( . . rAri n n lira m Iran mil Mini iranmni in vim k -"'- w Boilers of The Bennington Blow up in San Diego Harbor. OVER ONE HUNDRED INJURED. Mangled Victim Were Blown High t In Air Water 8trewn With Scalded and Burnea. Thirty-nine members of the crew of the United States gunboat Bennington are known to have been killed and nearly one hun.lred sailors were In jured, some fatally, on July 21 by a boiler explosion that disabled the bat tleship In the harbor at San Diego, Cal. Fifteen sailors are missing, and the death list may reach 60. There were more than 250 men aboard the warship when the acci dent occuied, and many men were hurled or forced to Jump Into the sea by the terrific explosion, which lift ed part of the deck and compelled the beaching of the ship. The llennlngton at the time of the accident was lying In the stream Just off the commercial wharf at H street, the warship had received orders from the navy department at Washington to sail that morning for Port Hartford u iiicci mo mumiur wyumiug ami convoy the monitor to Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco. Steam was up and everything was In readiness for the departure of tho Bennington, when the starboard for ward boiler exploded with a deafen ing roar. The explosion was terrific. People standing on shore saw a huge cloud of steam rise above the Ben nington. Columns of water were forced' high Into the air. A dozen or 15 men were blown overboard by the force of the terrific explosion. Capt. Wentworth, who was looking at the Bennington when the disaster occurred, savs he saw hiimnn luuiiea hurled over 100 feet upward. The air was clouded with smoke, whic h i enveloped the ship. When the haze leared away, only a few men could e seen on the decks, while a number j were floundering In the water. A i oat was lowered from the vessel's i ,ide and most of the men In the water lere picked up and taken on board, board the Bennington were ure- sited terrible scenes. The force of tl explosion had torn a great hole I nl the starboard side of the ship and thil vessel was already commencing to lisil A swtlon of the upper deck wa carlled away from stem to stern. Blo.1,1 and wreckage was distributed oveil the entire ship, the after cabin and that part of the ship adjacent to the exploded boiler resembling a char nel llmse. The shock of the explo sion banetratcd every gsctlon of the ship, dod and ashes being found as far asl the stem of the .captain's cab in. iccc? icerryuoai Kamon, which was erosslni the bay at the time of the ac cident, Vhanged its course and liur ried to Vhe aid of the Btrlcken war-! snip, ine government launch, Gen- ei eral De Kussey, and a large number ! or oiner yauncnes and water craft wnicn ware near the scene at the time, also! rushed to the assistance of the Bennington. DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW. eneral Disposition to Provide for a Large Volume of Fall I and Winter Trade. R.G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Re- view af Trade" says: Hot weather tended to retard activity In ninny productions and undertakings and postponed forward business that could be delayed without loss, but acelera.tec' the consumption of sea sonable merchandise and advanced the crnra munh ncAm, ..4,.. Confidence In the future increases i on" of tne nshwaymen and recover- j Gas Tank Explodes and Victims Are with each day favorable for harvest-: t(1 ,ne mone'- Tlle otllel" robber es- j Burned In Their Rooms. lng, and much of the winter wheat j ca')Pl1- Six persons were burned to death In is now beyong danger, while late 7, "77 I 7 ' a flre which destroyed the depot corn is rapidly gaining lost ground. ; Pas for Vlla'"3 Anti-Trust Law. : notol nt Wabasha, Minn. The dead Inquiries indicate a general disposi- i The Hartford Fire Instiralce Com- I are Mrs. A. Hoffman and baby, Rob tlon. to provide for a large volume pany will pay the state of Arkansas 1 ert Johnson, expressmnn; Gertrude of fall and winter business, clothing , $10,400 penalties for operating In vlo- j Stentsher, Rebecca. Herman and and manufacturers receiving liberal I lation of the anti-frust law. Under j James Hunt orders from traveling salesmen, while . the, maximum penalty the company i The fire was caused hv tho ovntn. cancellations are exceptionally few. Keai esiaite transfers are large and ; building operations numerous, often i overtaxing facilities for delivery of ' lumber and other