PEOPLE FULL OF HOPE. Speedy Restoration of Galves ton Predicted. TRAINS TO BUN ON WEDNESDAY. Hallway Communication With .Main land Will Facilitate Relief Work. I'nlted State# MurNhal'ii Firm liule Prevent# I.outing. Galveston, Sept. 17. Last Monday gloom, desolation and despair prevailed iu this storm torn city. Today hope and determination have seized the people. They realize that the tusk before them is gigantic, yet with the generous aid that is flowing to them iu a broad stream from ull parts of the civilized world and thuir own indomitable purpose the sick uud wounded will be healed, the destitute relieved, the recuperation of Galveston will bo speedy, the city will be rebuilt and plueed on u more enduring founda tion and her commercial career started anew. Such is the spirit displayed by this grievously stricken people. Looting and the deseerutiou of corpses have ceased since the military have as sumed charge of affairs, and they are co operating harmoniously with the civil au thorities. Sheriff Thomas is in charge of the isolated district and is directing in terments and the recovery of property there. United States Marshal Grunt has been given full uuthority by General Scurry and is directing affairs on the maiulaud, aided by u troop of rangers, who are ordered to make short work of looters and arrest all suspicious charac ters. The rangers and the militia and civil guards stationed at Texas City and Virginia Point are under the direction of Marshal Grant. Those are the two points of ingress to the city. He also bus con trol over all the railways running into this city and ull craft plying between Virginia Point and Texas City, and no one can embark or disembark at these places without his permission unless having authority so to do from his su perior officers. The destitute wishing to go to friends in the country are given free transportation und being sent out of the city as rapidly as the limited trans portation facilities at the disposal of the committee on transportation will permit. The owner of any water craft or railway found guilty of charging more than the regulation fare will be arrested and se verely dealt with. . Scurry Prevent# Extortion. Much complaint has hitherto existed about exorbitant charges by boats and the roads running from Texas City. Tlds has been cured by a stringent order from General Scurry, who has been at work diligently to properly adjust affairs so that no deserving person shall be im posed upon. With increase in force of the Dallas Rough Riders and the Treze vant Rifles, the latter company arriving yesterday, General Scurry will be bet ter able to meet the now conditions which constantly develop. The cleaning up and disinfecting of streets, stores and buildings goes brave ly on, and the sanltury condition of the down town portion of the city has been greatly improved. Mayor Jones bus stat ed there would be no let up in the work until the entire city is cleansed and dis infected. Dry goods stores and clothing houses resemble great laundries, and every avail able space is occupied with goods hung up to dry. Fortunately the weather is clear, hot and dry for this purpose. Those merchants whoso stocks were but slightly damaged have done a rushing business, and so have the restaurants, but their stocks aro very limited and fresh meat difficult to obtain. Extor tions are rare exceptions, although the supply of food at hotels and restaurants is limited. This will be remedied in a few days. Since all the railways terminating here have united upon one bridge und are pushing the work night and day with a large force reconstructing it, while the tracks are being restored on the island and mainland by large forces, it is con fidently asserted thiU Galveston will have railroad .communiei flfon with the outer world by Wednesday night. This will greatly aid the relief work. The injured and sick under the thor ough system Inaugurated by the hoard of health and local physicians, aided by volunteers from outside, are receiving every care and attention and doing as well as could be expected under the cir cumstances, which are being improved daily. C. N. Robinson, chief grain inspector, lias received the following telegram from Hammond &. Snyder of Baltimore: "With great satisfaction we today learned of your safety. Our exchange lias raised over ss,ftK) in the interest of your unfortunates. More to follow." This firm shipped from here by the Spanish steamer Ramon de Larrinara for New Castle-ou-Tyne 200,000 bushels of wheat. While lying at the wharf she was caught in the storm, rode it out safe ly and sailed immediately after its sub sidence. Nearly All Chnrclic# l)e#lrjed. At the churches iu the city, either being wrecked or ruined, with one or two ex ceptions, divine services were in most cases suspended yesterday. Mass was celebrated at St. Mary's cathedral and was largely attended. Father Kirwin preached an eloquent and feeling ser mon, in which he spoke of the awful ca lamity that has befallen the people. Aft er expressing sympathy with the affiict pd and distressed he advised nil to go to work in burying the dead. That was their first duty. The next was to bring the names of the widows and orphans to the church, and they could rest assured Df the unfortunates being cared for. Bishop Gallagher is in receipt of a tel egram from Archbishop Corrigan of New York stating