PORTSMOUTH CONFERNGE
Progress of Negotiations By The
Peace Commissioners.
REFERRED TO HIGHER POWERS
Disagreement Causes Suspension of
Negotiations Till Further Orders
Are Received.
After the settlement of seven of the
twelve points which the peace en
voys at Portsmouth had under con
sideration there was a halt In the ne
.gotlations until the commissioners
could communicate with their home
governments.
The peace envoys reached the
question of Indemnity, and after dis
cussion without any agreement laid
it aside to bo taken up later, along
with the question of the cession of
Sakhalin, which previously was sim
ilarly treated.
Three of the 12 conditions of the
Japanese were disposed of at the
peace conference Monday. The ses
sion lasted from half past 9 o'clock
in the morning until G o'clock at
night, with a recess for luncheon.
The three "nrticles," as they are
officially designated in the brief com
munications authorized to be given to
the press, which were disposed of
are In substance as follows:
First Russia's recognition of
Japan's "preponderating influence"
and special position In Korea, which
Rusia henceforth agrees is outside o
her sphere of Influence, Japan bind
ing herself to recognize the suzerainty
of the reigning family, but with the
right to give advice anil assistance
to improve the civil administration of
the empire.
becond Mutual obligation to
evacuate Manchuria, each to surrend
er all special privileges In that pro
vince; mutual obligation to respect
the "territorial integrity" of China
and to maintain the principle of
equal opportunity for the commerce
and Industry of all nations in that
province (open door).
Third The cession to China of the
Chinese Eastern railroad from -Harbin
southward.
Two more of the 12 articles, Nos. 4
and C, were disposed of Tuesday.
Article 4 consists of mutual pledges
to observe the integrity of China and
the policy, of the "open door" for the
commerce of all nations Article G
covers the surrender of the Russian
leases to the L'laotung peninsula, Port
Arthur, Dalny and the Blonde and
Ellott islands.
To article 4 both parties gave ready
assent, and the official statement of
the adoption of that article took care
to state It was agreed to "unanimous
ly." Article 5, the consideration of which
was postponed until later, provides
for the cession of the island of
Sakhalin. Discussion appearing use
less at this stage on account of the
firm negative given In the Russian
reply, it was decided on motion of the
Japanese, to defer lis discussion,
thus revealing the Japanese Intention
- of postponing to the end the life and
death struggle.
'This iff the usual procedure follow
ed in diplomatic negotiations, enabl
ing the negotiations to come to ac-
- cord upon all possible points before
tackling the crucial issues. The fact
the Russians acquiesced in the propo
sition that the world should not ac
cuse them of being responsible for
precipitating the break, if break Is to
be, and wrecking the conference.
This in itself is a hopeful sign.
The following statement was Issued
for the peace envoys:
"In the mnnitnir K'itttnp- nf Antrum
16, the conference has taken up th.; !
discussion of article 7. The dis
cussion not having been finished the
conference took a recess at I o'clock.
Tho session was resumed at 3.
"At the afternoon session of the
conference articles 7 and S were dis
cussed; article 7 was settled In prin
ciple and article 8" accepted unani
mously. The conference at G:30 ad
journed until 9:30 to-morrow morn
ing." It was officially explained that
there remained not a- difference to
l)e adjusted on article 7, but only '
the elaboration of a single point.
Article 7 is the cession of the
branch of the Chinese Eastern rail
road from Harbin southward, and ar
ticle 8 provides for the retention by
Russia of the portion of the line
through northern Manchuria, con
necting the Trans-Siberian road with
Vladivostok.
In the discussion of the second
article (covering the evacuation of
Manchuria) it is positively
that Russia won a victory,
stated j
Baron
Komura, so It Is declared, wanted to
limit the obligation to evacuate Man
churia and to surrender special priv
ilege in the province to Russia, where
as M. Witte contended that the ob
ligation for evacuation and the sur
render of special privileges should be
mutual and that the evacuation ot the
troops should take place concurrent
ly. Walter Damrosch, the well-known
orchestra leader, has been offered the
recently created chair of music at the
University of California, with a salary
of $3,000 a year.
