EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES Disaster FaJIs upon Valparaiso With Terrible Effect. SHOCK'WAS FOLLOWED BY MANY The Disturbance Wat General Throughout Chile and Was Felt in Argentine Republic. A message from Lima, Peru, say: At about -8 o'clock in the evening of August 17, there was a tremendous earthquake, lit Valparaiso, Chile. As at San Francisco the shock was fol lowed by the outbreaking of many fires. Many hoiiHes have been de stroyed and nearly all of them are more or less damaged tether by the earthquake or the fire. Business is at a complete stand still. The banks are closed. The gas supply is unavailable and the electric light ins system Is completely knock ed out. Consequently the city at night is in darkness. The greatest panic prevails anions the Inhabitants. Many families nre fleeing from the city. The weather Is fair and the sea Is calm. Communication with Santiago de Chile is interrupted and it Impossible to learn what has occurred there. Many persons were killed and in jured in Valparaiso. The shocks continue, but are mild er. The shipping in the port was not Injured. The streets which suffered most were folios Bianco, Cointell and Ksmeralila and those in the IXdlclas district. A message from Buenos Ayres savs: The di-durbance was general throughout Chile and was felt at some point s In the Argentine republic. News of the disaster Is extremely meager owing to the fact that tele graph communication is cut off. the shocks having thrown down the tele graph lines. The shocks seriously affected the towns of Rosnrla Aranas, Rio .Ta San Luis and Tucnman. . From the few details obtainable it appears that there were five shocks, the disturbance passing south along the Pacific coast and crossing the Andes. The shocks were severe ac cording to the registration of the seis mograph instruments. The property loss Is enormous. Many bouses were thrown down including government houses. During the night the volcano of the Tupungato was heard roaring and the people lied to the churches to pray for safety. At. San Juan de Andes high winds accompanied the shocks. MANY EARTHQUAKES IN CHILE Valparaiso Was Wiped Out in 1730 by Seismic Disturbance An Important City. Valparaiso is a fortified seaport of Chile and Is the most important com mercial town on the western coast of South America. It is situated on : a large bay In the Pacific ocean 75 miles northwest of Santiago. ; An amphitheater of heights rising ' nearly 1,700 feet ascends from the bay and a considerable portion of the city is built on these heights. The lower central section of the city is constituted by the Almendral, with are the principal business houses, regular and attractive streets, where the city park, PJaza Victoria, and Na tional Theater. Northwest of this section is the quarter known as the puerto or port. There are the great er number of public buildings and the vast warehouses which line the quays and docks. The newer sections of the city have an attractive modern appearance,' the business section being massively built. Its, industrial establishments comprise foundries, railroad anil ma chine shops, sugar refineries, brew eries. . distilleries, large bottling works and "various factories. The population of the city in Kit).' was 142.2X2. Karthquakes are of common occur rence in Chile, especially in the cen tral and northern regions. Valparaiso itself has been a severe sufferer from such disturbance on more than one occasion. More than a score of great terres tlal upheavals have been recorded in Chilean annals. In 1570 the city of La Concepclon was destroyed with a loss of 2,000 lives; in 1047 Santiago, the capital, was overwhelmed and 1,000 lives were lost. The terrible earthquake of 1730 wiped out Valparaiso, La Senena, La Conccpcion and Coquimbo, and every 1 town and village on the coast be tween La Concepclon and Coquimbo. In 1835 La Concepclon was again ruined and five other cities were lev eled to the ground. Other serious seismic disturbances occurred in 1837, 1S51 and 1871. i Valparaiso itself was the scene of earthquakes in 1S22, 1829 and 1831. j Fatal Fight Among Miners. One man is dead; one is severely beaten about the head, and shoulders; one Is a captive in the hands of strik ing union miners, and a fourth has disappeared all as the result of a collision between union and non-union miners of the Crelghton