( KILLED IN POLISH RIOTS Troops Charge Barricades Built by Strikers at Lodz. 8H00TING HEARD CONTINUALLY City Is In a Panic and More Trouble Is Feared Strike Agitators Are at Work In Warsaw. A message from' Lodz, Russian Poland, dated June 23 says: Troops to-night stormed the barricades erect ed In the streets by the strikers. Fifty persons have been killed and 200 wounded. Since early this morning the city has been In a state of panic. The strike is general and all the factories and the shops are closed. Barricades have been erected at many points. Rifle volleys and revolver shots are heard continually. A man carrying a bomb was arrest ed in front of tho Malcwk police sta tion at Warsaw. He refused all In formation regarding himself. Dis turbances are anticipated in conse quence of the shooting of workmen at Lodz. ' According to advices received at St. Petersburg the situation in Po land Is again exceedingly serious. Censored dispatches from Lodz, though giving fw details, Indicate that fierce street fighting was In pro gress between the striking workmen, who barricaded the thoroughfares In various quarters of the city, and of fered reslstence which the troops met with volleys. OHIO RIVER SURVEY Engineers Given Money to Make Plans Below the Big Miami. The actual work of surveying the Ohio rlver'wlth a view to determining whether It. is worth while to put the "On to Ca'irlo" project Into execution will begin very shortly. An allow ance of $56,000 to cover the cost of the surveys has been made by the army authorities having charge of the Con gressional fund for river and harbor work. An assistant has been provided for Lleutennnt Colonel Ruffner, stntloned at Cincinnati, which will enable that officer to devote a good deal of his time to the examination of that stretch of the stream below the mouth of the Big Miami river. That part of the river below the mouth of the Big Miami has never been surveyed. The money will be available July 1 and It Is the purpose' to have the surveyors ready at that time. The money for the examination is to be taken from the item of $300,000 carried in the River and Harbor Ap propriation bill of the last session set aside for extending the harbor of Pittsburg to the State line between Pennsylvania and Ohio by deepening the pools created by the six locks and dams between Pittsburg and Beaver. The deepening Is to be accomplished by putting in eight-foot wickets In stead of six-foot, as originally pro vided, and building up the lock walls in some of the pools and dredging in some of the others where the longer wickets and higher lock walls will not accomplish the purpose. RAILROAD COMPANY WINS. Charged With Discrimination In the Distribution of Cart. j The Norfolk and Western Railroad company Is the winner of the suit j brought against It by the Greenbrier Coal and Coke company of West VIr-! glnla and a number of other coal com-; panles of the Flat Top coal field ! charging It with violation of Interstate j commerce and discrimination In the distribution of coal ears. Judge Keller, In the Federal court at Charleston quashed the alternative j writ of mandamus Issued several , weeks ago. Judge Keller held that ; the case could not come under the j Interstate Commerce commission be-; cause the railioad company Is only j charged with v.-olation of a private contract. KURD3 AND TARTARS REVOLT Armenian Villages Sacked Cossacks Kill 100 Insurgents. Bands of Insurgents in the district of Scharonkhau, province of Erivan, j Transcaucasia, recently sacked and j burned four Armenian villages. Sub- sequently the Insurgents surrounded ' and attacker Owllsnoraschau. The i Inhabitants of the town repulsed the besiegers killing hundreds of them. Cossacks and other troops stationed at the village of Khouloundlan also ! repulsed an attack of the insurgents on that place. Inflicting enormous losses on them and capturing 870 prisoners, a quantity of arms and a black standard. The Insurgent chiefs and mullahs were executed. Woman and Children Drown. A report comes from Newbold, Wis., of the drowning of Mrs. Ezra Craw and Mrs. Edward Craw and six chil dren in Rainbow Rapids, Wisconsin river. It is reported that the party i was In a boat which was capsized lnf- the rapids. Americans Robbed. Theodore S. Darling, of New York, and several other guests at the Hotel de L'Europe, In St. Petersburg. Rus sia, have been robbed of all their valuables. Mr. Darling lost