TWO DIE IN COLLISION
Passenger Train Wrecked by Freight
Near Macon, Georgia.
In a head-on collision near Macon,
Oa., between a passenger train and a
freight, Benjamin Jordan, mall clerk,
and Joseph Henry, fireman, both ne
groes, were killed. William Jordan,
fireman will die. Lena Taylor, home
unknown, Mall Clerk E. A. Saunders
and J. W. Nash, engineer, were so
badly injured they may die.
GOOD CROPS CAUSE BOOM
Mills and Factories Well Employed
and Little Machinery Idle In In
dustrial Establishments.
Assurance of prosperity on the
farms generates confidence la all de
partments of trade and industry.
Contracts are placed for distant de
livery, and commercial payments are
more prompt, it Is also gratifying to
note that pending nnd threatening la
bor controversies are less numerous;
a higher scale was adopted at glass
factories nnd the attractive wages
paid to harvest hands have reduced
the ranks of the unemployed to a
minimum.
Jobbing trade is brisk, especially in
dry goods, and all the large cities
report a full attendance of outside
buyers. Mills and factories are wjll
employed, little idle machinery being
noted in the prominent industries, al
though Iron and steel dispatches are
still somewhat Irregular. Traffic by
rail and water is very heavy, railway
earnings thus far reported for Au
gust exceeding last year's figures by
6.G per cent., and foreign trade at New
York for the last week showed a
gain of $2,704,500 over exports a year
ago, and an Increase of $1122,957 in
imports. It Is becoming a year of
superlatives in the business world;
prices of the GO most active railway
securities have reached the highest
point on record; output of pig iron in
the first half of 1905 not only far
surpassed any preceding six months'
production, but exceeded every full
year prior to 1S98; prices of hides
are at the highest position since the
Civil war; wool quotations have not
been as strong since the early eight
ies; shipments of footwear from 11ns
ton are close to the maximum, and in
cluding all shoe centers, the move
ment this year Is beyond precedent ;
foreign commerce in July surpassed
the corresponding month in any pre
vious year. Bank exchanges at New
York for the week were 38.9 per
cent, larger than last year, and at
other leading cities the gain aver
aged 15.1 p..!' cent.
CZAR GRANTS ASSEMBLY
Measure Giving the Russian People
Some Voice Proclaimed.
In a solemn manifesto Emperor
Nicholas announced to his subjects
the fruition of his plans summoning
the representatives of the people, as
outlined by him In a rescript issued
on March 3 last, and fixes the date
for the first convocation as mid-January,
and In a ukase, addressed to the
senate, formally orders that body to
register as the imperial will a law
project, formulating the nature, pow
ers and procedure of the new govern
mental organization.
Tho national assembly will be a
consultative organization In con
nection with the council of the em
pire, and r jt a legislative body. The
powers of the emperor remain theore
tically absolute. As the emperor is
the supreme lawgiver and autocrat,
the decisions of the douma have only
a recommendatory and not a binding
force, though the rejection of any
legislative measure by a two-thirds
majority of both houses Is sufficient
to prevent that measure from becom
ing law.
The representatives of tho people
will have not only the right to be
heard on any legislation proposed by
the government, but also can voice
their desires on new laws and will
have the right to exert a certain su
pervision over budgetary expendi
tures. The suffrage, though wide, is not
universal, it is based on property
qualification, the peasantry having a
vote through membership In commun
al organizations.
A considerable portion of the resi
dents of the cities, possessing no
lands, together with women, soldiers.
civil functionaries, etc., are without
ButtraS&
Man and $10,000 Gone.
Cits Bobbs. a messenger employed
temporarily by the dry goods house of j
Charles A Stevens and Bio ers of A new gca,e malj
Chicago, has disappeared with $10 - , vance of al)out g cen
000 of the firm s money, with which a week or a m(mtn ,n th f
he started to a bank and a reward of skllle(1 laI h b
$500 has been offered for his capture. , by llle comniUtee d exec,"
It was learned he had gone to New;live ,)oimI of the Amaisamnte(1 w,n.
York. (low Glass Workers ot America.
