EXPLOSION 01 TOE SYLPH
The Boiler Tubes cn President's
Yacht Blow Out.
WAS TOWED IN BY MORGAN LINER
Fruit Laden Steamer Was Asked for
Assistance but Proceeded on
Its Way.
me president s yacht Sylph was
towed Into Hampton Roads by the
Morgan liner El Cld, with her star
board boiler tubes blown out during
a storm In the gulf stream oft Cape
Hatteras Wednesday afternoon. Two
men w -scalded, but they will re
cover. They are F. T. Murphy, ma
chinist's mate of the first-class, who
was severely scalded about the face,
arms and hands, and J. J. Dalton, a
sea man, badly scalded about the face
and body.
The Sylph nt the time of the acci
dent was on her way to her regular
station at Washington from . Florida
waters, where she recently had aboard
Mrs. Roosevelt and her children. Mrs.
Roosevelt and party, however, left the
Sylph at Jacksonville and proceeded
to Washington some days ago.
The Sylph, upon sighting the El
Cid at sea, gave signals of distress,
and the Morgan liner Immediately
came to her assistance and towed her
Into harbor. Lieut. F. C. Evans, com
manding the Sylph, reports that upon
the occurrence of the acclrleat the
vessel was anchored, and the New
York fleet stood by all night to assist.
He says the United Fruit Company's
steamer Oteri was asked for assist
ance, and signaling "we are not n
towhoat," proceeded for Ilallimore
and apparently did not report the dis
tressed yacht, at Capt. Henry. The
Sylph Is not badly damaged.
TRUE BILLS FOUND.
Four
Men Indicted in Beef Trust
Cases at Chicago.
Four men, throe of whom are em
ployes of Schwarzenschild & Sulz
berger, meat packers, and one an at
torney for that corporation, were
named In an indictment returned by
a federal grand Jury In Chicago, which
Is investigating the alleged beef trust.
It Is charged that the four men ob
structed and Impeded Deputy Marshal
A. A. Bach in his efforts to serve a
subpoena cm Edwin B. Fish, a clerk
employed by Schwarzschlld & Sulz
berger. Fish recently returned from
Canada.
The men Indicted are Joseph Weis
senbach, attorney for Schwarzschild
& Sulzberger; B. S. Cusey, traffic
manager for the company; George D.
nopKins, auditor ror the company;
Leo S. Joseph, employed in the pro
vision department of the concern. The
indictment alleges that a subpoena
was issued for Fish on March 3; that
this subpoena was given to Bach for
service; that the four men had ar
ranged for the departure of Fish from
the United States to Canada, and as
sisted him in leaving the jurisdiction
of the court.
DEMAND EXCEEDS 8UPPLY.
Output of Furnaces Unprecedented
Healthy Condition In the Indus
trials. R. O. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Review
of Trade" says; Good news still pre
dominates in i trade nnd industry.
Easter business of large volume, dry
goods, clothing, footwear a-.id all lines
of wearing apparel reporting an un
usually good demand, and shipping de
partments are taxed to their full ca
pacity in many cases. The country
as a whole Is experiencing more
settled weather, which Is reflected i'.i
a bettor retail distribution of mer
chandise. Jobbing trade in goods for
fall delivery Is broadening, and there
is more inclination to prepare for the
future.
Manufacturers report less Idle ma
chinery, the Iron and steel Industry
Ieadlng with an unprecedented out
put of pig Iron, yet the consumption
is also above all records, for there
is no accumulation at the furnaces.
Textile mills are also well engaged
as a rule, and forwardlngs of foot
wear from Boston make favorable
comparisons with every year except
moo.
A few labor controversies are
threatened, but none are of sufficient
magnitude to materially check pro
gress, even If expected settlements
are not attained, for the number of
hands hivolved Is comparatively
small. Reports, are somewhat con
flicting as to the mercantile collec
tions, but improvement should follow
the liberal distribution of funds in
starting agricultural work. Treasury
shipments of small change to the In
terior largely exceeded the amount
'.'.i transit a year ago.
Car blockades are few, owing to
the favorable weather, although traf
fic Is very heavy, as shown by rail
way earnings for the first week of
April, 10.9 per cent, larger than last
year. Prices of commodities declined
2.7 per cent, during March. Eggs,
dairy and garden products, grain and
coal made the most notable declines.