a dia mond necklace and quite, a sum of money. Subsequently the necklace was discovered In a pawn shop. Considerable mystery surrounds the robery. Suspicion fell on a Russian countess, but when accused, she threatened to sue the proprietors of tne hotel and no attempt has been made to prosecute her. DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW Seasonable Weather Has Stimulated Retail Trade Lett Idle Machin. , ery Than Usual. Seasonable weather In most sec tions At the country has done much to stimulate lagging retail trade In light weight wearing apparel and greatly Improved the entire business situation by accelerating the maturi ty of agricultural products. A few more weeks of favorable climatic conditions will put large quantities of grain beyond danger, while late planted corn and cotton are rapidly recovering lost ground. These are the most Important commercial In fluences at this St asm of the year, jobbers advance orders lining largely dependent upon local conditions at the Interior, and manufacturers Rung lug their activity by the outlook for fall and winter distribution. In thti U ailing manufacturing In dustries there Is less 'idle machinery than Is customary at this time of in ventories, especially at plants making textile fabrics., despite the fact that prices of raw materials are somewhat Inflated. Labor controversies are not disturbing, several more agreements having been Flatted, and less than the usual number of struecles are threatened for July 1. ' Building operations are numerous anil Involve a greater amount of capital than at this time In recent preceding years; railway earnings for June thus far exceed last year's by 8.1 per cent., and foreign commerce at New York for the last week Is fair ly well maintained, exports gaining $3.18,270 In comparison with Inst ye.ar. while Imports decreased $1, 172,707. Normal midsummer quiet In the Iron and steel Industry Is oc casioning no anxiety, conditions be ing much better than they were nt this time la.-t year. Iregnlarity i3 still noted In tho hide market. For eign dry hides continue dull nt the re cent decline. Although les active than last week, leather Is still mov ing freely. New England footwear, manufacturers are receiving a fair amount of supplementary fall orders from salesmen In the Western terri tory and there Is also a good de mand for spring samples. Failures this week numbered 105 In the United States against 227 last year, anil 29 In Canada, compared with 32 a year ago. JAPAN'S PEACE TERMS Demands Are Said to Be More Moder ate Than Expected. Japan's terms of peace, according to an Interview had by a correspondent of the St. Petersburg Novoo Vremya with a member of the Japanese Em bassy at Vienna, will prove to be more moderate than had been ex pected and will be based on the propositions made In the Japanese note on the eve of hostilities, with an addition of an Indemnity covering the cost of the war. Japan will not Insist on humiliating terms such as the cession of the Island of Sakhalin, the disarmament of Vladivostok or the limitation of Russia's naval rights In the Pacific, but will Insist on guaran tees against the renewal of the war for half a century at least. The diplomat Is quoted ns saying that Japan wishes to live on terms of friendship with Russia In the future and Is not disposed to make over-harsh stipulations. The war party has by no means sur rendered. On the contrary, backed by the military element, It is making a concerted effort to dissuade the Em peror from concluding peace. Even with the two armies already clinching, members of the war party are filling St. Petersburg and Peter hof with optimistic views. Lieutenant General Linevltch and his Heutenants are reinforcing their arguments with roseate reports of the strategic situa tion. Many Russian correspondents at the front, evidently Inspired from St. Petersburg nre flooding their papers with dispatches in the same strain. Bv the explosion of a saw mill at Atalla, Alan James Watts, William Rossen, Augustus Cash and Marlon Maddox were killed nnd Charles Smith was fatally injured. Exnects War With Russia. . Gen. Lord Kitchener, commander-in-chief of the British forces in India, seems to regard as Inevitable a great struggle with Russia for the possess ion of India, and to believe that the existing arrangements for the defense of the Indian empire are altogether obsolete and Ineffective, as is shown