TOCO'S FLAGSHIP IS LOST Sank at Sasebo With 599 Men on Board. ADMIRAL WAS NOT ON BOARD Ship Was Heaviest Loser In Battle of 8ea of Japan and Port Arthur Fights. The Japanese Navy department announced that the battleship Mlknsa has been destroyed by fire and the explosion of her magazine causing the loss of 699 lives, Including men of otner Blilps who wont to the rescue. Admiral Togo wus not on board when the disaster occurred. The Are started from an unluiown cause at midnight Sunday night, September 10. Before the offlcers could be rescued the fire reached the aft magazine, which exploded, blowing a. hole In the port side of the vessel below the water line and causing the jihlp to sink. An Investigation is now being made to determine the cause of the fire. The disaster has caRt a gloom everywhere. The Mlkasa was Togo's riagshlp, and was endeared to the hearts of the people. The ship was t anchor in Sasebo harbor and she sank in shallow water. It Is believed the ship can be repaired. In the battle of the sea nf .Tniinn the Mlkasa was the heaviest loser of Ml the Japanese ships, having 03 killed and wounded. She approached nearer to the Kusslans than any otner battleship. The Mlkasa was also the flagship or Admiral Togo after tho great naval battle fought off Port Arthur on August 10, 1904, on which occasion the flagship also Buffered the most, but continued in the fighting line. Dn that occasion the Mlkasa had four Officers and 29 men killed, six officers end 29 men severely wounded and four officers and 29 men slightly wounded. The Mlkasa was a first-class battle ship of 15,200 tons displacement. She was built In England and was launched in 1902. The battleship was 400 feet long, had a speed of over 18 knots, and carried a crew of 935 officers and men. She was heavily armored and carried four 12 lnch guns, 14 6-Inch guns, 20 12 pounders, and a number of smaller rapid fire guns. She had four sub merged torpedo tubes. Dead of Mikasa Number 256. The bureau of naval intelligence at Washington received advice by cable from the American naval at tache at Toklo to the effect that the loss In killed and missing on the battleship Mlknsa was 256. The wounded numbered 343. The cause of the accident cannot be ascertained until the Mlkasa Is floated. BLOWN TO ATOMS Man, Wife, Boy, Horses and Wagon Scattered to Winds. Blown to atoms by over 30 quarts of nitroglycerine, E. M. McKay, his wife and an unknown boy met death near Salem, W. Va. Just before daylight McKay and his wife started driving for the Buckeye oil field. McKay was an oil shooter, and In the rig he had 32 quarts of glycerine. Before reaching the Ford farm, near Salem, a young boy cllmed Into the rear of the wag on. At that instant the nltro-glycer-lne exploded, and the entire outfit was blown to atoms. Pieces of the three persons, and the horses were scattered all over the road and nothing but tufts of hair and pieces of clothing and mangled flesh could be found. An Immense hole was torn In the road at the spot where the explosion occurred. Flirting Costs $300. Harry Peyton, who says he Is a clerk in the office of the Missouri Pacific railroad, was fined $300 by Judge Tracy of St. Louis on the charge of having attempted to flirt with Mrs. A. W. Ecoff at Union sta tion. Negotiations Halted. - The demand of Sweden's representa tives that Norway shall demolish all her fortresses on the frontier between the two countries has caused a tem porary halt In the negotiations for the establishment of future amicable re lations. The Norwegian people are especially opposed to the destruction of a historic fortress which is said to be the key to the defenses of their capital. AUDITOR PUT OUT Indiana State Official Removed by Governor. State Auditor David E. Sherrick was removed from office by Gov. Han ley, of Indiana, who charges him with "a gross betrayal of the public trust," In that he Invested funds of the state to the amount of about $145,000 in private ventures. After making sev eral demands for his resignation, none of which were complied with, Gov. Hanley ' declared the office va cant and appointed Warren Bigler, of Wabash to the position. A warrant was Issued for his arrest. Iowa's Population Decreased. According to preliminary figures of Iowa's State census, Just completed, Iowa has a total population on January 1, 1905, of 2,201,372. This Is a