Bradstreets says: Building and
building material nre active, export
ade displays signs of improvement,
railroad earnings show 10 per cent.
gain for March, and nn increase of 5
per cent, for the quarter aud bank
clearings show continued heavy in-
rcascs on last year.
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DA MIP IM TUC ATCO I . ft
uni nu ulijuu muiiL mum u
iIE FACTS
Mr. Frick Wants to Know All
About Equitable Company.
A THOROUGH EXAMINATION.
Coke King Promises That All Affairs
of Equitable Society Shall Be
Made Known.
CHADWICK FINERY.
WOMEN CONSIDER DIVORCE
Mies Anthony Does not Think It an
Unmixed Evil.
Over the bitter . protest of Miss
vtusan B. Anthony, the National Coun
cil of Women adopted a resolution
pledging the organization to co-operate
with church and state to ascertain
what are the chief causes which in
duce or lead up to divorces. Divorce,
the resolution recites, is known to
cause most disastrous results in the
family and state.
"I do not consider divorce an evil
by any means" asserted Miss Anthonv.
who was on her feet before the read
ing of the resolution had been con
cluded, "it Is just as much a refuge
for women married to brutal men as
Canada was once a refuge from bru
tal masters. I will never vote for a
resolution that will cut women oft
from refuge from any brutal man."
Collector of Customs Examines Cost
.. ly Imported Laces, Etc.
Collector of Customs Leach and
and Mrs. Cassle L. Chndwlck examin
ed $10,000 worth of rare laces, fancy
embroideries, handkerchiefs, doylies,
etc., belonging to the latter in the
collector's office, for the purpose of
learning if any of the articles had
been brought into this country with
out payment of duty. Mrs. Chadwlek
told to the best of her remembrances
where each article was purchased.
After the examination, $3,000 worth
of the goods were placed In a box and
will be held for further examination
by 'the collector. Goods cn which
duty was not paid are taxable at the
rate of 60 per cent of their value.
Included in the collection is Swiss
embroidery, Irish and Russian point
lace of the most expensive kind.
Bernice and Brusels lace and French
val. The cost of six handkerchiefs,
with four and five Inch lace borders,
was fixed at $1,000. The lace dress.
A complete record of all tli9 finan
cial tranactlons of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, its relations tc
other corporations nnd a full list of
the society's employes, including all
Its olllceis, together with a statement
of the salaries and emoluments re
ceived by them, is asked of the so
ciety's president, James W. Alexander,
In a letter sent to him by Henry C.
Frick, chairman of the Investigating
committee, appointed by the directors
The letter to Mr. Alexander was ap
proved at a meeting of the Investigat
ing committee at which Messrs. Harrl
nmn, Bliss, Ives, Ingalls and Frick
were present. In asking for the In
formation, Mr. Frick writes that the
committee does not intend to limit lis
Investigation to the questioning of the
society's ofilcers, but that separate and
independent examinations will bo made
by the committee and its experts.
Among the points on which Mr.
Alexander is requested to furnish data
are the society's holding or interest In
various financial and trust companies;
lis loans to Us employes, officers, di
rectors or trustees, together with a
statement showing who authorized the
loan. A statement of all dealings by
which any broker sold for or to the so
ciety, any stocks, bonds, securities or
other property, including all the so
called undcrv.rltinps by the society, Is
also asked. A statement as to wheth
er any cue connected with the society
received compensation or benefit of
such stock transaction, or underwrit
ing, together with a statement whether
any officer, director, trustee or em
ploye has received any money or other
thing of value because of his relation
with the society is also asked for.
A request Is made for a statement
showing in detail the losses. If any to
the society, since January 1, 1900, on
any property of any kind purchased
by It, giving the names of the per
sons who sold the same to the so
ciety; a record of any transaction by
which any officer, director, trustee or
employe of the society has Irregulnrly
or improperly received money or other
valuable thing from the society out
side of, and not part of his regular
salary; and also a monthly statement
from January 1, 1900, showing the
cash balances of the society and
where the same were, and are deposit
ed, and the terms of each deposit.
BATTLE WITH STRIKERS
Boy Jumps Through Window and Is
Fatally Hurt.
George Armstrong, 17 years old, was
fatally injured and a score of persons
seriously burned during a fire in the
Slpe theater, at Kokomo, Ind., which
was caused by the ignition of a roll
of celluloid films used In operating a
moving picture machine. The machine
operator yelled: "Look out every
body, the theater Is afire!"