In a Blue Book. The government has approved Lord Kitchener's plans. Hill Must Stand Trial. Magistrate Elsenbrown of Phila delphia held John W. Hill, ex-chlef of the bureau of filtration, for court In the sum of $8,000. . Ball was furnished by Robert K. Balfour. This action was based on' the evi dence of Frederick Schaffhauser, a former field engineer, who testified that he, personally, at the request of Chief Hill, falsified records and pad ded estimates in the Interest of fhe D. J. McNIchol Company. The prefect of Naples has ordered the population in the vicinity of Mount Vesuvius to prep-re to leave their homes, owing to an alarming increase In the discharges from the crater. Spanish Cabinet Resigns. The entire Spanish cabinet has re signed and Its resignation has been accepted by King Alfonso. The res ignation followed the rejection of a vote of confidence In the cabinet In troduced in the chamber of deputies by Deputy Llorens. A cloud burst at Troy, Pa., flooded the village and did great damage. The town is on two branches of Sugar creek. Both branches over flowed their banks and two brldge spanning them were swept away. LIMITED TRAIN WRECKED Lake Shore Flyer Runs into Open Switch Killing a Score CRUSHED CARS CATCH FIRE Huge Engine and Five Pullmans Plunge Into Ditch Near Cleve land Scenes of Horror. The Twentieth Century Limited, eastbound, on the Lake Shore Rall load, one of the fastest trains In the world, ran through an open switch opposite the Mentor station, 25 miles east of Cleveland, while traveling a mile a minute. The train dashed Into an open switch at the left of the main track. The officials are unable to account for the accident. The list of dead reached twenty, Including passengers and trainmen, and as many more were Injured. Five bodies, horribly burned, were taken from the wreck. It was Im possible to Identify them at the scene of the wreck. D. C. Moon, Assistant General Superintendent of the Lake Shore, stated late to-night that It looked as though the wreck had been caused by malicious mischief. He sah! a fast passenger train pass ed over the switch safely three quarters of an hour before the limit ed was wrecked. Immediately after the wreck It was found the switch was locked open, so that no train could pass It without being thrown from the track. This was the fourth trip of the liver on its run from Chicago to New York on an 18-hour schedule. The train was the pride of the New York Central system. The train pulled out of Cleveland with Ave cars, four Pullman cars be hind the buffrt car. The combina tion car was burned completely and cooled off at 11:30 p. m., so that rescuers could go to work. About 15 passengers were known to have been riding In this car, and at least six of them are dead. The Lake Shore Railway Company offered a reward of $2,000 for the arrest or for Information leading to the arrcf of the person or persons responsible for the wreck of the Twentirth Century Limited at Mentor last Wednesday night. State Ptiirnal Commissioner J. C. Morris with Inspector O. F. Jackson of Sprlneflrld arr.ved at Mentor to take personal charge of the Investi gation Into the wreck. "That the switch was oii -n." slid Morris, 'Is be yond all doubt. The condition of the roadbed and the rails demonstrate that th? endue did not jump the track t ntll It had proceeded 50 feet along the siding. That switch must have beei thrown Just before the en gine reached it " A bag containing Jewels valued at $32,000. the property of S. C. Beck wlth of New York, supposed to have been stolen from the wrecked t'raln at Mentor, was found. It had been picked up In the wreckage and taken to the Lake Shore claim agent's office at Cleveland. Before the whereabouts of the jewels was known a search had been started for them on behalf of Mrs. Beckwlth. Mr. Beckwlth died soon after being re moved from the wreck. President Newman, of the New York Central and Lake Shore railroad, said that the 20-hour schedule of the Twentieth Century Limited train on the New York Lake Shore will be re stored at once In place of the 18 hour schedule on which the train had been running for only a few dayst TRUE TO HER CHURCH. Woman Refuses $30,00 Rather Than Change Her Belief. Putting her religion above all price, Mrs. Lucinda Ganson, of Davenport, la., has refused to accept $30,000 left to her by the will of the late Chas. Simpson, of Sacramento, a wealthy friend of the Ganson family, on