"REVOLUTION IS t ELAYED Reign cf Terror Inaugurated in the Czar's Realm. LEADERS ARE DISHEARTENED. Try to Conceal Facts Reports of Disaffection In Army Are Grossly Exaggerated. Neither a general strike nor an armed uprising will tako place In Russia lu the near future If the lead ers of the revolutionary movement have their way, but a reign of terror . has been Inaugurated In the Czar's capital. Almost within the shadow of the freat palace in Peterhof eight govern ment spies were found dead one morning and no clue hns been found to Identify the assassins. The men lu every instance had been stabbed or beaten to death. Information reached the minister of the interior that extensive agrarian uprisings have begun in the govern ments of Moscow and Tver. The au thorities are Imprisoning socialists and revolutionists in the endeavor to Quell the disturbances. More than 600 arrests have already been made. Advices show that In several vil lages, where the manifesto of the duma has been distributed, the people have voted to refuse to pay taxes. To avoid being cut off from tele graphic communication with the coun try and with the outside world, as it was during the big strike last year, the government has recently estab Mahed many wireless stations. 1 1 There is no question of the fact that the lenders are greatly disheart ened. While they try to conceal It, the fact remains that the reports of , disaffection in the army have been I grossly, exaggerated, and no one I knows this better than the rcvolu-1 tionlsts. I The minister of marine has unit telegraphic orders to the commanders of Russian wan hips in foreign ports, I ordering them to return to Kronstadt j on account of the unrest existing among the sailors. It is learned from a usually trust worthy source that the principal Item In the Czar's reform program, which Is now being drawn up, will be ex tensive land grants to the peasants, on easy terms of payments. In Lodz there was an outbreak, which was suppressed, but which re sulted in the burning of a factory with loss of $40,000. HANGED ON ISLAND Condemned Man Spirited Away From Mob by Sheriff. William Lee, the colored youth who was sentenced to death In Baltimore three weeks ago for assaulting two women In Somerset county, Md., nnd who had been threatened with lynch ing, was hanged by Sheriff Brown on Smith's Island, in the presence of his deputies find a few witnesses. The hanging was orderly. The mob that had threatened to burn I.ee at the stake was completely outwitted by the sheriff. Sheriff Brown appeared In Balti more late in the afternoon, placed his prisoner aboard a steamer, and sailed down the bay. He took with him a gallows which had been borrowed from Baltimore county. Early next morning the steamer appeared off Smith's Island, the ihIs oner was taken ashore and the scaff old erected by a cp.Viitnter who had been brought from Baltimore for that purpose. The culprit, accompanied by his spiritual adviser, was led up the scaffold, the noose was adjusted and the execution was quickly over. Lee confessed hiz crime. TWO NEGROES LYNCHED Men Accused of Murder Taken From Sheriff and Hanged. John Black and Will Reaglnr ne groes, were lynched by a mob of 200 men near Fort Gardner, Polk county, Florida. The negroes killed Ed Granger, and were captured by Sheriff Wlggi.-; and three deputies near the scene of the killing a few hours afterwards. The mob halted the sheriff and possee and took posesslon of the pris oners. Both confessed and were hanged to a nearby tree, being after wards riddled with bullets. CLOUDBURST IN FRANCE Fifteen Killed, Sixty Wounded and Property Damage Is $1,000,000. A' terrible cloudburst In the region of Mont Cenls tunnel caused great loss of life and property. Almost the entire village of Fourneaux, at the French end, was destroyed. Twenty-two houses were completely demolished and 15 p rsons were kill ed and (!0 Injured. The damage is estimated at $1,000,000. From Modane to Bardonnecbe the country was ravaged by the storm. At Fourneaux. the storm destroyed the electric cables, causing a lack of light and power. ' I Six at One Birth. . At Kingston, In Williamson county, Tenn., a negresa gave birth to six children. The children are well form ed and all were alive at last" ac counts. 8ay They Won't Die. Heralding their presence with blasts of trumpets, four long-haired "mis sionaries" of the Israelites of the House of David, a new religious sect, are attempting to secure converts at New Castle, Pa, They came from Michigan and be lieve they will not die, being purified from sin. Three men were fatally hurt In a wreck on the Toledo, Walhondlng 'Valley ft Ohio railroad, near Warsaw, 0. DUN'S WEEKLY 8UMMARY. Semi-Annual Statements Show First Half of, 1906 Most Prosperous In Nation's History. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly ".Review of Trade" to-morrow says: ' "Comparisons of the volume of cur rent business with results at the cor responding date In previous years are. so uniformly favorable that tne outlook can only be regarded with confidence. Semi-annual statements are now sufficiently complete to make it certain that the first half of 19.0 was the most prosperous six-month period in the Nation's history, and. unless heavy cancellations occur, the last half of the year will establish a still higher record. "Contracts come forward freely In the Iron and steel Industry, the only idleness being due to repairs neces sitated by the vigor with which pro duction has been pushed, and foot wear factories are receiving orders for delivery next February, while even the textile mills report that pur chasers have ceased efforts to secure I more attractive terms. ! "Complaints of inadequate labor ! supply are unlveisal. Building oper ! at Ions are extensive, and would be much greater If the cost of labor and materials had not caused the auan donment of many plans. "Aside from a little too much rain In some cotton States the week's crop news Is encouraging, and grain will soon be out of danglT. Buyers are arriving in the primary market In large number, placing orders freely and often urging quick delivery, which substantiates the claim that stocks are low In all positions. "Railway earnings In July thus far surpass corresponding reports for last year by 8.5 per cent, and foreign com merce at New York alone for the last week shows gains of $2,110,472 in exports and $1,589,518 In Imports. "Failures for the week numbered 210 in the United States, against 214 last year, anil 15 In Canada, compared with 27 a year ago." STORM AT ST. LOUIS One Man Blown From a Wagon and Killed While Excursionists Have Narrow Escape. A terrific wind and rain storm struck St. Louis and vicinity. Lightn ing started seven fires In different parts of the city. A negro, name un known, was blown from his wagon under a passing fire engine and was killed. Electric wires were blown down, sheils and a few frame houses were demolished and a number of peo ple were hurt by the debris. The excursion steamer Liberty, fill ed with pleasure-seekers, caught In the storm near Alton, 111., was driven through the Missislppl river at uncon trollable speed and dashed into a dike on the Missouri side. Rocking and toppling with the terrorized passea gers huddled In the cabin, the prow of the boat was forced on the gov-1 ernment dike while the force of the i wind hurled chairs Into the river from j the deck and shattered the cabin win- i dows. J The boat held firmly on the dike, however, and when the storm had abated sulflciently the government boat Lucia transhipped the passengers and landed them In Alton. ORDERS DOWIE TO SETTLE Court Says "Elijah III." Must Reim burse His Former Backer, The California supreme court hand ed down a decision on an appeal made by John Alexander Dowle from a Judgment of the superior court order ing him to pay Attorney Hugh Craig $1,7C4.90 with interest from 1888. The Judgment of t,he lowei court was affirmed. Craig advanced money for Dowle to conduct a revivallstic meeting at the Grand opera house In San Francisco In 18S8, for which Dowle agreed to re imburse lilm from the proceeds of the collection. The proceeds did not come up to expectations and Craig brought suit to veover the money. TELEGRAPHIC BREyiTIES. Don Pedro Monte was elected president of the republic of Chile for ; the ensuing term of five years. ! The Democratic executive commit-1 tee of the Eighth congressional dis trict of Mississippi formally declared John Sharp Williams the party candi date for congress from this district. Two men were killed, one fatally hurt and three others seriously In jured In a Northern Pacific railroad freight wreck three miles from Val ley City, N. D. The men were steal ing a ride In a freight car. The warehouse of the McFadden-Weiss-Kyle Rice Milling Company, at Beaumont, Tex., containing 50,000 sacks of rice, was destroyed by Are. The rice was valued at $200,000 and the building and contents at about $115,000. Americans Pardoned. The Cuban Cabinet decided to par don Miss Millie Brown, L. C. Glltner and William Augustine, the three Americans who were arrested on July 1C and sentenced to 33 days' imprison ment for running a private telegraph line across their property In the Isle of Pines In violation of an old law which was revived especially to fit their ca3e. Instructions were at once sent that "they be released from cus tody. Railroad Casualties Increased. The accident bulletin Issued by the Interstate commerce commission for, the three months ending March 31, 1906, shows the total number of casualties to passengers and employes to be 18,296. Of these 1,1 2C were kill ed and 17,170 injured. This la an In crease of 17 In the number killed and 52 in the number Injured over those reported In the preceding three months. The number of passengers and employes killed In train accidents was 274, as against 320 In the pre ceding three month. A GRAND NAVAL SPECTACLE President Orders Great Review of U. S. Warships. WILL ASSEMBLE AT OYSTER