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New Regime in Philippine
Following the order makin
Taft civil governor of the Ph
an order has been issued nam
eral Chaffee as military gover
archipelago. The military hag
dered to vacate the Ayuntan
large pubic building which
out of the municipal funds o
government purposes. Thi
cupied by the civil officers
ippines. The palace of Mal
tofore occupied as head
Generals Otis and MacArt
been ordered vacated by
authorities, and will be
Governor Taft. Malacay:
headquarters of the Span
General when in command
ippines, and the natives h
regard it as the headquart
government, Thé FEstad
other large public building
military headquarters, and
pied by General Chaffee
sumes command. All of
have been cabled to Manil
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Domestic.
«. The: Pynchon National Bank, ' of
Springfield, Mass., was found by the ex-
aminers to be insolvent and was closed
by order of the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency. : .
Mrs. Samuel Hart, colored, was killed |
and a number of persons wounded in a
PROPERTY LOSS WILL REACH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
row. abpard a train carrying colored
Baptists to a picnic near St. Louiss Mo.
Widespread Destruction in the Valleys of the Mountain State--Cloudbursts
Cause a Mighty Rush of Waters-«A Train Caught in the Flood
An express trait, from Pittsburg for’
Fitty
Cleveland was wrecked, the fireman and
and the Passengers Rescued by Ropes--Many
Miles of Track Torn Up.
ue-- baggagemaster killed and a number of
AthY (the passengers injured.
Roanoke, Va. (Special).—It is now
/ ~i+| Gregoria Cortez, a Mexican, was ar-
"|'rested in the mines above Laredo Tex.,
reported that not over 6o people are mis-
sing in the coal fields as a result of Sat-
and admitted having killed two sheriffs
urday’s flood.
and a posse man,
The town of Keystone, while much
a
! Ay Kd
Several Towns Swept Away By Floods at Night in
the Pocahontas Valley and Elk Horn
Mining Region in West Virginia.
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“Oldest Soa ‘of Secretary of St
‘With Fatal Accident. [i
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52 oh | He Falls From a Thind-Story, Wind
{ «+ New. Haven House tothe: Sidew
| Feet'Below--Death “Almost Insts
i His Father Breaks Down. on. Rea
Scene of the Tragedy.
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i "New Haven, Conn. (Special.
bert Stone ‘Hay, former Cons
: United States at Pretoria, Sou
- and ‘eldest’ son of Secretary
: John ‘Hay, fell from a windg
third story of the New Haven
' this city shortly before 2.30 of
day morning and was insta
Pris deéath occurred on th
Yale. commencement, and j
vittue of his class office, th
BE Ea I
fintered at the Postoffice. at Florin as
sqoond-class mail matter.
ly
$ The commencement exercises at the
Virginia Military Institute included an ;
artillery drill and dress parade and ‘a
final german at night.
All work on the Pacific Mail steamers
and other lines at the Newport News
shipyards was stopped by the machin-
ists’ ‘strike.
Richard Freeman, of Boston, in a fit
até
Vise in
x Sun:
oy killed:
ve of the
which, ‘by |
young man |
away in the Elkhorn Valley, but, of
course, not all the occupants were
drowned.
The railroad people are rushing mate-
rial and supplies to the Elkhorn.
J. W. Crotty, a fireman on the Norfolk
and Western road, who lives in this city,
“The extraordinary prosperity of
Kansas is revealed this year in the
record of births, in which an unusual
number of triplets appears.
Germany Not to In
Now who will dare say that Chica-
go has no eyes for the beautiful. She
is going to spend $25,000,000 to im-
prove the looks of her lake front.
Question is raised as to the per-
manency of American humor. Why,
when the jokes of mother-in-law and
the boarding-house are enduring, world
without end?
. wotild have Been one of the leaders.
