i-Publisher: strictly in "25 Cents. vat. 2 Cents, 3 Free. , ; ly Advertisers. ations to—- : ‘= Florin; Pa. oe ostoffice: at Florin as. latter. ‘ court: of West Vir- yod that a professor of ersity and a teacher of pl are not public officers, Former is an employe un- ‘to fill a chair of learning er is an employe. eneral Mason reports from hat Germany’s imports of machinery and tools last fregated 4757 tons, against 588 pm Great Britain and 388 tons rance.' The German people also 20,249 tons of agricultural ma- y and implements “made in the ed States.” ermany, which is supposed to lead tinental Europe in her electrical anufactures, and to rank prominent- among the world’s manufacturing ations, imported last year from the United States 343 tons of electrical machinery, 200 tons of steam engines, "574 tons of blowing machinery, 331 tons of pumps and 20,249 tons of ag- ricultural machinery and implements. Quite a controversy has arisen in England as to the relative merits of American and Emzlish locomotives. As ~ ,aring on this controversy there «0 disputing the weight of the fact Aat last year upward of 450 Ameri- can locomotives were exported, at an average price of $9500 each. If for- eign railroad managers had not pre- ferred American locomotives they would have bought all their engines at home. The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale said recently: “When I was a young man, studying for the ministry, I came to the conclusion that it was a good time_ for a man to retire from the pastorate ofa church when he got to be 40. en I got to be 40 1 changed my mind, and thought 50 was the proper age for retiring; then I later came to see things differently, cided that when I was 60 I drop the work. But I don’t he matter any thought now.” an giv Epidemics of suicide frequently oc- cur, just as epidemics of contagious diseases. All works on criminology, as well as medical treatises, recog- nize a distinct class of cases, which are called “imitational criminals’ and “imitational suicides.” It is, well known that persons with an innate or hereditary tendency toward crime are easily influenced by suggestion. From the psychologic standpoint every one is more or less suggestible. Criminal tendencies are more common than one would suspect and are likely to break loose in most unexpected quarter states the Sunny South. Mercantile and industrial co-opera- tion is making rapid strides in Cali- fornia, according to a statement by J. S. Clark, one of the leading organ- izers of the movemenf in that state. Between 30 and 40 business houses in the state are operating on the co-op- erative plan. Each house was started as a grocery, with just capital enough to stock it, but with an assurance also of sufficient patrons to keep it mov- ing. One hundred and fifty families are thought sufficient to make the running of a grocery store profitable, and 100 more families added warrants the broadening of the business. 5 Mr. Rockefeller gave a hard pre- cription to the graduating class of Chicago university in saying to them: “If you are to succeed in life it will be because you are masters of your- selves.” A wiser than Rockefeller said that “he that ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city.” Self-mastery of a strong nature is the greatest of victories. A man who is ruled by his temper or by any other of his passions is not master of him- self. One who is the slave of any ap- petite has a cruel master. Mastery of self means more than self-control— it includes self-possession; the ab- solute power over and direction of all faculties’ of mind and body. Very men have complete mastery of And this is perhaps why there vely so few complete and the higher Cesse "Steel Stocks Go Down With ‘a Riish : The Violence of ‘the Decline Invited Some ” WAS DEMORALIZED. ; at the Opening. RAILWAYS ‘SUFFER IN MOVEMENT. Buying From Bargain:Husiters; and Insiders Offered Sdipport. by Buying, But Huge Blocks Had to Be Taken in Continuous Strings.-Brokers Kept Busy. New York (Special).