con dition Mrs. Ganson became a Catho lic. In the event of her refusal the will provides the money shall go to a Catholic orphanage In Sacramento. $100,000,000 Loan for Irdia. The House of Commons authorized the raising of a loan not exceeding $100,000,000, with the revenues of In dia as security, for the construction extension and equipment of the rail ways of India. Secretary for India Broderlck explained that the money was required to enable the government to take over the Bombny-Baroda rail road and to extend the program for railway building throughout the country. Farmer Killed from Ambush. Melville Thomas, a farmer near Dunlow, W. Va while, plowing In a field near a woods, was shot by an assassin and killed. Thomas recently returned Indictments against some Illicit retailers In the nearby vicinity. Attempted to Wreck "Flyer" on P. R. R. Pennsylvania railroad officials are Investigating an alleged attempt to wreck the new 18-hour "flyer" at Manor. According to the report the track-walker found ties on the track used by the train. He suc ceeded In removing them in time to let the train fly by at its mile-a-minute gait. Alexander and Hyde Out. Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton the new head of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, accepted the resignation of James W. Alexander as President and James H. Hyde as Vice President of the society, and they at once ceased to be officers of the company, which their families have dominated since it was founded 46 years ago. Efforts at peace go forward In Russia in the face of steady, pressure from the- war party. NO ARMISTICE WANTED Russia Believes. She It art the Eve of Winning a Great Land Victory. Kogoro Takuhlra, the) Japanese minister, called at the White House to inform President Roosevelt that the Japanese plenipotentiaries would be able to - reach Washington the first part of August, if it was deemed de sirable for them to be here by that time. The personnel o! the mission has not yet been announced. When tlie president returned to the executive offices after receiving Mr. Takahlrn, he found Count Casslnl, the Russian ambassador, awaiting him. "The Information brought by the min ister was communulcated to the am bassador, who Is cabling his govern ment to find out when the Russian mission will urrive. When this Is known It will be possible to de cide upon a date for ths conference. The general belief is It will convene about the middle of August. Japan will not ask for an armistice, Insisting that the Initiative must come from Russia. The optimistic reports of the last few days, received In St. Petersburg from the front, have great ly raised the hopes of the Russians that a land victory Is near, and the war party Is opposed to the sending of a request for an armlstlco at this time. . Japan Is not at all, desirous of a temporary cessation of hostilities, for between now nnd the beginning of the rainy season in August, Oyama Is expocted to accomplish great achievements In Manchuria. However, after the plenipotentiaries have been appointed the Informal discussion of an armistice will be resumed, nnd In case the president takes an Initiative in suggesting a limited truce, both belligerents will give the matter ser ious consideration. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Russia finally agreed to Washington as the meeting place for the peace conference. John W. Hill, ex-chlet of Phila delphia's bureau of filtration, was on a warrant charging forgery. M. Nelldoff, Russian ambass-.jdor to Paris, has been definitely appoint ed one of the Russian peace pleni potentiaries. Many deaths from heat are report ed in the Pittsburg district. The teniporature was above ninety for several days. Dr. C. C. Rice, formerly an asso ciate professor at Leland Stanford university, went Insane In Allegheny and Is detained at St. Francis hospit al. Mrs. Ida McHenry, wife of Myron E. McHenry, driver of John R. Gent ry and Dan Patch, was granted a divorce In the Chicago courts on charges of Infidelity, which were not denied by her husband. The Massachusetts Supreme court handed down a decision holding that the attempt to fotce all laborers to unite in unions is against the policy of the law, because It aims at a monopoly of the labor market. The will of John W. Parmslee, who died recently, provides that his estate of $400,000 shall be held in trust and the income eventually devoted