— mtr ne HE BULLETIN. FLORIN, PA. | ——— E. SCHROLL, - Editor and Publisher, + + SUBSCRIPTION: iftv Cents Per Annum, strictly in : advance. hix Months, - : single Copies,” " - . 4 ¥ Sample Copies Free. 25 Cents. 2 Cents. "Special Rates to Yearly Advertisers. Address all communications to—- Entered at the DPostoffice at Florin.as. second-class mail matter. covery of snow on the moon is posi- tively asserted to be all moonshine. | The deaf-mutes who are doing their utmost to learn to speak evidently take no stock. in the saying that si- lence is golden. * anothe: commonwealth Australia has accepted American idea. The has taken the first step toward adopt- g a decimal currency. The Indians who sold Manhattan Is- land for the price of a beef stew were the first in these parts to put into practice the theory that to die rich is to die disgraced. In the new mint in Philadelphia the United States will have the finest, costliest and most complete money- making establishment of its kind the world. The granite structure was commenced two years ago, ‘and will cost about $2,000,000, including the mechanical equipment, costing $200,- 000. There will be 24 coining presses \in the new mint. in Under the title, “The Corrupting Power of Public Patronage,” Congress- man Oscar W. at- tention in the Forum to the dangerous Underwood calls influence exerted by the spoils system on the legislation of the country. He advocates the prohibition of represen. tatives from having any voice in ap- offices, pointments to governmental either directly or inlirectly. term; its for differ- bodies. “Greater der the Metro- London is a variable boundaries nt administrative CL being different bndon,” th ) hil- Jin- died whe and be perpcinated. ‘ge part of his fortune in the €3 shment of hospitals and in the erection of drinking fountains in the cities of his native country. The without respect to sick and women, sec, or race, anl dumb brutes were his special beneficiaries. = The New York Times gives a com- pilation showing that United States have produced 6500 authors of definite books in the turies. Naturally in the earlier part of this period our authors were most- ly foreign-born, and foreign countries have supplied 700 out of the total of 6500. York state has furnished the largest of writers—1600 —though in proportion to population Massachusetts the palm, 1250 having been born within her borders. All New England has suppliel or more than one-third of the while the Midile States have plied 2000. Pennsylvania is the third state in literary production, her crop Virginia with the last three cen- New number holds 2350, total, sup- of authors having been 600. lcads the Southern States, and Ohio the Western, with 175. Anecdotes without end are told of and intelligence of the s, but very few careful experi- have been made to determine what thy can really do. In this tion, Dr. E. L. Thorndike. of hmbia University, to have the best work. He has published riments showing that dogs, cats chicks not only do not reason, only learn as it were by chance. be really taught even In an article in 235, lower seems TheX cannot the smallest trick. the Popular Science Monthly, Prof. Thorndike describes recent experi- ments with monkeys. He thinks that they may be included with man in a special mential genius, owing espe- cially to their enjoyment of physical and mental activity. They cannot, however, learn by seeing other ani- mals do the same thing or by being he movements. In spite notion to the con- mitate. 1) [) PREVIOUS HEAT RECORDS SMASHED. No Prospect of Relief From These Ex- hausting Conditions in West, DRY THUNDERSTORMS IN° PLACES. One Hundred Degrees Was Generally Reached Throughout the Middle West, and in Des Moines, Cincinnati and Louisville the Mercury Mounted Several Degrees Above the Century Mark. Washington (Special).—One-hundred- degree temperatures were common throughout the great corn belt Monday, according to the reports to the Weather Bureau here. In various places in: Illi- nois, Iowa and other States all previous heat records were smashed. There ap- pears to be no prospect of decided relief from these exhausting conditions for the next two days at least, except such as may come from the always present pos- sibilty of scattered thunderstorms, which are predicted for some portions of he superheated area. Thunderstorms, unaccompanied by some rain, prevailed in several sections of the West, hundreds of miles apart. They temporarily ccoled the atmosphere crops. Absolutely no rain fell in the corn belt, according to the official reports received here. In Western Towa it was a trifle cooler, while in the central portion of the State it was warmer. There is a little belt of high pressure over the Great Lakes and another over the South Atlantic Coast, but it offers no prospect of relief in the West so long as the continued low pres- sure remains in the Northwest. The warm weather again was general throughout the entire country except on the Pacific Coast. In the East the tem- perature, while high, did not approach anywhere the extremes prevailing in the West, and a recurrence of the hot wave of two weeks ago is believed to be un- likely in the Atlantic Coast region. Thunder showers have continued from the South Atlantic Coast westward into officially reported was 108 degrees; Springfield, T11., 108 degrees; in Cincin- nati, 106 degrees, and in Louisville, 106 degrees, in each case breaking all past records. In Indianapolis it also was 106 degrees, 5 degrees higher than ever be- fore reported. . In St. Louis it was 106 degrees; Omaha, 104 degrees; Bismarck, N. 104, and Concordia, Kan., 102 degrees. AGUINALDO IN BAD MOOD. Irritated Because He Must Add the Word “Prisoner” to His Signature. Manila (By g Cable).