'RUSSIA TORN BY REVOLT
i
Mutineers Seized Cruisers, and
, " Slew Commanders.
.PANIC AT THE PETERHOF PALACE
Proclamations Posted Calling on the
j People to Rise Up and Murder
J the Jews.
I Reports from Russia aro summed
up as follows:
; Mutiny and rebellion continue In
ithe army and navy. Officers have
ibeen killed. Warships manned by
Mutinous crews are roaming the sea
and the gulf of Finland, prepared to
(strike wherever liny can worst hurt
the government.
Soldiers at Cronstadt mutinied and
Seized Fort Constantine, but after
'heavy fighting were repulsed, over
'100, including several officers, being
Tiilled. Over 2,000 mutineers are
barricaded in their barracks.
Martial law was proclaimed at
Cronstadt and many other regions of
the empire, including the Donets
basin.
The Cronstadt mutiny caused a
panic In the palace at Peterhof and
the czar was reported to have fled
the country, but it subsequently prov
ed only mado arrangements to remove
to Tsarskoo-Selo.
Gen. MarkgrafTsky, chief of the
Warsaw gendarmerie, and his son
were shot and killed by revolution
ists. Military disorders have broken out
at Reval.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to blow up the Moscow police head
quarters building with an infernal
machine.
In serious conflicts between the po
lice and Socialist Red Guards at
Helslngfors the chief of police was
wounded and his assistant killed.
The mutineers at Sveaborg sur
rendered. The crew of the cruiser Pamyat
Azova mutinied and Wok the ship
northward, after killing the com
mander and four officers.
The czar has ordered all of the
mutineers at Ft. Constantine, Cron
stadt and Sveaboig summarily court
martialed. An intimation has been
conveyed to all of Hie officers It will
be advisable to execute the mutineers
at once, and this Is expected to be I
done. j
Advices from Finland are tint the!
revolutionists there have Issued a !
proclamation to all citizens declaring!
for a Finnish republic ar.d demanding
that all persons
.ike up aims in its I
1
support.
Advices from Odessa, Sevastopol
and Nicolaiev indicate that the Black
Hundreds are inciting the troops an 1
populace to rise against the govern
ment. Proclamations were posted in near
ly every municipality in Russia ap
pealing to the people to rise and
murder the .Tews.
Following the incipient mutinies at
the Helslngfors fortress of Sveaborg !
and at Cronstadt, St. Petersburg's!
principal defense, came an order for a Pennsylvania railroad,
general political strike in the Em-i The accident occurred Just after a
plre; part of the crew of the cruiser big charge of dynamite had been plac
Bogatyr of Japanese war fame mu- ' ed in a hole drilled In limestone,
tinled at Helsingfors, following the : Posteraro was operating a steel drill,
rebellion on the cruiser Pamyat with which the charge was being
Azova; part of the troops in the sum- ' tamped and the other men were near
mer camp near Warsaw rose and ! by. The steel drill accidentally
were standing oft the byal troops at struck the limestone, making a spark.
latest reports.
LOSS MAY REACH $3,000,000
Firemen and Carbineers Are Injured In
Attempting to Save
Treasures.
Fire, which broke out in Milan,
Italy, In the International Ex-
position, did extensive damage, the !
sections devoted to the decorative j
arts of Italy and Hungary being to- j
tally destroyed, as also was the pav- i
liion. in which were installed the ex
hibits of Italian and
Hungarian .
The damage Is estimated at from '
$800,000 to $3,000,000. It is now im-
possible to tell just how great the los3
among the exhibits has been :
Several firemen -and carabineers !
were injured. I
The fire was discovered in the
Hungarian section and spread rapidly
to the art sections in an adjoining
park. For a time tho British, Swiss,
Japanese and Netherlands sections
were threatened, but the firemen suc
ceeded in saving them.
The jewelry and fine arts sections
also were threatened, but a large
force of carabineers carried the pic
tures, many of them almost priceless,
from the Gallery of Fine Arts beyond
the fire zone.
The city was thrown into a state of
great excitement and vast crowds of
people collected about the exposition.
The firemen, however, succeeded in
saving all except the Italian and Hun
garian sections, though dangerous
sparks fell, on the German, Persian,
Turkish and Chinese sections.