loss of 80,481 since the National census of 1900. Only 22 of 99 counties showed Increases In population. Decreases were p rural regions. Census officers agree that the loss was due to the enlargement of Iowa farm and the emigration of Iowalans to States where cheaper lands were available. SPECTATORS UNABLE TO HELP Other Ara Expected to Expire From Injuries Cause of the Disaster It Unknown. The explosion of a fuse, followed by a fire in a building of the Climax Fuse Company ut Avon, Conn., caused a panic among 20 employes In the building and resulted In the death ol seven and Injuries that doubtless will prove fatal to several others. There was no way of coping with the flames, which soon spread rapidly, and In less thnn an hour after the ex plosion occurred those who were un ulile to escnpe were wrapped In flames that eventually burned their bodies to ashes. As the day wore on the greul crowd that collected In the hamlet saw the bodies of men and women roasting In the fire, and were power less to even check tho flames. The list of dead follows: William Hurke, 40 years old, married; James Joyce, about 35, married; Robert Mc Carthy, aged IS; James Wallace, mar ried; Molly McCarthy, Miss J. Sulli van, Mrs. M. B. Tucker. The exact cause of the accident may never bo known, but It Is the accept ed theory here that In an effort to burn out a stoppage In one of the machines a workman caused an ex plosion of a fuse with the hot Iron he held In his hnnd. Those who were In the room where the explosion oc curred Bay that the explosion was not severe and ordinarily would not have caused a panic. Inflnmahle material. however, was set on fire, and in a few moments the room was a mnss ol flames. In an Instant there was a mad rush for the doors and windows, and during the scrimmuge muny were pushed back Into the building, while others were severely burned. ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK Demand Is Broadening Many Plants Have Orders Running Into Next Year. Industrial, commercial and agri cultural progress continues satisfac tory. Nothing hus occurred to weak en confidence, the disposition being to extend the plans further Into the future, and many plants have their facilities engaged well Into next year. As demand broadens there Is a nat ural tendency to enlarge capacity, which adds to the already exceptional structural activity. Jobbers have secured much more forward business than nt this date last year, especially in drygoods lines. and the frequent reminders of autumn temperature stimulate retail distribu tion of wearing apparel. Thus far the weather has not been cold enough to harm tho crops that remain to be harvested, and another week of fav orable conditions should assure an unprecedented yield of corn. Several settlements maintain labor disputes at the minimum and mercantile col lections continue prompt. A few com plaints of Inadequate transporting fa cilities from manufacturing centers are attributed to tho requirements of grain moving. Hallway earnings thus far reported for September were 3.7 per cent, larger than last year, while foreign commerce at this port for the last week showed gains of $2,364,180 In value of exports and $97,851 In Im ports, as compared with 1904. The official report of exports of staple products from all ports of the United States In August exhibited a gain of $16,833,901 over the same month last ear, of more than 50 per cent. Each week brings better news from the Iron and steel Industry, demand broadening and production keeping pace. One of the most promising features Is the business improvement abroad, which is calculated to In crease still more the already heavy export demand for steel shapes. Purchases of leather are not vet as liberal as thoy will be later In the season, as shoe manufacturers are operating moderately, but the tone Is very firm and a fairly large export movement gives support. Failures this week numbered 194 in the United States, against 224 last year, and 29 in Canada, compared with 21 a year ago. President Eugene Zimmerman, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway, admitted that the road had been sold to J. P.' Morgan & Co. SIX YEARS TO CROSS OCEAN Bottle Thrown Overboard Near Scot land Found Off Newfoundland. When the Dominion liner Labrador was wrecked off the coast of Scot land on March 1. 