-—Aguinaldo surveillance by the American authori- ties. Whenever he signs his name he adds the word “prisoner.” fused the request of his friends to write e in Southern Luzow, advising him surrender. He consented to sign a opy of his oath of allegiance. with the understanding that it be forwarded to Malvar, with the purpose of influencing his surrender, but under his signature to this oath he wrote ‘Prisoner in Malaca- nan Prison.” General Davis has been ordered to the command of the American troops on Archipelago. General Kobbe, formerly commander of this district, will return to the United States. General Chaffee has issued a circular in which he explicitly defines the status and duties of army officers, with respect to their relations with the provincial and other civil governments. It is expect- ed this circular will settle the minor misunderstandings between the two de- of authority. organized the American troops will be centered in fewer garrisons and their number will be decreased. AMBUSH REVENUE MEN. shiners in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn. (Special).—Seven revenue officers were ambushed suppos- edly by moonshiners, about six miles from Monterey, in Putnam county. One lector, was creeping along a steep hill- They had barely located the speaker, 40 feet below them, when a deadly volley Deputy Marshal Thomas Price instantly killed and Posseman C. Mackey was badly wounded. The officers return- ed the fire, but the moonshiners made the with them. One moonshiner was heard he had been mortally wounded. Collector Bell has gathered another posse and started out' to recover the body of Price. $2,000 Picture for $1.60. Cleveland, Ohio (Special).—At an auction sale of unclaimed storage goods here R. M. Murray bid $1.60 on an old bundle. On unwrapping the bundle he erty,” by E. S. Willard, of Cleveland, valued at $2000. to Charles Latimer, a wealthy civil en- and was never called for. Max Mu ler’s Library Sold. the late Prof. Max Muller, composed of 13,000 volumes, has been purchased by University of Tokio. Bandits Cause Trouble in Chins. Pekin says: “Disaffection. caused by bandits, is prevalent in 30 districts in the central part pf the province of Chili. The local efficials are either d's- inclined or unable with the foree at their command to suppress the troubles. to attend to provincial matters. troops sent against the bandits showed sympathy for phe latter, many oi the bandits having” formerly been soldiers. Thev are bett@ armed than the troops.” but brought no relief to the famishing | Arizona, and a continuation of them is | predicted for the South and Southwest. | In Des Moines, Iowa, the temperature | in | He has re- | g the insurgent General Malvar, still at | the Island of Mindanao and in the Jolo | partments and prevent possible conflicts | As fast as the insular constabulary is | One Killed and One Badly Wounded by Moon- | man was killed and one badly wounded. | A posse of six, led by a deputy col-| side, above an illicit still, when they re- | ceived orders to throw up their hands. | from eight guns was poured upon them. | was place so hot that Collector Bell and the | survivors retired and carried Mackey | moaning and calling to his friends that | found a painting, “The Birth of Lib-| It originally belonged | gineer, and on his death thirteen years | ago was placed by a relative in storage | Oxford (By Cable).-—The library of! Baron Iwasaki for presentalion to the! London (By Cable).—A dispatch from | Li Hungchang. aj; viceroy, is too busy | The | - SUMMARY OF THE NEV Domestic. The machinists who had seen on strike’ at Wilkesbarre applied for rein- statement in the shops of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and other mills. Many were taken back, but the places of others had been filled. The coroner's jury in Winchester, Va,, Light Company responsible for tie death of Jacob Houck and Lewis Price, who were electrocuted by a live wire. Mayor Hugh O'Hara, of Santa Paula, Cal, was shot down by Charles Waxsmith, one of a party of disorderiy characters whose arrest he had ordered. Herman Treetz, aged 18, and Ida Du- puy, aged 16, wanted to die together, and were taken to a hospital in New Brighton, where the girl died. The Pennsylvania Forestry 'Commis- sion