WANT THEIR MONEY BACK
. L . j ,ne Probleni should be left to the
Promotes of Rubber Plantation Called forthcoming national assembly to de
to Account. clde.
Eleht suits were filed In court at.
Stettbenville, O.. by Edward Nicholson j
and others against the Vera Cruz De
velopment Company of Canton, O.,
and lta officers, directors and special
ngents, alleging that fraudulent repre
sentations had been made to induce
them to purchase interests In the
company.
This is a climax of a Mexican rub-
ber plantation scheme which was pro-
moted three years ago. me biock
cnlrt rni,llv tn the nmntint of Sir.O.ODft
In this region,
the buyers expectins
big dividends.
Large Coal Deal.
By a deal completed within the last
few days 3.000 acres of coal lands,
said to be the richest in the bitumin
ous reel ons. has been boueht bv J. L.
Mitchell and Rembrandt Peale, of
Philadelnhia. from the Kennedy Coal 1
and Coke Company at Thomas Mills,
10 miles from Johnstown, Pa. In
this tract there are 3,000' acres and
the price paid by the purchasers was
$600,000.
Russian Outposts Retreat.
A Japanese reconnaissance in force
along the line of the railway on the
Kikin road from the Chang Tut line,
drove in the Russian outposts on
August 12. Eleven Russians' were
killed and 10 captured in a counter
reconnaissance in the section of
Klnyton. The Russians were driven
back by the Japanese 'outposts.
The death rate in infancy among
the poor in England Is - six
higher than among the rich .
times
Many Negro Excursionists Meet
Death Near Norfolk, Va.
AIR BRAKES DID NOT WORK
Train Could not Be Stopped at Bridge
According to General Orders.
Owing to the Inability of Engineer
D. L. Relg to control his air brakes an
excursion train from Klnston, N. C,
bound to Norfolk, Va., plunged
through an open draw over the west
ern branch of the Elizabeth river,
eight miles from Norfolk, and half
a' hundred persons, mostly negroes,
were drowned.
The list of Injured, so far as can
be ascertained, numbers nearly 100,
though most of these are slightly
hurt.
Among the victims the only white
ones were Edward J. Oliff, manager of
the excursion, and Edward Forbes,
who assisted him, both of Greenville,
N. C.
The Merrlt wrecking organization
dispatched an expedition to the scene
of the wreck to endeavor to raise tho
sunken cars, which lay In about 20
feet of water.
With tho exception of the train
crew and the promoters of the excur
sion, all aboard were negroes. The
engineer, fireman and conductor es
caped.
The train was running at a rate of
15 or 20 miles an hour as it. ap
proached the bridge. The specific or
ders of the road to stop all trains at
the bridge whether the draw is open
or not was apparently ignored. The
train plunged into the abyss. Both,
engineer and fireman, discovered tho
open draw too late to stop the train.
The airbrakes were applied but did
not work properly.
The engine was completely sub
merged, not even the smokestack bo
ing visible. The car that was next
to it was also submerged completely.
The train consisted of six coaches.
Some of thefe remained on the track.
Those aboard those cars were only
shaken slightly. The Injury to pas
sengers was confined to the first two
cars.
FEVER AND FAMINE
Republic of Honduras Passing
Througji Sore Trials.
At a cost to the nation of $;3,000,000
and scores of the lives of its Inhabi
tants, the republic of Honduras is, ac
cording to advices received at the
consulate general at New York, pass
ing through one of the worst visita
tions of disease and famine in its his
tory. President lionilla, who has assumed
personal charge of the work of the
relief corps engaged In fighting the
yellow fever. Is now at Celba on the
north coast, where he Is exerting bis
utmost endeavors to prevent the
spread of the disease, which made its
appearance on the Caribbean coast ot
Honduras simultaneously with the
outbreak in New Orleans in May.
The famine, which was confined to
the Pacific slope of the republic, was
brought about by the failure of the
corn and bean crops, caused by exces
sive rains during the last winter, and
but for the prompt, energetic and lav.
Ish measures adopted by the adminis
tration, according to Dr. Salvator
Cordova, the people would have starv
ed by the thousands in the vicinity of
Tegucigalpa, the capital.