In an instant about COO people rush
ed toward the exits. That more were
not hurt is largely duo to the excel
lent system of fire escapes nnd exits
In the theater nnd the deportment of
the house employes. Young Arm
strong occupied a seat In the gallery
and at the warning cry of the machine
operator broke a plaro glass wndow
and Jumped to the sidewalk, a dis
tance of 40 feet. Both legs nre brok
en, and he is Internally Injured.
OHIO STORM SWEPT
Structures Damaged In Many Parts of
State.
A destructive storm swent over
Southern and Southeastern Ohio. At
Chllllcothe the German Methodist
church was unroofed and a part of the
steeple of St. Peter's church was
blown away.
Thirty children were rehearsing a
play In Memorial hall when the steeple
from the Third Street Presbyterian
church and a pile of bricks crashed
Ihrough the roof. None was seriously
hurt, but many were bruised by flying
bricks.
St. Joseph's church, near Somerset,
la Perry county, was partly unroofed
nnd two pln-.incles from the tower fell
Ihrough the remaining portion of the
roof. The damage Is estimated at sev-
?ral thousand dollars. In Somerset the
house of Albert Love was unroofed
and the family had a narrow escape.
Lands 30,000 at Delncy and Is
Raising Six New Div sions.
PLANS FOR A VAST ARMY
By Autumn Japan Expects to Have
a Million Fighting Men In the
Field.
GIVES SECOND $200,000
Rockefeller Tenders Another Contri
bution to Baptist Union.
A gift of $200,000 from John D.
Rockefeller to the American Baptist
Missionary Union was announced by
Treasurer Charles W. Perkins.
One-half of the amount was recelv
sd last Friday and the receipt of the
ilonntlon was then made public.
Treasurer Perkins said nn additional
"100,000 from the same source was
given, to be used exclusively for the
construction of mission buildings in
foreign lands. This money has not
been received, but will be available
when required. Both gifts were so
licited by the union.
Japan Is meeting the Russian plan
of reorganization and reinforcements
of Its Manchurian armies, with an ex
tensive expedition from Its own mili
tary organization. The details and fig
ures are carefully concealed of what
seems to be a plan to double the pres
ent army units, but It Is reliably es
timated that by autumn next the to
tal military organizations will exceed
a million men actually employed in the
field. The fighting force is roughly
estimated at 700,000 men. with in
creases largely in the infantry and ar-
uuery, nithough an enlargement In the
cavalry branch is also contemplated.
As a result of the manufacture at
the arsenals In Japan, together with
captures nnd purchases of guns, it is
predicted that this year will see a
Japanese artillery superior to fhnt of
the Russians, In quality as well as nu
merically, nnd it is confidently believ
ed the Russians wHl bo incapable of
overcoming these numerical disad
vantages. Wherever railway Im
provements nre possible (hey will bo
carried out, when Japan will be
sufficiently strong to take and hold
Harbin and simultaneously continue
operations against the Rus'slra forces
to the eastward of tbnt city.
It Is becoming evident that first
calculations ns to Russian loss?s in
the battle of Mukden were exagger
ated. A portion of the Fifth rifle regi
ment, which was cut off at Mukden, has
Just arrived at Klrln, having suc
ceeded hi penetrating the Japanese
lines.
Chinese slate with great posltlve
ness that Gen. Kawamura's armv,
supported by Gen. Nogl's army, is
moving In a northeasterly direction.
aiming to cut Russian communications
with Vladivostok. According to the
same sources, ,10,000 Japanese landed
nt Dalny March 28. and It Is report
ed that six additional divisions nre
forming In Japan to onerate against
Vladivostok and Sakhalin.
Cumberland and Northern Presbyter-
Ian Churches Vote to Join Forces.
Cumberland Presbyterian headquar
ters announced that tho proposal for
union with tho Norther.1 Presbyterian
church has received the requisite 58
votes with other presbyteries to hear
from. The deciding "oto was cast by
the Pennsylvania presbytery. It Is
said the Northern Presbyterian church
is voting for union In the ratio of 10
to 1. It has already settled tho nues
tion of separate presbyteries for ne
groes.