decided to purchase Mont Alto Park, with the view of establishing a college of forestry. Six persons were severely injured and a panic created by the stampede of a number of horses at the gypsy camp near Chicago. Lilly, the chief of police of that town. W. Gray, alias Ellsworth Lewis, was arrested in Denver, Col, on the charge the latter died from his injuries. Rev. A. B. Warwick, of Nashville, will become principal of the Valley Fe- male College in Winchester, Va. Miss Mary Gibson, daughter of Coun- ty Clerk John M. Gibson, died at her home near Berryville, Va. Six prospectors on their way to the Klondike gold fields were frozen to death near Cape Romanoff. { Anna Kowalchik was arrested in Cleveland for killing her child in Johns- town, Pa. She confessed. No success attended the effort York, Pa. Mrs. cide in Chambersbutg, Pa., by hanging. Former Governor Jones, of Alabama, had an exciting discussion with Chair- man Knox, of the Constitutional Con- to be expelled from the hall. to swindle the Knights and Ladies of | Security. | decided that the trust clause in the Fair { will with regard to personal property is { void. { Thirty of the new cadets at West Point were overcome by the heat at the | funeral of General Butterfield. A general strike of the United Gar- | New York has been ment Workers in ordered, involving 50,000 men. Henry Burgess, a steeplechase jockey, | a horse over the jumps. Some incendiary has been setting fire to property in Richmond, Va., belong- | ing to Joseph Heppert. | beat a Norfolk hotel. " Tie Salmon combigge was incoghorat- { ed in Trenton, N. J., with a cf@fal of | $25,000,000. Foreign. A plan for the payment of the Chinese { indemnity to the powers has finally { been adopted. It contemplates the en- tire liquidation of both principal and in- terest by 1940, China to raise $23,000,000 annually. Chinese bandits are causing trouble in | the province of Chili. armed than the Chinese troops. In a recent conflict a hundred soldiers and officers were killed. The House of l.ords sustained an in- | junction forbidding unionists to watch | and beset a railroad company’s property to win over non-unionists. The American ladies of the hospital ship Maine presented King Edward with the American hospital ship. | Mr. Kruger, though depressed over | the death of his wife, is reported to have | plunged into his work with more than usual energy. Salo Rawicz, a banker, committed suicide in Berlin because of his losses in connection with the Leipziger Bank { failure. Cardinal Vaughan gave a reception in honor of Cardinal Gibbons in the chap- ter hall of the new cathedral in London. The Republican party gained 47 seats in the elections for the French Councils General. Daniel Frohman secured the Hunga- | rian violinist Kubelik for an American tour. Terrific electrical and hail have done great damage in Germany. The Paris Figaro publishes some new Franco- Prince second fair, showing how a by German war was averted Munster de Derneburg: In consequence of the Boer raids into Natal the British military authorities have ordered all white men to evacuate | farms on the Tugela and Sunday rivers. Germans are agitated over the high duties and the minimum and maximum charges on cereals. The Vorwaerts i characterizes the shedules as usurious. | It is brought to light that there are ! many young actresses of talent who can- not make a living, as they lack necessary influence. The governor of the Island of Quel- | part says that the Christian converts were responsible for the uprising on | that island. : The late Prof. Max Mulier’s library was bought by Baron Iwasaki for pre- sentation to the University of Tokio Intense heat has bern accompanied by | violent storms throughout Germany. The Siberian crops are reported to he | nearly a total failure. It has now developed that the fire in the Yildiz palace was the outgrowth of an intrigue in the Sultan's harem, the women wishing to be rid of the lady treasurer, who was accused of the crime. financial. The Allen Steel Company has been in- | corporated in New Jersey with a capital | of $1,000,000 to manuiacture steel. i It is said President Stickney. of the | Chicago Great Western. will exercise an | option he holds for the purchase of the | Winona and Western Railway within three months. A second cali has been made upon the Burlington underwriting syndicate, thi | time for 12 1-2 p€r cent. gal the origi | subscription. This mals -2 call [ to date. the first call of ent. line’ been ‘made Mav | i | holds the Winchester Gas ani Electric | William Brooks, a negro, was lynched | at Elkins, W. Va., for shooting Robert | | of securing jewelry in Topeka by fraud. | Robert E. Craddock struck Luther A. | Auster with a rock in Roanoke, Va., and | to | amicably settle the carpenters’ strike in | Leah Finafrock committed sui- | vention, in which the Governor refused | Dr. Michael N. Regent received an | { indeterminate sentence in Chicago for | | substituting a corpse for an insured man | Judge