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THE BULLETIN, = Florin, Pa.
Entered at the Dostoffice at Florin as
second-class mail matter. *
Kvanston, a suburb of Chicago, pro-
poses to put a tax on cats. One cat
will be allowed to each family free
of charge, but beyond that a tax of
$2 for each tom-cat and $1 for each
female will be imposed. Unlicensed
cats will be exterminated.
The first members of the new Order
of Merit by King EdwarJ]
are Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener,
Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister, John Mor
ley, and dis
tingnished seholar, George Watts, the
created
the Liberal statesman
living painters;
distinguished
imaginative of
Lord Rayleigh, the
chemist, and Lecky, the historian, The
order starts well. ?
The Lewiston Journal urges farmers
to name their farms, according to the
custom which prevails largely in
France and England. The argument
is that when the farm is thus identi-
fied the tendency is for the owners tc
take more pride in it and its products
most
The farm name becomes a trade-mark
Paint the name on a hoard and nail it
up where passers-by can see it, is the
recommendation,
Conductors Pullman cars nave
been favored with an increase of pay
any threats of a strike on
But even with the advance
on
without
their part.
in salaries it is reported many of tue
ticket-takers look with envy upon the
Midases among the negro porters wha
are still buying real estate out of
their revenues from tips, although the
celored Croesuses complain that pas
Bo 1c
are not as lavish of gratuities

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NINE MEN KILLED
IN HILL EXPLOSION
Delaware Pulp Mills, Near Wilmington,
Blown to Atoms.
WORKMEN MANGLED AND BURNED.
There Were Two Terrific Reports, and th: |
Next Instant the Building and Other Mills
About the Structure Were Completely De-
molished—One Digester was Blown Iato
the Air and Fell 250 Feet Away.
Wilmington, Del. (Special ).—Nine
workmen are known to have been killed,
five are missing and are said to be buried
in the ruins, and four others were badly
injured by the explosion of two steel
digesters in the Delaware Pulp Mills of
the Jessup & Moore Paper Company, on
the Christiana river.
The digesters were located in a two-
story building. There were 10 of them
in the building, each resembling a vat,
and about 6 feet in diameter. They were
used for reducing the pulp. Eighteen
men were at_work in the building.
There were tw ific reports, and the
next instant th eng and other mills
about the structure were wrecked.
One digester was blown into the air
and fell to the ground 230 feet away. A
dense volume of smoke for a time pre-
vented the outside workmen from go-
ing to the immediate rescue of those who
were caught in the ruins of the falling
building.
Several men made their escape with-
out injury. An alarm of fire was
sounded and the entire fire department
of the city and a large force of police
were soon on the ground, and the work
of rescue was immediately begun.
Several of the workmen were taken
out unconscious, only to die after being
carried to hospitals. The wreckage was
piled up. for more than 30 feet, and the

escaping steam made the work of rescue
difficult.
Those who were not lailled outright |
were mangled and burned by escaping |
acid that flowed over their bodies from |
the broken digesters. In addition to the |
eight persons dead, the officials of the |
company say at least six others are in
the ruins. To add to the horror of tne
disaster the wreckage took fire. but after
some difficulty the fire department man-
aged to subdue the flames and the work |
of rescue was continued. .
Steam was used in the digesters. The |
officers of the company think that too |
much steam was generated in them and |
that this was the cause of the explosion.
The monetary loss is estimated at $35,- |
000.
WARSHIPS MENACE COAST.
Uncle Sam’s Unique War Game is on—Rival
Fleets Maneuvering.
ac Special ).—The |
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
Henry L. Schmelz, of Hampton, Va.,
who was elected to the presidency of
the Jamestown Exposition Company,
tendered his resignation at a meeting
of the directors on account of ill-health.
No successor was chosen.
Mrs. Jessie P. Lambert, a young wi-
dow, of Petersburg, Va., has married
George W. Phillips, of Wilmington, N.
C., who had been arrested on a warrant
sworn ont by her.
The officials of the state penitentiary
and the citizens of Frankfort, Ky., were
thrown into a state of wild excitement
by an attempt of three murderers to
escape,
Gen, Jacob H. Smith, in a speech at
a banquet given in his honor, at Ports-
mouth, O., said that it was part of a
soldier's training to take criticism of
his actions.
The Warnke washery, at Duryea, Pg.,
resumed operations under a strong
guard. The works are surrounded by
deputy sheriffs and coal and iron po-
lice.