BAY Twelve Battleships, Four Cruisers and Number of Smaller Vessels Will Take Part. Acting Secretary of the Navy New berry received an order from the President directing that the Atlantic tleet, under the command of Rear Ad miral Rohley D. Evans, with Rear Ad miral Willard H. Brownson second In command, be assembled at Oyster Bay on Labor Qny, September 3, to be reviewed by Mr. Roosevelt. It will be the largest fleet of American warships ever assembled. The tlrst-class battleships Rhode Island, Virginia, Georgia, and New Jersey, placed in commission three weeks ago, will participate In the re view as a part of the big Atlantic fleet. Twelve battleships, Including. beside these four vessels, the battle ships Maine, Missouri, Kentucky, Kearsarge, Alabama, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, will form the battleship squadron" which will be personally commanded by "Fighting Bob" Evans. The armored cruiser squadron, con sisting of the modern armored crui sers West Virginia, Colorado, Mary land and Pennsylvania, and command ed by Rear Admiral Brownson, will maneuver as a unit of the Atlantic fleet before the President on Septem ber 3 for the last time. Immediately after the grand review, which will form the greatest naval spectacle ever known In the waters of the United States, the armored crui ser squadron will sail away from Oyster Bay for the Philippine Islands, where It will form a pnrt of the big Asiatic fleet. Upon the arrival of this squadron In the Orient the battle ships Wisconsin and Ohio will be ordered back to the United States, the former to undergo extensive re pairs on the Pacific coast, and the latter to come around to the Atlantic coast to be the thirteenth battleship of the Atlantic fleet. Orders were Issued by Acting Secre tary Newberry to the bureau of navigation to make plans for the Oyster Bay review, a tentative pro gram Immediately will be laid down and Rear Admiral Evans will be call ed upon to pass Judgment upon It. It Is understood that President Roosevelt will review the fleet on board the gunboat Mayflower, the President's own vessel. The May flowei is now on duty In the waters of Santo Domingo, but will be order ed home in time to participate in the naval review. Beside the 12 battleships and four armored cruisers, the second and third torpedo boat floatlllas, consisting of the torpedo boat destroyers Hopkins, Lawrence. MacDonough, Whipple, Trnxton, Worden nnd the Wilkes. Blakely, Delong, Uod-gers and Stock ton, will be Included In the fleet which the President will review. DEATH OF A FREAK Man Who Had Two Hearts, Three Legs and Sixteen Toes. After living for two weeks with one heart dead George Llppert, 02 years old, whose two hearts, three perfectly formed legs, and 10 toes made him one of the wonders of P. T. Barnum's shows died at Salem, Ore., from tuber culosis, i Surgeons who performed an autop sy declare that had it not been for the consumption, which already had the upper hand, the death of Llppert's right heart would not have materially affected the like organ on the left side. Until seven years ago Llppert's life had been spent in the show business. He could speak five languages and any number of dialects. ICE MEN BREAK PROMISE Toledo Combine Continues to Sell Under Weight. Despite the fines and jail sentences given the members of the Toledo Ice combine some time ago, It developed that the companies are charging the same old rate for Ice end a nouse-to-house canvass conducted by newspap er men showed that In every case but one the Ice delivered was anywhere from two to flftren pounds under weight. After the Ice dealers were sent to jail they securued their release by promising to-sell Ice at $7.20 a ton and to allow the customers a rebate for the excess prices charged during the regime of the Ice combine. MORE JEWS KILLED Outbreak in Odessa Follows Manifesto of Russian Duma. The first actual violence since the members of the Russian duma issued their defiant manifesto occurred at Odessa. Several Jews were killed and many wounded. Cossacks and rowd ies plundered deserted Jewish bouses and shops. In Srednaia street three Jews were killed and three wounded In attempt ing to defend their property, while the police looked on. Another bloody conflict was reported In Stepoval street, where two Jews were killed and many wounded. The whole city Is In a state of panic. Panama Bonds Oversubscribed. It was announced at the Treasury Department that the Panama canal bond Issue, bids for which were open ed last week, was oversubscribed nearly 15 times. The total amount of bids reached the enormous sum of $446,000,000. Two men were kllletl and two others were seriously Injured at Ironton, O., when drunken excursionists on the steamboat Bonanza began shooting without provocation at a crowd on shore. FIGHTING WITH FANATICS Colored Infantry and Constabulary Attacked by Pulljanes. A detachment of constabulary Lieut. Williams commanding, en countered a band of COO Pulajanes near Buraen on the Island of Leyte Sunday morning. Lieut. Worswlck. 