1899, George B. Blandford, a cattleman, wrote a let ter telling of the disaster and threw It overboard In a bottle. The letter was addressed, to a Montreal news paper. The bottle was picked up recently at New Harbor on Hermitage bay, New Foundland, by Riod Duruford, a fisherman, and has been brought to Montreal. It took the bottle nearly six years and a half to drift 1,000 miles across the Atlantic. Three Surveyors Killed by Train. Three civil engineers la the em ploy of the Delaware, Lackawana and Western railroad were killed by a work train while returning to Cortland, N. Y., on a handcar. They were J. M. Rowe, of Blnnhamton, N. Y. ; H. O. Biesecker, ri Lester shire, N. Y., and J. R. Fur.'.t, of In diana. The engineers did not see the approaching train In time to jump and they were killed almost Instantly. Trolley Car Overturned. By the upsetting of a trailer at tached to a car on the Hon:?3tead division of the Pittsburg Railways company, 40 persons were hurt. Twenty-one were so seriously Injur ed that they had to be taken to hos pitals for treatment. The Schafer & Becker building at Nos. 29-31 Michigan street, Cleveland, O., occupied by various manufacturing concerns, was gutted by fire. The losses will aggregate $100,000. STATE OF WAR DECLARED Tartars Slaughter Armenians and Throw Bodies to the Dogs. OIL MEN ARE IN DIRE 8TRAITS Will Not Resume Operations Unless the Government Guarantees to Restore Order. A state of war has been proclaimed in the Caucasian districts of Zunge- zur and Jebrall, where Tartars are massacring the Armenians. The country Is swarming with bands of Tartars under the leadership of their chiefs. Many thottsunds of Tartar horsemen have crossed the Perso Russian frontier and Joined the Insur gents In destroying Armenlun vill ages. At the village of Mlnkend, 300 Ar menians were slaughtered. Dlspntches say that mutilated children were thrown to the dogs, and that tho few survivors were forced to embrace Islamtsm In order to save their lives. One hundred Social Democrats wore killed or wounded at Tlflls, Caucasia, In a contract with Cossacks, and ninny were trampled to death In a subsequent panic. Two thousand So cial Democrats had forced an entrance Into the town hall, which was closed owing to the celebration of a re ligious holiday, the beheading of John the Baptist. Revolutionary speeches were made and the chief of police or dered the meeting to disperse. Part of those present obeyed, but the re mainder refused, and some revolvers were fired. A large force of Cossacks drawn up outside the building then fired a volley Into the crowd, killing 30 and wounding upward of 70. In the ensuing panic many persons fell and were trampled to death by tholr comrades and the pursuing Cossacks. News received from Buku reports that the situation there is growing worse. Other dispatches assert that the rioters are sulibornly continuing their attacks and that the Tartars and Kurds are plundering In the "Black town" district. The dispatches gay that on Sunday the soldiers fired Into n crowd of Russian workmen, kill ing 17. A dispatch to tho Caucasus Oil Company from Baku says that the fires in the oil fields are practically exhausted and that the military au thorities are stationing guards In the district. During the night the Incen diaries tried to land at Blblebat from small boats, but were driven off by volleys from the Cossacks. They then attacked steamers In which the em ployes of two oil companies had tak en refuge during the uprising, but the atack was repulsed. Oil men representing an annual production of 500,000,000 poods, mot nnd determlnted to ask the Btate for assistance In obtaining a 20-year loan without Interest, to cover the losses resulting from the catastrophe at Baku, without which, they declared, 108 of the 133 companies would be un able to continue In business. The men also drew up a remon strance which they will ask Finance Minister Kokovsoff to present to Em peror Nicholas, stating it is impossible for the naphtha Industry to exist un der present conditions, and that the companies would not resume opera tions unless gurnntees were given them that order would soon bo restor ed and permanently' maintained in the oil regions. Yellow Fever Record. The ofilolnl report of the Yellow Fovcrj oases In Now Orleans up to 6 o'clock p.m. j Sept. 15 is Riinunnrizcd as follows: New cusps, 43. Total to