—Monday the | stock market was wild and demoralized as a result of the declaration of a strike in. the: mills of three of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporation. Coming on top of this was the fact of the unrelieved drouth in the corn belt. The opening rush to sell was ur- gent and made wide openings on a descending scale in the United States Steel stocks. Twenty thousand shares of the common had to be taken sim- ultaneously at the opening at 38 to 3717. compared with 417% on Saturday, and 8ooc shares of the preferred carried th- price down from 91%; on Saturday to 87% and 86%. Owing to the vigorous support of insiders, these were the low prices on the slump, and both stocks ral- lied feverishly, the preferred several points. In the railroad list the Grangers and Pacifics were most acutely affected, as for some time past, Union Pacific lead- ing with a drop of 5 points. There were lcsses between 4 and 5 points in St. Paul, Atchison common and preferred, Texas and Pacific and Missouri Pacific. In Pennsylvania, New York Central, Balti- more and Ohio, Erie, Rock Island, Southern Pacific, Towa Central prefer- red, Amalgamated Copper and Sugar there were losses of 3 or over. Lacka- wana fell 674 and Colorado Fuel 434. The violence of the decline invited some buying from bargain hunters, and insiders offered support by buying, but | huge blocks had to be taken in continu- ous strings, individual transactions run- ning to 5000 shares. Nevertheless thera were rallies of 1 to 2 points in the gen- eral list and of 234 in United States Steel preferred. This seemed to check the fright and somewhat lightened the load of offerings, but prices kept yield- | ing in spots. in the afternoon there was a general rally, and the closing showed prices near | the top for the day, the losses in almost | all issues, except United States Steel, having been recovered, VOLCANO DESTROYS LIFE AND PROPERTY Over Seven Hundred People Perish During | An Eruption of Klost. Tacoma, Wash. (Special).—Oriental advices give details of terrible devasta- tion and loss of life caused by the erup- | tion of Klost Volcano, in northern Java, | last month. Torrents of lava and red- | hot mud flowed amid showers of ashes | and stones. Seven hundred natives and | abou ozen Europeans perished and | sco offee estates were destroyed. | E miles around the volcano the | om strewn with corpses. The European manager of a large es- | tate had a race for life with the lava. Accompanied by his wife, two children and a nurse he attempted to keep ahead | of the flow of liquid fire, but the lava overtook the carriage and the nurse and children perished, the parents escaping by jumping into a clump of bamboo trees by the roadside. | | KILLED BY A MANIAC. | | Traveler Meets a Tragic Fate While a Passenger on a Tra'n. Rawlings, Wyo. named Rogers was shot to death by Ned Hadley Copeland, on the Union Pacific train No. 6. Copeland was traveling from | Stockton, Cal., to Council Bluffs, x When at a point three miles edit of Wamsutter he walked into the car where Rogers was sitting and at once began | shooting at him, saying: “There. take | that.” He shot three times, the bullets | entering Rogers breast and he died in- | stantly. Copeland was arrested and is now in jail here. When asked what caused him to kill | Rogers, he said: “He had me hypnotized | and I had to de it.” Copeland is undoubtedly out of his | mind. As the killing took place in Swect | Water county, Copeland will be taken to | Green River and turned over to the au- | thorities there. | on ———————————— ne | Boers Capture a Gun. | London (By Cable).—A dispatch | from Lord Kitchener, dated at Pretoria, | says the Boers attacked a constabulary | at Houtkop. in the Transvaal, July 11, | capturing a 7-pound gun. He also says the Boers were eventually driven off. The British loss is given as three men killed and seven wounded. A noisy scene in the House of Commons arose from a question as to whether the Brit- | ish wounded were left in the hands of the Boers at Viakfontein. Lord Stan- |! ley, financial secretary of the war office, | declared the war office had no informa- tion on the subject. The F rst on Record. Boston (Special).—A petition in bank- | ruptcy was filed by Stephen M. Mar- | shall, secretary of the Tenth Congres- | sional Republican District Committee of | 1808. The debts of the committee are | shown to amount to about $80. This is | the first time since the establishment of | the new bankruptcy law that a campaign | committee's debts have found their way | into a bankruptcy court. Porto Rican Postmaster Arrested. ; Washington (Special).