The general assembles of both
churches will meet on May 17. The
votes wil be declared in both assem
blies. The union will not be perfected
m less than two years.
Boston Wool Market.
On account of the exceedingly
small -stocks left trading In the wool
market Is limited. Quotatlcns follow
Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above,
a;i34c; X, 303lc; No. 1, 3G37c
No. 2, 373Sc; fine unwashed, 24
Zac; -blood unwashed, 3031c;
blood. 3031c; -blood, 2930c;
unwnshed delaine, 2728c; unmer
chantable, 2S(529c; fine washed de
laine, 30ra37c. Michigan fine un
washed, 2223c; J,4-l)lood unwashed
29'30c; -blood, 30c; -blood, 23
29e; unwashed delaine, 25(fi2Gc.
Kentucky, Indiana, etc
blood, 3031c.
and
Sixty-Seven Passengers Injured.
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
passenger train, southbound, was
ditched near Hardee station, north
or Vlcksburg, Miss. Reports state
that 67 persons were Injured. A spec
ial train carrying physicians has gone
to the scene. It Is reported the entire
passenger train rolled down nn em
bankment.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
MORE THAN 13,000 KILLED
BRAKES FAILED TO WORK
Shots Exchanged Between Rival Fac
tions at Ore Mines.
It is reported that 500 shots were
fired and a number of men were
wounded in the riot which resulted In
the death of two miners, Ellas Hank
Inen and John Eckdahl, at Hlbblng,
I Minn. The riot followed a strike of
I the miners at the Hull and Rust mines.
nnrnhaanH aWnl nnah fmt CO HUH
An opera cloak, thrown over a chair.' j j!10 w?re ref,U8ed arlwaee "TV
was marked as costing $700. 0 ce"'s , dny' The men left the
I .miid auu iuiicu uui I lie uuincia til
i the Sellers mine, the 700 men at the
'. Oliver Iron company's mine and the
day crew at the Burt mine. Prepara
tions were made for the resistance by
the contractors, and many rifles were
400 EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS.
Palace Temples and Residences Lev
eled by the Shock.
Later reports from Mandl, capital sent to the Burt mine. When the
of Mandl state, say that at least 400 night crew of miners went to work
persons were -killed in that city by n hody of strikers, armed with rifles
the earthquake. The palace temples : fired on the men. The miners return
and residences wore leveled. EstI- P1 the fire immedlatey. This sur
matcs of the number of people killed : prised the strikers, who hesitated a
at Sultan Pur vary from 200 to 700. : moment, and then fled, leaving Hank
SULTAN SETTLES A DEBT
Pays French Claim and Agrees to Buy
$4,000,000 In Warships.
A dispatch from Constantinople
says the French ambassador, M.
Constcns, has received an imperial
trade making a' complete and definite
settlement of the French claims.
. It gives an indemnity of $7,000,000
for the controversy over the Damas-cus-Nazrib
railroad, and ensures con
tinuous French control, giving $320,000
damages to the French company op
erating the quays of Constantinople.
The" principal fenturp is nn agreement
to use a third of a loan of $12.oo ''
for ordering warships and artillery
from French firms.
Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy,
has invited all the Europeans and In
dians Injured during the recent earth
quakes who are able to be removed,
inen and Eckdahl dead on the ground.
Greek3 8lay Hundred Bulgarians.
Latest reports from Zagorlkcham
to come to tho Walker and Hlpon hos- near Klixsura, whlcn was attacked by
pitals at Simla as her guests. Ti'.a a Greek bund on April 7, nnd burn
invitatior was sent through the lieu- cd, say that over 100 Bulgarians were
tenant governor of the Punjab, with killed. The Greeks afterward execut
a'.i intimation that the American cd 30 prisoners on the Bpot where ths
vicereine will gladly defray the ex- Greek leader Mclas was killed last
ptnses. , October.
VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
Several Passengers Injured In Wreck
In Ohio.
Train No. 43, between Cleveland and
St. Louis, one of the fastest trains on
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago &
St. Louis railway, was wrecked at
Bellefontalne, O., and seven persons
were more or less seriously hurt.
The injured: S. Sacks, of Pittsburg;
probably fatally. He was riding be
tween the express and mall cars.
Nathaniel Chandler, Weymouth, Mass.
Miss Mary Rankin, St. Louis. W. A.
Wheeler, Union City, Pa.; back hurt.