Bishop Potter, in an interview on his
arrival in New York, said that the coal
strikers are right in insisting upon the
recognition of their organization.
At Morrisville, Vt., 5,000 persons list-
ened to Secretary of the Treasury
Leddic M. Shaw, who was the princi-
pal speaker at a rally. The Secretary
lived there when he was a boy and
went to school there.
Strikers are resorting to various acts
of intimidation and non-unon men are
terrorized. Two were shot from am-
bush and a lodging house occupied by
six workers was blown up with dyna-
mite.
“Butch” Thompson, one of the
bookmakers in the world,
wealthiest
died at Saratoga. He was at one time
proprietor of the famous “White Ele-
phant” in New York. :
According to Mr. G. W. Perkins, of
resign presidency of the
not
He will go to France to seek
Trust.
rest.
It is now believed that Robert Rem-
ington, who committed suicide at New- |
port, was mentally unbalanced, the re-
sult of financial and other troubles.
By a court decision Referee
baum, of New York, will be able
continue his investigations into the af-
fairs of the Ice Trust.
a farmer, drowned his four children in
shoating.
Dennis A. Shanahan, a
believed to be a traveling
from Virginia, shot himself
salesman
twice
are thought to be fatal.
A deputy shot and killed a striking |
the |
shooting caused so much indignation |
and excitement that it was feared a riot |
miner at Nesquehoning, Pa., and
would result.
The Mutual Building and Loan As- |
has sus-
sociation of Passaic, N. J,
pended business,
hrough the alleged errors of a former

{ Canal Act, $50,130,009.00 ;
Steel |
| gres
711,46! e
man who is |
{ isthmian canal.
in |
his room at a Boston hotel. His wounds | ;
| number 6,386, with compensation for
It is $100,000 short |
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HOW CONGRESS
SPENDS MONEY
Details of the Last Sesuion’s Appropria-
tions.
CONTRACTS FOR PUBLIC WORKS.
A Statement Showing the Total Amount to be
$800,624,496.55—The Different Departments
of the Government Which Will Have the
Spending of This Vast Sum—The Amount
for Pensions is $139,842,230.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—The
volume containing statements of appro-
priations, new offices, etc., required by
law to be prepared and published at
the end of each sessian of Congress,
under the direction of the committees of
appropriations of the Senate and House, |
| show a steady patent growth until the
has been completed for the first session
of the Tifty-seventh Congress by
Thomas P. Cleaves and James C.
Courts, chief clerks, respectively,
those committees. A summary
appropriations shows the grand total of
$800,624.496.55. The details by bills are
as follows:
Agricultural, $5.208.060.00;
$91.730,136.41; diplomatic, $1.857.025.60;
District of Columbia, $8,544,460.97 ; forti-
fications, $7,208,055.00; Indian, $8,080,-

|
LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
lavention and Industry.
The Census Office issued a bulletin
on the relation of patents to manufac-
tures. It states that New York, though
third in population and patent rank for
the first decade, has since been first in
both, as well as in manufactures. As
the great Middle and Western States
were settled they developed manufac-
tures and also took rank as patent
States. The bulletin says:
“The period from 1840 to 1830 shows
a partial stagnation in patent growth,
For the decade of 1840 there were 1741
patents granted to the New England
States, while in the decade of 1850 there
were but 1377, a falling off of 21 per
cent., though Massachusetts shows a
slight gain. For the next decade, that
of 1860, the New England States show
a renewal of patent activity, the number
of patents issued being 5151, or an in-
{ crease of 274 per cent, slightly greater
than the growth of the country at large.
“Subsequent to 1850 the States all
{ decade of 1890, when a falling off in the
|
+ 1 Maine,
ot |
of the |
appears in
de-
of
number of patents issued
Vermont and Nevada. A
crease in the number of patents
Maine and Vermont, as well as for Nc
{ vada, is also shown in the 1900 decade.
| Likewise a falling off in New Hamp-
Ariry | shire and Rhode Island, with
-' | decrease in Massachusetts, while a re-
a slight
| duced number of patents is also shown
028.10; legislative. $25.306,681.50; Mili- |
tary Academy, $2,627.324.42;
$78.856,363.13; pension, $130,842,230.00;
postoffice, $138,416,508.75; river and har-
bor, $26,771.442.00; sundry civil, $60,163,-
350.13; deficiencies, $28,050,007.32; mMis-
cellaneous, $2,722.705.13 Isthmian
Total,
propriations, $123,021,220.00.