The tragedy has cast a gloom over thé
whole city, and will undoubtedly be
felt throughout the day,
: heretofore been so brilliant and full of
; happiness for Yale and her sons. i
The full details of the accident ma
which - hag
never be known. :
Hon John Hay, Secretary of State,
arrived here from Washington at 5.45
p. m. Mr. Hay was unaccompanied an
gave
a carriage and was
to the residence of Seth Mosely.
rief. He entered
riven ‘immediately
Worn
signs of great
of insanity, shot his sister and then
killed himself.
Rev. Clarence Young, of Newark, N.
J.. was sent to State prison for five years
{for bigamy.
| The Baptist ministers in Norfolk
passed resolutions denouncing the pic-
ture “Nana.”
Richmond, was sold to the Virginia
| Club.
| John Harbolo, 20 years of age, was
drowned in Codorus Creek, at York,
Pa. i
The registration of Chinese in Hawaii
The historic Van. Leer property, in |
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damaged, is not wiped out, as was re-
ported. No estimate of property loss
has been made either by coal operators or
by the railroad officials. The loss, how-
ever, is far up in the thousands. No
definite news has been received from the
coal fields, as all wires are still down
and there is no means of communication.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company's loss will reach $500,000. Men
and materials are being hurried to the
coal fields from all over the line of the
received a message from Bluefield that
his father, mother, one sister, two bro-
thers and sister-in-law, with her two
children, were lost in the flood Saturday
at Keystone. Mr. Crotty’'s people lived
in the center of the town.
Mr. E. H. Stewart, the well-known
furniture dealer in this city, was in the
midst of all the storm and traveled on
foot nearly the whole of the route devas-
tated. Mr. Stewart had been to James-
town, N. Y., on business and was return-
ing via Columbus. When his train reach-
ed Vivian, W. Va., about 9 o'clock Sat-
te
Germany has announce]
The att
r
In the
tion of the Monroe Doc
| American diplomats in
ing to their colleagues i
itude of Germar
to an isthmian canal has
{lation among Central anc
can states. According t
can envoys here who dis
their
deemed it advisable to
ment in regard to the f
man Government propo
representativ
conversations
urday morning, water already covered a
large portion of the yard, and the train-
men knew that no further progress could
Norfolk and Western.
A telegram dated Ennis, W. Va., from
General Manager Johnson, of the Nor-
out with the long trip and once within
the walls of the house that sheltered the
remains of his son, the Secretary col-
shows that there are 27,000 there.
The strikes in the shops of the Read- between Count von Bu
The recent Spanish election was at.
man Minister for Forei
A let-
tended by riots and murders. Con:
gidering how little an election in
Spain really amounts to, it seems un-
reasonable to have so much difficulty
over it.
The regularity with which the bobo- .
links return annually to their New
England summer resorts seems to ex:
cel even that of the featherless bipeds.
An elderly citizen of Kensington,
N: H., who has kept a diary since his
boyhood, says that the hobolinks
“came around” this year on the 13th
of May, and that they have never ap-
peared later than that date in the last
50 years, nor earlier than the 7th of
May.
Austria is planning a system
canals for internal transport as com:
of
lapsed.
His prostration was so com-
plete that Dr, Gilbert was summoned.
FOURTEEN DEAD AFTER EXPLOSION.
Tenement--House Wrecked.
Paterson, N. J. (Special).—Fourteen
people are believed to have been killed |
and a number injured as the result of
a fire
following an explosion among a
quantity of fireworks in the store of
Abraham
M. Rittenburg.
was on the ground floor of a tenement
building.
The cause of the explosion
is not known and the property loss will
not exceed $33,000.
The explosion occurred shortly after |
noon
building were out at dinner.
and many of the occupants of the
The build-
ing mn which the fire took place was a
frame tenement, four stories high, with |
stores on the ground floor.
was occupied by Rittenburg. Ten
store
families occupied flats in the building.