Successive cargoes of corn, flour and
other provisions brought Into the re
public from the United States and
Nicaragua, averted catastrophe that
at several periods during tho last six
months had threatened the country.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Stale
Convention Indorsed John Stewart,
tho Republican nominee for Su-
M. Witte desires to see the Rus
; slan Jews emancipated, but believes
Striklne teleentiih nnomtnro ntnniri
the Greut Northern railway decided i
to return to wok.
The coroner's verdict declares the
night operator at Mentor, 0 opened
the switch which wrecked the Twen
tieth Ce.itury limited and cost 19
lives.
j At Lake Cormorant, Miss., Henry
' " ""L .""" from
1 "" mmseu uy
CkmlN Will. ...... l l i 1.
100
! armed men.
Charles Enslpn. a merchant,
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
his country home, about five miles
from Elyria, O. Poor health is sup
posed to have led to the act.
The Standard OH company hns de
clared a quarterly dividend of $0
a share, payable September 15. This
makes $30 a share so far this year.
againsi a snare in me same time
last year; $32 In 1902, and $40 In
1901. The dividend declared for this
quarter in 1904, 1903 and 1902 was
$5 a share.
Nevada Volcano Discovered.
A volcano throwing off molten lava
and In active operation has been dis
covered in Nevada by Messrs. Mc
Clure, Wheeler and Summers, cattle
men of Lovelock- The volcano Is lo
cated in Rye Patch, Humboldt coun
ty. The rocks for some distance
around were so hot that they could
not touch them with their bare hands.
The volcano is active. This Is at-
tested by the fact that distinct rumb-
i lings accompany the flow of lava. .
PRACTICAL ARMISTICE EXI8TS
No Battle Will Take Place During
Peace Conference.
It seems to be taken for granted
among the attaches of both the Jap
anese and Russian Peace missions
that there will be no general battle
In Manchuria while the peace ne
gotiations are on. It Is admitted that
if either Oyama or Linevitch should
deliberately bring on a general en
gagement which might cost 50,000 or
100,000 lives, he would be accused of
bad faith In the negotiations here,
and would inevitably lose prestige In
the eyese of the world.
It is reported that the Russians are
retiring across the Tumen river and
that they will avoid a battle In North
ern Korea.
MEN DRIVEN OUT
Women Will Soon Monopolize Posi
tions Held by Men.
W. L. Bodlne, superintendent of
compulsory education In Chicago,
created a sensation by bis address
on "The Competitive Life," before the
convention of the International asso
ciation of factory Inspectors at De
troit. He produced Federal statistics
covering the past 20 years, showing
that the Industrial competition of
women, children nnd machine labor
was driving the men out of tho large
cities to fields of heavy manual labor
in mining and agriculture. Ho de
clared that woman was destined to
bo the ruling sex In Industrialism.
Yellow Fever Record.
Tho official report of the Ytdlow Fever.
i'hscs In Now Orleans tip to 0 o'clock p.m.
August 18 if siiiiiiimiized its follows:
New oases, 02.
Total to date, 1,R32,
Dentils. 8, . X
Total deaths to date, 1S8.
THREE CHILDREN DROWNED
Swollen West Virginia Stream
Sweeps Them Off Horse.
Three children of Anios Adldns,
living on a creek nenr Ranger, W.
Va., were drowned in a flooded
stream. The family was aroused from
sleep when water crept up around
the house. To escape. the rush the
three children were placed on a
horse, while Mr. and Mrs. Adklns
mounted another and started through
tho darkness to the home of Ad
klns's brother, half a mile away. At
a ford just below the Adklns home
the horse bearing the children stumb
led and was carried down the stream.
The three children, the eldest of
whom was 11 nnd the youngest 7
years old, were carried away with the
horse and drowned.
Negro Cremated.
The people of Sulphur Springs,
Tex., gathered on the Court House
square and publicly burned Tom
Williams, an 18-year-old negro, who
waylaid a 14-year-old white girl
named Mary Chllds. There was only
a slight attempt on the part of the
officials to prevent the lynching.