The origin of the fire is attributed
lo an electric short circuit. Tho
scene of tho conflagration was the
center of tho most active portion of
the exposition. The palace of decor
ative arts, covering 15,000 square
yards and conlalnng 4,000 exhibits, Is
a mass of ruins. The architectural
pavilion, which was also destroyed,
contained many exhibits of historic
value. x
Paper Company Quits Business.
The General Paper Company, known
as the paper trust, has gone out of
business' as the result of the decis
ion of the United States court against
It. A meeting of the board of di
rectors of the company was held at
Milwaukee, when all the business was
cleared up. '
Former Governor Samuel R. Van
Sant baa been appointed chief mar
shal of the Grand Army parade-durlng
the annual encampment, to be held in
Minneapolis. Mrau.
' TRADE REPORTS GRATIFYING
All Sections of Nation Enjoying Great
Prosperity Scarcity of Labor
Only Complaint.
R. O. Dun & Co.'s weekly review
of trade says:
"Aside from the seasonable dull
ness In wholesale departments com
mercial activity Is well maintained,
and early preparations are made for
autumn and winter business. August
opened wllh no adverse developments
in the trade slluatlon -while crop pro
gress during July was most favorable.
"Trade reports are especially grati
fying from the Northwest and other
points that are dependent upon agri
cultural results, but all sections of the
nation enjoy great prosperity and
there Is scarcely a disordant note in
any of the dispatches.
"Scarcity or labor Is the only ser
ious complaint, output of coke being
curtailed, and there is delay In har
vesting some crops, while strikes re
tard the rebuilding of San Francisco;
but, on the other hand, a slight modi
fication of the 1903 scale has brought
back 8.000 more bituminous coal
miners and the threatened struggle nt
3:1 paper mills has been averted,
while advanced wages brought full
activity In the textile industry.
"Commodity prices ate fairly
steady, cheaper grain because of large
crops being olfset by strength in the
leading mateVials of manufacture,
while legislation In Brazil advanced
coffee sharply.
"Railway earnings In July were
8.9 per cent linger than a year ago,
and foreign commerce at New York
shows gains of $3,353,(!0u in imports
and $iS3,00(j in exports, as compared
with the same week last year.
"It is not often that managers of
a leading industry are uneasy regard
ing the future because of too much
business, yet that is becoming the
sitjiation at iron furnaces and steel
mills. Orders on the books are far
in excess of similar comparisons in
earlier years, and there Is certainlf of
congestion if regular fall business Is
added. ,
"New England footwear markets
are quiet. Tanners report that shoe
manufacturers are buying sole leather
mil. w imnuxilnt'o umb.H. nn 1
the quiet market would result In con-
cessions were It not tor the light
stocks and the pronounced strength of
liide3.
KILLED BY DYNAMITE
Spark From Drill Ignites 400 St!ck3 j The "iron Age" says: Slmultunc
of the Explosive. ! onsly with reports of a further access
fine mmi w.is iiwhmtlv kilu.il. two
r,hQro .1 r..i..n. i.,i.iw..i n.,.i ihi-.io I
were seriouslv hurt through the ac-
pi.i,,t:,i pvnlnslm, nf 4iin sticks of dv-1
namite in' railroad construction work eis' earnings In Its history. Loud
at Pices I lmlin" P i ers ill the trade now speak with less
Pietro Posteraro was killed and An- j
tonio Nic astro and Pasquale Politono
; were fatally injured. The seriously
. iniiireil nrp- M.-irinn Rockwell. an
, American; Joe Ross. construction j
l.noe on.l TV,n,l.,lr. Murilnl i
i All the men were emnloved bv the ,
! r;,poiiP f'nntrncHnir f'omnnnv. which 1st
grading for additional tracks to be ,
laid by the Coal l.ick branch tf the i
which set off the dynamite. Poster
aro was blown to atoms.
Nlcastro was employed as engi
neer of a dinkey engine, which was
standing close to the blasting charge.
The engine was' blown to bits anil
Nlcastro was bo fearfully injured that
he cannot live.
SHOT WHILE HUNTING WORK
,., , . . . ...