So great was the force of the explo- |
sion that a boy playing in the street half
The store |
The midd’e |
ing Railroad continue to spread.
ter from President Baer in reference to
the strike situation was not well re-
ceived by the strikers.
Cleveland Holster, Ira Dowain, and
George Walker, sons of prominent fam-
ilies of Newport News, Va., were arrest-
ed on suspicion of having set fire to the
Hampton Sash, Door and Blind Factory.
Rev, Franklin H. Kerfoot, D.D.. cor-
responding secretary of the Baptist
| Home Mission Board, died at Atlanta,
Ga.
A number of resolutions bearing upon
suffrage, reform of the judiciary, the |
vse of money in elections and school
| cloudburst.
funds were introduced in the Virginia |
I Constitutional Convention.
Collisions have occurred between the
| striking miners and the guards in the
| Thacker-Matewan coal fields of West
Virginia, and the strike is assuming
serious proportions.
The controversy between the
officials of Winchester, Va.. and
county officers over a pile of bricks re-
a the arrest of county employes
by a police officer.
town
the |
folk and Western Railroad, says:
“The best information is that about 6o
people were drowned in the North Fork
of the Elkhorn. Property loss about
$300,000. The Norfolk and Western
Railroad suffered severe damage to its
tracks and trestles. Expect to be open
for traffic some time Wednesday if we
have no more storms.”
One train came in but not much new
| information could be gained from the
passengers. The trains are running from
Bluefield and Ennis, which places are
just outside the territory visited by the
The wires are down west
of Bluefield, save one which goes
through to Ennis, but this is being used
as a train wire, which prevents the pub-
lic from gaining any additional particn-
lars. The damage to property will
amount to hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars. Miles of railroad track are washed
out and great gulches have been created.
The devastated section covers an area
of about 20 miles west of Bluefield. It
is a very narrow valley, not much wider
than a broad street in some places.
be made. The train was placed at the
highest point on the yard. Rain was
coming down in torrents, and while in
the train Mr. Stewart saw about thirty
cars washed from the yard and carried
away by the rushing torrents, large trees
uprooted near by, while houses, bridges,
furniture, went whirling by in the water.
As the flood increased the water cut a
channel on the other side of the train,
leaving it between two streams.
Then it was decided to take out those
passengers who wished to leave the train
the South American dij
mer is said to have stat
recognized the existenc
the extent of the ap
Monroe Doctrine and th
tention of hindering th
the canal by the United
Tariff Controversy |
The State Departme
to the Russian Gover:
sented by Count Cass}
dor, such representatio
and a rope was attached to the platform: | sugar and petroleum f
of one of the cars and to a tree on the
bank. Among the passengers was a lady, | Russian action.
las are deemed necess
The
who, with the assistance of several men, | ter is to smooth awa
was gotten safely to the bank.
ber of men had narrow escapes from [tween
handling of these tw
particular to divest
{any personal characte
drowning in making the trip.
There was a let-up in the rai aud the
floods subsided about noon, and at r
o'clock Mr. Stewart and another passen-
ger left the train and started to the next
station, Keystone, five miles distant.
Much of the track and several bridges
had been washed away and the trip was
Frank
Department, who
studying the financia
A num- | friction that has bee
the
two gov
Capital News if
A. Vandertig
h{
rope, says the United
a firm grasp on fore
that New York will sg
center of the world.
plete as that which is being developed
in Germany. The plan calls for a
continuous waterway from the North
made with great difficulty, a portion of
the way on the track and the balance on
the bluffs along the route.
Mr. Stewart says he saw a number of
a block away was lifted from his feet and
hurled against an iron fence. A trolley
car was directly in front of the building.
The burst of flame blown out into the
Coal mines are scattered all along the
road. Keystone, the town reported to
have been so greatly damaged and at
Senator Chauncey M. Depew wrote an
open letter to General Grosvener twit-
ting him about withdrawing from his
and Baltic seas to the Adriatic and
the Black sea, to cost 750,000,000
street scorched the sides of the car and
singed the hair of the passengers.