the diocese of that effy would see that all Catholic orphan chil dren sent to his care are kindly provided for. Today a census of the Catholic popula tion will begin to ascertain the number of widows and orphans caused by the storm and the exact number of Catholics that perished. The grand lodge committee of the I. O. O. F. was here yesterday and organized local relief committees to look after and care for the sick and destitute of that order. The keeper of the life saving station at the western extremity of the island came in yesterday. He reports the stu tion gone aud that a frightful scene of desolation exists there. lie reports that 180 bodies were buried there, that the prairie and marshes are strewn with the enrcasses of uniinals and reptiles and that the stench is stiijutf• PROBLEM IN FISH. How Did the Nile Specie# Get Into the Jordan f It has been for some time known that certain fishes of the Nile and East African rivers live In the Jordan and sea of Galilee, says the Loudon Standard. Such facts are not easily explained, for these are not fishes that can fly or travel over land. The sur vival of these old world forms may perhaps be accounted for by remem bering that in all probability Africa Is a very ancient continent. It has no doubt experienced some changes. The sea may have had access to the basin of Tanganyika, and a considerable por tion of the north may have been sub merged since the chalk of our English downs was deposited. Still, even In those days, a very large mass of land must have been above water. The singular paths followed by the great African streams—the Orange river go ing one way, the Zambezi another, the Kongo and the Niger each sweeping over so great an area In strange and gigantic curves—seem to suggest that in remote ages the continent was built up by the gradual shallowing of the sea beds between large Insular masses of laud. The presence of these fishes In the Jordan and the upper Nile—and it Is by no means the only piece of evi dence pointing in the same direction shows that these two rivers must once have been either confluent or in easy communication by the Instrumentality of other streams. llow that could come to pass, as Dr. Gregory shows in his book on the Great Rift valley, Is not easily settled. Probably when it occurred there was no Dead sea, but the Jordan flowed in to the gulf of Akabali, and perhaps even the Red sea may have been dry land. That for a time this sea and the Mediterranean were in communication and Africa was an island is certain, so an upward movement may in its turn have brought about an opposite re sult. fonta llicu llounrinry Decided. Washington, Sept. 17.—The minister of Costa Rica at Washington, Senor Calvo, has received a cablegram from the minister of Costa Rica at Paris which conveys the information that the president of the French republic, M. Loubet, who was the arbitrator appoint ed to decide the boundary question be tween Costa Rica and Colombia, by his award has fixed the boundary limit be tween the two countries in the Atlantic side at Mona Point (or Point Carreta) and in the Pacific side at Punta Rurica. The republic of Colombia claimed that the limit should be fixed at Cape Gra cias-a-Dios, iu the Atlantic, including the whole of Costa Rica and Nicaragua Atlantic coast, and that the limit on the Pacific side should be placed at Iloruca river, to the northwest of Golfo Dulce, which would have given Colombia a right to half the territory of Costa Rica and ahout two-thirds of that of Nicara gua. The award fixes the boundary line in the Pacific side at Punta Rurica, as claimed by Costa Rica, and in the At lantic denies the right of Colombia to any part of the territory of Nicaragua or any portion of that of Costa Rica be yond Mona Point. Schooner Axhore In Storm. Atlantic City, N J., Sept. 17.—1n the heavy wind and rain storm which set in on the coast Saturday evening the schooner Willie went ashore on the southerly end of Egg Harbor shoals, north of Brigantine inlet. On board were Captain Oriuf Anderson. John Farrell, John Olson and Gustav Anderson. They left New York Friday on a fishing cruise. The schooner drove hard on the shoals before the heavy northeast blow, ami ef forts to get her off proved fruitless. A high sea was running and steadily grew more dangerous toward morning, when the wind veered and blew a gale from the southeast. The schooner wus pound ing heavily, and the seas were breaking over her when daylight discovered her to the Little Reach life saving station. The crew put off and with great difficulty brought the men ashore in an exhausted condition. The life saving crew returned to the vessel when the storm had abated, and they succeeded in floating her. Growth of Labor 1/nloim. Albany, Sept. 17.—The quarterly bulle tin of the state bureau of labor statistics issued for the quarter ended June HO shows an increase of 151 unions, the largest quarterly increase yet recorded. The gain in membership was 15,000. At the close of the quarter there were 1,00/ i labor organizations in the state with an aggregate membership of 247,002. The number of organized working women was 10,702, which is an increase of 40 per cent within the past year. Owing to extended stoppages of work caused by strikes for higher wages and by the ad vance in the price of building materials the number of unemployed members of labor organizations in the second quarter exceeded the small number in the same quarter last year. Suit Agalnnt Flour Trust. Minneapolis, Sept. 17. —A suit involv ing .