—A cablegram-| received at the Postoffice Department | from San Juan announces the arrest on | July 10 of Ricardo Navarez Rivera, as- | sistant postmaster at Mameyes., Porto | Rico, for embezzling letters containing | valuable inclosures. ? Desperate Struggle in Couftroom. Upper Sandusky, Ohic/ (Special).— During the progress of the Johnsan murder trial here Willis Miller, the de fendant, attacked Guard Grundtisch, of the county jail, who had just given tes- timony, which Miller characterized as erjury. - A brother andjsister of Miller oined in the attaek on Grundtisch and a desperate struggle ensued. A general fight followed and the ¢ourtroom was turned into a bedlam. YA number of woghen fainted and othegs screamed in br. When they tried to leave the Shey were trampled jon by the ex- nob. | cuit Court in Georgia, has.decided that | | were not nearly so grave as was sup- | | should be distributed among Captain { McCalla and the officers and men of the | | Marblehead. : | for 15 years. | 1899, which was the “boom” period of (Special), —A man | | ing a quantity of ammunition and stores, | men escaped. | and | wounded. 4 | special meeting in { plan of consolidati | Match Company. ; we SUMMARY OF TRE NEWS, 000 ‘Domestic, The 4500 employees of the National | Tube. '. Company at McKeesport were | given an. increase in wages of 10 per | cent. The men in these mills are not | orgahized. ‘It ‘was reported in Cleve- land, Ohio, that the. steel strike is di- | rectly dune to: an effort of the Carnegie | Company to run its plant half union and | half non-union for this year, and then to | make all the mills non-union. Evidence was introduced in Parkers- burg; W.'Va.; in the Ellis Glenn: case to | the ‘effect’ that the: prisoner ‘passed as] H. T. Terry, the mysterious third party in the.case,.and that, while in Paducah, | Ky:, she drank whisky and gambled. | , Philadelphia politicians are protesting against the contraétor for the new filter’ | beds employing colored labor from the vicinity of “Baltimore ‘and Alexandria, | Vil, when there are plenty of men in | Philadelphia wha want jobs. Workmen in the Reading Railroad shops continue on strike, their number | increasing, notwithstanding the state- | ment of the company’s officials they will be paid as well as the shopmen on other roads. A’ resolution to provide an anti-lynch- ing law was introduced in the Virginia | Constitutional Convention, as was also a proposition to allow the prosecution to appeal in criminal cases. Mabel Strong, who ran away from | Cleveland to New York with Charles | Wildrick, who was sent to the peniten- tiary for fraud, died in St. Luke's Hos- pital in New York. Joseph H. Shepherd, the embezzling | clerk in the auditor's office in Rich- | mond, Va., got another year on two ad- ditional charges of larceny, to which he | pleaded guilty. | It is officially denied that Governor | Tyler, of Virginia, has pardoned Wm. Begnal, who is in the penitentiary for killing John McAllister in Newport | News. Mrs. Ada R. Bowen, of Winchester, | Va.,, and William Walter Griffith, of | Washington, eloped to Rockville, Md. | where they were married. Charles Nordhoff, the well-known | newspaper correspondent and writer, | died in San Francisco. The picker boys at the Colbert Col- liery, in Shomakin, Pa., went on a strike. Wm. H. Forrest was drowned in the | Elizabeth river at Atlantic City, Va. Victoria Furnace, at Goshen, W. Va,, | has gone into blast. Judge Speer, of the United States Cir- | that | $40,000 of the $50,000 realized from the | sale of the Spanish steamer Adula | Pierre Lorillard by his will left Ran- cocas stock farm, valued at $1z0.000. to Mrs. Lillian Allien, who was his friend | To his wife, from whom | he was estranged, he left an annuity of | $50,000. Dan R. Hanna, the Senator’s son, se- | cured a writ of habeas corpus against | his wife in New York for his children, | but she locked herself in her cabin on | the Campania and got away without be- | ing served. The strike of the 2700 employees of | the Reading Iron Company is ended, the | company agreeing to pay the same | scale of wages as was paid in August, iron prices. A resolutian was introduced Virginia