3. H. Broughton, mail clerk, Cleveland.
Charles Bowman, mall clerk, Fortvllle,
Ind. Charles Quayle, engineer, Cleve
land. As the train was pulling Into Belle
fontalne the brakes failed to work,
and the heavy cars ploughed into the
net work of switches.
Khan, His Uncle, Five Cousins and
Twenty Eight Others Burled
in Ruins.
Commissioner Jullandnrm reports
that as a result of his Investigations
ho estimates the fatalities resulting
from the earthquake In tho Kangra
district at 10,000 and in the Palampur
district at 3,000.
The total number of persons killed
at Dharmsnla was 424, besides the
Gurkhhs, who were crushed to death
by the falling of the barracks.
News reached Bombny that an
earthquake had destroyed Fort Bllboo
Aylmroola, the kahn, his uncle, five
cousins and 28 others were burled In
the ruins.
Sultan's Troops Defeated.
A dispatch from Algiers says it is
reported there that a bloody encounter
look place Sunday between the troops
jf the Sultan of Morocco and the
rebels supporting the Pretender. Tho
latter planned taking the strategic
town of Oujda nnd the Sultan's forces
were driven back.
GARFIELD AT WORK
Has Begun Investigation of Standard
Oil in Kansas.
J. R. Garfield, Commissioner of
Corporations, started his work of In
vestigating the Standard Oil Com
pany in Kansas, going through the
records In the office of the Secretary
of State, gathering data concerning
the various oil companies doing busi
ness In the State.
Commissioner Garfield nnd United
Slates Attorney Dean will confer. Mr.
Dean has received certain orders from
the Department of Justice In regard to
the oil Investigation.
Beheading Their Victims.
Pmiflrmntinn Vina lumn j
Spies Hanged at Vladivostok. the renort of fizhtln. t' " ... '
Telegrams from Vladvostok say five j frontier between troops of tho Sultan
Japanese officers, disguised as lnbor- of Morocco and rebel forces, and nl
ers. were caught photographing the ' so of timely intervention in behalf of
defences there, and were summarily j t..e Sultan by French artillery The
hanged. Documents found on thorn Sultan's soldiers are now rnja"ed in
showed they had already sent to decapitating their rlm.l m",,,?.
Toklo full information about tho de
fences.
I
BEEF PRICES ADVANCED.
Gas in Humble Oil Field Ra'sss the
Earth.
The Humble oil field In Texas was
the scene of a nios..- 'unusual phenom
ena. An upheaval took place at tho
section surroiindins the Swayne-Un-derwood
wells of volcanic violence. A
solid column of earth, .20 feet in di
ameter was throw.! 200 feet in tho ;
air, tho derrick was torn to atoms.
Fackers Declare That Range Cattle
Producers are Responsible.
Prices of beef have advanced In
every Important market of the United
States. The consumer Is paying the
advance price, which to him repre
sents several cents per pound ovoi
what he paid up to 10 days ago. Swift
& Co.. Armour and Nelson & Morris
state that no beef has been supplied
and drilling machinery was burled ,0 t!,c retail markets of Chicago ot
from sight. A sort of a mud lava ; ,0 nn' n,ner market of the country
followed the eruption, boiling up and : uttring the last month except witl:
The Situation in the Far East.
The Russian squadron Is going to
Vladivostok, according to information
given by a physician of Rojcstvensky's
fleet. Japan has declared the Pesca
dores islands In a state of siege, thus
indicating her intention to make them
ler naval base in the impending con
flict. The Russian hospital ship Orel
has sailed from Saigon to rejoin Ro
jestvensky's squadron. There has
"been no fight as rumored.
Maryland Concerns Ousted.
Attorney General P. C. Simons re
voked the license of six of the seven
surety companies operating in Okla
homa Territory because they have
failed to comply with a recently en
acted law requiring such companies
to deposit $30,000 with the Territory
treasurer. Among the companies af
fected are: The Fidelity and De
posit Company, the United States
.Fidelity and Guaranty Company, and
jthe American Bonding Company, all
Maryland.
filling the chasm.
Accompanying the eruption was an
Immense volume of gas. which was
ignited. The flames burned liv feet
in tho air with the roar of a volcano.
Ma-
the
Cigarettes are Prohibited.