12 privates and Civilian Scout Mc Brlile were killed. The constabulary were driven back. The Pulajanes secured 14 rifles am: two revolvers. The bodies of Wor swlck, McBrlde and ten privates were lecovered. Reinforcements of con stabulary have been sent from the nearest station. A detachment of the Twenty-fourth colored Infantry and a company of native constabulary were attacked by a horde of hundreds of Pulljanes while on the trail between the towns of Toloss and Damaml, Island of Leyte, and a desperate battle took place, re sulting in the routing of the fanatics with a loss of 50 killed and more than GO wounded. Only one sergeant of the constabulary was wounded. Captain McMaster of the Tweiily fourth, and Major Neville, of the con stabulary, were In pursuit of the na tives who cut up the constabulary In the first light nnd killed Lieutenant Worswlck und Scout McBrlde and 12 lien. Confident of themselves niter the victory of the day before, the Jula janes swarmed from the jungle and the engagement became general. A large number of the enemy In the lead tried to rush In upon the troops and overwhelm them by force of numbers and fight In close action with bolos, hut Captain McMasters, realizing the value of shock upon the fanatics, ordered his regulars to fire a volley, and before the nntlves could cross the Intervening space, they were struck by volleys from the magazines, fol lowed by a steady fire from the con stabulary. The colored troops separated and the constabulary In columns of two, went forward and deployed for the charge. Their slaughter of the lead ers had the desired effect and the Pulajanes turned and fled In wild dis order. BRYAN'S RIDER ADOPTED Inter-Parliamentary Union Adopts Amended Treaty. ' William J. Bryan's proposed rider to the model arbitration treaty was discussed at a session of the inter national council of the Inter-parliamentary union at London and result ed in Its being recast, as follows. "If a disagreement should arise, which is not included in those sub mitted to arbitration, the contracting parties shall not resort to any act of hostility before they separately or jointly invite, as the case may necessi tate, the formation of an International commission of inquiry or mediation of one or more friendly powers, this requisition to take place. If necessary, In accordance with article eight of The Hague convention, providing for a peaceful settlement of International conflicls." After speeches by former Austrian Minister of Commerce Von Plener and Mr. Bryan, warmly supporting the amended rider, it was unanimously adopted. REFUSED TO PAY 'FRISCO CLAIMS Company Maintains Its Policies Carry Earthquake Clauses. The Phoenix Royal Insurance Com pany, of Vienna, which carried about $2,500,000 insurance in San Francisco, has decided to not pay any loss grow ing out of the conflagration of last April. The company's policies carried an earthquake clause. The following official notice to the claimants was issued by the delegate sent from the home office, and the adjuster: "We wish to convey to you the In structions received from . the home office of this company at Vienna, Austria, viz.: "That all claims which have been filed against this company by reason of the earthquake which occurred on the morning of April 18, 1900, are in valid, as all policies of this company became null and void by said earth quake, as the same was wholly re sponsible for the conflagration that followed." FATHER OF 25 TIRES OF LIFE Asks Judge to Put Him Away For ever; Gets Six Months. Father of 25 children, Valentine Yonkowskl of Brooklyn said to Mag istrate Furlong, in the Gates avenue court: "I am Blck and tired of being in the world. Judge, so I wish you would send me away for life' Yonkowskl was arrested on a charge of abandonment. He was ordered to pny his wife $5 weekly. He said he could not pay the money. He was committed for six months to the Kings county penitentiary. Fatal Conflict in Russia. The news of the dissolution of par liament has been followed by much rioting In KharkofT, Russia. The ex citement was Increased by the escape of 40 prominent politicians who had been thrown into prison. Twenty per sons were '-tiled or wounded In the efforts for their recapture. The mob threw stones at the police and sol diers and many were wounded. Blown Up With Bomb. The Berlin Vosslche Zeltung pub lished a dispatch from Kattowltz, Russian Silesia, announcing that the Singer sewing machine factories at Sosnowlce and Bendzln were blown up by bombs at about the same time. At Sosnowlce six persons were severely wounded and at Bendzln four were badly hurt. Sosnowlce and Bendzln are in Russian Poland near the Slles lan border. They are factory towns, five miles apart, with a population of about 20,000 people each. TAXES AGAINST FIELD HEIRS Property Valued $105,000,000 Escaped Assessors. $2,800,000 DUE TO THE CITY Value of Chicago Millionaire's Estate for Purposes of Taxation