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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.
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KILLED BY A MANIAC. |
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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.
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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<ion
occurred. “The engineer was absefit at
the ‘time, leaving the boat in charge of
he pilot. When he left there was a pres-
i¢ of 60 pounds in the boiler, and he
1
{a French warship proceedex to Quel-
{infantry with them to Quelpart.
| about the elbows and knees, but he was
| otherwise unhurt.
he opened the fire dbor.
yo.
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THREE HUNDRED LS KILLED,
Mission on Korean Island Attacked By Na
tives--Conflict Covered Ten Days.
Berlin (By Cable).—The Cologne
Gazette publishes a dispatch from Seoul,
Korea, dated July 6, saying that bloody
conflicts, extending over a period of 10
days, have occurred on the Island of
Quelpart between the Roman Catholic
missionaries and their pupils and the
populace of the island. Fifteen of the
natives and about three hundred of the
pupils are reported to have been killed
during the encounters.
The governor of Quelpart, according
to the dispatch, says the trouble was
the fault of the pupils, and arose from
their support of the tax collectors in
levying illegal taxes upon the natives.
Upon hearing that two French mis-
sionaries had been killed in the island
part. Upon finding the misionaries in |
question alive the warship returned.
The Korean government has commis-
sioned Huan Kian and an American |
court official to investigate the matter, |
and is sending a company of Korean |
uelpart is in the Yellow Sea, 6o
miles south of Korea, to which country |
it is subordinate. It is a penal settle-
ment.
GRAHAM AGAIN GOES DOWN THE RAPIDS.
Fifth Successful Voyage in His Barrel Through
the Raging Niagara Current.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. (Special).—
About 3000 persons saw Charlie D. Gra-
ham make his fifth successful voyage
through the whirlpool rapids in a bar-
rel Sunday afternoon. The barrel is of
locust wood, oval shaped, except that it
has a flat head; it is about 5 feet long,
19 inches in diameter at the foot, and 26
inches at the head. With its 100 pounds
of ballast it weighs 165 pounds.
The start was made from the old Maid
of the Mist landing below the falls. The |
barrel was caught in an eddy and circled
about a little above the cantilever
bridge for a quarter of an hour. The |
stronger current in the middle of the
stream finally jerked it out of the eddy |
into the foaming waters of the rapids.
Passing under the second bridge the
barrel had a narrow escape from being |
dashed to pieces against the stone abut- |
of the bridge. The passage]
through the rapids was swift. |
It took the barrel five minutes to reach
the eddy from the starting point and 20
minutes to get out of it, but it only took
three and one-half minutes to pass |
through the rapids and the whirlpool, a |
distance of about a mile. At no time |
during the passage through the rapids |
was the barrel lost sight of. It was
taken from the water after it had circled |
| about in the whirlpool for a few min-
utes. Graham was slightly bruised
THIEVES CLEAN OUT DELEGATES.
Epworth Leaguers Stranded in Colorado--
Pickpockets Make a Good Haul.
Glenwood Springs, Col. (Special).—
The thoroughly organized gang of pick- |
pockets operating at Colorado Springs is |
responsible for a party of about twenty |
Epworth Leaguers becoming stranded
here. Men and women alike have been
robbed, not-oms of every cent they had |
with them, but of railroad tickets as well,
and unless the railroads will issue tickets |
back home on their proof of having pur-
chased and paid for rides to San Fran- |
cisco and back, they will be compelled
to ask aid from the county authorities.
In at least ten cases thieves even se-
cured their victims’ trunks on stolen bag-
gage checks. |
Among those robbed are Dr. J. H.
Wilson, wife and daughter, and Mrs. H.
R. Horrington, of Dover, Del. Dr. Wil- |
son's wallet, containing tickets for the
party, drafts on San Francisco banks
and baggage checks, being stolen in the
Major S. K. Hooper, general passen-
gen agent of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad, authorized the Glenwood
Springs agent to furnish passes to Ogden |
to stranded passengers who desired to |
continue their journey west.
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Masked Man Shot and Killed.
Pottsville, Pa. (Special).—Four mask- |
ed men entered the hotel of Peter Hoke |
at Yorkville, near here, and encountered |
the proprietor and two guests, Michael
Ritzel and George A. Wachter. During |
the fight that followed one of the rob- |
| bers was shot and killed, and Mr. Hoke |
was wounded in the leg. The three re-
maining burglars made their escape. The
dead man has not been identified.
Exonerates Admiral Mello.
|
Rio Janeiro (By Cable).—The Bra- |
zilian Chamber of Deputies received |
the report of a special committee ap-
pointed to consider the case of Rear- |
Admiral Mello, who was arrested last |
April on a charge of monarchial plot- |
ting and who then appealed to the
Chamber. The report declares that the
accusations against the officer are with- |
out foundation. It is considered cer- |
tain that the Chamber will unanimously |
confirm the committee's conclusion.
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New Device for Torpedo Beats.
Washington (Special.)—Orders went
forward from the Naval Bureau of Ord- |
nance directing that all the torpedo boats
in the Navy, built or building, shall be |
equipped with a new electrical device for |
sending the torpedoes on their journey
through the water. By the new equip- |
ment an officer in the pilot-house can |
send the tubes overboard by the touch of
a ‘button. |
Two Men Blown to Pieces.
Denver, Col. (Special).—A dynamite |
magazine near the Grant smelter ex-
ploded. Two Italians were killed and
several hurt. Fragments of the victims
were strewn over the prairie for hun-
dreds of yards. Windows in the Union |
Stock Yards Bank, a quarter of a mile |
away, were shattered. The damage is |
estimated at $5000.
His Life Was a Failure.