Superintendent Turk of the
hanoy-Shenandoah division of
Reading railroad. ha3 Js3ued an order
prohibiting smoking of cigarettes in
stations clc-.ig the system or in the
coaches or smoking cars of passenger
trains. Tho order is to bs strictly
enforced.
i loss. This, it Is declared, has been
partiully due to thoj "act that the
breeders of stock and Trie handlers ol
range cattle have been holding bad;
on supply until the grass of tho range
becomes nourishing.
Loose Pension Methods.
Commissioner Warner has called the
attention of the board of pensions re
view to the sllpshop methods of that
department. Ten members of the
board have been called upon to show
why their services should not be dis
pensed with. The delinquencies were
in connection with the allowance of
claims from members of a Pennsyl
vania regiment that had never been in
the volunteer service. In 18G1 the
company was organized at Erie by a
Col. McLane.
Coxey Is a Bankrupt.
"General" Jacob Coxey, of Com
monwealth fame, was declared 8
bankrupt by the United States court
at Columbus, O. The liabilities arc
S2S5.O00. The assets of the formei
leader of the Commonwealth arm;
aro tied up in the Coxey Sand com
pany at Massillon.
To Separate Church and State.
The French chamber of deputies by
422 to 45 votes, adopted article 1 of
the bill providing for the separation
of church nnd state as follows: "The
republic assures liberty and con
science and guarantees the free exer
cise of religion, tho only restrictions
being those in the interest of public
order." All the amendments were
rejected. The majority in favor of ar
ticle 1 was considered as showing the
strength of '.he supporters of the measure.
President Hunts Wolves.
President Roosevelt's wolf hunt, be
gan early Monday morning at Camp
Roosevelt, If! miles southeast of
Frederick, Okla. A pack of 40 dogs,
under direction of John A. Bcrnathy,
a wolf killer, chased tho game. Three
wolves were killed before dinner, tin
President being always at the head of
tho procession of riders. The hunt
was resumed at 1 o'clock In the after
noon, with the party of riders reduced
to 10 men. No guns aro used.
GRAIN CONDITIONS CCOD
Winter Wheat Stands at 91.6 Per Cent
and Winter Rye at 92.1.
The monthly report of the Chief of
the Bureau of Statistics of the De
partment of Agriculture will show the
average condition of winter wheat
on April 1 to have been 91.G against
7C.5 on April 1, 1904, 97.3 at the cor
responding dato In 1903 and 83.1 tho
mean of the April averages of the last
ten years.
premium of $2 a hi
offered.
;d having been
FIVE LIVES LOST IN HUDSON
Perish by the Capsizing of Coat
the River.
Five Uvea were lost In the Hudson
In
Lorenzo Barton, an aged veteran
of the Civil war, was killed In a run
away accident while working on his
farm near Titusville, Pa.
F. E. Hollen, 28 years old, of Terra
Alta, W. Va.. a Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman, was found dead on the track
at Deer Park, Pa". Over $40 was found
on him.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad will
spend $10,000 for a Young Men's Chris
tian association building at Cumber
land, Md., provided railroad men con
tribute $2,500.
The grain warehouse of the Horace
Ingersoll company, on Thirty-fourth
street, New York, was burned, caus
ing a $50,000 loss.
Arthur Lutchford, secretary and
treasurer of the Mechanics Savings
bnnk at Rochester, N. Y., committed
suicide by shooting.
Judge W. M. Allison, 85 years of
age, once prominent in politics In
Ohio, It Is said, was run over and
killed by a switching engine at Snyder,
Okla.
John Behanna. 4 years old, fell Into
a cistern at Buffalo Village, Pa., and
was drowned.
Brakeman Frederick Shafer, 24
years old, was killed by a train on the
railroad at Salem, O.
Kobbers looted three houses at
Arden, Pa. A quantity of silver nnd
Jewelry was secured, together with
about $200 in money.
President W. R. Harper, of the
I niverslty of Chicago, has resumed
hH university work, interrupted by
ins recent illness.
The Tennessee State Senate passed
a mil defining ami prohibiting trusts,
combines and conspiracies for the
restriction of trade, and fixing penal
ties for violations.
ins nouse oi j. vv. Moore, near
K"ent, O., was riddled with bullets bv
unknown parties. Several members
of the family narrowly ecaped being
killed. Whether it was the work of
assassins or drunken revelers is
mystery.
