocrat. John F. Hill, the present
executive, and a Republican, carried
the Statu by 33.384 four yenrs ago.
In the First and Second Congres
sional districts tho returns Indicate
tho election of Amos L. Allen and
Charles K. Llitlcflnld by about the
same plurality as four year ago. In
tho Third district E. C. Burleigh ran
ahead of hla veto of four yenrs ngo.
Early return show that the Demo
crats have probably mado slight gains
In both branches of the Legislature,
but that tho body will remain strong
ly Republican and will probnbly re
elect United Slates Senator Eugene
Hnll. The volo was the heaviest
cast slnco 18B8.
STONE JEWISH PARADERS.
Riots Incited by Celebration of He
brew New Years In Rusolan Town.
. Antl-JuwIsh disturbances occurred
Sunday at the frontier town of Bos
nowlce, Russian Poland, on tho occa
sion of the celebration of the Jewiah
New Year. Hoys stoned the celcbra
tionlsts and injured a child, and a ru
mor spread thai tho Jews had killed
a child.
A number of workmen marched
through the streets 'stoning thu win
dows of Jewish bouHes and those of
tho synagogue. Several Jows wore
Injured. Tho doctors rolused to at
tend thorn, fearing the mob. The
rioters also broke Into several Jewish
dwellings. The troops of the gar
rison eventually dispersed the rioters
and arrested 10.
TWO KILLED IN WRECK.
Train Bearing Knight Collide Sev
eral Injured.
A. L. Hicks, fireman, and an uni
dentified man were killed in a colli
sion between Southern Pacific passen
ger trains at Lawton, seven miles
west of Reno, Nev. The Injured In
clude Mrs. John Swan, Galesburg, III.;
R. Ridley Morgan, Ridgeway, Pa.; P.
H. Campbell, Freeman, O., and George
Suramerfleld, Cleveland. All will re
cover. A "westbound passenger train run
ning 85 miles an hour crashed into
the third section of an eastbound train
carrying a large party of Knights
Templars. Both trains were double
headers wltft a heavy train of Pull
mans and day coaches. All four lo
comotives were wrecked, as woll as
the baggage and day coaches of both
trains. The accident was due to dis
obedience of orders.
Charles Summer Griffin, professor
of political economy and the science
of finance. In Tokyo University, who
waa a graduate of the University of
Kansas, was drowned while bathing
In Hekone lake, Japan.
Diamonds and Money Taken,
Word was received from New York
that a robbery, by which Mrs. H. M.
Flagler, of that city, lost a chatelaine
bag containing money and Jewels ag
gregating several thousand dollars in
value at Newport, was being Investi
gated by detectives. The message
aald that the chatelaine bag contained
18.000 In cash, a draft for $10,000,
and Jewels valued at $4,000. The
alleged robbery, it wa said, took
place in a crowd at a lawn party. The
dat of th robbery waa notlven.
BALTIC FLEET BAILS,
Fighting Cesee In Manchuria Little
Doing at Port Arthur.
Ordered by Emperor Nicholas to
sail at once the Russian Baltic fleet,
commanded by Rear Admiral Ro
Jestvensky, sailed yesterday from
Kronstadt for Ubail, whenre It will
put out Immediately for the Orient,
but by which course Is not divulged
by the Bt, Petersburg authorities.
In Manchuria there Is an apparent
cessation or hostilities, a dispatch
from Mukden stating thnt everything
In that region was quiet and that the
Japanese had fnllen back to Yental.
on the railroad 12 mile northeast of
Llao Yang. Kouropatkln reported
to the Emperor that there wa no
fighting Saturday.'
For tho last ten days there has
been desultory fighting at Port Ar
thur, together with 'bombardments
by both side, but. with no appreciable
gain for the Japanese. It I evi
dent, the Japanese are pushing for
wnrd preparations for another gen
eral assault on tho fortress.
ROOSEVELT'S LETTER.
Formal Acceptance of Nomination for
Presidency Published.
President Roosevelt hn made pub
lic III formal letter accepting the
Republican nomination lor the pres
idency. It Is a document of some
13,(100 words. He cordially approves
tho platform adopted by tho con
vention which tendered him the nom
ination. Then follow a long eulogy
on the smoolhiicra with which .the
machinery of the government' is
manlpiiliiied under Republican con
trol; of promise iniide and executed;
or laws designed, passed and en
forced, or policies established 'and
pursued.
Russian Transport Arrives.