Throughout the night officers and en
raged citizens searched for the negro,
and he was caught by officers at
dawn hiding in a barn two miles from
the scene of his crime. They were
soon surrounded by the mob nnd
forced to give him up.
Why Philadelphia Mint Suspends.
The suspension of gold and silver
coinage at the Philadelphia mint Is
explained at the Treasury depart
ment by the statement that the stock
of silver bullion Is entirely exhausted
and there Is no call at preent for
gold or minor coins. Some time in
October it Is thought the accumula
tion of uncurrent silver will warrant
the resumption for a time of re
colnage of silver dollars Into subsi
diary coins, but the outlook for con
tinued active operations at the Phila
delphia mint are not regarded as
good
M. Witte Is said to have contend
ed that he -.as defending not only the
Interests of Russia, but of all the
neutral Powers.
ROYALTY ATTACKED
Attempt
Made to Kill
China.
Empress of
a Tinnioin .iic!imt.h tin. "ivanir.
furter-Zeltung" says that nn attempt
was made on the life of the empress
ot China August 16 as she was pass
ing through the northwest gate of
the city to her summer pnlace. Her
assailant was dressed as a soldier and
was bayoneted by the guard.
Cretans Fight Russians.
Fighting is reported to have oc
curred between Russian troops nnd
the revolutionaries August 15, nnd
to still continue, the center of the
disturbances being the village of
Atslpopavlis. Details are lacking,
but reports state that several revolu
tionary chiefs have been wounded. A
skirmish also took place between
British troops and insurgents. The
casualties were slight.
Six Killed on the Santa Fe.
Six persons were killed in a wreck
of a north-bound Santa Fe train be
tween Santa Ana and Riverside, Cat.
The train ran into a freight.
Only Petty Skirmishing.
Nothing but petty skirmishing has
occurred recently along' the Russo
Japanese front. The weather is fine
and the roads are drying out. Tho
Japanese several times on the ap
proach ot Russian reconnoitering
patles left the shelter of the breast
works unarmed and throwing their
caps in the air, shouted "Peace,
peace." The Cossacks generally re
plied with volleys and continued their
reconnoissances. '
Twelve Quarrymen Are Killed by
a Great Mass of Limestone.
THREE MEET DEATH IN WRECK.
Express Train Strikes Trclley
and All Passengers on Car
Killed or Injured.
Car
A mass of limestone, weighing
thousands of tons, slid from a side
of the quarry of the Lehigh Portland
Cement Company at Ormrod, Pa.,
killing 12 out of 27 men at work.
The quarry is 1,000 feet long, 150
feet across and 100 feet deep. The
heavy rains of the past two days had
softened the earth and caused the
slide of rock. Where the fallen mass
slipped away a smooth, nearly per
pendicular wall was left, rising sheer
100 feet above the bottom ot the
quarry, while the entire floor was
covered with broken, jagged rock.
Only nine of the men got away
safely, four of whom escaped by run
ning up on a mass of rock at the op
posite side of the quarry. Tho
remaining 18 were huddled in a space
10 feet square Six of whom escaped
death were badly Injured, two of
them probably fatally. All are
Slavonians.
Two of the men who saw tho slide
of the quarry quiver, shouted a
warning to tho workmen. The men
misinterpreting the warning, failed
to move out of the zone of danger un
til It was too late. With a thunder
ous roar the mountain of rick fell,
pinning the victims fast.
All the men from tho company's
five neighboring quarries set to work
at once to extricate their comrades.
Six men were found huddled in one
place, four standing and two lying
down Three were living and one died
before being taken out. Five doctors
were summoned, who gave the Injur
ed first aid on the scene and then
had them hurried In wagons to the
Allentiiwn hospital.
Three men were killed and 10 were
Injured when a fast through express
from New York lo Cincinnati on the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
crashed Into a Winton place trolley
car In Winton place, a suburb of
Cincinnati. All the killed lived in
Winton place.
The locomotive struck the back
part of the street car and It was toss
ed to piece In all directions. The
locomotive and a mail car were
thrown from the track, plowing
through a truck garden and demol
ishing three small buildings. The
motormnn and the conductor of the
street car jumped to safety, but all
the passengers were either killed or
Injured.