Fixed at $213,000,000. Marshall Field's executors will be asked to pay taxes amounting to about $2,800,000. This will be by far the greatest tax ever levied upon the property of an Individual taxpayer, and is the practical result of the de cision by the board of review fixing the personal property on which the Field estate must pay taxes at $130, 000,000. The real estate is worth about $50,000,000 additional, making the total amount of property on which that estate will have to pay taxes approximate $180,000,000. The larger portion of the assess ment against the, Field estate Is for back taxes on personal property up on which the late Mr. Field is held by the board of review to have avoid ed paying taxes. The board has gone back for seven years and levied back taxes against the Field estate for the ml ire period of the existence of the present taxing machinery, which was created In 1899. During the first six years of that period the late Marshall Field paid on $2,500,000 of personal property an nually, and last year on only $2,500, 000. n total of $17,000,000 In all. The reviewers declared it their opinion that the late Mr. Field escaped taxa tion on $105,000,000 more. In addition to taxation on .this $105,000,000, and penalty falls by law upon the Field estate for the taxes which have been dodged In the past. Under the provisions of the revenue law Interest not compounded must be levied upon all back taxes assessed at the rate of 10 per cent a year. This interest adds almost a third to the hack taxes the Field estate will have to pay. The back taxes total about $1,305, 000, while the Interest charge approxi mates $133,000 more, making the to tal of almost $l,800,ou0 that the Field estate will be mulcted for the taxes the multimillionaire merchant did not pay during the last seven years of his life. The board decided on a valuation of $25,000,000 for the personal prop erty belonging to the Field estate on April 1 last, and not consisting of national hank stocks nnd stocks of Illinois corporations. Attorney W. G. Beale reported to the board a list of stocks exceeding that amount. While the amount of property on which the Field estate has been ord ered to pay Is officially $180,0,,.,. I. the big Interest charge hns the same effect as if an additional $33,000,000 was Incorporated In the list of property for purposes of taxation, thereby practically increasing the" to tal value of the estate for purposes of taxation to $213,000,000. NEW BRICK TRUST FORMED $10,000,000 Merger Absorbs Fourteen Plants Two in Ohio. Announcement was made that brick plants in Findlay, O., Kansas City, ; Kan., Chanute, Kan., West Superior, Wis., Zanesvllle, O., Rochester, N. Y.J Chicago, Kansas City. Mo., Philadel-: phla, Washington, .Toledo, Cleveland, ; Minneapolis and Omaha, will be merg- j ed Into the Hydraulic Press Brick ' Company, of St. Louis, under the j name of the Absorbing Company. The ; merger Includes 14 companies. The capital stock of the St. Louis company will be increased from $3, 500,000 to $10,000,000, and-exchanged for the stock of the other companies. ; Queer Things in Corner Stone. When the condemned Methodist Episcopal Church at Grovepolnt, near Columbus, O., was torn down the members of the congregation were shocked to find in the corner-stone not the bible and history of the church that were supposed to have been placed there when the church was built In 1851, but a tobacco box and a deck of cards. It Is supposed that some practical joker switched the articles when the stone was laid. Boston Wool Market. There Is an Improved tone In evi dence In the wool market. Although the woolen mills are not as yet iarge buyers, they are showing much more Interest than Cor some months. Most of the trade for the week -has been from the worsted manufacturers. Pulled wools are In Bteady demand. Medium territories have had the calls. Foreign grades are steady. Leading quotations follow. 'Ohio and Pennsyl vania, XX and above, 34 to 35c; X, 35c; No. 1, 41 to 42c; No. 2, 42 to 43c; fine unwashed, 20 to 27c; quarter blood, unwashed. 33 to 34c; three eighths blood, 34 to 35c; half blood, 33 to 34c. Quarantine Lifted. All shipping quarantine restrictions have been lifted at Honolulu, the city having been absolutely free 'from any case of plague for a month. Up to the time the quarantine was lifted the Federal authorities Imposed restric tions on the boarding of through ves sels, and required fumigation of car goes. 2,000 ARE IMPLICATED Tax Stamp Fraud in New York of Huge Dimensions. Five men who were arrested In New York held In $1,000 tall In police court for further examination in con nection with the washing and re-sell-Ing of State tax stamps. It was stated by the police that 2, 000 men and boys In the Wall street district are Implicated in stamp frauds, In which the State government has lost about $200,000. ELEVEN DROWNED Train Rolls Down Embankment and Plunges into Lake. The engine, express car and smok ing car of the Great Northern fart