$1,500,000 has been filed in the Unit ed States district court. It is the Central Trust company of New York against the United States Flour Milling company, in corporated under the laws of the state of New Jersey and doing business in va rious parts of the country. The suit is brought because of default of interest on bonds. Ooin I'mil'm Departure Authorized. Lisbon, Sept. 17.—The Portuguese gov ernment has telegraphed to the govern or of Mozambique authorizing the de parture of Mr. Ivruger for Europe. The governor, however, must satisfy himself that Mr. Krugcr is really going to Eu rope. Meanwhile he is instructed to take all precautions to safeguard the personal security of Mr. Krugcr. Actinium, n New Element. Actinium is the name given a now radio-active element of the iron group discovered by A. Deblerne In pitch blende. The substance has now been sufficiently concentrated to show that its rays have the same effect on barium platinocyanidc, photograph plates and a magnetic field as those of radium and polonium, while it is evidently distinct from those elements. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are prompt, pal utublc, pleasant, powerful, purifying little pills. Grover's City drug store. GREAT STRIKE IS NOW ON Continued from First Page. He dolivcred a forcible address and as he proceeded its effect on the audience was plainly noticeablo. He was fre quently interrupted by tremendous ap plause. St. Ann's band discoursed music at the meeting. JEDDO MEETING EAST NIGHT. The determination to close down Markle & Co.'s mines was shown last evening by holding a mass meeting at Jeddo. Organizer James delivered an other speech, advocating unity of action throughout the region. He was follow ed by National President John Mitchell, who had just arrived from Indianapolis. Both speakers were given ovations by the hundreds of miners, and the men lustily responded to their appeals to strike today. OFFERED TO ARBITRATE. A conference, at which Father Philips, of St. Gabriel's church, Ilazleton; John Markle, of the firm of G. 11. Markle & Co., Superintendent W. H. Smith and Alvan Markle, of the same firm, were present, was held yesterday afternoon at Ilazleton for the purpose of discussing the proposition of Father Phillips that Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, act as mediator between the operators and the men and for the benefit of the public generally in the settlement of the trouble. John Markle agreed that If his reply to the grievances presented after Fri day evening's meeting is not satisfactory to the men, that ho will submit the questions to arbitration. FRIDAY NIGHT AT JEDDO. Sevoral hundred miners representing the employes of G. B. Markle & Co., at Ebervale, Jeddo and Highland, mot at the Jeddo school house Friday nigiit and decided not to strike, unless a list of their own grievances which was drawn up at the meeting and which will be submitted to John Markle, are not granted. Mr. Markle is to have ten days to consider the grievances. They ask for the enforcement of the ! semi-monthly pay law; ten hours' pay for ton hours' work; that men engaged in the robbing of pillars be paid for dead work; that when the slope is clear and men present themselves at the bottom to be hoisted to the surface, a car be provided so as not to oblige them to wait until tho bottom gets ready; that powder bo reduced to as low a price as possiblo; that tho com pany provide a tool car in the morning and evening to take all tools up and down tho slope; that tho men receiving 51.75 at present get an increase of 5 per cent and those below 31.75 an in crease of 10 per cent. An arbitration agreement exists be tween this company and its employes. Organizer James, of Jeanesvillc, was present and after the meeting was over ho addressed tho miners. In a statement issued later, ho said: "The meeting was called at tho instigation of Markle & Co. Thomas, the man elected chair man, was recently granted ifn assistant mine forouianship certificate and is now seeking a position of that kind. The chief spokesman, Mr. Ilenshaw, is the father of a mine boss, which proves that the meeting was called by the company and not by tho men. Everything was afranged beforehand." NUMBER OF MEN INVOLVED. The mine employes In the anthracite region number about .145,000. The membership of the union Is not known to a certainty, but the leaders claim that 80 per cent of the miners are organized. The coal basin is dis tributed throughout several counties, the most Important of these workings being located In Luzerne, Lackawanna, Schuylkill, Carbon and Northumber land counties. The union districts are known as No. 1, comprising upper Lu erne and Lackawanna; No. 7, compris ing the Lehigh region and the upper Schuylkill region, and No. 9, comprising Shamokin and a portion of tho Schuyl kill region. In the mines in the Lackawanna and Wyoming valley districts 80,000 men and boys are employed. There are 15,000 employes In mines in the Lehigh region; 20,000 at Mahanoy City and Shenan doah, and 23,000 around Shamokin, Pottsville and Mt. Carrael. YESTERDAY AT WILKEBBARRK. Wllkoshnrre, Sept. 17.