KILLED IN RIOTS
Bomb Thrown at Soldiers in Polish
Town.
Advices received from Bialystok,
In the government of Grodno, give
some details of the rioting wheh
earlier reports said occurred there
August 15.
The disturbances were of a serious
nature and outbreaks occurred in
various parts of the city. During the
course of the rioting a bomb was
thrown at a detachment of soldiers,
killing two nnd wounding three
others.
The troops were called out and
there was' firing on the people in all
parts of the town. The casualties so
far are reported at 40 killed and over
200 wounded.
. FRENCH CLAIM ALLOWED.
Venezuelan Government Must
Pay
$5,030,000 Damages.
Claims aggregating $5,000,000 held
by the French government against
Venezuela, have been allowed by
Referee Frank Plumley of Northfleld,
Vt to whom they had been referred
for a decision and final adjudication.
The claims were for damages alleg
ed to have been sustained by French
citizens conducting mercantile enter
prises In Venezuela during tho Insur
rection of 1901. Mr. Plumley's de
clion is final.
Beilhart Wants Money.
Jacob L. Bellhart's Spirit Fruit
society, incorporated under the laws
and styling itself' a religious organi
zation has petitioned the court at
Lisbon, O., for authority to encum
ber Its Lisbon real estate, consisting
of five acres and a brick mansion,
for $3,000, which it proposes to In
vest In tho new community homo in
Lake county, 111.
Too Many Voters on Liot.
According to a statement made by
the director of the department of
public safety, based on u canvass
made by the police, there are 60,
083 names on the voting lists of
Philadelphia which, under the law,
have no right to be thereon. The
assessors In all tho voting divisions
of the city will be asked to strike the
fraudulent names from the list.
Famine Riots In Spain.
The newspapers, declare that. 100,
000 laborers In Andulusla are without
the necessities of life; that, several
districts are at the mercy of rioters
and that many landlords are seeking
safety in flight.
Novelist Punished.
Gov. Gen. Maxlmovltch sentenced
Henry Slenklewicz, the PoKsh novel
ist, to detention for an indeterminate
period in his residence for signing
and publishing papers in protest
against the Russification of schools
In Poland. A number of other not
ables were similarly punished.
Slenklewicz published an article deal
ing with the Polish school ques
tion. In which he described school
life in Poland as "a round of chagrin,
torment and tragedy."
PLANS FOR MERGER
Pennsylvania 8ystem Prepare for
Consolidation.
Plans are maturing at the general
offices of the Pennsylvania Railway
Company in Philadelphia for a whole"
sale merging of several of the largest
and most Important controlled lines,
Including the Allegheny Valley Rail
way Company, the Western New York
& Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia &
Erie and the Northern Central rail
road companies. Of these, the con
solidation of the first two is to be
effected first, the latter following
some months later. The plan is to
have the Allegheny Valley and the
Western New York merged into a
single company, and the Philadelphia
& Erie and the Northern Central in
to another. Then these two new com
panies are shortly to be amalga
mated with the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, forming one immense
corporation.
CHINESE HERE AID BOYCOTT
Secret Organization Institutes Move
ment Assessing Its Members.
Ten thousand dollars will be raised
by the Chinese of Portland, Ore,, to
aid in the boycott, in China, against
American goods. Two meetings of
the local colony have been held at
which It was decided that each Chi
nese In Portland should contribute at
least $2 to carry on the campaign.
The movement was instituted by a
secret organization of San Francis
co. Dispatches received nt the State
Department at Washington from
China Bhow that Shanghai is the only
place where the boycott against
American goods has assumed any
thing like a serious aspect. At
Canton the movement has made some
headway, but at other points, it has
not been successful.
COTTON INVESTIGATION.
District Attorney Hopes to Indict
More Than One Person.
The grand jury of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, re
sumed its investigation into the leak,
age of the cotton crop reports of the
Department of Agriculture, C. C.
Clark, chief of the Bureau of Statis
tics of the department, being the first
witness.