Two Negroes Were Making Their Way
Toward Strike Belt. j
Two negro coal miners, en route to
Sturgts. Ky., from Providence, Ky.. j
were stopped in tne roan near hock- i
al""ings by two men and were shot
"own- unP OI u, "eSiue was u.c
t0 make hls way to town' thm,Rn
dangerously wounded. The other was
nought here in a dying condition,
Harvey Springer and Robert Hall,
active members oi tne mineis union
wore arrested, a rarmer says mac
they stopped the negroes in the road
on.I li.itp,l If ilia nnnrnna urprp frit-
ing to Sturgis to work for the West surf ace the gas escaped from the
Kentucky Coal Company. The negroes workings below Into the homes situat-,-,,,,,
, vnivo renlv whprennon i ed over the mine. Coming Into con-
H.,11 mrt Snrlnoer are said to have :
shot them down.
Judge Attacked and Robbed.
Clark Duffy, S years old; William
Duffy, 24 years old, his brother, and
Gus Delpierro. 21 years old, were
lodged in Central police station charg
ed with being the trio of thugs who
sandbagged and robbed Judge W. G.
Hawkins, presiding Judge of the Or
phans' court of Allegheny county at
Bayard and Craig streets, Pittsburg.
The valuable gold watch stolen" from
Judge Hawkins was also recovered.
Steamer a Total Wreck.
The steamer Cyril, bound from St.
I John, N. B., for Swansea, which went
ashore on Cape Race July 27, Is a
hopeless wreck. She crossed half a j
mile of shoal water before lodging
fast and tore nearly the whole bot
tom out.
Noted Geographer Dead.
Professor A. H. Thompson of the
United States Geological Survey died
in Washington, D. C, aged G7. He
was a noted geograpner and had been
connected with the survey since 1832.
Previously to that year he was asso
ciated with Major Powell, his brother-in-law.
In the exploration of tho
Grand Canon of the Colorado.
Orders were Issued at the War De
partment' assigning Major General A.
W. Greely to the command of the
Northern division, with headquarters
at St. Louis.
CHINESE REBELS ACTIVE
Take Large Walled City and De
stroy Christian Churches.
SIX CONVERTS WERE MURDERED
Large Bodies of Disbanded Soldiers
Are Affiliated With the Rebels.
Advices were received at Victoria,
B. C, by the steamer Empress of
Japnn that the rising in Kiangai und
Chekinng provinces Is becoming a
grave movement and many believe it
will assume similar proportions to the
Taiplng rebellion.
, Hnln-Cheng-Hsien, Chekaing, a large
walled city, was captured by the
rebels and looted. A garrison of 5,
000 was left to prepare the city to
withstand a siege by imperial troops.
Several corps of Imperial troops have
been dispatched.
The Roman Catholic and the
Protestant, churches were destroyed
and although the native pastors es
caped six converts were murdered.
Large bodies of disbanded soldiers are
affiliated with the rebels.
Magistrate Shem of Hsin Cheng
was put to death by torture in revenge
for having summarily beheaded a reb
el leader. It was this act which caus
ed the rebels to gather at Sungchlen
to attack the city.
Heavy loss of life is reported from
Shanghai because of severe typhoons
with lightning and heavy downpours
of rain. Several Chinese were drown
ed or killed by the collapse of houses,
and several natives In the French con
cession were killed by lightning,
("apt. Train, son of Admiral Train,
United States navy, was ono of the
heroes of the storm. With a boat's
crew he went out to the rescue of an
overturned houseboat, and rescued
Rev. 1). Metiilllvray, a missionary,
Robert Law, manager of the Shanghai
Wharf Company, who accompanied
Metiilllvray and several natives, was
drowned. Several Junks turned turtle,
and their crews were drowned. Two
! collisions occurred, the Russian war-
sl,1l Jlandjur being1 damaged in one.
IRON AND STEEL MARKET
Pig Iron Feature of Week; Unusual
Midsummer Activity in Fin
ished Material.
' strength In nil the pig iron mar-
kets of the country, comes the state-
"'"i '"" n'-"-'s nlt'1'' -'
porntlun, showing the largest quart
'''serve concerning early
inn?
after
having for some time limited their
predictions of good times to 1!)01. The
volume of orders on the steel cor-
poration's books on Juno 30, 6,809.5X9
S. Is tllO lUlgCSt Illld-VCar total it
lms been able to report.