to the purchase of fuel for needy families In Chicago. Gen. Stephen D. Lee was unani mously re-elected commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. The other officers were also relected. The next convention will be held In New Orleans. Germany and France may ask President Roosevelt to help settle the Moroccan dispute. Advices to Wash ington were that the situation Is ex tremely delicate, but war Is Im probable. The State department received a dispatch from Mr. Gummere, minist er to Morocco, transmitting a request from the government of Morocco that the United States participate In a conference upon the affairs of that country. The list of deaths resulting from the head-on collision on the Western Maryland railroad near Patapsco station Saturday evening was In creased to 26 by the death of James Benner, a railroad laborer of Catoctln, Md. The lady managers of the St. Louis fair spent less than three-fourths of the $100,000 alloted them by congress and are ready to return the balance to the government. Robbers made an unsuccessful at tempt to hold up the North Coast limited train near Tacoma, Wash. Alma Kurcher, Edna VnnAmbrey and Gladys Howe, members of a picnicking party, were drowned at Petoskey, Mich., while boating on the lake. The almshouse at Muskegon, Mich., was burned and one Inmate, Mrst Carl, aged 75 years, was fatally hurt. Mrs. Mary Blngerhelmer was ser iously Injured and others were slight ly hurt by a sight-seeing automobile and a street car In Chicago colliding. John W. Hill, former chief of Philadelphia's filtration burenu, was arrested on a warrant charging for geries to be uttered amounting to $40,000. Ex-Judge D. Watson Rowe, of Chambersburg, Pa., was appointed president Judge of the Franklin county courts by Gov. S. W. Penny packer to succeed Judge John Stewart, who resigned to become an associate Justice of the State Supreme Court. Polish Workmen Shot Down. . Eighteen persons were killed and 100 wounded at Lodz by volleys fired by dragoons and Cossacks on a pro cession of 50,000 workmen, which had been organized as a demonstration against the government. With 30 red flags they marched, shouting "Down with despotism!" The Pennsylvania Republican State committee named Judge John Stewart, of Chambersburg, Franklin county, as the candidate for the supreme court, to succeed the late Justice John Dean. BANKERS WERE VICTIMS Death of a Philadelphia Broker Reveals Colossal Forgeries. RAISED STOCK CERTIFICATES Extent of His Operations Hard to Estimate and the Losera With out Recourse. One of the most sensational cases of forgery that has ever been brought to light In financial circles of Phila delphia was disclosed when It was announced that certificates- calling for small numbers of shares of stock had been fra'udently raised to hund reds of shares, causing a loss to cer tain banks and trust companies of the city of from $750,000 to $1,000,00. The forgery involves the name of Benjamin H. Gasklll, who died four weeks ago. Gasklll was the sole member of the banking nnd brokerage concern known as Benjamin H. Gasklll & Co. He had offices In the financial district and his redft was considered gilt-edged. Gasklll died about four weeks ago and at the lime of his death he was believed to be worth about $300,000. He left no will and administrators began to close up his business. A patron of the firm, bought from the estate 100 shares of Philadelphia Traction Company stock nnd lot shares of stock of tho United States Steel Corporation. He turned his ac count over to E. C. Miller & Co., which firm sent the 100 shares of traction stock to the Philadelphia Traction Company's office to have the transfer recorded. The certificate did not agree with the company's books, nnd an Investi gation showed that the certificate had been raised from six shares to 100. The discovery was reported to E. C. Miller & Co., which firm immediately notified the stock exchange, of which Gasklll was a member, which In turn sent out notices to Its members not to receive stock certificates from the Gasklll estate. A further Investigation brought to light a surprising state of affairs. It was found that GaskiH had credited himself on his own books with 6,000 shares of Philadelphia Traction stock valued at approximately $600,000. while the traction company's books showed he had only 400 shares. It was also discovered that he had raisod stock certificates of the United