materials. There i is comparatively little Interruption! from labor disputes, and (he net re- I suit In all commercial and manufact- j turlng branches Is exceptionally sa- tlsfactory for this mid-summer per-! iZ' . J . y ' Some improvement is noted In de mand for pig iron, which has been the least active of the industrial un dertakings, while footwear factories are less eager to secure forward bus iness because of another advance in hides. Railway earnings thus far reported ' for July exceed last year by 7.4 per cent, and foreign commerce at New York alone for the wepk shows gains of $2,105,120 In expprts, and $3,6(57,648 in Imports, as compared with the corresponding week in 1904. Collections are Improving, money Is easy and fluctuations in securities narrow. Failures last week numbered 193 In the United States, against 231 last year, and 23 in Canada, compared with 20 a year ago. XTallcnn T) ....... 1. . . I III I HI I O mm llip UWA. XVVtV'l 111 U1KUU1&U- Nellson Brown, a well-known ocI-! tlon. are making a systematic invest ety -man of Philadelphia, was fonnii ; igatlon of the last election and whol dead in bed at a hotel in Atlantic: ! sale arrests for ballot frauds are pro City. ' mised. Mutiny in Black Sea Fleet. A report has reached Odessa from Sebastopol to the effect that a mu.'n ous conspiracy has been discovered among the crews of the vessels of the Black sea fleet, in consequence of which the summer maneuvers have been cancelled. General Ignatieff, president of the ' special conference for the revision of exceptional laws designed for safeguarding public or ders, arrived at Odessa for the pur pose of investigating the recent disorders. wavriivi iwinuinnM nmn wa. i u w v uans iib i Two Alen Accomplish the Feat With' ' out Injury, Carlisle D. Graham, of Niagara Falls, and William J. Glover, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., successfully swam the lower rapids of the Niagara river from the American side of the whirl pool to Lewlstown. The distance of four miles was covered In 28 mln utes by Glover. me start was made at 4:02 p. m from Flut Rock, which Is on the American side. The swimmers did not venture in the miner ranlds. wnere Captain Webb lost ha life. Both men wore life belts and Inllat ed rubber rings around their necks Until the Uevll's Hole was reached the swift current and routing rapids hnd the swimmers In their grasp. At tnnt point a swirling eddy caught Glover and he was down nearly two minutes. His life belts saved hltn. At 4:28 o'clock Glover was pulled up on the clock at Lewlston. He was dressed nnd about 15 minutes later telling his story. Gruhnm was taken to a hotel In a wagon and did not leave bed until late in the after noon. Neither of the men were In jured. drahnm swam the lower rapids twice nerore, first on September 7 1901. and again on Aueust 31. 1902 j He Is 55 years of nge, while Glover ; is about 35 years of age. COAL MEN ENJOINED Government Stops Mining Under Monongahela River. Proceedings were instituted In the United States Court at Pittsburg Judge Joseph Bunington presiding, to finally test the right of coal mining companies to mine coal under navi gable livers. An Injunction was Is sued by the court against officers of the Bessemer Conl and Coke Compa- i wltn n''nes near Monongahela I ., restraining the company from i mlnlnR coal on what Is termed gov- er""ient property, but which simply n,Pnna mining coaJ under the river. " "lon 11 18 claimed Is property of the Kovernnient and cannot be taken wl,ni't special grant from Con- R,eas- 1 ne a,,ln is said to have been lns- ttltuted by the legal representatives of the government In this district, but it Is understood that they have been urged forward by Interested private persons. The case will shortly come up for a hearing. BATTLE WITH MOONSHINERS Bloody Encounters Fought With Makers of Mountain Dew. A posse of revenue men led by C. N. Randall, destroyed six stills in Letcher, Ky and were nttneked by a gang of moonshiners led by Ben Brown. A desperate encounter took place, Brown being shot and wound ed. Bloody trails lead into the mountains and It Is thought morn Urnnvill than one moonshiner was hurt. Wallen. a noted moonshln- , was captured. This was the second battle In Letcher county in a week. Two moonshiners were killed last week. j PAYMASTER HELD UP j Highwaymen Get $5,000, but One of i Them Is Killed. L. D. Burr, paymaster of the Sloss SheflU'ld