$800,624.490.55.
naval, |
for New York, South Carolina and
Kentucky.
“Though Connecticut shows
increase for 1900, it is but 1.4 per cent.,
a slight
| while the increase for the country at
| large for the decade is 15.02 per cent.
permanent ap- |
On the whole, the New England States
show a retrograde movement during the
last decade with respect to patents.”
The bulletin says that a comparison
of the leading manufacturing States
A 2: . | shows that there is. on the whole, an
In addition to the specific appropri-|
3 Aa : 3 orbs RC 17,6 0
J. P. Morgan & Co., Mr. Schwab will | ations made contracts are authorized to
be entered into for certain public works |
requirin
[ te the swum of $262,-
contracts include
additional ships for the
permanent improvements
facilities at certain
$21,060.’
Navy an
and
of increased
to old public buildings and the con-
ngs in va-
rious cities of the country; $38,336,180
Near Salina, Kan., Joseph. Anderson, | for the improvement of rivers and har-
| bors; $3.500,000 for t i
a cistern and then committed suicide by | of old and erection of new buil
| Military Academy at West I
he reconstruction
dings at
and
on of an
Point,
$180,000,0c0 for the constructi
employments of a
authorized
the
and those abolished
The new offices and er
civilian character specially
vear of $6,343,505: 3
or omitted aggregate 1,105, at an al
pay of $1,289,080.50, a net increase
5,221, at a yearly cost of $5.054,514.50-
Woman Held Up In Her Room.
Ohio (Special).—Mrs.
Frederick W. Prentiss, wife of tire
resident of the Hayden-Clifton Na-
Bank, has been held up in her
ect cet. by
Columbus,
Le aL Broad go
ppropriations by Con- |
Nus- | navy yards; $15043,050.00 for additions |
to | se
| struction of new public buildi
approximate parallelism between inven-
tive activity and manufacturing growth.
Cuba’s Revenues for July.
Senor Quesada, the Cuban Minister,
gave out a statement of the amounts of
duties and internal revenue taxes col-
lected by the Cuban Republic during the
month of July.
It shows that there was received from
custom-house duties in 16 provinces the
sum of $1,206,223.46, the largest
amounts being represented at Havana,
where the receipts were $874,875.61;
Cienfuegos, $108,023.74; Santiago de
Cuba, $86,700.99; Matanzas, $31,434.58,
and Cardenas, $23,675.90.
In seven provinces the amount of in
| ternal revenue collected was $78,226.21.
at an annual |
of |
Havana and Matanzas show the largest
returns, the former's receipts being $34,-
838.37 and the latter's $20,779.30.
A cable from Dr. Carlos Finley, chief
health officer of Havana, shows that the
sanitary conditions are of the best, as
| the increase in typhoid fever was due to
| the breaking of the
| aqueduct,
good water.
main pipe of the
which deprived the city of
) He says:
“The mortality for the month of May
was 588; June, 540; July, 584. May was
the last month under the American
{ itary officers.. The increase in July was
due to typhoid fever caused by the
FATAL CLASH
AT
Miner Almost Instant
Deputy.
HIS ARREST PROMPY
The Strikers Tried to D
From Going to a Colliery-
Had Been a Leader Among
The Shooting Results in a
Starting out for Vengance,
Nesquehoning, Pa, (S
clash between striking mij
Patrick Si
of Lansford, was shot and
deputies here
instantly by a deputy
The shooting caus
time, but order was sc
out any other
the tc
person
Wil is now quiet A di
McEImoyle, was arrested ¢
the killing of SI 1p,
jail at Mauch Chunk.
1 he shooting occurred
o'clock. Five deputie
ift No, 1, of the
Navigation Company,
town. In the ce
were met by a numl
began persuading the
colliery. The officers
kept on their way
any trouble, :
['he strikers, it is
to the men
nearly to the colliery
flicting
brought on the clash, but
deputies entered the pla
heard and Sharp dropped to t
The bullet enter his body
heart and he died almost insta
Witnesses sa it tl
McElmovle, and
tect 1roni
nter
al
anuse
sto
done hy
nly six or seven
hot
I'he deputic
ala
one was fired
arge
was dead
nation among
town people, :
if serious troubl
AUTOMOBILISTS S§
Sad Fate of Mr. and
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had :
bile, whi
tion and