"Finished lnatorial
markets show
unusual n liisuniniei nciivii , m
distill
a" ""s me ime. m tin
cago
railroads have entered largo orders
for track supplies. Rail buying for the
week has been light, but some export
business was done with Mexico and
Porto Rico. Car buying goes on stead
ily.
"A large order for 12-Inch pipe line
for Western Pennsylvania odds to the
already phenomlnal tonnage of pipe
and tube mills."
The lion Trade Review" Bays:
"The very heavy specifying by near
ly all liners of Iron and steel products
Is a lending feature of present strong
conditions. Much heavier contracting
has characterized some other periods
I but the tendency not to specify on
i contracts when business declines Is
j well understood in the trade. When,
; however, specifications are - received
in the great volume in whichthey are
thcre ran be nQ
.loubt of cenulne nrosneritr."
MINE GAS KILLS TWO
Setting of Ground
Causes
Gas
to
Escape Into Houses.
Owing to the settling of tho ground
at Warriors Run, near Wilkes Barre,
Pa., a terrific explosion occurred In
the mine of the Warrior Run Coal
Company and resulted In the death
of one miner, John Shumakor.
Through crevices formed on the
w" "fiod "!' ln ,ho llome
of John Williams it caused another
explosion, knocking down his daugh
ter Margaret, 1(5 years old, who was
burned to a crisp in the fire, which
resulted before aid could reach her.
The settling of the earth also af
fected the water mains of the village,
and as a result, nothing could bo
done to save the homo of Williams
and a neighboring house, both of
which were destroyed.
Italy Building Sea Monster.
A report from Rome states Italy
is building a battleship so much
larger than the famous Dreadnaught
that it will be useless for the Ameri
can naval architects to make plans
that will merely eclipse the lines of
the British ship. The law directing
ti,e building of
a leviathan for our
navy distinctly says that It must be
larger than any known vessel of the
battleship class.
Ship Hits War Mine.
Steamer advices say that renewed
attention has been called to the
danger of floating mines by the col
lision of the steamer Ningpo with a
floating mine, 120 miles from the
Yangtse river. The steamer was
considerably damaged and had a nar
row escape from destruction.
Disappointed because their parents
would not permit them to marry,
Gustave Kathke, aged 19. and Ella
Miller, a girl of IS, committed suicide
together by jumping Into the Delaware
river at Philadelphia.
ANNUAL RAILROAD REPORTS
Carriers Notified What They Must Do
Under New Law.
'A circular letter has been sent by
the Inter-Stnto Commerce Commis
sion to all carriers subject to the
provisions of the recently enacted
railroad rate law directing their
special attention to the provisions of
section 20, of the net, which requires
annual reports from all common car
riers concerning the details of their
business, and providing that the Inter
State Commerce Commission may
prescribe the forms of iny and all ac
counts, records and memoranda to bo
kept by the carriers. To these ac
counts, records and memoranda, the
commission is to have access nt all
times and the carriers are prohibited
from keeping their accounts, etc., in
any other form. The commission
says, in its circular letter:
The attention of carriers Is further
culled to the requirement in the
amended section 20 that their annual
reports must be tiled with the com
mission on or before September 30 of
this and each subsequent year, unless
additional time be granted by the
commission.
PERSIA NEEDS A LOAN
Grand Vizier Mushir Ed Dowleh V.'ill
Inaugurate Reforms.
Mushir Ed Dowleh has been appoint
ed grand vizier of Persia, and retains
the portfolio of foreign affairs, which
he held under A In Ed Dowleh, the re
tiring grand vizier. An Important
functionary has been sent to Kuni,
where tho mullahs recently establish
ed themselves, as n protest against
the government's actions, to endeavor
to persuade the mullahs to return
Teheran. The bazaars have been clos
ed and there has been a completo stag
nation of business since their depart
ure.
The refugees under the protection
of the British legation now number
nearly 13,000. They continue to In
sist rtn their demands for reform. It
Is believed the new crand vizier In-
temls to Initiate imlltlful and financial
reforms, Including the negotiation of
a loan, which Is necessary to restore
normal conditions In the- country. It
Is thought the loan will be negotiated
In Great Britain, probably with the
approval of Russia.
DEAD, AGED 112
Indiana's Oldest Woman Saw Napo
leon During Russian Invasion.