mines of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Companv at Klskiminetas Junction on the West Penn railroad. Found $50,000 in Jewels. Acting under instructions cabled from England, John P. O'Brien a lab orer employed In the wrecking of the world's fair buildings, at St. Louis, has unearthed an alligator bas con taining jewels valued at $50,000, which were stolen from Mr. and Mrs. P. Henry Clayton of Devonshire, Eng., during a visit to the Louisiana Purchase exposition two years ago. King Edward and Emperor William kissed each other on both cheeks when they met at Cronberg. GAIN MADE IN MEMBERSHIP Pennsylvania Militiamen Who Served During the Gettysburg Cam paign are Now Eligible. The following officers well chosen 'at the annual meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic at Minneapolis: Cauiinander-in-Chief K. B. Brown, Zanesville, O.; Senior Vice Comman der, William H. Armstrong, Indianap olis; Junior Vice Commander, li. B. Fenton, Detroit; Chaplaln-lnChlcf Archbishop John Ireland, St. Paul; Surgeon General, V. II. Johnson, Lincoln, Neb. The strongest opponents of Mr. Brown for coniinander-ln-chlef were C. G. Burton of Missouri, and Cap tain P. H. Coney of Kansas. Both of these withdrew when It was seen that the election of Mr. Brown was a cer tainty. Brown was then chosen by acclamation. Several candidates were nominated for senior and junior vice commanders, but at the last In stant all withdrew in favor of Arm strong for the senior position, and Fenton for the junior place, and both men were chosen unanimously. Arch bishop Ireland bad no rivals for chaplain-in-chief. The new conimander-ln-cblef of the Grand Army R. 11. Brown, was born In 184"), and has always lived In Ohio. He enlisted in the Fifteenth Ohio In fantry at the age of 16 years, and served in the Fourteenth Army Corps in the Army of the Cumberland "until he was mustered out in 1SG4. He then re-enlisted as a veteran soldier, and served as such until the end of the war. He was a private through out the first three years of his serv ice, and then became a non-commissioned officer. He has always been active In the work of the Grand Army. Mr. Brown is now editor of. the Zanesville Cornier. In bis annual address, Commander-in-Chief Tanner said, among other things- "Notwithstanding the fearful inroads of death upon the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, the or ganization to-day, is 3.500 stronger than at the encampment in Denver last year." Adjutant General Tweedale In bis re port gives the total membership of the Grand Army as 2;5,5.S23. an In- 1 crease of S."llS during the last six months. The losses by death for the ! year ended December "1, 1305, were i 9.205, or S.fltl per cent of the total membership. Judge Advocate General C. L. Clark submitted a synopsis of the decision prepared by him during the last year. Among them Is this one: ' "Members of the Pennsylvania mil itia who served during the emergen cy of the Gettysburg campaign are eligible for membership In the G. A. R." POWER PLANTS CHANGE HANDS , i New York Concerns Bought by Pitts burg Reduction Company, The Pittsburg Reduction Company has obtained absolute control of the extorsive electric power facilities, at Mas.ena, N. Y. The company bought the contiolling stock of the St. Law rence County Electric & Water Com pany, capital $100,01)0; the St. Law rence Wafer Company, capital $100, 000, and the Massena Electric Light & Power Company, capital $50,000. The Pittsburg company recently pui ehas;d the St. Lawrence River Power Company, which owns the canal between the St. Lawrence and Grasse rivcis, now developing 33,000 horsepower, with tne ultimate capac ity of 150,000 horsepower. The Pittsburg Reduction Company is controlled in Pittsburg by the Mel lons. PLAGUED WITH LOCUSTS Pests Destroying Vegitation in Parts ' of Hungary. Scientists are now very busy In Hungary attempting to explain the reason for the unprecedented vlsnta tion of an army of locusts. The dam age done by the locusts is at the moment Impossible to be gauged. No one unacquainted with the devastat ing possibilities of these winged pests would for a moment imagine that they, were responsible for so much wholesale destruction. : Everything they swooped upon per ished as the hand of a ruthless In vading army. The whole thing Is in the nature of a calamity.' The Pusz ta, or great