dnto, 2,505. l)euths 2. Total deaths to date, 331. Bomb Thrown at Governor. While the governor of Tavastehus, Finland, was driving with the chief of police, an infernal machine was thrown at the carriage, ' but It failed to ex plode. RUSSIANS RETURN Peace Commissioner Sail From New York for St. Petersburg. ' The Russian commissioners who successfully concluded a treaty of peace with the envoys of Japan at Portsmouth have started on the re turn to St. Petersburg. The party, headed by Serglus Wltte, the head Russian plenipotentiary, sailed on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, on the 12th. Before leaving, M. Wltte and Bar on Rosen made a farewell call upon the Japanese diplomats, at their; hotel in New York City. Baron Komura was unable to see the Russians be cause of his Illness, but through Minister Takahira, he sent them a cordial message of farewell. Mr. Takahira and other members of the Japanese party entertained the Rus sians for half an hour. A small tornado passed near Walt er. 20 miles south of Lawton, Okla., kilting two persons and severely In juring nine. The dead are Mrs. E. H. Childers and John Ross. Several houses were blown down. Aeronaut Plunged to Death. John August, an aeronaut, 25 years old, whose home is in Shenandoah, Pa., was instantly killed by falling from his " apparatus at Baltimore. When the balloon reached an altl vle of about 2,000 feet August seemed to become exhausted. An Instant later he was whirling through space, his body rapidly gaining mo mentum An It fell. His rltrhf Inrr was torn off at the knee and big body was otherwise horribly mangled. WILL SEND WARSHIPS Nicaragua Will Have to Answer for Action Toward Consul. Because of reports received by the state department from Minister Merry that the arrest and Imprisonment of William B.-Albers, an American citi zen, and his brother. In Nicaragua, were without warrant, a vessel of the United States navy will be sent to that country to enforce nny demands which this Government may make up on the little republic. As the exequator of United States Consul Donaldson, at Managua, was withdrawn bemuse he protested against the treatment to which the Albers brothers were subjected, the incident may take a serious turn. After consultation between the state and navy departments, It was decided that a warship shall be sen to one of the Costa Rlcan ports to convey American Minister Merry, at last accounts in San Jose, northward to the nearest point on the coast of Nicaragua or Honduras to the place where Albers and his brother are confined, pending a trial on the chnrge or resisting legal process and of In suiting the president of Nicaragua It Is Intended to see that the men get a fair trial. TWELVE KILLED IN WRECK Car Falls From Elevated Tracks In New York City. A crowded car was thrown from the tracks of the Ninth Avenue Ele vated railroad in New York City and fell into the -street below, resulting In the deuth of 12 and Injury to a much larger number. The accident, the worst of the his tory of overhead railroads In New York, came when a southbound train on the Ninth avenue line was switch ed off to the Sixth avenue line at the Fifty-third street Junction. The motormnn, expecting a clear track on the direct line of Ninth averiie, or disregarding the warning signal that switch was open, rushed his train along at a hlgli rate of speed. The first car swung around the right an gle curve holding to the rails bo cause of tho weight of the train be hind. Then the strain became too great. The couplings broke, the sec ond car was whirled about almost end for end and, to the horror of those who looked on from below pitched into the street. FOUND POT OF GOLD Alleged Discovery of $50,000 Has Its Suspicious Features. An Iron pot containing $50,000 In gold coin, the newest of which was 115 yenrs old was found on the farm of James Rivers, near Chesterflold, S. C, by Tyler Teal, a white laborer, and Will Edwards, a negro, while en gaged recently In digging a ditch, ac cording to the story told by Edwards Tho pot was carried to a point two miles away and burled near the bank of a stream. When two dnys later, the finders went after the pot. It had mysteriously disappeared. The negro charges that the white man appropri ated the money and has hidden It from him, while Teal declares tho whole story Is a joke and no pot was