Mrs. Ferdlnau.l Reese, the oldest
woman in Indiana and perhaps in the
1'nlted States, died at l.aporte, Iml.,
112 years old.. According in docu
ments In her possesion, she was
born In Volgruvlt:'., Poland, in 1791.
and after marrying and burying two
husbands In Poland, came to Ameri
ca In 1870, settling at Buffalo. N. Y.,
where she married Ferdinand Reese.
Later Mr. and Mrs. Reese removed to
l.aporte. Her husband died two years
ago. In 1X12, when Napoleon Invaded
Russia, she saw the French emperor.
She attributed her long life to her
simple method of living.
PASSENGER RATE CUT
Pennsylvania Railroad Reduces Fare
to 2J. 2 Cents a Mile.
Important changes In passenger
rates were announced by Fourth Vice
President John B. Thayer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, fol
lowing a meeting of the hoard of di
rectors of that corporation. The
company has decided to reduce the
maximum ono way fares from 3 Vi and
3 cents to 2',3 cents a mile. This
action will involve n readjustment of
all through fares from the South and,
owing to the vast amount of work en
tailed by reason of the change, the
new rate of fare will not become oper
ative for some time, probably Novem
ber 1.
TWO KILLED; 20 HURT
Boiler Exolodes at Indiana Paper
Plant Harrison Mansion
Damaged.
Harry Borders and I.nfayetle
Llchey were killed and 20 other work
men injured by the explosion of a
boiler at the plant of the Vinccnncs.
Paper Mills Company nt Vincennes,
Ind. The property loss Is $15,000.
The boiler was burled through the
roof of the boiler house. Falling 100
feet distant, it. badly damaged the
Harrison mansion, the homo of Will
lam Henry Harrison when he was
governor of the North wast territory.
Flies Blamed for Cholera.
The' outbreak of cholera In the
Philippines is due to the unusual
number of files in tho Islands, ac
cording to advices received by the
Bureau of Insular Affairs. In the
opinion of Dr. Helser, the head of tho
Bureau of Health in the islands, tho
flies are chiefly. If not wholly, re
sponsible for the spread of the di
sease, and he Is urging a general war
upon the pest.
Big Fortune for Americans.
When Sir Thomas Henley died In
London over HO years ago ho left a
fortune of several million dollars and
not an heir in England to claim it.
Now four American families will cut
up about $20,000,00 among themselves.
The heirs are Mrs. Charlotte L.
Childs. 1427 Grand avenue. Milwau
kee; Mrs. Florence A. Case, Denver,
and the Whit taker families of Cin
cinnati and Pittsburg.
After Frisco Insurance Men.
To support the charge of criminal
conspiracy, which a grand jury is try
ing to fix on insurance brokers who
have compelled policyholders in San
Francisco to accept less than was due
them, a subpena was called directing
Prof. A. W. Whitney, the Insurance
expert of the University of California,
to produce evidence of settlements
made.
M. Herzensteln, a leader of Liberal
Russians, was assassinated at his
home In Finland. .
MUTINEERS TOOK CITY
Red Flag Hoisted and Arms of
Garrison Used Against
Czar's Troopers. '
ONLY FOUR COMPANIES LOYAL
Believed Now to Have Been Begin'
ning of Plot to Seize Three
Big Forts.
A gigantic military conspiracy aim
ing at the simultaneous capture of
Russia's three great sea fortresses,
Cronstad, Sebastopol and Sveaborg,
arranged' by the revolutionary mili
tary league, was prematurely sprung
nt Holsingl'ors by an attempt to ar
rest members of a company of sap
pers who haif mutinied on account
of the death of one of their comrades,
alleged to have been duo to Ill-treatment
The entire garrison of the fortress
at Sveaborg (lamed out instantly in
revolt. All the artillerymen and sap
pers garrisoning the place were in
volved. Onlv four comnunles of In-
jfanlrymen remained loyal.
I The mutineers seized 40 machine
I guns and practically all the quick
lirers and light artillery In the fort
ress, but even with this aid they were
unable to hold the main fort against
the loyal Infantry. The fighting con
tinued all night long. The heaviest
firing was heard from 10 o'clock in
the evening until 1 In the morning.
A detachment of civilian revolu
tionaries seized the marine barracks
on Skattudden Island, hoisted the red
flag, and were Joined by all the ma
rines. Nine cruisers, torpedo boats
and destioyers, lying In the harbor,
opened fire .on the barracks.