Hungarian plain, and in particular Hortobagy, near Debrecen, is now In a state of rattle fodder famine. Plot Against Panama. An alleged plot on the part of prominent Colomblon leaders to over throw President Amador's govern ment and proclaim Colombia's sov ereignity over Panama again has been frustrated through ' the activity of the police and government authorities. Compromising docu umcnts said to give evidence of the plot, are reported to have been seized on two of the conspirators. Two Co lombian generals said to be implicat ed in the conspiracy were seized by the police. President Amador has de cided all the obnoxious Colombians said to be implicated In the plot shall be expelled from Panama. Alcoholism a Disease! Physicians of Washington testified : before the Police Trial B-ard, which is investigating the death of H. P. iTotten, a contractor from Bluefleld, W. V., that alcoholism U a dls?ase, and should be treated as such. 1,000,000-Pound Wool Clip. The largest individual wool clip ever grown In America has been shipped from Billings, Mont., to Bos ton. The clip wefghed 1,500,000 pounds, and 4 cars were required to carry It. The owner refused an of fer of 24 cents a pound for the wool. At the command of his father, Fred Debold, aged 17, son of John Debold, shot and killed George Smith, a neigh bor, near Frederick, Md. There had been bad feeling between the families. Number of Russian Police and Soldiers Killed and Wounded. COSSACKS LASH YOUNG WOMAN Brutal Punishment .Inflicted Because She had Made a Remark About the Chevalier Guards. Acting apparently with a definite plan and at a signal the terrorist and revolutionists Inaugurated a carnival of murderous attacks with bombs and revolvers on the police and troops In various cities in Poland, August 15, echoes of which are heard from Sa mara, Ufa, Yalta, Kiev -and even far away Chita, where Acting Chief of Police Gorpinehenko was slain almost on his own doorstep. The revolutionist campaign flamed out with especial virulence at War saw, where over a score were slain in the streets and many more were wounded. Among the killed, accord Ins to the latest official advices, were two sergeants of police, eight patrol men, three gendarmes, five soldiers, a Hebrew merchant and a woman. Policemen and soldldrs wore shot down like rabbits In tho streets. Their assailants, almost all escap ed among the terrorized, but sympa thetic populace. The only consider able capture was a band of 10 men, who had invaded a grog shop und killed a soldier. These were 'taken by a passing patrol. Cossacks from Poltava refused to perform police duly at Titlis. A large number of arrests were made. Intense popular indignation has been created In St. Petersburg by tho brutal treatment of Mile. Smirnoff, at the bands or the crack Chevalier guards. While a squadron of these guardsmen was passing along the Nevskl prospect. Mile. Smirnoff, who was. ncconipanfed. by nno'ther young woman remarked: "They are as gay ns if they had raptured Port Arthur." lVdestilans, bearing tho remark, repented it and quite a crowd joined in the jeering. The commander of the cavalrymen suddenly wheeled his squadron and gave the command to charge with drawn whips. Mile. Smirnoff and her companion were captured and taken to the barracks, where troopers, In ' the presence of two officers, administered to Mile. Smirnoff 27 lashes with their whips. The gill's clothing was cut as If by knives by the wire thongs of the whips, and her flesh was horribly lacerated. Her recovery is doubtful. DEMANDS OF PERSIANS Involve Practical Abolition of Real Power of the Shah. According to advices received from Teheran, the complete demands of the Progressives far surpass the scope of the reforms proposed by the Persian government. These demands Involve the prac tical abolition of all the real power of the siiah, leaving him only a figure head ,and even propose the abroga tion of the so-called "divine law" on which his authority Is based. They provide also that the national as sembly slinll have competence In all questions of state and that the min isters shall be bound to put its de cisions Into Immediate effect nhd that the ministers and officials Bhall be re sponsible to the assembly, which can demand their dismissal. The conditions further Include com plete amnesty; freedom of the press "In order that the shah may learn nothing