Troutt, of San Francisco, has | is | was killed in New York while schooling | considerably irritated at his continued | Charles E. Parsons was acquitted in | Richmond of the charge of trying to | They are better | a medal commemorative of the work of | storms | facts connected with the Schaebele af-| the | } | military prisoners in Ceylon, Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—The juries of award for the Pan-American Exposi- tion selected by Henry Smith Pritchett held their first meeting in the Service as class juries for each department and immediately take up the work reviewing | and judging the exhibits. All returns from the class juries will | be subject to revision by a superior jury. Building. Later they will be organized Col — THE Pi AMERICAN AWAR the University of Wisconsin. Agricultural Implements—Col. J! Brigham, United States assistant s tary of agriculture. Food and Their Accessories—Lie ol. A. L.. Smith, chief of the commi sary, U..S. A, Fcrestry—Prof. B. E. Fernow, Cornd University. Fisheries—United States Fish Con missioner Charles H. Babcock, of Rocl Following is a list of the chairman of | ester. cach jury: Agriculture—Prof. S. M. Babcock of’ bine, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. A NEW MOVE FOR SETTLEMENT. Intervention in the Big Steel Strike. Probable | PULLING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. | ' . | Major Farquhar, of the Industrial Commission, Request te Confer With the Members of the | Way of Bringing About an Agreement. New York (Special).—It is believed here that a meeting may be held in a few days for the purpose of discussing the possibility of bringing about media- tion in the great steel strike. Major John M. Farquhar, of the Industrial Commission, received a telegram asking him to come on to New York at once. Major Farquhar is a former member of Congress, and is the oldest living ex- president of an international trades- union, having been president of the In- | ternational Typographical Union some 40 vears ago. He will meet in New York the members of the Ohio State Board of Arbitration and othet men | who are anxious to arrange some meth- od by which the present strike can be brought to an honorable end. “The Industrial Commission, a body, can hardly take cognizance of this strikly’ said Mr. Farquhar. The com- | mission expires by limitation in Decem- ber and we need all the intervene fina for the preparation of our report. It 1s not possible for us to intervene for the purpose of bringing the strike to an end. Such intervention would be going bevond our powers. The commission was created for the purpose of investi- gating the industrial situation and recommending legislation for is better- ment. While we are required to report on mediation and arbitration, we are not empowered as a body to mediate or | arbitrate. “Mediation, in my own opinion, is the only thing that can be attempted in this strike. Arbitration, as President Shaf- | fer says, is out of the question. It is impossible for thisreason: Schwab is try- ing to ‘Carnegize’ all the plants con- trolled by the United States Steel Cor- | poration. He is going to try to repeat { his success of 1892, when he converted the Carnegie plants into a non-union or- ganization. His testimony before the Industrial Commission indicated his purpose very clearly. as But he will not succeed. | has the power to give the Steel Cor- { poration a harder blow than has been delivered. He has the Amalgamated Association at his back to a man. 1 American Federation is also supporting him. Shaffer's purpose is to unionize all the | plants by having the Steel Corporation or the constituent companies sign the | Amalgamated scale for all the shops. “Here are these men working on op- | posing lines. That is why arbitration | 1s impossible. { and that is why mediation is the only course leit open. Mediators may induce each to modify his purposes somewhat. Shaffer can never hope to force the cor- poration to sign the scale for all the mills. But I do think he will succe2d in persuading Schwab that it will be het- ter for the corporation to quit trying to make the mills non-union. I think he will also persuade him to agree to unionize mills in which an overwheln- the association.” To Study American Methods. Washington (Special).—Some of the | principal foreign establishments in Washington have received instructions to forward to their home governments full details of the manner in which the United States extends its foreign com- merce by means of foresgn commercial travelers, etc. The large increase of American ex- ports has drawn the attention of foreign governments to the methods employed on this side of the water to develop trade abroad. These methods have been the subject of a number of government pub- lications, which are now being collect- ed for transmission to foreign capitals. Will Not Release the Americans. Washington (Special.)