train westbound, are submerged In tha deep waters of Diamond Lake, om and a half miles east of Camden, about 20 miles from Spokane, Wash. Nine men who went down In .u smoking car were drowned, and tha engine crew are dead In the deep water. As the train came through the portal of a tunnel, the rails spread and the engine plunged down a 00 foot embankment into' the lake, followed by the express car and the smoker. The other cars remained on the track. The couplings were un broken. A wrecking car wen); out from Spokane and has Just returned with the dead and Injured. The wreck caught fire from Illu minating gas, but the flames were ex tinguished. One unknown man in the day coach was probably fatally Injur ed by the explosion of the gas tank. Diamond Lake, though a small body Of Wfll0r nhnllt hnlF n mtla Inni,, Im known to be three hundred feet deep In places and it Is thought? the engine lies In 120 feet of water. FORGED U. P. CERTIFICATE One Calling for 50 Shares of Stock Has Been Discovered. Discovery of a forged certificate for 50 shares of common stock of the Union Pacific railroad was announced by George W. Ely, secretary of the New York stock exchange. The cer tificate is numbered 9058 and is dated September 14, 1005. It Is in the name of Martin J. Hannah, bearing what purports to be the signatures of E. H. Harriman nnd Alexander Millar, with out official title, and the seal of the Union Pacific company. Mr. Ely said that it Is not known whether or not there are any more forged certificates In circulation. The price of Union Pacific stock Is $147.25 ner share. - v FOUR KILLED, NUMBER HURT Buffet Car Leaves Tracks and Rolls Down Embankment. Four men were killed and a number of persons Injured In a wreck on the Spokane Falls & Northern railway. The dead are: W. E. Smith, Koote nai Lake, . B. C; D. McKInnfln. Kootenai Lake, B. C; Judge William Townsend, Rosslantl, B. C. ; one un identified passenger. The buffet car at the end of the train left the tracks while the train was nearing a bridge over Beaver creek and rolled down the hank, drag ging one coach with it. The rest of the train crossed the bridge In safe ty. 40,000 LIVES LOST Campaign of Extermination Waged by mination wagea oy in Africa. irt of the go.vern e result of the waT" Germans ir The official report ment concerning the against the native rebels In German Southwest Africa contains appalling details of the campaign of extermina tion carried on by the German com-' niander there in revenge for the var ious reverses the German forces en countered In the earlier days of the campaign against the blacks. It Is estimated that 40,000 natives perished In the desert, of whom many were aged men, women and children. The campaign Is declared to have been without a parallel In point of ferocity In recent years. Ice Men Indicted. Sixteen Indictments of charges of restraint of trade In the matter of ad vancing the price of Ice were returned by the grand jury at Cincinnati. Ten Individuals and five firms were Indict ed, all helne members of the Ice dealers' exchange. Those Indicted are members of the exchange who attend ed a meeting of May 30, when a gen eral advance In the price was decided upon. FEDERATION CAMPAIGN FUND 30,000 Labor Organizations Are Asked to Contribute. The American Federation of Labor Is preparing to raise funds with which to carry, on Its political campaign. Appeals are being sen out to 30,000 labor organizations asking for contri butions, and setting forth the reasons for the request. An intelligent campaign looking to the election of members of State Legislatures and the National Con gress friendly to the Interests of hv bor cannot, be affected, It Is argued, without Incurring some expense. Con tributions from $1 up are solicited. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. At the meeting of the Ohio Repub lican State Central Committee Dayton was decided upon t.s the place for the meeting of the State convention, and September 11 and 12 as the time. By order of the President the pro visions of the eight-hour law have been extended to the navy depart ment. Acting Secretary Newberry at Washington Issued detailed Instruc tions to that effect. The Philippine commission has adopted a resolution favoring the scheme of the Hawaiian Planters As sociation to transport Filipino laborers and their families to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations. The five-story brick building oc cupied by the wholesale firm of Frankel, Frank & Co., at Kansas City, was struck by lightning, causing a fire that did $200,000 damage. Sarah Bernhardt has been decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, after years of agitation on the ques tion whether that distinction could be conferred on her. The expenditures on account of the service of the postofflce department for the quarter ended March 31, l90ti, showed a material decrease from those of the corresponding quarter of !.st year.
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