The ItiiKsInn transport Lena. Cap
lnln llorllmiky, put Into Rnn I'rnncls
eo for repaint. The I.enn Is 31
days from Vladivostok. The Lena
ha n crew of 407 men and 21 ofll
cer and carries 23 guns. Caplnln
llerllnsky, who officially declare
the Lena to be a transport, state
their engines nnd boilers are In need
or repairs. After passing quaran
tine the Lena anchored off tho Union
Iron works.
Governor Orders Court Martial.
Governor Terroll, ol Georgia, ha
received tho report of the Stutesboro
court of Inquiry, relative to the burn
ing of two r.egiocs, nnd on tho
findings of the court has ordered a
court martial to lake up the rase of
Captain Hitch, Lieutenant Morrison
nnd Lieutenant Couu, Lieutenant
Mi Intlro was exonerated by tho re
port of fho court or Inquiry. Tho
hearing has been ordered for Sep
tember 29 In Savannah.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
During tho fetes at St. Cloud,
France, Louisa Drolsner, a woman lion
lamer, wa horribly bitten and torn by
a Negus lion, which lately belonged to
an American showman.
Almost every business block In Ida
ho Falls was wiped out by fire, which
started In thu Butte cafe, and which
burned seven hours. The loss will
reach $300,000 with small Insurance,
W. J. Morgan, President of the W,
.1. Morgan Lithographing Company, of
Cleveland, Is dead. He was 65 years
old and hud been 111 for five or six
weeks-
Guy C. Stallngs, treasurer of tho
Prclerred Mercantile Company, Hob
ton, waa arrested on a charge of con
ducting a diamond lottery in violation
of tho postal laws.
Edwin II. Lemaro, city organist of
Pittsburg, hus resigned his position.
and at a meeting of the music hall
committee of the board of trustees
of Carneglo Institute, held yesterday
morning, the resignation was accept
cd.
The gross receipts of the 60 large
postofllces In the country for August,
as compared with August of last year,
show a net Increase of $604,826, or al
most 13 per cent, the gross receipts
at all of the 50 offices aggregating
$5,332,835. The largest increase waa
86 per cent at Peoria, 111.
For the third time within a week
an attempt was made to wreck a pas
senger train on the Central railway
near Savannah, Ga and a negro baa
been arrested on suspicion.
'Bids were opened at the treasury
department for the new federal build
Ing at Zanesvllle, O. The lowest
bid was. that of Andrew Doll & Sons, of
Cleveland, the figures being $81,600.
The contract will be awarded in a
few days.
New Castl Tin for Japan.
A rush order of 25,000 boxes of tin
for the use of the Japanese army
bas Just been received at the local
plant of the American Tin Plate Com
pany at New Castle, Pa., and Is now
being filled. The tin Is to be of
the best quality and will be finished
by the double closing or electric weld
ing process.
Troop to Suppress Albanlana.
Sixteen batta'lons of local mlfitla
have been ordered to be mobilized in
the districts of Klllilsh, Seres and
Berat. They will be dispatched to
Prlzreh to suppress the Insurgent
Albanians. The Albanians are again
revolting and are demanding the ac
ceptance of their demands In full.
Boston Wool Market.
The Boston wool market U still ac
tive, especially in medium Territory
grades, and while there have been no
remarkably large tales, a good amount
of business has been done. On cer
tain Unci there Is an advancing ten
dency. Quotations of leading de
scriptions are as follows: Ohio and
Pennsylvania, XX and above, 3435c;
X, S0g3lc; No. i, S3C34c; fine un
washed. UWibc; hk, and H blood,
unwashed, 2lS8ViC; fine washed de
laine. 96S0i
KEYSIOliE STATE CULLiaCS
WORKMAN'S FEARFUL FALL,
Dropped On Hundred and Fifty
, Feet from a Stack and Wa
Instantly Killed.
John Barrett, who waa Instantly
killed at New Castle by falling 159
feet from the i.ack of the new Red
Jacket furnace, had only four min
ute morn to work to complete bla
turn, when the accident occurred.
Hn had been working on new con
struction nnd lost his balance. He
alighted on hi feet wlili such fore
that his knees wet d Inn a'mrst
to hi h ps and his skull split open.
Barrett was 30 year of ago and wan
the son of John Barrett, of West
Middlesex. During the Spanish
American war he served In Company
O of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania reg
imen; t. He wa a member of tJia
Baplltl ChttrHi of Wist Middlesex,
of the Brotherhood of iHallway Train
men and cf (ho Holler Maker Help
er Union.