but the truth"; the enact ment of a new code and the right of habeas corpus. WILL INVESTIGATE RAILROADS Government Will Take a Hand in the Ice Squabble at Toledo. With the other Toledo railways, the Clover. Leaf of which Chairman Shonts of the Panama commission Is president, is to be Investigated by the interstate commerce commission. Tho investigation is being made at the request of the president, to whom" complaint has been made that the Clover Leaf, In common with other Toledo lines, has been' discriminating and giving rebates In making rates on Ice. The investigation which begins at Toledo, O., promises to be one of ex traordinary Interest. Already 45 wit nesses have been summoned and papers have been Issued for 15 or 20 others for whom the United States deputy marshals have sought for in vain for over a week. It Is thought some of the most prominent Toledo railway officials have taken up at least a temporary residence In Canada to escape the clutches of the Interstate commerce commission. ECHOES OF THE FOURTH Pennsylvania Leads With Number of Persons Killed or Injured. Fourth of July celebration this year caused 158 deaths, of which 75 were from tetanus. More than 5,000 per sons were injured by the toy pistol, the giant cracker and careless use of firearms. Pittsburg, led the casual ties with 909. Twenty-two persons lost the sight of both eyes. 72 of one eye; 5(1 lost an arm or a leg and 227 were bereft of fingers. These statistics were gnth ered by the American Medical Journal. "Shot Up" the Town. Evidently angered because of a search made among them for a negro who attacked Mrs. Leon Evans nnd who, she asserted, was a negro sol dier, members of a battalion of negro Federal troops ' stationed at Fort Brown entered; Brownsville, Texas, became unruly and fired several vol leys down Main street. As a result Frank Natus, a barkeeper. Is dead, and Policeman Joseph Domingo's arm and hand were shattered by a bullet Q. A. R. HOSTS MARCH Thinning Ranks of Veterans March to Musio They Heard in the Days of '61. For the fortieth time since their work was finished nnd their glory won, the men of tho Grand Army of the Republic were in line nt Minne apolis, Minn. Never was a paiadv more uppcaling and Impressive. The parade was notably well-handled, quick-moving and Inspiring. Countless Hags snapped in tho brecxe and the soldiers passed for miles be tween buildings gorgeously decorated. Tho day was ideal. Several sharp Bhowers during the night dispelled the oppressive heart of the day before and a Boft, cool breeze swept over tho city. The parade formed at 9 o'clock and moved exactly an hour later. At the head of the column was a splendidly mounted platoon of police, the line filling the streets frcm curb to curb. Next came the chief murshal of the parade, former Governor Van Saut, and his chief of staff. General Fred B. Wood, adjutant general of Minne sota nnd then with their formal ion superbly kept throughout, the entire parade, came the first old soldiers, tho Columbia post, of Chicago, ac'ilng as the personal escort of Commander In-Chief Tanner. Behind Columbia post came Commander-in-Chief Tanner mounted on a spirited nnd handsome steed and attended by his personal staff. Following the officers of the organ ization, rank on rank, came the men of the grand army. The States march ed In order of their admission to the organization, Illinois having the right of the line, followed by Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Ohio and "New York in the order named. Twenty other States followed these. Thomas A. Martin, senior vice com mander of the department of the Po tomac, became 111 while marching in the parade and died while being re moved to the emergency hospital. Colonel Charles W. Keeting. of New Orleans, for 10 years copimander of the department of Louisiana and Mississippi, lifter heading their divi sion in the parade was overcome by the lion t and exhaustion and died an hour after reaching a hospital. DOUBLE FARE CAUSES TRAGEDY Body of Girl Found Under Bridge of Brooklyn Transit. One girl is dead nn.l another badly Injured ns the result of assaults ami ejectments from the cars of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., in the effort to collect the additional five cent fare to Coney island which Jus tice Gaynor has declared Illegal, and patrons of the road who resist the additional