Steel & Iron Company, was held up by two masked highwaymen on the railroad between Littleton nnd Flat Top, Ala., and relieved of : $:i,ooo, which was to be used In pay- lng off the men. Less than five minutes afterwards j De tective Georgo Hodcrker, Pollce i man Joseph Nix and Charles Tlckard. a Flat Top guard, had shot and killed would have forfeited $500,000, but an I agreement nnci neen reached to con- fpss judgment at $200 a day from May 23 to the time the opinion of the court was handed down , ELECTION FRAUD Ward Leader and Election Board Held ,or Ballot Box Stuffing. Thomas H. Hartman a city emplove and Republican leader of the Twelfth district of tho Fourteeth ward, Phlla dephla, was held In $2,000 ball; Otto T. Kurz, Judge of elecltons; Charles Judge, Inspector; Benjamin Williams, clerk, of the same division, were each held In $1,500, and E. M. Cunkel, also a clerk, was held in $500 bail, on the cnarge oi nauot oox sinning and con spiracy. The men were given a hear ing before a magistrate and evidence was produced showing that out of a total of 374 votes in the division 201 were fraudulent. The arrest of the election officers was brought about by the City party, a reform organization. A watcher for this party testified that within half an hour after the polls had opened and before 20 persons had voted he had seen one of the defendants take a stick and push a large bunch of 1 ... 1 1 ... , U.n th. T) C Want Regular Troops for Bandits. Owing to numerous robberies by armed bandits near Fairbanks, Alas ka, recently, the Miners and Prospec tors' Association has asked the Sec retary of war to send troops to Fair banks from Fort Gibbons. General Williams, commanding the depart ment of the Columbia, has been or dered to Investigate. The Union passenger station, at Tenth and Broadway, Louisville, Ky., was destroyed by flre, entailing a loss of $350,000. .III IIIVWIIkH III IIIIUUIII Express on the Bessemer & Lake Erie Crashes into Freight. INJURIES ARE NOT SERIOUS Engineer 8eei Danger In Time Apply Airbrakes and Reduce the Speed. to A head-on collision at Hallston sta- Hon, on the Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad resulted in Injuries to nine passengers of the express train and to tne fireman and engineer. None of the Injured were able to continue traveling. A freight train was standing on a siding near the station waiting for tne express to pass. The latter was going 30 miles an hour and at the curve at the switch jumped from the main track to the switch, and plunged Into the freight engine. Both engines were practically demolished and the baggage car of the express was splintered at the front end. Engineer S. B. Brown and Fire man J C. Lang jumped a moment be fore the collision occurred, and were struck by splinters from the baggage car. i lie passengers were hurled from their seats at the Impact, and landed in heaps on the floor of the cars. After nearly two hours' waiting an engine reached Hallston from Butler and started with the train toward Pittsburg. Another wreck was probably averted at Oneida station it was found that a trestle bridge over Connoquennessiug creek was ablaze, nnd upon examination It was decided to run the train over before the Are gained further headway, as there was no fire fighting appara tus about. This was done, and two hours late the train reached Butler. That many were not killed In the collision Is charged to the coolness of Engineer Brown, who maintained his place in the engine cab and ap plied the emergency brakes until the engines were almost touching. OPERATOR KILLED Aeroplane Falls to Work and Plunges Downward. Daniel Maloncy, who had made numerous successful ascensions with Professor Montgomery's aeroplane, fell uno teet to his death at Santa Clara. Cal. Maloney made an ascension from the grounds at Santa Clara college. About 2.000 persons watched with in terest the machine, as It shot upward from the college garden, attached to huge balloon. At a height of 4,000 feet. Maloney ut loose from the balloon and began maneuvering the aeroplane. He sailed gracefully about, then essayed a deep dip. Suddenly the machine swerved, esltated, and then turned over. It righted itself sank down a considera ble distance and turned over again. Maloney was clinging desperately to his seat and evidently endeavoring to regain control of the aeroplane, but il his efforts were In vain. Again the aeroplane turned In the