Railways of New Jersey from 2 to 200, and the certificates of the Frnnkford and Southwark Street Railway Company, from 2 to 20. The latter stock Is worth $150 a share. Gasklll kept two accounts one re cording the transactions of his cus tomers, which was correct, and an other giving his own transactions. His books showed that he was losing from $15,000 to $25,000 a year In his business. His method of operation was to obtain certificates of gilt edged securities calling for one, two, threeor some other small number of shares, raise the figures and give them as securities for large loans. At least six banks and trust com panies of Philadelphia admit holding fraudulent securities for large loans. PHILADELPHIA BANK FAILS Gasklll't Forgerlet Wreck City Trust and Safe Deposit Company. The City Trust and Safe Deposit Company, .of Philadelphia, for years fated as a reliable institution closed Its doors and Albert L. Tabor, a state bank examiner, was appointed tem porary receiver. The company will liquidate, and J. Hampton Moore, its president, recently appointed, will probably be appointed permanent re ceiver. A new company may be or ganized. The failure of the company was the direct result of the forgeries of the late Benjamin H. GaskiH, the bank losing, according to President Moore, nearly $80,000 on raised stock certifi cates. The bank also lost during the brief tenure of office of President A. E. Appleyard. Library Dedicated. The new $50,000 Thompson Memor ial library, of Washington and Jeffer son college., was dedicated on the 20th. President .1. D. Moffat pre sided. The dedicatory address was delivered by Charles F. Thwlng, president of Western Resnrve uni versity. The money for the building was donated by W. R. Thompson, of Pittsburg. His wife donated an ad ditional $10,000 for partial mainten ance and equipment. ' A Full Investigation. A new and Independent Investiga tion of the affairs of the Equitable Life Assurance society Is to be begun at once. Paul Morton, the newly-elected chairman of the board of directors, wants to know exactly how things are with the society, and has commission ed Price, Waterhouse & Co., and Hasklns & Sells, chartered account ants, working together, to examine every detail of the Work. Investments and relations of the society. The new fast trains on the Penn sylvania and Lake Shorel railroads will greatly expedite the delivery of letter mall In the west. Canal Corporation formed. The Ohio and Pennsylvania Ship Canal Company has been organized and preliminary work Is in progress for the construction of a canal be tween Pittsburgh and Ashtabula. This Is the Ohio corporation associ ated with the Lake Erie & Ohio River Ship Canal. Company of Pitts burgh, the Pennsylvania corporation. James H. Cassldy, attorney and 'priv ate secretary to Congressman Burton, has been elected president and Charles F. Lang, secretary and treasurer. THI CROP OUTLOOK Cor Making . Oeotf Jm Harvesting It Under Way. The following Is the general sum mary of crop conditions, as shown by the weekly bulletin of the weather bureau; The week was favorable for the cultivation of crops, and this work Is now In a very satisfactory state. Abnormally low temperatures prevail ed over most of the plateau districts, with frosts In some places. Except In Eastern Missouri and Central and Southern Illinois, corn has made good progress throughout the corn belt. In the Southern States, while generally doing well, corn Is In need of rain in many sections. In the Middle At lantic States, the crop has exper ienced a decided Improvement. Winter wheat has progressed under favorable conditions, and harvesting is now well advanced in Kansas, Missouri and Southern Illinois, and has begun In Indiana and Maryland. In portions of Wisconsin and Minne sota dry weather Is needed for spring wheat, but this crop has generally made v(rji satisfactory progress throughout the spring wheat region and Is beginning to head In the Southern portion. The oat crop has suffered to some ' extent from ex cessive moisture In Wisconsin and Minnesota, rust In Southern Iowa, rank growth In Northern Illinois, and drouth In Southern .Illinois, but In these States and generally elsewhere the condition of the crop Is promising. As a whole, the apple outlook Is not promising, especially in the States of the Central valleys, but better pros pects are reported from Kansas, Michigan, portions of Iowa and In New