Constitutional Convention pro- | testing against the grandfather clause in | restricting suffrage as tending to create | a voting aristocracy. Peter Gruber, of Rochester, N. Y., | was bitten and nearly killed by his pet | rattlesnake. | The attorneys for Mrs. Botkin are preparing to take her case to the Su-| in the | | preme Court. Emigration from Germany during the | first six months of this year aggregated | 112,068. | Potomac, near Shepherdstown, W. Va. { The annual meeting of the Universal | | Peace Union began in Buffalo. Foreign. Ambassador White has informed a! Berlin editor that he will return to the United States in September, but whether he will return to Germany as ambassa+ dor depends upon various consideras | tions. § | At a meeting of the trustees of th Carnegie Educational Fund in Edin- | burgh a letter was read announcing ghat lie had signed the deed placing $10,000,- oco at the disposal of the trustees. It was announced in the House of Commons that landing sites for the new Pacific cable had bgen se- lected at Queensland, New Zealand, Norfolk Island and Vancouver; The British captured Conimandant | Scheeper’s laager at Camdeboo, secur- British | but Scheeper and the majority of his Reports from Carthagena, Colombia, | tell of a mutiny among the soldiers, in | which the mutineers attacked the guard seven were killed and several The Bryant and May shareholders in ondon adopted the with the Diamond The military gommanders at Tientsin have directed the provisional govern- ment to destrdy the Taku forts. M. Sanfos-Dumont, the Brazilian aeronaut, failed to win the prize offered by Hegry Deutsch for a manageable balloon. He navigated the airship to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, making ex- tragrdionary speed, but, on the return trip the motor did not, work properly afd the balloon descended int, a tree. /' Disagreements hetween Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener and increasing pui- lic dissatisfaction in England over the conduct of the war in South Africa, will, it is reported, lead 0 Kitchener being succeeded in the command of the DB, ic- ish forces in South Africa by Gen. Sir Randon Blood. Financial. The output of gold from the Rand dis- trict in South Africa was 19,779 ounces as compared with 7478 ounces in May. England imported" goods from the Urited States tc the value of $740,000,- 0co last year and is by far our best cus- tomer. } The Suer Canal in May, 1901, yielded a transit revenue of $1.824.000, as com- pared with $1,582,000 jin May, 1900. In last May 243 ships ppssed through the «anal. For the first nonths of this vear the transit revenjiihagregated $7,- 340,400 from a total o Ravessels, {try had been posted at the western ex- | the new American legation is building. | That portion of Legation street was be- | ing newly macadamized and rolled. | Robertson had posted a sentry on the | newly made road, pedestrians only being | ed across the forbidden route. | try scrambled to his feet and sent a shot | | after the officer, but missed, and the bul- | | tives in Pekin. | Drought and Heat Destroying Millions of Wm. J. Scott died at his home on the | | on the frog ond exploded the dynamite. | A chisel, driven by the explosion, pierced | ed it. | been connected by allegation with the THE BULLET HIT THE WRONG MAN. And Germany Demands an Indemnity From Uncle Sam, AMERICAN KNOCKED OUT BY GERMAN | An Episode in Pekin That Has Given Rise to a Claim by the German Government Against | the United States.-German Officer, Disre- | garded a Challenge and Knocked Down | the Sentry. Washington (Special).—The last mail from the East brought a detailed news- paper account of the shooting affray at Pekin which has resulted in a German | claim against the United States. The account, which appears in a Japanese ewspaper, states that an American sen- tremity of Legation street, close to where A barricade had been put up and Major spot to warn persons not to ride over the allowed to traverse it. A German officer | came riding along, knocked down both | the sentry and the barricade, and gallop- | The sen- | let lodged in the leg of a German sen- | try standing on duty half way down the street. The newspaper says that the | | American was sentenced to one month's | imprisonment