District Attorney Beach is hopeful
of completing the Investigation in a
short time, and expects to secure in
dictments against more than one
person notwithstanding the absence
of Mr. Hyde, the former statistician
of the department, and the refusal of
Messrs. Peckham and Haas to testi
fy.
Foreign Crop Report.
The foreign crop reports to the
Department of Agriculture made pub
lic announce that in the countries of
largest production the crops of the
principal bread grains cannot be
called abundant, but on a general sur
vey of the field It seems probable
that the harvest of 1905 will not on
the whole be a bad one. In Argen
tina there Is a good crop outlook and
the area of winter grain appears to
be much larger than last year.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Fire In Allegheny junk store caused
a loss of about $10,000.
William Belford was killed by com
ing in contact with a live wire at
Youngstown, O.
The peace envoys are deluged with
thousands of letters from all parts of
the world.
Marshall Field pays Cook county,
111., taxes on an assessed valuation of
$73,000,000.
President Roosevelt addressed a
large crowd of people In the assem
bly grounds, at Chautauqua, N. Y.
Former Ambassador Choale will not
be the associate counsel to the
legislative committee Investigating in
surance. Guiseppe Nicolao, who was one of
Adellna Pattl's first music teachers,
died in poverty in New York city,
aged SO year.
Exports of manufactured articles
from this country 'in 1905 are the
largest on record and exceed by near
ly $100,000,000 tho figures of 1904.
Harris Llndsley, deputy police com
missioner of New York city, and his
fiance were klled by a train while
riding in an automobile In Vermont.
The contract for building the new
Manhattan bridge which will parallel
Brooklyn bridge, was awarded to the
Pennsylvania Steel company, whose
bid was $7,2S4,000.
Tenders have been asked for the
construction of a great railway from
Arlca, in Chile, to LaPas in Bolivia.
This great enterprise will give enor
mous impulse to export trade in
Bolivia.
Boston Wool Market.
Dullness and firmness characterize
the Boston wooJ market: Territories
are steady; foreign wools are firm;
leading quotations follow: Ohio and
Pennsylvania XX and above, 37
SSc; X. 3435c; No. 1, 4041c; No.
2. 4112c; fine unwashed, 2829c; V
blood, unwashed ?A3Zc; blood,
3435c; ,i blood, 3435c; unwash
ed delaine. 3031c; unmerchantable,
3132c; ftme washed delaine, 39(ffi
40c. Michigan Fine unwashed, 27
2Sc; Vi blood, unwashed, 33 34c;
washed delaine, 28c.
blood, 3t35c; '2 blood, 3233c; un-
New Harriman Railroad.
Application was made in Kansas
City for a charter for a railroad
company, the purpose of which is to
connect the Harriman railroads In the
northwestern part of the United
States with the Harriman lines run
ning to New Orleans and through
Southern States. The new railroad
will run through the Kansas wheat
belt and be chartered under the name
of the Denver, Kansas and Gulf.
The capital stock of the company is
$2,000,000, $500,000 of which has been
subscribed.
KEYSTONE STATE GULLJNGS
EXPLOSION INJURES MANY
Big Ladle Overturns, Metal Flows Iih
to Water Four of the Burned
Will Die.
Fifteen workmen were Injured, four
of them seriously, by a terrific ex
plosion in the foundry department of
the Treadwell Manufacturing Company;
at Lebanon. A ladle containing over
5,000 pounds of hot metal was acci
dentally overturned while being run
on a crane. The metal ran Into a
"bosh" filled with water and the ex
plosion resulted before the men
could get out of the way. The shock
of the explosion was felt all over ths
city and window panes and doors of
houses in the immediate neighbor
hood were shattered.
The engine of a freight train explod.
ed in the Pennsylvania yards at Altoo
na, causing the wrecking ot the train,
the death of two men, the injury of a
third and the damaging of the engine
of a second train. The tracks were
blocked for hours. The train was
composed of coal and merchandise
cars and was going east. Engineer
Murphy was said to have been trying
the Injector, which Indicated that the
water was too low, when the boiler
suddenly exploded, hurling the engi
neer to the side of the track and
throwing Fireman Lucas 50 yards into
a field. The latter died before he
could b moved, while Murphy expir
ed shortly after reaching the hospital.