England. In portions of Mis souri and Southern Illinois and also in the Middle Atlantic States, thm grass crop has been shortened by drougth, but elsewhere a good crop is promised. NO FIGHT OVER MOROCCO International Conference Practically Assured. An international conference for the consideration of the affairs of Morocco Is now practically assured, as the re sult of the conversations between Premier Rouvler and Prince Radolin, the German ambassador, and attention Is now directed to defining the scope of the conference. Details are being rapidly arranged and the officials ex pect to be able to announce the plans for the conference In the course of four or five days. Although the acceptance of the con ference gives a certain measure of success to German diplomacy, yet M. Rouvler emerges from the contro versy with the advantage of having brought Germany to exactly define the scope of the conference and so to rid It of the objection of being a menace to French Interests. SWEDEN FAVORS WAR Conservative Press Urges Mobilization of Troopt. The correspondent of the London Standard at Stockholm says the Swedish conservative papers now openly advocate war. They urge mobilization of the troops and de mand the cession for Northern Nor way as compensation to the Swedish people for the dissolution of the union. The Norwegian Storthing adopted a reply to King Oscar's letter of June 13 to M. Berner, Its President, In the form of an address to the King and the Swedish people. The reply adheres to the action taken by the Storthing In dissolving the union. Boston Wool Market. Ar quieter tone prevails in the wool market. Many of the new wools are at hand and higher quotations are not unexpected. New Territory wools have sold with some freedom, while the call for crossbreds has declined. The old pulled wools have, been practically all sold. Foreign wools are firm. The range In this market Is about as follows: Ohio and Penn sylvania, XX and above, 3536c; X 333lc; No. 1, 4142c; No. 2, 4243c; fine unwashed, 272Sc; quarter blood, unwashed, 35 36c; blood, 36c; half blood, 35c; unwashed delaine. 2930c; unmerchantable, 32 33c; fine washed delaine, 3S 39c. Drowned In Torrent. A cloudburst swept over Glycerine Hollow, one mile south of Butler, Pa., Two sons and a daughter of Caleb Hageman, a truck gardner living on Schaffner Bros.' farm ran from their home to a bridge to see it go out and amused themselves running across the bridge as It hung by a few timb ers. Suddenly the bridge fell and all three were preclpated into the flood. The girl and one boy escaped by clinging to branches of trees, but Roy, aged 20 years, was swept down by the stream and his body has not been recovered. Lunatic Shoots Nine Persons. After holding 1,000 persons at bay for two hours in Eddy street, San Francisco, Cal.. shooting nine people and defying the police from his room In a hotel, Thomas Lobb, a maniac, killed himself. None of tho wounded will die. The American schooner-yacht At lantic won the race for auxiliary yachts from Dover to Heligoland, completing the course In 41 hours, 2C minutes and 24 seconds. Train Breaks Record. What was the most remarkable railroad run on record was made, Century train of the Lake Shore and New York Central railroad arrived at the station In Cleveland 21 minutes ahead of time. In the 357 miles from Chicago to Cleveland the new flyer arrived at the three terminals SO minutes ahead of schedule time, 15 minutes ahead at Elkhart, 101 miles from Chicago; 15 minutes ahead at Toledo-and 21 minutes ahead at Cleveland. An average of 65 to 70 mllet an hour was maintained. KEYSTONE STATE CULLIKGS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING! Stripped of Hit Clothing Brakeman It Rendered Unconscious ard Will Probably Not 8urvive. J. K. Crlnkey, Pennsylvania rail road brakeman, was struck by light ning at the water tank near Young wood. Crtnkey was stripped of nearly all his clothing. He wa3 picked up unconscious and was taken to the Westmoreland hospital. The Meth odist Episcopal church at Greensburg was struck by lightning this evening and badly damagwl. This Is the fourth time the church has been struck by lightning and each time at the same point. The church was sold last week to a real estate company. Reports to the Statu Department of Agriculture are favorable as regards the wheat and hay crops in Pennsl vania. Corn conditions are Improving The wheat was well covered during