A number of those who were on t
third-term interview and defending the
third term. :
QMiss Adeline IL. Mayo, a Richmond
(Va.) society girl, eloped to Washing-
first believed to have been wiped out of
existence, is a village of between 2,000
and 3,000 people and is built along the
narrow valley and on the sides of the
corpses along the route, but does not
think more than 40 people were drowned.
When he reached Keystone, about 3
Payma
ster John H
Navy, was sentenced
for advancing pay to
An official order
General Chaffee mi
the Philippines.
Governor Allen ha
meeting of the Assd
the question of free
up.
The official order
lishing civil governi
pines and proclaimin|
first cGigdiqovernor.
The dao i
commis
tary offi
The
men to)
Army.
crowns. It is proposed to begin work
in 1904 and it will take 20 years to
complete the system. The object of
these canals is to increase the impor
tance of Budapest and Fiume as cen:
tres of international traffic.
o'clock, he found that a number of build-
ings had been washed away, and it was
estimated that along the whole route of
the storm between 200 and 300 houses
had been carried away, but the occupants
of many of them had escaped to the hills.
He saw on every hand large buildings
go down with the nil) Most of the
buildings, ‘nowever, were small affairs.
The coal companies lose heavily on
bridges and supplies.
upper floors of the building were either
stunned and then burned to death or
found escape cut off and were suffo-
cated. After the first explosion there
were a series of smaller ones and then
came a second big explosion, which was
muffled and deadened and probably oc-
curred in the cellar.
Terrible Leap of Sing Sing Convict.
New York (Special.)—John Coogan
was taken to Sing Sing prison from this
city to serve a nine-year sentence for |
burglary, He had served time there be-
fore. Being left alone in the barber |
shop for a moment he darted up three |
flights of stairs to the fifth gallery and |
leaped over the guard rail onto the |
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bluffs. There is a creek which runs
through the town, over which most of
the houses are built on piles and rock-
work. This creek runs in a zigzag way
through the narrow village and has a
gradual fall. The mountains on either
side loom up for hundreds of feet, and
the town is so narrow in places that one
is obliged to go into the middle of it to
see the sky. All reports agree that be-
tween 200 and 300 houses were swept
4.
ton with Lloyd A. Turner, of San Fran-
cisco, and sent a telegram announcing
her marriage, ;
Sheriff Spiker and posse arrested six
men near Mount Jackson, Va., on sus-
picion of having set fire to the mill of
S. H. Lonas and to have killed Lonas
son.
An attempt was made to wreck with |
dynamite the First Methodist Church
of Manhattan, Kan.,, whose pastor, re-
cently elected Mayor, has waged war on
the joints. : “. 7
A receiver was appointed in Nagi CAILLES TAKES OATH.
i i rust | —
St Je insane SE Se Balin OTe Nash- | Sx HunW¥ed Insurgents, With Arms, Sur-
render in Luzon.
ville Street Railway. {
Mrs. Louise Thomas, of Newport | Santa Cruz, Province of Laguna, Lu-
News, Va. became insane, her hallucina- | ;;, 151and (By Cable).—General Cailles
tion being that her property was to be |g, rrandered here with 650 men and 500
taken from her, | rifles.
Mrs. Emily Heck, of Allentown, Pa, | Oaths of allegiance to the United
sued to recover $10,000 from Mrs. Alice States were administered to the former
Hitchings, who shot and stabbed hei. |insurgents.
Opposition has developed among the | Colonel Caballes, who fled to the
Harvard graduates to the granting of | mountains with a portion of his com-
a degree to Secretary of State Hay. mand, likewise surrendered.
g gay» Cailles did not sufficiently control the
Foreign. | populace to bring in all the insurgents
: : ; : in his district. The proczedings of sui
Serious anti-clerical disturbances oc- | render were orderly.
curred in Spain.