air, the wings came together, and the man and the machine plunged Btralght downward, while the horrified spectators gazed helplessly. A number of cadets carried him to the college hospital. His skull was fractured and blood was flowing from his ears and mouth. He died within a short time. The aeroplane was de molished. SIX DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE slon of a gas tank used for the hotel ! Illuminating plant. Mrs. Hoffman was the owner nf the hnioi her baby and the other victims were burned to death In their rooms. A NEW COMBINE Independent Tin and Sheet Plate Works May Units. Independent manufacturers of tin and sheet plate are contemplating an organization for the purpose of working to obtain a large portion of the domestic tin and sheet business. President Theodore J. Shaffer of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers will probably by Secretary of the new concern. The position has been tendered him at a salary of about $3,000 per an num. The organization is to in clude practically every Independent sheet steel and tlnplate manufactur er outside the American Sheet & Tlnplate Company in the United States. y. Chief of Police Assassinated. Colonel Kremarenko, chief of po lice of Helsingfors, Finland, was shot aud killed by a man named Procope, who was arrested. The assassin has been identified as an accomplice of the man who recently attempted to assassinate former Governor Mlsso Jedoff. MURDER IN CHURCH Kentuckian . Kills One Man and Wounds Another. John Miller, of Breathitt county, Ky., shot and killed John Grees and wounded James M. Thomas during a fight in a church on Fraley creek, Lee county. Miller announced that he was the best man In the house. Grees and Thomas disputed it. A mob formed to lynch Miller, but the sheriff landed his . prisoner la the Beattyville Jull. Bad According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of "La Liberie" Ad miral Rojestvensky, in his report on uie Dattie or Tsushima straits, which resulted in the practical annihilation oi nis fleet, says that his shins were bad. They had been not only hasti ly out dishonestly built. The thick uess oi tneir armor did not agree with the official figures in the case or any of the vessels. Moreover, It was of Inferior quality. 1 he shells were bad. Two-thirds or tnem did not explode. None of the ships were able to carry the ne cessary coal. None of them attain en me guaranteed speed. The en gines and boilers were poor and al ways required repairs. Two-thirds of the crews, including inose or vice Admiral Nebogatoff's squadron, were Incapable. The gun ners were ignorant of the elemen tary laws of firing. A mutiny oc. curred while that fleet was at Ma dagascar, and 14 men were executed. Admiral Rojestvensky had to train guns on two of his ships, the Ad nural Senlavln and Admiral Aprax- ine to restore order. The crews had decided secretly to surrender to the enemy. This was discovered too late. There was another mutlnv In Vice Admiral Nebogatoff's squadron near Formosa and Admiral Roiestvenskv had difficulty In preventing the mu tineers from seizing the greater part ot tne squadron. Admiral Rojestvensky saw from the outset of the battle that the Admiral Senlavla and Admiral Apraxine were not ngnting aud were ignoring or ders. They only fired when he sent torpedo boats to them and threaten ed to sink them unless they obeyed. If Admiral Rojestvensky had not been wounded at the beginning of the battle tire result might have been different. Almost simultaneously with his removal to a torpedo boat. Admiral Enqulst disappeared. Admir al Foelkersahm was killed and Ad miral Nebogatoff, who was unpopular with the sailors, was obliged to take command. Then the rout began. Admiral Nebogatoff's orders were Ignored. It was everyone for himself. The crews or some of the ships threaten ed to kill their officers unless they surrendered. Admiral Rojestvensky confirms what is generally known of the shat tering and scattering of his fleet. ANOTHER LEAK Woman Said to Have Sold Examina tion Questions. Secretary Wilson of the depart ment of agriculture has begun an In vestigation of a report that certain female employe of his dcltmrtment has sold questions to be asked In civ il service examinations prior to the holding ot such examinations. Appli cants are said to have paid liberally tor tne service. The examinations alleged to have been thus manipulat ed were