the colder portions of the w'inter and the cool weather and frequent rains of the spring have been good for the grain. A larger acreage than ever before has been put out ahd the ex. pectatlons are for an unusual yield. Rye also has been put out. in unusu ally large quantity and the' return is expected to be in proportion. Weather generally has been splendid for hay and the growth from the first has been rapid and strong. The tonnage will be heavy. Dissatisfied with their homes at Al tocna, Ernestine Moore, aged 12 years, and Ruth Hewitt, 13 years old. ran away and "dead-headed" in one cf the fast Pennsylvania railroadi trains tp Harrlsburg, where they were arrested and detained at the police station until their parents came and took them hoite. The girls admitted to the officer who arrested them that they had both been reading sensa tional novels, and both were familiar with the history- of tho trial of Nan Patterson, and were at the "Florodo ra Girl3" show when It appeared at Altoona recently. At a joint meeting of the town councils of Greensburg, Ludwlck, East Greensburg and Southeast Greens burg, an agreement was entered into to submit to the qualified voters tho question of consolidation. The elec tion will be held on Tuesday, Juno 27. If carried, Greater Greensburg will have a population of more than 20,000. The contract for the erection of a state bridge over the north branch of the Susquehanna river between Ber wick and Nescopeck was awarded to the New York Bridge Company of York by the board of public grounds and buildings The New York com pany, which bid $209,500, was the lowest of the 28' bidders. The Sherrlck Lumber company of Connellsvllle purchased from E. W. McNeill, 1,900 acres of timber land In Tucker county, W. Va. Tho consider ation was $34,000 cash. The purchas ing company Is composed of Samuel D., John D., B. T. E., and Charles Sherrlck, James R. Gilbert and Jos eph Anderson. At a congregational meeting of the First Methodist Protestant church, of Washington, Rev. George C. Shep pard, D. D., was chosen pastor again for the tenth successive year. He had, received three other calls, but has re jected all and will remain In Wash ington. The suit of Charles Stottsbtrry, of ' Bulger, against Thomas Beadllng, ut Carnegie, in which the former sought f 50,000 damages for alleged aliena tion of his wife's affections, was con cluded when the Jury returned a ver dict for Stottsberry for $2,500. While W. S. Stouffer, of Greens burg, was driving a traction engine near Delmont, the bridge spanning Beaver Run gave way precipitating the engine Into the bed of the stream and wrecking It. Mr. Stouffer's los3 Is $2,00 A censu of the ages of residents of Buffalo, Washington county, which contains about 100 people, shows that there are ten ogtogenar'ians. Buffalo is said to be the healthiest town In the county, being 1,300 feet above sea level. The Rev. J. W. Carpenter of In dianapolis, Ind., assumed the past orate of the Central Christian church of Unlontown, having been chosen to succeed the Rev. Herbert Yeuell, who resigned to re-enter evangelistic work. The State Highway department awarded the contract for bylld'.ng three and one half miles of road in Washington county to S. F. Felkel 3on & Co., of Pittsburg, at Its bid 'of (32,500. Rev, Maynard R. Thompson, who has been pastor of the First Baptist Church of Connellsvllle for one year, tendered his resignation, to take effect '.he end of this month. By the bursting of a -tank at the Sharon Coke company's works at South Sharon, 9,000 gallons of nmmonla, worth about $2,500, were lost. . , . The two-year-old daughter of John Mikluslah, of Sharon, foil into a cess pool and was drowned. The child bad been missing for 24 hours. 1 Mrs. Mary A. Moyo, 54 years old, committed suicide by hanging herself it Washington. A new 350-ton blast furnace, cost ing abr.ut $750,000, is to be erected at West Pittsburg, Lawrence county, by Corrigon, McKlnney & Co., who own large tracts of land In the Lake Superior district. Col. W. R.". Andrews, Republican state chairman, issued a call for a meeting of the state committee, to be held at state headquarters in -Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 21. Two horses owned by James Blair, of Indiana, were killed by lightning. William Shank, the driver, was lightly Injured. 1 ; . 1 f : : ' , t 1 , . ' HHHBvC- .
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