In Madrid the riot- | Colonel Caballes, who, with 120 of
| ers hissed the
While in England no income tax
is levied on incomes of less than $800
in Prussia, on the other hand, the
limit of exemption is drawn at in
comes of less than $225. Yet even with
this only 8.46 percent of the population
of Prussia are income taxpayers, over
91 percent having to live on less than
$225 per annum. Again, the property
of over $1500 capital value shows that
only 14,000 individuals out of a total
population of 32,000,000 possess prop
erty of over $175,000 value.
AWFUL DEATH FROM RABBIES.
Pet Dog Bit Child Through Nose, and
Hydrophobia Resulted.
The 1
Baltimore, Md. (Special).—On May | :
23, six-year-old Lucretia Chewing, of | keeping
Oxford, N. C., was bitten through the | United
nose by a pet dog with which she was | ance to
playing. On June 19 she began to ex- | Cuba a
hibit symptoms of hydrophobia, and |. Civil
preparations were at once made to bring | in the
her to the Pasteur Institute at the City | Judge
Hospital here. nated 4
The journey had hardly begun on Glo
Saturday before the little one became | COMPOJ
wild with rabies. She fought like one | Part 1
pursued and barked and bit at those | ‘€lecte
around her. In the struggle she tore | TY Mf
her mother’s flesh with her nails and
also scratched her attending physician,
Dr. Williams, of Oxford, as well as a I:
strange gentleman who went to their neg
assistance. one
If the child's fingers were moistured T
with any of the saliva, the three adults | geth®
are also in danger: of being attacked | the fi
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flagging, five stories below. He landed
upon his feet and badly sprained both
ankles and then pitched forward and |
struck has head against a door, cutting |
it badly. He is in the hospital. Coo- |
gan will have to serve out his good con-
duct allowance from his last term be-
fore he can begin his new term.
Thousands Are Destitute.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special).—Thou- |
sands of people—men, women and chil-
dren—camping on the border of the
Kiowa-Comanche- Apache reservations in
Oklahoma awaiting the opening of that
land to settlement are in destitute cir-
cumstances, according to Dr. J. J. Mec-
Kenna, who has just returned from the
scene. Dr. McKenna said:
thousand men, women and children are
massed on the border, and half of them |
The death of “Gentleman Joe,”
tramp, musician, poet—some of whose
verse had the note of genuine inspira:
tion—and that of Skoog, the experi
counterfeiter, who was of good family
and posessed fine talents, are sad ip
that their perversion to evil seemed
wholly uncontrollable. With such ex-
amples of life’s failures the effort now
being made by the schoolauthoritiestc
deal intelligently with abnormal chil
dren—the apparently incorrigibles, as
well as the dull and deficient—seen:
worthy of encouragment. The menta’
twist if discovered in early youtk
might be treated like a bodily ill til!
health of mind may perhaps be finally
restored. It is an experiment wel
worth trying, thinks the New York
Herald.
Infanta Isabella and | General Cailles’ command, fled to the
| stoned a monastery. At Alicante a mov | mountains in fear of being hanged by
| attacked a religious procession, wrinch- | the Americans, has been overtaken by
“Twenty | ed a crucifix from the priest's hands { messengers from Cailles, conveying the
[and tore it to pieces. General's orders to surrender. When
Jean de Bloch, member of the Rus- | Cajlles’ messengers caught up with and
are utterly destitute. At least 3,000 of | Sian ministry of finance, in a paper read | explained the situation to the fleeing
colonel, the latter apologized to his wen-
them have been there a vear and a half, | at the United Service Institution in :
: - | London, stated that the South African | eral and returned to Pagsi with
still another 120 men, whom -
Wreck on Atlantic Coast Line. ! War had proved that military service as
ed to come in and surrende es
Spartanburg, S. C. (Special).—The | practiced to-day was absurd. |
HOR had train on the Atlantic Coast | Lhe trial of the Marquis de Lua Sa- | brings at least 500 rifles fr t-
Line from Augusta jumped the track [aves 8 WA Royalist, Who re: lying posts beyond Pagsang
1 fd to Paris after ‘having been ban- mr en
below Roebuck, Spartanburg county. |turne 8 THREE KILLED IN WRECK.