unearth ed. Edwards sticks to his story. Detectives employed by the negro and who have since ben working on the case, say they have secured evi dence confirming the discovery of the hidden wealth, but thus far no trace of the gold has been found. Jury Holds Railroad Responsible. Juries of Inquest from Norfolk City and Norfolk county, Vav which Inves tigated tho wreck of the Kinston Greenville excursion train on the At lantic coast line railway on August 17, when 17 persons lost their lives and 50 or more were Injured, returned verdicts holding the railroad com pany responsible. Tried to Beat Shell Game. Constable W. H. Fetter, recovered $500 which a New Brighton, (Pa.) man lost at a shell game run by two circus men. The shell game was operated In the side show. The New Brighton man thought he could beat It and went to the bank, drew $500 and returned to the- show grounds where he lost the money within a few minutes. Find Body of Confessed Murderer. The dead body of Charles Herzlg, who left a written confession that he was guilty of a murder committed near Youngstown, O., over 30 years ago, has been found by a posse of searchers. The body was hanging to a tree in a secluded ravine In the county of Wallace, N. D. Pinned to his breast was a note and around his neck was the veil of the woman ho was supposed to have strangled. Russo-Japanese Armistice. The protocol of the armistice be tween Japan and Russia consists of six paragraphs fixing the scene of demarcation between the two armies in Manchuria, as well as in the Tu- men region, providing that the nav al forces of one of the beligerents shall not bombard territory belonging to or occupied by the other, and Bet ting forth that maritime captures will not be suspended during the armistice. The grand Jury at Unlontown, Pa., returned true bills against George H. Proctor In each of the six cases of false pretense arising out of the float ing of the Summit Conl Co. Quits Job to Run for Office. L. L. Lewis, United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia, has tendered his resignation to the Department of Justice, and it has been accepted. Robert H. Talley, of Norfolk, has been appointed to the vacancy. Mr. Lewis is the present candidate on the Republican ticket for Governor of Virginia. Eulass Morgan, a rich farmer living three miles from Corinth, Ky., cut his wife's throat and then drew the razor across his own throat. CABINET FEMO PEOPLE Japanese Officials Were Alarmed at Popular Outbreak MIKADO UPHOLDS MINISTERS Advises Them to Remain In Office Mass Meeting Passes Resolutions Opposing Treaty. The Japanese cabinet ministers pre sented an official statement to the mikado, explaining the necessity of In stltuting martial law at the capital and at the same time asking the Imperial Judgment, us to whether they should remain in office or retire. The em peror's reply received advised them to retain their respective posts. A muss meeting at Osaka passed the following resolution without hindrance on the part of the police: "The peace that has Just been con cluded between Russia and Japan for feits the f lull s of victory nnd sows seeds of future complications and danger. The government's highhand ed and unconstitutional measure has resulted In unexpected disturbance to the peace of the city In which the mikado resides. "The empire's honor has been sul lied and the spirit of the constitution lost. Never has our country been brought to fuco greater dangers J hererure, be It, "Resolved, That we hone that the humiliating peace agreement will be broken and that the government will resign. The special session of the privy council lasted for four hours. No bill was presented, only a report from the cabinet ministers, Premier Katsura making an extended state ment of the pence negotiations. The progressive party and its local branches continue to press resolutions against the government. The Shlba branch condemns the government assumption of the power to suspend newspapers, declaring It to be wholly unconstitutional. Quiet, however prevails In Tokyo. TWO DROWN TO SAVE OTHERS Both Sacrifices Were Futile and Vic tims Number Four. Four persons were drowned In the Coeheco river at Dover, N. H., and In euch case one of the victims mot death trying to save another. On (he schooner Sadie A. Kimball the main boom knocked Thomas Keenan a seaman, overboard. A boat