for positions requiring tech nical knowledge and the questions were prepared In the department. Morgan Jl. Bunch, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, who Is In charge of the Investleation Into the cotton crop scandal, has gone o isew lork In search of evidence Is understood thy.', he Intends to ntervlew L. C. Van Riper and other New York brokers who mucin dis- losures of the methods employed bv Former Associate Statistician Edwin S. Holmes. Explosion Kills Three Men. Three men were killed and four were injured by an explosion in the Kirwln gold mine In Wyoming. There was no doctor nearer than Thermop lls, 100 miles to the southeast, but Dr. Richards at that place covered the mountainous distance In a little less than 11 hours. Four relays were used by him In making the trip, ranchmen along the route supplying the horses. May Settle Their Differences. Both houses of the Swedish riksdag have concluded their secret meetings and a joint committee Is preparing a bill embodying the suggestion of tho different factions for a settlement of the differences between Sweden nnd Norway. FIVE MINERS KILLED Heads, Arm and. Legs. Scattered About by Explosion. Five miners wrm litoi-niiir hi-n to peces by the explosion of dyna- mite In a storage powder house to the West Riverside Coal mine near Des Moines, la. The dead are: Charles Brown, Luke . Miller, Harry Belknap, Dell Vance and George Ar rowood. Heads, arms and legs were scatter ed around for a distance ot 500 feet. The victims were engaged in sink ing a new shaft and they sought shelter In the powder house. Light ning struck near the building and glanced off to the house itself. Ignit ing the dynamite as well as two kegs of powder. Not a piece of wood larger than a foot long remains of the building. Miss Olive Johnson, of Lima O., was crushed to death and burned, and five other persons were severly burned and bruised when a large automobile plunged into a ditch near Broad rip ple, exploding the agsollne storago tank. Prominent Mormon Arrested. John Q. Cannon, former secretary of the Utah world's fair commission at St. Louis, was arrested at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, charged with forgery and embezzlement. Extradition papers are now being prepared. Cannon is a son of the late President George Q. Cannon, of the Mormon Church, broth er of former Senator Frank J. Can non. He is accused of gorging the name of former Governor H. M. Wells to warrant.-. Rojestvensky't Report 8hows Condition of His Fleet. ARE ORDERED TO DISPERSE Russian Police Sent to Prevent Zemstvo Congress. CREATES CLA8S DISTINCTIONS Scheme Thoroughly Discussed and Pronounced Inadequate to Meet All Wants of the People. The zemstvo congress opened at mid day July 19 in the residence of Prince DoIgorukofT, in Moscow. The congress was attended by 225 delegates. Count Heyden, leader of the deputation re presenting the congress recently re ceived by the emperor, presided. M. Golovlne, president of the organi zing committee, had barely started a statement dealing with the obstacles placed In the way of the congress, an nouncing that Gov. Kozloff had pro mised there would be no recourse to extreme measures, when the chief ot police, with numerous commissaries and officials, entered the room. The chief announced that the perfect had prohibited the meeting of the con gress and ordered the seizure of the documents. Count Heyden protcBtedtngainst the proceedings, but the chief or police began taking the names of the dele gates. Then came cries of "Write down the whole of Russia." Many per sons present who were not delegates to the congress requested that their names also be taken. The police then departed In order to draw up summonses and the sit ting was- resumed. The scheme of a national assembly on the basis out lined by the commission presided over oy M. Bouligin, minister of the Inter ior, was minutely and critically dis cussed and denounced as totally inad equate to remove Russia's internal grievances, because, including a prop erty qualification and an electoral sys tem by classes, It prevented the as sembly from truly interpreting the will of the nation, while the exclusion of numerous categorle of cltiszens from the franchise was a contradic tion of the principles of equity and a reasonable state policy. Numerous resolutions embodvine the foregoing criticisms were adopted un animously, as were also resolutions