The engine, tender and all the cars were | ished, was begun before the French
derailed. | Senate as a High Court of Justice.
Engineer Zéigler was severely injured | M. de Witte, the Russian finance min-
in the head and chest. His recovery is | ister, says Secretary Gage does not un-
doubtiul. Baggagemaster Wallace was | derstand the situation with reference to
hurt internally, Three other employees | the countervailing duty controversy.
were badly bruised and otherwise in- | Lieut. G. L. Greenshields, of the
jured. The train was two hours late, | Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, died in
aving broken down at Troy. { London from wounds received in the
[TT rr E————y | South African War.
Suicide in a Cemetery. | Charles Kensington Salaman,
Columbia, S. C. (Special).—J. Frank | composer, died in London. :
Clyburn, 23 years old, went to Elmwcod A Chinaman killed five gardeners with
Cemetery at 6 o'clock and, going to the |an axe at Cadun, B. C. ok
inclosure where the Confederate soldiers | Six men were lost with the British
are buried, shot himself through the | bark Falkland off the coast of France.
heart. He was a son of the late Colonel A Russian dispatch says ignorance
Clyburn, of Lancaster, commander of the | among females in some sections of that
Twelfth South Carolina Volunteers. In |country is at such a premium that one
his pocket was a letter to his mother | who can read 1s jeered at as unwomanly.
telling of the praise given his father by | Spain is making vigorqus efforts to
the veterans returning from Memphis. | repair her depletion of armament.
ORT | Earl Russell will be tried at the next
Cape Rifles Captured. !
| session of the Central Criminal Court
Cradock, Cape Colony (By Cable).— ! on a charge of contracting a bigamous
In an engagement at Waterkloof, June
| marriage. ;
20, the British lost eight men killed and Emperor = William emphasized his
two mortally wounded, and had four | opinion of Bismarck and his displeasure
men seriously wounded. In addition,
of Von Buelow’s tribute to he Iron
66 men of the Cape (Colonial) Mounted | Chancellor by depositing a wreath at the
Rifles were captured. The captain of a
foot of the statue bearing the inscrip-
Boer squadron is reported to have been | tion of “To the Great Emperor's Great
wounded, and one Boer was killed
| Servant.”
Men Fall From Niagara Bridge.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. (Special. )—A
ladder on which three men were engag-
ed in painting the iron work of the steel
arch bridge over thc Niagara Gorge
slipped irom its fastenings. One of the | earnings for April were $17,182 and for
men was dashed to deata on the bridge | four months : woh an increase of
abutments, his hody falling into the | $2701.
rushing waters of the rapids, another | The production of coal in Scotland in
was caught by the legs in the lattice- i 1900 was 19,006,966 tons, against 17,-
work of the bridge and escaped with a | 740.504 tons in 1899 and 17,020,668 tons
broken leg. and the third escaped un- lin 1808.
injured by clinging lo a rope for what | The Pennsylvania Railroad has paid
seemed to the syed 8 to be hours, | off i's $20,650,000 loan incurred for the
but whick iu reali only (a few | pur e of B. & O. and other securi-
minutes i i tie -
with the dread malady. They are still
in the city awaiting developments, and
are being carefully watched by Profes-
sor Keirle and his assistants at the Pas-
teur Institute.
At the station the ambulance was in
waiting; fighting and kicking, the af-
flicted child was hurried to the hospital.
She was immediately put under treat-
ment, but without avail. Her suffering
increased as the night advanced, and |
after midnight she died in terrible
agony. Her mother is frantic with
grief.