was lowered, and George Jones, another seaman, was preparing to go to the rescue,, when he fell from tho railing, striking his head on the small boat, nnd sinking Instantly. Edward Dur- kin lost his life In trying to save his little son, who fell out of a rowboat. Emperor Opposes Universal Suffrage. All hope of peace bitwecn the crown and the united opposition in the Hungarian diet seems to have come to an end. It is understood that Emperor Francis Joseph, who at nrst was apparently inclined to ac quiesce In the plan of the Hungarian ministers for the granting of universal suffrage as one way of bringing about the defeat of the united opposi tion, has been induced to change his mind by the Austrian ministers, who feared the effect .of political condi tions in Austria, If universal suffrage should be granted to the Hungarian people. Komura Contracts Fever. Three physicians who nre nftenrlin? Baron Komura. the chief of the .Inn- nnese pence envoys, decided that the caron has typhoid fever. His Intend ed return to Japan has been post poned and nurses were hastily sum moned to his apartments in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. The baron's temperature was 102 degrees and he was said to be very 111, thpugh only In the first stages of the fever. The decision as to his illness was reached after a consultation of Drs. Francis P. Delafield. George Brewer and W. B. Prltchard. HAITI TOO LIVELY Minister Powell Announces Intention to Resign. William F. Powell. United States minister to Haiti, who is on leave of absence at his home in Camden, N. J., announced his Intention of tend ering his resignation to President Roosevelt at once. He gives as his reason for resigning the prevalence of revolutions, riots and fevers in Haiti. 'I have tempted the fate3 long enough," he said. In about eight days Minister Powell will return to his post at Port Au Prince, to await the appointment and arrival of his successor. Sent Infernal Machines as Joke. Thomas French, the East Orange. N. J., youth who was arrested by post office Inspectors, confessed to the po lice that he had sent the threatening letters and three infernal machines to Valentine Riker, an insurance official. The boy, who is only 17 years of age, said he sent the machines as a Joke. Application was made for a commission to Inquire in the youth's sanity. ' Earthquake Ruins 200,000 persons. In the three districts of Calabria, Italy, commerce has been almost com pletely destroyed by the recent earth quake and fully 200,000 persons have practically been ruined. Difficulty is being experienced In organizing the relief work In the district devastated. King Victor Emmanuel is expected to remain a week In Calabria. The rapid and virulent spread of yellow fever outside of New Orleans is causing the Louisiana authorities grave : i !rn. ' CONDITIONS AT BAKU Many Workmen Without Clothing and 'Almost Destitute. M. Pappe, the St. Petersburg representative of the Baku bourse, said that t.le situation at Buku con tinued to l-how a distinct Improve ment. Telegrams received from the oil men report the steady arrival of troops, five further battalions having reached Baku, and the worst Is be lieved to be over. Later reports show that in addition to the refineries In the "illiick town" district about 80 per cent. r the oil property in the well district escaped; A liimentnblo fer.ture of tho situa tion, according to M. Pappe Is tho condition bt the workmen, many of whom arc! without sufficient clotlilii and utterly destitute. M. Pappe paid a high I compliment to Finance Minister Kokovsorc for the energy with whluh he acted since the upris ing. The minister visited the emper or twice to luy before him the gravity of tho situation, as the (result of which hlli majesty twice telegraphed to the viceroy to spare no effort to protect tills important industry. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. John W. Cnrter, a farmer living at Jacksons Corners, near Brandywlne Summit, Del., was murdered sup posedly by a negro farmhand. M. Kullkovsky, who on July 11 last assassinated Major General Count Shuvaloff, has been sentenced to Imprisonment for life. No Improvement In the apple out look Is Indicated, a very poor crop being promised In practically all of the important apple States. Health officials announced that John Howe, of Marinette, Mich., who is 111 at his home, after a sojourn In the south, is suffering from yellow fever, M. M. McPherson, was killed at Chicago, while dragging Miss Delia Lennon, of Bay City, Mich., from In front of a swiftly moving freight en gine. The Japanese Government ordered the suspension of three newspapers puhllxhd respectively at Kofu, M'llga- ta und Otaru, for criticising the peace treaty. Secretary Loeb hu3 written the mayor of Montgomery, Ala., stating that President Roosevelt will be In Montgomery ,on October 23 for three hours. The chairs used by M. Wltte and Baron Komura when they signed the treaty -of Portsmouth have been pur chased by President Roosevelt. The price was $40 each. Work will be commenced within a few days to construct an electric railway which will connect Pomeroy, Ohio, and Belpre, Ohio, a distance of over one hundred miles. The general outlook for potatoes continues unpromising, blight and de cay being extensively reported, ex cept in New England and portions of the Missouri Valley, where the pros pects nre more favorable. John Smith and James II. Ish- mael were instantly killed and Oscar Ishmael was fatally Injured when a Big Four construction train crashed into a box car at Marlon, Ind. In the villnge of Wysock, govern ment of Volhlnla, on the frontier of Russian, Poland, a raftsman who re turned from Prussia and eight other persons have . died of cholera. The village has been Isolated. Boston Wool Market. A seasonable business has been transacted In wools. An improvement in demand from the clothing mills is a feature. Prices are strong, without nny marked advances. Territory wools have been fairly active, but the major part of the business has been done in the original bags. The wools of the half and three-eighths grades have the greatest call. In pulled wools, a supers have sold at 626oc, with the demand, for Bs less active. Foreign wools are steady. Leading quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsyl vania XX and above, 3637c; X, 3435c; No. 1, 40fc41c; No. 2, 41 42c; fine unwashed, 2829c; V4-blood, unwashed, 34S3;c; -blood, 3536c; ',-blood 3435c; unwashed delaine. 3031c; unmerchantable, 3132c; fine washed delaine, 3940c. NEGRO KILLED AND BURNED Death Due to Informing on White Men Who Sold Him Whisky. Governor Vardamaa of Mississippi, received a letter from District At torney Brewer, of the Eleventh dis trict, notifying him that a negro nam ed Will James, living in the interior of Tallahatche county, was taken to the woods by three white men and shot to death, after which his body was burned. The negro, it was said, had bought some whisky from one of the white men and afterward Inform ed on him. The district attorney asked the governor to take action in the case. Big Rail Order Placed. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany has placed orders for 179.0U0 tons of steel rails for 1906 delivery. This is an increase of 40.000 tons over the last contract. The orders were distributed among the United States Steel Corporation. Pennsylvania Steel Company, the Cambria Iron Compa-v, and the Lackawana Iron and Stt ' Company. Land Owner Assassinated. Prince Tsitsianoff, a landed proprie tor, was assassinated at Gorl. An In cident showing the desperate spirit displayed by the Tartars Is reported from Baku. A band of Tartars barri caded themselves in the house of a rich Mussulman and fired from the windows on a patrol officer who call ed the to surrender.; The Tartars re plied with another volley, and con tinued firing while artilery was brought up. The artillery laid the house In ruins, the Tartars perishing to a man. KEYSTONE STATE CULL1NGS EXPENSIVE TO KEEP OPEN Irwin Merchant Fined Heavily far Transacting Business on 8unday. It cost James Fellls, a Greek fruit dealer of Irwin $:!9.40 to do business on Sunduy. On Saturday he notified the civic league that he would not close as had been requested under penalty of being prosecuted under the Sunday law. To make It as expensive as possible the organization placed representatives near the etore and they secured as many names of cus tomers as could be obtained for' wit nesses. A warrant was sworn out and the witnesses were subpoened. One lives near McKeesport, one at Latrobe and one at Adamsburg. Alt appeared before Justice Howell. Fellls was found guilty and was fined $4 and costs. The constable drew, BAfirlv In feea