payment are still subjected to violence and brutality. Tho police instead of prtectins the passengers from assault are now aid ing tho ro.i.l to collect tho extra fare. Fisherman have found under the Culver roulo trestle over Coney Isl and creek, the first tragedy of "bloody Sunday," when they came upon the body of Miss Fannie Rodin ski, the daughter of a rabbi of Brook lyn. The girl with a 12-year-old compan ion Edna Sininger, had been thrown from a car by inspectors In spite of the fact that they had paid double fares. . They then tried to walk to the Island, "ml in crossing tho trestle Famiie Rodinskl was knocked oft by a passenger train Into the creek.- Her body when found was covered with bruises, indicating that she had bee" roughly handled before she wa3 struck by the train. . MORE ICE MEN INDICTED Seventeen Boston Companies and Dealers Charged With Conspiracy. Secret Indictments against 17 ice dealers and six ice companies, which were returned by the Suffolk county, (Mass.) grand jury, were made pub lic in the superior court. The ice dealers are charge! with bavins un lawfully conspired "to regulate, ad vance and fix the price, of fee for public sale," nnd the Ice companies are charged as corporations with con spiracy. The dealers Indicted include Presi dent Lewis G. Willi e of the Massa chusetts Ice Dealers' association, and Secretary Charles Haliusmini n th' association. The companies Indicted are the Boston, Independent. Union. Fresh P. Cambridge and. Hamlin Co operatives. The dealers when ar raigned pleaded not guiltv. and were held In bonds of $1,000 each. To Wipe Out Pulajaiies. Governor Ide returned to Manila after a confererrre at Tacloban. Island of Leyte, with Major General Wood. Brigadier General Lee, Gov ernor Deveyra. 15 presldentes and Colonel Taylor, of the constabulary. The presldentes promised to support the American authorities In the ex termination of the Pulajancs. Gov ernor Ide has decided to aopolnt a commission confiding of Governor Deveyra, Brigadier General Lee, Col onel Taylor and three presldentes to visit the disaffected districts and hold meetings of the town councils to Impress the people with the neces sity of co-operation.' Announcement was ' made - from Jamestown Exposition headquarters that. 'thr. National Association of Deaf Mutes, with headquarters at Colorado Spilngs, Colo., will hold Its 1907 con vention In Norfolk, Va., Hie date yet to be fixed. Prices of Food and Wages. In a bulletin Issued by tho bureau of labor the statement Is made Hint the cost, of living is higher 'than nt any time since lS'JO, when the bureau first began to keep the record of re tall prices of food. To offset this, the bureau In a seperate investigation declares Wages were higher during 191)5, than for 1904 by 1.0 per cent and this a little more than offsets the Increased cost of food. It also show3 thut In tho industries It investigate.! more men are employed. Chicago Clearing House Offers This for Stensland. LOOKING FOR WOMAN IN CASE Secret Room Found in Stensland's Magnificent Home Property Turned Over, Five thousand dollars reward will be paid for the arrest of Paul O. Stenslund, fugutlve president of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank of Chicago. Tho bunks or the Chicago Clearing House association will pay the reward. Announcement of the determination of the bunkers to stop at nothing In the capturing of the accused bank officer accompanied the passuge of a resolution to pay the reward. The bunkers were In conference for tin hour. Bonds for Theodore Stensland, who Bin-rendered to the authorities were given In the sum of $ I il.ono. At torney J. J. Kern had asked Judge Kerstou that the bonds would b" the charge of conspiracy and the court fixed tho bull at $10,000. Bond was furnished. A police dragnet was thrown out to catch a woman forger, who Is thought to linvo Intimate knowledge of the fraudulent Stensland notes found In the bank vaults. The woman's arrest was ordered by the State's attorney. Detectives who are searching for her declare that she may hnvo forged the signatures by means of which Stensland looted the bank. She Is known to have been closely asso ciated wi''- the banker nnd to lie skillful with tho pen. Discovery of a mysterious room In which Paul O. Stensland Is believed to have prepared to hide himself in his big house In Irving park brought new