This is probably the first case of its
kind in the local Pasteur Institute where
a human being afflicted with rabies at-
tacked others so that they also may be
afflicted with hydrophobia. The de-
velopments are being watched with in-
terest.
Mrs. McKialey’s Improvement.
Washington (Special).—Mrs McKin-
ley's condition continues favorable. The
Marine Band concerts in the White
House grounds, which are a usually
weekly occurrence in the summer sea-
son, but which were suspended on ac-
count of her illness, were resumed. The
resumption was in obedience to Mrs.
McKinley's especial request.
First Cousins Cannot Marry.
Harrisburg, Pa. (Special).—Governor
Stone has allowed the bill making it un-
lawful for first cousins to marry to be-
come a law by not acting upon it within
10 days after its passage, as required by
the Constitution.
off CruciDie Steel rant.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).—Contracts
have been awarded by the Colonial Steel
Company for the buildings and a por-
tion of the big crucible steel plant to be
erected by James W. Brown, George A.
Howe and other former stockholders of
the Crucible Steel Company of Ameri-
ca, at Colonia, a new town on the Ohio
river adjoining Monaca. The plant is
expected to cost in the neighborhood of
$1,000,000, make the finest kinds of
strictly crucible steel and employ 700
men. It is expected that the plant will
be finished ready for operation within
. six or eight months.
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Terrible Results.
Hendricks, W. Va. (Special).—A
work train went through the Laurel
Fotk Bridge at Stover on the Dry Fork
connection of the WestVirginia Central
and Pittsburg Railway 14 miles south
of this place.
The accid:nt was caused ty a flange
on the pony truck breaking the bridge
being on a sharp curve, causing the
engine to jump the track, pulling sev-
eral cars and a portion of the bridge
{ wih it and burying the men under the
debris in the rock bed of the Dry Fork
river. Superintendent Booker was rid-
ing on the engine and it took several
hours to remove his body from under
the mass. The fall was 29 feet. All the
dead men leave families.
Killed Over Board Bill
Pittston, Pa. (Special).—John Nis-
back, a miner, was killed here by Mi-
chael Diasko as the result of a quarrel
over a board bill. Diasko boarded at
Nisback’s home, and when the latter de-
manded payment Diasko grasped a
pitchfork and stabbed Nisback in the
head. killing him almost instantly. The
| murderer escaped to the woods.
At the present rate of the manufac the
ture of spools and other articles of
women’s use, the immense white birch
forests of Maine cannot last many
vears. Although the birch forests are
extensive, the fact that 17 spool mills
and a large number of so-called novel
ty mills are eating up the timber ai
a rate of from 35,000,000 to 40,000,009
feet annually excites the apprehensior
of foresters and manufacturers. The
spool mills use about 30 cords of birch
annually, turning out 800,000,000
Each spool is large enough to carry
200 yards of thread. The amount oi
thread that could be wound upon these
spools would reach 3600 times around
the equator and leave a little for mend.
ing. About as much spool wood is
sent to Europe every year as is man:
ufactured into spools in Maine. Lasi
year Maine exported about 15,000,00¢
feet of spool bars, chiefly to Scotland
and of this quantity about one-half was
shipped to Bangor. Several million
feet of spool bars are also shipped te
other parts of the United States, where
there are spool mills, notably those
‘of Rhode Island.
Financial
a $10,000,000 for Flat Top Coal Laads.
lot of $3,000,000 Russian
Philadelphia (Special).—The United
States Steel Corporation is negotiating
for the purchase of the Flat Top Coal
Land Association properties, and it is
believed that the deal will be consum-
mated within a few days, the price of
the land being fixed at $10.000,000. A
short time ago negotiations were open-
ed by parties said to be unknown to the
officers of the Flat Top Coal Associa-
tion for the purchase of the stock, and
a $350,000 forfeit was put up. The Flat
Top Coal Association was formed under
the laws of West Virginia in 1887.
Another 3 s
railway bonds is offered to American
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