nnrl ttillpno-a nnri the balance was made up in witness fees. A heavily laden excursion train, bound for the Stoneboro fair from New Castle, collided head-on with a regular passenger train on the Penn sylvania railroad a mile south of New Wilmington Junction. The accl- ednt caused the death of two men and the Injury of more than 3D others, two of whom are likely to die, and 21 of whom were very badly hurt. The dead are: L. C. Mask ray, New Castle, engineer of regular passenger train; W. J. Cannon, Stoneboro, fireman, regular passenger train. Jessie Henderson of Mt. Pleasant, was acquitted of the murder of Perry Lowry, of Blalrsvllle at Pleasant Uni ty on July 25 at Greensburg. Self defense was proved. Clark Nell. obarged with the murder of E. H. Btahlnecker at Blalrsvllle Inter section, was acquitted. Nell testified that upon returning home one night he met Btahlnecker and spoke to him. He alleges that Btahlnecker made a movement as if to draw a re volver. Neil claimed he then shot. thinking he was about to be at tacked. Three trainmen were killed and two others were slightly Injured early tt Tabor Junction In a collision be tween freight arins of the Philadel phia and Reading Railway and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. A fasj; freight of the Central Railroad crashed into a Reading local freight and the three dead men were burled boneath the wreckage. Fire follow ed the collision and the fire depart ment was called out to extinguish the flames, " Frank J. Thomas, president Judge of the Crawford county court, handed down an opinion In the case of A. C. Huldekooper vs. Samuel B. Dick, sus taining the finding of the referee that Dick Is Indebted to Huldekooper In the sum of $184,839. The litigation between the two men has been long drawn out, and concerns the owner ship of stock in the Pittsburg, Besse mer and Lake Erie Railroad com pany. It is understood that the case will be appealed to the Supreme court. The condition of the typhoid fever epidemic at Nantloke has not changed materially. A number of nurses are on the scene and effective work is now being done to combat the spread of the disease. The cases reported now number 1(50, with six death9, while West Nanticoke has 21 cases and one death. George Geary had a thrilling ride on the Conemaugh river. Geary drove Ma team into the river, which was swollen by the rains, and his wagon upset. Geary floated on the bed of the wagon three miles down stream be fore getting ashore, which he suc ceeded in doing at a sharp bend la the river below the confluence of the Black Lick. Rev. Thnmna Tnre-nn nasrnr nf thA First Conereeatlnnal chnrrh nf Shar. on, has tendered his resignation, to lane eneci immediately. Kev. Mr. Morgan was installed pastor last May and Ktartprt fnn Wales fmmertlatolo- expecting to return here with his wiib, uui sae is m, necessitating can celing the call. John Heverlv nf TTavAft Rim la thA champion rattlesnake killer ' In the section about Bellefonte. From June 11 until Sont-omhpr 1 ha lrtllarl 22 of the reptiles, some measuring rrom tour reet six inches to live feet. Heverly tans the skins and disposes of them at a profit. S. R. Dresser - fn nf "Rparffnrrt have secured a lease of the plant of the National Tllho Pnmnanv nf Oil City, which had been dismantled, and win ac once commence the manufac ture of oil well couplings. About 100 men will be employed. An epidemic of smallnox in the southern section of Blair county, near Williamsburg, is reported and it was learned that there are 30 fully develop ed cases. Local physicians are thought to have the disease under control. The state board of health la also aiding. The fourteenth annual reunion of .the Fifty-fifth regiment. Pennsylvania Tolunteers, Will be held at Indiana, n September 29. Cyrus Becker, a farmer, aged 43 years, hanged himself in Bern, Berks county. For having sold milk which It is alleged was watered to a dealer who had been prosecuted for violat ing the pure food laws, Becker was to have been a witness In the case. An hour before the hearing his life less body was found in his barn. Edward Coshey, 20 years old, ot Greensburg,:-was arrested charged upon oath of W. S. Loughner ot Jeannette with the larceny of horse, buggy and harness. Cosher declares he bought the outfit from a tranger for $1.
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