An explosion of about 700 sticks of
dynamite in the powder house of the
i.nwrence Limestone company, near
Wampum, Pa., shook the eoir.itry for
miles around. The powder house
trec3 and fences were blown almost to
atoms. No one was near enough to be
injured.
A message from Nossi do Madagas
car dated March 22 says that during
the stay of Admiral Roj.-stvensky's
fleet at that point many of tho Russian
sailors deserted. Eight executions
for Insubordination took place and
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
DOG GUARDED THE
Farmer Had Lain on Plowed Groundt
All Day Was Last Seen AKive
at Breakfast.
Samuel Loutzenhlser, a prominent
farmer, was found dead by his daifch-
ter in a field of his farm west pC
Greenville. His family was away fros
home and he was last seen alive a
breakfast. He had evidently died in
the morning and lain in the plowedN
ground all day. His team stood near
and his dog was licking his hands and'
whining plteously when the body waai
found.
river at Bnrrytown, X. Y., by the cap- j fol,r ofnct rs w"re reduced In rank.
British barristers gave a banquet nt
tho Inns of Courts In London, for Am
bassador Choate.
DESPERATE DASH FOR LIBEF.TY
Condemned Murderer Shoots Two Men
on Death Watch.
Arthur Laster, who Is under sent
ence to be hanged at Paterson, N. J.,
on Friday next, made a desperate at
tempt to escape from Jail. He shot
the two deputy sheriffs on the death
watch, but failed to get away and was
finally clubbed Into unconsciousness
by policemen, whom the deputy sher
iffs called to their aid.
slz-ng of a boat. Six men whos
names are not known, went from Stuy
vesant to Bnrrytown, nnd John Maloy,
of Bnrrytown, started across with
them in a rov.boat. There were sev
en in the boat. A strong wind capsized
the ferry. Maloy and four of tho
strangers were drowned. Two of the
men were rescued as they clung to the
overturned boat. Maloy was an ex
perienced ferryman; The bodies were
not recovered.
Oregon Land Fraud Indictments.
The Federal Grand Jury nt Portland,
Ore., Indicted 15 well-known men of
Oregon and Washington on charges
of conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out of a portion of its lands.
Among those indicted ' nre State
Senator R. A. Booth, his brother
Henry J. Booth. Frank I). Alloy, of
Roseburg; A. II. and Edward ' R.
Downs," Seattle; Rev. Stephen W.
Turrnelle, a Roseburg minister, and
ten others.
About 400 indictments charging the
Standard Oil Company with failure to
take out peddlers license as required
by the Kentucky statutes, were return
ed by the Franklin county grand Jury.
Similar indictments have jeen return
ed recently in several counties of the
State.
READJUSTING WAGES
Accepted Rockefeller's Gift.
Bishop Isnatius F. Horstmann, of the
Roman Catholic church, has accepted
from John D. Rockefeller a gift of
$5,000 to the Sisters of the Good Shep
herd, at Cleveland. This Is the first
gift Mr. Rockefeller has mado to a
Cutholic Institution.
Twenty or more passengers w?ro
injured, but none killed, by a collision
of the Chicago express and California
limited trains on the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe Railway.
Men Employed in Large Independent
Steel Concsrn Affected.
The Wheeling Steel and Iron com
pany, the largest independent steel
concern in this section of the Ohio
valley, is working on a re-adjustment
of wages to take effect. May 1.
The advance will run from five to
seven and a half per cent., affecting
thousands of niru employed nt the
Benwood Iron and S'oel works. Bel
mont mill, and Top mill blast furnace.
The new scale of not apply to the
salaried men and those working under
the Amalgamated scale.
Philippine Neutrality Guarded.
A suggestion from Washington
caused Admiral Train of the Philip
pine squndron of the Asiatic fleet to
send the cruiser Raleigh and several
torpedo boats to the Island of Palawan
to see to It that the Russian fleet does
not use American territory as a base
for refitting any of its ships before
the expected encounter with the Jap
anese force In China sen. The
Raleigh and her torpedo boat consorts
will be expected to patrol the waters
through which the Russian Admiral
is expected to pass.
Tho employes of the Inter-State
Steel Works, at Tarentum, have been
granted a 10 per cent, raise in wages
and the company is planning to add
two more mills to its plant, doubling
the capacity. One hundred more men.
wil also be employed. The Solid Steel
Tube & Forge Company's plant at
Tarentum will resume woVk at once.