Interest into tho police hunt for the bunker. Inspector Shlppy learned of the supposed existence of the room of mysterv nn'i sent two detectives to search the house. These men, with yardsticks nnd taptllnes, measured all through the house. They discovered adjoining Stens land's "den," a portion of the house the use of which could not be ac counted for. Finally they tapped up on a panel in Stensland's "den." II sounded hollow and was partly con cealed by drapery. When the door was forced there was disclosed nu opening largp enough for a man to stand In to conceal himself. A secret telephone was discovered In the back part of a desk in the so calle.l "directors" room of Stens land's' bank. Inspector Shlppy was making Investigation there. The po lice f" tb"t this telephone gave Stensland direct access to all mes sages coming In or going out from tile hank. It became known that youns stens land had given to Receiver John C. Fetzer. for the benefit of the hank depositors, a deed to nil the Cook county rel estnte held by bis father, who had given him nower of attorney. The property is estimated to be worth $050,000. POPE REJECTS FRENCH LAW Objects to the Lay Management of Ecclesiastical Affairs. The principle of the submission of the management of church affairs to lay organizations, as provided for un der the French law for the separation of church and state, Is unhesitating ly rejected by Pope Pius X in bis In structions to the French clergy for their ciiilp"n under the new regime. The Important document outlining the course to be followed by the French clergy was Issued August 11. Its form leaves open the possibility for an understanding to be reached I In the near future on the basis of the I complete separation of church and ! state. Uncle Joe on Black List. President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has put Uncle Joe Cannon on his black list, but the faft does not seem to he worrying the speaker In the least. Contrary to showing any anxiety, Mr. Cannon Intends to point out what he considers the fallacies of Gompers' attitude toward himself and other Republicans who have Incurred the animosity of the federation. The speaker Is on the federation's blacklist because he used his Influ ence In the house In preventing the passage of the anti-injunction bill and a more stringent eight-hour law ns applied to work on government con tracts. Boston Wool Market. The wool market shows Improve ment, the conservative trade holding also that me coming season will be marked by steadiness. It is stated that only a few mills have a fair supply of raw material left.. Mon tana Is said to be cleaned tip. with tho exception of five to seven million pounds. Territories are In fair de mand. A good business Is done in pulled wools. The foreign grades are steady. Leading quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsylvania. XX nnd above 34 to 35c: X. 31 to 32c; No. 1, 40 to 41c: No. 2, 38 to39c; fine un washed, 2fi to 27c; half-blood, un washed, 33 to 31c; three-eighth blood, unwashed, 34 to 35c, o , Reported Websters Speeches. Francis H. Smith, ono of the first official reporters of congressional do bales, died at Washington. Conn., where ho was born March 11, 1829. For many years he had been a bank er. Daniel Webster was one of the first men Mr. Smith reported In Con gress, and later he renorted the court martial of Iho Lincoln conspirators and the subsequent trial of John H. Surrntt Another famous trial he covered was that of General Daniel Sickles, for tho killing of District Attorney Key. RELEASED FROM PRISON Notorious Adventuress Given Liberty In England, , The woman Diss de Bar, under which nnme she was known In Ameri ca but who posed In England ns "The Swaml," has been released from Aylesbury - prison, England, after serving her term of Imprisonment on tho sentence of seven years' penal servitude passed ait her In 1901. The "Swaml's" revolting offences under the cloak of spiritualism creat ed a tremendous sensation In England. During the nauseating trial the high priestess of the occult mysteries was Identified with the woman Diss de Bar who bus been imprisoned In New York i for spiritualistic frauds. H.isr presumed husband, Francis Jackson, Is still undergoing a sen tence of 15 years' Imprisonment for similar offences. Mine. Diss de Bar has been known under ninny names In the United Stutes and Great