—Final meetings of the United Mine Workers <>f this re gion before the great coal strike were held yesterday afternoon, and miners who had not joined the union enrolled their names at the "locals." They want protection even though they do not desire a strike, and this is the one way of get ting it. The organization is now almost solid all the way from Forest City to Shickshinny. which district comprises the cities of Seranton, Onrhondale, Wilkes barre and Pittston and the lug towns of Dnnmore, Duryva. Avoca, Minooka, West Pittston, Wyoming. Kingston, Plains. Parsons, Miners' Si ills. Ashley, Nanticoke, Plymouth and Edwardsville. Some doubt was felt regarding the feeling of tho Pennsylvania Coal company at Pittston, hut their feeling was expressed yesterday, when almost in a body they joined the union. The leaders now re port that, with the possible exception of a couple of small individual collieries, none of the mines in this big region will attempt to work. At the meetings held yesterday the* speakers made a special point of counsel ing the men against any outbreak, de claring that it would result to the benefit of tho companies, as the militia would be ROUND THEJREGION. Albert Jenkins, aged 18 years, was teased by some schoolboys, who wanted to steal a ride on his wagon. He jumped from the wagon and in chasing the boys, stubbed his toe and fell heavily on the sidewalk. He made an attempt to get up, but sank again to tho ground, and when assistance reached him ho was dead. A blood vessel near the heart was ruptured. Buy your ice cream at Keiper's. While playing with matches last night the clothing of Dorothy Ueyer, of Raven Run, Schuylkill county, caught fire, and she was burned to death. In his efforts to save the child's life a man named Wagner was badly burned. Louis Fischer, proprietor of the Bridge hotel, Wilkesbarre, left his place about three woeks ago and has not since been seen. Gentlemen, for hats and caps go to A. Oswald's. He has a nice variety. P. J. Furey is spending another thirty days' sentence in Carbon county jail. He was sent up by a Hansford squire. Hugh Jennings, the well known first baseman of tho Brooklyn team, has returned to Brooklyn after spending a few days at his homo in Avoca. He was forced to lay off on account of hav ing the spikes of the shoes of a Pitts burg player run into his foot during a game. Try Keiper's Ice cream soda. Fire Boss Morgan Bevan and Miner William Moorehead were frightfully burned by exploding gas at Gilberton colliery, near Mahanoy City. James Boyor, aged 23 years, was walk ing about the mouth of the shaft leading from the now level to the old workings at tho Oak Hill colliery, when he tripped and fell to tho bottom, a distance of 210 feet. Ho was instanly killed. Poisonous toadstools resembling mushrooms havecaused frequent deaths this year. He sure to use only the genuine. Observe tho same care when you ask for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. There are poisonous counterfeits. DeWitt's is the only original Witch Hazle Salve. It is a safe and certain cure for piles and all skin diseases. G rover's City drug store. Mrs. Patrick Glvens, of McAdoo, tripped on a garden rake Saturday even ing, and six of tho prongs penetrated her kneo, inflicting a serious but not dangerous injury. Minersvilie borough has had a pre liminary injunction served upon tho Schuylkill Electric Railway Company and its successor, the Pottsville Trac tion Company, to restrain them from operating tho road running through the borough. Large sun spots, astronomers say, caused the extreme heat thin summer, and doctors declare nearly all the prostrations were induced by dis orders of the stomah. Good health follows good digestion. Kodol DyHpHpsioCurudigests what you eat. If you have indigestion or dyspepsia it will quickly relieve anu permanently cure you. Grover's City drug store. Matthew P. Walker, of Pottsville, one of tho most prominent residents of Schuylkill county, died at his home of gangrene. He was 08 years of ago. The emergency bags sent by a church society to Kansas soldiers in the Philippines contained among the necessities a box of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Waive, the well known cure for piles, in juries and skin deseuses. The ladies took care to obtain the original DeWitt's Witch Hazle Salve knowing that all the counterfeits are worthless. Grover's City drug store. Willie Shaffer, a notorious youth of Ilazleton who has served time in the penitentiary and county jail, is arrested again on tho charge of robbing Mrs. Kate Dunlevy, of Ilazleton, of s<>o. The Allentown Fair. "The Great Allentown Fair" will be held on September 18 to 21, and from present indications will bo tho greatest in its history. It is, without question, one of the best and largest agricultural and industrial exhibitions in the coun try. It is annually visited by thousands of people, and there is no county or state fair held anywhere that can boast of such large crowds as are yearly seen at the Allentown fair. Its popularity is world-wide, not only as a great insti tution for the farmers and mechanics, but for tho horsemen and all lovers of sport. Its races are always the most exciting and hotly contested, as no gambling of any kinds is permitted, the best horse wins. This year over 810,000 Is paid for speed alone and the greatest horses in tho country will be there. 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