complaining of excessive administra tive and political control of elections and insisting that publicity be given to the proceedings of the proposed as sembly, which should be in direct re lations with the emperor without In terference from the council of the em pire. WILL SELL HIS STOCK Hyde Holdings Will Become Property of Equitable. From a director of the Equitable l-iie Assurance Society It was learned that Thomas F. Ryan, who recently purcnasecl the stock holdings of James H. Hyde, has made nn agree ment with the three trustees of the Ryan holdings and the newly elected directors to sell the stock he pur chased back to the Equltuble Society. This sale Is to be made as soon as possible', It Is stated, ami Mr. Ryan has agreed to turn it in to the socie ty, thus thoroughly miilualizlng It, for the same sum he paid for It, $2,500, 000, plus 4 per cent interest between the dates of his purchase nnd the sale. It was stated that a number of the newly chosen directors, those- select ed by Grover Cleveland, Judge Mor gan J. O'Brien nnd George Westing house, the trustees, accepted posts in the directorate only when they had been assured most emphatically that such an agreement was in view and thnt such an agreement existed be tween Mr. Ryan and the three trus tees. v Japs Occupy Sakhalin. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at Hakodate, Japan, says that the Japanese have practically completed the occupation of the Isl and of Sakhalin, nnd are organizing a government. The Shanghai corre spondent of the Standard says that the Japanese have landed on Sagha lln 125 miles of light railway and 3,000 coolies. SHIPS NOT MUCH HURT Russian Vessels Sunk by Japs Still Valuable. An officer who has returned from Port Arthur, reports that i.ie extent of damage to the sunken Russian ships was slighter than was anticipat ed. It has been known that the Rus sians applied explosives inside the vessels before they were abandoned and the resulting damages were ex pected to be serious. It has been found, however, that the vital portions of the ships were strangely unhurt. The Bayan, which sustained the most severe damage, has been taken In tow and the Peresvelt Is navigable with her own engines. Both of these vessels will soon be brought to Tokyo to complete the necessary repairs. Even the Palladia, which sustained the heaviest damage, Is expected to be refloated by the mid dle of August and before tea the Ret vlzan and Pobleda will be afloat. John Erfaw, of Mannlngton, W. Va., took refuge under a tree during a storm. It was struck by lightning and Efaw had his clothes torn off. He will recover. General Wood Is Convelescent. General Leonard Wood, who rec ently underwent an operation at a private hospital In Boston, left the Institution. Accompanied by Mrs. Wood, a trained nurse and a physi cian, he has gone to the country for a few days. He expects to sail early next month for Manila. It Is expected that the Russian warships Pallada, Pobelda and Pol tava, sunk at Port Arthur, will soon be refloated., . Soldier In Revolt Stat of Selge Exist at Lodz. Part ot the Ekaterinburg regiment stationed at Lodz mutinied and killed an officer. The mutineers were ar rested. Owing to the state of siege the citizens of Lodz are compelled to contribute $1,500 dally toward the maintenance of the troops. The St. Petersburg Official Mes senger reports an attempt to poison a number of railway workmen at Tlf lis because they resisted revolution ary Intrigues. The paper says that arsenic was placed In a boiler from which the workmen made their tea. Many of the men became III and then died. A sergeant of detectives was shot and killed in Warsaw by an unknown man. A patrol of Infantry, while pur suing the assassin fired a volley, kill ing a merchant. DRAGGED INTO RIVER Steamer Entangles With Line Pas senger Drowns, Five Hurt. The steamer Shamrock, plying about Valley View on the Kentucky river, while carrying a party of BO excursionists up the river three miles from Valley View, ran Into a rope stretched from log boom. The rope swept Miss Nancy Car penter into the river. She was drowned. The smokestack was thrown down on George W. Hutchin son, superintendent of the Kentucky River Poplar Company, probably fa tally Injuring him. Five others were badly hurt. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. The earnings of Bethlehem Bteel, It Is said, will reach $3,000,000 an nually. United States Steel's undivided profits for the first half of the year are $30,000,000. Miss O. W. Glass, granddaughter of General Winfield Scott Hancock, was drowned at Easton, Md., while bathing in the Miles river. William F. Hubbard, aged 28. a forest assistant In the forest service of the department of agriculture, was drowned In the Potomac river near Great Falls, Md. Gen. Wilmon Whlldin Blackmar, commander-in-chief of the G. A. of the Republic, died In Boise Idaho, July 16, of Intestinal nephritis. His wife was with him during his illness. A report says that Anlwa. Shaw ano county, Wis., was wiped out by a windstorm. No confirmation of the report has been received. Anl wa has a population of 500. ' Two distinct earthquake shocks were experienced at Portland, Au gusta, Bangor and Brunswick, Me. The State prison house at Thomas ton was considerably shaken, but only slight damage done. It is learned from a most reliable source that Dowager Queen Margh erita of Italy, will go on an automo bile tour through Spain and Portugal In September, and later will visit the United States, sailing on a German steamer. Flre destroyed the summer resi dence of Anson Phelps Stokes at Lenox, Mass., causing a loss of $100, 000. The French submarine Farfadet was finally raised and towed to port. Examination shows the 14 men who perished used every device to escape. One person was killed and 14 in jured, two probably fatally, by a tor nado which swept a portion of Rose bud reservation. South Dakota. Roy McFadden was killed near St. Elmo. James W. Alexander, former pres ident of the Equitable Life- Assur ance Society, is critically ill, which raises the doubt that he was able to sign his resignation. Hazel Offered, 14-year-old daughter of Frank Offered, of near McConnells ville, O., was Instantly killed by light ning while riding a horse, which was also killed. The National Association of Auto mobile dealers was organized In Buffalo, N. Y. W. C. Jaynes of Buf falo, was elected president, and H. C. Wilcox of Buffalo, secretary-treasurer. Nearly all large automobile dealers in the United States were represented. The British government was de feated In the house of commons by a majority of three on the motion to re duce the membership of the Irish land commisston. One of the most shocking stories of murder, with robbery as the motive, by which 12 lives were sacrificed, was brought to New Orleans by Capt. Hans Holm of the Norwegian fruiter Bratten. The captain of the little trading schooner Olympla sailed from Utllla, Honduras, with $1,400 to buy cattle at Truxfllo to sell at Belize. Boston Wool Market. Although the wool market is still quiet. It is believed that an active period is about to open. In prices the market was notably strong. The range of prices Is about as follows: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above 3fi37c; X, 33(S34c; No. 1, 4142c; No. 2, 42'8'4'.lc; fine unwashed, 2Ui30c; i blood, unwashed 353tic; blood,' 3iic: 1,2 blood, 35c; unwashed delaine, 29c-S0r; unmerchantable, 32(g33c; fine unwashed delaine, 3040e. Michigan Fine unwashed, 27ffl28c; 14 blood, unwashed, 33(3 34c; blood, 34'ft'3oc; ','2 blood, 32 33c; unwashed delaine, 28. Equitable Officers Removed. Thomas D Jordan, comptroller of the Equitable Life Assurance society, was summarily removed from office, by Chairman Paul Morton because ha refused to furnish Information regard ing that $085,000 blind loan standing against the Equitable society on ths books of the Mercantile Trust Com pany. Chairman Morton appointed in his stead William A. Day, assistant to the attorney general of the United States... ....... KEYSTONE STATE GULUuGS' TO RAISE PRICE ON PAUPERS. Westmoreland County Undertaker Organize to Increase Cost of Burial. Undertakers of Westmoreland county met In Greensburg to effect av permanent organization. The foV lowing officers were elected: Presi dent, Harvey Cope, Vandergrlft; vice president, A. H. Kelley, New Ken sington; secretary, Edward J. Perry..'