Britain, but her greatest notoriety was achieved as the perpetrator of a so-called Spirit- imllstlc deception by which Luther R. Marsh of New York was In his o)d aged stripped of the fortune he had accumulated hi the practice of law. LONGWORTHS RETURN HOME After Visiting President They Will Go to Cincinnati. From their European honeymoon tour Representative and Mrs. Nich olas Longworth arrived at Now York, on the steamship St. Paul of the American line. They were met at quarantine by the President's yacht, the Sylph, which was sent to to take (hem to the Roosevelt home at Oys ter Bay. Waiting nt the pier at Oys ter Bay were the President, Mrs. Roosevelt, (heir other children and a number of close relatives eager to give greeting to the couple. Mr. and Mrs. Longworth will re main at R-ieiiniore Hill only a' short time. They have planned to go from (here to Washington and later to Cincinnati, where they will shortly begin housekeeping in the handsome Longworth home. OVERPRODUCTION OF 6LASS WeGtern Association Vote to Delay Resumption of Autumn Work. At n special meeting of the West ern Glass Association in Chicago, a resolution was adopted declaring for a delay in the resumption of autumn work in all glass factories In the I'nlted States. Acocrding to John Shroedor of De triot,. who presided at the -moptino-there has been -an over-production and in order to present a falling off in prices tho stock now on hand will have to be dlsposeoW before the fac- , torles commence operations for the fall and winter trado TELLER IS $100,0(X)VHORT .. .. i Confesses on Return Fronv- Brokers Arrested With Him. Alexander R. Chlsholm, paying teller of the First National bank of Birmingham, Ala., was arrested charged with the embezzlement of $97,000 n the bank's funds. During the afternoon W. L. Sims and C. M. Hays, manager and assist-1 nut manager of one of the chief stock and cotton brokerage houses In Bir mingham, were arrested charged with aiding and abetting the embezzle ment of National bank funds. They were released on bonds. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Mrs. Craigle, better known as John Oliver Hobbes, the authorlst, died suddenly in London of heart failure. Fifty-five persons were injured In nn accident on the Fort Worth & ' Denver City railroad near Frtiitland, Tex. William Jennings Bryan has Issued an answer to the refusal of Roger Sullivan to resign from the national committee. Twenty-six thousand miners at Abertlllery Wales, struck owing to tho employment of non-union work men In the mines. Louis Foltz of Milwaukee, the man who assaulted and wounded several people on a train at Sparta, Wis., died at tho county jail from bullet wounds received in the fight. Supt .Edwards of the Pittsburg bu reau of health is taking every pre caution to prevent the spread of ty phoid fever, which has now reached the epidemic stage. A riot occurred at Clelana, Spain, over local taxation. The mayor and an alderman was stabbed. Civil guards fired on the rioters, wounding several persons. The regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent has been declared on the stock of the North Pennsylvania Rail road Company, payable August 25 to holders of record August 13. Frank E. Grimes, former State Treasurer, of Kansas stated that he was willing to pay $7,000 into the State Treasury and compromise the charges in tho expert's report of an alleged shortage. In a fit of Insanity Emil Berner,' a mechanic of Batavia, 111., murdered his brother-in-law, Ernest Franzen, slashed Mrs. Berner so severely that she will die and then cut his own throat, dying in a few minutes. The North Butte Company has de clared a quarterly dividend of $2 a share, payable September 29 to stock of record September 19. Some stock holdeis had looked for an Increased to $2.23. Churles E. Browne, former examin er of sillo in the government customs service In New York city, was order ed released from Sing Sing prison by Judge Hough of the United States court on a writ of habeas corpus. The belief of the people of the South In the unwritten law was evi denced nt New Orleans when Peter Manales' acquittal of the charge of murder of his faithless wife and the serious shooting up of her faithless paramour was greeted with such ap plause that the court officials had dif ficulty In restoring order.
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