James D. Wilson, the receiver, has put
the plant in shape for starting and
150 men wil be employed.
The boiler of a threshing ma
chine engine exploded n &
barn on the farm of David
Borkheimer, near Duncansvllle.
George Webb, David Burkhelmer and
Frederick Steiner were badly hurt. The
barn was badly damaged. The men
were engaged in chopping feed.
Webb was blown 30 feet In the air
and will probably die from his Injur
ies. A straw stack near the barn
caught fire and before the flames were
extinguished did considerable damage.
The McCance Supply company's
store, operated by Booth & Fllnn, six
miles from Latrobe, was robbed. The
burglars blew open the safe and got
valuable papers and $2 in cash.
Brickyard employes met the robbers
a short time afterwards and question
ed the men. The reply was a fusil
lade of shots in the air. The robbers
stole a horse and buggy at the bam
of a farmer near Kingston and escaped.
Louis Burger of South Sharon, bor
ough clerk and manager of the foreign
exchange in the Colonial bank, was
held for court in the sum of $500 on
a charge of illegal voting at the Feb
ruary election, preferred by Dr. W. G.
Berryhlll. Berryhill claims Burger has
not received naturalization papers.
Burger furnished bail. He claims bis
political enemies trumped up the
charges against him to injure his
standing.
A storm at Burnsvllle in West Fin-
ley township, Washington county un
roofed several houses while many
buildings were struck by lightning '
and some burned. The steeple of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church at
Burnsvllle was carried away and fell
through the roof. The storm was ac
companied by hall stones as big as
walnuts.
During an electrical storm the barn
on the farm of Joseph Hays, In Beaver
county, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground. Three val
uable horses were cremated and con
siderable grain and all farming im
plements destroyed. The loss Is esti
mated about $3,000, with only about
$600 Insurance.
One of the largest deals in oil prop
erty for some time In Venango county
was the transfer of a lease of 140
acres In Sandy-creek township from
Mrs. Emma Gordon and George Tib
bens to Eugene E. Grimm, of Frank
lin, and E.'E. Jenkins of Pittsburg.
The consideration was $50,000.
Grading has begun by a large folv
under Contractor Green on a street
railway from Footedale to Browns
ville, via New Salem. Surveying is
being done for 80 new coke ovens of
the A. L. Kelster Coke Company at
Waltorsburg.
The search for valuables at the
Home of Benson B. Fordyce, NIchoI-
son township, Fayette county, has
been concluded. The estate has been
appraised at $10,000. All property
will be sold on April 18.
At a meeting of the trustees of
Allegheny colleges at Mcadville, Pa., it
was decided to accept the" offer ot
Andiew Carnegie to give the college
T2,C'0t) provided the trustees raise a
like sum.
The f-afe In the Bicmont shoe store
at Monessen, was robbed of about
.$200 in cash. The thief entered the
store during the temporary absence of
Mrs. Bicmont hi a back room.
James Gillie, a Pittsburg and Lake
Erie railroad conductor, was caught
between two cars at Monongahela,
and was killed. He was 22 years old
and lived at Coal Bluff, Pa.
Robert G. Wagner, a Pennsylvania
railroad flagman, was killed by a
train at Kittanning Point. He was
27 years old and resided at Patton.
William Mcl.ain and two children of
Scottdale, were thrown from a bug
gy, which cillided with a street car,
and were painfully hurt.
Mrs. Joseph Moetis died at Shenan
doah after 11 hours illness from snot-
ted fever. Three cases of the disease
were reported.
A 1-year-old sen of Mr. and Mrs.
Sample Long, of Irwin, was scalded
to death by falling Into a pan of boil
ing water.
Frank Snider, 35 years old, was
killed on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road near West Newton.
Since the reduction In the number
Of liquor licenses at Ellwood City,
council has dispensed with the ser
vices of Capt. Moon, who had been
chief of police for several years.
Tho commissioners of Lawrence
county, have let the contract for two
bridges one at New Wilmington, for
$1,422 and another near West Pitts
burg, for $375.
William Kelsey, 32 years old. color
ed, employed at the W. J. Rainey
coke works, was killed by a train be
tween Tarr nnd Alverton. He came
to this county from Alexandria, V.