The train came to a sudden stop and
14 cars were plied up and wrecked.
A westbound freight train ran into
the debris ?nd the engine was dam
aged. Conductor Hnlihan's feet were
sprained by the sudden stopping ot
the train.
Unsuspectingly crossing Into
Pennsylvania from Washington, D.
C, en route to his home in New York,
George H. Proctor, promoter ot the
defunct Summit Coal and Coke. Com
pany, was arrested at Philadelphia
Saturday by Constable Milton Mor
ris of Unlontown and brought to the
county Jail on three charges of falsa
pretense. It Is alleged that he de
frauded local parties out of $40,000
in connection with the concern which
he was promoting. The three Infor
mations against him were made by
E. E. Dillinor, Levi Francis 'and
William Trader. When the bottom
dropped out of the concern and the
stock proved to be worthless. Proctor
returned to New York. He had noth
ing to say about the charges.
The Latrobe Electric Light Com
pany has purchased the plant of the
Derry Electric Light Company. It
is stated that the intention is to sup
ply the current for the Westmoreland
county street railway. Latrobe, Der
ry, Bradenvllle, Loyalhanna, Maches
newtown and other intermediate
points will be -furnished with elec
tric light from the latrobe plant.
Horseshoers of Westmoreland coun
ty are greatly perturbed over the well
authenticated report that glanders,
the most dreaded disease among
horses, has made its appearance In a
violent form. Two valuable driving
horses belonging to a farmer three
miles east of Greensburg have been
killed and a dozen others are being
watched for developments.
Oliver Ritter, of Allentown, aged 44
'years, committed- suicide after att
tempting to kill his wife. Mrs. Rit
ter was choked into insensibility by
her husband, who rushed from the
house telling his children that he in
tended kill himself. His body was
found later hanging to a tree some
distance from his home. Mrs. Rlt
ter's condition is serious.
Thomas H. Davles, of Chagrin
Falls, O., crawled under a Lake Shore
car at Sharon and went to sleep. Aa
engine moved the car, and both his
legs were cut off, as a result of which
he died in the hospital. John Viper
was dozing at the South Sharon coke
plant when a leveler struck him in the
side. He was taken to the hospital
and will probably die.
Edward McNamara died from injur
ies received In being run down by a
Pennsylvania lines train at Green
ville. , He lay on the track all night
and was discovered at dawn. Two
weeks ago James Gunter was killed
at almost the same spot.
Rev. C. S. Tinker, of Newark, N. J.,
has accepted a call to the pastorate
of the First Baptist church at Green
ville. His first pastorate was in
Greenville and he later preached at
Sharon, going from that place to
Newark a few years ago.
P. Auslander, a Baltimore and Ohio
railroad telegraph operator at Cassel
man was held up Saturday night by
two masked highwaymen and reliev
ed of his watch, a diamond ring, and
all his money, which amounted to
$225.
Boys playing with matches set fire
to the stable of f?tanton D. Sipe at
Connellsville and the building to
gether with a fine driving horse was
destroyed. The horse- refused toboied
out of the flames by the firemen.
Prof. J. S. Eest. for several years
superintendent ot the North Hunting
don township schools, Westmoreland
county, has been appointed as a
government teacher In the Philippine
islands.
Merchants of Manor, Jeannette, Ir
win, Penn and Larimer held their an
nual picnic at Oakford Park. Stores
as well as industrial establishments
were closed and 5,000 people enjoyed
the outing.
The Connellsville school board has '
decided to asjk for bids for the con
struction of two new schools in Con
nellsville. One is to be a-12-rooro.
building, to cost approximately $:55.
000. The other 'is to be an eight
room building to cost about $25,000.
Philip Doeashert was arrested at
Monongnhela charged with breaking
(ail at Washington. Pa., last Novem
ber, when he was charged with sure
ty of the peace and assault and bat
tery. 1
J. F. Kerr, of Cannonsburg. Is com
pleting plans for an eisteddfod to b
eld at Washington: on November 39,