A hall and wind storm vlaltcTl a
section of (he oil country nenr Pleas
anlvllln on the Kilt, which In fury
and dcstriirtlvcticss surpassed any
tilng of It kind known to the oldest
ltihnbll.nnt. Over loo oil derricks
worn blown down, Inrgo trees twisted
from their roois and the driving hall
stripped tho orchards of every ves
tige of fruit. Two hour after the
storm, ball covered the ground to thi
depth of nearly two Inches, Although
the territory visited by the atorm wa
small In dimensions tho loss In oil
nnd crops will probably reach $."i0,000.
The grand Jury or Hut lor county ha
returned a true hill agulitHt Newton
Tnnnehlll on ii charge of voiuntury
manslaughter for the killing of Alva
Isabella, near Buyers, last week. A
true bill wii.i returned for Involuu-
tnry manslaughter ngulnst Lyman
Scott of Buffalo township, who threw
a beer keg .Into a passing freight
trnln and billed George Flamtlgnn, a
young hrnkemnn of Itutler.
Assurance that tho new Stato capl-
tol will bo ready for occupnny by tho
next, legislature waa given the Cap
itol Commission by the contractor.
architect and engineer of the build
ing. The commission was also ad
vised that the halts of the Senate
and House of Representatives will be
ready for the Installation of furniture
long before tho opening of the ses
sion.
Tho mangled 'body of William H.
Lambert was found on the tracks of
the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charles
ton railroad nt Churleroi early Sun
day morning. It is supposed he waa
killed by a northbound freight train
during the night. Imbert wa 63
years of age and lived at Ixck No. 4.
He Is survived by his wifo and seven
children.
Highwaymen attacked Anton Bar-
onl, an Italian, In the vicinity of
Loyalhanna, beat him Into insensi
bility and then robbed him of bis
money, tho saving of some time.
The man was found on the roadside
noxt morning and was brought to tbo
Westmorelnnd hospital. Hn lapsed
into unconsciousness and It Is thought
that he will not recovor.
Henry Ifuperlorgor. about 27 year
old, wa Instantly killed at Tltusvllln,
while endeavoring to board a freight
train to ride from the outskirts Into
town. His foot slipped through the
car step nnd the unfortunate man wa
dragged a quarter of a mile, hla
brains being pounded out on the
ends of the ties.
Whllo Frank Conn, a Confluence
farmer wa attending to business In
ConnellsVtlle, hi wife feared soma ,
one would rob him. She placed alt
her mimoy, a Toll amounting to $30
In the cook a'ove and retired. Up
on arising next morning she forgot
she had placed tho money id the
stove and lighted the fire.
Employes at the ovens of the United
Coke and Gas Construction Company
at Sharon of tho United States Steel
Corporation, were granted an increase
In wages of 12 per cent, restoring the
rate paid belore the cut of last No
vember. About 200 men are affected.
All the employes of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad shops at Oil City and
on the River and Chautauqua divisions
went back on full time. The hours
of these shop employe were short
ened some months ago. About 200
men are affected.
At Huntington Allle Haasine waa
sentenced by Judge Woods to IS
years' Imprisonment In the Western
penitentiary for the murder of hi
companion, who was a peddler, by
striking blm with a stone in the ,
woods. Hasslne was convicted of
second degree murder.
Rev. O. A. Fechner has resigned aa
pastor of St. Paul's German Luther
an Church at Rochester. His resig
nation takes effect January 1, 1905.
Rev. Fechner has served the congre
gation for the past three years, suc
ceeding the late Rev. F. C. E.
Lemcke.
The strike of the wire drawers at
the American Steel and Wire Com
pany's plant at South Sharon was
ettled andl the men returned to
work.
John Zllla, a coal miner, of Coral,
had both hands blown off and lost
the sight of his left eye by an ex
plosion of dynamite.
The Derry Pottery and China com
pany, of Derry, has resumed opera
tions In all departments of its plant.
Jacob Ley, of Jeannette. waa killed
by a shifting engine near the Jean
net'e brewery.
Wehrum, the new Indiana county
coal town, was startled when the Lack
awauna Coal Company ordered ita
mines closed and discharged Its 600
employes. The men were at once
paid off and there was a general exo
dus from the place.
A new natural gaa field, It la claim
ed, hai be n discovered n ar Con
fluence. Mrs. Ita Walker has been arrested
at Conneaut. charged with robbing
the home of F. L. Whltmore,
While going to work, Clifford Bus
sard, a Johnstown telegrapher, was
ran dews by a train dad killed.
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