—In Goes to New York in Compliance With a | | It has been discovered t I have also heard | the same story from President Shafler. | Shaffer | “Shaffer cannot succeed in full either, | ing majority of the men are members of | agencies, response | to the representations to the State De-: partment, the British Government has declined to release any of the: Americans | who were captured while serving in the Boer army. The only exceptions will be | called in the case of prisoners whose health is | | zuch as to make their confinement dang- | erous. and the State Department had special reference t to their case in addressing the British Government in this matter. Some Americans are among the | | | | | | ( of the orders which he, as Secretary | { | Mines and Metallurgy—John Birkii SECRETARY LONG CONDEMNS BOOK. Maclay’s History Cannot Be Used in Its Pres: ent Form--Time for Action Says Schley. Washington (Special).—The Secre tary of the Navy has decided that the third volume of Maclay’s history of the Spanish-American War shall not be used as a text book at the Naval Academy un- [less the obnoxious language it containg | in characterizing the action of Rear-Ad { miral Schley is eliminated. In this vo ume the author describes the battle Schley, callin { Santiago and criticises TH { him, in 30 many words, a coward. Ohio Beard of Arbitration, to Try to Find a Secretary says that it would be man festly improper to have a history cor taining such intemperate language use as a text book for the cadets. He has informed both Commander Wainwright, who is in command of the Naval Academy, and Mr. Maclay, the author of the history, of the decision. In this connection the Secretary sags that the proofs of the entire volume v not submitted to him by the histo He received only the proofs of the t chapter, that relating to the moblizal of the fleets, which contained a summ the Navy, had issued in making naval preparations for the war. T chapter was satisfactory and he returi it to Mr. Maclay with an indication his approval. He says he never saw account of the battle at Santiago and critieisms of Rear-Admiral Schley u after the hook was published. Because of the interest aroused, quiries have been made as to the ide of the author, Edward Stanton Mg Atti editorial writd he at present Navy Department in 27 the Brooklyn Navy perfo the duties of a clerk, bic classified : laborer. His clerical duties end at 4 o'clo each day, after which he has ample tin to write history. is “No Time for Talking.” New York (Special).—“This no time for talking; it is a time for action.” This was Rear-Admiral Winfield Scott Schley’s answer to a request for a state- ment of his intentions in regard to the attack made upon him in the third vol- ume of Edgar Stanton Maclay's ‘History of the Navy.” It is believed that Ad is miral Schley will take measures to call Mr. Maclay legally to account for thef | accusations of cowardice and falsehood imputed to him in the volume which has just been issued from the press. Bevond the declaration that the timg for action had arrived Admiral Schic would say nothing of his plans as to the { shafts which have been aimed at him. That it is the Admiral’s intention to sum- mon Mr. Maclay and possibly also his his version of the course pursued by Ad- miral Schley during the operations whic culminated in the battle of Santiagyg there is believed to be no doubt. Admiral Schley was reluctant to say = word in regard to the controversy over | the naval operations which ended in the destruction of Admiral Cervera’s squad- ron. He has refrained, hitherto, from | taking any part in the bitter contest | which has raged both in and out of Con- gress ever since the battle of Santiago. MORRO CASTLE AS A NAVAL STATION] Protests and Approval by Cuban Newspapers of the Reported Americag Plan. mn Havana (Special).—T}. report that The ! publishers to answer in the courts for J the United States intends to hold Morro ! Castle and fortify it does not cause much | adverse comment here. the Cabanas fortress would be taken tor a naval station. The Discussion protests aga nst ili's action, saying it is “an imposition of a strong power upon a weak one, yet Cuba | | can do nothing but accept.” La Lucha otrongly approves the step. It says: “Cuba could not do anything with the two historic fortresses of Havana and S dable Republic of the United States will command the respect of strangers, and | other natfons would see behind the ilag | not the little State of Cuba but one of the greatest powers of the globe. The two poin¢s of most strategic importance on the Cuban coast the United States shou'd take and strongly fortify.” _ Usef of “Masu Washingon (Speci German navy and § facturers are using oily product of G “mast, producing purp vessels of the G the use of this “masut’’ over cd fourth greater I greatqr ease 1 smoke} and the powely steary The public gen- | erally expected that Morro Castle and | SC in | hag | tar ple | ten 1 | wir felt an sufi dia antiago. while the flag of the formi- | Ce win Cht | W. [tim4 | €
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