and fined a month's pay, | “presumably for hitting the wrong man.” | It is now apparent frem mail reports | which have just reached the State De- | partment from China that it was solely | through the moderation and humanity | | exercised by the United States repre- | sentatives at Pekin by the President's | direction in the early negotiationsgfor a settlement of the Boxer trouble t a number of innocent lives were novWgcri- ficed. These reports show that a more | sober and painstaking inquiry has ge- | veloped the fact that some of the Chi- | | nese officials supposed to have been con- | | nected with the Boxer outrages, whose | | ments capital punishment was demanded by the | | foreign ministers, have been proved to | | be entirely innocent of the charges made | against them. In many other cases proof | has been adduced that the offenses with | | which the Chinese officials were charged | posed at first by the foreign representa- | CORN CROP SITUATION. { Bushels. Chicago (Special).—Advices to Doard | of Trade and grain commission houses | are that the drought in the Southwest is | unbroken. it is sail the damage outside of Kansas and Missouri is comparatively | slight, but that unless there is relief with- in io days the corn-crop situuiton will aprroach a calamity. A message from Topeka, Kan., declar- cd the prospects are for a crop of only 50,000,000 bushels of corn, although last | vear's crop was 163,000,000 and that of | | the previous year 237,000,000 bushels. | | The loss on hay and potatoes is also | | great—second only to the loss on corn. | It ic estimated that the farmers of Kan- | | sas and Missouri already have sustained | It was but | losses reaching $50,000,000. reports, of | natural that hundreds of | which the above are fair samples, should | have been reflected in the course of | prices on the Board of Trade. A Pet Frog Explodes. Albany, Mo. (Special).—An accident, | in which three children, a pet frog and | some dynamite figured, resulted in one | deatl: and the serious injury of two per- | song. The three children of George Mc- Curry, a contractor, found some dyna- mite in the cellar of their home, and thinking it was putty, fed it to their pet | frog. A large toolchest afterward fell the temple of the younger child and kill- Another child and Mrs. McCurry, who was in the kitchen above, were seriously hurt. Pat Crowe in Africa. St. Joseph, Mo. (Special).—State Senator A. W. Brewster received a draft for $250, sent to him by “Pat” Crowe | from Johannesburg, South Africa, to pay an attoreny fee Crowe had been owing a number of years. Crowe's name has kidnapping in Omaha of a young son of Edward Cudahy, the packer, who paid a ransom of $25,000 in gold to recover his boy. Several years ago Crowe was | under arrest in St. Joseph on the charge | of train robbery. The i was finally dismissed, as the case was not a strong one. Loose Engine and Express Collide. Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special).—Two persons were killed outright, one fatally injured, several others were less serious- ly injured in a head-on collision on the Ohio River Railroad at Padens at 6.30 p. m. The Ohio Valley express, on the way from Cincinnati to Pittsburg, was run into at full speed by a loose engine southbound, and both engines were al- most demolished. The baggage car of the Ohio Valley express was smashed up considerably, but none of the coaches were damaged, and none of the train left the track except the engines. Mail Carrier's Record. Tamaqua, (Special).—Jacob Hartman, aged 62 years, celebrated the 31st anni- versary of his service as mail carrier for the Reading Company between the rail- way station and the postoffice. During his service he has been off duty but eleven days, four days of the time being due to sickness. Mr. Hartman makes 17 trips daily, and in the 31 y:ars has traveled 46,000 miles in the discharge of his duty. Explosion on an Excurs) a Boat Sunbury, Pa. (Special).~ An excur- sion boat anchored in the Stsquehanna River at the foot of Market s‘reet, this city, blew up with terrific fore: killing two boys and injuring a dozen oi "et per- sons, two fatally. One man is) ~issing and may have been killed also. | of the boys k''led and injured were fi. ing! on a nea’ § wharf when the explé