This fire was answered from the
third story windows of the barracks,
with machine guns and rifles. The
! torpedo boats and destroyers, which
j w'-e '.vl"K closer lo the shore, were
siiojecied ro such a not nre irom me
barracks that their crews were driven
below decks.
They finally steamed out nn-1 Joined
in the bombardment with the cruis
ers. Tills sea attack was in co
operation with attacks by Cossacks
and Infantry from the landside which
began nt 9 o'clock In the morning and
continued through the whole day'.
Finally toward evening the firing
ceased and the authorities announced
that tho barracks had been captured.
At one o'clock in the afternoon tho
Cossacks cleared the square In front
of the palace facing Sveaborg and
then drove the public from the entire
water, front for the purpose nf pre
venting the sending of assistance
from the city to Svealnrg.
RECOVERING RAPIDLY
Favorable Reports from -the
Earth-
quake Stricken City.
In its monthly bulletin of progress,
tlie California promotion committee
says:
"Wonderful activity has been shown I
in all lines ln San Francisco dining
the month of July, and reconstruction
work has been pushed with vigor.
"There was a loss of 335,000 of the
city's population during tho first
month aftpr the lire, and it is esti
mated that more than 2oo.ono have
returned, while 50.000 are waiting in
nearby cities for accommodations, in
order that they may return. The
present population Is estimated at
::05,000.
"The number of people receiving
relief In the city has been reduced
from 225,000 during the first week,
to less than 17.000. There Is a great
demand for ordinary laborers, and for
workmen in all departments of build
ing trades."
DIVIDEND RESTORED
' , !
Steel Corporation Declares One Per ,
Cent, for Six Months., !
The I'nited States Steel Corporation
directors declared two dividends of
V2 of 1 per cent each on tho common
stock, payable on October 1 nejt, be
sides the regular quarterly dividend
of l-y( per cent on the preferred, pay
able August 30 next.
The common dividends are the first
to be declared by the corporation
since December, 1903, when V4 of 1
per cent was paid. From September
1 mm i an..n..,l.n 1 1(1(1. l.,..1,.a.
i, i.uM. iu o-M".'-""-' "" '" '
lve. It had paid quarterly dividends of
1 per cent on the common. It has !
paid 1 quarterly on the preferred
stock since August, 1901.
. The common dividends declare!
are for the quarters ended March 31 j
and June 30 and will be pal 1 out of i
the earnings for those quarters.
EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
Net Loss to all Insurance Companies '
1
Over $132,000,000.
Stale Superintendent of Insurance
Otto Kelsey of Albany, N. Y.. mado
public the results of his investigation
as to the losses of fire insurance com
panies In tho San Francisco disaster.
The gross amount of insurance in
volved by all companies was $.'22,
83(,3o7; the. re-insurance, $G.'i,2 10.771;
salvage, $33,81 1.40S, and actual loss,
$132,813,007.
The company with the largest net
loss is the Hartford Fire of Connecti
cut, according to the report. Its I033
Is $G.lSt),701.
Root Speaks in Conference.
Secretary of State Root addressed
the special session of the Pan-American
conference, at Rio De Janeiro,
making a most eloquent speech, which
created tremendous enthusiasm
among delegates who showeraj con
gratulations upon him. Many of the
delegates are having copies of the
speech sent to their homes, where
they believe its publication will have
a beneficial effect in destroying sus
picion of the intentions of the I'nited
States.
TOLD ABOUT OTHER MURDER
Negro Delighted to Get Chance to
Tell Officers How Wealthy
Foreigner Was Killed.
Through the arrest of Elmor
Dempster, charged with the murder
of Mrs. Pearco and children, Wash
ington county, Pa., officers cleared up
another murder mystery and placed
under arrest two negroes charged with
the crime. The men apprehended are
Gus Patterson and John Buchor, al
leged to be the murderers of John
Koboda, a wealthy foreigner, who
was mysteriously killed In Independ
ence township krttt Bprlng.
Dempster gave the information
which led to tlu arrest of Patterson
and Bucher. Koboda's body was
found lying along the Wabash rail
road tracks, near Avells, ln Independ
ence township, on May 1.