Crawfordsville, Ind. (Special). —Ex-
Judge James H. Sellars, former member
of the legislature, and once candidate far
the Democratic nomination for governor,
killed himself in his law office by taking
morphine. He left a letter saying his life
was a failure, and that his debts were
large.
ete
Usited States Consul Dead.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). —Jos Raw-
iez, who has been Wnifed States consul
2 Warsaw since’ 1875, died here Satur-
ay.
| 000
| threw idle about as many others e
| ed in the mills and who were depynd
| on the Amalgamated men, or skil
| hands, being at work.
| headquarters
| of the sheet steel.
| Monessen plants.
| the Monessen tinplate mill
| every open window.
crush at the depot in Colorado Springs. |
LABOR WILL FIGHT
THE STEEL T1
Association Have Matters We
and Strike Now in Full Swin|
MANY THOUSAND MEN AFFE
Failure of the Officials of the Compan
the Officers of the Amalgamated Asso
to Reach an Agreement After Many (
ences--Seventy-five Thousand Men D
and Thousands More Indirectly Affec
Pittsburg (Special). — By thrd
idle two of the largest non-union
hoop plants in the country, the Am
mated Association of Iron, Steel
Tin Workers made a powerful asf
on tha Steel Trust and practically
the opening battle in the great in
trial strike for union recognition.
In obedience to the call of Presi
T. J. Shaffer every Amalgamated A
ciation man employed by the Amer
| Sheet Steel, Hoop and Tinplate Cf
| panies refused to go to work. Over
union men struck. Their ag
Secretary John Williams, of the A
| gamated Association, said the nu
| of men idle is over 70,000.
This ges
mate, it is declared, is too high.
numbér of men striking and thrown)id|
is conservatively estimated at 60,00
They are scattered over Western Pen
sylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, I
linois and Michigan.
The places where the men quit are:
Maryland—Cumberland.
Pennsyivania—Pittsburg, Allegheny
Johnstown, Canonsburg, McKeesport
Ellwood, New Castle, New Kensingro
Vandergrift, Apollo, Hyde Park,
roysburg, Saltsburg, Scottsdale, Gree
ville, Charon and Carnegie.
Ohio—Piqua, Irondale, Lisbon, Cam
bridge, Cleveland, Niles, Martin's Ver-
ry, Canal Dover, Canton, New Phila-
| delphia, Wellsville, Bridgeport, Youngs
town, Mingo Junction, Girard and Pom-
eroy.
Indiana—Anderson, Hammond, Ell-
wood, Atlanta, Gas City and Muncie.
Michigan—Muskegon.
Ilinois—]Joliet.
Reports received at Amalgamated
from these places were
that the men had struck and the mills
were closing. Only seven plants of the
three combines were in operation, one
of the tinplate, two of the hoop and four
These represent less
than 10 per cent. of the total capacity o
the three companies.
The only plant of the tinplate combir
working was the one at Monessen, P
where there is no union organizatiq
Delegations from both the tin and h
mills at Monessen were at the headqy
ters of the Amalgamated Associa
and it was learned that arrangeg
were made for a complete tie-up
The organ
the mills of the Ameri
pany in the list of un
nessengag@op mill g
equip Il Q
The Guests Esc4 ightrobes--
of The n Injuries.
Butte, Mont. Becial).—At 2.40 ;
a still alarm was turned in from
Butte Hotel, a four-story structur
Broadway. When the firemen rea
the scene the building was envelop
smoke, which appeared to pour
The firemen
unable to locate the blaze for some
| ty minutes and the greatest confug
prevailed. A number of guests on
lower floors succeeded in groping tf
way down stairs in the smoke and
| caping with nothing but their ni
| clothes. Scores of others were resd
| from the upper windows, where
{ panic-stricken guests shrieked for
cor and threatened to jump to the
walk below. ,
At 4 o'clock the fire was comp
under control and the hotel managq
state that to the best of their
edge all the guests and help have b
accounted for.
The interior of the hotel. which
many years has been the leading hos
ry of Butte, is completely gutted,
Hugh L. Wilson, the lessee of the by
ing, estimates his loss at $90,000.
The hotel guests lost a quantity
personal effects.
Six Bathers Drowned.
Savannah, Ga. (Special).—The J
brew Gamahl Hasad held its annual {
nic at Daufuskie Beach. Betweef
and 4 o'clock in the afternoon a nu
of the picnickers went into the od
for a surf bath. A strong south
wind was blowing and the tide wa
flood. Fifty yards off shore is a sl
and between the shoal and shore i
sluice. The party was bathing on
shoal, but finding the tide getting raf
high the bathers concluded to go nea
| shore. Almost at once they found th
| selves in the sluice over their heads
mountainous waves pounding an
sweeping current running. Out o
who started across 6 were drowned.
Boiled Out the Bullets. °
San Jose, Cal. (Special).—Boi
the remains of Lee Wing, a muy
Chinese. to ascertain if a bullet f
L.ook’s pistol had entered his he
{ been completed after twenty-for
Fourteen large buckshot and
calibre bullet were found when
| was strained. This bullet is s
Look’s revolver.
Washington's Law Books
Morgantown, W. Va. (Sp
set of Blackstone's comment
| volume of which contains Geo
ington’s autograph, is owned
P. Davenport, Jr., of Clay Cot
The books were undoubtedly 1
brary of the first President.
t
All Kinds of Birds’ Eggs.
New York(Special).—Ex-Senato
Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, L. I
chased of Miss Jean Bell, of Phi
phia, a collection of North Amd
bird eggs and nests said to contd
least one specimen of every kind
known. Miss Bell has spent 28 ye
gathering this collection. In sg
range from that of the great,
is valugll at $1800, to that g
est hu ing bird. The
over pO mn actual
eggs. ds will
C ich