. Greensburg; treasurer, Homer Miller. Jeannette. A committee was ap pointed to confer with the county commissioners relative to Increasing the fee for burying paupers. A fire, believed to have been of Incendiary origin, starting in the bakery of Mrs. Eva K. Delp, at Mead rllle, communicated to adjoining buildings and did more than $11,000 damage before it was brought undet control by the flre companies. The heaviest loss was sustained by the Walter Harper Lumber Company, damage to whose warehouse and stock is valued at $10,000. with In surance of $4,000. Mrs. Delp' los is placed at $000, with no insurance. Kaufmann & Hannah's meat market -in the rear of the bakery sustained $500 damage. A deal in real estate believed tn make certain that tht Pennsylvania railroad will build the proposed newt four-track Hue from Beatty to Greens burg has been consummated. The farm of Lee Swaney, of Youngstown. which lies to the north side of thai railroad's present line, was sold to Recorder of Deeds James Gallagher, who it is believed is acting for thu railroad company. The proposed lin runs through the farm. The oonaldK eratlon was about $7,500. Martin Shultz. a coke worker m beaten to death while on his way to work in Continental mine No. 1 near Unlontown. Justice of the peace M B. Clifford found the body about day light Shultz's head was mashed so badly that he could hardly be recog nized. County Detective! Alexander McBeth has made information against Andrew Masticheck, charging him with the killing of Shultz. The Clarion county Republican cunvennon nominated tne following 'vl ticket. Prothonotary. R. L. Cralcr: register and recorder, W. H. Riser; treasurer, George E. Arnold; district attorney, John W. Moffett; commis sioners, George M. Myers and 8. X. McClelland; auditors, James O. Crab? and J. W. Phlpps. John B. Lonaker. Clarion, was re-elected county chair man. Henry Brombach, a freight conduct or employed by the West Penn rail road was sand-bagged and robbed of $147 and his ring while passing the GuekenhPimer distillery at Freeport. Mr. Brombacn was painfully, but not seriously hurt. He notified the police as soon as he regarded consciousness. A young man named Edward Petsing er was arrested on suspicion. A beautiful monument will be erected at Harrisburg by the grand lodge of Elks to the memory of the late Meade D. Detweller, for two consecutive terms the grand exalted ruler. Action to the effect was taken at the meeting of the grand lodge In Buffalo last week. Alleging that they are not being paid standard wages the 250 employ es of the Hazel Mountain Coal Com pany, at Block Ridge, went on strike. The company is not a party to the award of the anthracite strike com mission. .Drake & Stratton, the Pittsburg contractors, began work on the new Pennsylvania railroad yards at Derry. Five hundred men were put to work. The present yards will be changed to almost double their size and a new round house will be erected. Fire destroyed the residences of John Stewart and the Rev. William Page at Larimer, and damaged the house of William Hutton. The loss on buildings and contents Is about $1,000. . v In the Leglonville district. Beaver county, Snyder ft Co., have drilled their test on the Simon Phillips farir through tho 100-foot sand and have a light show of oil. They will tube and test. A considerable flow of salt wator was encountered. W. H. Wright, of Youngwood, a Pennsylvania railroad freight engine man, Is dead from Injuries received while on his run over the Pittsburg; division on Friday. He 'was 48 years old and is survived by his wife r nnrl turn hlli1ian , 1 The Governor of Pennsylvania has made a request on the State depart ment for the provisional detention of Stephen Borrochinl, wanted in Alle gheny county on the charge of em bezzlement. The Riverview Coal and Coke Com pany has let the contract to John R, Bennett, of Fairmont, . for the imme diate erection of 200 additional ovens at its plant along the Monongahela river above Masontown. Charles Stoyer. 22 years old, a car penter, died from injuries in ' the hospital at Greenville. He 'was found beside the Bessemer railroad tracks. Stoyer lived at Mercer. ' For the benefit of visitors mass will be celebrated on Sunday 'flurin tha summer in the auditorium at Ex position park. Conneaut Lake. L. B. Fletcher of Pittsburgh pur chased the Peerless lead glass works of Ellwood City at public salp, the purchase price being $10150 Fletch er will operate the plant, which em ploys over 15u men. The charred body of Mrs. Solomon Andre was found by her husband in the front yard of their hone near Bruin. It is believed Mrs. Andre'a clothes caught flre while working about the kitchen stove. Goldberg's general store at Wet Pittsburg, was burglarized, the crooks securing goods worth about $200. There is no clue. It
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