Dempster asserts Patterson and
Buchor told hi in they followed
Kodoba to a lonely spot between
what are known as the "twin tun
nels." and creeping up behind him
struck him In the head with a
stone. They said one blow killed
their victim, whose body, after rifling
tho pockets, they dragged to one side
of the railroad track. Dempster
seemed lo be glad of a chance to get
his pals ln trouble..
Officer Conley, armed wllh the
warrants, went to the Cherry Valley
mines and arrested Patterson and
Buchor.
BABY'S SKULL CRUSHED
Mother Attempts to Stop Fight.
Father Fells His Antagonist
With Poker.
Mrs. Peter Smith of Bentleysville,
Washington county, In an effort to
stop a fight between her husband and
Daniel Balkos, held up her 1-year-old
baby, Annie, between the two men.
Balkos struck tho child, fatally injur
ing it.
Tho men had quarroled at Smith's
residence over some trlval affair.
Balkos seized a poker and drew it to
strike Smith. Mrs. Smith then inter
posed the child, believing that Balkos
would not stiike, but the poker de
scended with crashing force on tho
child's head, fracturing the skull.
Smith, enraged at the injury of his
child, seized the poker and almost
killed Balkos. Dr. E. E. French per
formed an operation on the child's
skull in an effort to save its life, but
it is expected to die. Smith and Bal
kos were arrested.
NO MORE POLITICAL JOBS
Notice of Civil Service Examination
for Revenue Collectors.
The announcement of President
Roosevelt of a month ago that ho
would make the experiment of ap
pointing deputy collectors of internal
levcuue through the medium of tho
Civil Service Commission on com
petitive examination took form when
the commission Issued an aiinounce-
! meat that examinations would '.-bo
i held at Asheville, Salisbury, Char
I 1'Hte and Winstone. N. C, August 2!),
for clerk and oiiico deputies, store
kee'per, gangers and division deputy
collectors.
It is the first time In the history of
the Civil Service Commission that
"raiding deputies" must secure their
appointment under Civil Service
rulo3.
MUCH MAIL GOES WRONG
Carelessness Causes Big Loss to Let
ter Writers.
Over 11,000,000 pieces of undeliv
ered mail were handled by tho dead
letter division last year, and the
average number received each day is
now between 30,000 and 35,000. As
sistant Postmaster General DeGraw
believes this number could be great
Iv reduced by the use of ordinary care
by patrons of the postal service.
Not only are tho writers and ad
dressees put to great inconvenience
and trouble by the non-delivery of
their mail, but the pecuniary loss is
cons,,,,,!,,, a3 (lurn, the present
month alone over $2,000. for whici
no owners could be found, was turn
ed Into the Federal treasury.
The Public Debt.
The monthly statement of the pub
lic debt Issued August 1 shows that
at the close of business July 31, 1906,
tho debt, less rash in the treasury,
amounted to $973.S5f,801. which i ,
an Increase for the month of $9,421,
114. This increase Is largely account-
ed for by the decrease in the amount
... .
of cash on hand. The recent Issue
of Pan-American bonds does not ap
pear In the JuTy statement. Interest
bearing debt. $S95159.090.
CURRENT NEWS EVENT8.
Albert B. Cummins has been re
nominated for governor of Iowa.
An Innovation in banking methods
of Chicago was Inaugurated, when a
21-hour bank opened for business.
! With the exception of Sundays and
holidays the bank will be open at all
times during the day and night.
In accordance with an order Issued
by the Emperor of Russia the Ameri
can syndicate represented by Baron
I.oioq de I.obel is authorized to begin
work on the trans-Siberian Alaska
railroad project.
Floyd Carmlchael. the negro who
committed an assault on Annie Poole,
at Lakewood. a suburb of Atlanta,
Ga.. was captured,- identified by his
victim and shot to death.
James H. Sago, a nephew of the
late Russell Sage declared that the
will of tho deceased millionaire will
be contested.
The plant of the Montgomery Bros.
& Co.'s planing mill and box factory
on Court street.' Buffalo, N. Y., was
partially destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of $170,000.
Advices received here from the Ar
menian town of Shusha, 180 miles to
the southeast of Tifiia, announcing a
renewal of hostilities between Ar
menians and Tartars there. Shusha
was bombarded for three days with 21
guns and fully set afire.
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